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Zelensky

Packet racket tells UN
What are
Britain’s Ukrainian leader calls for new Nuremberg
trials as he attacks failure to halt invasion
favourite crisps
really made of? By Nick Allen in Washington tions as one of the five permanent mem-
bers of the Security Council, known as
p.20 VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY last night the P5. It recently blocked a resolution
said the United Nations should be dis- calling for an immediate end to the
Alastair Sooke solved if it cannot rein in Russia, as he invasion of Ukraine.
Raphael at the called for Nuremberg-style trials for
National Gallery Kremlin leaders. The UN can send peacekeepers to
– a five-star war zones and back military action by
In an impassioned address to the UN its members if the P5 agree, but the
revelation Security Council, the Ukrainian presi- international body is afflicted by rivalry
dent said Russia’s veto on resolutions between the West, Russia and China.
p.23 gave it a “right to kill”.
The divides were apparent last night
He said Russia should be kicked off with Britain and the US condemning ANDREW REDINGTON/GETTY IMAGES
the Security Council, or the UN should Russia’s atrocities, while China and the
“dissolve itself ”, because the entire United Arab Emirates, a non-perma- Tiger Woods declared he could win the Masters after passing himself fit yesterday, 14 months after he almost lost a leg in a car crash.
architecture of global security estab- nent member of the council, avoided Woods, 46, said repeating his 2019 victory was ‘going to be a tough challenge, but a challenge that I’m up for’ Sport: Page 1
lished in 1945 had failed. any criticism.

Russia had been allowed to commit Boris Johnson last night urged
the “most terrible war crimes we have Russian citizens to download VPNs,
seen since the Second World War”, which allow access to the internet out-
Mr Zelensky said, as he accused side local censorship, and discover for
his country’s invader of “sowing death” themselves that Vladimir Putin was
and acting like a “coloniser from committing war crimes. “Your presi-
ancient times”. dent stands accused of committing war
crimes,” the Prime Minsiter said, speak-
He said: “It’s clear that the world’s ing in Russian in a video address. “But I
key institution, that is supposed to force cannot believe he’s acting in your name.”
any aggressor into accepting peace,
simply cannot effectively operate.” The EU is expected today to approve
a fifth round of sanctions against Mos-
Mr Zelensky said the actions of Rus- cow, including a ban on Russian coal
sian troops were “no different from imports, the first such measure against
other terrorists” such as Islamic State. Kremlin-controlled energy. It may also
But he added: “Here it is done by a approve asset freezes for Mr Putin’s
member of the United Nations Security two daughters.
Council.” Unless it was transformed,
then “the UN can simply be closed”. Brussels said it was working on a ban
on Russian oil after Liz Truss, the For-
“Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready eign Secretary, demanded a clear time-
to close the UN? Do you think the time table for an embargo on all Russian
of international law is gone? energy imports, including gas.

“If your answer is no, you need to act Western sanctions were having a
immediately. The system must be “crippling impact” and were “pushing
reformed immediately so the veto is not the Russian economy back into the
the right to kill.” Soviet era”, Ms Truss said in Poland as
she announced Britain had stopped
Mr Zelensky was speaking at a Secu- Continued on Page 5
rity Council meeting, convened by the
UK, in New York days after the discov- Reports: Page 4-7
ery of hundreds of murdered civilians Editorial Comment: Page 15
in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.

Russia has a veto on all UN resolu-

Andrew Roberts Treasury blocks cash for home energy efficiency scheme
Thatcher would
By Ben Riley-Smith and Emma Gatten of thousands of households would ‘It would have been between No 10 and No 11 about how with the Prime Minister, who is more
be appalled have benefitted and the move would something that we ambitious new pledges on nuclear eager to agree to new spending.
by the state of PLANS to spend hundreds of millions of have been championed by the Govern- could say to households, power should be.
pounds to reduce energy bills by mak- ment as extra help with the cost of liv- “we’re on your side”’ Sections of the document were still
Channel 4 today ing homes more efficient have been ing crunch. Kwasi Kwarteng, the Business Secre- being rewritten last night, less than 48
blocked by the Treasury. and the Business Department, calling tary, yesterday talked up the major hours before it was due to be published.
p.15 But Rishi Sunak is understood to the situation “ridiculous”. expansion in nuclear spending, which
The Daily Telegraph can disclose that have rejected the calls as the Treasury will be a central aspect of the strategy The current ECO scheme does not
Downing Street and the Business Secre- stands firm on spending agreements set But an ally of Mr Sunak countered paper. He said: “Most of Britain’s involve public money. It is funded by
tary’s team were pushing for an expan- out last autumn for the next three years. last night, saying: “We have to be scru- nuclear fleet will be decommissioned the levy on energy bills which is then
sion of the Energy Company Obligation tinising every extra penny of taxpayer this decade. We need to replace what reinvested by energy supply compa-
(ECO) scheme to be included in tomor- The refusal has left some in Whitehall money that is proposed for spend- we’re losing and go further – from large- nies.
row’s energy security strategy. who are supportive of the scheme livid. ing because ultimately we want to do scale plants to small modular reactors.
the Conservative thing and cut taxes The scheme funds measures like the
The ECO scheme uses money raised A senior government figure said: “It for people.” “In this week’s energy security strat- installation of insulation or the upgrade
from a levy on energy bills to pay for would have been something that we egy, we’ll reverse 30 years of drift and of an inefficient heating system for some
home energy efficiency improvements could say to households, ‘we’re on your The energy security strategy, which of the country’s poorest households.
for the poorest households. promises to map out how the UK take the big decisions to generate more
side, we want you to reduce your bills’. reaches energy independence, has been nuclear power.” To qualify, households need to be on
The proposal was for the Treasury to But the Treasury doesn’t believe in it.” delayed for weeks amid wrangling
put in about £200 million a year extra so Mr Sunak has made clear for months the Warm Home Discount Scheme or be
the £1 billion scheme could be expanded The source added that the Treasury his concern about the scale of borrow- receiving benefits on schemes such as
beyond people receiving benefits. Tens had kept removing lines from the ing and ballooning debt repayments as
energy strategy that had spending interest rates rise, creating tensions Universal Credit or housing benefit.
The Tories pledged to spend £9 billion
implications despite support from No 10
Continued on Page 2

Business world Business sport

Puzzles 16 ITV in quest to snap up Fights for food in Police on standby to Jones faces questions
Obituaries 25 Channel 4 for £1bn Shanghai lockdown ease airport chaos over Japan coaching
TV listings 27
Weather 28 ITV is poised to launch a takeover bid China’s zero-Covid strategy brought Police and fire officers have been Samu Kerevi, the Australian rugby
for Channel 4 as it attempts to forge a chaos to Shanghai yesterday, with placed on standby to maintain order at player, has said he has been asking
ISSN-0307-1235 British super-broadcaster capable of patients fighting for food and water at “We’re developing a new Manchester Airport while warnings Eddie Jones for England secrets at
competing with Netflix. The makeshift quarantine centres as show: ‘Naked Takeover of that chaos at the check-in desks will Suntory Sungoliath, the Japanese club
9*ujöeöu#yxc-c-* ÊÑËÄ commercial station is understood to lockdown was extended for the city of Channel 4’. Media moguls continue for days remain. Andy where the England coach has resumed
have told ministers that it would be 26 million residents. Video shared on strip off and bid against Burnham, the mayor of Greater a lucrative training role. Kerevi, who is
interested in making an offer for its social media showed people scrapping Manchester, said he was ready to call line to play against England for
publicly owned rival, which is to be for supplies after they were transferred each other” in emergency services to help after a Australia in the summer, said that
privatised by 2024 with an estimated to a temporary quarantine facility in an string of cancelled flights and hours- Jones had used Manu Tuilagi as a
price of £1 billion. ITV is understood to abandoned school in a south-eastern long queues for passengers. It came as template to help improve him. The
have taken advice from bankers Credit suburb. Asymptomatic cases rose to Manchester Airport’s managing comments may raise more questions
Suisse and Robey Warshaw over the more than 13,000. Symptomatic cases director, Karen Smart, announced that for the RFU about whether Jones’s role
sale process. fell to 268, from 425 the previous day. she was stepping down. creates a conflict of interest.
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PM defends NI rise as administration has since increased the deliver millions more scans, checks and NEWS BULLETIN
‘fair and responsible’ tax burden to its highest in 70 years. operations. This vital funding will
ensure the NHS is equipped to not only Jail for drunk driver
Increase of 1.25 percentage rate will decrease to the previous level, reforms will end the cruel lottery of spi- Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, said reduce waiting times but also tackle the who dragged Pc 130ft
points will end cruel with a new 1.25 per cent health and ralling and unpredictable care costs the pandemic had placed “unprece- big challenges we face, from cancer to
lottery of spiralling social care levy legally introduced. once and for all and bring the NHS and dented pressure on the NHS” and heart-disease and dementia.” A drunken mother-of-three who
care costs, says Johnson social care closer together,” he said. pushed up waiting times. “This invest- dragged a policewoman 130ft along a
The Government predicts that the ment will go into tackling those back- Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, said the road with her car was yesterday jailed
By Daily Telegraph Reporter increase will raise £39 billion over the He called the levy “the necessary, fair logs and will help make sure everyone Government would “not shy away from for eight months after being caught
next three years, to reduce the Covid- and responsible next step, providing can get the care and treatment they the difficult decisions” needed to “fix drink driving twice more while on bail.
THE PRIME MINISTER has defended induced NHS backlog and later reform our health and care system with the need,” he said. our social care system and slash NHS
the decision to increase National Insur- adult social care for the long term. Boris long term funding it needs as we waiting times”. He said the levy would Chantelle Owen, 36, pulled Pc Amy
ance for millions of workers, arguing Johnson said: “We must be there for our recover from the pandemic.” According to the Department for also be used to cap the cost of care so Greenwood along the street as the
that the manifesto-breaking rise is NHS in the same way it is there for us. Health and Social Care (DHSC), the “people no longer live in fear of losing officer attempted to stop her speeding
“necessary, fair and responsible”. The Conservative Party 2019 election number of people waiting for elective everything”. away in her BMW on Dec 20 last year.
“Covid led to the longest waiting lists manifesto, which helped Mr Johnson care in England has risen from 4.4 mil- The officer was dragged along the
Today, National Insurance contribu- we’ve ever seen, so we will deliver mil- deliver a landslide majority, pledged lion before Covid to six million. Under the current system, those with highway by her knees before hauling
tions will increase by 1.25 percentage lions more scans, checks and operations “not to raise the rates of income tax, assets of more than £23,250 pay care herself up to grab the steering wheel.
points. From April 2023 onwards, the in the biggest catch-up programme in national insurance or VAT”. The final number could reach the 10 costs in full. But under a reformed sys-
NHS history.” million mark, the DHSC said, with those tem from October 2023, anyone with Owen, from Rochdale, was found to
But senior ministers have argued the who did not go for treatment during assets under £20,000 will have care be twice over the drink-drive limit and
The Prime Minister added that he impact of the pandemic meant that tax lockdowns predicted to look for care in costs covered by the state, the DHSC was caught drink driving twice more
knows this will not be a quick fix. “Our promise could no longer be kept. The the coming months and years. said. The cost of care will then be capped in the next two months. She admitted
at £86,000, with the point at which peo- three charges of drink driving, assault
The DHSC said extra money from the ple meet the full cost of their care rising and failing to surrender to police.
National Insurance rise will reduce from £23,350 to £100,000, nearly four
waiting times and deliver millions more times higher than the current system, Lib Dems seek VAT cut to
scans, tests and operations, while according to health officials. help struggling families
reforming routine service delivery so
the NHS is fit for the future. Mr Javid The Government argues the levy is The Liberal Democrats are calling for
added: “We can’t have business as progressive, with the highest 15% an emergency tax cut ahead of their
usual, which is why we are rolling out of earners paying more than half the local election campaign.
surgical hubs and community diagnos- revenues.
tic centres up and down the country to As households face rising tax bills
due to inflation, the Lib Dems said the
Shrewsbury top rate of VAT should be cut from 20
scandal shows per cent to 17.5 per cent for one year,
CQC ‘is not fit saving families £600. The Treasury is
for purpose’ set to receive £38.6 billion more from
VAT than predicted a year ago.
By Laura Donnelly STEVE BACK
and Charles Young A shock win in last year’s Chesham
Family outing Jacob Rees-Mogg, the minister for Brexit Opportunities, arrives for work at 10 Downing Street yesterday and Amersham by-election saw the Lib
HEALTHCARE regulators have been morning with his wife and five of his six children: from left, Mary, Peter, Anselm, Sixtus and Alfred. Dems take the seat while in December
branded “not fit for purpose” after dis- they took North Shropshire following
missing warnings of the biggest mater- the resignation of Owen Patterson.
nity scandal in NHS history, The Daily
Telegraph can reveal. Other Lib Dem proposals include a
tax on water companies to fund the
Letters seen by this newspaper show clean-up of Britain’s rivers.
the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
told grieving parents they would not Child dies after being
support an independent inquiry into found at White Cliffs
baby deaths – just months before such
an investigation was ordered. A child has died after being found near
the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent.
Rhiannon Davies wrote to the watch-
dog in December 2016, alerting regula- Emergency services were called to
tors to 19 avoidable deaths of mothers the scene near Swingate, Dover, on
and babies at Shrewsbury and Telford Monday at around 5.50pm.
Hospital Trust.
The child was taken to a nearby
Ms Davies, whose daughter Kate died hospital and was pronounced dead.
six hours after she was born in 2009,
raised concerns about a culture of No further details have been
“cover up” at the trust but Sir David released by police.
Behan, the head of the CQC at the time,
assured Ms Davies that the culture was A force spokesman said: “Kent
“changing for the positive” – rebuffing Police, HM Coastguard and South East
her calls for an independent inquiry. Coast Ambulance Service attended an
area near Swingate, Dover, on Monday.
Jeremy Hunt, the then health secre-
tary, ordered the investigation, which “A child was taken to a local hospital,
last week found 201 babies and nine where they were pronounced
mothers had suffered needless deaths. deceased. The death is not being
treated as suspicious and a report will
Last night, Ms Davies, 47, said the be prepared for the coroner.”
refusal of CQC to back an investigation,
and the false assurances given by its ‘Hero’ neighbour killed
most senior figure, showed how they by man with kettlebell
“never scratched beneath the surface”.
A “heroic” neighbour was beaten to
She said they “pushed back” every death by a 9lb kettlebell as he saved the
effort by bereaved families to expose life of a toddler, an inquest heard.
the failings at Shrewsbury.
Richard Woodcock, 38, went into
She said the letter sent to her in Janu- the next-door flat to protect the
ary 2017 by Sir David was “hugely pat- two-year-old boy after being woken by
ronising”, and left her “lost for words”. a screaming woman on June 26 last
year in Milton Keynes, Bucks.
The inquiry, led by Donna Ockenden.
found several babies died as a result of A coroner’s court heard yesterday
poor monitoring of foetal growth, and a that the woman was able to escape
drive towards “normal birth” in cases from Kelvin Igwaeni, 24, along with
where caesareans were required. one of her children but another was
trapped in the flat.
A CQC spokesman said the regula-
tor’s response to Ms Davies “while com- After the murder, armed police
mending the couple’s courage in arrived and shot dead Igwaeni.
seeking answers, explained that the
establishment of an external inquiry Milton Keynes coroner Tom
was not within our remit.” Osborne ruled that “heroic” Mr
Woodcock was unlawfully killed.
Lords rebels could block ‘offshoring’ of asylum seekers
£300m of cocaine found
By Charles Hymas to 153 an amendment to the Govern- forced to compromise or risk losing the to act as a deterrent to the record num- permission, limiting it to only those in shipment of bananas
HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR ment’s nationality and borders Bill stat- Bill if the Lords refuse to back down. bers of migrants crossing the Channel, who breach a deportation order.
ing MPs and Lords must approve the who are incentivised by the belief that it More than £300 million worth of
PLANS to send migrants to countries “appropriateness, safety and cost” of A Tory party source accused the is difficult for the UK to remove them. They defeated the Government in cocaine was being examined after it
such as Rwanda for processing could be the chosen countries. Lords of adopting Brexit-style tactics, demanding extra safeguards over a was found inside pallets of bananas.
blocked after a Lords rebellion. adding: “This is tying the hands of an Lord Harrington, the refugees minis- measure that would allow suspected
It is the second time the upper house elected government. How can a govern- ter, admitted he was in the dark about terrorists to be stripped of their British Border Force seized 3.7 tons of the
Amid signs ministers are close to has overruled the Commons on the Bill, ment go and negotiate with another the proposals to send migrants to citizenship without warning. drug at Southampton Docks on March
agreeing the “offshoring” of asylum which now has to go back to MPs to government and say: ‘Actually, sorry I Rwanda for processing, saying no one 17 in what is thought to be the UK’s
seeker processing to Rwanda, the Lords decide whether to reverse them. cannot do this because my parliament in the Home Office where he works had They also voted to allow asylum seek- biggest seizure of cocaine since 2015.
have amended the proposed laws to has said this is where the red line is.” told him about it. He then said there was ers to work if their case had not been
give Parliament the right to veto any The Government is running out of “no possibility” of it happening. resolved within six months; to require Officers found five pallets, each
country it deems inappropriate, unsafe time as MPs and the Lords are in recess Under the plans, the Government formal returns agreements with third containing wrapped packages of white
or too expensive. It is estimated it could until after Easter, leaving just a few days would fly asylum seekers to Rwanda In a series of defeats, peers backed by states to ensure safe returns; and to powdered cocaine hydrochloride,
cost £100,000 per asylum seeker. for the “ping-pong” legislative battle to for processing and settlement. 163 votes to 138 to remove a broad allow unaccompanied child asylum which is used to make crack cocaine.
be resolved before Parliament Britain would pay Rwanda millions as provision making it a criminal offence seekers in Europe to join a family mem-
The peers backed by a majority of 176 prorogues. The Government could be part of any deal. The plans are designed to knowingly arrive in the UK without ber legally in the UK. Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, said:
“This should be a warning to anyone
Easter holiday costs Risk posed from fracking trying to smuggle illegal drugs that we
hop up as petrol ‘no worse than coal mining’ are out to get them. A key focus of our
prices skyrocket beating crime plan is disrupting the
supply chain and relentless pursuit of
By Gurpreet Narwan TOM WREN/SWNS Continued from Page 1 will be told the earthquake risk from the the criminals peddling narcotics.”
CONSUMER AFFAIRS EDITOR on improving energy efficiency in their process is no worse than coal mining.
Singing praises Musicians Engelbert 2019 election manifesto. Measures such Rocky road for drivers
DRIVERS are facing the most expensive Humperdinck, 85, and Rick Wakeman, 72, as insulation mean less heat is lost from Mr Kwarteng announced yesterday after biscuit lorry spills
Easter getaway on record as fuel prices received an MBE and a CBE respectively homes, bringing down bills. that he had commissioned a new report
hit new highs. yesterday from the Princess Royal. into the latest science around the tech- Drivers in Derbyshire were obstructed
Government funding for insulation nology, and the energy strategy is by an avalanche of biscuits when a
Petrol and diesel prices rose by 11p was provided in the Green Homes expected to raise the prospect that lorry spilt hundreds of McVitie’s
and 22p a litre in March, the biggest Grant but that was scrapped after wide- fracking could return to England. packets across a main road.
monthly increase since the RAC started spread criticism about how it worked.
monitoring data in 2000. A four-year study led by Newcastle Derbyshire Constabulary were
The proposal being pushed in recent University and backed by the Govern- called to the scene on Ilkeston Road,
The figures suggest that the Chancel- weeks was to expand ECO beyond the ment’s UK Research Institute will Sandiacre, at around 4.30pm on
lor’s 5p a litre cut to fuel duty has done poorest families, providing support to Monday, arriving to find the road and
little to mitigate against rising whole- tens of thousands more households. inform the latest review. It has con- adjacent pavement strewn with
sale oil prices. The RAC said that just cluded there are now better tools to pre- McVitie’s Ginger Nuts and Bourbon
3.7p has come off the price of petrol One idea was for the money pro- dict and mitigate the earthquake risks Creams. A clean-up operation
since the cut was announced on March vided by the Treasury to be split concluded about seven hours later.
23. After hitting a record high of 167.3p from fracking.
on March 22, the average cost of a litre “50/50”, meaning money invested in Prof Richard Davies, a petroleum Pictures from Erewash Response
of unleaded petrol ended the month at insulation by households would be show cars making their way through
163.28p per litre. matched up to a certain amount. geologist and pro-vice chancellor at biscuit crumbs as hundreds of packets
Newcastle University, said earthquakes lay strewn along the road. They also
The average price of diesel surged by The rejection of the proposal by resulting from fracking were unlikely to show a large tear in the plastic that had
22.06p a litre, peaking at 179.9p on the Treasury fits with its be a major risk given the country’s geol- been holding the boxes in place.
March 23 and ending the month at wider approach that the ogy. “We lived with them without much
177.29p. The cost of filling up the aver- energy strategy should concern during the coal mining era,” he is a member of the
age family car with petrol is now not be a chance to rene- said. “During coal production, vast Independent
£89.80, a third higher than a year ago. gotiate spending levels Press Standards
numbers of earthquakes were created Organisation (IPSO) and we subscribe
Simon Williams, of the RAC, said: for the coming years. in the UK right until the 1980s and the to its Editors’ Code of Practice. If you
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Spot the canvas worth £11m more than the other

Rothko paintings to Mark Rothko, which went on view at ‘Rothko’s meant to be pendants. Both are Untitled (Shades of Red), pictured on The Rothkos on narrow pleasingly as they ascend, are
be auctioned in New Christie’s in London yesterday, invite biggest prices rectangular compositions, 69in high. the left, has an upper estimate of display at Christie’s more intense, particularly that dense
York may be nearly us to grapple with this classic art- have been Both feature three fuzzily irregular $80 million (£61 million) – which is in London: on the bottom “cloud”, with tangerine layered
identical, but one market conundrum. achieved for oblongs, of varying sizes but of a $15 million (£11 million) more than that left, ‘Untitled over red.
has a price tag of compositions similar palette, ranging from tangerine of No. 1 on the right, the first canvas (Shades of Red)’,
a different stripe They belonged to the late Anne H where the to deep crimson, floating against a Rothko painted the following year. which has an upper By contrast, No. 1 appears a little
Bass, a Texan investor, documentary cloud-like, sandy-coloured ground. Moreover, How should we account for this estimate of £61m, sketchier, even if its glorious central
By Alastair Sooke CHIEF ART CRITIC filmmaker and philanthropist, and are layered both were painted within a year of one discrepancy? And, if we can’t, should and on right ‘No. 1’, orange plane seems to emit light. The
two of 12 works from her collection forms push another at the start of the 1960s, when we assume that whoever shells out for which is estimated interference in the upper and lower
H ow much is a work of art worth? that are estimated to fetch more than to the edges Rothko was in his prime. the more expensive of the two will be to sell for £50m sections either makes the painting
Now, there’s a googly of a $250 million (£191 million) at auction of the canvas’ paying over the odds? more “ethereal”, as Johanna Flaum,
question. Two paintings by the in New York next month. A short film According to David Anfam, a leading head of post-war and contemporary
American abstract expressionist artist on Christie’s website reveals that they authority on modern American art For me, the disparity may be art at Christie’s New York puts it, or
once flanked a doorway into the living who has written an essay in praise of explained by an admittedly subjective dilutes its presence, depending on
room of her Fifth Avenue apartment, this, as he puts it, “extraordinary pair”, term: wall-power. Look again at the your point of view.
a little like bookends or matching the paintings have a “lyrical brilliance”. paintings and you will notice that
fire dogs. In short, they are two classic, Untitled (Shades of Red), painted the Besides, according to Flaum,
appealing Rothkos of a similar vintage. same year that Rothko had a Rothko’s biggest prices “have been
To the layman, the pictures, which Surely, they are worth the same. retrospective at the Museum of achieved for compositions where the
have almost always hung together, Modern Art in New York, is more cloud-like, layered forms push to the
appear practically identical: you would If only the art market were so assured: its colourful planes, which edges of the canvas”. And that doesn’t
be forgiven for assuming they were simple. In fact, the 1961 oil on canvas happen to quite the same extent in No. 1.

FRANK AUGSTEIN / AP

Stolen Darwin notebooks returned after 20 years

Librarians at Cambridge nothing, they were reported as stolen to Charles Darwin (left) sketched his ‘Tree Doodlebug express.” She added: “We don’t know request” to remove them from the
University are baffled after Cambridgeshire Police in October of Life’ in the late 1830s. The drawing Darwin’s tree who took them and we don’t know how, library’s special collections strongroom
‘Tree of Life’ books are left 2020. The force launched an investiga- would become central to his theories but we know they are back and they are to be photographed. They had not been
in pink gift bag with note tion and notified Interpol, with the uni- Charles Darwin’s in great condition.” seen since.
versity making a worldwide appeal for “Tree of Life”,
By Will Bolton information. which he jotted in Neil Adams, an antiquarian book- While there is no CCTV of the area
a notebook in seller, has worked in Cambridge at where the manuscripts were returned,
WHEN Charles Darwin first sketched Now, nearly a year and a half later, 1836, would G David’s Bookshop, just opposite Dr Gardner said entrances and exits to
the “Tree of Life” in a small notebook in the two books have suddenly re- become, perhaps, King’s College, for the past 43 years. He the building are covered, as are targeted
1837, he was trying to solve one of emerged, after the elusive thief his most said: “Those books are so valuable, but areas such as specialist reading rooms.
humanity’s greatest mysteries. returned them in pristine condition in a important work. they are also, in a way, worthless.
gift bag, wrapped in clingfilm, along- She said that all the packaging
Now, almost 200 years later, librari- side a printed note reading “Librarian. Accompanied “They are unsellable because the the notebooks had been returned
ans at Cambridge University are faced Happy Easter X.” by the immortal antique book trade is such a small
with another seemingly unsolvable words “I think”, world, everyone would know exactly ‘My sense of relief at the
question. They were left on the floor of a public this diagram where those two books came from.” notebooks’ safe return is
area of the library outside the librarian’s would become profound and almost
How did two of the late scientist’s office, on the fourth floor of the 17-sto- the nexus of his He added that “only in Cambridge” impossible to express’
extremely valuable notebooks, which rey building, on the morning of seminal theory of would such a mysterious book theft
are believed to have been stolen 20 March 9. evolution. take place. He continued: “I think it was in had been handed over to police for
years ago, suddenly reappear in perfect taken by someone who was so inter- forensic analysis.
condition in a pink gift bag outside the The police investigation into Much of his ested in the notebooks and Darwin that
head librarian’s office? the notebooks’ disappearance work has stood they simply had to have them.” The return of the missing notebooks
and subsequent return is the test of time, comes ahead of the launch of a major
The small leather-bound notebooks, ongoing. and now, 200 The notepads both date from the late exhibition of Darwin material at Cam-
which included the Tree of Life sketch, years later, trees 1830s after Darwin had returned from bridge University Library this summer.
went missing in 2000. They were ini- Dr Jessica Gardner, who that closely the Galapagos Islands. On one page, he
tially thought to have been put on the became director of resemble drew a spindly sketch of a tree, which The notebooks will be included in
wrong shelf, and staff carried out exten- library services in 2017 Darwin’s initial helped inspire his theory of evolution the Darwin in Conversation exhibition
sive searches in the library, which is and first reported the doodle are still and would later become a central – the first major exhibition to explore
home to about 10 million books, maps, notebooks as stolen to used by scientists theory in his groundbreaking work On his life and work through his global
manuscripts and other items. police, said: “My sense to show evolution. the Origin of Species. network of correspondents.
of relief at the note-
After the years-long search yielded books’ safe return is Above the sketch he wrote the words: Editorial Comment: Page 15
profound and almost “I think.”
impossible to adequately
The manuscripts were last seen in
November 2000 after “an internal

BBC drops diversity chief role ‘The BBC is dent with the new talent being brought
for job paying half the salary confident through the broadcaster.
with the new
By Craig Simpson salary bill for the broadcaster’s key the departure of Miranda Wayland, her ROBERTO RICCIUTI/GETTY IMAGES talent being It is understood that the departure of
diversity job. de facto deputy, and Anne Foster, who brought Sarpong was expected as she pursued
THE BBC is set to replace June Sar- last year swapped her position as diver- through’ other engagements outside the BBC,
pong’s £267,000 a year role as diversity The role will combine two jobs sity boss at the BBC for a similar role at
chief with a cheaper position, as the intended to monitor inclusion at the the Houses of Parliament. June Sarpong was facilitated by her three-day week. The
broadcaster slims down its inclusivity broadcaster, as bosses streamline the appointed as the presenter is a sought-after figure in the
bureaucracy. The loss of Sarpong and other staff in BBC’s first ‘director
£267,000 of creative field of diversity consultation.
Sarpong was appointed as the BBC’s key positions has come amid an exodus diversity’ in 2019 She was hired on a two-year contract
first “director of creative diversity” in June Sarpong has previously come under of on-air talent from the broadcaster,
2019. She has since unveiled a £100 mil- fire for the six-figure salary she is paid for and was due to leave her position in
lion TV fund for “inclusive content”, working a three-day week with Dan Walker, the BBC Breakfast
and received criticism for her six-figure presenter, this week announcing he November 2021, but has stayed on to
salary while working a three-day week. corporation’s diversity apparatus, with was joining Channel 5. oversee the publication of a report on
the new director set to handle Sarpong’s
The diversity boss is now set to leave remit of boosting on-air representation, In a period of stricter impartiality the projects she has worked on since
her role, it is understood, and the broad- and manage inclusion targets for all rules and a tightening wage bill under 2019.
caster has created a new and cheaper BBC staff.
position as a replacement. Tim Davie, the director-general, high- The BBC will continue to pursue
The amalgamated role has emerged profile and highly-paid figures have
The corporation has advertised for after Sarpong’s decision to leave, and diversity targets, which have been
the role of “director of diversity and departed the corporation, with Andrew recently expanded, and the incoming
inclusion”, which will pay below the Marr, Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel all
BBC salary declaration threshold of joining Global radio, which owns LBC. replacement for Sarpong will also have
£150,000, almost halving the current to ensure the corporation’s new work-
The BBC has said that “people move ing-class quota, requiring 25 per cent of
on for a variety of reasons, including to staff to be from lower-income back-
grounds by 2027.
take up excellent jobs elsewhere”, and
insiders have indicated they are confi- Sarpong currently sits on the execu-
tive committee of the broadcaster,

alongside Mr Davie, but the corpora-
tion’s more general director position of

“chief people officer” will oversee
diversity issues in the future.

The director taking on Sarpong’s

responsibilities will answer to this new
executive when the changes are made.

4 *** Wednesday 6 April 2022 The Daily Telegraph

News

Amid the rubble and the mass graves, the

The Russian invaders might have been forced out from the Kyiv region, Borodyanka, although no evidence of ‘Between 20 Some who failed to escape the
but the destruction they wreaked is unimaginable, the death toll still this has yet been reported. and 30 of my indiscriminate shelling remain under
unclear and a humanitarian crisis of unimaginable proportions looms large neighbours the mounds of rubble that were once
The concern came after such graves were left their homes.
Dispatch the roads. Mounting their bikes risked ‘They scale are believed to have been were discovered in Bucha. In the land under the
having one more thing damaged by the occupied our committed. behind Bucha’s Church of St Andrew rubble’ There are reminders scattered
By Danielle Sheridan enemy. “They kidnapped people, they whole town, Pervozvannoho All Saints, around 60 around the streets of Borodyanka of
in Borodyanka tortured our friend. Some people were destroyed He said the atrocities that had been bodies were piled into an open trench. the people who had once lived here
abducted, interrogated and taken to our homes committed throughout the region peacefully.
T he teenage boys who were Belarus,” Nikita, 16, said. and stole north of Kyiv had not been seen since Residents spoke of concerns that
pushing their bicycles along one food from the Nazi occupation. these graves might exist somewhere in A woman’s face powder, a red
of Borodyanka’s torn-up roads “They occupied our whole town, the citizens. Borodyanka, although they had not yet dressing gown, the squares of a baby’s
on Tuesday afternoon should have destroyed our homes and stole food It was hell’ “There is already information that discovered any. When The Telegraph playmat, now mangled from the blasts.
been at school. from the citizens. It was hell.” the number of victims may be even visited Borodyanka yesterday, it Towels, shoes and toys. The momentos
higher in Borodyanka and some other witnessed such a demonstrative scale of ordinary people’s lives lie entangled
Instead, they were wandering the According to Nikita, the local priest liberated cities,” Mr Zelenksy said in an of destruction that it is no wonder in the wreckage. Underneath are the
streets of their “liberated” home town had brokered an “agreement” with address to the nation on Monday. officials have warned how high the people who once laid claim to them.
trying to make sense of what had Russian soldiers that they would not death toll will be there.
happened while the Russians occupied shoot at anyone who wore a white Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Iryna “Between 20-30 of my neighbours
the place they call home. band around their arm, indicating their Venediktova, echoed the president as Civilians were starved, with no way were left under the rubble,” Dmytro
civilian status. However, the rockets she warned the town 23km west of to get food because of a Russian Ostashevskyi said.
The boys remained on foot for fear fired directly into homes show the Bucha would be the worst-hit by the blockade.
of puncturing a wheel with the sheer disregard troops paid to the pact. invasion in the Kyiv region. She He said that on the morning of
amount of glass and debris covering warned of a “similar humanitarian The destruction of bridges made February 27 “columns” of military
No one yet knows the death toll in situation” to Bucha, cautioning that leaving the town incredibly equipment drove into Borodyanka.
Borodyanka. However, President “the worst situation in terms of treacherous and difficult. There are
Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the victims” was in Borodyanka. warnings that mines and IEDs remain “Then the shelling began,” he said.
death toll could be higher there than at in place, meaning travel to Borodyanka By the beginning of March he said
Bucha, where war crimes on a mass There has been speculation that remains difficult. The rockets and Russian soldiers “just wandered
mass graves would likely be found in bombs that ripped through this small around all the houses and tanks fired
town and crumpled apartment blocks straight shots at them”.
to the ground have transformed a once Behind where Mr Ostashevskyi’s
prosperous area into a wasteland. house once stood, the buildings that
are still partially standing have

Ready-to-use

Czech tanks

sent to the

front line

in Nato first

Shipment of familiar heavy tanks and warplanes to Ukraine, while
Boris Johnson said: “Logistically at the
armour follows repeated moment, it looks very difficult both
with armour and with jets.”
requests from Kyiv for
Last month, Poland offered to pro-
West to step up lethal aid vide Ukraine with 28 MiG jets, sent via
an American air base in Germany, but
By Jamie Johnson in Washington the US pulled the plug, fearful that it
could drag Nato into direct conflict with
THE Czech Republic has sent tanks to Russia.
Ukraine, becoming the first Nato coun-
try to provide the heavy armour that “The worst thing during the war is
Kyiv has long requested. not having clear answers to requests for
help,” Mr Zelensky said.
More than a dozen T-72 tanks, as well
as a number of BVP-1 infantry fighting Germany has approved the delivery
vehicles, have been loaded on to trains of several dozen infantry fighting vehi-
destined for Ukraine. cles after criticism that Berlin has not
been sending enough military aid to
The Ukrainian army already uses the Kyiv. Nato allies will discuss the deliv-
Soviet-made T-72, so drivers do not ery of more weapons to Ukraine when
need to be trained before the new vehi- foreign ministers meet today and
cles can be deployed to the front line. tomorrow, Jens Stoltenberg, the Nato
secretary-general, said.
In another significant development,
both the Czech Republic and neigh- The Ukrainian army is trained to use
bouring Slovakia, which shares a bor- Soviet-designed vehicles, so the UK is
der with Ukraine, are considering not expected to supply tanks. However,
opening their military industrial instal-
lations to repair and refit damaged ‘This approach is vital to
Ukrainian military equipment, The Wall ensuring that Ukraine’s
Street Journal reported. hand is strengthened at the
negotiating table’
Yesterday, public broadcaster Czech
Television showed footage of a train the UK could act as a facilitator for other
loaded with five tanks and five amphib- allied nations to supply them to Kyiv.
ious, tracked infantry fighting vehicles.
It said the shipment was a gift agreed In Poland earlier this week, Liz Truss,
with Nato allies. the Foreign Secretary, said: “We need
even more weapons of the type the
Jana Cernochova, the Czech defence Ukrainians are asking for.
minister, declined to give details of the
transfer, but told parliament: “I will “The fact is that being tough is the
only assure you that the Czech Republic only approach that will work.
is helping Ukraine as much as it can and
will continue to help by [supplying] mil- “Vladimir Putin has escalated this
itary equipment, both light and heavy.” war and this approach is vital to ensur-
ing he loses in Ukraine and that we see
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s pres- a full withdrawal of Russian troops and
ident, asked Nato leaders, including Joe Ukraine’s hand is strengthened at the
Biden, the US president, for armour and negotiating table.”
jets at an emergency summit in Brussels
on March 24. Last night, NHS trusts said they
would donate a fleet of 20 ambulances
He said the tanks were needed to lift to Ukraine to help replace vehicles lost
the sieges on “our cities that are now to Russian bombardments.
dying: Mariupol, Berdyansk, Melitopol,
others”. South Central Ambulance Service
NHS Foundation Trust is donating four
In a passionate speech to the leaders, of its vehicles, with further donations
he added: “You can give us 1 per cent of from trusts across the country soon to
all your planes, 1 per cent of all your follow.
tanks.
The first ambulances will arrive this
“You have at least 20,000 tanks. week, destined for Lviv in the west of
Ukraine asked for 1 per cent, 1 per cent Ukraine, where they will be transported
of all your tanks to be given or sold to on to those areas most in need.
us!”
This latest funding and donation
His demand was initially given a cool comes in addition to the £394 million
response by Nato leaders. They were already pledged by the UK for the con-
prepared to step up supplies of defen- flict in Ukraine, including £220 million
sive weaponry but were reluctant to of humanitarian aid.
supply tanks and jets.

Emmanuel Macron ruled out sending

Russian anti-war artist recreates photo of dead civilian in Bucha

By Nataliya Vasilyeva position of a corpse in a photo taken in been rare since the Kremlin passed a The Russian artist group said yesterday they have already
the commuter city of Bucha, outside law that carries a heavy prison sentence stages his protest in put up 500 memorials in 37 Russian cit-
A RUSSIAN artist has recreated a photo Kyiv, where Ukrainian officials have dis- Moscow yesterday. ies, from the westernmost city of Kalin-
of a dead man from the Ukrainian city of covered at least 340 bodies of civilians for anyone who questions Moscow’s The Kremlin passed
Bucha in protest against Russian following the Russian retreat last week. “special operation”. Openly describing a law threatening ingrad to Vladivostok on the Pacific east
atrocities carried out there. jail for anyone coast. The memorials will now also
Russia has vehemently denied its role the invasion as a “war” is enough to questioning its
The unknown man posed in a brown in any killings, even accusing Ukraine prompt an arrest. ‘special operation’ commemorate the victims of Bucha.
jacket lying in the street with his face of doctoring or staging the photographs in Ukraine Photos have been shared on social
down and hands tied behind his back and footage that have been seen around With street protests essentially out-
yesterday morning in four locations in the world. lawed, activists across the country have media of wooden crosses with signs
central Moscow, Russia’s media outlet reading “Bucha” or “5,000 people were
Holod reported. Anti-war protests in Russia have been trying to come up with other, killed in Mariupol” planted in the mid-
more creative ways to protest. dle of flowerbeds and snowdrifts out-
In one of the photos, he is on the steps ‘We cannot be serving
of a park, with the Kremlin Palace – the this war. So we have One of the most vocal and organised side buildings all over Russia.
seat of the Russian government – just to use all methods of campaign groups against the war, the “Every backyard in Russia should get
behind him. protest available for us’
Feminist Anti-War Resistance, has a memorial like this,” the Feminist Anti-
The performance demonstration launched a campaign entitled “Mari-
entitled “Bucha-Moscow” replicates the upol5000” aiming to put 5,000 crosses War Resistance said in a statement.
and makeshift grave memorials across “We cannot be serving this war. We

the country in the memory of those have to use all methods of protest avail-
killed in the siege of Mariupol. The able for us,” it added.

The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 6 April 2022 *** 5

‘liberated’ have to rebuild shattered lives

suffered irreparable damage. Body count Satellite images will support war crime trials stood is a statue of Taras Shevchenko, One woman remained locked in their cages from
Walls have been torn off entire Ukraine’s famous poet and playwright. said the local the beginning of the war in late
Satellite imagery returning citizens the UN, insisted The statue is mostly intact, save for the priest told February until the beginning of April,
blocks, revealing the interiors of where will change the and journalists Moscow would two bullets that were shot through its the bereaved when Russian soldiers left.
families once comfortably went about future of war showing bodies present “head”. to bury their
their days. crime strewn across “empirical dead in the During that time, the dogs had no
prosecutions, roads. evidence” to the Almost every street has houses and gardens as food or water.
From the street a bathroom with its according to Security Council apartment blocks that have been it was not
toilet intact can be seen, as well as the human rights Dozens of that its forces had blown apart. safe to bring In a statement on its Facebook page,
salmon pink wallpaper still clinging to experts, after corpses in civilian not killed the them to UAnimals said the animals that
its wall. The rest of the exposed footage emerged clothes were seen. civilians, and the Broken glass intermingled with the church perished “all died of hunger and
apartments are mainly collapsed appearing to Some appeared to photos had been smashed concrete, pipes, metal and all thirst”. Volunteers managed to rescue
beams and concrete, making whatever prove Russia lied Maxar satellite photo of corpses in Bucha have been shot at “staged”. sorts of building material clutter the some dogs and they remain in a critical
those rooms once were completely about civilian close range while roads. Wires hang limply from condition. Oleksandra Matviichuk,
indistinguishable. casualties. firm suggest the left the city just others had their But Maxar telephone pylons and the majority of head of the Center for Civil Liberties,
killings took place north-west of hands bound Technologies, a the cars parked on the streets no tweeted about the animals, with the
Behind the apartment block The Kremlin while the Kyiv on March 30, behind their “space solutions” longer have windscreens or doors hashtag “russianwarcrimes”. She
where Mr Ostashevskyi lived remains was quick to insist Russians still shortly before backs or had been company, attached. wrote: “These dogs died with a painful
one splash of colour; a mural of that photos of occupied the city. video and photos badly burnt, released a series death of hunger and thirst during
flowers, toadstools and mountains in bodies lying in the Russian soldiers were taken by possibly by of pictures taken One woman The Telegraph spoke to Russian occupation.”
hues of blues and greens and yellows. streets of Bucha flamethrowers. in the days said the local priest had instructed the
It is a small thing of beauty the after its troops left leading up to bereaved to bury their dead in the Away from the residential areas.
Russians did not succeed in last week had It prompted Russia’s gardens as it was not safe to bring them supermarkets have been ransacked
destroying. been “staged” by calls for Vladimir withdrawal that to the church. and torched. The roofs of buildings
Ukrainians. Putin, the Russian show some of the have been torn off and any cars on the
Just a stone’s throw further folders president, to be bodies had been It is unclear when they will be able streets heavily burnt.
once containing documents, proof of But high- tried for war lying in the open to remove them and lay them to rest in
the lives of their owners, scatter across resolution images crimes. Vasily before Russian a proper crematorium. Some vehicles and fences had the
the ground. obtained by an Nebenzya, troops withdrew. letter ‘V’ spray painted on, the
American satellite Russia’s envoy to Dead dogs lie on the pavements. The ominous Russian pro-war symbol,
It is an area that is uninhabitable and charity UAnimals said all of its 485 while another fence bore graffitied
a scene that is replicated throughout dogs had perished during the Russian skills, a harbinger of the death and
the entirety of Borodyanka. occupation. destruction that has visited this town.

Opposite where the homes once It said the animals at its shelter had

EU adds Putin’s
daughters to
lengthening
sanctions lists

Clockwise from with war crimes; are loaded on a Vassily Nebenzia, By James Crisp EuropE Editor
left: Volodymyr occupying Russian train in the Czech Russia’s
Zelensky, Ukraine’s troops have been Republic. It is ambassador to the BRUSSELS plans to hit Vladimir Putin’s
president, asks the driven out of thought they will be UN, studies his daughters with sanctions as it responds
UN Security Council Boradyanka in the sent to Ukraine, briefing notes to accusations of war crimes against
to charge Russia Kyiv region; tanks via Slovakia; during the meeting Moscow with measures including a ban
on Russian coal imports.
TIMOTHY A CLARY/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Maria and Katerina, the Russian
president’s daughters, are on a draft list
of targets including politicians, propa-
gandists, oligarchs and relatives.

The list, which is subject to change
and will involve asset freezes and travel
bans, will be put before EU ambassa-
dors today for approval.

The move is largely symbolic as it is
unclear whether Maria Vorontsova, 36,
a co-owner of a healthcare investment
project, and Katerina Tikhonova, 37,
who runs an artificial intelligence
institute at Moscow State University,
have assets outside Russia.

The EU is also expected to ban coal
imports worth around £3.3 billion in its
first move against the Russian energy
sector.

The European Commission said it
was working on more sanctions target-
ing oil but there are no plans to hit the
more significant gas imports.

Germany, which is dependent on
Russia for its energy supply, has ruled
out an immediate embargo on gas,
which means EU sanctions would not
have the unanimous support necessary
to be approved.

The US is today expected to ban all
new investments in Russia, in its latest
round of sanctions.

The measures, which will be taken in
co-ordination with the G7 and EU, “will
include a ban on all new investment in
Russia, increased sanctions on financial
institutions and state owned enter-
prises in Russia”, a US official said.

Further sanctions on Russian govern-
ment officials and their family members
are also anticipated.

Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary, has
called on European allies to set out a
timetable to end Russian oil and gas
imports ahead of today’s meeting of
Nato and G7 foreign ministers in Brus-
sels. She said the UK had frozen £266.3
billion of Putin’s war chest and made
over 60 per cent of his £461.5 billion of
foreign currency reserves unavailable.

EU ambassadors will also discuss a
full transaction ban on four Russian
banks and a ban on Russian boats
accessing EU ports with some exemp-
tions for agricultural and food prod-
ucts, humanitarian aid and energy.

Russian wood, cement, liquor and
seafood imports worth about £4.6 bil-
lion a year will also be banned.

The EU is expected to ban Russian
and Belarusian road transport opera-
tors and prohibit the sale to Russia of
quantum computers, advanced semi-
conductors, sensitive machinery and
transportation equipment worth
£8.3 billion annually.

The EU expelled 19 Russian diplo-
mats from Belgium yesterday. Russia’s
ambassador to the EU warned Moscow
would carefully “monitor” food exports
to “hostile” nations.

Romania, Portugal, Spain, Italy and
Sweden also expelled suspected spies a
day after France and Germany ordered
diplomats to leave its embassies in Paris
and Berlin.

Zelensky plea to reform global Zelensky showed the 15-member Secu- more than 400 civilians had been found their throats, women were raped and
security system after atrocities rity Council a 90-second video of the in towns around the capital. Bucha was killed in front of their children. Their
“only one of many examples of what the
Continued from Page 1 restrained in its criticism of Russia, con- He said: “I would like to remind Russian aftermath of Russian atrocities, includ- occupiers have been doing on our land tongues were cut out only because the
hundreds of billions of pounds funding diplomats that [Joachim] Von Ribben- ing dead women and children, burnt for the past 41 days”, Mr Zelensky said. aggressor did not hear what they
Mr Putin’s war. demned Moscow for “war crimes”.
Yair Lapid, the foreign minister, said: trop did not escape punishment for bodies and mass graves. He said: “They shot and killed women wanted to hear.”
In his address, Mr Zelensky criticised crimes after the Second World War. He said: “Russian troops are deliber- outside their houses. They killed entire He said there had been looting by
the UN for failing to prevent massacres “The images and testimony from
Ukraine are horrific. Russian forces Also, I remind you that Adolf Eichmann ately destroying Ukrainian cities to ‘They cut off limbs, they Russian forces, including “gold earrings
in Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan and committed war crimes against a did not go unpunished. Nobody ashes with artillery and air strikes. They slashed their throats,
Libya. If “tyranny” had been countered escaped punishment.” are deliberately blocking cities, creat- women were raped and are pulled out and covered with blood”.
defenceless civilian population.” killed in front of children’ It was “hatred supported at the level
earlier by the UN, then his country The Czech Republic became the first Von Ribbentrop, the Nazi foreign ing mass starvation. They deliberately
would not now be at war, he said. affairs minister, was convicted at shoot columns of civilians on the road families and they tried to burn the bod- of the [Russian] state”, he said.
Nato country to give tanks to Ukraine, Nuremberg and executed in 1946. Eich- ies. People shot in the back of the head Mr Zelensky said Moscow would try
He proposed convening a global sending more than a dozen T-72 tanks. mann was eventually captured by Mos- trying to escape from the hostilities. on the street. Some were thrown into
conference in Kyiv to reform the world They even deliberately blow up shelters wells. They were killed in their apart- to claim the atrocities were “fake”. He
Mr Zelensky said any Russian mili- sad in Argentina, then tried and where civilians hide from air strikes.” ments. Civilians were crushed by tanks said: “But it is 2022. We have conclusive
security system, adding: “It is time tary leader or politician who had given executed in Israel in 1962. Russia has while sitting in their cars in the middle evidence. There are satellite images.”
to transform the system of the United The Russians had deported hundreds of the road just for their pleasure.
Nations.” an order that led to the carnage in his claimed the “de-Nazification” of of thousands of Ukrainians, and Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s envoy to
nation should be brought before a court Ukraine as a pretext for the invasion. Mr “They cut off limbs, they slashed the UN, accused Ukraine of making
It came as Israel, which has been “similar to the Nuremberg tribunals”. abducted more than 2,000 children, he
said. Mr Zelensky added: “Russia wants “unfounded accusations against the
Russian military which aren’t con-
to turn Ukraine into silent slaves.” firmed by any witnesses”.
He spoke as grim evidence continued
Sergei Lavrov, the Kremlin foreign
to emerge of massacres by Russian
minister, said the West was trying to
forces on the outskirts of Kyiv. derail peace negotiations by whipping
Ukrainian officials said the bodies of
up “hysteria” over Bucha.

