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Teacher strike PrincefeelsRwanda’ssuffering
would be
unforgivable,
says Zahawi

Children have faced enough struggles through Covid,
warns minister after largest union threatens walkout

By Camilla Turner, Hayley Dixon Campaign he says. He adds that he is “deeply con- TIM ROOKE/SHUTTERSTOCK
and Ben Riley-Smith for Children cerned” that this week’s rail strikes are
“piling undue stress on to our children, The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial in the Rwandan capital, where they saw the skulls of hundreds of victims
A TEACHERS’ strike would be “unfor- ‘Young at what is always an anxious time” with laid out and images of children killed in the 1994 slaughter. The Duchess remarked: ‘What humans can do to other humans’
givable” in the wake of Covid, the Edu- people have hundreds of thousands of pupils sitting
cation Secretary says today as officials suffered GCSEs and A-levels. Johnson to tell Charles he is proud of migrant plan
draw up plans for an army of supply more
teachers to keep schools open. disruption In March the Government submitted By Ben Riley-Smith, Meeting, which the Prince and Prime ‘The policy is measure and it’s a plan to deal with the
than any its evidence to the School Teachers’ Victoria Ward in Rwanda Minister will attend. Clarence House a sensible grotesque abuse of innocent people
Nadhim Zahawi writes in The Daily generation Review Body, which proposed an 8.9 and Camilla Turner described tomorrow morning’s planned measure and crossing the Channel. It hasn’t been
Telegraph that young people have before them’ per cent increase to teachers’ starting encounter as Mr Johnson “popping in it’s a plan to ruled unlawful by any court.”
already suffered “more disruption than salaries but just a 3 per cent increase for BORIS JOHNSON is prepared to declare for a cup of tea”. deal with the
any generation that’s gone before their more experienced colleagues. he is “proud” of his Rwanda migrant grotesque Mr Johnson added that he was “very
them”, after the UK’s largest teaching policy during talks with the Prince of Sources close to the Prime Minister abuse of much looking forward” to seeing the
union threatened to ballot for a strike. Concerns about the impact on stu- Wales in the East African country and the Prince played down expecta- innocent Prince.
dents were also raised by Boris John- tomorrow, The Daily Telegraph under- tions that the migrant policy would be people
The Government will today unveil son, who called for exam boards to stands. discussed, but it was not ruled out. crossing the It is understood that Mr Johnson,
plans to change the law to allow busi- show understanding when marking the Channel’ who has been robust in public in his dis-
nesses to use skilled agency workers to papers of students whose journeys were The pair will meet for the first time Mr Johnson was last night boarding a missal of criticism of the approach,
cover striking staff. disrupted by the stoppages. since it emerged that the Prince pri- flight to Kigali when he said he had “no would argue the policy’s merits if the
vately described the planned deporta- evidence” for the claim that the Prince topic came up.
The legislation, which is expected to But the Prime Minister faced fresh tion of asylum seekers to the country called the policy “appalling”.
be in place by the autumn, will allow scrutiny and Tory criticism of his eco- as “appalling”. One of his allies said: “Our economic
supply teachers to keep schools open nomic approach to inflation, which Asked whether he would tell the and migration partnership with
while union members are striking, underpins negotiations on rail worker Rwanda is hosting this year’s Com- Prince he was wrong to attack the pol- Rwanda is something we’re proud to
Whitehall sources said. pay. The decision to increase the state monwealth Heads of Government icy, the Prime Minister told reporters: have struck. We’re encouraged by the
pension and benefits by inflation next “I think that the policy is a sensible Continued on Page 2
It comes as the rail network will again year but reject calls to grant public sec-
be brought to a standstill today by the tor pay rises in line with prices was
biggest industrial action in decades. called “crazy” by one former minister.

Mr Zahawi’s attempt to tackle teach- Lord O’Neill, a Treasury minister
ers at the first threat of strike action will under George Osborne, said: “The con-
be viewed in contrast to what was seen stant protection of pensioners seems
as a slow reaction to the rail unions. ludicrous in itself and in these circum-
Grant Shapps has faced criticism for stances particularly crazy.”
failing to meet the RMT face to face.
But the Prime Minister’s spokesman
The National Education Union (NEU) said it would be “reckless” to increase
yesterday became the latest union to public sector pay in line with inflation
demand an “inflation-plus” pay rise in a as it risked locking in price surges.
letter to Mr Zahawi.
Thérèse Coffey, the Work and Pen-
It warned that it would ballot on sions Secretary, urged rich pensioners to
striking at the beginning of the next consider giving back the state pension
school year if its demands were not met, rise, while Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor,
urging the Education Secretary to played down fears that the policy would
“respond to the new economic reality of fuel inflation. Mr Johnson faces a further
double-digit inflation and the threat this test of his leadership today in the Tiver-
poses to teacher living standards”. ton and Wakefield by-elections.

Dr Mary Bousted, the joint general A spokesman at the Department of
secretary of the NEU, encouraged Mr Business, Energy and Industrial Strat-
Zahawi to “commit to an inflation-plus egy said that legislation to end bans on
increase for all teachers”. The latest fig- the use of agency staff would “minimise
ures released by the Office for National the negative and unfair impact of
Statistics showed that inflation has strikes”, adding: “Strikes in public ser-
reached a 40-year high of 9.1 per cent. vices such as education can often mean
parents have to stay at home with their
A second education union, the NAS- children rather than go to work, or rail
UWT, has also said it will ballot its mem- sector strikes stopping commuters get-
bers for industrial action if staff are not ting to work or to other businesses.”
given a 12 per cent pay rise.
Kwasi Kwarteng, the Business Secre-
In his article, Mr Zahawi says that a tary, said: “Repealing these 1970s-era
strike would be “irresponsible” and it is restrictions will give businesses free-
“wrong” to make children endure more dom to access fully skilled staff at speed,
disruption after the pandemic. all while allowing people to get on with
their lives uninterrupted to help keep
“Young people have suffered more the economy ticking.”
disruption than any generation that’s
gone before them and to compound Reports: Pages 4-5
that now, as recovery is in full swing Nadhim Zahawi: Page 14
and families are thinking about their
next big step following school or col-
lege, would be unforgivable and unfair,”

Polio warning as virus spreads in Britain for first time in 40 years

By Sarah Knapton Science editor and east London in February. Although individual who was vaccinated with a tal, said: “Although the uptake of polio below 85 per cent in eight out of 33 Lon- where vaccine uptake is lower. On rare
this would not normally be a concern, a live virus abroad, but has since mutated vaccines is high in the UK, there are don local authorities in the 2020-21 aca- occasions it can cause paralysis in peo-
POLIO is spreading in Britain for the mutated version of the same strain was into a type more like wild polio, which, children who are unimmunised and at demic year, and around one third of ple who are not fully vaccinated so if
first time in nearly 40 years, health offi- picked up in April and May, suggesting on rare occasions, can infect the spinal risk of developing polio if in contact children have not had a pre-school or you or your child are not up to date with
cials have warned, as they declared a there has been ongoing spread between cord and base of the brain, causing with this virus. The risk is small, but it is teenage booster. your polio vaccinations it’s important
national incident and urged people to individuals over several months, which paralysis and breathing problems. easily preventable by the vaccine.” you contact your GP to catch up or if
make sure they are vaccinated. has allowed the virus to evolve. A recent report by the UKHSA also unsure check your red book.
So far, there have been no reported Children are routinely vaccinated found that in Hillingdon in west Lon-
Britain was proclaimed polio-free in Health experts are also concerned cases of polio, and health experts say against polio, but north London has don, just 35 per cent of teenagers had “Most of the UK population will be
2003 with the last “wild” case detected doctors no longer recognise the symp- protected from vaccination in child-
in 1984, making the new outbreak the toms of polio as it has not been circulat- the risk is low for children and adults some of the worst uptake rates in the been boosted against polio, the worst hood, but in some communities with
first transmission event since the 1980s. ing for decades, meaning cases could who have had three doses of vaccine, country, with about one third of young- uptake in the country. low vaccine coverage, individuals may
have been misdiagnosed. GPs are being but urged unvaccinated individuals to sters in Hackney and the City of London remain at risk.”
The UK Health and Security Agency failing to have a first jab at 12 months, Dr Vanessa Saliba, consultant epide-
(UKHSA) said that a polio virus had asked to look out for signs of the virus. come forward for jabs and boosters. and nearly one quarter missing a shot at Health experts believe the virus was
been detected in sewage from north The virus was originally shed from an Dr David Elliman, a consultant paedi- miologist at the UKHSA, said: “Vaccine-
24 months. Three-dose coverage was derived poliovirus has the potential to Continued on Page 2
atrician at Great Ormond Street Hospi- spread, particularly in communities

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No Commons denial from PM over top roles for wife NEWSBULLETIN

By Mason Boycott-Owen media – because they do not want to son accused the Labour leader of hav- family. Asked if Mr Johnson’s failure to speak for themselves that Mrs Johnson Anti-hare coursing rules
talk about what is going on in the real ing ill-discipline on his benches after 25 deny this was effectively confirmation it did not apply for or was offered any role.”
BORIS JOHNSON yesterday did not world,” Mr Johnson said during Prime of his MPs defied his orders to join was true, the press secretary said: “I imposed from August
deny claims that his wife, Carrie, had Minister’s Questions. picket lines. Sir Keir replied by mocking don’t think we’ve got anything further A spokesman for Mrs Johnson has
been considered for senior roles in the the Prime Minister. to add on this. described the claims surrounding the A crackdown on hare poaching is due
Government and the royal household, It comes amid a week of half-denials government role as “totally untrue” to start before the next season in a
as he was mocked by Sir Keir Starmer by the Prime Minister and Downing He said: “I am surprised the Prime “We’ve obviously been asked about it and denied the claims that she had been victory for farmers.
over wanting to appoint her. Street following reports of numerous Minister is giving me advice about my several times. discussed for the royal job, although
jobs which he is said to have tried to team,” he told the Commons. there is no suggestion that she ever Tougher measures to tackle illegal
Urged by Chris Elmore, a Labour MP, appoint Carrie Johnson to. “There are various different reports.” applied formally for the role or knew hare coursing – including raising the
to “be honest” with the House of Com- “If I do need advice, let us say, about She added: “On the report from yes- that her husband’s advisers had sug- maximum jail sentence to six months
mons and say if he ever considered This allegedly included a £100,000 a £100,000 job at the Foreign Office, I terday, as we’ve said, the Prime Minister gested the idea. and removing a cap on fines – were
appointing Mrs Johnson to one of the role in the Foreign Office while Mr will ask him for a recommendation.” never recommended Mrs Johnson for a brought in as part of the Police, Crime,
posts, the Prime Minister did not give a Johnson was the Foreign Secretary at government role or one as part of the “The Prime Minister was thinking Sentencing and Courts Act in April.
straight answer. the time the two were reportedly hav- The Prime Minister’s press secretary Earthshot Prize. about whether there was something she
ing an affair. did not refute the claims following the “I obviously can’t speak to any details could do but I don’t think she was aware Now the Government has confirmed
“I know why Labour Members want exchange, but said that he never “rec- of private conversations that may or may of any of this,” a third source familiar that it will be enforced from August,
to talk about non-existent jobs in the A spokesman for Mrs Johnson has ommended” Mrs Johnson for a govern- not have happened. But I think the facts with discussions said. before the coursing season begins in
described the claims as false .Mr John- ment role or a role with the Royal the autumn.

Commonwealth The Government has said hare
coursing, which uses competing dogs
to hunt hares, is linked to “criminal
activities, including theft, criminal
damage, violence and intimidation”.

rocked by toxic Menopause to blame for
dispute on eve of snoring, study suggests
crucial summit
Menopause may be to blame for
Clash over ‘suppressed’ concerns” about the report which it was DAN KITWOOD / GETTY middle-aged women’s snoring,
review of funding could be pursuing with the authors, and sup- scientists have found, and HRT may be
final blow to Baroness porters of Lady Scotland suggested Mr Flight to Rwanda Boris Johnson boarding his plane at Stansted last night before flying out able to help.
Scotland’s leadership Isaac’s letter “was deliberately written to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kigali.
so it could be leaked and cause damage”. Female sex hormones, such as
By Gordon Rayner ASSOCIATE EDITOR oestrogen and progesterone, drop as a
Two years ago Britain, Australia and ovulation ceases and a Norwegian
THE Commonwealth Secretary General New Zealand suspended voluntary pay- study of more than 700 women found
has been accused of suppressing a ments to the secretariat because of that those with lower levels of the
report that criticises her administration questions over its financial procedures. chemicals were more likely to snore or
as a toxic row flared on the eve of the suffer from sleep apnoea.
organisation’s most important summit Lady Scotland was criticised by audi-
in years. tors for waiving procurement rules 50 Adjusting female sex hormones,
times, including the award of a lucrative including via hormone replacement
The Prince of Wales, who is repre- contract to a company run by a friend. therapy (HRT), might be a way to
senting the Queen in her role as Head of combat the sleeping issues, the
the Commonwealth, flew into Rwanda Earlier this year the board asked the research suggests.
yesterday to find the gathering engulfed secretariat to commission a review into
by infighting ahead of its official open- its financing following a drop in fund- The findings were published in the
ing tomorrow. ing from member states from £50mil- journal PLOS One.
lion to £30million over the past decade.
Baroness Scotland, the Secretary Jubilee plaque removed
General, is said to be withholding the The accountancy firm Ernst & Young over spelling mistakes
results of an independent review of the (EY) delivered its report on June 1, but
Commonwealth Secretariat’s finances, A Platinum Jubilee plaque unveiled
according to a furious letter from the ‘It is not an investigation just days ago in Birmingham city
chairman of its oversight body. into our finances and it is centre is to be replaced after several
disappointing some might spelling mistakes were spotted.
But allies of the Labour peer have hit try to spin it that way’
back by suggesting her enemies have The panel was unveiled last week by
concocted the argument in order to the secretariat has declined to share it the Earl of Wessex in the city’s Victoria
undermine her as she seeks re-election. with the governors. Square, but within days, eight errors
were noticed by the public.
It comes just days after Lady Scot- By convention, an incumbent secre-
land’s camp accused Boris Johnson of tary general is reelected unopposed if They included the word ruling
pursuing a “vendetta” against her, fol- they stand for a second term. Lady Scot- spelled “rulling”, sovereignty spelled
lowing a series of controversies that land’s term has already been extended “sovereignity” and Platinum Jubilee
have blighted her term of office. by two years from her initial four-year written as “Planinum Jubilee”. Jim
tenure because the Rwanda summit, Walker, the chief executive of the
Lady Scotland’s future will be originally scheduled to take place in Commonwealth Walkway Trust,
decided at the Commonwealth Heads of 2020, was postponed until now because which commissioned the piece, said:
Government Meeting (CHOGM) when of the coronavirus pandemic. “We will be sorting it out in the next
she stands for re-election later this week. couple of weeks. It’s my fault. Trying
A Commonwealth source with to do too much, too fast.”
Mr Johnson wants her out, and the knowledge of the issues said: “This is a
UK is one of seven member states that draft report … commissioned to assess Soldier, 26, in fatal
has already declared support for rival a range of options and mechanisms for collision during training
candidate Kamina Johnson Smith, the the long-term sustainable funding of
Jamaican foreign minister. In a letter the secretariat. It is not an investigation A soldier has died after being hit by an
addressed to Commonwealth governors into our finances and it is disappointing armoured vehicle on Salisbury Plain
and seen by the BBC, Kevin Isaac, chair- some might try to spin it that way. during routine training exercises.
man of the Commonwealth Board of
Governors, said her refusal to hand over “We have strong technical and fac- Emergency services were called to
the report was “an affront” to the tual concerns which we have raised an area west of Tidworth at about
board’s authority and showed “indiffer- with Ernst & Young. 10.45am on Tuesday following reports
ence” to its oversight remit. a man had been involved in a collision,
“We are working with Ernst & Young Wiltshire Police said.
The secretariat said it had “factual on this to make sure the draft report ful-
fils the terms of the contract.” The 26-year-old had suffered serious
head injuries after being struck by a
Sewage testing aims to pinpoint source of polio virus Warrior infantry fighting vehicle and
died at the scene.
Continued from Page 1 capital to try to pinpoint the outbreak. Diagnosis polio Know the warning signs as the disease returns inactivated vaccine in 2004, which
probably imported from an individual The UKHSA said that if a specific area does not shed into the sewage system. He was a member of 5th Battalion
who had recently had an oral polio vac- was found they may target it with a Most people with after infection. number of cases, hours or days. If The Rifles, and had been on foot when
cine abroad, possibly in countries such mass vaccination programme to make polio will not have Symptoms, between one in the breathing Prof Paul Hunter, professor in medi- he was hit.
as Nigeria, Pakistan or Afghanistan sure communities are protected. any symptoms 100 and one in muscles are cine, UEA, said: “In populations with
where outbreaks are still common. and will fight off which can include 1,000 infections, affected, it can be low vaccine uptake it is possible that the Police said it was leading the
Jane Clegg, chief nurse for the NHS in the infection a fever, sore polio attacks the life threatening. live polio vaccine can spread from one investigation alongside the Army and
Oral vaccines contain live strains London, said:“The majority of London- without even throat, headache, nerves in the person to another.” the Health and Safety Executive.
which can be shed and enter the sewage ers are fully protected against polio but realising they nausea and spine and base of After paralytic
system. the NHS will begin reaching out to par- were carrying it. abdominal pain, the brain. polio, movement “If this is sustained, over time (one or Thousands of Scottish
ents of children aged under five in Lon- will usually pass often returns two years) this vaccine-derived virus ‘witches’ may get pardon
The virus was picked up during rou- don who are not up-to-date.” A small number in a week with no This can cause slowly over weeks can mutate to become fully virulent
tine fortnightly monitoring of sewage at will experience a need for paralysis, usually and months, but again and can start to cause paralysis in Thousands of Scots convicted of
London Beckton Sewage Treatment Britain began vaccinating against flu-like illness treatment. in the legs, that many are left with people who have not been vaccinated. witchcraft could be pardoned after
Works, which covers four million peo- polio in 1955, and moved to a live oral three to 21 days develops over persistent issues. almost 300 years.
ple, and more localised testing is now vaccine in 1961. After the eradication But in a small “Vaccine-derived transmission
taking place in six other areas in the of polio, Britain moved to an injectable events are well described and most ulti- Natalie Don, the SNP MSP for
mately fizzle out.” Renfrewshire North and West, has
launched consultation on a Member’s
World must learn from Corbyn accuses Omicron-specific jab could Bill to “right the historic wrong of
security services of witchcraft convictions”.
1994 genocide, says Prince undermining him pave way for annual boosters
It follows a posthumous apology
Continued from Page 1 due to end tomorrow in Chogm, where By Dominic Penna By Joe Pinkstone emerged at the end of 2021 and led to the issued by First Minister Nicola
UK courts endorsing that policy. The the Prince will outline his vision for the SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT January wave of infections, but new Sturgeon on International Women’s
Prime Minister is very confident in his the Commonwealth and meet the Prime JEREMY CORBYN has alleged he was sub-variants, called BA.4 and BA.5, have Day, in March, to those convicted,
argument.” Minister. deliberately undermined by MI5 and THE first omicron-specific vaccine now supplanted the original omicron vilified or executed under the
MI6 after meetings with them during could be a “turning point” in the battle and appear to be slightly more transmis- Witchcraft 1563 Act.
Yesterday the Prince of Wales and the The Government has struck a deal to his time as Labour leader. against Covid and open the door to sible and pathogenic.
Duchess of Cornwall toured the chil- send some migrants who arrive in the annual boosters similar to yearly flu Around 4,000 Scots were accused of
dren’s room at the Kigali Genocide UK illegally to Rwanda while their asy- The former leader of the opposition jabs, Moderna has said. People boosted with the omicron- witchcraft, which remained illegal
Memorial. lum applications are processed. refused to back the UK’s Trident nuclear specific vaccine had high levels of anti- until 1736. Around 85 per cent of those
submarine deterrent during his tenure The American vaccine manufacturer bodies in their blood, recording a convicted were women.
They viewed images of children Mr Johnson and his ministers argue and did not directly condemn Moscow has been creating and testing a two-in-
after the Skripal poisoning in 2018. one Covid vaccine for several months geometric mean titre (GMT) score of National Gallery plans
killed in the 1994 genocide and read the policy deters those seeking refuge that combines the original guise of the 941. Moderna’s original vaccine pro- festival for bicentenary
about their favourite things, such as in the UK from risking their lives by In September of that year, he was jab with the genetic code of omicron, duced about 1,000 units against the
playing with their fathers, and dreams crossing the Channel in small boats and reportedly “summoned” by Andrew the more transmissible variant that is wild form of the virus, and anything The National Gallery has announced
Parker, then director-general of MI5, currently dominant. plans to celebrate 200 years with a
of becoming doctors, while the jarring will combat criminal smuggling gangs. for a “facts of life” talk in light of contro- above 400 “we consider gives good pro- year-long festival of “art, creativity and
reality of their deaths was listed below. The Prince was reported earlier this versy surrounding his policy positions. Data published by the firm yesterday tection”, Dr Burton told reporters. imagination”.
show the bivalent vaccine gives just as
“Terrible,” said the Prince, while his month to have called the policy “appall- Two months later, this newspaper good protection against omicron as the “We think this is a strong, powerful The institution in Trafalgar Square
ing”. The claim has never been denied learnt that he had also met Alex first vaccine did to the original strain of was founded in 1824 and houses a
wife added: “What humans can do to by Clarence House. Younger, then head of MI6, in anticipa- SARS-CoV-2, but will likely last longer. antibody response and it is probably collection of more than 2,300
humans.” Another room featured row tion of a snap election. long lasting,” he said. “[The new vac- paintings dating from the 13th to the
upon row of skulls and bones. The first flight carrying migrants to Dr Paul Burton, chief medical officer cine] really could be a turning point in 20th centuries.
In an interview yesterday with the at Moderna, said the jab – known as our fight against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.”
The Prince called for the world to Rwanda was due to take off last week Declassified UK website, Mr Corbyn, 73, “214” – produces “very high antibody On May 10 2024, the gallery will
but was blocked after a last-minute rul- accused the security services of leaking levels”, which he believes “will translate He added that the data indicate the celebrate its bicentenary and
learn from the atrocity, warning it must ing by the European Court of Human details of the exchanges. into clinical protection against infection vaccine works well against BA.4 and commemorate the occasion with
never happen again. Rights. Dominic Raab, the Justice Sec- from any of the omicron family”. BA.5 as well as all other omicron forms. NG200 – an extensive programme of
retary, yesterday introduced a “British “I instructed my office that this events and exhibitions that will extend
He hopes to use the experience to meeting had to be treated as completely He also believes that the long-lasting Moderna will be sending its data to across the UK and beyond, with
Bill of Rights” that he said would enable confidential,” he said. “And it was. It was effectiveness of the new vaccine offers regulators in the UK, US and Europe simultaneous exhibitions opening at
“bring people grappling with similar UK courts to overrule European judges leaked by them and it was leaked in a the first realistic possibility of moving to “within days”, with the expectation of galleries across the nation and online
issues” together, an aide said. The royal on migrant policy. way to undermine: that somehow or a yearly booster jab, much like the cur- events taking place around the world.
couple also laid a wreath at a grave con- other I’d been summoned and given a rent annual flu programmes. Omicron using the 214 vaccine in the autumn
taining 250,000 bodies. Togo and Gabon are to join the Com- dressing down.” booster programme. is a member of the
monwealth this week, becoming the lat- Independent
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Murdoch and Pitt dug up his
Hall ‘calling French estate
in ‘fool’s gold’
obsession

time on their By Anita Singh ARTS AND
marriage’ ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
after six years
BRAD PITT has revealed that he spent a
Billionaire businessman tion on her husband at a restaurant year digging up the grounds of his
said he was the happiest where guests included leading lights French chateau after falling for a story
man alive on day of his from the world of business and politics. that it was the site of buried gold.
wedding to former model
There was also a belated birthday cel- The Hollywood star was approached
By Nick Allen ebration at his home in Henley. The by a man who said the estate in south-
guests included a few hundred friends eastern France could hide millions of
RUPERT MURDOCH and Jerry Hall are from the media, business and politics, dollars worth of treasure its medieval
to divorce after six years, according to including past and present Cabinet owner had taken during the Crusades.
a report. ministers.
Pitt said that prompted him to buy
The media mogul, 91, declared him- Among them were Rishi Sunak, Liz radar equipment and begin scouring
self the “happiest man in the world” Truss, Priti Patel and Michael Gove. his estate. “I got obsessed,” he told GQ
when he married the former model in magazine. “Like for a year, this was all I
London in March 2016. The event featured an hour-long could think about, just the excitement
video tribute introduced by his daugh- of it all.
But the couple are to split, the New ter Elisabeth.
York Times reported last night, citing “Maybe it has something to do with
two people with knowledge of the deci- The video was reported to have fea- where I grew up, because in the Ozark
sion. It would be the fourth divorce for tured the theme tune from Succession, Mountains there were always stories of
Mr Murdoch. the fictional Sky series said to be based hidden caches of gold.”
on Murdoch family intrigue.
There were no immediate details of Pitt said he later learnt that the man
any settlement between him and Previously, Mr Murdoch was married who approached him was promoting a
65-year-old Hall, who was previously in to his third wife, Wendi Deng, from radar company, and added he felt
a long-term relationship with Sir Mick “pretty foolish in the end. It was just the
Jagger. However, it was not expected to £14.4bn hunt that was exciting”.
affect ownership of Mr Murdoch’s inter-
national business empire. His family’s The estimated family fortune shared by Pitt signed a lease for the 1,200-acre
shares in the companies are in a man- Rupert Murdoch and his children, Chateau Miraval with Angelina Jolie in
aged trust. according to Forbes
‘Maybe it has to do with
Voting rights are split between his 1999 to 2014. His second wife, Anna, where I grew up … in the
four oldest children, Lachlan, Elisabeth, was a former newspaper reporter, and Ozarks there were always
James and Prudence. they divorced in 1999 following three stories of hidden gold’
decades of marriage.
Mr Murdoch and his family are worth 2008 and bought it in 2012. The couple
$17.7billion (£14.4billion), according to Patricia Booker, an Australian model, married there in 2014, only for Jolie to
Forbes. was his first wife and they divorced file for divorce two years later.
in 1965.
Mr Murdoch and Texas-born Hall In addition to a vineyard that pro-
married at Spencer House, overlooking Hall and Sir Mick have four children. duces rosé, the property has a private
Green Park, which was built in the 18th Before they started their relationship, lake, olive groves, a moat and a helicop-
century by ancestors of the late Diana, she was engaged to Bryan Ferry, the ter pad. It is now at the centre of a legal
Princess of Wales. Roxy Music singer. battle in which Pitt is suing Jolie.

At the time, Mr Murdoch wrote that Mr Murdoch’s business empire He accuses his former wife of
he was giving up posting on Twitter. He encompasses the Fox News Channel, as secretly selling her share of the estate’s
wrote: “No more tweets for ten days or well as further television and newspa- vineyard to a Russian oligarch. In a law-
ever! Feel like the luckiest AND happi- per interests in the US, UK and Aus- suit filed earlier this year in Los Ange-
est man in world.” tralia. les, he claimed that the couple had an
agreement neither would sell their
Following the wedding, Mr Murdoch A spokesman for Mr Murdoch share without the other’s approval.
reportedly spent a considerable amount declined to comment, and representa-
of time with his new wife, allowing his tives for Hall could not immediately be Pitt told GQ that until a year ago he
children to hold more sway over his reached. News UK, Mr Murdoch’s Brit- was plagued by a recurring dream of
businesses. The couple were photo- ish newspaper publishing company, being stabbed, which he put down to
graphed on a beach, watching sports also declined to comment. feeling lonely.
events, and at black-tie events.
Last year, Hall made a comeback as a He added: “I think joy has been a
Mr Murdoch celebrated his 90th model, fronting Saint Laurent’s summer newer discovery, later in life. I think I
birthday last year in New York. 2022 advertising campaign. It featured spent years with a low-grade depres-
black and white images of her in pieces sion, and it’s not until coming to terms
The couple were reported to have from the label’s latest collection. with that… that I’ve been able to catch
looked happy, with Hall lavishing atten- CHRISTIE’S/TRIANGLE NEWS The couple on their wedding day in 2016. The reported divorce is not expected to affect ownership of Rupert Murdoch’s companies those moments of joy.”
GEOFF PUGH
In the interview, Pitt, 58, also said he
had reached the final stages of his
career. “I consider myself on my last
leg, this last semester or trimester,” he
said. Although he will continue to act –
his new thriller, Bullet Train, is released
next month – he intends to focus on his
production company.

He has also made changes to his life-
style, giving up alcohol in 2016 and quit-
ting smoking during lockdown.

The July/ August issue of British GQ
is available via digital download and on
newsstands on Tuesday.

Equality for Vikings as women win right to join Shetland fire festival

By Daniel Sanderson restricted to the role of “hostesses”, in 2020, Reclaim the Raven flew a ban- Viking women Be very afraid that guizers in the main parade must be fighter had been female. A spokes-
SCOTTISH CORRESPONDENT organising parties that follow the festiv- ner depicting a female Viking warrior aged 16 or older and have lived in Shet- woman for Up Helly Aa for aa, another
ities, despite female warriors having a on horseback which read: “Have you Lagertha enemies while land continuously for five years – will group that campaigned for female
WOMEN will take part in Shetland’s prominent role in Norse mythology. forgotten those that bore you? Act lest First wife of a eight months remain the same.
Viking-inspired Up Helly Aa fire festival the gods should intervene!” Viking king who pregnant. inclusion, said: “This is absolutely
for the first time in January, after dec- But now, there will be no gender raided the British Thyr The Up Helly Aa festival dates to wonderful news and something that
ades of controversy on the islands. restrictions, despite some islanders call- Even applications for girls to take Isles in the ninth Believed to have the 1870s, when a group of young members of our community have
ing for the ban on women to be main- part in a junior procession were turned century. Said to been as fearsome, local men wanted to put new ideas been asking for over a long period
The organisers of Up Helly Aa have tained on the grounds of tradition. down previously, and Shetland council have ensured as her husband into Shetland’s festive celebra- of time.
announced that the long-standing ban ruled in 2019 that their exclusion was Ragnar was King Gorm. Said tions. “We look forward to seeing an
on female participation will be ended “We’re delighted,” said Zara Penning- not a breach of equalities laws. victorious in to have led armies inclusive Jarl Squad lead the
when the event returns in 2023 after a ton, a member of the Reclaim the Raven battle. into battle against In 2019, fresh evidence procession in future.”
two-year hiatus caused by Covid-19. feminist group which campaigned for But Robert Geddes, the Lerwick Up Freydis Germanic tribes. emerged to suggest female Bryan Peterson, the
the change. Helly Aa committee secretary, said Eiríksdóttir Aud Ketilsdottir Viking warriors were more Shetland Islands
The festival, which attracts visitors there had been a change of heart. In some accounts, Had a ship built than a myth, after DNA Council deputy
from across the world, sees “squads” of “The first serious campaigns to a ruthless secretly in a forest analysis of the bones of convener, said:
people dressed as Vikings march change this happened in the 1980s, but “We felt it was time to give squads a murderer. In and took 20 men a warrior buried with “It’s an impor-
through the streets of the capital Ler- women have been trying to get in since choice over their guizers, including others, a fearless to Iceland, where a cache of weapons in tant develop-
wick. Led by the Guizer Jarl, or chief they were originally excluded, so this is allowing female participation,” he said. warrior, who she set up her Sweden showed the ment and a
guizer, it culminates in a torch-lit pro- a multi-generational issue. Some people “The decision means the festival in Ler- fought off own settlement. positive and
cession and a replica longboat being set will be reluctant but I think most people wick will have a different dimension, New evidence has inclusive
alight. on the island will be accepting. It’s obvi- but we have no doubt its essence and message.”
ous that its time has come.” spirit will remain the same.” emerged of female
Women have previously been
The last time Up Helly Aa took place, The other criteria for participation – Viking warriors

Rolex with a Council appeals against its

hand in the own planning application

Great Escape Flt Lt Gerald Imeson, fourth from left, among fellow prisoners at Stalag Luft III. Right, his Rolex By Olivia Rudgard bearing in mind the environmental con-
fetches £155k ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT cerns, that it is in everyone’s interest to
beautiful Rolex is worth noting, but the uable as the strength which carried him by prison guards who thought they may overturn the officer’s recommendations
By Daily Telegraph Reporter opportunity to own a watch with the contain compasses or a feature that LIKE many councils, Medway in Kent is and allow this to go ahead.
throughout those years.” trying to go green by installing panels
A ROLEX that helped the wartime extraordinary provenance of this par- Only three prisoners remained free might be helpful to an escape attempt. on the roof of its 1970s office building. “It’s a 1970s building, it’s not like
break-out by British airmen as immor- ticular 3525 is virtually unheard of. However, the Luftwaffe allowed pris- we’re trying to do this to a 19th-century
talised in The Great Escape has sold for after breaking out of the camp. But its plans face a roadblock after building. It is personally my hope that
more than £150,000. “It carries with it a tale of persever- oners of war to take advantage of an the application was recommended for they will reach that conclusion.”
Imeson was 172nd in the queue and offer from Hans Wilsdorf, the owner of refusal by its own planning officers.
The glow-in-the-dark watch was ance and survival in the face of immeas- was not among the 77 who managed to Rolex, whose sales had been hit by the Historic England raised concerns
owned by Flt Lt Gerald Imeson, who urable hardship. Telling the story of one escape. war. He permitted British officers to Introducing a “modern, incongru- about the solar panels application, doc-
was detained in the prisoner-of-war man who experienced the entirety of ous” feature to the roof would look “out uments show, warning that the reflec-
camp Stalag Luft III after his Welling- the Second World War, this watch is a After the war, he returned to his wife buy watches on credit, which they of character” on the Grade II-listed con-
ton bomber made an emergency land- would pay back at the end of the war. crete and brick building in Chatham, tive solar panels would be “at odds with
ing off the coast of Belgium. testament to the strength of an individ- and his job with the Air Ministry. officers said. The decision was spotted the carefully selected muted roof fin-
ual resisting and fighting in the throes He had four children, nine grandchil- Imeson requested the Oyster Chron- by a local reporter, Ed Jennings, who ishes that characterise the building’s
During the escape attempt that of a collective horror. ograph, which was on his wrist when he described the situation as “absolutely architecture.”
inspired the 1963 film, he was responsi- dren and treasured his watch until his was finally liberated in 1945. phenomenal”.
ble for transporting dirt from the tun- “Its historical importance is as inval- death in 2003 aged 85. “The panels could also harm an
nels as they were dug and sprinkling it The council office, known as Gun appreciation of the strong sense of hor-
across the camp. Military watches were often seized Wharf, dates from the late 1970s and izontality, which is in part emphasised
was originally built by architects Arup
The Rolex, which sold for £155,000, Associates as a headquarters for insur- by the use of continuous single roof
has radium-painted hands, which ance market Lloyds of London. material and is an important part of its
meant they could be seen in the dark, as architectural effect,” its report said, sug-
well as being waterproof. The council’s planning committee is
due to consider the application next gesting that panels are instead installed
Christie’s, the auction house, said a week, where councillors can decide to on less visible roofs.
reliable illuminated timing device ignore the recommendation.
would have been needed to ascertain The building, on the banks of the
how long men had to crawl through the Stuart Tranter, councillor for Roch- Medway, was listed Grade II in 2015 as
tunnel and evade guards. ester West, who sits on the planning
committee but will not be attending the part of an English Heritage project to
Adam Victor, a senior watches con- meeting where this decision is made, recognise commercial buildings built
sultant at Christie’s, said: “The opportu- said it was a “matter of personal opin- between 1964 to 1984.
nity to own an exceptionally rare and ion”.
At the time, Veronica Fiorato, head of
“It is considered to be a fine example English Heritage in the South, said the
of its type from that period,” he said. modernist building was “a complete,
“Members may decide that on balance, integrated work of architecture which

maximises natural light as well as views
of the surrounding river, gardens and
courtyards.”

4 ** Thursday 23 June 2022 The Daily Telegraph

News

Rail chiefs expecting fresh strikes

Further industrial action the second time in a week by a walkout ‘We will bracing for a fresh wave of action as July 11 and strikes could begin two Commuters took “Until the Government unshackles
could hit services after by the Rail, Maritime and Transport continue early as July 9, insiders told The Daily weeks later. to their bikes in Network Rail and the train operating
RMT stands firm and union (RMT). with our Telegraph. Vauxhall, London, companies, it is not going to be possible
11th-hour talks fail industrial A separate ballot for drivers at Avanti yesterday as train for a negotiated settlement to be
After the 11th-hour talks to avoid that campaign The potential walkouts threaten West Coast; CrossCountry and Direct services continued agreed,” he added.
By Hayley Dixon, Oliver Gill action broke down, Mick Lynch, the until we get summer holidays as a second major Rail Services closes on July 27. to be disrupted;
and Gurpreet Narwan RMT general secretary, threatened a negotiated union revealed that it was balloting passengers waiting Mr Shapps said that claim was a “total
more walkouts, saying the union would settlement’ train drivers for action across large The RMT has a mandate which allows for Stratford station lie” and he denied he had anything to do
RAIL chiefs are braced for a fresh wave “continue with our industrial campaign parts of the country which could begin it to announce new strikes until late to open; Clapham with the letter.
of strikes in two weeks after talks to until we get a negotiated settlement”. just as the schools break up. November without consulting mem- Junction station
reach a deal with unions failed. bers. Any action past that date will have remained closed “The RMT continues to deflect from
Union sources said that the National Aslef has also balloted its members to go to the ballot. after the strike the fact that the only people responsible
Commuters were warned to avoid Executive Committee (NEC) meets for industrial action over pay at 11 major until 7.30am for the massive public disruption this
using trains today as large parts of the “every day” and can announce further train companies, including Arriva Rail It came as a war of words broke out week is them,” he said in a statement.”
country are brought to a standstill for strike dates with just two weeks’ notice. London; Chiltern Railways; Great West- after Mr Lynch said Grant Shapps had
ern; LNER; Northern Trains; Southeast- “wrecked” negotiations by preventing “I want to urge Mick Lynch and his
Network Rail is expecting a decision ern; TransPennine Express; and West Network Rail from withdrawing a letter members to stop wasting time making
on new dates to be made soon after this Midlands Trains. The ballot closes on threatening statutory redundancy for false claims in the media and instead
round of strikes ends on Saturday and is up to 2,900 RMT members. return to the negotiating table so an

Starmer balks
at sacking MP
rebels who
joined pickets

By Ben Riley-Smith Exam boards braced for appeals
and Nick Gutteridge from students unable to travel

SIR KEIR STARMER yesterday did not
fire any of the four front-bench rebels
who defied his orders by joining strik-
ing rail workers on the picket line.

The Labour leader discussed possible
disciplinary action with Alan Campbell,
the party chief whip, but no sackings
had been announced by the evening.

It came after Simon Fletcher, a for-
mer senior adviser to two Labour lead-
ers, warned Sir Keir that there would be
a “huge explosion” if MPs who joined
the picket line were punished.

The Labour leader could face a new
wave of rebellious MPs today with the
second day of nationwide rail strikes
taking place.

Ahead of Tuesday’s strike, Sir Keir
wrote to all of his shadow cabinet urg-
ing them not to join the picket line, with
the message expected to be passed on to
MPs in their teams.

Yet four front-bench Labour MPs –
Kate Osborne, a parliamentary private
secretary (PPS) to shadow Northern Ire-
land secretary; Paula Barker, a PPS to
shadow defence secretary; Navendu
Mishra, a Labour whip responsible for
keeping discipline in the party; and
Alex Sobel, a shadow environment min-
ister – defied orders.

In total, more than 20 Labour MPs
joined picket lines on Tuesday, as well
as Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour
leader.

A Labour spokesman said Mr Camp-
bell would make a decision on what will
happen to the frontbenchers in the
“next few days”. The spokesman would
not be drawn on what form any action
might take, but said: “The chief whip is
aware of Keir’s wishes.”

“I think the right way is for the pro-
cess to go ahead as it should, and that is
for the chief whip to speak to the indi-
viduals concerned,” they added.

The Labour leader is attempting to
balance the party’s traditional support
of and ties to the trade union movement
with his public stance that the strikes
should not be going ahead.

Sir Keir has sought to move the
Labour Party towards the centre ground
after he took over the leadership from
Jeremy Corbyn in April 2020.

Sir Keir had been silent on the strikes
on Tuesday, choosing not to issue a sin-
gle public comment via TV, social media
post, speech or press release.

His spokesman defended him, argu-
ing that he had outlined his position a
number of times in the preceding days,
including in a speech on Sunday.

Mr Fletcher told LBC’s Tonight with
Andrew Marr: “There would be a huge
explosion if there was disciplinary
action threatened against people.”

Labour MPs privately described the
picket line ban to The Guardian as
“imbecilic”, “pointless” and “dumb”.

Boris Johnson criticised the Labour
leader, saying his party was “backing
the strikers while we back the strivers”.

Sir Keir responded: “[He] and his
Transport Secretary haven’t attended a
single meeting, held a conversation or
lifted a finger to stop these strikes.”

