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SUNDAY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR

INSIDE Unions Uneasy rider: Biden hits the road

Family fun
Prince William

‘bribing’and children on
Father’s Day
News workers
to strike

Tigers roar Kwarteng rails at doubling of payments
Leicester to those taking part in industrial action
crowned
Premiership By Edward Malnick about the potential impact of significant AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
champions SUNDAY POLITICAL EDITOR increases in pay, saying: “Workers are
not the cause of inflation, they are suffer- Joe Biden takes a tumble after struggling to dismount, caused by one of his shoes getting stuck in the pedal. Only his pride was hurt
Sport BRITAIN’S biggest trade unions have ing the impact of inflation.”
been accused by the Business Secretary By David Millward past, he has been seen riding a Trek FX “I’m a great respecter of fate. Fate has
Peak hens of “bribing” workers to go on strike Boris Johnson has now signed off on US CORRESPONDENT hybrid, an aluminium bike with plenty intervened in my life many, many
Why I spend after they doubled daily payments to plans to lift legal restrictions on compa- of gears, making it capable of handling times,” he said.
£6k a year on those who take part in industrial action. nies hiring agency staff to carry out the JOE BIDEN fell off his bike yesterday a variety of terrains.
bridal showers work of staff on strike. The change is while cycling near his holiday home in Earlier this month Mr Biden stum-
The tax-free payments are being likely to take effect within weeks. Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, rekindling The White House played down the bled as he boarded Air Force One at
Features offered by several unions threatening fears about the 79-year-old president’s incident. An official said: “As the presi- Andrews Air Force Base before flying to
strikes this summer, and are being Mr Kwarteng is also preparing to health. dent said, his foot got caught on the California.
funded from vast “strike funds” that increase the maximum amount of
Kwasi Kwarteng said showed that money that firms can claim in damages Mr Biden tumbled after his foot got ‘The president would be Opponents have been swift to seize
unions had been plotting a “dangerous” from unions that have taken part in ille- stuck in the pedal toe cage as he tried to closer to 90 than 80 at the on even the slightest misstep to ques-
summer of chaos “for some time”. gal strikes, from £250,000 to £1 million. dismount in order to chat to the waiting end of his second term, and tion his physical fitness and ability to
crowd of around 30 people. that would be a major issue’ seek a second term. And even allies
Unite, which has threatened strikes Unions say the strike payments are have raised questions about whether
in councils and across bus networks, needed to compensate workers who Onlookers gasped as they saw him pedal while dismounting and he is fine. Mr Biden, who will be 82 at the time of
has been putting up posters in local lose pay when they take part in indus- fall. Secret Service agents rushed to the No medical attention is needed. The the next presidential inauguration,
government buildings advertising its trial action. A TUC spokesman said: US president’s aid. Mr Biden swiftly got president looks forward to spending the should run again.
“£70 a day strike pay” to staff. “When workers take the difficult deci- up, telling onlookers “I’m fine”, as rest of the day with his family.”
sion to strike they lose pay and rely on agents told the crowd to back away. David Axelrod, a former adviser to
Unite and Unison, whose leaders support from union strike funds to feed Although the incident was a minor Barack Obama, was among those voic-
threatened nationwide strikes last week their families.” There were no signs of the president tumble, it will rekindle concerns about ing alarm. “The presidency is a mon-
“to protect public services”, have dou- suffering any cuts or grazes. He made the viability of Mr Biden running for a strously taxing job, and the stark reality
bled their daily strike payments since But the doubling of some strike light of the incident, joking with the second term in 2024. In December, he is the president would be closer to 90
2019. Unison increased the payment to payments has led to suspicions among crowd after getting up. said he would run for re-election if in than 80 at the end of a second term, and
£50 last year on the basis that it helps ministers that the bodies have been good health. that would be a major issue,” the New
put the union “in the best possible posi- spoiling for a fight with the Govern- The Bidens, who celebrated their York Times reported him as saying.
tion to win disputes”. ment and preparing for crippling 45th anniversary on Friday, are under-
strikes this summer. stood to be keen cyclists, often taking to Down to earth: Page 14
Mr Kwarteng said: “It’s obvious that their bikes while in Delaware. In the
trade union chiefs have been quietly Unison’s most recent financial state-
amassing a war chest to effectively ments show that the body’s finance
bribe workers into unleashing a sum- committee agreed to increase strike pay
mer of strike chaos.” “from £25 a day to £50, payable from
Day 1 [of a strike] rather than Day 4”,
The disclosure comes ahead of a adding: “Unison must put itself and our
three-day strike that is expected to crip- members in the best possible position
ple the rail network on Tuesday, Thurs- to win disputes.”
day and Saturday. RMT (Rail, Maritime
and Transport) union members are According to its accounts, Unison
striking in a dispute over pay and jobs. had a “strike fund reserve” of £34.2 mil-
Yesterday, during a Trades Union Con- lion as of December. Unite has a strike
gress rally in central London, the RMT fund of at least £35 million, which union
urged other unions to take part in “coor- officials cited to encourage members to
dinated action”. support industrial action in ballots.

Grant Shapps, the Transport Secre- Mr Kwarteng said the figures showed
tary, said the RMT would be “punishing that “militant trade unions” had been
millions of innocent people”. quietly amassing reserves in order to
unleash a summer of chaos this year.
The rally was attended by Angela
Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, and Wes He said: “It’s clear they’ve been plot-
Streeting, the shadow health secretary. ting this for some time. Looking at the
Frances O’Grady, the TUC general secre- Continued on Page 2
tary, criticised warnings by the Treasury
Janet Daley: Page 18

Cyprus or Malta Camilla: Charles and I are like ships that pass in the night
Which island is
By Patrick Sawer they read. “It’s not easy sometimes, but ‘We always sit down and every day with my granddaughter. the middle of,” she said. “There’s a lot of
best for your SENIOR NEWS REPORTER we do always try to have a point in the have a cup of tea and She’ll text me to say, ‘I’ve done it in things to be done still.”
summer escape? day when we meet,” she said. discuss the day. It’s lovely to three’, and I say, ‘Sorry, I’ve done it in
THE Duchess of Cornwall has said that catch up when we have time’ two today’. It’s very satisfactory when it The Duchess emphasised that a cen-
Travel she and the Prince of Wales can be like “Sometimes it’s like ships passing in tells you how brilliant you are,” she said. tral part of that is her work with survi-
“ships passing in the night”, such is the night, but we always sit down Vogue: “It’s not easy. I was scrutinised vors of domestic violence.
their unrelentingly busy schedule. together and have a cup of tea and dis- for such a long time that you just have to As well as the royal children, she has
cuss the day. It’s lovely to catch up when find a way to live with it. Nobody likes five grandchildren aged 12 to 14 from “I think we all know somebody who
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, says we have a bit of time.” to be looked at all the time and, you her previous marriage. it’s happened to. I was hearing it too
the pressure of official duties means she know, criticised … But I think in the often, from friends who knew friends,
and the Prince often spend little time She added: “When we go away, the end, I sort of rise above it and get on “The nice thing about being a grand- and I thought maybe I ought to look
together during the day. But she says nicest thing is that we actually sit and with it. You’ve got to get on with life.” mother is that you can spoil them occa- into it to see if there was somewhere for
they always make time for a catch up read our books in different corners of the sionally, give them more of the things me to help,” she said. “There’s been
over a cup of tea. same room. It’s very relaxing because For the Duchess, who keeps a photo- that their parents forbid them to have,” such a taboo. People can still love the
you know you don’t have to make con- graph on her desk of the Duke and she said. “The girls are beginning to get people that abuse them, and feel such
In an interview with British Vogue on versation. You just sit and be together.” Duchess of Sussex on their wedding into clothes and make-up and it’s rather guilt and such shame that they think it’s
the eve of her 75th birthday – in which day, one pleasing aspect of that life now frightening when you see them coming their fault, so they bury it. It becomes a
she discusses how she copes with pub- The Duchess of Cornwall suggested is her relationship with her grandchil- out with pierced ears and a lot of new sort of terrible hidden secret.”
lic criticism, the challenges of being a that members of “the firm” needed to dren, which includes teasing each other make-up and funny coloured hair.”
grandmother and her work with survi- rise above public criticism. Speaking over their Wordle scores. “I do Wordle The July issue of Vogue is available
vors of domestic violence – the Duchess about the unprecedented media scru- She indicated she would carry on her via digital download and on newsstands
said one of her favourite parts of married tiny to which she was subjected during work as much as she can once she from Tuesday, June 21.
life is sitting opposite her husband while the Nineties – when details emerged of becomes Queen Consort.
Reports: Page 5
her affair with Prince Charles – she told “You can’t desert things that you’re in

‘Wokery’ puts diversity before patients in NHS review

News Focus 20 By Edward Malnick in full, has been criticised by colleagues No 10. “They wanted wholesale wok- opportunity. There is no mention of
Features 22 ery”, a source added of the authors. waiting lists, whistleblowers, cover-ups
Weather 29 AN NHS review commissioned by Sajid after the final document appeared to or value for money, and only one refer-
TV listings 31 Javid was hijacked by “wokery” at the focus on “equality, diversity and inclu- Writing in this paper, Lord Lilley cites ence to efficiency”.
expense of a focus on patients, it has sion” (EDI). the report as an example of the Govern-
ISSN-0307-269X been claimed. Sir Gordon said he would have been ‘He plants a tree to offset our
Lord Lilley, who was trade secretary ment succumbing to “the prevailing “lost in the foothills of the challenge” flight and then cuts it down
;0Y+Y; >4 <3 MENG The review of management in the under Margaret Thatcher, pointed out woke ideology”, saying the document without the “review team”. He added: when the flight is cancelled’
health service was tasked with finding that the phrase was used many more appeared “totally obsessed with EDI”. “An early decision to ensure very strong
ways to make the system more effective times than “patients” – after govern- EDI expertise in the core team proved
and efficient. It was led by Gen Sir Gor- ment and NHS officials involved in EDI He states that ministers face “the consistently valuable.” A Department of
don Messenger, a former vice-chief of same statist mindset” encountered by Health source said the review was “only
the defence staff, aided by Department were recruited to help write the review. Margaret Thatcher’s ministers, “but a small part of our reform agenda” and
of Health and NHS officials. Whitehall sources said draft versions would “improve patient outcomes”.
compounded by a virulent belief that
But the Health Secretary, who went even further, advocating “crazy the pursuit of equality, diversity and Peter Lilley: Page 19
accepted the report’s recommendations anti-racism targets” and creating inclusion, decolonisation and environ-
mental virtue signalling are more
“legions of diversity and inclusion important than prosperity, freedom and
experts”, but were watered down by

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UN demands release of Briton jailed in Dubai NEWSBULLETIN
Man fights for life after
By Patrick Sawer 10-year sentence, but in 2018 was given losis and his health has deteriorated group’s ruling suggests that his case fits man of Dubai Islamic Bank, denies that five injured in shooting
and Robert Mendick an additional 20 years under retrospec- horribly.” a historic pattern of widespread and Mr Cornelius was held on his orders.
tive application of a law designed to systematic human rights violations in A 20-year-old man is fighting for his
THE United Nations has called for the keep debtors in prison until they can She added: “The British government the UAE, which together may constitute A spokesman at the UAE Embassy in life after being involved in a shooting
immediate release of a British business- discharge their debts. It means he will hasn’t lifted a finger, and refused even crimes against humanity. London said: “Following a fair trial in which injured five people.
man jailed in Dubai for 14 years and not be eligible for release until he is 84. to support a personal plea for clemency which all due processes were followed,
urged the United Arab Emirates to com- from me to the Ruler of Dubai. But it Following the ruling, a group of MPs Mr Cornelius was sentenced to ten The victims – all in their 20s – were
pensate him for human rights abuses. Mr Cornelius’s wife, Heather, has isn’t just official indifference that I’m up and peers has written to Liz Truss urg- years, which was later lawfully treated at two south London hospitals
welcomed the UN committee’s call for against. It’s the power of money. ing the Foreign Secretary to fight for Mr extended as he had failed to repay the for gun and knife injuries yesterday,
The UN’s key Working Group on her husband’s immediate release and Cornelius’s release as she did for Naza- creditor, Dubai Islamic Bank, which is police said.
Arbitrary Detention has ruled that Ryan urged the Foreign Office to ensure he “Dubai is a strategic ally. Its ruler is nin Zaghari-Ratcliffe earlier this year. in line with UAE law.
Cornelius, who has been detained since comes home quickly. Officers believe they were all injured
May 2008, is being held arbitrarily over ‘The Government hasn’t lifted Mrs Cornelius, 62, said: “It has been a “The UAE has stringent laws and pro- during a disturbance close to
allegations of unpaid debts. Mrs Cornelius said: “Fourteen years a finger... It isn’t just official living nightmare. There hasn’t been a cedures to ensure the physical and psy- Wandsworth Road, Clapham, when a
ago, my husband was arrested on a indifference I am up against. day since he was arrested that hasn’t chological wellbeing of detainees.” shotgun was discharged.
It has ruled that Mr Cornelius should trumped-up charge at the request of the It is the power of money’ fraught with fear and worry about
be freed and compensated for his ordeal Dubai Islamic Bank, held in solitary what’s going to happen to him.” Whitehall sources said the British No arrests have been made yet and
and recommends the UAE authorities confinement and given a ten-year the sixth largest landlord in the UK. His government could not interfere in the officers are appealing for information.
investigate his detention. prison sentence. country, deeply indebted to British “Our FCDO [Foreign Commonwealth legal proceedings of other countries.
banks, relies heavily on British invest- and Development Office] seems to think Det Sgt Matt Doohan said the
Mr Cornelius and his business part- “Our lives were destroyed. My hus- ment, tourism and security assistance. that its job is to roll over and acquiesce The FCDO did not comment on the inquiry was in its early stages, but
ner Charles Ridley have spent more band’s sentence was then extended by a But the UAE of which it is part is a major in whatever the other side wants, irre- UN group’s ruling, but a spokesman added that the force needed “the help
than 14 years in jail after being con- further 20 years through the retrospec- investor in the UK.” spective of whether this entails break- said: “We have provided support to a of our communities to bring those
victed of fraud involving a $500 million tive application of a law which wasn’t ing British law or abusing the human British man detained in the UAE, and willing to endanger others to justice”.
(£408 million) loan to his business from even on the statute book at the time of Friends of Mr Cornelius say the UN rights of British citizens.” will continue to do so. We have been in
the Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB). his arrest. He has been held in cramped close contact with the UAE authorities Pc fired for misconduct
conditions, has had Covid and tubercu- Mohammed Al Shaibani, the director to ensure that the welfare of all British with male colleague
Mr Cornelius, 68, served his original of the Ruler’s Court in Dubai and chair- people in UAE prisons is met.”
A police officer has been sacked after
RMT’s £22m inappropriately touching a male
colleague.
war chest built
Adam Reed, who was serving with
using shares Wiltshire Police, unzipped a male
colleague’s trousers, put his hand
in oil industry inside and made a humiliating
comment. He will no longer be able to
Striking union also invests Melrose in 2018. Unite has also balloted HOWESIMAGES / SPLASHNEWS.COM work in policing after his actions were
members at Glaxosmithkline to launch found to amount to gross misconduct.
in HSBC and Lloyds while landmark industrial action at the FTSE Hundreds of suitcases pile up at Heathrow Terminal 2 after a technical malfunction disrupted operations
100 pharmaceutical and consumer After a misconduct hearing
campaigning for banking brands giant, threatening to hit produc- Thousands hit by Heathrow baggage chaos dismissed Reed without notice on
tion at its site in Barnard Castle, County Friday, Deputy Chief Constable Paul
system to be nationalised Durham and branding bosses as “mega- By Marcus Parekh in desks. Meanwhile, some incoming may have travelled without their lug- Mills said: “The actions of former Pc
rich”. and Phoebe Southworth passengers had to wait hours to be reu- gage. We’re sorry there has been dis- Adam Reed were not only wholly
By Oliver Gill nited with their cases. ruption to passenger journeys.” inappropriate, they violated the
Strikes were later averted after a last- A SEA of baggage has accumulated at dignity of his colleague and would
THE union that will bring Britain to a minute pay deal was agreed. Heathrow Airport after a technical mal- The malfunction comes during a Grant Shapps, the Transport Secre- have caused him significant distress.”
standstill this week has a £22 million function left thousands of travellers summer of travel chaos for many pas- tary, has accused airlines and airports of
war chest built by investing in a hedge More than 50,000 RMT members separated from their bags. sengers, who are facing flight delays failing to “gear up” for summer. Suspected dangerous
fund, big banks and the oil industry, plan to walk out on Tuesday in the big- and cancellations as airports struggle to driver dies in hospital
despite its socialist campaigning. gest strike for more than three decades. Piles of luggage were seen stacked at cope with staff shortages. Aviation leaders, however, have
Industrial action is also scheduled to Terminal 2 of the UK’s busiest airport attacked the Government after warn- Police are investigating after a driver
The Rail, Maritime, and Transport take place on Thursday and Saturday. this weekend, as the baggage system A Heathrow spokesman said on Fri- ings of chaos fell on deaf ears in White- who was forcibly removed from his
(RMT) has stakes worth hundreds of failed to operate correctly. day: “Earlier today there was a technical hall in January. van in Bath due to erratic behaviour
thousands of pounds in BP and Shell – Rail chiefs have released an emer- issue with the Terminal 2 baggage sys- died in hospital.
two companies that its head attacked gency timetable with just one in five This meant some customers were tem which has now been resolved. Gatwick Airport has announced it
earlier this year for generating “obscene trains set to run. forced to leave London without their will limit the number of daily flights to Avon Police responded to multiple
profits” and paying “indefensible share- bags, and others faced delays at check- “Passengers are now able to check in 825 in July and 850 in August, when calls claiming the van was being driven
holder dividends”. Those services that do run will start as normal, but a number of passengers 900 are normally scheduled. dangerously on Wellsway in the south
at 7.30am and finish at 6.30pm. of the city at about 3.30pm on Friday.
The union has also put money into
Melrose, which recently completed a Union leaders are opposing plans to The Ford Transit collided with
controversial takeover and break-up of cut costs on the railways to stem the bil- several cars before coming to a stop.
the engineering specialist GKN. lions of pounds of taxpayer cash that is Members of the public blocked the
being poured into the network to bal- vehicle with their cars and broke its
Meanwhile, it poured more than ance the books. windows to take the keys from the
£120,000 into a fund run by Man ignition, police said.
Group, the London-listed hedge fund Speaking to the Telegraph last month
and holds shares in HSBC and Lloyds, ahead of separate strike action, around The driver was detained and an
while campaigning for the banking sys- ambulance then called. The man was
tem to be nationalised. ‘The union would be very taken to hospital but died overnight.
happy to see JP Morgan Police are seeking witnesses.
The most recently published and others come into
accounts for the union, for 2020, reveal public ownership’ Two detained after knife
it has also backed the drinks giant Dia- death of teenage boy
geo, and the pharmaceutical companies the Platinum Jubilee weekend, Mr
AstraZeneca and Glaxosmithkline. Lynch defended the moves, which he Two people have been arrested after a
said had historically “brought us results teenage boy was stabbed to death just
The investments have paid off for the that other people haven’t had”. minutes away from Tottenham
RMT, generating paper profits of more Hotspur’s stadium in north London
than £3 million. “People who feel resentful about yesterday.
that, if they had unions as strong as this
Mick Lynch, the union’s leader, was one, and as resilient and as determined, Police were called just after midday
awarded pay and benefits of £163,000 they might have got a better deal out of to reports of a stabbing in Orchard
in 2020. A spokesman said that Mr the last 20 years. Place, Tottenham, where they tried to
Lynch has now agreed to reduce his save the 17-year-old’s life.
annual pay to £84,000. A spokesman for the RMT said: “The
RMT, like many non-profit organisa- Despite the efforts of officers and
Despite its investing, the RMT has tions, invests money in order to grow paramedics, he was pronounced dead
attacked “greedy multinationals” such the union for the benefit of members at the scene.
as French cleaning company Atalian and all of this is democratically decided
Servest in recent months for paying out through our structures. Detectives are appealing for
dividends that are similar to those the witnesses and information, and have
union itself benefits from from its own “The union is fully committed to arrested two males in connection with
investments. nationalising the banking sector and the stabbing. The boy’s family is being
would be very happy to see JP Morgan informed, with a post mortem
Mr Lynch has also lambasted private and others come into public ownership examination to take place soon.
rail operators over “a culture of massive so its profits could be used to benefit the
dividend payments and corporate entire country. Memorial service held
greed”. Both First Group and Go-Ahead on air crash anniversary
came under fire last year over their “RMT represents members in the oil
plans for investor payouts. and gas industry who do the work that A memorial has been held to mark the
make huge profits for companies such 50th anniversary of one of the UK’s
The RMT argued that First Group as Shell and BP. worst air disasters.
should not be “lining the pockets of its
private investors”, while union chiefs “We are fully in favour of a windfall The service took place at St Mary’s
criticised Go-Ahead’s profits, saying: tax on oil and gas company profits and Church in Staines, Surrey, to
“It’s time to cut out these greedy mid- ultimately public ownership of the remember British European Airways
dlemen and bring the whole of the rail- entire industry, so the public as a whole flight BE548 which crashed in a field in
way into public hands.” can benefit from the wealth that they the town killing all 118 people on board
produce.” on 18 June 1972.
Fellow trade union Unite cam-
paigned against the takeover of GKN by The Brussels-bound Trident had
taken off minutes earlier from
Ministers ‘picking Scottish slavery museum a Heathrow but crashed after failing to
fight’ with staff they ‘dangerous route to follow’ gain sufficient height.
praised in pandemic
Relatives of those who died were
Continued from Page 1 RUSSELL SACH FOR THE TELEGRAPH By Craig Simpson gested that it should run this proposed among those who attended yesterday’s
figures, this plan of theirs is designed to government-funded body, adding that event. Wreaths were laid at a
inflict maximum damage on millions of Ecclesiastical echelons Preparing to be ordained as A COLONIALISM committee backed monument a few hundred metres from
the 79th Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Rev Stephen Lake, by Nicola Sturgeon’s government has whoever runs it should “understand the crash site.
people for as long as possible. formerly the Dean of Gloucester, pauses for reflection said Scotland needs a slavery museum – how racism manifests”.
“We are looking at every possible in the cloisters of Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire. and that they should be in charge. BowelBabe clothing
Proposals delivered to the Scottish raises £1m for cancer
avenue to ensure public services can be The SNP government sponsored the
maintained.” creation of a steering group on Empire, government state: “To ensure that the Dame Deborah James has raised
Slavery and Scotland’s Museums momentum of this project’s recommen- £1 million for cancer research from her
A Unison spokesman said: “This is (ESSM), investing £150,000 in the dations is not lost, [we] recommend that clothing line.
group tasked with delivering recom- the initial composition of a transition-
utter nonsense. Last year the Govern- mendations on tackling historic lega- ary board for this organisation should The 40-year-old, known as
ment was full of praise for key workers cies and racism. be the current Empire, Slavery & Scot- BowelBabe online, launched the
for their pandemic efforts, now ministers collection with In The Style in May. It
The committee headed by Sir Geoff land’s Museums Steering Group.” features T-shirts with the words
are trying to start a fight with the same Palmer – who led reviews of Edin- Sir Tom Devine, a leading Scottish Rebellious Hope, and donations go to
low-paid health, care and council staff.” burgh’s contested statues – has told the her BowelBabe Fund for Cancer
Scottish government that a new historian, has described the “activist” Research UK. Dame Deborah, who is
A spokesman for the TUC, which rep- museum is needed to “address our role receiving end-of-life care at home,
in the empire”, and said the committee committee’s recommendations as “far- wrote on Instagram: “Rebellious Hope
resents unions, said: “Ministers should itself should be put in charge of it. cical”. He said: “I am worried about this is what has got me through the last few
come forward with a plan to get wages becoming politicised. years and it’s what is keeping me going
rising, rather than attacking the victims The group has said a new organisation now. Seeing all your messages, tags
should be created to “work towards the “My strong advice to the Scottish and support has just been the best and
of their own economic failure.” development of a permanent museum of government would be to pause and con- I am so grateful that we have been able
A Unite spokesman added: “We want empire, colonialism, and historic slavery sider how it develops this project. to do this together.”
for Scotland”, and that this body should
to build the strength of the union to be backed with a £5million investment “For this self-selecting activist group is a member of the
from government. Independent
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Lydia Rose Bewley, Richard E Grant, Dakota Johnson – as Anne Elliot – and Yolanda Kettle star in the remake of Persuasion. Austen fans and academics say the film’s modern language and use of comedy is ill suited to the original text

Comic Austen adaptation fails to persuade

Jane Austen devotees raise gives knowing looks to the camera, in ‘It seems to Austen writes: “There could have connect with a new or younger audi- ‘The humour ers always look for something that will
eyebrows as Netflix injects scenes reminiscent of Phoebe Waller- suggest Anne been no two hearts so open, no tastes so ence. speaks to represent that inner voice.
Bridget Jones-style jokes Bridge’s Fleabag. doesn’t care similar, no feelings so in unison, no Jane Austen’s
into remake of ‘Persuasion’ about social countenances so beloved. Now they “Trying to dust off traditional ideas writing. We “But she is modest and reserved. The
According to Vogue, which was given rules and were as strangers; nay, worse than about what her writing represents, and really hoped trailer seems to suggest Anne is the kind
By Anita Singh an early viewing of the film, it includes that’s not strangers, for they could never become who her writing is for, felt important.” it would of person who breaks social rules or
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR “a Bridget Jones-esque montage” in really in line acquainted.” help connect doesn’t care about them, and that’s not
which Anne “cries in the bathtub [and] with Anne. Cracknell added that Johnson “was with a new really in line with Anne. She’s not all
NETFLIX has alarmed readers of Jane drinks wine straight from the bottle”. She’s not all This has been translated to the screen pushing to go funnier all the time, so we or younger guns blazing.”
Austen by remaking the heroine of Per- guns blazing’ as Anne saying: “Now we’re worse than kept exploring the moments where we audience’
suasion as a Bridget Jones-style comedy In the book, Austen writes of the exes. We’re friends.” could find that kind of humour”. Dr Alison O’Byrne, of the University
character. moment that Anne meets Wentworth of York, said: “From the trailer it’s hard
again after eight years apart: “Her eye Other modernisations including Academics who teach Austen also to know how far they’ll go. They have
The streaming giant’s new adaptation half met Captain Wentworth’s; a bow, a Anne saying of her vain father, Sir Wal- expressed surprise at Netflix’s treat- modernised some of the language but I
stars US actress Dakota Johnson as curtsey passed.” ter (Richard E Grant): “He’s never met a ment. don’t know that needs to happen. It’s
Anne Elliot, who meets her lost love, reflective surface he didn’t like.” And really interesting that either someone
Captain Wentworth, years after she was On film, Anne is goofing around at Anne cheekily saying to handsome Dr Katie Garner, lecturer in 19th-cen- thinks this is what audiences want, or
persuaded to end their engagement. the table pretending to be Wentworth, suitor William Elliot (Henry Golding): tury literature at St Andrews, said: “Sir that the best way to get at Anne is
with a basket on her head and a comedy “Imagine my luck. A flirt and a hard Walter Elliot is the source of comedy in through Bridget Jones.
But a trailer released by Netflix this moustache which she has fashioned worker.” Persuasion, but to see comedy as under-
week shows that this Anne has strayed from jam. Wentworth walks in and pinning the relationship between Anne Ruth Ware, the best-selling author,
far from the source material. Anne jokes about his hair. Carrie Cracknell, the director, told and Wentworth – that is something we said: “Here’s the thing – a lot of Austen is
Vogue: “I think the humour absolutely haven’t seen before. funny, but Persuasion isn’t. It’s sad,
Johnson breaks the fourth wall and Screenwriters Ron Bass, whose cred- speaks to Jane Austen’s writing, but it wistful and full of regret.”
its include Hollywood romcom My Best also has a sort of modernity. We really “Breaking the fourth wall isn’t new,
Friend’s Wedding, and Alice Victoria hoped it would help the material to and it has been used in previous Austen The film will be available to stream
Winslow have updated the dialogue. adaptations. Anne is a very intellectual on Netflix next month.
heroine, very observant, and filmmak-

Lost Stubbs Tutankhamun curse was created
dog painting by journalist to bury rival reports
discovered
in Missouri By Sarah Knapton SCIENCE EDITOR The discovery of entific information from Carter on a
Tutankhamun’s daily basis, because The Times had the
THE curse of Tutankhamun was cre- tomb sparked huge exclusive, and so he had to be able to tell
ated by a disgruntled Daily Mail jour- competition among his readers a parallel story.”
nalist, angry that the exclusive story on journalists
the tomb discovery had been given to On the day of the tomb opening, an
By Craig Simpson The Times, a new documentary claims. already frustrated Weigall heard
Lord Carnarvon joking as he prepared
A LOST painting worth £300,000 has The painting of a didn’t really name paintings like this, so tery how it ended up in Missouri. We British archaeologist Howard Carter to enter the burial chamber and
finally been returned to the UK, after spaniel by George finding the painting in the records is know that its owners put it up for sale discovered the tomb of the Egyptian warned he would be dead within six
the 200-year-old work of a spaniel by Stubbs is estimated almost impossible. not knowing what it was.” pharaoh on November 4 1922, and weeks if he continued to show such
George Stubbs was found in Missouri. to be worth up to entered the teenage king’s burial cham- disrespect.
£300,000 “It was likely commissioned by one The seemingly unimportant painting ber with Lord Carnarvon in February
Experts have discovered a painting of of his aristocratic patrons, and exhib- was bought by an anonymous buyer the following year. When the prophecy proved true,
black and white spaniel created by ited at the Royal Academy , before going and leading experts Alex Kidson and Weigall and the other journalists left
Stubbs, renowned for his portraits of off to the country pile of the dog’s Brian Allen verified it was in fact The tomb was intact and packed with out of the exclusive jumped at the
aristocratic clients’ racehorses and painted by Stubbs. treasures including the sarcophagus of chance of a new, sensational, angle.
pets, and likely made for one of his owner. Tutankhamun.
patrons in the late 18th-century. “Towards the end of the 19th century, Ms Greaves said: “There is no one Lord Carnavon died on April 5,
else who could have created this paint- Yet within six weeks of the open- 1923, at the Grand Continental Hotel,
The painting was put on sale at a Mis- you had the aristocracy losing some of ing, looking at it, it’s obvious it’s Stubbs. ing, Lord Carnarvon was dead, fol- in Cairo, from pneumonia and blood
souri auction house, where it was their wealth, and wealthy American col- lowed by a series of deaths of people poisoning caused by an infected
believed to be simply an old picture of a lectors seeking to buy up British art, “There is no one else from the period who had either worked on the exca- mosquito bite.
dog, but experts have verified the work and I think it’s likely the painting was painting dogs like this, with this qual- vation or had visited the tomb, trig-
which appears to have vanished from ity.” The sale will take place on July 6. gering a slew of newspaper articles Within six weeks, another visitor
the records 200 years ago. shipped to America then. It’s a real mys- suggesting they were victims of an to the tomb, George Jay Gould, a
ancient curse. financier, died of a similar lung infec-
The painting now valued at between tion and a year later Egyptologist Hugh
£200,000 and £300,000 was likely dis- Now, a new Channel 4 documentary Evelyn White, who had attended the
played at the Royal Academy during the has claimed that the curse rumour was tomb opening, committed suicide. He
1770s before being given pride of place started by Arthur Weigall, an Egyptolo- left a note, saying he had “succumbed
in the home of the dog’s owner, possibly gist-turned-reporter who was annoyed to a curse”.
the animal-loving Marquess of Rock- that the exclusive story had been given
ingham, who was an admirer of Stubbs. to The Times. Palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-
Shamahi, who presents the documen-
The artwork has now returned to the Egyptologist Bob Bianchi, an expert tary, said: “For the newspapers these
UK ahead of its sale in London with auc- on the history of the Tutankhamun
curse, said: “He was working for the exotic deaths were a gold mine and they
tion house Bonhams, whose Old Master started to splash stories of a curse.
specialist Lisa Greaves said: “Stubbs Daily Mail, which was a rival of The
didn’t sign his commission, and he Times and he was not able to get the sci- Tutankhamun: Secrets of The Tomb is

on Channel 4 tonight at 8pm.

Ukraine has my vote to host Eurovision next year, says Johnson

By Patrick Sawer Ukraine has expressed anger at the Song Contest comes round and I hope Ryder – is now earmarked as the host won’t say it’s completely jiving and Ukraine won the 2022 competition,
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER nation for Eurovision 2023. buzzing and popping, but it’s far more
prospect of losing what it says is its the Ukrainians get it. They deserve it.” held in Turin, with rap group Kalush’s
BORIS JOHNSON has said Ukraine rightful chance to host the competition Mr Johnson spoke after the EBU The EBU stated that “given the ongo- lively. song Stefania.
should host the next Eurovision despite and has urged the European Broadcast- ing war since the Russian invasion”, and “People are much more confident.
the organisers preparing to hand it to ing Union (EBU) to reconsider. ruled that Ukraine was unable to stage the fact that production requires “thou- Its victory and the ongoing war in
the UK over safety fears amid the con- sands working on, and attending the People are out in the streets, in cafes, Ukraine is to be “reflected in next year’s
tinuing war. Mr Johnson said: “I believe that they the next song contest, with the BBC in
talks over organising the event. event, and 12 months of preparation restaurants in a way that they weren’t a shows”, the EBU has said.
The Prime Minister – who has just can have it and they should have it. I time,” Ukraine could not be host. few weeks ago. Downing Street had earlier wel-
returned from meeting President Volo- believe that Kiev or any other safe The competition is ordinarily hosted
dymyr Zelensky in Kiev – said Ukraine Ukrainian city will be a fantastic place by the previous winner, but the EBU has It added: “The EBU will now begin “I know we had a fantastic entry. I comed the possibility of the UK hosting
deserved to host it after winning this to have it and I very much hope the discussions with the BBC, as this year’s know we came second and I’d love it to Eurovision if Ukraine could not.
year’s contest and said he was confident European Broadcasting Union will rec- decided that because of the ongoing
it would be safe to do so by 2023. ognise that. war, Ukraine could not host “one of the runner-up, to potentially host the 2023 be in this country. But the fact is they A statement from the BBC on Friday
most complex TV productions in the Eurovision Song Contest in the UK.” won and they deserve to have it.”
“This thing is a year away. It’s going said: “Clearly these aren’t circum-
to be fine by the time the Eurovision world”. Reacting to the decision, Mr Johnson Mr Johnson’s comments will put stances anyone would want. Following
The UK – which came second in this their decision, we will, of course, dis-
said: “I’ve just come back from Kiev. I pressure on the BBC to withdraw from
year’s contest with an entry from Sam negotiations as replacement host. cuss hosting Eurovision.”

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News

‘Ever-present
risk of another
scandal’ with no
lobbying reform

By Edward Malnick JOE GIDDENS/PA WIRE

BORIS JOHNSON’S Government faces Home ground Boris Johnson arrives at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, following his surprise visit to meet with Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian
an “ever-present risk of another scan- president, in Kyiv, to offer a training operation for Ukrainian forces that he believes could “change the equation” against the Russian invasion.
dal” unless the Prime Minister brings
forward reforms to lobbying rules gov-
erning ministers and civil servants, a
Whitehall sleaze watchdog has warned.

Lord Pickles, the Tory peer who
chairs the Advisory Committee on Busi-
ness Appointments (Acoba), expressed
frustration at a “lack of progress” in
reforming the system that polices jobs
that ministers and officials take up after
leaving their posts.

His intervention comes after Lord
Geidt quit as the Prime Minister’s ethics
adviser because of concerns about Mr
Johnson’s handling of a series of matters.

Lord Pickles’ remarks came in
response to a letter from Lord True, a
Cabinet Office minister.

Lord True said the Government was
“keen to see progress in this area” and
cited recent changes including a mech-
anism that could see former ministers
and civil servants prevented from being
given honours if they breach lobbying
rules.

The Government had pledged to
bring forward reforms last year but
Lord Pickles pointed out that recom-
mendations by Acoba and other anti-
sleaze bodies, had been “with the
Cabinet Office for many months”.

Several Whitehall reviews have con-
cluded that the system of policing ex-
ministers’ jobs is weak, with no formal
sanctions for breaking the rules.

Lord True said ministers were con-
sidering proposals to rewrite civil serv-
ants’ employment contracts to ensure
that breaking lobbying rules amounts
to a breach of contract.

Lord Pickles welcomed “incremen-
tal” changes including a revision to the
ministerial code with the possibility of
removing the salary of ministers who
breach the rules.

A government source said: “It is impor-
tant that we get these reforms right – we
are making significant progress and will
continue to expedite the work, but not at
the expense of due diligence or making
the correct policy decisions.”

Johnson absent from Tory by-election flyers

Candidates are focusing on by Nadeem Ahmed, the party’s candi- a Helen Hurford Conservative and I will Tory candidate Helen Hurford’s by-election disillusioned.” A third Conservative MP used pictures of Mr Johnson on their
local issues amid claims date in Wakefield, also includes no ref- do what’s right when it’s right.” material avoids mention of the PM said: “Many people connected to my leaflets – hoping that disaffection with
that Conservative brand erences or photographs of the Prime campaign were very concerned about the Government will work in their
has become toxic under PM Minister. Separately, Tory MPs warned Facebook advertisements issued by the events in Downing Street and the favour.
that activists in other Conservative-held the Conservatives in Wakefield, where Sue Gray report. People who have deliv-
By Edward Malnick and Tony Diver seats were refusing to campaign for the the party faces another by-election on ered leaflets or donated have stepped In an interview for a Telegraph docu-
party due to disaffection with its leader- Thursday, focus on attacking the back or said they are not prepared to mentary on the by-elections, Ms Hur-
BORIS JOHNSON has been “air- ship. Labour candidate for not being a local deliver or donate under the current ford said her brand of Conservatism
brushed” from the Conservatives’ by- resident, rather than Tory policies. regime.” involved not “telling anybody what to
election campaign literature, it has Half a dozen Facebook advertise- do, and how to spend their money.”
been claimed, as it emerged that leaflets ments disseminated by Ms Hurford The downplaying of Ms Hurford’s Since the Conservatives came to
and online advertisements in seats make no mention of the Conservatives Conservative credentials prompted power in 2010, parliamentary candi- A Conservative Party spokesman
being defended by the Tories make no or the PM, beyond the brief official claims by opposition parties that the dates have generally flaunted photo- said: “There are a range of registered
mention of the Prime Minister. notice declaring the Tories as the source party’s brand had become electorally graphs of themselves with the prime party descriptions for candidates to
of funding. “toxic” under Mr Johnson’s leadership. minister of the day, starting with David choose from which do not require sign
A six-page pamphlet distributed by Cameron. However, campaign litera- off from CCHQ. ‘Local Conservatives’
Helen Hurford, the Tory candidate in In others, the party’s name appears One backbencher said: “I have had ture from both Tiverton and Honiton has been used and registered for ballot
Tiverton and Honiton, fails to mention briefly on the screen at the beginning branch chairmen quit and newsletter and Wakefield contains no such images. papers since 2007, when electoral law
the Conservative Party until the fourth and end of video clips in which Ms Hur- deliverers refuse to come out. People in this area changed.”
page and makes no references to Mr ford focused entirely on local issues have also told me they’re not going to In Tiverton, the Lib Dems, who are
Johnson. Another pamphlet distributed ahead of this week’s by-election. host fundraising events.” mounting a bid to overturn the 24,239 Watch The Telegraph’s documentary on
enjoyed by Neil Parish, the Conserva- the Wakefield and Tiverton and
Asked by The Sunday Telegraph A minister added: “People are not tive MP who resigned after watching Honiton by-elections on Telegraph.co.uk
whether she identified as a Boris John- wild at the moment about knocking pornography in the Commons, have on Sunday.
son Conservative, Ms Hurford said: “I’m doors and delivering leaflets. I suspect
we are losing members. They are very

Fears that Bill to prevent Strasbourg ruling
on deportations may ‘just be sticking plaster’

By Edward Malnick a “categorical and uncaveated” clause We want out Most Tory voters favour and not just a sticking plaster. It
SUNDAY POLITICAL EDITOR stating that UK courts will not have to back leaving ECHR after ruling could become yet another situation in
take so-called Rule 39 interim orders – which everyone just keeps on arguing
RAY TANG / LONDON NEWS PICTURES MINISTERS and officials are at odds the mechanism used by the European Conservative rights judges last cases and then nothing moves for years
over elements of Dominic Raab’s pro- Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to pre- voters back week grounding and years. We might not be able to
Thirsty work Angela Rayner, Labour Party deputy leader, posed Bill of Rights, with some claiming vent the deportation flight. withdrawing from the first flight to remove anybody for years.”
sips a drink at a Trade Union Congress march in London. that the legislation could amount to a the European take migrants to
mere “sticking plaster” over problems A government source insisted that Convention on Rwanda. The Last week’s order by the ECHR
exposed by Britain’s attempted deporta- the provision in the Bill would resolve Human Rights remainder were prompted renewed calls from Tory MPs
tions to Rwanda. the problem because the rule “is a pro- (ECHR) by a two undecided or did for the UK to withdraw from the Euro-
cedure. It has no basis in the European to one majority, not know. pean Convention on Human Rights, to
Whitehall sources said there were Convention on Human Rights.” an exclusive poll avoid having to abide by rulings from
“tensions across government” over for The Sunday The poll, by Strasbourg.
parts of the Bill that deal with deporta- But other government figures are Telegraph shows. Electoral Calculus
tions. A government source admitted concerned that the change could only and Find Out Mr Raab told Times Radio last week
there “have been challenges” but said amount to a temporary “sticking plas- The survey of Now, reveals deep that he believed the Rule 39 interim
they had arisen amid ministers and civil ter” that will ultimately lead to further 2,760 adults divisions over the orders “should not have a legally bind-
servants, not between ministers. court challenges if campaigners and shows 43 per cent Rwanda policy, ing effect under UK law”.
those facing deportations argue that of Tory voters with just four per
Last week, Mr Raab, the Deputy inserting the provision in domestic leg- favour quitting cent of Labour Asked if the UK could simply ignore
Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, islation is insufficient to protect the UK the ECHR, against voters backing the ECHR’s ruling, he said: “Not under
indicated that the legislation will give from the orders. 22 per cent who withdrawal from the Human Rights Act, but we will
ministers powers to ignore last-minute are opposed, in the ECHR and address this squarely with the Bill of
injunctions by European judges – such The uncertainty has been increased the wake of 65 per cent Rights.”
as the one that halted the Rwanda flight by the absence of any written judgment
last week. by the ECHR. European human opposing it. A government source said: “[The] Bill
will strengthen UK rights like freedom
It is understood that the Bill contains A Whitehall source said: “We need to of speech while curbing abuses of the
know it’s going to be crystal clear in our
system and injecting common sense.”

Asylum claims hit 60,000 in a year, with just 15 applicants sent back

By Charles Hymas returned to “safe” countries after their senior immigration official. “We are and is approaching levels last seen in this week are accurate, it is going to be broken asylum system is currently cost-
HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR asylum claims were ruled inadmissible. basically sinking under the weight of the early 2000s when Britain was ing the UK taxpayer £1.5bn a year, with
asylum cases which we have not got a meltdown in the Home Office as we almost £5 million a day spent on hotels.
ASYLUM applications have hit a 20-year None of the 15 were returned to forced to negotiate a new agreement haven’t got an outlet for all those cases.
high of more than 60,000 in the past 110,000 with France to move the border to Cal- This cannot continue.”
year but just 15 failed claimants have France, despite the country being the ais to stop migrants sneaking in via fer- “You are getting a global migration Dr Ben Greening, of Migration Watch
been removed from the UK. starting point for the boat crossings and Adults and children waiting for their ries or lorries. increase, a small boats increase, an
being handed £54 million by the UK last asylum applications to be processed UK, said: “It boggles the mind that there
Immigration officials admit they are year to combat illegal migration and – double the number from two years ago It has increased the overall backlog of increase in asylum cases and absent was not one enforced return on inad-
“sinking under the weight of asylum outstanding asylum cases to 90,000, removals. missibility grounds to France during a
cases” as Channel crossings by migrants create asylum camps. grip of, which we cannot get down which account for 110,000 adults and period when there were around 40,000
have doubled this year to exceed 11,000. The 747 flight taking asylum seekers short of letting people stay, which is not “We have to talk to the French, EU
More than 50,000 have arrived since acceptable.” children. This is double the number in arrivals by boat and lorry, many directly
2018. to Rwanda was halted on Tuesday after March 2020. and wider world about this problem. from that country.”
The 60,000 asylum applications is We cannot fix it on our own.”
Amid fears that deportations of asy- the European Court of Human Rights more than double the number last year “We are getting back to numbers that The Home Office has announced a
lum seekers to Rwanda could be stalled intervened despite UK courts having His fears are confirmed by figures
for more than a year, official figures accepted the policy was in the public are similar to 2002 when there were 12-month pilot scheme to electronically
show that in the 15 months to March this interest. 85,000 primary applications a year,” from Frontex, the EU border agency, tag some migrants who arrive by small
year just 15 migrants were forcibly said Tony Smith, former director gen- showing the number of illegal migrants boat across the Channel.
“The number of asylum applications eral of Border Force. entering the EU has increased by 82 per
is 60,000-plus and rising exponentially cent to 86,420 this year. This excludes The Home Office says it hopes the
week on week with no clear plan about “If the predictions of 60,000 to
70,000 people crossing in small boats the 5.5 million Ukrainians fleeing the scheme will help asylum claims to be
how to bring the numbers down,” said a Russian invasion. processed quicker and more effectively.

A Home Office spokesman said: “The

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Rwanda visit ‘awkward’ for Britain by small boat a month ago. Dom- monwealth. The Chogm meeting is usu-
Charles during migrant row inic Raab, the Justice Secretary, said ally held every two years.
that the Government would wait for the
Mention of relocation plan Prince Charles will represent the A source admitted that it was “quite ‘Their Royal Highnesses outcome of a judicial review next month Next week’s event is the first since
at assembly of government Queen, the head of the Commonwealth, awkward” to be going to Rwanda for will recognise the distance before scheduling another flight. 2018 and the Prince and Duchess of
heads in Kigali is not ruled when prime ministers and presidents Chogm when there was so much debate Rwanda has travelled over Cornwall were said to be “particularly
out by Clarence House gather in Kigali for the Commonwealth about the migrant crisis. the last 30 years’ Earlier this month, the Prince hosted pleased” that after the enforced hiatus,
Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm). a reception at Buckingham Palace to Rwanda was hosting the meeting, hav-
By Victoria Ward Clarence House has not completely One source admitted that it was a celebrate the contribution of the people ing joined the Commonwealth in 2009.
ROYAL CORRESPONDENT It will be the first Chogm that he has ruled out the Prince making a reference challenge to get the Commonwealth of the Commonwealth in the UK.
attended since being chosen as the next to the controversial policy and is aware message through “at the best of times”. Before the event, the couple will
THE Prince of Wales fears his Common- Commonwealth head in 2018. he could be asked about it during a Lord Woolley of Woodford, the attend various engagements focusing
wealth message will be lost during an series of private bilateral meetings. Last week, the European Court of founder of Operation Black Vote, which on the 1994 genocide, the environment,
official visit to Rwanda next week in the The migrant crisis looks set to over- Human Rights grounded the first flight works with UK ethnic minorities to violence against women and literacy.
midst of the migrant row. shadow the event amid fears that the The Prince will be the first Royal fam- to Rwanda after it backed a challenge by increase understanding of civic society,
Prince will be asked about the policy to ily member to visit Rwanda and is an Iraqi asylum seeker who came to participation in Parliament and public Chris Fitzgerald, deputy private sec-
remove migrants to Rwanda, not least understood to be “very keen” to focus life, was among the invited guests. retary to the Prince, said: “Their Royal
after it emerged that he had privately on the challenges faced by the members Highnesses will recognise the extraor-
described it as “appalling”. of the Commonwealth of Nations. He said “the Prince cares a lot” about dinary distance Rwanda has travelled
the Commonwealth and wants all 54 over the last 30 years on the vital issue
member nations to have a strong voice. of national reconciliation.”

“He would want the conversation to The Archbishop of Canterbury last
be focused around that,” he added. night reiterated his opposition to the
“He’s got a clear vision and mandate. policy, branding it “heartless”.
He’s very passionate about it.”
Justin Welby added that the Church
Lord Woolley was in Barbados last of England’s criticism was “not because
November as the island nation officially the destination was Rwanda” and it
became a republic and spoke to the would oppose the measures “wherever
Prince then about his plans for the Com- people were sent”.

How to make KENSINGTON PALACE This portrait of the
Dad laugh on Duke of Cambridge
Father’s Day with Princess
Charlotte, Prince
By Patrick Sawer Louis and Prince
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER George on holiday
in Jordan was
WELL, the children are certainly enjoy- released for
ing themselves, even if the Duke of Father’s Day
Cambridge looks slightly anxious that
little Louis may be about to tug his ears. Your Royal
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The picture was taken in the autumn royalnewsletter
of 2021 when the family were on a trip
arranged by the Duchess to visit her for-
mer childhood home.

The Duchess spent three years living
in Jordan as a child, when her father
Michael worked for British Airways in
Amman.

In 2018, her husband paid an official
visit to the country, stopping off at the
archeological wonder of Jerash – the
ruins of the Greco-Roman settlement of
Gerasa – where the young Kate Middle-
ton once posed for a photograph with
her sister, Pippa.

The Duke said at the time that his
wife was “very sorry” she couldn’t join
him on the tour, adding: “Her family
remembers very fondly the almost
three years she spent here as a child.”

The country is considered an essen-
tial ally to Britain in the Middle East,
aiding stability in the region and taking
in a large number of refugees from its
surrounding countries. The Cam-
bridges’ visit was seen as a recognition
of that relationship.

The couple have previously released
more formal pictures taken by profes-
sional photographers, or those taken by
the Duchess herself in the countryside
of their home in Anmer, near Norfolk.

But this one – though not taken by
Catherine, according to palace sources
– could come straight out of a typical
family album.

One can almost hear “everyone make
Dad laugh” being shouted by someone
off-camera.

End of an era as Queen forced to miss final day of Royal Ascot

By Victoria Ward and Patrick Sawer the end of an era, a glimpse into the circumstances” would the Queen not when she became the first reigning mood, thoroughly enjoying herself. Peter Phillips, the Queen’s eldest grand-
future of a sport that has long been attend. monarch to win the Gold Cup. Horses have been her passion ever son, the Princess Royal, Zara and Mike
THE Queen missed the final day of strongly associated with the Queen, a since she was a small princess. Tindall, Princess Beatrice and her hus-
Royal Ascot yesterday, marking the first racing fanatic. But the monarch’s ongoing problems Last year, she missed the first four band, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, the Duke
time she has failed to attend the specta- with mobility have caused her to miss a days, but managed to attend on the Sat- “She is an equine encyclopedia. and Duchess of Gloucester and Prince
cle in its entirety in her 70-year reign. Through thick and thin, she has been series of events in recent weeks, not urday. There’s nothing she doesn’t know about and Princess Michael of Kent.
a fixture at the Berkshire event, one of least the Platinum Jubilee service of horses.
Her Majesty, 96, who did not attend the highlights of the summer season, thanksgiving, held at St Paul’s Cathe- A committed racehorse owner and Predicted high temperatures have
any of the previous days, opted to watch waving from the lead carriage in a col- dral. breeder, she this year had more than 10 “She names every one of hers and she meant men in all enclosures were
the fifth and final day of the racing meet ourful ensemble before taking her seat horses entered over the five days of the knows all their ancestry. There is allowed to remove their jackets and ties
on television at Windsor Castle, as she in the royal box. The Queen attended her first Royal meeting, which is a 15-minute drive nobody with an equine knowledge to once the traditional carriage procession
has done throughout the week. Ascot in 1946 and, with the exception of from her Windsor Castle home. match hers.” ended, just after 2pm.
Betting on the colour of the Queen’s 2019 when it was held behind closed
In the monarch’s absence, the Duke hat had become a much-loved tradition, doors, had not previously missed the Terry Pendry, the Queen’s head In the Queen’s absence last week, the Writing in the Royal Ascot 2022
of Kent was tasked with leading the while many have cheered on the mon- entire meeting since she ascended the groom and stud manager at Windsor, Prince of Wales and Duchess of Corn- programme, the Queen said: “I have
royal carriage procession, joined by arch’s own horses. throne. told The Sunday Telegraph how much wall led the royal party on the first two been most grateful for the continued
Princess Beatrice and her husband she delights in any event involving days, the Princess Royal on the third kindness shown to me by the racing
Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. Angela Kelly, her dresser and confi- She has been in the winners’ enclo- horses: “When Her Majesty is with and the Duke and Duchess of Cam- community.”
dante, noted in her 2019 book The Other sure 24 times between 1953 and 2019 horses she’s in her element. bridge on Friday.
In many ways, her absence marked Side of the Coin that “only in extreme and in 2013, made sporting history She signed the note “Elizabeth R”.
“With horses she is always in a great They have variously been joined by

Commonwealth candidate Prince will ‘shine a light’ on
offended by ‘proxy’ label atrocity that killed 800,000

By Izzy lyons Jamaica’s foreign minister for several JAMIE HAWKESWORTH By Victoria Ward mostly Tutsis but including moderate
years. When asked if she denied being a Hutus, died in 100 days of ethnic cleans-
A CANDIDATE for the head of the Com- proxy candidate for the UK, Ms Johnson Camilla in Vogue The Duchess of Cornwall is pictured in A RWANDAN footballer who urged the ing between April 7 and July 15 1994.
monwealth has said she is “personally Smith told the BBC: “Absolutely and I the lifestyle magazine, ahead of her 75th birthday. Prince of Wales to visit genocide survi-
offended” at the accusation that she is a have denied it before, and I’m a little vors said it “means everything” that the The Prince, 73, will visit a memorial
UK proxy applicant. offended not only personally, but heir to the throne will “shine a light” on at a church, where around 5,000 vic-
nationally. the atrocity next week. tims are buried.
Kamina Johnson Smith is seeking to
replace Baroness Scotland as secretary “If you look at our history, and you Eric Murangwa, who narrowly He will also visit a reconciliation vil-
general of the Commonwealth after she look at my practice of the role of minis- escaped death during the 1994 geno- lage where Hutus and Tutsis live along-
faced criticism from some member ter of foreign affairs and foreign trade of cide, met Prince Charles in Scotland in side each other. In the capital he will lay
states over her performance. April and suggested he carve out time to a wreath at the national genocide
Kamina Johnson learn about the massacre on his forth- memorial and talk to survivors.
Supporters of Baroness Scotland Smith has been coming visit to Kigali for the Common-
have claimed the UK government has supported for the wealth heads of government meeting. ‘The Prince wanted to see
been working behind the scenes to oust role of secretary for himself the real change
the Labour peer after Boris Johnson general by Boris A few days later, Mr Murangwa, 46, that has taken place since
tweeted in support of Ms Johnson Johnson was contacted by royal aides who had the end of the genocide’
Smith’s leadership bid. been asked to look into it.
Jamaica over the past six years, the It is hoped he might be reunited with
“Delighted to confirm the UK will argument doesn’t lend itself to any As a result of their conversation, the Mr Murangwa, who is in Rwanda, dur-
support [Ms Johnson Smith’s] campaign credibility whatsoever. So it’s actually Prince will make it a “personal priority” ing the trip. A royal source noted that
to be the next secretary general,” the surprising to me that people repeat it to visit a church where up to 24,000 the Prince had a long history of recog-
Prime Minister tweeted in May. “She unthinkingly.” people were massacred in one day. nising the genocide and working with
has the vast experience & support to survivors to ensure it is never forgotten.
unite our unique family of nations and She added: “Those are clearly con- Mr Murangwa said he was astonished
seize the opportunities ahead.” venient narratives for a political cam- to receive a call from the Prince’s staff They added: “The Prince recognises
paign, but they would bear no relevance and “incredibly grateful” that he lis- that one of the things he can do is to
Commonwealth heads of govern- to reality. Jamaica has been a leader on tened and acted upon his advice. shine a light on the Rwandan [atrocity].”
ment meet in Rwanda next week to the world stage so far beyond our size
decide who should lead the 54-nation for years.” “We only spoke briefly but he seemed “He’s also keen to learn about the rec-
body. The Queen remains as head of the very moved about it and straight away onciliation, what it means and how it’s
Commonwealth, and will be repre- Ms Johnson Smith has so far won the told his team to follow up,” he said. been achieved.
sented by the Prince of Wales next public backing of the UK, India, Singa-
week, but the secretary general runs pore, the Maldives, Belize, Trinidad and “I told him, this is where you can “Despite having had this role for
the organisation from its headquarters Tobago and Grenada. visit, these places are most important to more than 50 years, he’s the first to
in London. me. The Prince wanted to have a oppor- admit he’s still learning and sharing the
tunity to see for himself the real life and things he has learnt with others.”
Ms Johnson Smith is well known on the real change that has taken place
the international stage, having been since the end of the genocide.”

