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The return of the
greatest party on Earth
Do not give
ground on
Ukraine, PM
tells leaders
Under pressure at home,
Johnson uses G7 to warn
against a deal with Putin
Peter Walker Elmau
Andrew Sparrow
Boris Johnson has urged other world
leaders to hold firm in their long-term
support for Ukraine, amid increasing
concern in Downing Street that some
countries could become swayed by
calls for Kyiv to cede territory to Rus-
sia in exchange for peace.
Arriving at the G7 summit in south-
ern Germany, as his domestic political
woes continued to swirl, Johnson
used a string of bilateral meetings and
TV interviews to present himself as a
bulwark against potential backsliding
by the US and other western nations.
Johnson’s strong words on Ukraine
served as a contrast to the fierce criti-
cism the prime minister continues to
face at home after last week’s crush-
ing byelection defeats in Devon and
Yorkshire. Senior backbench figures
have urged cabinet ministers to be
firmer in their opposition to Johnson.
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Health editor
Thousands of south Asian people
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The prime minister’s remark on
Saturday evening that he planned to
be in office until the 2030s added fuel
to the suggestion that he could face
another confidence vote if the Con-
servative 1922 Committee changed its
rules to allow a second ballot.
Johnson even connected the two
situations, telling CNN that Vladimir
Putin would not have been able to
invade a sovereign neighbour if he
too had “a committee of backbench-
ers” threatening to depose him for
any mistakes.
Outlining his key message for the
G7 gathering, one he will reiterate this
week at a Nato summit in Madrid,
Johnson said the financial cost of
providing longstanding support to
Ukraine was “a price worth paying
for democracy and freedom”.
“I would just say to people in the
Supreme fun
United States that this is something
that America historically does and
Diana Ross
has to do,” he told CNN. The global
consequences of letting Russia makes Worthy
prevail, Johnson added, would be
“absolutely catastrophic”. Farm explode
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of dementia, such as heart disease, lives: mentally, physically, socially
stroke and diabetes. The number of
dementia cases in this group is set to
and financially”, with many suffer-
ing isolation, anxiety, loneliness and
Roe v Wade
rise by 600% within three decades.
But the largest ever review of their
standards of care, seen by the Guard-
depression as a result.
The devastating 55-page report,
commissioned by Alzheimer’s Soci-
Supreme court has
‘torched’ its legitimacy,
ian, has found they are less likely to ety, is due to be published in full this say Democrats, as anger
according to an alarming review that get an early or “timely” diagnosis, week. It follows reports in the Guard-
warns the UK is “woefully unpre- less likely to access treatment, and ian exposing health inequalities in grows in US Page 18 
pared” to cope with a predicted less likely to receive support when the UK. The health secretary, Sajid
sevenfold increase in cases. diagnosed, because of a “totally inad- Javid, has made repeated pledges to
People of south Asian heritage in equate” system set up decades ago for “level up health”, but his white paper
the UK are more likely to develop a predominantly white population. on health disparities, originally due
the disease than the general popu- Barriers to dementia diagnosis, in the spring, has yet to materialise.
lation because of their higher risk of care and support faced by south “This research paints
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Sampaio, hugs redouble our struggle so that other
his sister, Sian families of other journalists and envi-
News Phillips, during ronmental defenders will not have to
the funeral in face our pain and that of Bruno Perei-
Cycle-mad Denmark gears Niterói, Brazil, ra’s family,” Sampaio said.
up for its Tour de France ‘his chosen “Today, Dom will be cremated
Grand Départ home’ in the country he loved, his chosen
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the teetering Tories Pereira, a vocal defender of Indig-
John Harris enous rights, had received multiple
Page 1 death threats before the double mur-
der. He was laid to rest on Friday in
his home state of Pernambuco, in
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formed by members of a tribe he
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Guardian. He gravitated toward fea-
tures about the environment.
Page 10 After living in Rio de Janeiro for
several years, he and Sampaio had
The bodies were returned to their in this time of tragedy”. “The story moved to the north-eastern city of
Save up to 33% Tom Phillips families on Thursday. must be told,” she added to applause. Salvador, closer to Sampaio’s family,
with a subscription Andrew Downie Niterói Scores of mourners gathered at a Outside the cemetery, people where Phillips taught English to stu-
cemetery in Niterói, a city near Rio protested with signs reading “Who dents from poor communities. They
to the Guardian The British journalist Dom Phillips de Janeiro, yesterday to pay their ordered to kill Dom and Bruno?” were also in the process of adopting
has been laid to rest in Brazil, exactly respects to Phillips, 57, who had Phillips’ wife, Alessandra Sam- two children.
and the Observer three weeks after he was shot dead spent the past 15 years reporting on paio, paid tribute to the Indigenous “As we remember Dom as a loving,
Visit theguardian. while journeying through the Ama-
zon with the Indigenous expert
his adoptive South American home.
“He was killed because he tried to
people who her husband had been
writing about when he was killed and
fun and cool big brother,” said Sian
Phillips, “we are sad he was denied
com/paper-subs Bruno Pereira. tell the world what was happening who spearheaded the 10-day search the chance to share these qualities
Pereira and Phillips, a longtime to the rainforest and its inhabitants,” for the two men. as a father for the next generation.”
Guardian contributor, disappeared his sister, Sian Phillips, told reporters Sampaio urged mourners to The Guardian’s editor-in-chief,
Weather while travelling on the Itaquaí River and TV cameras that were gathered Katharine Viner, said: “Dom Phil-
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for his huge heart’ fully in his insightful journalism for
Journal, page 4 president, Jair Bolsonaro.
The men’s bodies were recovered
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cations. His memory will live long,
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she wants to scale back Unite’s con-
tributions to Labour. It was once one
Labour after of the party’s biggest donors.
Labour has been criticised for not
Lammy says he
backing the RMT in the dispute that
triggered the rail strikes, but Lammy
does not back firmly dismissed airline workers’
pay demands in his interview on the
BBC’s Sunday Morning show.
you support negotiation.” Referring
to the rail dispute, he said: “This
government isn’t negotiating. This
pandemic. BA and its parent com-
pany, IAG, had billions in reserves,
she said, and were predicting a return
government is not supporting reach-
ing a compromise.”
to profit this quarter.
She went on: “Supporting bad
In a statement issued yesterday bosses is a new low for Labour and
afternoon, Graham said: “David once again shows that politicians
Lammy has chosen to launch a direct
attack on British Airways workers.
have failed. It is now down to the
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Political correspondent
David Lammy sparked a fresh row
with a key trade union yesterday by
saying Labour should categorically
refuse to back demands from airline
workers for a pay rise of about 10%.
Unite accused the shadow foreign
secretary of a “direct attack” on the
workers it represents, with its gen-
eral secretary, Sharon Graham, saying
his comments were a “new low” for
Labour and that it could not be relied
on by working people.
Lammy was asked if he supported
the BA check-in staff at Heathrow,
who have voted go to on strike over
management’s refusal to reverse the
10% pay cut imposed during the pan-
demic and who are represented by
Unite. “Many of us might want a rise
of 10%,” Lammy said. “In truth, most
people understand it’s unlikely that
you’re going to get that.”
Asked directly if he supported the
check-in staff, who are members of
Unite, Lammy replied: “No, I don’t.
It’s a no. It’s a categorical no.”
Asked why he would not sup-
port them, he replied: “Because
I’m serious about the business of
being in government, and the busi-
ness of being in government is that
savagely attacked by their employer
during Covid.”
Graham said the workers were
not asking for a 10% pay rise, but for
the restoration of money taken from
them when pay was cut during the
▲ David Lammy’s comments were a
‘new low’, the leader of Unite said
Last week Graham accused Keir
Starmer of a failure of leadership after
he ordered frontbenchers not to join
RMT picket lines for the rail strike.
“You don’t lead by hiding,” she said.
Asked what would happen to the
Labour MPs who did join picket lines
to show their support for the RMT rail
strike, Lammy said that Alan Camp-
bell, the shadow chief whip, would
be speaking to them “and making it
very clear that a serious party of gov-
ernment does not join picket lines”.
Some frontbenchers and parlia-
mentary aides were among those
picketing, even though they had been
ordered not to by Starmer’s office.
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G7 summit

Johnson brushes
off Tory criticism,
saying his record
is ‘exceptional’
Peter Walker Elmau
Andrew Sparrow
Boris Johnson claimed yesterday
that the record of his government
was “remarkable” and “quite excep-
tional” as he continued to brush aside
Tory criticism of his leadership.
But in a series of interviews at the
G7 summit in Germany, the prime
minister sought to defuse the row
triggered by his declaration that he
wanted to remain in office until the
2030s by saying he meant he was
focused on his reform agenda.
Coming after two huge byelection
defeats, reviving talk in the Conserv-
ative party of Johnson being forced
out of office within weeks or months,
the prime minister’s comment
about already planning a third term
prompted claims he was delusional.
As he was leaving the Com-
monwealth summit in Rwanda on
Saturday, Johnson was asked if he
intended to serve a second full term
in office upon winning a general elec-
tion, taking him to 2028 or 2029.
Johnson replied: “At the moment,
I am thinking actively about the third
term and what could happen then.
But I will review that when I get to it.”
Asked what he meant by leaving
after a third term, Johnson said that
would mean staying in office until
is doing, it’s pretty remarkable, it is
quite exceptional.”
Attributing the byelection defeats
on the decision of the media to focus
more on his personal conduct than on
policy, Johnson went on: “If you want
to look at examples of my leadership,
then I would point you to what we did
to solve the Brexit problem, which
was very, very tough, what we did
was make sure we had the fastest vac-
cine rollout in Europe and what we
are doing now to help people through
a tough time.”
The Northern Ireland secretary,
Brandon Lewis, told the BBC that it
was “a good thing” that the prime
minister was talking about a third
term, because it meant he was think-
ing about long-term challenges.
In his ITV interview, Johnson also
refused to deny a report in the Times
saying that he had discussed getting
the Tory donor David Brownlow to
fund the construction of a £150,000
treehouse at Chequers for his son,
Wilf. According to the Times, the plan
was dropped after security concerns.
Asked about the story, Johnson
said: “There is no such structure.”
Asked if he had discussed getting
a treehouse built, he said “all sorts of
allegations” had been made about his
family and he never discussed them.
Other Tories were less generous.
One former supporter of the prime

Johnson warns leaders

“the mid-2030s”.
No 10 initially suggested that John-
son might have been joking, but
yesterday morning, the prime min-
ister said he was making a point about
being focused on the long-term chal-
lenges facing the country.
“What I’m saying is this is a gov-
ernment that is getting on with
delivering for the people of this coun-
try and we’ve got a huge amount to
do,” he told reporters at the G7.
Johnson was even more bullish in
an interview with ITV News. When it
was put to him that the Conservatives
lost the byelections in Wakefield and
in Tiverton and Honiton because vot-
ers had lost trust in him, and that this
should be a source of shame, Johnson
replied: “No – because I think if you
actually look at what this government
‘What I want to see
is [more ministers]
prepared to say:
“Are you mad, Boris,
if you’re thinking
about doing that?”’
Tim Loughton
Conservative MP
minister, an ex-cabinet minister, told
the Observer that Johnson’s remarks
were “completely delusional”.
MPs opposed to Johnson are plan-
ning to use the forthcoming elections
to the Conservative 1922 Committee
to continue efforts to unseat him. If
a majority of anti-Johnson MPs are
elected to the executive, they could
remove a rule stopping another vote
of no confidence before June 2023.
Over the weekend, Tory MPs urged
cabinet ministers to be more robust
in their opposition to Johnson. Tim
Loughton, a former minister, told
Times Radio that he wanted to see
more of them “stand up” to their
leader. “What I want to see in the
cabinet is [more ministers] prepared
to say: ‘Are you mad, Boris, if you’re
thinking about doing that?’” he said.
Damian Green, who was de facto
deputy prime minister under Theresa
May, used an article in the Sunday
Telegraph to urge MPs to mobilise
against Johnson. “It is not a secret
that a significant proportion of the
cabinet think they could do a better
job of leading the country than the
current incumbent,” he wrote. “Now
would be a good time to demonstrate
those leadership qualities.”
But a report claiming that up to six
Tory backbenchers were consider-
ing defecting to the opposition was
dismissed by a senior Labour source.
against giving in to Putin
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of inevitable “fatigue in popula-
tions and politicians” as the conflict
dragged on. “I think the pressure is
there and the anxiety is there, we
have got to be honest about that.”
While Downing Street stressed it
did not as yet detect any G7 leaders
trying to nudge Ukraine into accept-
ing a humiliating peace in which
Russia would keep control of east-
ern regions captured since February,
this is a mounting concern.
Johnson is to urge other leaders
to step up efforts to get grain sup-
plies out of Ukraine amid a blockade
by Russia, seen as a way for Moscow
to pressure western countries into
backing down over fears of famine
in developing nations.
While Britain is wary about direct
action to help ships depart – John-
son’s spokesman noted the “need
to be mindful of anything that could
be perceived as escalatory” – the
prime minister has pledged to find
other means to get grain out, saying
“nothing should be off the table”. He
is also seeking new sanctions on Rus-
sia, having already announced a joint
ban on imports of Russian gold, along
with the US, Canada and Japan.
Johnson said he would very hap-
pily host Volodymyr Zelenskiy should
he be able to visit London. The
Ukrainian president is due to appear
virtually at the G7 and Nato summits.
Johnson is not expected to have a
private meeting at the summit with
Joe Biden, though No 10 insists this
is down to mutual scheduling issue
and not a snub from Biden. Yesterday
Johnson held one-to-one talks with
the French president, Emmanuel
Macron, the German chancellor, Olaf
Scholz, and the Canadian prime min-
ister, Justin Trudeau, with Ukraine a
central theme of all the talks.
Johnson and Trudeau began
their talks with a mocking refer-
ence to Putin’s penchant for macho
topless photographs. A suggestion
they remove their jackets in the
heat prompted Trudeau to suggest
“a bare-chested horseback ride” and
Johnson that they “show our pecs”.
Johnson’s official spokesman said
that, while Britain was confident of
a robust post-summit communique
on Ukraine, it was nonetheless the
case that world leaders could become
increasingly swayed by thoughts of
pushing Zelenskiy into a Russian
peace deal. “You can understand
why people feeling the challenges of
this global cost-of-living crisis might
question why countries are spending
so much time on this issue,” he said.
In what could be seen as a pointed
omission, when asked just before a
meeting with Macron about whether
France and Germany were doing
enough over Ukraine, Johnson only
mentioned the German response. “I
never believed in my lifetime that I
would see a German chancellor step-
ping up in the way Olaf Scholz has and
sending weaponry to help the Ukrain-
ians to protect themselves. He has
made huge, huge strides. We have
▲ Justin Trudeau and Boris Johnson
balk at showing their pecs
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▼ Charles Michel of the European
Council; Mario Draghi of Italy;
Justin Trudeau of Canada; French
leader Emmanuel Macron; Olaf
Whose jet is smaller?
Billionaires usually insist their
private jet is the largest. For prime
ministers, it seems more politically
expedient to argue the opposite.
So when Boris Johnson met the
Canadian prime minister, Justin
Trudeau, on the first day of the G7
conference, the former remarked
on this as they sat down for a chat
before media were ushered out.
“I saw Canada Force One – it’s
a big plane,” Johnson said of
Trudeau’s official aircraft, more
usually known as Can Force One.
“It’s not quite as big as yours,”
Trudeau replied, bringing protests
from his British counterpart. “No,
ours is very modest,” Johnson said.
Both were correct, depending
how you gauge it. Trudeau’s
official plane is an Airbus CC-
150 Polaris, a Canadian military
variant of the A310-300, a 47-metre
model. Johnson’s official plane,
a Voyager RAF refuelling aircraft
kitted out for VIP guests, is just
shy of 60 metres but remains at
the disposal of Prince Charles,
who attended the Commonwealth
summit, in Rwanda. So this time
Johnson travelled in a 45-metre
chartered jet. Peter Walker
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Scholz of Germany; Joe Biden of the
US; Boris Johnson; Fumio Kishida
of Japan and Ursula von der Leyen
of the European Commission
Oil and gas
Price cap to
thwart Putin
wins support
Patrick Wintour
Elmau
A proposed cap on the price of
Russian oil and gas to slash the Krem-
lin’s revenues and reduce inflationary
pressures in the west gathered strong
support yesterday as G7 leaders met
in Bavaria.
The three-day event is set to be
dominated by discussion of how to
tighten the economic and military
vice around Vladimir Putin with-
out leading to disastrous spillovers,
including a backlash among west-
ern consumers and starvation in the
global south.
Joe Biden insisted Putin had been
thwarted by the degree of unity
shown by the west. “Putin has been
counting on it from the beginning
that somehow Nato and the G7 would
splinter. But we haven’t and we’re not
going to,” the US president said.
Behind the scenes, though, there
is deep concern that the west has not
yet assembled the policy mix that will
force Putin to back down.
Twin caps on the price of Rus-
sian oil and gas are being canvassed
PHOTOGRAPH: MICHAEL KAPPELER/AVALON
by the Italian prime minister, Mario
Draghi, and at yesterday’s opening
meeting he gained the support of
the French president, Emmanuel
Macron. “There is now more than
mild optimism that this will work,”
one source said.
The gas cap would operate sim-
ply by European countries refusing
to pay above an as yet unspecified
4% of our gas comes from Russia; in
Germany, it’s 40%. They are facing
real, real pressures, they are having
Steel Tariffs plan still in place
to source energy from elsewhere. But
they are doing it. They are making the
despite potential WTO breach
effort. They are making the sacrifice.
That’s because they see that the price
of freedom is worth paying. Andrew Sparrow
“This is something that it’s worth Peter Walker
us standing up for together. And that
is the principle that a free, independ- Boris Johnson has indicated he
ent sovereign country like Ukraine plans to retain and extend steel
should not be violently invaded tariffs despite claims that this may
and should not have its boundaries put Britain in breach of World Trade
changed by force.” Organization rules.
Johnson sought to dodge any new At the G7 summit in Germany, the
controversies, with the official UK prime minister said he wanted to pro-
readout of the meeting with Macron tect Britain’s steel industry, and that
failing to even mention their discus- the proposed protectionist meas-
sion about the French president’s ures would be in line with what other
plans for a semi-detached “European European countries were doing.
political community” of non-mem- The issue recently became linked
ber nations, potentially including the to the controversy about Johnson
UK. French officials, in contrast, said when Lord Geidt cited the proposed
Johnson had shown “a lot of enthu- tariff policy in his his resignation as
siasm” for the idea – though No 10 the prime minister’s independent
stressed this could only be the case adviser on ministerial standards.
if the plan did not include elements In what was understood to be a
of freedom of movement, as mooted. reference to being asked to approve
Similarly, while Johnson used the a tariff policy that would go against
CNN interview to stress the need for international legal obligations, Geidt
democracy, he declined to comment said he had been put in an “impos-
on the US hearings into the January sible and odious position” and that,
attack on the Capitol, saying: “In prin- because he was being asked to sanc-
ciple we shouldn’t talk about each tion a breach of the ministerial code,
other’s domestic politics.” he would have to quit.
▲ A delivery to an Arco petrol station in Riverside, California. The US and
Canada have banned imports of Russian oil PHOTOGRAPH: DAMIAN DOVARGANES/AP
fixed price for Russian gas. It is argued
that Russia has no alternative market
to sell the gas in the short term and,
unless it was prepared to take a huge
hit to its revenues by shutting down
the pipeline altogether, Moscow
would have no option but to sell the
gas at the price dictated by Europe.
Liquid gas would be exempted.
“Putting a ceiling on the price of
fossil fuels imported from Russia has
a geopolitical goal as well as an eco-
nomic and social one,” Draghi told the
G7. “We need to reduce our funding to
Russia. And we need to eliminate one
of the main causes of inflation. We
must avoid the mistakes made after
the 2008 crisis: the energy crisis must
not produce a return of populism.”
An oil price cap would operate
by dictating to the quasi monopoly
responsible for insuring Russian oil
60%
Cut in Russian gas flows to Europe
last week, blamed by Moscow on
delays in maintenance equipment
Why Geidt was asked to give
advice on WTO tariff policy – which
has not previously been a matter for
the No 10 ethics adviser – has never
been fully explained.
Responding to reports that the gov-
ernment is to extend tariffs already
imposed on steel imports from China,
supplemented with further tariffs
affecting imports from countries such
as India and Turkey, Johnson said:
“I think it’s very important people
understand the context of this, and
that is that the UK steel industry has
been going through a difficult time,
partly because of energy prices.
“We have a system in the UK where
▲ The UK steel industry has had a
difficult time, Boris Johnson said
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tankers that they will face sanctions
if the oil is sold above a fixed price.
About 95% of the world’s tanker lia-
bility coverage is arranged through a
City-based insurance organisation,
the International Group of Protection
and Indemnity Clubs, that has to heed
European law.
The proposal has been promoted
by the US treasury secretary, Janet
Yellen, but might have to be squared
with Opec, the oil producers’ club.
Russian oil production has fallen
under the pressure of sanctions, but
its per barrel revenues are up owing
to the high price of oil globally. The US
and Canada have banned imports of
Russian oil, while the EU has agreed
to prohibit seaborne imports of Rus-
sian crude by the end of the year.
Germany is probably the G7 coun-
try most queasy about price caps,
fearing a bust-up inside the EU over
the proposal and that Putin would
simply turn off gas supplies to Europe.
Last week Russia cut gas flows by 60%
citing delays in maintenance equip-
ment, but the explanation was not
regarded as credible within the G7.
we don’t privilege our industry in the
way that some other countries do.
“We need British Steel to be pro-
vided with much cheaper energy and
cheap electricity for its blastfurnaces
but until we can fix that, I think it is
reasonable for UK steel to have the
same protections that absolutely
every other European steel econ-
omy does.”
Johnson said there would be
“tough choices” over what action to
take. “The difficulty is, is that [help-
ing the industry] possible to do while
staying within our WTO, our World
Trade Organization obligations?
That’s the problem.”
While Geidt appeared to question
the tariff proposal on legal grounds,
some of Johnson’s ministerial col-
leagues are reportedly more worried
about the policy undermining free
market principles.
The prime minister’s spokesper-
son stressed yesterday that no final
decision had yet been taken. “We’re
consulting with foreign counterparts
on our proposals before making a
final decision ahead of the deadline.
That will be made shortly and will
balance our international obligations
and the national interest.”
The spokeperson added that the
collapse of the steel industry would
have “wider knock-on impacts for UK
capability and security”.
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6 News
Russian missile attacks return to
Kyiv before G7 and Nato summits
Lorenzo Tondo
Kyiv
Kyiv was hit by four Russian missile
strikes early yesterday morning, end-
ing three weeks of relative calm in the
Ukrainian capital.
Columns of smoke rose over the
central Shevchenkivskyi district,
home to a cluster of universities,
restaurants and galleries, at 6.22am as
G7 leaders prepared for three days of
meetings in Germany, with Russia’s
war in Ukraine top of the agenda.
Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said
two residential buildings had been
hit in what he called an attempt to
“intimidate Ukrainians” before the
G7 meeting and a Nato summit in
Madrid beginning tomorrow.
There were several unconfirmed
reports of two more explosions in
Kyiv about 11am, but according to
local officials the blasts heard were
the sound of air defences destroying
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War in Ukraine
other incoming strikes. One man was
killed and six people, including a
woman from Russia, were taken to
hospital, while a seven-year-old was
rescued from rubble, Klitschko said.
“She is alive,” he said on Tele-
gram, adding that rescue workers
were trying to “save her mother”. He
said more residents may have been
trapped under rubble.
“We heard four explosions, they
were very loud,” said Marina, 33, a
resident of an apartment building
close to the missile strike. “An entire
building was shaking. Luckily, our
apartment is fine. Originally we are
from Chernihiv, we’ve lived through
all this and now again … I don’t know
if I want to move out, I need to calm
down and then decide.”
The strikes came as Russian forces
in eastern Ukraine were trying to cut
off Lysychansk, having reduced its
twin city Sievierodonetsk to rubble. If
Lysychansk falls, the entire region of
Luhansk, which along with Donetsk
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▼ A residential building damaged
in airstrikes in the Shevchenkivskyi
district of Kyiv early yesterday
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makes up the eastern Donbas region,
could fall under Russian control,
marking another strategic break-
through for the Russian president,
Vladimir Putin, since the beginning
of the invasion.
Russia’s Interfax news agency and
pro-Russian separatist fighters said
Russian troops had entered Lysy-
chansk on Saturday after Ukrainian
forces were ordered to withdraw from
Russia’s war in Ukraine: latest developments Sievierodonetsk. Andrei Marochko, a
representative for pro-Russian sepa-
Russian-controlled territory Russian advances Areas where Ukraine has regained control
ratists, said there was fighting in the
Kyiv Kharkiv streets. The claim could not be inde-
There are fears that the city is still on Russia pendently verified and there was
the Russian agenda after artillery no immediate comment from the
pounded the city in recent days; this Ukrainian side.
followed a period when the city had Serhiy Haidai, the governor of
started to return to normal 2014-22 Luhansk province, said on Facebook
Ukraine Izium
frontline Russian and separatist fighters were
Kyiv Sievierodonetsk
Four Russian missile strikes and Lysychansk trying to blockade Lysychansk from
hit the city including the Russian forces have reduced the south and bombardments had
Donbas
central Shevchenkivskyi Sievierodonetsk to rubble Luhansk left the city “almost unrecognisable”.
district. There were also and Lysychansk is set to The area of Kyiv hit yesterday was
further reports of attacks on become the next main focus Donetsk
previously targeted on 28 April in a
the outskirts of Kyiv and in of fighting menacing display while the UN secre-
Cherkasy south-east of the
tary general was visiting the city and
capital
Mariupol hours after Joe Biden announced a
Mykolaiv
Melitopol
doubling of US military and economic
Kherson aid. Vira Hyrych, a Ukrainian jour-
Odesa nalist from Radio Liberty who also
worked for Voice of America, was
Black Sea Sea of Azov
killed in the April attack.
100 km
Crimea The Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Gon-
100 miles
charenko wrote on Telegram that
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▲ Rescuers evacuate a victim of the
airstrikes from a damaged building
missiles were launched against Kyiv
region and Kyiv” yesterday. The cul-
ture minister, Oleksandr Tkachenko,
said a kindergarten had been hit.
The Russian defence ministry said
the strike on Kyiv had hit the Artyom
weapons factory in Shevchenkivskyi
district, dismissing as “fake” reports
that it had struck a residential area of
the capital.
“Russian forces attacked civilian
targets in Kyiv = fake,” the ministry
said in a statement, claiming that the
damage to a nearby residential build-
ing had been caused by a Ukrainian
air defence missile.
“There was damage to the bot-
tom of the building as well as the top,
which confirms the version that it was
a falling missile,” it said.
According to Ukrainian military
officials, Kh-101 air-launched cruise
missiles were fired from Russian
planes over the Caspian Sea.
The capital has not come under
Russian bombardment since 5 June,
when Russian forces hit the city with
cruise missiles – similarly said to have
been fired from the Caspian Sea –
striking a rail repair facility.
Other Russian missiles yesterday
struck near the central Ukrainian city
of Cherkasy, which has been largely
untouched by bombardment since
the war started in February. The mis-
siles killed one person and hit a bridge
that helps connect western regions
with the eastern battle zones, accord-
ing to Ukrainian officials.
“Today, the enemy launched mis-
sile attacks on the Cherkasy region.
There are 2 strikes near the regional
centre. One dead and five wounded.
Infrastructure damaged,” said the
regional governor Ihor Taburets on
the Telegram app.
Attacks over the weekend also
hit the village of Desna in the north-
ern Chernihiv region with 20 rockets
“fired from the territory of Belarus
and from the air”, Ukraine’s north-
ern military command said.
Belarus is officially not involved in
the conflict but has provided logistic
support to Moscow since the begin-
ning of the invasion. “Today’s strike
is directly linked to Kremlin efforts to
pull Belarus as a co-belligerent into
the war in Ukraine,” the Ukrainian
intelligence service said.
The attack came before a planned
meeting between Putin and his Bela-
rusian counterpart and close ally,
Alexander Lukashenko, in St Peters-
burg on Saturday in which Putin
said he would deliver missiles capa-
ble of carrying nuclear warheads to
Belarus.
“In the coming months, we will
transfer to Belarus Iskander-M tac-
tical missile systems, which can use
ballistic or cruise missiles, in their
conventional and nuclear versions,”
Putin said in a broadcast on Russian
television.
Additional reporting
Artem Mazhulin
•
Ukrainians in Gaza ‘No food
and no electricity. We have
the same problems now’
Bethan McKernan
Hazem Baloushain Gaza City
F
or more than a decade,
Natalya Hassoumi’s
family in Ukraine have
worried about her
safety in the Gaza Strip;
they have been unable
to reach her for days at a time
while airstrikes have pummelled
the Palestinian territory. Now it
is Hassoumi’s turn to worry: she
has not heard from her parents
and siblings in Russian-occupied
Kherson for three weeks.
“I think the Russians must
be making people switch to
using Russian networks and sim
cards, but I don’t know what’s
happening,” the 41-year-old doctor
said. “It’s very hard not knowing.”
Hassoumi is one of about 830
Ukrainian-born people in Gaza,
which according to community
leaders is the largest population of
foreigners living in the blockaded
coastal zone. Having lived through
three rounds of war between Israel
and Hamas, the group in control
of Gaza, the endocrinologist is
acutely aware of what her family in
Kherson is facing.
“I never thought that war could
happen in Ukraine,” Hassoumi said
at the house in Beit Lahia she has
shared with husband Iyad and the
‘Flawed analogy’ First world
war historian rejects parallels
between 1914 and present day
Philip Oltermann
Berlin
A leading expert on the outbreak of
the first world war has urged admir-
ers of his work in Germany to stop
drawing comparisons to the conflict
in Ukraine, warning any parallels
between 1914 and 2022 are flawed.
Sir Christopher Clark’s The Sleep-
walkers: How Europe Went to War in
1914, was an international bestseller
after its publication in 2013. It struck
a chord in Germany as a counterview
to a prevailing narrative of national
war guilt, and has sold more than
350,000 copies.
Sleepwalkers found avid readers
among German political leaders,
from Angela Merkel to Helmut
Schmidt. Recently, the chancellor,
Olaf Scholz, cited Clark’s book in an
off-the-record conversation with
international media as a case study
in how politicians could goad each
other into a conflict that was not
in their interest. He has reportedly
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couple’s three young sons since
2011. “No food, no electricity ...
Gaza and Ukraine have the same
problems now.”
The Soviet Union was a major
champion of the Palestinian cause,
offering scholarships and business
visas to people from the West Bank
and Gaza. After Ukraine declared
independence in 1991, many of
those ties endured: the majority of
Ukrainians in Gaza are women who
met Palestinian spouses studying
at Ukrainian universities, then
moved there with their husbands.
Last May, during the 11-day war
which killed 256 people in Gaza
and 14 people in Israel, about 120
Gaza families with links to Ukraine
were evacuated. But this year, one
woman travelled the other way.
Pandemic travel restrictions
meant Viktoria Saidam, 21, had not
been able to visit Gaza for two years
– but after the Russian invasion in
February, she and her husband,
Ibrahim, 24, both students in
Kyiv, decided to seek safety with
Ibrahim’s parents, fleeing her home
city of Vinnytsia by minibus and
eventually reaching Egypt’s Rafah
crossing with southern Gaza.
She says she was aware of the
issues in Gaza caused by the Hamas
takeover and subsequent 15-year-
old Israeli-Egyptian blockade.
Its population of 2 million has
an unemployment rate of more
told other journalists that he was “no
Kaiser Wilhelm”, the German leader
in the first world war.
However, Clark, regius professor
of history at the University of Cam-
bridge, stressed that the dynamic
behind the outbreak of the first world
war bore little resemblance to the sit-
uation in Ukraine. “People don’t want
to step forward, they don’t want to
show their heads over the parapet,
they don’t want to risk an escalation,”
the historian said in an interview in
‘I don’t think there
is any risk now of
sleepwalking. We’re
wide awake as Putin
has woken us all up’
Sir Christopher Clark
Historian
than 50%, sporadic electricity, a
polluted water supply and constant
fear of a new round of fighting.
“Since we got married, I kept
preparing her for what she would
see in Gaza,” Ibrahim said. They
hope their stay will be temporary.
Natalya Mabhouh, 45, has lived
in Gaza since 1997. Her mother and
sister are still in her hometown
of Kharkiv and her eldest son,
Ahmed, was also living there when
Russia invaded in February. Ahmed
and his Ukrainian wife have since
found safety in Germany.
“When I came to Gaza the
economic situation was good,
there was peace, but we got used
to wars and escalation since then,”
the hairdresser said. “This has
been a huge shock. Russians and
Ukrainians are like one people…
I still don’t understand how this
could happen.”
In general, Palestinian society
supports Russia in the conflict,
830
Number of Ukrainian-born Gazans,
mostly women who met Palestinian
husbands at universities in Ukraine
Berlin. “It’s easy to understand in the
German case why there is an anxiety
there. So they look for, and then to,
an event that brings home the dan-
gers of precipitous action.”
However, he said: “There is no
analogy between 1914 and the
situation in Ukraine now. The first
world war began in an incredibly
complex, round-the-houses way.
Whereas in the case of the invasion
of Ukraine, in 2014 and this year, it’s
clearly a case of the breach of the
peace by just one power. It’s a very
different set-up … Europe is not
divided into a binary pair of alliance
systems. In Europe, at least, Russia
is isolated this time.”
He also rejected likening today’s
geopolitical situation to that on the
eve of the second world war, a stance
favoured by those who accuse Berlin
of appeasing Moscow. “Hitler had a
profoundly racist philosophy, where
the Germans were a biomass that was
going to expand across the European
continent,” Clark said. “A better anal-
ogy would be with the opportunist
Russian predations of the 19th cen-
tury – most of which we in the west
don’t know much about, because
they were at the expense of the Otto-
man empire. The world in general is
more and more like the 19th century:
multipolar and unpredictable.”
Clark expressed sympathy for
Scholz, who has faced criticism for
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 Ukrainian-
born Natalya
Mabhouh,
45, has lived
in Gaza since
1997. Her
mother and
sister are still
in Kharkiv
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viewing it as a proxy superpower
struggle with the US, Israel’s most
important ally. Neither Hamas nor
the West Bank-based Palestinian
Authority has taken a public
position on the invasion.
The war has also led to tension
in the Ukrainian and Russian-
speaking communities in Gaza:
in March, many local Ukrainians
were upset after Russians held a
pro-Moscow demonstration.
“It is really difficult,” said
Hassoumi. “My mother is
Ukrainian and my father is
Russian and suddenly people are
not talking to me.”
Gaza’s Ukrainian community
has been left feeling fearful for
the future of both their native
land and adopted home.
“We built a life here, so despite
everything we will stay,” said
Ashraf al-Nimr, who lived in
Mariupol for a decade. Since
Russia’s siege of the city began,
15 members of his wife Olya’s
family have gone missing.
“We can help by giving people
in Ukraine instructions on how
to deal with war, how to hide,
raising money,” he said. “Any way
we can help, we will.”
being slow on delivering military sup-
port to Kyiv. “Those who attack him
for not saying enough should also
bear in mind how appalled everyone
would be at the spectacle of a German
chancellor who wanted to get stuck
in. I think it’s quite right for a German
chancellor to be seen to be reluctantly
drawn into a conflict rather than seek-
ing the opportunity to demonstrate
Germany’s prowess,” he said.
Nonetheless, Clark stressed that
Germany risked losing credibility
at a pivotal moment. “I understand
Scholz and I thought I understood
what he is trying to do, a policy of
increasing commitment to the assis-
tance to Ukraine. As long as that is the
case, it’s fine to talk the long game
and speak quietly rather than wave a
big stick. But if you are speaking qui-
etly and carrying a twig, that’s not so
great. You need to follow up with con-
certed action.
“The dangers of simply letting
Putin have his way in Ukraine are
immense and unfathomable, and
his language makes this clear. He’s
talked about the long-term material
consequences for Finland, for exam-
ple. And Putin is not someone who
says something and then forgets
about it.”
He added: “I don’t think there is
any risk now of sleepwalking. Now
everyone is wide awake because
Putin has woken us all up.”
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8 National
NHS and care services
‘failing south Asian
people with dementia’
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the discriminatory repercussions
of an outdated system designed for
white British patients,” said Dr Karan
Jutlla, the author of the report and
dementia lead at the University
of Wolverhampton. “We are losing
people in the system.”
Getting a dementia diagnosis is
often more difficult for south Asians,
her review says, because of a “lack
of culturally appropriate diagnostic
tools”. Many first-generation south
Asian immigrants have insufficient
knowledge to complete some cogni-
tive tests because there are questions
about significant events in UK history.
Early diagnosis is vital, opening
the door to treatment. It also helps
patients plan while they are still able
to make important decisions about
care, finances and legal matters.
But the review found south Asians
“are less likely to access dementia
diagnostic services in a timely way,
compared to white British”.
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When they do receive a diagnosis,
a “lack of culturally appropriate ser-
vice provision” means staff often fail
to take into account their faith, cul-
tural norms or dietary requirements,
the review says.
Studies highlighted in the review
found “significantly more people
from the white British sample were
recorded as using or being offered
more than one form of community
support” than south Asian people.
“There’s also a language barrier
challenge,” said Jutlla. “English is
not the first language for many older
people within the south Asian com-
munity. Materials and support are
largely provided only in English,
leaving families to piecemeal trans-
late leaflets and conversations with
healthcare professionals. “We also
heard of care agencies muddling up
south Asian languages and thinking
they are interchangeable.”
Kate Lee, the chief executive
officer of Alzheimer’s Society, said
south Asian people were expected
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to see a 600% increase in dementia
diagnosed by 2050, compared with
100% for the general UK population.
“Yet the system is woefully unpre-
pared to deal with the increase with
meaningful, personalised and cul-
turally inclusive care,” Lee said.
“Everyone deserves appropriate care
when they face the immense chal-
lenges of dementia, but our current
system is totally inadequate and it
must change.”
Leading health figures told the
Guardian changes were needed.
“It’s unacceptable that in 2022, south
Asian communities are having worse
experiences with dementia simply
▲ A lack of ‘culturally appropriate
tools’ is slowing dementia diagnoses
because of prehistoric systems and
support,” said Jabeer Butt, the chief
executive of the Race Equality Foun-
dation. “Not only are south Asian
people more likely to receive their
dementia diagnosis at a later stage,
limiting their access to treatment, but
most cognitive tests used to diagnose
dementia have been validated and
tested in English, with a strong bias
for western culture, language and
education.”
Dr JS Bamrah, the national chair of
the British Association of Physicians
of Indian Origin, said that in many
cases “the burden of care is shoul-
dered by families” and “quite often
at a cost to their own mental health”.
He called for a national taskforce to
tackle dementia inequalities, “to
ensure that no one gets left behind”.
Dr Mani Santhana Krishnan, the
chair of the old age faculty at the
Royal College of Psychiatrists, said
there was an “urgent need” for trans-
lated health information for patients
of all backgrounds.
“Being able to communicate
with patients in their first language
is crucial, especially for those with
dementia and other mental illnesses,”
he said. “Government investment in
specialist healthcare workers, who
have those language skills, is required
to achieve that.”
The Department of Health and
Social Care was approached for
comment.
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Javid: my brother’s suicide
Sajid Javid urged men to speak
out about their mental health as
he spoke publicly for the first time
about the loss of his brother, who
took his own life.
The health secretary said he still
wondered if he could have acted
to prevent his brother’s death, and
spoke of his “deeply personal”
mission to prevent suicides. Javid’s
brother Tariq, 51, died in July 2018.
“We learned afterwards that he
had a physical health problem that
he hadn’t told anyone about,” Javid
told the Sunday Times. “And if we
had just known, if he had talked
to us, perhaps we could have done
something.”
Suicide is the biggest cause of
death in men under 50.
Javid said in some communities
there remained “a stigma around
talking about mental health
issues”, adding: “And we have to
get the message out that it doesn’t
matter what culture we come from.
All of us at some time of our lives
can have a mental health challenge
… The most important thing is to
tell someone, to speak to others
and to seek help.” Andrew Gregory
Samaritans can be contacted on
116 123 or jo@samaritans.org
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Monday 27 June 2022 The Guardian
Calls for inquiry into claims Charles
accepted €3m from Qatari sheikh
Caroline Davies
Prince Charles is facing fresh con-
troversy over the funding of his
charities, with calls for the govern-
ment and the Charity Commission to
investigate claims he accepted€3m in
cash from a billionaire Qatari sheikh.
Claims in the Sunday Times that
Charles accepted three donations
between 2011 and 2015 from the for-
mer Qatari prime minister Sheikh
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani
– known as “HBJ” – were described as
“shocking” by critics. One donation,
Prince’s charities
Spotlight is on donations once more
Claims by the Sunday Times of
alleged cash donations given to
Prince Charles by a former Qatari
prime minister are the latest to
shed light on fundraising for the
heir to the throne’s charities.
It has been reported that the
contentious billionaire Sheikh
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al
Thani, who was Qatar’s prime
minister and foreign minister
between 2007 and 2013, has built
close ties with British royalty, is
an occasional visitor to Castle of
Mey, the Scottish former home
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Royal family
totalling €1m, was reportedly handed
over in a small suitcase and another
was stuffed in a carrier bag from the
upmarket department store Fortnum
& Mason.
The cash, allegedly then counted
by Charles’s aides and subsequently
collected by Coutts bank, was paid
to the Prince of Wales’s charitable
fund, which aims to “transform lives
and build sustainable communities”
through awarding grants. The fund
told the Sunday Times that its trus-
tees had concluded the donor was
legitimate and that its auditors had
signed off on the donation.
Although there is no suggestion of
of the Queen Mother maintained
by Charles’s Prince’s Foundation,
and once gave the Prince of Wales a
£147,000 horse named Dark Swan.
The Prince’s Foundation hit
headlines last year after the
Mail on Sunday revealed that
Charles’s closest confidante,
Michael Fawcett, had offered to
help a Saudi billionaire obtain a
knighthood and UK citizenship in
exchange for generous donations.
Fawcett dramatically stepped
down as chief executive of the
foundation after a letter emerged
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any illegality, or that Charles offered
anything in return for the generous
donations, critics said it raised seri-
ous concerns about the future king’s
personal judgment, especially given
Qatar’s record on human rights.
One described it as more like the
actions of a “South American drug
baron” than a future king, while
another said the image of Charles’s
aides counting out the cash was like
a scene from Only Fools and Horses.
Clarence House said: “Charitable
donations received from Sheikh bin
Jassim were passed immediately to
one of the prince’s charities, who car-
ried out the appropriate governance
to an aide of Mahfouz Marei
Mubarak bin Mahfouz, who had
donated thousands to the charity,
in which he said the charity would
be “happy and willing” to use its
influence to help Mahfouz.
The Metropolitan police
announced earlier this year it had
launched an investigation into the
“cash-for-honours” allegations.
Charles was not aware of the offer
of help, according to Clarence
House, and Mahfouz, who in
the end did not receive either
knighthood or citizenship, is not
accused of any wrongdoing.
The Prince’s Foundation also
faced allegations that a society fixer
acted as a middleman offering to
set up dinners and overnight stays
and have assured us that all the
correct processes were followed.”
The royal family’s guidelines make
no mention of cash donations, but do
say that at their sole discretion mem-
bers of the royal family are allowed to
accept a cheque as a patron of, or on
behalf of, a charity with which they
are associated.
The campaign group Republic
demanded full disclosure from
Charles and said it would be writing
to him, the government, MPs and the
Charity Commission. Graham Smith,
of Republic, said the claims were
“shocking” and raised ethical ques-
tions. “Prince Charles met Sheikh
at Dumfries House. It was alleged
that a former Russian banker,
Dmitry Leus, donated £500,000,
though the charity only received
£100,000, which was returned
when it was decided he was not a
suitable donor.
▲ Prince Charles in 2013 with the
former Qatari prime minister
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 Prince Charles and the Duchess of
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Rwanda during their tour last week
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Hamad in private, with no officials
present and with no disclosure of the
meeting in the court circular,” said
Smith. “Sheikh Hamad faces serious
accusations over human rights and
has significant financial and other
interests here in the UK.”
Norman Baker, a former govern-
ment minister who has written a book
on royal finances, said: “A million dol-
lars in cash stuffed into Fortnum &
Mason bags, or shoved into a hold-
all or a suitcase, and handed over
behind closed doors. This is what one
might expect from a South American
drug baron, not the heir to the British
throne. It seems there are no lengths
Charles will not go to to get money for
his good causes.”
Last year, Charles’s closest aide,
Michael Fawcett, was forced to resign
after donations to another of his char-
ities, the Prince’s Foundation, came
under scrutiny after allegations it
offered to help a wealthy Saudi donor
secure a knighthood and British citi-
zenship. The Metropolitan police said
earlier this year it was investigating
the honours claim under the Honours
(Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925, after
complaints from Baker and others.
Clarence House has said Charles had
no knowledge of the alleged offers
to the billionaire businessman Mah-
fouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz,
who denies any wrongdoing.
Of these latest claims, Baker said:
“This is grubby, scuzzy behaviour
which reinforces the view many are
reaching: that Charles is not fit to be
king. He doesn’t behave in any way
which is appropriate to his position.
If an MP behaved in that way they
would be out of parliament.”
The Northern Ireland secretary,
Brandon Lewis, said the donations
the Prince of Wales is alleged to have
received from the former prime
minister of Qatar would have gone
through “proper due process”.
“This isn’t a government issue, but
what I have seen is the palace have
been very clear, that all moneys go
through proper due process, the char-
ities obviously go through proper due
process,” Lewis told the BBC’s Sunday
Morning programme.
Tom Bower, the royal author and
Prince Charles critic, said the claim
that royal aides were asked to handle
carrier bags stuffed with money was
“like a scene from the TV comedy
Only Fools and Horses”.
Clarence House has previously
said that Charles’s charities
“operate independently of the
prince himself in relation to all
decisions around fundraising”
and that their trustees “are
responsible for all operational and
governance duties”.
In 2003, it emerged the wife
of the Turkish billionaire, Cem
Uzan, was seated next to Charles
at one of several dinners the
couple enjoyed as guests, having
donated £400,000 to the Prince’s
Foundation. A tightening up of
vetting procedures for donors was
reportedly implemented after
it later emerged that Uzan was
under investigation for fraud-
related offences in the US.
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Charities say websites
vital for daily tasks
must be easier to use
Robert Booth
Social affairs correspondent
The design of websites and apps vital
for daily tasks, from car parking to
booking NHS appointments, should
be regulated to avoid digital exclusion
for millions of people who struggle
with life online, campaigners say.
The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA),
a coalition of charities, is calling for
greater help for an estimated 11 mil-
lion UK citizens who lack digital life
skills, and believes “basic, inclu-
sive design requirements must be
enforced for all essential services”.
The DPA wants tech companies to
sell devices with operating systems
that go out of date less often, low-cost
“social tariffs” from all broadband
providers and for digital access to be
classed as an essential utility.
The call comes as frontline advisers
warned growing numbers of people
feel “lost in a digital world”. Age UK
has estimated that 40% of over-75s
• The Guardian Monday 27 June 2022
National
do not use the internet. People faced
with choices between heating and
eating are first cutting online access, a
Citizens Advice Bureau manager said.
New figures also show the number
of people accessing the internet only
via mobile phone – which is slower,
more expensive and less effective at
handling complex transactions – dou-
bled between 2019 and 2021. A study
by the Fabian Society and backed by
BT found 5.8m households now rely
on mobile coverage, forcing families
to ration time spent online.
Lord Knight, a former Labour
schools minister who chairs the DPA,
said: “We should regard digital access
in the same way we regard other util-
ities. You can’t apply for jobs, you
can’t get discounts on your bills,
you fall further into debt and end up
becoming much more isolated.
“It is reasonable that we should
have a standard that public sector
websites should meet.”
In response to the widening digital
divide, BT is to offer 2,500 financially
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▲ Blogger Joyce Williams, 86, says she has ‘a constant struggle’ with the web
vulnerable households free devices
and connectivity through the charity
Home-Start UK.
Symone Smith, 30, from Greater
Manchester, now on a £15-a-month
social tariff, was forced to ration the
internet to 30-minute mobile data
slots. Her seven-year-old daughter
had to rush to finish her homework
“against the data clock”. She said:
“When everything is online and
you’re not, life becomes very limited.”
Sally West, policy director at Age
UK, said clients’ problems online
included parking payments and
council tax and housing benefits.
Joyce Williams, 86, who blogs
about ageing in Glasgow, described
using IT as “a constant struggle”. She
said: “There are too many passwords.
Plus software updates regularly dis-
rupt what I have learned to use. It
is created by nerds for nerds; old
people’s issues are not in mind at all.”
Samantha Briggs, of the charity
Spark Somerset, said: “Some people
we work with report feeling embar-
rassed, ‘old’ or ‘stupid’ because they
can’t use the technology they assume
everyone else can use. They can be
avoidant, and even visibly anxious.”
David, 85, a retired railway worker,
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has neurological problems affecting
his hands that stop him being able to
use a phone touch screen or a com-
puter mouse, he said.
Martin Garrod, 64, a retired
accountant from Portsmouth, said
he could not access software updates
because he did not have a mobile
phone to verify his identity. He said
it was as if “you take your car to the
garage to get your tyres checked, but
the mechanic can’t [help] because
you don’t own a vacuum cleaner”.
Chris Philp, the minister for tech
and the digital economy, told parlia-
ment last week: “The government
is focused on building a world-lead-
ing digital economy that works for
everyone. A range of low-cost social
tariffs are available to those on uni-
versal credit.”
He added that free basic digital
skills courses were available, and
that “about 2,900 public libraries in
England provide a trusted network
of accessible locations with staff, vol-
unteers, free wifi, public PCs, and
assisted digital access”.
Kellie Dorrington of Citizens
Advice in Haringey, north London,
said advisers were increasingly help-
ing people who “can’t do the online
thing” deal with parking tickets.
“Department for Work and Pensions
advisers tell people to use the wifi in
Costa or McDonald’s but if they have
no money they can’t afford the cof-
fee to do that,” she said.
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• The Guardian Monday 27 June 2022