Striking a flat note, PMQs leaves

all feeling a few IQ points dumber

Sketch of the vanishing news story. Had the the floor. “Your strikes!” they By Patrick Sawer, Camilla Turner The guidance also notes that students pupils’ exams cancelled. This is abso-
Prime Minister, he asked, “ever bellowed, drilled to perfection. and Lizzie Roberts “whose progression will be severely lutely outrageous. ABRSM knew that
By Madeline Grant considered the appointment of his delayed” by missing an exam should be [there] was a rail/Tube strike and had
current spouse to a government post?” Kate Osborne of Jarrow, a Labour EXAM boards are anticipating a wave plenty of time to prepare.”
T ravel chaos be damned, the Tory PPS who’d ignored the picket line ban, of appeals from students who have prioritised. This is likely to mean A-level
front bench had turned out in The Tory benches fumed, but the faced disruption as a result of this exams are prioritised over GCSEs. Ms Bacon, who has two pupils
force. Ministers jostled for space, ranted about executive pay and week’s rail strikes. affected by the cancellation, added:
crammed in like miserable commuters PM, pinkening for only a moment, speculated about a general strike. If About 500 music students had “Parents [are] taking time off work and
on a rail replacement bus. Conor Burns reverted to his well-oiled formula for Starmer had been hoping to stay out of Exam chiefs expect that pupils who their exams cancelled at short notice
and Priti Patel, squashed together in a fending off tricky questions. He harm’s way, this was not helping. could not reach centres in time or faced this week by just one exam board, pupils are prepared. I have rescheduled
forced embrace, did their best not to additional stress as a result of the big- my week to accompany on piano. We
elbow each other in the side. barrelled into filibuster mode with a Any mention of strikes drew wails of gest rail dispute in 30 years will submit while others were forced to travel long are in limbo at present.”
rant about the Government’s greatest ecstasy from the Tory faithful. So too appeals over poor results. distances by bus to sit papers.
The Labour benches looked less hits, delivered in double-quick time. “levelling up”, which came up so often Imperial College said it had only
densely packed – perhaps a few were It comes as Boris Johnson called The ABRSM, the UK’s largest music been informed of the cancellation on
still out picketing? On Tuesday, Arthur This sometimes meant spluttering. that the only rational explanation was for boards to show understanding Tuesday evening, describing it as
Scargill had done the Tories a good some kind of sweepstake among Red when marking the papers of students education and exam body, announced
turn by showing up at the RMT picket A boast about “fiscal firepower” Wall MPs. whose journeys were disrupted by it is cancelling examinations due to be “extremely frustrating” for the external
lines, fresh from his grace and favour became “physical firepower”. the stoppages. held at Imperial College’s Blyth Music music students of all ages who had
flat in the Barbican and wearing his Sometimes his words were entirely Ian Blackford looked strangely Centre and other venues across the spent weeks preparing.
Battle of Orgreave cap for brand Speaking during Prime Minister’s
recognition. Twenty-five Labour MPs indecipherable; gobbling turkey noises subdued. The SNP spokesman opts for Questions yesterday, Mr Johnson said: country tomorrow. The ABRSM said: “A combination of
had followed his lead. punctuated by the odd “bah!” fire-and-brimstone mode at the first “Schools should allow them to take the The move, announced as the country issues have impacted on the availability
hint of scandal. Carrie-gate would have paper, and exam boards will determine of some examiners to attend venues
But Chris Elmore, who had the first For once, Keir Starmer put a bit of if that paper can be marked based on was struggling through the first day of
question, opened with something welly into it. Grant Shapps, he said, pricked his interest in normal how late the student is.” across the UK during the busiest two
altogether more personal – Carrie circumstances. Yet for some reason – the rail strikes, came after examiners weeks of our exam session. The strikes
Johnson, that FCO job, and the mystery was more focused on “working on his perhaps a Patrick Grady-shaped one The Joint Council for Qualifications said they would not be able to attend have understandably led to examiners
spreadsheet tracking the Prime (JCQ), the umbrella body that repre- because of the combined impact of the not being able to travel to some venues
Minister’s unpopularity” than trying to – Blackford mumbled an unusually dry sents the UK’s largest exam boards, told
question, to jeers. schools in the run up to the dispute that rail and Tube disputes. as planned and a number have also
find a solution to the disruption. they could start exams up to half an That left about 500 students and become unavailable in recent days
His nasal grumble about bankers’ It was one of those PMQs that left all hour late without having to carry out because of illness.
feeling a few IQ points dumber. any additional paperwork. their teachers, who had spent weeks
bonuses felt like a bit of an Ed Miliband preparing for the music grade exams, “We are really sorry for any impact
Einstein would have morphed into this might have had on any of our
c2013 tribute act, but at least it wasn’t Stephen Fry; Stephen Fry into Forrest frustrated and disappointed. candidates, teachers or venues and we
entirely lifeless. The trouble for him Gump. As is often the case, the biggest Anna Bacon, a violin and piano tutor,
was those pesky strikes. At the first will refund those affected.”
mention, Tory backbenchers barked winners were the people who didn’t said the cancellation came despite the
tune in.
like trained seals and pointed across strikes being announced weeks ago.
She wrote on Twitter: “Just had my

The Daily Telegraph Thursday 23 June 2022 ** 5

in two weeks’ time Return pension
rise if not needed,
‘The RMT agreement can be reached,” Mr Shapps It comes as union bosses last night A Network Rail spokesman said they suggests Coffey
continues to added. pointed to a 7.1 per cent pay rise struck were “disappointed” that the RMT had
deflect from by rail workers in Liverpool as a new walked away but they “remain available Extra £1,000 from hike homes. Those are the sorts of issues we
the fact that The RMT was accused of staging a benchmark. for talks – day or night – and will do eve- are tackling. There’ll be some like Lord
the only ones “pantomime walkout” of talks yester- rything we can to avoid further disrup- linked to inflation ‘can Clarke who’ve got substantial amounts
responsible day as they “hardened their line”. Merseyrail – one of the few fran- tion for our passengers”. of money, I’m conscious of that.
for massive chises run without government money easily be returned’ says
public A source close to the rail chiefs said – agreed the deal with the Transport They added: “As a result of this need- “But nevertheless, in order to deliver
disruption that there had been “a complete lack of Salaried Staff ’s Association (TSSA). less and premature strike, rail services minister in face of criticism this payment effectively, it is a compre-
is them’ progress” before talks were called off tomorrow will look much like they did hensive payment, and frankly I’ll ask
yesterday afternoon, accusing the Merseyrail is overseen by Steve on Tuesday – starting later in the morn- By Ben Riley-Smith, Dominic Penna Ken Clarke to send a cheque back to
union of being “unwilling to negotiate Rotherham, Liverpool’s Labour metro ing and finishing much earlier in the and Jack Maidment HMRC if he feels that strongly against it.
or compromise” and being “determined mayor. evening (around 6.30pm).
to walk, not talk”. WEALTHY pensioners should consider “This is about helping people in a
TSSA chief Manuel Cortes said that “We are asking passengers to please paying back the £1,000 extra coming really challenging situation right now.”
RMT bosses have so far rejected a 3 the deal “clearly shows” the unions check before you travel, be conscious of from an inflation-linked rise in the state
per cent “no strings” pay rise for staff at were looking for solutions and the when your last available train is depart- pension, the Cabinet minister oversee- Asked to clarify whether other peo-
Network Rail with a further 1 per cent Government “are intent on digging in ing, and only travel by train if necessary.” ing the policy has said. ple should give back the state pension
raise contingent on productivity gains. their heels”. increase, she said: “I am always encour-
Thérèse Coffey, the Work and Pen- aging people who seem to think that
sions Secretary, yesterday said it is ‘It is right we they don’t need money given from the
“very straightforward” to return the reward our Government to return it.
money to the Government, as she public sector
rejected criticism of the increase. with a rise. “There’s a very straightforward way
But that they can return that, and of course
The remark came after Lord Clarke, needs to be other people often give it to other char-
the former Tory Chancellor, said that balanced itable donations as well.”
the Government’s focus should be on with the need
the poor rather than well-off pension- not to make From next April the state pension,
ers like himself. inflationary which is received by about 12 million
pressures people, will rise by the inflation figure
Downing Street and the Treasury worse’ in September. Early forecasts suggest it
faced fresh scrutiny over their decision could be about 10 per cent.
to increase the state pension and bene-
fits by inflation but refusing to do like- A rise of 10 per cent would add £18.50
wise for public sector pay – a stance that per week to state pensions, or £962
has in part led to the rail strikes. annually, and increase the pensions bill
by about £10 billion. People can pay
Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, back money given to them by the Treas-
defended the position, saying increases ury via the government website, with
in wages were more likely to push up bank transfer one option.
inflation than pension rises. He argued
firms paying higher wages may in turn Lord O’Neill, the former Treasury
raise their own prices, known as a minister, said the decision to raise pen-
“wage price spiral”. sions by double digits while workers
face a real terms wage cut is “ludicrous”.
The Prime Minister’s spokesman also
doubled down on the stance, saying it Asked why pensioners are getting
would be “reckless” to give public sec- such a big rise, the crossbench peer told
tor pay increases in line with inflation, the BBC: “I have no idea… it seems to
arguing those same people would suf- me pensioners, given the pressure on
fer if that locked in steep price rises. fiscal policies and these inequality
issues now for the past decade and
Yesterday it was announced that beyond, the constant protection of pen-
inflation in May was 9.1 per cent, sioners seems ludicrous in itself and in
according to the Office of National Sta- these circumstances particularly crazy.
tistics, up from 9 per cent in April. It is
forecast to hit 11 per cent this year. “I am talking as somebody who is get-
ting on a bit of course.”
The spokesman declined to say
whether the increase in state pension Mr Sunak was asked to explain why
next April - which could amount to an the state pension increase was not infla-
extra £10 billion of Treasury spending – tionary during an interview yesterday.
would fuel inflation.
He said: “Well, it is right that we
Lord Clarke criticised the inflation- reward our hard-working public sector
linked state pension rise on Radio workers with a pay rise.
Four’s World at One, saying ministers
should “protect the poor – stop giving “But that needs to be proportionate
me money to pay my power bills”. and balanced with the need not to make
the inflationary pressures worse and
Ms Coffey responded: “When politi- also to see what is affordable for the tax-
cians make decisions, we think about payer. The slight difference with pen-
the individuals that are there. We think sions is pensions are not an input cost
about the people who are worrying into the cost of producing goods and
about whether or not they’re going to services we all consume, so they don’t
have enough money to heat their add to inflation in the same way.”

Editorial Comment: Page 15

Cup of contradictions

runs over for Johnson

as he seeks to please

Barristers face GEOFF PUGH FOR THE TELEGRAPH Analysis better off, those who are having to
penalties over JEREMY SELWYN; PA shoulder the burden of the Health and
walkout threat By Camilla Tominey Social Care levy are being told by
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Downing Street to accept pay rises
By Charles Hymas Turning up, tuning in Festivalgoers returned to Glastonbury yesterday ‘Downing below inflation, which is likely to hit 11
HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR for the first time in three years. Thousands streamed into Worthy Farm as B oris Johnson has always been a Steet has per cent this year.
soon as the gates opened at 8am, many having camped out overnight. bundle of contradictions. From struggled to
BARRISTERS have been warned by the his self-description as “basically a explain why In the week that 40,000 rail
Lord Chief Justice they face disciplinary Brexity Hezza” to being the it would workers paralysed Britain, and with
action and even potential financial pen- “libertarian” who brought in some of not be teachers, NHS staff and refuse
alties over their strike action. the world’s most draconian Covid inflationary collectors threatening to follow suit, it
measures, the Prime Minister’s policy to allow is not a surprising stance from No 10 as
In guidance to judges, Lord Burnett on cake has always been “pro having it pensions and the UK faces a 1970s-style summer of
said that those who failed to turn up for and pro eating it”. benefits to discontent. But it is a contradictory
a case in which they had been instructed rise in line one. As when Chancellor Rishi Sunak
could be accused of “professional mis- The Battenberg nature of the with prices’ stands at the dispatch box, announcing
conduct”. Government’s latest chequered yet more freebies while insisting he’s
economic offering, however, appears all for “fiscal discipline”, Mr Johnson
He warned that it would also be up to to speak to an operation pie-eyed on appears to be doing his best impres-
the Crown Prosecution Service to pleasing the masses, rather than letting sion of Orthrus, the two-headed
decide whether to apply for “wasted Tory voters eat cake. serpent-tailed dog from Greek
costs” as a result of the no-show. mythology.
A rise in the state pension and
Some barristers believe the move benefits in line with double-digit One head is promising the British
may be an attempt to head off serious inflation may well appeal to those who public “a high wage economy” while
disruption which could bring already are never likely to vote Conservative the other is telling workers not to ask
backlogged courts to a halt. – and perhaps that is the point. for too much money.

Lawyers from the Criminal Bar Asso- Yet those in employment but On Monday, Mr Johnson declared:
ciation voted by 81.5 per cent to refuse saddled with the highest tax burden “Too high demands on pay will make it
to take on new cases from next week since the Second World War will feel incredibly difficult to bring to an end
amid concerns the Government will not like they are being offered crumbs the current challenges facing families
improve a proposed increase in Legal from the Treasury’s table. around the world with rising costs of
Aid for criminal cases. The action will living.”
begin with walkouts on Monday and Announcing that the pension triple
Tuesday, increasing by one day each lock would be reinstated after it was Yet Downing Street has struggled to
week until a five-day strike from July 18. put on pause during the pandemic is explain why it would not be inflation-
It will then become indefinite. undoubtedly a good counter to the ary to allow pensions and benefits to
prevailing argument that the poorest rise in line with prices.
pensioners will have to choose
between heating and eating this Surely if it applies to workers’ wages
winter. – it applies to non-workers’ wages too?

Similarly, the idea that benefits will Apparently at Cabinet on Tuesday,
also rise with inflation for about six “The Prime Minister, Chancellor and
million people – is, like the state
handouts that have been announced, a Chief Secretary to the Treasury led a
good way of looking like you are discussion on the importance of fiscal
helping the neediest through the cost discipline” while announcing the
of living crisis.
inflation-busting rises.
The only problem with such Little wonder, then, that one
profligate policies, as Margaret
Thatcher pointed out, is that other Whitehall source described the
people have to pay for them. In this
case, taxpayers will be footing the fiscally-disciplined-tax-and-spend plan
£20 billion bill with seemingly nothing as “bonkers”, while it was left to David
in return. Davis, the former Brexit secretary, to
remind the Government that it might
While those who don’t pay National
Insurance Contributions (NICs) will be want to encourage growth in the
private sector to promote higher
productivity. With nothing whatsoever

in the Spring Statement for small,
medium sized or even large
businesses,that sector appears to have
been all but forgotten in No 10’s quest

to help everyone but the people who
pay their wages.

6 *** Thursday 23 June 2022 The Daily Telegraph

News

Public safety wins out over prisoners’ rights

New Bill’s reforms could approach to parole for some prisoners. boys, the black cab rapist. The law will held in “jails within jails” in an attempt prisoners will also be restricted by giv- foreign criminals by restricting their
put convicts behind bars The legislation will also tackle the treat- tighten the criteria under which offend- to stop hate preachers influencing other ing courts the discretion to take account ability to claim it breaches their right to
for longer if they are ment of extremists in prison, challenges ers are released so that a Parole Board’s prisoners. of their offences when deciding how a family life. “The longer the sentence
deemed to be a risk to deportation by foreign convicts and judgment can be overruled if it was felt much to pay out. you have the less likely you are to be
the awarding of damages to people with safer to keep them behind bars. Dominic Raab, the Justice Secretary, able to establish that you have an ongo-
By Charles Hymas criminal records. plans to expand the use of “separation “Courts will have wide discretion in ing and subsisting set of ties with a
HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR The Bill of Rights, once law, would centres” within high security prisons to how to take into account relevant past dependent that could mean they are
The Bill, published yesterday, states restrict the ability of any offender to keep more vulnerable prisoners safe. conduct of the claimant in the awarding really reliant on you staying in the coun-
DANGEROUS criminals could face that “any court must give the greatest claim the decision to keep them in jail of any damages, as part of all the cir- try,” said a source.
longer jail terms under a new British possible weight to the importance of amounted to a breach of their rights. The Bill will reduce the ability of law- cumstances of the case,” said Mr Raab.
Bill of Rights that will prioritise the reducing the risk to the public from per- yers to use human rights laws to claim Mr Raab told MPs yesterday: “We are
safety of the public. sons who have committed offences in Under the parole reforms, Mr Raab is that separating them from other prison- Cases have included a triple killer at risk of losing public confidence in our
respect of which custodial sentences also taking back the power to block the ers breaches their rights to socialise. who won £815 compensation after immigration controls if we can’t take
The Bill lays down in law that courts have been imposed”. release of high-risk criminals that was accusing prison guards of damaging his the common sense measures they
must give precedence to “reducing the previously held by ministers. In one case, Jemmikai Orlebar- nose hair clippers and a rapist who cost expect, and we’re also at risk of losing
risk to the public” over the human It will frame legislation, due to be Forbes, 28, a convicted killer, was the state thousands of pounds after public confidence in human rights if we
rights of an offender. published later this year, overhauling It ended after legal challenges in awarded £15,000 from the Government claiming that his health was put at risk don’t restore a healthy dose of common
the Parole Board to prevent a repeat of Europe and the UK claimed it was a after claiming a breach of his Article 8 by sharing a cell with a smoker. sense.”
The changes will underpin a tougher scandals such as the release of Colin breach of prisoners’ human rights to let rights when he was segregated with
Pitchfork, a double child murderer, and politicians rather than judges deter- other terror offenders at HMP Frank- The new provision giving primacy to Editorial Comment: Page 15
an abortive decision to free John Wor- mine sentence lengths. The Bill also land in Co Durham. public safety will also reinforce clauses
paves the way for more terrorists to be in the Bill that make it easier to deport
Claims for damages by criminals or

Welcome to
online EU law
bonfire, says
Rees-Mogg

By Nick Gutteridge ANDREW MCCAREN / LNP
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
Gone with the flow Cerys, 17, crosses the dry bed of the River Wharfe in Yockenthwaite. Yorkshire Water is reminding customers to use water wisely as it
JACOB REES-MOGG has unveiled a expects a 30 million litre daily usage increase over the next month. The last few months have been particularly dry, with only two thirds of the average rain.
website that enables Britons to “count
down” to the scrapping of the more
than 2,000 EU laws still in force in the
UK.

The Brexit Opportunities minister
said he hoped the “dashboard” would
encourage the general public to suggest
other rules to axe.

But he admitted the site, which is
heavy on jargon, could prove difficult
for many to understand and may need
improving.

“I accept that not everybody is going
to have the time or inclination to do this
but I think it helps show the scale” of
retained EU law, he said.

The dashboard reveals that Defra,
transport, business, and the Treasury
are the Government departments
drowning in the most Brussels red tape.

Mr Rees-Mogg praised the ministers
in charge of the first three for being
“very enthusiastic” about potential
reforms. “There has, it is fair to say,
been more enthusiasm from some sec-
retaries of state” than others at the pros-
pect of scrapping EU law, he added.

Admitting he has faced resistance, he
said one department had told him it
only wanted to remove 2 per cent of the
Brussels rules it adhered to.

“That’s hopeless. That’s ‘let’s just
keep everything as it is and not really
try’. We want to make sure … all the
unnecessary ones are removed.”

The dashboard reveals that of the
2,418 laws copied and pasted onto the
UK statute books on Brexit day, 2,006
have been left unchanged. Of the
remainder, 196 have been repealed
entirely, 183 have been amended and
33 have been replaced by British legis-
lation.

Mr Rees-Mogg defended the pace of
change and said the Covid pandemic
had delayed plans to eliminate Brussels’
red tape.

He said ministers are targeting
“unnecessary” laws on lorry driver
training and food standards but insisted
Britain won’t become the “wild west”.

In a speech to the Commons he also
pledged to use Brexit freedoms to tackle
inflation and the cost of living crisis.

Lib Dem and Labour pact could sink hopes of troubled Tories

By Tony Diver and Ben Butcher Lib Dems received an average vote expected to fall back to Labour, follow- also vote on a new MP today, could see Local election pact gains message and ultimately defeat this Gov-
share of 51 per cent in those seats, com- ing the resignation of Imran Ahmad its Tory majority of 24,000 votes over- ernment in a general election, then I
THE Lib Dems and Labour will gain a pared to a share of 29 per cent in seats in Khan, who was convicted of sexually turned by the Lib Dems following the May 5 elections, in South West think there are very good prospects of a
20-point boost on polling day if they the same area where Labour did run. assaulting a teenager. resignation of Neil Parish, who was Lib Dem victory there.”
work together against the Conserva- caught watching pornography in the Lib Dems
tives, Daily Telegraph analysis has A similar effect took place in seats Sir Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, has House of Commons chamber. Where they faced no Labour candidate Labour sources have always denied a
found, amid suggestions of an electoral where the Lib Dems stood back, with not visited the constituency at all dur- pact with the Lib Dems, but suggested
pact in two by-elections today. Labour receiving an average vote share ing the by-election campaign, despite Ben Bradshaw, a Labour MP, has sug- 51.3% that it was normal for parties to expend
of 46 per cent, compared with 26 per visiting Tiverton and Honiton four gested that voters in the constituency more energy campaigning in seats they
Both parties have always denied that cent where all major parties ran. times. A Liberal Democrat spokesman may wish to consider voting for the Lib- Where they faced a Labour candidate +22% believed they could win.
there is any formal agreement between denied the claims, and that the party eral Democrats, rather than his own 28.9%
them to defeat the Conservatives by The Conservatives fielded at least one was going “soft” in Wakefield – pointing party’s candidate, Liz Pole. The results in last month’s local elec-
running limited or non-existent cam- candidate in every ward. to a visit by Daisy Cooper, the party’s Labour tions suggest a pact could be beneficial
paigns in each others’ target seats. deputy leader, earlier this month. “What some Labour members and Where they faced no Lib Dem candidate for both parties at the next general
Labour and the Lib Dems are both activists don’t always appreciate is that election.
But at the local elections last month, standing candidates in today’s by-elec- “There is no pact and there will be no a lot of Conservative voters, if they want 45.5%
Labour gave the Lib Dems a clear run at tions in Wakefield and Tiverton and pact,” the spokesman said.“From Devon to give the Government a kicking, will Recent polling by JL Partners gave
49 seats in the South West, where the Honiton, but have been accused of to Yorkshire, lifelong Conservative vot- vote Liberal Democrat but they Where they faced a Lib Dem candidate Labour a 20-point lead in Wakefield,
party hopes to overturn Conservative deliberately running weaker campaigns ers are telling us they’re sick of Boris wouldn’t vote Labour,” he said. while in Tiverton and Honiton, the Lib
majorities in a so-called collapse of the in the seat in which the other is stronger. Johnson’s lies and law-breaking.” 25.5% +20% Dems are thought to be neck-and-neck
Blue Wall of Tory heartland seats. The “So, if we have a joint purpose of with the Tories, closing a previous two-
Wakefield has been held by the Con- Tiverton and Honiton, which will wanting to send the Prime Minister a point gap.
servatives since 2019 and is widely

BBC told to raise its game Solicitors refusing to take on
amid fears over impartiality ‘poorly paid’ burglary cases

By Anita Singh ARTS AND sary, to intervene early to protect STEVE FINN By Charles Hymas from the reporting of an offence to a
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR audiences. If the BBC fails to do this, we HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR judgement in a crown court.
Mind the gap An 8ft-deep sinkhole has opened on a street
THE BBC must improve its complaints will recommend that the Government in Bexleyheath, south London, devouring a motorbike. BURGLARY victims face fresh court The action was originally launched
procedure, Ofcom has said, as it warned makes this a legal requirement.” delays as lawyers refuse to take on cases by the London Criminal Courts Solici-
that impartiality concerns must be bet- they deem unprofitable tors’ Association (LCCSA) whose survey
ter addressed. Ofcom conducted a review into the found 95 per cent of members backed
Solicitors say they receive £18 an refusing burglary cases.
The watchdog has asked for greater corporation. Dame Melanie Dawes, hour to represent burglars in receipt of
oversight of the broadcaster’s com- Ofcom chief executive, said: “Viewers legal aid if they plead guilty and half An offer by the the Ministry of Justice
plaints process after delays in response and listeners tell us they aren’t happy that if the case goes to trial, the equiva- to raise legal aid fees 15 per cent has
and a lack of transparency. with how the BBC handles complaints, lent of the minimum wage. been rejected.
and it needs to address widespread per-
Some viewers get so frustrated with ceptions about its impartiality.” They are, therefore, refusing to take Hesham Puri, LCCSA president, said:
the lengthy, complex process that they on such cases and plan a similar stance
give up and when complaints about Ofcom surveyed 2,000 people, some on low-fee cases involving assaults on “We’re starting by refusing low-paid
impartiality are dismissed, the BBC of whom had complained to the BBC in police and other emergency workers. It burglary cases, which simply don’t
does not publish the reasons why. the past. It also did a “mystery shopper” is thought to be the first time solicitors make sense economically. The days of
have taken action over legal aid fees
Ofcom said: “We are now directing exercise, telling 50 people to submit a paid by the Government. goodwill gestures are over.
the BBC to change its policy and publish complaint and track its progress. “We’ll no longer effectively pay for
sufficient reasoning in cases where it The move is likely to add to record
decides not to uphold impartiality and Ofcom noted: “Respondents were not backlogs and delays in the magistrates the ‘privilege’ to work. Unless the Gov-
due accuracy complaints. clear about the BBC’s process and were and crown courts, where most burgla- ernment changes its plans … we’ll
ries are tried. Burglary victims face extend our action to include low-paid
“We are expecting the BBC to alert us concerned about the time taken to waits of more than two years for justice
at an early stage to potential serious edi- respond as well as the tone and detail of even if their case is solved. assaults on emergency workers.”
torial breaches. This will allow us to the responses.” “We don’t take this action lightly – we
better scrutinise how the BBC’s com- Householders in some police force
plaints process is working and, if neces- The BBC said: “Like any organisation areas have to wait nearly 1,000 days believe in a fair defence for all, we
we work to make continuing improve-
ments, which is why we published a believe in justice for victims, witnesses
10-point plan on impartiality and edito- and defendants. But we have to say
‘enough is enough’, we have to stand up
rial standards last year.”
for those working in the system.”

The Daily Telegraph Thursday 23 June 2022 *** 7

News

Money not worth the paper it’s printed on as polymer takes over

By Olivia Rudgard accepted in shops or businesses, the and no bus service to the nearest town. 500,000 used or deposited at your bank in the paper £20 notes featuring economist
Bank of England has warned. The £5 Inevitably, this means there will be peo- normal way.” Adam Smith, and 160 million paper £50
MANY of us still like to keep a bit of cash and £10 paper notes ceased to be legal ple holding on to paper bank notes that The number of paper bank notes thought notes featuring entrepreneur Matthew
under the mattress for a rainy day. tender in 2017 and 2018 respectively. they will struggle to cash in. to be still in circulation. There are only 100 After the September 30 deadline any- Boulton and engineer James Watt, in
days left until they cease to be legal tender one holding a UK bank account will still circulation. It is a year since the Bank
But the habit could leave some out of Baroness Altmann, the former pen- “While this is unlikely to be a prob- be able to pay the notes in, and some issued the first polymer £50 banknote,
pocket as Britain switches completely sions minister, said the elderly needed lem in well-connected urban areas, it’s they are more durable. The majority of Post Offices may still accept them, the which features Bletchley Park code-
from paper to polymer bank notes. to be aware that “the money you’ve got yet another reminder that those living paper notes have now been taken out of Bank said. breaker and computing scientist Alan
under the mattress, cash for emergen- in the countryside are getting left circulation, but a significant number Turing. The £50 note was the last
Pensioners have been warned to cies, may not be spendable, because we behind.” remain in the economy, so we’re asking Growing inflation also means cash denomination to switch from paper to
check their stash of emergency cash is are going to have new notes – they will you to check if you have any at home. will erode in value more quickly, with polymer. The first was the £5 note fea-
not about to lose its value, with just 100 be the legal tender.” Sarah John, the Bank of England’s For the next 100 days, these can still be prices rising at the fastest rate for 40 turing Winston Churchill. It came into
days left until all paper notes are chief cashier, said: “Changing our bank- years. In May, the rate of inflation rose circulation in 2016.
replaced. Tom Fyans, the director of campaigns notes from paper to polymer over to 9.1 per cent, the highest level since
and policy at CPRE, the countryside recent years has been an important March 1982, and the Bank has warned Editorial Comment: Page 15
Nearly half a million £20 and £50 charity, said: “Many rural villages are development, because it makes them that it will reach 11 per cent this year.
banknotes will cease to be legal tender now cut off, with no bank or post office more difficult to counterfeit, and means
on Sept 30 and will no longer be There are still more than 300 million

Student had

the famously

sarcastic

Lennon taped

Never-broadcast interview happened to have access to one of the ‘We don’tCHARLOTTE GRAHAM FOR THE TELEGRAPHwants to walk down the street? I can alone, with burly bouncers “holding Above, John Hill
given by the Beatle in 1964 earliest portable recorders available in entertain JAMIE LORRIMAN FOR THE TELEGRAPHhave a drink whenever I like.”back screaming girls”, to record the Bea-holds his
reveals he did not view the Britain. much tles performing. microphone for
group as good musicians because we Lennon then adds he could mix with Lennon as an
Lennon was known for his spikey, just stand ordinary people “because all the ordi- Mr Hill, a retired teacher of 75, sold unnamed journalist
By Daniel Capurro SENIOR REPORTER sarcastic and often nonsensical there, so nary people I knew before are mainly the recording and the equipment he takes notes. Far
responses to interviewers. However, I suppose the Beatles and a few other people”. used in 2014, to little fanfare. It is now left, Mr Hill with a
AS Sir Paul McCartney prepares to take something about Mr Hill appeared we must be being sold again. Mr Hill said he would tape recorder
to the pyramid stage at Glastonbury this to disarm the global superstar and musicians’ The interview happened entirely by avoid finding out how much it sells for, identical to the one
weekend, he might mull over how far he believes it may have been the chance, explained Mr Hill. “I bought for fear that it might be many times he used for the
he’s come since John Lennon said The recorder itself, which Lennon found tickets for the show. And then Mike, the what he received. 1964 recording; and
Beatles barely qualified as musicians. captivating. college principal, said if I was going to left, the student
the show I should write a story about it. The estimated sale price is £3,000- magazine that
Lennon made the surprising claim in “I managed to hive John Lennon off £4,000. The copyrighted recording, a published
a recording being sold at an auction [from the group] because he was fasci- He secured a press pass for Mr Hill, transcript and the portable recorder are Mr Hill’s article
tomorrow. nated with the tape recorder, because who borrowed the recorder and a hand- being auctioned as a single lot by David
he was quite keen, in many ways, on the ful of blank tapes from a friend. He was Duggleby auctioneers in Scarborough.
The recording, which has never been technology,” he said. later able to stand in the orchestra pit
broadcast, was made by John Hill, an art
student who interviewed the Beatles The pair sat in a corner chatting
before they played at the ABC Cinema while the rest of the band were playing
in Hull in November 1964. the piano on the other side of the room.
At one point, Lennon held his micro-
It was the height of the group’s early phone while Mr Hill arranged his
fame and came a few months after their equipment.
first visit to the US triggered the first
bouts of Beatlemania there. The eight-and-a-half-minute record-
ing reveals a remarkably candid and
In the recording, Lennon equivo- chatty Lennon. “Somebody told me it
cates over whether the band are truly sounds like two old mates having a
musicians, denying that they are good, chat,” said Mr Hill.
and also claims he’d rather be rich than
have a normal life. As well as dismissing the band’s
musicianship, Lennon also said he
Asked by Mr Hill whether the preferred the trappings of fame to ordi-
band were musicians or simply
entertainers, the singer said: “I’ve nary life.
never thought about it really but I Asked by Mr Hill if, were he
suppose… we don’t count our-
selves as good musicians, to be reincarnated he would
so I suppose we’re enter- choose to be a Beatle again
tainers. But we don’t or an ordinary person, Len-
entertain much ’cos non responded: “Whatever
we just stand there,
so I suppose we I’d be, I’d choose to be
must be musicians. rich.”
We’re in the union When Mr Hill
anyway.” responded by ask-
ing “if he didn’t
Mr Hill, find all this Bea-
who was tles business
not study- rather tiring?
ing jour- You can’t
nalism walk out on
and did the street.
not use You can’t go
shorthand, and have a
drink,”
Lennon
replied:
“Who

Pride flag gets a more Pop queen Bush keeps the
inclusive intersex makeover peace with no smartphone

By Daily Telegraph Reporter community, an umbrella term describ- The redesigned Pride rainbow is displayed along Regent Street for Pride Month By Anita Singh ancient phone. But I like that because I
ing the estimated 1.7 per cent of people ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR spend a lot of time on my laptop, and
THE Pride rainbow has been given an born with biological characteristics or when I go out during the day it means I
intersex makeover as a new “inclusive” chromosome patterns that don’t fit the OVER the course of her career, Kate don’t have to deal with emails and eve-
flag was yesterday flown across London. typical definitions of male or female. Bush has established a reputation as the ryone knows that. So I just get texts and
most private of superstars. calls on my phone and it means that I
Dozens of rainbow flags were this Valentino Vecchietti, who rede- have a bit of peace.”
week displayed along Regent Street in signed the flag, said of the original Pride Now the singer has disclosed that
recognition of Pride Month, replacing Progress flag: “It felt like a joyful visual she does not have a smartphone, a deci- When Bush performed a series of
many of the Union flags hung to mark and cultural statement of inclusion and sion that allows her to spend her days concerts in 2014 – her first since 1979 –
the Platinum Jubilee. I wished our intersex flag could be in peace. she asked fans to put their smartphones
included too. I also wished that the away, writing on her website: “I very
The new design is a further develop- crowds at Pride knew more about inter- Bush, 63, granted a rare interview much want to have contact with you as
ment of the so-called Pride Progress sex. I have redesigned the Pride Pro- to BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour after an audience, not with iPhones, iPads
flag, introduced in 2018, which added gress flag to make it intersex inclusive. her  old hit, Running Up That Hill, or cameras.”
colourful chevrons to the traditional reached number one last week 37 years
rainbow stripes to represent the trans “When I posted our new flag on our after its release. The song has found a Speaking to Woman’s Hour, Bush said
community and people of colour. Intersex Equality Rights UK Instagram new audience after being included in she was delighted by the renewed suc-
… Intersex people and allies across the the Netflix series Stranger Things. cess of Running Up That Hill. “It’s just
Now the new flag has also incorpo- world told us that it’s bringing them so extraordinary … I just never imagined it
rated a purple circle on a yellow back- much joy.” Explaining her dislike of smart- would be anything like this,” she said.
drop to represent the intersex phones, Bush said: “I have a really

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Nude images are the new ‘flirting’ for teens

Research raises concerns by a boy to provide a nude picture, of The research, entitled “Not Just Flirt- judging whether the other person is “What may start as flirting between 16 per cent said it happened at least
about the dangers of the whom 46 per cent said they had been ing” and the first to explore the phe- ‘into’ you,” said the researchers. two people can easily spread – to the once a week. One in six (17 per cent) of
growing social media pressured into doing so even though nomenon in detail, found boys sent rest of the class, across the school via girls aged 14 to 16 had shared a nude
trend among young people they felt “disgusted” and upset by shar- nude images because they thought girls “For some it’s a way to check if the large Snapchat or WhatsApp groups, image rising to 26 per cent by the age of
ing images. would like them and wanted to be sent other person will find them attractive or beyond the school to the local area, and 17 and 18. For boys, it was 10 per cent ris-
By Charles Hymas pictures in return. be ‘OK’ with their body if they were to potentially across the world,” said the ing to 23 per cent.
HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR The research, based on nearly 5,200 have a physical sexual encounter.” study report.
teenagers in 46 schools, found more Girls were more likely to share them There were class distinctions. Two-
SENDING nude pictures on social than a third of the girls surveyed said because they felt under pressure to do But Revealing Reality, the research “Nude images of young people thirds of girls from a disadvantaged
media has become the new “flirting” they had first been asked to send a nude so and were left “disgusted” when sent group behind the study, which has shared with other young people can background (62 per cent) had been
with a third of teenage girls saying they image when they were 13 or younger. images they did not want. Girls also felt worked with the online safety watch- easily find their way into the hands of asked to send a nude, compared with
have been pressured into sending One in five girls and one in seven boys “shamed” when their nude images were dog Ofcom, warned such “flirting” adults whose intentions are harmful half of the girls (52 per cent) from bet-
naked images of themselves, a major had shared naked images by the age of 18. leaked, while boys found it could even could have dangerous consequences. and whose actions are illegal. ter-off homes.
study has found. boost their social status, according to
Snapchat, an instant messaging app the researchers. They found evidence of images being One in five girls (20 per cent) aged 14 A Snapchat spokesman said: “Using
Sixty per cent of girls under the age of where images disappear within 24 “traded” to bait other teenagers, to 18 had shared a nude image or video, Snapchat to send nudes or sexually
18 told researchers they had been asked hours, accounted for more than 80 per “Young people often see image-shar- “leaked” to humiliate or bully others, against 13 per cent of boys. More than explicit content is against our rules – no
cent of the shared nude pictures, raising ing as a normal phase at the start of a kept as an insurance policy by a teen- half (54 per cent) of girls and 30 per cent matter how old you are. If we become
concerns over the platform’s measures relationship or when they first start ager in case their shared nude image of boys had been sent a nude image or aware of any sexual content involving
to protect children from online harms. ‘seeing’ someone. It’s a part of flirting or subsequently went viral or being used in video. Of those who had sent an image, minors we immediately remove it.”
power plays to exert control over others.

Miscarriages
linked to
increased risk
of stroke

By Lizzie Roberts Making a meal of it A kestrel swoops on a barn owl in an attempt to steal a vole away from its clutches. The birds, spotted flying over moorland close toHARVEY ASPELL/PA WIRE
HEALTH CORRESPONDENT Haworth, West Yorkshire, went on to have a ferocious aerial battle, resulting in them both spiralling towards the ground. DAVID DRIVER/ANIMAL NEWS AGENCY

MISCARRIAGE is linked to an
increased risk of stroke, a new study
published in the British Medical
Journal suggests.

Experts examined global data and
found that women who had suffered
recurrent miscarriages appeared to
have a 35 per cent increased risk of non-
fatal and fatal stroke.

The risk of non-fatal stroke increased
with the number of miscarriages, the
researchers found. One miscarriage was
linked to a 7 per cent increased risk,
while two was linked to a 12 per cent
increased risk.

For fatal strokes, women with one
miscarriage had an 8 per cent increased
risk, two was linked to a 26 per cent
increased risk and three was linked to
an 82 per cent increased risk.

The study, by researchers at the Uni-
versity of Queensland and University
College London, found that women
who had suffered stillbirth were at 31
per cent higher risk of a non-fatal stroke
and 7 per cent higher risk of fatal stroke.

Recurrent stillbirth was linked to a
26 per cent higher risk of fatal stroke.
Infertility was also linked to a 14 per
cent higher risk of non-fatal stroke
compared to women who were fertile.

Researchers suggested possible rea-
sons for the findings. They said the link
between infertility and increased stroke
risk may be due to conditions such as
polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and
premature ovarian insufficiency (POI).

A narrowing of the heart’s blood ves-
sels may also explain the increased risk
of stroke for women with a history of
recurrent stillbirth or miscarriage.

But the team also said unhealthy life-
styles contribute to stroke risk, as they
called for more research into the area.

Writing in the BMJ, the experts con-
cluded: “A history of recurrent miscar-
riages and death or loss of a baby before
or during birth could be considered a
female-specific risk factor for stroke …
These findings could contribute to
improved monitoring and stroke pre-
vention for women with such a history.”

Night-time spread of breast cancer could inspire new therapies

By Sarah Knapton SCIENCE EDITOR depending on the time, with research- cer is diagnosed and treated in future. 90pc grammes, with 90 per cent of people author and a postdoctoral researcher at
ers assuming tumours release metasta- “Some of my colleagues work early in still alive five years after diagnosis. ETH Zurich.
BREAST cancer “wakes up” and spreads sising – spreading – cells continuously. the morning or late in the evening and Proportion of breast cancer sufferers in
while people sleep, scientists have dis- sometimes they’ll also analyse blood at Britain who are still alive five years after During the survey, researchers stud- The team now wants to investigate
covered in a breakthrough that could However, it now appears that they unusual hours,” said study leader Nicola their diagnosis thanks to better screening ied the tumour activity of 30 breast can- how the findings can be incorporated
lead to the introduction of night-time operate on a circadian rhythm, con- Aceto, professor of molecular oncology cer patients as well as corroborating into existing cancer treatments.
biopsies and treatments. trolled by night-time hormones such at ETH Zurich university. cancer in Britain, accounting for 15 per their findings in mice. They found that
as melatonin. cent of all new cancer cases, and around tumours generated more circulating As part of further studies with
Swiss scientists have observed that “They found that when the affected 55,900 people are diagnosed each year. cells during the hours of sleep. patients, Prof Aceto wants to investigate
cancer cells that break away from the Cells that leave the tumour at night person is asleep, the tumour awakens. whether different types of cancer
original tumour and travel elsewhere also divide more quickly and therefore In our view, these findings may indicate Survival has improved in recent “Our research shows that the escape behave similarly to breast cancer and
ramp up their activity during the sleep have a higher potential to spread, com- the need for healthcare professionals to years, driven by screening pro- of circulating cancer cells from the orig- whether existing therapies can be made
phase of affected individuals. pared with circulating cells that break systematically record the time at which inal tumour is controlled by hormones more successful if patients are treated at
away during the day. they perform biopsies.” such as melatonin, which determine different times.
Until now, little attention has been our rhythms of day and night,” says Zoi
paid to whether cancer acts differently Researchers believe the finding Breast cancer is the most common Diamantopoulou, the study’s lead The results were published in the
could significantly change the way can- journal Nature.

Police escape blame despite Widower wins right to use
child sex-abuse blunders IVF embryo with surrogate

By Martin Evans 2014, the police watchdog carried Not forgotten Shirley Ballas at a photo installation by suicide By Daily Telegraph Reporter want to consider” whether the form
CRIME CORRESPONDENT out 91  investigations covering 265 prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably. The should be reviewed in light of her judg-
separate  allegations against the ballroom dancer’s brother, David, took his own life in 2003. THE husband of a woman who died ment.
NOT a single police officer has been police, made by 44 victims of abuse and suddenly while pregnant with twins
held accountable for a string of appall- exploitation. can use an embryo created during fertil- She said in her ruling that Mr Jen-
ing mistakes that allowed ruthless ity treatment to have a child using a sur- nings and Ms Choya, who moved to the
grooming gangs to traffic, abuse and Out of the 47 police officers investi- rogate, a judge has ruled. UK from Trinidad, met in 2007 and mar-
rape more than 1,400 girls during Brit- gated by the watchdog, eight were ried in 2009.
ain’s biggest child abuse scandal, a found to have a case to answer for mis- Ted Jennings, 38, and his late wife,
damning report has revealed. conduct and six for gross misconduct. Fern-Marie Choya, who died aged 40 in They wanted a family and, after
2019 after her womb ruptured while struggling to conceive naturally, had
South Yorkshire Police have admitted But the final report, published yester- she was 18 weeks pregnant, had under-
failing to protect vulnerable children in day, confirmed that not a single officer gone a number of IVF cycles since 2013. three cycles of IVF treatment in 2013
Rotherham who were targeted between had lost their job or been prosecuted as and 2014 without success.
1997 and 2013 by gangs of largely Paki- The investment manager, of High-
stani men. A lengthy investigation and a result of the scandal. bury, north London, asked a High Court Ms Choya conceived naturally in
report by the Independent Office for Seven officers who were found to judge in May if it would be lawful to try
Police Conduct (IOPC) has identified to make use of the couple’s one remain- 2015 and 2016 but both pregnancies
numerous shocking examples of offic- have committed either misconduct or ing embryo, which is in storage at a pri- were ectopic and ended in miscarriage.
ers turning a blind eye or ignoring the gross misconduct had retired, which vate fertility clinic.
plight of girls as young as 11. The couple then underwent further
meant no action could be taken against His application was opposed by the IVF cycles in 2017 and 2018 and remort-
In one case, they failed to investigate them. Only five others received sanc- Human Fertilisation and Embryology gaged their home in order to afford pri-
an older man who was found undressed tions ranging from management action Authority (HFEA), which argued it vate treatment, with Ms Choya
in a bedroom with one of his victims. up to a final written warning. would be illegal for it to be used in that
way because of the lack of written con- becoming pregnant with twin girls in
In another, they did not act when a Outlining the findings, Michael Lock- sent from Ms Choya. November 2018.
perpetrator handed over a missing girl
as part of a deal not to arrest him. One wood, the IOPC director general, said: But in a ruling yesterday, Mrs Justice The judge said Ms Choya, an account-
victim’s father was told by a senior “We found that officers were not fully Theis said she was “satisfied” that Ms
officer nothing could be done to help aware, or able to deal with, child sexual Choya did consent to the use of the ant, died “tragically and without warn-
his daughter because of “racial ten- abuse and exploitation offences and embryo in the event of her death. ing” in February 2019 after developing
sions” surrounding the investigation. complications and suffering a uterine
showed insufficient empathy towards She also concluded that Ms Choya rupture.
When victims attempted to report survivors who were vulnerable chil- had not been given sufficient opportu-
cases to the police, they were often dren and young people. nity to give the consent in writing In a witness statement Mr Jennings
ignored or in some cases even blamed because a form completed during the said he did not recall his wife having
for being abused. “We saw examples of SYP seeing chil- IVF process was “far from clear” over any “negative emotions towards parent-
dren, and young people, as ‘consenting’ the posthumous use of an embryo. hood in the event of using a surrogate,
After the scandal was exposed in donated embryos or adopting a child”.
to their exploitation, and a police cul- Mrs Justice Theis said the HFEA “may
ture that did not always recognise survi- Ms Choya’s sister also told the court
vors as victims, or understand that, her family “wholeheartedly” believed
often, neither did those being groomed that Fern-Marie would want Mr Jen-
nings to use the frozen embryo in treat-
or abused.” ment with a surrogate.

The Daily Telegraph Thursday 23 June 2022 *** 9

Duke acknowledges News
Windrush ‘wrongs’

Prince William praises the Generation have made our culture drush scandal, which came to light in JOHN SIBLEY/PA
contribution of Caribbean richer, our services stronger, and our 2018 after it emerged the Government
migrants but admits they fellow countrymen safer,” he said. had wrongly detained, deported or The Duchess of Cambridge meets children at Waterloo Station in London at the unveiling of the National Windrush Monument (left)
were victims of racism threatened to deport some of those who
“Only a matter of years ago, tens of travelled from the Caribbean between
By Hannah Furness ROYAL EDITOR thousands were profoundly wronged 1948 and 1973 and their descendants.
by the Windrush scandal.
THE Windrush Generation The Duke’s criticism is a rare foray
have been “profoundly “Therefore, alongside celebrating into politics, and follows a formal apol-
wronged” and suffered racism the diverse fabric … of our society as a ogy from the Government to members
in Britain that continues to this whole – something the Windrush Gen- of the Windrush generation in 2019.
day, the Duke of Cambridge eration has contributed so much to – it
said yesterday as he unveiled is also important to acknowledge the The Duke and Duchess met Baroness
the first national monument in Benjamin, chair of the Windrush Com-
their honour. ways in which the future they sought memoration Committee, two 96-year-
and deserved has yet to old Windrush pioneers John Richards
The Duke, speaking to come to pass.” and Alford Gardner and sculptor Basil
an audience that included The Duke made spe- Watson at the unveiling, which coin-
Windrush “pioneers” cific reference to his cided with Windrush Day.
and their families at recent trip to the
Waterloo Station, Lon- Caribbean with The 12ft-high Windrush monument
don, gave thanks for the the Duchess, shows a man, woman and child arriving
“enormous contribu- noting that it in Britain, dressed in their Sunday best
tion” of those who trav- had taught him and standing on a pile of suitcases.
elled from the Caribbean just how much
in answer to a “plea to help “the past The Queen sent her own message of
our country thrive again” weighs heavily tribute to the “profound contribution”
after the second world war. on the pre- the Windrush pioneers and their
sent”. descendents made to the UK in a letter
“We know without ques- It is the included in the programme.
tion that the Windrush first time the
Duke has It is the first time the Queen has offi-
criticised cially marked Windrush Day, although
the Win- the Prince of Wales has previously
made speeches expressing the “debt of
gratitude we owe”.

Manly heroes
‘will be written
out of history’

By Craig Simpson figures including Australian
polar explorer Sir Douglas
BOOKS about “manly” Mawson – who was the sole
heroes are on “borrowed survivor of a fatal mission to
time”, a leading expert on Sir the Antarctic – as displaying
Ernest Shackleton has said, traditionally “manly” virtues
as society increasingly dis- of physical courage and stoi-
misses male virtues as “toxic cism, which she said were no
masculinity”. longer celebrated as they
once were.
Joanna Grochowicz, a
polar historian, has claimed She said: “This idea we
that the traditionally “mascu- need to shut down the dis-
line” attributes of the men cussion because of toxic mas-
she has written about are fall- culinity – or we can’t talk
ing out of fashion amid a drift about this, or these sex spe-
towards a “gender neutral cific qualities – because we
society”. The author said that are entering a gender-neu-
histories of “white blokes” – tral, new way of living: I
like the great Antarctic pio- think that is crazy.”
neers Captain Robert Falcon
Scott and Shackleton – are Ms Grochowicz, a New
now on “borrowed time”, Zealander, has said she is
with the “manliness” of male lucky that her chosen subject
historical figures dismissed – explorers of the heroic age
as a negative trait. of South Pole exploration –
did not displace any indige-
Speaking at the Chalke nous populations, as her
Valley History Festival, she subject would be even more
added: “I’m really worried unfashionable in modern
that we’re moving into a gen- historical circles.
der-neutral society where
gender-specific attributes As it is, the author has said
are not revered. that she feels that she can
either “defend” her subject,
“Rather than trashing all or be forced to move on to
of these qualities I think we more modish areas of study,
need to broaden them and saying she may have to “start
start discussing them.” writing about women in
some historic period”.
Ms Grochowicz has cited

ANDREW MATTHEWS/PA WIRE

Audience The Queen receives Margaret
Beazley, the Governor of New South
Wales, at Windsor Castle yesterday.