An estimated 800,000 Rwandans,

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News

Energy-saving gadgets sold online ‘are ineffective and hazardous’

By Izzy Lyons and Gurpreet Narwan ing in a “hazard of electrical shock”, the including plug pins that broke off easily, energy consumption by up to 35 per Motex device, which claims to help con- ing that consumers worried about the
consumer watchdog report said. and was so poorly constructed it could cent, but Which? researchers found no sumers save up to 90 per cent on energy cost of living crisis are being exploited
ENERGY-SAVING devices that are sold not be inserted into a plug socket. evidence that the device reduced bills by reducing electrical “noise” in by sellers. Online marketplaces are sim-
on Amazon and eBay do not work, It tested five different energy-saving energy consumption. the home, was accompanied with a ply not doing enough to prevent unsafe
Which? has warned consumers. devices from Amazon, eBay and Motex, It had 33 per cent one-star reviews on manual written with “poor grammar” products being sold on their sites.
all of which had similar white branding Amazon. Two other plugs were tested from making it hard to understand instruc- That’s why the Government urgently
Researchers found that they were not and instructions in poorly written Eng- eBay, which cost £13.76 and £12.76 tions, researchers found. needs to give these platforms greater
only “completely ineffective” but also lish. The first Amazon device that was The second device bought via Ama- respectively, and both failed safety tests legal responsibility to prevent the sale
unsafe. One £13.41 device bought from tested had important label details writ- zon cost £15.99 and claimed that it due to poor construction and pins not Rocio Concha, Which? director of of dangerous and illegal products.”
Amazon had “poor construction” result- ten in Spanish, failed basic safety tests would not “burden” an electricity bill. correctly fitting into a socket. The policy and advocacy, said: “It’s appall-

The plug also claimed it could reduce

French soldier

‘honoured’ to

command elite

British troops

Brig Gen Jean Laurentin Brig Gen Hervé Bizeul became the first JAMIE LORRIMAN FOR THE TELEGRAPH
will lead ‘lethal’ 1st (UK) French temporary military leader of
Division in move marking British troops when he took control of Pony trek To mark the 40th anniversary of the Falklands war, the band of the Parachute Regiment and its mascot, Pegasus,
nations’ close military links the same 1st (UK) Division. a Shetland pony, parade through the garrison town of Aldershot.

By Steve Bird Brig Gen Laurentin will advise and Half of Transport for London
train troops in the UK and abroad. vehicles hit with motoring fines
A FRENCH brigadier general has taken
command of one of Britain’s elite troop However, it is understood he would
divisions for only the second time in the not command the British troops in the
British Army’s history. event of a foreign combat situation.

Brig Gen Jean Laurentin has replaced The British Army has two Divisions
Maj Gen Charlie Collins to lead the 1st made up of about 25,000 soldiers each.
(UK) Division, described by the Minis-
try of Defence as the UK’s “most versa- The 1st Division was formed in 1809
tile force – light, agile, lethal and and since the turn of the 20th century,
expeditionary”. it has served in key battles in British
military history. It has more than 1,000
The French soldier had served as the
division’s deputy commander, but will Maj Gen Charlie
now command the unit until Septem- Collins, right, said
ber, when a permanent replacement Brig Gen Jean
general is found. Laurentin was ‘a
proven and
Under the Lancaster House agree- outstanding leader’
ment of 2010, the French and British
agreed to closer defence co-operation troops deployed on operations and sup-
to try to build a strong military relation- porting other military commitments,
ship. David Cameron, then the prime including training roles, around the
minister, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the world.
French president at the time, signed the
agreement at Downing Street, commit- According to the Ministry of Defence,
ting both countries to security and mil- the 1st (UK) Division is the “first in, first
itary co-operation. choice, first solution” for the British
Army”.
It led to combined air, land and sea
exercises, as well as the exchanges Maj Gen Collins said the appointment
between British and French senior of Brig Gen Laurentin illustrated how
armed forces staff. close Britain and France are militarily:
“He has my full confidence as a proven
Some critics of the UK’s decision to commander and outstanding leader.”
leave the European Union warned that
Brexit could sour or damage Britain and Brig Gen Laurentin said he was “com-
France’s security and defence interests. mitted to drive the Division forward”,
adding: “As a French General serving in
But the 2010 agreement means there the British Army, it is a real honour to
are now a number of exchange officers temporarily take command of the 1st
on both sides of the Channel. In 2016, (UK) Division on the departure of Gen-
eral Charlie Collins.”

By Steve Bird the fines was £69, meaning the total bill nage, worn road markings, confusing
could have exceeded £212,000. layout and merciless enforcement?
HALF of Transport for London’s fleet of
1,000 vehicles has been fined for enter- Of those, 586 were successfully chal- “This has two ramifications; first – the
ing a bus lane or yellow box junction. lenged at appeal. Another 1,437 were need for warnings for first-time offend-
paid for by the driver because they were ers. Secondly, it bodes extremely badly
From 2017 to 2021, a total of 521 fines at fault. for drivers outside the capital as coun-
for moving traffic offences were issued cils across England and Wales begin to
to TfL staff when they were driving the The TfL document says “where PCNs roll out enforcement for these offences
transport authority’s official cars and have been incurred because of blatant for the first time.”
vans, a Freedom of Information request disregard of requirements they are
has revealed. passed to the individual driver”. A spokesman for TfL said “compli-
ance with rules of the road is essential”,
That is equivalent to one in two of However, 1,051 fines costing £72,519 adding that its fleet and staff were not
TfL’s entire fleet being fined for break- were paid by TfL because the PCN was exempt.
ing road rules. obtained “as a result of unavoidable
working requirements”. In many cases, “PCNs are issued to TfL vehicles in
The data also show TfL vehicles have TfL was technically fining and then pay- the same way that they would be to any
been fined nearly twice each for break- ing itself. other road user and any appeals from
ing all road and parking regulations. TfL are not treated differently to those
Jack Cousens, head of roads policy at from any other road user.
The statistics will prove embarrass- the AA, said: “More than a quarter of
ing for TfL, which runs the capital’s PCNs issued to TfL vehicles show that “Any TfL employee who receives a
public transport network and enforces even they get caught out by the traps PCN while working is reminded of our
fines, suggesting its staff are either una- that capture London drivers every year. expectation that TfL employees must
ware of road regulations or simply flout comply with all laws at all times, includ-
them. “If drivers from the authority that ing abiding by the rules of the road.”
helps set up these traps are caught out
Over the five-year period, 3,074 pen- by them, what chance do the thousands TfL has 999 vehicles in its fleet,
alty charge notice (PCN) fines were of London drivers stand, especially including 793 vans, 169 cars, 32 lorries
issued to TfL staff. The average cost of when they get caught out by poor sig- and five HGV tractor units.

Stiffer test for courts telling Rough sleeping
reporters to reveal sources clause faces Tory
backbench revolt

By Izzy Lyons powers will further safeguard “the Brit- By Dominic Penna
ish tradition of thorough investigative POLITICAL REPORTER
JOURNALISTS are to be given greater journalism”.
powers to protect the identity of their MICHAEL GOVE is facing a rebellion
sources, under new laws. Bill Goodwin, who was fined £5,000 from Tory backbenchers over a new law
after refusing to disclose a source to the “recriminalising” rough sleeping.
A court can currently order a reporter High Court in 1989, has previously said
to disclose a source to prevent a crime that the Government was not doing The Vagrancy Act 1824, which made
or on grounds of national security. enough to protect journalists’ sources. homelessness and begging illegal, was
repealed in April as part of the Policing,
But under the new Bill of Rights, Mr Goodwin took his case to the Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act.
courts will have to meet a stronger test European Court of Human Rights,
before they can order journalists to arguing that being punished for refus- However, a clause in Mr Gove’s new
name sources. ing to reveal his source violated his Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill
would allow the creation of “criminal
The powers, which will update rules ‘Journalists need confidence offences or civil penalties” around beg-
in the Contempt of Court Act, will only in the right to hold powerful ging and “persons committing certain
force journalists to reveal a source if individuals, businesses and offences deemed to be rogues and vag-
there is an “exceptional and compel- governments to account’ abonds”. The text of the Bill acknowl-
ling” reason to in the public interest. edges the move by Mr Gove, the
right to free expression, and won. Levelling Up and Communities Secre-
The update is a victory for freedom of “The UK courts recognise the impor- tary, would have the effect of “disre-
speech, the Government has said. garding the repeal of that Act”.
tance of journalists’ sources in only a
Dominic Raab, the Justice Secretary, grudging and half-hearted way,” he An amendment tabled by Nickie
said: “Freedom of speech is the liberty once wrote. Aiken, the MP for Cities of London and
that guards all the others. Journalists Westminster, urges him to drop the
should have confidence in their right to “I found this out to my cost as a young clause, which critics say would render
hold powerful individuals, businesses journalist on the Engineer magazine in rough sleeping illegal again “by the
and governments to account. 1990, when I and my employers were back door”.
hauled through the courts because a
“Reinforcing this protection in our contact had passed me information It marks the first major prospective
new Bill of Rights will make it harder from a leaked company document.” backbench rebellion since Boris John-
for courts to order the disclosure of son won last week’s confidence vote
sources, reinforcing the British tradi- among Tory MPs by 211 to 148.
tion of healthy and rambunctious pub-
lic debate.” The Government said the

The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 19 June 2022 ** 7

Ofsted cites lack of gender News
identity lessons as factor
in primary school grading

By Ewan Somerville Head teachers are told in government age-inappropriate. It’s indoctrination CHRISTOPHER PLEDGER FOR THE TELEGRAPH
guidance that they must pay due regard and feeding into a social contagion
OFSTED inspectors have cited the lack to the nine protected characteristics in where your teacher is telling you it’s Keeping trim The British Lawn Mower Racing series at Godstone Farm in Kent yesterday.
of “gender identity” teaching as a con- the 2010 Equality Act and not discrimi- true and it’s being enforced in the The sport was started in 1973 at the Cricketers Arms in Wisborough Green, West Sussex.
tributing factor in the downgrading of nate against pupils. school – how can a girl then say ‘I don’t
primary schools, The Sunday Telegraph want boys in my changing rooms’?”
can reveal. These protected characteristics are
sex, race, disability, religion or belief, An Ofsted spokesman said that “in
England’s schools watchdog has been sexual orientation, pregnancy or mater- none of the examples provided was a
accused of “pushing unscientific non- nity, and gender reassignment. school failed for reasons to do with
sense” in schools by suggesting that teaching about gender issues”.
teachers use a contentious concept Under the law, gender reassignment
backed by transgender activist groups. must involve a process of gender transi- A spokesman added: “Our inspec-
tion but does not have to involve treat- tions check that schools are promoting
Analysis of pre-Covid Ofsted inspec- ment, but gender identity is not a an inclusive environment that meets
tion reports in 2019 and 2020 reveals protected characteristic. the needs of all their pupils – paying
two primary schools were given regard to the protected characteristics –
“requires improvement” grades, the Statutory Relationship, Sex and and that they develop pupils’ under-
second lowest, after it was mentioned Health Education (RSHE) guidance says standing of healthy relationships
prominently in their reports that pupils that all pupils should receive teaching through age-appropriate relationships
do not learn about “gender identity” or on LGBT content at school, but it is up and sex education.”
“gender diversity”. In a third school, a to schools to decide when best to do so.
secondary, inspectors identified the A Department for Education spokes-
lack of teaching “gender identity”. Dr Helen Joyce, director of advocacy man said: “We recognise that gender
at the campaign group Sex Matters, identity can be a complex and sensitive
New schools trans guidance is being said: “These wretched classes are the topic for schools to navigate, which is
drawn up after Nadhim Zahawi, the way this ideology gets into schools. I’d why we continue to work with Ofsted
Education Secretary, accepted the like to see Ofsted cracking down on this on this issue as well as the EHRC to
Equality and Human Rights Commis- [and protecting] single-sex toilets and make sure we are giving the clearest
sion’s (EHRC) offer to help provide clar- sports. Gender identity is not fact – it’s possible guidance to schools.”
ity to teachers when pupils want unscientific and can be nonsense and
different names, genders and pronouns.
‘Gender
Ofsted has now quit diversity train- identity is
ing by Stonewall, the charity, but con- not fact – it’s
cerns have been raised about its unscientific
long-standing ties to the group, which and can be
encourages the idea of gender self-iden- nonsense’
tification.

Ofsted spent £5,000 in membership
fees for Stonewall diversity training in
2019 and 2020 and £370 to access a
Stonewall conference in April 2020.

Zahawi warned
over teaching
‘decolonisation’

By Edward Malnick part-owned by Universities
SUNDAY POLITICAL EDITOR UK, the representative body
for universities.
NADHIM ZAHAWI has been
urged to ban universities MPs said the disclosure
from signing up to a scheme cast doubt on Advance HE’s
accused of orchestrating the insistence that it does not
“decolonisation” of educa- require higher education
tion across the country. institutions to decolonise
their curriculums in order to
In a letter to the Education win an award.
Secretary, 25 Conservative
MPs and peers claimed that Michelle Donelan, the uni-
the Race Equality Charter versities minister, said: “It is
(REC) programme, which academics, not university
counts almost 100 universi- bureaucrats or quangos such
ties and colleges as paid-up as Advance HE, who should
members, encourages “iden- be determining the curricu-
tity politics” on campuses. lum our students are being
taught.” She said the scheme
They said the scheme was was, “at worst, a dangerous
akin to Stonewall’s “diversity initiative that undermines
champions” benchmarking scholarship, divides our soci-
programme from which ety and undermines the
many public bodies have global standing of our uni-
withdrawn. versity system”. In the letter,

Their intervention came as MPs have
the universities regulator written to
warned that vice-chancellors Nadhim
paying thousands of pounds Zahawi, the
to sign up to such schemes Education
should ensure that they are Secretary
not breaching their duties to
maintain academic freedom the MPs said: “[We] request
and free speech. that you investigate this mat-
ter with a view to emulating
Susan Lapworth, the inter- the Cabinet Office by provid-
nal chief executive of the ing new guidance urging HE
Office for Students (OfS), said providers and other public
that students must be bodies such as Universities
“exposed to a wide range of UK and the OfS to desist
views including those with engaging with such external
which they disagree”. organisations.”

The letter to Mr Zahawi A spokesman for Advance
was organised by the Com- HE said: “Freedom of speech
mon Sense Group led by Sir and academic freedom are
John Hayes. It was sent after core principles of higher
The Sunday Telegraph education. Autonomous
revealed that of 23 universi- institutions must be able to
ties handed an award as part make their own decisions
of the REC, 20 have explicitly about tackling racism and
said they are “decolonising” fostering inclusivity. This
courses, while the remainder includes whether they wish
have pledged to “liberate”, to engage with the REC.”
“diversify” or introduce
“compulsory race equality”
to their syllabuses. REC is
run by Advance HE, a charity

Pregnant? Male blood
donor refuses to answer

By Phoebe Southworth blood. The father of two told
MailOnline: “There is always
A MALE blood donor was
turned away after refusing to a form to fill in and that’s fine
indicate if he was pregnant. – they tend to ask about med-
ical conditions or diseases.
Leslie Sinclair, 66, is a
committed donor who has “This time around, there
given 125 pints of blood in the was a question I hadn’t seen
last five decades.
before: ‘Are you pregnant, or
However, on his most have you been in the last six
recent trip to the Albert Halls months?’ which required a
clinic in Stirling, he was yes or no answer.
barred from donating after
he thought it unnecessary to “It is nonsensical and it
answer a question on a form makes me angry.”
asking if he was pregnant.
Prof Marc Turner, director
Staff said they could not
accept his blood unless he of the Scottish National
provided a response, arguing Blood Transfusion Service,
that it is not always clear if said: “While pregnancy is
someone is pregnant and the only a relevant question to
policy is in place to “promote
inclusiveness”. Pregnant those whose biological sex or
women or those with a baby sex assigned at birth is
which is not yet six months female, sex assigned at birth
old are not allowed to give
is not always visually clear to
staff. We have a duty to pro-
mote inclusiveness – there-

fore all donors are now asked
the same questions.”

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The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 19 June 2022 *** 9

Don’t plant trees, News
grow grass, NFU
tells celebrities

Public figures ‘salving their Ed Sheeran, right, tration in grasslands grazed by sheep
conscience’ contributing and, below, Kate and cattle versus forests is hotly
to loss of grazing land, says Moss and Geri debated.
head of farmers’ union Halliwell want to
plant trees but the The climate change committee calls
By Emma Gatten ENVIRONMENT EDITOR NFU says grassland for an increase in tree planting of up to
is overlooked. The 120 million trees a year, as well as a
CELEBRITIES who plant trees to “salve above were not reduction of beef, lamb and dairy con-
their conscience” are contributing to named by the NFU sumption by 20 per cent in the next 10
the loss of British grazing grass, the years to reach the UK’s net zero goals.
president of the National Farmers’ ZAKARY WALTERS; PA; GETTY
Union has said. And while the planting of trees is, of
course, beneficial to the environment,
Minette Batters said the value of cat- farming groups argue that grazed grass-
tle and grasslands in helping to limit cli- lands are better for storing carbon,
mate change and provide food security improving soil health and plant and ani-
was being overlooked by a “ghastly con- mal life than planting a single species of
versation of trees versus meat”. tree. Beef and lamb fed on grass in the
UK is also therefore a sustainable alter-
“Vast tracts of the country that native to pork or chicken that uses
should be growing grass are growing grain, often from deforested areas.
trees now. We’ve got celebrities salving
their conscience by planting blimming However, some green groups argue
trees and they should be growing grass. that more farmland should be given
And then you should be having live- over to tree planting or rewilded areas,
stock that eats grass,” she told a sus- with minimal inputs, to store carbon
tainable farming conference this and restore ecosystems.
week.
Ms Batters told the conference it was
Ms Batters did not name which “criminal” to suggest that you could
celebrities she had in mind. Last solve climate change and restore biodi-
year, Ed Sheeran, who owns a
16-acre estate in Suffolk, said he versity “if we brought in more trees
planned to “plant as many trees as and we all went vegan”.
possible” to help offset his carbon
footprint. She said: “It’s a corrupted conversa-
tion by the big global food businesses
He told the BBC last year: “I’m out there who see plant-based [food]
trying to buy as much land as possi- as a cheap way of trading a new com-
ble and plant as many trees as pos- modity across the world, and govern-
sible. I am trying to rewild as much ments bizarrely have capitulated.”
of the UK as I can. I love my county
and I love wildlife and the environ- Ms Batters was speaking as the
ment.” Government released its food strat-
egy, written in response to a national
Kate Moss has also said she wants to review led by restaurateur Henry Dim-
“build a forest” on land she has bought bleby.
in the Cotswolds, while Geri Halliwell
has spoken about her own The strategy ignored calls by Mr
rewilding plans including tree planting. Dimbleby for measures to reduce meat
consumption by 30 per cent in 10
The science around carbon seques- years.

Speaking at the same conference, he
said he had “nothing against meat”
but that current levels of consump-
tion were unsustainable.

Ban on new rural homes to avoid influx of walkers ‘defies all logic’

By Emma Gatten Forest have been put on hold by advice are considering similar moves based on number of visitors and dog walkers. built because some of their owners blanche to scupper investments and
ENVIRONMENT EDITOR from Natural England, the Govern- Natural England’s advice, and house- Conservationists say more walkers might visit national parks and forests threaten livelihoods seems particularly
ment’s nature adviser, that they are builders fear the phenomenon could could threaten populations of birds such 14km from their new homes clearly unwise right now.”
THOUSANDS of homes near the New likely to increase visitor numbers. spread across Britain, putting on hold as the Dartford warbler and nightjar. defies all logic,” a spokesman for the
Forest and Chilterns have been blocked plans for thousands more new homes. Home Builders Federation said. Allison Potts, of Natural England,
by new rules that ban building because The block, which was introduced Natural England elected to extend said. “[Our] role is to help local authori-
it might increase the number of people after a Government-backed report, has A report by Government-funded con- the block to nearby Fareham, contrary “We face an ever-worsening crisis of ties take into account the potential envi-
walking in the nearby countryside. been copied in the Chilterns, stopping sultants found that a development of to the advice from consultants, prompt- housing affordability and a difficult eco- ronmental impacts of the proposed
plans to build a further 20,000 homes. homes in six boroughs within 8.5 miles ing the council to complain. nomic outlook, so giving anti-business developments, when reaching a deci-
About 15,000 homes near the New of the New Forest could increase the quangos and their consultants carte sion on planning permission.”
Councils in Winchester and Dorset “Preventing these new homes being

£5m visitor centre plan for
Welsh castle is ‘Disneyesque’

By Daniel Capurro Cadw, the Welsh heritage body, is spending put a massive visitor centre right in
HISTORY CORRESPONDENT £5 million on upgrading Caerphilly Castle front of Stonehenge, would you? People
go there for the ambience, to imagine
MULTI-million-pound plans for wildflowers and solar panels and an out- what it was like 3,000 years ago,” he
upgrades to Caerphilly Castle in south door seating area. said.
Wales have been branded “Dis-
neyesque” by a member of the planning “I don’t expect them to build like the The project also involves improving
committee that approved it. Normans did, but I’m sure they could paths for accessibility and conservation
have come up with something more in work to historic structures within the
Cadw, the Welsh heritage body, is keeping with the castle,” said Mr Dix. castle. Its great hall will be redecorated
spending £5 million on improvements to resemble its medieval splendour.
to the enormous 13th-century castle, He questioned whether the Grade I
including a modern visitor centre built listed castle was being treated with Development work on historic sites,
within the perimeter of the outer walls. appropriate reverence. “You wouldn’t especially on ruins, is often done in a
modern style, as new structures should
The council planning committee not be disguised as original. In York,
voted to approve the project last week. English Heritage recently unveiled a
huge laminated timber and steel struc-
Nigel Dix, an independent councillor ture built within Clifford Tower that
on Caerphilly county borough council, restores access to the upper walls and
said: “When people go to see a 13th-cen- roof of the 13th-century keep.
tury castle, they expect to see a 13th-
century castle. Despite his criticism of the scheme,
Mr Dix voted in favour of the plans
“If they turn up and it’s quite a mod- when they came before the council
ern-looking building, it takes away from planning committee.
the historic authenticity of the building.
It becomes Disneyesque.” He said he did not want to block
investment in the town.
The curved, steel and glass structure
will feature a green roof covered with Cadw was asked to comment.

Former bank worker seeks Electric car owners
fuel price rise of
£1m asbestos harm damages houses with drives

By Patrick Sawer and Sarah Limbrick loft were fireproofed with asbestos By Melissa Lawford
boards. The cabinets were old and dam- PROPERTY CORRESPONDENT
HSBC is being sued for £1 million by a aged so that force had to be used to open
senior NHS executive amid claims and close them, increasing the amount THE switch to electric cars means
working in clouds of asbestos dust as a of asbestos dust and fibre that escaped. driveways now add 5 per cent to house
bank clerk caused her terminal cancer. prices, analysis shows.
“As a result of her regular work in the
Dr Julia Tabreham, who founded the loft room, [Dr Tabreham’s] clothes Soaring petrol prices mean more
Carers Federation and is a director of would get dusty, including with asbes- motorists are switching to electric cars,
the Parliamentary and Health Service tos dust and fibre, so that she would which is leading to a rise in demand for
Ombudsman complaints body, said she sometimes borrow the cleaner’s Hoover properties with off-street parking that
had to use a vacuum cleaner to remove to vacuum her clothes.” can accommodate charging points,
the dust from her clothes. estate agency Savills found.
Dr Tabreham claimed that she was
She only discovered she had malig- also exposed to asbestos at the bank’s In suburban London, a home with a
nant mesothelioma after a scan of her Long Row branch, and was not warned driveway now adds 4.7 per cent to the
neck following a road accident in 2018 price. A driveway in London’s most
revealed a small lesion in her chest. of the dangers of the dust. She branded expensive postcodes can boost the price
the bank negligent and said it exposed by 33 per cent – more than the value of
Within two months, Dr Tabreham her to major risk without giving her a large garden, which adds 26 per cent,
endured radical surgery that left her Savills said.
with chronic pain and breathlessness proper protection or warning, and
and is now expected to deteriorate required her to work in conditions It means a driveway in suburban
further. The 61-year-old is suing HSBC where the bank should have known London can add £23,500 to the price of
and its predecessor, Midland Bank, for asbestos was present. a £500,000 home.
damages concerning two branches in
Nottingham from 1977 to 1985. The bank has accepted liability for Will Watson, of agents The Buying
her condition but is disputing how Solution, said: “The huge concern for
In legal documents lodged with the much she should receive. London is that people will have an issue
High Court, Dr Tabreham alleged that charging electric vehicles if they don’t
she was exposed to deadly asbestos dust Her legal team stated: “In the future, have a parking space. This premium is
and fibres when she worked at the [she] may be advised to undergo further set to potentially get a lot higher.”
Alfreton Road branch as a junior clerk. treatment, including with chemother-
apy. The duration and extent of that Experts claim this driveway pre-
In the writ, her solicitors, Thomp- treatment cannot be predicted. The cost mium will soon spread from London to
sons, stated: “The filing cabinets in the might be very substantial indeed.” commuter towns in the Home Counties.

HSBC was approached for comment.

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NHS to offer News
‘life-saving’
leaky heart
valve surgery

By Lizzie Roberts DAVID PARRY/PA
HEALTH CORRESPONDENT
Carry on cruising Cruise ship Silver Wind passes under Tower Bridge on its journey down the Thames. The liner’s latest voyage, which began in Athens,
SURGERY that seals “leaky” heart Greece, last month and will end in Reykjavik, Iceland, marks the return to service of Silversea Cruises 10-strong fleet after the pandemic.
valves using a tiny clip will be available
across the NHS, after the rollout of the
“life-saving” procedure was suspended
because of the pandemic.

Mitral valve disease (MVD) results in
the narrowing or leaking of the valve
that keeps blood flowing in the right
direction in the heart.

Symptoms include breathlessness,
heart palpitations and swollen ankles,
but if left untreated it can lead to blood
clots, stroke and heart failure.

Standard treatment for MVD involves
invasive open-heart surgery, which
some patients are considered too weak
to undergo.

But an alternative, less-invasive,
form of keyhole surgery, Trans-catheter
Edge-to-Edge Repair (TEER), will be
available to patients across the NHS.

The two-hour procedure involves
attaching a tiny clip, guided through a
vein in the groin, to the heart valve to
seal the leak. About 70 per cent of
patients who undergo TEER find their
symptoms improve and are able to
return to normal daily activities.

In 2019 three sites in England were
offering the surgery: Bristol Royal Infir-
mary, Royal Brompton and Wythen-
shawe Hospital, Manchester.

TEER was due to be rolled out widely
across the NHS but the pandemic
paused the funding.

Now up to 20 specialist hospitals
across the UK will be offering the key-
hole procedure by the end of the year.

Prof Nick Linker, NHS national clini-
cal director for heart disease, said, “This
new innovative and life-saving proce-
dure, [which] means less invasive sur-
gery, will now be available in every
region of the country.”

Flawed NHS report’s author wins standards job

Cardiac surgeon accused Michael Lewis, a consultant cardiac wrongly blamed for the high fatality case to answer. Meanwhile, a series of which there [was] no foundation in evi- years of emotionally exhausting hear-
of hurting the reputation surgeon, has been appointed chairman rate at St George’s. inquests held into 34 of the cases by dence” and “logical inconsistencies”. ings and investigations. The Royal Col-
of surgical staff in review of the Royal College of Surgeons’ Joint Prof Fiona Wilcox, the Senior Coroner lege of Surgeons must reconsider.”
to oversee medical exams Committee on Intercollegiate Examina- Mr Lewis was instructed to review for Inner West London, has ruled that She ruled that “emergency patients
tions (JCIE), which sets the minimum the deaths of 205 patients that occurred in every case except one there were no being diverted away from SGH” as a Mr Lewis will take up his role as
By Patrick Sawer standards to qualify as a surgeon. at the trust between 2013 and 2018. identifiable failures in care provided by result of the Lewis review “has resulted chairman of the JCIE in January. A
and Robert Mendick the surgeons. in unnecessary deaths”. spokesman for St George’s Hospital
Only last month a coroner ruled that His subsequent Independent Mortal- said: “We have fully implemented the
THE author of an NHS report that failures in a review by Mr Lewis into ity Review attributed the deaths of 67 In an unusual Prevention of Future A friend of Prof Jahangiri and Dr recommendations of the Independent
wrongly blamed the deaths of cardiac cardiac surgery at St George’s Hospital patients to failures in care provided by Deaths report issued last month, Prof Nowell said: “This appointment is a kick Mortality Review.
patients on surgical staff has been Trust (SGH), in south London, had the cardiac unit and two surgeons, Prof Wilcox ruled that the Lewis review had in the teeth not just to those wrongly
appointed the chairman of a key com- caused the deaths of patients by unfairly Marjan Jahangiri and Dr Justin Nowell. “repeatedly made adverse inferences in blamed by Lewis but also to the family “Improvements we have made have
mittee responsible for surgeons’ exams. damaging the reputation of its cardiac the absence of evidence, leading to members of those deaths examined by led to better outcomes for patients and
surgery department. Each of those cases was referred for erroneous findings of failures”. his report. mortality is also now in line with that
investigation by both the Coroner and expected nationally.”
The appointment has angered col- the General Medical Council. She also found that it contained “They have suffered the trauma of
leagues and friends of two surgeons “pejorative subjective comments for being incorrectly told that their family The JCIE and Mr Lewis did not
But the GMC ruled last month that members have died and then faced respond to requests for comment.
Prof Jahangiri and Dr Nowell had no

Tall staff say they cannot drive
new £54m fleet of ambulances

By Daily Telegraph Reporter were unable to use the pedals or steer- als with colleagues and consultation
ing wheel safely as there was not with staff, trade unions, patients and
STAFF at an ambulance trust claim they enough room. carer groups”.
are unable to drive a new £54 million
fleet of vehicles because of their height National ambulance specification He said some Mercedes vehicles have
or body shape. was introduced in 2019, following a been kept in the fleet to accommodate
report by Lord Carter of Coles, which employees who cannot fit into the Fiat
Dozens of employees at the East of said it was unacceptable for trusts to Ducatos, and options are being explored
England Ambulance Service (EEAST) buy different types of ambulances and for a solution.
say they cannot operate the Fiat Ducato
vans that have been brought in to ‘Colleagues raised concerns The spokesman added: “Since the
replace those made by Mercedes, the about the cab area, which is rollout, a small number of colleagues
BBC reports. the same as the national raised concerns about the cab area,
ambulance specification’ which is the same as the current
A review by EEAST found that 94 national ambulance specification.
ambulance staff are too big to comfort- stock them with varying equipment
ably fit into the vehicles, which were and medicines. A spokesman for Fiat told the BBC:
introduced three years ago as part of the “The Fiat Professional Ducato, along-
NHS standardising its fleet across trusts. EEAST serves Bedfordshire, Cam- side all vehicles, must adhere to a Euro-
bridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Nor- pean type approval as well as Euro
Some of the issues reported include folk and Suffolk. NCAP, a rigorous set of safety tests.
back pain, shins hitting the dashboard
and poor visibility through the wind- Tall staff members at the trust said “The installation of seatbelts is car-
screen. they found it difficult to strap in their ried out in accordance with rules set by
seatbelts. the ECE14 and ECE16 standards.
Other complaints included hands and
fingers becoming trapped in the sliding A spokesman for EEAST said the fleet “If these standards are not adhered
door, with one staff member breaking was rolled out following “extensive tri- to, the vehicle cannot be approved and
two fingers. therefore sold. Fiat Professional’s vehi-
cles, including the Ducato, fully comply
One employee told the BBC that they with all legislation.”

Fear of corruption as police Disabled man stuck
on train platform as
officers use poverty vouchers staff ‘refuse to help’

By Martin Evans interest rates are on the rise.” He said By Phoebe Southworth
CRIME CORRESPONDENT the Police Federation had been hand-
ing  out vouchers to be redeemed A DISABLED man was left stranded on
POLICE officers are using supermarket against essential food items at super- a train platform for hours, claiming staff
poverty vouchers amid warnings that markets. refused to help him.
the cost of living crisis could increase
the risk of corruption in the ranks. “These people are not doing this Chris Nicholson has been using a
lightly, there is an embarrassment and wheelchair since suffering a spinal and
The Police Federation in Gloucester- stigma in asking for help to feed your brain injury while playing rugby in 2014.
shire has handed out 120 vouchers in family, but we have officers who simply He needed to cross to the other side of
just three days to hard-pressed officers do not have a choice,” he said. Milton Keynes station for a connecting
to help with food bills. train on his way to London for a fitness
Mr James added: “One of the con- event on Friday. However, the lift was
The organisation, which represents broken and he said staff refused to help
rank-and-file officers, claims that since 120 him use the stairs, so he was forced to
2010 its members have suffered a 20 per drag himself and his luggage up them on
cent real-terms pay cut. The number of supermarket food vouchers the hottest day of the year so far.
given to police officers in Gloucestershire
Police leaders have warned that leav- in just three days Mr Nicholson also needed the lava-
ing officers in financial dire straits is not tory but there was no disabled toilet on
only bad for morale but may tempt cerns that exist when police officers are his side of the platform. He said staff
some to turn a blind eye to criminality in financial dire straits is that they might cited health and safety policies as justi-
in return for backhanders. be more susceptible to corruption. fication for not helping him, and instead
told him that a train would be rerouted
Steve James, the Police Federation rep “We are not seeing that yet but we are to his side of the platform, which would
for the Gloucestershire force, said the in the early days of this crisis. If you put take a few hours.
Government and public had to decide people in a position where they might
what value they placed on policing. be given the opportunity to put food on An Avanti West Coast spokesman
the table for their children by looking said: “We were made aware of this
He said: “Officers are finding them- the other way when something is hap- incident last night and are sorry to hear
selves in a situation where they are pening, then it is concerning.” about the customer’s experience. We
struggling financially and discovering have since been in contact with the cus-
there is more month than money. tomer – who has arrived at their desti-
nation safely last night.”
“But recently that has been exacer-
bated because of the growing cost of
living crisis, the price of fuel and now

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Outcry as annual show dog parade goes walkies

Locals up in arms as The decision by the Great Yorkshire The Sunday Telegraph understands Why aren’t they strong enough to deal ation, of encouraging and assisting oth- farmer from Malton in North York-
celebration of country life Show, which is due to take place in July that the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, with this pressure – it’s nothing new?” ers to get round the ban on fox hunting. shire, said the cancellation of the
cuts parade after campaign and will be visited by the Princess which runs the show, decided to “post- he said. hounds parade was the “slippery slope”
by anti-hunt activists Royal, has triggered a backlash from pone” the parade after a sustained cam- Tim Bonner, chief executive f the for farming and the countryside way of
local farmers, who accused organisers paign of emails and letters, in particular Robert Pitcher joint-master of the Countryside Alliance, branded the deci- life.
By Abigail Butcher and of caving over the issue. from a Welsh activist known to be Middleton Hunt, which also usually sion “naïve” and “very reactive” and one
Henry Bodkin linked to hunt saboteur groups. takes part in the hounds parade, said it that “misunderstands how deeply York- “This is one of the main attractions of
Traditionally featuring a range of was always “incredibly well received”. shire hunts are integrated within the the show and depicts country living. We
A HISTORIC parade of hounds has been hunting dogs from foxhounds and bea- A member of the show’s organising wider rural community”. can’t ‘townie’ everything,” she said.
axed from England’s largest agricultural gles to bloodhounds, the parade is a par- committee is understood to have “The crowd really enjoy it and chil-
show after an alleged “campaign of har- ticular favourite of young visitors. resigned in protest at the decision. dren flood the ring after the huntsman He said: “This was a sustained cam- A spokesman for the show said: “All
assment” by anti-hunting activists. has ridden round and invited them to paign of harassment by an animal rights decisions taken are always considered
However, families wanting to see the Farmer Edward Page, joint-master of meet the hounds.” activist but it’s completely manufac- and balanced.
animals at this year’s event will have to the Bedale Hunt, which usually parades tured – there’s no widespread public
seek them out in dedicated pens located in the main ring, called the decision The row follows the high-profile con- concern. “We remain committed to demon-
around the Harrogate showground. “ridiculous”. “Activists are everywhere. viction of Mark Hankinson, the director strating the best of farming and rural
of the Masters of the Foxhounds Associ- Sarah Taylor, a mother-of-two and life in all its forms to our visitors.”

Farmers reap Bird shooting
the rewards of ban on Bronte
3D printing moor comes
spare parts under fire

By Phoebe Southworth By Patrick Sawer and Hayley Dixon

3D PRINTING is saving farmers thou- LORNE CAMPBELL FOR THE TELEGRAPH / GUZELIAN GROUSE shooting is set to be banned
sands of pounds by allowing them to on the moors that inspired the writings
make cheap new machinery parts Joe, the head gamekeeper, with underkeeper Luke on the moorland they look after on an estate near Skipton, North Yorks. Grouse shooting can be vital for rural communities of the Brontë sisters, as part of what crit-
rather than face huge bills for costly ics say is a “manufactured and damag-
replacements. ing” campaign against a long-standing
countryside tradition.
Farm workers have had to cannibal-
ise other machines and spend weeks Yorkshire Water, which owns large
tracking down pieces compatible with tracts of land on Thornton Moor is
old products, often at a crippling price. reviewing its practice of allowing
grouse and partridge shooting on land
But they can now take advantage of next to Ogden Water Nature Reserve.
the emerging market of 3D technology,
which allows them to design replace- The move comes after months of lob-
ment parts at a fraction of the cost. bying by environmental activists who
say the moors should be returned to the
Mo Metcalf-Fisher, a spokesman for wild to encourage biodiversity.
the Countryside Alliance, said it was an
exciting development and could help Wild Moors, formed in 2014 to
farmers keep spending down amid the campaign intensive management of
cost of living crisis. moorland for grouse shooting, said
valuable peat on the moor, which
“Where innovative solutions [are] captures harmful carbon, is burnt
both safe and reliable, their emergence by gamekeepers to encourage the
in the market is incredibly welcome – growth of young heather for the birds
particularly when the financial burden to feed on and that non-native par-
on the farmer is reduced”. tridges reared on farms compete with
wild birds for resources.
Jonny Leech, 26, a farmer and
designer from Little Hockham Farm in Luke Steele, who runs Wild Moors,
Thetford, Norfolk, has produced more said: “Yorkshire Water [should] pull
than 300 of his own designs and pre- the plug on game bird shooting on
dicts he has saved up to £7,000. Thornton Moor and restore [this] treas-
ured land for nature, the climate and
He decided to buy a 3D printer after people.”
setting out on a mission to build his own
“precision planter” machine for maize, But countryside campaigners point
sugar beet and oilseed rape. out that shooting is estimated to bring
£2.5 billion to the rural economy and
But he needed to print too many support tens of thousands of jobs.
parts for it to be financially viable, so cut
out the middle man and bought his own A spokesman for Yorkshire Water
basic 3D printer online for £175. said: “We announced in 2019 that we
would review shooting leases as they
“I began printing my designs and come up for renewal using our six cap-
[was] amazed at the quality.” itals model to ensure that activities on
our land provide the best [outcomes].”
Mr Leech estimates he would have
spent “anywhere up to £7,000” if he
had gone down the spare parts route.

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World news

RAF wants
more planes
to hunt for
Russian
submarines

ARIS MESSINIS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Sightings of spy arsenal in the past decade, in
response, partly, to David
Reduced to rubble Ukrainian soldiers inspect a destroyed warehouse targeted by Russian troops on the outskirts of Lysychansk in the patrols in British Cameron’s decision to axe
eastern Donbas. The city has been subjected to sustained artillery bombardment, which left many civilians dead. the “spy in the sky” fleet of
waters ‘doubled’ Nimrods in 2010.

in past 10 years “We are seeing behaviour
by an expansionist Russia
By Max Stephens that some people would
never have expected. Our
BRITAIN must expand its fleets are being used more
arsenal of submarine hunter than ever expected,” he said.
planes by a third to combat
Russian spy operations on He added that they were
our borders, senior RAF detecting roughly “double”
commanders have warned. the number of Russian sub-
marines than they were 10
Russia is carrying out years ago and said more P-8s
more submarine patrols in were needed to allow intelli-
the North Atlantic than it did gence services to “exploit”
during the Cold War with far more surveillance data
sightings “doubling” in the gathered during flights.
past ten years, they said.
Enemy submarines will
The UK has nine P-8 Posei- often lie underneath com-
don maritime patrol aircraft mercial fishing vessels, on
(MPA), costing £120 million the very edge of Britain’s
apiece, to protect our 12-mile nautical border, and
nuclear-armed submarines use the roar of the ship’s
and track enemy vessels. engines to mask their pres-
ence, Wg Cdr Livesey said.
Wing Commander Ben
Livesey said that unless the He added that now would
Government increases the make the most “economical
MPA fleet to 12, Britain’s abil- sense” to buy the extra three
ity to launch a “credible jets from the US as Boeing’s
response” against an “aggres- production facilities in Shef-
sive” and “expansionist” Rus-
sia “will be tested to the £120m
limit”.
The cost of one P-8 Poseidon
Doing so will place Britain
on a par with Australia and aircraft. RAF bosses want to
India, who have 12 MPAs
each, but still far behind the increase its fleet by three
US, which has 128.
field are already in full swing.
The jets, based at RAF “We have a time-banded
Lossiemouth on the east
coast of Scotland, use sono- opportunity,” he said.
buoys, small radar devices However he acknowl-
dropped into the water, to
pick up engine and propeller edged that calls to purchase
sounds from submarines. more aircraft comes against a
backdrop of inflation, soar-
P-8s can carry 129 sono- ing energy bills and funding
buoys, costing up to £5,000 issues for the NHS.
each, along with five Mark 54
lightweight torpedoes, used “The Treasury is trapped
to sink submarines directly in a game of which mouth
from the air, during their ten- not to feed.
hour-long sorties.
“How much money does
They can also be deployed he [Boris Johnson] have to
to tackle illegal fishing and offer? The answer is not as
criminal gangs smuggling much as he would like.”
shipping containers of her-
oin into the UK. Wing Commander James
Henderson echoed his com-
The Sunday Telegraph was ments. “They (the Russians)
given exclusive access to the have invested more into their
Poseidon’s capabilities dur- navy, they have got new sub-
ing a Nato training exercise, marines. It poses a threat to
codenamed Dynamic Mon- us… it is quite frightening.”
goose, in the Norwegian sea
on Wednesday. One of the Russian subma-
rines singled out for concern
Wg Cdr Livesey, an RAF is the nuclear-powered
veteran of 22 years who spe- Severodvinsk capable of
cialises in hunting enemy launching ballistic missiles
submarines, said: “Russians against land and sea targets.
are busier now than they
were in the Cold War. We Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike
have to have the ability … to Wigston said: “As an island
respond to it. If you do nation, our security and
defence on the cheap you do prosperity depends on our
not have that credible access to the world’s oceans.
response.”
“With Poseidon on task,
He said Russia has rapidly Russian submarines have
expanded its submarine nowhere to hide.”

Joy as medic who
filmed horrors of
Mariupol is freed

By James Kilner Paievska managed to smug-
gle a data card hidden in a
UKRAINIANS are celebrat- tampon with hundreds of
ing the release from Russian hours of footage out of the
captivity of a paramedic city with a pair of fleeing AP
whose head camera videoed photojournalists before she
the horrors of the siege of was captured in mid-March.
Mariupol.
Russian artillery pounded
A photograph on Twitter Mariupol into rubble,
apparently shows Yulia destroying the city where
Paievska, better known as 400,000 people had once
Tayra, looking thin after lived. Its capture in May was
three months as a prisoner celebrated by the Kremlin as
but smiling after being freed. one of its first war victories.

“We managed to liberate Even before the remarka-
Tayra, Ukrainian paramedic ble footage of her work in
Yulia Payevska, from captiv- Mariupol appeared, Ms
ity,” Volodymyr Zelensky, the Paievska was a household
Ukrainian president, said.
“We will keep working to lib- name in Ukraine.
erate everyone.” She had been a paramedic

Vadim Puzanov, her hus- through the Euromaidan rev-
band, said: “It was such a olution of 2014, which forced
great sense of relief. Those the pro-Kremlin president to
sound like such ordinary
words, and I don’t even know flee, before shifting to the
what to say.” He added that Donbas region of eastern
he spoke by phone with his Ukraine where she set up
wife, who was en route to a units of paramedics.
Kyiv hospital, and feared for
her health. These were called “Tayra’s
Angels” and treated soldiers
Ms Paievska, 53, filmed injured in battles with sepa-
her work in Mariupol during ratist fighters.
the first three weeks of the
invasion with a head camera. On Twitter, Ukrainians
Her footage showed helicop-
ter pilots evacuating civilians celebrated Ms Paievska’s
and soldiers injured by shell- release. “Relieved beyond
ing. In one scene, her camera relief,” said one user. “She is
captures the moment a small loved by many.”
boy dies of his wounds. She
closes his eyelids. Ms The Ukrainian govern-
ment has not said how it

managed to free Ms Paievska
but it is believed her name
was put on a prisoner

exchange list.

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Luxury UK flat ‘secretly owned by oligarch’

Months after asset freeze Candy, a Conservative Party donor, and floor in one of the four towers overlook- sian opposition leader – made public its garch under sanctions. Temur Akhme-
on wealthy Russians, high- his brother, Christian. Mr Pon- ing Hyde Park, is registered in the BVI. dov was a university student when his
end London development omarenko, 57, who made his fortune in £60mown investigations, embarrassing the father bought him a flat for £29 million
comes under scrutiny banking and shipping and is the joint The company’s address is the same in 2013. Farkhad Akhmedov, 66, has had
owner of Moscow’s biggest airport, was one given for another offshore company Russian president by showing the sheer his assets frozen and a travel ban.
By Robert Mendick CHIEF REPORTER placed under UK sanctions in March fol- Tarona Ltd, which was used to buy a scale of the Italianate palace complete
lowing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. private Gulfstream jet for use by Mr with $800 gold-plated toilet brushes. The value of the Mr Akhmedov’s ex-wife Tatiana
AN OLIGARCH accused of buying a pal- The asset freeze prevents Mr Pon- Ponomarenko and his business partner The residence occupies 180 acres, and apartment at One accused their son of helping to hide his
ace for Vladimir Putin is the secret omarenko visiting the UK and bars any Alexander Skorobogatko, a former pol- airspace around it is subject to a no-fly Hyde Park father’s assets during their divorce for
owner of a £60 million apartment in businesses here from dealing with him. itician, for $44.5 million (£36.3m) in 2011. zone with Russian FSB agents providing which she was awarded £450 million.
London’s most prestigious develop- His purchase of the jet was disclosed in round-the-clock protection. Temur was ordered to pay his mother
ment which he bought at the same time, It is unclear if authorities are even leaked Pandora Papers obtained from £75 million after a High Court judge
it is claimed. aware the flat, bought through an off- offshore service providers. A spokesman for Mr Ponomarenko found he was a “dishonest individual
shore company based in the British Vir- Alexander said at the time of the revelations about who will do anything to assist his
Alexander Ponomarenko, who is on a gin islands (BVI), may ultimately be Ponomarenko In the same year, Mr Ponomarenko the villa that the oligarch had had no father”. Temur’s spokesman said after
UK sanctions list, purchased a whole owned by Mr Ponomarenko. The case made his fortune in bought a villa overlooking the Black Sea ties to the property for several years. the case he had “been sucked into the
floor at One Hyde Park, through an off- highlights the lack of transparency in banking and shipping for $350 million. The mansion – dubbed vortex of a bitter family dispute” and
shore company, it is understood. UK property laws that allows offshore Putin’s Palace – was claimed to be the One Hyde Park is one of London’s had never sought to take sides.
purchases through shell companies, president’s holiday bolthole and that most prestigious addresses. The four
A second oligarch, now under sanc- making it difficult to trace the real owner. Vladimir Putin was the real owner, an towers contain 86 apartments plus four Farkhad has appealed to the Council
tions, bought an apartment through a allegation that has been denied. penthouses, which at the time they of the European Union to drop the sanc-
UK-registered company, for his then Two separate sources, however, have were built were the most expensive in tions on him so that his £225 million
teenage son amid inevitable questions claimed Mr Ponomarenko bought the Mr Ponomarenko is a business asso- London. Mr Candy, 48, was reported yacht can be returned. The EU has
over how a 19-year-old could afford a property, which was sold in 2011 shortly ciate of Arkady Rotenberg, one of last year to have placed his own pent- claimed the oligarch was “close to the
property costing £29 million. after the Candy brothers began market- Putin’s closest friends and his judo part- house on the market for £175 million. Kremlin and is a leading business person
ing the flats. Mr Ponomarenko has not ner. Mr Rotenberg, also under sanc- involved in economic sectors providing
The block was developed by Nick been seen at the block for some months. tions, then claimed ownership of the One Hyde Park, developed by the a substantial source of revenue to the
palace in 2021 after an anti-corruption Candy brothers with financial backing government of the Russian federation”.
The apartment, occupying a whole unit – led by Alexei Navalny, the Rus- from Qatar’s former prime minister, is
home to a number of Russians. Among
the owners is the son of another oli-

West must fund
Ukraine for
years, says PM

ALEXEY MALGAVKO/REUTERS By David Millward and Will Bolton

Off to war Family and friends give an emotional farewell as a Russian conscript, wearing a military uniform, boards a train at a local railway station preparing BORIS JOHNSON has warned that the
for departure to garrisons, in Omsk. From there, they could be sent to the front line in Ukraine. West must prepare for a long war and
be prepared to provide “constant fund-
ing” to Ukraine for years to come.

The Prime Minister said that Vladimir
Putin had resorted to a “war of attrition”
and was attempting to grind Ukraine
down by “sheer brutality”.

Victory, he said, could only be
achieved if Ukraine was given enough
time to strengthen its defences before
Russia renewed its capacity to attack.

Mr Johnson met with President Volo-
dymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Friday. In an
article written on his way back, pub-
lished in The Sunday Times, he said:
“We must help preserve the viability of
the Ukrainian state.

“President Zelensky’s government
has to pay wages, run schools, deliver
aid and begin reconstruction wherever
possible. That will require funding and
technical help, which we should plan to
sustain for years to come.”

In a major international poll Britain
was found to have provided the best
response to the Russian invasion.

Some 7,000 people from the UK, the
US, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and
Canada participated in the poll commis-
sioned by the Munich Security Confer-
ence ahead of its meeting next week.

They found that Britain “stands out”
among its Western allies in confronting
Mr Putin. In all Britain has donated an
estimated £2.1 billion in aid to Ukraine
since the Russian invasion.

Last month the Government
announced a £1.3 billion package
including £300 million of military kit.
This has included cutting-edge M270
rocket systems, which can strike targets
up to 50 miles away, night vision
devices and GPS jamming equipment.

Mr Johnson also held talks with arms
firms over stepping up production.

“The poll results suggest the UK’s
leadership has been welcomed by other
Western allies,” said Sophie Eisentraut
at the Munich Security Conference.