12 National
Glastonbury ▼ The joint is jumping: Italian-based
US musician Yves Tumor on the
West Holts stage on Saturday
PHOTOGRAPH: JIM DYSON/GETTY

▲ Denise
Chaila on the
BBC Music
Introducing
stage on Friday

 Festivalgoers
in their tents

▼ Fans in fancy
dress at Herbie
Hancock’s set
PHOTOGRAPHS:
LEON NEAL/GETTY;
GUY BELL/ALAMY

‘I don’t want it to end’ Joy, warmth and

flower which was due to be burned
last night at midnight.
Tom Summerfield, 32, was
planning to burn a message about
his severe health anxiety, which

surprises as festival ends with a bang

years. She is known for forging
Nadia Khomami a strong connection with her
Josh Halliday audience and did so yesterday,
Sophie Zeldin-O’Neill explaining that she likes to be able
Surprise speakers this year
included the climate activist
Greta Thunberg, who warned
that the world faces “total natural
supreme court’s overturning of a
constitutional right to abortion,
with condemnation coming from
Eilish as well as Phoebe Bridgers,
would, he said, help him move on:
“It’s about not letting it dictate my
life any more and letting go.”
His girlfriend, Grace Reohorn,
29, wanted to banish the acute
anxiety she feels about missing
out on social events. For her, the
ceremony was a fitting end to her
first Glastonbury: “I’ve loved it. I

I
t was the song Glastonbury
wanted to hear the most.
Diana Ross’s Motown classic
I’m Coming Out seemed a
fitting soundtrack to this
year’s festival after the
Covid-19 pandemic – which forced
its organisers to cancel two years
in a row.
Ross, in a draped sequin gown
and matching platforms, drew huge
crowds yesterday afternoon as she
filled the teatime legends slot on
the Pyramid stage – soaring through
a set list that also included Ain’t No
Mountain High Enough, Baby Love
and Upside Down.
Ross, 78, told the adoring
crowd how much it meant to be
performing after a difficult three
to see their faces so they can enjoy
the music together.
They were among the more than
200,000 people who had flocked
to the world’s biggest greenfield
festival from Wednesday morning
for a star-studded line-up of
more than 80 artists, including
headliners Billie Eilish, Paul
McCartney and Kendrick Lamar.
McCartney delivered a history-
making set on Saturday night.
At 80, the oldest headliner in
Glastonbury history delighted
crowds with hits such as Let It
Be, Hey Jude and Live and Let
Die – a day after Eilish became the
youngest act to top the bill, while
Grammy-winning rapper Lamar’s
performance last night marked his
Glastonbury debut.
catastrophe”, and Volodymyr
Zelenskiy, who in a video address
urged festivalgoers to help end
the war in Ukraine. Another
theme this year was the US
Greta Thunberg
speaks on the
Pyramid stage
Olivia Rodrigo, Lily Allen and Idles’
Joe Talbot.
Crowds at the event – which
took place on more than 360
hectares (900 acres) of land
and featured seven main stages
and more than 70 performance
spaces – seemed bigger than usual.
Though attenders reported more
instances of pedestrian congestion,
Glastonbury said there was just a
2% rise in paid ticket sales this year,
from 135,000 to 138,000.
Many there viewed the event
as a moment of closure after
two difficult years of lockdowns
and personal loss. Festivalgoers
were encouraged to write down
memories of people or situations
they wished to let go of, to insert
into a towering sculpture of a lotus
don’t want it to end.”
While forecasters had predicted
a mixture of sunshine and
thunderstorms for the weekend,
music fans were fortunate to enjoy
mostly pleasant weather with only
brief spells of light rain.
Rose Llewellyn, 35, a Water Aid
volunteer from Warwickshire, said:
“This was my first Glastonbury for
15 years and it’s clear why it has
a reputation for being the best of
its kind in the world.” She praised
the “strong political statements
about climate change and other
issues” and added: “Seeing people
from such diverse backgrounds
coming together and being who
they want to be is amazing. There’s
been an incredibly warm, friendly
atmosphere.”
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‘He just nailed it. He was brilliant’
Fans in McCartney wonderland
Paul McCartney’s history-making
Glastonbury set was hailed as
one of the greatest headline
performances in years as a crowd
of more than 100,000 people
gathered at the festival’s Pyramid
stage to watch him play.
He was joined on stage by
Bruce Springsteen and Foo
Fighters’ Dave Grohl – and even
sang a duet with John Lennon,
using visual effects pioneered by
the director Peter Jackson.
Eyebrows had been raised
when it was announced that
McCartney, who turned 80
last week, would become
Glastonbury’s oldest headline act.
But any doubts were shredded
when he finished a near
three-hour set with dramatic
pyrotechnics and a mass
singalong to Let It Be, Hey Jude
and Live and Let Die.
“It exceeded all expectations,”
beamed Richard Martin, 75, part
of the biggest crowd the Pyramid
stage had seen. “I’m almost
his age, but I’ve never seen the
Beatles – my wife has, she was
•
one of those screaming teenagers.
He just nailed it. He was brilliant.
Of course he’s a pro – he’s been at it
for half a century. People behind us
were in their 20s and they knew the
songs backwards.”
Some festival-goers had camped
all day to get close to the front of
the Pyramid stage. By 9pm, half
an hour before McCartney took to
the stage, it was impossible to get
anywhere near it.
“It was incredible. Musically it
was up there with one of the most
seminal moments of my life,” said
James Jack, 35, after screaming
along to the Bond hit Live and
▲ Paul McCartney performs with
Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen
Sent at 26/6/2022 20:43
▲ Dancing
under the disco
ball at the
Glade stage
PHOTOGRAPH:
GUY BELL/REX/
SHUTTERSTOCK
 The crowd
in celebratory
mood watches
Olivia Rodrigo
perform on the
Other stage on
Saturday
PHOTOGRAPH:
BEN BIRCHALL/PA
Let Die – a moment he said was
fulfilling a childhood dream:
“When you watch the films with
your dad when you’re about six …
It’s the sort of thing you tell your
grandkids about.”
Grohl, who had to pull out
of a headline show in 2015
after breaking his leg, became
McCartney’s surprise sideman
for I Saw Her Standing There,
immediately followed by Band
on the Run. The crowd were
in raptures even before Bruce
Springsteen arrived.
McCartney faced some criticism
for showing a clip of Johnny Depp
during My Valentine, a love song
written for McCartney’s wife,
Nancy Shevell. One Twitter user
wrote: “Once again, domestic
abuse survivors are mocked.”
However, for most it had been
a special night. The NME said
McCartney threw “absolutely
everything he had at the show,
sounding like a man who, frankly,
knows he might not do this again”.
Josh Halliday, Nadia Khomami
and Sophie Zeldin-O’Neill
Review
Diva dazzles with back
catalogue of delights
Diana Ross
Pyramid stage
★★★★☆
Alexis Petridis
D
iana Ross makes
quite an entrance to
the Pyramid stage’s
traditional Sunday
afternoon legends
slot: she’s wearing a
sequinned kimono dress, swathed
in what appears to be a cloud of
chiffon, wearing an absolutely
enormous purple fascinator on her
head and singing I’m Coming Out.
Her triumph feels like a forgone
conclusion – success in the legends
slot being reliant on having a
large back catalogue packed with
songs everyone knows, which
Ross undoubtedly does: she goes
straight from I’m Coming Out into
My World is Empty Without You
into Baby Love.
In fact, she’s got so many
that she’s forced on occasion to
condense them into medleys: Love
Hangover is severely truncated –
as any disco bore can tell you, the
original lasts the best part of eight
minutes – and segues into Ease On
Down The Road.
For a woman with what one
might politely call a formidable
reputation, she’s charm itself
between songs: “If I can move my
body like this when I’m 48 years old
…” she says, her voice trailing off
as she demonstrates a dancefloor
shimmy. “Well,” she clarifies, “I feel
48 years old.”
But she’s also clearly not a
woman to miss a sales opportunity.
If she hawked her most recent
album Thank You more vigorously
she’d be standing behind a trestle
table with a cash register and a pile
of CDs and vinyl – “because vinyls
are coming back,” as she notes
at one point. Though in fairness,
▲ Diana Ross, in a sequinned kimono dress, purple fascinator and cloud of
chiffon, was charm itself between songs PHOTOGRAPH: SAMIR HUSSEIN/WIREIMAGE
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the tracks she plays from it sound
pretty good: you can sing Marvin
Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s You’re
All I Need to Get By along to its
title track, while If the World Just
Danced offers the unlikely sound
of Diana Ross singing along to an
Afrobeats-inspired rhythm.
But it’s the hits people have come
for, or at least some of the hits: not
enough people seem to know I’m
Still Waiting to warrant a singalong
– which, frankly, is their loss – and
the higher notes from Theme from
Mahogany prove a bridge too far
for Ross’s voice. Upside Down,
however, provides the required
Sunday legend slot explosion of joy,
complete with obligatory footage of
the security at the front of the stage
dancing, while Ain’t No Mountain
High Enough does what I’m Still
Waiting couldn’t and provokes a
widespread outbreak of delighted
bellowing along.
She returns – the cloud of chiffon
replaced by an ostrich feather
cape – to cover Gloria Gaynor’s I
Will Survive. On the one hand, it’s
a peculiar choice, given how many
huge songs Ross still has in the back
pocket of her sequinned kimono
dress: My Old Piano, The Boss, It’s
My House, Love Child, Remember
Me, You Keep Me Hanging On.
Then again, you can’t argue
with the effect it has on the crowd,
which is more than hysterical
enough to warrant its position as
Ross’s grand finale.
‘Upside Down
provides the required
explosion of joy while
the crowd bellows to
Ain’t No Mountain
High Enough’
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Johnson may face legal
action over delay in
start of Covid inquiry
Robert Booth
Social affairs correspondent
Boris Johnson is facing possible legal
action over a delay to the start of the
Covid-19 public inquiry, which cam-
paigners fear could lead to evidence
being destroyed.
The prime minister pledged in par-
liament that the statutory inquiry
into the UK’s handling of the pan-
demic, which has so far resulted in
196,977 fatalities with Covid on the
death certificate, would begin by
spring. But Downing Street has yet
to finalise the terms of reference.
The Covid-19 Bereaved Families
for Justice group said it would seek
a judicial review of the delay, which
it fears could lead to in the loss of sig-
nificant documents.
The inquiry is to examine every-
thing from the devastating impact
of the virus in care homes to the
• The Guardian Monday 27 June 2022
government’s application of
lockdowns.
“In the vast majority of inquiries a
setting up date is given within days or
weeks of the chair being appointed,
so this delay of over six months is
both unprecedented and totally inex-
plicable,” said Elkan Abrahamson,
head of major inquiries at the law
firm Broudie Jackson Canter, which
is advising the campaign.
The hearings are expected to be
embarrassing for the government and
likely to renew debate about lock-
down-breaking in Downing Street,
as well as scrutinise policies such
as infection control in care homes,
which the high court has already
ruled was unlawful and “irrational”.
Last year Johnson rejected calls for
the inquiry to start in the midst of the
pandemic and said in May 2021: “I
expect that the right moment for the
inquiry to begin is … in the spring of
next year, spring 2022.”
Sent at 26/6/2022 19:09
National
Muslim travel agents in UK face
ruin after Saudi hajj changes
Aina J Khan
Community affairs correspondent
British Muslim travel companies have
said they face going out of business,
with some customers potentially
losing thousands of pounds, after
Saudi Arabia launched a new system
for applying for the hajj pilgrimage.
The Saudi government said this
month that pilgrims from Europe, the
US and Australia could no longer book
through travel agencies and instead
had to apply via a lottery system.
A drastically reduced quota will
permit a few thousand British Mus-
lims to perform hajj this year, with
▲ Medics attending
to a Covid patient
in intensive care in
Edinburgh in 2020
‘He could set it up
and get the process
moving with the
stroke of a pen’
Jo Goodman Bereaved
families campaigner
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the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah advis- Since 2006 it has been compul-
ing those with current bookings to sory to book hajj packages through
“request refunds from tour opera- licensed travel companies.
tors/agents”. Before the pandemic However, the change means pro-
about 25,000 Britons were making spective pilgrims are now required
the pilgrimage to Mecca annually. to book through an online portal,
Travel companies said the sudden Motawif, with successful applicants
change weeks before the start of the randomly selected by an automated
pilgrimage, from about 7 July, could system. They can then book accom-
cause them to go under. modation and transport through
The Saudi government said the the website. All travellers must be
change was part of efforts to crack under 65 and vaccinated against the
down on fraudulent agencies. coronavirus.
The hajj, an obligation for able- People who booked with tour com-
bodied Muslims, usually draws about panies protected by the Air Travel
2 million people a year. The Coun- Organiser’s Licence (Atol) should
cil of British Hajjis charity estimates be issued a refund. But not all travel
the UK’s hajj sector is worth £200m. operators offering packages for the
Jo Goodman, the co-founder of
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Jus-
tice, said: “These delays slow down
how quickly we can learn lessons
from the pandemic and could cost
lives, so why is the prime minister
endlessly wasting time?
“He could set the inquiry up and
PHOTOGRAPH: MURDO MACLEOD/THE GUARDIAN
get the process moving with the
stroke of a pen.”
A sticking point appears to be the
inquiry’s range. Six weeks ago, Lady
Hallett called for its scope to be wid-
ened to consider the pandemic’s
unequal impact on minority ethnic
people, on children and on mental
health. She urged Johnson to accept
the changes “swiftly” to allow the
inquiry to start “without delay”.
The inquiry will cover prepa-
In December 2021 he appointed the rations and the response to the
crossbench life peer Heather Hallett pandemic in England, Wales, Scot-
to chair the inquiry. The Covid-19 land and Northern Ireland. However,
bereaved group believes the delay it is seeking to avoid duplication
since then of more than six months with other inquiries in the devolved
in starting the inquiry is a breach of administrations.
the Inquiries Act, which requires an A government spokesperson said:
inquiry to be set up in a “reasonable “In accordance with the Inquiries Act,
time” after appointing the chair. the prime minister has consulted
It is an offence under the act to the devolved administrations and is
destroy or tamper with evidence, now finalising the terms of reference.
but only after the inquiry’s setting up These will be published shortly.”
date. Bereaved families are “deeply The devolved administrations
concerned [the delay] could have sin- responded to the consultation
ister ramifications, with evidence more than a week ago, the Guardian
being deliberately destroyed”. understands.
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Monday 27 June 2022 The Guardian •

15

 Pilgrims hajj and the shorter umrah pilgrim-
circling the age are Atol registered.
Kaaba in Mecca, Many UK travel companies that
Saudi Arabia, in received deposits for flights in 2020
2019. Before the and deferred hajj packages to this
pandemic about year because of the pandemic have
25,000 Britons been left in financial limbo.
performed hajj “These businesses probably still
each year have tens of millions of pounds stuck
PHOTOGRAPH: in Saudi Arabia,” said Seán McLough-
ABDEL GHANI BASHIR/ lin, a professor at the University of
AFP/GETTY
Leeds who interviewed UK hajj and
umrah tour companies for an inde-
pendent 2019 report on the industry.
Ilyas Master, 56, who has sold pack-
ages for hajj and umrah pilgrimages
through his Atol-registered agency in
Bradford for 15 years, said: “We were
nearly fully booked. But we refunded
most of our customers.”
Referring to his 2020 hajj bookings,
Master said: “We lost our money in
Saudi Arabia, at least about £35,000.
There is very little hope of recover-
ing that.” He said he was now looking
into alternative income streams,
including offering visa services. “If
we can’t carry on, it’s going to force
us to close.”
Travellers have also reported
glitches with the new Saudi portal.
Amal Ullah, from Nottingham, paid
£40,000 for a hajj package for her
family through Motawif. “I checked
the portal, and it said the booking
had failed,” she said, despite having
received an email confirming she and
family members had been selected
and their visas were being processed.
Motawif’s Twitter account says
package prices are on average 35%
less than market rates. But Ullah said
the packages she bought rose close
to £10,000 a person. According to
Motawif’s terms and conditions, the
last date for granting visas to pilgrims
from outside Saudi Arabia was Friday,
but Ullah has still received no com-
munication about the status of her
application.
In 2020 only about 10,000 people
performed hajj due to the pandemic.
Last year’s hajj was limited to 60,000
vaccinated people from Saudi Arabia.

Oxfam chief for the long term, addressing the root

causes,” she told the Guardian.
A windfall tax could be used to
levy on oil and gas companies, but
with loopholes that give tax breaks for
investment in increased production.
calls for global alleviate the cost of living crisis for
the poor in developed countries, and
Nearly 200  million people are
facing serious hunger or famine,
windfall tax to building hunger in the developing
world, argued Bucher.
according to Oxfam, with the Horn of
Africa, Afghanistan and Yemen par-

ease food crisis “We know that large corporations

Fiona Harvey
Environment correspondent
Food, fossil fuel and pharmaceutical
companies that enjoyed bumper prof-
its during the Covid-19 pandemic
and its aftermath should be hit with
a swingeing windfall tax on their
excess income, the global head of
Oxfam has said.
A 90% tax on excess profits glob-
ally would yield about $490bn
(£399bn) to solve the food crisis,
which is heading to “catastrophic
levels” for hundreds of millions of
people, and set the world on the
path to a sustainable food system,
said Gabriela Bucher, the executive
are making very significant profits,
and have been making them during
the pandemic,” she said, pointing to
the fossil fuels, food and pharmaceu-
ticals sectors in particular. “We’ve
calculated how much excess profit
there has been during the pandemic
and taxing excess profits as a windfall
tax would generate resources both
for the most affected populations in
the richer countries, and to be able to
fulfil commitments in terms of aid,
and responding to the worst suffer-
ing in the world.”
Such a tax would produce funds
to address longer-term food secu-
rity issues and strengthen resilience.
Windfall taxes have been sought or
implemented in several major econ-
omies, including the UK where the
chancellor, Rishi Sunak, imposed a
ticularly badly hit. Extreme weather
driven by the climate crisis, including
the worst drought in 40 years in the
Horn of Africa, has combined with
the pandemic – during which many
countries exhausted food reserves –
and the rising cost of fossil fuels and
fertiliser. The war in Ukraine, a big
producer of grain, cooking oil and fer-
tiliser, has compounded the disaster.
Rich people must pay more tax to
help the poorest, Bucher said. The
pandemic and food crisis have cre-
ated at least 62 new billionaires in
the food sector alone, according to
Oxfam. There were at least 2,700
billionaires worldwide, but wealth
taxes produced only about 4% of tax
revenues. The richest 1% produced
twice as much in greenhouse gas
emissions as the poorest 50%.
“We don’t think some of the
extreme wealth and accumulation is

director of Oxfam International.
“The food crisis we’re facing is
extremely serious, and probably
unprecedented. There’s insufficient
funding to address the immediate
life-saving that is required, but also
$490bn
Global yield from a 90% windfall
tax on excess profits during the
pandemic, calculated by Oxfam
sustainable and in line with a sustain-
able planet,” said Boucher. “In 2022,
to have a food crisis of the level that
we have is not morally acceptable,
and we all need to take responsibil-
ity and act.”
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Criminal barristers
say profession is
‘in existential crisis’
as strike begins
Haroon Siddique
Legal affairs correspondent
Criminal barristers are to begin a
strike over legal aid fees today as they
warn that the profession is facing
an “existential crisis” because of
inadequate funding.
The Criminal Bar Association (CBA)
says the offer of a 15% rise in fees, the
minimum increase recommended by
the criminal legal aid review (Clar),
is insufficient after swingeing cuts –
and will not apply to the backlog of
58,000 cases in crown courts.
It says incomes have fallen nearly
30% over two decades and specialist
criminal barristers make an average
annual income after expenses of
£12,200 in the first three years of
practice, driving 22% of junior crim-
inal barristers to leave since 2016.
Barristers participating in the
strike spoke of being paid less than
the minimum wage for court hear-
ings when travel and hours spent
preparing are factored in – and not
at all when hearings are cancelled.
Mira Hammad, who is based in
Liverpool and was called to the bar
‘I’ve seen colleagues
in tears and I know
the level of debt
people are taking on’
Andrew Fitch-Holland
Nottingham barrister
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in 2019, said: “The criminal justice
system is falling apart. Cases aren’t
going ahead because there aren’t
enough barristers, aren’t enough
judges, not enough court resources.
“As a criminal barrister you can’t
earn enough so I do inquest work as
well as crime. If I was doing solely
crime I would not be able to earn a
living. It’s unsustainable for anyone
involved in the system. The fact that
there’s no funding in the system
means that it’s also an incredibly
stressful and frustrating job to do.
“You don’t get paid well and you’re
having to work within a system that is
just completely dysfunctional.”
The walkout is the first by criminal
barristers since 2014, until now the
only time they have gone on strike.
That was also over legal aid fees.
CBA members supported action
to secure fair fees in 2019, but it was
suspended pending the outcome of
Clar, which urged the 15% fee increase
when published in December.
The CBA is angry that after the
review took so long that the govern-
ment did not implement the pay rise
immediately, but launched a consul-
tation on the recommendations in
March which only closed this month.
It wants a 25% rise to make up for
years of real terms reductions.
Andrew Fitch-Holland, a criminal
barrister based in Nottingham, who
was called to the bar in 1990, said
practitioners’ goodwill had been
exploited. “People are at breaking
point. I’ve seen colleagues in tears,”
he said. “I know the level of personal
debt people are taking on. We are all
struggling to make ends meet and
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frankly sick and tired of not being
paid for the work we do.”
He added: “We’re not being greedy,
we’re not fat cats. There have been a
series of brutal cuts to our funding
when the demands of the job have
increased. We’re being asked to do
more for less. We have reached an
existential crisis and the criminal bar
is haemorrhaging members.”
Barristers will walk out today
and tomorrow initially, increasing
the number of strike days by one
each week, culminating with a five-
day walkout in the week beginning
18 July. There will be picket lines at
▼ Criminal barristers say a 15% rise
in legal aid fees is too little after a
30% fall in income over 30 years
PHOTOGRAPH: PETER MACDIARMID/GETTY IMAGES
crown courts in London (at the Old
Bailey), Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff,
Leeds and Manchester. They will also
not accept instructions for new cases
and, continuing action which they
began on 11 April, will refuse to accept
returns, where they step in at hear-
ings barristers can no longer attend.
The action will worsen the back-
log of cases and the government has
branded the CBA’s decision “dis-
appointing” and“unnecessary”. It
has questioned the mandate for the
action and claims a 15% increase
would mean a typical criminal barris-
ter earning about £7,000 extra a year.
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Lawyers’ action
Woman told to
defend herself
in court case
Diane Taylor
A woman accused of perverting the
course of justice in a murder trial
has been told by the judge she must
represent herself in court because
there is no available barrister, in what
is thought to be a legal first.
A trial over the killing of Jobari
Gooden, 27, who was stabbed in Peck-
ham, south London, last December, is
under way at Southwark crown court.
Momodou Lamin Faal is accused of
murder, and three others are accused
of perverting the course of justice.
One of them is Elishah Anderson,
40, who has pleaded not guilty. After
she expressed dissatisfaction with
her barrister, she was told he would
not be able to continue represent-
ing her. However, due to industrial
action, no other barrister can accept
the case, and Judge Peter Rook QC has
told her she must represent herself.
While defendants can choose to
represent themselves, this is thought
to be the first time a judge has told a
defendant they must do so.
Barristers have had a “no returns”
policy since April, over concerns
about pay and conditions. This means
they will not pick up cases if other
barristers are unable to represent a
client because, for example, another
case overruns. Today, barristers are
due to start wholesale strike action.
Antonia Kim Charles, of MTC
Solicitors, Anderson’s legal repre-
sentative, expressed concern. “My
client has a right to representation
and to equality of arms … This is a
complex case involving thousands of
pages of evidence and my client’s lib-
erty is ultimately at stake,” she said.
The Ministry of Justice said offi-
cials would not comment directly on
the issues raised by the strike.
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‘It’s like when Trump got
elected’: protesters across
US against abortion ruling
Victoria Bekiempis and
Edward Helmore New York
Miranda Bryant
Protests erupted in US cities over the
weekend as abortion became ille-
gal in multiple states following the
supreme court’s decision to end the
constitutional right to abortion, more
than 50 years after it was established.
Bans are now expected in about
half of the US’s 50 states after the
court overturned the landmark Roe
v Wade ruling, in a move long cam-
paigned for by the religious right.
In New York, thousands marched
to voice their anger at the end of a
dizzying week in which the court had
also backed the right to carry con-
cealed firearms.
“Not your uterus, not your choice,”
many shouted as the demonstrations
• The Guardian Monday 27 June 2022
progressed in Washington DC, New
York city, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seat-
tle, Atlanta and Austin.
In Providence, Rhode Island, as
tempers flared, an off-duty police
officer was accused of punching
a woman at an abortion protest.
Jennifer Rourke, a state senate can-
didate, told the Providence Journal
she was punched in the face by Jeann
Lugo, who had been running for the
Republican nomination for a Rhode
Island state senate seat but dropped
out of the race.
Lugo said he was “not going to
deny” the punching allegation but
added that “everything happened
very fast”. For the most part, protests
across the US have been peaceful.
In New York, they fell across Pride
weekend. Marchers said they were
both shellshocked by the supreme
court decision and happy to be
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celebrating gender identities and sex-
ual orientations that some, like the
court’s conservative justices, might
find contrary.
“It’s a similar feeling to when
Trump got elected,” said film editor
Oriana Soddu. The anger, she said,
was towards the political system
itself. “The Republicans clearly have
a very strong agenda and we’ve let
this happen. My fear is they’re going
to go after gay marriage next.”
“It’s been difficult to realise that
in the eyes of the constitution and
the court you’re not really a person
and you don’t have autonomy over
yourself,” said the longtime activist
and socialist organiser Leslie Cagan.
“A lot of good things have come for
virtually every community that has
struggled for a modicum of rights,
and now it’s all hanging by a thread.
“I hope that those people and
those communities are beginning to
get it that if we don’t work together
and get beyond the rhetoric of soli-
darity in which everybody does their
own thing, none of our people are
going to win,” Cagan added.
Among the first states to outlaw
almost all abortions was Utah, whose
ban had already come into effect on
Friday night. Utah’s Republican state
senator, Daniel McCay, who spon-
sored its “trigger law”, said it would
be wrong for women to seek abor-
tions in neighbouring states but he
had no immediate plans to stop them
from doing so.
Ohio’s ban on most abortions at
the first detectable foetal heartbeat
– known as the “heartbeat bill” – also
came into effect after being on hold
for nearly three years.
Alabama quickly stopped abor-
tions as its 2019 state abortion ban
took effect – making it a crime to
perform an abortion at any stage of
pregnancy, including for rape and
incest victims. The only exception
is for the sake of the mother’s health.
Arkansas’s health department told
the state’s two providers that abor-
tions were now banned except to
protect the mother’s life in a medical
emergency. Facilities were advised
that performing an abortion was now
punishable by up to 10 years in prison
and a fine of up to $100,000.
West Virginia’s only abortion clinic
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▲ Pro-choice demonstrators gather
in front of the US supreme court in
Washington DC at the weekend
PHOTOGRAPH: ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY
stopped terminations on Friday.
The state has a law that criminal-
ises providing abortions, carrying
a three- to 10-year prison sentence,
but it is unclear how it will proceed
on enforcement after the supreme
court ruling.
“Roe has never been enough, but
in states like West Virginia, it was
the only thing protecting abortion
access,” said Katie Quinonez, the
executive director of Women’s Health
Center of West Virginia.
The Democratic governors of Cali-
fornia, Washington and Oregon have
meanwhile all vowed to protect abor-
tion rights and help women who
travel from other states for abortions.
According to a CBS poll published
yesterday, most Americans disap-
prove of overturning Roe v Wade,
including two-thirds of women.
By more than a 20-point margin,
respondents called it a step back-
wards for the US.
Younger people are especially
likely to disapprove; most moder-
ates disapprove, along with nine in
10 liberals. Two-thirds of Hispanic
Americans disapprove, three-quar-
ters of black Americans and just over
half of white Americans.
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Colorado How abortion deserts will grow developing support programmes

for staff and sharing with them Long struggle
No short-term
recommendations for therapists.
Counties’ distance from the nearest open abortion clinic Having to travel for an abortion

