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Tories threaten rebellion as Gove
says tax plan is ‘not Conservative’

Pippa Crerar
Jessica Elgot
Peter Walker

Liz Truss is struggling to win over

Conservative MPs to back her contro-

versial mini-budget, with some even

threatening all-out rebellion amid

fears they will once again become

known as the “nasty party”.

The prime minister was faced with

a rising drumbeat of discontent that

was overshadowing the Tory confer-

ence in Birmingham last night after

she insisted she would stand by her

plans to cut the top rate of income

tax and ram through spending cuts.

The former cabinet minister

Michael Gove launched a broadside

at Truss’s economic plans, saying it

was “not Conservative” to fund tax

cuts from borrowing or trimming the

welfare budget, and warning that she

had to change course or risk her mini-

budget being voted down.

However, the chancellor, Kwasi

Kwarteng, will pledge today to “stay

the course” with a “sound, credible”

plan, which he will insist is “backed

by an iron-clad commitment” to

fiscal discipline despite the eco-

nomic turbulence unleashed by his

mini-budget.

Truss offered a sliver of remorse

for the way the mini-budget was

received after it led to a 2  ▲ The chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, and prime minister, Liz Truss, at the Conservative conference in Birmingham yesterday PHOTOGRAPH: HANNAH MCKAY/REUTERS
temporary collapse in the

Lula hopeful of victory was heading for victory over the far- Survey shows most young
in Brazilian election people fear for the future
right incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro.

“We want no more hatred, no more

quarrelling, we want a country that

lives in peace,” the 76-year-old told

reporters in São Bernardo do Campo,

Tom Phillips the city where he began his political Amelia Hill future, having lived through a pan-
São Paulo
career as a trade unionist in the 1970s. More than a third of young people feel demic only to face a cost-of-living
their life is spiralling out of control,
Polls on the eve of the election according to findings released to the crisis. One in three think their job
Guardian before a nationwide cam-
suggested Lula – who governed from paign that highlights Covid’s impact prospects will never recover from
on the younger generation.
Brazil’s leftwing former president 2003 to 2010 – was tantalisingly close the pandemic.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva appeared More than 60% of 16- to 25-year-
on the verge of a startling political to securing the overall majority of olds surveyed for the Prince’s Trust “Young people today are 4 
comeback last night after more than Class of Covid research said they facing unique challenges
156 million Brazilians took part in the votes he needs to avoid a second- were scared about their generation’s
country’s most important election
in decades. round runoff against Bolsonaro in late

As the veteran ex-president cast October. One poll gave Lula 51% to
his vote in Brazil’s industrial heart-
lands, Lula voiced optimism that he Bolsonaro’s 37%; another gave them

50% and 36% respectively.

A Lula victory would represent

• ▲ Polls suggested Lula could get the latest in a series of tri- 20 
enough support to avoid a runoff umphs for a resurgent Latin

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News and Sport A group of he wanted “intelligent intervention-
young Tories ism”, not “trickle-down economics”.
Stadium disaster sample the
At least 125 people killed merchandise The Welsh secretary told a fringe
in crowd crush at football during the event: “A sensible Conservative gov-
match in Indonesia first day of the ernment must be very careful to make
Page 19 Conservative sure that at the other end of the equa-
party conference tion, those in greatest need are not
Journal Outside G2 in Birmingham left behind. We must remember that
Opinions and ideas it is those who are in genuine need
PHOTOGRAPH: who will also need our help as a gov-
 People who habitually ELLIOTT FRANKS ernment. We have to not shirk our
voted Tory sense they responsibilities in that respect, even
are being left behind Tory MPs threaten rebellion if it does mean that for the time being
John Harris over Kwarteng’s mini-budget there has to be greater expenditure.”
Page 1
Continued from page 1 “I believe in getting value for senior Tory admitted that the “nasty The senior Tory MP Damian Green
G2 Centre pullout money for the taxpayer,” she said, party” tag – the label Theresa May said the party would lose the next
Features and arts pound, a rebuke from the Interna- promising that “excellent public applied to the Conservatives in 2002 election if it didn’t change. “It’s a
tional Monetary Fund and warnings services” would remain, but with a – was back. “Nobody is saying those political no-brainer that if we end up
Eliza Carthy interview that interest rates could be raised warning that it would be a “difficult words, but it’s basically what every- painting ourselves as the party of the
‘Folk music is sexy and again. and stormy” winter. body is thinking when they look at rich and the party of the already suc-
filthy and at the end of what we’re proposing,” they said. cessful then, funnily enough, most
the night you fall over’ The prime minister sought to After less than a month in office, people won’t vote for us and we lose,”
Page 8 quell fury over her handling of the Truss has faced criticism from The cabinet minister Robert Buck- he said.
economy but then firmly doubled many in her own party over meas- land hinted at his unease about the
Save up to 43% with down on her tax plans and refused ures including scrapping the cap on tax cuts disproportionately ben- Jake Berry, the Tory chair, angered
our limited-time to rule out public spending cuts and bankers’ bonuses and axing the 45p efiting the wealthy, saying while MPs when he said they would be
subscription offer a real-terms drop in benefits to pay tax rate in a bid to push for growth, simplifying tax bands was sensible, expected to back the tax measures
for the Guardian for them. She told the BBC’s Sunday and has been hammered in the polls. or would no longer be allowed to
and the Observer with Laura Kuenssberg programme: ‘If we paint ourselves sit as Conservatives, with at least
Page 43 “I do accept we should have laid the Tory insiders admitted concerns as the party of the 14 publicly expressing concern and
ground better, I do accept that and I that the conference hall could be half- rich, most people warnings the comments risked
Weather have learnt from that and I will make empty for her speech on Wednesday, won’t vote for us’ forcing more out into the open.
Page 29 sure that in future we do a better job with delegates leaving early because
of laying the ground.” of a train strike. As a result, Whats- Damian Green Gove said he backed moves to limit
Quick crossword App messages have been sent to local Senior Tory MP energy bills, but the fact that 35% of
Back of G2 But she added: “I do think there Tory chairs asking them to encourage additional borrowing in the fiscal
has been too much focus in politics members to stay. statement went on unfunded tax cuts
Cartoon about the optics or how things look left him “profoundly” concerned.
Journal, page 4 – as opposed to the impact they have As a large crowd of protesters
on our economy.” gathered outside the International “There are two major things that
Cryptic crossword Convention Centre yesterday, one are problematic with the fiscal event,”
Back of Journal he said. “The first is the sheer risk of
using borrowed money to fund tax
cuts. That is not Conservative. The
second thing is the decision to cut the
45p rate, and indeed at the same time
to change the law on how bankers are
paid in the City of London.

“Ultimately, at a time when people
are suffering … when you have addi-
tional billions of pounds in play, to
have a principal decision, the head-
line tax move, cutting tax for the
wealthiest, that is a display of the
wrong values.”

Pressed on whether he would vote
against the package in the Commons,
he eventually admitted: “I don’t
believe it’s right.”

Additional reporting
Aubrey Allegretti

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Moore’s ▼ Moore’s Reclining Figure: Festival, dumping ground for every freak
divisive and below, the artist working on the that can be performed by painters
‘freak’ sculpture in his studio in 1950 and sculptors?”
sculpture
expected PHOTOGRAPHS: SOTHEBY’S/GETTY IMAGES Another, writing from the Old Vic-
to top sale arage in Wetherby, said the sculpture
records ‘Leeds Art Gallery appeared to represent “a human form
have accepted it. I in an advanced stage of decomposi-
Mark Brown trust they will have it tion which has been disembowelled,
North of England correspondent decently interred’ partially decapitated and had both
feet severed”. “I read that the Leeds
It was labelled “a monstrosity” so bad Letter Art Gallery subcommittee have
that it deserved to be interred, not Yorkshire Post accepted it. I trust they will have it
displayed. But many more recognised commissioned by the Arts Council decently interred.”
it as a work of genius, Henry Moore to make a piece for the Festival of Brit-
considered it one of his finest, and ain in London. The work was seen by Those views were echoed by the
this year it is expected to break auc- some as a thrilling representation of modernism-hating painter Sir Alfred
tion records as the most expensive British defiance and resilience after Munnings, a former president of
sculpture made by a British artist. the second world war. Others were the Royal Academy, who called it a
shocked by it, suggesting Moore was “monstrosity”.
Moore’s bronze of a reclining semi- occupied by images of the horrors
abstract figure stopped people in at Nazi concentration camps or the Moore declined to get involved
their tracks when it was exhibited as aftermath of the Hiroshima nuclear in the row. “For the artist himself
a centrepiece of the Festival of Britain bomb. to enter into these controversies
in 1951. It was startling and unset- is, I think, wrong,” he said. “These
tling. Many adored it. Some hated it. There were also less lofty reac- things sort themselves out in the long
A good number were amused by it. tions, perhaps summed up by a run. If I entered into the controversies
Fougasse cartoon of Moore’s sculp- I should never get any work done.”
When it was then offered on long- ture for Punch in 1951, which was
term loan to the city of Leeds it caused captioned: “That reminds me, dear – Reclining Figure was removed
an almighty row and, in 1953, it was did you remember the sandwiches?” from display in 1956 and lent to the
vandalised with blue paint. Scottish National Gallery of Modern
A storm kicked off after Leeds city Art in Edinburgh in 1961, entering its
Moore singled it out as one of his council agreed to accept the work by collection in 1969. It remains there
most important sculptures, and the Moore – the Castleford-born son of a today.
first “in which I succeeded in mak- miner who studied at Leeds School
ing form and space sculpturally of Art – on long-term loan. The original plaster sculpture of
inseparable”. Reclining Figure is in the Tate collec-
One Yorkshire Post letter writer tion and other casts are in museums
Sotheby’s has announced that an asked: “Must Leeds always be the including the Musée National d’Art
edition of Reclining Figure: Festival Moderne in Paris.
will be sold at its flagship Novem-
ber modern art sale in New York. Sotheby’s is auctioning the only
It has an estimate of $30m-$40m one of an edition of seven that was
(£27m-£36m), the highest placed on kept by the Moore family. It was sold
a work by any British sculptor. The privately in the 1970s and its sale on
current auction record is held by 14 November will be the first time this
another edition of Reclining Figure, cast has appeared at auction.
which sold for £24.7m in 2016.
Moore recognised that the work
Moore, by then one the world’s would be a milestone in his career
most celebrated sculptors, was and worked with the BBC film-maker
John Read to document the process.

Oliver Barker, the chair of Sotheby’s
Europe, said the work was in the top
rank of 20th-century sculptures. “It
is a very innovative work, which was
completely in tune with the mood of
postwar London,” he said.

He accepted the work was not liked
by everyone but said: “All great art
often divides crowds. If you think
about [Pablo Picasso’s] Guernica, it
was very contentious when it first
came out. All great art provokes.
Since then it has just become more
and more celebrated.

“There is something very radical
about this sculpture. Often with a
sculpture there is a weak moment,
you look at it from a particular angle
and it doesn’t quite work. But with
this there is no weak moment, it is
universally fantastic.”

Theatre review Modern classic hangovers that comprise her life. overcrowding and bed-blocking all timing (switching from sprint
still distils state of the nation Melville manages to encapsulate contain immense human tragedies. to stillness with the pace of a
both the kinetic verbal highs of Every line brings big, freighted perfectly choreographed dance) to
Iphigenia in Splott of the moment. Now, Gary Owen’s one of Irvine Welsh’s trainspotters drama and we feel floored. Owen’s script – a growlingly poetic
Lyric Hammersmith, London magnificent, eviscerating play still and the stillness of Alan Bennett’s meditation and call to arms in one.
★★★★★ speaks about the sorry state of our lonely women, observing the world All its components combine to
nation but feels as if it were written with gimlet-eyed glances through become bigger than the sum of It is full of paradoxes: a
Arifa Akbar for this year, month, and moment. the net curtain, gestured at in the its parts, from Rachel O’Riordan’s monologue constrained by
luminous slats of a window blind supremely controlled directorial singularity through its form feels
This monologue was first That is partly down to timing but on Hayley Grindle’s set. peopled by an entire town. And an
performed in 2015, when its also to its artistry. Sophie Melville ▲ Sophie Melville performs the role epic tragedy captured by a white
tragedies spoke of the effects of returns to play Effie, a loud and Melville performs with such of Effie with expressive athleticism working-class woman with no hint
austerity-era Britain on the lives of lairy young woman from Cardiff expressive athleticism that it looks of Vicky Pollard-style satirising
the “little people”. It felt very much whose life is threaded through with like the theatrical equivalent of despite her scraped-back hair,
Greek tragedy. triple somersaults; we wonder snarls and street brawls. She is
where this curious story is going, eminently ordinary but exceptional
She is a natural storyteller, and how she is going to keep the in her heroism.
swaggering as she takes us through energy up. It goes in the direction
the one-night stands and three-day of the Iphigenia myth, and Everyone should see this
female sacrifice, but distils our shattering modern classic. No one
contemporary troubles within will remain unmoved.
it: the library closures, hospital
Until 22 October

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‘So proud’: ▲ Ethiopia’s A runner began running while imprisoned by Third of young
marathon Yalemzerf dressed as the Iranian regime on trumped-up people say life
runners’ Yehualaw was Sesame Street’s spying charges, ran the race with his is spiralling
personal the youngest Big Bird, and, son Aryan. out of control
triumphs women’s winner, above right, as
despite a fall a rhino, were Ashoori, who was finally released Continued from page 1
Sean Ingle during the race among 40,000 and returned to Britain in March with
Chief sports reporter people taking Nazanin Zaghari Radcliffe, admitted which threaten the futures and aspi-
PHOTOGRAPH: part in the race he was no runner, had a beer belly, rations of an entire generation if we
On a day when the capital’s streets DAVID CLIFF/AP and couldn’t even run for 10 min- don’t act,” said Jonathan Townsend,
basked in unexpected sunshine, utes when he started. But he was the charity’s UK chief executive.
more than 40,000 runners, from 18 to Kiose, who originally had no plans money for United 24, the foundation delighted to come home in 5hrs 28
89, created their own special London to run the race when their country supporting Ukraine, and finished mins. “Their education, employment
marathon memories. Some stories, was invaded in February. together in a very respectable 3hrs and key formative years have already
though, were even more extraordi- 49mins. |The event director, Hugh Brasher, suffered, leaving many feeling uncer-
nary than others. However, when Bidnenko, 35, hailed the day as showing London tain and scared about a future which
reported for military duty in Kyiv As Kiose explained: “I am so proud and Britain in its best light. appears to be spiralling out of their
At the front of the field, the 23-year- he was told he couldn’t serve on to support my country, and the control,” he said. “Despite high
old Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw, the frontline due to alkaptonuria – a British people are very warm. I am “Once again, London has proved vacancies, young people remain wor-
became the youngest ever women’s rare, progressive genetic disease that all the time crying as Russia is bomb- we have that heart and soul, the ried about future career prospects.”
winner of the race despite injuring causes pain in the joints. ing our cities and civilians. I want to colour, the vibrancy, and the inclu-
her hip and knee when tripping over a ask for help.” siveness. It is part of the journey that The research, which surveyed
speed bump six miles from the finish. So after he and his fiance ended the London Marathon has been on more than 2,000 young people
up in London – via Lviv, Warsaw There was another remarka- since 1981,” he said. across the UK, is part of a campaign
In the men’s race, Weynay Ghebre- and Naples – they decided to give ble story as Anoosheh Ashoori, the the charity is launching this week to
silasie – who was born in Eritrea but something back by running to raise British-Iranian civil engineer who Race report Sport Page 34 raise awareness of the longer-term
qualified to represent Great Britain impact of the pandemic.
after claiming asylum at the London
2012 Olympics – was the first UK Almost half of those surveyed said
athlete home in a new personal best the pandemic had made them more
time of 2:11:57. resilient, and slightly over half said
it had made them more determined
Among the thousands of run- to achieve their goals. “Young peo-
ners there were two Ukrainians, ple have shown a unique resilience
Kostiantyn Bidnenko and Viktoriya to overcome the challenges they
have faced and are more determined
than ever to achieve their goals,”
said Townsend. “But they need our
support to ensure their talents and
aspirations do not go to waste.”

There is also evidence of young
people missing developmental
milestones during the pandemic,
according to the Savanta State of the
Youth Nation report.

The report found that almost a
quarter of 16- to 19-year-olds may
have missed out on having their first
kiss because of Covid. For those aged
20 to 25, the figure was 17%. Many
also missed out on starting their first
romantic relationship, with one in
five of those aged 16 to 19 and 15%
of those aged 20 to 25 not having a
relationship when compared with the
experiences of people of the same age
before the pandemic.

Savanta, which runs the country’s
largest youth research panel, has
asked more than 1,000 young peo-
ple the same set of questions for
seven years. “The impact of those
two years of lost independence could
have far-reaching consequences,”
said Josephine Hansom, the organ-
isation’s vice-president. “There are
all sorts of key developmental mile-
stones missed that could well hold
young people back now the world has
opened up again.”

The report also found that young
people who experienced disruptions
in starting work or who had to work
online were confused about what to
expect. Before the pandemic, 68%
of young people felt work was what
they expected. Post-pandemic, the
figure fell to 49%.

The research also shows they are
less confident about performing tasks
at work. The proportion of those who
feel able to focus on one task for a
sustained period fell from 55% pre-
pandemic to 39% post-pandemic.

How lockdowns changed a
generation Page 16

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Food banks Balenciaga goes West
Plea for help as Kanye makes surprise
donations decline catwalk appearance
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The Old War
Office has been
transformed
into 85 flats and
a 120-room hotel

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The new
development’s
lavish interior.
One flat has
already sold for
more than £40m

No affordable homes
in £1.2bn luxury
development by
UK’s richest people

Rupert Neate They were given the go-ahead However, the Hindujas’ agent affordable housing, enough for 98 ahead with no affordable housing.
Wealth correspondent despite more than 4,000 families offered only a “£10m contribution” flats. The planning committee at that “Decisions like this are making the
waiting on the borough’s affordable to the affordable housing fund. At time accepted the developer’s viabil- housing crisis worse,” he said. “It’s
The UK’s two richest people were housing list, with many waiting more the time of the application in 2017, ity assessment and its conclusion that disappointing that developments of
allowed to avoid planning rules that than 10 years for a home. There were the then Conservative-run coun- the requirement for on-site afforda- such a clear commercial gain are only
should have required them to build until recently thousands more in the cil’s “viability consultant” said the ble housing could not be delivered providing such a small amount to reg-
98 affordable flats for key workers queue, but councils across the coun- suggested donation was “generous”. and therefore received a £10m cash ular Londoners. Such developments
and people on lower incomes at their try drastically cut their waiting lists in lieu payment. should come with significant support
new £1.2bn luxury development in by making it harder to remain eligible. Labour took control of Westmin- to Londoners struggling to pay rent
London. ster council for the first time at the “Looking forward, we believe it’s in our city.”
Under planning policies designed 2022 local elections in May. The coun- vital to provide affordable homes in
The Hinduja brothers, named by to help tackle the housing crisis, all cil said it could not retrospectively central London for the key workers Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja,
the Sunday Times as the wealthiest new residential developments should change the planning ruling. that do the vital jobs that make our who own a vast collection of assets
people in Britain with a £28.5bn for- be made up of at least 30% affordable city a success. We have a strong across the world, did not respond
tune, won approval in 2017 from the housing. “The applicant is provid- Labour’s Geoff Barraclough, the commitment to ensuring new devel- to requests for comment. Westmin-
then Conservative Westminster city ing no on-site affordable housing in council’s cabinet member for plan- opments comply with the council’s ster Development Services, their
council to develop the historic Old this instance stating that such provi- ning, told the Guardian: “According established planning policies.” company developing the site, also
War Office near Downing Street into sion would not be practical or viable,” to Westminster council’s own poli- declined to comment.
85 luxury flats and a 120-room five- planning documents showed. cies, the Old War Office should have The council is now trying to buy
star Raffles hotel. provided almost 8,000 sq metres of back former council flats in order The brothers bought the OWO
The council’s planning policy to increase its housing stock. The building from the Ministry of Defence
The Guardian can reveal that the states that if it is not possible to have ▲ Srichand, left, and Gopichand average cost of an ex-council two- for £350m in 2014. In promotional
OWO development – in which one affordable housing on site, develop- Hinduja are worth about £28bn bedroom flat in the borough is about material, Gopichand Hinduja is
flat has sold for more than £40m ers must provide affordable housing £500,000. That suggests the £10m quoted as saying: “The OWO is my
– should, under planning rules, con- elsewhere in the borough or make a could buy up to 20 flats. If the devel- greatest legacy to London for future
tain 8,000 sq metres of affordable payment to the council’s affordable oper had paid the expected £39.6m generations to enjoy.”
housing – enough for 98 flats. How- housing fund. it could have bought about 80 flats.
ever, the council agreed to allow Residents of the serviced apart-
the Hindujas to develop the build- The documents show the OWO Freddie Poser, the director of ments at the development, which
ing with no affordable housing after development on Whitehall has a PricedOut, a campaign group call- is due to open early next year, will
their agents claimed it would “not “7,870.75sqm shortfall in affordable ing on the government to increase be able to use an underground pool,
be economically feasible” to do so. housing” and “the policy-compliant the supply of affordable homes, said cinema, gym, three workout studios,
payment generated by the scheme is it was outrageous that the council spa and treatment room and under-
£39.6m”. had allowed the development to go ground parking.