Welby asks tech giants
to help poorer nations

By Gabriella Swerling motive and driving power
and Maighna Nanu within their own country, for
the good of their people.”
TECH giants such as Elon
Musk’s firm, Tesla, should Asked for examples of
share their knowledge with
poorer countries, the Arch- firms, he said: “Well, the
bishop of Canterbury has said. obvious ones would be some
of the high-tech ones which
The Most Rev Justin Welby
said: “If these God-given the genius of their founders,
benefits of scientific and people like Tesla, has created
technological wisdom are huge amounts of jobs and
confined to a small minority will continue to do so [and]
of the planet, that can only
lead to greater … inequality Apple and all the rest of them.
and inequities of power.” “And those are examples to

He said the growth of major be admired in the way that
firms “is a very good thing”
for world trade, adding: “I they have developed from
just like to see it spread well nothing through entrepre-
around the world so far more neurial skills of a very high
countries … have that sort of order indeed. But wouldn’t it
be wonderful if Africa and

other parts of the world can
produce equally strong
developers, jobs and trade.”

10 *** Thursday 23 June 2022 The Daily Telegraph

News

Pharmacy
rules on pill
boxes cause
confusion
for patients

FRANCESCO PRANDONI/GETTY IMAGES New guidance on ication from the manufactur-
medication dosette er’s original packaging
Rock of ages Sir Mick Jagger, 78, returned with heaps of energy from a battle with Covid to perform at the San Siro Stadium in Milan with boxes ‘unworkable’ involves risks.
Ronnie Wood, 75, and Keith Richards, 78. The show was part of The Rolling Stones’ European tour celebrating 60 years of the band. for many in need
“It is a recommendation of
By Gurpreet Narwan the RPS that the use of origi-
CONSUMER AFFAIRS EDITOR nal packs of medicines, sup-
ported by appropriate
BOOTS pharmacies have pharmaceutical care, should
been criticised for refusing be the preferred intervention
to give pill boxes to some for the supply of medicines
patients who use them to in the absence of a specific
organise their medication. need for an MCA in all set-
tings,” the guidance said.
Pill boxes, known as
dosette or blister pack boxes, The RPS said that some
allow patients to take the cor- tablets absorb moisture from
rect amount of tablets each the air, meaning they are less
day and are particularly use- stable when removed from
ful for those who are on lots their original container.
of different medications. There is also the risk that
patients end up over-medi-
However, Boots said that cating and, if a mistake is
this was “not always the most
appropriate option”. ‘Handling seven
individual boxes
Responding to updated was totally
guidance from the Royal unworkable’
Pharmaceutical Society (RPS),
Boots said: “The latest Royal made when dispensing the
Pharmaceutical Society guid- tablets into the pill boxes,
ance indicates that the use of patients may not have a clear
multi-compartment compli- reference idea about what
ance aids (MCCAs) is not they have been taking.
always the most appropriate
option for patients that need Patients and their carers
support to take their medi- described the move as
cines at the right dose and unworkable and dangerous.
time. Our pharmacy team
members have been speak- Tracey Hobbs said her
ing with patients who we mother, Pat Garner, who
provide with MCCAs to dis- takes more than 15 pills a day,
cuss whether it is still the had for years been provided
right way to support them... with MCCAs by her local
Boots pharmacy. However,
“Alternative support she recently received a phone
might include large print call from the pharmacy
labels and a medicines explaining that from the fol-
reminder chart. In many lowing month the drugs
cases, MCCAs will remain the would be supplied in the
most appropriate option for original packaging.
the patient and we will con-
tinue to support them in “I pointed out that the blis-
this way.” ter packs were the only way
we could know she had taken
The RPS guidance states her medication at the right
that the pill boxes should not time.
“automatically be the inter-
vention of choice for all “Handling seven individ-
patients” because not all ual boxes with different
medicines are suitable for instructions on each one was
inclusion. It also pointed out totally unworkable and –
that the repackaging of med- quite frankly – dangerous,”
Ms Hobbs told the BBC.

Brighton may resort
to second-home ban

By Daniel Capurro owners say that not only do
SENIOR REPORTER second homes force up
prices and squeeze out
BRIGHTON could become locals, but they make it
the first city in England to impossible to bring in work-
crack down on second homes ers for the tourism industry.
after councillors ordered
plans for a ban to be drafted. However, it is unclear how
effective second home bans
Councillors have voted for have been. Critics say they
rules to be drawn up to ban create a two-tier market,
any new-build properties driving up the price of older
from becoming second homes and pushing the prob-
homes or holiday lets. lem elsewhere.

The proposals would only A report found as many as
apply to certain hotspots in 3,000 properties in Brighton
Brighton & Hove where the & Hove could be in use only
city council says the housing as short-term holiday lets.
crisis is most acute.
Marianna Ebel, a Green
If the Green-led council councillor, said: “We have to
goes ahead with the move, do something. We have a
the East Sussex city would be housing crisis and thousands
by far the biggest area to of residents are on our hous-
impose such a ban. ing waiting list.”

The policy of applying She continued: “When
covenants to new-builds flats and houses are used for
requiring them to remain short-term holiday lets and
primary residences was pio- second homes, it not only
neered by the fishing town of reduces the number of hous-
St Ives, Cornwall, in 2016. ing units but causes massive
problems for neighbours,
Towns and villages across such as anti-social behav-
the South West have since iour.”
followed suit and last week
residents of the North York- Brighton & Hove city
shire seaside town of Whitby council did not respond to a
voted in favour of a ban. request for comment on the
move.
Residents and business

Three youths arrested
for attack on PCSO

By Martin Evans with the police. The incident
CRIME CORRESPONDENT
occurred on Tuesday on Old
THREE teenage boys were Church Path in Esher.
arrested on suspicion of
attempted murder after a The officer was taken to
female Police Community
Support Officer (PCSO) was hospital with serious injuries
stabbed in a “targeted attack”. and the suspect, described as
white, aged 14 to 15 and slim,
The officer was walking fled the scene in the direction
home from work at a station
in Esher, Surrey, when she of Esher Park Avenue.
was approached by a youth Appealing for witnesses,
wearing a hooded top and a
face mask, who stabbed her Detective Inspector Gareth
in the arm.
Hicks said: “We do believe
The victim was wearing this was a targeted attack as
part of her PCSO uniform at the PCSO was wearing parts
the time and detectives of her uniform.”
believe she was targeted
because of her connections Three teenagers – two 15-
year-olds and a 14-year-old –
arrested soon after the attack

have been released under
investigation and inquiries
remain ongoing, police said.

The Daily Telegraph Thursday 23 June 2022 ** 11

World news

Russia close to capturing key eastern cities

Ukraine admits that troops days. That would give Russia control of Severodonetsk completely surrounded. “Victories and been battling for Severodonetsk, the People’s Republic has acknowledged
holding out amid fierce the Luhansk region. Lysychansk successes are colossal,” Andrei Maro- administrative capital of the Luhansk more than 2,000 military personnel
fighting in Luhansk are on chko, an officer in the separatist army of region, for nearly two months as killed and almost 9,000 wounded since
verge of being cut off “The threat of a tactical Russian vic- 3 miles Bila Gora Siversky Luhansk, told Russian state television. Vladimir Putin seeks to capture the last the beginning of the year, the UK Minis-
tory is there, but they haven’t done it Т1302 Donets Ukrainian-held part of the region. try of Defence says. That was equivalent
By Roland Oliphant yet,” said Oleskiy Arestovych, an adviser Myrna Dolyna River In Zolote and Hirsk “there is a full to about 55 per cent of its original force.
SENIOR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT to President Volodymyr Zelensky. Kramatorsk encirclement of Ukrainian troops”, he Russian attempts to cut the T1302
Pidlisne Toshkivka added, also claiming “a group of foreign have so far failed, and fierce fighting has Russia has also stepped up attacks on
RUSSIA has taken several villages in the Mr Gaidai confirmed that Russian mercenaries” had been eliminated. seen parts of the town change hands Kharkiv in an apparent attempt to
last few days, raising fears that its forces forces had captured the villages of Vrubivka more than once. But Ukrainian forces reverse gains made by a Ukrainian
will soon be in a position to seize the Pidlisne and Myrna Dolyna and were Zolote “Very soon (Ukrainian) groups in are now believed to be confined to an counter-offensive in April and May.
strategically important cities of Severo- making a “partially successful” attack Lysychansk and Severodonetsk will industrial facility to the east of the river.
donetsk and Lysychansk. towards the settlement of Bila Gora, tar- Russian control also be surrounded,” he added. President Zelensky accused the Rus-
geting police, state security and prose- Russian advances German journalists reporting in sian army of “brutal and cynical” shell-
The Russian advances have led to cutors’ buildings as they went. Capturing Zolote would allow the Lysychansk came under fire on the road ing in the region during his nightly
“hellish battles” in the area, the gover- tory, and leave Ukrainian forces in Russians to approach Lysychansk on as they left the city yesterday. Paul Ron- video address on Tuesday.
nor of Luhansk region, Serhiy Gaidai, “Hellish battles in Severodonetsk and Zolote, a town guarding the southern the right bank of the Siversky Donets zheimer, of Bild, said the town was
said yesterday. surrounding villages, massive shelling flank of the Lysychansk salient, almost river rather than attempting to force a “almost encircled” and posted a video of It came as an investigation into the
on Lysychansk, and hostile attempts to crossing. a shot-out window in his car. death of a Ukrainian photo-journalist
If Moscow’s army is able to encircle cut the ‘road of life,’” he said in an concluded that he was murdered by
the two cities and cut off “the road of update on social media. “The enemy is Ukrainian commanders had hoped to The Institute for the Study of War, an Russian soldiers. Reporters Without
life” from Ukrainian-controlled terri- trying to establish full control over use the river as the next line of defence American think tank, called the devel- Borders said it had “overwhelming” evi-
tory, they would be likely to fall within Severodonetsk.” against further Russian advances if and opment a “clear setback” for the Ukrain- dence Maks Levin and his friend Olek-
when Severodonetsk falls. Previous ians, but said Russa could still face siy Chernyshov, a soldier, were
The advances bring the Russians Russian attempts to force a crossing protracted battles to capture Lysy- executed “in cold blood” in a forest
closer to the T1302 highway linking the have ended in disaster. chansk itself. The separatist Donetsk north of Kyiv in March.
cities with Ukrainian-controlled terri-
Russian and Ukrainian forces have

OLEKSANDR RATUSHNIAK/REUTERS

Ukrainian soldiers pause from the fighting in Severodonetsk. Officials say they and defenders of the neighbouring city of Lysychansk are at risk of being cut off as Russia continues to gain territory in the region, taking a number of key villages

‘We’re not leaving our homes – we’re because the battlefield comes closer ‘I sent my “Anything is possible. The situation
waiting for our heroes to liberate us’ and closer to our hometown. We are children can change at any time. Nobody is safe
not leaving. This is our home, this is away. They anywhere,” Mr Goncharenko told The
Dispatch anxious amid the thud of shelling. “I ‘It has themselves from the thought of an our land, and we will be here waiting have their Daily Telegraph.
used to have a lot of hobbies, like become impending invasion. for our heroes to liberate us and whole lives
Elderly communities on sewing and knitting but now in the harder hopefully they will not let the Russians ahead of “The Russians do not occupy cities
edge of Donbas stand firm circumstances my hands don’t want to recently Russian forces are bearing down on come and invade our city.” them and or villages, they occupy territories,” he
against the growing threat do that. I have no inspiration,” Larissa because the their city, slowly but steadily, as they I have lived said. “They do not think in any way
of a Russian takeover said. She and Natalya, neighbours who battlefield try to seize the eastern regions of But the stress of the constant mine about the infrastructure. For them it
struck up a friendship after Russia comes closer Donetsk and Luhansk to achieve the soundtrack of war is taking its toll. already’ doesn’t matter what their target is
By Nicola Smith and Illia Novikov invaded Ukraine in February, walk and closer’ “complete liberation” of the Donbas. because they do not think about
in Kramatorsk daily in the city’s Jubilee Park to pick “It’s been hard recently. The city has possible future life in these cities”
berry leaves to make tea. Russia now controls more than 90 not been shelled much but this siren is
T he sound of distant artillery per cent of the Luhansk region and killing me. It’s going on for hours. It’s Mr Goncharenko said there had
rumbles daily through the “We are collecting herbs and almost the entire city of really hard to think,” said Ludmila, an been no strikes on the city since early
deserted streets of the Ukrainian waiting for peace,” said Larissa, who Severodonetsk, just 40 miles to the elderly woman walking in the park. May, but it’s an uneasy calm.
city of Kramatorsk, not far from the does not want to abandon her home as east of Kramatorsk
fierce fighting around Severodonetsk. the Russian army closes in. Asked why she had not left, she On April 8, 59 people were killed in a
The near constant wail of an air raid replied: “I sent my children away. My Russian missile strike on the railway
Many people have already fled as the Last week they were joined by siren is a cruel reminder of what may grandson works in Denmark. And my station as they waited to evacuate.
war crawls ever closer, but those elderly residents taking strolls past a be to come. “It gets scary in the night daughter is in Paris. They have their
refusing to leave grow increasingly towering Ukrainian flag that fluttered when you hear the explosions and the whole lives ahead of them and I have For Mr Goncharenko, the only
in the breeze. Others cast rods into the sirens and the feeling of expecting lived mine already. And where would I chance to relaunch peace talks is to
park’s muddy pond to catch fish to something that might come here go? I don’t want to start over again.” stop Russian forces in their tracks, and
make soup. Anything to distract makes it really hard to endure,” said the only possibility to do this is for the
Larissa. “It has become harder recently Only about 60,000 residents out of West to send long range weapons.
215,000 remain in Kramatorsk and
about 75 per cent of them are elderly, “Without long distance artillery it’s
according to Oleksandr Goncharenko, impossible to stop them. We shoot
the city’s mayor. If Russia overtakes 20km, they shoot 40km,” he said.
Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, many
fear Kramatorsk, a strategic industrial Nobody could have anticipated the
town, may be next. stresses of his job before February, but
the mayor tries to stay upbeat. “Thanks
for coming!” he said. “Stay alive!”

British fighter told UK has forgotten Russian oil refinery Ukraine strikes
hit after suspected enemy targets
him and he will face firing squad Kyiv drone attack on Snake Island

By Jack Hardy ‘I believe phone call in which he said he had been By Nataliya Vasilyeva By Verity Bowman
what Aiden told “time is running out” by his cap-
A BRITISH fighter sentenced to death said to us, tors. “It’s got to be everyone’s worst A SUSPECTED Ukrainian kamikaze UKRAINE yesterday claimed a “signifi-
during a show trial in Russian-held that if the drone yesterday hit a major oil refinery cant victory” after attacking Russia’s
Ukraine has been told the execution DPR don’t nightmare to have a member of your in Russia’s south and caused a large fire, forces on Snake Island.
will go ahead, it was reported last night. get some family threatened in this way,” she said. in what appears to be a fresh attack by
response they Kyiv on Russian soil. The southern operational command
Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, will execute “Aiden was extremely upset when he said it had caused major losses to Rus-
48, were captured in the besieged city him’ called his mother this morning. Aiden Footage showed the combat drone sian troops after it “aimed strikes with
of Mariupol in April after their unit sur- flying low over the Novoshakhtinsk oil the use of various forces” on the Black
rendered following a 48-day siege. has said the DPR has told him nobody refinery in the Rostov region, near the Sea outpost.
from the UK has made contact, and he border, before it plunged into the site.
The men were convicted of attempt- will be executed. I believe what Aiden Damage inflicted could be seen on
ing “a violent seizure of power” by the Vasily Golubev, the governor of satellite images, including a destroyed
“Supreme Court” of the self-proclaimed has said to us, that if the DPR don’t get Rostov, confirmed the attack, saying tower and Russian vehicles, a radar sta-
Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). some response then they will execute that two unidentified drones might tion and a Pantsir anti-aircraft system,
him. Obviously I hope that isn’t true.” have struck the refinery. which were all damaged. The strategic
They were told to expect execution island, which sits just 30 miles off
by firing squad after pleading guilty to Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary, pre- Russian forces are controlling the Ukraine’s southern coast, was seized by
mercenary and terrorist activities. viously said she had discussed the case other side of the border in the Donbas, Russian forces early on in the war.
with her Ukrainian counterpart, with Ukraine’s closest positions about
Last night, the family of Mr Aslin told Dmytro Kuleba. Russia and the Krem- 80 miles away. Snake Island became a symbol of
the BBC his captors had informed him lin-backed rebel regions in the Donbas Ukrainian resistance at the start of the
that the UK has yet to make any attempt Ukraine has conducted a number of war when defenders refused
to negotiate on his behalf. have consistently described Mr Aslin suspected air raids against Russian fuel demands  from the Russian warship
and Mr Pinner as mercenaries, rather and ammunition depots since the war Moskva to surrender.
Pamela Hall, Mr Aslin’s grandmother, than prisoners of war, a distinction that began in February.
said the family had spoken to him in a
enabled the sham trial earlier this
month to order them to be shot.

12 *** Thursday 23 June 2022 The Daily Telegraph

World news

Embattled Macron urges opposition to ‘leave in-fighting behind’

By Henry Samuel in Paris the cost of living, jobs, energy and health. social problems in France, but called on Macron called on the opposition parties said, but to “dialogue and the willing- Macron’s government, compounding
Mr Macron ruled out any attempt to opposition parties to “leave in-fighting to “clarify... in the coming days, how far ness to listen to each other”. his political woes after he lost his parlia-
THE French president said yesterday behind” and move “beyond politics”. they are willing to go” in their support of mentary majority last week.
that opposition groups had signalled create a “government of national unity” such measures, which he said would not His address came after French oppo-
their readiness to work with his govern- after his Together party on Sunday fell This, Mr Macron said, meant that be financed by higher taxes. sition leaders earlier in the day slapped The allegations date back to when
ment on “major topics”, after his party short of the majority needed to legislate “together we will have to learn a new down his proposal to create a cross- Chrysoula Zacharopoulou – now state
lost its parliamentary majority. without the support of others, saying way to govern and to legislate”. He added that he had been re-elected party “government of national unity”. secretary for development, Francopho-
such a move was “not justified” at this in April on a platform of “ambitious nie and international partnerships –
In a televised address to the nation, stage. He said urgent draft laws, especially reform”, which he expected to carry out. Meanwhile, French prosecutors yes- worked as a gynaecologist. French
Emmanuel Macron said “they are availa- to alleviate the impact of inflation and terday launched an investigation into media said the allegations were linked
ble to advance on major topics”, such as He acknowledged that the parlia- rising energy prices, would be submit- The parliamentary impasse should rape allegations against a newly to her professional activity.
mentary elections had highlighted ted to parliament over the summer. Mr not lead to “stagnation”, Mr Macron appointed female minister in Mr

Taliban plea

for aid after

1,000 die in

earthquake

Many more feared dead agencies and aid charities working in BAKHTAR NEWS AGENCY / AP
beneath the rubble after the country for help.
entire villages in eastern
Afghanistan flattened Bilal Karimi, a deputy spokesman for
the Taliban government, said: “We urge
By Ben Farmer and Sami Yousafzai all aid agencies to send teams to the area
immediately to prevent further catas-
MORE than 1,000 people have been trophe.”
killed in a powerful earthquake in
south-eastern Afghanistan, prompting Aid agencies and the UN may have
the Taliban regime to call for urgent fed starving Afghans over the winter,
international aid. but Western governments have refused
to pay aid money directly into the Tali-
Officials said a further 1,500 had been ban budget. The former insurgents’
hurt and predicted the toll would rise as conquest of the country, their refusal to
information trickled out of remote vil- let girls go to secondary school and
lages along the border with Pakistan. their continuing links with al-Qaeda
have made them pariahs.
Survivors said whole villages had
been flattened as homes collapsed and The militant regime has appealed for
landslides hit settlements in Khost and the resumption of direct aid and the
Paktika provinces. unfreezing of the country’s foreign
reserves, but diplomats have said they
Pictures showed villagers combing are against any aid which might be seen
through the rubble of destroyed homes to benefit the new regime directly.
and digging rows of graves as they pre-
pared to bury the bodies of neighbours “One thousand dead, 1,500 injured,
wrapped in blankets. and this number might go up. Many
families have been lost,” Mohammad
The magnitude 5.9 earthquake is a Amin Hozaifa, information and culture
further blow to a country already in the director of Paktika, told Reuters.
throes of famine and a poverty crisis.
The disaster will pose a challenge to the The quake struck about 27 miles from
government that took power in August. the city of Khost, according to the US
Geological Survey, and was the deadli-
The Taliban called on United Nations est to strike the country in more than
two decades. It occurred shortly after
Afghanistan earthquake 1.30am local time.

Epicentre of the quake; Rescuers rushed to the area by heli-
magnitude 6.1 copter, but the response is likely to be
complicated since many international
A F GH A N I S TA N aid agencies left Afghanistan after the Afghans survey the “It was like the Day of Judgment. crisis since the Taliban swept to power ‘Children trying to stave off starvation for mil-
Taliban takeover. destruction caused This is the very poorest area in Afghan- last August after defeating the UK and were calling lions of Afghans. The UN Office for the
KHOST by the earthquake istan. The area is now full of grief. In US-backed government of Ashraf for help. Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs
PROVINCE “My whole village was unlucky. in the eastern many areas, dead bodies are stuck Ghani. The country was already one of Gradually, in Afghanistan, said Spera in Khost, and
PAKTIKA Almost everyone in our area got under province of Paktika under mud walls and ceiling debris.” the poorest in the world and since the their voices Barmala, Ziruk, Naka and Gayan dis-
PROVINCE debris,” said Himat Khan by phone from Taliban victory, it has gone into eco- were silenced tricts in Paktika were the worst hit.
Affected area Gayan district in Paktika. Shaking was felt by about 119 million nomic meltdown after aid to its govern- as they died’
200 miles people in Pakistan, Afghanistan and ment stopped overnight and sanctions The UN and aid agencies “have been
“All night we were calling for help India, according to the European-Med- paralysed commerce. requested to support the de facto disas-
and support. No one came till 7am. Chil- iterranean Seismological Centre. ter management authority in assessing
dren were under debris. Voices calling Humanitarian agencies remained and responding to immediate needs”,
for help could be heard. Some of them The disaster comes as Afghanistan after foreign troops left and have been the office said.
were in pain. Gradually, their voices has been enduring a severe economic
were silenced as they died.”

He said he was on the road to the cen-
tral provincial hospital with a dozen
injured children in his pick-up truck.

Texas school where teen gunman killed 19 Bin Salman thaws relations with Turkey in
children and two teachers to be demolished first visit since Khashoggi murder

By Jamie Johnson in Washington In a separate Texas state senate hear- said. Instead, the gunman was in the By James Rothwell The Crown Prince is suspected of Middle East allies. It comes after Turkey
ing into the May 24 shooting, Steven school for more than an hour, killing MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT ordering the killing, a charge that he agreed to halt its trial in absentia of Mr
THE primary school in Uvalde, Texas, McCraw, director of the department of children in their classrooms while police vehemently denies, and the brazen Khashoggi’s murder suspects and
where a teenage gunman killed 19 public safety, said the onsite com- waited in the hallway. TURKEY and Saudi Arabia agreed to murder severely harmed relations handed the case over to Riyadh, which
children and two teachers last month mander made “terrible decisions” and halt “negative” media coverage of each between the two countries. already claims to have convicted the
will be demolished, the city’s mayor the police response was “an abject fail- In Washington, a group of senators other yesterday as their leaders sought killers.
said, as legislators in Washington paved ure” in which a commander put the has reached agreement on a bipartisan to draw a line under the murder of Turkish officials said that the two
the way for limited gun reforms. lives of officers over those of children. gun violence bill. The legislation would Jamal Khashoggi. countries agreed to lift restrictions on Prince Mohammed has been using
toughen background checks for the trade, flights and the screening of TV Saudi Arabia’s oil capacity to restore ties
Mayor Don McLaughlin announced He said officers could have “neutral- youngest firearms buyers, require more Crown Prince Mohammed bin Sal- series, and also to end negative media with Middle Eastern and Western lead-
the decision to knock down Robb ised” the shooter within three minutes sellers to conduct background checks, man met Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the coverage of each other. ers, who were sickened by the murder
elementary school at a council meeting, of him entering the building. “There was and toughen the penalties for gun Turkish president, in Ankara for the in 2018. A report by the CIA had even
saying: “You can never ask a child to a sufficient number of armed officers traffickers. It would not, however, raise first time since Washington Post col- Further agreements on energy and concluded that the Crown Prince had
go back or teacher to go back in that wearing body armour to isolate, distract the minimum age for people to buy an umnist Mr Khashoggi was killed and security are also due to be discussed in personally ordered the killing. Riyadh
school ever.” and neutralise the subject,” Mr McCraw assault-style weapon to 21. dismembered by Saudi agents. meetings in Turkey, as Prince Moham- denies the allegation.
med is brought back into the fold by

Italian minister quits amid PM’s father criticised for call
schism over arms to Ukraine to end China envoy ban

By Nick Squires in Rome argued that it threatened Italy’s stand- WILDEST KRUGER SIGHTINGS/TRIANGLE By Verity Bowman of a brutal Chinese regime that is com-
ing within Nato. mitting genocide on the Uyghurs”.
ITALY’S foreign minister has quit his Lion around Two kings of the jungle halt traffic in South STANLEY JOHNSON, the prime minis-
party in a dispute over whether the He said Five Star should “support the Africa’s Kruger National Park by taking a catnap. ter ’s father, has been accused of “It is sad that he so blatantly uses his
country should continue supporting government without ambiguity”. “advancing the interests of a genocidal family ties for such selfish and self-serv-
the hard line against Russia by sending regime” after he called for a parliamen- ing reasons,” they added. “As any decent
weapons to the Ukrainians. “At this historical juncture, support- tary visitation restriction on the Chi- person might remark, a period of
ing European and Atlanticist values nese ambassador to be lifted. silence from him would be most wel-
The departure of Luigi Di Maio is a cannot be considered a fault,” he added. come.”
blow for the Five Star Movement, which Mr Johnson made the remarks ahead
has seen its support plummet from a The disagreements in the coalition of a controversial trip to Xinjiang, home When questioned on the backlash,
high of 33 per cent a few years ago to 12 reflect broader divisions across the to the persecuted Uyghur minority, as Mr Johnson told the South China Morn-
per cent in recent local elections. whole country over Ukraine. According he attempts to retrace the steps of ing Post: “I am not going to comment on
Marco Polo on a six-week trip along the
The minister, who will continue to Luigi Di Maio has quit Chinese Silk Road. ‘It is sad that he so
remain a key member of the governing the Five Star blatantly uses his family ties
coalition, will take at least 60 MPs and Movement but will Mr Johnson said Zheng Zeguang, the for such selfish and self-
senators with him and intends to set up remain a key Chinese ambassador to Britain, was a serving reasons’
a new political group in parliament. member of the very “agreeable, capable and intelli-
government gent man”. this. I don’t live in this world of people
Mr Di Maio’s decision to abandon the saying this and people saying that.”
party was described by an Italian news- to a recent poll by state-owned RAI tel- “I would very much hope that by
paper yesterday as “an earthquake” for evision, about 45 per cent of Italians are the  time Parliament returns, these The Prime Minister’s half-brother,
the Five Star Movement, the biggest against sending armaments to Kyiv. bans  will no longer be in place,” Mr Max, intends to travel with his father as
party in Italy’s general election in 2018. Johnson said. they traverse the Xinjiang region.
The schism will have implications for
Tensions within the ruling coalition the next general election in spring. Britain banned Mr Zeguang from Beijing claims it is fighting terrorism
over support for Ukraine have been entering Parliament last year in in the region.
simmering for weeks. “The split complicates prospects for response to sanctions by Beijing against
a broad centre-Left alliance ahead of the five Conservative MPs and two peers State broadcaster CCTV is expected
Five Star and the hard-Right League elections, especially if Five Star exits the over their action against human rights to join them for part of the journey.
party, both of which have been soft on government,” said Federico Santi from abuses in Xinjiang.
Moscow in the past, have objected to the Eurasia Group political consultancy. Beijing, which has denied all accusa-
the dispatch of more armaments to Kyiv Mr Johnson’s statements contradict tions regarding Xinjiang, has accused
and called for immediate peace talks. Such a prospect would “reinforce the Prime Minister’s push to increase its detractors of “maliciously spreading
expectations that the election will pro- pressure on China over rights abuses lies and disinformation”.
Mr Di Maio clashed with Giuseppe duce a coalition government dominated against the Uyghur minority.
Conte, the leader of Five Star, who is by far-Right Eurosceptic parties”, Mr Mr Johnson said he was pleased to be
opposed to more weapons being sent to Santi added. Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Nusrat Ghani working with China and that the trip
Ukraine. He said he could no longer tol- and Tim Loughton said in a statement was “not a political exercise”.
erate such a stance by his party, and that he was “advancing the interests

The Daily Telegraph Thursday 23 June 2022 *** 13

Maxwell seeks News
to gag Epstein
victim ahead
of sentencing

By Josie Ensor US CORRESPONDENT AMIT DAVE/REUTERS

GHISLAINE MAXWELL is trying to Leap of faith A Hindu devotee performs a motorcycle stunt during a rehearsal for the annual Rath Yatra religious festival in Ahmedabad, western India.
prevent a British victim of Jeffrey
Epstein from testifying at her sex-traf-
ficking sentencing hearing next week.

Maxwell’s lawyers are attempting to
exclude Sarah Ransome from giving a
victim impact statement before a New
York court, saying the alleged sexual
abuse she suffered falls outside the time
frame covered in her trial.

It is understood Ms Ransome is hop-
ing to address district judge Alison
Nathan as the prosecution pushes for a
20-year sentence for Maxwell on five
counts of trafficking women and girls
for Epstein between 1994 and 2004.

“To our understanding, Ms Ransome
alleges she was a victim of Epstein and
Ms Maxwell from approximately Oct
2006 to April 2007, a full two years after
the conduct in this case ended,” Max-
well’s lawyers wrote in a court filing.

“She therefore does not qualify as a
‘crime victim’ under the Crime Victims
Rights Act. While it is appropriate for
victims to be present pursuant to the
CVRA, Ms Maxwell’s sentencing pro-
ceeding should not be an open forum
for any alleged victim to be heard.”

Ms Ransome, 37,alleges she was
abused on Little St James, Epstein’s pri-
vate island in the US Virgin Islands, in
2006. She claims Maxwell, 60, was
aware of it, and in one case forced her
into a room where Epstein raped her.

In a request for a more lenient sen-
tence yestesday, Maxwell’s attorneys
said it would be a “travesty of justice” if
she faced a sentence appropriate for
Epstein. They asked for up to five years
and three months in prison.

Maxwell has been detained since her
arrest in July 2020, and they say her
time behind bars has been a “dispropor-
tionate pre-sentence punishment”.

Biden told to mind his own business on Brexit

Potential Republican Mrs Haley, in a speech in London, lam- business. This is something that you what the EU does. It makes all these pains me to say that, but if there had preted Mr Biden’s actions, including
candidate Nikki Haley says basted Democrats in the US for trying to have to decide; this is something that has countries do what they want them to do been no Afghanistan disaster, there giving a green light to the Nord Stream
America has no right to undermine Britain’s attempts to over- to be in the best interest of your people, and not what’s in their best interest.” would likely have been no Ukraine 2 pipeline and slowing down military
interfere in UK’s affairs haul the Protocol. and you’ve got to decide what’s going to invasion. aid to Ukraine, as an “invitation to evil”,
make you strong in the end. I just don’t She predicted other countries might she said.
By Nick Allen in Washington and The comments by Donald Trump’s think it’s our place to be weighing in on “do the same thing, and I actually think “Putin saw our lack of resolve in
Maighna Nanu former ambassador to the UN came this at all.” that will make the West stronger”. Kabul and assumed nothing meaningful She added that Europe had been “too
after allies of Mr Biden, including would happen once his tanks rolled into bureaucratic and soft” to stop it.
NIKKI HALEY, the potential Republican House speaker Nancy Pelosi, threat- The former governor of South Caro- Mrs Haley, 50, is widely seen as a Kyiv.”
presidential candidate, has warned that ened there would be no US-UK trade lina said she supported Brexit and potential Republican nominee for pres- Mrs Haley identified China as the big-
Brexit is none of Joe Biden’s business, deal as a result. watched it unfold with “bated breath ident in 2024. She added: “A large part of Putin’s gest national security threat the world
and that he should not weigh in on the because I love when people use the miscalculations sprung from America’s faces, and said deterring war in East
future of the Northern Ireland Protocol. Mrs Haley told the Policy Exchange power of their voice”. However, she has said that if Mr surrender in Afghanistan last summer.” Asia must be the “overriding goal”.
think tank: “In terms of the Northern Trump decides to run, then she will not.
Ireland Protocol, I know that some of She added: “The fact that [the British Mrs Haley also accused Mr Biden and She said it would take the “sort of
the politicians in America have decided people] wanted to leave the EU, I don’t In a withering assessment of Mr Barack Obama of “appeasement” fol- leadership” shown by Baroness
to weigh in on that. “It’s none of their blame them. I saw at the United Nations Biden, she blamed his chaotic with- lowing the Russian occupation of Thatcher, who had been an inspiration
drawal of US forces from Afghanistan Crimea in 2014. The Kremlin had inter- throughout her own career.
for the invasion of Ukraine. She said: “It

Nasa sexist, vulgar and abusive,
says woman who made it to top

By Nick Allen and Jamie Johnson ‘Space agency is reminiscent innovation and reduce costs. She wrote
in Washington of the forts boys built and that, after Elon Musk said that he could
filled with cigarettes and help “fix” Nasa, a politician involved
NASA’S former most senior female girlie magazines’ with the space agency “shouted at me to
executive has accused the space agency ‘get your boy Elon in line’”.
of having a “male-dominated” culture, Ms Garver, who joined Nasa in the
claiming she was subjected to physical 1990s, described the agency as “remi- She said the cost of the SLS was bal-
threats, and called an “ugly whore” and niscent of the forts boys built and filled looning due to entrenched interests.
a “motherf------ b----”. with cigarettes and girlie magazines”.
Ms Garver wrote: “The Biden admin-
Lori Garver, Nasa deputy administra- She wrote that, when she was a istration is now the third administration
tor 2009 to 2013, also lambasted the junior official, a more senior Nasa to ignore such realities, so the absurdity
agency for being initially reluctant to figure called her into his office on
involve private firms such as SpaceX. her birthday and suggested giv- continues.” Nasa has so far not
ing her a “birthday spanking”. commented on the book.
She criticised the cost of the Space Ms Garver praised Mr
Launch System (SLS) rocket, which Other women had also Musk, saying she would not
Nasa is developing to go back to the encountered “unwanted sexual have been able to make pro-
Moon, and called Nasa’s pledge to send advances and harassing behav- gress at Nasa without him.
a woman to the lunar surface a “market- iour,” she wrote. In the book she also
ing gimmick”. praised Jeff Bezos, and
Ms Garver said she had called Sir Richard Bran-
In Escaping Gravity Ms Garver, 61, been attacked by politicians, son the “most natu-
wrote: “Many who disagreed with my the aerospace industry, and rally charismatic of
views attacked me with vulgar, gen- “hero astronauts” as she the billionaire space
dered language, depredation, and phys- tried to promote private barons”.
ical threats. enterprise, which she
believed would lead to Lori Garver’s claims
“I’ve been told I need to get laid, and
asked if I’m on my period or going are in her new book
through menopause.”
‘Escaping Gravity’

Cosby liable for
sexual assault on
16-year-old girl

UGO AMEZ/SIPA/SHUTTERSTOCK By Nick Allen in Washington

Stone me A resident of Taillan-Médoc, near Bordeaux, BILL COSBY has been found liable for
surveys the damage to her garden table after a hailstorm sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at
battered parts of south western France on Monday. the Playboy Mansion in 1975.

Judy Huth, now 64, was awarded
damages of $500,000 (£407,000) for
emotional distress by a civil jury in
Santa Monica, California.

Ms Huth said her long legal battle had
been “torture”. She added: “This is such
a big victory.”

Ms Huth had testified that the US
comedian invited her and a 17-year-old
friend to the mansion when he was 37.

She said they met in a park where
Cosby was making a film and he gave
them alcohol before taking them to the
mansion, where he molested her.

Cosby, 84, who was once dubbed
“America’s Dad” due to his role as Cliff
Huxtable on The Cosby Show, which ran
from 1984 to 1992, did not testify or
appear in court.

He denies the allegations and his law-
yers said he would appeal.

In 2018, he was convicted for inde-
cently assaulting a female basketball
coach in 2004 and jailed. But the con-
viction was thrown out last year and he
was freed from prison.

14 *** Thursday 23 June 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Comment

The lie at the
heart of modern
feminism can no
longer be ignored

JEMIMA LEWIS

F or those of us who have Being biologically female To order prints or signed copies of any Telegraph cartoon, go to telegraph.co.uk/prints-cartoons or call 0191 603 0178 ‹ readerprints@telegraph.co.uk
loitered timidly on the almost always means living
sidelines of the trans in a smaller, weaker, more Basket-case Britain is the definitive
debate, wringing our hands vulnerable body, with all the proof lockdown was an epic mistake
and wishing everyone would difficulties, risks and societal
just calm down, it’s tempting expectations that stem from The strikes, inflation, decay seminal study on excess death rates would insist. We could easily absorb FOLLOW Allister very old at the expense of the young –
to hope that the argument this. That doesn’t mean and incompetence: all are shows that Britain performed far better that, they maintained: interest rates Heath on Twitter and now wages are being slashed in real
might be about to move onto women shouldn’t do direct costs of the decision than previously thought, beating were low and we would pay back the @AllisterHeath; terms, while pensions are rising by
more scientific ground. competitive sports or to shut down society Germany, Italy and America. Our rate of debt over many decades and wouldn’t READ MORE at some 10 per cent.
physically demanding jobs. 109 per 100,000 would have put us 15th even notice. telegraph.co.uk/
Fina, the international On the contrary: any woman ALLISTER HEATH out of 28 EU member states had we still opinion Covid and lockdown destroyed this
governing body for who gets to the top in these been part of that dreadful body. The lockdowners even claimed that Government, erasing the centre-Right’s
competitive swimming, ruled arenas is likely to be a W hy is anybody surprised? You Covid had allowed a breakthrough in ‘Those of us greatest opportunity in 40 years to
this week that transwomen formidable asset. can’t lock down an economy Yet Sweden, which imposed economic engineering: officials had who warned remake Britain. The energy that could
cannot compete in female and a society, pay millions of drastically fewer restrictions, suffered worked out how to put free market of the have gone into reforming the public
races if they have gone But the notion of physical people to do nothing, spend and borrow just 56 excess deaths per 100,000, a bit economies into hibernation, to pause economic sector, or fixing the housing crisis, or
through any part of male parity between the sexes is and print tens of billions of pounds, and worse than its Nordic neighbours but activity at will. It was the economics of costs of making the country more competitive
puberty. International Rugby false and self-defeating. Why expect there to be no consequences, no much better than us. For the vast Sleeping Beauty: the private sector lockdown after Brexit went into trying to survive a
League has now barred all measure our power in a day of reckoning, no bill to pay. majority of the world, one would be would rebound as soon as Dishy Rishi were pandemic. Johnson fell badly ill. The
transwomen from female currency that men will hard-pressed to find a correlation chose to kiss it back to life again. dismissed No 10 operation tore itself apart, and
teams – not for philosophical always have more of? Britain’s inflationary tsunami, the rail between the speed and harshness of Hayekians who believed capitalism was as naive the heart of government lost its moral
reasons, but simply because strikes, the chaos at the airports, the lockdowns and the excess death rate. a complex, fragile spontaneous order ideologues’ compass, partying while the country
people with Y chromosomes ‹ On the Tube this week, incompetence, decay and decline, can (Australia, New Zealand, Japan and that couldn’t be disrupted with was socially isolating. Sunak, a brilliant
tend to be bigger and faster I sat opposite two women all be directly traced to Covid and China are separate, but in at least three impunity had finally been proved technician, rebuilt the entire welfare
than those without. In rugby, who appeared to have been lockdowns. Even before Vladimir out of four cases their lockdowns came wrong. Even if the economy did find it system in just a few weeks to deliver
this creates an issue of safety moulded out of Plasticine. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, inflation at obscene costs). difficult to continue exactly where it left furlough, instead of turning his mind to
as well as fairness. Their cheekbones were had already surged uncontrollably, with off, we could simply unleash more QE or tax reform or many of the other great
shiny and round, positioned the consumer price index hitting 6.2 per Lockdowns did have some benefits Joe Biden-style public spending to fix free-market ideas he used to relish
Gender-critical feminists unnaturally high under their cent by February. but were, on net, a calamity of historic everything. discussing. The Tories embraced big
will hail this as the victory of eyes. Their lips were made proportions. Some lives were saved, government, statism and paternalism.
reason over a quasi-religious from two slugs of pink Do you remember when Boris thanks especially to the speed at which It was dangerous, delusional
doctrine that many – perhaps Plasticine, rolled between Johnson promised to put his “arms the vaccines were rolled out. But this nonsense. Everything that could go In the absence of a complete Tory
most – people do not believe: the fingers and then affixed around every single worker” by came at a disproportionate price that wrong went wrong, starting with relaunch, Labour is now on course to
that there is no meaningful in a porny pout. When they financing 80 per cent of their wages? Or was neither acceptable nor moral. A surging inflation and myriad other take power. This would count as
difference between a woman talked, their mouths clacked when Rishi Sunak subsidised our voluntarist Swedish approach would unintended consequences. The insane another grievous cost of lockdown,
who was born biologically rigidly open and shut, like lunches during that absurd summer? have been immensely preferable, even amounts of cash pumped into the especially given that the party has also
male, and a woman who was Thunderbirds puppets. We are now paying for it via a vicious had more people died. It is a stain on our economy by zero rates, money printing, been thoroughly discredited by its
born female. stealth pay cut worth 5-10 per cent in national polity that we never conducted furlough, test and trace and subsidised approach to Covid. A bogus, destructive
It was one of those real terms, and a multi-year 15-20 per a proper cost-benefit analysis of loans chased too few goods, services, ideology had captured much of the Left:
But to be fair, this kind of moments when a creeping cent decline in the value of cash. lockdowns at the time, and that the homes, shares and cryptocurrencies, they believed in Modern Monetary
magical thinking is not trend suddenly becomes establishment refuses to reassess the pushing prices drastically higher and Theory, which posits that budget
confined to the trans lobby. glaringly obvious. Twenty What would have happened to question honestly today. annihilating central bankers’ credibility. deficits don’t matter and that the state
In fact, the idea that a woman years ago, you almost never support for lockdowns had voters been should simply print money to pay for
can be just as strong as a man saw plastic surgery addicts in aware that payback would be so prompt, Yet those of us who warned of the Supply chains have still not recovered whatever it wants. Well, we tried that
– that it would be London. Like the morbidly that Johnson’s handouts were a loan economic costs of lockdown were worldwide, the supply of labour has during Covid, and we now have
unforgivably sexist to argue obese – but much wealthier with an extortionate rate of interest, not dismissed as naive ideologues at best, collapsed in many countries, numerous inflation that is set to hit 11 per cent.
otherwise – has long been a – they only existed in a gift? and mass murderers at worst. Why industries, such as airlines, remain
staple of popular feminism. America. Very occasionally couldn’t we grasp that the exact same dysfunctional, there has been a massive Labour, if it wins, will either trigger a
It’s the reason every action one would flutter into The World Health Organisation’s reduction in GDP would have been cultural shift in favour of working from sterling crisis and require an IMF
film has to feature a kick-ass London like a rare bird, incurred in the absence of compulsory home even when bosses believe it to be bailout, or will have to rediscover
woman who can break a alighting at an expensive restrictions on activity, we were asked. unsuitable, customer service has austerity, high interest rates and
man’s neck with a twist of restaurant where their fellow The only economic impact from regressed 20 years, and all of the hard prudence. Given how fanatically Sir
her nutcracker thighs. It is diners would crane rudely to lockdowns and the accompanying work to reduce the numbers of those on Keir Starmer and his acolytes defended
the polite untruth that has get a better look. economic support would be an increase out-of-work benefits has been set back extreme lockdowns, that would at least
helped bring about many in the national debt of some 10-15 per decades. To add insult to injury, add an ironic twist to an otherwise
welcome changes, such as Now, they’re everywhere cent of GDP, establishment economists lockdowns were designed to protect the nightmarish prospect.
the recruitment of women – even on the Tube!
into the Armed Forces, the Presumably – the rules of
police and other traditionally fashion being famously
male professions. perverse – this means plastic
surgery is about to become
It’s a white lie; one that passé, and all the most
many feminists propounded elegant ladies will sport eye
or quietly allowed as long as bags and wrinkles. That’s my
it seemed useful. But now it excuse, anyway.
has become impossible to
sustain. By adopting the idea FOLLOW Jemima Lewis on
that gender difference is all Twitter @gemimsy;
in the mind – that our READ MORE at
chromosomes should be telegraph.co.uk/opinion
irrelevant, even on the rugby
pitch – trans activists pushed
the lie out into the open.