Doctors 0 25 50 100 More than 200 miles

– scrambling to get an appointment
at an overbooked clinic, securing
money for travel, accommodation,
fix, but legal
experts offer
With Roe in effect North Dakota childcare and the procedure itself,

at clinics Montana
64 miles
Median
174 miles Open clinic
flying or driving for hours – has
been proved to take a significant
toll on patients’ mental health. For some hope
ringed by distance many women, crossing state lines
to access care amplifies the stigma
surrounding abortion. In a 2017
study, women variously described Edward Helmore

hardline the experience of forced abortion

travel as “nerve-racking”, “so much
extra stress”, and “making you feel
New York

Constitutional and legal experts warn

states fear
like you’re doing something bad”. there is no short-term fix to restore
Florida More than half reported mental federal guarantees for woman’s right
Texas
33 miles
86 miles health consequences. Some to abortion after the US supreme
Louisiana Mississippi had considered or attempted court overruled Roe v Wade.

new influx With Roe overturned

62 miles 66 miles self-induction. In a 2020 study
of patients seeking abortions,
women who encountered logistical
Opportunities to challenge the
ruling or re-present constitutional
law arguments based on equal rights
States likely to ban abortions difficulties were more likely to and not rights to liberty – upon which
North Dakota
373 miles Clinic predicted to close
report symptoms of stress, anxiety Rove v Wade was originally based –
Montana and depression. are for now limited. “We’re in for a
Carey Dunne 337 miles MT ND Every week, the clinic where long, tangled, chaotic and, in terms
Median Marchin works sees patients of human suffering, horribly costly

D
r Angela Marchin
stared at a US map
on the wall of Denver
Planned Parenthood,
where she works. The
map is overwhelmed
by pins, each representing the
location from which a patient
has travelled to the clinic for
an abortion.
“Colorado is in the middle of
an abortion desert. It feels like a
stampede closing in all around us,”
she said.
The clinic had already been
experiencing an influx of patients
in recent months – many from
Texas, which banned abortions
after six weeks last September, and
Oklahoma, which banned nearly all
abortions in May. Now, in the wake
of the overturning of Roe v Wade,
Marchin and her colleagues – who
provide abortions for between 300
and 400 patients a month – are
bracing for even more.
In April, reacting to the leaked
draft opinion from the supreme
court, Colorado state lawmakers
enacted a statutory protection
for abortion as a fundamental
right. Its abortion laws are some
of the least restrictive in the US.
States with severely restrictive
laws – Wyoming, Texas, Nebraska,
Oklahoma, Arizona, Utah – form
a ring around it. This means
Colorado’s abortion clinics (there
are estimated to be fewer than
18) will be the closest providers
for 1.2 million women from
surrounding states.
Interviewed coming off a night
shift, Marchin said: “We feel
grateful to be in a state where
abortion access is protected, and
so we’re galvanised to continue
this work. But we’re trying to be
cautious about not becoming
burnt out.” Along with many of her
fellow abortion providers, she has
recently increased her hours at the
distance ID SD
WY
NE
UT
AZ
TX
Texas
377 miles
Sources: Clinic locations from the Myers Abortion Facility Database, predicted state bans from the
Guttmacher Institute. Distance is calculated from the center of each county to the nearest open clinic.
▲ A protest outside the Colorado
state Capitol building last week
after Roe v Wade was overturned
PHOTOGRAPH: JASON CONNOLLY/AFP/GETTY
clinic. The flood of out-of-state
patients has already pushed many
Colorado providers to their limits.
Clinics were overbooked, leaving
patients facing weeks-long wait
times for appointments.
Now, such clinics are expecting
an 80% increase in abortion care
patients, according to statistics
from Planned Parenthood of the
Rocky Mountains. All of them have
MI
WI enduring unimaginable traumas.
IA Early this month, a mother arrived
IN OH from Texas with her 11-year-old
WV daughter, 20 weeks pregnant as a
KY result of rape, for which there is no
TN exception in Texas.
OK AR
SC “This was a child who maybe
MS
AL GA just barely got her first period and
LA
Florida probably has no idea what’s going
FL on in her body,” Marchin said.
425 miles
Louisiana Mississippi On top of helping her daughter
539 miles 401 miles cope with the trauma of rape and
carrying a pregnancy as a child, the
mother, who spoke no English, had
to find financial help through an
abortion fund, then take time off
work and pull her daughter out of
school to travel hundreds of miles.
“They had never been on a plane
before,” Marchin says. “They didn’t
know how to book a flight. If she
could’ve stayed in Texas for her
care, she could’ve at least accessed
it a little bit earlier.”
Many of Marchin’s out-of-state
patients are facing desperate
situations. Some are trapped in
abusive relationships. Some have
drained their bank accounts to
pay for the trip to Colorado. Some
have chronic health conditions
that would have become life-
threatening had they been forced to
continue their pregnancies.
In most cases, after discharging
them from the clinic with aftercare
instructions, Marchin will never see
seen an increase in out-of-state these patients again. She is often
patients around the 12-week stage left with lingering concerns about
of pregnancy, the point at which how her patients will fare in states
providers can no longer offer that deny their rights to bodily
medication abortion, which can be autonomy.
done at home by taking two pills “I struggle with not being able
and is lower-risk and less invasive to know what happens to these
than surgical abortion. people after they leave. We do our
To prepare for overwhelming best – we take very good care of
demand, the staff at Denver these patients – but we don’t get
Planned Parenthood are planning to follow up with them,” Marchin
to expand telemedicine and mail says. “Abortion is extremely safe,
order services for medication and I’m not worried about medical
abortion. They are also thinking complications, but I don’t know the
about how to stay resilient in answer to what psychological toll
an era of abortion prohibition, [forced travel] is having.”
struggle,” said Lawrence Tribe, a Har-
vard constitutional law professor,
who has described Friday’s decision
as “unprincipled”.
Tribe said it could take generations
to completely restore abortion rights
but there could be opportunities to
minimise the effects of the ruling.
Congress could, for example, give
powers to the Department of Health
and Human Services or the Food and
Drug Administration to override state
laws. That issue came up on Friday
when the attorney general, Merrick
Garland, said that states could not
ban mifepristone, a medication that
is used to bring about an abortion.
Another avenue is in state con-
stitutions that have their own
protections around liberty and equal-
ity. “It is possible that in some states
there are more liberal, progressive or
pro-gender equality state courts that
would interpret the state constitution
as giving more rights to women than
they have been given under the fed-
eral constitution,” Tribe said.
Private companies have also sig-
nalled they will try to bridge the
gap. Some of the most recognised
US firms, including JP Morgan Chase,
Meta (parent of Facebook and Insta-
gram), Walt Disney, Tesla and Apple
have come forward to indicate they
will extend coverage to workers who
need access to safe, legal abortions.
However, Conservative lawmakers
have warned that companies could
face legal action if they support
employee abortion travel. Citigroup
was warned by a Texas lawmaker
that under the state’s abortion law
the bank could face criminal charges.
A lawyer, Kevin O’Brien, said Roe v
Wade was written a long time in terms
of constitutional law, “in a benignly
liberal era where there weren’t ide-
ological tensions. It didn’t seem
to require a lot of arguing among
civilised people that people had
autonomy in their own bedrooms
and women had a right to control
their own body.”
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Roe v Wade

‘They set a torch to it’: supreme court lost

“The supreme court did its job: it
fixed a wrong decision it made many
years ago and returned this power
back to the states, which is how

legitimacy with Roe reversal, says Warren
Edward Helmore
Ramon Antonio Vargas New York
Leading Democrats called the US
supreme court’s legitimacy into ques-
tion after it overturned the right to
abortion and said additional justices
should be appointed to blunt the con-
servative super-majority which made
the controversial ruling possible.
The Massachusetts senator Eliz-
abeth Warren said the matter had
become urgent since supreme court
justice Clarence Thomas indicated
within Friday’s decision to overturn
the landmark Roe v Wade ruling that
he is open to reconsidering prece-
dents guaranteeing contraception,
▲ Ocasio-Cortez called the court
decision a “crisis of our democracy”
same-sex marriage rights and con-
sensual gay sex.
“They have burned whatever
legitimacy they may still have had,”
Warren said of the supreme court.
“They just took the last of it and set a
torch to it,” she told ABC’s This Week.
Warren joined Georgia guberna-
torial candidate and Democratic
organiser Stacey Abrams in again lob-
bying to expand the supreme court,
which currently has six conservative
judges to three liberals.
Joe Biden has rejected the strat-
egy. But Abrams said the president
doesn’t have the final word on the
matter, with legislators also having
a potential say. “There’s nothing sac-
rosanct about nine members of the
United States supreme court,” she
said on CNN’s State of the Union.
The New York congresswoman Alex-
andria Ocasio-Cortez argued that
drastic measures were justified. “I
believe that the president and the
Democratic party needs to come to
terms with is that this is not just a
crisis of Roe – this is a crisis of our
democracy,” she said, adding that
the supreme court was undergoing
“a crisis of legitimacy” and had “dra-
matically overreached its authority”.
Meanwhile, South Dakota’s
governor, Kristi Noem said it was
“incredible” that reproductive laws
had been returned to the states.
South Dakota is one of 13 states
where trigger laws banning most
abortions came into effect after Fri-
day’s decision.
the constitution and our founders
intended it,” she told CBS’s Face the
Nation with Margaret Brennan.
South Dakota, she said, would
ensure that “babies are recognised
and that every single life is precious”.
The governor said the state would
move to block Democratic efforts to
allow access to out-of-state tele-
medicine and the ability of health
practitioners in legal abortion states
to provide pills in the mail that would
allow them to end a pregnancy.
Noem claimed that abortion
pills were “very dangerous medical
procedures,” though Brennan cor-
rectly pointed out that the pills were
approved by the federal Food and
Drug Administration.
The governor, a rising star in
Republican circles, said that moth-
ers would not be prosecuted for
receiving abortions, rather the state
planned to target illegal abortion
providers.

the court’s decision will go

Midterms towards shaping voter’s priorities
in November. “In states that
Democrats do well in generally,
Biden hopes this will motivate turnout. In states
where they do not do well, it will
also motivate turnout – but not for

to turn fury the Democrats,” he said. “The issue

is purple states, like Michigan,
Georgia and Nevada, where you

into a vote have equal numbers of Democrats

and Republicans.”
Sonia Ossorio, the president of
Now [National Organization for
winner Women] New York, said: “I don’t
see how this cannot energise
voters. Women are fed up. Formula
shortages, childcare shortages,
gas prices, losing their jobs in
Edward Helmore unprecedented numbers during
New York the pandemic, and now having our

