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Microaggressions as bad as overt hatred, NHS workers told
James Beal Social Affairs Editor
NHS leaders are being taught that
microaggressions can be worse than
“overt acts of hate”.
Courses on the NHS Leadership
Academy’s website include a lecture by
a campaigner who has said that being
prejudiced is unavoidable for people
born in Britain because it is a “country
Starmer: I
will quit if
police fine
me for beer
Labour leader bets career on lockdown findings
Henry Zeffman Associate Political Editor
Patrick Maguire Red Box Editor
Fiona Hamilton Crime Editor
Sir Keir Starmer gambled his political
career yesterday on a police investi-
gation into whether he broke corona-
virus rules.
In an effort to thrust questions about
lockdown breaches back on to Boris
Johnson, the Labour leader said that he
would “do the right thing and step
down” if given a fixed penalty notice.
Durham police said on Friday that
they were investigating whether
Starmer broke the rules when he drank
beer and ate Indian food in an office on
April 30 last year. Under Covid-19
restrictions at the time, people could
gather indoors with those outside their
households only if necessary for work.
Starmer has accused the Conserva-
tives of “mud-slinging”, insisting the
event was work-related and that “no
rules were broken”.
Yesterday Politico quoted a source
familiar with the event saying that
some party staff present were drunk
and “obviously weren’t working”. The
MP Mary Foy, whose office was used
for the gathering, has said claims that
people were drunk are not true.
In an effort to prove that the gather-
ing was a work event, Labour has com-
piled time-stamped logs of WhatsApp
chats, documents and video edits, The
Guardian reported. They were said to
show that work decisions were made
after the curry was ordered.
Over the weekend, it became clear to
things that will
improve your health
that legalised oppression”. In the 2019
Ted-X talk, Nova Reid warned that
people subjected to repeated micro-
aggressions can develop post-traumat-
ic stress disorder. She cited examples
such as racially insensitive questions
including “where are you from?”, “your
hair’s like a sponge, can I touch it?” and
“are your family cleaners?”
Reid, an author and former actress
Starmer and his allies that without
action his leadership would be para-
lysed for the length of the police investi-
gation, which may take eight weeks.
Starmer finally decided yesterday
morning to make the promise, after
taking soundings from senior advisers
and the shadow cabinet. Angela Ray-
ner, his deputy, made the same pledge.
Starmer said: “I am absolutely clear
that no laws were broken. I simply had
something to eat while working late in
the evening, as any politician would do
days before an election. But if the police
decide to issue me with a fixed penalty
notice I would, of course, do the right
thing and step down.
“This matters. It matters because the
British public deserve politicians who
think the rules apply to them.”
Labour figures believe that Starmer
will now be able to reassert the moral
high ground over Johnson, who did not
resign after he was fined by the Metro-
politan Police last month.
Tories accused Starmer of trying to
pressure the police by raising the stakes.
A source said: “When the police were
investigating cash for honours, Labour
sources made clear that questioning
Tony Blair under caution would lead to
his resignation . . . a similar tactic might
be being deployed to scare the police.”
Chris Philp, the digital minister, hint-
ed at the unease last night, saying it was
“deeply inappropriate that Sir Keir
appeared to be attempting to pressure
the police into clearing him”.
A Labour source said: “Putting
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£2.20 £1.
from Hertfordshire, describes herself
as on a “mission to improve racial injus-
tice”. She runs an online course with a
£1,074 enrolment fee, including VAT.
The term microaggression is thought
to have been coined by the American
psychiatrist Chester Pierce in the 1970s.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines
a microaggression as a “statement,
action, or incident regarded as an in-
The Queen on the Sunderland to Newcastle Metro Link in 2002. Today schoolchildren will be able to follow virtually in her
footsteps thanks to a map of her visits to heritage sites that has been developed to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee. Page 5
Queen to miss state opening of parliament
Valentine Low
The Queen will miss the state opening
of parliament for the first time in nearly
60 years after Buckingham Palace said
that the Prince of Wales would read the
Queen’s Speech on her behalf.
Prince Charles, who is taking on the
head of state’s big constitutional duty
for the first time, will open parliament
today with the Duke of Cambridge.
The decision, believed to be unprece-
dented in modern history, is a signifi-
cant shift in Charles’s responsibilities as
heir to the throne. It will also be the first
time that Prince William, who will one
day perform the duty as king, has
attended the state opening.
A special rule change was enacted in
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stance of indirect, subtle, or uninten-
tional discrimination against members
of a marginalised group”.
Reid said in the talk: “[It is] an inevit-
able and unavoidable byproduct of
being born into and living in a country
that legalised oppression [and] that
financially benefited from oppression
for hundreds and hundreds of years.”
Reading out a 2015 piece of research,
the form of a legal instrument known as
Letters Patent to allow Charles and
William to take the Queen’s place.
The Queen, 96, who has missed the
state opening only twice before — in
1959 and in 1963 — reluctantly pulled
out with less than 24 hours’ notice as
she continues to experience mobility
problems she is thought to have suf-
fered since the autumn. As late as
yesterday morning palace officials were
saying that she hoped to attend. How-
ever, doctors advised against this.
Buckingham Palace said: “The
Queen continues to experience episod-
ic mobility problems, and in consulta-
tion with her doctors has reluctantly
decided that she will not attend the
state opening of parliament tomorrow.
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she added: “Regular exposure to racial
microaggressions can cause more
harm than overt acts of hate.”
Sources at NHS England stressed
that the NHS Leadership Academy
courses were not mandatory. A spokes-
man said: “This is not an NHS video
and these online courses are not part of
any required training.”
Reid was approached for comment.
ALAMY
At Her Majesty’s request, and with the
agreement of the relevant authorities,
the Prince of Wales will read the
Queen’s Speech . . . with the Duke of
Cambridge also in attendance.”
Letters Patent authorised by the
Queen were issued to cover the state
opening, delegating to counsellors of
state the royal function of opening a
new session of parliament. In this
instance, it enables Charles and Willi-
am to jointly exercise that function. No
other functions have been delegated.
A spokesman for No 10 said: “The
prime minister fully respects the wishes
of Her Majesty and is grateful to the
Prince of Wales for agreeing to deliver
the speech on her behalf.”
Queen’s Speech, page 8
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Today’s highlights Truss set to ditch protocol

11.30am Matt Chorley live in Westminster for coverage of

1pm

2pm
the Queen’s Speech
Mariella Frostrup interviews Mark Spencer,
leader of the Commons
The TV presenter Julia Bradbury, right, on her
after giving up on EU talks
documentary about her breast cancer Patrick Maguire, Oliver Wright
potentially allow non- wouldn’t be limited to
4pm John Pienaar speaks live in Westminster to
MPs including Labour’s Pat McFadden
and the Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey
Chris Smyth
The foreign secretary has concluded
Macron members to play a
role in a wider
those who have left
the European Union,”
8.30pm Billy Billingham, presenter of SAS Who
Dares Wins, on his book Survive to Fight
that there is little point trying to reach
a Brexit deal with the European Union
hints at European community.
Macron said: “This
he said, in a reference
to Britain.
and will move as soon as next week to
scrap large parts of the Northern Ire- closer ties new European
organisation would
Macron first
mooted the
land protocol in British law. enable democratic concentric circles

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‘is here to stay’
Inflation may remain
high until 2024 and
will be a “massive
shock” for a generation,
a former chief
economist at the Bank
of England said. Andy
Haldane said inflation
had passed his “worst
expectations” and was
likely to exceed 10 per
cent. Page 4
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about the concept of not wanting to be Russian
Birth control to Big sell-off hits
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Birth control methods
in use for decades are
in the crosshairs of
laws set to come into
force in a series of
Republican-controlled
states if the US
Supreme Court
overturns the Roe v
Wade ruling
guaranteeing access to
abortion. Page 30
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Green activists
will be jailed
Environmental
protesters will be jailed
for up to a year if they
glue themselves to
roads under plans
announced in the
Queen’s Speech. A new
public order bill will
create three offences
to stop Extinction
Rebellion and Insulate
Britain. Page 8
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HUGO RIFKIND, PAGE 27
Stocks were hit by
another wave of selling
yesterday as worries
over inflation, interest
rates and China’s
growth fuelled unease
about the health of the
world economy. Falls
in mining companies
pushed the FTSE 100
2.3 per cent lower at
the close. Page 33
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companies have said
they will phase out
passwords to save
users time and reduce
the security risk.
Apple, Microsoft and
Google have backed
plans by the Fido
Alliance, an industry
group, to standardise
logins. Page 17
New rugby
championship
Global rugby
executives have been
urged to embrace
plans for a revolution
including a world
grand final every two
years. The leading
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CROSSWORD 64
P
Officials working for Liz Truss have resident European nations who idea in 2018 as a way
drawn up draft legislation that would Macron has adhere to our values of keeping the EU
unilaterally remove the need for all suggested to find a new space together after the
checks on goods being sent from Brit- that Britain for political Brexit referendum.
ain for use in Northern Ireland. could be co-operation.” The UK rejected EU
It would also allow businesses in the offered a closer He hinted that proposals to formalise
province to disregard EU rules and reg- relationship with there could be security and foreign
ulations and take away the power of the Brussels as part of co-operation in areas policy co-operation in
European Court of Justice to rule on reforms to create a such as security, a treaty with Brussels
issues relating to Northern Ireland. “new European transport, energy and during the Brexit
If passed, the bill would override the political community” investment as well as negotiations on
protocol agreed by Boris Johnson in (Oliver Wright writes). making it easier for sovereignty grounds.
2019 and put the UK in breach of its ob- In a speech on the young people, tourists Relations between
ligations under the withdrawal agree- future of the EU, the and workers to travel London and Paris are
ment. The 2019 deal aimed to avoid a French president between member poor after Boris
hard border between Northern Ireland suggested that the countries. Johnson and Macron
and Ireland by in effect keeping the bloc should reform to “Joining wouldn’t clashed over Brexit,
north within the EU customs union allow member states mean that you fishing rights and a
and single market. This meant that to decide the extent to couldn’t in the future trilateral nuclear
goods crossing between Britain and which they wished join the European submarine pact with
Northern Ireland had to be checked to to integrate and Union. And it also Australia.
prove they met EU rules. Even if the
rest of the UK diverged from those
rules, Northern Ireland would have to been told that the bill, if passed by MPs, ever, Sinn Fein’s leader in Northern Ire-
keep them. could lead to a trade war with the EU land, who will become first minister if
Unionists have claimed that the pro- imposing tariffs on UK exports and power-sharing is re-established, ac-
tocol undermines the Belfast agree- potentially terminating the agreed cused the DUP of playing a game of
ment that guaranteed the rights of un- free-trade deal. brinkmanship. Michelle O’Neill said:
ionist and nationalist communities. However, Truss is understood to “This will not be tolerated where the
They say border checks damage the have concluded that talks with the EU north of Ireland becomes collateral
UK-wide single market. have hit an impasse and that Maros damage in a game of chicken with the
Government sources said the new Sefcovic, the EU’s negotiator, does not European Commission.”
bill went much further than had been have the mandate to agree an accept- A government source said Truss was
expected by explicitly scrapping large able deal. keen to press ahead with unilateral
parts of the protocol rather than simply Truss is expected to highlight the action after losing faith in “computer
giving ministers the power to do so in announcement by the Democratic says no” negotiations with the EU.
the future. Unionist Party that it will boycott a new Sources close to Truss were blamed
Truss has been told that the strategy, government in Northern Ireland until for briefing against Rishi Sunak, the
which could be announced next Tues- the protocol issue is resolved as justifi- chancellor, and Michael Gove. It was
day, will result in the EU suspending all cation for the move. reported that they had opposed her
co-operation with the UK, except on Jeffrey Donaldson, the party’s leader, plan. Allies of Sunak and Gove denied
Ukraine, and instigating legal action said it had a “mandate from people” to this, saying it was “a decision for the
against the government. She has also take a stand against the protocol. How- prime minister and foreign secretary”.
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habitat compared with what would
happen with a rise of 1.5C.
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baseline.
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influence of the natural cyclical La
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continue to rise. And alongside that,
our oceans will continue to become
warmer and more acidic, sea ice and
glaciers will continue to melt, sea level
will continue to rise and our weather
will become more extreme.”
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Airlines have repeatedly missed targets
for cutting emissions and the failure
shows they cannot be trusted to reduce
their climate impact voluntarily, a
report says.
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lobby for continued passenger growth
and ward off mandatory regulation of
aviation’s climate impact, according to a
report by the climate charity Possible.
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climate targets set by the industry in the
past 20 years: only one had been
achieved. The others were missed,
downgraded or quietly dropped,
making it hard to assess progress.
The team used the Wayback
Machine, which archives web pages, to
find targets and reports that had been
deleted from aviation websites.
Possible said: “The UK government’s
upcoming Jet Zero strategy is expected
to rely heavily on the aviation industry
to reduce its own emissions but this
analysis suggests the industry is in-
capable of meeting its own targets.” It
has called for a frequent flyer levy to
reduce demand for air travel.
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ALAMY

Cheezam compares a
An app photo of the cheese that
users want to identify with
its bank of 9,000 images
to set however, French cheese

your remains a challenge

even for artificial
intelligence.
mind at When asked to
identify the national
cheeses, the app
cheese struggles to give a
straight answer, instead
offering probabilities. In

F
ound something
you like on an
after-dinner
cheese board
but aren’t quite
sure what it is? Don’t
worry — there’s an app
for that (Adam Sage
writes).
French computer
engineers — inspired by
their country’s many
varieties of cheese —
have invented an app
which they believe is
capable of identifying
most of them.
Cheezam has been
described by the
newspaper Libération as
a “miracle” that will end
the embarrassment
facing dinner party
guests forced to admit
they cannot recognise
any of the cheeses on
the board presented by
their hosts.
It will also avoid the
even worse humiliation
of mistaking, say,
coloummiers for brie or
Bleu d’Auvergne for
Roquefort.
The app touts itself as
the Shazam of cheese, in
reference to the
smartphone app that
can identify nearly any
music track from a
sample.
Cheezam works by
comparing a photograph
of the cheese that users
want to identify with its
own bank of 9,000
images. It will analyse
the features of the
cheese in question, such
as the size and shape of
the mould. “The
algorithm will then . . .
recognise this
characteristic by
comparing it to other
pre-annotated images,”
said Isabelle Mashola,
the joint founder of
Isahit, a startup that
developed Cheezam in
partnership with
Prevision.io, an artificial
one test, for instance, it
said there was a 58 per
cent chance that the
cheese which had been
photographed was Brie
de Melun, and a 23 per
cent chance that it was
Brie de Meaux. In
another, it was 95 per
cent sure that the cheese
in question was Fourme
d’Ambert, but left open
the possibility that it
might be Bleu de
Causses.
Europe 1 radio said an
early version of the app
had blundered by
confusing camembert
with Pont-l’Évêque,
another Normandy
cheese, and also with
Pélardon, a goats’ milk
cheese from southern
France.
Cheezam’s founders
invite users to point out
mistakes so that they
can improve the app.
Despite the teething
problems, the invention
is winning plaudits.
Critics have noted that
the app not only seeks to
identify cheeses but also
recommends wines to
accompany them.
“They have thought of
intelligence firm. “And everything,” said La
that is how we manage Voix du Nord, the
to refine the calculation regional daily in
until we get to the right northern France.
cheese,” Mashola told Recondite wheys, leading
Libération. In practice, article, page 29

British artisans breaking the mould

Local cheesemakers
leave France far behind
with new varieties,
write Tracey Boles
and Andrew Ellson
“How can anyone govern a nation that
has 246 different kinds of cheese?”
France’s former president Charles de
Gaulle once asked.
The country has long taken pride in
its vast variety of cheese, but its hege-
mony appears to be under threat. Brit-
ain has overtaken France in the num-
ber of varieties it produces after a boom
in artisan cheesemaking unleashed a
wave of creativity on this side of the
Channel.
Edward Hancock, the founder of
Cheesegeek, an online cheesemonger,
says that the UK now produces about
1,000 varieties of artisan cheese, almost
double the French total of 550.
Artisan cheese tends to be made by
hand and according to traditional
methods. Those that are mass pro-
duced or made mechanically do not
qualify.
Hancock, who is also a judge at the
International Cheese Awards, credits
the “renaissance” to the hundreds of
small-scale family cheesemakers up
and down the country. He says skills
that fell out of use in the early part of
the last century made a comeback after
the price of milk came down with the
abolition of the Milk Marketing Board
in the 1990s.
“The dairy industry is facing desper-
ate challenges, but these in turn provide
opportunities for the cheese industry.
The key dynamic here is the price of
milk,” he said. Consumer demand has
also grown, with nearly three quarters
of people saying that they like to try a
new cheese, Hancock added.
Philip Wilton, 59, the owner and
founder of Wildes Cheese in Totten-
ham, north London, has seen his
business expand massively in the
past ten years. He is firmly of the
opinion that British cheese is
better than French. He said:
“Good cheese is about the
quality of your milk and
we only buy top-end,
unhomogenised, or-
ganic, whole milk.
British makers
have gone down
that route and
are not adding
chemicals to com-
pensate for bad farm-
Raw talent However, the average French con-
sumer, who eats more than twice as
Pevensey Blue, East three years, it’s like a milk, creating an
much cheese as the average Briton at
more than 25kg a year, is not getting a
Sussex A soft, creamy, boldly flavoured cross exceptionally rich and chance to sample many of Britain’s fin-
brine-washed blue between cheddar and buttery cheese with est new cheeses. Wilton says that Brexit
cheese that was made aged gouda. that distinctive cheddar is to blame.
supreme champion at tang. “We used to export to France but not
this year’s Artisan Lord of the Hundreds any more. In the good old days we were
Cheese Awards. Not Unpasteurised ewe’s Baron Bigod The only registered with environmental health
bad, given that Martin milk cheese. Nutty, raw milk Brie de Meaux- officers and that was considered good
and Hazel Tkalez have sweet and complex and style cheese that is enough [to export to the EU]. Now you
been making cheese for as close to Parmesan as produced in the UK, have to formalise your product in every
only two years. you’ll find in this made from milk still country in Europe.
country. warm from the cow. “But on this side, they are just waving
Lincolnshire Poacher Beneath the French cheese through. It’s an uneven
Double Barrel Hafod A Welsh mushroomy rind is a playing field. I will compete with
Unpasteurised and clothbound cheddar silky golden centre with anybody but the system has got to be
matured for two to made with raw Ayrshire a lightly citrus flavour. fair. British cheese in France is now
about double the price it used to be so
nobody buys it.”
ing methods. The French are of making cheese, so our cheesemakers Most artisan cheese made in Britain
doing that a bit I’m afraid. are doing it for the love of cheese and is consumed here, Hancock said.
“Also we are just better at that shows in the product.” However, Mintel, the market re-
cheesemaking. In France, He believes that the growth in the search firm, believes “the long trend to-
the cheesemakers are of- British artisan cheese market is down to wards more homeworking will benefit
ten farmers. I’m not say- growing interest in the provenance of cheese”, which is already a market
ing they aren’t good food. “More people care now about worth nearly £3 billion a year in the UK.
cheesemakers but you where their food comes from and how it Whether the French will ever consid-
can’t really be both a is produced. There is interest in how er the British as credible challengers to
farmer and a cheesemak- many antibiotics or nasties are in our their dominance of world cheese re-
er. In Britain, we have profes- food. People are thinking more about mains to be seen.
sionalised cheesemaking. And you what they are eating, at least those who Your limited menu is an affront,
are not going to make a quick buck out can afford it,” he said. Giles Coren, Notebook, page 26
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Inflation shock will last
years, says ex-bank chief
Steven Swinford Political Editor
High inflation could remain until 2024
and will be a “massive shock to the
system” for a generation, a former chief
economist at the Bank of England
has warned.
Andy Haldane, now a government
adviser, said inflation had “surpassed
my worst expectations” and was likely
to exceed 10 per cent. He also said the
Bank should have acted sooner than
last autumn when raising interest rates.
Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, admitted
yesterday that the government “can’t
do everything to help” but confirmed
that he was preparing to do more. He
told BBC Look East: “We are not the
only country facing higher energy
prices or higher inflation. We can do
things to support people and we are
going to do what we can. I wish I could
make it completely go away, but I can’t.”
Haldane said: “Even this time last
year I was worried that price pressures
were bubbling up. As it turned out,
things have even surpassed my worst
Passengers miss flights after six-hour airport queues
Laurence Sleator
Thousands of passengers travelling
from Manchester and Birmingham air-
ports were forced to queue for hours
yesterday, causing some to miss their
flights, as staff shortages continued to
affect the industry.
Customers described queueing for
six hours and family members in tears
as they missed their flight.
Queues were seen snaking outside
expectations. We’re looking prospec-
tively at double-digit inflation, which is
not quite back to the 70s but getting on
that way. This won’t be come and gone
in months. I think this could be years
rather than months.”
He warned that the rises would hit
mortgage-holders accustomed to lower
interest rates. “We have a whole gener-
ation now who have scarcely experi-
enced a rise in interest rates, much less
one that leads them picking up to, I
don’t know, 3, 4, 5, 6 per cent. This is
going to be a massive shock to the
system, financially, psychologically.”
He said the Bank should have acted
sooner. “I wanted us to slight touch on
the brake or even a reduction on the
accelerator,” he said. “I think, had we
done that, we probably wouldn’t be
talking about rate rises as big or as rapid
as we now are.”
Downing Street said it was open to all
options for dealing with mounting
living costs. Asked what Boris Johnson
would say to Tory MPs demanding an
income tax cut, the prime minister’s
the terminal at both airports, stretching
as far as the car park in Manchester as
staff tried to get a handle on the return
to pre-pandemic travel.
Ben Leather, at Manchester airport,
told the Manchester Evening News: “As a
regular flyer I’ve never seen it this bad.
Feel sorry for the overworked staff who
clearly just don’t have the numbers to
cope with the passenger load.”
Lee Griffiths was one of the estimat-
ed 7,500 people caught in queues at Bir-
official spokesman pointed to “signifi-
cant support already available”. He
said: “We know this is [at] the forefront
of the public’s mind; it’s certainly [at]
the forefront of the prime minister’s
mind and we will keep all options open.”
On whether people will have to wait
until the autumn budget before any-
thing further is done, he said the gov-
ernment would act “when it is the right
time to do so” but that it was still against
a windfall tax on energy companies.
6A finance company is offering people
the option of paying their gas and elec-
tricity bills and groceries on credit. Cus-
tomers who use Zilch pay 25 per cent of
the bill upfront and the remainder in
three fortnightly instalments with no
interest or fees. Last month the energy
price cap rose by nearly £700, prompt-
ing fears that millions could fall into
fuel poverty. The Treasury will offer a
£200 rebate on energy bills but that will
only come into effect in October when
the cap is expected to rise again.
Bank’s rate-setter wants quicker
rises, Business, page 33
mingham. He tweeted: “Total sham-
bles . . . Queueing out the door. Not all
baggage lines working.”
There has been disruption at airports
across the UK in the past few months,
with staff laid off during the pandemic
not being replaced and others off sick
with Covid. Birmingham Airport made
43 per cent of its workers redundant.
The Airport Operators Association
said its members were increasing the
number of staff as quickly as possible.
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Direct debits
jump above
energy cap
James Callery
Customers of British Gas, Shell Energy
and Octopus Energy say that their
direct debits have risen by twice as
much as the energy price cap increase,
according to Money Saving Expert.
It said that at least 30 per cent of cus-
tomers with those companies who were
in credit and on price-capped tariffs
had reported their direct debits rising.
Across all companies, 25 per cent of
customers in this situation said that
their direct debits had at least doubled.
Last month the domestic energy
price cap rose by 54 per cent.
Octopus Energy said that only 0.84
per cent of those in credit who had been
on its standard tariff for more than
three months had faced a doubling of
monthly payments. British Gas said
that it had allowed customers to freeze
direct debits last winter.
A spokesman for Ofgem said the
regulator would examine Money
Saving Expert’s data as part of a market
compliance review.
Manchester airport said it was advis-
ing travellers to arrive three hours
before their flights but not to come
earlier than that because “check-in and
security facilities may not be open”.
Birmingham airport said half of
the 15,000 people departing yesterday
were booked in during its dawn
peak, “so we took the decision to run
security queues outside the terminal to
avoid them getting tangled with
check-in lines”.
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Car crash at PM’s home
A car crashed into the garden of
Boris Johnson’s £1.3 million
townhouse in Camberwell, south
London, yesterday. Police were
called at 1.19am after a Vauxhall
Astra ploughed into the front
garden, destroying a wall and
damaging a hedge and a tree. The
driver, who was limping and had
a bandaged hand, said the crash
was a “little accident” but did not
wish to comment further. The
Met said no offences were
identified and that the driver did
not require hospital treatment.
Oxford’s new leader
Professor Irene Tracey, a
renowned neuroscientist, has
been nominated as Oxford
University’s next vice-chancellor,
the second woman to lead the
institution. Educated locally at
Gosford Hill School in
Kidlington, she said that the
university would continue in its
quest to attract the “best students
from whatever their background”.
Illicit drugs ‘on ward’
A patient on a locked mental
health ward who died after taking
MDMA may have got the drug
from another patient. Simon
Cohen, 29, died at the Priory-run
Kneesworth House in
Cambridgeshire in 2017. “There
was no way he could have got the
drug other than by somebody
giving it to him,” his nurse told an
inquest. The hearing continues.
Buzz off, bats tell owls
Bats mimic a swarm of bees when
seized by an owl to perplex their
attacker, a study published in the
journal Current Biology has
found. The buzzing sound gives
the bat a fraction of a second to
wriggle free and fly away. They
may also emit the startling sound
when they detect that an owl is
chasing them, Italian reseachers
have found.
Heaton’s happy hour
Paul Heaton, the Housemartins
and Beautiful South singer,
celebrated his 60th birthday by
putting £1,000 behind the bars of
60 pubs. The pop star’s plan to
mark the occasion by performing
at 60 pubs was thwarted by
pandemic disruption. He said “the
next best way to celebrate” was
offering drinks “until the money
runs out, or the bar runs dry”.
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Harry reveals sustainable travel project on Maori TV station
Valentine Low
Bernard Lagan Sydney
The Duke of Sussex has chosen a Maori
television channel in New Zealand to
announce a campaign encouraging
travellers to put sustainability at the
heart of their holidays.
The campaign, based on green travel
practices pioneered in New Zealand,
aims to get travellers to support local
Pupils to
follow the
Queen’s
footsteps
F
ew people have
seen as many of
England’s
historic sites as
the Queen. But
today pupils will be able
to follow in her footsteps
virtually with a map that
charts her visits to
heritage sites (Jack
Blackburn writes).
The map will feature
images of a
very young
Princess
Elizabeth
playing in a
sandpit with her
sister Margaret
and getting into
a carriage with
her parents at
Sandringham.
There is another
of the princess
aged ten at a
church service in
Eastbourne in 1936. The map shows images of
There are also the Queen greeting people
pictures of the Queen in Cornwall and Yorkshire,
throughout her reign, as well as visiting a church
including arriving at in Eastbourne as a child
Charles takes on closest
role yet to that of king
Valentine Low
The last time the Queen failed to attend
the state opening of parliament was
59 years ago, when she was pregnant
with Prince Edward. Now she is 96,
suffering from mobility problems;
and the Prince of Wales is facing one of
the most significant moments in his life
to date.
When the prince walks into the
House of Lords today, wearing the uni-
form of an admiral of the fleet, it will be
the nearest he has come to performing
the duties he will one day undertake as
king.
There will be two key symbolic
differences highlighting the fact that he
is yet to become monarch: he will not be
wearing the imperial state crown or
the robe of state. The significance of the
moment, however, will be lost on
no one.
Over the past few years Charles has
taken on more and more of the Queen’s
responsibilities. He now undertakes the
most important foreign visits on her
behalf. He lays the wreath at the Ceno-
taph on Remembrance Sunday in her
name. He is an increasingly visible
presence at state occasions. This will,
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communities and look after nature and Using the Maori name for New Zea- all learn and that is why I’m here with of calculating carbon emissions for air
wildlife. land, Harry told Moana Maniapoto, you to share a new kaupapa [ideas travel to help travellers book flights
In a recorded video Prince Harry host of the channel’s Te Ao programme: which act as a base] for action.” with lower emissions.
quoted a Maori proverb, translated as “I’ve been to Aotearoa a number of In his announcement, Harry talked Maniapoto said it was bizarre being
“Success is not the work of an individu- times throughout my life and I’ve about how impressed he was by the contacted by Harry’s representatives,
al but the work of many”, and said: “We always felt a deep connection and efforts of the Tiaki Promise, an initia- who asked if he could appear on her
invite you to be a part of our many.” respect toward the Maori people. tive encouraging all travellers to act as show.
He said the campaign was inspired by “The Maori culture inherently guardians of Aotearoa. “I thought it was a scammer, truly,
the Maori values of kaitiakitanga understands sustainable practices and Last month Travalyst, the non-profit but no, it all checked out. Prince Harry
(guardianship and protection) and taking better care of our life-giving sustainable travel organisation found- wanted the worldwide launch out of
manaakitanga (love and compassion). land, which are critical lessons we can ed by Harry, set up a standardised way Aotearoa and on this programme.”
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Heathrow with won approval from available to everyone on of interest as well as a executive. The map does
h corgis for
her Nadhim Zahawi, the Historic England’s guide to other sites the not only feature age-old
a holiday, education secretary. website, but the target Queen has visited in sites, but also places of
sm
smiling “It’s so important that audience is pupils. their region. local importance.
gl
gleefully after children have the The hope is that it will “This interactive map These include the
visiting a po
pottery display opportunity to learn help them to learn about shows the incredible Queen visiting a Sikh
in Stoke-on-Trent and about the Queen’s life,” the history of their local variety of sites the gurdwara temple in
riding a new train in he said. area. When pupils click Queen has visited in the Leicester, opening the
Sunderland. The interactive map, on any of the 220 points past 70 years,” said Humber Bridge and
The project, run by released to honour the on the map, they get an Duncan Wilson, visiting a Rotherham
Historic England, has Platinum Jubilee, is explanation of the place Historic England’s chief coal mine.
When moving gets difficult
Behind the story sitting down for a long because you need to
period of time, or overload your muscles
I
t is not uncommon unless we’re “warmed to put the muscle mass
for older people to up” a little bit, our on. You need to eat a
have “episodic muscles and joints are lot. You need to be
mobility a little bit harder to get active, and really it’s
however, be the first time that he has royal family who are appointed to act in problems”. The going.” about retention of
undertaken the role that symbolises the her place. term simply means He said that time muscles not putting on
essence of the Queen’s constitutional Although the Queen will not be that not all of the time, spent immobile, for muscles.”
role: that every law passed by parlia- present in the Palace of Westminster, but some of the time, example while He said that it was
ment is in Her Majesty’s name. the most important symbol of her they have trouble suffering from a Covid therefore hard to come
He will, however, not be doing so sovereignty will be. The imperial state getting around (Kat infection, could lead to back from muscle loss
alone. Prince Charles will open parlia- crown, which until recently was worn Lay writes). muscle atrophy or and this meant that
ment jointly with his son, the Duke of by the Queen at every state opening, The issue can take breakdown of muscles. sitting through a
Cambridge: two future monarchs will travel by car with the two princes different forms. For He said: “When you ceremony or walking a
standing in for the present one. from Buckingham Palace to Westmin- instance, sometimes have arthritis, your long distance would be
Dr Bob Morris, a constitutional ex- ster. mobility problems will joints are not as strong difficult. “You’ll be in a
pert at UCL, said that the arrangements The only previous occasions when mean someone freezes so that means that you lot of pain and
were unprecedented. the Queen did not open parliament and is unable to move, need your muscles and discomfort generally.
“They’ve gone down the counsellor were in 1959 and 1963, when she was sometimes they will ligaments around And if you’re sitting for
of state route, that’s one way round it. pregnant with Prince Andrew and then struggle to co-ordinate them, to support them long periods of time,
The Prince of Wales is giving the speech Prince Edward, when her speech was the movement of their [and] take off some of you’d find it hard to get
and William is there as his stay and read by the lord chancellor. limbs. They may reflect the burden of what up [and] need help and
support as it were,” he said. “It’s a rather The Queen’s absence will prompt general age-related your joints will be support,” he said. A
odd confection but it works.” further speculation about her presence frailty or be doing. Because they monarch might not
To emphasise the sovereign’s ab- at events marking her Platinum Jubilee symptomatic of are now weakened want to project a
sence, the Queen’s throne will remain next month. specific conditions from the illness and picture of frailty.
empty during the ceremony: Charles The palace has said that she plans to such as arthritis. weakened from the Age UK said: “It is
and the Duchess of Cornwall will sit in attend events during the four-day Jubi- Mohammed Abbas immobility, that’s not not unusual for people
the same seats they have occupied in lee weekend, including Trooping the Khaki, a London GP, happening. who reach a good age
recent years. The Duke of Cambridge, Colour and the service of thanksgiving said: “As we get older, “And the problem is, to experience declining
who will be wearing a morning coat, at St Paul’s Cathedral, but her presence wear and tear of the it’s very difficult, strength and flexibility
will sit on the other side of the Queen’s is unlikely to be confirmed until the day joints and the back can particularly in the in limbs, impacting
empty throne. itself. This latest decision suggests that mean that we have elderly, to put on their mobility, and to
Both Charles and William are stand- the Queen will be unlikely to attend any more arthritis. It also muscle mass and get have their good and
ing in for the Queen in their roles as event that involves her having to stand means that when we strength. In fact it’s not-so-good days more
counsellors of state, members of the up for any length of time. try to get up from nigh on impossible generally.”
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Starmer’s ‘bold, quick’ decision
Henry Zeffman
Associate Political Editor
Patrick Maguire Red Box Editor
When Sir Keir Starmer found out from
a journalist’s tweet rather than police
that he was facing an investigation over
his Durham drinks gathering, his first
instinct, aides say, was bold.
As a former director of public pros-
ecutions, Starmer realised more quick-
ly than some that the inquiry would
drag on for weeks and potentially
months. It was on Friday, shortly after
learning of the inquiry, that he asked
advisers if he should pre-announce his
resignation.
Yet it was not until yesterday, more
than 72 hours after the police interven-
tion, that he revealed his hand.
A quick decision that took three days
to realise: it is an episode that could be
said to exemplify in miniature Starm-
er’s two years as Labour leader. This,
even supporters concede, is not the first
time that striking levels of boldness and
a surprising dash of political cunning
have been undermined by process-
ology and indecision.
“On Friday he was really clear that
this is what he wanted to do, this is what
he thought,” a senior source close to
Starmer said. But added: “He does like
to field views on this sort of thing.”
Logistical difficulties made it hard for
some of Starmer’s sharpest political
aides to counsel him over the weekend,
though. Instead of heading straight into
crisis talks on Saturday, Starmer was at
Loch Lomond, having decided to press
ahead with a visit to celebrate Labour
claiming second place in the Scottish
local elections. “Keir did not want to
have this completely overshadow the
good work that had been done in the
locals,” a source said.
As he travelled, Starmer called trust-
ed friends and allies. Rachel Reeves, the
shadow chancellor, and Emily Thorn-
berry, the shadow attorney general,
were among those consulted.
The process was again delayed, on
Sunday afternoon, by a trip to the Emir-
ates Stadium to watch his beloved
Arsenal defeat Leeds United.
After more phone calls that after-
noon and intense discussions with a
tight circle of aides and shadow cabinet
ministers yesterday morning, Starmer
gathered his senior staff in his suite of
offices in parliament’s Norman Shaw
buildings shortly before midday to tell
them he was making the bold play.
Who should resign?
Assuming the police investigation finds
both Sir Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson
broke lockdown rules and they are fined
Resign Remain Don’t know
General public
Sir Keir 46% 22 32
Starmer
Boris 57% 14 29
Johnson
2019 Conservative voters
Sir Keir 40%
17 43
Starmer
Boris 29% 9 62
Johnson
2019 Labour voters
Sir Keir 48% 20
Starmer
Boris
83%
Johnson
Source: YouGov. Data based on a survey of 1,674
adults conducted from May 7 to 8
Leader gambles
political career
Continued from page 1
pressure on the police is when
the ruling party uses the election
campaign to harass the police into
investigating its political opponents.”
A policing source conceded,
though, that Starmer’s intervention
put more pressure on officers
because it meant detectives were
determining his political fate.
Durham police refused yesterday
to explain why it had decided that
the event reached the investigation
threshold, having previously said
that no offence had been detected.
Its approach is in stark contrast
with the Metropolitan Police’s
decision to explain its change of
heart on investigating the No 10
parties.
The Durham force also refused to
say whether its policy of not issuing
such fines after the event still stood.
In May 2020, it suggested that
Dominic Cummings, then Johnson’s
senior adviser, had broken rules
when he drove to Barnard Castle
weeks earlier after contracting
Covid-19. It said that to fine him
would be to treat him “differently
from other members of the public”.
Although some put the alternative view
to the Labour leader — “people were
making the point that if you say you will
resign, well, there’s a chance you will
end up resigning”, one source said —
Starmer did not encounter significant
dissent.
Yesterday morning, Starmer also
called Angela Rayner, his deputy, who
had been present at the Durham gath-
ering under investigation, to confirm
that she was happy to make the same
pledge. “The call was quick but not per-
functory simply because they agreed it
was the right thing to do,” a person
familiar with the conversation said.
Another source said: “It’s fair to say
that once Keir had decided he was
going to do it, Angela didn’t really have
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an alternative but to follow suit.”
Those who spoke to Starmer at the
weekend found a leader in crestfallen
9 8 mood. “Above all, I felt very sorry for
him. The integrity and honesty stuff
isn’t a shtick,” one ally said. “This is a
man who has devoted his life to public
service. It is hard to overstate how per-
sonally wounding this has been.”
Another said: “He genuinely believes
this integrity stuff — it’s not just some
bollocks that a politician is spouting.
And because of who he is, there is no
way that Keir would say, I’ve got a fine
but actually look over there at some-
thing else. That’s just not who he is.”
Starmer’s team believe that they have
turned a difficult defensive crouch into
a useful aggressive political posture. La-
bour intend to draw a contrast between
a leader who believes breaking corona-
virus laws is a resigning offence and a
prime minister who visibly does not.
Shadow cabinet ministers added to
Starmer’s statement with a call for “pol-
iticians who hold themselves to the
highest standards”.
Despite the support for Starmer, the
affair has reignited questions about his
political operation. Senior MPs have
long believed a preference for running
decisions past focus groups has led to
needlessly protracted decision making
and political misjudgments.
Whatever the misgivings about
Starmer’s ability to chart a quick course
out of a crisis, arguably on this occasion
his salvation was that the police inter-
vention came amid local election re-
sults that showed tangible progress.
One shadow cabinet minister said: “If
we had come off the back of a terrible
set of results, this story would have had
a very different ending.” Sir Keir Starmer tells journalists of his intention to resign if fined over pictures of

Stance set scenario, Durham police

conclude that he is telling
the truth and no rules
to make or were broken, allowing
The precedent here is
the way a previous leader
of the opposition, David
police issued about
Dominic Cummings’s
infamous lockdown trip Quentin Letts
Cameron, went on the to Barnard Castle. They

break him
him to claim vindication
and draw a clear contrast
with Boris Johnson. That
the prime minister would
Analysis
certainly cling on in such
a scenario would only put
Tory MPs in an even
A
fter three days more invidious position.
of If he is cleared,
deliberation, Starmer’s bold bet on his
Sir Keir own integrity may also
Starmer has succeed in stamping
taken the biggest gamble himself in the public
of his leadership (Chris mind in a way he has not
Smyth writes). managed so far. Voters
offensive over the MPs’
expenses scandal in 2009.
Even though Tory MPs
were implicated in most
of the emblematic
revelations, Cameron’s
demands for reform
allowed him to present
himself as the face of
change.
Of course, the gamble
will fail spectacularly if
Starmer is fined. Even
then, the keenness of
Tory strategists to stress
judged this a “minor
breach” but said they
would continue not to
issue retrospective fines.
Oh dear, Keir’s come
Starmer refused to say
what he would do in such
a scenario — and his
over all Basil Fawlty
statement must in part
have been an attempt to little more than five minutes. The
pressure the police into Political Sketch most boring man in British politics
refraining from any had suddenly turned into Basil
criticism unless they were Fawlty. All rather peculiar.
absolutely certain he The Labour leader’s teatime
broke the rules. melodramatics opened with him
Starmer has made asserting: “I have always followed

In truth, the weekend
may have been less a
period of agonising than
a gradual dawning of
reality. If Starmer is fined
for breaking lockdown
rules, he will almost
certainly have to quit. So
why not make a virtue of
this brute political truth?
In Starmer’s ideal
may be turning away
from the Tories but they
are not convinced by
Starmer, who they see as
decent but dull. A fine
would make his position
impossible by taking
away the first of those
descriptions, but if his
gamble pays off he might
hope to shed the second.
how disastrous this would
be for him personally
only highlights that a new
Labour leader would still
be able to make the
integrity argument
against Johnson.
Short of a fine, the
most difficult possibility
for Starmer is a statement
like the one Durham
some decisive moves in
taking on the left of his
party but when facing the
public has sometimes
come across as lawyerly
and cautious. This
gamble may be the
beginning of changing
that perception — or it
may just be the beginning
of the end.
C
almness was at a
premium. Just after four
o’clock Sir Keir Starmer
burst into a small, low-
ceilinged room
somewhere in Westminster. He
bellowed a brief undertaking to
resign, blurted replies to three
selected reporters, then legged it
for the exit shouting, “thank you!
thank you!” The whole thing took
the rools.” Yes he jolly well had. “We
followed the rools,” he repeated.
“The idea I would casually break
those rools is wrong.” Anyone who
suggested otherwise was “trying to
feed cynicism”. Suddenly it was
“cynicism” to whip up fake
indignation about leading
politicians’ petty alleged infractions
of the rools? Magnificent. At last he
is getting the hang of this politics
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took three days to be revealed
him drinking beer in an office during lockdown. An ally of the Labour leader said that the episode had been “wounding”
lark. The QC delivered his brief at
quite a lick; shouting, too, even
though the space was little bigger
than a Premier Inn bedroom. If he
performed like that in a courtroom,
clerks would need to hold tight to
their wigs and place paperweights
on documents. His adrenaline levels
were running high. He could have
been one of those Belfast
bantamweight boxers who used to
dart out into the middle of the ring
at the Commonwealth Games,
boinging about on their gym shoes,
determined to biff the first thing
they saw. Beth Rigby (one of the
troika of trusties invited to
scrutinise the nasal knight) must
have been wishing she’d worn a
gumshield.
“I believe in honesty, integrity and
the principle that those who make
the laws must follow them,”
screamed Starmer. What about that
communal curry in Co Durham,
then? “I simply had something to eat
whilst working late in the evening,
as any politician would do.” All this
was accompanied by furious
blinking, mouth agape, arms
whirling. “No rules were broken!” he
added, by way of innovation.
Sedatives, nurse. Make them strong.
Rigby suspected he was taking “a
huge gamble”. The chap from the
BBC assured him of his virtue and
asked, “How angry are you?” Libby
from ITN suggested that he had
“jumped the gun” by being so
preposterously Holy Moly over Boris
Johnson’s birthday cake hoo-hah.
“That was playing politics, wasn’t it?
And it was bad politics.” Starmer,
breathing heavily: “I haven’t done
anything that breaks the rools.” He
was noble. He was pure. He was not
like that liar Johnson. And he was
going to quit if any jumped-up
rozzer north of Stevenage slapped
him with a fine.
Conservatives will be horrified for
at least two reasons. First, if Starmer
does end up flushing himself down
the khazi, Boris will look a cur for
not doing the same.
Second, Starmer is the Tories’ best
electoral asset. The last thing they
want is Labour led by someone
interesting.
Starmer was reminded of the
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slight inconvenience that he had
demanded Johnson’s resignation
simply for being investigated by
the police. And what if Durham
cops just tick him off but do not
actually fine him? “I’ve been very
clear,” he said. “I’ve been clear.”
Later: “I’ve said that with great
clarity.”
As political stunts go, it was at
the odder end of the spectrum. In
its abruptness it felt a little like
David Davis’s resignation as an MP
— and therefore as shadow home
secretary — in 2008. Davis was
soon re-elected to the Commons.
Life toddled on its normal way. So,
even, did DD’s frontbench career,
although that took a few years.
The public may have enjoyed
this spectacle. Some will clap
hands to breasts and hail him as a
hero for wielding the trusty sword
of truth. Others will laugh like
drains at the great prig for
stepping on a garden rake, and be
grateful to him for cheering them
up on a Monday afternoon. But
wasn’t he meant to be the level-
headed alternative?
Contenders who
could take over if
curry proves fatal
Patrick Maguire Red Box Editor
lisa nandy, 10-1
Considered by many colleagues to be
the candidate to beat in any leadership
contest, the Wigan MP and shadow
levelling-up secretary, 42, would prob-
ably pitch herself as a unity candidate
with the political experience, media
acumen and red wall credibility to land
blows on Boris Johnson that Sir Keir
Starmer cannot. A shadow cabinet
minister under Ed Miliband and
Jeremy Corbyn, Nandy came third in
the 2020 contest, with a prescient pitch
to rejuvenate small towns in England
that leaves her in a strong position to
gain support from the party’s union
allies and membership. Although a
lacklustre stint as shadow foreign sec-
retary has led some MPs to question
whether her reputation as leader-in-
waiting is borne out by her talents,
fellow frontbenchers believe that
the prime minister would strug-
gle against this telegenic north-
ern woman.
wes streeting, 6-1
If the Blairites firmly en-
sconced around Starmer
have a political messiah, it is
the shadow health secretary
and MP for Ilford North.
Shunned by Corbynites for his
unapologetic defence of New
Labour’s record in government,
Streeting, 39, at last found a
home on the party’s front bench
under Starmer and was en-
trusted with the health
brief last year. Gay, Cam-
bridge-educated and
born of a single-parent
family on an east London
council estate, the
party’s right has high
hopes he can recon-
nect with the elect-
orate, but he re-
mains a bête noir
among many mem-
bers. Streeting re-
vealed that he had
had kidney cancer
diagnosed a year ago
but was declared
cancer-free after an
operation in July.
yvette
cooper, 10-1
Cooper, 53, is one of
the few candidates
who can boast signifi-
cant experience in
government. Her
service in cabinet and
chairwomanship of the
home affairs select com-
mittee leave her colleagues
in no doubt that she could
do the job. But having failed
to win over the membership
once before — and with most
of her Brownite contempo-
raries having long left
parliament — she may
have missed her moment
to lead the party.
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david lammy, 50-1
Like Cooper, the shadow foreign
secretary is that rare beast in Starmer’s
Labour: a former minister. There the
similarities end. The MP for Totten-
ham, 49, weathered the Corbyn years as
a pugnacious tweeter, advocate for a
second EU referendum and LBC radio
host: all of which have done his stand-
ing no harm among Labour’s London-
dominated membership. Fellow MPs
have long believed he stands a strong-
er-than-expected chance of winning
any contest despite a widespread per-
ception that he is too accident-prone.
rachel reeves, 15-2
Appointed shadow chancellor
after Labour’s drubbing in Har-
tlepool a year ago, Reeves, 43,
is the best-known face of
Starmer’s front bench. A spe-
cial adviser under New La-
bour, she had long been
tipped for high office and
endured a self-imposed
stint in the wilderness
under Corbyn, serving
as chairwoman of the
business committee.
Distrusted by sections of
Labour’s membership for
her past rhetoric on bene-
fits: in 2014, while Ed Mili-
band’s shadow work and
pensions secretary, she
said Labour was not a
party for welfare claim-
ants. That is partly why,
however, she is so
highly rated
by influential
figures on the
right of the
party.
Rachel Reeves,
top, Lisa
Nandy or Wes
Streeting could
be next leader
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Climate protesters face year in jail GARETH FULLER/PA

Steven Swinford Political Editor Analysis

Matt Dathan Home Affairs Editor
Jonathan Ames

Environmental protesters could be
jailed for up to a year if they lock
themselves to gates, glue themselves to
roads or block oil depots, under plans in
the Queen’s Speech today.
A public order bill includes three
criminal offences intended to stop
groups such as Extinction Rebellion,
Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil from
causing serious disruption.
It will ban protesters from chaining,
glueing or using other measures to
attach themselves to buildings, objects
or one another. It will also enable police
to stop and search protesters without
any grounds for suspicion.
Boris Johnson will announce the
legislation as one of 38 new bills that he
says will “get our country back on
track” and help deal with the cost-of-
living crisis and create a “high-wage,
high-skill” economy.
The speech will include measures
designed to capitalise on Britain’s
departure from the European Union,
including removing hundreds of pieces
of EU law from the statute book and
cutting regulations for small business-
es. Other areas covered by reforms
include gene editing, data protection
and trade policy.
It will also include measures de-
signed to shore up Johnson’s support on
the right of the Conservative Party, in-
cluding replacing the Human Rights
Act with a British bill of rights that will
enable the automatic deportation of
foreign offenders.
Johnson will argue that the speech
will provide a “long-term, sustainable
solution” to the cost-of-living crisis by
providing “high-wage, high-skilled
jobs”. Tory MPs, including some cabi-
net ministers, have urged him to bring
forward tax cuts in the face of soaring
inflation.
Johnson said: “This Queen’s Speech
will get our country back on track, and
I will strive — and this government will
strive — night and day to deliver it.
“Because in spite of everything we
have been through, we are going to
ensure that over the two years we have
left in this parliament, we spend every
second uniting and levelling up this
country, exactly as we said we would.”
He added: “We will get the country
through the aftershocks of Covid, just
as we got through Covid, with every
ounce of ingenuity and compassion
and hard work. By urgently pressing on
with our mission to create the high-
wage, high-skilled jobs that will drive
economic growth across our whole
United Kingdom. That is the long-
term, sustainable solution to ease the
burden on families and businesses.”
A police instructor shows Priti Patel, the home secretary, a lock used by protesters that would be banned under new laws
The Public Order Act will make it a
criminal offence for people to “lock-on”
or go equipped to “lock on” to buildings,
objects or other protesters, using equip-
ment such as padlocks, chains, glue and
bamboo scaffolding structures. The
offence will carry a six-month jail
sentence or unlimited fine.
It will also create a criminal offence
of “interfering with key national infra-
structure” including airports, railways,
printing presses and oil depots, with a
maximum sentence of a year in jail and
an unlimited fine. A third new offence
will make it illegal to obstruct major
transport works such as the HS2 rail
link, which will be punishable by up to
six months in prison.
The present patchwork of potential
offences relating to public demonstra-
tion can make it difficult to prevent
disruption.
The two statutes that usually relate
to environmental protesters are the
Public Order Act 1986 and the High-
ways Act 1980. Protesters can also be
charged with criminal damage if the
police take the view that they have
harmed public or private property.
However, the existing statutes and
criminal law are beset with difficulties.
For example, the Highways Act has a
lack of clarity over what actually quali-
fies as a highway.
Also the public order offences have to
be balanced under human rights legis-
lation that guarantees freedom of
assembly and association. Article 11 of
the Human Rights Act 1998 states that
“everyone has the right to freedom of
peaceful assembly and to freedom of
association with others”.
However, the article’s provisions can
be overridden “for the prevention of
disorder or crime”.
The government will also push ahead
with new orders that aim to tackle pro-
testers who repeatedly cause disrup-
tion. The orders will ban people from
attending protests or conducting “pro-
test-related activities”, with the threat
of almost a year in jail.
The new criminal orders — dubbed
“Asbos for crusties” by Home Office
insiders — would prevent habitual pro-
testers travelling around the country to
disrupt motorways, A-roads, places
such as Parliament Square and other
critical infrastructure.
Stop and search powers will be
extended so the police can seize items
relating to protests such as tubes of glue
or padlocks “without suspicion”.
The new bill resurrects several
measures that were removed from the
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts
Act earlier this year by the House of
Lords. The measures were dropped to
stop the crime-fighting legislation from
collapsing.
My fantasy Queen’s Speech, William
Hague, page 25
H
er Majesty may be
the most notable
absence from today’s
Queen’s Speech but
for many Tory MPs,
fretting after last week’s local
election results, there are other
concerning omissions (writes
Oliver Wright).
This Queen’s Speech, with its
38 bills, represents the last
significant opportunity for the
Conservatives to deliver
meaningful legislative change
that can be implemented before
the next election.
While ministers have been
talking up initiatives ranging
from changes to planning law,
repealing burdensome EU
regulations and cracking down
on disruptive eco-protests, the
package due to be announced by
the Prince of Wales feels slightly
underwhelming.
Johnson’s intention is to sell it
as a plan to get the country
“back on track” by freeing the
economy and creating “high-
wage, high-skilled jobs that will
drive economic growth across
our whole United Kingdom”.
And yet there appear to be few
measures that, in the short term
at least, will deliver those kinds
of results. Some, like the move to
free insurance companies to
invest in big infrastructure
projects and set up a new
infrastructure bank, should in
the medium term help boost
growth. Others, such as the so-
called Brexit freedoms bill,
should reduce some burdens on
business — but there has been
precious little detail yet.
Meanwhile, levelling up is a
long-term challenge that is seen
as rather nebulous by the
electorate and whose results will
only be apparent long after the
ballots have been counted in
2024.
Overall the package, as
announced so far, feels a little
light on big transformative ideas
to improve public services
following the pandemic or tackle
some of the systemic problems of
productivity that have held back
economic growth.
For Tory MPs looking
nervously ahead to the next
election, there will be a concern
that this does not feel like an
administration buzzing with new
ideas. And time is running out.

What may — and may not — be in the Queen’s Speech

Public order
The government’s big
push will be giving the
police powers to tackle
activists who use tactics
such as locking or glueing
themselves to buildings.
Post-Brexit changes
So-called red tape left over
in UK law after Brexit is set
to be cut and a Brexit
freedom bill will make it
easier for ministers to
scrap EU law without a
vote in parliament.
Counter-state threats
This would reform the
Official Secrets Act and
make it easier to prosecute
and deport foreign agents.
Energy
Boris Johnson last month
unveiled a new energy
strategy; new laws would
give legislative effect to
the plans.
Levelling up and
regeneration
Michael Gove has
promised to write a series
of far-reaching targets for
levelling up into law, which
this will do.
Renters’ reform
The 2019 Conservative
manifesto promised
stronger safeguards for
tenants, who would be
protected under new laws
from “no-fault” evictions
under section 21 orders.
Human rights
Dominic Raab has
suggested that he wants a
British bill of rights to
replace the Human Rights
Act, which will mean the
government can
automatically deport
serious foreign criminals.
Media
Laws will allow the
privatisation of Channel 4
to go ahead. Section 40 of
the Crime and Courts Act
— plans to force publishers
to pay both sides’ costs in
disputes — will be axed.
Railways
The bill will set up and
define the role of Great
British Railways, the new
state-owned company
replacing Network Rail
which will oversee the UK’s
rail infrastructure.
Mental health
Draft reforms will make it
more difficult for people
with learning disabilities
and autism to be detained
in hospital.
Conversion therapy
A draft bill is also expected
on banning conversion
practices, but trans
conversion therapy will
not be included.
Economic crime
Companies House could
be handed new powers to
crack down on people
fraudulently registering
companies, while the
seizure of crypto-assets
could also be allowed.
Minimum wage
Following the P&O crisis,
Grant Shapps said that he
wanted to give ports the
power to refuse access to
ferry services that did not
pay crews the national
minimum wage.
Carried over
Bills being carried over
from the last session
include the Online Safety
Bill, a clampdown on
puppy smuggling, laws
concerning HS2 and aims
to prevent curbs on free
speech in universities.
What has been dropped
Bans on foie gras and fur
imports. Dropped amid
concerns they would lead
to a rebellion on the
Conservative right.
Planning bill
The bill led to a revolt by
Tory MPs who said that a
“mutant algorithm” would
force houses on their
constituencies. The
remnants will be included
in the levelling-up bill.
Judicial review
Reforms of the judicial
review process, in which
individuals and
organisations could fight
official decisions in the
courts, have been shelved.
Northern Ireland Bill
This would have enabled
the government to make
unilateral changes to the
Northern Ireland protocol.
It is being held for now.
the times | Tuesday May 10 2022 9

Women walk out of football awards over racist and sexist jokes
Mark Smith
The organisers of an awards ceremony
for the Scottish Football Writers’ Asso-
ciation have apologised after several
guests were offended by an after-
dinner speaker’s racist and sexist jokes.
The association said it would im-
prove the format of all its events after
the speaker, Bill Copeland, a former
lawyer, used the word “nip” in a joke
apparently aimed at Celtic’s Japanese
players. He also made several jokes
about women and the term LGBT.
The sports broadcaster Eilidh Bar-
bour was one of those who left the
room. She tweeted: “Never felt so un-
welcome in the industry I work in than
sitting at the Scottish Football Writers
Awards. A huge reminder there is still
so much to do in making our game an
equal place.”
A female sports writer who was at
Sunday’s event said there was a collec-
tive gasp at the use of the word “nip”
and described Copeland’s jokes as out
of step with modern attitudes.
However, she added that, although
sports journalism could be cliquey, she
had personally found the atmosphere
respectful.
Gabriella Bennett, co-chairwoman
of Women in Journalism Scotland and
a writer for The Times, also walked out.
Bennett, who has been attending the
annual event since 2016, said misogy-
nistic jokes were made by speakers
every year.
“It’s all brushed off as banter,” she
said. “It was an extreme case this year
but it always happens and this is the first
time somebody has walked out and part
of that is because of the racial slur,
which was totally unacceptable.”
She added that part of the problem
was the low number of women in the
job: research for Women in Journalism
Scotland found that of 95 print sports
News
desk staff jobs in Scotland, only four
were held by women.
The Scottish Football Writers’ Asso-
ciation apologised to anyone offended
by the material. It added: “We have
agreed unanimously that this will act as
a catalyst to review and improve the
format of our events.”
Agents for Copeland were contacted
but there was no reply.
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test? Times2, pages 2-3

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Smart watch
recorded terror
as officer tried
to escape killer
John Simpson Crime Correspondent
A smart watch tracked a PCSO’s heart
rate as she tried to escape a “strange
male” who bludgeoned her to death in
woodland, a court has been told.
Julia James, 53, had been walking her
dog to a spot she called “butterfly
corner” near her home in Snowdown,
Kent, when she was “ambushed” in
April last year. Her Apple watch record-
ed her heart rate surging from 97 to 145
beats in seconds as her pace “radically
changed” before her heart stopped,
Canterbury crown court was told.
Callum Wheeler, 22, admitted
responsibility for her death yesterday,
on the first day of his trial, but denied
murder. The weapon, a jack used on
railways, was found at his home.
Alison Morgan QC, for the prosecu-
tion, told the jury that the watch had
shown James’s route, pace and heart
rate, which “launched” as she tried to
get away from Wheeler. “She took a
Callum Wheeler,
22, admits killing
Julia James, below,
but denies murder
Gustave Courbet’s painting
could have been part of a
mid-war art swap between
Hermann Göring, seated,
around the body, Morgan said. James’s and Joachim von Ribbentrop
Jack Russell terrier had stayed close to
her body and was found by a family out Museum said it had
walking, who then found the victim. informed the Spoliation
Morgan said that Wheeler had “wait- Advisory Panel which has
ed for Julia James or another vulnera- launched a formal
ble female to be in that woods”. She investigation into the
added: “He waited to ambush her. He painting’s history. The
chased her down. She ran, desperate to panel investigates claims
get away from her attacker — unable to for the restitution of
outrun him, caught by surprise and works of art allegedly
wearing Wellington boots. looted by the Nazis
“He chased her. He struck her. She during between 1933 and
fell to the ground and broke her wrist. 1945 and has investigated
Then, when she was face down to the about 20 cases since
ground, he struck her again and again being set up in 2000.
and again. She had no chance of surviv- It can recommend to
al. As he hit her in that way, repeatedly, the culture secretary that
he knew that and he intended it.” the claimant receives the
Morgan said James had been aware artwork or is
of “a strange male” in Ackholt Wood, compensated by its
once having told her husband Paul that market value.
she had noticed “a really weird dude”. Courbet is regarded as
After her death her husband, who a pivotal figure in 19th-
had seen the man in the area, gave a century western art with
description that resembled Wheeler, his early works shocking
the court was told. the art establishment
The jury was shown images from could not establish where with their portrayal of
CCTV that tracked the route Wheeler
took from his home in Aylesham, where Cambridge painting the artwork had been
prior to 1951, when it was
peasants on the “grand
scale” usually reserved
he lived with his father, to the woodland sold by a Zurich-based art for Gods and historical
where he killed James. He left home at
about 12.30pm on April 27, and attacked
may have been dealer. However, research
by The Art Newspaper
figures.
In his later career he

sudden detour off the path that goes

through the wooded area,” Morgan
her at 2.30pm.
On April 17, Wheeler had made an
abandoned 999 call. Body-camera from
wartime Nazi loot suggests the painting
could be one referred to
in a United States Army
frequently depicted
landscapes, such as the
one owned by the

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said. “She has run out of the wood, a police visit to Wheeler’s home showed he University of has begun an report of 1945 as Forest Fitzwilliam and retained
doubtless to try and escape her him behaving “oddly”, and reluctant to Cambridge is at investigation into the Scene. his political radicalism
attacker, and has got as far as she could engage with police, Morgan said. the centre of a radical French artist’s The paper said the being imprisoned in 1871
along this path. She was chased, chased Before James’s death Wheeler had Nazi war looting 19th-century painting, dimensions of Forest for his role with the Paris
by her attacker and it is likely that as she been seen several times in the area. He saga over one of which seems to have Scene listed in the US Commune.
ran, she fell — either from the first blow allegedly returned three days after the the most cherished disappeared from the art Army report had the Spencer said
from her attacker or by tripping. We murder to observe the police presence paintings in its collection history record for several same dimensions as La Fitzwilliam’s curators
know by the pathology in this case that at the cordon. On May 4, a week after (David Sanderson writes). decades. Ronde Enfantine. The thought La Ronde
her left wrist was fractured.” James was killed, a witness saw a A claim for ownership La Ronde Enfantine, or report stated Courbet’s Enfantine was the “finest”
James and her husband had man they identified as Wheeler of Gustave Courbet’s Children Dancing Forest Scene had been of the three Courbets in
seen Wheeler before in the same apparently carrying the murder painting owned by the Beneath the Trees at Port seized in 1941 by the Nazi its collection, adding that
place, Morgan said. It was likely weapon. He was arrested three university’s Fitzwilliam Berteau, was donated to looting taskforce and it has been on display for
she had spotted him again that days later. Museum has been made the Fitzwilliam Museum selected by Göring, Adolf almost the entirety of the
day and “it was at that point that He asked why other people after evidence revealed it in 1951 by the Rev Eric Hitler’s deputy, for his Fitzwilliam’s period of
Julia James’s heart rate surged”. were not being arrested, and while may have been seized by Milner-White,a former personal collection. ownership.
Morgan described the in custody he said to officers: a Nazi taskforce during Dean of York. It found, however, that He said it had been
extensive injuries to “Five of you run in and I the Second World War. Neal Spencer, deputy in 1942 Göring had exhibited in Europe, the
James’s head. She died didn’t even use a weapon The trail also suggests director of collections swapped the Courbet United States and Japan
almost instantly from when there was one right it could once have been and research at the with Von Ribbentrop, the and was a “part of the
repeated blows, the there.” Morgan said this at the centre of a mid-war museum, said it had been foreign minister and scholarly literature”.
jury was told. Her indicated that he saw the “art swap” between two “approached directly by a former German He said the panel’s
body was found face railway jack, which was of the most powerful claimant setting out ambassador in London, recommendations upon
down, and the hood in his room, as a weap- figures in Europe, evidence suggesting it who was known to have a the conclusion of its
of her raincoat was on. The trial will con- Hermann Göring and was seized by agents of taste for 19th-century investigation would be
up. Wheeler had tinue, with a jury visit to Joachim von Ribbentrop. the Nazi regime”. French art. put to the university’s
scattered long grass the area where James A government panel He said the museum The Fitzwilliam governing bodies.
over blood spots was killed.
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News War in Ukraine