‘Why send men like our dad to by riot police five minutes later. With the Russian government has made a Putin in ‘threat’ to
their deaths? It makes no sense’ new draconian laws for “unsanctioned mistake. Why are they sending military Kazakhstan leader
gatherings” in place, anti-war protests men like dad to their deaths? It makes
War protest daughters tell try, but also their own father. They were social media in disbelief. By the time in Russia have been sporadic. no sense,” Anastasia said. By James Kilner in Nur-Sultan
of disillusionment as their arrested in minutes and last week were they decided to join an anti-war rally,
father faces misery on sentenced to 20 hours of community they had not heard a word from their A new law adopted by the parliament Although the girls say their father is FORMER Soviet countries are part of
front line in Ukraine work. 42-year-old father, a master sergeant, in the second weekend of the invasion not free to discuss his views on the war, Russia’s domain and risk Ukraine’s fate
for days. introduced criminal charges for “dis- they say his mood has changed mark- if they go up against the Kremlin,
By Nataliya Vasilyeva But they have still not faced the full crediting Russian armed forces”, liter- edly in recent weeks. Vladimir Putin has insinuated.
RUSSIA CORRESPONDENT in Istanbul repercussions from their father, as he “I had a hard time sitting at home and ally making any anti-war statement a
has been fighting in Ukraine since late doing nothing. I would have felt crime punishable with up to a decade in “He started to sound very angry The Russian president made the
A WEEK after Russia invaded Ukraine, February. ashamed if I hadn’t come out,” Anastasia prison. about his commanders and govern- remarks while on stage with Kazakh-
18-year-old twin sisters Elizaveta and said. The girls made a poster, with ment,” Elizaveta said. He also complains stan’s leader, with experts interpreting
Anastasia Grigoryeva took out their “We had heard rumours that there “Peace to Ukraine! Freedom to Russia!” The Grigoryev sisters were lucky – about poor equipment and food rations them as a “clear threat” against the
watercolours and set about painting an was going to be a war but it seemed so written across the colours of a Ukrain- they were detained before the law came that were past the expiry date, she neighbouring country.
anti-war poster in the colours of the outlandish,” Elizaveta told The Sunday ian flag. into effect. added.
Ukrainian flag. Telegraph on the phone from Pskov. His comments were in response to
“He had no idea either,” she added, say- When they came out to the snow- But repercussions were instant: the He was given a dressing down from President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev say-
When they paraded it through the ing that he was told he was going for covered central square of Pskov on a girls were released from the police sta- his commanders for his daughters’ anti- ing on live TV at an economic forum in
streets of their hometown of Pskov near “military drills’’ in Belarus. She would Saturday in early March, the few hun- tion, but the next day a senior officer war stunt, she said, but Russian troops St Petersburg on Friday that he did not
the Estonian border, they knew they not reveal his identity for fear of him dred protesters who had showed up ear- and a psychologist from their father’s have other things to worry about in recognise two pro-Russia rebel regions
were going against not just their coun- being punished. lier were already detained. unit came to visit. Ukraine: “The people who put pressure in the Donbas. Mr Putin sucked in his
on him are dead.” lips before hitting back: “What is the
The girls found out about the inva- The two lanky and shy teenagers Their mother was threatened with Soviet Union? This is historic Russia.”
sion on Feb 24 as they sat with their walked a few streets away and unfurled losing her job as a shop assistant, and Almost four months on, the teenag-
classmates at school, scrolling through their poster there – only to be grabbed the girls’ teachers at school kept trying ers’ father still has not had a single day He praised Kazakhstan as a brotherly
to get them to admit they were influ- of leave. nation before adding in a thinly veiled
enced by enemy propaganda and get threat: “The same thing could have hap-
them to repent for “betraying” their The sisters said their parents’ gener- pened with Ukraine, absolutely, but
father. ation is not happy about the invasion they wouldn’t be our allies.”
either but are keeping quiet for fear of
The 18-year-olds, however, do not being thrown in jail: “A lot of people
view their anti-war protest that way. “I don’t support [the war] but they are
don’t see any contradiction here. I think simply too scared to tell the truth.”

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World news

Biden riding
for a fall as
cycle trip takes
turn for worse

By David Millward
US CORRESPONDENT

ON A pleasant summer day without a ELIZABETH FRANTZ/REUTERS; SAUL LOEB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
cloud in the sky, the conditions were
perfect for Joe Biden to go for a bike Joe Biden came a cropper while riding a bike near his holiday home in Delaware. Onlookers hoping to catch a glimpse of the president audibly gasped as he fell but Mr Biden made light of the tumble and insisted he was ‘fine’
ride near his holiday home in Rehoboth
Beach, Delaware and enjoy a little light
exercise in front of the cameras.

Wearing a grey T-shirt, navy blue
shorts, blue Nike training shoes, his
trademark sunglasses and a cycling hel-
met, the 79-year-old US president set off
– accompanied by his security detail –
and breezing past the press pool.

First Lady Jill Biden had set off,
accompanied by her secret service pro-
tection, about seven minutes earlier.

Around 30 well-wishers lined the
route preparing to welcome the Bidens
in what should have been a perfect
photo opportunity as well as a welcome
respite from the burden of tackling cri-
ses at home and abroad.

But things went awry a little over 10
minutes into the ride.

Seeing the crowd, Mr Biden slowed
to a stop and attempted to dismount.
But the president’s right foot caught in
the strap of the pedal and to the alarm of
spectators, he fell to the floor with his
leg caught under his bike.

There was an audible gasp from
onlookers as Secret Service agents ran
over to help him up.

The president made light of the inci-
dent and insisted he was “fine”.

The White House quickly put out a
statement saying Mr Biden required no
medical attention.

Mr Biden’s fall was not his first. In
December 2020 he fell over chasing his
dog Major, which resulted in the presi-
dent-elect having to wear a medical
boot for several weeks.

Bue he was luckier than John Kerry,
who broke his leg when he came off his
bike in the French Alps in 2015. The US
secretary of state needed surgery fol-
lowed by months of recovery – at a time
when he was negotiating the Iranian
nuclear deal.

Democrats face crime backlash at the ballot box

Dispatch But the dismissal of Chesa Boudin The city is represented on a national ‘We get Now a proxy war is underway
– a member of the Democrat Party stage by Nancy Pelosi, the House robbed three between the socialist wing of the party
By Jamie Johnson – speaks to a wider trend in major Speaker. times a day, and the moderates in the upcoming
in San Francisco cities: people such as Ms Thomas do at least. I had state assembly elections.
not think President Joe Biden’s party is Mr Boudin was to the Left of all of to stop
Joe Biden’s party are doing enough to tackle crime. them. But his attempts to make the city someone Mr Adams has lent his support to
disunited and struggling for safer have failed. Murders have stealing a incumbents Inez Dickens in Harlem,
solutions in areas where “Boudin’s recall proves Democrats increased, burglaries are up more than pack of beer and Michael Benedetto in the Bronx.
many fear for their safety have lost the public’s trust on crime,” 45 per cent and car break-ins by 32 per just before
the Washington Post declared. cent in 2022. you arrived’ But the two are facing stiff
It was when a man was shot outside opposition from candidates backed by
her cornershop three weeks ago that But the party is struggling for a A San Francisco “This is a residential area. We pay a More people died in San Francisco Left-wing firebrand Alexandria Ocasio
Chrissy Thomas finally snapped. response, with socialist and moderate policeman on patrol lot of money to live here and we’re last year from fentanyl overdoses than Cortez, a congresswoman with a
Her 16-year-old daughter had left wings bitterly opposed about the best in a city with a getting no support. He (Mr Boudin) Covid-19, yet Mr Boudin did not significant national profile.
just minutes before, after popping in to way to tackle the issue in a year when spiralling crime rate went too far, and he paid the price.” convict a single person in 2021 for
say hello on the way back from school. they face being heavily punished at the dealing the lethal opioid. She has endorsed housing activist
ballot box in midterm elections. San Francisco is an important Delsenia Glover in the 70th Assembly
“I can’t let her live in an bellwether city for the Left in America. Walking near the city hall, hundreds District against Ms Dickens, while her
environment like this,” she said, from In April, the pollster Gallup found It was here that Vice President Kamala of people live rough – black, white, former staffer Jonathan Soto will
behind a plexiglass screen, as a concern over crime was at its highest Harris served as District Attorney men, women, young and old. About contest the 82nd district against Mr
homeless man knocked over a display since 2016, with 53 per cent of between 2004 and 2010 and where the 7,750 people are thought to be Benedetto.
of crisps and another lit up a crack pipe Americans worried “a great deal” California governor Gavin Newsom homeless in San Francisco, though
and started smoking outside. about it. An ABC/Washington Post poll was mayor between 2004 and 2011. some put the figure much higher. The political posturing played out at
in May showed Americans trusted the the Met Gala, where last year Ms
“We have to see a change. It’s a Republican Party over Democrats to A recent poll found that 66 per cent Ocasio Cortez wore a white dress
free-for-all out there.” handle crime by 12 percentage points. of voters felt less safe than they did 10 emblazoned with ‘tax the rich,’ while at
years ago, with 64 per cent saying that this year’s event, Mr Adams had a
Last week, she took action, joining In San Francisco, Mr Boudin was homeless and mentally ill people on jacket that said ‘end gun violence.’
more than 120,000 San Franciscans elected District Attorney in 2019, with the street was their top concern.
who went to the polls to oust a District a pledge to send fewer people to jail Critics say the Democrat Party is
Attorney they felt was too soft and had and increase referrals for treatment. New York is another major city being ripped apart from the inside.
let this Democrat-run and famously facing a crime wave that Democrats
liberal city slide too far to the Left. What the city ended up with was a are struggling to manage. In 2020, “AOC is with my opponent. They
spiralling crime rate and a population shootings more than doubled to 1,531, support the same things like defunding
fearful for their safety. then climbed again to 1,562 in 2021, the the police,” Mr Benedetto said.
highest figure in 15 years.
Ms Thomas points to the streets “We want good education and safe
where you can see human faeces and Newly elected Democrat mayor Eric streets,” he added.
needles. “We get robbed three times a Adams put the issue at the top of his
day, at least. I had to stop someone priority list, but his ‘tough on crime’ “We are Democrats! We are not
stealing a pack of beer just before you stance has been met with disapproval socialists!” Ms Dickens said
arrived,” she said. from the far Left of his party. emphatically at a recent rally. “AOC
and the socialists are trying to take
over New York.”

Personal Maxwell tells of childhood ‘Colombian Trump’
abuse in bid for leniency could be next leader
Text for the day
By Josie Ensor US CORRESPONDENT ‘She was He would put on cruel quizzes, she By Luke Taylor in BOGOTA Hitler as “a great German thinker”, later
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5RPDQV 1,9 reduced to pulp,” Ghislaine Maxwell’s rejections’ He was also violent, Ghislaine off election for Colombia’s presidency. foreign relations at Santo Tomas Uni-
lawyers wrote of the socialite’s father. claimed. At age 13, her lawyers wrote versity in Bogota.
Father’s Day greetings “He could be cruel,” they said. she used a hammer to hang a poster of a Rodolfo Hernandez, best known for
pony, which “outraged her father, who his radio rants and his term as mayor of She said: “Colombians like him
$/$1 521$/' *28*+ b Until now, the deeply private daugh- took the hammer and banged on Ghis- a mid-tier city, was viewed as a fringe because he reminds us of our grandfa-
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IDPLO\ growing up in one of Britain’s most against 62-year-old Gustavo Petro. think at all.”
2QOLQH UHI $ notorious families. Shortly before her father’s death, she
met Epstein, a successful investment Mr Hernandez is seen as a straight- Mr Hernandez’s ill temper has also
Messages She did so in a desperate plea for leni- banker who went on to exploit and talking man of the people by supporters caught the public eye. A clip of him
ency before sentencing by a New York thanks to his frank demeanour and smacking an opposition councillor in
*5$7()8/ 7+$1.6b WR 6W -XGH IRU court on June 28, hoping to convince abuse dozens of women and girls. promises to root out corruption broad-
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2QOLQH UHI “difficult, traumatic childhood” left her Colombian
“vulnerable to exploitation” by Jeffrey 1991 and 2003 were notably missing The 77-year-old has pledged to cut presidential
Epstein. the wages of politicians, turn the presi- candidate, called
from the filing. dential palace into a museum and travel Adolf Hitler ‘a great
Writing candidly about her father in But Maxwell’s siblings claimed this in a taxi instead of a motorcade. German thinker’
an extraordinary 77-page filing, Ghis-
laine, 60, painted a picture of a troubled week that she spent much of her life Polls put him in a dead heat with Mr the face and screaming “son of a bitch”
relationship marred by abuse. being victimised by two men – her Petro, who was formerly a member of in his ear has gone viral in recent days.
the defunct M-19, an urban guerrilla
The youngest of nine siblings has father and Epstein – and that childhood movement, and later mayor of Bogota. A Hernandez victory would make
been described as her father’s favourite abuse meted out by the former left her him the latest in a wave of elite-bashing
child. Robert Maxwell even named his vulnerable to exploitation by the latter. Both candidates are riding a wave of personalists sweeping Latin America.
yacht – off which he died mysteriously anti-establishment rancour and have
in 1991 – the Lady Ghislaine. Her relationship with Epstein began served terms as city mayor – but there As well as Donald Trump, the million-
at a “moment of extreme vulnerability”, the similarities end. aire populist has been compared to Jair
But Ghislaine was “hardly given a her elder sister Anne Halve, a psycho- Bolsonaro, the Brazilian president.
glance” when a toddler, according to therapist, wrote in support of leniency. While Leftist Mr Petro has the aca-
the account given to the Manhattan fed- demic discourse and bookish appear- If Mr Hernandez fails to secure a
eral court. “We witnessed our father taking ance of the intelligentsia, millionaire Mr place in the Casa de Narino, Mr Petro
Ghislaine under his wing whereby she Hernandez has been labelled the will become Colombia’s first Leftist
Soon after Robert Maxwell became became overdependent on his approval “Colombian Trump” for his business president. “It’s all very ridiculous and
an MP, he stopped living at home, leav- background, outlandish proposals and right now I’m laughing, but there’s a
ing “little normal daily contact between and vulnerable to his frequent rapid off-the-cuff rants. good chance I could be crying on Sun-
father and child to counterbalance the mood swings, huge rages and rejec- day” Ms Florez said.
peaks of crisis and drama he created in tions,” Mrs Halve claimed. His most insensitive remarks includ-
the family,” the lawyers claimed. ing calling Venezuelan women “a fac-
“This led her to becoming very vul- tory of poverty” and described Adolf
nerable to abusive and powerful men.”

This week prosecutors are expected
to call for the maximum sentence – 55
years.

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Thousands World news
flee Shanghai
after severe
lockdown

Strict Covid rules prompt sometimes the country – after the city’s ALEX PLAVEVSKI/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK
exodus of Chinese and draconian lockdown in April and May.
foreigners who are taking For two months, most residents in the ‘No one is uncertainties, taking a combined kind of energy,” Sasha says. “There is a they say, that has been under way for Medical workers
their wealth with them city of 25 million people were banned leaving for wealth of £53 billion with them, accord- lot of collective anxiety, and the impli- several years. ride on a cargo
from leaving their apartments – includ- economic ing to the Henley & Partners investment cations for the mental health of the pop- bicycle in Shanghai
By Simina Mistreanu and Jenny Pan ing to walk pets or buy groceries – benefit but consultancy. Many more middle-class ulation [are large]. The government “The cultural environment used to as they try to keep
except for almost-daily PCR tests. rather out of and upper-middle-class residents are doesn’t realise how much damage they be relatively free, there were many the omicron variant
TAKE a vitamin C pill, spray disinfect- concern for also looking for a way out. have done and how much anxiety and exhibitions, live music, foreign bands,” in check
ant on the elevator ceiling, go down- Thousands were placed in makeshift life itself’ fear still exist even after opening up.” said Zhang, a 34-year-old programmer.
stairs to get a PCR test, rush back to the quarantine centres, some inside office Among them are Sasha and Colin, an
apartment, shove your clothes in the buildings and exhibition halls. There American couple who moved there four Sasha left for the US with the couple’s He said it used to be the most cosmo-
washing machine, shower and repeat – were widespread reports of people years ago to set up a business. They baby in March just before the full lock- politan city in China. “After this lock-
all while trying to suppress the fear that going hungry. asked to use pseudonyms because they down as soon as she heard authorities down, plus the blow to the education
at any moment, authorities might take fear reprisal from authorities. They said were separating children from their industry and the crackdown on English
you away to a Covid quarantine centre The strict measures quarantining they fell in love with the city’s authen- parents if they tested positive. Colin learning … foreign investors are with-
and kill your cat. vast swathes of the population were ticity and easy lifestyle, and the feeling stayed for five weeks of lockdown and drawing, and many other foreigners
intended to keep the omicron variant at that you could reach out to anyone to then also left China. will leave. The cosmopolitan atmos-
That was what daily life was reduced bay and protect the country’s economic create something together. phere will definitely be gone after-
to for 60 days for Nicole Tsai, a 35-year- centre and global trade hub. For locals, the lockdown and depar- wards.”
old marketing manager in Shanghai But all that has changed now. tures have accelerated the degradation
who went through the city’s gruelling But with cases still popping up, “I think the lockdown has killed that of Shanghai’s quality of life, a process, Zhang now wants to immigrate to
two-month Covid lockdown this spring. threats of fresh restrictions and no end New Zealand.
in sight to President Xi Jinping’s zero-
It was “a constant state of aggravation Covid policy, China’s wealthiest and
and suffocation”, she told The Sunday most cosmopolitan metropolis is being
Telegraph. permanently scarred as wealthier resi-
dents pack their bags for good.
After years of witnessing the gradual
loss of political freedoms in China and “It’s quite a paradox because these
with no hope of things improving, the people who have benefited from China’s
lockdown was the final straw. Particu- economic development, they are
larly when she started hearing reports migrating not for higher income. They
that people’s pets were being culled as are not going to get jobs with pay at the
an infection prevention measure. level they would get in Shanghai,” says
Biao Xiang, director of the Max Planck
“I became very sure that I didn’t want Institute for Social Anthropology in
to live like that anymore,” she said. “I Germany. “No one is leaving for eco-
had to run.” nomic benefit but rather out of concern
for life itself.”
Ms Tsai is among a growing exodus of
middle-class Chinese and foreign peo- At least 10,000 high-net-worth indi-
ple who are leaving Shanghai – and viduals will leave mainland China and
3,000 will depart Hong Kong this year
amid Covid restrictions and political

France faces danger of a ‘Soviet revolution’, warns Macron

By Henry Samuel in Paris may well hinge on how voters respond candidates can seize control of the embarked on a fierce offensive against order” if his supporters fell short of a LFI party. Speaking to The Sunday Tele-
to such dire, eleventh-hour warnings. National Assembly and run the govern- Mr Mélenchon, an erudite, finger-jab- majority. Mr Mélenchon responded by graph, Ms Mécary brushed off accusa-
FRANCE is heading for a dangerous ment as part of a power-sharing “cohab- bing 70-year-old. accusing the president of “disdain” for tions that Mr Mélenchon posed a threat
“Soviet revolution” if a Left-Green alli- Surveys suggest that NUPES, as Mr itation” with Mr Macron, who would voters by grandstanding abroad at this to French democracy, saying: “I was 18
ance led by ex-Trotskyite Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s New Popular, Environ- effectively become a lame duck. They have accused him of a penchant critical electoral juncture. “The chaos is in 1981 when socialist François Mitter-
Mélenchon takes control of its parlia- mental and Social Union is known, is for Leftist autocrats, flirting with coming from Macron,” he insisted. rand was elected president and I
ment today. heading to become France’s most pow- That is unlikely, but it may well force “Islamo-Leftism” and proposing a pro- remember full well how the Right
erful opposition force, potentially Mr Macron, who lost four million votes gramme that will tax France to ruina- Clément Beaune, the Europe minis- claimed we’d see Soviet tanks driving
At least, that’s what Emmanuel depriving Mr Macron of an absolute between the presidential run-off and tion and result in a de facto Frexit. ter, is fighting for his political life after down the Champs-Elysées.
Macron’s camp would like France to majority. the first round of parliamentary elec- coming second in round one against
believe as the country goes to the polls tions, to forge ad hoc alliances with con- In a hasty address in front of his pres- what he called his “extreme Left” “What is the danger? The constitu-
for a second round of parliamentary Mr Mélenchon has managed to galva- servative MPs to pass laws. idential jet before heading for Romania, NUPES opponent, gay rights lawyer tion works and it provides all the neces-
elections. The political fate of his party nise supporters – many of them young – and later Ukraine, Mr Macron warned Caroline Mécary from Mr Mélenchon’s sary guarantees.”
through outlandish claims his In response, the president’s camp has of “French disorder on top of global dis-

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Comment

ESTABLISHED 1961

Voters punish Tories who forget to be Tory

T here are two by-elections this week, one in Wakefield Lloyd called for a wage freeze – a big gamble in a suburb bomb, then, in response to the ERM crisis, raised taxes
and the other in Tiverton and Honiton, and just as one populated largely by professionals. The Liberal candidate, Eric himself. The Lib Dems soon won a seat at Christchurch in
can second-guess the results (a wipeout for the Tories) Lubbock (a one-of-a-kind politician who, in later life, offered to 1993 with a historic 35 per cent swing.
one can predict the excuses. “Governments never do well donate his body as food to Battersea Dog’s Home), was sold as a
halfway through a Parliament,” the Conservatives will say. champion for those stung by high prices and taxes. He secured Of all Tory leaders, however, it is Mr Johnson who ought to
“This is just a protest vote at things, like prices, beyond our a 22 per cent swing and a near 8,000 majority. Lloyd was understand best the dynamics of ballot box protest. He is only
control.” sacked, along with a third of the Cabinet, which contributed to PM thanks to the Brexit rebellion of 2016 – something his
a Labour general election victory in 1964. party establishment firmly opposed.
Never mind that the Tories certainly have won by-elections
midstream: only last year the party took Hartlepool for the Orpington established two trends that would haunt the Critical to that referendum surprise, demonstrating how
first time since its creation, with a swing of almost 16 per cent Tories for decades: the notion, inaccurate, that the Liberals important by-elections can be, were the Ukip victories at
against Labour. And never mind how devastating defeat in are progressive but economically on the side of the middle- Clacton and Rochester, as well as the party placing first in the
Tiverton would be given the size of the majority (24,000), or class, and a model of tactical voting that meant people hurt by 2014 European elections. Theresa May’s leadership, along
that a loss in Wakefield would represent a reversal of the Red the consequences of neo-socialist policy sometimes wind up with the elite campaign for a soft Brexit, was dealt a fatal blow
Wall-winning trend that is central to Boris Johnson’s survival electing outright socialist governments in protest. by the 2019 local elections, when the Tories lost more than
among nervous MPs. 1,300 seats – and she resigned after the Conservatives came
In 1970, Edward Heath was elected on the understanding fourth in the European elections.
These two seats are the bedrock of the Conservative that he would reverse Labour’s agenda; instead, he moved to
coalition. Were the Government doing a good job, there is the Left, and even nationalised Rolls-Royce. Backbenchers It was a series of rebellions that guaranteed a Johnson
every likelihood that they would hold them – but instead of pleaded for tax cuts and proper reform of the unions who leadership victory and a proper Brexit – in other words, the
acknowledging policy failure and switching course, expect held the country hostage; failure to listen led to three Prime Minister needs to listen to what the public is telling
ministers to insist that by-elections are freak events and the by-election losses in a row to the Liberals in 1973, as well as a him, because they were right before and they are right today.
voters just petulant. drubbing in local elections (Labour took London, the Liberals
Liverpool). In the 1974 February general election, the Liberals A key element of the coming defeats will be something Mr
This is wrong. Yes, by-elections are an opportunity to let off ate into the Tory vote and Labour slithered back into office on Johnson judges he can do nothing about: partygate, for which
steam, and many governments have lost a few contests, its most radical programme since 1945. he can only apologise and hope to be forgiven. But voters are
heavily, only to win a majority at the next election. Yet history also protesting the cost-of-living crisis, which has been made
shows that by-elections can also signal a new direction in Margaret Thatcher proved, in 1982, in the context of the worse by government policy, including an unacceptable,
politics, and the voters are usually spot-on in their diagnosis Falklands and the buds of an economic boom fed by supply- counterproductive and economically illiterate rise in national
of what has gone wrong. They don’t simply vote against the side reform, that a Conservative government could win a insurance. A Left-wing parliamentary majority in the future
Tories because they enjoy it: they punish them because by-election, at Mitcham and Morden – though her loss at can be avoided but only if these local defeats are properly
ministers have forgotten what they were elected to do. Eastbourne in 1990, on an enormous swing, helped seal the understood and there is a return to tax cutting, savings in
end of her premiership. expenditure, wholesale public service reform and a
The famous Orpington by-election of 1962 was a clampdown on militant unions.
referendum on years of Tory mismanagement: Chancellor John Major proceeded to dismantle whatever reputation
Selwyn Lloyd, appointed after a spending spree, had asked for economic management the Conservatives had left. He The Tories have faced a choice like this many times
his staff: “How soon are we going bust?” To control inflation, won the 1992 elections accusing Labour of planning a tax before. They have only ever won by taking the truly
Conservative path.

LETTERS and for the first time in my life will in “helpless” to do anything. No wonder taxes, no advertising or sponsorship, ALAMY
to the all probability not vote. this has led to a plunge in the pound, in health warnings on packaging, health
EDITOR G F Gooden particular against the US dollar. This of education, help with quitting and An otter (Lutra lutra) emerging among the water lilies in a pond in Devon
Woodbridge, Suffolk course leads directly to yet more controls on strength) have been
The PM’s failure to cut inflation by making imports, notably remarkably successful in cutting the Otters drive away other charms of the river
taxes leaves businesses SIR – I am among the dwindling oil and gas, more expensive. What an number of smokers. There is no need
short of cash and minority of those who experienced the own goal. to lose control of the product and the SIR – It is not only the pond keepers most of the trout have gone and,
confidence inflation of the 1970s as a junior Christopher Cross market by making it illegal. of Wiltshire who have suffered at the more unfortunately, our once
employee. Here’s what I learnt. Boxted, Suffolk paws of otters (“Otters give pond thriving population of kingfishers
SIR – I don’t know what voodoo The same applies to drugs that are owners something to carp about”, have disappeared as well.
economics the Treasury has used to Leapfrogging wage demands, when SIR – If the Governor of the Bank of currently illegal. Cannabis has report, June 11).
convince the Prime Minister that tax met, do nobody any good, including England needs to spend four months increased in strength, and the We used to be able to watch
cuts now are not essential, but the the leapfroggers. Nobody wants to be and £200,000 of taxpayers’ money to Government can do nothing about it, Here in the Forest of Dean many kingfishers – those most beautiful
argument is nonsense. the second-to-last man standing on create a “mission statement” (report, because it is illegal anyway. By small rivers and brooks, including birds – take the odd small fish.
wage awards. The leapfrogger June 12), then he has truly lost the plot. contrast, the strongest types of the one that borders my property, Otters, being mainly nocturnal, are
The economy is slowing down. I run becomes the leapfrogged and so the cigarettes are no longer available. were home to good populations of very difficult to see.
a medium-sized business and see it in cycle continues, until employees May I suggest the following: brown trout. However, since the Ted Harris
my sales. We are not replacing staff finally price themselves out of the maintain a consistently low rate of People die because illegal drugs are reappearance of otters in the district Blakeney, Norfolk
who leave. We are pulling in the belt a market. In the 1970s the industries inflation, no higher than 2 per cent. mixed with other dangerous products,
couple of notches. We’re sitting on a affected were mining, dockworking, Job done. whereas legal, and therefore be ruled out by investigation by the GP. informed clichés of virtue-signallers
big investment decision on a new area steel, cars, and textiles, among others, Nigel Lewis checkable, cigarettes are not. People Menopause is debilitating for many who never actually watch it.
of business, but with the Government with huge job losses. Farnham, Surrey die on our streets in turf wars, while Marc Versloot
depriving us of more money than ever others are burgled by addicts who women and a more careful diagnosis Rusthall, Kent
we are worried about cash. The most powerful group wins, but Woke Census question cannot get the controlled prescriptions and treatment is required.
usually for the benefit of the few, not they need to help them quit. Lynne Wilson Sole searching
Who sets off on a journey with little the majority. In the 1970s, power was SIR – Carol Matthews (Letters, June 12) Glasgow
fuel (cash) in the tank, without the with the unions and over time moved correctly points out that the woke The war on drugs has failed, just as SIR – I never ask guests to remove their
confidence that they will be able to top to Margaret Thatcher. There were Census question about menstruation prohibition of alcohol did in America. Diverse GB News shoes (Letters, June 12). Those in site
up the tank while on the journey? You millions of losers in both camps. fails at its objective when the subject is It is time to legalise, but control and boots or Wellingtons should not need
don’t – you stay at home, batten down a postmenopausal female. tax, all drugs. SIR – It is very concerning that asking. That said, I intend to mount a
the hatches and play it safe. Bringing inflation under control Richard Mountford advertising agencies continue to mirror by the front door, inclined at 45
depends to a great extent on the I propose a more accurate question: Hildenborough, Kent boycott GB News and therefore degrees, so that one can check for mud
I’m afraid that the PM goes from bad success of educating people on the “Does your genome contain a Y sex collude in damaging its business or worse lodged in deep-treaded soles.
to worse. It seems like he has again simple economics of the above. More chromosome?” If there is still Smart motorways (Business, June 13). Simon Cox
conned his parliamentary colleagues, often than not, the casualties of labour confusion, a simple DNA test will Brixham, Devon
having promised tax cuts only days withdrawal are not so much the determine sex for life, unaffected by a SIR – It’s sad to read of yet another Stop Funding Hate – ironically a
ago. Tax cuts need to happen now, not employees themselves but other surgeon’s knife, age-related changes, incident on a smart motorway rather hateful social media campaign We accept letters by post, fax and email
later, to avoid stagflation. Leaving groups in society such as commuters, or current fashions. resulting in a life being ruined (“Smart group – bullied businesses into only. Please include name, address,
them to later by listening to the same students, and public-sector customers. Stephen Birch motorways about ‘savings over safety’, shunning GB News before it had even work and home telephone numbers.
economists who thought they had Peterborough says crash victim”, report, June 12). started broadcasting just over a year 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London
cured inflation is just naive. We need to disdain pointless ago. SW1W 0DT
Mike Lane leapfrogging wage demands and their SIR – I am just about fed up with the It’s interesting to note that in the FAX 020 7931 2878
Nelson, Lancashire consequences in the same way that way women-born-women who remain latest edition of The Highway Code, the Of course there may be Right- EMAIL [email protected]
society has come to condemn women are being treated in sport by word smart isn’t mentioned once. In leaning figures like David Starkey, who FOLLOW Telegraph Letters on
SIR – Boris Johnson seems to have no behaviour such as drink-driving, women-born-men, who are allowed to fact, it plays down the widespread use have been “uncancelled” by this Twitter @LettersDesk
comprehension of the poverty that so dangerous speeding and compete with the former. of live lanes by stating that “the hard channel, but there are necessarily
many people face, particularly in the environmental recklessness. shoulder is used as an extra lane on many eloquent Left-wing or woke
so-called Red Wall constituencies. And now the proposed Census some motorways during periods of commentators participating in
Inflation is not always a question about menstruation. This congestion” (rule 269), when in most excellent debates which are the
Does he really think that offering government’s fault, and there may be would be a better one: “Do you today cases on smart motorways they are hallmark of this channel.
voters the right to buy will bring about contributing factors, as now, which are or have you ever been able to produce being used all the time, as on the newly
levelling up, when huge numbers of outside government influence or sperm?” reopened M27. It is fascinating to see the
people cannot afford food, fuel or rent control. However, poor government Larry Oster discrepancy between the warmth and
(“‘Benefits to Bricks’ is no solution to management, communication and Let the men-born-men, who are Southsea, Hampshire diversity of GB News and the ill-
Britain’s housing woes”, Gerard Lyons, education will only result in a difficult now identifying as women or who
Comment, June 12)? situation getting worse. That need not have transitioned into women, answer Menopause panic
happen if government plays a personal questions.
He and his Cabinet colleagues are so responsible and properly informed Maggie Hodgson SIR – I read with interest Linda Kelsey’s
divorced from the realities of life that role and society effectively Manchester article (June 12) about the possibility of
they cannot see that people need demonstrates its intolerance of being menopause panic leading to women in
actual money in their pockets to afford on the receiving end of the ill- SIR – Could someone explain to me their 40s fearing the onset of this
the essentials of life, and unless he considered, thoughtless and selfish how forcing girls to wear trousers, natural right of passage.
takes action to cut taxes he will have removal of labour. historically worn by men, is gender
no chance of remaining in power – and neutral (“School uniform goes gender If, like me, you witnessed your own
that goes for the Tory Party as a whole. We will discover in the coming neutral as girls’ skirts banned”, report, mother’s painful journey through this
weeks and months whether anybody June 12)? phase in life, you may already be
I have voted for the Tories for the in power today bothered to learn any Peter Eyles dreading it. Having vocal advocates is
past 60 years but I despair at the of the lessons of the 1970s. It really Mahón, Minorca very reassuring and the sharing of
choice I will have at the next election, would be so silly to make all the same information and advice is wonderful.
mistakes again. Control of drugs Women’s health is sadly still under-
John Bath resourced, particularly in Scotland.
Clevedon, Somerset SIR – Matthew Lesh points out that a
ban on smoking would “strip the Many women, like some of Ms
SIR – If ever there was a figure who Treasury of revenue and hand it Kelsey’s friends, glide through the
should keep calm and carry on, surely straight to criminal gangs” (“New menopause. However, too many are
it is the Governor of the Bank of smoking laws would mark the end of still being told that their symptoms are
England. This should not only be our liberty”, Comment, June 12). caused by stress and the demands on
evident in words but also in his actions. their time by work and family. Other
Current policy on smoking (high health conditions can have similar
Instead, we have a Governor who symptoms to the menopause, and can
warned that increases in the cost of
food would be “apocalyptic”, and
publicly stated that the Bank is

18 *** Sunday 19 June 2022 The Sunday Telegraph

Comment

NIKKI DA COSTA

Women like
J K Rowling speak
for the majority

Gender- T his week More in Common To order prints or signed copies of any Telegraph cartoon, go to telegraph.co.uk/prints-cartoons or call 0191 603 0178 ‹ [email protected]
critical published a report on “Britons
women have and Gender Identity” combining JANET DALEY
been vilified a survey of 5,000 people with focus
and abused. group findings. It stated what should Trade unions such as the RMT
Now it’s not be controversial – that “we need to are relics of a bygone era
clear that find a way to balance the experience of
they say a very small minority – who often go The B y the time you read this it should Of course, given the bizarre old days of nationalised industries and union movement or to an overtly
what the through real hardship and want to be organised be clear whether the rail unions historical circumstances of the perpetual strike action (when the Left-wing programme. This move was
public is able to live their lives freely – with those working are going through with their moment, the country as a whole will perennial question was “Who runs crystallised in the removal of Clause 4
already who are concerned that these changes class with threat to paralyse the country for a not be as helpless in the face of this Britain?”), there were straightforward from the party’s constitution, which
thinking do not, inadvertently or otherwise, its legacy week. The chance of a cave-in at the disruption as it would once have been. confrontations between the had committed it to seizing “the
undermine sex and gender-based rights of eternal last possible moment was not, and may In fact, the apparent assumption of rail government and the workers who means of production, distribution
When people or women’s safety”. struggle still be not, beyond the realms of union leaders that stopping train travel were employed in its industries. and exchange”.
have lost simply no possibility, but the slow-motion can put an end to economic activity, or The Labour Party, which began as
their There is much to welcome in the longer exists inevitability of this collision was pretty even daily working life, now seems the political wing of the trade union That was the end of trade unionism
livelihoods report. The Government will feel more much predictable from the start. rather quaint. movement, relied on this historic as a legitimised arm of social authority.
for daring to confident as it mulls policy decisions, READ MORE relationship to conciliate with their It was also the end of the notion of a
challenge the not least because it has been welcomed telegraph.co.uk/ The dispute (to the extent that there We all know what’s going to happen, comrades (as exemplified by Harold unified proletariat that had to be
orthodoxy, by LGBT organisations such as opinion is one) could not be settled because it don’t we? The people who had become Wilson’s famous invitations to “beer recognised and represented in every
fairness Stonewall, despite the data being largely was not designed to be settled, at least accustomed to doing their jobs full and sandwiches” at No 10) and national policy decision. What had
dictates that unhelpful to its hardline positions. In not without apparent total victory for time from home will just go back to reach agreements that reinforced the once been known as the “organised
this must not sport, there is vindication for the Prime the union side. It was never about doing that next week, probably quite idea that the unions were national working class” with its historic legacy
be brushed Minister and Nadine Dorries for daring money. The median pay of train drivers contentedly. All pressure to return to power brokers. of eternal struggle was now a
under the to say what the public are thinking. Only is well above that of nurses, some the office is suspended until further phantasm. What began with cultural
carpet 19 per cent of the public believe trans hospital doctors and qualified notice. And who are those people? When the Thatcher government and social change was cemented with
women should complete in women- teachers, and the average income of They are the comfortable professionals technological progress: the cyber age
only sports. This is where there is “the other railway staff is comparable with earning secure salaries who, we must Their belligerence seems not put an end to the old feudal idea of
highest level of opposition”, where the many graduate professions. Nor was it surmise, the hard-Left rail union only obviously self-serving taking on the trade of your family or
public see “their participation [as] about forced job losses. The number of leaders would regard as bourgeois and gratuitous, but out of local community. The fatalistic
unfair, undermining a level playing Network Rail staff applying for class enemies. So, who will bear the touch with the times attitudes and ethics that had grown
field” because of the biological voluntary redundancy is apparently brunt of this travel blight? The out of the first industrial revolution
advantages of being born male. higher than the number of jobs that the commuting occupations that provide famously got a grip, something were finished.
organisation wants to cut. public services such as hospital care changed irrevocably in this dynamic. It
In health, a majority of Britons (nurses, medical clinicians, auxiliary was not just that the most obstreperous So, where does this leave modern
believe physical medical intervention This has never been anything less and cleaning staff) and education union leadership was put out of trade unionism? Paradoxical as this
towards transition should not start than an undisguised struggle for (teachers, catering and caretaking business by legislation that forbade its may seem given their current threat, it
below the age of 18. Opposition is political power. For those who know staff). Not to mention the millions of coercive tactics, or that whole is Mick Lynch and his RMT trench
consistent across age groups and their Marxist terminology, it is easily working-class people being paid a lot industries were made unviable by their fighters who are facing extinction.
political affiliation, even without recognisable as a form of anarcho- less than train drivers who will bloody-minded resistance to technical Their belligerence seems not only
discussion of the potential impact of syndicalism: an attempt to seize simply be unable to work at all – and innovation. What happened was, in obviously self-serving and gratuitous,
puberty blockers on brain and bone control of the economy by mass strike will therefore earn little or nothing for political terms, bigger and more but out of touch with the times. They
development or sexual function, or action. It is quite distinct from the a week. earth-shaking. The old idea of are acting out a drama in which the old
cross-sex hormones on fertility and generally understood function of a working-class solidarity, which script is useless. The employers and
long-term health. strike, which is to demand better pay So, where is the class-war logic in actively resisted social mobility and the Government cannot submit to
and conditions for the staff of a this? Do the unions see themselves as the individual aspiration that naturally their demands because those demands
In education, 63 per cent think that particular industry. If you are leading a virtuous assault on behalf of went with it, simply collapsed. So final make no sense economically or
schools should tell young people “some disinclined to adopt the Left-wing all workers who are being exploited or and irrevocable was this collapse that politically. If they persist, they will
people are transgender” but they are lexicon, you could call these threats a at risk of being discarded by profit- Labour had to transform itself (via hasten the day when technical
more likely to say that this is an issue kind of protection racket. Give us what obsessed private companies? This Blairism) into a party that was no innovation makes their skills
that should be discussed in secondary we demand – which is to say, would be a hard case to make since longer inextricably tied to the trade redundant and they will be
school rather than primary school. This acknowledge our total control of an they used to strike pretty regularly remembered only for the short-term
should focus minds on what is taught, essential public service – or the when the rail industry was owned damage they managed to do on their
when, and by whom. country gets it. outright by the state. Back in the bad way out.

In single sex spaces, only 24 per cent
and 29 per cent of the public support
trans women using women’s changing
rooms and toilets if they have not
undergone gender reassignment
surgery (they still have a penis). If they
have had surgery it rises to 48 per cent
and 53 per cent. This poses a significant
problem for self-ID policies.

All of this helps move the discussion
on and provides the foundation for
further work. But my relief is tempered
because its authors, consciously or not,
were unfair in two areas.

Firstly by obscuring the extent to
which there has been society-wide
denunciation of individuals’ “legitimate
concerns” by mainstream politicians,
corporations, and the media,
encouraged by Stonewall. When people
such as J K Rowling have been vilified
and abused or, like Allison Bailey, lost
their livelihoods for daring to challenge
the orthodoxy, fairness dictates this
must be acknowledged, not brushed
under the carpet.

Second, by appearing to dismiss
those advocating for what is often the
common ground as somehow “other”
than the report’s kind, compassionate
public, keen to find solutions. Many
women may feel fearful that their early
advocacy and fight to be heard, by
necessity played out on social media,
has brought with it the implication that
those on Twitter should have “logged
off ” and had “proper conversations”.

Highly polarised debates become
polarised when we cannot see the other
person’s view, and when people feel
desperate and isolated. Many of us will
have stayed silent in some way on this
issue at some point – worried by the
high costs of speaking out or “not
knowing enough” – we’ve let others
bear the risk of raising issues that need
raising, and therefore to all of us
belongs responsibility for polarisation.

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New Dawn, a charity for victims of
domestic abuse, sexual violence, and
stalking

NILE GARDINER

The Biden era is a calamity for the US and the free world

P erhaps the saddest sight in the a huge issue for American voters. Times, the doyen of the Left-wing READ MORE Angeles outlining his non-response to watchers believe the looming
world today is the stunning establishment, recently running a telegraph.co.uk/
decline of the globe’s sinking The sense of malaise across the opinion the inflation crisis was a confusing November midterm elections may
superpower. The United States is in United States is palpable. There is little piece discussing an open rebellion mess that backfired spectacularly. An usher in the biggest conservative
In more public confidence in the leadership of among leading liberals, questioning arrogant Biden sounded incoherent, revolution in the US Congress since
than 20 free fall, its economy heading towards Joe Biden, who is increasingly a the president’s ability to lead them in 1994. America’s conservative
years in recession, with soaring inflation, and came across as deeply out of touch
Washington skyrocketing prices for petrol and president in denial, angrily lashing out the 2024 presidential race. with American families. It was hard to movement is undergoing a distinct
I have never consumer goods, and a plummeting at his legions of critics on both sides of In the Biden era, America’s sinking believe this was the leader of the free revival, offering policy solutions and
seen a more the political aisle, and refusing to world addressing the nation in such a ideas that threaten the Left’s grip on
chaotic stock market erasing trillions of Left offers the American people only
White dollars from the value of American accept any responsibility for his cavalier fashion at a time of power in Washington.
House retirement accounts. country’s increasingly perilous state. more Big Government socialism, tremendous economic pain. Borrowing a line from the victorious
extremist and racially divisive woke
America’s porous southern border Fewer than one in four Americans ideology, open borders, striking In many respects, Joe Biden’s 2016 Vote Leave Brexit referendum
has seen a staggering two million now believe the US is heading in the weakness on the world stage, and a campaign, US conservatives are now
illegal border crossing attempts presidency is the most amateurish in
since the start of the Biden presidency, “right direction” according to the latest relentless vision of US decline. The modern American history. An talking about “taking back control” of
RealClearPolitics average poll of polls. White House’s high-spending, heavy embarrassment on the world stage, as the United States from the far Left.
and most major US cities have Biden’s own overall approval rating is tax, anti-free-market agenda has made the catastrophic Afghanistan America needs the return of full
witnessed their biggest crime waves in
several decades, with Washington DC barely scraping 40 per cent, making tens of millions of Americans poorer withdrawal demonstrated, and a liberty, economic freedom, public
him one of the least popular presidents and struggling to make ends meet in complete nightmare domestically. The safety, secure borders, and the
competing to be the carjacking in modern American history at this the world’s biggest economy. White House is utterly chaotic: at strength and conviction to lead the free
capital of the US. Rising lawlessness
and anarchy, from New York to early stage of his presidency. The president looks isolated and times, the level of almost comical world. This is the antithesis of the
Joe Biden has been a disaster as US incompetence has a distinctly Monty Biden agenda, which has been so
Los Angeles, has once again become increasingly bewildered when he takes Python-esque satirical feel to it. destructive and immensely damaging
president. Even his own party sees him to the podium. His recent address on for the American people.
as a huge liability, with The New York board the USS Iowa in the port of Los Small wonder that many political

The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 19 June 2022 *** 19

DANIEL HANNAN

There is one reason for staying in the ECHR –
and it has nothing to do with human rights

Britain does O n Thursday, Geoffrey are necessarily general – the more Listen to how “human rights” is
not benefit Robertson, the distinguished opportunity there is to legislate from used in general discourse. If we
from QC, told ITN that “if Britain the bench. As the then British ECHR consider the plain meaning of the
belonging does pull out of the European Court, judge Paul Mahoney put it in 2012: words, it should be a wholly cheerful
to the it would deprive British citizens of “The open textured language and the phrase. Instead, it is used sarcastically,
Strasbourg their rights”. structure of the Convention leave the as a shorthand for frivolous claims by
court Court significant opportunities for shady characters. (Something similar
Variants of that statement have been choice in interpretation. In exercising has happened to the phrase “health
made many times since Tuesday, when that choice, particularly when faced PA and safety” – again, words that ought
Boris Johnson hinted that, if the with changed circumstances and to be uncomplicatedly positive, but
European Court of Human Rights attitudes in society, the Court makes but because some of the evidence Safe haven: Hope The PM is (quite rightly) in favour which, through bad association, have
continued to block his attempts to new law.” against him might have been obtained Hostel in Kigali, of controlled immigration, and many become a joke.)
deport illegal immigrants to Rwanda, improperly. He had earlier been Rwanda, where more qualified workers and students
Britain might throw off its jurisdiction. Who should determine how awarded damages by the ECHR for migrants deported are now coming here, especially from The expansion of human rights law
The notion that this of all countries “attitudes in society” have changed? having been detained under our from the UK would the Commonwealth. But it is is, naturally, good news for human
needs to be “given” its rights by an Surely society as a whole acting anti-terrorist laws. have been sent had impossible to secure public support rights lawyers. A sector that barely
overseas court is an odd one. Was through its elected representatives. If the ECHR not for legal immigration as long as existed before the 1990s has become a
Britain a routine violator of human our collective thinking about, say, Which brings us to Rwanda. The intervened people see boats arriving here multi-million-pound industry, whose
rights prior to the coming into force of same-sex relationships has altered ECHR has a heavy backlog: more than illicitly from safe countries. Boris, in beneficiaries, in their own eyes, are
the European Convention in 1953? since 1950, then we can change our 10,000 cases are awaiting adjudication, FOLLOW short, is not picking a fight for the paladins fighting for the
Were we in the habit of torturing laws (as, in that instance, we did). at least 1,000 of them for a decade or Daniel Hannan sake of it; his party’s re-election is at underprivileged – an attitude that can
dissidents, closing down opposition When courts instead presume to more. Yet it somehow managed to rush on Twitter stake. Almost nothing is as lend them a terrifying fervour.
newspapers or deporting whole “make new law”, they engage in a form through a blocking order to prevent @DanielJHannan; damaging to a government as the
populations?  of arbitrary rule. the first batch of illegal immigrants READ MORE at appearance of being at the mercy Yet almost no one bothers to ask the
being sent to a processing centre in telegraph.co.uk/ of events. When voters see most basic question of all. What
Robertson makes a category error, ECHR rulings often advance an Kigali. opinion ministers unable to fulfil their benefits come to Britain as a result of
as do many human rights lawyers. He agenda that has been rejected at the promises, they don’t say, “Well, that’s its adherence to the ECHR? What
suggests that by signing up to a ballot box. Euro judges frequently Few people, from first principles, the ECHR for you”; they say “Bloody would we lose without it?
charter, we somehow create new cross into what are, by any normal would have chosen the Rwanda sort it out!”
rights. But we do no such thing. All we definition, political rather than solution, which is both blunt and Bad-faith defenders of the system
do is appoint a different set of people juridical questions. Whether or not expensive. But the tendency of judges, To put it another way, Britain does (including some barristers who should
to interpret our rights for us. prisoners should be allowed the vote, British and European, always and not have a human rights deficit; but it know better) pretend that opponents
for example, ought surely to be a everywhere to challenge deportation does have a democratic deficit, in the of the European Convention somehow
Long before 1953, the United matter for MPs, not for lawyers. orders left ministers with no choice sense that its elected representatives favour torture or slavery, as if these
Kingdom had strong laws but to move the process offshore. are subordinate to quangos, things were not already amply covered
guaranteeing freedom of expression, Sometimes, they seem to take The Channel crisis is starting to bureaucracies and activist judges. by our own laws.
habeas corpus, religious pluralism and positive pleasure in siding with undermine the Government’s viability.
so on. All that subscribing to the ECHR scoundrels, awarding compensation to More honest defenders argue that
meant was that the final determination terrorists on technicalities, arguing Britain needs to set an example. We
of these things was shifted from British that prisoners have the right to might not exile political opponents,
to European judges. Some of these pornography and so on. Their most but we need to set an example to the
judges came from countries with a egregious power grabs, though, have Albanians or the Sorbs or the
strong tradition of the rule of law. Ruthenes. After all, they go on, the
Others, not so much. There is, for ECHR rulings often European Convention was largely a
example, still a Russian judge, Mikhail advance an agenda that British invention.
Lobov, determining whether our has been rejected at the
human rights record is up to scratch. ballot box True. So was the spinning jenny. So
was the steam-powered water pump.
You might argue, of course, that the been in the field of immigration policy, Like them, the European Convention
very fact of being foreign, and thus where the ECHR appears to begin was of its time. It was a useful way to
outside any national appointments from the assumption that every help formerly fascist countries adopt
system, gives European judges an extra removal order ought to be blocked. liberal norms, and an encouragement
dollop of objectivity. Against this, Countries generally regarded as safe to communist countries to follow. It
though, is the evidence that they keep are declared unsafe for specific was not intended to prevent
extending their powers beyond deportees. Illegal entrants are allowed democratic governments from setting
anything envisaged by those who to remain on the grounds of their right their own immigration policies.
drafted and signed the Convention in to a family life – even if that family life In any case, there is a one-word answer
1950; and that they almost always do so hinges on a child with whom they have to those who say that the ECHR is a
from the same political direction. no contact. guarantor against authoritarianism –
Judicial activism – that is, the tendency Russia, which was a member until a
to rule on the basis of what you would Sometimes, the rulings are so few weeks ago.
like the law to say rather than what it perverse as to be hilarious, as when a
says – is not confined to the Strasbourg Libyan alcoholic with 78 convictions No, there is, in truth, only one
court. overturned his deportation order unambiguous argument for
partly on the grounds that it was very submitting to the Convention,
Our own judges do it, too – perhaps hard to buy alcohol in Libya.  namely that it is written into the
inescapably. In 1717, in a sermon Belfast Agreement and Brexit
preached before George I, the Bishop Sometimes, they involve notoriously Withdrawal Agreement. Britain is
of Winchester declared: “Whoever bad people. The radical cleric Abu currently seeking to preserve
hath an absolute authority to interpret Qatada, for example, managed to hold the letter and spirit of the former by
any written or spoken laws, it is he up his deportation to Jordan, where he altering the Northern Ireland
who is truly the law-giver... and not the was wanted on terrorism charges, not Protocol and restoring power-
person who first wrote or spoke them.” because he was at risk of mistreatment, sharing. Without those clauses,
there would be no case left for staying
The more general the law – and in the ECHR at all. Funny how things
rights to life, privacy, family and so on work out.

