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Red alert: ‘ferocious’ heatwave set
to send temperatures beyond 40C

Scientists sound alarm Fires across Europe
and point to effect of as temperatures
human-made warming soar to 47C Page 4

Jessica Murray

Passengers have been urged not

to travel by train from today as a

record-breaking heatwave hits the

UK, while the deputy prime minis-

ter said schools should not close and

people should be resilient enough to

“enjoy the sunshine”.

The country’s first ever red warn-

ing for exceptional heat began

at midnight, with temperatures

expected to reach up to 41C (105.8F)

over the next two days, breaking the

country’s heat records.

Transport services are expected to

be disrupted both today and tomor-

row, with Network Rail asking people

not to travel unless absolutely neces-

sary and painting some train tracks

white to try to prevent them buck-

ling in the heat.

Dominic Raab said people should

take precautions, but insisted they

should also be able to enjoy them-

selves. “Obviously there is some

commonsense practical advice we

are talking about: stay hydrated, stay

out of the sun at the hottest times,

wear sun cream,” he told Sky News’s

Sophy Ridge on Sunday. 2  ▲ Firefighters working to contain a blaze near Louchats, as wildfires spread in the Gironde region of south-west France PHOTOGRAPH: SARAH MEYSSONNIER/REUTERS
“We ought to enjoy the

Tory leadership debate can be paid for through additional Truss, who has the backing of
exposes deep divisions borrowing and faster growth.
Johnson loyalists including Jacob Bison back
Sunak insisted there would be a in UK after
cost to immediate tax cuts, however, Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries, has 6,000 years
in “higher inflation, higher mortgage
rates, eroded savings. And you know defined herself in particular against Creatures will roam
what, this something for nothing Kent woodland in
economics is not conservative, it’s Sunak, who led in both the first two project that aims to
socialism!” boost environment
rounds of voting among MPs.
He added vehemently: “If we’re News Page 9
not for sound money, what is the He has staunchly defended his
point of the Conservative party?”
Heather Stewart As the contenders clashed repeat- record as chancellor, however –
Political editor edly over tax and spending in the ITV The hard-fought leadership
debate, Liz Truss confronted her for- contest, triggered by Boris John- including the decision to raise
Rishi Sunak accused his rival Con- mer cabinet colleague, saying: “Rishi, son’s reluctant resignation as Tory
servative party leadership candidates you have raised taxes to the highest leader 10 days ago, has pitted cur- national insurance contributions.
of promoting “socialism” by promis- level in 70 years. That is not going to rent and former cabinet colleagues
ing unfunded tax cuts yesterday, as drive economic growth. The fact is against each other. As well as questioning colleagues’
the deep divisions in the party over that raising taxes at this moment will
economic policy were exposed in a choke off economic growth.” tax cut plans, Sunak also took on
bad-tempered televised debate.
Truss has promised tax cuts worth Penny Mordaunt’s suggestion ear-
as much as £30bn, suggesting they
lier yesterday that she could ditch one

of his fiscal rules – the promise only

to borrow for investment, not day-

• to-day spending – to allow 6 
the Treasury to spend more

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Journal Outside G2 40C in ‘ferocious’
Opinions and ideas UK heatwave

 Welcome to Hothouse Continued from page 1 into hours, because it’s quite late in Precautions “Keep windows that are exposed
UK. And be warned. It’s the day, quite honestly.” to the sun closed during the day,
only going to get worse sunshine and actually we ought to How we and open windows at night when
Bill McGuire be resilient enough through some of Victor Adebowale, the NHS Con- the temperature has dropped,” the
Page 1 the pressures it will place.” federation chair and crossbench can keep plan adds.
peer, said that many hospital build-
G2 Centre pullout But the chief executive of the Col- ings in the UK were not equipped for cool and If the temperature is below 35C,
Features and arts lege of Paramedics, Tracy Nicholls, extreme heat. an electric fan might also help – but
warned that the heatwave posed real stay safe beware, fans can dehydrate you.
Annie Macmanus danger, particularly to the vulner- “In many cases you’ve got build-
After 17 years at Radio 1, able, such as elderly people. ings that are unsuited to deal with the Nicola Davis Take precautions if
the DJ says it’s thrilling normal business of getting patients Zoe Wood you must go out
to listen to old music “This isn’t like a lovely hot day treated in and out, let alone in the Not everyone will be able to hunker
Page 6 where we can put a bit of sunscreen hot weather,” he told Times Radio. As parts of England are predicted to down indoors. But precautions
on and go out and enjoy a swim or “It’s not just hospitals, primary care hit 40C this week, amid fears even are necessary if venturing outside.
Save up to 33% a meal outside,” she said. “This is and GPs; many of them are in very old fit and healthy people could be at Wear light, loose-fitting clothes,
with a subscription serious heat that could actually buildings, which don’t have proper risk of illness and death, we take a sunglasses, sunscreen and a hat,
to the Guardian ultimately end in people’s deaths air conditioning or fans.” look at how to keep cool and stay take water with you, and try to stick
and the Observer because it is so ferocious and we’re well, whether at home or at work. to the shade.
Visit theguardian. just not set up for that sort of heat in He added the forecast for next
com/paper-subs this country.” week was a “shot across the bows” Keep the inside cool As the World Health
for the country. “It’s a warning. We According to the Heatwave Plan Organization points out, it is also
Weather Meteorologists have given an 80% need to be ready for this to be hap- for England, one of the key public important to avoid overdoing
Page 31 chance of the temperature topping pening more frequently as a regular health messages is to keep out of physical activity in the heat.
the UK’s record of 38.7C, set in Cam- thing,” he said. “It’s not going to be the sun between 11am and 3pm.
Quick crossword bridge in 2019, with London expected fun for a lot of people over the next For those seeking shade indoors, “If you must do strenuous
Back of G2 to hit 40C tomorrow. couple of days.” the plan has tips for keeping the activity, do it during the coolest
environment cool, including part of the day, which is usually
Cartoon Scientists said the link between cli- Temperatures across the UK began turning off non-essential lights and in the morning between 4am and
Journal, page 4 mate change and extreme heatwaves rising yesterday as an amber weather electrical equipment as they can 7am,” it advises.
was now clear. “This shows the UK warning for extreme heat came into produce heat.
Cryptic crossword is already on a warming trend when force in England and Wales. And don’t forget, if you are
Back of Journal it comes to heat extremes,” said Dr The plan also suggests closing heading out in a car, do not leave
Mark McCarthy from the Met Office. The UK’s first red extreme heat curtains that are in the sun in the children or animals inside, even if
Contact “Human-caused climate change has warning has been issued across a morning or afternoon, although you have left a window open.
set us on a course to see UK temper- large part of England for today and it notes dark curtains and metal
For missing sections call 0800 839 100. ature extremes that would be highly tomorrow, while an amber warn- blinds can absorb heat. The How hot is my workplace
For individual departments, call the Guardian unlikely under a ‘natural’ climate.” ing covered all of England yesterday document suggests either replacing allowed to be?
switchboard: 020 3353 2000. and extends to southern Scotland and them or putting reflective material Unfortunately, while there is a
For the Readers’ editor (corrections The new health secretary, Steve Wales for today and tomorrow. between them and the window minimum working temperature
&  clarifications on specific editorial content), call Barclay, said extra measures were space. (of 16C in an office) there is no
020 3353 4736 between 10am and 1pm UK time being put in place for ambulance The UK Health Security Agency maximum figure to use. This is
Monday to Friday excluding public holidays, or services, including the provision of has increased its heat health warning because some workplaces, such as
email [email protected]. more call handlers and extra work- from level three to level four, mean- kitchens and foundries, are hot all
Letters for publication should be sent to ing hours. ing “illness and death may occur the time. Instead, the Health and
[email protected] or the among the fit and healthy, and not Safety Executive tells employers
address on the letters page. Nicholls said the announcement just in high-risk groups”. they need to keep the environment
was welcome, but added: “I don’t at a “reasonable” temperature for
NEWSPAPERS know how that money will translate The public have been urged to the “thermal comfort” (whether
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▼ Children at the Southbank Centre ▼ Finding shade amid the scorched 3
fountain in London yesterday as grass of a London park as Britain
people sweltered in the tube (below) braced for record temperatures ‘It’s no joke’
Unions call for
PHOTOGRAPHS: MAJA SMIEJKOWSKA/REUTERS PHOTOGRAPH: ANDY RAIN/EPA a maximum
temperature
for workplaces

Harry Taylor

the head of employment law at the Firefighters Keep an eye on others water. As experts have noted, they Unions are calling for people to get
law firm Slater & Gordon, points spray water Some people, such as babies, can contain hidden hazards such as legal protection against high tem-
out that your employer has a duty over revellers children or elderly people, may weeds or strong currents, and there peratures in UK workplaces, as a
of care to make sure you are safe on the last day need help as temperatures soar. may be a risk of injury or dangers heatwave arrives that could cause
at work. “You can ask to work of Les Vieilles from boats. temperatures to approach 40C today
from home if your employer won’t Charrues “We are asking people if they and tomorrow.
be able to maintain a reasonable music festival have an elderly neighbour, In addition the water may be far
temperature, if, for example, there in Carhaix- particularly if they live alone, it colder than expected, leading to The GMB union said the gov-
is no air conditioning,” she says. Plouguer, would be a neighbourly thing to cold water shock, an incapacitating ernment should set a maximum
western France check up on them and make sure condition that can lead to heart temperature for workplaces of 25C,
What about my work’s dress code? they are looking after themselves attacks and drowning. meaning employers should offer
Employers can tell workers to PHOTOGRAPH: FRED and have access to water,” Kit flexible working and travel arrange-
dress in a particular way at work, TANNEAU/AFP/GETTY Malthouse, the Cabinet Office “This can all happen very ments, give staff extra breaks and
regardless of the weather; this minister, has said. quickly: it only takes half a pint of relax dress codes to allow staff to
might be written in your contract or about how staff can remain cool in a seawater to enter the lungs for a wear cooler clothes.
employee handbook, or have been different way.” The WHO has recommended fully grown man to start drowning,”
spelled out when you took the job. keeping medications below 25C or the RNLI notes. Lynsey Mann, the union’s health
Employers should also be in the refrigerator, although it says and safety officer, said: “This hot
“Employers can insist staff still keeping an eye on workers who are it is worth checking the storage What about travel and commuting? weather is great for being on a sun
wear their uniforms but where more susceptible to heat stress, she information. The Heatwave Plan Rail passengers in England and lounger, but if you’re trying to work
they can, they should consider continued. for England also urges people to Wales have been urged to travel through it, it’s no joke.
relaxing some of the requirements, be alert “and call a doctor or social only if necessary today and
such as wearing a tie or a jacket, “This is likely to include services if someone is unwell or tomorrow, as speed restrictions “Bosses need to do everything pos-
particularly if they are made pregnant and menopausal women further help is needed”. will be in place that will lengthen sible to keep workplaces cool and
from man-made fibres that don’t or those with heart conditions,” journey times. You should check safe. This can be as simple as letting
allow the skin to breathe,” says Jo says Moseley. If this is you, raise While heat exhaustion is not the National Rail website for people wear more casual clothing and
Moseley, an employment lawyer at your concerns with your line normally serious, heatstroke can be updates. Avanti West Coast, for providing proper hydration.
the law firm Irwin Mitchell. manager. fatal so be sure to know the signs: example, has said tickets for travel
headache, feeling sick, dizziness on both days will be accepted on “High levels of UV exposure also
“Employers that can’t adapt Drink plenty – but avoid booze and confusion, excessive sweating, Wednesday, or ticket holders can mean that outdoor workers have a
their uniform policy need to think Keeping hydrated in the heat is loss of appetite, arm, leg and claim a full refund. Transport for much higher risk of developing skin
important, so drink plenty of fluids. stomach cramps, a fast pulse and London (TfL) is advising passengers cancer. Simply allowing more breaks
But it is best to stick to water or feeling very thirsty. to carry water and to consider and providing sun cream and protec-
other soft drinks. As the alcohol travelling outside rush hour. tive clothing, such as hats with neck
education charity Drinkaware Use water wisely covers, can help reduce this risk.
says, not only is alcohol a diuretic, The WHO suggests hanging wet The picture is also grim on the
meaning you need to urinate more, towels inside rooms – while this roads. If temperatures do go as “Ultimately, there needs to be a
it can also make you sweat more. may increase the humidity, it helps high as 40C as forecast, “people legal maximum working tempera-
cool the air as the water evaporates. should question their decision to ture in the same way we have a legal
“The combination of sweating A cool shower or bath, cold packs, drive in the first place”, says Rod minimum working temperature, and
more in the heat, and going to the footbaths or just a sprinkling of Dennis, at the RAC. The motoring it is in employers’ interests – workers
toilet more, means you lose more water, can also help. organisation thinks the number of who are overheating aren’t going to
fluid than you take in and become breakdowns could increase by a be at their best.”
dehydrated unless you replace that But beware the temptation of fifth over the two days, with cars at
lost fluid by drinking water,” the jumping into open water, be it risk of overheating in traffic. Meteorologists have given an 80%
charity states. lakes, streams, reservoirs or coastal chance of the heatwave breaking the
UK’s record for highest temperature
of 38.7C, which was reached in 2018.
There is a 50% chance of 40C being
broken in an area of the UK that has
been given a red weather warning
for heat.

While there are rules regarding
minimum temperature levels in UK
workplaces, there are no laws that set
a maximum level.

The Health and Safety Execu-
tive (HSE) has previously said that
employers have a responsibility to
ensure that working conditions are
“reasonable”, but there is no specific
temperature limit.

The Cabinet Office minister Kit
Malthouse has said that today and
Tuesday may be “a moment to work
from home” due to travel disruption.

▲ The UK may reach 40C this week,
making working conditions difficult

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

4 News Clockwise region, France;
Climate crisis from far left: firefighters
smoke from a working in
Forest fires rage forest fire near Gironde; a
across Europe as Ksar el-Kebir, forest fire burns
deadly heatwave Morocco; a near houses in
reaches record Canadair Galicia, Spain
temperatures plane fighting
a wildfire in PHOTOGRAPHS:FADEL
the Gironde SENNA/AFP/GETTY, AP,
BRAIS LORENZO/EPA

Sam Jones heatwave from 7-13 July, most of Firefighters have been battling to put out In Greece, civil defence agencies
Madrid them elderly people with underly- wildfires across much of Europe this week rushed to douse fires on Crete, while
ing conditions. Morocco battled a forest fire in its
Firefighters in Portugal, Spain, Fires in the past Paris northern mountains that killed at
France, Greece and Morocco are bat- In Spain, the state meteorological seven days France least one person and forced the evac-
tling forest fires raging across tens of agency maintained various levels uation of more than 1,000 families.
thousands of hectares as this week’s of alert across the country, warn- Fires in the past
heatwave continues to bring extreme ing of temperatures of up to 44C in 24 hours The fight against the flames has
temperatures and cause hundreds of some regions. killed a number of emergency per-
deaths across south-western Europe. Arachon sonnel, from a pilot killed when his
More than 600 members of Spain’s plane crashed in northern Portugal
The second heatwave of the sum- military emergency unit have been Italy to two who died in Greece when their
mer – with temperatures hitting 47C helping firefighters and wildlife rang- Rome helicopter fell into the sea. Four peo-
(116F) in Portugal and 45C in Spain ers tackle dozens of forest fires across ple who had been helping firefighters
– has triggered wildfires that have the country, where blazes have so far Madrid tackle a wildfire in the US state of New
forced the evacuation of thousands. torn through at least 14,000 hectares. Mexico died late on Saturday when
Lisbon Spain Greece the sheriff’s department helicopter
In Portugal, the meteorologi- One fire in the south led the Portugal Málaga Athens they were travelling in crashed.
cal institute forecast temperatures authorities to cordon off a section of
of up to 42C with no respite before highway connecting Madrid to the Rabat Morocco The fires were fanned by extreme
next week. The civil defence author- Portuguese capital for more than temperatures that experts attrib-
ities, however, took advantage of a 12 hours. Another blaze near the Source: Nasa FIRMS. Data as of 17 July 2022 ute to the climate crisis. Croatia and
slight drop in temperatures after a southern city of Málaga forced the Hungary have also had wildfires this
July record of 47C last Thursday to try preventive evacuation of more than Firefighters in the coastal town vicious heatwave and poor planning week, as has the US state of California.
to stamp out one remaining large fire 3,000 people, rescue services said. of Arcachon in France’s south-west- led to nearly 15,000 deaths in 2003,
in the north of the country. ern Gironde region were fighting to especially among the elderly. Government ministers in the UK
The fires have scorched thousands control two forest blazes that have held an emergency Cobra meeting on
“The risk of fires remains very of hectares in the south-western destroyed more than 10,000 hectares. Emergency officials warned Saturday after the Met Office issued
high,” the civil defence chief, André Spanish region of Extremadura, that high temperatures and winds a first-ever red warning for extreme
Fernandes, said, although media where one fire was started on pur- “It’s a herculean job,” said Lt Col yesterday and today would com- heat, warning of a “risk to life”.
reports said the number of active pose, according to Pedro Muñoz, Olivier Chavatte, of the fire and plicate efforts to stop the fires from
mainland fires was down to 11 head of forest policy for the regional rescue service, which has 1,200 fire- spreading. The meteorological agency said
from 20. government. He said the blaze that fighters and five planes in action. temperatures in southern England
broke out in the Valle del Jerte on Sat- Authorities in the French Alps could exceed 40C for the first time
“This is a weekend of extreme urday night had “clearly been started Since Tuesday, more than 14,000 urged climbers bound for Mont Blanc today or tomorrow, leading some
vigilance,” he added, after a week deliberately” as it had begun at 11pm people in France – residents and tour- to postpone their trip due to repeated schools to will stay closed next week.
in which two people were killed and had two different seats. ists – have been forced to flee, and rock falls caused by “exceptional cli-
and more than 60 injured, and up to seven emergency shelters have been matic conditions” and drought. The London mayor, Sadiq Khan,
15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) of for- Another fire has destroyed 200 set up to receive evacuees. advised Londoners to use public
est and brushwood incinerated. hectares of Extremadura’s Mon- The call came after a section of Ita- transport only if “absolutely neces-
fragüe national park, which is known The French government has ly’s biggest Alpine glacier gave way at sary”. National train operators also
Around Portugal as a whole, 39,550 for its biodiversity and rich bird life. stepped up efforts to protect people the start of the month, killing 11 peo- warned passengers to avoid travel.
hectares were ravaged by wildfires in nursing homes, the homeless and ple, in a disaster officials blamed on
from the start of the year until mid- A 60-year-old street sweeper died other vulnerable populations after a climate heating. Additional reporting Agencies
June, more than triple the area in after developing heatstroke while
the same period last year, data from working in Madrid on Friday after-
the Institute for the Conservation of noon, prompting the city council to
Nature and Forests showed. announce flexible working hours so
municipal employees can avoid the
The Lisbon government was to hottest periods of the day.
decide yesterday whether to extend
a week-long state of contingency. Figures from Spain’s Carlos III pub-
Portugal’s health ministry said 238 lic health institute show there were
people had died as a result of the 360 deaths attributable to the heat
between last Sunday and Friday. On
Friday alone, 123 people died.

Monday 18 July 2022 The Guardian • 5

BBC funding proposal Driven to distraction
Replace licence fee Learners’ difficulty
with levy, say lords in securing a test
Page 12 Page 15

M&S says
‘best before’
labels have
had their day

Jasper Jolly

Marks & Spencer is planning to PHOTOGRAPH: Having a ball in the heat A film extra in a ballgown carries a bottle of water into the City
remove “best before” labels from 300 WATTIE CHEUNG Chambers in Glasgow yesterday, where filming took place for Apple TV’s forthcoming series The
varieties of fruit and vegetables in its Debutante, based on Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel The Buccaneers. The City Chambers
stores to cut food waste. were also used for the 2000 movie of Wharton’s House of Mirth, starring Gillian Anderson.

The change, to be rolled out this Home Office misrepresents our opportunities, to benefit migrants
week, will rely on customers using Rwanda stance, says UN agency and host communities.”
their judgment to determine whether
goods are still fine to eat. The move Diane Taylor court hearing, the Home Office is con- In its response to the Guardian Home Office sources added that
will affect 85% of the supermarket’s tinuing to state UNHCR is supportive about the Asylos report, the Home last year UNHCR and the EU worked
fresh produce offering. The Home Office has been accused of the controversial scheme. Office defended the Rwanda scheme with Rwanda to resettle refugees
of misrepresenting the UN refugee and said it had the support of UNHCR. from Libya, and that UNHCR praised
The decision, first reported by the agency’s stance on sending asylum The first flight, which was due the Rwandan government for offering
Mail on Sunday, is the latest step in seekers to Rwanda, in a new disagree- to take off for Rwanda on 14 June, The Home Office said: “Our assess- a welcoming and safe environment
the slow death of the best before date, ment between the two organisations, identified victims of torture and ment of Rwanda has found it is a to vulnerable people from around
an innovation that was meant to help the Guardian has learned. trafficking among those earmarked fundamentally safe and secure coun- the world.
consumers, but which has instead for the flight. An interim ruling from try with a track record of supporting
been blamed for creating mountains The Home Office and UNHCR have the European court of human rights asylum seekers, including working A UNHCR UK spokesperson said:
of waste from perfectly edible food. clashed previously over the safety grounded the flight at the 11th hour. with the UN refugee agency, which “Rwanda has generously hosted
“Best before” labels differ from “use and suitability of the Home Office’s said the country has a safe and pro- 130,000 refugees in recent decades,
by” dates, with the former often policy of forcibly removing some A high court hearing is scheduled tective environment for refugees. The mostly from neighbouring coun-
merely a measure of aesthetics, while asylum seekers who have recently for September to determine the law- UK is providing an initial investment tries. But those seeking asylum
the latter tends to indicate a safety arrived in the UK on small boats or in fulness of the Rwanda policy. of £120m to boost the development have historically been granted a pre-
risk if ignored. the back of lorries to Rwanda to have of Rwanda, including jobs, skills and sumptive (prima facie) legal status
their claims processed there. A critical report about flaws in – established procedures for individ-
Tesco, the UK’s largest supermar- the plans to send asylum seekers to ‘UNHCR holds serious ual refugee status determination in
ket chain, had already announced the A high court hearing on 10 June Rwanda was published last week. concerns [on] the Rwanda are minimal. UNHCR holds
end of best before dates on its own- was told that the Home Office mis- The report from the charity Asylos, Rwandan system’ serious concerns with regard to spe-
brand fruit and vegetables in 2018, led refugees about UN involvement which produces expert reports about cific shortcomings of the Rwandan
while Lidl also says it does not include in the Rwanda plans. the safety of countries to which the UN refugee agency asylum system and Rwanda’s capac-
best before information, to reduce Home Office plans to return asylum ity to offer long-term solutions for
food waste. Morrisons ditched use But despite UNHCR making seekers to, found fundamental incon- those being removed under the pro-
by dates in January, instead asking its position on the government’s sistencies between the Home Office’s posed deal.”
customers to deploy the time-hon- Rwanda scheme clear during the assessment of Rwanda as a safe third
oured “sniff test” to check whether country to send asylum seekers to Meanwhile, the home affairs select
cow’s milk is still drinkable. and its own findings. committee has published a damning
report into the failures of the Home
Potatoes are the most wasted food Office asylum policies including stop-
in the UK, followed by bread and ping asylum seekers crossing the
milk, according to Wrap, a food waste Channel in small boats. It says “quick
charity. M&S will also offer custom- fix solutions”, such as plans to send
ers the option to buy three bananas some to Rwanda, won’t succeed.
at a time – rather than a bunch – to
cut waste of another popular item.

M&S is aiming to halve food waste
from its products by 2030 compared
with 2018, and it wants to redistribute
100% of edible surplus food by 2025.

Achieving those targets would put
it in line with the UK’s commitment
to meet the United Nations goal of
halving food waste by 2030 compared
with 2007 – as well as helping con-
sumers save hundreds of millions of
pounds every year on feeding the bin.

Andrew Clappen, M&S’s director
of food technology, said the super-
market needed “to do all we can” to
reduce the amount thrown away.

“We need to be innovative and
ambitious – removing best before
dates where safe to do so, trialling
new ways to sell our products and
galvanising our customers to get
creative with leftovers and embrace
change,” he said.

Catherine David, a director at
Wrap, said: “We’re thrilled to see
this move from M&S, which will
reduce food waste and help tackle
the climate crisis.”

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

6 National
Politics

▲ The contenders making their points during last night’s debate, from left: Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Kemi Badenoch, Tom Tugendhat and Penny Mordaunt PHOTOGRAPHS: JONATHAN HORDLE/ITV/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK

‘It’s socialism’: heated Tory ‘Millions of green jobs’ The debate was the second of three
TV clash exposes divisions Mordaunt’s climate pledge televised clashes between the rivals.
Half the original field of 10, including
Continued from page 1 the scheme had had to be rolled out. the highest taxes and biggest drop in Penny Mordaunt has told Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt, have
Truss asked Sunak about whether he living standards in 70 years … Rishi Conservative critics of net zero already been knocked out.
on tackling the cost of living. Chal- still favoured investment in China, Sunak’s taken us back to the 1950s.” that “environmentalism and
lenged about it, Mordaunt said: “Too and Mordaunt questioned whether conservatism go hand in hand” Further votes among MPs will be
many chancellors have had too many he had done enough as chancellor One striking moment of con- as she vowed to create millions of held today, tomorrow and, if neces-
fiscal rules that they have then had to fund defence spending. sensus in the debate was when the green jobs if elected leader. sary, Wednesday, with the final two
to ditch because they weren’t able presenter Julie Etchingham asked candidates then presented to Con-
to meet them,” prompting Sunak to Sunak turned on Truss, asking her: them to raise their hands if they Mordaunt is the only Tory servative members, who will make
shoot back: “Literally Jeremy Cor- “You’ve been both a Liberal Democrat would welcome Boris Johnson into leadership candidate so far to set the final decision by 5 September.
byn didn’t think that was the right and a remainer: I’m just wondering their cabinet. None of them did so – out views on climate change and
approach.” which one of those you regretted though Mordaunt said: “He got Brexit the environment. She made the A new online survey of party
most?” The foreign secretary said she done!” All five also said they would intervention after a fierce debate members, published yesterday by
Taxes and the economy have was not born in a Conservative home, not call a fresh general election to get over climate targets, with two of website ConservativeHome, sug-
been at the heart of the contest, with and had been on a political “journey”. a mandate if they won the leadership. the contenders, Kemi Badenoch gested Mordaunt’s popularity may
Sunak the only candidate not prom- and Tom Tugendhat, critical of have peaked. It showed Truss beat-
ising immediate tax cuts, promising She also returned to the familiar Tom Tugendhat attacked his domestic carbon reduction vows. ing both Sunak, by 49% to 42%, or
instead not to tell “fairytales” about theme of her Leeds comprehensive rivals for remaining in the govern- Alok Sharma, the Cop26 president, Mordaunt, by 48% to 41%, in head-
what is affordable. school, where she claims fel- ment propping up Johnson, saying: will grill the five remaining to-head comparisons.
low pupils were let down by low “Even really good people lent credi- candidates on green matters today.
With each candidate given the expectations, contributing to her bility to the chaos.” Mordaunt had earlier criticised
opportunity to question one of their move to the right. Mordaunt told the Guardian what she called the “toxic politics”
colleagues, three of Sunak’s four Dominic Raab, deputy prime she was committed to replacing of the race, and “smears” against her.
rivals turned on him. Kemi Bade- Shortly before the debate, Sunak’s minister and a Sunak supporter, sug- EU farming subsidies with an
noch asked him why he had failed to team had released a quirky black gested Truss’s record in government eco-friendly alternative, saying: “I Documents leaked to the Sunday
take more action on Covid loan fraud, and white Pathé News-style video belied her claim to be a tax-cutter. will reward those farmers here at Times suggested Mordaunt was pre-
despite the fact that she and other drawing attention to the fact that he “Liz can answer for her policies and home who champion nature and pared to remove some, though not all,
ministers had raised the issue with backed Brexit in 2016, unlike Truss. her record; she was chief secretary sustainable management of the of the medical requirements for indi-
him during the pandemic. [to] the Treasury. People can see countryside.” viduals opting to change their gender.
Conor McGinn, Labour’s deputy whether spending and headcount in
He insisted: “That’s absolutely not national campaign coordinator, said the civil service went up or down,” he She added: “The net zero Her successor as equalities minis-
right,” stressing the speed with which the style of it “feels about right for the told Sophy Ridge on Sky News. transition provides the opportunity ter, Kemi Badenoch, also in the race,
guy who as chancellor has brought us to create millions of jobs over the has said Mordaunt’s stance in the past
next decade. Fast. Investing in the was to push for self-identification.
domestic renewable energy sector That contradicts Mordaunt’s insist-
reduces the UK’s reliance on fossil ence in Friday’s Channel 4 debate she
fuels like gas.” Helena Horton was “never in favour of self-ID”. Bad-
enoch told the Sunday Times: “I’m
not going to call her a liar, I think it’s
very possible she genuinely did not
understand what she was signing off.”