Nato was preparing to invade,

Tom Ball
A downbeat Victory Day celebration in
Moscow saw President Putin unable to
declare military success in Ukraine and
instead try to rally support for the
faltering invasion by comparing the
war to the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi
Germany.
In his speech at the annual parade in
Moscow Putin claimed, without evi-
dence, that Russia’s attack on Ukraine
was a pre-emptive strike as Nato was
“preparing for the invasion of our land”.
“Now you are fighting for our people
in the Donbas, for the security of our
motherland,” the Russian leader told
soldiers gathered for the military
parade through Red Square.
The Kremlin had believed that its
assault on Ukraine would be accom-
plished within days, allowing a trium-
phant Victory Day celebration.
After Russia seized Crimea in 2014,
Putin marked the event with a speech in
Red Square about defeating fascism,
before travelling to the newly annexed
peninsula to celebrate his victory.
Fierce Ukrainian resistance has
thwarted that ambition in 2022, with
very few tangible gains to speak of.
After being forced to withdraw troops
from Kyiv, Russia’s redoubled offensive
in the Donbas region is also yet to
achieve a breakthrough.
Western officials had feared Putin
would use the speech to launch a full-
scale mobilisation of Russian forces or
formally declare war on Ukraine. How-
ever, the speech, which did not mention
Ukraine directly by name, was less
bellicose than expected. Putin made no
new policy announcements aside from
the provision of “special support” for
families of dead soldiers.
Instead, he sought to bolster public
support for the war by painting Russia
as the victim of a covert assault being
waged against it by Nato and their
Ukrainian “neo-Nazi” partners.
“Nato countries did not want to listen
to us,” Putin, 69, said. “They had differ-
ent plans, and we saw it. They were
planning an invasion into our historic
lands, including Crimea . . . The danger
grew every day. Russia made a pre-
emptive rebuff to this aggression. It was
a forced, timely and right decision. The
decision of a sovereign, strong and
independent country.”
He also addressed Russia’s troop
losses, a topic on which the Kremlin has
hitherto remained tight-lipped. The
latest official death toll, published six
weeks ago by the Russian ministry of
defence, puts losses at 1,351. The British
government has put the number at 10
times that figure.
Victory Day celebrates the Soviet
Union’s victory over Nazi Germany and
involves a parade of Russia’s latest mili-
tary hardware, including its long-range
nuclear missiles. This parade was more
modest than in recent years. Russian
news agencies said 11,000 troops and
131 armoured vehicles took part,
including Armata tanks, which have
not been considered combat-ready for
the war in Ukraine. A planned flypast
by the air force was cancelled at short
notice. The Kremlin blamed “weather
conditions”, despite the fact that it was
bright and sunny in Moscow.
A notable absence from the ceremo-
ny was General Valery Gerasimov, the
head of the armed forces. Gerasimov,
66, was reported to have been wounded
and evacuated from Izyum in Ukraine’s
Kharkiv region while visiting the front
lines in the Donbas at the end of last
month. Neither Russian nor western
officials have confirmed these reports.
Putin did not use his familiar phrase
“special military operation”, to describe
Russia’s invasion. Neither, though, did
he call it a war. However, an opinion
piece published by Ria Novosti, the
state news agency, celebrating the
event, did refer to the invasion as a war,
saying: “Special operation in Ukraine
became our war for peace.”
Legislation passed in March imposed
a jail term of up to 15 years for the
spreading of “fake information”, includ-
ing the use of the word “war”.
Flanked by veterans of the Second
World War, known in Russia as the
Great Patriotic War, Putin drew com-
parisons between the current conflict
and the defeat of Nazi Germany in an
apparent attempt to bolster support for
the faltering invasion.
Addressing soldiers who he said had
recently returned from the front, he
declared: “You are fighting for the
motherland, for its future, so that
no one forgets the lessons of the Second
World War. So that there is no place in
the world for executioners, punishers
and Nazis.” Afterwards, Putin laid flow-
ers at the monuments to “hero cities” of
the Second World War, including Kyiv,
which Russia has subjected to a barrage
of missile strikes for more than two
months.
Paranoid cliches, leading article, page 29 Russia’s military might is paraded through Red Square yesterday. Servicewomen, top right, join the crowds marking the

What he did not mention Ukraine by

name at all.
Instead, his speech —
left out — relatively short, at only 11
minutes — repeated his
insistence that Russia was
and why fighting against the
aggression of Nato and the
West. He insisted that the
it matters West was preparing
“another punitive operation
in Donbas” and the
Analysis invasion of Russia’s historic
lands, including Crimea. He
Putin dwelt a lot on
Russia’s history, culture,
customs and traditional
values — and appeared to
be invoking its Orthodox
faith. Having received the
blessing of the Russian
Orthodox patriarch, he was
clearly attempting to link
this war with Russia’s
struggles for its freedom
and soul in earlier ages and
the defence of the
motherland — as powerful
at the death of every soldier
and officer in a clear
attempt to assuage the
growing public concern,
and he promised that the
state would now make
special provision for their
families. The clear
implication is that he is
expecting many more
casualties and that the war
will drag on for a long time.
The speech was
addressed to a domestic
no mention of Mariupol or
indeed of any battlegrounds
in Ukraine except the
Lack of kit in
Donbas, already claimed as
historic Russian territory.
In many ways this was a
Larisa Brown Defence Editor
Tanks, armoured vehicles, howitzers,
defensive speech that
indicated no fresh thinking
surface-to-air missile systems and
intercontinental ballistic missile
in the Kremlin but was launchers rumbled over the cobble-
fashioned very much to
justify Putin’s earlier
stones of Red Square in Moscow. Thou-
sands of troops marched as Putin
challenge to Nato. It does watched with other dignitaries.
not augur any future Yesterday’s Victory Day parade was
escalation. But the fact that smaller than usual, however. It went

T
he most striking
thing about
President Putin’s
speech is what he
did not say. There
was no talk of victory — of
any kind — in Ukraine, nor
any assessment of how the
war was going (Michael
Binyon writes).
He did not announce any
general mobilisation in
Russia, as many had
expected, nor say that the
“special operation” had
become a war. Indeed, he
said that Nato had
systematically created “an
absolutely unacceptable
threat to us” that was
directly on Russia’s borders.
Putin drew an absolute
parallel with the aggression
of Nazi Germany against
Russia and invoked the
patriotism, heroism and
sacrifice that the Russians
had made during the
Second World War to rally
his countrymen for what
now appeared to be a long
haul in the Donbas.
a message now as it was in
the Second World War.
This, he knows, will
appeal especially to millions
in rural Russia but will also
strike a chord with a
younger generation who,
even in the big cities, are no
less nationalist.
He gave no update on
Russia’s casualties, officially
stated earlier at about 1,000
but now estimated by
western intelligence to be
well over 15,000. But he
spoke of his “shared grief ”
audience. It was clearly an
attempt to justify an action
that has left Russia isolated
in the world and perplexed
millions of Russians. It gave
little hint of what Russia’s
war aims are, how the
Kremlin can make up for a
floundering strategy and
humiliating military
failures or how Russia will
replace so much lost
equipment.
This was not an address
to warn the West of what
Russia might do. There was
mobilisation was not
mentioned does not mean
that it is not being planned
or will not be implemented
some time soon if troop
shortages become acute.
Observers note that in
the past 22 years Putin has
never used Victory Day for
important policy statements
but has focused relentlessly
on patriotic and nationalist
themes, which are now
overwhelmingly the
ideological underpinnings
of his leadership.
ahead without a promised display of
airpower in which warplanes were
expected to perform a flypast in a “Z”
formation. The Kremlin blamed the
weather for the last-minute change,
even though it was a bright day.
On show this year were 11,000 troops
and 131 items of military and special
hardware, compared with the 12,000
soldiers and 191 vehicles that took part
last year, when attendance was restrict-
ed by the pandemic.
Back in 2020, more than 22,000
troops reportedly took part in the
event, which celebrated the 75th anni-
versary of the end of the Second World
War in Europe. Tanks on display this
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Putin tells Victory Day crowd
victory against Nazi Germany while a Russian soldier hugs his girlfriend. A resolute President Putin watches the parade
Red Square hints at frontline trouble Hackers disrupt Russian
time included a “legendary” Second
World War-era T-34, T-90 Proryv
tanks and Russia’s newest T-14 Armata
main battle tanks, according to the state
news agency, Tass.
The T-14 Armata was first displayed
during the Victory Day Parade in Mos-
cow in May 2015. It it is yet to make an
appearance in Ukraine.
Last week photographs emerged of a
damaged T-90 following a battle with
Ukrainian forces near Kharkiv. The
tank, one of Russia’s most advanced,
costing about £3.6 million a piece, is
built with extra layers of armour and
systems designed to protect the vehicle
from shells and missile attacks.
Also on parade were Iskander short-
range ballistic missile systems — used
extensively in Ukraine — Msta-S how-
itzers, S-300 surface-to-air missile sys-
tems and an array of fighting vehicles.
Yars mobile intercontinental ballistic
missile launchers and Uran-9 robotic
vehicles were also on show, according
to Tass. Billed as a “robot tank”, the
Uran-9 boasts a 30mm 2A72 autocan-
non, four anti-tank missiles, and a ma-
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Zelensky: Kremlin
is repeating crimes
of Hitler’s regime
George Grylls
President Zelensky delivered a mes-
sage of defiance yesterday as he com-
pared President Putin to Hitler in a
speech to mark the anniversary of the
Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany.
The Ukrainian president accused
Putin of being a madman who was try-
ing to annex the countries’ shared his-
tory as he debunked Russian propagan-
da about the denazification of Ukraine.
Walking through the empty streets of
Kyiv, Zelensky recorded an emotional
speech to commemorate Victory Day.
He likened Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine to Operation Barbarossa, the
Nazi assault on the Soviet Union that
caused the deaths of an estimated
27 million people.
He said Russia had not learnt the les-
sons of Hitler’s failed attempt to con-
quer Ukraine and was “treading on the
same rake”. He added: “Every occupier
who comes to our land treads on it. We
have been through different wars. But
they all had the same result.”
Zelensky wore his usual plain mili-
tary T-shirt, eschewing the bombast of
the medals and weaponry on display in
Moscow. He walked alone down the
wide boulevard of Khreshchatyk, the
avenue that opens out onto Maidan
Nezalezhnosti, the central square
where at least 50 pro-democracy pro-
testers were killed during the revolu-
tion of 2014, which culminated in the
ousting of President Yanukovych and
the overthrow of the government.
Anti-tank structures known as hedge-
hogs dotted the road.
“This is not a war of two armies. This
is a war of two world views,” he said. “Its
essence is that we are free people who
have our own path. Today we are
waging war on this path and we will not
give anyone a single piece of our land.”
Russian propaganda has previously
sought to question Kyiv’s commitment
Marching orders
chinegun. Some Russian troops who
took part in battles in the eastern Don-
TV with anti-war message
The T-34 tank
bas region of Ukraine were present. It
traditionally led the was reported that the 33 parade units George Grylls
Victory Day parade included officers, sergeants and sol-
diers of military units and formations of Millions of viewers expecting to watch
11,000 131 items of the more experienced Western Mili- the Victory Day parade in Moscow
troops military and tary District. Students and cadets of were told that “the blood of Ukrainians
special hardware military educational institutions were is on your hands” after Russian TV
also said to be on parade. networks were hacked.
Taifun off-road armoured vehicles and According to the latest Ukrainian es- Russians tuning in for the live broad-
infantry fighting vehicles including:
timates, Russia has lost more than 1,100 cast from Red Square on channels
BMP-2, BMP-3 and tanks and more than 2,700 armoured ranging from Perviy Kanal, the Russian
Kurganets-25 (right) patrol vehicles in Ukraine. equivalent of BBC1, through to Karusel,
Robert Clark, a research fellow at the which airs children’s shows, instead
Main battle tanks think tank Civitas, said: “They simply were met with anti-war slogans.
T-72B3M (right) , don’t have the vehicles in a parade-wor- The Victory Day parade is a big TV
T-90M Proryv and T-14 Armata thy condition to spare taking out the event in Russia with recent audiences
Missile systems and rocket launchers
front line to send to Moscow.” There exceeding 16 million. However, viewers
was “plenty of legacy kit on display”, but expecting to watch the carefully
Iskander-M (right), “hardly any modern equipment”. orchestrated pageant of military hard-
Tor-M2, Buk-M3 and He said: “It was a damning indication ware were instead forced to confront an
S-400 Triumf
of just how depleted stocks are.” accusatory message. “The blood of
Yars ICBM , The airborne element of the parade thousands of Ukrainians and hundreds
Tornado-G (right) had been set to involve 77 fixed and of their murdered children is on your
rotary-wing aircraft, representing the hands. TV and the authorities are lying
Artillery number of years since the end of the to you. No to war,” the message read.
Msta-S howitzers
Second World War. Most embarrassingly, TV Zvezda, the
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to honouring Soviet victims of the
Second World War, spreading conspir-
acy theories about Ukrainians
desecrating war memorials and
accusing Zelensky, who is Jewish, of
being a neo-Nazi.
Zelensky dismissed the allegations as
propaganda and expressed his full-
throated pride in his country’s sacrifice
during the Second World War, saying
that eight million Ukrainians had died.
“We are proud of our ancestors who,
together with other nations in the anti-
Hitler coalition, defeated Nazism. And
we will not allow anyone to annex this
victory, we will not allow it to be appro-
priated,” he said. “The Nazis were ex-
pelled from Luhansk, the Nazis were
expelled from Donetsk, and Kherson,
Melitopol and Berdyansk were liberat-
ed from the occupiers.”
“The Nazis were expelled from Yalta,
Simferopol, Kerch and the entire Cri-
mea. Mariupol was liberated from the
Nazis. They expelled the Nazis from all
over Ukraine, but the cities I named are
especially inspiring us today. They give
us faith that we will drive the occupiers
out of our own land for good.”
Zelensky’s grandfather, Semyon,
great-grandfather and two great-
uncles fought in the Red Army during
the “Great Patriotic War”.
Just days before he became president
in 2019, Zelensky travelled to his home
town of Kryvyi Rih on May 9 where he
laid flowers on Semyon’s tomb.
Yesterday Zelensky promised to cele-
brate the defeat of the Russian invasion
with a military parade down Khresh-
chatyk and said there would be two
Victory Days in Ukraine. “Only a mad-
man can wish to repeat the 2,194 days of
war. The one who is repeating the hor-
rific crimes of Hitler’s regime today,
following Nazi philosophy, copying
everything they did. He is doomed.”
Russians don’t share our ideas of
Nazism, Hugo Rifkind, page 27
The message interrupting Victory Day
Russian defence ministry channel,
carried the message when accessed
through the Yandex search engine.
Networks apologised for the “extrem-
ist” material, which overshadowed the
celebrations of the Soviet defeat of Nazi
Germany in the Second World War.
TV remains the primary means by
which Russians consume news. A poll
by the independent Levada Centre last
year found that 64 per cent watched
television for their news, although trust
has fallen by 25 per cent in a decade.
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Russian troops
relying on old
maps and basic
satnav devices
Larisa Brown Defence Editor
Charlie Parker, Jonathan Ames
Ill-equipped Russian soldiers have
resorted to the “tragic” use of pine logs
as makeshift protection on logistical
trucks, decades-old paper maps and
GPS receivers to fly planes, the defence
secretary said yesterday.
Reading out a “charge sheet” against
Russian generals, Ben Wallace said
they had sent soldiers to war with inad-
equate equipment and that their failure
to adapt before entering a conflict was
“criminal”.
President Putin’s forces suffered
from a “moral decay”, he said, and were
rotten from the chief of the general
staff, General Valery Gerasimov, down.
Russian soldiers had been “worn out”
and “broken”, he said, and a smaller
Ukrainian force could “break the
Russian army to the extent they either
have to go back to [the situation]
pre-February, or it folds in on itself”.
His comments were tempered by
those of the outgoing head of the
British Army, General Sir Mark
Carleton-Smith, who said he was “not
comfortable” with Wallace’s plans for
an army of “just 73,000”.
Wallace announced last year that the
army would shrink by 9,000 by 2025, to
its smallest size since the Napoleonic
era. Carleton-Smith told Soldier maga-
zine: “It’s too small. I was working to a
direction that we regrow the army to
82,000 — 73,000 is a bit of an arbitrary
figure because it is just a price point.”
In a speech yesterday at the National
Army Museum, Wallace listed Russian
military blunders and shortages. GPS
receivers — basic satellite navigation
devices — had been found “taped to the
dashboards of downed Russian SU-34s,
so the pilots knew where they were, due
to the poor quality of their own
systems”. Vehicles were “frequently
found with 1980s paper maps of
Ukraine in them”, he added.
Cages had been crudely welded to
the tops of Russian tank turrets, he said.
These were intended as an extra de-
fence against rocket attacks from
above, but analysts said they added
weight, made the vehicles easier to spot
and gave crews a false sense of security.
Wallace said: “Russian soldiers’ futile
use of pine logs as makeshift protection
on logistical trucks, and attaching
overhead ‘cope cages’ to their tanks —
it’s nothing short of tragic.”
Many vehicles were not maintained
properly and their cheap tyres were fre-
quently “blown out”, he said.
The Ministry of Defence warned that
Russia was running out of precision-
guided missiles after its relentless, ten-
week bombardment of Ukrainian
cities. Officials said that Russian troops
were being forced to rely more heavily
on inaccurate “dumb” bombs more
likely to kill civilians.
“As the conflict continues beyond
Russian pre-war expectations, Russia’s
stockpile of precision-guided muni-
tions has likely been heavily depleted,”
an intelligence update said.
“This has forced the use of readily
available but ageing munitions that are
less reliable, less accurate and more
Tuesday May 10 2022 | the times
easily intercepted. Russia will likely
struggle to replace the precision weap-
onry it has already expended. Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine has revealed short-
comings in its ability to conduct preci-
sion strikes at scale.”
The update added: “Russia has
subjected Ukraine’s towns and cities to
intense and indiscriminate bombard-
ments with little or no regard for
civilian casualties.”
William Alberque, director of strate-
gy, technology and arms control at the
defence think tank IISS, said that many
munitions had not exploded on impact,
“we assume because the chemicals in
the warheads have aged out”.
Wallace also criticised Russian gen-
erals for bad battle preparation, poor
operational planning, inadequate
support, corruption and lack of morals.
Russian forces were not told what
their mission was in Ukraine until they
had crossed the border, so they were
unable to prepare, he said. There were
reports of troops in Belarus selling the
fuel for their vehicles in the week before
the invasion, because they had repeat-
edly been told it was an exercise.
Although Putin did not announce
mass mobilisation in his Victory Day
speech, Wallace said he would soon run
out of his contracted army, creating the
prospect of mobilising other Russians.
Wallace also said that Britain would
be willing to backfill — lend aircraft to
make good shortfalls — if Romania or
other European countries wished to
send their jets to Ukraine.
In a ministry trail of his speech, pub-
lished on Sunday, he had planned to
say: “Putin, his inner circle and generals
are now mirroring the fascism and
tyranny of over 70 years ago, repeating
the errors of last century’s totalitarian
regimes and their fate must also, surely,
eventually, be the same.”
However, the speech was changed
upon delivery to omit the suggestion
that Putin must suffer the same fate
as Hitler.
Andrei Kozyrev, a former Russian
foreign minister, urged the West to
support Ukraine. Going to ground A Ukrainian tank drives over an infantryman, who is protected by a shallow trench, in a training exercise
“The war will end only when Putin
will see that he cannot achieve any kind
of his goals in Ukraine by force, because
that’s the only language which he re-
spects and that’s his language,” Kozyrev
Kremlin ‘building 4,000mph missile’
told TalkTV. Charlie Parker modern aviation systems with the new their target, whereas cruise missiles
“So the West should continue and missiles, adding that the military was have engines that use oxygen in the air
upgrade and double down on the mili- The Kremlin is developing a new gen- already testing them on supersonic to help to produce thrust, which means
tary support, in the first place, and have eration of hypersonic missiles, Russia’s Tu-22M3M strike bombers. they fly at a steady speed and altitude.
some kind of economic social humani- deputy prime minister has warned. Weapons experts believe the main Technology to counter hypersonic
tarian support for Ukraine, because Yuri Borisov said that tests were feature of the new hypersonic missile systems does not yet exist.
that’s where the end game is.” “already under way”, and that the coun- will be the ability to launch it from the Russia has been adapting its 3M22
Wallace also warned that, irrespec- try aimed to rival US stockpiles. air, ground or sea. Zircon anti-ship hypersonic missile to
tive of the outcome of the war in Hypersonic missiles are designed to William Alberque, a missile expert at be launched from the ground since last
Ukraine, Putin would “be around for fly at low altitude and at such speed that the International Institute for Strategic year. It is not known when a ground-
some time” and the West must find a they cannot be shot down by traditional Studies, a defence think tank, said launched platform is expected to enter
way to “contain him and his Russia”. missile defence systems. Russia had been moving towards cross- service. The missile was developed as
6 Suella Braverman, the attorney-gen- They travel at 3,850mph (the speed launcher compatibility for years. an anti-ship weapon to be launched
eral, became the latest UK government of sound is 767mph) and unlike ballistic “In the Ukraine crisis, we’ve seen from the Russian navy’s Project 22530
figure to visit Ukraine yesterday as she missiles do not follow a predetermined, some cruise missiles launched from Gorshkov-class frigate and the Project
met her opposite number to discuss war arched trajectory . They can carry a platforms for the first time,” he told The 08851 Yasen-M class nuclear-powered
crimes prosecutions. Iryna Venedikto- nuclear or conventional warhead. Times. “There are also new missile sys- submarine.
va briefed Braverman on Kyiv’s plans to Borisov told the Interfax news agen- tems in the pipeline, so this is more of a Alberque said that whether the Zir-
prosecute Russian soldiers in Ukraini- cy: “In terms of their characteristics, declaration of continuity.” con could be classed as a hypersonic
an courts, as well as moves to work with they will surpass the existing and pro- There are two main hypersonic cruise missile was debatable, as design
the UN’s International Criminal Court spective developments of the leading weapons. Glide vehicles are launched characteristics in film of test launches
in the Hague. states.” He said Russia planned to equip into space on a rocket before gliding to did not match its expected features.
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near Kryvyi Rih teaching troops how to survive when Russian vehicles are close
Ukrainians shell enemy
with American howitzers
George Grylls, Charlie Parker
American howitzers donated to the
Ukrainian military have begun shelling
Russian positions.
The US provided an estimated 90
M777s, a relatively light and manoeu-
vrable 155mm howitzer with a maxi-
mum range of 25 miles, along with
thousands of rounds of artillery.
The Pentagon said that the “vast
majority” had arrived over the week-
end. Footage shared online suggests
that the weaponry has already been de-
ployed.
One video shows Ukrainian troops
towing the howitzers towards the front
line while another shows soldiers firing
on Russian positions. More than 220
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Ukrainian soldiers completed training
on the M777 in Germany last week.
Defence experts believe that which-
ever side is able to combine artillery
with drone reconnaissance most
effectively will have the advantage in
Donbas.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s anti-drone
defences have been bolstered with a
Lithuanian-made EDM4S, an electro-
magnetic jammer which can scramble a
drone’s navigation system, rendering
smaller drones inoperable.
In addition to M777s, Ukraine will re-
ceive seven Panzerhaubitze 2000s from
Germany and six more from the Neth-
erlands. France is sending up to a dozen
Caesars, a 155mm howitzer mounted
on a six-wheeled truck chassis.
Cancer and stroke patients
join town defence brigades
Invalids are among the
frontline fighters,
writes Richard
Lloyd-Parry in
Yanvarskoie
W
hen Serhii Buzurny
had half his stomach
removed, everyone
except him assumed
that his military
career was over. It was the end of last
year when he had cancer diagnosed;
drastic surgery followed, and he was
immediately invalided out of the armed
forces. He lost 32kg (5st), and was re-
duced from a strapping bodybuilder to
a slight, limping figure. And yet today
here he is, digging trenches in southeast
Ukraine, at the heart of the country’s
battle against the Russian invasion.
“I’ve got a hernia,” he says. “I’ve got
problems with my spine. My leg is
numb but I don’t let my leg control my
state of mind. They chucked me out on
December 19, but the war started in
February and the disabled were al-
lowed to join up. Most of the people
who joined up then have no real fight-
ing experience. I’ve got expertise and
I’ve got experience that I can share, and
that’s the most important thing — the
will to fight.”
Captain Buzurny, 53, is a member of
the Territorial Defence Forces of
Ukraine, the equivalent of Britain’s
Territorial Army, a force made up of
trained and experienced reservists,
many of them former regulars, plus
part-time weekend soldiers, and
100,000 volunteers who rushed to en-
list immediately after the invasion.
They include men and women aged
18 to 60, many of whom had no former
military experience and who three
months ago were going about their
civilian lives. The Territorial Defence
operate checkpoints, guard public
buildings, police against looters and
saboteurs, and generally relieve the
pressure on professional units. But
some units are also on the front lines.
In the Zaporizhzhya Territorial De-
fence Brigade, jewellers, taxi drivers,
dentists and furniture makers with a
few days’ training are facing regular
Russian units and fighting for control of
villages and towns in eastern Ukraine.
One of the doctors is a vet. And among
them are experienced soldiers such as
Buzurny, a former aviation engineer
Poles paint Putin’s ambassador red
Charlie Parker
The Russian ambassador to Poland was
drenched in red paint and called a
fascist while trying to take part in a Vic-
tory Day event in Warsaw yesterday.
Activists opposed to the invasion of
Ukraine confronted Sergei Andreev as
he arrived at a cemetery to pay respects
to Soviet soldiers who died during the
Second World War.
The crowd waved Ukrainian flags
and chanted “fascist” and “murderer”
at him and his entourage, before throw-
ing bags of red paint at them. Footage
showed Andreev, right, taking a direct
hit to the face that soaked his hair and
suit. He wiped paint from his eye while
trying to ignore the protesters. Mem-
bers of the Russian delegation were
prevented from entering and laying
wreaths at the Soviet Military Ceme-
and police officer, who before the war
would have been ruled out for health
reasons.
“You see that?” he says, on a guided
tour of the impressively deep trench
system that he has designed in prepara-
tion for defence against a future Rus-
sian advance. “That bit from there to
there was dug by a man who has had
two strokes. Not bad, eh?”
Typical of the new recruits is Dmytro
Syrenko, a 41-year-old videographer
and photographer who until recently
ran his own advertising agency in the
city of Zaporizhzhya . He had his drone
for filming, and when the invasion hap-
pened he called a military friend to
offer it for surveillance.
Syrenko had no military experience,
and suffers from a blood disorder. But
the Territorial Defence Forces were in-
deed interested in his skills; when he
turned up the day after the invasion he
found himself recruited, almost by acci-
dent, and launching his drone across
the front lines.
“My health is not that good, and I
could have done volunteer work of
some kind instead of this,” he says. “My
family didn’t believe that I would join
but if not me, who? Most people here
are like me, without experience.”
He adds: “It’s hard staying up all night
doing watch duty. It’s creepy standing
in an abandoned village in the middle of
the night with only night vision scope to
keep a look out. But with my health
problems, I feel as if the war managed to
cure me.”
Syrenko has learnt to fire machine-
guns and automatic rifles, but his great-
est contribution has been his technical
skills. “Some of the weapons we’ve been
getting we don’t know how to use, like
the Javelin and the NLAW [anti-tank
weapons],” he says. “We found videos
on YouTube which show you how. The
mobile reception was dodgy but I
hooked up an aerial so we could pick up
the signal down the hill.”
The most intense fighting in Ukraine
is east of here, in the Donbas region, but
the southern front, where the Zapor-
izhzhya brigade hold the line is not stat-
ic. Artillery explosions can be heard
from Buzurny’s trenches. From time to
time long-range missiles create mas-
sive craters. Two days ago his comrades
successfully took back a village called
Malinivka, but for the past three weeks
the opposing sides have been dug in and
have rarely seen one another.
“It’s not like you see in the movies —
lines of infantry attacking one
another,” says Andriy Bystrik, a former
tery in the Polish capital. They were
eventually escorted away by Polish
police officers.
spokes
Maria Zakharova, a spokes-
woman for the Russian n for-
eign ministry, described ed
the activists as “fans off
neo-Nazism”, saying
that they had “once
again bared their face,
and it is bloody”. In a
post on Telegram, she
added: “The demoli-
tion of monuments to
the heroes of the Second d
World War, the desecra- ra-
tion of graves, and now w the
wer-laying
disruption of the flower-laying
ceremony on a holy day ay for every de-
cent person prove the already obvious
— the West has set a course for the rein-
carnation of fascism.”
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manager of a chain of shops who has
been on the forces’ full-time staff since
2014. “Small intelligence-gathering
groups are sent out to reconnoitre the
enemy, but they are put at great risk by
the dearth of armoured vehicles —
these reconnaissance missions are
launched in thin-skinned civilian cars,
many of the donated by grateful locals,”
says Bystrik.
“They’re the ones who see the enemy
face to face. It’s frightening without
armour, frightening but we don’t have
any other choice.”
The Ukrainians are dismissive about
the enemy. “They’re good soldiers
when they have artillery and air
support,” says Bystrik. “When they
don’t prevail technically, their morale is
not that high.”
The Ukrainians report the by now
familiar pattern of war crimes in vil-
lages that they have liberated — civil-
ians shot, vehicles, homes and farms
looted. They report a remarkable inci-
dent in the past few days in the town of
Polohy, a few miles south of the enemy
lines — a group of Russian soldiers who
shot up 20 of their own vehicles to avoid
being sent to the front.
The Russians blamed it on Ukrainian
partisans operating behind enemy
lines. Either way it is impossible to con-
firm, but speaks of the pervasive con-
tempt for the invaders. Yesterday’s
much feared offensive on Russia’s
Victory Day never came. “Everyone
expected provocations,” he says. “But
we know Russian soldiers — I’d expect
them to celebrate this day by getting
drunk and having barbecues.”
Three days after the war began on
February 24, the Territorial Defence
Forces’ peace time strength of 10,000
had risen to 37,000. Now there are more
than 100,000. Inevitably, with a surge in
inexperienced soldiers, there are prob-
lems. “Morale is good, although there
are nuances,” says Bystrik. “People
have to leave their families, they have to
spend weeks and weeks in harsh condi-
tions. Not everyone was prepared for
the hardships.”
The territorial responsibility of the
units becomes blurred in wartime —
the Zaporizhzhya brigade finds itself
deployed to the neighbouring Dnipro
region. “Some of them thought that
because they come from Zaporizhzhya
they should be stationed near the city,”
says Bystrik. “We have to explain that
by the time the enemy is on the road to
Zapo it’s too late — your family will be
dead. We have to step them before then
— we have to stop them here.”
The cemetery is in a large park on the
route linking downtown Warsaw and
the international airport. It is the final
pl
resting place of more than
20,000 Red Army soldiers
who died fighting Nazi
Ger
Germany. Poland, one of
Uk
Ukraine’s biggest supp-
or
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m in the years after it
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Polish aauthorities had rec-
Polish
ommended that the Victory Day
event in Warsaw b be cancelled.
Andreev said he was unharmed,
according to RIA Novosti, the Russian
state-owned news agency.
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Workers lack basic education, say bosses
Education Commission
Emma Yeomans
A third of businesses say that their
workforce is lacking basic skills in liter-
acy and numeracy, a survey has found.
A poll of British businesses by PwC
and The Times Education Commission
found that a majority felt the education
system was not preparing young people
for the world of work.
Fifty per cent said that their organi-
sation would be more productive if the
education system were better tailored
to future employment. Eighty-nine per
cent said that it was important for
young people to be assessed on more
than academic skills.
In January the commission estimat-
ed that reforming education would add
£125 billion a year to the UK economy.
Better preparing young people for
the world of work, such as helping
students to develop better time
management, teamworking skills and
resilience, could increase productivity
and help them find jobs and career op-
portunities, the study concluded.
Research from PwC has found that a
significant number of businesses are
experiencing shortages of basic skills.
Thirty-five per cent said they were
experiencing a shortage of core compe-
tencies in reading, writing and numera-
cy. Similar numbers expected to see lit-
eracy shortages in the next year.
Thirty-nine per cent also felt they
were short on personal skills such as
time management and problem solv-
ing. Thirty-three per cent felt they were
struggling to find employees with
strong skills in leadership, networking
and communication. Forty per cent
feared they would struggle to find
people with creativity and entrepre-
neurship in the next year.
Kevin Ellis, chairman and senior
partner at PwC UK, who is speaking at
the commission’s summit in London
today, said: “Basic numeracy and litera-
cy should be a given. We also need other
skills that stand the test of time, such as
empathy, resilience and agility. You
can’t predict all the jobs that will exist in
the future but you can predict the
mindset needed to adapt and be ready.”
Last year Dame Sharon White, chair-
woman of the John Lewis Partnership,
told the commission that it was having
to teach basic literacy and numeracy to
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teenage employees. Many had been
“basically completely failed” by the
education system, she said, and some
would have done ten to 12 years of edu-
cation but lacked functional literacy.
Even if they developed “fabulous
people skills”, that was something often
acquired outside education, she said.
Eighty-nine per cent of employers
said that it was important for assess-
ments to take into account abilities
beyond academic performance. While
the majority of businesses said that the
exam system was useful for teaching
young people to work under pressure,
19 per cent said that it was not helping
students to develop teamwork and
collaborative skills. As a result, 74 per
cent of employers used their own as-
sessment techniques as well as consid-
ering an applicant’s academic history.
Tuesday May 10 2022 | the times
Ofsted favours
council schools
over academies
Emma Yeomans
Schools that do not convert to acad-
emies are more likely to achieve higher
ratings from Ofsted than those that do,
research suggests.
Findings from the Local Govern-
ment Association (LGA) showed that
92 per cent of local authority schools
had been rated “good” or “outstanding”
by Ofsted since January 31, compared
with 85 per cent of academy schools
graded since they converted.
Academies receive funding directly
from the government and are run by an
academy trust, some of which have
more than 40 schools. Their status
gives them more control over how the
school is run and managed.
LGA research into Ofsted ratings
between August 2018 and January this
year found that only 45 per cent of aca-
demy schools improved their rating
from “inadequate” or “requires im-
provement” to “good” or “outstanding”,
compared with 56 per cent of council-
maintained schools.
The LGA said it was urging the gov-
ernment “to utilise the knowledge and
expertise of councils in supporting
schools to improve”.
Seventeen per cent used only their own
methods and discounted candidates’
academic qualifications entirely.
Ellis said: “Exams have their place
but they can be unduly influenced by
someone’s background and the oppor-
tunities given to them. They’re not the
best measure of potential. Employers
will miss out on talent if they measure it
through one lens alone.”
Of those that did not consider qualifi-
cations, 38 per cent said this helped
them to hire staff from a more diverse
range of backgrounds than relying on
traditional markers of performance.
Sir James Dyson, the inventor, told
the commission: “Children are creative,
they love building and making things . . .
but as they get closer to GCSEs and
A-levels all that is squashed out of
them.”
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Host of cancer podcast says goodbye after moving to hospice care
Ross Kaniuk
Deborah James, the award-winning
BBC podcast host who has incurable
bowel cancer, shared an emotional
“goodbye” message last night after
moving to hospice care with her family.
The former deputy head teacher, 40,
who has been living with stage four
bowel cancer since her diagnosis in
December 2016, became known as the
“Bowel Babe” on social media.
She had been told that she might not
live beyond five years but passed that
milestone in the autumn of 2021.
In January this year, James, who has
two children, Hugo, 14, and Eloise, 12,
with her husband Sebastien, told how
she had “nearly died” in hospital as her
health deteriorated. She returned to
her London home last month. How-
ever, last night on Instagram, where she
has over 420,000 followers, she posted:
“The message I never wanted to write.
We have tried everything, but my body
simply isn’t playing ball.
“My active care has stopped and I am
now moved to hospice at home care,
with my incredible family all around
me and the focus is on making sure I’m
News
Deborah James left . . . I know we have left no stone
was diagnosed unturned.”
with bowel cancer She went on to ask for donations to
in 2016 a “Bowelbabe fund” being set up in her
name. She finished her message: “No
regrets. Enjoy life x Deborah.”
In 2018, James joined Lauren Mahon
and Rachael Bland to present You, Me
not in pain and spending time with and the Big C on Radio 5 Live. Bland
them. Nobody knows how long I’ve got died of breast cancer that year.

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Boston Red Sox and the

New York Yankees at the
London Stadium in 2019. It
will be become a baseball
venue on a regular basis

UK could be a baseball
fan, they just don’t know
it yet.”
London hosted a game
in 2019 between the
Boston Red Sox and the
New York Yankees —
the first MLB game to be
played in Europe — but
the pandemic prevented
further games taking
place. The teams to
compete next year have
not been decided but are
B
Baseball to pitch up likely to be the St Louis
Cardinals and Chicago
Cubs because they were
annually in London scheduled to play in
London in 2020.

L
ondon will host
regular Major
League Baseball
games for the
first time, Sadiq
Khan has announced as
he pledged to make the
city the “sporting capital
of the world” (Matt
Dathan writes).
Two teams will play
one of their regular
games of the season over
two days at the London
Stadium in Stratford,
east London.
The three-year
London Series deal will
start next summer and
could lead to a UK-based
franchise forming by the
end of the decade.
The London Stadium,
built for the 2012
Olympics and now home
to West Ham United,
will be converted into a
baseball venue by
installing synthetic turf
and removing some of
the seats. The cost,
estimated to be about
£5 million, will be picked
up by MLB.
Robert Manfred Jr,
the commissioner of
MLB, said he hoped the
agreement would lead to
the creation of a
UK-based team. “It’s not
a travel impossibility
because east coast
[America] to London is
not that different from
going east coast to west
coast [America],” he told
The Times. Asked when
he envisaged a UK-
based franchise to form,
he said: “I would hope
late in the decade.”
There are an
estimated five million
baseball fans in the UK,
of whom 500,000 are
classed as “passionate”
supporters, according to
YouGov surveys. The
fanbase has grown
tenfold since the first
MLB game in London in
2019. In an effort to
grow national interest in
the sport, MLB will also
invest millions of pounds
Announcing the series
at MLB headquarters in
New York yesterday,
Khan, the mayor of
London, said: “I want to
continue attracting
world-class sport to our
city as part of my
mission to make London
the sporting capital of
into grassroots baseball the world. This long-
and softball across the term partnership is
UK. ambitious and includes
Jim Small, senior vice- regular season games as
president at MLB, said well as a legacy
he hoped it would turn programme designed to
the UK into a “baseball- grow the number of
playing nation . . . I Londoners watching and
believe everybody in the playing baseball.”

Huw Edwards made £25,000 on Channel 4 staff

balk at making
top of BBC salary in one month way for Neil
Jake Kanter

Jake Kanter Media Correspondent
Huw Edwards made at least £25,000 in
one month moonlighting outside of his
BBC News presenting duties.
The corporation’s highest-paid news
presenter, who has a salary of up to
£430,000, took on four external speak-
ing engagements in March.
Edwards, 60, was paid more than
£10,000 to host an event for Business
Matters, a publication for entrepre-
neurs, according to the BBC’s external
events register.
He took home between £5,000 and
£10,000 to host events for the Char-
tered Institute for Securities & Invest-
ment, Bauer Media, the company
behind Absolute Radio, and UMAL,
which provides insurance to higher
education institutions.
Edwards was the BBC’s top outside
earner in the first three months of the
year. His salary top-up in March was
higher than his entire outside earnings
last year when he made at least £20,000
from four engagements.
Naga Munchetty, who hosts BBC
Breakfast, was again among the BBC’s
most in-demand external speakers. She
made at least £15,000 from four events
in the first quarter of 2022, adding to
her salary of at least £255,000.
Munchetty, 47, commands a fee of
between £5,000 and £10,000 and
appeared at events for organisa-
tions including The British and
International Golf Green-
keepers’ Association and
Comedy Central, the television
channel. She took home at least
£40,000 from nine side
gigs last year.
Dan Walker, the out-
going presenter of BBC
Breakfast, earned at
least £20,000 in the
first quarter of 2022,
while Nick Robinson,
the host of the
flagship Today pro-
gramme on Radio 4,
Huw Edwards is the
BBC’s highest-paid
news presenter
Lucrative moonlighting
Huw Edwards
Earnings £25,000
External events Four
Dan Walker
Earnings £20,000
External events Four
Naga Munchetty
Earnings £15,000
External events Four
Frank Gardner
Earnings £10,000
External events Two
made £10,000. The
BBC’s so-called
moonlighting regis-
ter is released quar-
terly as part of its
renewed commitment
to impartiality.
The corporation said:
“Data from this quarter show over
50 per cent of external events under-
taken by staff involved payments of
under £1,000 and the overwhelming
majority — 79 per cent — were below
£5,000. All the events listed were
approved prior to being undertaken
and meet the BBC’s rigorous editorial
guidelines.”
Edwards has signalled his intention
to step down from the News at Ten next
year, although he remains keen to carry
on anchoring major events such as
elections.
The Welsh broadcaster spoke last
week about how the BBC had handled
his depression, revealing that a
colleague had once told him that the
corporation “doesn’t want people to
think there’s a nutter reading the 10
o’clock news”.
“People don’t understand what the
BBC is like. It can be a very sympathetic
and supportive organisation. It can be
not that. It’s a very bureaucratic organi-
sation,” he told Fortunately . . . with Fi
and Jane, a BBC podcast hosted by Jane
Garvey and Fi Glover.
Channel 4 News staff have had their
noses put out of joint after they had to
vacate their studio to make way for
Andrew Neil’s new politics show.
Journalists at ITN, which produces
Channel 4 News, vented their anger in a
WhatsApp group chat.
The Andrew Neil Show, also made by
ITN, was broadcast from studios in
Gray’s Inn Road, central London, on
Sunday evening. It was followed by
Channel 4 News live from Leeds.
A number of news employees have
been involved in making Neil’s pro-
gramme, not least its editor Esme
Wren.
“Why have we handed Andrew Neil a
show after his GB News debacle?”
asked one journalist, referring to the
news channel he quit.
“He goes on the attack against Chan-
nel 4 and mainstream broadcasters
calling us woke?! And now he’s not only
rewarded with a show but we are forced
out of our studio on Sundays.”
Another made reference to Neil’s
hostility to elites while allegedly “flying
in from St Tropez” to do the show.
the times | Tuesday May 10 2022
Can’t remember passwords? Soon you won’t have to
Neil Johnston
The big technology companies have
vowed to phase out passwords for
logging in, which will save users time
and the danger of revealing them.
Apple, Microsoft and Google have
backed plans by the Fido Alliance, an
industry group, to standardise logins.
The plans will allow browsers to use a
different sign-in method later this year
which will make accounts more secure.
Many people with smartphones will
have already used the login method,
which instead of asking for a password
sends a notification to a phone to verify
the owner’s identity.
This can be done using the phone’s
PIN or fingerprint and face identifica-
tion in the same way the device is
unlocked.
Many apps offer a similar method of
authentication already, but most
require a password to use the software.
The new passkey system will also
allow users to unlock devices using
bluetooth from another phone or
computer and will protect them from
phishing, which is used by scammers to
TMS
diary@thetimes.co.uk | @timesdiary
MP puts gloss
on conviction
The post of Crown Steward and
Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds,
one of two crown offices with the
Manor of Northstead that MPs
accept in order to resign midterm
from the Commons, has been held
by some rum sorts over the years.
While many took it for ill health
or to go to a better job, it has also
been given to the likes of John
Profumo, John Stonehouse and
Chris Huhne as a means to shuffle
disgrace out of the back portcullis.
How very modern, though, of
Imran Ahmad Khan, the exiting
MP for Wakefield, to put his new
posting on LinkedIn, which then
invited followers to “say congrats”
to the new steward. Oddly, his
online CV didn’t mention that he
is leaving the Commons after
being convicted of the sexual
assault of a schoolboy.
Boris Johnson and Ed Balls appeared
in a Year 10 maths exam last week, a
parent in south London tells me, in a
question about Newtonian force.
The two politicians were placed on a
seesaw, at different distances from
the pivot, and students were asked to
work out which way it would tilt. In
good news for the prime minister,
the question-setter seems to think
that Ed Balls is much heavier.
evil b’stard was a hero
Reflecting in The Oldie on 35 years
since he created Alan B’Stard, his
gleefully villainous MP in the
comedy The New Statesman,
Maurice Gran says one
problem he had was getting
the hair right. He demanded
that Rik Mayall, pictured, be
given a trademark Tory
coiffure of the time.
“Conservatives had this
crinkly hair behind
their ears achieved
by someone running
a wet comb through
it,” Gran says, “which is
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trick users into revealing their pass- stronger authentication’ is not just Fido While technology companies are Oxford scholar who is now director of
word. Alliance’s tagline — it also has been a aiming to phase out passwords in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
According to Fido the system will guiding principle for our specifications favour of the new passkey, they will Security Agency, based in Virginia, said
make the internet “more secure and and deployment guidelines. struggle to kill them off for good since that the changes would help to keep
usable for all”. “Ubiquity and useability are critical they have been used for years and many people safer online.
It will “allow websites and apps to of- to seeing multi-factor authentication people will refuse to give up the They would also mean more flex-
fer consistent, secure, and easy pass- adopted at scale, and we applaud Apple, method they are familiar with ibility for the service providers and
wordless sign-ins to consumers across Google, and Microsoft for helping and comfortable using. a better user experience for
devices and platforms”, it said. make this objective a reality by Jen Easterly, a former customers, she said.
The group said that password-only committing to support this user-friend- lieutenant-colonel in “Today is an important
authentication was one of the biggest ly innovation in their platforms and the US army and milestone in the security
security problems online and manag- products.” journey to help us move
ing several passwords was “cumber- Shikiar said the new approach would The verification beyond passwords,”
some” for users. This meant that many usher in a wave of changes designed to system sends a she added. “Cyber is a
use the same passwords across services give service providers more options for message to your team sport, and we’re
putting them more at risk if one was authentication methods to fend off phone and is pleased to continue
breached. phishing scammers. far safer our collaboration.”
Hundreds of technology companies
and service providers from around the
world have worked on the passwordless
sign-in technology which is already in
use on billions of devices with modern
web browsers.
Apple, Google and Microsoft have
led development of this and are now
building support into their respective
platforms.
Andrew Shikiar, executive director
of the Fido Alliance, said: “‘Simpler,
presumably what Nanny used to
do.” Although B’Stard lived down
to his name, committing murder,
blackmail, fraud and, worse, torture
of a teddy bear, Gran
acknowledges he created a sort of
hero. “He was quite loved,” he says,
“because he was never a hypocrite.”
sex, rugs and rock’n’roll
After three years away, Eric
Clapton resumed his love affair
with the Royal Albert Hall at the
weekend, a venue he first played in
1964 and where he has now
performed 213 times. Clapton once
described the hall as “like playing
in my front room” which may
explain why a large Moroccan
carpet was rolled out on the stage
before he came on. Either that or
perhaps after a wild youth the 77-
year-old guitarist has developed a
new rug addiction.
Though he made his name as a spiv
in the St Trinian’s films and as the
wideboy Arthur Daley, George Cole
tried to be a civilising influence on
Dennis Waterman, his sidekick in
Minder who died at the weekend.
Cole said his greatest achievement
in the seven series of the ITV drama
they did together was teaching
Waterman how to do the Times
crossword. “In return,” he said, “he
taught me how to swear in public.”
seeing the funny side
Peter Mehlman, one of the lead
writers on the American sitcom
Seinfeld, writes in Air Mail that
humour has always been a key
Jewish weapon against adversity.
And boy has it been needed in
recent years. As an example, he
writes about when white
supremacists marched in
Charlottesville, Virginia, in
2017 chanting: “Jews will not
replace us.” Appalling
antisemitism but
Mehlman admits that his
first response was to
think: “Of course we won’t
replace you. It would mean
taking a huge pay cut.”
patrick kidd
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Daily bag of crisps could
leave you a stone heavier
Kat Lay Health Editor
People drastically underestimate the
number of calories in their snacks, with
experts warning that eating a bag of
crisps every day could lead to a stone of
weight gain in a year.
A report by Nesta, a charity that
works for social change, said that adults
did not realise the impact small adjust-
ments to their eating habits could have.
An extra 240 calories per day over
the course of a year, equivalent to a
large “grab bag” of crisps, would result
in weight gain of around a stone, they
calculated.
However, a survey of around 2,000
adults found that around three quarters
underestimated the impact a small
reduction could have. One in ten
believed that cutting 200 calories a day
would not affect weight.
Hugo Harper, director of Nesta’s
health team, said: “Small changes to our
eating habits, if sustained, can make a
profound difference. Our environment
has a real impact on what we eat, from
adverts and supermarket promotions
to what’s available in our local corner
shop. If we had fewer cues to snack, or
were pushed to buy fewer high calorie
snacks, we should be able to see real
change.
“Rather than putting the burden on
consumers, our food environments
need to change so it’s easier for us to eat
more healthily. Fad diets and personal
Underestimated snacks
Half (90g) a sharing bag of Doritos
Average guess: 214.1 calories
Actual calories: 447 calories
Half (79g) a Terry’s Chocolate
Orange
Average guess: 230.9 calories
Actual calories: 414 calories
A 50g Deliciously Ella oat bar
Average guess: 168.9 calories
Actual calories: 213 calories
A Greggs sausage roll
Average guess: 228.2 calories
Actual calories: 328 calories
calorie counting aren’t the answer.”
The survey, which was carried out by
Opinium, asked participants to esti-
mate the calories in a range of foods
and drinks, before estimating the
annual weight change linked to small
daily calorie reductions.
Participants were told that a 45g bar
of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk contained 240
calories, as a reference point.
Overall they were broadly accurate
in guessing the calorie count of meals,
even overestimating some.
McDonald’s Big Mac with medium
fries, for instance, contains 870 calories,
short of the average guess of 1,000 calo-
Tuesday May 10 2022 | the times
ries. But when it came to snacks, people
struggled, with 95 per cent guessing
that half a sharing bag of tortilla chips
had 214 calories on average, almost half
the true figure of 447.
Participants guessed that a sausage
roll had 228 calories on average, almost
a third short of its 328 calories.
“We seem to have a blind spot when
it comes to snacking,” Harper said.
Stately home ruin
“With snacks making up a significant
portion of the British diet, they present
for £600,000 is the
a massive opportunity to improve the
nation’s health.” ultimate doer-upper
Data from before the pandemic
T
showed that snacks made up a fifth of he asking countryside beyond”.
all calories consumed at home, about price of The snag is that it
370 calories per day. This does not £600,000 burnt down in 1946
include food eaten outside the home, for an and has no roof,
with Nesta stating that the figure was 18th-century windows or any
probably closer to 500 calories. stately home in surviving upper floors.
New rules coming into force in Octo- Cornwall seems at first The gardens, restored
ber will restrict promotions on foods glance like a steal in the 1960s, are
high in fat, sugar and salt in big shops. (Jack Malvern writes). overgrown.
Any business with 50 or more staff Trehane House, a It is, as property
will have to phase out multibuy promo- grade II listed Queen developers say, the
tions such as buy one, get one free offers Anne manor house ultimate doer upper.
on those products. They will also no three miles from Anyone attempting
longer be allowed to promote less Truro, is described by renovations on the plumber was working
healthy foods in key locations such as its estate agent as “one building, which on the outside of the
checkouts and store entrances. of Cornwall’s most already has planning house on September
The Department of Health and beautiful minor permission granted, 26, 1946, when he
Social Care said tackling weight prob- county seats” with would do a better job accidentally set fire to
A lems was a priority and that the govern- “south facing views than the last person the attic. The blaze
ment was “delivering an ambitious pro- over formal gardens to who attempted caused the roof and
gramme to cut obesity” and help people miles of unspoilt improvements. A floors to collapse
make better dietary choices.
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News
Trehane House, set in
5.5 acres of Cornish
countryside, burnt down
in 1946 and needs a roof,
Watch tycoon ‘hid
windows and floors