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News

US drones to

hunt in teams

for raids on

invasion force

Pentagon announces £230m lethal aid for Ukraine
including Pumas with long-range capacity for tracking
targets that will face fire from Switchblade partner

By Dominic Nicholls Relatives of drones, designed to select the best tar-
Defence anD Security eDitor journalist Maks get. These lightweight weapons fly at
Levin at his funeral 60 mph for 15 minutes using an optical
A “TAG-TEAM” of drones may soon be in Kyiv. Levin, who camera relaying video of the terrain.
deployed for the first time to help worked for LB.ua
Ukraine destroy Russian artillery. and Reuters, was As it is controlled by a human, it is
found dead on highly accurate. Once it finds a target, it
The latest aid from the US could April 1 near the dives down on to the vehicle or bunker
extend the range of the Switchblade, village of Huta complex. A charge detonates on impact,
already in use, by pairing it with the Mezhyhirska giving it the nickname “kamikaze”.
larger Puma drone.
About 200 Switchblades have been
The Puma, with its superior sensors supplied to Ukraine by the US. British
and longer flying range, would be able forces have experimented with Switch-
to identify targets for the lighter, dis- blade and are expected to take delivery
posable drones to destroy. of an unspecified number under a
$44.9 million deal with the US supplier.
Seeking and destroying Russian mis-
sile and artillery units is seen as Kyiv’s Pumas are included in the latest Pen-
next big requirement, as calls for a no- tagon package. Made by the same com-
fly zone have dissipated in the wake of pany as Switchblade, these “traditional”
much-reduced Russian air activity. drones have cameras that swivel to pro-
vide stabilised views of the battlefield.
Russian forces have not gained air
superiority and have deployed long- Puma has a low-light camera and an
range artillery and missiles to pulverise advanced thermal imager, making it
civilian areas in a bid to drain morale. ideal at night. Hand-launched with a
15ft wingspan, it weighs 10kg and can
The focus now is to donate weapons stay airborne for five hours with a range
to push Russian artillery systems fur- of 25 miles. AeroVironment, which
ther back. On Friday, the Pentagon makes both, introduced a “Sensor to
announced a $300 million (£230 mil- Shooter” (S2S) kit last year, allowing the
lion) package. This second batch of drones to share digital data. S2S means
arms takes the total pledged by the Puma can locate targets with its sensors
White House to almost $1 billion. for Switchblade to destroy.

It includes Switchblade loitering S2S also allows the Puma operator to
launch a Switchblade, which homes in
Sensor to Shooter Switchblade and Puma drone team on the target. Imagery from the two are ALEXEY FURMAN / GETTY IMAGES
matched to confirm the Switchblade
1 LAUNCH 2 OBSERVATION 3 IMPACT has the correct target; upon operator
approval, it will engage.
Puma Once Puma has Strength in numbers UK, US and Australia will share information on hypersonic weapons
Small hand-launched identified a target, By combining the two, a Switchblade
battery-powered Switchblade, which would be able to fly direct, without hav-
surveillance drone has a range of 25 miles ing to hunt for a target on its own. Puma
and 40 minutes, flies will have increased the range of the
Switchblade to the target area, Switchblade.
A miniature loitering crashes into its target
munition drone. Small and detonates its Switchblade will be able to use most
enough to fit in a explosive warhead of its 15 minutes in the air travelling to
backpack and attack a target already spotted by Puma,
launched from a tube extending the operational range to 15 The UK’s Prime Minister electronic warfare said information and North Korea systems and “This is not in any
miles in any direction. This is roughly hypersonic Boris Johnson, US capabilities.” sharing with the have hypersonic are highly way related to the
Puma the range of many of Russia’s multiple weapons President Joe countries would missiles, and the manoeuvrable. alleged use of
launch rocket systems and could give programme will Biden and Though still in enable the UK “to US successfully Vladimir Putin hypersonic
Puma’s primary mission Ukraine the advantage. be “accelerated” Australian Prime the research and accelerate our tested one last described the weapons by
is surveillance and by information Minister Scott development programmes and month. weapons as Russia in Ukraine.
intelligence gathering David Hambling, a commentator on sharing with Morrison said that stage, the pact understanding of “invincible” when
using an electro-optical military technology, said: “The teaming Australia and the the “AUKUS” pact is seen as a our capabilities, The missiles fly he unveiled them “The
and infrared camera. It of drones and loitering munitions will United States, as would now begin significant step the development above Mach 5, at in 2018 and Russia relationship with
has a range of 10 miles be a big feature of future warfare and the countries “new trilateral given Russia’s of technology and least five times the has since said it the US, UK and
and flying time of Russia is set to be on the receiving end “deepen co- cooperation on invasion of potentially the speed of sound, at has used them in Australia is a
around 2 hours of the first live tests. operation hypersonics, Ukraine and high capabilities of our 3,836 mph. They Ukraine. multi-decade
on defence counter- tensions in the adversaries.” can penetrate capability
Switchblade “Whether or not we hear about it, the innovation.” hypersonics, and Indo-Pacific. hardened sites, But British collaboration on
Puma-Switchblade teams will be mak- China, Russia avoid air defence officials stressed: hypersonics.”
ing a difference.” A British official

Russian troops ‘weeks’ from being ready for new push

Nato secretary-general ister Dmytro Kuleba, Mr Stoltenberg ‘Russia is Physical, mental, psychological in position to launch back into Ukraine. ‘China has the Nato conference will be representa-
says Moscow will not quit said Russia has been forced to change not in great and emotional factors have taken their This will take significant time. joined tives from Finland, Sweden, Georgia,
fight but needs to resupply its war plans due to the fierce Ukrainian shape to toll. Many have committed criminal Moscow in and the European Union.
after retreat from Kyiv resistance. continue this actions. Gen Hertling, a former tank division questioning
campaign commander, said Moscow will find it the right of It is likely Finland will apply to be the
By Dominic Nicholls “Moscow is not giving up its ambi- anytime “Those troops, in my view, are done.” extremely difficult to regenerate forces nations to 31st member of the defence alliance, a
tions in Ukraine,” the secretary-general soon. Those Having been forced out of the north because of the loss of leaders and sol- choose their decision that could be ratified ahead of
THE war in Ukraine is entering a warned. troops are of Ukraine since the botched invasion diers, the “terrible condition of equip- own path’ the next formal Nato meeting in Madrid
“crucial phase” as Russia concentrates done’ started on Feb 24, Russian commanders ment and supplies going into the fight” in June.
on the Donbas, the head of Nato has “We now see a significant movement will need time to assess their opera- and the extremely poor training of Rus-
said, with defence experts suggesting it of troops away from Kyiv to regroup, tional failures and devise a new plan. sian units. Mr Stoltenberg said “because this cri-
could be weeks before Russia is ready to rearm and resupply.” They may also need to build new mil- sis has global implications which con-
fight again. itary structures and conduct additional “You can’t throw units like these cern us all,” Nato’s Asia-Pacific partners,
Kramatorsk, the town on the western training, all of which could take weeks. back into the fight and expect different Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the
Jens Stoltenberg appealed for allies edge of the Donbas that houses Some units will need to be com- results,” he said. Republic of Korea, will also attend this
to provide more anti-tank weapons, air- Ukraine’s military headquarters for pletely reorganised, either by joining week’s summit.
defence systems, humanitarian assis- operations in the east of the country, together forces with different roles, or “I’d suggest Russia is not in great
tance and financial aid, before Russia is has been hit by shelling in recent days. by combining depleted units. shape to continue this campaign any- “We see that China has been unwill-
able to reconstitute forces. Other units will need time to rest and time soon.” Ukraine started the war ing to condemn Russia’s aggression and
However, defence experts say it will repair soldiers and equipment badly with 10 of its most highly-trained and has joined Moscow in questioning the
Speaking ahead of a two-day meeting take Moscow weeks to reconstitute its damaged in the first weeks of combat. best-equipped brigades – around right of nations to choose their own
of Nato foreign ministers, which starts forces ahead of any push east and south. Once re-equipped and stocked with 30,000 troops – in the Donbas region. path,” Mr Stoltenberg said.
in Brussels today and which tomorrow logistic supplies, the Russian war effort
will be joined by Ukrainian foreign min- Former US Lt Gen Mark Hertling said will need to physically cover the dis- Kyiv’s forces have been fighting Rus- “At a time when authoritarian powers
on Twitter: “Russia is not in great shape tance through Belarus and Russia to be sian-backed separatists in the Donetsk are pushing back on the rules-based
to continue this campaign anytime and Luhansk regions since 2014, so international order, it is even more
soon. Russian soldiers have been in have learned much about their enemy important for democracies to stand
the field in Belarus for months and in and how best to survive. Also attending together, and protect our values.”
intense combat over six weeks.

Dublin embassy short of fuel as London orchestra Heart and soul
will not cancel Kalush Orchestra,
firms pull plug on supplies Russian composers Ukraine’s entrants
for this year’s
By James Crisp ability of diesel supplies, but they have By Craig Simpson Eurovision Song
all refused to co-operate. The embassy Contest, pose at a
THE Russian embassy in Dublin has is left with a very limited supply that THE London Philharmonic Orchestra publicity event in
complained it is running out of fuel for (LPO) has said cancelling Russian com- Jerusalem. The
heating and hot water after Irish com- will last till the end of the week only.” posers “fuels Putin’s propaganda” as it folk-rappers, who
panies refused to make deliveries. The Daily Telegraph understands that announced a programme packed with will perform
Russian music. Stefania, were
The embassy begged the Irish gov- the Irish government, which has given special
ernment to intervene after its boiler expelled four suspected spies from the The orchestra has defied a cultural permission from
contract and fuel card account were boycott following the invasion of state authoritities
cancelled by separate companies. embassy, will not intervene in the case. Ukraine. Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov to leave Ukraine.
Instead there are growing calls to and Stravinsky all feature on the pro- The final is on
The Bank of Ireland has also sus- gramme, with concerts conducted by May 14 in Turin.
pended the embassy’s account, accord- expel Yuriy Filatov, Russia’s ambassador Russia-born Vladimir Jurowski.
ing to a report in the Irish Mirror. AMIR COHEN/REUTERS
to Ireland, after he claimed the murder Elena Dubinets, Russia-born LPO
“The current provider of fuel to the of civilians in Bucha was “staged”. Mr director, said that uniformly cancelling
embassy has refused to deliver diesel to Russian music and artists “sends the
our mission,” the Russians said in a Filatov also rejected an invitation to wrong message” and fuels “Putin’s own
March 22 letter to the Irish foreign hear President Volodymyr Zelensky propaganda narratives”.
office. The letter also demanded that address the Irish parliament today.
ministers intervene. She added: “We must never conflate
Lithuania has expelled its Russian all Russians – and especially all Russian
Russia is one of the biggest suppliers ambassador, and on Monday, France composers and artists – into something
of energy, and especially gas, to the EU, unified in its desire to serve the current
but there are growing demands for the and Germany said they would remove a Russian government, as it would be
exports to be hit by sanctions. The letter total of 75 suspected spies from embas- anachronistic and inaccurate.”
said: “The embassy checked other pro- sies in Paris and Berlin. Yesterday, Italy,
viders in [the] Dublin area for the avail- Denmark, Spain and Sweden expelled
diplomats, taking the total to 145.

Both the Irish foreign ministry and the
Russian embassy refused to comment

when contacted by the Irish Mirror.

The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 6 April 2022 *** 7

Guidance for refugee
call handlers revised
after ‘human error’

Home Office admits that weeks for approval to travel as one of fied some other families. Andy Wicks, a
incorrect information the first to apply on March 18 after flee- sponsor, wrote on social media: “UK
prevented Ukrainians ing Bucha, the scene of Russian sol- Visas and Immigration Ukrainian help-
from escaping to Britain diers’ massacre of Ukrainian civilians. lines has told me in person that there is
a system issue affecting applications
By Charles Hymas Although an email with the necessary made on March 18 and 19.”
Home AffAirs editor “permission to travel” documents
within it had been sent to the Ukrainian Another British couple came a step
THE Home Office has been forced to family, nothing arrived. The Colvins closer to being united with their refu-
rewrite guidance for Ukrainian refugee were told by the helpline operators that gee family yesterday after initially being
call handlers after giving families the it could not be resent, meaning they prevented from registering a visa appli-
wrong information that stopped the ref- would have to reapply and go to the cation for a two week-old baby because
ugees from flying to the UK. back of the queue or lodge a complaint. it had not been resident in Ukraine
before Dec 31, 2021, as required.
Officials have also admitted that A government spokesman said: “A
“technical issues” had prevented travel human error meant that a call handler The Home Office intervened after
forms being sent to refugees, delaying incorrectly informed Tatiana Bilous’s being alerted by The Telegraph and
their move to stay with British families sponsor that ‘permission to travel’ let- sanctioned the application, although
under the Homes for Ukraine scheme. ters cannot be reissued. This has been the mother has to make a 60-mile round
resolved.... We are aware that a techni- trip to a Visa Application Centre in
The admissions come after members cal issue has impacted some customers Poland to get the baby her visa.
of the public raised complaints about receiving their ‘permission to travel’
applications from the opening of the letter. This has since been resolved.” Lord Harrington, the refugees minis-
scheme on March 18 being delayed and ter, pledged to “find out” why so many
apparently going astray. After The Telegraph intervened, sponsor families had heard nothing
Ms Bilous received her resent travel let- since applying on March 18.
The problems emerged after The ter. She and her daughters flew to the UK
Daily Telegraph intervened on behalf of on Monday, arriving at midnight before He said he was not aware of any “data
Tatiana Bilous, a human resources pro- travelling to the two-bedroom cottage in loss” but acknowledged there may have
fessional, and her daughters, Zlata, 11, north Buckinghamshire that will be been a “computer glitch” although it
and Mariia, nine, who are being spon- their home for the coming months. was the first time he had heard of it.
sored under the Homes for Ukraine
scheme by the Colvin family from Buck- “Tatiana says it is the first time she He repeated his target of turning
inghamshire. has seen the children relaxed since the applications around within 48 hours,
invasion. We are so immensely grateful though this target was not likely to be
Ms Bilous had been waiting for two to The Telegraph for unlocking the met before the week after next.
nightmare we were in,” said the Colvins.
The number of applications granted
It does not yet appear to have satis- on the scheme has risen to 9,000, out of
more than 32,000 submitted.

Farmers reap benefit of invaders’ retreat

By Sarah Newey northern regions of Kyiv, Zhytomyr, north of Ukraine, that land will be avail-
Sumy and Chernihiv has offered a glim- able to be planted and fertilised – and,
RUSSIA’S withdrawal from parts of mer of hope. In a normal year, these potentially, we will see a reasonable
northern Ukraine has allowed farmers regions collectively account for 30 per yield,” he said.
to plant corn, soybeans and sunflowers cent of the land dedicated to corn in
on time, boosting the harvest outlook. Ukraine, 24 per cent of soybean hec- However, other factors that could
tares and 13 per cent of sunflowers. undermine production include man-
Ukraine – often called the “breadbas- Farmers plant the crops from April to power, seed availability, supply of diesel
ket of Europe” – accounts for about 15 early June. needed for tractors, and crucially,
per cent of global corn exports, almost a fertiliser.
10th of wheat and half of sunflower oil. Mike Lee, an agronomist and director
Those markets have been thrown into of Green Square Agro Consulting, Between 60 to 70 per cent of ferti-
turmoil since Russia’s invasion, with which forecasts crop yields across the liser is bought by farmers ahead of the
analysts warning disruption to planting Black Sea region, said initially, forecasts season but, because of rising prices
schedules and supply chains will have suggested there would be a 30 to 40 per even before the war, this figure may
an impact on global food security, espe- cent drop in food production in Ukraine have taken a knock. That could hit the
cially in Africa and the Middle East. owing to the war. country’s wheat production: without
adequate fertiliser, yields could fall by
But Russia’s apparent exit from the But, “if Russia has pulled out of the between 30 and 50 per cent.

8 ** Wednesday 6 April 2022 The Daily Telegraph

News

Tinned fish on the sustainable seafood menu

... but lobster is off as fears North Sea herring has moved to an bility. Tinned fish also lasts well, limit- Duck and dive Seafood to go Guide manager, said: “We would always the Isle of Man are showing improve-
over stocks prompt “amber” choice, indicating that it is rel- ing food waste, and can be easily for and varieties best avoided say check the labels – what species it is, ments.
experts to recommend atively sustainable to eat but improve- transported. where it was caught or farmed and how
herring and anchovies ments are needed to move it to “green”, Choose Avoid – but at the moment, with the cost of liv- Yesterday, activists from Ocean
to make it one of the eco-friendly Jack Clarke, a sustainable seafood Mackerel sardines Monkfish from ing crisis, tinned fish is going to be an Rebellion dressed as fishermen and
By Olivia Rudgard options available. advocate at the charity, said: “Tinned from the southern the North Sea and achievable option for a lot of people dumped dead crabs outside the Depart-
environment correspondent fish, if caught or farmed sustainably, Celtic Sea; west of Scotland; without causing the environmental ment for Environment, Food and Rural
Sardines from the South West have can make a great sustainable meal English Channel certain brown harm that we are all so worried about.” Affairs. The group claims that Defra is
ONCE a byword for rationing and also moved from amber to green, while choice. It’s affordable, keeps for a long herring from the crab and lobster, covering up marine deaths in the North
school lunches, tinned fish is becoming anchovies from the Bay of Biscay and time and really delivers on flavour. North Sea – apart from One addition to the amber list is Sea, caused by the dumping of toxic
trendy – and it is also the most sustaina- sprat from the Channel are recom- including the Shetland brown Japanese flying squid, which is not yet waste produced by dredging.
ble choice, the Marine Conservation mended as sustainable. The upgrades “Tinned fish is incredibly versatile Eastern Channel crab or Jersey very common in the UK market but is
Society has said. come because more information is now too, adding depth and umami to count- Sprat from the lobster; North Sea growing in popularity. The latest ratings come as the Gov-
available about numbers, with the new less dishes, making a great store cup- English Channel; spotted ray; Celtic ernment consults on new laws for man-
Lobster is off the menu in favour of findings suggesting that they can with- board staple.” scampi or cod and whiting Not enough is known about the aging local fisheries and introducing a
mackerel, herring and anchovies in the stand local levels of fishing. langoustine, but from southwest population to understand if it can number of fisheries management plans.
charity’s latest Good Fish Guide, Britain’s historic herring fisheries make sure UK; some Indian withstand fishing, and management,
designed to help consumers choose Long popular in Europe, anchovies have suffered in recent years due to to consume Ocean yellowfin especially in Chinese waters, is “inade- The MCS, WWF and RSPB want to
food that is good for the environment. and sardines are becoming more widely overfishing and red tape, but plans are only if pot-caught tuna quate”, the MCS said. Scampi and see commitments to recover depleted
used on British restaurant menus and in now afoot to resurrect the industry in langoustine are an amber choice if stocks within set timeframes, a
recipes because of their strong umami East Anglia, aided by an improved quota trawled but the best choice if pot- commitment to roll out camera
flavour, nutritional value and sustaina- allocated in the wake of Brexit. caught, and king and queen scallops on monitoring on fishing vessels and
action to tackle bycatch.
Charlotte Coombes, the Good Fish

STEPHEN CHUNG/LNP
ASA/SWNS
Members of Ocean Rebellion dressed as fishermen dump dead crabs outside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. They were protesting over an alleged cover-up of deaths in the North Sea caused by the dumping of toxic waste

Sunak gave £100,000 to help Lick on the face from your dog
poor children attend old school lets superbugs off the leash

By Mason Boycott-Owen to do so,” they said. “These donations continues to hand out billions in tax- By Joe Pinkstone domestic pets may be reservoirs of antibiotic resistance was one of the big-
are made to help fund scholarships for payer subsidies to elitist private science correspondent disease. gest threats to public health because it
RISHI SUNAK and his wife have children who would not otherwise have schools,” said Bridget Phillipson, the can make conditions like pneumonia,
donated more than £100,000 to his the opportunity to go to Winchester.” shadow education secretary. PEOPLE who allow dogs to lick their Researchers at the Royal Veterinary sepsis, urinary tract and wound infec-
old school, Winchester College, it has faces risk increasing resistance to anti- College (RVC) and the University of Lis- tions untreatable,” said Dr Juliana Men-
emerged. Mr Sunak is believed to be one of the “Labour would end the tax giveaway biotics, a study has found. bon took stool samples once a month ezes, of the University of Lisbon, the
wealthiest MPs in Parliament thanks to Rishi Sunak hands out to his old boys’ for four months from 114 healthy peo- study’s lead author.
The Chancellor was head boy at the his past career as a banker and marriage network and use the money to improve Owners should also avoid kissing ani- ple, 85 dogs and 18 cats.
school, which charges £43,335 per year, to Ms Murthy, whose father founded every state school instead, ensuring mals and giving them their own plates “Although the level of sharing from
before going to Oxford University. Indian tech giant Infosys. everyone leaves education ready for to eat from, while ensuring they wash Genetic analysis was undertaken to the households we have studied [was]
work and ready for life.” their hands after stroking them or pick- reveal signs of antibiotic resistant bacte- low, healthy carriers can be a source of
He and his wife, Akshata Murthy, are Some reports have suggested that he ing up their waste, experts say. ria, or genes from the microorganisms. infection for vulnerable people … such
listed in the latest copy of the college has a net worth of around £200 million. Mr Sunak was asked about his back- Fifteen pets and 15 humans were found as the elderly and pregnant women.”
magazine as “Wykeham benefactors”, ground at the Conservative Party Spring Antibiotic resistance is one of the big- to be carrying a bacteria of concern.
meaning they have made donations in Despite insistence that the money Conference in Blackpool last month. gest problems facing humanity as path- She added: “Studies have linked the
excess of £100,000. donated to Winchester College would ogens targeted by common drugs Half of the infected pets were found close contact … between pets and their
be used to pay for poorer students to “I’m sitting here in this job as the evolve and become immune to them. to be infected by strain of pathogen that owners to the sharing of bacteria.
A spokesman for Mr Sunak said the attend, he was accused by Labour of product of a lot of sacrifice,” he said. was resilient to penicillin and other
money will be used to fund scholarships paying money to his “old boys net- A study published in The Lancet this treatments, as did a third of the people. “Risk factors include kissing, licking
for underprivileged children to attend work”, rather than giving money to “It started with my grandparents, year found that more than a million [owners’ faces] or eating from [owners’
the school. state schools. who emigrated here from India and people died from so-called superbugs The study’s findings, presented at the plates].
elsewhere, without a lot [of money]. My in 2019. Over-prescription and drug European Congress of Clinical Microbi-
“Rishi and his wife have donated to “Rishi Sunak has already said he is parents worked their socks off and sac- misuse has been cited as a cause of it in ology & Infectious Diseases in Lisbon, “Hygienic practices, such as washing
numerous charities and philanthropic ‘maxed out’ on how much support he rificed a lot to provide opportunities for the West, but concern is increasing that also found pets and owners share bugs. hands after collecting waste or petting
causes for many years and will continue can give to our state schools, but he me and my younger brother and sister.” [pets],” were desirable, she added.
“Even before the Covid-19 pandemic,

Savile ‘gave Charles advice
on media’ in detailed dossier

PRINCE CHARLES asked Jimmy Savile The director believes the document In the soup The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a vegan
was written following the Duke of soup advertisement for “objectifying” a nude male model on a billboard.
for PR advice following a blunder by the York’s comments about the Lockerbie
Duke of York after the Lockerbie bomb- disaster in 1988. Andrew told reporters:
ings, a Netflix director has claimed. “I suppose statistically something like
this has to happen at some stage.”
Savile wrote a media relations “hand-
book” for the Prince of Wales who went Deacon told The Times: “It reignited a
discussion about how the Royal family
on to show the advice to the Queen and should respond to disasters. Jimmy
the Duke of Edinburgh, according to Savile wrote this dossier on how the
filmmaker Rowan Deacon. Queen should behave.” According to
Deacon, the document continues:
Deacon, director of a new documen- “There must be an ‘incident room’ with
tary, Jimmy Savile: A British Horror independent phone lines, teletext etc …
Story, told The Times that the late BBC The Queen should be informed of any
presenter took on a role as unofficial proposed action by family members.”

adviser to the Prince in correspondence According to Deacon, the Prince
spanning a 20-year period. responded with a memo that said: “I
attach a copy of my memo on disasters
The filmmaker gained access to doz- which incorporates your points and
ens of letters in which she claims the which I showed to my father. He
Prince sought counsel from Savile about showed it to HM [Her Majesty].”
his public speeches and family life.
Clarence House did not comment.
Among them, Deacon says, is a dos-
sier titled Guidelines for Members of

the Royal Family and Their Staffs, hand-
written by Savile in 1989 for the Prince.

The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 6 April 2022 *** 9

News Marinestole bullets
from Trident base to
‘Toothless’ sell on black market
police failed
to stop killer By Simon Johnson

Widow criticises force as bour out himself, adding “I will murder GLOUCESTERSHIRE POLICE/SWNS A ROYAL MARINE based at the home of
neighbour found guilty of him”. In footage of his arrest he also told the Trident nuclear deterrent has
stabbing to death husband officers: “I warned you, the police. One admitted selling stolen ammunition
despite warning of threats year. Look, it happened.” after a Tesco carrier bag containing bul-
lets was found in his accommodation at
By Phoebe Southworth Arslan was found guilty after a six- HM Faslane naval base.
day trial at Bristol Crown Court that
THE widow of a man stabbed to death heard he subjected his neighbours to 12 Grant Broadfoot, 29, an ammunition
by his neighbour has branded the years of violent threats. storeman, tried to sell the rounds via
police’s response “toothless and inef- encrypted mobile phone chats.
fective” after they were repeatedly Small rows over parking and a scratch
warned of his violent threats. to a car led to him repeatedly threaten- The High Court in Glasgow heard
ing to attack or kill them. that he told one contact: “I can sort you
Can Arslan, 52, was yesterday found out with ammo... I’ve got 7.62 machine
guilty of murdering Matthew Boorman, Mrs Boorman suffered a deep leg gun rounds, 5.56 semi-automatic
43, as he walked to his front door in wound as she tried to pull Arslan off her rounds and 9mm Glock rounds.”
Walton Cardiff, Glos, on Oct 5 last year husband. She told the court: “Mr Arslan
during an attempted “massacre” of local treated him like he was a piece of meat.” He and Stuart Bryant, another com-
residents following a long- mando, were also caught using an MoD
running parking dispute. Arslan admitted the attempted van to take cannabis with a street value
murder of Mr Marsden, causing griev- of around £300,000 from England to
Arslan then forced his way into the ous bodily harm to Mrs Boorman, and a Scotland on June 3, 2020. Broadfoot’s
home of another neighbour, Peter charge of affray. He had denied murder. father, Ian, was also in one of the vans
Marsden, and knifed him eight times. He will be sentenced on June 9. used to transport the cannabis.
He survived after undergoing major
surgery. During the attack, Arslan told a Assistant Chief Constable Craig Grant Broadfoot, of Glasgow, yester-
third neighbour: “You’re next.” Holden, of Gloucestershire Police, said day admitted being involved in serious
the Independent Office for Police organised crime that included offering
After the verdict – reading a state- Conduct is investigating. to supply cannabis and the sale and sup-
ment by Sarah Boorman, the ply of ammunition. Bryant, of Galston,
victim’s wife – Mr Boorman’s sister Can Arslan, right, is East Ayrshire, admitted producing and
Sarah Elston said: “Although Matthew’s supplying cannabis between November
murder has shocked us all to the core, arrested after killing 2019 and June 2020.
the incident was not remotely out of the
blue. The police and other authorities Matthew Boorman, Judge Lady Stacey deferred sentenc-
had been told about how dangerous this ing them until next month pending
man was, the threats he made and the a father of three, in background reports. Grant Broadfoot
risks he presented. and Bryant were remanded in custody
October last year and Ian Broadfoot was bailed.
“The response was toothless and
ineffective, even when the defendant following a
himself told the police he was going to
murder Matthew.” long-running

In May last year, Mrs Boorman had parking dispute.
made a statement to police setting out
the threats that she and her husband He told officers at
had received. She said they were wor-
ried about being murdered or hurt. the scene: ‘I warned

The day before the attack, Arslan told you, the police.
a police officer he would sort his neigh-
One year. Look, it

happened’

Musician pleads
guilty to murder
of Bobbi-Anne

By Izzy Lyons ing, asked for the sentencing
crime correspondent hearing to be adjourned due
to outstanding pathology
A MAN has pleaded guilty to reports to be served.
murdering a teenager after
she was snatched at random He said he was awaiting
from a bus stop. further evidence from a neu-
ropathologist’s report that he
Yesterday, Cody Ackland, a hoped to be able to serve on
24-year-old musician, admit- the court before the end of
ted killing Bobbi-Anne the month. Once he had
McLeod, who was last seen received it, he would be
alive near her home in Plym-
outh, Devon, in November. Cody Ackland, right, admitted
killing Bobbi-Anne McLeod, left
The 18-year-old was seen
waiting for a bus but never ready to set out a full sen-
arrived to meet her boy- tencing note detailing the
friend, prompting a large facts of the murder.
police investigation. Officers
later found a pouch of Judge Robert Linford
tobacco and her headphones adjourned sentencing until
at the bus stop. Her body was May 19 and remanded the
found three days later about defendant of Southway,
seven miles away near the Plymouth, into custody.
beach at Bovisand, Plym-
outh, and Mr Ackland was The judge told him: “You
later arrested. Police said have pleaded guilty to mur-
there was “no known link” der for which the sentence is
between the pair. fixed by law. I shall sentence
you on May 19. The sentence
Appearing at Plymouth will be a sentence of impris-
Crown Court, Mr Ackland onment for life.”
spoke only to confirm his
name and date of birth, and
to admit murdering the teen-
ager on a date between Nov
19 and Nov 23 last year.

Richard Posner, prosecut-

Nurse died after she
was hit by Obby Oss

By Phoebe Southworth ing towards her, the rim of
the Oss hitting the back of
A PAEDIATRIC nurse died her neck.”
after being hit by a Cornish
carnival character, an The coroner said it was
inquest has heard. unclear whether Mrs Small-
wood’s death could be
Laura Smallwood, 34, was directly attributed to the
struck by an Obby Oss in Pad-
stow, Cornwall, during a May Obby Oss hitting her.
Day celebration on May 1, One other possibility was
2019. The Obby Oss is a
wooden costume resembling that she suffered injuries
a hobby horse with a snap- during an altercation with a
ping jaw. woman earlier that evening,

The mother of two com- the inquest heard.
plained of a sore head and On May Day in Cornwall,
dizziness before collapsing.
She died three days later in two Obby Osses are paraded
Derriford Hospital, Plym- through the streets of Pad-
outh. An inquest into her stow to mark the beginning
death is being held at Corn-
wall Coroner’s Court, Truro . of summer. It is unclear
where the custom comes
Sian Howells, who was fol- from: some believe it was an
lowing the parade, told the
court yesterday that Mrs ancient fertility rite, while
Smallwood had her back to others think it a deterrent to
the Obby Oss when it jolted
backwards and fell over. a possible landing by the
French centuries ago.
“The one thing you are
always told is not to have Kevin Constance, who was
your back to the Oss,” said Ms dressed in the costume
Howells. “I could see it com- which hit Mrs Smallwood,

told the inquest: “I was sober.
I was not aware of hitting
anybody. I could only see for-
ward.”

The inquest continues.

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News

Battle of the Housing
sexes over crisis
dancer’s will A squirrel
and a
By Daily Telegraph Reporter jackdaw
quarrel over
A ROYAL Ballet dancer who left her a nesting
estate to her two nephews would not box in a
have left her entire fortune to men as Wiltshire
she was closer to women, her god- garden. The
daughter has told the High Court in owner of the
London in a battle over the will. property
says storm-
Clover Roope, a prima ballerina and damaged
choreographer, left her estate to her trees, and
nephews, Christopher and Simon the drive to
Roope, on her death in April 2019. The cut down old
2011 will replaced a document drawn up ones, have
five years earlier, which gave a 25 per created
cent share to Emma Hindmarsh, her competition
goddaughter. for animals
finding
Ms Hindmarsh has challenged the homes.
will, saying male involvement proves
Roope, who was suffering from demen- NICK UPTON
tia when she died aged 81, had lost her
mental capacity when it was made.

Papers submitted by Ms Hindmarsh’s
barrister, Stuart Roberts, said there was
no “credible explanation” for her use of
a male financial adviser as she was
always keen that women deal with her
affairs, including financial adviser Toni
Chalmers-Smith, who traded as
“Finance for Women”. He added that
Roope went “to a financial adviser at
Lloyds bank in April 2010 who was a
male, not known to her, when she had a
continuing relationship with her long-
standing female financial adviser”.

Edward Hewitt, the nephews’ legal
representative, is asking that the 2011
will be propounded. In papers submit-
ted to the High Court, he said Roope
“had testamentary capacity to make the
will and knew and approved its con-
tents”.

He added: “In the circumstances, the
claimant asks the court to pronounce
for the force and validity of the will in
solemn form of law.”

NHS equality chief wants to ‘bin’ trans ruling

Anger as hospital staff told ple born a man from women’s spaces if could lawfully be excluded from female chambers, added that it was “unwise her for advice “as a credible equality are trans-inclusive”. NHS England said
to defy watchdog and there was a legitimate reason. only spaces, has been welcomed by publicly to publish your refusal to professional” and her message was that it “will ensure that any revised
allow trans women to women’s rights groups. engage with the EHRC’s guidance”. backed by other NHS equality bosses. guidance is in line with the law and the
use female-only spaces Tara Hewitt, group head of equality, guidance from the EHRC will be consid-
diversity and inclusion at Northern NHS policy on single-sex wards – After the EHRC’s long-awaited clari- Rebecca Bull, the co-founder of Sex ered as part of the ongoing review”.
By Hayley Dixon and Care Alliance NHS Group, described known as Annex B – allows patients to fication was published, the Trans NHS Matters, said she would be “quite sur-
Ewan Somerville the guidance as “transphobic” and said be accommodated according to the gen- Staff Network put out a message on prised” if “high-level” employees would The review is expected to be pub-
health bosses should put it in the “bin”. der with which they identify when they social media urging “all NHS Equality take Ms Hewitt’s advice “over the legal lished this year. All NHS trusts have a
AN NHS equality chief was last night are admitted to hospital. Teams to ignore this transphobic and experts at the EHRC”. duty to comply with the Equality Act.
leading a mutiny against a Government Her calls for NHS leaders to be told to hostile guidance from EHRC that is
watchdog ruling that excludes trans “ignore” the legal opinion of the UK’s The NHS has undertaken a review of likely to be found unlawful at judicial Kat Barber, of the campaign group Estelle Carmichael, deputy chief of
patients from single-sex wards. human rights body was backed by the policy and sources told The Daily review and continue to write and follow Sex Not Gender Nurses and Midwives, people for Northern Care Alliance NHS
Kathryn Thomson, chief executive of Telegraph that they were waiting for the trans inclusive policies and guidance”. said that she believed the EHRC guid- Foundation Trust, which employs Ms
Health service chiefs have publicly Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation EHRC’s guidance before publishing it. ance would have little impact on front- Hewitt, said: “As a responsible health-
criticised guidance from the Equalities Trust, and Aaron Cummins, chief exec- The message was promoted by Ms line NHS staff who would be expected care provider and employer, our
and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) utive at University Hospitals of More- Last night, legal experts said that if Hewitt, who asked a number of senior to follow the self-identification policy approach is to focus on treating all of
that stated it was lawful to exclude peo- cambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust. NHS trust did not follow the watchdog’s NHS leaders to relay it to their equality set out in Annex B. “What concerns me our colleagues and patients according
advice on the law it “could well come teams and to those at other NHS Trusts. is the attitude displayed towards the to their individual needs.” Morecambe
The EHRC guidance, which listed unstuck”. EHRC by NHS equality and diversity Bay declined to comment while Liver-
hospital wards, lavatories and changing Ms Thomson, whose trust runs Liver- teams,” she said. “The EHRC have con- pool Women’s NHS Trust did not
rooms as places where trans women Amanda Jones, a barrister specialis- pool Women’s Hospital, a major obstet- sidered that there is an argument for respond when approached.
ing in gender law at Great James Street rics, gynaecology and neonatology women’s rights and set out that single- u  The Government has cancelled its
research hospital, replied: “Will do.” sex exemptions need to be considered. first LGBT conference after more than
100 activist groups quit over its about-
The same response was given by Dr “The reaction to that says a lot about turn on conversion therapy. The UK
Paul Gilluley, chief medical officer at who is leading the NHS and what their was set to host the Safe To Be Me 2022
the East London NHS Foundation Trust, attitude is to women wanting single-sex conference in London from June 29 to
while Mr Cummins said he was “on it”. care. It also suggests that nurses who July 1, coinciding with the 50th anniver-
want to provide care based on the sary of the London Pride marches.
Ms Hewitt wrote: “I urge my equality equality act would not be supported by
professional colleagues to give this their employers.” However, as a result of the Govern-
guidance the credibility it deserves by ment excluding trans people from the
putting it in bin and continue as usual.” The EHRC guidance also faced criti- ban, more than 100 charities and organ-
cism from Emily Wraw, head of equal- isations have pulled out. Iain Anderson,
Ms Hewitt has spoken openly about ity, diversity and inclusion at the Government’s first LGBT+ Business
her experience as a trans woman and Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, Champion, also announced his resigna-
has campaigned for transgender rights. who reminded colleagues of Annex B tion yesterday.
and that “single-sex wards in the NHS
She said that anyone being advised
that they could exclude a trans person
from a single-sex ward should contact

Fighting talk NHS bosses who have spoken out on EHRC guidance

Tara Hewitt Tara Hewitt of the Aaron Cummins Head of Equality, Doncaster and Kate Jarman
Group Head of Northern Care CEO at University Diversity and South Humber Director of
Equality, Alliance NHS Group Hospitals of Inclusion, NHS Foundation corporate affairs,
Diversity and Morecambe Bay Rotherham NHS Trust Milton Keynes
Inclusion, NHS Foundation Foundation Trust Lesley Faux University
Northern Care Trust Tuesday Peckett Diversity and Hospital
Alliance NHS Dr Paul Gilluley Equality, Inclusion Lead, Tom Warner
Group Chief Medical Diversity and North Clinical
Kathryn Officer, East Inclusion lead for Staffordshire Workforce
Thomson CEO at London NHS Health and Combined Equalities
Liverpool Foundation Trust Wellbeing, Healthcare NHS Manager for NHS
Women’s Hospital Emily Wraw Rotherham, Trust Midlands

Stay-at-home council New divorce
law ‘no cure for
staff on six-figure pay money tussles’

By Ewan Somerville still working from home, weeks after By Gabriella Swerling
the Government lifted all Covid curbs. Social and ReligiouS affaiRS editoR
THE number of council staff earning Job adverts at Westminster council
more than £100,000 is at its highest in offer an “unmatchable work-life bal- NO-FAULT divorce will not be less pain-
almost a decade, despite local authori- ance” while the Essex authority said in ful for married couples because it fails
ties still allowing remote working. September it expected almost 6,000 of to tackle the “torture” of splitting
its 7,700 staff to continue hybrid work. finances, Baroness Shackleton of Bel-
Some 2,921 town hall chiefs were paid gravia has warned.
six-figure sums in 2020-21, up by 119 on The highest amount went to Jo
the previous year and the highest since Negrini, the former chief executive of Lady Shackleton, a solicitor and Con-
2013, as families face a cost of living cri- Croydon council, who received servative peer, made the comments
sis and council tax rises. Some 739 of £613,895, including a large payout before the biggest shake-up of divorce
these received more than £150,000, the when she stood down in September laws in more than half a century, which
highest number since 2007. 2020, two months before the council comes into effect today.
effectively declared bankruptcy.
The Local Government Association The Divorce, Dissolution and Separa-
(LGA) has heralded the “new normal” of John O’Connell, chief executive of tion Act enables married couples in
hybrid working, leaving taxpayers the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “During England and Wales to start legal pro-
“struggling to access services via the Covid pandemic, households were ceedings without apportioning blame
phone” as staff save on commute costs. locked down and front-line staff were for the breakdown of their marriage for
overworked, yet a record number of the first time.
Westminster city council had the council chiefs walked away with more
most staff on £100,000 or more last than £150,000.” Lady Shackleton, who has repre-
year, at 44, followed by Essex county sented members of the Royal family
council and Hackney council on 37 and In response to the report, an LGA including the Prince of Wales and
36 respectively, the TaxPayers’ Alliance spokesman said: “Councils are large, celebrities including Sir Paul McCart-
Town Hall Rich List 2022 found. complex organisations with sizeable ney, said: “What ... this Act doesn’t do is
budgets and responsibility for more sort out the money and most of the tor-
Stuart Love, Westminster council’s than 1,300 different statutory duties ture in sorting out the finances.
chief executive, received a £6,000 pay and responsibilities that make a huge
rise during the pandemic to bring his difference to people’s lives. “[It] is a big improvement. But it’s not
basic salary to £217,000, despite wide- a panacea for speedy, painless divorce,”
spread derision over the council’s £6 “It is important that the right people she told BBC Radio 4’s Today.
million Marble Arch mound, which cost with the right skills and experience are
£660,000 to tear down less than a year retained to deliver this important work. Under the new law, there will be a
after being erected. minimum period of 20 weeks for
“Senior pay is always decided by “meaningful” reflection between
Analysis found that the top 10 coun- democratically elected councillors in an starting proceedings and applying for a
cils for staff on six figures had some staff open and transparent way.” conditional order.

The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 6 April 2022 *** 11

Canny Diana was News
always in control,
says biographer

Princess was no one’s fool ‘I find it were three of us in this marriage”, con-
and was ‘pleased’ by the offensive to cluded that Bashir used “deceitful
Bashir interview revealing present … behaviour” in a “serious breach” of BBC
details of her marriage Diana as a guidelines to secure it. The 127-page
woman of no report found Bashir “deceived and
By Hannah Furness agency. She induced” Earl Spencer into arranging
ROYAL CORRESPONDENT didn’t have a the interview, with the BBC’s director-
bad word to general Tim Davie saying the corpora-
DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES was not say about tion was “very sorry” for the “clear
a “vulnerable victim of the media” and Bashir’ failings”.
had “no regrets” over her interview
with Martin Bashir, her biographer has Diana, Princess of Prince William said, on screen: “It
claimed, arguing her portrayal as a Wales, used an brings indescribable sadness to know
“foolish, duped child” is offensive. infamous BBC that the BBC’s failures contributed sig-
interview to swing nificantly to her fear, paranoia and iso-
Tina Brown, who wrote a seminal public opinion lation that I remember from those final
biography of the late princess after get- behind her in the years with her … this Panorama pro-
ting to know her when the editor of run-up to her gramme holds no legitimacy and should
Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, said her divorce – and never be aired again.”
friends maintain she “was pleased” succeeded, says
about the Panorama interview, and Tina Brown Prince Harry said in a written state-
“didn’t have a bad word to say about ment: “The ripple effect of a culture of
Martin Bashir”. exploitation and unethical practices
ultimately took her life. Our mother lost
Writing ahead of the publication of her life because of this, and nothing has
her new book about the Royal family, changed.”
Brown said: “I don’t subscribe to the
narrative that Diana was a vulnerable Writing in Vanity Fair, Brown said:
victim of media manipulation. “The words ‘indescribable sadness’ can
only hint at her sons’ private ordeal, but
“I find it offensive to present the they also occlude the full picture.
canny, resourceful Diana as a woman of
no agency, as either a foolish, duped “I am told by [Gulu] Lalvani [who
child or the hapless casualty of malevo- dated the Princess in the last year of her
lent muckrakers.” life] that Diana said she had no regrets
… and made clear that she had said
Her version of events is in stark con- exactly what she wanted to say.
trast to that of the Duke of Cambridge
and Duke of Sussex, who have sepa- “‘She was pleased about it [the inter-
rately condemned the Panorama inter- view],’ Lalvani told me. ‘She didn’t have
view and the way it was secured. In a bad word to say about Martin Bashir.
May, an inquiry into the 1995 interview, She realised it served her purpose’.
in which the princess declared “there
“She was right. Her ‘purpose’ was to
frame herself to the British public as a
betrayed woman before the increas-
ingly inevitable divorce from Charles.

“Opinion polls in the wake of the
interview showed support for the prin-
cess at 92 per cent.”

Brown said she had been “bowled
over” by the “confident” Diana at a
lunch in Manhattan in July 1997, six
weeks before her death. “She told us her
story of loneliness and hurt at Charles’s
hands with an irresistible soulful inti-
macy … then switched to a … vision of
how she planned to leverage her celeb-
rity for the causes she cared about with
a series of TV specials, 24 years before
Harry and Meghan’s incoherent multi-
media plans.”

The Palace Papers: Inside the House of
Windsor – the Truth and the Turmoil by
Tina Brown is published on April 26,
and will be serialised in The Telegraph
this weekend.
TIM GRAHAM Prince charming The Prince of Wales greets Queen Letizia of Spain at Auckland Castle in County
CHRIS JACKSON / GETTY IMAGES Durham, yesterday, where they viewed paintings by Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664).

University ditches Austen in drive to ‘decolonise the curriculum’

By Craig Simpson Expunging Austen from the English Those taking the special authors anti-racist agenda in higher education”. Rev George Austen, was once the trus- Trigger warnings have been added to
literature programme would help the module this year will also be taught Historical figures, from Winston tee of an Antigua sugar plantation. the reading list to alert students to “the
JANE AUSTEN has been removed from “decolonisation of the curriculum”, as about “black postmodernism, language of colonialism”.
a university literature course to help well as “contribute to increased diver- Gothic, as well as the aesthetics of the Churchill to Charles Dickens, were sub- The English and literature depart-
“decolonise the curriculum”. sity” on the syllabus, university docu- contemporary US and African-Ameri- ject to iconoclastic reviews following ment at Stirling has not critiqued Aus- The reading list for one English mod-
ments stated ahead of the change. can novel”. the protests. Austen was also dragged ten, and the university has said that its ule states: “Some of the material in the
The author of Pride and Prejudice has into the debate about slavery at the Jane Special Authors module changes focus module includes discussion of colonial-
been replaced as the focus of an English The new material will include themes The changes follow a commitment Austen House Museum, which re- on an annual basis. ism (including colonial violence
module at Stirling University by Toni different to those in Austen’s novels, made in the wake of Black Lives Matter examined her place in “Regency-era towards men and women), enslave-
Morrison, an award-winning writer including “racial difference and critical protests in 2020, with Stirling Univer- colonialism”. Internal documents stated there ment, violence, racism, sexism and
known for works about the African- race theory, gender and sexuality”, stu- sity principal Prof Gerry McCormac would be no changes to the structure of issues surrounding representations of
American experience. dents were told. saying the institution must “support an The writer’s ties to the slave trade the courses, other than improved diver- gender, class, race, and mental health.”
were also brought up, as her father, the sity and “decolonisation”.

Viewing a film takes 17 hours Daffodils must go as council
out in the Wi-Fi wilderness fears children could eat them

By Daily Telegraph Reporter last month when Openreach put the Cover-girl By Daily Telegraph Reporter have been daffodils in the park for many
scheme on hold due to soaring demand. The actress years and that they were part of its
A VILLAGE believed to have the coun- Alicia A COUNCIL cut down and removed attraction. A park committee spokes-
try’s slowest broadband speed has been However, villagers say homes should Vikander 1,000 “poisonous” daffodils from a rec- man said the move was “preposterous”.
promised high-speed connections by be fitted with superfast speeds by the tells April’s reation park in a move branded “totally
Christmas. end of the year after it was promised Harper’s bonkers” by residents who described He added: “This is totally bonkers.
Bazaar of the move as “vandalism” and called for There must have been 1,000 flowers. To
Residents in Brithdir, North Wales, 1mbps her joy at those responsible to be sacked. say that it’s because they are toxic to
say download speeds as slow as 1 mega- becoming
bits per second (Mbps) meant down- The slowest broadband download speed in a mother. An inspection had raised fears that children if they eat them is crazy.”
loading films in standard definition can Brithdir, North Wales, meaning films can children might eat them and suffer Another resident posted on social
take longer than 70 minutes, while take more than half a day to watch in HD harm, so the blooms were cut media: “This should be in the
watching it in high definition requires a down from Old Roselyon hands of the police, sheer
wait of up to 17 hours. that the work would be carried out. Stu- Play Area in St Blazey, near St vandalism, sack whoever
art Marsh, one of the campaigners, said: Austell in Cornwall. made the decision.”
The “appalling” coverage meant peo- “After years of chasing BT, they have Health officials con-
ple were unable to work from home and now promised to complete the works by Health and safety officials firmed daffodils can cause
struggled to remain in contact with the end of 2022. I’m keeping my fingers who inspected the park told vomiting and diarrhoea if
friends and relatives, it was claimed. crossed that they keep to their word.” the council that the flowers eaten. A spokesman for St
should go because they contained
BT pledged to bring faster internet to toxic alkaloids. Blaise town council, which covers St
the village as part of Openreach’s Fibre Blazey, said: “We were advised not to
Community Partnership scheme. Residents described the move as have daffodils in play areas as all parts of
“crazy”, pointing out that there the flower can be poisonous.”
But campaigners were left in limbo

12 *** Wednesday 6 April 2022 The Daily Telegraph

World news

Covid patients fight

for food as Shanghai

ramps up lockdown

By Jenny Pan Shanghai, a city of video. The broader lockdown came
26 million, was after testing saw asymptomatic cases
CHINA’S strict zero-Covid strategy has deserted yesterday, surge to more than 13,000. Sympto-
brought chaos to Shanghai, with right, as stricter matic cases fell on Monday to 268, from
patients fighting for food and water at rules were brought 425 the previous day.
makeshift quarantine centres as author- in. Below, video
ities yesterday extended lockdown for a posted online of The city’s normally choked roads
city of 26 million residents. locals trying to grab were all but empty yesterday.
basic supplies
Shanghai is China’s largest urban “Shanghai’s epidemic prevention and
centre to be locked down to date and control is at the most difficult and most
prolonged restrictions amid surging critical stage,” Wu Qianyu, an official
cases present a major test for the coun- with the municipal health commission,
try’s approach to the virus. told a briefing. “We must adhere to the
general policy of dynamic clearance
Video shared on social media showed without hesitation.”
dozens of people scrapping for basic
supplies after they were transferred to a The city has set up about 47,700 beds
temporary quarantine facility in an in a number of newly built temporary
abandoned school in a south-east sub- hospitals in Shanghai, with another
urb. Many questioned whether the 30,000 being readied, state news
school in the Nanhui district was suita- agency Xinhua reported yesterday.
ble to house coronavirus cases.
A total of 62 temporary quarantine
“The quarantine centre in Nanhui sites have been designated elsewhere.
district is so dirty and chaotic. Is this a
makeshift hospital for treatment? I’d Residents under lockdown in their
say more like a waste ground,” one homes have complained of lack of food
social media user commented of the deliveries since the reintroduction of
restrictions last week, after the city ini-
tially took a more targeted approach. QILAI SHEN/BLOOMBERG

In a recording of a telephone call cir-
culating online, a resident appears to
berate a local official over the lack of
food in her housing compound. The
neighbourhood committee member
answers: “The zero-Covid policy caused
all these problems. If there’s no new pol-
icy soon, Shanghai will collapse.”

In Dachang, north west of Shanghai,
people said they had not received sup-
plies.

Sun Chunlan, vice-premier in charge
of Covid prevention, urged grassroots
Communist Party organisations to “do
everything possible” to help residents
get access to medicine, food and water.