MELANIE MCDONAGH PETER LILLEY

The nanny statists are out in The Government is being outwitted
full force for the heatwave by the woke Whitehall Blob

Emboldened I t is, I maintain, impossible to escalators in Oxford Circus, which Distracted W hat the public want from often as patients. There was just one overregulation. But ministers cannot
by Covid, surpass the sheer annoyingness of would periodically bark orders at those Cabinet government and what our cursory mention of efficiency. Not a blame their officials – they are
public the public transport announcement descending: “Keep moving, please!”; ministers public servants want to single mention of ghastly clinical ultimately accountable for what their
service “See it. Say it. Sorted”. “Let others pass on the left!”; “Plenty of are allowing deliver have never been more failures at Mid Staffs, Morecambe Bay, departments do.
providers room inside!”; and “If you must stand, their civil different. Ask the public their Shrewsbury and Telford. No mention
get bossier I don’t know whether it’s the cod stand on the right”, which were no servants to priorities and they will likely say: help of waiting lists, cover-ups, clinical And conflicts between ministers and
by the day colloquialism of the “sorted”, or the doubt enunciated with perfect diction. take the with the cost of living, a functioning standards or value for money. officials are nothing new: historically,
way it’s supposed to rhyme with the reins of health service, schools making good when a minister has no clear agenda or
READ MORE two syllables of “see it/say it”, or its But no matter how good the power the learning lost during the pandemic, Worse still, it states that convictions but chases headlines, then
telegraph.co.uk/ assumption that we respond to a enunciation, this still got up the noses and economic growth to pay for demonstrating a commitment to EDI is the civil servants take over.
opinion jingle rather than an appeal to reason, of passengers, men in particular, who services without higher taxes. more important than “just technical
but it never fails to bring on a couldn’t stop themselves swearing skills”. Of course eliminating But, in my experience, if a minister
homicidal impulse. back – that generation being more What they don’t ask for is more discrimination is important, but when is strongly committed to a clear agenda
bolshie than ours. focus on equality, diversity and someone we love goes to hospital it is – even one that clashes with the
Unfortunately, it’s also one of the inclusion, obsessing over multiple the technical skills of the medical staff prevailing civil service mindset –
few completely audible But there’s a difference between definitions of gender and sexuality, or we worry about. officials will help deliver it. Certainly,
announcements on public transport. hectoring and nannying. And it’s “decolonising” everything from the mine did so magnificently.
actually quite legitimate for a Tube curriculum to our buildings. Yet, these Worst of all, it proposes using the
But at this time of year, there are driver to tell passengers to “Move right are the priorities for many who Everyday Discrimination Scale (which In Thatcher’s time, the prevailing
others that run it close, though they’re down inside the cars”, since it’s dominate the public service. asks staff to report how discriminated civil service mindset was “statist”
less easy to hear. The other day, I was natural but antisocial to stand by the against they feel) as an “objective” tool – the only options served up to
on an Underground platform and what doors, and it’s the job of the transport Vivid proof of how those priorities of management. Yet this is entirely ministers were top-down regulation,
I think the lady on the tannoy was system to get as many of us as possible crowd out all other objectives was subjective and, published research public spending and state control.
saying was that if we were trying to on the trains. provided last week by a report on suggests, completely worthless. Successful ministers had to devise
drink water while wearing a face mask, health-care leadership. Faced with a their own proposals, based on
we should first remove the face mask, Public services went into dysfunctional NHS – increasingly The only answer to a markets, choice and delegation, and
and then replace it afterwards. authoritarian mode, marred by scandalous clinical failures, virulent ideology is a more drive them through.
whereby everyone was being intolerable waiting lists, diminishing powerful vision, pursued
That was quite something. We’re hectored about every move chances of seeing a GP, and escalating with relentless conviction To be fair to ministers today, they
used by now to being told to carry costs – Sajid Javid very sensibly called face that same statist mindset but
water with us on the Underground in But advising us to remove our face READ MORE Javid – one of our most robust compounded by a virulent belief that
hot weather. Also, if we’re feeling masks in order to drink water, and telegraph.co.uk/ in a soldier to give some brusque, ministers – very sensibly kicked this the pursuit of new woke values is more
then to replace them, is not only opinion military common-sense advice on nonsense into touch by pretending important than prosperity, freedom
unwell, not to travel at all, or to get off leadership. On paper, Javid could not that the report’s main and opportunity. However, the only
at the next stop and ask for help. stating the obvious (except, folks, no recommendation was to reduce the answer to a virulent ideology is a more
one has to wear a mask any more); have made a better choice: General Sir number of full-time Equality, Diversity powerful vision, backed up by
This isn’t so much a transport it’s nannying. Gordon Messenger – a man who has and Inclusion managers (actually, it evidence and pursued with relentless
won the DSO twice, for defeating was to make EDI every manager’s top conviction. Fallacious woke beliefs
announcement as a health one. And it I blame Covid. During those two Saddam Hussein’s forces in Iraq and task). But the fact that someone of must be countered with facts. To his
marks a kind of mission creep in the General Messenger’s calibre can credit, Boris Johnson started that
way public service functions, from godawful years, public services went commanding the Helmand task force succumb to the prevailing woke process with the brilliant Sewell report
getting you to stick to the rules to into authoritarian mode, whereby against the Taliban. Javid asked him ideology proves its potency. on racial disparities, debunking claims
everyone was being hectored about “to look at how we can support leaders that Britain is fundamentally racist.
telling you things your mother might In many other departments, the Sadly, because of Covid this was not
if she were still treating you like a every move they made and bossiness to drive up efficiency and give staff Blob is trying to impose its views. followed through.
child. So, “Mind the gap” is actually was the default setting for anyone the space to focus on delivering care Nadhim Zahawi’s officials served up a
dealing with the public. Now, many for patients”. Schools Bill that rows back on previous The challenge may be tough, no
quite useful advice, given how many work pushing power away from government has been better equipped
people actually fall down the space people just can’t stop themselves. A But this terror of the Taliban and Whitehall towards parents. Home to refute woke denigration of Britain as
between a train and a platform, but few weeks ago, during the last sunny Office officials openly campaign a racist society. Most leading cabinet
telling you to carry water or ask for spell, the Met Office actually advised scourge of Saddam was no match for against Priti Patel’s plans to discourage ministers are of ethnic minority origin.
people not to go out and sit in the the Blob. They reduced him to “the illegal immigration. Treasury and They got there not by harping on about
help if you’re ill is just bossy. Mind you, very model of a modern major general” other departments resist reaping equality, but by demonstrating their
if the ventilation isn’t working, that garden for fear of heatstroke. Brexit dividends by diverging from EU ability. They have the moral authority
would be worth pointing out before Stop it. Please. mocked by Gilbert and Sullivan for to insist that their officials do likewise.
But, I tell you what: I will let you spouting every fashionable nostrum
some frail soul ventures on a train, instead of showing military skills. He Lord Lilley is a former secretary of state
and faints. tell me to carry water when it’s hot if for trade and industry
you stop telling me “See it. Say it. signed a report that sidestepped every
Admittedly, the London Sorted”. Deal? issue he was asked to address and
instead focused almost entirely on
Underground has always had a bossy Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
side. A century ago, it tried something
new, with the installation of an – which is mentioned three times as
Automatic Stentaphone (a bit like a

gramophone) at the base of the

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News Focus

TOP GUNS: THE EVOLUTION OF MILITARY AIRCRAFT

Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire ROLE Supersonic strategic bomber Panavia Tornado ROLE Air defence and strike
SPEED SPEED 1,490mph (F3*; Mach 1.9)
COST ~$40m WEAPONS 1,240mph (Mach 1.6) *F3, the RAF air defence version. The other major mark was the WEAPONS 4x AIM-9 Sidewinder or A
GR4 ground attack version. IM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles (F3)
4x Kh-47 Kinzhal hypersonic
FIRST FLIGHT 1969 anti-shipping missiles COST ~£40m (1980s) UNCREWED

FIRST FLIGHT 1974

UNCREWED

Boeing MQ-25 Stingray ROLE Unmanned air-to-air refueller BAE Systems Taranis ROLE Remotely flown stealth tech
SPEED 385mph demonstrator
COST $17m WEAPONS None but carries 6.8 tonnes of fuel COST £185m SPEED
WEAPONS ~350mph
FIRST FLIGHT 2019 FIRST FLIGHT 2013
Provision for 2x air-to-air missiles

How the W hen Russia’s army rolled over Ukrainians’ struggle for survival has ‘Airforces of the
future of Ukraine’s borders in the final illustrated an age-old truth: quantity
air combat week of February, every piece has a quality all of its own. future will no
will change of informed analysis said the Eastern
after Ukraine European nation had little hope. At the beginning of the Ukrainian longer be able to
Russia’s army was far larger and better war, Russia’s air force had about 3,800
The Russian invasion is rewriting the rules of equipped, and its air force was among airframes, of which around 400 were rely on traditional
modern aerial warfare, but despite rapid advances the largest in the world. frontline combat types, such as the
in technology, we are still a long way from Flanker family, comprising the Su-34 platforms alone’
unmanned fighter planes. By Gareth Corfield Four months later, all of that bomber, Su-30 fighter-bomber and the
conventional wisdom has gone out of Su-37 air superiority fighter. Experts advantages haven’t translated well into
the window as air combat has say the guiding principle of Russian air reality.
stubbornly refused to conform to combat power is to deny their enemies
pre-war wisdom. Russia’s air force has the ability to fly around freely. It points to the fact that focusing
suffered 10 per cent casualties: by largely on technological developments
some estimates, half of the combat Russia has lost around 165 combat to get ahead in warfare may not be the
aircraft it deployed for the Ukrainian aircraft over Ukraine, according to best option.
invasion have been shot down or figures compiled by open-source
otherwise destroyed. intelligence researchers. This equates Questioning whether the war tells
to losses of about 10 per cent of its us more about emerging air warfare or
Western thinking about the future frontline combat strength, compared the state of the Russian Air Force,
of air combat previously focused on with order-of-battle figures compiled Heather Venable, at the US Air Force
the role of technology, drones and by Flight Global earlier this year. Air Command and Staff College, says:
artificial intelligence (AI), almost to the “Even if it suggests real problems with
exclusion of all else. As radars and Ukraine started the war with a mere the latter, how far do we want to risk
missiles became more sophisticated, 98 combat aircraft. Despite the running with that ‘lesson learned’ for
and populations’ ability to accept imbalance, Justin Bronk, air power one ongoing conflict and changing our
casualties shrank, so the future lay expert at the Royal United Services current development path?
with autonomous aeroplanes fighting Institute (RUSI) said in March that
aerial wars on the behalf of humanity. Russia’s air force spent the first four Seduced by ever-advancing military
days of the invasion on the ground for aviation technology and the cultural
Yet this line of thought has only fear of getting shot down. memory of how Ronald Reagan had
crumbled since the morning Putin outspent the Soviet Union into
ordered an invasion of his neighbour. However, after those first few days, oblivion, Russia had bought into the
Now, post-Ukraine, the future of air when Ukraine began fighting back overmatch concept.
combat is set to look far different than against Russian airstrikes, Western
expected – it has taught nations they analysts were struck vividly. RUSI’s The problem with overmatch is that
would be under threat by relying Bronk published a memorable note in losses of expensive, complex aircraft
solely on technology. early March titled ‘Is the Russian Air are hard to quickly replace. Losses of
Force actually incapable of complex air skilled personnel in wartime are even
So far, Ukraine has received just a operations?’ more difficult to cope with, however.
handful of aerial reinforcements – yet Technology can only substitute for a
its air force is still operational, Noting that “an anticipated series of lack of critical mass up to a certain
surviving amid onslaught. large-scale Russian air operations in point, and no matter how advanced the
the aftermath of initial cruise and aircraft, current air combat technology
It may not fly many missions these ballistic-missile strikes did not still requires a highly trained human
days, but the mere fact that Ukrainian materialise”, Bronk wrote that the sitting in a cockpit.
pilots can get airborne at all, months Russians “have conducted only limited
after one of the world’s more advanced sorties in Ukrainian airspace, in singles Teaming up for game-
air forces tried to seize control of their or pairs, always at low altitudes and
skies, is in itself a staggering mostly at night”. changing warfare
achievement that has confounded
Western analysts. The reason? Ukraine’s ground forces In recent years, armies have been
were bristling with anti-aircraft increasingly leaning on adopting
Summing up conventional thinking weaponry, ranging from man-portable ever-advancing technology to improve
circa mid-February, defence the efficiency of warfare.
commentator and an ex-RAF transport air defence systems – or rocket Developments in such technology
pilot, Andy Netherwood says: “Russia launchers carried by foot soldiers – have included the use of drones for
would enjoy the kind of air superiority through to Buk armoured vehicles fighting, and advancements such as
over Ukraine that the Western air BAE Systems’ “optionally manned”
forces have got used to enjoying over with manned radar systems. Some of Tempest jet.
the Gulf or over Afghanistan. this was captured by the Ukrainians
from ill-prepared Russians who While there is no dispute this is
He adds: “One of the most beneficial, the war in Ukraine has
remarkable things is the fact that here abandoned their posts and fled. shifted arguments and prompted
we are more than 100 days in and Ukrainian military doctrine is analysts to now argue that human
Russia still doesn’t have control of the pilots will remain in cockpits for the
air over Ukraine.” heavily influenced by that of Soviet foreseeable future.
Russia, and the clash between Soviet
Lessons from the war It comes as the future of air combat
air defence doctrine and modern also evolves into a mix between naval
in Ukraine Russian combat air power has proved and air force aviation, and between
expensive and bloody for the Kremlin’s countries’ forces – blending air combat
Where conventional beliefs once
focused on ‘overmatch’ – the idea of troops.
beating a more numerous enemy “In recent years, analysts … have
through superior technology – the
tended to focus on the impressive

combat-air equipment modernisation
conducted by Russia since 2010,”
concedes Bronk, acknowledging how
Russia’s attempts to match the West

and reduce the country’s technological

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Eurofighter Typhoon ROLE Air superiority and strike F-35 Lightning ROLE Stealth multi-role combat aircraft
SPEED SPEED
COST £120m WEAPONS 1,380mph (Mach 1.8) COST £90m WEAPONS 1,200mph (Mach 1.6)

FIRST FLIGHT 1986 6x AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles FIRST FLIGHT 2006 11x AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air
or 18x MBDA Brimstone ground attack missiles
missiles

OPTIONALLY UNCREWED

BAE Systems Tempest ROLE Optionally manned multi-role combat Sukhoi Su-57 ROLE Stealth multirole fighter
aircraft SPEED
COST ~£100m SPEED COST ~$100m WEAPONS 1,330mph (Mach 1.7)
WEAPONS Mach 1.8 (intended)
FIRST FLIGHT Not yet FIRST FLIGHT 2010 12x Vympel R-77 air-to-air missiles,
MBDA Storm Shadow; 4x Kh-59 TV-guided cruise missiles
future laser cannon or 4x Kh-58 anti-radar missiles

knowledge together rather than exercised with the US Marine Corps rather than reflecting back to a hostile dents. Maintainers must trace over handle multiple, simultaneous sources the past of people commenting on
competing fiefdoms. squadron deployed alongside them on receiver. damaged areas on a sheet of acetate of information points to the potential getting carried away by the
the carrier, along with Israelis, Italians, and scan that into the IT system. future of air combat in light of the technology,” cautions Dr Jordan.
In Norfolk, the RAF is training pilots and Japanese F-35 squadrons as the That low observability comes at a Complex algorithms work out whether Ukrainian war experience.
for its F-35 Lightning fighter jets, ship sailed past their respective price: maintaining the special coating the damage is repairable and decree Echoing the warning from the
relying on technologically advanced nations. needs lots of highly-skilled trades- whether it can be fixed or replaced. Dr David Jordan of the Freeman Air USAF’s Dr Venable about drawing
ground simulators at its base near people and, above all, lots of time. and Space Institute at King’s College premature conclusions from the
Marham. “Unlike anything I’ve certainly been Steve Brown, BAE’s head of UK London agrees the F-35 and its Ukraine conflict, he compares the
around in the past,” says Sqn Ldr Removing certain external access training, says Britain maintains a “pay capabilities will dictate the future of air trend among some thinkers of saying
As it stands, a significant part of Campbell. “The ability to just turn up panels on the F-35, for instance, means to be different” stance with the F-35, combat, at least in Western eyes. drones can do it all to Duncan Sandys’
British air power revolves around just and join in with a Norwegian, Dutch, breaking the smooth outlines of the having established its own sovereign defence review of 1957.
24 of the “fifth-generation” fighter jets, Belgian or Polish, perhaps in the anti-radar coating. The process of training facility. In the near term, he says, the
which are made by Lockheed Martin future, four-ship [formation] of F-35s. reapplying it can take up to two days as evolution of air power will be Then, as now, the debate was
– one of the giant aerospace companies To make your foreign aid seamless is the special mix of materials cures and While there are doubtless good “complementary” to older between human-piloted aeroplanes
alongside the likes of BAE Systems that the way we need to be going to fully hardens. foreign policy reasons for not relying technologies. Recognising that and the drones of their day, guided
dictate the Western way of aerial increase our combat mass.” on the US-approved F-35 repair and overmatch is simply too expensive for missiles such as the Bristol
warfare. Neil “Shiner” Wright, BAE Systems’ overhaul facility in Italy, commercial some countries to credibly embrace, Bloodhound. It took years for the RAF
That’s where the West sees the ground training delivery manager at reasons loom large: seven other Dr Jordan says the future lies in to recover from the Conservative
One frontline unit, the Royal Air future of air power: in the face of RAF Marham, is in charge of training European countries are buying F-35s. building military aircraft whose government’s decision to bet big on
Force’s 617 Squadron – of Dambusters non-Nato attempts to match Western military and civilian personnel alike in All their maintainers will need training strengths and weaknesses can be missiles rather than human-flown
fame – and one training unit, 207 fighter jet technology, different how to maintain the aircraft. and their aeroplanes will eventually played off each other. aeroplanes. Arguably the British
Squadron, make up the RAF and Royal nations will pool their fighting power, need overhauling, too. Overmatch aviation industry never did recover
Navy’s fast jet “capability”. The pair are slotting in seamlessly alongside each Holding a wooden mockup of an isn’t just a way of winning wars, it’s a He explains: “The realisation that if from the resulting series of state-
born from the remains of the old other whenever needed. external panel, cross-sectioned to way of doing business. you pair a fifth-generation aircraft with encouraged mergers.
Harrier force, once numbering seven show how repairs are carried out to the a sort of 4.5 generation aircraft like
squadrons. Illustrating the point, Sqn Ldr low observable coating, he says the A new generation Typhoon, you can get a whole series of Calling for a “more incremental
Campbell mentions that in February design owes much to the F-22 – the very interesting effects and outcomes.” approach”, Dr Jordan says Western
While the distinctions between he commanded a detachment of F-35s previous American stealth fighter still of pilot air-power thinkers shouldn’t assume
service personnel are still visually that went to Estonia “to show flown today. Generations – in the world of fighter that modern drones will be “able to do
apparent by uniform, if nothing else, capability and to show solidarity with The state of the art in Western air jet design and development – are a everything that something like an
the cultural divide is shrinking as Nato”. “Low observable is new technology combat lies with humans commanding rough way of measuring progress. The F-22, or a Tempest, or an F-35 can do
combining knowledge domestically for the UK,” explains Gary Jones, a BAE vastly powerful machines, packed world’s only fifth-generation jet is the now.”
and with allies becomes an increasing Mixing technology and contractor. Jets of bygone eras, such as with sensors and secure networking. F-35. Below it sits the BAE Systems
focus. the Gloster Javelin, the Harrier and Typhoon, Britain’s other main combat British thinking on future combat
the human touch even the Eurofighter Typhoon, feature Campbell’s boss, Wing Commander jet, as well as non-Western aircraft, air power could be described as
“Seems a bit weird, doesn’t it,” metal aircraft coated with paint. Now, David Tait, observes that F-35 pilots such as Russia’s Sukhoi Su-35 air pragmatic, focusing on the Tempest
acknowledges Commander Tim Back in Norfolk, Flatman’s squadron is the technological advantage required are “more of a systems manager than a superiority fighter. aircraft from BAE Systems.
Flatman, the officer in command of the Britain’s F-35B operational conversion by the Western way of aerial warfare pilot” in many ways, with the air force
Royal Navy’s 207 Squadron, nominally unit. It takes trained pilots from comes at a high price in time, money looking for people who have “the In recent years, developments The “optionally manned platform”,
an RAF unit. “I took over from an Air elsewhere in the armed forces and and skills. ability to absorb the massive amount outside the ‘generations’ of human- inevitably described as “sixth
Force officer and I’ll hand over to one novices from the fighter jet pilot school of information” generated by the jet piloted aircraft suggest humans might generation”, is set to blend the best of
when I finish in about a year or so.” at RAF Valley, and trains them to fly In Jones’ words, F-35 maintenance is and the other radars and tactical – at some stage – be cut out of the human-flyable technology with
and fight – helping them get to grips less about “hacking and bashing” and systems it communicates with. cockpit altogether. whatever the next decade or so can
Musing about the cultural clashes with the F-35B’s Harrier-style lift fan has more in common with “arts and deliver in terms of militarised artificial
between the dark blue of the navy and and ability to hover above the ground. crafts”. Shiner jokes that trainees “who “It’s almost like playing a musical Could technology take intelligence to fly and fight with the
the light blue of the air force, Flatman build aircraft models and paint them instrument, to be honest with you,” aeroplane.
says the culture is very different. A It relies on a combination of are better than old mechanics like me”. says the commanding officer of 617 over eventually?
ten-year hiatus from operating technology and human touch. Sqn. Whimsical the comparison may BAE Systems, which is working with
seaborne fighter jets gave the military Continued investment in both human So critical is the low-observable be, but the ability to confidently Boeing has ploughed billions of dollars the RAF on the design, says: “We
the chance to “build this thing from fighter pilots and ever up-to-date jets coating that ALIS, the IT system used into its Loyal Wingman and MQ-25 believe air forces of the future will no
the absolute ground up”, Cdr Flatman points to the future of air combat: for tracking maintenance of the F-35, Stingray drones, the latter of which longer be able to rely on traditional
says: “We celebrate our differences in a well-trained flying personnel and has a whole routine for addressing shows the most promise. The former is platforms alone.”
positive way. So we absolutely build on technologically advanced equipment. an unmanned vehicle, demonstrating
the traditions of both services.” Drones, it seems, have not yet fully EDDIE MULHOLLAND FOR THE TELEGRAPH how future fighter pilots could use The war in Ukraine sent great
taken over. tech to command one or more robot
Being trained up to fly and fight F-35 High fliers: Cdr Tim Flatman, Wg Cdr David Tait and Sqd Ldr Stew Campbell of RAF Marham wingmen. The MQ-25, meanwhile, shocks through air-power thinking
The F-35’s they fly are the very does not fight, but is intended to be a due to the Russians’ ultra-cautious
operations are a “gamechanger”, pilots embodiment of overmatch – the flying petrol station – a tanker that lets approach to using their air force, a
say, thanks to the jet’s ability to concept of crushing enemies through other aircraft refuel.
network itself with nearby F-35s as technological superiority. Overmatch reticence borne out by their later
even stretches to the very skin of the Such uses of crewless technology to losses at the hands of Western
well as some older, suitably retrofitted, F-35, designed to make the aeroplane extend the endurance of human-flown weapons deployed by their Ukrainian
aircraft. much less noticeable on radar than its aeroplanes make a tech-fuelled future opponents.
contemporaries. all of a sudden appear much closer.
Squadron leader Stew Campbell, a With aviation technology not yet
Officially the counter-radar Over the skies of Ukraine, drones having advanced to the state where
flight commander on 617 Squadron, technology in the F-35’s exterior have been notable mainly for their truly autonomous aircraft can fight
relays the story of flying up the North surface coating is referred to as ‘low low-tech uses. Small consumer-grade
Sea shortly after Russia’s invasion of observable’. Designers learned from an craft are used to fly hand grenades over each other – and leading thinkers
Ukraine, wingman to one side and incident over Serbia in 1999 involving enemy lines and drop them onto the warning that Ukraine is not a
an F-117 Nighthawk, when the heads of enemy soldiers before they watershed moment in the history of air
Voyager tanker in front of him topping $40 million (£32.8 million) jet was shot can react. Larger drones such as
them both up with fuel as they saw down. Now, the modern jet’s highly Turkey’s Bayraktar TB2 are used for combat – humans seem set to remain
Norwegian F-35s appear on their radar classified low-observable coating is aerial reconnaissance. But air-to-air in the cockpits of the world’s fighting
designed so radar waves flow over and fighting is largely absent from the aeroplanes for many years to come.
screens. along it in carefully controlled ways picture.
That kind of co-operation between As Sqn Ldr Campbell of 617 Sqn says:
“We’ve seen too many examples in “Do I think we’re going to have
air forces is new, he said, referring manned fast jets for the next two
decades, then? Absolutely. And beyond
back to aircraft carrier HMS Queen
Elizabeth’s marathon deployment to that, as well… I think we’re somewhere
the South China Sea last year, a long way away from not having
Operation Fortis. Over the course of manned combat aircraft.”

seven months, Britain’s F-35 pilots

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Features & Arts

Have the real-life Gossip Girls been unmasked?

In a story that echoes
US TV’s Gossip Girl,
two NY socialites are
alleged to be behind
celeb blog DeuxMoi.
Polly Dunbar tunes in

As Covid swept the world in March Rumour has it: NY While Lovallo is someone who has piece, O’Connor heard about two ‘With their weekly email newsletter filled with
2020, an altogether less serious socialite Meggie been assiduous about protecting her group text-message threads, “one glamorous irreverent snippets about our own
event was taking place on social Kempner (right) is privacy and has left few traces online, composed of Hollywood starlets and careers titans of popular culture – the
media. An anonymous Instagram said to be one half Kempner has an image to protect. jet-setters and the other of New York’s they are difference being that, in keeping with
account – name, DeuxMoi – began of DeuxMoi; Gossip fashion and media elite, trying to perfectly our puerile national sense of humour,
providing celebrity watchers with Girl (above) It is not known when she ended her unmask the woman,” she says. “I think placed to you’re more likely to find blind items
gossip nirvana, publishing titbits sent alleged association with DeuxMoi but they saw it as, ‘You’re trying to figure dish the about the lavatory habits of a daytime
in by followers: everything from it’s not difficult to imagine she might out what I was doing on Saturday dirt on the TV host than the sex life of an A-lister.
mundane sightings of actress Julianne have panicked when her name was night, so I’ll figure out who you are,’” cream of
Moore in New York’s hip Bar Pitti to aired. There is a definite discord she says. society’ Feldman says the purpose of his
the earliest, highly salacious hints that between her high society image and an investigation was not to damage
actor Armie Hammer might have KAROLINA WOJTASIK/HBO MAX; ANDREW H WALKER/GETTY association with celebrity tittle-tattle. When the DeuxMoi account began DeuxMoi’s brand. “But the anonymity
alleged cannibalistic tendencies. its dirt-dishing, it tapped into a very of the account was part of its appeal
As the granddaughter of New York modern form of citizen journalism. and something they were trading on,”
Before long, it had 1.5 million royalty, Kempner’s privileged life has “Everyone is a gossip columnist now, he says.
followers and its founder – believed to been chronicled by Vogue, which or can be,” says George Rush, a former
be a New York-based woman who featured her lavish Beverly Hills New York Daily News reporter and “It’s tough to square someone
worked in fashion – had been crowned wedding to financier Ian McLean in co-author of Scandal: A Manual. “No wanting to maintain that anonymity
the real-life Gossip Girl, after the 2018. Three years earlier, she began an celebrity is safe because everybody has with the sort of growth they are
Noughties TV series. In the hit US eponymous fashion label with her been deputised to be on the lookout pursuing, with podcasts, a book and
show, which ran from 2007 to 2012, a brother Chris, inspired by the woman for them, and they have the tools to TV deal, particularly when their line of
mystery character chronicled ‘the they call ‘Grand Nan’, about whom make that information public. People work is about posting other people’s
scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite’ Diana Vreeland famously said: “There find it fun.” private information online.”
(drugs, student-teacher affairs, a is no such thing as a chic American
doomed royal wedding) using the same woman. The one exception is Nan Still, such is DeuxMoi’s power that In other words, concealing your
kind of crowd-sourced tip-offs and Kempner.” restaurants it mentions as being own identity while dishing up others’
calling themselves Gossip Girl. To add frequented by stars – such as Carbone, secrets could be viewed as somewhat
another layer of life imitating art, one It remains to be seen whether being an Italian favourite of Rihanna and hypocritical. But neither Rush nor
of the show’s scandals involved a outed as a possible founder of DeuxMoi Leonardo DiCaprio – immediately Feldman thinks the reported
con-man played by none other than will harm that career, or whether she become the place to dine (and unmasking of Kempner and Lovallo –
Armie Hammer. will publicly distance herself from it, impossible to get a table.) Those who neither of whom have commented on
leaving Lovallo to take the heat (or do get in report back on what, and Feldman’s claims – will diminish
Although it began life as an reap the spoils). After all, while most of who, they’ve witnessed. DeuxMoi’s popularity among fans.
anonymous fashion blog back in 2013, the account’s posts are harmless, they
this pandemic pivot to delivering are all unverified, and some have Rush says that the account’s ‘blind “People like the idea there’s some
celebrity titbits has seen DeuxMoi attracted celebrities’ ire. While stories items’, which invite the reader to guess kind of puppet master behind the
enter new territory. It’s now a such as Scarlett Johansson’s marriage who a story refers to, are another draw, scenes, but I don’t think their identity
burgeoning media brand with two to comedian Colin Jost proved correct, “because people see the celebrities is particularly important,” says
podcasts, and this November, others have been shot down by the they want to in them.” He believes one Feldman. “They still love all the blind
HarperCollins will publish the stars themselves, including Hailey of DeuxMoi’s biggest attractions is that items, even though a lot are made up or
anonymous account owner’s debut Bieber, who denied being pregnant its stories only appear for 24 hours, fake. They want to believe them.”
novel. Anon Pls – a nod to tipsters’ and later announced she had worked then vanish. “It lures people back
requests not to be named – will be a out who DeuxMoi was. She’s far from every day for more,” he says. At the end of Gossip Girl, the author
fictionalised memoir about a fashion the only one. is revealed and forgiven (spoiler alert:
assistant called Cricket Lopez who Perhaps the closest British it’s a man). But whether New York’s
shoots to fame with a DeuxMoi-like While researching her Vanity Fair equivalent is Popbitch, a much-loved real-life elite will be so kind, only time
social media account. HBO Max has will tell.
announced it has already optioned the
book for a TV series.

But just as its ascent seemed
unstoppable, DeuxMoi has found itself
mired in controversy over the owner’s
identity after not one but two likely
candidates were unmasked in an
in-depth exposé published online last
month by US journalist Brian Feldman.

By rummaging through years of
social media posts, Feldman concluded
that DeuxMoi is actually two women:
Meggie Kempner and Melissa Lovallo.
The claim made immediate sense of
the account’s name: DeuxMoi is French
for ‘two me’. Most intriguingly,
Kempner is the granddaughter of Nan
Kempner, the late socialite dubbed
“the queen of the New York scene”.
However, it has been reported that she
is no longer involved in the account,
leaving its running to Lovallo.

Following Feldman’s deep dive,
rumours have swirled online about the
pair. What’s clear is that with their
glamorous careers and impeccable
connections – they are believed to have
met when they both worked as stylists
at Ralph Lauren – the two have been
perfectly placed to dish the dirt on the
cream of society.

Maureen O’Connor, a US writer who
interviewed DeuxMoi for a Vanity Fair
article last year, says that pivoting to
celebrity tea-spilling, as Generation Z
call it, was a risky move. “The person I
spoke to – who wouldn’t confirm her
identity to me – was still working in
her fashion job, which involved
working with celebrities,” she says.
“Doing that while sharing celebrity
gossip was definitely dangerous.

“But in a way it makes sense –
working behind the scenes like she did
can make you feel invisible, and she
talked to me about feeling appreciated
for her work on DeuxMoi.”

The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 19 June 2022 *** 23

Empty gesture: Comment
Macron arrives by
luxury train in Kyiv
to reassure
Zelensky that his
country’s dream of
being in the EU will
not be for nought
– while continuing
to buy Russian gas

PA

ZOE STRIMPEL

Britain’s moral superiority over Europe is
becoming increasingly clear

While T wo months ago, when Kyiv was the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, afraid of hurting Russia’s feelings, and things more clearly than Scholz and co. All the Ursula von der Leyen visiting Israel
European still under threat, Boris turned and the Italian prime minister, Mario petrified – along with the rest of In an openly taunting tweet that ceremonious last week and addressing its prime
leaders up, without fanfare, to show Draghi, arrived by luxury night train in Europe – of losing Russian gas supplies appears to be legitimate, Medvedev and symbolic minister, Naftali Bennett, with
dither and solidarity to Zelensky while many order to purr and pat Zelensky’s hand, and of the food shortages caused by cackled: “European fans of frogs, visits in the something approaching actual respect,
delay, the other Western leaders stayed away. and reassure him that his country’s the war. Weapons systems promised liverwurst and spaghetti love visiting world cannot very rare indeed from the steadfastly
UK is Afterwards, understanding that dream of being in the EU will not be for months ago have not arrived: the Iris-T Kiev. With zero use. Promised EU make up for Israel-sceptic EU.
standing to “shows” of solidarity are not even nought (the European Commission air defence system could take months membership and old howitzers to a lack of
shoulder to remotely enough for countries under made its recommendation on Friday). longer, and the rocket launchers are Ukraine, lushed up on gorilka and weaponry With its technological and
shoulder siege, he continued to preside over by only due to arrive in August or went home by train, like 100 years ago. agricultural prowess, Israel should be
with far the most generous donation of arms But Ukrainians, although pleased to September. France and Italy have also All is well. Yet, it won’t bring Ukraine able to help one way or another. And I
Ukraine and military aid to Ukraine of any be considered for EU membership, are preferred to virtue-signal rather than closer to peace. The clock’s ticking.” sincerely hope it can. Europe needs to
country in Europe. Zelensky has more concerned about the threat to burn all bridges with Russia. But it’s an get over its obsession with Russian
repeatedly singled Britain out for order and safety should Russia’s odd kind of virtue. As Mykhailo It is remarkable that with people like sensibilities – and fast.
praise for offering real support – invasion succeed – which these Podolyak, a top adviser to Zelensky, this in charge, Europe’s desire to avoid
military and moral. We have not just European leaders appear to be told NPR this week: “How can the offending Russia is still so steadfast. Or As the sage East-Europeanist Anne
talked the talk, we have walked the allowing to happen. Referring to one of country that rapes our women be maybe it’s not so strange: it was only Applebaum tweeted back in May:
walk, unwaveringly supporting many appeasing comments made by allowed to save face? What do we need 80 years ago that Western Europe “Putin does not need an ‘off-ramp’. He
Ukraine and cutting all ties with Russia. Macron, Oleksiy Arestovych, an to win this war, to have this war come showed itself very keen indeed not to needs to lose. And only when he loses
adviser to Zelensky, wryly observed: to an end? We need weapons.” offend Hitler and to keep Stalin sweet – only when he is humiliated – will
It’s a shame that Boris has got mired “They will say that we need to end the in the East. Russia’s wars of imperial conquest
in so much political rubbish, from war that is causing food problems and Even Dmitry Medvedev, deputy finally come to an end.” Letting Russia
partygate to the bewildering antics at economic problems … that we need to chairman of the Russian Security Europe’s panic over gas and food – win does not just mean an end to
the Treasury. For with each day that save Mr Putin’s face.” Council and close Putin ally, sees which came far too late in the day – has European peace; it really could signal
passes, Britain’s moral superiority over led to remarkable spectacles, such as the start of the Third World War.
Europe becomes clearer. France, He was, in so many words, quite
Germany and Italy, the three biggest right. Certainly, all the ceremonious
economies in the EU, have been and symbolic visits in the world cannot
dragging their heels on supplying arms make up for a lack of weaponry which
while continuing to pour billions of puts Ukraine at the very real risk of
euros into Moscow’s war chest by losing to a psychotic imperialist regime.
buying its energy.
Germany’s bold promises months
This fact doesn’t seem to phase the ago to send large hauls of state-of-the-
Continental suits. Indeed, last week we art weaponry seemed to signal that
were treated to the irritating sight of this lumbering, dangerously pacifist
the leaders of the very countries from power had turned over a new leaf,
whom Ukraine has been begging for finally understanding the importance
more help arriving in Kyiv in a of winning wars against morally
self-congratulatory little posse. The bankrupt rogue states.
French president, Emmanuel Macron,
It was a mirage. Germany is
dithering and holding back, still (still!)

Cambridge, watch out. Free
thinking is back in vogue

READ MORE L ast November, the birth of a new applications from staff and students.
telegraph.co.uk/ university was announced by The university launched last week
opinion journalist and media disruptor
TWITTER Bari Weiss. The University of Austin in Austin with the first of its
Texas (UATX) would pursue the Forbidden Courses (on topics such as
@realzoestrimpel “north star” of “truth”, and other such gender, identity and empire). Lectures
grandiose missions. All this may and seminars came from affiliated
sound overblown and terribly earnest, big-hitters including women’s rights
but the goal was laudable: to offer new activist and critic of Islam, Ayaan Hirsi
horizons of learning and free thinking Ali, historian Niall Ferguson,
to students bewildered by what has playwright David Mamet and Bari
happened to traditional colleges and Weiss herself. Classes are also on offer
universities. from Peter Boghossian, who quit his
post as a philosophy professor at
These are institutions which, Portland State after being hunted by
particularly in America, regularly the university’s woke stasi, and
conduct witch hunts on those who Kathleen Stock, hounded out of her
question woke orthodoxies in ways post at Sussex University for insisting
that, just ten years ago, wouldn’t have on the reality of biological sex.
raised an eyebrow and are completely
legitimate. No wonder there was a gap It’s easy to mock the Austin project
in the market for somewhere that – indeed, most American media
does things differently. A big hole. coverage of it has done little else. But
then, it would, saturated as it is with
UATX raised millions easily and the very distortions in thinking that
quickly from thrilled billionaire made the new university necessary.
donors, and claimed to be flooded by
Universities should take note.
Madness: Kathleen Stock was hounded out
of Sussex University by woke activists Especially British universities, which
have been steadily sliding into the
morass of woke madness.

For too long, universities,
particularly prestigious ones such as
Cambridge (one of the worst
offenders) have assumed they will

automatically attract students, and
that – being full of all those terribly
clever people – they’re morally

superior to the rest of the world, and
that what they say and do is what
goes.

What they don’t seem to realise is
that not every student is in love with
the deadening strictures of woke
thinking, even at Oxbridge or Yale.

Some feel the education for which
they pay through the nose has been
sacrificed to an anti-learning ideology

cooked up by a cultish cabal. And
some, as demonstrated by the first set
of courses in Texas, are taking their
business elsewhere. Universities

should watch out: UATX won’t be the
last of its kind.

24 *** Sunday 19 June 2022 The Sunday Telegraph

Features & Arts

Inside the Taliban’s new drugs hell

Its heroin reaches all hangout for Kabul’s wretched drug Devastated addicted to heroin while fighting the international scepticism over whether ‘I loved a patient described himself as “mad”.
addicts long before the Taliban community: addicts Taliban on dangerous, grinding tours they will follow through. girl but Staff speak of their charges with
parts of the world, but regained power last August. And in Kabul, above; of the country’s southern provinces. her family
while the battle to stop Afghanistan’s Abdul Nasir “By order of our supreme leader, didn’t compassion, but are also frustrated at
inside Afghanistan a drug trade is often framed as a fight to Munqad, the Taliban Syed Ramin, aged 32, says he got Haibatullah, there has been a decision approve... their situation and say there are
keep heroin off Western streets, that head of the city’s hooked on heroin and then later meth to reduce this problem,” he says. so I used clashes and occasional violence.
crisis is unfolding. drug and others do terrible damage rehab centre, below after he became depressed after his “Nowadays there has come a heroin to
closer to home. engagement fell through. reduction of our drug problem.” He calm Bashirullah, a 26-year-old former
Ben Farmer reports says the current lack of patients is myself ’ soldier, weaned himself off heroin at
A 2015 survey estimated the “I was a graduate from school and I because he has so little money that he the hospital last year and now acts as a
T he dark sea of huddled forms is country had somewhere between prepared for college and loved a girl cannot feed them properly. volunteer guard, wielding a length of
almost impossible to take in at 1.9 million and 2.3 million regular and I was unsuccessful. The family did electrical flex to stop patients from
first. The grimy, bent figures drug users in a country of 39 million. not approve. After that, there was no Treatment remains free, but the escaping. He says he took up the drug
resemble residents of some vast, It is thought to have one of the highest chance for me, so I just used heroin to international aid that once kept the while serving on remote army bases
squalid dungeon. In the filthy proportions of opium or opiate use in calm myself,” he explains. hospital afloat has stopped. Salaries away from home for months on end.
river-bed nearby, scattered lifeless the world. are not getting paid and patients only
figures bring to mind the aftermath of When the Taliban took power in get bread or rice to eat. Drugs like “For months I didn’t see my home
a battle, or an air crash. Now the scale of the economic August 2021, they declared they would methadone, used in the process of and for that I was very upset and
collapse brought by the Taliban quickly solve the capital’s drug weaning addicts off, are running out. depressed,” he explains. When the
There are close to 1,000 drug victory and a burgeoning new trade problem. They rounded up thousands former government collapsed, he
addicts sheltering under this bridge in in methamphetamine is making the of addicts from the streets, forcing Each patient undergoes a 45-day decided to get clean because he had no
a western neighbourhood of the situation worse. Almost all the addicts them into the capital’s Ibn Sina programme. The first 15 days are money to support his habit.
Afghan capital Kabul. The ragged under the bridge said they were rehabilitation hospital. The facility has detoxification to get the drugs out of
mass soon resolves into many addicted to either heroin or meth. 1,000 beds, but staff recall that after their system. Then they begin The United Nations has no up-to-
vignettes, each briefly illuminated by Each had a different story to tell. the Taliban raids, there were three rehabilitation, which involves group date figures for the number of addicts
the flare of cigarette lighters. Many said they had become addicted patients in each one. therapy sessions, as well as attempts to in the country now. But the most
while migrant workers in reconnect with their families. recent research in 2019 showed
Several men with glazed, staring neighbouring Iran. Faced with overcrowding, violence Religion plays a big part in treatment methamphetamine was starting to
eyes appear little more than skeletons and conditions that offered little here and did so before the Taliban take hold among the nation’s youth.
and can surely not have long to live. “When I first took it, I felt strong,” prospect of weaning anyone off drugs, arrived, says Dr Atiq Azimi, secretary Experience suggests that the poverty
Some stand hunched and oblivious explains one man. “Many take the hospital doctors persuaded their to the director. and hopelessness brought by an
like zombies. drugs to have energy or avoid sleep new Taliban masters to stop rounding economic meltdown such as the one
when working.” up addicts. The hospital, on the road “Our problem is different to European engulfing Afghanistan will tend to
Groups bunch together to smoke out of Kabul to Jalalabad, has now countries, where people take drugs for increase the number of addicts.
drugs from heated pieces of tin foil. Another said he had been in the gone to the other extreme. With pleasure. If we ask our patients, they
There is a buzz of industry around collapsed Afghan army and became around 300 patients, the former have no jobs, they have no income. Kamran Niaz, of the UN’s Office on
another man making bulbous glass military camp feels deserted. Drugs and Crime, says: “Definitely
drug pipes. Another squats and “We started our religious classes when there are economic hardships,
fastidiously trims his beard with Abdul Nasir Munqad is the Taliban because our country is a religious when the population is displaced, they
scissors, despite the filth around him. leader appointed director of the country and it has a good effect. It is want to seek mechanisms to cope with
An optimistic tradesman picks his way hospital. He spent three years in the our experience that we can root out their hardships. That definitely makes
through the mass, selling cups of tea. Bagram high-security prison north of this problem with religious lessons.” people vulnerable to more regular
Traffic and normal life continue Kabul after being captured fighting drug use.”
overhead. for the Taliban, but now oversees After the end of enforced round-
doctors and nurses, accompanied by ups, almost all the patients are now The hardship also makes it harder
“There’s a lot of good people here,” his entourage of bodyguards. voluntary, or have been brought by to kick the habit. Several of the men
says one man, looking at the crowds of their families. They cannot leave under the bridge said they had passed
fellow addicts. “Engineers, doctors, He denies the drug situation is during treatment and are practically through the hospital’s programme
educated people. But they have getting worse in Afghanistan and inmates. Often they try to escape. – some several times.
problems with drugs. The problem is blames the “drug mafia” of the
getting worse, day by day.” former government for the number As The Sunday Telegraph was given Ramin says his own trip to the
of addicts. a tour of the wards, one man lifted his hospital did not get him clean. “When
Pul-e-Sukhta bridge was known as a shirt to show bruises across his back I came out, what could I do?” he asks.
The Taliban have also ordered the where he said he had been beaten. “There was still no work. I have been
end of the country’s opium poppy Doctors denied this and said he was to the hospital, but I became addicted
trade, though there is much lying and was schizophrenic. The again when I left.”
SIMON TOWNSLEY
CHRISTOPHER PLEDGER FOR THE TELEGRAPH
I’ve had enough of spending £6,000 a year on hen dos

As the bachelorette party passage I never knowingly signed up insufferable spoilsport, but I spend hit home. One in 10 of us says we spend routine to a Cher song which they terrified of horses.” On another hen do,
were then filmed performing as if they Gordon remembers, half the girls
gets ever more expensive, for but which now consumes my between £5,000 and £6,000 a year on the same on a hen as we might on a were in a music video. Assault courses ended up weeping after being
weekends, from the start of April other people’s big days. They’re almost summer holiday. A day or two’s annual are popular: in Newcastle, you can now
Eleanor Steafel asks if we through to the end of July. always good fun and I’m always leave is often required too. do a Squid Game-style survival-of-the- strapped into zip wires at Go Ape. “We
fittest game. One friend’s maid of all hate heights,” she says. “None of us
have reached peak hen do Ever since lockdown lifted, my social grateful to have been invited. But Bride Magazine predicted 1,100,000 honour had a couple of pomeranians would have ever voluntarily done it.”
calendar has been awash with hen when you’re boarding yet another hen and stag parties would take place shipped in from Essex for everyone to
‘Right, that’s it,” my friend Laura parties. And these days they’re never train at Paddington at the end of a long this year, with many having been play with while they got over their Alice Barraclough, a 30-year-old
announces to a table of just a one-night-only boozy dinner with week, armed with mini bottles of postponed during lockdown. And hangovers on the Sunday morning. writer who lives in London, has spent
assembled girlfriends one You’re effectively stumping up 20 quid nearly £1,500 on hen dos already this
Friday night in the pub. “I’m not doing your nearest and dearest. Nowadays, prosecco and bags of M&S crisps for nothing is considered too much now. to pet someone’s dog. year. Organising them, she says, is
hen dos anymore. If any of you get you’re signing away at least £300 for the third Friday in a row, it does start to “We have people going to Vegas with
engaged I’ll come to your wedding, but two nights away, a props budget, and a us for around the £800 mark,” says Lucy Gordon, a 33-year-old real where you really end up losing money.
I’m calling time on £450 weekends in a estate consultant from London, found “I feel the pressure to put on the best
rubbish Airbnb in Kent. There are only schedule of activities ranging from the Alicia Currie from hen and stag herself straddling a horse on a hen do weekend ever and I voluntarily throw
so many boozy scavenger hunts I can pointless (a “VIP cocktail experience” planning company Off Limits. “They’re even though she’s terrified of them.
take. I love you all, but I’m out.” where you create a drink inspired by looking for bucket-list opportunities.” “The bride and her schoolfriends who in more money without even realising
the bride) to the genuinely ridiculous (a organised it are really into horse it. ‘Oh, I’ve spent an extra £20 on
She wasn’t joking. As this summer’s Weekends abroad are popular riding. No one else was. In fact, I’m bunting and balloons’; ‘Oh there goes a
hen do invitations began to flood in, yoga class on paddleboards).
Laura began politely to decline them, Would I usually devote a Saturday (Barcelona and Marbella are current One in 10 of us says we round of shots for everyone’.”
one by one. The final straw? An faves). One friend recalls an eye- spend the same on a I must admit that, after this year, I’m
invitation to a second hen do for a afternoon and £40 to decorate a pair of wateringly expensive trip to Greece hen as we might on a
wedding that has already happened summer holiday thinking of taking a leaf out of my
but is getting a post-lockdown repeat. knickers? Probably not. Nor would I where everyone was forced to wear friend Laura’s book and stating that I
choose to down a shot of Bailey’s and a matching £150 designer swimsuits.
The money-haemorrhaging rosé chaser on the streets of Norwich But it’s UK-based hens that can often am no longer going to bow to this
contemporary hen do is the scourge of pressure to spend my Saturday
the thirtysomething woman, a rite of before noon. But, as a 30-year-old be the more expensive option, partly mornings applying temporary tattoos
woman, choice doesn’t come into it. thanks to this obsession with building
The hen do economy has me in its a full roster of activities. Private chefs to my forearm with the words “bride
grips, and I can see no way out for a are having a moment, I’m told, as is life tribe” in rose gold. Then again,
perhaps I’ll just bide my time and get
good five years yet. drawing. One friend recalls being them all back when it’s my turn.
I don’t want to sound like an forced to learn a choreographed

The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 19 June 2022 *** 25

The Sunday Interview

John Caudwell is fasting. He’s been believe in. Some customers claimed
doing so for four days now. No they were signed up to contracts they
morsel of food has passed his lips. didn’t want. Looking back, does he
None will for another 24 hours. Despite think things ever went too far, or even
this self-privation, the 69-year-old strayed into unethical territory?
billionaire, Conservative Party donor,
founder of Phones 4U, philanthropist, “We did give very poor service at
cyclist and owner of possibly the most times,” he admits. But he puts this
gilded house in London since the down to growing pains, as well as
Tudors is a man at peace. It is no issue, “isolated incidents” involving a small
he says, to cook delicious Thai food for number of staff.
his family while maintaining his
stance. He has a steely resolve. “We were recruiting guys in
Stoke-on-Trent out of the collieries and
No wonder, then, that Caudwell the potteries and they needed
has admitted to struggling with the training,” he adds. “We were growing
Prime Minister’s “serious errors in so fast that we couldn’t keep up and we
judgment” related to partygate. made a lot of mistakes. But we were
Despite giving the Tories £500,000 inundated because we were such good
before the last general election, he has value. Would I do anything differently?
also castigated Boris Johnson publicly No. You are always going to get
for his handling of the economy. complaints and we put massive effort
“Politicians don’t do anything,” into fixing things.”
Caudwell sighs, “that’s the trouble.”
These days, he spends most of his
Does this mean the funds have been time on charitable pursuits. He has also
cut off for good? Johnson can probably stepped up to “do his bit” during the
relax. Reports of his break-up with the Ukraine crisis, housing a mother and
party have been greatly exaggerated, son who have fled the war. They live in
he insists. a converted coach house at Caudwell’s
Staffordshire home and are “doing OK”,
“I’m upset with the way the Tories he says. “We’ve supplied them with
have conducted themselves over the everything – a car, food, a house – but
last few months,” says Caudwell. they’re desperately sad because her
“There are a lot of things that have husband’s on the front line and, as
upset me. But there are a lot of things much as she’s got a comfortable and
that I’m very pleased with. And if I safe life here, she’d rather be with her
think of the alternatives, I mean, I family.”
couldn’t possibly see Keir Starmer as a
charismatic leader for the country, He founded Caudwell Children, a
driving the right policies.” charity that helps disabled children, in
2000. The organisation’s running costs
So could he make peace with are paid from his own pocket and the
Johnson? “I don’t hold a grudge about charity has supported 65,000 children
anybody. Boris has got charisma, he’s and families. There have been
got force. If I saw the Tories doing all controversies, however, with the
the right things for the economy, and I charity criticised in the past for
saw Boris managing things as he’s directing the families towards
capable of doing but sometimes unproved treatments such as “ion
doesn’t… I could be a supporter again. cleansing” foot baths and
I will support anybody, whatever homoeopathy, as well as doctors who
party, if I believe they will do the right have spoken against vaccination.
things for Britain.”
Caudwell insists the allegations were

‘I couldn’t see Starmer ‘The amount of change
as a charismatic leader I’ve created in people’s
for the country, driving lives massively satisfies
the right policies’ me spiritually’

Meeting Caudwell at his Jacobean John Caudwell unfair and that the charity does
manor house in Staffordshire leaves “nothing except recommended stuff ”,
you in no doubt of his love for British ‘Labour told me no adding: “It’s not who we are at all.”
history. Since buying the Grade I billionaire should exist’ Instead, he points to examples such as
listed property in the 1990s, he has a little boy with cerebral palsy whose
spent a small fortune restoring it and The mobile phone magnate and fervent Brexiteer tells Matt Oliver about his rags- “legs didn’t work” until they sent him
describes it as a “labour of love”. Its 50 to-riches life, his charitable work, and how the Tories can still count on his support to the US for an operation and paid for
rooms once provided a home for years of physiotherapy. Later, at a
elderly nuns and the grounds stretch “The fact that I actually influence the there was anti-Semitism, there was have sounded far-fetched to his peers. ANDREW FOX; NILS JORGENSEN/SHUTTERSTOCK fundraising ball, the same delighted
across 28 acres. Government in a way that’s best for the communistic talk and rich people “I had no inspiration at all,” he says. “In boy ran on to the stage and jumped
average working person in Britain, is being decried and I really felt quite fact, most of the people I was Caudwell at his Staffordshire home, top, into Caudwell’s arms.
Caudwell, a father-of-six, lives there that a privilege? Well, I suppose it is, in passionate about that,” he explains. “I surrounded by were the opposite of
with his partner, Modesta some ways, but not in the way you thought if Labour get in, I’ll leave. Not inspirational.” He had a fraught and with his wife, right, and son in 2017 How did he feel at that moment?
Vzesniauskaite, 38, a Lithuanian suggest. I’ve got no time. To give that because of the tax rate, I might add. It relationship with his father, who could “Beyond speech, you know?” he says,
former Olympic cyclist, her 10-year- time up, I’d only do it out of passionate was because I would have lost a huge be bullying and didn’t give him “the There were other reasons as well. becoming visibly emotional. “Give me
old son Leonardo and William, their humanitarianism, because I want sense of pride in Britain. love or fairness that I would have “I wanted to be de-risked and to have all the boats in the world, all the meals
15-month-old. Among his other Britain to be great. liked”. When Caudwell was 14, his the time, have the money, to do more in the world, all the wine in the world, I
properties is his home in Mayfair. “One of the bizarre things [Labour] father suffered the first of two strokes for charitable causes. And it just all don’t give a toss. But the amount of
Formerly owned by the Sultan of “If the Government did everything said was that no billionaire should ever and died four years later. came together.” change I’ve created in people’s lives
Brunei’s younger brother, and worth right, and I could see them doing exist. If it were me, I’d be saying ‘We massively satisfies me spiritually.”
an estimated £250 million, it features a everything right, I’d say ‘Oh god no, I really want you, we admire you in this But today the entrepreneur is worth His career was often far from
swimming pool, gilded ballroom and a don’t want to go near the place’. country. But we want you to pay a little an estimated £1.5 billion and boasts a smooth sailing. A supplier nearly He also supports charities dedicated
dining room with a 16.5-inch river bit more.’ If you’ve got a goose that lays property empire spanning his mansion toppled his business by cutting him off to the research of chronic Lyme
running through it, populated by “I just think I can add value to Great the golden egg, help the goose to and grounds in Staffordshire, the in the 1990s, while in the early 2000s disease, which several members of his
African cichlid fish. This suits the Britain, right the way from businesses prosper. Don’t slit its throat.” house in Mayfair, a ski property in Vail, Singlepoint faced criticism from family have been diagnosed with, and
flamboyant Caudwell, who has been through to the working-class person, Colorado, a home in Monaco and customers for poor service and its the autoimmune disorders PANS and
known to don snazzy jackets for his who at the moment is really suffering Could he ever support Labour under commercial properties he hopes to let aggressive approach to sales. PANDAS, which his son Rufus, 24, has
glitzy fundraising galas which attract from the energy crisis.” Starmer? “The Labour Party has to the super rich. suffered from, spending long periods
the likes of Sir Elton John and the improved considerably since getting A BBC documentary detailing life at bedridden and experiencing panic
Duchess of York. Ironically, it was none other than It is a real-life rags-to-riches story, the company depicted Caudwell as an attacks and agoraphobia.
John McDonnell, Labour’s shadow rid of Corbyn. But – and it’s a big but – I started after Caudwell abandoned his uncompromising boss who did not
But today the fervent Brexiteer is in still think that, hidden below the tolerate failure. Potential recruits were “We spent 15 years trying to fix him.
serious mode, making it clear that chancellor under Jeremy Corbyn, who surface, there’s a lot of communist A-levels to train as an apprentice car screened for ruthless attributes, with He’s getting a bit better now – but for
securing his backing for the next was responsible for his newfound mechanic at the local Michelin tyre interviewers asking whether they were the average kid, it’s a horrendous
election will require a big change in activism. Until three years ago, the attitudes against wealth. The insults plant. He later set up his own car prepared to sell things they didn’t condition which destroys their life
direction. He reels off complaints tycoon was focused on his about billionaires and the creation of completely. That’s next on my agenda
about current economic policy, dealership and founded the mobile in terms of trying to get the medical
arguing that Rishi Sunak’s furlough philanthropic work, staying out of jealousy, animosity and hatred among empire that would go on to make his profession to recognise, which the vast
scheme was too generous and helped politics except to make a one-off the working classes about rich people fortune. His business, which included majority don’t.”
to fuel inflation and economic donation to Bill Cash’s Brexit retailer Phones 4U and phone service
inactivity. At the same time, he worries are counterproductive.” We are briefly interrupted by a visit
that the Government is doing too little campaign. But a public clash with Certainly, if Labour had been hoping provider Singlepoint, which was sold from Modesta and William. “Hello
to see off a potential recession and the Labour in 2019 convinced him he to Vodafone in 2003, eventually came darling!” he smiles, waving. Caudwell,
threat of climate change. needed to get involved. for an easy target, it would have been to employ 12,000 staff and boasted who has five adult children from
previous relationships, says being a
Rather than “tinkering around the Told that Caudwell had threatened better to pick someone else. sales of £2.4 billion a year. new father at 69 has its advantages –
edges”, he has called for huge Caudwell, who flies his own He sold out to private equity in these days he has more time to spend
borrowing and windfall taxes to pay for to leave the UK if Corbyn won power, with his youngest.
renewable energy schemes, McDonnell invited the billionaire to helicopter to business meetings, defies 2006, just before the financial crisis
infrastructure upgrades and housing debate with him over a cup of tea. political stereotypes. Sitting in his “Fifteen years ago, I couldn’t have
development, which he says would struck. Was that luck, or judgment? had that interruption,” he smiles.
turbocharge GDP. Caudwell not only turned up, but home office, where pictures of “This will sound conceited,” he says, “With my other kids, I always tried to
offered a spirited and headline- Margaret Thatcher and airborne do the sports days, prize days and
The centrepiece of these proposals, grabbing defence of why Britain Spitfires hang on the wall, he says he “but it was pure judgment. I saw a school theatres, but I was working
modestly called the Caudwell recession coming. All the money was huge amounts of hours so it was very
Pandemic Recovery (CPR), is a one needed more entrepreneurs to create always felt that a successful business difficult. Now, I have got the luxury of
thousand-acre “environmental city”, wealth, hitting out at what he called career and charitable work were part being squeezed out of mobile phones, spending time with William, and really
probably “somewhere in East Anglia”. “divisive” rhetoric. of his “destiny”. As a seven-year-old, he top to bottom. The luck was that it enjoying the nuances of how he
took me 18 months to sell. If I hadn’t changes every day. And that’s really
This would be a tax-free zone for Afterwards, he remained so had a vision of himself sitting in the fabulous.”
businesses to try cutting-edge green back of a chauffeur-driven Rolls- sold then, I wouldn’t have got it
technologies. It could one day become concerned that within 24 hours he had Royce, handing out five pound notes to away, because the world was Caudwell is full of energy. “I’m
a British, green version of Silicon met with Johnson and days later the poor. beginning to collapse. All the warning young for my age,” he says. Is that due
Valley, he argues. agreed to make a six-figure donation to signs were there.” to the fasting? Caudwell – who
Coming from a working class lad in obsesses over healthy eating – speaks
He has directly lobbied both the PM the Tories. “From the Labour Party, Stoke-on-Trent, this would probably evangelically about the health benefits.
and Sunak about the idea and raised it Some experts believe fasting triggers
during Zoom calls to which Downing autophagy, a natural process whereby
Street invited high-rolling donors cells in the body are regenerated. How
during the pandemic. Ministers, does he fight back the hunger? “It’s a
perhaps understandably, have so far state of mind,” he says, tapping his
been reluctant to offer more than finger on his temple.
appreciative noises.
What does he do to relax? “I cycle as
“He [Boris] thinks it’s a great idea,” much as I possibly can,” he says. But
Caudwell says. “I’ve argued the points. does he ever just relax, like the rest of
But they’ve got four years to get back us? “I don’t really need to. Sometimes
relaxing to me is more stressful than
in power, and would my
environmental city help them? not relaxing. My worst nightmare is
Possibly not. The average working man being on a beach, lying in the sun.”
is going to say, ‘How much does my
Following his foray into funding
pint of beer cost? How much is my
packet of cigarettes? How much for my political campaigns, he jokes that some
gallon of fuel?’ people on social media have even

“But there would be a lot of people suggested he should be prime minister
who would say this is amazing, we
could lead the world in environmental before adding, almost too quickly:
principles and technology, and in 10 “Which I have never considered.”

years we could be exporting all around He has offered to be an unpaid
the world.” adviser to Johnson on multiple

Though Caudwell insists he occasions, to no avail, he says. As
leadership speculation swirls, he
reluctantly became involved in brings up Liz Truss (“good, but lacking
politics, he clearly enjoys his
newfound access to the corridors of in personality”) and Jeremy Hunt
(“potentially a strong candidate”), but
power. However, following reserves particularly high praise for
controversies over texts that Johnson Nadhim Zahawi (“he is a businessman
has exchanged with billionaire Sir
James Dyson and Tory donor Lord and a really solid pair of hands”).
Why does he feel it’s important for
Brownlow, who lobbied for a “Great
Exhibition 2.0”, does he think it’s right him to have a voice? “I absolutely
that people like him can seemingly pay
believe I can add huge value to the
their way to an audience with the PM? Government, in certain circumstances.
“It’s not a privilege, giving up my But if they don’t like what I’ve got to
say, I wouldn’t object to that.”
time, is it?” he says, bristling slightly.
What is clear is that John Caudwell
still has a lot to say.