the estate agents

Lillicrap Chilcott said
£1.5m from brother’
that £600,000 was an Jonathan Ames Legal Editor 1982 at a time when he was said to have
attractive figure for been “annoyed” with Stephen, who had
the ruin and 5.5 acres Two brothers at the heart of a British gone to live in Peru rather than join the
of surrounding land. watch-making empire are embroiled in family business.
“We’ve already had a bitter court battle over chunks of their However, Stephen claimed that his
offers,” he said. “Our late father’s £135 million estate. father had earmarked an unknown
client has owned it for Marcus Margulies, 79, the owner of sum for him, which was allegedly held
about 20 years. They Sekonda, is being sued by his younger in a Swiss bank account before the pair
had a thought process brother over claims that for decades he quarrelled.
to do something hid part of their father’s fortune. The younger brother has told the
[about restoration] but Stephen Margulies told the High court that his father never changed his
it never transpired.” Court in London that his older brother intention for that money to go to him.
He said he had no concealed at least £1.5 million that their His lawyers have also claimed that
idea how much a father, Alexander, had intended for Stephen and his father reconciled after
restoration would cost. him. He accused Marcus — whose he left South America.
The house of red company, Time Products, sells luxury In 1993 Stephen won a legal dispute
brick and Pentewan Swiss watches and owns Accurist and with his brother over their mother’s
stone was built Sekonda, Britain’s biggest-selling watch share of the family wealth when a judge
between 1699 and brand — of using “lies and deception” ruled that the estate must be shared
1703. Occupants to cheat him out of his inheritance. equally between the brothers and their
included Emily Their father created the empire after sister, Judith Sacerdoti.
Stackhouse, described emigrating from Poland in 1931. He died Marcus had argued that their mother
by the estate agent as aged 88 in 1991, a year after his wife, had died intestate, meaning that all her
“an underrated Stella, leaving behind “substantial wealth would have gone to Alexander
Trehane natural scientist”. wealth”. and then to Marcus as sole beneficiary
Newquay Captain William There has been a series of court under Alexander’s will.
House
A30
Stackhouse Church clashes between the brothers over the In the present dispute Stephen’s law-
A30 Pinwill, a serving estate, which lawyers for Stephen say yers acknowledged that his father had
A390 officer in the Indian were “mainly as a result of Marcus’s been worried about him having so
before fire crews could there was no Truro army, inherited it in attempts to disentitle Stephen”. much money due to “concerns” about
arrive. They did, insurance. Hopes of 1861 and cultivated its Marcus — who was worth £135 mil- his “lifestyle and general attitude”.
however, save most of restoration were also CORNWALL
A394 gardens with 4,500 lion in 2018, according to The Sunday They said in written submissions that
the walls and the four hampered by the Falmouth plants. The house was Times Rich List — is now being sued the father “disapproved” of his younger
chimney stacks. rationing of building requisitioned during again by Stephen, who has told the son having moved to Peru.
Any speculation that materials in the 5 miles the Second World War court that after a 20-year investigation Marcus’s defence is not yet available
it was an insurance job postwar years. and used as a refuge he can prove that Marcus hid money. and his representatives declined to
was swiftly quashed: Andrew Chilcott of for Austrian Jews. Marcus was the sole beneficiary in comment on the case. A date for a full
Alexander’s will, which was made in trial has yet to be set.
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Flatpack stations coming down the line
Ben Clatworthy
Transport Correspondent
Flatpack railway stations inspired by
Ikea furniture are to be built across the
country to replace crumbling buildings.
A modular station has been designed
for Network Rail so stations can be
cheaply built on new and existing lines.
It has been developed for use at small
and medium-sized stations, although
there is the option for it to be custom-
ised to reflect the local environment.
Components, including a clocktower,
platform canopy and amenity pods, can
be arranged in a variety of configura-
tions. Network Rail hopes that the con-
cept will “consistently deliver elegant,
recognisable and coherent stations”
across the country.
There are 2,500 stations in the UK, of
which 80 per cent are classed as small
or medium. These are owned by Net-
work Rail but managed by train operat-
ing companies.
Once the station design is finalised
this year, a full-size prototype will be
constructed before it is rolled out for
use in upgrades and on new routes such
as reopened Beeching lines.
Anthony Dewar, head of buildings
and architecture at Network Rail, said:
“We’ve been thinking of the Ikea con-
cept. We often refer to the Billy book-
case because everyone knows it’s very
simple to put together but can also be
expanded and contracted. It is the same
with this: a standardised system that
can be applied with local context to as
many stations as appropriate.”
Dewar said that the canopy, which
extends as far as the platform edge to
How it will look
Activity area
Clocktower
Will be designed
using local materials,
Built using timber
such as Bath stone in
trellis, the area can be
the Cotswolds, to
used for shops or
give station identity
community events
Greenery
Flowerbeds
with native
plants
protect passengers from inclement
weather, as well as the clocktower and
the “outside activity area”, can all be
customised depending on the size and
location of the station. For example, the
clocktower could be built using sand-
stone in Yorkshire or slate in the Lakes.
The activity area, built with timber
trellis, can be used for shops as well as
community events.
Dewar said: “In the industry we’ve
always looked at the station being a
gateway to the railway. But it’s also a
gateway to the community, which is
why we created an area that can be used
for such a multitude of purposes.”
Dewar says the design has been
developed for most stations but insists
it will not be a blanket approach, add-
ing: “There are some locations, say at a
heritage station, where it may need a
bespoke, specialist design. We are abso-
7N ARCHITECTS
Waiting pods
Can be
customised with
local artwork
and, as required,
toilet facilities
lutely not saying this is a cookie cutter
that you can just apply to any station.”
The project is being supported by the
Design Council, which acts as the gov-
ernment’s strategic adviser on design.
A consultation is running through-
out May including virtual reality events
where people are able to wear headsets
that give the impression of exploring
the station. It will run in Liverpool,
Manchester, Hereford and Brighton.
Tuesday May 10 2022 | the times
Staff missed
chances to
save newborn
Rosie Taylor
A baby died after maternity staff
repeatedly missed chances to save his
life, an official investigation has found.
Giles Cooper-Hall lived for only 16
hours after multiple errors in the care of
his mother, Ruth.
Cooper-Hall, 38, was not seen face to
face by a consultant at Derriford Hospi-
tal, Plymouth, when she went into
labour in October, despite raising con-
cerns that her baby wasn’t moving as
much as normal. Inexperienced and
over-stretched staff failed to carry out
proper checks or recognise that there
was an emergency until it was too late,
the Healthcare Safety Investigation
Branch found. Its report suggested that
Giles’s death could have been avoided if
staff had known about his mother’s care
plan. Instead, vital messages were not
passed on. One member of staff also
pressed the patient buzzer instead of
the emergency alarm when they were
unable to hear the baby’s heartbeat.
The findings come after the inde-
pendent Ockenden report into more
than 1,800 cases revealed serious fail-
ings in maternity care at Shrewsbury
and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.
A spokesman for University Hospi-
tals Plymouth NHS Trust said: “All the
safety recommendations stemming
from the investigation will be fully im-
plemented. May we again reiterate our
most sincere condolences.”
the times | Tuesday May 10 2022
Nick Cave grieves
after losing two
sons in seven years
N
ick Cave’s passed away. We would
son Jethro be grateful for family
Lazenby has privacy at this time.”
died, seven Lazenby was born in
years after Melbourne, Australia, in
the singer’s son Arthur 1991 and grew up with
fell to his death in his mother, Beau
Brighton (Emma Lazenby. He did not
Yeomans writes). meet his father until he
Lazenby’s death at the
age of 31 came two days
after his release from
jail, where he had
been serving a
sentence for
assaulting his mother.
At his trial, it was
revealed that he had
had schizophrenia
diagnosed.
Cave confirmed
the news in a
short statement:
“With much
sadness, I can
confirm that my
son, Jethro, has
Boy ‘killed girl in row
about Snapchat video’
Charlotte Wace
A teenage boy laughed, smirked and
ran away after fatally stabbing a
12-year-old schoolgirl who had com-
plained about being filmed without
permission, a court heard yesterday.
The youth, 14, who cannot be
named for legal reasons, is accused of
murdering Ava White, from Liver-
pool, at the switching on of the city’s
Christmas lights last November.
More than 20 members of Ava’s
family and friends sat in the public
gallery as the trial at Liverpool crown
court opened yesterday. Some of
them were in tears as footage of the
incident was shown.
Charlotte Newell QC, for the pros-
ecution, said that both Ava and the
defendant were with their friends
when they “met by chance encoun-
ter” on the evening of November 25.
The boy, who denies murder but
has pleaded guilty to having an offen-
sive weapon, was in possession of a
flick knife with a 7.5cm blade, the
court was told.
“That knife was used to stab Ava,
causing her fatal wound,” Newell
said. “That was done after they
argued over the fact that he and his
group had, without permission,
filmed the antics of Ava and others in
Pilot died when plane hit mountain
David Brown
The pilot brother-in-law of the televi-
sion presenter Paul Hollywood took
off in thick fog before crashing into a
mountain, an inquest was told.
Simon Moores, 62, and the air-
craft’s owner David Hockings, 67,
were killed when they crashed near
Errezil in northern Spain in 2019.
The chances of the aircraft landing
safely were “remote” in such horren-
dous conditions, the inquest in Maid-
was seven or
eight years
old, he said
in an
interview in
2015. In
Jethro Lazenby in 2010. He did not meet his father, left, until he was seven or eight
her group. Ava in particular was
appalled and angry that they were
filming her and was quite insistent
that they delete the footage.”
Newell said that the schoolgirl and
her friends, aged between 11 and 15,
had shared some alcohol and were
“messing around” near the Royal
Court Theatre before security staff
moved them on.
Later they encountered the group
again and the defendant then alle-
gedly began to film a video, which
Ava White got
into a row about
phone footage
was later shared on Snapchat. Ava
and a friend are said to have
approached the group and asked
them to stop filming and delete the
footage. They were said to have been
joined by more of her friends, includ-
ing two older boys who then left.
The boy and his friends then
“jeered” at Ava, causing her to run
towards them, the court was told.
While Ava had approached the
defendant, she did not “inflict any
stone, Kent, was told. The coroner,
Joanne Andrews, said it was impossi-
ble to know whether the pair were
“naive or optimistic” in deciding to
take off. What weather forecasting
system they used is also unknown.
The pilot’s sister, Alex, was married
to the Great British Bake Off star Hol-
lywood but divorced in 2019.
The Piper Arrow III was flying
from the Portuguese town of Cascais
to San Sebastián, in Spain, when it
crashed into Mount Hernio.
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News
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2008 Cave told a affected Lazenby’s
journalist that the
period of Jethro’s birth
judgment. He had
previous convictions for
had been a “difficult assaulting his girlfriend.
time”. He said: “To my
eternal regret, I didn’t
The cause of death is
not yet known.
make much contact with
Jethro in the early years,
but I now have a great
Arthur died aged 15
after falling from a cliff
in Brighton. The death
relationship with him.” was ruled accidental,
As a teenager Lazenby and an inquest found
moved to London and that he had taken LSD
worked as a model, before the fall.
musician and actor. His Members of the public
father attended some of tried to resuscitate the
his shows. Lazenby had teenager but he died
since returned to later at the Royal Sussex
Australia. County Hospital.
He was arrested and After Arthur’s death,
jailed for an assault on his parents — Cave and
his mother after he his wife, Susie — moved
turned up on her to Los Angeles because
doorstep in March and Brighton became “too
asked to stay the night. sad” for the couple.
The next morning, he The impact of his son’s
asked her to buy death was explored in
cigarettes but the two the documentary One
got into an argument More Time With Feeling,
and he kneed her in the which covered the
face. When he then left recording of Cave’s
to buy the cigarettes, his album Skeleton Tree.
mother ran to a nearby Cave has two other
pub and asked them to sons: Luke, 31 today, with
call police. his first wife, Viviane
His lawyer said that Carneiro, and Earl, 21,
schizophrenia had with his present wife.
violence upon him greater than a
push, nor did she produce or have any
weapon,” Newell said.
The boy’s reaction was not to turn
and run or to slap or punch Ava, she
said. “Instead it was to thrust a knife
into the neck of this unarmed child
with what the pathologist was to
determine was moderate force, the
force of a firm punch.”
The defendant now claims that he
was acting in self-defence, fearing
that he would be assaulted or
stabbed, the court was told.
However his reaction at the time
was to smirk, to laugh and to run
away, leaving Ava to die while he
sought “to distance himself from his
actions”, Newell said. He then “began
a conscious cover-up” of the crime,
she said, discarding his knife, phone
and coat. The boy did not say in police
interviews that he had stabbed Ava in
self-defence, the court was told.
Instead, he “told a series of lies
about his movements”, saying that he
had been playing the video game Call
of Duty at a friend’s house at the time
of the killing and blaming the stab-
bing on another boy, Newell said.
The defendant, who appeared by
video link, also denies an alternative
charge of manslaughter.
The trial continues.
“Given these weather conditions,
the possibility of [landing] the plane
was quite frankly remote,” said An-
drews. No evidence was found of any
issues with either Moores’ ability to
fly the plane or with the aircraft itself.
Moores, of Westgate-on-Sea, Kent,
was a lecturer at Canterbury Christ
Church University. Hockings, from
Hailsham, East Sussex, ran an air-
craft maintenance company.
The coroner recorded a verdict of
accidental death.
the times | Tuesday May 10 2022
Millions more in
line for autumn
Covid booster
Eleanor Hayward
Health Correspondent
Millions of adults could be offered a
fourth Covid vaccine this autumn after
a study revealed they increase levels of
antibodies.
Research led by the University of
Southampton found that a fourth dose
enhances protection against Covid-19
“above and beyond” that provided by a
third dose.
In a trial, 166 people with an average
age of 61 were given either a full dose of
Pfizer or a half dose of Moderna as their
booster seven months after receiving a
third jab. Two weeks later they had 12 to
16 times more antibodies and twice as
many as a month after the third dose.
Fourth doses boost cellular immuni-
ty, which is the part of the immune
system that is best at fighting off new
variants. T-cells, which kill infected
cells, increased seven-fold in the fort-
night after a fourth dose and peaked at
a higher level than after a third dose.
UK Health Security Agency analysis
shows protection from third doses
starts to wane by two to three months.
All over-75s and those who are
severely immuno-compromised are
being offered fourth doses. Three mil-
lion vulnerable patients in England
have so far received a spring booster jab.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination
and Immunisation is finalising plans for
Hopes for T-cell therapy
Tom Whipple Science Editor
An innovative cancer immunotherapy
has shown very early promise in treat-
ing stomach and intestinal tumours.
About half of patients given CAR
T-cell therapy in a small trial saw a re-
sponse to the treatment, which uses the
body’s own immune system to attack a
cancer. None had severe reactions.
If the therapy proves successful in
larger trials, it could represent a new
line of defence for cancers with a tradi-
tionally poor prognosis. Similar thera-
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mean the over-75s are offered a fifth
dose. The criteria for receiving a fourth
dose is expected to be similar to that of
the flu jab, which is offered to about 32
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telling them they must be prepared to
restart delivering vaccines “within 5-10
days” if the programme is reactivated.
Professor Saul Faust, who led the
new CovBoost trial, said: “These results
underline the benefits of the most
vulnerable people receiving current
spring boosters and gives confidence
for any prospective autumn booster
programme in the UK.”
Faust said that, despite the study
showing fourth doses were successful
at topping up immunity, there were
reasons to be cautious and to wait
before deploying them more widely.
He said a new variant may emerge
and therefore a tweaked vaccine could
be required before a mass booster
programme this autumn. “It is for poli-
cymakers and the joint committee to
decide when to deploy, if to deploy, a
fourth dose, depending on the pan-
demic and depending on whether there
is a new variant that’s more severe.”
Sajid Javid, the health secretary, said:
“A booster dose will top up your immu-
nity to continue to keep you and your
loved ones safe.”
pies are already used on blood cancers
such as leukaemia but despite decades
of work have not been successfully
brought to the clinic for solid tumours.
CAR T-cell therapy involves remov-
ing immune cells from the body and
tweaking them to recognise proteins on
the cancer cells. Cancer is ordinarily
able to fly under the radar of the im-
mune system.
Some 37 patients with gastrointesti-
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My fantasy Queen’s Speech to boost Britain
Slow growth threatens national decline unless we turbo-charge science and technology in a new Industrial Revolution
William
Hague
A
s parliament meets after
the Queen’s Speech, it will
be a depressing spectacle.
Tory MPs will be worried
about the seats they lost
in the local elections and wondering
how long they can keep a prime
minister ensnared in “partygate”.
Labour MPs will be concerned they
didn’t do better and appalled that Sir
Keir Starmer has become embroiled
in a parallel “beergate” of his own.
Both sides will ridicule the other and
demand their leaders resign.
The government will claim it is
presenting a coherent programme of
laws to take advantage of Brexit —
new powers to remove old EU
regulations, reform of financial
services regulation, trade deals with
New Zealand and Australia, less red
tape in applying for public contracts
and a new regime for handling data
in the UK. The opposition will say
there is a cost-of-living crisis and the
government isn’t doing enough. Both
sides will say the other lacks a clear
vision for the future.
Here, instead, is my fantasy
Queen’s Speech in which the
government explains what it will
do to ensure British success in the
21st century:
“My lords and members of the
House of Commons: those of you
who have been paying attention
might have noticed that the world is
changing more quickly than at any
other time in history. You can see it
in the new weapons being used in
Ukraine, new medicines and the
thousands of satellites going up into
space. Some people call the current
merging of the digital, biological and
engineering worlds the fourth
Industrial Revolution.
Our ancestor George III presided
over the original Industrial
Revolution, which very quickly made
Britain the richest and most
powerful nation on Earth. But we all
remember what happened to the
Ottoman empire at the same time. If
you don’t, look it up. Now we face
the same choice: lead the
technological change or enter
stagnation and decline. And since we
are forecast to have low economic
growth while the cost of defending
ourselves and caring for an ageing
population increase, we really have
to worry about decline. My ministers
know this is unusual language
for a Gracious Speech but at least
it’s honest.
My government has already done
more to boost science and research
than any administration since the
Second World War. They are pouring
We can pull things
together and astonish
the world in the UK
money into an innovation fund, a
new Advanced Research and
Invention Agency, a huge rise in
public R&D spending and a new
Office for Science and Technology
Strategy. Now they are going to turn
this work into an urgent, national
mission in which millions more
people are educated, liberated and
attracted to take part.
It has occurred to my ministers
that when they have had to respond
to an emergency, with the vaccine
taskforce or rapid high-tech
assistance to Ukraine, the
government machine has moved
incredibly quickly and made us all
proud to be British. Of course, as
head of state I’m always proud to be
British. But even some of you who
normally criticise everything have
had to admit we can really pull
things together and astonish the
world in this United Kingdom.
Therefore, my government will apply
the same urgency and decisiveness
to every aspect of our scientific and
technological future, rather than let
lack of relevant expertise in the civil
service, slow procedures and the
usual agonising over value for money
put it all back to a glacial pace.
My government will include a
secretary of state for science and
technology, rather than have
ministers for universities, science,
digital and net zero scattered around
different departments. But in the
meantime, these ministers will report
to the prime minister every day on
their progress. Their task is to make
the UK world-leading in three
respects — the climate for
innovation, the supply of human
talent and the availability of capital.
Innovation, talent and capital are the
three essentials. The US has them.
China has them. So do countries like
Israel and South Korea. There isn’t a
moment to lose.
On innovation, my ministers will
create regulatory systems that will
attract more companies not only in
gene-editing but in advanced
materials, bioengineering, quantum
computing, cleantech, robotics,
satellites and clinical trials. We will
overcome outdated objections to
being a leader in cannabinoid
medicines. Given British
achievements in nuclear fusion
research, we will greatly expand state
support for this and the development
of smaller nuclear reactors. We will
be the best home for developing
carbon capture and storage, since
there isn’t the slightest hope of
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The energy put into Covid vaccine
research must be harnessed again
saving the planet without it. I told
you this was honest.
My government will shorten
ridiculous 15-month research grant
procedures to improve further the
ability of industry to work with our
universities — some of them the best
in the world. They have noticed that
even the EU is ahead of us in
permitting new research into the
vital matter of food production and
security and will allow work, for
instance, on using insect meal to feed
livestock and create more
sustainable food chains. They will
take the opportunity provided by
Brussels creating complex rules on
artificial intelligence to create the
best regulations anywhere for the
safe governance but rapid
development of this most crucial
area of research.
My ministers will bring forward
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legislation for a digital markets unit
after all and scrap one of the other
bills you were expecting. Compared
to this, privatising Channel 4 is a
sideshow. Oh, I’m enjoying this
speech.
On talent, my government will
fund lifelong learning for people who
already have qualifications if they
re-train in Stem disciplines. They will
reform the apprenticeship levy,
which isn’t working well, and ramp
up vocational training even more
quickly. They will let foreign students
stay for five years after graduation,
adopt a digital residency model like
Estonia, actively spot talent around
the world and give research grants
to the best, like China’s Thousand
Talents programme. They will
classify spending on these projects
as investment, for which it is sensible
to borrow.
On capital, my ministers will
unlock flows of funds that help start-
up companies to scale up, rather
than need foreign takeovers in order
to grow globally. They will follow the
recent announcement of departing
from EU rules for insurance
companies with deciding to let
defined-contribution pension funds
invest a proportion of their money in
private companies and riskier but
potentially more profitable assets.
In life sciences and other vital
sectors, they will establish late-stage
growth funds to bring new investors,
companies and government together
to give confidence and predictability.
Surely a country with the City of
London can organise finance for
great ideas.
My lords and members of the
House of Commons, people need
hope for the future to get through
the difficult times ahead and to keep
the UK together. Here’s a plan you
can unite on. Perhaps you should all
get on with it.”
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We risk creating Orwellian thought police
Britain and the US are forgetting that censorship is never the right answer to disinformation
Melanie
Phillips
@melanielatest
E W
veryone knows about fake
news, or the substitution of
propaganda for information.
Everyone also knows that
there is much harmful
material online which targets and
preys upon vulnerable people.
There is, however, no general
agreement on what constitutes such
harm or fake information. So
attempts to combat these
developments are not only difficult
but may end up doing even more
harm than they aim to prevent.
In Britain, the Online Safety Bill
going through parliament is designed
to deal with bad stuff such as
promotional terrorist videos, images
of child abuse or sites encouraging
suicide that online platforms have
failed to curb. There are, however,
concerns that the bill’s category of
“material risk of significant harms” is
subjective and open to abuse. Harm
perceived by one individual may be
seen by another as unobjectionable
or even necessary.
Yet the internet is now also a
vehicle of information warfare used
by tyrants and aggressors to suppress
their own populations or pursue the
conquest of others. So there’s a
legitimate role for security agencies
to tackle this threat. Last year,
GCHQ published a paper detailing
how analysts could protect the UK
Giles Coren Notebook
Your limited
menu is an
affront to my
human rights
W
ith the great vegan
advance of recent
years there were
always going to be
victims, and the most
threatened group turns out to be . . .
well, yes, I suppose there has been
carnage in the brassica community, a
veritable Holocaust of leafy things,
but I was thinking of vegetarians.
It turns out they are furious
because just when Britain’s
restaurants had got the hang of
providing one or two half-decent
vegetarian options, among all the
dead flesh, they have now, under
pressure from the more vociferous
no-animal-products-at-all posse,
begun dropping the old-fashioned
veggie delights in favour of vegan
dishes, on the basis (quite fair, I think)
that vegetarians can just eat those.
In response, the chief executive of
the Vegetarian Society, Richard
McIlwain, has complained that his
lot are being disregarded in
from a range of attacks, including
state-backed disinformation
campaigns.
The intelligence agency’s agenda
included “fact-checking and detecting
deepfake media to tackle foreign state
disinformation”. This included false
claims about Covid-19 and vaccine
safety, a high proportion of which
are said to be produced by Russia.
However, one Whitehall source
emphasised that GCHQ only had
permission to tackle disinformation
originating from state adversaries,
not to disrupt online content written
by ordinary citizens: “You wouldn’t
get authorisation to go after cranks.
People have a right to say batshit
stuff online.”
Truth is discovered by
opening up legally
permitted discourse
Here, though, lies the danger. For
in the US, the Biden administration
appears to have blurred the line
between genuine security threats
and political or social differences by
creating a “Disinformation
Governance Board”.
The homeland security secretary,
Alejandro Mayorkas, has claimed
this will only tackle falsehoods that
threaten national security, such as
disinformation from Russia and
China or the cartels smuggling
migrants into the United States. Yet
the woman who has been appointed
director of this board, Nina
Jankowicz, appears to have a
somewhat different understanding of
the meaning of “disinformation”.
restaurants, where he is now seeing
“a lot of meat substitutes such as a
vegan burger or chilli, whereas
previously you might have seen
some great, simply vegetarian dishes
such as a ploughman’s, omelette,
Greek salad, Welsh rarebit…”
It is a somewhat comical grumble
to my carnivorous ears, considering
how recently vegetarians were
complaining that the veggie option
was only ever an omelette or a Greek
salad. But you can sniff the
vegetarian anger that just when they
had got to a place of acceptance in
society, their community has been
riven by these wild new
ay
absolutists. A bit like the way
some sections of the LGB
(especially L) community
have felt their way of life
threatened of late by the
emergent militarism of the Ts
and Qs and +es.
So perhaps the time has
come to take a leaf from
the LGBTQ+ handbook,
which, at its most radical,
recognises as many
genders and sexualities as
there are humans on
Earth, and just accept that
everyone likes eating
different stuff at different
times, and that McIlwain is
not so much a “vegetarian”,
as a “bloke who likes a nice
bit of cheese”. If we accept
Emails about alleged Biden family
corruption, found on the laptop of
the president’s son, Hunter, were
recently acknowledged as genuine
even by media outlets that had
suppressed this scandal. Yet
Jankowicz had claimed these should
be considered “a Trump campaign
product”. She also repeatedly shared
the now debunked claims about
Trump-Russia collusion in 2016,
including material that has been
revealed by John Durham, the
special counsel investigating these
claims, to have been Democrat-
backed disinformation.
Last year, Jankowicz led a team
behind a report on the “impacts of
gendered and sexualised
disinformation on women in public
life” that appear on social media. This
report criticised such platforms for “a
lack of intersectional expertise in
content moderation, which results in
abuse toward women, people of colour
and other marginalised communities
going unaddressed”. Social media
companies, it said, “should create a
cross-platform consortium to track
and respond to online misogyny,
similar to existing consortiums which
counter terrorism and extremism”.
Jankowicz, who appears to be a
cross between Madame Mao and
Bette Midler, can also be seen on
TikTok singing about “information
laundering”, taking aim at Rudy
Giuliani, Covid-sceptics and those
“saying lies in Congress” to the tune
of the Mary Poppins song
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
The creation of this board has been
greeted by a chorus of horror and
ridicule, with predictable references to
the thought police in George Orwell’s
his predilection, and all other
culinary fancies, as a “belief system”,
restaurants can then be put under
pressure to provide absolutely
everything that anyone might want to
eat at all times, or face legal action for
discrimination. All your local
restaurant will have to do to comply
with this new requirement is employ
a hundred thousand chefs and have a
fridge the size of Venus.
As founding chairman of the
Nicely-Charred-But-Pink-In-The-
Middle-Calf’s-Liver-With-A-Medium-
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Nineteen Eighty-Four. The chilling
premise of these arbiters of public
discourse is that those who police
disinformation are themselves the
providers of truth.
Freedom of information is not an
absolute. Real harm should be
avoided. But in a free and democratic
society, proscribed expression must
be limited to boundaries agreed by
that society. That means expression
which is unlawful, either because it is
itself criminal or because it incites
others to commit a crime.
One of the problems with the
Online Safety Bill is the introduction
of a “legal but harmful” category for
the removal of content. This will
create a situation in which people
will be prevented from saying things
that are legal but prohibited.
This threatens to become the
online equivalent of the “non-crime
hate incidents” invented by the
College of Policing in its genuflection
to identity politics. This helped turn
the police from crime-fighters into a
force for coercive social control,
before the Court of Appeal ruled last
year that “non-crime hate incidents”
were an “interference with freedom
of expression”.
The line between freedom of
expression and freedom from harm is
blurry and divisive. Where that line is
drawn is a boundary that should result
from a process involving the whole
community through laws passed by
its representatives.
The best antidote to rotten
information is not to suppress it but
to provide better information. Truth
is discovered by opening up legally
permitted discourse, not limiting it.
Censorship is never the answer.
test next week. Depending on which
elements of roadworthiness are made
flexible, I look forward very much to a
“pass” on her Kia Picanto, with such
advisory notes from the garage as
“windscreen wipers dead but visibility
fine if you drive with your head out
the driver window; headlights not
working but safe enough for daytime
summer motoring; tyres bald, so avoid
going out in the rain; sills rusted
through, so floor likely to fall out, but
with the price of petrol these days,
could allow conversion to what we
call the ‘Fred Flintstone option’…”.
Less is more
E
asyJet is to “strip out seats from
its aircraft to solve the staff
shortages crisis”. Smart thinking.
If they strip enough out, like nearly all
of them, they may even be able to
solve the legroom crisis as well.
Noises off
W
riting this in my glamorous
shared office space in
Fitzrovia, wearing my Apple
AirPods in “noise-cancelling” mode
to muffle the sound of building work,
I felt a small trouser trump coming
on and, rather than interrupt my flow,
thought I’d slide it out silently and
keep typing. To my relief, it made no
sound at all. So I let another one go.
Then I noticed that everyone was
staring at me. Oh, the shame: nobody
else had their AirPods in.
Tuesday May 10 2022 | the times
Demanding racially
balanced juries
is wrong-headed
Jawad Iqbal
ho can feel anything
but sympathy for the
parents of Dea-John
Reid, a black
teenager stabbed to
death after being chased down a
street in Birmingham by a group of
five males, most of them white,
shouting racist slurs? A 15-year-old
boy, who killed Dea-John with a
single blow to the chest with a knife,
was acquitted of murder by a jury
but found guilty of manslaughter.
Four others were cleared of murder.
Yet sympathy for the anguish and
suffering of the victim’s family
cannot extend to some of their
comments after the trial: they claim
the jury was not representative of the
community in Birmingham and want
juries to be more “ethnically
balanced” in such cases. Put simply,
they are demanding an end to mostly
white juries.
This is a dangerous and wrong-
headed argument, feeding into the
myth that juries discriminate against
black defendants. This is simply
untrue. The Lammy review of the
criminal justice system, published in
Do we really want to
introduce the rancour
evident in the US?
2017, found that juries were
consistent in their decision-making,
irrespective of the ethnicity of the
defendant. Similarly, an earlier piece
of academic research published in
2010 and entitled Are Juries Fair?
found them to be effective and
efficient as well as fair, debunking
the idea that they discriminate
against black defendants.
Focusing on the racial composition
of juries reinforces the prejudice that
a white juror is incapable of assessing
the evidence fairly in the case of a
black defendant. Would it be
acceptable then for a white
defendant to demand the removal
of a black juror?
No law or legal principle dictates
that a jury should be racially
balanced. That is exactly as it should
be. Jury selection is random: anyone
aged between 18 and 75 who is on
the electoral register and fulfils a
residence requirement is eligible for
jury service. Jurors are simply
required to be independent and
impartial. Do we really want to
introduce here the rancour evident
in the United States, where both
defence and prosecution routinely
challenge the jury selection, and
where there is an endless, often ugly,
debate over perceived racial bias in
the courts?
Dea-John Reid’s young life was cut
short by a terrible and senseless
crime. The grief of his family is raw
and real but blaming the jury system
solves nothing.
Jawad Iqbal is a freelance writer
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Russians don’t share our ideas of Nazism
To us it seems deranged, but Ukrainians who object to being part of Russia are seen as little different to the Third Reich
Hugo
Rifkind
@hugorifkind
I
n September 1939, when Nazi
Germany invaded Poland from
one side and Stalinist Russia as
gleefully piled in from the other,
my grandfather’s girlfriend
Sulamita was four months pregnant.
We’ve heard a lot these past few
months about refugees fleeing from
the east to Lviv, but she and my
Grandpa Joe lasted three months in
Nazi-occupied Warsaw and then fled
there from the west. As Jews, they
presumably reckoned that Soviet
occupation was a safer bet.
It probably was, but only just. A
few months later, now with a tiny
daughter, they were deported to a
gulag in Siberia. They were
eventually freed after Germany
invaded Russia, although “freed” in
this context is a euphemism for
“evicted”. Destitute and sick, they
were packed into cargo trains,
heading west again. Contemporary
accounts talk of bodies falling from
these trains “like sticks”.
Sulamita and her child — name
now never to be known — would die
somewhere in Uzbekistan. My
grandfather limped on to Palestine.
By then, thanks to the combined
efforts of Germany and Russia, he
had almost no family left in the world.
All of which, eight decades on, makes
it fairly hard for me to regard either
party as having been the good guys.
Deep within this story, I reckon,
we can find the source of Russia and
the West’s mutual incomprehension
over who gets to call whom a Nazi.
Yesterday, our defence secretary Ben
Wallace went big on this, saying
Russia was “mirroring the fascism
and tyranny of 70 years ago”. Almost
simultaneously, though, Vladimir
Putin was praising Russians fighting
to “liberate their native land from the
Nazi filth”.
Last week Sergey Lavrov, the
tombstone-faced foreign minister,
defended his right to lump the
Jewish Vlodymyr Zelensky in with
Nazis, on the basis that “Hitler also
had Jewish blood”. He’s a monster,
Lavrov, but he’s normally quite savvy.
And yet there he was, being even
madder than Ken Livingstone.
It is easy to call these Russian
pronouncements grotesque, because
they are. That doesn’t mean they
don’t mean it. Years ago, on my first
visit to Moscow, I remember telling a
Russian translator about my
grandfather. When I got to Russia
changing sides, she looked at me
very strangely. “You don’t think that
happened,” I said, “do you?” And
indeed, she did not. For her, the
Great Patriotic War had begun in
1941. And that bit beforehand, from
the carving up of Poland, to the fall
of western Europe, to our Spitfires
fighting the Battle of Britain?
“Different war.”
These views are pervasive. In
March, Zelensky himself was accused
of “bordering on Holocaust denial”
by an Israeli MP after likening
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the
Holocaust. Zelensky’s own Jewish
great-grandparents were killed by
Nazis. Yet he, too, has a Soviet
understanding of the war, crucially
We think little about
Nazi ideology of the
inferiority of the Slavs
different from our own.
To understand how, let’s focus on
somebody who definitely is a Nazi.
Ponder Andriy Biletsky, a Ukrainian
far-right politician and founding
commander of the much-discussed
Azov Battalion. We can dispute
whether figures like him are terribly
relevant to today’s Ukraine (their
vote is microscopic) or whether Azov
is still in his image (they claim not)
but I don’t think we can dispute that
the guy is a Nazi. In 2010, he said his
mission was “to lead the white races
of the world in a crusade against
Semite-led Untermenschen”. Which
is about as Nazi as you can get.
The question, though, is which bit
you focus on. “Israeli mercenaries are
practically shoulder to shoulder with
Azov militants,” alleged Maria
Zakharova, another Russian foreign
spokesperson, in defence of Lavrov,
not that there’s much evidence of
this. You’d think that something
might have nagged at the back of her
mind about what she was actually
saying. As in, it’s already mad enough
to talk about the Ukrainian state
being a crusade against a “Semite-
led” anything, when it’s literally, well,
Semite-led. But now you’ve got
actual Israelis joining in, too?
What we in the West tend to gloss
over, though, is the “Untermenschen”
bit. For us, Nazi psychopathy peaked
with the elimination of undesirables;
Jews, Roma, homosexuals, people
with disabilities. We think less about
the broader Nazi ideology of the
inferiority of Poles, Russians and
other Slavs, all of whom Hitler
deemed destined at best for Aryan
domination. Millions of Russians
died in the war. Here in the West, I
suppose we tend not to think of them
explicitly as victims of an ideology
that deemed them barely human to
start with.
So often, to western ears, Russian
politicians today sound plaintive;
victims of an inferiority complex
that, we perhaps assume, must have
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something to do with the
humiliations of the Cold War and
jokes about Ladas being terrible. We
don’t link it to the Nazis, but they do.
This is why, when Putin talks today
about wanting to “de-Nazify”
Ukraine, he’s not really talking about
concentration camps, or swastikas, or
anything like that at all. He’s talking
about the very concept of not
wanting to be Russian; of thinking it
an inherently undesirable thing to
be. For him, this is what Nazis were
all about. Disdaining Russia.
Despising Russia. Looking down on
Russia. And so, if Ukrainians don’t
want to be Russians, either, then
that’s what they are.
Historically, I suppose you can
see how he got here. As an
interpretation of the current conflict,
though, it looks dangerously
deranged. Either way, you do have to
marvel at the magnificent futility of
East and West spending half a
century thinking we all agreed about
how bad Nazis had been, only to find
today that we were actually having
completely different conversations.
More than that, though, I think of
my grandfather, with his parents
dead on one side of the Molotov-
Ribbentrop pact and his wife and
daughter dead on the other. And in
the middle of all that, quite a lot
of the time, I doubt he much gave a
toss precisely which side were the
Nazis, either.
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Letters to the Editor
US right to choose
Sir, As the author of the 1967 Abortion
Act I have watched with dismay the
furore over the US Supreme Court’s
leaked intention to abandon the Roe v
Wade judgment of 1973 that permitted
abortion there. That demonstrates
why it is wrong to leave such a matter
to the courts and I welcome President
Biden’s intended attempt to legislate
via Congress (leading article, May 4;
letters, May 5 & 7). Back in 1967 and
1973 the only method of abortion was
by surgery. The present abortifacient
pill makes the procedure more
acceptable. In Scotland, under a then
female first minister and female
director of health, we were able to
allow that to take place in the early
weeks of pregnancy at home.
We need to remind ourselves that
those who oppose abortion in
principle should have their views
respected, and that nobody should be
pressured into undertaking abortion if
they are opposed to it. Equally,
busybodies have no right to put
pressure on women who wish to do so.
Lord Steel of Aikwood
Selkirk, Scottish Borders
Sir, Janice Turner (“The US left is
harming the pro-choice cause”, May 7)
admires Britain’s “robust 55-year-old
laws” on abortion. But legislation that
cannot be amended in the light of
changing circumstances is bad law, and
that is what we have because of the
effective veto on any attempted reform
wielded by “pro-choice” MPs. The 1967
Abortion Act was the result of David
Steel’s private member’s bill and would
not have passed had the Labour
administration not given it time in
parliament. Yet since then successive
governments have washed their hands
of further involvement. The result has
been that every move to alter the law
— for example, in the light of medical
advances concerning the viability of
the foetus — has been “talked out” by
its opponents, even when a majority in
the Commons seemed to be in favour.
The government can solve this
problem by providing parliamentary
time for the next attempt at change
that comes from the back benches.
Francis Bown
London E3
Able-bodied acting
Sir, As an actor, I live in my
imagination. That is my lived
experience, as it was that of
Shakespeare, Shaw, and Sarah Kane
(“Casting conundrum”, letter, May 7).
The theatre is a gymnasium of the
imagination — both actors and
audiences stretch their imaginations
there. Remove that element and you
have a mere moving photograph.
Simon Callow
London N8
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The gap year, resilience and university access
Sir, Stephen Toope says that students
from modest backgrounds can build
more resilience and fortitude from
their everyday lives than can gap-year
students from building schools in
Guatemala, “which can be virtue
signalling” (Saturday interview, May
7). As admissions tutor at Hatfield
College, Durham University, I was
regularly faced with a pile of UCAS
forms from “golden” students excelling
academically and in sports and
extracurricular activities. How to
select with only a limited number of
places? I always referred to the
personal statement in order to find the
real person telling a story about
themselves among the virtue
signalling of the CV; a story perhaps
of how they survived in very difficult
circumstances. Shockingly, Oxford
and Cambridge have historically
focused only on candidates showing
thinking, reading and activities that
enhance their chosen academic
subject. We need to scrutinise
applications in greater detail before
rejecting them. An “A” grade gained in
a struggling comprehensive is more
impressive than the same grade
gained at a grammar or private school.
Sue Rylance
North Shields, Tyne & Wear
Potential PMs
Sir, Matthew Parris is to be
congratulated for his brilliantly caustic
summary of the parlous state of the
nation, as well as his assessment of the
attributes required of any prime
minister, none of which the incumbent
possesses (“Sunak would be breath of
fresh air as PM”, May 7). I would
highlight the desperate need for a
“moral man” with “a dash of personal
attractiveness” and “intelligence and
grip” to lead our country. Any
prominent Conservatives putting a
positive spin on local election losses
are simply refusing to recognise the
true reasons for the party’s failure in
strongholds such as Westminster and
Wandsworth and, more worryingly, in
Scotland, where the Conservatives’
relegation to third place reflects Nicola
Sturgeon’s tirades directed at the PM’s
innate lack of moral integrity.
Stephen J Boyle
Edinburgh
Sir, Matthew Parris’s perceptive
article on potential prime ministers
spells out many problems that need
addressing. However, he says that a
“family trust” is a “bigger, wider
NIGHT CLUB
PROPRIETRESS
FINED £100
from the times may 10, 1922
At Bow-street Police Court Mrs Kate
Evelyn Meyrick, proprietress of the
“Forty-three” Club, Gerrard Street,
W, was summoned at the instance of
the London County Council for
keeping the premises for public
dancing without a licence. She
pleaded “Guilty”. Mr P E Dimes
supported the summons for the
Council; Mr J D Cassels defended.
Mr Dimes said that this case was as
bad as any of this class which had
come before the Courts in the last
few weeks. The “Forty-three” Club
was frequented by women of loose
character; there were drunkenness
Sir, Stephen Toope’s commendable
vision for Cambridge includes
“identifying really talented people who
come from challenged backgrounds”.
As a GP who has looked after students
for 30 years, and seen an increasing
number who cannot cope, I would
welcome a similar way of identifying
and assessing potential students for
their ability to last the course. In such
a competitive environment for limited
places, careful thought must be given
to selecting students who are not only
talented but will thrive and complete
their degrees.
Dr Fiona Cornish, GP
Newnham Walk Surgery, Cambridge
Sir, Emma Duncan’s argument that
our elite universities should continue
to favour those whose parents can
afford private education belongs in
another era (“We’re hurting Oxbridge
in the name of equality”, May 6;
letters, May 7). It is this outdated
philosophy that allows the tiny
proportion (7 per cent) who attended
private school to dominate Britain’s
leading professions, with journalism
being one of the worst offenders. As a
result of my role as a trustee at the
Social Mobility Foundation I have met
a number of young people from
loophole for avoiding inheritance tax”
than is “non-dom” tax status, and that
it has received no media or political
attention. This is not so. Since 2006
trusts have been subject to a “periodic
charge”, which is in effect inheritance
tax in advance and is levied at 6 per
cent of the assets in the trust each ten
years. In practice it is a lifetime
wealth tax on unrealised assets, and
in that context deserves attention.
David Lewis
London W1
Sir, Robert Rome (letter, May 9)
wonders why voters “choose to
replace . . . hardworking councillors
because of failures of their party
leadership at national level”. Had I
had a vote this time I would have
acted in this way. What else can those
of us disgusted by the Conservatives
keeping Boris Johnson in No 10 do?
Further, we were encouraged to do
this by the Conservative delaying
tactic of indicating to us that Tory
MPs would decide if the election
results were sufficiently bad to justify
his removal. Now, of course, the
seriously bad local election results are
being described as “not bad enough”.
Nigel Orchard
Salisbury
and scenes of disorder and
indecency both inside and outside
the premises. Police-constable Giffey
said he kept observation both inside
and outside the club on several
nights between February 5 and
February 19. On each night several
of the visitors were drunk. The first
time he went there a young woman
said to him, “Are you on your own,
dear?” and made him an improper
proposal. He danced with her, and
she then asked him to lend her 10s.
Some indecent songs were sung by
the company generally. No effort
was made to stop this singing, but he
could not say if Mrs Meyrick was
present at the time. On another
night there was another disgusting
song sung by the company, and it
was greeted with clapping. Between
60 and 100 persons were present
each evening. Police-constable
Wilkins, who watched outside the
premises on many nights, said that
some of the dancers went away
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disadvantaged backgrounds who are
as talented and hard working as any
Eton scholar, and their background
makes their achievements all the more
impressive. It is not discriminatory to
open Oxbridge up to talented students
who do not have the resources to
“game the system” like their privileged
peers. Rather, it is recognition that
those who succeed against the odds
have something special to offer.
Lee Cain
Former Downing Street director of
communications
Sir, Carol Monaghan (letter, May 6) is
right: it is incumbent on any head
teacher, let alone the government’s
commissioner on social mobility, to
put in place strategies to tackle the
inequality of opportunity perpetuated
by traditional gender-based subject
choices. I urge all head teachers to
take advantage of nationwide
initiatives such as Founders4Schools
and Maths4Girls, which link students
and their teachers to a network of
inspirational volunteer role models
from diverse backgrounds who share
their career stories.
Paul Glaister
Professor of mathematics education,
University of Reading
Gender health gap
Sir, I applaud the private member’s
bill by Nickie Aiken MP giving
women undergoing IVF legal
protections. Enshrining women’s
health rights in workplace policies is
long overdue: it should go without
saying that reproductive health issues
should not impact career progression
(“IVF women complain of losing out
in workplace”, news, May 9).
Although the gender pay gap is well
known, the gender health gap has
been neglected, meaning that health
issues such as infertility, miscarriage
and the menopause remain obstacles
to women’s success. Supporting and
protecting women’s reproductive
health must be a pillar of workplace
policy if we are to achieve gender
equality. That women have to rely on
their annual holiday allowance to
undergo IVF treatment is
unacceptable. Employers need to
foster a culture of transparency so
that women feel able to speak up
about their treatment, backed by
robust policies and frameworks that
provide flexibility and support.
Professor Geeta Nargund
Medical director, Create Fertility
singing and shouting, and there were
heated altercations and fights. Mr
Cassels said that Mrs Meyrick had
had trouble in her domestic life and
was now petitioning for a divorce.
She had been left with eight children
to support, and began subscription
dances in November. They had not
been a success and she had lost
about £600 over the venture. She
took as much care as she could to
prevent unseemly conduct, but it
was extremely difficult for a woman
to control a large company. The
premises were now closed. Mr
Cassels added that Mrs Meyrick was
fined £25 in 1919 in respect of a club
frequented by people of ill repute,
and in February she was fined £250
for illegally supplying intoxicating
liquor. The Magistrate imposed a
fine of £100 with the alternative of
two months’ imprisonment.
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Lessons of history
Sir, I wholeheartedly endorse Sir
Anthony Seldon’s lament at the
failure of government to draw on
historical expertise (“Historians can
help politicians avoid errors of the
past”, Thunderer, May 9). So too will
the hundreds of other historians
nationwide who make up the History
and Policy network. Sir Anthony
notes that an exception to the rule is
the Ministry of Defence, which
employs more historians than the rest
of Whitehall combined. Indeed, the
MoD has recently announced that
the distinguished historian Dr Rob
Johnson will lead its new Office for
Net Assessment and Challenge.
Perhaps, if we could encourage civil
servants in other departments that
formulating policy is a bit like
planning a military campaign, they
might be persuaded to take the past
more seriously.
Professor Philip Murphy
Institute of Historical Research,
University of London
Sir, Given that I have taught history
and continually reminded my
students of the subject’s importance
for 35 years, you might expect me to
sympathise with Sir Anthony Seldon’s
column. The trouble is that we
students of history may be brilliant at
analysing the past but we
spectacularly fail to anticipate what
may be round the next corner. To
paraphrase Mark Twain, history may
rhyme but it does not repeat itself.
Historians need to recognise their
limitations as well as strengths.
Graham Lacey
Sevenoaks, Kent
True son of the soil
Sir, You state that the first gardening
programme was broadcast by the BBC
in 1931 (On this day, May 9). I have
always believed that this record can
be claimed by my husband’s
grandfather, Charles Unwin, son of
WJ Unwin, the founder of Unwins
Seeds in 1903. Charles gave the first
broadcast gardening talk on the
wireless in 1923, on the subject of
sweet peas. His wife was in the studio
with him and they had one of the
earliest “conversations” on radio; I
remember him telling me about it 70
years later. His advice to nervous
gardeners was: “If you can grow
runner beans, you can grow sweet
peas.” I have always loved them.
Fiona Unwin
Moulton, Suffolk
Superior villain
Sir, In 1985 two series of the children’s
programme Super Gran appeared on
ITV. Gudrun Ure played a Scottish
grandmother with superpowers and
Iain Cuthbertson played “the
Scunner”, a scheming and villainous
nasty. I can remember considerable
discussion among the production staff
as to whether Scunner (“Word of the
week”, letter, May 7) was an
acceptable name for a character in a
show aimed at young people.
Geoff Brownlee
Former head of PR, Tyne Tees
Television; Hornby, N Yorks
Cereal offender
Sir, It is not just children who are
bribed into eating cereal with the lure
of a small toy (letter, May 9). For
several years after our marriage, my
cutlery drawer was full of teaspoons
adorned with Tetley Tea Folk.
Julia Dunbar
Edinburgh
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UK: State opening of parliament — Queen’s
Speech; government publishes statistics on
school attendance during the coronavirus
pandemic; Red Cross Week.
Nature notes
When plants grow
in the wrong place
we call them
“weeds”, but when
weeds look pretty
we call them
“wildflowers”.
Groundsel is, by these anthropocentric
definitions, very much a weed: its leaves are
ragged and uneven, while its composite,
tubular blooms don’t accord with our usual
ideas of how a flower should look and soon
erupt into clusters of white pappus that help
the seeds disperse. Its name may derive from
an Anglo-Saxon word meaning “ground-
swallower” for its success in colonising poor
or bare soil; nevertheless, it’s a useful food
plant for several butterfly and moth
caterpillars, and is eaten by wild birds.
melissa harrison
Birthdays today
Dame Maureen Lipman,
pictured, actress, 76;
Bono, singer, U2, 62; Sir
Win Bischoff, chairman,
JP Morgan Securities, 81;
Barbara Taylor
Bradford, author, A
Woman of Substance
(1979), 89; Sir Bill Cash, Tory MP for Stone,
shadow attorney-general (2001-03), 82;
Donovan, singer-songwriter, Mellow Yellow
(1966), 76; Sly Dunbar, musician, Right Time
(1976), and producer, 70; Jonathan Edwards,
commentator, triple jump world record
holder and Olympic gold medallist (2000),
56; Linda Evangelista, supermodel, 57;
Henry Fambrough, singer, last surviving
original member of the Spinners, 84; John
Fredriksen, oil tanker and shipping tycoon,
78; Javier Figueroa, ambassador of
Argentina to the UK, 60; Diarmuid Gavin,
garden designer, Chelsea Flower Show gold
medal (2011), 58; Sir Christopher Gent, chief
executive, Vodafone (1997-2003), chairman,
GlaxoSmith-Kline (2005-15), 74; Graham
Gouldman, singer-songwriter, 10cc, 76; Alex
Jennings, actor, This Is Going to Hurt (2022),
65; Lucinda Lambton, writer, photographer
and broadcaster, 79; Chloë McCardel,
endurance swimmer, holder of record for
number of cross-Channel crossings (44), 37;
David Mackenzie, film director, Hell or High
Water (2016), 56; Dave Mason, singer-
songwriter and guitarist, Traffic, 76; Anna
Maxwell Martin, actress, Motherland
(2016-21), 45; Al Murray, comedian, 54;
Ellen Ochoa, astronaut, 64; Prof Edward
Peck, vice-chancellor, Nottingham Trent
University, 63; Sally Phillips, actress,
Miranda (2009-15), 52; Miuccia Prada,
fashion designer, 73; Roberto Quarta,
chairman, Smith & Nephew (medical
technology company), WPP Group
(advertising company), 73; Jon Ronson,
writer, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed (2015),
55; Venetia Williams, racehorse trainer, 62;
Debbie Wiseman, film and TV composer
and conductor, Wolf Hall (2015), 59.
On this day
In 1922 Dr Ivy Williams became the first
woman to be called to the Bar of England
and Wales. Although she never practised as
a barrister, she became the first woman to
teach law at an English university (Oxford).
The last word
“When old words die out on the tongue, new
melodies break forth from the heart; and
where the old tracks are lost, new country is
revealed with its wonders.” Rabindranath
Tagore, poet and philosopher, Gitanjali (1912)
Paranoid Clichés
Putin’s Victory Day speech offered no clues on Kremlin strategy in Ukraine but was
an attempt to rally wartime patriotism for what may be a long and bloody conflict
Throughout the Ukraine war, now acknowledged
as such by Russian commentators, President Pu-
tin has remained aloof and almost invisible. His
speech yesterday to the troops commemorating
Victory Day in Moscow was his first attempt to
galvanise support for the motherland since his ap-
pearance at the Moscow stadium rally on March
18. What he did not say in his short speech was as
significant as the clichés he repeated about Nato
threats to Russia and the West’s attempts to stifle
Russia’s culture, faith and traditional values.
He made no mention of how the conflict is
going, of Russian casualties, of “victory” in
Ukraine, or of any plans for general mobilisation
in Russia. Indeed, he did not mention Ukraine it-
self at all. This was a conflict forced on Russia by
Nato’s aggression, he insisted, by its preparations
for another “punitive operation” in the Donbas
and its systematic creation of an “absolutely un-
acceptable” threat to Russia, right on its borders.
His speech gave no indication of how the Krem-
lin will respond to its floundering strategy and hu-
miliating military failures, or how Russia will re-
place so much lost equipment or find the trained
manpower to combat an emboldened and heroic
Ukrainian resistance. This was not a speech to sig-
nal to the West what Russia will do, or to give more
No-Choice Election
China is squeezing the democratic culture out of free-thinking Hong Kong
Hong Kong has in a few years made a dizzying de-
scent from being one of Asia’s freest cities to one of
its most repressed, bending to the will of the Chi-
nese Communist Party. John Lee, who as police
chief of the territory presided over this miserable
and precipitous decline, has now been voted in as
its new leader.
The former British colony can hence expect an
intensified crackdown on human rights, further
restrictions on its media and an end to the pre-
tence that Beijing was ready to accept “one nation,
two systems”. Hong Kong, despite the promises of
limited democracy made to Britain and the world
in the 1997 handover, is being swallowed up by the
dragon on the mainland.
It was Mr Lee who presided over the bone-
crunching police response to student demonstra-
tions in 2019 over a controversial extradition bill.
Hong Kong’s chief executive at the time, Carrie
Lam, tried to defuse Beijing’s anger at the demon-
strations, reassure the business community and
divert the attention of the protest leaders who de-
manded at the very least universal suffrage for
Hong Kongers. She flailed, losing Beijing’s confi-
A new app aims to dispel confusions over cheese
“Wherever you look you will see some slick ma-
chine-made article triumphing over the old-fash-
ioned article that still tastes of something other
than sawdust,” wrote George Orwell in The Road
to Wigan Pier. He was referring to processed
cheese, among other things. He did not foresee
that the very capitalism he criticised would event-
ually spread rather than restrict a taste for quality.
And the digital age has rendered an appreciation
for cheese still more widespread.
Computer engineers have developed an app
that will tell users the name of most French chees-
es if they merely submit a photograph. The app
hyperbolic warnings of a widening conflict and
military retaliation. It was, essentially, an address
to his countrymen, an attempt to evoke the war-
time spirit, the patriotic stoicism that under-
pinned Russia’s costly opposition to the Nazi on-
slaught. He repeatedly invoked the “motherland”,
the values, customs and culture of Russia and in-
deed its Orthodox faith, having already had his
policies endorsed by the patriarch.
The West will see in his address signs that things
are not going well. He appeared curiously de-
tached from the fighting on the ground, with no
mention of Mariupol or threats of revenge for the
sinking of the Moskva. Neither the army’s chief of
staff nor the head of operations in Ukraine was
present at the parade, an omission that is under-
standable in military priorities but still looks like
a rift in the direction of strategy. Analysts will dis-
miss his clichéd repetition of Nato aggression as a
paranoid fixation that has become the hallmark of
his increasingly nationalist and revanchist re-
sponse to Russia’s loss of empire some 30 ago.
Russians may respond differently. The heavy-
handed and intolerant response to any deviation
from the official propaganda line has meant that
many, including even a younger, disillusioned
generation, are unsure what is happening, have
dence and for a while China seemed to be on the
point of declaring martial law.
What happened instead was the rise of the
security adviser Mr Lee. Last weekend he was
elected by secret ballot to be Ms Lam’s successor
by a committee of 1,461 voters, a body approved by
Beijing after their “patriotic” credentials had been
vetted. Mr Lee was unopposed though he did con-
duct a risible election campaign. A 44-page mani-
festo contains almost no concrete policy pro-
posals. Its slogan, “Starting a new chapter for
Hong Kong together”, shows how out of touch Mr
Lee and his Chinese backers are with the mood in
the territory. There is no “together” in polarised
Hong Kong, largely because of his brutal treat-
ment of political disorder.
Mr Lee has come to power not through an elect-
ion or any other legitimate constitutional mecha-
nism. His elevation is entirely due to a closed se-
lection by loyal representatives of China’s main-
land power brokers. The new Hong Kong leader
will be able to count on tough national security
legislation that bars any support for Hong Kong
secession from China, and any so-called subver-
Culture Notes
works by AI learning, comparable to the way that
the app Shazam can recognise the “fingerprint” of
a snatch of user-submitted music. It is hence
called, rather cheesily, Cheezam. With luck, it will
help banish gastronomic snobbery and advance
the understanding of artisanal crafts. In doing so,
however, the app may risk making itself redun-
dant, for differences among cheeses are more ex-
tensive than appearances suggest.
The yield of traditional cheesemaking is quite
low. In the mass market, there are hence many
near-substitutes. There is nothing wrong in this:
the spread of vegan variants of classic cheeses
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Leading articles
little idea of the atrocities committed in Russia’s
name and can be swayed by official claims of Rus-
sophobia and western hostility when they see the
new restrictions affecting their daily lives.
Mr Putin spoke of the loss of soldiers and offi-
cers killed in Ukraine, without giving figures, in an
attempt to equate them with the millions who fell
in the fight against Nazi Germany. He promised
that the state would look after their families. It was
a smart pre-emptive move before the body bags
coming home start to generate a surge in anti-war
opinion among mothers and families, as hap-
pened during the Afghan war. But Mr Putin did
not promise to end the deadly casualty toll. In-
deed, he suggested that Russians must bear the
burden until Ukraine is cleansed of “Nazis”. It will,
he made clear, be a drawn-out and bloody strug-
gle, even if largely now confined to the Donbas.
The West cannot draw comfort from his failure
to announce a general mobilisation. This was not
the right platform for a move that would upset mil-
lions. Plans are almost certainly under way for
such a move, especially if the shortage of troops
starts hampering strategy. In many ways this was
a defensive speech, with no sign of fresh thinking
in the Kremlin. The West must prepare itself for a
long haul against this mendacious aggression.
sion or co-operation with “foreign forces.” It in ef-
fect criminalises most forms of dissent.
Most Hong Kongers believe that Mr Lee will
now double down on these hard-line policies. His
sham election underlines the soundness of the
British government’s offer to create a pathway to
citizenship to Hong Kongers who feel stifled by
Beijing’s encroachments.
The British visa scheme allows Hong Kongers,
born before 1997, to establish themselves in this
country. An extraordinary 104,000 applied to live
in Britain in its first year of operation; 97,000 of
these applicants were successful. The forms are
being processed quickly and although there are
high fees to be paid, this route is providing a relia-
ble haven to growing numbers of Hong Kong ex-
iles. Some 5.4 million people are eligible; Home
Office estimates suggest that more than 300,000
Hong Kongers could end up living and working in
Britain over five years.
The initiative angers Beijing but Britain should
stay the course. As long as the likes of Mr Lee try
to squeeze the lifeblood out of Hong Kong this
country needs to be ready to help those in flight.
such as camembert or cheddar, for example, de-
ceives no one and provides a distinctive alter-
native for those who avoid dairy products.
But cheese, like many other agricultural prod-
ucts (notably wine), ultimately reflects a sense of
place. The taste depends on such factors as the
grasses eaten by the herds, how long and at what
altitude the cows are kept, how the milk is heated
and how the finished product is stored. If Chee-
zam helps to banish bafflement on whether, say, a
blue-veined cheese is roquefort or gorgonzola, it
will be an entry point to understanding, if not a de-
finitive guide for diners in these recondite wheys.
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Republican states
plot to make birth
control a crime
United States
David Charter Washington
Birth control methods in use for
decades are in the crosshairs of strict
laws set to come into force in a series of
Republican-controlled states if the US
Supreme Court overturns the Roe v
Wade ruling guaranteeing access to
abortion.
Mississippi’s governor is refusing to
rule out a ban on certain forms of con-
traception and a legislative committee
in Idaho is planning to hold hearings on
making the morning-after pill illegal.
Experts said that the “trigger law”
ready to ban abortion in Missouri
would also outlaw the use of IUDs,
intrauterine devices used as contracep-
tion by one in 12 American women.
The debate about contraception
erupted across America after the leak
of a first draft written on behalf of a
majority of Supreme Court justices to
scrap the landmark 1973 abortion rul-
ing as “egregiously wrong”. It was con-
firmed as authentic but could change
before a final version is published, prob-
ably in late June or early July.
The White House yesterday urged
pro-abortion protesters to remain
peaceful and raised fears that tightly-
drawn bans could “potentially crimi-
nalise” in-vitro fertilisation (IVF)
because the process creates surplus
embryos that are not used.
At the heart of the emerging debate
about contraception in a post-Roe
America is whether the beginning of
life at the moment of fertilisation is en-
Wordle swap puzzles players
Wordle players around the world
were left puzzled after a “major
recent news event” prompted The
New York Times to swap yesterday’s
word for some users.
The change in the daily word
puzzle confused those sharing their
results, who learnt that there were
two different answers.
Some players were set the word
“fetus” — the American English
spelling of foetus — but for others,
the answer was “shine”.
Many who received the original
word drew a link with the leaked US
Supreme Court opinion signalling
that the bench is poised to overturn
the 1973 ruling in Roe v Wade
establishing the right to abortion.
The newspaper said some users
may see “an outdated answer that
seems closely connected to a major
recent news event. This is entirely
unintentional and a coincidence —
today’s original answer was loaded
into Wordle last year . . . At New York
Times Games, we take our role
seriously as a place to entertain and
escape, and we want Wordle to
remain distinct from the news.”
nor of Mississippi, repeatedly avoided
giving an answer when pressed on whe-
ther his state’s trigger law would crimi-
nalise the use of the morning-after pill
and IUDs. “While I’m sure there will be
Democrat and former state represent-
ative, told The Times that fears of a
Republican assault on further repro-
ductive rights were not simply election-
eering by his party. Some Democrats
are warning that Republicans will go on
to test Supreme Court rulings guaran-
teeing access to contraception, agreed
in 1965, and same-sex marriage, agreed
in 2015.
“It’s an election year next year in
Mississippi. I can’t imagine what hay
they’ll make of it. But in their zest and
zeal to make political pottage out of this
issue, I wouldn’t be surprised if women
in this state don’t go and vote against
every one of them,” Holland said.
Brent Crane, chairman of the state
affairs committee in the Idaho House of
Representatives, said he would hold
hearings on legislation banning emer-
gency contraception and abortion pills.
Crane said there had been reports of
“complications” caused by morning-
after pills and of abortion pills causing
“health concerns for the mom” despite
years of research showing the safety of
both, the Idaho Statesman reported.
In Missouri, the way its “trigger law”
to ban abortion is written will have an
impact on contraception and women
having miscarriages, a law professor
told the Riverfront Times in St Louis.
“The law defines an unborn child as a
human being from the moment of con-
ception and in every stage of its biologi-
cal development,” Yvette Lindgren of
the University of Missouri — Kansas
City, said. “The result will be that forms
of contraception will be criminalised

shrined in the new legislation. If so,
then the morning-after pill and IUDs
would be criminalised for preventing
the fertilised egg from implanting in the
womb. In Louisiana, that could lead to
a murder charge for the woman and
medical staff under a draft law drawn
up by Republicans to make abortion a
homicide offence.
Tate Reeves, the Republican gover-
S
conversations around America regard- under this law. The argument is that, ri Lanka’s prime
ing [contraceptives], it’s not something
that we have spent a lot of time focused
with those forms of birth control, the
egg gets fertilised, and the birth control
Prime minister of minister has
resigned as
on,” Reeves, 47, told CNN.
He said he believed that “life begins
method prevents it from implanting
into the uterus.” Sri Lanka resigns protests over an
economic
at conception” but avoided saying whe- Lindgren added that doctors would meltdown turned into
ther this meant at the moment of an
egg’s fertilisation or when an embryo
be wary of treating women in the early
stages of miscarriage if treatment
amid street clashes running battles in
Colombo (Amrit Dhillon
attaches to the womb. involved evacuating the uterus. writes). As the violence
Steve Holland, a veteran Mississippi US right to choose, letters, page 28

‘Blood-soaked son’ poised to rule Uganda Marcos heir takes power 36

Uganda
Jane Flanagan Africa Correspondent
The latest political dynasty in Africa
could turn out to be one of its more
merciless. A pledge by President Muse-
veni of Uganda’s Sandhurst-educated
son that he will soon set out his ruling
programme has confirmed the worst
fears of opponents: that the strongman
is grooming his son for power.
As leader of the country’s infantry,
Muhoozi Kainerugaba, 48, is accused of
ordering the bloodiest security clamp-
down for more than a decade during
the 2020 election, which threatened to
unseat his father. Schoolchildren and
women shopping were among scores
killed in unrest in the capital, Kampala.
Since then, supporters of Bobi Wine,
the musician-turned-politician, have
continued to be rounded up, beaten or
disappeared on the orders of Kaineru-
gaba’s security agents.
“It is the new phase of repression by
the military regime in Uganda,” said
Wine, who posed the biggest-ever
threat to the Museveni family’s grip on
power. Wine, 40, whose real name is
Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, predicts that
any handover of power from Museveni
to his lieutenant-general son would see
a sharp worsening in brutality.
Kainerugaba, a graduate of the Royal
Military Academy, recently posted an
old photo of himself with his peers,
captioned: “We were terribly ferocious
and dangerous at Sandhurst!” His
excitable social media output earned
him the nickname General Twitter.
The Ugandan novelist Kakwenza
Rukirabashaija would agree with such
boasting. In December, after a string of
tweets which labelled the autocrat’s son
“a fool” and an “inebriated curmud-
geon”, he was arrested, beaten and
detained against court orders. Rukira-
bashaija, whose book The Greedy Bar-
barian describes high-level corruption
in a fictional country, was last year
named International Writer of Cour-
age by English PEN, an organisation
which promotes freedom of expression.
He is now in exile in Germany.
Philippines
Hugh Tomlinson
The son of the late dictator Ferdinand
Marcos held a commanding lead in the
Philippines presidential election yes-
terday as the infamous dynasty was
poised for a return to power 36 years
after it was ousted in a popular uprising.
With more than 93 per cent of ballots
counted, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, 64,
known as “Bongbong”, had about 30
million votes, more than double his
nearest challenger, Leni Robredo, the
vice-president.
“I hope you won’t get tired of trusting
us,” Marcos told supporters in remarks
streamed on Facebook. “We have plen-
ty of things to do,” he said, adding that
“an endeavour as large as this does not
involve one person”.
The return of the Marcos dynasty to
the Malacañang Palace, decades after
the removal of the brutal regime that
tortured and killed thousands of oppo-
nents while looting billions of dollars
from the public purse, had once seemed
unthinkable.
The election underscored, however,
that a decade-long campaign waged by
the family and supporters on social
media has succeeded in whitewashing
the Marcos reputation.
The next president will take office for
a single, six-year term on June 30, suc-
ceeding the controversial populist Rod-
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An injured protester is
carried away by police
during clashes with
government supporters in
Colombo. Some were held
down and beaten and riot
officers fired tear gas to try
to keep the two sides apart

spread, troops were sent
on to the streets and at
least five people,
including an MP, were
killed.
Aides to Mahinda
Rajapaksa, the prime
minister and brother of
the president, said that
he had submitted a letter
of resignation, bowing to
demands that his family
give up control of the
country.
His supporters, armed
with clubs and sticks,
had attacked protesters
outside his office. A total
of 150 people were
injured before
Rajapaksa deployed
troops, who fired tear
gas and water cannon to
separate the factions.
In the town of
Nittambuwa, north of
Colombo, Amarakeerthi
Athukorala, a ruling
party MP, shot himself
dead after firing on
protesters, killing one
and seriously wounding
two others. The MP’s
bodyguard was also
found dead.
Rajapaksa has been
blamed for mismanaging
the economy and
sending it into freefall.
Sri Lankans have been
unable to find food,
milk, medicine or petrol
after imports became
scarce and prices rose by
300 per cent in months.
Rajapaksa was
president in 2009 when
the bloody suppression
of the Tamil Tigers
ended the Sri Lankan
civil war but led to
accusations of war
crimes and genocide.
The latest, nationwide
protests began in March
as the country teetered
on the edge of bankruptcy
and suspended payments
on its foreign loans.
The vacuum left by
Rajapaksa’s departure
will take time to fill. “No
single opposition party
can muster a majority in
There have been long, parliament and there
frequent power cuts. has been little unity
“One down but many among them in all these
more to go,” Zainoor weeks,” PK
Adnan, a tourism Balachandran, a political
official, said. “This analyst, said.
family has looted our Gotabaya Rajapaksa,
country, it has destroyed the president, has said
the economy.” he has no plans to quit.