Monday 18 July 2022 The Guardian •

7

Tax cuts Boris Johnson Sketch
Issue that’s resigns as Zoe Williams
driving the Tory leader.
leadership The debates Secret buzzers at the
contest so far seem to ready as five cats in
show a party
determined
to erase his
political legacy

PHOTOGRAPH:
GARETH FULLER/PA

a sack smoke out their

most dangerous rivals

Heather Stewart the heroism of NHS workers during Johnson ditched George J ulie Etchingham, moderating last night’s ITV
the pandemic. The next vote takes Osborne-era language about Tory leadership debate, started by labouring
WPolitical editor ith three place on Monday. deficits and “scroungers”, in favour the format as if it were a quiz show, with
make-or-break of promising to recruit more nurses the candidates allowed to play their secret
days in the Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss may and police officers, boost school buzzer only once. It’s a difficult time for TV
Conservative be on opposite sides of a bad- funding and build more hospitals, professionals; you live your life thinking about
leadership tempered wrangle about the timing though Labour point out few of what a viewer might find interesting, then suddenly
of tax cuts; but in truth, both have these promises have actually been
made clear they would like to slash fulfilled. you’re dumped with five cats in a sack and expected to
regulation and shrink the state.
Many of the clashes between turn that into entertainment.
The intense focus on tax cuts Johnson and Sunak were about the
contest ahead, appears to mark a decisive political ex-chancellor’s attempts to rein in Some lessons were learned from Friday’s debate: Liz
shift. Johnson’s government has the PM’s big-spending instincts –
the bitter clashes so far have been firmly rightwing across a often successfully. Truss’s people have told her to stop moving her hands
swath of social and cultural issues.
already laid bare the struggle for The national insurance increase, like a 90s clubber doing “big fish, little fish, cardboard
But on tax and spend, Johnson’s openly loathed by some cabinet
the soul of a party that appears stance was less straightforwardly ministers, was Sunak’s price for box”. Team Rishi has begged him to stop smiling all
small-c conservative. He and his agreeing to Johnson’s costly plans
determined to erase the political former chief adviser Dominic to tackle the NHS Covid backlog, the time and find some steel. Penny Mordaunt’s lot
Cummings never much liked the and “fix social care,” by capping
legacy of Boris Johnson. idea of austerity, or even the word. how much families would have to have said “change nothing, you’re perfect”, because
pay out, for example.
The focus on what the shadow Of course, many Whitehall they are frightened of her, or playing the long game to
departments have still faced eye- It showed that Johnson was
education secretary, Bridget watering spending constraints. But willing to make the argument for subvert her, or maybe both. Tom Tugendhat’s advisers
where transport, infrastructure higher taxes to fund public services
Phillipson, has called an “arms or research were concerned, for – but the furious backlash among have said: “You know how often you mention the
example, Johnson’s instinct was to Tory MPs and grassroots members
race” over tax cuts, underlines the open up the spending taps. led Sunak to unpick part of the army? Well do that more. If a sentence doesn’t contain
tax rise in his spring statement;
fact the Conservatives seem to be This combination – loose-ish and fuelled the tax-cutting frenzy the word ‘Afghanistan’, that sentence is not over.”
public spending, combined with that is now shaping the leadership
heading into very different political a hardline stance on social and contest. Kemi Badenoch is now essaying the double-speak
cultural issues – was the sweet
territory from that marked out in spot Cummings’ Vote Leave gang Whoever wins in September, of insider-outsider – she was there in all the Treasury
believed they had hit in 2016. their instincts and priorities will be
the 2019 election campaign, when significantly different to Johnson’s. meetings, on the frontline of government, she knows
The message on the side of the He appears likely to be remembered
Johnson asked long-time Labour bus was about spending more on more for the humiliation of about reality and is all wise, and yet at the same time
public services – £350m a week for Partygate, than for effecting
voters to lend him their support. the NHS - while at the same time, a longterm transformation in she is a completely clean break from the whole shower.
billboards warned of the risks that Conservative politics.
The candidates to succeed Turkey could join the EU, bringing a None of them is quite far enough from Johnson for
new wave of mass migration.
him have barely mentioned comfort, nor close enough to mimic his ease.

public services, aside from Penny They started in with an exceedingly tedious debate

Mordaunt’s mysterious claim that about who knew how to fix the economy. All the

none of the “top 180 innovations statements, really, bar none, were

we have had” are used in the NHS All the statements so basic and falsifiable that they
could have been filleted with a
– and Sunak’s repeated reminders

that his father was a GP, and his were so falsifiable they 15-second TikTok, if only there’d
could have been filleted be any young people watching.
mother a pharmacist. Levelling up According to Truss, low tax

has been noticeable for its absence

from the debate, too. with a 15-second creates growth, and therefore
TikTok, if any young not increasing corporation tax
Asked about the impact of their would somehow solve the cost of

tax cut promises on public services

in Friday’s TV debate, most either people were watching living crisis. Badenoch will tackle
inflation, because that’s famously
muttered about reform, or praised

how inflation works, you just have

to face it down. Sunak will rebuild

with innovation, investment

Five key moments from the debate and education, and it’s frankly weird to have been

chancellor for three years and not noticed growth is a

little more complicated than a Tony Blair impression.

It was only an hour long, but the The cost of living crisis is not Heatwave? What heatwave? Tugendhat will also reduce the tax burden, and if
debate packed in its fair share of yet being taken seriously A day before what could well
controversy – and acrimony. It was notable how general many of be the UK’s first 40C-plus day you don’t believe him, you can ask his mates in the
the answers to the question about it was glaring that only Sunak
Everyone hates Rishi Sunak the cost of living were. unequivocally backed the net zero army how well he faces down an enemy. It matters
Everyone now knows the final by 2050 emissions target. Kemi
run-off to be put to Tory party Almost all the candidates used Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat not whether that enemy is Islamic State or VAT,
members will come down to this to tout offerings in areas like would not support it, while Liz
Sunak v AN Other. But it was tax cuts, reducing fuel duty or Truss and Penny Mordaunt talked the principle stands. Mordaunt knows from her
notable that debate centred long-term ideas, which tend to be about it in terms of making sure it
around him. The exchanges on either weighted towards the better did not harm the economy. background what it’s like if you can’t afford a bus fare,
taxation and spending were off, are too slow to work, or both.
particularly robust, with Sunak and while this was thin on macroeconomic heft, she
repeatedly attacked for tax rises.
was no more vapid than anyone else.
They hate Boris Johnson more
Again, that is an exaggeration, Getting them to question each other smoked out
but only just. Perhaps the most
dramatic single moment of the who each thought of as their threat, and where each
hour came when the host, Julie
Etchingham, asked the five to thought they were strongest. But Sunak’s question to
raise a hand if they were willing
to have Boris Johnson in their Truss backfired horribly – she’s been a Lib Dem and a
cabinet. Not a hand went up.
Mudslinging can rebound remainer, and which is her greatest regret? Well, chum,
The most uncomfortable moment
for Truss and Badenoch came when she returned: her life has been a journey. They didn’t
challenged on negative tactics.
Badenoch stood by her assertion teach conservatism at her comprehensive, she had to
that Mordaunt is a liar or a fool in
their row over gender, but looked figure it out for herself. Things were probably different
unsettled. Truss sought to decry
dirty tricks, but was reminded that at Winchester. He squirmed. It was probably the only
her allies are regular sources for
hostile briefings about the others. time one of them bested another.
Peter Walker
Two points of unity in the hour: none of them would

have Boris Johnson in their cabinet, should he ask to

serve; none of them wanted an early general election.

This is the crucible of their problem: they want to keep

▲ Rishi Sunak, who is expected to be the mandate while wholeheartedly disowning the
in the final run-off, at the ITV debate
mandated, and on what grounds, they have no clue.



Monday 18 July 2022 The Guardian •

National 9

Wild bison roam in spring up, they attract insects and hectares when the bull arrives, with ▲ Albie Speakman’s mother, Leah,
the UK for the first other pollinators, with their seeds a the bison eventually having access to paid tribute to her ‘sunshine boy’
time in 6,000 years source of food for birds. 200 hectares. Visitors to Blean Woods
after Kent release may be able to catch a glimpse of the Mother ‘broken
The team behind the £1.1m pro- bison from trails, the team added. beyond repair’
Nicola Davis is spicy, she faces a challenge, she’s ject, funded by the People’s Postcode over death of
Science correspondent very, very calm, she’s very confident.” Lottery, say that wetter areas that are But the bison won’t have the three-year-old
created will not only store carbon but woodlands to themselves for long –
If you go down to the woods today, The hope is that the huge beasts reduce flood risk. Exmoor ponies and iron age pigs are PA Media
you’re in for a big surprise: for the first will act as natural engineers, with expected to join the beasts soon, with
time in thousands of years there will behaviours such as the felling of “Another really important thing is Wright adding that longhorn cattle The mother of a three-year-old boy
be wild bison roaming in the UK. certain trees – a result of the bison that it creates a rich mosaic of habi- are among the animals to be released who was killed in a collision with a
stripping the bark off to eat or rub- tats,” Wright said. at another site. tractor on a farm said she is “broken
Early today three European bison bing their fur off against them – giving beyond repair”.
are to be released into West Blean a range of plant and animal species a The project will also help with con- It is not the first time wild bison
and Thornden Woods in Kent in an chance to prosper. servation of the European bison. “In hooves have been heard in England: Albie Speakman suffered fatal
attempt to address the climate crisis 1927 they were classified as extinct wild steppe bison roamed the UK injuries on farmland off Bentley
and boost biodiversity. “It opens up the canopy, allowing in the wild,” said Wright, adding the until about 6,000 years ago, when Hall Road in the Tottington area of
the light to penetrate through to the team have gained inspiration from habitat loss and hunting led to their Bury, Greater Manchester, at about
Donovan Wright, a bison ranger woodland floor,” Wright said, not- projects in other countries, including extinction. 12.45pm on Saturday.
with the Wilder Blean Project – a ing that as the bison move through the Netherlands, where the European
joint endeavour between Kent Wild- the undergrowth they create paths bison have been reintroduced. “The European bison is a clos- His family were in a vehicle
life Trust and Wildwood Trust – told about half a metre wide, while they est living relative, the closest thing carrying the child to hospital before
the Guardian the first animals to be also love to dust bathe, often reusing Yesterday the three females set to we can get to the steppe bison,” said they flagged down a passing ambu-
released will be a 14-year-old matri- the same sites. be released in Kent were fitted with Wright, although he said the former lance, but the youngster died before
arch and two young females who tracking collars, an approach that will are slightly smaller and do not have he arrived.
come from herds in Scotland and “Those become home for sand liz- allow the team to plot the animals’ a double hump.
Ireland, respectively. A male from ards and your pioneering plants,” said movements and glean insights into The tractor’s driver, understood
Germany is set to arrive in a month. Wright, adding bison themselves are the plants they interact with. Evan Bowen-Jones, the chief exec- to have known the child, is helping
like giant seed banks. “As they move utive of Kent Wildlife Trust, said: police with their inquiries. Officers
“We could not have asked for a they collect seeds, and then they At first the females will have a “The restoration of naturally func- said they are not looking for anyone
better matriarch,” Wright said. “She [are] also dispersing seeds along the five-hectare, double-fenced area to tioning ecosystems is a vital and else in connection with the incident.
route,” he said, noting as wildflowers explore, but this will increase to 50 inexpensive tool in tackling the cli-
mate crisis. The bison will help to Albie’s mother, Leah, described
▲ Three European bison will be create climate-resistant landscapes her son as her “little sunshine boy”.
released to help boost biodiversity which can adapt to the challenges
presented by the crisis we face. She said: “Albie was an incredi-
bly loving, affectionate and caring
“We want Wilder Blean to mark boy who just wanted everyone to
the beginning of a new era for con- be happy. He was so sensitive and
servation in the UK. We need to wanted everyone to be OK, especially
revolutionise the way we restore the people that he loved.
natural landscapes, relying less on
human intervention and more on nat- “He loved to play, whether it be
ural engineers like bison, boar and with his family or friends at nursery
beaver.” ... We were so free and didn’t have
any cares in the world. It was just me
PHOTOGRAPH: Edinburgh drums up the festival spirit The Edinburgh jazz and blues festival carnival and Albie and nothing else mattered.”
DUNCAN MCGLYNN parading down Princes Street yesterday. The festival, which opened last week, was established in
1978 and runs this year until 24 July. It will feature performances from the likes of Dinosaur, the A joint police and Health and Safety
Soweto Kinch Trio, John Schofield, Curtis Stigers and many more across the city’s venues. Executive (HSE) investigation has
opened and specialist officers from
Greater Manchester police (GMP) are
supporting Albie’s family.

Ch Insp Ian Partington, of GMP’s
Bury district, said: “Despite his
family flagging down an ambulance
while driving him towards hospi-
tal as quickly as they could, the boy
sadly could not be saved after the best
efforts of paramedics.

“I can’t imagine how distress-
ing this was for those involved. We
are working to ensure that a full
investigation is carried out, and the
farmland where we understand this
incident to have occurred remains
cordoned off to allow our investiga-
tors and partners from the HSE to
conduct thorough inquiries to estab-
lish exactly what has occurred here.”

A police car was involved in a
minor crash with another vehicle
in Bell Lane while officers attended
the initial call from the North West
ambulance service.

The occupants of the second
vehicle were taken to hospital as a
precaution. The officer in the police
car was unhurt.

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

10 News
Coronavirus

Opportunities missed
to prepare for the next
pandemic, says Bingham

Nicola Davis The vaccine taskforce’s 2020 Perhaps best known for her role Living with Covid?
Science correspondent Achievements and Future Strategy in securing a panoply of Covid vac- Why experts say virus
report cited the ability to make anti- cines for the UK, Bingham said it was may never settle into
Opportunities have been missed to bodies in bulk as critical for future a surprise that so many turned out to a seasonal cycle like flu
prepare the UK for future pandem- pandemic preparedness. be effective.
ics, the former vaccines tsar has said.
Bingham said in order to have bulk- “We absolutely expected a high
Dame Kate Bingham, a managing scale manufacturing of antibodies it failure rate,” she said. “When I started
partner at the life sciences venture was necessary to have bio-proces- in May 2020, [the experts] said they
capital firm SV Health Investors, sors with capacity of up to 20,000 thought it was a 15% chance that any
played a crucial role in the UK’s litres, noting that such processors vaccine that was in the clinic would
efforts to vaccinate the population could also be used for other biologi- be successful. And less than 10%, for
against Covid. As head of the UK cal products, including vaccines, and any vaccine that had not yet got into
vaccine taskforce between May and would allow the UK to export. the clinic.”
December 2020, she led a team that
persuaded the government to back “We’re way off that [capacity]. So The taskforce chose to back seven
a wide portfolio of potential jabs, all our biological therapeutics are vaccines based on a range of tech-
securing millions of doses. imported,” she said, adding that the nologies, six of which have been
reason for the situation was simple: approved for use by the UK’s MHRA.
Speaking to the Guardian on “Just lack of government appetite.”
the first anniversary of legal Covid “The reason why it was so good
restrictions being lifted, Bingham Bingham also suggested lessons initially was that we started work-
praised quick government decision- had not been learned about the need ing with the NHS teams in July 2020,”
making during her time leading the for scientific and commercial exper- said Bingham. “So even though we
taskforce, as well as Boris Johnson’s tise in government, noting that a didn’t know exactly which vaccines
willingness to put money into the recent advertisement for the new were going to work, or which ones
vaccines upfront. director of the Covid-19 vaccine would be first – or anything like that
unit within the UK Health Security – we knew that adeno[virus] and
But she said there had since been Agency failed to mention industry mRNA [vaccines] were the likely
missed opportunities – including fail- experience, a science background or frontrunners. So we could tell [the
ing to bring scientific and commercial experience in drug discovery, devel- NHS] that there was going to be one
expertise into the government, and opment, manufacture or regulation. that needed super-cool freezers, and
not pursuing the creation of bulk anti- one that wouldn’t be quite so bad [in
body-manufacturing capabilities. “It just talks about sort of ability to terms of storage demands].”
manage. So I think that tells me that
Antibodies are proteins that are the civil service is going back to plan But Bingham said she was sur-
produced in the body to fight off an A, which is they control everything prised that, despite being approved
infection. While their production can again,” she said. “[That is] why the for use, the Novavax jab has not been
be triggered through vaccination, this vaccine taskforce was created in the made available in the UK.
is not always the case for people who first place, because they didn’t have
are immunosuppressed. As a result, those skills.” Unlike the other Covid vaccines,
one way to protect those with weak the Novavax jab is a protein subunit
immune systems is to give them lab- Bingham added she would not vaccine – an older type of technol-
oratory-made antibodies. return to her former role, should there ogy that has been used for vaccines
be another pandemic. “Because they against many other diseases includ-
Among therapies that rely on should have recruited somebody in- ing hepatitis B. That raised hopes it
such manufacturing is Evusheld, house to deal with it,” she said. “They would be taken up by many of those
AstraZeneca’s combination of two shouldn’t be scrambling for people who are unvaccinated because of
long-acting antibodies that helps to on the outside to come in and help.” concerns over vaccines based on
prevent Covid infections in immu- more modern technology.
nocompromised people who cannot ‘Whether it’s
be vaccinated. While approved for patches, sprays, pills, Bingham also raised the need for
use by the Medicines and Healthcare implants, whatever new Covid jabs: while current vac-
products Regulatory Agency, the UK, they may be, we’ve cines offer good protection against
which has about 500,000 immuno- got to go there’ serious outcomes, they offer much
compromised people, has yet to place less protection against infection –
an order for the therapy. a concern given the impact of long
Covid, among other factors.
Kate Bingham Hannah Devlin that Covid may never settle
On future Covid vaccines With some data suggesting Omi- into a seasonal cycle, some are
cron-specific vaccines offer little PScience correspondent questioning whether this steady
▲ Kate Bingham said lessons had not been learned about the need for advantage over current jabs, Bing- addling pools are grind of illness is sustainable.
scientific expertise inside government PHOTOGRAPH: DAVID LEVENSON/GETTY IMAGES ham said there was a need for those out, beer gardens
that tackle multiple variants, adding are brimming. But a Seasonal flu has been a
that it was also important to move startling proportion benchmark for Covid since the
away from needle-based vaccines of the population will earliest phase of the pandemic,
due to cost: “Whether it’s patches, be cooped up in their and in the spring a threshold was
sprays, pills, implants, whatever they bedrooms having the strange crossed when Covid became less
may be, we’ve got to go there.” experience of nursing a fever deadly than seasonal flu for all age
and sore throat in July as Covid groups.
But while the UK’s vaccine pro- infections continue to soar in the
gramme is largely seen as a success, third major wave this year. This was good news. However,
there has been outcry at the global the impact of an illness on society
picture, with many countries, For most this will be an also depends on how many people
particularly in the global south, strug- unpleasant inconvenience rather are infected and how often. Many
gling to access jabs. than a tragedy. But with a fourth had assumed that by this point we
wave expected in the autumn, might be at least heading towards
Bingham said the global distribu- a fifth potentially kicking off by a more regular pattern of infection
tion of vaccines had not gone well, Christmas and experts saying with Covid, in which we would
but she defended the work of the endure a few tough months during
taskforce. “Those are political deci- the winter and forget it for the rest
sions,” she said. “All we could do is
make sure that if we had surpluses.
we would get them shipped out.”

Monday 18 July 2022 The Guardian •

11

Cardiff bar ▲ Covid-19 paediatrics at the University of
staff in 2021 patient in a Bristol and a member of the UK’s
wear masks in hospital in Joint Committee on Vaccination
line with then Airdrie during and Immunisation, which
Welsh guidelines the 2021 second announced on Friday that everyone
wave in Scotland aged 50 years and over would
PHOTOGRAPH: be offered a Covid booster in the
MATTHEW HORWOOD/ PHOTOGRAPH: JEFF J autumn.
GETTY IMAGES MITCHELL/GETTY
“We’ve got a tool that is really
of the year. Instead, the reverse fact we’re having such a rapid pandemic, new waves were Each Covid wave no longer good at stopping the old folks from
appears to be occurring. succession of variants – we seem driven by the emergence of more brings a shockingly high death toll, dying. We’ve more or less given up
to be racking them up at alarming transmissible variants, such as but it is still felt across the country. on the idea of mass immunisation
“The way that the pandemic speed – is the most surprising thing Alpha and Delta, which spread This week, school attendance in to control the spread of infection.
has played out and is continuing and that’s changed the way the infection more easily. Now, England fell to the lowest level Vaccinating everyone every three
to play out is unexpected,” said Dr waves look.” successive variants, including the since January, with nearly one in months is just not feasible.”
Stephen Kissler, an epidemiologist latest BA.2.75 variant, nicknamed five secondary pupils absent and
at Harvard. “I would’ve thought it would Centaurus, are being driven 8% of teachers off work. Special cases could be
have reached a steady state by primarily by “immune escape” made, he said, for vaccinating
Kissler and colleagues published now,” he said. “It seems the – the ability to infect people who Hospitals, already trying to healthcare workers, for instance,
a highly influential paper in April opposite is the case.” have been vaccinated and infected, process massive surgery backlogs, in anticipation of a tough time in
2020 that predicted seasonal even fairly recently. are coming under immense strain January. “Giving them all a vaccine
resurgences of Covid “could occur Others have also been taken by due to staff absences, with 26,874 in November would help,” he said.
as far into the future as 2025”. For surprise by this pattern. “It does The Australian Health Protection NHS staff off work for Covid-related
many in the scientific community, look as if the successive waves Principal Committee advised this reasons last week. This situation could improve
this was a coin-drop moment that are getting closer together,” Prof week that infections of BA.4/BA.5 as the next-generation vaccines
provided a glimpse of what lay Peter Openshaw, an immunologist variants could occur as early as 28 Ambulance services are become available. Major
beyond the first few months of at Imperial College London, said. days after recovery from a Covid-19 being pushed to the limit, with programmes are under way to
catastrophe and crisis – and sowed “They are actually becoming more infection. “It almost seems as if the a paramedic describing them as develop variant-proof vaccines or
the seed of expectation that Covid frequent, with one piling in on top rate of replacement of new variants “on the fringe of collapse” in a even pan-coronavirus vaccines
would become seasonal. of the other.” has accelerated,” he said. “There is recent BBC report. And the already that would also work against other
a shift in what’s driving evolution.” substantial numbers affected by endemic coronaviruses, and some
“We’d expected strong seasonal The change, Openshaw said, long Covid are continuing to grow. predict that these vaccines could
wintertime patterns where you was that in the first year of the produce more enduring immunity.
don’t see a lot outside those winter “In many settings, Covid is an
months,” said Kissler. This was The pandemic has failed to settle into the predicted seasonal pattern – inconvenience now, rather than There are also efforts to develop
because, with limited information new variants have driven a rapid succession of recent waves a threat to life, but it continues a nasal vaccine, similar to the flu
to go on at the time, respiratory Weekly estimates for Covid-19 positivity rates to have a significant impact in vaccine given to primary school
viruses have a natural advantage in healthcare,” said Prof Tim Cook, children, that would be more likely
the winter when people are cooped • England • Wales • Northern Ireland • Scotland a consultant in anaesthesia and to protect against infection and
up indoors and when our immune intensive care medicine. transmission – as well as illness.
systems are potentially less 2nd wave Alpha variant Delta Omicron 1 2 3 10%
effective. And for many viruses, Essential infection control Prof Danny Altmann, an
once a winter wave has passed, 8 measures are a continuing burden immunologist at Imperial College
people remain immune for long for hospitals and staff absences London, is among those calling
enough to suppress infection until 6 are piling pressure on the system for governments to pursue these
the following year. even further. “It’s a fairly fragile solutions with far greater intensity.
4 ecosystem,” Cook added. “You “In early 2020, we had a real unity
Two years on, Kissler’s view still have the issues of patients of purpose [on vaccines], which
has changed. “We’re in a different 2 presenting later because primary went terribly well,” he said. “After
landscape now,” he said. “The healthcare is difficult to access, that we downed tools and lost
0 a degree of staff exhaustion, it interest. But it’s not job done, it’s
remains a system under a lot job unfinished. We’re still in the
2021 2022 of stress. From a healthcare heat of an arms race and we’re in a
Source: ONS Covid-19 infection survey perspective, the pandemic is not stage now we need to up our game.”
over.”
There are also the well-known
There is not a single, simple lower-tech approaches to pandemic
solution to curbing the steady tide management. Germany is investing
of infection. in improved ventilation systems
in schools and public buildings,
Vaccines have been an New Zealand announced this week
overwhelming triumph of the that it would bring back free masks
pandemic, but those in use have and Covid tests amid a growing
major limitations in managing Omicron wave, and other countries
this phase. They provide crucial continue to have stricter guidance
protection against severe illness on mask-wearing and self-isolation.
and death, but not against
infection. And protection against In the UK, there appears to be
mild illness wanes very quickly. little enthusiasm for more active
This creates a zone of rapidly management of Covid, however. If
diminishing returns when it comes we let nature follow its course, we
to boosting the young, healthy will, according to Openshaw “reach
population. some sort of equilibrium” with
Covid. “But it may mean coexisting
“There’s clear recognition that at a lower level of overall health,”
what we’ve got now is not ideal,” he said.
said Adam Finn, a professor of

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

12 National
BBC

Licence fee could make way non-payment – possibly because they
for a levy on council tax bills are more likely to be at home in the
day when inspectors call.
Jim Waterson this as a viable proposition that needs independence of the BBC. However,
Media editor to be taken very seriously,” she said. the committee urged the BBC and In recent years, many other Euro-
government to also look at a hybrid pean countries including Sweden
The TV licence fee could be abolished The culture secretary, Nadine model – where high-end BBC drama and Switzerland have abolished their
and replaced with a new levy on Dorries, has indicated she believes is behind a paywall but news services television licence fee and moved to
council tax bills, according to a House the £159-a-year licence fee needs are accessible to all. different funding models for their
of Lords committee, which looked at replacing and wants to see a new BBC national broadcasters – including
the best way to fund the BBC in the funding model in place by the end of The licence fee currently costs direct grants from government or
future. 2027. She is due to launch a public £159 a year and must be paid by every introducing new household taxes.
investigation, although this may be household in the UK that watches any
Under the proposal, all households delayed by the collapse of Boris John- live television channels or uses the Stowell said the public needed to
would pay for the BBC through their son’s government. BBC’s iPlayer service. Those who do understand that ending the licence
local authority bill, with low-earning not pay risk a criminal prosecution, fee and switching to a new funding
families paying less for the broad- Stowell’s committee concluded with women disproportionately model did not have to mean the end
caster’s services. This would end the that commercial replacements of likely to face legal proceedings for of the BBC as we know it.
traditional link to owning a television the licence fee, such as moving to a
set and ensure that people who only Netflix-style paid subscription or an ‘There’s a lot of fear “For a lot of people there’s a lot of
use the BBC’s online or radio services advertising-supported model, would that it’s a political emotion invested in this and a fear
also have to pay. not produce enough money to fund motive. We need to all that it’s driven by a political motive. I
the BBC in anything resembling the get over that and say think we need to all get over that and
“We see quite a lot of potential current form. Niche public interest it’s not about that’ say it’s not about that at all,” she said.
advantages to it,” said the Conserv- services would be likely to close and
ative peer Tina Stowell, who chairs it would be technically challenging Tina Stowell The overall number of households
the cross-party House of Lords com- to put up a paywall around existing Lords committee chair paying the licence fee has steadily
munications and digital committee. BBC television and radio channels. declined in recent years. The BBC’s
licence fee income – currently £3.8bn
She said her committee was not Other ideas, such as providing a year - has also been hit hard by years
definitively backing the council the BBC with billions of pounds of government-enforced freezes that
tax-based funding model but said of public funding directly from have left the broadcaster having to
it worked well in Germany. “We see the government, were rejected make deep cuts.
due to the potential impact on the
Stowell urged the BBC not to wait
until the last minute and hope for
a new funding model to emerge.
“We’re saying to the BBC that you
have to prepare for transition … the
status quo is not an option,” she said.

The BBC said the broadcaster was
“open minded” about the future of
the licence fee.

Monday 18 July 2022 The Guardian •

13

Possible alternatives …
… and the verdict of the House of Lords committee

Advertising-funded model A universal council tax levy
Would result in a “multibillion Given an approving write-up by
pound reduction in income the House of Lords committee.
for the BBC” and would harm They say it would be hard to evade,
other commercial broadcasters could be means-tested so the poor
such as ITV by taking away their pay less, and would be relatively
advertising income. easy to collect the money.

Aljaž Netflix-style subscription Direct government funding of BBC
Škorjanec and Unlikely to produce enough Rejected as it “does not satisfy
Janette Manrara money and technically the principles of independence or
heat up the challenging given the popularity legitimacy”.
final of the of traditional television and radio
BBC’s Strictly channels. A paywall would cut off Part-subscription
Come Dancing large chunks of the public from Retain some form of public funding
as Ed Sheeran the BBC, undermining the idea of for the BBC’s core news offering
performs a national broadcaster. and other services, then put the
BBC’s entertainment and drama
PHOTOGRAPH: A monthly BBC levy on behind a paywall. The committee
GUY LEVY/BBC/PA broadband contracts said this would bring “significant
Dismissed as little improvement commercial risk with no guarantee
over the existing licence fee and of success” and could annoy the
hard to means test. Could put public if they lost favourite shows.
households off signing up to
internet connections or other Increased commercial and
phone contracts. international income
Find some way to maintain funding
A new ringfenced income tax to for the domestic British output
fund the BBC while increasingly revenue from
Could be easily means tested overseas to meet the BBC’s funding
but would be “politically gap. Would “avoid compromising
controversial” to add a new line universal access for domestic
to payslips for BBC funding. consumers”. Jim Waterson

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

14 National

Ex-Wigan star ▲ Ricky Bibey playing for Wakefield Wildcats in 2009 PHOTOGRAPH: SPORTSPHOTO Gig economy Uber has said that it will “not make
Bibey ‘is man trade union excuses for past behaviour that is
found dead “The man was found with a series The former England international asks Uber users clearly not in line with our present
in Florence’ of cuts, bruises and other injuries Leon Pryce said: “Sincere condolences to join strike values. Instead, we ask the public to
on his body and so was the woman, to Ricky’s family. We played against judge us by what we’ve done over the
Harry Taylor although she was more seriously each other since the age of about 14. Rob Davies last five years and what we will do in
hurt and the man appears to have Yorkshire v Lancashire & together for the years to come.”
A former rugby league player has had some sort of seizure. England schoolboys U16’s. A great A trade union representing gig
been named as the man found dead lad. Absolutely devastating news.” economy workers is calling on Uber But ADCU said Uber had not gone
in a hotel room in Florence. “There is blood in the room and customers to join a 24-hour strike in far enough, questioning Uber’s
the forensic teams are working there Bibey is reported to have worked as response to the Uber files, a series response to a landmark ruling last
Ricky Bibey, a two-time Challenge at the moment while the woman has an estate agent in the years after his of revelations about the cab-hailing year by the Supreme Court, which
Cup winner with Wigan Warriors and been taken to hospital for treatment. retirement, and had previously run app published by the Guardian and found that drivers were not self-
St Helens, was found dead in the room a development company. its media partners. employed contracters but workers,
at the Hotel Continentale on Satur- “Her current condition is serious entitled to rights such as minimum
day, alongside a 43-year-old woman but she is stable and her injuries are A Foreign, Commonwealth and The App Drivers and Couriers wage and holiday pay.
who had suffered serious injuries. not life-threatening. We hope to Development Office spokesperson Union (ADCU) invited Uber users
She is thought to be his partner, and question her in the next few hours.” said: “We are in touch with the Italian to join a demonstration against the The Uber files uncovered how the
was yesterday being treated at the police following the death of a British company at its London headquar- company gained access to top-level
city’s Careggi hospital. Tributes have been paid by former man in Florence.” ters on Wednesday and to avoid using politicians around the world, as it
clubs and rugby league players. the service for a day. It is demand- lobbied for regulatory changes. The
The Italian newspaper La Nazione ing increased pay and conditions for ADCU said Uber was still exercising
named Bibey, 40, as the dead man. its drivers and measures to address significant “unfair” lobbying heft in
In a career ended prematurely by issues raised in the Uber files. the UK, including meetings with MPs.
injury in 2012, Bibey also played for
Wakefield Trinity Wildcats and Leigh A trove of more than 124,000 doc- Uber has insisted it has changed
Centurions. uments, leaked to the Guardian and for the better since the arrival of chief
shared with the International Con- executive Dara Khosrowshahi in 2017.
Local police and forensic teams sortium of Investigative Journalists
were seen carrying out investiga- and international media partners, James Farrar, general secretary of
tions at the hotel. revealed last week how Uber broke the ADCU, disputed the claim, saying
laws, duped police and secretly lob- drivers had “no choice but to strike
A police source told Mail Online: bied governments. and take to the streets”.

An Uber spokesperson said: “The
ADCU represents a tiny proportion of
active drivers on Uber. For over a year
now, GMB union has served as the
voice of drivers in the UK following
our historic recognition agreement,
which helped secure new worker pro-
tections including holiday pay and
access to a pension plan.”

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The average waiting time for a UK
driving test is now nearly 15 weeks
amid a backlog caused by Covid

PICTURE: MATT WILKINSON/STELLA PICTURES

Learner drivers face teacher shortage independence. Sitting in a queue for
and pricey tests amid Covid backlog months is dispiriting.”