Victim’s friend tells IS ‘Beatle’ he’ll go to hell Le Pen accuses Macron of ducking debates

By Josie Ensor in Alexandria, Virginia about a former commander of the faces life in prison if found guilty on By Katy Lee in Paris Ms Le Pen, of the hard-Right National on him to such an extent that the
prison in Syria where Kayla was held. eight charges of the kidnap, torture and Rally party, told France Inter radio. Macron camp are now genuinely con-
A BRITISH Islamic State “Beatle” was Referring to the commander, Mr Safar- involvement in the deaths of American EMMANUEL MACRON has been cerned he could lose a race that looked
told he was “going to hell” by the boy- jalani shouted in Arabic at Elsheikh: and British hostages. accused of dodging debates days ahead Mr Macron has repeatedly refused to predictable just a few weeks ago.
friend of an American victim during an “He is in hell, you will see him there.” of France’s presidential election, snub- debate with other candidates, arguing
emotional testimony in the US trial. He is the most senior IS member to bing a high-profile TV appearance just that no sitting French president has The latest polls show Mr Macron with
Elsheikh briefly glanced back at the face justice in a Western court. Mr Safa- as an opinion poll showed Marine Le ever done so. an average of 28 per cent of the vote and
The interjection at the Virginia court public gallery before being ushered out rjalani was earlier seen hugging the par- Pen in her strongest position yet. Ms Le Pen on 20 per cent.
came after the mother of aid worker for lunch recess by court marshals. ents of Ms Mueller. But his relative absence from the
Kayla Mueller took to the stand in the “Emmanuel Macron has entered the campaign trail has contributed to a slide But if they are the two highest-scor-
case against El Shafee Elsheikh. Mr Safarjalani, the boyfriend of Ms In January 2015, the Muellers were campaign very late, with dated argu- in his ratings, which initially enjoyed a ing candidates in Sunday’s first round of
Mueller who was kidnapped in 2013 by emailed a photograph of their daugh- ments sullied by personal attacks on bounce after the Russian invasion of voting and go through to the April 24
Rodwan Safarjalani was in the gallery the “Beatles”, took the stand on Monday. ter’s dead body from an account belong- me. Clearly, he wants to avoid a debate,” Ukraine as voters sought stability. run-off, the polls predict a nail-bitingly
yesterday listening to a discussion ing to the captors. The trial continues. close finish.
Elsheikh, a 33-year-old Londoner, In recent days, Ms Le Pen has gained

The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 6 April 2022 *** 13

World news

‘How to Murder British girl, 15,
Your Husband’ praised after
author faces fatal landslide
real-life trial in Australia

Self-published writer is cedure. After all, if the murder is Nancy Crampton-Brophy has been in custody since she was arrested three-and-a-half years ago over the murder of Daniel Brophy By Sam Hall and
accused of shooting her supposed to set me free, I certainly don’t Roger Maynard in Sydney
spouse to gain $1.4 million want to spend any time in jail. defence said that the online searches the couple were facing financial diffi- broke the news of her husband’s mur-
in life insurance payouts and Ms Crampton-Brophy’s firearms culties, Ms Crampton-Brophy’s der to loved ones on social media, tell- A BRITISH teenage girl raised the
“The thing I know about murder is purchases formed part of her research finances deteriorated further after ing them: “My husband and best friend, alarm over a landslide that killed her
By Rozina Sabur in Washington that every one of us have it in him/her for a planned novel about a woman in her husband’s death, disputing the chef Dan Brophy, was killed yesterday father and brother in Australia.
when pushed far enough.” an abusive relationship. prosecution’s claim that she sought to morning.”
AN American romance novelist who profit from it. Ms Crampton-Brophy The 15-year-old called the emergency
once wrote an essay titled How to Mur- Brophy’s death had been a mystery, The defence also argued that, while The trial continues. services to inform them of the disaster
der Your Husband is standing trial for with investigators determining there at Wentworth Falls, west of Sydney, and
allegedly shooting dead her spouse. were no signs of a struggle or a robbery. then hiked 90 minutes to safety with
the help of emergency crews.
Nancy Crampton-Brophy, 71, has Ms Crampton-Brophy’s essay sparked
been in custody since her arrest in 2018 intense public interest in the case; but The call enabled her mother and
over the murder of Daniel Brophy, her Judge Christopher Ramras ruled that it 14-year-old brother to be airlifted to
husband of 25 years. She stood to gain would be excluded from evidence at the Sydney’s Westmead Hospital, where
$1.4 million (£1.1 million) in life insur- start of her trial in Oregon this week. they were in a critical condition with
ance payouts. head and abdominal injuries, yesterday.
“Any minimal probative value of an
She told police she was at the couple’s article written that long ago is substan- The girl’s father and nine-year-old
home in Portland, Oregon, when her tially outweighed by the danger of brother both died in the landslide at
husband, a 63-year-old chef, was shot in unfair prejudice and confusion of the Wentworth Pass in the Blue Mountains
the back and chest soon after arriving for issues,” the judge said. on Monday. The teenager was under
work at the Oregon Culinary Institute. medical care and in shock yesterday,
Prosecutors claimed that the murder police said, while authorities tried to
Ms Crampton-Brophy was arrested was financially motivated, describing locate relatives in Britain.
months later after detectives discov- the romance writer as “on a path of
ered her car had been near the crime financial ruin” when Brophy died. The British High Commission in Can-
scene at the time of the shooting. berra said: “We are supporting the fam-
They said that Ms Crampton-Brophy ily of a British couple and their children
She has pleaded not guilty to murder would be the beneficiary of $1.4 million following an incident in the Blue Moun-
and unlawful use of a firearm. by cashing in her husband’s life insur- tains. Our staff in Australia are in con-
ance policies. tact with local police.”
Ms Crampton-Brophy was once a
prolific self-published romance writer, The jury heard that Ms Crampton- The family has not been named but
whose books included Hell on the Heart Brophy had asked police for a letter to police hope to fly their UK relatives out
and The Wrong Husband. send to a life insurance company ruling to Australia to support the survivors.
her out as a suspect so that she could
In How to Murder Your Husband, cre- collect $40,000 (£30,500). Emergency responders praised the
ated during a writing workshop in 2011, girl’s actions. “We’ve focused on caring
she said: “As a romantic suspense writer, Prosecutors also detailed her online for her while the best medical care is
I spend a lot of time thinking about mur- searches for untraceable “ghost guns”, given to her mum and a brother,” Acting
der and, consequently, about police pro- which they said marked her first step in Supt John Nelson told the Sydney Morn-
plotting her husband’s murder. ing Herald.

Among their first witnesses were the New South Wales National Parks con-
staff and students who found Brophy firmed that the walking track, which
lying dead in his classroom. The begins at Wentworth Falls, had been
inspected only days before as part of a
routine assessment programme.

The area is famous for its 300ft
waterfall, which gives the village of
Wentworth Falls its name.

There has been heavy rain in the area
over the past few weeks that may have
added to the ground’s instability.

Black Lives Matter leaders buy $6m mansion using donations

By Jamie Johnson The 6,500-square-foot home has nal note was circulated exploring ways been threatened, was dismissed after and Patrisse Consulting – a limited lia- Matter board member, said the organi-
US CorreSpondent more than six bedrooms and bath- to “kill the story”, New York magazine one person pointed out leaders had bility company operated by Patrice Cul- sation bought the mansion “with the
rooms, multiple fireplaces, a sound- reported. The memo, obtained by the shared videos of themselves on the ter- lors, the founder of Black Lives Matter, intention for it to serve as housing and
THE leaders of Black Lives Matter alleg- stage, a pool and parking for more than publication, included bullet points race drinking champagne. and Janaya Khan, her spouse, New York studio space for recipients of the Black
edly used $6 million (£4.6 million) in 20 cars, but officials from the anti-rac- explaining that the house could be reported. Within a week, ownership Joy Creators Fellowship”, and that they
donations to buy a mansion in Califor- ism group tried to keep its existence a described as part of the cultural arm of The property was bought by Dyane was transferred to another company in “always planned” to disclose the house
nia, as more questions were raised secret, a report claimed. the organisation. Another suggestion, Pascall two weeks after Black Lives Delaware so the property’s owner in legal filings this May.
about how the group manages its that it should be described as a “safe- Matter received $66.5 million from its wouldn’t be disclosed, the outlet said.
finances. When pressed on the purpose of the house” for leaders whose safety has fiscal sponsor in October 2020. Mr Pas- Mr Pascall and Black Lives Matter
house, known as “the campus”, an inter- call is the financial manager for Janaya Shalomyah Bowers, a Black Lives were contacted for comment.

14 *** Wednesday 6 April 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Comment

Let rainforests
keep their
parrots. British
birds are perfect

clive aslet

E xcuse me, but are we pours its “full heart / In To order prints or signed copies of any Telegraph cartoon, go to telegraph.co.uk/prints-cartoons or call 0191 603 0178  [email protected]
boring? This is the profuse strains of
accusation made unpremeditated art”, Can’t-be-bothered Britain will turn
against British birds by or so said Shelley. on the do-nothing Conservatives
scientists from the
University of Sheffield, who By contrast, many gaudy Unimaginative and short- There are nationwide rumblings of a received a share of the proceeds. But follow Madeline problems to capitalism when what we
have found that our avians birds like the jay, with its termist, the Government is “can’t do” attitude: “computer says no” given its tendency to capitulate, is this Grant on Twitter have barely approaches a free market.
are less vibrant than those of electric blue wing feathers, doing nothing to break the – to virtually everything. Government even capable of such @Madz_Grant; In fact, two of the biggest problems
the tropical rainforest. Well, tend to shriek. Magpies can UK’s institutional paralysis creativity? It is worryingly easy to read more at facing Britain hail from an explicitly
knock me down with a be strikingly handsome, if, Attempting to break this paralysis imagine the kryptonite, trademark telegraph.co.uk/ socialist legacy, bequeathed by the
feather. The claim is about according to legend, madeline grant would be difficult for any government, British combo of Nimbyism and opinion Attlee administration. (Between a
as remarkable as saying that somewhat sinister; but their but to our current masters, with their political reluctance frustrating future nationalised, unreformable healthcare
the average British male of a call is a staccato chatter. The We’re entering an acute passion for short-termism and taking efforts in the nuclear sector as well. Margaret system, destined to absorb an ever-
certain age performs less male pheasant, parading in economic and energy crisis; the path of least resistance, it seems Thatcher larger share of public spending, and the
spectacularly on the dance one of the most splendid of but where is the sense of impossible. In many ways, the fracking The same is true of housing – where and Ronald Town and Country Planning Act’s
floor than the residents of nature’s uniforms, makes a urgency? One of the pandemic’s saga is a parable for how things work (or the Tories’ short-termism threatens to Reagan’s land-use restraints, there is a strong
Buenos Aires. We – if I may loud, unattractive sound, after-effects has been a universal shrug rather, don’t) in Britain today. Over 10 destroy their long-term electoral level of argument that the compound harm of
speak on behalf of British although not perhaps as bad of the shoulders, a retrenchment into years, through a mixture of well-drilled prospects. New developments – resolve has these two things alone makes the Attlee
males of a certain age – are as the parakeets that are union militancy, HR wellbeing culture Nimby and environmental lobbying, however un-picturesque the proposed largely government the most damaging in
in some respects quite colonising the South East. and flexible working. Many public misplaced hyper-caution and Russian site – are often howled down by local disappeared British history, but I digress.)
monochrome. But British They make a terrible noise, bodies still cling to the Covid wreckage, propaganda, “can’t do Britain” opposition or even squashed by from our
birds, at least, aren’t boring. resembling a child’s squash using it to excuse an increasingly bad squandered an extraordinary ministerial diktat. Grant Shapps, the politics Watching Charles Moore’s BBC
toy – as alien to the case of disinclination. While record opportunity. We somehow consulted Transport Secretary, recently deployed documentary about the Thatcher-
Wrens, the littlest of all soundscape of the British backlogs in driving licence applications and complained away our best chance hitherto unused powers to block a Reagan relationship over the weekend,
our brown jobs, huddle countryside as their Dayglo and renewals were bankrupting of cheaper, relatively green fuel, 351-home development in the verdant I was struck by the pair’s shared sense
together for warmth. As green wings are to the businesses and causing drivers to lose thousands of new jobs, and a measure of surroundings of... a car park in Enfield. of mission. Whatever your opinion of
many as 63 have been found colour palette that we are their independence, a newspaper energy security in a volatile world. them, this level of resolve has largely
together in a single nesting used to. investigation revealed that thousands of Like fracking, solving the house- disappeared from our politics. It can be
box. Swifts feed their young DVLA staff were sitting at home doing Even though Cuadrilla – the only firm building conundrum demands more hard to discern what, precisely,
with food balls packed with Brown birds get a bad no work, on full pay, for long periods of to frack for gas in the UK – says it could than mere coercion. It involves beefing animates and motivates many
the insects they have caught press, associated with drab the pandemic. supply the domestic market within up incentives to bring the grumblers legislators. Ministers rarely speak in
in flight, 300 to 1,000 in things like brown furniture. months were the moratorium lifted, on-side, whether by focusing on plain English, favouring Civil Service
each one. Starlings, which For years, auction houses In the NHS, face-to-face GP some politicians still oppose fracking on building beautifully or providing new jargon, and arguably the woolly
still wheel about the evening have turned their noses up appointments are still hard to come by, the basis that it would take too long for services. Many locals have valid language is reflected in policy terms as
sky in huge murmurations, at our grandparents’ despite rallying cries to restore normal the potential benefits to emerge. With objections to new-builds in their area – well. Theirs seems a hand-to-mouth
are fantastic mimics, treasured possessions service, while under the “because of the current energy crisis itself a result though others will veto everything, no political existence; attempting to
imitating telephones and car because mahogany dining Covid” banner expectant mothers are of previous inaction, this logic seems matter what it is. survive the next month, or the next six,
alarms as well as curlews tables won’t sell. But surely still being directed to antenatal videos doubly absurd – a Homer Simpson-like without any obvious foresight or
and other birds. We even the colour brown is at least instead of health visits and birthing circular justification for not doing Instead of tagging a few (often ideological coherence. But at some
have some lovely colours: as interesting, in all its classes. The moment a shred of anything now. (“What’s the point of hideous) buildings onto existing point that catches up with you.
kingfishers, green possible variety of shades, normality returned to university going out? We’re just gonna wind up settlements, thus spreading the
woodpeckers, goldfinches, from cinnamon to brogue, as campuses after two years of the back here anyway,” says slacker Homer annoyance evenly, a more astute Labour, naturally, has little to offer
blue tits and yellowhammers prevailing fashionable dispiriting Zoom experience, lecturers to his long-suffering wife, Marge, when government might consider building the debate beyond its usual “quick-
are all native to this country. colours, such as grey. And resumed their campaign for better she suggests a “date night”). entire new towns, limiting the potential fixes”. Its proposed windfall tax on gas
The red kite, a gigantic bird anyway, don’t we feel an pensions than their students are ever disenchantment to a handful of MPs and oil companies is rapidly becoming a
which has been successfully affinity with the birdlife we likely to receive, and went on strike. War in Ukraine has slightly tempered and seats. Sadly this Government lacks catch-all solution to everything, just as a
reintroduced, got its name have got? the rhetoric – producing warmer noises the nerve to attempt anything so radical decade ago Ed Miliband was promising
for a reason: the rust- about reviewing the moratorium. But as that. Having toyed with reform, the to balance the books with that fabled
coloured underside of its We are a supposedly Kwasi Kwarteng, the Business Tories retreated like a spooked horse at tax on bankers’ bonuses. But when
enormous wings. Seeing undemonstrative people, Secretary, insists the plans cannot the water-jump after a few of their core economic growth remains stubbornly
one never ceases to fill me not known for being flashy proceed without “community consent”. voters got upset in the Chesham and low, and markets are prevented from
with awe. dressers, embarrassed when So how to achieve this? Aligning the Amersham by-election. fixing major problems, Labour’s
we draw attention to incentives of nearby residents with the sticking-plaster remedies will have
Although, admittedly, this ourselves. I have a drawer national interest, for a start. Locals’ Most dangerous of all is the way voter appeal. A bad solution may be
is special pleading. In hue full of tropical shirts objections to living near a fracking site young people, paying a particularly preferable to no solution at all.
the majority of native birds mistakenly bought while on might well vanish if they, for example, heavy price for our broken housing
are undistinguished, holiday. The children would system, incorrectly attribute their
because they are never forgive me if I wore
indistinguishable from their them. They’d much rather I
habitat. You can look for a looked like a blackbird than
long time before seeing a a bird of paradise. There is a
reed warbler, which is both reason we British hold the
little and brown and humble house sparrow –
expertly camouflaged for now, alas, becoming rare –
life among the rushes that so dearly in our hearts.
are its home. Nightingales
are equally shy. But follow Clive Aslet on
goodness, you can hear both Twitter @CliveAslet;
when they sing. One of the read more at
most insignificant of birds to telegraph.co.uk/opinion
look at is the skylark, which

Ukraine is paying for Germany’s complacency

Berlin is destroying its Kyiv, were shot, raped and tortured by price to pay for an embargo would be follow Katja have even suggested the sooner a ban
international reputation Russian soldiers in a war that is funded large. Christian Sewing, the chief Hoyer on Twitter comes the less economically painful it
by continuing to fund the in part through German energy bills. executive of Deutsche Bank, warned @hoyer_kat; will be owing to reduced demand in the
Russian war machine Since 2014 alone, Berlin has sent that “a significant recession in Germany read more at summer, giving the state and markets
€170 billion to Moscow to pay for gas, would be virtually unavoidable”. telegraph.co.uk/ more time to adjust.
katja hoyer coal and oil imports. Economy minister Robert Habeck opinion
agrees. He thinks it is “too soon” for an In fact, most experts don’t predict a
‘E very euro, every cent that you But Germany is struggling to cut the embargo. In his view, Germany is catastrophic scenario should energy
send to Russia is bloody money,” Kremlin’s economic tentacles. Despite already doing what it can as “every imports from Russia grind to a halt
Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, contract that is halted hurts Putin”. tomorrow. Habeck, too, has reassured
told reporters yesterday as he again some reductions being made, Germany the country that if Putin cuts off gas,
called on Europe to stop funding Putin’s still imports 40 per cent of its gas, a But to the people of Ukraine, a harsh “we will withstand the pressure and
war through trade. In light of the economic blow to Moscow cannot find solutions”. The risk is to German
reports of horrific atrocities committed third of its oil and half of its coal from come soon enough. Other countries prosperity, not stability.
against Ukrainian civilians, the EU is Russia. Much of the country’s energy have recognised the urgency of the
responding with a new sanctions infrastructure is also majority-owned situation. Poland is pressing ahead with Germany cannot keep funding
package. But Germany still blocks the a coal import ban and has successfully Putin’s war machine to avoid the
way to an import ban on Putin’s most by Russian companies – from pipelines pushed the EU into proposing this as a economic consequences of its own
lucrative asset: gas. and refineries to storage reservoirs. The bloc-wide policy in a new sanctions mistakes. In light of the situation in
package. Lithuania has become the first Ukraine, that is both morally wrong and
Berlin needs to accept that there is a government isn’t even clear who owns EU country to give up Russian gas politically short-sighted. Germany has
price to pay for its complacent energy Gazprom Germania, the Russian energy entirely. Even Italy, which is in a similar spent decades rebuilding its reputation,
policy over the last two decades. At the giant’s subsidiary in Germany. It has situation to Germany in terms of energy with Eastern European nations in
moment Ukrainians are paying it. The dependency, has said that it “will not particular. Every day it stands by as
number of victims is as yet now been put under state control. place vetoes on sanctions against Ukrainian citizens are murdered with
unconfirmed, but there can be no doubt The government is understandably Russian gas”. Only Germany’s “Nein” to bullets funded through its energy bills,
that civilians in the town of Bucha, near an embargo remains. it haemorrhages trust.
anxious about attempting to unroot the
insidious Russian energy network from Yet most studies predict an economic If Putin’s invasion is indeed to mark a
contraction of 3-4 per cent as a worst- watershed moment for Germany, then
its economic nervous system. The rest case scenario should Germany stop chancellor Olaf Scholz needs to prove it.
of Europe should be, too. Take the oil importing gas immediately. Gas prices Berlin could withdraw Moscow’s funds
refinery in Schwedt, 120km north-east could rise five-fold, but the supply for for this war tomorrow.
private households would remain stable
of Berlin. The Russian oil firm Rosneft if alternatives are fully exploited. Some Katja Hoyer is an Anglo-German
is the majority shareholder. Should it experts, like Benjamin Moll of the LSE, historian and visiting research
fellow at King’s College London
sabotage or close its asset, the entire
region around Berlin would be affected,
as well as western Poland. The same

applies to gas passed on to countries
like the Czech Republic, Austria and the

Netherlands.
There is no doubt that the economic

The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 6 April 2022 *** 15

Letters to the Editor

For too long the West has tiptoed around Russia instead of reining it in Channel 4’s defenders

ESTABLISHED 1855 sir – Anyone who saw the first episode weak and vacillating West continue to sir – The Foreign Secretary’s sir – The battle for the soul of the
of Thatcher & Reagan: A Very Special watch the destruction of a sovereign “maximum level” of sanctions will Conservative Party continues.
The UN is impotent Relationship will have understood nation and its people? Witness Bucha only be achieved once Russia has no Following their shock defeat over
in the face of horror why, in recent years, Russia has been and Mariupol. friends left. Brexit, and despite the 2019 general
allowed to perpetrate the most election result, liberal Conservatives,
I t has never been so easy to gather evidence of appalling crimes in Syria and Ukraine. When I hear that we must tighten Sympathetic countries, including in collaboration with opposition
war crimes. Satellite images now achieve such a sanctions, I wonder why they are not the Nato member Hungary, must be parties, have achieved great success in
level of detail that they can show individual The death and torture of so many tight already. The West needs to stand made to choose: align with the West or frustrating effective reform of many of
bodies on the streets. Smartphones have been used innocent people is due, in part, to the up to Mr Putin now. face sanctions and economic oblivion. the bastions of entrenched liberalism,
by the Ukrainians to capture videos of atrocities weakness of the Western world. We all Geoff Millward Only this approach will have the not least the BBC.
and publish them online. Investigators will have no want peace, but wringing our hands Sandside, Cumbria desired effect on the Russian war
shortage of material to prove that Vladimir Putin’s and saying we dare not get involved in machine. Now they are out in force again, led
forces are guilty of murder, rape, and the case Vladimir Putin uses a nuclear sir – It is now abundantly clear that as so often by Jeremy Hunt, opposing
brutalisation of the Ukrainian population and that weapon is simply not good enough. Mr Putin, along with elements of The world cannot be allowed to the privatisation of Channel 4 (report,
the Kremlin’s denials are mendacious. his administration, security forces forget the terrible scenes and stories of April 5). Channel 4, even more than the
Thatcher and Reagan would have and military, are the ones who need torture and murder. We must be BBC, is controlled by people who
None of this is likely to make it any easier to hold made sure that anyone who really to be denazified. willing to bear the cost of sanctions loathe traditional Conservatism.
Putin and his regime to account internationally, threatened peace was completely Oliver Tyson and increased military spending for
however, in part because Russia retains a veto as a deterred by the threat of even fiercer Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire years to come. We shall soon know if Boris Johnson
permanent member of the UN Security Council. retaliation. Spending money on Martin Whapshott has the sense and the willpower to
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, effective deterrents, backed up by sir – I trust Western governments will Frimley, Surrey stand firm, or whether we are to
addressed the UN yesterday, saying this gave strong words, would have saved much make it clear that, whether or not the witness yet another humiliating policy
Russia the “right to sow death”. The massacres in heartache and bloodshed – and Ukrainian and Russian governments sir – Surely the time is now long past U-turn. If we do, it will be an additional
towns such as Bucha have only highlighted how although it might have made us poorer reach an agreement to end the war, no for Russia to be expelled from the reason, on an already long list, why Mr
toothless the body has become. in the short term, I am sure we would sanctions will be lifted until all war United Nations Security Council Johnson has to go.
now consider it money well spent. criminals have faced justice at the altogether. Terry Smith
When the UN was set up in 1945, the hope was Peter Fairs International Criminal Court. London NW11
that it would avoid the deficiencies that plagued Colchester, Essex Rodney Francis Its permanent membership can no
its predecessor, the League of Nations, which Brentwood, Essex longer be tolerated. sir – Channel 4 might have found itself
was powerless to stop the slide into the Second sir – For how much longer will the Alan F Judge in a better public position on the issue
World War. To be fair to the UN, there has not Deeping St James, Lincolnshire of privatisation if it had not set about
been another major global conflict since it Dismissed by the GP fouling its own nest with such gusto in
was founded – although that might have rather We accept letters ALAMY recent years.
more to do with the proliferation of nuclear by post, fax and sir – Like Denise Beevers (Letters,
weapons than any high-minded discussions in email only. Please April 4), my husband was told to find Despite its ability to produce good
New York. include name, another doctor. We had been with our work from time to time, and regularly
address, work and surgery for more than 40 years. in news and factual broadcasting,
Aside from the embarrassing tendency for the home telephone programmes like Big Brother and
most brutal regimes in the world to acquire seats numbers. Our dismissal was prompted by a Naked Attraction are simply garbage.
on UN human rights bodies, at the heart of the recent request for a home visit, which
problem is the Security Council. Populated by the 111 Buckingham could not take place as we live “outside Having bureaucrats in the
victors of the Second World War, the UK and Palace Road, the catchment area”. We live 2.8 miles organisation run off at the mouth
France retain a leading role, while larger London away. A private company contracted to politically doesn’t help either. Let’s
economies such as Japan have no permanent seat. SW1W 0DT the local NHS trust to provide home hope that in a proper competitive
The presence of China and Russia, meanwhile, visits to patients such as us saw fit to environment it may focus on quality.
means that two nations that have long been guilty fax try to call at 1.12 am, and we have been Rob White
of terrible breaches of international norms can 020 7931 2878 told that even this company cannot Former Channel 4 producer
block moves to discipline them. now provide us with home visits. London N3
email
There does not seem to be much appetite for dtletters@ My husband has medical conditions Falklands lessons
reform, although countries such as India and telegraph.co.uk that need constant monitoring. As the
Nigeria occasionally complain about the lack of surgery fears that he will need to be sir – Further to Commodore Michael
influence accorded to rising powers. It is also follow seen increasingly regularly and home Clapp’s letter (March 29), genuine
not clear what sorts of reform would be possible, Telegraph Letters visits are effectively out of the lessons were in fact learnt from the
given that no country is likely to willingly give up on Twitter question, we are asked to go Falklands campaign.
its veto. @LettersDesk elsewhere. Whatever happened to the
Patients’ Charter, and “our” NHS? I had the privilege to be the first
Perhaps the rot at the heart of the UN mattered Jane E Everson A platform at the Chestnut oil field in the North Sea, which is due to be decommissioned commanding officer of HMS Cornwall
less in a world where the United States was Leicester when she commissioned in April 1988.
still the global hegemon, or even when the US The best way to meet Britain’s oil and gas needs She was the first of the Batch 3 Type 22
and USSR were locked in a cold war. Now it just C of E retirement age frigates, which were designed to
looks impotent. SIR – The green extremists who the problems posed by a potential include many “lessons learnt” from
sir – The standard retirement age for object to the use of fossil fuels should shortage of coal. The Welsh the campaign.
Investment strategy most clergy in the Church of England be reminded that we need oil and gas government has both the Tata steel
is 70. The Archbishop of Canterbury as the feedstocks for the production works at Port Talbot and the She was fitted with much-improved
T he sale of a semiconductor company in granted permission to the Dean of of other non-fuel hydrocarbons, and opencast coal mine at Ffos-y-Fran to missile and air defence in the form of
Wales may not appear particularly Canterbury, Robert Willis for other uses such as for the consider. the Goalkeeper close-in weapon
significant in the grand scheme of things, but (Peterborough, March 26), whom he manufacture of fertilisers, the system and the Sea Wolf GWS-25 mod
the transaction highlights how little thinking has admires greatly, to extend his planned by-product of which is carbon The latter provides high-quality 3 missile system. Her Harpoon missiles
been done on how to balance the UK’s openness to retirement by five years, which is the dioxide for the food industry. coal to Tata, but is due to be closed. could engage surface contacts out to
foreign investment with national security. maximum extension legally permitted. Recently its washing plant has 70 miles. She could operate one Merlin
It would probably be better if the broken down and, given the limited or two Lynx helicopters, thereby
Newport Wafer Fab is the UK’s largest microchip We continue to give thanks to God oil and gas were sourced from time remaining, it is deemed significantly extending the ship’s
facility by volume and it was bought last year by a for Dean Robert’s 21 years of British assets in the North Sea and uneconomic to repair. Coal can be weapon and sensor capabilities. Her
subsidiary of the Chinese company Wingtech. MPs extraordinary service to Canterbury elsewhere. transported to another washing site improved damage-control capability
are concerned because semiconductors are a vital Cathedral, and join with many in George Herrick – but is this the best solution? enabled her to withstand battle
component in an increasing number of products praying for him as he prepares to retire Salford, Lancashire damage while staying operational.
and China seems set on dominating the market. on the eve of his 75th birthday in May. If Tata cannot obtain coal of the
The Government promised an investigation and Canon David Porter SIR – Has the Prime Minister not seen quality it needs, at economic prices, HMS Cornwall was an impressive
ministers could still intervene. Chief of Staff to the Archbishop of the letters (March 17 and April 1) then the risk is that it will close the weapon platform that served the Royal
Canterbury about Rolls-Royce nuclear power works, with serious consequences Navy well for over two decades.
The questions the sale raises have become more London SE1 plants, and the vacant industrial for jobs and the economy in South Capt Chris Wreford-Brown RN (retd)
acute since the pandemic and the invasion of roofs available for solar panels? Wales. Loss of the steelworks would South Brent, Devon
Ukraine. Just-in-time supply chains, a permissive Chronicles of power increase our dependence on
attitude to foreign investment and the offshoring Both are eminently sensible imports. Crisps’ second flavour
of some production have resulted in an sir – Sir Mark Rowley’s debut novel is options, which would obviate the
unprecedented increase in global prosperity. But called The Sleep of Reason (report, April need for the unsightly wind turbines The reality is that our sir – Cheese and onion, salt and
many nations were too complacent about their 4). I wonder if the former head of UK on which Mr Johnson seems fixated. consumption needs to be reduced. vinegar, chicken and chorizo and other
ability to handle disruption even to essential goods counter-terrorism is aware that this is Madge Ayres This, coupled with more localised dual-flavoured crisps (Letters, April 5)
such as foodstuffs. also the name of a work by one of this Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire production here, would offer a far tend to taste more strongly of the
country’s great novelists, C P Snow. better and more sustainable second flavour.
Autarky would not be in the UK’s interests, since SIR – It is not just the British solution.
a relatively large share of our economy relies on Published in 1968, The Sleep of Government that needs to address Jonathan Mann A notable exception was the
foreign trade and we are good at attracting capital. Reason was the 10th novel in Snow’s Gunnislake, Cornwall hedgehog-flavoured crisp in the early
But nor is it wise to ignore the downsides. Moves magnificent series, Strangers and 1980s, which, despite using pork fat,
have already been made to remove Chinese firms, Brothers, which dealt with political and Rural homes left waiting for a broadband link tasted more like privet.
such as Huawei, from critical networks. personal integrity and the mechanics Michael Bacon
of exercising power. Snow also gave us sir – Openreach first came to our Since then we have received emails Bordon, Hampshire
An ad hoc approach is unlikely to give companies the phrase “corridors of power” in his village in November to fit fibre-to-the- saying: “You are now connected.” We
the certainty they need to navigate these waters. 1964 novel of the same name. premises broadband. are not. BT sent us a “mini hub”, which sir – I cringe every time I see a packet
The sanctions imposed on Russia will have made allows us to use our mobile phones in of crisps described as “hand cooked”,
many think twice about deepening ties with Given the activities we see in Two weeks ago, a man spent several some parts of the house, but we are yet and wonder, first, how it is possible to
countries that may also face economic isolation in Westminster and Whitehall today, hours joining two wires from a to be connected to fibre. We are 80 and get hands to the temperature
the future. The Government needs a much more Snow’s novels would merit a read by all telegraph pole to our house. Once 76, with no landline, dodgy 3G and no necessary to cook potatoes – and,
coherent strategy to help them balance the risks. would-be politicians and civil servants. inside, however, he wasn’t “qualified” broadband. What is going on? secondly, why this method is
Caroline Flynn-MacLeod to join our line to the new fibre. Days Gillian Culmer considered superior to any other
Unnatural selection London SW1 later, another man arrived but he also East Clandon, Surrey method of cooking.
couldn’t finish the job. Fred Sommers
B ack in November 2020, we reported that Eversley, Hampshire
Cambridge University Library had called in
the police after a routine check revealed that Channel 4 has become a Left-wing Frankenstein
two of Charles Darwin’s notebooks, last seen more
than 20 years ago, were missing and presumed Mrs Thatcher would be political spectrum. When Jimmy speech, was appointed the head of In June 2019 a comedy show, Year of
stolen. This newspaper shared the librarians’ appalled and shocked by Goldsmith first voiced his opposition to news and current affairs? The channel’s the Rabbit, depicted a foamingly Right-
dismay, and described the culprits as being “pretty the anti-Tory takeover of the EU, for example, it was in a lecture ingrained dislike of the Prime Minister wing campaigner called “Neil Fromage”
low on Darwin’s tree of life, alongside the amoeba”. the broadcaster she set up for Channel 4’s Opinions series in 1993. was seen when a reporter was accused being shot in the head. The Guardian
It is a relief then that the notebooks have been The libertarian Martin Durkin was of coaxing two women who had been described it as “a heady mix of period
returned, though the whodunnit is far from solved. andrew allowed to make documentaries on attacked on a London bus into detail, gleeful anachronism and baroque
The clues are tantalising. A package left in a CCTV roberts subjects such as global warming and effectively blaming Boris for the crime profanity”. Understandably its very
blackspot. An enigmatic note. Curious evidence the national debt. The Left tended to and saying that he was “not fit to lead obvious target, Nigel Farage, was less
that the notebooks “have clearly been treated with L iberal Conservatives such as have more of a say, but within a the UK”. Channel 4 has brushed off impressed, saying “with Channel 4, we
care”. If only Inspector Morse had chosen a Damian Green and Ruth Davidson reasonable framework that also allowed thousands of complaints to Ofcom have reached a point where they are so
different university town in which to make his are queuing up to denounce the conservative voices to be heard. about bias over the years. partisan, politically, in everything they
career. At the very least, somebody out there owes Government over the privatisation of do that they now consistently go beyond
Cambridge a seriously hefty library fine. Channel 4, which is of course their It is hard to spot the precise moment Or was it in 2008 when it chose what’s acceptable”.
right, but when they try to drag when Channel 4 slipped into its present President Ahmadinejad of Iran to give
Margaret Thatcher’s name into their role as a virulently anti-Tory, crypto- its Alternative Christmas Message, who A few months later, during the 2019
campaign they need to be reminded of Corbynite propaganda outlet, parroting told viewers that Jesus was anti- election, Channel 4 replaced Boris
the truth about her and the television the views of London’s metropolitan American and anti-British? “If Christ Johnson with a melting ice sculpture at
channel she created 40 years ago. establishment. But the idea that Mrs were on Earth today,” he claimed, a climate change debate, one at which
Thatcher would today oppose the “undoubtedly He would stand with the they refused to allow Michael Gove to
Back in 1982 there were only three privatisation of Channel 4, as posited in people in opposition to bullying, speak. When Boris’s victory in the 2019
TV channels, and Thatcher was a tweet by Damian Green, is ludicrous. ill-tempered and expansionist powers.” election was announced, the specially
interested in having a genuine diversity He even had the gall to call for “a return selected Channel 4 audience booed.
of views broadcast because, in contrast The way that Channel 4 has behaved to human values” while his regime
to the image the Left loves to portray, over the past decade and a half has instituted the death penalty for Iranians At Christmas 2020, the reliably
she was genuinely interested in debate. meant that she would be cheering on converting to Christianity. republican Channel 4 produced a truly
But even during her lifetime, Channel 4 Boris Johnson and Nadine Dorries in grotesque takeoff of the Queen’s
fell victim to Robert Conquest’s Second their extension of her signature Then there were all of Jon Snow’s Christmas message, in which Her
Law of Politics, that “any organisation privatisation policy to an operation that antics in his role as presenter of Majesty’s head was superimposed on an
not explicitly Right-wing sooner or was worthwhile when there were three Channel 4 News between 1989 and actress’s body by computer-generated
later becomes Left-wing”. channels but is meaningless now there 2021. He used to refuse to wear a poppy imagery, and she was depicted making
are 333. For the Government’s plans are on Remembrance Day, denouncing jokes about lavatory rolls and a pathetic
In its original incarnation under the essentially Thatcherite, about attracting what he called “poppy fascism”. In June double entendre about being seated “on
formidably talented broadcaster Jeremy more investment, acknowledging that 2017 he was heard chanting “F--- the the throne”.
Isaacs, the channel was committed to governments don’t know more about Tories!” at Glastonbury, and two years
serious programming, and giving space running a business than businesses, later when reporting from a pro-Brexit All of this would have left Margaret
to a range of views from across the and that in a multi-media democracy rally he said that he had “never seen so Thatcher sickened and embarrassed
the government shouldn’t be owning a many white people in one place”. The about the Frankenstein that she had
TV channel anyhow. format of Channel 4 “debates” tended to created, and all in favour of forcing
have two Left-wingers against one Channel 4 to face the cold winds of
Readers will decide for themselves conservative, with Snow, the competition, albeit around 20 years
when the Left started to dominate “moderator”, interjecting such remarks too late.
Channel 4. Was it in 2003 when as the claim that Tory austerity had
Dorothy Byrne, who later called Boris “gripped people by the throat”. Andrew Roberts is a trustee of the
Johnson a “known liar” in a public Margaret Thatcher Archive Trust

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Puzzles, Mind Games & Telegraph Toughie

The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 6 April 2022 *** 17

Inside Fashion,
Fea�res &Arts
Lisa ARMSTRONG p.19
Simeon TEGEL
p.20

Eleanor STEAFEL p.20

and

Allison PEARSON p.21

The nine lives of Anna Wintour

Could a staff mutiny be the controversy that brings down the doyenne of American ‘Vogue’, asks Laura Craik

T hroughout her 34-year career at being a given. Secondly, she is lay. That’s what keeps her in the game.” company – which owns The New Yorker
the helm of American Vogue, surrounded by a loyal team built up “She effectively exerts her own and Vanity Fair magazines, as well as
Anna Wintour has gathered over decades, with Condé Nast’s board Vogue – have formed a union to push
more titles than the Queen, and of directors continuing to support her. gravitational force field, magnetised by for better pay, increased job security
weathered almost as many strategically deployed invitations, and a stronger commitment to
controversies. Installed as editor-in- Thirdly, and most pertinently, she is introductions, magazine features and diversity and equality.
chief in 1988, she has risen to become adroit at adapting: or at least, at messages of support,” The New York
parent company Condé Nast’s artistic seeming to adapt, positioning herself Times fashion director, Vanessa Wintour’s camp has distanced her
director, global editorial director and on the right side of history. Friedman, has said. from these complaints. A source
global chief content officer, as well as insisted it was a corporate issue, which
being awarded a damehood in 2017. In “Like all good editors, Anna is Even so, the woman dubbed is “not her thing”. But could this be the
the capricious world of fashion, where interested in everything,” says Jo “Nuclear Wintour” is currently scandal that dethrones her? Or will her
fortunes rise and fall like hemlines, Elvin, who edited Condé Nast title experiencing her most atomic bout of savvy ways save her once more?
Wintour’s survival skills are legendary. Glamour between 2001 and 2017. career turbulence yet. Last June,
“I remember when she put Kim Condé Nast workers staged protests Wintour’s frosty demeanour, love of
Why has she remained at the Kardashian and Kanye West on the outside her Manhattan townhouse, fur and dextrous way of avoiding being
pinnacle for so long? Firstly, she is both cover of Vogue in 2014. Some shook chanting “The boss wears Prada, the eliminated by circumstances that
dedicated to and good at her job: you their fists at the move… but she workers get nada” and carrying would end most people’s careers are
don’t get to stay at the top without this rolled with the times and banners saying “You can’t eat prestige”. more than a little reminiscent of a cat.
where people’s fascinations
Now, over 500 employees from the Here, we examine her nine lives.

1 The affair AFP 5 The tell-all book
In February 1999, New York Once upon a time, Anna
was rocked by Wintour’s Wintour and André Leon
affair with Shelby Bryan (left), Talley (right) were joined at
married Texas cellphone the hip, side by side at shows
millionaire. Wintour herself and dinners in a manner that
had been married for 15 years suggested forever friendship.
to child psychiatrist David But life is not a Hallmark card,
Schaffer. Both left their and in 2018, American Vogue’s
partners to be together, most high-profile black
marrying in a private employee fell out with
ceremony in 2004 (and Wintour. His 2020
splitting in 2020). The scandal autobiography, The Chiffon
didn’t tarnish Wintour, who Trenches, referred to Wintour
spent her 70th year in as “incapable of simple human
circumstances women half her kindness”. When Talley died in
age can only dream of, on a January, the two were still
string of dates with actor Bill estranged, with Wintour
Nighy. Whether they are still further criticised for the time
together is unclear. it took her to post a tribute.

2 The woke makeover 6 The disgraced designer
If the Vogue offices are In 2012, Wintour was
now bastions of racial photographed meeting
diversity, as some claim, it with then-disgraced designer
certainly wasn’t ever thus. So John Galliano (right), who had
when Wintour was recently been fired from Christian Dior
alleged to have uttered the the previous year after being
words “Why are there so many recorded making racist and
white people in the room?” anti-Semitic comments. Her
upon entering her Manhattan support hugely helped
office, eyebrows were rehabilitate his career: after a
understandably raised. She stint in rehab, he returned to
also managed to exonerate the catwalk in 2014, going on
herself from responsibility to become creative director of
when Teen Vogue’s incoming Margiela. Wintour has been
editor, Alexi McCammond similarly loyal to other
(left), resigned over racist and problematic fashion names.
homophobic tweets. At the age Whatever mud is slung, it
of 72, Wintour had finally read never sticks to Wintour’s shiny
the room. Teflon-coated carapace.

3 The satirical book 7 The Met Ball mis-step
In 2003, Wintour’s The annual ball at the
former assistant, Lauren Metropolitan Museum of
Weisberger, published The Art’s Costume Institute has
Devil Wears Prada, a barely long been self-billed as
disguised fiction drawn from “fashion’s biggest night of the
her experiences working at year”. In recent years, Wintour
American Vogue, which was – the chair – has been accused
made into a film three years of “ruining” the Met Ball, with
later starring Meryl Streep (left) some of New York’s elite
and Anne Hathaway. Wintour complaining she has made it
allegedly said the film would too “populist”. But only a
“probably go straight to DVD”; raging snob would disagree
it made over $300 million. that Wintour’s more inclusive
Then in one of the volte faces guest list – with the likes of
at which she’s so adept, she Kanye West and Kim
praised it for making fashion Kardashian (right) in
“entertaining and glamorous” attendance – isn’t a positive,
– and niftily turning up to the even if it was made through
premiere wearing Prada. gritted teeth.

4 The controversial 8 The political spat
interview Wintour has long been
“Asma al-Assad is interested in politics, so
glamorous, young and very when she put Kamala Harris
chic – the freshest and most on the cover of Vogue in
magnetic of first ladies…” So January 2021 (right), the world
wrote Joan Juliet Buck in a didn’t bat an eyelid. But her
March 2011 interview with the trouser suit and Converse
wife (left) of Syrian president, sneakers were widely
Bashar al-Assad. It took a year criticised, with the internet
for Wintour to break her dubbing it “disrespectful”.
silence: “We were hopeful According to a new book by
that the Assad regime The New York Times reporters
would be open to a Jonathan Martin and Alex
more progressive Burns, Harris felt belittled,
society… ” The asking aides: “Would Vogue
scandal passed. depict another world leader
Wintour this way?” Wintour pushed
remained back, admitting she’d chosen
in power. the cover image on the basis
that Harris looked “relatable”.
Page turner: Anna
Wintour has enjoyed 9 The fur protest
a 34-year reign For decades, Wintour was
at US Vogue as wedded to her furs
as she was to her black
sunglasses. In 1996, during a
lunch at the Four Seasons
hotel, a protestor approached
her table, pulled a dead
raccoon from her bag and
tossed it onto her plate –
barely causing her to flinch.
But that was then: by 2020,
she was pictured wearing
“fur-free” coats by Gucci and
Stella McCartney. While Elle
banned fur and exotic skins
from its pages last year, Vogue
is yet to do so.

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Fashion

What we to a female gaze, rather than the male
really want gaze. It’s body-positive, size and
from our skin-tone inclusive. It’s even age
underwear inclusive. It isn’t just midlifers and
beyond who are mad for it. Gen Z-ers
Kim Kardashian’s Skims brand is pinch their mothers’ Skims so they can
everything Victoria’s Secret isn’t. wear it as outerwear.
By Lisa Armstrong and Laura Craik
Kim’s Crew are all about embracing
F riday night in Soho House, and co-founder, Jens Grede (one of the GETTY IMAGES Kim’s Crew: women have bid farewell to their natural shape, and improving it
the cocktails are flowing. A group co-founders of Frame, the US denim via a series of aforementioned teeny
of women are celebrating a brand) have bigger ambitions than could always be called on to provide were finally laid to rest, creating a Victoria’s Secret-style lingerie, left, and are briefs and bras that once on,
birthday when one of them delves into that. On Monday, they revealed new quotes about how “empowering” the chasm for a new kind of underwear. miraculously stretch and expand, all
the depths of her handbag. “Happy advertising images for Skims’ Fits whole experience was, which made loving the Kardashian’s Skims, above while providing the smoothness and
birthday!” she trills. “Open it!” Everybody range featuring Alessandra anyone with qualms look uptight. Enter KK, with her 298 million coverage we all crave, especially if
Ambrosio, Tyra Banks, Heidi Klum and followers on Instagram (anyone would and discomfort were the last things on we’re wearing unlined clothes, tight
Is it a scented candle? Missoma Candice Swanepoel – and Kim herself, After MeToo, perspectives on how think Kardashian had form when it their mind. The brand was an instant hit trousers, bias-cut skirts or dresses…
earrings? A Smythson notebook? None because she always places herself front brands presented (and spoke to) women comes to cashing in on a zeitgeist). and consistently has waiting lists of over We may be fascinated by corsets in all
of these trusty gifting stalwarts. It is, and centre of her brands. That the shifted radically. Overnight, views that Skims was well poised to capitalise on 100,000 for its Fits Everybody range. their weird historical incarnations
instead, a small black leotard with other four women are former Victoria’s would have been dismissed as uptight the pandemic. As millions took to their (online searches for them have
crooked sides that wouldn’t fit Secret “Angels” – the contentious title became mainstream. In 2019 VS shows sofas and their joggers, underwiring Any brand with a famous owner is rocketed since Bridgerton) but most of
Tinkerbell. It’s doubtful whether it accorded by Victoria’s Secret to its guaranteed attention. But this was us don’t actually want to wear one. Nor
would even fit Tinkerbell’s doll. “I like models – is no accident. Banks, 48, different. From its clever name, do we any longer want underwear
it,” says the recipient. “What is it?” worked with the company for 10 years; alluding to Kardashian’s first name, with ribbons and furbelows that make
48-year old Klum for 13. and the verb, Skims comes in nine skin us feel like a prettily wrapped gift. In
Reader, it is Skims. For pixies. tones and nine sizes, and some 2022, underwear is a high-
“Don’t worry – they stretch. Look.” Casting these alumnae in the Skims impressive, innovative fabrics, performance, multitasker that puts
says the donor. She lifts up her top. A campaign is a shot across the bows to including its butter-soft Fits women firmly in control of how they
pale peach cylinder sits round her the ailing brand that once stood at the Everybody material, which look and feel – as opposed to the old
stomach. In the middle of a bar packed pinnacle of the global lingerie market. according to fans, feels so comfortable kind, which was about constriction, or
full of young, lithe, fanciable people, These women aren’t Victoria’s Secret it’s akin to not wearing anything. It being objectified, or spending too
she has just shown everyone her Angels. They’re Kim’s Crew now. And also just so happens to have perfected much time worrying that something
shapewear, that pariah of the they couldn’t be more different. the no-wire bra just as everyone was was going to pop out or a strap was
underwear world that so recently used Victoria’s Secret Angels went on starting to jettison them. So even as we about to snap.
to be kept discreetly under wraps. draconian diets before being put on crawled out of hibernation, it had
What has changed? the mortuary slab – sorry, appearing in everything we needed to face the Sure Skims contours. But it doesn’t
What has changed is Kim Kardashian one of those “prestigious” VS shows world. It has mastered the cut, the feel squeeze your excess into weird little
– or rather, midlife women’s opinion of – prancing about in lurid lace and and the underlying message of its parcels of resistance that
her. Kardashian, 41, has gone from tortured cantilevering with ludicrous product. This is underwear for disconcertingly pop up around the
being a reality TV star with feathery angel wings strapped to their women, bought by women, to appeal borders of your cycling shorts, as is the
unfathomable appeal to a credible backs. (News alert, if angels are real, case with some of the more draconian
businesswoman, the efficacy of whose they probably don’t wear leopard-print shapewear out there. Mentioning no
most successful brand, Skims, speaks thongs.) names, but I for one have felt physically
for itself. If the science of its super- ill halfway through one smart fashion
stretchy fabric is yet to convince you, You didn’t have to be Germaine dinner and had to remove my all-in-
the figures will. Launched in Greer to find this glitterball of one boobs-to-mid-thigh sausage skin
September 2019, it has already been tastelessness deeply cringey. We went before pudding.
valued at $3.2 billion, overtaking that to a VS show in London – a no expenses
other behemoth of the shapewear spared affair with Ed Sheeran on guitar That piece of kit still sits in a drawer
world, Spanx. In November, Spanx, and a bunch of heavily perspiring at home, glinting malevolently in its
founded in 2000 by Sara Blakely, was males who’d paid big bucks to be there American tan glory, a ghastly warning
valued at $1.2 billion. on the front row. It was a tack-fest of of the consequences of wearing outer
Unlike Spanx, however, Skims monumental clod-footedness. You’d layers that are slightly below par in
doesn’t see itself merely as a have thought it was 1964 not 2014. But their construction or remotely clingy.
shapewear brand. Kardashian and her highly paid Victoria’s Secret models
Basically, unless you habitually
dress in a tent, at some point you’ll
need some behind-the-scenes first aid.
And this is what Skims is. It doesn’t just
hold you in, it creates a silky
membrane between one’s skin, with all
its bobbles and idiosyncrasies, and
anything you choose to drape over it.
In Kardashian’s case, that includes
track pants and leggings, because, let’s
face it, VPL is no respecter of occasion,
and with Skims, you don’t get VPL – or
scratchiness, cheap-looking lace or
cluelessly placed seams.