years after father was ousted Tiny bug eats shoots and leaves lake clean
rigo Duterte. The new government is
likely to face calls to prosecute Duterte
for thousands of killings during his
violent crackdown on the drugs trade,
which is already under investigation
Bongbong Marcos
appealed to
nostalgia for a
supposed “golden
era” under his
father
by the International Criminal Court.
Marcos’s running mate as vice-presi-
dent is Duterte’s daughter, Sara Du-
terte, mayor of the southern city of
Davao, however. The alliance united
the two families’ political strongholds
in the north and south but alarmed
human rights groups and could under-
mine any investigation of Duterte.
“History may repeat itself if they win,”
Myles Sanchez, 42, a human rights
worker, told AP. “There may be a repeat
of martial law and the drug killings that
happened under their parents.”
Marcos ran on a platform of “unity”
and has promised to create jobs, boost
investment and curb inflation. He and
Duterte largely avoided concrete
proposals for the country’s future dur-
ing the campaign, sticking to optimistic
promises. He has praised his father as a
“political genius”.
South Africa hyacinth in weeks. Research at the 20 Professor Julie Coetzee, lead research-
sq km (5,000-acre) Hartebespoort er from the Centre for Biological Con-
Jane Flanagan Cape Town
recreational lake near Johannesburg, trol, said. “They could not believe a
If proof were ever needed that the which was 50 per cent covered biological control agent like this
biggest differences can be made by the with water hyacinth, saww the insect wwas responsible. They
smallest things, a lake near Johannes- plant pushed back by the he thou
thought someone had
burg might hold it. insects to only 5 per centt spr
sprayed the lake with a
Water hyacinth, the world’s most in three months. he
herbicide.”
invasive freshwater weed, has met its “It happened The planthopper, dis-
match in South Africa, where research- almost overnight in the c
covered in the last
ers used tiny planthopper insects to summer of 2020 when c
century in a remote
eradicate a plant that causes untold the locals who own tr
tropical river in Argenti-
environmental damage worldwide. lakefront properties na lives only on water
na,
Measuring only 3mm, the Megamelus woke up and found theyy hya
hyacinth and poses no en-
scutellaris bug is so greedy for water hy- had got their lake back,”k,” viron
vironmental spillover
acinth sap and prolific at breeding that, threat to
threat t other local plants or
one bite at a time, it can clear hundreds Megamelus scutellaris hasas an animals, research from the
of acres of thick, floating, matted water ater hyacinth
insatiable appetite for water ha shown.
United States has
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How to Murder
Your Husband
writer ‘admits’
killing husband
United States
Will Pavia New York
A self-published novelist who wrote an
essay entitled How To Murder Your
Husband before being charged with
killing her spouse confessed to an
inmate, prosecutors said.
Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, is on
trial accused of shooting Daniel
Brophy, 63, in June 2018, as he prepared
for work at Oregon Culinary Institute.
It is alleged she murdered him by
shooting him in the back and then
again as he lay dying on the floor in a
crime motivated by money. The novel-
ist was facing ruin when the alleged
murder took place, a court was told, and
stood to collect a $1.5 million windfall
following her husband’s death.
Crampton Brophy denies murder.
Nancy Crampton
Brophy is said to
have confessed to
a fellow prisoner
Her trial in Oregon, which has been
delayed by the pandemic, took a twist
when prosecutors alleged she had
admitted the killing to a fellow prisoner,
Andrea Jacobs, while being held at a jail
in Portland, The Oregonian said.
Jacobs told detectives the alleged
killer appeared embarrassed after mak-
ing the disclosure and that their rela-
tionship became “very awkward”.
The alleged conversation has only
now come to light and the judge in the
case has not yet ruled on whether
Jacobs can testify. Jacobs, now in feder-
al custody in Texas, is said to have told
lawyers she did not want to be a “snitch”.
Kristen Winemiller, for the defence,
argued against allowing the witness to
testify. “It’s just simply too late, after
they’ve rested, to bring in another wit-
ness of this magnitude,” she said. The
court has ruled that Crampton Bro-
Nudists take the Earth’s story into space TikTok’s US staff tell of being
Will Pavia New York
An image of a naked man and woman
waving like a friendly reception com-
mittee at a nudist camp will be beamed
towards the stars in a new effort to
communicate with alien civilisations.
The message, drawn up by Nasa re-
searchers working with mathemati-
cians and astrophysicists in the US, the
Netherlands and China, was designed
to enlarge upon a transmission in 1974
from the Arecibo radio telescope in
Puerto Rico. It will be sent to a region of
the Milky Way thought most likely to
harbour intelligent life.
A paper explained: “Since the first
faint flickering of sentience dawned in
the primal minds of modern humans’
distant ancestors some hundred thou-
sand generations ago, we have sought
to communicate.”
The scientists cited the debate over
the dangers of contacting aliens, and
phy’s essay cannot be admitted in
evidence. It was written in 2011 while
she was applying to a writer’s group.
“As a romantic suspense writer, I
spend a lot of time thinking about
murder and, consequently, about police
procedure.” she wrote. “After all, if the
murder is supposed to set me free, I
certainly don’t want to spend any time
in jail. And let me say clearly for the
record, I don’t like jumpsuits and
orange isn’t my colour.”
Her essay said she found it “easier to
wish people dead than to actually kill
them,” according to the Washington
Post. “I don’t want to worry about blood
and brains splattered on my walls. And
really, I’m not good at remembering
lies. But the thing I know about murder
is that every one of us have it in him/her
when pushed far enough.”
Another section of the essay was
entitled: “Motives”. “This is big. Divorce
is expensive, and do you really want to
split your possessions?” she wrote. “Or
if you married for money, aren’t you
entitled to all of it? The draw back (sic)
is the police aren’t stupid. They are
looking at you first. So you have to be
organised, ruthless and very clever.
Husbands have disappeared from
cruise ships before. Why not yours?”
Before the killing, Crampton Brophy
published at least seven books. The
plots were largely focussed on “wrong”
relationships that “felt so right”. She
said she decided to get married when he
told her that he was making hors d’oeu-
vres before joining her in the bathtub.
“Can you imagine,” she wrote,
“spending the rest of your life without a
man like that?”
Prosecutors, however, say she made
claims on 10 life insurance policies after
her husband’s death. Lisa Maxfield, a
defence attorney for Crampton Brophy,
told the court that the couple had been
happily married for 25 years. “Nancy
Crampton Brophy has always been
thoroughly, madly, crazy in love with
Daniel Brophy, and she still is today”.
The trial continues.
said the potential rewards outweighed
the risks. They quoted the astronomer
Carl Sagan, who said: “Even if the aliens
are short, dour, and sexually obsessed
— if they’re here, I want to know
about them.”
The message, in binary ary
code, gives basic mathe-e-
matical and physical
concepts, and the time
at which the message
was sent, calculated
according to the age of
the universe in units
derived from electro-
magnetic radiation from m
hydrogen atoms. It ex-
plains that humans are
carbon-based, describes es DNA
and the “basal makeup of humans”
humans”, and
An image coded in binary will show
aliens how humans look in a message
also explaining we are carbon-based
Fish on trips The Taiwanese YouTuber Huang Xiaojie has built a battery-powered tank so he can take his goldfish for walks
Disney series reignites anger over Paris riot
France
Adam Sage Paris
A new Disney series about a student of
north African origin beaten to death by
police officers in Paris in 1986 will high-
light France’s racial divisions.
The series, made by the Disney+
streaming service, focuses on Malik
Oussekine, who has been described as
“France’s Arab George Floyd”, in refer-
ence to the black American who was
murdered by a police officer in Minne-
apolis in 2020.
Oussekine, whose parents had emi-
grated to France from Algeria, died
aged 22 after being chased and beaten
by two officers who wrongly believed
that he had taken part in a demonstra-
tion against a university reform bill
offers a digitised image of a man and a
woman. Beside them is a diagram of an
object falling, so the viewer places the
image the right way up.
There is a map of the Milky Way
dire
and directions to our solar
system designed to be con-
siste over time as the
sistent
me
message “could remain
in transit for hundreds
o thousands of years”.
of
The scientists hope
th message could be
the
se by the Five-hun-
sent
dr
dred-metre Aperture
Sph
Spherical radio Tele-
scope in Guizhou, China,
and the Seti Institute’s Allen
Telescope Array
Telescope A in California.
“Theoretically a return message
“Theoretically,
would also include basic information of
their own biosphere’s chemistry . . . and
an image of their physical appearance,”
they wrote.
Malik Oussekine
was beaten to
death by officers
organised by student unions. In fact,
Oussekine, who had diabetes, had been
returning from a jazz concert.
The officers were found guilty of
causing Oussekine’s death through
assault and battery and given suspend-
ed jail sentences in 1990. It was the first
time officers had been convicted of
violence in the course of their duty in
France, but the leniency of the
sentences infuriated activists.
Pascal Blanchard, an associate
worked to near breaking point
Keiran Southern Los Angeles
TikTok’s staff claim to have been left
suffering burnout and severe mental
distress by the social media giant’s re-
lentless work culture.
The app is known for its short video
clips of viral dances and bills itself as
one of the happiest places on the inter-
net. However, staff have told of a darker
side at ByteDance, the Chinese com-
pany that owns it.
The tech giant, based in Beijing, is
said to demand punishingly long hours
of its US workers and has allegedly fos-
tered an environment unique even
among tech companies.
TikTok’s American operations are
based in Los Angeles and staff there
told The Wall Street Journal of exhaust-
ing hours and sleep deprivation after
working at weekends and attending
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lecturer in history at the University of
Lausanne, said that Oussekine became
a symbol of discrimination in French
society against those from immigrant
backgrounds. “But the rest of French
people don’t see that story,” he said,
adding that Oussekine’s death had
been forgotten by mainstream France.
The Disney+ series, which starts
tomorrow, will put the story back into
the spotlight at a time when the gulf in
French society appears as wide as ever.
Last week police marched in Paris
after an officer was charged with
murder for shooting dead two black
men who allegedly drove a car at him.
Days later, friends and relatives of the
victims organised a march to call for the
officer, who has been given bail, to be
remanded in custody.
virtual meetings with colleagues in
China.
Some workers said that they
averaged 85 hours of meetings a week.
One woman said that she had felt so
pushed to attend back-to-back meet-
ings that she did not have time to
change her sanitary protection.
TikTok, founded six years ago, said it
had made changes to its work culture so
that its team “is empowered to support
our growing global community”.
The tech industry has long been
known for punishing working environ-
ments and TikTok is said to have been
inspired partly by the culture at
Amazon, another giant known as a
challenging place to work.
One maxim at TikTok is said to be
“it’s always day one”, a line borrowed
from Jeff Bezos, the Amazon chief, and
intended to fight complacency.
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Jobs and pensions secured as Morrisons wins battle to buy McColl’s
Alex Ralph
Morrisons has acquired McColl’s, the
insolvent convenience store chain, in a
deal that takes on all 16,000 staff, 1,100
shops and rescues its two pension
schemes.
Britain’s fourth largest supermarket
group won a bid battle with EG Group,
the petrol station operator and owner of
Asda. It agreed to pay the lenders, who
are owed about £160 million, upfront.
International
markets hit
by big sell-off
Investors gripped by inflation and growth fears
Russell Hotten
Global stocks were hit by another wave
of selling yesterday as worries over
inflation, interest rates and China’s
economic growth fuelled unease about
the health of the world economy.
Europe’s main indices sank deep into
the red, with falls in mining companies
helping to push the FTSE 100 2.3 per
cent lower at the close.
Weak economic data from China
compounded concerns about whether
more interest rate rises in the United
States, the UK and elsewhere would
tame soaring inflation without tipping
the world’s largest economies into
recession. Investors are also having to
juggle the economic fallout from
Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Wall Street also had a bruising ses-
sion. Just after the closing bell, the blue-
chip S&P 500 was down 3.2 per cent,
having dipped below the 4,000-mark
for the first time since April last year.
The Nasdaq slid 4.3 per cent lower as
investors continued to abandon tech-
nology stocks. Shares in Amazon fell by
5.2 per cent.
On Friday both the S&P and Nasdaq
posted their fifth straight week of
declines, their longest losing streaks in
roughly a decade.
“Markets are digesting the start of a
return to a more normal monetary
policy environment,” Kristina Hooper,
chief global market strategist at Invesco
in New York, said. “Moving more
aggressively raises the spectre of a
recession, especially with all of these
complications: high inflation, Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine and Covid-related
supply chain disruptions.”
The disappointing numbers from
2GM
commodities
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PwC was formally appointed as
administrators yesterday and sold the
business as part of a pre-pack adminis-
tration, a fast-track insolvency process.
Morrisons, McColl’s largest supplier
and creditor, had an exposure of about
£130 million to the company it has
bought, mostly in stock.
David Potts, chief executive of Morri-
sons, said: “Although we are dis-
appointed that the business was put in-
to administration, we believe this is a
China helped to push oil prices down
more than 5 per cent. Brent crude fell
$5.92 to $106.47 a barrel, while the US
West Texas Intermediate fell $6.16 to
$103.61 a barrel.
Oil and mining shares were among
the biggest fallers in London. Glencore
shed almost 6 per cent to 458½p, while
Anglo American sank 5.4 per cent to
£33.00. Shell closed down 3.2 per cent at
£22.25.
Recent data from the German and
French manufacturing sectors pointed
to slowdowns. The FTSE All-World
monitor of global shares is down more
than 16 per cent this year.
Central banks in the US, UK and
Australia all raised interest rates last
week, and investors are braced for more
tightening to fight inflation.
Yesterday the Federal Reserve
warned that a sharp rise in interest rates
posed a big risk to financial stability and
economic activity. The central bank’s
latest stability report, published twice a
year, said debt levels among businesses
and individuals could be a concern.
The report is not an economic fore-
cast, but highlights areas of concern.
Despite the Fed’s caution, Matt
Stucky, portfolio manager at North-
western Mutual Wealth, said: “The
concern here is that the Federal
Reserve is going to essentially ignore
market conditions and equity market
volatility and continue on with rate
hikes.”
US Treasury yields eased after the
benchmark ten-year note had earlier
hit a fresh three-year high. Meanwhile,
gold prices retreated by 1.2 per cent to
$1,860 an ounce.
Chinese exports fall after lockdowns and
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good outcome for McColl’s and all its
stakeholders. This transaction offers
stability and continuity for the McColl’s
business and, in particular, a better out-
come for its colleagues and pensioners.”
Rob Lewis, joint administrator and
partner at PwC, said that “as well as sav-
ing thousands of jobs, this deal secures
a platform for the trustees of the group’s
pension schemes to enter into arrange-
ments which will protect the pensions
entitlements of so many people”.
Defence firms get firepower to
complete Dreadnought mission
Bank’s rate-setter wants quicker rises
Arthi Nachiappan
Economics Correspondent
Raising interest rates quickly could
avoid an even worse cost-of-living crisis
in the future, a Bank of England policy-
maker has said.
Michael Saunders, a member of the
central bank’s monetary policy com-
mittee (MPC), said inflation expecta-
tions could rise too high unless the
Bank acted fast to allay concerns.
Saunders was among the minority of
rate-setters to vote for a 0.5 percentage
point rise in last week’s meeting. Such a
rise would have been unprecedented in
the 25 years since responsibility for
monetary policy was handed to the
Bank by the Treasury.
Interest rates are at a 13-year high of
Business
currencies
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An acquisition by Morrisons was
considered the less disruptive outcome
because it has a wholesale agreement
with the chain. The majority of
McColl’s stores trade under the brand,
but 270 operate as Morrisons Daily
concessions as part of a joint venture.
HSBC, Barclays and Natwest, the
lenders, triggered the collapse of
McColl’s last week by refusing to agree
to a waiver or a refinancing.
PwC said that McColl’s had faced
BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce have been awarded
contracts worth £2 billion to press ahead with building
Britain’s new fleet of nuclear submarines. Page 39
1 per cent after the latest 0.25-point rise
on Thursday.
The central bank is grappling with in-
flation at a 30-year high of 7 per cent. Its
latest forecasts suggest inflation will
peak at 10.25 per cent in October, when
energy prices are expected to rise by a
further 40 per cent after the 54 per cent
increase in April. Such a rise would put
the average household energy bill at
about £2,800 a year.
Inflation was “uncomfortably high”
and if the Bank did not act quickly a
“sharper adjustment in monetary
policy” would be required to bring it
under control, Saunders told the
Resolution Foundation think tank yes-
terday. The result of a delay would be
“an even worse outcome for real in-
comes and living standards”, he added.
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financial pressure over recent years
from Covid disruption and more re-
cently from supply chain challenges.
McColl’s shares were suspended at
1.66p on Friday. Their value had fallen
by more than 95 per cent this year.
The secured lenders and preferential
creditors will be paid in full. A source
said it was too early to determine the
level of returns to unsecured creditors,
but described it as “meaningful” as Mor-
risons was by far the largest creditor.
BAE SYSTEMS
Saunders, who is due to step down
from the nine-member committee in
August, warned that the Bank’s reputa-
tion was at stake. “The MPC’s ability to
use monetary policy to provide effec-
tive support to the economy in 2020
rested on the credibility of the inflation
targeting framework,” he said. “That
credibility is not infinite and cannot be
taken for granted.”
He added that although he had voted
for a 0.5-point rise twice since the start
of the year people should not expect
him to continue to vote for big rises or
assume that he believed rates should
rise above the 2.5 per cent predicted by
markets for early next year.
The central bank revised up its
forecasts for inflation and cut growth
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Business
Need to know
1
Global share markets were hit
by a wave of selling as worries
over inflation, interest rates
and China’s economy fuelled
unease about the world economy.
Europe’s main indices sank deep
into the red, with falls in mining
companies helping to push the
FTSE 100 2.3 per cent lower at the
close. Page 33
2
Morrisons has acquired
McColl’s, the insolvent
convenience store chain, in a
deal that takes on all 16,000 staff,
its 1,100 shops and rescues its two
pension schemes. The
supermarket group won a bid
battle with EG Group, the petrol
station operator, and agreed to pay
off the lenders. Page 33
3
Raising interest rates quickly
could avoid an even worse
cost-of-living crisis, a Bank of
England policymaker has said.
Michael Saunders, a member of
the monetary policy committee,
said inflation expectations could
rise too high unless the Bank
acted to allay concerns. Page 33
4
The chief executive of
Rightmove is to step down
from Britain’s biggest online
property website. Peter Brooks-
Johnson, 49, said he planned to
leave to seek “a new challenge”.
He will stay with the business
while it searches for a successor.
5
Trafigura has taken a stake in
a UK start-up aiming to build
Europe’s first commercial-
scale lithium refinery, producing
battery-grade metal for the
electric vehicle and energy storage
industries. Green Lithium is
raising £500 million to build the
plant in the north of England.
6
China’s exports have grown at
their slowest in nearly two
years after the decision to
lock down millions of citizens
coupled with falling demand for
electronic goods from western
consumers. Exports increased
3.9 per cent in April compared
with a year earlier. Page 36
7
An Aim-quoted software
company has agreed a
£1.1 billion takeover by a
private equity firm after a decline
in its share price. Ideagen, based in
Nottingham, has recommended
shareholders accept a cash offer
from Hg, valuing the company at
350p per share. Page 38
8
The oldest broker on the
Lloyd’s of London insurance
market is being sold to an
Australian firm for £500 million.
The deal for Tysers will give the
Sydney-based AUB Group a
platform at Lloyd’s. Page 39
9
A cross-border payments
company owned by Finablr,
the collapsed former FTSE-
250 group, failed after its business
registration was suspended under
money-laundering regulations.
Xpress Money Services, which
owes creditors almost £19 million,
had administrators appointed in
February. Page 40
10 Iceland’s push to be
plastic-free by the end of
the year is likely to be
derailed by the pandemic and the
war in Ukraine. The frozen food
supermarket’s progress on
removing plastic from packaging
has been delayed. Page 41
After 16 years
at Rightmove,
boss hands
over the keys
Ben Martin
The chief executive of Rightmove is to
step down from Britain’s biggest online
property website after rising through
the ranks at the business over the
course of more than 16 years.
Peter Brooks-Johnson, 49, who has
led the company since 2017, said yester-
day that he planned to leave to seek out
“a new challenge”. He will stay with the
business while it searches for a succes-
sor and will preside over the publica-
tion of the group’s full-year results in
February before leaving.
His departure caps a career that has
spanned Rightmove’s life as a public
company. Brooks-Johnson joined as
product director just before it listed on
the London stock exchange in 2006.
The flotation, at 335p a share, valued
the business at £425 million.
The company is now a member of the
FTSE 100 index of Britain’s biggest
listed businesses with a market capitali-
sation of £4.5 billion, although news of
Brooks-Johnson’s looming exit hit its
valuation, with Rightmove shares fall-
ing 18¾p, or 3.4 per cent, to 540p.
The stock fell despite Andrew Fisher,
the chairman of Rightmove, reassuring
investors that “the board is confident in
delivering its expectations for the year
and in the prospects of the company for
the years to come”.
Brooks-Johnson is planning to step
down just as the outlook for Britain’s
housing market darkens, with soaring
inflation prompting the Bank of
England to lift interest rates.
There is speculation that the cost-of-
living crisis facing households will hit
the property market, which has enjoyed
a boom after coronavirus lockdowns
spurred demand for bigger homes.
However, Brooks-Johnson said that
demand levels, which Rightmove gau-
ges by tracking unique inquiries on
properties, were almost 60 per cent
higher than at the same time of year
before the pandemic in 2019. He said
that pent-up demand to move home
was “still flowing through the system”.
Trafigura takes stake in lithium plant Out of office
Simon Freeman
Trafigura has taken a stake in a UK
start-up aiming to build Europe’s first
commercial-scale lithium refinery,
producing battery-grade metal for the
fast-growing electric vehicle and
energy storage industries.
The commodities trading giant has
joined Green Lithium’s development
funding round which is raising
£500 million to build the plant at an
undisclosed site in the north of England.
It will draw on its network of global
suppliers to source feedstock once the
50,000-tonne per year refinery is pow-
ered up, with the first phase due to start
production at the end of 2024.
The partnership is a milestone both
for Trafigura, as it diversifies away from
carbon-heavy coal and oil, and Green
Lithium, a company founded three
Rightmove was set up in 2000 by four
estate agents — Connells, Country-
wide, Halifax and Royal & Sun Alliance
— as a way to list their own properties.
It makes money by charging agents,
lettings businesses and developers
monthly fees for listing homes on its
website and has become the market
leader in online property searches with
2.5 billion site visits last year amid the
post-lockdown boom.
Annual revenues last year reached
almost £305 million and pre-tax profits
rose to £225.6 million, resulting in an
operating margin of 74 per cent last year.
It achieved this with 630 employees.
Brooks-Johnson said he had enjoyed
“a fabulous 16 years” with the group but
it was now “time for a new challenge for
me”. He added, “I think there’s another
job in me,” although he said he had
nothing lined up.
Fisher said that Brooks-Johnson had
made a “significant contribution” to the
group. “Whilst we are disappointed that
he will be leaving the business, we un-
derstand his decision,” he added.
Brooks-Johnson was a management
consultant at Andersen and The Berke-
ley Partnership before joining Right-
move to run a short-lived project
focused on home information packs.
He subsequently moved into the
main business and was promoted to
chief operating officer in 2012 as part of
a reshuffle following the departure of
Ed Williams, who was Rightmove’s
founding chief executive. He took the
top job five years later when Nick
McKittrick, who was Williams’s succes-
sor, left.
Rightmove said that it would start a
“comprehensive process” to find a re-
placement for Brooks-Johnson. Roddy
Davidson, an analyst at Shore Capital,
told clients the property group’s record
suggested there would be a smooth
handover.
Jessica Pok, an analyst at Peel Hunt,
said: “Peter stepping down will be a loss
to the business, but Rightmove is well
run, and we believe it will continue to
perform through the transition period.”
years ago by former university friends
Richard Taylor and Guy Hatcher.
The pair are both geologists and were
involved in explorations in the UK to
find sources of lithium, which is mostly
obtained from brine pools and mines in
South America and Australia. They
concluded that the real “missing link”
in Europe’s supply chain was processing
the ore, with the bloc almost entirely
dependent on factories in China.
Green Lithium’s laboratory technol-
ogists produced its first battery-grade
lithium hydroxide in July last year us-
ing an alkaline leaching process that re-
quires lower temperatures and pres-
sure than coal-fired methods employed
in Asian refineries. It has so far raised
£2 million through private investment
and government backing.
The Aberdeen-based engineer Wood
Group is leading development of the
Tuesday May 10 2022 | the times
A must have?
Share
hare price
800p
Abington Lodge,
Cambridgeshire, is on the
market for £3.5m
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Rightmove raises
hopes the housing
market downturn is
ending by posting
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results
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Behind the story of the highest in the FTSE 100. Yet it
is not without its critics in the
I
t is often the case that success property industry. Three years ago
breeds resentment and so it has analysts at Jefferies, the investment
proved with Rightmove (Ben bank, described Rightmove’s
Martin writes). The company’s relationship with estate agents as
success is undoubted. It akin to a “psychological chokehold”.
dominates Britain’s online property Such was agents’ frustration with
search market, with its site the fees they had to pay Rightmove
attracting 2.5 billion visits last year. and its closest competitor Zoopla to
The group’s business model is also list properties on their sites that a
highly profitable, with an operating group of them set up a rival website
margin of 74 per cent last year, one in an effort to break the vice-like
plant which will support 1,000 jobs dur-
ing construction and 200 once opera-
reply from
tional. It will supply enough lithium to
power a million electric vehicles a year.
Green Lithium forecasts Europe will
Apple AI chief
require between 600,000 and 800,000
tonnes of lithium annually by 2030. David Byers
Sean Sargent, chief executive, said
the deal with Trafigura had “changed The top artificial intelligence executive
the nature” of his discussions across the at Apple has resigned after the techno-
industry. “They like that we are a Euro- logy giant demanded its staff work from
pean refinery with excellent green cre- offices at least three days per week.
dentials and also like Trafigura’s balance Ian Goodfellow, Apple’s director of
sheet and logistics support, which most
people proposing to do similar things in
Europe typically don’t have,” he said.
Socrates Economou, global head of
battery metals for Trafigura, which has
machine learning, told staff that he had
decided to leave because of the insist-
ence of Tim Cook, the chief executive,
to initiate hybrid working for all Amer-
ican, European and UK-based workers.
not disclosed how much it is investing, The Verge, a technology magazine,
described it as “a landmark project”. said Goodfellow, 35, who is based in the
Lithium hydroxide has surged US, wrote a farewell note to staff saying:
140 per cent in price this year. “I believe strongly that more flexibility
the times | Tuesday May 10 2022
January 26, 2015
Estate agents launch rival
property portal
Onthemarket to compete
with Rightmove
June 24, 2016
Rightmove hit by wider
market sell-off following the
Brexit vote amid worries
about the UK economy
2014 2016
to claims it has ‘chokehold’ over market
grip of the two market leaders. This
venture, called Onthemarket, was
launched in 2015 and listed on the
stock market three years later but it
has not been smooth sailing. Its
shares closed yesterday at 84p, down
sharply from its 165p flotation price.
Asked whether Rightmove had a
“chokehold” on the industry, Peter
Brooks-Johnson, its outgoing chief
executive, said yesterday, “it’s just
language I don’t recognise” and that
he had “some really fantastic
would have been the best policy for my
team.”
Goodfellow will be a big loss for
Apple, which poached him from
Google in 2019. He had previously de-
veloped a system that allowed Google
Maps to automatically work out
people’s addresses from Google Street
View photos of their streets.
Under Apple’s hybrid working plan,
which comes into effect on May 23, staff
will have to go to its offices on Mondays,
Tuesdays and Thursdays, but will be
able to work from home or in the office
on Wednesdays and Fridays.
They will also be able to choose to
work remotely for four weeks a year if
they wished. At present they only need
to be in offices one day a week.
Cook, 61, is considered to be keen on
the plan, having said in the past that
video calls cannot replace working to-
gether. This month unnamed Apple
staff wrote Cook a letter of protest say-
ing that the move would have a nega-
tive impact on diversity in the company.
December 16, 2021
Bank of England starts
raising interest rates,
increasing the cost of
mortgages
February 24, 2017
Revenue revealed to have
grown 15 per cent in a year
in 2016, breaking the
£200m barrier
August 2018
One for ten
stock split
March 16, 2020
Boris Johnson tells people
to stop non-essential
contact and travel, as
Covid-19 pandemic begins
May 9, 2017
Peter Brooks-Johnson
becomes chief executive
2018 2020
relationships” with the company’s
customers, who include new home
developers as well as estate agents.
Still, Rightmove’s initial response
to the Covid lockdowns put that
relationship under strain. It was
accused by some agents of being
“tone-deaf ” early in the pandemic
when it offered them a deal to defer
fees, a move that was criticised for
not going far enough to help the
industry at the start of lockdowns
that led to the temporary suspension
Quicker rate rises can ease
crisis, says Bank’s rate-setter
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expectations after the war in Ukraine
lifted the price of raw materials and
commodities and worsened supply dis-
ruptions. Officials said in the Bank’s
quarterly Monetary Policy Report that
the economy would slow sharply at the
end of the year and risked dipping into
recession next year shrinking by
0.25 per cent, down from the Bank’s
earlier forecast of 1.25 per cent growth.
The pound, which dropped after the
central bank’s weak growth forecasts
last week, fell to its lowest level since
June 2020 yesterday. The pound fell for
the third consecutive day, dropping by
0.2 per cent to $1.2325 after having fall-
en as low as $1.2262.
Saunders thinks inflation could be
higher and more persistent than fore-
February 25, 2022
Rightmove posts
jump in annual
profits after
benefiting from the
post-lockdown
property boom
May 9, 2022
Brooks-Johnson
announces his departure
2022
of the property market. Two days
later Rightmove went further and
cut its charges.
Brooks-Johnson conceded
yesterday that “events were moving
very, very fast; we probably didn’t
move as fast as we should have
done”. He added: “I don’t think we
got it spot-on right, frankly.”
Rightmove and the rest of the
industry have since enjoyed a boom
after lockdowns encouraged people
to move home.
cast by the Bank last week. However, he
said there were two risks: one was that
raising rates could compound the
squeeze on incomes and leave inflation
below target later on, and the other was
that failing to act adequately could lead
to a “prolonged period of above-target
inflation” in the long term that could
become even further away from the
2 per cent inflation target.
Andrew Bailey, the Bank’s governor,
said policymakers around the world
were trying to avoid economic down-
turns. “The point being is we are walk-
ing this very narrow path now,” he said
last week. “There are those who think
we should raise [rates] much more but
we don’t agree with that because we feel
the need to calibrate policy.”
Mehreen Khan, page 37
Danger signals flash
at British Railways
business commentary Robert Lea
I
t is not so much a battle for the
heart and soul of the railway as
a fight for its eyes and ears and
guiding mind. The punch-up
has been a long-time coming,
delayed only by Covid. But we are
about to find out whether the prime
minister’s Union Jack-wrapped
Great British Railways will in fact
just be another old-fashioned battle
of capital versus labour, or more
accurately, a system with no capital
and a labour force whose numbers
are under attack.
The industry has been talking
about digitalisation for years. The
technology has arrived. As has the
collateral damage, all pinchpoints
for industrial strife.
Does the consumer side with
railway leaders who want to move
ever closer to autonomous and
guardless vehicles? Do passengers
want or need the human interaction
with ticket offices; or is everyone
happy ordering tickets and getting
journey information on an app? Are
travellers relaxed that the track
fitness regime can now be
determined by algorithms and
predictive maintenance rather than
boots on the ballast?
Of course, moving the railways to
the 21st century should be done in
the most cost-efficient way. Which
is not the same as the cheapest.
The trade unions reckon 2,500
rail maintenance jobs are to be axed.
Large numbers of jobs will go too,
with plans to permanently close
1,000 ticket offices. As with the train
guard strikes that blighted the
network in the run-up to the
pandemic, the unions cite safety.
Whereas the subject of union
grievances has been a many-headed
hydra of various ministers, transport
department civil servants, regional
train bosses and Network Rail with
apparently no one in overall charge,
that has all changed.
We come out of the pandemic
with a renationalised national rail
system, commanded from the DfT’s
Marsham Street eyrie and operators
merely fixed-fee contractors.
Which gets us to the “single
guiding mind”, the theory that one
person needs to be in charge of the
entire industry, put up in the latest
report on the railways by Keith
Williams who, as the chairman of
Royal Mail, knows something of
poor industrial relations and
creaking infrastructure.
The obvious choice is Network
Rail’s chairman Sir Peter Hendy,
though what with him having
started in passenger transport on
the buses about the same time that
Reg Varney’s Stan Butler was giving
Blakey the runaround, anno domini
is against him.
In a weekend interview, Hendy
gave away two not so confidential
secrets. The first is the government
expects a 100 per cent service on
only 70 per cent of the income
which suggests no one believes in a
return to pre-pandemic train travel
numbers any time soon.
The second is that “something is
going to have to give”. None of the
Treasury, the DfT, Network Rail
management and the unions are
very much in the giving game.
If Great British Railways is to be a
success, then it will be a triumph of
hope over experience.
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Business
Vote of confidence
A
nd so the AGM season gets
into full swing. First up today
is Capita, or more specifically,
its chief executive Jon Lewis and his
£450,000 in bonuses taking his pay
last year to £1.25 million.
While the burgeoning industry of
shareholder consultants knots itself
up in the good intentions of
environmental, societal and
governance metrics, you get the
feeling it could all be a bit simpler.
Does this fella deserve all that
dough when his company was saved
by taxpayer support during the
pandemic and its workforce and
customers are going through a cost-
of-living crunch like no other?
Does this chap who has been
promising a turnround of the fallen
FTSE 100 giant for the past four
years retain his credibility when the
share price is at or around 25-year
lows? In short, do shareholders still
like the cut of his jib?
Taking into account the rotten
time of the past two years, the
answers could quite easily be yes, in
which case all power to shareholder
democracy and the chief executive.
Jaguar needs spark
J
aguar Land Rover reports its
annual results later this week.
Few outside its Indian owners
and directors will be much
interested in historical financial
performance. What the 30,000
workers in Britain’s largest
automotive company will be
interested to know is just how well
the company is getting on with the
transformation of this home of the
traditional gas-guzzler to zero-
emission superhero of the West
Midlands.
The chief executive Thierry
Bolloré has been behind the wheel
for 20 months. But it is 15 months
since he came up with his
Reimagine mission. And not much
since. If Jaguar does not share some
detail about its electric future this
week it will be hard not to wonder
whether there is actually a plan or
whether it has been crushed under
the weight of the towering egos at
its Whitley HQ.
Car sales in reverse
T
he motor retail market has
been difficult to read these
past couple of years.
Weakening sales to depressingly low
historic volumes have been blamed
on the microchip shortages and
supply constraints, despite growing
evidence that cash-strapped
consumers are railing against
galloping car price inflation running
at between 15 per cent and 30 per
cent per annum. We knew new car
registrations had crashed 14 per cent
in the crucial plate-change sales
month of March. Now, latest figures
show second-hand transactions in
March were down nearly 7 per cent.
That forecourt patter is becoming
an increasingly difficult sell.
robert.lea@thetimes.co.uk
Alistair Osborne is away
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Business
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etail sales fell
last month,
but spending
was above pre-
pandemic
levels as the cost of
goods continued to rise
(Arthi Nachiappan
writes).
Sales were 0.3 per cent
lower than in April last
year, but were higher
than 2019 levels due to
inflation pushing up the
price of everyday items,
according to the retail
sales monitor published
by the British Retail
Consortium and KPMG.
In the year to April
retail sales grew by an
average of 6.4 per cent
each month. The rate of
growth fell to 3.2 per
cent at the start of the
year and has continued
to fall as 30-year-high
consumer prices stretch
household budgets.
Inflation hit 7 per cent
in April and is set to go
into double digits in
October when the
energy price cap is lifted
for the second time in a
year. Utility bills rose by
54 per cent in the first
price cap rise in April.
Helen Dickinson, chief
executive of the BRC,
said: “Sales growth has
been slowing since
January, though the real
extent of this decline has
been masked by rising
inflation. Big-ticket items
have been hit hardest as
consumers reined in
spending on furniture,
electricals and other
homeware, compounded
by delays on goods
coming from China.”
There was a lift in the
sales of garden goods
and clothing, thanks to
the sunny weather in
April, Dickinson added.
Spending on debit and
credit cards rose by
more than 18 per cent
last month as renewed
demand for holidays
boosted the travel sector.
Figures from
Barclaycard showed the
average consumer’s
spend on utilities was
29 per cent higher last
month than in April last
drivers cut back on their
petrol usage and
households change their
spending habits to save
money on groceries.
Travel spending was at
its highest since before
the pandemic. Spending
on hotels, resorts and
other accommodation
rose by 16.6 per cent
compared with the same
month in 2019. There
was a fall in the sale of
flights, but it slowed to
-9.9 per cent in April
from -12 per cent in
March.
José Carvalho, head of
consumer products at
Barclaycard, said: “The
impact of rising living
costs on consumer
spending is starting to
show, with a number of
categories — including
subscriptions, takeaways,
and bars, pubs and clubs
— seeing less growth
than in March as Brits
begin to feel the pinch.
However, the
improvements seen by
airlines and travel agents
are particularly positive.”

Chinese exports hit by lockdowns Small firms

and drop in demand from West
David Byers
China’s exports have grown at their
slowest pace in nearly two years after
the country’s decision to lock down mil-
lions of its citizens coupled with falling
demand for electronic goods from
western consumers.
Data released by the country’s cus-
toms administration yesterday showed
exports increased 3.9 per cent in April
compared with a year earlier — their
slowest rate since June 2020 — after
growing 14.7 per cent the previous
month. Imports remained unchanged.
Tens of millions of Chinese citizens
are confined to their homes including
in the business hub of Shanghai, caus-
ing factories to shut and supply chains
to be disrupted, as Beijing responds to
the worst Covid-19 outbreak it has seen
since the start of the pandemic.
China has triggered a series of lock-
downs because of its poor vaccination
rate, with only 57 per cent of those over
the age of 60 having been fully jabbed,
but also because of concern about the
effectiveness of the country’s home-
grown Covid-19 jabs.
Some scientists are calling on Presi-
dent Xi to allow people who have been
vaccinated by home-produced vacci-
nes to receive a booster shot of Moder-
na or BioNTech.
Julian Evans-Pritchard, senior econ-
omist at consultancy Capital Econom-
ics, said: “The sharpest falls were in
shipments to the EU and US, where
high inflation is weighing on real
household incomes. The declines were
also especially pronounced in electron-
ics exports which suggest a further un-
winding of pandemic-linked demand
for Chinese goods.”
The damage that restrictions are
causing to the manufacturing sector
severely dampened hopes Beijing will
be able to achieve its goal of 5.5 per cent
of annual growth, which would in any
case have been its lowest figure for
three decades.
Authorities say the port of Shanghai,
which has been in lockdown for over a
month, is only handling 30 per cent of
its normal cargo because of factory clo-
3.9%
Increase in Chinese exports in April
compared with same month last year
Source: General Administration of Customs, China
sures and a shortage of truck drivers.
However, analysts suggested the
downturn in demand for goods from
cash-strapped western consumers
would be bleaker news for Beijing than
its own Covid-19 policy because it could
signal a longer-term export slump, par-
ticularly for electronics — and bring an
end to a cycle that had helped super-
charge China’s recovery from its initial
lockdowns in early 2020.
China’s jobless rate is causing con-
cern, standing at 5.8 per cent in March,
its highest since May 2020, while in 31
major cities it sits at a record 6 per cent.
Last night the yuan closed against the
dollar at a near-19-month low.
Responding to the crisis, Li Keqiang,
China’s premier, said on Saturday that
the Chinese government would unveil
support “as many employers as poss-
ible,” especially among small and mid-
size firms, to keep people in their jobs.
Ting Lu, chief China economist at
Nomura, said: “Export growth could
get worse in the next couple of months
due to the pandemic and China’s strin-
gent Covid containment measures, fall-
ing external demand, and loss of orders
to other regions.”
By contrast, South Korea’s exports
grew by double digits last month.
‘struggle just
to break even’
James Hurley
Small businesses are struggling to turn
a profit amid rising prices and supply
chain disruption, according to research
by Bibby Financial Services.
Just under two in five small and
medium-sized companies said they
were “just about breaking even” with
the environment causing “friction and
fragility” for business owners. Inflation,
Russia’s war in Ukraine and supply
chain problems were key concerns for
respondents in a poll of 500 companies.
More than a quarter highlighted
cashflow as a worry. Almost one in five
said they needed short term financial
support more now than before the pan-
demic as more companies reported
issues with late payment of invoices.
More than a quarter of respondents,
which Bibby said equated to 1.5 million
businesses, said they had suffered from
bad debt over the previous 12 months,
where sums have been written off
owing to customer non-payment.

Inflation ‘will be bigger burden on poorest nations’
Arthi Nachiappan
Inflation will deepen the inequalities
between rich and poor nations, the
World Bank’s chief economist has said.
The pandemic accelerated the widen-
ing of the income gap that began after
the commodity crisis of 2015. Inflation
caused by soaring global energy prices,
compounded by the Russia-Ukraine
war, will make the problem worse
because of the impact of rising food
prices on households in poorer coun-
tries, according to Carmen Reinhart.
They will be faced with bigger jumps
in food prices than households in richer
countries, as well as food accounting for
a bigger proportion of their spending.
The rapid rises in food prices without
an equivalent rise in wages will be a
significant setback to development,
Reinhart said. “The lower income and
emerging markets are getting bigger in-
creases in food prices and, because poor
countries spend a larger share on food,
this has even bigger effects.”
Spending on food makes up about
15 per cent of household budgets in
high-income countries such as Britain
and the US, about 30 per cent in middle-
income countries such as China and
India, and 45 per cent in low-income
nations like Afghanistan or Rwanda.
Reinhart, 66, said that the rising price
of food would push more people into
food insecurity. “Nutrition has so much
bearing on development and educa-
tion. The last couple of years have been
major setbacks,” she said.
Poorer countries are typically more
reliant on food imports and less able to
deal with supply-chain problems, which
have hit businesses across the world for
the past year, because of weaker infra-
structure. “Many of these countries are
more dependent on imports of a staple
like wheat — wheat prices surged more
than 50 per cent on the [news of Russia’s
invasion],” Reinhart said. “They have
much more fragile distribution systems
and infrastructure, so even if in pockets
of the country you have adequate sup-
ply, the distribution system is much
more impaired.”
The world’s poorest economies face
debt distress, food shortages and social
unrest as a result of higher global inter-
est rates, according to the International
Monetary Fund. The IMF said last
month that emerging economies risked
bearing the brunt of higher inflation
pushing up global interest rates, caus-
ing a sudden stop in inward investment
and driving down their currencies.
This is higher than when the lender
asked the same question last year, when
one in five reported bad debt. Bibby said
that SMEs had written off an average of
£10,329 in the last year alone.
Despite the issues, businesses report-
ed feeling slightly more confident than
they did a year ago which Derek Ryan,
UK managing director of the lender,
said demonstrated “stoic resilience”.
However, “many are still struggling
to keep their heads above water and
[are] operating on a day-to-day basis,
rather than looking ahead to growth”.
“Cashflow challenges and payment
issues continue to plague businesses.
It’s critical they receive support from
the private and public sectors, and we’d
urge policymakers to look at wider tax
cuts and energy grants to help SMEs.”
the times | Tuesday May 10 2022
Patrick Hosking
The looming economic slowdown is
‘‘
likely to ease job market headwinds
They’ll be busy with
the spanners at
Luton airport.
EasyJet announced
at the weekend it
was removing an entire row of seats
from 50 of its aircraft as a way of
coping with severe staff shortages.
Under aviation safety rules, the
aircraft must have at least one
member of cabin crew for every 50
seats. Stripping out six seats reduces
the plane’s seat capacity to below 150,
and, hey presto, means it can fly with
three cabin crew, not the usual four.
EasyJet’s response is an example of
the creative and sometimes desperate
measures being adopted to cope with
a phenomenon plaguing large chunks
of British business: not having enough
manpower.
Restaurants struggle because of the
lack of chefs and waiting staff.
Construction projects lie idle for want
of brickies and joiners. Trains are
cancelled for want of drivers. Queues
snake around airports because of a
shortage of check-in and security
staff. Patients wait hours at A&E,
while the NHS pleads for
superannuated doctors to come out of
retirement. Farmers are reduced to
culling healthy pigs because there are
not enough abattoir workers.
The labour market is
“extraordinarily tight,” Andrew Bailey,
governor of the Bank of England, said
last week. “When I go around the
country talking to businesses, it’s the
first, second and third thing they want
to talk about.” It is going to get
even tighter. According to Bank
forecasts, unemployment,
which fell to 3.8 per cent in
January to March, is set to fall
further to a historic low of
3.6 per cent in this quarter.
Covid-related absences
have combined with post-
Brexit restrictions on
immigration and the
decision by hundreds of
thousands of people to
leave the workforce to
severely curtail the
normal supply of workers,
especially in low-wage, low-
skilled occupations. Add
huge numbers of consumers
eager to travel, spend and go
out after lockdown and a
EasyJet may have to
reverse course soon on
its move to cut seats
serious imbalance has been exposed.
It’s a sea change from last October
when many were warning that the
end to furlough would cause mass
redundancies. Instead, jobs are
plentiful and vacancies at record
levels. In the last week of April there
were 1.81 million roles advertised, up
15 per cent from a month earlier,
according to the Recruitment and
Employment Confederation.
Employers are having to pay more
to fill vacancies and retain staff.
Bailey reckons underlying earnings
growth in the UK has now picked up
speed to 4-4.5 per cent and will
average 5.75 per cent this year. That’s
nominal earnings growth, to be clear.
Real earnings growth is of course
negative as households face an
inflation rate forecast to reach more
than 10 per cent by the year-end.
Most workers are worse off.
Wage inflation is rampant in a few
sectors. Cybersecurity consultants can
name their price. Many lorry drivers
have clinched big pay rises after last
year’s tanker crisis. Anecdotally, sous-
chefs and nightclub bouncers are
scoring inflation-beating pay rises.
The big question for employers —
and policymakers — is whether the
rise in wages becomes more general
and, if so, what they do about it.
So long as employers are able to lift
their selling prices and maintain
margins, they’ll be happy to raise pay
too. However, not many employers
have that kind of market power or
branding heft. Many instead seem to
be resigned to tolerating poorer
customer service standards, whether
that’s a cancelled flight or an
interminable wait for callers to
contact centres.
Smaller companies in particular
don’t have the flexibility or
the cash reserves to lift
wages, according to the
British Chambers of
Commerce, which warns
that four out of five firms
are complaining about
difficulties in recruiting
staff. Hospitality,
construction, logistics and
manufacturing are the
worst-hit sectors, it says.
There is a lot of talk by
human resources people
about offering non-financial
perks, which help to retain
and attract staff but won’t hit
the bottom line. PwC decided
last week to end the working
week at Friday lunchtime over the
summer.
Quality of life is persuasive for
some staff, but hard cash may be
more compelling for others as they
ponder £3,000 annual energy bills.
PwC’s rival KPMG is taking a
different approach, announcing pay
rises of between £2,000 and £4,000
for its 16,000-strong UK workforce.
For policymakers, labour shortages
can be addressed on the supply side
by improving training and
apprenticeship schemes and speeding
up visa arrangements. The think tank
Demos has proposed a rethink of
jobcentres to focus much more on
helping back into the workforce the
droves of fifty and sixtysomethings
who “retired” during the pandemic.
A more immediate policy option is
to address the demand side by raising
interest rates further. The Bank
cannot afford to see wages growth
take hold and push the economy into
a wage/price inflationary spiral.
As Michael Saunders, one of the
more hawkish members of the Bank’s
rate-setting committee, said in a
speech yesterday, it is not energy or
raw material cost increases that are
prompting companies to lift prices. It
is wages. The explanation that this is
an inflation surge caused mostly by a
shock from overseas is starting to
look shaky.
Still, the looming economic
slowdown is likely to solve much of
the problem, pulling more people
back into the workforce while
reducing demand for new workers.
While existing vacancies are at record
levels, new job adverts are already
dwindling. The cycle will turn.
The nation is adjusting to a reality
check in all kinds of ways. Dreamers
who thought they could make a living
day-trading crypto and tech stocks
are thinking about a job again: new
research from Morgan Stanley found
that the losses they made in the first
few months of this year have wiped
’’
out their profits from the lockdown
era. Its research was for the US, but
the picture will be echoed in the UK.
This golden era for employee power
will soon fade. The chances are
easyJet will soon be
able to reinstall
those seats. Enjoy
the extra legroom
while it lasts.
Patrick Hosking is Financial Editor
of The Times
Mehreen Khan
Central bankers have
found their voice but
public aren’t listening
I
n 1987 the totemic US Federal
Reserve chairman Alan
Greenspan quipped that, since
he became a central banker,
“I’ve learnt to mumble with
great incoherence . . . If I seem
unduly clear to you, you must have
misunderstood what I said”.
Greenspan’s half-joking remark
was a way to bat away questions
about the future of monetary policy
during an age in which even the
world’s most powerful bank didn’t
announce its interest rate decisions
on the day they were made.
Long gone are those days of wilful
mumbling incoherence. The central
banking profession has undergone a
communications revolution
alongside the vast expansion of its
remit during the past 20 years.
The European Central Bank’s
Christine Lagarde hosts swish
Eurovision-style hybrid press
conferences in Frankfurt after
her governing council meets.
Rate-setters in the United States,
EU and UK provide a steady drip
feed of speeches and parliamentary
hearings, and attend wonkish think-
tank events to provide markets with
a sense of their thinking in-between
their decisions.
The transformation in central
bank communication was part of an
intellectual shift in the 1990s about
how best these newly independent
institutions could achieve their goals
of controlling inflation. By
communicating clearly to financial
markets about their intentions for
the path of monetary policy, central
banks could build up credibility that
would ultimately advance their goal
of stabilising the economy by
preventing nasty market surprises
to their decisions.
Expectation management has
been central to successful central
banking ever since. Such is the
power of words that Mario Draghi,
the former ECB chief, managed to
talk the eurozone’s survival into
existence with his promise to do
“whatever it takes” during the
continent’s debt crisis in 2012.
Central bankers no longer speak
in tongues. Beginning with the
global financial crisis, followed by
bouts of prolonged disinflation, and
then the Covid-19 pandemic, the
world’s monetary guardians have
generally prepared the ground well
for their extraordinary action.
But the present crisis, one of
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raging inflation rather than
disinflation, requires far more
attention to be paid to the general
public, not just money managers
and traders. The credibility of
central banks is being judged by
households facing once-in-a-
generation hits to the cost of living.
Most have been found wanting.
For much of late 2021 and early
this year, the Fed, Bank of England
and European Central Bank insisted
that a surge in inflation which far
exceeded their 2 per cent targets
was a transitory phenomenon that
did not require an immediate
monetary policy response. These
days all three institutions have taken
decisively hawkish turns to quell
those price surges.
These shifts have to be better
explained to the public, most of
whom will never watch a live central
bank press conference or read a
pseudo-academic speech. Managing
household inflation expectations, as
well as that of the market, is an
important real-world measure of
whether central banks are trusted to
keep inflation under control. A
measure of UK household inflation
expectations hit an all-time record
in March.
A recent ECB working paper
shows the paradox of modern
central banks. It found that in
general, people had high levels of
“instinctive” trust in the ECB when
asked if it were a credible economic
institution. But when respondents
were asked to take their time to
ponder over the question, trust
levels dropped dramatically and
were lowest among women and
those with low levels of
understanding about what the
central bank does.
This matters because women are
the primary shoppers in households
and thus feel the brunt of inflation.
And those with the weakest
understanding of what central banks
do are likely to be the poorest in
society that will bear the highest
cost from runaway inflation.
Ben Bernanke, Greenspan’s
successor at the Fed, said modern
central banking was “98 per cent
talk and only 2 per cent action”.
Today’s practitioners need to get
better at talking to the right
audience.
Mehreen Khan is Economics Editor of
The Times
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for £1.1bn
Alex Ralph
An Aim-quoted software company
12.30pm, direct by email from has agreed a £1.1 billion takeover by
a private equity firm after a decline
the Business Editor, in its share price.
Richard Fletcher, and
The board of Ideagen, based in
Nottingham, has recommended
the Business that shareholders accept a cash offer
from Hg, valuing the company at
News Editor, Martyn 350p per share. It represents a prem-
ium of about 52 per cent to its 230p
SStrydom
trydom closing price on April 11, before take-
over interest emerged.
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home.thetimes. equity firm, had said on April 14 it
was considering an offer for Ideagen,
co.uk/myNews but dropped out last Thursday.
Shares in Ideagen rallied 112p, or
46.1 per cent, to 355p today, slightly
above Hg’s offer price, suggesting
some investors think a counter offer
from Astorg, a French rival with
€15 billion of assets, could emerge.
Ideagen, advised by Goldman
Sachs and Canaccord Genuity, said
that despite the recommended offer
the board remained in discussions
with Astorg, which had been “grant-
ed access to due diligence”.
“There can be no certainty that a
firm offer will be made by Astorg,
nor as to the terms of any such offer,”
Ideagen added.
The agreed offer with Hg comes
almost ten years after Ideagen listed
on Aim, the London stock ex-
change’s junior market, when it trad-
ed at 14½p.
David Hornsby, Ideagen’s former
boss who oversaw the float, remains
a top ten shareholder with a 2.60 per
cent stake, according to filings, worth
about £27 million. Hornsby, 54, re-
tired as chairman a year ago and was
replaced by Richard Longdon, a
former chief executive of Aveva, the
industrial software company.
Longdon, 66, said: “Hg’s track
record and expertise in supporting
and growing software businesses
would provide a complementary
partner for Ideagen’s stakeholders”.
Directors, speaking for about
1.2 per cent of the company’s shares,
Philip Morris looks to strike a deal
Alex Ralph
Philip Morris International, the
owner of Marlboro cigarettes, is in
takeover talks with Swedish Match
over a multibillion-dollar deal that
would expand the tobacco group’s
smoke-free business.
The New York-listed group said
yesterday that discussions over a bid
were in progress and “it is uncertain
whether an offer will be made”.
Swedish Match has a market capi-
talisation of SKr120.92 billion
(£9.7 billion) and Philip Morris is val-
ued at about $154 billion. The talks
were first reported by The Wall Street
Journal, which said a deal could value
Swedish Match at about £12.2 billion.
The Swedish tobacco group is a
leader in snus, oral nicotine
Tuesday May 10 2022 | the times
unanimously recommended that
Ideagen shareholders vote in favour
of the deal, which is expected to
complete in July.
Ideagen is the latest listed com-
pany to be taken private in recent
months and comes after declines in
its share price. The stock hit 332p in
September but fell to a low of 207p in
March. Ideagen raised £103.5 mil-
lion from investors at 270p per share
in December.
Ideagen’s software helps compa-
nies to comply with regulation and
manage risk in closely monitored in-
dustries such as life sciences, finance
and insurance, a $30 billion-plus
market. It has more than 8,000 cus-
tomers including large companies
such as AstraZeneca, Bank of New
York, Johnson Matthey, British Air-
ways and Heineken. It generated
revenues of £97 million and adjusted
underlying profits of £32 million, in
the year to November.
Delegates used Ideagen’s software
to participate in World Health
Organisation meetings in 2020, dur-
ing the pandemic restrictions.
AstraZeneca and numerous hospi-
tals also use its software to monitor
quality control in radiology depart-
ments and laboratories.
Hg has about $40 billion of funds
under management and its invest-
ment portfolio includes about 45
software and technology businesses,
employing 55,000 people. The Property
Access Group, one of its software
investments, is based in Loughbor-
ough, near Ideagen.
merger fails
Hg has committed itself to main-
taining Ideagen’s Nottingham head-
quarters, including its technological
to raise roof
development centre. It also plans to
I
help continue its “buy-and-build” nvestors have given a lukewarm
M&A strategy, building cloud-based response to a potential tie-up
technology and its transition to a between the London property
fully subscription-based model. groups Shaftesbury and Capital
Hg, advised by Lazard and Houli- and Counties, which would combine
han Lokey, said that it would work two of the capital’s most valuable
with Ideagen’s management team estates (Emma Powell writes).
for six months to review the busi- News of the potential all-share
ness, but does not expect a “material merger, which would create a
headcount reduction”.
products, which are becoming Philip Morris’s chief executive, it is
popular outside Scandinavia. The targeting at least $1 billion in net
US is one of Swedish Match’s largest revenues from “beyond nicotine”
markets for “smoke-free” products, products by 2025.
inavia.
along with Scandinavia. takeove of Swedish
A takeover
ants to
Philip Morris wants wo
Match would be its larg-
expand into alter- lter- est dea
deal since merger
hat
native products that talks with Altria col-
are less harmful ul laps
lapsed in 2019.
than combustible Sh
Shares in Philip
tobacco as regu- M
Morris inched
lators continue h
higher to $99.87
to tighten re- o Wall Street
on
strictions on the la night.
last
industry. Its Swedish Match
smoke-free port- employs about
folio is led by its 7,50 people.
7,500
IQOS device,e,
which heats rather her Swed
Swedish Match owns
than burns tobacco. acco. a big range of oral
Under Jacek Olczak, nicoti
nicotine products
the times | Tuesday May 10 2022
company worth £3.2 billion, comes
as shares in both companies
continue to trade well below pre-
pandemic levels and at discounts to
the value of their assets.
Shares in Capital and Counties,
known as Capco, yesterday closed
down almost 7 per cent, or 11.4p, at
154p, reversing gains made on
Friday when news of the merger
first leaked. Shares in Shaftesbury
fell 2.9 per cent, or 17p, to 560p.
The deal would be structured as
an acquisition of Shaftesbury by
Capco, with Shaftesbury investors,
excluding the 25.2 per cent already
owned by Capco, owning 53 per
cent of the combined company.
Capco owns a £1.8 billion
All systems are go for Dreadnought Sales of used electric cars
Russell Hotten
Defence contracts worth more
than £2 billion have been awarded to
BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce that will
enable them to press ahead with the
development of the UK’s next-genera-
tion nuclear submarines.
The Dreadnought programme will
replace the four submarines that pro-
vide the UK’s Trident nuclear missile
deterrent.
Four new submarines, to be built at
BAE’s shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness,
Cumbria, are expected to go into
service from the 2030s, with a lifespan
of about 30 years.
The Dreadnought class submarines
will be the largest class of submarine
ever built for the Royal Navy and “one
of the most complex machines ever
portfolio of properties in Covent
Garden and has a market
capitalisation of £1.4 billion.
Shaftesbury, with property in Soho,
Chinatown and Carnaby Street, is
valued at £2.2 billion.
The tie-up already has the
backing of Norges, Norway’s
sovereign wealth fund, which is the
largest shareholder in both
companies,
The merged company would be
led by Jonathan Nicholls, 64,
chairman of Shaftesbury, and Ian
Hawksworth, 56, chief executive of
Capco. Brian Bickell, 67, chief
executive of Shaftesbury, plans to
retire once the deal is completed.
Analysts at the brokerage Numis
built”, according to the Ministry of
Defence.
The latest investment is part of a
crucial third phase of funding expected
to cost nearly £10 billion and prepare
the first submarine for sea trials.
The government said the pro-
gramme, from design to build, would
support and create 30,000 jobs across
the UK. More than £1 billion has
already been invested upgrading the
Barrow shipyard.
Jeremy Quin, the defence minister,
said that last year alone the programme
supported about 13,500 jobs in the
northwest of England and a further
16,300 in the rest of the UK.
He added: “The Dreadnought class
will be crucial to maintaining and safe-
guarding our national security, with the
nuclear deterrent protecting every UK
JOE DANIEL PRICE/GETTY IMAGES
Capco owns property in Covent
Garden, while Shatesbury’s
portfolio includes Carnaby Street
said the strategic rationale for the
merger made a lot of sense. “With
Capco targeting the higher end
luxury market, while Shaftesbury
focuses on the more independent/
alternative market they could
complement each other quite
nicely,” they added.
Both Shaftesbury and Capco were
badly hit by tenants failing to pay
rent during the pandemic and steep
declines in the value of their
properties. More recently, a
recovery in footfall to London’s
West End and in rent collection
rates has helped lift the value of
their estates.
Capco has until June 4 to either
make a firm offer or walk away.
citizen from the most extreme threats,
every minute of every day.
“Designed in the UK, built in the UK
and supporting tens of thousands of
jobs in the UK, the Dreadnought
programme is a leading example of our
commitment to defence manufactur-
ing and will continue to boost British
industry for decades to come.”
As part of yesterday’s announce-
ment, a £160 million contract has also
been awarded to Raytheon UK to
support the training and development
of Royal Navy personnel at HM Naval
Base Clyde.
Admiral Sir Ben Key, head of the
Royal Navy, said the $2 billion invest-
ment was a sign of faith “that subma-
rines remain the optimum means of
securely deploying the independent
nuclear deterrent”.
Sydney broker
pays £500m for
Lloyd’s stalwart
Ben Martin Banking Editor
The oldest remaining broker on the
Lloyd’s of London insurance market is
being sold to an Australian company for
£500 million.
The deal for Tysers will give the
Sydney-based AUB Group a platform
at Lloyd’s for the first time.
It puts an end to the uncertainty that
has hung over Tysers since the broker
was first put up for sale by its American
private equity owner, Odyssey
Investment Partners, almost a year ago.
Lloyd’s is the biggest insurance
market in the world and Tysers has a
long history within it. The British group
can trace its roots to 1820, when it
focused on marine business, and has
since grown to become the sixth largest
wholesale broker at Lloyd’s with about
1,100 employees, mainly in the UK.
It was bought by Integro, the
Odyssey-owned broker, four years ago,
with the combined group later rebrand-
ed to take the Tysers name. It is led by
Clive Buesnel, its chief executive.
Tysers generated revenues of
£183 million last year and handled
£2 billion of gross written premium,
with operations spanning aviation, and
North American property and casualty,
as well as marine.
The insurance broker also has a big
sports and live entertainment business
and the uncertainty caused by the
pandemic, which caused mass event
cancellations, is thought to have com-
plicated Odyssey’s efforts to sell Tysers.
Other brokers that are believed to
have considered a deal for Tysers
included The Ardonagh Group and
Miller, although Buesnel said yesterday
that AUB was “the perfect partner” for
the British business.
AUB has brokers and underwriters
across Australia and New Zealand and
is listed on the Australian stock market,
where it is valued at almost
A$1.7 billion. It is a member of the
ASX200 stock index of Australia’s
biggest listed businesses and has more
than 3,000 employees.
Mike Emmett, its chief executive,
said that the purchase of Tysers gave
the group “the ability to access a diverse
range of risks and insurance types for
our clients and broker networks” and
also “the capability to accelerate the
establishment of new agencies in these
surge to new record high
Russell Hotten
The UK’s used car market grew by
5.1 per cent in the first three months
of the year, with sales of pre-owned all-
electric vehicles hitting a record high.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers
and Traders (SMMT) said that 1.77 mil-
lion used cars changed hands, up from
almost 87,000 from the same quarter
last year when car showrooms faced
lockdown restrictions.
While overall used car sales slipped
by 6.8 per cent in March, it was the best-
ever quarter for pure battery electric
vehicles, with the number of sales more
than doubling from 6,625 to 14,586.
Sales of used hybrids and plug-in
39
Business
Made for each other
Made.com sought to get back on to
the front foot after a turbulent year
as a public company by acquiring
Trouva, an online marketplace.
The furniture retailer, which
floated at 200p in June last year,
issued a profit warning in December
after supply chain disruption
delayed up to £45 million of orders.
In February Philippe Chainieux quit
as chief executive for family reasons.
Trouva is a platform for more than
700 independent boutiques across
Europe that offers a curated range
of homewares, lifestyle and fashion
products. It will continue to operate
as a standalone business, based in
London, led by its chief executive,
Alex Loizou. The price paid for
Trouva is believed to have been
below £5 million.
Made.com said the deal would
allow it to integrate Trouva’s
bespoke marketplace technology in
its core business, reducing the need
to invest in its own technology.
Nicola Thompson, the new chief
executive of Made.com, said:
“Trouva’s excellent technology
platform will help us grow our
international business.” Made.com
was founded in Shoreditch, east
London, in 2010. Its shares rose by
3.1p, or 5.6 per cent, to 58.7p.
markets”. AUB launched a share sale
yesterday to help finance the takeover
and Odyssey will take a stake in the
Australian company as part of the
agreement.
The sale of Tysers marks the latest
stage of consolidation in the insurance
broking industry. Three years ago the
New York-based Marsh & McLennan
bought Jardine Lloyd Thompson, the
British broker, for £4.3 billion.
Aon and Willis Towers Watson also
attempted a $30 billion merger in 2020
only for the deal to fall apart last year
when the US government intervened
over competition concerns.
The acquisition of Tysers is expected
to be completed in the first half of next
year. Buesnel, who joined Tysers two
years ago, will stay on to run the
business and report to Emmett.
hybrids were up 35.3 per cent and
28.8 per cent respectively.
Despite the growth, petrol and diesel
cars still dominate the used car market,
representing 96.2 per cent of sales.
Plug-in vehicles comprised 3.6 per cent
of the total market, up from 1.6 per cent
in the first three months of last year.
Sales of new cars have been hit by a
shortage of semiconductors and the
lingering effects of the pandemic on the
full reopening of production plants.
SMMT data last week showed that the
new car market fell 15.8 per cent in April
year-on-year to 119,167 units. The trade
body said it now expected 1.72 million
new UK car sales this year, down from
a previous forecast of 1.89 million.
40 Tuesday May 10 2022 | the times

Business

Laundering link to failure of Money Xpress

Details are emerging
about the collapse of the
payments firm owned
by scandal-hit Finablr,
reports Alex Ralph
A cross-border payments company
owned by Finablr, the collapsed former
FTSE-250 group, failed after its busi-
ness registration was suspended under
money-laundering regulations.
Xpress Money Services, which owes
creditors almost £19 million in unre-
corded transactions, had joint special
administrators appointed in February.
This was following the intervention of
the Financial Conduct Authority,
which had previously placed restric-
tions on the company because of con-
cerns about the safeguarding of funds.
The FCA’s involvement came before
HM Revenue & Customs suspended
Xpress Money’s registration in August
2020 under money-laundering regula-
tions introduced in 2017, a report by
FRP Advisory, the joint administrators,
has revealed.
The revelations deepen the scandal
surrounding Finablr, a foreign ex-
change and payments group that un-
ravelled less than a year after its £1.2 bil-
lion flotation on the London stock ex-
change in May 2019.
Finablr was founded and built
through acquisitions by Bavaguthu
Raghuram Shetty, a United Arab Emir-
ates-based tycoon. The Finablr group
separately appointed administrators
from PKF GM in March. Finablr
became embroiled in an alleged fraud
scandal two years ago and revealed
about $1 billion of undisclosed debt.
Shetty, 79, an Indian-born pharma-
cist turned businessman, had earlier
founded and listed NMC Health, the
FTSE 100 international private hospi-
tals group, which became mired in a
fraud scandal in early 2020.
The sudden downfall of two FTSE
companies has wiped out investors, left
multibillion-pound debts and triggered
global law enforcement investigations
into NMC.
Xpress Money was based in Canary
Wharf and provided cross-border
money transfers for the company itself
and affiliated group entities through a
network of company-appointed
agents, such as banks, retail outlets and
other financial institutions.
It was a subsidiary of UAE Exchange,
another Finablr group brand, which
was placed under the supervision of the
UAE central bank in March 2020 as
Finablr began to fail.
Finablr had warned in its prospectus
before its float that HMRC had investi-
gated an Xpress Money agent in 2016
and found discrepancies in the com-
pany’s compliance programme, “in-
cluding late or non-registration of
agents with HMRC, processing of
transactions with remote customers
and high-volume transactions being
processed within a short span of time”.
The administrators’ report shows
creditors of Xpress Money are owed an
estimated £33 million, including
£18.7 million in “unclaimed unrecorded
transactions”. It remains unclear whe-
ther the debts will be recovered.
The administrators discovered there
were “historical issues” with Xpress
Money’s bookkeeping and a review late
last year by the company uncovered
“material items which may not have
previously been included on the com-
pany’s balance sheet”.
Xpress Money restricted its opera-
tions, with oversight of the FCA, in
March 2020 at about the time when
trading in Finablr’s shares was suspend-
ed on the LSE and EY resigned as
Finablr’s external auditor.
The FCA imposed further require-
ments on Xpress in June 2020, prevent-
ing its operations, because of concerns
over the safeguarding of funds.
The FCA had required Xpress
Money to return “relevant” funds to
customers but this remained incom-
plete when administrators were
appointed in February because of prob-
lems identifying customers.
The FCA’s High Court application to
appoint administrators was not
opposed by MT Global, a network part-
ner of Xpress Money which had earlier
issued a winding up petition in June last
year. MT Global was handed a record
£23.8 million fine by HMRC in January
2021 for money laundering breaches.
The administrators have faced “sig-
nificant challenges” contacting and
verifying amounts due. They have also
struggled to obtain Xpress Money’s
records to uncover its financial position
and identify creditors and debtors
because of the “paucity” of documenta-
tion held by the company, as well as
struggles obtaining information from
the UAE central bank. The bank has
restricted the sharing of information
held by UAE Exchange, owner of
Xpress Money’s technology and intel-
lectual property.
Robert Miller, 52, a former Deloitte
partner, was the company’s sole direct-
or at the time administrators were
appointed. He could not be reached for
comment. The FCA, FRP and HMRC
all declined to comment. Shetty has
previously alleged that he was a victim
of fraud.

Behind the story

T
wo years engulfed in a fraud may have been used
after Finablr scandal in early 2020. for “purposes outside
shares were Finablr suspended of the Finablr Group”.
suspended trading in its shares in In August Shetty
on the March 2020, resigned with
London stock announced the immediate effect and
exchange amid a departure of Promoth Finablr also revealed
suspected fraud Manghat as chief it had been notified by
scandal, details are executive and HMRC that officials
slowly coming to revealed about had suspended the
light. $100 million of business registrations
The FTSE 250 cheques, written by of Xpress Money
payments and foreign group companies and Services and had
exchange group pre-dating the IPO, proposed suspending
unravelled in early which may have been those of UAE
2020, just ten months used as security in Exchange UK. Finablr
after Bavaguthu financing did not, however,
Raghuram Shetty, the arrangements for disclose the reason for
UAE-based tycoon, third parties. HMRC’s action.
had floated the EY, Finablr’s Further revelations
business at 175p per external auditor, have dried up since
share, a valuation of resigned later that bondholders took
£1.2 billion. Shares in month, citing the control of a Travelex
Finablr, whose brands company’s failure to through a pre-pack
included Travelex, sufficiently clear out administration in
Xpress Money and the the board, corporate 2020, and a deal was
UAE Exchange, were governance concerns, made to sell the rest of
suspended at just 11p related-party Finablr for a nominal
and a valuation of transactions and off- $1 to a Israeli-UAE
£77 million. balance-sheet debt. consortium.
A combination of a In April 2020 But with the
cyberattack on Finablr revealed debts insolvency now of
Travelex in late 2019 had spiralled by about Xpress Money
and the pandemic $1 billion, with the Services new details
hitting overseas travel board warning are emerging —
was compounded by it could not despite the difficulties
Finablr’s close links to exclude the of administrators at
NMC Health, the possibility FRP Advisory to
FTSE 100 private that some of track down records.
hospitals company the money With administrators
also founded by at PKF GM appointed
Shetty, 79, which to Finablr in March,
became creditors and
shareholders will
Bavaguthu hope even more
Raghuram information may be
Shetty resigned forthcoming.
the times | Tuesday May 10 2022 41

Business
ASHLEY COOPER/ALAMY

Wind power lobby

calls for cash help

R
ising prices for
steel and
other
materials have
driven up the
cost of wind turbines by
a fifth in two years and
risk increasing the cost
of electricity from new
projects, the industry
has warned (Emily
Gosden writes).
Offshore wind power
developers are calling on
the government to raise
the budget of an auction
to support new projects
this month. Otherwise it
may not be feasible to
invest in UK factories.
RenewableUK, the
lobby group, says a few
per cent on the price of
electricity from new
projects would mean it
was still cheaper than
gas-fired generation.
The UK has a target of
50 gigawatts (GW) of
offshore wind operating
by 2030, up from about
10 GW today.
The government
encourages investment
by guaranteeing a fixed
price for the electricity.
A reverse auction
decides how many
projects get the go-ahead
and at what price. The
most recent, in 2019, saw
the price fall to a record
low of £39.65 per
megawatt-hour (MWh)
in 2012 prices, down
from £150 in 2014.
Dan McGrail, head of
RenewableUK, said the
£200 million annual
budget in the next
auction was expected to
procure about 6.4 GW
of offshore wind at
about £38 per MWh.
However, the cost of
steel used to make
turbine towers and
foundations has surged.
The contract price needs
to increase again by “a
couple of pounds” or
else it may be too low to
“support supply chain
development in the UK”.
And if developers seek
higher prices but the
budget is unchanged,
this could result in less
capacity being built.
RenewableUK said that
increasing the budget by
£68 million would both
enable developers to
recoup higher costs and
support the construction
of 2 GW more than
originally expected.
A government
spokesman said it was
“expected to secure
more cheap renewable
energy capacity than the
previous three rounds
put together”.