Zoe Wood and Clea Skopeliti A practical exam booked through the a lot longer in some places. In cities driving schools to bulk-book tests to For other learners the challenge
official Driver and Vehicle Standards such as London, Birmingham and resell, sometimes via instructors. A is finding a teacher. Chiedza Chogu-
Desperate learner drivers are paying Agency (DVSA) website costs just £62. Cardiff, no tests are available to book recent BBC investigation found learn- gudza, a London-based research
double the going rate for tests on the for up to six months. ers paying more than £200 for slots analyst, has been looking for one for
secondary market, while others are Tests and lessons were halted dur- acquired this way. more than a year. The delay means
struggling to find an instructor, as the ing the Covid lockdowns, a situation This squeeze has turned driv- she is worried her theory test certifi-
industry grapples with a huge back- that meant an estimated 500,000 ing test slots into a commodity, Mark Oakley, who runs AA Driv- cate, which allows two years to pass
log of pupils owing to Covid. pupils had their courses disrupted with firms exploiting the area of ing School, said the lockdowns had the practical, could expire.
or were put off learning the skill. the DVSA booking system aimed at “left a long shadow over the indus-
Nino Shankischvili, a London- This had a big knock-on effect when try”, with many learners and even Some driving schools report being
based learner, told the Guardian restrictions ended as this cohort had 500,000 trainee instructors unable to pro- inundated with inquiries. Craig
she paid an instructor £530 for three to compete with a new crop of peo- gress due to delays with their tests. Preedy, an instructor at WyeDrive in
tests because she was unable to get an ple old enough to drive. Number of learner drivers who had “For many learners, especially young Hereford, said it had closed its wait-
appointment at her local test centre. their course disrupted or were put people,” he said, “getting their ing list because it could not guarantee
The high demand means the aver- off learning during the lockdowns driving licence is a gateway to fur- a place would open up until 2023.
age waiting time for a driving test is ther education, employment and
now nearly 15 weeks, although it is “Trainers are very much still in
demand,” said Carly Brookfield, chief
executive of the Driving Instructors
Association (DIA). She said instruc-
tors were under “big pressure” to get
pupils successfully through their test
due to the long waiting times. “How-
ever, demand is starting to normalise,
with trainers seeing less demand than
in 2021 when it clearly peaked just
after lockdowns were eased.”

Lesson prices have gone up, Brook-
field, said, a situation that reflected
rising business costs including insur-
ance, fuel and car leases, as well as
trainers trying to recoup income lost
during the pandemic when they were
not allowed to work.

Loveday Ryder, the DVSA chief
executive, said the agency was “doing
all we can to provide learners with as
many tests as possible”. It is recruit-
ing 400 examiners, on top of the 240
who have joined in the past year, and
is offering overtime, as well as giv-
ing retired staff the option to return.

The DVSA had also cracked down
on the resellers exploiting learner
drivers, she said. In recent week the
DVSA has closed 5,000 accounts on
its booking system not linked to driv-
ing instructors and improved security
to block bots. It plans to change the
terms and conditions to make it clear
driving instructors are not allowed to
profit from tests.

The agency is aiming to bring the
test waiting time to under 10 weeks by
the end of the year. In the meantime,
it says a big increase in “no-shows”
is making things worse. More than
6,000 tests are wasted each month
– double the pre-pandemic rate. The
DVSA is urging learners who are not
ready for a test to reschedule so it can
be used by someone who is.

‘It’s basically impossible’ The struggle to get on the road

‘I’ve been contacting driving who lives in Richmond upon home from school – 40 minutes test booked for February 2022, but he says. “Not being able to drive
instructors for a year’ Thames. She has found booking normally but sometimes close to contracted Covid; the next slot she means I can’t do the nursery
Chiedza Chogugudza has been a test “basically impossible”. two hours with a small child – is could book was in July. drop-off or collection but also can’t
searching for a driving instructor “lovely in the summer” but a easily drive home from late shifts
for well over a year. The 24-year- She has no family or friends nightmare in the winter. “The whole situation is [as there’s] no public transport.
old molecular biology research nearby who could teach her. “It’s incredibly stressful,” she says, and
analyst passed her theory test disheartening,” she says, adding “Doing the walk in the cold and she feels “so much pressure to pass “This means I regularly have to
in April 2021 and found an that the cost of lessons is increasing dark with an asthmatic child is not before the winter”. stay in on-call accommodation at
instructor at the same time, but with fuel prices. “It’s only going to great,” says Harrison, who works the hospital and see my child far
completed only four hours of get more expensive. Average prices part-time in an administrative role ‘It puts a strain on relationships less than I should.”
practice before contracting Covid, have gone from £28 per hour last in social care. She explains that her and mental health’
leading the instructor to give her summer to £35-plus.” husband and a “kind neighbour” Despite starting driving lessons in Kneale says he has spent
place to another learner. have “cobbled something together” September 2020, Matt Kneale, a “perhaps two-thirds of [his] time
‘The whole situation is for the morning school run. 30-year-old doctor in Manchester, away from home over the last
“Now I can’t even get an incredibly stressful’ still does not hold a licence after three months. It does put strain on
instructor to respond to me For 41-year-old Eleanor Harrison, Harrison estimates she has spent the DVSA cancelled his practical relationships and mental health
and I’ve contacted so many not being able to drive has made more than £3,000 on lessons. She test three times. This has been because you’re missing valuable
instructors and schools that I’ve school runs with her five-year-old had begun learning but was not particularly challenging since he time, and it puts pressure on your
lost count,” says Chogugudza, son difficult. She says the walk ready to sit her test before the first became a father 14 months ago, other half to cover the slack.”
UK lockdown in 2020. She had a Clea Skopeliti

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National ▼ Punting on the Cam. Constructing 17
Northstowe will create thousands
of homes to the north of Cambridge Limits on
police wildlife
PHOTOGRAPH: ANDREW BOYERS/REUTERS inquiries on
Queen’s estates
‘ludicrous’

The battle for water on phase one, I’ve got no water. really angry. None of our elected Rob Evans
Construction of new We’re trying to grow fruit and office holders are responding, they Severin Carrell
town is draining our vegetables instead.” are hiding. David Pegg
village dry, say locals
Hayden claims a future phase “We started noticing issues as Wildlife campaigners have said it is
Jamie Grierson killed birch trees and emptied of the development will lower the far back as 2015,” Fulton added. “ludicrous” that police have to ask
ponds, depriving wildlife of habitat. water level “upwater” of his farm “We’ve had three different MPs, the Queen’s permission before they
C live Hayden’s family by up to 2 metres. “It’s going to get a all of whom have come to visit the can enter her private estates to inves-
has owned farmland Hayden, 65, has been hell of a lot worse,” he said. ponds. None of them have done tigate alleged wrongdoing.
at Larksfield Nursery approached to sell his land but he anything.”
in Cambridgeshire refused, the emotional investment An independent report, The campaigners were speaking
for about 70 years. in the land his father farmed well commissioned by South A spokesperson for Homes after the Guardian revealed that doz-
In recent years, the into his 80s being too high. Cambridgeshire district council, England said it was not responsible ens of UK laws stipulate that police
farm in Longstanton was growing concluded last year that for the first phase of Northstowe, are barred from entering any of the
tens of thousands of flowers The developer, L&Q, which construction work was to blame for adding there was no abstraction of Queen’s private estates without her
and plants for sale at the New worked with Homes England’s emptying ponds in Longstanton, groundwater for phase two. They consent to investigate crimes ranging
Covent Garden flower market, the predecessor on the first phase of which campaigners said had a said the impact on water for phase from wildlife offences to environ-
colourful and historical wholesaler the development, had to lower knock-on effect on wildlife. 3A was considered by consultants mental pollution. The Guardian
in the heart of London. the water levels in order to build and “the development is not also disclosed that police and official
on the land, a process known as The same campaigners have anticipated to change groundwater regulators had investigated a series
But the development of the dewatering. L&Q denies any of the been granted a judicial review of levels in the surrounding area. of alleged wildlife and pesticides
biggest new town since Milton work could have led to long-term the development of 4,000 homes offences against legally protected
Keynes on his farm’s borders is issues with groundwater levels. in a forthcoming phase of the new “However, Homes England birds of prey at the Queen’s estate at
putting an end to that. town’s development. is committed to monitoring Sandringham in Norfolk.
Hayden has reduced the number groundwater levels going forward
Northstowe, a development of flowers he grows each year and is But as the water levels remain as a precautionary measure,” they Buckingham Palace has previously
led by the government’s housing troubled by the impact later phases at record low levels, Hayden and added. declined to comment. Ruth Tingay,
agency, Homes England, will of development are likely to have the campaigners in Longstanton the co-director of the group Wild
contain 10,000 homes when it is on the groundwater in his property, are desperate, claiming Homes Tumi Hawkins, South Justice, which seeks stronger laws
finished but campaigners claim which he says he has a legally England, the Environment Agency, Cambridgeshire district council’s to protect nature, said the royal fam-
the construction of the first protected right to access. South Cambs district council and lead cabinet member for planning, ily’s decision not to respond “looked
1,000 has already sucked away private developers are ignoring said she recognised “the local like a massive cover-up”. “How are
the groundwater from Larksfield “We used to grow pot plants in their pleas for help. concern about groundwater”, they allowed to get away with that?
Nursery and natural spaces the greenhouse twice a year, tens adding that the council was How many other raptor persecution
surrounding Longstanton. It has of thousands of them, we had the Daniel Fulton, 41, an working with “key organisations incidents have been covered up on
irrigation to do that,” Hayden said. environmental campaigner and to understand the causes and royal estates?” she said.
“But now with the flow of the water resident of Longstanton, said: next steps”.
coming across my property being “First, all the ponds in the village Documents show that Sandring-
taken away due to what they did were drying up. We started fighting A spokesperson for L&Q Estates ham was the focus of successive
on that. People in the village are said the draining of water in phase police and regulatory investigations
one was “standard practice and an between 2005 and 2016.
▲ Farmer Clive Hayden fears the approved construction method”,
problem will get ‘a hell of a lot worse’ adding: “We believe it is highly Norfolk police and Natural Eng-
unlikely that the temporary work land, an official agency that seeks
carried out over five years ago to protect the country’s environ-
would have a long-term impact ment, have investigated the deaths
on water levels.” of a goshawk, a sparrowhawk, a red
kite, a tawny owl and a marsh har-
An Environment Agency rier at Sandringham estate and land
spokesperson said: “We are it owns nearby, but only one prose-
currently looking into reports cution has been brought.
of illegal abstraction on the
development in question in Police interviewed Prince Harry
Northstowe, Cambridge.” and two others in 2007 over the
shooting of two hen harriers. They
denied being involved. The CPS did
not prosecute anyone.

The revelations are discomfort-
ing for the RSPB given that the Queen
has been its patron since 1952. The
charity was asked if it was seeking a
meeting with the royal household to
discuss the investigations or if it had
a view on the alleged crimes against
birds. It declined to answer. It said:
“We believe it is in the interests of all
landowners to cooperate fully with
any investigation so that, where the
CPS believes appropriate, legal action
can be taken.”

Wildlife crime investigators have
said it is normal practice not to notify
the target of a police search before a
search for evidence takes place.

Norfolk police previously said that
any allegations “on, or close to, the
Sandringham estate are investigated
in an open and transparent manner
with the full cooperation of the San-
dringham estate”. Natural England
has declined to comment.

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

18 National

Barristers put legal aid refusing to apply it to existing cases.
funding case to MPs as Given the size of the backlog and the
week of strikes begins fact that barristers are only paid at
the conclusion of trials, they could
Haroon Siddique massive exodus of criminal barris- be waiting years before seeing the ▲ Plates from the series Themes
Legal affairs correspondent ters. The great levelling up agenda increased fees. The CBA says there and Variations by Piero Fornasetti
will be strangled at birth without has been a 28% cut in criminal legal
Barristers are heading to parliament government properly funding legal aid fees in the past decade and is PHOTOGRAPH: MAXIMO GARCIA DE LA PAZ
as they begin their first whole week aid to ensure that we have enough demanding a 25% increase.
of strike action over levels of legal prosecutors and defenders dealing Hand Chair (c1965)
aid funding they say are bringing the with the unprecedented backlog of A delegation of barristers will meet by Pedro Friedeberg
criminal justice system to its knees. 58,000 cases. MPs today, followed by other CBA
members who will attempt to speak
Members of the Criminal Bar Asso- “Without proper funding there to their respective MPs.
ciation, which represents advocates can be no diversity at the criminal
in England and Wales, began action bar and our judiciary will end up James Oliveira-Agnew, a state
with a two-day strike at the end of last deprived of the talent of hundreds school educated barrister who used
month and have been escalating it by of women and minorities from ordi- to be a forklift driver, said it was a
an extra day every week. nary backgrounds who have devoted struggle for him when he was called
their professional lives to the service to the bar in 2008 but it is much worse
If a deal is not agreed with the gov- of the public in our criminal courts.” now, given the median income for
ernment, criminal barristers will the first three years of criminal prac-
stage five-day walkouts every other The Ministry of Justice has agreed tice is £12,200.
week from now on. to a 15% uplift in fees – the minimum
recommended by an independent “We’re going to go and we’re going
Jo Sidhu QC, CBA chair, said: “We review – to new instructions begin- to see if we can speak to the MPs and
bring our action for justice to the ning from the end of September but is see what we can get,” he said. “We’re
heart of parliament as those MPs going to show them that this is our
who represent us all, need to hear 58,000 group of people, this is who we’ve
from those of us who prosecute and got, people from every walk of life,
defend on behalf of the voiceless – The ‘unprecedented backlog’ of every background, every diversity,
in particular the victims of crime cases barristers are dealing with, every ethnicity, and if they want
left to suffer and languish by govern- according to the CBA chair to keep that, and if they want this
ment’s ongoing failure to stem the system to keep going, it can’t run on
our goodwill, it has to run on payment
and funding.”

The justice secretary, Dominic
Raab, has described the CBA action as
“regrettable”, saying it would delay
justice for victims. He said the 15%
increase means a “typical barrister”
would earn an extra £7,000 a year.

Medical experts in legal cases opinion can lead to loss of career The MPS said the medical expert openness and learning, which helps
‘should not scapegoat doctors’ or liberty”. It references the case witness played a crucial role in setting to improve patient safety”.
of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was the standard against which doctors
Haroon Siddique The MPS, which supports the convicted of gross negligence man- were measured in clinical negligence The MPS said such a requirement
professional interests of more than slaughter in 2015 and handed a claims and coroner, criminal and reg- would also provide a more accurate
Medical experts in cases involving 300,000 healthcare profession- 24-month suspended sentence for ulatory cases. account to patients and families of
doctors should have a mandatory als around the world, says medical her part in the death of six-year-old what occurred and help to ensure it
duty to consider systems issues expert reports focus on scrutinising Jack Adcock from sepsis. She was Dr Rob Hendry, the MPS medical did not happen again. It wants the
such as inadequate staffing levels the actions of the individual doctor later struck off by the General Medi- director, said: “Any individual per- requirement to be added to the GMC’s
to avoid doctors being scapegoated even when failings are a result of the cal Council before the court of appeal formance concerns must of course be Good Medical Practice guide.
for wider failures, the Medical setting in which they work. overturned the GMC’s decision. addressed, but doctors should not be
Protection Society (MPS) has said. scapegoats for the failings of the set- Colin Melville, the medical direc-
Its report on the issue, shared with On the day of Jack’s death, Bawa- tings in which they work. Sadly, we tor and director for education and
the Guardian before publication, Garba had recently returned from see this all too often in cases against standards at the GMC, said: “Our
points out that for doctors, “adverse an extended leave of absence, three doctors.” health services continue to face
medical colleagues were absent for extreme pressures, and we’re doing
much of her shift, she had had no He said the focus on a doctor’s cul- all we can to support doctors and the
break, and there was an IT system pability played into a “blame-based health system … If a concern is raised,
failure at a crucial time. system of accountability” across we will always take into account the
healthcare “instead of a culture of circumstances a doctor is working in.”

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A Matter of Perspective Show puts The exhibition will begin in surre-
by Dan Tobin Smith (2004) surrealist alism’s early days in the 1920s, and go
is in the exhibition design into on to look at how it influenced every-
perspective day objects and modern artists.
PHOTOGRAPH: DAN TOBIN SMITH
Harry Taylor Gae Aulenti’s 1993 work Tour, a
Syntopia dress (2018) glass tabletop supported by four
by Iris van Herpen The word “surrealism” often brings bicycle wheels, will be on display, as
to mind the melted clocks of Salva- will Sella, by brothers Achille and Pier
dor Dalí or René Magritte’s image of Giacomo Castiglioni, a bicycle sad-
a pipe with the words “this is not a dle mounted on a post that blurred
pipe” written below it. the boundary between furniture and
art in 1957.
The movement’s heyday was
between the 1920s and the 60s, but The partnership between Dalí and
an exhibition opening on 14 October the British poet and patron Edward
at the Design Museum in west Lon- James led to the creation of world-
don will bring it up to date. Objects of famous surrealist interior design
Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924- pieces such as the Mae West Lips
Today will focus on surrealism’s sofa. It has been described as the sin-
influence on the design world and gle most important piece of surrealist
how it revolutionised art and design. furniture in the UK, and will be on
show at the exhibition.
Nearly 350 objects will be on show,
including artwork by Dalí, surreal- Tickets are on sale now, and the
ism’s best-known artist, alongside exhibition will run until the middle
his contemporaries Marcel Duchamp, of February 2023.
Man Ray and Leonora Carrington, as
well as pieces by Dior, Sarah Lucas, Kathryn Johnson, the curator of
Björk and fashion photographer Tim the exhibition, said: “If you think
Walker. Nearly a third of exhibits will surrealism fizzled out in the 1960s,
be from the past 50 years. think again. This exhibition will show
that it is still alive and well and that it
never really went away.

“The early surrealists were sur-
vivors of the first world war and the
1918 influenza pandemic, and their
art was in part a reaction to those
horrors. Today, in the context of
dizzying technological change, war
and another global pandemic, sur-
realism’s spirit feels more alive than
ever in contemporary design.”

In brief peers was 22-23 months in Wales Unemployment have a greater probability of Supermarkets
and about 18 months in England. unemployment than white British
Education In Wales, the largest disadvantage Jobs penalty ‘not due to Christian counterparts after factors Amazon Fresh to match
gaps by area were as big as 25-28 attitudes of Muslims’ such as age and location were Tesco Clubcard prices
Poorer pupils lag months, the EPI found. In England, taken into account. The author
‘significantly’ behind the largest attainment gap, of about Poor outcomes for Muslims in the then adjusted for factors such as Amazon Fresh is to take on Tesco
25 months, was found in Blackpool. British labour market cannot be religiosity and civic participation with a new price match promise as
Poorer pupils in England and Wales explained by their sociocultural but they had only a minor effect it becomes the latest retail giant to
are “significantly” behind their Pupils living with long-term attitudes, such as commitment to on the “Muslim penalty”. pledge it will keep prices low for
peers, according to a report. and persistent poverty are even traditionalism, a study has found. customers. It will start its Tesco
further behind their peers in both Samir Sweida-Metwally, of the Clubcard Price Match campaign
The Education Policy Institute countries. The research, published in the University of Bristol, who carried today, matching and freezing prices
(EPI) study found that in 2019, peer-reviewed Ethnic and Racial out the study, said: “The findings in line with Tesco’s discounts.
prior to the pandemic, the gap There has been almost no Studies journal, confirmed the offer evidence against the view
between poorer pupils and their improvement in this measure over existence of a “Muslim penalty” that Muslims’ poor employment Russell Jones, director of
the last decade. in the employment market but outcomes are due to their so-called Amazon Fresh, said he hoped the
rejected suggestions that it was due ‘sociocultural attitudes’.” His paper pricing campaign will “show how
The EPI said policymakers to cultural and religious practices. uses UK Household Longitudinal good our value is compared with
needed to do more to reduce the Study data. Haroon Siddique competitors”. PA Media
gaps, especially in Wales, where it Muslims were found to
was “notably worse”. PA Media

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022
20

Ukraine buries four-year-old girl killed many times have we asked to close
by Russian missile attack in Vinnytsia the sky? And the world just looks at
how Ukraine is being murdered. Our
Peter Beaumont told weeping relatives that “evil can- Fears for human rights activist children are being murdered, our sol-
Kyiv not win”. diers and our people.
Family and friends of a prominent Friends and colleagues say
Mourners in central Ukraine have Liza’s grandmother Larysa Dmit- Ukrainian human rights activist Butkevych, who has long held “Protect us from this tyrant,” she
buried a four-year-old girl who was rieva caressed the child as she lay in an who signed up to fight Russia anti-militarist views, decided to said, referring to Vladimir Putin,
killed by a Russian missile strike in open coffin with teddy bears in Vin- and was captured have launched join Ukraine’s armed forces after “because after us he will go further
the city of Vinnytsia last week, as nytsia’s 18th-century Transfiguration a public campaign to highlight Russia’s invasion in February made and destroy everything.”
officials and analysts warned that Cathedral. “Look, my flower! Look his plight over fears he is being him feel he could no longer sit on
Moscow’s operational pause of recent how many people came to you,” Lar- wrongly accused of being a “British the sidelines. Peter Beaumont Twenty-two other people were
days had come to an end, signalling ysa said. spy” due to his ties to the UK. killed in the attack, and one person
further death and pain to come. is still missing.
Liza’s father, Artem Dmytriev, Maksym Butkevych (pictured),
The killing of Liza Dmitrieva, stood silent, with tears flowing down 45, a former BBC Ukrainian service As Liza was buried, Russian rock-
who had Down’s syndrome, as she his face. producer, is well known as a ets and missiles continued to pound
was walked in a pushchair through human rights defender through his Ukrainian towns and cities amid
a crowded square was reported The funeral took place as footage work with refugees in Ukraine. warnings that a renewed Moscow
around the globe, becoming a poign- emerged of the girl’s badly wounded offensive could target the region
ant symbol of the heavy civilian cost mother, Iryna, clearly distraught and He is one of an estimated 7,200 around north-eastern Kharkiv – from
of Russia’s invasion. speaking to a local television channel Ukrainian prisoners of war held where Russian troops had partially
after regaining consciousness. by Russian and allied forces, with withdrawn – as well as the eastern
Wearing a crown of white flowers, their families often struggling to Donetsk region, which is seen as the
Liza was buried yesterday, as an Lying in a hospital bed, a video of find out more information. Kremlin’s principal focus.
Orthodox priest burst into tears and her daughter visible on her phone,
she told reporters: “The world During a visit to the frontlines this
doesn’t care. It sees what is happen- weekend, the Russian defence minis-
ing but it does not protect us. How ter, Sergei Shoigu, ordered troops “to
further intensify the actions of units
in all operational areas”.

The Ukrainian president, Volody-
myr Zelenskiy urged his people not
to fall for Russia’s attempts to scare
them with warnings of horrendous
missile attacks to come, which he

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Film collaboration ‘I’d vote for him’
Director turns camera Is Tucker Carlson
on family’s Nazi past the next Trump?
Page 25 Page 26

Relatives and friends attend the ‘We are a lot had changed and that it was a Tetiana Viktor Shulik,
funeral for Liza, whose mother was mistake to assume those with pro- Khemion, a a member of
among the scores of those injured patriots too’ Russian views were in the majority. dance teacher, the territorial
has been defence, with
PHOTOGRAPH: EFREM LUKATSKY/AP Frontline In Bakhmut, a frontline town in organising his son Denys,
the Ukrainian-controlled Donetsk supplies for who used to
said were aimed at dividing Ukrainian fighters region, Viktor Shulik, a former fighters in teach PE at his
society. headteacher, and his son Denys, 23, northern father’s school
resisting who taught PE at the same school, Donetsk where
“It’s clear that no Russian missiles rest with their rifles after walking her husband is PHOTOGRAPH:
or artillery will be able to break our invasion 4km through wheat fields from fighting ANASTASIA VLASOVA/
unity or lead us away from our path their positions on the frontline. THE GUARDIAN
toward a democratic, independent in Donbas Denys decided to sign up. “We
Ukraine,” he said in his nightly video Viktor and Denys are from don’t have an apartment now, our Meanwhile, the war in Donbas
address to the nation on Saturday. Isobel Koshiw Popasna, a town in Luhansk block was set on fire by a missile, was gradually ignored by many in
“And it is also clear that Ukrainian that was on the 2014-22 eastern so we’re now homeless people. We Ukraine, who were able to carry on
unity cannot be broken by lies or F or more than a month, frontline and was occupied by don’t have the school any more their lives as normal, far from the
intimidation, fakes or conspiracy Vasyl has been Russian forces in May. Images of because it was bombed and so we frontlines. Those living in Donbas
theories.” commuting from his the town show that it has been don’t have a place of work,” said on the Ukraine-controlled side,
hometown in Ukraine’s almost flattened by shelling. Viktor. “We took up arms because, however, still felt it, from bursts
Ukrainian officials have reported east to the frontline, well, what else can we do?” of shelling to unemployment,
an increase in Russian air sorties, about an hour away. “War is not new to us but this being physically separated from
including missiles fired from stra- In April, the hotel owner from is the war of wars,” said Viktor. In 2014, half of Donbas was friends and relatives and problems
tegic bombers over the Caspian Sea. Konstantinovka said the situation “People need to understand that occupied by Russia’s proxy forces with basic services such as water,
was “completely fucked”, with they have come here to destroy us. after a coordinated propaganda electricity and gas.
“It is not only missile strikes Russian artillery fire bombarding It is a cycle of history.” campaign and military operation
from the air and sea,” said Vadym his unit incessantly. Now, he looked that drew support from some of the Since the full-scale invasion,
Skibitskyi, a spokesperson for Ukrain- visibly different: thinner and worn After their kitchen windows local population. some have returned to fight in
ian military intelligence. “We can see out, but still motivated. blew in, they went to stay with Donbas with feelings of guilt. One
shelling along the entire line of con- friends in another Donetsk town, The takeover was led mostly of them is Yegor Firsov. Originally
tact, along the entire frontline. There “Our brigade is more than half Lyman, which like Popasna was by people connected to Russian from Donetsk, Firsov became
is an active use of tactical aviation people from Donbas,” said Vasyl, of eventually occupied by Russian military intelligence but also an MP in Ukraine’s post-2014
and attack helicopters. Clearly, prep- the eastern region that pro-Russian forces in May. Lyman was also involved locals. After a series of parliament in Kyiv and later an
arations are now under way for the forces have been fighting for on and being bombarded and Viktor and battles in the first year, the fighting environmental activist. He is now a
next stage of the offensive.” off since 2014, and which is now was low level compared with the volunteer medic for the army.
facing the brunt of Moscow’s full- ‘War is not new to current war.
The Ukrainian military said Russia scale invasion. us but this is the war “For the last eight years, I
appeared to be regrouping units for of wars. They have As part of the peace agreements lived in Kyiv. I ignored the war. I
an offensive toward Sloviansk, a For Vasyl and many in his unit, come to destroy us’ brokered in 2015, Russia demanded had a gun in my house for eight
symbolically important city held winning or losing is not in the that Ukraine allow the co-called years and I never practised how
by Ukraine in the eastern region of abstract. If the frontlines move Viktor Shulik republic’s representatives into to put it together. I resent myself
Donetsk. further west, he stands to lose Former headteacher Ukraine’s parliament. Ukraine because [of it],” said Firsov, who
everything: his hotel, his house, refused, arguing that it would give is from Avdiivka, a town still held
The British defence ministry said his home town and the people he Russia a direct say on Ukraine’s by Ukraine that has been largely
yesterday that Russia was reinforc- knows. For the last eight years, he national and foreign policy. destroyed by shelling since the
ing its defensive positions across the says, he and others like him have February invasion.
areas it occupied in southern Ukraine watched life for people in Russian- The agreements were never
after pressure from Ukrainian forces occupied Donbas deteriorate implemented, and Donbas went “People think the Donbas is
and pledges from the country’s lead- drastically. He says he will do from a vast industrial area in need exclusively pro-Russian people
ers to force out Russia. anything he can to prevent more of of modernisation into a region but there are lots of people who
the region being occupied. deemed to have little to no future. are against Russia and patriotic,”
Ukraine says at least 40 people said Firsov. “People from the rest
have been killed in Russian shelling Russia has declared that In occupied Donbas, the isolated of Ukraine understand people
of urban areas in the past three days, capturing Donbas is one of its economy plummeted and civil in Donbas now. This war wasn’t
as the war launched by Putin on 24 priorities and has been slowly liberties vanished. Anyone who their choice.”
February intensifies. bombarding and then capturing complained or went against the
towns. It now holds about 75% of regime could be held without trial Near the frontlines, Tetiana
Rockets hit the north-eastern the region. in detention camps, disappear, or Khemion, a dance teacher in
town of Chuhuiv in Kharkiv region even be executed. Sloviansk, has been organising
on Friday night, killing three people Vasyl represents a contingent supplies of basic equipment for
including a 70-year-old woman and of people in Donbas who are units in northern Donetsk, where
wounding three others, said the fighting for the area to remain her husband is fighting.
regional governor, Oleh Synehubov. part of Ukraine, either as soldiers,
volunteers or as part of the local “Unfortunately, a lot of effort
“Three people lost their lives – self-defence forces. was put in over a long time to erase
why? What for? Because Putin went Ukrainian-ness in Donbas,” said
mad?” said Raisa Shapoval, 83, a dis- The stereotype of people Khemion. “So, I don’t deny that
traught resident sitting in the ruins from Donbas is that they are there are a lot of people who are
of her home. pro-Russian, and the existence pro-Russian. But it all comes from
of people such as Vasyl and their the Soviet legacy.”
To the south, more than 50 Russian supporters is rarely highlighted.
Grad rockets pounded the city of While those interviewed said there She added: “The one thing
Nikopol on the Dnipro River, killing were still many people with pro- people must not do is forget about
two people who were found in the Russian views, they also said that the war like last time. I often think
rubble, said the region’s governor, if more people had cared before,
Valentyn Reznichenko. things would be different now.”

Yesterday, more Russian missiles
struck industrial facilities in the stra-
tegic southern city of Mykolaiv, a key
shipbuilding centre on the Southern
Bug River. There was no immediate
information about casualties.

Mykolaiv has faced regular Russian
missile strikes in recent weeks as
Moscowhas sought to soften Ukrain-
ian defences, with the aim of cutting
off Ukraine’s entire Black Sea coast.

Early in the campaign, Ukrainian
forces fended off Russian attempts
to capture Mykolaiv.