Such is its seduction that even
shapewear refuseniks are reassessing
their prejudices. This is quite
something for a brand helmed by a
woman as Marmite as Kardashian.
Many have felt anguish over the fact
that they’re buying a product from a
woman they previously despised, but
the genius of Kardashian is that as well
as making us rethink underwear, she’s
managed to make us reassess her.
She’ll be running for president next
– and not just of a global corporation.

Skims, from £14 at skims.com

THE 1890s 1950s 2001 2010s 2020s
EVOLUTION
OF WHAT Immense pressure The hourglass was “Hello, Mummy!” Spanx dominated With models of all
LIES to have unfeasibly in fashion and the Will any woman control underwear ages, sizes and
BENEATH small waists saw New Look be as synonymous for so long that it ethnicities, Skims
makers give silhouette with big knickers became a has made
corsets names like required sturdy as Bridget Jones? household name. shapewear not
La Fiancée, which underwear. Enter Daniel Cleaver was It may have ceded only flattering and
promised success the girdle; with delighted, the spotlight to comfortable, but
in the marriage zips, they were at although the sight Skims, but its reign also fashionable.
market, and the least easier to wear put women off made founder Sara
elegant-sounding than Victorian control underwear Blakely a very rich
Swanbill. corsets. for a few years. woman.

June Brown: the most unlikely style icon on British TV

The actress’s vintage-chic The Crown. “People look at the fag first ADAM PENSOTTI; BBC; ITV/SHUTTERSTOCK; GETTY IMAGES June Brown as Dot Cotton, from left to want to copy her style from head to
but there would be a brooch, a toe but there’s a lot we can learn from
wardrobe could have come necklace or an old-fashioned handbag, averse 1980s – then fashion changed, ugly windbreakers, Dot was mirroring right, was forever stylish in psychedelic her approach.”
which were also brilliant clues to and by the millennium, she had the shift we were seeing in high-end
straight from the catwalks, unwittingly morphed into one of the fashion as houses moved away from blouses, trench coats and pussy-bows that Of course, anyone who has watched
her character.” best-dressed people on British the aesthetic of the late 1990s towards Brown being interviewed will know
says Melissa Twigg Few of us picked up television. a more vintage-inspired one. matched the catwalks, below left that the actress – who grew up in
Suffolk and had an upper-crust accent
When a colleague told me I on them. One While younger EastEnders Prada sent models down the knee skirts that were almost – was very different from her most
dressed like Dot Cotton, it felt broadsheet characters such as Sonia and Bianca catwalks in fitted cardigans, indistinguishable from the outfits famous character.
like an insult. One glance at newspaper even were in low-rise jeans, vest tops and buttoned-up blouses and below-the- Brown was wearing to do the rounds
June Brown’s clothes during her wrote the on Albert Square, while the Gucci While Dot’s floral blouses (very
35-year reign on EastEnders proves it following in its collections were filled with Dot- Valentino), psychedelic shirts (more
was anything but. Her character’s obituary of friendly pussy-bow blouses and tweed Burberry), black handbags (quite
colourful print blouses, flared trench Brown this jackets. Had style blogger The Celine) and corduroy jackets (so Gucci
coats, neat cardigans and fitted skirts week: “When Sartorialist visited Walford, he might menswear) have chimed with high-
look like pieces from the Prada and Dot returned to have asked Dot to take a morning off fashion trends, Brown’s personal style
Gucci catwalks – although Dot was the square her from defending Nasty Nick to feature was a mix of Wallis Simpson and early
wearing them long before either attire was as her alongside the silver foxes and Princess Diana.
house was designing them. This unfashionable as bike-riding fashionistas of
begs the question: are Alessandro ever, in sharp continental Europe. When she went to Buckingham
Michele and Miuccia Prada secret fans contrast to the Palace to receive an MBE from the
of EastEnders? ever-elegant “Oh, Dot was well ahead of her Queen, Brown wore a deep pink skirt
Brown’s.” time,” says Menage. “She wore 1970s suit in a sleek 1930s cut with a
If so, the upper echelons of Milanese The truth is that dagger collars and bold print blouses, matching hat – the colours, naturally,
fashion will be wearing black this maybe a 1940s style coat and 1950s had been chosen to match the hue of
week in homage to Brown, who has the last thing the handbag, so I’d like to think the the MBE bow.
died at the age of 95. The gifted actress costume designers character was supposed to be
spent more than 30 years wanted was for Albert interested in fashion and rummaging Brown was a meticulous dresser and
on the stage, but will Square’s nosiest woman in charity shops for her clothes. was often photographed in sailor-neck
always be best known to be on-trend. And she Nowadays some of those blouses could suits that were reminiscent of Diana in
for the role she took wasn’t when they started have come straight from a catwalk in the 1980s – although perhaps it was the
in 1985 playing a styling her in the vintage- Milan. princess (a self-described fan of
hypochondriac EastEnders) who was inspired by
busybody (and “I’m not saying we would the actress.
unexpected
style influencer) Less likely to be following the
on the BBC’s goings-on in Albert Square was the
longest- famously snobbish Duchess of
running soap. Windsor. Although her look –
immaculately tailored skirts and
Not that poor jackets, belted silk dresses, clip-on
Dot ever earrings and pearls – lived on
received the in Brown.
praise she
deserved. “Dot was Lady Gaga, however, had no such
such an unlikely qualms. When the singer met Brown
fashion icon that we on The Graham Norton Show in 2013,
never saw what was in she clutched her cheeks in delight as
front of our eyes,” says Brown lifted the hem of her striped
Chiara Menage, a dress to reveal a pair of scarlet
self-described clothes tights underneath.
detective who finds
vintage pieces for “Oh my God, and she has a purse and
television shows such as an e-cigarette with her,” exclaimed
Gaga, who was wearing a black
headpiece and a beaded see-through
dress. “She’s just too fabulous.”

Indeed she was.

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Lisa Armstrong

Key figure: Adjoa Andoh
as Lady Danbury, with
Ruth Gemmell as Lady
Bridgerton, Golda
Rosheuvel as Queen
Charlotte. Andoh wears
a made-to-measure suit
from The Deck, Savile
Row’s only specialist in
women’s tailoring

‘You get a sense of what
it was like to be a
woman and financially
insecure at that time’

LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX Among her most recent is The
Strangest Family: The Private Lives of
‘Being an unmarried woman terrified George lll, Queen Charlotte and the
them. That’s why they were such peacocks’ Hanoverians, by Janice Hadlow, an
absorbing panoramic and personal
R emember the brouhaha over the blazer – and we didn’t even have a upwardly mobile after their feckless grown up near Bath, where much of overview of the time. She thinks
many alleged inaccuracies in uniform. I like to look stoosh [sharp],” father has squandered their Bridgerton is filmed, studied in Bristol, history is too partitioned in school. “I
Bridgerton when the she says. That’s why she still loves inheritance, wear unfailingly a city replete with grand architecture look at my three kids and they learned
Shondaland-produced extravaganza men’s clothes and tailoring in her own gaudylicious shades that didn’t exist built on slavery and with a history about the Tudors and the Nazis with
debuted last year? That’s why I feel wardrobe. back then. teacher mother, she’s steeped in very little connective tissue between
duty-bound to ask Adjoa Andoh, the 18th-century back story – yet relaxed the two eras. There’s still a lot that isn’t
59-year-old actress breathing such She’s recently developed a taste for Andoh, who’s acted with everyone about Bridgerton’s playfulness because spoken about.”
vibrant life into the marvellous Lady The Deck, the only Savile Row tailor from Clint Eastwood and Morgan she feels it portrays certain truths
Danbury, about the F Word. Did they that caters specifically for women and Freeman in Invictus, to the RSC and about the period. “I’ve recorded about While she says the cast felt
really use zips for some of the has commissioned a number of suits Doctor Who, while finding time to seven billion audiobooks,” she reports, Bridgerton had a fair chance of success,
fastenings? from them, including one for her become a lay preacher in 2009, says “so I’ve learned quite a bit of history.” no one was prepared for it to be
mother, another stoosh dresser. she’s “an anorak about detail”. Having streamed by 81 million households in its
“Zips… Zips?” she responds. “I love that Daisy Knatchbull, the first month. What drew her to it initially
(Imagine Edith Evans spitting out the founder, has infiltrated the male was the character. “Lady Danbury
words “A handbag?” in The Importance bastion of Savile Row.” strongly resonated with me and I knew
of Being Earnest and you’re some way exactly what to do with her.”
to conjuring up the colossal outrage in She wanted some stoosh for Lady
her voice). “Oh my God, no, no. NO. Danbury, “who’s probably the most The casting was also intriguing. “It’s
Netflix threw the kitchen sink at this. privileged character in the whole not exactly colour blind because there
It’s not just about the budgets, but the series – a wealthy, well-connected were people of colour among the
quality of the tailoring and the level of widow. The three magical Ws for a aristocracy in the 18th century and
care that’s gone into the costumes and woman of that time. No husband or 19th century.” Along with some of the
sets. It’s the tiny felt maker they sons to boss her around.” Bridgerton team, she’s producing a
tracked down in Spain, the wig script based on a novel about Dorothy
designers, the boot and button Lady Danbury’s many costumes are Kirwan Thomas, a Caribbean slave
makers… It’s stunning. Huge shout out invariably cut close to the torso – the who became a hugely successful
to the designers because half the better to show off that immaculate entrepreneur, marrying her daughters
performance is whether you feel good upright posture – with stiff, high off to wealthy white businessmen in
in the clothes – especially for someone redingote collars, diminutive top hats Europe.
like Lady Danbury, who is such an and that distinctive cane that bring a
intentional dresser. Clothes are her dash of masculine swagger to her We mull over why so little is known
weapon of choice.” jewel-coloured empire line dresses. about some historical prominent
One of her corsets – contrary to the people of colour. The idea that Queen
The same could be said of Andoh, armchair fashion historians who Caroline, George III’s wife, was mixed
protested otherwise, they wore corsets race or black – a theory that has gained
in the Regency period – was made by more credence in the past few years
Mr Pearl, a fashion favourite who – seems to be borne out by the famous
worked with Alexander McQueen, portrait of her. So how did no one
Thierry Mugler, Isabella Blow, and notice before? “Sometimes facts are
Kylie Minogue. “We became quite hiding in plain sight,” says Andoh. “We
good friends,” she says, of Mr Pearl. see what we want to see, or what we
“You talk about the highs and lows of believe might be true.”
doing Bridgerton – the corsets, which
ran from breasts to hips, are both. They What might be true in the case of
make you look amazing, but you can’t Bridgerton is that she’s there for the
eat anything starchy. And never loosen long haul, since Lady Danbury features
it while you’re having lunch. Some of in all eight of the novels on which the
the other actors did and they’re agony show is based.
to lace up again afterwards.”
“You never want to make
While surface is of paramount assumptions in this business. We only
importance in Bridgerton, it’s not ever see the parts of the scripts we’re
everything. “I’m not claiming we’re a actually involved in, so I don’t even
searing documentary, but you get a know everything that happens in the
sense of what it was like to be a woman second series, let alone future ones.”
and financially insecure at that time.
who grew up near Stroud in the Not to be married was terrifying –
Cotswolds, in a tiny village of 60 unless you were rich. That’s why they
inhabitants and took a law degree in were such peacocks. We’re appalled by
Bristol before changing tack. She can, the foot-binding and oppressive
she says, still milk a cow by hand
should the necessity arise, but it is
clothes, not cattle, that have always
primarily interested her.

At around eight – in the 1970s – she
began wearing her father’s tailoring
from the 1950s. “At school every day I
wore a pleated grey skirt, a tie and a

‘Lady Danbury is
such an intentional
dresser. Clothes are her
weapon of choice’

customs of other cultures, but hello,
lacing into a corset? Women’s organs
shifted. And women wore them when
they were pregnant.”

Hang on, who made women wear
corsets? “Youth and appearance were
currency even more than they are
today. If corsets gave you more of that,
then, of course you wore one.”

Interestingly, searches for corsets
have rocketed by several thousand per
cent since the first episode, ditto opera
gloves, feathers, ballet pumps and puff
sleeves… Regencycore is a veritable
powerhouse of fashion trends. Where
Bridgerton isn’t always pedantically
accurate, it’s generally because it’s
making a point that will translate to
modern audiences, as when the
stringed quartets play plinkety-plonk
versions of Madonna’s Material Girl or
Rihanna’s Diamonds. The
Featherington family, trying to dress

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Features & Arts

MATIAS MARTIN CAMPAYA/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK Remembrance: protests outside the British assault on the Falklands, an estimated
30,000 demonstrators gathered in
‘The Brits were gentlemen Embassy in Buenos Aires last week. Above: Buenos Aires to protest – at the time,
but the Falklands are still ours’ an unprecedented show of bravery
a memorial to the Argentine dead. Below: against the dictatorship.
Forty years after the outbreak of war, Simeon Tegel examines its legacy in Argentina
José Luis González The national mood was turned,
F or a month, José Luis González doubt that it was a just cause,” he added. That belief is rooted in geography Argentines are taught at school and is briefly, on its head by the grab of the
endured bombardment from Such views are held across Argentina, – with the islands located on a often repeated by politicians, especially The Falklands can also be used in Falklands. Two days after Argentina
British jets and ships as he continental shelf 300 miles from the former president and current vice Argentina to attack rivals. Last year, had seized the islands, some 100,000
manned a machine-gun post, perched where street names reference Las Argentine Patagonia but 8,000 miles president, Cristina Fernández de the opposition politician Patricia cheering, flag-waving citizens
in a freezing, waterlogged trench, Malvinas, the Castillian name for the from the UK – and history. The Kirchner, of the Peronist party. In a Bullrich, who had ben a minister crowded into the Plaza de Mayo, the
overlooking Port Stanley. remote archipelago, and where Falklands were first discovered, typically symbolic move, Peronist during the 2015-2019 centre-Right square that had previously become the
neighbourhood walls are adorned with uninhabited, by a British expedition in politicians last month proposed presidency of Mauricio Macri, which venue for the lonely protests of the
When the teenage conscript murals depicting the islands in the sky 1690. They subsequently passed renaming Rivadavia Avenue, one of had downplayed the Falklands claim, mothers of the disappeared.
eventually returned to Argentina, after blue and white of the Argentine flag. through British, French, US and Buenos Aires’ principal thoroughfares, made the mistake of joking about the
a brief stint as a prisoner of war, he had Along with the late Diego Maradona, Spanish hands, with Madrid “Argentine Malvinas Avenue”. They islands, suggesting Buenos Aires use The euphoria was not to last. As
frostbitten toes, shrapnel in his knee the Falklands are also a favourite tattoo controlling the islands when Argentina claimed the move was a tribute to the them to secure Pfizer Covid vaccines. swiftly as the British Armed Forces
and was so traumatised, he needed for many working-class Argentines. declared its independence in 1816. The 649 Argentine servicemen who died She was forced to apologise after proved their superiority over their
psychological support. UK then occupied them in 1833, during the Falklands conflict and an national uproar. Argentine counterparts, the mood in
One poll last year found that 81 per expelling a Hamburg-born trader who even greater number of veterans the country turned to fury against a
Now, 40 years later, González cent of Argentines wanted Buenos Buenos Aires had charged with who subsequently took their “In school, they place a lot of military government that had even
remains convinced of two things – that Aires to continue its efforts to recover exploiting the islands’ resources. own lives. emphasis on 1833. It’s a watershed. The proven incompetent at what was,
attempting to take the Falklands by the Falklands from the United islands are a feeling, an idea that unites supposedly, its speciality – namely
force was a terrible mistake, and that Kingdom. Equally, Argentines today The history resonates so much, says On the anniversary itself on all Argentines,” says Juan Bautista, 24, fighting wars.
the islands were, are and always will overwhelmingly agree that the Carlos De Angelis, a sociologist at the Saturday, president Alberto an international relations student at
be Argentine. campaign should be pursued University of Buenos Aires, because Fernández led a ceremony with the Catholic University of Córdoba. “The invasion was like the grasping
exclusively through peaceful, Argentina’s borders have remained veterans and families of the fallen of a dying man,” says Dr De Angelis.
“The Malvinas are one of the few diplomatic channels. relatively unchanged since at the recently-opened He also draws parallels between “But it backfired completely. These
things that unite all Argentines. Maybe independence. British sovereignty of Museum of the Malvinas Putin’s aggression against Ukraine and generals and admirals were seen as not
the only other one is watching the Carlos Ruckauf, a former vice the Falklands is perhaps the most in the Argentine capital. the decision by Galtieri’s military even able to organise a military
national football team,” says the president and foreign minister, significant perceived foreign “The Malvinas dictatorship to invade the Falklands campaign, as opposed to dealing with
58-year-old. compares the UK’s acquisition of the intervention during the nation’s are Argentine in 1982: “In both cases, an unarmed Argentine civilians.
Falklands to Russia’s seizure of rebel 200-year history. and also Latin authoritarian government sought to
“When I was sent there, it was enclaves in eastern Ukraine. “For American,” he said. revindicate itself through a nationalist Veterans of the war were also
completely unexpected. But I was Argentines, Luhansk and Donetsk That context is something all military adventure.” treated as a national embarrassment.
filled with pride. I felt fear and a little remind us of the Malvinas,” he says. Mr González, who eventually forged
bit of craziness, but there was no Yet Argentine curriculums do an eclectic career working the lights in
encourage independent thinking, says a theatre, as a security guard and
Gabriel Luna, 21, a film student at teacher, recalls how prospective
Buenos Aires’ National Arts University, employers would see the stamp on his
who is more indifferent about the national identity card denoting that he
Falklands. “I just don’t like was a veteran and decline to hire him.
nationalism, or shouting your beliefs
in other people’s faces,” says Luna. “Employers didn’t want veterans.
“Nationalism is harmful.” They thought we were trouble,
difficult. They never said that to your
The Falklands war had profound face, but you knew,” he says. Four
consequences for Argentina – most decades on, his life remains marked by
obviously in hastening the fall of that brutal month he spent on the
the junta. Falklands, including occasional
stabbing pains in his toes.
The dictatorship was already in
serious difficulties when it “For me, it was a war between two
launched the invasion, having governments, not against the British
presided over an economic people. It’s clear the junta were
collapse – including a 10-fold criminals. They did unforgivable
devaluation of its currency – and things – kidnap, torture, murder.
under increasing international
pressure for its brutal, “I think the British are a civilised
paranoid suppression of people, with their mistakes, of course,
dissent, “disappearing” like any other people. When I was
thousands of real and captured, I was treated in a gentlemanly
perceived political way. But I still believe in the Malvinas,
opponents. Just days and I don’t have any doubt that sooner
before Argentine or later, they will be Argentine.”
troops’ amphibious

Why flavoured crisps never live
up to the promise on the packet

Eleanor Steafel says, when Packet in: even fishy-flavoured crisps recipes. Crunch, for instance. “Noisy
food can help draw attention into our
it comes to the crunch, are likely to be suitable for vegetarians mouths when we’re eating so we focus
on the flavour and tend to get more
there’s a reason most crisps tricky, says Andrew Sainsbury, from it.”
director of crisp developers Taste
taste roughly the same Connection. “You could just put We’re also susceptible to what the
dehydrated Aberdeen Angus on a crisp packaging tells us. “We did an
Why is it that crisps so rarely and it would be a nice idea, but it experiment where we took cheese and
taste like the description on wouldn’t taste of much.” It’s the other onion and prawn cocktail crisps and
the outside of the packet?” elements – the yeast extract, the onion put them in opposite bags. People got
This was the question posed by Daily and black pepper, that are going to give very confused about what they were
Telegraph reader Barry Southern in you that beefy whiff. eating, suggesting they are
Monday’s newspaper. interchangeable.”
So many of their clients, he says, like
“It’s also curious that, no matter the their snack products to be vegetarian Indeed, when we put 15 crisp
producer, all ‘beef-flavoured’ crisps or vegan. flavours to the test in the Telegraph
taste the same – but not of beef or office, only one was identified
anything like it,” noted Kevin Rogers. Britain’s favourite crisps, correctly by all 12 panellists, and it was
incidentally, are pleasingly basic: unsalted. Many identified prawn
Whether you’ve chosen a £4 packet Walkers cheese and onion, followed by cocktail as salt and vinegar. Most
of aged heritage pancetta potato chips, beef Monster Munch, then Walkers thought the beef crisps were roast
or a standard bag of smoky bacon, salt and vinegar, and Pringles original. chicken, amd two thought the roast
chances are the ingredients on the chicken crisps were beef.
back are going to amount to much the Emma Wood, R&D director global
same. There will be potatoes, of flavour & seasonings at PepsiCo, who Crisps can be political, too. The once
course, and some sort of neutral own Walker’s among others, says CEO of PepsiCo got into hot water a
vegetable oil, as well as that all- creating a crisp flavour is “like creating few years ago when she suggested her
important salt. Then there will be a perfume”. company was contemplating bringing
chemicals and flavourings. Onion out more women-friendly crisps. She
powder is likely to feature. There will “It involves breaking down foods to noted Doritos were a hard-sell for
be some sugar and probably some sort a molecular level to identify flavours female consumers, as while men liked
of acidity regulator like lactic acid. that go together, such as apple pie and to crunch away and lick their orange
cheese or banana and bacon. fingers “with great glee”, women
There’s bound to be some apparently didn’t.
monosodium glutamate (MSG) and “[…] Each crisp flavour starts with
another flavour enhancer appetisingly inspiration from a recipe or dish that Indra Nooyi hasn’t spent an
called disodium 5’-ribonucleotide. we think will work well on a crisp. We afternoon down the pub with my
There will usually be spices or smoke create the perfect version of the recipe female friends, who would fight you
flavouring too, and often a bit of rice and then identify and map the flavours for the last bit of dust caught in the
flour for good measure. so we can recreate them on crisps.” corner of a bag of salt and vinegar.

How can it be that you can buy Crisp companies, Spence says, Additional reporting: Jack Rear
almost any kind of crisp flavour – from consider more than just the
chilli to cappuccino – and yet the ingredients when they are developing
ingredients boil down to the same few
chemicals and seasonings? Why,
indeed, as Kevin asks, do all beef crisps
taste roughly the same, and don’t come
from anywhere near a cow?

Prof Charles Spence, head of the
cross-modal research laboratory at
Oxford University, is an expert on what
makes up a successful crisp. The most
popular ones, he says, tend to hit all
the “basic tastes” that, when
combined, our brains find satisfying to
eat: “Like tomato ketchup and the
claim that it covers the five basic tastes,
making it such a popular condiment.”

A good crisp, then, will bring the
perfect balance of sweetness,
sourness, saltiness, bitterness,
savouriness (also known as umami),
and the sixth taste: richness (also called
kokumi). It’s umami and kokumi that
“give that mouth-filling, satisfying
sensation when you put them in
foods”, says Spence.

Getting meat into flavourings is

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Allison Pearson

Whatever happened to
the ‘great Covid catch-up’
we were promised?

N ine new official symptoms of must now take its place among scores ill. Utter madness. It’s hard to ANDREW CROWLEY FOR THE TELEGRAPH
Covid-19 have just been added to of contagious critters that give rise to exaggerate the lethal legacy of
the NHS website. Symptoms indistinguishable symptoms. lockdown for children. This week, a Lacking respect: Channel 4 News anchor Cathy Newman revelled in Boris Johnson’s exclusion from an EU meeting about Ukraine
may or may not include the following: devastating Ofsted report confirmed
Among people I talk to, cynicism what people like me have long feared. Channel 4 I am devoted to requirement of its Minister was not I was done with
1. Sneezing in the past 10 months about the high level of absences is has become a certain Channel 4 charter to show invited to attend a Channel 4 at that
2. Possession of a cat spreading faster than the BA.2 variant. A generation of babies and toddlers fifth column programmes like “balance” in its news EU meeting about point. It’s hard to
3. Feeling like a week off (public “Fortunately, I’m self-employed so is struggling to crawl and The Dog House (a output. Which must, Ukraine. Obviously, think of a reporter
sector only) immune to Covid,” quipped one communicate. Infants who have spent particular joy for in part, explain why that was because the from almost
4. A runny nose Amazon delivery guy bitterly. The a big percentage of every day gazing at Bingo the Cockapoo, the Conservatives UK had left the EU. anywhere else acting
5. Memory loss, especially if truth is, beyond the laptop classes and masked faces don’t know how to form who invariably are pushing ahead But anchor Cathy that childishly and
employed by the DVLA, when you find public-sector workers, most people words. Parked for hours in front of the thinks he’s pulled with plans to Newman positively showing so little
it hard to remember the nature and simply don’t have the luxury of being TV, some little ones are even speaking one of the adorable privatise the station. revelled in the respect for her own
place of your employment. (Perhaps able to miss another week of work. with the American accent they hear on bitches), Gogglebox, opportunity to ask a country. As the great
because you haven’t been into the the gibberish singsong CoComelon. Channel 4’s bias is senior EU official if New Yorker editor
office since March 2020?) Of course, it is common courtesy not Location, Location, occasionally she felt relieved that David Remnick
6. Netflix to expose colleagues to your high fever Deprived of playtime with other Location and its irritating and she didn’t have to be pointed out: “The
7. Fog. Not brain fog. Just fog. Any and to have a couple of days in bed if children, many infants are shy and offspring, Kirstie sometimes utterly in the same room British [are] the
fog. need be – just as you would with flu. It anxious. Regression has been observed obnoxious. But it’s with the ghastly only nation capable
8. Irritability following the ending of is common sense to postpone a visit to in basic things like doing up a coat and and Phil’s Love It or become much worse Boris Johnson. of feeling
free Covid tests in England, thus an elderly relative if you are ill. But going to the loo independently. The List It (although over the years Surely, this must Schadenfreude
making 3. less likely. ringing in to a school or an A&E admirable chief inspector, Amanda suspicion grows that because the Left, make the official about themselves.”
9. Dry throat, splitting headache, department to announce you won’t be Spielman, warns of “lingering participants just which has failed to completely thrilled,
intermittent vomiting, throbbing in again because, although you have no challenges” which, if left unaddressed, want a free redesign secure power via the pressed Newman, What a shame
behind the eyes (not linked in any way symptoms, your test is still “positive” will soon be causing major problems in and never intend to ballot box, treats the when the woman Channel 4 became a
to working your way through the on Day 8? Nope, sorry. That’s just primary schools. move house at all). station as its own gave a diplomatic fifth column. I hope
cocktail menu in the Goat and Grapes). taking advantage. Selfish – but Covid is in-house pulpit. “no comment”. the BBC picks up The
You have to laugh, although this is the excuse that keeps on giving. Faced with this unprecedented But even the Dog House. Bingo
not really a laughing matter. Not when educational catastrophe, what is the channel’s biggest fan Just a few weeks I think I knew that will be heartbroken.
the new “symptoms” – which sound The ramifications of this epidemic of response of the teaching unions? Why, could not claim that ago, the Prime
remarkably like the condition formerly absences are bleak for those who have demanding a return to free Covid it fulfils the
known as “a bit of a cold” – are basically suffered enough already. Schools have testing so any of their members with a
an open invitation to call in sick. Not just broken up for Easter but, due to blocked nose can have yet more time
when the NHS seriously appears to be off and vital catch-up plans are
suggesting that people with a blocked ‘Any excuse will do, and stillborn. Truly, they are beneath
nose or a headache should “stay home the NHS has just given contempt.
and avoid contact”. Most especially not us nine more symptoms
when Covid-related absences are still to call in sick with’ In his new book, The Year The World
causing havoc in essential services Went Mad, Mark Woolhouse, professor
such as schools, hospitals and airlines. the staff absences quoted above, many of epidemiology at Edinburgh
I can’t be the only one who finds it were struggling to stay open anyway. University and member of Sage, says
startling that, on March 31, 120,000 About one in 12 teachers is off sick. Yet that closing schools was “morally
pupils were off school with confirmed nearly all teachers will be triple wrong”. I couldn’t agree more.
cases of Covid, even though nearly all vaccinated by now or will have Covid
of those kids must have had Covid at antibodies from prior infection. Dare I And now, as we enter the post-Covid
least once by now and many will have ask, how many of those missing from era of the Great Forgetting, observe
no symptoms whatsoever. (Perhaps the the classroom are actually, you know, how the most strenuous cheerleaders
teenage habit of taking a screenshot of unwell? Or incapable of stirring their for lockdown begin to suffer selective
a positive test and reusing it several stumps after a couple of days of rest to amnesia. Labour shadow minister
times is a factor?) On the same date, teach kids who have already missed so Jonathan Ashworth actually had the
46,000 teachers and 53,000 teaching much of their precious education? cheek to tell Sophie Raworth on BBC
assistants were off sick with the virus. One that “we always wanted schools to
Who knows, maybe adults also make Children? Hmmm… what are they stay open where they could”. How
sly use of screenshots of a positive test? again? The teaching unions seem to lucky we are to have a thing called
This malarkey is meant to be over. neither know nor care. Google so we can spot when Mr
Universal free Covid testing for the Ashworth’s memory has
public was scrapped in England on In an open letter to Nadhim Zahawi, unaccountably let him down!
Friday and – hey, whaddya know! – the Education Secretary, unions
there has already been a massive drop representing heads and college leaders His predecessor as shadow
in “cases”. On Monday, cases were say that “in the face of this extensive education secretary, Rebecca Long-
down 33 per cent from a week ago. If and ongoing disruption”, the decision Bailey, made no attempt to hide her
people have to pay, turns out they “to remove free access to symptomatic backing for teaching unions as they
don’t have any urgent need to do a and asymptomatic testing for almost fought the Government’s plan to
lateral flow test after all. That is exactly all pupils and staff feels reckless in the reopen schools tooth and nail.
how it should be. extreme”. “Schools must only open,” said the
Despite bellows of protest from woman known with some justice as
Labour and the trade unions, who have Hang on – it was testing staff and Rebecca Wrong-Daily, “when it is
shamelessly used the pandemic to bash pupils who had no visible signs of unequivocally safe to do so for pupils,
Boris and hold the Government to illness that caused the crazy disruption staff and their families”.
ransom, the fact is providing lateral in the first place.
flow tests gratis was costing taxpayers That would be never, then, if there
a maiming £2 billion a month. (There At long last, I’m delighted to report, was one sniffle left to be snuffed out.
are better uses for that money; the Government has stood up to the Schools would still be closed today if it
subsidising scary energy bills for the unions and advised children to go back had been up to the “zero Covid”
less well-off would be one.) to school “if they feel well enough to Opposition and the unions. Literally,
Free national testing was also giving do so”. (The fact that it should be a any excuse will do. And the NHS just
Covid a prominence it no longer remotely controversial idea tells you a gave them nine more symptoms to call
merits. The wretched virus, which has lot about the feverish depths of our in sick with.
dominated our lives for two years, coronaphobia.)
There is only one epidemic that
Millions of kids have missed weeks, threatens the health of this country
even months, of school over the last now: absenteeism.
two years when they weren’t remotely
Runny nose? Feelings of anxiety
about leaving your sofa? Here’s an
outrageous idea: buy a packet of
Kleenex balsam and go do your job.

I popped my poo in the post – and
now I can’t wait for the results

My poo is in the post. I wish I negotiate quantities, do you? “I’ve private GP who is besieged by people
could tell you that was a started so I’ll finish,” as dear Bamber who still want to see a GP in person,
metaphor, but my poo actually used to say. not to be told by their GP that they are
is in the post. I sent a “stool sample” seeing patients in person. (They really
– ugh, why does stool manage to sound After that bit is done, you carefully aren’t.)
even worse than poo? – to Viome, a take a pea-sized piece of poo, put it
company in the US that uses artificial into a test-tube full of chemicals and Dr Rob explained that I was at a fork
intelligence to analyse microbes and shake. I gave Himself a padded in the road. If I took one path it would
mRNA from samples, and then uses envelope containing the sample to lead to type 2 diabetes, heart disease,
something called a “gene expression post. cancer and death. But, if I took the
database” to identify chronic diseases. other path and gave up sugar, I would
At least, that’s what it says on the box “So, what address is this going to – lose weight and, most importantly, not
you put the you-know-what in. the House at Pooh Corner?” be diabetic or dead. Well, not for a
while, at least.
Getting the sample itself was what “Oh, ha ha, very funny. You never
the kids would call “Eeuw, gross, support me when I try to improve my When a doctor gives you a diagnosis
Mum”, although I thought I managed health.” and tells you that you can avoid a nasty
the hammocky paper thing you hang condition if you just improve your diet,
across the toilet bowl quite well. “That’s not fair. Who handwashed it makes you think of all the people
your Nutribullet when you were living who get diagnoses that no change on
There may have been rather too on duck s---?” earth will rectify. Or that’s how I felt
much, er, sample, but you don’t get to anyway.
“Kale smoothie, actually.”
I’ve been on a strict health regime Two months later, with blood sugar
since I consulted the sainted Dr Rob, a notably improved and a dress size
down, I thought I’d graduate to the gut
GETTY microbiome, “the most important
scientific discovery for human health
Gut instinct: it is now possible to send off your excrement for an intestinal check-up in decades”. Bigger than the average
human brain, the gut microbiome is “a
bustling community of trillions of
bacteria, archaea, fungi and viruses. It
is massively complex and its residents
vary enormously from person to
person.”

Residents? I’m worried they’ll find
mainly M&S Mini Jaffa Cakes in mine.

Analysis of the poo sample follows
shortly. Meanwhile, I get perky emails
almost daily from Viome.

“Would you like to know how your
stool is progressing?”

No, I really wouldn’t, thank you.
Nor am I that keen on what they call
the “assessment of your overall gas
production activity”.
Unless, that is, it can somehow be
harnessed to power the central
heating.

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Features & Arts

Brains, class, beauty – who cares The glue factory
beckons for this lot of
if Raphael was a goody goody? not-so-fantastic beasts

Alastair Sooke THE NATIONAL GALLERY Film Grindelwald (once Depp, now Mads
Mikkelsen) were once romantically
CHIEF ART CRITIC Fantastic Beasts: The involved, and there is more than a
touch of EM Forster to a melancholy
Exhibition Secrets of Dumbledore prologue in which they sit in a chic
London tea-room and rue their
Raphael 12A cert, 142 min relationship’s demise. The scene is
surprisingly wrenching, but it barely
National Gallery, London WC2 ★★★★★ bleeds into the plot that follows, in
which Grindelwald attempts to rig an
★★★★★ Dir: David Yates upcoming magical election in his
Starring: Jude Law, Eddie Redmayne, favour and Dumbledore tries to stop
C an we cut to the chase? There’s a Mads Mikkelsen, Dan Fogler, Ezra him with a team of co-conspirators,
tendency, these days, to Miller, Callum Turner, Victoria Yeates including Redmayne, Callum Turner,
badmouth Raphael. “Too Victoria Yeates and more.
perfect,” carp his critics, bemoaning By Robbie Collin
the flawless execution of his paintings, At one point, Dumbledore actually
and the virtuousness of his life. I don’t In the world of cinema, the Fantastic orders his allies to behave incoherently
get it. Or, rather, I understand why Beasts series may be the pandemic’s from scene to scene – supposedly to
people say this: we’re still in thrall to biggest victim to date. True, even stop Grindelwald predicting what
Modernism, which rejected the the second instalment, 2018’s The they’re going to do next. Whether a
moribund academic tradition that, Crimes of Grindelwald, had been little daring narrative gambit or a last-ditch
through no fault of his own, Raphael more than a hectic brand-extension attempt at salvaging the script, this is
helped sire. Plus, nobody likes a goody exercise, but Covid would wreak not a winning story-telling strategy.
two shoes. months of havoc on the production of For at least an hour, it’s impossible to
its sequel, on top of which The Secrets work out why anything is happening.
But it’s time for them to stop. A of Dumbledore faced the recasting of its Why do Redmayne and Turner spend
superlative exhibition at the National villain after Johnny Depp’s disastrous 15 minutes dancing with scorpions in a
Gallery, investigating the full scope of libel case, and the controversial cave? And what’s the purpose of Law’s
Raphael’s short career (he died in 1520, scrubbing by Warner Bros’ marketing duel with Ezra Miller’s antagonist
aged 37), reinvigorates the recently department of almost all mention of Credence Barebone, who once looked
enfeebled concept of “genius”, by J K Rowling from its original trailer like the linchpin of the franchise but is
reminding us, simply, that this – presumably to placate the furious now a mere hanger-on?
exemplar of the Italian Renaissance trans-rights sub-section of Twitter.
was preternaturally productive, and Doses of Potter nostalgia are
very, very good. Get over it. Besides, in Here, at last, is Fantastic Beasts 3, methodically positioned along the
troubled times, what’s wrong with a bit and it’s bereft of the warmth and route to give the bamboozled viewer
of grace and harmony? If escapism is intrigue of Rowling’s original novels. something to cling to. Look, it’s
what you’re after, Raphael beats At first, the series centred on Eddie Hogwarts! Here’s some Quidditch! And
Bridgerton. Redmayne’s quirky magical naturalist who remembers that spell book with
Newt Scamander. But while he teeth? That these details do provide
The gallery’s last big Raphael remains, he’s been eclipsed by his small jolts of delight amid the general
show, staged almost two decades colleague with the poster-friendly confusion is testament to the
ago, dramatised his early years. The name, who’s not yet the eccentric seer imperishable brilliance of the world
son of a court painter in Urbino, in of the Potter books, but a sort of that Rowling created. But, for these
Italy’s eastern Marche, Raffaello Merchant Ivory dreamboat in the particular sub-fantastic beasts, the
Santi was a master by 17. This new, shape of Jude Law. It’s now plain that glue factory beckons.
broadly chronological exhibition – Dumbledore and the evil Gellert
conceived to mark the quincentenary In cinemas from Friday
of his death, but delayed by Covid – Grown-up, sophisticated art: Raphael’s An Allegory (‘Vision of a Knight’), from c.1504, is just one of the stellar paintings in the exhibition
includes the 12 years of his maturity Short on magic:
in Rome, where, working for two first life drawing of a female nude groupings document the progression like all mortals, he was influenced by
popes, the charming workaholic model since antiquity. from turbulent initial idea to thought- others, and developed – admittedly, Jude Law (front)
struck it big. Inspired by Vasari’s through, immaculate finished product. lightning-fast. Still, throughout,
description of Raphael as a “universal Either way, there are also, Everything fits together with an there’s a sense of grandeur and and Eddie
artist”, the curators demonstrate thankfully, lots of stellar paintings on efficient, gratifying “click”. substance, as well as the sweetness for
every, often surprising, facet of loan, such as the Alba Madonna from which he’s known. This is classy, Redmayne (far
his output. Washington, as well as a vast, costly The final room assembles several of grown-up, sophisticated art, and
tapestry from the Vatican, its Raphael’s sublime, intimate late encountering so much of it, presented right) in this latest
Thus, within a suite of grand shimmering threads encased in portraits, including one, from the so well, at a time, moreover, when
galleries on the first floor (chosen, gilt-metal, which Raphael designed for Louvre, of the courtier Baldassare European civilisation is under threat, addition to the
thank goodness, over the Sainsbury the Sistine Chapel. Mostly, they’re Castiglione, his blue eyes as piercing as feels very stirring.
Wing’s cramped, subterranean spaces), hung beautifully, with tons of Daniel Craig’s. La Donna Velata, from franchise
we discover Raphael the printmaker, breathing space (although I wasn’t Florence, depicts a beautiful brunette From Saturday until July 31;
architect, archaeologist, and designer always sure about the wall colours: teal wearing an agate necklace, her nationalgallery.org.uk
of tapestries, tableware, mosaics, – really?), so that the show’s tempo costume’s rippling ruffles offset by a
incense burners, and stage sets. We feels not stately, exactly, but milky veil. The entire canvas – its
even meet Raphael the plumber, authoritative, classic. Small, satisfying curiously 1970s palette, of cream,
working on a state-of-the-art bathroom amber, gold, and brown, subtle and
inside the Vatican. All the 90-odd Culture Newsletter restrained – has been painted as softly
works in the show are either by and tenderly as an embrace.
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Not even Robert Lindsay can save
this pale Arthur Miller imitation

Theatre

The Fever Syndrome

Hampstead Theatre, London NW3

★★★★★ ELLIE KURTTZ

By Dominic Cavendish Fractious: the family of IVF innovator Dr Richard Myers (Lindsay) fall out at a reunion

T he fever syndrome referred to in twin half-brothers, Thomas and kind of tough, twitchy character,
Alexis Zegerman’s new play is a Anthony, are at the biting point of need enforcing bonhomie with practised
rare auto-inflammatory and resentment too. smiles – as he hobbles onto a central
condition that recurrently engulfs the stair-lift, or tries to wrestle his shaking
body in a debilitating and potentially Watching this sprawling American right hand into position for piano
dangerous high temperature. The family drama is like being hit over the playing, pathos seeps in. Still, the part
result of a genetic anomaly – an head with a set text, so eager is it to feels oddly under-developed, and the
immune-system quirk possibly assert its provenance. Whether it’s same applies to Alexandra Gilbreath,
designed to help ward off bubonic Death of a Salesman, Cat on a Hot Tin holding a steady accent and
plague – it afflicts a 12-year-old girl Roof, or August: Osage County, monotonous air of supportive fatigue
called Lily, who, some way into the Zegerman is following in some mighty as Megan. Lisa Dillon plays the stylish
evening, distressingly convulses on footsteps. Irascible-forgetful and but strung-out Dot, debating whether
the living-room floor of a Manhattan starting to hallucinate Dot’s childhood or not to have another kid with her
brownstone. self, the Prof is like a mutation of Willy put-upon husband Nate (Bo Poraj), his
Loman. But the sequencing of the piece career sunk by accusations of
By this point in the play, Lily’s feels too neat, as if lab-engineered. plagiarism. Sam Marks enlivens the
medical upset perhaps denotes scene as the bold brother who sought
psychological overload too. She’s the Zegerman, a Brit, has a plausible his fortune on the West Coast and is
youngest member of a clan that has claim to this overseas terrain, being gambling the family fortune – eek – on
dysfunction in its DNA. With Robert married to an American. Yet her script crypto. But that scene remains a drab,
Lindsay taking the patriarchal lead of too often sounds like an act of déjà-vu one, despite the best efforts of
Richard Myers, in Roxana Silbert’s impersonation; the characters talk and designer Lizzie Clachan, who goes for
production, you might be tempted to talk – and talk – but the America of the broke with a vast cross-section of the
draw parallels with his uptight dentist here and now feels notional. The home, like a monumental doll’s house,
dad in My Family. But sitcom laughs pandemic could have given allusions across three floors.
here are few and far between. to anti-scientific sentiment an edge,
but recent shockwaves don’t impinge. Round the recriminatory houses the
The Myers family has convened to It’s all hermetically contained, the ersatz-feeling evening goes, without
celebrate the handing of a Lasker fundamental question, “Why should satisfactorily quickening the pulse.
award (real thing, given for excellence we care?”, never adequately answered.
in medical science) to the Until April 30. Tickets: 020 7722 9301;
seventysomething paterfamilias, an There’s committed and hampsteadtheatre.com
eminent geneticist. Instead of slaps on commendable work from the actors,
the back, though, disgruntlement is though. Lindsay is well versed in this
the order of the day. The careerist
kingpin, ailing with Parkinson’s, is
facing the music of poor parenting.