Iceland’s plastic-free plan in cold storage

Caroline Bullock, Ashley Armstrong
Iceland’s push to be plastic-free by the
end of the year is likely to be derailed by
the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
The frozen food supermarket’s
progress on removing all plastic from
the brand’s own packaging has been
delayed while it grapples with a disrupt-
ed supply chain “in survival mode”.
“You walk into an Iceland store and
it’s still a sea of plastic,” Richard Walker,
UK managing director, said.
Despite the setback, he has credited
Iceland’s initiatives for influencing a
wider agenda, claiming its rivals have
followed suit and were focused on
reducing plastic.
“We fired the starting gun on this.
When all competitors were focused on
recycling, we had an alternative view
that you could never recycle your way
out of the plastic crisis and I think that’s
been vindicated,” Walker said.
Morrisons and Sainsbury’s have both
unveiled plans to halve their use by
2025 and Lidl by 40 per cent.
It comes as 90 per cent of shoppers
say they prioritise plastic-free or recyc-
lable packaging when choosing
products over several other factors
including carbon footprint and even
nutritional value, according to a study
by Impact Score, the sustainability data
specialists.
“There’s been a change of mindset in
the last few years; people were even
arguing you needed more plastic but
just ‘better’ less harmful versions, but
the reality is that only 9 per cent of plas-
tic is recycled”, Walker said.
One of the biggest changes Iceland
had to make was changing the packag-
ing of the 100 million ready meals it
sells a year from single use, non-recyc-
lable black trays to a wood pulp alter-
native. So far the move has saved 850
tonnes of plastic waste.
The retailer is trialling paper-based
alternatives to the plastic packaging
used for the frozen vegetables and chip
packets.
Walker is conscious that Iceland’s
shoppers are more cash conscious than
his rivals, with many spending just £25
on their weekly shopping. He acknowl-
edges that putting a premium on ethi-
cally produced products would be com-
mercial suicide and at odds with the
chain’s broader mission to “democratise
environmentalism”.
“There’s a lazy assumption by mid-
dle-class commentators that people on
a budget don’t care about these issues,”
Walker said. “They do but they don’t
necessarily have the time or money to
do something about it — many of our
customers don’t have access to a car
during the day.”
While some rival stores have trialled
refillable stations, with shoppers
helping themselves to cereals and nuts,
it requires shoppers to bring their own
containers.
Stuart Lendrum, head of sustainabil-
ity at Iceland, said that refillable shop-
ping needed formal government legis-
lation in order to reach Cop26 targets
and not only be the preserve of “virtue-
signalling by the middle classes”. He
added: “We need clear market signals
through taxation and a defined, specific
system and approach.”
Sian Sutherland, of the campaign
group A Plastic Planet, is lobbying the
government to follow the refill revolu-
tion in France, where government
policy is to force larger supermarkets to
offer 20 per cent of their floor space
to refill and prefill with reusable pack-
aging. “I’m absolutely convinced
change at scale will not happen without
legislation,” she said. “You have to
normalise a different way of shopping
for groceries.”

from the plinth of slave

Parsa moves to US after Babylon listing
Alex Ralph
The founder of a virtual GP service
used by the NHS who fled to Britain
aged 16 from the Iranian revolution
before becoming one of the country’s
richest businessmen has moved to the
United States after the company opted
to float in New York over London.
Ali Parsa, 57, has updated filings at
Companies House to state the US as the
country where he is “usually resident”.
A spokesman declined to comment
on the change, including Parsa’s tax
status.
Babylon raised about $460 million
when it floated on the New York stock
exchange in October, via a blank-
cheque company merger, eight years
after it was founded by Parsa, its chief
executive. Parsa had said he opted to list
in New York over London because
investors in the City tended to favour
“companies that are more mature in
their growth cycle” and because of the
“colossal size of the US capital markets”.
Babylon was launched by Parsa, a
former Goldman Sachs banker, in 2013
to overhaul the $10 trillion global
healthcare sector. He previously
created Circle, the first private health-
care provider to run an NHS hospital.
Parsa’s fortune is estimated at
£825 million, according to The Sunday
Times rich list.
In 1981 he fled his homeland three
years after the Islamic Revolution,
travelling on his own across Europe to
the UK where he was granted asylum at
the age of 16. He studied engineering at
trader Edward Colston.
University College London before a
career in investment banking focusing
T How I Made It
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Babylon is based in Knightsbridge, skip full of floppy disks,
central London, and its holding
company is registered in Jersey, accord- aged 12, and sold them to
ing to filings. local businesses before
The company operates an app that
helps to check symptoms and links up
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of a protest vote at last week’s
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the interim chairwoman, was
managers towards stocks that looked opposed by 26.3 per cent of votes
witan investment trust A question of trust set to benefit from a recovery in cast, while Jambu Palaniappan
Market cap Discount to net economic growth post-pandemic, and Ron Teerlink, members of
£1.54bn asset value 9% Share price Top ten holdings (as a % of net assets)
260p which has stalled amid rises in the supervisory board, were both
GMO Climate Change Fund inflation and supply chain disruption. opposed by almost 30 per cent.
5.5%

B
acking companies set to The information technology sector Brent Wissink, chief financial
rebound with the Apax Global Alpha accounts for 13 per cent of net assets. officer, suffered a 21.9 per cent no
250 2.8%
reopening and recovery of Blackrock World Mining Trust
Exposure to some big names such as vote. Votes against Adriaan Nühn
the economy looked like a 1.8% Microsoft, and Google’s parent, were not released as he resigned
surefire bet this time last 240 Alphabet Alphabet, both among the trust’s top as chairman before the AGM.
year. Inflation, exacerbated by the 1.7% ten underlying holdings, might weigh
Russian invasion of Ukraine, has Unilever on the performance in the near term, Uber to slash spending
wrong-footed investors this year. 230 1.7% as expectations of more aggressive
For investment trusts like Witan Princess Private Equity interest rate rises by the Federal Uber plans big cuts to spending
Investment Trust, the result has been 1.6% Reserve threaten to send highly on marketing and other costs to
the emergence of a discount not seen 220 Diageo valued stocks further out of favour. address a “seismic shift” in
1.4%
since the depths of the first national The dividend’s inflation link might sentiment for tech stocks among
Source: Refinitiv

Canadian Pacific Railway

lockdown in 2020, with the shares
trading 9 per cent below the FTSE
250 constituent’s net asset value.
Almost two thirds of Witan’s assets
are invested in global equities and a
further 10 per cent in UK stocks,
with the remainder allocated to
specialist funds such as emerging
markets or around the climate
change theme. The bulk of assets are
managed by third party investment
houses, including Lindsell Train and
Artemis. The idea is that by
appointing a multitude of managers,
the risk of one having an offbeat year
and impeding performance, is
reduced and the trust gets the
benefit of an abundance of
investment style specialists.
Managers are typically appointed
with a decade-long stint in mind, but
in reality their notice period is only a
month long. Investors might be
thinking who is next for the chop.
A run of poor performance since
energean
Market cap Pre-tax loss
£2.32bn $90.7m
2021
Q2 Q3 Q4
ADVICE Hold
WHY The discount attached to
the shares compensates for
shaky performance in the
near term
the start of 2020 has swallowed the
lead the trust had built against its
benchmark — a composite of 85 per
cent Morgan Stanley Capital
International (MSCI) All Countries
World Index (ACWI) and 15 per cent
MSCI UK IMI.
Over the six months to the end of
March, the trust has underperformed
by 8.8 per cent relative to that
the FTSE 250 company, from
politically stable countries has gained
added urgency in light of the Russia’s
war on Ukraine. That is not the only
reason the exploration and
210 1.3% catch some investors’ eyes, but the investors, the taxi app’s chief
Microsoft aim is to grow the payment ahead of executive says. In an email to
2022 1.2% inflation over the longer term, rather staff seen by CNBC, the US
200 Nintendo than any type of guarantee on an broadcaster, Dara Khosrowshahi
Q1 Q2 1.2% individual yearly basis. Between 2011 said: “We have to make sure our
and last year, the consumer price unit economics work before we go
benchmark. Last year all eight index has risen by 21 per cent, while big. The least efficient marketing
managers appointed by Witan Witan’s dividend has increased by and incentive spend will be pulled
underperformed. That means while 133 per cent to 5.6p a share last year, back.” He added that Uber would
on a ten-year basis Witan has or 2.7 per cent based upon the be “more hardcore about costs
delivered a decent-looking share current share price. across the board”.
price total return of 195 per cent and Investors can expect the dividend
a net asset value (NAV) return of to be raised again this year, lest the Bitcoin dive continues
180 per cent, that is below the 182 per 47-year run of increases is broken.
cent generated by the benchmark. Given recent performance, and the Bitcoin has fallen to its lowest
That underperformance can be fact that last year’s payment was only value since July last year after
blamed on two factors, according to 65 per cent covered by earnings four days of tumbling prices. The
Andrew Bell, the chief executive: a generated during that 12-month cryptocurrency fell 11 per cent
lack of exposure to energy stocks period, the magnitude of this year’s yesterday to $30,673, according to
among many of its underlying dividend increase might be muted. CoinDesk, with the sell-off
managers who are wary of investing The shares might tread water in the spreading across the digital
in fossil fuel companies on the wrong forthcoming months but Witan’s sector. Ethereum also fell just
side of global climate policy and at returns record makes the trust over 11 per cent to $2,276, while
risk of owning stranded assets and, worthy of holding for the longer- XRP sank 14.6 per cent to $0.490.
secondly, a shift among some term. Some analysts believe that
bitcoin faces a further long-term
decline. The value of the coin is
house broker Peel Hunt forecast that Payback on capital invested in now less than half of what it was
the energy group will switch into an exploration looks brighter thanks to at its peak in November.
adjusted pre-tax profit of $311 million the discovery of 8 billion cubic
this year, compared with a metres (bcm) of recoverable gas at its Sugar ‘out of touch’
$91 million loss last year. Athena well offshore Israel. That was

G
rowing environmental, social
and governance mandates that
preclude some institutional
investors from fossil fuel holdings,
plus inherently unpredictable revenue
streams, mean oil and gas producers
often come with a bargain valuation.
Energean’s shares are no different,
with a similarly cheap price tag of 5.8
times forecast earnings before tax and
other charges, despite the share price
almost trebling since the 2018 IPO.
Securing a supply of natural gas,
the main commodity produced by
production specialist Energean is at a Capital-intensive projects naturally lower than pre-drill estimates of The accountancy firm PwC has
turning point, with its flagship Karish come with high risk and elevated 20 bcm but it does open up the wider hit back after Lord Sugar attacked
development in Israel due to start leverage might be another cause for “Olympus” to 58bcm for potential the firm’s new working practices
production in September. reticence among investors. Net debt development. This development as “lazy”. The company has said it
Agreements with multiple private has ratcheted up, standing at just could provide an incremental 50-70p will allow staff to take Friday
sector energy providers average over $2 billion, or 9.5 times earnings boost to the share price, reckons afternoons off during summer,
15 years and production will before tax and other charges, at the brokerage Jefferies. leading The Apprentice host, 75, to
constitute roughly 50 per cent of end of last year. But management say it was a “total joke”. Richard
Israel’s gas consumption. Those expects that to reduce to a multiple Osborne, a senior executive at
agreements are at a fixed price, of 1.5 by 2024, as Karish moves into ADVICE Buy PwC, wrote on his LinkedIn page
which means Energean does not get production. That will also mean the WHY Risky, but offering a that Sugar’s comments showed
the same benefit from the rapid rise introduction of a dividend, which that he was “out of touch with the
in gas prices as those selling at spot analysts say will total 47 cents a share generous dividend yield modern working world” and had
rates. Nevertheless, analysts at the next year and 220 cents in 2024. a “lack of knowledge about what
PwC are doing”.

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Lloyd’s of London insurers

buoyant in a sea of red
Jessica Newman Market report

T
rading updates from Hiscox
and Beazley last week have technology
won praise from one
investment bank that tipped
clients to snap up shares in
the Lloyd’s of London insurers.
Tungsten takeover offer backed
Analysts at Bank of America reckon

and said that Shell had
Activist adds an “incoherent,
conflicting set of
fuel to Shell strategies” and should
be broken up. Shell has
break-up bid strongly rejected the
argument, insisting it
T
that even though there’s quite a bit of he Swedish in an all-cash 42p-a-
uncertainty around the insurers’ automation share deal.
aviation exposure, management teams company However, it
have reassured the City that losses stalking the London- emerged last month
should be manageable. listed Tungsten that US-based Kofax
Freya Kong and her team of Corporation has had agreed to be
analysts at the bank believe the pair’s sweetened its taken over by
results demonstrate the sector’s takeover offer. Clearlake Capital and
resilience against a “more difficult Pagero said it had TA Associates.
macroeconomic backdrop”. made an improved Investors reacted
“While concerns around potential proposal of 48p a positively to the offer
aviation exposures have not gone share, valuing the The offer values the as the shares leapt to
away, confidence from management electronic invoicing electronic invoicing their highest in more
teams seem to suggest impacts company at about firm at £61.5 million than three years,
£61.5 million. closing up 3¾p, or
It said it was Pagero prematurely higher offer to its 8.1 per cent, to 49¼p.
“engaged in Wall Street report disclosed its interest shareholders. Tungsten posted an
discussions with in the business earlier Pagero’s operating profit of
management, board Concern among investors that the this year, but was announcement that it £800,000 in the six
members, and other Fed is planning more interest rate mulling an offer of was preparing a bid months to the end of
shareholders, as well as rises sent US stocks down sharply 45p a share. for Tungsten in October compared
informal talks with yesterday. The S&P fell 132.1 points Tungsten’s board said March came hours with £30 million

T
hird Point, is stronger as one and financial advisers” and to 3,991.24, its lowest level since that intended to after the Aim-listed losses made in the
the activist can use cash from its reiterated its “view April last year, while the Dow closed unanimously company had agreed equivalent period the
fund pushing oil and gas business to that Shell’s portfolio of down 653.67 points at 32,245.7. recommend Pagero’s to be bought by Kofax year before.
for a break-up invest in green energy. disparate businesses
of Shell, says In an update to ranging from deep
it has increased its investors, Third Point water oil to wind farms should be manageable,” she said. However, it was a bleak start to the investment trusts on this side of the
holding in the oil giant said its investment in to gas stations to About 500 aircraft have been week for London’s wider stock Atlantic. Scottish Mortgage
and has support from Shell had been one of chemical plants is stranded in Russia after the Kremlin markets. The FTSE 100 slumped Investment Trust, which has stakes in
other investors for an its biggest winners in confusing and effectively seized commercial jets deeper into the red, tracking Asian Tesla and Amazon, dropped 55½p, or
overhaul of its the first quarter, as the unmanageable”. “Most owned by overseas leasing companies markets lower after soft export figures 6.7 per cent, to 777p; and Allianz
corporate structure shares were buoyed by investors we have after the West’s imposition of from China fuelled fears of slowing Technology Trust, which is a big
(Emily Gosden writes). higher oil and gas discussed this with sanctions on Moscow. The insurance economic growth. investor in Apple, fell 19p, or 8 per
The hedge fund run prices. Third Point has agree that the industry is bracing for claims of Losses on the FTSE 100 accelerated cent, to 220p. The sharp decline of US
by Dan Loeb disclosed continued to add to its company would be billions of dollars as leasing during the session, with the index gambling stocks triggered shares in
in late October that it position in Shell, which more successful over companies seek to cover the losses falling by 171.36 points, or 2.3 per cent, Entain to dive 122½p, or 8.9 per cent,
had amassed a it said remained the long term with a they expect to suffer. to 7,216.58. The domestically focused to £12.48½, and Flutter Entertainment
significant stake, then “deeply discounted” different corporate However, Beazley told its FTSE 250 shed 512.95 points, or slid 504p, or 5.9 per cent, to £79.96.
thought to be worth given the increase in structure,” it said. Shell shareholders that even including 2.6 per cent, to 19,306.72. Many of the shares that gained
about $750 million, commodity prices. declined to comment. aviation claims it would not need to Miners found themselves in a hole ground had a safer flavour as wary
downgrade its forecasts for its dug by China, the world’s biggest investors sought them for their more
The day’s biggest movers combined ratio, which the analysts consumer of raw materials, as fears defensive qualities. Among these were
said was crucial in alleviating the about decreasing demand hit metals Sainsbury’s, up 5¼p, or 2.2 per cent,
Company Change City’s concerns. They bumped up their prices. Antofagasta, the Chilean to 233p; Tesco, which gained 4p, or
QinetiQ Group Renewed demand for defence stocks 4.8% price target on the stock by 10 per copper miner, fell 95p, or 6.5 per cent, 1.5 per cent, to 275½p; while Unilever,
NCC Group Announces new chief executive 3.7% cent to 550p, lifting the shares 11½p, or to £13.62; Glencore shed 29p, or 6 per the consumer goods group, ticked up
Beazley Analyst upgrade 2.7% 2.7 per cent, to 441¾p. cent, to 458½p and Anglo American 39p, or 1.1 per cent, to £36.36.
J Sainsbury So called “safe haven” for investors during panic 2.2% Kong also noted that Hiscox’s was off 188½p, or 5.4 per cent, to £33. Shares in NCC Group rose 6¾p, or
Kingfisher Recovers some losses 2.1% recent weak share-price performance In the mid-caps, Ferrexpo, the 3.7 per cent, to 191¾p as the global
Carnival Dragged down amid wider sell-off -9.7%
Aston Martin Lagonda Extends losses -9.8%
meant it was an “attractive entry Ukrainian iron ore producer, fell 15½p, cybersecurity and resilience adviser
Ferrexpo Weaker metal prices -10.2% point into a high-quality name”. or 10.2 per cent, to 136¾p. announced stellar half-year results
Tullow Oil Decline in oil prices -11.6% Shares in the FTSE 250 group closed The intensifying rout in American alongside the appointment of Mike
Chrysalis Investments Falls amid sell-off -12.0% up 15½p, or 1.7 per cent, to 942p. technology stocks continued to whack Maddison as its new chief executive.

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Japan 130.22-130.22 Euro ¤ 1.169
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9159.0-9160.0 9160.0-9162.0 9135.0-9145.0 Silver $22.01 (£17.78)
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Australia dollar 1.7638-1.7640
2127.0-2129.0 2137.5-2138.5 2097.0-2102.0 European money Copenhagen 8.6790-8.7316 8.6916-8.6929 131ds 387ds Bahrain dinar 0.4628-0.4698
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12.430
+0.31
+0.20
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3654.5-3655.0 3645.0-3647.0 3252.0-3257.0
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18.579
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Authorised Inv Funds Glob Br Eq Inc Fund F Inc ‡@1325.51 … -17.10 3.88
North Amer ‡ 150.10 … -3.30 … Multi-Asset Protector A Acc ‡@167.30 … -0.58 … Emg Euro Opps ‡@ 145.34 … -31.23 … Intermediary Serv: 0800 0684000
Capital R Acc ‡@ 2027.60 … -29.62 3.21 Smaller Cos ‡@ 112.50 … -2.80 0.47 Glob Br Eq Inc Fund I Acc ‡@1776.91 … -22.93 3.86
Strategic Bond A Acc ‡@ 244.54 … +0.19 1.96 Euro Special Sits ‡@ 415.42 … -13.94 … Institutional Shares (Class 2) (500000 GBP)
Euro Opps R Acc ‡@ 91.26 … -0.48 1.29 Special Sits ‡@ 46.07 … -1.35 1.45 Glob Br Eq Inc Fund I Inc ‡@1422.54 … -18.36 3.96
Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 119.47 … +0.09 3.32 European ‡@ 2648.58 … -96.24 … Threadneedle UK Eq Opps Ins Inc ‡@117.49 … -2.77 0.93
Euro Opps R Inc ‡@ 85.36 … -0.46 1.30 UK Equity Inc ‡@ 87.44 … -1.91 … Glob Br Fund I Acc (PH) ‡@13288.41 … -178.32 0.58
Target Return A Acc ‡@ 102.03 … +0.44 0.82 Financial Opps ‡@ 708.68 … -18.72 0.46
European Growth R Acc ‡@360.66 … -3.29 … UK FTSE 100 IT ‡@ 66.75 … -1.23 … Glob Br Fund I Acc (PH) ‡@1555.28 … -41.60 0.63
Target Return A Inc ‡@ 87.63 … +0.01 0.87 Income Trust ‡@ 487.42 … -8.41 3.67
Global Energy R Acc ‡@ 41.32 … +0.18 1.42 UK FTSE All-S IT ‡@ 76.12 … -1.59 … Glob Br Fund I Inc (PH) ‡@3664.61 … -49.18 … Retail Shares (Class 1)
UK Alpha A Acc ‡@ 2534.89 … -66.79 … Merlin Bal (Acc) ‡@ 227.56 … -3.36 …
Global Growth R Acc ‡@ 351.91 … -4.38 … UK Growth ‡@ 79.76 … -1.79 2.92 Glob Br Fund I Inc (PH) ‡@1495.19 … -39.96 0.63
Merlin Gwth (Acc) ‡ 529.33 … -14.57 … Threadneedle HY Bd Rtl Inc ‡@37.51 … -0.51 3.83
Global Income R Acc ‡@ 160.89 … -1.15 2.47 UK Blue Chip A Acc ‡@ 770.11 … +3.15 … Glob Ins Fund F Acc ‡@ 548.51 … -39.18 …
Merlin Inc (Acc) ‡ 344.06 … -5.10 … Threadneedle Mthly Etr Inc Rtl Inc ‡@78.25 … -1.82 …
Global Income R Inc ‡@ 105.64 … -0.75 2.55 UK Smaller Companies A Acc ‡@5464.25 … -117.54 … Glob Ins Fund F Inc ‡@ 548.51 … -39.18 …
Merlin Wwide (Inc) ‡ 376.35 … -10.28 … Threadneedle SterlingCorpBd Ins Inc ‡@58.39 … -0.60 …
Global Select R Acc ‡@ 154.09 … -2.57 … UK Smaller Companies A Inc ‡@4901.09 … -105.43 … Glob Ins Fund I Acc ‡@ 547.13 … -39.08 …
HSBC GLOBAL ASSET MGMT (UK) LTD UK Growth ‡@ 239.32 … -6.69 0.49 Threadneedle SterlingCorpBd Rtl Inc ‡@58.29 … -0.59 …
High Income R Inc ‡@ 67.04 … -0.58 5.06 UK Special Situations A Acc ‡@1214.37 … -17.37 0.35 Glob Ins Fund I Inc ‡@ 547.13 … -39.09 …
Enq: 0845 745 6123 Dlg: 0845 745 6126 Mon-Fri 8-6 UK Special Sits (Inc) ‡@ 193.60 … -2.68 … Threadneedle Stg Bd Ret Inc ‡@53.13 … -0.64 0.75
Income R Acc ‡@ 486.18 … -11.27 3.57 UK Special Situations A Inc ‡@444.27 … -6.35 0.35 Glob Sust Fund F Acc (PH) ‡@1160.98 … -32.00 0.50
HSBC Index Tracker Investment Funds (OEIC) Glob Sust Fund F Inc ‡@ 1236.03 … -18.25 0.47 Threadneedle Strat Bd Ret ‡@43.49 … -0.45 2.33
Income R Inc ‡@ 217.29 … -5.04 3.67
Glob Sust Fund I Acc ‡@ 1246.91 … -18.42 0.36 Threadneedle UK Eq Inc Rtl Inc ‡@93.83 … -2.38 3.13
Monthly Dist R Inc ‡@ 70.17 … -0.33 … Amer Ind Acc ‡@ 914.71 … -20.78 …
Glob Sust Fund I Acc (PH) ‡@1161.92 … -32.04 0.38 Threadneedle UK Growth & Inc Rtl Inc ‡@88.07 … -2.18 …
Strategic Assets R Acc ‡ 75.89 … -0.81 … Amer Ind Inc ‡@ 742.28 … -16.86 …
Glob Sustain Fund F Acc ‡@1252.03 … -18.49 0.47 Threadneedle UK Insti Rtl ‡@172.40 … -4.17 …
Strategic Bond R M Acc ‡@98.95 … -0.35 2.21 Euro Ind Acc ‡@ 1077.64 … -20.64 1.82
LEGAL & GENERAL (UT MGRS) LTD Stg Corp Bond F F Acc ‡@ 128.17 … -0.02 2.61 Threadneedle UK Mthly Inc Rtl Inc ‡@66.82 … -1.78 …
Strategic Bond R M Inc ‡@ 53.46 … -0.19 2.24 Euro Ind Inc ‡@ 705.99 … -13.53 1.77
Enquiries: 0870 050 0955 Dealing: 0870 050 0956 Stg Corp Bond F F Inc ‡@ 103.74 … -0.02 2.64 Threadneedle UK Rtl Inc ‡@125.35 … -3.85 1.00
Strategic Bond R Q Acc ‡@ 98.78 … -0.34 2.21 FTSE 100 Ind Acc ‡@ 263.20 … -6.06 …
For ISIS Asset Mgmt see F&C Fd Mgmt Ltd (OEICS) Stg Corp Bond F I Acc ‡@2728.99 … -0.51 … Threadneedle UK Smaller Coms Rtl Inc ‡@384.25 … -9.11 …
Strategic Bond R Q Inc ‡@ 53.41 … -0.19 2.23 FTSE 100 Ind Inc ‡@ 123.55 … -2.85 … Equity Acc @ 2616.00 2639.00 -8.00 …
UK Growth R Acc ‡@ 660.64 … -23.42 1.18 FTSE 250 Ind Acc ‡@ 288.04 … -10.38 1.56 Equity Dist @ 893.80 902.00 -2.70 … Stg Corp Bond F I Inc ‡@1467.74 … -0.27 …
JANUS HENDERSON INVESTORS
UK Smaller Cos R Acc ‡@1872.69 … -37.21 0.85 FTSE 250 Ind Inc ‡@ 182.05 … -6.57 1.52 Euro Ind Acc ‡@ 462.90 … -13.60 … Sust Fixed Inc Opps F F Acc ‡@944.76 … -2.33 … For Resolution see Ignis
UK Special Sits R Acc ‡@ 652.07 … -19.41 1.07 FTSE All-S Acc ‡@ 676.19 … -13.57 … Investors Serv: 0800 832 832 Dlng: 0845 946 4646 Euro Ind Inc ‡@ 310.70 … -9.20 … Sust Fixed Inc Opps F F Inc ‡@925.18 … -2.28 … TU FUND MANAGERS LIMITED
FTSE All-S Inc ‡@ 353.25 … -7.09 … Fixed Int Acc ‡@ 141.30 … -1.70 1.65 Sust Fixed Inc Opps F I Acc ‡@942.12 … -2.33 1.60
All Stks Credit A Inc ‡@ 125.40 … -1.30 1.58 British 843.10 843.10 -24.30 …
Jap Ind Acc ‡@ 137.29 … +0.31 1.59 Fixed Int Dist ‡@ 67.47 … -0.78 1.67 Sust Fixed Inc Opps F I Inc ‡@924.95 … -2.29 1.62
Asian Div Inc U Trst Inc ‡@87.19 … -1.33 … European 210.70 219.40 +1.00 …
Jap Ind Inc ‡@ 109.49 … +0.25 1.59 Glob Gwth Acc @ 243.90 243.90 -1.30 1.15 US Adv F F Acc ‡@ 1550.75 … -108.41 …
AXA FRAMLINGTON UNIT MGMT LTD Pac Ind Acc ‡@ 512.80 … -6.36 2.04 Cautious Man Fd A Acc ‡@283.00 … -4.50 … US Adv F F Acc (PH) ‡@ 902.70 … -78.13 …
Glob Health Acc ‡@ 105.00 … -2.20 …
Dling: 0845 602 1952 Priv Clients: 0845 777 5511 Pac Ind Inc ‡@ 331.32 … -4.10 2.04 Cautious Man Fd A Inc ‡@142.40 … -2.30 … Glob Tech Acc ‡@ 89.10 … -3.63 0.09 US Adv F I Acc ‡@ 1653.84 … -115.63 … * Yield expressed as CAR (Compound Annual Return);
China Opp Fund A Acc ‡@1197.00 … -59.00 … Gwth Tst Acc @ 106.00 106.50 -1.00 0.17 US Adv F I Acc (PH) ‡@ 947.68 … -82.02 … † Ex dividend; ‡Middle price; . . . No significant data. #
Equity Inc ‡@ 572.40 … -2.70 4.43
Gilt Acc @ 201.30 211.80 +0.10 1.08 Emg Mkts Opps Fd A Acc ‡@201.10 … -2.40 … High Inc Acc ‡@ 127.10 … -1.00 5.18 Periodic charge deducted from capital; @ Exit charge
Erpn Grth Fund A Acc ‡@ 268.70 … -7.10 … SANTANDER UNIT TST MGRS
Gilt Inc @ 74.35 78.24 -0.39 1.09 HSBC Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Share Class Japan Ind Acc ‡@ 65.57 … -1.59 1.48
Erpn Sel Opps Fd A Acc ‡@2017.00 … -53.00 0.29 08457 413002
Health Acc ‡@ 2864.00 … -28.00 … Pacific Ind Acc ‡@ 202.80 … -3.00 2.27
Balanced Acc ‡@ 248.04 … -2.03 …
Jap Smlr Co Ac @
Managed Inc ‡@
62.56
138.30
66.09
…
-0.19
…
0.30
4.20
Balanced Inc ‡@ 151.95 … -0.14 …
Fix Int Mnthly Inc Fd Acc ‡@30.27
Global Equity Fund Acc ‡@4273.00
…
…
-0.26
-75.00
4.27
…
UK 100 Ind Acc @
UK Active Opps Acc @
180.90
249.90
180.90
252.90
+0.90
-0.10
3.19
…
Bal Pfolio Inc ‡@
Bal Port Gwth Acc ‡@
110.50
235.20
…
…
+0.40
-1.80
2.41
… British funds
Corp Bd Acc ‡@ 287.17 … -0.52 2.82 Equity Inc Inc ‡@ 212.50 … -5.20 5.29
Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 246.40 … -4.10 … 12 month Price Int Yld Grs rd
Corp Bd Inc ‡@ 114.18 … -0.21 2.87 N&P UK Gwth Inc ‡@ 182.80 … +0.10 …
UK Growth Inc ‡@ 222.30 … -7.40 0.48 High Low Stock (£) +/– % yld
Gilt & Fd Int Acc ‡@ 497.78 … +1.62 1.19 Stkmkt 100 Tkr @ 249.20 249.20 -3.90 …
UK Select Opps Inc ‡@ 1976.00 … -58.00 0.67
UK Sml Cos Inc ‡@ 318.50 … -8.00 …
Gilt & Fd Int Inc ‡@ 74.17 … +0.24 1.58 UK Growth Acc ‡@ 457.80 … -13.40 3.03 Index-linked
Income Acc ‡@ 677.70 … -11.60 … UK Growth Inc ‡@ 249.70 … -7.30 3.10 109.44 106.12 Tr IL 1Y% 22 107.12 – .02 1.80 –10.73
Income Inc ‡@ 290.63 … -4.98 … 378.51 355.20 Tr IL 2K% 24 * 376.03 +1.10 1.44 –4.11
Monthly Inc Acc ‡@ 313.41 … +0.77 3.21 SCOTTISH MUTUAL INV MNGRS LTD 111.98 107.52 Tr IL 0V% 24 110.25 + .27 … –5.04
Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 131.74 … -1.60 … 0141 248 6100 120.56 112.54 Tr IL 0V% 26 114.25 + .45 … –3.30
AXA FUND MANAGERS LTD 135.63 124.48 Tr IL 1N% 27 125.09 + .61 1.09 –2.90
UK Grth & Inc Ret B Acc ‡@138.60 … -2.77 …
Admin & Enq 0117 989 0808 European Inc 1777.00 1873.48 +4.40 0.78 130.64 118.88 Tr IL 0V% 28 119.40 + .52 … –2.70
UK Grth & Inc Ret B Inc ‡@63.88 … -1.27 … 132.52 119.57 Tr IL 0V% 29 120.12 + .56 … –2.54
AXA Trusts Far Eastern Inc 584.69 617.09 -0.73 1.42
UK Gth & Inc Acc ‡@ 138.60 … -2.77 … 141.65 124.90 Tr IL 0V% 31 125.59 + .69 … –2.34
Gen Acc ‡@ 2101.00 … +6.00 2.64 Intl Growth Inc 380.56 400.59 +0.02 0.75 402.06 366.57 Tr IL 4V% 30 * 374.37 +1.84 1.72 –2.34
UK Gth & Inc Inc ‡@ 63.88 … -1.27 …
Gen Inc ‡@ 1079.00 … -2.00 … Japanese Inc 41.85 41.85 +0.43 0.56 161.90 140.26 Tr IL 1N% 32 140.96 + .70 0.89 –2.19
Mutual European 2762.93 2908.99 -21.63 1.11 160.29 136.43 Tr IL 0O% 34 137.12 + .69 … –2.00
Mutual Far Eastern 924.92 976.17 -10.43 0.61 324.74 283.33 Tr IL 2% 35 * 284.96 +1.63 0.86 –1.85
HSBC Specialist Investment Funds (OEIC) 161.43 132.48 Tr IL 0V% 36 133.08 + .60 … –1.85
Mutual North Am 1983.00 2092.88 +6.23 0.24 186.89 152.26 Tr IL 1V% 37 152.82 + .56 0.77 –1.81
UK/Global Investment Companies American Index Retail Acc ‡@914.71 … -20.78 … Mutual UK Eq 1326.64 1400.15 -33.48 2.65 169.23 134.81 Tr IL 0V% 39 135.39 + .58 … –1.68
American Index Retail Inc ‡@742.28 … -16.86 … Nth American Inc 1227.65 1295.67 -7.28 … 186.19 146.66 Tr IL 0X% 40 147.33 + .67 … –1.64
Euro Acc A ‡@ 234.70 … … 1.18 180.53 138.91 Tr IL 0V% 41 139.55 + .64 … –1.62
Asian Gth Acc ‡@ 147.77 … -0.07 … UK Equity Inc 565.02 596.33 -14.27 2.71
Extra Inc Inc B ‡@ 86.74 … +0.24 … 199.86 152.54 Tr IL 0X% 42 153.30 + .76 0.41 –1.57
Global Gwth Acc R ‡@ 292.10 … -5.40 … Asian Gth Inc ‡@ 130.99 … -0.06 … 188.86 140.70 Tr IL 0V% 44 141.49 + .79 … –1.48
Chinese Eq Acc ‡@ 513.81 … +0.27 0.40 SCOTTISH WIDOWS UNIT TRUST MGRS 196.96 142.69 Tr IL 0V% 46 143.58 + .89 … –1.41
Japan Acc A ‡@ 160.50 … -0.20 1.43
Chinese Eq Inc ‡@ 434.76 … +0.22 0.34 0845 300 2244 229.64 164.63 Tr IL 0O% 47 165.51 + .88 0.46 –1.38
Pac Gwth Acc A ‡@ 519.30 … -9.80 2.21 209.00 146.23 Tr IL 0V% 48 147.14 + .91 … –1.36
Euro Gth Acc ‡@ 973.97 … +4.05 … Authorised Inv Funds (OEICs)
OEIC A Class 232.71 161.39 Tr IL 0K% 50 162.40 +1.01 … –1.34
Euro Gth Inc ‡@ 817.05 … +3.39 … 231.36 155.44 Tr IL 0N% 52 156.52 +1.08 … –1.29
Managed Investment Funds 306.14 203.11 Tr IL 1N% 55 204.46 +1.35 0.67 –1.25
CIS UNIT MANAGERS LTD Bal Port A Acc ‡@ 237.60 … +0.80 … 248.27 157.00 Tr IL 0V% 56 158.10 +1.10 … –1.22
256.47 159.34 Tr IL 0V% 58 160.34 +1.00 … –1.21
08457 46 46 46 IGNIS ASSET MGMT Caut Port A Acc ‡@ 207.10 … +0.30 0.43 297.03 177.70 Tr IL 0W% 62 178.83 +1.13 … –1.17
Dlg: 0141 222 8282 Caut Port A Inc ‡@ 152.00 … +0.30 0.60 309.47 174.72 Tr IL 0V% 65 175.83 +1.11 … –1.20
European Gwth ‡@ 184.50 … -6.20 …
Opps Port A Acc ‡@ 280.20 … +1.30 … 335.00 182.98 Tr IL 0V% 68 184.35 +1.37 … –1.24
Sus Leaders ‡@ 738.10 … -22.70 0.77 American Gth Inc @ 322.55 340.42 -3.34 … 395.45 203.10 Tr IL 0V% 73 204.66 +1.56 … –1.31
Prog Port A Acc ‡@ 266.60 … +1.10 …
UK Growth ‡@ 593.80 … -21.80 1.57 Balanced Growth @ 262.17 276.69 -0.93 1.52
UK Income ‡@ 213.00 … -3.90 … Balanced Growth Acc @ 393.13 414.92 -1.40 … Overseas Growth Investment Funds Longs (Over 15 years)
Corporate Bond ‡@ 99.69 … -0.89 4.77 147.98 124.46 Tr 4N% 36 125.02 + .56 3.40 2.15
Eur Sel Gth A Acc ‡@ 3329.00 … -28.00 …
European Growth @ 403.88 426.26 -3.57 … 113.52 93.68 Tr 1O% 37 94.18 + .50 … 2.20
European Growth Acc @ 475.71 502.07 -4.21 2.24 163.31 135.27 Tr 4O% 38 135.93 + .66 3.49 2.16
CLOSE FUND MANAGEMENT LTD Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds 103.54 84.40 Tr 1V% 39 84.92 + .52 … 2.21
Glob Gwth @ 331.53 349.90 -3.09 … 156.78 129.03 Tr 4N% 39 129.68 + .65 3.28 2.18
0870 606 6402 Higher Yield @ 83.98 88.64 -0.29 4.43 UK Trkr A Acc ‡@ 361.80 … -7.70 … 159.73 130.39 Tr 4N% 40 131.08 + .69 … 2.20
Beacon Inv ‡ 84.88 … +0.35 0.01 Higher Yield Acc @ 275.04 290.28 -0.92 4.32 UK Trkr A Inc ‡@ 185.10 … -4.00 … 106.42 84.31 Tr 1N% 41 84.87 + .56 … 2.21
Japan @ 49.06 51.78 -0.03 … 147.71 117.04 Tr 3N% 44 117.78 + .74 … 2.21
UK and Income Investment Funds 169.96 137.09 Tr 4K% 42 137.86 + .77 3.26 2.20
Managed @ 130.89 138.15 -0.06 0.66 154.93 122.04 + .79 … 2.21
Tr 3K% 45 122.83
Managed Trust @ 71.96 76.96 +0.17 … Corp Bond A Acc ‡@ 312.20 … -2.00 1.40 175.82 137.73 Tr 4N% 46 138.63 + .90 3.07 2.21
Dealing: 020 7426 6232 Mngd Pfolio Inc @ 95.54 100.84 -0.11 0.58 Corp Bond A Inc ‡@ 117.90 … -0.80 1.41 99.79 74.99 Tr 0Y% 46 75.60 + .61 … 2.20
Pacific Grth @ 498.71 526.34 -2.81 1.34 Envir Invtr A Acc ‡ 369.80 … -3.00 … 114.76 86.03 Tr 1K% 47 86.67 + .64 … 2.19
Winchester ‡ 3664.77 … +47.14 0.36 122.26 90.86 Tr 1O% 49 91.54 + .68 … 2.17
Smaller Comp @ 756.24 798.14 +1.64 0.15 Hi Inc Bond A Ac ‡@ 236.80 … -1.70 4.38
185.65 141.84 Tr 4N% 49 142.78 + .94 2.98 2.18
Smaller Cos @ 628.94 663.79 +1.36 0.21 Hi Inc Bond A Inc ‡@ 73.30 … -0.56 4.48 95.59 67.42 Tr 0X% 50 68.04 + .62 … 2.13
Hi Res A Acc ‡@ 373.80 … -5.30 … 220.50 149.70 Tr 0V% 51 150.58 + .88 … –1.31
EDENTREE INV MGMT LTD Hi Res A Inc ‡@ 120.40 … -1.80 … 111.21 79.78 Tr 1N% 51 80.47 + .69 … 2.15
Safety Plus A Acc ‡@ 40.49 … … … 180.27 134.69 Tr 3O% 52 135.64 + .95 … 2.14
0800 358 3010 INSIGHT INVESTMENT FDS MANAGEMENT LTD 120.44 85.48 Tr 1K% 53 86.22 + .74 … 2.10
Client Servs: 0207 163 4000 Global Equity Income A Inc ‡@64.60 … -0.84 2.95 UK Index Acc ‡@ 323.80 … -8.40 … Strat Inc A Acc ‡@ 201.70 … -1.60 2.31 124.61 87.99 Tr 1X% 54 88.76 + .77 … 2.10
Amity European A ‡ 299.80 … -4.30 …
Insight Investment Multi-Manager Funds Global Tech A Acc ‡@ 2808.00 … -96.00 … UK Index Dist ‡@ 159.10 … -4.20 … Strat Inc A Inc ‡@ 91.09 … -0.72 2.34 205.69 150.70 Tr 4N% 55 151.92 +1.22 2.80 2.09
Amity International A ‡ 324.60 … -7.40 0.07 132.79 91.26 Tr 1O% 57 92.18 + .92 … 2.06
Instl UK Idx Opps A Acc ‡@106.77 … -2.85 2.58 US Ind Acc ‡@ 793.90 … -27.60 … UK Gwth A Acc ‡@ 189.10 … -2.20 3.21
Amity Sterling Bond A ‡ 94.74 … -0.10 3.42 Well Bldr Bal Acc ‡@ 96.05 … -0.32 … 213.01 150.35 Tr 4% 60 151.60 +1.25 … 2.03
M-Asset Abs Ret A Acc ‡@163.30 … -0.70 0.65 Worldwide Acc ‡@ 331.30 … -8.30 … UK Sel Gwth A Acc ‡@ 2129.00 … -35.00 2.35
Amity UK A Inc ‡ 225.40 … -7.10 0.89 Well Bldr Gwth Acc ‡@ 93.79 … -0.36 … 96.16 58.58 Tr 0K% 61 59.30 + .72 … 2.00
Higher Income A ‡ 131.60 … -1.40 … M-Man Active Fd A Acc ‡@259.90 … -3.30 … 173.16 113.72 Tr 2K% 65 114.87 +1.15 … 1.99
M-Man Inc Grth A Inc ‡@ 152.20 … -1.70 … OEIC B Class 219.03 144.35 Tr 3K% 68 145.76 +1.41 … 1.98
UK Equity Growth A ‡ 281.00 … -8.30 0.81 149.85 89.48 Tr 1X% 71 90.58 +1.10 … 1.92
M-Man Inc Grth Fd A Acc ‡@190.50 … -2.10 … M & G SECURITIES Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds
INVESCO FUND MGRS LTD Sterling Bond U Trst Acc ‡@221.50 … -2.30 1.21 Enq: 0800 390 390 Dealing Line: 0800 328 3196 UK Trkr B Acc ‡@ 399.10 … -8.50 …
Dling: 0800 085 8571 Inv Serv: 0800 085 8677 Sterling Bond U Trst Inc ‡@61.29 … -0.62 1.22 Authorised Inv Funds UK Trkr B Inc ‡@ 184.00 … -3.90 …
Mediums (5-15 years)
Brkr Serv: 0800 028 2121 Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 112.20 … -0.70 3.20 101.60 98.95 Tr 0O% 23 99.37 + .14 … 1.28
F & C FUND MANAGEMENT LTD (OEICS) Charifund Inc ‡ 1536.23 … -23.97 … 105.15 100.79 Tr 2N% 23 101.17 + .15 … 1.36
Enqs: 0870 601 6183 Dealing: 0870 601 6083 INVESCO Funds UK Abs Ret Fd A Acc ‡@ 162.80 … -1.20 … UK and Income Investment Funds 100.01 97.17 Tr 0V% 24 97.80 + .21 … 1.42
Share Class 1 - Retail UK Str Inc N/Trl ‡@ 323.57 … -0.12 7.05 UK Alpha Fund A Acc ‡@ 138.20 … -3.90 0.32 Corp Bond B Acc ‡@ 370.70 … +0.90 … 102.66 98.61 Tr 1% 24 99.28 + .23 … 1.38
UK Irsh Sm Co Fd A Acc ‡@742.50 … -1.70 … Sterling Class A Investment Funds 1 Corp Bond B Inc ‡@ 136.30 … +0.30 … 108.72 102.33 Tr 2O% 24 103.02 + .27 … 1.43
Corporate Bd ‡@ 53.76 … -0.44 1.69 118.40 108.84 Tr 5% 25 109.60 + .31 4.56 1.51
UK Property A Acc @ 264.95 278.15 +0.01 2.63 Euro Smlr Cos Acc ‡ 525.29 … -3.39 … UK Gwth B Acc ‡@ 205.60 … -0.30 …
Emerging Mkts ‡@ 121.30 … -2.30 … 101.82 96.61 Tr 0X% 25 97.58 + .32 … 1.43
UK Property A Inc @ 105.80 111.07 … 2.68 Euro Smlr Cos Inc ‡ 462.50 … -3.00 0.69 UK Sel Gwth B Acc ‡@ 2481.00 … … … 107.71 100.83 Tr 2% 25 101.74 + .34 … 1.46
Euro Gwth & Inc 1 ‡@ 1082.00 … -35.00 … INVESCO PERPETUAL Funds US Growth Fund A Acc ‡@1697.00 … -25.00 … 99.56 94.12 Tr 0V% 26 95.07 + .36 … 1.49
Extra Inc Bond ‡@ 45.00 … -0.28 1.75
Childrens Acc ‡@ 460.39 … -11.95 … OEIC C Class 106.30 98.98 Tr 1K% 26 99.97 + .41 … 1.51
FTSE All-Shr Track ‡@ 406.50 … -10.70 … 105.60 97.45 Tr 1N% 27 98.40 + .45 … 1.57
Corp Bond Acc ‡@ 208.89 … -0.08 2.27 Sterling Class A Investment Funds 2 UK and Income Investment Funds
Global Gwth SC1 ‡@ 294.80 … -6.10 … 124.68 112.98 Tr 4N% 27 113.90 + .51 3.73 1.63
High Income Inc ‡@ 319.31 … -5.17 … Extra Income Inc ‡ 728.38 … -15.47 … 98.46 90.89 Tr 0V% 28 91.69 + .44 … 1.65
High Inc Trst @ 11.78 12.42 -0.03 5.44 UK Gth C Inc ‡@ 125.60 … -1.40 3.78
Income & Grth Inc ‡@ 419.26 … -9.09 1.25 Gilt & Fxd Int Inc ‡ 90.30 … … 0.87 108.94 99.03 Tr 1X% 28 99.86 + .51 … 1.65
Max Inc Bond ‡@ 44.16 … -0.34 2.54 UK Sel Gwth C Acc ‡@ 2598.00 … … …
Income Inc ‡@ 1242.79 … -22.97 1.84 140.50 126.01 Tr 6% 28 126.77 + .58 4.73 1.68
Multi Man Caut ‡@ 70.41 … … 3.18 JP MORGAN ASSET MGMT Gl Hi Yd Bd Inc ‡ 42.14 … -0.27 … 99.77 91.32 Tr 0K% 29 92.00 + .46 … 1.77
Money Acc ‡@ 90.84 … +0.02 … OEIC Index Linked Bd Inc ‡ 149.04 … -2.36 … STANDARD LIFE INVESTMENTS
Multi Man Distr ‡@ 60.44 … … 3.37 103.32 93.11 Tr 0Y% 29 93.89 + .50 … 1.75
Monthly Inc Plus Inc ‡@ 98.97 … -0.43 … Index Trckr Inc ‡ 75.74 … -1.53 … 0845 279 3003 98.50 88.17 Tr 0W% 30 88.73 + .46 … 1.82
North Amer ‡@ 839.40 … -2.90 … Asia A Acc ‡@ 255.20 … -5.20 …
UK Aggressive Inc ‡@ 154.28 … -0.24 3.15 Short Dated Corp Bd Inc ‡ 25.28 … -0.01 1.19 Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Shares 138.58 122.75 Tr 4O% 30 123.30 + .56 3.85 1.80
Pacific Gwth ‡@ 483.00 … -6.00 … Emerging Mkts ‡@ 249.20 … -5.80 …
UK Growth Acc ‡@ 854.57 … -12.18 … UK Select A Inc ‡ 2856.24 … -85.32 2.17
96.58 85.45 Tr 0N% 31 85.90 + .46 … 1.92
Strategic Bd ‡@ 199.00 … -0.70 0.72 Eur Dyn (ex-UK) A Acc ‡@267.00 … -4.70 0.46 AAA Inc CAT Acc ‡@ 94.30 … +0.11 … 102.46 90.93 Tr 1% 32 91.39 + .46 … 1.98
UK Sml Cos Eqty Acc ‡@ 1538.05 … -42.48 …
UK Equity ‡@ 3175.00 … -82.00 0.32 Euro Smllr Cos ‡@ 899.20 … -20.90 … AAA Inc CAT Inc ‡@ 53.60 … +0.06 … 138.01 120.39 Tr 4N% 32 120.94 + .55 3.51 1.95
UK Sml Cos Gwth ‡@ 82.54 … +0.04 … 101.40 88.03 Tr 0Y% 33 88.58 + .55 … 2.02
UK Gwth & Inc Acc 1 ‡@ 658.50 … … … Europe A Acc ‡@ 1709.00 … -30.00 1.31 AAA Income Acc ‡@ 102.30 … +0.10 1.40
UK Gwth & Inc Dist ‡@ 234.70 … … … Sterling Class A Investment Funds 3 147.21 125.61 Tr 4K% 34 126.23 + .62 3.56 2.08
Gbl Hi Yld Bd A Acc ‡@ 120.50 … -0.20 4.66 Amer Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 211.70 … -5.20 … 97.55 82.02 Tr 0X% 35 82.47 + .45 … 2.16
UK Smaller Cos ‡@ 1060.00 … -18.00 … Gbl Hi Yld Bd A Inc ‡@ 32.17 … -0.06 4.80 Corp Bd A Inc ‡ 36.79 … +0.02 2.71 Corp Bond Acc ‡@ 169.40 … -0.30 …
INVESTEC FUND MGRS Dividend Inc ‡ 54.91 … -0.95 5.13
Broker Support and Dealing: 020 7597 1900
Gl ex-UK Bd A Acc ‡@ 263.90 … -1.50 … Corp Bond Inc ‡@ 58.09 … -0.10 … Shorts (under 5 years)
Gl ex-UK Bd A Inc ‡@ 202.00 … -1.10 … Recovery A Inc ‡ 112.04 … -2.51 … Euro Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 232.90 … -5.20 0.28
OEIC Series i,ii,iii, & iv 117.13 108.58 Tr 3O% 21 115.83 – .08 … 1.24
Glb Fins A Acc ‡@ 1077.00 … +1.00 1.03 Sml Cos Inc ‡ 366.25 … -12.95 1.90 Glb Advtg CAT Acc ‡@ 151.00 … -2.00 … 142.92 135.65 Tr 8% 21 141.44 – .10 5.66 1.19
FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL American A Acc ‡@ 601.71 … -21.41 … Global A Acc ‡@ 1972.00 … -52.00 … Glob Advtg Acc ‡@ 199.50 … -2.70 … 100.60 99.88 Tr 0K% 22 99.91 + … … 0.96
Private Clnts 0800 414161 Broker Dlgs 0800 414181 Asia ex Japan A Acc ‡@ 714.19 … -17.15 … Japan A Acc ‡@ 508.90 … -4.10 … Glob Eq Uncstrd Acc ‡@ 151.70 … -3.40 … 102.29 100.25 Tr 1O% 22 100.26 + … … 0.95
Sterling Class A Investment Funds 4 100.19 98.87 Tr 0V% 23 99.20 + .07 … 1.23
Amer Spec Sits ‡@ 2333.00 … -41.00 … Capital Accumulator A Acc ‡@231.48 … -3.81 … Multi-Man Tst A Acc ‡@ 1269.00 … -40.00 … Higher Inc Acc ‡@ 143.60 … -1.10 4.14 100.26 95.75 Tr 0N% 25 96.64 + .28 … 1.51
American ‡@ 4940.00 … -177.00 … Cautious Managed A Acc ‡@383.80 … -3.18 1.87 Multi-Man Tst A Inc ‡@ 1127.00 … -36.00 … Episode Allocation A Inc ‡@136.55 … -1.73 2.07 Higher Inc Inc ‡@ 46.33 … -0.34 4.20 100.41 93.76 Tr 0W% 26 94.75 + .37 … 1.60
Euro Opps ‡@ 511.70 … -15.90 … Cautious Managed A Inc ‡@245.20 … -2.03 1.83 Nat Resources ‡@ 984.00 … -9.20 2.47 Japan Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 127.40 … … …
* maturities having an eight-month indexation lag.
European ‡@ 2987.00 … -92.00 … Diversified Growth A Acc ‡@129.10 … -1.14 0.57 New Europe A ‡@ 155.70 … +12.00 … Managed Acc ‡@ 353.80 … -4.80 0.29
Extra Income ‡@ 25.04 … -0.24 4.41 Diversified Growth A Inc ‡@137.53 … -1.22 0.60 Portfolio ‡@ 307.20 … -5.30 1.10 MARKS & SPENCER UNIT TRUST LTD Select Inc Acc ‡@ 93.09 … -0.27 2.21
Glob Spec Sits ‡@ 5420.00 … -121.00 … Diversified Income A Acc ‡@320.43 … -1.33 2.35 Stg Corp Bd A Acc ‡@ 93.65 … -0.11 1.16 0808 005 5555 Select Inc Inc ‡@ 52.70 … -0.16 2.20 This is a paid for information service. For
Global Focus ‡@ 2763.00 … -82.00 … Diversified Income A Inc ‡@70.43 … -0.29 3.82 Stg Corp Bd A Inc ‡@ 52.97 … -0.07 1.14 High Income 94.71 94.71 -0.08 4.42 UK Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 352.00 … -8.90 … further details on a particular fund, readers
International ‡@ 149.50 … +0.20 … Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Acc ‡@111.35 … -0.96 3.97 UK Act 350 A Acc ‡@ 199.00 … -2.20 … High Income Acc 256.50 256.50 -0.30 4.32 UK Eq Hi Alpha ‡@ 217.10 … -5.60 3.05 should contact their fund manager.
Japan ‡@ 514.40 … -9.90 0.53 Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Acc Gross ‡@125.82 … +0.20 4.21 UK Dynamic Acc ‡@ 208.60 … -5.40 1.66 UK 100 Comp Acc @ 430.40 430.40 -6.70 … UK Eq Hi Inc Acc ‡@ 266.80 … -4.60 3.82
Moneybldr Bal ‡@ 45.85 … -0.85 … Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Inc ‡@67.94 … -0.59 5.96 UK Dynamic Inc ‡@ 151.30 … -3.90 1.61 UK 100 Cos @ 218.10 218.10 -3.40 … UK Eq Hi Inc Inc ‡@ 75.58 … -1.30 3.94
Data as shown is
Moneybldr Glob 327.60 327.60 -0.10 0.21 Emerging Mkts Equity A Acc ‡@156.94 … -3.38 0.23 UK Equity A Acc ‡@ 401.90 … +0.60 3.45 UK Select Pflo @ 329.40 329.40 -6.20 … UK Ethical Acc ‡@ 194.30 … -7.30 1.35
Moneybldr Gwth ‡@ 76.12 … -0.95 … Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt A Acc ‡@171.92 … -1.61 4.21 UK Equity A Inc ‡@ 46.44 … +0.07 … UK Selection Port Acc @ 659.60 659.60 -12.40 … UK Opps Acc ‡@ 247.40 … -11.90 0.05 for information
Moneybldr Inc ‡@ 33.06 … -0.34 3.79 Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt A Inc ‡@71.16 … -0.66 6.20 UK Eqy & Bd Inc Acc ‡@ 167.10 … -0.20 3.41 Worldwide Mgd Acc @ 958.60 958.60 -12.20 … UK Opps Inc ‡@ 224.90 … -10.80 0.05 purposes only. No offer is made by Morningstar
Moneybldr UK Ind ‡@ 120.47 … -3.26 … Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt Gross I Acc ‡@220.49 … -0.05 5.42 UK Eqy & Bd Inc Inc ‡@ 90.29 … -0.48 3.50 Wwide Mgd @ 568.30 568.30 -7.20 … UK Smlr Cos Acc ‡@ 868.00 … -35.50 … or this publication
46 Tuesday May 10 2022 | the times

Business Equity prices

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

company’s trailing 12-month dividend payments 8504 6370 Lond Stk Ex Gp‡ 7050 – 246 1.0 72.0 1724 1209 Big Yellow Group 1209 – 66 2.7 7.9 1450 975K Savills‡ 975K – 42K 2.3 9.7 13O 4N Chamberlinv 4Y … … -0.3
divided by the last month’s ending share price 248K 178N M&G 206 – 3V 8.9 64.3 321 196 Billington Hldgsv 237 … 1.7 19.2 7K 5K Secure Propertyv 6N … … 16.5 66 36K Checkitv 36K … … -4.4
12 month high and low Please note the 12 month high 243K 161V Man‡ 226N – 4O 3.7 9.0 340 258 Boot (Henry)‡ 315 – 1 1.7 16.8 1436K 989W Segro 1073 – 36 2.1 3.1 678 449K Cohortv 554 + 3 2.0 49.2
and low figures for shares supplied by Morningstar are 9N 7N Manx Finv 8K … 2.0 4.3 556W 463 Br Land 479K – 11 3.1 65.6 63K 33 SIG 37K – 1Y … … 2710 1275 Dewhurstv 1385 … 0.9 15.9
based on intra-day figures, not closing prices. 4K 1V Marechale Capv 2X … … 1.2 152K 110 Caledonian Tstv 152K … … 30.4 113 65K SigmaRocv 65K – 1 … … 380 271 Dialight 349 – 21 … …

14442V 10731O Marsh McLn 12889Y – 255V 1.1 28.4 186N 149O Cap & Count Prop 154 – 11W 0.3 45.2 144 94 Sirius Real Estate 109 – 2K 2.9 8.5 2011 1128 Electrolux 'B' 1197Y – 20Y 5.4 9.0

12 month Price 12 month Price 892K 700 Mattioli Woodsv 725 – 5 2.9 … 90N 54 Cap & Regnl 59 + 1W … -0.5 161K 122K Smart (J)‡ 160K … 2.0 6.1 1N K Feedbackv K … … -3.2
High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E
61 26 Steppe Cementv 32K … 11.6 7.4
32K 17O Metal Tigerv 19 … … 7.3 2180 1850 Cardiff Prop 2180 … 0.8 23.7 1550 828 Gooch Hsegov 828 – 4 0.5 61.3
182Y 120N Taylor Wimpey‡ 120N – 3V 6.8 7.9
X W Drumzv X … … -9.0 133 78K Metro Bank 78K – 3K … -0.5 40 22N Carecapitalv 22N – N … -2.6 3935 2800 Goodwin 3405 – 5 3.0 18.8
Automobiles & parts 177O 104W EFG-Hermes Hldg 162K – 16N … 10.4 1937K 1468X Nat Aust Bk 1797V + 3W 2.6 17.8 183 118K Clarke T‡ 147O – 7K 2.9 16.5
164 120 Town Centre 147 – 7K 2.3 5.8
3216 2192 Halma 2192 – 135 0.8 31.7
435 219 EPE Special Oppsv 219 – 1 … 12.2 1900N 1127K Travis Perkins‡ 1127K – 7 1.0 10.9
2201 748W Aston Martin Lag 748W – 81W … -4.5 253K 189N NWG 204 – 5W 2.9 8.9 262 185V CLS Hldgs 192K – 3K 3.9 6.5 1902 1214 Hill & Smith 1300 – 12 2.0 51.3
914Y 645 FBD‡ 868W … … 3.8
249 190 Tritax Big Box REIT Plc196W – 7K 3.3 3.5
90 67K Fiskev 72K … … 12.9 398 230 Numisv 230 – 10 5.2 4.6 571K 225O Countryside Prop 225O – 9V … 16.4 125 41K Holders Techv 112K – 12K 0.6 6.8
Banking & finance 83K 51K Frenkel Toppingv 76K … 1.7 44.4 599 418O Onesavings Bank‡ 514 – 25 3.7 6.8 76O 17O Craven Housev 19K … … -0.4
124 92 TRITAX EUROBOX PLC 92 – 3 … …
4N 1O Image Scanv 2V … … 12.6
725 458K Georgia Capital 579 – 17 … 1.5 507 255 Tyman‡ 255 – 5 3.1 10.0
N … Origo Partnersv# … … … -0.2 4002 2910K CRH 3099K – 60K 2.7 12.8 1838 1254 IMI‡ 1254 – 67 1.8 17.1
299 179 abrdn‡ 179 – 3V 8.1 3.8 1005 765 Gresham Housev 876 – 39 0.6 35.1 1346K 760K Vistry Group‡ 760K – 23 5.2 6.6
3688 2300 Admiral‡ 2300 – 45 6.5 11.7 360 244 H&T Groupv 353 + 5 2.4 11.3 741 522 PayPoint 575 + 1 5.6 18.0 3802 2792 Derwent London‡ 2792 – 108 2.6 60.5 … … Inspirit Energyv … … … …
88K 53 ADVFNv 79 + 9 1.9 13.8 176O 135V Warehouse REITv 155 – 4 4.0 3.6
65 43 Hansard Global 43 – Y 10.3 14.8 24 8N PCF Groupv# 8K … … -4.0 4K 3N Dolphin Capitalv 3K … … -2.4 8640 5740 Judges Scientificv 6980 – 180 0.8 35.2
441K 246V AJ Bell 253K + 4 2.8 23.7 971 604K Workspace Grp 619 – 14K 2.8 -9.2
26961X 18328X Aon Corpn 22747N – 515Y 0.6 55.5 1772 854 Hargreaves L 854 + 8O 4.5 15.2
752 571V Phoenix Gp‡ 571V – 6 8.4 -6.6 35K 28K First Propv 34 – 2K 1.3 … 80K 57K LPAv 73 … … …
41 21K Appreciate Groupv 25X … 3.9 11.1 195 142K Helios Underv 172K … 1.7 … 750 605 Wynnstay Propsv 665 … 3.1 4.8
1135 820 Arbuthnot Bkgv‡ 885 – 5 … 50.8 381K 210K Provident‡ 224 – 11 … -5.1 52K 32K Fletcher Kingv 47K … … … 839V 397 Meggitt 778 … … …
567V 359O HSBC 492X – 9N 3.2 10.7
21 14 Argo Groupv 14 … … 6.4 1579N 881 Prudential‡ 881 – 39K 1.3 14.3 61K 31 Foxtons Group 36O – 1Y 0.4 … 195O 107K Melrose‡ 107K – 5Y 1.4 …
412 216W Ashmore Gp 216W – O 7.8 7.3
945
1482
717 IG Group
684 Impaxv
727
684
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56 1.5 22.5
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Consumer goods
1702O 1431V Aus New Z 1476X – 41W 3.8 13.4 3O Y Quantum Blockchain techv2 – N … … 206V 120K Galliford Try 167 – 2 2.8 37.1 412K 273K Morgan Advanced‡ 287 – 7 2.3 12.1
458V 370Y Aviva 402 – 12O 5.3 52.9 2379 1338K Intermed Cap 1338K – 62K 4.1 7.6
168Y 114K Quilter PLC 120X – 4V 4.3 86.1 801 405K Genuit Group‡ 405K – 5 1.1 26.1 6O 4N Agriterrav 5V – Y … -0.6 647 416 Mpacv 458 – 7 … 22.0
300K 214K Banco Santander 225K – 4N 2.8 5.3 155W 89W IPF 90N – 3V 2.4 5.0
1670 986 Bank of Georgia 1160 – 10 … 3.5 174W 155X Intl Public Pntshp‡ 166K + 1V 4.4 21.4 188 140 Randall & Quilterv 140 – 2 2.7 … 900 576 Gleeson (MJ) 591 – 3 2.5 9.2 35 25 Aireav 28K … … 12.6 300 160 MS Intlv 276 – 14 1.2 39.4
217 140K Barclays 145Y – 2X 2.0 3.5
536O 270K Investec 417 – 10N 3.1 10.4 2210 1518 Rathbone Grp‡ 1972 – 48 3.7 15.2 1412 873N Grafton Gp Uts 873N – K 4.0 10.1 926 562 Anglo-Eastern 790 – 28 … 7.2 200 101K Northbrdg Indv 178K – 4 … …
K … Blue Star Capitalv N … … 5.9
316 281 Investment Co 312 … 0.3 11.2
359 285 BP Marsh&Ptnrsv 285 … 0.8 7.8 2V 1 RiverFort Global Oppsv 1 … 1.8 3.1 335 269O Grainger 277V – 10K 1.9 17.2 420 275 Animalcarev 311K – 3K 1.2 … 2680 1760 Oxford Inst 2140 – 100 0.7 29.2
49 11O Braveheart Invv 13N – O … 0.3 155V 77N IP Group 77N – 4W 1.2 2.9
517 266 Brewin Dolphin 515 + 1 2.8 28.1 365 213K Jarvis Securitiesv 222K – 4 6.0 16.0 … … Rockwood Strategic … … … … 741 629 Gr Portland 650 – 12K 1.9 -8.1 2369 1548K AB Foods 1560 – 28 0.4 25.7 4091 2006 Philips El nv 2006 – 106K 3.5 35.6
569 266K Bridgepoint‡ 268V – 10K … 16.7 298V 167Y Jupiter Fund Mgmt‡ 167Y – 4O 10.1 6.2 140V 94 Bakkavor Group‡ 94 – 5V 7.0 9.7
2950 2200 S & U 2320 – 20 3.8 10.9 44N 26V Hammerson‡ 26V – 1V 1.5 -2.8 36K 5X PipeHawkv 20 – 1 … 42.5
90 53 Cenkos Secsv 68 – K 5.1 13.8
111W 75K Just Group‡ 76Y – 2W … …
317 256K Chesnara‡ 277K – 6 7.9 9.1 3N 1X Sancus Lending Grpv 1X … … -0.7 191 128 Harworth Gp‡ 155 – 6K 1.1 5.7 588 466 Barr (AG) 561 + 6 … 19.9 101K 63K Pressure Techv 82K – 5K … -6.8
725 346K Lancashire Hdgs 397W – O 2.9 …
76 40 City of Lon Gpv 40 … … -2.7 5X 1X Bidstack Groupv 2X … … -2.2
307O 235V Legal & Gen‡ 235V – 4K 7.5 7.2 60O 44 Schroder REIT 55 – K 4.6 5.8 600 350 Heath (Samuel)v 600 … 1.1 12.4 6220 3704 Renishaw 4190 – 30 1.5 23.9
560 400 City Lon Inv Gp 426 – 11 7.7 10.0
1645 1010 Close Bros 1010 – 15 5.9 7.5 54462V 502X Liberty Group 502X – 2X … 26.7 3871 2752 Schroders 2752 – 68 4.2 12.6 497 374 Helical PLC 420 – 2 2.4 10.1 200 69 Brand Architektsv 69 … … -2.9 34 19K Renoldv 23O – 2 … 8.4
505 219K CMC Markets 274 – 6K 11.1 8.3 2485 1030 Liontrust 1030 – 60 4.5 12.8
2735 1732 Schroders N/V 2315 – 55 5.0 10.6 1005 825 Highcroft Invs‡ 970 + 25 5.2 6.5 3439 2512K Brit Amer Tob 3302 + 2 6.5 11.1 147W 78K Rolls-Royce 78K – 1O … 53.4
783O 428W Commerzbk 517W – 6V … 26.5
62 42 Livermore Invsv 50K – K 7.0 3.2
1230O 757 Deutsche Bk 766N – 30X … 9.8 1006 741 Britvic 796K – 6 3.5 20.6
1731K 1180 St James Place‡ 1181K – 34 4.2 31.2 239V 154 Ibstock‡ 174O – 4V 2.3 22.7 3O 1K Ross Gp 1K … … -3.6
316W 236X Direct Line Ins‡ 236X + X 9.4 9.8 55V 41N Lloyds Bkg Gp‡ 42N – 1 2.9 5.6
2264 1489K Burberry Grp 1489K – 34K 2.8 12.8
59K 53 Downing ONE VCT 58K … 4.2 7.9 37K 30Y LMS Capital 35 … 2.5 15.2 373W 264W Rotork‡ 264W – 9W 3.2 28.7
298 178N C&C Grp 189K – 6 … …
217 137K SDI Groupv 163 – 6 … 26.9
15W 7 Capital Metalsv 7W – N … -1.9
Investment companies 167K 136 Carr's Grp‡ 146 + 1 3.3 18.0
181 101Y Senior 126 – 2W … 21.9