Additional reporting
Associated Press

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

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23

▼ Parma, Italy di Torrechiara, Langhirano, in a
Glowing fireflies surround four-year- photograph taken by her father

old Aurora Ghizzi Panizza in the PHOTOGRAPH: ALBERTO GHIZZI PANIZZA/
ANIMAL NEWS AGENCY
grounds of the 15th-century Castello

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

24 World

Thailand’s government accused of using 2021, Citizen Lab said. The sweep-
Pegasus spyware against its own citizens ing investigation found that the
surveillance campaign appeared to
Stephanie Kirchgaessner Citizen Lab said: “It can be con- ▲ Thai pro-democracy activist Arnon Nampa, a leading human have been briefly interrupted after
cluded that the attackers targeted Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul rights lawyer and protest leader, was the publication one year ago of the
The Thai government is suspected selected individuals with Pegasus in also hacked using Pegasus. His work Pegasus Project, an investigation by
of using surveillance technology order to gather particular information 339 has included defending activists the Guardian and other media part-
against more than two dozen dissi- rather than using it for mass surveil- accused of lèse-majesté, and pub- ners into the abuse of Pegasus by
dents and activists who supported lance against dissidents in general.” Days Arnon Nampa (above) was licly calling for the repeal of the law. governments around the world.
democratic reforms, in what experts detained between 2020 and 2022
said was part of a wide-ranging cam- A successful infection of a phone on at least 14 lèse-majesté charges He was charged with at least A timeline of phone infections or
paign to try to shut down criticism with Pegasus gives a user of the spy- 14 lèse-majesté offences and was targeting shows they were disrupted
using one of the most advanced spy- ware total control over its contents, detained for a total of 339 days again after Apple fixed a vulnerabil-
ing tools in the world. including photos, location, its micro- between 2020 and 2022. In one case, ity in its software, which researchers
phone, camera and calls. It can turn a he was infected with Pegasus around associated with Pegasus infections.
A report by researchers at Citi- phone into a remote listening device. 14 July 2021, the day he was quoted
zen Lab at the University of Toronto in a Bloomberg article about the Thai The infections of phones appear to
paints a devastating picture of the Among the people whose phones government’s response to Covid-19. have been halted after 23 November
pervasive use of the Israeli firm NSO were analysed by Citizen Lab and 2021, when Apple began notifying
Group’s Pegasus spyware in 2020 and turned out to be infected with iLaw, a Thai civil society organi- members of Thai civil society – and
2021 against pro-democracy protest- Pegasus, were at least four members sation that worked with Citizen Lab other customers around the world –
ers, including many who have faced of the United Front of Thammasat and and was targeted with spyware, said that their phones were likely to have
arrest, harassment and physical Demonstration, including Panusaya it believed attackers were looking for been targeted by a state actor.
attacks by Thai authorities. “Rung” Sithijirawattanakul, who has “behind-the-scenes information”
been charged with at least 10 lèse- about the activists’ online activities, An NSO spokesperson declined to
Citizen Lab’s forensic analysis, majesté offences, which criminalise such as who was running activist comment on specific questions about
peer-reviewed by experts at Amnesty insults to the Thai royal family. leaders’ Facebook accounts while the the findings but said in a statement:
International’s security lab, also leaders were being detained in jail. “Politically motivated organisations
raises questions about statements In one case, Panusaya wore a crop- continue to make unverifiable claims
made by Thai government officials, top shirt with the message “I have The Thai actor Inthira Charoen- against NSO hoping they will result
who last year said reports of state- only one father” written on her skin, pura, who is known to financially in an outright ban on all cyber intel-
sponsored attacks were “untrue”. which was taken as mocking the king support protests and has used her ligence technologies, despite their
– whose supporters describe him as social media account to invite peo- well documented successes saving
the nation’s “father” – and led to ple to protest, was infected four times lives.” NSO has regularly said it can-
criminal charges. by a user of Pegasus from May to July not discuss specific cases in which
Pegasus has allegedly helped save
lives, because of national security
implications of such revelations.

The Thai embassy in Washington
did not immediately respond to a
request for comment.

Monday 18 July 2022 The Guardian •

World 25

‘A story I didn’t want’ Eline In brief
Dutch director traces Jongsma and
relative’s Nazi crimes her directing Afghanistan
partner Kel
Jennifer Rankin town funds and punish people for from the year of film-making, O’Neill decided Taliban ask female staff
infractions, such as having a radio this unusually personal project to use animation for male replacements
I t was the family secret that or evading the draft. has been strange and unsettling. (below) to
nearly went to the grave. “As a film-maker and someone tell the story The Taliban have asked female
Gerrit Jongsma was a After a tipoff, he ordered a raid who thinks this is an important of her great- employees at Afghanistan’s finance
convicted war criminal – a on an attic above a barber’s shop, story, I want the widest audience grandfather to a ministry to send a male relative
small-town mayor and Nazi where a Jewish couple, Esther possible,” she said. “On the other new generation to do their job a year after female
collaborator who sent at least and Benjamin Drilsma, were hand, I really don’t want to tell the public-sector workers were barred
one Jewish family to their deaths. hiding. He then ordered a hunt for story. Part of me just wants to hide “starting to disappear” and from government work.
He was also the great-grandfather their six-year-old daughter, Fien away.” Some relatives have been become less engaging for a younger
of Eline Jongsma, a Dutch writer (Adolphine), who was sequestered uneasy about the project: “There audience. “These war traumas last Women were sent home from
and director, who only discovered elsewhere. The family were briefly was definitely some fear that I a generation,” said O’Neill. “And I their jobs shortly after the Taliban
his identity a decade ago. reunited in a transit camp, but would tarnish the family,” she said. think the less that these things are took power in August 2021, and
then parted again. Esther and talked about, the more they sort of have been paid heavily reduced
Far from further hiding his Benjamin Drilsma were murdered Both directors wanted to fester and pop up in ways they’re salaries to do nothing. But several
crimes, Jongsma, with long-term at Auschwitz in 1943. Fien was uncover the story of wartime unexpected in family dynamics.” women said they had received calls
directing partner Kel O’Neill, made murdered at Sobibor soon after. collaboration, but also retell a from Taliban officials requesting
a documentary about her relative, history of the second world war for The film-makers got their chance they recommend male relatives in
released on Instagram this month. While Jongsma says she has a new generation, partly inspired via a commission to explore the their place because the “workload
gained some professional distance by their experience of living in perpetrators of war crimes from the in the office has increased and they
His Name Is My Name recounts Donald Trump’s America. memorial centres attached to three need to hire a man instead of us”.
Eline Jongsma’s efforts to trace ‘There was definitely Nazi-era camps: Falstad in Norway,
the life and crimes of her great- some fear I would “We’ve really seen populism rise Bergen-Belsen in Germany and Sima Bahous, executive director
grandfather from fragments in the tarnish the family’ very quickly there,” said Jongsma, Westerbork in the Netherlands. of UN Women, said in May:
national archives, while weaving in who lived in the US for 20 years, “Current restrictions on women’s
her own childhood memories, both Eline Jongsma while O’Neill is from Massachusetts Eline Jongsma has a personal employment have been estimated
happy and painful. Director and New York. “Those four years of connection to Westerbork, once a to result in an economic loss of up
Trump in the US were very much on Nazi transit camp that was the last to $1bn.” Zuhal Ahad
It is a documentary for the our minds as we went into this.” staging post for more than 100,000
ever-scrolling, social-media age. Dutch Jews who were put on trains Rwanda
There are 10 episodes, each a O’Neill had the sense of history and murdered in concentration
self-contained story of two or camps. She grew up near the camp African conservation
three minutes. The directors and recalls family hikes where they summit to be held
have avoided the conventions of went “foraging for mushrooms
second world war film-making, in haunted soil”, as O’Neill puts African leaders will gather in the
using animation rather than it. Now, those trips have become Rwandan capital this week to set
photography, vivid colours and an another thread woven into their out plans for the conservation of
ethereal synth soundtrack. evocative documentary. nature across Africa.

“We had a rule right out of the Greek Civil Aviation authorities The IUCN Africa Protected Areas
gate – no black and white, and no said originally the flight was head- Congress (Apac) in Kigali will
violins,” said O’Neill. ing from Serbia to Jordan, although attract close to 3,000 delegates to
Amman later confirmed it was stop- discuss the role of protected areas
At the root of the work is Gerrit ping there only to refuel. in conserving nature, promoting
Jongsma and the dark shadow sustainable development, and
he cast over his descendants. Local officials said seven fire safeguarding wildlife. The meeting,
A customs officer in Rotterdam, engines had been deployed to the led by the Rwandan president, Paul
Jongsma was a member of the crash site overnight but that they Kagame, will outline long-term
NSB, the Dutch fascist party with a could not approach because of strategies to halt and reverse the
dark fantasy of creating a Greater continuing explosions. One of the rapid loss of species and habitats in
Netherlands empire encompassing mayor’s deputies told ERT that blasts Africa’s 8,500 protected areas.
a swathe of Africa, the Dutch East were heard for two hours after the
Indies and Flanders in Belgium. crash. Kaddu Sebunya, the chief
executive of the African Wildlife
After the Nazis overran the Two firefighters were taken to hos- Foundation, said: “We must
Netherlands in May 1940, the pital yesterday with breathing issues. embrace new conservation
NSB became their most loyal strategies to shift our current
lieutenants. They were soon perspective.” Peter Muiruri Kigali
rewarded. Jongsma, known as
Gekke Gerrit (Crazy Gerrit), was Hungary
appointed mayor of the town of
Krommenie, north of Amsterdam. Fifth day of anti-Orbán
He used his position to embezzle protests over tax law

Plane carrying munitions crashes Video and witness reports sug- Thousands of people protested
in Greece killing all eight onboard gested the Antonov An-12 plane in Budapest on Saturday for a
caught fire while still in the air. Wit- fifth day against Viktor Orbán’s
Staff and agencies Stefanović, said the plane was carry- nesses said they had heard explosions government as anger deepens over
ing 11.5 tonnes of military products, as it flew over the area on Saturday tax changes that critics say will
A large cargo aircraft transporting including illuminating mortar shells night, Athens News Agency reported. hurt small businesses.
munitions from Serbia to Bangladesh and training shells, and the buyer was
has crashed and exploded in a ball of the Bangladeshi defence ministry. Greek authorities said the pilot Hungarians have taken to
flames in northern Greece, killing all had made an emergency call before the streets since the parliament
eight crew onboard. The Greek authorities said there crashing. approved a law on Tuesday that
were eight crew members onboard. will affect small business owners.
Serbia’s defence minister, Nebojša A Ukrainian foreign ministry spokes- A local man Giorgos Archonto- The protests are the first since
man said they were all Ukrainian poulos told the state broadcaster Orbán won a consecutive fourth
citizens. ERT television he had felt some- term. Thousands of people
thing was wrong as soon as he heard marched through Budapest
the aircraft’s engine. He said: “I went chanting “Orbán, get lost.”
outside and saw the engine on fire.”
“It’s crazy what the government
has done,” 37-year-old lawyer Ilona
Pusztai said. “This will not lead to
more income for the budget.”

Orbán defended the tax law
change as “good and necessary”.
AFP Budapest

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

26 World ▼ Tucker Carlson followed the path
taken by Donald Trump by speaking
‘He’d be a good president’ at Iowa’s Family Leadership Summit for Russia in its war on Ukraine as
Fox News host following in well as for Hungary’s authoritarian
Trump’s populist footsteps PHOTOGRAPH: BRIAN CAHN/ZUMA/SHUTTERSTOCK leader, Viktor Orbán. “I’m not a
Putin defender,” he said. “I don’t
David Smith another political neophyte and warm-up acts were Kim Reynolds, care one way or the other because
media celebrity, has been touted as Iowa’s governor, and Chuck he’s not my president. He doesn’t
HDes Moines e entered to a potential Trump heir who might notoriously promoted the far- Grassley, the longest-serving US preside over my country and what
rapturous applause, launch a campaign for the White right “great replacement” theory, senator in Iowa history, both of he does in Ukraine, while I think
flattered his hosts House by stoking the same flames which holds that western elites whom lauded the supreme court’s historically significant, is not more
shamelessly, told of populism. The New York Times are importing immigrant voters decision to end the constitutional significant to me than what gas
them about his has described Tucker Carlson to usurp white people. right to abortion. costs. In fact, it’s not even in the
Tonight on Fox News as “what same universe.”
political vision and may be the most racist show in the Yet while he has embraced Carlson then gave a 42-minute
history of cable news”. It is also the the liberal-taunting strains of speech that ticked some of the There was applause and Carlson
sold them merchandise bearing his most highly rated in prime time. the “make America great again” boxes of a typical would-be continued: “Cheap energy, cheap
movement, Carlson had been candidate. There was personal fossil fuels make the difference
name. Tucker Carlson’s appearance Carlson describes white careful to keep some daylight biography (“I was super unpopular between living in the Central
supremacy as a “hoax” but has between himself and Trump, in sixth grade because I had exactly African Republic and Des Moines.”
in Iowa looked like a presidential become a prominent conduit leading some to speculate that he the same views that I have now”)
for its talking points, suggesting is carving out his own lane. and swipes at the Democrats. He also bore some stylistic
run, walked like a presidential run that diversity is America’s similarities to Trump in digressive
biggest existential threat. He has “He could be a good president,” Carlson also sought to clean up remarks, sometimes with flashes
and quacked like a presidential run. said Kent Proudfit, 70, a retired past comments that could be used of sardonic humour, that were
‘I don’t care about hospital courier driver attending against him. He has been widely more evocative of a man venting in
The Fox News host was the Putin because he is Friday’s event. “He’s got the condemned for voicing support a bar late at night than a politician
not my president’ biggest cable show in America. I’d reading from a teleprompter.
keynote speaker at the Family definitely vote for him.” Carlson’s
Tucker Carlson Carlson has described poor
Leadership Summit, a gathering Speaking in Des Moines immigrants as making America
“poorer, dirtier and more divided”
of more than 1,800 religious and dismissed those protesting
over the police murder of George
conservatives in Des Moines, Iowa, Floyd in 2020 as “criminal mobs”.

which every four years is the first He has sown doubts about
coronavirus vaccines and claimed
state to have a say in picking the without evidence that the
January 6 Capitol attack was a
Republican presidential nominee. government “false flag” operation.

It was at the same forum seven All told, his Iowa trip is unlikely
to quell speculation that he could
years ago that the businessman seek the Republican nomination.

and reality TV star Donald Trump

spoke to an audience. Carlson, 53,

Monday 18 July 2022 The Guardian •

▼ Teofilo Valencia with photographs 27
of his sons Jair and Yovani, who died
in the abandoned trailer in Texas ‘Pablo wanted to save
up to buy a house
PHOTOGRAPH: FÉLIX MÁRQUEZ and start a business’

Mexico Rosa Ortega
Families Sister of trailer victim
left bereft
by trailer coyotes negotiating with US border
tragedy agents: “He said they were asking
in Texas for $3,000 [£2,500] a person to let
the truck through.”
Analy Nuño ▲ Rosa Ortega (The Last Caravan) to be played US under Donald Trump. “Pablo ▲ Emergency
holds a photo during the procession. was only going to go for three services at Trafficking is a lucrative
BGuadalajara of her younger years,” said Rosa. “He wanted to the scene in business. According to a 2019
efore he left Veracruz, brother Pablo, Despite not hearing from Pablo save up the money to buy a house San Antonio, report for the Department of
Pablo Ortega asked who died after for days, the family had not given and start a tattooing business.” Texas, where Homeland Security, in 2017 alone
his sister Rosa to do celebrating his up hope he had reached the US the abandoned smugglers made $200m and
two things: look after 20th birthday safely. When they got through to The two men had left on 29 trailer was $2.3bn by bringing people to the
his pregnant wife, on the road the men who were transporting the May. On their third attempt, they found on 27 June US from Guatemala, Honduras
and, should anything migrants, they said Pablo could not managed to cross the Río Bravo and El Salvador. In a national risk
happen on his way to the US, make PHOTOGRAPH: talk for “security reasons”. Then (the Rio Grande in the US) in a small PHOTOGRAPH: assessment of money laundering
sure his body was brought home FÉLIX MÁRQUEZ they stopped answering. boat and meet the “coyotes”, or KAYLEE GREENLEE this year, the US Treasury said
and carried through the streets of people smugglers. The following BEAL/REUTERS “corrupt government officials also
Tlapacoyan, where he grew up. Last Pablo turned 20 on his journey seven days were spent in a safe enable human traffickers”.
week, Rosa had to fulfil both duties. north, and celebrated with bread house in Laredo, Texas. Pablo rang
and mayonnaise. Both he and his his sister to tell her he’d heard the Not far from Tlapacoyan lies
At 6.20pm on 27 June, an uncle had been deported from the the small city of Naolinco, where
abandoned trailer was discovered for more than two weeks candles
on a remote back road in San have burned and prayers have been
Antonio, Texas. Inside were the said for the eternal rest of Misael,
bodies of dozens of people who had 16, Jair, 19, and Yovani, 16. The
died as they tried to migrate from three – all shoemakers and football
Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador fans – left Naolinco on 21 June for
and Honduras. Among them was Austin, Texas. Two weeks earlier,
Pablo, 20, whose body was found they had contacted a coyote, paid
alongside that of his 43-year-old $8,200, and promised each other
uncle, Jesús Álvarez. they would come back to Veracruz
together in four years. In the end,
In total, 53 people died and they came back far earlier.
more than a dozen were taken to
hospital, including four children. Their grandfather, Balbino
Four people have been charged. Olivares, torments himself with
The disaster is believed to be thoughts of his grandsons’ final
the deadliest people-smuggling moments: of the heat in the trailer,
episode on the US-Mexico border. the thirst, the lack of air.

“I told him to stick close to the On Thursday, 17 days after
doors so he didn’t get crushed,” their bodies were found in
said Rosa as she began to prepare another country, Pablo, Jesús,
for the funeral. Pablo had asked for Misael, Jair and Yovani came
a song called La Última Caravana home. A motorcycle procession
accompanied Pablo’s coffin
through Tlapacoyan and a band
played La Última Caravana. Rosa
bought her brother a cake to make
up for the bread and mayonnaise.
In Naolinco, three footballs were
placed alongside the coffins of
Misael, Jair and Yovani.

“These are the worst days of
my life,” said Yolanda Olivares,
the mother of Jair and Yovani.
“They had their dreams. The last
thing I said to them was that I
wanted them to be OK.”

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022
28

Video game loot
boxes will not be
banned, despite
link to gambling

Rob Davies having more limited parental over- Cleaner ways to fly to be GKN Aerospace, owned by FTSE
sight of their play and spending,” highlighted at the return 100 buyout investor Melrose, said its
Loot boxes in video games will not be the government said, in a response of Farnborough airshow Fokker business in the Netherlands
banned in the UK, despite a govern- to the consultation published yes- would be part of a €112m investment
ment consultation finding evidence terday morning. Jasper Jolly pandemic, as the aviation industry plan to work on high-voltage, high-
of a “consistent” association between faced potential collapse. power wiring needed to run fully
the features and problem gambling. The government also concluded Low-emission air travel and a poten- electric engines.
that while there was “a stable and tial deal for Japan to help build the Analysts expect hundreds of
Loot boxes have attracted com- consistent” association between loot UK’s next-generation Tempest orders for new Airbus and Boeing Brazil’s Embraer, a manufacturer
parison with gambling because they boxes and problem gambling – iden- fighter jet are set to take centre stage planes during the show as airline of smaller passenger jets for regional
allow players to spend money to tified across 15 peer reviewed studies at the annual Farnborough airshow passenger numbers bounce back, travel, yesterday announced a deal
unlock in-game rewards, such as spe- – it could not be sure that there was a this week. but manufacturers have emphasised with Raizen, a Brazilian energy
cial characters, weapons or outfits, causative link. efforts to reduce planes’ environmen- company, to scale up production of
without knowing what they will get. Executives from global aerospace tal impact, even though they expect sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) – ker-
“Our view is that it would be pre- manufacturers and airlines will a resurgence in sales of commercial osene made from non-fossil sources.
The features, popular in games mature to take legislative action gather at the airport in Hampshire jets using fossil fuels. The aviation industry is betting heav-
such as Call of Duty and the Fifa foot- without first pursuing enhanced after a four-year gap. The show, which ily on SAF to deliver net-zero flight
ball series, were effectively banned industry-led measures to deliver begins today, normally happens Rolls-Royce, the FTSE 100 jet for larger jets, although supply is still
in Belgium in 2018, but the culture protections for children and young every two years but was cancelled engine maker, said it planned to test meagre.
minister, Nadine Dorries, said the UK people and all players,” it said. in 2020 because of the coronavirus engines fuelled by hydrogen “to prove
would not follow suit. the fuel can safely and efficiently On the military side, FTSE 100
Another factor in the decision is deliver power for small to mid-size weapons maker BAE Systems will
Instead, after a 22-month consulta- that loot box rewards cannot legiti- aircraft from the mid-2030s”. today give an update on the Tem-
tion, she said the government would mately be exchanged for real money, pest fighter jet, which could include
discuss tougher “industry-led” pro- so players cannot in theory “cash an announcement that Japan will join
tections with the UK’s £7bn gaming out” as they might when gambling. the project as a partner, Reuters first
sector, drawing allegations from one reported.
expert that “foxes are guarding the However, the Gambling Com-
hen house”. mission has previously warned that BAE is running Tempest jointly
third-party sites are allowing people with Italy’s Leonardo and Sweden’s
Legislating to impose curbs or a to exchange rewards for real money.
prohibition on loot boxes as part of an
expected overhaul of the UK’s gam- While the Department for Digital,
bling laws could have “unintended Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
consequences”, Dorries said. stopped short of proposing legis-
lation, Dorries said: “Children and
“For example, legislation to intro- young people should not be able to
duce an outright ban on children purchase loot boxes without paren-
purchasing loot boxes could have tal approval. In addition, all players
the unintended effect of more chil- should have access to spending con-
dren using adult accounts, and thus trols and transparent information to
support their gaming.”
‘An outright ban on
children purchasing Ministers are expected to pursue
loot boxes could have tougher curbs through talks with the
the effect of children UK video games industry. This will be
using adult accounts’ done with a working group, which is
scheduled to deliver its first update in
Nadine Dorries the first three months of 2023.
Culture minister
“We expect games companies and
platforms to improve protections for
children, young people and adults,
and for tangible results to begin to
be seen in the near future,” the DCMS
said. “If that does not happen, we will
not hesitate to consider legislative
options, if we deem it necessary to
protect children, young people and
adults.”

Dr David Zendle, a video games
expert at University of York, criticised
the decision, saying: “Prior select
committee inquiries have unambig-
uously shown that certain bad actors
within the video game industry can-
not be trusted to self-regulate when
it comes to player protection.

“By making those same industry
bodies the ones that are responsible
for regulating loot boxes, DCMS is
essentially guaranteeing that foxes
are the ones guarding the hen house.”

Monday 18 July 2022 The Guardian •

Next apology 29
Clothes firm sorry
as staff underpaid
Page 30

Analysis 20th century such as cars, air travel
Larry Elliott and radio. For some time, there
has been talk of a fourth industrial

revolution based on breakthroughs

A 2020s rerun of the in genomics, artificial intelligence,
robotics, 3D printing and green
energy – but the wait goes on for
the boost these are supposed to

roaring 20s still looks give a struggling global economy.
Perhaps history will repeat

itself with a full flowering of the
new range of technologies. But

like wishful thinking for that to happen, more should
be done to hasten a transition that
was delayed in the first half of the
20th century by two world wars

and a Great Depression.

Optimism abounded as with 2019’s boosterism exposed for There are four things that
2019 drew to a close. wishful thinking. This seems to be would help. The first is a stable but
If the 2010s had been the era of permanent, rolling crises, expansionary economic backdrop
a lost decade of weak with the pandemic followed by in which policymakers get the
growth and stagnating inflation and war. Next up, unless right mix of low inflation and
living standards then our luck changes, is recession. strong employment growth. As the
travails of the US Federal Reserve
and other major central banks

the years to come were going to be For those who think the 2020s show, this is not easy.

much better. The talk was of a new could still deliver, though, there are A benign macroeconomic

roaring 20s, a repeat of the decade reasons for hope. The 1920s also environment is only the start. More

that followed the first world war. got off to a dismal start. There was investment is needed in fourth

There were even Great Gatsby- a pandemic of Spanish flu. There industrial revolution technologies

themed fancy dress parties to was a civil war (and foreign military to deliver them on the necessary

celebrate the good times to come. intervention) in the Soviet Union. scale, particularly zero carbon

All of that now looks wildly The five years after the first world innovations. If the private sector

premature. So far, the 2020s have war were marked by economic will not provide it, governments

been anything but roaring. The turbulence culminating in German must be prepared to step in.

coronavirus pandemic is far from hyperinflation of 1923. The second Tackling inequality is the third

over and its impact continues to half of the 1920s was a lot calmer step. It was only when workers

ripple through the global economy. than the first half – at least until the had jobs and spending power in

In China draconian lockdowns Wall Street crash in late 1929. the years after 1945 that the full

have been used in an attempt to The possibility of a new benefits of technological advances

eliminate Covid-19. As a result, the industrial revolution is another were harvested, and the same

economy has pretty much ground reason for hope. Economic applies now. A rebalancing of

to a halt (if last week’s official recovery in the interwar years was the relationship between capital

figures are to be believed) and based on the spread of technologies and labour is long overdue, as is a

contracted (if they are not). developed in the late 19th and early rethink of tax systems. The huge

News from the other two big gains made by those with assets

engines of the global economy is no Tackling inequality is a as a result of low interest rates and
better. The annual inflation rate in quantitative easing has made the

the US is at a 40-year high of 9.1%, key step. A rebalancing case for wealth taxes compelling.
prompting concern on Wall Street of the relationship Finally, there needs to be greater
that the country’s central bank will
international cooperation. Poor

adopt a more aggressive approach between capital and countries will only be part of the
to interest rates. labour is long overdue, fight against the climate change
if there is a global redistribution,
Fears of recession are even more

pronounced in Europe, which as is a rethink of tax starting with debt relief.
has a war on its eastern flank, This all looks some way off – but

▲ A model of the Tempest fighter jet, world transitions to cleaner forms the prospect of energy shortages so does a rerun of the roaring 20s.
which was first announced at the of flight”. The government today
last Farnborough airshow in 2018 announced that it had earmarked this winter and political upheaval The assumption that it is only a
£273m in public and industry fund-
PHOTOGRAPH: PETER NICHOLLS/REUTERS ing for aerospace projects ranging in Italy with which to contend. question of time before the golden
from more efficient wings to drones.
Saab. It was first announced at the It was not a major surprise to see years return is delusional.
last Farnborough airshow in 2018 – The funding is part of the previ-
after France and Germany snubbed ously announced backing for the the euro fall below parity against
the UK. Aerospace Technology Institute, a
joint-funded partnership between the US dollar for the first time in
Japan is currently developing its the government and industry.
own F-X fighter jet, led by Mitsubi- two decades last week.
shi Heavy Industries, but its defence The government will also publish
ministry has stated it may be open to a “drone ambition statement” set- Nor are the problems confined
collaboration. ting out its aims for the sector and
how it will change regulations, allow- to leading economies. Sri Lanka
Adding another partner coun- ing drones connected to 5G mobile
try could spread development costs networks, and “improving public – through the pandemic, war in
slated to hit £25bn, according to Justin communications to underline the
Bronk, an analyst at the Royal United potential benefits of commercial Ukraine and gross mismanagement
Services Institute thinktank. The UK drones”.
government last week announced a – is on the brink of collapse and it
radar upgrade worth £2.4bn for its The projects jointly funded by
predecessor, the Typhoon. the government will include plans would be brave to assume others
to use drones to deliver medical sup-
Kwasi Kwarteng, the business sec- plies to the remote Isles of Scilly and will not follow. The International
retary, said the return of the airshow parts of Scotland, as well as using the
illustrated the recovery of the sector, unmanned craft to inspect infrastruc- Monetary Fund and the World
as he pointed to “enormous oppor- ture such as motorways and ports.
tunities for growth that exist as the Bank are aware of the risks of debt

and hunger crises.

Meanwhile, the threat posed

by global heating remains. There

has been talk about how building

back better from the pandemic also

means building back greener, but

the rhetoric is not usually matched

by action – and the clock is ticking.

So, from the perspective of

mid-2022 the idea of a new roaring

20s seems somewhat far-fetched, ▲ An early return to ‘the good times’ looks unlikely PHOTOGRAPH: LORDPRICE/ALAMY

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

30 Financial

Pro-Brexit Lisa O’Carroll 27-nation bloc. Northern Ireland, from 56% to 58%, the east Midlands becoming more, not less, dependent
regions more Brexit correspondent which voted against Brexit but has was up from 48% to 51% and the east on it as a market,” she said.
dependent access to the single market courtesy of England rose from 46% to 48%.
on EU for Brexit-supporting regions in the UK of the Northern Ireland protocol, is The trade body has called on the
their exports are becoming increasingly depend- most heavily reliant on the EU, with Wales is second most reliant on government to recognise the impor-
ent on the EU for their manufacturing 63% of all exports going across the the EU for exports of goods overall, tance of European markets and to
exports, research has found. border to the Republic of Ireland and followed by north-east England and re-establish the Brexit support fund
the continent. Yorkshire and Humber. for small and medium-sized busi-
The report by the trade body Make nesses, alongside other targeted
UK also found the EU remains the Some of the UK regions that “Despite the talk of global Brit- schemes to help manufactur-
“overwhelmingly dominant” desti- voted for Brexit registered the big- ain, history shows that geography ers respond to post-Brexit barriers
nation for UK manufacturing exports. gest increases in the share of their is always the main determinant of including customs, export certifica-
manufacturing exports to the EU. trade,” said Verity Davidge, the direc- tion and standards compliance.
Analysis of 2021 data by the busi- For Wales, the figure increased from tor of policy at Make UK.
ness advisory firm BDO shows that 58% to 60% between 2020 and 2021, It has also urged the government
49% of British exports go to the north-east England reported a rise “The EU was always going to to come to an agreement with the EU
remain the main destination for over the Northern Ireland protocol.
manufacturers who appear to [be]

Nutmeg is your ▲ Next outsourced payroll functions to the US firm Oracle PHOTOGRAPH: REUTERS
map for investing.
Let our Next apologises to staff
wealth managers after IT problems cause
be your guide. months of underpaying

Whatever your financial goals Jasper Jolly has admitted that some workers lost
may be, our experienced team out on as much as £500. Its external
will guide you on your journey. The retailer Next has apologised to payroll provider made nearly 11,000
Capital at risk. staff for months of salary under- errors in recent months, affecting the
Book a free call today payment, which was caused by the wages of 5,500 staff.
nutmeg.com/book botched implementation of a new
computer system. Next declined to say how many of
a its 43,000 workers were affected, but
The FTSE 100 company has been a spokesperson said the number had
working for months to stem issues declined from the peak. They said:
caused by a decision to outsource “We expect to continue to make sig-
its payroll functions to the US tech- nificant progress in the weeks ahead.”
nology company Oracle. The first
problems emerged in February. Employees have been underpaid
by as much as £200 a month, while
The problems have deprived some some have been forced to rely on food
Next staff of pay during the cost of liv- banks or hand back holiday days to
ing crisis amid rapid consumer price make ends meet, according to the
inflation. Sunday Times, which first reported
the problems.
The retailer pays some store staff
£9.36 an hour, below the Living Wage Next usually designs its own soft-
Foundation’s recommended £9.90 an ware, but has struggled to make
hour rate outside London and £11.05 Oracle’s software work with its own.
inside the capital. Next is run by the
Conservative peer Simon Wolfson. In some cases staff also had pen-
As chief executive, Lord Wolfson will sion contributions deducted from
receive £4.4m in pay this year, the their pay that were then not invested
highest level since 2015, after inves- in pension funds. Next said it would
tors backed a 50% pay rise in May. make sure that those problems were
rectified and any losses made good.
The Church of England’s pension
board has criticised “major increases “Over the last few months we have
in executive pay in consumer-facing experienced a number of issues with
companies such as Next where the our new payroll system and have
workforce are not accredited as being been tackling them as a matter of
on a living wage”. urgency,” the spokesperson said.
“We have learnt some important les-
It is not the first time this year that sons about integrating our in-house
payroll issues have affected a large applications with third-party plat-
UK employer. Asda, the supermarket forms. We are acutely aware of the
chain owned by the petrol station bil- problems these payroll errors have
lionaires Mohsin and Zuber Issa and caused. We sincerely apologise to all
the private equity fund TDR Capital, those affected and assure them that
we are resolving these problems as
a priority.”