Biggest rise in waits to see skin that patients “are worried about the More than a fifth of cancer patients a monthly average of 0.5% of people
and breast cancer specialists impact of these delays on their prog- in England waited more than two waiting more than four weeks, com-
nosis and quality of care.” weeks to see a specialist in July pared with 3.8% during the same
Carmen Aguilar García target – in July. Seventy-five per- period in 2022.
cent were suspected of having skin, “The NHS has never worked • 15–28 days • More than 28 days*
Patients with suspected skin or breast breast or lower gastrointestinal can- harder,” said Matt Sample, the health But the situation has deterio-
cancer have had the largest increase cer, a Guardian analysis has revealed. policy manager at Cancer Research 20% rated the most for patients with
in waiting times of people urgently UK, but, he added, the fact that breast or skin cancer. In 2016 0.3%
referred to a specialist, analysis of In total, 53,000 people in England patients were dealing with long waits 18% of the patients with suspected breast
NHS England data shows. waited more than two weeks to see “reflects a broader picture of some of cancer and 0.6% of those with skin
a cancer specialist – 22% of all the the worst waits for tests and treat- 15 tumours faced the longest waits. That
Almost 10,000 patients who had patients urgently referred for a can- ments on record”. figure is now more than 16 and eight
been referred by a GP to a cancer cer appointment by their GPs. 10 times higher respectively, soaring to a
specialist had to wait for more than 28 He added: “When just a matter of monthly average of 5% of the patients
days – double the maximum 14-day Minesh Patel, the head of policy weeks can be enough for some can- 5 between May and July 2022.
at Macmillan Cancer Support, said cers to progress, this is unacceptable.”
people were waiting “far too long for 4.1% In contrast, just 1.3% of those with
diagnosis or vital treatment”, adding The proportion of patients fac- suspected testicular, brain or haema-
ing the longest waits for an urgent 0 2020 2021 2022 tological tumours waited more than
investigation for cancer is seven 2019 28 days to see a specialist,a rise of one
times the rate recorded six years ago. percentage point since 2016.
Between May and July 2016 there was Source: NHS England. *after urgent referral from GP

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6 NNaatitoionnaal l
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Cop27 King to conference
miss summit
after Truss
intervention

Helena Horton

King Charles should not go to Cop27 PM’s tax cuts for wealthy were not among the wealthiest in
but send Prince William in his place, a betrayal of manifesto society. And we’ve got to stay true
an environment minister has said, pledge to level up – Gove to that tradition.”
after reports that Liz Truss inter-
vened to stop the monarch attending. Peter Walker MPs, his status in the party is likely to nation majority” that must be On BBC One’s Sunday with Laura
Jessica Elgot make him a focus for a growing back- respected, Gove said: “People wanted Kuenssberg show, directly after Truss
Buckingham Palace confirmed Aubrey Allegretti bench rebellion over Truss’s decision Brexit done, but they also wanted had been interviewed, Gove said he
that the King will not be attending to scrap the top rate of tax and the cap levelling up. They wanted a Conserv- backed moves to limit energy bills,
the international gathering in the Red Michael Gove has launched a sus- on bankers’ bonuses. ative government that was dedicated but the fact that 35% of additional
Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, despite tained broadside at Liz Truss’s to improving the lives of those who borrowing in the fiscal statement
his longstanding and passionate com- economic plans, saying it was “not Despite warnings from the party hadn’t necessarily been traditional went on unfunded tax cuts left him
mitment to environmental issues. Conservative” to fund tax cuts from chair, Jake Berry, that MPs who voted Conservative voters, and certainly “profoundly” concerned.
borrowing and marked a betrayal against the fiscal measures would
The Sunday Times reported that of the party’s one nation 2019 lose the Tory whip, so far 12 back- ‘It will be difficult “There are two major things that
the decision not to go was taken after election manifesto. benchers have said they plan to do so. to argue it’s right to are problematic with the fiscal event,”
the prime minister raised objections reduce welfare when he said. “The first is the sheer risk of
during an audience with the monarch In a frantic day of interventions, The mooted idea that the govern- we’re reducing taxes using borrowed money to fund tax
last month. the former levelling up secretary first ment would trim the welfare budget for the wealthiest’ cuts. That is not Conservative. The
told BBC One – while Truss watched to pay for such changes was incon- second thing is the decision to cut the
Mark Spencer, the new minister from the same studio – that it was ceivable, Gove said, telling Truss in Michael Gove 45p rate, and indeed at the same time
for fisheries and farming, said Prince probable he could not back the tax effect she had to change course or risk Former cabinet minister to change the law on how bankers are
William should go instead as the King cuts in parliament before embark- her mini-budget being voted down. paid in the City of London.
now has “other priorities”. ing on a string of similarly damning
fringe appearances at the Conserva- “It’s going to be very, very, very dif- “Ultimately, at a time when people
Spencer, speaking at a Conserva- tive party conference. ficult to argue that it is right to reduce are suffering … when you have addi-
tive Environment Network event at welfare when we’re also reducing tional billions of pounds in play, to
the Tory conference yesterday, said: While Gove insisted he was not taxes for the wealthiest,” Gove told have a principal decision, the head-
“I’m not in charge of the King’s diary, in contact with other Conservative one fringe event in Birmingham line tax move, cutting tax for the
luckily. He’s expressed a great deal organised by the Daily Telegraph. wealthiest, that is a display of the
of interest in the environment in the wrong values.”
past, but I think in his new role, as The 2019 manifesto was “a one
the monarch, is going to have a lot of Pressed earlier on whether he
other priorities, and I think as he said would vote against the package in the
himself he’s up for others to take up Commons, Gove eventually told Kue-
that challenge.” nssberg: “I don’t believe it’s right.”

He said he thought Prince William Gove’s intervention appears to
should take up the mantle: “I’m sure have set him on a collision course
the Prince of Wales will be a huge with Berry, who appeared to sug-
ambassador for the environment, gest rebels would face a backlash if
moving forward.” they defied the government by voting
against the chancellor’s plan.
Prince William has already taken
on some of the King’s work on the Asked on Sky’s Sophy Ridge on
environment in areas such as rain-
forests and species conservation.

Spencer’s ministerial colleague,
the levelling-up secretary, Simon
Clarke, denied claims that Truss
ordered the King to stay away from
the event in Egypt next month.

He said the decision had been
mutually agreed by the government
and the palace, telling Times Radio:
“It’s been clear this is a decision that
has been made consensually between
the King and the government.

“That is a decision that has
been made amicably, as far as I am
aware, between the palace and the
government.

“The suggestions this morning
that he was ordered to stay away are
simply not true.”

Despite not attending the event in
person, it is understood that the King
still hopes to be able to contribute to
the conference in some way.

▲ King Charles and Queen consort
go to church at Balmoral yesterday

Monday 3 October 2022 The Guardian •

Kuenssberg interview 7
PM at ease despite
growing rebellion

Liz Truss had her first lengthy ‘Supreme self-confidence’ was asked by Laura Kuenssberg.
grilling since the mini-budget Truss likely to disappoint There was an awkward pause
from Laura Kuenssberg yesterday, Tories hoping for a U-turn as Truss, looking baffled by the
after critics called her mini- question, formulated her response.
interviews with BBC local radio Pippa Crerar ▲ Having a laugh: Liz Truss appears “What do you mean by that?”
earlier in the week a “car crash”. on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
In the interview, the prime LPolitical editor Against this backdrop, a gloomy
minister appeared at ease despite iz Truss has long to rule out welfare cuts and another pall hung over the fringe events
the mounting Tory rebellion. channelled Margaret round of austerity. on the first day of conference. At
These are the key points: Thatcher – echoing one, Rachel Wolf, the co-author of
her rhetoric, her free These proposals, in particular, the 2019 Tory election manifesto,
1A defence of tax cuts, but a market instincts and are regarded as electorally predicted that Truss would
sliver of remorse about the even her clothes – but toxic – a gift to Labour, which lose the next election because
handling of the announcement as the Tory conference kicked off has consistently asked of the despite presenting herself as the
Truss said she would “stand by” in Birmingham yesterday many in government: “Whose side are they “continuity Boris” candidate she
the mini-budget, which handed her party were hoping she would on?” Despite this, Truss lacks even had junked everything he stood for.
bigger tax cuts to the wealthy. relinquish ambitions to be the the slightest hint of self-doubt that
Her only regret was how the next Iron Lady and drop her mini- she may be on the wrong track. The pollster James Johnson,
announcement was handled. She budget plans. “She has supreme self-confidence a former aide to Theresa
seemed to suggest more should – she’s brave, determined, doesn’t May, says the mini-budget
have been done to reassure the There were early glimmers of flinch,” one former cabinet minister has irretrievably broken the
markets in advance of Kwasi hope. In an article for the Sun, she says. “But that’s the generous Tories’ reputation for sound
Kwarteng’s statement, saying: “I admitted her proposals would interpretation.” management of the economy.
will make sure in future we do a cause “short term disruption” but “When economic competence
better job of laying the ground.” that she had an “iron grip” on the Others find her rigidness goes, the Conservatives lose their
country’s finances. Then she told unfathomable and fear her hubris advantage,” he says.
2A refusal to rule out public the BBC she understood public will be the party’s downfall. “She
service spending cuts concerns: “I do accept we should loves the Thatcher comparison, No 10 aides look downbeat,
During the leadership contest, have laid the ground better.” but Thatcher was ultimately a but dutifully defend the strategy.
Truss said she was “not planning pragmatist,” says one MP. “Wait and see,” one says. “The tax
public spending reductions”. She even said she wanted to cuts were just part one. She’s only
But she failed to be so definitive try to win over the “hearts and She shrugs off suggestions that announced about 20% of what
in the Kuenssberg interview. minds” of jittery Tory MPs, with she doesn’t have the electoral she wants to do. The supply-side
She twice refused to rule out she and Kwasi Kwarteng hitting mandate for a radically different reforms come next and when they
cuts, but when it was put to the phones and holding meetings economic approach. “How many see her comprehensive plan and
her that they were likely to with colleagues, and her chief of people voted for your plan?” she have the OBR [Office for Budget
happen, she snapped back “no it staff, Mark Fullbrook, trying to get Responsibility] forecasts they’ll
doesn’t” and told people to wait backbenchers on board. view it differently.”
for the medium-term growth
announcement by Kwarteng at But any hopes MPs may have had Truss already looks increasingly
the end of November. that an imminent U-turn was on the isolated. Her relationship with
cards were soon dashed when she Kwarteng, her ideological
3Kwarteng blamed for axing of reiterated her plans to cut the 45p soulmate, is strained and yesterday
45p tax rate top rate of tax and remove the cap she appeared to throw the
Tory MPs’ main criticism has on bankers’ bonuses, and refused chancellor under the bus over the
been the abolition of the 45p rate 45p tax rate cut saying: “It was a
of tax on earnings above £150,000 decision that the chancellor made.”
– proof, they say, that the
mini-budget was about helping Truss has served in Tory cabinets
the better off. Truss said the from David Cameron’s onwards.
measure was not discussed with “She’s always done what was asked
the cabinet in advance but was a of her in those roles,” one ally
decision made by the chancellor. says. “It’s her turn now.” Tory MPs
hoping that the lady is, after all, for
4Door left open to real-terms turning are set to be disappointed.
benefits cuts
▲ Michael Gove is pursued by the Another move Truss declined to Mel B Singer for services to charitable causes and Thanking Brown for her support,
media in Birmingham yesterday rule out was raising benefits by tells meeting vulnerable women. Nazeer went on to say that the prob-
less than inflation, saying it was that domestic lem was so widespread that there
PHOTOGRAPH: CHRISTOPHER THOMOND/ “something the Department for abuse must Women’s Aid is publishing research would be perpetrators in the room
THE GUARDIAN Work and Pensions secretary stay on agenda that found 40% of adults believe peo- they were speaking in, as well as
is looking at … She will make a ple who carry out domestic violence women who are experiencing abuse.
Sunday show if MPs would lose the determination on that and we will Ben Quinn against women were enabled by sex-
whip for opposing the budget, Berry announce that this autumn.” ism, compared with some 60% who The new Women’s Aid research
said: “Yes, correct. That is a decision The former Spice Girl Melanie Brown felt the opposite and regarded it – in also found there was a 15% drop in
for the chief whip, but as far as I’m 5Refusal to publish OBR’s has told an event at the Tory confer- the words of the charity’s chief – as how seriously people regarded an
concerned, yes.” forecasts before 23 November ence of her fears that the “massive “bad people doing bad things”. instance of domestic abuse, such as
The government has been forced issue of domestic abuse” will slip if a man slaps his wife, if the perpe-
One Tory MP said Berry’s com- into accepting forecasts from the down the agenda during “these times “What we have is a real gap in peo- trator apologised afterwards.
ments risked “breaking the dam” Office for Budget Responsibility. of absolute economic chaos”. ple’s understanding of how prevalent
and forcing more MPs out into the Mel Stride, a Tory MP and chair this crime is,” said Farah Nazeer, the Brown told the fringe event at
open against the abolition of the 45p of the Treasury select committee, The singer, known to millions as chief executive of Women’s Aid. the Tory party conference in Bir-
top rate of tax or against the wider has demanded them this month. Mel B or “Scary Spice”, was speak- mingham: “As a Spice Girl I am the
idea of unfunded borrowing to pay But Truss said they would be held ing at a meeting organised by the “We are not ready yet as a society embodiment of girl power, and for
for tax cuts. back until Kwarteng made his Sun and Women’s Aid, which she to support women and that is the 10 years I was completely powerless.”
growth announcement. became a patron of in 2018 after leav- fundamental question. This is due
Another called it “very provoca- ing what she described as an abusive to sexism and misogyny that under- She added: “I’m probably the last
tive”, saying it “gives colleagues an 6Easy about chancellor’s relationship. pins all those systems,” she said, person you would expect at a Tory
excuse to move in numbers, espe- drinks with hedge fund echoing Brown’s criticism of a range conference. I can’t quite believe I’m
cially those in marginal seats”. managers after mini-budget “We need to reform everything, of institutions. here myself.”
After the Sunday Times reported the courts, the police, even GPs,
At least 14 MPs have broken cover that Kwarteng attended a even people in your work environ- The former
to criticise the plans, though many champagne reception at the home ment, HR. You need to have a safe Spice Girl
more are expressing private scepti- of a Conservative donor hours place where you can go without any Melanie
cism. MPs may not get an opportunity after delivering his mini-budget, shame and know the warning signs,” Brown (centre)
to test support for the controversial Truss seemed relaxed. “He meets said Brown, who was made an MBE arrives at the
measures for many months with No business people all the time,” she conference
10 understood to be planning a vote said. “I don’t manage his diary.” yesterday to
on the tax cuts in March, likely after Aubrey Allegretti speak about
a spring budget. The only immediate domestic abuse
legislation needed is on stamp duty
and abolishing the national insurance PHOTOGRAPH:
rise, which Tory MPs will back. STEFAN ROUSSEAU/PA

One former cabinet minister said
there was enough support in the
party to vote to defeat the measures,
but said they predicted the govern-
ment would change course.

• The Guardian Monday 3 October 2022

8 National
Conservative
conference

Tories pressed to release sensitive information may have been
names of financiers at disclosed.
Kwarteng drinks party
Kwarteng’s mini-budget, which
Jessica Elgot Kwasi introduced a £45bn package of tax
Nadeem Badshah Kwarteng cuts that will mostly benefit the
attended a richest fifth of households. Sterling
Pressure is growing on the Tory drinks reception collapsed to its lowest level against
party to provide a full list of attend- at the home of the dollar since 1985 and the Bank
ees at a private champagne reception the financier of England was forced to act to save
attended by the chancellor, Kwasi Andrew Law, pension funds.
Kwarteng, hours after he delivered attended by
his mini-budget. hedge fund Berry said it was right that people
managers, hours who donated to political parties were
Anneliese Dodds, the Labour chair, after he had thanked. “These people should be
has written to her Conservative coun- presented his lauded because we don’t have pub-
terpart, Jake Berry, calling on him to mini-budget in lic funding of political parties and
release a list of those in attendance the Commons these are people who go out and make
and if they pledged donations or paid money and donate to political par-
a fee to be there. ‘Crony’ business partner made minister ties,” he told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge
on Sunday.
The chancellor is said to have given The City business partner of Jacob Kwarteng, and Rees-Mogg face ‘Not welcome’
guests information about forthcom- Rees-Mogg has been handed questions about being too close Asked if hedge fund managers had Rees-Mogg
ing government spending cuts during a peerage and job as a senior to the City, after the mini-budget been there, Berry said he was “sure heckled as
the event at the west London home of minister by Liz Truss, triggering an handed significant tax cuts to there were” but that he had had con- protesters
Andrew Law, a financier, on the even- accusation of cronyism. Dominic financiers and the wealthy. versations with people who worked vent anger
ing of Friday 23 September. Johnson, who co-founded in the property industry. “They were
Somerset Capital Management Johnson was vice-chairman of all saying they back this govern-
Berry said yesterday that the drinks (SCM) with Rees-Mogg, was the Conservative party between ment’s drive to create growth in the
reception was not unusual and those made a minister in the Cabinet 2016 and 2019 and has donated economy because they understand
who were there should be “lauded” Office and the Department for more than £250,000 to the party. you cannot have a rising tide of pros-
as Britain’s leading entrepreneurs. International Trade. perity that flows under every door in
Along with hedge fund managers, The shadow trade secretary, Nick this country without having growth
property developers had also been The announcement was Thomas-Symonds, said it “beggars in the economy.”
present, he said. slipped out on the government’s belief” the Tories appointed an
website:. “Dominic Johnson unelected asset-fund manager to Kwarteng told attenders at the
In her letter calling for the names, CBE was appointed a minister of the government, “who just happens reception of austerity-style budget
Dodds wrote: “Many people are state jointly in the Department to be a crony party donor”. cuts to come while guests drank
sickened by the image of cham- for International Trade and the champagne and congratulated him
pagne-quaffing Conservative donors Cabinet Office on 2 October 2022.” Johnson recently said he was on the measures, according to the
encouraging the chancellor to press stepping down as chief executive, Sunday Times.
ahead with further tax cuts for bil- The appointment is likely to while Rees-Mogg still holds a stake
lionaires, at the same time as many be controversial at a time when in the firm, despite the potential Two sources told the Sunday
members of the British public are Truss, her chancellor, Kwasi conflict of interest with his role as Times that Kwarteng described the
unable to access a mortgage.” business secretary. Rowena Mason day as a “great day for freedom”.
Another said guests told Kwarteng
She also asked if civil servants were to “double down” – an approach from
present and if minutes were taken, which some stood to make profits.
“and if not, then why not” given
Tory officials said the gathering at
Law’s home had been arranged by the
party’s campaign headquarters.

The Liberal Democrats’ Treasury
spokesperson, Sarah Olney, said
there should be an inquiry into what
Kwarteng told donors.

She said: “While struggling
homeowners saw their mortgage
bills spiral, it seems the chancellor
was sipping champagne with hedge
fund managers profiting from the fall-
ing pound.”