His pioneering steps with IVF have
resulted in thousands of babies. But his
daughter Dot – Lily’s mother – feels as
if she never got her due of attention
and has brazen designs on her
truculent old man’s inheritance,
mistrustful of his third wife Megan, a
fussily devoted carer. Her younger

24 *** Wednesday 6 April 2022 The Daily Telegraph

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Court CLARENCE HOUSE of Reflection and Remembrance Calvert-Smith, a former High Births ENTRECANALES AZCARATE.—  SANDY.—Jack Desmond died peacefully SMITH.—Ivor died peacefully on
Circular April 5th in St Faith’s Chapel, St Paul’s Court Judge, 77; the Rt Rev David Maria Del�na CBE passed away on 27th March 2022, aged 98. 26th March 2022, aged 82. Much loved
The Prince of Wales this morning Cathedral, London EC4, on the Conner, Dean of Windsor, 75; Mr BOYD-LINDLEY.—On February 11th peacefully on 31st March 2022, Widower of Barbara and Meriel, uncle, godfather, friend, fellow golfer
WINDSOR CASTLE visited Darlington Farmers Fortieth Anniversary of the Dilip Vengsarkar, former India 2022, to Georgina and Matthew, aged 94 years. Loving wife, mother, father of David, Jonathan, Caroline and cricket club member. A Service
April 5th Auction Mart, Humbleton Park, Departure of the South Atlantic cricketer and cricket a daughter, Ember Philippa Sage, grandmother and great grandmother. and Michael, grandfather of Laura, will be held at South West Middlesex
His Excellency Mr Pascal Gayama Darlington, and was received by Task Force for the Falkland administrator, 66; the Duke of a sister for Grace. Will be sadly missed by all her family Christopher, Emma, Jack, Barnaby and Crematorium on 26th April 2022
was received in audience by The Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Islands. Atholl 62; Vice-Adml Sir David Online ref: A256470 and friends. Funeral Service at Kate. A Service of Thanksgiving will be at 1.20 p.m. Family �owers only
Queen today via video link and County Durham (Mrs Susan KENSINGTON PALACE Steel, Governor and C-in-C, St Michael's Church, Little Bedwyn held at Westerleigh Crematorium, please but, if desired, donations to
presented his Letters of Credence Snowdon). April 5th Gibraltar; Second Sea Lord and Deaths on Friday 8th April at 2.30 p.m. Family Westerleigh, Bristol BS37 8QP, on the British Heart Foundation.
as Ambassador from the Republic The Duke of Gloucester, Patron, Chief of Naval Personnel, 2012-15, �owers only. Donations, if desired, 29th April 2022 at 10.15 a.m. No �owers Online ref: A256446
of the Congo to the Court of St His Royal Highness afterwards the Strawberry Hill Trust, this 61; Mr Rory Bremner, ARNOLDI.—Sheila Mary (née Boyce). for St Michael's Church, Little Bedwyn please but donations if desired to
James’s. visited Kromek Group plc, afternoon visited Strawberry Hill impressionist, writer and Loving wife of the late Helmut. Passed c/o Dianne Mackinder Funeral Service, RNIB, The Scar Free Foundation, STOBART.—Christina Teresa, died
Netpark, Thomas Wright Way, House, 268 Waldegrave Road, presenter, 61; Sir Sebastian away suddenly following a cardiac arrest Wagon Yard, Marlborough, SN8 1LH. or The Salvation Army. on 30th March 2022, at home, aged 83.
His Excellency Mr Salah Mrehil Sedgefield, County Durham. Twickenham, Middlesex. Wood, former diplomat; 61; at home on the evening of 19th March Tel: (01672) 512444. Online ref: A256445 Dearly loved sister of Harry, Christopher
was received in audience by The For more details about the Royal Dame Clare Moriarty, Chief 2022, aged 92. Sheila will be greatly Online ref: 606473 and Janet, aunt of Anthony, Dominic,
Queen via video link and The Prince of Wales this family, visit the Royal website at Executive, Citizens Advice; missed by family and friends and in SHERVINGTON.—Richard (Dick) Simon and Emma and great-aunt of
presented the Letters of Recall of afternoon received The Queen of www.royal.uk former senior civil servant, 59; particular by sons Jonathan and EPPS.—Timothy John died peacefully Anthony TD MA (Cantab) DL died Christopher, Catherine, William, Stella
his predecessor and his own Spain at Auckland Castle, Market Gen Sir Patrick Sanders, Matthew, daughter-in-law Alison, on 19th March at St Michael's Hospice, peacefully, aged 84, in Addenbrooke’s and Thor�nn. Funeral at the Church of
Letters of Credence as Ambassador Place, Bishop Auckland, County Today’s birthdays Commander, United Kingdom grandchildren Sarah and Owen and by Hereford, aged 76. Much loved husband, Hospital, Cambridge on Monday St Peter and St Paul, Long Compton,
from Libya to the Court of St Durham. Strategic Command; President close friends Brenda, Shirley, Bob, Jo, father and grandfather. Service at 28th March 2022. He was the beloved Warwickshire, CV36 5JJ on Tuesday
James’s. Mr A.G.T. Chubb, former and Colonel Commandant, HAC, Hlouks, Rosie, Thandie, Santongo, Hereford Crematorium at 1.15 p.m. husband of Inga, who died in 2017, 19th April 2022 at 2 p.m. Family �owers
His Royal Highness and Her company chairman, is 94; Prof 56; Mr Chris Evans, Editor, The and by many other friends and family. on Monday 25th April. father to James and Julia, father-in-law only. Donations to Cancer Research UK
Mrs Hanaa Gbasa was also Majesty afterwards officially J.D. Watson, molecular biologist, Daily Telegraph, 54; Mrs Funeral to take place at 1.30 p.m. at Online ref: A256447 to Stephanie and Sean, and Pops to or to Disasters Emergency Committee
received by Her Majesty. opened the Spanish Gallery in geneticist and zoologist; joint Anne-Marie Trevelyan, MP, St Mary’s Church, Stoke D’Abernon, Matthew, Harry and Maximus. c/o A.L. Sole & Son, Over Norton,
Market Place, Bishop Auckland. winner of the Nobel Prize in Secretary of State for Stoke Road, Cobham KT11 3PX on FRASER.—Peter on Tuesday Dick was a loving, loyal, hard-working Chipping Norton, Oxon, OX7 5PP.
Sir Philip Barton (Permanent Medicine or Physiology, 1962, 94; International Trade and President 13th April 2022 and followed by a short 22nd March 2022. Beloved husband of and gregarious character, his generous Online ref: 606509
Under-Secretary of State for The Duchess of Cornwall, Capt Michael Fulford-Dobson, of the Board of Trade, 53; the Service at Randalls Park Crematorium Jennifer, dearly loved father of Simon spirit will be greatly missed by all those
Foreign and Commonwealth Patron, Royal Society of Literature RN, Lord-Lieutenant for Dorset, Duke of Grafton 44; and Lord KT22 0AG at 2.45 p.m. Donations, if and Caroline and grandfather of Harry, whose lives he enriched; his wider WILSON.—David (Wg Cdr retd) of
Affairs) was present. of the United Kingdom, this 1999-2006, 91; the Duke of Frederick Windsor, son of desired, can be made payable by cheque Oliver, Rosie and Polly. Enquiries to family, friends and colleagues from Newcastle, Co Down, died peacefully
afternoon received Mrs Bernadine Montrose 87; Sir Angus Prince and Princess Michael of to the British Heart Foundation and sent L Titcombe & Family. Tel: 01256 476366. Bancroft’s School, the Essex and Royal after a short illness on Friday 1st April
The Princess Royal, on behalf of Evaristo upon assuming her Grossart, QC, Chairman, Scottish Kent, 43. c/o James & Thomas Funeral Directors, Online ref: 606487 Anglian Regiments, Price Waterhouse, 2022, aged 71. Dearly loved husband
The Queen, held an Investiture at appointment as President. Investment Trust, 1975-2003, 85; Today is the anniversary of the Mill Road, Cobham, KT11 3AL. Wolfson College, Cambridge and of Maggie, father of Susan and Pete,
Windsor Castle this afternoon. Dame Felicity Palmer, death of Raphael in 1520. It is Online ref: 606474 GOODHART.—Harry James on through his appointment as a Deputy grandfather to Lila and Oli. If desired,
Her Royal Highness later held a mezzo-soprano, 78; Sir David also the anniversary of Cdr 12th March 2022. The funeral has Lieutenant of Essex. The Funeral Service donations to the Armed Forces
Tea at Clarence House to celebrate Peary reaching the North Pole CASTON.—Brian John passed away already taken place on 1st April 2022 at will take place at St Mary’s Church, family charity SSAFA
the Olivier Awards. in 1909. peacefully at Princess of Wales Hospital the East Riding Crematorium, Octon. Stansted, CM24 8UB on Tuesday (www.SSAFA.org/donate).
ST JAMES’S PALACE on 25th March 2022, aged 91. A Service It was James’ request that there 19th April at 2 p.m. Family �owers Online ref: A256439
April 5th of Thanksgiving will be held at should be no thanksgiving service. only please, but donations to
The Princess Royal, accompanied St Donat's Church on 12th April at 11 a.m. Donations, if desired, to the Yorkshire �Royal British Legion’ may be made Birthdays
by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, No �owers please, but donations if Air Ambulance. online using the �In Memory’ pages
this morning attended a Service desired to British Red Cross or RNLI. Online ref: 606441 at www.drobinson.co.uk CHRIS HAYWARD,  belated 65th
Online ref: A256460 Online ref: 606501 birthday greetings with all our love and
Forthcoming JARMAN.—Michael Charles.  best wishes from Christina, Horace,
marriages COOKE.—William Michael FRCS Chairman and Managing Director of Personal Listy and all your media chums x
died peacefully at home on 25th March. The WIPAC Group from 1964 – 1987. Online ref: 606505
His Hon Judge Shorrock and LONDON, THURSDAY APRIL 6, 1922 Darling husband of Helen, loving Passed away at home, surrounded by  Text for the day
Her Hon Judge Downing father of Emma, Helen, Sarah and his loving family, on 25th March 2022
The engagement is announced ARMSTRONG TRIAL with the matter, urging that completion of the sale Richard, a dear grandfather and aged 85 years. Michael was adored and FOR DAVID speaketh concerning him, I
between Philip, only son of the should take place. The prisoner kept putting him father-in-law. Funeral Service will cherished by his family and will be foresaw the Lord always before my face,
late Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey EVIDENCE OF “MRS. X” off. Two purchasers had each paid a deposit of take place at St Augustine’s Church, greatly missed by us all. for he is on my right hand, that I should
Shorrock and of Mrs Shorrock, of £250, which had never been returned. He had Kirby-in-Cleveland on 19th April Online ref: 606462 not be moved: therefore did my heart
Charing, Kent, and Ruth, daughter FROM OUR SPECIAL spoken to Major Armstrong and told him he was at 2 p.m. Family �owers only rejoice, and my tongue was glad;
of the late Mr and Mrs Michael CORRESPONDENT. afraid he would have to rescind the contract, and please but donations welcome for LONG.—Susan Phyllis. Passed away moreover also my �esh shall rest in
Downing, of Sydenham, London. HEREFORD, Wednesday. on Oct. 20 he wrote him rescinding the contract. Save the Children. peacefully on 25th March after a short hope.
Online ref: 606398 The costs were about £20 in each case. On the fol- Online ref: A256464 illness. Devoted wife of Michael for Acts 2.25-26
To-day, being market day, there was a considera- lowing day he saw the prisoner, who again asked 58 years before his death in 2018.
Mr C.G.B. Lewis and ble influx of country visitors, and from an early him to be allowed a little more time, but witness’s COOPER.—Joyce Jacqueline, Much loved mother of Chris, Kate General personal
Miss K.J.L. Kilpatrick hour an eager crowd, in which women predomi- clients refused the request, and he told Major (née Chettoe). Died peacefully at the and Ben and grandmother to her
The engagement is announced nated, waited in St. Peter’s square hoping to obtain Armstrong their decision the same afternoon. Royal Star and Garter on Wednesday 7 grandchildren. Funeral Service will
between Charlie, son of Mr and admission to the Shire Hall. The further unfolding 9th March 2022. Much loved wife, be held at 12.30 p.m. on 19th April
Mrs Guy Lewis, of Twickenham, of the case for the Crown; in the charges brought Mr. Micklethwait: When you refused to give mother, grandmother and at the Basingstoke Crematorium.
London, and Kate, daughter of against Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, the Hay him further time, what was his manner? – He great-grandmother. Funeral to take Donations can be made to her favourite
Mr Robert Kilpatrick, of Farnham justices clerk, of murdering his wife and attempt- appeared to be extremely agitated. place at Packwood Church on charity, the NSPCC.
Common, Buckinghamshire, ing to murder Mr. Oswald Martin, a fellow- Wednesday 6th April 2022 at 12 noon. Online ref: A256463
and Dr Karen Fox, of Holyport, solicitor of Hay, by the administration of arsenic, What was the next thing that happened? – He Enquiries Thomas Bragg and Sons,
Berkshire. is being followed with increasing interest. asked me whether I would go to tea at Mayfield Knowle. Tel: 01574 771839. McNEILE.—Diana (née Sayers) died
Online ref: 606419 that afternoon. I did not go until the following Online ref: A256472 peacefully on 23rd March 2022, aged 75.
An interesting stage in the proceedings was Wednesday. The witness said he had a motor and Beloved wife of Rupert, mother of
Luncheon reached just before the luncheon interval, offered to drive Major Armstrong to Cusop, but DINGLEY.—Dr Edward Richard, Matthew (Hugo), Rachel and Emma,
when the Attorney-General said he proposed the prisoner said he would have something to do OBE, KStJ, ASDK, KMN died peacefully adored Granny of Keira, Daniel and
Glovers' Company to call the lady who, during the police-court at Mayfield earlier, and he would be at the house in Somerset aged 90. Borneo Doctor. Jacob. Service of Thanksgiving at 1 p.m.
Mr Paul Double, City proceedings, was referred to as “Mrs. X.” The before witness arrived. He got to the house at Funeral at St Peter’s, Draycott on  on Monday 25th April at St Andrew's
Remembrancer, was the guest of lady, dressed in a neat brown costume, with a about 5.10p.m., and was then in his usual health. 14th April 2022. No �owers. Church, Linton Road, Oxford.
the Glovers' Company at a brown velour hat, spoke of an occasion about Donations to Royal British Legion No �owers please. Donations to
luncheon for Liverymen held Whitsuntide in 1921, when Major Armstrong Mr. Justice Darling: What is that? https://www.justgiving.com/ the Stroke Association or Cancer
yesterday at Ironmongers' Hall. asked her to consider the idea of marrying fundraising/dr-richard-dingley  Research UK. Details from:
Mrs Daphne Cave, Master, him, but added that she had never become Witness: Quite good health. When he (witness) got Online ref: 606450 www.boswellfuneralservices.co.uk
presided. definitely engaged to him. to Mayfield he saw Major Armstrong in the drive. Online ref: A256444
They went round the garden together and after-
Legal news MR. MARTIN’S EVIDENCE. wards entered the drawing-room of the house. By DODRIDGE.—Sylvia Grace, NIGHTINGALE.—Gwyneth Ann
the window was a small table which had been laid 11th September 1927 – 26th March 2022. died peacefully at home on 23rd March
Judge Tremberg retired as a Mr. Oswald Martin, solicitor, of Hay, and living at for tea. Tea was brought in, and Major Armstrong Died peacefully at home after a short aged 79. Much loved and devoted wife
Circuit Judge with effect from Cusop, was then called. At the end of 1919 there poured out a cup and handed it. He also handed the illness. Wife of the late Denis. of Paul, mother of Andrew and
April 1, 2022. was a sale of a Breconshire estate in which the witness a scone between his fingers. Much loved by Rosemary, Stephanie Kathryn and grandmother "Pipi" to
prisoner was acting for the vendor. In July or and Julia and their families. Funeral at 5 grandchildren. All enquiries to
District Judge Sandip Kumar August, 1921, two of the purchasers in connection Mr. Justice Darling: Did he ask you what you 12 noon on 25th April at Sunnyside A W Court [email protected]
Sethi retired with effect from with the sale instructed the witness to see the mat- would like with it? Church, Berkhamsted. Enquiries to Tel: 01622 850840.
April 1, 2022. ter through, as the completion ought to have Church�eld Funeral Care.
taken place in February, 1920. He wrote to the Witness: Not as far as I can remember. He then Tel: 01442 852472. Donations in lieu Online ref: A256271
District Judge Ian Philip prisoner, and saw him several times in connection said, “Excuse my fingers,” or some remark of that of �owers to Midhurst Macmillan
Besford retired with effect from sort, and then he handed it to me. Palliative Care Team via Church�eld. PHILBIN.—Tom, died on 25th March
April 1, 2022. 2022, aged 77 years. Beloved husband
Counsel: Did he have a scone himself? – I Online ref: 606492 of Chris. Dearly loved father of
District Judge Henrietta Louise don’t know. I could not see very well, it was Katherine, Ruth, Tommy, Lizzie and
Manners retired with effect from getting dusk. What sort of scone was it? – It DREWETT.—Clive Bromley, late father-in-law of Hemant, Simon and
April 1, 2022. was a buttered scone. purchasing director of Cooper Avon Sam. Devoted Grandad to Kishan,
Tyres. Died on 29th March 2022. Much Rupali, Isabella, Jinesh, Molly, Luke, 
District Judge David Frank At this stage the case was adjourned. loved husband, father and grandfather.  Jude and Milun. Goodnight, God bless.
Hallett retired with effect from All enquiries to DJ Bewley Funeral YNWA - 'You'll Never Walk Alone'.
April 1, 2022. Calls to the Bar Directors at www.bewleyfunerals.com
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Henry retired with effect from this Hilary term:
April 1, 2022. Lincoln’s Inn Arafat Mostafa, Sum Pui Si, Deena Jeetun, Neha Makhdoom,
Prashanta Bhushon Barua, Ahtasham Mukhtar, Saqib Ahsan Lim Pei Ling, Usama Javed
District Judge (Magistrates’ Lawrence Antony Hill-Cawthorne, Islam, Hajra Jafri, Aamir Usman Warraich, Low Ee Lin, Gabriella
Courts) Alison Mary Rose Md Abul Kashem, Zakia Sultana, Soomro, Siti Summaiyah Binti Maria McGrath, Ahnaaf Ibne
retired with effect from April 1, Md Akhtar Mahmud, Md Kamal Ahmad Jaafar, Helen Louise Zaman, Mehzabin Khan, Ewan
2022. Hossain, Monir Hossain, Abu Hankey, Nasrullah Mursalin, Ooi, Muhammad Zubair Khan
Sadat Md Suhel, Md Reaz Saleh, Mercaira Jernell Malaykhan, Nasar, Dharshini Shankar, Doreen
Bridge news Qamar Bilal Hashmi, Esther Shakila Islam, Ahsan Sajjad, K.M. Naadu Aryeetey, Megan Natasha
Louise Sheppard, Fariva Tasnova Salman Shams, Mohammad Leiking, Meheruba Mahbub,
Last week, writes Julian Tazin, Sabrina Tabassum Ishfaque Kamal, Ahnaff Fahmin Lorenzo Agosto, Abhishek
Pottage, Bridge Chowdhury, Sonia Nain Kumfa, Antor, Md Shamsul Arefin, Jobair Ramruttun Munohur, Lim Jun
Correspondent, the highest Mehnaz Khan, Fabiha Zaman, Mohammad Zahid Hossain, Javaid Hui, Jeane Luk Gee Nyiik, Yawar
score in the English Bridge Fariha Zaman, Katie Louise Ali Dars, Tasnim Binthe Mostafa, Said Burki, Alexa Khoo Qing Yein,
Union’s High Noon Fast Games Knafler, Md Jakaria Habib, Nigel Simon James Reath Bennett, Raveen Ashwin Kavi Rajan, Ooi
was 73.96%, which David Patrick Bousfield, Tahsin Kamal Farhan Ali, Muhammad Hassaan Junyui, Safya Muhammad Ayub,
Berwitz and an Advanced BBO Tonima, Md Khalilur Rahman Adil, Hasib Reza, Azam Khan, Arvind Raphael Paramiswaran,
Bot achieved on Saturday. Khan, Md Shahriar Khan Abir, Llewella Grace Gill, Daniel Emad Nadeem Chaudhry,
Muhammad Umair Riaz, Moin Masterton Doig, Osama Zafar, Shehryar Nisar Khan, Louis
The highest score in the EBU Sarwar, Shariar Ahammed Bappy, Mahbano Kazmi, Gabriel Chan Michael Richardson, Mohammad
morning Relaxed Games was Portia Daa Doe Nyonyo, Jessica Chin Yen, Georgina Suzanne Imran Hossain, Nur Ruzana Haji
77.85% achieved by Graham Maxine Moore, Natasha L. Jenkins, Ahmad Shahmir, Aiema Adnan, Usama Tanveer,
Cheetham and Liz Pratt on Jayasinghe, Fizzah Asghar Bucha, Asrar, Osama Jamil, Muhammad Muhammad Umar Akhlaque,
Monday and in the EBU evening Muhammad Bilal Naeem, Ali Farhan, Mei Ying Kok, Nasrine Zahra Nisar, Usama Fazal, Maarij
Relaxed Games the highest score Tamanna Tarin, Akramuzzaman Sharif, Mian Zeeshan Chaudhry, Sher Ali, Rida Asghar Rind, Lee
was 75.79% achieved by Stephen Molla Suvo, Shahed Ahmed Sadi, Sarah Louise Grech, Muhammad Daw Zen, Nimra Khan, Stacey
Lowry and Janet Joynson on Sarker Mohiuddin Himel, Md Danial Ali Mirza, Khuncha Sabir, Nykita Roheman, Khawaja Azeem
Wednesday. Tarik Aziz, Md Ismail Hossain, Mohammed Aulad Hossain, Ādam Armaghan, Syed Shaheryar
Meem Sanjana Shah, Masuda Zaman, Muhammad Rizwan, Tanweer, Muhammad Zeeshan
*At the halfway point in their Nayeer Rafa, Naima Shahid, Agha Hannah Elizabeth Gilliland, Xin Khan, Harjeevan Singh Narulla,
Bermuda Bowl quarter final, Mir Mustafa Khan Durrani, Ying Shak, Tahmidur Rahman, Faisal Imran Hussain Malik,
England Open lead Switzerland Mohammed Ismaail Caunhye, Fasih Ur Rehman, Baseerat Shafi, Muhammad Imran Ramzan, Anne
by 92-86 IMPs. At the same point Muhammad Aizaz Ahmed, Feroze Joy Ojochogwu Edogbanya, Margaret Buttler, Louis David
in their Venice Cup quarter Mohamud, Daniel Jonathan Abbas Hayat, Lheela Jeganathan, Christophe Grandjouan, Shazzad
final, England Women trail Parkinson, Muhammad Inzimam Hei Man Nicole Wong, Lilya Hossain Chowdhury, Ian Perry
France by 110-128 IMPs. Sharif, Kannada Danchaivichit, Belfer, Alicia Tay Yi Jing, Emma Choong-Wong Simester, Joanna
Rose Holden, Priyanka Menon, Emily Laxton, James Oliver
Ahmad Asfandyar Waheed, Aliya Elliott.

The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 6 April 2022 *** 25

Obituaries

Pamela Rooke Jennifer Wilson

Punk muse better known as ‘Jordan’ whose in-your-face sartorial style influenced the Sex Pistols Actress who starred in the 1970s
haulage-firm saga The Brothers

P AMELA ROOKE, who has died of turned me into a sex object, but I was J ENNIFER
cancer aged 66, became better emboldened by it.” WILSON, the
known during the punk era as actress, who
“Jordan” and was credited by the She was once threatened with arrest has died aged 89,
singer Adam Ant with “inventing” after boarding the train in see-through
punk rock. bra and knickers with stockings. was best known
Sometimes she had to be moved into
With her gravity-defying bouffant First Class for her own safety. on television for
or spiky multi-coloured hair, scary
Mondrian-inspired face paint, clothes At the King’s Road shop, meanwhile, her role in The
out of the fetish and bondage catalogue she honed her own idiosyncratic sales
and “don’t mess with me” attitude, technique, refusing to serve those she Brothers, a
Jordan became the poster girl for punk did not like the look of or considered
in the 1970s. uncool. She banned Bianca Jagger drama saga about
STAFF/MIRRORPIX/GETTY/SHUTTERSTOCKbecause of her “haughty airs and
Her risqué non-conformist style JOHN GREEN/BBCgraces”, and intimidated the schoolboya feuding family
caught the eye of Malcolm McLaren Boy George, who recalled her in his
and his then girlfriend, the designer autobiography Take It Like a Man as business that
Vivienne Westwood, and in 1974 she brandishing a whip and hissing at
became a salesgirl and model in SEX, customers. became a
their King’s Road boutique.
“I wasn’t prepared to sell things that popular fixture
When McLaren began managing the looked awful on people just because
Sex Pistols, who released Anarchy In they had the money to buy it,” she told on BBC One in
The UK in 1976, she became part of their Dazed magazine in 2016. “It would
inner circle, influencing Johnny have been bastardising something the 1970s. Jennifer Wilson and Patrick O’Connell in
Rotten, Sid Vicious and the rest to adopt beautiful just for the money.”
her sartorial spit-in-your-face look. As Jennifer ‘Jennifer’s Baby’, an episode of The Brothers
Jordan never saw punk as a political
McLaren recruited her to get up to movement: “I just wanted to be a living Kingsley,
mischief with the band at gigs, where work of art.” But others saw things
she would prance about on stage differently and when she married secretary and mistress to the at the Old Vic, touring in the
looking scary, crashing around and Kevin Mooney, Vivienne Westwood eponymous brothers’ father, United States and Canada as
often baring her breasts to perk things promptly sacked her, complaining that Jennifer Wilson sent a
up a bit. she had sold out and become Lady Macduff in Macbeth
bourgeois. weekly frisson through the and Andromache in Troilus
Andy Warhol took pictures of stolid world of freight
Jordan “with a load of stuffed The marriage soon ran into and Cressida. On her return
penguins” at his New York City studio, difficulties as the drugs started haulage portrayed in what to England she played Kate
the Factory, and she landed a role as ramping up. There were money became known as the BBC’s Nickleby in the television
Amyl Nitrate in Jubilee, Derek problems and abortions: “Our “soap in disguise”.
Jarman’s 1978 film about punk life. marriage broke up in 1983 after two series Nicholas Nickleby
years,” Jordan told the Daily Mail in Launched in 1972, initially (BBC, 1957) when she met
But it was not long before drugs 1997. “That was when I decided I’d had on Friday nights but quickly her second husband Brian
began to cut a swathe through the enough… it was a case of self- switching to Sundays, The Peck, cast as Smike.
punk scene. In the late 1970s Jordan preservation: get out or burn out.” Brothers was an instant hit
had shared a flat close to Buckingham Palace with the Sex Pistols bassist Sid “When Brian and I were
Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy she was 14 put an end to the ballet and, Back in Seaford, her local vet invited and ran for seven seasons
‘I wanted to be a Spungen, with whom she became after three months in traction, she her to work for her, so she trained as a first married, we were very
living work of art’: great friends. But in 1979 Vicious died emerged with a determination to, as veterinary nurse and worked at over four years, propelled in poor indeed,” she
Jordan in 1977 and, from a heroin overdose aged 21, nearly she put it, “do something different” Beechwood Veterinary Surgery in the part by the manipulative
below, in 1976 at four months after he was charged with from her peers, who just wanted to town for some three decades. remembered. “We lived in a
Malcolm McLaren murdering Spungen in a drug-fuelled “get married and have babies”. women, including Jennifer flat in Maida Vale and we
and Vivienne rage. In addition, she and her sister bred Kingsley. She had been a
Westwood’s King’s It was at this time that she adopted Burmese cats, twice winning Best In both stayed in bed all day
Road boutique SEX Jordan served as an early manager the name Jordan (a name she took, Show at the Supreme Cat Show – the beneficiary in the will of
where she was a for Adam and the Ants and in 1981 incongruously, from Jordan Baker, the feline equivalent of Crufts. trying to keep warm until
salesgirl and model married Kevin Mooney, the band’s bass androgynous female golfer and Robert Hammond, founder my daughter came home
player, with whom she too became socialite friend of Daisy Buchanan in But she remained a punk at heart, of Hammond Transport, that from school. We lived most
heavily involved in the drug scene, first The Great Gatsby). turning heads in Seaford into her 60s bound his three sons to
amphetamines, then heroin. with her leather jackets and brightly of the time on cheese and
Her rebellion focused on her coloured hair: “I will always wear my continuing the family
Luckily for Jordan, she decided to appearance: “I would go to second- Tits T-shirt,” she told The Guardian. “I beer.”
get out before it was too late, and in hand shops and find slingback stiletto fill it out very nicely.” business on equal terms
1984, after leaving her husband, she shoes and redesign other outfits, After a Shakespearean
returned to her parents’ home at passionate about looking new and In 2018 she published her with his former mistress.
Seaford, East Sussex. exciting… I wore see-through autobiography Defying Gravity, and tour of India with Marius
petticoats, boned basques and had red she was a consultant on Pistol, a Danny Accustomed to being cast Goring, playing Portia in The
There, after going “cold turkey” and and pink hair.” Boyle six-part television biopic on the as the “other woman”,
kicking her heroin habit, she trained as Sex Pistols due to be shown on Disney+ Merchant of Venice and
a veterinary nurse and settled down, Her outfits were soon getting her in Britain later this year. Her part was Jennifer Wilson brought to Rosalind in As You Like It,
taking a job at a local vets’ practice and into trouble at school, from which she played by Maisie Williams. the role a scandalously
breeding Burmese cats. was once sent home after turning up Jennifer Wilson appeared in
sporting a red Mohican, though she While Jordan felt lucky to have lived suspect background. Not
“People were scared of me,” she managed to take two A-levels. through the punk era, towards the more than 100 television
recalled of her punk days in an end, “things had become too hectic. It only had Jennifer Kingsley plays and series including as
interview with the Guardian in 2019. In 1974, after leaving school, she sounds really corny, but normality been having an affair with the mistress Muriel in A Man
“And the funny thing is, I was actually spotted an ad for Malcolm McLaren and saved my life.” the now deceased Robert
quite shy.” Vivienne Westwood’s boutique and of Our Times (Rediffusion,
decided to ask for a job. She turned up Pamela Rooke, aka Jordan, born Hammond, but she had
Pamela Rooke was born in Seaford wearing gold stilettos, a net circle skirt June 23 1955, died April 3 2022 1968) and for two years
on June 23 1955, the youngest of three and a “bullet” bra, but there was no borne him an illegitimate
children of Stanley Rooke, a Second vacancy. Harrods (surprisingly) took played Alfred Marks’s
World War veteran, and his wife her on instead, but a few weeks later daughter. When she was left daughter in a West End
Linda, a seamstress. “I had a very she got the job she wanted. a share in the family
happy childhood and a close family,” production of Spring and
she recalled. “But I was always a bit For the next few years Jordan would business, Hammond’s
standoffish. I was picking my own commute to London by train from Port Wine (Mermaid, 1965).
clothes from the age of seven.” Seaford in full punk regalia: “Female crotchety widow (Jean
passengers would say I was obscene, For 11 months in 2000 she
At Seaford Head Secondary School told me to move and one even tried to Anderson) never accepted appeared as Mrs Boyle in
she was captain of the hockey team throw me off,” she told The Sun in her. Agatha Christie’s long-
and showed early talent as a ballet 2021. “Some people thought wearing Kingsley eventually
dancer. However, a car accident when clothes with my breasts showing running drama The
married the eldest son,
Mousetrap (St Martin’s).
Edward (Glyn Owen in the
On television she played
first season, followed by
Det Sgt Helen Webb in the
Patrick O’Connell for the
first series of ITV’s Special
remaining six).
Branch in 1969 before being
Jennifer Wilson was born cast in The Brothers. In her
on April 25 1932 at Chigwell, early eighties her final
Essex, and left school
acting roles were as Mrs
intending to be a dress
Bradbury in an episode of
designer. While studying at Coronation Street in 2014
South West Essex art school and as Nancy Milne in three
she secretly auditioned for episodes of the BBC
Rada without telling her
lunchtime soap Doctors
parents. After winning the (2014-15).
Forbes Robertson prize she
Cyril Bleasdale Jennifer Wilson’s first
made her film debut in The marriage, to an artist,
Story of Gilbert and Sullivan Stanley Swain, in 1954,
(1953) and went on to stage ended in divorce. She
work in rep at Ipswich and married Brian Peck in 1959.
Leatherhead, making her
Energetic rail manager who launched BR’s InterCity commercial ‘sector’ and became head of Scotrail He died in 2021 and she is
first London appearance as survived by a daughter from
Viola in Twelfth Night at the her first marriage, the
CYRIL BLEASDALE, who has died Regent’s Park Open Air
aged 87, was a pioneering railway Bleasdale at In 1989 Bleasdale moved to Scotland actress Melanie Peck.
manager who launched British Paddington Station as passenger services manager, and the Theatre.
Rail’s InterCity sector, was general for a ‘relaunch’ of next year took over also as head of BR’s
manager of its London Midland InterCity in 1983: Scottish Region to become the first She spent six months Jennifer Wilson, born
Region, then became the first stand- history was made unified head of ScotRail. He expected
alone head of ScotRail. on the journey to the operation to be a “test-bed for hitchhiking in the south of April 25 1932, death
Bristol when a privatisation”, just as Scotland had France, followed by a spell announced April 4 2022
A keep-fit fanatic who was still telephone call was been for the poll tax.
cycling in his mid-80s after two bouts made from the train
of open heart surgery, Bleasdale to a radio His arrival was traumatic – on a
post-privatisation revived BR’s house programme heavily delayed sleeper mistaken for
journal Railnews as an independent their regular train by Glasgow-bound
publication, overseeing its production PA/PA ARCHIVE commuters. He went through the train
until last year. placating passengers, offering them his
see if the ride would be uncomfortable. expand our system.” However, despite phone and penning notes for students
He was one of the architects of the Then, in December 1984, he the undertaking having turned a and workers to show to their bosses.
“sectorisation” policy pursued in the announced a package including £100 million profit, running 200 trains That evening, Radio Clyde played a
1980s by BR’s chairman Sir Robert 140mph trains on the West Coast main a day and trebling capacity at request from two students for “that
Reid as he turned the nationalised line (not yet achieved); more Felixstowe docks, ministers exempted nice Mr Bleasdale who gave us a note
behemoth into a “business-led “Parkway” stations; through trains Freightliner from their first cautious for our lecturer when our train was
railway”. Indeed Reid’s predecessor Sir from the North to Gatwick Airport and round of privatisation. Then recession hours late”.
Peter Parker had picked Bleasdale’s the South Coast (discontinued since and disputes in the docks pushed it
brain on how much it cost to run an privatisation); and a 10 per cent cut in into the red, forcing Bleasdale to shed Bleasdale oversaw dramatic
individual train. train mileage. 200 jobs and move Freightliner’s improvements in train quality in
headquarters out of London. Scotland – notably the introduction of
Some colleagues, however, With each of BR’s sectors having to Class 158 long-distance diesel units,
reckoned him a bull in a china shop. cut costs, Bleasdale took a tough line After four successful years at still in use today.
When Bleasdale announced to a group with his counterparts, refusing to InterCity, Reid moved Bleasdale to the
of signallers that the speed limits for invest in resignalling and track London Midland Region, challenging When after the 1992 election John
train drivers were purely advisory, he remodelling projects unless they him to improve trains’ reliability. He Major moved to privatise the railways,
was put straight by his area manager. directly benefited InterCity. began by setting up “boarding parties” Bleasdale pressed for Scotland’s trains
to go to the aid of passengers stranded and tracks to be under a single
Appointed the inaugural director of Cyril Bleasdale was born on July 8 by serious delays. operator, but in the event it was
InterCity in 1982, he was instructed by 1934, the son of Frederick and Alice announced that Railtrack would be
Reid to cut costs and increase revenue Bleasdale, and attended Evered High On Bleasdale’s watch, in September separately run.
while keeping the previously dominant School, Liverpool. Well into his career, 1986, two expresses collided head-on
bishops (function chiefs) and barons BR would enrol him in Stanford at Colwich Junction, Staffordshire. One When Gretna Green station
(regional general managers) at bay. University’s senior executive program. of the drivers was killed and 70 reopened in 1993, ScotRail ran a
Passenger resistance forced him into an passengers injured including the competition with a full-dress Gretna
early U-turn: lifting a ban on smoking in Joining BR from school, he rose Nicaraguan ambassador; but there wedding that day as the prize. The
buffet cars after just a fortnight. swiftly through the ranks, mainly on were no passenger fatalities due to the winning couple made the journey with
the freight side. In 1962 he cut the first rigidity of the carriages. Bleasdale a piper in attendance – only to discover
The greatest threat to InterCity was sod for the Bletchley viaduct, designed oversaw the rescue operation, then the register office was closed on
from new National Express coach to carry a round-London freight route. visited the casualties in hospital. Mondays. The event went ahead as a
services offering much cheaper fares. The traffic never materialised and the dress rehearsal, with the wedding the
Between London and Oxford, they viaduct fell into disuse, but in 2017 He was also instrumental in saving following day. Seizing a positive,
captured half the market in a year, Bleasdale joined the Transport the scenic Settle & Carlisle line, which Bleasdale declared: “Elopement by
Bleasdale admitting “something of a Secretary Chris Grayling there to the BR Board was eager to close. train is once more a possibility.”
catastrophe for us”. launch the East West Railway
Company, to re-create a passenger link When his region’s signalling Bleasdale handed ScotRail back to
Bleasdale hit back hard, ordering an between Oxford and Cambridge. department demanded an immediate its originator, Chris Green, on retiring
extensive recast of services to meet closure because of cracks in the frame in 1994. But he was soon back in the
both the challenge of the coaches and Bleasdale in 1975 was appointed at Hellifield signal box, Bleasdale industry, setting about the revival of
the Government’s target for InterCity managing director of Freightliner BR’s ordered them to find a simple BR’s house journal Railnews as an
to break even by 1985. He launched rail/road container business. replacement. independent publication.
“executive express” trains to Bristol
with the novelty of on-train phones, After the election of Margaret When the line was transferred to the Started in 1963 to replace separate
First Class lounges at stations with Thatcher’s government in 1979, he said Eastern Region with closure still on the regional magazines, Railnews had
most business traffic, and “Starlight Freightliner would welcome an agenda, the rail minister David ceased publication in October 1996 as
Expresses” to Scotland to take on the instruction to open itself to private Mitchell told Bleasdale: “How can I BR was dismembered. But four months
coaches. capital. “We are going to be cash- close the S&C and leave open the later it was relaunched, with Sir
hungry,” he explained. “Much of our (equally loss-making) line between William McAlpine as chairman and
These included a cinema coach, and equipment is worn out and we want to Inverness and Wick?” Bleasdale managing director. Bleasdale
Bleasdale was soon reporting oversaw its production until last year.
unforeseen consequences: “Girls have
a few drinks, make their way up to the Bleasdale was director-general of
First Class saloon showing the videos the Chartered Institute of Logistics and
and some guys have been getting very Transport from 1999 to 2009, and was
lucky indeed. We caught a appointed OBE in 1988.
businessman the other day sharing his
sleeper compartment with two ladies.” Cyril Bleasdale is survived by his
wife Catherine and by two daughters.
Bleasdale ran test trains at higher
speeds with rail staff as passengers, to Cyril Bleasdale, born July 8 1934,
died March 27 2022

26 *** Wednesday 6 April 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Television & Radio

The week in radio Gerard O’Donovan What to watch

British Gas boss is bold RAISED BY WOLVES FACTUAL
but his excuses don’t wash
Sky Atlantic, 9pm The Great Home
Transformation
back of the crisis. He dodged that Channel 4, 8pm
bullet by veering off into “windfall tax/ For all its bells and whistles,
tax windfall” territory. But it resonated this new series which
enough for me to look up Centrica’s attempts to celebrate
overall profit last year, which was just “the transformative power
shy of £1 billion. One can only imagine of good home design”
what it will be over the next year, and essentially amounts to yet
what excuses might be offered then. another renovation show.
Even so, it’s fun to watch
E lsewhere on the money front, Androids are tasked with raising human children in this ambitious sci-fi series experts deploy techniques
the consumer champion Martin such as heat mapping, in
Chris O’Shea was a guest on Deborah Meaden’s The Big Green Money Show on Radio 4 Lewis was the subject of Mark The imprimatur of Ridley This second series finds niggling feeling that combination with the
Coles’s excellent Profile (Radio 4, Scott may not guarantee humans and androids still Mother’s most recent baby, contents of a massive truck,
T here are plenty of radio shows on for a grilling. Saturday). Coles has had a knack for quality (after all, Scott Free reeling from Earth’s a horrific serpent thing, may to solve space issues – this
and podcasts devoted to money, This week the guest was Chris not only getting straight to why Productions has been destruction. Androids have survived its apparent week for a family of six
personal finance and consumer someone is making headlines but also behind the sub-par 2012 Mother (Amanda Collin) and immolation. Even so, the living in a semi-detached
issues. The likes of Radio 4’s You and O’Shea, boss of the huge energy what it is, intrinsically, about them miniseries Labyrinth and Father (Abubakar Salim) tone is less frenetic this home in Eastbourne,
Yours and Money Box are so familiar company Centrica, which owns British that makes them newsworthy. Perhaps World Without End as well have found a home for their time, with space given to struggling with abundant
they sometimes pass almost unnoticed. Gas. While the focus of the show is because he tends not to talk to the as hits such as Taboo and human family on a new unexpectedly profound clutter and the complex
But with the cost of everything green issues, with an energy-price subjects themselves but to people The Good Fight). But Raised planet, among a colony conversations about medical needs of their
rocketing, I’ve found my ears pricking crisis in full spate it was inevitable who know them well. by Wolves is among its more of atheists called “The parenthood, conflict, young son. Emma Willis
up when they come on. Like many the net would be cast wider. And they impressive offerings. Its Collective”. Naturally the faith and AI. While the and Nick Grimshaw host.
others, I’ll probably be glued to had a decent ding-dong. O’Shea is as Lewis was in the news because of his stark setting is lifted by fine tranquility doesn’t last, human characters are not
Money Box’s energy price special this smooth an operator as they come and very public exasperation at being performances, some with vigilante Marcus on quite as well drawn, it still Anyone Can Sing: the challenge
afternoon to glean what tips I can from had many interesting things to say unable to help people much in the face dazzling production design the loose and still delivers on its intelligent continues with more training
Paul Lewis and his experts. about heat pumps, fracking and the of a perfect storm of price rises (“I’m and a refusal to surrender conducting head-on attacks and ambitious premise.
future of gas and nuclear. But he was virtually out of tools,” he told Sophie to solemnity. against atheists, and the Anyone Can Sing
I couldn’t resist Deborah Meaden’s forced on to the back foot once or Raworth on Sunday Morning). And Gabriel Tate Sky Arts, 8pm
The Big Green Money Show (Radio 5 twice, too. Like when Hannah because his advice to consumers to As this charming series
Live) either, which has been airing for challenged him regarding his claim submit gas and electricity readings DOCUMENTARY The Truffle Hunters: searching technology, he was certainly developed with English
the past few Fridays at the ungodly that he didn’t know if fracking caused before Friday’s massive price hike had, in the forests of Piedmont one of the most impressive; National Opera continues,
hour of 5am – happily it’s also a podcast earthquakes, and even more so when it basically, caused some energy Jimmy Savile: yet his unpalatable views on the half-dozen singers must
on BBC Sounds for non-larks. Meaden came to whether some of British Gas’s suppliers computer systems to crash A British Horror Story event, and this two-parter slavery and colonialism perform in front of each
is a one-off: a successful entrepreneur £100 million profit last year couldn’t (“It’s not like they didn’t have any Netflix dissects the man whom US made him a less admirable other for the first time,
and committed environmentalist (in be used to reduce gas prices now. notice,” he said elsewhere). In a rather crowded field of historian Walter Isaacson figure. Burns, as ever, after going through a
the first episode she entertainingly documentaries about Jimmy calls “the most approachable manages to square the circle intensive dance masterclass
revealed that her fellow Dragons’ Den O’Shea’s handwringing defence – Coles took all this to paint a vivid Savile’s depravity and the of our founders”. A polymath with care and authority. intended to help build
stars used to call her “Swampy”) who’s that this figure “only” represented portrait of a man who more than eight scandal of his hiding in plain with achievements across their confidence.
also a radio natural. What she is not, is a profit of £13 per customer in the UK million people rely on for a regular sight, this new Netflix science, literature and The Truffle Hunters:
a hard-questioning journalist. But her (“we don’t have huge profits from financial-advice newsletter, and whose offering was presumably Storyville Matt Baker: Travels
consumer reporter co-host Felicity energy retail that we can use to waive phenomenally popular ITV show made with an eye on BBC Four, 10pm with Mum & Dad
Hannah makes up for that. With people’s bills”) sounded considerably merits a prime-time slot straight after international markets. As much about the deep More4, 9pm
Meaden’s insider’s ability to pull big less compelling when Hannah Coronation Street. Lewis’s personal Still, expect harrowing, relationship between man This week, Matt Baker and
business names onto the show, they reminded him that Centrica was fortune was attributed to fury-inducing footage and (and it is men) and man’s his indefatigable parents
make a potent combination. In just involved in a lot more than “retail” and determination, 90-hour weeks and testimony from some of the best friend as it is about the decamp to the wonderful
four weeks they’ve had the CEOs of that other parts of his business were a deep-rooted emotional commitment many lives he damaged. intricacies of a dying art, Beamish open-air museum,
easyJet, Vauxhall, NatWest and Nestlé pulling energy “out of the ground” and to helping people avoid financial this beguiling documentary to be whisked through the
making vast amounts of money on the traps and to make their money work Benjamin Franklin: follows the journey of the past 200 years of British
as hard as it can for them. A Film by Ken Burns truffle from Italy’s Piedmont industrial history in County
PBS America, 7.45pm forests to plate, eye- Durham. The topics covered
“People rely on him to explain A new documentary from watering sums changing range widely – from
what’s going on in our turbulent Ken Burns is always an hands every step of the way. well-trodden areas such as
financial world,” said financial mining and Dickensian
journalist Claer Barrett, referencing schoolhouses to more
a recent description of him as “the surprising ones such as
real Shadow Chancellor”. tram driving and wartime
pig farming. GT
“They want to know the bottom
line of what’s going to happen to their
finances. And they don’t look to Rishi
Sunak for that, they look to Martin.”

Quite the testament. You had
to wonder what Lewis would be
like running the country. Or even
British Gas.

Radio choice Gerard O’Donovan

The Exchange against a care home and Little Lifetimes almost 40 years in a
Radio 4, 8pm brought her to live with Radio 4, 11pm marriage of convenience
her until she died. When to Alan, both happily living
Two strangers in similar Rashid’s mother, who came Now in a seventh series, separate lives. So why,
circumstances meet to share to the UK in 1970s from Jenny Eclair’s short comic after all this time, has
their experiences, thoughts Uganda, suffered a serious monologues regularly get she decided to move on?
and decision-making. Fran fall, he concluded her needs added oomph from the A sixth series of the always
and Rashid both faced meant she required full-time quality of her readers entertaining The Skewer
life-changing choices when care in a nursing home. (Haydn Gwynne, Sarah follows at 11.15pm, in which
their elderly parents needed Together they talk about Parish and Pauline McLynn comedian Jon Holmes
live-in care. When Fran’s how they negotiated the last time out). Tonight, employs every audio-means
mother was diagnosed with tough decisions that faced Harriet Walter takes on the at his disposal to lampoon
terminal cancer she decided them and their loved ones. role of Val, who’s enjoyed the past week’s news.

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Tune 7.00 In Tune Mixtape. An Today 5.58 - 6.00am Tweet of the Sports News 11.30 The Documentary
eclectic non-stop mix of music 7.30 12.00 News 12.06am World Book Conversations from a Long Marriage
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6.00 am Breakfast (S) 9.15 Morning Live 6.30 am Escape to the Country (R) (S) 6.00 am Good Morning Britain (S) 9.00 6.05 am Countdown (R) (S) 6.45 Cheers 6.00 am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) Spirit Untamed (2021)
(S) 10.00 Scam Interceptors (S) 7.15 The Repair Shop (R) (S) 8.00 Lorraine (S) 10.00 This Morning (S) (R) (S) 7.10 Cheers (R) (S) 7.40 12.15 pm George Clarke’s Build a New Sky Cinema Premiere, 4.35pm ★★
10.45 Defenders UK (S) 11.15 Homes Sign Zone: See Hear (S) (SL) 8.30
12.30 pm Loose Women (S) Everybody Loves Raymond (AD) (R) Life in the Country (R) (S) DreamWorks revisits the world of the
Under the Hammer (AD) (R) (S) Sign Zone: Extraordinary Portraits 1.30 News; Weather (S) (S) 8.05 Everybody Loves Raymond 1.10 5 News at Lunchtime (S) Kiger Mustang stallion Spirit in order
12.15 pm Bargain Hunt (AD) (R) (S) (AD) (R) (S) (SL) 9.00 News (S) 1.55 Regional News; Weather (S) (AD) (R) (S) 8.35 Everybody Loves 1.15 Home and Away (S) to tell the coming-of-age story of
1.00 BBC News at One; Weather (S) 10.00 News (S) 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (R) (S) Raymond (AD) (R) (S) 9.05 Frasier 1.45 Neighbours (S) Fortuna “Lucky” Prescott (Isabela
1.30 Regional News; Weather (S) 1.00 pm Ready Steady Cook (R) (S) 3.00 Lingo (R) (S) (AD) (R) (S) 9.35 Frasier (AD) (R) (S) 2.15 FILM: A Killer in My Home (2020, Merced), recently relocated to live
1.45 Doctors (AD) (S) 1.45 Eggheads (R) (S) 4.00 Tipping Point (R) (S) 10.05 Frasier (AD) (R) (S) 10.35 with her estranged father (Jake
2.15 Shakespeare & Hathaway – Private 2.15 Street Auction (R) (S) 5.00 The Chase (R) (S) TVM) Thriller starring Bree Gyllenhaal). She befriends Spirit, and
3.00 The Customer Is Always Right (R) 6.00 Regional News; Weather (S) Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA hatches a plan to liberate him from
Investigators (AD) (R) (S) 6.25 Party Election Broadcast (S) (R) (S) 11.30 Channel 4 News (S) Williamson (S) the corral in which he is being held.
3.00 Escape to the Country (AD) (R) (S) (S) 6.30 News; Weather (S) 11.35 Undercover Boss USA (R) (S) 4.00 Filthy House SOS (R) (S) Strong music and a star-studded cast
3.45 The Repair Shop (S) 3.30 Kangaroo Dundee & Other Animals 12.30 pm Steph’s Packed Lunch (S) 5.00 5 News at 5 (S) are held back by a lacklustre art style.
4.30 Bridge of Lies (S) 2.10 Countdown (S) 6.00 Neighbours (R) (S)
5.15 Pointless (S) – Part One: Natural World (R) (S) 3.00 A Place in the Sun (R) (S) 6.30 Eggheads (S)
6.00 BBC News at Six; Weather (S) 4.15 Golf: The Masters 2021 Review (S) 4.00 A New Life in the Sun (R) (S)
6.30 Regional News; Weather (S) 5.15 Flog It! (R) (S) 5.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses (S)
6.55 Party Election Broadcast (R) (S) 6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games 6.00 The Simpsons (AD) (R) (S)
6.30 Hollyoaks (AD) (R) (S)
(S)
6.30 Lightning (S)

Stan & Ollie (2018)
BBC Two, 9pm ★★★★

EastEnders: Charlie Brooks & Danny Dyer Doctors: Chris Walker stars as Rob Hollins Coronation Street: Ellie Leach as Faye The Great Home Transformation Deadline: James D’Arcy stars A triumph for Steve Coogan and John
C Reilly as Laurel and Hardy in their
7.00 The One Show Presented by Alex 7.00 Doctors It’s Rosie’s last day, but no 7.30 Emmerdale Manpreet and Wendy 7.00 Channel 4 News (S) 7.00 The Gadget Show Craig Charles twilight years, touring the UK in 1953,
Jones and Jermaine Jenas (S) one told Jimmi (AD) (R) (S) are worried about taking the stand gets his hands on a speaker which is struggling to get a film made and to fill
(AD) (S) 8.00 The Great Home Transformation powered by water (S) their venues. Keeping time and pace
7.30 EastEnders Sonia warns Janine that 7.30 Rick Stein’s Cornwall Rick learns New series. Emma Willis and Nick with the precise comedy of the duo is
dating Mick is a bad move (AD) (S) about the tale of King Arthur in 8.00 Coronation Street Faye blurts out Grimshaw travel the country 7.55 5 News Update (S) no mean feat, but Coogan and Reilly
Tintagel (AD) (R) (S) the truth when Jon demands transforming family homes See manage it with aplomb. Their
8.00 MasterChef Jimi Famurewa asks the answers (AD) (S) What to watch (AD) (S) 8.00 Police Interceptors The knife-crime bickering, a little barbed after years
cooks to serve up a dish with an 8.00 Your Body Uncovered with Kate team are faced with the growing together, is well observed, and there’s
interactive or playful element (AD) Garraway Kate meets a father of threat of mamba (S) a faithfulness to the original gags.
(S) two who has been dealing with the
aftermath of a severe stroke (AD) (S)

9.00 Interior Design Masters with Alan 9.00 FILM: Stan & Ollie (2018) Biography 9.00 Kate & Koji Koji decides to take a 9.00 The Simpler Life The volunteers 9.00 Deadline Natalie tells James that
Carr The designers transform chance on romance (AD) (S) celebrate the end of their she has just seen her supposedly
shepherd huts into boutique of Laurel and Hardy starring Steve experiment with a feast. Last in the dead brother (S)
boltholes on a north Wales Coogan and John C Reilly See Film 9.30 Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking series (AD) (S)
glampsite (AD) (S) choice (AD) (S) Dad (AD) (R) (S)

10.00 BBC News at Ten (S) 10.30 Newsnight (S) 10.00 News; Weather (S) 10.00 Naked Attraction’s Best Naughty 10.00 Killer at the Crime Scene The 2002 For a Few Dollars More (1965)
10.25 Regional News; Weather (S) 10.30 Regional News; Weather (S) Bits A romp through the Naked ITV4, 9pm ★★★★★
10.40 Mood Sasha knows she cannot keep 11.15 Unspun World with John Simpson 10.45 Rachael Blackmore: A Grand Year Attraction archive (AD) (S) murder of 87-year-old pensioner
11.45 Thatcher & Reagan: A Very The greasy, sweaty, cigar-chewing
running from her trauma. Last in the Special Relationship 12.45am Sign A look at the jockey’s success in 11.05 First Dates 12.05am Rescue: Gladys Godfrey in Mansfield (R) (S) Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood)
series (AD) (R) (S) Zone: See Hear 1.15 Sign Zone: 2021 (R) (S) Extreme Medics 1.05 FILM: A Cure 11.05 Police Code Zero: Officer Under returns for the second film in Sergio
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy for Wellness (2016) Psychological Leone’s Dollars trilogy. Two rival
11.30 Gordon Ramsay’s Future Food Stars 2.00 Sign Zone: The Real Peaky 11.45 Paul Sinha’s TV Showdown 12.20am thriller starring Dane DeHaan 3.30 Attack 12.05am Inside the Force: bounty hunters (Eastwood and Lee
12.30am Would I Lie to You? 1.05 - Blinders 3.00 Sign Zone: The Real Shop: Ideal World 3.00 Bling 3.50 Unreported World 3.55 Ukraine: On 24/7 1.00 The 21.co.uk Live Casino Van Cleef) join forces to capture the
6.00am News Peaky Blinders 4.00 - 6.30am This Unwind with ITV 5.05 - 6.00am the Front Line with Johnny Mercer Show 3.00 Entertainment News on bandit “El Indio” (Gian Maria Volonté).
Is BBC Two Tipping Point 4.20 Location, Location, Location 5 3.10 George Clarke’s Build a New The violence is poetic, Volonté seethes
5.15 - 6.05am Moneybags Life in the Country 3.55 Now That’s all the way through, and Leone’s
Funny! 4.45 Wildlife SOS 5.10 House close-ups create a tense atmosphere,
Doctor 5.35 Peppa Pig 5.40 Paw enhanced by Ennio Morricone’s score.
Patrol 5.50 - 6.00am Pip and Posy

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BBC Four ITV3 ITV4 Sky Max Sky Atlantic Film4 Drama Northern Ireland