‘T
his fall, Roe is on
the ballot,” Joe
Biden told American
voters after the US
supreme court’s
decision to scrap
abortion rights. The president
was merely echoing a chorus of
Democrats urging voters to elect
lawmakers who support abortion
rights in November’s midterm
elections in an attempt to wrest
greater control of Congress and
perhaps allow such rights to be
enshrined in legislation.
But it is also a tactic to try to
inject Democratic voters with a
sense of urgency and activism as
the midterm elections – where
Biden and the Democrats trail
a resurgent Republican party
– approach.
Until Roe fell, Biden and his
party appeared moribund, and
are down in many polls. Buffeted
by his immense trouble passing a
domestic agenda and hit by soaring
inflation, Biden’s popularity has
plummeted. But will the fall of Roe
help Democrats reverse course?
Or will it also help motivate the
Republican base as the supreme
court’s decision revealed the
benefits to them of using power?
Hank Sheinkopf, a veteran
Democratic strategist, believes
it is too soon to know how far
reproductive freedom gutted by
the supreme court.”
But Kelsy Kretschmer, professor
of sociology at the University of
California, Irvine, and co-author
of a study of women’s voting
patterns, said: “The research is
quite clear that people don’t make
voting decisions about abortion
rights. People tend to have strong
opinions one way or the other,
but it doesn’t tend to affect their
vote choice.”
However, that could change, she
pointed out. Roe v Wade may be
just one of the first of the women’s
rights dominos to fall, and thus
open the way to repealing rights
around contraception and gay
marriage. “The hope is among
Democrats and the feminist
movement in general, this time
will be different and enough to
shake people out of complacency
about it,” Kretschmer said“We’ve
never really had a moment like this,
where something so woven into
basic political and civic life was
ripped out all at once.”
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic
speaker of the House, certainly sees
it that way. Voting for Democrats
in November, she says, is the only
way to try to reverse the fall of
Roe – or prevent even worse things
happening. “A woman’s right to
choose, reproductive freedom, is
on the ballot in November.”
‘Misled’ Senators: we trusted
judges to respect precedent
Victoria Bekiempis
New York
Moderate Republican senators and
the lone Democrat who voted to back
Donald Trump’s supreme court nom-
inees have spoken out after they said
judges Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gor-
such had both claimed they would
not rule to overturn Roe v Wade.
Maine senator Susan Collins said
she felt “misled” by Kavanaugh after
the two had held a lengthy meeting in
2018 before she voted to confirm him,
in which she reportedly asked him to
explain why he could be trusted not
to overturn Roe.
“Start with my record, my respect
for precedent, my belief that it is
rooted in the constitution, and my
commitment and its importance
to the rule of law,” Kavanaugh
responded, in notes taken by “multi-
ple” staffers at the meeting, according
to a report in the New York Times. He
was also reported to have claimed:
“I am a don’t-rock-the-boat kind of
judge. I believe in stability.”
Collins said: “This decision is
▲ Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in as a
supreme court justice as his family
and President Donald Trump watch
▲ Senator Susan Collins at the 2018
vote to nominate Brett Kavanaugh
PHOTOGRAPH: JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS
inconsistent with what justices Gor-
such and Kavanaugh said in their
testimony and their meetings with
me, where they both were insist-
ent on the importance of supporting
longstanding precedents that the
country has relied upon.”
Senator Joe Manchin of West Vir-
ginia, the lone Democrat to back
Kavanaugh, said: “I trusted Justice
Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh
when they testified under oath that
they also believed Roe v Wade was
settled legal precedent.”
Senators expressed similar sur-
prise in May after a draft of the
supreme court decision was leaked.
The Alaska Republican senator Lisa
Murkowski – who had opposed
Kavanaugh but voted to confirm Gor-
such and Amy Coney Barrett, another
Trump appointee – was reported by
NBC News as saying her “confidence
in the court has been rocked”.
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Tour de force
How Denmark is
gearing up for
‘big yellow party’
Helen Russell
Vejle
C
ycle paths have been
painted yellow,
knitting enthusiasts
have made a giant
yellow jersey, and
preparations are being
made for a flotilla of boats flying
yellow flags. The “big yellow party”
comes to Denmark on 1 July when
the country widely seen as the
best in the world for cyclists hosts
the opening stage of the world’s
greatest cycling race.
The Tour de France was
originally slated to start in
Copenhagen in 2021, but was
transferred to Brest in response
to a Covid-19 related scheduling
conflict with the European
Championships.
Postponing the Grand Départ
Copenhagen by a year allowed
more time for planning, and
now organisers are hoping their
investment of 150m Danish kroner
(about £17.3m) will boost tourism.
“There is a lot of excitement
in the city,” said Sophie Hæstorp
Andersen, a cycling fan and the
lord mayor of Copenhagen, where
a huge clock in the main square is
counting down to 1 July. “We’re
gearing up for a big yellow party
where everyone’s invited!”
Denmark’s reputation as a
South African police investigate
after 22 die at end-of-term party
Jason Burke
Africa correspondent
Police in South Africa are investigat-
ing the deaths of 22 young people
celebrating the end of the academic
year at a club and bar in the southern
coastal town of East London.
Specialists have yet to establish
the cause of the tragedy. Local peo-
ple raised the alarm at about 4am.
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 Bike-themed
land art near
Copenhagen
along the
second Danish
stretch of the
Tour de France
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CLAUS RASMUSSEN/
RITZAU SCANPIX/AFP/
GETTY IMAGES
cycling nirvana is well earned.
There are about 7,500 miles of bike
routes and bike lanes across the
country, and half of Copenhageners
commute by bike.
Cycling enthusiasts in
Copenhagen can try out the Tour de
France route themselves on 2 July,
when the professionals set off for
stage two from Roskilde Cathedral,
where the Viking king Harald
Bluetooth is said to be buried. After
a windswept sprint across the Great
Belt Bridge, the route finishes in
Nyborg on the island of Funen.
The third and last Danish stage
on 3 July starts in the city of
Vejle – known as the kingdom of
cycling thanks to its Alpine-grade
ascents shaped by the ice age in an
otherwise remarkably flat country.
Bheki Cele, the police minister,
tried to calm relatives outside the
Enyobeni tavern in a poor area known
as Scenery Park.
“At first, we were told that this was
a stampede, but by the looks of things
there was no stampede,” Cele said. “I
do not want to speculate on the cause
of death – that’s why we brought the
top forensic team so that if the cause
of death was some poison, they will
let us know.”
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The route will take in Vejle’s
harbour, with buildings designed
by the artist Olafur Eliasson, as
well as the Unesco world heritage
site at Jelling, where Bluetooth
raised a stone in 965CE marking
the unification of Denmark as
a Christian nation. Cyclists will
pass through Kolding, celebrated
for its 750-year-old royal fortress
Koldinghus, as well as another
Unesco world heritage site at
Christiansfeld before finishing
113 miles later in Sønderborg.
Up to 5,000 volunteers will be
involved in festivities countrywide,
but Vejle has taken an interesting
approach to building engagement.
“We wanted the community to feel
ownership of the event instead of
just commissioning projects,” said
Toxicology tests would establish if
people were poisoned, officials said.
The exact circumstances remain
unclear. A regional newspaper, Dis-
patchLive, said its reporters had seen
bodies “lying bizarrely as if they col-
lapsed to the floor suddenly while
dancing or in the middle of a conver-
sation, some seemingly in the social
circles they were engaging with”,
along with “other bodies … slumped
across chairs and lying over tables”.
Unverified pictures shared on
social media showed bodies with no
visible signs of injuries.
An Eastern Cape community safety
official Unathi Binqose, speaking
from the scene, ruled out a stampede
 From left:
a sculpture in
Jutland along
the third leg
of the race,
Copenhagen’s
mayor
transports the
Grand Départ
trophy, and
volunteers knit
a giant yellow
leader’s jersey
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the organiser Jacob Rasmussen,
“so we set up a 3m krone fund for
innovative projects that celebrate
cycling.”
Tour de France Vejle is headed
up by an unassuming man
in shorts named Lars Ulrich
– a physiotherapist and bike
enthusiast who has spent much of
his life explaining that he is not the
drummer from Metallica.
Ulrich was tasked with getting
non-cyclists excited about the
race. “I thought: ‘How can I make
this an historic event? How can
I get it to be remembered for
anything other than tight Lycra
pants?’ Covid separated us for so
long that the Tour de France is an
opportunity to come together – I
want everyone involved.”
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Alex Slot Hansen, who works
at Sydbank, invested in 9,000
balls of wool for the residents of
local hospices and care homes to
knit a 600kg yellow jersey to be
raised at the harbour. “I had a lot
of messages from carers who said
it’s been therapeutic for hospice
patients in particular,” Hansen said.
Restaurateurs and retailers
are bracing for the city to double
in size, with 100,000 visitors
expected. Ulrich and his team have
been emphasising the importance
of how to “be a good host” in a
country not famed for its service.
Maria Theresa Olsen, from Bryg
coffee house, said: “The eyes of
the world will be on us, so we want
to give as good as an experience
as we can.”
as a cause of the deaths. He said the
patrons were students “celebrating
pens down, a party held after writ-
ing [high school] exams”.
Cele said he had been told the tav-
ern was known for underage drinking.
Many such venues exist in urban and
rural areas in South Africa, and often
flout licensing laws. Overstretched
police forces and local government
officials often turn a blind eye, some-
times in return for bribes.
President Cyril Ramaphosa offered
his condolences to grieving fami-
lies and said he was worried about
circumstances under which young
people, potentially under 18, were
allowed to gather at the tavern.
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Eyewitness
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Yachts compete in the 91st Round the
Island race. The 50-nautical-mile
event starts and ends in Cowes
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Dozens
feared
dead in
attempt
to enter
Spanish
enclave
Ashifa Kassam
Madrid
Human rights campaigners have
called for investigations amid fears
that a mass attempt to scale the bor-
der fence between Morocco and the
Spanish enclave of Melilla has left
dozens of people dead.
Spanish officials said that 2,000
Africans had gone to the iron fence at
dawn on Friday, with more than 500
people slipping into a border control
area after cutting a fence open with
shears. Moroccan officials initially
said five people had died in what they
described as a stampede. Late on Sat-
urday, Moroccan state TV said the
death toll had climbed to 23 people.
NGOs on the ground said the num-
ber of deaths could be higher. “We’ve
confirmed 37 deaths in the Melilla
tragedy,” said Helena Maleno Garzón,
whose organisation Walking Borders
is in contact with Africans seeking to
cross into Spain from Morocco.
Walking Borders joined more than
half a dozen other groups, includ-
ing Amnesty International Spain, in
calling for an investigation into the
deadliest day in recent memory along
the EU’s only land border with Africa.
Fuelling their concerns were
videos, shared online by the Moroc-
can Association for Human Rights,
AMDH, that appeared to show dozens
of people packed into an area next to
the border fence – some bleeding and
many lying motionless – as Moroccan
forces in riot gear watched over them
after the crossing. “They were left
there without help for hours, which
Baby mammoth ‘is North America’s
most important prehistoric find’
Ashifa Kassam
It was a miner, digging through north
Canadian permafrost in the Eureka
Creek, who struck something unex-
pected in the Klondike gold fields.
His discovery last Tuesday was
a stunningly preserved month-old
woolly mammoth thought to have
died more than 35,000 years ago.
“She’s perfect and she’s beautiful,”
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increased the number of deaths,” the
group said on Twitter. In one video, a
Moroccan security officer appeared
to use a baton to lash out at a person
who lay prone.
One young man who attempted to
make the crossing said the migrants
and police had thrown stones at each
other but the police were wearing
protection. “The Moroccan agents
were very violent, more aggressive
than other times, and people pan-
icked,” he told El País. “That’s what
provoked the stampede.”
In the days before the crossing,
police had carried out raids on the
Grant Zazula, the paleontologist for
the Yukon territory, told the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation. “She has a
trunk. She has a tail. She has tiny lit-
tle ears. She has the little prehensile
end of the trunk where she could use
it to grab grass.”
He said it was the “most important
discovery in palaeontology in North
America.” With much of the skin and
hair intact, officials said the find was
the most complete mummified mam-
mal found on the continent.
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 A temporary ▲ Joy on the
centre in the face of a man
Spanish enclave who reached
Melilla. People the Spanish
died trying to get territory
over the border
PHOTOGRAPHS:
from Morocco FADEL SENNA/AFP
on Friday JAVIER BERNARDO/AP
camps where the people sleep rough
waiting for the chance to cross into
Spain, he said. Police confiscated food
and any cash they could find, leaving
migrants anxious and exhausted.
He said Moroccan forces had
thrown stones and launched tear
gas directly at them. “Normally they
throw it in the air, but this time it was
aimed directly at people. They were
so weak that they fell at the slightest
touch. So many died because they
were weak and hungry.”
On Saturday, Spain’s Socialist
prime minister, Pedro Sánchez,
told reporters Moroccan forces had
worked in cooperation with Spanish
police to “fend off ” what he described
as a “violent assault” and an “attack
on the territorial integrity” of Spain.
Spanish officials said 49 Guar-
dia Civil officers had sustained mild
injuries while Morocco said 140 of
its security forces were injured. In
total 133 migrants made it across the
border.
“If there is anyone responsible for
what appears to have taken place at
that border, it is the mafias that traf-
fic in human beings,” said Sánchez.
His take was challenged from
within his coalition. “No one should
die like this,” tweeted Yolanda Díaz,
one of five ministers from the junior
partner, Unidas Podemos. “It is time
to clarify what happened.”
Among those trying to enter Spain
were asylum-seekers fleeing conflict
in Sudan, said the Spanish Commis-
sion for Refugees, in a statement that
warned the “indiscriminate use of
violence to manage migration and
control borders” had prevented
people eligible for international pro-
tection from reaching Spanish soil.
The deadly crossing was the first
since Spain and Morocco patched
up relations after a year-long dis-
pute centred on Western Sahara, a
former Spanish colony annexed by
Morocco in 1975.
Several NGOs, including Walking
Borders and the Moroccan Associa-
tion for Human Rights, AMDH, drew
a direct link between this renewed
cooperation and the events at the bor-
der in a joint letter that described the
deaths as a “tragic symbol of Euro-
pean policies to externalise the EU’s
borders, with the complicity of a
southern country, Morocco”.
 The remains
of Nun cho ga
photographed
by Prof Dan
Shugar, who
helped to
recover the
preserved
baby woolly
mammoth. She
still had a piece
of grass in her
stomach
PHOTOGRAPH:
DAN SHUGAR/
UNIVERSITY
OF CALGARY
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Oslo shootings
won’t stop fight
against hate,
says Norway’s
prime minister
Jon Henley
Europe correspondent
Fatal shootings at a gay bar in Oslo
would not halt the fight against “dis-
crimination, prejudice and hate”,
Norway’s prime minister said yester-
day, as the country paid tribute to the
victims of the Saturday night attack
and police interrogated a suspect.
The altar and aisles of the capital’s
cathedral were draped with rainbow
flags for a special memorial service
yesterday attended by government
ministers, church leaders and the
crown princess, Mette-Marit.
Thousands of people spontane-
ously paraded through the streets
of Oslo with rainbow flags and laid
flowers at the scene, despite the can-
cellation of the city’s Pride events.
Dressed in black, Jonas Gahr Støre
said: “During the day, the city was
full of people who wanted to speak
out, about sorrow and anger, but also
about support and solidarity and the
will to continue on fighting, for the
right of every individual to live a free
life, a safe life.
“These misdeeds remind us of
this. This fight is not over. It is not
safe from dangers. But we are going to
win it, together. The shooting put an
end to the Pride march, but it has not
put an end to the fight to end discrim-
ination, prejudice and hate.”
Two men in their 50s and 60s died
in the shootings, which took place
soon after 1am on Saturday in and
outside the London Pub, a bar in
Oslo’s nightlife district popular with
the LGBTQ+ community, while 21
others were wounded.
Yesterday police attempted for
a second time to question the sus-
pect, a 42-year-old Norwegian citizen
of Iranian origin. Authorities have
described the suspect as a radical-
ised Islamist with a record of violence
and threats and a history of mental
illness. Norway’s PST security ser-
vice said the shootings were “an act
of extreme Islamist terror”.
The suspect will undergo exten-
sive psychiatric evaluation in the
coming days, police said.
The discovery was made on the ter-
ritory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First
Nation. At a ceremony, elders named
the calf Nun cho ga, meaning “big
baby animal” in the Hän language.
Chief Roberta Joseph said they would
move forward with the remains “in a
way that honours our traditions, cul-
ture and laws”.
The mining company’s call came
on a holiday but Zazula found two
geologists to recover the find. “Within
an hour of them being there to do the
work, the sky opened up, it turned
black, lightning started striking and
rain started pouring in,” he said. “So if
she wasn’t recovered at that time, she
would have been lost in the storm.”
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Fears that India is Putin’s
backdoor to Europe
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PM says closing ticket offices
is price of rail improvements
Gwyn Topham
Transport correspondent
Talks are due to resume today
between the RMT and rail bosses,
with the union’s national executive
committee considering further strike
dates as the prime minister backed
plans to close ticket offices.
Services started returning to
normal after a later start yesterday
following the last of three 24-hour
national strikes by workers at Net-
work Rail and 13 train operating
companies on Saturday.
More walkouts could be called for
late July. An RMT spokesperson said
the union would “evaluate and look
to the next phase of the campaign”.
Speaking ahead of the G7 summit
in Germany, Boris Johnson said that
to justify the money spent, the trav-
elling public and the taxpayer would
want improvement in the way the
railways run . He told ITV News: “I
can’t responsibly tell them that we’re
just going to continue with business
as usual, with the same old systems
of ticket offices that are barely used,
or sell one ticket every hour.”
The Department for Transport has
rejected TUC claims that the govern-
ment misled the public over its role
in the dispute.
Legal opinion obtained by the TUC
from Michael Ford QC said the trans-
port secretary had “very extensive
powers” over what could be agreed
between rail operators and unions,
and “very significant contractual
power” to direct how disputes were
handled.
 Hundreds protest outside King’s
Cross station, London, on Saturday
in solidarity with the RMT
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More Sainsbury’s investors
urge chain to pay living wage
Sarah Butler
The Queen’s bank, Coutts & Co, and
the Coal Pensions Board have joined
a group of investors backing a resolu-
tion calling for Sainsbury’s to pay the
independently set living wage for all
staff and contracted workers.
The vote at the UK’s second largest
supermarket’s annual shareholder
meeting on 7 July will be the first res-
olution committing a UK company
board to pay the living wage.
ShareAction, the responsible
investment campaign group, said the
•
The TUC general secretary, Frances
O’Grady, said: “We always believed
that Conservative ministers had the
power to pull the train companies’
strings, behind the scenes. And this
legal opinion on rail contracts con-
firms it.”
A DfT spokesperson said it did
not mean Grant Shapps should get
involved in negotiations, adding:
“He’s required to set the limits of tax-
payer support and ultimately sign off
on any deal – not to be involved in
negotiating one – and his contracts
with operators allow him to do pre-
cisely that.”
Johnson’s intervention is likely
resolution would be a “litmus test for
investors’ social commitments amid
the cost-of-living crisis”.
Leading City investors including
HSBC, Legal & General Investment
Management and Fidelity Interna-
tional as well as the retirement fund
Nest and the Brunel Pension Partner-
ship are already part of the coalition
behind the resolution.
Sainsbury’s has raised pay for its
171,000 direct employees across more
than 1,400 stores to the living wage
– currentlyat least £9.90 an hour out-
side London and£11.05 in the capital.
– which is independently calculated
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to inflame tensions between the rail
unions, employers and the Depart-
ment of Transport after the refusal
to rule out compulsory redundancies
resulting from planned modernisa-
tion, including closing ticket offices.
Drawing on his role as London
mayor, when he battled to close ticket
offices in underground stations,
Johnson said the government was
13
Number of train operating
companies, plus Network Rail, in
Saturday’s strike by the RMT
charity, However, it has not made
the same commitment to contrac-
tors. Outsourcing companies such
as Mitie provide it with essential ser-
vices such as cleaning and security.
More than half of the FTSE 100
companies are among more than
10,000 accredited living wage
employers. However, none of the
big supermarkets are among them.
Rachel Hargreaves, campaigns
manager at ShareAction, said: “There
is no excuse for a highly profitable
company with multimillion-pound
executive salaries refusing to
guarantee all its staff, including sub-
contracted workers, a basic standard
of living.”
With energy and food costs on the
rise, the UK’s lowest paid workers are
under particular pressure. The Insti-
tute for Fiscal Studies has reported
that the poorest households faced
inflation in the year to April of 10.9%,
doing “quite unbelievable things”
on the railways, pointing to Crossrail
and the integrated rail programme.
“To justify paying that money, mak-
ing those commitments. I think the
travelling public and the taxpayer
are going to want to see reform and
improvement in the way the railways
run,” he said.
The first results from strike bal-
lots at another rail union, the TSSA,
are due this week, potentially esca-
lating the dispute and the effects of
any coordinated action. TSSA mem-
bers include controllers and the
managers who have been acting as
contingency and back-up staff during
the RMT walkouts. The union held
ballots at train companies serving Bir-
mingham, host city of next month’s
Commonwealth Games, and Net-
work Rail.
Drivers in the Aslef union will,
meanwhile, strike over pay tomorrow
and Wednesday on Croydon’s trams
and next Saturday at Greater Anglia.
three percentage points higher than
top earners. However, the Office for
National Statistics in the UK recently
shared data showing wages for retail
workers have increased just 3.7% in
the year to April.
Sainsbury’s chairman, Martin
Scicluna , a former boss of the
accountants Deloitte, has written to
all shareholders, asking them to vote
against the resolution.
He argues that the company’s
pay rates are already higher than
those of many of its competitors
and that “accrediting as a living
wage employer would mean that a
third party – the Living Wage Foun-
dation – would decide our colleague
pay changes each year ... We believe
it is right for the company and our
stakeholders to make independent
decisions regarding pay and benefits,
rather than have them determined by
a separate external body.”
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Companies
stockpiling
supplies as
operating
costs soar
Phillip Inman
Britain’s army of more than one
million small and medium-sized
businesses are stockpiling raw mate-
rials and ordering components six
months ahead to overcome supply
shortages that prevent them from
meeting customer demands.
With construction costs spiral-
ling to record highs and import prices
surging following a fall in the pound,
businesses reported that much of
their cash was tied up in securing
basic raw materials and components.
Simon Gray, head of business at the
accountancy body ICAEW, said com-
panies were suffering “a hat-trick of
hurt” that was forcing them to limit
production.
He said: “Businesses are report-
ing that things are so bad they
cannot plan for the future. There is
a breakdown in confidence and the
uncertainty is changing their behav-
iour, making them take no risks and
cut investment.”
Business groups have urged the
prime minister to agree a rescue plan
to support companies clobbered by
rising energy and fuel costs, wage
inflation and the surging price of
imported goods and raw materials.
Diesel prices have rocketed
to above £2 a litre in many areas,
increasing transport costs, while the
10% fall in the pound this year has
raised import prices.
Brexit trade restrictions have
also deterred firms from exporting
to the EU and made it more diffi-
cult to import goods, according to a
report last week by the Resolution
Foundation.
The manufacturers’ organisation
Make UK said its members reported
widespread stockpiling to secure
increasingly scarce supplies from
China and other countries.
“Our recent reports have found
that investment cash and expansion
plans are being shelved because more
funds are tied up securing supplies,”
said the lobby group’s senior econo-
mist, Fhaheen Khan.
The warning came after the CBI
reported a slump in private sector
activity in the UK that appeared to
justify concerns Britain is heading
for a recession in the autumn as high
prices squeeze disposable incomes.
The CBI said the slowdown was
seen across sectors, with consumer
services taking the biggest hit (-41%),
marking the sharpest fall in the sec-
tor since February 2021.
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Analysis
Larry Elliott
Wheel turns full circle
as energy shock poses
risk to G7 economies
I
t is Germany’s turn to host
the annual summit of G7
leaders this year, and while
the war in Ukraine will
be top of the agenda at
the gathering in Bavaria,
the economic damage caused
by Russia’s invasion will come a
close second.
Nobody saw what was coming
when the G7 last met, in Cornwall
a year ago. Back then the talk
was of global post-pandemic
recovery; now the fear is of
imminent recession as central
banks turn hawkish and Vladimir
Putin plays the energy card.
The Kremlin has cut supplies
of gas through the Nord Stream
pipeline by 60% in the past
two weeks, and alarm bells
are ringing in Berlin given its
dependence on Russian energy.
Olaf Scholz, Germany’s new
chancellor, is in the unfortunate
position of having to clear up a
mess caused by his predecessor,
Angela Merkel, a politician whose
reputation will certainly not
improve with time.
Last week, the German
government triggered the second
stage of an emergency gas plan.
There is no rationing as yet but
such a step is possible, as is the
reopening of coal-fired power
stations. One of Germany’s goals
for the G7 is “strong alliances
for a sustainable planet”, which
 Takeo Miki, Gerald Ford, Valéry
Giscard d’Estaing and Harold
Wilson at the 1975 summit
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sits oddly with German energy
companies being told to get ready
to burn more coal this winter.
As far as the G7 is concerned, the
wheel has turned full circle. The
first meeting of the group (which
then included only six countries)
was held in France in 1975 as the
big western economies struggled
to find a response to the oil shock
that had put an end to the long
boom after the second world war.
Now all of them once again face the
prospect of recession.
The US Federal Reserve raised
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interest rates by 0.75 points this
month and has signalled that
further such increases are on the
way. Its chairman, Jerome Powell,
said recession was a possibility
when he gave testimony to
Congress last week. That’s some
admission. The outlook has to be
pretty grim before a central banker
uses the R-word.
The Bank of England is also
tightening policy. Compared with
the Fed, Threadneedle Street’s
monetary policy committee
is moving in baby steps, so far
raising interest rates in increments
of 0.25 percentage points. It is
doing so against the backdrop of
an economy which, despite the
continued strength of the labour
market, appears to be slowing
rapidly. The Bank is trying to
engineer a soft landing for the
economy in which inflation –
currently at 9.1% – falls back
towards its 2% government target
without triggering a recession.
Good luck with that.
The European Central Bank
(ECB) has not yet joined other
western central banks in raising
rates, though it has signalled
higher borrowing costs are coming
next month. Its cautious approach
is unsurprising because the stakes
for the eurozone are especially
high. If the Fed or the Bank of
England make a hash of responding
to the highest inflation in 40 years
the consequence will be needless
economic pain. If the ECB gets
it wrong, the future of the single
currency will again be put in doubt.
Europe is vulnerable to a
prolonged war in Ukraine. It was
growing less strongly than the US
before the invasion, in part because
the fiscal package – tax cuts and
spending increases – in the US was
greater. Unemployment is higher,
and unlike the US the EU is not
self-sufficient in energy. Europe
is closer to the fighting and has
suffered more of a supply shock as
a result of the conflict.
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the group was held in
France in 1975 as the
big western economies
struggled to find a
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That’s one reason for the ECB to
be careful. Another is the impact
tougher monetary policy – higher
interest rates and a reversal of
the money creation programme
known as quantitative easing – will
have on the eurozone’s weaker
members.
Monetary union is an unfinished
project. Member states share the
same currency but run their own
tax and spending policies (subject
to certain common rules), and
issue their own bonds when they
borrow from the financial markets.
The interest rate – or yield – on
Italian bonds is higher than that on
German bonds because investors
see Italy as riskier than Germany.
Since the ECB signalled it would
join other central banks in raising
interest rates the spread has
widened between German bond
yields and those of Italy, Spain,
Portugal and Greece. Investors are
worried about how these countries
will cope with higher borrowing
costs and slower growth.
A decade ago Italian and Spanish
bond yields reached levels that
called into question whether the
eurozone would splinter into a
hard core based around Germany
and a softer outer ring. On that
occasion, the then head of the ECB,
Mario Draghi, pledged he would do
“whatever it takes” to safeguard
the single currency. It did the trick.
Now Christine Lagarde,
Draghi’s successor, faces the
same fragmentation problem. At
8.1%, the eurozone’s inflation rate
is much too high for the ECB’s
comfort. The question is how to
raise borrowing costs without
causing such damage to the weaker
members of the eurozone that their
bond yields rocket.
The ECB has pledged to come
up with an anti-fragmentation
device under which the central
bank would ensure bond yields in
heavily indebted countries, such as
Italy, don’t rise excessively.
This, though, is not going to
be easy. Scholz will have trouble
selling a bond-buying scheme to a
sceptical German public, especially
since it could lead to losses as
interest rates rise. Time is not on
Lagarde’s side, and if she gets it
wrong, the next unwelcome shock
to the global economy will be a
eurozone crisis.
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Monday 27 June 2022 The Guardian
‘Complicit in war crimes’
India may be back door into
Europe for Russian oil
Alex Lawson
Energy correspondent
T
he huge blue and
red hull of the SCF
Primorye came into
port at Vadinar,
western Gujarat,
India, this month. The
84,000-tonne oil tanker, built in
2009 and sailing under the Liberian
flag, had arrived from the port at
Ust-Luga, a settlement in Russia
near the border with Estonia.
Until 2017, the Vadinar oil
refinery was controlled by Essar
– the Indian owner of the Stanlow
refinery in Ellesmere Port. Since
then a consortium including the
Russian state-owned oil firm
Rosneft, which is under sanctions,
and the commodities trader
Trafigura, which holds a 24.5%
stake, have owned Nayara Energy,
which runs the refinery.
The tanker’s arrival came as India
ramped up imports of Russian oil.
The Asian nation’s willingness to
snap up Russian crude at discounts
of up to 30% has undermined
efforts from the US, Europe and
the UK to deplete Vladimir Putin’s
war coffers by curtailing imports.
•
Financial
Russia raked in $20bn (£16.3bn)
from oil exports in May, returning
to pre-invasion levels. Now, given
the surge in imports, concerns are
growing that India is being used as a
potential back door into Europe for
Russian oil supplies.
Before the Ukraine invasion,
India’s imports of Russian oil
were negligible owing to high
freight costs, but they have now
increased. Vadinar’s owner,
Nayara, purchased Russian oil in
March – just before international
restrictions on its exports were
introduced – after a gap of a year,
buying about 1.8m barrels from
Trafigura, Reuters reported.
The volumes that India has been
buying and exporting, however,
suggest that some of the refined
Russian crude may ultimately be
used in Europe’s filling stations. It
is not clear where the Russian crude
brought into Vadinar on the SCF
Primorye will be used. Vadinar’s
owner’s declined to comment on
the shipment or whether it was
shipping Russian oil to Europe.
In May, India imported about
800,000 barrels of oil a day from
Russia, and the rating agency Fitch
predicts they could soon increase
further to 1m barrels a day, or 20%
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of India’s total imports. India,
China and the United Arab Emirates
picked up slack as Russian crude oil
imports into the EU fell by 18% in
May. President Putin told the Brics
(Brazil, Russia, India, China and
South Africa) business summit this
week that “Russian oil supplies to
China and India are growing”.
India’s 1.4 billion-strong
population gives it reason to seek
cheap supplies, but it is a dangerous
political game. “India is walking
a tightrope,” said Alan Gelder,
the vice-president of refining,
chemicals and oil markets at
Wood Mackenzie. “If you take too
much, you do not want the west to
sanction the rest of your economy.”
The Centre for Research on
Energy and Clean Air said Reliance
Industries’ Jamnagar refinery
in Gujarat received 27% of its oil
from Russia in May, up from 5% in
April. The centre said about 20% of
exported cargoes from Jamnagar
left for the Suez canal, indicating
that they were heading to Europe
or the US. Shipments were made to
France, Italy and Britain. However,
there is no evidence that these
shipments included Russian oil.
Britain has committed to phasing
out Russian oil by the end of the
▼ Crude oil from Russian rigs
could be transported in different
consignments that are then mixed
PHOTOGRAPH: ANDREY RUDAKOV/BLOOMBERG
year. Britain did not import any
Russian petrol before the war but
diesel accounted for 18% of total
demand. While trading Russian oil
remains legal, the stigma attached
to it means some international
companies involved in fuel
supplies may attempt to mask its
origins. Some energy firms rushed
to cut shipments from Russia, but
industry watchers said that drivers
in the south-east of England were
still likely to be filling up with diesel
refined in Russia.
State processors of oil are
trying to secure six-month supply
contacts for Russian crude to India,
Bloomberg reported this month.
The trio of state refiners – Indian
Oil Corp, Hindustan Petroleum
and Bharat Petroleum – declined
to answer questions on whether
they were importing Russian oil or
exporting it to Europe.
Industry sources said tracking
shipments of Russian oil to Europe
via India is difficult. One insider
said: “You’ll find shipments of
crude will arrive at a port from
different countries and be blended
together. Tracking a hydrocarbon is
basically impossible.”
There are several tactics shippers
use to hide the origin of Russian oil,
‘We call on countries
everywhere to
show solidarity
by rejecting
Russia’s blood oil’
Oleg Ustenko
Adviser to President Zelenskiy
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India's imports of Russian crude oil
have risen sharply in recent months
Millions of barrels
• Russia • Iraq • Saudi Arabia • Other
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
Jan Apr Jul Oct Jan Apr
2021 2022
Source: Kpler
sources said. Financially, paying
in Chinese currency – rather than
the industry standard dollar – is
an option. Yuan-rouble trading
volumes have surged 1,067% since
February’s invasion of Ukraine.
Transfers of oil cargoes from
ship-to-ship have also risen,
suggesting oil is being switched
from Russian flagged-vessels to
other ships. Increasing numbers
of vessels have been “going dark”
by switching off their automative
identification system.
A third option to hide Russian
transactions is to cut out using a
money and trade oil directly for
other products, such as gold, food
or weapons. Iran has previously
taken payment from trading
partners in gold rather than dollars.
“If a country or oil operator
wants to hide the source of crude
or oil products, it can very easily do
so,” said Ajay Parmar, an oil market
analyst at ICIS.
“Indian refiners are clearly
taking significant volumes of
discounted Russian crude and
then re-exporting a material
proportion of refined product out
of the country,” said the Shore
Capital analyst Craig Howie. “Given
the strength of petrol and diesel
prices, this presumably supports
robust refining margins for Indian
downstream players.
“The commercial rationale here
is understandable, but does seem
to run contrary to the west’s clear
objective to hamper the Russian
economy and war machine.”
Oleg Ustenko, Ukraine’s chief
economic adviser to President
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said: “We
call on countries everywhere
to show solidarity by rejecting
Russia’s blood oil. The British and
EU energy, shipping and insurance
companies who are helping Putin
complete this pivot to new markets
are complicit in his war crimes.
“European leaders must get
serious and ban not just the import
of Russian fossil fuels, but also
heavily tax their trade.”
For the Indian prime minister,
Narendra Modi, trade with Russia
is a balancing act. With pressure on
consumers at the pump, the risk of
a western response will be weighed
against the benefit of cheap fuel.
Trafigura said in a statement that
it “unconditionally condemns” the
war and has “substantially reduced
its purchases of Russian crude”.
The company said it ceased all
trading with Russian organisations
prior to EU sanctions last month.
Trafigura said it does not have
“operational control” of Nayara
Energy or Vadinar. Reliance
declined to comment.
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Monday 27 June 2022 The Guardian •
Sport politics Football
Dorris tells sports The player who
to follow Fina lost it all and
gender policy ended up winning
Page 31  Page 32 
▲ Iga Swiatek works
daily with a renowned
performance
psychologist, Daria
Abramowicz, to
strengthen her mind
MOHAMMED BADRA/EPA
P
redicting the future is a business
Mind games best left for gamblers and fools. But
here is one regardless. Shortly after
1pm tomorrow, Iga Swiatek will hit a
bullwhip forehand with such violence
The power of Swiatek and beauty it will make the Centre Court
crowd gasp and purr. And before too
long the wider British sporting public
will also grasp what the tennis world knows already:
is awe-inspiring – the 21-year-old Pole is a generational talent heading for
multiple grand slam titles.
Swiatek’s movement is sublime, her power obvious.
The US Davis Cup captain, Patrick McEnroe, has even
and psychology compared the venom on her groundstrokes favourably
with those of Serena Williams. “I haven’t seen any
woman player hit with that much spin and pace,”
he said recently. “Serena does it all but she doesn’t
is playing a big part play with anywhere near the sort of topspin and
acceleration of the racket that this woman plays with.”
That is some praise. But the numbers back him up.
According to the Women’s Tennis Association, when
Swiatek won her first French Open, in 2020, she not
only hit the ball harder, on average, than any other
woman in the draw but her fastest forehand – 79mph –
was exceeded only by Jannik Sinner on the men’s side.
Meanwhile the peak revolutions per minute of
topspin on her forehand in her 2020 final against Sofia
Kenin hit 3453 rpm – higher than many men in the
Sean Ingle same tournament. But, intriguingly, there is something
else that makes Swiatek stand out: the way she stresses
how much psychology plays a role in her success.
Unusually she even has a renowned performance
psychologist, Daria Abramowicz, with her on the
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29
circuit, working daily on her mind to make it every bit
as powerful as her forehand.
When I spoke to Abramowicz recently, I asked
how Swiatek copes with the scrutiny that comes
from winning 35 matches in a row – and a record
of domination that has brought comparisons with
Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Serena Williams.
The starting point, she stressed, was doing everything
possible to both optimise sports performance on the
court and mental health off it. “The two are related,”
she said. “Sometimes an athlete can shut down
everything else when they play. But it’s always just
short-term. And when you’re on court, competing
against the best in the world, then there is stress,
there’s tension, there is a lot of pressure and it shows.”
B
reathwork, visualisation and
meditation were all important
techniques Swiatek uses to calm
the mind, she suggested, alongside
technology based on EEG, which
measures electrical activity in the
brain, and heart rate variability.
But Abramowicz, who always gives
Swiatek a pep talk 10-15 minutes before she goes on
court, said she was working on learning to relish the
difficult moments while playing, too. “It’s a very long-
term aim we have: to create this attitude where, if a
person is in a stressful situation, they are able to focus
on solving problems, to face challenges,” she said.
“When Iga played against Ash Barty in Madrid
last year I saw Ash come to the box to take her towel
between points and say to her team, ‘Gosh, I haven’t
played this way for a few months’ – and she seemed
excited to have to solve something on court. I’m really
trying to implement that attitude, too.”
In one sense, there is nothing new here. Tennis is
a supremely mental game. Books have been written
– and fortunes made – about how to stop our brains
committing random acts of self-sabotage. Yet it is rare
for an athlete with the talent of Swiatek to speak up
and speak out. It is also particularly notable given that
being world No 1 brings challenges that not everyone
enjoys. Naomi Osaka stepped away from the game for a
while to protect her mental health while Barty decided
to retire at 25. The glare and abuse from social media
does not help, either. Abramowicz says she works with
players to deal with it in a “smart
Before too way” – realising they cannot control
long the
British
everything while getting them to
appreciate “their strengths, goals,
visions and dreams and to develop a
public will very strong sense of self worth”.
the Pole is a all
It is a message that Abramowicz
grasp that and her team are now delivering to
Asics-sponsored athletes as part
of its plan to do more to help them
generational protect their mental health. Such an
talent who approach, the first by a major sports
brand, is long overdue. One study
is heading among 384 European professional
for multiple football players, published in 2017,
found that 37% had symptoms of
grand slams anxiety or depression at some point
over a 12-month period. Others,
conducted among elite Australian and French athletes,
have found the figure ranges from 17%-45% in a squad.
Part of the problem – as one study found – is that
“athletes’ self-perceptions of themselves as superior
serves as an internal barrier to seeking mental health
treatment, especially in elite sport”. However,
Abramowicz says she hopes that by being more vocal
about mental health, “we will take off the stigma a little
bit”. For now, though, Swiatek’s focus is exclusively
on her first-round match tomorrow. So far her best
progress at Wimbledon was to a last-16 defeat against
Ons Jabeur but there seems no good reason why she
cannot go deeper this year. And while for the English
tennis is not so much a sport as a fortnight, as my
colleague Tim Adams famously said, Swiatek’s body –
and mind – look ready to leave a deep impression.
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The
week
ahead
Today
Football
Women’s World Cup qualifying
Group A Georgia v Republic of
Ireland (5pm)
Women’s international friendly
Finland v Japan (4.15pm)
Rugby league
Betfred Championship
Barrow v Halifax (7.45pm)
Premier Sports 1
Cricket (11am unless stated)
Only women’s Test
(first day of four)
England v South Africa, Taunton
Sky Sports Mix
Third women’s T20 international
Sri Lanka v India, Dambulla
(9.30am)
LV= County Championship
(second day of four)
Division One Essex v Hampshire,
Chelmsford; Gloucestershire v
Lancashire, Bristol
Northamptonshire v Warwickshire;
Surrey v Kent, The Oval
Division Two Nottinghamshire v
Middlesex, Trent Bridge; Sussex v
Derbyshire, Hove; Worcestershire v
Glamorgan, New Road
Tennis
Wimbledon
All-England Club (to 10 Jul)
BBC1, BBC2, iPlayer
Swimming
World Aquatics Championships
Budapest, Hungary (to Sun)
Racing
Musselburgh, Pontefract, Southwell,
Windsor
Tomorrow
Football
Women’s World Cup qualifying
Group C
Netherlands v Belarus (7.45pm)
Group G Moldova v Lithuania (4pm)
Group I Estonia v Kazakhstan (5pm)
Women’s international friendlies
Belgium v Luxembourg (7pm); Chile
v Venezuela (11.30pm); Costa Rica v
Haiti (5pm); New Zealand v Wales
(6pm); Portugal v Australia (9pm);
Sweden v Brazil (5.30pm)
Cricket
Second T20 international
Ireland v India, Malahide (4.30pm)
Rowing
Henley Regatta
(to Sun)
Racing
Brighton, Chepstow, Hamilton,
Stratford
Wednesday
Football
Women’s international friendlies
Denmark v Norway (5pm);
USA v Colombia (3am)
Cricket
First Test (first day of five)
Sri Lanka v Australia, Galle (5.30am)
Racing
Bath, Kempton, Musselburgh,
Thirsk, Worcester
Thursday
Football
Women’s international friendly
Switzerland v England (5pm) ITV4
Golf
Irish Open
Kilkenny (to Sun)
The main event
England v India
Friday 10.30am, Sky Sports Cricket
Shortly after the series win over New
Zealand, England face India in a one-off
rearranged Test at Edgbaston
Sport
Leah Williamson
will lead England
women against
Switzerland
John Deere Classic
Illinois, US (to Sun) Sky Sports Golf
Women’s Amundi German Masters
Düsseldorf (to Sun)
Athletics
Diamond League meeting
Stockholm, Sweden iPlayer
Racing
Epsom, Haydock, Newbury, Perth,
Yarmouth
Friday
Football
Women’s international friendlies
France v Vietnam (8.10pm);
Italy v Spain (4pm)
Rugby league
Betfred Super League
Castleford v Huddersfield (8pm)
Sky Sports Arena
Cricket
Fifth Test (first day of five)
England v India, Edgbaston (10.30am)
Sky Sports Cricket
Lewis Hamilton hopes
to get his season back
on track in Sunday’s
British Grand Prix
Vitality T20 Blast
North Group Leicestershire v
Northamptonshire, Grace Road
(6.30pm); Nottinghamshire v Durham,
Trent Bridge (6.30pm) Sky Sports
Cricket; Worcestershire v Lancashire,
New Road (5.30pm); Yorkshire v
Warwickshire, Headingley (6.30pm)
South Group Hampshire v
Gloucestershire, Ageas Bowl (7pm);
Middlesex v Somerset, Lord’s
(6.15pm); Surrey v Kent, The Oval
(6.30pm); Sussex v Essex, Hove (7pm)
T20 tour match
Derbyshire v India XI, Derby (7pm)
First women’s one-day international
Sri Lanka v India, Pallekele (5.30am)
Cycling
Tour de France
(to 25 Jul 25) Eurosport 1, ITV4, S4C
Women’s Giro d’Italia
(to 10 Jul)
Racing
Beverley, Doncaster, Newton Abbot,
Sandown
Saturday
Football
Women’s international friendly
Netherlands v Finland (5pm)
Rugby union
International matches
Argentina v Scotland (TBC)
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Sky Sports Action; Australia v
England (10.55am) Sky Sports
Action; New Zealand v Ireland
(8.05am) Sky Sports Action; South
Africa v Wales (4.05pm) Sky Sports
Action; Spain v Italy (TBC)
Rugby league
Betfred Super League
Catalans Dragons v St Helens (6pm);
Hull FC v Leeds (3pm); Toulouse v
Hull KR (8pm)
Betfred Championship
Featherstone v Newcastle (6.30pm)
Betfred League One
Cornwall v Hunslet (1pm)
Cricket
First T20 international
West Indies v Bangladesh, Roseau
(6.30pm) BT Sport 3
Vitality T20 Blast
South Group
Essex v Glamorgan, Chelmsford
(6.30pm) Sky Sports Cricket
Women’s Rachael Heyhoe Flint
Trophy
Lightning v Storm, Loughborough
(10.30am); Sparks v Vipers,
Edgbaston (10.30am); Stars v
Sunrisers, Beckenham (10.30am)
Formula One
British Grand Prix qualifying
Silverstone Sky Sports F1
Racing
Beverley, Carlisle, Doncaster,
Leicester, Newton Abbot,
Nottingham, Sandown
Sunday
Rugby league (3pm unless stated)
Betfred Super League
Wakefield v Wigan;
Warrington v Salford
Betfred Championship
Batley v Whitehaven; Bradford v
Leigh; Dewsbury v Halifax; London
Broncos v Sheffield; Workington v
Widnes (2pm); York v Barrow
Betfred League One
Keighley v West Wales;
Midlands v Rochdale;
North Wales v London Skolars
(2.30pm); Swinton v Doncaster
Betfred Women’s Super League
Group One
St Helens v Huddersfield (2pm);
Wigan v Leeds (2pm)
Group Two
Bradford v Barrow (2pm);
Castleford v Wakefield (2pm);
Warrington v Leigh (11.30am)
Cricket (2.30pm unless stated)
Second T20 international
West Indies v Bangladesh,
Roseau (6.30pm)
Vitality T20 Blast
North Group Derbyshire v Durham,
Derby; Lancashire v Warwickshire,
Old Trafford; Leicestershire v
Yorkshire, Grace Road;
Worcestershire v Nottinghamshire,
New Road
South Group Gloucestershire v
Middlesex, Bristol; Kent v
Glamorgan, Canterbury (6.30pm);
Somerset v Surrey, Taunton
(6.30pm); Sussex v Hampshire, Hove
T20 tour match
Northamptonshire v India XI,
Northampton (6.30pm)
Women’s Rachael Heyhoe Flint
Trophy
Thunder v Diamonds, Sale
(10.30am)
Formula One
British Grand Prix
Silverstone Sky Sports F1
Racing
Ayr, Chelmsford, Market Rasen
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with victory but defeat means
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team’s attitude and performance
Cavendish ‘super happy’ after they came from behind to Golf
after title thriller win snatch a 17-16 victory over Catalans
Li grabs Munich playoff
in golden point extra-time at the
Mark Cavendish won a three- Mend-A-Hose Jungle. Radford with 50ft birdie putt
way sprint for the line to claim said: “I’m just pleased to come out
a second British National Road of the other end of it. I thought An emotional Li Haotong
Championship title yesterday – some of the stuff that got thrown completed a wire-to-wire victory
and first for nine years – in Castle at us during the game could have at the BMW International Open in
Douglas. The Manxman saw off had real detrimental effects but I Munich but it required a 50-foot
the challenge of the under-23 rider birdie putt at the first play-off hole
Sam Watson and Alex Richardson to secure his first win in more than
over the 201-kilometre course four years. The 26-year-old, who
around Dumfries and Galloway. missed 14 cuts last year, said: “I
“I’m super happy. I felt incredible. don’t have the words to describe
I know I’ve got better form, even it now.” Li, who admitted he was
than last year,” said the 37-year- ready to quit the sport after slipping
old. Cavendish, however, looks set to 542nd in the world last year, said:
to miss out on this year’s Tour de “Ten months ago I literally decided
France as his team’s first-choice to quit but I’m somehow where I
sprinter is currently the Dutchman ▲ Title winner Mark Cavendish is set am now. I had no idea I could win
Fabio Jakobsen. PA Media to miss out on the Tour de France this play-off.” PA Media
BETFRED LEAGUE ONE Tennis
Results Keighley
P W D L
11 11 0 0 493
F
90
A PD
+403
Pts
22 ATP MALLORCA CHAMPIONSHIPS (Spain)
Swinton 11 9 0 2 444 175 +269 18 Final: S Tsitsipas (Gre) bt R Bautista Agut (Sp) 6-4 3-6 7-6
North Wales 11 8 0 3 399 218 +181 16 (7-2).
Rochdale 11 8 0 3 422 258 +164 16 ATP/WTA ROTHESAY INTERNATIONAL (Eastbourne)
Doncaster 11 7 0 4 326 266 +60 14
Men: Final: T Fritz (US) bt M Cressy (US) 6-2 6-7 (4-7) 7-6
Hunslet 11 5 1 5 286 258 +28 11
(7-4).
Oldham 11 3 1 7 312 276 +36 7
Women: Final: P Kvitova (Cz) bt J Ostapenko (Lat) 6-3 6-2.
6
Football Midlands
London Skolars
10 3 0 7 278 339
11 3 0 8 214 486
-61
-272 6 WTA BAD HOMBURG OPEN (Germany)
EUROPEAN UNDER-19 CHAMPIONSHIP Cornwall 11 1 0 10 162 482 -320 2 Final: C Garcia (Fr) bt BV Andreescu (Can) 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-4.
Group A West Wales 11 1 0 10 92 580 -488 2
Motorcycling
P W D L F A GD Pts Hunslet 24 Rochdale 32; Keighley 62 Oldham 0;
+9 9 London Skolars 22 Swinton 48; North Wales 18 DUTCH GRAND PRIX (Assen; Netherlands)
France 3 3 0 0 11 2
Italy 3 2 0 1 4 5 -1 6
Doncaster 26; West Wales 4 Cornwall 24 MotoGP: 1 F Bagnaia (It) Ducati 40min 25.205sec;
BETFRED WOMEN’S SUPER LEAGUE 2 M Bezzecchi (It) Ducati +0.444; 3 M Viñales (Sp) Yamaha
Slovakia 3 1 0 2 1 6 -5 3 +1.209; 4 A Espargaro (Sp) Aprilia +2.585; 5 B Binder (SA)
Group One
Romania 3 0 0 3 2 5 -3 0 KTM +2.721; 6 J Miller (Aus) Ducati +3.045; 7 J Martín (Sp)
P W D L F A PD Pts
Friday France 4 Italy 1; Romania 0 Slovakia 1 Ducati +4.340; 8 J Mir (Sp) Suzuki +8.185; 9 M Oliveira
York 4 4 0 0 133 22 +111 8
(Por) KTM +8.325; 10 A Rins (Sp) Suzuki +8.596.
46 +44 4
Group B
P W D L F A GD Pts
Leeds
St Helens
3 2 0 1
3 1 0 2
90
68 33 +35 2
World championship standings: 1 F Quartararo (Fr) 172pts;
2 A Espargaro (Sp) 151; 3 J Zarco (Fr) 114; 4 F Bagnaia (It)
Wigan 3 1 0 2 30 108 -78 2
England 3 3 0 0 7 0 +7 9 106; 5 E Bastianini (It) 105; 6 B Binder (SA) 93; 7 J Miller (Aus)
Huddersfield 3 0 0 3 28 140 -112 0
Israel 3 1 1 1 6 5 +1 4 91; 8 J Mir (Sp) 77; 9 A Rins (Sp) 75; 10 M Oliveira (Por) 71.
Wigan 0 York 46
Austria
Serbia
3
3
1
0
0
1
2
2
5
4
8
9
-3 3
-5 1 Group Two
Motor sport
P W D L F A PD Pts WRC RALLY KENYA (Nairobi)
Austria 3 Serbia 2; Israel 0 England 1 6 +214 8
Warrington 4 4 0 0 220 Positions after special stage 19: 1 K Rovanperä (Fin)
Featherstone 5 4 0 1 174 68 +106 8 Toyota 3hr 40min 24.9sec; 2 E Evans (GB) Toyota +52.8;
WOMEN’S WORLD CUP EUROPEAN QUALIFYING
Barrow 4 3 0 1 108 56 +52 6 3 T Katsuta (Jpn) Toyota +1:42.7; 4 S Ogier (Fr) Toyota
Group B: Friday Ukraine 0 Scotland 4 92 102 -10 6
Bradford 5 3 0 2 +2:10.3; 5 T Neuville (Bel) Hyundai +10:40.9; 6 C Breen
Group C: Friday Belarus 2 Czech Republic 1 54 116 -62 2
Leigh 5 1 0 4 (Ire) Ford +23:27.9; 7 J Serderidis (Gre) Ford +30:16.5;
Group D: Friday Latvia 1 Luxembourg 0 16 154 -138 0
Castleford 3 0 0 3 8 S Loeb (Fr) Ford +32:12.6; 9 K Kajetanowicz (Pol) Skoda
Group G: Friday Moldova 0 Romania 4 34 196 -162 0
Wakefield 4 0 0 4 +35:37.6; 10 O Solberg (Swe) Hyundai +37:36.6.
WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLIES Barrow 46 Castleford 10; Bradford 0 Warrington 54; World championship standings: 1 K Rovanpera (Fin) 145pts;
Featherstone 34 Leigh 4 2 T Neuville (Bel) 80; 3 O Tanak (Est) 62; 4 T Katsuta (Jpn)
Belgium 0 Austria 1; Canada L South Korea L; Chile 0
Venezuela 1; Costa Rica 2 Haiti 1; France 4 Cameroon 0; 62; 5 C Breen (Ire) 60; 6 E Evans (GB) 57; 7 S Loeb (Fr) 35;
Golf 8 S Ogier (Fr) 34; 9 D Sordo (Sp) 34; 10 G Greensmith (GB) 28.
Mexico 5 Peru 1; Norway 2 New Zealand 0; Spain 7
Australia 0; USA 3 Colomiba 0. Friday Denmark 2 Brazil 1; BMW INTERNATIONAL OPEN (Munich, Germany) Swimming
England 5 Netherlands 1; Germany 7 Switzerland 0; Leading final scores (GB/Ire unless stated) 266 Li H (Chn)
Serbia 0 Japan 5 WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIP (Budapest, Hungary)
62 67 67 70 (Li won on first playoff hole); T Pieters (Bel) 69
64 66 67. 268 R Fox (NZ) 66 64 71 67. 270 S Valimaki (Fin) Men: 50m backstroke: 1 H Armstrong (US) 24.14sec;
Rugby union 69 66 68 67. 271 P Larrazábal (Sp) 70 67 67 67; R Langasque 2 K Masiuk (Pol) 24.49; 3 T Ceccon (It) 24.51.
INTERNATIONAL MATCHES (Fr) 68 68 66 69; N von Dellingshausen (Ger) 64 73 66 68. 1500m freestyle: 1 G Paltrinieri (It) 14min 32.80sec;
272 J Smith 67 66 67 72; L Oosthuizen (SA) 70 69 65 68. 2 R Finke (US) 14:36.70; 3 F Wellbrock (Ger) 14:36.94.
Portugal 31 Italy 38; Spain 7 Barbarians 26 4x100m medley relay: 1 Italy 3min 27.51sec;
273 K Higa (Jpn) 67 72 64 70; D van Driel (Neth) 70 67 64
Rugby league 72; F Lacroix (Fr) 70 67 70 66. 274 R Ramsay 68 68 70 68; 2 USA 3:27.79; 3 Great Britain 3:31.31.
L Nemecz (Aut) 70 67 67 70. 275 B Stone (SA) 72 66 68 69; Women: 50m breaststroke: 1 R Meilutyte (Ltu) 29.70sec;
INTERNATIONAL MATCH J Campillo (Sp) 69 70 68 68; A Rozner (Fr) 68 67 71 69; 2 B Pilato (It) 29.80; 3 L van Niekerk (SA) 29.90.
50m freestyle: 1 S Sjöström (Swe) 23.98sec;
New Zealand 26 Tonga 6 T Detry (Bel) 71 66 69 69; M Schneider (Ger) 71 69 69 66;
N Kearney 72 68 66 69. 2 K Wasick (Pol) 24.18; 3 M Harris (Aus) 24.38.
BETFRED SUPER LEAGUE 400m individual medley 1 S McIntosh (Can) 4min 32.04sec;
P W D L F A PD Pts TRAVELLERS CHAMPIONSHIP (Cromwell; US) 2 K Grimes (US) 4:32.67; 3 E Weyant (US) 4:36.00.
St Helens 16 14 0 2 404 170 +234 28 Leading third-round scores (US unless stated) 4x100m medley relay: 1 USA 3min 53.78sec;
Wigan 16 12 0 4 434 301 +133 24 193 X Schauffele 63 63 67. 194 P Cantlay 64 67 63. 2 Australia 3:54.25; 3 Canada 3:55.01.
Huddersfield 16 11 1 4 379 266 +113 23 196 S Theegala 67 65 64. 197 K Kisner 67 64 66. 198 M Laird
Catalans Dragons 16 11 0 5 356 219 +137 22 (Sco) 63 69 66; Lee K-h (Kor) 68 64 66. 199 N Hardy 67 64 68; Triathlon
Hull FC 16 8 0 8 310 289 +21 16 JT Poston 62 70 67; W Simpson 64 69 66; M Thorbjornsen WORLD SERIES (Montreal, Canada)
Castleford 16 8 0 8 334 350 -16 16 68 65 66. 200 H English 66 65 69; L Hodges 68 65 67;
Men: 1 A Yee (GB) 21min 55sec; 2 H Wilde (NZ) 21:58;
Hull KR 16 7 0 9 281 336 -55 14 M NeSmith 65 67 68; S Scheffler 68 67 65. 201 T Finau 68
3 L Bergere (Fr) 21:59; 4 J Geens (Bel) 22:02; 5 M Messias
Salford 16 6 0 10 365 395 -30 12 68 65; J Huh 67 65 69; K Mitchell 66 68 67; A Svensson
(Br) 22:05; 6 V Luis (Fr) 22:08; 7 P Le Corre (Fr) 22:11;
Warrington 16 6 0 10 300 380 -80 12 (Can) 71 64 66. 202 C Hadley 68 67 67; C Howell III 64 68
8 J Abdelmoula (Mor) 22:13; 9 M Van Riel (Bel) 22:41;
Leeds 16 5 1 10 261 322 -61 11 70; W McGirt 66 70 66; S Power (Ire) 67 65 70; C Reavie 67
10 J Silva (Por) 24:07.
Wakefield 16 5 0 11 257 440 -183 10 69 66; H Varner III 72 63 67.
Toulouse 16 2 0 14 236 449 -213 4
WOMEN’S CZECH OPEN (Beroun)
Women: 1 G Taylor-Brown (GB) 24min 04sec; 2 C Beaugrand
(Fr) 24:07; 3 B Potter (GB) 24:15; 4 A Kjær Pedersen (Den)
Castleford 17 Catalans Dragons 16; Hull KR 10
Leading final scores (GB/Ire unless stated) 202 J Melichova 24:25; 5 S Rappaport (US) 24:42; 6 T Spivey (US) 24:44;
Huddersfield 38; Salford 74 Wakefield 10.
(Cz) 68 65 69. 203 N Broch Estrup (Den) 65 67 71; K Spilkova 7 S Coldwell (GB) 24:47; 8 J Lehair (Fr) 24:51; 9 D Arnold
Friday Warrington 4 Hull FC 0; Wigan 40 Toulouse 6 (Br) 25:11; 10 V Steinhauser (It) 25:25.
(Cz) 68 65 70. 204 J Gustavsson (Swe) 68 70 66.
205 L Gómez (Sp) 71 69 65. 206 E Spitz (Aut) 66 66 74;
BETFRED CHAMPIONSHIP
P W D L F A PD Pts L Sobron (Sp) 68 69 69. 207 C Williams 73 70 64. 208 L Hall
Leigh 16 15 0 1 638 136 +502 30 71 69 68; U Wikström (Fin) 72 68 68; K Metraux (Swi) 70
Featherstone 16 13 1 2 624 228 +396 27 70 68; E Hualde (Sp) 71 69 68. 209 S Kouskova (Cz) 68 71
70; P Mackova (Cz) 72 66 71; G Oboh (Ngr) 71 70 68.
Greg Wood’s racing tips
York 16 13 0 3 426 284 +142 26
Batley 15 11 1 3 432 249 +183 23 WOMEN’S KPMG PGA CHAMPIONSHIP (Bethesda, US)
Halifax 15 10 0 5 428 248 +180 20
15 9 1 5 365 306 +59 19
Leading third-round scores (US unless stated)
Barrow
208 Chun I-g (Kor) 64 69 75. 211 Kim S-y (Kor) 71 69 71; Southwell 1.00 Serjeant Painter 1.30 The Vollan
Bradford 16 9 0 7 373 337 +36 18
15 7 0 8 341 368 -27 14
A Thompson 74 67 70; Choi H-j (Kor) 69 72 70. 212 H Green 2.00 Hell Red 2.30 Glajou 3.00 Leopolds Rock
Sheffield
(Aus) 71 69 72. 213 B Henderson (Can) 71 69 73; J Kupcho 3.30 Do Ya Feel Lucky 4.00 You Name Him
Widnes
Newcastle
16 6 0 10 337 437 -100 12
16 6 0 10 354 455 -101 12
71 68 74; A Thitikul (Tha) 73 72 68; J Chang 70 70 73. Pontefract 1.45 Bavardages 2.15 Elegant Erin
214 MJ Lee (Aus) 73 68 73; S Meadow (NI) 73 69 72. 2.45 Changing Colours 3.15 Wagga Wagga 3.45 Cosmos Raj
Whitehaven
London Broncos
16 4 0 12 242 550 -308 8
16 2 1 13 252 450 -198 5
215 A Nordqvist (Swe) 75 69 71; Ko J-y (Kor) 72 72 71; Y Saso 4.15 Commandment 4.45 Round The Island
(Jpn) 72 70 73; J Korda 74 70 71; L Ko (NZ) 72 67 76; Choi C Windsor 5.15 Dusky Prince 5.45 Safari Dream
Dewsbury
Workington
16 2 0 14 211 552 -341 4
16 1 0 15 188 611 -423 2
(Kor) 72 72 71; A Yin 72 70 73. 216 Kim I-k (Kor) 71 72 73; 6.15 Indian Creak 6.45 Splendent (nap) 7.15 Perfect Myth
Kim H-j (Kor) 73 72 71; M Castren (Fin) 76 67 73; Ji E-h (Kor) 7.45 State Event 8.15 English Spirit
Bradford 48 Dewsbury 6; Featherstone 20 Batley 28; 74 70 72; Shin J (Kor) 74 73 69; A Lee 76 67 73; A Corpuz Musselburgh 6.00 Impulsive Reaction 6.30 Thakuri
Newcastle 66 Workington 22; Whitehaven 16 York 40; 72 72 72; K Tan (Mal) 76 70 70; L Coughlin 74 69 73; 7.00 Oh So Chic 7.30 Rory (nb) 8.00 Imperial Khan
Widnes 26 London Broncos 22. Friday Sheffield 4 Leigh 58. S Kyriacou (Aus) 72 72 72. 8.30 On The River 9.00 Diamond Haze
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advantage over biological females,

Dorries to urge British
Division Two (first day of four)
Cricket scoreboard Nottinghamshire v Middlesex
Trent Bridge Nottinghamhsire (4pts) lead Middlesex (1) by
even after medication to reduce tes-
378 runs with six first-innings wickets remaining. tosterone” – a stance soon followed
by the International Rugby League.