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The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 19 June 2022 *** 27

Features & Arts

Fellow travellers: Village Voice that they over-shared.
Paul McCartney and “They publicise everything they do,”
Mick Jagger share a Jagger said. “They always have – that’s
train carriage in their big hang-up.” The Stones singer
1967, left; Jagger also lambasted his rivals for the
with Ronnie Wood rancour that characterised their
and Keith Richards break-up. Asked if the Stones would
on stage at ever split, Jagger said, “Nah. But if we
Liverpool’s Anfield did, we wouldn’t be so bitchy about it.”
stadium earlier this
month, above So the battle-lines between The
Beatles and the Stones appear to be
GETTY IMAGES; REDFERNS pretty well-drawn. But despite all this,
there is a similar mountain of evidence
The Beatles vs the Stones: a rock that points to the bands being fellow
music rivalry that refuses to die travellers and friends. George Harrison
is said to have recommended the
Next Saturday, it’s were dangerous rebels. John Lennon Pop veteran: Sir Paul McCartney performs Oldham didn’t get it right interview, a riled John Lennon accused Stones to Decca (the record label that
famously said that The Beatles were at the O2 Arena in December 2018 immediately. He tried to beat The Mick Jagger and the boys of regularly turned down The Beatles in 1962).
Macca at Glasto, and “more popular than Jesus”, while the Beatles at their own game by putting doing what The Beatles had just done. Further, Lennon and McCartney wrote
Stones had Sympathy for the Devil. The The bands’ early rivalry was genuine the Stones in suits similar to the Fab He was particularly scathing about the the Stones’ second single, I Wanna Be
Mick and co at Hyde Beatles had 16 UK number one albums, – and it was a shadow play of the Four’s. But the band hated them, so he Stones’ psychedelic 1967 album Their Your Man. It was to be the Stones’ first
and the Stones had 13. This rivalry was real-life drama playing out between took the opposite tack: be the anti- Satanic Majesties Request, which was Top 20 hit (even if Lennon did later say
Park. Plus ça change, felt between the bands too, a mutual their managers. Beatles. As Richards said about the released shortly after Sgt Pepper. that the pair knocked the song out in
animosity borne of a disrespect for the Stones’ own image: “You’ve got The minutes: “Well, we weren’t gonna give
says James Hall other’s music. Which camp were you Manager of the Stones, Andrew Beatles, mums love them and dads love “I would like to just list what we did them anything great, right?”).
in? Because in the swirl of 1960s Loog Oldham, had worked with them, but would you let your daughter and what the Stones did two months
T he Beatles vs The Rolling Stones counterculture (and beyond), you Beatles manager Brian Epstein. marry this?” The Stones cultivated a This aside, band members
is the most famous battle of the couldn’t – still can’t – be in both. Together, they’d helped shape the raggedy look, never smiling in photos, As recently as 2021, continued to collaborate through the
bands in music history. They’re Liverpudlians’ image, but Epstein had never dressing the same and never McCartney dismissed years. Lennon and McCartney sang on
pop-cultural icons who have divided It all makes for a cracking, headline- fired Oldham after an argument. “We getting matching haircuts. the Stones as a ‘blues the Stones’ 1967 song We Love You, and
fans since the early 1960s – and six grabbing juxtaposition. But to what were the instrument of [Oldham’s] covers band’ Jagger and Richards both took part in
decades on, they’re still competing for extent is it actually true? Did the revenge on Epstein,” wrote Keith Then, there was the music itself. In a the live TV satellite broadcast of All You
our attention. Next Saturday, the groups really dislike each other? Or Richards in his autobiography Life. 2015 interview with Esquire magazine, after on every f------ album. Every Need Is Love in the same year.
Stones will play to 65,000 people in was theirs a battle that was cooked up Richards called the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely f------ thing we did, Mick does exactly Meanwhile, Lennon and Yoko Ono
London’s Hyde Park, while Paul to create headlines as the pop market Hearts Club Band album “a mishmash the same – he imitates us … Satanic appeared in the Stones’ 1968 concert
McCartney headlines the Pyramid exploded in the Sixties? The answer is of rubbish” and argued that there was Majesties is Pepper,” Lennon said. He show, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll
Stage at Glastonbury Festival some 120 a mixture of the two: The Beatles vs “not a lot of roots” in the Beatles’ music, added that the Stones were, “not in the Circus. Today, the bands share the
miles to the south-west. It’s the rock ’n’ The Stones is 80 per cent marketing which the Stones saw as vaudevillian. same class, music-wise or power-wise”, same producer for the legacy reissues
roll rivalry that refuses to go away. construct and 20 per cent truth. In 2021, Paul McCartney dubbed the as The Beatles. of old albums. Giles Martin, son of
Stones “a blues covers band”. He told Beatles producer George, who has
The narrative goes something like The bands were almost exact The New Yorker: “Our [musical] net was For his part, Jagger once complained worked on an array of Beatles box-sets,
this. The Beatles were the wholesome contemporaries. The Beatles released cast a bit wider than theirs.” that The Beatles were too willing to also recently worked on the re-release
boys next door while the Stones were their debut single Love Me Do in give their fans a running commentary of the Stones’ Goats Head Soup.
the edgy bad boys. The Beatles were October 1962, while The Rolling The Beatles also complained that the on their career. When the band were
pop, the Stones were rock. The former Stones released theirs, Come On, in Stones copied them. Being slightly experiencing money problems in their The fact is that The Beatles and The
were wholesome mop-tops, the latter June 1963. (The “almost” is crucial behind on the career curve meant that Apple business in 1969, Jagger told The Rolling Stones moved (and still move) in
here – there was always an element of the Stones could observe and then a similar orbit, and a sparsely populated
a younger brother looking up to his mimic The Beatles’ success, went the one. They have always been members
older sibling in their relationship.) argument. In a 1970 Rolling Stone of rock ’n’ roll’s one per cent club: then
as hip young things, and now as elder
statesmen. They needed each other to
bounce off, to compete against, and to
set each other new challenges. Jagger
summed up the bands’ relationship in
the speech he gave at the 1988 Hall of
Fame induction ceremony. “We went
through some pretty strange times,” he
said of The Beatles. “We had a sort of a
lot of rivalry in those early years, and a
little bit of friction, but we always ended
up friends.”

Both camps are, of course, sadly
depleted. Stones drummer Charlie
Watts died last year, and McCartney is
one of only two surviving Beatles – he
turned 80 yesterday, and Jagger and
Richards are both 78. In an era when
many of their contemporaries have
retired or died – and when the younger
Abba are turning to digital versions of
themselves to entertain audiences – we
should make the most of them. Next
Saturday, whether you’re planning to
Paint It Black in Hyde Park or Let It Be
in Somerset, I’d cheer the fact that
these icons of music are still going at
all.

Glastonbury is sold out. Rolling Stones
tickets: bst-hydepark.com

Can a history of interest rates really entertain? You bet

BOOKS England’s base rate to 1.25 per cent – HERITAGE IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES price bubbles may simply be the
the highest the cost of borrowing has inevitable yield-searching that “John
By Marc Sidwell been since 2009 – but it remains at a Money to burn: ‘Johnny Bull and his forged notes!!!’ (1819), an appeal for the Bank of England to take precautions against counterfeiting Bull” pursues whenever interest rates
historic, near-zero low. The more you fall below 2 per cent. Even the Arab
THE PRICE OF TIME read of this engrossing book, the more Even the dangerous miracle of tradition and condemned as usury. But recent events. Interest is presented as Spring, Chancellor argues, can be
terrifying that simple fact becomes. compound interest was known from a master co-ordinator – the ringmaster traced back to a commodity price
by Edward Chancellor when modern commerce emerged in at the centre of our financial circus. bubble inflated by low interest rates.
It is no mean task to turn such a dry the earliest of times. Around 2,400 BC Europe, it brought a fair price for Iceland, by contrast, recovered
432pp, Allen Lane, £25, topic into a lively read, but Chancellor a compounding debt that became credit. Interest rates in northern Italy The interest rate’s “universal price” strongly after the financial crisis
ebook £12.99 pulls it off. This is not just a worthy unpayable caused a war between the helps prioritise the allocation of without crushing the life out of
successor to his history of financial had been 20 per cent in 1200; by the capital, set savings levels, measure interest rates. Instead, it seems to have
★★★★★ speculation, Devil Take the Hindmost, city-states of Lagash and Umma. We late 1300s in Genoa, that was down to offered a modern version of the
but an urgently needed warning. also learn about the ancient tradition, 7 per cent. Elizabeth I legalised risk, regulate international capital ancient debt jubilee.
I n 1905, the US Forest Service was Rock-bottom interest rates were common to many cultures, of debt lending at interest here in 1571, with flows and more. When you artificially
created, to protect America’s imposed in the wake of the 2008 jubilees, where debts are cleared to set that price close to zero, chaos and The Price of Time’s conclusion, titled
magnificent forest reserves. financial crisis, and have now lasted so rates capped at 10 per cent. Anything “The New Road to Serfdom”, turns to
Unfortunately, woodland ecologies are long that they have started to seem prevent interest accumulation driving greater than that was usury, the ban on unforeseen consequences inevitably
complex systems, where top-down almost tolerable. To read this book is to debtors into slavery. which was only lifted in 1854. follow, just like those out-of-control The Mesopotamians
management risks a cascade of be reacquainted with the bizarre, wildfires in America. were apparently charging
unintended consequences. When the Alice-in-Wonderland condition of For centuries, interest payments The Price of Time’s later sections interest on loans before
Forest Service decided to protect trees modern finance. It is an absurd world, shift from history to interpreting For example, recent cryptocurrency they put wheels on carts
by stopping them from being burnt where savers lose their shirts and were anathema to the Western
down, the results were disastrous. zombie companies stumble uselessly the Nobel-winning economist
Modest, intermittent forest fires, it forward, kept alive by easy money. Friedrich Hayek – who showed that
turns out, are part of the natural market prices co-ordinate the
process that maintains the landscape. Central bankers slashed the price of economy in ways that central planners
They prevent larger fires from burning borrowing over time to protect us from can never beat. For Chancellor, fixing
out of control, destroying everything short-term disaster. There were fears the economy’s “universal price” – the
in their path. By suppressing a natural rate of interest – is a less obvious but
balancing mechanism, the technocrats of a deflationary spiral or runaway equally doomed effort at central
of trees caused far worse, and more price inflation and a second Great planning, 21st-century style. Today’s
lasting, damage. Depression. But has forcing rates omnipresent mix of government
over-reach and failure is the
Now imagine treating interest rates below their natural level in the name of unsurprising result.
the same way. America’s central bank, price stability done more harm than
the Federal Reserve, was created less good? Chancellor says it has taken us to Our low-interest trap is
than a decade after the Forest Service, the brink of a new financial precipice. characterised by stagnation and
and for Edward Chancellor the parallel growing inequality – and it hasn’t even
is irresistible. In Chancellor’s terrific With inflation now surging, savers saved us from spiralling inflation. In
new book The Price of Time, he argues crushed, house prices unaffordable, ancient Babylon, new reigns were
that well-meaning attempts by central and asset bubbles and speculative traditionally marked by debt jubilees.
bankers to manage interest rates have With a wounded Prime Minister
also brought disaster – not just for manias popping up on every side, it is limping towards the exit, perhaps it’s
America this time, but all round the getting harder by the day to brush such time for the next leader to look to the
world. The book opens with a graph worries aside. Anyone who wants a lessons of post-crisis Iceland, and offer
showing the rise and fall of interest fresh perspective on today’s problems a fresh start.
rates over the past 5,000 years. It
nicely illustrates how unprecedented – and anyone in Westminster hoping to To order your copy for £19.99, call 0844
our own times really are. A flurry of chart a new economic course as Boris 871 1514 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk
recent rises has taken the Bank of Johnson’s successor – needs this book

on their summer reading list.
The Price of Time begins as history.

We learn of the ancient roots of

interest payments, which far predate
coined money: the Mesopotamians
were apparently charging interest on
loans before they put wheels on carts.

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Books

The Dagenham car plant egotist week NEWSPAPER CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR
who became a Nazi informer

By Patrick Bishop ULLSTEIN BILD/GETTY IMAGES handlers put him to a new use, ‘Don’t grow too fond of this ‘Stuck waiting for a plane
inserting him as a spy among the train. You won’t be seeing that never takes off. If that
THE TRAITOR OF hardened British “kriegies” of Colditz, much of it this summer’
COLDITZ he was rumbled almost immediately. doesn’t qualify them for
British citizenship,
by Robert Verkaik There were many twists to the story
before justice was eventually done and I don’t know what does’
320pp, Welbeck, £20 amazing characters at every turn. They
Going undercover: Roy Walter Purdy was inserted as a spy among Allied prisoners at Colditz include an army dentist, Julius Green,
★★★★★ who managed to conceal his
pubs where he spouted Mosley-ite operating an undercover spying Jewishness from the Nazis, and ‘Gas prices are so high I’m ‘We’ve cancelled your flight,
T his book opens with the question claptrap – remarkably like a character operation nearby. John “Busty” Brown Wigan-born opera singer Margery going to fry myself an egg but would you still like to
posed by Jean Rhys in Wide in a Patrick Hamilton novel. When war was a working-class Londoner who Booth, who married a German, sang at buy some Pringles for £5?’
Sargasso Sea: “And what does broke out he was working on cruise won a scholarship to Cambridge where the Berlin State Opera and counted on the pavement’
anyone know about traitors, or why liners and ended up in the Navy with his proletarian credentials endeared Hitler among her admirers. But she
Judas did what he did?” The story of an RNVR commission. After his ship him to the champagne socialist set. also collaborated with Brown, giving To order prints or
Roy Walter Purdy, the central villain of was sunk at Narvik he was sent as a concerts at his camp and smuggling signed copies of any
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answer. It’s hard to see anything antagonised his fellow prisoners with Battle of France while serving as a British renegades in her underwear.
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control inspector, put it, he was “as of wartime Conservative government for MI9, the intelligence service which Verkaik has done a great job mining
crafty as a s---house rat”. minister Leo Amery, and Haw-Haw not only liaised with resistance the secret service files in the National
himself, ex-director of propaganda for networks to get Allied escapers and Archives and unearthing narrative gold.
Robert Verkaik’s book may not offer the British Union of Fascists, whose evaders home, but also gathered The Germans went to enormous lengths
any great insights into the nature of real name was William Joyce. intelligence sent via coded letters by to subvert British captives and infiltrate
treason, but it doesn’t really matter. the men behind the wire. the prisoner intelligence network, and
This is a vastly entertaining tale, While Purdy was enjoying money, had an almost comical faith in the
bursting with astonishing stories and status and the company of his German It was Brown who passed on Purdy’s potential benefits. Their efforts met
extraordinary characters. Much of it girlfriend, a phoney turncoat was true identity so that when his German with near-complete failure. In the end,
will be new, even to fans of the Second only 30 or 40 men were tempted to take
World War espionage genre. up arms for the enemy, most of them
ego-charged chancers like Purdy. The
Purdy was born in Barking in East truth about traitors may be that there is
London in 1918, the son of a docklands no great enigma to be unravelled. But in
metal worker. He was bright but Verkaik’s hands the story of their
quarrelsome, hanging out in Soho treachery makes for a fascinating read.

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largely avoided by the Saxon which they call the Ghost City, attraction, a left-field choice but again when the flight is cancelled’
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Weather & Crosswords

Weather notes

Crowds in Bournemouth enjoy the

weather – but the heatwave is now over

Cold front brings
some sweet relief
to sweltering June

By Peter Stanford

AFTER the heat and humidity of recent
days, especially in the south and east of
the country, the return of more
average June temperatures today may
come as a relief to some. Others,
though, working next week, might be
cursing the missed chance to head for
the beach when it was 90F (32C), and
instead being faced with a weekend of
thunder in the offing and a cool breeze
driving the mercury down.

Last week’s heat was brought into
much of England and Wales by a
southerly airflow from Spain and
France, both in the grip of heatwaves.
However, the arrival yesterday of a
cold weather front from the opposite
direction, heading down from north-
west Scotland, saw the two systems
run into each other with turbulent and
wet results in a band across the middle
of the UK.

Today, by contrast, it is more settled,
if not exactly scorchio. Any remaining
rain will fall along the south coast, in
the south-east corner of England, and
in London. There will also be a gusty
breeze blowing through the English
Channel. The best of the temperatures
are no better than 68F (20C) in
London, across South Wales and in
that central belt of Scotland from
Glasgow to Edinburgh. Elsewhere,
expect 64F (18C) anywhere from
Plymouth to Liverpool, while further
east Norwich will manage only 63F
(17C).

Come Monday, the sun will be more
in evidence again but, with the wind
still coming from the north-west,
expect breezy, cool, occasionally wet
and generally unsettled conditions in
most parts, though its impact will be
reduced the further south and east you
are.

Meanwhile, in France and Spain, the
heatwave continues, up to and
including Tuesday’s summer solstice,
as the plume of hot air from north
Africa refuses to relent, and even
spreads into Germany and Poland.

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Television & Radio

The very best of the week ahead

Sunday Wednesday Who Do You Think You Are?
BBC One, 9pm
Suspect Paramount+ launch Anna Maxwell Martin proves as
Channel 4, 9pm and 9.30pm Paramount+ dogged and curious as Line of Duty’s
James Nesbitt is Danny Frater, a If you were worried there were already Patricia Carmichael as she digs into
grizzled detective, in this drum-tight too many streaming services to choose unarguably tragic stories on both
thriller based on the hit Danish series from, Paramount+ has arrived to make branches of her family tree. On her
Forhøret, adapted and written by Matt watching TV even more confusing and father’s side there is premature death,
Baker. When Frater’s estranged adult expensive. The service is available to on her mother’s, an appalling history
daughter, Christina (Imogen King), is Sky Cinema customers, and as a of abuse, neglect and separation.
found dead, he won’t accept the standalone product for £6.99 a month. Harrowing, but ultimately uplifting. GT
pathologist’s conclusion of suicide It brings with it existing shows such as
and, going rogue, sets out to find the Yellowstone and American Rust, along Friday
truth, much to the consternation of his with the acclaimed new Star Trek
boss, Richard (Ben Miller). The odd but series Strange New Worlds and a glut of Glastonbury 2022
gripping format of this series is that original programming. The most eye- BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four,
each episode is essentially a two- catching new series – an adaptation of from 7pm
hander as Frater interrogates all the the video game series Halo – will be After three pandemic-blighted years
people closest to Christina one by one. irresistible for anyone who grew up away, Glastonbury 2022 is on. The
All of them seem (to the deeply with an Xbox. It follows the exploits of BBC’s festival broadcasting is a thing of
traumatised detective, at least) to be the Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber), a beauty – and a welcome reminder of
suspicious and, in the process of super soldier from the future who beats what the embattled corporation does
recreating the last few hours of his up religious aliens – and it’s also airing best. We’re set for an exhaustive 35
daughter’s life, he has to confront both on Channel 5 tonight at 10pm. More hours of coverage over the next three
her descent into delinquency and his alien drama lands in the form of The days, beginning on BBC Three at 7pm
failings as a father. The eight-part Man Who Fell to Earth, a sequel to the
series kicks off with back-to-back 1976 film starring David Bowie. This
episodes; the first sets up the story, time, Chiwetel Ejiofor is the humanoid
while in the second Frater confronts extraterrestrial. Also on, The First Lady
Christina’s partner, Nicola (Niamh stars Gillian Anderson, Michelle Pfeiffer
Algar). Suspect is a dark and intense and Viola Davis as three American first
rollercoaster with a cast list that ladies: Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford
includes Joely Richardson as the and Michelle Obama. Jack Taylor
pathologist, Richard E Grant as
Christina’s mentor and Anne-Marie James Nesbitt stars in Channel 4 crime drama Suspect (above); Master Chief in Halo on Paramount+ (below, left) Ireland: Coast and Country
Duff as her mother. Veronica Lee More4, 9pm
Solihull to travel back through six Tuesday postscript suggests the exploitation of This documentary takes an emerald- Glastonbury 2022: Billie Eilish headlines
McDonald & Dodds decades of British Asian history and diplomatic immunity continues and tinted look at Ireland. An underwater
ITV, 8pm discover the ways that previous The Whistleblowers: Inside the UN the most vulnerable continue to be let wildlife photographer snaps shots of tonight with set highlights from
A third series of the solid chalk-and- generations of South Asians put down BBC Two, 9pm down by those who are supposed to dolphins in Liscannor Bay, but the popstar Sigrid and the Brit Award-
cheese cop drama starts with a story roots, found prosperity and helped Recent years have seen the exposure of champion their causes. Gabriel Tate highlight of the hour is a trio of elderly winning Griff. Jo Whiley, Lauren
about a young woman whose body is shape modern Birmingham along the scandals at big institutions from rock climbers whose age defying feats Laverne and Clara Amfo lead live
found in a park. Tala Gouveia and way. Tonight’s edition drops the Amnesty International to Oxfam, Ellie and Natasia are set to some entertaining banter. coverage of the first day on BBC Two,
Jason Watkins return as the odd- Sharmas in at the deep end, in 1950s- where admirable goals have been used BBC Three, 10pm & 10.15pm A saccharine treat. JT continuing from 9pm, introducing live
couple detectives, Claire Skinner joins era inner-city Sharkbrook. There, for as cover for malpractice. Ben Steele’s With the British sketch show sadly performances from Wet Leg, Wolf
as their new boss. The script delights, only around £1 a week, they could rent superb and profoundly shocking This an endangered species, Ellie White Thursday Alice and TLC. At 10pm, the sultry
as do the cameos – this week from Siân a sparsely furnished room with access World documentary reveals a litany of and Natasia Demetriou return for queen of pop Billie Eilish crowns her
Phillips and Alan Davies. VL to a shared kitchen. And in a Britain abuse, widespread corruption and Taskmaster: Champion rise to superstardom with a headline
where strict rationing was still in place, gross malpractice at the biggest and Man vs Bee: Rowan Atkinson of Champions 2022 set on the Pyramid Stage – the youngest
Monday ingenuity was needed to recreate even most symbolic multinational of them Channel 4, 9pm solo headliner in Glastonbury history at
the smallest morsels of comfort food all, the United Nations. Almost a dozen a welcome second series where the A week after the end of its 13th series, the tender age of 20. Highlights of the
Back in Time for Birmingham from home. Gerard O’Donovan dauntless whistleblowers assemble to absolute commitment to their roles this peerlessly silly game show delves other headline acts follow, among
BBC Two, 8pm deliver their devastating critique of is matched by the quality of their back into its past on Dave, wrangling them British rapper Little Simz on
This eighth run of the living history River Cottage Reunited systemic failures ignored at the highest writing. While a wonderful guest spot the winners of series six to nine the West Holts Stage and indie rock
series is the second to specifically More4, 9pm levels. We begin by hearing of how the from Natasia’s brother Jamie may not (alongside the series 10 champion from darlings Foals. BBC Four has coverage
focus on the lives and experiences It’s been more than two decades identities of Uighur activists were constitute a coup, David Morrissey its first Channel 4 run) for a standalone from 8pm with Crowded House,
of British immigrants. In 2016, since Hugh Fearnley- passed to the Chinese authorities, gamely seizes the chance to show explosion of surreal creativity and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss,
Back in Time for Brixton Whittingstall began of kickbacks in Kosovo and Russia, comedic chops as an exasperated open-hearted hilarity, punctuated as Idles and Arlo Parks. JT
looked at how a Caribbean filming at his idyllic pollution from a UN camp in Haiti dentist. GT ever by the aggressive interventions of
family from the River Cottage which led to a cholera outbreak, and grumpy Taskmaster Greg Davies. The Man vs Bee
Windrush-generation HQ in Devon an appalling, seemingly irrefutable chemistry between the competitors, Netflix
negotiated life in and post-pandemic evidence of rape, sexual abuse and even for this ad hoc one-off, is as finely Rowan Atkinson returns to the
London in the is the perfect time to harassment both within and closely balanced and effective as ever: Richard slapstick-comedy well to star as a
post-war years. This introduce us to the latest linked to the UN itself. At least as bad Herring brings self-deprecation and a bumbling oaf who’s outsmarted by a
series shifts its focus chapter in his ever- as the allegations themselves are big chequebook, Lou Sanders roller bee. It hardly breaks new ground, but
to Birmingham, to explore evolving food philosophy accounts of, at best, wilful cowardice skates and has an obsession with any vehicle which allows Atkinson to
forging a new life in Britain of simplicity and ecology. (or ignorance), and at worst pulleys, Ed Gamble essays a trip into make stupid facial expressions is worth
through the eyes of the Tonight, he and his team persecution and punishment of those space and an unusual costume, Kerry the pretence. He plays a luckless chap
Sharma family who, over celebrate the bounties of calling out rule-breaking. The Godliman supplies bottled fury and who housesits at a modern mega-
the next four nights, the harvest. GO James Acaster, while Liza Tarbuck, mansion, filled with priceless things
abandon their home in quite frankly, steals the show. GT he really, really mustn’t break… JT

Today’s radio choice Gerard O’Donovan

Desert Island Discs Brahms, Della Reese and Drama: The Machine Stops soothing, but eventually
Radio 4, 11.15am Peggy Lee before she finally Radio 4, 3pm horrifying vision of the
chose Sibelius’s Symphony technological future – and
Rita Tushingham, one of the No 4 as her favourite tune. Tamsin Greig puts in a was astonishingly prescient
nation’s most beloved actress No doubt her musical tastes captivating performance in for its time. Greig plays plays
ever since her screen debut will have shifted slightly in this new adaptation of EM Vashti, a lecturer in music
in A Taste of Honey (1961), is the 57 intervening years, Forster’s renowned 1909 history, whose world turns
today’s guest selecting her though it will be interesting sci-fi story. Set in a world upside down when her son
music and luxury – not for to see whether she chooses where everyone lives in Kuno (Tok Stephen) contacts
the first time. Roy Plomley to stick with her original isolation, communicating her and demands to see her
had her on the show back (and delightfully eccentric) via screens with all physical after he commits a grievous
in 1965, when among her luxury, the Albert Memorial needs catered for by “The sin and is threatened with
choices were pieces by in Kensington Gardens. Machine”, it is an initially eviction from The Machine.

RADIO 1 Requests 5.00 The Listening Service Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today The Newsroom 11.20 Sports News
5.30 Words and Music 6.45 Sunday 5.58 - 6.00am Tweet of the Day 11.30 Outlook 12.00 News 12.06am
FM 97.6-99.8MHZ From Our Own Correspondent 12.30
Feature – Afterwords: Chinua Achebe RADIO 5 LIVE Heart and Soul 1.00 The Newsroom
6.00am Radio 1’s Chillout Anthems 7.30 Drama on 3: Maupassant’s 1.30 Discovery: The Mysterious
7.00 Adele Roberts 10.00 Radio 1 Confessions of a Hedonist 8.45 Record MW 693 & 909KHZ Particles of Physics 2.00 The
Anthems 10.30 Newsbeat 10.32 Review Extra 11.00 Sound Designs Newsroom 2.30 The Climate Question
Radio 1 Anthems 11.02 Dean with Nick Luscombe 12.00 The Music 6.00am 5 Live Science 7.00 Sunday 3.00 News 3.06 Tech Tent 3.30 Pick
McCullough 1.00pm Matt and Mollie & Meditation Podcast 12.30am - Breakfast 10.00 Nick Bright 12.00 5 of the World 3.50 Over to You 4.00
4.00 Radio 1’s Life Hacks 6.00 The 6.30am Through the Night Live Sport 1.00pm 5 Live Sport 2.00 The Newsroom 4.30 The Conversation
Official Chart 7.00 Radio 1’s Chillest 5 Live Sport: 5 Live Cricket 5.30 5 Live 5.00 - 8.00am Newsday
Show 9.00 Rock Show with Daniel P RADIO 4 Sport 6.30 5 Live Formula 1 9.00 5
Carter 11.00 BBC Introducing on Live Sport: 5 Live Golf 12.00 How Do RADIO 4 EXTRA
Radio 1 12.00 Radio 1’s Future Soul FM 92.4-94.6MHZ; LW 198KHZ You Cope? With Elis and John 1.00am
with Victoria Jane 1.30am Radio 1’s Dotun Adebayo 5.00 - 6.00am Wake DIGITAL ONLY
UK R&B Mix 2.00 Radio 1’s 6.00am News 6.05 Something Up to Money
Decompression Session 3.00 Radio 1’s Understood 6.35 Natural Histories 6.00am Jaws by Peter Benchley
Chill Mix 3.30 Radio 1’s Motivate Me 6.57 Weather 7.00 News 7.00 Sunday CLASSIC FM Omnibus – Part Two 7.10 Inheritance
Mix 4.00 Radio 1 Dance 5.00 - Papers 7.10 Sunday 7.54 Radio 4 Tracks 7.20 Dombey and Son Omnibus
6.57am Radio 1 Early Breakfast with Appeal 7.57 Weather 8.00 News 8.00 FM 99.9-101.9MHZ – Part Two 8.30 Albert and Me 9.00
Arielle Free Sunday Papers 8.10 Sunday Worship Something to Shout About 9.30 It’s a
8.48 A Point of View 8.58 Tweet of 7.00am Aled Jones 10.00 John Fair Cop 10.00 Desert Island Discs
RADIO 2 the Day 9.00 Broadcasting House Brunning 1.00pm Catherine Bott Revisited 10.45 David Attenborough’s
10.00 The Archers 11.15 Desert 4.00 John Humphrys 7.00 Smooth Life Stories 11.00 The Moth Radio
FM 88-90.2MHZ Island Discs 12.00 News 12.01pm Classics at Seven 9.00 High Score with Hour 11.50 Inheritance Tracks 12.00
LW: Shipping 12.04 Just a Minute Eímear Noone 10.00 Smooth Classics Poetry Extra 12.30pm Natalie Haynes
6.00am Good Morning Sunday 9.00 12.32 The Food Programme 12.57 1.00am Bill Overton 4.00 - 6.00am Stands Up for the Classics 1.00 The
Steve Wright’s Sunday Love Songs Weather 1.00 The World This Early Breakfast Vanity Fair Diaries Omnibus 2.10
11.00 The Michael Ball Show 1.00pm Weekend 1.30 The Listening Project Inheritance Tracks 2.20 Riot Girls:
Elaine Paige on Sunday 3.00 Sounds 2.00 Gardeners’ Question Time 2.45 WORLD SERVICE How to Be a Woman Omnibus 3.30
of the 70s with Johnnie Walker 5.00 Burlesque Legends 4.00 The Dutch
Paul O’Grady 7.00 Sunday Night Is Past Forward: A Century of Sound DIGITAL ONLY Mariner 5.00 Poetry Extra 5.30
Music Night 9.00 Baz Luhrmann: My 3.00 Drama: The Machine Stops 4.00
Soundtrack Stories 10.00 Katie Piper Open Book 4.30 Uncanny Summer 6.00am Weekend 8.30 Pick of the Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the
12.00 OJ Borg 2.30am One Hit Special: Canadian Horror Story 5.00 World 8.50 Over to You 9.00 News Classics 6.00 Fear on Four 6.30 Night
Wonders with OJ Borg 3.00 File on 4 5.40 Profile 5.54 Shipping 9.06 From Our Own Correspondent Terrace 7.00 The Moth Radio Hour
Alternative Sounds of the 90s with 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 9.30 Outlook 10.00 News 10.06 7.50 Inheritance Tracks 8.00 The
Dermot O’Leary 4.00 - 6.30am 6.15 Pick of the Week 7.00 The People Fixing the World 10.30 Heart Dutch Mariner 9.00 Desert Island
Vanessa Feltz Archers 7.15 Josie Long: What Next? and Soul 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 Discs Revisited 9.45 David
7.45 Accidents and Emergencies 8.00 This is Africa 12.00 News 12.06pm Attenborough’s Life Stories 10.00
RADIO 3 More or Less 8.30 Last Word 9.00 World Book Club 1.00 Newshour 2.00 Comedy Club 12.00 Fear on Four
Money Box 9.25 Radio 4 Appeal 9.30 News 2.06 The Forum 2.50 Over to 12.30am Night Terrace 1.00 The
FM 90.2-92.4MHZ Analysis 9.59 Weather 10.00 The You 3.00 News 3.06 Music Life 4.00 Vanity Fair Diaries 2.10 Inheritance
Westminster Hour 11.00 Loose Ends News 4.06 Sportsworld 7.00 The Tracks 2.20 Riot Girls: How to Be a
7.00am Breakfast 9.00 Sunday 11.30 Something Understood 12.00 Newsroom 7.30 Unspun World with Woman Omnibus 3.30 Burlesque
Morning 12.00 Private Passions News and Weather 12.15am Thinking John Simpson 8.00 News 8.06 The Legends 4.00 The Dutch Mariner 5.00
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Allowed 12.45 Bells on Sunday 12.48 History Hour 9.00 Newshour 10.00 Poetry Extra 5.30 - 6.00am Natalie
2.00 The Early Music Show 3.00 Shipping 1.00 As World Service 5.20 News 10.06 Tech Tent 10.30 Pick of
Choral Evensong 4.00 Jazz Record Shipping 5.30 News Briefing 5.43 the World 10.50 Over to You 11.00 Haynes Stands Up for the Classics

The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 19 June 2022 *** 31

Today’s television

Main channels Film choiceFV Freeview FS Freesat (AD) Audio description (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) In-vision signing

BBC One BBC Two ITV Channel 4 Channel 5

6.00 am Breakfast (S) 9.00 Sunday 6.20 am The Edible Garden (AD) (R) (S) 6.00 am CITV 8.25 News (S) 8.30 Vick 6.25 am Cheers (R) (S) 6.50 Everybody 6.00 am Milkshake! 10.00 SpongeBob Civil: Ben Crump (2022)
Morning (S) 10.00 Politics England 6.50 Gardeners’ World (R) (S) 7.50 Hope’s Breakfast Show (S) 9.25 Love Loves Raymond (R) (S) 7.15 SquarePants (R) (S) 10.15 Netflix
(S) 10.30 Sunday Morning Live (S) Countryfile (R) (S) 8.45 Beechgrove Your Garden (AD) (S) 9.55 Ainsley’s Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S) SpongeBob SquarePants (R) (S)
11.30 Homes Under the Hammer (R) (S) 9.15 Landward (R) (S) 9.45 Food We Love (AD) (S) 10.25 7.40 The Simpsons (AD) (R) (S) 8.05 10.25 Entertainment News on 5 (S) This documentary, which premiered
(S) Saturday Kitchen Best Bites (S) 11.15 Cooking with the Stars (AD) (R) (S) The Simpsons (AD) (R) (S) 8.30 10.30 Friends (AD) (R) (S) 11.00 at the Tribeca Film Festival last week,
The Hairy Bikers’ Asian Adventure 11.25 The Masked Singer US (R) (S) Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix Friends (AD) (R) (S) 11.30 Friends advertises a deep dive into the life of
12.00 Bargain Hunt (AD) (R) (S) (AD) (R) (S) Qualifying Highlights (S) 9.30 (AD) (R) (S) civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump,
12.45 pm Points of View (S) 12.20 pm News; Weather (S) Sunday Brunch (S) dubbed “Black America’s attorney
1.00 News; Weather (S) 12.15 pm Cities: Nature’s New Wild (AD) 12.30 MotoGP Live: Germany The Grand 12.00 Friends (AD) (R) (S) general.” Crump’s practice has looked
(R) (S) 12.30 pm The Simpsons (AD) (R) (S) 12.30 pm FILM: The Bridge at Remagen into the killings of Trayvon Martin,
1.15 Tennis: Queen’s The cinch Prix Deutschland (start-time 1.00 The Simpsons (AD) (R) (S) Michael Brown and George Floyd –
Championships final (S) 1.15 Songs of Praise (S) 1.00pm) (S) 1.30 The Simpsons (AD) (R) (S) (1969) Second World War adventure as well as the Flint water crisis. His
1.50 FILM: The First Great Train 2.30 You’ve Been Framed! Gold (R) (S) 2.00 The Simpsons (AD) (R) (S) starring George Segal (S) 20-year career ensures that this will be
4.00 FILM: Moana (2016) Disney 3.00 Midsomer Murders (AD) (R) (S) 2.30 The Simpsons (AD) (R) (S) 2.50 FILM: A Bridge Too Far (1977) Fact- a fascinating insight into the US today.
animation with the voice of Dwayne Robbery (1978) Period thriller 5.00 FILM: The Man with the Golden 3.00 FILM: The Spiderwick Chronicles based Second World War drama
Johnson (AD) (S) starring Sean Connery and Donald Gun (1974) James Bond adventure (2008) Fantasy adventure starring with Dirk Bogarde (S)
Sutherland (S) starring Roger Moore and Freddie Highmore (AD) (S) 6.25 5 News Weekend (S)
5.35 Seven Worlds, One Planet (AD) (R) 3.35 Flog It! (R) (S) Christopher Lee (AD) (S) 4.55 Best of Britain by the Sea (AD) (R) 6.30 When Talent Shows Go Horribly
(S) 4.30 Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs (S) Wrong (R) (S)
(R) (S) 6.00 The Andrew Neil Show (S)
6.35 News (S) 5.00 FILM: Whisky Galore! (2016) 6.30 Channel 4 News (S)
6.50 Regional News; Weather; Weather Comedy starring James Cosmo (S)
6.30 FILM: Porridge (1979) Prison
(S) comedy starring Ronnie Barker (S)

Moana (2016)
BBC One, 4pm ★★★★

The Outlaws: Perkins and Merchant Glastonbury: Emily Eavis McDonald & Dodds: Watkins and Gouveia Tutankhamun: Ella Al-Shamahi The Cruise Disney’s gorgeous CGI spectacle
7.00 Countryfile Sean Fletcher visits the bottles the wanderlust of youth in the
seaside town of Whitby (S) 7.30 News (S) 7.00 Inside the Superbrands Helen 8.00 Bargain Loving Brits by the Sea sun-drenched Pacific Islands. Moana
7.50 Regional News; Weather (S) Skelton goes behind the scenes of Britons living the high life on a low (Auli’i Cravalho) longs to follow in the
8.00 Top Gear Freddie, Chris and Paddy Wall’s, the UK’s biggest ice-cream budget in popular holiday resorts (S) wake of her sea-faring ancestors; but,
set out to qualify as lorry drivers (S) 8.00 The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway: 8.00 McDonald & Dodds New series. brand (AD) (S) after a massive ecological disaster, she
Inside the Elizabeth Line The Return of the detective drama teams up with wise-cracking demi-
Queen officially opens the railway starring Jason Watkins (AD) (S) 8.00 Tutankhamun: Secrets of the god Maui (Dwayne Johnson, having
line (AD) (S) Tomb Part one of two. The scientific the time of his life) to take to the waves
truth behind the legend of the and save her people. Lin-Manuel
Pharaoh’s Curse (AD) (S) Miranda co-wrote many of the tunes.

9.00 The Outlaws The gang’s illicit 9.00 Glastonbury: 50 Years and 10.00 News; Weather (S) 9.00 Suspect New series. Crime thriller 9.00 The Cruise New series. Life on Philomena (2013)
business begins to run like a well- Counting The social and musical 10.20 Two Sides New series. Following the starring James Nesbitt (AD) (S) board two ships in the Virgin BBC One, 10.30pm ★★★★
oiled machine (AD) (S) history of the festival (AD) (S) Voyages fleet (S)
British & Irish Lions on their 2021 9.30 Suspect Danny arrives at the This true story is based on the work
10.00 News (S) 10.45 Inside Monaco: Playground of the tour of South Africa (S) apartment where Christina’s body 10.00 Holiday Love Cheats Holiday of journalist Martin Sixsmith (Steve
10.25 Regional News; Weather (S) Rich The Casino de Monte Carlo was found (AD) (S) romances gone wrong (R) (S) Coogan), who worked with Philomena
10.30 FILM: Philomena (2013) Fact-based holds an exclusive event (AD) (R) (S) 11.15 The Savoy 12.15am Long Lost Family Lee (Judi Dench), an Irishwoman then
1.00 Shop: Ideal World 3.00 10.00 Celebrity Gogglebox (AD) (R) (S) 11.00 Most Shocking Celebrity Moments in her seventies, as she searched for
drama starring Judi Dench and Steve 11.45 FILM: Moon (2009) Sci-fi drama Motorsport UK 3.50 Unwind with 1.00am The LeoVegas Live Casino her son, Anthony, whom she was
Coogan (AD) (S) starring Sam Rockwell 1.15am Sign ITV 5.05 - 6.00am Million Pound 11.00 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix Show 3.00 Entertainment News on forced to give up for adoption years
Zone: Question Time 2.15 Sign Zone: Pawn Highlights 12.30am Ramsay’s 5 3.10 The Dog Rescuers with Alan earlier. Stephen Frears’s film delivers
12.00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You For Love or Money 3.00 - 6.30am Kitchen Nightmares USA 1.25 Wife Davies 3.55 Britain’s Great some savage emotional blows, as well
12.50- 6.00am News This Is BBC Two Swap USA 2.10 Come Dine with Me Cathedrals with Tony Robinson 4.45 as a number of harsh, necessary truths
2.35 Come Dine with Me 3.05 Come Wildlife SOS 5.10 House Doctor 5.35 about the Catholic Church in Ireland.
Dine with Me 3.30 Come Dine with Peppa Pig 5.40 Paw Patrol 5.50 -
Me 4.00 Come Dine with Me 4.25 6.00am Milkshake! Monkey’s
Location, Location, Location 5.20 Amazing Adventures
Jamie’s Quick & Easy Food 5.50 -
6.00am Kirstie’s House of Craft

Freeview, satellite and cable VariationsFV Freeview FS Freesat (AD) Audio description (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) In-vision signing

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

FV 9 FS 173 SKY 116 VIRGIN 107 FV 10 FS 115 SKY 119 VIRGIN 117 FV 26 FS 117 SKY 120 VIRGIN 118 SKY 113 VIRGIN 122 SKY 108 FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428 FV 20 FS 158 SKY 143 VIRGIN 130 BBC One: 10.00 - 10.30am Sunday
Politics Northern Ireland
7.00 pm Our Classical Century 11.05 am The Ruth Rendell 9.30 am MotoGP Live: Germany. Noon NCIS: Los Angeles 11.40 am The Wire 11.00 am Marmaduke (2010) 11.10 am Les Miserables BBC Two: 10.45pm Sunday Politics
8.00 Inside Classical: Life, Love Coverage of the Moto3 and 1.00 pm NCIS: Los Angeles 12.45 pm The Wire Comedy starring Lee Pace 12.30 pm Les Miserables Northern Ireland 11.15 - 11.45pm Mock
Mysteries Moto2 races (start-times 2.00 Grimm the Week
and Tchaikovsky 12.10 pm Downton Abbey 10.00am and 11.20am) 3.00 Grimm 1.50 The Wire 12.45 pm Sense and Sensibility 1.50 Les Miserables UTV: No variations
9.30 FILM: Maria by Callas 4.00 Grimm 3.00 Westworld (1995) Jane Austen drama 3.10 Catherine Cookson’s The
1.40 Downton Abbey 12.35 pm World of Sport 5.00 Grimm 4.05 Westworld starring Emma Thompson Scotland
(2017) The life of soprano 2.45 Downton Abbey 12.50 River Monsters 6.00 A League of Their Own Road 5.10 Westworld Glass Virgin
Maria Callas 3.50 Downton Abbey 6.15 Westworld 3.35 Transformers: The Last 6.40 Call the Midwife BBC One: 10.00 - 10.30am The Sunday
11.25 Discovering The Young 4.50 Downton Abbey 1.20 FILM: Cahill, US Marshal Trip: Dingle to Dover 7.20 Westworld Knight (2017) Sci-fi sequel 8.00 Sherlock Show
Person’s Guide to the 5.55 Midsomer Murders (1973) Western 7.00 The ‘90s: Cinema’s Greatest 9.00 Das Boot starring Mark Wahlberg 10.00 Luther BBC Scotland: 7.15pm The Lost Final
Orchestra – Benjamin 8.00 Martin Clunes: Islands of 10.05 The Time Traveler’s Wife 11.20 Taggart 8.00 Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs
Britten 3.30 ITV Racing: Sky Bet Sunday Decade 11.05 We Own This City 6.40 Split Interview Special 1.05 am Auf Wiedersehen, Pet 8.55 Beechgrove Repotted 9.00 David
12.25 am Victorian Sensations the Pacific Series. Round four 8.00 Rob & Romesh vs Almost 12.15 am Game of Thrones 6.50 Sleepless in Seattle (1993) 2.05 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Wilson’s Crime Files 10.00 Still Game
1.25 Our Classical Century 9.00 Joanna Lumley’s Hidden 1.20 In Treatment 3.05 - 4.00am A Place to Call 10.30 Two Doors Down 11.00 Seven
2.25 - 3.55am Inside Classical: 7.05 Junk and Disorderly Everything 2.00 The Time Traveler’s Wife Comedy with Tom Hanks Days midnight Close
Life, Love and Tchaikovsky Caribbean: Havana to Haiti 8.05 FILM: Jaws: The Revenge 9.00 S.W.A.T. 3.05 In Treatment 9.00 Hunter Killer (2018) Action Home STV: 3.50 - 5.05am Unwind with STV
10.00 Midsomer Murders 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 3.35 - 4.05am In Treatment
12.05 am Wycliffe (1987) Thriller sequel 11.00 The Flight Attendant thriller starring Gerard Wales
10.00 FILM: Robin Hood (2010) 12.05 am Road Wars Butler and Gary Oldman
1.10 Wycliffe 1.05 The Force: North-East 11.20 Last Orders (2001) Drama BBC One: 10.00 - 10.30am Politics
2.15 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Medieval adventure 2.05 The Force: North-East starring Michael Caine Wales 5.35pm Flog It! 6.05 - 6.35pm
3.10 - 5.35am Emmerdale 12.45 am Minder 3.00 - 4.00am Brit Cops 1.30 - 3.55am Like Father, Like Iolo’s Anglesey
Son (2013) Drama starring BBC Two: No variations
Omnibus 1.45 The Professionals Masaharu Fukuyama ITV Wales: 2.30 - 3.00pm Newsweek
2.45 Unwind with ITV Wales
3.00 - 6.00am Teleshopping
ITV Regions
ITV2 More4 1. The team present from the grid League match from Lee Valley Hockey Performances by Wet Leg, Tom honour when he is forced to work for charting his life from dashing playboy
ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix 6.55 & Tennis Centre, London 5.30 Premier Grennan and Mae Muller 7.50 Isle of the Mob. Action thriller starring Bruce to his demise as a psychotic recluse. No variations
11.25am Celebrity Catchphrase Noon Come Dine with Me 2.40pm Live Formula 1. The Canadian Grand League Stories 6.00 Baseball Today in Wight Festival 2022. Rudimental Willis 11.50 Lansky (2021) Crime Starring Tommy Lee Jones 12.40am
12.25pm You’ve Been Framed! Four in a Bed 5.20 Come Dine with Me Prix (start-time 7.00pm). Live the UK 6.30 Live MLB. Toronto Blue perform 9.00 Isle of Wight Festival drama starring Harvey Keitel 1.55am FILM: Eyewitness (1970) Crime S4C
Attacks 1.30 FILM: Step Up 3 (2010) 8.00 Geordie Hospital 9.00 coverage of the ninth round of the Jays v New York Yankees (start-time 2022. Freya Ridings, UB40 featuring Last Night in Soho (2021) Mystery thriller starring Mark Lester 2.30-
Dance drama sequel starring Rick Emergency Helicopter Medics 10.00 season at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve in 6.37pm). Coverage of the National Ali Campbell and more 9.45 Isle of starring Thomasin McKenzie 3.55- 4.30am FILM: Heller in Pink Tights 6.00am Cyw 8.50 Penblwyddi Cyw 9.00
Malambri 3.40 FILM: Hotel 24 Hours in A&E 11.05 Rescue: Montreal 8.30 Live US Open Golf. Live League match from Yankee Stadium Wight Festival 2022. Muse headline 4.25am Sky Cinema Preview (1960) Comedy Western starring Garddio a Mwy 9.30 Gerddi Cymru 10.00
Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation Extreme Medics 12.10am 8 Out of 10 coverage of the fourth and final day of 10.00 WWE SmackDown Highlights the main stage 11.00 Isle of Wight Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn Teulu’r Castell 11.00 Natur Gudd Cymru
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TOTO? IT’S PERSONAL GO FOUR IT INTERVIEW R OYA L A S C OT

Horner lifts lid on England hatch top-order Fury: I’ll come out Naval Crown wins
bitter feud with plan to make most of of retirement... but Platinum Jubilee Stakes
Mercedes rival Wolff brutal Buttler hitting only for £500m
as 33-1 outsider
P. 1 0 P.6 P. 1 1
P. 1 2

Leicester 15 — 12 Saracens

Fire still Burns

ACTION IMAGES Fly-half Freddie shows his class by slotting
dramatic dropped goal in Tigers’ victory P.2-3