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11.10 Mood 12.00 Gordon Ramsay’s
7.00 pm Pubs, Ponds and Power: 11.30 am Heartbeat 11.35 am The Champions Noon NCIS: New Orleans 11.40 am Game of Thrones 11.00 am Red Mountain (1951) Noon The Bill Future Food Stars 1.00am Would I Lie to
The Story of the Village 12.35 pm Heartbeat 12.40 pm Extreme Salvage Squad 1.00 pm Hawaii Five-0 1.15 pm Six Feet Under Western starring Alan Ladd 1.00 pm Classic EastEnders You? 1.30 - 6.00am BBC News
2.00 S.W.A.T. 2.25 Six Feet Under 1.40 Classic EastEnders BBC Two: No variations
7.30 Glasgow’s Treasure Palace: 1.40 Classic Emmerdale 1.35 Robin of Sherwood 3.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow 3.30 Ray Donovan 12.40 pm The Gentle Sex (1943, 2.20 Hetty Wainthropp UTV: 10.45 - 11.45pm Love Your Garden
Inside Museums 2.10 Classic Emmerdale 2.40 The Avengers 4.00 Arrow 4.35 Ray Donovan b/w) Drama
2.45 Classic Coronation Street 3.45 The Professionals 5.00 The Flash 5.40 The Sopranos Investigates Scotland
8.00 Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo 3.15 Classic Coronation Street 4.50 Minder 6.00 Stargate SG-1 6.45 The Sopranos 2.30 The Rare Breed (1966) 3.20 Lovejoy
Album 3.45 Midsomer Murders 6.00 Extreme Salvage Squad 7.00 Stargate SG-1 7.55 Game of Thrones Romantic comedy Western 4.20 Pie in the Sky BBC One: 11.30pm The Edit 11.45
5.45 Heartbeat 7.00 BattleBots 8.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow 9.00 Raised by Wolves See starring Maureen O’Hara 5.25 Ever Decreasing Circles Gordon Ramsay’s Future Food Stars
9.00 Putin, Russia and the West 6.55 Heartbeat 8.00 Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest 9.00 SEAL Team What to watch 6.00 Butterflies 12.45am Would I Lie to You? 1.20 -
10.00 The Truffle Hunters: 8.00 Lewis 10.00 Harlan Coben’s The Five 4.30 !Three Amigos! (1986) 6.40 Last of the Summer Wine 6.00am BBC News
10.00 Law & Order: UK Airport 11.00 Harlan Coben’s The Five 10.05 Yellowjackets Western with Steve Martin 7.20 Last of the Summer Wine BBC Scotland: 7.00pm Style Fixers 7.30
Storyville See What to 11.00 Scott & Bailey 9.00 FILM: For a Few Dollars 12.00 The Force: North-East 11.10 Winning Time: The Rise of 8.00 The Last Detective Scotland’s Home of the Year 8.00
watch 12.00 Inspector Morse 1.00 am Road Wars 6.35 Gods of Egypt (2016) 9.35 New Tricks Scotland’s Sacred Islands with Ben Fogle
11.15 Woof! A Horizon Guide to 2.10 am Unwind with ITV More (1965) Western 2.00 A League of Their Own Road the Lakers Dynasty Fantasy adventure starring 10.55 New Tricks 9.00 The Nine 10.00 River City 10.30
Dogs 2.30 - 6.00am Teleshopping 12.15 am Six Feet Under Nikolaj Coster-Waldau 12.15 am Silent Witness FILM: Scottish Mussel (2015) Midnight
12.15 am Pubs, Ponds and Power: sequel starring Clint Trip: Dingle to Dover 2.50 - 4.00am Kavanagh QC Close
The Story of the Village Eastwood See Film choice 3.00 - 4.00am Resident Alien 1.20 Six Feet Under 9.00 The Spy Who Dumped Me STV: 6.25 - 6.30pm Party Political
12.45 Glasgow’s Treasure Palace 11.40 pm FILM: Firefox (1982) 2.25 Big Love (2018) Comedy starring Broadcast 10.40 Scotland Tonight 11.05
1.15 Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo 3.30 - 4.00am In Treatment Mila Kunis - 12.20am All Star Musicals 3.50 -
Album Action with Clint Eastwood 5.05am Unwind with STV
2.15 - 3.15am Putin, Russia and 2.25 am The Protectors 11.15 Girls Trip (2017) Comedy
the West 2.55 Unwind with ITV starring Regina Hall
3.00 - 6.00am Teleshopping
1.40 - 4.00am The Great Wall
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ITV2 11.00 24 Hours in A&E 12.05am 8 Sky Sports Premier Sky History Sky Cinema Premiere What to watch 10.05 Nazi Hunters Last of the Summer Wine 5.40 Wales
Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 1.05 League 11.00 Future of Work 12.10am Nazi Porridge 6.20 Desmond’s 7.00 Hi-de-
11.10am The O.C 12.05pm Love Matt Baker: Travels with Mum & Dad Noon Legends of the Pharaohs 24 hours, including at: Hunters 1.05 Europe’s Waterways Hi! 7.40 Keeping Up Appearances BBC One: 6.55 - 7.00pm Party Political
Bites 1.05 Dress to Impress 2.05 The 2.10 24 Hours in A&E 3.20-3.45am Noon Gary Neville’s Soccerbox 1.00pm Forged in Fire 2.00 10.55am Our Ladies (2019) Comedy 2.00-6.00am Teleshopping 8.15 Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes Broadcast 9.00 - 10.00 Hidden 10.40
Ellen DeGeneres Show 3.00 Hart of Food Unwrapped 1.00pm Premier League Years 3.00 American Pickers 4.00 Secrets drama starring Abigail Lawrie 9.00 All Round to Mrs Brown’s 10.00 Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr
Dixie 4.00 One Tree Hill 5.00 The O.C PL Greatest Games 4.00 Best PL Goals in the Ice 6.00 Pawn Stars 12.50pm The Many Saints of Newark Talking Pictures TV The Royle Family 10.40 Billy Connolly 11.35 Mood 12.25am Gordon Ramsay’s
6.00 Catchphrase Celebrity Special Dave 00/01 5.00 Premier League 100 Club 7.00 Forged in Fire 8.00 World’s (2021) Crime drama starring Does.. 11.40 Live at the Apollo Future Food Stars 1.25 - 6.00am BBC
7.00 Superstore 8.00 Bob’s Burgers 6.00 PL Legends: Paul Ince 6.30 Greatest Treasure Mysteries Alessandro Nivola 2.55 Barbarians 24 hours, including at: 12.40am Peep Show 1.45 Men News
9.00 Family Guy 11.30 American Dad! Noon Bangers and Cash 1.00pm Top Premier League World 7.00 Live 9.00 The Curse of Oak Island (2021) Thriller starring Iwan Rheon 10.30am FILM: The Black Book Behaving Badly 2.20 Jam & Jerusalem BBC Two: No variations
12.25am Bob’s Burgers 1.25 Gear 2.00 Expedition with Steve Premier League. Burnley v Everton 10.00 Great Escapes with Morgan 4.35 Spirit Untamed (2021) (1949, b/w) French Revolution drama 3.00-4.00am Live at the Apollo ITV Wales: No variations
Superstore 2.20 Celebrity Juice 3.00- Backshall 3.00 Rick Stein’s (kick-off 7.30pm). Live coverage of Freeman 11.00 Mafia Killers 12.00 Animation with the voice of Isabela with Robert Cummings 12.20pm
6.00am Teleshopping Mediterranean Escapes 4.00 Bangers the top-flight match at Turf Moor Forged in Fire 1.00am World’s Merced See Film choice 6.10 Our FILM: The Shillingbury Blowers Yesterday ITV Regions
and Cash 5.00 Rick Stein’s India 6.00 10.00 Premier League World 10.30 Greatest Treasure Mysteries 2.00 Ladies (2019) Comedy drama starring (1980) Comedy drama starring Trevor
E4 Taskmaster 7.00 Richard Osman’s Best PL Goals: North London Derby Forged in Fire 3.00-4.00am Mafia Abigail Lawrie 8.00 The Many Saints Howard 2.00 Secret Army 3.05 FILM: Noon The Architecture The Railways No variations
House of Games 7.40 Would I Lie to 11.00 Soccer AM: The Best Bits 11.30 Killers of Newark (2021) Crime drama with McLintock! (1963) Comedy Western Built 1.00pm Great British Railway
Noon Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1.00pm The You? 8.20 QI XL 10.00 The Island Premier League Icons 12.00 Premier Alessandro Nivola 10.10 Barbarians starring John Wayne 5.45 Cornwall in Journeys 2.00 Abandoned Engineering S4C
Big Bang Theory 3.00 Young Sheldon 11.00 Have I Got a Bit More Old News League 1.45am PL Greatest Games Sky Arts (2021) Four friends come together for 1946 6.00 For the Love of Ada 6.30 4.00 World War Two From Above 5.00
4.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 5.00 The Big for You 12.00 Mock the Week 2.00-4.00am Premier League Years a birthday celebration, but as the Look at Life 6.50 The Edgar Wallace Secret Nazi Bases 6.00 Antiques 6.00am Cyw 11.00 Dysgu Gyda Cyw:
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Married at First Sight Australia 8.45 You? 2.25 The Island 3.15-4.00am BT Sport 1 Tales of the Unexpected 2.00 unsettling events begin to unfold. Bailey 9.05 FILM: Hennessy (1975) Journeys 8.00 World’s Most Sam Tân 11.20 Dysgu Gyda Cyw: Da ’Di
Teen First Dates 9.50 Celebrity Richard Osman’s House of Games Discovering: Vanessa Redgrave Thriller starring Iwan Rheon 12.00 An Irishman blames the English Dangerous Roads 9.00 Bangers and Dona 11.30 Dysgu Gyda Cyw: Sion y Chef
Gogglebox 10.55 Gogglebox 12.00 Noon Live: Isuzu UTE A-League. Perth 3.00 Landscape Artist of the Year The Ogglies (2021) Animated family Government for his family’s death, and Cash 11.00 Abandoned Engineering 11.45 Dysgu Gyda Cyw: Fferm Fach
Naked Attraction 1.05am Married at Sky Sports Main Event Glory v Melbourne Victory (kick-off Canada 4.00 Wordsworth & Coleridge adventure with the voice of Ben Young plans to blow up the state opening of 12.00 Great British Railway Journeys 12.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd
First Sight Australia 2.20 Teen First 12.05pm). Coverage of the Australian Road Trip with Frank Skinner and 1.40am Don’t Breathe 2 (2021) Parliament. Thriller starring Rod 1.00am Shipwreck Secrets 3.00- 12.05pm Garejis: Dan y Bonet 12.30
Dates 3.15-4.05am Below Deck: 10.00am Live World Pool top-flight clash from HBF Park Denise Mina 5.00 Tales of the Horror starring Stephen Lang 3.30- Steiger 11.10 The Champions 6.00am Teleshopping Heno 1.00 Cegin Bryn 1.30 Garddio a
Mediterranean Championship 2.00pm The Masters – 2.00pm Premier League Reload 2.15 Unexpected 6.00 Discovering: 5.10am North Hollywood (2021) 12.10am FILM: The Stranger (1946) Mwy 2.00 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd
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Dad See What to watch 10.00 The 12.00 Live: Total Access 1.00-6.00am Show 1.30 The Aussie Rules Show Dawson’s Parisienne Adventure: Urban Future of Work 7.45 Benjamin Desmond’s 3.10 Keeping Up 1.00am Gold Divers 3.00-4.00am Pobol y Cwm 8.25 Y Byd ar Bedwar 8.55
Windsors: Inside the Royal Dynasty Sky Sports News 2.30-4.30am AFL Myths Franklin: A Film by Ken Burns See Appearances 3.50 Dad’s Army 4.25 Moonshiners Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 9.00 Ty am
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28 *** Wednesday 6 April 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Weather & Crosswords Nature notes

Albie back to wow
fans in Yorkshire

The only albatross believed to be living
in the northern hemisphere has landed
on the Yorkshire coast.

Birdwatchers spotted the black-
browed albatross – an exiled wanderer
from the South Atlantic that can never
return home – at RSPB Bempton Cliffs.

The loneliest bird in Europe,
nicknamed Albie, has lived in the
northern hemisphere since 2014 after
being blown off course from its home,
experts believe. Equatorial winds
make it unlikely that it will ever return
to its species’ breeding grounds in the
Falklands and South Georgia, so it
spends summers socialising with
gannet colonies at the nature reserve
near Bridlington, Yorkshire.

The seabird spends the winter in
Germany and Scandinavia, and its
summer visits have brought an
increase in visitors to the reserve. Last
summer, Bill Oddie, Lee Evans and
Samuel West were among keen
celebrity birdwatchers to spot it.*

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ITV poised

to launch

takeover bid

for Channel 4

Biggest commercial station has  one strong commercial public TOM D MORGAN
in the UK signals interest service broadcaster.
in its rival after ministers Superfast fashion Selfridges in central London is offering shoppers 3D-printed handbags and shoes from brands including
commit to privatisation “A merger of ITV and Channel 4’s Jean Paul Gaultier and Crocs. It will also serve machine-printed plant-based “meat” from Redefine Meat in its restaurants.
streaming services would create a
By Ben Woods and Ben Riley-Smith much more substantial player in the Bank of England spends £50,000 on ‘inclusive’ rebranding
digital space. It would double in size
ITV is ready to mount a takeover bid and be classed as a proper contender to By Tom Rees Bank attracted scorn after revealing The St George’s cross and pile of money ers suffered from “material disparities”
for Channel 4 as it attempts to forge a the Americans. the logo that had ditched the pile of (left) were replaced by a Union flag (right) on Threadneedle Street, highlighting
British super-broadcaster capable of THE Bank of England spent more than coins at the feet of female warrior problems with hiring and promoting
competing with the might of Netflix. “Ultimately, it would ensure that £50,000 of public money on a “more Britannia and replaced the St George’s image more inclusive after being female staff and those from ethnic
there is another large party other than inclusive” rebranding that removed cross with the Union flag. repeatedly criticised for a lack of diver- minority backgrounds. It has also put
Britain’s biggest commercial station the BBC that would continue to make piles of money and the St George’s cross sity, particularly in senior roles and on more images of women on its banknotes
is understood to have told ministers British programming.” from its logo. The logo redesign cost almost its Monetary Policy Committee, which in an attempt to stave off criticism.
that it would be interested in making an £7,000, while the Bank spent just sets interest rates.
offer for its state-backed rival, which is A merger with Channel 4 would hand A freedom of information request by under £15,000 on photography for its The Bank would not comment
to be privatised by 2024 with an esti- chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall a The Daily Telegraph revealed that thou- “visual identity”. Last year an internal review by Diana directly on the cost of the rebranding
mated price tag of around £1bn. shot at redemption following a sharp sands of pounds was spent by officials Noble found that ethnic minority work- but said: “Since 2019, the Bank of Eng-
drop in ITV’s share price. on the tweaked logo, the creation of a More than £22,000 was spent on a land has been reviewing its visual com-
ITV is understood to have taken new font for those with dyslexia and typeface that is easier for dyslexics to munications to make it more accessible,
advice from its bankers Credit Suisse The company’s stock plunged by photography for its redesign. read and a further £7,700 on “animation inclusive and reflect our current values
and Robey Warshaw in preparation for nearly 30pc last month when investors guidelines and film”. In total, the and mission.”
the start of a formal sale process. No bid took fright at the prospect of the broad- The Bank of England claimed the rebrand cost just over £51,000.
has been officially made and the com- rebranding, unveiled last month, It added: “How we communicate is
pany could yet decide it does not want ‘A merger of ITV and made its communications “more inclu- While the Bank of England is self- part of how we carry out our mission.
to go ahead. Channel 4’s streaming sive and accessible” amid fierce funded, it is publicly owned and money We intend to keep trying to make
services would be a proper criticism over a lack of diversity on it makes but does not spend is handed our communications more accessible
It came amid a political backlash contender to the Americans’ Threadneedle Street. However, the back to taxpayers through the Treasury. for everyone.”
against the takeover, with rebel Tory
MPs and Lords threatening to block or caster investing heavily in exclusive The Bank has moved to make its
delay it. programming for a new streaming
push. It plans to combine its catch-up
The takeover race is expected to service ITV Hub and the subscription
attract attention from media heavy- service BritBox into ITVX, a new
weights on both sides of the Atlantic, streaming player that it hopes will dou-
with speculation that Sky, Olympics ble digital sales to £750m by 2026.
broadcaster Discovery and Channel 5 However, the move is expected to cost
owner Paramount may all be interested. £180m over the next two years.

A tie-up between Channel 4 and ITV An industry insider said a takeover
would create a powerhouse that com- could bolster ITV’s finances by handing
bines the former’s roster of hit shows it more advertising buying power and
and documentaries such as Gogglebox, the potential to cut costs, while still
Friday Night Dinner and Dispatches protecting Channel 4’s position as a
with programmes from the latter public service broadcaster.
including Love Island and Trigger Point.
Among the changes, ITV could seek
It would hand the combined busi- to merge the two channels’ back office
ness an estimated 70pc of the British TV operations – such as bringing together
advertising market and the firepower their advertising sales houses and mar-
to invest heavily in new programming keting departments – to help free up
that can rival the likes of Netflix more funds for content. Such a move
and Disney+. A senior industry source could draw scrutiny from the Competi-
said: “The best bet for the UK is that ITV tion and Markets Authority (CMA)
and Channel 4 combine so the nation Continued on Page 2

Musk handed seat on Twitter board after snapping up $2.9bn stake

By Gareth Corfield Twitter’s chief executive, said he is Elon Musk, the Tesla will lead to a host of strategic initiatives, other Twitter users, as well as the site’s have 10 days to disclose any stake of
“excited” about appointing Mr Musk to founder, asked which could include a range of near- own April Fool’s Day joke. 5pc or more in a listed company.
TWITTER is appointing Elon Musk to the board. “He’s both a passionate Twitter users term and long-term possibilities,” they
its board the day after he was revealed believer and intense critic of the ser- whether the platform wrote. “Now it’s time to get out the None the less, the joke was shared by The Tesla chief executive acquired
to be its biggest shareholder with a vice, which is exactly what we need on should introduce an popcorn and watch the developments Twitter ’s chief executive, Parag his Twitter shares, worth $2.9bn
9.2pc stake. @Twitter, and in the boardroom, to edit button over the coming months with Musk on Agrawal, along with the observation: (£2.2bn), on March 14, but did not make
make us stronger in the long term.” the board.” “The consequences of this poll will be his filing until April 4 – a gap of 21 days.
The Tesla and SpaceX founder will Arounian, analysts at Wedbush, said important. Please vote carefully.”
not own more than 14.9pc of Twitter Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and it was a “friendly” move to embrace The appointment comes as Mr Musk SEC penalties for late filing have
during his term as a director, which is former chief executive of Twitter, said Mr Musk as “clearly a passive stake is asked Twitter users whether the plat- This referred to Mr Musk using typically been about $100,000
due to end at the company’s 2024 just the start of his involvement” in form should introduce an edit button. similar wording in a previous poll (£76,260). Such a penalty is unlikely to
annual meeting, the company said. he was “really happy” that Mr Elon was the company. In a poll titled “Do you want an edit suggesting Twitter needed to do more trouble Mr Musk, who is the world’s
joining the Twitter board. button?”, he appeared to deliberately to protect free speech.
Shares in Twitter jumped more than “We believe Musk joining Twitter misspell its two options, “yse” and “on”. richest man worth an estimated $267bn.
6pc in New York after soaring 27pc on He cares deeply about our world and Mr Musk also missed a regulatory Unlike Facebook, Twitter has never
Monday – the biggest one-day rise since Twitter’s role in it. Parag and Elon both It may not be entirely serious but deadline for disclosing his stake by
its public debut in 2013. Parag Agrawal, lead with their hearts, and they will be echoes calls that have been made by had an edit feature allowing users to
an incredible team. Dan Ives and Ygal nearly a fortnight. US Stock Exchange alter messages after posting them. Face-
Commission (SEC) rules say investors book introduced the feature in 2012.

World on cusp of ‘inflationary era’

By Tim Wallace ance and there is a growing and transport groups
and Louis Ashworth risk of an inflationary spiral reported the biggest price
as prices and wages chase rises on record for Britain’s
THE world is facing “a new each other higher. services sector, while econo-
inflationary era” as Covid mists warned that a slump in
chaos, the end of globalisa- He said: “A generation of
tion and the energy shock society, workers and busi- consumer confidence has
hammer living standards ness managers who had increased the chances of
across the West, the world’s never seen meaningful infla- recession.
top central banker has tion – at least in advanced
warned. economies – are learning that Mr Carstens – whose
rapid price rises are not organisation fosters mone-
Agustin Carstens, head of merely the stuff of history tary co-ordination between
the Bank for International countries and is known as
Settlements, said that price books.”
rises are back with a venge- It came as companies the central bank for central
banks – said there are signs of
including restaurants, hotels Continued on Page 2

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Business

Distinctive and a risk-taker, but could it

Privatisation might opening his appeal with a personal ‘Channel 4 ditch the distinctive and edgy recognisable brand and popularity ‘Television is Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon, which
“Dear John…”. rightly holds programming it is best known for and with young viewers. a scale game would still tower over their rivals.
make Channel 4 a cherished question whether the broadcaster these days ...
The letter was sent in 1996, not place in really can – or should – try to compete This could result in Channel 4 people tend “Television is a scale game these
more nimble but it 2022, yet it shows how Channel 4’s British life with America’s entertainment titans. making its own programming, to go for the days,” Barringer adds. “In a world
future – revisited under Tony Blair and and I want something it is not allowed to do under higher where you’re faced with [lower
would face a David Cameron as well – has been that to The differences in resources are its current remit. production budget] local content or a glossy,
debated regularly since its inception, remain the stark. While All4, Channel 4’s free companies’ million-dollar-an-hour production
challenge to compete often with similar arguments. case’ streaming service, has 24m registered Barringer says it could emulate the with a fantastic story, people tend to go
users, Netflix has almost 10 times that ITV model, which over the years has for the higher production companies.”
with global giants, Now, as in 1996, supporters argue number of paying subscribers globally shifted away from a focus on
that a privatised Channel 4 will be and an estimated 14m in the UK. advertising income to television There is also the question of how
finds Matt Oliver nimbler and better equipped to production. ITV Studios now sells easily Channel 4’s distinctive output
navigate the fast-changing Meanwhile, Channel 4’s annual shows to a host of broadcasters – can be slotted into a bigger, more
W ith ministers plotting to broadcasting landscape. programming budget stands at about including the BBC and Netflix – profit-focused company – and whether
privatise Channel 4, the £660m, while Netflix spent $17bn providing long-term and recurring it would prove counterproductive.
broadcaster’s chairman On Monday Nadine Dorries, the (£13bn) last year. revenues through hits such as Poldark.
sat down and decided to pen a Culture Secretary, claimed that Since its foundation in 1982, the
heartfelt letter to his friend, the prime unshackling the advertising-funded Ministers believe that by going Potential buyers could also seek to broadcaster’s remit has broadly been
minister. broadcaster from public ownership private, or being taken over by a bigger expand All4, its streaming service to champion diversity, take creative
will allow it to compete with the likes player, Channel 4 can raise cash which has attracted large numbers of risks and commission work from
Pushing ahead with a sale would of Netflix and Amazon in the online through debt or equity and use those younger viewers and started offering independent production companies.
trigger a political firestorm and streaming wars. funds to expand its output and “box set” programming to users long
threaten the channel’s distinctive improve services. before most competitors. This has led to bold programming
output, Sir Michael Bishop warned, “Channel 4 rightly holds a cherished choices, with industry figures
place in British life and I want that to Any new owner would want to But Barringer warns it is “wishful highlighting It’s A Sin, a drama about
remain the case,” she tweeted. capitalise on the broadcaster’s existing thinking” to assume that bolting on the Aids crisis in the 1980s, or Brass
strengths, says Ben Barringer, a media Channel 4 to another broadcaster will Eye, Chris Morris’s infamous satire of
However, detractors warn that a analyst at Quilter Cheviot, including its really move the dial in the battle with television news, as examples of shows
for-profit Channel 4 may be forced to

ITV interest
could spark
takeover race
for Channel 4

Continued from Page 1 VIEWS ON 1.25bn REGISTERED USERS ON CHANNEL 4'S CHANNEL 4'S ANNUAL
amid concerns that it could create a TV THE ALL4 ON-DEMAND STREAMING SERVICE PROGRAMMING BUDGET
advertising monopoly and increase ad STREAMING
prices. However, regulators are likely to PLATFORM IN 24m £660m
be wary of repeating a decision in 2009 2020, ALMOST AMOUNT NETFLIX SPENT ON CONTENT IN 2021
to block Project Kangaroo, an attempt HALF OF SUBSCRIBERS WHO PAY FOR NETFLIX
by ITV to create a streaming service WHICH WERE £13bn
with the BBC. The Competition Com- FROM PEOPLE 16-34 221m
mission argued at the time that it would AGED 16-34
hand the broadcasters too much power
in the UK market, but their move has Million 50 100 150 200 Billion 3 6 9 12 ($17bn)
since been widely criticised for giving
Netflix a streaming head start in the UK.

Phil Smith, the chief executive of the
Incorporated Society of British Adver-
tisers, said fears were already mounting
about the potential costs of a much
bigger TV advertising player.

He added: “A key concern of our
members is the undue dominance in
the TV advertising market that may
result. At present, there are three TV
sales houses – owned by Channel 4, ITV
and Sky – involved in the buying and
selling of advertising space. Were these
to be consolidated, it would create
undue dominance in the TV advertising
market and reduce competition.”

The prospect of privatisation has
attracted criticism from celebrity
supporters of Channel 4 who believe
that its unique status as a state-owned
broadcaster funded by commercial
advertising allows it to commis-
sion  shows that no other channel
would touch.

Monty Don, the TV gardener, said the
organisation should not be “flogged off
unnecessarily” and Anneka Rice, the
presenter, said: “What the flying f--- are
the Government doing?”

The privatisation plan – which the
Government argues will allow Channel
4 to more easily raise debt for new
shows outside state control – has also
sown division in Parliament.

Tories are split on whether the sale of
Channel 4 is really necessary, and rebels
have vowed to team up with Labour and
Liberal Democrats in the House of
Lords to effectively block the sale.

The Conservatives do not have a
majority in the Lords, unlike in the
House of Commons, meaning that
opposition political parties are more
easily able to inflict defeats.

The senior Tory backbencher
Damian Green said: “Apart from think-
ing this is a bad idea, I’m bewildered
why the Government is spending time
and political capital on this when there
are so many more urgent priorities.

Julian Knight, the chairman of
the  culture select committee, said
that  he believes the time is right to
pursue privatisation.

He said: “Channel 4 is a very small,
niche, broadcaster, with often very tiny
audiences in a country with less than
1pc of the world’s population.

“So...it either needs to develop scale,
or it needs to develop cooperation. And
both those things might be better
achieved if it’s privatised.”

ITV declined to comment.

Central banks ‘must combat Uber to allow customers to Poland blocks EU move to
inflation by raising rates’ book train and plane tickets sign off on Biden’s tax deal

Continued from Page 1 December to 0.75pc now. Inflation hit By James Titcomb and coach tickets marks an effort to By Giulia Bottaro She said: “We strongly believe that
inflation spreading through more of the 6.2pc last month and is expected to rise demonstrate that Uber augments public we should be mindful of the inadequacy
world economy than just energy mar- above 8pc this month. UBER plans to let users buy train and transport instead of replacing it. POLAND has once again blocked an EU of placing additional burden on Euro-
kets. He added that moves away from plane tickets through its app as it directive to implement Joe Biden’s pean businesses under pillar two with-
globalisation will remove a key factor Rates are rising despite fears the war looks to move beyond minicabs into an While the company will take a fee for global minimum corporate tax. out ensuring the digital giants are fully
that helped keep inflation down in in Ukraine will stunt the recovery. all-encompassing transport hub. booking transport, it also believes that taxed under pillar one.”
recent decades. letting people buy tickets through the The US President convinced 136
Prices in the British services industry Inter-city trains and coaches will be app will mean more people taking an countries last October to vote for a new French counterpart Bruno Le Maire
It means central banks are likely to are climbing at the fastest pace on available to book through Uber in the Uber to a station. The company has 15pc minimum tax on big multination- said he was “absolutely not convinced”
record, according to the influential pur- summer, the company said. It plans to als’ profits, estimated to raise an extra by Poland’s position, adding that War-
have to “shift their mindsets” to push up chasing managers’ index, a survey from let tourists buy plane and Eurostar tick- 40pc $150bn (£115bn) globally each year, saw’s concerns had been taken into
interest rates to control inflation, he S&P Global. ets later in the year. known as “pillar two”. account and other member states had
said, even if that undermines the eco- Proportion of Uber’s existing trips in the also made concessions.
nomic recovery in the short term. Tim Moore, economics director at Uber will also let people rent cars UK that start or end near public transport The agreement also included a
the business, said there is still more across the UK through the app, and facilities such as bus stations or airports requirement that the world’s 100 larg- Poland was one of four countries to
This will be a shock. Mr Carstens plans to offer hotel booking at a later est companies declare profits and pay block an attempt last month to find a
said: “Households, firms, financial mar- inflation to come as rising costs have yet date, as part of a plan to move towards a been accused of contributing to conges- more tax in the countries where they compromise, but Sweden, Estonia and
kets and sovereigns have become too to be passed on to customers by busi- fully fledged transport booking system. tion by flooding the streets of major have operations, called “pillar one”. Malta dropped their opposition after
nesses suffering higher pay, bills and cities with private cars. Uber, by con- tweaks to the deal.
used to low interest rates.” fuel prices. The company, which recently trast, has claimed that it cuts down on These measures would make it
He said that cracking down on infla- secured a new London licence in a private car ownership. harder for Big Tech companies such as Valdis Dombrovskis, the commission
Mounting energy costs mean Britain major boost to its British business, is in Alphabet’s Google, Amazon, and Meta’s executive vice-president, said he was
tion is unlikely to be popular, but must faces a one-in-three chance of recession the final stages of reaching agreements Uber has shown public transport Facebook to avoid tax by booking prof- hopeful that next month’s meeting will
be done as “the short-term costs in as consumers’ spending power is with operators to sell the tickets. They directions on its app since 2019 but has its in low-tax jurisdictions. lead to an agreement.
terms of activity and employment are eroded, according to forecaster Samuel will be available as QR codes within the not allowed users to buy tickets through
the price to pay to avoid bigger costs app, with journeys organised so that the the app. Uber’s UK boss Jamie Heywood However, Brussels is struggling to France, which holds the EU’s rotating
down the road”. Tombs at Pantheon Macroeconomics. company’s cars ferry passengers to and said the changes would turn Uber into a implement the plan in the bloc. six-month presidency, has pushed for a
A gauge of UK consumer confidence from a station or airport. “one-stop shop for all travel needs”. quick implementation of the deal, but
The Bank of England is among the EU finance ministers met yesterday, tax issues require unanimous approval.
leading central banks fighting back compiled by the Bank of America has More than 40pc of Uber’s existing but Poland’s Magdalena Rzeczkowska
against inflation after it initially spent fallen to its lowest since January 2021, trips in the UK start or end near public said her country could not back the pil- The new measures have been stalled
months dismissing the increase as tran- after the sharpest slump since the start transport facilities such as stations or lar two proposal if there are no “legally in the US too, as the Biden administra-
sitory. It has already raised interest of the Covid crisis. Major purchasing airports. Allowing users to buy train binding” assurances that the pillar one tion has failed to gain sufficient backing
rates in three consecutive policy meet- intentions fell to the lowest since Octo- reforms would be enforced. from Democrats.
ings, taking its base rate from 0.1pc in ber 2021, while unemployment expec-
tations hit the highest in a year.

The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 6 April 2022 *** 3

truly take on Netflix? Channel 4 will thrive if freed
from dead hand of the state
‘Since its that might never have been made by ‘The need to buyer could result in Channel 4’s
foundation more risk-averse commercial outfits. turn a profit ultimate value being anything DAVID plan of action, not so much from production companies majority-owned
in 1982, the or pay between £750m and £1.2bn, according ELSTEIN within the Government as from the by ethnic minority shareholders.
broadcaster’s Tom Harrington, head of television dividends to Enders Analysis. COMMENT newly appointed Channel 4 chairman,
remit has at Enders Analysis, believes any buyer will Sir Ian Cheshire, and his fellow If Sir Ian and his fellow non-
broadly been of Channel 4 will want to preserve this inevitably Keeping them in place will make it a An action plan is needed to non-executive directors. executives can drive this agenda for
to champion distinctive voice. clash more difficult sell, with ministers strengthen public service the next 18 months, a leaner and more
diversity’ with the likely to face pressure to relax them. remit and lock it in with The fact is that Channel 4 is a classic profitable Channel 4 will emerge, with
However, he warns the need to turn broadcaster’s any potential buyers case of corporate capture. The a stronger public service remit. The
a profit or pay dividends will inevitably culture’ Ironically, Sir Michael – once hailed executives have had almost complete sale process will consequently be
clash with the broadcaster’s culture, as Channel 4’s saviour – is among those A t a time when heavyweight sway at board level for many years, and simplified, and bids well in excess of
which involves putting surplus funds who have argued for privatisation. issues hog the headlines, it is neither Ofcom nor the Department for £1bn can be expected, with the
back into new content, and could even Now known as Lord Glendonbrook, he perhaps surprising that a Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has had proceeds available for further
reduce its programming budget. has claimed that Britain does not need half-forgotten promise to sell off the will or the clout to intervene.
two publicly-owned broadcasters Channel 4 should re-emerge as a ‘Any sale document should
Another crucial element to any sale along with the BBC. He argues the priority. Many commentators assumed Even though Channel 4 is required specify a volume of
will be how strictly the buyer must Government should sell Channel 4, that Boris Johnson, having removed by law to offer significant volumes of commissioning for genuine
adhere to its responsibilities as a but retain a “golden share” to ensure it both the ministers associated with content with educational value it has UK independent producers’
“public service broadcaster”. These stays true to its mission. privatisation, Oliver Dowden and John not had a head of education since 2010
rules, which also apply to the BBC, ITV Whittingdale, had bowed to back- (nor any meaningful educational output investment in the sector.
and Channel 5, entitles them to a slice Lord Burns, another former bench opinion that Channel 4 and its since then). Without a dedicated head There is no good reason to retain the
of the airwaves and a prime spot at the chairman, offered another potential management should once again be of arts, output there has also wilted.
top of digital television guide listings. benefit of going private while speaking allowed to survive a stated Channel 4 business in public
to a House of Lords committee in 2016. determination to dispose of them. The channel could sell its London ownership. A substantial commercial
They also require a broadcaster to A sale, he remarked, would at least headquarters, worth £100m, and move purchaser should have no difficulty in
provide public services, including a set provide a “safe harbour, rather than So credit to the Prime Minister for key staff to its Leeds offices. It should contractually committing to its
amount of news programming. having to refight this battle about deciding to press ahead (though, given ring fence its news and current affairs expanded remit whilst also shielding it
ownership every 10 or 15 years”. Channel 4’s many supporters in the budgets, expand its documentaries from economic headwinds, and
The extent to which ministers Lords, no one should assume this is a output and invest £20m a year in arts leveraging its assets so as to play an
impose these obligations on a future done deal). But that decision requires a as well as education. This strengthened even stronger and more distinctive
public service remit should then be role in the UK creative economy.
Stay tuned Potential bidders for broadcaster locked in for potential buyers.
David Elstein is a former chief executive
‹ITV and Small and It would also Likewise, any sale document should of Channel 5
Britain’s biggest Our Yorkshire have a bigger specify a volume of commissioning for
commercial Farm. outlet to exploit genuine UK independent producers, as
broadcaster is costly sports well as separate quotas for producers
understood to be Combining rights, such as with turnover below £10m a year and
keen to do a deal Channel 4 and the Olympics,
with Channel 4 Channel 5 would without a We are worried privatisation will
in the event of create a British partnership with damage the wider creative sector
privatisation. broadcaster of the BBC. The
Such a move scale. The American RICK where competitors work together to the UK. It has been amazing to see the
would help to question is broadcaster may MURRAY build a bridge across an expanse of difference that both C4 and the BBC
safeguard ITV’s whether the also see greater COMMENT open water to win the prize money. have made in the region – I now see
future by giving company behind opportunity to hundreds of graduates pursuing careers
it a much bigger Comedy Central leverage its A change in ownership at We were one of the first out-of- in the TV industry on our doorstep.
scale. It would and MTV would potential tie-up Channel 4 could put London companies to secure an
have the consider with BT. investment in areas such as entertainment commission of this scale, This is a great example of “levelling
potential to cut spending big on Discovery and the north of England at risk and the channel’s inherent risk-taking up” in practice and it has created real
costs by merging Channel 4 when the telecoms has allowed us to employ almost 100 momentum and positivity in the sector
back office it is in the middle giant are Workerbee is a fast-growing people in the region. It has enabled us locally. However, a change in
operations and of rolling out currently in independent production to attract foreign investment from HBO ownership could put this investment in
group buying Paramount+, its exclusive talks company based in Manchester, and break into the US market. the north of England at risk. While the
advertising. global streaming over a joint which is part of the Banijay group. We Government has suggested that it will
service . venture on BT make shows for a wide variety of Unlike commissions from the look to protect this element of work, it
Arguably, Sport. channels, such as the upcoming Idris streamers, working with Channel 4 also is unclear how it could apply in
those savings ‹Sky Elba’s Fight School for BBC Two, Janet, a allows us to retain valuable IP, which is practice. Channel 4’s role in supporting
could help ITV The pay ‹Amazon feature length documentary on Janet key to sustainability and growth. And growth and opening up opportunity is
chief Carolyn television giant Jeff Bezos’s Jackson for Sky, and How to Build through our partnership, we create broad, including not just their spend
McCall to could seek to streaming British for Channel 4. Our success is opportunities in the region and have and office, but interventions like the
compete with deepen its empire may underpinned by the UK’s PSB structure one of Channel 4’s production trainees emerging indie fund and growth fund
the likes of relationship seem like an and notably Channel 4. working in the company. and their vital skills work. It is driven by
Netflix by with Channel 4 outside bet. Yet the ownership model that puts public
spending more by buying the Amazon Prime We are making a new series of The We are worried that privatisation will service at the heart of everything they
on original broadcaster. Sky Video and Bridge for C4 – an entertainment series negatively impact the wider creative do. It seems highly unlikely that this
shows. ITV already has Channel 4 have sector, especially in the north of level of impact will continue under a
would also be strong struck a number England. As someone who had to move profit-motivated model.
comfortable commercial ties of commercial to London in order to pursue a career in
with with Channel 4 deals in recent TV, I know how important Channel 4’s Rick Murray is the managing director
maintaining through years that could work to rebalance the sector away from and executive producer of Workerbee
Channel 4’s AdSmart, the encourage one of London is, and how it has opened up
remit as a public service that the world’s opportunities for young people across
service feeds targeted richest men to
THOMAS BROOM FOR THE TELEGRAPH broadcaster, advertising to make a takeover
considering it viewers. tilt.
AMAZON REPORTEDLY SPENT ON ONE SEASON follows similar
OF ITS LORD OF THE RINGS SERIES rules. They also Most notably,
struck a deal Amazon sold
£350m Yet it may last year for Channel 4 the
($465m) struggle to get a even more live rights to
tie-up past the programmes on broadcast Emma
competition Channel 4’s All4 Raducanu’s
authorities, with streaming victory in US
advertising service to appear Open over
groups already on Sky. free-to-air
expressing television last
concern that it Andrew year. Yet, with
would cut choice Griffith’s an already
and push up the position as the successful
cost of television Prime Minister’s streaming
adverts on new head of venture in the
free-to-air policy will UK through
television. further fuel Amazon Prime
speculation of a Video, the logic
‹Paramount potential deal of striking such a
The American considering he is deal may not
entertainment a former Sky stack up.
company has executive.
been held up as ‹Rupert
an example by ‹Discovery Murdoch
ministers as the The Olympics Could the media
kind of “deep broadcaster was mogul launch a
pocketed” revealed by The bid for Channel
backer that Telegraph last 4? Given his
could take year to have held recent foray back
control of informal talks into British
Channel 4. about Channel television
4’s potential through the
Paramount privatisation. A Piers Morgan-led
owns Channel 5 hook up with television news
and has been Channel 4 network TalkTV,
widely credited combining its there will be
for bringing own share of the speculation that
about a advertising Mr Murdoch will
resurgence of market through cast an eye over
the broadcaster channels such as the broadcaster
with hit shows Eurosport would as well.
including All allow it to strike
Creatures Great better deals.

Chinese buyer of UK chip Johnson Matthey
firm brushes off volatility wins £400m loan
for hydrogen tech

By James Titcomb However, shares in the company, which By Howard Mustoe
and Gareth Corfield is worth about 100bn yuan (£12bn),
have fallen by more than 40pc since THE FTSE engineer Johnson Matthey
THE Chinese owner of Britain’s biggest peaking in December. has received a £400m government-
microchip plant has been forced to reas- backed loan to develop hydrogen tech
sure investors about its financial health Manufacturing in China has been dis- and help Britain hit its net-zero targets.
following a share price slump. rupted in recent weeks by lockdowns in
major cities as Beijing struggles to It is the biggest single government
Shanghai-listed Wingtech insisted maintain its zero-Covid policy. investment for a UK company research-
that business was continuing as normal ing hydrogen-based energy. The tech-
in a stock exchange update that fol- MPs on the Commons foreign affairs nology is expected to offer a low-carbon
lowed a one-day crash last week. committee wrote to the Government means of powering HGVs and trains.
saying it appeared that Boris Johnson
It comes as pressure mounts on min- had failed to order a security review into Johnson Matthey has pulled out of
isters to reverse the £63m sale of New- the deal. It said the takeover “represents battery technology in order to focus on
port Wafer Fab to Nexperia, a Dutch the sale of one of the UK’s prized assets hydrogen, making use of its experience
company owned by Wingtech. to a strategic competitor and potentially as a developer of catalytic converters.
comprises national security”.
On Monday MPs wrote to ministers Hydrogen is seen as a good replace-
demanding they come clean on a secu- The Prime Minister said after the deal ment for methane in the UK’s gas
rity review into last summer’s takeover. was announced that he had ordered Sir system, although the network will need
Stephen Lovegrove, the national secu- to be upgraded to accommodate it in
Wingtech, which is partially owned rity adviser, to review the transaction. high concentrations.
by the Chinese government, issued an
update noting recent “fluctuations” in However, Tom Tugendhat, the com- It could also be used in steelmaking,
its share price, but said that business mittee’s chairman, said MPs wanted replacing coal, as well as being a substi-
was proceeding at a steady momentum. clarification after being told there were tute for diesel in trains, ships and the
no details of such a review taking place. heaviest goods vehicles, where batter-
It said Nexperia was enjoying record ies may be too heavy.
profits and that profitability at Wing- The Government has said it has taken
tech’s manufacturing business, which no decision on the plant’s future, mean- Using electrolysers to split water
assembles electronics such as mobile ing it could still block the deal. molecules, the gas can be created from
phones for Chinese manufacturers green energy from the sun and wind,
including Xiaomi, was improving. Editorial Comment: Page 15 cutting carbon usage.

4 *** Wednesday 6 April 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Business comment

Annabel Best not to gloat as China gets its
Denham comeuppance over Covid conceit

Forget talk of JEREMY than a year of on/off Covid restrictions ‘Beijing’s their work, which is how it used to be. reportedly told Hank Paulson, US
a bonfire – we WARNER meeting supply that had been similarly travails It would be nice to think that this treasury secretary at the time of the
are drowning pared back by the involuntary savings make our change will help drive higher levels of crisis, “but now here I am in my
in red tape The pandemic has been of the pandemic – is now being own return productivity, but I wouldn’t bet on it. teacher’s domain, and look at your
eclipsed by Ukraine, but its compounded by a goods price shock, to normality system, Hank. We aren’t sure we
destructive consequences as Chinese production is once again that much One rather pleasing aftershock is should be learning from you anymore.”
will be with us for years poleaxed by the strictures of stay-at- more the apparently buoyant jobs market. I
home lockdown in Shanghai and difficult’ say “apparently” because the primary That same narrative has strongly
We thought it was all over, or at beyond. For the world economy, long reason employment looks so good is influenced Beijing’s approach to
Ministers seem to think the least that there were rather Covid is becoming a brutal and that the pandemic has caused many Covid, where a relatively insignificant
solution to one failed market bigger things to worry about. debilitating reality. people to rethink their lives and quit infection and death rate is routinely
intervention is yet another Sadly, this turns out to be far from the the workforce altogether. contrasted with an apparently chaotic
ill-advised bout of state overreach case. Record levels of infection, Britain has led from the front in Western response, which has seen
cancelled flights, chaos at airports, removing social distancing Whether what has been called in citizens die in their hundreds of
Is there any area of economic life in which this continued very high levels of staff restrictions, having rightly taken the the US the “great resignation” thousands. As Europe and the US sank
Government or its “arms-length” bodies will not absenteeism, long delays in almost view that once everyone who can and survives contact with the cost-of- beneath repeated waves of the virus,
interfere? Just this week the Culture Secretary every process involving the public wants to be vaccinated has had that living crisis remains to be seen. Few of China broadcast pictures of giant
has announced English football will have an sector, and in China some of the chance, then the Government has us have the luxury of being able to water parties in Wuhan, where
harshest lockdowns yet imposed; it all essentially fulfilled its public health choose not to work for very long. Yet zero-Covid policies had apparently
independent regulator (IREF) in place by the next says that Covid is still very much with duties and should stand aside. for now it is keeping wage increases returned things to normal.
us, casting a long shadow over both Unfortunately, simply removing the higher than they would otherwise be,
general election, while new Equality and Human the domestic and global economies. restrictions doesn’t automatically which in turn adds further fuel to The boot is now on the other foot,
return things to the way they were. today’s inflation. only Beijing cannot admit as much
Rights Commission guidance, in seeking to clarify Try as we might to put the pandemic either to its own people or itself.
behind us, it keeps on coming back. The airline industry is a classic case Rewind to the origins of the spike in “China’s remarkable institutional
the law on single-sex spaces, has underscored the With mass vaccination, we may have in point. Having been deprived of the energy prices – with spending on advantages and strong national
grown less fearful of the disease, but in opportunity for much of the last two going out greatly curtailed by social strength have been fully demonstrated
complexity government has created by prescribing all manner of ways Covid continues to years, seemingly everyone is now distancing restrictions, consumer in the fight against the pandemic”, the
prove an extraordinarily destructive desperate to travel. demand became heavily focused on People’s Daily wrote last week without
how myriad characteristics must be treated by influence. Looking for the root causes goods instead. apparent irony as the residents of
of today’s cost-of-living squeeze, for Yet airlines and airports have Shanghai resigned themselves to the
every business and service provider in the country. instance, they lie very much in the substantially cut back on staff since Chinese factories went into prospect of renewed imprisonment in
after effects of the pandemic, or rather the pandemic began, and are overdrive to satisfy the shoppers, their own homes.
The current regulatory drift indicates that the lockdown strategies that therefore in no position to fully burning energy like there was no
policymakers used to contain the service the explosion in demand. tomorrow. Now we have a different Chinese vaccines have proved
Johnsonian Conservatism is in keeping not with disease. Putin’s invasion has made High infection rates have kind of problem, with Chinese relatively ineffective, and unbelievably
things worse, and ensured that compounded the problem with production and shipments severely almost a half of the over 80s have not
the Conservative tradition of the Thatcher era, but elevated inflation persists for longer, rampant absenteeism. disrupted by some of the most been fully vaccinated anyway, leaving
but it was lockdown and the monetary draconian lockdowns since the start of little option but to respond with
rather the 1950s and 1960s – when huge swathes of policies that accompanied it that gave What’s true of the airline industry is the pandemic. renewed social distancing measures.
today’s inflationary forces wings. substantially mirrored in the economy
the economy were controlled by Whitehall. It was as a whole. The decision both to end These appear driven as much by There is a certain justice in China
The energy price shock – the result free testing and add another nine dogma as by the demands of the highly getting its comeuppance, given its
Ronald Reagan who quipped that the nine most of pent-up demand held back by more symptoms to the warning signs of infectious omicron variant; Chinese previous triumphalism and culpable as
Covid is almost bound to make the belief in the country’s innate it was in the origins of the pandemic.
terrifying words in the English language are “I’m problem worse still. I hesitate to write superiority has been strongly on the Best not to celebrate, though. China’s
that the pandemic has created a rise ever since the financial crisis, travails just make our own return to
from the government and I’m here to help”. Today, skivers’ charter, but sometimes it which brought discredit to Western normality that much more difficult.
seems that way. economies, and bolstered China’s The pandemic may have been eclipsed
we have a government that tries to “throw its confidence in its own autocratic by events in Ukraine, but its after
Work mentalities have shifted; systems of governance. effects will be with us for a long time
arms” around all of us. people want work that fits in with their to come.
lives, not to arrange their lives around “You were my teacher”, Wang
To gauge the extent to which state overreach Qishan, a Chinese vice premier,

will pervade our lives and the economy by the time

of the next general election, consider a typical day

in 2024, by which point we can expect proposed

legislation, like football’s new IREF, to be law.

You awake to a regulated radio programme. Buy

one, get one free deals on cereal, jam, yogurts and a

range of other breakfast foods no rational person

would view as “junk” have been banned. Nor will

producers be able to pedal their wares online, at

any time of day, thanks to Boris’s new anti-obesity

regulations. These will, by the Government’s own

estimates, reduce our food consumption by merely

2.8 calories per day.

Then you drop the children to nursery, where

they’ll be looked after in a highly regulated setting,

or school, where they’ll be taught the national

curriculum by regulated teachers. If you surf the

web on your commute, what you see will be

controlled by hundreds of rules – such as GDPR

and the Investigatory Powers Act – while your

social media comments risk being censored as part

of the new Online Safety Bill.

At the workplace, your employer will be

buckling under the weight of labour market

regulations – ranging from

‘These laws gender pay gap reporting
are being measures to newer rules
around “flexible” working.

judged on Many of these costs will be
intentions passed on in the form of
lower wages. At lunch, no

and never plastic straws – and perhaps
their no condiment sachets either.

Back home there might be

outcomes’ a newly installed, state-
subsidised heat pump – but
DAVID BROWN/TRIANGLE NEWS
no conservatory if you live in

a new build and the Government presses ahead

with its planned ban from June. If you watch live

TV, you’ll be paying a licence fee regardless of

whether you avail yourself of BBC services. And if

football is on, new legislation will have ushered in

major changes to the way the game is run.

Britain is turning into a paternalist’s paradise.

Just consider how little opposition the

recommendations of the 2021 fan-led review of Mini sensation Britain’s famous Mini marque’s has its most rock and roll version yet – the Mini Remastered Marshall Edition. Just 60
versions of the David Brown Automotive and Marshall Amplification car will be made to celebrate the music brand’s 60th anniversary.
football governance have attracted. But even the
A full energy ban against Russia is now unstoppable
rationale behind the review itself – that it was the

result of “three points of crisis in our national

game” – is weak. All three have been easily dealt

with by the existing model. What “problem” is

Government trying to fix?