Ideological bedfellows with others: Britannia Unchained, which the Treasury believed was Jessica Murray
Bond between PM and her which famously referred to British necessary. Downing Street sources Midlands correspondent
chancellor under pressure workers as some of the “worst insisted there was no row and that
idlers in the world”, and After the Truss and Kwarteng were so close Jacob Rees-Mogg was heckled and
Rowena Mason the concept of the free market is Coalition. that they met every day. chased by protesters as he made his
Whitehall editor more popular in China, Germany way to the Conservative party con-
and America than it is in Britain. But while Truss’s career But a further hint of a fracture ference, as hundreds gathered near
T hey are neighbours in We want to have a more positive progressed as a junior minister appeared yesterday, as Kwarteng
the same small corner attitude towards making profit, under David Cameron, and cabinet told the Mail on Sunday that they Yesterday in Birmingham
of Greenwich, and wealth creation,” Truss said in 2011. minister before long, Kwarteng was had both signed off the policy to
now live next door left in the cold. He did not start on abolish the 45p top rate of tax. Quote of the day
in Downing Street Kwarteng was making the same the ministerial ladder until 2018, “I think we were agreed on that. We
– but the alliance argument, but with an added before rising to business secretary worked closely together to come up Michael Gove gave his frank
between Liz Truss and Kwasi message about the need to “engage under Boris Johnson. with the policy. I speak to the prime assessment of the mini-budget,
Kwarteng actually goes back more in a public debate, with journalists, minister every day, we get on very telling a fringe event hosted by the
than a decade to their entry into with the fourth estate, and put the Truss and Kwarteng are well and we share ideas all the time. Onward thinktank:
parliament as new MPs in 2010. case across”. believed to have teamed up as We are absolutely as one and we
partner candidates to be prime have come through a challenging “Millionaires will gain by tens
Back then, as part of a new Free A decade later, they are at minister and chancellor early period,” he said. of thousands of pounds as a
Enterprise Group of Tory MPs, the very top of government and in the campaign. They planned result of these tax cuts – and
the pair were trying to push the banging the same tax-cutting their programme for the first 100 But Truss went on to suggest people on average and below
coalition government towards drum, but have failed to follow days of government together to the BBC’s Sunday with Laura average incomes will not,
a more free market approach to the now chancellor’s own advice with meetings in Greenwich. Kuenssberg that it was ultimately and that I think is the wrong
Conservative politics. about bringing the public along And as Kwarteng delivered his Kwarteng’s call, saying: “It was a priority.”
with them. The pair were so controversial mini-budget, Truss decision that the chancellor made.”
“If you look at opinion polls, ideologically aligned that they was alongside him smiling and Debate of the day
co-authored two books together, nodding along. A spokesperson for the
chancellor was quick to dismiss Perhaps the most energetic
However, the fallout has any talk of friction, saying the pair discussion was a fringe event co-
tested even such a long political were in “lockstep”. But the history
friendship. The first signs of of No 10 and No 11 relations shows
tension between Truss and even the most seasoned political
Kwarteng emerged last week with allies can have trouble keeping to
reports that she was resisting a the same script, let alone at a time
statement to calm the markets, of intense economic pressure.

Monday 3 October 2022 The Guardian •

▼ Protesters, dressed as Liz Truss 9
and other cabinet members, in
Victoria Square, Birmingham

PHOTOGRAPH: CHRISTOPHER THOMOND

Sketch
John Crace

Truss manages to be
upbeat and catatonic
at the same time – it’s
quite the achievement

A ll dressed up and no place to go. By
lunchtime there were a few hundred
people at a loose end inside the
Birmingham conference centre. Workers
were putting the finishing touches to
the exhibit stands. There was no rush.
Most Tories have wisely decided to give this year’s

conference a swerve. No point in depressing yourself

unduly. Better to put your feet up at home.

Then, for those who had made the effort, there was

precious little to do. Whether it was just to contain the

damage or a realisation there was little demand, the

schedule for the main hall has been limited to just two

hours a day. In the graveyard slot of 4-6pm. And even

that feels way too long.

But you can trust Michael Gove to fill a vacuum.

The disruptor-in-chief never knowingly misses an

opportunity to make mischief and this year he is

appearing at 12 different fringe events. His goal is

simple: to say over and over again that Liz Truss is

bonkers. That she has no mandate for the 45p tax rate.

That unfunded tax cuts for the rich are immoral. That

he would happily vote down any parts of the budget he

didn’t like. And the implication was

the venue in Birmingham to express union head Mick Lynch described to take part in the protest, includ- After Penny Mordaunt there were plenty more like him.
their anger at the government. Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini budget as “the ing Christine Collins, a social care There were plenty of spare seats
most profound statement a politician worker from Bolton. “We’ve come
The business secretary was has made for the last 50 years”. down because we’re so angry, it’s so had made herself cry as events finally started in the
escorted by police as he made his way unfair, the scales are really not bal- with a cliched tribute main hall. After Penny Mordaunt
through booing crowds in Victoria “Over the last six months, we’ve anced any more,” she said. had made herself cry with a rather
Square yesterday, as protests swept seen the decadence and corruption
the country amid rising energy costs of the ruling class in this country,” he “It’s made me even angrier seeing to the Queen, it was cliched and prosaic tribute to the
and falling living standards. said. “They are acting in the interests the Conservative delegates laughing left to others to not Queen, it was left to Jake Berry
of their people, you don’t have to be and looking at us with total disregard. and regional mayors Andy Street
Rees-Mogg told Sky News: “There a Marxist or a radical or a socialist to It seems like they do not care.”
have been protests at Tory confer- understand that.” mention the economy and Ben Houchen to not mention
ences since time immemorial, it’s Suzi Boardman, who works in edu- the economy and to talk about the
nothing new. It’s a fact of democracy. He told the rally that “we are in the cation in Bolton, said people were
They’re shouting but it’s perfectly middle of a class struggle” and said angry after a decade of cuts and aus- importance of levelling up. Guys,
peaceful. And the right to peaceful “we pay tax to support our people, terity. “In local government, we’ve
expression of your view is fundamen- not to subsidise the rich”. gone through 10 years of not having you were supposed to have thought
tal to our constitution.” cost of living rises, our wages have
The protesters marched through gone down in real terms,” she said. about this stuff three years ago.
The protest, organised by the Peo- Birmingham to the International
ple’s Assembly Against Austerity, Convention Centre, where the Con- “The rich people who are getting It took the Northern Ireland minister, Steve Baker,
attracted hundreds angry about the servative conference is under way, their taxes cut are just going to invest
cost of living crisis and the govern- chanting “Tories are not welcome that, it doesn’t circulate, it doesn’t to interrupt the snooze fest. He apologised to Ireland
ment’s economic policy. here” and “Tory scum out of Brum”. come down to the poor. Trickle-down
doesn’t work.” and the EU for previously not taking their concerns
Addressing the crowds, the rail Many people travelled to the city
rule either out. Jake Berry, the seriously. The UK government was signalling a thaw
Winston Marshall, Row of the day Conservative party chair, upped
once a Mumford the stakes by warning that the whip in its Brexit negotiations. Who would have had money
Threats by several Tory MPs to could be withdrawn from those
run by the Institute for Economic vote against some of the measures who vote against the budget. on ERG hardman Baker being the peacemaker? It was
Affairs and the Taxpayers’ Alliance unveiled in the mini-budget, such
with the ominous title: Is the UK a as abolishing the cap on bankers’ Today’s highlights certainly a first. The first time any Brexiter had ever
safe space for free speech? bonuses and top rate of income
tax, have set up a major battle in After keeping a relatively low said sorry for Brexit. Keep them coming.
The conclusion from the panel, parliament. Truss will have to profile over the past week amid the
which included Winston Marshall, pass a finance bill before April fallout from his mini-budget, the One person who did seem to be living her best life
who quit the chart-topping band to bring the changes into law; chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, will
Mumford & Sons over his political however, the swell of backbenchers take to the main stage at around was Liz Truss herself. Maybe she’s thrilled to have
views, was very much not, with already rallying against them grew 4pm. The markets, spooked by his
much talk about how a liberal significantly yesterday. comments before, will be hang on discovered she’s even more unpopular than she
establishment was seeking to his every word. Cabinet ministers
quash dissenting views. They argued it would be wrong accused of stoking “culture wars” hoped. That could be one for her and her therapist.
to relieve the tax burden faced by will also have a speaking slot –
Most apocalyptic was Eric the mega-wealthy while Truss kept Kemi Badenoch, Michelle Donelan With interest rates rocketing, opinion polls tanking
Kaufmann, a UK-based Canadian the door open to slashing public and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
academic, who described what spending or a real-terms cut for and the Tory party flatlining, you’d have thought the
he called “the useful idiots of the benefits claimants – declining to
woke takeover” as the biggest last thing the prime minister would have wanted was
threat to western democracy since
the cold war. to look chipper for the party conference and negotiate

Laura Kuenssberg on the Sunday politics TV show.

Think again. Truss came out with all smirks blazing.

A Liz Truss She has no natural affect so her artificial stupidity

water bottle: must have been preset to happy. To manage to be

£16.95 at the upbeat and catatonic at the same time is quite the

conference achievement. Look on the bright side. Everyone might

be feeling broke and insecure, but at least she was

having a good time. She’s a gas. But she’s inert. Radon

Liz. The interview ended with Radon Liz sampling

John Cage’s 4’33 when Kuenssberg asked how many

people had voted for her idiocy. Though, to be fair, it

could just be that her batteries were dying. “What do

you mean by that?” Truss eventually asked. Computer

said no. She hadn’t a clue.

Sometimes it’s a mystery to her how she became

prime minister. Then again, it’s increasingly a mystery

to the rest of us.



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▼ Police on Saddleworth Moor, near
Manchester, continue the search for
the body of Keith Bennett yesterday

PHOTOGRAPH: MATT LOFTHOUSE/SWNS

Brother of Moors
murder victim
‘frustrated’ over
search for body

Robyn Vinter He said there appeared to be “more two (out of many) occasions that stick police went to the moor and erected know my profession. I know what I
than meets the eye” to Edwards’ out in my memory of finds on the a tent before examining the find. It saw on the day.”
The brother of Moors murder victim claims. “I am just getting frustrated, moor. One was found by ourselves turned out to be sheep bones.”
Keith Bennett has said he is frus- annoyed, confused and feeling a when we came across some material On Saturday, Greater Manchester
trated, annoyed and confused by an lot more emotions because there is with press-stud fastener, like those Keith is the only Moors murder vic- police’s review officer, DCI Cheryl
author’s claims in the media to have more to this than meets the eye and on a casual jacket. We immediately tim whose burial location was never Hughes, said: “We have not found
discovered the 12-year-old’s body. I cannot understand why that bloke contacted the police and the site was revealed. Brady, who claimed he had any identifiable human remains
appears not to have been exact in investigated the following morning. forgotten where he buried the boy, but our work to excavate the site is
Forensic teams who have been his information to the police about died in 2017 and Hindley in 2002. continuing.
digging since Thursday have so far the location. “Unfortunately, somebody
found nothing at a spot on Saddle- informed the press once everybody Keith’s mother, Winnie Johnson, “Conditions are difficult and it may
worth Moor, near Manchester, where “Surely, he cannot have forgotten had returned home to their various regularly returned to Saddleworth take us some time to fully complete
Russell Edwards said he came across exactly where it is after his claims locations on the day of the find. It Moor in the hope of finding her son the excavation but we are committed
what he believed to be the remains of about his years of investigations. Just turned out to be nothing related before her death in August 2012. to ensuring this is undertaken in the
Keith, who was murdered in 1964 by a few of the hundreds of thoughts to Keith, it was piece of camping most thorough way possible.”
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. running through my mind.” equipment. The forensic archaeologist who
identified a child’s jawbone in pic- Progress on the site has been slow
Posting on Facebook, Alan Ben- Keith’s family have suffered dec- “Then a sheep farmer found some tures taken by Edwards at the site said owing to strong winds and driving
nett, Keith’s closest surviving family ades of futile searches and false bones, unfortunately he contacted she was “absolutely” sure there was a sleet. Forensic science teams were
member, wrote: “Instead of doing the alarms, many of which were reported the press before the police (does that body but the forensic team’s progress forced to halt work on Friday after-
rounds of media outlets, maybe that to the press before the police. ring a bell in this case as well). The was likely to be “painstakingly slow”. noon as a result of wind uprooting
bloke should return to the moor and the two blue forensics tents.
be a lot more accurate about the facts Alan Bennett wrote: “There are Dawn Keen told the Guardian: “I
and location of his find.
‘That bloke should
“There’s a lot more I would like return to the moor
to say and ask but out of respect and be a lot more
and gratitude for the cold case team accurate about the
and the forensic team I’ll keep quiet location of his find’
for now.”
Alan Bennett
In a follow-up comment he said he Keith Bennett’s brother
was “confused, to say the very least”
at why the dig, near where Brady and
Hindley’s four other child victims
were found, had yielded no results.

Food banks plead for ‘torrent of support’ Findings from the cost of living – is already endemic - 65% have cut
as demand soars and donations decline survey of food banks back on one essential while 26% have
cut back on three or more.
Josh Halliday heating or eating. I spoke to one guy the Covid-19 pandemic, while 47% 0 25 50 75 100
pretty recently who was having said they had already given out “cold Chris Birt, JRF’s associate director
A food bank serving the London to cook entirely off a camping gas packs” to people who could not afford Operation affected by cost of living crisis 94% for Scotland, urged the Scottish gov-
neighbours of Liz Truss and Kwasi stove in his kitchen. Even the phrase to use gas or electricity to heat food. ernment to mitigate the crisis where
Kwarteng has said it will struggle ‘trickle-down economics’: people All expected demand to rise further. Expect client numbers to rise in next 3 months 92 it could and to resist pressure to fol-
to survive this winter without “a tor- don’t need a trickle, they need a tor- low the UK’s government’s tax cuts,
rent of support” for families who are rent of support, times are that hard.” Greenwich food bank, part of the We serve more clients than before pandemic 88 which the first minister. Nicola Stur-
going hungry. Trussell Trust network, said it was geon, called “morally repugnant”.
Ginns said there were “pockets of distributing 4.5 tonnes of food a Public donations have fallen 77
Greenwich food bank said it real poverty” in the streets surround- week. The drop in donations meant Birt said: “While the UK govern-
had distributed 92,000 emergency ing the smart £1m Georgian terraces it was having to raid its reserves. Client numbers have risen in past 3 months 75 ment’s immoral abandonment of
meals to residents this year – already where Truss and Kwarteng live, part those who need the support most is
more than last year’s total – and that of the so-called Greenwich Gang, Ministers are said to be drawing We face higher operating costs 53 indefensible, people are now look-
it was forecast to hit 130,000 by which includes the former Brexit up plans for real-terms benefits cuts, ing to the Scottish government for
Christmas Day. Demand for food is secretary David Frost and the for- saving £5bn by increasing them in We give out more food that needs no heating 48 support, and they deserve no less.”
now so great in the borough that a eign secretary, James Cleverly. line with earnings rather than with
new food bank is set to open just 500 inflation. We give out smaller parcels than we used to 28 Rebecca Hargreaves, project
metres from where the prime minis- A survey of 64 food banks across coordinator for FeedoNeedo charity
ter and the chancellor are neighbours. Britain, carried out by the donations Truss refused to say yesterday Source: Bankuet survey of 64 food banks which operates in Manchester, Bir-
platform Bankuet, found that almost whether benefits would be increased mingham and Bradford, said it was
Jamie Ginns, the chief executive all were facing soaring demand at a in line with inflation, recorded at 10% winter set in. The JRF’s latest Poverty already having to hand out smaller
of Greenwich food bank, said it faced time of falling donations. Three in in August. During an interview on the in Scotland report includes a survey emergency parcels in order to meet
“serious operational issues” this win- four said they were busier or as busy BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, by Savanta ComRes of 4,196 Scot- the need. She said: “Everyone is
ter that would be worsened if Truss’s now as they had been at the height of Truss said the work and pensions sec- tish households, which highlights worried about their bills going up
government refused to increase ben- retary, Chloe Smith, was “looking at” the fragility of people’s finances and and that reality will hit soon.”
efits in line with inflation. 130,000 the issue, adding, “I’m not going to the impact of increasing anxieties on
write future budgets on your show.” mental health. Robin Ferris, the chief executive of
He said: “For over a year now The number of emergency meals Bankuet, said charities were “sound-
we’ve been hearing stuff in Green- Greenwich food bank expects to Her comments came as the Joseph A third of those surveyed said they ing the alarm bell” as winter closed in
wich about people choosing between have distributed by Christmas Day Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said have no savings or savings of less than and desperately needed donations.
that one in five low-income house- £250, while single parents were more He added: “Trickle-down economics
holds had gone cold and hungry at than twice as likely to have little or no from the government is an inade-
the same time this year, even before personal safety net. The report also quate response to the cost of living
found that going without essentials crisis facing millions. Food banks
– including food, heating or clothing are seeing unprecedented levels of
demand and need our help to get
through the winter.”



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‘Lost without PHOTOGRAPH: CHRISTOPHER THOMOND/THE GUARDIAN visit, “you feel like you’ve been on Pair accused of
it’: locals fight holiday”. assault on Duke
to save listed ▲ The fate of Carlisle’s Turkish baths will be decided by councillors today of York ‘heckler’
Turkish baths Iain Young said he came up to
Time is tight to save the baths, allowed for each session, with entry four times a week — “it’s addictive!” PA Media
Helen Pidd with councillors set to decide today limited by the number of curtained — for the camaraderie as much as the
North of England editor whether to close the site or maintain changing rooms, each with a bed for health benefits. “We have one or two Two men have been arrested and
it, while campaigners work on a plan relaxing post-sweat or steam. chaps who have depression and they charged in connection with an alleged
One of the UK’s last public Turkish to take over and develop the baths feel safe talking about it in the sauna. assault on a man who “heckled” the
baths faces closure this month unless as a community asset. They hope to Regular patrons say they are dis- It’s amazing how a bathing costume Duke of York during the Queen’s
campaigners can change their local transform the site into a “health and traught at the prospect of losing their can level the field,” Young said. coffin procession in Edinburgh.
council’s mind in time. wellbeing centre”, turning one of sanctuary. “I’d be lost without it, to
the pools into a hydrotherapy facil- be honest,” said Donna Darlington, a One regular was a recovering The incident happened at about
Carlisle’s Victorian-style baths ity, opening up treatment rooms and beauty therapist who visits the centre alcoholic who started coming at the 2.50pm on Monday 12 September as
opened in 1909, and was awarded a installing extras, such as an ice grotto at least once a week. “It’s so impor- weekends when all of his friends were the monarch’s four children followed
Grade II listing in 2010 in recognition alternative to the plunge pool. tant for my mental health.” going to the pub, said Julie Minns, the hearse from the Palace of Holy-
of their decorative tiling and glazed the chair of Friends of Carlisle Vic- roodhouse to St Giles’ Cathedral.
stonework, as well as the stained- Running the site each month costs Gill Roncarelli, who started visit- torian and Turkish Baths, which has
glass ceiling above the plunge pool. about £15,000, the council estimates, ing the bathss 23 years ago to soothe secured funding for a viability study A 22-year-old man appeared to
with heating bills likely to rise in her aching limbs while working as for the group’s proposal. heckle the Duke of York and the two
One of the most affordable Turkish coming months. Twelve bathers are the head of dance at the Univer- men, both aged 34, allegedly pulled
baths in the UK, with entry costing sity of Cumbria, said that after each Her mother, Freda, 88, remembers him to the ground. Previously, the
£7.10, it has a devoted community of visiting the baths in the 1960s when 22-year-old man was charged with
regulars who use the sauna and three attendants gave massages, and would breach of the peace over the inci-
hot rooms. deliver tea and toast to bathers cool- dent. He was released by police on an
ing down in the cubicles. “She would undertaking to appear at Edinburgh
But Carlisle city council decided arrived stressed after a shift in the fac- Sheriff Court at a later date.
to mothball the complex after invest- tory and would say she left feeling a
ing £27m in a new leisure centre on million dollars,” said Minns. A Police Scotland spokesperson
the other side of town. That is due to said: “Two men, both aged 34, have
open in mid-October, when staff from The first Turkish baths in Britain been arrested and charged in con-
the operators, GLL/Better, are due to and Ireland opened in 1852 in County nection with assault following an
transfer to the new site. Cork and, over the course of the next incident on the Royal Mile … A report
century, about 700 were built. Only will be sent for the consideration of
12 remain in operation. the procurator fiscal.”

Turkish baths are known for their
healing waters. The original sign
for Carlisle’s baths suggests peo-
ple should take regular baths for the
“alleviation of rheumatism and kin-
dred ailments, general tonic effect,
obesity and alleviation of stress”.

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Charity says Ukrainian hosts scheme sponsor in the longer term as inflation
‘unworkable’ as it cuts rehoming help and energy costs increase.”