By Daniel Schofield at Twickenham dropped goal – just the eighth scored in “It was one of those where I was years ago I made a fool of myself cele- Last gasp: Fly-half bit all over the shop. I keep having this
the Premiership all season – with 20 ecstatic to get it over and when I was brating too early and I didn’t want it to Freddie Burns out-of-body experience.
hLeicester match-winner seconds remaining. running back celebrating I looked up happen again so I tried to get the boys launches his kick
grateful for redemption and saw there were still around 25 sec- on it, and luckily enough we cleared up between the posts “We’ve been a team of fighters all
For Leicester, this was the culmina- onds on the clock,” Burns said. “A few that restart. to secure victory for year, we’ve shown that in numerous
hLate kick ends Saracens tion of a remarkable rebuilding job Leicester against games. We knew today was going to be
resistance in thrilling final under Steve Borthwick, the head coach. Saracens at hard. I don’t think people really gave us
Just two seasons ago, they would have Twickenham much of a shot.
Freddie Burns admitted his infamous been relegated but for Saracens’ points
Toulouse horror show raced through deduction for salary cap breaches and “I’m in disbelief right now. I’m nor- “Everyone was talking about Sarries’
his mind after slotting the game-win- now they are champions for the first mally not short of words, but I can’t big-game players, but I wouldn’t have
ning dropped goal that secured Leices- time in nine years. believe what’s happened. To have this swapped any of our boys for theirs. We
ter a 15-12 victory against Saracens in a moment with a group of players who I kept fighting and kept fighting and we
pulsating Gallagher Premiership final. Burns, too, enjoyed his own redemp- couldn’t love any more is special. I’m a came out on the right end.”
tion arc. In 2018, the fly-half cost Bath a
Leicester had led for much of the Champions Cup victory against Tou- Burns came on for George Ford in the
contest at Twickenham through first- louse when he started prematurely cel- 24th minute after the England fly-half
half tries from back-rowers Hanro ebrating a try only to have the ball appeared to injure his ankle, which is
Liebenberg and Jasper Wiese, but Sara- knocked out of his hands. He was sub- likely to keep him out of the tour to Aus-
cens drew level with just five minutes ject of a vicious smear campaign by tralia this summer. Burns, who won five
remaining through Owen Farrell’s third anonymous trolls and moved to Japan’s England caps, proved more than a capa-
penalty kick. Leicester had also been second division before rejoining Leices- ble replacement as he and 39-year-old
reduced to 14 men, with replacement ter last summer. scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth con-
Matt Scott being sent to the sin-bin, but trolled the territory battle.
Burns held his nerve to kick the Even in the moment of his greatest
triumph, Burns, on as a replacement, “You always need experience and
was determined to make sure his team- multiple players of high quality as well,”
mates did not start celebrating until the Borthwick said. “When Freddie’s name
final whistle was blown. came across my desk, I wanted to ring
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Wimbledon tokens scheme ‘exploiting fans’ Saudis target WTA in new move into tennis

Exclusive By Tom Morgan SPORTS NEWS CORRESPONDENT Exclusive By Simon Briggs TENNIS CORRESPONDENT

Wimbledon has been accused of bledon turned down an approach from spokeswoman insisted. “It is a commu- Saudi Arabia is plotting a major push the world and we look seriously at each with access to the WTA’s commercial
exploiting tennis fans after launching a Socios, whose partners for fan tokens nity building exercise, to learn about into tennis by trying to entice a opportunity [but] we have not entered rights. CVC has already invested in F1,
Non-Fungible Token (NFT) collection include Arsenal, Leeds and Manchester the benefits of this very early technol- women’s tour event to the kingdom, rugby and cricket, and in December it
amid mounting concern over sport’s City. Executives eventually settled on ogy. There are many, many types of Telegraph Sport can reveal. into formal negotiations.” offered $600 million for a stake in a uni-
The WTA Tour has been sailing into fied tennis model combining the men’s
increasingly close relationship with an agreement to create a “Centenary ‘NFT’– the range is akin to auctioning It follows the controversial £2 billion and women’s tours.
unstable cryptocurrency. Collection” with New Zealand firm Glo- the Mona Lisa at Christie’s on one end of launch of the breakaway LIV Golf series strong financial headwinds since chief
rious, which claims its processes are the spectrum with someone running a as well as investments in football and While not ruling out a private-equity
The All England Club maintains the less environmentally damaging. executive Steve Simon took a moral alliance, the ATP has so far declined to
raffle at their local church.” Wimbledon Formula One as part of what is seen by stand on China’s apparent silencing of commit itself. Now the WTA is seen as a
only links between its new “beautiful The product’s launch this week said denied the scheme could lure collectors critics as a “sportwashing” ploy. Peng Shuai last year. Although admira- more likely partner for CVC.
pieces” of digital artwork and crypto “is into cryptocurrency investment. ble in principle, this knocked out one of
that these collectibles are secured and “10 digital masterpiece collectibles, The Saudis have been seeking a deal Some believe that a CVC deal could
authenticated on blockchain”. How- minted on the blockchain” would “rec- However, as Bitcoin plunged in value with the ATP Tour for at least five years his central sources of funding. be struck in the next two months, add-
ever, in the same week of significant ognise the storied history that has When the WTA signed a four-year ing another stakeholder to the already
falls in crypto values elsewhere, cam- unfolded upon the now hallowed turf ”. by another nine per cent yesterday, but have been repeatedly rebuffed by convoluted governance of tennis.
paigners against the rise of fan tokens in campaigners said there was a risk the the men’s game, yet the Women’s Ten- deal with health provider Hologic in
sport said the tournament should not be A ballot is taking place in which col- scheme could lure tennis fans into nis Association, which enjoys far less March, it is understood that it had to Asked about private-equity invest-
lectors will eventually purchase one of investing in the unstable markets. Mar- financial security, declined to rule out ment, a WTA spokesperson said. “We
risking association. tin Calladine, who authored Fit and request more than half the total sum – have been in discussions in this space
Wimbledon follows high-profile the limited-edition digital assets, valued Proper People: The Lies and Fall of the concept when contacted this week. which works out at around $20 million a and one of the discussions is with CVC.
at £500 each. Purchasers can “use OWNAFC, said: “It’s really disappoint- A spokesperson said: “We have year – to be paid up front in order to We have not made any decisions as to
players, clubs and competitions in foot- whatever currency they choose to buy what we intend or do not intend to do.”
ball to announce lucrative partnerships them, pounds, dollars, euros and cryp- ing to see Wimbledon exploiting tennis received inquiries from Saudi Arabia as allay cash-flow concerns.
with NFT firms. The Football Associa- tocurrencies”, the All England Club fans. There’s never been a worse time to An alternative solution is the large fee Tennis news: Page 11
launch an NFT scheme nor a worse time to interest in bringing a WTA event to
tion is exploring a similar partnership. said. “This is not a money-making or to buy them.” the region. As a global organisation, we – reported to be in excess of £100mil-
Telegraph Sport understands Wim- speculation enterprise,” a Wimbledon are always interested and appreciative lion – being offered by private-equity
of inquiries received from anywhere in
firm CVC Capital Partners for a stake in
a new, jointly-run WTA Tour, along

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Sport Rugby Union Out of reach: The moment of victory

Burns holds nerve

as his last-gasp

dropped goal fires

Leicester to title

Gallagher Premiership final By Daniel Schofield DEPUTY RUGBY CORRESPONDENT at Twickenham

Leicester 15 be Eddie Jones’s successor as England while Saracens scrum-half Aled Davies
Saracens 12 head coach. Just two years ago, Leices- was in the sin-bin for a high tackle that
ter only escaped relegation by virtue of could have easily been red.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Fly- Saracens’s points deduction for salary-
half Freddie Burns came off the bench cap breaches. At every stage this season, Leicester spurned numerous oppor-
to deliver a nerveless dropped goal with Borthwick has claimed they were ahead tunities to draw further ahead in the
just 22 seconds remaining that downed of schedule. Now they are champions. second half as Saracens, inspired by a
Saracens and delivered Leicester their gargantuan performance from Billy
first Premiership title in nine years. “The players have done incredibly Vunipola, grew ever closer, like the
well,” Borthwick said. “They have to villain in a horror film. Yet it was the
Dropped goals are so rare that they handle the emotions in the build-up to unlikely figure of Burns, who has
must be registered as an endangered a game around like this and channel it backed up Ford for most of the season,
species, but this was a pertinent into a performance on the pitch. I think who delivered when the pressure was at
reminder of their enduring value. With they did it tremendously well. For the its greatest.
Leicester driving, the Saracens defence dropped goal, the composure to get
was bending, but you never sensed it themselves into a better position was Farrell opened the scoring with a
would break. Referees also tend not to phenomenal.” penalty while Steward endured a sticky
award match-deciding penalties in opening under the high ball. Ford was
these scenarios. As loud as the roar was from the off target with a penalty and was then
Leicester supporters, who vastly out- forced off with a nasty-looking ankle
So Burns, who had replaced the numbered the Saracens fans, at full injury that may keep him out of Eng-
injured George Ford after 24 minutes, time, it was even louder when Tom land’s tour to Australia.
dropped into the pocket and waited. All Youngs, whose wife Tiffany recently
manner of thoughts must have raced died, appeared on the big screen. At Then came the flashpoint. Peeling off
through his mind. Until now, Burns, that point, no one could begrudge their the back of an overthrown line-out,
one of English rugby’s real good guys, victory. Montoya was dipping into contact, but
was most associated with botching a try Davies’s shoulder connected flush with
against Toulouse by celebrating prema- The irony was that Saracens’s finger- his head. As Dylan Hartley will testify,
turely. This time he made no such mis- prints were all over their own defeat, Wayne Barnes has no qualms about
take. After sending the ball sailing from Borthwick, who spent six years in showing a red card in a Premiership
through the posts, he screamed at his north London as a player, to 39-year-old final. Yet Barnes ruled that Montoya
team-mates to get back for the restart, player-coach Richard Wigglesworth, was the “dominant” ball-carrier so only
which they just about handled. another former Sarrie who executed awarded a yellow card. Perhaps another
Redemption was his. those kick-chase plans to a tee. set of laws exist for when backs tackle
forwards.
So often it is Saracens who deliver the “Everyone knows they have got a
sucker punch in these circumstances. phenomenally strong kicking game and Injustice or not, Leicester immedi-
With five minutes to go, they had drawn they tend to dominate territory and ately went to work capitalising upon
level at 12-12 after Matt Scott was sent they did again today,” Mark McCall, the their man advantage. From a line-out
to the sin-bin for a high tackle on Billy Saracens director of rugby, said. “They strike move, Ellis Genge pulled the ball
Vunipola and Owen Farrell converted trapped us in our half for long periods back to Burns who instantly shipped it
the subsequent penalty. The stage was and backed that up with brilliant defen- on to Steward, cutting a perfect line
set for another smash-and-grab victory sive work. It was very frustrating but a between Elliot Daly and Sean Maitland.
only this time it was their noses that lot of that was their making. We were a A couple of phases later, Liebenberg
were bloodied. bit suffocated today.” was driven over from close range.

Steve Borthwick, the Tigers head Wigglesworth was magnificent while Daly immediately reduced the deficit
coach, did not know where to look at the likes of Tommy Reffell, Guy Porter with a penalty from just inside the
the final whistle. He has delivered a and Ollie Chessum played well above Leicester half but the Tigers still had the
minor miracle with Leicester and must their station. Full-back Freddie Steward man advantage and soon they had their
now be considered the front-runner to recovered from a difficult start to help second try. It started with Wiggles-
Leicester control the air, with hooker worth charging down Farrell, his old
Julian Montoya the most influential fig- half-back partner, in midfield and
ure in the breakdown battle. Leicester ended with a tap penalty that resulted
scored two close-range tries through in Wigglesworth feeding the
Hanro Liebenberg and Jasper Wiese, dumptruck figure of Wiese coming
round the corner. Alex Goode on the
Champions: Leicester’s Ellis Genge (right) lifts the trophy with Tom Youngs (centre) try-line did not stand a chance. Burns GETTY IMAGES
missed the conversion so Leicester had
to settle for a 12-6 half-time lead.

Burns missed a tricky penalty and
Saracens just about held their maul at
bay after several close-range line-outs.
You sensed those missed chances
would prove costly as Saracens, who
were turning the screw at the set-piece,
marched their way downfield and Far-
rell reduced the deficit to three points.

With seven minutes to go, a searing
Andy Christie break took Saracens
deep into the Leicester 22 only for Billy
Vunipola to run into Barnes. From the
scrum, Vunipola picked up and ran
into an upright Scott, who made contact
with the No 8’s head. Yellow card,
penalty, and we were all square with
less than five minutes remaining of
normal time.

You knew a twist was coming but few
would have bet money on Burns, one of
the sport’s great guys, being the one to
deliver the final blow.

Youngs joins celebrations after tough time Borthwick must be England’s
only credible choice now
From Page 1
him straight away to see if he was inter- By Ben Coles at Twickenham
ested. I got the energy and excitement
from him that this guy wants this chal- Happy landing: No 8 Jasper Wiese (centre) gets the ball down for Leicester’s second try I f it is open displays of emotion you “I was pretty happy,” Borthwick Welford Road. Borthwick is 42 and this
lenge. He’s a phenomenal player.” are after from a head coach then said, recalling that moment with a is his first head coaching role. In less
Steve Borthwick would not be top of laugh and a smile. At the time, than 24 months, he has turned a
There were emotional scenes as for- your list. It is why his reaction in the Borthwick’s overriding emotion dormant giant into champions again. It
mer Leicester captain Tom Youngs, seconds after Freddie Burns hoofed appeared to be relief, surprisingly. ranks as an astonishing achievement.
whose wife Tiffany died this month the ball into the Twickenham South Returning a side such as Leicester back
after a battling cancer, joined his team- Stand to clinch Leicester’s ninth to the top of the pile of course comes Hopefully, Borthwick likes the feel
mates in the celebrations and lifted the Gallagher Premiership title was so with pressure, but no one was exactly of the Twickenham press box because,
trophy with captain Ellis Genge. interesting. expecting Borthwick to deliver on that at this stage, it is hard to envisage
remit at the end of his second season. anyone else taking over from Eddie
Youngs joined the lap of honour As he removed his earpiece, Jones when the England head coach
alongside his brother Ben, the England Borthwick sat slumped back in his He has carried out one of the more
scrum-half, who said that the family had chair, head bowed. Moments later, he steps down after the 2023 World Cup.
been bowled over by the outpouring of remarkable transformations in recent Who better, given his extensive
support. was pictured embracing the Leicester memory, taking a Leicester side on the
defence coach Kevin Sinfield, eyes precipice of relegation down in 11th history working under Jones as an
“The support from the rugby com- closed, deep in thought. place and bringing the glory back to assistant coach, first with Japan and
munity and everyone has been abso-
lutely incredible,” Ben Youngs said. “It’s then England building up to the 2019

not been an easy time, but today was a
special day. Tom having that moment to
lift that cup, having gone through all
he’s gone through ... it’s been tough, but

I’m so proud.”

Player ratings Leicester

By Ben Coles 6 Chris Ashton 6 Matias Moroni 8 Guy Porter 7 Harry Potter 6 George Ford 8 7Richard Wigglesworth Ellis Genge
Wing Centre Centre Wing Fly-half Scrum-half Prop
8 Freddie Steward
Full-back

Shaky start, but brilliant outside Joined only in February and look at Full of energy, chasing after kicks Great hustle to shut down Farrell Hared after Wigglesworth’s kicks all Last game of his second stint with At 39, the oldest Premiership finalist Jointly penalised when Leicester had
break led to Leicester’s opening try him now. Lively down the right wing and doing his best to feed Leicester’s and the Australian grafted hard afternoon long and his pressure led Leicester was sadly over before the ever. Failure to roll away gave his old a scrum close to Saracens’ try-line
and his 50:22 kick had rivals under going after half-chances and wing. Replaced late on by Scott after throughout. No wonder Wallabies to a Davies error. One of Leicester’s half-hour, one very nice run down club three points but responded with but bounced back on final start
the pump. Thrived as game went on. diligently chasing kicks at age of 35. emptying the tank. recently tried to bring him home. hardest workers. the outside leaving him in pain. a great charge-down on Farrell. before heading home to Bristol.

8 Julian Montoya 7 Dan Cole 8 Ollie Chessum 6 Calum Green 8 Hanro Liebenberg 7 Tommy Reffell 9 Jasper Wiese Replacements C Clare (J Montoya 64),
Hooker Prop Lock Lock Flanker Flanker No 8 N Leatigaga (E Genge 64), J Heyes (D Cole 54),
H Wells (C Green 64), G Martin (T Reffell 64),
Outstanding all season long and had Penalised at a five-metre scrum with Big carrying game after being One of Tigers’ top tacklers in first Late tackle handed Saracens early Led Leicester tackle count but his So crucial for Leicester’s game plan B Youngs (R Wigglesworth 64), F Burns
a quality rip on Davies, and another team poised to strike, losing his brought into starting XV and battled half, a key outlet at the line-out, and points, but then pumped the legs to turnovers are priceless, combining with his carrying, he scrapped well (G Ford 24), M Scott (M Moroni 58).
turnover in second half. Momentous bind, but had revenge later against well with Nick Isiekwe. Tackle on at core of Leicester’s driving mauls. score and was a useful carrier, too. with Montoya for one at the start of and scored a try. Leicester have
player for both club and country. Vunipola. Another top display. Malins off ball gifted three points. Replaced by Wells late on. Claimed late restart to win the final. the second half. recruited well, but is the pick. Referee Wayne Barnes.

The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 19 June 2022 ** 3

Charlie Morgan

Senior Rugby Writer, at Twickenham

Unlikely hero shows
guile, awareness and
the coolest of heads

F reddie Burns is among the Match-winner: resembled a waiting game, which is
most affable figures in English Freddie Burns where Steve Borthwick comes in.
rugby, and a healthy slice of parades the Burns was signed on the
self-awareness underpins his Premiership trophy, recommendation of Oval Insights, the
popularity. At full-time, Leicester after he had come data analytics company that has aided
Tigers’ stand-in stand-off on for the injured the club’s recruitment. Borthwick
produced a one-liner that was as George Ford picked up the phone and asked Burns
accurate as the match-winning (below) in the whether he fancied returning from
dropped goal that sank Saracens. 23rd minute Toyota Industry Shuttles.

“I can’t believe it,” he said. “I Although he missed the conversion
thought moments like this weren’t of Wiese’s try and a second-half
for people like me.” penalty, Burns would prevail this time.
Leicester’s perseverance, both
Burns was the unlikely hero. tactically and emotionally, was crucial.
A day like this was not meant to
belong to him. He spent last season Farrell levelled the scores in the
in Japan’s second tier. 75th minute and, from there, Mark
McCall’s men appeared to have put
Burns had been a Twickenham themselves into a position to cruelly
super-sub before, yet that could edge the Tigers and snatch victory.
have been in a different life. On the
occasion of his Test debut almost a There would be one more critical
decade ago, he came off the bench kicking skirmish, beginning with
for the final 16 minutes of Burns’s restart. Saracens recovered
England’s 38-21 victory over New possession and Ivan van Zyl hoisted a
Zealand. He even kicked a pair of high ball. Steward rose to gather amid
penalties, but Owen Farrell and a sea of bodies and Ben Youngs
George Ford proved to be tough returned fire. Alex Goode to Steward.
rivals for international honours Steward to Goode. And then Burns
and Burns has added only four popped up. He and Goode exchanged
caps since while bouncing strikes before some space opened up.
between clubs.
Burns tiptoed towards his own
Indeed, this Premiership final 10-metre line and lifted a kick that was
was supposed to be headlined by slightly shallower than Saracens
Farrell and Ford. But Ford’s anticipated. It bounced and the
withdrawal in the 23rd minute cut irrepressible Hanro Liebenberg
short that sub-plot. Burns would gobbled up the loose ball. A few phases
not have been cowed. A week later, Youngs drew a groan from
previously, he had joined the Twickenham as he opted for a
semi-final against Northampton box-kick. All was forgiven as Ollie
even earlier when Dan Kelly broke Chessum, another relentless forward,
down. Rather than derail Leicester, snaffled the ricochet.
Ford’s unfortunate injury set in
motion a defining performance Leicester swept back and forth
from Burns that simultaneously across the Saracens 22. Burns
encapsulated different facets of played neat passes before slinking
Leicester’s turnaround. to the pocket. His delay in doing so,
he explained afterwards, was
The new arrival began tidily. because he thought Tigers could
Following Aled Davies’s high generate enough momentum to
tackle on Julian Montoya, which score their third try. In fairness,
somehow yielded only a yellow Wayne Barnes could have penalised
card, Burns nudged to touch. Maro Itoje for failing to roll away
prior to Burns’s telling three-pointer.
On the second phase after the Socks down, he speared the kick
Leicester line-out, he took a between the posts and wheeled away.
pull-back from Ellis Genge and Scurrying back to his own half, he
grabbed his head in disbelief but
‘I can’t believe it. stayed mindful of the next job. As
Moments like this are Steward attempted an embrace,
not meant to happen Burns swatted him away. With 25
to people like me’ seconds remaining he was only
concerned about the restart.
World Cup final? His experience of Tigers time: Freddie been hugely impressive. Other clubs season. Ellis Genge will not be there, sent Freddie Steward on an arc Farrell dinked short for Theo
coaching Test rugby, combined with Burns’s winning kick might have looked at Richard nor will fly-half George Ford, leaving around Elliot Daly to puncture McFarland to chase, but again it was
how he has taken a club out of the sparks Leicester joy; Wigglesworth and considered him to Leicester facing a minor rebuild. Saracens’ understaffed defensive Liebenberg who seized the ball and by
gutter and turned them into the best in (below) head coach be too old. Leicester started the line. Tigers kept their composure, then we were in the 82nd minute.
the country in record time, gives him Steve Borthwick 39-year-old scrum-half/assistant coach Heading home to Bristol, Genge, the as they did all afternoon, to score. The 2022 Premiership title was
impeccable credentials for the role. savours the in the Premiership final. Leicester captain, said of his head sealed by Burns catching a pass from
triumph with coach: “He goes about his work Jasper Wiese’s finish, from an Youngs and booting the ball into the
How has this happened? Listen to captain Ellis Genge Asked to explain the key to quietly, he never wants any plaudits. intrepid quick tap, then opened up crowd.
the Leicester players, and Borthwick Leicester’s resuscitation, Borthwick To work as hard as he does and not get a 12-6 advantage that allowed His Tigers’ tale is surely not done,
himself, and the key has been a blend explained: “I know in sport it’s natural, the reassurance all the time, I don’t Leicester to squeeze Saracens with Handre Pollard, the World
of simplicity and, frankly, brutally hard you drag towards what’s happened in know how he does it. If I did that I with a team effort that was Cup-winning Springbok, due to
graft in training. Obsessing with the would need a pat on the bum every five exceptionally disciplined and
basics and playing off a game-plan the past, or drag a long way into the seconds, saying I was doing well. He shrewd. Burns was integral to it all. replace Ford next season. Burns
built around kicking and set-piece future. I prefer to just try and be sticks to his process, he backs himself, is going nowhere. You can be
might not always lead to sexy backs us and we’ve come away with a In the build-up to this game, he sure he will fight to be part of
rugby, but you cannot argue with the best we can be in this trophy.” had been typically candid. Burns more glory days.
the results at Leicester. moment. Get a bit better, a bit spoke of “unfinished
better, and that’s because I like to Any head coach can put players business” and how he had
Julian Montoya always keep things very simple.” through the wringer physically, but it needed to “check my
appeared to be a brilliant bit of takes belief to keep them on your side ego” upon returning to
recruitment, but the way Borthwick is going to be at and to produce results. Borthwick has Leicester, because Ford
Leicester’s coaches have Leicester for at least one created that with Leicester and in a was first choice. He
squeezed the best out of more season, and the remarkable time. admitted that the
Guy Porter and Harry prospect of what they “maverick” tag has irked him over
Potter and Jasper might achieve in that Maro Itoje once called him a line-out the years, because he is confident
Wiese, the player of time is tantalising, professor, but now Borthwick is much of directing a team and making
particularly when more than that. The only logical next sound decisions. Burns even joked
the match in the you consider that that not even his ability to slip into
final and the scorer Handre Pollard and step for Borthwick and his coaching the No 15 shirt could get him into
of Leicester’s Anthony Watson are team is to make Twickenham their the starting line-up, because
on their way to permanent home by taking charge of Steward has developed into one of
second try, has Welford Road next England. Europe’s premier full-backs.

However, he has been an
inspired addition in this campaign
– not least because of his
versatility. In a phenomenally
committed defensive display, he
patrolled the back-field alongside
Steward. His awareness and
positioning helped to nullify
Saracens’ kicking game and he was
a vital and vocal organiser.

By Opta’s initial count, the tense
decider was punctuated by 106
kicks from hand. Both Leicester
and Saracens covet territory. They
like to defend fiercely and disrupt
breakdowns up the pitch. Neither
were willing to slip away from
their preferred template for too
long, so much of the contest

Player ratings Saracens

By Ben Coles 6 Max Malins 6 Elliot Daly 6 Nick Tompkins 5 Sean Maitland 7 Owen Farrell 5 Aled Davies 7 Mako Vunipola
Wing Centre Centre Wing Fly-half Scrum-half Prop
6 Alex Goode
Full-back

His mistake gave away a five-metre Made a comical error trying to field Caught out by Steward’s pace in the Terrific season and full of running Not a lot of ball in hand, mainly In great form since returning from Paper-thin mitigation stopped his Scrummaging was a concern in the
scrum but when Saracens did get one kick when he appeared to roll build-up to the opening try. Better again here, with his offloads chasing kicks, and came off at injury. Put Steward under pressure yellow card for a dangerous tackle semi-final and gave up a penalty
front-foot ball his connection with over the top of the ball. His pressure on the wing and fielded one allowing Saracens to keep attacks half-time without really making an with an early up-and-under, the on Montoya being red. Followed the short of his line here before Wiese’s
Farrell looked lethal. on Potter sparked a Saracens attack. cross-field kick very well. alive when they tried to play wide. impact on the final. theme for the day. box-kicking brief to the letter. try. Still great in open play though.

6 Jamie George 6 Vincent Koch 5 Maro Itoje 5 Nick Isiekwe 6 Theo McFarland 6 Ben Earl 8 Billy Vunipola Replacements A Lozowski (S Maitland 41),
Hooker Prop Lock Lock Flanker Flanker No 8 A Christie (T McFarland 60), I Van Zyl (A Davies
67), E Mawi (M Vunipola 67), D Taylor
Racked up tackles, although slipped Maul penalty set Leicester up to go Had a quietish first half before A maul penalty kept Leicester on top He has had some rise this season and Less dominant than in the Sharp footwork sparked one break. (N Tomkins 72), J Wray (B Vunipola 76),
off Porter for one Leicester break. A for the jugular with the score at pouncing for a late turnover, with in the second half and it took his there were plenty of nice offloads to semi-final. Penalised for not rolling Strayed offside, but Ford missed the McFarland (N Isiekwe 80). Not used K Pifeleti.
relatively quiet game for the England 12-6, but did well enough against his second half spent trying to shut desperate line-out defence to keep enjoy, finishing with nine tackles away, before making his presence kick. Delightful offload and a vital
hooker by his usually high standards. Genge and showed great fitness. down threatening Leicester mauls. them out. before he was taken off. felt as Saracens chased the game. turnover penalty, but not to be.

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25th anniversary: The Lions’ 1997 tour party (back row, from left) Barry Williams, Dai Young, Richard Hill, Richard Wegrzyk (masseur), Nick Beal, Eric Miller, Jeremy Davidson, Tim Rodber, Will Greenwood, Rob Wainwright, Lawrence Dallaglio, Nigel Redman, Tony
Diprose, Tim Stimpson, Stan Bagshaw (bag man); (front row, from left) Paul Grayson, Kyran Bracken, Alan Tait, Neil Back, Mark Regan, Dr James Robson (doctor), Samantha Peters (administrator), Paul Wallace, Jason Leonard, Fran Cotton (manager), Doddie Weir,
Martin Johnson (captain), Ian McGeechan (head coach), Jim Telfer (assistant coach), Scott Gibbs, Jeremy Guscott, John Bentley, Ieuan Evans, Keith Wood, Matt Dawson, Andy Keast (analyst)

Sir Ian McGeechan me. When I came home, I was a All the management. The team came first.
changed man and player. I saw things a players Always. To the extent the players who
My reunion with ’97 Lions second or two earlier. I had more bought into won the first Test were reminded by
and that look we all share confidence in myself. the ethos Martin Johnson, on the way out to
and never dinner, that they had a job to do the
I would never have had that abused my next morning – holding bags so the
experience without the support of the trust – the midweek team had the best possible
senior players on that tour. The likes of team preparation to play Orange Free State
Willie John McBride, Gareth Edwards, always the following Tuesday evening. And
JPR Williams, JJ Williams, Mervyn came first what superb rugby they produced in
Davies; players I had grown up that game.
The second Test will Lions tour, also to South Africa, was Special day: A experience of competing alongside idolising. I was like a kid in a sweet
undoubtedly the highlight of my jubilant Jeremy that group of players, being part of an shop when I first got out to South It is testament to how special 1997
hold a special place in playing career. Guscott celebrates incredible team, forging bonds of Africa. was that virtually every single player
winning in 1997 friendship which have lasted a lifetime turned up this week. Even Gregor
my heart for ever – as it That tour affected me in ways which – it was a transformative summer for Playing outside Phil Bennett? The Townsend, whose Scotland team are in
are difficult to put into words. The privilege of a lifetime. camp at the moment, busy preparing
does for all tour party for their tour of Argentina, or Richard
But what was so special about it was Hill who likewise had to leave the
W hen I gave my pre-match that those players went out of their England camp to attend.
team talk before the way to make me feel part of the squad
second Test of the 1997 in what was only my second season as Doddie Weir drove five or six hours
British and Irish Lions tour to an international. down from Scotland with his wife
South Africa, I told the players: Kathy and son Ben. Doddie’s presence,
“Remember this day. This is a It was that attitude, that spirit of such a big man with such a big heart,
privilege. You’ll meet each other in camaraderie, that I wanted to recreate as he battles motor neurone disease,
the street in 30 years’ time and when I was appointed Lions head was incredibly special.
there’ll just be a look. And you’ll coach for the first time in 1989.
know just how special some days As for Rob Wainwright’s tribute to
in your life are.” I think we managed it to an extent the much missed Tom Smith, it was so
both that year and in 1993. But it is fair poignant. The respect for Tom – not
The line has probably been a bit to say that it was never recreated more one of the most obviously celebrated
overplayed now owing to the successfully than on the 1997 tour to players on that tour but one whose
phenomenal success of the Living South Africa. That year was the perfect courage and skill was appreciated by
with the Lions documentary. But it storm in terms of raw ingredients. A every single one of his team-mates –
was a sentiment I was keen to combination of factors never to be sums up that group for me. It was
impress on the players ahead of a repeated. fantastic that Zoe, Tom’s wife, was able
huge game. to be with us.
It was back to South Africa, the
Well, it has not quite been 30 harshest and most beautiful of touring I have to thank Martin, our tour
years yet. And it was not a street environments, two years after their captain all those years ago, and Stan
but the Billesley Manor Hotel just iconic World Cup triumph. It was right Bagshaw, our bag man in 1997, for
outside Stratford-upon-Avon. But at the start of the professional era, organising this week’s reunion. They
the looks exchanged between us giving the tour elements of both the did a truly phenomenal job. They did
all at the 25th anniversary reunion amateur and professional game. Every not just assemble the players. We had
of that tour, which took place match was, for the first time, live on everyone from Sam Peters, our tour
earlier this week, were incredibly Sky Sports, with the exceptional Miles administrator and the first woman on a
special. Harrison commentating. Lions tour, to James Robson, our tour
doctor and a great, great man, to Andy
The 1997 tour will forever hold a It was just a magical time. We had Keast, our analyst, to my old friend and
special place in my heart. The 1974 the documentary makers embedded fellow coach Jim Telfer.
with us – some of whose footage was
played at points during this week’s Spending time with them all again –
reunion – and the footage they and with all our partners, too, some of
captured was so raw, so authentic. whom we had yet to meet back in 1997
but all of whom are now part of the
The players enjoyed themselves. family – was incredibly special.
There were no smartphones back then
so they were able to let their hair down I had not seen some of the players or
and be tourists, which they did – and staff for a quarter of a century. But it
some of the stories told this week were made no difference. As I said all those
new even to me. years ago, when you have shared
something as special as that, it only
But at the same time they all bought takes a look.
into the ethos. They never abused the
trust placed in them by myself, or Fran
Cotton or Jim Telfer, or any of the tour

Galthie: France need to stay at the top for the next 10 years

By Charles Richardson would do well to heed. There is no England v Barbarians
magic formula for the rude health of 3pm, Amazon Prime
hThe mastermind behind French rugby: not at international
Les Bleus’ Six Nations level; not in Europe; nor at home, with England Barbarians
triumph has set his sights the Top 14 and Pro D2 growing in
on world domination strength every year. T Freeman Northampton 15 M Spring France
J Cokanasiga Bath 14 D Penaud France
F rance knows all about a This weekend, however, presents an J Marchant Harlequins 13 V Vakatawa France
revolution, but even the most altogether different challenge for M Atkinson Gloucester 12 L Botia Fiji
ardent insurrectionist must have Galthie. The France head coach is, J May Gloucester 11 D Niniashvili Georgia
been blindsided by Fabien Galthie’s unofficially, the first Frenchman to M Smith Harlequins 10 A Hastoy France
revival of the ailing Bleus during their take charge of the Barbarians. “A great H Randall Bristol 9 B Couilloud France
own years of Terror. pleasure and a joy,” he says. B Rodd Sale 1 J-B Gros France
J Walker Harlequins 2 P Bourgarit France
As Galthie and his assistants, the The Barbarians will not don the W Collier Harlequins 3 B Gigashvili Georgia
renowned defence coach Shaun azure of France – they will be in their C Ewels Bath 4 G Kruis England
Edwards among them, prepare to lead traditional black-and-white hoops – J Hill Sale 5 W Skelton Australia
the Barbarians against England at but there is a distinctly Gallic flavour. T Curry Sale 6 D Cretin France
Twickenham today, it is worth taking Charles Ollivon, the man Galthie S Underhill Bath 7 C Ollivon France
stock of just how far the enigmatic picked to initially lead his French A Dombrandt Harlequins 8 Y Tanga France
former scrum-half has taken France. A revolution in 2020, will captain the
grand rugby nation they might be, but side on his continued return from a Replacements
it is easy to forget how deep into the serious knee injury. The Toulon
pit they fell – two World Cup quarter- flanker has not played for France since ANDREW CROWLEY FOR THE TELEGRAPH J Singleton Gloucester D Priso France
final exits and a Six Nations wooden the behind-closed-doors loss to W Goodrick-Clarke L’don Irish C Tolofua France
spoon – and how much work was Scotland during the 2021 Six Nations. P Schickerling Exeter S Falatea France
required to thrust them back into the C Lawes Northampton T Lavault France
light. Mixed with other familiar French J Willis Wasps N Le Garrec France
faces, there are titans such as Will D Care Harlequins L Carbonel France
So, what was the secret? It is simple, Skelton and Levani Botia, and a O Bailey Bath S Macalou France
says Galthie, 53, kitted out in his swansong for former England lock J Nowell Exeter T Vili France
trademark Bond-villain spectacles and George Kruis. Galthie has not just
speaking exclusively to Telegraph brought Edwards – “a real defensive Officials
Sport from the Barbarians’ base on
Park Lane. “There is no secret. We operator, a true competitor, an Referee Andrea Piardi (Italy)
share everything. I am transparent in extraordinary personality and Assistants Mike Adamson (Scotland), Gianluca Gnecchi (Italy)
my methods. But my primary objective character” – as his assistant, either; the Television match official Ben Whitehouse (Wales)
was to reunite French rugby by
bringing the clubs closer. entire French backroom staff have Venue
hopped on the Eurostar.
“La Rochelle won the Champions Twickenham, London
Cup this year, Toulouse the season “It’s Charles’s grand return and he
before, therefore we feel that there has Gallic revolution: Fabien Galthie, supported by an all-France backroom team, will lead the Barbarians against England at Twickenham
been an evolution. But are we now at will be captain [at Twickenham],”
the peak? How to keep France playing Galthie says. sets in. “Well we’ll see on Sunday what future is broached, the fastidious is today. “I learnt a lot as a player, too,” methodology’ – all that has helped me
at this high level, that’s the major utilitarian is hijacked by a to create a mix, which is why the
challenge. “Our team is essentially a France he’s got at that level!” he jokes. he says. “For 15 years in internationals
Development XV. There are players Galthie is affable and courteous, and philosophical sentimentalist. Would I learnt so much, and after coaching organisation of this France team is
“It is so important to remain at the he go back to a club? clubs – Stade Francais, Montpellier, special.”
top; not just this year, but we need to who are going to be internationals, immensely grateful to be interviewed Toulon and the Pumas – and some
stay there for the next 10 years. This players who already are, and some who in his mother tongue but, despite that, “I just don’t know…,” he pauses. “I To close, I ask Galthie for his rugby
needs to be the start of a positive cycle. aren’t yet in the [France] starting XV. years away from coaching, too – in
Those are the stakes; keeping French he does not give a smile away cheaply. don’t know what my kids will be doing, Munster, England, Wales, South philosophy. He is mute for over 10
rugby at a high level.” Damian Penaud is already first-choice In fact, the first simper only comes I don’t know what I will be doing in Africa. I really got around. seconds, before he says: “I pair beliefs
for us but the others are all developing. when he is asked about France’s life, if my parents will still be around, I with evidence, carried by an openness
Wise words which the Rugby They could all get into the French team don’t know, private life means so much “I worked a lot in business, too. I which means that the project is
Football Union and Premiership clubs one day.” newfound penchant for kicking. studied at a top business school and
“Aaaaah, the kicking game,” he says at our age. I will have to see what my worked in finance and law. I was a constantly evolving. A permanent
But who should those in attendance family is doing, it’s important to look evolution of the project which
keep a special eye out for? in English before reverting to French. after them. There is a moment for consultant. That has helped me to nourishes the lived experience with
“It’s a part of rugby, isn’t it? I think build a vision and a project.
“Spring,” Galthie says without a everything and 2028 might be the time facts, evidence and instinct.”
France had forgotten that rugby was a for more rugby, but also it might be the “[With France, that has helped me Galthie himself would probably not
thought. “Max Spring [at full-back].” I kicking game, attacking… We added time for family.” improve] the organisational side of
point out that I have watched and what was missing and joined the dots.” know what that truly means but it does
admired Spring for Racing 92 this Regardless, Galthie believes that his things. Knowing why something’s
Galthie is contracted with France working well or why it’s working not matter. Whatever it means, it is
season and Galthie’s fierce pragmatism until the end of the 2027 World Cup in worldliness is what has shaped him poorly. A lot of ‘empowerment working, and the revolution speaks for
Australia and when the subject of his into the world-leading rugby coach he itself.

The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 19 June 2022 ** 5

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Brian Moore Thomas loses his
cool with US Open

We hookers don’t official in rules row

get the respect or By James Corrigan GOLF CORRESPONDENT at the Country Club, Brookline
pay we deserve
Justin Thomas railed against the rules self in the outright lead on four-under,
hIt is one of the hardest they have to do several other things GETTY IMAGES of golf during the third round of the US one clear of a group on three-under,
which attract no comment when done Open, labelling a regulation that caused including the world’s No 1 and 2 Scottie
positions but is simply well, but which are crucial. Scapegoat: Hooker is always blamed even if the throw is right, says Brian Moore (above) him to drop as a shot as “bulls---”. Scheffler (with six holes to play) and Jon
Rahm, with nine remaining. Scheffler,
undervalued. It is time In today’s game the line-out is the This can be due to lack of available do it. Gigantic hookers were rare Thomas, the world No 5, who won his the Masters champion, holed out for an
more important of the set-pieces, talent, but when you examine what because they struggled to strike when second major at last month’s US PGA eagle from 101 yards on the eighth to
for clubs to change that simply because there are many more of hookers have to do and the direct taken low and the scrum was about Championship, was denied relief after reach six-under but gave those shots
them than scrums. Throwing in to a effect on a team’s performance, I am more than brute strength. Now the ball his drive on the fourth came to rest a back with a double-bogey on the short
I did not start playing hooker line-out is a fine motor skill that has to genuinely surprised that hookers are can be put on their foot, or still fed few inches to the right of a drain. 11th.
until I was 16 years old. At be done with accuracy and more often bottom of the pay list. illegally into the second row, hookers
school I played one year as a than not when you are gasping for can get away with a token, or even no Under Rule 16.1, if a player’s ball Rory McIlroy was one further stroke
flanker and the rest in the backs: breath. You get a hooker who has a I would love to know the reasons for real attempt to strike the ball. More touches or is on an abnormal course back on two-under with seven to go.
scrum-half, fly-half, centre and disaster with their throwing, and you this, but I would contend that one players available means clubs do not condition, if it physically interferes The Northern Irishman bogeyed as his
full-back. If there are kids at school do not win your own ball, no matter contributing fact is that hookers do not have difficulty in recruiting and can with the area of intended stance and previously hot putter suddenly devel-
who dream of being a professional how good your jumpers and lifters. have to hook as they used to. I know pay less. swing, then a drop is allowed without oped the chills. But a 12-footer finally
rugby player, my advice is to play And, by the way, the hooker always some of you are now rolling your eyes, penalty. dropped on the 11th and, having been
in the backs. Not only do you get all gets blamed even if the throw is right but when the ball had to be put in My advice is for hookers to go on five back a few holes before, he was
the adulation and the girls, or boys and others get it wrong. straight, and referees did not allow strike until they get paid better and for However, after Thomas – whose
for that matter, you get paid packs to push early, you could not them to campaign for proper hooking. mood had not been helped when the US Open
roughly 50 per cent more than Without getting into the “they don’t convert loads of props, flankers, and Perhaps then they might get valued starter announced him on the first tee Check online for
hookers. hook properly” debate, what hookers others to hook, because they could not properly. as “Justin Thomson” – called an official last night’s report
always have is a direct head-to-head for a ruling, he was asked if it “inter-
The English Premiership has physical battle with their opposite feres with his stance or his swing” and telegraph.co.uk/sport
recently made public its 2021 number. They cannot avoid it. If you after answers to the negative, he was
report on the salary cap, which have never been in a scrum, you obliged to play it as it lies. Somewhat back in touch. England’s Matt Fitzpat-
incudes the average salary of nine cannot know how debilitating it is. inevitably, he hit the wedge fat and it rick was on the same mark after 13
categories of player. It makes came up 50 yards short in a bunker. holes.
fascinating reading, and I will bet Unlike every other position in the
you my considerable mortgage scrum, the hooker is completely “That’s what p----s me off,” Thomas There was no LIV Golf presence at
that you will not get the table in the locked in, with no chance of told caddie Jim Mackay. “So many other the business end of the leaderboard. Fif-
right order, from highest to lowest. disengaging if they are in trouble. If people would lie about being able to hit teen of those who have signed with the
your hooker cannot strike, and you that…. That’s bulls---, man.” Saudi rebel circuit set out here in Bos-
You might guess that fly-halves cannot get the ball out of the scrum ton, but only four survived the cut. Dus-
are the best remunerated before you are shoved backwards, you Later, he was rather more circum- tin Johnson is the best-placed on
(£175,679) but would you pick will not get the ball or you concede spect. “I could have told her [the ref- two-over, following a 71, while Richard
locks at number three (£158,617)? I penalties. You only have to look at eree] that I was going to [hit the drain] Bland, the 49-year-old defector from
doubt you would put scrum-halves England’s World Cup final loss to South and gotten a free drop, but in the spirit Southampton is on four-over after a 72.
as the second lowest paid (£117,912) Africa to see how this can be enough to of the game I didn’t,” he said.
and hookers the worst (£113,115.) lose you a game. LIV’s next $25 million, no-cut event is
“It’s unfortunate because it was a in 12 days in Portland, Oregon.
On behalf of all hookers, I want You can play badly in other positions great drive, and I had a pitching wedge
to register a protest at clubs but your mistakes are not invariably in my hands, and I could only hit the That 48-man field is set to be
grading one of the hardest and penalised. The reality is that if a ball 100 yards. It’s very clear that my announced early next week and
most important positions in rugby hooker has a disaster in the scrum and stance was altered and the ball was sit- rumours are rife that there could be a
in the same way Home Secretary line-out, and you lose, say, 20 per cent ting bad because of that drain.” few new big names in their ranks, with
Priti Patel classes the allegedly of your set-piece ball, you will not win. Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama a strong
low-skilled. There is nowhere to hide. Looking for a low round to thrust mention in the locker room.
himself back into contention, Thomas,
People talk about the spine of a It is true that the salary for a 29, could only manage a 72 to stand on Angry: Justin Thomas was left frustrated
rugby team, by which they mean particular position does vary in three-over and although he will take after a ruling on the fourth hole
numbers five, 10, nine, eight and ranking. Several seasons back the heart from his comeback heroics in
two. That is because all these have highest paid position was tighthead. Tulsa four weeks ago – he overhauled a
important tactical roles beyond seven-shot deficit in the final round –
their specific skillsets. You cannot They always have direct the Country Club is a tough place to
name me any very successful team charge.
where one of these positions is physical battle with
occupied by a poor player. Will Zalatoris, the 25-year-old Cali-
their opposite number fornian, showed what was possible in
The demands made on hookers the tough, windy conditions, firing a
are similar to all players who are – they cannot avoid it brilliant 67 featuring four birdies and
expected to run, tackle, pass, ruck the solitary bogey.
and maul. What is unique is that
Zalatoris is emerging as a perennial
challenger in the majors, despite not
having yet broken his duck on the PGA
Tour.

He was beaten by Thomas in a play-
off at the US PGA and also finished sec-
ond in last year’s Masters.

But those close calls are not the
whole of it. In seven major starts, Zala-
toris has racked up five top eights and
this looks like being another.

When he finished off, he found him-

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Brunt makes ‘heartbreaking’ 2004 and, in only her third game, took more and more, so I’ve decided to make Tough call: Katherine Brunt evident than when she played Test
decision to end Test career nine wickets across the match and a smart decision rather than an emo- is to prioritise white-ball cricket for England and you need only
scored 52 to help Clare Connor’s team tional one. cricket after announcing to watch the last Ashes Test to see her
By Molly McElwee retain the Women’s Ashes for the first her retirement from the desire, her heart and her undoubted
time in 42 years. “Test cricket is my absolute passion Test arena ability with the red ball in hand.
England seamer Katherine Brunt has England Women’s third-leading Test and to retire from this format was truly
announced her retirement from Test wicket-taker with 51. She will continue She retires having enjoyed the 10th- a heartbreaking choice to make, but it ward to watching them from the best “She has given everything for Eng-
cricket at 36. to play ODI and IT20 cricket. longest Test career in the history of the allows me to prioritise white-ball seat in the house.” land Women in Test cricket and we are
women’s game. cricket. fully supportive of her decision to focus
Brunt steps away from the game as The bowler made her Test debut in Jonathan Finch, director of England on white-ball cricket on the interna-
Brunt said: “I feel like, as an athlete, “I know that I leave it in a great place, Women’s cricket, said: “Katherine’s pas- tional stage. Katherine can leave the red
there is never an obvious time to step the bowlers coming through are ready sion and commitment was never more ball behind knowing she is a true leg-
away from doing the thing that you and they’re just itching to be let loose. end and that she has set standards that
love. But over the past two years And with the South Africa game around future generations can only aspire to.”
thoughts of retirement have surfaced the corner, I’m very much looking for-

Change of order Since the start
will get the best of the 2022
out of master Indian
blaster Buttler Premier
League
By Tim Wigmore Jos Buttler
has ...
hEngland now need to situations where England were already
accommodate their key dominant – as England were when Played
batting threat first and Buttler was shuffled up to four in
arrange others around him Amstelveen: 223 for two in the 30th 18
over. The decision to use Buttler at
F or years, a debate simmered about The notion four was not pre-planned – had Dawid matches
how England should use Jos that you Malan been out in the 13th over, when (Twenty20
Buttler in their Twenty20 team. hold him he overturned an lbw decision, and 50-over
One side advocated for Buttler to open, back to use Morgan would have walked out. But it combined)
reasoning that England should allow him at the was a clear hint that England intend to
him to set the tone of the innings. The death has try to maximise Buttler’s impact by {
other argued that Buttler’s talents long since making him face more deliveries. Scored
were best used in the middle order, come to There is now a recognition that, just
because it was a harder place to bat and seem because Buttler at six has worked well 1,025
here Buttler could add most value. absurd before, this does not make it the best runs
option in the future. {
Yet the notion that it would be Averaged
prudent to hold him back, to exploit The debate over Buttler’s ODI 68.3
his prowess at the death, has long since position is a little more complex than {
come to seem absurd. in T20s. Given the heightened Completed
demands of keeping wicket and 5
Buttler was one of the outstanding batting, there is no clamour to make centuries
players in the T20 World Cup last year, Buttler replicate his T20 position. {
pulverising Australia and scoring a Scored at a
century of stunning range against Sri Instead, the template for how strike rate of
Lanka. Opening in this year’s Indian England should use Buttler seems 157
Premier League, Buttler hit four clear, borrowing from how South {
centuries, scored the second-most Africa used his idol AB de Villiers in Hit
runs by anyone in a season and had a ODIs. De Villiers was used as the 59
strike rate of 149 to boot. For all the customary No 4, who could be shuffled 6s
debate about Buttler’s position, down to five to avoid being exposed to {
ultimately it was settled by very simple the new ball. That is
thinking: let your best player face the 1
most balls. Since the 2015 World Cup Buttler every
has put together a body of work – an 11
In many ways these debates average of 45.9 and strike rate of 126 balls he has faced
foreshadowed the conversations that – that shows that comparisons with De
England are now having around Villiers are not overblown. Yet their Destructive hitter:
Buttler in the one-day international records differ in one crucial respect. Jos Buttler has
side. For most of his career, Buttler has Throughout his ODI career, De Villiers matured and offers
batted at six in England’s full-strength faced an average of 42 balls per game; England's greatest
ODI team; in 149 ODIs, he has batted in when he batted at four that figure rose threat at whatever
the top five just 30 times, with only 12 to 47. Even since the 2015 World Cup, position he comes
of those at four. But now, Buttler’s when he was promoted from No 7, in to bat
development into the most dangerous Buttler has only faced 23 balls per ODI.
white-ball batsman in the world – For a player of such gifts, he simply has
reaffirmed by his stunning undefeated not had the chance to face many
162 against the Netherlands on Friday deliveries each game.
– has opened anew the question about
where he should bat in the ODI side. And for all his destructiveness at the
death, Buttler’s method in the IPL –
For the last 35 months, going back to playing himself in, and then
the World Cup final, ODIs have been accelerating – means that he is ideally
peripheral to England’s thinking; until suited to being bumped up the order to
the first game with the Netherlands, the default No 4 or 5. As Buttler has
Buttler had played just six ODIs in this matured, he has become more clinical
period. Yet the next ODI World Cup in in knowing who to target and when,
India is now just 16 months away. and notably improved against leg spin,
which teams often used to target
England’s previous use of Buttler as him.
default No 6 was understandable. Both
Eoin Morgan and Ben Stokes, The right answer about where
England’s No 4 and 5 during the 2019 Buttler should bat will be different
World Cup, had games ideally suited to from day to day. It will also be
batting in the middle order. complicated further when Jonny
Bairstow, Joe Root and Stokes return.
With his penchant for quick starts But however expedient it might seem
and prowess hitting yorkers, in most to move Buttler around to
situations Buttler seemed to add the accommodate everyone else, given his
greatest value at six. While England versatility, England should approach
had the flexibility to promote Buttler to their happy problem in a different way.
four or five three times during the 2019 Think first of what position makes best
World Cup campaign, this was in use of Buttler’s gifts, and then how
everyone else fits in.

Interview When Coney the rest of the attack. “It was a little one-wicket win in the opening Test in out of being a cottage industry.” New were doing.” Yet, while Coney
led ‘Ilford second XI’ to demeaning,” Coney recalls. “It was a Dunedin, sealed through “the two Zealand Cricket’s secretary kept boxes managed to navigate his parallel
victory on English soil motif throughout that tour.” The worst leg byes you’ve ever seen in the – containing everything from minutes careers well enough to average 37.6 in
players even got T-shirts with “Ilford world” when their No 10 and No 11 from board meetings to the team’s his 52 Tests, he would have liked to
By Tim Wigmore seconds” emblazoned on, which they – Gary Troup, a sports distributor, and caps, socks and cricket balls – in his have been able to devote himself
trained in. Stephen Boock, a supermarket garage. completely to cricket.
hNew Zealand won series that you start to set standards and to manager – were batting together.
against Gatting’s side in see, this is the way we are thinking as a New Zealand’s 1-0 series victory was “There’s a hardness about the “Would I have liked to have been a
1986 thanks to Hadlee team.” underpinned by the squad’s Before New Zealand toured the amateur or semi-pro. An amateur pro? Yeah, of course. I would have
and bags of self-reliance resourcefulness. The side batted deep Caribbean in 1985, Coney knew that doesn’t wait for someone to tell him liked to have some of the information.”
The squad met before breakfast each and cussedly: seven players scored the phalanx of West Indies pace something. What he does is he thinks
W hen Jeremy Coney became day. “Chatfield would normally lead half-centuries, including Coney; three bowlers would leave him no time to ahead, he thinks, ‘jeez, I’ve been there Coney credits Wright, Crowe and
the first New Zealand captain the run and he would take us around of those – John Wright, Martin Crowe play booming drives. “I’m going to before, I know what this requires. I am Hadlee, the three pros on the 1986
to win a Test series in and, from No 8, John Bracewell – hit need strong forearms – not big flowing tour, with teaching the squad aspects
England, in 1986, he did so with a team London. We would arrive back after hundreds. Yet the win also bore the shots, just punchy shots. So, how do I ‘Before facing the West of the mental side of the game.
that contained only three professional what ‘Chaty’ felt was an appropriate undeniable imprint of individual strengthen my forearms?”
cricketers. The rest of New Zealand’s time. There was always a rule – don’t Indies, I lifted a tin of For all his brilliance, captaining
squad had to go on leave: John be last. You don’t want to be last out to greatness. In the eight-wicket win in Coney’s answer was unorthodox. He
Bracewell was a grave digger, Ewen the middle Test, at his home ground got an empty four-litre paint tin, and paint on a broom in Hadlee was not always easy. Before
Chatfield was a pharmacist and Coney practice. Don’t be last on the bus. Don’t Trent Bridge, Hadlee took 10 for 140 in added lead head nails to make it New Zealand’s last Test against West
himself taught English, maths and, be last.” the match and scored 68. heavier. Then, he attached the paint order to build up muscle’ Indies in 1987, Hadlee used a
later, music. tin to a broom. While watching TV,
Essentially, the New Zealand squad The victory in England was merely Coney lifted the paint tin towards him going to be an outfielder, therefore, newspaper column to have a “wee
“This was our love,” Coney recalls one of New Zealand’s signature and then back down again – like a and be useful to my team’.” crack” at his team-mates’
over a glass of Chardonnay after ran themselves. Indeed, when Bob achievements during a magnificent bucket – for an hour at a time. Before the tour of Australia professionalism.
commentating at Lord’s for BBC Test Vance, the manager, was taken ill early “You develop the muscles in 1985, Edgar put lead inside
Match Special. After flying from New in the tour and returned home, his decade. In 1985-86, New Zealand beat between your elbows and cricket balls to make them “It was ghosted, of course, but the
Zealand – economy class, naturally – duties were shared out between the Australia in Test series at home and your wrist,” he explains. heavier, training to throw team felt he’d overstepped; not by
Coney’s side assembled at the Waldorf away. At the Gabba, New Zealand the ball on the longer saying it as much as by not saying it
in London. “That first week is the week players; Bruce Edgar, the opening “You make the best of Australian outfields; during face to face. We had all agreed to keep
batsman, doubled as team treasurer. bowled Australia out for 179, and then what you have around you the Test series, Edgar ran a
declared on 553 for seven. – and some of those solutions batsman out with a throw things like that inside the dressing
After the first Test in 1986, a might seem a bit odd.” from the deep. “We were room. I had to have a word. But in the
“The team were dotted like bait practically-based – and we next Test, he took six for 50 to help
hard-fought draw, Mike Gatting around the boundary at the Gabba. The ploy worked: in the had to be.
famously said that facing New Zealand four Tests, Coney averaged “Playing for draw the series. He was a great
was “like the World XI at one end, and Every player, except the bowler and 48.2. money, what are bowler.” It ensured New Zealand were
the keeper. We’d broken them. It was a you talking undefeated in all Test series at home
Ilford second XI at the other”, such was real moment because New Zealand Such self-reliance was about? We throughout the 1980s.
the gulf between Richard Hadlee and New Zealand’s hallmark. played for the
had been such a poor cousin.” “We were still edging love of what we Asked how his New Zealand vintage
In 1980, New Zealand defeated West would have fared against the team who
Regret: Jeremy won last year’s inaugural World Test
Indies, the last series that West Indies
lost for 15 years. The first two Tests Coney wishes he Championship final, Coney chuckles.
“Our side, with Bracewell as a spinner,
were played in the windswept South had turned pro with Hadlee and batsmen who
Island: “The heaters were mysteriously
lost,” Coney laughs. watched the line so closely, like Edgar
and Wright and Crowe – I’d give us a
New Zealand’s victory was a fraught chance."