Under the proposed regulatory model, clubs

will be forced to submit a raft of financial and other

information – including detailed business models

and equality, diversity and inclusion plans. These total and immediate energy embargo
required to alter the Kremlin’s calculus.
will have to be approved before a yearly licence is AMBROSE Nevertheless, the direction of travel is chemical giant BASF, predicted a accused him of “creating a spider’s web
EVANS- clear. The failure of the sanctions catastrophic wave of bankruptcies. “If of contacts with Russia for decades”.
granted. Monitoring and collating this material PRITCHARD regime is by now incontrovertible. The gas supplies from Russia were cut off
rouble has not collapsed. The overnight, it could push Germany into Steinmeier is the architect of
will require new staff, with the costs of compliance Despite Berlin’s reluctance, exchange rate against the euro is back the worst crisis since the end of the Germany’s pro-Putin policy. He
public opinion has swung to where it was six months ago. Second World War. Do we really want approved the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in
potentially running into the hundreds of behind a total embargo to destroy our whole economy?” he 2015 months after the illegal annexation
on Putin’s fossil fuels Curbs on the Russian central bank told the Frankfurter Allgemeine. of Crimea, against the vehement protest
thousands for larger clubs. have come to little. The country does of Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic
The dam has broken after the not need to tap its frozen foreign Chancellor Olaf Scholz has stuck states. It was a message to Putin that
Since “freedom day” last July, it has become Bucha massacre. European reserves to defend the currency as long closely to the script, bowing to the Berlin was willing to acquiesce in the
public opinion will not tolerate as revenues keep flowing from the sale great industrial combines much like violent redrawing of borders in return
increasingly difficult for Tory politicians to deny the continued funding of Vladimir of hydrocarbons and metals, and as his predecessors. He has lashed out at for a sweetheart deal on discount gas.
Putin’s war machine with purchases of long as Gazprombank is exempted German academic economists for
that the big state is back. Yes, the economy needs oil, gas and coal. Nor will German from Swift sanctions. suggesting that a full embargo is Economic Steinmeier this week began a
public opinion. manageable if the country is willing to Intelligence delicate mea culpa. “My adherence to
certain basic rules. Don’t cheat, play fair. But the “The fundamental underpinning of accept some contraction of GDP, Nord Stream 2 was clearly wrong. My
An energy embargo has become the rouble is Russia’s current account angrily calling them “irresponsible”. For unique insight judgment was that Vladimir Putin
Government’s recent “benefits of Brexit” policy unstoppable as systematic atrocities surplus,” said Christopher Granville The academics are right. There is by into the world’s would not bring about the economic,
against civilians come to light. The from TS Lombard. now a small literature on how it can be economic issues, political and moral ruin of his country
document didn’t even mention employment law. West’s phoney war against Russia is done, by the Bruegel think tank, by the sign up to our for his imperial lunacy. But I was
giving way to a harsher phase, The Institute of International IEA and by the University of Bonn. Economic wrong, like many others,” he said. He
As housing secretary, Robert Jenrick was entailing real sacrifices and necessary Finance expects the surplus to rise this Intelligence will survive but his policy will not.
risks to uphold our liberal principles. year to $200bn-$240bn (£152bn- The winter is over and Europe has newsletter,
reportedly “open” to a crackdown on second £182bn) due to higher energy prices enough gas to muddle through until by Ambrose Wolfgang Münchau, from
Eyewash sanctions against oligarchs and the compression of internal next November. It all comes down to Evans-Pritchard Eurointelligence, says Germany (and
homes in holiday hotspots – as though ministers and the seizure of yachts will no longer demand. That will probably surpass whether Europe is willing to give up its and Jeremy Italy) is objectively “the financial
suffice. This has unpredictable the entire surplus of China in 2022. Warner
should have a say in who gets to live in a certain consequences for the global economy. comfortable status quo. For the sponsor of Russian war crimes” and
Equity markets have not yet priced in The Russian finance ministry says German coalition it means recognising telegraph.co.uk/ risks paying an exorbitant reputational
area. Mandatory net-zero plans, anti-terror the political escalation. the country sold its Urals crude at an that its position is untenable, and risks ei-newsletter price the longer it goes on. The fate of
average $89 a barrel in March, which frittering away 70 years of hard-won the European project is itself in
measures for venues and compulsory bee bricks in The fifth package of EU sanctions amounts to bumper prices even after moral and diplomatic credibility. question this week. “If Germany resists,
this week will doubtless be another offering a sanctions discount. The I expect at least some member states to
Brighton all point to policymakers in the grips of bad compromise. Ukraine’s foreign Kremlin is in trouble on the battlefield Two thirds of the population wants an question the wisdom of aligning
minister has already seen the draft and but it is not yet running out of money. end to business-as-usual appeasement. themselves strategically with a country
regulatory fever. deemed it “insufficient”. They back the Polish plan for a full that keeps pursuing its self-interest at
Germany’s corporate elites are cut-off of energy purchases, a full ban the expense of others,” he said.
Regulation has become a political tool, used to France’s Emmanuel Macron has for fighting a rearguard action to head off on Russian ships entering EU ports,
the first time talked of curbs on further sanctions, warning of a and a full expulsion of all Russian Münchau said the EU has a bad
drive social or distributive objectives rather than to Russian coal and oil – though not gas dangerous chain reaction if banks from Swift. A splash across the
– but the devil is in the detail and in the governments succumb to the mood of record of standing up to Germany, but
correct market failures. These laws are being timing. Germany and Austria are still front of Die Welt accused the German strategic collusion with the Kremlin is
blocking action, arguing rather feebly the moment. “Emotionally, one can government of “joint guilt for the becoming too much to swallow.
judged on their intentions and never their that a fuel shock endangers social understand an embargo. But if it comes, massacres of Bucha and Mariupol”.
cohesion within the democracies. it will very probably tip the whole This is the new mood. “Forget the platitudes about the EU
outcomes, as upending the food industry for a European economy into a recession showing unity. We Europeans like to
The package will fall short of the with long-lasting consequences. We Former chancellor Gerhard congratulate ourselves on the half-
three-calorie improvement in diet shows. Yet mustn’t let this out of our sight,” said Schröder, now a paid Kremlin agent, measures we take in response to every
Christian Sewing, president of the has become a pariah. This week it is crisis. If we fail again, as we did so
figures from the Government’s better regulation German banking federation (BdB). the turn of president Frank-Walter many times in the past, the moral case
Steinmeier to explain his actions, for European integration can no longer
task force put the cost of regulations to the UK Martin Brudermüller, head of the after the Ukrainian ambassador be made,” he said.
refused to be in the same room and
economy at £220bn (adjusting a 2005 calculation Germany is going to have to decide
where its priorities lie.
for the size of the economy in 2020). Failure of

regulation, including over-regulation, has led to

increasing barriers to entry for new businesses.

There is an old children’s story about a kingdom

overwhelmed by a plague of mice. The king’s

advisers tell him to bring in thousands of cats to kill

them. But then the kingdom must cope with a

plague of felines. “Bring in dogs to scare the cats,”

say the (new) advisers, and so the situation

escalates until herds of elephants is stampeding

around. This is illustrative of our regulatory

pattern: each new intervention tries to fix the

problem the last one created. Far from igniting the

“bonfire of red tape”, Johnson is allowing himself

to be convinced that the only solution for one

intervention is another, with each eroding people’s

ability to make decisions for themselves.

Annabel Denham is director of communications
at the Institute of Economic Affairs

The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 6 April 2022 *** 5

Police on standby Business
after Manchester
airport mayhem

EasyJet warns more flights said it expected to cancel more flights in IOANNIS ALEXOPOULOS/LNP
will be cancelled in run up the coming days.
to Easter and blames surge Passengers started queuing at 3.30am to go through security at Manchester Airport’s Terminal 1 yesterday and holidaymakers hoping to escape for Easter faced long delays
in staff illness for the chaos The company is preparing to cancel
another 70 flights to and from the UK
By Giulia Bottaro today. More than 1,000 flights have
and Hannah Boland been axed over the past week, accord-
ing to data company Cirium, compared
POLICE and fire officers have been to 197 in the same week in 2019.
placed on standby to maintain order at
Manchester Airport amid warnings that EasyJet warned that disruption was
chaos at the check-in desks will con- likely to extend over the Easter holi-
tinue for days. days. The company said it would oper-
ate “the vast majority” of its 1,525 flights
Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater yesterday, with only a small proportion
Manchester, said that he is ready to call cancelled in advance.
in emergency services to help following
a string of cancelled flights and hours- It said pre-emptive cancellations
long queues for passengers. would continue over the coming days at
a “similar level” because of the high rate
It came as Manchester Airport’s man- of sickness in its workforce. A spokes-
aging director Karen Smart announced man added: “We are sorry for any
that she was stepping down “to pursue inconvenience for affected customers.”
fresh career opportunities”.
Passengers travelling on other air-
She will be replaced by Ian Costigan, lines are also being hit by last-minute
a senior executive at the airport, on an cancellations, with hundreds more
interim basis. He will be responsible for flights expected to be wiped from
a recruitment drive to tackle staff short- schedules in the coming days. Airlines
ages ahead of the summer season. are blaming a surge in Covid cases for
causing staff absences to double com-
Mr Burnham said: “I have been in pared with their normal levels.
touch with colleagues at Greater Man-
chester Police to see what we can do to Many airlines sacked thousands of
support the airport. workers at the beginning of the pan-
demic and insiders say that lengthy
“It’s a difficult moment for airports waits for security checks on prospec-
around the world having laid low for the tive staff were delaying recruitment.
pandemic, they’ve had to scale up very
quickly. We understand the challenges. British Airways cut 115 of its journeys
for Monday owing to staff shortages,
“But at the same time, we don’t want and has reduced its schedule for the
to see the scenes that we saw at the coming weeks. At least 98 flights which
weekend.” had been due to fly to or from Heathrow
for yesterday were cancelled.
Travellers have been facing massive
disruption in Manchester, Heathrow Consumer groups criticised the lack
and Gatwick driven by severe staff of guidance for travellers.
shortages as air travel picks up follow-
ing the pandemic. Rory Boland, the travel editor at
Which?, said: “Airports know how
Families are now braced for further many passengers there will be each day
Easter travel chaos as easyJet yesterday and how many staff there are, roughly.
They should give passengers a concrete
time to the hour to arrive.”

Electric car sales in March were higher than the whole of 2019 amid high petrol costs

By Howard Mustoe in electric sales reflected orders placed  VAT at 20pc persist, while household 39,000 Adding to those problems is a shortage small businesses for the vehicles they
months ago but said that the trend electricity attracts VAT of just 5pc. of some car parts made in Ukraine such had available, the SMMT said.
MORE electric cars were sold in March is  likely to continue with petrol Number of battery-powered cars sold last as bundles of electrical cabling.
than in the whole of 2019 as driv- and diesel prices remaining close to Meanwhile, the wider new car mar- month, a year-on-year increase of 79pc Mike Hawes, chief executive of the
ers tried to avoid soaring petrol prices, record highs. ket endured a “disappointing” slump as and accounting for 16pc of new car sales These shortages have helped push up SMMT, said: “This performance is
with Tesla retaining its pole position. a shortage of computer chips continued the cost of both new and used cars. deeply disappointing and lays bare the
A litre of diesel cost over 177p at the to frustrate car manufacturers and buy- Carmakers around the world are still challenges ahead. While demand
Tesla’s £55,000 Model Y and the end of March on average, almost 50pc ers alike. Overall sales fell 14pc, led by a struggling to source enough chips after Overall sales slumped to their lowest remains robust, this decline illustrates
cheaper Model 3 continued to be the higher than the start of last year. Petrol is steep decline in diesel models, accord- the factories that produce them closed point since 1998 in March, which is typ- the severity of the global semiconduc-
most popular vehicles, helping sales of 40pc higher at an average of 163p a litre. ing to the Society of Motor Manufactur- down in the early days of the pandemic. ically a popular month because it is the tor shortage.”
battery cars to jump 79pc year on year ers and Traders (SMMT) figures. first month of the new registration year.
to 39,000 vehicles, accounting for 16pc Electric cars are cheaper in the long Van sales fell by more than a quarter
of new car sales. run for many drivers if they do enough Just 14,000 diesel cars were sold, The biggest decline came from pur- after a burst of sales activity last year.
miles. This is likely to remain the case if while electric and hybrid models now chases by large fleet operators, with The van market lags passenger cars in
Auto Trader cautioned that the surge fuel duty on petrol at 52.95p a litre and account for one in three sales. sales down by more than a third. Manu- electrification, with only 6pc of sales.
facturers prioritised private buyers and

EU rail reforms branded ‘risky’
by Britain’s largest train operator

By Oliver Gill But after racking up £28m in operating in four-and-a-half years. You have a
losses and £30m of start-up costs trying lot  of costs until you start earning
RUNNING a rail service on the Conti- to run trains in and out of Stuttgart money back. It is extremely complex
nent will remain “extremely complex under predecessor David Brown, Mr and risky.
and risky” even as the EU tries to attract Schreyer ruled out further expansion
private companies to the sector, the into international markets. “Small calculation mistakes, you will
head of the UK’s biggest train operator pay for them for 14 or 15 years. And that
has said. He said: “We could say that we will is not the kind of business I want to be
learn from the mistakes in Germany. in with Go-Ahead.”
Christian Schreyer, chief executive of But you have extremely long prepara-
Go-Ahead, ruled out pitching for rail The remarks came as part of a major
services in EU countries after a foray £28m reset for Go-Ahead, which lost as much
into Germany and Norway cost the of half of its market value after the Gov-
company tens of millions of pounds. The amount in operating losses that ernment found managers hid millions
Go-Ahead suffered as part of its Stuttgart of pounds owed to taxpayers for up to
Brussels has introduced laws to venture, which also cost £30m to set up seven years.
deregulate the railways across the Euro-
pean bloc that will break the strangle- tion times and very high start-up costs The scandal led to Go-Ahead sus-
hold of state-owned entities such as until you have a first pound of revenue pending trading in its shares after
SNCF and Deutsche Bahn. coming in.” bosses were unable to file company
accounts on time.
EU officials want British-based train In a presentation designed to draw a
operators, which have faced competi- line under a turbulent nine months, Mr The former FTSE 250 company has
tion from overseas companies in the UK Schreyer cited the example of French rebounded strongly since, however,
for years, to bring their expertise to rail- company Transdev ousting SNCF to run with its stock rising about 60pc during
ways on the Continent. train services in the south of France. last month as it finalised a £23.5m fine
with the Department for Transport.
Go-Ahead operates the Govia He said: “They start their operations
Thameslink rail contract, which runs Mr Schreyer said that he wanted Go-
one in four trains in the UK under Ahead to focus on bus and light rail such
brands such as Southern, Thameslink, as tram services. Go-Ahead will, how-
Great Northern and Gatwick Express. ever, continue to run train services in
the UK.

Customers of P&O Ferries National Insurance
rise risks weighing
left stranded over holidays on house prices

By Oliver Gill look towards the weekend, we have By Melissa Lawford
very high booking levels, which sadly
TENS of thousands of P&O Ferries cus- means we won’t have any capacity TAX rises that kick in today will reduce
tomers will have their Easter holidays available for other operators. what homeowners can borrow and
ruined this weekend after they were potentially send house prices down-
urged to stay away from the port of “We will, of course, do everything we wards, experts have warned.
Dover. can outside the peak weekends to carry
The increase in National Insurance
Rival ferry operators will be unable as many P&O customers as possible. contributions will change how lenders
to honour P&O tickets this weekend “What we don’t want to do is to create run “mortgage affordability assess-
because their services are already full of ments”, a leading banker has warned.
holidaymakers going to France. a situation where we have to disappoint The assessments look at take-home pay
customers arriving in the port who and test how much a worker can afford.
P&O, DFDS, and the Channel Tunnel we cannot get to France because we The rising cost of living will also cut
have a reciprocal arrangement allowing are full.” back what banks are willing to lend.
them to accept each other’s tickets in
the event of an emergency. Officials are desperate to avoid a Charles Roe, of the trade body UK
repeat of the long queues witnessed at Finance, said the tax rise would imme-
With P&O’s ferries still moored up in Dover over the weekend. diately hit borrowing power. He said:
Dover, passengers were directed “The increased cost of living – including
towards DFDS check-in where they P&O carried an estimated 10,000 changes to National Insurance pay-
could catch the first available crossing. people a day between Dover and Calais ments – will reduce a borrower’s
disposable income.”
The reciprocal arrangement is based during peak times such as Easter.
on an assumption that other operators The operator has been barred from Mortgage brokers and banks also
have spare capacity, however. sounded the alarm and warned sellers
sailing all but one of its passenger fer- would have to cut asking prices when
P&O has now warned customers plan- ries following the shock sacking of 800 buyers were only given smaller loans.
ning to travel between April 8 and April seafarers nearly three weeks ago.
10 to “re-book directly with another Rishi Sunak last year announced
operator before arriving at the port. Each ferry must be signed off as safe employees’ National Insurance contri-
“DFDS will not be able to transfer P&O by the Maritime and Coastguard butions would rise by 1.25 percentage
customers onto their services,” P&O said. points this month.
Agency, a division of the Department
A spokesman for DFDS said: “As we for Transport.

The Insolvency Service has also
launched a criminal investigation into
P&O’s sackings.

6 *** Wednesday 6 April 2022 The Daily Telegraph

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financial year. Although Has improved the global hotel room demand maker Montana Aerospace in
November has proved to be highly
they showed a 43pc quality of its estate will exceed 2019 levels America, for instance, about 95pc of its remain appealing in an era when lower disappointing. The company’s shares
and is building more by next year. Even if it business is from domestic travellers. industry profits may naturally prompt have followed the wider sector lower
year-on-year rise in sales, capacity Mid-market brands, which represent reduced investment. For example, it after the invasion of Ukraine. They are
more than two thirds of its global undertook a major review of its core now 37pc down, even though recent
revenues remained 30pc takes longer, IHG has estate, have historically been less Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza brands full-year results were well received.
affected by economic downturns and in 2021 that resulted in 34,300 of their
below their 2019 level owing the financial means to cope have recovered more quickly than rooms being removed from its estate Gavin Launder, who highlighted the
other segments. on quality grounds. company’s potential in our original tip
to continuing travel restrictions with further disruption. Despite and still owns the stock in his Legal
In the long run, IHG is well placed As a result, two thirds of its & General European Trust, recently
caused by the pandemic. its significantly lower sales last year to capitalise on an industry recovery. It US-located Holiday Inn rooms and told this column that the company
has a pipeline of 271,000 rooms, versus three quarters of its Crowne Plaza “remains the best managed and best
However, the company’s share than in 2019, it was able to cut net debt a total global estate of 880,000 rooms; rooms have recently been updated. invested civil aviation supplier”.
40pc of them are under construction. The company is also investing in a
price has already surpassed by 26pc, so that net finance costs were As they are built, the group should new reward programme to improve There is plenty of potential for a
benefit from greater scale and a customer loyalty and is investing in its long-term industry recovery. Hold.
its pre-Covid level and is covered 3.5 times by operating profits. consequent improvement in margins. digital offering, such as via the release
of a new mobile app, to differentiate Read Questor’s rules of investment before
22pc higher than when this In addition, it made cost savings that Separately, its offering is likely to you follow our tips: telegraph.co.uk/go/
questorrules; telegraph.co.uk/questor
column advised readers to contributed to a 15 percentage point

buy the stock in March 2020. improvement in its adjusted operating

In Questor’s view, IHG margin relative to the previous year.

offers significant potential The company is also in a strong

for further capital gains over position to cope with ongoing

the long run. Although the disruption because it depends less

pandemic continues to on global travel than many rivals. In

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The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 6 April 2022 ** 7

Business

Builders sign Gove cladding pledge BUSINESSBULLETIN Fintech veteran among
Cargo flights steer Virgin raft of FCA appointments
Crest Nicholson, one of JESSICA TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT paying for remediation, following years Atlantic back into black
three major constructors of inaction after the Grenfell disaster. The Financial Conduct Authority has
to agree deal, takes £120m Michael Gove, the Housing Secretary, confronted the building industry over the scandal Virgin Atlantic expects to return to made three hires for top positions. Craig
hit from additional costs In a call with industry executives, the profits in 2023, the first time in seven Chapman will become the watchdog’s
Government’s initial deadline of early further announcements would follow. Mr Gove had said that the Government years, after the pandemic pushed it to finance director next month. He was
By Ben Gartside March. Crest Nicholson said it believes sign- could “call in” and block all proposed the brink of collapse. Losses at the previously at fintech company RTX
new estates, as well as banning house- carrier narrowed to £486m last year, as RouteTrader and Barclays Capital. FCA
THREE of Britain’s biggest housebuild- Additional funding talks will be put ing the Building Safety Pledge ensures builders from competing for govern- travel restrictions left many of its jets veteran Laura Dawes will become a
ers have promised to spend millions of off until later in the year, as part of fur- that it can continue to operate in the ment contracts and buying land from grounded for much of 2021. Revenue director of authorisations alongside
pounds fixing unsafe cladding on tower ther negotiations around the Residen- housing market following threats from the state. was flat at £900m, but losses were Dominic Cashman, who joins from
blocks, following a tense stand-off with tial Property Developer Tax and wider the Government around planning per- trimmed by cost-cutting measures and broker TP Icap.
Michael Gove, the Housing Secretary. funding of remediation work that has missions and access to Help to Buy. Executives have criticised the “hos- an increase in lucrative cargo flights.
proved contentious so far. tile” approach from Mr Gove, who Mother’s Day boost helps
Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey and The Telegraph reported in January called the housebuilding industry a Moss Bros to expand as Moonpig to raise forecast
Crest Nicholson signed a pledge to A Government source described the that various measures were being con- “cartel” in comments to Conservative profits triple post-Covid
address fire safety problems on build- negotiations as “not job done”, and said sidered to strong-arm developers into activists last month. Moonpig has lifted sales forecasts
ings between 36ft (11m) and 59ft (18m) Menswear brand Moss Bros is planning thanks to a strong Mother’s Day and
high, constructed in the past 30 years. Outgoing Taylor Wimpey chief exec- to open new shops after profits have better trading after lockdowns. The
utive Pete Redfern championed the tripled to £17m compared with pre- online card retailer expects revenue of
Persimmon had previously agreed to agreement. pandemic levels. The retailer was hit £300m in the year to the end of April,
cover the work, but formally signed the hard by declining demand for suits and up from previous forecasts of £285m.
pledge, agreed with the Government, He said: “Our priority has been to smart shirts during lockdowns as more The company has rebounded from
yesterday. ensure that customers in Taylor people worked from home. Trading has changes in customer behaviour when
Wimpey buildings have a solution to been boosted by the launch of casual the omicron variant first appeared.
As part of the new provisions, Taylor cladding remediation. We took early wear ranges.
Wimpey and Crest Nicholson said that and action, committing significant Stationery retailer hit by
they would incur additional costs of up funding and resources to address fire Fertiliser and feed costs cybersecurity attack
to £80m and £120m respectively. safety and cladding issues on all Taylor are milking dairies dry
Wimpey affected apartment buildings.” The Works said it was forced to shut
Persimmon’s shares were largely flat, The National Farmers Union warned some stores after a cybersecurity
but Crest Nicholson’s dropped 2.8pc A Government spokesman said: that British dairy farming has become incident caused issues with its tills. The
and Taylor Wimpey’s slid 0.7pc. “Since January we have been clear in unprofitable amid high costs for stationery and books retailer said the
our expectations of developers, includ- fertiliser, animal feed and fuel due to the hack caused a halt in stock deliveries to
The Government announced in Jan- ing an agreement to remediate build- war in Ukraine. Fertiliser shipments its shops and created longer delivery
uary that all leaseholders in high-rise ings they have had a role in developing from Russia have stalled, putting times for online orders. It said normal
blocks should not have to pay for reme- and to contribute to a wider fund to fix pressure on prices, while exports of service should resume soon with no
diation works on dangerous cladding, unsafe cladding. Ukrainian corn, used to feed cows, have impact to financial results.
including those in properties between declined.
36ft and 59ft tall. “Our position has not changed. We
welcome the developers who have
Housebuilders had until April 5 to signed pledges so far and we have the
sign the Building Safety Pledge guide- powers to impose a solution in law if
lines, following an extension from the those in scope do not do the same.

“We will provide an update on the
outcome of negotiations shortly.”

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Business

Orban’s election victory is a disaster for Brussels

Hungarian PM’s win THOMAS BROOM FOR THE TELEGRAPH this contrast with European norms into
focus. “Ukraine is forcing people to take
threatens to shatter ‘We won so but they are competitive,” says Daniel Orbán faces a difficult balancing act to manufacturing industries. Erik Nielsen, ‘There are sides, even more so given the atrocities
big you can Hegedus, a fellow at the German maintain relations with Moscow while global chief economist at UniCredit, people who that are going on. Across the EU there is
Europe’s united see it from Marshall Fund in Berlin. not leaving Hungary cut off from the says this may be why Angela Merkel, would be now a sense we need to have even
the moon, lucrative benefits of EU membership. the former German chancellor, was open to the greater solidarity and vision and
front against but certainly Now, the EU faces years more with a so willing to tolerate Hungary’s debate on purpose,” he says.
from member that is, if not actively hostile, Economically, Hungary has close ties behaviour: “I am more than removing
Vladimir Putin, write Brussels as determined to foil its plans, and more to Russia in key markets. Last year it suspicious that a number of the Hungary as “Hungary is an embarrassment in
well’ confident than ever. imported 92,000 barrels of oil a day major German corporates had a member’ many respects, and there are
Tim Wallace and from Russia, accounting for 43pc of its lobbied her pretty heavily.” increasingly people who would be open
“This election victory will be imports, according to the International to the whole debate on removing
Louis Ashworth interpreted in Fidesz as very broad Energy Agency. The closeness between Orbán and Hungary as a member, which would be
social support for the party’s policies,” Putin, combined with Hungary’s quite an extreme measure.”
As he celebrated winning his Hegedus adds, pointing to crackdowns Orbán has pushed back against authoritarian stance on issues including
fourth consecutive term as on LGBT+ people and minorities. demands to cut the supply, insisting media freedom and law and order, “The EU will up the ante in terms of
Hungary’s prime minister on “there won’t be sanctions that would mean the nation is increasingly fines. He will now face increased
Sunday night, Viktor Orbán crowed “Orbán will be especially self- apply to gas or oil, so Hungary’s shunned by its EU partners. pressure from other east European
over those he had defeated. confident to ask the price of his energy supply is secure in the countries, most notably Poland. He has
co-operation at the EU level, for upcoming period”. Economist Mike O’Sullivan, author relied on an awkward squad of other
“We never had so many example for not blocking sanction of The Levelling: What’s Next After eastern nations, but that relationship is
opponents,” he told supporters of his decisions in the council.” But it also has small but important Globalisation, says the war has brought now breaking down.”
Right-wing Fidesz party in central roles in Europe’s oil supply and
Budapest.  “Brussels bureaucrats, the Despite his strong hand in talks, Poland is particularly important,
international mainstream media and often aligning with Budapest against
the Ukrainian president.” Brussels. But the invasion of Ukraine
has sharply changed attitudes in
That Orbán singled out Volodymyr Warsaw. “Orbán has lost a fellow EU
Zelensky speaks to how much the sceptic,” says Nielsen.
conflict on Europe’s eastern border has
already reshaped the Continent’s Camino Mortera-Martinez, at the
geopolitical dynamics. Centre for European Reform, says that
the refusal of countries such as
Orbán’s close ties to Russian Germany to consider an oil embargo is
president Vladimir Putin and demi- shielding Orbán.
authoritarian ruling style have long
made him a thorn in the bloc’s flank. “But if, or rather when, public
But the war has left him a near pariah, pressure becomes unsustainable for the
while Zelensky garners hero status. German government in particular and
there is a move towards a partial
The 58-year-old strongman is embargo of some sort, Orbán will have
unafraid to ruffle tensions with to stick his neck out,” she says.
Europe’s ruling powers. “We won so big
you can see it from the moon, but “The Poles are 100pc invested in
certainly from Brussels as well,” he said. stopping the war and imposing
sanctions and doing everything they
Europe’s biggest powers may have can to put pressure on Putin. That is
hoped the election would mean the their main goal right now, so they are
end for Orbán. Hungary’s opposition unlikely to be patient or understanding
parties, after being repeatedly routed with Orbán.”
since 2010, formed an electoral
alliance called United for Hungary Other countries beyond the EU will
with the conservative mayor of also join in, he predicts, with financial
Hodmezovasarhely, Péter Márki-Zay, consequences for a regime that is
at its helm. already cut off from some European
funds due to disputes over Budapest’s
Despite some polling leads, they fell treatment of the rule of law.
short. It was a good opportunity in
some ways, not least because of Still, there is no clear legal path for
Hungary’s disastrous handling of Covid: removing an EU member, which means
it has the fourth highest number of Brussels may have to live with Hungary
deaths per capita of any country after in its midst for some time.
losing more than 45,000 people to the
pandemic. Fidesz has launched a tough Hegedus says the EU now has the
austerity programme as a consequence. option of “acknowledging the fact that
the existence of older practising
But the odds were stacked against the member states is the new reality in the
challengers. Over the past 12 years, European Union”.
Orbán has placed his thumb on the
scale to bring about the system he He adds: “To some extent that will be
calls “illiberal democracy”: stuffing a kind of realpolitik. To some extent,
courts with sympathetic appointees, that would be a fatal disaster.
changing the constitution,
gerrymandering electoral districts and “Because that could mean practically
eroding the free press. the end of the European integration
as an automatic, normative project
According to Hungary Today, based on democratic values and
joint opposition leader Márki-Zay fundamental rights.”
received just five minutes to speak
on state-owned TV channel M1 during Even in full swagger, however, Orbán
the entire campaign. is unlikely to want to pick a big fight
with Brussels.
“These are not democratic elections,
“I don’t think there’s any real
evidence of any small country being
able to derail or stand up against
something that major powers in the EU
want to do,” says Nielsen.

Russia suffers biggest slump in
business activity since lockdown

By Tom Rees S&P’s survey found Russian compa- service providers alike recorded sub-
nies reacted quickly to the slump by stantial declines”.
THE Russian economy is heading into a cutting back on staff and raising prices
deep recession after its private sector as import costs were pushed up by the It came as Moscow edged closer to a
suffered the biggest monthly plunge in rouble’s drop. default after US officials blocked Russia
output since Covid lockdowns two from making bond payments through
years ago. Employment in the services sector US banks.
fell at its sharpest pace since June 2020
Job losses mounted and foreign as confidence in future sales tumbled to Russia has defied expectations by
demand for Russian goods dried up as a two-year low. paying creditors on its foreign currency
sanctions and an exodus of Western debt since the invasion, but the US
companies battered the country’s econ- 37.7 Treasury is stopping Moscow from pay-
omy in March, according to S&P Glob- ing bondholders using US banks.
al’s purchasing managers’ index. S&P Global’s purchasing managers’ index
for Russia last month – down from 50.8 in The Kremlin will need to find alterna-
The closely-monitored gauge fell February tive sources of money to pay creditors
deep into contraction territory last with the US Treasury saying that Russia
month, sliding from a score of 50.8 in Meanwhile, inflationary pressures now has a choice of “draining remain-
February to 37.7. were stoked by prices charged by com- ing valuable dollar reserves or new rev-
panies increasing at their fastest pace enue coming in, or default”.
Any reading below 50 signals a fall in on record.
private sector output with the index hit- Tim Ash, emerging market strategist
ting the lowest level since May 2020 S&P Global said the survey pointed to at BlueBay Asset Management, said a
when Covid first triggered a downturn. a “marked contraction in private sector default would be a “catastrophe for Rus-
business activity as manufacturers and sia” with economic implications that
Economists expect March’s contrac- would “last for a very long time”.
tion to be the start of a huge recession in
Russia possibly lasting into next year He said the US Office of Foreign
after the Western backlash to its inva- Assets Control has “leverage over Rus-
sion of Ukraine. sia as it can determine whether or not
Russia now goes into default”.

US facing recession ahead of Amazon in satellite
next election, says Deutsche launch deal with
rocket companies

By Tom Rees and Tim Wallace a number of reasons to believe it will By Giulia Bottaro
remain well above the Fed’s target
JOE BIDEN will be battling a US reces- unless demand is meaningfully dented.” AMAZON has signed deals with three
sion in the run-up to the next presiden- rocket companies to launch its new
tial election and a possible rematch Meanwhile, the eurozone is set to broadband satellites.
against Donald Trump, a major bank stagnate, narrowly dodging an out-
has predicted for the first time. right recession but joining the US in a The tech giant said Arianespace,
painful slowdown. Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance
The Federal Reserve is set to aggres- will provide a combined 83 launches
sively lift interest rates in an attempt to Higher interest rates combined with over the next five years, as part of the
curb the strongest inflation in 40 years, the knock-on impact of the US slump so-called Project Kuiper.
but in doing so will trigger a recession, will force the eurozone “to the point of
according to Deutsche Bank. stagnation in early 2024”. The satellites are designed to supply
high-speed broadband to underserved
It is believed to be the first large bank The warning comes after one of the customers in places without reliable
to call a recession in the world’s leading connection. Amazon aims to reach indi-
economy as the war in Ukraine worsens 50 years vidual homes and organisations such as
inflationary pressures. schools, hospitals, government agen-
A Treasury yield inversion, as occurred last cies and disaster relief operations.
A recession would be a major blow week, has preceded every recession in the
to Mr Biden’s re-election hopes with US for the last half-century The company, which has 1,000
his  presidency already on the rocks employees working on the project, is
following an approval ratings slump. market’s most trusted recession signals entering the communications satellites
The next presidential election is in 2024 flashed red last week. market to compete with rivals Starlink,
but Mr Biden’s party is facing defeat in headed by Elon Musk, and UK taxpayer-
the mid-terms later this year. The yield on two-year Treasuries – backed OneWeb.
US government debt – rose above those
Matthew Luzzetti, US economist at on 10-year bonds, a so-called “inver- Rajeev Badyal, a top executive at Pro-
Deutsche, said an aggressive tightening sion” that has preceded every recession ject Kuiper, said: “Securing launch
of the Fed’s policy “will likely tip the in the US for the past 50 years. It signals capacity from multiple providers has
economy into a recession towards late investors expect the Fed will need to been a key part of our strategy.
2023, helping to drag inflation back cut rates in response to a recession.
towards target by end 2024”. “These heavy-lift rockets mean we
can deploy more of our constellation
He said: “Inflation in the US is run- with fewer launches, helping simplify
ning at four-decade highs, and there are our launch and deployment schedule.”

** telegraph.co.uk/sport Wednesday 6 April 2022

SPORTS NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR The Daily Telegraph
King Kevin strikes
De Bruyne finally breaks
Europe’s meanest defence P.8

Woods’ Masters vow: I’m here to win

By James Corrigan
GOLF CORRESPONDENT at Augusta

hFive-time champion upbeat
as he makes dramatic return

hBall-striking easier than just
walking for injury-hit legend

The wait is over. Tiger Woods The star attraction: Tiger Woods addresses the media at Augusta yesterday when he confirmed he did intend to compete in the Masters, 17 months after he last played competitively
declared here yesterday that his
right leg had passed his own fitness adamant that he could play through is in, it is more difficult. You know, I’ll know when that is, but physi- 2008 US Open he won an 18-hole
tests and that he was ready to tee it it and contend for a 16th major. “I do 72 holes is a long road and it’s going cally the challenge this week is I play-off on the Monday after essen-
up in tomorrow’s first round of the – I can hit it just fine,” he said. “I to be a tough challenge, but a chal- don’t have to worry about the ball- tially playing with a broken leg for
86th Masters. don’t have any qualms about what I lenge that I’m up for. I love compet- striking, it’s actually just the hills 91 holes.
can do physically from a golf stand- ing, and feel like I can still compete out here. It’s going to be a major
Not only that, but the 46-year-old, point. Walking is the hard part. This at the highest level. marathon.” And as far as having the mental
who has not played competitively course is not an easy walk to begin powers to recreate the wonders of
for 17 months, believes that he can with. “I don’t show up to an event Woods has found a pathway yore, look no further than this heav-
overcome the odds, history and unless I think I can win it. There will through intense discomfort to enly venue in 2019, when at the age
sporting credulity itself by winning “Now, given the condition my leg be a day when it won’t happen, and implausible glory before. At the Continued on Page 2
a record-equalling sixth Green
Jacket on Sunday evening.

Of course, with Woods there is
always a caveat – he does love the
drama – and he did leave room for at
least a sliver of doubt.

“As of right now I feel I am going
to play,” the 15-time major winner
said at his eagerly awaited press
conference. But at a tournament
which has become consumed by
Tigermania, all anybody seemed
interested in were the words: “I am
going to play.”

So at 10.34am local time, Woods
will head out with South African
Louis Oosthuizen and Joaquin Nie-
mann. The young Chilean will feel
that he has joined a mad circus.

Fourteen months after a car crash
that almost cost Woods his limb, he
will, barring an adverse reaction to
his exertions here these past few
days, return to the fairways that
define him before all others.

“I’m going to play nine more
holes,” Woods said. “I’ve been very
excited about how I’ve recovered.
That’s why I came up here last week
to test it out for 27 holes.”

Woods revealed that he was in
pain “each and every day” but was

No plans to ban exclude him over fears that a Rus- comment on whether that remained Australian admits lucrative stint working with Japa-
Medvedev from sian triumph could boost the the case for the US Open. asking Jones for nese side Suntory Sungoliath.
French Open Vladimir Putin regime. England secrets
The potential for Wimbledon to And in a revelation that will fur-
Tennis By Ben Rumsby The French Tennis Federation – be the only of the grand slams to ban Rugby Union By Daniel Schofield ther embarrass the Rugby Football
which could be spared a Medvedev Medvedev emerged after the Union, which gave the 62-year-old
The French Open had no immediate victory at the year’s next grand slam All England Club was advised its Australia centre Samu Kerevi said its backing after another dismal Six
plans last night to ban Daniil Medve- after he underwent hernia surgery independent status meant it could last night he had been trying to Nations campaign, Kerevi said Jones
dev from this year’s tournament, that will mean he misses the start of ban Russian and Belarusian players extract tactical secrets from Eddie had used centre Manu Tuilagi as a
despite Wimbledon being ready to who fail to denounce Putin’s inva- Jones during the England coach’s template to improve his physicality.
the clay-court season – confirmed it sion of Ukraine and not face legal
was adhering to last month’s ruling repercussions. “I’m actually trying to get the Eng-
by all four majors that Russian and land secrets away from him, so I’m
Belarusian players would be It set tennis’s biggest event apart just asking him a few questions
required to be “neutral” to play. from the main tours, which have about the way they play,” Kerevi said.
stayed largely neutral over fears
The United States Tennis Associ- they could be taken to court. Full story: Page 13
ation did not respond to requests for

2 *** Wednesday 6 April 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Sport
Golf

Oliver Brown

Chief Sports Writer, at Augusta

Theatre of Woods delivers

yet another showstopper

hThe Hall of Famer has Not until last November did he Even in 2019, long before the Master at work: Tiger Woods pulls
post a three-second video of himself crash that reshaped his life, Woods
gone from referring to his hitting balls on his Florida range. woke up at 3.40am on a storm- in the crowds during practice
His competitive activity has been affected Masters Sunday to make
career in past tense to talks confined to one hit-and-giggle with sure he activated his back muscles. It was once unthinkable that
his son Charlie in Orlando. Today, he gives the impression that Woods would ever refer to himself
of conquering Augusta every step he takes is enough to as a faded force. Even when he was
In last month’s induction speech make him wince. For most, the walk battling back injuries, he would
‘ I do.” Rarely, outside the at the World Golf Hall of Fame, he around Amen Corner is merely dwell obsessively on his reps in the
vows of matrimony, have spoke of his career largely in the undulating. For Woods, it is posi- gym. Traces of the old Tiger remain,
those words carried such past tense, kindling scant hope for tively Himalayan. Pressed on not least when he says he will wait
profundity. That Tiger the future. Now, after a couple of whether he found uphill, downhill until “game time” before commit-
Woods was even being asked if tentative practice rounds, he is talk- or side-hill lies the most challenging ting definitively to his 23rd Masters,
he believed he could win his ing about conquering Augusta in his condition, he shot back: “All as if he were a basketball player
sixth Masters, just 14 months afresh. of them.” sweating on a final fitness check.
after his car plunged into a Los But his recent agonies have also
Angeles ravine, stretched For sheer chutzpah, we have Woods never imagined that his brought an unusual readiness to
credulity. But the fact that he never seen a golfing quest quite like athletic capabilities would be so dra- share his struggles with the world.
answered in the affirmative it. matically reduced. But somehow, in
redrew the parameters of a his mid-forties, he has become more This change of persona has
sporting renaissance. It was a It is manifestly an exercise relatable than he ever was in his humanised him in the eyes of the
reminder of how, even at 46 and fraught with discomfort. “There is twenties. Then, he reached a peak of Augusta galleries. This week, he has
with his mobility impaired by a physical pain each and every day,” conditioning impossible for the been received with a warmth to
reconstructed right leg, he had he said, offering a rare glimpse of his average hacker to aspire to, never eclipse even the fervour of his early-
lost none of his gift for theatre. vulnerabilities. There was a time mind attain. Now, he battles many of Noughties pomp. Even as the
when Woods revelled in being the the same aches and anxieties that world’s 973rd-ranked golfer, he pro-
The press auditorium here at indestructible Nike android, assail less feted golfers in their fifth jects such intoxicating stardom that
Augusta, all mahogany panels launching into his shots with a decade. “Any time it’s cold, my body Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas
and green leather-bound chairs, ferocity that defied the usual laws of doesn’t feel very good,” he smiled, can complete their practice rounds
can feel like a prim and stilted biomechanics. But after repeated ruefully. “Anyone in this room who’s essentially alone.
setting. And yet on this auspi- surgeries on his neck, back and leg, older than me can probably attest
cious Georgia day, it crackled he is less coy about revealing the to that.” Among the patrons, there is a pal-
with electricity. Tiger was back, agonies he goes through simply to pable sense of gratitude that Woods
not just to sample some miso- set foot on the course. has turned up at all. The thought
glazed cod with Hideki Matsuy- that he could win is, to judge by the
ama at the champions’ dinner, The indestructible man... former champion’s catalogue of injuries volume of their cheering, almost too
or to be paraded as a ceremonial much to compute.
golfer, but to contend. Even by Shoulder Neck
his Lazarus-like standards, it Suffered a muscular injury in 2006 Inflamed facet joint in 2010 then suffered When Woods embraced his chil-
was improbable to the point of but did not require surgery. a neck strain in 2019. dren beside the 18th green three
outrageous. years ago, Sir Nick Faldo encour-
Back Torso aged everybody watching to drink it
To understand how vanish- Underwent his first microdiscectomy in Withdrew from the Northern Trust all in, depicting the scene as a return
ingly unlikely it is that Woods is 2014. A year later, he had a second in 2019 with a mild oblique strain to glory that could never be
playing, let alone sizing up the microdiscectomy, and a follow-up operation that caused pain and stiffness. repeated. In a sense, he was right,
Green Jacket, it helps to reflect to relieve discomfort. Underwent spinal with Woods’s victory standing as an
how little lead-up there has fusion surgery in 2017, and in 2020 he had Knee emphatic rebuke to the idea that his
been to this moment. In the 406 another microdiscectomy. Minor surgeries to remove a benign arrest for driving under the influ-
days since he struck a central tumour (1994) and cyst (2002) in his left ence of prescription drugs signalled
reservation near Ranchos Palos Lower right leg knee. Ruptured his ACL in his left knee in the end of the road.
Verdes at 87mph, he has been Open fractures to his lower right leg 2007, arthroscopic surgery 2008 as well
virtually invisible, preoccupied and had a rod inserted into his tibia as a reconstructive operation on his By itself, that day represented a
only with rehabilitating a leg following his car accident in Feb 2021. damaged ACL. He also had a stress perfect bookend to the soap opera of
that contains screws, pins and a fracture in his left tibia and in 2011 had his story. It is testament to Woods’s
metal rod. Foot a grade 1 MCL sprain in his left knee. peerless obstinacy, though, that he
foot and ankle were stabilised is still hell-bent on scripting the
with screws and pins during Ankle most implausible encore of all.
surgery after car accident. Problems with his left Achilles in 2012

Woods: I feel like habitat and even he is struggling to in worse situations and won tourna- the grounds to be shut before mid-
I can still do it give the scenario veracity. ments. Now, I haven’t been in situa- day yesterday, perhaps that is not
tions like this where I’ve had to walk the most appropriate expression).
From Page 1 “It’s been one of those things and endure what I’m going to try
of 43 and after several back surger- where I’ve had to endure pain to endure – that’s going to be differ- After two years of limited crowds
ies, he won his first major in 11 years. before,” said Woods. “This is differ- ent.” due to the pandemic, the patrons
ent obviously. This is a lot more have returned in massive numbers.
When the news channels showed traumatic, what has transpired to It is like the perfect storm, History hangs tantalisingly in the
that frightening footage of his over- my leg. I never left that hospital bed (although after the weather forced Georgia air. “Just the fact that I was
turned vehicle in February 2021, even to see my living room for three able to get myself here to this point
that magical Sunday of three years months. So that was a tough road. To Step change: Tiger Woods is a success,” Woods said.
ago appeared to be his swansong, say that I was going to be here play- is swapping Nike golf
his final golfing miracle. But, no, ing and talking to you guys again, it shoes for FootJoys, which Woods, for a change, will not be
Tiger is reinstated in his natural would have been very unlikely. are expected to provide wearing the golf shoes of his major
greater foot support
“But I feel like I can still do it. I sponsor Nike – instead he will don
the Footjoy brand. It is understood
still have the hands to do it, the body they will offer his feet greater sup-
is moving good enough. I have been port after his leg injury last year.

The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 6 April 2022 ** 3

It would surprise me
more if he played poorly,
says former coach Haney

By James Corrigan GOLF CORRESPONDENT at Augusta

hReasons why the returning Against all “It’s plenty, plenty good enough
great can overcome doubters the odds to play well,” Thomas says, before
and mount a challenge for an Four who praising the work Woods has put in
improbable sixth Green Jacket beat adversity to restore his swing and ball speed
back to elite level. “It’s crazy.
The course Niki Lauda Nobody has a work ethic and deter-
Anywhere else, apart from perhaps Motor Racing mination like him. I’ve never seen
St Andrews, and Tiger Woods Austrian (below) anything like it in terms of setting
would not be given a prayer. But he was badly burnt your mind to something and kind
has shown before that, at Augusta, and injured at of setting a goal and proving to
he can overcome rust to mount a the German yourself and everybody that you
challenge. Grand Prix at the can do it.
Nurburgring in
Admittedly, in 2010 he had been 1976 but came “The days and weeks and months
out for only five months, but still his back to win his that he couldn’t do anything, but he
fourth place that year was remarka- second world would look at it as an opportunity to
ble considering he had been univer- title in 1977 and get better and get stronger and get
sally ridiculed since the exposure of a third in 1984. one per cent better that day. You can
his sex scandal. see it in his game.”
Muhammad Ali
His coach then was Hank Haney. Boxing Pete Cowen believes that Woods
“He was not even playing well, but is one of the only golfers in the his-
got his game together and managed Stripped of his tory of the game who could have so
to put himself in the hunt,” Haney world heavy- adapted his swing. “He understands
says. “He can hit those shots in his weight title after his swing and has ownership of it
sleep. Who else has the experience refusing to serve and you can see that by the way in
he does around there? Nobody is in the United which he has figured out how to
even remotely close. States army in adapt,” the coach says.
Vietnam on
“He knows that course so well, His short game has looked par-
knows the nuances, the greens, religious ticularly sharp – and that is because,
when to attack, when to be defen- grounds, Ali for months, the medics would allow
sive. I’d actually be more surprised spent four years him only on or around the practice
if he plays poorly this week than if out of the ring greens. “It’s like 2008 before that
he plays really well.” but became a US Open,” Woods said. “All I was
champion again able to do was chip and putt. It’s the
The injuries at 32, beating same this time.”
“The key issue is how his right leg George Foreman
copes with the stamina,” Sir Nick in the “Rumble The Tiger effect
Faldo says. “It’s not whether he can in the Jungle”. When Woods’s name appears on a
take the pain. He has a remarkable Sunday leaderboard strange things
pain threshold, as he displayed Rafael Nadal can happen to his rivals. His come-
when winning the 2008 US Open on Tennis back victory in 2019 here was a case
one leg. It’s whether the fatigue gets in point as the likes of Francesco
to him. Augusta is extremely undu- The Spaniard Molinari, Brooks Koepka and Pat-
lating. The toughest walk on tour.” doubted he rick Cantlay all wilted in the glare.
would ever play
Justin Rose agrees: “Sometimes again after a Were they intimidated? Rose
when I reach the 18th at Augusta, catalogue of does not believe that is the right
my back hurts – and that’s when I’m injuries in 2021, word. “His presence changes the
100 per cent fit. You have to keep but won the energy of the galleries and this per-
your mind fresh because it is such a Australian Open meates through to the players,” he
mental challenge and if you are in January. says. “It is not the normal excite-
exhausted that is impossible, no ment of the final-day crowd. It is as
matter how resilient you are. Bob Champion if they are willing on history, and
Racing the other guys in contention sud-
“Tiger has not played four com- While still denly feel as if they are part of a pro-
petitive rounds in 17 months. He will duction in which they are not the
be puffing, but then maybe he will recovering from lead actor. It’s that hand of history
not. Because that’s what Tiger does, cancer, the jump weighing heavily. Except, not on the
he surprises people. He will have would-be champion, but on those
his physio then play, then have jockey guided he is conquering.”
more physio. Rinse and repeat. It Aldaniti to
will be punishing, but he is disci- The odds
plined and has extraordinary will- victory in the Woods has never been priced at
power.” 1981 Grand higher than 16-1 in a major when he
National at has prevailed. In 2019, he was 16-1,
To guard against aggravating his as he was for his first Masters vic-
foot, Woods is wearing FootJoys, Aintree. tory in 1997.
having gained permission from
apparel provider Nike. “We brought him down to 50-1
from 66-1 this week,” Alex Apati,
TANNEN MAURY/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK His game
By common consent, Woods from Ladbrokes, said. “But
is swinging impressively and there hasn’t been a huge rush
nobody has witnessed his of money on him. There have
been 10 players who we’ve
game closer this week than taken more on.
Justin Thomas, his neigh-
bour in south Florida with “The punters obviously
whom he played here last week will be rooting for him, but at
the moment they are backing
and then again on Sunday with their heads, not their
and Monday. hearts. That will change if

he gets in the hunt.”