Diane Taylor rematching requests under the Home secretary pledges immigration crackdown Robina Qureshi, the chief execu-
Homes for Ukraine scheme for place- tive of the charity Positive Action in
A leading charity that has been help- ments not originally made through The home secretary, Suella ▲ Suella Braverman plans to press Housing, which has matched more
ing the government with rematching Refugees at Home.” Braverman, has said the UK has too on with deportations to Rwanda than 350 Ukrainians with hosts
Ukrainian refugees with hosts after many low-skilled migrant workers in Scotland, England and North-
initial placements end or break down It added: “This is due to the condi- and high numbers of international number of dependants. They’re ern Ireland, said there was a lack of
is to scale back its work because it tions and requirements of the Homes students who often bring not necessarily working or they’re strategy and “layers upon layers of
says the scheme is unworkable. for Ukraine scheme. dependants, raising questions over working in low-skilled jobs, and chaos” in the government hosting
Liz Truss’s plans to increase the they’re not contributing to growing scheme. “NGOs are doing what we
Refugees at Home is one of five “As well as hosts and guests we numbers of employees allowed our economy.” can based on our own expertise, but
organisations listed as “recognised have been approached by a number into the UK. we are watching a ticking timebomb,”
providers” on the gov.uk website to of local authorities who have asked Braverman said she wanted to she said.
help match and rematch Ukrainian us to support them in making these In an interview with the Sun on restrict the ability of migrants to
refugees with hosts. rematches. Regrettably we are unable Sunday, her first since taking over challenge deportation on the basis Sara Nathan, a co-founder of
to do so because of the complexities the role, Braverman also promised that they had been subjected to Refugees at Home, said the charity’s
Hosting arrangements are for a surrounding the current scheme.” to enforce Boris Johnson’s plans to forced labour. She added: “There’s work for initial matches between
minimum of six months and many deport asylum seekers to Rwanda a crisis on the Channel and it’s been Ukrainians and hosts would con-
are now coming to an end after the The Local Government Associa- and reform modern-slavery laws going on for far too long … we are at tinue, but it would only work on
scheme opened in March. As fewer tion has also expressed concern about to make it easier to remove people a stage now where we need to take rematching requests from Ukrain-
hosts are coming forward rematch- the housing situation for Ukrainian who say they have been subjected dramatic action.” Rajeev Syal ian refugees for whom it had made
ing requests are increasing. refugees. James Jamieson, the chair to forced labour. Braverman said initial hosting placements.
of the LGA, said councils, Ukrainians the new prime minister aimed to
Many Ukrainian households that and hosts needed “certainty” about stick to a 2019 election pledge to Last month the charity had turned
relocated to the UK have become next steps. lower net migration. down 60 rematching requests. “We
homeless – about a third of them have found it very difficult to help
in London. According to govern- “There are concerns that more “What we’ve got is too many with rematching. It’s just too bureau-
ment figures, from 24 February to Ukrainian families may need to pre- low-skilled workers coming into cratic and there’s no mechanism for
26 August 1,565 Ukrainian house- sent as homeless as a result of a lack this country,” she said. “We’ve one local authority to talk to another
holds were registered as homeless. of sponsors or other options,” he also got a very high number of about this. There needs to be a policy
said. “As the number of Ukrainians students coming into this country to sort this out. We can’t expect local
The hosting charity said: “We presenting as homeless continues and we’ve got a really high authorities to do it,” Nathan said.
are extremely sorry that Refugees to gradually rise alongside the cost
at Home is unable to help with any of living crisis, support to spon- A government spokesperson said:
sors may need to be enhanced to “We continue to work closely with
encourage new or existing hosts to Refugees at Home and local councils
to ensure families have somewhere
to stay … For guests who do move
on, we launched rematching in May,
which has been successful in find-
ing families ongoing accommodation
and we are working with councils to
expand this service.”

Paris fashion Kanye West said Demna, Balenciaga’s Georgian
week gets a and models at fashion designer – who, like Ye, as
surprise from the Balenciaga West now prefers to be known, goes
Kanye West summer 2023 by only one name – a message that we
show in Paris should value our individualism and
Jess Cartner-Morley not fawn over celebrity.
Paris
If you assume fashion is all about
It took several minutes for the Paris glamour and escapism, you will have
fashion week audience to realise they some catching up to do at Balenciaga.
had just witnessed Kanye West make Demna has declared polish and
his first-ever appearance as a catwalk perfection to be “pretty old school”,
model. and shaken up Paris fashion week
with a gritty, dystopian aesthetic.
With his black hoodie pulled up
over a Balenciaga baseball cap, there The invitation for the show was a
was something familiar about the beaten-up wallet complete with an ID
man in an oversized flak jacket and card – in the name of a longtime Balen-
baggy leather jeans – the beard, the ciaga employee – and a faded snap of
lurching swagger – and after some a cat tucked behind the coin pouch.
zooming in on their phone videos, The catwalk was a muddy track that
the penny dropped. splashed dirt on to the clothes on the
catwalk, soundtracked by a gunfire
One of the most influential musi- rumble of techno. Aspirational life-
cians of his generation had just added style moment, this was not.
catwalk modelling to an eclectic CV
that encompasses 21 Grammys, fash- This is fashion for the age of
ion collections, a long-running guest BeReal rather than Instagram. Just
cameo role in the Kardashian celeb- as a Chanel catwalk is bedazzled with
rity circus, and a near-miss at a run pearls and camellias, Balenciaga’s is
for the White House. dotted with the treasures of real life:
AirPods in ears, a house key swinging
Balenciaga has made itself the from a ponytail, bags modelled on
most compelling luxury brand in the crisp packets gripped in one hand.
world by taking the most vacuous and
ludicrous elements of fashion week Yet Balenciaga is still most defi-
and turning them upside down in nitely fashion. The slump of oversized
order to say something interesting. bomber jackets is a streetwear update
of the egg and cocoon shapes with
Putting a celebrity on the catwalk to which Cristóbal Balenciaga, the
get a show noticed is an old trick; put- founder of the house, radicalised
ting one of the most famous men in Paris fashion in his own era 70 years
the world in his show incognito was, ago. The emphasis of black is not just
a nod to dystopia, but to the power
of black to emphasise the exagger-
ated silhouettes that are a Balenciaga
trademark of past and present.

Ye may have another surprise in
store for Paris fashion week, with
rumours of a catwalk show for his
own Yeezy brand.

• The Guardian Monday 3 October 2022

16 Special report
The Covid
generation

‘I’ve missed important
years’: how lockdowns
changed a generation

In the latest instalment of a Guardian series, young people tell Amelia Hill
how the pandemic affected them and continues to influence their lives

‘With the world I had planned to take a year out, depressed. I was so lonely and
exploding, I didn’t but when Covid hit, I panicked miserable in lockdown in Sheffield
feel I had choices’ and grabbed the first degree course and I spent all day in my room in
my teachers recommended, which the dark. My girlfriend eventually
Michael Nesi-Pio, 20 was chemistry. I wasn’t able to persuaded me to drop out and I left
take my exams and my teacher- in March 2021 with an £11,000 debt.
Nesi-Pio was in his final year of assessed grades were lower than I reapplied to Manchester and got
A-levels when the coronavirus my predictions, so I didn’t get my in to study politics and philosophy.
pandemic hit place at Manchester. I snatched
the first alternative course I could I think what I went through
find, which was in Sheffield. With was good: it’s only when you
the world exploding, I didn’t feel experience something bad that you
I had any choices. realise what makes you happy.

It was a disaster. I think I became Photograph by Joel Goodman

‘I’m quite scared I could see them getting older over ‘Christmas dinner really sad. We had to cancel my
and I feel old Zoom and I was scared they would was left outside grandparents coming round, so
before my time’ die before I could visit them again. my bedroom door’ they were on their own with no
time to arrange an alternative.
Marcel Charowski, 12 I also had the last year of primary Kate Nichols, 20 My Christmas dinner was left
school taken away from me. I didn’t outside my bedroom door. After
Marcel, 12, lives in London and is in have a chance to say goodbye to Nichols, from Newcastle, is in her I’d finished, I had to wipe my plate,
his first year of secondary school anyone. I lost those friends for final year at Cardiff University glass and cutlery with antiseptic
good over lockdown – we tried to wipes. It was lonely and grim.
The pandemic definitely changed stay in touch but we drifted apart. I got Covid on 21 December 2021
me. I was carefree before it hit. and, 10 months later, have still not I have problems with tiredness,
Now I’m quite scared and negative. My dad nearly died thanks to recovered. Last week, I got referred brain fog and breathing – there’s a
I feel old before my time. One of Covid. My mum spent a lot of time to a chronic fatigue syndrome crackling in my lungs – and if I go
the worst things was not being able at the hospital with him and I had clinic, which I hope will help. out with friends, I’m destroyed for
to visit my grandparents in Poland. to wait at home, worried every day the next few days.
that she would tell me he’d died. Christmas with Covid was
It’s probably why I worry a lot It’s frustrating. So much of
about death now. Death is always student life revolves around the
waiting for you. Now I don’t get nightlife, but I can’t risk getting
excited about anything. behind in my studies.

Photograph by Mark Pinder Photograph by Mark Pinder

‘Doing a dance since because the government ‘The pandemic led I started doing volunteer work before Covid and we continued
degree in front of hasn’t acknowledged what we to me reframing during lockdown. The experience the conversations. I don’t think I
a laptop is no fun’ sacrificed. I think that sense of my whole life’ of giving back to the community would have found my way to Christ
community has been burnt out has changed my future plans had it not been for the lockdown:
Eoin O’Loughlin, 20 of us. I’m not sure my generation Jess Paine, 22 entirely. I’d always thought I’d I had the time to think about the
would be as willing to sacrifice go into academia but I’ve realised bigger things. It’s something of a
O’Loughlin moved from Dublin ourselves for other people a that my calling is in volunteering. miracle. There, I said it! A miracle.
to Dundee to study at the Scottish second time. I think we all feel our That’s really how I feel.
School for Contemporary Dance goodwill was taken advantage of. Lockdown also gave me time to
come to faith. I was already talking Photograph by Fabio De Paola
We were happy to do lockdown at The pandemic was dreadful with a Christian student group
the time but problems have come for me. It stunted me at the exact
moment I was ready to burst out Paine completed her degree at
creatively and socially, and start Birmingham University and is now
exploring and making my mark on in Greece working with refugees
the world. The pandemic meant
that I had to adapt from being a The pandemic was, as weird as this
child to an adult with no transition sounds, incredibly positive and
period – I missed my secondary life-affirming for me. It led directly
school exams and graduation, to me reframing my whole life and
along with my 18th and 19th changing the foundations of my
birthdays. I missed my first year of identity. Gone are the ambitions for
college – doing a dance degree at a high-flying career: I want to help
home in front of a laptop is no fun. people by being actively political.

Because of the pandemic I met I was loving Birmingham when
the love of my life and am now Covid hit and we were all told we
happier than I’ve ever been. If you had to go home. I had to leave this
take Jack into account, all the pain amazing, massive city behind me
of the pandemic was definitely and head back to the tiny, rural
worth it. But I wish I hadn’t had to village that I thought I’d left behind
go through that to meet him. me for good. I’m an incredibly
optimistic person; I felt I was lucky
Photograph by Murdo MacLeod to have a home to go back to.

Monday 3 October 2022 The Guardian •

17

‘I shut down and ‘I haven’t had my
spent a lot of time first kiss or even
feeling angsty’ been on a date’

Zubaydah Abdi, 19 Eliza Niblett, 20

‘I didn’t need to Abdi lives with her parents and her desensitised. Instead of opening Tanzania, which helped confirm Niblett, from Leicestershire, has
be anything for five siblings and has just started my gaze out to the wide world and for me that medicine was what I just started her third year studying
anybody’ studying medicine at King’s thinking about my place in it, I wanted to do with my life. I also experimental psychology at
College London focused in on myself. I shut down made friends from around the Oxford University
Lily Smith, 19 and spent a lot of time feeling world to make up for those I lost
The years between 16 to 18 are a hopeless and angsty. during the pandemic. One of the saddest impacts of the
Smith, from Manchester, is in her blur to me: I feel like I’m a 16-year- pandemic is that I still haven’t
second year studying musical old stuck in a 19-year-old’s body I opted to take a gap year so I All this helped resensitise me had my first kiss. I’ve never even
theatre at Anglia Ruskin University without the experiences or skills to could try to make up for all those – it helped me open my gaze back been on a date. I’m a lesbian and at
fulfil their responsibilities. lost experiences. I saved money up again, to burst the bubble I’d school, that was difficult. I thought
I feel guilty saying this but the by working in retail, which forced been living in and bring me back to it would become easier when I got
This does make me sad: the me to be out and about after so real life. to university but it didn’t happen
years I’ve missed are important – long being locked away. I then because of Covid and now it seems
you’re supposed to have all sorts of volunteered at a hospital in Photograph by Christian Sinibaldi like a big, scary thing instead of an
experiences to form the adult you exciting, natural step.
become. But my life during those from being able to properly finish singer. Now I realise there’s
key years had no substance to it: school. Though I was heartbroken, nothing stopping me from being an Even though university is finally
it was just school and home. lockdown was the first time I’d had entrepreneur or being a CEO of a back on track after a really difficult
a big rest for years. I wasn’t waking big company. first year, I missed so much because
The pandemic also had an up with a racing heart. I felt like a of the pandemic that I don’t feel
impact on me emotionally. We hamster that had been able to step It was all because of lockdown. ready to be where I am. I spent
had relatives who died and that, off the wheel. It gave me the space Home learning was boring – I my second year at uni playing
combined with all the other awful to re-evaluate what matters to me. was so over sitting in front of catch-up, both academically and
things that went on over those two It healed me. my computer, doing endless socially, but I’m still getting used to
years, led to me becoming fairly worksheets and lessons. I started the idea of interacting with people:
I realised that I value a slow life, making jewellery just for fun, and I’ve never gone out and got drunk;
‘I realised I value spending time with friends, not then it occurred to me I could start I’ve never been in a nightclub or
a slow life; being being stressed. I value being able a business, sell what I’d made and done a pub crawl. I wanted to do
able to feel young ’ to feel silly and young. I still went give the profits to charity. that sort of thing when I first got
to Cambridge but I quickly realised to university but now the moment
Ella Thornton, 20 it was no longer who I was and I It was cool to realise all the stuff has passed and it just seems really
had the courage to step away. I’m that seemed so complicated, really scary to go out and lose control.
Thornton left Cambridge now at UEA and having an amazing wasn’t: it wasn’t such a big deal to
University after a year in 2021 and time. I am very, very happy. make a website, advertise across Covid mucked up lots of
is now studying education at the social media. I was much more other things for me that I’m still
University of East Anglia Photograph by Joshua Bright capable than I’d realised. affected by. I was given A-level
grades based on an algorithm that
The pandemic transformed my ‘I got closer to my I also got closer to my family, in the government later admitted
life for the better but it was an family and started particular my younger brother. He disadvantaged state-school
incredibly painful journey. The a company’ and I spent a lot of time together, students like me. The grades my
first thing Covid did was to stop me making art and talking for hours. teachers had estimated for me were
Eva Yacobi, 14 downgraded, which meant I lost
pandemic was, for me, a brilliant Lockdown wasn’t great, though. my place at Oxford.
thing: it changed my life and I’ll Eva lives in the south of England I think my generation gave up a lot
always be grateful. and had just started secondary more than others because these It was devastating, and I decided
school when lockdown began are such important years for us, to get the government to change
I was doing A-levels when Covid where we find change hard. Our their minds. I organised an open
hit and intended to study sciences Before Covid, I wanted to be a schools are putting a lot of effort letter to the education secretary
at university. I was finding my into helping us transition back into using testimonies from people who
courses hard but it got much worse real life but I don’t think politicians had also been affected. I spoke
during lockdown. I began feeling have done enough. on local radio and TV, and lots of
hopeless and overwhelmed. It was people sent messages of support.
a bleak time. I had counselling but
after a while, the isolation began Eventually, the government
to have a different effect: I realised announced the grading U-turn and
it was nice to be on my own and Oxford reinstated my place. But it
I didn’t need to be anything didn’t undo how traumatising it
for anybody. I had stepped off has all been. The stress of feeling
the conveyor belt of school, I’m constantly on thin ice is
expectation and achievement. exhausting.

I realised I’d been pushing Photograph by Graeme Robertson
myself towards a career in science
because that’s what everyone told
me to do but it wasn’t who I was.

I found myself playing the piano
more and suddenly I realised
I could choose to make myself
happier – and do something in the
arts. Then it hit me: I was going
to be a stage actor. An amazing
singing tutor helped me work on
auditions for different universities.
I am so happy now.

Photograph by Sophia Evans



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Ukraine ‘Healing a wound’
Kyiv’s flag flies East German relic
again in Lyman reborn as art gallery
Page 24 Page 25

Surabaya
Java

Malang

Bali

Kanjuruhan stadium
Malang club Arema FC played Persebaya
Surabaya on Saturday night

Indonesia

100 km
100 miles

People help an injured spectator
as the use of teargas sparks panic

PHOTOGRAPH: XINHUA/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK

At least 125 killed in football buildup – in the process of accumu- Widodo, told officials to re-evaluate
stadium crush in Indonesia lation there was shortness of breath, security at matches and ordered the
lack of oxygen.” suspension of Liga 1 matches. This
Rebecca Ratcliffe on Saturday night, causing a crush Stadium in Malang regency, East should be the “last soccer tragedy in
David Connett among panicked spectators. Java. Supporters from the losing side Arema’s coach, Javier Roca, said: the nation”, he said.
Adam Fulton stormed the pitch and the authorities “The most terrible thing was when
Officers and organisers face scru- fired teargas, leading to a crush and victims came to be treated by the Social media footage and images
At least 125 people were killed and tiny over the tragedy, including cases of suffocation, said East Java’s team doctor. About 20 people arrived showed chaotic scenes in which fans
about 320 injured at a football match questions over the use of teargas police chief, Nico Afinta. Two police and four died. Fans died in the arms of clambered to escape thick clouds of
in Indonesia in one of the world’s inside the venue, which is contrary officers were among the dead. players.” A hospital director told local teargas, some trying to carry other
worst ever sports stadium disasters. to Fifa guidance. TV that one victim was aged five. injured spectators to safety.
Many people were crushed and
Police used teargas in response The incident occurred after a suffocated after running to one exit, The Fifa president, Gianni Infan- Amnesty International’s executive
to a pitch invasion by rioting fans match in which the Javanese club Afinta said. “They went out to one tino, called the events “a dark day for director for Indonesia, Usman Hamid,
Arema were defeated by their rivals point at the exit, then there was a all involved in football and a tragedy called on the authorities to “ensure
Persebaya Surabaya at Kanjuruhan beyond comprehension … The foot- that those who are found to have
ball world is in a state of shock”. committed violations are tried in
open court and do not merely receive
Manchester United and Barcelona internal or administrative sanctions”.
posted tributes online, while Spanish
football clubs held a minute’s silence Afinta defended the police
before matches yesterday. response yesterday, saying that other
measures had been taken before the
Indonesia’s president, Joko use of teargas but that fans “began to
attack the police, acting anarchically
and burning vehicles”. Local reports
said as many as 3,000 spectators had
stormed the pitch. Further clashes
occurred outside the stadium, with
vehicles set alight.

Persebaya Surabaya fans were not
allowed to buy tickets for the game
owing to fears of violence between
fans, a long-running problem in Indo-
nesia. Seventy-eight people have
died in football-related incidents in
28 years, according to official figures
given to Channel News Asia in June.