82K 62 Severfield 66O – 2V 4.3 11.9

12 month Price Yld Dis(-) 12 month Price Yld Dis(-) 705 465 Character Grpv 582 – 2 1.5 10.3
High Low Company (p) +/- % or Pm High Low Company (p) +/- % or Pm 16K 11K Six Hundredv 15O – K … 92.1
2025 1300 Churchill Chinav 1440 + 40 … …
1898X 1181 SKF B 1298 – 5V 4.2 9.7
1477 1069 3I Group 1235 – 25K 3.2 2.0 388 298 Invesco Asia Tr 324 … 4.0 -12.4 2784 1460K Coca Cola HBC 1567 + 19 3.4 12.5
270 175 Slingsby (HC)v 175 … … 2.9
368K 248O 3i Infrastructure 340 – 3K 3.5 20.1 200 157 Invesco BondInc 170 + 1 6.2 -4.1
705 480 Colefaxv 675 + 15 … 11.9
104K 93V Abrdn Div I&G 100 … 4.6 -16.7 176 154 IPST Bal 156K – 3K … -5.6 1635 1355K Smiths‡ 1448K – 34 2.6 23.0
1622O 1134 Aberforth Smlr 1260 – 50 2.2 -13.5 250 210 IPST Gbl Eq 228 … 2.9 -5.8 4148 2980 Cranswick 2980 – 48 2.3 15.7
104Y 96 IPST Managed 97 – 2 0.9 -9.2 1405 860 Solid Statev 1085 – 5 1.4 26.1
1084Y 867O Alliance 928 – 24 1.8 -6.6 228K 179W Devro 201 – 2 4.5 10.9
540 403N Asia Dragon Tr 420 – 7 1.3 -10.0 199Y 168 IPST UK Eq 175 – 1K 3.4 -7.9 598 380 Somero Enterv 380 – 20 5.6 9.5
260 210 Athelney Trust 225 … 3.6 -10.2 664 453 IP UKSmallerCos 473 – 9 … -17.1 4103K 3190 Diageo 3727K – 56 1.9 28.6
1118 169 AVI Global Trust 184V – 4O 1.5 -10.4 788 618V JPM American 716 – 29 0.9 -1.4 4083 2458 Spectris 2843 – 76 2.4 9.3
2O 1V Distilv 1W … … 35.0
506 257K Baillie Gifford Ch Gr 261N – 5O 2.3 -7.9 513 346Y JPM Asia 348 – 8 4.4 -10.9 17135 10855 Spirax-Sarco‡ – 470 1.1 34.1
10855
171 83X Baillie Gifford Eu Gr 84X – 5N 0.3 -8.9 731 295K JPM Chinese 319 – 14K 6.1 -2.8 1085 672 Evans (M.P.)v‡ 908 – 24 3.0 7.7
1109K 701N Baillie Gifford Jpn Tr 718 – 25 0.7 -7.2 952 610N JPM Claverhs 676 – 16 3.2 -0.9 68K 37 Surface Trsfmsv 51 – 1K … …
102 66K Finsbury Foodv 68 – K 3.5 8.1
269V 139O Baillie Gifford SN 142O – 5 … -3.4 105 99 JPM Elect Mg C 101O … 0.2 -1.0
2Y 1K Tanfieldv 2 … … -5.5
257 155N Baillie Gifford UK Gr 156O – 5O 1.2 -12.2 1115N 911K JPM Elect Mg G 955 – 30 1.6 -1.7 12220 6365 Games Workshop‡ 6890 – 175 3.7 18.9
150K 96 Bankers 99O – 2V 1.9 -7.4 111 92K JPM Elect Mg I 101 – 1 4.4 -2.4 520 378 Thorpe FWv 450 – 10 1.2 31.3
1297O 862 Glanbia 964N – 28V 2.4 23.7
4540 3264K BH Macro 4220 + 5 … 9.3 140N 98W JPM Em Mkts 102K – 3K 1.1 -9.6
170O 109W Greencore 109W + K … 21.8 6V 2N TP Groupv 2K … … -3.7
1444 759N Biotech Growth 764 – 33 … -6.4 588 369 JPM Euro disc 401 – 15K 1.3 -15.5
140N 85 BlckRck Com Inc 128K – 9 3.2 3.2 155 118K JPM GEMI 126 – 2K 3.4 -11.8 122K 67 Transense Techv 71K – 4 … 52.5
536 321 Headlam‡ 321 – 1 2.4 13.8
140 112O BlckRck Fro Inv 134N + N 3.4 -11.2 475 405 JPM GG&I 440K – 9K 3.6 3.2
865 686 JPM Indian 760 – 10 … -19.4 1250 1004 Hilton Food 1156 + 4 1.9 24.1 3370 2016 Ultra Electrncs 3220 – 14 2.9 23.6
732 436 BlckRck Grt Euro 446 – 19K 1.2 -4.6
200 160 BlckRck Inc & Gwth 184 + 2 3.5 -10.0 568W 327 JPM Jap Sml Co 328K – 3K 5.3 -9.5 590 314W Vesuvius‡ 314W – 5 6.5 8.3
59 32K Hornbyv 34 – K … …
453 310 BlckRck Latin Am 375 – 11 5.0 -5.8 732 431 JPM Japan# 446 – 12 1.0 -6.8
1585V 885 JPM Mid Cap 920 – 20 2.5 -13.2 1818K 1486 Imperial Brands 1652K – 5 8.3 5.5 1615 1060 Vitec‡ 1218 – 12 1.2 22.3
213 177 BlckRck Sustain Amer 207 – 3 3.7 -4.6
2230N 1383V BlckRck Smlr 1410 – 54 1.9 -15.1 110N 95V JPM Multi-asset G&I 102K + K 3.9 … 493K 228 Volexv 228 – 19 1.4 12.4
1Y Y J Lewis Hfordv 1W … … 8.0
894 76 JPM Russian 91 – 6X 100.7 110.5
1046 553W BlckRck Throgmorton 565 – 26 1.5 -9.3
478W 267 JPM Smllr Co 275 – 14 1.5 -15.7 11012X 8059K Kerry Gp 8156 – 254Y 0.9 22.6 1988 1429 Weir‡ 1437 – 35 0.8 24.2
804Y 492 BlckRck Wld Min 670 – 27 6.0 0.5
375 195K Keystone IT 196 – 15 3.6 -11.3
31 11 Blue Plan Int Fn# 12K – 2K 3.3 -4.4 91O 33 McBride 35K + N … -6.3 5690 2990 XP Power 2990 – 10 3.0 15.9
829 700 Law Debenture 763 – 21 3.6 1.3
341 269K BMO Cap&Inc 301K – 6K 3.6 0.3
145 110 Lowland 121O – 3N 4.4 -6.0 370 200 Mulberry Groupv 265 – 10 … 10.9 195 138 Zytronicv 175 … … 58.3
118O 78K BMO Comm Prop 112W – 1V 3.0 -21.1
252 180 Majedie 195 – 1 4.5 -19.1
175V 138W BMO Glbl Smaller 147W – 3V 1.0 -11.0 1640 1105 Nicholsv 1340 – 60 1.3 …
437 292 M Currie Port 297 – 12 1.3 -0.5
520 380 BMO Priv Eq Ord 458 … 3.1 -28.1
101 68V BMO Real Estate 95 … 3.0 -25.9
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341 218 Norcros 218 – 8 3.7 6.9 Health
101 77 BMO UK HIT 88 … 5.8 -1.8 355 279V Origin Entsv 355 … 2.5 11.2
591 485 Merchants 554 – 10 4.8 1.8 580O 410 Stand Chart‡ 547 – 13 1.6 12.2 314 216 James Halsteadv‡ 216 – 6 3.5 23.0
108 79 BMO UK HIT B 90K … … 0.9
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1286 1038 Murray Int 1204 – 24 4.3 -4.8
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425O 363N City of Lon IT 400 – 8K 4.7 1.8
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3125 2365 Pershing Sq 2480 – 130 0.7 -32.9
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51166 45560 Personal Assets 49250 – 950 1.1 2.5 31O 20 Time Financev 22K – X … 13.7 665 320 Tandemv 320 – 7K 2.7 4.5
366K 171K Edin Wwide 172O – 9W … -12.7 10930 7632 AstraZeneca 10140 – 182 2.0 …
2760Y 1848 Polar Cap Tech 1874 – 66 … -15.3 1455 1050 Volverev 1060 … … … 70K 40 Macau Prop Op 43K – W … -5.6
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203 150 Prem Glb & Inf 188K – 4 3.3 -7.9 46 28 Circassia Groupv 31N – 2V … 31.3
152 94V European Assets 97N – 2X 7.4 -4.9 58K 41 WH Irelandv 41 – 1 … 23.0 841N 570Y Marshalls 577K – 7K 1.5 21.0
140K 122Y Renewables Inf 132K – K 5.7 11.0 5O 2K Ukrproduct Gpv 2O … … -1.8
891 641 European Opp Tr 686 – 21 0.2 -15.3 134 52K Creighton 52K – 3K 2.1 10.1
3635N 2205O RIT Cap Ptnr 2350 – 75 … -9.2 36K 27K Walker Crips Grp 29K – 1 2.5 84.2 302 208 McKay Secs 281 + 2 2.9 18.5
945K 549 F&C Investment Tr 811 – 22 1.4 -10.4 670 33 Unbound Group plcv 33 – 4K … 0.2
690K 303 Riverstone 667 + 1 … -41.5 5405 3158 Dechra Pharma 3158 – 96 1.2 47.1
510 406V Fidlty Asian Val 440 – 2 1.7 -12.3 4773 3374V Wells Fargo 3543N – 76O 1.6 9.7 148K 108 Michelmershv 113K – K 2.2 15.9
528 404 Schroder TotRt 405 – 10 1.9 -5.6 5097 4010 Unilever (NV) 4254 + 50 3.3 21.8
425K 211K Fidelity China Sp 229K – 6 1.7 -7.5 1O 1 Deltex Medicalv 1 … … -7.8
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771K 503K BAE Sys‡ 744V – 11O 3.2 13.6
189K 149K Hend High Inc 171 – 2K 5.6 0.9 79O 59K Assura Grp 63K – 1W 4.5 12.7 169K 131 Primary Hlth‡ 137X – 2W 4.5 14.0
526 339Y TR Property 397K – 14K 3.1 -8.2
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2670 1634 Herald 1730 – 10 … -21.4 286O 214O Utilico Ord 225 – 2 2.2 -32.3 2600 1700 Braime Groupv 1700 – 50 0.6 19.1 380 255 Immunodiag Sysv 378 … 0.5 …
319V 215K Balfour Beatty 233 – 2 0.6 25.6 718O 500 Redrow 500 – 13K 4.9 6.2
457K 320 HgCapital Trust 381 – 1 1.6 -12.7 229 196K Utilico Emerging Mkt 217 – 6 3.1 -11.8
184Y 160K HICL Infra 174V + 1V 5.3 10.8 600 400 Caffyns 550 … … 7.9 9W 5 ImmuPharmav 6V – V … -1.9
144N 137 UtilFin RdZDP 2022 144 … … 0.9 781V 459 Barratt Devs‡ 459 – 11 6.4 7.1 1418 854K Safestore 1062 – 70 1.9 6.0
286 228 Highbridge Tactical 257 + 1 … 6.3 783 630 Vietnam Ent Inv 684 – 14 … -22.1 9 4V Cap XX Ldv 4O … … … 336O 144X Indivior 282O – 13W … 16.1
3689 2232 Bellway 2232 – 58 5.2 6.7
1300 1018 ICG Ent Tr 1018 – 48 1.2 -34.8 324O 203 Witan 209K – 6 2.3 -9.3
584K 370Y Impax Env Mkts 405 – 9K 0.6 -2.8 3925 2915 Ww Health 2935 – 130 0.6 -6.2 5352W 3670 Berkeley 3857 – 150 0.2 10.0 420 288 Castings 316 – 2 4.8 15.2 150 92K Inspiration Healthv 92K – 6 0.6 14.3
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74 37 Catalyst Mediav 71 … … … 2V 1 Corcelv 1N … … -1.4 2228 1339 Shell PLC 2225 – 74K 2.7 11.7 518 380 Restorev 428 – 9 0.5 50.9
88.07 72.84 Novartis CHF 83.38 – 1.29 3.6 8.6 102 63K Ingentav 81 + 3K 1.8 47.3
2K V Catenaev# N … … -0.5 8881N 55W DRD Gold 55W – 4X 6.8 6.5 2O 1N Sound Energyv 2K … … -1.3 490 336 Ricardo 336 + K 2.0 30.0
117K 48K Intercedev 48K – 2K … 16.7
84 3X Omega Diagsv 3O … … -1.4 862 542 Robert Walters‡ 598 + 4 2.7 13.6
1146 269 Daily Mail‡ 270 – 2K 8.9 10.3 2 1 ECR Mineralsv 1V … … -7.3 N … Sunrise Resourcesv V … … …
291 140 Iomartv 177V + 2V 4.0 19.4
22K 9K Ovoca Biov 10K – N … -2.9 20 10 Roebuck Food Grpv 16K … … 2.5
195 137K DCD Mediav 195 … … 9.7 39 18 Edenville Energyv 21 … … -1.4 W V Tertiary Mineralsv V … … -5.3
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1634 485 Oxford Biomedica 485 – 12K … 21.8
71K 47 Ebiquityv 66 … … … 11O 1K Empyrean Energyv 1K – … … 1V W Thor Miningv X … … -4.5 130 92 RPS Group‡ 103 – 1 0.2 48.1
V 217 150 K3 Business Tchv 152K … … -2.6
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4460W 2893V Total Eng SE 4138Y – 308X 5.4 9.4 65 23K RTC Groupv 23K … … … 2909W 1778 LG Electronics 1787X – 32K … 4.7
1108 829 Euromoney In Inv 951 – 15 1.2 … 36K 16W EnQuest 33 – 3 … 2.0
9Y 3W Proteome Sciesv 4 … … 31.5
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3910 1942 Future 1942 – 90 … 33.4 36K 7 Eurasia Miningv 7K – W … …
6624 5391 Reckitt Benck‡ 6320 – 4 2.7 …
64Y 40N Tullow Oil 50Y – 6X … 5.1 490 345 Science Groupv 400 – 5 1.5 17.2 547 333 Micro Focus Intl 349Y – 20 5.1 -3.7
1660 1205 GlobalDatav 1242K … 1.4 61.5 3K 1 Europa Oil&Gasv 2N – N … …
164K 43K RUA Life Sciencesv 43K – 1K … -4.2
153 121V Serco Gp 148W – 1Y 1.4 6.0 88 46 MTI Wirelessv 61 … 3.0 20.3
152 46O Hyve Group 76 – 1 … … 501 116 Ferrexpo 136X – 15K 10.4 1.0 N … UK Oil & Gasv V … … -4.5
457K 111N Sareum Hldgsv 220 + 5 … … 32K 17 Nanoco Gp 28 – 1 … …
45W 32N Smiths News 33 + 1W 1.5 3.2
586 56 IG Design Grpv 56 – 5 15.5 8.2 986O 622W Fresnillo‡ 767O – 6 2.4 12.7 535 135 URU Metalsv 368 – 22 … 11.8
1592K 1179 Smith & Neph‡ 1251 – 52K 2.1 28.3 88 52 Netcallv 63K – 1K 0.5 86.9
4305 2920 Smurfit Kappa 3223 – 108 3.0 14.7
25 11Y Immedia Grpv 20K + K … -5.3 … … G3 Exploration# 28 … … -2.6 9O N Vast Resv 1X + K … -0.3
254K 188W Spire Hcare 206 – 4K … … 72 51 Northamberv 52K … 1.9 …
92O 41W Staffline Gpv 50N – 1Y … …
212K 18W Synairgenv 24K – 1Y … -1.0 624 464W Informa 543K – 24V … … 43 21 Galantas Goldv 35K – K … -6.0 6V 2O Victoria Oil&Gasv# 3O … … -1.8 62 26K Online Blockchainv 27K – 2 … …
602 324 SThree‡ 324 – 15 2.4 10.4
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137K 90 Synecticsv 111K … … …
47K 30O Totallyv 41O + K 1.2 66.2 15N 3O Westmount Engyv 3O – V … -0.8 10W 6N Parityv 7 … … …
16K 8O Jaywingv 9K … … … 78W 44V Gem Diamonds 60 – W 3.0 6.2
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660 292 Tristelv 320 … 2.0 65.9 12N 3 Live Company Gpv 9 – O … -1.8 37 18K Getechv 30O – 1 … -7.3 285V 151 Wood Grp (J) 225N + Y … -9.2
110 84 Tribalv 92O + 1 1.2 28.9 770 351 Playtech 491 – 26 … 5.1
55N 17O ValiRxv 23O – K … … 8 3X Woodboisv 7 … … 27.2
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117K 73K Vianetv 89 … … … 356O 243 QinetiQ 356O + 16V 3.1 27.8
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67K 41 Merit Grpv 47 … … … Y W Global Petrolv K … … -6.9
255 127K RM 130 – 1 3.6 26.0
Industrials 82K 52K Miradav 55 + 2K … -2.4 128746X 965O Gold Fields 965O – 32X 2.7 14.8
7O 2X Zephyr Energyv 5O – V … -7.4
1060 820 Vp 967 + 10 2.5 23.8
853O 622W Sage Gp 669 – 25K 2.6 25.6
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88 46 Mission Groupv 53K – 3K 2.8 57.5 8N 6X Goldplatv 7K – V … 5.7 12 6O Seeing Machinesv 6O – V … …
188 129O Accsys Techv 129O – 13K … …
Professional & 215 74 Shearwater Grpv 117K – 8 … 72.8
6022 4028W BASF 4028W – 30W 6.8 7.9
276O 167Y Moneysupermarket‡ 170K + 1K 6.8 17.4 14N 7O Goldstone Resv 8O – V … …
support services Retailing 182K 65V Smartspace S'warev 74K – K … -7.7
2233O 1406V News Corp A 1406V + 15O 1.0 22.9 22 12K Greatld Gldv 13 … … …
5764V 3766N Bayer DM50 5024N – 97K 3.3 58.6
2240 1266 Softcat‡ 1266 – 34 1.6 24.8
505 187K Biome Techv 225 … … -7.5 2097V 1409X News Corp B 1409X + 35X 1.0 23.0 148K 80 Griffin Miningv 101N – 6 … 11.1 260O 67V AO World 67V – 1V … …
3170 2250 4imprint Grp‡ 2900 + 10 … … 300V 215W Spirent Comms‡ 229O – 4 1.9 21.4
7 2X Byotrolv 2O … … … 1458 834 Next 15 Commsv 1142 – 62 0.6 … 262 143 Gulf Keystone‡ 244 – 24K 3.4 15.2 644 460 B&M European 460 + K 3.7 10.7
580 457 Andrews Sykesv 520 – 5 4.5 16.6 48K 30 SRT Marinev 32K – K … -9.6
7N 5K Camb Gbl Timberv 6O … … -9.0 869W 571O Pearson 757K – 10 2.6 36.2 530 310 Harbour Energy‡ 473X – 38 … … 77O 26V Brown (N)v 26V – 1 … 7.6
951V 612Y Tele. Ericsson 612Y – 6K 2.9 11.1
6450 3800 Ashtead 3800 – 79 1.1 18.5
81W 56W Coats Grp‡ 65V – 1K 2.1 14.5 78O 56N Photo-Me‡ 69K + V 12.1 7.8 31K 12O Harland & Wolff Group Holdingsv15V – 1X … 1.2 95K 41X Card Factory 60V – V … … 92K 70 Touchstarv 72K … … …
74 24 Asimilar Groupv 24K – K … 1.2
10410 6490 Croda‡ 6692 – 346 1.4 29.1 5 3N Primorus Invv 3N – N … 6.0 204V 100 Hochschild‡ 106O – 2K 4.2 12.2 2770 1580 CVS Groupv 1587 – 39 0.4 44.4 1100 765 Tracsisv 1040 – 12K … …
2300 1250 AssetCov 1335 … … 8.2
1575 1100 Cropper (James)v 1150 … … 35.0 175K 74K Quarto 156 – 10K … 8.6 11V 5O Horizonte Minrlsv 6Y – N … … 300 155K DFS Furn‡ 155K – 3W 4.8 8.2 27 14K Trakm8v 16K … … …
53K 35 Avisenv 41 … … …
161X 98O Elementis 111 – 3W … … 1551 869 Dunelm 869 – 32 4.0 11.7 165 95 Triad Grp 125 – 2K 1.6 13.7
420 116O Reach 116O – 2X 6.0 … 23Y 10Y Hummingbird Resv 13N – K … …
148K 100 Begbies Traynorv 117K – 1V 2.5 … 452 235 Wandiscov 235 – 34K … -4.3
41 27K Hardidev 30K – 2 … -5.8 813K 543 Frasers Group 647 – 11K … 28.7
3X 1V REACT Grpv 1V … … 16.7 44N 12O IGas Energyv 35 – 3Y … -1.8
3273 1721 Johnson Math 2278 – 20 3.0 28.7 290 196 Blancco Techv 196 – 2 … 70.2 1340 690 Water Intelv 690 – 75 … 37.9
3416 2140 Greggs 2140 – 52 … 25.5
2449 1813 Relx‡ 2299 – 8 2.0 30.3 1 N Independ Resv W … … -0.5
3163 2251 Bunzl 2990 – 38 1.8 22.6 273 145 Xaar 216K – 8K … …
2068 1309 Mondi‡ 1562 – 24 3.2 11.9 435 221W Halfords 223O + 2W 2.2 7.4
800W 540 Rightmove‡ 540 – 18O 0.8 30.5 250 214 Indus Gasv 243 … … 25.2
52O 20V Capita 22X – … 1.7 16O 7V Yourgenev 7V – K … -4.9
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16K 9N SpaceandPeoplev 14O – N … -2.6 1N K Ironveldv X … … … 151 96W Zoo Digitalv 117 … … …
462N 295X Smith (DS) 310O – 13 3.8 17.6 51K 32K CEPSv 40K … … -9.1 933 647 Inchcape 701 – 5 1.9 23.6
377K 305 STV Group‡ 305 – 4 3.1 7.4 521 228 ITM Powerv 277 – 24Y … …
656Y 418K Swire Pacific 461K – 10O 3.4 … 136 89 Christie Groupv 107K – 5K … 45.7 9N 3Y IQ-AI 3Y – W … …
28 15 Symph Environv 17 – 1 … …
467 215 System1 Groupv 245 … … 11.7 21Y 13X Jubilee Metalsv 14K – X … 12.1
1820K 1407K Compass 1576K – 73K … 78.8 234 117K JD Sports 117K – 6 0.2 14.2
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564 252W Synthomer 290 – 5W 5.9 6.0 535 233 CPPGroupv‡ 257 … 9.7 -9.0 376W 241K Kingfisher 242 + 5 4.9 6.0 315 157 AdEPT Technologyv 187K – 5 … …
2372O 1869K Takeda Pharm 2372O – 10K 4.8 13.3 3248Y 2526N 21st Cent Fox Inc B 2526N – 78O 1.3 13.8 2V X KEFI Gold and Copperv X … … -2.9
93K 66 Croma Securityv 77 … 2.6 11.0 101 56W Lookers 74 – 2K … 4.0 205K 135V BT Group 173K – 2V … 16.8
13K 4 Velocysv 5 – V … -6.2 6V … Vela Techv … … … 10.0 526 403 Kenmare Res‡ 463K – 12K 2.3 5.4
6486 5500 DCC 6046 – 146 2.6 19.9 256Y 131K Marks Spencer 132O – 1N … … 141O 84W Currys plc 87V – 1 … 4.1
2706 1675 Victrex 1675 – 123 3.5 19.9 262 191 Wilmington 251 – 1 2.3 15.9 67Y 24O Lamprell 27 + N … -2.3
201 101 De La Rue 101 – 3 … 13.2 … … Morrison (W) … … … … 2335 1120 Gamma Commsv 1120 – 22 1.0 20.2
629 432K Wynnstay Groupv 580 – 8 2.5 13.3 1224 909O WPP 952V – 18K 2.7 18.1 35 20N Landore Resv 23K + N … -5.3 189 110 Helios Towers 110 – 1K … -9.9
3460 2420 Diploma 2484 – 92 1.7 44.4 19X 7K Mothercarev 7K – N … -4.6
494 290 Zotefoams‡ 317K + 7K 1.9 19.0 123K 57K Zinc Mediav 117K … … -1.7 O W Lansdowne O&Gv K … … … 7111 1590O Just Eat T'away 1590O – 141W … -3.4
1262 677 Discoverie PLC 677 – 6 1.5 55.4 879 329O Naked Winesv 336W – 16O … …
29K 17K Leeds Groupv 17K – 1 … -2.8 X V Mobile Streamsv N … … -4.2
68K 24 Driver Groupv 24 … 6.2 11.4 8426 5770 Next 5904 – 44 … 12.9
Leisure Natural resources 5Y 2W Lexington Goldv 2K … … -5.9
1255 868 Electrocompnts 1047 – 8 2.4 26.5 2090 783W Ocado Gp 783W – 16O … …
4V O Mobile Tornadov 1 … … -6.4