4 *** Wednesday 6 April 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Sport
Golf

Interview ‘I shot 64 on my 64th birthday, which
was cool. I have beaten my age three times now’

By Tom Cary SENIOR SPORTS CORRESPONDENT at Augusta seeing it. I mean, why were people
watching John Daly and some of the
hBernhard Langer believes he Langer is in many respects the Realist: Bernhard Langer knows making the cut this week would be an ‘incredible success’ other longest hitters back in the
standard bearer for the older player, day? You know, you watch DeCham-
can make the cut again, 40 an inspiration to club golfers every- beau and you’re like, ‘Man, that ball
where, fighting the good fight for isn’t coming down’.
years after first playing in a those who drive it less than 300
yards. His longevity and consistency “So it’s exciting. On the other
tournament he has won twice are truly extraordinary. This year hand, the courses have to be longer.
marks his 50th since he turned pro- You have to maintain more grass.
W ith eight of the world’s top fessional in 1972, working as a teach- You have to buy more land, and so
10 aged 30 or under, ing pro at Augsburg Golf Club in on… It’s an endless debate but I’ll
including the top seven in Bavaria. Langer had worked his way adhere to whatever rules they
this week’s official world up from caddying for a few Deutsch- decide.”
rankings, never has golf felt so marks, eventually saving enough to
much like a young man’s game. purchase a three-speed bicycle to In the meantime, he will keep
ease the 10-mile round trip to the grinding away. Langer is not here
A generation of players who grew course. just to make up the numbers, or take
up idolising Tiger Woods, and the advantage of the lifetime qualifying
way in which he overpowered He is still going as strong as ever. exemption granted to former cham-
courses, have taken things to Langer’s victory at the Chubb Clas-
another level in recent years, with sic on the PGA Champions Tour ‘People love watching
venues the world over scrambling ensured he broke his own record as the long hitters, it is
to protect themselves against mod- the oldest winner on the circuit exciting. But the courses
ern-day beefcakes who regularly (which is restricted to those over have to be made longer’
launch the ball 360 yards off the tee. 50), and won a tournament for a 16th
straight season. pions. He is still seriously competi-
Augusta National is no exception, tive.
measuring more than 7,500 yards He is also one of very few 64-year-
for the first time this year as it pre- olds who is capable of shooting In 2020, he became the oldest
pares to do battle with the likes of below his own age. He smiles. “It player in Masters history to make
Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron gets easier the older you get,” he the cut, aged 63. He believes he can
Champ. says. do so again, although he stops short
of saying he could claim a hat-trick
Fortunately for those who prefer “If you’re 72 shooting below your of Masters titles.
guile and imagination to brawn, age I think it will be a lot easier than
there are exceptions to the rule. At when you’re 64. But it was fun doing “I’m a realist,” says the German,
64, it is safe to say Bernhard Langer it. I shot 64 on my 64th birthday, after being presented with a spe-
will not be leading any driving dis- which was cool. A real nice present cially commissioned Mercedes-
tance stats this week. But the two- for myself. And actually I beat my Benz G Class to celebrate the 40th
time Masters champion is out to age a few months later. I’ve done it anniversary of his Masters debut. “A
prove that Augusta National can still three times now.” dreamer, too, sure. But a realist first
be a country for old men. and foremost.
Safe to say, he is unlikely to do so
“My level has been pretty consist- this week. Augusta’s aforemen- “I would have to play four days in
ent,” says the German, who won tioned lengthening, plus various a row out of my skin. And others
here in 1985 and 1993. “Maybe even tweaks, have made it harder than would have to make mistakes. But I
gotten better. So I go into the week ever to pillage. believe I can make the cut again.
hopeful. I mean, it’s golf, so you That for me would be an incredible
never know. But Langer is not bitter about the success.”
way the game is going. He does not
“Last week [at the Rapiscan Sys- necessarily want the bombers to be Not only for him but for any golfer
tems Classic in Mississippi] I didn’t reined in. who fears their best days are behind
care for the course too much and them.
didn’t have a great week. But the “It’s a double-edged sword,” he
season started strong and I was able says of the possibility of reining in
to win [the Chubb Classic] in Febru- the big hitters by curbing the use of
ary. So I’m pretty positive.” certain balls, or clubs. “People love

The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 6 April 2022 First-round tee times *** 5

Sport US unless stated. All times BST. * denotes amateur 6.30pm
Golf B Horschel
Starting at hole one 2.50pm 4.40pm D Johnson
Relaxed McIlroy relying on ‘negative’ T Gooch C Bezuidenhout (Rsa) C Morikawa
golf to finally break his Augusta duck 1pm J Kokrak C Davis (Aus)
JM Olazabal (Spa) D Willett (Eng) B Langer (Ger) 6.41pm
By Tom Cary JJ Spaun P Cantlay
3.01pm 4.51pm J Rahm (Spa)
Rory McIlroy plans to curb his natu- stant reminder of what was truly McIlroy said when asked what had 1.11pm M Homa R MacIntyre (Sco) W Zalatoris
ral attacking instincts and play “neg- important in life, and that, as a con- changed. “I think when you get so A Greaser* S Lowry (Irl) C Schwartzel (Rsa)
ative” golf this week in an attempt to sequence, he felt “less pressure”. tied up in technical thoughts, you P Harrington (Irl) K Na L Shepherd* (Eng) 6.52pm
break his Masters duck. don’t visualise as well, you don’t see M Weir (Can) V Hovland (Nor)
“Back then golf was everything,” the shot you want to hit.” 3.12pm 5.02pm X Schauffele
The Northern Irishman, who he said. “Obviously it’s still very, 1.22pm D Berger T Kanaya (Jpn) J Spieth
famously imploded in 2011, finish- very important. But maybe back Mostly, though, he stressed it was L Mize T Fleetwood (Eng) J Rose (Eng)
ing in a tie for 15th, having begun then I would think I wouldn’t be not loosening up that was required, F Molinari (Ita) K Kisner G Woodland 7.03pm
the final round with a four-shot lead, ‘fulfilled’ if I didn’t win one or what- just solid, “conservative” golf, at S Straka (Aut) M Fitzpatrick (Eng)
has had plenty of chances since to ever. It’s less pressure now.” least for the first 54 holes. 3.23pm 5.13pm B Koepka
claim the one major that eludes him. 1.33pm P Casey (Eng) C Conners (Can) R McIlroy (NIrl)
McIlroy goes out in the last group “It feels like a very negative way F Couples B DeChambeau Rl Henley
But despite six top-10 finishes in tomorrow with Brooks Koepka and to think, but it’s the way to play G Higgo (Rsa) C Smith (Aus) L Westwood (Eng) Weather
his past 10 appearances, McIlroy has around this place. You don’t have to G Migliozzi (Ita) Rain is forecast for
never come closer to winning the Mature: Rory McIlroy says do anything spectacular. I played 3.34pm 5.24pm today but conditions
Green Jacket than on that memor- he feels less pressure than with DJ [Dustin Johnson] in the first 1.44pm J Niemann (Chi) L Herbert (Aus) are expected to
able, if ultimately harrowing, day as in the early days when he two rounds when he won in 2020... K-H Lee (Kor) L Oosthuizen (Rsa) S Power (Irl) improve tomorrow and
a 21-year-old. was first chasing the but wasn’t in awe of the way he R Palmer T Woods P Reed the forecast for the
career grand slam played. He just did the right things. V Singh (Fij) weekend is clear, with
Now 32, McIlroy says it is an 3.45pm 5.35pm no rain expected on
older, more mature, more relaxed Matthew Fitzpatrick at 2.03pm local “That’s what this place is all 1.55pm H Matsuyama (Jpn) T Hoge Friday, Saturday and
player who will this year attempt to time and, despite missing the cut in about; playing away from trouble, M-W Lee (Aus) J Piot* K Nakajima* (Jpn) Sunday, when it should
complete the career grand slam. For San Antonio last week, he believes not firing at flagsticks, not being H Swafford J Thomas B Watson be sunny with
one thing, he will have his 18-month his game is in reasonable shape. In aggressive. That goes against my C Young temperatures of
old daughter, Poppy, for company in five events this year he has finished nature a little bit, so it is something I around 20C. Saturday
today’s Par 3 Contest. in the top five twice, with one vic- have to really work hard on. It feels 2.06pm 3.56pm 5.57pm and Sunday could feel
tory, in Las Vegas. like a negative game plan. But it’s S Cink T Finau S J Im (Kor) cooler with some wind.
“It’s funny,” he said. “When you not. It’s just a smart game plan. B Harman S Scheffler M Leishman (Aus)
don’t have children, the Par 3 seems “I think I was getting a little too H Higgs A Scott (Aus) W Simpson Odds
like a bit of an afterthought. And caught up in technical thoughts “You see the highlights of people Jon Rahm 11/1
then, once kids arrive, it sort of about my golf swing and playing the hitting heroic shots, but that’s just 2.17pm 4.18pm 6.08pm Dustin Johnson 14/1
becomes the highlight of the week. golf swing rather than playing golf,” one golf shot. The rest of the time, A Jarvis* (Cay) S Hagestad* S Garcia (Spa) Collin Morikawa 16/1
So, yeah, I’m looking forward to it.” they’re doing the right things and Z Johnson S Lyle (Sco) T Pieters (Bel) Xander Schauffele
being patient and being disciplined. S W Kim (Kor) H Varner III 20/1
Mcllroy added that returning to That’s what wins Green Jackets.” 4.29pm Will Zalatoris 33/1
his family each evening was a con- 2.39pm C Champ 6.19pm
M Hughes (Can) L Glover A Ancer (Mex)
L List E Van Rooyen (Rsa) S Burns
M Wolff T Hatton (Eng)

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Sport
Football

Liverpool need late Diaz goal

to gain breathing space after

Konate error lets in Benfica

By Chris Bascombe at Estadio da Luz

Benfica 1 moment within three minutes as Head start: happened straight after half-time
3 Nunez sought to trick his way Liverpool defender was preventable, Nunez pouncing
Nunez 49 through Liverpool’s defence only to Ibrahima Konate upon Konate’s slip.
run into the blockade of Konate. The (right) scores his
Liverpool young defender shrugged off the side’s first goal, “Benfica fought for their lives,
forward. Konate’s reputation was Sadio Mane (far especially when we opened the door
Konate 17, Mane 34, Diaz 87 enhanced when he headed Liver- right) slots home for them,” Klopp said.
pool’s opening goal after 17 minutes. the second, and
A 75-minute Champions League fellow striker “It was clear when we scored the
masterclass punctured by 15 min- But his momentum-shifting Luis Diaz claims crowd would be back. The game
utes of carelessness. That can be blemish came when gifting Nunez a the third was slightly more open than I
Jurgen Klopp’s only summing up of pathway into the tie three minutes wished, but the best Benfica player
an erratic but ultimately fulfilling into the second half, air-kicking 5 was their goalkeeper.”
evening in Lisbon. Rafa Silva’s cross.
Champions League Klopp restored order with a treble
Despite a brief flirtation with self- The shock of so tamely conceding away wins in a row substitution, bringing on Jordan
sabotage, Liverpool are well-posi- was twofold. Liverpool’s first-half for Liverpool. The last Henderson, Diogo Jota and Roberto
tioned to progress to the semi-finals, display was almost perfect, but it time was in 1984 Firmino. Salah was one of those who
even if the 3-1 away win over Benfica was also impossible not to observe under Joe Fagan (in departed.
was not as serene as it might have they should have been out of sight the European Cup)
been. Luis Diaz’s late strike gave the before Lisbon was re-energised. Back, retaining possession, Liver-
scoreline a much-needed, and gen- pool waited for their moment for
erally deserved, polish. Liverpool squandered several the goal which ensures Benfica need
chances before Konate connected a most unlikely comeback at
Klopp’s side were cruising, two with Andy Robertson’s outswinging Anfield.
up within 34 minutes, their only corner to power past Odysseas Vla-
complaint after Ibrahima Konate chodimos on 17 minutes. When That came when Keita sent Diaz
and Sadio Mane had struck that they Mane perfectly timed his run to con- speeding through and he had the
had not scored half a dozen. vert Diaz’s 34th-minute headed poise to drift round the goalkeeper
assist Klopp’s side were dominant. and find the empty net after 87 min-
Then came a brief bout of unease, utes.
Benfica restoring hope when the Benfica’s keeper stopped Liver-
highly rated Darwin Nunez pun- pool being six up by half-time. A Jota might have added a fourth.
ished Konate’s error. By the closing more critical gaze might suggest the That would have flattered Benfica at
stages Liverpool would have been strikers, particularly Mohamed half-time, but Liverpool at the end
grateful for any Anfield advantage Salah, were too wasteful. of a strange game.
before ex-Porto man Diaz silenced
home taunts. Salah has not been at his sharpest Liverpool’s players seemed quite
for a while, his touch heavy and fin- subdued at the end. The epic Pre-
You could not blame Liverpool’s ishing rushed. Klopp suggested the mier League showdown with Man-
players if the prevailing thought in Egyptian and Mane were still recov- chester City is upon them.
the dressing room at half-time was, ering from their exhausting “Everyone knows the importance of
“How many do you fancy?” The first demands in the Africa Cup of the next game,” Klopp said.
half was as comprehensive as it gets Nations and World Cup qualifiers.
in an intimidating venue. He can reflect contentedly on
“It is a tough period for Mo and another glorious night while know-
The home side bet their chances Sadio,” the manager said. “It is not ing only absolute, not near-perfec-
on counter-attacking, which easy with massive pressure on both tion will get the job done at the
explains why Klopp opted for an shoulders. The [national] managers Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
adventurous midfield formation of played their part in putting that
Naby Keita and Thiago alongside pressure on. Now it is time for it to Benfica (4-2-3-1) Vlachodimos 8; Gilberto 6, Otamendi
anchor Fabinho. This gave Benfica settle. It was an important game for
the occasional glimmer of light as Mo and Sadio tonight. One could 5, Vertonghen 5, Grimaldo 7; Weigl 6, Taarabt 6 (Meite
Nunez tried to show why many pre- score, one could not.”
sume he is the next superstar off the 70); Rafa 7, Ramos 7 (Mario 86), Everton 7 (Yaremchuk
Lisbon production line. Diaz and Keita also ensured Vla- 82); Darwin 7. Booked Taarabt. Subs Leite, Seferovic,
chodimos would be an early con-
There would be a symbolic tender for man of the match. What Bernardo, Almeida, Dias, Lazaro, Morato, Goncalves,

Radonjic.
Liverpool (4-3-3) Alisson 6; Alexander-Arnold 7 (Gomez

89), Konate 7, Van Dijk 7, Robertson 7; Fabinho 7, Thiago

6 (Henderson 61), Keita 7 (Milner 89); Salah 6 (Jota 61),
Mane 6 (Firmino 61), Diaz 7. Booked Thiago. Subs

Kelleher, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Jones, Minamino, Tsimikas,

Matip, Elliott.
Referee Jesus Gil Manzano (Spain).

Kirchner bid for Derby hit by historic the tweets were an error of judg- them based on out of context infor- out of administration. At the time,
homophobic and misogynistic posts ment and deleted them. Other posts mation? Derby manager Wayne Rooney
included references to a “tranny on backed Kirchner’s attempt to buy
By Mike McGrath Tinder” and for an X-Factor contest- “I grew up with a single mom and the club, who owe HM Revenue and
ant to “quit being gay”. a little sister… I’m many things, but Customs £29.3 million.
American businessman Chris Kirch- preferred bidder by administrators. misogynistic isn’t on the list.”
ner, who is attempting to buy Derby But as Kirchner’s takeover attempt Broadcaster India Willoughby led Former Newcastle United owner
County, has faced fierce criticism has been revived, tweets from nine the backlash over the comments, The English Football League is Mike Ashley and a consortium
over historic social media posts years ago and prior have emerged. which have been deleted. “I work waiting for an update from Derby’s including former Derby chairman
using homophobic and misogynistic In one post, Kirchner quoted the with football clubs on LGBT+ inclu- administrators, Quantuma, about Andy Appleby have been among the
language. script from Amber Heard film Syrup sion. How are comments like this Kirchner being selected as a pre- interested parties. Previous take-
that “men categorise women in one compatible with your policies @ ferred bidder, with a board meeting over attempts by Derventio Hold-
Kirchner was in talks to buy the of four ways – mothers, virgins, FootballAssoc? (And I want Derby to tomorrow likely to reveal any pro- ings and Spanish businessman Erik
club last year before pulling out and sluts, or bit---s” followed by the survive btw),” she wrote. gress on a takeover. Alonso collapsed last year, which
hashtag #factsonly. led to the club being put in adminis-
had also been in talks to buy Preston Kirchner has since deactivated Kirchner is believed to have com- tration by owner Mel Morris.
North End. It is understood Kirchner accepts his Twitter account before restart- pleted a fit-and-proper persons test
ing on the social media site, adding: in previous bids to land Derby and Quantuma’s search for potential
He is poised to be named as the “Maybe the world would be a better Preston. But his tweets are likely to
place if more people assumed the new owners was held up by claims
best in others instead of immedi- spark scrutiny. for compensation from Middles-
His offer for the Championship brough and Wycombe because of
ately condemning them or labelling Derby’s breaches of financial rules.
club comes three months after he
withdrew an initial bid to lead them

The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 6 April 2022 ** 7

Lampard warns players about discipline

By Mike McGrath

Ahead of Everton’s biggest survival Plea for calm: Frank Everton have not flirted so closely
fixture in 28 years, Frank Lampard Lampard’s Everton with relegation since 1994, when
has called for cool heads and disci- have suffered three they came back from the brink
pline in the cauldron of Turf Moor red cards in past against Wimbledon on the final day
tonight. three league games of the season.

An Everton player has received a “The table doesn’t look so good
red card in three consecutive league for us now, of course, but if we can
games and Lampard will be warning work hard to get the results it can
his squad about discipline ahead of look very different very quickly,”
the match against Sean Dyche’s side. Lampard said. “You have to see both
sides. When you play against a com-
“I will speak to the players and petitor, a rival down there, then
then you hope the referees get the there is even more on that and I sup-
decisions right,” the Everton man- pose that is why the tension is
ager said. “I hope the players, if they ramped up around the game.”
are on a yellow, think differently. If
there is a challenge they can stay out Lampard believes his team have
of, stay on their feet, they should do. not been helped by the fixture
We have to make sure, with the level scheduling. They played on Sunday
of games and importance of them, afternoon, giving Burnley a day
we don’t make those mistakes.” more to prepare, and face United
this Saturday lunchtime.
Victory for Everton would give
them a six-point cushion over the Everton have Allan suspended
relegation zone. Defeat would leave and Donny van de Beek sidelined.
them one point above the bottom
three with Manchester United, Burnley v Everton
Leicester (twice), Liverpool and
Chelsea their next fixtures. 7.30pm, Sky Sports

Sports stars facing ban There will also be a ban on featur-
from gambling adverts ing specific teams’ kits and stadiums
in advertisements, as well as using
By Ben Rumsby video game content and gameplay
popular with under-18s.
Premier League footballers and Support: Gambling
other sports personalities will be minister Chris Philp Under existing rules, an adver-
banned from appearing in gambling backs the ban tisement is banned only if it is likely
advertisements in Britain under to appeal more to an under-18 than
new rules to protect children and an adult, but the changes will cap-
other vulnerable groups. ture those “likely to be of strong
appeal to children or young persons,
The rules, which come into force especially by reflecting or being
in October, apply to all sportspeople associated with youth culture”.
well known to children, figures
from reality TV shows popular with Gambling minister Chris Philp
under-18s, and other celebrities.
said: “We are determined to protect
those at risk of gambling-related
harm and I welcome these new
measures from the Committee of
Advertising Practice to help further

safeguard young people here.”

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De Bruyne breaks Atletico’s resistance to giv

Champions League By Jason Burt
at the Etihad Stadium

Manchester City 1
0
De Bruyne 70

Atletico Madrid

Att: 52,018 decider on Sunday before heading turned and sprinted back into his the face of another substitute, Jack the high priest of gamesmanship,
to Madrid for what will remain a berth. On another, Aymeric Laporte Grealish, as he lay by the touchline. even if his own touchline antics can
When Manchester City at last fraught occasion although it would was the furthest City player back be quite entertaining.
breached the self-styled baddest, have been a lot more fraught with- and he was stood 15 yards inside the There is much to admire about
most cussed, most cynical defence out the goal. Atletico half. It was that kind of the intensity that Simeone demands Both Simeone and Guardiola
in European football it felt like a encounter and little wonder that and how even attacking players wore long black puffer coats and
dam had burst inside the Etihad Sta- Guardiola had dismissed sugges- Guardiola looked like he was howl- such as Joao Felix and Antoine were certainly agitated, balls of
dium. Kevin De Bruyne was the tions that this was the ultimate clash ing at the (blue) moon with water Griezmann acquiesce to his rigid energy in their coaching, and coiled
scorer but it was Phil Foden who of styles – and then the game kicked splattering everywhere as he waved defensive systems. Atletico are not up tensely as they watched, but
provided the penetration, just 79 off and Simeone strung five defend- his bottle in celebration when De the side that won La Liga last season there the similarities ended. Even so
seconds after he came on, and so ers across the pitch in a move that Bruyne finally scored. but the principles – or the anti-prin- the tie is still alive and Simeone will
City take a precious lead to Spain for cried: go on, try to break that down. ciples – remain even if, really, it feel vindicated.
the second leg of this tense Champi- It was set out as a 5-3-2 on the team- It was the kind of encounter that would have been heartening to see
ons League quarter-final against sheet but, in reality, it was a 5-5-0 Simeone tried to reduce. He con- Simeone play more progressive City dominated but they did not
Atletico Madrid. There were floods and that is never going to be easy stantly demanded yellow cards – tar- football by now. There are those really create that many clear-cut
of relief. especially with uncompromising geting, in particular, De Bruyne who champion him as the next Man- opportunities, while there were two
defenders such as Stefan Savic and (who was on a caution and would chester United manager … but they dangerous breakaways from
The dam analogy was right. Felipe. miss the second leg if booked) – have obviously not watched much Atletico early in the second-half.
Atletico constructed a formidable while there was a nasty edge of what he wants from Atletico.
barrier and asked City to break it At one point Felipe simply ham- throughout, such as when Angel City had 71 per cent possession,
down and while Pep Guardiola had mered a clearance downfield and Correa fired the ball point blank into There is a begrudging admiration they had 15 shots but they could
gone into this tie playfully dealing after briefly admiring his work he but not much to actually love with only muster the one goal, which
with questions as to whether he came as Foden’s quick feet created
overthinks his tactics in this compe-
tition, he certainly got it spot on
here. To score just after making a
triple substitution was a vindication
for any coach and especially against
the anti-Pep that is Diego Simeone.
But then it helps that you can bring
on the likes of Foden who once
again looked born for this stage. The
problem for City was that the preci-
sion of their football demanded per-
fection against such disciplined
opponents and that did not arrive
until Foden’s introduction.

An advantage over any Simeone
side has added value although the
defiance with which the Atletico
fans sang at the final whistle sug-
gested they certainly believe it is far
from over. It remains tight; desper-
ately tight.

It would be no surprise if, in fact,
this is the only goal of the tie while
Atletico will have to do what they
failed to do here when they did not
even have a shot and that is the first
time in a decade that has happened
in any Champions League knock-
out tie.

City meanwhile must factor in the
effects of playing Liverpool in that
potential Premier League title

QPR slip up again “There has been speculation bigger at this stage of the season,” Blackpool keeper were unable to haul themselves
but Warburton because my contract is up in a few Sheffield United manager Paul Grimshaw badly level as the hosts leapfrogged them
defiant on future weeks’ time, but I can’t control Heckingbottom said. “My only crit- hurt in collision up to 13th in the Championship
rumours,” he said. “We are hurting icism was we didn’t create enough table.
Championship By Jon Culley because we have put ourselves in a chances off the back of the good Daniel Grimshaw is awake and
at Bramall Lane difficult position from being in a play we were having, but while it’s responsive in hospital after a serious Grimshaw, 24, was given oxygen
strong position, but I believe in 1-0 you know you will have to injury that marred Preston’s 1-0 win and taken off on a stretcher in the
Sheffield Utd 1-0 QPR these players.” weather a storm and we had to rely over Blackpool. 20th minute but manager Neil
on that defensive solidity.” Critchley said: “He is awake, he is in
Norwood 9 Rangers had good spells of pos- Cameron Archer grabbed the hospital and he is responsive, so that
session but lacked the quality to Rangers had a chance to steal a winner in 11 minutes of first-half is positive news so far.
Queens Park Rangers manager break down Sheffield United. point late on through Lyndon Dykes stoppage time after Blackpool goal-
Mark Warburton dismissed ques- and the final minutes were nervous keeper Grimshaw had been “It was a horrible situation to see
tions over his future after an eighth The decisive goal came after nine ones for the home crowd. involved in a severe collision with Grimmy come off so early – you
defeat in 11 matches left his side minutes from a training-ground the Preston player early on in the could tell straight away that he got
three points off the top six, having routine in which George Baldock Sheffield United (5-3-2): Foderingham; Baldock, contest. caught. When he is down for so
dummied John Fleck’s right-wing long, you are trying to get some
been among the favourites for pro- corner before an unmarked Oli Nor- Uremovic (Robinson 63), Egan, B Davies, Stevens; Berge Blackpool rallied for an equaliser
motion just a few weeks ago. wood’s shot from the edge of the box throughout the second period but information. I walked onto the pitch
(Osborn 83), Norwood, Fleck; McBurnie (Jebbison 73), myself because I was really con-
was deflected past QPR goalkeeper Gibbs-White. Subs A Davies (g), Hourihane, Ndiaye, cerned about him.”
Keiren Westwood. United move up Norrington-Davies. Booked Uremovic, Fleck.
to fifth place. Queens Park Rangers (3-4-1-2): Westwood; Dunne, Critchley, whose side are now
16th in the table and without a win
“Any win is big when playing a Dickie, Barbet; Adomah, Hendrick (Dozzell 68), Field, in three, added: “It’s not the night
team around you and it gets even we wanted.”
Wallace (McCallum 72); Chair; Gray (Thomas 68), Dykes.
Subs Mahoney (g); Amos, Austin, Sanderson.
Booked Dickie, Hendrick, Field.
Referee Darren Bond (Lancashire).

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ve City advantage Guardiola warns players to control their
emotions in Madrid cauldron next week

By James Ducker at the Etihad Stadium

hCoach drags Grealish away
from angry spat with Correa

hSimeone vows to use all the
‘tools’ Atletico have for victory

Marginal gain: Kevin De Bruyne shoots past Pep Guardiola has warned his Man- Tense: Jack Grealish is held back from Angel Correa and grabbed by Pep Guardiola (below)
Jan Oblak to give City a precious lead and chester City team not to lose their
the space with one, two and then a spark an outpouring of relief from his heads in Spain next week after the ‘We must stay composed against a “5-5-0” formation at times.
third deft touch as he nutmegged manager Pep Guardiola (above) manager was forced to drag Jack and not get into it. This But he praised his side’s patience
Reinildo with De Bruyne cleverly Grealish away from a clash with is how they play. I expect and the impact of Phil Foden, who
letting the ball run by his body Key statistics Atletico Madrid’s players last night. similar over there ’ came off the bench to set up Kevin
before shooting low across Jan De Bruyne to score.
Oblak and into the net. Foden’s 19 Champions League games Grealish became embroiled in an our maturity.” Asked if referee Ist-
involvement was even more impres- unbeaten for City at home since angry spat on the touchline after van Kovacs should have dismissed “Yeah, he [Foden] has a special
sive in that he had stood still, allow- losing three in a row in 2018 Atletico’s Angel Correa booted a ball Correa for kicking the ball at Greal- quality,” Guardiola said. “His recep-
ing defenders to retreat so he could at the City midfielder towards the ish, the City manager added: “The tion is always forward, his space in
collect Rodri’s pass into him. 11 Direct goal involvements (six end of the Premier League champi- referee is there. It is not my job. Jack the first step is massive, he has the
goals, five assists) for Kevin De ons’ 1-0 win. reacted really well and focused on composure to make an assist for
Soon after and those quick feet of Bruyne in 12 knockout matches what we had to do.” Kevin. He [De Bruyne] is in the best
his allowed him to dribble away The ball bounced off Grealish’s moment of the season right now –
from two challenges and although Shots on target for Atletico – the knee before hitting him in the face Diego Simeone, the Atletico he is sharp, quick and positive. His
his pull-back was blocked, De and led to the England international coach, said he would use all the influence in our game is massive. He
Bruyne was teed up again with his 0 first blank since APOEL Nicosia – a second-half substitute – con- tools at his disposal to try to over- made an exceptional goal with the
goal-bound shot set to beat Oblak against Real Madrid in 2012 fronting Correa and clashing with come City in the second leg. combination with Phil.”
before Savic got in the way. A two- other Atletico players, including
goal lead would surely have been through but it stayed at one. There Sime Vrsaljko and Stefan Savic. “We play with that feeling of just De Bruyne said: “I made the run
enough to give City the belief that were few opportunities. City wanting to go through using and Phil found me perfectly, I
they would certainly be going crashed against Atletico’s defence Guardiola – who reportedly told the tools we have against a needed to stay composed and luck-
with shots charged down and pen- Correa “you are mad” as tempers team with the weapons they ily I did. They played with almost
alty appeals waved away. threatened to flare – reacted by have,” said Simeone, who
shoving Grealish out of the way and was losing his voice after five at the back and with five
Oblak scooped out a De Bruyne ordering him to cool down. shouting so much in midfield.
free-kick and Rodri headed a corner throughout the “I recommend anyone
narrowly over but that was it, The City manager also sought to game. that says anything, that
although it may be enough. Neutrals shepherd Grealish away at the final they try playing against
as well as City fans should hope so. whistle before Fernandinho took on Guardiola that on the training
the responsibility of keeping his called Atletico ground.
Manchester City (4-3-3): Ederson 6; Cancelo 8, Stones 7, team-mate out of trouble. “masters of “We have to stay
Laporte 6, Ake 6; De Bruyne 8, Rodri 7, Gundogan 7 defending all composed and don’t
(Grealish 68); Mahrez 6 (Foden 68), Silva 7, Sterling 6 Grealish was fouled five times in together” and said try to get into their
(Jesus 68). Subs Steffen (g), Carson (g), Zinchenko, the 22 minutes he was on the pitch, it felt like City action. It is the
Fernandinho, Egan-Riley, Mbete Booked Jesus, Ederson more than any other player, as were playing way they play.
Atletico Madrid (5-3-2): Oblak 6; Vrsaljko 6, Felipe 7, Atletico sought to rile the 26-year- One nil is one
Savic 7, Reinildo 7, Lodi 6, Llorente 6 (Cunha 60), old with their familiar brand of nil. I expect
Kondogbia 7, Koke 7 (De Paul 60); Felix 8 (Lemar 81), gamesmanship. similar over
Griezmann 6 (Correa 60). Subs Lecomte (g), Christian (g), there.”
Suarez, Wass, Hermoso, Serrano, Camara Booked De Guardiola refused to be drawn on
Paul, Correa, Vrsaljko whether he felt Correa should have
Referee Istvan Kovacs (Romania). been sent off for the incident but left
his players under no illusions that
they need to keep their composure
in the second leg of their quarter-
final at the Wanda Metropolitano
next Wednesday.

“We have to control our emotions
and do what we have to do [in
Madrid],” he said. “There are things
we are not good at. There will be a
referee there in an incredible sta-
dium, a good environment.

“Atletico face these kind of knock-
out stage games many times – more
than us – and it will be a good test for

Williamson will will be fit for July’s tournament as Houghton said: “It has been the In brief former Fifa president months. Stephens, 32,
lead England for she battles for fitness after surgery greatest honour and privilege to Sepp Blatter on fraud pleaded guilty at
Euros campaign on an Achilles problem. captain my country for the last eight Infantino accused charges. That case Stockport Magistrates
years. Michel Platini has filed relates to a 2011 Court after being
By Tom Garry Head coach Sarina Wiegman a criminal complaint payment of $2 million charged with driving a
WOMEN’S FOOTBALL REPORTER informed 25-year-old Williamson of “The past 12 months have been against Fifa president (£1.52 million) to vehicle with alcohol
her decision on Monday, ahead of very difficult from a football per- Gianni Infantino, who Platini that led to both above the legal limit.
Arsenal defender Leah Williamson World Cup qualifiers against North spective in trying to overcome a worked under the men being banned
has been named as England’s cap- Macedonia on Friday and Northern number of injuries, and I under- former France from football in 2015. Homophobia ban
tain for the Women’s Euros this Ireland on Tuesday. stand and respect Sarina’s decision international when he The trial of Blatter and Football fan Luke
summer, ending Steph Houghton’s to name a new captain. was Uefa chief, Platini at a federal Reece, 21, has been
eight-year reign. “This is an incredibly proud accusing the Swiss- criminal court in handed a three-year
moment for me and my family and I “The captaincy is being passed on Italian of peddling Switzerland is banning order for
Chelsea defender Millie Bright is am honoured to be asked to lead us to a very deserving and driven influence. Platini also expected this year. shouting homophobic
the new vice-captain and Manches- at the Euros,” said Williamson. leader in Leah Williamson, with all claims that Marco abuse during a
ter City striker Ellen White has been “Steph Houghton is one of this coun- the attributes an England captain Villiger, Fifa’s legal Stephens fined Premier League match
designated as third in line, amid try’s all-time greats and to follow in needs to be successful, and I’ve no director until 2018, Burnley midfielder at the Amex Stadium.
uncertainty as to whether Houghton was complicit. The Dale Stephens has He was overheard
her footsteps means so much.” doubt she will be. criminal complaint been fined more than abusing Brighton fans
Houghton, 33, had captained “For me I don’t feel my England was reportedly filed on £3,500 and banned in the game against
Nov 17, two weeks after from driving for 12 Arsenal on Oct 2.
England since 2014, guiding them to story is complete and I continue to Platini was indicted in
three consecutive major tourna- work hard with my rehabilitation in Switzerland along with
ment semi-finals, but has not yet trying to make the squad for this
been able to play under Wiegman. summer’s home European Champi-
In a statement on social media, onship. I will be back soon.”

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Tuchel: We must create Champions League success last sea- needed it. It’s crucial in these games. of testing negative for Covid in time
a special atmosphere son in two behind-closed-door It’s much harder to play against the to join up with his squad today.
games, but Tuchel knows home spectators as well. We felt it in
By Matt Law FOOTBALL NEWS CORRESPONDENT advantage could play a crucial part Malmo and St Petersburg. We will Tuchel missed the semi-finals of
in this season’s quarter-final with face it again in Madrid next week the Club World Cup through Covid
Thomas Tuchel has appealed for the the Premier League, where the supporters back in stadiums. and everyone needs to arrive tomor- before meeting up with his team for
Chelsea fans to be “better” and operating licence prevents those row to support us.” the final and, although he believes it
make the most of the fact they are who are not season ticket holders “We absolutely need it [the would give Real a boost, he hopes
allowed into Stamford Bridge by attending. crowd],” Tuchel said. “We need to Tuchel also warned that last sea- Ancelotti is in the opposite dugout.
creating a special atmosphere for be better on the pitch, but we also son’s success against Real meant
the visit of Real Madrid tonight. Without a capacity crowd, the need the crowd to be better. Every- nothing to Chelsea’s chances of pro- “It does affect the squad, but
Stamford Bridge atmosphere was one has to be on the front foot for a gressing to the last four this time. nowadays you are in charge of vir-
Chelsea supporters were able to flat for Saturday’s defeat by Brent- big opponent on big occasions for tual media so I am pretty sure he can
buy tickets for the first leg of the ford and head coach Tuchel wants the quarter-finals. “Last season has nothing to do do team talks and stuff,” Tuchel said.
club’s Champions League quarter- those fans who have been able to with this game,” Tuchel said. “We
final, ensuring there will be a full buy a ticket to make it count tonight. “We normally have these atmos- looked at their last matches, but not “It’s strange when the coach is
house at Stamford Bridge, unlike in pheres in evening games and big last year. There is not a point to missing. I hope he still makes it. He’s
Chelsea beat Real on their way to matches. In the Champions League prove or whatever. We overcame a big personality and it would be
matches, they gave us a huge push Real last season, but it has nothing nice to have him on the sidelines in
in energy and atmosphere. We to do with this game.” these games.”

Chelsea v Real Madrid Real arrived in London yesterday Chelsea (probable, 3-4-2-1): Mendy; Azpilicueta, Silva,
without their head coach, former
8pm, BT Sport 2 Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti, Rudiger; James, Kante, Kovacic, Alonso; Mount, Pulisic;
but the Italian has not given up hope
Havertz.
Real Madrid (probable, 4-3-3): Courtois; Carvajal,

Militao, Alaba, Mendy; Casemiro, Kroos, Modric; Asensio,

Benzema, Vinicius.

Three key battles
By Sam Dean

Karim Benzema Luka Modric David Alaba
v v v

Thiago Silva N’Golo Kante Kai Havertz

One of the best Two midfield Havertz, if he
strikers of the giants of the plays as the
modern era meets game, in terms of central striker,
one of the best their reputation
defenders. At the and achievements poses an
ages of 34 and 37 rather than their uncomfortable
respectively, physical stature.
Benzema and Modric is still the challenge.
Silva both have an man who makes Sometimes he
elite level of Madrid tick, and runs in behind,
understanding of sometimes he
the game and the he was
intricacies of a big outstanding in drops into
European tie. their win over midfield. Alaba, a
Paris St-Germain
Benzema is in the previous two-time
fundamental to round. If anyone Champions
Madrid’s attack. can stop him, it is League winner,
will have to pick
Kante. his moments to
follow the

German.

Benzema casts off  ‘Europe’s most-underrated’ tag

By Sam Dean this milestone last month with a he absolutely deserves. You could the leading assist-maker, with 11. attacking impact, there is a clear and
brace against Mallorca. Those two see what can happen to the team in Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has 20 definable turning point in his
hReal striker has become the goals took his career tally to 413, his absence when they played El league goals so far this season, and 13-year Madrid career: the depar-
most prolific French player of moving him ahead of Thierry Henry Clasico. For sure a stand-out player 10 assists. Bayern Munich’s Robert ture of Cristiano Ronaldo in 2018. In
all time after being understudy in the all-time scoring charts for and a stand-out personality.” Lewandowski has struck 31 times in the four seasons before Ronaldo left
to cast of galacticos for so long French players. the Bundesliga, with just one assist. for Juventus, Benzema scored an
As he prepares to take on Tuchel’s In France, Kylian Mbappe has 17 average of 20 goals per campaign. In
W hen Zinedine Zidane It is an accomplishment that fur- side in the Champions League, goals and 13 assists. the four years since Ronaldo’s
described Karim Benzema ther underlines Benzema’s status as there is a strong argument to be departure, Benzema has averaged
as the best French striker a true great of the modern era. made that Benzema is currently the Benzema’s numbers do not lie. more than 30 goals per campaign.
in history, in December best footballer on the planet. If that And even if his critics are sceptical
2020, he would not have known After years as a slightly unher- sounds a little fanciful, then con- There are faster strikers and more
that the Real Madrid forward would alded facilitator for the likes of Cris- sider this: he is not only the leading of the statistics, then he dangerous dribblers in world foot-
soon be able to prove that claim with tiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale, he is scorer in La Liga, with 24 goals (no can also point to the ball than Benzema. He is not the
statistical evidence. now thriving as the leader and one else has more than 14), but also decisive moments of best forward in the air, and he will
undisputed frontman of Real brilliance he has pro- not throw Chelsea’s defenders to the
Zidane, Benzema’s former man- Madrid, and he has never played Frenchman emerges from Ronaldo's shadow floor with superhuman strength.
ager in Spain, was speaking in rela- better than he has this season. duced, including Instead it is in the mind where he
tion to Benzema’s longevity, quality Goals scored per season Ronaldo leaves Real his sensational does his best work: locating space,
and achievements: his time at Real, It spoke volumes about Benze- 35 hat-trick pulling players into positions they
his technical ability, his four Cham- ma’s importance to Real that they against Paris do not want to go into and waiting
pions League titles. Now, the argu- collapsed without him in their 30 St-Germain in for a moment to strike.
ment can be boiled down to an even recent drubbing by Barcelona. As the round of
simpler fact: no French player in the Benzema watched from afar, 25 16. If Chelsea can deny him those
history of the game has scored more injured, Real were torn apart, losing
goals than him. 4-0 at home. 20 With regard to moments over the two legs, they
Benzema’s individ- should be able to keep Real at arm’s
At the age of 34, Benzema reached “I said two years ago he is one of 15 ual status and length. If they give Benzema even
the most underrated players in the smallest opportunity, though,
10 Prime of his life: they will almost certainly be made
world fo otball,” said Thomas
Tuchel, the Chelsea head coach. 5 Karim Benzema is to regret it.
“Maybe not any more, which is what 0
2009- 2011- 2013- 2015- 2017- 2019- 2021- peaking at 34

10 12 14 16 18 20 22

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Interview Move over Madonna, this is one

true Blue who only goes giddy for Chelsea

By Tom Morgan Faithful: Barbara Charone in her St John’s own firm, she helped co-ordinate While she has no plans to invest ‘We have
the club’s 1997 FA Cup final record in the club herself, her role is to so much to
hRenowned PR impresario Wood office (top) and (above) with Dennis Blue Day with Suggs. ensure supporters’ concerns are be grateful
Barbara Charone has been a represented. “I’m obviously really to Roman
fan of the club for decades and Wise, Suggs and Mark Hughes in 1997 “We beat Middlesbrough, and excited to be a part of the future if for – I hope
is now involved in takeover bid they played the song after we won,” this is successful,” she says. “We’re that his
in the late 70s – I started to go to she remembers. “It was really emo- in an unbelievable place. We have a legacy at
I n pride of place between the Chelsea. I lived on Sloane Street and tional. And then Dennis Wise manager that’s been through a lot the club
awards and vinyl from 45 years it was the nearest ground.” invited me and Suggs to the Waldorf and comes out just like a saint. Not isn’t too
working with Madonna, Keith with the players afterwards.” just as a football coach but, more tainted’
Richards and Rod Stewart hangs By 1981 she had a season ticket in importantly, as a person.”
a picture that Barbara Charone Stamford Bridge’s East Stand, where It is footballers rather than her The commitment to redeveloping
treasures above all. “The greatest she has remained ever since. Char- lengthy list of music clients that Charone says she cannot go into the ground, potentially in stages
night of my life,” says the public one, who now lives in Maida Vale, have always made her go weak at too much detail over her consorti- rather than moving away temporar-
relations impresario, pointing from counts Pat Nevin and Graeme Le the knees. “My life has taken in so um’s vision and declines to criticise ily, also represents an “incredibly
her desk towards a signed photo- Saux as friends and, before leaving many famous musicians, but when I rival bids, but she guaranteed Super bright future”, according to Char-
graph of the Didier Drogba penalty the Warner Music label to set up her meet a footballer, I’m starry-eyed, League talks would remain perma- one, who was previously a member
that decided the 2012 Champions tongue-tied – to meet Thomas nently off the menu. of the Chelsea Pitch Owners trust.
League final. Tuchel would be very cool.”
“I’m all for the football pyramid,” Like many at Chelsea, she says the
Charone has invited Telegraph She may just get her chance in the she says. “People going up, people new ownership would owe some
Sport to her St John’s Wood office coming weeks. Her credibility as a going down – everyone having a degree of gratitude to Roman Abra-
where she still brokers deals for true blue Chelsea fan has led to the chance. What good is football if you movich. “We have so much to be
music’s biggest names to explain Todd Boehly consortium reaching don’t have faith? The whole of foot- grateful to Roman for – I hope his
how she landed a surprise key role out to her as an ideal fit to be one of ball is built on faith. It’s not just legacy isn’t too tainted. It’s a very
in the Todd Boehly-led Chelsea two supporter non-executive direc- about three points. Involving the difficult situation. The war – words
takeover bid. tors on the board if its offer to buy fans is really key.” can’t even describe how horrible it
the club goes through. is. I don’t think any Chelsea fan
The A-list anecdotes come thick doesn’t think that.”
and fast, and help illustrate that her
love affair with Chelsea is the real Tonight, Charone will be taking
deal. She failed to get Madonna her normal seat at Stamford Bridge
interested after handing her son as the team face Real Madrid instead
Rocco a Chelsea shirt with his name of attending a London gig for her
on it in the early 2000s, but “Rod’s a latest music client, Jake Bugg. She
proper football fan,” she says. She insists he will understand when she
recalls one trip with him in April messages him later. “He gets it,” she
1991 to Stockholm. “He had me read- says. “Football is sacrosanct”.
ing the scores from the newspa-
pers,” she says. “Chelsea had lost 7-0
to Nottingham Forest. I read him the
results but I didn’t say the Chelsea
score, and then the next day, he just
called and shouted ‘7-0’ and hung
up. He’s proper.”

Charone was brought up in Chi-
cago watching baseball, but her
interest in football and Chelsea
dates back to her befriending Rich-
ards in 1977, after he had been
charged in Toronto with intent to
traffic heroin. She then spent the
next two years working on an
authorised biography of the Stones
guitarist and songwriter.

“He was letting me use his house
in West Wittering outside Chiches-
ter,” she says. “He wasn’t there so I
spent probably a couple months
transcribing tapes. The only thing
on was Midweek Sports Special on
ITV that was of any interest. I
started watching football, and as
soon as I went back to London,
which was at the end of the season

Billionaire Griffin travels to London that the Citadel billionaire was in become the major shareholder if the liers, and the group is still in talks
as Ricketts hold talks over takeover London with the pair. Ricketts bid is successful. Spokes- with potential new investors.
person for Griffin, Zia Ahmed, said:
Exclusive By Matt Law The Ricketts held talks with Chel- “Ken joined the Ricketts team in The biggest challenge for the
sea chairman Bruce Buck and direc- London this week.” Ricketts and Griffin is to convince
Ken Griffin flew to London to meet listed bidders to make their tors Marina Granovskaia and Chelsea and their fans that they can
Tom and Laura Ricketts yesterday Eugene Tenenbaum, and Griffin’s Despite the fact they would not guarantee an inclusive and harmo-
over their bid to buy Chelsea, as the improved offers. decision to travel to London to add take the controlling stake, the Rick- nious ownership, following the con-
group held face-to-face discussions It is unclear whether Griffin was his support is seen as significant. etts, who already own the Chicago troversy created by emails and
with club executives ahead of next
Monday’s deadline for the short- present in the meeting the Ricketts Up until now, he has remained in Cubs baseball team, would be in comments attributed to Joe and
held with Chelsea officials, but it has charge of the day-to-day running of Pete Ricketts, who are not part of
been confirmed to Telegraph Sport the background of the bid, but this Chelsea. Other than Griffin, the the Chelsea bid.
trip demonstrated his commitment Ricketts Family Investment Group
and the group’s determination to try includes Dan Gilbert, the owner of The presence of Laura, who is
to win over their doubters. The basketball team the Cleveland Cava- openly gay, was seen as particularly
expectation is that Griffin will
key to the talks around diversity.

12 *** Wednesday 6 April 2022 The Daily Telegraph

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Football

Who will win race to finish in top four?

hThom Gibbs analyses five key factors that will decide the outcome of this year’s scramble to qualify for the Champions League

Difficulty of remaining Distractions Squad depth and experience
games in their run-ins

The traditional way to calculate this Chelsea are still in this season’s Certain to be tested in the closing peak of 27 years old to be best
has been to take an average league Champions League as well as the FA weeks of the season, not just for placed.
position of opponents. This is crude, Cup. Their squad is used to fight- capable bodies available but the
because playing Liverpool is signifi- ing on multiple fronts but not experience of those players. Injuries Each team currently has three to
cantly more difficult than Wolves. uncertain ownership and will also be a factor. five first-teamers unavailable. Arse-
Under the normal method, the gap a lack of clarity over nal have the biggest issues, West
of six places between Wolves and contracts. Looking at the team’s most Ham the lightest load with only
Brentford is assumed to be identical recent starting XIs and Angelo Ogbonna out as a long-term
to the six between Liverpool and The focus of absentee.
Wolves, which it clearly is not. West Ham’s benches, Chelsea have an
season is embarrassment of riches, Experience
For a truer reflection, we look at increas- United have a team of on-
the average points on the board for ingly an paper superstars but on- Average age of starting XI
each remaining opponent – a figure exciting pitch disappointments.
adjusted with a 15 per cent weight- Europa League Spurs’ XI has European Years Days
ing depending on if the contenders campaign. pedigree with three useful 210
are home or away. West Ham having subs. Odd but probably cor- Chelsea 27 348
played at least one more match than Spurs, Arsenal and 181
their rivals is factored in. United should be rect to feel West Ham’s strength Tottenham 26 152
able to focus in depth beats Arsenal’s. 325
Run-in solely on the Man Utd 27
league. No question that younger is bet-
United’s ter in the long run and Arsenal look West Ham 28
supply well set for the future in a way that
Real Adjusted teacher- United, to put it mildly, do not. Arsenal 24
Chelsea manager There is a balance to strike at this
38.3 and the point in the season and you would
39.4 unknown back the teams closest to the fabled
38.4 identity of
Tottenham 38.1 his replace- Underlying stats
40.2 ment puts
West Ham 39.4 them a level
below the
Arsenal 42.7 north London The expected goals metric is at its lower the score the better, because
41.2 clubs. They split best when attempting to discern a the fewer passes an opponent can
Man Utd top points. team’s true ability away from the put together before meeting a
43.6 vagaries of form, luck and Harry defender the more likely it is the
41.5 Maguire. In the past four seasons, 13 team out of possession will win it
out of the 16 top four league posi- back.
Vibe The chase is on tions have been occupied by those
(from top): also finishing in the top four for It is fair to assume that teams at
Momentum, fan mood, general Spurs’ Harry expected goals scored. the top of the table will want to be
sense of purpose. The hardest thing Kane and Son controlling more matches than not,
to quantify but arguably the most Heung-min; A fairly large spread appears, and so we also considered possession.
important. Spurs’ impressive 5-1 United’s worth noting that Southampton
win against Newcastle puts them Cristiano (40.9) and Leeds (40.5) are not too A clear pattern emerged. Chelsea
ahead, especially after chastening Ronaldo; far behind West Ham, showing the top three of our four metrics, Spurs
defeats for Arsenal and Chelsea. It is Arsenal’s level of their over-achievement this top the other and are second in two
not just the Newcastle game, Harry Bukayo Saka; season. They have vastly outscored more. West Ham are bottom in all
Kane is playing beautifully and and West their xG with 51 actual goals, thanks bar one and United and Arsenal are
Antonio Conte is extracting the best Ham’s tough to separate. We will give
from his team. Declan partly to lots of lovely corners. United the slight edge, as attacking
Rice Of course, it is not just xG tends to be a more reliable indi-
Manchester United are a sham- cator of a team’s final league posi-
bles one week and a steady outfit the scoring goals which matters, tion than xG against.
next. Unpredictability is their only hence the addition of teams’
reliable trait. West Ham beat Ever- expected goals against. This Form
ton but did not look at their best. measures the quality of
There is a sense their domestic sea- chances that teams are con- xG xG against
son has peaked and Arsenal also ceding. The lower the score Chelsea
look to be running out of verve. the better. Tottenham 48.6
United are in the bottom half of Man Utd 27
Chelsea’s surprising 4-1 home the overall table by this measure, Arsenal
defeat by Brentford could be the below Burnley, Brentford and Ever- West Ham 51.7
start of off-field crises making their ton. Sub-optimal. Chelsea, mean- 33
way onto the pitch. It seems as likely while, are second behind
that Thomas Tuchel’s team will rally Manchester City, ahead of even Liv- 46.2
and find some of their old siege erpool. 42.2
mentality. As any hip young statslinger will 44
tell you, xG is SO 2017-18. Passes per 35.8
defensive action measures how 42
effectively a team presses. The 39.4

In conclusion How the scores add up

There are no easy games in the Pre- Tottenham Run-in Stats Experience Vibe Distractions Total and United v Chelsea are the
mier League. Apart from Norwich. Chelsea matches which will decide next sea-
Arsenal 4 4 3 5 4.5 20.5 son’s Champions League places.
None of these teams are guaran- Man Utd 5 5 5 3 1 19
teed to swat aside any of their West Ham 3 2 1 4 4.5 14.5 There is no real need for them
remaining opponents. And yet the 1 3 4 1 3 12 though, because here (left) is our
games between the competitors 2 1 2 2 2 9 mathematically unarguable final
should be decisive. Spurs v Arsenal, score, and the identity of the two
final Champions League qualifiers.
Chelsea v Arsenal, Arsenal v United