Additional reporting Agencies

‘No warning’ Fans blame The exact sequence of events situation had calmed down. “I held the stadium was filled beyond its
police for causing panic is unclear, but social media out in the stands even as the gas capacity. “Some of the audience
footage shows police using batons strangled my throat.” didn’t even get a seat,” he said.
Reno Surya and for the home side: they had lost 3-2 to disperse the crowd, kicking
Johanes Hutabarat to Persebaya Surabaya. This was supporters and firing teargas. Fans were stuck in a deadly crush He waited between between
their first loss to their rivals in 23 at a nearby exit. “I think a lot of 30 minutes and an hour, by which
JJakarta years of home matches. Zhafran Nashir, 17, a student who people were packed tightly enough time things had calmed inside
ust after the match had been watching the match with that many of them broke their the stadium. But the chaos had
between Arema FC and The Arema fans were perhaps his brother from the eastern stand, bones or fell unconscious after they extended to the streets. “The first
Persebaya Surabaya had going to use their disappointment said the teargas had caused panic. ran out of breath.” thing I saw after I left the stadium
finished at Kanjuruhan at their team’s performance as an “I think it was unnecessary because were people lying on the ground.
stadium on Saturday excuse to demand selfies, added the riot occurred right on the field,” Rahmat, 23, had been watching I thought they were just drunk or
night, a group of three Prayogi, 29, who asked not to give he said. Some on the pitch had tried from the north side along with unconscious. But after I got home,
Arema fans climbed down from the his full name. At that point things to get into the players’ locker room, seven of his friends. His stand too I realised that what I saw then were
stands, attempting to meet their were still calm, he said. but people on the stands were just was hit with teargas; his eyes teared corpses,” Rahmet said.
team’s players on the pitch, recalled watching. When teargas was fired, up and he felt short of breath. “The
a spectator who was watching from The situation escalated, everyone in the stands rushed to police did not warn us before they “I can never forget what
the southern stand. however. The small group of fans leave. People were being trampled, fired teargas at us. So when the happened last night,” said Prayogi.
who had gone down to the pitch he said. His stand was also fired at. crowd broke it was full of panicked “The most painful and terrifying
It had been a disappointing game seemed to trigger others to leave When he tried to escape, he saw and suffocating people with part of all this was opening one
the stands. Soon hundreds and two children who had lost their burning eyes,” he said. body bag at a time to see if I could
even thousands crowded the field. parents in the chaos. recognise any friends or family.
“When I first saw the mob, and
Prayogi, who was watching near the chaos around me, I thought that “Last night, it felt like a human
gate 13, with his wife and friends, my life would end tonight, that I life had no value.”
decided to stay put until the would surely die here.”
Sport John Duerden Page 37
Rahmat echoed reports that

• The Guardian Monday 3 October 2022

20 World
Brazil

Lula on track for
stunning political
comeback in
Brazilian election

Continued from page 1 of the Workers’ party (PT) he helped ‘He is the exit from our nightmare’
found four decades ago. Leftwing voters hopeful of success
American left, following the elec-
tion of leftwing leaders in Argentina, “Today is a day of hope,” said Tom Phillips São Paulo ▲ Voters queue in Rio de Janeiro. Lula’s supporters, such as Gabriela
Bolivia, Colombia and Chile. Eduardo Horderle Peruzzo, a 35-year- Leoncio, below, were keen to avoid a runoff vote PHOTOGRAPH: WAGNER MEIER/GETTY
old University of São Paulo historian. GAna Ionova Rio de Janeiro
“I’m going to win these elec- “We know that this election won’t abriela Leoncio had millions have been plunged into
tions so I can give the people the fix everything. We know this is the been waiting for the poverty and Covid has killed more
right to be happy again. The people beginning of a long path. But we want chance to free Brazil than 685,000 Brazilians, was finally
need, deserve and have the right … Brazil to at least be able to dream of from Jair Bolsonaro coming to an end. Mariana Moga de
to be happy once more,” Lula told the future again.” for four years. Moura Silva, 38, a singing teacher,
journalists as he wrapped up his cam- Yesterday, that chance came wearing a sticker featuring
paigning with a parade through the His partner, Mariana Moga de came. “It’s been a joke-slash- Lula’s portrait and slogan: “Hope
streets of São Paulo on Saturday. Moura Silva, a music teacher, said: tragedy,” the restaurant host, 29, will defeat fear”. She voiced disgust
“So many of the advances that said of the president’s tumultuous at the “vile words” Bolsonaro has
The prospect of a Lula victory took decades to achieve have been far-right administration as she cast used to describe women, and was
has galvanised leftwing and centrist destroyed over the last four years.” her vote against him. perplexed that many continued to
Brazilians after four years under Bol-
sonaro, during which nearly 700,000 Bolsonaro, a Donald Trump- Leoncio, who was sporting
people have died with Covid and admiring former army captain, was a bright red T-shirt, cap and
more than 30 million have been defiant as he cast his vote in a mili- earrings celebrating the leftwing
plunged into poverty and hunger. tary neighbourhood on the outskirts frontrunner, Luiz Inácio Lula da
of Rio, where he built his political Silva, known as Lula, said she was
“I feel hope,” Lula’s biographer career. “I’m confident from what I’m optimistic that her candidate would
and friend Fernando Morais told seeing,” the 67-year-old populist told prevail when 156 million Brazilians
the Guardian as he prepared to vote, reporters. chose their new leader. “One phase
wearing a Jeremy Corbyn T-shirt. “I is coming to an end and another
feel like going out and distributing But polls suggest more than half of phase, of change and hope, is
kisses.” Brazilians now reject Bolsonaro, on beginning,” she enthused as voters
whose watch Amazon deforestation filed into the polling station near
Morais considered Lula’s return has soared to record levels and Brazil Augusta Street in São Paulo, where
to power the only way to tackle the has become an international outcast. Lula had held his final campaign
intensifying “social tragedy” that event the previous afternoon.
was on full show as the biographer “I think the end is nigh in the
drove to the polling station in cen- sense that I truly believe Bolsonaro Other voters voiced similar
tral São Paulo. will not win this election,” said Flávia confidence that Bolsonaro’s
Oliveira, a political commentator presidency, during which Amazon
“When you go out at night around from the television channel Globo- devastation has skyrocketed,
here … only one kilometre from the News. “Everything in the polls
homes of bankers and big busi- suggests the majority of Brazilian
nessmen, you see people freezing voters no longer support this project
to death,” Morais said as he turned as they did in 2018. This project has
into a square where dozens of emaci- lost adhesion and has lost allies pre-
ated people had taken shelter under cisely because it has failed to improve
filthy blankets and in tents. A giant people’s lives.”
banner over the square read: “Brazil
has gotten worse”. Bolsonaro’s authoritarian incli-
nations and relentless questioning
“This didn’t exist 10 years ago … of Brazil’s electronic voting system
It’s like an improvised refugee camp,” have fuelled concerns he may refuse
Morais said. to accept defeat to Lula. Some fear he
may seek to incite turmoil similar to
Across town near São Paulo’s main the 6 January invasion of the Capitol
avenue, Paulista, Lula supporters in Washington DC if his re-election
flocked to polling stations in T-shirts bid fails, or even a military coup.
bearing his name and the star symbol
Trump backed Bolsonaro on the
Bolsonaro eve of yesterday’s vote with a video
casts his vote message to Brazilians. “He’s done an
yesterday absolutely incredible job,” Trump
claimed, calling Bolsonaro “one of
the great presidents of any country
in the world”.

Meanwhile, Hungary’s far-right
prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said
in a video shared on social media by
the Brazilian president: “I have met
many leaders but few as exceptional
as president Bolsonaro.”

Those declarations further fuelled
concern over how Bolsonaro and his
radical supporters might behave in
the coming hours and days. Asked if
he would respect the result of yester-
day’s election, Bolsonaro turned his
back on reporters and walked away.

Additional reporting
Ana Ionova Rio de Janeiro

Monday 3 October 2022 The Guardian •
21

Luiz Inácio ‘Get back into politics!’ How Castro’s advice played pivotal role
Lula da Silva,
known as Lula, He is one of Latin America’s most seven, Lula migrated south with his the early 1960s, as Brazil was
a former union enduring politicians – once hailed mother and six siblings in search of plunged into two decades of
leader who by Barack Obama as “the most a better life, ending up near Santos military dictatorship. The grind of
was president popular president on Earth”. on the São Paulo coast. Three years factory work and the repression
of Brazil later Lula’s family moved to the of Brazil’s 1964-85 military regime
from 2003 to But had it not been for a chiding state capital and, strapped for cash, served as a wake-up call. When
2010, greets from Fidel Castro nearly four rented the back room of a bar that Lula’s brother was kidnapped and
supporters after decades ago, Luiz Inácio Lula da Lula remembers as a “pigsty”. tortured by security forces in 1975,
voting in São Silva might well have abandoned that was the final straw. “It was a
Paulo his political career after failing in “When it rained … rats and frogs watershed moment,” Morais said.
his attempt to become São Paulo’s would be swept in from the street”
PHOTOGRAPH: governor in 1982. Morais said. Lula immersed himself in the
MARCELO CHELLO/AP labour movement and in 1979 led a
“He gave him a bollocking,” He believes such experiences series of strikes, paving the way for
Lula’s biographer Fernando Morais made millions of Brazilians place the creation of the Workers’ party
said. “Listen, Lula … You don’t their trust in a leader whose own Lula leads to this day.
have the right to abandon politics. life story reflected their own.
You don’t have the right to do this After claiming power in 2002,
to the working class,” Castro said, In São Paulo, a teenage Lula Lula used the windfall from a
according to Morais’s bestselling worked as an office boy before commodities boom to help millions
biography. “Get back into politics!” training as a lathe operator during of citizens escape poverty.

Lula’s chronicler believes it was ▲ Lula waves after voting in 2002 in Lula left power in 2010 with
a pivotal moment. an election he went on to win approval ratings nearing 90%.
But his party became embroiled
In 1989, Lula launched his first, in a series of corruption scandals.
ultimately unsuccessful, bid to Two years later, Lula was jailed on
become Brazil’s first working- corruption charges, which were
class president. He lost two more quashed last year.
presidential elections, in 1994 and
1998, before finally achieving his Now he stands on the brink of
goal in 2002 – a historic triumph. what, just a few years ago, seemed
an unthinkable return to the
Lula, 76, was born into rural presidential palace in Brasília.
poverty in the north-eastern state Tom Phillips São Paulo
of Pernambuco in 1945. Aged

support the rightwing populist who ‘One phase is ending FTOIMREUIRNBSATNRUEMXPELNOTRSERS
was still backed by about a third of and another phase,
voters: “I feel a mix of nausea and of change and hope,
anger when I hear him speak.” is beginning’

She was convinced Lula would Gabriela Leoncio
be victorious. But observers believe Voter in São Paulo
it is possible he will fall just short.
“If someone tells you they know João dos Santos, 56, an activist
what’s going to happen … they’re from the Front for the Struggle for
either a trickster or they don’t know Housing, said he was convinced
what’s going on,” said Fábio Vitor, Bolsonaro’s days were numbered.
the author of a book about the “He belongs to the past and he will
politics of Brazil’s armed forces. go down in history as the worst
president the world has ever seen.”
Lula, who was Brazil’s president
from 2003 to 2010, insisted on Danilo Lima, 45, an electrician,
the eve of the vote that he was accused Bolsonaro of plunging the
confident of winning outright but country into political chaos and
would hit the streets to celebrate international isolation. “Brazil
even if a second round were needed is a brothel without a pimp. This
in four weeks’ time. “I feel great nonsense has to stop,” he said. “Any
hope that this election will be Brazilian who votes for Bolsonaro
decided tomorrow, but if it isn’t has worms in their head.”
we’ll have to behave like a football
team when a match goes to extra Yet many citizens do continue
time. We’ll rest for 15 minutes and to support the far-right radical,
then get back out on to the pitch to who had insisted he would win
score the goals we didn’t score in yesterday despite all major polling
normal time,” he said. firms predicting his defeat.

Earlier in the day, thousands “There’s no doubt in my mind.
of elated Lula supporters packed It’ll be a win in the first round. He’s
Augusta Street to catch a glimpse the best thing for this country,” said
of their leader and toast the Wellington Moreira Costa, 73, a
astonishing political revival of a retired military officer, as he voted
politician who only three years in Rio. “He has done an excellent
ago was in jail for corruption job,” agreed Micheline Delolmo, 42,
convictions that were later a pharmacist, as she waited to vote
quashed. “He is the exit route with a Brazilian flag draped over
from the nightmare we are living her shoulders.
through,” said Juliano Medeiros,
the president of the Socialism and
Liberty party, one of the groups in
Lula’s coalition.

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▼ Tarragona, Spain 23

A human tower reaches its peak at a
Concurs de Castells competition, a
tradition at festivals in Catalonia

PHOTOGRAPH: DAVID RAMOS/GETTY IMAGES

• The Guardian Monday 3 October 2022

24 World
War in Ukraine

Zelenskiy: Lyman ‘fully
cleared’ of Russian forces

Luke Harding In Lyman, Ukrainian soldiers cele- he said. Local collaborators were
Kyiv brated their victory. They reclaimed “panicking”, he added.
the police station and burned a Rus-
Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine sian tricolour in a courtyard. One Ukraine also claimed to have lib-
had “fully cleared” Russian forces posted a jubilant video outside the erated a village in the south of the
from the key eastern city of Lyman local office of Denis Pushilin, the country, where its troops have been
a day after Moscow admitted its Kremlin-appointed head of the so- pressing on Russian positions around
troops had pulled out after they called Donetsk People’s Republic. the city of Kherson. Overnight they
were encircled. seized the village of Zolota Balka,
Pushilin was one of four pro- next to the Dnieper River. A video
In a video clip on his Telegram Russian “leaders” who attended shows a local resident posing with a
channel, Zelenskiy thanked Ukrain- a ceremony in Moscow on Friday soldier waving a Ukrainian flag.
ian troops for liberating Lyman. “As where an annexation treaty was
of 12.30 [Kyiv] local time Lyman is signed, with Russia’s political elite Russia’s defence ministry claimed
completely cleared,” he said, adding: looking on. Putin promised to use its forces had destroyed seven
“Glory to Ukraine.” “all means” to defend the Donetsk, Ukrainian artillery and missile depots
Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv
Earlier Zelenskiy said the army regions – an apparent threat to use and Donetsk provinces.
would continue its offensive in the nuclear weapons.
south and east and would “return It said the guidance radar for an
back” all of the territory occupied It was unclear how many Russians S-300 air defence missile system
by Russia, including Crimea. He sug- were killed during the chaotic retreat had also been destroyed near Nova
gested Russian generals were now from Lyman. Videos showed burned- Kaluha in the Kherson region, accord-
“biting each other” after a series of out vehicles, personal belongings ing to Reuters.
embarrassing setbacks. and dead soldiers strewn along a for-
est road. Ukrainian forces recovered Meanwhile, after a day of
Their loss of Lyman four months at least one T-72 tank that had suf- silence Moscow confirmed that it
after Russian forces seized the city fered minor damage. had “temporarily detained” the
in Donetsk oblast amounts to a head of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia
humiliating moment for Vladimir In an intelligence briefing, the UK’s nuclear power plant, which it has
Putin. On Friday, in a move that was Ministry of Defence said Russia’s occupied since March. A Russian
rejected by the international com- forces “probably suffered heavy cas- patrol abducted Igor Murashov on
munity, he had annexed Donetsk ualties” as they left the city. Lyman Friday afternoon while he was on
together with three other Ukrainian was important because it “commands his way to work.
regions, and said they were a part of a key road crossing over the Siverskyi
Russia “for ever”. Donets River behind which Russia Russia is trying to transfer the
has been trying to consolidate its Zaporizhzhia plant to the Russian
Zelenskiy said Ukraine’s armed defences”, it added. energy firm Rosatom, the head of
forces would continue to advance. Ukraine’s atomic energy company,
He predicted more “mismatches” Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Petro Kotin, has told the BBC. It is
between Putin’s rhetoric and the the Luhansk region, said Ukraine’s reportedly compelling employees
reality on the battlefield. Reports sug- counteroffensive in the Donbas who live in the city of Enerhodar to
gested Ukrainian troops were pushing region would carry on. sign Russian contracts.
forward from Lyman towards the
cities of Svatove and Kreminna. “In the near future we are waiting The International Atomic Energy
for the start of a large-scale process Agency has called on Russia to free
of de-occupation in Luhansk oblast,” Murashov. His detention posed a
threat to safety and security, it said.

‘I know we will win’ her dogs. “They’re not hitting us ‘The fall of Lyman it broke the morale of Russian
Life and hope return from Lyman any more,” she said, boosted the morale of troops. Then there is the political
to streets of Sloviansk adding that the long walk from Ukrainian troops as significance. Putin proclaimed this
the city centre where she lives “is well as civilians’ area as Russian and we already
Peter Beaumont fled to safer cities talking about now not too bad” with the reduced have it back.”
returning. The transformation, say shelling. “It’s been much quieter in Col Serhiy Cheravaty
FSloviansk residents, is most noticeable in the the last few days. I’m optimistic. I Ukrainian army Despite the rout of Russian
or the city of Sloviansk, countryside on the route towards believe … ” She stops herself. “No, I forces, and Lyman’s fall, Sloviansk
the recapture of the Lyman, where the roadside woods know that we will win.” ▼ Ukrainian troops on the Siverskyi was not entirely quiet. During
strategic hub of Lyman are dotted with minefield signs and Donets river in the liberated town of the Guardian’s visit yesterday
about 12 miles away shattered buildings. Where the frontline was once Izium PHOTOGRAPH: EVGENIY MALOLETKA/AP two shells exploded on the city’s
by Ukrainian forces situated further up this road, by outskirts. But it was quiet enough,
has brought a new A few miles outside the city, yesterday it had been pushed far said residents, to have made a
mood of optimism. Yesterday, as Viktor Kuznetzov, 37, a guard at beyond Lyman, where fighting noticeable difference.
a continuous stream of military a lumber yard, was pushing his continued with the remnants
traffic was visible leaving Sloviansk bicycle loaded with groceries he of Russian forces who had been The central market was busy
in the direction of Lyman, the had been to fetch from the city. forced into a chaotic retreat, fleeing with shoppers, while small
impact of the fall of the railway in a long convoy, under heavy
junction was already transforming Until last week, he explained, Ukrainian fire. In disarray, the
Sloviansk, a place that for months this area was under regular Russian Russians were reported to be facing
has been a ghost city. artillery fire. “We’ve been living ambushes in the Kreminna forest.
in the basement. There’s 40 of us
Bus services, long suspended sheltering in there. But it has got Speaking to the Guardian from
because of the danger of shelling quieter in the last week since Izium Lyman, Col Serhiy Cheravaty, of
and missiles, were operating again. fell, and now Lyman. Finally we the Ukrainian 24th Mechanised
Crowds bustled in the main market. hope we might survive this war.” Infantry Brigade, said that
Residents spoke of some who had Ukrainian forces were still pursuing
Walking towards her dacha near fleeing Russians where they could.
an abandoned lake resort, Tatiana
Luganov, 60, was bringing food to Describing the importance
of Lyman he said: “First is its
geographic significance. We have
opened the gates to Luhansk and
Sievierodonetsk. Second is the
psychological aspect. The fall of
Lyman has boosted both the morale
among Ukrainian troops as well as
civilians, while on the other hand

Monday 3 October 2022 The Guardian •

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▼ Ukrainian soldiers distribute aid
in the recently liberated town of
Izium, 30 miles north of Lyman

PHOTOGRAPH: EVGENIY MALOLETKA/AP

Potsdam ▲ The Minsk Kunsthaus, a former
Renovated cafe in GDR-era Potsdam, was saved
Soviet-era by the entrepreneur Hasso Plattner
relic ‘healing
a wound’ PHOTOGRAPH: LADISLAV ZAJAC

informal markets for vegetables Mark Hamill strikes back early July after weeks of grinding Kate Connolly roughshod over the feelings of East
and second-hand goods had ‘Ukraine needs drones’ advances. “The liberation of this Germans. Many felt their identities
popped up in several places. city in the Donetsk region is one FPotsdam and biographies were erased as
The Star Wars actor Mark Hamill of the key factors for the further or almost three much of the social furniture of their
At her kiosk selling shoes, Olha has said Ukraine needs more de-occupation of the Luhansk decades, it appeared to lives was done away with. Nowhere
Mamukashavili, 54, was optimistic drones and compared Russia to region,” Haidai wrote yesterday. have been consigned in the former GDR has architecture
that the threat to Sloviansk was at the dark side of the force in the to the scrap heap of been such a focal point of this sense
last receding. “It’s not completely film series. Hamill, who played Only on the frontline beyond history, a relic of East of neglect than in Potsdam.
quiet,” she said. “But it is getting Luke Skywalker, was made an Kostiantynivka are Russian forces German communism
busier since the Russians were ambassador to the United24 still trying to advance around the considered as redundant and The erstwhile seat of Prussian
pushed out of Kharkiv and now fundraising project by President towns of Bakhmut and Soledar, unsightly as the Berlin Wall and kings and the kaiser, and with an
Lyman. People are starting to come Volodymyr Zelenskiy. “[Zelenskiy] failing to make headway even as destined to fall victim to the abundance of baroque architecture
back. We have water, electricity and did reference the movies,” Hamill the Lyman sector has collapsed. wrecking ball. to match, its post-communist
even public transport.” told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg. reconstruction has often been
“Star Wars [is] a fairytale … and While the situation has improved But a former terrace cafe in viewed as analogous with West
The tide has turned in the fairytales are morality tales of in Sloviansk, 40 minutes’ drive Potsdam, just west of Berlin, is German arrogance. Many rich
frontline cities of the Donbas since good versus evil … it’s not hard away in Kostiantynivka the sound being lauded as a showpiece of blow-ins from the west bought
spring and summer. Then the story to extrapolate an evil empire of Putin’s war is still starkly audible, socialist-realist architecture having up its historic villas and other
was of a grinding Russian advance with Russia invading a sovereign the booms echoing from Bakhmut been saved from demolition by a buildings, many of which the East
backed by massive artillery fire nation.” Asked if the platform in the distance. billionaire German businessman German regime had neglected.
that encircled and swallowed up would be used to supply lethal who has recast it as an art gallery. At the same time, they supported
the towns and cities in this area. technology, he said: “Ukraine At the central bus station the the demolition of Soviet-era
Now that tide is in reverse, with needs drones.” Emily Dugan sound of the distant fighting is The Minsk Kunsthaus, or art architecture, from high-rise
Russian forces in the east from clearer still with a dull thud almost house, will display Hasso Plattner’s housing to college buildings, which
Kharkiv down to Lyman either once a minute. extensive collection of East German they considered ugly and soulless.
being scattered in retreat or – like art, a genre that has frequently
Lyman – facing a devastating rapid Nadia Andriivna, 70, seemed been sidelined since the fall of the Plattner, a co-founder of the
encirclement and destruction. unperturbed. “The only reason GDR in 1989, but which is enjoying software company SAP, who lives
I am still here is that I am an something of a revival. in a classical villa designed by Mies
The significance of the liberation optimist. We hope that we are van der Rohe that housed Winston
of Lyman, and the continuing winning now. Our challenge is to Elegant in its simplicity, the Churchill during the post-war
offensive, was underlined by make them run away.” modernist construction – once a Potsdam Conference in 1945, has
Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the popular local meeting point and long fought criticism he is one of
Luhansk region that neighbours In Lyman, Cheravaty agreed. venue for discos and coming-of- the besser-wessis – a play on “know-
Donetsk, who said control over “I can’t tell you what will happen age celebrations – has been given a it-all” and “westerner” – who have
Lyman could help Ukraine reclaim next, but after the success in new spiral staircase and a cafe with fuelled soaring house prices.
lost territory in his region, whose Lyman our general, Oleksandr broad panoramic windows by the
capture Moscow announced in Sirskyi [the commander of architects Linearama from Genoa. Local opposition to restoring the
Ukrainian ground forces], will be Its thought-provoking exhibition Minsk by some – who said it was an
preparing his next steps.” on landscape and allotments is unwanted expression of delayed
attracting visitors and praise from ostaglie, or nostalgia, for the East
art critics across Europe. – softened after recognition that
Potsdam’s post-communist train
Hans-Dieter Rutsch, who station and leisure centre were
documented the building’s arguably far uglier than anything
reinvention in a film, has called the socialist era had served up.
it “an attempt to heal a wound”.
Others have described it as a In Rutsch’s documentary the
gesture of reconciliation. Minsk’s architect, Karl-Heinz
Birkholz, talked of how painful
The Minsk is something of a he had found the neglect of his
metaphor, say observers of German building. Giving the revamped
unification in 1990, for the way in version his blessing, he said:
which the executors of the process “She’s getting her time again.”
of merging the two countries ran
▲ The Minsk in 1980. It is now hailed
as a showpiece of East German design