The trade unions are failing our children

The decision to threaten pumped £16 billion, roughly £600 per circumstances into account, to avoid FOLLOW Nadhim the cost of living, totalling £37 billion
strike action in schools is household, into keeping the railways unfairly wasting painstaking Zahawi on Twitter this year alone, which means almost all
irresponsible given all that going during the pandemic, the abject preparations. @nadhimzahawi; of the most vulnerable 8 million
young people have suffered failure of union bosses to accept vital READ MORE at households will receive support of at
modernisation and reform is costing I know how much effort students and telegraph.co.uk/ least £1,200. I am looking forward to
NADHIM ZAHAWI ordinary people. teachers have put in to get to this point, opinion receiving the recommendations from
and to get back on track following the our independent body on teacher pay,
A fter three years of sacrifices made The good news is that schools have disruption of the pandemic. That’s what and as always they will inform the
by young people, it has been makes the further threats of strike decisions we take. But the decision by
fantastic to see students sitting tried and tested systems in place to action we’ve seen this week from unions to threaten strike action is
down to do their exams this summer, in support their pupils through this, and education union leaders, hot on the wrong. Our young people have suffered
person. Everyone’s hard work is paying the vast majority of students aged more disruption than any generation
off, and once again young people are heels of their counterparts in rail, so that’s gone before them, and to
getting the chance to show what they between 11 and 16 do not rely on trains disappointing. It is absolutely right that compound that now, as recovery is in
have learnt and are capable of. But as to get to school or college. But I know we should recognise the tireless work of full swing and families are thinking
we near the final weeks of exams there are some students, especially about their next big step following
season, I am deeply concerned that those taking A-Levels, T-Levels or other our public sector workers and we’ve school or college, would be
we’re once again in a situation where proposed the biggest pay award for new unforgiveable and unfair.
factors outside of our control are piling post-16 qualifications, who do. They are teachers in a generation – 16.7 per cent
undue stress onto our children, at what having to find alternative transport to over the next two years – with further As a father, I know the anxiety and
is always an anxious time. get them to school or college. Others worry these disruptions are causing and
increases for more experienced will cause, and it is a crying shame that
The rail strikes which have hit the have had to stay with a friend. Even teachers and leaders, and we will we are at this point. Strike action must
country over the past week are those who drive or take the bus will face continue to consider reasonable and always be the last resort. Especially at a
punishing millions of people, affecting busier roads just so they can take their time when we should be pulling
Glastonbury-goers, commuters, and proportionate advice on pay increases together as a nation. So I want to join
NHS patients. After the taxpayer exams. This is totally unacceptable. from independent pay review bodies. teachers and parents in celebrating the
Parents are already doing more than achievements of our children and
The National Education Union, congratulating them on their hard work
their bit to tackle this issue, whether during this final push towards the
that’s by making alternative travel though, is calling for increases above summer holidays. I want to wish anyone
inflation. Our teachers continue to be doing their exams the very best of luck.
arrangements, car sharing, or putting everyday heroes, and it’s right they are
up their children’s friends. Schools, too, recognised, but pegging wages to Nadhim Zahawi is Secretary
can use existing flexibilities to make of State for Education
inflation – with a war in Europe and
sure children do not miss out. If an supply chains recovering post-Covid – is
invigilator is delayed, the start of the irresponsible.
exam can be delayed, or alternative
invigilators used. If a student is late The inflation we’re seeing now will
abate. And in the meantime, the
because of traffic, schools should do all Chancellor has put an extensive
they can to let them sit their exam, and package of support in place to help with
exam boards will take their personal

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Letters to the Editor

Union strikes can only hamper the reforms needed on the rail network Scotland’s loss

ESTABLISHED 1855 SIR – I have major concerns about the did for the docks and shipbuilding, SIR – If rail unions wish to retain SIR – In addition to all the problems
rail strikes precisely because I am a compared to the success of industries mid-20th century working practices, that would be created by a hard border
The human rights blue-collar trade unionist. where multiskilling is now prevalent. perhaps they would like to receive with England (report, June 21), I
lobby is overreacting A O H Lewis mid-20th century pay and conditions. wonder whether Nicola Sturgeon and
We need more staff on the railways. Peterborough Adam Massingham the Scottish National Party have even
A Bill of Rights has great historical resonance. A visible staff presence is vital for Ashford, Kent bothered to consider the very serious
The 1688 version, while limiting the reassuring lone passengers. Striking SIR – When it comes to the detriment to the Scottish shipbuilding
freedoms of Roman Catholics and women, can only jeopardise such a positive introduction of new technology and SIR – As a former railwayman and still a industry if Scotland leaves the United
was nonetheless a foundation stone of British agenda. unions’ opposition to it, history is not regular commuter by train, I see both Kingdom.
liberties along with habeas corpus, trial by jury on the side of the rail workers. sides of the argument in the current
and limits on the executive power of the state. Mick Lynch, the secretary-general dispute. BAE is the prime contractor for
of the union of Rail, Maritime and In the car industry back in the 1970s, rebuilding the Royal Navy with new
Modified and expanded, these liberties have Transport Workers (RMT), would be the spot welder would carry the Once again, there are calls for fleets of frigates and destroyers, and
existed in this country much longer than they have on infinitely stronger ground were he machine as a backpack; now robots do driverless trains (Letters, June 22). This much of this work is centred on the
in much of continental Europe. After the Second to press the Government on the this and many other vehicle assembly is technically feasible but cannot be River Clyde. Independence would
World War, they were the basis for the European imperative of major capital investment tasks. Also in the 1970s, truckers achieved overnight. Train drivers are mean that future contracts would have
Convention on Human Rights which was intended in rail infrastructure. His members vowed never to have tachographs not actually in the front line in this to be placed elsewhere in the UK, in
to ensure the horrors of the mid-20th century were would win. The country would win. (devices that monitor vehicles’ speed particular strike. Most belong to Aslef. port cities such as Barrow, Belfast,
never again inflicted on people because of their John Barstow and driving time) and dockers fought RMT members are all the other rail Plymouth and Portsmouth, which have
race or religion or other minority status. Pulborough, West Sussex the introduction of containerisation. In workers, of whom signalling staff are the facilities and skilled workforces for
the 1980s, printers opposed the the most vital and whose absence from warship building.
The final interpretation of the convention was SIR – The leaders of the RMT should introduction of new technology in the duty is the principal cause of the
assumed by the European Court of Human Rights study closely the picture of Arthur form of desktop publishing. inability to operate the railway. In addition, the large military bases
before the Human Rights Act (HRA) made them Scargill (June 22), the former miners’ Modernisation of signalling systems in Scotland would need to be
once again justiciable by British courts, albeit with union president, on the picket line on Unions representing workers in the has been going on for decades relocated. All this would lead to the
an appeal to Strasbourg still available. As has been Tuesday. above industries were among the throughout the network, but it is loss of many thousands of well-paid
seen recently with the Rwandan asylum removals, strongest in Britain, yet all failed to expensive and takes time to carry out. jobs in that country, as well as those in
a domestic judicial decision can be overruled. Maybe it will remind them of what turn the tide of new technology. Peter Clark supply chains and local economies.
he and the National Union of Michael Porteous Ash, Kent Ted Shorter
It is against this background that Dominic Raab, Mineworkers did for coalmining. They Windsor, Berkshire Tonbridge, Kent
the Lord Chancellor, published his British Bill of should also recall what demarcation
Rights essentially to supplant the Human Rights
Act and reduce the influence of a supra-national We accept letters Housing solutions Unsafe car technology
court that has arrogated to itself far more power by post, fax and
than was ever envisaged. It has moved beyond email only. Please SIR – Builders throughout the country THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES/SSPL/GETTY IMAGES SIR – I am alarmed by the news (June
interpreting the convention into creating laws of include name, are struggling to find the tradespeople 21) that anti-tailgating systems are to
its own in contravention of the principle that such address, work and they need to get houses built. This is be fitted in the majority of cars. My
responsibilities lie with elected parliaments. home telephone due to a combination of the fall in the wife’s car had such a system fitted, and
numbers. value of the pound, foreign workers it almost caused several accidents
This is why the responses to Mr Raab’s Bill from not returning to Britain after the before I disabled it.
the human rights lobby are preposterous. Amnesty 111 Buckingham pandemic and Brexit, and an ageing
International said the proposed new statute would Palace Road, UK population leading to the closure When you are in traffic in a town or
“fatally weaken human rights” while other London of long-established firms as their at a roundabout and you see that the
campaigners fatuously condemned the “ripping SW1W 0DT workforce reaches retirement age. car ahead is turning, it’s normal to
up” of liberties. Yet we are not withdrawing from Those who are still working are filter past – getting closer than you
the convention and, in any case, we possessed the FAX choosing quality of life over a long might otherwise to a car straight in
rights it contains long before it came into effect in 020 7931 2878 working week as their daily rate soars. front. Several times the car’s sensing
1953. We do not need to submit to the edicts of the system misinterpreted this action,
Strasbourg court in order to defend them. EMAIL The short-term solution to this is to causing the emergency braking to be
dtletters@ allow open access to anyone with activated, and forcing the car behind to
Indeed, the new Bill will strengthen rights in telegraph.co.uk house-building skills wishing to come stop quickly and unexpectedly. On
some areas, including specific protections for free to Britain. The longer term solution is each occasion I felt lucky not to have
speech and trial by jury. Courts will no longer be FOLLOW to encourage innovation in the way been hit from behind.
required to place costly obligations on public Telegraph Letters houses are built in Britain, particularly
authorities actively to protect individual human on Twitter in relation to manufacturing them These systems are dangerous and I
rights. There is a good deal of British pragmatism @LettersDesk off-site – as is now commonplace in don’t believe they will save lives.
and what Mr Raab called “a healthy dose of Germany. Ian Brent-Smith
common sense” here that might rescue what is a Henry Dodds Battle for bread: a Second World War recruitment poster for the Women’s Land Army Bicester, Oxfordshire
noble cause from the human rights industry. Whittingham, Northumberland
A spell in the Land Army could be life changing Data hoarders
A new balance is needed between traditional HR deserves respect
British rights and the judicial activism of the SIR – In 1948, aged 17, I joined the SIR – I trust today’s school leavers are SIR – Malcolm Bird (Letters, June 22)
Strasbourg court. This Bill should help provide it. SIR – Contrary to the general opinion Women’s Land Army and served for not afraid of hard work in their gap questions the need for customers to
of your correspondents (Letters, June two years before going to college year, which was a luxury few of my surrender personal data – in his case
Triple lock 22), the agenda of HR departments is (Letters, June 20). It was one of the generation could afford to take. to the post office. What is more
not to make sure that every “woke” most valuable experiences of my life. concerning is how long this
bandwagon is ridden roughshod After leaving school, my friends information is kept.
through company strategy. I stayed in a hostel with 40 other and I picked potatoes. We were paid
girls. It built me up physically, by the amount we picked, so earned After moving from Wales and
In recent weeks, I have arranged taught me to mix with all sorts of enough to run our motorbikes and settling my Welsh Water account, I
support for a member of staff with characters and gave me an insight entertain our girlfriends. was told that my address, date of birth,
severe mental health challenges, into the rudiments of management bank details and phone number would
organised members of the team to by observing the practices of the I highly recommend it – and what be kept indefinitely. I asked why and
travel to America for training and farms on which I worked. a way to get our country back on its was told that they needed to know
development, created a training day Angela Lanyon feet after the pandemic. who had lived at my old address. As my
focused on managing constant Worcester Michael J Menhenitt account was paid I said they could get
industry change, and researched and Exmouth, Devon occupiers’ details from the land
pulled together a shift procedure to registry and should therefore delete
T he latest inflation figures confirmed that ensure fair and consistent weekend CCTV not policing has reduced burglary rates me from their database.
prices are rising at their fastest rate in 40 cover.
years and will soon head into double figures. SIR – It is fanciful for the National poor. While the service continues to When this suggestion was rejected
The Bank of England has predicted a peak of 11 per During the pandemic, my job Police Chiefs’ Council to claim credit be both under-resourced and I said I would file a report to the
cent later this year but since it did not see the included interpreting and for the reduction in the number of misdirected, I fear that property crime Information Commissioner’s Office. I
current acceleration coming this may turn out to communicating the ever-changing burglaries (Letters, June 22). will remain a low priority for police. then got a phone call to say that Welsh
be an under-estimate. The consequences in terms Covid restrictions to ensure that our Roy Ramm Water only kept details for six years.
of labour relations are clear, with the rail strike people were able to work on-site and The reduction is more likely to be Felsted, Essex
partly motivated by a collapse in real wages. operate as safely as possible. attributed to the deterrent effect of the This, to me, is still totally
increased use of CCTV and digital SIR – I am struggling to understand unacceptable.
But one group loses out more than most and that Principally, the HR team is alarm systems, which in real terms how the police had the time to Linda Williams
is people on fixed incomes, notably pensioners. responsible for ensuring that people have become cheaper and more investigate a joke made by the Bromyard, Herefordshire
The so-called “triple lock” guarantees that the old are treated with respect and in a fair accessible for both home and business comedian Joe Lycett that offended a
age pension will rise by either 2.5 per cent, or the and equitable manner. owners. single audience member (report, June A small problem
average annual wage rise or the consumer price 22), and yet apparently do not have the
index inflation rate, whichever is greatest. The “Woke” we are not. What is troubling is that even resources to follow up burglaries. SIR – Perhaps Michael Deacon’s
earnings element was suspended this year after Fiona Fairbrother though the police have 51 per cent Julian Pullan amazing ability to distinguish between
wages rose faster than expected during the Paisley, Renfrewshire fewer offences to investigate than they Bramley, Hampshire men and women (Way of the World,
pandemic. Now it is prices that provide the outlier, did in the previous decade, arrest and June 21) should have been put to use
with Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, under pressure Ripe for improvement conviction rates remain depressingly by the NHS trust that recently bought
once again to limit the increase. a fleet of brand new ambulances. Staff
SIR – While we should be grateful that have complained that these cannot be
Mr Sunak indicated yesterday that he would scientists have developed a film to driven comfortably or safely by anyone
revive the triple lock for next year which would prevent avocados from turning brown over 5ft 9in tall.
mean a 10 per cent rise in the state pension based (report, June 21), perhaps they could
on September’s expected consumer price index now develop something to turn The trust obviously thought all its
figure. As he rightly observed, many in receipt of “perfectly ripe” avocados into drivers/paramedics were women –
the state pension are the poorest and most perfectly ripe avocados. average height 5ft 5in – not men, who
vulnerable people in society. But with employees James Farrington have an average height of 5ft 10in.
being limited to 2 or 3 per cent pay rises, this will Hartfield, East Sussex John Newbury
be a hard political line to maintain. Warminster, Wiltshire

Welfare benefits are also set to rise by 10 per cent We must be prepared to go to war with Russia
but there are arguments for treating these
differently from the state pension since recipients Putin’s latest threats show In short, the Russian war effort in between Poland and Lithuania on the fighting capabilities of our Armed
are in a better position to get jobs. It is astonishing he is not beaten, but we are Ukraine is in dire straits, a predicament shores of the Baltic. Forces.
that more than 5 million people are on out-of-work dangerously ill-equipped that one might expect would encourage
benefits when there are more vacancies than ever for a conventional conflict Putin to adopt a less confrontational Mr Patrushev, a former head of Even so, as General Sir Patrick
and a national shortage of workers in key sectors. tone with his Western rivals. A country Russia’s Federal Security Service and a Sanders, the Army’s newly-appointed
CON COUGHLIN that finds itself incapable of winning high profile member of Putin’s siloviki Chief of the General Staff, has warned in
Quantitative stuffing one conflict would be well-advised to group of cronies, did not specify what his first rallying cry since taking
A fter the terrible drubbing the avoid provoking another confrontation action he had in mind, but indicated that command, British forces need to be
P aper banknotes make more comfortable Russian military has suffered with its European neighbours. Moscow would not tolerate Vilnius’s prepared for swift mobilisation to
mattress fillings than the nasty plastic notes during the Ukraine conflict, recent decision – taken at the behest of eastern Europe and be “capable of
that are replacing them. That much is agreed. Western leaders might be forgiven for Yet, to judge by the constant stream the EU – to ban future shipments of steel beating Russia in battle”.
The old notes insulate and “breathe” naturally, concluding that Vladimir Putin no of threats emanating from the Kremlin, and iron ore to Kaliningrad.
unlike clammy, sweaty new ones. This may partly longer has the ability to threaten his Putin’s enthusiasm for intimidating his Sir Patrick is arguing that, for all the
explain the hidden mountain of 160 million £50 European neighbours. adversaries remains unabated. There are various reasons why the investment in new technology, the
notes and 300 million £20 that will no longer be Kremlin is suddenly throwing its weight military needs to reconstitute its
accepted in shops after September 30, 100 days’ It is not just the devastating loss of So far this week the Russian autocrat around. Putin could be trying to distract traditional war-fighting skills to enable
time. After that, hoarders must unstuff the tanks, artillery and armoured vehicles attention away from his pitiful it to undertake precisely the type of
mattress and trundle their wheelbarrows down to that has left Moscow struggling to has warned that Moscow will soon performance in Ukraine, or he could be state-on-state warfare that is currently
the Bank of England, which delights in exchanging maintain its “special military operation” deploy its new generation of Sarmat taking place between Russia and
notes past their sell-by dates. You can also post against Ukraine. The high casualty rate intercontinental ballistic missiles – also attempting to intimidate European Ukraine.
piles of tired fifties to the Bank. This would feel suffered by Russian ground forces – leaders into dropping their support for
strange to the cautious. “Please take appropriate which the Ukrainian military yesterday known as Satan II – which can destroy Kyiv. Whatever the truth of the matter, There are many in Whitehall,
measures to insure against loss or theft,” the Bank claimed stood at a staggering 34,230 targets in Britain within three minutes particularly the authors of last year’s
advises. Alternatively, buy something now that will war dead – is severely hampering of being launched. despite its setbacks in Ukraine, Moscow defence review, who oppose this notion.
keep its value – unlike, these days, banknotes. Moscow’s attempts to seize control of still has plenty more military options at When Ben Wallace, the Defence
the Donbas region. With a range of 11,000 miles and its disposal – something that Western Secretary, raised the issue of increasing
defence spending with Mr Johnson at
Russian generals have been forced to carrying between 10 and 15 nuclear leaders need to consider as they weigh the start of hostilities in Ukraine, he is
cobble together front-line battalions warheads apiece, Russia claims the how to counter the Russian threat in said to have got short shrift from
consisting primarily of instructors, missiles can fly at hypersonic speeds future. Downing Street.
trainers and cooks. It has even been
suggested that the Kremlin is while bypassing existing European Certainly, before the Ukraine conflict This attitude is short-sighted in the
considering granting an amnesty to defence systems. The missile’s extreme. The reason Putin and his
prisoners convicted of minor crimes on destructive force prompted one Russian erupted, the overwhelming consensus acolytes feel sufficiently confident to
condition they agree to fight in Ukraine. within British security circles was that continue threatening the West is
television host, commenting shortly the prospect of conventional state-on- because they have invested heavily in
after Boris Johnson had made his new warships, warplanes, missiles and
second visit to Kyiv to meet with state conflicts taking place was remote, tanks. Major powers like Britain must
President Volodymyr Zelensky, to make and that future wars would either do the same if they are to prevent any
involve low intensity campaigns of the further acts of Russian aggression.
the charming boast that a single Sarmat type conducted in Afghanistan, or
missile would be sufficient to destroy READ MORE at
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cyber warriors. These conclusions
At about the same time, Nikolai formed the basis of the Government’s
Patrushev, a key figure in Putin’s
national security infrastructure, issued defence review published last year
an equally menacing threat to the which, while increasing investment in
the new war-fighting domains of the
“population of Lithuania” following a
dispute over access to the Russian internet and space, made drastic
enclave of Kaliningrad, wedged reductions to the traditional war-

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Get the latest markets info, share prices and create a portfolio at telegraph.co.uk/markets-hub Alan Jope, the consumer goods
giant’s chief executive, said the busi-
UK ‘definitely ness “had to” stop using the sachets to
package small portions of soap, deter-
entering gent and shampoo two years ago.

recession’ as He was echoing comments from
another Unilever executive who had
prices surge branded the disposable packets “evil,
because you cannot recycle” them.
Outgoing CBI president rises are tamed without a recession. The hire life Department store Fenwick has teamed up with luxury-on-loan company
calls for tax cuts as Fed So   far the Fed has raised rates to Front Row London to rent top designer clothes straight from the catwalk at its Bond Street Yet behind the scenes, the company
chairman Powell raises 1.75pc  and the Bank of England to and Newcastle shops. The aim is to encourage a more planet-friendly approach to fashion. privately lobbied against bans on the
prospect of US downturn 1.25pc, while the European Central packaging that had been proposed in
Bank is preparing to take rates from India, the Philippines and Sri Lanka,
By Tim Wallace, Louis Ashworth negative territory back to zero in the where they were contributing to moun-
and Tom Rees coming months. tains of plastic waste, said Reuters.

BRITAIN is “definitely” tumbling into British inflation is being driven in Maja Darlington, a spokesman for
recession, the outgoing president of the large part by food prices, which are Greenpeace UK, accused Unilever of
CBI warned after inflation surged to a rising at their fastest rate since 2009. “appalling hypocrisy”.
new 40-year high amid the worst
industrial strife for decades. Producer input prices climbed by The sachets, which are used to pack-
22.1pc in the year to May, the highest age Unilever products such as Sunlight
Lord Bilimoria said families are level since records began in 1985, in a
“tightening their belts” as the Office for sign that cost pressures on busi- ‘We are exploring reusable
National Statistics (ONS) reported infla- nesses  are still rising and consumer packaging so consumers
tion of 9.1pc in May, driven by a signifi- inflation is likely to jump even more in can access products at a
cant increase in food costs. coming months. price point they can afford’

Unions have seized on higher prices The consumer prices index rose by soap, Sunsilk shampoo and Surf Excel
to demand larger pay rises for their 9.1pc in May, while the older retail laundry detergent, reportedly account
members, sparking the biggest rail prices index measure climbed by 11.7pc. for 10pc of the company’s global sales.
strikes since the 1980s this week.
Lord Bilimoria, the founder and After Unilever’s lobbying efforts,
The pound fell by nearly 1pc to as low chairman of Cobra Beer, called for tax India and the Philippines backed away
as $1.2162. cuts to help businesses and the wider from banning the plastic packets. Sri
economy through the crunch, arguing Lanka pressed ahead, but its govern-
The crunch is spreading across the that fears tax cuts will stoke inflation ment later accused Unilever of trying to
globe with Jerome Powell, chairman of are misplaced. evade the ban on 6mm sachets by pre-
the US Federal Reserve, admitting that senting four-packs as one 24mm unit.
a recession is “a possibility” in the He said: “Helping businesses now
world’s largest economy. will not fuel inflation. You need to gen- The plastic sachets are used in devel-
erate demand, consumers are already oping countries to sell small, low-cost
Lord Bilimoria warned that the UK’s beginning to tighten and not spend. You portions of everyday products. But the
recovery has been wiped out by soaring need to encourage spending.” packets have been blamed for creating
prices and called for urgent tax cuts to a tsunami of plastic waste.
redress the balance. In an interview The reduced rate of VAT for hospital-
with The Daily Telegraph, he said: ity businesses in the pandemic should At an environmental event in July
“Demand was very much there, but be reintroduced, he said, while the 2020, Mr Jope was asked about the
now consumers are feeling the pinch.” jump in the rate of National Insurance sachets. “We have to get rid of them,” he
should be reversed and next year’s hike replied. “It’s pretty much impossible to
Meanwhile, for businesses in to corporation tax should be at least mechanically recycle.”
industries such as hospitality, “many of reduced from the current plan to raise it
their costs have doubled, of certain from 19pc to 25pc. However, according to Anil Jasinghe,
ingredients. They cannot pass that secretary of Sri Lanka’s environment
on, the maximum they can try to put In a speech last night, the peer ministry, in private Unilever told the Sri
up  their prices is say 10pc, but if called for a more flexible immigration Lankan government that the sachets
they are  absorbing input costs which policy to help ease the skills shortage were “a poor man’s commodity” and
are up 30pc, 40pc, 50pc, they are and so reduce the pressure on pay argued against banning them.
being squeezed.” and prices.
A Unilever spokesman said: “We are
Fears are growing that spiralling He said: “Short term, the Govern- working hard to address this challenge
prices will trigger a global downturn. ment should update the shortage occu- by phasing out multilayer sachets,
pations list to relieve pressures, and add which are difficult to recycle, and
Nathan Sheets, global chief econo- immediate flexibility to the apprentice- replacing them with recyclable
mist at Citi, said that the possibility of a ship levy, so firms can use those funds alternatives. We continue to explore
worldwide recession is now at 50pc. to access the labour and skills they need different reusable and refillable packag-
to succeed. ing systems to enable our low-income
In America, Mr Powell is raising consumers to access our products at a
interest rates sharply to bring inflation “Longer term, the Government price point they can afford.”
under control. He admitted for the first should make the Migration Advisory
time yesterday that it is becoming Committee independent, similar to the
“more difficult for us to achieve” a Low Pay Commission, so the UK’s immi-
so-called soft landing, where price gration system can be more responsive
to economic needs.”

Interview: Page 18

Brussels accused of holding City to higher standards than China

By Simon Foy Lord Kinnoull, chairman of the commit- Lords committee that “there has ‘China has been granted dinary, really, that when Europeans and gapore-on-Thames”. Mel Stride, chair-
tee, said: “China has been granted always been a degree of politicisation equivalence by the EU in a UK counterparties want to trade with man of the Treasury select committee,
AN INFLUENTIAL Lords committee equivalence by the EU in a dozen or to equivalence”. dozen or more areas. It each other, they have to go to another said: “Following the UK’s exit from the
has accused Brussels of holding the City more areas. It looks odd and wrong that looks odd the UK has not’ continent to find a venue to do so.” EU, our regulators have assumed
of London to a higher standard than the UK has not been granted this Lord Kinnoull said the equivalence significant new responsibilities.
communist China in granting it access considering we are democracies of a decision and a memorandum of under- together when it comes to financial The report also found that despite
to its financial markets after Brexit. similar character.” standing on financial services between regulation: “What we have seen during challenges, the UK’s financial services “Those will require scrutiny, and
the UK and EU were “caught up in the the current crisis is that the financial sector has retained its “resilience” but Parliament has an opportunity to put in
A report by the Lords European The report found that the EU’s deci- Northern Ireland protocol debacle”. system, the payment system, is part of added that the Government should not place a process which is less bureau-
affairs committee concluded that the sion was “political rather than techni- defence and security.” be “complacent” about regulatory cratic and significantly more nimble
EU was playing politics over its decision cal” and that the UK is “being held to a Lord Hill, a former EU commissioner scrutiny and jobs moving from the UK than was previously the case in the
to lock firms in the Square Mile out of higher standard than other countries”. who led a review last year of the UK’s Meanwhile, a top City lawyer pointed to the EU. European Union.
the single market. out that the EU’s decision not to grant
It comes as the bloc attempts to listings rules, told the committee: “They the UK equivalence has forced compa- Separately, the Treasury select com- “The Treasury committee is well
The bloc has refused to grant the UK [the EU] think that an equivalence nies to do business elsewhere. mittee has launched a new sub-commit- placed to conduct this scrutiny. We
regulatory “equivalence”, which per- engineer a raid on the Square Mile by decision is a plum to give, and why tee to scrutinise post-Brexit regulatory often consider new regulatory propos-
mits non-EU countries access to its forcing its financial services companies Peter Bevan, a partner at City law proposals for financial services. als and, given our responsibility to
markets based on how similar, or equiv- to shift lucrative activity and staff from would you give that before you know firm Linklaters, said: “It seems extraor- scrutinise the Treasury and its associ-
alent, its rules are, despite Britain’s you want to give it and in exchange for It comes after MPs last week warned
rules being broadly in line with its own. London to the Continent. something else?” Rishi Sunak that Brexit was not an ated regulators, we can take a holistic
Miles Celic, chief executive of the opportunity to turn the City into “Sin- view of regulatory change.”
He also said the war in Ukraine high-
TheCityUK, a lobby group, told the lights how democracies should work

10-minute wait before car charging

By Rachel Millard This includes a “random The number of electric vehi-
cles on UK roads is expected
ELECTRIC car charging will delay” function which means to soar before the 2030 ban
face 10-minute delays under charging can be delayed by
new rules to protect the grid 10 minutes, to avoid over- on the sale of new petrol and
by rationing electricity dur- whelming the grid. diesel cars.
ing surges in demand.
It would help avoid sud- Meanwhile, the growing
From June 30, chargers den surges in demand.
installed at homes and proportion of wind and
workplaces must be set Charge-points must also solar power generation
up to help reduce the strain
on the grid from the shift to be capable of operating with makes the electricity system
greener energy – and there- a delay of up to 30 minutes in harder to manage as supplies
fore the cost to the public case the rules change. are intermittent.
of upgrades to the grid.
Chargers will need to be Officials hope car charging

“smart” so they can send can be managed in a way
and receive data about elec- that helps balance the elec-

tricity demand and supply. tricity system.

18 *** Thursday 23 June 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Business

‘We have got

to cut taxes to

get out of this

downturn’

Outgoing CBI head tells too late to avoid it, but if we act quickly JAMIE LORRIMAN FOR THE TELEGRAPH
we can minimise the impact of it
Tim Wallace why Sunak hugely.” More serious fuel duty cuts Lord Bilimoria , Statement. The super deduction equivalent of a green and red [lane] at ‘To have the friends” since Bilimoria headed the
would help – the 5p slash so far “is not chairman of Cobra “could have been used even more if customs” for declarations); energy highest tax Cambridge Union at the same time as
needs to be as bold now even a drop in the ocean” – while cash Beer, sees at businesses knew it was going to carry (“small modular nuclear reactors can burden in the now Secretary of State for
to reduce energy bills should be more first-hand how on.” “Fortune favours the bold,” he be set up in four to five years. Why are 70 years Levelling Up ran its Oxford
as he was against Covid targeted. inflation is hitting exclaims, prodding the table to we not starting work on them right I think is counterpart.
the hospitality emphasise the point. away?”); and even humanitarian crises absolutely
Y ou know times are tough when Bilimoria wants VAT to be cut back industry (he convened businesses to send wrong’ But the key was dealing with the
the president of Britain’s largest again for hospitality, replicating the “You have got to be bold in these oxygen to Indian hospitals last year, pandemic, conjuring up emergency
business group describes the pandemic measure which reduced the times. They were bold in the and food to Ukraine following Russia’s policies such as furlough, which came
economy’s prospects with the story of tax from 20pc to 5pc before being fully pandemic, in borrowing £400bn and invasion in February). in just before Bilimoria took the role in
a survivor from a North Vietnamese restored in April. helping save the economy – that has June 2020. As a result, he argues the
prison camp. not changed, we have still got to save The peer says Covid re-forged Tory CBI has a direct line to government
“We need the VAT reduction now to the economy.” links with the CBI which were “not departments to flag up problems and
Lord Bilimoria, who is preparing to help us and help consumers – the great through the whole Brexit period”. offer new policies.
step down as head of the Government can help more right now,” The pandemic showed the state can
Confederation of British Industry he says, praising actions “which be nimble when required and His own experience as a The test will come in the autumn,
(CBI), cites James Stockdale, a US navy helped save businesses” in 2020 and Bilimoria is keen to apply this in any parliamentarian, as well as contacts in however, when the CBI – under
pilot shot down in 1965. Stockdale also in 2021. area. That includes Brexit (a solution to the world of politics, played a role. He Bilimoria’s successor Brian McBride –
endured seven years as a prisoner of Northern Ireland’s trade woes is describes him and Michael Gove as will find out if it gets those tax cuts it
war – and repeated torture. “The danger of not helping is far “eminently possible” with “the long “opponents but also very great wants in the next Budget.
worse than the cost of helping,” he
He survived when many comrades says, warning of more “failing
did not. Later analysing the situation, businesses and bankrupt individuals”
Bilimoria says, Stockdale identified in a deeper recession.
some prisoners were too optimistic
and therefore broken by repeated At the very least, Bilimoria wants
disappointments, while others were Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, to stop
too pessimistic and lost the will to go making the situation worse.
on. Stockdale, however, could balance
long-term hope with acceptance of “To have the highest tax burden in
horrors to come in the near future. 70 years I think is absolutely wrong,”
he argues. “It is absolutely wrong to
Bilimoria argues businesses need to put up corporation tax in one swoop
learn from this “realism”.
5p
While “recession is the horror we
will face” as the cost of living crisis The cut in fuel tax ‘is not even a drop in
bites, he says he is “eternally
optimistic” the UK is a dynamic and the ocean’, while cash to reduce energy
creative economy that can surmount
any obstacles. Bilimoria notes that bills should be more targeted
when he moved to Britain from India
in the 1980s, his new home was known from 19pc to 25pc. National Insurance
as “the sick man of Europe”. is a tax on jobs – to put that up by 2.5pc,
which affects both employers and
Britain certainly will need to bounce employees with 1.25pc [each], this is
back: the country is “definitely” the wrong thing to do.
heading into a recession.
“This is the time we have got to cut
“Demand was very much there, but taxes to generate investment and
now consumers are feeling the pinch generate growth, because that is what
and are tightening their belts,” says is going to get us out of this.”
Bilimoria, with “inflation in everything
they are buying”. Many of these are his personal
campaigns. The CBI’s main official
Companies are also being crushed, focus is on a successor to the 130pc
he says. Bilimoria’s chairmanship of investment super deduction which
Cobra Beer puts the peer directly in ends in March. The policy gives
touch with the hospitality industry in businesses a 25p cut in their tax bill for
particular. “We have inflation that is every £1 invested on certain types of
literally rampant. It is much higher industrial plant.
than the headline figures of 9pc or
10pc – in my own business we talk to The business group, which is in talks
many restaurants. Many of their costs with the Government over a
have doubled, of certain ingredients,” permanent replacement scheme,
he says, over a cappuccino, not a beer. favours a 100pc deduction for capital
investment to stimulate spending for
“They [companies] cannot pass that the long term.
on, the maximum they can try to put
up their prices is say 10pc, but if they Sunak has indicated something will
are absorbing input costs which are up be forthcoming in the autumn Budget,
30pc, 40pc, 50pc, they are being though the lack of urgency frustrates
squeezed.” Bilimoria, who wishes it had been
announced in March’s Spring
The answer, he argues, must be tax
cuts to soften the recession: “It may be

Europe needs to plan for Russia stopping all gas exports, says IEA

By Rachel Millard cut them off completely. “This is the of its supply from Russia before the war Europe and the UK. In the UK, house- 6m has warned that a halt to Russian gas
reason Europe needs contingency plans began. It now wants to reduce imports hold energy bills climbed 56pc to £1,971 would trigger recession in Europe’s
EUROPE needs to prepare for a com- for if Russian gas is completely cut off,” to stop funding the Kremlin, but a sud- in April and it is estimated they could UK homes that could face power cuts this largest economy. Russia has already cut
plete cut-off of Russian gas supplies, the he added. den embargo would have a severe eco- hit £3,000 in October. winter if Russian gas supplies to Europe off gas supplies to the Netherlands,
head of the International Energy nomic impact across the bloc. are cut off, according to Whitehall models Denmark, Finland, Poland and Bulgaria
Agency (IEA) has warned. “This is currently not the main sce- CF Industries, a fertiliser producer, after they refused to meet the Kremlin’s
nario, but it is a scenario that we cannot It would also affect the UK, which last month announced it was shutting such as fuel oil or liquified petroleum demands to pay for gas in roubles.
Fatih Birol said recent cuts to gas afford to exclude. buys only a small amount directly from down its Ince manufacturing plant in gas. Russia last week restricted the
flows from Russia appeared to be “stra- Russia but is heavily connected to Euro- the face of high gas and carbon prices. amount of gas sent through the Nord The UK, Netherlands and Germany
tegic behaviour” which was “geared “This is the reason why the IEA is pean markets. Worst-case scenarios Stream 1 pipeline to Germany, claiming are preparing to fall back on coal-fired
towards making it harder for Europe to talking with European governments to modelled in Whitehall indicated about Industrial gas demand in the UK is it needed equipment that was being power plants if there is major further
fill up its gas storage, which in turn prepare contingency plans.” 6m UK homes could face power cuts down 49pc year-on-year in the UK, held up by sanctions. disruption to gas supplies this winter.
increases Russia’s leverage over Euro- this winter if Russian supplies to according to analysts at Citi, although it
pean countries in the winter months”. The IEA, whose members are OECD Europe are cut off. is not clear to what extent that is down Germany’s BDI industry association In the UK, EDF has agreed to
countries, was set up to secure energy to high prices or other factors. keep its West Burton A coal-fired
He said he “wouldn’t rule out” supplies in the wake of the 1970s Arab The risk of disruption has already power plant open for back-up supply
Russia continuing to find excuses to oil embargo. helped keep wholesale gas prices at Analysts at S&P Global Platts and it is expected that Uniper and
further reduce gas supplies, or even record highs, pushing up inflation in said high gas prices had forced oil refin- Drax will follow suit.
Europe is heavily dependent on Rus- eries in Europe to switch gas for liquids
sian gas, typically sourcing about 40pc

Biden calls for US petrol tax Harrods delays summer sale
‘holiday’ to tame fuel costs citing supply chain woes

By Matt Oliver green energy policies, including an WIKTOR SZYMANOWICZ/ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY By James Warrington crisis that has piled pressure on the
early decision to halt new drilling budgets of many British families.
JOE BIDEN has urged US lawmakers to licences for oil and gas on federal land. Bejewelled bust A red marble sculpture, Aten, by Damien HARRODS has been forced to delay the
suspend federal taxes on petrol and die- Hirst, is set to fetch up to £1.5m at Christie’s in London. start of its summer sale by two weeks Continued demand for luxury goods
sel for three months to help drivers fac- Mitch McConnell, the Republican after supply chain troubles slowed is being driven by customers from
ing surging costs at the pumps. minority leader in the Senate, said ear- down the delivery of its new season of the Middle East and the US, as well as
lier this year: “They’ve spent an entire luxury goods. British shoppers.
In an intervention ahead of Novem- year waging a holy war on affordable
ber’s midterm elections, the American American energy, and now they want to Michael Ward, managing director of Mr Ward said the price of a Chanel
president also called on states to sus- use a pile of taxpayers’ money to hide the Knightsbridge department store, 2.55 handbag has gone up by an average
pend their own individual petrol taxes the consequences.” said its supply chain was running “two of 11.75pc each year for the past 25 years.
or hand voters other kinds of relief. to three weeks behind where it
Even some of the President’s fellow should be”. He added: “If you were lucky enough
The average cost of a gallon of petrol Democrats have warned that energy at the moment to buy a Rolex Ceramic
has hit about $4.96 (£4.05) in the US, He told Bloomberg: “A good example Daytona, we are selling it for £10,000
according to the American Automobile Joe Biden wants to of that is we’ve just delayed the summer
Association. That is slightly down from halt federal taxes on sale for two weeks because I need ‘We’ve delayed because I
the recent all-time high of $5 but fuel for three months another 10pc of new-season stock to need another 10pc of new-
represents an $1.89 increase compared as the average cost allow me to function into the new year.” season stock to allow me to
to just a year ago. of a gallon of petrol function into the new year’
hits $4.96 (£4.05) The setback highlights how even
Petrol prices are a key issue in the US high-end retailers are not immune to and you’d be able to instantly sell it
ahead of the midterm elections, with companies may not pass on the savings, recent supply troubles, which have for £30,000.”
polls currently suggesting that Mr or could even raise prices regardless. been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine
Biden’s Democrats face heavy losses. and China’s zero-Covid policy. Healthy sales at Harrods mirror
Democrat Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker a rebound in the wider luxury goods
However, the president’s call for a tax of the House of Representatives, has Harrods is also grappling with a market, with brands including Burb-
cut may get a lukewarm reception in previously described a holiday as “good labour shortage that has plagued the erry and Cartier-owner Richemont
Congress, where lawmakers have cast PR” but added there was “no evidence wider retail and hospitality industry, as reporting a surge in sales as countries
doubt on the usefulness of a holiday. to think that the oil companies would well as airlines. Mr Ward said: “It’s began to emerge from the pandemic.
pass that on to the consumer”. almost impossible to find the right staff.
The driver of a Ford Focus, for exam- We’ve lost significant amounts of A report from consultancy Bain, pub-
ple, would only save about $2.34 each Mr Biden and his allies have criti- people as a result of Brexit. lished earlier this week, forecast that
time they filled up their tank under Mr cised the oil and gas industry for mak- global sales of luxury goods will rise at
Biden’s proposed relief. ing “excessive profits”. Economists “And it’s not the skilled or qualified, least 5pc this year as shoppers in the US
warn there is little the White House can it’s the people we need to do jobs that and Europe continue to buy watches,
The federal tax on petrol is currently do in the face of global market forces. unfortunately the British will not do.” jewellery and shoes despite the wider
18.4 cents a gallon, while the tax on die- economic uncertainty.
sel stands at 24.4 cents. Despite challenges, the luxury goods
sector has remained resilient in the face
Republicans have blamed the current of surging inflation and a cost of living
situation on the administration’s pro-

The Daily Telegraph Thursday 23 June 2022 *** 19

Business

Britishvolt seeks to woo Tesla with batteries

Power cell maker hopes provide performance batteries to Tesla ‘We want to models developed at its recently bought tories in China – 117, with 226 due to be ‘The entire more capacity, Mr Nadjuri said, espe-
to tempt the world’s it would be a “win for the UK” and its help electrify business in Germany. operational by the end of the decade, supply- cially if it is serious about being green,
biggest electric carmaker battery research. the UK. according to analysts at Benchmark demand since shipping half-ton batteries from
with targeted product First, we are The company has also agreed to Minerals – compared with Europe’s imbalance China is anything but.
Britishvolt intends to focus on high- focusing on send some test cells to a blue-chip car- six, which will only reach 30 in the in Europe
By Howard Mustoe performance vehicles such as those this kind of maker in Europe and it has negotiated same timeframe. actually While Nissan is having its own facto-
built by Lotus and Aston Martin, both niche, high early stage supplier relationships with directly ries built to feed its huge plant in Sun-
A BRITISH electric car battery maker signed up as future customers. performance three European car companies, Mr Nad- Mr Nadjari said: “The entire supply- affects the derland and Jaguar Land Rover is said
is targeting Tesla as a client by develop- end’ jari said. demand imbalance in Europe actually UK and to be considering other sites for its own
ing power cells designed to appeal to Orral Nadjari, chief executive, said: directly affects the UK and Britishvolt. Britishvolt’ supply, Mr Nadjari said that the demand
Elon Musk. “We want to help electrify the UK. The company’s memoranda of under- for high-end, energy-dense batteries
standing with Lotus and Aston are also “It doesn’t matter how many you will satisfy the company’s order book.
Britishvolt, which is building a giga- “First, we are focusing on this kind of regarded as key early wins. build right now, you will have a short-
factory in Blyth after raising £1.7bn, is niche, high performance end.” age of supply.” He said: “One size doesn’t fit all
working on lighter, cheaper batteries While some industry figures have anymore as part of moving towards
similar to the prototype 4680 cells that The business is developing so-called expressed scepticism about the compa- In order to comply with EU rules of electrification and you have to adapt
Mr Musk’s company ordered earlier this large-format cells to tempt Tesla as a ny’s ability to compete with established origin, which dictate that a certain the  chemistry of the batteries for
year from Panasonic. customer, according to sources. battery makers such as Japan’s Pana- proportion of a product’s value must the  specific application require-
sonic, Korea’s LG Chem and China’s come from a country for it to be deemed ments. And that’s where we’re differen-
A source said that if Britishvolt could The 4680 cells Mr Musk bought in CATL, and suggested that Britishvolt as originating there, most cars made in tiating ourselves.”
February are bigger and more energy needs to sign some concrete orders Europe will also need their batteries to
dense than existing sizes. When soon, Mr Nadjari is confident. be produced there. Mr Nadjari said will list the company
combined into a battery pack, it is in London when the time is right.
lighter and cheaper as a result. He pointed to the number of gigafac- Europe’s car industry will need vastly
Britishvolt hopes to offer comparable

Chemical giant
Ineos to import
American gas
to Europe

By Matt Oliver FABRIZIO BENSCH/REUTERS
CHRIS STRICKLAND FOR THE TELEGRAPH
SIR JIM RATCLIFFE’S chemicals giant Brush with nature Farmers prepare for the Royal Highland Show, which opens today on the outskirts of Edinburgh. The four-day food and rural life event,
is to supply Europe with American liq- first held in 1822, is celebrating its bicentenary year with 1,000 trade exhibitors, 2,000 livestock competitors and tens of thousands of visitors.
uefied natural gas (LNG) as concerns
mount over supplies following EU sanc-
tions on Russia.

Ineos said the two-decade agreement
with California-based Sempra Infra-
structure will allow it to import as much
as 1.4m tonnes of LNG per year.

The company then plans to trade the
gas on European markets, while using
some to meet its own industrial needs.

It marks Ineos’s first foray into the
LNG market and comes amid fears that
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president,
could cut off supplies to the Continent.

Ineos said yesterday’s agreement
would help to provide “much-needed
security of supply” at a “critical time for
energy markets”.

David Bucknall, chief executive of
Ineos Energy, said: “This is an impor-
tant part of our strategy as we build a
network of liquefaction, shipping, and
regasification capacity to deliver afford-
able, cleaner and reliable energy to our
businesses and customers in Europe
and around the world.”

Sempra said the deal was a boost to its
plans to supply American LNG to some
of the world’s leading energy and man-
ufacturing companies.

Ineos is one of Europe’s biggest con-
sumers of natural gas.

Many EU countries are scrambling to
find alternatives to Russian supplies,
which currently account for 40pc of the
bloc’s total.

It is seen as a major opportunity for
American LNG companies, which have
been urged by Joe Biden, the US presi-
dent, to ramp up production and send
extra shipments across the Atlantic.

Ineos said its LNG deal covers sup-
plies from a proposed project in Port
Arthur, Texas, and another scheme in
Cameron, Louisiana. The company said
it was a “first mover” among major
European businesses to secure a direct
supply of gas for itself and customers.

“Ineos intends to build partnerships
with other industrial users of energy in
Europe to help them access the same
competitive sources of energy,” the
company added.