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Weather
Monday 18 July 2022

UK and Ireland Noon today Forecast Around the UK

Sunny Mist Fog Low 22 High 36 London Precipitation Air pollution
Moderate
Sunny intervals Hazy Tomorrow Lows and highs Moderate
Mostly cloudy
Overcast/dull 1012 14 25 37 0% Low
Manchester Low
Sunny showers
10 Inverness Shetland 23 35 0% Moderate
Sunny and heavy showers 27 Edinburgh Low
Slight 7
Light showers 22 Moderate
1016 Edinburgh 17 30 0% Moderate
Rain Sleet Light Glasgow Belfast 0% Moderate
snow 9 Low 18 High 20 Low
Newcastle 18 28
Snow showers Wednesday Birmingham

Heavy snow Ice 25 22 35 0%
Brighton
Thundery rain Belfast 27 York Slight
Norwich
Thundery showers 29 Dublin Liverpool 35 21 30 0%
X Bristol 0%
0%
Temperature, 35C Nottingham 35 Carbon 22 33 0%
ºC 30 Birmingham count Cardiff 0%
25
Wind speed, Windy 20 30 37 Daily atmospheric CO2 22 32
mph 15 32 readings from Mauna Loa, Newcastle
10 London Hawaii (ppm):
5 The Channel Islands Dover
0 Cardiff Latest
-5 7
-10 37 16 Jul 2022 418.29
-15
-20 Weekly average

10 Jul 2022 419.08 19 30
Penzance
30 Plymouth 17 Jul 2021 417.25

17 Jul 2012 394.59

1020 Slight Pre-industrial base 280

Safe level 350 19 26

Source: NOAA-ESRL

Atlantic front L Starwatch Around the world

1008 1016

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Algiers 32 Lisbon 25
L Mars Pisces Aquarius Ams’dam 31 Madrid 40
Athens 33 Malaga 31
1008 Jupiter Auckland 15 Melb’rne 11
B Aires 14 Mexico C 22
Moon Bangkok 34 Miami 32
Barcelona 29 Milan 33
L Basra 50 Mombasa 27
Beijing 34 Moscow 21
Menkar Cetus Berlin 27 Mumbai 28
Bermuda 28 N Orleans 32
1024 1024 H 1000 Diphda Brussels 33 Nairobi 20
Fomalhaut Budapest 28 New Delhi 36
H C’hagen 22 New York 27
Cold front L S Cairo 37 Oslo 21
Warm front 1008 Cape Town 16 Paris 38
Occluded front 1016 Last week the moon experienced a Chicago 30 Perth 18
Trough supermoon, and then a conjunction Corfu 34 Prague 26
Source: © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Times are local UK times Sun & Lighting with the planet Saturn. This week, Dakar 30 Reykjavik 13
High tides Moon up the moon continues to wane and Dhaka 33 Rio de J 25
cruises past Jupiter. Dublin 29 Rome 32
Aberdeen 0519 4.3m 1811 4.0m London Bridge 0603 7.2m 1820 6.9m Belfast 2149 to 0514 Florence 36 Shanghai 32
Avonmouth 1133 12.7m 2352 12.7m 4.1m 1630 3.8m The chart shows the view Gibraltar 27 Singapore 32
Barrow 0323 1555 Lossiemouth 0342 6.5m 2254 6.7m Birm’ham 2119 to 0508 looking south-east from London in H Kong 33 Stockh’m 20
Belfast 0307 9.3m 1548 8.7m 6.6m 2148 6.8m the early hours of 19 July, at about Harare 18 Strasb’g 33
Cobh 0945 3.7m 2209 3.2m Milford Haven 1032 5.1m 2016 4.7m Brighton 2105 to 0509 4am. The moon will be just below Helsinki 19 Sydney 15
Cromer 1029 3.8m 2331 3.9m 3.4m 2219 3.7m the bright point of Jupiter. It will Istanbul 28 Tel Aviv 31
Dover 0309 5.1m 1525 4.6m Newquay 0926 5.1m 2117 5.3m Bristol 2118 to 0517 be a waning gibbous moon with Jo’burg 17 Tenerife 25
Dublin 0325 6.4m 1615 6.7m 5.1m 2227 5.3m about 65% of its visible surface K Lumpur 32 Tokyo 30
Galway 0932 4.2m 2147 3.7m North Shields 0726 4.6m 1631 4.7m Carlisle 2137 to 0459 illuminated, rapidly approaching K’mandu 28 Toronto 27
Greenock 0421 4.8m 1706 5.0m 9.1m 1455 8.4m the “half-moon” phase known as Kabul 33 Vancouv’r 21
Harwich 0350 3.6m 1604 3.1m Oban 0952 4.2m 2335 4.6m Cork 2143 to 0538 last quarter. Both the moon and Kingston 33 Vienna 28
Holyhead 0215 4.1m 1452 4.0m 1.1m 2239 1.2m Jupiter are bright enough to be seen Kolkata 32 Warsaw 21
Hull 1018 5.7m 2307 5.1m Penzance 0855 5.6m 2048 5.2m Sun rises 0504 Dublin 2142 to 0521 in the pre-dawn twilight sky. L Angeles 28 Wash’ton 30
Leith 0640 7.7m 1920 6.9m 3.5m 1600 3.1m Sun sets 2108 Lagos 28 Well’ton 15
Liverpool 0305 5.6m 1535 5.3m Plymouth 1019 8.4m 1556 7.7m Moon rises 2346 Glasgow 2149 to 0500 Those that tracked the moon Lima 17 Zurich 31
9.4m 8.7m Moon sets 1059 last week will be gaining a sense of
Portsmouth 0321 Last Quarter 20 July Harlech 2131 to 0515 the way it moves. After full moon,
which rises at sunset, it rises later
Southport 0225 Inverness 2159 to 0447 and later. After last quarter, it
becomes a morning object, moving
Stornoway 1124 London 2108 to 0505 closer to the sun in preparation for
new moon, when it will disappear
Weymouth 1027 M’chester 2126 to 0505 before being reborn in the evening
sky. Stuart Clark @DrStuClark
Whitby 0802 Newcastle 2133 to 0454

Wick 0313 Forecasts and Norwich 2108 to 0455
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• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

32 Athletics Football

Kerley completes Netherlands and
rags to riches story Sweden reach
by winning 100m quarter-finals

Page 38 Pages 34-35

to their style, buildup play, ability to receive the ball

under pressure and how they can dribble through in

central areas but they are lacking something in the

opposition area. England are yet to concede a goal in

the Euros and have rarely looked like doing so since

Wiegman took over as head coach, making the prospect

even more daunting for Spain’s attackers.

Putellas’s Barcelona teammates Mariona Caldentey

and Aitana Bonmatí are two of the players putting

in the extra yards to try to make up for her absence.

Caldentey is best when cutting in from the left and

has shown she is good at drifting into any space left

between the full-back and central defender. She would

have two goals to her name in the tournament already

Aif it was not for a couple of world-class saves.
part from the penalty against
Finland, which was won by a wide
player, all of Spain’s goals have come
from crosses, whether set pieces
or from open play. It is surprising
because their style is similar to
that of Barcelona in how they like

to control possession and open

teams up. The tournament overall has more headed

goals than ever before, so it is a common theme. Spain

are dangerous in wide areas and have the players to

provide the delivery demanded by those in the area.

With the amount of possession they have they try to

stretch the opposition and work their way through. I

remember the Barcelona men’s coach, Xavi Hernández,

discussing the importance of the third player run and

this team have a lot of that, whether it is Bonmatí or

Caldentay, they all try to play that role by spotting the

gaps in defence. England, despite being very good

defensively, will need to be wary of what is happening

on the flanks. Stopping as many crosses as possible is

the best way to go about it.

Spain are susceptible to a ball over the top because

▲ England’s Beth they are not the quickest side on the turn. They are so
Mead (left) and Alessia
Russo in the 8-0 win good in possession that they want to get high up the
over Norway at the
Amex Stadium, the pitch which means they can be caught out at the back.
venue on Wednesday
María Pilar León had problems against Denmark and
DAMIEN MEYER/AFP/GETTY
Pernille Harder, but as a team the Scandinavians did
England’s momentum is growing and
they will not be worried about facing not have the numbers to catch up with the Chelsea
Spain in the Euro 2022 quarter-finals
on Wednesday. They have played player, whereas England have Lauren Hemp and Beth
them before and know what it takes
to get the better of one of the best Mead on the flanks to exploit space.
sides in Europe. At Euro 2017 I was
Different challenge in the England squad that beat Spain Finland scored early thanks to a
Lionesses must 2-0 despite having only 22% possession during the
be at their best match. England will be happy to let Spain have the England ball over the top which turned the
without the ball ball as long as they themselves are organised and are yet to defence and Spain were not quick
against Spain disciplined, which they have shown to be thus far. enough to get back. Irene Paredes
Sarina Wiegman’s side have dominated possession in concede a was lucky not to be dismissed against
Karen Carney the group stage but they might need to be at their best Germany after being outpaced by
without the ball on Wednesday. England will play top goal in the Alexandra Popp, pulling her down to
nations in the latter part of the tournament and will be Euros and stop her going through one-on-one.
embracing the challenge.
have rarely England will be mindful of this and
Spain are without Alexia Putellas and any team looked Keira Walsh has the passing range
would miss a player of her quality. You do not win the to send balls into the right areas for
Ballon d’Or for nothing. The tournament is the lesser
for her absence after she was sidelined with an ACL like doing forwards to chase.
injury just before the first game. She scored 11 goals in so since The further good news for England
the Champions League and another 18 in the domestic
league for Barcelona last season. She is the person is that they are scoring all types of
who can make a difference in a major tournament. The
experienced forward Jennifer Hermoso is also out, Wiegman goals: from long range to tap-ins and
leaving gaps to be filled in the spine of the team. took over are not reliant on one scorer. They
have the competition’s top scorer in
Spain hit four against Finland but struggled in front
of goal in the loss to Germany and only scored late on Mead with five goals in three games
against Denmark with the opponents chasing the game
in their final group match. They are not as clinical as and Alessia Russo is the joint second-highest scorer –
they would like given their possession stats; they are
the best team between the two 18-yard boxes thanks and she has had to make do with coming off the bench

in the group stages. It shows that even if England are

struggling to find a goal, they have options onthe

bench. There is no reason to think about changing

things; Ellen White is doing a great job starting and

Russo is the perfect impact player and that is a great

role to have, especially as a young striker.

The players will be very pleased to go back to

Brighton after defeating Norway 8-0 there. It is a

fantastic new stadium where the fans are close to the

pitch, creating an intimidating atmosphere. They

have a built-in iPad system for music, which is good

news for the dressing room DJs, and it really does help

the players a lot pre-match. Let’s hope they will be

rocking it after the match, too.

Monday 18 July 2022 The Guardian •

Sport 33

The Hot wheels
week Toyota’s Kalle
ahead Rovanpera on the
way to winning
British 200m champion in Estonia for the
Daryll Neita is competing in the second year in a
World Championships in Eugene row to take another
big step towards
Today Cricket Group H Dundee v Forfar; Hamilton v becoming rallying’s
Second Twenty20 International Queen’s Park youngest world
Football Ireland v New Zealand, Belfast (4pm) Breedon Highland League champion. The
Uefa Women’s European BT Sport 1 Banks ODee v Nairn County; Brechin v 21-year-old Finn
Championship LV= Insurance County Rothes; Buckie Thistle v Wick beat the Welshman
Group D Iceland v France (8pm) BBC Championship (first day of four) Academy; Clachnacuddin v Inverurie Elfyn Evans into
Two/BBC iPlayer; Italy v Belgium Leicestershire v Glamorgan, Grace Loco Works; Fraserburgh v second and has
(8pm) BBC Four/BBC iPlayer Road (11am) Deveronvale; Keith v Brora; won five of the past
Lossiemouth v Formartine United; six rallies – with
Rugby league Racing Strathspey Thistle v Forres Estonia the seventh
Betfred Championship Bath, Catterick, Leicester, Lingfield, Mechanics; Turriff United v Huntly of a scheduled
York v Batley (7.45pm) PS1 Sandown Scottish Lowland League 13 events.
Bo’ness Utd v Cumbernauld Colts;
Cricket Thursday Broomhill FC v Spartans; Caledonian NIKOS KATIKIS/DPPI/
First Twenty20 International Braves v Gala Fairydean; Celtic B v SHUTTERSTOCK
Ireland v New Zealand, Belfast (4pm) Football Cowdenbeath; Dalbeattie Star v
BT Sport 1 Uefa Women’s European Edinburgh Univ; Gretna 2008 v Results L Lewthwaite (SA) 71 73 73 73; J Turner 74 74 71 71. BETFRED LEAGUE 1
Third Women’s One-Day Championship Stirling University; Hearts B v 291 K Napoleaova (Cz) 73 75 70 73.
International Quarter-final Germany v Austria Berwick; Rangers B v Civil Service P W D L F A PD Pts
England v South Africa, Grace Road (8pm) BBC One/BBC iPlayer Strollers; Tranent v East Kilbride
(2pm) SSC/SSME Athletics Keighley 13 13 0 0 647 90 +557 26
Rugby league Rugby league
Athletics Betfred Super League Betfred Super League North Wales 14 11 0 3 551 254 +297 22
World Championships Leeds v Wigan (8pm) SSA Catalans v Huddersfield (6pm);
Eugene, Oregon (to Sun) Betfred Women’s Super League Toulouse v Salford (7pm) WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (Eugene) Swinton 13 10 0 3 510 223 +287 20
Group 1 Leeds v Wigan (5.30pm) Sky Betfred Championship
Cycling Sports Arena Newcastle v Dewsbury (5pm) Men: Hammer: Final: 1 P Fajdek (Pol) 81.98m, 2 W Nowicki Rochdale 13 10 0 3 514 316 +198 20
Tour de France Betfred League One (Pol) 81.03, 3 E Henriksen (Nor) 80.87, 4 Q Bigot (Fr)
(to Sun) Eurosport 1/ITV4 Cricket Cornwall v Swinton (2pm); North 80.24, 5 B Halasz (Hun) 80.15, 6 R Winkler (US) 78.99, Doncaster 14 10 0 4 460 300 +160 20
Fourth Women’s Twenty20 Wales v Hunslet (5.30pm); West 7 M Kokhan (Ukr) 78.83, 8 D Haugh (US) 78.10,
Darts International Wales v Oldham (3pm) 9 C Frantzeskakis (Gre) 77.04, 10 H Mansilla (Chi) 73.91, Hunslet 14 8 1 5 419 304 +115 17
World Matchplay Ireland v Australia, Bready 11 N Miller (GB) 73.74, 12 A Young (US) 73.60.
Winter Gardens, Blackpool (to Sun) First Women’s Twenty20 Cricket (10.30am unless stated) Oldham 13 3 1 9 348 390 -42 7
Sky Sports Action International Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Women: 10,000m: 1 L Gidey (Eth) 30min 09.94sec,
Racing England v South Africa, Chelmsford Northern Diamonds v Lightning, Football 2 H Onsando Obiri (Ken) 30:10.02, 3 M Kipkemboi (Ken) Midlands 13 3 0 10 350 481 -131 6
Ayr, Beverley, Cartmel, Windsor (7pm) SSC/SSME Riverside; Southern Vipers v 30:10.07, 4 S Hassan (Neth) 30:10.56, 5 R Daniel (Eri)
Sunrisers, Ageas Bowl; Thunder v 30:12.15, 6 E Taye (Eth) 30:12.45, 7 C Chepkoech Kipkirui London 13 3 0 10 246 559 -313 6
Tomorrow Golf Central Sparks, Old Trafford (2pm); (Kaz) 30:17.64, 8 B Mulatie (Eth) 30:17.77,
PGA 3M Open Western Storm v South East Stars, UEFA WOMEN’S EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP 9 K Schweizer (US) 30:18.05, 10 E McColgan (GB) Cornwall 14 1 0 13 196 630 -434 2
Football (7.45pm unless stated) Blaine, Minnesota (to Sun) SSG Cheltenham A: Group four (Table on page 34) 30:34.60, 11 J Judd (GB) 30:35.93.
Uefa Champions League Qualifying DP World Cazoo Classic Second Women’s Twenty20 West Wales 14 1 0 13 102 796 -694 2
Second qualifying round: First Leg Southport (to Sun) Sky Sports Golf International
Midtjylland v AEK Larnaca (6.45pm) Women’s Evian Championship England v South Africa, New Road Sweden (3) 5 Portugal (0) 0 Keighley 68 Cornwall; Hunslet 43 London 16;
Premier Sports Scottish League Cup Évian-les-Bains, France (to Sun) Sky (2.30pm) Sky Sports Cricket Angeldahl 21 45 Oldham 12 Doncaster 64; Swinton 54 Midlands 22
Group A Dumbarton v Raith; Stirling Sports Golf/Sky Sports Main Event Fifth Women’s Twenty20 Da Silva Costa 45og
v Aberdeen International Asllani 54pen BETFRED WOMEN’S SUPER LEAGUE
Group B Montrose v Stenhousemuir; Racing Australia v Pakistan, Bready (4pm) Blackstenius 90
Partick v Fraserburgh Doncaster, Great Yarmouth, Group one P WD LF A PD Pts
Group C Alloa v Ross County; East Newbury, Sandown, Worcester Formula One Switzerland (0) 1 Netherlands (0) 4 Cycling 5 50 0 183 22 +161 10
Fife v Buckie Thistle French Grand Prix Qualifying Reuteler 53 Crnogorcevic 49og York 4 30 1 138 58 +80 6
Group E Airdrieonians v St Mirren Friday Le Castellet Sky Sports F1 Leuchter 84 90 TOUR DE FRANCE Leeds 4 20 2 130 33 +97 4
Group F Annan Athletic v Ayr; Elgin v 22,596 Pelova 89 St Helens 4 10 3 42 156 -114 2
St Johnstone Football (7.45pm unless stated) Racing Stage 15 (Rodez-Carcassonne, 202.5km): 1 J Philipsen Wigan 5 00 5 28 252 -224 0
Group G Cove Rangers v Kelty Uefa Women’s European Ascot, Lingfield, Newcastle, (Bel) Alpecin-Deceuninck 4hr 27min 27sec; 2 W van Aert Huddersfield
Hearts; Inverness CT v Albion Championship Newmarket, Salisbury, York (Bel) Jumbo-Visma; 3 M Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo;
Group H Forfar v Stranraer; Queen’s Quarter-final Winner Group C v 4 P Sagan (Svk) TotalEnergies; 5 D van Poppel (Neth) York 50 Huddersfield 0
Park v Dundee Runner-up Group D (8pm) BBC TBC/ Sunday BORA-hansgrohe; 6 D Groenewegen (Neth) Team
BBC iPlayer PREMIER SPORTS SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP BikeExchange-Jayco; 7 F Senechal (Fr) Quick-Step Alpha Group two P WD L F A PD Pts
Cricket (11am unless stated) Football (3pm unless stated) Vinyl Team; 8 L Mozzato (It) B&B Hotels-KTM; 9 A Pasqualon 5 50 0 292 6 +286 10
First One-Day International Rugby league Premier Sports Scottish League Cup Group D Bonnyrigg Rose 1 Hibernian 4 (It) Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert; 10 F Wright (GB) B bv Warrington 6 50 1 176 74 +102 10
England v South Africa, Riverside Betfred Super League Group A Aberdeen v Raith PS1 ahrain Victorious all at same time. Barrow 6 40 2 184 80 +104 8
(1pm) SSC/SSME Warrington v Hull KR (8pm) Golf Featherstone 7 40 3 154 136 +18 8
LV= Insurance County Rugby league (3pm unless stated) Selected Others: 22 T Pidcock (GB) INEOS Grenadiers; Bradford 7 20 5 66 198 -132 4
Championship (first day of four) Cricket Betfred Super League THE OPEN (St Andrews) 32 G Thomas (GB) INEOS Grenadiers; 34 A Yates (GB) INEOS Leigh 5 00 5 36 210 -176 0
Division One Gloucestershire v Second One-Day International Hull FC v Castleford; Wakefield v St Grenadiers; 40 C Froome (GB) Israel-Premier Tech all at Castleford 6 10 5 46 250 -204 2
Hampshire, Cheltenham; England v South Africa, Old Trafford Helens Final scores (GB/Ire unless stated, par 72, (a) denotes same time; 60 C Swift (GB) Arkea-Samsic +24s; Wakefield
Northamptonshire v Lancashire, (1pm) SSC/SSME Betfred Championship amateurs): 268 C Smith (Aus) 67 64 73 64. 269 C Young 87 L Rowe (GB) INEOS Grenadiers +2m 20s;
Northampton; Somerset v Yorkshire, Third Twenty20 International Barrow v Bradford; Batley v Widnes; (US) 64 69 71 65. 270 R McIlroy 66 68 66 70. 146 O Doull (GB) EF Education-EasyPost +20:24. Castleford 16 Bradford 48; Leigh 12 Featherstone 10;
Taunton; Surrey v Essex, The Oval; Ireland v New Zealand, Belfast (4pm) Featherstone v York; London v 274 T Fleetwood 72 69 66 67; V Hovland (Nor) 68 66 66 Wakefield 4 Barrow 50
Warwickshire v Kent, Edgbaston BT Sport 3 Halifax; Sheffield v Workington 74. 275 B Harman (US) 73 68 68 66; D Johnson (US) 68 67 Overall standings: 1 J Vingegaard (Den) Jumbo-Visma
Division Two Derbyshire v Betfred League One 71 69. 276 P Cantlay (US) 70 67 71 68; B DeChambeau (US) 59hr 58min 28sec; 2 T Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates Cricket
Nottinghamshire, Derby; Middlesex v Racing Midlands v Keighley; Rochdale v 69 74 67 66; J Spieth (US) 71 69 68 68. 277 A Ancer (Mex) +2m 22s; 3 G Thomas (GB) INEOS Grenadiers +2:43;
Sussex, Lord’s Ascot, Chepstow, Newmarket, Thirsk, London 71 68 73 65; D Burmester (SA) 71 73 67 66; T Hatton 70 66 4 R Bardet (Fr) Team DSM +3:01; 5 A Yates (GB) INEOS ICC MEN’S WORLD CUP LEAGUE 2
Third Women’s Twenty20 Uttoxeter, York Betfred Women’s Super League 73 68; S Kaewkanjana (Tha) 71 67 74 65. 278 L Herbert Grenadiers +4:06; 6 N Quintana (Col) Team Arkea-Samsic
International Group 2 Barrow v Wakefield (2pm); (Aus) 70 68 73 67; S Woo Kim (Kor) 69 69 67 73; F Molinari +4:15; 7 D Gaudu (Fr) Groupama-FDJ +4:24; Glasgow Nepal 128 (Hamza Tahir 4-26). Scotland 130-2
Ireland v Pakistan, Bready (4pm) Saturday Castleford v Featherstone Rovers (It) 73 71 66 68; A Quayle (Aus) 74 69 68 67; X Schauffele 8 L Meintjes (SA) Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert +4:24; (CS MacLeod 64). Scotland beat Nepal by eight wickets.
(2pm); Warrington v Bradford (2pm) (US) 69 70 72 67; A Scott (Aus) 72 65 70 71. 9 T Pidcock (GB) INEOS Grenadiers +8:49;
Racing Football (3pm unless stated) 279 M Fitzpatrick 72 66 69 72; B Horschel (US) 73 69 70 10 E Mas (Sp) Movistar Team +9:58. FIRST WOMEN’S TWENTY20 INTERNATIONAL
Chelmsford, Musselburgh, Southwell, Uefa Women’s European Cricket 67; K Kisner (US) 74 70 65 70; M Lee (Aus) 69 69 73 68;
Wolverhampton Championship Second Test Match (first day of five) S Lowry 72 68 69 70; S Scheffler (US) 68 68 69 74; Selected Others: 29 C Froome (GB) Israel-Premier Tech Bready Ireland 99-8 (AM King 3-9). Australia 103-1
Quarter-final Winner Group D v Sri Lanka v Pakistan, Colombo T Mullinax (US) 71 73 66 69. 280 C Conners (Can) 71 71 71 +1h 05m 34s; 65 F Wright (GB) Bahrain Victorious (BL Moooney 45. Australia beat Ireland by nine wickets.
Wednesday Runner-up Group C (8pm) BBC TBC/ (5.30am) 67; T Finau (US) 73 71 70 66; D Frittelli (SA) 70 71 69 70; +1:46:57; 84 C Swift (GB) Team Arkea-Samsic +2:11:16;
BBC iPlayer Third One-Day International T Pieters (Bel) 75 67 67 71; H Varner III (US) 73 67 72 68; 104 O Doull (GB) EF Education-EasyPost +2:32:01; Tennis
Football Premier Sports Scottish League Cup England v South Africa, Headingley W Zalatoris (US) 73 67 71 69. 281 T Detry (Bel) 70 69 74 120 L Rowe (GB) INEOS Grenadiers +2:47:37
Uefa Women’s European Group A Stirling v Peterhead (11am) 68; T Gooch (US) 68 69 75 69; R MacIntyre 70 74 69 68; ATP NORDEA OPEN (Bastad, Sweden)
Championship Group B Kilmarnock v Sixth Women’s Twenty20 V Perez (Fr) 71 69 71 70; J Rahm (Sp) 73 67 71 70; Final: F Cerundolo (Arg) bt S Baez (Arg) 7-6 (7-4) 6-2.
Quarter-final England v Spain (8pm) Stenhousemuir; Partick v Montrose International S Theegala (US) 69 68 74 70; L Westwood 68 71 73 69;
BBC One/BBC iPlayer Group C Dunfermline v Alloa; Ross Ireland v Pakistan, Bready (4pm) A Wise (US) 72 67 71 71. 282 S Burns (US) 72 69 77 64; Rugby league WTA HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX (Budapest)
Uefa Champions League Qualifying County v East Fife C Kirk (US) 75 68 69 70; J Kokrak (US) 72 70 72 68; Final: B Pera (US) bt A Krunic (Ser) 6-3 6-3.
Second qualifying round: First leg Group D Falkirk v Clyde; Morton v Cycling T Lawrence (SA) 69 71 73 69; A Meronk (Pol) 75 68 70 69.
Dynamo Kyiv v Fenerbahce (7pm); Bonnyrigg Rose Women’s Tour de France 283 F Celli (Ita) 74 67 71 71; G Higgo (SA) 72 69 76 66; BETFRED SUPER LEAGUE WTA LADIES’ OPEN (Lausanne)
Maccabi Haifa v Olympiacos (6pm) Group E Arbroath v Airdrieonians; (to 31 July) Y Katsuragawa (Jpn) 71 68 75 69; Kim J (Kor) 69 71 72 71; Final: P Martic (Cro) bt O Danilovic (Ser) 6-4 6-2.
Premier Sports Scottish League Cup St Mirren v Edinburgh City P Reed (US) 72 68 76 67; J Smith 73 71 72 67. P W D L F A PD Pts
Group D Bonnyrigg Rose v Falkirk; Group F Elgin v Queen of the South; Formula One 284 P Casey 71 72 71 70; R Dinwiddie 67 77 71 69; Badminton
Hibernian v Morton St Johnstone v Ayr French Grand Prix N Hoejgaard (Den) 73 67 71 73; B Kennedy (Aus) 68 72 72 St Helens 19 16 0 3 467 208 +259 32
Group E Edinburgh City v Group G Inverness CT v Cove Le Castellet Sky Sports F1 72; J Niemann (Chi) 69 74 73 68; J Scrivener (Aus) 72 71 71
Cowdenbeath Rangers; Livingston v Kelty Hearts 70; J Thomas (US) 72 70 72 70; L van Meijel (Ned) 74 70 71 Wigan 19 14 0 5 558 343 +215 28 BWF WORLD TOUR (Singapore)
Racing 69; D Willett 69 73 73 69. 285 D Carey 72 67 73 73;
Chelmsford, Pontefract, Uttoxeter R Henley (US) 70 72 68 75; S Munoz (Col) 73 71 71 70; Huddersfield 19 12 1 6 427 335 +92 25 Men: Singles: Final: A Ginting (Ina) bt K Naraoka (Jpn)
J Parry 69 74 70 72; I Poulter 69 72 70 74; C Tringale (US) 23-21 21-17.
71 71 74 69. 286 C Bezuidenhout (SA) 73 71 68 74; Catalans 19 12 0 7 392 305 +87 24
S Garcia (Sp) 75 66 72 73; R Mansell 73 71 68 74; Women: Singles: Final: SP Venkata (Ind) bt Wang Z (Chn)
H Matsuyama (Jpn) 71 72 76 67. 287 D Law 72 69 77 69; Castleford 19 10 0 9 415 424 -9 20 21-9 11-21 21-15.
K Kitayama (US) 68 73 73 73. 288 M Armitage 71 72 71 74;
J de Los Santos (US) 71 73 70 74. 289 A Arnaus (Sp) 74 70 Hull 19 9 0 10 360 439 -79 18 Men: Doubles: Final: L Carnando (Ina) & D Marthin (Ina)
73 72; W Clark (US) 71 73 76 69; A Jarvis (Cay) 75 69 72 bt F Alfian (Ina) & MR Ardianto (Ina) 21-9 14-21 16-21.
73. 290 B Brown 68 70 77 75; L Canter 72 70 74 74. Salford 19 8 0 11 447 455 -8 16
292 S Bairstow 72 72 79 69; Im S-j (Kor) 71 73 74 74. Women: Doubles: Final: A Rahayu (Ina) & S Ramadhanti
296 J Rutherford 73 70 78 75. Hull KR 19 8 0 11 330 408 -78 16 (Ina) bt Zhang S (Chn) & Zheng Y (Chn) 21-14 21-17.