sports to follow Fina

Nottinghamshire First innings
BT Slater c Simpson b Roland-Jones .................................9
H Hameed b Hollman ..................................................101
World Athletics has also hinted it may
BM Duckett c Simpson b Helm .......................................37 follow suit.
JM Clarke c Robson b Hollman .......................................47
SECOND TEST (third day of five)
LW James not out .........................................................90 Such decisions have been
Gros Islet (tea) Bangladesh 234 (Litton Das 53) and 32-3.
West Indies 408 (KR Mayers 146, KC Brathwaite 51;
*SJ Mullaney not out ....................................................79 welcomed by Dorries, who wrote:
Extras (lb3, nb12) .........................................................15
Khaled Ahmed 5-106). want all of our sporting governing “Finally, reason seems to be returning
FIRST T20 INTERNATIONAL
Total (for 4, 96 overs)..................................................378
Fall 9, 83, 188, 227. To bat †TJ Moores, LA Patterson-
Culture secretary wants bodies to follow that policy.” to the world of sport – and when I
Malahide Ireland 108-4 (HT Tector 64no).
India 111-3. India win by seven wickets (match reduced to
White, JL Pattinson, LJ Fletcher, D Paterson. bodies to ban athletes born As things stand, most interna- gather our own sporting governing
Bowling Murtagh 21-5-63-0; Roland-Jones 22-6-38-1;
12 overs per side). Andersson 12-0-75-0; Helm 16-0-101-1; male from women’s sport tional sports still allow trans women bodies this week, I’ll be making it
LV= COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP Hollman 19-0-69-2; Stoneman 5-0-25-0; Robson 1-0-4-0. to compete in the female category crystal clear that I expect them to
Division One (first day of four) Middlesex SD Robson, MD Stoneman, SS Eskinazi,
JLD Davies, MDE Holden, †JA Simpson, LBK Hollman, if they reduce their testosterone follow suit.
Essex v Hampshire TS Roland-Jones, MK Andersson, TG Helm, *TJ Murtagh. Sean Ingle for 12 months. Similar policies are “It shouldn’t need to be said, but
Chelmsford Hampshire (3pts) trail Essex (3) by 170 runs Toss Nottinghamshire elected to bat.
with four first-innings wickets remaining. Umpires PK Baldwin and BJ Debenham.
also adopted by most British sports in the vast majority of sports, asking
Essex First innings
Sussex v Derbyshire at national level. However at the women and teenage girls to com-
NLJ Browne b Abbott ......................................................0
AN Cook c Holland b Barker..............................................5 Hove Debyshire (3pts) lead Sussex (1) by 339 runs with five The culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, grassroots it is not uncommon for pete against someone born male is
*T Westley lbw b Dawson ..............................................46 first-innings wickets remaining. says she will make it “crystal clear” to trans women to be able to self-ID into inherently unfair – particularly when
DW Lawrence lbw b Wheal ..............................................2 Derbyshire First innings
PI Walter lbw b Holland .................................................24 Shan Masood lbw b Finn................................................46
British sporting bodies that competi- female events. we know there are existing challenges
MKS Pepper c & b Holland ...............................................0 *BA Godleman c Alsop b Hunt .........................................6 tive women’s sport must be reserved In the past week, however, there and barriers that stop women and
†AM Rossington b Abbott .............................................22 †BD Guest b Hunt............................................................2
SR Harmer lbw b Dawson ..............................................19 WL Madsen not out .....................................................171 for people born of the female sex has been a seismic shift by some girls getting involved in sport.”
S Snater c Wheal b Abbott..............................................71
AP Beard c Donald b Dawson..........................................33
JL du Plooy b Haines .......................................................4 when she meets them tomorrow to international governing bodies. Fina Dorries will emphasise that mes-
LM Reece c Carter b Rawlins ..........................................52
SJ Cook not out ...............................................................0 AK Dal not out ..............................................................45 discuss their transgender policies. decided to change its policy after sage in the meeting tomorrow, when
Extras (b5, lb7, nb4) .....................................................16 Extras (lb7, nb6) ...........................................................13 Dorries will urge organisations its scientific panel found that trans transgender policies at elite and
Total (71.5 overs) .......................................................238 Total (for 5, 97 overs)..................................................339
Fall 7, 7, 16, 56, 56, 103, 105, 164, 222. Fall 12, 24, 74, 83, 203.
representing football, cricket, rugby, women had a “relative performance grassroots level will be discussed.
Bowling Barker 17-6-46-1; Abbott 19-4-41-3; To bat AT Thomson, H Kerr, MRJ Watt, S Conners. tennis, athletics and other sports to However, it is understood the gov-
Wheal 10-2-37-1; Holland 6-0-27-2;
Dawson 18.5-4-71-3; Organ 1-0-4-0.
Bowling Brooks 16-1-72-0; Hunt 15-2-43-2; follow the lead of Fina, the governing ernment will ultimately leave it up
Hampshire First innings
Finn 17-2-58-1; Ibrahim 11-1-41-0; Haines 15-4-36-1;
Rawlins 14-0-44-1; Lenham 9-0-38-0. body of swimming, by barring from ‘I’m setting a very to individual sports to decide where
FS Organ c AN Cook b SJ Cook ..........................................0 Sussex *TJ Haines, AGH Orr, TP Alsop, Mohammad Rizwan, female events trans women who have the line should be drawn.
IG Holland lbw b SJ Cook ...............................................11
NRT Gubbins c Lawrence b Harmer ................................34
†OJ Carter, DMW Rawlins, D Ibrahim, AD Lenham, JA Brooks,
ST Finn, SF Hunt. “gone through male puberty”. clear line on this: That could yet prove a recipe for
*JM Vince st Rossington b Harmer ...................................1
LA Dawson c Rossington b Harmer ...................................4
†BC Brown not out ........................................................10
Toss Derbyshire elected to bat.
Umpires H Adnan and GD Lloyd.
Writing in the Mail on Sunday,
Dorries said: “I have the greatest
women’s sport a stalemate. Last year the Sports
Councils Equality Group, set up by
AHT Donald c Pepper b Harmer........................................0
KHD Barker not out .........................................................3
Worcestershire v Glamorgan
New Road Glamorgan (3pts) trail Worcestershire (3) by 239
compassion for anyone who finds must be reserved the five councils that fund grass-
themselves living in a body they don’t roots sport in the UK, said there was
Extras (b4, lb1)...............................................................5
Total (for 6, 22 overs)....................................................68
runs with seven first-innings wickets remaining.
Worcestershire First innings recognise. But we can’t pretend that for people born of no magic solution to satisfy all sides
Fall 0, 33, 34, 38, 55, 57.
To bat JK Fuller, KJ Abbott, BTJ Wheal.
EJ Pollock b Neser...........................................................0
JD Libby c Cullen b Hogan................................................4
sex doesn’t matter. Sex has biological the female sex’ of the debate and that sports had to
Bowling SJ Cook 6-3-12-2; Snater 6-1-27-0; Azhar Ali c Cullen b Lloyd...............................................21 consequences. If you’re born a male, choose between safety and fairness
Harmer 8-2-23-4; Beard 2-1-1-0. TR Cornall c Cullen b Lloyd ............................................25
Toss Essex elected to bat. *BL D’Oliveira lbw b Harris .............................................3
and you go through puberty as a male, on one side and trans inclusion on
Umpires MJ Saggers and PJ Such. EG Barnard b Neser .....................................................131 your body develops natural physi- the other. But there has been little
†GH Roderick b Harris...................................................46
Gloucestershire v Lancashire J Leach c Salter b Hogan ................................................12 cal advantages over a woman’s. That change since.
Bristol Gloucestershire (2pts) lead Lancashire (2) by 279 JO Baker c Cullen b Harris ..............................................10 makes you stronger and faster. Meanwhile, any significant
CAJ Morris c Cullen b Neser .............................................5
runs with three first-innings wickets remaining.
D Pennington not out .....................................................3 “I’m setting a very clear line on changes are likely to be opposed by
Gloucestershire First innings
GFB Scott c Jennings b Bailey ........................................23
Extras (b3, lb4, nb4) .....................................................11 this: competitive women’s sport the LGBTQ+ body Stonewall. It has
Total (84.4 overs) .......................................................271
*CDJ Dent not out ......................................................109
Fall 0, 8, 48, 57, 63, 183, 206, 227, 268.
must be reserved for people born of previously warned that “inflamma-
GD Phillips c Balderson b Morley ....................................19
MAH Hammond c Croft b Bailey.....................................37 Bowling Neser 17.4-3-40-3; Hogan 18-3-44-2; the female sex. Not someone who tory rhetoric surrounding the issue
†JR Bracey c Williams b Wood ........................................15 Harris 19-2-96-3; Lloyd 11-1-36-2;
Salter 18-3-47-0; Ingram 1-0-1-0.
was born male, took puberty blockers only serves to perpetuate an atmos-
RF Higgins c Wells b Morley ...........................................11
OJ Price lbw b Morley ......................................................0 Glamorgan First innings or has suppressed testosterone, phere where trans people feel unwel-
TJ Price b Wood...............................................................1 *DL Lloyd c Pollock b Leach.............................................4 but unequivocally and unarguably Nadine Dorries come to play community sport with
Z Gohar not out.............................................................31 EJ Byrom not out ............................................................5
Extras (b9, lb6, nb18) ...................................................33 JAR Harris c Barnard b Leach ...........................................8 someone who was born female. I Culture secretary their friends or go to the gym”.
Total (for 7, 86 overs)..................................................279 CA Ingram lbw b Leach ....................................................4
Fall 38, 85, 156, 186, 209, 209, 214. SA Northeast not out ......................................................9
To bat DA Payne, MD Taylor. Extras (nb2) ...................................................................2
Bowling Bailey 19-3-58-2; Williams 20-6-44-0; Total (for 3, 9 overs)......................................................32 Danjuma, but they could face stiff down on Friday after 18 months
Wood 15-6-49-2; Morley 23-2-79-3; Balderson 9-0-34-0.
Lancashire KK Jennings, LWP Wells, JJ Bohannon, SJ Croft,
Fall 4, 12, 18. To bat KS Carlson, WT Root, †TN Cullen,
AG Salter, MG Neser, MG Hogan.
Football competition for the Netherlands in charge of the Rams, who were
*DJ Vilas, †PD Salt, GP Balderson, L Wood, TE Bailey,
WSA Williams, JP Morley.
Bowling Leach 5-0-21-3; Morris 2-2-0-0;
Pennington 2-0-11-0. In brief forward’s signature. David Moyes
wants to improve his attack this
relegated from the Championship
last season after being hit with
Toss Gloucestershire elected to bat. Toss Glamorgan elected to field.
Umpires RJ Bailey and N Pratt. Umpires TL Lungley and AM Smith. summer and is interested in a combined 21-point deduction.
Danjuma after the 25-year-old’s Rosenior has been on the club’s
Northamptonshire v Warwickshire VITALITY T20 BLAST (played on Friday)
Northampton Northamptonshire (5pts) lead Warwickshire (2) North Group Arsenal impressive performances over the coaching team for the past
Derby Derbyshire 188-8 (Shan Masood 75, WL Madsen 70). past 12 months. The Netherlands three years and was assistant
by 420 runs with four first-innings wickets remaining.
Northamptonshire First innings Lancashire 183-5. Derbyshire win by five runs. Jesus signs five-year international, who can play on to Rooney. Meanwhile, Derby’s
Riverside Nottinghamshire 98-9. Durham 96-5.
*RS Vasconcelos c Sibley b Brookes.................................5
EN Gay c Lamb b McAndrew ...........................................70 Nottinghamshire win by two runs (match reduced to 11
overs per side).
deal to join Gunners the wing or through the middle, joint administrators Quantuma
RD Rickelton c Burgess b Miles ........................................4
Northampton Yorkshire 190-7 (HC Brook 67). helped Villarreal to reach the last announced they had formally
LA Procter lbw b Rhodes ...............................................33 Gabriel Jesus is poised to join
RI Keogh c Sibley b Brookes .........................................130 Northamptonshire 128. Yorkshire win by 62 runs. four of the Champions League accepted Clowes Developments’
JJ Cobb c Miles b Rhodes ...............................................88 Edgbaston Warwickshire 228-8 (AJ Hose 110no, Arsenal from Manchester City after and scored 17 goals for club and bid to acquire the club, with the
†LD McManus not out ...................................................57 DR Mousley 53). Worcestershire 84 (DR Briggs 4-25).
TAI Taylor not out .........................................................19 Warwickshire win by 144 runs. agreeing personal terms on a country last season. company being granted preferred
Extras (b5, lb8, w1) ......................................................14
P W L T NR RR Pts
five-year deal. The Brazilian striker Jacob Steinberg bidder status. PA Media
Total (for 6, 96 overs)..................................................420 Warwickshire 12 8 4 0 0 1.32 16 will move for a fee of £45m
Fall 5, 25, 113, 139, 300, 377. Lancashire 12 7 3 1 1 0.62 16
To bat SC Kerrigan, BW Sanderson, CJ White. Derbyshire 13 8 5 0 0 0.02 16 following an agreement between Burnley
Bowling Hannon-Dalby 20-4-79-0; Brookes 15-1-72-2; Yorkshire 12 7 4 1 0 1.29 15 the two clubs. His compatriot Edu, Derby County
Miles 11-1-64-1; Rhodes 20-6-44-2; McAndrew 16-1-84-1;
Bethell 13-2-61-0; Lamb 1-0-3-0.
Northamptonshire
Leicestershire
13
12
6
6
5
6
0
0
2 -0.04 14
0 -0.19 12 Arsenal’s technical director, and
Rams appoint Rosenior Kompany welcomes
Warwickshire AL Davies, DP Sibley, JG Bethell, CG Benjamin,
*WMH Rhodes, MJ Lamb, †MGK Burgess, HJH Brookes,
Nottinghamshire
Durham
12
12
5
3
6
8
0
0
1 -0.17 11
1 -0.58 7
the head coach, Mikel Arteta, were
a key factor in Jesus accepting the after Rooney exit Twine to Turf Moor
CN Miles, NJ McAndrew, OJ Hannon-Dalby. Worcestershire 12 1 10 0 1 -2.20 3
Toss Northamptonshire elected to bat. South Group offer to move to the Emirates Vincent Kompany has completed
Umpires NL Bainton and AG Wharf. Chelmsford Essex 198-7 (RJW Topley 4-37). Surrey 155-9 Stadium. Arteta knows Jesus well Derby have appointed Liam his first signing as Burnley manager
(AP Beard 4-29). Essex win by 43 runs.
Surrey v Kent Sophia Gardens Somerset 75-6. Glamorgan 59-5. Somerset
having worked with him when he Rosenior as interim manager with the arrival of Scott Twine
The Oval Surrey (5pts) lead Kent (1) by 445 runs with five
first-innings wickets remaining.
win by 16 runs (match reduced to seven overs per side). was on the coaching staff at City following Wayne Rooney’s from MK Dons. The 22-year-old
Bristol Hampshire 178-7 (BR McDermott 50). under Pep Guardiola. The arrival of
Surrey First innings Gloucestershire 169-7). Hampshire win by nine runs. departure. Rooney stepped midfielder has signed a four-year
*RJ Burns c Robinson b Pettman ....................................24 Canterbury Sussex 158-8. Kent 159-4 (JL Denly 58). Erling Haaland at City would limit contract after the two clubs agreed
R Patel c Robinson b Milnes............................................40
HM Amla c Cox b Bell-Drummond ................................124
Kent win by six wickets. Jesus’s chances of playing centrally an undisclosed fee. Twine was
BBA Geddes c Cox b Milnes ..........................................124 P W L T NR RR Pts next season, the final of his named League One player of the
†JL Smith b Pettman .....................................................55 Surrey 12 9 2 0 1 0.88 19
SM Curran not out.........................................................53 Somerset 12 8 4 0 0 0.51 16 contract. Fabrizio Romano year last season after the Dons
Extras (b1, lb7, w5, nb12) .............................................25 Essex 12 7 4 0 1 0.58 15
Total (for 5, 95.4 overs)...............................................445 Hampshire 12 7 5 0 0 0.13 14 lost out to Wycombe in the playoff
Fall 64, 70, 283, 390, 445. To bat WG Jacks, TE Lawes, Gloucestershire 12 5 5 0 2 0.10 12
West Ham semi-finals. Kompany said: “We
GAP Atkinson, C McKerr, DJ Worrall. Glamorgan 12 4 6 0 2 -0.00 10
Sussex 12 4 8 0 0 -0.30 8 are delighted to have brought
Bowling Duffy 17-1-101-0; Milnes 21-1-95-2;
Pettman 17.4-2-75-2; Singh 14-0-79-0; Middlesex
Kent
12
12
4
3
8
9
0
0
0 -1.13
0 -0.55
8
6
Hammers eye Danjuma Scott to the club. He’s an exciting
Bell-Drummond 9-1-25-1; Linde 13-3-44-0; Denly 4-1-18-0.
Kent BG Compton, DJ Bell-Drummond, JL Denly, JA Leaning, to boost their attack young player that will help us. We
TOUR MATCH (final day of four)
JM Cox, †OG Robinson, GF Linde, ME Milnes, JA Duffy, Grace Road Indians 246-8 dec (KS Bharat 70no; have looked at him for a while,
J Singh, THS Pettman, ▲ Scott Twine has made the move we know he can score goals and
Toss Kent elected to field.
RI Walker 5-24) and 364-9 dec (V Kohli 67, RA Jadeja West Ham have approached
56no). Leicestershire 244 (RR Pant 76) and 219-4
Umpires M Burns and JD Middlebrook. (S Gill 62, LPJ Kimber 58no). Match drawn. Villarreal about signing Arnaut from MK Dons to Burnley affect games.” PA Media
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The Swedish
wonderkid
whose hopes
died at
Internazionale
Martin Bengtsson went to
Milan full of hope and left in
the grip of depression. His
story is told in a new
w film
Louise Taylor
I
f Martin Bengtsson feels
stressed he kicks a football
around on his own and,
almost immediately, the
tension begins to ebb
away. “Nowadays I play
for meditation,” he says. “I
have a very natural and close
relationship with the ball; we still
have a good rapport.”
Bengtsson is 36 but, 20 years ago,
his first touch was so seamlessly
adhesive that opponents could
have been forgiven for believing he
and footballs were inseparable. The
then Sweden youth international
was such a gifted midfielder that
he was swiftly snapped up by
Internazionale’s academy; which is
where everything went wrong.
He arrived in Milan hyped as one
of the biggest talents Sweden had
produced but departed less than
a year later in the grip of severe
depression apparently exacerbated
by, among other things, a
distinct lack of paternalism or
emotional intelligence on the part
of Inter’s staff.
According to Bengtsson, not
content with failing to provide
him with Italian lessons they tore
up the sheets of paper covered
with the creative writing he had
begun producing in his free time.
Eventually, the prodigy did the
unthinkable and walked out before
turning his back on the game.
These days a man whose
creativity was most definitely not
confined to his feet is a full-time
writer, with his autobiography,
In the Shadow of San Siro, now a
compellingly thought-provoking
and highly artistic film, Tigers,
directed by Ronnie Sandahl.
After meeting on a book tour
in 2011 the pair vowed during
a drunken night out to bring
Bengtsson’s story to the big screen
and the fulfilment of this pledge
has been well worth waiting for.
“I used writing as a way of
relieving pressure in the football
world but now I usually go out
with a football when I need to
relax from working with words,”
jokes the former midfielder,
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who spent several years touring
as a successful, gifted musician
before settling down to write full-
time. “The movie and TV industry
is high-pressure so it helps me
deal with it.”
Sandahl, a fellow Swede, has
brought Bengtsson’s words to
cinematic life and clearly enjoyed
immersing himself in a parallel,
often almost hermetically sealed,
universe he had known only at
arms length as a QPR fan.
“The football industry’s a buffet
of absurdity and strangeness,”
says Sandahl. “It’s a world of often
extreme masculinity where you can
actually buy and sell humans.
“Media and fans all over the
‘Football is a buffet
of absurdity. It’s a
world of extreme
masculinity where
you can buy humans’
▲ Martin Bengtsson left football and became a writer and a musician
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world are putting these young
players in a really strange position.
A 15-year-old in Manchester
United’s academy can actually be
famous. You can suddenly be worth
€40m (£34m) so the pressure’s
just tremendous. Particularly with
social media.”
The book is set in 2004 but the
film, although heavily biographical,
is fast-forwarded almost two
decades. The advent of Instagram
et al apart, much remains the same.
“It’s super-strange,” says Sandahl.
“The most frequently recurring
comment I’ve got from professional
players who’d moved abroad is that
they’re not taught the language.
They think they’ll get all these
lessons and it doesn’t happen.”
Tigers blends art-house
ambience with authenticity.
“The players and coaches I’ve
spoken to recognise a lot from
their own lives,” says Sandahl.
“They feel it’s very accurate. They
all also always say right away for
me not to ever use their name
because it’s not done to talk about
depression or bullying. Especially
among young players it’s almost
impossible to talk about how you
feel. You fear, if you do, you won’t
be playing on Saturday.
“Coaches also say: ‘Sure we have
two psychologists but players are
wary of talking to them because
the risk of it getting back to the
club makes it impossible.’ I get
the impression a lot of clubs have
psychologists on their payroll
almost as a PR thing.”
Bengtsson is the father of
a two-year-old and engaged,
and can see that Inter never
became the surrogate family
he craved. “I really hope this
movie can create a discussion
about academies,” he says.
“Coaches need to understand the
psychology that comes with the
pressure of earning a lot of money,
or being close to earning a lot of
money and playing in front of a
lot of people.
“I had a clause in my contract
saying I was supposed to go to
school and learn Italian but it
didn’t happen. Language is such
a super-central part of enabling
you to integrate and, without it,
I was that much more lost and
alone. There were times when I felt
completely excluded.”
The old mantra about the
survival of the fittest hardly helped
either. “The attitude of, ‘Who’s
strong enough, tough enough to
make it?’ has been around for far
too long,” says Bengtsson. “It’s
very, very old-school psychology.
“Nowadays I’m not so annoyed
about people not seeing what was
happening to me but there are
situations that happened at Inter I
can still be angry about. I started to
write to deal with my depression,
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▼ The film Tigers is based on
the life of football prodigy
Martin Bengtsson at Inter
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to stay sane, to have an outlet. But
they threw away my papers and
said football people shouldn’t be
writing. That wasn’t right.
“I became very good at hiding
my emotions. That’s an important
masculinity problem the movie
highlights: hide your feelings if you
want to be part of the group.”
Sandahl brilliantly captures the
absurdity, fantasy, fabulousness
and, sometimes, sheer grind of
the football industry through a
teenager’s eyes. His insistence on
ensuring on-pitch scenes were
filmed with players spending long
periods without even touching the
ball heightens the sense of reality.
Meanwhile, the game’s sometimes
dangerously edgy humour
occasionally leaves viewers unsure
whether to laugh or cry.
“There are so many extreme
personalities in football,” says
Sandahl. “Because to make it
you have to sacrifice everything.
I wonder if we lose many of the
most intelligent, creative players,
the sensitive kids.”
Along the way young protégés
also experience adolescence.
“I wanted to get Martin’s sense
of discovering the world,” he
says. “So the film’s also about a
16-year-old who has his first kiss,
first girlfriend, has sex for the first
time, a first experience of getting
drunk and buys his first car.”
Despite its searing, unsparing,
exploration of teenage depression
and often dysfunctional football
men, Tigers has a happy ending.
“This is not a film about winning
and losing a match,” says Sandahl.
“It’s about winning and losing in
your life. And Martin wins. It’s a
success story.”
Tigers is in UK cinemas from 1 July
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‘Bedrock’ of doubles
pushed out of court
A tweet by Judy Murray drew
attention to the difficulties
faced by a part of the game in
which Britain has a world No 1
Tumaini Carayol
F
or the first time since
earning the distinction
the world No 1 men’s
player returned to
home soil at Queen’s
Club to compete, not
too far from where he grew up. Joe
Salisbury has won four grand slam
titles and has occupied the top
ranking for 12 weeks and counting.
As the second-youngest person
inside the top 25 at 30 years old he
is only just beginning.
But all those milestones were
achieved in doubles so, instead
of being scheduled on the Centre
Court for a big homecoming, he
occupied the much smaller second
court where he and his partner,
Rajeev Ram, lost quietly in their
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second match. In recent years Great
Britain has become one of the most
successful men’s doubles nations in
the world, with four players in the
top 40. If this country struggles to
provide a platform on the biggest
stages for doubles, there are few
other places that can.
Whether doubles should, can
or will ever receive sufficient
attention is such a common
theme that, during the early
stages of Eastbourne last week,
it was referenced out of the blue
by Judy Murray. “Don’t tell me
there’s no appetite for doubles
in Great Britain,” she wrote on
Twitter, retweeting a photo of a
doubles match on an outside court
filled with spectators. “Doubles
is the bedrock of club and school
competition. Of course we want to
see doubles.”
Many supporters of doubles
argue with similar logic, pointing
out the potential of the discipline
if the sport could tap into its
popularity at club level. “If you look
at a lot of tennis fans, when they
play tennis they play doubles,” says
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the world No 40, Lloyd Glasspool,
a fast-rising British doubles player
who, alongside his partner, Harri
Heliövaara, upset Salisbury and
Ram that day.
Doubles is entertaining and
in the context it can receive
significant attention. The problem
is that the context usually involves
top singles players. In January in
the Australian Open Nick Kyrgios
and Thanasi Kokkinakis whipped
up crowds into a frenzy en route
to their surprise triumph on home
soil. Over the past week the biggest
story in tennis has revolved around
doubles as Serena Williams and the
singles No 3, Ons Jabeur, formed
a surprise partnership on the
American’s comeback, reaching the
semi-finals in Eastbourne.
But the final days of Eastbourne
reflected the fundamental
problems with singles players
competing in doubles. First Jabeur
withdrew from the semi-final, then
Jelena Ostapenko withdrew from
the final.
It is difficult to support a team
when they are constantly changing:
“When you have a team and when
they don’t play good for a few
weeks, then they split. So people
need to see the same team for a long
time,” says the former No 1 Nicolas
Mahut. Peter Lebedevs, the Dallas
Open ATP 250 tournament director,
agrees: “The Bryan Brothers are
one of the greatest teams ever and
you knew every week that Mike and
Bob were playing together.”
Given the minimal interest from
broadcasters and even on-site
fans in some territories, some
tournaments are not enamoured
by the presence of doubles at all: “I
think for many tennis tournaments
doubles is more of an obligation
rather than something which is
interesting, with the exception of
local players who play doubles and
‘To get practice
courts before the
tournament you
have to play either
super early or late’
▲ Joe Salisbury (right) and Neal
Skupski in action for Great Britain
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reach finals,” says Jean-François
Collet, tournament director of the
Gstaad ATP 250 event.
Lebedevs points out that doubles
players are valuable for tournament
activities, such as meeting local
schoolchildren, while Marcel
Hunze, the tournament director
of the ’s-Hertogenbosch ATP 250,
notes: “When you play a final, and
there is only a singles final, there’s
only one match for the fans. I think
it’s of added value to have at least
two matches.”
At the French Open last year the
French Tennis Federation’s mask
slipped. With Covid limiting crowd
sizes and revenue, the doubles
was disproportionately affected,
with prize money falling by 25%
compared with the 6% drop for
singles. Even in normal times
doubles players operate under
different, unwritten rules from
others.
For example, booking practice
courts: “It’s always a bit harder,”
says Glasspool. “You have to either
do super early in the morning or
super late in the evening until the
tournament.”
For Mate Pavic, who at 24
became the youngest men’s
doubles No 1 for more than two
decades in 2018, his humble hope
is just for a little more promotion:
“It’s not easy to be top 10, 20
doubles, so we deserve a little bit
more to be recognised.”
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‘I’ve shown great
things. I’m closer
and closer to my goal’
Félix Auger-Aliassime on
testing Nadal to the limit,
hiring and firing coaches, and
finally breaking hiss finals hex
Tumaini Carayol
I
n the final days of May, Félix
Auger-Aliassime put himself
within touching distance of
history. For four gruelling
hours, he faced Rafael Nadal
in his temple, Court Philippe
Chatrier, and matched him all the
way. Unafraid at the beginning then
unmoved as he trailed by two sets
to one, Auger-Aliassime became
only the third man ever to force
Nadal to a fifth set at Roland Garros.
But he could not finish it.
Nadal did what he always does
there, elevating his level precisely
when he most needed to. It was
an immense effort from the
challenger, but afterwards, he
says, he was emotional. He felt
so close to victory. It had also
come four months after losing to
Daniil Medvedev in five sets at
the Australian Open quarter-final,
which he had accepted with a
smile on his face even after holding
match point. It hurt.
“I felt like victory was not so far
and when you feel that and you
lose, it’s never easy to swallow,”
the 21-year-old Canadian Auger-
Aliassime says in the days before
Wimbledon. “But it’s all right.
At the end of the day, these last
two grand slams have been very
positive for me. I’ve shown great
things. And I think it just means
that I’m closer and closer to my
goal.”
The healthy, mature perspective
that guides Auger-Aliassime is
more promising than any single
win. Three years ago, after
blazing up the ATP rankings as an
18-year-old and standing on the
cusp of the top 20, he rounded on
the first senior Wimbledon of his
career as the young player of the
moment. In the end he was unable
to perform under the pressure and
expectations. He lost in the third
round, in a performance that he has
called embarrassing.
Auger-Aliassime always had a
tremendous serve, a vicious, heavy
forehand and a well-balanced
game thread together by his
elegant athleticism, but in those
big moments he often struggled
to keep his nerves in check. If the
double faults weren’t flowing
freely, he would sometimes look
out of ideas when his serve and
forehand bombs weren’t landing.
Instead of immediately flying to
the top, the past three years have
been a tale of steady growth and
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Tennis Wimbledon ▼ Félix Auger-Aliassime won his first
title in February in Rotterdam after
losing his eight previous finals
DARRIAN TRAYNOR/GETTY IMAGES
patience as Auger-Aliassime has
matured and come to understand
his strengths and weaknesses,
something he seems to appreciate.
Unlike athletes in team sports
whose trajectories are determined
by coaches and suits, tennis
players have full control of their
destiny and the period in which
Auger-Aliassime finds himself, as
he grows into an adult and tries
to take full ownership over his
career, is essential.
“Growing up, my dad was
coaching me. I would just listen
to what he had to say and I would
just execute,” he says, laughing.
With time and age alongside his
current coach, Fréd Fontang, he has
become more self-sufficient. “From
the ages of 17, 18, time after time I
was able to think more about what
I want to do with my game and
what I need to improve and actually
have an idea myself of what I need
to work on even when we go to
practices.”
An essential moment of growth
came for Auger-Aliassime when
he opted to split with his then
longtime coach, Guillame Marx, at
the end of 2020. Most 20-year-olds
do not have to concern themselves
with hiring and firing, but as an
employer this is part of the job.
He sat down with his coach and
explained his decision: “It was
probably the toughest decision
I had to take so far in my life,” he
says. “I was only 20 and I’ve been ‘I always had really
working with him since I was a
teenager. He was like a second
high-quality shots.
father to me.” In Marx’s place, But I think now I’m
Auger-Aliassime hired Toni Nadal,
uncle and coach of Rafa, as a
just more precise, performances in finals. Between he posed for a photo. He spoke
second coach. more consistent’ 2019 and 2021, Auger-Aliassime thoughtfully throughout.
Under the guidance of Fontang reached eight finals, losing in There are very few things that
and Nadal, the improvements have ability has improved and he has straight sets every time. Reaching everyone agrees on in tennis, but it
been clear. At Wimbledon last year introduced more variety to his so many finals was a lofty feat for seems that a commonly held belief
Auger-Aliassime achieved one game. Against Nadal his drop such a young player, but every time among players, journalists and
of his first big-match victories, shots and net play were supreme. a trophy was on the line he would fans alike is that Auger-Aliassime
defeating Alexander Zverev “I think there’s just more order freeze. After losing 16 consecutive is one of the good people in this
to reach his first grand slam in my game,” he says. “It’s more sets, in February he finally defeated sport. With the recent retirement
quarter-final. He followed it up structured. I always had really high Stefanos Tsitsipas to win in of his idol, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and
with his first semi-final at the US quality shots. But I think now I’m Rotterdam. Immediately after the Gaël Monfils’ advancing age, he is
Open, then a quarter-final at the just more precise, more consistent.” match, as he spoke with his father also well aware of his position as a
Australian Open this year. He ended The mental obstacles through FaceTime, he cried. role model, particularly to aspiring
last year by reaching the top 10. Auger-Aliassime faced were “The ones from second, third black players who still have
These days his problem-solving most clearly reflected in his to eighth that I lost, it was really relatively few figures to look up to
difficult,” he says. “To the point at the very top of the men’s game.
 where it was always on my mind, At a time when many younger
Auger-Aliassime thinking just putting myself in players have struggled to adjust to
acknowledges that position is not easy, at any grass-court tennis, his game and
the crowd after tournament, and to eventually win. his comfort on the surface make
his five-set So when that win finally came this him a threat. He has a brutal first-
defeat by Rafael year, it was just the biggest relief to round draw, the Eastbourne finalist
Nadal in the check that box to be able to move Maxime Cressy, but as the sixth
French Open on to something else.” seed he begins Wimbledon with an
During the interview we opportunity to demonstrate exactly
strolled around the Wimbledon what he is capable of.
grounds as he navigated a busy “I think more and more, my
media day that included a brief vision is more clear. And I have
magazine photoshoot. He dealt more clarity of the player I want to
with every person on the shoot be and the improvements I need to
with a smile, he was apologetic do on the court in order to reach my
when a fan interrupted us and full potential.”
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ENTHUSIASTS(AND THOSE JUST HERE FOR A GIN AND DEUCE)