1664 1010 Telecom Plus 1562 – 72 3.6 40.0

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478 180V 888 Hldgs 180V – 6Y 6.1 13.3 142W 106Y Vodafone Gp 118X – 1X 6.5 …
4 X ADM Energyv Y … … -0.1 2K 1V Metals Explornv 1V … … 1.9
3667 2580 Experian 2630 – 16 1.3 33.7 519 281V Pets at Home 281V – 8W 2.8 11.4
992 590 Accesso Techv 686 – 26 … …
5N V Advance Energyv V … … -0.1 X N Nostra Terrav K … … -3.6
3400 370 Best of the Bestv 400 – 5 1.2 4.4
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13305 9110 Ferguson 9110 – 222 1.9 13.4 456 207V Saga 207V – 10V … …
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140 95 Celticv 135 … … 13.3 272 66 Gattacav 66 – 3 2.2 … 1902K 1311 Smith WH 1366K – 50 … … 310 201 Braemar Ship 262K – 2K 1.9 8.7
N V Alba Mineral Resv V … … -4.0 N V Oilexv V … … -4.5 921Y 439K easyJet 492 – 18W … -3.0
96N 26W Cineworld 26W – 2K … -0.8 6O 4V Grafeniav 5W … … -4.0 36 19K Sosandarv 22N – 2N … …
1V K Alien Metalsv X … … … 1 N Oriole Resourcesv N … … -2.7 36Y 9 Esken Limited 9 – W … -0.4
465V 304O Domino's Pizza‡ 304O … 3.9 15.5 610 355 Hargeaves Servv 544 – 50 1.3 5.6 3N 1X Stanley Gbbnsv 1X … … -1.6
132X 88K Alumina 98Y – 1Y 4.1 33.4 116 73 FirstGroup 109V – 1 … 26.0
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Obituaries
Kathy Boudin
Revolutionary member of the Weathermen who was jailed for 22 years, proved a model prisoner and on her release became an academic
On October 20, 1981, an armoured
Brink’s security van arrived at a shop-
ping mall in suburban New York to col-
lect the day’s takings. As a guard
brought out the cash, a red Chevrolet
drew up alongside and the men
inside opened fire. The guard was
wounded, and another was killed,
before the attackers made off with $1.6
million. They transferred themselves
and the cash to a U-Haul van parked
near by.
The van was driven by a young man
named David Gilbert. In the passenger
seat was a woman named Kathy
Boudin. On the New York State
Thruway they were stopped by the
police, who had been tipped off by a wit-
ness who saw the black gunmen climb-
ing into the back of the van.
The police were unsure if they had
the right vehicle because Gilbert and
Boudin were white. Lowering their fire-
arms, they went to open the back doors.
As they did so the gunmen opened fire,
killing two of the officers.
Boudin was arrested, as was Gilbert,
the father of Chesa, her 14-month-old
son. She had gone underground 11 years
earlier when fellow members of the
radical left-wing Weathermen move-
ment accidentally detonated a bomb
they were making in a house in Green-
wich Village, New York. She had been
in the shower at the time and ran out
naked into the street, but managed
to escape.
Her arrest brought that revolution-
ary phase of her life to an abrupt end,
but it marked the beginning of another
that proved far more useful to the
underclasses that Boudin, a child of
privilege, sought to serve. She spent the
next 22 years in prison, mentoring,
advising and devising programmes to
help her fellow inmates. She continued
that work after her release, eventually
becoming a respected professor at
Columbia University, New York.
The former terrorist’s son, Chesa, is
now the district attorney in San Fran-
cisco. Her brother, Michael, served in
the justice department under President
Reagan and was appointed a federal
judge by President Bush Sr.
She was showering when
a bomb exploded and she
ran naked into the street
Kathy Boudin was born into a liberal
New York family in 1943. Her father,
Leonard, was a civil rights lawyer
whose clients included Fidel Castro,
several targets of Joseph McCarthy’s
anti-Communist witch-hunts and
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Penta-
gon Papers. Leonard was also a woman-
iser who had affairs with a daughter of
the author Jessica Mitford and some of
his own daughter’s friends.
Boudin’s mother, Jean, was a poet
who twice tried to take her own life
while her daughter was growing up, and
was the sister of IF Stone, a renowned
left-wing muck-raking journalist.
Growing up in bohemian Greenwich
Village, in a house that was a meeting
place for progressive writers and polit-
ical activists, Boudin embraced left-
wing idealism from an early age. At her
private high school in New York she was
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fellow inmates but also helping to
design programmes to support prison-
ers with Aids and those with children.
She also wrote articles on problems
faced by women prisoners for publica-
tions including the Harvard Education-
al Review, and co-authored The Foster
Care Handbook for Incarcerated
Parents. “She lived redemption, con-
stantly finding ways to give back after
redemption,” her son said.
Boudin composed prize-winning
poetry in her 8ft by 10ft cell. In a prison
workshop she wrote: “If only there were
a place where the living and the dead
‘I was part of a robbery
that risked and then
destroyed human life’
could meet, to tell their tales, to weep, I
would reach for you — not so you could
forgive me, but so you would know that
I have no pride for what I’ve done, only
the wisdom and regret that came
too late.”
The New Yorker article, written in
2001, concluded: “Among the many
ironies of Boudin’s imprisonment at
Bedford is that it has been the most
productive period of her life.”
Boudin was
g
granted parole
in 2003 after
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expressing re-
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morse for her
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crimes. “I sup-
p
ported and was
Boudin taken into custody in 1981 and, right, her police mugshots. Below, in 2019 p of a robbery
part
th risked and
that
elected student president and orga- that she narrowly escaped death when th
then destroyed
nised protests against air raid drills. At a bomb consisting of nails wrapped h
human life. I am
the elite Bryn Mawr College, near Phil- around dynamite exploded while she m
morally respon-
adelphia, Pennsylvania, she fought for was having a shower in the Greenwich s
sible for all the
higher wages for the black maids before Village townhouse. It was intended for tr
traffic conse-
electing to spend her final year at the a nearby army base. q
quences that
University of Leningrad. Three fellow Weathermen died in fl
flowed from
After graduating in 1965 she joined a the blast; two of them could not be iden- th
that,” she said.
radical group called Students for a tified for days. Boudin slipped away She returned to
Democratic Society and became a after a neighbour gave her clothes, and N
New York City,
community organiser in the slums of was identified only by a dental appoint- w
where she worked
Cleveland, Ohio. “It was thrilling,” she ment card found in the wreckage of the Army, an armed d offshoot of the Black in an Aids clinic
told The New Yorker in a rare prison building. Panthers, to stage the botched robbery d t
and earned a doctorate in education
interview in 2001. “I felt like I was learn- She told The New Yorker that her of the Brink’s security van in 1981. from Columbia University Teachers
ing about the realities of class, of decade as a fugitive was uneventful, Under New York law a participant in a College. In 2008 she was appointed an
poverty. It was the discovery that there although her face appeared on FBI felony can be held responsible for any adjunct professor at the university’s
was a whole other world that I poste across the US.
wanted posters deaths that result, meaning that Bou- School of Social Work despite fierce
was living next to, part of, alia
Using aliases she went to din could have been held responsible opposition from the families of those
now
and didn’t really know Mexico to learn Spanish, for the three deaths during the robbery, killed in the robbery and from New
about.” picke grapes with
picked even though she did not fire a shot. York tabloids, which named her “Co-
In 1969 thee mig
migrant workers in Her father came to her rescue, argu- lumbia’s pet terrorist”.
society split. Bou- Ca
California, and ing that she had surrendered before the She co-founded Columbia’s Centre
din joined the w
worked at a Massa- two police officers were shot behind the for Justice, which explores alternatives
Weathermen, a ch
chusetts hospital. U-Haul, so she could be considered to mass incarceration, founded a pro-
faction that D
During the early liable only for the killing of the Brink’s gramme to provide healthcare for
advocated violent 19
1970s the Weath- guard. released prisoners and set up another to
opposition to the er
ermen, later He negotiated a deal whereby his help prisoners to accept responsibility
Vietnam War and kn
known as Weather daughter pleaded guilty to robbery and for their crimes.
was named after a Un
Underground, a single charge of felony murder in Boudin had cancer for seven years,
Bob Dylan lyric: c: plan
planted bombs in the return for a sentence of 20 years to life. but she lived long enough to see her
“You don’t need a US Capitol,
US C the Penta- Gilbert and the other defendants Yale and Oxford-educated son be
weatherman to know gon, the National Guard received far longer sentences. elected San Francisco’s district attor-
which way the wind d blows”. headquarte
headquarters and other Boudin consigned Chesa to the care ney on a platform of “decarceration” in
That August she was arrested places, but Boudin denied of two former Weathermen colleagues, 2019. She also lived long enough to be
monstrations at the
during anti-war demonstrations involveme
having any involvement. Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, who reunited last year with Gilbert after
Democratic National Convention in Weather Underground disintegrated had settled in Chicago. She then van- Andrew Cuomo, then the governor of
Chicago. Two months later she helped after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, ished into the Bedford Hills maximum New York, granted him clemency and
to organise a window-smashing ram- but Boudin remained underground, security prison for women, north of ended his 40-year imprisonment.
page through central Chicago, known doing a succession of menial jobs and New York City.
as the Days of Rage, and was arrested coupling up with Gilbert, another She proved a model prisoner, not Kathy Boudin, convict and social activist,
again. former Weatherman. Together they only earning a master’s degree in adult was born on May 19, 1943. She died of
It was in March the following year teamed up with the Black Liberation education and teaching literacy to her cancer on May 1, 2022, aged 78
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Lady Oppenheimer
Distinguished theologian and philosopher whose books on ethics influenced
One of the questions that concerned
her most, the theologian and philoso-
pher Helen Oppenheimer said, was
“What makes people flourish?” She
certainly flourished in many ways, as
the author of 13 books, an academic
teacher, ethical adviser on issues such
as divorce law reform, and enthusiast
for church and family life.
Some of her books, such as Incarna-
tion and Immanence, engaged in high-
level conceptual theological debate.
Others, such as What a Piece of Work:
on Being Human (its title a nod to her
love of Shakespearean insights into
human nature), expressed her belief in
people as both “miserable sinners” yet
also “magnificent creatures”. Making
Good linked the idea of creation to that
of ethical responsibility.
A devoted Anglican, she nonetheless
expressed concern that the Church
risked looking irrelevant if “intelligent
good people are not so much incredu-
lous about the Christian faith as ignor-
ant about what they are supposed to
believe”. Faith for her was based on
“reverent awe, which is as characteris-
tically human as far-fetched make-
believe”.
The best advocacy for such faith, she
believed, was not the arid assertion of
dogmatic tradition but involved con-
stant engagement with the world and
its ethical debates: “Anyone who wants
to commend the Christian faith must
look seriously at the character of the
world where we have to live.”
That concern led her to engage in de-
bates such as changes to divorce law.
She believed strongly in the idea of “no-
fault divorce”, accepting that some
marital relationships had failed.
Instead of the legalism of traditional
ideas of indissolubility she argued for
what she termed an “enabling mercy”
rather than “vague permissiveness”.
Lady Oppenheimer was the only
woman and lay person on the church
commission that in 1966 produced a
landmark report, Putting Asunder,
Willy Cave
Rally car navigator who partnered drivers such as John Sprinzel and Paddy Hopkirk as well as producing broadcasts for the BBC
The rally driver John Sprinzel invited
his navigator, Willy Cave, to take the
wheel of their Mini Cooper as they sped
through the mountains in the 1963
Coupe des Alpes. Sadly it was no longer
attached to the car.
A cotter pin that should have held the
steering column in place was missing
and it jolted loose. Sprinzel handed the
wheel to Cave, telling him: “See if you
can do anything with this, will you,
because I can’t!” The out-of-control
Mini careered into a rock face, flipped
on to its side and skidded for 30 yards
in what Cave described as “a shower
of sparks and splintered glass and
flaking paint”.
Given the sheer drops on the narrow
and twisting route through the French
Alps, the accident might have been far
worse. The men walked away relatively
unscathed, with the tearful Cave chiefly
pained at losing out on almost £700 in
prize money. Far from discouraged by
this brush with doom, he raced on for 57
years while pursuing a parallel career as
a Bafta award-winning television pro-
ducer and director.
Teaming up with the driver Peter
Jopp and Mark Kahn, a Daily Mirror
journalist, Cave took part in the 1970
London to Mexico World Cup Rally, a
gruelling football-inspired contest
featuring Jimmy Greaves and Prince
Michael of Kent that was organised by
Sprinzel (obituary, July 7, 2021).
The trio wore oxygen masks to
n religious debate and encouraged divorce law reform
which helped to pave the way for
the 1969 Divorce Reform Act. She
was also a member of the commis-
sion that produced a Church of
England report in 1972 into Mar-
riage, Divorce and the Church.
Oppenheimer was described as
a “quiet but influential” figure in
wider Anglican and societal de-
bates about issues including abor-
tion and IVF; her advice was sought
by leading figures such as her long-
standing friend Robert Runcie,
Archbishop of Canterbury in the
1980s. She was also an early sup-
porter of the ordination of women.
As part of her engagement with
contemporary issues Oppenheimer
wanted her thinking to be accessible
not only to fellow believers but also to
those who did not share her Christian
faith. “We ought to honour other
people and respect their ways of look-
ing for truth,” she wrote. Believers
needed to “eschew comfortable com-
She was concerned that
the Church risked
looking irrelevant
placency in favour of reason”. In schol-
arly or other debate, she remained con-
fident in her own position while gra-
ciously critical of those with whom she
disagreed. Theology, she believed,
needed to face squarely the scepticism
or rejection prompted by evil in the
world. She aimed to show in her own
belief and thinking the “live possibility of
faith in an era of human suffering that
can, at times, seem to render it futile”.
The need to confront the world’s evil
came naturally to those whose early life
was shaped by the Second World War
and the struggle against Nazism. Helen
Oppenheimer was born in 1926 in
London. Her mother, Laetitia, worked
during the war with the Women’s Vol-
untary Services for Air Raid Precau-
handle the high altitude
segments of the route but
their Morris 1800 was
brutalised by the rutted
tracks and as the engine,
suspension, clutch and
tyres failed, their fixes grew
ever more desperate, in-
cluding shoving a screw-
driver through a joint to
hold it in place.
The car finally expired
towards the end of the
16,000-mile route through
Europe and South and
Central America. The pre-
mature exit did at least free
up Cave to return home,
ranging
where he was supposed to be arranging
coverage of the June general election
for the BBC.
William Sturmy Cave was born in
London in 1927, to William, an army
officer, and the former Lorna Wishart.
They divorced when he was a boy. He
was evacuated to Canada in 1940 and
developed a passion for navigation on
the Atlantic crossing to Montreal. “I
was very pleased to have my school
atlas with me, and since then I have
never gone on a journey, however near
or far, without a map,” he said.
After his return he studied engineer-
ing at Trinity College, Oxford, skiing
and flying Tiger Moth biplanes in his
spare time.
During National Service with the
Oppenheimer wanted her thinking to be accessible to believers and non-believers
tions and from her she gained both a
sense of public service and a love of
humour. Her father, Hugh Lucas-
Tooth, was a Conservative MP who
worked for a time in the War Office.
During her schooling she was de-
lighted to discover Shakespeare. Julius
Caesar, she used to say, was where she
learnt that all people encompass both
good and bad. After Cheltenham La-
dies’ College she went on to achieve a
first at Oxford in philosophy, politics
Cave, left, with driver Brian Culcheth
at the 1971 RAC Round Britain Rally
RAF he flew Spitfires, Meteors and
Vampire jets.
Trim, with an affable temperament, a
logical mind and a gift for detail, Cave
was much in demand among works
teams and leading drivers such as
Sprinzel and Paddy Hopkirk. His first
domestic rally came in Eastbourne in
1950 and his international debut five
years later in Monte Carlo. His anno-
tated maps were so carefully re-
searched and updated that he used
them for decades.
As a publicity stunt for the BBC he
entered the 1961 Monte Carlo rally in a
and economics. While at Oxford she
met Sir Michael Oppenheimer, a bar-
onet who came from a South African-
based mining family. They married in
1947 and had three daughters: Hetty,
who works in social welfare, Matilda,
who became a GP, and Xanthe, an artist
who also works for a tree charity.
The couple moved to South Africa
but did not settle in a country then
approaching the height of its apartheid
misrule. In the early 1950s they re-
b
black London taxi with
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Tony Brooks (obituary,
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to devote more time to his
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family but the lure of the
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alpine roads was irresisti-
b and he reunited with
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from London
alongside the driver and writer Peter
Barker, Cave competed in dozens of
classic car rallies into his nineties.
A marriage in 1958 to Julia, a tele-
vision director and producer, ended in
divorce, as did another union, in 1971, to
Yvette, who worked part-time at the
BBC and later sold art. Two daughters
from his second marriage survive him:
Vici, a picture editor, and Rosy, a senior
conflict adviser at the Foreign, Com-
monwealth and Development Office.
Cave crashed on a trial run while try-
ing to make the British ski team for the
1948 Winter Olympics but was later
interviewed by the BBC, who then gave
him work experience as a camera oper-
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turned to Oxford, where she and her
husband developed academic careers.
She lectured in Oxford and at Cuddes-
don Theological College. As well as her
book publications she was a prolific
writer of articles and reviews, lucidly
expressing her opinions and criticisms,
sometimes with gently ironic humour.
She chided obscure or jargon-laden
writing, what she called “metaphysics
of the unacceptable kind which fails to
get a grip upon solid reality”, and ex-
pressed at one point her nostalgia for a
world “in which one aspired to be up to
date rather than postmodern”.
The Oppenheimers’ home in north
Oxford was the scene of many lively
dinner parties and debates, where Hel-
en was noted for the interest she took in
what her guests had to say rather than
talking about herself. In 1969 the
couple decided to move to Jersey, where
they could enjoy their large library and
concentrate on writing — her theologi-
cal works and her husband’s project on
The Monuments of Italy.
In Jersey they kept up their love of
cooking (ice cream was her speciality)
and continued living in older age with
as much independence as possible. Re-
flecting on growing older, she com-
mented that “to grow out of feeling
awkwardly juvenile may allow the fun
of being a little eccentric”.
Her husband predeceased her in
2020. She could take comfort from her
extended family, her close involvement
in local church life, and the poetry and
prose from which she had derived such
pleasure and benefit.
Celebrated in her book Profitable
Wonders, her favourite writings encom-
passed the themes of her life’s work,
including faith, creation, the hopes
and fears of human beings and the
grace they could experience in living
and dying.
Lady Oppenheimer, theologian, was born
on December 30, 1926. She died on April
6, 2022, aged 95
ator for the summer Games in London
that year. He was offered a staff position
in 1950 and rose from operating a boom
to becoming studio director of the
Tonight programme. He became a
founding member of the production
teams of Tomorrow’s World and Horizon.
Cave won two team Bafta awards and
worked with presenters including Alan
Whicker and Cliff Michelmore. Outside
broadcasts included the Coronation
and the first Concorde flights.
After leaving the BBC he spent a
decade as broadcasting adviser to the
Metropolitan Police and later became a
freelance consultant.
Prestigious vehicles occasionally
made studio appearances when Cave
was directing Tonight in the 1950s, and
for once he asked the drivers to treat the
cars with less than the utmost respect:
the primitive cameras were unable to
cope with dazzling light and shiny
metal risked ruining the picture. Cave
recalled: “Whoever brought it would
get out his polishing equipment and
start polishing the thing like mad and I
had to rush and say ‘No, no please don’t
polish it, if anything, smear dust on it.’ ”
Willy Cave, rally driver and broadcaster,
was born on January 29, 1927. He died of
complications after a fall on March 13,
2022, aged 95
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Lives remembered
The Very Rev
Colin Semper
Patrick Farmer
writes: Before
his retirement
the Very Rev
Colin Semper
(obituary, April
23) was the
incumbent of
the parish of Frensham and
Dockenfield on the Surrey/
Hampshire border. Colin said he
wanted to finish his career as a
parish priest and Frensham/
Dockenfield were so lucky he
chose us. From the moment he
and Janet arrived in his red
BMW and gave his inaugural
sermon, we knew we had a
special couple. He made an im-
Court Circular
Windsor Castle
9th May, 2022
The Queen this morning received
the Australians of the Year via
video link who were introduced to
Her Majesty by His Excellency
the Governor-General of the
Commonwealth of Australia
(General the Hon David Hurley).
Clarence House
9th May, 2022
The Prince of Wales this morning
received Mr Anthony Pratt
(Executive Chairman, Visy
Industries).
His Royal Highness this
afternoon held a Meeting for the
Sustainable Markets Initiative.
The Prince of Wales this
evening held a Dinner for the
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SARA GOREE, 32, AND CHRIS BEAUMONT, 33,
WERE MARRIED ON JANUARY 17, 2020,
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pact, whether in church with his
superb sermons, his home visits
or his wisdom on church appeals.
I was lucky enough to be part of
the team of four church wardens
and we were devastated when
Colin announced his resigna-
tion, we suspect due to the con-
cern over his health.
Having retired to Godalming
rather reluctantly, after Janet
sadly died, he returned to Fren-
sham to live opposite the church
he loved. He attended Sunday
morning service, sitting in the
same seat each week. One of my
lasting memories is of Colin’s
final service as incumbent. The
church was packed with his pa-
rishioners, the service followed
by drinks in the churchyard.
Although a sad moment, he
never lost that twinkle in his eye.
Sustainable Markets Initiative at
Buckingham Palace.
St James’s Palace
9th May, 2022
The Earl and Countess of Wessex
this morning visited Glacis Field,
Jersey, to unveil a saluting gun
battery commissioned to
commemorate The Duke of
Edinburgh.
Their Royal Highnesses later
attended Jersey’s Liberation Day
Service at Liberation Square,
St Helier.
The Earl and Countess of
Wessex subsequently met senior
citizens and viewed the Liberation
Day March Past at the Pomme
d’Or Hotel, Liberation Square.
Their Royal Highnesses this
afternoon departed from Jersey
for Guernsey and, having been
received upon arrival by the
Lieutenant-Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of the
Bailiwick of Guernsey (Lieutenant
General Richard Cripwell),
undertook the following
engagements.
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Shane Warne
Bill Burnett
MBE writes:
Hampshire
were playing
Kent in a
championship
match at Can-
terbury and
Shane Warne (obituary, March
4) was the visiting captain. At the
end of play he was surrounded by
kids with autograph books. He
told them he would sign them
after first going to the dressing
room. Interpreting it as a brush-
off, the children left. Five min-
utes later, true to his word, Shane
reappeared to find everyone had
gone. His expression showed
real disappointment; he truly
wanted to please his young fans.
Wessex attended a Liberation Day
Tea Dance at Beau Sejour Leisure
Centre, Amherst, St Peter Port.
Their Royal Highnesses
afterwards attended a Church
Service at Castle Cornet.
The Earl and Countess of
Wessex subsequently viewed the
Liberation Cavalcade from
Guernsey Yacht Club, Castle
Emplacement.
Their Royal Highnesses this
evening attended a Dinner at les
Cotils, l’Hyvreuse.
St James’s Palace
9th May, 2022
The Duke of Kent, Patron, the
London Philharmonic Orchestra,
this evening attended a Gala
Concert at the Royal
Horticultural Halls, 80 St Vincent
Square, London SW1.
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9th May, 2022
The Queen has been pleased to
appoint the Reverend Professor
John Swinton to be a Chaplain to
Her Majesty in Scotland in
succession to the Reverend
Alistair Bennett.
Tony Brooks
Brian Fair-
clough writes:
In the 1970s
Tony Brooks
(obituary, May
5) and I played
in the same
squash team in
the Surrey Cup leagues for St
George’s Hill in Weybridge. Our
away matches were all across
the county and of course Tony
offered to drive the five of us. He
would put on his driving gloves
and off we went in his large Fiat
saloon, weaving expertly
through the Surrey countryside.
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Births, Marriages and Deaths
“WHAT was it he said to you?” Eli asked.
“Do not hide it from me. May God deal with
you, be it ever so severely, if you hide from
me anything he told you.” So Samuel told
him everything, hiding nothing from him.
Then Eli said, “He is the LORD; let him do
what is good in his eyes.”
1 Samuel 3.17-18 (NIV)
Births
TROMPETER on 23rd April 2022 to Susie
(née Preston) and Nick, a son, Louis,
brother to James.
Forthcoming Marriages
MR A. T. M. FOSTER
AND DR A. E. BAKER
The engagement is announced between
Alexander, elder son of Mr and Mrs
Stephen Foster of Twickenham, London,
and Alexandra, eldest daughter of Mr
Darrell Baker of Kings Cross, London, and
Mrs Amanda Baker of Wimbledon, London.
Marriages
MR J. URQUHART-STEWART
AND MS V. BLACKBURN
The marriage took place on 7th May 2022,
at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, between
Justin Urquhart-Stewart and Virginia
Blackburn.
Deaths
ASTLEY Simon died peacefully on 1st May
2022, aged 70. Late of Rickmansworth.
Funeral on Tuesday 17th May 2022 at
Breakspear Crematorium, Ruislip, at
1.30pm. All inquiries to James Peddle Ltd:
01923 772013.
BARKER Marianne Daphne on 26th April
2022, aged 90, peacefully, at home.
Much-loved and devoted wife of the late
Henry Michael Barker, with whom she is
now reunited. She and her beautiful smile
will be missed by family and friends alike.
Funeral service will take place at St Mary
The Boltons, London, SW10 9TB at 2pm on
Friday 27th May. No flowers, but donations
may be made in her memory to The
Royal College of Music: www.rcm.ac.uk/
support/donate
BRANDT Peter Augustus on 28th April
2022, aged 90. Devoted husband of
Elisabeth (d.) and loving father of
Katharine, Edward and Nicholas (Salih)
died peacefully at ease with himself and
his Lord. Funeral at 12.30pm, on 31st May
2022 at St Mary’s Church, Boxford, Suffolk.
Charitable donations welcome for
Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, via W. A.
Deacon Funeral Services, 3 Norman Way,
Lavenham, CO10 9PY. Please do not be
sad he has gone; rather be grateful he
was here.
FRANKS Jonathan Harold died peacefully
on 5th May 2022, aged 91. Beloved
husband of Maureen and devoted father to
Fiona and Juliet, son-in-law Douglas and
granddaughter Alice. His gentle kindness
and love will be greatly missed by all his
family and friends. Private cremation.
FREEMAN Professor Ray, passed away
peacefully at the Arthur Rank Hospice on
Sunday 1st May, aged 90 years. Fellow of
the Royal Society, sometime Fellow of
Magdalen College, Oxford, and Fellow of
Jesus College, Cambridge. Beloved
husband of Anne-Marie and much-loved
father of Dominique, Anne, Louise, Jean-
Marc and Lawrence, and grandfather of
Alessandro, Tristan, Philip, Jeremy and
Victoria. A memorial gathering in Jesus
College will be arranged in due course.
GIBBS Martin, died peacefully on 2nd May
2022, aged 92. Widower of Jessica and
Elizabeth, beloved father, grandfather and
great-grandfather. Funeral service at
11.30am on 27th May 2022, St Mark’s
Church, Peaslake GU5 9RR.
HILL Michael Henry James OBE. Beloved
husband of the late Caroline (née Conran-
Smith) and father to Nicola, Emma, Peter
and Sophie. Celebration of his long life of
service, purpose and achievement on 24th
June 2022 at St John’s Church, Forfar.
Inquiries: Strathmore Funeral Directors.
JOHNSON Guy Trehearne died on 3rd
May 2022, aged 84, at home after a short
illness. Beloved husband of Carolyn, loving
father to Helena, Charles and Henry.
Grumps to his five grandchildren. Funeral
service on Monday 23rd May, 2.30pm, at
Bunbury Church.
KING Maryrose Elizabeth (née Baines) on
2nd May 2022, aged 89. Widow of John,
beloved mother to David and Fiona,
grandmother of James, Georgina and
Alexander. Funeral on Friday 27th May at
2.30pm, St Peter’s Church, West Tytherley.
MARR David Lawrence died peacefully
on 12th April 2022 aged 90, at home. Much-
loved husband, father and grandfather. A
funeral will be held on 17th May 2022.
MOORE Molly (née Milne) on 7th May
2022, aged 94, peacefully at home with her
children. Memorial service at St Mary’s
Church, Wimbledon Village, 12pm on
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Association online at Just Giving or
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MORRIS Jan Beauclerk (née Hanbury)
died peacefully on 3rd May 2022, aged 97.
Loving wife of the late Arthur (Bunny),
greatly loved and lifelong companion to
her twin brother, Ben. She will be much
missed by her daughters, grandchildren,
great-grandchildren, wider family and
friends. Funeral at St Edmund’s Church,
Southwold, at 2pm on May 16th. Private
burial at St Peter and St Paul, Alpheton.
PHILIP Rev Canon Ann Philip (née Noble)
died 7th April 2022, aged 80. Former
priest-in-charge of the Woodford Valley
and Archer’s Gate, bishop’s chaplain,
diocesan director of ordinands and deputy
head of SWGS. Beloved by many. Funeral
on Monday 23rd May, 10am, Salisbury
Cathedral, and afterwards at the Medieval
Hall. Private cremation. Flowers welcome.
Gullicks Florists, 109 Fisherton Street,
Salisbury. Donations, if desired, to Versus
Arthritis, registered charity no: 207711, c/o
I. N. Newman Ltd, 55 Winchester Street,
Salisbury, SP1 1HL. Tel: 01722 413136.
PUGSLEY, HIS HONOUR David died
peacefully on 1st May 2022 in Northumbria
following a stroke while on holiday in
March. Much-loved husband to Judith,
father to Joanna and Alison and
grandfather to Charlie and Leo. Inquiries
to W. Jones & Son, Main Road, Brailsford,
Ashbourne, DE6 3DA. Donations to
Christian Aid.
RICHARDS
Christopher Gordon Edgar on 24th
April 2022, aged 68, of Caldy, Wirral.
He was much loved and will be
sadly missed by all.
Funeral service at St Michael’s Church
Marbury, on Wednesday May 18th at
2.30pm. Followed by interment.
Inquiries to Rolfe’s, Whitchurch,
telephone (01948) 662209.
ROSS Robert Michael Fleming on 21st
April 2022, aged 87. Beloved husband of
Valerie, father of Emma, Bobbie and
Jessica, grandfather of six, brother of
Peter. Memorial to be held at The
Berkshire Golf Club, SL5 8AY, on 10th June
2022 at 4pm. RSVP to
robertsemail@gmx.co.uk Family flowers
only, donations to SSAFA the Armed
Forces charity.
SANDERSON Tom died suddenly at
home on 20th April 2022. A much-loved
father, son, brother, partner and friend. A
celebration of Tom's life will be held at
St Peter and St Paul Church, Swaffham, at
12.30pm on Wednesday 1st June, to which
all are welcome. No flowers, please, but
donations if desired to East Anglia Air
Ambulance c/o Thornalley Funeral
Services, Lynn Road, Swaffham, PE37 7AY.
SOMERVILLE-COTTON Fabian James
Dunbar died peacefully on 6th May 2022,
aged 57. Beloved husband of Rowena,
adored father of Alexandra, Natasha,
Matilda and Honor and four-legged friend
Damson. Much-loved son of Meryll
“Agatha” and Godfrey James, and much-
loved brother of Prue, Charles, Camilla and
Justin. Private family funeral. Memorial
service to follow at a later date.
TAVENER
Simon, died suddenly on 18th April
2022 in Thirsk, Yorkshire. No flowers.
Donations to The Royal Brompton and
Harefield Hospitals Charity via
www.rbhcharity.org/purpose
Wanted
KENWOOD Looking for Kenwood A200
mixer from the late 1940s. Must be
complete and working. Also Kenwood
ice-cream maker (fabricadora de helados)
attachment from the 1950s made and
sold in Argentina — must be working
and good condition.
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Weather
Today Bright and breezy with showers in the northwest and rain clearing in the southeast. Max 20C (68F), min 3C (37F) Weather Eye
Paul Simons
Around Britain Five days ahead Wind speed Sea state Orkney
ney Shetland
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Key: b=bright, c=cloud, d=drizzle, pc=partly cloudy Unsettled at first but 34 Calm
du=dull, f=fair, fg=fog, h=hail, m=mist, r=rain, (mph) 19 10
sh=showers, sl=sleet, sn=snow, s=sun, t=thunder gradually turning drier, Slight 23
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Tomorrow Flood alerts and warnings
Aberdeen
Scattered showers continuing in the
Aberporth 13 PC 0.0 9.7
northwest, interspersed with sunny At 17:00 on Monday there were no 13
Anglesey 12 C 0.4 1.3 spells, while longer spells of rain may flood alerts or warnings in England, 8
Aviemore 12 R 0.0 1.6 spread eastwards across southern Wales or Scotland.
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Bedford Max 19C, min 2C 35 95
Belfast 13 R 4.6 11.5
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of open-air painting in Britain,
information.service.gov.uk, for Wales
Birmingham 17 PC 0.0 **
naturalresources.wales/flooding and 25 77 and his picture Sky Study with
Bournemouth 16 S 0.0 13.6 14 NORTH a Shaft of Sunlight in 1822 left
12 S 0.0 **
for Scotland SEPA.org.uk 20 68
Bridlington SEA 15 59 a fascinating glimpse of his
Bristol 18 C 0.0 6.9
Camborne 17 PC 0.0 10.8 10 10 50
outdoor work — a fingerprint and
15 Edinburgh
Cardiff 16 S 0.0 8.8
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30 Glasgow 5 41
pinholes at the margins, made when
Edinburgh 13 R 0.6 2.3 0 32
Eskdalemuir 13 R 1.6 8.2
12 17 -5 23 he was attaching paper to his easel to
Glasgow 11 R 12.0 4.1
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-10 14 stop it blowing away in the wind
Hereford 17 PC 0.0 **
Herstmonceux 16 S 0.0 1.0 ATLANTIC
Londonderry -15 5 (News, May 2). As for the shafts of
Ipswich 18 PC 0.0 11.4
Newcastle sunlight in the picture, these were
OCEAN Carlisle
Isle of Man 11 PC 2.2 8.2
Thursday Belfast crepuscular rays, beams of sunlight
Isle of Wight 16 C 0.0 ** 15
Jersey 20 PC 0.0 8.9 Further showers or longer spells of 15 12 piercing through stormy dark clouds
rain persisting over Scotland and 13
Keswick 15 S 0.0 ** Ireland. Meanwhile England and Wales Yorkk and an atmospheric phenomenon
Kinloss 15 PC 0.0 4.3 will stay drier and brighter, although that Constable often featured to
the odd shower is still possible.
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Leeds 16 C 0.0 **
Lerwick 9 R 1.6 4.3 Max 18C, min 4C Manchester Hull
great dramatic effect. The picture
Leuchars 13 R 2.0 2.1 ooo
Liverpool 17 and its marks are on display at the
Lincoln 16 PC 0.0 13.4 Galway IRISH 17
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Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge,
Liverpool 16 PC 0.0 ** SEA Sheffield
London 20 PC 0.0 10.8 Dublin
LLlandudno
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Lyneham 18 S 0.0 ** Nature that explores the evolution of
Manchester 16 C 0.0 5.5
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Shrewsbury
Nottingham open-air painting.
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Milford Haven 13 B 0.0 **
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Norwich
Newcastle 14 S 0.0 ** 22 13 particularly fascinating because they
Nottingham 17 C 0.0 5.3 Birmingham
Orkney 10 R 5.6 4.5 16
Cork
Cambridge were so accurate. As early as 1805
Oxford 19 PC 0.0 ** 14 he began making weather notes on
Swansea Oxford 19
Plymouth
Portland
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the back of his artworks, and over
Scilly, St Mary’s 15 S 0.0 **
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Shoreham 19 S 0.0 0.2 Showery rain most likely in the
SEA Bristol London grew. “His accurate studies match
northwest, perhaps spreading into
Shrewsbury 16 C 0.0 0.0 17
Snowdonia 15 S 0.0 **
central areas as the day progresses,
but staying drier, brighter and warmer Southampton
almost perfectly the contemporary
4
14 weather records,” wrote John
Southend 16 S 0.2 10.8 in the far south. Exeterr
South Uist 11 R 14.8 ** Max 20C, min 5C 12 Plymouth Brighton Thornes in his book John
Stornoway
Tiree
11
11
PC
R
9.6
15.0
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Constable’s Skies (1999). “Working
Whitehaven 15 PC 0.0 0.0 11
16 in oils in the open air with the wind
CHANNEL 20
Wick 10 C 2.6 ** 17 blowing at his paper, and sometimes
Yeovilton 18 PC 0.0 9.1
drops of rain falling in his studies —
14
17 General situation: Cloud and spots of erly winds
southwesterly winds. Max
Maximum briefly heavy with the odd rumble of he must have been mesmerised by
The world rain clearing in the southeast to leave 20C (68F), minimum 8C (46F). thunder possible, most likely across the sky before him.”
All readings local midday yesterday
a bright and breezy day with showers. SW Eng, Wales, NW Eng, Lake District, northern areas. Moderate to strong Constable was also well aware of
Alicante 22 S Madeira 24 PC 17 Channel Is, Cen S Eng, SE Eng, London, NE Eng, IoM: A breezy day with southwesterly winds. Maximum
Amsterdam 20 S Madrid 23 S
the early science of meteorology,
E Anglia, Mids, Cen N Eng, E Eng: variable cloud, sunny intervals and a 16C (61F), minimum 7C (45F).
Athens 23 PC Malaga 24 PC
A cloudy start with spots of rain, few showers possible, but many places Scotland: A blustery day with variable such as Luke Howard’s pioneering
Auckland 19 S Mallorca 23 PC
gradually clearing eastwards through staying dry. Moderate to fresh west cloud, sunny spells and showers, heavy classification of the clouds. And
Bahrain 30 S Malta 20 B Saturday
Bangkok 34 PC Melbourne 14 B Most places will have a dry day with
the morning with brighter conditions to southwesterly winds, strong at the at times and perhaps merging to longer modern studies of Constable’s
Barbados 30 PC Mexico City 29 PC variable amounts of cloud and plenty following from the west into the coast and over high ground. Maximum spells of rain across western areas. weather notes confirm that they were
of bright or sunny intervals, although afternoon. An isolated shower is 18C (64F), minimum 6C (43F). Moderate to fresh southwesterly
Barcelona 20 PC Miami 31 R
the odd isolated shower may affect possible, but most places will have N Ireland, Republic of Ireland: A bright winds, strong in the west and over
so accurate it is possible to match
Beijing 18 S Milan 22 PC
Beirut 22 PC Mombasa 30 B
southern and western areas.
a dry end to the day with sunny and breezy day with variable cloud, high ground. Maximum 15C (59F), them with weather records at that
Max 20C, min 3C
Belgrade 24 S Montreal 16 PC spells. Moderate to fresh west to sunny spells and scattered showers, minimum 3C (37F). time. Constable spent the summers
Berlin 20 S Moscow 8 SH of 1821 and 1822 on Hampstead
Bermuda 24 B Mumbai 32 S 15
Bordeaux 27 S Munich 20 PC Tides Noon today
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Heath. There he made oils of the sky
Brussels 22 S Nairobi 26 PC Tidal predictions. HIGH 1008 at a furious rate, usually painting a
Heights in metres 1016
Bucharest 21 S Naples 22 PC
17 1016 picture in under an hour, and often
Budapest 21 T New Orleans 29 PC Today Ht Ht 1016 1000
Buenos Aires 23 S New York 14 B 17 Aberdeen 09:16 3.2 22:15 3.3 in all weathers, evidenced by
LOW
Cairo 33 S Nice 22 PC Avonmouth 01:48 9.5 14:48 9.3 992 LOW HIGH rainspots on his paper artwork. “How
Calcutta 26 R Nicosia 25 PC Belfast 06:43 2.9 19:38 2.7 he managed to achieve such truth,
1000 LOW 1024
Canberra 16 B Oslo 16 S 18 02:00 8.9 14:51 8.9
Cardiff
Cape Town 18 S Paris 24 S 13:30 4.1 --:-- --
1008 time after time, in just an hour on
Devonport
Chicago 18 C Perth 24 PC
Dover 07:05 5.1 19:33 5.3 1024 1016 Hampstead Heath, is remarkable,”
Copenhagen 13 S Prague 20 PC 1032 remarked Thornes, perhaps best
Sunday Dublin 07:40 3.2 20:29 3.2
Corfu 23 PC Reykjavik 11 B
Delhi 37 S Riga 10 S Another largely dry and bright day Falmouth 13:03 3.8 --:-- -- summed up by the professor of
Dubai 34 S Rio de Janeiro 25 PC with patchy cloud and long spells Greenock 07:24 2.8 21:00 2.6 HIGH drawing at the Royal Academy:
of sunshine, although showers may Harwich 07:10 3.1 19:37 3.1 Cold front
Dublin 13 R Riyadh 32 S spread into southwestern areas later. “Every time I see a Constable I want
Holyhead 06:08 4.3 19:09 4.3 Warm front
Faro 26 S Rome 23 S
Florence 24 PC San Francisco 16 PC
Max 21C, min 2C
Hull 01:45 5.4 13:54 5.5 Occluded front to call for my raincoat.”
Frankfurt 23 S Santiago 12 C Leith 10:26 4.2 23:05 4.3 Trough
Geneva 20 PC São Paulo 19 PC Liverpool 06:47 7.1 19:34 7.0
Gibraltar 20 S Seoul 20 S 17 London Bridge 08:56 5.6 21:30 5.4
Synoptic situation Highs and lows Hours of darkness
Helsinki 11 S Seychelles 31 PC Lowestoft 06:08 2.0 17:23 2.1 24hrs to 5pm yesterday Aberdeen 21:40-04:26
Hong Kong 28 PC Singapore 32 B Milford Haven 01:26 5.0 14:22 4.9 A weak cold front will bring Belfast 21:43-04:54
Honolulu 29 B St Petersburg 10 PC cloudy skies and spots of Warmest: Heathrow, 22.6C
16 Morecambe 07:01 6.9 19:48 6.8 Coldest: Santon Downham, Birmingham 21:18-04:47
Istanbul 18 S Stockholm 14 S rain to southeastern areas Suffolk, 0.1C
16 Newhaven 06:37 4.7 19:31 5.1 Cardiff 21:19-04:56
Jerusalem 31 S Sydney 16 SH at first, gradually clearing Wettest: Achnagart, 18.8mm
Newquay 13:21 4.9 --:-- -- Exeter 21:18-05:01
Johannesburg 17 PC Tel Aviv 31 S eastwards through the morning Sunniest: Bournemouth,
Oban 01:18 2.9 15:11 2.8 Dorset, 13.6hrs* Glasgow 21:42-04:42
Kuala Lumpur 33 PC Tenerife 25 S to leave a bright and blustery
19 Penzance 12:59 4.0 --:-- -- Liverpool 21:26-04:48
Kyiv ** ** Tokyo 16 B day across the British Isles.
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‘Naughty kid’ targets Lord’s
Matty Potts only took
up cricket to let off
steam but Test debut
could be close, writes
Elizabeth Ammon
While the Ben Stokes era will begin
next month with optimism, he inherits
a number of issues that will need
addressing if he is to help lift England
out of their malaise.
In particular, the age and fitness of
his seam-bowling options remains a
concern — not helped by yesterday’s
news that Chris Woakes will not be fit
for the first Test with New Zealand,
which starts on June 2. Woakes, like
Stuart Broad and James Anderson, is
the wrong side of 30, while Jofra Archer,
Sam Curran and Mark Wood are all in-
jured and Ollie Robinson is a doubt.
So there is the potential for a fresh,
young bowler to work his way into the
Test reckoning — and one such player,
Matty Potts, has already given Stokes a
first-hand account of what he offers. Do
not be surprised if the new England
captain talks up the claims of his
23-year-old Durham team-mate when
selection is discussed next week for the
first Test at Lord’s.
Potts, who last year impressed in the
T20 format, took six for 62 on a flat
pitch at New Road in the draw with
Worcestershire this weekend, while
Stokes went wicketless in his 30 overs
across both innings.
At his quickest, Potts, who has taken
66 wickets in 23 first-class matches at
an average a shade under 30, can hit
about 86mph — not express like
Archer or Wood but brisk enough when
compared with the rest of the England
attack. This season, he is the joint
leading wicket-taker in the County
Championship, along with Lancashire’s
Hasan Ali, having taken 24 at 22.88.
Those numbers are all the more
impressive given that the start of the
season has been a batsman’s paradise,
with pitches much flatter than in
previous years.
And they justify his youth coaches’
decision to convert a child who arrived
as a batsman to a bowler whose height
gives him a natural advantage.
“I was a bit of a naughty kid at
school,” Potts says. “I had all this pent-
up energy that they didn’t know what to
do with, so my mum and dad started
taking me to cricket coaching when I
was about eight or nine to try to
disperse some of that energy.
“They realised quite early that I was
quite good, so I moved pretty quickly
into the Durham set-up through the
age groups. I was playing club under-13s
when I was nine and ten and I just
honestly loved playing right from the
second I got a bat and ball in my hand
— it seemed to be my game.
“I started off as a batsman, I used to
give it a good old whack, but my dad is
6ft 8in and the Durham coaches
pushed me towards being a bowler
because they knew my height would
give me some advantages. My height
[6ft 2in] is one of my attributes. It means
I can hit the pitch hard to extract a bit
of extra bounce on some flat tracks.”
It is certainly an important facet, but
his primary asset is how he pitches the
ball up and obtains late swing. He also
has good control and it is that ability
that will bring him into the discussions
for a Test call-up. England’s bowlers are
often criticised for pitching too short
and, in the case of Broad and Anderson
in particular, hate being driven, so drag
their lengths back. Potts is not afraid to
go full, recognising there is an element
of risk to reward in pitching the ball up.
“With the red ball you want to use
your height as much as possible and I do
that, but with the white ball I try to get
a bit lower to be skiddy,” he says. “I have
discussed it at length with my bowling
coach, how I adapt my game between
the different formats. I feel like I am
now able to make the transitions
between the different formats.”
Potts is already in England’s thinking
for the limited-overs side — he was a
non-travelling reserve for the T20
series in the Caribbean in January.
“That was a real boost for me,” he says.
“I have had a good start to my white-
ball career and of course I want higher
honours. I hope that was just the tip of
the iceberg in terms of my progression.
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Potts has taken 24
wickets this season, the
joint most in the County
Championship and six
more than anyone else
in Division Two
Potts likes to pitch the ball up, a contrast to England’s more established seamers
“I completely regard myself as a
three-dimensional cricketer and
wouldn’t want to limit myself to any one
format — that would be daft. My main
goal is a Test cap — of course it is.”
The desire to keep pushing his game
on is impressive. “This is something I
have said to my coaches in my end of
season appraisals — I want to be a gen-
uine all-rounder. I think it is possible
with a lot of hard work and determina-
tion,” he says.
“I have a couple of second-team
hundreds to my name. I can bat. I am
yet to display that in the County
Championship but I have to do that. I
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absolutely want to transform myself
into a genuine all-rounder which would
be a valuable asset to Durham and
hopefully to England.”
There’s a refreshing honesty about
the way Potts talks and a brimming
enthusiasm for the game. For all of
Durham’s troubles in the past, the
production line of tough, competitive
cricketers has remained active. Potts is
the latest in a long line of bowlers who
came from the thriving club scene
rather than a public school. While his
call-up may not come immediately, if
he continues to perform as he is per-
forming, he will be impossible to ignore.
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Woakes is
set to miss
first Test
Cricket
Elizabeth Ammon
Chris Woakes looks set to miss out on
selection for the first Test of the
summer as injury will keep him out of
Warwickshire’s next game in the Coun-
ty Championship — the final match
before the England squad is selected.
The all-rounder, 33, has not played
since the tour to the West Indies in
March because of “niggles” in his shoul-
der and knee. He had been expected to
play at least one early-season match
before the selectors meet next week to
decide on a squad to face New Zealand
at Lord’s on June 2, but his recovery has
been slower than expected.
Another of England’s all-rounders,
Sam Curran, 23, is recovering from a
stress fracture in his back and is only
playing for Surrey as a batsman for now.
Dan Lawrence, who batted at No 4 in
the West Indies, is also in a race to prove
his fitness after picking up a hamstring
injury three weeks ago.
With Joe Root moving to No 4 and
Ben Stokes, the new Test captain, to
No 6, there are spaces in the top and
middle order for a new name or two,
which could include Yorkshire’s Harry
Brook, 23, who has scored three cham-
pionship centuries this season.
Stuart Broad will play for Notting-
hamshire against Middlesex at Lord’s
this week but, although the 35-year-old
is likely to be named in England’s squad,
there is no guarantee he will make the
playing XI. With Woakes, Curran, Jofra
Archer, Olly Stone and Mark Wood
missing through injury, England’s
seam-bowling options look to be
restricted to James Anderson, Broad,
Ollie Robinson, Saqib Mahmood and
Craig Overton. A larger-than-usual
squad of about 17 is expected to meet for
training at the end of the month.
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Sport Formula One
Let Hamilton
wear what he
wants – he’s
a grown man
Rebecca Clancy
Motor Racing
Correspondent
T
he saga surrounding
“jewellerygate” is set to roll
on, with Lewis Hamilton
making it clear that he has
no plans to remove all of his
piercings and resistance growing
among the drivers to the clampdown
on piercings and their choice of
underwear.
On the latter point, Sebastian Vettel
made his feelings about the
underwear ruling clear when he
walked around the Hard Rock
Stadium paddock in Miami on Friday
wearing his pants over his race suit.
The FIA, the sport’s governing
body, has made it clear that it plans to
enforce a long-standing rule that
drivers are not allowed to wear
jewellery while racing. Hamilton was
given a two-race exemption for the
piercings that he cannot remove
without professional help — which
means there will be a stand-off in
three weeks’ time in Monaco.
The dispute started before the
Australian Grand Prix last month,
when the new race directors, Niels
Wittich and Eduardo Freitas, decided
to include a reminder that jewellery is
banned in their pre-race notes. There
was also a note telling drivers that
their underwear must comply with
the rules and be fire-resistant.
It was clear that there would be a
grace period as everyone tried to
comply but that seems to have
expired by the Miami Grand Prix.
How reliable Russell stole march on stellar team-mate
Rebecca Clancy
George Russell and Lewis Hamilton
are driving the same Mercedes but find
themselves in very different positions.
For Russell, it is probably the best car he
has driven; for Hamilton, it is probably
one of the worst.
Russell’s strong start with Mercedes
should come as no surprise to anyone
who has followed his career closely.
The 24-year-old won the F3 and F2
championships in consecutive years,
becoming the second driver to achieve
that feat after Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.
What is a surprise, perhaps, is that he
seems to be comfortably outperform-
ing his team-mate, a seven-times world
champion. Hamilton, 37, is one of the
best drivers to have set foot on the grid,
but he has struggled more with the car
than Russell, who has a 23-point lead
over Hamilton in the drivers’ standings.
Here is how the Englishmen have fared
in the five races so far.
Wittich, one of the two new race
directors brought in to replace
Michael Masi, is known as a stickler
for the smaller details. He has
enforced the jewellery ban in the
lower categories and now he is in
charge of safety in F1, the same rules
apply. Even so, there is a growing
feeling in the paddock that the ruling
is unfairly targeting Hamilton, who is
known to wear a lot of jewellery —
keeping in his earrings and nose stud
while behind the wheel.
The order to enforce the rule has
come from Mohammed bin Sulayem,
the new FIA president, who was
voted in last December. His first job
was to deal with the fallout from the
final race of last season in Abu Dhabi,
when mistakes were made by Masi,
the former race director, which
changed the outcome of the
championship and led to the threat
that Hamilton might retire.
As far as PR disasters go, his first
move was right up there. After
Hamilton skipped the prize-giving
gala in Paris, Bin Sulayem gave his
first press conference. It was supposed
to set the tone for his five-year tenure.
Instead, he said there would be “no
forgiveness” for the seven-times world
champion for missing the event.
On a recent call with team
principals to discuss several issues,
Bin Sulayem was understood to be
“obsessed” with the jewellery ban.
There was disbelief as Bin Sulayem
continued to push the issue despite
others trying to raise different,
arguably much weightier, subjects —
not least the threat that several UK-
based teams might need to lay off
hundreds of staff amid the economic
downturn.
However, there is some merit to the
jewellery ban. The FIA has three
There was little between Hamilton and Russell at the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday
bahrain
Qualifying Russell 9th, Hamilton 5th
Race result Russell 4th, Hamilton 3rd
It was clear at the first race of the season
that Mercedes were the third-quickest
car on the grid, behind Ferrari and Red
Bull. Hamilton got the most out of the
car in qualifying, meaning he could
An unrepentant Hamilton appeared at a press conference in Miami wearing plenty of jewellery — defying the F1 ban
arguments for enforcing it: first, that
jewellery could snag on clothing and
delay treatment after an accident;
second, it could delay diagnostic
treatment if the item needs to be
removed before a scan can take place;
and third, the metal could worsen any
burns in the event of a fire.
On the second point, Hamilton says
that his piercings are platinum and do
not affect scans. He added that he has
had several MRIs in recent years and
never had to remove his piercings.
The other two issues are more
serious, though. Hamilton had arrived
at the press conference dripping in
jewellery to make a point, but after
several phone calls and a few hours,
he agreed to take out his earrings.
This was a compromise with the
FIA but also the right move by
Hamilton. The earrings could catch
on his balaclava. His nose stud, which
take full advantage of Red Bull’s late
double retirement, with Russell behind
him in fourth on his Mercedes debut.
saudi arabia
Qualifying Russell 6th, Hamilton 16th
Race result Russell 5th, Hamilton 10th
Hamilton took the late decision to
cannot be removed without
professional help, however, is not
covered by the balaclava and does not
come into contact with any clothing.
His other piercing, which he has not
revealed the location of, would also
not snag in the race suit because it is
under other layers.
As for the fire risk, Romain
Grosjean’s crash in Bahrain in 2020 is
still fresh in everyone’s minds.
Hamilton has said that he is willing to
sign a waiver to relieve the FIA of any
responsibility.
The 37-year-old has also argued
that he has raced in jewellery for
16 years, though this may be his
weakest argument. Just because that’s
how it’s been, does not mean that’s
how it should be in the future.
Formula One’s safety record has
improved drastically thanks to the
efforts of many people to constantly
change the set-up of the car for qualify-
ing, a gamble that failed to pay off, and
he was eliminated in the first part of
qualifying. Russell went with the
standard set-up, which paid off both in
qualification and in the race.
australia
Qualifying Russell 6th, Hamilton 5th
Race result Russell 3rd, Hamilton 4th
A straightforward qualifying session
but it did not did not translate to the
race for Hamilton, as Russell got lucky
with the timing of a safety car to claim
his first podium finish for Mercedes.
emilia romagna
Qualifying Russell 11th, Hamilton 13th
Sprint Russell 11th, Hamilton 14th
Race result Russell 4th, Hamilton 13th
It was a bad qualifying session for both
drivers, but Russell came good in the
race itself. A stunning first lap propelled
him to sixth and out of the midfield
traffic that hindered Hamilton. Russell
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evolve the rules in order to make the
sport safer — and the end result is
significantly fewer deaths.
Hamilton is not alone in arguing
against the ban. Pierre Gasly has said
he races with “religious items” and
would not feel comfortable not
having them with him in the cockpit.
It would feel less like Hamilton was
being targeted if the FIA had not
made an exemption for wedding
rings. Kevin Magnussen drove
without his during Friday practice
and did not like it. He wore it for the
rest of the weekend.
Regulations are in place to keep the
drivers safe but some common sense
is required. Drivers take on enough
danger every time they step into the
cockpit and if they, as adults, decide
to wear a piece of jewellery, in full
knowledge of the risk to themselves,
that is their choice.
then slowly made his way through the
field.
miami
Qualifying Russell 12th, Hamilton 6th
Race result Russell 5th, Hamilton 6th
Russell was again lucky with the timing
of the safety car, though he and Mer-
cedes made the right call to start on
hard tyres. Hamilton said he got un-
lucky with his strategy, which is true in
part, but it was still a solid performance
by him. Without the safety car, he
would have been ahead of Russell.
Over the five races, the data may
show a chasm between the two drivers
but the reality is not so clear-cut. Rus-
sell has been impressively consistent —
the only driver to finish inside the top
five at every race — but Hamilton has
taken more risks. The title has gone so
the team-mates are not in a battle with
each other and must help the team to
improve. Once they do that, we will get
to see a proper contest between them.
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6 (2) 4-044 PURE CHARMER 13 (B) A Watson 8-13 B Sayette (7) 7 (12) 00-02 SIR PLATO 12 (V,CD) B Millman 8-9-1 H Doyle 11-8 Rock Legend, 4-1 Scots Poet, Balearic, 11-2 Onesoc, 10-1 Cornell, 13 (6) 00-00 SUGARPIEHONEYBUNCH 23 (P) S G West 4-8-9 A Brookes (7)
8 (6) 4-105 KENSTONE 26 (P,CD) A Wintle 9-9-1 Laura Pearson (3) 5.10 Handicap (£2,970: 1m) (12) 16-1 Barranco, 33-1 Kenfromixworth, 100-1 Mrindependant. 7-2 Cusack, 5-1 Willing To Please, 6-1 Mahanakhon Power, Iron Sheriff, 7-1 others.
15-8 Vaunted, 11-4 Pure Charmer, 4-1 Montiney, 6-1 Golden Prosperity, 10-1 others.
9 (9) 0000- ORIENTAL BEAUTY 250 A Wintle 4-8-12 T Heard (5) 1 (4) 026-5 VILLEURBANNE 83 (P,T) L Carter 4-9-10Harry Davies (7)
Wright choice: Pure Charmer needed the run when fourth 10 (4) -3036 LUXY LOU 12 (T,BF) G Harris 4-8-12 T Whelan 6.30 Handicap (£4,995: 1m 2f) (8)
at Brighton after a three-month break Danger Vaunted
2 (2) 34-32 ENGLISH SPIRIT 41 (BF) H Main 4-9-9 S De Sousa 1.30 Handicap Chase
11(10) 2000- KINZ 225 J Spearing 4-8-10 C Hutchinson (5) 3 (1) 4156- MAGICAL DRAGON 204 (V,D) P Chamings 5-9-9R Clutterbuck (3) (£3,513: 2m 1f) (6) 1 (7) 14406 ATHMAD 25 (CD) R Carr 6-9-9 P Mulrennan
12 (2) 00-0R GIRL FROM IPANEMA 8 R Stephens 4-8-10 D Keenan 4 (7) 6-006 NICK VEDDER 15 (D) R Brisland 8-9-9 L Keniry
3.10 Handicap (£3,821: 5f) (10) 13 (1) 33/00 HAGIA SOPHIA 12 C Mason 4-8-6 J F Egan 5 (3) 0-000 FLORENCE STREET 41 Mrs L Richards 4-9-8 W Carson
1 5311- GOSUATRI 30 (B,T) Jonjo O’Neill 6-12-2 Jonjo O’Neill Jr 2 (2) 6012- FREAK OUT 179 (D) Gemma Tutty 4-9-9 S James
2 3PP3- BLUEBERG 42 E Williams 6-11-13 A Wedge 3 (6) 4-131 DRAGONS WILL RISE 55 (CD) M Hammond 6-9-9 R Havlin
1 (5) 0324- DANDY SPIRIT 208 (BF,D) R Fell 5-9-11 B Curtis 14(13) 50-01 LILANDRA 8 (P,D) J Flint 5-8-4(5ex) G Rooke (3) 6 (11) 2/0-0 RAIHAAN 83 G L Moore 6-9-7 K Shoemark
3 P324- LUCKY ROBIN 21 (P,C) B Ellison 10-11-11 B Hughes 4 (4) 005-0 JEAN BAPTISTE 10 (D) R Fell 5-9-8 T Marquand
2 (3) 32416 MICK’S SPIRIT 28 (BF,D) C Allen 4-9-10 C Howarth (7) 7-2 Dundory, 11-2 Granary Queen, 7-1 My Brother Mike, Maysong, 7 (9) 63351 MASQOOL 20 (C,D) H Evans 4-9-7 D Costello
4 2061- FIRST REVOLUTION 21 (H,CD) M Todhunter 8-11-6 5 (3) 4325- MANGO BOY 236 (BF) C Wall 4-9-6 J Mitchell
3 (2) -5110 JEANS MAITE 53 (BF,D) S Bowring 6-9-8 L Edmunds 15-2 Sir Plato, 10-1 Darvel, Kenstone, Dewey Road, 14-1 others. 8 (6) -0226 SWEET BERTIE 57 (BF) J Butler 4-9-7Grace McEntee (3) Craig Nichol 6 (1) 145-2 DUAL IDENTITY 21 (BF,D) W Knight 4-9-5 J Crowley
4 (7) 00-01 SON AND SANNIE 8 (D) A Watson 6-9-7 B Sayette (7) 9 (12) 155-5 WEARDIDITALLGORONG 26 (B,D) P Phelan 10-9-5D O’Neill
5 0514- SIX ONE NINE 52 (T,V,C) C Grant 7-11-6 A Doyle (7) 7 (5) 424-3 DIAMONDONTHEHILL 14 (B) M Dods 4-9-2 C Beasley
5 (1) 66035 GOOD EARTH 29 (D) M Herrington 5-9-7 J Hart 1.45 Restricted Novice Stakes 10(10) 54045 CAPE GRECO 15 (V,C) J Long 7-8-13 R Hornby 8 (8) -5132 BUSBY 15 (P) P Kirby 7-9-0 P J McDonald
6 (4) 2203- ELEGANT ERIN 204 P Midgley 5-9-4 G Lee 6 44/2- RANN OF KUTCH 23 M Sowersby 7-10-4 Jack Hogan (7)
(£3,942: 1m) (5) 11 (5) 132-5 AIGUILLETTE 38 (T,V,CD) G L Moore 6-8-12 A Keeley (7)
13-8 Gosuatri, 3-1 First Revolution, 5-1 Lucky Robin, 6-1 Six One Nine, 4-1 Dragons Will Rise, 9-2 Dual Identity, 5-1 Busby, 6-1 others.
7 (8) 606-6 TAR HEEL 20 T Easterby 4-9-4 D Allan 12 (8) 56440 MR MAC 24 (V,CD) S Hodgson 8-8-10 W Carver (3)
1 (4) 3 KITEFLYER 27 Sir M Stoute 3-9-7 R Kingscote 8-1 Rann Of Kutch, 12-1 Blueberg.
8 (10) 1-042 HIGH SECURITY 13 (D) N Tinkler 4-9-2 R Scott
9 (6) 00-05 TERUNTUM STAR 19 (P,CD) D C Griffiths 10-9-1 D Swift
2 (1) 4 LEBSAYER 14 Sir M Stoute 3-9-7 H Doyle 11-4 English Spirit, 5-1 Masqool, Sweet Bertie, 7-1 Raihaan, 10-1 others. 7.00 Maiden Stakes
3 (2) 0 POET’S REALM 34 (P) D & C Kubler 3-9-5 Rossa Ryan (3-Y-O: £3,942: 1m 2f) (14)
10 (9) 660-4 REFUGE 16 (D) M & D Easterby 5-8-7 Joanna Mason (3)
4 (3) PRIVATE BRYAN E De Giles 3-9-3 T Whelan 5.45 Handicap (3-Y-O: £2,970: 7f) (9) 2.00 Handicap Hurdle (£3,730: 2m 1f) (12)
7-4 Son And Sannie, 6-1 High Security, 7-1 Good Earth, 8-1 Dandy Spirit, 1 4F1P- NORTH PARADE 49 (CD) Sue Smith 7-12-1 T Willmott (3) 1 (13) 25- ADJOURN 229 D M Simcock 9-7 J P Spencer
5 (5) MISS METROPOLITAN (P) E J-Houghton 3-8-12 1 (9) 54-03 KINGOFHELL 54 E Walker 9-11 K Shoemark
10-1 Mick’s Spirit, Elegant Erin, Refuge, 12-1 Jeans Maite, 14-1 others. Georgia Dobie (3) 2 (12) 6- COMMANDER HECTOR 193 C Wall 9-7 J Crowley
2 (5) 60-66 BAILEYS LIBERTY 34 C & M Johnston 9-11 F Norton 2 423P- AUGHARUE 43 W Coltherd 5-11-13 T Gillard (3)
8-15 Kiteflyer, 10-3 Lebsayer, 15-2 Miss Metropolitan, 12-1 Private Bryan, 3 (6) JASEY (P) P Kirby 9-7 P Dennis
Wright choice: Son And Sannie escapes a penalty for last 3 (8) 0-56 SUN EMPEROR 32 (H) J Portman 9-10 R Hornby 3 6433- GENEVER DRAGON F31 (B,CD) D McCain 5-11-11 B Hughes
33-1 Poet’s Realm. 4 (14) 4 LIQUID METRIC 17 James Horton 9-7 P J McDonald
week’s win at Windsor Dangers High Security, Refuge 4 (1) 50-06 IDEAL GUEST 15 G Margarson 9-9 T P Queally 4 /243- LONIMOSS BARELIERE 163 (T) D Skelton 6-11-7 H Skelton
5 (9) 3 LISEO 29 (T) S & E Crisford 9-7 R Coakley
5 (6) 5250- RENEGADE ROSE 188 W Muir & C Grassick 9-7T Greatrex 5 6100- LLEYTON 18 Justin Landy 10-11-6 A Cawley
3.40 Handicap (£3,088: 1m 100yd) (13) 2.20 Handicap (£3,510: 6f) (15) 6 (4) 0-0 MIDAS 17 R Carr 9-7 J Gormley
6 (4) 0-00 TRUE FORCE 13 (P) R Teal 9-6 James Doyle 6 4P66- PHOEBUS LESCRIBAA 18 (P) Harriet Dickin 10-11-3 B Poste
7 (3) 00 RED COMMAND 22 T Waggott 9-7 T Eaves
1 (4) 300-0 WALTZING QUEEN 16 R Guest 4-9-10 S W Kelly 1 (15) 16135 MASHAAN 18 Alice Haynes 4-9-10 K O’Neill 7 (2) 440- NON STOP 193 Joe Tizzard 9-3 A Atzeni 7 6644- JACK YEATS 19 (BF) W Coltherd 6-11-2 D R Fox
8 (2) 6 SCOTTISH DANCER 17 J O’Keeffe 9-7 J Garritty
2 (1) 0420- TWIN APPEAL 335 (C) Gemma Tutty 11-9-9 R Scott 2 (8) 00-64 KOOL MOE DEE 15 (BF,D) R Hannon 4-9-8 Rossa Ryan 8 (7) 56-11 RUITH LE TU 15 (P,CD) J S Moore 9-3 L Keniry 8 4306- CHEMICAL WARFARE 27 (T) T Collier 5-10-10 T Dowson 9 (1) 00 SEAL OF SOLOMON 29 (H) E Dunlop 9-7 T Marquand
3 (10) 00-56 MOTARAJEL 8 (P,CD) T Easterby 5-9-9 D Fentiman 3 (11) -3533 EYE OF THE WATER 20 (D) R Harris 6-9-7 D Probert 9 (3) 000-0 OUTTATHEBLUE 15 M Hoad 8-10 C Shepherd 9 00/3- HIGHLAND SKY F10 (B) B Ellison 7-10-4 N Moscrop 10 (5) 5 STATE EVENT 27 C Appleby 9-7 W Buick
4 (2) 06021 ELIXSOFT 3 (D) Gemma Tutty 7-9-7 Ryan Sexton (7) 4 (1) -0140 BEZZAS LAD 22 (CD) A Carroll 5-9-7 J Watson 5-2 Ruith Le Tu, 4-1 Kingofhell, 5-1 Sun Emperor, 7-1 others. 10 0300- SNOWED IN 51 (P,CD) B Butterworth 13-10-3 Sean Quinlan 11 (8) BLACK MAMBA R Menzies 9-2 C Rodriguez
5 (11) 60353 BACK FROM DUBAI 18 (D) S Bowring 5-9-6 L Edmunds 5 (10) 240-0 AMATHUS 20 (D) P Chamings 5-9-6 H Crouch 11 0PP-0 JUPITER ROAD 4 (B) M Sowersby 6-10-2 Jack Hogan (7) 12(10) LIZZIE JEAN (H) I Furtado 9-2 T Hamilton
6 (6) 60-34 JACKAMUNDO 17 D Carroll 6-9-6 H Shaw 6 (9) 24311 MACS DILEMMA 14 (P,D) J G O’Shea 4-9-6 H Doyle 6.15 Handicap (£2,970: 6f) (12) 12 506P- MAC BE LUCKY 51 E Williams 5-10-2 A Wedge 13 (7) 0- ROSE CAMIRA 192 C Wall 9-2 J Mitchell
7 (13) 600-4 ROCKET DANCER 13 (D) M & D Easterby 5-9-2 7 (13) 400-0 MAY REMAIN 40 (P,D) G Baker 7-9-6 T Whelan 3-1 Lonimoss Bareliere, 5-1 North Parade, 7-1 Highland Sky, Genever Dragon,
1 (5) 20125 JACK RYAN 14 (V,D) J Ryan 5-9-9 G Buckell (3) 14(11) ROYAL SCANDAL J Fanshawe 9-2 D Muscutt
Joanna Mason (3) 8 (12) 300-5 HANDYTALK 20 (B,C,D) B Millman 9-9-5 R Kingscote
2 (11) 4-254 HARBOUR STORM 23 (P,D) R Brisland 7-9-6 S De Sousa 8-1 Jack Yeats, 10-1 Phoebus Lescribaa, Augharue, 12-1 others. 2-1 State Event, 3-1 Liseo, 7-2 Adjourn, 5-1 Royal Scandal, 12-1 others.
8 (8) -0322 HARDY 8 (V) Jessica Macey 4-9-2 O Stammers (3) 9 (7) 330-6 SWEET PURSUIT 12 (CD) B Millman 8-9-4Laura Pearson (3)
3 (10) -4004 GRIGGY 21 (CD) J Butler 6-9-5 James Doyle
9 (7) 60-63 KYLIE RULES 8 (CD) R Carr 7-8-13 JP Sullivan 10 (3) -0002 PORT NOIR 13 (P,T,C,D) R Stephens 5-9-3 D Keenan
10 (9) 066-5 SKEDADDLED 22 R Barr 4-8-12 H Russell (3) 4 (6) 02325 PAPAS GIRL 29 J S Moore 4-9-4 L Keniry 2.30 Novices’ Limited Handicap 7.30 Handicap (3-Y-O: £2,970: 1m) (10)
11 (4) 000-0 EASTERN DELIGHT 12 C Mason 4-8-13 W Cox (3)
20002 PADDY ELLIOTT 13 (V) B Ellison 5-8-12 B Robinson 5 (3) 62222 MAAHI VE 20 (P) M Attwater 4-9-4 W Carson Chase (£6,535: 2m 1f) (4) 1 (10) 0-414 DOUGIES DREAM 7 (BF,D) N Tinkler 9-9F McManoman (3)
11(12) 12 (6) -0000 JESSIE PYE 4 (B) J G O’Shea 4-8-8 Gina Mangan (5)
6 (12) 00-00 AHORSECALLEDWANDA 20 (CD) P Butler 5-9-4Grace McEntee (3)
12 (5) 05004 HIGHLIGHT REEL 7 (C) R Fell 7-8-9 B Curtis 13 (2) 0-004 HOPE PROBE 13 (B) R J Price 4-8-4 T Heard (5) 1 22U-1 NERO ROCK 7 (C) J Candlish 7-12-3(7ex) T Gillard (3) 2 (5) 650-6 CHELSEA ANNIE 19 A Keatley 9-9 B Garritty
7 (9) 31330 INDEPENDENCE DAY 31 (D) C Banham 9-9-3 J Haynes
13 (3) 666-0 KODIMOOR 13 (V,C) M Walford 9-8-9 J Hart 14 (5) 306-3 DIAMOND COTTAGE 16 M Saunders 5-8-4 J F Egan 2 0035- LUCKY ONE 59 D Skelton 7-11-10 H Skelton 3 (4) 041-4 MUVERAN 15 (CD) K Burke 9-8 T Marquand
8 (7) -5053 SAN JUAN 12 (T) M Loughnane 5-9-2 Josephine Gordon
11-4 Elixsoft, 7-1 Hardy, Kylie Rules, 8-1 Back From Dubai, Rocket Dancer, 15(14) 500-3 SOLDIER’S SON 12 (P,T) G Harris 6-8-4Mollie Phillips (5) 3 5231- ESKENDASH 62 (T) J E Foster 9-11-7 B Hughes 4 (8) 40-40 HOI AN BEACH 22 (P) R Menzies 9-6 P J McDonald
9 (4) 60/00 RELATIVE CHOICE 21 G L Moore 4-9-2 R Clutterbuck (3)
10-1 Paddy Elliott, Jackamundo, 12-1 Motarajel, Highlight Reel, 20-1 others. 11-4 Macs Dilemma, 5-1 Kool Moe Dee, 11-2 Eye Of The Water, 7-1 Port Noir, 4 3634- DEERFOOT 168 (T) M Barnes 6-10-5 S Mulqueen 5 (3) 500-0 FORCE ELEVEN 19 N Tinkler 9-4 T Eaves
10 (2) 64-40 BUNGLEDUPINBLUE 104 (CD) J R Jenkins 4-9-1R Dawson
Wright choice: Hardy steps up in trip after a staying-on 8-1 Mashaan, 12-1 Diamond Cottage, 14-1 others. 5-6 Nero Rock, 9-4 Lucky One, 7-2 Eskendash, 66-1 Deerfoot. 6 (9) 0-302 ROSE’S GIRL 16 E Dunlop 9-4 W Buick
11 (1) 020-0 ESSME 13 J Bridger 4-9-1 R Hornby
second here Dangers Waltzing Queen, Highlight Reel 7 (2) 040- LITUUS 211 G Tuer 9-2 S James
12 (8) 54042 PERFECT SYMPHONY 12 (P,CD) M Pattinson 8-9-0J Bryan
2.50 Restricted Maiden Stakes 4-1 Maahi Ve, 6-1 Papas Girl, Griggy, 7-1 Harbour Storm, Jack Ryan, 8-1 others. 3.00 Mares’ Maiden Hurdle 8 (1) 400-0 QWICKEN 19 (P) O Pears 9-2 P Mulrennan
4.10 Handicap (3-Y-O: £3,821: 1m 2f) (10) (2-Y-O: £3,942: 5f) (10) (£5,446: 2m 4f) (5) 9 (7) 600-0 WHO’S UR DANDY 22 (P) M Walford 8-4 A Mullen
410-5 ANIMATO 19 D O’Meara 9-11 D Tudhope 1 (3) 6 BRAVE EMPEROR 27 A Watson 9-7 H Doyle 6.45 Novice Stakes (2-Y-O: £3,942: 5f) (4) 10 (6) -0006 FIGHTING CHANCE 12 S G West 8-4 A Elliott
1 (4) 1 340D- BLUE COLLAR GLORY 30 (H,T) Oliver Greenall & Josh Guerriero 5-11-4
2 (7)32-12 OUTSMART 27 O Pears 9-10 B Robinson 2 (8) 4 ESPIRITO 24 M Usher 9-7 C Bennett Craig Nichol 2-1 Rose’s Girl, 9-4 Dougies Dream, 5-1 Muveran, 12-1 Chelsea Annie, 14-1 others.
1 (2) 1 KNEBWORTH 24 (CD) R Hughes 9-8 P Cosgrave
3 (2)203-3 PAVLODAR 36 C Cox 9-9 C Lee 3 (7) KESSAAR POWER J S Moore 9-7 J F Egan 3 EDGAR LINTON 17 A Watson 9-4 K Shoemark 2 F400- BRIGHT SUNBIRD 129 G Hanmer 7-11-4 Tabitha Worsley (3)
2 (3) 8.00 Novice Stakes (£3,942: 7f) (9)
4 (6)2235- NOONIE 231 E Bethell 9-8 K Stott 4 (9) 2 DESPERATE HERO 11 M Channon 9-5 D Keenan 3 (1) 0 ROCKING ENDS 45 B Johnson 9-4 R Tart 3 4353- EMORELLE 37 E Williams 5-11-4 Miss E Williams (7)
5 (10) 36-5 THE PREDICTOR 36 R Fahey 9-7 D Nolan 5 (5) 2 MUSTANGO 14 A Murphy 9-5 S Cherchi (3) 4 (4) AMARETTI VIRGINIA R Hannon 8-13 P Dobbs 4 5/50- WHERES MAUD GONE 131 L Morgan 6-11-4 A Wedge 1 (4) 1 MONAADAH 68 (D) S bin Suroor 3-9-11 J Crowley
6 (3) 423- FYLDE COAST 201 R Fahey 9-4 P Hanagan 6 (4) 5 GIRLSWANNAHAVEFUN 9 P Evans 9-2 G Downing 4-7 Knebworth, 3-1 Amaretti Virginia, 5-1 Edgar Linton, 25-1 Rocking Ends. 5 62- MRS PAISLEY 26 Patrick Turley 4-10-10 D McMenamin 2 (3) 1 RAZEYNA 23 (D) W Haggas 3-9-6 T Marquand
7 (5)360-0 TEDDY’S PROFIT 12 K Burke 9-2 S Feilden (7) 7 (6) TESSA R Hannon 9-2 Rossa Ryan 7-4 Wheres Maud Gone, 2-1 Mrs Paisley, 3-1 Emorelle, 10-1 Blue Collar Glory, 3 (2) ALL ARE MINE D M Simcock 3-9-4 J P Spencer
8 (1)33-05 CABINET MAKER 12 (B) C & M Johnston 9-2 J Fanning 8 (1) CUCUMBEAR D Loughnane 9-0 Laura Pearson (3) 7.15 Handicap (£2,970: 1m 5f) (8) 12-1 Bright Sunbird. 4 (9) 0 DOCTOR KHAN JUNIOR 61 G Oldroyd 3-9-4 P J McDonald
9 (8)-1241 COPPER MOUNTAIN 16 M & D Easterby 8-10 9 (2) 0 MISS MOONSHINE 15 B Millman 9-0 K O’Neill 5 (8) 0 FRUSTRATING 75 I Furtado 3-9-4 T Hamilton
Joanna Mason (3) 1 (8) 451-4 RAY’S THE ONE 6 (B,CD) G L Moore 5-9-11 T P Queally
10(10) 0 WEDGEWOOD 15 A Carroll 9-0 M Ghiani
2 (4) 400- AURORA STAR 342 (W,T) H Morrison 4-9-9 James Doyle
3.30 Handicap Chase (£5,010: 2m 3f) (5) 6 (7) 06 MAFFEO BARBERINI 17 K Frost 3-9-4 C Hardie
10 (9) 00-02 GIBSIDE 8 T Easterby 8-6 D Fentiman 11-4 Desperate Hero, 4-1 Mustango, Girlswannahavefun, 9-2 others. 7 (1) SAVROLA C Wall 3-9-4 J Mitchell
4-1 Pavlodar, 9-2 Gibside, 5-1 Fylde Coast, Copper Mountain, 6-1 others. 3 (5) 00-05 COLONIAL LOVE 23 (C) R Brisland 4-9-7 L Keniry 1 P331- CILLUIRID 21 (T,CD) T Easterby 8-11-12 B Hughes
8 (5) 2-2 TOTHENINES 17 K Burke 3-9-4 S James
4 (3) 0-331 AVARICE 64 J Butler 5-9-7 S De Sousa 2 44U3- COSTLY DIAMOND 21 (T,BF,C) G Hanmer 8-11-11
Wright choice: Pavlodar should appreciate this stiffer test 3.20 Handicap (£2,970: 5f) (14) W Shanahan (7) 9 (6) 4 WILLEM TWEE 34 J Fanshawe 3-9-4 D Muscutt
5 (6) 3623- ARTEMIS SKY 166 M Tregoning 4-9-6 D Costello
of stamina Dangers Gibside, Copper Mountain 1 (12) 00644 SECRET POTION 16 (P,CD) R Harris 8-9-10 D Probert 3 4656- BRELAN D’AS 21 B Haslam 11-11-10 R McLernon 2-1 Razeyna, 5-2 Monaadah, 4-1 Tothenines, 7-1 All Are Mine, 8-1 others.
6 (7) -6134 LARGO BAY 15 (B,C) M Madgwick 4-9-5 A Atzeni
2 (5) 06-00 PRINCE OF ROME 24 (E,T,D) M Mullineaux 6-9-10C Bennett 7 (1) 500-0 CECI WELLS 36 P Webber 5-9-1 W Carver (3) 4 2414- PETERBOROUGH 37 (P,BF,C) E Williams 9-11-10
4.45 Handicap (3-Y-O: £3,186: 1m 4f) (9) 3 (4) 22001 RHUBARB 12 (CD) R J Price 5-9-5 T Heard (5) Isabel Williams (3) 8.30 Handicap (3-Y-O: £2,970: 5f) (13)
8 (2) -3644 LIBBRETTA 41 J Long 7-8-9 R Clutterbuck (3)
4 (3) -2013 MR PC 14 (D) A Carroll 4-9-5 J Watson 5 5130- AUTHORIZO 19 (P,T,D) Oliver Greenall & Josh Guerriero 7-11-2 1 (13) 040-3 TIBERIO SMILE 14 N Tinkler 9-11 A Jary (7)
1 (4) 60-05 WHITCLIFFE 13 C & M Johnston 9-11 J Fanning 9-4 Avarice, 4-1 Artemis Sky, 9-2 Aurora Star, 5-1 Largo Bay, 7-1 others. Craig Nichol
5 (2) 3660- OUR MAN IN HAVANA 208 (CD) A Carroll 7-9-4Mollie Phillips (5) 2 (3) 430-5 ASTRAL BEAT 20 (BF) W Knight 9-10 J Crowley
2 (7) 00-4 AMZAAN 21 W Knight 9-10 S W Kelly 11-8 Cilluirid, 3-1 Peterborough, 7-2 Costly Diamond, 7-1 others.
3 (1) 00-42 ABBIE POWER 13 (P,T,BF) I Jardine 9-10 A Mullen
3 (5) 66-63 COLIGONE KATE 8 O Pears 9-8 JP Sullivan
6 (6) -2316 THEGREYVTRAIN 85 (D) R Harris 6-9-2 Rossa Ryan 7.45 Handicap (3-Y-O: £3,510: 1m 2f) (9)
7 (10) /400- EDGE OF THE BAY 226 C Mason 5-9-2 W Cox (3) 4 (12) 010-2 ROCKPRINCESS 20 K Ryan 9-6 T Eaves
4 (8) 206-0 QWELDRYK 22 O Pears 9-8 G Lee
8 (11) 60-00 FARD 29 M Blake 7-9-1 M Ghiani
1 (4) 5-44 KAATIBB 22 (P) S & E Crisford 9-9 James Doyle 4.00 Open NH Flat Race 5 (6) 4-512 JUST ANOTHER 56 (P,BF,CD) J L Eyre 9-6 C Beasley
5 (3) 00-01 APPIER 8 (C) S P C Woods 9-5(6ex) B Curtis 2 (6) 3-56 CUMULONIMBUS 24 C Fellowes 9-8 K Shoemark (£2,614: 2m 1f) (7) 6 (11) 03-00 CONTACTLESS 8 (B,T) L Mullaney 9-2 P Mulrennan
9 (7) 064-0 FITTLETON FERRY 8 (H) Mrs N Evans 4-9-0 K O’Neill
6 (1) 0500 QUERCUS ROBUR 36 (P) R Fahey 9-1 P Hanagan 3 (1) 44120 CANNY FETTLE 17 (P) R Varian 9-7 A Atzeni
4- HIDALGO DE L’ISLE 52 (BF) D McCain 5-11-2 B Hughes 7 (10) 20-06 DANDY’S DIVA 14 R M Smith 9-2 P-L Jamin (3)
10(13) -0066 FOSSOS 13 (T,V,D) D Faulkner 4-9-0 G Rooke (3) 1
7 (6) 005-6 MARBUZET 16 (B) T Easterby 8-10 D Allan 4 (8) 50-0 GOLD CHARM 23 W Knight 9-7 C Shepherd
I’M DOUGAL ROCKS M Hammond 5-11-2 Miss Becky Smith (3) 8 (9) 52404 LOOSE LIPS 13 K Dalgleish 9-0 C Rodriguez
11(14) 00-06 SILVER DIVA 24 (T,V) J Gallagher 4-9-0 H Doyle 2
8 (2) 0-560 PEACE ANGEL 16 (V) T Coyle 8-9 K Schofield (5) 5 (5) 002- PROMOTING 146 H Morrison 9-7 R Hornby
31- VICTORY CLUB 79 D Skelton 5-11-2 H Skelton 9 (4) 54-00 DALGLISH 96 (H) A Brittain 8-13 C Hardie
12 (1) 56030 VINCENZO COCCOTTI 16 (P) P Chamings 10-9-0H Crouch 3
9 (9) 6004 MARILLA 13 P Kirby 8-9 J Hart 6 (7) 51-51 FEARLESS BAY 13 (P,D) E Dunlop 9-6 Doubtful
PP- ATTENTION ALL 44 R Menzies 4-10-10 N Moscrop 10 (7) 1206- DAJARUS 133 (T,C) I Jardine 8-11 J Gormley
13 (9) 00500 SHOW ME NOW 14 Martin Smith 5-9-0 D Keenan 4
11-10 Appier, 5-1 Amzaan, 7-1 Whitcliffe, 8-1 Marbuzet, 10-1 Coligone Kate, 7 (3) 026-5 GLIDING BAY 27 I Mohammed 9-6 R Dawson
F ILTONE 16 J A Jenkins 4-10-10 Lilly Pinchin (5) 11 (2) 036-0 ENRAGED 22 (P) J Camacho 8-10 S James
14 (8) 6600/ LILI WEN FACH 507 (CD) R J Price 5-9-0 5
12-1 Quercus Robur, 20-1 Qweldryk, Peace Angel, Marilla. C Hutchinson (5) 8 (9) 012 ROGUE MISSION 74 (CD) Tom Clover 9-5 L Morris
PERZZINI Patrick Turley 4-10-10 D McMenamin 12 (8) 5-605 CLARET CLUB 13 (H) Ewan Whillans 8-6 S Gray
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Wright choice: Appier can shrug off a 6lb penalty for last 9-4 Rhubarb, 5-1 Mr Pc, 13-2 Secret Potion, 8-1 Edge Of The Bay, 10-1 Fard, 9 (2) 60-13 GANGWAY 24 C & M Johnston 9-2 F Norton
00- PROFILES MIX 143 M Hammond 4-10-10 A Cawley 13 (5) 00-04 BY MOONLIGHT 56 (P) M Herrington 8-4 A Breslin (3)
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week’s win success here Dangers Peace Angel, Whitcliffe Silver Diva, Thegreyvtrain, 16-1 others. 4-1 Gangway, 9-2 Canny Fettle, 5-1 Promoting, Cumulonimbus, 6-1 others. 3-1 Rockprincess, 4-1 Just Another, 5-1 Astral Beat, 7-1 others.
6-5 Victory Club, 2-1 Hidalgo De L’isle, 7-1 Perzzini, 10-1 others.

Yesterday’s racing results

Catterick (5-6 fav). 10 ran. NR: Herbertandflorence.

Going: good to firm (good in places)
1.30 (7f 6yd) 1, Parys Mountain
(Brandon Wilkie, 3-1); 2, Chookie Dunedin
(15-8 fav); 3, Langholm (5-2). 5 ran. Ol, 1Kl.
T D Easterby.
2.00 (5f) 1, Fragrance (Jason Hart, 11-8 fav);
2, Lady Hollywood (6-1); 3, Havana Angel (7-2).
7 ran. Sh hd, 2Kl. M Johnston.
2.30 (5f) 1, Newgate Angel (Kieran Schofield,
33-1); 2, Golden Gal (7-5 fav); 3, Country Charm
(8-1). 12 ran. Nk, nk. T Coyle.
3.00 (1m 4f 13yd) 1, Haven Lady (Jason Hart,
13-8 fav); 2, O’Reilly’s Pass (10-1); 3, Go Fox
(4-1). 12 ran. 2N, 3Ol. J J Quinn.
3.30 (5f 212yd) 1, The Armed Man (Paula Muir,
4-1); 2, Redrosezorro (11-5 fav); 3, Sfumato
(8-1). 9 ran. Nk, 1Ol. C W Fairhurst.
4.00 (1m 7f 189yd) 1, Yasmin From York
(Joanna Mason, 10-3); 2, Lindwall (18-1); 3,
First Blood (25-1). 10 ran. NR: Zuckerberg. 3l, 2l.
Simon Whitaker.
4.30 (7f 6yd) 1, Diamond Ranger (B A Curtis,
3-1); 2, Sir Robin (13-2); 3, Mahanakhon
1Kl, 5Kl. G Boughey.
Placepot: £41.40.
Quadpot: £16.30.
Musselburgh
Going: good to firm (good in places)
1.45 (5f 1yd) 1, Cathy Come Home
(P Mulrennan, 2-1 fav); 2, Chattel Village
(6-1); 3, Finn Russell (22-1). 6 ran. 1Ol, nk.
K R Burke.
2.20 (1m 208yd) 1, Queen’s Fair (Jason Watson,
9-2); 2, Saulire Star (3-1); 3, Karatayka (13-2).
5 ran. 1Ol, 3l. D O’Meara.
2.50 (1m 4f 104yd) 1, Graces Quest
(P Mulrennan, 11-4 fav); 2, The New Marwan
(9-2); 3, Sameem (17-2). 8 ran. 4Ol, Kl.
J S Goldie.
3.20 (7f 33yd) 1, Aquamas (Connor Beasley,
2-1 fav); 2, Mr Strutter (9-2); 3, How Bizarre
(7-2). 7 ran. 2Nl, 1Ol. M Dods.
3.50 (5f 1yd) 1, John Kirkup (Connor Beasley,
14-1); 2, Rory (10-1); 3, Rose Bandit (15-2).
6 ran. Hd, nk. D Thompson.
4.20 (1m 2yd) 1, Fergie Time (Callum Rodriguez,
11-2); 2, Cobra Kai (4-1); 3,
Antwasaprettypenny (4-1). 7 ran. Hd, sh hd.
K Dalgleish.
4.50 (1m 2yd) 1, Million Thanks (Kevin Stott,
Evens fav); 2, Celestial Star (10-1); 3, Western
Stars (9-4). 10 ran. Nk, 4l. K A Ryan.
Placepot: £1,140.80. Quadpot: £210.10.
Southwell
Going: good
5.20 (2m 4f 88yd) 1, Steady The Ship (Jonjo
O’Neill Jr., 11-4); 2, Capricia (15-8 fav); 3,
Diamond Rose (10-3). 5 ran. NR: Storm Rising.
1Kl, 14l. Jonjo O’Neill.
5.50 (3m 60yd) 1, Percussion (Adam Wedge, 5-2
fav); 2, Boughtbeforelunch (17-2); 3,
Dreamsundermyfeet (18-5). 7 ran. NR: Realm
Keeper. 3Kl, 36l. L Morgan.
6.20 (1m 7f 182yd) 1, Treyarnon Bay (N de
Boinville, 10-11 fav); 2, Vienna Girl (125-1); 3,
Walk Of No Shame (11-1). 12 ran. 2N, 1Kl. N J
Henderson.
6.50 (1m 7f 182yd) 1, Clear The Runway (Adam
Wedge, 2-7 fav); 2, Restitution (3-1); 3, Castle
Quarter (20-1). 4 ran. 3N, 11l. L Morgan.
7.20 (1m 7f 182yd) 1, Duke Of Luckley
(S Bowen, 9-2); 2, Captain Ivan (22-1); 3,
London Eye (15-2). 9 ran. 9Kl, 2Kl. M Keighley.
7.50 (2m 4f 88yd) 1, Sister Michael (Kielan
Woods, 15-2); 2, Mr Dealer (5-1); 3, Halifax
(Evens fav). 8 ran. 1N, 4Ol. F O’Brien.
8.20 (2m 4f 88yd) 1, Marajman (B S Hughes, 22-
1); 2, Stratton Oakmont (10-3 fav); 3, Brianna
Rose (7-1). 12 ran. 3Kl, 6l. C A Pogson.
Placepot: £41.50. Quadpot: £8.60.
Windsor
Going: good to firm (good in places)
5.05 (1m 2f) 1, Silver Gunn (N Callan, 15-2);
2, Sweet Reward (5-1); 3, Cu Chulainn (13-2).
7 ran. 4N, 2l. M Botti.
5.40 (5f 21yd) 1, Katey Kontent (A Kirby, 7-4);
2, Radio Goo Goo (5-4 fav); 3, Sassy Babe (12-1).
4 ran. NR: Durley Girl, Mammas Girl. 4Nl, 9l.
C G Cox.
6.10 (6f 12yd) 1, Aramis Grey
(Callum Shepherd, 9-2); 2, Crazy Luck (5-1);
3, Cuban Breeze (9-2). 8 ran. Nk, 1l. Rae Guest.
6.40 (1m 31yd) 1, Modern News (W Buick,
1-2 fav); 2, Tempus (15-2); 3, Bell Rock (10-3).
4 ran. 4Nl, 4l. C Appleby.
7.10 (1m 31yd) 1, Royal Aviation (Jack Mitchell,
2-1 fav); 2, Fozzie Bear (10-3); 3, Silverdale
(33-1). 12 ran. 2Nl, 1Kl. K P De Foy.
7.40 (1m 2f) 1, Dubai Leader (W Buick, 7-1);
2, Eljenob (66-1); 3, Game Master (9-2). 10 ran.
Ol, 1l. M Johnston.
8.10 (1m 3f 99yd) 1, Candy Kitchen (Callum
Shepherd, 9-2); 2, World Without Love
(7-2 fav); 3, Punda Maria (5-1). 8 ran. 2Kl, 2Ol.
M L W Bell.
Placepot: £263.50.
Quadpot: £16.20.
Wolverhampton
Going: standard
1.40 (6f 20yd) 1, Bonita B (George Bass, 10-1);
2, Bang On The Bell (13-2); 3, Accelerando
(14-1). 12 ran. NR: Jackmeister Rudi. Nk, hd.
M R Channon.
2.10 (5f 21yd) 1, Waiting All Night
(James Doyle, 12-1); 2, Confederation (7-1);
3, Global Effort (6-5 fav). 11 ran. Ol, 1Nl.
R Spencer.
2.40 (5f 21yd) 1, You’re Cool (Rose Dawes,
11-4 jt-fav); 2, Jumira Bridge (18-1);
3, Pop Dancer (13-2). 10 ran. 2Kl, sh hd.
D Shaw.
3.10 (1m 4f 51yd) 1, Marie Paradis (S De Sousa,
7-1); 2, Ghostly (12-1); 3, Pilot Wings (25-1).
9 ran. Kl, Kl. A Murphy.
3.40 (7f 36yd) 1, Barging Thru (L Morris, 17-2);
2, Open Mind (11-4 fav); 3, Monsieur Jumbo
(8-1). 8 ran. Nk, 2l. A Watson.
4.10 (7f 36yd) 1, Dubai Elegance (Cam Hardie,
11-2); 2, Hachert (5-4 fav); 3, Babe Alicious
(9-1). 10 ran. Ol, 1l. D Shaw.
4.40 (7f 36yd) 1, Four Feet (Dane O’Neill,
9-4 fav); 2, Redredrobin (11-1); 3, Mighty Fine
(13-2). 9 ran. NR: Luckyangel. Nk, 3l.
H Candy.
5.13 (1m 142yd) 1, Courtside (James Doyle,
9-4 fav); 2, Voltaic (5-1); 3, Harry Love (18-1).
9 ran. 3Kl, nk. S Curran.
Placepot: £337.40.
Quadpot: £71.40.
556 Tuesday May 10 2022 | the times

Sport Tennis
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Rival offers a Alcaraz is a

special player,
tale of hope says Djokovic
John Westerby

for Raducanu
Novak Djokovic believes Carlos
Alcaraz is among the favourites to win
the French Open after his outstanding
performances in Madrid last week.
Djokovic, the world No 1, was beaten
by Alcaraz in the semi-finals of the
Madrid Open after the Spaniard had
John Westerby Rome from myself.” From those heady already beaten his compatriot Rafael
moments of youthful overachieve- Nadal. The 19-year-old then went on to
There are not many players who can ment, both players soon encountered overcome Alexander Zverev in the final
empathise with the astonishing ascent the growing pains that come with the on Sunday, his latest victory in a
that Emma Raducanu enjoyed last physical grind of regular tournament remarkable run of successes that has
year, or with the rather more basic play. Shortly after her victory in New led him to four titles this season and
realities of life on tour that inevitably York, Andreescu suffered a knee injury helped him rise to No 6 in the world.
follow. But Bianca Andreescu, whom that would keep her out of action for the After the final, Zverev described
Raducanu faces in the first round of the first few months of the 2020 season. Alcaraz as “the best player in the world”
Italian Open in Rome today, has experi- Covid then disrupted the rest of the at the moment and Djokovic, who was
enced similarly steep undulations in year and it would be 15 months before beaten 6-7, 7-5, 7-6 the previous day,
her career path so far. she was back in action. was happy to endorse that view. “He
Raducanu was a 16-year-old watch- She then struggled to recover her definitely is special,” the Serb said.
ing the US Open on television in 2019 form last year, leading to her taking a “Already he’s breaking a lot of records
when Andreescu became the first teen- break from the sport in December to as a teenager. So far he’s the best player
ager to win a grand-slam title for look after her mental health, say- in the world this year, no question, with
13 years. She watched with ing that she wanted to “reset, the results that he’s been getting.
particular interest because, recover and grow”. She only “[At] Roland Garros, he’s definitely
like her, Andreescu was returned to action last one of the main favourites, no doubt,
born in Canada — Radu- month in Stuttgart and even though he has never reached the
canu in Toronto, An- Raducanu she is now ranked No 90 second week of a grand slam.”
dreescu a short distance v Andreescu in the world. “The way he was dealing with the
away in Mississauga — Italian Open, first round She reached the pressure in our match, how calm he was
and both have Romani- Today, 2pm
second round in Stutt- until the end, was impressive. He’s a
an heritage. gart before losing in three really complete player. He’s the talk of
Andreescu had just TV: Amazon Prime sets to Aryna Sabalenka, the sport. It’s great for tennis to have
turned 19 when she beat then made encouraging somebody that young who is bold
Serena Williams in straight progress to the third round in enough to challenge the best players.”
sets in the Arthur Ashe Stadium to Madrid, beating Danielle Collins, After his success in Madrid, Alcaraz
become the first Canadian to win a the world No 6, before losing to Jessica has opted to skip the Italian Open this
grand-slam title. Little did Raducanu Pegula, the American who went on to week to remain fresh for the French
know, watching on television, that two reach the final. Open, which is set to begin on May 22.
years later she would become the next Raducanu, the world No 12, has not Djokovic, 34, and Nadal, 35, are both
teenager to win a grand-slam title, in suffered anything like the serious in Rome, however, in the final tourna-
the same stadium, two months before injury that interrupted Andreescu’s Like Raducanu, her opponent today, Andreescu won the US Open as a teenager ment before they appear together at a
her own 19th birthday. progress, but she has sustained a series grand-slam event for the first time in a
“I watched that tournament, I of niggles in her first full-time year on clash between Naomi Osaka and Sara Georgia. Evans, ranked eight places year. In Paris, Djokovic will attempt to
thought Bianca was playing incredibly tour. The latest is a lower-back injury Sorribes Tormo, but Osaka is another lower, had enjoyed a run to the last 16 in draw level with Nadal’s record of 21
well,” Raducanu said yesterday as she that contributed to her third-round player who has carried over an injury Madrid last week, one of his best per- grand-slam singles titles, which he
confirmed she would play the Rothesay defeat by Anhelina Kalinina in the from Madrid. formances on clay, but he was no match claimed by winning the Australian
Classic in Birmingham next month — Madrid Open last week, a problem she Osaka, the world No 38, has with- for Basilashvili in Rome, losing 7-6 Open in January. Djokovic was absent
her first competitive appeareance in has said she will be managing going into drawn from the tournament due to a (7-2), 6-2 in 1hr 44min. from that event after his visa was can-
Britain since her US Open win — as her meeting with Andreescu. “I’m just problem with her left ankle and has It took time for Basilashvili to find celled because he did not meet Austra-
part of her build-up to Wimbledon. trying to adjust to the level and the been replaced by Nuria Párrizas Díaz. rhythm with his serve and Evans broke lia’s Covid vaccination requirements.
“I think her physicality is one of her intensity,” she said. “I guess my body’s Dan Evans, the British No 2, was first to lead the first set 4-2. But Evans “Having both of us and all the other
strengths, how good she is moving, how learning on the job.” beaten in straight sets in the first round was well beaten in the tie-break and best players in the world is great,” Djok-
low she stays. I think that’s really cool Whoever prevails in their contest of the Italian Open yesterday by Nikol- then his own serve began to suffer in ovic said. “Probably Roger [Federer] is
and probably something I can learn had been due to play the winner of the oz Basilashvili, the world No 25 from the second set. the only one missing.”