The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 19 June 2022 *** 7

Sport Cricket

Why Root is England’s greatest-ever batsman

By Scyld Berry who had played a part in the First in 1938, but otherwise had to cash in war: in one fascinating passage of play, Eight other must have batted similarly to Root,
CHIEF CRICKET WRITER World War and not promoted elsewhere. in the fifth Test in Jamaica in 1953-54, candidates with the same touch and elegance.
successors, so they were old and past when England were 2-1 down, his stand out,
hWG Grace set the it. What is more, Australia worked out 5 Len Hutton The opener averaged 67 opening partner Trevor Bailey took on but Joe 4 Kevin Pietersen A player of great
standard but former that Hammond – whose cover drives, before the Second World War came the West Indies opening bowler and by Root, after innings rather than consistently great?
Test captain took it like Root’s, could achieve perfection along and he suffered an accident agreement ran no singles, to protect his latest For example, his career in Australia
to greater heights – could be tied down by targeting his when training in an Army gym. He did Hutton, who went on to score 205 innings was much like that of Denis Compton:
leg stump. Runs against Australia in against the slower bowlers and level of 176, two superlative centuries in Adelaide,
S ince WG Grace, who was England dried up as leg-spinner Bill not complain, but after the series. Very eclipsed in the era before drop-in pitches when
beyond compare as he set the O’Reilly tied him down: he his left arm had pragmatic, it probably they were the most batsman-friendly
standard for all who followed, averaged 34 in the 1930 Ashes healed it was could not be done them all in Australia, and not too much else
eight candidates for the title of series, and only 20 in 1934. He shorter than his nowadays. But before besides there. But his greatest innings
England’s Greatest Batsman stand played one last major innings right. So he had his accident, Hutton, a have surely not been surpassed, even
out – and I will argue here that Joe against Australia in to work his way product of the same by Root, starting with his 158 at the
Root, after his latest innings of England, his 240 at Lord’s around it Yorkshire background, Oval in 2005; his 151 in Colombo when
176, has eclipsed them all to take after the he ran down the pitch to trash Sri
this title. Other batsmen have had Lanka’s spinners; his 149 at Headingley
purple patches but Root has gone 1 when he made Dale Steyn look like a
where no England batsman has medium-pacer; and his 186 at Mum-
gone before, scoring 10 Test bai, the finest innings by an England
hundreds since January last year. batsman in India, because the ball
was turning so much, and therefore
9 Ken Barrington He was dropped just ahead of Root’s double-century in
after two Tests, for four years, which Chennai.
left its scar. Having been a free-
scoring Surrey batsman, he became a 3 Alastair Cook Still England’s great-
dogged accumulator in order to stay est batsman in terms of longevity
in the England side after his recall and durability with his 161 Tests,
– which meant that he never domi- 4 and all in the top three of the order
nated attacks like he might have. His where batting is hardest. To never
scoring-rate in the first half of his Test have been hit on the body in the
career is unknown, but in middle, in 291 Test innings, and even
those innings where when facing Mitchell Johnson in
we know how many 2013-14, is a measure of superlative
balls he faced, his hand-eye co-ordination. But by his
rate was around 40. own recent admission on radio, he
The West Indian pace played only three scoring strokes; and
attack was not his speci- a definition of greatness must surely
ality as their fast bowling include the ability to master an attack,
began to dominate world not simply wear it down, giving his
cricket in the 1960s: he side’s bowlers the time to take 20
averaged 34 against them. He wickets. Cook’s highest innings, his
was also more prolific abroad 294 against India at Edgbaston, was
and scored only one of his five a perfect example: he ground the
Ashes hundreds in England, his bowlers down for 13 hours without
256 in the Old Trafford bore-draw
of 1964. taking them apart, as Root so
frequently does.
8 David Gower England’s finest
attacking left-handed batsman in 2 Jack Hobbs A supreme
Tests (Frank Woolley, to whom
Gower was often compared, had athlete – he played for
the edge in county cricket with
145 first-class centuries). Gower Surrey until he was past
touched the heights in 1985 when
his aggregate of 732 was the high- 50 – he has the best record
est by any England captain in an
Ashes series. of any England batsman

A Test average of 44 overall against, and in, Australia: 12
was not equal to his talents, as
he was so often tempted, when Ashes centuries, nine in
set, into a speculative, high-risk
stroke, just to see if he could do it. Australia. What is so
Had he restricted himself to three
scoring strokes, like Cook, he regrettable is that he missed
would surely have made more runs
but he would not have been Gower, the 1921 Test series with
the great entertainer, who scored
at 50 runs per 100 balls when Test 3 appendicitis: that was the first
cricket was still staid. 2
8 time there had ever been a pair
7 Graham Gooch The finest of fast bowlers at each end (Jack
innings by an England
captain is widely held to be Gregory and Ted McDonald), so
Gooch’s 154 against West
Indies at Headingley in we will never know what he was
1991: the weather meant the
sky was full of “overheads” like when the ball was flying
and showers were frequent,
to refresh the pitch and the 5 around his ears: except that he
world-class pace attack. This disapproved of Bodyline when he
was the culmination of several
masterpieces by Gooch against was subjected to a taste of it in his
the fastest bowlers, both in
the West Indies and England, fifties. Hobbs was human too, and
packed with bravery, hooks and
drives. nervous, perhaps because he was the
He was also superb against the
slowest bowlers, the first England son of a Cambridge college servant
batsman really to take spinners apart
as he mastered the sweep ahead of his who was propelled into high
time. While Root does not have a great
record in Australia, Gooch struggled society, which is why he
against the side both at home and
away, averaging 33. played his best with the

6 Wally Hammond Only Alastair self-assured Herbert
Cook has had such a purple patch in
Australia as Hammond did in Sutcliffe as his
1928-29 when his series
aggregate was 905. But it has to 6 opening partner.
be said that Australia’s 7
bowling stocks had never 1 Joe Root Since Janu-
been so depleted as they ary 2021, in his 10 Test
were then: for centuries, Root has con-
understandable reasons their 9 sistently scaled the heights
selectors had stuck with players and stayed there longer than
any England batsman. If he
was prolific when captain, he has had
the freedom to add two strokes to his
game since giving up the leadership:
in his 176 at Trent Bridge he intro-
duced the bludgeoning straight drive,
whereas he had formerly seldom hit in
the V, and that astonishing reverse-
ramp for six.
And it is all done with such an eye
for the quick single, speed between
the wickets, accuracy in his placement
and deftness of touch that he is taking
the game away from opponents before
he plays his big strokes. He has never
scored a Test century in Australia,
largely due to his fondness for work-
ing the ball through point, but he has
averaged 35 there, more than some
candidates for the title of England’s
greatest; and he may not have fin-
ished. If he has one more Ashes tour,
in his mid-thirties, the imp which
makes him play too many strokes
may have been put in its box, even if
the impish grin will always remain.

Looking back is the In the West Indies, in his debut having scored 156 runs off 315 balls in the off side when he pushes on to his left-handed opener of similar build,
way forward for series, amid all the uncertainties that this series, including his maiden 50, a front foot. According to Farbrace, Lees and Lees looks the part.
new, carefree Lees had engulfed English cricket, Lees question is being asked: why does he evolved his method of standing up
tended to be stiff, strokeless and look back at his bat as the bowler runs straight and looking at his bat to stop In Australia last winter, Lees
statuesque: he survived, but little more in? Paul Farbrace, who coached at this happening, to help him stand tall. captained England Lions in their “A”
than that, scoring 126 runs off 460 Yorkshire when Lees was there and is It is a simple solution to which he Test against Australia. You can
balls. At Trent Bridge, in only the fifth now Warwickshire’s director of stubbornly adheres, stubbornness understand why he has been a captain
Test of his career, he began to bat with cricket, can supply the answer. being the essential trait of an England for much of his career when he picks
an authority that hinted at the Test opener. Add in a couple of tweaks up a ladybird in his batting crease with
monumental. The tendency for someone of Lees’s to his footwork by England’s batting his finger and transports it to safer
physique, big and tall as he is for an coach Marcus Trescothick, who was a pastures. How considerate. He failed as
England’s historic run chase was opener, is for his head to fall towards an opening batsman in that match, but
achieved in a hailstorm of boundaries, in the nets at Brisbane he impressed
By Scyld Berry but the two most important fours were James Anderson and Stuart Broad, who
the ones that Lees drove off the first put his name forward as the candidate
hQuirky habit of glancing strongest format and the appointment two balls of England’s second innings, ACTION IMAGES to succeed Rory Burns and Haseeb
at his bat as bowlers run in diverted his red-ball career off track. Hameed.
helps opener cash in on which Tim Southee pitched up Assured: Alex Lees has scored 156 runs off 315 balls in the series against New Zealand
wave of England positivity But, rather like his England captain expectantly and swung into the A second batsman who will be
Ben Stokes, Lees has been through left-hander. The Lees of his debut returning to Headingley as a home
A lex Lees, England’s improving plenty of vicissitudes and has emerged series would have poked at them; the from home is New Zealand’s captain
opener, will be going home for on the other side, aged 29, much the Kane Williamson, who has done fine
the third Test against New stronger for it. And like Stokes, and Lees under the leadership of Stokes
Zealand. Headingley is where he Jonny Bairstow too, he is, in a sense, and Brendon McCullum crunched service as a Yorkshire overseas player.
grew up and rapidly matured beyond repaying his late father, for Lees’s dad them through the covers in the most He missed the second Test with Covid,
his years. was a busy man who yet found time to and has been injured for most of the
give his young son all the batting emphatic of statements: we are going
Lees captained the Yorkshire practice he wanted in the garden of for the runs, and after those two past year with a right elbow strain.
Academy and Second XI, and was their home outside Halifax. strokes we will always be up with the New Zealand want Williamson back,
propelled into leading Yorkshire’s rate. too, because his replacement, Tom
20-over and 50-over teams at the age He evolved his method to
of 22. England hit 12 sixes in their Latham, seems impeded by the
help him stand tall and magnificent run chase and, again, the captaincy rather than inspired by it.
It was a well-intentioned most important one was arguably not
appointment by the head coach Jason stop the tendency to fall Williamson needs a big score to
Gillespie but, as everyone can now see, one of the seven slammed by Bairstow, strengthen his reputation, as well as
the white-ball game is not Lees’s towards the off side or the four by Stokes, but the one by
Lees. If New Zealand were going to New Zealand’s hold on the World Test
Championship title, having gone 2-0
bowl England out on a dry fifth-day down in this series. In his seven Tests
pitch, their off-spinner Michael
Bracewell was the one to do it: so Lees in England, he has averaged only 29; in
sallied forth to drive him straight into four Tests in South Africa he has
averaged 21 and, in another four in Sri
the Radcliffe Road stand, confident of Lanka, 26. To seal his status as New
no recriminations if he failed in
attempting what was best for the team. Zealand’s finest batsman, ahead of
Martin Crowe, he requires a more
Now Lees is securing his place, rounded Test record.

8 *** Sunday 19 June 2022 The Sunday Telegraph

Sport Football

Rice and Trippier offer Lionesses Euro tips

By Ian Whittell Getting into gear:
England’s Nikita
hMidfielder and defender Parris is on the ball
speak to women’s squad as England are put
through their paces
hWiegman picks brains during training at St
about home tournament George’s Park in
preparation for next
Sarina Wiegman has revealed how month’s Euro 2022;
Declan Rice and Kieran Trippier, key Declan Rice (inset
players in England men’s run to the with Jill Scott) is
Euro 2020 final, are attempting to give welcomed into the
her players the inside track on succeed- camp to pass on his
ing in a home Euros. home-tournament
experiences
The Lionesses, who kick off their
campaign to bring European Champi- THE FA
onship success in front of a sold-out Old
Trafford in their group game with Aus- five years ago and has already described fans but the expectations here are power will help her and her players “Before the tournament, we manage
tria on July 6, are among the favourites, how the challenge with the Lionesses is higher than they were in 2017 in the cope with the heightened pressure of the expectation on and off the pitch.
as their male counterparts were under not to win the backing of home sup- Netherlands. being a tournament favourite. And then we have a team plan; talk to
Gareth Southgate last summer. porters, but to teach the players how to each other, keep communicating with
win tournament football. “So, we want to make the nation “I’ve experienced expectation,” said each other. We know what our plan is
That attempt, of course, ended in the proud and that comes with winning Wiegman. “So, from the Euros to the and keep it small within the team.
heartache of a penalty shoot-out defeat “There is a different stage; with the games. But behind winning games, you World Cup with the Netherlands, the
against Italy in the final. But two of Netherlands, we weren’t visible yet,” play the best game you can to make the expectations were really high. “There are so many good teams, so
Southgate’s squad visited St George’s she said. “We had been at tourna- chance of winning,” she added. “Then when we play the best game we can, the
Park this week to pass on their wisdom you come into the process and that’s “So, I’ve experienced both now, and chance of winning is high. But it could
to Wiegman’s players. ments two times, and from what we’re working on. So, how do we also the Olympics, so I know the expec- happen that another team is really good
2009 we were at the Euros for get control? How do we prepare the tations are high here. But that’s the too on the field and we don’t win.
“What we wanted to do was share the first time. best we can? On pitch, off pitch.” stage England football is at.
experiences around the home Euros “Well then, you would be really,
and have chats,” said Wiegman. “I think “England has a much more In the meantime, with interest and “We want to win, too, and we think really disappointed but you can still be
sharing experiences help; what they enthusiasm for the Lionesses’ Euros bid we have a very good team, so we just proud of yourself because we did every-
experienced on the pitch, off the pitch. rich history in tournaments. gaining momentum, Wiegman hopes really have to work, do our utmost to be thing. I think when we play the best
So, England was at a different that the experiences she gained in prepared as well as possible and play the game we can, then the chances of win-
“And there was a little formal thing stage and I think we already establishing the Netherlands as a world best game we can from July 6 to July 31 ning are pretty high.”
and then an informal thing and in the have won over the country; and then prepare from game to game.
informal thing players got into chats. yes we can still win lots of
That gives, first, a connection – men’s
and women’s teams – but also sharing
things. And that’s always good because
you can pick out things. Maybe you
don’t hear any new things but there
may be one thing that helps you one or
two per cent during the tournament.

“There were lots of things about
social media, about the fans, about a
penalty shoot-out, how you prepare. I
think social media is a big thing.

“We have a plan in place but it’s good
to hear from your colleagues that have
experience already. And we have some
players that have already experienced
so much and some that don’t, because
they are pretty young.

“That’s just a nice, little informal way
to chat, like not being in a classroom
and being dictated to, just having a con-
versation.”

Wiegman’s own experiences in
leading a host nation to success is
self-evident, having steered her
homeland, the Netherlands, to
victory at Euro 2017, as well as a
runner-up spot at the World Cup
two years later.

But the 52-year-old concedes
that the situation with England
differs to the Dutch experience

Saka and Rashford nised hate-speech terms published to else, so we’ve now got another layer
receive most racist identified social media accounts”. The that’s going to make it extremely diffi-
social-media trolling bodies added: “Although the offending cult for us to win anything. Some of the
message remains visible to the person boys have taken more with their clubs.
By Tom Morgan who originally made the comment, its Reece James has, I think, had four in
visibility and reach will be significantly shoot-outs this year. Trent [Alexander-
Bukayo Saka and Marcus Rashford national Day for Countering Hate reduced.” Arnold] has had two. Bukayo has now ARSENAL FC
received the most racist attacks on Speech, studied 406,987 comments on taken a couple for his club, which were
social media at recent international Twitter and Instagram before and after Gianni Infantino, the Fifa president, massively courageous moments that Come in, No 14 Eddie Nketiah (right) poses with Arsenal
finals – with a majority coming from the finals. It found: expressed concern over the most epitomised what he’s about. technical director Edu after ending speculation about his
home fans, a study by Fifa has found. h The majority of abuse was generated detailed assessment of social media future by signing a contract with the club running to 2027
by trolls from the player’s home nation abuse in international football. “Our “But indirectly, we have created
The report does not name the Arsenal h 60 per cent of players received some duty is to protect football, and that starts another layer of difficulty in overcom-
and Manchester United forwards, but form of discriminatory abuse at the two with the players who bring so much joy ing a penalty shoot-out. I have got to
sources confirmed that research proved tournaments and happiness to all of us by their take all of those things into considera-
they suffered the most discriminatory h Homophobic (40 per cent) and racist exploits on the field of play,” he said. tion and it is incredibly complex. We
attacks. The most detailed research into (38 per cent) comments provided the went through a process of preparing for
online abuse across Euro 2020 and majority of the abuse Gareth Southgate, the England man- penalties. We’ve definitely reviewed
the Africa Cup of Nations lays bare the ager, spoke last week about how fear of that. Psychology is a part of it and I have
torrent of toxic comments aimed at In response, Fifa and Fifpro, the a social-media backlash would weigh to be aware of all of those things.”
players. global players’ union, said they would heavily on his mind at the World Cup
launch a “dedicated in-tournament when he selects players for penalty The research and pledges from Fifa
The independent report, published moderation service across men’s and shoot-outs. also come after Jude Bellingham ques-
by football’s governing body Fifa to women’s football that will scan recog- tioned whether authorities cared about
coincide with the United Nations’ Inter- Southgate was appalled by the racist the rising tide of bile that players
abuse directed at black players Saka, were  facing online. “You look at the
Rashford and Jadon Sancho after they run into that final and you felt as though
missed penalties in last year’s final the country had united,” Bellingham
against Italy. told CNN recently. “Then as soon as
they missed a penalty, they were not
“When I left the Grove [team hotel] English, just black. Anyone can make a
that day [after England’s defeat in the mistake in their line of work. But to
final], I couldn’t help but feel, ‘Have be  criticised like that should never
I  created this situation here for the happen. They are human.”
boys?’ ” he said. “We’ve had 55 years of
talking about penalties and everything

Nunez defies early poverty and abusive fans to reach the top

By Marcus Alves heavily, the river would flood and take Humble roots: Darwin Nunez outside his family home, which is vulnerable to flooding The injury problems may have been to Ibiza to take some time off. Five days
with it the few things those around had behind him, but the obstacles kept later, my phone rang; that was him
hProfessional football was in their homes. coming. Criticism from social media asking me to find a physical trainer to
the only hope of a better had become such an issue for him work with him because he needed to
life for Liverpool’s record The Nunez family had little and during the competition that he was prepare for the season ahead. That’s
signing and his family Darwin would watch his mother, Silvia advised by the team’s psychologist, his mentality,” Goncalves says.
Ribeiro, collect bottles in the streets Axel Ocampo, to avoid using his
E ven as a slight 13 year-old, there for money. She would sometimes skip mobile phone after games. Even Unlike in Spain, however, Nunez
was little doubt where Darwin meals to ensure that her children had though he had not been at his best in initially struggled in Portugal and was
Nunez would end up. “I still something to eat. It became clear very Chile, Almeria soon came knocking. heavily criticised for his decision-
remember the first time I saw him early for the 22-year-old striker that He was soon off to Spain for €8 million making, and for holding on to the ball
play,” says Jose Perdomo, the man who football was the only hope of a better (£6.9 million). too much. Such was the pressure that,
first discovered Liverpool’s record life for them. after scoring against Pacos de Ferreira
signing. “Darwin was taller than most “When we bought the club, we in April 2021, he cried.
kids of his age, very skinny – a player Despite some initial hesitation, he wanted a young striker and looked at
made for Europe.” eventually upped sticks and moved to plenty of options, but Darwin stood A year on, though, Nunez defied the
Penarol, the Uruguayan big-hitters in odds yet again, scoring twice against
Perdomo, who had driven 450 miles He struggled at first in Liverpool in the Champions League,
through the night to see Nunez playing Montevideo. By the age of 16, he was
in a district game, immediately knew already taking part in first-team Portugal. Such was the finishing last season with 34 goals and
he had struck gold. “Over all my years training sessions. convincing Jurgen Klopp to part with
scouting, I had never recommended pressure, he cried after £85 million for him. Surely, then, he
signing anybody without watching Nunez brought his parents to live departs an idol of Benfica?
them four or five times,” he says. “But scoring his first goal
Darwin? No, he was different. I only with him, but then he tore his cruciate Not quite. The lasting memory for
had to watch him that day. As soon as ligament and was out for almost a year, out among them,” Almeria’s sporting many fans in Portugal is of a player
his game ended, I went to talk to his a cruel blow for a teenager finding his director, Joao Goncalves, says. “I erratic in his decision making, too
parents because we had already taken already knew that he had overcome a
his older brother, Junior, to Penarol. way in the game. In his first game back, lot earlier in his life and concluded that often caught offside, with a poor first
We couldn’t afford losing any time. He he abandoned the pitch in tears and we could use a player with so much touch and questionable link-up play.
was that special.” spent six months out. He wanted to hunger to win.” There is a feeling in Lisbon that this
deal is even better for the club than
Nunez’s path to the top, however, quit football. Goncalves was right. Nunez scored
was not without its bumps. Having “People referred to him as the new 16 goals in his first and only year in the eyebrow-raising €126 million fee
been raised in a humble Spain’s second division before being that they secured from Atletico
neighbourhood in Artigas, a small [Edinson] Cavani for his goalscoring sold to Benfica for a club-record Madrid for Joao Felix. Doubts persist
town in Uruguay next to the border prowess, so the injury was a real blow transfer of €24 million in September
with Brazil, his main concern was the 2020. among supporters that he is a
Cuareim river. Whenever it rained for him. His self-esteem was very low “Liverpool player”.
back then,” Perdomo says. “His future had not been decided
when our campaign ended so he went That is not a feeling shared by the
Nunez, though, resisted the
man who has been there from the start,
temptation to give up. His brother had however. “Uruguayans can adapt to
already returned home to help their any place,” Perdomo says. “It doesn’t
family – the younger sibling’s job was matter if it’s the Russian winter or the
to stick at it. It worked and by 2019 he
Saudi summer. Darwin is no different
had been called up to the Uruguay side and will show that once again.”
for the South American Under-20
Championship.

The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 19 June 2022 ** 9

Sport

Sam Wallace tweeting. The clock is ticking. That is
one of the key problems of years of
Chief Football Writer decline and a manager who was only
appointed in May.
De Jong’s move is
paramount for both There is only so much that can be
United and Barca overhauled in one summer. Darwin
Nunez is already signed at Liverpool,
J oan Laporta may well end up another with investment firm Sixth Selling up: Frenkie sought-after properties. This is not an in Europe to reach €1 billion annually. where the recruitment machine had
selling Frenkie de Jong to Street, and the venue experience de Jong is a attempt to buy the 2011 iteration of How absurd that priority feels now at a been passed into the stewardship of
Manchester United this company Legends, for a share of their primary target of Xavi Hernandez, now De Jong’s club with a debt that exceeds that Julian Ward from its architect Michael
summer, but first the Barcelona stadium revenue. These are two clubs Manchester United manager. One suspects United would number. Edwards. At Manchester City, the
president will have to know for that are supposed to belong to their as Barcelona be bidding only against themselves. Erling Haaland deal was built on years
how much he can auction off membership, of course, but as the president Joan At United, different pressures are at of preparation and it looks like Gabriel
another bit of the fabled people’s years of overspending go by and the Laporta (left) looks In the meantime, Laporta goes out play. They fly to Bangkok on July 8 and Jesus’s departure may fund most of it.
club that has been unbolted and debts rise, so bits are sold off and it to cash in to offer to the market to see what he can get for then on to Australia for a temperate These clubs’ planning will likely have
offered up to the highest bidder. makes you wonder what might be left. the club stability half of the merchandising arm of pre-season and four big friendlies already moved on to next summer’s
Barcelona which was, until the later across the two countries. By then, if window while United are still, by
The pursuit of United’s key For United, the matter is just as years of the presidency of his Ten Hag is to start rebuilding this team necessity, stuck in the present.
transfer target this summer is pressing – how soon do they make predecessor Josep Maria Bartomeu, a that finished 35 points behind
made all the more difficult for the their move for De Jong? Barcelona Nike subsidiary. It was brought back champions Manchester City, he needs That can all change with good
fact that they are trying to buy him want back their full 2019 investment of into the club by Bartomeu in order to the new linchpin of his team in place management, but starting the process
from an institution in some state of around £74 million. United value the boost revenue in the race to be the first and ready to go. Gary Neville is is the hardest part of it and the De Jong
financial disintegration. At yet Dutch midfielder at around deal demonstrates just how enmeshed
another assembly of the Barcelona £56 million – about what they paid for in another club’s politics and finances
members on Thursday, Laporta Bruno Fernandes. No one doubts that the buying party can become. Laporta
was given permission to sell off the reasons for Barcelona to sell are has promised €500 million for the sale
49.9 per cent of the club’s manifest across their financial results, of the half-share of the merchandising
merchandising arm, effectively where this latest borrowing will revenue, but the club’s Spotify
plundering future revenues for doubtless be dressed up as revenue.
upfront cash in an attempt to offer The question is who needs the deal the De Jong will enable
some stability to the Catalan soonest, and the heat is already rising.
debt-monster. United to play the way
The new United regime under
It is a common practice now in Richard Arnold, the chief executive, is Ten Hag wants, at the
Spanish football. La Liga has sold
the share of future television well aware it needs to shed a teeth of the midfield press
rights to the private equity reputation for overpaying for good
group CVC Partners. and mediocre footballers. As for sponsorship deal was not as lucrative
De Jong, he is a priority because as had been hoped and who knows
Real Madrid have a similar he will enable United to play the what the result might be this time.
arrangement with global way that manager Erik ten Hag
private equity fund wants, with a midfield United’s deal for De Jong is an
Providence for playmaker capable of taking important one, for the manager’s style
sponsorship; another the ball in the teeth of the of play and also the strength of the
with Santander Bank press and navigating a way relationship between him and the
for their television out. Even so, it is not as if recruitment department. Yet he is still
rights in return for United are trying to buy just one player. The club also need a
liquidity; and one of the most central defender, a right-back, another
midfielder – possibly Christian Eriksen
– and perhaps a young striker prepared
to play a supporting role to the main
cast. All the while, the club have to
balance the value of that display of
power that a new signing offers, and
attendant boost to supporter morale,
against the reality that they cannot just
allow Barcelona to name their price.

The truth is that Barcelona overpaid
for De Jong and did not get the
transformative effect they might have
hoped for, which was hardly the young
midfielder’s fault alone. They have to
sell and United have to buy. Both clubs
are haunted by the transfer mistakes of
their past and have reputations to
restore. Neither can afford to get it
wrong.

Database

Vitality T20 Blast South Group Athletics Motorcycling Tennis Campanelle (10-1) 3; Home Affairs 5-2F. 24 ran. ran. nk, 9½. (K R Burke). Perth
8.15 (7f212yds h’cap): Sucellus (G Rooke 9-2) 1;
North Group Gloucestershire v Glamorgan DIAMOND LGE (Paris).-Men, 110m hurdles: 1 BRITISH SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP, ATP T’MENT (Queen’s Club, London).-Semi- nk, ½, dht. (C Appleby). NRs: Glen Shiel, Happy Dulla Bhatti (11-2) 2; Raise The Roof (7-2F) 3. 8 Going: Good-good to soft in places
D Allen (US) 13.16s, 6 A Pozzi (GB) 13.49. (Knockhill, Fife).-Race 1: 1 B Ray (GB) Yamaha finals: F Krajinovic (Serbia) bt M Cilic (Croatia)
Derbyshire v Yorkshire At Bristol abandoned without a ball bowled 200m: 1 L Adams (S Africa) 19.82. 400m: 1 S 17m 36.028s, 2 J O’Halloran (Australia) Yamaha 6-3 6-3; M Berrettini (Italy) bt B Van de Power, Ventura Diamond. ran. 3l, 1l. (Oliver Greenall & Josh Guerriero). NR: 1.42 (2m47yds mdn hdle): Copperwell (S Bowen
Gardiner (Bahamas) 44.21. 800m: 1 B Robert +1.676, 3 R Skinner (GB) Kawasaki +2.218. Zandschulp (Netherlands) 6-4 6-3. 5.00 (6f h’cap): Rohaan (R L Moore 18-1) 1; 9-4) 1; Maifalki (2-1F) 2; Toucan Sam (80-1) 3. 10
At Chesterfield Derbyshire won toss (1pt each) (France) 1m 43.75s, 9 E Giles (GB) 1:45.94. Standings: 1 Ray 183pts, 2 O’Halloran 150, 3 ATP T’MENT (Halle, Germany).-Semi-finals: D Popmaster (16-1) 2; Jumby (12-1) 3; Mr Wagyu Greek Kodiac.
Yorkshire 5000m: 1 S Barega (Ethiopia) 12:56.19. Triple L Jackson (GB) Kawasaki 138, 4 Skinner 132. Medvedev (Russia) bt O Otte (Germany) 7-6 8.45 (1m2f42yds h’cap): Definite (H Crouch 13-8F) ran. 2¼, 3½. (G Elliott (IRE) ). NR: Keepthefaithinme.
P W L T NR Pts RR jump: 1 J Diaz (Cuba) 17.66m. Pole vault: 1 B (7-3) 6-3; H Hurkacz (Poland) bt N Kyrgios (28-1) 4. Fresh 4-1F. 26 ran. ¾, ½, 1l. (P Evans). 1; Star Of Valour (7-1) 2; Andaleep (4-1) 3. 9 ran. 2.17 (2m7f180yds h’cap nov ch): Aye Aye Charlie
Broeders (Belgium) 5.80m, 8 H Coppell (GB) Rowing (Australia) 4-6 7-6 (7-2) 7-6 (7-4). (J Tudor 13-2) 1; Raddle And Hum (4-1) 2;
A Lyth b Watt 8 Surrey 8 7 0 0 1 15 1.81 5.50. Women, 100m: 1 S- Fraser-Pryce WTA T’MENT (Berlin).-Semi-finals: O Jabeur NRs: Bielsa, Ventura Tormenta. 1¾, 1½. (R Beckett). Castletown (13-8F) 3. 5 ran. 3¼, 2l. (Christian
(Jamaica) 10.67s, 2 D Neita (GB) 10.99. 100m WORLD CUP (Poznan, Poland).-Men, (Tunisia) bt C Gauff (US) 7-6 (7-4) 6-2; B 5.35 (1m1f212yds h’cap): Missed The Cut (James Placepot: £34.60. Quadpot: £10.60.
F H Allen c Conners b McKiernan 37 Somerset 8 6 2 0 0 12 0.53 hurdles: 1 O Amusan (Nigeria) 12.41, 3 C Lightweight single sculls: 1 M Dunham (NZ) Bencic (Switzerland) bt M Sakkari (Greece) 6-7 McDonald 5-2F) 1; Asgoodassobergets (40-1) 2; Williams). NR: Storm Lorenzo.
Sember (GB) 12.73. 400m: 1 S Miller 6m 43.07s, 2 F McCarthy (Rep of Ireland) (6-8) 6-4 6-4. Sun King (12-1) 3. 13 ran. 4¼, ¾. (G Boughey). NRs: Lingfield 2.52 (2m4f35yds h’cap hdle): Gonfalonier (D
†T Kohler-Cadmore b Watt 0 Essex 9 5 3 0 1 11 0.56 (Bahamas) 50.10. 3000m steeplechase: 1 W 6:44.50, 3 F Kluver (Uruguay) 6:46.86, 4 L McMenamin 5-1) 1; Sword Of Fate (7-1) 2; Cliffs
Mutile Yavi (Bahrain) 8:56.55, 4 E Bird (GB) Penev (Bulgaria) 6:47.03, 5 J Kowalski (Poland) Fixtures Aldous Huxley, Chairman, Jimi Hendrix, Phantom Going: Standard Of Dooneen (9-1) 3. Wolfspear 5-2F. 10 ran. 12l,
*H C Brook c Madsen b Kerr 77 Gloucs 10 4 4 0 2 10 0.15 9:19.46. High jump: 1 Y Mahuchikh (Ukraine) 6:54.95, 6 A Mikolajczewski (Poland) 7:04.68.
2.01m. Discus: 1 V Allman (US) 68.68m. Quadruple sculls: 1 Denmark 6m 01.33s, 2 Cricket Flight. Aldous Huxley| Rule 4 applies to All Bets, 5.18 (1m1yds): One Step Beyond (R Clutterbuck nk. (N Richards).
Shadab Khan b Watt 26 Hampshire 9 5 4 0 0 10 0.09 Javelin: 1 H Kitaguchi (Japan) 63.13m. Ukraine 6:03.25, 3 Thailand 6:03.45. 11-4F) 1; Arpina (4-1) 2; Laurentia (14-1) 3. 10 3.27 (2m h’cap ch): Lucky Flight (S Mulqueen
Women, Lightweight single sculls final A: 1 M 2ND ONE-DAY INT'NAL.-Amstelveen: deduct 20p in the pound. 15-8F) 1; Hermann Clermont (4-1) 2; Tico Times
W A R Fraine c Madsen b Hughes 2 Glamorgan 9 2 5 0 2 6 -0.31 Cycling Jones (US) 7m 32.08s, 2 G Nesbitt (Australia) Netherlands v England (10am). 6.10 (2m5f143yds): Stratum (W Buick 10-1) 1; ran. 2½, 1¾. (R Ingram). NRs: Purple Paddy, To
7:36.28, 3 M-L Draeger (Germany) 7:37.89, 4 J 3RD ONE-DAY INT'NAL.-Colombo: Sri Lanka v Reshoun (20-1) 2; Calling The Wind (13-2) 3. (5-2) 3. 4 ran. 8l, ¾. (L Russell). NRs: Fabrique En
J A Thompson c Watt b Scrimshaw 12 Sussex 9 3 6 0 0 6 -0.38 TOUR DE SUISSE.-Stage 7 (Ambri to Malbun, Moffatt (Canada) 7:41.94, 5 O Nacht Australia (9.30am). Dream.
196km): 1 T Pinot (France) Groupama-FDJ 5hrs (Switzerland) 7:49.58, 6 K Riley (Canada) 5TH TWENTY20 INT'NAL.-Bangalore: India v Wordsworth 7-4F. 12 ran. 1l, hd. (W P Mullins (IRE) . 5.50 (7f1yds mdn): Surely Not (R Clutterbuck France, Shareef Star.
M J Waite c Reece b Kerr 4 Middlesex 9 3 6 0 0 6 -1.23 6m 39s, 2 O Rodriguez (Spain) Movistar Team 7:59.75. South Africa (2.30pm). 14-1) 1; Venetian (13-8F) 2; Dresden Green (2-1) 4.07 (2m7f180yds h’cap ch): Charlie Uberalles (C
+25s, 3 A Lutsenko (Kazakhstan) Astana 1ST TEST (day 4 of 5).-North Sound: West NRs: Earlofthecotswolds, Trueshan. O’Farrell 4-1) 1; Hereditary Rule (9-4F) 2; Forgot
M L Revis c Guest b Scrimshaw 0 Kent 9 2 7 0 0 4 -0.64 Qazaqstan Team +38, 4 S Higuita (Colombia) Rugby League Indies v Bangladesh (3pm). Jackpot: Not won, pool of £7,760.13 carried over. 3. 10 ran. nk, 4½. (D F Davis). To Ask (10-1) 3. 7 ran. 1½, 4¼. (D Sayer). NR:
BORA-hansgrohe +1m 19s, 5 G Thomas (GB) Placepot: £79,125.50. Quadpot: £158.10. 6.20 (7f1yds h’cap): Dors Toyboy (C Bennett 15-2)
D M Bess lbw b Scrimshaw 0 1st Test (day 3 close) INEOS Grenadiers +1:30. Overall: 1 Higuita International VITALITY T20 BLAST (2.30pm) 1; Drish Hero (16-5) 2; Daring Guest (9-2) 3. Presentandcounting.
32h 38m 38s, 2 Thomas +2s, 3 J Fuglsang England 18 Combined Nations All Stars 4 NORTH GROUP Ayr 4.46 (2m47yds h’cap hdle): Malangen (T Dowson
D Leech not out 1 West Indies v Bangladesh (Denmark) Israel-Premier Tech +19, 4 N Powless England: S Tomkins, T Makinson, K Watkins, J Riverside: Durham v Leics. Gigi’s Beach 5-2F. 8 ran. ½, nk. (D Ivory). 13-2) 1; Well Planted (6-4F) 2; Newtown Boy
(US) EF Education-EasyPost +1m 16s. Wardle, R Hall, J Welsby, G Williams, A Walmsley, Blackpool: Lancashire v Notts. Going: Good to soft-good in places 6.55 (6f1yds nov): Zero Carbon (F Marsh 10-11F)
Extras (b4 lb2 w2) 8 At North Sound West Indies won toss M McIlorum, M Cooper, L Farrell, M McMeeken, J Edgbaston: Birmingham v Derbyshire. 1; Lady Madonna (7-2) 2; Spangled Mac (9-4) 3. (4-1) 3. 6 ran. 1¼, 9½. (Miss L Harrison). NR: Finisk
TOUR OF SLOVENIA.-Stage 4 (Lasko to Velika Bateman. Subs: P McShane, J Batchelor, M Lees, SOUTH GROUP 1.14 (5f h’cap): Rebel At Dawn (D Costello 7-2) 1;
Total (20 overs) 175 Bangladesh — First Innings 103 (Al Hasan 51) Planina, 152.4km): 1 R Majka (Poland) UAE M Oledzki. T: Wardle, Williams, Bateman. G: Chelmsford: Essex v Somerset. Be Proud (16-5F) 2; Prospect (5-1) 3. 10 ran. nk, 7 ran. ½, 2¼. (R Hughes). NR: High And Wide. River.
Team Emirates 3h 53m 52s, 2 T Pogacar Tomkins (3). Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan v Sussex. 7.30 (1m4f h’cap): Wannabe Betsy (S Cherchi 5.23 (2m7f207yds h’cap hdle): Pammi (B Hughes
Fall of wickets: 1-32, 2-32, 3-62, 4-109, West Indies — First Innings 265 (Brathwaite (Slovenia) UAE Team Emirates at same time. Combined Nations All Stars: P Mata’utia, K The Ageas Bowl: Hampshire v Surrey. nk. (K R Burke). NR: Modular Magic. 25-1) 1; Captain Howse (11-5F) 2; All About 9-4F) 1; Emirat De Catana (17-2) 2; Go Bob Go
Overall: 1 Pogacar 15h 35m 44secs, 2 Majka Sio, R Martin, S Kenny-Dowall, M Fonua, J Miller, Lord’s: Middlesex v Kent. 1.49 (6f mdn): Honour Your Dreams (P Hanagan Alice (12-1) 3. 8 ran. nk, 1½. (D Menuisier). NR:
5-126, 6-169, 7-174, 8-174, 9-174. 94, Blackwood 63, Mehedi Hasan 4-59) +3s, 3 D Novak (Slovenia) Bahrain Victorious B Croft, L Sao, D Clark, Z Tetevano, K Edwards, K 3-1) 1; Urban Sprawl (11-1) 2; Prairie Falcon (18- (3-1) 3. 11 ran. nk, 6½. (J Goldie). NR: Eclair Des
+1m 56s, 4 V Albanese (Italy) EOLO-Kometa Tanginoa, M Prior. Subs: K Leeming, J Lovodua, Rugby League Clonsilla Rose.
Bowling: H Kerr 2-0-20-2, S Conners 1-0-17-0, Bangladesh — Second Innings Cycling Team +2:06. T Satae, D Fifita. T: Sio. HT: 12-0. 1) 3. Sipahsalar 2-1F. 7 ran. ½, ½. (A Keatley). NR: 8.00 (1m4f h’cap): Party Island (G Bass 15-8F) 1; Sablons.
INT'NAL: France v Wales (2.30). Forge Valley Lad (11-4) 2; Lady Percival (3-1) 3. Placepot: £174.90. Quadpot: £19.80.
M R J Watt 4-1-29-3, W L Madsen 2-0-12-0, M (Overnight 50-2) BELGIUM TOUR.-Stage 4 (Durbuy, 172.2km): 1 Rugby Union Derwent Boy.
Q Hermans (Belgium) Intermarche-Wanty- Gallagher Premiership final Rugby Union 2.24 (7f50yds h’cap): Truely Aclaimed (O 7 ran. hd, 3l. (D Coakley). Redcar
H McKiernan 3-0-32-1, A L Hughes 4-0-39-1, G Mahmudul Hasan Joy c Da Silva b Roach 42 Gobert 4h 19m 39s, 2 M Schmid (Switzerland) McSweeney 2-1F) 1; Aasser (16-5) 2; Fourth Time 8.30 (1m2f h’cap): Le Forban (T Whelan 3-1JF) 1;
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team at same time, 3 T Leicester 15 Saracens 12 INT'NAL: England v Barbarians (3). Lucky (11-2) 3. 7 ran. hd, 1¾. (J J Quinn). NRs: My Ocean Ruler (12-1) 2; Boasty (9-1) 3. Chief Of Going: Good to firm-good in places
L S Scrimshaw 4-0-20-3. Wellens (Belgium) Lotto Soudal +4s. Overall: 1
Schmid 12hr 11m 41s, 2 Wellens at same time, United Rugby Championship final Horse Racing results Dubawi, Rishes Baar. Staff 3-1JF. 12 ran. 5½, 5½. (G Baker). NR: Waterloo 1.37 (5f217yds nov): Sound Pressure (S Gray
Derbyshire Najmul Hossain Shanto c Campbell b Mayers 17 3 Hermans +8s. Stormers 18 Blue Bulls 13 2.59 (1m5f26yds h’cap): Dark Jedi (D Fentiman 14-1) Sunset. Placepot: £24.80. Quadpot: £7.70. 5-6F) 1; Braveheart Boy (20-1) 2; Treble Glory
Stormers: W Gelant, S Petersen, R Nel, D Royal Ascot 1; Glasses Up (28-1) 2; Happy (6-1) 3. Forza Orta
*Shan Masood c Bess b Leech 34 Mominul Haque lbw b Mayers 4 Darts Willemse, S Senatla, M Libbok, H Jantjies, S Newmarket (13-2) 3. 9 ran. hd, ½. (James Horton).
Liton Das c Mayers b Roach 17 Kitshoff (B Harris 74), J Kotze (A Venter 56), F Going: Good to firm 3-1F. 13 ran. 1¼, shd. (T Easterby). NR: Cardano. 2.12 (1m5f218yds h’cap): Hellenista (D Allan
L M Reece lbw b Leech 11 *Shakib Al Hasan c Brathwaite b Roach 63 PDC WORLD CUP (Frankfurt).-2nd rd: Northern Malherbe (N Fouche 67), S Moerat (E van Rhyn 2.30 (7f): Holloway Boy (D Tudhope 40-1) 1; 3.34 (5f): Guilded (T Eaves 11-1) 1; Tenaya Going: Good-good to firm in places 10-11F) 1; Bouncing Bobby (9-4) 2; O’Reilly’s
†Nurul Hasan c Da Silva b Roach 64 Ireland bt New Zealand 2-0, Netherlands bt 74), M Orie, D Fourie (N Xaba 75), H Dayimani (J Pearling Path (80-1) 2; Lakota Sioux (33-1) 3. Canyon (10-3JF) 2; Hellomydarlin (11-1) 3. Pass (8-1) 3. 6 ran. shd, 4l. (T Easterby). NRs:
W L Madsen c Kohler-Cadmore b Leech 0 Republic of Ireland 2-0, Wales bt Austria 2-1, Pokomela 74), E Roos. T: Roos, Venter. C: Libbok. Alfred Munnings 11-8F. 13 ran. 1l, 1½. (K R Burke). 1.32 (7f nov): Victory Dance (M Barzalona 8-11F)
Germany bt Denmark 2-0, Australia bt Sweden P: Libbok. DG: Libbok. NR: Shahbaz. Lullaby Bay 10-3JF. 10 ran. hd, ½. (K R Burke). NRs: 1; Bresson (9-4) 2; We Could Be Heroes (33-1) 3. Nataleena, Rogan’s Fancy.
J L du Plooy not out 48 2-1, Belgium bt Poland 2-0, England bt Latvia Blue Bulls: K Arendse, C Moodie (R Hunt 66), C 3.05 (7f): Noble Truth (W Buick 4-1F) 1; Find (40-1) Amber Dew, Mid Winster. 4.14 (6f h’cap): Call Me 2.47 (7f219yds h’cap mdn): Ron O (L Edmunds 9-4)
2-1, Scotland bt Portugal 2-1. Hendricks, H Vorster, M Tambwe, C Smith (M 2; Dubai Poet (20-1) 3. 15 ran. 1l, nk. (C Appleby). Ginger (P Mulrennan 5-2F) 1; Jordan Electrics 8 ran. hd, 1½. (C Appleby). NR: Indian Renegade. 1; Hostelry (5-4F) 2; Skedaddled (12-1) 3. 7 ran.
†B D Guest c Lyth b Khan 3 Ebadat Hossain b Roach 1 Steyn 75), Z Burger (E Papier 63), G Steenekamp 3.40 (1m3f211yds): Broome (R L Moore 6-1) 1; (16-1) 2; Surprise Picture (22-1) 3. 8 ran. hd, ½. (J 2.07 (6f h’cap): Misscall (M Barzalona 6-1) 1;
Golf (S Matanzima 66), J Grobbelaar (B du Plessis 66), Mostahdaf (11-2) 2; Hurricane Lane (8-11F) 3. 7 Goldie). 4.54 (1m2f): Highlight Reel (S P Davis Commandment (5-1) 2; Falesia Beach (15-2) 3. 1¼, 1l. (J L Eyre).
M H McKiernan not out 4 Mustafizur Rahman b Joseph 7 M Smith (D Kriel 66), W Steenkamp (J Swanepoel ran. 3¼, 1¼. (A P O’Brien (IRE) ). NR: Third Realm. 11-4) 1; Chantreys (7-2) 2; City Wanderer (12-1) 3. 3.22 (7f h’cap): Tammani (A Rawlinson 17-2) 1;
LADIES ARAMCO TEAM SERIES - LONDON 59), R Nortje, M Coetzee, A Botha (W Steenkamp 4.20 (6f): Naval Crown (James Doyle 33-1) 1; Glory And Gold 7-2F. 11 ran. shd, ½. (A Watson). Wizard D’Amour (7-2JF) 2; Persuasion (9-2) 3.
Extras (lb2 w3) 5 Syed Khaled Ahmed not out 0 (Centurion Club, St Albans).-3rd rd leaders (GB 78), E Louw. T: Vorster. C: C. Smith. P: C. Smith Creative Force (12-1) 2; Artorius (17-2) 3; Oot Ma Way 2-1F. 7 ran. 1¾, 1¾. (R Fell). NR: Angels 2.42 (1m nov): Sense Of Wisdom (Harry Davies
& Irl unless stated): 210—B Law 68 71 71; (2). Tale. Placepot: £175.90. Quadpot: £33.80. 7-2) 1; First Ruler (6-5F) 2; Frantanck (10-3) 3. Snash 7-2JF. 8 ran. 2¾, 1l. (D O’Meara).
Total (for 4, 9.4 overs) 105 Extras (b2 lb1 w2 nb1) 6 211—G Hall 67 73 71; 212—L Grant (Sweden) HT: 3-7. Referee: Andrew Brace. 4.02 (5f h’cap): Texas Man (D Nolan 6-1) 1; Silky
Total (90.5 overs) 245 72 71 69; 213—C Hull 69 75 69; 215—W Haydock 10 ran. hd, 4¾. (C Appleby). NRs: Age Of Sail, Bond Wilkie (3-1) 2; Beauzon (28-1) 3. Maybe Even
Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-16, 3-78, 4-82. Hillier (Australia) 70 73 72. Spirit. 3.17 (1m6f h’cap): Bague D’or (N Callan
Fall of wickets: 1-33, 2-35, 3-64, 4-75, 5-100, Going: Good-good to firm in places 7-2) 1; Sea Appeal (10-1) 2; Caldwell (10-1) 3. Never 11-4F. 7 ran. ½, 2l. (P Midgley). NR: King Of
Did Not Bat: A L Hughes, H Kerr, M R J Watt, S 6-109, 7-232, 8-238, 9-245.
Bowling: K A J Roach 24.5-10-53-5, J N T 6.00 (1m3f140yds mdn): Sea On Time (C Fallon Saint Riquier 10-11F. 7 ran. ½, ns. (C Wall). NR: Speed.
Conners, G L S Scrimshaw. Seales 14-1-45-0, A S Joseph 19-6-55-3, K R 1-4F) 1; Planet Legend (9-2) 2; Cavalon (10-1) 3. Contingency Fee. 3.52 (7f h’cap): Galiac (S De 4.38 (5f217yds nov): Grantley Hall (Joanna Mason
Mayers 13-3-30-2, G Motie 15-2-42-0, R A Sousa 10-3) 1; Out From Under (15-8F) 2; Open 3-1) 1; Willard Creek (11-8F) 2; Muddy Lynn (9-1)
Bowling: D M Bess 1-0-10-0, D Leech 2-0-13-3, Reifer 5-1-17-0. 4 ran. 1½, 1l. (W Haggas). NRs: Chuvelo, French Mind (11-2) 3. 10 ran. nk, hd. (W Muir & C
West Indies — Second Innings Grassick). NR: Cephalus. 4.32 (7f h’cap): Ataser (R 3. 9 ran. 4¾, hd. (M & D Easterby).
M L Revis 1-0-15-0, J A Thompson 2-0-12-0, Romance. Dawson 9-2) 1; Brazen Bolt (16-5) 2; Dashing 5.13 (5f217yds h’cap): Rainbow Rain (JP Sullivan
6.35 (5f h’cap): Sandbeck (H Crouch 6-1) 1; Dick (4-1) 3. Mister Bluebird 5-2F. 8 ran. ¾, 1½. (T 33-1) 1; Kendred Fire (16-1) 2; Trust Bertie
Shadab Khan 2-0-19-1, M J Waite 1.4-0-34-0. Kimngrace (6-4F) 2; Vadamiah (9-1) 3. 6 ran. shd, Kent). 5.09 (6f h’cap): Abate (B McHugh 12-1) 1;
Antiphon (11-1) 2; Concierge (10-1) 3. Many A (7-2JF) 3. Cotai Class 7-2JF. 13 ran. 1¼, hd. (T
Umpires: R A Kettleborough and R White. 3½. (E Bethell). NR: Havagomecca.
7.10 (6f212yds nov): Dornoch Castle (C Fallon Star 4-1F. 11 ran. ¾, hd. (Adrian Nicholls). Waggott). NRs: Golden Prosperity, Theoretical.
Derby (2pts) beat Yorks by 6 wickets (D/L) *K C Brathwaite c Nurul Hasan b Khaled Ahmed1 3-1) 1; Coco Jack (4-1) 2; Spioradalta (66-1) 3. Placepot: £14.80. Quadpot: £5.00. Placepot: £8.70.
Quadpot: £6.60.
Worcestershire v Northamptonshire J D Campbell not out 28 Indiana Be 2-1F. 8 ran. 3¾, 8l. (C & M Johnston).
7.45 (7f212yds h’cap): Quick Change (S James
At New Road abandoned without a ball bowled R A Reifer c Nurul Hasan b Khaled Ahmed 2 8-1) 1; Amanzoe (9-4F) 2; Mountbatten (9-1) 3. 7

(1pt each) N E Bonner b Khaled Ahmed 0

P W L T NR Pts RR J Blackwood not out 17

Northants 10 6 2 0 2 14 0.52 Extras (lb1) 1
Total (for 3, 15 overs) 49
Lancashire 9 6 2 1 0 13 0.70

Birmingham 9 6 3 0 0 12 0.92 Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-3, 3-9.
To Bat: K R Mayers, †J Da Silva, A S Joseph, K A
Yorkshire 10 5 4 1 0 11 0.93 J Roach, G Motie, J N T Seales.
Bowling: Mustafizur Rahman 4-1-7-0, Syed Khaled
Derbyshire 9 5 4 0 0 10 0.40 Ahmed 5-0-14-3, Mehedi Hasan 2-1-10-0, Ebadat
Hossain 2-0-14-0, Shakib Al Hasan 2-0-3-0.
Leicse 10 4 6 0 0 8 -0.75 Umpires: C B Gaffaney and J S Wilson.