• The Guardian Monday 3 October 2022
26

Pensions Regulator
called into crisis
talks on calming
market turmoil

Kalyeena Makortoff for magnifying last week’s crisis, is Sanctions Luxury properties linked
Banking correspondent also being examined. to Russian oligarchs ‘still not frozen’

The Pensions Regulator has for the Those products, known as liability-
first time been drafted into high-level driven investments (LDIs), have been
emergency talks led by the Treasury widely used by mostly final-salary
and Bank of England as they examine pension funds managing more
measures to calm financial markets than £1.5tn in savings to help hedge
in the wake of the meltdown follow- against swings in investment values.
ing Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget.
However, a plunge in the pound
The watchdog, which oversees the and a collapse in UK bond prices
£1.5tn pension sector, is understood triggered calls on fund managers
to have been summoned into closed- to provide more collateral on those
door meetings of the Authorities’ complex contracts, meaning they had
Response Framework (ARF), which to sell assets at short notice.
are triggered when an “incident or
threat” could cause major disruption But those fire sales further
to financial services in the UK. depressed prices, causing more vol-
atility in the value of their assets.
Officials will now consider how to That, in turn, triggered larger collat-
further respond to the meltdown that eral calls, sparking a much-feared
followed the chancellor’s speech and “doom loop”.
forced the Bank to intervene with a
£65bn bond-buying programme in Con Keating, chair of the bond
order to avoid a pensions crisis. commission of the European Feder-
ation of Financial Analysts Societies,
The secretive ARF was established said the most effective way to avoid a
in response to the 2007-08 financial similar crisis would be to ban the use
crisis. It is meant to be a forum for of LDI strategies altogether.
top Treasury officials and key City
regulators – the Bank and the Finan- “There are many possible ‘solu-
cial Conduct Authority – to address tions’, but the only one that will work
threats to financial stability. involves ensuring that schemes can-
not indulge in the practices that led
It is understood this is the first time us to this,” he said.
the Pensions Regulator – led by the
industry veteran Charles Counsell – Keating said the Pensions Regula-
has taken part, highlighting the scale tor itself should also be questioned
of the crisis. over why it allowed the use of these
hedging contracts, adding he was
Experts said options likely to be concerned the regulator would
considered by the forum included advise against a ban on LDIs, in order
the creation of a “back-stop fund” to avoid tarnishing its reputation.
– controlled by the Bank to cover
larger-than-expected collateral calls. The Bank and the Treasury
A ban on the use of risky financial declined to comment. A spokes-
products, which have been blamed person for the Pensions Regulator
declined to comment on the meetings
but said it was “monitoring the situa-
tion in the financial markets closely”.

Bank follows the crowd Jasper Jolly questions about whether they banker, listed as an owner. Soloviev
NatWest raises mortgage rates should have been flagged. was the chairman of the board of
T he UK government’s VTB, a bank with alleged close
The government-backed lender It is understood that the bank ability to investigate The properties in question links to Russia’s government,
NatWest has become the last big had been struggling to keep up the true ownership of include Witanhurst, a £50m house although the bank has since
bank to raise interest rates on with applications after rivals properties has come in Highgate said to be London’s reportedly said he left the board
its mortgage products after last suspended mortgage lending last into question after second biggest home after on the day the invasion of Ukraine
week’s market turmoil, dashing week. The market turbulence researchers found Buckingham Palace, and other started. Soloviev and VTB did not
homeowners’ hopes of securing – sparked by concern about the £700m-worth of homes previously valuable homes previously linked respond to requests to comment.
loans with rates lower than 4%. government’s mini-budget – made linked to sanctioned oligarchs are to the former Chelsea football club Yevtushenkov and Sistema
it difficult for banks to price home not flagged for asset freezes. owner Roman Abramovich and the declined to comment.
NatWest issued a notice to loans accurately. By Thursday, 40% billionaire Oleg Deripaska.
brokers yesterday, saying it was of mortgage products had been The campaign group Oligarchs hit by sanctions
increasing rates on a swathe of pulled from the market. Transparency International UK Three are owned directly by are banned by law from selling
mortgages following a surge in has identified 33 houses, flats and people with names matching those property without explicit
demand. Most of its rates, which A NatWest spokesperson said office blocks in London and Surrey designated for sanctions. A £31m permission under an asset freeze
previously hovered around 3-4%, the bank kept all of its products that are not marked as restricted home in Holland Park has an owner that permits transactions only
will rise to between 4% and 6% “under continual review in on the UK property register, which listed as Vladimir Yevtushenkov, for the necessities to live, such as
from Monday, bringing it in line line with market conditions”. it said have been publicly linked the largest shareholder in the utility bills and food. Restriction
with its competitors. Kalyeena Makortoff to sanctioned individuals, raising Russian IT business Sistema, notices on the Land Registry’s titles
and two flats in exclusive parts alert potential buyers, estate agents
of Hampstead and Westminster and lawyers that a property can be
have Yuri Soloviev, an influential

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Larry Elliott 27
Kwarteng’s plans make
recession more likely
Page 28

Hamstone ▲ A house in Co-founder of a site in Newport acquired for £1m
House in Kensington Bulb plans to earlier this year.
Surrey has Palace Gardens expand battery
been linked to that has been storage venture Its first site, in Oldham, will
the billionaire associated with into Italy become operational in the next few
Oleg Deripaska Abramovich weeks, earning the company reve-
Alex Lawson nues for the first time.
Roman Abramovich’s Energy correspondent
UK assets were frozen Field, which is registered as
in March this year The co-founder of the collapsed Virmati Energy, and backed by high-
energy supplier Bulb is planning to profile investors, posted a pre-tax
expand his loss-making battery stor- loss of £2.65m in the 15 months to
age venture into Europe as the energy 31 March 2022, in its first financial
crisis escalates. statements since it was set up in 2020.

Amit Gudka hopes to grow Field Gudka’s former venture Bulb
Energy, the business he set up after has been in a government-handled
leaving Bulb in February 2021, on administration since last November.
the continent as countries attempt
to switch toward renewable power. The cost of bailing out Bulb could
top £4bn by next spring. Bulb had
Field Energy finances, builds and 1.7 million customers when it col-
operates battery storage sites in the lapsed last year. It is the largest
UK, pumping renewable power into company to fail during the energy
the grid. Battery storage systems crisis, which has toppled more than
charge up when there is high supply 30 firms.
and low demand, and release power
back to the grid during peak periods. Gudka founded Bulb with Hayden
Wood in 2015. They extracted £4m
Gudka told the Guardian that the each in a 2018 fundraising, but had
fledgling company had begun scout- their holdings – once valued at more
ing for locations in Italy. He added: than £100m each – wiped out by the
“The expectation is that there’s going collapse. Wood stayed on during
to be demand in the north – and a lot the administration, facing criticism
of renewables are being built in the over his £250,000 salary, and has now
south – so a good place for storage in joined Giant Ventures as an adviser.
quite a long grid will be the centre of The venture capital firm is an inves-
the country.” tor in Field.

He said the company was also Gudka declined to comment on
interested in operating in Germany events after his departure from Bulb.
in future: “It is a large market with a
huge amount of renewables.” In the accounts, Virmati’s direc-
tors said rising prices of lithium and
Field’s international ambitions increased shipping costs had hit
come despite a relatively small foot- construction costs, but Gudka said
print in the UK, where it has four conditions had improved since the
battery storage facilities, including start of the year.

Field raised £77m of fresh funding
in June to finance its build of renew-
able energy infrastructure, including
a £47m debt facility from Triple Point
Energy Efficiency Infrastructure. It
received £30m of investment from
investment platform Plural.

Field hopes to have 1.3-gigawatt
hours of UK battery storage opera-
tional by 2024.

sold only with explicit permission that gave a company at Chelsea’s say it is reasonable for authorities Fears of global debt crisis as rates
from the Office of Financial stadium as its service address. to examine properties controlled by soar for low-income countries
Sanctions Implementation (OFSI). • Hamstone House, a £7m Surrey family members or close associates
art deco mansion in the gated of people designated for sanctions, Larry Elliott provided data faced much higher
There are 106 properties subject St George’s Hill estate that has been as they may in some cases be held Economics editor than average interest rates, led by
to sanctions restrictions, 92 of linked to Deripaska. The property on behalf of another person. Ukraine, which has seen the cost of
which have been added since is owned via Cyprus-incorporated Fears of a deepening global debt crisis its new borrowing rise from 10.2% to
Russia launched its invasion on Edenfield Investments. UK government guidance says have been highlighted by research 46% since the start of the year.
24 February, the Land Registry said. • Witanhurst, reportedly linked asset freezes can apply even if showing that low-income countries
via a series of companies to the property is held in another person’s are paying rocketing interest on their Ethiopia and Zambia have seen
Britain has used financial chemicals magnate Andrey name, if it is reasonable to believe foreign borrowing. 25-point increases in their debt ser-
retaliation as one of its main Guryev. The property is owned via that the designated person has vicing costs, as measured by the
responses to the invasion of Boradge Ltd, incorporated in the control of it either directly or Analysis by the campaign group yield – or interest rate – on their for-
Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s regime. British Virgin Islands. indirectly. Debt Justice found that while inter- eign currency bonds. Interest rates
The government said it hoped to est rates had been rising for rich and for two-thirds of the countries stud-
impose a “large and lasting cost on Deripaska denied owning Margaret Hodge, a Labour MP poor countries since the start of 2022, ied are now above 10%, intensifying
Putin and those close to him”. Hamstone House when approached who has campaigned to improve increases had been severe for some of debt problems and making it all but
by the Guardian. His spokesperson the UK’s transparency laws, the most vulnerable nations. impossible to borrow from private
The findings by Transparency denied he was linked to Putin said: “These important findings lenders, the campaign group said.
International will raise questions and said the property belonged demonstrate that there could With debt relief set to be high on
about the impact of financial to a relative. Guryev’s London- be glaring gaps in our sanctions the agenda at the annual meeting Heidi Chow, the executive director
sanctions. Many of those not based lawyers said: “Mr Guryev regime stemming from a total lack of the World Bank, which begins on of Debt Justice, said: “Many countries
marked as restricted are owned by does not own Witanhurst,” of transparency in much of our 10 October, Debt Justice said inter- were already cutting essential spend-
opaque shell companies, but have without providing further details. financial world, especially our est rates had risen by an average of ing before rising interest rates made
been linked in previous reports Abramovich did not respond to a property market.” 5.7 percentage points for low-income an alarming situation even worse.
to oligarchs, according to leaked request for comment. countries, compared with a two-
documents. These include: A spokesperson for HM Land point increase in the US. “We urgently need mechanisms to
• A £90m home in Kensington The research highlights the Registry said some properties quickly cancel debts for countries in
Palace Gardens which has been continued role of offshore secrecy would not be marked as Many of the 27 countries that need, especially high-interest loans
repeatedly reported as belonging jurisdictions in obscuring the true restricted because there was not from private lenders.”
to Abramovich. The Land owners of properties. enough evidence of ownership,
Registry lists the owner as A Corp particularly if they were owned via
Trustee Ltd, a Cyprus company Financial transparency experts anonymous trusts.

• The Guardian Monday 3 October 2022

28 Financial The squeeze on public spending
▼ The Bank of England was forced is one reason why Truss can kiss
into an emergency programme of goodbye to hopes that her mix of
bond buying to save pension funds tax cuts and supply-side reforms
PHOTOGRAPH: TOLGA AKMEN/EPA will boost growth in the months
ahead. A more important factor will
All shook up Kwarteng’s plan a reason why the Bank of England be higher interest rates.
makes recession more likely was forced into an emergency
programme of bond buying to On the day before Kwarteng’s
Larry Elliott stuff that happens in developing the pound nearing the levels it prevent a run on UK pension funds. mini-budget, the Bank raised
countries than in rich, developed had been at before Kwarteng These were the results of blunders interest rates by half a percentage
L iz Truss became prime nations. A full-blown emerging- announced his tax changes, made by Truss and Kwarteng. point to 2.25% – deciding against a
minister promising market-style crisis still looks a this has come at a cost. Bond bigger increase because it thought
to shake things up long way off because, unlike a yields – in effect the interest rate Global interest rates have been the UK was in recession. As it
and she has certainly troubled emerging market, the the government pays on its new rising all year, but this should happens, an upward revision to
done that. In less than UK has its own currency and can borrowing – have risen sharply. have made the prime minister and growth in the second quarter
a month, the new in the last resort print pounds to “In effect the UK now has to offer chancellor more cautious about means the economy is not actually
government has sent interest cover its borrowing. much higher returns to global announcing a package of unfunded in recession, but the respite is
rates soaring, crashed the pound, investors to sustain the same and unaudited tax cuts without certain to be brief.
torpedoed the property market, But the UK is running both a currency value that prevailed, squaring off the markets first. It
made recession inevitable and left whopping trade deficit and a big with much lower rates, before the was not as if Truss and Kwarteng Huw Pill, the Bank’s chief
her party on course for a defeat of (and growing) budget deficit, and announcement,” says Krishna Guha had not been warned; they were economist, has warned that
epic proportions at the next general relies on investors to finance them. of the investment banking advisory but chose to ignore the advice of “significant” increases in interest
election. Not bad for starters. The Truss can dismiss criticism of her firm Evercore. officials and outside experts. The rates can be expected at the next
encore will have to be good to plans all she likes, but the fact decision to go ahead without any meeting of the monetary policy
match the debut. remains last week’s events have The government has tried to form of scrutiny from the Office committee, and financial markets
made the UK appear a much riskier argue that the UK is not alone for Budget Responsibility was currently expect official borrowing
As the economist Mohamed place for those investors, who are in facing higher interest rates especially reckless. costs to keep on rising to 6%.
El-Erian has noted, the mayhem now demanding higher interest or currency weakness. This is
since Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini- rates to take a punt on the UK. true, but that does not explain The upshot is that the mini- Make no mistake, if the Bank
budget was more typical of the why briefly last week the pound budget will have precisely the does push rates anywhere close
So while some stability had reached a record low against the US opposite results of those intended. to 6% it had better be prepared for
returned to currency markets dollar. Nor does it pass muster as Truss hit out at Treasury orthodoxy a colossal recession. Already last
by the end of last week, with and abacus economics but now week there were signs of trouble
both are back with a vengeance. ahead from the mortgage market,
Whitehall departments have been where more than a thousand
told to make efficiency savings home loan products were pulled
and the Treasury has made clear by lenders watching what was
it has no intention of reopening happening to bond yields and the
last year’s spending round, even expected path of official Bank rates.
though the settlements agreed
now buy less owing to higher than Many home buyers have taken
expected inflation. It looks highly out mortgages at high multiples
likely that state benefits will not be of their incomes in the belief
raised in line with inflation. permanently low interest rates
will make them affordable. That
And if Truss had any thoughts assumption now lies in tatters,
of exerting more control over the and floating-rate mortgage holders
Bank of England after its failure and those whose fixed-rate
to prevent inflation reaching a terms are coming to an end face
40-year high, those plans have now huge increases in their monthly
been abandoned after last week’s payments. The supply of new
Threadneedle Street pension buyers will quickly dry up. House
fund rescue. “The government prices will fall.
has managed to make the Bank
of England look good, which is The irony is that the first
some achievement,” one leading budget of a supposedly pro-
economist says. growth government has made
recession more, not less, likely.
The irony is that The government can introduce
the first budget of supply-side reforms in the months
a supposedly pro- ahead, but if interest rates stay
growth government high to placate jittery investors the
has made recession trend growth rate will be lower,
more, not less, likely not higher.

Britain’s economic history is
scattered with budgets that have
quickly unravelled: Kwarteng’s is
in a class of its own.

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• Football The Guardian Monday 3 October 2022
30
How Aubameyang Rugby union
could be the one to
break No 9 curse Quins edge out
Saints in thriller
Page 39 at sunny Stoop

Page 31

Fear of change ▲ The Eton v Harrow over whether to host a couple of historic fixtures merits
MCC clutching its match is no longer a little more than an eyeroll. Only at MCC, one of sport’s
pearls over outdated high-class sporting contest most conservative institutions, do malcontents rebel
Eton v Harrow and and fails to entice MCC not because they demand change but because they
Varsity matches members to attend emphatically don’t. Some have threatened to resign
their membership which, given a 29-year waiting list, is
Emma John ALEX DAVIDSON/GETTY IMAGES unlikely to hurt the club and might actually move it in a
more progressive direction.
There’s a classic Fry and Laurie sketch
where two Test Match Special-style Not that anyone will follow through on the threat.
commentators work themselves into a It would mean sacrificing a privilege, the very thing
state of ecstasy with their observations they’re protesting against. After all, the matches under
on pigeons, buses, mown grass and debate are nothing but privileges. Eton v Harrow and
the like. “Creamy old England … Oxford v Cambridge are no longer high-class sporting
custard creams … strawberries and contests nor must-attend social events – as evidenced
cream!” they yelp, climactically. The by the fact that MCC members themselves don’t go
comic pair always enjoyed satirising the nostalgic cult to them and the teams play to an empty ground. The
of Englishness; now Stephen Fry is about to become circular argument from the camp wishing to keep the
president of one of the most nostalgically English games at Lord’s is that they should be better promoted.
institutions in sport. Mate, if you can’t be bothered to go yourself, don’t
think you’re going to persuade anyone else.
It’s a smart appointment, not least because absurdist
comedy is an excellent grounding for any role at Do four undeniably elitist academic establishments
Marylebone Cricket Club. Fry takes up his year-long deserve their own special day at the sport’s most
position as president in the wake of a big week for MCC. high-profile and in-demand ground, for the sole reason
First it had to weigh in with an official ruling on the they’ve always had one? That’s the fundamental
Charlie Dean run-out that capped and, in some minds, question here, which those in favour call “preserving
ruined England’s final ODI against India at Lord’s. history”, and those against call a jolly good run of luck
Then it temporarily reinstated the Eton v Harrow and for the 44 people they involve.
Varsity matches, whose removal had Henry Blofeld
threatening seppuku on his little red membership card. Lord’s doesn’t host Gentlemen v Players any more.
People don’t grieve the loss. It remains a much-told
All this made headlines because MCC, whose part of the club’s story. No one is vandalising history
18,000-strong membership exists largely as a cheap because they’re comfortable with the suggestion that
subscription to seats at Test matches, retains a legacy two moribund fixtures find a new home – smaller
influence in the administration of the game. Also grounds would infuse them with more atmosphere
because there’s nothing more schadenfreudean than and might even revive their popularity. It’s not
the words “civil war at Lord’s”. The conciliatory event disrespectful to the heritage of the most famous cricket
last Tuesday – when a potentially rancorous meeting pitch in the world to increase chances to play on it.
and divisive vote was called off at the last minute
through compromise on both sides – was inevitably The proposal is for the Eton v Harrow and Oxbridge
reported as a humiliating U-turn. It was even said to matches to be replaced by the finals of two new
be an embarrassment for Fry, who had no role in the school and university competitions, incentivising and
proceedings and seems constitutionally unlikely to be ultimately rewarding the best young players in the
embarrassed by any of this. country. Even the over-my-dead-body traditionalists,
championing matches they don’t go to, don’t challenge
Outside the Grace and Heyhoe Flint Gates, the fuss the merit or intent of that idea.

They focus instead on scholastic arguments about
how many playing days can be accommodated on
the Lord’s square, and complain – this isn’t a joke, by
the way, but actually part of their submission – that
there were many more matches in 1962. The calendar
60 years ago is utterly irrelevant today, given that
it involved the preparation of far fewer – and worse
quality – wickets.

But then they know that, because they’re cricket
lovers. This is a symbolic protest, a proxy battle, a howl
of frustration at a world that’s changing too quickly.
MCC has form at fighting last century’s battles; it took
three separate attempts to secure female membership,
and that wasn’t till the 1990s, for God’s sake. The
club has got it wrong on justice and equality so many
times in its long existence, maybe this pearl-clutching
reaction is indeed another way of preserving history.