BIG GREEN EGG OPEN (Arnhem) Leeds 19 7 1 11 363 378 -15 15 Mixed Doubles: Final D Puavaranukroh (Tha) &
Final scores (GB/Ire unless stated, par 72) 281 A Nordqvist S Taerattanachai (Tha) bt Wang Y (Chn) & Huang D (Chn)
(Swe) 72 70 67 72. 282 S Schober (Aut) 67 70 73 72. 283 Warrington 19 7 0 12 382 457 -75 14 21-12 21-17.
N Iturrioz (Sp) 71 69 71 72; S Witt (Ger) 74 71 71 67;
V Kapoor (Ind) 69 70 71 73. 284 M Kobori (NZ) 73 70 69 Toulouse 19 5 0 14 322 487 -165 10
72. 285 W Hillier (Aus) 68 68 76 73. 286 Z Bontan (Neth)
77 71 70 68; E Young 67 74 71 74; V Elena Carta (It) 76 71 Wakefield 19 5 0 14 315 539 -224 10
70 69; L May Humphreys 70 74 70 72; A Meyssonnier (Fr)
69 72 76 69. 287 A Hewson 70 77 70 70; A Mora (Fr) 70 74 Hull KR 15 Wakefield 10;
71 72. 288 H MacGarvie 69 76 71 72; H Kreuzer (Ger) 74 69 Salford 32 Catalans 6
73 72. 289 A Foersterling (Ger) 71 69 72 77; D Dagar (Ind)
68 71 73 77; H Burke 71 73 73 72; A Laisne (Fr) 74 70 72 BETFRED CHAMPIONSHIP
73; H Davis 72 71 75 71; V Gimmy (Ger) 73 75 73 68. 290
M Hoogeboom (Neth) 72 68 77 73; R Goodall 72 71 76 71; P W D L F A PD Pts
I Laklalech (Mor) 79 69 71 71; E Folch (Sp) 74 71 74 71;
Leigh 19 18 0 1 820 148 +672 36

Featherstone 19 16 1 2 770 296 +474 33

Halifax 19 14 0 5 603 298 +305 28 Greg Wood’s racing tips

The main event Batley 17 12 2 3 478 293 +185 26 Cartmel
England v South Africa 12.00 Saywhatyouwant 12.30 Dalkingstown
Tomorrow, 1pm, Sky Sports Cricket York 18 13 0 5 452 344 +108 26 1.00 Thatbeatsbanagher 1.30 Jackhammer
Jos Buttler’s side will hope to bounce 2.05 Sir Tivo 2.40 Dee Star 3.15 Rapid Flight
Barrow 19 12 1 6 483 403 +80 25 Ayr
back from series defeat by India in the 1.50 Graces Quest 2.25 Pjanoo
Widnes 19 9 0 10 428 479 -51 18 3.00 Monsieur Kodi 3.35 Biplane
first of three ODIs against South Africa. 4.10 Quest For Fun (nb) 4.45 Diamondonthehill
Bradford 19 9 0 10 401 476 -75 18 5.15 Diamond Haze (nap)

Sheffield 18 7 0 11 419 460 -41 14

Newcastle 19 7 0 12 455 556 -101 14

London 19 4 1 14 340 532 -192 9

Whitehaven 19 4 1 14 298 662 -364 9

Dewsbury 19 2 0 17 245 670 -425 4

Workington 19 1 0 18 198 773 -575 2

Dewsbury 6 Leigh 60; Halifax 58 Workington 10;
Sheffield 32 Barrow 36; Whitehaven 24 Featherstone 46;
Widnes 33 Newcastle 26

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

34 Sport
Women’s Euro 2022

Today at the Euros Group C sica Silva, pulled the resulting free-
kick away from a crowded penalty
The matches Angeldal’s double sees smooth area and into the path of Angeldal.
Sweden cruise into quarter-finals Ghosting in unmarked, the central
Group D midfielder swept her second goal into
Iceland v France 8pm Sweden 5 time to organise properly to attack us. twice found wanting at corners that the far corner.
New York Stadium, BBC Two 0 I’m happy that we won the game and enabled the Swedes to establish a
Italy v Belgium 8pm Angeldal 21 45, Costa 45og, Asllani 54pen, also we won 5-0 to win the group.” three goal interval lead. A cooling break in the stifling heat
Manchester City Academy, BBC Four Blackstenius 90 plus a procession of injuries resulted
Sweden initially did not show their “We defended Sweden well in pos- in seven minutes stoppage time in the
Big day for Portugal level as the second-ranked team session,” said the Portugal coach. first half. It was enough time for Swe-
Sara Gunnarsdóttir in the world, the contest was too “But at this level every detail counts den to prey on Portugal’s set-piece
Andy Hunter error-strewn for that, but improved and it was very hard for us to stop the vulnerabilities again. Morais stayed
France cruised Leigh Sports Village throughout and were comfortably set-pieces of Sweden. This is one ele- fixed to her line when Andersson
through Group en route to winning the group by ment we have to improve.” floated another corner in from the
D, but spot two Sweden are warming up nicely. Inau- half-time. It was always asking a lot right. Amid the uncertainty the ball
is anyone’s. gural European champions in Eng- of Portugal to produce an upset and Sweden started brightly with Kos- struck Portugal centre-half Carole
Iceland, with land in 1984, the pre-tournament qualify but the manner of defeat irked ovare Asllani, captaining the side in Costa and bobbled over the line.
an uneasy favourites saved their strongest coach Francisco Neto nevertheless. the absence of the injured Caroline
one-point group display until the last to plunder Seger, appealing in vain for a first Portugal never threatened a repeat
edge over Italy Portugal and seal top spot in Group C Neto had spoken of Portugal’s minute penalty following a strong of their comebacks against Switzer-
and Belgium, on goal difference from the Nether- need to improve their defending at but clean challenge by Ana Borges. land or the Netherlands as Sweden’s
will need lands. Belgium, Italy or Iceland await set-pieces following Wednesday’s defence contained the dangerous
Gunnarsdóttir’s in the next round and Peter Gerhards- defeat by the Dutch and changed Morais saved well from Johanna Diana Silva and Francisca Nazareth.
cool quality son’s team will fear no one. his goalkeeper in response to Inês Rytting Kaneryd when the winger was Gerhardsson’s side made it four from
tonight if they Pereira’s problems in the 3-2 loss. played through by Filippa Angeldal. a penalty when Diana Gomes was
are to claim it. Portugal have grown and enter- Her replacement, Patrícia Morais, The keeper’s next involvement was penalised for handball. Asllani got the
tained at this competition and richly brought no improvement and was less convincing. When Jonna Anders- goal her performance merited with a
Centre stage deserved their lap of honour after the son’s corner landed in the six yard box precise spot-kick inside Morais’ left
Manchester City Academy final whistle, but had no answer to the Group C Morais connected with both fists but hand corner.
power, movement and cutting edge failed to get distance on the punch.
The 4,700-seat ground didn’t get of Sweden on a sweltering evening P W D L F A GD Pts The clearance dropped to Angeldal, The unfortunate Blackstenius
much love when the venues were in Leigh. 3 2 1 0 8 2 +6 7 who made no mistake from 12 yards. converted a fifth with a looping
announced. Gunnarsdóttir called 3 2 1 0 8 4 +4 7 That was Sweden’s first goal from a header but a lengthy VAR review,
the choice “shocking… you have Sweden have reached the quar- 3 0 1 2 4 8 -4 1 set-piece at the tournament but the and another offside decision, denied
so many stadiums in England, and ter-final or better on each of their 11 3 0 1 2 4 10 -6 1 fourth that Portugal had conceded her for a second time. She vented her
we’re at a training ground. It’s just appearances at the Euros and will be out of six in total. A fifth would arrive frustration superbly in stoppage time
embarrassing.” Tonight it’s the confident of maintaining that impres- on the stroke of half-time. when creating space for an unstop-
modest stage for Italy v Belgium. sive record on this evidence. “We are pable right foot finish into the top
very strong and it is difficult to play Stina Blackstenius thought she corner. Sweden cruised through.
Look out for against us,” Gerhardsson said. had doubled Sweden’s lead in style
Tine De Caigny Sweden with a convincing finish from Aslla- Sweden Portugal
“I think the third match was a fac- Netherlands ni’s back-heel but was ruled offside. 4-4-2 4-3-3
Belgium’s top scorer in qualifying is tor that worked to our advantage. It Switzerland The second arrived from more intel- Lindahl; Glas, Ilestedt, Morais; Amado (Marchão
and among the big threats to Italy. meant Portugal didn’t have as much Portugal ligent play from Asllani who, having Eriksson• (Sembrant 35), Gomes, Costa (Rebelo
She’s determined not to go home been fouled near the byline by Jes- 55), Anderssson; 84), Borges•; Ferreira
just yet. “It’s a 50-50 game. But it’s The quarter-finals Rytting Kaneryd• Pinto, Dolores Silva
been a really good tournament, and (Schough 55), Björn (Figueira Pinto 57),
we want it to last a long time for us.” Wed 20 July England v Spain; (Rubensson 78), Norton (Encarnaçã 84);
Thur 21 July Germany v Austria; Angeldal (Bennison Jessica Silva, Nazareth
Fri 22 July Sweden v Group D runner-up; 70), Rolfo (Hurtig 70); (Faria 57), Diana Silva
Sat 23 July France v Netherlands Asllani, Blackstenius

Referee Stéphanie Frappart (Fra) Attendance 7,118

Sweden
soar past
poor
Portugal

Number of the day Filippa
Angeldal (No
24 16) celebrates
with her
The number of goals France have teammates
scored against Iceland in their last after opening
11 meetings – conceding just six. the scoring
against
Portugal

EMMA SIMPSON/
UEFA/GETTY

Pundit watch
Jonas Eidevall

The Arsenal possession-
manager, at the based style.
Iceland game He’s among
tonight, is big on the male
tactical analysis pundits Sir Alan
and loves a fast, Sugar hadn’t
noticed when
he tweeted to
complain about
the all-female
presenting cast
this summer.

Monday 18 July 2022 The Guardian •

▼ Romée Leuchter scores 35
her second and the
Netherlands’ fourth

ZAC GOODWIN/PA

‘No regrets’: United’s Iqbal Asians playing [he has a Pakistani
father and an Iraqi mother] but if you
are good enough, I believe you will
is determined to impress make it no matter where you come
from. I don’t pay too much attention

to it. But, yes, there are a lot more

people watching what I do because

they can … not relate, but kind of

[have an interest].

Jamie Jackson “I am just trying to take my journey

Melbourne on. I will always give 100% in training

and matches. If I am inspiring people

Zidane Iqbal has said he is deter- along the way, that is brilliant.”

mined to seize any chance Erik ten Meanwhile, Luke Shaw believes

Hag gives him at Manchester United that United have already improved

after impressing on the club’s pre- under Ten Hag. “Especially in train-

season tour of Thailand and Australia. ing, it’s definitely a big improve-

The 19-year-old, who featured in ment,” the left-back, who started the

the second half of the 4-0 victory games against Liverpool and Victory,

Leuchter allowed only a brief reprieve before against Liverpool last week and the said. “And even in the games I think
makes all the Mark Parsons’ side got going again.
difference for 4-1 win against Melbourne Victory, you could see things that probably
the Dutch First, Jackie Groenen unleashed a
volley from close range from a smart believes this may be the only chance you haven’t seen before, so there are
set-play routine. Next, in the 34th
minute, Martens’ looping header to make his mark and admits he things to look forward to.
was pushed over by Thalmann’s out-
stretched fingers. would weigh up the “pros and cons” “The manager knows what the

Nielsen’s team would have to sum- of a loan move for the 2022-23 season. team needs and he has his own style
mon the same energy after the inter-
val that they had started the game Iqbal, who has played twice for and how he wants to manage … all
with to create a shift in momentum.
However, before they could muster a Iraq, made his debut as a late substi- ▲ Zidane Iqbal is having an excellent the players have taken it on board
charge, Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic had
headed into her own goal. tute in the Champions League draw pre-season for Manchester United and they’re really enjoying it. He is

The Swiss midfielder had been with Young Boys last December and, very hands-on and he takes a lot of
attempting to clear Stefanie van der
Gragt’s header from a corner. Instead, when asked about his desire and style manager, early doors, but the ideas he the sessions. He’s involved a lot and
she gave her side the mountainous
task of needing to score twice. Yet of play, he said: “I have told myself: has given us, two good results, eve- if he sees people aren’t hitting the
Bachmann muscled her way into the
Switzerland 1 box four minutes later, squaring to ‘This could be the only chance I get ryone is happy in training. Everyone standards that he wants in training
4 Géraldine Reuteler who toe-poked
Reuteler 53 past Van Domselaar. in the first team.’ is giving 100% which is the best kind he’ll make sure they know.

Netherlands Van Domselaar was in the thick “It has been part of my game since of atmosphere.” “That’s good because he keeps
of the action shortly after when she
Crnogorcevic 49og, Leuchter 84 90, Pelova 89 made three saves to keep her side I was young; always wanting the ball. Iqbal is not concerned about the standards high. The manager
level while the Dutch defence fal-
tered and tottered. I just do what I do and whatever is greater scrutiny owing to his heritage. demands more and we have to be

Parsons’s response was to con- meant to be will be. I will have no “Obviously there are not many south better and better.”
troversially take off the experienced
attackers Martens and Beerenstyne, regrets. I will just try to do my best
along with the steadfast defenders
Maryam Naz Aniek Nouwen and Jill Roord. Per- on the pitch and leave it up to God.
Bramall Lane haps he had one eye on Saturday’s
quarter-final and a focus on helping I would like to thank the fans for United strike Martínez deal
The Netherlands got the job done in his star players through 30C heat. showing me all the love and support
sweltering conditions to secure pro-
gress to the quarter-finals but despite The exodus did not matter. The recently. It is an amazing feeling.
an emphatic win they did not score Netherlands continued their assault
enough to top the group and will next on Thalmann’s goal and the Swiss “I have grown up loving this club. I Manchester United and Ajax contract finalised. He will
play a dangerous-looking France. keeper had to make a brilliant array of
saves to keep it 1-1. It took a decisive have played here since I was eight or have reached agreement sign a five-year deal with
The Netherlands needed a draw to Leuchter header from Lynn Wilms’s
qualify and were level until three late cross for her goal to be breached nine. To play in front of 90,000 people for the transfer an option for a further
goals, two from the substitute Romée again, before the floodgates opened
Leuchter, secured victory. for the third and the fourth. [in Bangkok] is something I dreamed of Lisandro Martínez season. Martínez, who

The holders were tested early on Parsons said: “The match against of. To play against Victory and against ( ), with the deal would follow Feyenoord’s
by Switzerland’s persistent, high Switzerland was a rollercoaster.
press. Such was the effectiveness of Conceding after half-time is always Liverpool, even in the Champions worth €55m (£46.8m) Tyrell Malacia and free
Nils Nielsen’s 4-2-3-1 that Switzerland tough, but we found our legs again
were able to deny Lieke Martens, and got the game under control.” League, is hard to describe. [But] if plus €10m in potential agent Christian Eriksen to
usually a defensive nightmare on
the Netherlands’ left flank, access Victoria Pelova got the Nether- an opportunity came up to go out on add-ons expected to be United, is a left-sided centre-
to the ball. lands’ third goal from close range
and her attempt at another shot set loan, I would weigh up the pros and sealed in the coming days. The back who can also operate
In contrast, Switzerland’s attack up Leuchter to complete the scoring.
was powering through the opposi- cons. Right now it is too early to say. 24-year-old centre-back flew as a defensive midfielder. The
tion midfield with ease, evident Nielsen acknowledged his side’s
through Sandy Maendly’s curling defending had been lacklustre in See what the future holds.” into Manchester on Friday and agreement was announced because
effort in the 12th minute that had the final moments and said: “It was
to be tipped over by Daphne van always going to be a tough game Iqbal is enjoying the two-week trip the Argentinian will be Erik ten of Ajax’s requirement to inform
Domselaar and highlighted also by against the Netherlands; they are
Ramona Bachmann’s swashbuckling tournament favourites and we and the influence of the Dutch man- Hag’s third signing of the summer the Amsterdam stock exchange
runs down both flanks. weren’t sharp when needed to be.”
ager. “There is definitely a good vibe subject to his medical being of material transactions. Jamie
A sloppy start from the Nether-
lands buoyed Switzerland’s qualifi- around the team,” he said. “It is a new passed, his visa being agreed and Jackson
cation hopes. But what Switzerland
had failed to factor in was the Nether- Football Everton Leeds United
lands’ second wind – which they have In brief
displayed in all their performances Branthwaite completes Perkins agrees to sign
across the Euros. loan move to PSV after West Ham exit

As the Dutch attack regained more Switzerland Netherlands Liverpool Jarrad Branthwaite has completed Leeds are preparing to announce
possession, more passes got through 4-2-3-1 4-3-3 his season’s loan to PSV Eindhoven. the signing of Sonny Perkins after
to Martens and Lineth Beerensteyn. Thaimann; Maritz, Van Domselaar; Wilms, Davies to join Rangers The 20-year-old defender has the attacking midfielder left West
In the 20th minute Beerensteyn and replace Bassey played 13 times for Everton since Ham at the end of his contract.
latched on to one of those through Calligarie, Bühler (Kiwic Van Der Gragt, Nouwen joining from Carlisle in 2020. The The 18-year-old, who can also
balls. Driving towards Gaëlle Thal- The Liverpool defender Ben Davies former Everton director of football play as a striker, made three
mann’s goal, her long legs seemed to 57), Aigbogun (Stierli (Casparij 64), Janssen; is poised to join Rangers for around Marcel Brands is in charge of day- appearances for West Ham last
become entangled with the keeper’s £4m to replace Calvin Bassey, who to-day management at PSV, whose season and scored 12 goals at under-
hesitant hands and the referee, Juli- 58); Wälti (Mauron 83), Groenen, Roord (Pelova is signing for Ajax. Davies moved to director of football, John de Jong, 23 level but was unable to agree a
ana Demetrescu, pointed to the pen- Liverpool from Preston in February told the Dutch club’s website: “He new deal.Fabrizio Romano
alty spot. Maendly (Folmli 58); 64), Spitse; Van de Donk 2021 as cover after Jürgen Klopp is a player with a lot of height and
suffered an injury crisis in defence he is physically strong. He has Sport England
A few moments of VAR inspection Cmogorcevic, Sow (Egurrola 90), but the 26-year-old has not made an constructive qualities and is good at
later and replays would show the appearance and spent last season one-on-one situations.” PA Media Project for teenage
keeper had just got a glove to the ball. (Xhemaili 72), Reuteler; Beerensteyn (Leuchter on loan at Sheffield United. Bassey girls gets £2m funding
The overturned decision, however, travelled to Amsterdam yesterday ▲ Sonny Perkins has agreed to sign
Bachmann 74), Martens (Brugts 74) for a medical after agreeing a for Leeds after leaving West Ham A project focused on encouraging
contract to 2026 with an option for more teenage girls to play
Referee Juliana Demetrescu (Rom) Att 22,596 a further season. Rangers are to football will benefit from £2m
receive an initial €22m (£18.7m), of Sport England funding. The
plus up to €5m in add-ons, and grassroots funding body will make
have a clause that will bring the investment into the Squad
them about 10% of any money Girls’ Football project, which is
from a future sale of the Nigeria being launched by the Football
international. Fabrizio Romano Association this summer aimed at
girls aged 12 to 14. PA Media

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

36 Sport unearthed two genuine finds who
Rugby union July Tests can make a difference in both the
shorter and longer term.
Ireland emerge as
first among equals If some obvious issues
after the wonders remain – attacking fluency, the
of Wellington Rubik’s Cube that is the Marcus
Smith-Owen Farrell creative
A historic win in New Zealand partnership, world-class dynamism
for Andy Farrell’s side was the and more pace – the series outcome
highlight of three weekends has also given Jones a little more
of enthralling Test rugby breathing space. “I am really
pleased with the development of
Robert Kitson Any one of half a this calendar year so far, it is an Henry Arundell has the team,” the head coach said,
Sydney dozen teams, as increasingly plausible scenario. emerged as a enthused by the visible progress
things stand, could major talent being made by, among others,
Rugby union is not win the World Cup Which is why England’s 2-1 players such as Ellis Genge, Freddie
renowned as a in France next year win against Australia, even if it Steward and Tommy Freeman.
perfect science was scruffy in places, could prove
but the symmetry rugby nation but Foster – or more psychologically valuable. The two Whether he could have stuck to
of north v south likely his successor – must come sides may yet meet in the last eight that “performance over results”
contests this month to terms with some increasingly in Marseille, just as they did in script following a 3-0 series defeat,
has been striking. Four tours stark realities. Ireland’s maul, the same city in 2007, and Eddie which less profligate opponents
by Ireland, England, Wales breakdown and, for the most part, Jones could not entirely disguise a than the Wallabies might have
and Scotland, four narrow 2-1 lineout were all superior and their wolfish grin when the prospect was inflicted, is irrelevant now but what
outcomes, six Test wins apiece for midfield offered more power and brought up following the flawed is clear is that no one can afford to
each hemisphere and a collective wit. Every other leading side in the but gutsy 21-17 win at the Sydney stand still. South Africa may have
points aggregate of 280 v 282. The world, not least the Springboks, Cricket Ground on Saturday. won the last Test to clinch the series
margins across global rugby have who host New Zealand next month, against Wales but to some degree it
never been tighter. will have taken suitable note. That is not to say the Wallabies
will not be a better side this time
Any one of half a dozen teams, And what does it all mean for next year, particularly if they
as things stand, could win the the World Cup quarter-finals can beef up their pack with a
World Cup in France next year and next year? Crazily – and in future Will Skelton or a Rory Arnold
the world’s No 1-ranked team is World Rugby really does need and stay clear of the injuries
currently not South Africa, New to delay the process to avoid which undermined them here.
Zealand or even France. Step any repetition – the All Blacks, But England, while still a work
forward Ireland, now officially first Ireland, South Africa and France in progress, have taken a step
among equals following the epic are all in the same half of the forward in terms of the coolness
weekend deeds of Andy Farrell’s draw and only two can make of their leadership under pressure
squad in Wellington. the semi-finals. Could it be that and, in Jack van Poortvliet and
neither the defending champions Henry Arundell, in particular, have
If the most far-reaching rugby nor New Zealand will advance to
result this month arguably occurred the last four? On the evidence of
7,500 miles away in Colorado,
where Chile have just gatecrashed
England’s group at the World Cup
at the expense of USA, there is no
minimising the ripple effect of the
All Blacks’ implosion on home turf
over the past couple of weeks.

It was not just that Ireland were
such deserved history makers. If
Ian Foster survives the fallout from
his side’s alarmingly disjointed
performances in the second and
third Tests – he missed the first
with Covid – it will further thicken
the fog into which the Kiwi game
is suddenly disappearing, even
allowing for the brilliance and
defiance of Tadhg Beirne, Peter
O’Mahony, Josh van der Flier
and Johnny Sexton.

To watch Robbie Henshaw stroll
through a bunch of black-clad
statues for the try that helped to put
Ireland 22-3 up before half-time in
the “Cake Tin” was to wonder what
is afflicting a team who used to set
such impossibly high standards.
And then to conclude their aura has
been slipping for a while: this was
the All Blacks’ fourth defeat in their
past five Tests.

No one in their right minds ever
writes off New Zealand as a proud

Monday 18 July 2022 The Guardian •
▼ Johnny Sexton’s Ireland
top the world rankings 37

BRENDAN MORAN/SPORTSFILE/ Shining Six Jones says Lawes’ laconic
GETTY IMAGES style is key for England
The top
will be the visitors who derive the performers Gerard Meagher developed a prosperous working
most satisfaction from the three from the Sydney relationship. “With Courtney’s more
games this month. July Tests laconic style they have created a great
If several questions remain over fit at the top,” Jones said.
They can now head for their Tadhg Beirne (Ireland) Koroibete was a crucial moment in England’s progress towards the World
deckchairs safe in the knowledge Sydney, as was his well-taken try. Cup next year after a series victory Richard Cockerill has forged a
that the outstanding Tommy Reffell Ireland’s historic first series win in Deserves a rest after 32 games this against Australia, that over the future formidable pack. The improvements
has added further to their excellent New Zealand was a huge collective season but will only get better. of Eddie Jones has been unequivo- at the breakdown were evident after
stock of back-row forwards, with effort but Beirne’s blue headguard cally answered. difficulties in Perth, and in Brisbane
the outlook under Wayne Pivac was everywhere. As recently Tommy Reffell (Wales, ) and Sydney England were able to
now brighter. There is still a heap of as 2015 the versatile forward To put it another way, Jones can close out wins in the face of a fear-
rugby to be played before the World was delivering pizzas and being Had not even played in a Test finally look forward to visiting his some Wallabies comeback.
Cup and the visits of New Zealand overlooked for a senior contract at before he travelled to South Africa elderly mother who, alarmed at
and England to the Principality Leinster. A thigh injury in the Six with Wales. There are plenty of speculation over whether he would Before the tour the attack
Stadium next season can be Nations also hampered him but in good back-row forwards in Wayne be sacked, had warned him earlier in coach, Martin Gleeson, said, “We’ll
attacked with particular relish. the last two Tests in New Zealand Pivac’s squad but the 23-year-old the tour not to come home until vic- hopefully see the biggest difference
he was superb, snaffling turnover was a constant menace to the tory had been secured. “She’ll be very in our attack.” Demonstrable progress
Scotland, in the same World and lineouts and also making Springboks at the breakdown and happy,” Jones said after the series had is thin on the ground. In Perth they
Cup group as South Africa and crucial yards. Inspirational. was his side’s only try-scorer in the been wrapped up in Sydney. “I might were too lateral, in Brisbane they
Ireland, have been left with rather third Test defeat. Having rapidly get a nice sukiyaki from her.” reverted to a route-one approach and
more to prove, having allowed a Peter O’Mahony (Ireland) emerged as a key man at title-win- in Sydney England barely fired a shot.
15-point lead slip and been pipped ning Leicester, his star continues Certainly a second series win in
34-31 by Argentina in the decider While there were plenty of pivotal to rise. Australia gives Jones breathing space Key is Marcus Smith’s partnership
on Saturday. Their inconsistency Irish performers, none set the and there are doubts as to whether his with Farrell in the 10-12 axis. They
is a habit they seem no closer to all-or-nothing tone better than the Davit Niniashvili (Georgia) employer would have been willing are yet to click. Jones is stubbornly
eradicating and time is not on passionate O’Mahony. His tears to wield the axe even in the event of praiseworthy of the duo but his con-
their side. Simply treading water at the final whistle reflected not Georgia will always cherish the three defeats. There are more signs viction will be tested if Manu Tuilagi
between now and the 2023 World merely the joy of series victory day they recorded their first win of progress than when the Rugby can prove his form and fitness in the
Cup will not be enough. but the prodigious physical effort against a tier one nation, their Football Union made such a claim autumn. If nothing else, winning the
needed to claim it. His classic breakthrough moment coming after another dismal Six Nations and series in Australia has allowed more
second Test sledge to the All Black with a 25-19 success against Italy there are platforms on which Jones time to persevere.
captain, Sam Cane – “You’re a in Batumi on 10 July. The all-action can build towards the autumn.
shit Richie McCaw” – summed up Niniashvili, still a teenager, was the ‘My mum will be
Ireland’s refusal to back down. star of the show and has a penchant Chief among the positives is that happy. I may even
for making scything breaks. The there is clearly a togetherness about get a nice sukiyaki’
Freddie Steward (England) wing plays his club rugby in France this squad. Courtney Lawes is a
for Lyon and is destined to cause popular leader and, if there was a Eddie Jones
Hard to believe he is still in his first trouble for many future opponents. degree of friction when Owen Farrell
international season. Dominant lost the captaincy, they have evidently
in the air throughout the series in Rodrigo Fernández (Chile)
Australia, he was the rock upon Coach in row video, Jones is again called a “traitor”
which England’s series success Perhaps the try of the month was with fans after and an “angry little man” and he
was built. His fine tackle on Marika the individual effort by Fernández ‘traitor’ jibe responds with similar fury.
in the first leg of his country’s
Beirne’s blue 2023 World Cup qualifier against Gerard Meagher In a separate incident, a man has
headguard was USA in Santiago. The fly-half is an Sydney been charged by police after climbing
everywhere ... elusive runner and another fine up the big screen and urinating from
snaffling turnovers break set up Santiago Videla for a Eddie Jones was embroiled in the roof of the O’Reilly stand during
and making yards key score in the second leg as Chile angry exchanges with Australian the second half of the match.
edged through 52-51 on aggregate. supporters, who accused the England
Will be fun to watch in England’s head coach of being “a traitor”, fol- It is understood that Jones was
pool next year. Robert Kitson lowing the series decider at Sydney heckled and insulted a number of
Cricket Ground. Rugby Australia times at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
▲ Freddie Steward capped a fine series in Australia with a try in the third Test has condemned the behaviour as Jones did not address the incidents
“totally unacceptable” after videos in his post-match press conference
DEAN LEWINS/EPA emerged on social media in which but, when contacted by the Sydney
Jones reacted furiously to the insults. Morning Herald yesterday, he said:
“Clowns think they have full go to
Videos of two incidents came abuse coaches.” The RFU decided
to light after England’s 21-17 win against commenting on the incidents.
in Sydney to clinch the series. In
one of the incidents, a supporter, Jones had previously hinted at
who is seen holding a beer, can be similar abuse after the second-Test
heard being urged to “spray” the victory in Brisbane when he said
Australia-born Jones before pointing he took great delight in shutting
at the former Wallabies head coach up Wallabies supporters who had
and saying: “You’re a traitor.” goaded him following England’s
opening defeat in Perth. “You have
Jones, who was with security got 48,000 people all full of drink,”
guards from the Rugby Football Union he said. “Before the game they are
and the stadium at the time, evi- coming up saying to me: ‘You are
dently takes offence and approaches going to get belted tonight.’ Now they
the fan, before responding: “What are a little bit more quiet. So that’s
did you say? What did you say? Come good. I enjoy that.”
here and say it. Come here and say it.
Come here and say it.” ▲ Eddie Jones fired back after being
goaded by an Australia supporter
Another security guard can also
be heard telling the supporter: “I’ve
spoken to you before.” In the second

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

38 Sport
Athletics World championships

Superman Kerley helps US want to be in the same position as you at the right time and got the job done.
soar to 100m clean sweep were when you were younger.” It’s amazing to get a clean sweep, the
greats did in 1991 and the greats of
Sean Ingle taking silver and Bromell bronze both them with eight of her own in Tay- Touchingly he said he also now 2022 did today.”
Eugene in 9.88sec. lor, a small city outside Austin, under speaks to his parents. “Every day,” he
the tiniest of roofs. It was a tough said. “What happened before doesn’t It helped, of course, that Jacobs
When Fred Kerley was a young boy, It was the first American clean upbringing but Kerley was always happen now.” was missing from the final, having
sleeping on a pallet with 12 other sweep of the men’s 100m podium encouraged to dream and to soar. suffered a leg injury in the heats,
kids in a single room in Texas, he since Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell and Along the way there have been while the Tokyo bronze medallist,
would dream of travelling the world. Dennis Mitchell in 1991. But long “Me and my brother and sisters many sliding doors moments. Ker- Andre De Grasse, was a shadow of his
Instead, on a night of impossible before the stadium announcer had got adopted by my aunt Virginia,” he ley wanted to be an American foot- former self after injuries and Covid.
drama in Eugene, he conquered it. confirmed the result, and the crowd explained afterwards. “We had one ball player and switched sports only But Kerley, as he has done so many
had started to chant “U-S-A! U-S-A!”, bedroom. There were 13 of us in one after breaking his collarbone in the times in his life, seized the day.
In the last desperate strides of this Kerley was charging down the back bedroom. We were on the pallet. At final game of his high school career.
world 100m final, Kerley instinc- straight, deliriously celebrating one the end of the day we all had fun, we And until 2019 he was a 400m runner, Everyone on the medal podium
tively stuck his chest out and thrust of sport’s great rags-to-riches tales. enjoyed ourselves and are doing great good enough to win a bronze medal had a story that deserved to be ampli-
his arms back like an aerodynamic things right now.” at the world championships, before fied. Bracy, for instance, ran in the
Superman. As he did so, his compa- The bare bones of the 27-year- turning to the 100m and 200m when 2016 Olympics before chancing his
triots, Marvin Bracy and Trayvon Bro- old’s story would surely be rejected “What motivates me is coming his ankles felt a little sore at the 2021 arm in the NFL – only to break it in his
mell, were straining, flailing, losing by Hollywood for stretching the from what I come from and not being US Olympic trials. first game in a developmental league
form. In a blurred finish the 6ft 3in boundaries of the impossible. At two in the same predicament,” added in 2019.
Kerley somehow got up on the line his dad was in jail and his mum was Kerley, who has the words ‘Aunt’ A month later he won a 100m sil-
to snatch gold in 9.86sec, with Bracy absent having taken “wrong turns in and ‘Meme’ – his pet name for her – ver medal in Tokyo – but finishing “I made the decision right then to
life”. And so his aunt Virginia adopted tattooed inside his bicep. “Keep on 0.04sec behind Marcell Jacobs left come back to track,” said Bracy, who
him and his four siblings and raised accomplishing great things. You don’t him with a burning sense of frustra- had spells at the Indianapolis Colts
tion. For the past 11 months Kerley and Seattle Seahawks. But still the
has not been able to stop himself challenges mounted. His silver medal
from shouting “push” whenever he came after an appendix rupture and
watches back a video of the final. In an intestinal blockage, which has left
Eugene, though, that push was timed him with eight staples from his belly
to perfection. button down to his pelvic area.

“I saw Bracy in front of me,” he And Bromell? Well, he spent close
recalled. “He dipped early. I dipped to $300,000 between 2016 and 2019
to repair a severely damaged achil-
9.88sec les tendon that led to him being
Dipping wheeled out of the Rio Olympics. In
as rivals 2018 things got so bad he even wrote
flail a draft letter to his agent announc-
ing his retirement. “It’s hard to wake
Fred Kerley up sometimes,” he said on Saturday
spreads night. “In practice my ankles be
his arms cracking, hips be cracking. I sound
and wins like an old man. But nights like this
the 100m, make it all worth it.”
finishing
0.02sec In another era these stories would
ahead of his be absorbed into the mainstream of
teammates US sport and life: amplified and cel-
ebrated. No more. Even in Eugene,
CHRISTIAN which bills itself as Tracktown USA,
PETERSEN/GETTY the 15,000-seater Hayward Field sta-
dium was maybe only 80% full.