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Wimbledon
at a glance
Match of the day
Alison Van Uytvanck
v Emma Raducanu (10)
Second on Centre Court
No pressure, then. It’s a lot for
a 19-year-old: big expectations,
media glare, fitness fears and a
solid opponent ranked 46 in the
world who reached the fourth
round here in 2018. Will it end
in a Sweet Caroline singalong,
or in opening day despair?
Brits to watch
No time to relax for Centre Court
ticket holders as Andy Murray
follows Raducanu. His Australian
opponent James Duckworth,
who had hip surgery in February,
calls Murray’s return to fitness
“pretty inspirational … it’s very
cool to see him still going with
the injury that he’s had”. Among
others to watch today: British No
1 Cameron Norrie taking on Pablo
Andujar on Court No 2, Heather
Watson facing Tamara Korpatsch
on Court 3 followed by wildcard
Ryan Peniston versus Henri
Laaksonen, and Jodie Burrage
facing Lesia Tsurenko on Court 18.
Look out for
The Queue – forming for the
first time since 2019, back when
Raducanu was a qualifying first-
round loser. Key advice: don’t
lose your Queue Card, and study
queue etiquette before you set out.
Listen out for
Novak Djokovic (1)
v Kwon Soon-woo
First on Centre Court 1.30pm
How will the crowd take to
Djokovic, who was booed by fans
at the French Open? The Serb,
still full of views about vaccines
and sanctions, opens with
what should be a walkover.
Stat watch
2
Number of British
players with a top-
10 seeding – Norrie
(men’s No 9)
and Raducanu
(women’s No 10).
Heady times…
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This Wimbledon offers
intrigue as well as
another opportunity for
game’s greatest players
the US Open final in September, majors of the year and stand
Djokovic could face defining was deported from Australia in halfway to the grand slam under
fortnight while returns of January and he could not handle these circumstances at 36 years old,
Williams and Murray add Nadal’s stratospheric level in their and regardless of how much further
extra points of interest
nterest quarter-final in Paris. Now Nadal he goes, the most important news
has 22 major titles with some is that he is relatively healthy. He
daylight between them. has given himself the chance to see
Tumaini Carayol
ol With vaccination still required to where he lands.
enter the US, Djokovic made it clear With the seedings ensuring no
Wimbledon on Saturday that any change that repeat of the all-too-premature Should Djokovic
allows him to compete at the US
Open will not be from his end. So,
French Open quarter-final, the
men’s draw is fairly balanced.
lose here and stay
T
he last time that none as things stand, the next two weeks Both ATP 500 grass champions, at home for the
of Roger Federer, could define his season. Should the seventh seed Hubert Hurkacz,
Rafael Nadal, Novak he lose at Wimbledon and then and eighth seed, Matteo Berrettini,
US Open, this year
Djokovic or Andy remain at home for the US Open, avoided a potential quarter-final would be his nadir
Murray occupied this year would go down as the with Nadal or Djokovic. As they
either of the top nadir of his career. Or else he could look to continue their own
two ranking spots, its current force himself back to the level he excellent form on grass, the
inhabitants were seven and six displayed a year ago. question is whether any other
years old respectively. The urgency for Nadal notable players can join them.
It would have been reasonable is conversely based on the Nick Kyrgios is playing some
to assume that such a scenario opportunity before him. He never of the best tennis of his career
would suggest a significant imagined he would win the first except for the tight matches against
change at the top of the sport top players when he inevitably
but Djokovic and Nadal are the loses his head. And then there is
main protagonists at Wimbledon Andy Murray, who started the grass
for another year. Despite where court season with his best tennis
they sit in the rankings, they are in six years and he will see if he can
somehow also the top two seeds pick up where he left off.
in the absence of a banned Daniil As long as that winning run,
Medvedev, the world No 1, and an now 35 wins, keeps on rising, the
injured Alexander Zverev. women’s singles draw remains Iga
Almost every grand slam Swiatek against the field. But while
tournament over the past few years few were even close to beating her
has been an important moment on hard and clay courts, it remains
in tennis’s history as the greatest to be seen how she will adjust to the
men’s players live out their final grass. The Pole opted to prioritise
years and try to push their tallies of her physical and mental health over
grand slam titles as far as they go. further experience on the surface,
But this moment feels even more opting to take a week off after she
urgent than the others. won her second French Open title.
A year ago Djokovic strolled to One of the obvious top
a Wimbledon title that drew him Serena Williams contenders in the women’s
level with Nadal and Federer on is back at SW19 draw, still open with so many
20 grand slam titles and marked as a wildcard possibilities, is Ons Jabeur, the
his third grand slam championship victor in Berlin who between
of the year. To many it seemed enjoying life with her new friend
inevitable that he would pass and doubles partner Serena
his great rivals as the sole record Williams has reached the final in
holder. Instead, Djokovic lost four of her past five events. The
Today’s order of play
Centre Court (1.30pm)
N DJOKOVIC (Ser, 1) v Kwon S-w (Kor); A Van Uytvanck (Bel)
Court Seven (11am)
A KALININA (Ukr, 29) v A Bondar (Hun); A Tabilo (Chl) v
Court 14 (11am)
A Mannarino (Fr) v M Purcell (Aus); J Millman (Aus) v
v E RADUCANU (GB, 10); A Murray (GB) v J Duckworth (Aus) L Djere (Ser); O OTTE (Ger, 32) v P Gojowczyk (Ger) M KECMANOVIC (Ser, 25); A Sharma (Aus) v T Maria (Ger);
No 1 Court (1pm) Court Eight (11am) O Dodin (Fr) v J OSTAPENKO (Lat, 12)
M Björklund (Swe) v O JABEUR (Tun, 3); J-L Struff (Ger) v M Marterer (Ger) v A Bedene (Svn); A Krunic (Ser) v Court 15 (11am)
C ALCARAZ (Sp, 5); A KERBER (Ger, 15) v K Mladenovic (Fr) S CIRSTEA (Rom, 26); D Altmaier (Ger) v M Ymer (Swe); N BASILASHVILI (Geo, 22) v L Rosol (Cz); K KANEPI (Est, 31)
No 2 Court (11am) D Saville (Aus) v V Tomova (Bul)
C NORRIE (GB, 9) v P Andújar (Sp); B Pera (US) v Court Nine (11am)
v D Parry (Fr); D Lajovic (Ser) v P CARREÑO BUSTA (Sp, 16);
ZHANG S (Chn, 33) v M Doi (Jpn)
A KONTAVEIT (Est, 2); J SINNER (It, 10) v S Wawrinka (Swi); B Paire (Fr) v Q Halys (Fr); F Coria (Arg) v J Vesely (Cz);
M SAKKARI (Gre, 5) v Z Hives (Aus) L Bronzetti (It) v A Li (US); Y Wickmayer (Bel) v Zhu L (Chn) Court 16 (11am)
No 3 Court (11am) K Siniakova (Cz) v M Chwalinska (Pol); T Kokkinakis (Aus) v
Court 10 (11am)
A Davidovich Fokina (Sp) v H HURKACZ (Pol, 7); D COLLINS
(US, 7) v M Bouzkova (Cz); T Korpatsch (Ger) v H Watson
Y In-Albon (Swi) v A RISKE (US, 28); R Marino (Can) v
K Majchrzak (Pol); T Griekspoor (Neth) v F Fognini (It);
E Gorgodze (Geo) v I-C Begu (Rom)
K Kawa (Pol); M Inglis (Aus) v D Galfi (Hun); A Bublik (Kaz) v
(GB); R Peniston (GB) v H Laaksonen (Swi) Court 17 (11am)
M Fucsovics (Hun)
Court Four (11am)
T PAUL (US, 30) v F Verdasco (Sp); C Osorio (Col) v Court 11 (11am) F TIAFOE (US, 23) v A Vavassori (It); C Garcia (Fr) v
Y Miyazaki (GB); M Linette (Pol) v F Contreras Gómez (Mex);
E MERTENS (Bel, 24); M TREVISAN (It, 22) v E Cocciaretto T Moura Monteiro (Br) v J Munar (Sp); J Niemeier (Ger) v
Wang X (Chn); T van Rijthoven (Neth) v F Delbonis (Arg)
Cameron Norrie is D Goffin (Bel) v R Albot (Mol)
(It); C Taberner (Sp) v R OPELKA (US, 15)
Court Six (11am) Court 12 (11am) chasing his first grand Court 18 (11am)
T Etcheverry (Arg) v U Humbert (Fr); C Tauson (Den) v C RUUD (Nor, 3) v A Ramos Viñolas (Sp); K Juvan (Svn) v slam fourth round J Burrage (GB) v L Tsurenko (Ukr); E Couacaud (Fr) v J ISNER
M Hontama (Jpn); T Zidansek (Svn) v P Udvardy (Hun); B HADDAD MAIA (Br, 23); B BENCIC (Swi, 14) v Wang Q (US, 20); J Clarke (GB) v C Harrison (US); M Kostyuk (Ukr) v
T Daniel (Jpn) v S BÁEZ (Arg, 31) (Chn); S Johnson (US) v G DIMITROV (Bul, 18) K Swan (GB)
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Raducanu and any expectations on myself. Other
opponents have been playing a few
Draper looking
matches each week, learning, getting
a bit better on grass. I’m just like rock-
ing up here this week basically. But
to make their I’m feeling good.”
Although Raducanu was always
mark in SW19 known as a bright talent, her anonym-
ity at the beginning of last year’s event
was reflected in the fact that she had
very few media requests before the
tournament and even after her open-
ing win against Vitalia Diatchenko.
“I was just training,” she said. “I
was definitely experiencing some
nerves and uneasiness. I felt like it
was a very new experience. But I was
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a great week of practice, hitting with
some top players. I managed to hit
with Garbiñe [Muguruza] and that
gave me a lot of confidence. I was just
looking forward to it, relieved that my
exams were over.”
Raducanu will not be the only
young British player at Wimbledon
with lofty goals as the 20-year-old
Jack Draper looks to make his own
mark. Last year Draper followed up
a breakthrough quarter-final run at
Queen’s Club by taking a set off Novak
Djokovic in the first round.
Draper has now embedded him-
self inside the top 100 after winning
four challenger titles in the opening
four months of the year. Last week
 Novak
Djokovic returns
to Wimbledon
aware he may
not get a chance
to play in the US
Open due to his
vaccine status
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catch is that the one missed final
just happened to be a first-round
loss at the French Open. Coco
Gauff, Belinda Bencic, Bianca
Andreescu and the fascinating
resurgence of the two-time
champion Petra Kvitova, who won
Eastbourne at the weekend, are
also worth watching.
M
eanwhile,
Williams’s status
as a wildcard is
apt. She is 40
years old, has not
competed in a full
year and it is hard to know what
level to expect from her tomorrow.
But she is also a seven-time
Wimbledon champion and master
of the comeback. Like Murray in
the men’s draw, Williams has a fair
draw if she is in any kind of positive
form. It remains to be seen if she is.
Emma Raducanu’s bitter run of
injuries continued as she suffered
a side strain in the first game of her
first match during her first grass
season as a grand-slam champion.
She used the phrase “ready to go”
four times in her press conference
on Saturday, as if she was trying
to make a point. As she makes her
Centre Court debut today, it won’t
take long to see exactly what shape
she is in.
This is an opportunity for the
British in general. As Cameron
Norrie chases his first appearance
in the fourth round of a grand
slam tournament, one of the
clear themes of the grass season
has been the comfort displayed
by British players on the surface
as many others struggled. Some
should have their chances again.
Wimbledon’s decision to
ban Russian and Belarusian
players has received plenty of
reasonable criticism for both its
effectiveness and logic. Still, as
a new tournament begins, every
prominent player who could be
here has made the trip. It remains
to be seen if some lower-ranked
players may take the cash and go
– all eyes on Benoît Paire – but this
is no hit-and-giggle. Today, a new
grand slam tournament begins.
he took his second top-15 win of the
grass season against the world No 15,
Diego Schwartzman, en route to his
first ATP semi-final in Eastbourne.
However, no matter how he
performs at Wimbledon, there will be
no celebratory posts on social media.
While his opponent, the wildcard
Zizou Bergs, is known for his commit-
ment to TikTok, Draper’s interest in
social media is so low that he does not
even caption his Instagram photos.
“I just think a lot of people have got
enough to say on there,” he said. “I
want them to watch me and be moti-
vated and inspired by me as a tennis
player, not what I’m going to say on
social media.”
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Murray is still
a dangerous
foe on grass,
Kyrgios warns
Tumaini Carayol
Nick Kyrgios believes Andy Murray
remains one of the most difficult
opponents in the world on grass as
the Briton looks to reestablish him-
self in the top levels of the game.
“I think he’s one of the most dan-
gerous players on grass still,” Kyrgios,
who lost against Murray in Stuttgart
this month, said yesterday. “I defi-
nitely think the way he can handle
speed, return, compete, slice, volley,
as long as his body is feeling well, I
don’t want to see him on the grass at
all. I’m playing unbelievable tennis.
That first set was as good a level as
anyone can produce on the grass.”
Despite being unseeded, Kyrgios
arrives at Wimbledon in some of the
best form of his career, compiling a
16-6 record with his limited schedule
this year. His only defeat by a player
outside the top 20 this year was
against Murray. However, during
many of those defeats against tough
opposition, he imploded mentally.
After winning the Australian Open
men’s doubles tournament alongside
Thanasi Kokkinakis, Kyrgios will be
joining forces with his friend again at
Wimbledon despite his lack of enthu-
siasm about the best-of-five-set
format. “To be honest, I’m not
really looking forward to playing
best-of-five-sets doubles,” he said.
“I think it’s the stupidest thing ever,
to be brutally honest. I don’t know
why it’s best of five sets.
“No one wants to play best-of-
five-sets doubles. No one wants to
watch best-of-five-sets doubles. I’m
excited, but I’m also dreading the
fact that, if it’s one set all, I’m going
to have to be playing [two or] three
more sets of doubles.”
Meanwhile the fourth seed, Stefa-
nos Tsitsipas, arrived in London after
winning his first grasscourt tourna-
ment in Mallorca at the weekend,
edging out Roberto Bautista Agut in
the final. Although he reached his
first grand slam fourth round at Wim-
bledon in 2018, grass has statistically
been his worst surface and Tsitsipas
is yet to reach a quarter-final at Wim-
bledon. He is hoping to change that
narrative this year.
“People kind of doubted that I
can play on grass,” he said. “I never
doubted myself. I said – I insisted,
in fact – that I can play on it and it
remains one of my favourite surfaces.
I guess I proved last week that it’s not
a surface that I don’t like.”
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at Wimbledon but in excellent form
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Burgin storms home
to serve notice of
intent for Eugene
Twenty-year-old wins first
national title in 800m while
Neita doubles up in 200m
Sean Ingle
Max Burgin has borne the burden of
being compared to a young Sebastian
Coe or Steve Cram ever since he
shattered the under-15 world 800
metres record four years ago. But
those lofty comparisons did not look
misplaced as he led from gun to tape
to destroy a high-class field and win
his first national title.
The 20-year-old athlete has worked
on his strength and conditioning
over the winter after missing last
year’s Olympics through injury, and
it showed as he ran the finish out of
Daniel Rowden and Kyle Langford to
win in 1:44.54 in Manchester. It was a
heck of a performance, especially in
such blustery conditions, but it took
so much out of him he was sick by the
medal podium.
“I knew that was coming,” he said.
▲ Max Burgin led from the start in
winning the 800m in 1:44.54
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“That’s just me after every race. I put
that much into it that I’m in a bit of
a hole afterwards. That was quite a
good day for me – it was only 10-15
minutes. I’ve been up to half an hour
before I can start walking round
again. I’m getting better, hopefully.
“Obviously it is a bit disruptive
and I do feel sorry for the organisers
having to reshuffle everything like
the medal ceremony. Hopefully I’ve
got a bit of leeway when I produce
good performances.
“The wind did throw into doubt
whether front-running was the
best idea but I stuck with the plan.
I thought I could handle the wind
and it paid off.”
It means that Burgin, who is the
fastest man over 800m in the world
this year, has now booked his place at
the world championships in Eugene
in three weeks’ time. And he travels
there with a realistic shot at glory.
“I have no idea how I will handle a
three-round championship before I
go there and do it,” he said. “I’ve got
no experience. The last time I did
three rounds was four years ago in
the European U18s. I’ll go in with high
hopes, high ambitions and see how
far they take me.
“My times are up there with what
the best are doing at the moment.
World championships are a different
kettle of chips. It will definitely be a
different challenge but one that I will
be looking forward to.”
Rowden was also happy to qualify
after coming second in 1:45:58.
“Training has been going really well,”
he said. “However, racing has been
awful so I’m thrilled with second
today and be going to worlds.”
In the men’s 200 metres, Nethaneel
Mitchell-Blake produced his best
performance in years as he ran a
championship record of 20.05sec to
book his seat on the plane to Eugene.
“I have been in a great place
mentally,” he said. “I feel like I have
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a second wind within this sport now.
My confidence is the highest it has
been in a very long time. That race
right then was the cleanest race I have
had in four years and it feels great.”
Behind Mitchell-Blake were two
youngsters with shiny new personal
bests to their name: 21-year-old
Joe Ferguson, who ran 20.23 to
take second, and 19-year-old Jeriel
Quainoo who came third in 20.40.
However Adam Gemili, a mainstay
of British squads for a decade, could
only come fourth.
Daryll Neita added the 200m to
her 100m title by winning in 22.34sec
from Beth Dobbin. “Double British
sprint champions sounds good
doesn’t it?” she said. “I came here to
do that and I have achieved it. “
There was also joy for Jemma
Reekie, who has endured a difficult
season after suffering with glandu-
lar fever, as she won the women’s
800m in 2:06:03 from Ellie Baker.
The result means that both women
will be in the British team when it is
announced tomorrow.
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delivers
sprint
double
Daryll Neita
(far right)
follows up
her 100m
win with an
impressive
victory in
the 200m in
Manchester
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McLaughlin breaks her own world record
Olympic champion Sydney
McLaughlin broke her own world
record in the 400m hurdles at the
US track and field championships.
McLaughlin crossed the finish
line at Hayward Field in 51.41
seconds, breaking her record of
51.46sec set last year at the Tokyo
Olympics, where she won gold.
“I mean it’s Track Town USA, ▲ Sydney McLaughlin crosses the
what do you expect?” she said line in her record-breaking run
afterwards. “Every time I come
here I can just feel something at Eugene’s Hayward Field, next
amazing is going to happen.” month. It is the first time that track
Asked how she was going to and field’s biggest event outside the
celebrate, McLaughlin said: Olympics will be held in the US.
“Eating some real food besides McLaughlin will be joined on
vegetables. Like a cheeseburger or the US team by runner-up Britton
something, some pancakes.” Wilson and third-place finisher
The top three finishers in Shamier Little.
each event at the national Allyson Felix, the most decorated
championships in Oregon will woman in track history, finished
represent the United States in sixth in the 400m, in her final
the world championships, also national championship race. AP
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Crawley should be
a perfect fit but
despite six dreamy
fours he plays like
a man half asleep
The opener’s farcical innings
confirms that he should
make a return to his county
est cricket
and learn to play Test
Jonathan Liew
Headingley
A
nd frankly, were we
not entertained?
There were
times during Zak
Crawley’s blustery,
tempestuous
second innings at Headingley
when you wondered whether we
were watching a kind of brilliant
performance art, perhaps even
a sort of interpretative dance in
which a 24-year-old man attempts
to express the full gamut of human
emotion via edges alone.
Either way you could argue that
there is no player in this all-singing
England team fulfilling his brief
more perfectly than Crawley.
Ben Stokes may have the star
power. Jonny Bairstow may have
the heroism and daring. But even
they tend to play only one shot at
a time. Crawley has them all and
wants to play them all at once: a
performer who seems to capture
the unique complexity of Test
batting while simultaneously
persuading us that anybody could
do it.
Crawley made 25 off 33 balls
yesterday evening. He scored six
fours. Based on those numbers
alone you can probably picture
his innings without watching a
second of it. But even by Crawley’s
slapdash standards this was a
masterclass in high farce: the
innings of a man trying, and
failing, and failing harder, and very
possibly playing himself out of a
Cricket County Championship
Amla and Geddes power Surrey
to a commanding score
Tanya Aldred
The Oval
Two superb centuries, by Surrey
old and Surrey young, swept the
Division One leaders past 400 and
to maximum batting points.
The 39-year-old Hashim Amla
had been averaging 21 this season
but on a good pitch, against a
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Test career in the process. England
play India on Friday in the fifth
Test of their delayed 2021 series.
Had Crawley simply nicked off
for a second-ball duck, his place
would probably be safe. But this
was the sort of innings that changes
minds. He was dropped on 0. He
was almost run out. He almost
played on twice. He survived three
lbw shouts ranging from hopeful
to concerted. And of course, he
actually did run out his opening
partner, the Yorkshire-born Alex
Lees playing a Test at Headingley
for the first time.
All before he had played a
single intentional scoring shot.
And so naturally, with the pitch
still playing nicely and England
in pursuit of another landmark
target, you wondered whether this
might just be Crawley’s day. You
speculated that for all his travails
he was taking the shine off the new
ball, mainly by slashing it to pieces
with the edge of his bat. At which
point Crawley took 16 effortless
runs off a single Trent Boult over,
and for a fleeting few minutes the
clouds parted and the wind briefly
whispered “Zak”.
weary and sometimes wayward
Kent bowling attack, form hit
his veins. At the other end Ben
Geddes, just 20 and in only his third
Championship game, made his
first Championship century. Both
fell for 124 and were ushered off to
standing ovations.
Jamie Smith also raced to fifty,
before being bowled in the last over
of the day, and with Sam Curran
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This is the other part. The talent.
Or at least what we think we mean
when we talk about talent, namely
the ability to line up a cricket ball
and leather it miles. This is the
talent Ricky Ponting was talking
about during last winter’s Ashes
after watching Crawley blaze a
spectacular 77 at the Sydney Cricket
Ground. “He probably locks himself
in for another couple of years of
Test cricket on the back of one
innings,” Ponting said. “He showed
the mettle, he showed the fight, he
showed the intent.”
Ponting is a fine judge of a player,
but he clearly hadn’t watched
Crawley very much. Almost every
Crawley innings begins with mettle
and fight and intent. He blazes a
few sumptuous boundaries with a
schoolboy’s panache.
The long levers, the easy power,
Ponting is a fine
judge of a player and
liked Crawley but
he clearly hadn’t
watched him much
screaming to an unbeaten 26-ball
fifty with a six off Jacob Duffy,
things had progressed at quite a
lick. It was a long day for the Kent
captain, Jack Leaning, who had
looked at the green-tinged pitch
and plumped for a bowl.
At the County Ground Emilio
Gay and Josh Cobb hit rapid half-
centuries for Northamptonshire
against the county champions,
Warwickshire, while Rob Keogh
blasted 130 in quick-time. A late
unbeaten 57 from Lewis McManus
rubbed salt in the eye.
At Chelmsford four late wickets
by Simon Harmer on a spin-friendly
surface had Hampshire in a fix at 68
for six. Earlier in the day they had
the keen eye, the quick hands: all of
this fits into the narrow parameters
of what we call “talent”. Sometimes
he carries on. Sometimes he even
makes a score. Once he even got as
far as 267. It all looks so natural and
satisfying that we forget about his
first-class average of 31, we forget
about all the times he’s made us
dream and then nicked one to slip.
And then he nicks one to slip.
Or, as here, he tries to smash
Michael Bracewell against the
spin, through the covers, and gets
caught. And you realise that at this
level talent consists of more than
hand-eye coordination. Crawley
has been an international cricketer
for almost three years now and
literally has not the faintest idea
how to construct an innings, how
to modulate his temperament,
how to judge which balls to hit,
how to bat with a partner, how to
play a situation, how to adapt to
conditions. This, too, is talent. And
in 24 Tests Crawley has delivered
precious little evidence of any of it.
Or how to rotate the strike. As
a Test opener, Crawley has scored
60% of his runs in boundaries.
That’s a lot. Over the same period
Essex at 105 for seven until Shane
Snater made a free-flowing 71 to
help the home side to 238 all out.
Derbyshire’s Shan Masood
became the first player to pass a
thousand runs in 2022 during his
46 against Sussex while Wayne
▲ Hashim Amla made 124 for
Surrey against Kent at the Oval
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walks off
ruefully after an
innings which
showed both
sides of him at
Test level – he
ran out Alex
Lees yet played
Trent Boult well
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the corresponding percentage
for Rohit Sharma is 55%, Abid Ali
53%, Tom Latham 50%, Dimuth
Karunaratne 49%, David Warner
48%. Warner in particular is a
brilliant runner of early singles,
demonstrating intent and
manipulating the field. Crawley,
by contrast, wants four or nothing.
Perhaps one of the reasons he
was so flummoxed when Lees ran
down the pitch in search of a quick
single was that he hadn’t remotely
considered the possibility that one
might be on.
There is, perhaps, a certain
irony in that the batter perhaps
most supremely aligned with the
ethos of the Stokes/McCullum
regime is the one performing most
poorly under it. But in reality
England’s new approach is not so
much about pure hitting as it is
about empowerment: encouraging
players out of their shells, shedding
their inhibitions. Crawley has no
need for any of this. If anything,
this is a player who could frankly do
with a complex or two. Who needs
to fear failure a little more. Who
needs to go back to county cricket
and do a little growing up.
Madsen finished unbeaten on
171. Haseeb Hameed picked up
his second century of the season
for Nottinghamshire, in the
top-of-the-table Division Two
match against Middlesex.
Three wickets for Jack Morley
gave Lancashire the upper hand
against Gloucestershire at Bristol,
despite a hundred from Chris Dent;
and Ed Barnard saved the day for
Worcestershire yet again, with a
brilliant 131 against Glamorgan,
picking up the debris from 63
for five. Joe Leach then took
three for 21 to reduce Glamorgan
to 32 for three.
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Pope and Root in charge as
England head for clean sweep
Ali Martin
Headingley
The concept of a nervy run chase
appears lost on this England side and
they now march into the final day of
this third Test against New Zealand
needing 113 more runs to start life
under Ben Stokes with a first home
series clean-sweep in 11 years.
Set 296 for victory after Jack Leach
completed well-earned match figures
of 10 for 166 on the fourth afternoon,
England scorched their way to 183
for two from just 39 overs of batting
bliss. Ollie Pope finessed his way to an
unbeaten 81 and Joe Root a typically
frictionless 55 not out that included
another audacious reverse scoop for
six.
Root had just 16 runs to his name
when he repeated his antics from
Trent Bridge and whipped Neil Wag-
Stuck in
the middle
with the
two of you
New
Zealand’s
Trent Boult
sees another
delivery
disappear
on a fine day
for Joe Root
(right) and
Ollie Pope
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ner over the slips like a matador bam-
boozling a charging bull. He and Pope
had come together with the score on
51 for two but showed the confidence
coursing through this side at present
with a silken and unbeaten 132-run
stand.
With Jonny Bairstow still to come
and fresh from back-to-back centu-
ries, the pitch offering only the occa-
sional gremlin and Kane Williamson
burning two of his reviews following
successive gambles against Root, the
tourists need the overnight break to
prove rejuvenating and the return of
Headingley’s penchant for a twist or
two. Tickets for the fifth day are free,
even if the action could well be swift.
Truly, the only source of angst for
England came early on and Zak Craw-
ley the source. Skittish at the crease
and dropped by Tim Southee at slip
before getting off the mark, the right-
hander’s early travails can only have
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contributed to Alex Lees being run
out for nine when his partner drove
to extra cover and their communica-
tion went awry.
In fairness, this was also a majestic
piece of fielding from New Zealand,
Williamson picking up the ball after
his initial fumble and, on the run,
spinning sideways like an All Black
scrum-half to the alert Trent Boult
at the stumps. The early roar from
the crowd dipped with England 17
for one.
Crawley responded with some
typically eye-catching strokeplay
en route to 25 but the headache over
his place in the side will roll into
selection for Friday’s rescheduled
fifth Test against India after another
tame demise.
This time it was to a spinner of lit-
tle repute, Crawley trying to drive
Michael Bracewell through cover
only to chip to Williamson at extra;
▲ Jack Leach has taken 10 wickets in
this third Test, five in each innings
Stokes, so desperate to back his play-
ers, has a decision here.
Pope, by contrast, is set for an
extended spell, following his 145
in Nottingham with another fluent
innings that saw him peel off 12 fours
and work the ball all around the park.
Is he a genuine No3? In the upturned
world of Stokes and Brendon McCul-
lum apparently so, and his deploy-
ment has allowed Root to return to his
favoured spot; like much of what the
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pair touch, it appears to be working.
The day had begun with drama
when the news came through that
Ben Foakes – absent on day three with
a stiff back – was out for the remain-
der of the match after testing posi-
tive for Covid. In came Sam Billings as
his official replacement – able to both
keep wicket and bat if required under
the ICC regulations – following a late-
night drive up from Kent that saw him
arrive at the team hotel at 2am.
Having travelled 500 miles down
the east coast of Australia to make his
Test debut at the end of the Ashes in
January, Billings was at least used to
such a scenario and met it with his
typical enthusiasm. It was needed
too, with a wicketless morning ses-
sion and a fourth century partnership
of the series for Daryl Mitchell and
Tom Blundell that tested England’s
collective patience.
Matt Potts was the golden arm for
Stokes here, hustling in from the Kirk-
stall Lane end and trapping Mitchell
lbw for 56 with a ball that moved
into the right-hander. It was the lat-
est example of temperament suited
to Test cricket, Potts having shaken
off the disappointment of Blundell
overturning an lbw four balls earlier
and finally ended a golden series of
538 runs at an average of 107.6 for the
ubiquitous Mitchell.
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Blundell, unbeaten on 53 at this
juncture with New Zealand six down
and 243 ahead, had been a similar
thorn in England’s side and ended his
tour unbeaten on 88 and boasting 383
runs at 76.6. Potts was given some tap
by the nuggety wicketkeeper, includ-
ing an eye-catching running scoop
for four, but at the other end Leach
spun himself to a second five-wicket
haul of the match to keep the target
under 300.
Only the stone-hearted could
begrudge Leach becoming just the
second spinner after Graeme Swann
in 2013 to take 10 in a Headingley Test
in the past 50 years, given a career
of lurching fortunes. But it was the
manner in which he got there which
augurs so well for England, Leach
clearly buoyant under the captaincy
of Stokes, bowling wider of the crease
and finding some drift.
The wicket of Bracewell may have
been a case of misadventure from the
No 8 but the arm-ball that bowled
Southee was a classical finger spin-
ner’s dismissal. Wagner lasted five
balls, edging behind to Billings as the
emergency wicketkeeper somehow
trapped it between his thighs.
When Boult was bowled, tea was
called and it was soon over to Eng-
land’s entertainers for one last dance
in this memorable series.
Day four scoreboard
Headingley England, with eight second-innings
wickets remaining, require a further 113 runs to win.
New Zealand First innings 329 (DJ Mitchell 109,
TA Blundell 55; MJ Leach 5-100).
England First innings 360 (JM Bairstow 162,
J Overton 97; T A Boult 4-104).
New Zealand
Second innings (overnight 168-5)
DJ Mitchell lbw b Potts...................56 152
†TA Blundell not out ......................88 161 15
MG Bracewell c Crawley b Leach .......9 13
TG Southee b Leach .........................2 12
N Wagner c sub (Billings) b Leach......0
TA Boult b Leach ..............................4
Extras (b9, lb2, w4, nb2) ................17
Total (105.2 overs) ......................326
Fall cont 274, 291, 305, 305.
Bowling Broad 24-7-63-0; Leach 32.2-12-66-5;
Potts 25-5-66-3; Overton 14-2-61-1;
Stokes 4-0-30-0; Root 6-0-29-1.
England Second innings Balls 4s
AZ Lees run out (Williamson) ............9 18
Z Crawley c Williamson b Bracewell ..25 33
OJD Pope not out ...........................81 105 12
*JE Root not out ............................55 80
Extras (b5, lb6, nb2) ......................13
Total (for 2, 39 overs)...................183
Fall 17, 51. To bat JM Bairstow, BA Stokes, †BT Foakes,
J Overton, MJ Potts, SCJ Broad, MJ Leach.
Bowling Boult 9-2-37-0; Southee 12-4-32-0;
Bracewell 11-0-70-1; Wagner 7-1-33-0.
Toss New Zealand elected to bat.
Umpires M Erasmus (SA) and RA Kettleborough (Eng).
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Analysis
Simon Burnton Headingley
Granitic Mitchell and Blundell
ensure their names will be
remembered despite defeats
F
arewell then, Daryl
Mitchell and Tom
Blundell. However
it concludes today
this series will chiefly
be remembered for
the rebirth of England in a new,
thrilling and at least temporarily
successful form, but this granitic
pair will stand forever at its heart.
While their opponents threw their
wild and colourful brushstrokes,
Mitchell and Blundell patiently set
about resculpting the record books.
They came into the fourth
day at Headingley with their
final partnership of the summer
in its infancy, only seven runs
in, and with England knowing
an early breakthrough would
almost certainly mean the game
concluding swiftly and in their
favour. A couple of hours later they
had added another 86, lunch was
on the table and that possibility was
not; Mitchell had 44 and Blundell
45, with nothing to split them at the
Balls 4s 6s crease or on the scoreboard.
9 X
0
Across the morning, as so often
0 1 over the past few weeks, whatever
0 0 England tried they received no
5 0 0
8 1 0 encouragement. In particular their
tactic of last resort – tossing the
ball to Jamie Overton, sticking a
couple of fielders in the deep and
asking the big guy to bang it in short
6s
– never looked like succeeding
against two players who pull
2
6
0
0 with such sober authority. Soon
0
7 1 afterwards, and in consecutive
overs, each reached their half-
century with boundaries.
And then it was over. That too
was a shared experience, both
players being given out lbw in the
same Matt Potts over, the first of a
new spell.
Spin control
Leach grateful
to new setup
for major haul
Simon Burnton
Headingley
Having come to Headingley without
a Test five-for in England, Jack Leach
will leave it with two, crediting the
team’s new head coach, Brendon
McCullum, and captain, Ben Stokes,
with giving him the confidence that
has transformed his approach and
brought instant results.
“It probably hasn’t sunk in but it
feels special,” Leach said. “I don’t
know if I thought it was possible,
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Blundell was the first, reviewed
immediately and was reprieved;
moments later Mitchell followed,
also reviewed immediately and was
not. His score of 56 was his second-
lowest of a series in which he has
hit a century in every match.
In sport there is victory and
there is irrelevance, and Mitchell
and Blundell (standard modern
practice would be to take the first
half of one name and the second
half of the other to produce a handy
portmanteau to describe them
both, such as Brangelina, Benifer
or labradoodle. Sadly that doesn’t
really work here) will not emerge
from this series as victors. But what
they have achieved still requires
celebrating.
They came together six times
this summer, and on average each
partnership was worth 120.7 runs.
Only once before in this country
has a pair batted so many times
in a series and averaged more:
Australia’s David Boon and Mark
Waugh in 1993, who had five
century partnerships, one of them
unbroken, in six attempts and
averaged 124.4. The key difference
between the two achievements
is that the team Boon and Waugh
were playing for comprehensively
outclassed their hosts.
As it happens Boon is also at
Headingley this week, where he is
match referee. Asked whether such
a run of success makes two batters
grow in confidence whenever they
are united in the middle he replied,
disappointingly, that as far as he
can remember they didn’t even
realise it had happened.
The combined efforts of Mitchell
and Blundell might not have been
enough to win the series, but they
probably not. My biggest thing is
having belief in myself and that’s
what Ben and Baz have really helped
me with, and it looks like that’s
starting to pay off. I know there’s
going to be challenging games, but
this is a good one for me.”
Leach started the series terribly,
sustaining concussion while fielding
inside the first hour and being ruled
out of the remainder of the opening
game. But since coming back for the
second match at Trent Bridge he has
bowled excellently, repaying the faith
shown in him by Stokes.
“My concussion was a tough
week. I had built up to that moment
and was really excited to be playing
and being part of this new setup, and
then not being able to play was hard.
Then it was all focused on getting
back for Trent Bridge, and then this
happened. It’s up and down, which
is kind of how my career has been.”
At the start of the fourth day New
did transform it into one of frayed
nerves and tight margins, one in
which New Zealand have been only
a few dropped catches (several of
them, it must be said, by Mitchell)
and a Colin de Grandhomme
overstep from a very different
outcome.
If nothing else, the amount
of time they spent in the middle
made them impossible to ignore.
Outside Lord’s, Trent Bridge and
now Headingley there can be few
Englishmen who have spent so
much of the past few weeks being
forced to watch the same scene
repeat itself, and most of those
will have been stationed outside
Buckingham Palace, wearing
bearskin hats and contractually
obliged to staywhere they were.
England have tried 1,417 times
They are physically
similar but it is easy
to tell them apart at
the crease – Blundell
has angles, Mitchell
the gentle curves
Zealand had Daryl Mitchell and
Tom Blundell, the pairing that has
proved so destructive throughout
the series, at the crease and the game
in the balance. But after Matt Potts
broke that partnership Leach ripped
through the tail to keep England’s tar-
get to an achievable 296. They ended
the day on 183 for two, 113 runs from
completing a series clean sweep.
‘My biggest thing
is having belief in
myself and that’s
what Ben and Baz
have really helped
me with’
Jack Leach
England spinner
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Blundell’s six partnerships in the
series have averaged 120.7
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to break the partnership, and
succeeded on six occasions.
Across the three matches their
entire team have faced 5,042 balls
and scored 1,909 runs; while in
each other’s company Mitchell
and Blundell have faced 28% of
those deliveries and scored 38%
of the runs (add in runs scored
while they were apart and they
are double-handedly responsible
for 48% of New Zealand’s total).
Mitchell and Blundell are
physically similar, but it is easy
to differentiate them at the
crease. Blundell waits for the ball
with sharp angles at knee and
waist, giving him the profile of a
cartoon lightning bolt; Mitchell
is a little taller and presents with
gentle curves like the neck of a
swan, and has played with all the
elegance that image suggests.
And for all their combined
success he has had the best lines
– three centuries, two fifties, 538
solo runs – with Blundell (a mere
383, with just the one century)
cast in the role of straight man.
They have both been
magnificent, but in the end this
has been somebody else’s show.
“Especially in this innings I felt like
I was bowling more attacking,” Leach
said. “In the past I might have felt I
needed a bit of protection to bowl
attackingly. That third innings when
they’re in the lead it would have been
easy to drop guys back but Stokesy’s
going the opposite way which is bril-
liant, and it gives me a new mindset
which is trying to take wickets, being
a bit more precise with what I want to
do rather than just bowling it.”
Blundell top-scored for New Zea-
land with 88 to conclude an excellent
series with the bat, even if his team’s
results have been poor. “It’s disap-
pointing, as a group we haven’t been
quite there,” he said.
“Obviously on a personal note it’s
been fantastic, it’s just unfortunate
a couple of results haven’t gone our
way. But this team’s been known to
fight and we’ve got to do that tomor-
row. You get a couple of wickets out
there and you just never know.”
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The national
title winner
spoken of as
the new Coe
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England
on the
chase
again
Joe Root and Ollie Pope
pile on the runs against
New Zealand to set up
series whitewash
Report and analysis
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End in sight
Morgan considers calling time
on his international career
Exclusive
Ali Martin
Eoin Morgan could be set to announce
his retirement from international
cricket this week with England’s
World Cup-winning captain under-
stood to have been mulling over his
future in recent days.
The 35-year-old has been battling
with form and fitness problems this
year, most recently registering two
ducks in the one-day international
series against the Netherlands in
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Going for g gloryy
Auger-Aliassime
-Aliassime
looks to next
level onn eve of
Wimbledon
ledon
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Amstelveen before pulling out of
the third match with a “groin issue”.
But the Guardian has learned from
separate sources that he could be
poised to draw stumps on a career that
revolutionised England’s white-ball
cricket over the past seven years and
helped to deliver the 50-over World
Cup at Lord’s in 2019. He played in a
corporate match at the ground on Sat-
Eoin Morgan urday but has since withdrawn from a
was England’s scheduled appearance for the cricket
captain when charity Chance to Shine at a school in
they won the Hackney tomorrow.
2019 World Cup Should Morgan call time on one or
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both formats, the expectation is that
Jos Buttler would step up as captain,
having been vice-captain since 2015
and led the team 13 times. Moeen Ali
would also be a candidate.
Morgan pondering his future
before the T20 World Cup in Aus-
tralia this year – and the defence of
the 50-over title in India in 2023 – is
understandable. He has been backed
by Matthew Mott, the new white-ball
head coach, and Rob Key, the director
of England men’s cricket. But he has
made just two half-centuries from his
past 28 international innings across
the two white-ball formats.
Before the Netherlands tour
Morgan admitted he was feeling his
age and struggling to recover physi-
cally after matches, telling Sky Sports:
“If I don’t think I am good enough or
I don’t feel I am contributing to the
team, then I will finish.”
He has scored nearly 7,000 runs
and 13 centuries for England from
225 ODIs, and just shy of 2,500 runs
from 115 T20s. He won 16 Test caps
between 2010 and 2012.
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Raducanu
‘rocking up’
for Centre
Court debut
Tumaini Carayol
Emma Raducanu has said she intends
to ignore all negativity and focus on
the joy of returning to Wimbledon
and making her Centre Court debut
for her first-round match against
Alison Van Uytvanck.
“I think last year I was so new
to it, so I wasn’t even thinking of
anything,” the 19-year-old Raducanu
said. “This year I’m taking it all as a
positive thing. Everyone wants me
to do well and is behind me and
are going to be cheering. So there’s
nothing negative or to feel over-
whelmed about because they’re just
going to be rooting for me.”
Raducanu, the 10th seed, has a
challenging first-round assignment
today. Van Uytvanck is a grass-court
veteran with her weapons and all-
court game flourishing on the surface.
In their only previous meeting
Raducanu defeated the Belgian 7-6,
6-3 in the first round of the Chicago
125 event last year on hard court, the
last tournament before she won the
US Open.
As Raducanu reflected on her
arrival on the big stage last year, when
she was awarded a late main draw
wildcard after she had only just fin-
ished her A-Levels and returned from
a 16-month break, she says that she is
taking things slowly. She compared
her lack of preparation then due to
exams with her current scenario after
the side strain she sustained at the
beginning of the grass season, which
meant she has not completed a match
since the French Open.
“It’s funny because [with] the
exams I was studying nine or 10 hours
a day, I had my head in a book,” she
said. “And coming out is just such a
relief to be moving full stop. The last
month I haven’t had necessarily the
best preparation, I didn’t play tennis
for two and a half weeks, I was taking
it day by day.
“So in that regard I
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feel like I shouldn’t have
▲ Emma Raducanu will make
her debut on Centre Court today
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“This is the world

I want to live in!
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Glastonbury special