Results

Tennis
ATP Masters 1000 Rome
Men’s: first round A Davidovich Fokina (Sp) bt I Ivashka
(Bela) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4; S Wawrinka (Switz) bt R Opelka (US)
3-6, 7-5, 6-2; J Brooksby (US) bt F Cobolli (It) 6-3, 6-4;
(Q) L Djere (Serbia) bt B Coric (Cro) 6-2, 6-7 (7-3), 6-2; (13)
D Shapovalov (Can) bt L Sonego (It) 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 6-3;
N Basilashvili (Geo) bt D Evans (GB) 7-6 (7-2), 6-2;
K Khachanov (Russ) bt G Zeppieri (It) 6-3, 6-4; B van de
Zandschulp (Neth) bt S Korda (US) 6-4, 6-1; M Giron (US)
bt A Bublik (Kaz) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3; T Paul (US) bt A Ramos
(Sp) 6-4, 6-4; F Fognini (It) bt D Thiem (Aut) 6-4, 7-6 (7-5);
(Q) A De Minaur (Aus) bt D Lajovic (Serbia) 6-4, 6-1;
(15) P Carreno Busta (Sp) bt F Delbonis (Arg) 6-3, 6-2.
WTA Masters 1000 Rome
Women’s: first round D Kasatkina (Russ) bt T Zidansek
(Slovakia) 6-4, 6-3; (16) V Azarenka (Bela) bt V Golubic
(Switz) 6-3, 6-0; S Halep (Rom) bt A Cornet (Fr) 6-4, 6-4;
(Q) P Martic (Cro) bt K Muchova (Cz) 6-2, 3-6, 6-1; Shuai
Zhang (China) bt M Trevisan (It) 6-4, 6-2; (Q) A
Sasnovich (Bela) bt V Kudermetova (Russ) 3-6, 7-6 (7-4),
6-1; (Q) Y Putintseva (Kaz) bt K Juvan (Slovakia) 7-5, 4-6,
7-5; (12) B Bencic (Switz) bt E Cocciaretto (It) 6-4, 6-2;
L A Fernandez (Can) A Pavlyuchenkova (Russ) 1-6, 6-2,
6-2; (15) C Gauff (US) bt A Kerber (Ger) 6-1, 6-4; A Kalinina
(Ukr) bt M Keys (US) 6-4, 6-4.
Fixtures
Football
Premier League
Aston Villa v Liverpool (8.0).
Cinch Premiership
Dundee v Hibernian (7.45).
Premiership play-off semi-final first leg
Inverness v Arbroath (7.05).
National League (both 7.45)
Bromley v Altrincham; Grimsby Town v Boreham Wood.
Scottish League One play-off final first leg
Edinburgh City v Annan Athletic (7.30).
One win could be enough to save Everton
Gregor Robertson on
the permutations that
he believes will end in
Leeds going down with
Watford and Norwich
Everton Played 34 Points 35
Remaining matches: Watford (a), Brentford
(h), Crystal Palace (h), Arsenal (a)
Would a win tomorrow night for Ever-
ton away to relegated Watford, who
have the worst home record in the Pre-
mier League, be enough for Frank
Lampard’s team to secure survival?
Quite possibly. Thirty-eight points or
more has been enough in all but six of
the past 26 seasons.
Everton’s win away to Leicester City
on Sunday ended a seven-match losing
run in the league away from home.
Since the 3-2 defeat away to Burnley
last month, they have shown guts.
Lampard’s side have the advantage of
a game in hand, two home games at the
raucous Goodison Park, and, statisti-
cally — measured by the points per
game (PPG) ratio of their remaining
opponents — the most favourable run-
in of their relegation-threatened rivals.
However, they travel to Champions
League-chasing Arsenal on the final
day and Crystal Palace, who they host
three days earlier, have been something
of a bogey team for them this season:
Everton have shipped seven goals in
two meetings, including the 4-0 FA
Cup quarter-final drubbing in March.
Burnley Played 35 Points 34
Remaining matches: Tottenham (a), Aston
Villa (a), Newcastle United (h)
Mike Jackson’s honeymoon period
came to an abrupt end on Saturday with
a 3-1 loss to Aston Villa. It was a chas-
tening defeat, which brought them
back down to earth after the remark-
able lift Jackson, the caretaker manag-
er, had given the Lancashire club since
Sean Dyche was sacked on April 15.
Jackson, however, must find a way to
plug the holes that Villa exploited in
Burnley’s defence when his team travel
to Villa Park for the return fixture in ten
days’ time, after a trip on Sunday to a
Tottenham Hotspur side chasing a
place in the top four. The hamstring
by Arsenal on Sunday incurred a three-
game suspension, while the campaign
injury that forced James Tarkowski off
in the second half on Saturday means
is over for Stuart Dallas, their player of
the year last season. The captain, Liam
they are likely to be without their tow- Cooper, and primary source of goals,
ering central defender, who joins the Patrick Bamford, are battling to return
club captain, Ben Mee, on the sidelines. from injury in time to play their part
Burnley do, however, have the best before the end of the season.
goal difference of the three, and the The odds are stacked against Leeds
precious commodity of experience, but Jesse Marsch, the head coach, re-
having continually defied the odds mains bullish, and he must hope they
since returning to the Premier League can take points from consecutive home
in 2016. One win from their remaining games, beginning with a stuttering
three fixtures could be enough. Chelsea team who have won one of
their past five games.
Leeds United Played 35 Points 34
Remaining matches: Chelsea (h), Brighton Prediction
(h), Brentford (a) Everton 41 pts, Burnley 37, Leeds 37.
Leeds dropped into the relegation zone Leeds relegated on goal difference.
on Sunday for the first time since
October 30 by virtue of a -35 goal differ-
ence — roughly twice as bad as those of Bottom five
Burnley and Everton, which essentially
amounts to a further point disadvan- P W D L F A GDPts
Everton...............34 10 5 19 37 56 -19 35
tage at this stage. Judging by the PPG of Burnley...............35 7 13 15 32 49 -17 34
their remaining opponents, Leeds also Leeds...................35 8 10 17 39 74 -35 34
have the toughest run-in.
Watford (R).......35 6 4 25 32 70 -38 22
They will be without Luke Ayling, Norwich (R)......35 5 6 24 22 75 -53 21
whose reckless tackle in the 2-1 defeat
the times | Tuesday May 10 2022
‘I’ve a fear of failure that’s beyond
the scale of where it needs to be’
Scott Parker tells Alyson Rudd
about gaining promotion the
quiet way with Bournemouth,
his tough upbringing and his
extraordinary hatred of losing
O
n the wall of his study, Scott Parker
has a framed poster which reads,
Tonight we make history. (P.S. I can’t
be there.) The Bournemouth head
coach bought it after his Sky Bet
Championship play-off final success with
Fulham at Wembley in 2020, as it perfectly
captured the curious feeling of winning what is
regarded the richest match in football in a
stadium that was empty because of the
restrictions imposed owing to the pandemic.
The play-offs are a wacky, even wretched,
high-stakes drama that leave clubs exhausted
and with very little time to prepare for life in a
new division. This time around, Parker, 41, has
won promotion the quiet way with neither the
fanfare of being crowned champions nor the
angst of the winner-takes-all outing to the
national stadium. He agrees that going under
the radar, finishing second behind his former
employers in west London, is “a million per
cent” the best way to enter the Premier League,
even though some fans and pundits thought
they should have romped their way to the
Championship title.
The story of Bournemouth’s promotion, after
relegation from the top flight two years ago, was
almost belied by the team’s early success. They
went 15 games unbeaten. The players, Parker
says, felt invincible. This was not how the
former England midfielder felt at all.
“It was the most anxious, stressed, edgy I’ve
been in those first 15 games,” he says. “I knew it
was a false environment — 15 games unbeaten
is some going but I knew somewhere around the
corner maybe there’s a few injuries and a bad
result. They felt invincible and that’s amazing,
but I needed to prepare for how they reacted to
defeats. I tried my hardest to balance that
during the run. I dropped in that this would
happen, that there would be bumps and we
would have to be honest and open because that
was the only way we were going to improve.
And they did that.”
Was it almost a relief to get the first defeat —
a 2-1 home reverse against Preston North End
on November 3 — out of the way? Parker
laughingly says that it was not.
“As a manager I’m very conscious of the
mental side of things,” he says. “You have 30
men sat in front of you, all with different
mindsets, different cultures and backgrounds,
and different ways of perceiving defeat. You
have to work the room out, you quickly have to
nail your language to reach them.”
It was a campaign which illustrated Parker’s
coaching philosophy. Just as he placed faith in
the youngsters at Fulham, giving Harvey Elliott,
now with Liverpool, his debut aged 16 years and
30 days (he becamee the
youngest Premier League
player) this past
campaign was builtt
around Bournemouth’s uth’s
academy.
orced a
“My hand was forced
little bit and that’s me
being brutally honest est with
ecting
you,” he says of selecting
four youth-team
graduates. “You’re
looking for
commitment, beingg
able to take on
information, quality, y,
and talent. That’s
why I am so proud,,
because the
expectations were
growing and we
Parker addresses the team after Bournemouth’s promotion. Below, as a child in the McDonald’s advert
went from being a young team who will be
[competing in] the play-offs, and then of all a
sudden we went 15 unbeaten and the
expectation was we would be promoted.
It would have been q
“It quite easy for me to
resort back to experienc
experience. I didn’t know how
theyy would handle a ba bad run. The core had four
or five that were yyoung. g Mark Travers [the 22-
y
year-old ggoalkeeper]
p waswa playing in the
[Hampshire] County Cup Cu a year earlier.”
Pa
Parker also agrees that it players. It was devastating.
wa “a big call” to make
was
L
Lloyd Kelly, 23, his
captain. “He’s an
incredible human being, bombarding us with questions. Throughout the
well-mannered, with a
driving ambition to
i
improve, to play in the promotion with victory over Nottingham Forest, he says. “You break or maybe run with it.”
Pr
Premier League,” Parker Brooks, 24, announced that his treatment had
says of the defender. “I see
someone mature for his age. Alongside
in
that, he is an incredible defender with relegated with Fulham, Parker is not the right
attribu for the modern game man to lead the club in the Premier League next which you remember more.
all the attributes
a
— quick, aggressive. In terms of season. On the other hand, the former England
leadership is he the finished
leadership,
ROBIN JONES/AFC BOURNEMOUTH/GETTY IMAGES
Parker is the second man
to steer two different clubs the ball, were both pushed hard
to the top flight at the first and teased mercilessly. Unlike
attempt, after Peter
McWilliam (Spurs, 1919-
20; Middlesbrough,
1926-27)
article? No chance, but he’s been a massive part
of why we’ve been so successful.
“I see a good person. When I first came in, my
initial impressions were that everything about
him was just top.”
In October, David Brooks, Bournemouth’s
highly rated Wales midfielder, had Hodgkin
lymphoma diagnosed. “The news really knocked different eyes. I had to go through it. It is
the football club,” Parker says. “I called a
meeting in the morning to explain [it] to the
“The boys asked, ‘Can we get him a chef?
What about his girlfriend? Should someone
move in with him?’ All of them were
season, at seven minutes, the crowd sang his
name.” On the day Bournemouth sealed
been successful and he was cancer free.
There is some sniffiness that having been
midfielder has been in full-time management
57
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for three years and already won promotion
twice. If anyone knows the pitfalls of taking a
team up, then it is him. His previous failure
could be seen as hardened preparation.
“I think you’re right,” he says. “The Premier
League is the best league, the toughest in the
world. The finances are massive. Next year is
going to be a big challenge for me and my group
of players. Dean Smith [the head coach] said
Norwich [City] spent £60 million this year and
have fallen way short. He spent £150 million
with [Aston] Villa and they stayed up on the last
day of the season [in 2019-20]. We’re going to
have to improve our A game and get a little bit
of luck.
“The perception around us snowballed that
we should get promoted as we spent a lot of
money, but the facts are we brought in
£27 million and spent £12 million of it — we are
£15 million in profit.”
Parker knows that he will need to fight
against the common perception that a newly
promoted club will go straight back down.
Brentford have been an impressive exception
this season.
“In an ideal world I’d spend £100 million, but I
can’t do that,” he says. “In an ideal world we’d
have a bigger training facility with more pitches,
bigger pitches, where we can develop more. The
reality is that it’s going to be a rough year.”
Parker did, though, inherit a Fulham team
that was able to spend £100 million upon being
promoted in 2017-18 and it backfired. “I’d like to
think if I could spend £100 million, I’d give it a
right go, recruit and get it right,” he says. “The
money at Fulham wasn’t spent right. You can
spend it on players not used to the level. A lot of
things have to line up.”
I ask Parker if he remembers Sonny
Pike, who was, like him, acclaimed at
2 a young age. They both appeared in
McDonald’s adverts, showing off
their mesmeric close control of
Parker, though, Pike fell out of
love with the game.
“Yeah, I do remember,” Parker
says. “We were of the same age, he
was the up-and-coming boy as well.”
Why did Parker keep going when most
would have buckled? “I know it was embedded
in me at a young age,” he says. “I’d been
moulded into this kid, football was all I knew. I
was an inner-city kid coming out of a council
estate. All I knew was football.”
Parker’s father died aged 56 when he was 28.
“He was very intense, very pushy at certain
times — push and push and push,” he says.
“The emotional and psychological side of that
was hard but I would not change it, I am forever
grateful it has given me the career I’ve had.”
Leaving home at 14 to attend the national
sports centre at Lilleshall required him to be
tough. “It was dog-eat-dog, the most competitive
alpha male boys going through puberty, fighting
to get in the team.”
What, though, is the difference between being
toughened up and abuse?
“There is no difference, it’s about how you
perceive it,” he says. “I did come through it, I sit
here now with what I have so I see it through
wrong? Maybe. Would I bring my kids up that
way? No chance at all [but] I would not change
the way I was brought up. I’ve had help — my
wife, having my kids young, has softened things,
softened it for me.”
He met Carly when he was 15, was married at
20 and had his first child at 21. “She opened my
eyes to the world, her love made me a bit softer
to the stresses that maybe Sonny went through,”
Can he crystallise what it is that he loves
about football? “No, I can’t,” he smiles. “Carly
asked me that. I love winning, I love being
successful. But there is more of the other side
“I know the fear of losing, a fear of failing that
is beyond the scale of where it needs to be.”
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Sport Football

Henry Winter
Chief Football Writer
GETTY IMAGES

At last . . . a North
London encounter
that really matters
L
et’s talk Thursday. Let’s talk the walk
up from Seven Sisters Tube that
quickens the adrenalin for Tottenham
Hotspur and Arsenal fans alike, the
stride past the Beehive pub with its
lively terrace, past the Elbow Room with its
enticing cask ales, rushing past the Bluecoats as
the Thursday night £5 cocktails are postponed a
week, and on to No 8 Tottenham by the stadium
— described online as a “modest pub with darts
and ping pong” but with a popular garden and
some unpopular prices.
Let’s talk staggering around the corner off the
High Road on to Park Lane, past Beavertown
Corner Pin, match-day entry for Spurs season
ticket owners only, and the junction where away
fans are steered on by police on horseback,
taking them to their temporary quarters of the
best new football stadium in the world. Those
with arena agendas can argue, possibly cogently,
6 One top-flight club “backloads” contracts
for certain signings so the first two years of the
deal help them comply with FFP and then the
remaining years offer far bigger wages.
Ambitious clubs either envisage their revenue
to grow over that period, or, arrogantly, they
believe the rules will be less enforceable in the
age of elite clubs and legal eagles.
about the wonderful Allianz in Munich but,
realistically, nothing matches the Tottenham
Hotspur Stadium for traditional location,
closeness to the pitch and well-equipped
concourses.
That corner where the High Road meets Park
Lane can get lively and will doubtless be well
policed on Thursday because this is a North
London derby like no other. These neighbours
have rarely been this close in the table, Spurs
fifth, Arsenal fourth, and yet so habitually so far
apart in enmity. These rivals have not played in
front of a full house at Spurs’ home since 2017.
History and hysteria tangles every occasion.
That April 30, 2017 date was not only the last
North London derby at the old Lane but the
first time in 22 years that Spurs went on to
finish above Arsenal. These dates matter. Fans
reel them off like loved ones’ birthdays.
Spurs fans will never forget their focus that
day was not simply putting one over on Arsenal,
as they did, but pursuing the leaders Chelsea.
They will always remember Mauricio
Pochettino outwitting Arsène Wenger, Victor
Wanyama outplaying Granit Xhaka and the last
action of the day being Dele Alli fouling Mesut
Özil. Spurs, in second, were 17 points ahead of
Arsenal. Thursday is different. They’re closer.
This is even more momentous.
Even for those of us who struggle to look back
beyond a week in the frenetic season
understand this is one of the most seismic North
London derbies for decades. Other capital
collisions matter intensely. Anything Chelsea
carries an edge, but the North London derby is
the most historic, dating back to a friendly in
1887 when Royal Arsenal — then of Plumstead,
soon of Woolwich, as never forgotten by Spurs
fans — played Spurs at Tottenham Marshes.
The duel started properly in 1913 when Arsenal
moved to the north of the capital and the
enmity was intensified by Sol Campbell’s move
from Spurs to Arsenal and Theo Walcott sitting
on a stretcher as bottles fell around holding up
fingers signalling 2-0 to Arsenal. When Jack
Wilshere would post another spiky tweet about
Spurs, there’d be a rush from his friends to alert
his agent. Not another one.
It’s a fraught fixture that has seen some epic
cup semi-final encounters in 1987 at the Lane, in
1991 at Wembley (“Is [Paul] Gascoigne going to
have a crack? He is, you know! Oh! I say!
Brilliant! That is schoolboy’s own stuff” — the
legendary Barry Davies), 1993 at Wembley and
2001 at Old Trafford. But Spurs’ home ground
stirs special emotions for Arsenal fans. Of their
last six titles, two have been sealed in their
enemy’s backyard, at the Lane, Ray Kennedy’s
header setting up the 1971 Double, and then the
vital draw in 2004. It is the stuff of history and
banners hanging proudly back at the Emirates.
Walking up the High Road and down
memory lane is special for all fans involved,
Spurs and Arsenal alike, but Thursday shapes
the future. It’s the most significant match off the
North Circular since 2004. The journey up is
sped up by a desire to make up for lost time. It
has been five years since Spurs truly hosted a
passion pit. Wembley was the cold, soulless
venue for their home games on February 10,
2018, and March 2, 2019, as the Lane was rebuilt.
Because of Covid, the derby was behind closed
doors at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on July 12,
2020 and then only 2,000 were allowed in on
Dele goes past Laurent Koscielny in the final derby at the Lane that Spurs won to finish above Arsenal
December 6, 2020, because of Covid restrictions.
So now, on Thursday, welcome back. The North
London derby is back with decibels on.
There’s always an edge to this encounter,
sharpened by Arsenal calling off the game
earlier this season because of Covid, and by the
present narrative. If Arsenal win, they guarantee
their coveted place in the Champions League,
condemning Spurs to the Europa League. So
that’s a £30 million difference for a start.
Both clubs are on an upward trajectory.
Arsenal are clearly developing under Mikel
Arteta, building around hungry young players,
many of them homegrown, such as Bukayo Saka
6 After the Chelsea takeover, one rule change
the Premier League should make is to prevent
parties involved with other clubs, such as Josh
Harris and David Blitzer of Crystal Palace,
from bidding. Harris and Blitzer have done
nothing wrong, but shareholders should stay
or go, agree a period of “gardening leave” and
then pursue another club. Perceptions matter.
and Emile Smith Rowe plus Eddie Nketiah,
whose performances in and out of possession at
centre forward surely make him worth an
improved new contract.
Tottenham are clearly improving under
Antonio Conte, who has Ben Davies rolling back
the years and echoing his Welsh compatriot
Mike England. Eric Dier and Cristian Romero
have similarly been inspired by Conte, the
master tactician and demanding drill sergeant.
Conte demonstrated again his myriad qualities
with his contain-and-counter approach at
Anfield on Saturday. Harry Kane and Son
Heung-min are flourishing again under Conte.
The simple fact remains that Conte is too
good for Spurs and he would be pursued by
Champions League clubs should Spurs finish
outside the top four. That is why Thursday is so
important. They’re not “Spursy” any more:
they’re organised, determined, resolute. That is
why home fans heading up the High Road are
conflicted with hope and fear. If Conte left,
Spurs would slip back. Yet the feeling remains
that such is Conte’s love of the Premier League,
and living in London, that he would stay on,
provided the chairman Daniel Levy backed his
esteemed judgment in the summer transfer
market. If Tottenham triumph on Thursday,
they may not derail Arsenal’s push for the
Champions League but they will show their
strength, their pride, their ambition for the
future. Those Arsenal fans disgorging at Seven
Sisters march up hopefully. A ticket to ride the
Champions League gravy train will entice more
talented players aboard this summer, especially
a forward, and will confirm that Arteta is the
right driver. Thursday’s huge.
Spurs v Arsenal, Thursday 8pm, Sky Sports Main Event

Uefa backtracks on Champions League qualification
Uefa is aiming to strike a last-minute
deal with clubs over its plans for two
Champions League places to be
awarded based on their achievements
in European football over the past five
years (Martyn Ziegler writes).
The European Club Association has
been pushing for two “coefficient
places” to be part of the Champions
League reforms from 2024 onwards,
which will increase the number of
teams from 32 to 36. However, it
considered new proposals yesterday
in Madrid.
The original idea would have
allowed two clubs who miss out on
qualification through their domestic
league to go into the group stage by
virtue of their Uefa coefficient rank.
Uefa now accepts that it is too
similar to the discredited European
Super League and it instead wants all
clubs to qualify via their domestic
competitions. It had talked about
increasing the number of group
matches from six to ten but an
increase to eight is now on the table.
Talks are due to conclude today but
if there is no deal a decision may be
delayed. The Premier League is
fiercely opposed to coefficient-based
qualification.
Northampton complain to
EFL over promotion twist
Northampton Town have raised
concerns with the EFL and the FA
over Scunthorpe United’s team
selection in their 7-0 defeat by Bristol
Rovers, which meant Northampton
missed out on automatic promotion
from League Two.
Northampton beat Barrow 3-1 but
Rovers scored seven goals without
reply against an already-relegated
Scunthorpe team featuring seven
teenagers, to achieve the five-goal
swing that they needed to level the
two clubs’ goal difference and go up
on goals scored.
talkSPORT awarded three
live packages for top flight
talkSPORT has been awarded three
Premier League live radio broadcast
rights packages for the next three
seasons until 2025.
The network will broadcast games
from the top flight at 12.30pm, 3pm
and 7.45pm on Saturday, live matches
on Friday and Monday evenings, and
all midweek matches rescheduled
from weekends. Scott Taunton, News
UK’s president of broadcasting, said:
“Our commentary teams across
talkSPORT and talkSPORT2 are
providing best-in-class live coverage
to millions of football fans.”
Brazil and Argentina must
replay World Cup qualifier
Fifa has confirmed that the
abandoned 2022 World Cup qualifier
between Brazil and Argentina will be
replayed — even though both nations
have already qualified for the
tournament in Qatar.
Brazilian health officials stormed
on to the pitch seven minutes into the
clash in São Paulo on September 5
and stopped the match. According to
Brazil’s National Health Surveillance
Agency, four Argentina players
contracted to English clubs should
have been placed in “immediate
quarantine” for Covid rules breaches.
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Sky Bet League One play-offs Sport

Spirited Sunderland leave it late PAUL CURRIE/COLORSPORT/SHUTTERSTOCK

1
At times it was a battle between the
Sheff Wed poise of Sunderland and the power of
Gregory 74
Wednesday. Sam Hutchinson, whose

1
slip had allowed Ross Stewart to give
Sunderland Sunderland their narrow victory in the
Roberts 90+3
North East, left the field barely able to
Sunderland win 2-1 on aggregate walk after a clash of heads in the second
Semi-final, second leg half that left him with stitches above
Martin Hardy his eye.
A moment of class was provided by
They had played 183 minutes of football Barry Bannan, who dissected the Sun-
and there was nothing to separate these derland defence with a slide-rule pass,
two sleeping giants of English football finding the overlapping Marvin
when Jack Clarke went on a final Johnson, who crossed low into the Sun-
surging run down the Sunderland left. derland six-yard area for Lee Gregory
Clarke, who had been a driving force to fire home in front of the Kop. Sunder-
in the game, found energy from some- land’s travelling supporters were
where to burst past Jordan Storey as he silenced for the first time in the tie.
ran towards goal at the Leppings Lane The fourth official’s board went up to
end of Hillsborough. He fired a low signal ten minutes of stoppage time,
driven cross and in charged owing to that clash of heads. Clarke
Patrick Roberts to finish from then went on the biggest run of his Sun-
close range, through the legs of The final derland career, crossed — and there
Bailey Peacock-Farrell in the Wycombe Wanderers was Roberts to move his side a step clos-
Sheffield Wednesday goal. v Sunderland er to a return to the second tier of En-
Roberts had scored for Wembley, May 21 glish football after a four-year absence.
Derby County in the last game Kick-off: 3pm Darren Moore, the Wednesday
of last season, a goal that helped TV: Sky Sports manager, was distraught. “It is the end
to relegate Wednesday to Sky Bet Main Event of a journey,” he said.
League One. After his latest effort Roberts turns to celebrate his added-time winner for the away side and only his second goal for the club
there was an explosion of red and white
high in the stands. Red flares were lit. in the tie — they trailed 1-0 from the temerity to show some skill. When it final — in 1990, 1998 and 2019. “It’s hard Sheffield Wednesday (3-4-1-2): B Peacock-Farrell
— J Storey, H Dean, S Hutchinson (L Palmer
Seventy yards away, on the sideline, first leg — and got it with 15 minutes was over, Neil walked to the 2,000 cele- to describe,” Neil said. “Just the relief, 70min) — J Hunt (N Mendez-Laing 71), G Byers (S
Alex Neil roared into the Yorkshire left. At that point the stadium had brating fans from Wearside and raised the pride; there is a host of emotions. I Berahino 90+5), M Luongo, M Johnson — B
night. His coaching staff ran pitchside rocked with joy. his arms and then his thumbs. There is was so pleased for the players. I saw Bannan — L Gregory, J Windass (C Paterson).
to join the Sunderland manager. More than 77,000 fans watched the still a job to be done, but it is 15 matches some people tipping Sheffield Wednes- Booked Byers, Bannan, Dean.
Sunderland (4-2-3-1): A Patterson — L Gooch,
Most of Hillsborough fell silent. It two games, a new EFL play-off record. unbeaten for his side. day. They can put that in their pipe. B Wright, D Batth, D Cirkin — L O’Nien, C Evans —
was over then, even though nine more It was night high on energy but low on They must now end the club’s Wem- “Jack has good quality. He can P Roberts (N Broadhead 90+8), A Pritchard
minutes of stoppage time were played. quality — apart from Clarke, who had bley play-off curse. Three times they dribble and go past people and he (J Matete 90+7), J Clarke (C Doyle 90+7) —
R Stewart. Booked Stewart, Matete.
Wednesday had fought for an equaliser lumps kicked out of him for having the have lost amid the drama of a play-off delivered the moment we needed.” Referee J Linnington. Attendance 32,978.
60 Tuesday May 10 2022 | the times

Sport Premier League

Can Gerrard Villa under Gerrard

Aston Villa were 16th in the table when Gerrard took over from Dean Smith in
November. Here is the table based on matches played since his arrival.
P W D L GF GA GD Pts

really do the
1 Manchester City 24 20 3 1 67 15 52 63
2 Liverpool 24 19 4 1 56 12 44 61
3 Tottenham 24 14 4 6 51 24 27 46
4 Arsenal 24 15 1 8 43 29 14 46
5 Chelsea 24 11 8 5 43 27 16 41

unthinkable?
6 Manchester United 26 11 8 7 38 39 -1 41
7 Newcastle 25 11 5 9 28 37 -9 38
8 Wolves 24 10 4 10 24 22 2 34
9 Aston Villa 23 10 3 10 33 27 6 33
10 West Ham 25 9 5 11 34 33 1 32
11 Brentford 25 9 4 12 31 38 -7 31
Aston Villa manager How they stand 12 Brighton and Hove 25 7 9 9 26 30 -4 30
could dent Quadruple Man City..................35
P W
27
D
5
L
3 89
F A
21
GD Pts
68 86
13 Crystal Palace 24 7 8 9 31 28 3 29
14 Leicester 23 7 6 10 33 38 -5 27
dream of club where he Liverpool................35
Chelsea....................35
25
19
8
10 6
2 87
70
23
31
64 83
39 67 15 Burnley 24 6 8 10 21 32 -11 26
Arsenal.....................35 21 3 11 56 42 14 66
spent 26 years as a hero, Spurs.........................35
Man United............37
19
16
5
10
11
11
60
57
40
56
20 62
1 58
16 Southampton 25 6 8 11 31 49 -18 26
17 Leeds 24 6 5 13 28 56 -28 23
says Charlotte Duncker West Ham..............36
Wolves.....................35
16
15
7
5
13
15
57
35
46
34
11 55
1 50 18 Everton 23 6 2 15 21 40 -19 20
Brighton..................36 11 14 11 38 42 -4 47
Crystal Palace......35 10 14 11 46 42 4 44 19 Norwich 24 4 4 16 17 49 -32 16
For Steven Gerrard the choice of who Aston Villa..............34 13 4 17 47 47 0 43 20 Watford 24 3 3 18 20 51 -31 12
Brentford................36 12 7 17 44 52 -8 43
he would prefer to win the league is Newcastle..............36 11 10 15 40 61 -21 43
pretty simple. Leicester.................34 11 9 14 49 56 -7 42
The lifelong Liverpool fan, who spent Southampton.......36 9 13 14 41 61 -20 40
Everton....................34 10 5 19 37 56 -19 35
26 years at the club he joined aged nine Burnley....................35 7 13 15 32 49 -17 34
and captained to European Cup glory, Leeds........................35 8 10 17 39 74 -35 34
would love Jürgen Klopp’s side to lift Watford (R)............35 6 4 25 32 70 -38 22 Aston Villa v
Norwich (R)...........35 5 6 24 22 75 -53 21
the trophy ahead of Manchester City — Liverpool Klopp’s side
but the problem is that he wants his trail City by
Aston Villa team to beat them tonight. extremely well and we’re going to have Premier League three points
“If the outcome is in our favour it to be organised, to be compact. Tonight, 8pm
would mean my team has gone above “At times we’ll have to suffer but if we TV: Sky Sports
and beyond and performed extremely do that together and get through those Main Event
well,” Gerrard said. “That is what it is situations, we believe [that] at home,
going to take. To get the outcome we [with] the form we’re in of late and
want, we need every single player at it, [with] the players we are going to select,
individually and collectively.” we’ll have some interesting moments.
Villa’s performances have improved That’s what Tottenham did. They were
over the past few weeks and wins organised, patient, and when their mo-
Gerrard says
against Norwich City and Burnley in ments came they did cause problems.
Liverpool are better
their past two games have got them “We’ve got to make sure we’re bold
than ever before
back on track after a run of four straight enough and brave enough and show
defeats. Liverpool desperately want to enough quality on the pitch to go and
get back to winning ways after dropping hurt Liverpool as well. I’m never going
two points against Tottenham Hotspur. to set a team up to just suffer for 90 min-
The manner of that 1-1 draw frustrat- utes and wait and hold. I want us to be
ed Klopp, with the Liverpool manager brave and bold and show our quality as
unhappy with the way Antonio Conte well. But I don’t want that to be gung-ho
set his side up, believing they came to or careless. It has to be calculated.”
Anfield to just “sit back”. Irrespective of the result tonight league title winners — I grew up on all However, with the 54-year-old Ger- is there, this is where I want to be.” At
While Gerrard is more than aware of Gerrard could still have a say in the title of that DNA of that club. I’m well aware man, who took over in 2015, having re- the end of the season, that plan means
the dangers of going for broke against a race with Villa facing City at the Etihad they’ve previously had world-class cently put pen to paper on a contract investment and a first summer transfer
Liverpool side who have scored 87 on the final day of the season. players, managers and teams. But I extension until 2026, the debate has window to shape the squad in the way
league goals this season, he said that he Liverpool are three points behind think because of the way the game itself ended for now. While Klopp wouldn’t he believes is needed for them to be
would not be sending his team out to City with three games remaining, as has changed — it’s gone quicker, it’s dismiss the idea of a return for Gerrard successful. But for now, with four games
defend for 90 minutes. they chase a historic Quadruple that gone faster — I think you’re probably when asked yesterday, the Villa manag- left, the aim is to finish as strongly as
“When you are preparing for a game has had many discussing whether this watching the best Liverpool team there er was keen to shut down any talk of a possible.
like this, of course you tap into previous is the greatest Liverpool side of all time. has been.” potential homecoming. Finishing eighth is still possible for
games that they’ve played, but I think “I think to watch, probably the best, It will be the second time that “I told you at the time there was noth- Villa but they will need to produce a win
we have to understand that we’re not because of the speed and the intensity Gerrard has faced his former club this ing in that. I told a lot of people that was against Liverpool, something Gerrard
Tottenham,” Gerrard said. and mentality of this current group,” season, after Mohamed Salah gave a load of nonsense,” he said about his agreed would be the biggest moment of
“Tottenham are Tottenham, we’re Gerrard, 41, said after a pause to consid- Klopp’s side a 1-0 win at Anfield in Villa contract having been due to end at his reign so far. “There is no doubt
Aston Villa and we’ve got our own er his answer. “But I say that without December. Inevitably, the talk before the same time as Klopp’s. “Some people about it, we need the perfect perform-
players, our own strengths, our own disrespecting previous Liverpool teams the two games has been about the pos- tried to put two and two together. My ance,” he said. “For us to achieve that we
style. But there’s no two ways about it, because I grew up watching them. sibility of Gerrard one day heading plan is 100 per cent at Aston Villa and are going to have to post the best
at times we’re going to have to defend “The European Cup winners, serial back to Anfield to replace Klopp. there is no plan beyond that. My focus performance we have so far.”

Klopp: My team are not broken after setback
Paul Joyce
Northern Football Correspondent
Jürgen Klopp began his press confer-
ence by noting that it was one of only
ten more that he would have to fulfil in
this marathon campaign.
For a man who, according to Pep
Guardiola, enjoys the backing and
support of the entire media, it felt suspi-
ciously like he yearned for the day
when these gatherings were over.
Klopp did not linger on Guardiola’s
remarks that “everyone in this country
supports Liverpool” after Manchester
City’s 5-0 win over Newcastle United
gave them a three-point lead at the top
of the Premier League.
He admitted that managers some-
times say things in the heat of the mo-
ment they wish they had not uttered,
publicly at least, just as he had when
Aston Villa v Liverpool
Villa Park, 8pm; TV Sky Sports Main
Event; Radio BBC 5 Live
Aston Villa
stating he would not want to coach like situation,” he said. “Then the inter- against Steven Gerrard’s Aston Villa
(4-1-2-1-2) E Martínez
Antonio Conte after Tottenham views would be boring.” side tonight to reduce City’s margin for
Hotspur’s counterattacking blueprint Liverpool’s title charge may have suf- error. M Cash E Konsa T Mings L Digne
earned them a point on Saturday. fered a setback after the 1-1 draw with “As human beings, we can decide for
Klopp also speculated that Guardio- Spurs, but Klopp endorsed the view ourselves how we see it,” Klopp said. “I C Chambers
la’s mood could have been affected by that his team was not suddenly try to help the boys to see it like me and
City’s Champions League exit last week “broken”. invite everyone else as well. D Luiz J McGinn
E Buendía
and the added factor of the Anfield “That is how I see it,” he said. “That is “I know it [the title] is difficult. But we
club’s progression to the final in Paris. how I saw the game. So we keep going. are really allowed to have our own D Ings O Watkins
“That is obviously already difficult We have to use the good things, delete views.”
enough to take, but then of course the bad things and go from here. Klopp spoke as uncertainty emerged
Liverpool made it to the final,” he said. “The main challenge in a game like over the future of Sadio Mané amid L Díaz S Mané M Salah
Yet his most pertinent point came this [against Spurs] is that you are con- suggestions that Bayern Munich are in-
when he painted a scenario in which stantly in a creating mood, knowing terested in signing the forward. T Alcântara Fabinho N Keita
Guardiola’s comments would be redun- each missed pass is a massive problem. Mané, 30, is out of contract in 2023
dant; where Liverpool were not a force It is difficult to stay calm in these mo- and discussions on extending his Liver-
V van Dijk J Matip
and City had things all their own way. ments and do exactly the right thing. pool deal are expected to take place at
How would everyone keep themselves “It was not a perfect game but the the end of the season. Liverpool have K Tsimikas T Alexander-
entertained without the verbal general approach . . . the counterpress not been approached by the German Arnold
jousting? was completely on a different level.” club and Mané, who does not have an A Becker (4-3-3)
“Imagine how the situation would be The message yesterday was about escape clause in his contract, has not
if we were not that close. Imagine that belief, staying positive and winning indicated thus far he is looking to leave. Ref: J Moss Liverpool
the times | Tuesday May 10 2022
How Pep harnesses his Norse goal-god
James
Gheerbrant
T
he instinctive reaction to the
news that Erling Haaland,
unstoppable Norse goal-god
and one of the two outstand-
ing young attackers in world
football, is to join Manchester City, on
the verge of wrapping up their fourth
Premier League title in five seasons, is
to hoist the white flag. Not without
good reason: Haaland really is a phe-
nomenal talent.
The Norway striker has been one of
the best goalscorers in Europe from
the moment that he burst on to the
scene. Since joining Borussia Dort-
mund in January 2020, he has scored
85 goals in 88 games. This season
Haaland is one of only three players
in Europe’s “big five” leagues to have
scored at a rate of better than a goal
per 90 minutes, along with Patrik
Schick and Robert Lewandowski. His
per-90 figure for goals plus assists
(1.43) leads the way, just ahead of Kar-
im Benzema.
Although Haaland remains an out-
and-out No 9, there have been signs of
a greater roundedness to his game. He
is progressing the ball more, he has
lifted the number of chances he creates
from 2.3 per 90 minutes to 2.7, and he
has worked on the one glaring weak-
ness in his game — heading — taking
his percentage of aerial duels won from
48 per cent last season to 58 per cent.
The thought of adding one of the
most relentless scorers in Europe to a
team who are on course to score close to
100 league goals this season should be
enough to send a shiver of terror
through the football landscape.
The equation is never quite that
simple though. In the end, Haaland
didn’t make Dortmund significantly
better, either in terms of goals scored or
total points, and that was a team with a
much lower ceiling than City. Pep
Guardiola will be swapping out a versa-
tile creative attacker from his present
XI for a penalty-box predator; Haaland
is far from one-dimensional, but he will
Fernandinho thrust into key title race role at 37
Ian Whittell
Fernandinho, the 37-year-old midfield-
er who is leaving Manchester City at
the end of the season, is set to play a
pivotal role in the club’s push for the
Premier League title.
The Brazilian will return to his
homeland when his contract runs out
this summer, ending a successful nine-
year stay at the Etihad Stadium.
He has not featured much during the
season, playing in 16 league games but
starting only seven, but he is needed
now after an injury crisis that has ruled
out John Stones, Kyle Walker and
Rúben Dias. A fourth defender, Nathan
Aké, is nursing a persistent ankle
problem.
It left manager Pep Guardiola
admitting — after Sunday’s 5-0 win
over Newcastle United gave his club a
three-point lead over Liverpool at the
top of the table — that Fernandinho
will be required to fill in at centre half
for City’s final three games.
And, as Fernandinho closes in on
what would be his fifth title with the
club, he conceded that this would be a
little more meaningful than the others.
“Every title is sweet. It’s going to be
subtract as well as add.
dd H ill almost
He will
certainly score lots of goals, but he will
also change the delicate architecture of
this team, who are operating near the
outer limits of attacking possibility.
City have a common wavelength of
frictionless combination play that will
have to absorb this new top-end pres-
ence, perhaps at the expense of their
ability to dominate possession and
create unanswerable overloads in mid-
field. Haaland’s numbers for pressures
and tackles are also notably low: inte-
grating him into the team without com-
promising the effectiveness of City’s
press will take some work.
It is also worth noting that the recent
precedent for outstanding Bundesliga
players moving to the Premier League
is mixed at best, whether because the
German league is tactically distinct or
simply because the overall quality is
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one more . . . with a little more sugar,”
Fernandinho, who plans to continue
playing in Brazil, said. “We have some
injury issues now and at the end of the
season that is normal. It is a pleasure for
me to see some of the young lads
coming in and playing because they
have an opportunity to play with us
during the season and we know what
they are capable of.”
Against Newcastle, with injuries
beginning to bite, Guardiola finished
the game with Fernandinho in the
centre of defence, alongside Conrad
Egan-Riley, 19, who was handed his
league debut off the bench.
H
Haaland, backing City at Wembley in 2014 with his dad, left, will need to adapt
lower. Naby Keita, Timo Werner and
Jadon Sancho have all been serviceable
without recapturing (so far) the heights
they hit in Germany and even the
brilliant Kai Havertz needed 12 months
to shine.
At the very least — although this is a
risky prediction given how seamless his
career has been — there will probably
be a period of adaptation before Haa-
land really hits top form.
That is not to say that Haaland won’t
be a roaring success, only that it won’t
be a case of simply plugging him in and
watching him go, that this will be an
exercise of rejigging and retuning and
not simply instant conquest. But Haa-
land is such an extraordinary, genera-
tional striker that, in concert with an
extraordinary, generational coach, you
would back him to make this work. Cru-
cially he is only 21, much more mallea-
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27
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“They show every day in every
session that they can play for Manches-
ter City’s first team and he got his
opportunity to play a few minutes,”
Fernandinho added. “I’m delighted for
him and wish him all the best for his
football career.”
Sunday’s victory also improved City’s
goal difference — theirs is now four
better than Liverpool’s — and was a
perfect response to the disappointment
of the midweek Champions League exit
at the hands of Real Madrid.
But Fernandinho, who also won six
league titles at the Ukrainian club
Shakhtar Donetsk at the start of his
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ble than, for example, Romelu Lukaku.
Haaland adds that high-grade ruth-
lessness, the specialism in the art of fin-
ishing, that is probably the one weak-
ness in City’s squad. In the past 18
months City have throttled back on the
idealistic abandon of Guardiola’s early
days and purveyed a controlled and as-
phyxiating brand of football — almost
too controlled on occasion. Haaland
will introduce a razor edge, but also
something thunderous and pulsating,
to Guardiola’s tactical laboratory.
The Champions League will be a de-
fining stage for the Haaland-City
project, with the expectation that he
may be the man to end City’s long and
painful quest for the trophy. It will be
fascinating to see how this transfer un-
folds and whether the team who seem
to freeze every spring have got their
long-awaited Thor.
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European career, played down the role
he played as club captain in helping his
team-mates recover psychologically
from that defeat.
“Nothing changed. I’m there in the
good moments and I’m there in the bad
moments,” Fernandinho said. “Noth-
ing changed; we are a group of people
trying to go in the same direction and
trying to get the best results we can. The
result in Madrid won’t change that so it
was everything [as] normal.
“We have to be focused on ourselves
and this is what we showed on the pitch
from the first minute that we went on
the pitch and tried to score goals.”
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Haaland to seal
£63m switch
within days
Pol Ballus, Constantin Eckner
Erling Haaland’s move to Manchester
City is expected to be finalised this
week. The Norwegian had his medical
yesterday at the Erasmus hospital in
Brussels and City will pay the
£63 million release clause in his present
contract with Borussia Dortmund.
A broad agreement between
Haaland’s camp and the Premier
League leaders was reached in mid-
April but at that point there was an
issue regarding signing-on fees and
commission payments; that has now
been resolved.
The Times reported this year that
City were the frontrunners in the race
for Haaland’s services, with Real
Madrid being the only other serious
contender.
His salary will put him among the
club’s highest earners, although it is
understood City have sought to ensure
that it is not so high that it disrupts
harmony in their squad. Kevin De
Bruyne is presently the top earner at
City, with the Belgian understood to be
on £375,000 a week.
Haaland will also be due a large
signing-on payment, and the ultimate
financial package City have committed
to by signing the forward — who was
represented in negotiations by his
father, Alf-Inge, and adviser Mino
Raiola, who died on April 30 — could
be worth more than £200 million by the
end of the contract.
Haaland, 21, has scored 85 goals in 88
competitive games for Dortmund since
joining the Bundesliga side in January
2020. Haaland’s father played for City
from 2000 to 2003 and Erling himself
has been pictured in City shirts while
growing up.
Meanwhile, The Times understands
that City have decided against signing
Manchester United’s Paul Pogba, the
France midfielder, who will become a
free agent this summer and will pursue
other midfield targets instead.
Spurs fan will
advise Boehly
continued from back
he is said to be conscious of how that
would look to Chelsea fans. Goldstein
would therefore prefer to work
alongside Boehly without immediately
taking a seat in the boardroom, and will
be central to the Stamford Bridge
redevelopment project. “This deal
would not have happened without
Jonathan,” one insider said.
With Boehly and other leading
investors based principally outside the
UK, Buck, a 76-year-old New Yorker,
can provide the club with continuity
after the decision to sell by Roman
Abramovich. The same goes for Marina
Granovskaia, the Chelsea director and
chief transfer negotiator, who is also
expected to stay at the club.
Both Buck and Granovskaia played
central roles alongside The Raine
Group, the US bank appointed by
Abramovich to manage the sale of the
club, in selecting the preferred bidder.
Last week Chelsea denied they
intimated to the rival bidding groups
that the pair wanted to stay on, insisting
that it was not a condition of the sale.
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Sport Rugby union
Final could go on tour to
Chicago or Hong Kong
How will competition
that would change the
face of global rugby
work? Alex Lowe and
Will Kelleher report
what does the competition
look like?
The international game would be split
into two tiers of 12 teams and the bien-
nial competition would culminate in a
world grand final and two promotion/
relegation play-offs — one for each
hemisphere. It would be played in even
years, to avoid the World Cup and
British & Irish Lions tours.
The “Challenger” division would
begin first, in 2024, and contain unions
from Rugby Europe, Africa, Asia/Paci-
fic and the Americas. Georgia, Spain,
Romania, Portugal, the Netherlands,
Samoa, Tonga, Namibia, the United
States, Canada, Uruguay and Chile
would be included, based on current
rankings. Russia are suspended from all
rugby at present.
With major unions anxious for assur-
ances that the second tier is a viable
competition, the “Elite” division would
start in 2026. The Six Nations unions —
England, France, Ireland, Wales, Scot-
land and Italy — would combine with
the Rugby Championship countries —
New Zealand, South Africa, Australia
and Argentina — plus Japan and Fiji.
does this mean relegation from
the six nations?
No. The Six Nations and Rugby Cham-
pionship would be ring-fenced, played
separately from these leagues, and pro-
tected from any changes. There would
be no relegation from either.
Instead, points would be accrued
across the existing July and November
windows, with a final and the relegation
play-offs taking place in Europe —
home advantage for the bottom-placed
“Elite” team. The idea is to protect
rugby’s traditional tournaments but
add context to the cross-hemisphere
games — and increase the commercial
value of the fixtures.
how does it all work?
Each Six Nations team would play
three southern hemisphere opponents
in July and then host the other three at
home in November.
To reduce the travel burden on
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continued from back
while traditional tours would return in
Lions years, with the leading Challen-
ger teams rewarded with top fixtures.
There is scope for England, albeit
without their Lions players, to contest a
Test series in Samoa or Tonga.
The two biggest hurdles are an agree-
ment over how to share the revenue,
because the model would replace the
existing system in which the host
nation retains all the receipts, and the
plans for a finals weekend in November.
The projections are that the new
competition would drive a 40 per cent
increase in revenue above that generat-
ed by the present fixtures schedule.
players, the initial plan is for the south-
ern sides to be grouped into two time-
zone-friendly pods, with the lowest-
ranked team from the southern hemi-
sphere giving up home advantage.
In year one, Australia, New Zealand
and Japan would play host to three Six
Nations teams — say England, Ireland
and Wales. Meanwhile, France, Scot-
land and Italy would travel to South
Africa and Argentina. Fiji, as the low-
est-ranked team, would choose to host
their games in either South Africa or
Argentina. If promotion and relegation
changes the “Elite” 12, those time-zone
groupings could be reorganised.
Consideration would be built in for
teams who have to play Japan and New
Zealand in consecutive weeks — with
more time given to them to travel
between the two. Fiji would have to
sacrifice home advantage in year one.
That sacrifice would always fall to the
lowest-ranked side — unless they had
made it in the previous tournament.
Therefore, within this model there is
a commitment for top-tier Tests in Fiji
— a scarcity now. In November, the fix-
ture list would switch. So in this exam-
ple, England would host South Africa,
Argentina and Fiji. By the third week of
November, the league table is set.
how is the winner ner decided?
ain ideas. The easiest,
There are three main
ve, is to
but least attractive,
award the trophy to the
team that finishess top.
This would avoid d the
political battle — and
compensation — of se-
ases for
curing player releases
an additional week.
Clubs currently only
ayers
have to make players
available for three
autumn Tests.
voured
The most favoured
option is to play a grand
final between thee top
two teams and two o pro-
motion/relegation
play-offs between the
hal-
winners of the “Chal-
lenger” division
and the lowest-
ranked “Elite”
sides, one for each
hemisphere. So
Italy could face Sides from both
Georgia and Fiji hemispheres
face Samoa. would play each
The process of other in July
negotiating an and November
At present, clubs are only required to
release players for three autumn inter-
nationals, so a commercial deal would
need to be done with Premiership
Rugby and LNR, its French counter-
part. A knock-on effect of trying to
secure an extra international weekend
in November could be the loss of one of
the two fallow weeks in the Six Nations.
There are player-welfare implications
involved, however, and it is not an idea
supported by the smaller nations.
The clubs and the International
Rugby Players (IRP) group have con-
tributed to all the talks since an initial
plan collapsed in 2019. Other than
player release, Premiership Rugby and
LNR want to get their World Club
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additional week of player release, even poor results in July and November
just for the four teams involved, will in- 2026. They then play the top-ranked
volve talks about the Six Nations drop- northern hemisphere “Challenger”
ping one of its two fallow weeks. side, say Georgia, in a promotion/rele-
The grand final would initially be gation play-off. Lose and they are rele-
hosted in the northern hemisphere, but gated from the “Elite” division.
in future could be taken to places like In 2027, they would still play in the
Chicago or Hong Kong — a move Six Nations, organise a normal pre-
SANZAAR, the body which oversees World Cup schedule and compete at
international and club rugby in South the tournament in Australia that
Africa, New Zealand, Australia and autumn. In 2028, their relegation
Argentina, would endorse. A third would take effect. They would re-
option is for everyone to main in the Six Nations but in
feature in the fourth week July would travel to play, for
of November.
The six northern
teams would each play
2
England have faced the
example, Uruguay, Chile
and the US. In Novem-
ber they would host
their closest-ranked All Blacks only twice since Tonga, Samoa and Ca-
southern opponent at the autumn of 2014 — at nada. If they won the
home. A full set of Twickenham in 2018 and “Challenger” division,
north-versus-south at the World Cup in they would play the pro-
rivalries could be a mar- Japan in October motion play-off. Win that
keting dream, would give 2019 and they would be back in
meaning to a fifth-placing the “Elite” group in 2030.
game, and provide extra home fix-
tures and bumper pay-days for the Six what happens in lions years?
Nations countries. Others feel it is con- The focus would be cross-division
trived and the SANZAAR unions are matches: “Elite” teams playing “Chal-
not keen on playing dead rubbers. lenger” teams, as well as maintaining
some marquee matches — such as
how does relegation work? France playing a series against one of
The Six Nations and SANZAAR coun- New Zealand, Australia or South
tries are deeply worried about this. It is Africa. “Challenger” top seeds would be
the reas
reason they want the rewarded with games against “Elite”
“Chall
“Challenger” division teams in July and November, so Geor-
to start in 2024 so they gia could play New Zealand, South
can seese what it looks Africa, Australia, Argentina, Japan and
be
like before signing up Fiji in a Lions year. The plan would also
to rrelegation. They see England playing Tests in countries
are concerned it such as Uruguay, Chile, the US, Cana-
wo cause major da, Samoa and Tonga.
would
fin
financial issues if
a country were to what’s the timeline?
d
drop down for a There are discussions in Dublin this
yyear and lose its week with a view to an executive com-
top fixtures, mittee vote in November that would
biggest crowds commit the game to its biggest struc-
and therefore tural change since 1995. The commer-
millions of cial viability of this model is the key
pounds. stumbling block and a pivotal discus-
But others are sion point this week.
d
determined that The player unions are on board with
th whole struc- this new model, having been included
the
tur needs jeopar- in discussions this time. The clubs and
ture
fo it to work and players were not part of the talks when
dy for
provide an avenue a previous incarnation of this plan fail-
prov
for emerging ed in 2019. If it fails again, sources have
nations to reach the said it will be down to the self-interest of
nat
top table. the top unions and them not being pre-
R
Relegation would pared to reach a commercial agree-
wor
work like this. Let’s ment which is for the greater good.
say Wales finish World Rugby, which is facilitating all
bo
bottom of the these talks, wants a consensus on this
“E
“Elite” league after plan by the end of the week.
It’s not perfect, but is
Championship idea over the line. The “This is our 1995 moment,”
IRP has urged the big unions to grasp a Sweeney said three years ago, when
Alex Lowe
chance to revolutionise rugby. “The the idea of a Nations Championship
model that’s now on the table is the best was first mooted; by which he meant
for all sides,” Conrad Smith, the former it was rugby’s best chance since the
All Blacks centre who is head of player Rugby dawn of professionalism to make
welfare at IRP, said. Correspondent substantive, progressive change.
“IRP has always fought for a fair deal Rugby, almost inevitably, dropped
for emerging nations to get regular the ball. The process was not handled
B
game-time. This will hopefully make ill Sweeney will not be in Dublin smartly, with the clubs and the
those sides more competitive and allow this week to participate in the players cut out of the conversation,
them to plan their calendar years — critical talks that could map out and it collapsed because the leading
something they’ve never really had a new future for the game. However, unions were not prepared to accept
before. This model isn’t perfect, and no one in the room will be in any relegation from the Six Nations or
there are details still to iron out, but if doubt where the convalescing RFU Rugby Championship.
we’re serious about growing the global chief executive stands on the subject One of the issues holding up the
game we can’t let commercial interests of launching a new biennial global talks is revenue allocation. Conrad
get in the way of doing the right thing.” competition. Smith, the former All Black who is
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best plan yet to fix rugby’s chaotic calendar
now player welfare officer for
International Rugby Players (IRP),
believes a commercial deal is critical.
Under the current system, the host
nation retains all match receipts in
return for putting up the visitors. The
RFU’s position in the past has been to
protect that. Ian Ritchie, Sweeney’s
predecessor, responded to a revenue-
share discussion in New Zealand with
the advice that they should build their
own stadium.
This new proposal will require the
RFU and the other major unions to
give some ground and recognise that
a strong global game benefits all.
Whether this can happen is doubtful.
Opponents to the whole idea
remain — people who see emerging
nations being exploited or denied
opportunities. The way the
competition is structured, with only
north-versus-south fixtures, it is
tougher for a Six Nations team to win
than SANZAAR teams (South Africa,
New Zealand, Australia and
Argentina).
It is not ideal but it is the best
model presented. The ad hoc Test
model currently in place is
undervaluing rugby by at least 40 per
cent, according to those close to the
talks. Private equity firms know that,
hence CVC’s investment in the Six
Nations and Silverlake’s deal with
New Zealand.
How the international calendar could look
Six Nations Rugby Championship
Six Nations teams tour southern hemisphere and play three teams each
Six elite teams from southern hemisphere tour the north and play the
teams they didn’t face in the summer
World Cup warm-up games including a reduced Rugby Championship
Lions tour and elite northern hemisphere teams tour second-tier southern
hemisphere teams, with a few marquee matches also arranged
Elite and second-tier southern hemisphere teams come and play a variety of
equivalent northern hemisphere teams
J F M A M J
Year one
Year two
Year three
Year four
A good rule of thumb in issues like
this is to find out what the players feel
and whether the emerging nations
are supportive — both parties were
ignored in 2019 and for a long time
before that. Do they see wider benefit
or just the rich trying to get richer?
Smith’s position on this is
instructive. In 2019, Owen Farrell, the
England captain, was one of the
senior players who joined a
conference call and spoke out against
the idea of a Nations Championship
because of the workload on players.
On this occasion, the players,
through IRP, have been consulted
regularly and are supportive of the
concept. It is not perfect but they
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Existing major
tournaments
like the World
Cup would not
be affected
World Cup
J A S O N D
believe the model will allow for rugby
to grow commercially without
flogging the players.
The emerging nations who would
form the Challenger division, also
fierce opponents in 2019, support the
plan too. The trade-off for sacrificing
some games against leading
opposition is that the likes of England
will play a Test series in the Pacific
islands or Uruguay, albeit without
their British & Irish Lions players.
That has been too rare under the
present revenue-share system, which
Sweeney said in 2019 “doesn’t work.”
It is time for rugby to pick up the
ball they dropped three years ago —
and run with it.
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Decision for
Mickelson on
PGA defence
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the majority of players asking to
take part at the Centurion course in
St Albans from June 9 were aged
between 42 and 50. Meanwhile, the
PGA Tour in the United States is
expected to wait until the LIV Invita-
tional Series reaches its shores before it
refuses to issue releases. The US is due
to host five of the LIV’s eight events,
starting in Portland from July 1.
Players are obliged to seek releases
for any outside tournament that clash-
es with an event on their tour, but there
may be little the existing tours can do to
stop them playing in the LIV series
other than by imposing modest fines
and warning of reputational damage.
Meanwhile, the PGA and DP World
Tour are planning to strengthen their
2020 “strategic alliance” in an attempt
to fend off the Saudi threat. This will go
beyond co-sanctioning events and pro-
viding a clear pathway to the PGA Tour
by playing in Europe.
Sergio García, Lee Westwood, Ian
Poulter, Louis Oosthuizen and Martin
Kaymer are expected to play at Centu-
rion, which comes with a $25 million
(about £20 million) prize pot. Phil
García will play
in the Saudi tour
opener next month
Mickelson, who is taking time away
from golf after his role in the negotia-
tions with the Saudis was exposed, has
also requested a release. His situation is
complicated by the PGA Tour’s refusal
to say whether it has suspended the
51-year-old six-times major winner
after his admission that he tried to gain
“leverage” by helping to draft the
Saudis’ operating agreement.
Mickelson has to decide whether to
defend his PGA Championship title
next week. He was named in the field
yesterday but Seth Waugh, the chief
executive of the PGA of America,
which stages the event, hinted at the
factors involved. “If he does play, if he’s
able to, and allowed to, he would cer-
tainly have to face the media,” he said.
The use of “allowed” was noticeable.
Norman, the two-times Open cham-
pion, says he is “very happy” with the
names on the Saudi list for Centurion.
Those wanting to play include about 15
of the world’s top 100, 80 PGA Tour
players and 40 from the DP World
Tour. Norman said that he originally
had 15 of the top 50 until the furore over
Mickelson was played out in public.
The Australian is confident of winning
any legal battle and told The Times: “To
threaten players with lifetime bans by
coming to us goes 100 per cent against
their [the PGA Tour] charter.”
The PGA Tour’s position on impos-
ing bans is complicated by its charitable
status, which is linked to players being
independent traders. The DP World
Tour also faces financial problems
because of the prospect of penalties
from commercial partners who signed
deals on the assumption there was no
rival tour. A source said there is frustra-
tion that players have not recognised
the tour’s efforts in bringing golf back
during the pandemic and in providing a
record prize pot this year.
The landscape is further complicated
by a rival: the Premier Golf League
(PGL). Owned by a UK company, the
World Golf Group, PGL’s chiefs say its
plans will be worth up to £25 million to
every player by 2030.

Sport
Plans for new
rugby world
championship
Top 12 nations to fight for title every two years
Alex Lowe, Will Kelleher
Global rugby executives have been
urged to embrace plans for the sport’s
biggest revolution since the dawn of
professionalism — including a world
grand final every two years.
The leading unions will meet for
critical talks in Dublin today and World
Rugby wants them to commit to the
new competition by the end of the
week, with a view to a formal vote on its
introduction being held in November.
That would trigger the most radical
change to the structure of the sport
since 1995, when rugby turned profes-
sional and the Tri-Nations — featuring
New Zealand, South Africa and Austra-
lia — was created, backed by invest-
ment from Rupert Murdoch.
The Times can reveal that the work-
ing plan for the new two-tiered compe-
tition is for the top division to be found-
ed in 2026, featuring 12 teams: England,
Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France and
Italy from the Six Nations, as well as
South Africa, New Zealand, Australia,
Argentina, Fiji and Japan.
The emerging nations are already on
board, having agreed at a meeting in
London last week to sacrifice annual
fixtures against top-ranked teams so
that they can form a global second
division in 2024.
The competition would be held in
even years — avoiding clashes with the
World Cup and British & Irish Lions
tours — and reach a climax on the
fourth weekend of November, with a
final and two promotion/relegation
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play-offs, one for the north and one for
the south. Membership of the Six
Nations would be unaffected. The
so-called “Nations Championship” —
there is no formal title as yet — would
be based only on results from the July
and November windows.
Each northern-hemisphere team
would play a southern-hemisphere
rival once, either home or away. To
reduce travel time, the southern
hemisphere nations would be divided
into two blocks, with the lowest-ranked
team required to play their July Tests
on neutral territory.
For example, in the first year,
England, Wales and Ireland could go
on a July tour and play Tests in New
Zealand, Australia and Japan. Mean-
while Scotland, France and Italy would
travel to South Africa and Argentina,
with Fiji deciding in which of those two
countries they would like to stage their
games. In November, the fixtures
would cross over, with England hosting
South Africa, Argentina and Fiji.
The top two teams after those six
fixtures would then meet in a grand
final. There would also be the drama of
two relegation play-offs against leading
teams from the second tier.
The emerging nations league —
featuring Samoa, Tonga, the United
States, Canada, Uruguay, Chile, Nami-
bia, Georgia, Romania, Spain, Portugal
and the Netherlands — is being
referred to as the “Challenger” division
and would also involve games on
neutral territory to limit travel costs
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Buck stays as
Chelsea chief
Matt Lawton Chief Sports Correspondent
Bruce Buck is set to remain the chair-
man of Chelsea as part of the new
management structure being proposed
by the Todd Boehly-led consortium.
While the £4.25 billion takeover is
subject to government and Premier
League approval, the US-based group is
pressing ahead with plans to form a
new leadership team. Boehly intends to
sit on the board, along with the PR
executive Barbara Charone and the
Tory peer and Times columnist Daniel
Finkelstein. The last two will occupy
non-executive director roles.
But The Times understands that
Jonathan Goldstein, who may have
been considered as a replacement for
Buck, will not be joining the board.
Goldstein has the expertise for the role
and close links to Boehly, but as a Tot-
tenham Hotspur season-ticket holder
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Bans unlikely
for golf rebels
Rick Broadbent
Rebel European players who line up at
the first event of the £207 million Saudi-
backed LIV Golf Invitational Series are
likely to be fined rather than banned.
Bosses at the DP World Tour,
formerly known as the European Tour,
are not expected to issue formal releas-
es to allow members to play at next
month’s event in St Albans. However,
there is a question mark over whether
the tour is able to legally suspend those
who choose to play — that has long
Why F1 safety been the suggestion from the Saudi
camp, headed by Greg Norman, the
row is pants chief executive of LIV Golf Invest-
ments. It is also understood that LIV
Sebastian Vettel tries out a new look while
e Golf, bankrolled by the Saudi sovereign
Lewis Hamilton says he’ll carry on wearingg wealth fund, will pay the players’ fines.
hat
jewellery as drivers resist new rules on what As the deadline to apply for releases
they can — and can’t — wear. Page 54 from the DP Tour passed, a source said
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