Perhaps there is still time for
things to change, especially if Kerley
wins more medals in the 200m and
4x100m relay. It surely helps, too, that
he is quite the renaissance man, with
tattoos across his body and a love of
growing veg. “My crops are actually
doing good,” he said. “Before I left I
cut some squash off. I ate spinach out
of the garden and it was amazing.”

With that he slapped his left bicep
and smiled. But athletics’ new Popeye
is not only thinking of adding more
muscle on the track. He also wants to
inspire the next generation. “Every
day a bunch of youths are looking up
to me,” he said. “If I can do it, they can
do it.” What a story. What a perfor-
mance. And what a human being, too.

Coach in sex investigation notified World Athletics it then con- last year, the American’s behaviour into the World Class Programme,
gains access to warm-up area firmed the story. off the track is being scrutinised by including lottery funding, would be
the US Centre for SafeSport, an inde- suspended. However, he has con-
Sean Ingle to help four of his sprinters in the “Event security discovered a pendent body that handles investiga- tinued to stand by his coach.
Eugene men’s 100m, including the eventual unaccredited person in the athlete tions and complaints into abuse and
silver and bronze medallists Marvin warm-up area,” World Athletics misconduct in Olympic sports. Reider denies any wrongdoing in
A renowned US sprint coach who is Bracy and Trayvon Bromell – despite said. “He was asked to leave, and he the SafeSport investigation through
under investigation for sexual mis- having his accreditation blocked by refused. Police went to remove him After the story broke, UK Athletics his lawyer, Ryan Stevens, who says
conduct has been cautioned by police World Athletics due to the allegations from the venue. When he observed warned Gemili to cease contact with the allegations against his client are
in Eugene after gaining unauthorised against him. police officers approaching him, he the coach – or else his membership “unvetted” and “unproven”.
access to the athlete warm-up area left the venue. Outside the venue, he
before the world 100m final on However, Reider was spotted by was stopped by police and advised ▲ Sprint coach Rana Reider has Yesterday the Guardian
Saturday night. others who called security. When he that if he returned to the venue he been cautioned by police in Eugene approached Reider, who was
refused to leave, police then inter- would be arrested for trespassing.” coaching an athlete from outside
Rana Reider, coach of the British vened and apprehended the Ameri- the perimeter fence of the official
200m star Adam Gemili, had gained can. They also advised him that if Reider had earned a glittering repu- warm-up area. “Get the fuck away
access to Hayward Field in an attempt he returned he would be arrested tation in the sport after guiding sev- from me, man,” he said, before admit-
for trespassing. When the Guardian eral Olympic and world champions ting he had been in the official area
to glory, including the Tokyo 2020 with accreditation on Saturday night.
Olympic 200m gold medallist Andre
De Grasse, from his Florida-based He was read the World Athletics
Tumbleweed Track Club. statement and asked for a comment.
Reider then claimed not to speak Eng-
However, as the Guardian revealed lish, conversing instead in Spanish.

Monday 18 July 2022 The Guardian •

Sport 39
Cricket Third Royal London ODI
▼ India’s Rishabh Pant
celebrates reaching his century

JASON CAIRNDUFF/ACTION IMAGES/REUTERS

Sport
In brief

Rugby league

Wakefield in drop zone
after defeat by Hull KR

Wakefield’s head coach, Willie
Poching, declared himself “up
for the fight” after a 15-10 defeat
at Hull KR left his side in the
relegation zone. Trinity could
have leapfrogged Toulouse if they
avoided defeat but lost a frantic,
nervy encounter. Rovers came
from behind after Max Jowitt gave
Trinity a 4-0 half-time advantage.
Tries from Jimmy Keinhorst, Ethan
Ryan and Lachlan Coote, as well
as a Coote conversion and Will
Dagger drop goal, put Rovers 15-4
ahead before Trinity scored again
through Lewis Murphy. Poching
said: “Obviously we’re going to
have to make some alterations to
what we’re doing, but I’m up for the
fight.” PA Media

Cricket

MCC backs umpires
over Blast finale

Pant goes on the attack following Jasprit Bumrah’s late back ted this, banged the ball in and held a The MCC has backed the umpires
to leave Buttler with spasm and forced low-key series from simple return catch. In came Moeen Graham Lloyd and David Millns
much food for thought Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root – stars of Ali at 74 for four, making 34 in a stand after a chaotic end to the Vitality
the early Test summer – to end with of 75 alongside Buttler that steadied Blast final. Hampshire won by
Ali Martin After earlier delivering four wick- a pair of ducks. a listing ship. one run over Lancashire after
Old Trafford ets through seven overs of right-arm Nathan Ellis bowled a no-ball from
spite, Pandya fell with 55 runs Bairstow chipped a leading edge to Moeen was becalmed at first but what had been expected to be the
As Jos Buttler reflected on a tricky required for a 55-ball 71. But Pant was mid-off in the second over, Root was a soon he and Buttler tucked into Yuz- last delivery. It saw Hampshire’s
start to life as England’s new unperturbed, muscling 15 fours and genuine nick to second slip three balls vendra Chahal with three heaved celebrations cut short and Ellis
white-ball captain, and a sparkling two sixes overall and finishing the later. Jason Roy did add some early sixes. It prompted a smart change forced to bowl it again, and while
century from Rishabh Pant that made job with a flourish. This was a vin- impetus with a 31-ball 41 but saw this by Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja Lancashire were able to run one
it two series defeats to India in the tage innings – his first century in 27 terminated with a spooned catch replacing the leg-spinner and, third bye, Lloyd and Millns deemed the
space of a fortnight, he admitted: “We ODIs – and the type that could well behind off Pandya when attempting ball, seeing Moeen glove behind on ball dead before Richard Gleeson
just need to be better.” unlock more. to whip a length ball square with a the sweep to bring the local hero, and Tom Hartley could complete
snap of the wrists. Liam Livingstone, to the crease. a second bye to level the scores,
It was a simple diagnosis from But while Pant batted like a which would have seen their side
the man tasked with following Eoin left-handed Asterix after a swig of Ben Stokes was already out there Jadeja was not done there, how- win due to their superior powerplay
Morgan’s gilded reign. England were magic potion, and Pandya crackled continuing his summer of outright ever, with two wonderful catches to score. Hampshire had removed the
again below par with the bat in this all day, they did offer chances. Buttler aggression but on 27 tried to charge send both Lancashire men packing stumps at the striker’s end after
one-day international decider and missed a stumping when the former Pandya. His fellow-all-rounder spot- in the 37th over and rip the guts out the wicketkeeper Ben McDermott
powerless to prevent Pant’s unbeaten was on 18; while the latter, on six, sent of England’s innings. caught Ellis’s delivery and Law 20.2
125 chasing down 260 with eight a four over Overton’s head when the Scoreboard states “whether the ball is finally
overs to spare for a five-wicket win. Somerset man misjudged its trajec- Livingstone had just pulled two settled or not is a matter for the
India’s supporters, the vocal majority tory. As Buttler later put it: “Give good Old Trafford India beat England by five wickets. huge sixes off Pandya into the con- umpire alone to decide”. PA Media
of this sellout crowd, were in clover. players a second chance and they’ll struction site square of the wicket
hurt you. Take those and we go on to England Balls 4s 6s – the first bursting through some Rugby union
There had been hope for England win the game.” 0 fencing like a cannonball – but a third
early on in the second innings, the JJ Roy c Pant b Pandya........................41 31 7 0 attempt on 27 picked out Jadeja on Ryan Jones reveals
tourists suffering flashbacks to the It was Buttler who had earlier pro- 0 the rope. The follow-up to remove dementia diagnosis
100-run defeat at Lord’s last Thurs- vided the ballast for England’s 259 JM Bairstow c Sub b Mohammed Siraj ...0 3 0 0 Buttler was even better, Jadeja diving
day when Reece Topley rolled over all out from 45.4 overs, top-scoring 2 at full stretch. The former Wales captain Ryan
his form from that six-wicket perfor- with a gutsy 80-ball 60 from No 5 JE Root c R Sharma b Mohammed Siraj ..0 3 0 2 Jones has been diagnosed with
mance by wiping out India’s top three that overcame two nasty blows to 2 Pandya had won this battle of egos early onset dementia aged 41. Jones
with the new ball. the head from Pandya. This was the BA Stokes c & b Pandya ......................27 29 4 1 – “It was just poor batting,” Buttler received the diagnosis of probable
only half-century from his side in the 1 later admitted – and from 199 for chronic traumatic encephalopathy
But from 72 for four in the 17th series and, though the roads of the JC Buttler c Jadeja b Pandya ...............60 80 3 0 seven in the 37th over, it needed (CTE) last December. He told the
over, once Craig Overton had nicked recent past have been replaced with 0 England’s tail to wag through David Sunday Times: “I feel like my world
off Suryakumar Yadav with some pitches offering more for the seam- MM Ali c Pant b Jadeja........................34 44 2 Willey (18) and Overton (32). The is falling apart.” PA Media
extra bounce, Pant and Hardik Pan- ers, the captain put it down to a lack reintroduction of Chahal cut the
dya began brutalising Buttler’s attack of ODI cricket of late and thus a lack LS Livingstone c Jadeja b Pandya........27 31 2 innings 25 balls short, however, the Wakefield coach Willie
in a 133-run stand that ultimately of rhythm. pair holing out and Topley reading a Poching says he will
made it 2-1 series wins in both the DJ Willey c Yadav b Chahal..................18 15 1 googly as if it was Esperanto. make ‘alterations’ after
Twenty20s and the ODIs. Adil Rashid, After losing the toss the England their defeat at Hull KR
back to face South Africa tomorrow, captain arrived with one ball of the C Overton c Kohli b Chahal .................32 33 1 Topley at least got the new ball to
was missed. powerplay remaining at 66 for three. talk his language, Shikhar Dhawan
Mohammed Siraj was in the Indian XI BA Carse not out .................................3 7 0 slicing to backward point, Sharma
poking to slip on 17 and Virat Kohli
RJW Topley b Chahal............................0 1 0 taking his run of international innings
without a century to 79 when dabbing
Extras (lb2, w13, nb2) .......................17 at a ball that angled across.

Total (45.5 overs) ............................259 Overall, however, England failed
to match Pandya’s spikiness with
Fall 12, 12, 66, 74, 149, 198, 199, 247, 257. the ball and could not prevent an
innings from Pant that was fittingly
Bowling Shami-7-0-38-0; Mohammed Siraj-9-1-66-2; breathtaking.
Krishna-9-0-48-0; Pandya-7-3-24-4;
Chahal-9.5-0-60-3; Jadeja-4-0-21-1.

India Balls 4s 6s
0
RG Sharma c Root b Topley.................17 17 4 0
0
S Dhawan c Roy b Topley ......................1 3 0 2
0
V Kohli c Buttler b Topley....................17 22 3 0
0
RR Pant not out ...............................125 113 16

SA Yadav c Buttler b Overton ..............16 28 1

HH Pandya c Stokes b Carse................71 55 10

RA Jadeja not out ................................7 15 0

Extras (b1, lb3, w3) .............................7

Total (for 5, 42.1 overs) ...................261

Fall 13, 21, 38, 72, 205.

Did not bat Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, YS
Chahal, P Krishna.

Bowling Topley 7-1-35-3; Willey 7-0-58-0;
Carse 8-0-45-1; M M Ali 8-0-33-0; Overton 8-0-54-1;
Stokes 2-0-14-0; Livingstone 2-0-14-0; Root 0.1-0-4-0.

Umpires M Saggers (Eng) and R Illingworth (Eng).

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

40 Sport
Cycling Tour de France

Leader Jonas Golf
Vingegaard at
the front of a García hits out
pack of riders at European
as they go past a circuit and
sunflower field plans to resign
on the way to
Carcassonne

SHUTTERSTOCK

Michael Butler
St Andrews

Crashes leave Vingegaard uninck) took the first Tour stage win As Sergio García came off the Old
facing uphill struggles of his career, after a final breakaway, Course for probably the final time
French rider Benjamin Thomas in an Open Championship there was
The Jumbo-Visma climbers feel a bit sore but that’s how it is after I think Jonas was OK after that but (Cofidis), was caught inside the final no inclination for sentimentality or
Roglic and Kruijswijk forced a crash.” we’re another man down and that’s 500 metres. reflection. Instead the LIV convert,
to quit race through injury not good. Luckily, there’s the rest day. who finished two under par for the
On the absence of Roglic and Krui- And then we see what the impact of Today is a rest day, but the rac- tournament, told reporters he will
Jeremy Whittle jswijk, he admitted that he had “lost this day was.” ing resumes tomorrow with the resign from the DP World Tour, for-
Carcassonne two very important team members, first major Pyrenean climbs and the merly known as the European Tour.
two very strong riders, which isn’t The 202-kilometre stage was run stage set for Pogacar to set about This will mean the 42-year-old is inel-
Jonas Vingegaard’s Jumbo-Visma nice. It was quite a bad day for us”. in broiling heat, with several riders Vingegaard, much as he did Roglic igible for the Ryder Cup, of which he
team suffered another traumatic appearing at their very limit as the in 2020, when he won the Tour on is the all-time leading points scorer.
day on stage 15 of the Tour de France Vingegaard’s sports director, Gris- peloton raced on tarmac that had the penultimate day. The irrepress-
with the race leader losing two key cha Niermann, was more direct. “It been sprayed with water to avoid it ible 23-year-old is now, once again, “I am quite clear about what I am
climbing lieutenants, as the peloton was a shit day,” he said. “When Steven melting. breathing down Jumbo-Visma’s neck, going to do with the European circuit.
raced through furnace-like condi- crashed it was immediately clear that with the Pyrenees on the horizon. Probably leave it,” García revealed
tions on the road to Carcassonne. he wouldn’t continue as he fell hard Professional cycling’s extreme after his 73 yesterday. “Honestly, I
on his shoulder. Then we jumped in weather protocol, allowing for more “There are three days of mountain want to play where they love me. I
Primoz Roglic, who had started the the car to continue to chase the pelo- regular feeding and drinking from stages between the best riders, the like to feel loved and sincerely in the
day as lead support rider to Vinge- ton and just when we arrived, Jonas team cars alongside a relaxation leaders, and I don’t think that hav- European Tour I don’t feel loved now.
gaard, and Steven Kruijswijk, both and Tiesj were on the ground. of the stage’s time limit, was also ing teammates will make such a big
quit the Tour through injury, Roglic invoked, but for some riders the 40 difference,” UAE Emirates team man- “I have what I have and I am very
withdrawing before the stage began “So everybody waited for them degree temperatures were too much. ager Mauro Gianetti said. “Tadej just happy with it and I want to enjoy it to
and Kruijswijk after crashing with and then they got dropped trying had one bad day, but we are in the the fullest. I’ll play less, I’ll be home
135 kilometres to race. to bring Jonas back to the peloton. Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Dece- position now that we have the oppor- more. If I don’t play big, then I don’t
tunity to try something.” play them, but honestly I don’t care
Worse still, Vingegaard and team- ▲ Stage winner Jasper Philipsen roars with delight as he crosses the line much either. I feel sorry for the Ryder
mate Tiesj Benoot also came down “This is a different situation to Cup ... my resignation is not official
with 58 kilometres remaining and, CHRISTIAN HARTMANN/REUTERS 2020 [when Pogacar usurped Roglic but I’m going to make it effective.
in an echo of the stage to Arenberg, in the final time trial]. We still have
in which the Dutch team appeared one week, there’s a lot of kilometres “There are comments that do not
chaotic, had to chase to resume posi- still to race but Tadej is confident. He make you feel good. I have given more
tion alongside closest rival, defend- knows he has won the Tour twice and than half of my life to the European
ing champion, Tadej Pogacar (UAE that he can do it again.” Tour and feel that because you make
Emirates). a personal and professional decision
Roglic, winner of the past three and they treat you like that, it’s not
But the loss of both Roglic and Tours of Spain, will now turn his worth it. And I was going to continue
Kruijswijk with three days of racing in attention elsewhere but even injured, on the European Tour. There are
the Pyrenees looming, may yet prove his presence will be sorely missed. things that can be done differently.”
damaging. “I’m OK,” Vingegaard said Niermann, though, dismissed sug-
at the finish. He still leads Pogacar by gestions that the Slovenian’s absence A crowd favourite for the majority
two minutes and 22 seconds. “I’ve could be critical. of his 25 years on the Tour, García was
some road rash down my left side. I a popular Masters winner in 2017. As
went down but quickly got up again. I “If we thought he could have a former champion, with LIV golfers
played a role for Jonas in the Pyre- unable to accumulate world ranking
nees, he would still be here but he was points to qualify for future major
going downhill very, very fast and his championships, Augusta is the only
body was just not reacting anymore,” one he would be guaranteed to play.
Niermann said of Roglic’s injuries.
“Then we would have another rider “When Thomas Bjørn – former
being dropped today. It’s a big pity Ryder Cup captain – came to the
that Stevie is out now as well but it BMW Championship and told us that
doesn’t change anything about the here: ‘We don’t love any of you and
decision we took.” all players say it,’” García claimed. “I
already have had enough suffering
to be enduring nonsense like that.”

In response to García’s comments,
Bjørn tweeted yesterday that he had
“never spoken to Sergio about this
subject”. García’s comments have
grown increasingly erratic in recent
months. He was caught on camera
screaming at a rules official during the
Wells Fargo Championship in May,
saying, “I can’t wait to leave this tour.
A couple more weeks and I won’t have
to deal with you any more.”

▲ Sergio García said ‘he doesn’t feel
loved’ on the DP World Tour

Monday 18 July 2022 The Guardian •

Sport ▼ Cameron Smith plays 41
Golf The Open his second shot from the
rough on the 15th Open briefing
Yesterday
TOM JENKINS/THE GUARDIAN at St Andrews

Smith casts spell over rivals Shot of the day
with his putting wizardry

The Australian’s outstanding double bogeys for a 68. It did not Nobody on the par-five
stop Gary Player describing him managed an 14th into the
form on the greens whittled as “one hell of a putter”. Indeed, albatross at the pin from 255
he is: the best in the world, by Old Course this yards away.
away McIlroy’s four-shot lead informed consensus. week – which The American
is certainly cleaned up
going into the final round Smith pushed his opening not impossible nicely for eagle,
birdie chance inches wide from with so many though.
Kevin Mitchell 30 feet, but conditions could hardly driveable
have been more benign: virtually greens on the
TSt Andrews windless and a little softer under par-fours – but
alent demands a price, foot after a cleansing shower. Smith Harold Varner
and great golfers know struck on the 2nd, drilling his first III was oh so
that sooner or later birdie from eight feet. He had to close, smashing
they have to pay for play aggressively off the tee and his approach
their gifts with a dip in fairway to close the gap but could
performance that drags not afford a blow-up of Augusta Regret of the day
them back towards the field, where proportions. Cameron Young
lesser mortals toil. Cameron Smith joined him at 13 under on the 4th, On the 6th he unsighted, from the far side of the Something of bogey, bogey,
found himself in that Gethsemane as pressure built. They both birdied covered at least a giant green. “That was amazing a cult hero this bogey, double
on Saturday, but was determined the 5th: Young with a tap-in after a couple of cricket touch,” Nick Faldo observed. week with his bogey from 13
not to suffer there yesterday. And monster eagle attempt; Smith after pitches for a array of bucket to 17 saw him
so it came to pass. Redemption and putting his first putt to within a foot one-foot par putt The championship was Smith’s hats, amateur fall away and
acclamation at last. from 88 feet. They were two shots to lose. With four holes left, McIlroy Barclay Brown allow Filippo
from the lead – until McIlroy went and eight holes left for the main was stuck in second gear. Young, was well in Celli to finish
What a magnificent win it to 17 under with his first birdie of players, there were at least four a travelling companion for much contention to as the leading
was, fashioned from solid, long the day. possible endings to the story once of the weekend, was in Smith’s take the Silver amateur. “I
drives, astute selection of landing Dustin Johnson squandered a rear-view mirror, but dangerous Medal after feel a little bit
spots with his laser-like irons and On these large greens, many of birdie chance on 14. Smith was the still. Hovland had fallen away. starting on defeated,” he
some spectacular putting for an them shared, Smith kept lagging obvious threat, his putter cutting one under par. said, “but I
eight-under-par 64 to go with 67, like a king. On the 6th he covered the atmosphere like a hot knife On the Road Hole, Smith chose But a rotten enjoyed the
64 and 73 for a four-round total of at least a couple of cricket pitches through butterscotch. He let out an to putt precariously past the run of bogey, walk up there
268. Five birdies in a row on the for a one-foot par putt. Getting the audible “aargh!” when a long eagle greenside bunker, skirting around and I’m just
back nine (among eight on the day) first effort that close takes as much attempt on 12 braked early. But a a sharp drop into the sand – and trying to think
first caught then consumed Rory judgment and touch as a tiddler. fourth birdie on the spin, from 13ft placed it perfectly in view of the about the
McIlroy, who had led alone from But the early vibe of hope faded on 13, put him alongside McIlroy, flag for par. When he drained a whole week,
the 4th to 12th before the Australian momentarily as they approached who wasted a birdie chance on 12. 10-footer for par, Laura Davies as opposed to
slipped past him. It left the gallery the turn, and when he missed a remarked: “If he goes on to win, the last hour
stunned, the Northern Irishman 12-foot birdie on the 9th, a sense On the 14th, the man with the that’s the best two-putt of his life.” and a half.”
bereft. Surely the Mullet King can of tightness fell on his shoulders. plain name and the uncommon
afford a haircut and shave now. It did not last long. Three strokes skills gobbled up most of the 614 And then the climax: Young Picture of the day
Maybe he won’t bother. He is his behind McIlroy, he accelerated yards in two mighty heaves, then eagled the 18th for parity with his
own man. his attack against devilishly plopped in his fifth successive namesake, before Smith responded Written in the sand: one spectator’s
placed pins on greens with more birdie – his best of the day, after with a birdie to wrap it up. McIlroy message to the LIV defectors at
Of the 14 allowed clubs in a undulations than an untidy duvet. a stunning eagle attempt of 87ft, needed eagle on 18 to force a St Andrews: “No to LIV golf”.
bag, the flat stick is the most playoff. But there were only so
temperamental – but not, usually, Then Smith and Young made many miracles on offer.
for Smith, who is cool from any their move on 10, cutting the deficit
distance. Yet it had gone cold on to two with birdies that injected
day three, as he struggled after the closing charge with bags of
rounds of 67 and 64, drifting out to electricity. When the Australian
a 73. That left him four shots adrift wizard dropped in a 16-footer on
of McIlroy and Viktor Hovland. He the par-three 11th to edge a shot
does not dwell much on the past, closer, his joy lasted less than a
but Smith surely wanted more minute as McIlroy replied with a
consistency than at the Masters birdie on the hole behind him.
this year where he bookended
eight birdies on day one with two There was not a moment in
which to look away. With seven

• The Guardian Monday 18 July 2022

42 Sport
Golf The Open

Smith shoots stunning 64 to reel Young, meanwhile, cut a figure of
in McIlroy and secure Open victory frustration despite signing for a 65. “It
probably hurts a little worse to come
Ewan Murray enjoyed an outstanding Open debut, landmark event. Smith, who won the in a row, this time from 15ft. The lead up one shot short,” he said. “If you
St Andrews afforded him the runner-up spot. Players Championship in March, is was now shared. Smith was inspired, lose by eight, you don’t really care.”
Smith’s 20 under par saw off Young enjoying the time of his life. McIlroy aware of what was happening The 25-year-old’s curious major year
It will be of scant consolation to by one and a rueful but magnanimous in the group ahead. Smith’s 19 under has seen two missed cuts, a tied third
Rory McIlroy that Cameron Smith McIlroy by two. With McIlroy and Viktor Hovland played McIlroy’s 18 under as the for- and a second.
produced a major championship in the final group, it was the Norwe- mer birdied the 14th.
final round for the ages to claim the It is difficult to state McIlroy did gian who blinked first. Hovland three Smith chopped his drive right from
150th Open. McIlroy found himself much wrong during round four, save putted the 4th, which edged McIlroy Smith, it seemed incredible to the 15th but was able to rescue par
standing short of the Valley of Sin, perhaps not capitalise appropriately into a one-shot lead. McIlroy com- recall, had started the day four shots from a favourable lie in the rough.
wedge in hand, needing to hole out on opportunity. He will be stung, for fortably birdied the par-five 5th to adrift of McIlroy and Hovland. A 74 McIlroy needed to make short work
for a two to join Smith in a playoff. The example, by failure to birdie the 9th double his advantage. from Hovland meant he tied fourth of the par-five 14th but could not
crowd offered an impromptu roar in or 14th. This was the wrong time for with Tommy Fleetwood, who signed after failing to reach the green in
vain hope of sporting fairytale. How McIlroy to deliver a St Andrews Open Hovland was playing tentatively. off with a 67. two. Smith recorded a two-putt par
had it come to this? round not in the 60s for the first time. Pressure on McIlroy suddenly arrived at the 16th and refused to wobble at
It was just that 70, two under par, was from elsewhere. Smith birdied the Cameron Smith’s 64 (-8) the iconic Road Hole despite missing
There was to be no miracle insufficient to keep pace with the 10th and 11th to move within one. the green with his approach. McIl-
moment. McIlroy’s wait for a fifth unflinching Smith. The Australian’s Almost immediately McIlroy left a Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out roy’s last realistic hope came at that
major success will rumble into back nine of 30 is the lowest score on a 126ft putt on the 10th within kick-in Par 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 3 4 36 penultimate hole following a majestic
2023. Salt was rubbed into McIlroy’s Sunday inward half by any champion range. The two-stroke margin for Out 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 34 iron to 18ft. As the birdie putt drib-
wounds by the fact he did not even in Open history. error was restored, with McIlroy Hole 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In bled past, Smith had one hand and
finish second here. A 72nd-hole now 18 under. Smith jabbed back by Par 4 3 4 4 5 4 4 4 4 36 four fingers on the Claret Jug.
eagle from Cameron Young, who The 28-year-old is no longer one of picking up another shot at the 12th. In 3 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 3 30
the finest golfers of this generation Smith, now five under for his round, Brian Harman and Dustin Johnson
never to win a major. He played with was posing a serious threat. X eagle X birdie X bogey X double bogey or worse Par 72 tied sixth at minus 13. Bryson
a day-four fearlessness that renders DeChambeau joined Patrick Cantlay
him the worthy champion of such a That challenge by the Brisbane and Jordan Spieth one shot further
native intensified with a fourth birdie back. Adam Scott’s 71 left him 10
adrift but there were words of praise
for Smith. “He’s tough and he has
owned his game quickly,” Scott said.
“He has learned how to play golf very
well, very quickly. I think his mind
is a big asset, as is his putter. I don’t

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Smith Analysis
holds Andy Bull St Andrews
his
nerve Frustrating wait for a major Around the front nine it looked of a sudden, McIlroy’s slow and
as if McIlroy would get away with it. steady-as-she-goes golf, which
Cameron goes on after steady proves One imagines that he, like everyone had seen off Hovland, left him
Smith putts else, assumed the Open was likely vulnerable. While Smith was
past the no match for spectacular to come down to a head-to-head pulling up to, and then beyond
bunker on contest between him and his his score of 18 under, McIlroy was
the Road Hole Rory McIlroy had been trying to make the eagle he needed playing partner, Viktor Hovland, playing par golf through the 6th,
after coming waiting seven years, 11 to tie Smith. who were tied on 16 under 7th, 8th and 9th. He missed birdie
up short with months, eight days for overnight, four shots clear of Smith opportunities on the first and last
his second this opportunity, ever There had been a hint of what and Young. It meant the rounds of that stretch.
shot. He got up since he won his fourth was to come four hours earlier, out before them passed like the
and down to major at Valhalla in when McIlroy reached the 1st long undercard of a heavyweight The second of them, from
save his par 2014. And in the end all that time green, which sits just a few yards title fight and then, when McIlroy 13ft, was particularly painful and
turned on one moment, at 6.30pm from the 17th. McIlroy had an 18ft and Hovland did make it on to the McIlroy went back to the spot to
ANDREW on the 17th green of the Old Course birdie putt there, from the heart of 1st tee at 2.50pm, the atmosphere rehearse the stroke afterwards,
REDINGTON/GETTY at St Andrews. the green back towards a pin sitting became excruciatingly tense. shaking his head at himself while
just in front of the burn. He missed he did it. He did pick up one more
Leaderboard Way ahead of him, up the 18th that one by a few inches, too. Given McIlroy seemed to be handling birdie on the par-three 10th with
fairway, Cameron Smith was he had 17 holes ahead of him at the it. He covered the first four holes a brilliant, sinuous, lag putt from
-20 standing over a two-foot putt that time, one could never have known in even par. Hovland matched 126ft, but it was not enough, given
C Smith (Aus) would take him to 20 under for the how important it would turn out him on the first three of them. how brilliantly Smith was playing
-19 championship. McIlroy, two shots to be, but it foreshadowed the The Open felt, at that point, like a in front of him.
C Young (US) back from that, knew he needed problem that would bother him staring contest and it was Hovland
-18 to finish with back-to-back birdies all round and which would end up who blinked. A wayward iron Soon enough Smith, 29 next
R McIlroy (NI) to match him, and take the 150th costing him this championship. shot on the 4th left him 70 yards month, was in front, one shot
-14 Open into a playoff. The birdie putts just wouldn’t drop. away from the pin, and he made a up. The heavy pressure was
T Fleetwood (Eng) three-putt bogey. McIlroy pressed coming down on McIlroy now,
V Hovland (Nor) McIlroy had just hit the most Just as Hovland his advantage at the par-five 5th, and he needed to respond. But
-13 brilliant shot to give himself this started falling off, where he picked up his first birdie he could not do it. He had one
B Harman (US) chance, a nine iron from 160 yards Smith, playing up after he hit his approach to 17ft. clear opportunity to get back
D Johnson (US) that settled down on the back lip of ahead, came racing That put him two shots clear, and into a share of the lead at the par-
-12 the green where, if it had bounced up with a string of it felt, for the first time, as if he, five 14th, and he knew it, but he
P Cantlay (US) only another dozen inches, it back-to-back birdies and everyone else, could start to needed to make a putt from 20ft
B DeChambeau (US) would have slipped down on to breathe a little easier. to do it, and it did not happen.
J Spieth (US) the road that gives this famous
hole its name. But it didn’t. So But it was only the briefest The margins of those three
know if you can say it was inevitable now he was facing this 18ft putt, release from the pressure. Because missed putts on the 1st, 14th
he would have an opportunity such tens of thousands of fans in the just as Hovland started falling off, and 17th must have added up
as this but on the basis of talent? Yes.” stands around him, hundreds Smith, playing up in the pair ahead, to a handful of inches. You
of thousands listening on the came racing up with a string of could probably add them all
Filippo Celli, the 21-year-old radio, millions watching on TV, all birdies: one, two, three, four, five, on your fingers but for McIlroy,
Italian, secured low amateur honours hanging on this one stroke. The ball of them on the back nine. And all and Smith, they made all the
at five under. After finishing three rolled up to the cup, an inch to its difference.
shots shy of that tally, the LIV rebel left, and three feet beyond it. said with a smile. “I don’t have any
Sergio García made plain he had family here. My dad was actually Rory McIlroy
not enjoyed his week particularly The crowd sighed, McIlroy meant to come over, and he pulled tries vainly to
much. The Open back at St Andrews sagged. He did not lose this Open out in the last minute at the thought hole his second
in 2030 looks a bridge too far from so much as he had it taken from of doing all that travel for one week. shot on the
García. “Probably tough,” he said of him by Smith, whose supernatural He’s kicking himself now. I really 18th to force
an appearance in eight years’ time. play around the back nine wish he was here, too. a playoff
“And the way everyone is reacting to swept McIlroy’s lead away from
us, probably even tougher. Things underneath his feet. “I haven’t looked at my phone yet. TOM JENKINS/
come to an end. It’s the way it is.” When you win golf tournaments, you THE GUARDIAN
But the how of it will not matter
Speaking to media from his home- to McIlroy now, who will have to ‘My dad was meant have friends that you didn’t even
land, the Spaniard added he would reconcile himself to yet another to come over – he’s know were friends.”
be stepping away from the DP World, near-miss. He has had eight kicking himself’
formerly European, Tour, which will top-five finishes in majors since Smith declined to answer whether
exclude him from future Ryder Cups. Valhalla. In the end the record will Cameron Smith he was joining the Saudi-backed LIV
García feels he has been victimised show he finished third here, as The Open champion tour. “I’ve just won the Open and
in Europe after signing up for the Smith’s partner, Cameron Young, you’re asking me about that? I don’t
LIV Series. Fevered speculation made an eagle putt on the 18th to know, mate, I’m just here to win
continues to link Henrik Stenson, finish at 19 under, while McIlroy golf tournaments.”
Europe’s Ryder Cup captain, with blew his birdie opportunity
that controversial domain. With For McIlroy this was tough to take
Greg Norman fronting the Saudi ‘To win an Open it done. To win an Open Champion- but he can take heart from his form
Arabian-backed operation, to which at St Andrews ship in itself is probably going to be this year. All four major finishes have
McIlroy sits in such stark opposition, is unbelievable’ a golfer’s highlight in their career. been inside the top 10, with three
there is a joke somewhere about To do it around St Andrews I think is inside the top five. “You’re going
Australians causing grief to the Continued from back page just unbelievable.” to have to deal with setbacks and
Northern Irishman. Now just may failures,” he said. “This is one of those
not be the time to tell it. contour of the Road Hole bunker to Just as McIlroy and Hovland had times. I could have given the fans a
get on the green before sinking a huge fed off each other’s energy on Satur- little more to cheer about but there’s
putt from more than 10ft to maintain day, Smith and Cameron Young – a worthy winner on the 18th green.”
his one-shot lead going down the last. who pipped McIlroy to second with
an extraordinary eagle on the 18th
“I feel like I can breathe,” Smith – traded blows to propel themselves
said. “Those last four or five holes up the leaderboard yesterday.
aren’t easy, especially with that wind.
I’m really proud and managed to get For Smith – who confirmed “the
mullet is here to stay” – a night
of celebration with the Claret Jug
beckoned. “I’m definitely going to
see how many beers can fit in this
thing, that’s for sure,” the Australian