What’s crazy is that MCC requires a purpose. Ever
since it ceased to be cricket’s mover, shaker, and
ultimate authority, it has needed justification for its
oversized influence. Being a repository of the past, or
the landlord of the most famous ground, isn’t enough.

Many members are rightly proud of its pioneering
experiments, the fact that it can use its exceptional
independent wealth and connections to improve and
grow the game. If the club wants to continue to play
the part it believes it should, then it must demonstrate
leadership – and leadership for the game as it is today,
not as it was 200 years ago.

No wave of resignations followed the vote for
women, incidentally. Most men in the Long Room
now consider it a point of pride to have a co-ed club.
Plenty of new traditions that benefit patrons have been
embraced, not least an entire second Test match a year.
MCC, which has nurtured cricket for centuries, is full of
people who love the game obsessively. Which of them
shouldn’t be proud of an action that increases cricket’s
relevance today – for everyone?

Monday 3 October 2022 The Guardian •

Sport Acrobatic 31
finishing
Racing the gun-metal grey sauntered into touch for
the lead a furlong and a half out, with Quins
‘Eccentric’ Morris motionless in her saddle.
Prescott has Cadan
Arc victory “I always thought that the best day Murley dives
to crown of my racing life was when I rode a over to help
long career winner on my first ride at 15 or 16,” Harlequins
Prescott said. “It had no chance of prevail in a
Greg Wood winning, and it won. I had a girlfriend high-scoring
Longchamp and we walked out down the track, contest
and there was an old man banging
With all due respect to Luke Morris, in divots and he said: ‘What won the ASHLEY WESTERN/
who was flawless aboard Alpinista on first?’ And I said: ‘I did,’ and I thought COLORSPORT/
his first ever ride in the Prix de l’Arc de it was the best moment of my life, but SHUTTERSTOCK
Triomphe, the toughest job here fell this is every bit as good.
to the security team trying to usher Rugby union card following a collision with Will
Sir Mark Prescott, her trainer, from “I think she’s improved with Evans. The referee, Tom Foley, had
the winner’s enclosure towards the every single run in the last two years. Musk double propels initially decided no card was neces-
post-race press conference. At every Whether she can go on more, I don’t Harlequins to victory sary, only to be alerted to the exist-
other step, well-wishers were extend- know, but she’s been faultless for two ence of a further video angle.
ing hands, exchanging teary kisses years, and the jockey’s been faultless Harlequins 35 am I in this industry?’” admitted
and even stopping Newmarket’s for two years. This is her best race but Northampton 29 their head coach, Tabai Matson. “I’ve Northampton have now been
longest-serving trainer for selfies, every single one of the last seven has actually thought of getting an Apple shown six yellow cards in four games,
as they shared the general delight been better than the one before, so it’s Robert Kitson watch to see what my heart rate is. It’s making them the worst early offend-
at one of the most popular big-race been a marvellous journey.” Twickenham Stoop a pretty brutal industry and winning ers in the league, and paid the price
successes for years. and losing has an impact on you as a again here when Musk was driven
Prescott has trained several gen- There was never much chance of a coach. But this club is adamant that over for his second try eight min-
Prescott, who is 74, took over the erations of Alpinista’s family for dull, try-less slugging match between playing an exciting game of football utes into the second half. They were
licence at the historic, 50-box Heath Kirsten Rausing, her owner, includ- two sides fully committed to play- can be successful. It’s fantastic to suitably relieved, then, when slick
House stables in Newmarket, where ing Albanova, her grand-dam, a ing their rugby on the front foot. Sure coach and the players love the chal- passing put the increasingly prolific
horses have been trained since the three-time Group One winner, and enough the result was another wildly lenge of moving the ball.” Tommy Freeman over, the eighth
17th century, in 1970. At the time, he his famous reluctance to travel too far fluctuating try-fest, with Harlequins league game in a row in which he has
was the youngest trainer in Britain. from his Newmarket home may yet be surviving a concerted final-quarter At least Matson can sleep more eas- scored a try.
In the 53 seasons since, he has landed tested again this season before Alpin- comeback from a Northampton team ily this week. It is usually Quins who
Group Ones and gaff-track gambles, ista retires to the breeding sheds. who registered four tries but could specialise in unlikely comebacks but Things would have become even
shown famous loyalty to his relative conceivably have scored twice as here they were 14-0 up inside seven more interesting had Coles, just a
handful of stable jockeys and turned “We need to think a bit and dis- many. minutes, courtesy of tries by Musk few metres short, not allowed the
into both a historian and the elder cuss,” Rausing said, before suggest- and Lennox Anyanwu and North- ball to slip from his grasp or Ludlam
statesman of Flat racing’s famous HQ. ing the Japan Cup and Breeders’ Cup Quins, who have now scored 20 ampton’s early inability to hang on not had a close-range ‘try’ ruled out
Turf as possible targets for her much- tries in their four league games so far, to the ball. Three or four times in the by the eagle-eyed TMO for a double
“Eccentric” and “old-school” are coveted first winner of the Arc. had been leading 35-15 with 12 min- first half alone the Saints made it into movement. The latter moment led in
two descriptions that follow Prescott utes left with the hooker Jack Musk the home 22 only to spill possession effect to a 14-point swing with Quins
around, in much the same way that Prescott, who travelled to Japan contributing two tries and the cen- when opportunity knocked, not least surging back upfield, taking a quick
a cloud of smoke was ever-present with Albanova’s full sister, Alborada, tre Luke Northmore impressing once when Mitchell delayed too long with tap and putting the acrobatic Cadan
until he quit his 10-a-day Cuban cigar in 1999, only for the mare to go lame again. Last-quarter tries from George options outside him. Murley over in the left corner. Saints,
habit a few years ago. His enthusiasm before the race, would be keen for Furbank and Tom James, however, to their credit, battled back well but,
for blood sports, which dates back another go – “I’m sure Miss Raus- propelled the Saints right back into Quins needed no second invi- as their director of rugby, Phil Dow-
to a visit to Pamplona for the bull ing’s eagle eye will have observed, the game and only a desperate late tation. They also have one of the son, acknowledged, their sluggish
run in his teens, could be a sticking- but she gets a $3m bonus if she’s lucky turnover saved the hosts from last- form backs in the competition in start had already left them with “a
point for some, but he is, essentially, enough to win the Japan Cup,” he gasp embarrassment. Northmore and the uncapped centre mountain to climb”.
a complete one-off, and a tonic in an pointed out, while patting his wallet showed up well again on his 50th club
age when huge stables dominate – but immediate retirement probably It made for a nine-try thriller on appearance as he kept the defence Quins, meanwhile, were also
international Flat racing. remains the most likely option. a lovely sunny afternoon but a few guessing with the ball in both hands happy to attract a full house, with
Saints players will not be in any huge before carving through to score his their forthcoming home games
Vadeni, with the soon-to-be- For Prescott and Morris, mean- rush to check out the highlights. Alex side’s third try. against London Irish and Leicester
banned Christophe Soumillon in while, it will be back to the New- Coles, Alex Mitchell, Rory Hutchin- already sold out as well. Given the
the saddle, and Torquator Tasso, last market routine this morning, and so son and Lewis Ludlam could all have A penalty from Dan Biggar and a rival sporting attractions on offer
year’s shock winner, were closing in too for William Butler, the trainer’s scored or set up vital tries for the close-range try from Ludlam did drag it would strongly suggest a healthy
on Alpinista in the final strides and assistant for nearly 20 years, whose visitors which, in the final analysis, Saints back into the contest but their market does indeed exist for well-
her eventual winning margin was just accession to the top job is now likely proved crucial. profligacy continued to cost them. marketed, family-friendly club
half a length. The race was in effect to be delayed once again. Most glaring was Hutchinson’s deci- rugby. Entertaining games like this
over, however, from the moment that Even so it would have been mighty sion to ignore the man outside him one do no harm, either.
“I haven’t won an English Clas- tough on Quins, having lost out in the on the left and go for glory, only for
sic, I’m very ashamed of it, but I’m final seconds in Exeter the previous the Scotland international to be bun-
very proud of having won the Prix weekend, had they been pipped dled into touch by Archie White and
de Diane [French Oaks] and even again. “At times you wonder: ‘Why Tyrone Green.
more proud of having won today,”
Prescott said. It left Saints needing to overcome
a 21-10 half-time deficit, a task made
“I’ve trained for Miss Rausing for no easier when their big lock Lukhan
36 years and Luke’s been with me 11 Salakaia-Loto was shown a yellow
years. It’s hard to imagine a better day
if you’re a trainer. I think poor William
will view this with mixed emotions.
It will probably keep me tottering on
a bit longer. He’s worked so hard, but
it’s probably bad news for him.”

Harlequins Northampton
Green; Marchant, Furbank; Freeman,
Northmore (David 60),
Anyanwu, Murley; Dingwall, Hutchinson
Smith, Care
(Gjaltema 66); Marler (Proctor 54), Collins
(capt; García Botta 74),
Musk (Riley 60), Louw (O Sleightholme 54);
(Kerrod 58), Lamb,
Herbst, Kenningham, Biggar, Mitchell (James 68);
Evans, White
(Jurevicius 65) Iyogun, Matavesi
Tries Musk 2, Anyanwu,
Northmore, Murley (Hayward 66) Petch
Cons Smith 5
(Hill 58), Salakaia-Loto,
▲ Luke Morris and Alpinista hold off the late challengers to win the Arc
Coles, Scott-Young
STEVEN CARGILL/RACINGFOTOS.COM/SHUTTERSTOCK
(Moon 44), Ludlam (capt;

Graham 66), Augustus

Tries Ludlam, Freeman,
Furbank, James

Cons Biggar 3 Pen Biggar
Sin-bin Salakaia-Loto (44)