Inflation ‘fuels home shortage’ House price growth accelerates

By Helen Cahill The housing industry faces a new 4pc Mr Perrins’ comments came as the com- By Melissa Lawford £281,000 in April, which was £31,000 surged from 1.57pc to 2.63pc in the six
tax on profits made from residential pany delivered a 6.4pc increase in pre- higher than this time last year. months to May. Pantheon Macroeco-
INFLATION and rising taxes on devel- properties. The tax was introduced in tax profits to £552m for the year ended THE race to lock in cheap mortgage nomics forecasts this will hit 3.7pc by
opers risk making Britain’s home short- the aftermath of the Grenfell fire to fund April 30. Despite strong profits, Mr Per- deals before interest rates climbed Analysts warned that these figures do the end of this year. It expects house
age worse, according to the boss of the restoration of buildings with unsafe rins said tax pressures, combined with higher sent house price growth surging not reflect the current state of the cool- price growth to plunge to 5pc over the
London’s largest housebuilder. cladding. Mr Perrins also complained rising costs, were making develop- to a 16-year high, official figures show. ing market, as ONS data operate on a same period.
about new carbon-related taxes. ments “very hard to bring forward”. lag. The Bank of England has increased
Berkeley Group’s chief executive Rob Average values jumped by 12.4pc in the Bank Rate twice since the April data Gabriella Dickens, a Pantheon Mac-
Perrins said the number of new proper- “The restoration of a stable and pre- Berkeley Group said it delivered April, up from 9.7pc in March, accord- were collated, meaning mortgages are roeconomics analyst, added that the
ties built in the capital could halve dictable regulatory and taxation regime 3,760 new homes in the year and an ing to the Office for National Statistics. now significantly more expensive. data was also skewed by the 1.2pc
unless more was done to lessen the is in the interests of both businesses and additional 872 homes through joint monthly house price fall recorded in
burden on builders. government,” he said. “For without it, partnerships. It said it had delivered This was the highest rate of growth Andrew Montlake, of broker Coreco, April 2021. This was because prices rose
there is a risk the investment required 10pc of London’s new private and recorded in at least 16 years, excluding said: “The era of ultra-cheap money is to a temporary high a month earlier in
“The last year has seen increases in to deliver much needed new homes affordable properties. June 2021, when house price growth hit finished and that will soon start to feed anticipation of the end of the stamp
taxation for all businesses and our and the transition to net zero will not 13.3pc as buyers raced to transact before through into house price growth.” duty holiday, which was postponed at
sector in particular which has also faced come forward at the necessary pace.” Berkeley Group’s share price the stamp duty holiday was tapered. the last minute.
further regulatory changes,” he said. declined by 3pc yesterday. The average rate on a two-year fixed
The average UK house price was mortgage with a 25pc deposit has

Scandals force JD Sports Higher rates may force
to toughen governance Italian debt spiral, says S&P

By Lucy Burton two decades and oversaw a surge in its Air fix Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, holds up an By Tom Rees that “potentially higher interest rates
value, taking it into the FTSE 100. Airbus model at the ILA Berlin Air Show 2022 yesterday. are a big risk for Italy” as its economic
JD SPORTS is overhauling its business ITALY’S interest bill risks hitting levels prospects are “poor” after two decades
after a string of run-ins with the City Helen Ashton, a former Asos execu- last seen during the depths of the euro-
watchdog led to the exit of its long- tive, took over as interim chair while JD zone crisis amid fears the country could of low growth.
serving boss. executive Kath Smith is now acting be sucked into a debt spiral. “Investors see buying Italian debt as
chief executive. The pair would not dis-
The clothing and trainer retailer has close how much the company had spent Credit ratings giant S&P has warned a bigger risk and what that means is that
told investors that a “number of regula- that Italy is the most vulnerable devel-
tory issues” have led it to conclude that on recent investigations. oped country to bond market turmoil as drives interest rates up,” he said.
more board experience is needed along- Ms Ashton said that while she does its interest costs on markets surge. “The risk is this becoming a self-
side better risk controls. The company
announced a major rejig in governance not want to “tie the business down with S&P analysis found that Italy’s total fulfilling cycle of investors becoming
that could take 18 months. interest bill would jump to 5.5pc of GDP
a load of bureaucracy” it is important if borrowing costs rose sharply by three worried, that driving interest rates up
The decision comes after former that changes are made to ensure no fur- percentage points, ramping up the risk and that making the debt outlook even
executive chairman Peter Cowgill ther missteps occur. of its huge debt pile spiralling out of worse and pushing interest rates up
stepped down in May “as a consequence control. It would be equivalent to a near even further.”
of an ongoing review of its internal gov- She hinted at deeper changes at the €100bn (£86bn) interest bill and the
ernance and controls”. business, adding: “You can’t just go out highest amount since 2012. The ECB announced after an emer-
and hire 50 compliance people and gency meeting last week that it was
The company was last year hit with Even a more likely one percentage drawing up a new tool to stop Italian
a £5m fine by the competition watch- think that will fix things.” point interest rate jump would lead to a
dog after Cowgill was filmed talking Despite its recent troubles, the debt servicing bill at 4.5pc of GDP. interest costs surging ahead of other
to Footasylum’s boss in a car park eurozone countries’.
despite the pair being told to stay sepa- retailer reported record pre-tax There are fears that the current jump
rate while the regulator investigated profits of £654.7m for the year to Janu- in interest rates threatens to make Mr Allen-Reynolds said the ECB has
JD’s takeover of Footasylum. ary, with Ms Smith saying the company Italy’s huge debt pile unsustainable,
risking another eurozone crisis. Italy’s “learned the lessons from the debt
Earlier this month JD Sports was has been unaffected by the cost of living debt has hit 150pc of GDP following the crisis” as it prepares to intervene in
also accused of fixing the price of Rang- crisis as young people continue to pandemic, the third highest in the bond markets again.
ers FC shirts in “cartel activity” with spend on trainers. developed world after Japan and
Elite Sports. Greece. Jack Allen-Reynolds, Europe Italy’s 10-year bond yield has already
“We aren’t seeing any changes economist at Capital Economics, said soared from below 1.5pc in early 2022 to
Cowgill led the retailer for almost in the purchase habits of our consum- 4pc this month before the ECB’s prom-
ers,” she said. ise of intervention calmed investor
nerves. The gap between Italian and
The company told investors it has a
number of “high calibre candidates” German bond yields – a key risk gauge
interested in the chief executive job. watched by investors – has doubled in
the last 12 months.

20 *** Thursday 23 June 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Business comment

Ben The world’s chosen moneymaking
Marlow strategy has been read the last rites

The energy BEN WRIGHT money in shares and 40pc in bonds. Of ‘The normal beginning of April. That’s a worse too big to hedge. The longer it stays
regulator has course, no two portfolios are identical rules don’t performance than during the financial high, the longer bonds and equities
overseen a Bonds and equities have as investors all have different goals, apply crisis or at any point during the remain positively correlated with their
total disaster taken a massive hit and risk appetites and time horizons. because pandemic, according to data compiled prices falling together. This will cause
investors are searching for However, the 60/40 equity bond this isn’t by Bloomberg. investment models, which had
ways to protect themselves combination has long been viewed as a normal assumed a diversification benefit, to
the model template for a well- downturn’ The rout is so bad that Goldman start flashing red. All other things
G lobal investors are caught in a diversified investment strategy. Sachs Asset Management recently read being equal, that will result in
Britain’s gas and electricity market perfect storm. The huge slump the last rites for the strategy and investors having to reduce their
turned into something resembling in the value of equities gets all Want some capital appreciation? Of declared it dead. exposure to both of the main two asset
the Wild West through naivety, the headlines and, in fairness, the US course you do, and that comes from classes, which will, of course, further
weak controls and incompetence stock market is suffering its worst start investing 60pc of your money in The normal rules don’t apply accentuate the sell-off.
to any year since the Great Depression equities. But you could probably do because this isn’t a normal downturn.
What does it take to set up an energy with shares on the S&P 500 down with a little income and some risk Interest rates have been close to zero Yesterday, Jay Powell, the chairman
supplier in modern Britain? Worryingly, 22.3pc on a total returns basis. mitigation too, right? Well, that’s for the best part of 15 years since the of the Fed, warned further surprises
very little in some instances. Not even provided by a 40pc allocation to financial crisis. on inflation could be in store. Global
prior knowledge or experience is needed, just a But, incredibly, things are even investment grade fixed income. central banks created an everything
worse in the bond market. Benchmark Massive amounts of money printing bubble; now we’re getting the
laptop and a bit of chutzpah – an oversight 10-year US Treasury bonds are on track The 60/40 portfolio is the through quantitative easing has everything bust and wealth
for their worst first six months of the Morecambe and Wise of investment pumped up the prices of a whole range destruction on an epic scale.
condemned by an utterly damning investigation year since 1788. It’s a similar story in strategies, the burger and chips, the of assets. Now, central banks are
most developed markets. Run-DMC ft. Aerosmith – a perfect raising rates in order to try and tame This all suggests that the standard
into the failings of market regulator Ofgem. combination of yin and yang that inflation at the same time that the hedge against a downturn is
That has huge implications because allows the differences of the two sides economy is heading towards a possible completely kaput. Investors are
In a desperate but ultimately catastrophic bid to it means investors are left with to accentuate each other’s attributes so recession. desperately searching for new ways to
nowhere to hide. There is also very that the whole is far more than the sum protect themselves.
break the dominance of so-called “big six” little precedent to help predict how of its parts. Analysts reckon that, all in, There have only been three years in
they might react. about a trillion dollars is invested the past century when bonds and BlackRock, the world’s largest
providers, the watchdog allowed people with no along these principles. At the moment, equities both lost money. The first was investment firm, has suggested one
It is extremely rare for the two main almost every single cent of that money in 1931, when a currency crisis resulted way would be for investors to allocate
idea of what they were doing to flood the market asset classes to fall in tandem like this. is hurting. in the UK being forced to abandon the more money to strategies that both go
Since the 1990s, shares and bonds have gold standard; the second was in 1941, long and short equities.
with new energy firms. been “negatively correlated”, which It isn’t supposed to be this way. In a when the US entered the Second
means that when one goes up the other normal downturn, central banks will World War. Needless to say, these were Well, up to a point, Lord Copper.
Off-the-peg suppliers were set up from people’s goes down and vice versa. Indeed, cut interest rates in order to try and pretty seismic events. What might make sense for individual
there have only been three years in the kickstart the economy. This will result investors could have profound and
homes by, among others, a semi-retired footballer- past century when bonds and equities in bond yields falling and bond prices, The third time was in 1969. That was unknowable consequences for the
both lost money. which move inversely to yields, when the US Federal Reserve, after market as a whole. There’s nothing
turned-law undergraduate and a former Gurkha. climbing. A 60/40 portfolio is letting prices spiral out of control, inherently wrong with shorting shares
The vast majority of retail and therefore the financial equivalent of finally switched into inflation-fighting and making money if the price falls
Many didn’t have any knowledge of the industry institutional investors start building leaving the house with your sunglasses mode. Interest rates went through the (regardless of what the governor of the
their portfolios from the same basic and umbrella – you’re covered roof. It worked and price rises started Bank of England has said on the matter
and funded their operations with customer starting point: they invest 60pc of whatever the weather. to slow but not before the economy in the past).
had been pushed into a steep
deposits rather than their own money. Some Well, almost any weather. We’re recession. The lack of growth But what will happen if a big chunk
currently in the midst of what may well combined with sky-high rates resulted of the roughly trillion dollars that is
successfully signed up hundreds of thousands of turn out to be the worst quarter for the in a period of negative returns for both invested in 60/40 strategies starts
60/40 strategy in decades. Analysts equities and bonds. betting against a broader array of
households. have calculated that a model portfolio stocks – especially in the midst of a
will be down about 14pc since the We appear to be staring down the falling market? I guess we may soon
Domestic energy bills could pass the £3,000 barrel of something similar. find out.

mark for the first time when the next price cap rise Inflation has become a risk that is

takes place in October, making the findings of the

National Audit Office (NAO) a timely reminder of

the part the very body tasked with policing the

industry has played in the horrible mess.

The contents of the NAO’s report make for

genuinely jaw-dropping reading. Customer credit

balances were built up by effectively overcharging

on monthly direct debits. In some cases those then Monet, eat your
heart out
disappeared as executives extracted millions of Workers in
Vietnam harvest
pounds in salaries and fees before the companies water lilies and
arrange them in
went under, with customers and taxpayers left to fan shapes on
top of boats on
foot the bill. the Mekong
river. The
Incredibly, about £400m of customer flowers are eaten
as a delicacy and
deposits has vanished after nearly 30 suppliers the pickers keep
them for food or
went bust. But the cost to us as taxpayers from sell them at the
local market in
the vast clean-up effort is far greater – £2.7bn on Moc Hoa
district, Long An
to everyone’s bills, equivalent to £94 per province.

household so far.

Yet that doesn’t even account for the collapse of

Bulb, the east London start-up that professed to be

more than just your average, run-of-the-mill gas

and electricity supplier. It sold “green energy” and

came with hi-tech credentials, eventually wooing

a staggering 1.7m customers.

Bulb even made it on to a list of Europe’s 1,000

fastest growing companies as

‘It is hard recently as March last year,
to think of a compiled by the venerable
Financial Times just months

more glaring before the lights went out.
case of The hit from its demise is
estimated at a further £1.9bn,

complete which again will fall on the
regulatory taxpayer. But the NAO
concedes the eventual figure

failure’ could be higher.
Thanks to so-called safety

net procedures, customers

from failed suppliers are taken on by rivals who

are able to recoup costs of doing so via a levy

charged on all customer bills.

By adopting what the NAO called a “low bar”

approach to licensing new suppliers, Britain’s

energy market quickly turned into something

resembling the Wild West through a mixture of

naivety, poor oversight and plain incompetence.

In its defence, Ofgem protests that the severity

of the spike in international gas and oil prices

could not have been anticipated. That’s not LÊ HUY ANH/SOLENT NEWS

entirely without merit. Nobody could predict the

nearly sixfold jump in the weekly average

wholesale price of gas between February and

December 2021, but the regulator is guilty of far

more than simply lacking a crystal ball.

Not only did it “not do enough in the years that

preceded it to ensure the energy supplier sector

was resilient to external shocks”, the NAO said, it

helped to create a market “that was vulnerable to

large-scale shocks” and “increased the risk and How investors can cash in on the great inflation squeeze

cost” of firms failing.

That is quite some record. It is genuinely hard

to think of a more glaring case of complete

regulatory failure in modern times than this. The

FCA chalked up some shockers under the dubious penny can be slow to fully drop, so it is hardest hit they call the “slam on the
not too late to think about what a brakes” group. These typically
guidance of now Bank of England Governor TOM period of self-imposed austerity might lower-income consumers reduce So, how has this been reflected in
STEVENSON mean for our investments. spending across the board. This group the markets over the past six months as
Andrew Bailey, but the cost of his oversight is also includes anxious higher-income downshifting has re-emerged on the
Trading down – from the Higher prices have triggered the consumers if they have other worries, investment agenda? Earlier this week,
harder to quantify and cases few in number. cheaper brand of food you biggest squeeze on UK household like lingering Covid fears. I heard the boss of packaging group DS
buy to taking fewer car incomes since the 1950s. We are seeing Smith comment on a shift by cost-
What has happened in the energy market is rides – alters market forces one consequence of that in this week’s The “pained but patient” segment conscious consumers in the UK to
rail strike and suggestions of a more realise that this may be a short-term smaller purchases. Meanwhile,
clear, immediate and widespread – and has had a M ost quarterly earnings seasons widespread summer of discontent. You squeeze that will pass in due course. Telecom Plus, the company behind the
have a key theme, a question can agitate for better pay, but it is They will cut back a bit, but they can Utility Warehouse brand, raised its
very discernible impact on consumers at a time of that crops up in every analyst uncertain whether you will get it. One take a longer view because they are 2023 profit forecast on the back of a
call and press conference. Working thing that squeezed consumers can relaxed about keeping their job. This 20pc rise in customers as households
already significant hardship for so many. from home, re-opening, supply chains, always do is adapt their behaviour. represents the majority. The risk is that are tempted by the discounts on
inflation. For a time, it’s all anyone can this group tips over into the brake- bundled services like electricity,
As the NAO says: “Consumers have borne the focus on – until the next buzz word No surprise then that McKinsey Economic broadband and insurance.
arrives. Next month, as the April to found that two thirds of UK consumers slamming category if recession drags. Intelligence
brunt of supplier failures at a time when many June results emerge, my guess is that say they are rethinking how and where “Comfortably well-off ” describes Among the best-performing
we will be hearing a great deal about For unique insight consumer cyclical stocks in the UK
households are already under significant “trading down”. How cash-strapped they shop. The consultant found that people in higher salary brackets and into the world’s over the past six months, I see low-cost
consumers behave and the winners half of consumers have bought retirees with a secure income. They economic issues, shoe retailer Shoe Zone and mid-
financial strain having seen their bills go up to and losers in a period of penny- cheaper household products, 40pc sign up to our market car dealer Lookers.
pinching will be front of mind. will carry on pretty much as they did Economic
record levels.” have downgraded the snacks and before. Also unfazed are the “live for Intelligence When it comes to more defensive
A recent McKinsey report suggested frozen food they are buying, with a today” segment. Younger, often urban newsletter, consumer businesses, it is interesting
This cannot be allowed to happen again. Ofgem British consumers are already reacting quarter choosing less fancy bread and by Ambrose to see comfort food specialist Premier
to the cost of living crisis by changing other bakery products. The recent fall renters, they will keep spending unless Evans-Pritchard Foods (Bird’s, Bisto, Mr Kipling) and
has said it accepts the NAO’s findings and is how they spend. They are cutting they lose their job. and Jeremy Tate & Lyle up there with British
back, in both what they buy and where from grace of Netflix indicates another Warner American Tobacco and Imperial
working to fix the problems raised, but can it they buy it. They are shifting from area in which consumers are The second way of analysing the Brands, while Fevertree and Hotel
supermarkets to discounters and economising. There is growing telegraph.co.uk/ Chocolat are down among the
really be trusted to get its own house in order after buying more own label products. trading down theme is by type of ei-newsletter laggards. With a recent Ipsos survey
evidence that people are avoiding purchase. Here the key questions are: showing that 80pc of US consumers
the mess that it has presided over? The stock market is quick to react to unnecessary car journeys and thinking do people have to buy this; can the expect to shift to cheaper brands, buy
these transitions and the relative twice about renewing warranties. purchase be postponed; is it a more own brand lines or buy less, we
The early evidence isn’t encouraging. If the performance of companies impacted should get ready for these divergent
in different ways by these trends will There are different ways of looking justifiable if not a necessary expense; share price trends to continue for the
regulator was doing its job properly it would bring already be pricing them in. But the at the trading down phenomenon. One or is it an unjustifiable nice-to-have? time being. Expect to hear a lot about
is to consider how people behave trading down when earnings season
in measures to protect deposits right away. As when money’s too tight to mention. In the end it’s about the hierarchy of kicks off in a few weeks’ time.

Ofgem chief Jonathan Brearley concedes, in some After the financial crisis, a couple of needs. People will always spend on Tom Stevenson is an investment director
Harvard Business School professors, physical requirements – air, water, at Fidelity International. The views are
instances customer cash has been treated like “an John Quelch and Katherine Jocz, food, shelter, clothing; next most his own.
important is safety and security –
interest-free company credit card”. identified four consumer segments
that respond in different ways to a employment, health, property; above
It’s a clever line – but what does the watchdog squeeze in household budgets. these two levels things become much
more expendable – love and belonging,
propose to do about it? It has promised a “tough” The most vulnerable and financially
esteem and self-actualisation become
clampdown but the devil is in the detail. The best less of a priority when times are tough.

Ofgem can manage is to say it is “minded to” bring

in full ring-fencing requirements “as soon as

possible”, which it concedes is unlikely to be

before the end of the year, by which point energy

bills will have spiked again, threatening further

supplier insolvencies.

First we must await the findings of a

consultation so Ofgem can “better understand”

the risks to the industry. It sounds like an open

invite for suppliers to lobby hard for softer reform.

That can’t be allowed to happen. The regulator

needs to act hard and fast to protect vulnerable

customers from further pain. It is now

abundantly clear that its light-touch regime has

been a colossal failure.

The Daily Telegraph Thursday 23 June 2022 *** 21

Business

Food price surge to propel inflation even higher

Worst is yet to come for

households, with farmers

also feeling the pinch,

reports Louis Ashworth

Costs of essential travel, energy and
food have already taken off –
starting to empty the wallets of
millions. Just as cash-strapped
consumers grapple with how to spend
wisely, experts warn the worst is yet to
come: food prices can climb far higher.

Overall consumer prices rose 9.1pc in
the year to May, but food alone is hot on
its heels at 8.6pc. It soared from 6.7pc
the previous month.

Economists point to core inflation –
which strips out the volatile food and
energy inflation figures – declining to
5.9pc as a sign of receding underlying
pressure. But that will be cold comfort
to households as grocery bills shoot up.

Relief isn’t coming soon. “Food price
inflation will continue to rise over the
rest of the year, probably hitting 10pc
later this year,” says Thomas Pugh, from
audit group RSM.

Domestic companies paid 10.3pc
more for food materials in May,
compared to last year, while imported
food costs rose 20.5pc – the most
since 2008.

That means food prices will push
20pc higher during the first few
months of next year, predicts
investment bank Citi, a result of the
effects of a global supply crunch.

In theory, these increases should be
a boon to British farmers who can
charge higher prices. But they too are
grappling with accelerating costs

‘Food price inflation will
continue to rise over the rest
of the year, probably hitting
10pc later this year’

across energy, fertilisers, feed and said companies are “doing all they something for well below what it’s not price makers, we’re price takers in ‘Farmers cannot keep worryingly, traders are increasingly
labour. can” to absorb higher costs. costing to produce.” this,” says Anthony Speight, an analyst selling something for looking to Russia, which has begun its
at the Agriculture and Horticulture well below what it is own harvest. Even a strong
Minette Batters, head of the National Not fully passing price increases on Still, the amount consumers are Development Board. costing to produce’ performance there may not make much
Farmers’ Union (NFU), says production might become harder, however, as the forking out for some foods has shot up. of a difference, however, with overall
has become a “story of two halves”, with economy and demand slows. Surveys Pasta prices have risen 16.1pc in a year, The outlook for wheat is hardly are even higher. Thankfully, cooling supply so reduced.
record cost increases largely offsetting already suggest British shoppers are while flour is up 16.3pc. Pizza and better, with many of Ukraine’s temperatures in several other key
record prices. cutting back in response to the cost of quiches are 12.3pc more expensive, and shipments stuck due to the Black Sea production regions, including parts “Prices are likely to ease in the
living crisis, and many may simply olive oil 18pc. blockades and Russia’s targeting of of Europe and North America, may coming weeks, but we can expect little
Producer input prices – which stop buying products with large-scale farms. Charles Branch, head of soft and mean harvests elsewhere are better relief for the consumer with food prices
measure the cost of raw materials for price increases. Growing food prices are particularly agricultural commodities at Britannia than feared a few weeks ago. Yet, set to remain well above recent
manufacturing, as well as associated painful for less well-off shoppers, Global Markets, said more than 20m historical averages,” says Branch.
costs like electricity – climbed by 22.1pc Discounters such as Aldi and Lidl whose grocery shopping typically tons of grain are trapped in Ukraine
in the year to May, up from 20.9pc in have already pinned a recent rise in makes up a larger proportion of their with no clear way out. Some estimates For British shoppers, that means no
April, to hit the highest level since sales on shoppers looking for lower total spending. The Resolution end in sight to food price pain.
records began in 1985. prices. Rather than a boom, the Foundation, a living standards think
inflation crisis has brought many tank, says this means the poorest
On Tuesday, growers’ association farmers to breaking point. households are already experiencing
British Apples and Pears said the double-digit inflation.
farmers it represents had seen their “There are specific challenges,” says
energy costs double or even triple in Batters. “Ours in the UK is primarily The war in Ukraine is a big factor in
the past year. Ali Capper, its executive around a very savage retail these increases as the conflict
chairman, said cost challenges and environment and the role of the devastates producers in the country –
labour shortages “risk the viability discounters.” one of the world’s biggest suppliers of
of farms”. sunflower oil. That has rippled on to
She says the Government ought to global markets, forcing up the prices of
MakeUK, the national body for act, even suggesting an intervention to alternative cooking oils including olive,
manufacturers – of which food and support prices, which would “give rapeseed and palm.
drink producers are the largest single farmers the confidence that they will
group, accounting for nearly a fifth of get, at the very least, the cost of The UK exports roughly half its food,
all value generated – has called for the production price”. making it vulnerable to price
Government to take “immediate fluctuations on global markets. “We’re
measures” to shelter companies from Batters says: “You can’t keep selling
the “worst impact of escalating costs”.

Meanwhile, output prices – those
paid “at the factory gate” by companies
such as wholesalers – were up 15.7pc in
the year to May. The gap between the
two means companies are taking a hit,
likely to their profit margins, to avoid
ramping up costs for consumers.

Martin McTague, national chairman
of the Federation of Small Businesses,

BUSINESS
BULLETIN

UK extends plan
for NatWest sale

The UK is extending a plan
to sell more of its £11.3bn
stake in NatWest by another
year. The Government owns
48.5pc of the high street
bank, after it bailed out RBS
during the financial crisis.
UK Government
Investments, which
oversees state holdings, said
its trading plan will now
terminate in August 2023 as
it looks to further cut its
stake in the lender.

Juul e-cigarettes
facing ban in US

The US Food and Drug
Administration is preparing
a ban of Juul’s e-cigarettes
from its market, The Wall
Street Journal reported. The
regulator has already
prohibited the sale of fruity
and sweet flavours for
e-cigarettes. It allowed some
of Juul rival NJOY’s products
to remain on the market and
has authorised British
American Tobacco’s
e-cigarette Vuse.

Chinese demand
buoys De Beers

Diamond miner De Beers
has posted an uptick in sales
in the past two weeks, with
demand in China picking up
as shops reopen following
the end of Covid lockdowns.
The US market continued to
perform well. The group
said sales in the period
between June 6 and 21 came
in at $650m (£529m),
compared to $604m in the
previous sales cycle, which
was between May 2 and 17.

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325.39 262.04 Treas 2% IL 35 269.09 +4.58 0.74 0.00 Electricity +0.87% Information technology +0.59% 268½ 143 Fidelity Japan Tst 143 -4 — 160 628 459¾ Informa 68⅛ -2 4.8 — 985¾ 572 Howden Joinery 585¾ +2¼ 3.3 11.0 290⅝ 183¾ National Ex ● 210 -3¾ — -12.5 123⅞ 74⅛ Manpower $ 78 +¼ 3.5 2.8
10-year Government Bonds 130⅞ 64⅜ ITV ● 776⅜ -12⅜ 2.6 9.6 235¾ 99 JD Sports Fash 113⅞ +7 0.3 15.9
315 247 Fidelity Sp V ● 266½* -4½ 2.6 279 883⅝ 571 Pearson 110⅝ -2⅝ 6.5 36.8 378 231⅞ Kingfisher 241⅜* -3⅝ 5.1 6.0 775 347 Playtech ● 553½ +3 — 2.8 33¼ 10⅜ Marathon Oil $ 23¼ -1⅝ 1.1 11.0
430 100 Reach 2125 +23 2.3 — 102 53⅝ Lookers 73⅛* -⅛ 3.4 4.7
845⅞ 388¾ Drax Group ● 671 +33 2.8 33.5 738 271 Aptitude Sftwre 364 +4 1.5 40.4 933¼ 731¾ Finsbury Gwth ● 757 +4 2.3 802 2474 1903½ RELX 558 +1 1.4 33.5 263 127 Marks & Spen ● 138½ -2¾ — 8.8 191 78⅛ Rank Group 79½ -2 — 31.8 271⅛ 217⅝ McDonalds $ 243½ +3⅞ 2.3 1.7
1271½ 880⅝ Nat Grid 1033* +4½ 4.9 15.8 4242 1800 Aveva Group 2490 +2 1.5 — 810 518½ Rightmove 821⅜* -7¼ 3.8 26.2 20 6 Mothercare 7 +½ — -1.2
1935½ 1445½ SSE 1627½ +19 5.3 5.7 862¼ 587¼ Sage Gp 632¼ +6⅜ 2.8 90 65 Hend Div Inc Tst 69* +1¾ 6.4 73 1231½ 792⅜ WPP 15.4 8484 5578 Next 5910 +2 2.1 26.5 138¼ 46 Restaurant Gp 47¼ -1⅞ — -8.9 94⅞ 70⅞ Merck $ 90 +2 3.1 2.0
310⅝ 209¾ Spirent ● 233⅝ +3 2.2 24.0 2105 691⅝ Ocado 819¾ -35¾ — -27.2
19.6 190 149½ Hend High Inc 166* +1 6.1 162 Mining -4.73% 29 14½ Pendragon 20¾ +¼ — 4.7 109 63⅞ Stagecoach 104¾ -⅛ — 17.2 349⅝ 241½ Microsoft $ 254⅛ +½ 1.0 3.9
Insurance -1.71% 464⅝ 185⅛ Saga 193⅜ -1⅞ — -2.9
Engineering / Industrial -1.37% 184 150 Hend Intl Inc 169 +½ 4.1 176 342 201¾ Sainsbury J 207¼* +2⅛ 6.3 -15.9 370⅛ 143¼ TUI AG ● 157⅛ -1⅜ — -0.8 61¾ 38⅞ Pfizer $ 48⅞ +¾ 3.3 2.8
1809½ 1259¾ Smith WH ● 1475 -13½ — -23.6
Spread vs 1378 786 Hend Smaller Co ● 800 -8 3.0 966 304⅛ 221¾ Tesco 247½* -2¼ 4.4 12.8 1281 663 Wetherspoon ● 681½ -6½ — -4.6 165⅜ 129½ Procter & Gamble $ 138¾ +2⅜ 2.6 1.6
Spread vs
Yield% Bunds T-Bonds 420 282 Castings 341 -1 4.8 17.4 1495 1044⅛ Hend Opp 1085* -32½ 2.6 1306 3465⅜ 2384 Whitbread 2543* -63 1.4 — 106 79 Raytheon Tech $ 92⅝ -¼ 2.4 1.3
82⅜ 57⅞ Coats Group ● 64⅞ +⅜ 2.6 13.1
1650 950 Cropper J 1050 +15 1.0 73.9 300⅜ 159⅞ abrdn 166⅜ +1¼ 8.8 3.6 2670 1554 Herald Inv ● 1590 -10 — 2041 AIM -0.32% 355 190⅞ Rockwell $ 193 -⅜ 2.3 1.2
4000 2400 Goodwin 2420 -90 4.2 14.4 3706 2076 Admiral 2162 +59 12.9 6.4
France 2.17 +0.54 -1.00 1878 1161 IMI ● 1194 -4 2.0 16.2 606⅝ 341⅞ Aviva 408¾ -6¼ 7.1 6.2 457½ 330⅜ HgCapital ● 345 -10 2.0 439 207 120⅝ Trane Tech $ 124⅞ +¾ 2.1 2.3
Germany 1.63 - -1.54 196¼ 107½ Melrose Ind 151⅝ -4⅝ 1.2 -12.4 516¼ 316½ Beazley ● 479¾ -15¼ 2.7 13.0
Japan 0.24 -1.39 -2.93 2088 1233½ Mondi 1459½ -22 3.8 14.1 319⅜ 231⅛ DirectLineIns ● 247¼ +2¾ 9.2 10.1 185 160⅝ HICL Infrastructure ●175* +2⅜ 4.7 163 4292½ 2350 Anglo Amer 3207 -167 6.7 5.7 16⅝ 13⅞ Afentra # 14½ — — -7.8 160¾ 117¼ Wal Mart Strs $ 121⅝ -½ 1.8 2.1
Great Britain 2.50 +0.87 -0.67 84⅞ 59 Severfield 62 -1 5.0 12.2 1002 769⅜ Hiscox ● 927⅜ -12 2.9 20.6 1799½ 1198½ Antofagasta 1244 -85½ 9.3 11.7
United States 3.17 +1.54 1642 1323 Smiths Gp 1439½ -16½ 2.7 20.1 702 342⅜ Lancashire Hldg ● 377¼ -5⅝ 3.1 -17.9 287¾ 226¼ Highbridge Tactical 233 -6 — 268 3040 1774½ BHP Group 2263½ -90½ 12.0 12.5 1080 800 Arbuthnot 855 -15 4.4 18.9 187⅝ 93⅛ Walt Disney $ 94 +¾ — —
- 466 277⅜ Smith (DS) 287¼ -5⅝ 5.2 14.1 309⅞ 225½ Legal & General 241¼ -3⅞ 7.6 7.1 111 74¾ Centamin ● 84 +1½ 8.7 11.7
4334 2771 Smurfit Kappa 2802 -66 3.8 12.3 704¾ 559¼ Phoenix 617¼ -3 7.9 -7.1 1314 987 ICG Enterprise Tst ● 988 -20 2.7 1695 648⅜ 50½ Evraz # 81 +⅛ 95.3 0.5 2800 1960 BrooksMacdonald 2375 +70 2.8 19.0 25 15⅜ Xerox Hldgs $ 16¼ +⅜ 6.1 3.1
17225 9008 Spirax 9346 +146 1.5 29.4 1566 881 Prudential 933⅝ -42⅜ 1.4 -14.8 997⅝ 610⅝ Fresnillo 813¼ +2¼ 3.2 17.5
1661 1040 Videndum 1304 +4 2.7 23.1 1742½ 1085 St James Place 1138½ +8½ 4.6 21.4 382 298 Invesco Asia Trust 325 +1 4.7 375 548¼ 291 Glencore 449⅜ -33¼ 4.7 14.6 ⅜ ¼ Cambria Africa ¼ … — 12.1 Europeans -0.86%
1936½ 1381 Weir ● 1459 -40 1.6 14.6 175⅝ 68¼ Hochschild Mng ● 110⅝ +1⅛ 3.0 9.7 284½ 187½ Central Asia Met 229½ -8 8.7 5.9
The share prices, price-earnings ratios and dividend yields 199½ 157 Invesco BondIncPlus 166 +5 6.6 169 533 401⅞ Kenmare Res 424 -12 6.0 4.4 1283⅞ 481¼ Ceres Power 581⅝ +15⅝ — -50.4
below are supplied by Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. The 1630½ 92 Polymetal 180 -14½ 20.3 1.2 2050 1300 Churchill China 1415* +15 1.7 37.4
yields are calculated using historic dividend payments divided 664 453 InvesPerp UK Sm Co 462 -5 4.9 536 6343 4354 Rio Tinto 5019 -231 11.5 4.7 476¼ 332¼ CML Micro 360 — 1.1 2.6 108½ 66 AkzoNobel € 64⅞ -1⅝ 3.1 2.3
by the closing share price multiplied by 100. 630 440 Cohort 470 +5 2.4 35.1
790 610⅜ JPM Claverh’se 664 +4 4.8 661 Support services +0.06% 100⅜ 67⅝ BMW € 78⅛ -1½ 7.4 3.2

Aerospace & defence -1.51% 1119½ 896¼ JPM ElecManGth 907½ — 1.9 932 21⅜ 14½ Carrefour € 17 -1¼ 3.1 2.4

52 week 114 92½ JPM ElecManInc 95 -1 5.0 98 6572 3290 Ashtead Gp 3395 +30 1.9 21.8 129¾ 56¾ Continental AG € 70⅞ -1⅝ 3.1 3.3
High Low (p) Stock 3167¼ 2356 Bunzl 2576* -13 2.2 19.4
Price (p) +/- Yld P/E Investment trusts -0.44% 105 99 JPM ElecManCsh 101¾ — 0.3 103 56 19⅞ Capita 24⅛ -¼ — 28.4 1⅞ ⅞ Deltex Medical 1⅛ — — -6.8 91⅝ 54⅝ Daimler € 62⅜ -1¾ 6.9 5.0
20¾ 12½ Carillion # 14¼ — — 0.5 147 70 Eleco 71½ -4 0.8 21.7
388½ 253⅝ Babcock Intl ● 318⅜ -11¼ — -0.9 52 week 95 70¼ JPM Eur G&I 79 +1 2.7 89 6520 4978 DCC 5024* -110 3.5 15.9 103 65 Finsbury Food 69 -½ 4.7 7.0 65¼ 46½ Danone € 51⅛ -½ 3.8 1.5
800⅜ 514⅝ BAE Systems 760 -2 3.3 13.8 High Low (p) Stock 203½ 81½ De La Rue 48⅝ 24 Futura Medical 29⅞ -¼ — -16.3
376¼ 236 QinetiQ ● 347⅜ -5⅜ 2.1 22.1 Food producers +0.13% Price (p) +/- Yld NAV 732 408½ JPM Japanese ● 417 -1½ 1.3 444 Oil & Gas -3.40% 366 250 Essentra ● 84 -1⅝ — 7.7 57 26⅛ Hornby 30 — — 33.7 61⅜ 33½ Deutsche Post € 35⅜ +⅛ 5.1 2.3
161⅞ 77⅞ Rolls–Royce 86⅛ -4¾ — 59.8 3689 2242 Experian 276 -5 2.2 — 588 206 James Halstead 211 +1 3.7 22.0
185 112⅛ Senior 120⅝ -3⅝ — 20.7 1507½ 1042 3i 1076½* +7½ 4.3 1294 568⅜ 305¾ JPM Jpn SmCp G&I 306 -5 6.6 335 13640 8602 Ferguson 2318 +33 1.8 22.4 1434¼ 912⅜ Jet2 970⅜ -17¼ — -6.4 19¼ 14½ Deutsche Tele € 18⅝ +¼ 3.4 1.4
3420 2140 Ultra ● 3092 -22 0.5 33.0 1175 578⅜ Homeserve ● 8792 -226 2.1 16.0 106 97½ LifeScienceREIT 98⅞ -¼ — 100
2364 1462½ Ass Brit Fds 1611* +½ 2.1 26.6 368½ 294 3i Infrastructure ● 333½* +½ 3.1 298 1580 852 JPM Mid Cap 872 -6 3.4 997 456 275⅞ BP 383¼* -12 4.6 12.6 5824 4141 Intertek Group 1163 -3 0.6 29.4 665⅜ 356 Mpac Group 365 -26 — 22.4 104⅝ 77½ Heineken € 87 +1¾ 1.4 4.7
2809⅝ 1403½ Coca–Cola HBC 1792 -3 3.4 18.3 345 189⅜ IWG ● 4340 +52 2.4 24.3 308 170 MS Intl 264 -7 3.1 36.7
4200 37 Cranswick ● 3080 +12 2.5 17.5 104½ 96 Aberdeen Diversified 98⅝* +¼ 5.7 119 822⅜ 644¼ Land Secs 717⅝* -1⅝ 5.2 — 238¾ 122 Capricorn Ener ● 211¾ -2⅝ — 1.4 182⅝ 97½ Johnson Serv 195¾ -1⅛ — -9.6 393 226½ Numis 251* +6 5.6 4.6 758½ 535 LVMH € 551¾ -1¾ 1.8 2.4
1257 988 Hilton Food ● 1042* +12 2.9 23.2 605 248½ Menzies J 102 +1 — 68.0 207 109 Premier Miton 117½ -1 8.5 12.3
208 49 REA Hldgs 134 -17 — -48.5 662 476¼ Aberdeen New India 518 +12 0.2 636 146 110 Lowland Inv 115 -½ 5.3 130 37⅜ 16⅞ EnQuest 25 -1¾ — -0.8 77⅞ 44¾ MITIE Gp ● 594 +2 — 42.8 55 29¼ SRT Marine Sys 30 -½ — -9.6 57¼ 38¾ LafargeHolcim SFr 44⅛ -⅜ 5.0 1.7
4388 3267½ Unilever 3609½ +6 4.0 18.0 662 441¼ Rentokil 61⅝ -1¼ 2.9 17.1 111 80 Tribal Gp 88 -1 1.5 25.9
Banks -1.03% 1084⅞ 867⅞ Alliance Trust ● 893* -6 2.4 940 252 179¾ Majedie 183* +2 6.2 224 538⅝ 284 Harbour Energy 347 -10⅛ 2.4 36.8 510 325 Ricardo Gp 460 +10¾ 1.4 32.5 10⅜ 5¼ Lufthansa € 6⅜ … — —
892 444¾ Robt Walters 368 +2 2.2 —
373½ 199⅜ Allianz Tech Trust ● 208 -4 — 238 437 276 Mtn Currie Port 288 -1 1.5 289 356½ 142¾ Hunting 271 -12 2.3 -2.3 56⅞ 29⅝ SIG 472 +9 4.3 10.2 5¾ 4⅛ Nokia OYJ € 4½ … 1.8 3.6
186 118⅞ Serco Group ● 30¾ +⅛ — -1.3
219⅝ 140 Barclays 161⅜ +⅞ 3.7 18.3 540 402½ Asia Dragon Trust 426 -14 1.5 490 294½ 175⅜ Mercantile InvTr ● 179¼ -1⅜ 3.9 212 203⅜ 91 Petrofac ● 126⅜ -5⅝ — -3.0 1839⅝ 957⅝ Travis P ● 173 +¾ 1.4 7.0 Michelin € 27 — 4.2 2.3
1633 997 Close Bros ● 1037 -1 6.2 7.7 989¼ +13 3.8 -100.3
567¼ 329½ HSBC 533⅝ -5¼ 3.8 10.6 Gas & Water +0.66% 506 250½ Baillie Giff China 322 +3 2.2 332 592 485 Merchants Tst ● 537 -7 5.1 532 2459¼ 1833⅜ Shell 2076* -75 3.8 9.9 217¼ 167⅜ Pernod Ricard € 172½ +3⅛ 1.9 1.6
56 38⅛ Lloyds Bk Gp 43⅞ +⅜ 4.6 5.8
258⅛ 182⅞ NatWest Group 228 +6¾ 4.6 -36.8 171 77 Baillie Giff Euro Gwth 79½ -⅝ 0.4 93 195 164 MomentumM-A V 173½ — 4.1 172 266⅜ 150¾ Wood Grp (John) ● 176½ -6½ — -10.5 42¾ 19⅜ Philips (Kon) € 19⅞ … 4.3 1.5
293 205⅝ Santander 233½ -11⅛ 3.0 13.6
640¼ 406¼ Standard Ch 591⅜ -24 1.5 11.9 89⅝ 45¼ Centrica 83½ +3⅝ — 4.0 125⅝ 95 Bankers Invstmt Tst ● 96¾ -¾ 2.3 104 1482 875 Monks ● 905 -1½ 0.3 992 Pharmaceuticals +1.42% 158 102⅛ Siemens € 101½ -1⅝ 3.9 1.9
1746¾ 983½ Pennon Gp ● 1016 -1 3.8 —
3228 2485 Severn Trent 2738* -29 3.7 -77.8 1444 722⅜ Biotech Growth 813 -3 — 831 959½ 738 Murray Income ● 830 — 4.2 865 37⅝ 18⅜ Societe Gen € 23⅝ -⅛ 7.0 3.6
1186⅞ 961¾ Utd Utilities 1017 +½ 4.3 -122.5
151 85 BlackRock Enrgy&Res 111* -6 4.0 121 1326 1056½ Murray Intl ● 1222 — 4.5 1249 11000 8029 AstraZeneca 10304 +176 2.0 — 38 10½ Union Jack Oil 26½ — — -31.9 19⅜ 12⅛ Stellantis € 12½ -¼ 8.5 0.7
5525 3066 Dechra Pharma 3240 +64 1.3 63.1 7½ 3 Xtract Resources 4⅝ -¼ — -23.2
140 114 BlckRock FroInv 120* -1 4.5 134 73½ 58 Northern 2 VCT 61½ — 5.9 64 6310 2186 Genus ● 2492 +8 1.3 34.3 1665 1150 Young & Co – A 1168* -22 1.6 19.9 131⅛ 70½ Thales € 112¾ -2¾ 2.3 2.5
2726½ 1362¾ GSK 1705¾* +14¼ 3.0 19.5 990 605 Young & Co – N/V 740* — 2.5 18.8
Beverages +0.61% General financial +1.36% 732 410⅛ BlckRck Grt Euro 420 +1½ 1.5 449 107 91 Northern 3 VCT 93½ — 5.3 98 2703 1459½ Hikma 1502½ +20½ 2.9 10.1 57⅜ 34¼ Total € 49 -1½ 5.6 2.2
340 143⅝ Indivior ● 292 +2⅝ — 12.8
202 164 BlckRck Inc&Grth Inv 175 -2 4.1 194 78¾ 63½ Nthn Venture 64½ — 6.2 68 19⅞ 13⅛ UBS AG SFr 15½ … 3.0 4.2

4110 3282½ Diageo 3550½ +22 2.1 31.2 412¾ 205⅜ Ashmore ● 216¾ +3⅝ 7.8 6.0 457 310 BlackRock Latin 365 +2 5.8 380 376 286⅜ Pacific Assets 314* +4 0.6 346 The Alternative Investment Market is for young and growing 33½ 22½ Veolia Environ € 23⅝ … 4.2 0.7
companies. Shares may carry higher risks than those with a full
Chemicals -1.44% 571 242¾ Bridgepoint Grp ● 264¼ +4¼ 1.4 16.5 213 177 BlckRck SustAmerInc 190* -½ 4.2 197 353 247 Pantheon ● 250½ -3½ — 447 quotation, and may be difficult to sell. 313 180⅛ Volkswagen € 182⅝ -3½ 4.1 3.9

1678½ 759⅜ Hargreaves L 791 +16 4.9 12.6 2230¼ 1298⅜ BlackRock Small ● 1326 — 2.6 1556 203⅛ 156 PremierMitonGlb 178½* -4½ 3.9 197 Property +0.86% Telecommunications -1.35% Recent issues

10505 5862 Croda Intl 6042 -40 1.7 26.3 1004⅞ 646¾ IG Group ● 686 +5 6.3 6.8 1046 523 BlkRk Throg Tst ● 537 -7 2.0 589 2787 2205⅞ RIT Cap Ptnrs ● 2305 -35 1.6 2619 Americans -0.07% 52 week
3191 1650 Johnson Mat ● 1968* -78 3.9 18.5 High Low (p) Stock
2720 1585 Victrex ● 1685* +1 3.5 20.0 2493 1285 IntermediateCp 1373* +12½ 5.5 7.3 805 492 BlackRock Wld M ● 611* -30 7.1 633 329 282 Ruffer Inv Pref ● 310½ -3 0.8 290 22¾ 14⅛ Alina Hldgs 20½ -½ — 28 206¾ 134⅞ BT Group 181½ -4¾ 4.2 14.1 52 week Price (p) +/- Yld P/E
1894 993⅝ Telecom Plus ● 1838 +14 3.1 40.8 High Low Stock
541⅜ 261⅞ Investec ● 435⅝ -5⅝ 5.7 8.4 345 269½ BMO Cap & Inc 297* — 3.9 301 528 395 Schroder Asian TR 395 -12½ 2.2 419 80⅝ 59¼ Assura ● 66⅝* -⅛ 4.7 — 141⅝ 106¼ Vodafone 126¾* -1 6.1 20.5 Price +/- GrsYd Cvr 57 44½ EnSilica 46 -1½ — —
7 3 GS Chain 6⅞ +¼ — —
Construction -1.56% 156¼ 69½ IP Group ● 73⅜* +1¼ 1.6 4.2 124¼ 88 BMO ComProp ● 113* -1¾ 4.2 144 548 437⅞ Scot American ● 455½* -1½ 2.8 467 1760 1191 Big Yellow Gp ● 1272 +11 3.3 — Tobaccos -0.44% 98⅛ 31 Alcoa $ 48⅜ -1¾ 0.8 9.8 2065 1700 Woodside Energ 1795 -25 5.9 10.7

2560 903⅛ Liontrust ● 940 +10 7.7 9.6 177 135 The Global Smaller Companies Trust ●138¾ 933 725 Scot Invest 803 +8 3.1 817 563¾ 441¾ Brit Land 505⅜ +1⅜ 4.3 — 199½ 136½ Amer Express $ 144⅞ +⅛ 1.4 4.8

322¼ 207¾ Balfour Beatty ● 249¼* — 3.6 11.7 42¾ 35 Lon. Fin. & Inv. 35½ — 3.2 7.4 -¼ 1.3 158 1568½ 670⅝ Scot Mortgage 711* -4⅝ 0.5 826 269¼ 180¼ CLS Hldgs ● 215 — 3.6 7.3 50⅛ 30⅞ BankAmerica $ 32⅝ -¼ 2.6 4.2
765⅛ 446⅞ Barratt Dev 459¾ -¼ 7.2 7.1
3553 2028⅝ Bellway ● 2080* +1 6.1 6.6 8546 6230 Lon Stock Ex 7338 +172 1.3 61.0 300 234 BMO Mgd G 235 -1 — 230 240 205 Sec Tst of Scot 217* +4 2.7 215 82⅝ 54 Cap&Regional 61 +3 — — 3613 2507½ Brit Am Tob 3479 -18½ 6.3 11.7 252¼ 113 Boeing $ 137⅝ +⅞ — — Bold FTSE100 Stocks ● FTSE250 Stocks
5383⅞ 3490 Berkeley Grp 3676 -116 0.3 8.8 1888 1434¼ Imp Brands 1831½* +1 7.6 6.1
349 253 Boot H 314 +2 1.9 14.8 243¾ 168¾ M&G 195¾ -4¼ 9.4 59.3 150 124 BMO Mgd I 127½* — 5.2 126 2040 1131 Smithson Inv Tst ● 1185 +7 — 1308 3850 2700 Derwent Ldn ● 2768 +32 2.8 — 237⅞ 179⅝ Caterpillar $ 189½ -6⅞ 2.5 2.5 * Ex-dividend † Ex-scrip ‡ Ex-all
64⅞ 32 Costain 36 +1 — -17.1
4024 2745½ CRH 2772½ -61 3.4 10.4 264⅝ 177¼ Man Group ● 244⅝ +2½ 4.4 8.7 520 380 BMO Priv Eq Ord 452 -2 4.8 637 511¾ 376½ TR Property ● 385 -3 3.8 406 810½ 607 Gt Portland Est ● 615* -1 2.0 — Transport +0.01% 182⅜ 92⅞ Chevron $ 149 -5⅝ 3.8 1.9 § Ex-rights # Suspended

383¾ 201 Provident Fin ● 205 -¾ 5.9 -6.2 101 70 BMO Real Est Inv 87¼* -1¼ 4.6 128 203 137¼ Tmpletn Em Mt ● 144¾ -1¾ 2.6 167 340 259¾ Grainger ● 280⅝* -1⅜ 1.9 17.3 63 42⅜ Coca–Cola Euro $ 51⅜ -⅜ 4.3 0.9 Cover relates to the previous year’s dividend.
Yields are net of basic rate tax.