Notts 8 3 4 0 1 7 -0.52

Durham 9 3 6 0 0 6 -0.39

Worcs 10 1 8 0 1 3 -1.58

Racecards

Hexham 5 -41 The Vollan [T,V](13) (D) L Morgan 8 11 3 A Wedge Pontefract Jackpot Card 7 -96 The Flying Ginger (24) (C) R Fell 4 9 2 B Curtis 5 6.45 Sprint Handicap(3)6f£15,462 Tabitha Worsley (3) 3.35 Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race)(2)2m4f£10,562
6 -32 Prince Dundee [P,T](15) (CD) L Russell 9 11 2 8 323 Vindobala [T](12) (BF) T Collier 4 9 2P Mulrennan 8 3 -13 Ashoka [T](21) (BF) D Skelton 10 11 9 H Skelton
S.P. f’cast: 6-4 Bartzella, 2-1 Lady Hayes, 9-2 Glenartney, 1 311 Eilean Dubh (28) K R Burke 4 9 12 C Lee 17 4 0-4 Due Reward [P,T](29) C Longsdon 9 11 9 Paul O’Brien 1 20- Miranda [T](F29) P Nicholls 7 12 0 A Cheleda (5)
S Mulqueen 13-2 By Starlight, 16-1 Goldie Hawk, 33-1 Others. 5 -FP Templehills [T](29) (D) N Twiston-Davies 11 11 8 2 5-0 Dandy Mag [T](43) F O’Brien 9 11 4 P Brennan
Marlborough S.P. f’cast: 7-4 The Vollan, 3-1 Prince Dundee, Amalfi Doug, Marlborough 2 76- Margub (368) M Tregoning 7 9 12 B Curtis 14 3 25- Glynn (57) N Henderson 8 11 0 N De Boinville
10-1 For Jim, Brian Boranha, 12-1 Cooldine Bog. T Bellamy 4 -12 Percy’s Word (32) (C) (BF) D Skelton 8 10 10 H Skelton
1.45 - Nero Rock 3.45 - Speriamo 3 208 Bergerac [P](15) (CD)(D) K Ryan 4 9 11 K Stott 11 6 3-1 La Domaniale (17) (D) Jonjo O’Neill 6 11 6 Jonjo O’Neill Jr 5 67- Solo Saxophone [B](F44) (D) A Hales 8 10 9 K Woods
2.15 - Jack Yeats 4.15 - Love Is Golden 7 -24 Planned Paradise (27) (BF) N Mulholland 6 11 2 S.P. f’cast: 13-8 Percy’s Word, 9-4 Miranda, 7-2 Glynn, 6-1
2.45 - Well Educated 3.55 - Grand Du Nord 3.55 Maiden Hurdle (GBB Race)(4)2m4f£5,283 4.45 - Bartzella 5.45 - Haunted Dream 5.15 Handicap(4) 2m 2f £12,366 4 311 Il Bandito (37) James Horton 4 9 11 P J McDonald 6 Solo Saxophone, 16-1 Dandy Mag.
3.20 - Amalfi Doug 4.25 - Dinons 5.15 - Twilight Prince 6.15 - Bullet Force (nap) S Twiston-Davies
5.00 - Gone In Sixty 1 P-7 Amerdale (13) Sue Smith 7 11 4 T Willmott (3) 6.45 - Il Bandito (nb) 1 327 Captain Haddock (14) H Main 5 9 12 David Egan 14 5 109 If You Dare (22) (D) (BF) C & M Johnston 4 9 11 S.P. f’cast: 9-4 Al Roc, 11-4 La Domaniale, 10-3 Ashoka, 13-2
2 5-2 Grand Du Nord (33) (C) (BF) M Hammond 6 11 4 F Norton 15 Planned Paradise, 10-1 Due Reward, 12-1 Others.
2 17/ Oleg (J589) (C) P Nicholls 7 9 12Megan Nicholls 15
Jack Hogan (7) 6 -28 Paws For Thought (29) (D) D McCain 4 9 11
3 9-0 True Destiny [P,T](48) J J Lambe (Ire) 7 11 4 B Hughes 3 103 Haizoom (14) K Dalgleish 4 9 12 S James 12 P Mulrennan 10
4 62 Belvedere Blast (16) A Keatley 4 10 12 T Midgley (5)
Going: Good TV: Sky Sports Racing 5 7-4 Silver Coin (21) Ruth Jefferson 5 10 11 C Bewley Going: Good to firm-good in places TV: ITV4 3.45, 4.15, 4.45, 4 3-5 Byron Hill (22) J Tuite 5 9 8 R Clutterbuck (3) 7 7 553 Aberama Gold (16) (D) K Dalgleish 5 9 10 B Garritty 3 4.05 Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle (GBB Race)(4)2m£5,446
[B] Blinkers [V] Visor [E] Eyeshield [T] Tongue Strap [P] 6 5F- Young Moloney (70) D Bourke 5 10 11 Sean Quinlan 5.15, 5.45, 6.15 & 6.45 / Racing TV
Cheekpieces S.P. f’cast: 4-6 Grand Du Nord, 4-1 Belvedere Blast, 15-2 True Draw: Low numbers best in sprints. 5 809 Diocletian (14) K Dalgleish 7 9 5 C Rodriguez 13 8 211 Dream Composer (14) (C)(D) H Evans 4 9 9 D Costello 1 2.35 Handicap Hurdle(5)2m4f£3,730 1 9-1 Pop The Champagne [T](17) (D) F O’Brien 6 11 7
Destiny, 8-1 Silver Coin, 16-1 Young Moloney, 20-1 Amerdale. P Brennan
1.45 Novices’ Chase (GBB Race)(3)2m£7,189 6 8-3 The Rutland Rebel (13) (C) M Hammond 6 9 5 9 921 Music Society (16) (CD)(D) T Easterby 7 9 3 D Allan 13 1 5-3 Millbank Flyer [P,T](39) H Fry 7 12 0 K Brogan
B Garritty 5 2 0- Happy Returns (221) N Mulholland 5 11 0 J Best
1 112 Nero Rock [P](8) (D) (BF) J Candlish 7 11 12 3.45 Fillies’ Restricted Novice Stakes(4)2YO6f£9,234 10020 Recall The Show [B](8) (D) S Dixon 5 9 0 J Fisher (5) 16 3 3-2 Lost Connections (42) Katy Price 6 11 0 B Poste
Sean Quinlan 7 494 Flint Hill (13) (C) Ruth Jefferson 6 9 3 P Hanagan 1 2 6-P Barely Famous (30) (D) Joe Ponting 6 12 0 A Edwards (3) 4 Night Fever (F309) J Snowden 5 11 0 Page Fuller
11422 Ghathanfar (5) (D) (BF) T Waggott 6 9 0 J Hart 4 5 2-4 Sorceress Medea [T](26) F O’Brien 5 11 0 K Woods
2 213 Floating Rock [P,T](14) (D) M Walford 7 11 8 1 41 Speriamo (32) (D) P McBride 9 4 D Tudhope 9 8 3-7 Tigerten (18) D Bridgwater 5 9 2 G Bass (5) 9 3 -57 Monarchofthegrange (13) C & A Pogson 7 11 9 6 3-6 My Little Toni [T](36) D McCain 4 10 9 P J Kavanagh (5)
T Midgley (5) 1207- Tashgheel (236) (D) G Tuer 4 8 12 B McHugh 12 P Armson (5) S.P. f’cast: 5-4 Pop The Champagne, 10-3 Night Fever, 4-1
2 Dee See Are K R Burke 9 2 S James 6 9 427 Rukwa (J18) S England 8 9 0 C Hardie 10 Sorceress Medea, 7-1 My Little Toni, 14-1 Others.
S.P. f’cast: 4-6 Nero Rock, 5-4 Floating Rock. 13283 Manigordo [P,T](8) (D) T Easterby 5 8 12 P Hanagan 7 4 /P- Jack Thunder (103) A Hales 8 11 9 K Woods
4.25 Handicap Chase(4)2m4f£4,901 3 3 Disputed [P](14) A Keatley 9 2 B Curtis 2 10-33 Didtheyleaveuoutto (36) N Gifford 9 8 13 D Costello 8
14851 Corinthia Knight [P](13) (CD)(C)(D) A Watson 7 8 9 5 07- Do Ya Feel Lucky [P,T,WS](90) (C) D Pipe 8 11 6
1 3-2 Dinons (27) (D) M Campion 9 12 0 C Gethings 4 84 Top Of The Class (22) M Loughnane 9 2 P Hanagan 1 11951 Overhaugh Street (13) (C) E De Giles 9 8 10 S Gray 3 Harry Davies (5) 2 T Scudamore

2 -1F Seemingly So [P,T](39) (BF) L Morgan 9 11 7 A Wedge 5 4 Gutsy Lady (20) J O’Keeffe 9 0 J Garritty 3 129-2 Uncle Henry (16) S A Harris 8 8 7 Jimmy Quinn 11 15-68 Lezardrieux (8) (CD)(D) G Tuer 5 8 8 S James 5 6 -15 Masterdream [P,T](32) (CD) (BF) N Mulholland 5 11 2
T Doggrell (7)
2.15 Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle(5)2m£3,758 3 U71 Dolly Dancer [T](15) (C)(D) M Barnes 8 11 5 6 55 Misty Blues (9) T Easterby 9 0 D Allan 4 1377/ Kaizer (J22) Ewan Whillans 7 8 6 J Fanning 4 16964 Golden Apollo [P,T](8) (CD)(D) T Easterby 8 8 7 4.35 Novices’ Handicap Hurdle (Div 1)(5)2m£3,730
Sean Quinlan JP Sullivan 9
1 2-2 Lady Babs [P](31) A Crook 8 12 0 T Midgley 7 67 Riverside Girl (13) K R Burke 9 0 C Lee 7 14372 Twilight Prince (8) P Bowen 4 8 6 S De Sousa 2 7 -27 Zinat (21) P York 8 11 1 Mr P York (5)

2 -74 Archive (8) (D) Suzzanne France 12 11 8 4 -31 Follow Your Arrow (15) (CD) G Bewley 6 11 4 8 42 Lady Lavina (17) C & M Johnston 8 12 J Fanning 8 15412 Yasmin From York (12) (BF) Simon Whitaker 6 8 4 17450 Dark Shot [B](8) (D) S Dixon 9 8 6 J Duern (3) 8 8 P-F Rebel Royal [B](28) (D) B Case 9 10 12 S Sheppard 1 -31 Noahthirtytwored [T](29) (D) A West 6 12 0
Emma Smith-Chaston J Bewley (3) Joanna Mason 6 L Edwards
9 Sweet Fortune K R Burke 8 12 P-L Jamin (3) 5 S.P. f’cast: 5-1 Eilean Dubh, 6-1 Corinthia Knight, Il Bandito, 9 P-9 Pittsburg [T](13) R Potter 6 10 11 B Poste
3 -32 Major Snugfit [T,V](8) (D) R Menzies 6 11 8 S.P. f’cast: 5-1 Oleg, 11-2 Overhaugh Street, 7-1 Haizoom, 7-1 Music Society, 10-1 Dream Composer, Others. 2 6-3 Castle Quarter (41) N Mulholland 6 11 9
P Coleman (10) 5 9-1 Storm Lorenzo (15) (C) R Menzies 7 11 0 N Moscrop S.P. f’cast: 11-4 Lady Lavina, 3-1 Speriamo, 5-1 Dee See Are, 8-1 Twilight Prince, Yasmin From York, Others. 10-87 Getaway Cory [P](25) K Woollacott 7 10 10 S Twiston-Davies
7-1 Top Of The Class, 10-1 Misty Blues, Gutsy Lady, 12-1 Others. Mr J Newman (5)
4 -72 Jack Yeats [P](15) (BF) W Coltherd 6 11 7 T Gillard 6 60- Kauto D’Amour [WS](152) (D) Sue Smith 7 10 13 Worcester 3 -26 Stumps Or Slips [H,T](27) (BF) T H Weston 5 11 6
T Willmott (3) 4.15 Handicap(4) 1m 2f £12,366 5.45 Middle-Distance Handicap(3)1m4f£15,462 1161- No Worries (62) (CD) N Mulholland 8 10 9 Mr L Scott (7)
5 -PU Strike Of Lighting [H](33) G Bewley 6 11 6 J Bewley S Twiston-Davies
S.P. f’cast: 2-1 Follow Your Arrow, 7-2 Dolly Dancer, 4-1 Storm 1 542 Fishable [P,T](35) (BF) T Easterby 5 9 12 D Allan 2 4 8-3 Right Destination (48) F O’Brien 8 11 3
6 -75 Across The Channel (15) Paula Smith 7 11 5 Lorenzo, 5-1 Seemingly So, 11-2 Dinons, 16-1 Kauto D’Amour. 1 302 Love Is Golden (8) (BF) C & M Johnston 4 10 0 2 2-7 Cardano [P,T](29) (D) I Williams 6 9 12David Egan 5 Marlborough 12-P9 Black Lightning [B](32) Georgie Howell 9 10 6 Mr T Broughton (7)
C Quinn (3) B Curtis 2 3 0-5 Mythical (13) Simon Whitaker 5 9 10 P Dennis 7 Tabitha Worsley (3)
4 333 Enfranchise (9) (C) C & M Johnston 4 9 6 A Breslin (3) 4 1.30 - Dalkingstown 5 8-6 Olympe De Gouges [P](2) D Pipe 4 11 2DOUBTFUL
7 -43 Chemical Warfare [T](15) T Collier 5 10 11 J Tudor 5.00 Open NH Flat Race (GBB Race)(5)2m£2,451 2 33- Piecederesistance (J135) (BF) M Hammond 4 9 12 5 3-9 Approachability (15) (C) C & M Johnston 3 8 12 2.00 - La Domaniale 137-6 Ace Time (16) J R Jenkins 8 10 6 B Godfrey (3)
B Garritty 9 2.35 - Masterdream 3.35 - Percy’s Word 6 -75 Jack The Farmer [B](29) B Lund 6 11 0 N Brennan (7)
8 -96 Geyser [P](15) F Murtagh 6 10 6 T Willmott 1 55 Ballyporeen (16) J J Lambe (Ire) 5 11 0 B Hughes J Fanning 8 3.05 - Chasamax 4.05 - Sorceress Medea 148-7 Torino [P,T](42) Oliver Greenall & Josh Guerriero 4 10 2
3 301 El Picador (14) (D) K Dalgleish 6 9 11 C Rodriguez 5 6 125 Haunted Dream (35) (D) (BF) E Dunlop 3 8 9 B Curtis 3 4.35 - Noahthirtytwored Craig Nichol 7 -58 White Turf [P](27) A Ralph 7 10 10 J J Burke
9 -45 That’s Your Lottie [H,T](15) K Scott 7 10 2 B Lynn 2 Dapper Gent M Barnes 5 11 0 S Mulqueen 7 841 Bamboo Bay [T](8) (D) P Kirby 4 8 4 S De Sousa 6 5.07 - Beat The Heat
4 436 Restorer [P](15) (D) I Williams 10 9 10 Harry Davies (5) 7 8 3/1 Unplugged (13) (C) M & D Easterby 6 8 2 Joanna Mason 1 153-P Hoochygoochyman (35) N Lampard 6 10 2 C Ring (3) 8 6-2 Leopolds Rock (13) (BF) P Kirby 6 10 8 T Dowson
S.P. f’cast: 9-4 Jack Yeats, 3-1 Lady Babs, 5-1 Major Snugfit, 3 4-0 Fenna’s Loss (34) M Walford 5 11 0 Sean Quinlan S.P. f’cast: 11-4 Fishable, 4-1 Unplugged, 5-1 Haunted Dream,
13-2 Chemical Warfare, 10-1 Archive, 12-1 Across The Channel, 5 037 Bollin Margaret (9) (D) T Easterby 5 9 5 S B Kirrane (3) 4 6-1 Enfranchise, Bamboo Bay, 8-1 Cardano, 10-1 Others. S.P. f’cast: 4-1 Millbank Flyer, 9-2 No Worries, 5-1 9 P8- Maykir (F11) J R Jenkins 6 10 2 K Brogan
16-1 Strike Of Lighting, That’s Your Lottie, 25-1 Geyser. 4 2 Gone In Sixty (32) A Hales 5 11 0 H Bannister Masterdream, 15-2 Rebel Royal, 8-1 Others.
6 766 Highwaygrey (17) (CD)(D) T Easterby 6 9 3D Allan 8 1096- Bryanwood [P](F15) B J Llewellyn 4 10 2 C Ring (3)
5 5 I’m Dougal Rocks (40) M Hammond 5 11 0
2.45 Handicap Hurdle(4)2m4f£4,847 Emma Smith-Chaston (5) 7 620 Taj Alola [P](15) K R Burke 3 9 0 C Lee 10 Going: Good TV: Sky Sports Racing 3.05 Handicap Hurdle(4)2m£4,684 S.P. f’cast: 9-4 Noahthirtytwored, 5-2 Leopolds Rock, 5-1
Castle Quarter, 6-1 Stumps Or Slips, 16-1 Others.
1 2-6 Treasured Company [P](21) Sue Smith 6 12 0 6 0-8 Medicine Wheel (27) N Mechie 6 11 0 H Brooke 8 756 Visibility (8) S Dixon 5 8 9 J Duern (3) 3 1.30 Handicap Chase(5)2m7f£3,513 1 6-6 Persia (16) (D) Jonjo O’Neill 5 12 0 Jonjo O’Neill Jr
T Willmott (3) 2 -71 Chasamax (22) (CD)(D) N Henderson 7 11 11
7 29- Star Vantage [H](225) G Bewley 5 11 0 C O’Farrell 9 553 Dungar Glory [T](25) A Keatley 3 8 6 S De Sousa 6 6.15 3YO Mile Handicap(4)3YO1m£12,366 1 -22 Dalkingstown [P,T](34) (C) (BF) P Bowen 8 12 0 5.07 Novices’ Handicap Hurdle (Div 2)(5)2m£3,730
2 0/2 Melburnian [T](15) R Menzies 7 11 10 N Moscrop S Bowen N De Boinville
3 -12 Well Educated (20) (C) G Bewley 6 11 8J Bewley (3) 8 Emily Wade T Collier 5 10 7 Jack Hogan (7) 10521 Mackenzie Rose (16) (D) C & M Johnston 3 8 5 3 -54 Courtandbould [B](27) (D) F O’Brien 8 11 11 P Brennan 1 2-6 Chess Player (21) B Pauling 7 12 0 K Woods
4 -42 Barney Stinson [P](15) A Nicol 6 11 7 B Hughes F Norton 11 2 P-5 Townshend [T](31) N Twiston-Davies 11 12 0 J Neild (7) 4 F-6 Jamacho (29) (CD)(D) C Longsdon 8 11 9 Paul O’Brien
5 4-5 Fox’s Socks (21) (D) A Hales 7 11 0 H Bannister 9 Ile De Memoires M Barnes 6 10 7 N Moscrop 1 243 Bullet Force [B](8) K R Burke 9 12 C Lee 5 3 6/P Frankie Rapper (23) (CD) Andrew Martin 10 12 0 5 P6- Sid Hoodie [P,T](196) (D) A Hales 8 11 5 K Woods 2 371 Beat The Heat [P](11) J Boyle 5 11 11 Sean Houlihan
S.P. f’cast: 2-1 Melburnian, 9-4 Barney Stinson, 4-1 Well 116-5 Freddy Robinson [P](13) B Ellison 3 8 2 C Hardie 1 6 3-8 Pillar Of Steel [P](36) (CD)(D) J Spearing 7 11 4
Educated, 6-1 Treasured Company, 7-1 Fox’s Socks. 10 Little Mariella M Sowersby 5 10 7 C Bewley 2 521 Exminster [P](29) (D) E Bethell 9 11P J McDonald 8 Mr J Martin (7) 3 P-0 Ensel Du Perche (44) Mrs Stella Barclay 8 11 7
S.P. f’cast: 3-1 Mackenzie Rose, 4-1 Love Is Golden, 9-2 El 4 1-2 Port O’clock [P,T](42) D Pipe 7 11 9 T Scudamore Jamie Moore Tabitha Worsley (3)
11 Rocco Molly G Bewley 5 10 7 C Rabbitt (7) Picador, 8-1 Highwaygrey, 10-1 Dungar Glory, Others. 3 -14 Million Thanks (22) (D) K Ryan 9 10 K Stott 4 5 -45 Trumps Benefit [B,T](28) (C) R Potter 9 11 0B Poste 7 213 Isaac Wonder (28) (D) P York 7 11 2 Mr P York (5)
6 8-3 Regaby [P,T](32) I Williams 7 10 13 S Twiston-Davies 8 3-4 Cadeau D’Or (32) D Pipe 5 11 1 T Scudamore
12 It’s Maisy Sue Smith 4 10 2 T Willmott (3) 4 413 Tarbaan [P,T](15) (D) Miss A Murphy 9 9 S De Sousa 7 S.P. f’cast: 9-4 Port O’clock, 5-2 Dalkingstown, 4-1 Trumps 9 -42 Inn The Bull (27) (CD)(D) A Ralph 9 10 13 J J Burke 4 -61 Windy Cove [H](25) (D) M Keighley 5 11 6 S Bowen
Benefit, 5-1 Regaby, 8-1 Townshend, 16-1 Frankie Rapper. 1087- Solstalla [P](211) (CD)(D) D Weston 10 10 10
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Sport

Two tribes go to war: Wolff versus Horner As giddy and euphoric as
Verstappen’s triumph was, Horner was
WOLFF ON HORNER privately worried about whether Red
Bull could sustain their momentum
‘Christian is a bit of a through one of the most dramatic
windbag who wants revamps of F1’s regulations in the past
40 years. They were the last of all the
to be on camera.’ teams to focus on developing this
season’s radically redesigned car but
‘[Our arguments] here, ahead of the Canadian Grand
started as Olympic Prix, they find themselves at the
boxing, went to pro summit in both the drivers’ and
constructors’ standings for the first
boxing, and it’s time since 2013.
now MMA.’
“If you had said, eight races in, that
‘Christian is a bit like we would have won six of them and be
a Jack Russell leading both championships, I don’t
think I would have ever believed you,”
Terrier who likes to Horner reflects. “Ferrari moved on to
snap at your heels.’ these regulations very early.”

HORNER ON WOLFF Mercedes were talking up their
change, too. That was always a concern
‘I don’t need to go to for us, that we had put too much
dinner with Toto or weight on last year. Were we going to
anything like that.’ start on the back foot? We relied on
very creative thinking and pure hard
‘We are very different work. It has been a phenomenal
on this side. I don’t turnaround.”
live in tax exile
Monaco, running a A critical figure in this success is
chief designer Adrian Newey, whom
team from a distance. Domenicali, F1’s chief executive, has
I am practical.’ heralded as the last true “genius” in the
sport. A brilliant technical mind who
Horner: Wolff feud is the worst in 17 years continues to draw his visions with a
standard pencil, Newey has helped
Formula One By Oliver Brown CHIEF SPORTS WRITER in Montreal year it bubbled over into a lot of clubs have started to crop up – “the “Part of my job is to protect the team, create a Red Bull car that not only has a
off-track politicking, and other things Hornettes”, one is called. “That’s the protect the drivers,” he says. clear advantage in race pace but that
hRed Bull chief says he heads down and do the best job that we in the background. It’s a lot less Netflix phenomenon for you,” he grins. “Sometimes that means I’ll position shows no sign of the porpoising
has tried to stay calm while could,” Horner says. “But you could personal now.” things in such a way to relieve that difficulties plaguing Mercedes. “Adrian
Mercedes rival has blown see that it boiled over in the garage Some regard Horner as excessively pressure from them. That’s what I see plays a key role,” Horner
his top in dramatic style next door on a few occasions. That’s Not that Horner has lost any of his publicity-hungry. Wolff, weary at my role as being.” acknowledges. “But the collective
something I haven’t seen against own cult of personality. Whether being provoked, once snapped: “It’s effort has been enormous.”
C hristian Horner pauses for a few another competitor. I’ve raced against through his acerbic broadsides, his easy to be punchy when you’re on top He was seldom so vocal as during
seconds when asked if Red Bull’s Ross Brawn, Stefano Domenicali, Ron marriage to a former Spice Girl, or his of the timesheets. You should be a little last December’s astonishing climax at Through it all, Verstappen has
feud with Mercedes ever Dennis, Flavio Briatore, and I never, character development on Formula 1: more modest, I think.” Where a figure Yas Marina, calling up then race driven with ominous authority,
became, in his view, too personal. His ever saw that kind of reaction.” Drive to Survive, the wildly successful such as Binotto is content with director Michael Masi to ask why the delivering the type of lights-to-flag
own antagonism with Toto Wolff series that has heightened his profile in remaining an inscrutable presence on lapped cars between Hamilton and victories that used to be Hamilton’s
reached such extremes last season that Today, a relative peace prevails in North America, he seldom wants for the pit wall, Horner is invariably front Verstappen could not be moved out of stock in trade. While the Dutchman
the Austrian castigated him as a his corner of the Montreal paddock, attention. Indeed, several Horner fan and centre pressing his team’s case. the way after Nicolas Latifi’s fateful initially claimed that anything beyond
“windbag who just wants to be on which lines the shore of the city’s crash. It was an intervention that the staggering scenes in Abu Dhabi
camera”. Olympic rowing lake on Ile Notre- No 1 driver: Max worked wonders: the cars were duly would be a bonus, there is no
Dame. There is unlikely to be any Verstappen leaves allowed to unlap themselves, leaving mistaking his desire to cement his
While Horner is fond of stoking slanging match here between Horner his Red Bull after Verstappen in prime position to sweep place in the pantheon with multiple
mischief himself, he describes the and Wolff, simply because Mercedes, achieving pole past Hamilton on fresher tyres. And titles. “Having that world
emotional responses of his arch- already 138 points behind Red Bull position in Montreal yet, so controversial was the decision championship has been a weight off
nemesis – encapsulated by Wolff ’s after eight races, have disappeared for the Canadian and so fierce Mercedes’ outrage, Masi his shoulders,” Horner says.
molten rage as Max Verstappen from the championship equation. Grand Prix ended up losing his job, an outcome for
snatched the world title from Lewis Instead, Horner’s greatest battle this which Horner clearly feels sympathy. “But it has also ignited even more
Hamilton on the final lap in Abu Dhabi season is with Ferrari’s Mattia Binotto, determination. He has the benefit of
– as unlike any he has seen in his 17 a bouffant technocrat who studiously “There’s no substitute for experience and of dealing with
years as a Formula One team principal. avoids public confrontation. experience sometimes,” he says. big-pressure moments. He’s just a very
“Michael was an experienced guy, and hungry driver. Winning is like an
“To be honest with you, I just tried Pressed on how this rivalry differs, he was in a difficult position because addiction. Once you’ve experienced it,
to stay true to our values, to keep our he acknowledges: “It has been there was so much weight on his you don’t want to let it go.”
contained to being on track, which is shoulders. With more support, life
healthy. It’s the way it should be. Last could have been a lot easier for him.” Sergio Perez, who has just signed a
two-year contract extension as
Verstappen’s team-mate, can be in
little doubt as to his casting as the No 2
driver. Eyebrows were raised in Baku
last weekend when Horner told the
pair of them: “No fighting.” His
instruction sounded suspiciously like
team orders, although he insists he was
merely trying to avoid a repeat of Red
Bull’s nightmare at the same circuit in
2018, when Verstappen and Daniel
Ricciardo crashed into each other.

“I wouldn’t say it was a team order.
There was a clear pace offset between
the two of them, so it made no sense
for either driver to be banging wheels
with one another and risking a
potential 1-2. One mistake there and
you’re in a concrete barrier. It wasn’t,
‘Give up the position.’ It was, ‘Don’t put
him in a wall.’”

Horner wishes that more grace had
been shown by Mercedes for
Verstappen’s achievement six months
ago, that at least one of their team had
turned up at the Abu Dhabi podium to
congratulate him. But he is adamant, in
an increasingly dominant season for
his star driver, that a page has been
turned. “Life’s too short to bear
grudges or to look back,” he says. “The
trophy’s in the cabinet. It’s about
keeping it there now.”

Alonso rolls back the years in the rain

By Oliver Brown 1 2

hSpaniard second on grid Max Fernando
after qualifying heroics Alonso
Verstappen Alpine
hVerstappen to start on 1:21.944
pole for Canadian GP Red Bull
1min
Six weeks shy of his 41st birthday, Fer- 21.299sec
nando Alonso offered a compelling
exhibition of his ageless craft here in the 3 Carlos Sainz Jr Ferrari 1:22.096
Montreal spray, with an extraordinary 4 Lewis Hamilton
final qualifying lap sealing his first 5 Kevin Magnussen Mercedes 1:22.891
front-row appearance on a Formula One 6 Mick Schumacher
grid for a decade. 7 Esteban Ocon Haas 1:22.960
8 George Russell
The Spaniard has already tried retir- 9 Daniel Ricciardo Haas 1:23.356
ing from the sport once, proving his 10 Guanyu Zhou
versatile talents everywhere from the 11 Valtteri Bottas Alpine 1:23.529
Dakar Rally to the Indianapolis 500, but 12 Alexander Albon
it is on motorsport’s grandest stage that 13 Sergio Perez Mercedes 1:23.557
his heart resides. No sooner had he 14 Lando Norris
delivered this flourish than he was 15 Charles Leclerc McLaren 1:23.749
promising to sweep past pole-sitter Max 16 Pierre Gasly
Verstappen into the first corner, declar- 17 Sebastian Vettel Alfa Romeo 1:24.030
ing: “Maximum attack.” 18 Lance Stroll
19 Nicholas Latifi Alfa Romeo 1:26.788
Verstappen looked amazed to see 20 Yuki Tsunoda
Alonso beside him at the end, having Williams 1:26.858
been just three years old when the vet-
eran made his F1 debut in a Minardi. Red Bull 1:33.127

Truly, Alonso’s longevity remains a McLaren No time set
wonder of the sport. Take the fact that
he conducted his on-track interview Ferrari No time set
with Jacques Villeneuve, son of Gilles,
after whom this circuit is named. But AlphaTauri 1:34.492
where the Canadian, alongside whom
he raced throughout the early 2000s, Aston Martin 1:34.512
retired 16 years ago, Alonso is still test-
ing his abilities at the highest level. Aston Martin 1:35.532

He has always insisted, since return- Williams 1:35.660
ing to F1 with Alpine last year, that his
gifts are undimmed. So it proved here AlphaTauri 1:36.575
throughout a rain-affected qualifying
session, as he outqualified his younger Head to head: prospect. While Alonso conceded that from Lewis Hamilton qualifying in to get my body right. On pure pace in
team-mate Esteban Ocon by over 1½ Fernando Alonso the Dutchman was “in a different fourth. “Yes, fourth has never felt so the dry, we’re still a long way off, but to
seconds. He was plainly not in the mood (right) and Max league”, with Verstappen looking as good,” he said, having for once stolen a get top four in qualifying in those con-
for a sentimental discussion about how Verstappen will lock ditions is awesome. It feels very similar
it felt to be back at the sharp end of the horns today at the invincible in the wet as he did in drying march on George Russell. In a surprise to my first qualifying in Australia 2007
grid. “It’s OK,” he shrugged. “The goal is front of the grid conditions by the end, he is a master of move, Russell decided to take on the in terms of excitement.”
to lead the race after turn one.” overtaking whenever he has the oppor- third part of qualifying on slicks even as
tunity to pounce. However, Toto Wolff, Mercedes’s
A furious first-lap duel between Ver- parts of the track were bone-dry. “I’m team principal, was frustrated by the
stappen and Alonso is a mouthwatering Verstappen will be focused solely on not here to finish fourth or fifth,” he ongoing row in F1 over porpoising,
the task of resisting the old stager said. “We needed to try things.” angrily denying that any undue pres-
sure had been brought to bear on the
swarming in his rear-view mirrors. Hamilton, celebrating his highest FIA – as Christian Horner, his opposite
Leading the drivers’ title race by 21
points from Sergio Perez, he has the grid place all year, said: “I can’t tell you number at Red Bull, has suggested – to
how happy I am. Angela [Cullen, his change the rules. “This situation has
chance to put further daylight between physiotherapist] and I had the biggest clearly gone too far,” he said. “Team
himself and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc,
who has been relegated to the back of hug at the back of the garage because principals trying to play political games
the grid after replacing several of his we’ve both been working so hard.” is disingenuous. It’s a fault in Formula
One at the moment, it’s a design issue
power unit’s components. Having visibly suffered with back that needs to be solved. But with little
For Mercedes, working out how to pain in Azerbaijan last weekend, due to manipulations in the background, Chi-
nese whispers, it’s a bit difficult.”
draw some semblance of competitive- Mercedes’s porpoising issues, he said:
ness from their “porpoising” car, there “This past week was a real challenge
and I’m so grateful to have her with me
was much-needed encouragement
every day to work through the pain and

The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 19 June 2022 ** 11

Sport

Exclusive interview ‘I’ll come out of retirement
for £500m... otherwise I’m so over boxing’

By Gareth A Davies ‘If I do come
BOXING CORRESPONDENT back it will
be a sad
hUndefeated heavyweight day for me
champion Tyson Fury says and it will
it will take break-the-bank be that I’ve
sum for him to fight again let money
overcome
I t has been the burning issue in end a sensational career. Wembley, the Saudi Arabia in August, with the Nor will telling his story to the The rise, fall and rise of Fury my
boxing since Tyson Fury knocked highest crowd ever recorded for any official announcement imminent. public, and to adoring fans in his Timeline of champion’s battles morality’
out Dillian Whyte in April then [boxing] event [there]. It was Joshua aims to claim back the three forthcoming tour. The man – and the
immediately hung up his gloves: is he unbelievable to go out with a bang like heavyweight belts he lost to the fighter – gets something special from it. Nov 2015 Becomes hope I die every day” Belter: Tyson Fury
really retired? that, the ring walk was epic, Ukrainian in London last September. world heavyweight in magazine interview celebrates after
everything about it was fantastic – the “I was with Ed Sheeran the other champion with shock detailing depression, winning his final
The good news for those wanting to boxing lesson, the knockout, just But Fury, while admitting that one night and he was telling me he did 700 victory over Wladimir drug addiction and fight against Dillian
see modern boxing’s most compelling everything fell into place and the stars punch can change everything in and something tour dates, which is Klitschko. alcoholism. Balloons Whyte at Wembley
fighter return to the ring is that he aligned again. heavyweight boxing, does not believe amazing, and he gets to go around the Dec 2015 Nominated to 28st during break in April; (left) all set
today names his price to Telegraph Joshua will win. “I just think Usyk’s too world and meet millions of different for BBC Sports from the ring. for his touring show
Sport. The bad news? “£500million,” “I’ve had a couple of months to good of a boxer for AJ and I don’t think people in all these different countries. Personality of the Feb 2020 Regains Wladimir Klitschko when I told
he says. “So if somebody wants to pay reflect on it, I just think what a AJ’s got the ability to pressurise him They’ve all got the same common goal, Year but 140,000 heavyweight title in everyone. Then they didn’t believe I
that, I’m sure there are people out wonderful career I’ve had, the ups and for 12 rounds and drag him into a dog they all love music, but with me people people sign a petition first Deontay Wilder was going to lose 10st and regain the
there with a lot more than that, then downs, the highs and lows, the fight and knock him out,” he says. “He’s can like music, they can like boxing, against inclusion due rematch, having world heavyweight championship or
I’ll return. But until that day, kaput, too easily happy to come second they might have struggles their own to historic sexist and drawn in the initial that I would stand and bang with
I’m out. And if someone wants to comebacks, the retirements, the position, and if you’re willingly settling self, so it’s very good for me to give homophobic remarks. fight in 2018. Deontay Wilder,” Fury laughs. “I’ve
waste half a billion, I suppose my coming back from all the problems, for second, say no more.” back a little bit to people and it gets me June 2016 Charged April 2022 Retains travelled a long way. It’s night and day,
morality will be tested.” on the road and keeps me busy and by UK Anti-Doping title against Dillian [the] differences from now and then.”
it’s all life experience, and Retired he may be, but Fury is still gives me a goal and something to focus over a historic failed Whyte and retires as If Fury never comes back to
Fury, then, is adamant – even now, after boxing I’ve got plenty training twice a day. “I’ve been in the on.” drugs test. Eventually only second unbeaten prizefighting, he reckons his place in
two months on from that night in front of life yet at 33.” gym since 2018, I’ve not stopped. accept a backdated heavyweight history is secure. “I’m contented,
of 94,000 spectators at Wembley, Many believe, though, You’ve got to train the brain, and Life has come full circle for Fury, two-year ban. champion after Rocky very, very happy with my career and
when his stance may have started to that Fury could be you’ve got to train the body. I call it once overweight and stuck in his head Oct 2016 Says “I Marciano. sitting on top of the pile of the elite
soften. Unlike many boxing tempted back one more physical, mental, and emotional with nowhere to go. “It seems a far cry members-only club [with Marciano]
retirements, he says, there will be no time if his British rival fitness. You’ve got to train all of those from where I am today, nobody and no one can ever take that from me,
return. And for good reason too. Anthony Joshua things, your body, your mind, your believed, like they say, but God did. ever. People might try to emulate it,
defeats his nemesis, emotions. It won’t stop.” Nobody believed I was going to beat there might be a couple of members in
“Two people in history retired as Oleksandr Usyk, in another 100 years, but I would openly
undefeated heavyweight champions of welcome these guys into my club. I’m
the world, me and Rocky Marciano. It’s the only living member of my club.”
an exclusive club,” he says. “If I do Yet there is still the sense that in
come back it’ll be a sad day for me and time, the Gypsy King will be back.
it will be that I’ve let money overcome Tyson Fury’s Fury Fest runs from
my morality, because I put June 23-Oct 1
achievements before money. But if
someone wants to put half a billion on
the table, I will test that morality for
sure.”

Fury has been busy. Plans are in
place for a speaking tour around the
UK, followed by a global sojourn on
stage, and a third book delving into his
mindset. There is even a record deal in
the offing.

It is a whole new world for the
“Traveller from Morecambe” who, just
five years ago, was 27st, depressed and
contemplating taking his own life.
Now he is mates with Ed Sheeran.

“I wanted to retire after the trilogy
fight with Deontay Wilder [last
October] but I owed one more fight to
the fans in England and I did that and a
promise is a promise,” says Fury.

“The warrior in me has brought me
to every moment in my life; off the
canvas, trilogies, conquering America,
coming back, doing everything I’ve
done, winning every belt there is in
boxing, three times The Ring magazine
[title holder]. I won everything, so a
warrior can do what a warrior wants to
do.

“But the actual man is done with
fighting. Boxing – and professional
fighting – I am so over it. I’ve got out of
it, faculties in order, totally
unscathed, successful, famous;
I’ve done everything that was
asked of me, defeated every
opponent I’ve ever faced, and
to be able to have a life after
that – isn’t that amazing and
a beautiful thing?”

Looking back on the
night at Wembley Stadium,
Fury says: “Yeah, it was an
absolutely amazing,
fantastic, unbelievable
night. What a way to

McEnroe: Serena up with Jordan Title in sight: Matteo Berrettini on his way
as one of all-time sporting greats
to a straight-sets victory in the semi-final
Tennis By Tom Morgan and Simon Briggs
wrapped up the first set. Van de Zands-
John McEnroe says Serena Williams isn’t right so I’ll see you next time.” Jabeur said. She added she had “no Love in air at Queen’s chulp’s mood did not improve as a rain
ranks alongside Michael Jordan in the The 2014 Wimbledon finalist Eugenie expectations’’ of her first grass tourna- for holder Berrettini delay arrived midway through the sec-
all-time sporting greats, as she prepares ment of the season and paid tribute to ond set with him facing a break point,
for her potential Wimbledon swansong Bouchard has also withdrawn over the Tunisian fans. “Everywhere I go By Andy Sims the Dutchman, also 26, arguing in vain
aged 40. issues relating to the tournament not they’re always here, they’re chanting all that the game should not have started as
carrying ranking points following its the time, it’s amazing,’’ she said. Matteo Berrettini moved one step closer with Murray, Roger Federer and Novak it was already raining.
Having been awarded a wild card to ban on Russian and Belarusian players. to retaining his Queen’s Club crown and
compete for a record 24th major title, Jabeur will play her fourth final in a Djokovic. Almost inevitably upon the resump-
Williams is in practice ahead of her dou- Coco Gauff ’s best run yet in a grass- season where she has reached a career- received a marriage proposal into the “I didn’t know that,” he said. “It feels tion he lost the point, sending a fore-
bles warm-up appearance with world court tournament came to an end when high ranking of fourth in the world and bargain following a straight-sets win hand long and shrugging in
No 4 Ons Jabeur at Eastbourne. the 18-year-old American lost to Jabeur became the first African and first Arab over Botic van de Zandschulp. nice. Obviously, I can’t compare myself exasperation as the match slipped away.
7-6, 6-2 in the semi-finals of the Berlin player to win a WTA 1000 event at last to those three players, they made his-
Williams last played a competitive Open yesterday. month’s Madrid Open. Big-serving Berrettini rolled over the tory in our sport, but I’m trying to learn Berrettini added: “It feels unbeliev-
match on Centre Court at last year’s from them and hopefully one day I’m able, I’m really happy, today was a really
tournament, when she was forced to Cheered on by fans waving Tunisian The tournament in Berlin is her first world No 29 from the Netherlands 6-4, tough match. It was windy again today
retire with a hamstring problem. Now, flags amid a heatwave in Berlin, Jabeur since a surprise first-round loss at the 6-3 in 90 minutes to reach the final of going to beat them.” but I think I played my best match of the
ahead of what could be her last appear- recovered from 3-1 down in the first set French Open. the Cinch Championships. On this form, Berrettini will be a week and I’m really looking forward to
ance at the All England Club, McEnroe and dominated the second to set up a the final. I guess this is the UK. Yester-
has spoken in glowing terms about a final against Belinda Bencic today. Next week, Jabeur will head to East- The Italian was then propositioned major threat at SW19 once again. The day felt like Italy, today is more London
player he once said would only feature bourne, where she will team up with by an admirer in the stands and said, weather. But we have to adjust to every-
“You have to be this good to beat Serena in the doubles. smiling: “Let me think about it.” 26-year-old from Rome dropped his thing. I was ready when I had to be
as “like 700” in men’s tennis. Coco, you know. She’s a great player,” serve for only the fourth time this week ready.”
“I believe it’s all around the world, Gauff ’s run in Berlin was her best yet Berrettini, runner-up at Wimbledon as Van de Zandschulp hauled back an
Last dance: Serena Williams in practice on grass, a surface on which she had not early break to trail 5-4. Daniil Medvedev beat Oscar Otte 7-6,
but certainly in America, she’s up there before her potential swansong at SW19 previously reached any quarter-finals. last year, beat Andy Murray to claim a 6-3 to advance to the final of the Halle
with like Michael Jordan and the all- third grass-court title in Stuttgart last But the underdog, who at one point Open, a week after he was runner-up at
Bencic is back in the Berlin final for week. He has won his past eight voiced his frustration at the noise com- ’s-Hertogenbosch. Otte had set point at
time great athletes icons,” said the BBC the second straight year in her quest for ing from the chattering classes in front 5-3 in the first set, but Medvedev broke
pundit. McEnroe had said before Wil- a first grass-court title in seven years matches on grass and has now become of the clubhouse, was undone by a pair back before winning the tie-break. The
liams confirmed her appearance that after a hard-fought win over Maria only the fourth man to reach four con- 26-year-old – who cannot play at Wim-
there was “a reasonable chance” she Sakkari. secutive finals on the surface, along of Berrettini volleys as the second seed bledon because of the ban on Russian
would feature at Wimbledon given her and Belarusian players – will now face
The 25-year-old Swiss needed more Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz, who beat
heartache last year. “To see what hap- than three hours in the heat to beat sec- Nick Kyrgios 4-6, 7-6, 7-6 yesterday.
pened last year, you sort of hate to see ond-seeded Sakkari 6-7, 6-4, 6-4 in their
someone like Serena go out like that,” semi-final. Wimbledon starts a week tomorrow
he said. and its decision to impose the ban over
Bencic had set point in the first-set Russia’s invasion of Ukraine broke with
One absentee at Wimbledon will be tie-break before her Greek opponent the other grand slams and the men’s and
Naomi Osaka, however, as she con- won the next three points to take the women’s tours, which will controver-
firmed yesterday that an Achilles injury set. sially not award ranking points for
will rule her out. The 24-year-old Japa- Wimbledon.
nese has not played since a first-round The second set and decider were also
closely contested, with Sakkari saving Medvedev’s win over Otte left him
exit at the French Open and had already four set points in the second and two with a record of 6-1 on grass this season,
said her Wimbledon participation was match points in the third before Bencic with the only loss a shock upset to then-
in doubt due to the tournament’s lack of broke through. 205th-ranked Tim van Rijthoven at last
ranking points this year. She had since week’s ’s-Hertogenbosch final in the
John McEnroe is part of the BBC’s Wim- Netherlands.
posted footage of herself on social bledon 2022 line-up across TV, radio and
media undergoing rehab on her injury, online from Monday, June 27. The decision on ranking points at
and yesterday wrote: “My Achilles still Wimbledon will work in Medvedev’s
favour, however, because he reached
only the fourth round last year so has
fewer points expiring than tournament
winner Djokovic.

12 *** Sunday 19 June 2022 The Sunday Telegraph

Sport Racing

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Blue is the colour: The Charlie Appleby-trained Naval Crown, a relatively new recruit to sprinting in the second colours of owners Godolphin, springs a 33-1 surprise under James Doyle in the Platinum Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot; (below) Doyle with the trophy

Doyle ‘out of jail’ after Platinum Jubilee upset

Royal Ascot By Marcus Armytage other order in the Jersey Stakes. But Although separated by the width of on Coroebus, beating Buick on Native had been due to go to Musselburgh a the way to test Hurricane Lane’s fitness,
RACING CORRESPONDENT at Ascot from Godolphin’s point of view, it was the course on their separate wings, it Trail, he spoke about how tough it can fortnight ago but tweaked a muscle and and on Rohaan, who was winning his
the right result in this Group One with was Naval Crown, fourth in last year’s be playing second fiddle, but here was when the owner was let down on a box second straight Wokingham, he pro-
hAppleby ‘second string’ the colt beating the gelding, consider- 2,000 Guineas, who came home mar- another big race falling his way. It’s not at Ascot yesterday, Burke said they duced the gelding 25 yards from the
scores in Group One sprint ing the potential stud earnings of ginally the better under the stands’ rail. all bad. would bring the horse and use the own- winning post.
around £12 million at play. er’s allocation of tickets instead.
hDouble for Moore to end It was Appleby’s fourth winner of the “This is what it’s all about,” he said. It was a good conclusion to the first
meeting as leading jockey Following the victory of the Chris week and second on the day after Noble “It’s tough when you’re going into the The last horse to win at the Royal proper post-pandemic Ascot which,
Waller-trained Nature Strip in Tues- Truth’s victory in the Jersey. His one last day here [without a winner]. Char- meeting on his first start was Chief apart from 2020, was the first in 70
Naval Crown concluded a cracking day’s King’s Stand, the Aussie pair of disappointment was Hurricane Lane, lie said to me this morning, ‘Why are Singer, who went on to become a great years without the Queen in attendance
Royal Ascot for Charlie Appleby and Home Affairs, a stablemate of Nature who started odds-on but was only third you looking so grumpy?’ I said, ‘I’m miler, in the 1983 Coventry. for at least some of the days, though
Godolphin when the 33-1 shot, a relative Strip, and Artorius were sent off first behind Broome in the Hardwicke. running out of bullets!’ So for this fella “the landlady” hosted a daily lunch for
newcomer to sprinting, took the high- and second favourite yesterday. Their to get us out of jail is brilliant. William Despite Tudhope’s four winners, five her racing guests at Windsor Castle.
light of the final day, the Platinum Jubi- run styles were chalk from cheese, “I didn’t think there was much said it was about time I pulled my finger for Buick and an impressive three from
lee Stakes, narrowly beating his stable though. Home Affairs led but was, between them but the one thing in out – he’s been winding me up all The weather held up until the last
companion Creative Force by a neck. choke out, clearly doing too much, Naval Crown’s favour was that he is still week – so when you get one on James McDonald, who could pretty race, the crowds held up and, while
while Artorius, who could be consid- learning about sprinting – it’s only his the board, it settles every- much walk into any job in Britain British racing may have a plethora of
Australian raider Artorius finished in ered a little unlucky, had to be ridden second start over six furlongs,” Appleby thing down a bit.” if he ever decided to leave Aus- problems, the prestige, pomp and pag-
a dead-heat for third with the American cold out the back. said before collecting his trophy accom- tralia, it was Ryan Moore who eantry of Royal Ascot is not one of them.
filly Campanelle. panied by his daughters, 10-year-old The day began took the week’s riding hon-
He was still last two out with special- twins Erin and Emily, and Edith, 8. with the Chesham ours, the ninth time he has If there was a horse of the week, it
With William Buick on Creative ist drop-out jockey Jamie Spencer on Stakes going to been leading jockey at the was John Gosden’s Inspiral, who routed
Force, a 12-1 shot, the winner was the de board, and with 23 runners in front of “It’s a stiff six, we knew there would Karl Burke’s Hol- meeting. a vintage gathering of her sex in the
facto second string, although Appleby him, it was always going to be a tall be plenty of pace and, though I thought loway Boy under Moore has really got his Coronation Stakes and, after a pretty
confessed he did not think there was order. Though he was not badly mucked after Tuesday we might not beat the Danny Tudhope. mojo back this season and awful three days when nothing seemed
much between them. Last year, they around, a marginally smoother run Australians, if we could hang on to the Until yesterday, the was making things hap- to go right, restored Frankie Dettori to
had filled the first two places in the might have resulted in a second Austral- shirt-tails at least we’d be finishing.” colt had never seen a pen for himself yester- the winner’s podium. Nevertheless, he
ian winner of the week. racecourse before. He day. On Broome, he had will be one person who might reflect
When James Doyle, the winning his foot to the floor all that he has had better Ascots.
jockey, won the 2,000 Guineas in May

‘The Queen is at was one of them. “When you put the
her most natural colours on, a jockey grows six inches.
around horses’ The Queen is the most famous woman
in the whole wide world,” said Carson.
By Ellie Kelly
“You’ve got to be careful what you
hJockeys and trainers that Jerram-Hunnable can ride Animal lover: The Queen regularly checks on the welfare of her horses, and (below) riding her pony in Windsor Great Park in the 1930s say, because she’ll pick you up if you
describe Her Majesty’s privately in front of the Queen, as well get it wrong about a horse.
passion for the animals as updating her with regular videos. delighted in the company and the stable staff about small details of
she cares so much about “If you just slip up and say this horse
“After you ride them for her, she ownership of horses, ranging from every horse and says things like ‘does is out of the wrong mare, she will be
K atie Jerram-Hunnable is used to always comes out with a brown paper native ponies to her prize-winning he eat well because his mother was a straight on you.”
getting phone calls from the bag with chopped carrots. For as long racehorses. Racing journalist and fussy eater’.
Queen. Ever since a missive from as I have known her, she always broadcaster Brough Scott believes Hayley Turner was one of the first
Her Majesty’s stud groom, Terry hand-feeds her horse a carrot herself “I remember a picture of her as a female jockeys to ride for the Queen
Pendry, came in to ask if she could ride – it’s always carrots. It’s so loving and horses provide a welcome relief from child on a pony, and staring back at but the story goes beyond that. “My
and train show horses for the Queen, caring. After she has watched the the demanding duties of a monarch. you was a very happy little girl. Many first Royal Ascot winner, I beat hers by
the Essex-based equestrian has horse and given him a titbit, she pops years later, her horse Estimate won the a neck. She rang Michael Bell – I ride a
become a regular at Windsor Castle. back in the car and off she toodles back “All other relationships are lot of his horses – and said, ‘I was very
to the castle as one really happy lady.” Gold Cup at Royal Ascot. The photo cross to start with, but then I thought,
“She loves [horses] and follows complicated because she is the Queen,” depicts her huge pride and joy of no, very well done. Well done, Hayley’.
everything I do with them. Her passion But it’s not all feeding carrots. The says Scott. “One has to follow all sorts winning a big race. I think horses gave So, even though I beat her, she sent on
is her horses and you can see that by of rules of etiquette in her company, so her best wishes, so that was good.”
the way she is around them. She smiles Queen is renowned for a lifelong the Queen her independence.”
and enjoys every minute of it when she passion and deep knowledge of horses. it must be very hard for her to be In an interview with the Jockey Club Turner’s mother retrains and
watches them. My feeling is that it is “One day she said to me ‘he’s got super natural around all that. She appears to rehomes racehorses after they retire
her relaxation and you can see that in be at her most natural around horses ahead of the Cazoo Derby this month, and was trying to advertise her
her face.” footfall’, which you pick up from just and around the people with those several jockeys spoke about what it services. “There was one morning that
listening to the horse move on a road Her Majesty came to look around the
Jerram-Hunnable’s yard is now a and it was amazing that she horses. When she goes to the stables to meant to ride for the Queen. Five-time horses at Michael Bell’s yard.
home for some of the Queen’s most understood that. Any little problem see the horses she has bred, she asks British Champion jockey Willie Carson Afterwards, we all went into the
famous retired racehorses – notably kitchen, and my mum had just started
former National Hunt star Barbers you have with a horse, you can talk rehoming racehorses and she’d made
Shop, with whom she has had great about with her.”
success in the show ring, as well as this really tacky laminated folder that
First Receiver, who finished second at “I always get feedback from Terry she’d just given me to give to Michael
Royal Ascot two years ago in the Bell, in case he had any retired
Hampton Court Stakes. But the Queen Pendry on what she thinks and I know racehorses that needed rehoming.
does not just retire her horses, she she monitors every result,” says
actively keeps in touch and wants to Jerram-Hunnable. “She loves her “Her Majesty came in and picked it
know every detail about how they are up. I was like, ‘Oh no!’ She just started
getting on. rosettes which we send her, and is very flicking through it and she was giving
proud of any of her homebreds,
There are regular invitations for the whether they win or not she just likes no one any of her attention. When she
horses to return to Windsor Castle, so to see them enjoying their job. Barbers stood up to leave she looked at me and
said, ‘May I take this with me?’ I said,
Shop has been a great credit to RoR
[the retraining of racehorses] showing ‘Yes Ma’am,’ and ever since she has sent
people that racehorses can have great my mum two or three horses every
year.”
careers after racing and that they are
being well looked after and loved.” In her youth, the Queen would

From the age of four when she was gallop up the track at Royal Ascot
given her first pony, the Queen has * before the start of each race day,
headscarf flying, and no protective

helmet, such is her confidence around
horses. Even last year, she was still
riding her Fell pony Balmoral Fern
around Windsor Castle.

While the Queen was not able to
attend Royal Ascot last week, she may
still have allowed herself a smile at the

thought that she once used to gallop
up the track with a wild, untrammelled
joy, so rarely available to her.