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After a three-year hiatus, Glastonbury
has made a triumphant return. We
report on the musical highlights
and the colourful spectacle, but first
Laura Barton on why the festival
means so much to so many people
‘It’s been
a long time
coming’
A
t six o’clock
on Wednesday morning, Emily
Eavis is with her three children at
the Glastonbury gates. Her
youngest child is six, and has little
knowledge of the beautiful chaos
and cacophony that springs up here
each June. Instead, the kids have
grown accustomed to riding their
bikes across the 360-hectare family
dairy farm. “I think we’d got very
used to the silence,” Eavis says. But
now, after one fallow year and two
pandemic summers, Glastonbury is
back – and for its 50th year.
In the British social calendar it
left a hole that represented so much
more than just a wild few days away
at a festival. It is the marriage of
music and creativity and hedonism
and politics and community. “I see
Glastonbury as the annual explosion
of the British soul,” says Mike Scott
of the Waterboys. “Or maybe the
weird side of the British soul.”
It’s why this year 200,000 people
have been willing to wrestle with
train strikes, fickle weather
forecasts and the dread of festival
toilets to head to the Vale of Avalon
in Somerset. They are carried by the
sweet promise of the days to come:
of Paul McCartney on the Pyramid
stage, and cider at the stone circle,
and late nights at NYC Downlow.
After these long locked-down years,
it’s time to find freedom again.
The festival’s countercultural
heart is in the Green Fields, the area
established in 1984 with the aim of
putting “feelings before ideas” and
providing a place of community.
Today, this means blacksmiths,
smudging, the stone circle, and a
witch watch against Hinkley Point
C nuclear power plant.
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Shaz, 56, from Shepton Mallet, is
sitting outside her bag-making
stall, Treacle Treats, considering
whether it is yet an acceptable hour
to add Baileys to her coffee. Last
night was a late one: a trip down the ‘An explosion
hill to see the Jesus and Mary Chain of the British
and Primal Scream, then over to soul’ … the crowd
Silver Hayes for a spot of dancing, at Glastonbury
and back to the Green Fields, where
she chanced upon a band called
Duncan Disorderly & the Scallywags:
“The whole place was bouncing.” down Jarvis Cocker, who has Chong, 38, a business operations
She got to bed at 6am. promised to let us accompany him manager from London, who are
It’s her 30th Glastonbury. “Oh!” on a buggy ride from his talk at the queueing for the Somerset cider bus.
she says, when asked what the Free University of Glastonbury They are part of a group of six
return of the festival means to her. down to the Pyramid stage, where sisters and cousins here for their
She covers her mouth with her hand there will be an unveiling of Peter first Glastonbury. “We walked
and wipes her eyes. “Look, you’ve Blake’s new painting of Michael around on the first day and thought
set me off !” she says. “It’s everyone Eavis, the festival co-founder. we’d seen it all,” says Chan. “But
coming back together.” What she When we arrive, Jarvis has left. then we kept finding new things.”
likes most is the consortion of the We loiter a while, until Michael On Wednesday, they dragged
young and the old. This year on site Eavis emerges, wearing a pair of their six-man tent up the hill to
you are just as likely to see a pink- shorts and a “Peter Blake is 90” Michael’s Mead, their friendly
haired 70-year-old wearing a onesie badge. What are his plans for the neighbours helping them to set up,
and face paint as you are to see a weekend? Paul Heaton, Paul only to find it was too big to fit in
teenager in the same bright regalia. Michael Eavis … McCartney, the underground piano their chosen spot. So they lugged it
Shaz’s daughter is 20, and here ‘I think I’m bar. “It’s fantastic this year, after back down the hill and under a tree,
with a large group of friends. Last getting the hang three years off.” He smiles. “I think where their new neighbours aided
night, Shaz recalls looking to her I’m getting the hang of it now!” the repitching. “I didn’t expect
of it now!’
left as she danced, to see a friend As are Mandy Chan, 35, a lawyer everyone to be so friendly,” says
she has known for 43 years, while from Birmingham, and Hayman Chan, relieved.
on her right danced a crowd of
teenagers. “Out in the world, you’re
segregated,” she says. “But here
Shaz with
we’re handing them the baton!”
two of her
As if on cue, two of her daughter’s
daughter’s
friends, both extravagantly dressed
friends;
circus performers, stroll by and she
Mike Scott of
rushes off to hug them.
In the Glastonburyless years, Shaz the Waterboys
floundered. “I just missed it. It’s
such a marker of the year. It affected
my mental health. For me, the year
undulates: in the summer I’m
sociable, I’m out, I go to festivals,
and then in the winter I slow down
and go quiet. To have two years of
winters was really horrible.”
One of the problems with a
festival of this size with limited
phone reception is the vagaries of
ever arranging to meet anyone.
Equally ill-advised is trying to track
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After the pandemic’s reduction
of social contact, the mood is more
open than ever. Emily Eavis, who
has been helping to run the festival
for more than 20 years, agrees – even
noting there is less litter and queue-
jumping. “It’s as if the experience
we’re all been through has brought
a hypersensitivity,” she says. “No
one’s taking anything for granted.”
On Saturday morning I walk
around the site at the strange
festival hour when the last
stragglers are heading back, while
the early risers are unzipping their
tents and heading for the showers.
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I meet Yas, 19, who has the pale,
happy face of someone who has not
been to bed. “I’m not sure where I
ended up,” she says. “I lost everyone
and then I found everyone, but I
met some new people, too.” She has
glitter all over her face. “It isn’t
mine,” she says. “It’s just from
hugging people.”
For five days, the world beyond
the perimeter fence seems a distant
land. But if it’s big enough, news
will break through – Britain hearing
it would be leaving the European
Union in 2016, or the sudden death
of Michael Jackson in 2009, when
people bellowed the news, like
town criers in waterproof ponchos.
This year, on Friday afternoon,
the US supreme court votes to
overturn Roe v Wade. All weekend
the news ripples across the site, with
performers slamming the decision
on stage: Billie Eilish declares it a
“dark day”, Phoebe Bridgers
lambasts “those irrelevant old
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motherfuckers trying to tell us
what to do with our fucking
bodies”, Megan Thee Stallion
invites the crowd to chant “My
body, my choice” along with her,
and Olivia Rodrigo lists the names
of every single supreme court judge
who voted for the legislation
change, then invites Lily Allen on
stage to perform her song Fuck You.
When I meet Rebecca Taylor, AKA
Self Esteem, backstage ahead of her
set, she has yet to hear. “What?”
she says. She is part-way through
taking off her jumper, and for a
moment as the shock settles, it is
swathed around her head. “WHAT?”
Taylor is well placed to explain
what this festival means to a
performer. The last time she played
here was in 2019, when she wore a
dress made out of Boots Advantage
Cards (a take on costume designer
Lizzy Gardiner’s American Express
Gold Card dress). This year, her
stage outfit combines her loves of
Madonna’s cone bra and Sheffield
Meadowhall shopping centre, and
she is lined up to appear on three
separate stages, along with a guest
spot with Pet Shop Boys. It is, she
notes, a reminder of how far she has
come. “I’m working on not needing
validation from anyone, but I still
need validation from a decent
Glastonbury slot,” she says. “I really
love what it stands for, what it does.
This is the world I want to live in,
here. Maybe fewer flower crowns.”
Mike Scott is a veteran, having
played Glastonbury 11 times. This
year he has even written a song,
Glastonbury Fair, in tribute. “The
first time we played was 1984 – my
first ever festival,” he says, when
we meet in the garden behind the
Acoustic stage. “We were one of
the first bands on, playing about
midday on the Pyramid stage.
“I don’t know if it’s because so
many people have played the same
spot, but on the Pyramid stage you
feel the presence of all the bands
that have played before. It always
felt like it was playing me.”
Jarvis Cocker says he can meet us
up at the Park stage if we get there
before 5.30pm. It is 5.15pm, and we
are on the opposite side of the site,
so we run through the crowds, along
the train tracks, past people pulling
wagons full of children, and freestyle
MCs, jugglers kissing couples,
people in fancy dress, and couples
sprawled out on the grass, and on
and on, through throngs of dancers,
pupils like moons, and people
waving inflatable unicorns and
queues for beer and crumpets and
halloumi fries, and when we finally
reach the Park we find that Jarvis
has left. And we stand deflated and
sweaty in the late-afternoon sun.
Instead we chat to Nic and Andy,
sitting outside a pasta stall. Nic, 38,
a learning designer from Brighton,
is wearing large lightning-bolt
earrings, and Andy, 37, a Team GB
table tennis player from Devon, has
added rainbow-coloured spokes to
his wheelchair. They have been to
Glastonbury many times. “I love
how you can be who you want, and
wear what you want, and do what
you want, be crazy if you want,”
says Nic. “It’s been a long time
coming, this one.”
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Rebecca Taylor
(AKA Self
Esteem); Jarvis
Cocker (below)
They have been making up for
the lost years, however. Last night
they stayed out till all hours, but it
was only this morning that Andy
realised he had acquired a flat tyre.
You have to get Getting about the site is easy with
his chair’s electrical attachment –
over yourself, “It’s detachable, which allows me to
go with it. Once dance,” he says. “If you come to the
festival as a wheelchair user you can
you can do that bypass the crowds. In Arcadia last
night we got right up to the spider!”
you can have the Andy’s neighbours, Linden, 72,
and Geof, 74, join us. They first
best time ever came to the festival in 1970, when it
was held on the Bath and West
Showground. “It was prog rock and
blues,” Linden recalls. It was not
long after they met. “Love at first
sight and all that,” Geof says. This
Andy and Nic …
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weekend he is wearing the velvet
coat she made for him that year.
They have been many times since.
They talk about the year Jeremy
Corbyn went on stage, the Thai
curry, and their camper van, and
the delights of watching Beans on
Toast playing a song called There’s
Always Money for War. “What we
love about Glastonbury is it’s
inclusive,” Linden says. “It gives
you a vision of a different world. It’s
important to keep that flame alive.”
In his hotel room, Jarvis Cocker
picks up the telephone. “Hello,
Laura?” he says. He sounds a little
sleepy. It has already been a busy
festival – today he has read from
his new book, and the previous
evening he was spotted in the
crowd at Primal Scream. Tomorrow
he will play with his band JARV IS
on the Park stage. “I’m sorry about
today,” he says.
He recalls how he first came to the
festival in 1984, and swore never to
return, only making it back in 1994,
to play with Pulp. And then again
the following year, filling in at the
last moment for the Stone Roses. It
was a huge moment for Cocker and
for Pulp, and is widely remembered
as one of the festival’s finest
performances, the set debuting
Sorted for E’s & Wizz and crowned
by Common People.
He is halfway through telling me
about it when the line falls silent.
We play phone tag then I get a text:
“I don’t think this is going to work,”
he says. The little dots of the iPhone
flicker. When his message lands it
is a perfect summation of what
it means to be here, and why
Glastonbury matters so very much
to so many:
“‘95 was the biggie,” he writes.
“We had to camp because there
were no hotels left. And that’s when
I finally got it. You have to submit to
Glastonbury. It really is the last
festival carrying those ideals from
the counterculture forward into the
21st century: get over yourself, go
with it. Once you can do that you can
have the best time ever. It’s magical.”
You feel that different world
everywhere here; a fierce sense of
togetherness that had seemed so
lost and so impossible in the
pandemic, and that for all our
recent return to life – to shows and
theatre and holidays and on to
crowded train platforms and into
packed summer parks, had yet to
really catch fire.
To stand pressed-close in a crowd
and hear so many singing along
carries a kind of wonder. It’s there
at Wolf Alice, and Haim, and Big
Thief. It’s at Megan Thee Stallion,
and Idles, and Skunk Anansie.
It reaches its apotheosis of
course in Paul McCartney’s
Saturday-night set, when for all
the glamorous guest stars (Bruce
Springsteen and Dave Grohl) and
the technical wizardry (allowing a
duet with John Lennon), the real
heart-lurch comes from the simple
joy of standing in a crowd that
stretches forever, every voice lifted
to join the chorus of Hey Jude. As
the tune carries out into the night,
it feels as if the sad song of the last
two years has somehow been made
just a little better.
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When in
Rome ...
bonfire lit to mark the festival’s
opening, it is difficult to absorb the
Classicist and grandeur and absurdity of the fact
that, almost as far as the eye can
culture writer see, this broad valley is covered
in tents and pavilions and stages
Charlotte Higgins and waves of innumerable people.
There is a bit in Homer’s Iliad where
is a Glyndebourne we are told that the campfires
burning in the Greeks’ camp at Troy
veteran, but has are as bright and numerous as the
stars on a clear night. This came
never been to the to mind when I gazed down at the
world’s biggest music Glastonbury festival.
I have never been to Glastonbury
festival. What did before. These are the summer
festivals I like: the Proms;
Charlotte
watches
she make of the Edinburgh – especially the book Billie Eilish
festival; and Glyndebourne. It’s not
spectacle, the songs that I don’t regard Glastonbury as
culturally important; it’s more that I
and the hedonism? dislike crowded places and have an

I
t’s a cliche you overhear
people saying to their first-timer
friends as they enter the site:
Glastonbury festival is a city, in
which 200,000 people live for just
less than a week and which has no
purpose other than pleasure. It is,
indeed, the sort of impossible city
that you can imagine Jorge Luis
Borges writing a story about.
But until you have climbed the
hill to what they call the Crow’s
Nest, by the embers of the giant
A city
like no
other ...
old-fashioned respect for properly
built sewers. Still, invited to taste
the world’s biggest music festival,
who am I to refuse?
Nevertheless, anxiety soon sets
in. I throw myself on the mercy of
my colleague Laura, who engineers
a list of recommendations from the
bewildering lineup and a playlist.
Packing is a whole other nightmare.
“Bring something fun,” says my
friend Alicia, which leads to at least
an hour’s fruitless coat-hanger-
flicking in charity shops. The only
“fun” item I possess is a jumpsuit,
which I rule out: a hem coming into
contact with the floor of a festival
loo strikes me as undesirable. I
post my packing list to Instagram
in hope of tips. My inclusion of
tweeds – a practical pair of trousers
I sometimes use for gardening –
is roundly derided.
Trying
laughing
yoga
On the road trip to the festival
from London, I am initiated by my
friend David into an undignified
pre-Glastonbury ritual: decanting
750ml of whisky into a plastic bottle
in the car park of Frome Asda. (No
glass is allowed at the festival.)
On my first day, I go to the Healing
Field, which strikes me as as good a
place as any to start my exploration.
Here, I join in with some Osho
meditation, which involves
breathing exercises alternated with
bouts of cathartic screaming. I also
sign up for the supposedly stress-
relieving Alexander technique, find
that the gong baths are booked out
and pass on the holistic palmist,
who is sitting in his tiny enclosure
with his shirt off, munching on a
packet of Walkers crisps.
While enquiring about a cacao
ritual (no idea), I meet a woman
called Laura Bam Bam who
recommends her laughter yoga
class. This is not the yoga I know;
it feels more like drama-class Headbanging
warmup. One minute, we are
doing a “Dr Evil” cackle; the next, in matching
roaring like lions, then hooting
derisively at an imagined post- rain cloaks?
Glastonbury credit card bill, which
seems a sensible exercise given
It is as English
that tickets are £280. At the end,
we lie down in a circle. Whatever
as Gardeners’
comes is OK, we are told – and what
comes is little tides of giggles, rising
Question Time
to big breakers of belly laughs.
All these workshops are offered
for free, or for donations. It is
altogether delightful.
Later, David walks me to what is
officially the South East Corner, but ushers me round the back of
which my friends call “the naughty the urinals to a backstage area.
corner”. I have no idea where we Beautiful drag queens glide past
are going – and my disorientation like exotic butterflies. David lifts
will continue, despite a map, not a curtain that acts like a portal into
least because many of the festival another world – we are at the back of
stewards seem as confused as I am. a club, NYC Downlow, the exterior
This is unsurprising, I suppose, of which I was just marvelling
since this settlement didn’t exist a at. It’s an entire building made to
week ago and will disappear again resemble a New York meatpacking
in a few days. (Plus, the distances warehouse from the 1980s, here in a
are prodigious – on Thursday, I walk field in Somerset. Two nights later,
nearly 14 miles.) I will be in there, dancing in a dark,
The lights of a funfair – or, rather, crazy crush of sweaty bodies. In my
of the Unfairground – twinkle gardening tweeds.
through the trees. David conveys Three nights later, I have a
me to a bar called Maceo’s, then surreal montage of a night during
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‘It’ll never not be cool to

which I stand in a field with a crowd his prime. they went into their first
while a giant spider hurls bursts Which generation would year of university just as
of flame in my direction as a tiny you have liked to be born Covid happened.
Calvin Harris does his thing inside into, if you could choose? What should Paul
its body. Then we are back in NYC
Downlow. When we leave, the gulls
are circling in a blushing dawn.
come to Glastonbury’ I would like to have been
20 in the 2000s. I feel
that’s the perfect age for
McCartney do to
celebrate his 80th
birthday? I would like to
What of the music? I find myself a festival. crowdsurf but sat on a
too old for Billie Eilish’s wide-eyed chair so I could like, chill.
injunctions to be grateful and not With headliner Paul McCartney turning 80, a host Do you expect to be at
to judge each other. I absolutely Glastonbury when you’re
love St Vincent, with her furious of other heritage acts and tickets almost £300, 80? I don’t see myself
songs and her take-no-shit scowl.
I bathe gratefully in Arooj Aftab’s
are young people still drawn to Worthy Farm? making it that far. I’m
very accident prone!
subtle harmonies, but find Phoebe
Bridgers a touch too soulful for
Elle Hunt tracks down some elusive gen Zers Which past act would you
most like to have seen
my mood. It’s the people that make going with the flow. at Glastonbury? I would
From the back of the Pyramid Glastonbury different – Do you think everyone like to have seen that
stage crowd, I watch Wolf Alice the atmosphere. is old here? Not so much, Coldplay performance,
as the drizzle sets in. Under these Do you think everyone is because I can chat around their Mylo
conditions, a British person at a old here? You’ve got such with nearly everybody, Xyloto album.
festival, with their face glitter, a massive mix, a lot of all ages. It’s kind of Which generation would
sequined jacket and bucket hat, older people, but I’m great. There’s lots of Tamta Gagoshidze, 24, you have liked to be born
is but a rain shower away from not fussed – I’m here for 17-year-olds. Somerset into, if you could choose?
a British person on a walking the music. What should Paul What’s brought you to I would have liked to
holiday, with their sturdy boots What should Paul McCartney do to Glastonbury? It’s my have seen the Rat Pack
and cagoule. A couple of people McCartney do to celebrate his 80th first time. If it wasn’t for in their prime.
do some headbanging in matching celebrate his 80th birthday? Party hard. my two friends [Sophie, What’s your favourite bit
yellow rain cloaks. It is as English birthday? Get his top Will you want to be at centre, and Hera, right], of your outfit? The fact
as Gardeners’ Question Time. Izzy Rowland, 24, off – I’m kidding! But it Glastonbury when I’d have no idea. that this top is backless so
On Thursday, the day before the Sheffield is quite hot. you’re 80? Yeah, that’s Is Glastonbury cool for I can get more air through.
bands get going, I find myself at a What’s brought you Will you want to be at going to be fun. gen Z? This generation
stage called the Lonely Hearts Club, to Glastonbury? I’m Glastonbury when Which past act would is probably the most
where I am supposedly meeting volunteering with you’re 80? If I can get you most like to have desperate to go back to
friends, but then not. Doing a set Shelter. But Glastonbury a ticket. seen at Glastonbury? situations where there’s
is a DJ called Sherelle. (Wikipedia is just so special. Probably Fatboy Slim in large crowds, because
tells me that her “sets and mixes How was it? Busier –
have been described as breakbeat, everyone is getting back
acid house and footwork”.) After on it: people have had the
a bit, I am into it, dancing on my three years off, they’re
own. Sherelle attacks her work ready to party and more
with the seriousness of a librarian willing to talk to each
doing a spot of reshelving in the other, after being silenced
rare books section. during the pandemic.
After Sherelle, I head to the Do you think everyone is
cinema tent, the Pilton Palais, for a old here? Younger people Ben-Lui Simpkins, 18,
screening of Orlando. Here, I meet are coming, but it’s not Bristol
up with friends. We spend a long attracting 18-year-olds. What’s brought you to
night grazing, pausing for mojitos, It’s kind of a uni, post- Which past act or Glastonbury? Gwen and
then burritos, then bhajis, then uni crowd; Leeds and musician would you I are playing at the Avalon
rum-and-apple, then doughnuts, Reading are aimed at the most like to have seen Cafe stage with our band
before deciding on a whim to head younger ones. at Glastonbury? David Afraid of the Dark.
to a drumming circle by the stone Is Glastonbury still cool Bowie in 1971 – I would What do you make of it?
circle (“only built in the 1990s, among gen Z? It will have loved to see him. We sat up there on the
but still very sacred”, according to never, ever not be cool. What’s your favourite hill and saw the whole
my friend Hannah). We take in a What should Paul bit of your outfit? It’s thing, all lit up – it is a
bit of trapeze and light candles in McCartney do to gotta be the hat – it’s my city.
the peace dome, then head to the celebrate his 80th friend’s. My hair’s a bit Is Glastonbury cool?
Glade, a stage beneath oak trees, birthday? Come party long so I’ve been covering Oh yeah! When friends
for what is supposed to be a set with me! I saw him in it up. find out that I am
by the DJs CamelPhat, but isn’t. 2004, when I was a playing Glastonbury,
We weave our way into the crowd wee babby. Raya Joshi, 17, it’s very much: “Oh
and dance for a bit anyway. Will you be at Wiltshire my God!”
Later, wandering back to the Glastonbury when you’re What’s brought you What should Paul
campsite, someone asks: “What 80? 110%! Make it 85! to Glastonbury? I just McCartney do to
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would Kenneth Clark have made You’re going to have to wanted to have fun after Tia Taylor-Gordon, 19 his 80th birthday? celebrate his 80th
of it? Would he have thought come and sprinkle my Covid. It shut down my Sheffield I think he’s doing well birthday? Go see some
this was civilisation?” It’s a ashes here. social life; I wanted to get What’s brought you to celebrating it by coming drum’n’bass.
good question. Glastonbury is What’s your favourite bit back out there. Glastonbury? It was on to Glastonbury! Will you be here when
either a highly advanced form of of your outfit? I’m wearing What do you make of it? my mum’s bucket list, and Do you expect to be at you’re 80? Yep, as long
civilisation, or the opposite – a form a trans flag because I feel I’ve been trying to look she bought my ticket. It Glastonbury when you’re as I’m still interested in
of anticivilisation. The food, the the trans community for tunes, really. I love was a once-in-a-lifetime 80? Yeah, that would music.
toilet stench, the rubbish that are so hard done by. My to dance. I don’t know opportunity, really. be cool. Maybe I’ll take Which generation
piles up underfoot, the bodies, the brother is trans. I love him any of the acts, I’m just What do you make of it? my children and my would you have liked
sweat, the desire, the intoxication: so much. I’m wearing this I didn’t expect so much grandkids. to be born into, if you
everything that is raw and human is in solidarity. to do – I was shocked to What act from the past could choose? I’d say
visible, on the surface, not buried or find a cinema. You’re just would you most like to enjoy the generation
tidied away, as in normal life. Benjamin McMullan, 18, not going to get around have seen? Oh, Beyoncé, you’re in.
My bedtime reading here is Bristol all of it. definitely. What’s your favourite
Euripides’ The Bacchae, a play What’s brought you to Do you think everyone is What is the most useful bit of your outfit? We’re
about people who, impelled by Glastonbury? I’ve been old here? Compared with thing you’ve brought to making flower crowns
Dionysus, leave the city behind working in a cafe in the Leeds or Reading, which Glastonbury? We’ve got right now.
and camp in the wilderness, Glade. Getting tickets is mainly young people, a little trolley that we’ve What is the most useful
worshipping, mostly peacefully, the is not easy – they’re a it’s very diverse, which I just shoved all our alcohol thing you’ve brought to
god who presides over the state of fortune! do like. in. We’ve saved a fortune. Glastonbury? We’ve got
being out of your head. Well: here What do you make How should Paul She’s called Lydia, after a watermelon pool float
we all are. of it? It’s amazing. McCartney celebrate my great-grandma. as a bed.
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Monday 27 June 2022

‘There is
drama
everywhere’
Originally from Glasgow and
now based in east London,
photographer Dougie Wallace
has won international acclaim
for his portraiture of people from
his hometown and beyond. With
a particular interest in nightlife’s
unexpected beauty, Wallace didn’t
lack inspiration on his first visit
to Glastonbury. “There is drama
everywhere,” he says. “Everything
is turned right up.”
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Special moments, singalongs and
Paul McCartney,
Self Esteem,
Billie Eilish,
Sam Fender,
Wet Leg and AJ
Tracey all thrilled
Glastonbury, says
Alexis Petridis.
But what about
Harry Styles?
O n Saturday
afternoon, a Land Rover with
Glastonbury’s founder, Michael
Eavis, in the passenger seat pulls
out of the backstage area, on to a
road packed with people that runs
between Glastonbury’s Pyramid
and Other stages. The crowd don’t
just part to let it through: when they
realise who’s inside it, they line
the sides of the road, not cheering
or shouting, but respectfully
applauding as it passes.
It’s a sweet and oddly
moving scene, and it seems to
say something about the first
Glastonbury since 2019. Eavis
is famous for cropping up in the
media towards the end of every
festival, loudly proclaiming
the preceding days the best
Glastonbury ever, an assessment
it can be hard to agree with if
you have just spent three days
watching people’s belongings being
washed away, wading through
ankle-deep mud or, on one notable
occasion, looking on aghast as
the operator of an effluent truck
presses the wrong button and
inadvertently sprays the interior of
one of the dance tents with human
excrement. You get the feeling
that if a vast sinkhole opened up,
swallowing huge sections of the
Worthy Farm site, Eavis would
stick his head out of it on Sunday
afternoon and start waxing lyrical
to a reporter about the magical
atmosphere and indomitable high
spirits in the crowd.
But this year the atmosphere
at Glastonbury does feel a little
different. If arriving onsite is
a slightly discombobulating
experience at first – even for a
seasoned Glastonbury-goer, the
sheer volume of people feels
weirdly overwhelming after
Billie Eilish
headlining the
Pyramid stage
on Friday
spending a significant proportion
of the past two years locked in
your home – you quickly notice
a fresh, benign happiness that is
presumably rooted in gratitude that
the event is happening at all.
Accordingly, the audiences seem
more attentive than usual. The
Friday night headliner, Billie Eilish,
plays a succession of slow, fragile
ballads, but rather than leave in
search of something more punchy
or easier to bellow along to, the
crowd stays and listens. Something
similar happens on Saturday
morning, when the US trio Gabriels
play the Park stage. They sound
fantastic – their gospel-trained
frontman, Jacob Lusk, has an
astonishing falsetto voice, tender
and eerie; their sound variously
touches on 60s soul, disco and jazz-
inflected pre-rock’n’roll pop – but
while their songs are beautiful,
they are also often measured
and opaque. They require close
attention, which they get: the
crowd seems rapt.
Eilish’s presence at the top of
Friday night’s bill also seems to
indicate a shift in Glastonbury’s
musical boundaries. It’s not just that
she is the youngest headlining act in
the festival’s history; it’s that she is
the first mainstream pop star – as in
the kind of pop star that 14-year-olds
scream at – to headline the festival.
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A few years back, it’s hard not to
think her presence would have
caused controversy – some berk
would have got up a keep-Glasto-
rock petition about it – but in 2022 it
seems to pass without comment.
In fact, the bill is studded with
mainstream pop stars, including
Eilish’s main competitor for
tweenage affections, the former
Disney starlet Olivia Rodrigo,
George Ezra and the Sugababes,
who, in a masterly example of
what you might call Glastonbury’s Paul McCartney
idiosyncratic approach to billing, and a ‘puppyish’
were supposed to appear on the Bruce
Avalon stage between Nick Mulvey Springsteen
– formerly the master of the steel
pan in the left-field jazz act Portico
Quartet – and the hoary punk
pioneers the Damned.
Even the traditional Traditional alternative guitar with-Gong school. It is, however,
preposterous Glastonbury rock also seems to be having a frequently hard to hear Wet Leg
rumour about a prospective resurgence at this year’s festival. over the sound of the audience
secret appearance by a huge star Wet Leg cause the festival’s singing, or in the case of the
seems to have been given a 2022 first roadblock, early on Friday fabulously deadpan Ur Mum,
pop makeover. You quickly lose afternoon at the Park stage. They screaming along.
count of how many people tell attract so many people that it’s Over on the Pyramid stage, Wolf
you that they have heard it on impossible to see them – the word Alice – visibly frazzled by a journey
good authority that Harry Styles is is that they are on stage, wearing to Glastonbury so chaotic it looked
being helicoptered in to make an matching white dresses that make at one stage as if they wouldn’t
appearance with Billie Eilish, or them look like extras from Little make it – get a similarly ecstatic,
Paul McCartney, or possibly with House on the Prairie, although it’s and deserved, reception. There
the punishing doom-punk quintet difficult to verify if that is true, is something really impressive
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs or just another rumour from the about their ability to suddenly
during their set on the Earache Harry-Styles-is-helicoptering-in- shift pace, from the epic, string-
Records stage in Shangri-La. to-sing-Radio-Gnome-Invisible- bedecked, stadium-ready balladry
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a rumour mill in overdrive
AJ Tracey
marrying
UK rap with
hard rock
Wolf Alice, who
arrived in the
UK only hours
before their set
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of Delicious Things to the snarling
noise of Play the Greatest Hits (“a
song about getting shitfaced,”
suggests the frontwoman, Ellie
Rowsell, the kind of statement
that is guaranteed to get a cheer at
Glastonbury). It is touching how
overwhelmed Rowsell – usually
an imperious presence on stage –
seems by the audience’s reaction.
Something similar happens
when Sam Fender plays, bumped
up the bill from an afternoon slot
thanks to the rapper Doja Cat’s
emergency tonsil surgery. His
Springsteen-inflected sound and
socially aware lyrics – incisive and
brave whether discussing toxic
masculinity, white working-class
disillusionment or father-son
relations – have clearly touched a
nerve. The title track of his second
album, Seventeen Going Under,
causes something approaching
bedlam in the crowd, which refuses
to stop singing its wordless refrain
when the song ends. Fender returns
to the microphone and joins in; for
a moment, it looks as if he is going
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Self Esteem
and, right,
Olivia
Rordigo
to cry, before he collects himself
and launches into The Dying
Light. It’s one of those emotionally
charged, career-defining
Glastonbury moments that people
like to talk about.
By contrast, Billie Eilish doesn’t
seem overawed at all. Not, one
suspects, a regular festivalgoer –
“you guys are troupers, with your
tents and shit,” she opines at one
point – she nevertheless exudes
a hugely appealing confidence,
performing a set that is essentially
a truncated version of the show she
has been touring around arenas the
past few months.
Occasionally, some of the
between-song chat – heavy on
stuff about loving yourself and
empowerment – feels more suited
to a teen-pop audience than
a Glastonbury crowd, but the
audience go with it: if she asks
them to crouch down then jump,
they happily oblige. Her big hits
– Bury a Friend, You Should See
Me in a Crown, Bad Guy – pack
an immense bass-heavy punch
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Within minutes
of Self Esteem’s
arrival on stage,
you can’t get
near the tent,
let alone into it
and the title track of her most
recent album, Happier Than
Ever, provides a stunning finale,
slowly building into a ferociously
angry, pyrotechnic-abetted coda.
Curiously, Styles doesn’t appear:
perhaps he is over at the Storm
stage, MCing over LTJ Bukem’s
drum’n’bass set.
On Saturday afternoon, Self
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Esteem’s appearance on the John
Peel stage has a similar effect to
Wet Leg and Sam Fender – within
minutes of her arrival on stage,
you can’t get near the tent, let
alone into it, without an unfeasible
amount of determination. It
adds to the sense that her album
Prioritise Pleasure has really
captured people’s imaginations,
and that its emotional cocktail of
fury, brutal self-examination and
cathartic joy fits the current mood.
It also helps that she is a fantastic
performer – in front of a backdrop
that reads THERE IS NOTHING
THAT TERRIFIES A MAN MORE
THAN A WOMAN WHO APPEARS
COMPLETELY DERANGED,
she punctuates choreographed
routines with self-deprecating wit –
and that she has a knack for writing
smart pop songs.
On the Pyramid stage, in the slot
vacated by Fender, AJ Tracey opens
a set that skilfully marries UK rap
with something close to hard rock –
clad in a leather jacket, he is backed
by a band, complete with a guitarist
who looks as if he is moonlighting
from a stoner metal outfit. He
opens with a lengthy, angry
introduction about the Grenfell
Tower fire and the “murderers”
responsible.
It’s not the afternoon’s only
moment of heartfelt politicking.
The environmental activist Greta
Thunberg makes an appearance
on the Pyramid stage just before
Haim. Up against stiff competition
from Glass Animals over on
the Other stage, she does her
greatest hits, including righteous
anger, withering scorn for world
leaders and dire presentiments of
catastrophe. The crowd joins in a
chant of “climate justice” at the end.
While Eilish and Phoebe Bridgers
both mention the overturning of
Roe v Wade on stage, it’s Rodrigo
who unexpectedly goes in studs up.
Visibly upset – “I’m devastated and
terrified; so many girls are going to
die” – she lists the supreme court
justices responsible by name, then
brings on Lily Allen to sing her 2009
single Fuck You, running across the
stage with her middle fingers raised
when she is not duetting.
It’s a highlight of an
unexpectedly triumphant set. Her
band offer a noticeably tougher
take on the post-punk stylings
of her debut album Sour. The
audience is impressively varied:
there are preteen girls on their
parents’ shoulders who seem to be
word-perfect whenever they are
caught on the stage-side screens,
but there are also couples old
enough to be Rodrigo’s parents
singing along to Drivers License.
As the sun begins to set, Burna
Boy’s appearance on the Other
stage pulls out all the stops, with
fireworks, flamethrowers and a
confetti cannon during the closer
Ye. Larded with Afrobeats horns
and a choir, he sounds fantastic.
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Meanwhile, on the Pyramid stage,
effectively warming up for Macca,
Noel Gallagher takes an admirably
prosaic approach to an audience
growing restless at a set toploaded
with solo tracks: “I’m going to play
a few more tunes that you don’t
give a shit about,” he informs them.
“They’re for me. But if you stick
around, after that there’s going to be
a lot of very happy people in bucket
hats.” True to his word, he starts
rolling out Oasis singalongs – Half
the World Away, Wonderwall, Don’t
Look Back in Anger – in due course.
Unexpectedly, it’s a theme
that is returned to during Paul
McCartney’s set. “When we do a
Beatles song, all your phones light
up and it’s like a galaxy of stars,” he
shrugs. “When we do a new song,
it’s like staring into a black hole.”
There is certainly more Wings
and solo Macca than you might
expect, particularly early on.
Sometimes, his choices feel entirely
justified – flop 1975 single Letting
Go deserves to be rescued from
relative obscurity – and sometimes
they amount to pushing his luck
a bit, not least when he performs
Fuh You, a 2018 collaboration with
songwriter-for-hire Ryan Tedder
that, with the best will in the world,
doesn’t really breathe the same
rarefied air as, say, Blackbird; the
latter’s opening notes are greeted
with a lovely collective sigh from
the crowd.
But perhaps he knows exactly
what he is doing. The occasional
lulls in the first half of the set
potentiate what happens in the
second half, which deals almost
entirely in the failsafe: Let It Be,
Live and Let Die, Hey Jude, two
sizeable chunks of the Abbey Road
medley. He brings out Dave Grohl
to duet on Band on the Run and
I Saw Her Standing There, then
Bruce Springsteen, who provides
another Glastonbury moment by
default. The big screens capture the
puppyish elation on Springsteen’s
face as he and McCartney trade
lines on Glory Days and I Wanna
Be Your Man; a seventysomething
rock legend momentarily turned
back into the obsessive Beatles fan
he was in his teens, he looks as if he
can scarcely believe his luck.
There’s something similarly
moving about the sight of
McCartney playing I’ve Got
a Feeling as a duet with John
Lennon’s isolated vocal from the
Get Back TV series. He isn’t the
first artist to use technology to
reanimate a long-deceased musical
partner, but the contrast in their
voices – McCartney’s audibly aged
and fraying a little at 80 years old,
Lennon’s frozen in youth – has a
real impact. The audience is still
singing the refrain of Hey Jude as
they wander off into the night,
perhaps in search of Styles, who,
rumour has it, has helicoptered in
to the Acoustic stage to sing Streets
of London with Ralph McTell.
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Westworld
9pm, Sky Atlantic

Living in Westworlders know that the common fly

‘absolute
fear’ … Dame symbolises a dramatic turn in the mind-
Kelly Holmes boggling sci-fi series, so the mammoth
swarm in the opener of this new season
screams: “UH-OH!” The action-packed
Review Kelly Holmes: 2000, and an apology to the thousands affected by it
was finally issued in 2020, but what she calls “this episode sees Maeve (Thandie Newton)
Being Me, ITV absolute fear” of being found out never left her. She
talks about the Royal Military Police, who would
“disposing and dismembering” those in
actively try to find gay people in the army, and about her way; Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood,
having her room turned over and searched for above right) having a similar experience
A courageous and
“evidence” of her sexuality, although she had been
tipped off, so she was able to ensure there was none. navigating the dating minefield; and
Others were not so lucky, though it feels crass, Caleb realising that there will be no
moving story with the impact this terror clearly had on her adult
life, to call it luck. She meets two other veterans who
were discharged from the military for being gay.
peace while William is on the loose.
Hollie Richardson

from one of our David spent six months in prison and had his medal
taken away. On a night out, Emma told a friend she
Food Unwrapped’s
greatest athletes
thought she might be gay; the next morning, she was mum, after a family
arrested, having been reported to the military police. Breakfast Buffet revelation rocked her life
Their conversation with Holmes is brutally frank, but 8pm, Channel 4 at the age of 30.
their understanding of the crushing pressure of The team investigates Henry Wong
secrecy is important. Later, Holmes meets two young every morning breakfast
★★★★★ Olympic boxers, a lesbian couple, one of whom also option they can find in Aids: The Unheard

Rebecca
served in the army. Until she heard Holmes’s story, this illuminating take on Tapes
the young boxer had no idea that it used to be illegal all things milky and 9.30pm, BBC Two

Nicholson
to be gay in the British military. Such a generational crunchy. Amanda Byram It takes a moment to get
divide struck me as a sign of vast progress, and as a discovers how long you onboard with this
very powerful reason for Holmes to have had the can keep milk for, and unfamiliar concept –
courage to make this film. Matt Tebbutt visits the actors lip-synching