197⅞ 106¼ Quilter ● 109¾ -¾ 5.9 10.0 101 77 BMO UKHighIncTst 85½ — 6.4 89 83 67½ Troy Inc & Gr 69⅜ +⅝ 2.8 70 41 19⅝ Hammerson ● 21 -¼ 1.9 — 457½ 327 Redde Northgate ● 348 +2½ 5.2 13.1 85⅝ 72¼ Colgate Palm $ 77¾ +1¼ 2.4 1.3 Data is provided for information purposes only and is not
intended for trading purposes. Speak with a financial advisor
2230 1426⅛ Rathbones Grp ● 1974 -8 4.1 14.8 1140 929⅛ Brunner 950* -14 2.3 1037 145⅛ 137 UIL Fin ZDP 2022 143½ +½ — 144 513 345 Helical 400 +4½ 2.8 5.5 596¼ 258¾ Royal Mail ● 273½ +⅛ 7.3 4.4 85⅛ 55⅛ DuPontDeNemrs $ 55⅞ -1 2.4 2.3 before using any data to make transactions.

Winners and losers (pc) Major price changes FTSE 100 World market indices Exchange rates

© Pharmaceuticals 1.42 Risers 48 Volume Close Change Fallers 52 Volume Close Change Index Change £ > € Rate 1.1617 Change -0.10¢ £ > $ Rate 1.2309 Change +0.25¢
© General financial 1.36 ©JD Sports Fash 44.07m 113⅞ 6.60pc ªGlencore 49.87m 449⅜ -6.89pc 6682.30 -18.50
© Electricity 0.87 ©Centrica 53.93m 4.58pc ªAntofagasta 1244 -6.43pc ªAustralia All Ordinaries 99522.32 -162.18 -0.28pc Tourist £1 = Sterling £1 = 1 Euro = 1 Dollar =
© Property 0.86 ©NatWest Group 31.90m 83½ 3.03pc ªRolls Royce 2.40m -5.20pc ªBrazil Bovespa 3267.20 -39.52 -0.16pc
© Healthcare 0.82 ©Admiral 0.71m 228 2.81pc ªAnglo Amer 42.40m 86⅛ -4.95pc ªChina 5916.63 -48.03 -1.20pc Australia Aus $ 1.6780 1.7728 1.5261 1.4402
© Gas & Water 0.66 ©Lon Stock Ex 1.14m 2162 2.40pc ªRio Tinto 3207 -4.40pc ªFrance Shanghai Composite 13144.28 -148.12 -0.81pc
© Beverages 0.61 ©Rentokil Initial 10.50m 7338 2.40pc ªPrudential 3.08m 5019 -4.34pc ªGermany CAC General 21008.34 -551.25 -1.11pc Canada Can $ 1.5101 1.5927 1.3711 1.2939
© Information technology 0.59 ©Hargrve Lans 0.96m 460 2.06pc ªOcado Group 3.31m 933⅝ -4.18pc ªHong Kong DAX 51822.53 -709.54 -2.56pc
© Electricals 0.32 ©Dechra Pharma 0.22m 791 2.02pc ªStandard Chart 6.04m 819¾ -3.90pc ªIndia Hang Seng 26149.55 -96.76 -1.35pc Denmark Krone 8.2455 8.6401 7.4380 7.0194
ª Banks -1.03 ©Avast 3240 1.81pc ªShell 3.80m 591⅜ -3.49pc ªJapan 1403.36 +23.39 -0.37pc
ª Telecommunications -1.35 ©AstraZeneca 4.28m 516⅝ 1.74pc ªBerkeley Gp Hdgs 7.73m 2076 -3.06pc ©Russia BSE S&P SENSEX 3093.31 -24.17 +1.70pc Euro € 1.1117 1.1617 … 0.9437
ª Engineering / Industrial -1.37 ©Spirax-Sarco Eng 1.86m 10304 1.59pc ªBP 38.06m 3676 -3.05pc ªSingapore Nikkei -0.78pc
ª Chemicals -1.44 ©Experian 0.21m 9346 1.44pc ªMelrose Ind 0.70m 383¼ -2.98pc ªSpain RTS 811.04 -7.80 -0.95pc Hong Kong HK $ 9.0916 9.6625 8.3183 7.8500
ª Aerospace & defence -1.51 ©Segro 3.79m 2318 1.42pc ªHarbour Energy 64.08m 151⅝ -2.83pc ©Switzerland 10528.34 +48.50 +0.46pc
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The Daily Telegraph Thursday 23 June 2022 *** 23

Business

Want income that rises in Triple Point Social Housing Reit Close: 86.5p Key influences are both fully reflected in the
line with 9pc inflation? numbers share price, which has fallen heavily in
These are the trusts to buy 120 recent months.
p ‹ Market value:
£352m At the current share price the
110 ‹ Year of listing: increased dividend makes the yield
2017 6.3pc. In our view the combination of
100 ‹ Discount: income resilience, inflation linking and
21.9pc the high initial yield make this trust
90 ‹ Ave discount hard to beat for income investors. Buy.
over past year:
Questor As inflation grinds higher, the this is, Questor wonders whether 80 4.9pc Another strong contender is
search for investments that can these trusts will be able to raise their ‹ Yield: 6pc Residential Secure Income, which
Trust Bargains keep up takes on greater urgency. divis in line with inflation when it is in ‹ Most recent owns property in the shared ownership,
year’s dividend retirement housing and local authority
RICHARD EVANS We’ve covered some of the individual double digits. They would need their (Dec 2021): 5.2p sectors. Its managers told Questor
‹ Gearing (Dec yesterday that in March they had
Trusts that invest stocks that look equal to the task holdings to increase their own 70 2021): 60pc chosen to extend a 6pc cap on some
in shares will ‹ Annual charge retirement home rent rises to all tenants
struggle to make (Dec 2021): in that sector. “A few complained and
their dividends keep 1.54pc for them we carried out individual
pace, especially if we affordability assessments,” they said.
have a recession. in other columns, but which dividends by that degree,
So we must turn Its shared ownership tenants
to property investment trusts will Triple Point which looks optimistic. are subject to uncapped rent rises
at the retail prices index plus half a
preserve the real value of Social Housing Reit We need then to turn percentage point and the managers said
a rise on this basis at 5.5pc had gone
your money? Buy to other assets and the 60 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 through for most of these properties in
Savers have a number obvious choice is property. 2017 April with no complaints.

of options. Some trusts Rents are resilient Real estate has several Likewise rent rises on its local
authority properties, which account for
explicitly have this aim and go up in line advantages. First, tenants upwards-only, inflation-linked rent associations that house vulnerable just 8pc of the portfolio, had “just gone
reviews if a recession or “stagflation” adults and rents are backed by the state, through with no pushback”.
and we have tipped a few with inflation, with have a legal obligation forces tenants into bankruptcy. So we so the income is secure. While there are
no caps need defensive parts of the market. no caps on rent rises in its contracts, The managers said their aim since
in recent columns; they to pay rents, whereas Next, inflation-linked rental contracts we must acknowledge, as its managers launch to keep pace with inflation
need careful scrutiny, as many cap the did last year, that in practice housing “even at 30pc” was on track, although
include Ruffer Investment dividends are discretionary. increases; 4pc is a common limit. associations might struggle to pay rent and dividend rises would come
the full increase at very high levels of with a time lag. Another trust worth
Company, Capital Gearing, This makes rental income more These contracts were drafted in an inflation. That said, the recent 5pc rise buying to keep inflation at bay.
era when inflation of even 5pc would in Triple Point’s dividend suggests that Questor says: buy
BH Macro, RIT Capital Partners resilient in troubled times, which have seemed a distant prospect, the associations are not struggling so Tickers: SOHO, RESI
never mind the 9.1pc figure for May far at least. Share prices at close: 86.5p, 101p
and Personal Assets. What these will prove valuable if, as many fear, we announced yesterday. Happily Questor
has found a couple of property trusts The finances of housing associations Read Questor’s rules of investment before
trusts have in common is the aim have to contend not only with sky-high whose contracts with tenants include have attracted regulatory scrutiny,
no cap on the inflation link. while a rival social housing trust has you follow our tips: telegraph.co.uk/go/
to preserve capital. What about inflation but with a recession at the come under attack from a short seller.
Triple Point Social Housing Reit is Questor feels that these negative questorrules; telegraph.co.uk/questor
investors who need income? same time. one. Its properties are leased to housing

Where can they get dividends that Second, many property leases

keep pace with inflation? stipulate that rents can only go up, not

There are certain “equity down, and often they must rise in line

income” trusts that can boast 50- with inflation. However, we must be

year records of consecutive careful about our choice of property

dividend increases. investment trusts. For a start, it’s no

Impressive though good having contracts that specify

Crypto giant Tether Ex-Mirror editor to Frasers Group raises
targets UK investors lead flagging TalkTV stake in Hugo Boss

By Gareth Corfield and issuing crypto equivalents. The By Matt Oliver a former editor of the Daily Mirror By Giulia Bottaro that [Mr Ashley] must be at least con-
company’s main stablecoin, which is newspaper and previously worked at sidering the possibility of a takeover,
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Islands-based company behind one of to the functioning of the global crypto- hired the former editor of the Mirror to production company. Group has increased its investment in imminent. In the meantime, he’ll be
the biggest cryptocurrencies in the currency market, with over $68bn head up the channel fronted by Piers German fashion designer Hugo Boss. wanting to exert influence there in
world is targeting British investors with Morgan in an attempt to kick-start Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of regards to securing its best moving
a new token pegged to the pound. $68bn flatlining viewing figures. News UK, said: “Richard has a breadth Frasers Group, which owns chains lines ... Hugo Boss has wide appeal and
of knowledge that will be invaluable such as Sports Direct and House of is stocked across its USC, Frasers and
Tether Operations Limited, which The company’s main stablecoin, which is Richard Wallace will take over as across the schedule of TalkTV. Fraser, now has 3.4m shares, corre- Flannels stores, even though they have
runs so-called “stablecoins”, will launch pegged to the dollar, is crucial to the head of television at News UK this sponding to a 4.9pc stake in Hugo Boss. different target markets.”
a sterling product in July, making it eas- functioning of the cryptocurrency market month, the company said. “We are delighted to welcome him to That is up from a 2.1pc stake in April.
ier for British investors to access many the company as we build on our launch The current holding is worth around Frasers first invested in Hugo Boss in
crypto trading platforms. (£55bn) in circulation. The launch of a His remit will include “all editorial programming to deliver new shows €900m (£776m). 2020 and has been building up its hold-
sterling stablecoin should make it easier output” from insurgent broadcaster which showcase the best of all of News ing since then. The company also owns
The launch is likely to draw the atten- for investors to access cryptocurrencies TalkTV. News UK, which also owns the UK’s journalism.” Frasers Group also has put options a stake in British luxury handbag maker
tion of British regulators after Tether as it will allow trading platforms to Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times and over another 26pc of Hugo Boss shares, Mulberry. Frasers’ investment in high-
was last year fined by New York’s Attor- more easily accept GBP deposits. Times Radio, launched the channel in TalkTV’s flagship show, Piers Morgan meaning it has the option to buy them at end brands has coincided with a push to
ney General for “deceiving” investors. April as part of owner Mr Murdoch’s Uncensored, has suffered a big drop in a specific price at a future date. make its shops more upmarket.
Tether did not admit wrongdoing. The Bank of England and the Finan- ambition to challenge the BBC. ratings since its initial broadcast. When
cial Conduct Authority declined to com- it launched on April 25, the 8pm show The investment “reflects Frasers Mr Ashley is well known for his deal-
GBP, Tether’s fourth pegged crypto- ment. A Treasury spokesman said: “We Mr Morgan has been the public face attracted an average 316,800 viewers – Group’s belief in the Hugo Boss brand, making. Frasers bought fast-fashion
currency, promises to be backed one- are firmly committed to putting the of the channel, with adverts featuring but this had fallen to just 41,500 a strategy and management team,” the brand Missguided out of administration
to-one by the British pound. Stablecoins UK’s financial services sector at the the slogan: “Love him or loathe him, month later, according to ratings com- company said. Hugo Boss is in the pro- for £20m earlier this month and previ-
are often used by cryptocurrency busi- forefront of cryptoasset technology.” you won’t want to miss him.” piler Barb. cess of shifting its lines towards more ously bought Jack Wills and House of
nesses, many of which struggle to casual fashion. Fraser after they collapsed.
access regular bank accounts and must But despite attracting hundreds of That was less than Nigel Farage’s
turn to quasi-currencies instead. thousands of viewers on launch day, the programme on rival start-up GB News, Patrick O’Brien, UK retail research Shares in Frasers Group rose by
presenter’s show has struggled to outdo which commanded 57,500 viewers at director at GlobalData, said: “With 0.7pc  yesterday, while Hugo Boss
Tether effectively acts as a middle- the ratings of rival broadcasters in the 7pm. The BBC secured 106,300 during Hugo Boss, the level of investment now climbed 0.4pc.
man, taking sterling or dollar deposits weeks and months since. Mr Wallace is Mr Morgan’s slot. is very significant, and it would appear

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Obituaries

Kazimerz Szmid May Routh

Polish Brigade paratrooper dropped over Arnhem during the ill-fated Operation Market Garden Costume designer who turned
Daryl Hannah into a mermaid

K AZIMERZ SZMID, who has died aged ALAMY south Russia, and the family set off for M AY ROUTH, who has She worked with David Bowie
97, was forced from his home in Tashkent. But trains were unreliable and died aged 87, was an
Poland to Siberia before arriving in 73 remaining aircraft approached the drop Poles defended the crossing points to allow the family had to fend for themselves during Emmy-nominated by stints at Elle and Vogue.
England, where he joined the Polish zone east of Driel on the south side of the survivors to escape across the river from the the frequent stops and delays. illustrator and designer who When photography began
Parachute Brigade. He was one of the last lower Rhine, they came under heavy north. created costume sketches replacing illustrators, as
surviving Poles to fight during Operation anti-aircraft fire and a number were shot While searching for food at one stop, and designs for David well as teaching she took
Market Garden, the Allied attempt to down. The paratroopers were fired on as Szmid’s unit marched to Nijmegen, where Szmid and his father lost contact with the Bowie, Peter Sellers and work as assistant costume
capture the bridge at Arnhem. they descended, but 1,003 landed safely. they spent a week guarding airfields, before rest of the family. His father became ill and Peter O’Toole, for Peter designer on films such as
boarding a ship in Ostend to return to their died shortly afterwards. Alone, the young Frampton and the Bee Gees Richard Attenborough’s Oh!
Szmid was a member of the First Battalion On landing, Szmid discovered that most base at Stamford. In later life he Szmid buried him. in the 1978 jukebox musical What a Lovely War (1969) – a
of the First Polish Independent Parachute of his battalion were in the aircraft that had commented: “It was difficult to see what film Sgt Pepper’s Lonely job she got through her
Brigade, which had been formed in Scotland turned back. He was assigned to the 3rd else we could have done to assist in this He kept returning to the railway station Hearts Club Band – and, boyfriend, the photographer
in September 1941. He arrived in England in Battalion and soon came under enemy fire. operation, landing late and no river crossing in the hope that he would meet up with his perhaps most famously, she Brian Duffy, who had set up
June 1943 to begin his parachute training at Lack of boats hindered the Poles’ attempt to equipment.” mother, but to no avail. Desperately hungry, made Daryl Hannah’s a film company with Len
Ringway (now Manchester Airport), which cross the river to join up with the and in rags, with just one shoe, he saw a mermaid costume in Splash! Deighton. She also worked
he completed in September. beleaguered British units. Once the battle to Kazimerz Szmid was born on a farm near troop train carrying recruits for the new on Richard Lester’s The
take the bridge at Arnhem had been lost, the Nieswiez in eastern Poland (now Nyasvizh, Polish Army; he was taken on board and fed. She began her career as Three Musketeers (1973).
His battalion was based at Leslie in Belarus) on January 18 1925. He attended a an artist on fashion
Scotland until May 1944, when it moved to Szmid began his local school in Zapole. He travelled with them to Jalal-Abad, magazines and for After collaborating with
Stamford, Lincs, in preparation for D-Day, parachute training Kyrgyzstan, where, despite being too advertising companies the Bee Gees on Sgt Pepper,
coming under the command of the 1st at the age of 18. During the early hours of February 19 young, he persuaded a Polish officer to let across London. By her own she designed touring
British Airborne Division. Left, paratroopers 1940, the Soviet secret police arrived in his him apply to join the 5th Kresowa Division, admission, the dawn of the costumes for the band.
during Operation village and ordered his family to pack a few which he did in March 1942. Swinging Sixties made
Under its leader, Major General Stanislaw Market Garden belongings and walk through the snow to a illustrators largely May Routh received
Sosabowski, the Polish Brigade trained on railway station 12 miles away. There, with He discovered that his mother and a sister redundant: “Work dried up Emmy nominations for her
Salisbury Plain in anticipation of operations most of the villagers, they were herded into were some 12 miles from his camp, and it because everything was work on the TV film Lucy &
in Normandy, but it was not required. cattle trucks and locked in. became possible for them to work with the photography.” Desi: Before the Laughter
Polish army. In due course they left for (1991) and the mini-series
During the ill-fated operation at Arnhem, Then began a nightmare journey during Uganda, where they spent the rest of the She took a post teaching Andersonville (1996). Her
the Poles were due to be dropped on the which many died of starvation, disease and war. at a London art school, other film credits included
third day, but bad weather delayed their the intense cold. Eventually they arrived in where one of her students Hal Ashby’s Being There
involvement. In later years Szmid recalled Siberia, where they were put to work in the In April 1942, General Anders’s army was Freddie Mercury. The (1979), starring Peter Sellers.
the tension caused by the frequent forests. They toiled in temperatures as low came under British command and moved to pair would later reunite “I found Mr Sellers had good
postponements: “At the airfields the as minus 40 C; food was scarce and Szmid’s Persia (now Iran). They were taken by train when she designed the and bad days,” she recalled.
weather was poor – fog, we couldn’t take off mother exchanged her wedding ring for to Iraq, where Szmid was reunited with his costumes for Queen’s music “Mostly bad.”
– so we sat around all day hoping that it something to eat for her four children. brother, who had joined the 3rd Carpathian video Body Language (1982).
would clear. The flights were cancelled and Rifle Division, which later fought in Italy. It became the first to be During the 1980s her film
we returned to barracks which were not In August 1941 the Soviets gave the Poles He also discovered that his elder sister was a banned by MTV, for its credits included My
expecting us. Nobody … slept or ate due to an amnesty against their unspecified driver in the Polish Army. exposure of flesh – though Favourite Year (1982),
the tension. “crimes” and they were told they could the band themselves starring Peter O’Toole as an
travel where they liked. A Polish army In Iraq he volunteered for the Polish remained fully clothed. aged and tipsy matinee idol,
“The next day, the same poor weather under General Anders was being formed in Parachute Brigade, travelled to Haifa in and Splash! (1984), for which
conditions. However, our glider element Palestine and boarded a troopship for She made her feature-film May Routh designed Daryl
had taken off the previous day from another England before heading for Leslie to begin debut on Nicolas Roeg’s The Hannah’s figure-hugging
location. Waiting, waiting, nothing we could his training. Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), mermaid lower half to
do about it; we were so keyed up. Orders to starring David Bowie as the resemble a dolphin’s skin.
board, travel to the edge of the runway, In the final weeks of the war in Europe, alien visitor.
engines shut off, disembark. I took all of my the Polish Brigade returned to Germany to By the end of the decade,
500-cigarette allowance and managed to provide part of the British occupation force, “Bowie was unlike any she realised that original
smoke it all whilst waiting. In the evening which became the British Army of the other movie star out there, costume designs were being
the same order came through, drop Rhine. so consequently my replaced by off-the-shelf
postponed, and we stood down.” costume design was out pieces. But she continued
Szmid and his colleagues were deeply there too!” May Routh working, mainly in
Eventually, Szmid and his colleagues took resentful that, having become the fourth recalled. “My drawing was television, including the
off on the afternoon of September 21 1944, largest Allied army, the Poles were not supposed to resemble grey sci-fi drama Roswell (1994)
but poor weather and confusion over radio invited to march in the Victory Parade woven plastic that was and the 2004 TV movie
messages resulted in some of the USAAF through London, unlike some nations who protective enough to pass about Charles Manson and
transport aircraft returning to base. As the had made minimal contributions. through the atmosphere. It his murderous acolytes,
was tricky, it had to be glued Helter Skelter. She later
He came back to England in 1947 and and not sewn together, but taught costume design at
joined the Polish Resettlement Corps. His the clever studio creatives Woodbury University in
brother returned from Italy, his sister and I made it work.” California.
reached London, and his mother and
younger sister arrived a year later from Despite Bowie’s exotic May Routh married, first,
Uganda. He was discharged from the Army aura, she found the star Adrian Bailey. After that
in 1948 and made England his home, surprisingly friendly. marriage ended she was
becoming a British citizen. partner to Brian Eatwell,
“What was interesting who had been production
Initially he worked as a coal miner in about him was that he was designer on The Man Who
Mansfield, before spending 32 years so helpful – especially in Fell to Earth and The Three
working for Brown & Polson, the cornflour designing the special effects Musketeers. He died in 2007
manufacturer. In 1990 he became the costumes. At the time I and May Routh is survived
caretaker of the Polish Catholic Mission in didn’t realise it was anything by two stepdaughters.
Manchester. He was a member of the Polish special, I thought all actors
Choir of St Moniuszko and the Union of were going to be like him May Routh, born July 12
Polish Paratroopers. – big mistake.” 1934, died June 1 2022

Kazimerz Szmid married, in 1952, Ida May Routh was born
Kazimiera Wyszynska, who had been in India on July 12 1934 and
deported to Siberia when she was eight and grew up in the colourful
orphaned. She and their son survive him. metropolis of Jabalpur, “the
Marble City”, before her
Kazimerz Szmid, born January 18 1925, parents sent her to boarding
died May 28 2022 school near Brighton. From
there, she enrolled at St
Colin Grainger Martins School of Art &
Design in London.
Footballer known as ‘the Singing Winger’ who scored against Brazil and shared a bill with The Beatles
Upon graduation, she
C OLIN GRAINGER, who has died aged £5,000 for making illegal payments (which found work as a mannequin
89, was a footballer who played more were rife in the era of the maximum wage). artist, commissioned by
than 100 games for Sunderland in the British fashion houses and
1950s, as well as seven times for England; In the summer of 1960 Grainger put in a department stores, followed
“the Singing Winger”, as he was known, also transfer request when the club refused to
had a career in music that led to him sharing COLORSPORT/SHUTTERSTOCK lend him money to buy a newsagents in
a bill with The Beatles. South Shields, and he was sold to Leeds
Grainger, right, in action for Sheffield United in 1955: he was an outside-left with a deadly swerve United for £15,000 (plus an illegal
“I was far more nervous before a gig than signing-on fee). He was offered the
before a match,” he recalled. “In football, The national side then departed for a Sunderland in 1957, and after the Munich opportunity of touring Australia with the
you’re one man of 11, but in singing, you’re short tour of Scandinavia, and following a disaster the following year he turned down comedian Nat Jackley (who later worked
one man of one.” 5-1 win against Finland Grainger displayed a move to Manchester United; he had with The Beatles on Magical Mystery Tour),
his other significant talent to a bar full of become friends with the Busby Babes but turned it down as it would interfere
The high point of his pop career came in journalists from back home who had been Duncan Edwards, Tommy Taylor and Roger with his pre-season training.
June 1963, when he supported The Beatles. covering the tour. Byrne on England duty – and, he said, “I
They played two concerts in one evening, couldn’t face it to think they’d gone and I’m He spent only one season at Elland Road,
first at the Palace Theatre Club in Stockport “Nat Lofthouse was a joker,” he recalled, there to replace them.” as although he played in nearly all the games
and then at the Southern Sporting Club in “and he said to me: ‘Colin, come on, let’s have his effectiveness was reduced by an ankle
Manchester. a song off you,’ so I got up, and that was it.” He spent three seasons at Sunderland, but injury sustained on England duty that
it was a troubled time for the club: their refused to heal. The club was strapped for
He received the same £50 fee as the Fab The tour ended with a trip to Berlin to play manager of 18 years, Bill Murray, was on his cash, and offloaded him to Third Division
Four, who had agreed to the booking a few way out, they were struggling near the foot Port Vale for £6,000. He spent three
months before the start of their rise to global West Germany, the world champions, and of the First Division, and they were fined seasons with them, then two at Doncaster
glory. Their money was split four ways, and Grainger gave what he rated as one of the Rovers, before finishing off his sporting
Grainger wrote in his memoir: “I had to best displays of his career in a 3-1 win. Grainger with his career in non-league football.
laugh when I remembered how I made four wife Doreen and
times for singing in one night what either Thanks to Lofthouse, and the presence of their son listening He gave his final musical performance in
John Lennon or Paul McCartney made.” the British hacks, his musical career began to his latest Leeds in 1970 then retired to concentrate on
to pick up pace – The Stage would describe record: his pop a career in sales. He later scouted in the
Though he was impressed with their him “a very pleasing vocalist” – and he was career had begun North East for Mansfield Town and told them
drive for perfection and their after his England they should sign Chris Waddle, though they
professionalism, not all the band earned the signed up by the talent agent Len Young. teammate Nat failed to act on his advice. He also talent-
same level of respect from him. His first gig was supporting the US group Lofthouse got him spotted for Barnsley, Leeds, Huddersfield,
up to sing to a bar Oldham, Bury and Sheffield United.
“I liked John Lennon, he seemed down to the Hilltoppers in Sheffield, for which he full of journalists
earth somehow,” he recalled. “Ringo, well, He published an autobiography, The
he was a bit of an idiot – he had a Dinky toy was paid £50 (two and a half times his Singing Winger, in 2019. In 2020 Harry
and he was saying, ‘I’ve got a car, I’ve got a weekly wage at Sheffield United). The band Kane – who also scored on his England
car.’ I thought: ‘You dozy bugger’. ” offered him £5,000 to tour with them, but debut – telephoned him at his care home,
with his football career still flourishing he and they chatted about their careers.
Colin Grainger was born at Havercroft, a
village in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on turned them down. But he did perform with Colin Grainger married Doreen Rowe in
June 10 1933 into a family of five older Jack Hylton and his orchestra on ITV’s After 1956; they had a daughter and son. Doreen
brothers and a younger sister. His father was Hours, presented by Hughie Green, and predeceased him.

a miner but there was plenty of footballing appeared on the BBC with Winifred Atwell Colin Grainger, born June 10 1933, died
talent in the family: his brother Jack played and Matt Monro. June 19 2022
for Rotherham and Lincoln, while his
cousins Jack and Dennis Grainger and In the summer of 1957 he toured the

Edwin Holliday all played professionally. country and signed to HMV when Joe
After the war he played for Barnsley Boys Collins, father of Joan and Jackie, became his
agent, releasing the single This I Know in
alongside Tommy Taylor, who would die in 1958.

the Munich air disaster, and Dickie Bird, He had moved from Sheffield United to
later cricket’s best-known umpire.

Colin left school at 15 and began working
as a car mechanic; a year later he was offered

a trial by Wrexham of the Third Division
North, and made his senior debut in 1951.
Though his progress was held up by National

Service, two years later he joined Sheffield
United, who had just been crowned Second
Division champions, for a fee of £2,500.

With his ability to swerve his way round
most full-backs he soon established himself
as first-choice outside-left, and in May 1956
he made his England debut, against Brazil at

Wembley. He scored after four minutes with
his first touch, and added a second near the
end, nodding in a Stanley Matthews cross as

England won 4-2 against a side who would
win the World Cup two years later.

26 *** Thursday 23 June 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Television & Radio

Last night on television Anita Singh What to watch

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in Joe Barton’s sci-fi thriller
against Bobby Riggs (she won) telling Ed Gamble takes his best shot at one of Alex Horne’s unusual tasks in the champions special as disgruntled Shiv (Rudi
an audience of millions: “And here Dharmalingam) offers him
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T his week, there are two BBC Two for ska and began copying the “rude feeling if she ever let her hair grow game show delves back into there is a chemistry between there are the baffling tasks first meetings with his
programmes that tell the story boy” fashions, which led to some down to her shoulders and took her its past on Dave, wrangling the competitors that, even themselves, concocted and girlfriend Sarah (Charly
of immigrants in Britain from confusion, as Levi Roots wryly noted: glasses off, you’d have somebody vying the winners of series six to for this ad hoc one-off, is as often participated in by Alex Clive) and the conflicted
the 1950s onwards. The first is Back “Turn around to the right and there for a Hollywood screen test.” In Amol nine (alongside the series 10 finely balanced and effective Horne: tonight’s activities emotions of Archie (Anjli
in Time for Birmingham, about the were the other kind of skinheads – Rajan Interviews Billie Jean King champion from its earliest as ever: Richard Herring feature a duck and a pond, Mohindra), rooted in a series
experience of British Asians, in which they weren’t the fashion skinheads, (BBC Two), she said she had not heard Channel 4 run) for a one-off brings self-deprecation and “the greatest thing”, some of murky moves made with
a family gamely submits to dressing in they were the fascist skinheads who that commentary until 25 years later. explosion of its peerless a big chequebook, Lou sleight of hand with bricks fellow Lazarus operative
funny costumes, eating some terrible wanted to rip your head off.” Her reaction: “Are you kidding me?” creativity and open-hearted Sanders roller skates and and balloons, and elaborate Ross (Brian Gleeson).
food of the time (Spam) and living in hilarity, punctuated as ever an obsession with pulleys, consumption of grapes.
a house with orange decor. The programme showed us the work For his interview series, Rajan has by the grumpily aggressive Ed Gamble essays a trip To its credit, there remains ENTERTAINMENT
of pioneers in the arts: textile artist done Sir Ian McKellen, Novak Djokovic interventions of the always into space and an unusual nothing else like it on
The second is Lenny Henry’s Althea McNish, abstract painter Sir and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. In each curmudgeonly Taskmaster costume, Kerry Godliman television, nor anything Sarah Beeny’s Little
Caribbean Britain, and it is a more Frank Bowling, theatrical agent Edric he’s cultivated an air of supreme Greg Davies, still loving the supplies bottled fury and as consistently funny and House, Big Plans
inquiring, deeper dive into the period. Connor. It was enlightening to learn relaxation, but has done his homework role he has landed in. James Acaster, while Liza inventive. Gabriel Tate Channel 4, 8pm
Henry – once known for Tiswas, Comic about them, because they are not beforehand. He’s always respectful, Sarah Beeny comes to the
Relief and his own comedy shows – has household names. Unlike Floella never confrontational. And King was DOCUMENTARY Coroner: Serinda Swan as tailor-turned-drag queen, rescue of Marie, whose plans
cut a serious figure in recent years. The Benjamin, whose presence can still a gift, because she is an inspirational Dr Jenny Cooper as he returns to his Polish
programme began with him walking light up the screen (seeing a clip of her figure whose life has been eventful on Britain’s Airport Crisis: hometown after 50 years The Lazarus Project: Anjli
down his old street in Dudley, doing an on Playschool teaching children how to both professional and personal fronts. Don’t Get Caught Out! Icelandic director Árni in Paris. He comes back Mohindra as Archie
affectionate impression of his mum’s tell the time led me on a whole other Channel 5, 8pm Ólafur Ásgeirsson, this not for pleasure, but to
instruction to her children to train of thought about why no The interview took place courtside A quick-turnaround charming, low-key tear- donate a kidney to his to convert a flat were
“h’integrate”. Black people of equivalent show exists now, but at Wimbledon, with Rajan introducing documentary addressing jerker of culture clashes long-estranged daughter. stymied by the pandemic
Caribbean heritage have achieved let’s save that one for another day). King as “arguably the first female sports the reasons behind the and reckoning with the It’s pensive and moving. and, in a pattern that will be
great things in the arts, he said. superstar” and “a gamechanger in the recent trend for last-minute past follows Sylwester familiar to anyone else who
This was all set against the racial original sense”. She was part of the flight cancellations among (Andrzej Seweryn), a Coroner has been recently embroiled
“But as I’ve got older, I’ve tried to politics of the time, which made for “Original Nine” players who launched the major airlines, and the More4, 9pm in renovation, a shortage of
think: what does integration actually less pleasant viewing. Windrush a breakaway women’s tour in 1970 in impact on passengers left A second series for this supplies and tradespeople.
mean?” Henry asked. “Does it mean arrivals being denied lodgings, protest at the inequality in prize money. stranded both at home and passable Canadian crime Architect Damion Burrows,
we, as Caribbean people, have to violence on the streets of Notting abroad. Important viewing procedural, which grips meanwhile, meets a man
sacrifice our culture? How much of my Hill. In this context, the jubilation King was “outed” in 1981, when her for anyone planning this tighter as it burrows more hoping to make a modern
culture has Britain absorbed?” that greeted the West Indies’ victory at past affair with a woman became year’s summer holidays. deeply into the lives of its home from a two-car garage.
The Oval in 1976 made perfect sense. public. She gave a press conference, protagonists. This opener
He didn’t answer the first question, but lost her endorsements overnight. DRAMA finds Dr Jenny Cooper Who Do You
at least in the first episode of this two- P eople these days fret about small Yet she weathered this storm, just like (Serinda Swan) juggling her Think You Are?
part documentary featuring a wealth acts of everyday sexism. Back in all the others. King spoke about her Queen ailing father, teenage son BBC One, 9pm
of contributors, but Caribbean culture Billie Jean King’s day, the sexism personal life with the ease of someone Netflix and troubled boyfriend, Anna Maxwell Martin is as
was illustrated well. First, there was was blatant inequality, huge pay who has had 51 years of therapy. One of the last projects when a fire in a high-rise dogged and curious as Line
calypso music – taken up by Lance disparities and the commentator on conceived by the late sets up a bleak new case. of Duty’s Patricia Carmichael
Percival on That Was The Week That her 1973 Battle of the Sexes match Her achievements – including 12 as she digs into unarguably
Was – and there was ska. White kids fell Grand Slams – are remarkable, but what tragic stories from both
was so striking about this interview branches of her family tree.
was that she has lost none of her drive On her father’s side there
to change things for the better. Aged is a heartbreaking story of
78, she appears to have as much energy premature death, on her
as ever. And she came across as wise. mother’s, an appalling
history of abuse, neglect and
On the hot topic of trans rights she separation redeemed by
was measured, which people rarely are a communal determination
– she believes in following the science not to let the past dictate
and does not want any player to have the future. Harrowing, but
an unfair physical advantage, but she ultimately uplifting. GT
also supported the 1970s trans player
Renée Richards who successfully sued
to join the women’s tour. But few will
ever play like King; in Rajan’s words,
she gave us “simply some of the best
tennis the world has ever seen.”

Lenny Henry’s Caribbean Britain

★★★★
Amol Rajan Interviews Billie Jean
King ★★★★

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6.00 am Breakfast (S) 9.15 Morning Live 6.15 am Homes Under the Hammer (AD) 6.00 am Good Morning Britain (S) 9.00 6.00 am Countdown (R) (S) 6.40 Cheers 6.00 am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
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Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Film4, 6.40pm ★★★★

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comedy, inspired by the 1957 Cary
7.00 The One Show Alex Jones co-hosts 7.00 Cricket: Today at the Test England 7.00 Channel 4 News (S) 7.00 Lose a Stone in 4 Weeks for Grant film An Affair to Remember, stars
the magazine show (S) v New Zealand (S) Summer Antony Costa and Zoe Tom Hanks as a bereaved architect,
7.30 Emmerdale Al and Chas bond over Birkett begin some intense stomach who attracts the interest of recently
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encouraged to leave their pricey one larger property for two smaller Caught Out! Documentary about final scene, works strangely well.
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to watch (S)
8.30 Car Crime: How Safe Is Your Car?
Tonight Rav Wilding investigates car

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care for Bradford’s young people (S) couple seek a buyer for an Champions 2022 Series six to 10 visits Gracellie Hotel on the Isle of
Actress Anna Maxwell Martin 18th-century railway carriage (AD) Wight (S)
researches her family tree See What (S) champions battle to become the
to watch (AD) (S)
second Champion of Champions
See What to watch (AD) (S) Kinky Boots (2005)
5STAR, 10pm ★★★
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the political debate from Stratford- 10.30 Newsnight (S) Tony Bellew (R) (S) 11.05 First Dates 12.05am Ramsay’s 12.50 Entertainment News on 5 played by Joel Edgerton, a man who is
upon-Avon (S) 1.00 The LeoVegas Live Casino struggling to save the family business,
11.15 Lenny Henry’s Caribbean Britain 11.40 All Elite Wrestling: Rampage Kitchen Nightmares USA 1.00 Show 3.00 Entertainment News on and one of his employees, transvestite
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Dollars (1964) Western Meg Ryan See Film choice 3.10 - 4.00am A Place to Call Tonight 11.10 Two Sides 12.20 -
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Weather & Crosswords

Nature notes

Name error risk

for wild camels

The desperate plight of the critically
endangered wild camel could be
masked by confusion over its name, a
study warns.

There are fewer than 950 wild
camels (Camelus ferus) left in Mongolia
and China. But there are an estimated
35 million domestic camels worldwide,
including the two-humped Bactrian
which the wild camel is often conflated
with, researchers said.

The study warns that failing to
distinguish between the two means
the wild camels may not get the
conservation attention they need.

Anna Jemmett, of the Wild Camel
Protection Foundation, the lead author
of the paper, said: “Using an incorrect
English common name to describe a
species can have implications. In the
case of the wild came, scientific
evidence and local distinctions agree
that it is a separate species to the
Bactrian, yet it is still often referred to
as a wild Bactrian camel.”

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pack of lies?

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The
STAGGERING
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SWIMMING
POOL

By Anna TYZACK

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Features

‘It’s £3,600 a year to run – and that

Chlorine, electricity, UV JOHN LAWRENCE; GAP PHOTOS Summer living: despite the cost, Gloria Kent four years ago after one of
Morris says she doesn’t regret her pool their children suffered an accident
pool covers… the luxury £45,000. “It caused a bit of a they’re already ringing us to find as the family enjoy it every day which left them in a wheelchair.
boom.” But now life is becoming out how to reduce costs,” confirms “Our child is able to walk with the
of a morning dip in your much more expensive, there’s been Richard Kinver from Isca Pools in up. Sarah Smith, who manages an aid of crutches when not in his
a deluge of unwanted hot tubs Devon (iscapools.co.uk) who has estate in Oxfordshire, worked out chair but when it comes to
own garden is getting appearing on sites such as Gumtree already installed 30 new swimming that it cost an extra £140 to open swimming there is no difference to
and eBay as owners (many of whom pools this year. the pool this year and routine visits an able-bodied person,” Steven
pricier. Can savings be are on lower budgets and bought are now an extra £4 every explains. “Our pool has meant he
them on finance) struggle to afford So far bills haven’t jumped much fortnight, plus the price of can swim when he likes for
made, asks Anna Tyzack to run them. Meanwhile terrified higher than the £5 per day that chemicals has increased. She also exercise and fun and his family and
pool owners are asking their pool supplier Compass Pools warns that you have to factor in a friends can join him. Holidays can
During the heatwave last week, suppliers how they can run their (compass-pools.co.uk) estimates it few larger expenses each year: this be a struggle for all of us now, but
Gloria Morris and her family cooled pools more efficiently. “A lot of pool costs to heat and provide chemicals year she’s had to replace the cover with the pool it feels like we’re on
off in the 14m swimming pool they owners are still on low tariffs so for an average domestic pool (a cool £7,000) and invested in a holiday when we’re at home.”
had installed during lockdown. they haven’t been exposed yet, but during the summer months, but solar powered surface cleaner
Heated by an air source heat pump there’s no doubt they’re creeping (£700) to try to keep down cleaning The pool was an enormous
and run via an app, the pool has costs. Hot tubs, while regarded as a investment and running costs were
dramatically enhanced their lives: poor man’s pool, don’t cost much always going to be high as it is kept
they swim twice every day less to run as they tend to be used open all year round. Steven thus
between April and November. “I all year. made sure it was as efficient as
get up at 6am for a swim and then possible – there’s a double air
go in again at around 8pm in the Still, the violins can only ever be source heat pump, a fully
evening,” says Morris, 55. “It was small for those who get to dive into retractable solar cover to retain
expensive and you have to accept their own private pool after a heat and warm the pool when it’s in
the running costs, but the pleasure sweaty day in the office. The direct sunlight and the pool itself is
far outweighs them.” situation is bleak, however, for carbon ceramic, which means it
those who run their pool as a retains heat as efficiently as A grade
Will she still feel like this at the business – according to Airbnb, double glazing. Now, however, he’s
end of the summer, though? While “swimming pool” is the most being forced to rein in the way it’s
sales of inflatable pools shot up searched-for term this summer – run. “We have reduced the
1,400 per cent last week in and those for whom a pool is a temperature from 30 to 27 degrees;
response to the heatwave – and the necessity. Steven and Elly James we switch off the heat pump when
Met Office is warning of a hotter- installed a pool at their home in the pool is at temperature and we
than-average July – the escalating
costs of labour and materials (not to
mention the energy price cap
coming off in October) mean that
the costs of running a swimming
pool or hot tub are set to spike by
more than 40 per cent. To make
matters worse, there is also
currently a chlorine shortage,
prompted by (depending on who
you speak to) decreased production
in China, a factory closure in the
UK and a fire at a factory in the
United States. As a result, public
pools across Britain are closing and
suppliers are warning those with
private pools to stock up on
chlorine.

The Morrises have enough
chlorine to last them the season –
their pool, which was installed by
Nautilus Pools in Hampshire
(waterair.com), only requires two
tablets every fortnight – but they
“opened” later this year to prevent
their heat pump, which runs on
electricity, from working more
than it needs to (pumps cost
£8,000 to replace if they burn out).
They’ve also brought the water
temperature down.

“When we first had the pool we
kept it at 29 degrees, but we’ve now
decided that it doesn’t need to be
any warmer than 26 degrees – once
you’re swimming you quickly
warm up,” Morris says. “It costs on
average £300 a month to run when
it’s ‘open’ but we haven’t had a bill
yet on the new tariff, so it could be
double.”