Day of crashes • The Guardian
Vingegaard Monday 18 July 2022
loses two Top table
teammates on Ireland lead
dramatic stage the way but
World Cup too
close to call

Page 40 Page 36

England fans
face long wait
for West Indies
Test tour

Exclusive
Ali Martin

Report and analysis ▲ Cameron England are poised to deliver a blow
from St Andrews Smith kisses to West Indies cricket and their own
Pages 40-43 the Claret Jug travelling supporters with no men’s
after becoming Test tour of the Caribbean scheduled
‘I’m only human’ the first for at least the next five years.
McIlroy’s Open dream in tatters Australian to
after Smith’s sublime triumph win the Open According to a draft of the future
since Greg tours programme for May 2023 to
Norman February 2027 – seen by the Guardian
and due to be finalised at the ICC’s
TOM JENKINS/THE AGM in Birmingham this month – the
GUARDIAN England men’s team are scheduled to
play just eight white-ball fixtures in
Michael Butler said McIlroy, who had no answer to in the world, was a worthy winner the Caribbean during this time.
St Andrews Smith’s eight-under-par 64 on the Old
Course. “My hotel room is directly – the first Australian to win an Open These come in a single tour early in
opposite the big yellow leaderboard the cycle – straight after the 50-over
on 18. And every time I look out, I’m Championship since Greg Nor- World Cup in India next year – with
trying to envision McIlroy at the top. England’s only other visit thereafter
You’ve got to let yourself dream. I man conquered Royal St George’s being the T20 World Cup in 2024.
would have been the happiest person It leaves a minimum five-year gap
It has been eight years since Rory in the world if I won that Claret Jug.” in 1993. He was three shots behind between Test tours of the Caribbean.
McIlroy won a major championship
and the Northern Irishman will have There was a slight hesitation the leaders at the turn but with five This is likely to dismay England
to wait a little longer. After blowing from McIlroy as the crowd cheered supporters – around 10,000 in Barba-
an overnight lead of four shots over Smith’s name but he conceded: “I got successive birdies Smith overtook dos this year and 3,000 for the Tests
Cameron Smith on the final day of the beaten by a better player this week. in Antigua and Grenada – and the
150th Open at St Andrews, McIlroy It’s not life or death. The putter just McIlroy and Viktor Hovland by the financial knock-on effect to Cricket
was philosophical as he spoke in went a little cold.” West Indies will be significant.
the shadow of the 18th grandstand, 14th and he held his nerve with the
beyond which the champion, Smith, Smith, arguably the best putter England Test tours are worth at
was collecting the Claret Jug. Rory McIlroy short stick, including a lag putt from least $10m (£8.4m) to CWI (nearly
finished in the top double when combined with
“I’m only human; I’m not a robot,” 10 in four majors the Valley of Sin on 18, to set up the limited-overs cricket). England
tours remain a significant revenue
championship-winning birdie. source for CWI in a global cricket
economy skewed heavily against
Some of the par saves were as such a high-cost, low-income part of
the world. West Indies have proved
good as the birdies. At 17, having left their strength as opponents too, with
England registering one Test series
his approach well short of 43  win in the Caribbean since 1968.
the green, Smith used the
The England and Wales Cricket
Board has pointed to a World Test
Championship draw that was out of
its control. But given its seat at the ICC
top table, three non-WTC series ver-
sus New Zealand since 2019 (includ-
ing one next winter) and seven fewer
England men’s Tests than their 49
during the last cycle, it still appears
a cold-shouldering of CWI after good
relations in recent times.

West Indies sent men’s and wom-
en’s teams to the UK during the pan-
demic in 2020, helping to prevent
catastrophic ECB losses. The next
instalment of the future tours pro-
gramme is one in which England,
India and Australia look to maxim-
ise their lucrative encounters – five-
match Test series home and away
against each other – but squeezes
bilateral international cricket and
boasts annual ICC tournaments.

ODI report Page 39

“If the dustmen sing my songs,
I feel honoured!

Heather
Small

on 90s pop,
overcoming racism
and becoming a
national treasure

Monday 18/07/22 Annie Macmanus
‘Nothing conjures
up a moment like
music can’
page 3

’Nosecco please,
we’re British’
How reality
TV turned off
the booze
page 8

2 The Guardian
Monday 18 July 2022
A new start after 60

Name herexxx ‘i started xxxx xxx xxx
xxx xxxxxxx at the age of 6x

‘I was looking for a holiday in Italy - but found a job’

A t 67, Joyce Faulkner said: ‘Tell me what that involves!’ to Scotland? No, you’re staying opportunity when it presents itself.” invitations, and I was to go to PHOTOGRAPH: SUPPLIED BY JOYCE FAULKNER
thought she She wrote me a little list, and I said: here!” She gives English lessons, Faulkner says she learned this Reykjavik, Krakow, Barcelona, COVER PHOTOGRPAH: SUKI DHANDA/THE GUARDIAN
was looking for ‘I could do that!’ She seemed to helps with the housework, meets Rome, Paris.” Mostly these were
a holiday. Her trust me and I trusted her.” the children from school, plays philosophy from Jim. When they places she had been with Jim.
husband, Jim, had chess or table tennis with them, and met at a teachers’ conference (they “I think I was planning in my
recently died and Two months later, Faulkner was takes them to the park. “It never both taught English), they had each head, without consciously doing
exploring possible house swaps on her way to Bergamo airport. The feels like work,” she says. “It has previously been married. it, a kind of farewell tour.” Covid
on the Home Exchange website area had been at the heart of Italy’s been absolutely the perfect match.” intervened. “It made me stop and
felt soothing. In the end, it was Covid outbreak. When Faulkner “I fell in love with Jim the minute take stock,” she says.
not a vacation Faulkner found arrived in November 2020, the Faulkner’s son, Steven, who I saw him, the minute I spoke to
but a job. She left her home in first Italian word she learned was lives in London, has visited her him,” Faulkner says. “But I was a Faulkner is not ready to leave
South Queensferry, just outside “tamponi” – swabs – as she queued and they have cycled around the bit hesitant. He said: ‘Supposing Italy. “I haven’t started on an exit
Edinburgh, to become mother’s for her Covid test. northern Italian lakes. She feels no we only get six months out of this plan,” she says. “I’ll be 70 in January.
help to seven-year-old twins more distant than when she lived relationship? That’s six months That looks like a big number when
in the northern Italian town of When she reached the square in South Queensferry. worth having.’ I thought: ‘What you write it down, but in my head,
Varese. Now she is known as “La in Varese, “the dad, Andrea, was a great attitude to life. Not ‘what I’m 30. You think: ‘Really? Seventy?
Babysitter” or simply “La Joyce”. walking towards me with the Before she made her move, her a waste of six months’, but six How can that be?’ I still feel the
children hiding behind his legs, sister reasonably pointed out: months to value and appreciate. We same person, I have the same
“Really, when I think of it, it’s kind of shy, thinking: ‘Who is “‘You’re used to living on your own. were together from 1983 to 2019.” enthusiasm for life, the same
halfway crazy,” she says. “I came this woman in a long black coat?’ How are you going to cope?’ I said: interest in people and things. In
on the strength of two emails.” I don’t think it was quite Mary ‘Well, if it doesn’t work out, I’ll Thirty-six years, then. that sense, I wish I had another 70.”
A house swap she was interested Poppins, but the atmosphere was make another decision.’” “Gosh, as much as that?” she Paula Cocozza
in didn’t work out, but the owner, immediately warm and friendly.” says. “So there you go.” Tell us: has your life taken a new
Rachele, asked: “‘Do you know Even the sight of trucks taking In a funny way, it was Jim who direction after the age of 60? Fill in
anyone who might help me with Eighteen months on, Faulkner’s bodies away from the hospital led Faulkner to Italy, because after the online form at theguardian.com/
the children?’ I wrote back and job no longer feels like a job. “I just in Bergamo during the early he died, “almost by mistake”, she new-start-after-60
feel like part of the family.” They stage of the pandemic didn’t put arranged five holidays on Home
joke: “You think you’re going back her off. “You have to take the Exchange. “I accepted people’s

The Guardian 3
Monday 18 July 2022
I want to live How we met
Annie a long life –
Macmanus but I also want
to eat paté
After 17 years at
Radio 1, it’s thrilling I took a DNA test a few weeks ago.
to listen to old music It arrived in the post. I had to prick
my finger, squeeze out several
I am about to turn 44. When I was in my 20s, I never thought drops of blood and put them in a Kim and Joe
I would still be DJing in my 40s, but it turns out that it’s still box to post to a lab in Scandinavia. When Joe lost his wife,
as thrilling and fun as it was when I was half my age. I still Debbie, to breast cancer
love the connection to the crowd; I still love being in the It’s about risk management. For in July 2012, he was
middle of all that noise. But all those late nights have taken the first time, I’m looking to invest devastated. “As a family,
their toll on my brain. I wish I could remember more. long-term in my body and, to do we didn’t recognise
This year, I seem to want to play only old music. I have been that, I need to explore what could the full extent of the
happen in terms of illness. I want
ending my sets with an edit of Abba’s Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! to do what I can now, to optimise
my chances of living healthily for
(A Man After Midnight). At Glastonbury, I played John Paul Young’s longer. I want my body and my devastation,” he says. At the time, he was
mind to be aligned; I want to feel
Love Is in the Air and Fleetwood Mac’s Everywhere. I can’t get strong and supple and capable. I living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his
thought it may mean taking a few
enough of playing the classics at weddings, having DJed two this more supplements. Exercising two children, aged nine and 12. To cope with
more. Eating more greens.
summer already. his new life, he turned to blogging. “I have
But when I got my results back
This may be a reactionary thing. It’s the first year I have not been from the lab, they were extensive. no idea why I started, I just needed an outlet
I could feel my concentration
at Radio 1 in 17 years. Playing old music feels almost subversive, fading by the time I read to the and it felt cathartic.”
end of the section on how to read
since I have been conditioned to discover and air new artists for your results. Focus, Annie, focus. Not long after he began writing, his blog
I cast my eyes over the column
so long. But it’s not just me. Already this year, Paul McCartney has headed “AVOID”. was recommended to Kim, whose husband,

headlined Glastonbury, Abba have sold out huge shows in hologram Limit alcohol. I thought I was Jack, had died from a brain tumour. “I was
already limiting alcohol – I only
form and Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill has topped the charts drink on weekends! Reduce experiencing exactly the same, bringing up
exposure to environmental toxins
and broken records. such as air pollution, pesticides two children and juggling the demands at
and plastic. So that rules out living
So, what is this fascination with the pop music of the past? Now in the city – or the countryside. work,” she says. “It was really hard.”
Avoid all high-sugar foods and
that you can carry practically every song ever recorded in your refined grains. I Google refined One day, when Kim was visiting Jack in the
grains. No crackers, croissants,
pocket, the concept of “new” music is relative. But for those who toast or cereal. What am I going to cemetery, she noticed that Debbie was buried
smother peanut butter or paté on
are rediscovering all this old music, there is an added bonus, in now? Decrease saturated fat intake, next to him. “I recognised her surname from
such as cheese and butter. Ah, come
that songs are memory machines. They act as portals to precise on, not butter? the blog,” she says. In late September, she

moments in the past. And for this frazzled, soon-to-be 44-year-old, It gets worse: avoid all trans emailed Joe to thank him for the posts. “She
fats, processed foods, fried foods,
that has become newly useful. commercially made biscuits. had signed it saying that her husband was

I listen to Goldie’s seminal 1995 album, Timeless. The first song, It’s the finiteness of it. The “all” buried next to my wife,” says Joe. “It felt
in the “avoid all”. This morning,
Inner City Life, starts with a slightly oscillating synth. There is an I hesitated in front of the bread like I was hit with a lightning bolt.”
bin. I can confirm, as I bite into
alien-like, ethereal quality to the sound and it stirs something deep my butter- and peanut-butter- A few weeks later, they met in person at
smothered toast, that risk-taking
Blur’s album Parklife in my consciousness. Suddenly, I am 18 tastes really good. a local support event for young widowers.
transports me to my again, on holiday in Tenerife. My hair is
bedroom in Dublin cropped and I am sitting on the balcony They formed a friendship, regularly meeting
of the apartment I’m sharing with five
girlfriends for the fortnight, but I’m up in a group. “I was into running at the
with a boy. There are empty bottles and
cigarette packets on the table. There is time and Joe came running with me and my

friends,” says Kim. In November, they went

out for coffee after completing a 5k run and

ended up chatting for hours.

no view, just bushes and brick, but the “There was an attraction there, but we

sun is coming up and the new day feels didn’t act on it,” says Joe. They began to meet

heavy with possibility. We are on the more regularly and confide in each other.

precipice of the rest of our life. They started dating in early 2013, but kept it

I listen to Blur’s album Parklife and from their families. “There’s a lot of taboos

it transports me to my bedroom in my around how quickly you can get into a new

PHOTOGRAPHS: MARC BROUSSELY/REDFERNS; SARA SADLER/ALAMY; PROVIDED BY KIM AND JOE family home in Dublin. The house is relationship when you’re grieving,” says Joe.

empty and this is precious time for They met whenever they could and

release, as I’m a teenager and I need supported each other through their grief. “We

to scream and shout. Albert Einstein were calling each other in the middle of the

watches over me from the poster above night when we felt overwhelmed,” says Kim.

my bed. The lights are off and I am In April 2014, they shared

wailing the lyrics at the top of my voice, She said her their relationship with
their families. Although it
feeling everything in extremes: my

teenage self-loathing; my yearning to be husband came as a shock, they were
supportive. At the end of
free; my desperation to be looked after.

I listen to the xx’s debut album and I’m in the triangular-shaped was buried 2015, Kim and Joe moved
next to in together with all their
bath in the basement of my first flat, with my new boyfriend. Our my wife children. “My vision was
quite Brady Bunch, but
bodies are tangled up, in and out of the water, his long legs propped it was a bit more like the
Osbournes,” laughs Joe.
on the side where mildew has gathered in the grout, turning it the

colour of rust. It is Sunday evening, the end of a sequence of parties

and afterparties. We are exhausted, but content.

There are no linear patterns to my memories any more, just these As well as enjoying time

vivid and sensory flashbacks, and I’m so grateful for them. Nothing together, they also honour the lives of their

can conjure up a moment like music can. As I get older and life feels former partners. “We’re getting married in

like it’s galloping away from me, music roots me. Songs are flagpoles a few weeks and we’ll have two spare chairs

looming through the mist of my memory, joining dots on the map for them as a tribute,” says Kim. “They’re for

of my life. I’m going to keep playing the old ones, so I can gain a new ever part of our lives.”

perspective on years gone by. It’s time to start remembering again. Lizzie Cernik

Annie Macmanus is a writer and DJ (as Annie Mac). Her novel Want to share your story? Tell us a little

Mother Mother is out now about yourself, your partner and how

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Monday 18 July 2022
4

‘What times we live in
that nobody missed her’

How could Sheila It is now five months since her. No one came to look for her.” own detective work with the help walls; then that stopped.” After
Seleoane lie dead police finally broke down the Another neighbour on Sheila’s of Peckham’s Labour MP, Harriet multiple fruitless calls to Peabody,
in her flat for doors to Sheila’s flat in a modern Harman. Their research reveals a he walked two miles to the Peabody
more than two redbrick block in Peckham. Among corridor, Donatus Okeke, who works mystifying contradiction between management offices, some time in
years? Amelia her former neighbours, there is in construction and is originally what the housing association says late 2019, he thinks, to register his
Gentleman rising anger over the way they say from Nigeria, says he had politely happened and the reported actions concerns. A member of staff came to
speaks to those that the police and the housing distant relations with the woman of the police. the block and opened some corridor
who tried to raise association ignored them when he lived metres from for several windows. Some residents were told
the alarm but they tried to raise the alarm. A years. “She would always greet my There is a quiet irony in the way that the problem was poor rubbish
were ignored by much delayed independent report children, but I didn’t know her name Sheila’s death has brought her disposal by tenants, or possibly
the authorities is due to be published later this and I never went in her flat. In this neighbours together. Their building damp, or outside drainpipes.
week, to coincide with the inquest. country, you don’t communicate is a 20-flat block, with thin walls and
O Whatever that report concludes, with your neighbours.” flimsy doors. For years, its tenants It was obvious to the other
nly two people the case already raises questions have lived cheek by jowl with other tenants in the block that the
attended the funeral of Sheila about whether or not the concerns Sheila’s body might still remain families that they rarely spoke to. occupant of flat 16 was not living
Seleoane in April: her estranged of social-housing tenants are still undiscovered had it not been for Now, as they try to unpick the truth there or was no longer alive.
brother and a representative from routinely ignored, in ways that Storm Eunice, which swept through about Sheila’s fate, they have been Communal cleaners moved her
Peabody, the housing association echo the events that preceded the Britain on 18 February, triggering forced to get to know one another. doormat to wash the floor, and left
responsible for the block of flats Grenfell catastrophe. And it has left transport chaos and power cuts – it leaning against the wall, where
where she had lived, who arrived many wondering about modern and blowing open Sheila’s balcony Their investigations reveal that it stayed for months. Her letterbox
very late. isolation, and how a resident of a door. Her downstairs neighbour the last certain evidence that Sheila in the entrance hall became so full
busy city of 9 million can die and was disturbed by the noise of the was alive was in August 2019, when that post started overflowing on to
Two months earlier, Sheila’s not be missed for years. glass door banging in the wind and she paid her rent by debit card to the doormat. Children played with
skeletal remains had been found called the police. That evening, Peabody for the last time. A month the letters, and some of them ended
on the sofa in her third-floor south Despite enormous media interest police officers broke down the later neighbours began calling the up in a heap on the bottom of the
London flat, where they had lain in Sheila’s story, very little has front door with a battering ram and housing association, reporting an lift. In early 2020, Christine picked
undetected for an estimated emerged about her identity. Before found her body. unpleasant smell in the hallways of up one of the letters and opened it.
two-and-a-half years, despite her death, none of her neighbours the building.
repeated attempts by neighbours to even knew the name of the woman Police have said Sheila’s death “I know you’re not meant to
persuade the police to break down in flat 16. “I’d hear her keys jiggling was unexplained rather than “Flies began coming through my open other people’s letters,” she
her door and check on her welfare. in the door; I think she had a typical suspicious, but tenants remain windows, and there were maggots says, “but I was worried. It was
nine-to-five schedule, but I barely confused by events since they on the windowsill,” says Sheila’s a letter from Peabody saying she
“The priest said she was loved saw her,” says Christine. “I probably first became worried about their downstairs neighbour, a woman hadn’t been paying her rent since
by her friends and family and knew her better than anyone else neighbour. Tired of waiting for the who has lived in the block for 17 September 2019.” She called the
neighbours – but, when you looked in the block, but we never really results of the independent report, years (she also asked not to be landlords to say that she was
at the audience, there was just spoke – just hello and that was it.” tenants have been doing their named). “In August or September concerned; by this point she was
one person there,” says Christine, Christine never went inside, but 2019, I rang Peabody to report it, buying scented candles and laying
an events manager who lived occasionally glimpsed a tidy and I told the GP but they said they didn’t deal with towels under her front door.
opposite her (and asked for her well-looked-after interior. It was I thought flies and I needed to ring a pest
real name not to be printed). She only after her neighbour’s death someone had control company. I found maggots
had asked Peabody if she could that she discovered she worked as died and the crawling on the furniture.” Some
attend the service, but no one a medical receptionist, employed smell was time later, she says, she rang them
sent her the details. Instead, she through a temping agency. “It making me sick again to ask: “Are you sure no one
was later emailed a link to watch was an admin type of job; she was has died in the block?” She can’t
a recording of the event. Sheila, always dressed in black trousers, remember precisely how they
who was 61 when she died, was court shoes, a white shirt. I was responded, but knows her concerns
given a traditional Christian surprised when I found out she was were brushed off.
service; pallbearers had placed an 61 – she looked much younger.”
arrangement of white flowers on Donatus’s wife, Evelyn Okeke,
her wooden casket. “It was very She doesn’t remember ever remembers having to hold her
sad,” Christine says. seeing visitors. “It’s so hard to nose every time she left the flat.
understand why none of her friends She began spraying air freshener
or colleagues or her boss missed and deodorant all over her home to
disguise the smell. According to her
The discarded diary, Okeke first called Peabody
bike leaning on 10 October 2019. Her husband
against Sheila’s was so disturbed by the smell that
front door, and he went to the doctor. “I told the
an ambulance GP I thought someone had died in
outside the block the flat and the smell was making
of flats in south me sick,” he says. “It was a very
London harmful smell; we couldn’t cope
with it. We wanted to move out.”

In flat 17, which shares a wall
with flat 16, an Iraqi-Kurdish family
of six, who moved in a decade
ago, were also concerned. They
started laying old clothes at the
base of their front door to stop the
smell from the corridor seeping
through. The eldest son, now 21,
remembers that some time in
late 2019 he stopped seeing her.
“We used to hear her through the

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ILLUSTRATION : ULA ŠVEIKAUSKAITĖ AT SYNERGYART/THE GUARDIAN. PHOTOGRAPHS: SWNS; SUPPLIED “Sometimes I wanted to gag.” She Sheila’s door while it was locked. No one cared. Douglas, who I went to school with. concerns. The housing association
called the police twice. “I told them Someone carried a Santander bike When we I can’t remember your address and took over running the Peckham
my neighbour was missing and up to the third-floor landing and complained made the mistake of not writing block, where several tenants
there was a bad smell. They came abandoned it, blocking her entrance about it, all they it down.” Only two classmates on are classified as vulnerable,
and stood outside the door and for weeks. By now, Sheila’s rent and did was add a the Facebook page for Woodberry when it merged with the smaller
said they couldn’t smell anything. council tax were heavily in arrears. splash of paint Down secondary school, in north organisation Family Mosaic in 2017;
They said perhaps she had gone London, which Sheila attended in residents say that before the merger
away and left a pet behind, or Neighbours’ memories of 2020 “but found no grounds for the 1960s, were able to recall vague they had close personal relations
perhaps some food had gone off. I this time are blurred in a Covid- forcing entry”; their involvement half-memories of a friend they had with a block manager who was
knew she didn’t have a pet; you’re related haze, but they have was referred to the Directorate of forgotten about decades earlier. often present.
not allowed them in this building. constructed a timeline of their Professional Standards in March,
I wanted them to break the door calls and WhatsApp messages, which ruled that it did not reach Just one passport sized photo A Peabody spokesperson says
down, but they said they couldn’t revealing that by July 2020, they the threshold for getting the has emerged of Sheila, who was the findings of the investigation
without a warrant. They said the were asking one another why the Independent Office for Police born in London in 1961, to a mother will be shared with tenants after
landlord needed to deal with it.” landlords and the police were Conduct involved, “due to the who had arrived from South the inquest. “As an organisation
The second time she called the not investigating the “missing or likelihood that the resident was Africa a few years earlier. Sheila’s and as individuals, we are deeply
police she found their response supposed dead person”. Peabody deceased before the calls to police”. closest relative, from whom she sorry about the length of time it
even less helpful. “They seemed has told Harman that the block’s was estranged, was her 64-year- took us to realise Sheila had passed
quite annoyed – like we were just neighbourhood manager tried to “It’s odd – they seem to be saying old brother. Police traced an older away at home. The report shows
a bunch of nosy neighbours. They contact the tenant “many times”, it doesn’t matter they didn’t do half-sister, Julia Bella Brooms, that, although processes were
said they couldn’t do anything.” but was unable to get a response. It their job properly because she was in South Africa. She never met followed and we tried to contact
also says that it does not have the already dead,” Harman says. Sheila, but held a memorial service Sheila many times, there were
It was clear that no one was right to force entry without police for her some weeks after the several missed opportunities to
entering or leaving the flat. In support. The organisation only Sheila left almost no digital London funeral. raise the alarm. Since February,
March 2020, engineers came three contacted the police in October footprint. Her Facebook account we have been supporting Sheila’s
times to try to do an annual gas 2020, when a tenant’s social worker is empty except for a single entry Sheila’s undiscovered death is family, and we are keen to work
safety check, and finally stuck a told the housing association there from 2012: “I am looking for Jackie not unique. Joyce Carol Vincent, with residents and others to
letter on Sheila’s door, noting that was “a strong smell like a dead whose story was told in the film decide on an appropriate way to
they had been unable to gain access body”. Peabody told Harman that, Dreams of a Life, died in her north commemorate Sheila in the future.”
and promising to return to make according to its records: “The London bedsit in 2003 and was also
a forced entry in April 2020. But police reported back that they had undiscovered for almost three years. This may not be enough to
the Covid lockdown began and the ‘spoken to the resident and that she Other housing association tenants placate the tenants. All the third-
forced entry never happened; the is safe and well.’” As a result, the have told the Guardian about floor residents have requested to
letter stayed up for more than a year request to carry out a welfare check neighbours who were left for weeks move. “We had someone lying dead
until decorators came to repaint on the resident was closed. before their bodies were found. in our building for over two years,”
the internal corridors and doors; one says. “No one cared. When we
they moved the notice and painted The police confirm that they But Peabody will face harsh complained about it, all they did
went twice to the flat in October criticism this week, because of was add a splash of paint.”
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6 The G2 interview

‘I’ve never done things for the

Heather Small H life of its own since its release in is the personification of them. She always tell, but you can tell when a
battled prejudice eather 2000, soundtracking TV montages, doesn’t take herself seriously, but voice is tired – there’s no hiding.”
and stage fright to Small used to tell herself that if being used for the 2012 Olympic she has always taken her work
become a star, first she could just have one song that bid and appearing in the sitcom seriously. In the 1990s, M People She felt it was her mission to
with M People, then everyone knew and expected her Miranda; even Oprah Winfrey used had huge success commercially and impart M People’s good vibes.
as a solo artist. As to sing over and over again, she it on her show. Does Small ever get critically, winning the 1994 Mercury Their fans, she says, “saw that
she releases a new would be happy. That she has many tired of it? “Absolutely not. Hearing prize for their second album, we were having fun, and that we
album, she talks is a real delight. She remembers a the reaction from a crowd to Proud Elegant Slumming, up against liked each other, and we were just
to Emine Saner group of refuse collectors in their brings out the joy because I see giants such as Blur, Paul Weller, going around the world with [our]
about family, being van who spotted her on the street how much it means to people. How Take That, the Prodigy and Primal friends. Singing, writing songs and
branded a diva – and and shouted over to her. “They all could you not give it your best? Scream. The 1990s pop scene trying to be as happy as you could
why it is all about started singing Moving on Up,” she For some people, it’s the first time was “fun”, says Small. “So many be, because we all know unhappy
the music says. “I felt like I’d arrived. It was they’ve heard me sing. Others have genres were allowed to coexist, doesn’t feel good.” Are they still
brilliant. It was just so warm, and if heard me sing it lots of times, but very different but still bringing freinds? There is the slightest hint,
the dustmen want to sing my songs, they’re still waiting for that feeling, something very British to the table. amid all Small’s positivity, that
I feel honoured.” that connection.” She smiles, lips I’m proud to be part of that because they have moved on. “I don’t see
painted pink. “I’m looking for that I own my Britishness now, in a way them often. I would say my friend is
That song and others – such as connection as well.” It’s why she that I could not earlier in my life.” Shovell [the band’s drummer]. He is
One Night in Heaven and Search for sings, she says. “You want to feel my son’s godfather. We still keep in
the Hero from her days in the band that love; you want to feel that joy. How did she deal with fame and contact. The other two I don’t see so
M People, and her solo hit Proud If you release something, if you put success? “I think you’re cushioned much or speak to. Sometimes you
– are on her new album, largely of it out there, you’re looking for some from it because you work so hard,” grow apart.”
greatest hits, rerecorded with the kind of approval; you’re looking for she says. Small never drank or
London Metropolitan Orchestra. people to be your tribe.” smoked or took drugs, she says (she In 2000, Small released her solo
Proud, especially, has taken on a has also been vegan most of her life), album, Proud. Its title single – not
We meet in an office at her and only went to one or two parties an immediate hit but an enduring
record label, and I can’t remember while on tour. “Mostly, I thought: one – is special to her because she
the last time I met anyone so ‘I’m not on holiday. People have co-wrote it (most of M People’s
lacking in cynicism, so quick paid hard-earned money,’ and this songs were written by their founder
to laugh, raucously, and often is always my ethos. When the band member, Haçienda DJ Mike
at herself. Her songs are warm, pick up their instruments, if they’re Pickering). Did she feel pressure to
upbeat and energising, and Small feeling a bit fuzzy-headed you can’t follow it up with another hit? It’s not
about that, she says. “People would