I
Having been private for so many years, Being Me Shreddies factory. But it’s previously unheard audio
can be a bit cynical about Pride month, with affords Holmes an opportunity to tell her story on her Briony May Williams who interviews with gay men
its pink-washed corporate tie-ins and rainbow- own terms. There might be an expectation, then, that gets the plum job: finding during the Aids crisis –
coloured tat. But then a documentary such as this is a sanitised version of events. Though it is the best bacon butty. but it’s a fresh way of
Kelly Holmes: Being Me arrives to serve as a obviously kind, it is not soft-focus or fluffy. It is precise Hannah Verdier telling their stories.
vital reminder of what LGBTQ+ Pride is really and convincing, addressing the many responses that As well as showing the
all about. Holmes publicly came out as a gay the public may have when a famous person comes out Sherwood devastating reality of the
woman just a week ago, in what appears to have been of the closet. There is the “Who cares?” brigade; those 9pm, BBC One disease (we learn who
the culmination of a long and carefully considered who say: “Why flaunt it?”; and the ones who say: “We James Graham’s died shortly after the
process. This film follows her as she prepares to break always knew.” What Holmes does here is explain, with
And masterpiece reaches its recordings), it celebrates
the news, and explores some of the many reasons the great care and empathy, why coming out matters, and
another penultimate episode. being gay (“I had the most
thing
double Olympic gold medallist felt unable to do so for the agony of having to hide who you are. Flashbacks to 1984 show fabulous lifestyle – I was a
more than 30 years. Her coming out matters because even at her most what really happened on Bolly-swigging coke
“I’m a gay woman, but I’ve been unable to live my outwardly successful, Holmes was living in such terror. Disney+’s the night that tore the addict,” boasts club-goer
life authentically,” Holmes says to camera. Her nerves It matters because she could not be happy for a long new comedy community apart, for a John). HR
are visible and the emotion is raw; she cries often period in her adult life, because she wasn’t being true drama, starring spy cop-related cliffhanger
during the hour-long programme, and holds back to herself. It matters because of complicated notions Amy Schumer that is sure to cause a Dispatches: Ukraine –
tears many times again. It begins with scenes of of shame and inner struggle that many, if not all, (above), is collective gasp across Life Under Attack
adulation, following her triumph at the Olympics in LGBTQ+ people have experienced on some level, at called Life & the nation. The series 10pm, Channel 4
Athens in 2004, when 80,000 fans came out on to the some point. Her mental health suffered greatly. Beth. Terrible concludes tomorrow. HR Cate Blanchett narrates
streets to wave flags for her. A year later, she was When she was ill with Covid, she thought about her name, very this pressing Dispatches
made a dame. But, she explains, she was terrified to funeral, and how few people would have known good show Long Lost Family about the Russian
be in the spotlight, fearful that people might learn who she really was. “I need people to see that it hurts,” 9pm, ITV bombardment of
about her sexuality. she says at one point, and her bravery in trying to Davina McCall and Nicky Ukraine’s second city,
Being Me is Holmes’s story, but it is so much bigger wrestle her own turmoil into such a clear sense of Campbell solve more Kharkiv. Filmed over 10
than her. She explains that her fear of being exposed purpose – that she might help other people who feel family mysteries. Roy is weeks, it tells the city’s
stems from her time in the army, which she joined at this way – is remarkable. searching for his birth story through the eyes
17. She served in the 80s and 90s (there is wonderful At one point, she calls her friend Alan Carr for mother, who felt forced to of its inhabitants, such as
archive footage of a young Holmes doing her job as advice. He tells her she will feel lighter when the news give up her baby because firefighter Roman and
a physical training instructor), at which time it was is out. I hope this moving film has helped Holmes to of his race. Sanae is also paramedics Tatjana and
illegal to be gay in the military. The ban was lifted in feel lighter. It is a victory in so many ways. looking for her biological Irina. HR
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and ideas
The Tories are teetering. An
alliance could overthrow them
By rights, the United Kingdom
should be firmly in the midst
of what some politicians
call a ‘change moment’: one
of those periods when the
demise of a government and
its way of thinking becomes
absolutely inevitable.
John
Examples from the past are easy to cite. In some cases,
such as 1945 and 1979, the change has come to be seen
Harris
as almost revolutionary, marking the point at which the
country was pulled away from an old set of certainties
and pushed somewhere completely new, with all the
sound and fury that implies. In others, such as 1964,
1997 and 2010, regime change has been important,
but not quite a matter of one historical period giving
way to another.
As this strange, chaotic summer unfolds, the scent
of huge political drama is in the air. If the old adage is
true, that governments tend to lose elections rather than
oppositions win them, many of the preconditions of a
change moment have easily been met. Boris Johnson’s
broken, flailing, institutionally stupid government is
clearly in freefall. Loud talk of Tory plots against the
prime minister are now an inbuilt part of the weekly
political cycle, revelations about Johnson’s conduct
extend into the distance, and instead of a coherent
agenda, he and his allies have only endless panic and
nasty opportunism. I have spoken to enough voters
lately to know that millions of people’s view of the prime
minister as a liar and amoral chancer is now immovable.
At the same time, there are signs of changes that
run deeper and wider. The pandemic has seriously
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disrupted longstanding assumptions about the reach
of the state and people’s relationship with it. The
government’s rank incompetence has surely tested
our absurdly centralised system of government to
near-destruction. The fragile mixture of negligible
inflation and insanely low interest rates that just
about sustained post-Thatcher economics after the
crash of 2008 has finally imploded. By way of proof
that something fascinating might be afoot, consider
the sudden rise to prominence of the RMT’s much-
admired general secretary, Mick Lynch. Until last week,
almost the entire political and media class – including
the Labour frontbench – had assumed that a majority
of the public would always be hostile to strikes, and
that any trade union leader set on industrial action
must always be treated as a pariah. The way Lynch has
shredded those prejudices by calmly stating basic facts
suggests that our cost of living crisis is rippling through
politics in ways that some people are only just starting
to understand.
And yet. The public mood is complex, almost to
the point of being confounding. During the week of
the two recent byelections, I spent time in Wakefield,
where the Labour party was getting very excited about
retaking a seat that had been a casualty of Johnson’s
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John Harris
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demolition of the “red wall”. But plenty
 of people I met, including those with
direct experience of our mounting social
emergency, were hardly full of enthusiasm for Keir
Starmer and his party. It was not hard to find others
who, albeit grudgingly, were sticking with the Tories.
On the day, turnout was under 40%. Meanwhile,
the Lib Dems’ jaw-dropping overturning of a 24,000
Tory majority in Tiverton and Honiton showed that
some of the most potent aspects of this year’s anti-
Conservative mood have nothing at all to do with
the official opposition, highlighting something that
has been obvious for at least two decades: that the
left and centre-left have become splintered and
pluralistic, something only camouflaged by our
crooked voting system.
Clearly, the current combination of tectonic
shifts and Westminster inertia highlights Starmer’s
inescapable shortcomings. One of the most maddening
aspects of life in 2022 is that just as the government has
no plan, the Labour leadership seems to have no story
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about modern Britain and how they might change it.
ut we should also bear in mind much
more fundamental realities. Whoever
is in charge of the Labour party, it
has almost no realistic chance of
winning a Commons majority at the
next election. To do so would require
taking seats it has never won before,
even in 1997. Scotland has long since
wrested itself out of Labour’s grasp. In sizeable chunks
of England, politics is once again split between the
Tories and Lib Dems (note to any testy Labourites:
yes, they went into coalition with the Tories, and
deservedly bear the bruises – but your party took
the UK into the Iraq war). In local government, the
Green party is an increasingly formidable presence,
underlining the fact that any meaningful progress
on the climate crisis will necessarily involve its
energy and ideas.
This column was written in a caravan at the
Glastonbury festival, where each day saw packed
political debates in the big top known as the Left
Field. On Saturday, an event titled Politics in Crisis
was addressed by Labour’s Greater Manchester mayor,
Andy Burnham, who arrived full of vim and optimism,
bearing a three-point plan for transforming the UK’s
system of government as a precondition of even
starting to align politics with the mounting need for
big social change.
Britain, he said, needed a proportional voting
system. The House of Lords was a farcical offence to
democracy, and should be replaced by a senate of the
regions and nations. Power needed to be taken away
from Westminster, and thoroughly devolved. The next
election needed to mark a change moment along the
lines of 1945 or 1979, but “if our political parties carry
on with business as usual, it may not happen”.
There was one sop to old-fashioned Labourism:
his insistence that he was firmly against any
electoral pacts. But the UK’s awkward and fractious
family of progressive parties, he insisted, needed
to begin “cooperating now on a programme for
political reform”.
The crowd loudly endorsed what he said. When
they were asked whether they had ever switched
their votes between parties in order to defeat the
Tories, the vast majority raised their hands. Here,
it seemed, was the living proof of something the
Green MP Caroline Lucas once crystallised in a very
Glastonbury-esque metaphor, which briefly became
a rallying slogan for the trailblazing multiparty
pressure group Compass: the fact that the politics of
Labour’s old-fashioned big tent is being superseded
by what she called a “progressive campsite”, in which
cooperation will be given, and everyone will have
to acknowledge that no one party has the right to
monopolise power. Herein lies the solution to this
summer’s mismatch between politics and reality, and
the key to something much more urgent – the end of a
rotten, desperate, dangerous government, and an era
that is unravelling in front of our eyes.
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US supreme court
Removing the entitlement
to abortion is a triumph
for the anti-abortion right
The decision, when it came on Friday, was not a surprise.
Even before the dramatic leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s
draft opinion last month, it was widely predicted that the
US supreme court would grab the opportunity presented
by the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization
case to rescind the decision made in 1973 in Roe v Wade.
This, after all, was the purpose of President Trump’s
three supreme court selections – and the culmination
of a decades-long campaign by anti-abortionists to
return to states the authority to ban the procedure.
But the announcement still came as a shock. The US’s
global influence means that the decision to remove
a woman’s constitutional right to abortion there
reverberates far beyond its shores.
The speed with which multiple US states reacted
is disturbing; already, abortion has been outlawed in
10, with 11 more expected to follow shortly. While all
women should be entitled to control their own lives
and bodies, there are instances when denying this
is particularly cruel. Americans who oppose forced
pregnancy and birth now face the horror of rape and
incest victims, including children, being compelled
to become mothers. The US is exceptional in its lack
of federal maternity provisions; children as well as
parents will suffer the consequences of unwanted
additions to their families, with poor and black
people the worst affected.
Early signs are that the most extreme Republican
legislatures could try to block girls and women from
travelling out of state for treatment, and impose
Arts Council
The levelling up agenda
should not trump the
need for diverse arts
The reopening of London’s historic Africa Centre in new
premises south of the Thames is happy news for those
who remember its glory days in Covent Garden, when it
became a home from home for political dissidents such
as Desmond Tutu and Thabo Mbeki. But times change
and generations move on. The design and decor of the
new centre rightly challenges the idea of a monolithic
Africa, with nods to Tanzania, Ghana and the Italianate
Eritrean culture of its architect, Jonathan Hagos.
Whether it will flourish in its new location, only time
will tell. The part of Southwark in which it stands is
not central, like Covent Garden, nor is it a community
hub, such as Brixton or Tottenham, both of which
have their own, less flashy, Black-led cultural centres.
Brixton’s 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning – which
sits on Railton Road, the frontline of the 1981 riots,
and is currently showing the art of a hero of that era,
Pearl Alcock – was founded in 1988. Tottenham’s
Bernie Grant arts centre was purpose-built in 2007 as
a multidisciplinary home for Black arts.
For such established venues, struggling to make
good the losses of the pandemic, this is an anxious
time, which comes at the point in the cycle of
Arts Council funding when the sector waits to hear
which bodies have been accepted as national portfolio
organisations (NPOs), giving them financial security
for the next three years. The Bernie Grant centre
has yet to achieve NPO status, while 198CAL will
be reapplying as part of a consortium with the local
photography centre Photofusion.
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further restrictions on care delivered remotely
including medication sent by mail. The potential for
personal data stored online, including on menstrual
apps, to be used against women is causing justified
alarm. Having relied on Roe v Wade to protect
access to abortion for half a century, politicians can
no longer do so. Abortion is now set to become a key
issue in this autumn’s midterms.
How this pans out will depend on public opinion;
polling data suggest that 85% of Americans support
legal abortion in some circumstances, and Democrats
hope that this could work to their advantage. But
the anti-abortion right is a formidable force. With
hindsight, President Obama’s decision not to codify
Roe v Wade into federal law, and Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg’s choice not to retire when he could have
nominated a replacement, look like disastrous errors.
The three liberal justices who dissented said
they did so with sorrow for “many millions of
American women” and also for the court itself.
With this decision, it has chosen to reopen deep
wounds. The 14th amendment on which Roe v
Wade rested granted rights to former slaves, and is
the basis for other crucial decisions including on
same-sex marriage. By dismissing Roe v Wade in the
way that they did, and against the wishes of Chief
Justice John Roberts (who argued to retain it, while
allowing Mississippi’s 15-week rule to stand), the
court’s hard-right wing has seized control.
Unprecedented division, and greatly increased
hardship and risk for those denied safe healthcare,
will be the outcome. While there is reassurance in
noting moves elsewhere towards liberalisation,
US anti-abortionists are far from unique, as
tightened restrictions in Poland and the situation
in Northern Ireland show. It is too soon to say
whether Trump’s justices and their backers have
overreached from an electoral perspective. If there
is an early lesson to be drawn, it is that once gained,
women’s rights must be constantly defended.
The problem facing such venues is twofold:
while ticking all the boxes of increasing
diversity and working with the young, the
unemployed and people with disabilities,
they now find themselves competing with
newer, more headline-grabbing initiatives.
Simultaneously, the Arts Council’s levelling up
agenda, which aims to spread money more widely
beyond the capital, has redefined the nature of
diversity, setting them head-to-head with venues
in other parts of the country.
While few would argue that it is wrong in
principle to try to spread the money beyond the
capital, in the area of minority ethnic culture, the
equation is complicated. Diverse communities
tend to cluster in big cities, and there is no point in
pumping money into initiatives in areas where there
is no population to support them.
The rarity of strong and empowered Black
and Asian leadership is another issue, with an
Arts Council report revealing last week that in
all NPO funded organisations in 2020-21, 9% of
managers were from Black, Asian and ethnically
diverse backgrounds (compared with 21% of
artists). Without this leadership, there’s a danger
of flash-in-the-pan initiatives, which never have
the chance to grow deep roots, and establish
new visions of how a truly representative culture
should look in the 21st century.
The recent awards of city of culture status to
Coventry and Bradford – two cities with strong
personalities and well-established diverse
populations – is a positive step, but a year of
supercharged culture is not enough. Bradford’s
eight-year-old Asian-led literature festival, running
right now, is among the organisations waiting with
fingers crossed for news on whether it will win its
NPO bid for a second time. Like so many others,
it has emerged battered but unbowed from the
pandemic and needs to be supported.
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I
Let’s call this
write this on my birthday, a date when
traditionally my mother likes to reminisce
about her labour. I was a much-wanted baby,
and that love has carried me throughout my
abortion ban
life. I have never, for a fragment of a second,
doubted it. I used to gently tease my mother
about her reminiscences, but now that I
have my own baby I understand the impulse
what it really
more. In the past few weeks, I have been trying to
put what happened during my own labour to bed, or
at least arrive at a place of full acceptance. I was not
traumatised, as I feared I would be, but there is still a
is: forced birth
process that needs to happen, a mourning perhaps of
the birth I thought I would have.
One day, when my son is grown and it is his birthday,
and he asks me how he came into this world, I would
Rhiannon like to be able to tell him a positive, happy story. I
think this is what people tried to do when he arrived
Lucy Cosslett unexpectedly early, and they said, “he couldn’t wait to
meet you”.
It isn’t true but it somehow soothes, in retrospect,
the terror I felt when my waters broke early. These
are the stories we tell each other and our children.
They are palimpsests. The text beneath is written in
blood, and it says that 50 years ago, 100 years ago,
we would be dead.
Like me, my son is a most wanted baby. The longing
I had for a child, complicated though it was, is one of
the most powerful emotions I have ever felt. In light
of the overturning of Roe v Wade, I’ve been thinking
a lot about all the children who will now be born
who are not wanted, to parents unable or unwilling
to look after them, and a state with no interest in
funding or protecting them. It will be a human crisis of
devastating magnitude.
Mostly, though, I think of all the women and girls
who will suffer. We need to start calling abortion bans
what they are: state-sanctioned forced birth on a
monumental scale, which includes forcing children to
have babies. I am not even in America, but the news
felt visceral, as vicious misogyny often does. If you
have ever been pregnant, the thought of being made to
go through it – not to mention labour – against your will
can make you feel physically sick. I felt like vomiting,
then I cried. The same thing happened when Poland
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If you’ve been
pregnant, the
thought of being
made to go through
it against your will
can make you feel
physically sick
banned it, in January 2021. And that will be nothing
compared with how women in the US must feel now,
as Polish women must have felt then: women who are
expected to go about their daily lives as normal when
their bodily autonomy has been taken from them, who
overnight have become second-class citizens, who
must walk alongside those who seek to punish them.
And punishment it is. The punishment is the point,
as they say. No one is stupid enough to believe this
decision will result in an end to abortion. We all know
abortion bans never achieve this, they simply put an
end to legal, safe abortion. The point is forced birth,
which amounts to torture.
The toll pregnancy takes on the body is
monumental. I wanted, desperately, to be pregnant,
and genuinely loved it when I was. It still felt
frightening to find out. Premature rupture of
membranes aside, my pregnancy was mostly happy
and smooth, though I still experienced sickness, pain,
shortness of breath, high blood pressure, anxiety,
tearfulness, swelling, lightheadedness, months of
sleeplessness, a lack of mobility, bleeding gums,
fear, a diabetes scare, and obviously: the birth. Other
An abortion women are not so lucky. Some want to be pregnant but
rights activist, still hate the experience.
Robin Gwak, Pregnancy is often the closest a woman comes
outside the US to death in her lifetime (I remember reading that
supreme court pregnant women dream frequently of death, how
on Friday it feels like dancing next to its billowing curtain).
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many states, meaning that doctors won’t step in with
a lifesaving abortion in the event of complications,
even perhaps where, as in cases of ectopic pregnancy,
the foetus will only live long enough to kill the
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woman carrying it.
urthermore, women who are
miscarrying or haemorrhaging after
having an abortion will be less likely to
seek medical help, fearing prosecution.
Women who seek illegal abortions will
die. According to the Pew Research
Center, there were 35 deaths from
illegal abortions in 1972, the last full
year before Roe v Wade. The total fell to 19 in 1973, and
to single digits or zero every year after that.So, let’s
call it what it is: forced birth. And as for “pro-life”, a
term recently used – depressingly – on BBC radio: those
who identify that way are nothing of the sort. How can
anyone use such a term with a straight face, when they
support the torture and murder of human women.
It can be hard to find the words when faced with
such hatred, so I’ve been reading the words of older
women, women who have lived through this. Adrienne
Rich, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, Malika Booker and
Annie Ernaux (who compares the vilification of those
who smuggle refugees to the ire once heaped upon
French abortionists: “surely among those who trade in
refugees, as among those who once traded in foetuses,
there must be some sense of honour”).
Good abortion poems are hard to find, but I am
struck by Marge Piercy’s The Watch, a poem about
waiting for your period: “Forty years of our lives,
that flag / is shown or not and our immediate / and
sometimes final fate determined, / red as tulips / red
as poppies’ satin / red as taillights / red as a stoplight, /
red as dying, our quick bright blood.”
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Denmark is no
in the centre of Copenhagen. But the government
has classified Mjølnerparken as a “ghetto”, and plans
to slash its public housing stock to no more than
40% of the total. Last month, Aslam received a letter
This matters not just in Denmark but in Britain,
too. It is often said that leftwing parties must placate
the cultural anxieties of left-behind voters if they
are to stave off the electoral threat from the right.

utopia – look at
informing him that he had until September to move
out of his home.
This all stems from a 2018 law intended to eradicate
all “ghettoes” in Denmark by 2030. The Danish state
This is visible in the distinction drawn between
“somewheres” and “anywheres”, the argument that
working-class Labour votes collapsed because people
feel like “strangers in their own country”.

its ‘ghetto’ law

decides whether areas are ghettoes not just by their
crime, unemployment or education rates, but on the
proportion of residents deemed “non-western” –
meaning recent, first-, or second-generation migrants.
A real estate investor, NREP, has already bought 260
Hettie of the flats on the estate. Once people like Aslam have
O’Brien been removed, the company plans to increase the rent
on their former homes by more than 50%. Residents
will be rehoused, but they will have no control over
location or cost. Their children will need to move
schools; their communities will be broken up. “What
Few residents of Mjølnerparken would deny the
estate has its problems. Unemployment and crime
rates are higher than average, and overcrowding is
an issue. Scratch the surface, though, and you’ll find
many stories that defy this picture: Ibrahim Kadoura,
an electrician who has lived here since 1992, tells me
with pride about his son’s place at medical school and
his daughter’s senior role at a consultancy firm.
The government sees the problems on such estates
as the product of migrants failing to integrate, but
residents know it’s more complicated. The job market

W
e make a habit of idealising
Scandinavia. Living in
Britain, a country of damp
sandwiches, dilapidated
housing and extortionate
gas bills, makes it easy to
fantasise about places like
Denmark, with its generous
welfare state and 37-hour working week. The idealised
version looks like a social democratic utopia in which
the state takes care of your worries. It does not look
like the experiences of Muhammad Aslam, a taxi
driver I spoke to recently while visiting the country.
Aslam, 42, has lived in Denmark since 1987. For
all that time, his home has been Mjølnerparken, a
leafy public housing estate of squat red-brick blocks
have I and my family done? Why do we have to be
removed? My kids and my family have done nothing
wrong,” Aslam says.
What is playing out on this estate is not just a local
issue. In 2017, the country’s parliament expressed
concern that people they considered true Danes
were becoming a minority in some areas. The ghetto
law was passed the next year. By breaking up these
communities, the government hopes to confront what
it calls “parallel societies”. This phrase recurs so often
that it borders on a collective paranoia: the fear that
areas that are home to large numbers of minority and
Muslim citizens risk splintering a national culture.
The ghetto law was the invention of Denmark’s
previous rightwing government. Yet it is now
being enforced by the left-leaning Social Democrat
government, in an attempt to shore up support among
voters it worries will otherwise be lost to the right.
discriminates against people with Middle Eastern and
non-Danish surnames, while many people struggle
to find jobs simply because they live on a stigmatised
estate such as Mjølnerparken. Breaking up the estate
would destroy a supportive community and do little to
address the discrimination its residents face.
Conformity is central to Danish culture. Believing
that people are similar to you and share your values
can be useful in maintaining support for a welfare
state. But there is a darker side implicit in this
requirement: if the country’s generous welfare state is
uniquely Danish, then migrants and outsiders who are
not considered truly Danish are easily characterised as
 a threat to it.
Hettie O’Brien “The most important thing, when people live with
is an assistant each other, is tolerance – ‘I will accept you, and you
Opinion editor will accept me’,” Kadoura says. “I accept the Danish
at the Guardian people. But it feels like they cannot accept me.”
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Monday 27 June 2022 The Guardian
Established 1906
Country diary
Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire
I am stuck in bed. Long-term
illness tells you lies. It tells you
that because you are not seen,
you must mean very little.
Preoccupied, morose, it takes a
while for me to notice the noise
from my open window, but it’s
so persistent in the end that my
thoughts break like an egg.
Starlings, shouting and shouting.
I squint at the gathering shapes
over the road. My sight unreliable,
I lean to fetch the binoculars
that I keep by my bed. I see them
then: dozens on the telephone
wire, on the roof behind, furious,
every dark star of them, more
joining to add to the throaty,
angry insistence that something is
wrong and everyone must know.
And then I see a magpie on the
ground, pecking and pulling at
something broken, small. It has
stolen a chick – a late baby from a
proud second brood.
A part of me rises and joins
them on the wire. My feathers are
hurting as I scream too, with them,
for them, and then I’m back in my
body and my bed, only a spectator
again, heart full. What did it feel
like when they realised what was
happening? Like pressure or fire,
red and urgent?
I wonder what it feels like now
as the magpie flaps off, their
minds holding this new absence
between them. Do they think of
the magpie as one villain, or does
their despair acknowledge a wider
chaos that cannot be changed
or controlled? More starlings
are joining them, even now that
it’s all over. I wonder how the
news is shared or if it is just felt,
somehow, in the bones of every
bird on the block.
There are things that should
never go unnoticed. I think of the
word “keening” and how too much
is left to go or be stolen quietly.
I am deeply moved, challenged.
Obsessing over my own worth
and journey, I was offered the
chance to be bigger, to join bigger.
And does it hurt, this stretching
into the world? Yes, maybe, but
I learn a new way to be alive.
Josie George
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Letters
Can tactical voting save
Britain from the Tories?
In reference to Peter Kellner’s
article (Tactical voting could
reshape UK politics, 25 June),
I must challenge his assertion that
Labour supporters “accept that
Ed Davey and the Lib Dems have
moved on from the days when
they voted for Tory austerity
measures”. As a Labour party
member, I do not hold such a view,
nor do any other party members
of my acquaintance. We do not
forget that Davey was a member
of the cabinet that cut essential
public services and depleted the
health service so that the impact
of the subsequent Covid pandemic
was exacerbated.
We also recognise that his
party’s political opportunism
makes it a potential partner in a
future Tory alliance, noting that
it has an established track record
for this in local government, as
in the case of Leeds city council
between 2004 and 2010.
John Lynch
Leeds
• As usual, Peter Kellner makes
a persuasive case. The problem
is with the word “could”. As he
points out, “on a straight national
The long road to a Black British identity
Lenny Henry writes poignantly
about issues of identity with which
many Black Britons have had to
wrestle (How my mum and Eric
helped me to find me, 22 June). I
am surprised, though, that he still
needs to understand why his mum
“wanted us to integrate rather
than celebrate who we are”. It may
look less puzzling if we remind
ourselves of the orthodox racial
thinking of the time.
In 1960s and 70s Britain, people
often used the terms “integration”
and “assimilation” interchangeably,
despite their differences. Integration
connoted acceptance and equality
Questioning Glastonbury‘s lack of diversity
I have often made the same
observation as Stephanie Phillips
about Glastonbury (Why are big
festivals like Glastonbury so white?,
theguardian.com, 20 June), but
it’s naive to gloss over the fact that
festivals are largely still defined by
genre, and that certain genres are
more white than others.
Traditionally, Glastonbury has
been defined by alternative music
and culture. Plenty of white people
feel excluded from Glastonbury.
Tickets are hard to get hold of and
the price is prohibitive for anyone
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swing” the Tories could end up
with as many as 344 seats or as
few as 285 – depending on the
effectiveness of tactical voting.
This is a reflection of a thoroughly
undemocratic voting system and
is, unfortunately, not an isolated
example. In 2005, Labour under
Tony Blair won a comfortable
majority on just over 35% of the
vote. Under the much maligned
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour lost the
2017 election having achieved 40%
in the general election.
If the opposition parties were
to agree on electoral reform,
there might just be the basis of an
effective alliance to remove the
Conservatives from office. Without
it, the Tories could remain in
power for years to come, despite
never winning anything near a
majority of the popular vote.
Declan O’Neill
Oldham, Greater Manchester
• Boris Johnson has suggested that
the cost of living crisis was to blame
for the byelection defeats, not
his conduct. It was not the cost of
living, it was the cost of lying.
David Smith
Couloumé-Mondebat, Gers, France
(albeit imperfectly), whereas
assimilation required a deracinating
self-abnegation. A musical footnote
illustrates the point.
In 1969, Blue Mink released a pop
hymn to racial tolerance. However,
it was couched, unwittingly, in an
assimilationist nightmare (Take a
pinch of white man / Wrap him up
in black skin / Add a touch of blue
blood …). Their Melting Pot boiled
down difference in an inclusionist
dream of producing “coffee-
coloured people by the score”. The
success of this song – it reached
No 3 in 1970 – is not only evidence
of the confusing race-relations
but the comfortable middle
classes. Travellers and people with
alternative lifestyles who once
helped define the atmosphere
of Glastonbury are no longer a
presence, which is sad.
What Phillips doesn’t include are
anecdotes from non-white people
who feel excluded. Is there a
sense of feeling unwelcome or are
ethnic minorities less interested?
I’ve never been to the Notting Hill
carnival; it’s not an event I felt the
need to prioritise. That’s all. My
husband is brown and I am white.
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Outsourcing has
eroded workers’
wages and rights
Much as I agreed with your
editorial’s exposition of the
abject failings of privatisation
(23 June), you might add that
mass outsourcing has also fuelled
in-work poverty and eroded terms
and conditions for hundreds of
thousands of workers. Due to
enduring trade union strength,
the rail industry has been a partial
exception, yet even here the
subcontracting of cleaners and
catering staff has driven pay down.
Elsewhere, in local government,
NHS ancillary services and
education, Tupe regulations have
afforded little protection to workers
against employers slashing labour
costs. Not only have real wages
fallen, but sick pay schemes have
been squeezed or eliminated, and
inferior pension schemes imposed.
While several Labour local
authorities have moved to bring
services inhouse, Keir Starmer’s
refusal to support striking rail
workers inspires no confidence
that a Labour government would
strengthen workers’ rights.
George Binette
Trade union liaison officer, Hackney
North and Stoke Newington
constituency Labour party
vortex into which many were
swept, but also how difficult it was
to assert a cultural identity against
a backdrop that equated racial
harmony with colour-blindness.
Henry’s mother may perhaps
be understood as reflecting this
confused aspect of the times, but
she clearly understood that the
self her son felt unable to express
would only be validated in the
cocoon of the home. In that, her
instincts were spot-on, even if
her approach was problematic
for all the reasons that her son
enumerates. After all, it took longer
than most of us remember for
“coloured” people to become Black.
Paul McGilchrist
Colchester, Essex
It’s not being a mixed-race couple
that puts us off Glastonbury, but
the fact that we don’t want to share
a portable toilet with thousands
of others. Different strokes for
different folks.
Phillips quotes the 2020 Arts
Council England diversity report as
an issue in that only 11% of staff at
organisations that it funded were
not white. But, according to the
2011 census, ethnic minorities are
13% of the population in England,
so while there is always room for
improvement, it doesn’t sound
hugely unrepresentative.
Lucy Matthews
Liverpool
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Corrections and
clarifications
• A photo accompanying an
article about Rupert Murdoch was
captioned as showing him “with
his first wife Patricia [Booker] in
1991”. The woman pictured was
in fact Murdoch’s second wife,
Anna Torv (Wives who went
before, 23 June, p11).
• The Indian company Reliance’s
telecoms brand is Jio, not “Jia”
(Private equity fund joins up
with Indian retailer in £5bn bid
for Boots, 10 June, p34). And the
Boots founder John Boot was a
Methodist, not a Quaker.
Editorial complaints and corrections can be sent to
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editor, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU.
You can also leave a voicemail on 020 3353 4736
Taxes will turn the
second-home tide
Simon Jenkins (Second homes can
be a blight and a blessing on British
towns. We need the right balance,
theguardian.com, 25 June)
describes the places where
people like him live part-time
as “favoured communities”.
A thriving community must
include young families – a vital
group excluded from my village
because second-home buyers keep
prices and rents stratospheric.
Only policies that challenge this
will bring back vibrant rural
communities, and that includes
taxing people with second homes
to subsidise affordable housing.
John Hambley
Snape, Suffolk
• In the 10 best films set on trains
(G2, 24 June), why is there no place
for the 1937 comedy Oh, Mr Porter!
starring Will Hay? I saw it as a child
(a postwar rerelease) and enjoyed
it then as now. The film is only
partly on a train, but that’s the
bit everyone remembers.
Henry Spyvee
Guildford, Surrey
• My ability to stand on one leg
for 60 seconds (Letters, 24 June)
did not prevent my fall last week,
resulting in a black eye!
Helen Evans (aged 79)
Ruthin, Denbighshire
• If there’s anything to the
research on balance, Ian Anderson
of Jethro Tull should be as happy
as Larry and making plans for
the next 100 years or so.
Robert Davies,
Cardiff
• Delighted to hear the ability
to balance on one leg is linked
to long life – as an above-knee
amputee I’m really good at it.
Di Oliver
Milton Keynes
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6 Obituaries
Frank Williams
Stage and screen actor
best known for playing
Timothy Farthing, the
vicar in Dad’s Army
T
he actor Frank
Williams, who has
died aged 90, was
best known as
the Rev Timothy
Farthing in Dad’s
Army, one of
the BBC’s most
popular TV series. Although this
mild-mannered vicar was a bit
of a joke and a ditherer, Williams
himself was a deeply religious
man, an Anglican churchgoer.
Indeed, in his later years he
served three terms (1985-2000)
as a representative of the diocese
of London in the General Synod,
where he expressed opposition to
the ordination of women – he left
the vote, which went against him
in 1992, in tears – but never left
the church, and often spoke up for
better treatment of gay people.
He joined Dad’s Army, which
ran from 1968 to 1977 (and
has rarely been off the screen
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since), at the start of the third
series, in 1969, when the vicar’s
church hall in Walmington-on-
Sea was commandeered by the
elderly platoon for drill and
strategic planning. It was not an
arrangement Farthing welcomed.
Apart from Ian Lavender as the
“stupid boy” Pike, Williams was
the youngest member of the cast
and recorded the friendships and
camaraderie of the series, together
with tales of location shooting
in Thetford, Norfolk (where the
actors used the Bell Hotel as a
home from home) in his memoir,
Vicar to Dad’s Army (2002).
It amused him that, having
once donned the dog collar, he
progressed on other screen outings
through the clerical ranks: as an
archdeacon (“at last!”) in the final
episode of the BBC’s 1987 Vanity
Fair serialisation, then as a bishop
in You Rang, My Lord? a comedy
series set in the 1920s that ran for
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three years (in 25 episodes of 50
minutes each) from 1990, written
by the Dad’s Army team of Jimmy
Perry and David Croft.
Born in Edgware, north London,
Frank lived there all his life, buying
a house one and a half miles from
his parents’ home (he was an only
child) in 1956. His grandfather had
owned a large drapery business in
Wales. His father, William Williams,
a Welsh nonconformist, married
to Alice (nee Myles), who gave
Bible classes, started other small
businesses and, inheriting money,
retired before Frank was born.
During the war years Frank went
to a school temporarily housed in St
Williams, left, Andrew’s Church, Edgware, before
as the dithering attending two private schools and
Rev Timothy boarding for two years at Ardingly
Farthing, college, West Sussex, in his early
with Edward teens before returning to Hendon
Sinclair as the county school where, in his final
verger Maurice year, he played the lead role in The
Yeatman in an Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley, an
episode of Dad’s eventual friend and colleague as
Army BBC Charles Godfrey in Dad’s Army.
His life from then on was either
in the church – he worshipped at
St Margaret’s, Edgware, switching
later to John Keble in Mill Hill – or
on the amateur stage. He made
his film debut, as a soldier in the
trenches, in The Shield of Faith
(1956) for the Rank Organisation’s
religious department, following
with a commercial debut as a
cameraman in The Extra Day (1956),
a film about making a film, with Sid
James and George Baker.
As a young man, he was a regular
audience member at the Watford
Palace. Having befriended Jimmy
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and Gilda Perry, who ran the Palace
as a repertory theatre in the 50s (a
friendship that led eventually to
his time in Dad’s Army) before it
became a civic theatre under Giles
Havergal, he both acted with the
company and wrote plays for them.
Although his several thrillers –
they all featured the word “Murder”
in the title – were popular with
amateur companies, they never
made his name. That happened on
TV, as he popped up first as a dying
patient in Emergency Ward 10 and
then, crucially, as Captain Pocket
in The Army Game (1957-60), a
Granada TV comedy series starring
Bernard Bresslaw (“I only arsked”),
Bill Fraser and Alfie Bass, written by
Sid Colin (with contributions from
Barry Took and Marty Feldman) and
set in an army surplus depot and
transit camp at Nether Hopping,
somewhere in Warwickshire.
In this period he also played
stooge characters in several Norman
Wisdom films including The Square
Peg (1958) and The Bulldog Breed
(1960), before moving on to more
“respectable” movies such as
Anthony Asquith’s The VIPs (1963),
Peter Yates’s Robbery (1967) and
Otto Preminger’s The Human Factor
(1979), the latter with a screenplay
by Tom Stoppard from the Graham
Greene novel.
His sporadic stage appearances
included a 1965 season at the
Royal Court in NF Simpson’s The
Cresta Run and with Vienna’s
English Theatre, the oldest such
organisation in mainland Europe,
In his final in two plays by Simon Gray in the
year at
school, he
70s. A stage version of Dad’s Army,
directed by Roger Redfarn, surfaced
at the Shaftesbury theatre in
took the
lead role in
1975, with interpolated music hall
sequences featuring Bill Pertwee,
the ARP warden, as Max Miller and
The Ghost
Train by
Arthur Lowe, Captain Mainwaring,
as Robb Wilton, and then on tour.
In what turned out to be his
Arnold
Ridley,
later a
farewell performance in 1996,
he was inspirationally cast by
Jonathan Miller as old Peter Quince
in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at
friend and the Almeida theatre in Islington
colleague in 1996, apologising to Snug with
in the TV an “Oops, sorry love”, when he
overlooked him in the prologue to
series the Pyramus and Thisbe play and
mouthing everyone else’s lines
anxiously in the wings.
By the time of the 2016 film
version of Dad’s Army, Williams
was the only actor reprising his
original role. Lavender was in the
cast too, but now as a brigadier.
The most important people
in his life were his parents and a
churchgoing friend, Betty Camkin,
who died in 1992, so he always
valued the “family life” with his
colleagues, especially those in
Dad’s Army. In later years, he was a
prominent member of the Council
of Equity, the actors’ union, and
also served on the panel of the
Olivier Awards.
Michael Coveney
Frank John Williams, actor, born
2 July 1931; died 26 June 2022
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Monday 27 June 2022 The Guardian
Harry Gration
Broadcaster and popular
anchor of the BBC’s Look
North who was dedicated
to his native Yorkshire
H
arry Gration,
who has died
suddenly aged
71, was one
of Britain’s
longest-serving
regional TV news
presenters,
anchoring Look North for most
of four decades from the BBC’s
studios in Leeds. He was also
known to national audiences for
his rugby league coverage as a radio
commentator and TV presenter.
Through two periods fronting
Look North, from 1982 to 1994
and 1999 to 2020, the Yorkshire-
born broadcaster became an
institution.“I’ve always lived the
story,” he told the Yorkshire Post on
his departure. “Horrendous events
such as the news of Jo Cox’s death,
the Bradford riots, Hillsborough,
have always affected me.”
When Gration won the first of
his two Royal Television Society
regional presenter of the year
awards (2015 and 2017), the judges
noted: “His emotional involvement
with Yorkshire’s biggest moments
– notably Le Tour de France – really
connects with viewers.”
However, he disappeared from
BBC North for five years when he
felt that his “lightness of touch”
style was falling out of favour with
his bosses. In 1994, he left to take a
PR job with Rugby Football League,
his favourite sport’s governing body,
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in Leeds. “They weren’t terribly
unhappy about losing me,” he later
said of his BBC bosses. “I was a bit of
a square peg in a round hole.”
He soon regretted the move
and returned to television as an
anchor of the BBC’s South Today
in Southampton (1995-99). When
Look North suffered a drop in
ratings, he was lured back to it.
“I agreed, on condition that I was
allowed to present the programme
in my own way,” he said.
His way included getting out
of the studio to the scene of some
of the region’s big stories, even
stationing himself in a rescue boat
during the 2007 floods. Colleagues
remarked on Gration’s energy and
enthusiasm, and his second spell
in Leeds, with Amy Garcia as his
co-presenter from 2013, brought
him a considerable following.
The presenter’s status was
confirmed when Jeremy Clarkson,
a fellow Yorkshireman, featured
him as one of three celebrities
from the county who helped
when, for Top Gear in 2010, the
Robin Reliant he was driving there
repeatedly rolled over.
A native of Bradford, in the West
Riding of Yorkshire, Harry was the
son of Nina (nee Smith) and Morris
Gration, a chemist. After attending
Leeds grammar school and St Peter’s
school, York, he trained as a teacher,
eventually becoming head of
history at Rodillian school (now the
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Rodillian academy), in Lofthouse,
between Leeds and Wakefield.
Out of the classroom, Gration’s
love of rugby league led him to
commentate for BBC Radio Leeds,
beginning with a Batley v York
match in 1971. He also reported on
other sports and thought he had
secured an exclusive interview
in 1974 after hurrying to Leeds
United football club’s Elland
Road ground and arriving as Brian
Clough was leaving the boardroom
after being sacked as manager.
He made the mistake of asking
Clough: “Brian, can you give me
two words for Radio Leeds?”
In 1978, Gration gave up teaching
Gration, left, when the station offered him a
with Dickie Bird three-month contract to cover
in 2013. His sport. He stayed for four years,
documentary becoming sports editor in 1980,
about the cricket as well as covering general news,
umpire –Dickie before switching to TV.
Bird: A Rare One of his early studio
Species (1996) interviews, with Dennis Skinner,
– won a Royal ended up on the bloopers show
Television Auntie’s Bloomers. A technical fault
Society award with the Labour MP’s microphone
ANNA GOWTHORPE/PA meant that a producer had to crawl
under the desk to attach another
one while Gration carried on as if
nothing was happening. “He made
the most of it, suggesting we were
trying to gag his controversial
views!” Gration recalled.
Taking on challenges such
as riding the Tour de France’s
Yorkshire grand départ on a tandem
and walking 130 miles in a three-
legged race helped to raise more
than £1m for Sport Relief, Children
in Need and other charities.
During his early years presenting
Look North, Gration was also seen
nationally as a stand-in presenter
on Sunday Grandstand in 1987 and
Final Score between 1986 and 1989.
As well as commentating on
rugby league for national radio
(1983-93), he presented TV
coverage of the sport in the Super
League Show from 2006 to 2011
and was a judo and taekwondo
commentator for Olympics
coverage between 1988 and 2004.
Gration also fronted the
networked BBC series Goin’ Places
(1986), featuring country shows
and sports such as horse-driving
trials, slalom canoeing and drag
racing. Two sports documentaries
he presented, White Rose in
Africa (1992) and Dickie Bird: A
Rare Species (1996), won Royal
Television Society awards.
He was appointed MBE in 2013
and became deputy lieutenant of
North Yorkshire in 2019.
Gration’s first two marriages, to
Hilary Gardner (1974) and Rowena
Cluness (1984), ended in divorce.
In 2001, he married Helen Chene.
She survives him, along with their
three sons, Harrison, Harvey and
Hamilton, as well as Hannah, the
daughter of his first marriage, and
Frederick and Samuel, the sons of
the second.
Anthony Hayward
Harry John Gration, broadcaster, born
22 October 1950; died 24 June 2022
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Birthdays
JJ Abrams, writer and director,
56; Juliet Ace, dramatist and
screenwriter, 84; Isabelle Adjani,
actor, 67; Wendy Alexander, vice-
principal, Dundee University and
former Labour leader, Scottish
parliament, 59; Michael Ball,
singer, actor and broadcaster,
60; Jamie Byng, chief executive,
Canongate Books, 53; Tommy
Cannon, comedian, 84; Sam
Claflin, actor, 36; Shirley Anne
Field, actor, 84; Jo Frost,
broadcaster, 52; Lisa Germano,
singer and songwriter, 64; James
Hook, rugby player, 37; Lord
(David) Hope of Craighead, former
He made lord justice general of Scotland,
84; Bruce Johnston, singer and
the mistake songwriter, 80; Angela King,
of asking environmentalist and founder
Brian director, Common Ground, 78;
Lord (Ian) Lang of Monkton,
Clough: former Conservative minister,
‘Can you 82; Tobey Maguire, actor, 47;
give me two Mary McAleese, former president
of Ireland, 71; Kevin Pietersen,
words for cricketer, 42; Nico Rosberg,
Radio racing driver, 37; Simon Sebag
Leeds?’ Montefiore, writer and historian,
57; Meera Syal, actor and writer,
61; Tom Tugendhat, Conservative
MP, 49; Vera Wang, designer,
73; Sir Alan Yarrow, banker and
former lord mayor of London, 71.
Letter
Tony Brooks
I first met Tony Brooks (obituary,
5 May) in 1958 when he won the
Belgian Grand Prix in a Vanwall at
Spa, where I was filming the race
for the Castrol Oil company. Live
broadcasts were rare then, and just
recently I gave him a DVD copy of it.
Tony once told me that in that
era racing was a psychological
challenge, and one small error
could be your last. Those were the
days when tracks were lined with
trees, telegraph poles and ditches,
before the introduction of Armco
crash barriers.
A few years ago I made a film
for BBC TV with Tony recalling the
1959 season, when he almost won
the drivers’ world championship
for Ferrari. He was one of the most
underrated drivers in the history
of Formula One.
Paul Foxall
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• The Guardian Monday 27 June 2022

8 Puzzles

Saturday’s Killer sudoku Codeword

solutions
Easy Each letter of the alphabet makes at least one appearance in the grid,
and is represented by the same number wherever it appears. The letters
Sandwich sudoku The normal rules of decoded should help you to identify other letters and words in the grid.
sudoku apply: fill each
row, column and 3x3
box with all the numbers
from 1 to 9. In addition,
the digits in each inner
shape (marked by dots)
must add up to the
number in the top corner
of that box. No digit can
be repeated within an
inner shape.

Killer sudoku 819

Medium

Cryptic crossword
Solution No. 28,787
H E S T C J D G
O S T E O P A T H AMO U R
R H C K O I C E
TR I CKL E PAL ETTE
O O S C I H O N
NO P E MA I N C OU R S E
H I J R U G
EVAS I VE HASHTAG
A T E E H S
R OD S T EWA R T ME L A
S R E O E F L N
A N A G R AM G R OWO L D
W W B B O X R H
H A I K U AME R I C A N A
O N G T S N X M
Guardian cryptic crossword No 28,794 set by Picaroon
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