One might imagine that those
rich enough to put in a pool can
cope with higher running costs, yet
lockdown sparked a new breed of
environmentally conscious pool
owner who saved hard for this
one-off luxury. “They were stuck at
home in that gorgeous weather
during the pandemic, with more
money than usual because they
were working hard with no
holidays,” explains Alex Clegg,
director of Nautilus, which installs
French-designed pools with liners
in three weeks for a cost of around

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could double’

air source heat pump, which are Uncertainty: a lack of lifeguards, chlorine shortages and rising energy costs are combining to create problems for pool operators
83 per cent cheaper to run.
Meanwhile, pre-swim showering How pool closures could
will mean fewer chemicals are ruin your summer hols
used, as will fewer people using the
pool at a time. With a conventional Several factors are putting current services under threat, says Emma Beaumont
pool it’s not a good idea to stop
keep it off when the outside using chlorine – it prevents For many families, the summer said: “The operators are really affecting some of Britain’s beaches.
temperature is very low as the heat algae and protects swimmers holiday is a chance for children to struggling. They have been trying While the most visited stretches of
pump has to work very hard,” he from illnesses including put new-found swimming skills to to put a plaster on this over the sand in holiday favourites such as
explains. “Providing the evening cryptosporidium and legionella – the test in the Med for the first past couple of months. But the Cornwall are adequately staffed,
temperature is not too cold we but you can test water regularly time, or in a hotel pool. However, reality is they can’t see a way local RNLI (Royal National
power down the pool completely and only add it when required. “If several factors have combined to through this unless there is Lifeboat Institution)
once the light has gone and power you’re worried about chlorine leave children less equipped to government intervention.” representatives on the North
back up before the sun comes up.” supply, you could consider enjoy themselves safely in the Yorkshire Coast have said they are
installing a salt electrolysis system water this year. Many British A national chlorine shortage is still looking to fill a number of
Alex Kemsley of Compass Pools, to make your own chlorine,” swimming pools were closed compounding the problem. roles in popular spots such as
who is former president of the suggests Chris Hayes of the during the pandemic, which led Several of the country’s most Bridlington.
British Swimming Pool Federation, Swimming Pool and Allied Trades to fewer children receiving popular lidos have already
maintains that a good cover is the Association. “They require capital lessons; rising energy bills are issued warnings that they may Lifeguards are back on key
most important swimming pool outlay [upwards of £1,500] and putting current services under have to close. Pembrokeshire Coast beaches, but
accessory. “A good UV cover electricity but at least you’re no threat; and now a lack of local supervisor Peter Rooney has
maintains an even temperature longer dependent on chlorine.” lifeguards and a chlorine shortage The popular Portishead Lido reminded visitors to plan their
without using continual air source are reducing the opportunities for told its patrons: “We are trips carefully.
power and reduces water This summer’s smuggest pool new swimmers to enhance their conserving the chlorine we have
evaporation.” Morris agrees. Next owners are those who have natural skills. The RLSS (Royal Life Saving to make it last as long as possible, “RNLI lifeguards play a vital role
on the list, according to Kemsley, is pools and wood-fired hot tubs. Society UK) has warned that we but due to the uncertainty of the in keeping beach visitors safe, but
an efficient pump to move the They’re kinder to the environment could see more drownings as situation we have reluctantly they can’t be everywhere. This is
water through the filter and and don’t over-use energy or people opt for less safe sea made the decision to halt the sale why we’re asking people to come
equipment; the new ones cost chemicals. Sam Kitt, who runs an swimming on holidays instead. of season tickets for 2022.” prepared before you head to the
around £5,000 but pay for Airbnb in Dorset, is in the process beach; before the start of your day,
themselves in less than three years, of installing a £7,000 wood-fired WHAT ARE THE THREATS There are also fears that a take a few minutes to check local
he says. “Then you have to set the hot tub that will use filtered water FACING BRITAIN’S national lifeguard shortage could information such as tide times and
heating to the minimum from his pond. “It’s totally user SWIMMING POOLS? force pools to reduce their hours the weather.”
comfortable temperature. Most friendly and doesn’t use any or shut. Jo Talbot, commercial
competition pools are heated to 26 chemicals,” he says. “I bought it in The steep rise in energy prices is director at the RLSS, told The HOW CAN I STAY SAFE WHEN
degrees, although if you’re elderly response to requests from my the key factor, with estimates Daily Telegraph: “We work with VISITING THE BEACH?
or disabled it will need to be guests.” suggesting that the cost of 3,000 swimming pools and
around 30 degrees.” If your pool is heating Britain’s pools will rise almost every swimming pool is The RNLI has issued reminders
heated by gas or oil he suggests Meanwhile the latest natural from £500 million in 2019 to struggling to recruit lifeguards.” on how to stay safe at the coast
making the switch to a ground or pools look no different to £1.5 billion this year. She blames long pool closures this summer. Gabbi Batchelor,
conventional pools, yet they have during lockdown for leading water safety education manager
biological filters and can be heated A recent survey from qualified lifeguards to move on at the organisation, highlighted
with renewable energy up to 28 UKActive found that 85 to other sectors. the importance of choosing a
degrees. “We can turn any pool in per cent of public lifeguard-patrolled beach and
pool operators ARE LIFEGUARD paying attention to safe
‘It was expensive and said they would SHORTAGES swimming zones. “To help stay
be forced to AFFECTING safe, we’d encourage people to
you have the running reduce their BEACHES? visit a lifeguarded beach and
services during swim between the red and yellow
costs, but the pleasure the next six With pools flags. It’s important to remember
months due to under threat of to swim between those flags
far outweighs them’ rising running closure, many because lifeguards put them on
costs. will head for the safest stretch of water and
the world into a natural pool – we Meanwhile, 63 the coast patrol this area.”
can even turn it into a mineral pool per cent said they instead.
for around £20,000,” says George would be likely to However, The RNLI also advises that if
Ingledew of natural pool company cut staff numbers. day-trippers and you see someone else in trouble,
Origin Aqua (origin-aqua.com). holidaymakers you should never attempt the
“Our pools use half the amount of UKActive chief should be aware rescue yourself but rather alert a
electricity of a chlorine pool. At executive Huw Edwards that lifeguard lifeguard or call 999 and ask for
current electricity and chlorine shortages are also the Coastguard.
prices, we have a seven-year
payback for an outdoor pool, and a
five-year payback for an indoor
compared to a chemical pool.
When energy prices rise by 42 per
cent in October that payback will
be even shorter. ”

Gloria Morris has no regrets,
however. Despite all the doom-
mongering, she refuses to get
stressed about the rising running
costs of her pool in Hampshire.
“We have friends with a natural
pool but it’s hard to maintain as it’s
nature dependent, she says. “And
the cost to put it in was far greater
than ours, which is zero fuss and
low maintenance.”

Moreover, the expense, she says,
is irrelevant as it gives her and her
family a chance to do what they
love every day.

“My advice is to go out and buy
the biggest pool you can afford,”
she says.

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Features

‘Rwanda is
no liberal
paradise – it’s
a police state’

Writer Anjam Sundaram spent five years in Kigali
– and says that behind the president’s façade is a
country where a hint of dissent could kill you

On Tuesday, Prince Charles flew the 1994 genocide when over a SHUTTERSTOCK; GETTY; AFP
into Kigali, ahead of this week’s million citizens, many of them
Commonwealth Heads of ethnic Tutsi, were brutally more insidious events, such as each, which report to and receive High-profile critics of Kagame
Government Meeting. Boris slaughtered. The current bank loans suddenly needing orders from the president’s office are subjected to Rwanda’s sham
Johnson, who is chairing gathering of international movers repayment in full. with great efficiency. In 1994, this courts, which are virtually
proceedings, is expected to join and shakers in Kigali only decades-old system, which powerless and part of the façade.
him in the Rwandan capital today embellishes this story. Prior to the 2010 presidential pre-dated colonial rule by the International justice organisations,
as will Justin Trudeau, Canada’s election, which Kagame won with Belgians, was used to perpetrate such as the Clooney Foundation,
prime minister. Kagame is a crafty player in this 93 per cent of the vote (he won the the genocide, which began almost recently reported on the trial of
game. A skilled rhetorician, his subsequent 2017 election with simultaneously across the country the ex-Hotel Rwanda manager
I lived and worked in Kigali for high-minded speeches call upon a nearly 99 per cent of the vote), I and killed with a speed even Paul Rusesabagina, who had been
five years as a journalist, but was deeply-ingrained sense of was reporting at one of his election greater than the Nazis achieved in living in exile in the United States.
refused accreditation to report on humiliation and historical injustice rallies. A police officer stepped up the Second World War. Kagame Rusesabagina, on whose life the
the event. My crime? Being critical in his population, while claiming to me and told me he had observed has kept this dangerous system Hollywood blockbuster Hotel
of the Rwandan government. Paul to craft a new nation proud of their me look at Kagame and write. intact. Rwanda was based, was
Kagame, Rwanda’s president, is history – and serve to conceal his “Looking and writing,” he said. kidnapped in Dubai two years ago,
using this elite gathering – where near-totalitarian state. “That’s not allowed.” I shut my I witnessed my students brought to Kigali against his will,
Kigali will doubtless be presented notebook and for the rest of the and colleagues shot and now languishes in a prison
at its best, polished to perfection While living in Rwanda, I taught rally, wrote on the palm of my left dead, imprisoned and with little hope of release, his
– to burnish his international a class of Rwandan newspaper hand, which I closed into a fist as I forced to flee popularity a threat to Kagame.
image and conceal his dictatorship. journalists in a media program left the rally grounds. Rusesabagina’s daughter, Carina
Make no mistake: Rwanda’s human financed by the European Union. Kanimba, speaks to him every
rights crimes are being When I first arrived, I too was The president is, through his weekend for five minutes. At the
whitewashed by events like these. seduced by Rwanda’s facade: security agents, all-seeing. He Oslo Freedom Forum last month,
Kigali’s restaurants, its efficient decides which stories can be told. she told me, “My father’s lip hangs
To arrive in Kigali is to confront public services and clean, safe and All of Rwanda, every inch of the limp. His arm is in pain, and
a facade of modernity and well-lit streets. The weather was country, is divided into “villages”,
progress. There are no beggars on cool almost all year round, and the comprising about 100 families
the streets, though the country is hills around Kigali, long like
among the poorest on Earth. The baguettes, made a beautiful
electricity in Kigali rarely cuts out. skyline. Rwanda is incredibly safe
The government touts its gender- – unless you anger the
equal parliament — making it one government, in which case it
of the few countries in the world to quickly becomes extremely
have achieved such parity unsafe. Over the years, I witnessed
(although parliament has almost my students and colleagues shot
no power, and largely rubber- dead, imprisoned and forced to
stamps Kagame’s directives). flee the country after they
Living in Kigali, it can be easy to criticised Kagame. Sometimes
believe the government’s claims their criticisms were benign, or
that it is a beacon for Africa. made in obscure newspapers; but
Kagame is intolerant.
This is no doubt part of the
reason that the UK has struck an I wrote a book entitled Bad
astonishing deal to deport asylum News: Last Journalists in a
seekers in the UK, many of whom Dictatorship, telling these brave
are fleeing dictatorships, to Rwandans’ stories, as well as mine,
Rwanda, a dictatorship. After a as I tried to keep them safe. More
century of narratives portraying than 70 Rwandan journalists who
Africa as backward, a successful were killed, disappeared or fled
African country invites hope. are listed in the appendix. I did not
Rwanda, we are being told, has list all the academics, activists,
moved on since the horrific days of soldiers, politicians, priests and
teachers who met the same fate.

The names of the brave
reporters I taught are taboo, and
cannot be spoken of without risks
to their safety. Kagame has
declared many of them enemies of
the state. In Rwanda, such simple
acts as taking notes or gathering in
groups to discuss politics are
transformed into possible acts of
treason. Punishments vary from
assassinations to imprisonment, or

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The latest must-have: a photo
op with President Zelensky

Why everyone is keen to meet with Ukraine’s leader right now. By Ed Cumming

hanging at an unnatural angle, Façade: Rwanda’s capital Kigali, main, Typical, isn’t it? You go years Biggest fans: President Zelensky have paid their respects, but in
indicating a loss of control.” without an invasion and then two with visitors (from top) Ben Stiller, Germany’s case without explaining
Kanimba, whom Rusesabagina visited by Prince Charles, below left. come along at once. President Boris Johnson, President Macron when they propose to stop buying
rescued from a refugee camp Zelensky had enough on his plate and Nancy Pelosi Russian gas. American politicians
during the genocide and adopted, Top, President Paul Kagame. Above, with the advancing Russian troops Merrick Garland, Nancy Pelosi and
says Rwanda has denied her father laying waste to the east of his returning to take up arms. It is a Mitch McConnell have come to see
access to an independent doctor, Hotel Rwanda’s Paul Rusesabagina country. Increasingly, the noble thought, but Penn’s best use if they can’t pilfer some of his
and that a Rwandan doctor has Ukrainian president has to contend is in soft power. Specifically, he charisma. Facing wipeout in the
diagnosed her father’s ailments as Johnson. Kagame will use the with another army pouring across ought to get his 2018 novel, Bob parliamentary elections, President
“psychological”. Commonwealth gathering to his border from the West: the Honey Who Just Do Stuff, translated Macron at last tired of being
further burnish his image. Foreign legions of political leaders, into Russian and distributed photographed in Zelensky
The Rwandan government leaders will be presented with celebrities and other groupies among the Russian troops to dress-up, and went to say hello in
regularly issues blanket denials to Kigali’s facade, with little reason yearning to bask in his presence. In shatter their morale. person. He did so in the French
human rights reports to look at the dictatorship the inchoate field of “Zelensky- style, embracing the Ukrainian
documenting its abuses. The behind it. washing”, reflected glory is the best But the celebrities are nothing president like an A-level girlfriend
government says it is a democracy, disinfectant. Problems at home? next to the politicians. When, in after three days apart. Zelensky
and that its society is free. While living in Kigali, I once Get to Kyiv. April, the first group visited – the looked suitably unimpressed.
happened to be on the terrace of a leaders of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia
But Rwanda’s human rights building, and noticed a hole in the The latest to slip through Kyiv’s and Estonia – it felt like an act of Reflected glory is the
crimes are being whitewashed by walls. I went up to look. To my defences is the actor, director and solidarity. Subsequent trips have
international sports and political surprise, I saw the president’s writer Ben Stiller, who was granted had diminishing returns. The best disinfectant.
events. This year Kigali hosted the office. From the street, one could his audience earlier this week. Meet leaders of Germany and Romania
Basketball Africa League, and this only see high walls and gates. the Parents met the Zelentz. For Problems at home?
week Kagame will receive the anyone wondering what business
leaders of Commonwealth nations, It was within that presidential Derek Zoolander has in an active Get to Kyiv
including Prince Charles and Boris compound that decisions were war zone, Stiller is also a UNHCR
made about who would go to Goodwill Ambassador. The video Still, nothing compares to the
prison and who would be free, clip of their exchange is a curious enthusiasm of the original fan-boy,
who would die and who would spectacle. Zelensky, in his usual the Zelensky-washer in chief. Boris
live. So I was surprised to see this olive-green fatigues, looks like a Johnson’s first visit, walking
office from above so clearly. private being visited by a around the bombed-out Kyiv,
charismatic president. Partly it’s showed a rare flash of leadership.
I could see the buildings neatly because Stiller, arms gym-buffed, But it also served as a convenient
laid out and manicured lawns. A hair a statesmanlike grey, looks like distraction from his problems at
voice came from behind: “What a wartime leader in a film. “You’re home. He must have found it
are you looking at?” It was a my hero,” he tells Zelensky. refreshing to be somewhere where
security guard. He told me, in a he was genuinely popular, as
gentle voice, I wasn’t allowed to But there’s something more to all though he had stepped through a
look through that hole. The guard this: perhaps Zelensky is naturally portal into the Tory Party
asked why I was looking at the deferential to Stiller. Given the Conference of 2008, with more
president’s office. His calmness Ukrainian leader’s previous life as a missile damage.
unnerved me. I told him that I comic actor, it stands to reason that
looked for no particular reason; he would revere the American. For his most recent visit, he
and immediately I felt guilty. I Even so, it’s surprising to see him spurned Red Wall voters to head to
wondered if I should keep looking starstruck. Perhaps it is a welcome Ukraine. Who can blame him? In
or turn away. The act of looking break from begging for artillery. Ukraine, Johnson is Bazooka Santa,
had been turned into something After all, what is leading your an odd-looking bloke who keeps
insidious. I wondered about the nation’s defence against a Russian sending rocket launchers. Boris is
things I had seen and written invasion compared with starring in so popular that he inspired a Kyiv
about – many of which the Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story? baker to name a croissant after him.
government would not have To judge by the curious design, the
wished to be known. I wondered Stiller is not the only celebrity to baker may have been improvising
if I had been observed all along. make the trip east. Last month, after a disaster. But it will be
Often, I felt safe only in the Zelensky invited Bono and The cheering to a Prime Minister so
confines of my office. Edge to perform in the Kyiv metro. enthusiastic about having cakes
The message to the Ukrainian and eating them.
When my journalism students citizens, who were getting used to
were attacked, I was forced to look normal life again, was clear: remain At the current rate of visitations,
behind Kagame’s facade, to vigilant. The bombardment has by this time next year, Johnson will
understand why it was so eased for now, but at any moment, be a non-dom. The irony can’t be
dangerous to speak up against his U2 could break out. Although we lost on the Ukrainian president:
powerful government, financed presume the musicians met the before the war he couldn’t have
and trained in security matters by President, no pictures have been bought a meeting with Johnson;
Western countries including the released, perhaps also at Zelensky’s now he can’t get rid of him. He
US, Israel and the UK. I discovered request. Who decides which actors asked for heavy artillery; he got a
a sophisticated, controlling make the cut? Is there an adviser massive weapon.
dictatorship, and power so who says yes to Stiller, but no to
concentrated in Kagame that to Adam Sandler? Still, so bright is Zelensky’s star
challenge him – even peacefully that it is still undimmed by his
– is to risk exile, imprisonment and When the conflict broke out, the association with Johnson. Life in
even death. The world might be actor Sean Penn was in the country Kyiv is increasingly back to normal.
marvelling at Rwanda right now. making a documentary for Vice, a We can expect the stream of
The UK might tout the country as a multi-media platform. He was so politicians and celebrities to
humane solution to its refugee impressed by his meeting with continue. Everyone with a
crisis. But don’t be deceived – for Zelensky that he threatened to reputation to repair will be getting
all its beauty Rwanda is, in reality, “smelt” his Oscars if the Ukrainian the next flight out. Johnson enjoys
a prison like any other. was not invited to this year’s a hero’s reception in Kyiv, but will
awards. As JFK said, ask not which Prince Andrew?
statuettes your country can melt
for you, but which statuettes you
can melt for your country. Penn
said he had thought about

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Features

Michael Deacon
The rush to make life digital-only
is a slap in the face for the elderly

Y ou may wonder why anyone journalist, told BBC Radio 4’s
would want to change the Today programme that at the age
way we buy train tickets. of 84, his father had driven to a
Particularly at a time like this, friend’s memorial service in
when there aren’t actually any Birmingham – only to find that the
trains to travel on. Nonetheless, payment system at the nearest car
this is what the rail industry is park had changed. Drivers were
planning. According to reports, it now required to pay via an app.
wants to modernise the way we But he didn’t have the app –
travel – by abolishing paper because he didn’t have a
tickets. smartphone.

In a way, I do understand. The He had no idea what to do. But
current system is maddeningly he couldn’t bear to be late for his
overcomplicated. In 2017, a friend’s memorial service.
football fan from Newcastle
wanted to take his girlfriend to So he parked without paying,
watch their team play at Oxford and, in some distress, rushed off.
United. To save money, he decided In due course, he was sent a fine of
that, rather than a pair of returns, £170.
he would buy a sequence of
discounted singles for individual There are plenty more examples
stages of their journey. Ingenious. of “digital exclusion”. Remember
But not entirely practical. Because when pubs were first permitted to
guess how many tickets he had to reopen after lockdown – but
order. Fifty-six. orders could only be placed by
app. Think of BT’s plan earlier this
Imagine that. Having to cram year to get rid of landline phones
your wallet with a wad of tickets as (which was halted only after
thick as a pack of playing cards, vociferous opposition from
purely to save a couple of quid. In readers of The Telegraph). And a
light of that, the new plan sounds “remote appointment” with your
quite sensible. Because in future, GP isn’t much use if you’ve got no
way of making a video call.
If tickets exist only on
All of this is being done in the
an app, most pensioners name of convenience – or at least,
the convenience of the young and
simply won’t be able to the middle-aged. But if you’re
older, you’re bound to ask yourself
travel by train anymore why you’ve been overlooked.

all passengers will simply have an Is it because the people in
e-ticket, stored on an app on their charge don’t realise that many
smartphone. Thus making elderly people don’t have
everyone’s lives just that little bit smartphones, or tablets and
easier. laptops? Or is it because they do
realise – but don’t care?
Well, I say everyone. But there’s
actually quite a large group of Either way, you can hardly be
people I seem to have forgotten blamed for feeling as if, little by
– the elderly. little, you’re being frozen out of
the modern world. As if you’re no
This isn’t meant to be an ageist longer wanted, or needed. As if
generalisation. Of course, there are you’re being abandoned, pushed
plenty of older people who own aside, forgotten, like some
iPhones and Androids. outmoded form of farm
machinery. It isn’t just unfair. It’s
But the fact is, there are many insulting. Not to mention
more who don’t. According to the depressing. Because in a digital-
charity Age UK, 70 per cent of the only utopia, the lonely will be
over-75s don’t own a smartphone. lonelier still.
And nor do half of those aged
between 65 and 74. So, if tickets Of course, you could always just
exist only on an app, most give in, and buy an infernal
pensioners simply won’t be able to smartphone. But it hardly seems
travel by train any more. The right for anyone to be excluded
carriage doors will slam shut in from 21st-century life, simply
their faces. because they don’t wish – or can’t
afford – to spend large sums of
To pensioners themselves, money on the latest technological
however, this development may gadget.
come as no surprise. They’re used
to it. Because, for some time now, It’s all right for me, of course. At
organisations have been rushing the moment, anyway. But one day,
to go digital-only – without the a few decades from now, the
faintest regard for their older remorseless march of technology
customers. will leave my generation behind,
too.
Take car parks. Last month Pete
Paphides, a leading music And then our grandchildren will
giggle, and shake their heads, and
say: “Grandad, what even is this
piece of junk? An ‘iPhone’? How
are you meant to teleport
anywhere with that?”

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If the Left held and therefore less privileged than Can’t get your hands on a
sway, there’d be they are. Superficially, this rule Rolex? Try these instead
no more jokes may sound fine.
Men’s style editor Stephen Doig suggests some alternative luxury timepieces
According to the modern Left, But in fact it’s deeply flawed – as
comedians should never “punch Rowan Atkinson has explained, Earlier this week, a feature by history. Tellingly, one of most have long inspired the most
down”. while promoting his new Netflix my colleague on the difficulty of mentioned brands among readers renowned watches of the 20th
series, Man vs Bee. “What if there’s buying a Rolex was met with a in the initial feature on this subject century, and this is the case with
In other words: they should someone extremely smug, huge response. Clearly it’s a was Omega. Tag Heuer’s Carrera. Created by
never make a joke at the expense arrogant, aggressive [and] topic that really resonates, with Jack Heuer, great grandson of the
of anyone less powerful, less rich self-satisfied, who happens to be watch enthusiasts weighing in The Omega Speedmaster, house’s founder, out of his love of
below in society?” he said. with recommendations of where created in 1957, is a masterclass in motor racing, its automatic
Good point: Rowan Atkinson agrees that “They’re not all in houses of to look, or watches that have marrying sporty dynamism with versions come at an entry level
even the less privileged can be smug parliament or monarchies.” stood the test of time. One thing the finesse of a luxury house. The £2,100 upwards, and special
to note – as someone who has first chronograph to be produced editions usually become
He’s right. But there’s also been lucky enough to visit many by the house, it’s known for its collectors’ items.
another problem with a ban on manufacturers in Switzerland – distinctive tachymeter scale bezel
“punching down”. Which is that, lengthy waiting lists aren’t just and is what astronauts have been Two other brands that excited
for a comedian, it’s completely because of a strategy to drive issued with in space. debate were Breitling and
impractical. scarcity. Longines. The former’s Navitimer
Another brand to excite is a masterclass of masculine
After all, any successful They exist – across many brands, Telegraph readers was Zenith, a design; developed as a pilot’s
comedian is, by definition, not just Rolex – in part because the heritage Swiss house founded in watch in 1952, its hallmarks are the
privileged. And the more artisanal process is so exacting, 1865 whose name might be bi-directional slide rule bezel and a
successful he gets, the more involved and frankly astonishing. more under the radar than some distinctive trio of subdials.
privileged he becomes – and I’ve watched an artisan paint the others, but as a reader notes, Longines’ Master Collection is
therefore, according to woke logic, face of the dial using a single hair, is well recognised among the similarly exalted among watch
the fewer people he’s allowed to invisible to the naked eye and “cognoscenti”. It’s known for its El insiders; classic and refined
make jokes about. Which means viewed via magnifying glass. With Primero movement, incorporated without being overly “mannered”
he’ll soon run out of subjects. His such intricate workmanship it into some of its most elegant and or kept strictly as a dress watch. A
act will be ruined by his success. begins to make sense why complicated watches. version with the moon phase on
watchmaking is such an expensive the dial is always going to carry
Jerry Seinfeld, the world’s and slow process. Factor in that Then, in the great pantheon of some weight with watch
richest comedian, is reportedly materials might be harder to get most iconic watches, a Jaeger- connoisseurs.
worth almost £800 million. So thanks to Covid shutting down LeCoultre Reverso is one of the
presumably he shouldn’t be manufacturing of certain parts most sought-after, and beautiful. A Within the Rolex firmament,
making jokes about anyone. or precious materials, and you dress watch, it was initially created Tudor – a brother brand of the
Except perhaps Elon Musk. have the recipe for a long for the polo field – which is why house – has its own roster of iconic
waiting list. the face can be flipped over and watches. Most notably, the Black
Nothing wrong with making hidden safely – and its sensual Art Bay, which only sprang to life in
jokes about Musk, of course. But Expert James Gurney, editor of Deco lines mean it’s an excellent 2012 but has a distinctive design
an entire hour of them might be the watch magazine QP, has some option for the smarter end of your identity; someone in the know will
just a little bit dull. initial pointers as to what Rolex watch roster. spot the snowflake dial and
alternatives to look out for. “If you distinctive triangle, circle and
Dad Diary want value, long term (and to Similarly, at the dressier end of baton numerals a mile away.
enjoy the watch in the meantime), the market, the Cartier Tank is
My son’s look for a design with a good one of the most renowned watch Then of course there’s the
40-50 years of history behind it, designs of all time, the name grand master of luxury watch
Father’s Day that’s emblematic of the brand that taken from Louis Cartier’s houses: Patek Philippe. Its
made it and not too obviously a glimpse of the rhomboid Nautilus range is spoken of in
gift? Very sweet version fitted to today’s fashions.” silhouette of tanks in the First hushed terms as many a watch
In the luxury industry, certain World War. The rectangle shape lover’s “Grail watch” with good
My son couldn’t wait for me to watches are icons of design, and the roman numerals of its dial reason. As is the case with Rolex,
open his Father’s Day gift. In fact, totemic in their pull and their mean its sense of classicism has sometimes the waiting list really is
he was so excited, he woke me up never gone out of style. worth it.
early and thrust it eagerly into my
hands. I unwrapped it. It was a Sporting and military pursuits
little jar of sweets.
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sheer coincidence, these sweets Chronograph 42, £10,060,
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“Thank you,” I said. “That’s very
kind.”

Since it was Father’s Day, I
decided to have a lie-in. But then,
when I’d finished reading the
paper, I noticed something. My
little jar of sweets had
mysteriously disappeared.

I went downstairs, where my
son was watching TV. “Have you
seen my sweets anywhere?” I
asked.

“They’re sitting beside me on
the sofa,” he said. “I’m guarding
them for you.”

“That’s very helpful,” I said.
There was a brief pause. Then
he said: “Would you like a sweet?”
“Not just now, thank you,” I said.
“Bit early in the morning for me.”
Another brief pause. Then, very
innocently, he said: “May I have
one?” It’s the thought that counts.

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Arts

‘People are still besotted
with European art’

National Gallery director Gabriele Finaldi tells Alastair Sooke his £95m plans for its 2024 bicentenary

“We do lots of things at the Sienna Miller, Damian Lewis and importance to both Britain and the
National Gallery which are very Bill Nighy, will launch a world. And never more so than
serious and scholarly,” says its fundraising campaign for the today, when the pre-eminence of
director, Gabriele Finaldi. “So, it’s gallery’s bicentenary celebrations the European tradition, which the
perfectly OK to generate some in 2024 – details of which, under collection represents, is no longer
excitement and glitziness as well.” the heading “NG200”, are a given.
Sitting in a sparse office announced today. And Finaldi
overlooking Trafalgar Square, hopes that the party’s theme, “The “We are at a time where we feel
Finaldi – a deep-voiced, patriarchal Alchemist’s Feast”, will encourage we constantly need to challenge
figure, who, at 57, has already run guests to turn the base metal of the past. And we think a lot of
the gallery for seven years – is goodwill into the gold of donations what’s come from the past is bad
referring to a red-carpet event – because the gallery’s ambitious and needs to be corrected,” he
taking place there tonight: plans, which include a series of says. “[But] there’s an awful lot
London’s answer, if you like, to the “significant” capital projects, will from the past which is ultimately
extravagant gala held every spring cost £95 million. what we rest on. You may want to
at the Metropolitan Museum in challenge what the National
New York. That may sound like a lot to Gallery represents, and say it’s
secure the gallery’s future, but irrelevant. You may want to say
The evening, which is expected Finaldi believes that the art in its that our institution should be
to be attended by stars, including collection is of “fundamental” moving in different directions.
And that’s all fine. But I do think
A fresh voyage: that what we have here is, in a way,
Turner’s The the main story.”
Fighting
Temeraire (1839) Besides, he says, “What we find
and Monet’s The is that people are still besotted by
Water-Lily Pond this tradition. They love to come
(1899, detail) will and see Raphael and Michelangelo
be fronting two of and Velázquez and Caravaggio,
12 exhibitions because they have an elemental
across the UK as interest for us. They tell us things
part of the which are revelatory about
gallery’s National ourselves. Their works have
Treasures tour extraordinary technical skill. They
reach out to us.”
‘The Old make it “more open and
So far, he points out, the gallery Masters tell welcoming”. The first-floor
has already managed to secure us things restaurant will go, creating a
£50 million for the bicentenary which are “luminous” and “airy” double-
programme, which he calls “a revelatory height foyer, and the public space
year-long festival of art”. Won’t outside will be transformed.
finding the rest, though, prove a about
challenge? It’s true, Finaldi agrees, ourselves. Sacrifices will be necessary.
“certain kinds of support, which They reach From the end of this year, the
we were perfectly comfortable out to us’ entire extension will be closed
with a generation ago, no longer until spring 2025. As a result,
work for us”: recently, for instance, Finaldi concedes, “we’re probably
the gallery removed the Sackler looking at under half of the
family name, now synonymous collection [of around 2,400
with America’s opioid epidemic, pictures] being on display”.
from a room devoted to British art.
Recently, one former director of
But, he says, there are several the gallery, Charles Saumarez
“important conversations” on the Smith, described the Sainsbury
go, and “normally, when you Wing’s cramped, subterranean
announce your campaign, you’re a exhibition spaces as a “very
third to halfway there”. significant defect” – and now its
threshold is being remodelled. So,
Still, led by Selldorf Architects, was the building, which opened in
and due to last five or six years, the 1991, a mistake? “No,” replies
building work alone is set to cost Finaldi, who argues that it does
£85 million – even though, “several” things “extremely well”:
according to Finaldi, “no new
galleries” will be added. (The
various projects may seem like
“small interventions”, says
Annabelle Selldorf, but “I can
promise you they’re very
complicated.”) A dedicated space
for members, as well as an updated
research centre, is in the offing.
But the primary goal, Finaldi
explains, is a “complete
rethinking” of the entrance to the
postmodern Sainsbury Wing to

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RII SCHROER; ALAMY; GETTY Madonna, a 19th-century painting
at the National Gallery by Frederic,
upstairs, he insists, the galleries the collection, including, as well as Looking to the Lord Leighton of a picture carried
are “practically perfect”. At the The Fighting Temeraire by Turner past and the in procession through Florence’s
same time, he recognises the and Monet’s The Water-Lily Pond, future: Gabriele streets? “That’s right,” Finaldi
“limitations” of the basement. “In the Wilton Diptych, a 14th-century Finaldi at the replies. “He was very struck by
due course,” he says, “we need to altarpiece made for Richard II National Gallery. that actually.”
resolve that. There’s a lot to think – which, Finaldi reveals, “has Right, the
about beyond NG200.” never been lent before.” Is the gallery’s My Back in London, there will be an
initiative an example of “levelling Little Pony exhibition devoted to Van Gogh
When the Sainsbury Wing up”? “We need to listen to what the digital – the gallery’s first. (“You might be
finally reopens, there will be a Government says,” Finaldi replies experiment last surprised,” Finaldi says.) One of the
“special” redisplay of the carefully. He prefers, though, to year drew a principal challenges for both
collection, with new thematic “talk about being a truly national mixed reception, himself and his successors, Finaldi
moments and trans-historical gallery: if the people of this but Finaldi believes, is to tell “the story [of ]
pairings. But “the pistol crack to country own the collection, we stands by it what we have here, which we
start it all off,” says Finaldi, “is must find ways to make that deeply believe in, and believe has
what we’re calling the National evident.” universal value” – and to ensure it
Treasures tour: 12 exhibitions will still be told two centuries
opening simultaneously across the Separately, the British artist hence. “Accessibility” and
four nations, 200 years after the Jeremy Deller will unveil a new “relevance” are two of Finaldi’s
gallery opened in a townhouse on watchwords – and before the
Pall Mall, after Parliament had and, as Finaldi puts it, “festive” and pandemic, his strategy seemed to
bought 38 pictures previously “participatory” nationwide be working: “We were already
belonging to its owner, the banker starting to think about seven and
John Julius Angerstein, for the commission called The Triumph of eight million people coming,” he
enjoyment of all. Each exhibition Art. Since Deller’s collaborative says. (Today, with international
will showcase a “treasure” from work often involves parades and tourism still in the doldrums, “the
figures are in the region of 30 to 40
marches, will he draw inspiration per cent of where we were”.)
from Cimabue’s Celebrated
But Finaldi insists accessibility
doesn’t come at the expense of
erudition. He highlights the fact
that, as part of NG200, he is
investing in “a major research
facility”: “Some people say, ‘Do
you really need a research centre?
Isn’t it more about reaching out
to the great public?’ But if you
don’t have the serious scholarly
research that underpins
everything, then you quickly fall
into difficulties, and end up
repeating banalities.”

That said, he also acknowledges
the difficulty of making palatable
for a modern audience, say,
“what’s going on in 14th-century
Siena” (the subject of another
newly announced exhibition,
scheduled for 2025).

His solution? To carry on
innovating with the gallery’s
“mediating role”. The way forward,
he believes, is “to speak in a
language that is familiar,
particularly to younger
generations”. Thus, “with
‘immersive’ and digital
‘experiences’,” he says, “we’ve
been out there on the forefront.
They haven’t all been perfect” –
last year, for instance, the gallery
sanctioned a digital initiative with
My Little Pony that my colleague
Laura Freeman described as “truly
awful” – “but I think they’ve
shown a boldness in trying to
reach the public in innovative
ways. So, I stand by them.” Besides,
he continues, “I hope the way I
run the gallery keeps my interest
in scholarship and missionary zeal
in balance. I don’t think they’re
opposed to each other.”

And, with that, this evangelist
for the Old Masters departs to
discuss an exhibition he’s curating
next year – about the 13th-century
Saint Francis of Assisi. Now, there’s
a historical figure, fit for a “serious
and scholarly” study, who, thanks
to his love for the natural world,
still feels remarkably “relevant”.

For more information about
NG200, visit nationalgallery.
org.uk

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Arts

Neil McCormick

The Arts Agenda

‘Elvis’ is a pack of lies – not that it matters

I f you are thinking of going to see Luhrmann obese and constipated entertainer Glossy fantasy:
the much-heralded biopic Elvis skips so suffering a heart attack on a Austin Butler as
when it opens in cinemas gold-plated toilet at Graceland in Elvis in Baz
tomorrow, you might want to take a much, it’s a the midst of his final ablutions, Luhrmann’s new
pinch of salt with you. Because the wonder destroyed by the rags-to-riches film, above;
film is not just a tissue of lies, it’s a there is American Dream he embodied. a scene from
whole luxury king-sized box full of any story Disney’s Pistol,
them. Australian director Baz left to tell I left the Elvis screening dazed left; Val Kilmer as
Luhrmann bends facts so far out of and confused by what I had seen, The Doors’ Jim
shape it goes beyond fictionalisation yet conscious that pedantic old rock Morrison in
and enters a realm of pure fantasy. critics probably weren’t its target Oliver Stone’s 1991
audience. So I approached a group biopic of the
I am not saying this is necessarily of young people in their twenties to band, right
a bad thing. The movie looks ask what they had made of it. Every
fantastic, the music is explosively one of them told me how amazing
exciting, the editing dazzling and and moving the movie was. “I didn’t
the story delivered with operatic know much about Elvis,” said one
emotional grandeur, if that sounds girl, literally wiping tears from her
like your kind of thing. But it is so eyes. “Such a beautiful, sad story.”
replete with fabrications,
distortions, omissions and wilful This was the theme of a dozen
misrepresentations, it is not so conversations in the preview
much biopic as myopic. cinema foyer. The under-30s I
spoke with genuinely did not know
This is the Elvis myth, the saga of who Elvis was, or what he once
a rock ’n’ roll demigod born to heal
American racial, generational and
spiritual wounds with the power of
music but brought low by the venal
manipulations of his foreign
manager “Colonel” Tom Parker,
depicted by a prosthetically
enhanced Tom Hanks as an almost
literal incarnation of the devil.

As a music critic, I was
incredulous at the liberties taken by
Luhrmann to create a portrait of the
artist as a misunderstood genius.
Meetings are fabricated to the point
of the fantastical, including most of
Elvis’s encounters with the Colonel.
Luhrmann’s constant implications
of Elvis’s involvement in the Civil
Rights movement are all tricks of
editing, historical revision and
imaginary encounters. In particular,
an extended sequence about Elvis’s
1968 Comeback Special is ludicrous,
depicting Elvis himself as the
driving force and key architect of
the show, deceiving the Colonel that
he is making a cheesy Christmas
special even as it is being filmed.
(The mundane reality is that
producers had their work cut out
persuading Elvis not to do a Bing
Crosby-style show and, instead, play
some of his old hits.)

The way Elvis audaciously
assembles and directs his touring
band is complete tosh, whilst an
incendiary onstage speech
denouncing the Colonel’s
machinations is an absurd fiction
from the always publicly polite and
circumspect superstar.

Blurring Presley’s sexual
proclivity, drug addictions, food
obsessions, dark depressions and
decades of trashy pop, Luhrmann
transforms Elvis into the artistic
agent of all his triumphs, skips his
failures and dumps the blame on
Colonel Tom. Indeed, he skips so
much, it’s a wonder there is any
story left to tell. Gone is Presley’s
decade-long battle with his weight.
Instead, Elvis graciously puts on a
few pounds for a brief finale. A veil
is drawn over his ignoble end, an

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meant to popular culture. Indeed, a WARNER BROS. PICTURES; BETTMANN ARCHIVE; ALAMY of Elvis enshrined only by his most A superb for the principal singers, however, Thomas J Price and his Warm Shores
poll in 2017 found that 29 per cent DAMIAN GRIFFITHSdelusional fans. But perhaps that is staging of a as Korngold’s sustained use of their
of adults between 18 and 24 had a fair place to start, a portal through creepy opera upper registers is unremitting, but appears physically in the final
never listened to an Elvis Presley which the curious might begin to noir they are superbly surmounted here work, but the conversations Price
song. Nevertheless, almost all had find out more for themselves. At the by Peter Auty as Paul and Rachel had with each of them during the
at least a notion of his image – albeit very least, it puts Elvis back in Opera Nicholls as Marie and Mariette. process have contributed to its
the jumpsuit and sunglasses contact with contemporary culture, Auty’s intensity as he wrestles with poignant, stirring tone.
version, a bit on the porky side. For when it appears he was in danger of Die tote Stadt his attraction for the sensual
many I spoke to, this was their first fading away altogether. A fate Mariette while obsessing over the That collaborative approach,
visceral encounter with the man certainly not his alone. Longborough Festival Opera, pure memory of the dead Marie is which Price hopes will ensure
and his music. “I just thought he Gloucestershire heart-wrenching, while Nicholls residents feel a sense of ownership
was someone my gran liked, but Last week, on my way to a successfully veers between the over the work, was integral to his
now I get it,” said one deeply concert in Liverpool, my taxi driver ★★★★★ ghostly image of Marie in her winning the Hackney Windrush
impressed young man. asked what was going on at Anfield picture frame and the exuberant, commission (alongside Montserrat-
Stadium. By Nicholas Kenyon decadent life of Mariette in the born British sculptor Veronica
From my perspective, what he streets of the city. Ryan, whose work was unveiled in
actually got was a sanctified version “The Rolling Stones,” I said. Erich Korngold was one of the most nearby Mare Street in 2021) after a
“They’re rolling what?” said the phenomenally gifted musicians of For Longborough to describe its two-year consultation process. The
driver, a young man in his twenties. the 20th century. Born in the Czech production by Carmen Jacobi as borough, which established the
“The Stones are playing,” I city of Brno in 1897, he was writing semi-staged is modest, underselling commission with Create London,
persisted. one-act operas in Vienna by the what is a cleverly thought-through has a long history of offering refuge
“There’s a game on?” he said. “I time he was a teenager, and in 1912 adaptation to their small stage. to migrants, and had wanted to
thought the season was over.” he was the youngest composer ever make that solidarity visible in
It turned out he had genuinely to have a piece presented by Henry The heart of the dream-drama permanent form.
never heard of The Rolling Stones, Wood at the Proms in London. remains Paul’s obsessive tug-of-
hailed as the greatest rock ’n’ roll Premiered in 1920, his full-length war within himself, and here And what form. At 8ft 8in and
band in the world for six decades. “I opera Die tote Stadt was hugely Korngold departs from the novel to 9ft, Price’s sculptures are not just
was born in the 90s,” he shrugged. successful around Europe in that soften the ending. In the novel, he beautiful, but spectacular. Such
But here’s the thing. I bet that decade, but his reputation has strangles Marietta with Marie’s size, and their being bronze – a
taxi driver and all those young Elvis unfairly been clouded by his move hair; in the opera, that is only his material emphatically linked to
novitiates know who Freddie to Hollywood in the 1930s and his dream. He awakens to find her representations of power – toys
Mercury and Queen are, such was subsequent fame as a composer of alive, but rejects her and puts the noisily with notions of status and
the impact of the Bohemian film music. past behind him, leaving Bruges authority, but even though the
Rhapsody biopic in 2018. Going forever. The symbol of a dead figures take up, and really claim
back to the seminal bands of the Die tote Stadt, with its evocative civilisation abandoned is a their space, the honesty of their
1960s, how much does the score set in the “dead city” of Bruges powerful and unsettling one, with depiction, together with their
enduring cachet of The Doors owe but drawing on Korngold’s resonances in the present that everyday clothing, also makes
to Oliver Stone’s 1991 biopic with experience of post-First World War should ensure that this compelling them seem weirdly vulnerable.
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison? In Vienna and the collapse of the opera, in this newly practical
terms of biographical authenticity, Habsburg Empire, is an version, has a long future life. Price has foregone plinths,
both of those filmic incarnations extraordinary work whose salience which encourages you to walk
were dubious at best. Yet their has grown steadily in recent years. Until June 27; festival runs until Aug around the figures – and it’s worth
cinematic swagger and mythic Its creepy plot – in which the hero, 2. Tickets: lfo.org.uk doing so, because their expressions
narratives proved extremely Paul, is obsessed by the memory of respond by morphing cleverly from
effective at introducing old music his dead wife Marie, then meets and The perfect contemplative, to noble, to beatific.
to new generations. A resurgence of dreams about the dancer Marietta, memorial to The ambiguity of that, and their
contemporary interest in The Sex who looks like her – is informed by our Windrush rumpled, contemporary clothing
Pistols has been closely allied with Freud and the symbolists, drawn generation will encourage viewers to perhaps
Disney’s six-part TV series Pistol, from a novel by Georges Rodenbach see themselves in the work.
despite frontman John Lydon called Bruges-la-Morte. Art
dismissing it as “a middle-class Warm Shores was unveiled on
fantasy”. But there has been one drawback Hackney Windrush National Windrush Day, the
Bohemian Rhapsody, to performances of Die tote Stadt, Commission anniversary of the arrival of
meanwhile, gave its Live Aid which is the unparalleled lavishness African-Caribbean immigrants to
ending an emotional punch by of Korngold’s youthfully exuberant London E8 Britain on MV Empire Windrush,
moving up the timeline of Freddie orchestral score, glittering with which docked in Tilbury on June
Mercury’s Aids diagnosis by a full echoes of the Strauss of Der ★★★★★ 22 1948, to help fill post-war UK
two years. It will be interesting to Rosenkavalier, scored for a huge labour shortages. Also unveiled
see what becomes of the ensemble featuring seemingly By Lucy Davies yesterday was a government-
forthcoming Rolling Stones drama endless added brass and percussion commissioned Windrush
from the makers of The Crown, instruments. All praise, then, for On a baking-hot afternoon in monument by the Jamaican artist
who have paid the band this extremely skilful, pared-down Hackney, two colossal, gleaming Basil Watson, at London’s Waterloo
£50 million for use of their music. new version of Korngold’s score for black statues are being winched station. The statue, though, which
For those unacquainted with the 56 players by Leonard Eröd, into place. They are sculptures by presents a man, woman and child
original story or having no conceived so that the Belgian the British artist Thomas J Price, in their “Sunday best” climbing a
particular attachment to the theatre of La Monnaie could and, once drilled into the ground pile of suitcases, has angered the
subject, all the outrageous liberties perform the opera with the outside the east London borough’s Windrush Foundation, who
involved in compressing a orchestra on stage. Town Hall, will be a permanent accused the Government of
complicated life into a coherent public artwork honouring the “hijacking” Windrush.
dramatic narrative are irrelevant. As the basis for Longborough Windrush generation and their
What this audience wants is to be Festival Opera’s semi-staging in its descendants. The event has Price, born in south London in
entertained. And Luhrmann’s Elvis small theatre, this orchestration is generated a curious crowd, all with 1981, studied at Chelsea College of
does that with an energetic ideal, retaining Korngold’s colours questions for Price. Art and the Royal College of Art,
panache sharply aimed at the but restraining his excesses. Justin and has showed previously at the
tastes of a TikTok generation. Brown conducts with idiomatic Statues and race make for a National Portrait Gallery and
There is incredible material for a sweep and fervour, and the score heavily politicised, and potentially Yorkshire Sculpture Park. And he is
genuinely epic tale of triumph and holds few terrors for an orchestra deadening context, but Warm a Windrush descendant himself:
tragedy with no dissimulation experienced in Wagner. Shores is sublime. The young adult his Jamaican grandmother came to
required. But such a film was male and an older woman are Britain as a nurse. He has clearly
never going to be made with the There still remain terrors aplenty fashioned from a glossy, patina- delved deep into that part of his
cooperation of the Presley estate, cloaked bronze, and represent not story, and poured thought and toil
still stage-managing one of the Powerful: Peter Auty and Rachel Nicholls individuals but a rich amalgam of and inspiration into its telling,
most lucrative posthumous careers the African-Caribbean diaspora. To because Warm Shores works on
in showbiz. The King is dead. But make them, Price used 3D scans to every level: as an evocation, as
in Luhrmann’s lurid fantasy, Elvis blend the features, clothing and instruction, and as an honouring.
lives again. stances of 30 Hackney residents Seeing it, you realise its lack
who had a personal connection to elsewhere, and that is shocking.
Culture Newsletter Windrush – some were in the
original 1948-1971 migrations, Details: hackneywindrush.com
The best arts features, reviews and others had parents or grandparents
who were. Not every respondent
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SPORTS NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR The Daily Telegraph

Sitting pretty
England bid for
first clean sweep
in 11 years P.2-3

Saudi rebel
Koepka ‘is
duplicitous’

GETTY IMAGES LIV players say one thing and month ago, McIlroy said: “The
do another, claims McIlroy whole way through, in public and
England batsman Joe Root poses outside Headingley as his side prepare for the start of the third Test against New Zealand this morning private – all of it.”
Four-time major winner had
previously opposed new tour The Telegraph has learned that, as
recently as 10 days ago, Koepka
By James Corrigan assured a PGA Tour colleague that
GOLF CORRESPONDENT he would not be joining LIV and that
chimed with his statements to the
Rory McIlroy has accused Brooks media.
Koepka of being “duplicitous” for
joining the Saudi rebel circuit as the Last week he accused reporters of
PGA Tour announced a radical casting “a black cloud” over the US
revamp to stop the exodus, with Open, by asking him about LIV,
commissioner Jay Monahan calling claiming that his inquisitors were
the LIV Series “an irrational threat”. giving the series “legs” by continu-
ing to cover it.
Telegraph Sport revealed on
Tuesday that Koepka, the four-time Previously he told Associated
major winner, is the latest big name Press: “I have a hard time believing
to have signed a seven-figure, four- golf should be about just 48 players.
year deal with LIV and will appear Money’s not going to make me
in next week’s $25 million tourna- happy. I just want to play against the
ment in Portland, Oregon. best. If somebody gave me $200 mil-
lion tomorrow it ’s not going
McIlroy, himself a four-time to change my life. I have enough
major winner, is not impressed after to retire tomorrow. I just want to
Koepka’s previously vocal opposi- play golf.”
tion to the breakaway league.
Koepka, 32, also expressed doubt
“I’m surprised at a lot of these that playing in the LIV series would
guys because they say one thing and keep the players “sharp” for the
then they do another, and I don’t majors. However, the up-front
understand,” the Northern Irishman cheque from the organisers –
said yesterday. “I don’t know if that’s believed to be more than £100 mil-
for legal reasons or if they can’t… lion – was clearly too much to resist.
But it’s pretty duplicitous on their
part to say one thing and then do McIlroy has taken one of the
another thing.” hardest stances amongst the loyal-
ists, calling Phil Mickelson, LIV’s de
When asked if was referring to facto on-course leader, in February
what Koepka said a year ago or a “egotistical, selfish and ignorant”.
But now it seems as if there is wider
Continued on Page 8

Nadal eases fitness fears miss the Championships last year. It ing on grass,” Nadal said afterwards. Inside today
and is excited to be back was also the first full chance to “Since 2019 I haven’t been able to
assess the Spaniard’s form since he play on grass through the tough Telegraph Women’s
underwent treatment for a career- moments we went through with the Sport Monthly
threatening chronic foot injury ear- pandemic and last year I got injured.
Tennis while easing past Switzerland’s Stan lier this month. It is quite the So I am excited to be back where we
Wawrinka in an exhibition match at turnaround since Paris, where there are today. It has always been a pleas-
By Molly McElwee the Hurlingham Club. were fears he may be on the brink of ure playing here in Hurlingham. It is
retirement after playing through special to be back.”
Rafael Nadal’s race to be fully fit for The 22-time major champion was pain to win the French Open.
Wimbledon was given a boost yes- playing in his first match on British The invitational event represents
terday, as he looked back to his best grass since 2019, after the disruption Everything looked in fine work- the only match time Nadal has
caused by the coronavirus pan- ing order yesterday as it took him scheduled ahead of Wimbledon,
demic and injury forcing him to just 61 minutes to defeat three-time which begins on Monday.
major champion Wawrinka 6-2, 6-3.
Champions return: Pages 6-7
“It has been a while without play-

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Sport
Third LV= Insurance Test

Stokes tells England: Jamie Overton provides Stokes
We are entertainers with that extra menace with the
short ball and his pace will be impor-
Captain urges his side to be New Zealand this week it will be ball flying to all parts at times, and it more than at Trent Bridge, Lord’s tant if the pitch gives the bowlers lit-
‘more fearless’ at Headingley achieved in style. was noticeable how long Brendon and Edgbaston – so it is not hard to tle help. He replaces James Anderson
as fast bowler Jamie Overton McCullum spent chatting to the imagine what McCullum’s chat to ahead of twin Craig, who would have
comes in for injured Anderson Ben Stokes has urged his team to bowling group. the bowlers entailed. been the safer bet, but Stokes wants
be “even more fearless, positive and to be bold in selection, too. Anderson
By Nick Hoult aggressive” and declared they are in Headingley is a ground that Last year’s surface nipped, this was part of the bowling group, and
CHIEF CRICKET CORRESPONDENT the “entertainment business” rather rewards a full length. England one looks flat, Yorkshire no doubt led discussions at times as McCullum
than “sports business”. It is hard to bowled India out here last year for wanting five days to fill empty cof- deferred to his knowledge, and while
It is 11 years since England managed see how they can be more aggres- 78 and Pakistan in 2018 for two fers, and England also keen to con- there are still good spells left in him,
a clean sweep at home in a series sive than nine an over at Trent scores below 150 by pitching the tinue their progress by winning on it is a good time to start the process of
longer than two Tests, and if they Bridge – perhaps by strapping ball up more than in any other Tests surfaces similar to those they will moving on and looking at Overton.
complete the whitewash against knuckledusters to their batting here since 2006. The wicket balls at encounter overseas. The way Eng-
gloves? Headingley are significantly fuller land are batting under McCullum Anderson struggles to be a threat
in length than anywhere else in would be a lot harder on a “green across a five-day match now – his
But it was wise to keep eyes England – almost a half a metre mamba” as well. second innings average over the
peeled at nets yesterday, with the past two years is in the 40s. Overton
impressed Stokes when he was a
bowling reserve in the Covid sum-
mer of 2020, bowling six overs of
short, nasty stuff in the nets, and
knows he has to widen his bowling
pool with so many injuries. Expect
Brydon Carse, another Durham fast-
bowling product, to play against
South Africa.

When England beat India 4-0 in a
four-match series 11 years ago they

Michael Vaughan achieve. Bowling at the tail has been the ball goes up in the air. What he is In two games Stokes has
a problem for England over the past doing is putting trust in the bowlers completely changed the
Captain is his side’s few years. The tail-enders of most to make the right decision. In highly way the team play. They
biggest cricket brain teams have hung around because pressurised moments you want to are playing with a smile
England have tried to hit the top of be next to your bowler, but Test
Everything about Ben Stokes as a and thought: “What is he doing?” I off. cricket is such a long game that you out but there is a clear plan to stick
captain has been positive so far. His have always looked at his tactics and do not have to do it all the time. to this brand.
tactical nous has been smart and been happy. Even when they They have come up with this
there has not been a moment yet bowled short at the tail, I could at short theory and said to the bats- For a new captain, the best way to Ultimately they will be judged on
when I have looked out on the pitch least see what they were trying to men: “Right, if you are going to learn is to make decisions your own the Ashes next summer. We talk
score you will have to play an way. There will be challenges and about winning each game, but the
incredible shot. But, by the way, weeks when Stokes does not have reality, as England captain, is that
there are three or four fielders there the rub of the green. Things are you are judged on an Ashes series.
to take the catch if you hit it in the going England’s way at the moment By playing this way and being brave
air.” but that could change this week. – and brave means having players
However, the most important thing who can step up and play the right
I like the fact he has fielded in is that this team stick with this men- style at the right time – they have a
numerous positions. I have always tality for the next year or so. chance against the Aussies.
said there are too many captaincy
textbooks that state this is how you This is the first England team I Stokes’s ability to take people
go about your business. Why not have seen for a long time who have with him has been the most impres-
stand at deep square leg? He is one committed to a certain style of
of the best fielders in that position if
cricket. In time it might not work

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went to No 1 in the world rankings. in Graeme Swann, capable of taking five after fans scrambled to snap up Lord’s cuts back on
Andrew Strauss’s team were an effi- wickets in the first innings. England free tickets. It lowered the mood T20 booze – except
cient winning machine but not do not have that now so they need around English cricket to arctic for MCC members
entertainers, apart from when the seamers to hunt for wickets by temperatures and showed the dis-
Kevin Pietersen fancied it. taking the risk-reward approach. connect between the corporate arm Exclusive told in an email that they would be
of the ECB and the Test team. spared the rule. The Telegraph
Anderson and Stuart Broad Stokes returns to Headingley for By Tom Morgan revealed last year that fans had ini-
embraced the “bowling dry” the first time since his 2019 heroics, There is never a good time to SPORTS NEWS CORRESPONDENT tially been banned from bringing
approach, restricting scoring and having missed last year’s win over release bad news, but just waiting alcohol for the Hundred season after
waiting for the opposition to make India because he was having a break another day or so would have given Lord’s has banned alcohol-packed crowd trouble forced the early clo-
mistakes. It is not how this team for mental health reasons. How this England the chance to bask in the hampers for T20 spectators in a sure of the ground’s bars.
work. But the main difference is that ground badly needs another thrill- glory which they deserved after 18 move to make the so-called “home
England had a world-class spinner ing game to bring some joy to a months of misery. Now the game is of cricket” more appealing to a The stadium had also halved the
besieged club. relying on this team again to lift the diverse audience. number of alcoholic drinks an indi-
England v New Zealand sport and Stokes recognises the vidual can buy at its own bars from
11am, Sky Sports Yorkshire officials have been responsibility the players have to MCC members and debenture four to two per transaction during
anonymous at Headingley this week make sure they are entertainers. holders are exempt from the new Hundred games there and has been
England Z Crawley, AZ Lees, OJD Pope, as they prepare to put on a Test rule – but even they will be limited shutting them halfway through
JE Root, JM Bairstow, BA Stokes (capt), match that was taken away when “We’ve got a responsibility with to either a bottle of champagne or men’s matches.
BT Foakes (wkt), J Overton, MJ Potts, the Azeem Rafiq scandal broke last what we do out on the field to attract wine or two cans of pre-mixed spir-
MJ Leach, SCJ Broad. year, a move that threatened them people, but we also know we are its and beer. “Everyone who comes to Lord’s
New Zealand (possible) TWM Latham, with financial ruin. Day one is not role models off the field as well. All should expect to be treated with
WA Young, KS Williamson (capt), DP Conway, fully sold out, but tomorrow and we can do is go out there and per- The announcement, which fol- kindness and respect,” the MCC said
HM Nicholls, DJ Mitchell, TA Blundell (wkt), Saturday will be full houses. form to our abilities,” he said. lows a similar booze clampdown at at the time. “The Hundred is a tour-
MJ Henry, N Wagner, AY Patel, TM Boult. Hundred fixtures last year, coin- nament designed for families and
Umpires M Erasmus (SAfrica), It was with tone-deaf timing last “There’s a reason why we had a cides with the club launching alco- children.” Five of the seven Hun-
RA Kettleborough (England). week that the England and Wales full house on day five at Trent hol-free beer on draught across the dred venues already have alcohol-
TV umpire Aleem Dar (Pakistan). Cricket Board released the news of Bridge. I feel like people want to site for the first time. free stands.
Match referee DC Boon (Australia). its charges against unnamed indi- come and watch the brand of
viduals in the Yorkshire case, the cricket we’re playing. My challenge The MCC, which oversees the Cricket is one of a host of sports
morning after England’s stunning to the lads this week is to go and do world-renowned venue, insists for which alcohol-related disorder
win in front of a full house on day it again.” there is no risk of Test match specta- has become a concern post-pan-
tors being stopped from eventually demic. Debbie Hewitt, the Football
Show business: taking hampers to England matches. Association chairwoman, this week
Instead, the focus in reducing alco- expressed concern over the “worry-
England captain hol intake will be on shorter forms ing and ugly trend” of pitch inva-
of the game, after some scenes of sions, which led to dangerous
Ben Stokes is urging disorder last year. scenes at play-off semi-finals, after
Everton beat relegation and during
the side to be more “We just wanted to make sure Manchester City’s title celebrations.
that as many families come to Lord’s
‘positive and as possible, and also as many differ- The FA, Premier League and Eng-
ent backgrounds and ethnicities and lish Football League are now
aggressive’ and to cultures,” a spokeswoman told Tele- expected to announce potential par-
graph Sport. “It’s really important to tial stadium closures for such
‘entertain’ fans in us that we are an inclusive ground. offences.
We had T20 on Father’s Day on Sun-
the third Test day, and we had loads of children “If you look at some of the footage
and families at the ground.” at the end of last season, it was dis-
against New turbing and anything but safe for
With no bring-your-own option those players and indeed for some of
Zealand starting at amid the cost of living crisis, there those fans that invaded the pitch.
may be some concern at uncertainty It’s a huge concern and we are work-
Headingley today over bar prices inside the venue. ing to put in place the toughest pos-
Beer and wine prices are left out of sible sanctions that we can,” Hewitt
the official website, although pre- added.
made hampers are listed “from £115-
£150”. Earlier this month, Lord’s upset
fans over its ticket prices for the first
However, members were recently Test against New Zealand, with
thousands of tickets going unsold.

POPPERFOTO Overton Test debut shows
attacking intent for team

sive thing. In just two games he has already. To be not out in the run then he can deceive the batsman By Nick Hoult despite the batting pitches in county
completely changed the way they chase at Trent Bridge showed he has with a bit of flight and guile. If you cricket this summer, has taken 21
play. They are playing with a smile the ability to do special things as a are not shaping it through the air Jamie Overton will be handed a Test wickets at 21.61 for Surrey. The Test
and while it is early days, that is all captain too. and bowling straight then you have debut today against New Zealand as pitch at Headingley looks to be flat
down to the tone set by the leader. to spin it hard, but he does not get England add pace to their attack in with barely any live grass, so Over-
Headingley is such a great venue that much turn. the absence of the injured James ton’s pace will be an important fac-
He has created a very relaxed for Test cricket and conditions can Anderson. tor, especially if England bowl first
camp, allowed individuals to get on change from session to session. With the technique I saw at Trent with a sunny day forecast before
with it and then talked as a collec- Generally spin does not play a mas- Bridge he is always going to be Overton was told yesterday he rain comes in later tomorrow and
tive at the start of the game. It does sive part, but with some hot weather inconsistent. He does not have to would play in the final Test at Head- over the weekend.
not surprise me. When you look at so far this week, I have a feeling the drop that short for a batsman to rock ingley, after the medical team ruled
what he has achieved in his career, spinner will have a big role. back and go after him. If you offer a out Anderson with a “puffy ankle”. He beat his twin, Craig, to a place
he must have lots of self-confidence. bit more shape through the air, in the final XI as the only change to
It means we will learn a bit more swing it into the right-hander, you Anderson has been held back the team who beat New Zealand in
Also, his batting has shown the about Jack Leach. Can he learn from can afford to miss your length a little with an eye on the India Test at Edg- such stunning style at Trent Bridge.
way. He has batted a little bit out of last week when technically he was bit and get away with it. baston next week and it is a timely
the box, especially at Lord’s, and not quite right? Has he worked on opportunity to give Overton a Matthew Potts and Stuart Broad
Stokes has shown Leach a lot of chance. Ben Stokes had missed will take the new ball, with Overton
then took it on at Trent Bridge. It is that since then? He was coming over confidence. He has not whipped training on Tuesday with a cough as first change. England have clearly
easier for others to follow if they see from one o’clock in his release him off after a bad over. He has stuck but took a full part yesterday and
the captain playing that way. We rather than 12 o’clock. If he can get with him, so he should feel backed declared himself fit. set their stall out to attack with the
by the captain, which he may not bat and now they have a 90mph
always talk about how captaincy his release at 12 o’clock it might give have felt in the past. Overton can bowl at 90mph and bowler who can match that aggres-
will affect a captain’s batting. Well, him some shape through the air. If sion with the ball.
he has played two dynamic innings he can get shape through the air

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Sport
Cricket

ECB hosted Rafiq days
before charges issued

Exclusive the club and the likes of former Eng- been no sign of Rafiq having PRU/AFP
land players Michael Vaughan, Mat- been charged himself over an
Former player watched Lord’s thew Hoggard, Tim Bresnan and anti-Semitic slur that emerged complete lack of independence all ECB’s rules on improper conduct, its
Test from a hospitality box Gary Ballance. in November, despite him admitting round. Bias might be a better word anti-discrimination code, or both.
to it. to use.”
Governing body accused of It followed an extraordinary Vaughan and Bresnan have pub-
‘bias’ in case against Yorkshire attack on the ECB’s handling of the His appearance in the ECB’s cor- Smith said the ECB appeared to licly denied making racially insensi-
scandal by Yorkshire’s past four porate box on day one of the first be endorsing “one side” of the case, tive remarks, Ballance has admitted
By Ben Rumsby chairmen, who declared it unfit to Test between England and New while Hutton said: “It’s not a bright calling Rafiq “P---” as part of “ban-
SPORT INVESTIGATIONS REPORTER expose the full story behind Rafiq’s Zealand was confirmed by a fellow thing to do, in reality.” ter” between them, while Hoggard
damning accusations of abuse at the guest, who said: “The great and the and Gale have yet to comment.
Azeem Rafiq was treated to corpo- crisis county and the botched han- good of the ECB were taking it in That Rafiq watched the match
rate hospitality by the England and dling of them, and demanded a fully turns to go and sit next to him.” from the ECB’s box was confirmed Rafiq’s fellow guest at Lord’s said:
Wales Cricket Board during this independent inquiry into the affair. by a fellow guest, who said: “I was “This has got the potential to blow
month’s first Test at Lord’s, days Graves, himself chair of the ECB absolutely amazed to see him there, up in the ECB’s face, and Rafiq’s face.
before it issued charges over the Colin Graves, Steve Denison, for five years until 2020, branded to be honest, given what’s going on
Yorkshire racism scandal. Robin Smith and Roger Hutton told the governing body’s feting of Rafiq and given charges that are levelled “The individuals who have been
Telegraph Sport the revelation com- as “absolutely bizarre”: adding: “I now against certain Yorkshire play- charged by the ECB, I suspect they
The stunning revelation saw the pounded a litany of concerns each of just can’t get my head around it.” ers and ex-Yorkshire players.” will group together now and take
governing body accused of a lack of them had over the disciplinary pro- very, very strong action.”
independence and creating the per- ceedings opened against the club Denison, who said he attended The guest said Rafiq was one of
ception of “bias” in its case against and individuals charged last week the Test on the same day as Rafiq, “at least 40 people” in the ECB’s box The ECB declined to comment,
over the scandal. added: “I didn’t realise he was a on the day, along with senior figures citing a policy of never talking about
guest of the ECB. That’s just ridicu- from the governing body, New Zea- hospitality guests, but a source pro-
Those included that there had lous in the circumstances. It shows a land Cricket and representatives claimed those accusing it of a lack of
from various religions. independence “probably don’t
Guest: Azeem Rafiq understand how the regulatory pro-
“It looked like they were trying cess works” there.
watched the first too hard to say, ‘Look at us; aren’t we
completely inclusive?’, with Rafiq That process involves officials
day of England’s front and centre,” the guest said. from the governing body acting
“Trust me, the great and the good of as investigators and then prosecu-
Test against New the ECB were taking it in turns to go tors under the oversight of an
and sit next to him.” independently-chaired regulatory
Zealand at Lord’s committee. Cases are heard by the
Charges were finally announced Cricket Discipline Commission,
from the ECB’s on Wednesday last week over the which the ECB’s website describes
Yorkshire racism scandal, with the as an “arm’s length” body, with dis-
corporate box crisis club and a number of individ- ciplinary panels comprising “three
uals facing action over accusations independent and suitably qualified
made against them by Rafiq. and experienced individuals”.

Vaughan and the county’s sacked However, investigations into
head coach Andrew Gale both face recent major scandals in other
disciplinary hearings, with former sports have been outsourced to
Test trio Ballance, Hoggard and independent QCs.
Bresnan reportedly among five oth-
ers facing action. Those charged A spokesman for Rafiq referred
stood accused of breaching the enquiries on his client’s attendance
at Lord’s to the governing body.

How Crawley became a
tall peg in a square hole

The 6ft 6in batsman looks Difficult days: has participated in only one full Test
miscast as an England opener In exactly half of after being concussed at the start of
given his inability to resist the his 42 Test innings the other. The second is opening
temptation of wide deliveries Zak Crawley has not batsman Zak Crawley, who has been
reached double as inconsistent as ever.
By Scyld Berry figures
CHIEF CRICKET WRITER Crawley has become a one-
innings-per-series batsman. When
Two England players have still to he makes a start and everything
blossom under the new Test leader- clicks, he bats superlatively so long
ship of Ben Stokes and Brendon as he lasts: his cover-drive deters
McCullum. One is Jack Leach, who swing bowlers from pitching up; his
height and reach can turn a length
ball into a half-volley. He bats like a
combination of Colin Cowdrey and

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Buttler leads from front in clean sweep

Third one-day international Scoreboard

Stand-in captain’s undefeated At Amstelveen England won toss
86 eases England to victory
Netherlands
Roy’s century helps seal 3-0
series win over Netherlands R B 46

By Tim Wigmore V Singh c Malan b Willey 6 13 1 0
in Amstelveen
MP O’Dowd c Buttler b Livingstone 50 69 6 0
Stand-in captain Jos Buttler gave a
clear message that England are well TLW Cooper c Livingstone b Carse 33 37 5 0
placed to cope with Eoin Morgan’s
eventual departure, as his heroics B de Leede c Rashid b Carse 56 78 3 0
sealed a third one-day international
win over the Netherlands. *†SA Edwards c Roy b Payne 64 72 2 0

Morgan missed yesterday’s eight- AT Nidamanuru c Buttler b Rashid 4 9 0 0
wicket victory owing to a tight
groin, but first in the field and then LV van Beek c Rashid b Willey 0 3 00
with the bat, Buttler proved an able
deputy as he led by example, grin- TJG Pringle run out 6 8 00
ning broadly after lofting the
straight six which clinched the win. A Dutt b Willey 0 3 00

In partnership with centurion FJ Klaassen not out 3 3 00
Jason Roy, Buttler’s undefeated 86
helped England race to their target PA van Meekeren b Willey 2 3 00
with 19.5 overs to spare. With the
target in sight, Buttler delighted Extras (b2 lb3 w13 nb2) 20
the raucous travelling supporters
with an array of his most spectacu- Total (49.2 overs) 244
lar shots.
Fall 1-16 2-88 3-119 4-203 5-215 6-216 7-233 8-237
“I did enjoy it,” Buttler said of
deputising for Morgan. “I find it’s a 9-240 10-244.
different challenge, of course. I’ve Bowling DJ Willey 8.2-0-36-4; DA Payne 9-1-38-1;
got to work that out. It’s too early to
have a style. I’ve got to try to be SM Curran 6-0-35-0; BA Carse 8-0-49-2; LS Livingstone
myself – I can’t try to be him – and
just open to learning about it, 8-0-40-1; AU Rashid 10-0-41-1.
really.”
England
Pushing his claims as the bowler
best placed to reprise Liam Plun- R B 46
kett’s role in the 2019 World Cup
side as aggressive enforcer, Brydon JJ Roy not out 101 86 15 0
Carse snared Tom Cooper and Bas
de Leede with short deliveries as the PD Salt b van Meekeren 49 30 9 0
Netherlands threatened to score 40
more than the eventual 244 for DJ Malan b van Meekeren 0 2 00
eight.
*†JC Buttler not out 86 64 7 5
Perhaps Buttler’s most notable
decision was not to give Moeen Ali a Extras (lb5 w6 nb1) 12
single over, seemingly because of
the lack of Dutch left-handers, but Total (2 wkts, 30.1 overs) 248
even this echoed how Morgan has
often used Moeen’s off-spin. Fall 1-85 2-85.
Did not bat LS Livingstone, MM Ali, SM Curran,
Meaningful judgment on But-
tler’s captaincy will have to wait DJ Willey, BA Carse, AU Rashid and DA Payne.
for more onerous days, though he
will be encouraged to have now Bowling FJ Klaassen 7-0-42-0; LV van Beek 6-0-48-0;
recorded six wins from nine ODIs as
captain. As importantly, there is no PA van Meekeren 7-0-59-2; TJG Pringle 6.1-0-50-0;
indication of the extra responsibility
A Dutt 2-0-22-0; B de Leede 2-0-22-0.

Umpires P Reiffel and R Akram.

England beat Netherlands by 8 wickets

GETTY IMAGES On international debut, David Payne
also impressed. Denied a wicket
Dominant: Jos Buttler scores during an unbeaten 86 which helped steer England to victory with 19.5 overs to spare against the Netherlands when Liam Livingstone lost sight of
a short ball top-edged into the on
affecting his batting: so far, the space of three deliveries, and was While Salt’s straight driving – side, a slower ball secured Payne his
Buttler averages 48.1 as captain. afforded the luxury of time. again evident during his rapid 49 – maiden wicket, dismissing Scott
added to his outstanding impression Edwards after his third consecutive
For all the focus on the issue of Buttler’s tally for the series of 248 this series, England’s need for play- half-century.
captaincy, the relish for using Buttler runs from 134 balls without being ers to press their claims was greatest
at four was another notable feature dismissed – both from No 4 – hints at with the ball. This informed the For the small but passionate
of the series. He has normally been what England can gain from elevat- selection of five left-arm quicks for cricket community in the Nether-
promoted either during matches ing him in the order. If Buttler is to the series; all bar Luke Wood played lands, hosting the world champions
with reduced overs or with England occupy the twin crucial roles of at some point. David Willey’s four for three games in Amstelveen was
in a dominant position when setting captain and No 4 for England’s ODI for 36, dismissing Vikramjit Singh a wonderful fillip for the sport.
a target. This time was different: But- World Cup defence in 16 months, with a new-ball bouncer and then England, you hope, will find a
tler came out at the end of the 10th they will have to decide whether it is using his variations cannily at the way to repay the Netherlands’
over, after Paul van Meekeren had prudent for him to do so while also death, wrapped up his fine series. generosity.
bowled Phil Salt and Dawid Malan in keeping wicket too.
The best way of doing so would
be to include the Netherlands in the
T20 Blast and One-Day Cup, which
would accelerate the development
of young players like De Leede,
whose maiden ODI half-century
gave a hint of his talents.

A regular Four Nations T20 com-
petition, featuring England – even
without their Test specialists – Ire-
land, Scotland and the Netherlands,
could also galvanise the game’s
growth in Europe.

Kevin Pietersen in their bowl at him in the Garden of Eden. is the nine dismissals when attack- vacancies are; and he is rightly keen cate absolute precision in Crawley’s
prime. Crawley might have been able to ing which Sir Geoffrey Boycott to get a game, no matter where in shot selection. It is not merely a
could not abide. the order. As an opener, though, he question of confidence in going for
Then there is the resist the first apple outside off is a very tall peg in a square hole, his shots, it has to be confidence in
rest of the time. In stump. But not two. Eve had only Overall, no England specialist failing most of the time because he his judgment.
exactly half of his 42 batsman has been out caught such a is out of position, and on a few occa-
Test innings he has to hang the new apple outside high proportion of times as Crawley sions succeeding gloriously, to let us For sure, there could be no easier
not reached double his off stump a couple of at 76 per cent. Chris Woakes, who know what might have been. opportunity than this Headingley
figures. England’s times and Crawley would has been known to give himself Test for Crawley to play his one big
No 3 is trotting have launched at it, nailing width at the crease, is the only Eng- Never, in fact, has such a tall peg innings per series: England have
down the pavilion one or two through the land player of 40 Test innings who opened the batting in Test cricket secured it already by going 2-0 up
steps after Crawley covers before slicing one has been out caught a higher pro- regularly and successfully. New and the pitch looks a belter, albeit
has reached for a ball straight to Satan at gully. portion of times. Zealand’s Peter Fulton – “Two- slowish. And, ludicrous as it sounds
that opening batsmen, In 25 of his 42 innings metre Peter” – made a century in and ludicrous as it is, England have
through the ages, have Crawley has been caught in Crawley, I fear, has been miscast. each innings against England in another Test next week: after the
studiously ignored. But he has the arc between wicket- Given his array of strokes, especially Auckland but it was on the postage- third Test against New Zealand is
been unable to resist such keeper and gully: nine the coruscating cover drive, he is stamp of Eden Park; and he never scheduled to end on Monday, the
balls, partly as a child of the times when attacking, 15 the ideal man to come in at 150 for made another. The gigantic opener delayed Test against India starts on
white-ball age and partly times when defending three off 60 overs, when England Friday.
because his height, 6ft 6in, and once when gives the new-ball bowler too much
brings a wider range of attempting to leave are getting stuck before the second to aim at, in addition to being liable Crawley has a better chance of
deliveries within reach. the ball. To outside- new ball. The man for acceleration to temptation further outside off success against his current oppo-
edge when defend- in the middle order, like that combi- nents than India’s Jasprit Bumrah
You can see how much ing is the occupational nation of Cowdrey and Pietersen. stump than others. and Mohammed Shami striving to
Eve would have loved to hazard of opening batsmen; it So it might simply be too much
But Crawley is fated to open, protect their 2-1 lead.
for Stokes and McCullum to incul-
because that is where the England

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Sport
Tennis

Djokovic and Former champions (and a future one?) return to Wimbledon

Nadal show

they can still

master grass

Serbian beats the world No 9 golf tournament at the weekend in
in straight sets at exhibition his native Mallorca, in which he
placed fifth. While he used a golf
Wawrinka tips French Open buggy there in order to rest his foot
champion for Wimbledon as much as possible, it all looked
positive ahead of his return to the
By Molly McElwee match court yesterday.
at the Hurlingham Club
“Honestly for me it is positive to
While the Hurlingham Club is play- play a couple of matches before the
ing host to a group of retired legends competition starts at Wimbledon,”
of the tour this week, Rafael Nadal Nadal said. “I used to play at Queen’s
and Novak Djokovic turned up to a long time ago now. I am older now
show just how they continue to out- – I can’t manage to play so many
play the young guns of tennis. matches!

Djokovic, 35, got his grass-court “So for me it is perfect to play a
season started by defeating Cana- couple of matches here before Wim-
dian Felix Auger-Aliassime in blaz- bledon starts. That helps me to feel
ing hot sun at the west London at least some competition before
exhibition event. It was 20-time Wimbledon.”
major champion Djokovic’s first
visit to the Hurlingham Club and Both Nadal and Djokovic have
first match since the French Open been training at the Wimbledon
quarter-final, which he lost to Nadal. grounds this week, along with two-
time champion Andy Murray and US
He has opted out of playing on Open champion Emma Raducanu,
grass up until this point in his prep- who are both making their returns
from abdominal injuries.
Medvedev hits back Top seed
faces Agut next in Mallorca But today Wimbledon will open
Centre Court and No 1 Court for
World No 1 Daniil won 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 players to practise ahead of the tour-
Medvedev fought and faces Spain’s nament, for the first time in its his-
back to beat fellow Roberto Bautista tory. Usually, no more than a set is
Russian Aslan Agut in the second played on each court, by All England
Karatsev in the round of the Club members on the Saturday
opening round of grass-court ahead of the Championship starting.
the Mallorca competition. Agut
Championships. progressed after However, this year the move has
Nick Kyrgios’s been made to play the courts in, in
Medvedev, who withdrawal due to an attempt to avoid anymore high-
will miss injury. Third seed profile injuries caused by players
Wimbledon due to Denis Shapovalov slipping on the lush grass in the first
the tournament’s and fourth seed few days of the tournament. Last
ban on Russian and Pablo Carreno year seven-time champion Serena
Belarusian players Busta both made Williams fell during her first-round
following the surprise exits. match, and the injury she sustained
invasion of Ukraine, to her hamstring kept her out of
competition for 51 weeks.
aration. Like Nadal, 36, he is easing Pair targeted by thieves at A Sussex Police spokesman said:
himself back into the surface, with Two 45-minute slots of practice players’ seafront hotel “We can confirm we received
no competitive warm-up action time on the show courts are sched- reports of two separate burglaries at
ahead of Wimbledon. Djokovic’s uled for today, and the biggest By Molly McElwee of Argentina, and Spain’s Pedro Mar- the Hydro Hotel in Mount Road,
6-2, 6-1 win over Auger-Alissime, 21, names are expected to get the tinez, who were doubles partners at Eastbourne, on Monday. A number
who struggled with his serve, was as chance to get to grips with the sur- Police are investigating after thieves Queen’s last week, were staying at of high-value items including
straightforward as they come. face ahead of the rest of the draw. targeted two players competing at watches and bags were stolen, along
They will be open to practise on for Eastbourne this week and stole the Hydro Hotel on the Eastbourne with cash and some personal items.
For Nadal, the most important a select few today and tomorrow, high-value items, including a Rolex seafront. The incidents are being investigated
thing was that there appeared no when the draw will also take place. watch, from their hotel rooms.
issues with his right foot during his Schwartzman reported the bur- and we have no further information
easy win over Stanislas Wawrinka. Looking ahead to the tourna- World No 15 Diego Schwartzman, glary to police at around 11pm on at this time.”
Considering he required nerve- ment, Wawrinka said Nadal – for all Monday night from the lobby of the
numbing injections on his foot and a his injury woes – had to be the Martinez went on to win his sin-
host of anti-inflammatories just in favourite. “I don’t know how he’s hotel. gles match on Tuesday afternoon,
order to play pain-free at the French feeling, it looks like normal Rafa,” but said the ordeal had affected him.
Open, it is a huge plus that he is back Wawrinka said. “He has been saying
here at all. he is feeling better and if he is play- “Yes, it was difficult,” he said. “I had
ing he is ready to play his best and to a watch stolen from my room yester-
He revealed last week that he win. I think Rafa any time he enters
fully intended to play Wimbledon,
and looked in high spirits playing a a grand slam is going to be one of the
favourites, if not the favourite.

“He won the first two slams of the

year without too many matches
before those, so he got a lot of confi-
dence so of course he is part of the
favourites.”

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Draper rides

Calm before British wave
the storm at Eastbourne

(Clockwise while Martinez’s clash with another The Spaniard said he had little Second-best win of career the world and also reached the quar-
from left): home player, Ryan Peniston, was faith that his watch, which is worth seals place in quarter-final ter-finals at the Nottingham Open
French and suspended with the Southend more than £4,000, would be recov- earlier this month. She now faces
Australian Open 26-year-old 3-2 up in the third set. ered. “I think it’s really difficult, Norrie and Dart also in last former Wimbledon champion Petra
champion they didn’t have cameras in the cor- eight as Wimbledon awaits Kvitova, who ousted Briton Katie
Rafael Nadal Victims: Diego Schwartzman (left) was ridors,” the world No 49 said. “I had Boulter.
arrives with his beaten by Jack Draper to compound his [the watch] one year and a half By Molly McElwee
uncle Toni for a misery; and (right) Pedro Martinez already. I bought it when I [made] It was a mixed day for the home
practice session the third round at Roland Garros for Young British talent Jack Draper talent. Jodie Burrage bowed out
at Wimbledon the first time. It was sentimental, reached the second tour-level quar- after a valiant run to the last-16 in
yesterday; yes, because it was from there. But ter-final of his career and capped it which she beat world No 3 Paula
Emma what can I do?” off with an unwelcome present from Badosa. She was well beaten by the
Raducanu, a seagull at Eastbourne. most in-form grass player of the
who will be The Hydro Hotel, which is acting moment, Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad
aiming to go as a base for a number of players at Draper’s 7-5, 7-6 win over world Maia, who is on a 12-match winning
deep in the Eastbourne this week, has been No 15 Diego Schwartzman was the streak. Dan Evans lost to American
Championships contacted for comment. second-best of his career based on Maxime Cressy in straight sets, who
after reaching ranking, and saw him reach the last will face British No 1 Cameron Nor-
the fourth eight on another busy day for the rie in the last eight.
round last year, British contingent at Eastbourne.
enjoys a But as he reflected on his victory Norrie received a bye to the last-
light-hearted during a post-match interview at 16, so finally scored his first win on
moment on courtside, bird droppings splattered grass this year with a dominant dis-
court; two-time onto his wrist. “I’ve just been pooed play against American Brandon
champion Andy on by a bird,” he said, laughing. “Is Nakashima yesterday. Ryan Penis-
Murray heads to that good luck?” ton’s match was suspended due to
practice; Novak poor light in the deciding set against
Djokovic, who It is no wonder Draper, 20, could Pedro Martinez.
overcame the see the positives. Ranked just out-
challenge of side the top 100, he has been notch- This past week in Eastbourne has
Matteo ing up some decent results on the
Berrettini to grass, punching well above his Marked: Jack Draper is targeted by a seagull
win his sixth weight. Draper reached the last-16 at while giving a TV interview at Eastbourne
SW19 title last Queen’s, after beating Indian Wells
year, keeps his champion Taylor Fritz, and his latest been one of the most successful for
eye on the ball upset over Schwartzman was just as Britons in recent memory, as seven
impressive. reached the last 16 across the men’s
day and Schwartzman had some and women’s singles. After the two
items also stolen from his room. I After suffering from a few nerves biggest names in British tennis,
had a bad night [on Monday], that’s while serving for the match, Draper Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu,
the truth. I didn’t sleep. Today was recovered to play a clinical tie-break had to skip competitive play this
difficult to prepare [for] the match to seal the win. He said his recent week due to respective abdominal
but I just tried to focus on playing. progress is partly due to muting the injuries, the rest of the pack rose to
fiery side of his character, which the challenge and it bodes well for
“When I arrived in the room I was prone to boiling over during his their chances on the grass at Wim-
realised that my watch wasn’t there. junior career. bledon next week.
I searched throughout the room, it
was not there and when I went to “When I was a junior and just The British success in Eastbourne
reception to communicate to the starting in the pros I was very up has been upstaged only by 23-time
people, then Diego came 15 minutes and down with my emotions,” he major champion Serena Williams
after, telling the same.” said. “I’d be on a bit of a roller making her long-awaited comeback
coaster and therefore it’s tougher to to competitive tennis. She secured
To complete Schwartzman’s mis- stay in the moment. As you go up the her second win of the week to reach
ery, he lost his last-16 match 7-5, 7-6 levels playing against someone like the doubles semi-finals at Devon-
to Britain’s Jack Draper yesterday, Diego, these top players, they don’t shire Park with partner Ons Jabeur.
give you those second chances. So
it’s got to be up to me to make the She and Jabeur looked much
difference. more in sync than they had in the
first round, and sealed a straightfor-
“I want to be a top player in the ward 6-2, 6-4 win over doubles spe-
world so I know I’m going to have to cialists Shuko Aoyama of Japan and
deal with all these emotions and Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching. They face
pressures. But I feel like the only Magda Linette and Aleksandra Kru-
pressure I can put on myself is in my nic next.
own head. So as long as I keep doing
the right things and improving then
that’s all I can do.”

There was a double victory for
compatriot Harriet Dart, who made
it two wins in one day to reach the
last eight. Dart’s second-round
match against Switzerland’s Jil
Teichmann had been suspended on
Tuesday due to poor light, and so
she was forced to see out the decider
yesterday morning, before then
jumping back on the court to face
Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk in the next
round.

It turned into quite a battle, but
Dart saw it out 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. It was
another impressive win for the
25-year-old, who is ranked 103rd in

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Sport Swimmer is saved by
coach a second time
Monahan: American artistic and
Get off the synchronised
fence and swimmer Anita
fight for tour Alvarez had to be
saved by one of her
From Page 1 ference at TPC River Highlands. team’s coaches for the
anger within the PGA Tour and DP Monahan, who had attended Koep- second time in just
World Tour locker rooms and their ka’s wedding only last month, did over a year after
players are beginning to turn on the not hold back, saying: “If this is an collapsing in the water
LIV rebels in bigger numbers. arms race, and if the only weapons during her routine.
here are dollar bills, the PGA Tour The latest incident
Justin Thomas, the world No 7, can’t compete with a foreign monar- happened at the Fina
took a swipe at Koepka linking up chy that is spending billions of dol- World Aquatics
with his long-time nemesis Bryson lars in an attempt to buy the game of Championships in
DeChambeau, posting a picture of golf. We welcome good healthy com- Budapest. The
the pair above a message saying petition. The LIV Saudi Golf League 25-year-old sank to the
“Couldn’t LIV without each other,” is not that. It’s an irrational threat.” bottom of the pool
while Eddie Pepperell, the DP World before head coach
Tour winner, admitted in an inter- A fortnight ago, Monahan Andrea Fuentes dived
view at the weekend that it has declared that LIV is “just money, in and pulled her up
affected his friendship with Laurie money, money”, however, the over- towards the surface. A
Canter, who played in the first LIV haul Monahan is introducing is fellow athlete then
event in Hertfordshire two weeks transparently ensuring that the top swam across to assist
ago. Pepperell also said that “Lee players are better rewarded and will in the rescue as
Westwood and Ian Poulter don’t not be so inclined to run for the distraught American
give a s---” about the impact this Saudi millions. spectators looked on
might have on the careers of (bottom left). Alvarez
younger players. Monahan outlined the changes was quickly revived by
earlier this week. First, there is a medics (bottom right),
Clash: Rory McIlroy (left) branded Brooks huge $54million increase in purses explaining later that
Koepka (right) ‘duplicitous’ for joining LIV for eight chosen events, ranging she had momentarily
from a $5million rise to $25million blacked out but
Far from railing against this sort for the Players Championship and otherwise felt fine.
of infighting and the escalation of a an $8million rise to $20million for Alvarez was involved
civil war in the sport, Monahan the Arnold Palmer Invitational. in an almost identical
made it clear in a mandatory play- incident in an Olympic
ers’ meeting at the Travelers Cham- Second, there will be the forma- qualifying event in
pionship on Tuesday that he wanted tion of a three-tournament Fall Barcelona on June 13
his members to “get off the fence Series that will also boast purses in last year, Fuentes again
and fight for your Tour”. the $20million to $25million range coming to the rescue
and, more pointedly, only contain after she briefly lost
Monahan issued immediate and the top 50 players in that year’s consciousness
indefinite bans to the 17 Tour players FedEx Cup points standings.
who teed it up in Hemel Hempstead, AFP;REUTERS; GETTY IMAGES
and in an email to the players yester- Third, the PGA Tour season will
day, Monahan cryptically said no longer be a wrap-around season,
“invest in your organisation”. but instead run from January to
August from 2024.
With Koepka making it four mem-
bers of the world’s top 25 on the LIV This will be deemed the day when
roster – Mexican Abraham Ancer the PGA Tour hit back, but Mona-
was unveiled on Tuesday, with Dus- han knows that in his mission to
tin Johnson and Louis Oosthuizen in arrest the LIV drain, he needs the
the inaugural event – Monahan’s majors to back him and shut their
angst is as obvious as it is under- doors on the rebels.
standable. Of the past 21 majors, nine
have been won by LIV golfers. The R&A confirmed yesterday that
every player who has qualified will
LIV finally made Koepka’s move be allowed to play in next month’s
official, issuing a press release yes- Open Championship at St Andrews.
terday afternoon, at the exact time That means no LIV bans. But Martin
Monahan was starting a press con- Slumbers, the R&A chief executive,
who has not hidden his views on LIV,
made a thinly-veiled swipe towards
the Greg Norman-led enterprise in
the statement’s concluding sentence.
“We will invest the proceeds of the
Open, as we always do, for the bene-
fit of golf, which reflects our purpose
to ensure that the sport is thriving 50
years from now,” he said.

Norman, the LIV chief executive,
later taunted Monahan. “The Tour
today has made the case for LIV
Golf,” Norman said. “They have

underpaid players for years, failed to
innovate and today confirmed that
LIV’s format is better... Instead of

banning players, the Tour should
now work on co-existing with us.
After all, we are just getting started.”