Referee Tom Foley Attendance 14,500

• The Guardian Monday 3 October 2022

32 Sport Football results

The Premier League
week
ahead Leah Williamson Home Away Arsenal (1) 3 Tottenham (1) 1
will lead England P WD L F A W D L F A GD Pts Form
8 4 0 0 11 5 3 0 1 9 3 +12 21 WWWLWW Partey 20, Jesus 49 Kane 31pen
in a friendly on 8 4 0 0 20 5 2 2 0 9 4 +20 20 DWWDWW
Friday v USA 8 4 0 0 13 4 1 2 1 6 6 +9 17 WWDWWL Xhaka 67 60,278
7 210 6 2 2 1 1 8 6 +6 14 DWWLWD
Sky Bet League Two 1 Arsenal 7 210 6 4 2 0 2 4 6 0 13 DLWLWW Bournemouth (0) 0 Brentford (0) 0
Barrow v Mansfield; Bradford v 2 Manchester City 7 201 6 4 2 0 2 5 10 -3 12 LWWWWL 10,126
Stockport County; Colchester v 3 Tottenham 8 130 6 4 1 2 1 6 4 +4 11 DDLDDW
Harrogate; Crewe v Gillingham; 4 Brighton 8 211 8 9 1 1 2 5 6 -2 11 WLWLWL Crystal Palace (1) 1 Chelsea (1) 2
Doncaster v Leyton Orient; Grimsby v 5 Chelsea 7 2 2 0 15 5 0 2 1 3 4 +9 10 DLWWDD Édouard 7 Aubameyang 38
Crawley; Hartlepool v Carlisle; 6 Manchester Utd 8 2 1 1 10 6 0 3 1 5 6 +3 10 LDDWLD Gallagher 90
Newport County v Rochdale; 7 Newcastle 8 121 2 2 1 2 1 5 5 0 10 DDDDWW
Northampton v Salford City; 8 Fulham 7 220 6 2 0 1 2 4 8 0 9 DWLDLD Fulham (0) 1 Newcastle (3) 4
Stevenage v Swindon; Sutton Utd v 9 Liverpool 8 121 2 3 1 1 2 4 16 -13 9 LLDWDD
Tranmere; Walsall v AFC Wimbledon 10 Brentford 8 211 4 3 0 1 3 2 7 -4 8 LLLDWD Decordova-Reid 88 Wilson 11, Almirón 33 57
cinch Scottish Premiership 11 Everton 8 112 3 5 1 0 3 2 4 -4 7 LWDLLW
Dundee Utd v Aberdeen (6pm); 12 Leeds 8 112 5 6 1 0 3 3 7 -5 7 WLWLLL 22,913 S Longstaff 43
Hibernian v Motherwell; Livingston v 13 Bournemouth 7 112 5 6 0 2 1 3 5 -3 6 DWLDDL
Ross County; Rangers v St Mirren; St 14 Aston Villa 8 121 2 4 0 1 3 1 5 -6 6 LDDWLL Leeds (0) 0 Aston Villa (0) 0
Johnstone v Celtic (12.30pm) Sky 15 West Ham 7 103 5 8 0 1 2 1 9 -11 4 WDLLLL 36,582
Sports Football 16 Southampton 7 012 3 5 0 0 4 7 17 -12 1 LLLLLL
cinch Scottish Championship 17 Crystal Palace Liverpool (1) 3 Brighton (2) 3
Arbroath v Dundee; Ayr v Queen’s 18 Wolves Firmino 33 54 Trossard 4 17 83 (0) 3
Park; Morton v Hamilton; Raith v 19 Nottingham Forest Webster 63og (0) 2
Today Cricket Cove Rangers 20 Leicester (4) 6 Manchester Utd (0) 0
Fourth Women’s T20 International cinch Scottish League One Manchester City (0) 1 Antony 56
Football West Indies v New Zealand, North Airdrieonians v Queen of the South; Foden 8 44 72 (1) 2 Martial 84 90pen
Premier League Sound (3pm) Alloa v Dunfermline; Clyde v Haaland 34 37 64
Leicester v Nottm Forest (8pm) SSPL First Twenty20 International Montrose; FC Edinburgh v Kelty Everton
Australia v West Indies, Carrara (9.10am) Hearts; Peterhead v Falkirk Southampton Coady 52
Tennis cinch Scottish League Two Aribo 49 McNeil 54
ATP Astana Open Racing Albion v Bonnyrigg Rose; Forfar v 30,510
Kazakhstan (to Sun) Amazon Prime Kempton, Ludlow, Nottingham, East Fife; Stenhousemuir v Annan Wolves
ATP Japan Open Championship Sedgefield Athletic; Stirling v Dumbarton; West Ham
Tokyo (to Sun) Amazon Prime Stranraer v Elgin Scamacca 29
WTA J&T Banka Ostrava Open Thursday Rugby union (3pm unless stated) Bowen 54
Czech Republic (to Sun) Amazon Prime Women’s World Cup
WTA Jasmin Open Tunisia Football (7.45pm unless stated) Pool A Australia v New Zealand LEADING GOALSCORERS
Monastir (to Sun) Amazon Prime Uefa Europa League (7.15am). Pool C Fiji v England
Group A Arsenal v Bodø/Glimt (8pm) (4.45am); South Africa v France 17 Haaland (Manchester City). 7 Kane (Tottenham).
Racing BT Sport 2. Group E Omonia Nicosia (2.15am) 6 Foden (Manchester City); Mitrovic (Fulham).
Pontefract, Stratford, Windsor, v Man Utd (5.45pm) BT Sport 1 Gallagher Premiership 5 Firmino (Liverpool); Jesus (Arsenal); Toney (Brentford);
Wolverhampton Uefa Europa Conference League Bath v Gloucester BT Sport 2; Trossard (Brighton).
Group A Hearts v Fiorentina (8pm) Leicester v Sale; Worcester v
Tomorrow BT Sport 3. Group B Anderlecht v Harlequins Scotland
West Ham (5.45pm) BT Sport 2 RFU Championship
Football (7.45pm unless stated) Fifa Women’s World Cup Qualifier Caldy v Jersey Reds (3pm); Cornish CINCH PREMIERSHIP St Mirren (0) 2 Livingston (0) 1 Dunfermline 2 Peterhead 2; Falkirk 2 Clyde 0;
Uefa Champions League Scotland v Austria (7.35pm); Wales v Pirates v Ampthill (2.30pm); Doncaster P W D L F A GD Pts Baccus 69 Anderson 86 Kelty Hearts 1 Airdrieonians 0; Montrose 1 FC Edinburgh 2;
Group A Ajax v Napoli (8pm) BT Bosnia-Herzegovina (7.15pm) v Bedford Blues (2.30pm); Ealing Greive 90 5,366 A GD Pts Queen of the South 1 Alloa 1
Sport 5; Liverpool v Rangers (8pm) Trailfinders v Richmond (3pm); Celtic 8 7 0 1 27 4 +23 21 11 +10 17
BT Sport 2. Group B Club Brugge v Cricket Hartpury v Nottingham (2.30pm); CINCH CHAMPIONSHIP 11 +2 16 CINCH LEAGUE TWO
Atlético Madrid (8pm) BT Sport 6; Fifth Women’s T20 International London Scottish v Coventry (3pm) Rangers 8 6 1 1 20 8 +12 19 PW D L F 11 +3 14 P W D L F A GD Pts
Porto v Bayer Leverkusen (8pm) BT West Indies v New Zealand, North Cricket
Sport 7. Group C Bayern Munich v Sound (6.30pm) Tri-Nations T20 International St Mirren 8 5 0 3 10 9 +1 15 Partick 8 5 2 1 21 9 +3 14 Dumbarton 9 7 1 1 17 6 +11 22
Plzen (5.45pm) BT Sport 4; First One-Day International New Zealand v Pakistan, Christchurch 11 +4 13
Internazionale v Barcelona (8pm) BT India v South Africa, Lucknow (9am) (7am) BT Sport 1 Hibernian 8 4 2 2 11 7 +4 14 Queen’s Park 8 5 1 2 13 11 -3 9 Stirling Albion 9 5 2 2 18 10 +8 17
Sport 4. Group D Eintracht Frankfurt Racing 13 -2 8
v Tottenham (8pm) BT Sport 3; Golf Chelmsford, Chepstow, Hexham, Aberdeen 8 4 1 3 18 11 +7 13 Ayr 8 4 2 2 14 12 -5 8 Stenhousemuir 9 5 1 3 17 16 +1 16
Marseille v Sporting (5.45pm) BT DP World Open de España Newmarket, York 12 -5 7
Sport 1 Madrid (to Sun) Sky Sports Golf Hearts 8 4 1 3 13 12 +1 13 Inverness CT 8 4 2 2 12 12 -7 5 Stranraer 9 3 3 3 14 18 -4 12
Sky Bet Championship USPGA Shriners Children’s Open
Bristol City v Coventry Sky Sports Red Las Vegas (to Sun) Sky Sports Golf Livingston 8 4 0 4 7 11 -4 12 Dundee 8 4 1 3 15 East Fife 9 3 2 4 11 13 -2 11
Button; Cardiff v Blackburn (8pm) LPGA Mediheal Championship
Sky Sports Main Event/Sky Sports Somis, California (to Sun) St Johnstone 8 3 1 4 9 11 -2 10 Raith 83058 Elgin 8 2 4 2 18 15 +3 10
Football; Luton v Huddersfield Sky
Sports RB; Reading v Norwich (8pm) Racing Motherwell 8 3 1 4 8 11 -3 10 Cove Rangers 8 2 2 4 11 Bonnyrigg Rose 8 3 1 4 10 11 -1 10
Sky Sports Arena; Sheffield Utd v Ayr, Chelmsford, Exeter, Worcester
QPR Sky Sports RB; Sunderland v Ross County 8 1 2 5 4 13 -9 5 Morton 82247 Forfar 9 2 2 5 9 13 -4 8
Blackpool Sky Sports RB Friday
Sky Bet League One Kilmarnock 8 1 1 6 4 16 -12 4 Hamilton 81437 Annan Athletic 8 2 2 4 10 18 -8 8
Burton Albion v Fleetwood Town; Football (7.45pm unless stated)
Cheltenham v Bolton; Ipswich v Sky Bet Championship Dundee Utd 8 0 2 6 4 22 -18 2 Arbroath 81255 Albion Rovers 8 1 2 5 7 11 -4 5
Cambridge Utd; Plymouth v Sheffield QPR v Reading (8pm) Sky Sports Football
Wednesday cinch Scottish Championship Aberdeen (3) 4 Kilmarnock (1) 1 Ayr 0 Inverness CT 1; Cove Rangers 2 Arbroath 0; Bonnyrigg Rose 2 Stenhousemuir 4; East Fife 1
Sky Bet League Two Inverness CT v Partick BBC iPlayer Besuijen 22 Taylor 27 Hamilton 0 Dundee 2; Partick 5 Morton 1; Stirling Albion 2; Elgin 5 Annan Athletic 1;
Hartlepool v Doncaster; Stevenage v Women’s International Friendly Miovski 24pen 45 Queen’s Park 1 Raith 0 Forfar 0 Dumbarton 0; Stranraer 2 Albion Rovers 1
Sutton Utd; Swindon v Newport England v USA (8pm) ITV Stewart 63 16,348
County; Walsall v Northampton
cinch Scottish Premiership Rugby union Celtic (1) 2 Motherwell (1) 1 CINCH LEAGUE ONE HIGHLAND LEAGUE
Ross County v Motherwell Gallagher Premiership Furuhashi 15 Juranovic 36og P W D L F A GD Pts Buckie Thistle 7 Turriff Utd 1; Deveronvale 4 Keith 3;
cinch Scottish Championship Bristol v Exeter (7.45pm) BT Sport 1 Hatate 64 58,407 Forres Mechanics 4 Rothes 3; Huntly 1 Strathspey Thistle 0;
Cove Rangers v Dundee; Queen’s Park Dunfermline 8 4 4 0 11 4 +7 16 Inverurie Locos 0 Brechin 1; Nairn County P Wick Academy P.
v Morton Cricket Leading standings: 1 Brechin P8 Pts24;
cinch Scottish League One Second Twenty20 International FC Edinburgh 8 5 0 3 17 13 +4 15 2 Buckie Thistle 8-21; 3 Brora 8-19.
Montrose v Airdrieonians Australia v West Indies, Brisbane
(9.10am) BT Sport 1 Dundee Utd (0) 1 St Johnstone (2) 2 Airdrieonians 8 4 2 2 15 9 +6 14 LOWLAND LEAGUE
Cricket Tri-Nations T20 International Watt 82 May 15 Berwick 2 Bo’ness Utd 2; Caledonian Braves 2 East Kilbride 2;
Third Twenty20 International Bangladesh v Pakistan, Christchurch 7,977 Hallberg 39 Falkirk 8 4 2 2 12 9 +3 14 Cowdenbeath 5 East Stirlingshire 0; Cumbernauld Colts 1
India v South Africa, Indore (2.30pm) (3am) Stirling University 3; Edinburgh University 1 Broomhill 4;
Hearts (0) 0 Rangers (2) 4 Alloa 8 4 1 3 17 12 +5 13 Gala Fairydean 3 Celtic B 4; Gretna 2 Tranent 1;
Racing Racing Hearts B 2 Rangers B 3; Spartans 6 Dalbeattie Star 0.
Brighton, Huntingdon, Leicester, Chepstow, Newcastle, Newmarket, York 18,433 Colak 6 30, Morelos 76 Montrose 8 3 2 3 9 6 +3 11 Leading standings: 1 East Kilbride P13 Pts29;
Southwell Ross County 2 Rangers B 10-25; 3 Broomhill 12-25.
Saturday 4,243 Kent 90 Queen of the South 8 2 3 3 12 13 -1 9
Wednesday
Football (3pm unless stated) (0) 0 Hibernian (0) 2 Clyde 8 2 1 5 12 18 -6 7
Football (7.45pm unless stated) Premier League Porteous 46
Uefa Champions League Bournemouth v Leicester; Brighton v Boyle 80 Kelty Hearts 8 2 1 5 5 13 -8 7
Group E Chelsea v Milan (8pm) BT Tottenham (5.30pm) Sky Sports
Sport 2; Red Bull Salzburg v Dinamo Premier League; Chelsea v Wolves; Peterhead 8 1 2 5 8 21 -13 5
Zagreb (5.45pm) BT Sport 1. Group Man City v Southampton; Newcastle
F RB Leipzig v Celtic (5.45pm) BT v Brentford Sunday Other football
Sport 4; Real Madrid v Shakhtar Sky Bet Championship
Donetsk (8pm) BT Sport 6. Group G Birmingham v Bristol City; Blackburn Football (3pm unless stated) WOMEN’S CONTINENTAL LEAGUE CUP Beckenham Town 5 Binfield 3; Billericay 3 Biggleswade LIGUE 1
Man City v FC Copenhagen (8pm) BT v Rotherham; Blackpool v Watford; Premier League Town 3; Carshalton Athletic 0 Havant & Waterloovile 2;
Sport 3; Sevilla v Borussia Dortmund Coventry v Burnley; Millwall v Arsenal v Liverpool (4.30pm) Sky Group A Cheshunt 1 Kidderminster 2; Chester 0 Hanley Town 0; Ajaccio 1 Clermont 3; Auxerre 1 Brest 1; Lens L Lyon L;
(8pm) BT Sport 7. Group H Benfica v Middlesbrough; Norwich v Preston; Sports Premier League; Crystal Chorley 0 Blyth Spartans 1; Clitheroe 1 Bury 1; Coalville Lorient 2 Lille 1; Monaco 4 Nantes 1; Paris St-Germain 2
PSG (8pm) BT Sport 4; Juventus v Stoke v Sheff Utd; Swansea v Palace v Leeds (2pm) Sky Sports Durham (2) 3 Sheffield Utd (1) 3 Town 3 Sudbury 0; Congleton Town 1 Fylde 1; Dulwich Nice 1; Strasbourg 1 Rennes 3; Toulouse 4 Montpellier 2;
Maccabi Haifa (8pm) BT Sport 8 Sunderland; W est Brom v Luton; Premier League; Everton v Man Utd Walters 43 64 Hamlet 0 Folkestone Invicta 1; Gainsborough Trinity 0 Troyes 2 Reims 2. Friday Angers 0 Marseille 3.
Sky Bet Championship (all SSRB) Wigan v Cardiff (7pm) BT Sport 1; West Ham v Hardy 7 Rayner 78 Worksop Town 1; Gloucester 0 Merthyr Town 1; Hampton & Leading standings: 1 Paris St-Germain P9 Pts25;
Burnley v Stoke; Hull v Wigan; Sky Bet League One Fulham (2pm) Richmond 6 Paulton 1; Hanwell Town 1 Ebbsfleet Utd 2; 2 Marseille 9-23; 3 Lorient 9-22.
Middlesbrough v Birmingham; Barnsley v Exeter; Bristol Rovers v Sky Bet Championship Hepple 17 71pen Hendon 3 Herne Bay 2; Hornchurch 3 Braintree Town 0;
Preston v West Brom (8pm) Sky Cambridge Utd; Derby v Port Vale; Huddersfield v Hull (noon) SSF Hyde Utd 1 Darlington 0; King’s Lynn Town 6 Kettering 1; BUNDESLIGA
Sports Football; Rotherham v Forest Green v Bolton; Lincoln City v cinch Scottish Premiership (Durham won 5-3 on pens) Met Police 1 Chippenham 2; Oxford City 1 Plymouth
Millwall; Watford v Swansea Charlton; Morecambe v Ipswich; Kilmarnock v Hearts Parkway 1; Peterborough Sports 3 Hemel Hempstead 1; Cologne 3 Borussia Dortmund 2; Eintracht Frankfurt 2
cinch Scottish Premiership Oxford Utd v Wycombe; (played on Friday) Romford 0 Chelmsford 5; Scarborough Athletic 2 Curzon Union Berlin 0; Freiburg 2 Mainz 1; Hertha Berlin 1
Kilmarnock v St Johnstone Peterborough v Burton; Plymouth v Rugby union (3pm unless stated) Ashton 2; South Shields 5 Marske Utd 2; St Ives Town 3 Hoffenheim 1; RB Leipzig 4 Bochum 0; Schalke 2 Augsburg 3;
cinch Scottish League One Accrington; Portsmouth v Fleetwood Women’s World Cup Aston Villa (0) 1 Manchester Utd (1) 1 Chasetown 1; Stocksbridge PS 2 Ashington 2; Swindon Werder Bremen 5 Borussia M’gladbach 1; Wolfsburg 3
FC Edinburgh v Peterhead Town; Sheffield Wednesday v Pool A Wales v Scotland (5.45am) Supermarine 1 Farnborough 5; Taunton 1 Walton & VfB Stuttgart 2. Friday Bayern Munich 4 Bayer Leverkusen 0.
Cheltenham; Shrewsbury v MK Dons Pool B Japan v Canada (3.15am); Daly 72 Parris 16 Hersham 0; Three Bridges 0 Hereford 3; Weston-super-Mare 7 Leading standings: 1 Union Berlin P8 Pts17;
USA v Italy (12.45am) Helston Athletic 2; Weymouth 3 Welling 0; Worthing 1 2 Freiburg 8-17; 3 Bayern Munich 8-15.
Gallagher Premiership (Aston Villa won 4-3 on pens) Eastbourne Borough 2; Yate Town 0 Bracknell Town 3.
Newcastle Falcons v Saracens; Friday Needham Market 2 Brightlingsea Regent 0. SERIE A
Wasps v Northampton BT Sport 1 Group B (0) 0 Leicester (1) 3
Blackburn JD CYMRU PREMIER LEAGUE Atalanta 1 Fiorentina 0; Empoli 1 Milan 3;
Cricket Internazionale 1 Roma 2; Juventus L Bologna L;
First Twenty20 International Smith 6, Schofield 49 Cardiff Met 2 Aberystwyth 1; Connah’s Quay 1 Haverfordwest 0; Lazio 4 Spezia 0; Lecce 1 Cremonese 1; Napoli 3 Torino 1;
Australia v England, Perth (9.10am) Flint Town 1 Penybont 1; Pontypridd 3 Caernarfon 1. Sampdoria 0 Monza 3; Sassuolo 5 Salernitana 0.
BT Sport 1 Whelan 65 Friday Airbus UK 0 Bala Town 6; The New Saints 4 Newtown 1. Leading standings: 1 Napoli P8 Pts 20; 2 Atalanta 8-20;
Tri-Nations T20 International Leading standings: 1 The New Saints P8 Pts22; 3 Lazio 8-17.
New Zealand v Bangladesh, Sunderland (0) 0 Liverpool (1) 1 2 Connah’s Quay 9-18; 3 Bala Town 9-17.
Christchurch (7am) BT Sport 2 Campbell 23 EREDIVISIE
Second One-Day International DANSKE BANK IRISH PREMIERSHIP
India v South Africa, Ranchi (9am) Group C Ajax 1 Go Ahead Eagles 1; Cambuur 3 PSV Eindhoven 0;
Carrick 4 Crusaders 3; Cliftonville 0 Newry City 0; Emmen L Heerenveen L; Excelsior 0 Utrecht 1;
Formula One Birmingham (1) 3 Brighton (0) 2 Dungannon Swifts 0 Linfield 1; Larne 2 Coleraine 0. Fortuna Sittard 2 Volendam 0; Groningen 1 AZ Alkmaar 4;
Japanese Grand Prix Lee 59 Friday Glentoran A Ballymena Utd A; Portadown 1 Glenavon 1. NEC Nijmegen 1 Feyenoord 1; RKC Waalwijk
Suzuka (6am) Sky Sports F1 Smith 25, Pennock 53 Carter 89pen Leading standings: 1 Cliftonville P7 Pts18; 2 Sparta Rotterdam 2; Twente 3 Vitesse Arnhem 0.
2 Glentoran 6-16; 3 Crusaders 8-16. Leading standings: 1 AZ Alkmaar P8 Pts 20; 2 Ajax 8-19;
Racing Quinn 62 3 PSV Eindhoven 8-18.
Ffos Las, Goodwood AIRTRICITY IRISH PREMIER DIVISION
London City (1) 2 West Ham (0) 2 PRIMEIRA LIGA
Sligo Rovers 1 Shamrock Rovers 3.
Heuchan 26 Asseyi 67 Friday Bohemians 1 UCD 0; Dundalk 2 Drogheda 0; Chaves 1 Estoril 1; Famalicão L Boavista L;
Finn Harps 1 Shelbourne 1; St Patrick’s 0 Derry City 1. Guimarães 0 Benfica 0; Paços Ferreira 1 Arouca 1;
Ewens 62 Brynjarsdóttir 90 Leading standings: 1 Shamrock Rovers P30 Pts63; Rio Ave 1 Santa Clara 1; Vizela 1 Portimonense 0.
2 Derry City 31-61; 3 Dundalk 31-56. Friday Porto 4 Braga 1; Sporting 3 Gil Vicente 1.
(West Ham won 10-9 on pens) Leading standings: 1 Benfica P8 Pts22; 2 Braga 8-19;
JUPILER LEAGUE 3 Porto 8-19.
Group D
Anderlecht 0 Charleroi 1; Club Brugge 3 Mechelen 0; Gent 3 LA LIGA
Bristol City (2) 4 Crystal Palace (0) 0 Cercle Brugge 4; Kortrijk 2 Royal Antwerp 1; O-H Leuven 0
Union St-Gilloise 3; Oostende 1 Genk 2; St-Truiden L Cádiz 0 Villarreal 0; Celta Vigo 1 Real Betis 0;
Harrison 9 25 Eupen L; Westerlo 2 Zulte Waregem 0. Friday Standard Liège 0 Espanyol 2 Valencia 2; Getafe 2 Real Valladolid 3;
Seraing 2. Leading standings: 1 Royal Antwerp P10 Pts 27; Girona 3 Real Sociedad 5; Mallorca 0 Barcelona 1;
Mustaki 78, Syme 84 2 Genk 10-25; 3 Club Brugge 10-22. Real Madrid L Osasuna L; Sevilla 0 Atlético Madrid 2.
Leading standings: 1 Barcelona P7 Pts19;
Lewes (1) 2 Charlton (0) 0 2 Real Madrid 6-18; 3 Athletic Bilbao 7-16.

The main event Howells 44, Hack 90
Arsenal v Liverpool
Sunday 4.30pm, Sk y Sports PL Group E (0) 2 Southampton (0) 0
Arsenal, managed by Mikel Arteta, have
Coventry Utd
set the early pace in the title race while Dudley-Jones 50
Wiseman 55
Liverpool have looked short of form
Reading (0) 1 Tottenham (2) 2
Dowie 90pen
Neville 7, Karczewska 30

EMIRATES FA CUP

Third qualifying round Alvechurch 4 Nuneaton Borough 0;
Anstey Nomads 5 Shefford Town & Campton 0; Bamber
Bridge 0 Buxton 3; Banbury Utd 2 Berkhamsted 0; Basford
Utd 1 Boston Utd 1; Bath City 0 Sevenoaks Town 1;

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Sport 33
In brief

Sky Bet Championship Sky Bet League One Sky Bet League Two Non-league Golf

P W D L F A GD Pts P W D L F A GD Pts P W D L F A GD Pts VANARAMA NATIONAL LEAGUE Fox pays tribute to
11 7 3 1 20 6 +14 24 P W D L F A GD Pts Warne after Dunhill win
Sheffield Utd 11 7 2 2 17 9 +8 23 Plymouth 11 8 1 2 19 12 +7 25 Leyton Orient 11 9 1 1 19 6 +13 28
Norwich 11 7 0 4 13 15 -2 21 Ryan Fox paid tribute to his
Reading 11 4 6 1 18 11 +7 18 Ipswich 11 7 3 1 22 10 +12 24 Northampton 11 8 2 1 23 12 +11 26 Wrexham 11 8 2 1 31 9 +22 26 former amateur teammate Shane
Burnley 11 5 3 3 16 12 +4 18 Warne after claiming a one-shot
QPR 11 6 0 5 13 14 -1 18 Sheffield Wed 11 7 2 2 21 10 +11 23 Stevenage 11 8 1 2 14 10 +4 25 Notts County 11 7 3 1 27 11 +16 24 victory at the Alfred Dunhill Links
Blackburn 11 4 5 2 15 11 +4 17 Championship. New Zealand’s
Watford 11 4 4 3 16 11 +5 16 Portsmouth 10 6 3 1 21 11 +10 21 Bradford City 11 6 3 2 18 10 +8 21 Chesterfield 11 7 3 1 22 13 +9 24 Fox finished second in last year’s
Sunderland 11 4 4 3 13 10 +3 16 team event in Scotland alongside
Luton 10 4 4 2 11 11 0 16 Barnsley 11 6 2 3 17 10 +7 20 Salford City 11 6 3 2 16 9 +7 21 Boreham Wood 11 6 4 1 18 9 +9 22 the former Australia Test spinner
Wigan 11 4 3 4 13 14 -1 15 Warne, who died this year. And
Swansea 10 3 5 2 12 8 +4 14 Bolton 10 6 2 2 13 6 +7 20 Barrow 11 7 0 4 15 12 +3 21 Bromley 11 6 2 3 17 12 +5 20 after making seven birdies and
Rotherham 11 4 2 5 20 18 +2 14 three bogeys on the Old Course at
Bristol City 11 2 7 2 3 4 -1 13 Peterborough 11 6 0 5 20 12 +8 18 Mansfield 11 6 2 3 18 12 +6 20 Solihull Moors 11 5 4 2 25 14 +11 19 St Andrews yesterday to secure his
Preston 11 3 4 4 9 11 -2 13 third DP World Tour title in front of
Birmingham 11 4 1 6 12 16 -4 13 Derby 10 5 2 3 11 9 +2 17 Doncaster 11 6 2 3 16 13 +3 20 Woking 11 6 1 4 19 10 +9 19 his family, Fox remembered Warne.
Millwall 11 3 3 5 11 15 -4 12 He said: “To be honest the only
Stoke 11 3 3 5 8 12 -4 12 Accrington Stanley 11 4 4 3 14 13 +1 16 Carlisle 11 4 6 1 13 10 +3 18 Wealdstone 11 5 4 2 12 9 +3 19 person I can really think of at the
Cardiff 11 3 2 6 10 16 -6 11 moment is Warne. He meant a lot
Blackpool 11 3 2 6 11 23 -12 11 Cambridge Utd 11 5 1 5 14 18 -4 16 Swindon 11 4 5 2 13 11 +2 17 York 11 5 3 3 16 10 +6 18 to me and this event and was a
Hull 11 1 7 3 17 17 0 10 great mate. It’s a terrible shame he’s
West Brom 11 2 4 5 13 16 -3 10 Exeter 11 4 3 4 18 12 +6 15 Tranmere 11 5 1 5 11 9 +2 16 Dorking Wanderers 11 5 1 5 22 25 -3 16 not here.” Rory McIlroy finished
Middlesbrough 10 2 1 7 10 16 -6 7 in a tie for fourth on 13 under
Huddersfield Shrewsbury 11 4 3 4 11 13 -2 15 Crewe 11 4 4 3 12 11 +1 16 Southend 11 4 3 4 10 9 +1 15 after making seven birdies and a
Coventry 8 1 3 4 8 13 -5 6 single bogey. PA Media
Lincoln City 10 3 4 3 14 16 -2 13 Grimsby 11 4 4 3 11 10 +1 16 Eastleigh 11 4 3 4 13 14 -1 15
Motorsport
Charlton 11 2 6 3 15 15 0 12 Sutton Utd 11 4 2 5 12 12 0 14 Barnet 11 4 2 5 18 22 -4 14
Chadwick forced to wait
Fleetwood 10 2 6 2 9 9 0 12 AFC Wimbledon 11 3 3 5 13 16 -3 12 Dag & Red 11 4 2 5 19 26 -7 14 for W Series success

Port Vale 11 3 3 5 10 16 -6 12 Newport County 11 3 2 6 12 15 -3 11 Maidenhead Utd 11 4 1 6 9 13 -4 13 Britain’s Jamie Chadwick failed
to clinch a third successive title in
Cheltenham 10 3 2 5 10 12 -2 11 Walsall 11 2 4 5 11 11 0 10 Gateshead 11 2 5 4 14 16 -2 11 the all-female W Series yesterday
after she crashed out of a Singapore
Oxford Utd 10 3 2 5 9 11 -2 11 Gillingham 11 2 4 5 3 11 -8 10 Oldham 11 3 2 6 11 19 -8 11 race won by her Dutch rival Beitske
Visser. Chadwick, who had been in
Wycombe 11 3 2 6 13 16 -3 11 Stockport County 11 2 3 6 12 16 -4 9 Maidstone Utd 11 3 2 6 13 25 -12 11 sixth, remained in a commanding
position in the championship
MK Dons 10 3 1 6 11 14 -3 10 Harrogate 11 2 2 7 7 14 -7 8 Yeovil 11 1 6 4 10 13 -3 9 with a 50-point lead over Visser
and three races worth a total of
Bristol Rovers 11 2 3 6 15 22 -7 9 Colchester 11 1 3 7 8 16 -8 6 Aldershot 11 3 0 8 14 19 -5 9 75 points remaining. The next
round of the F1 support series is
Forest Green 11 2 2 7 10 25 -15 8 Crawley 11 1 3 7 10 19 -9 6 Scunthorpe 11 2 3 6 14 21 -7 9 scheduled for Austin, Texas this
month but financial problems have
Burton Albion 11 2 1 8 14 26 -12 7 Hartlepool 11 0 6 5 8 19 -11 6 Torquay 11 2 3 6 7 19 -12 9 cast doubt on that and the final race
in Mexico, with a decision expected
Morecambe 11 1 4 6 8 21 -13 7 Rochdale 11 1 2 8 7 18 -11 5 Altrincham 11 1 5 5 11 22 -11 8 next week. Reuters

Blackburn (0) 2 Millwall (0) 1 Accrington Stanley (0) 3 Morecambe (0) 1 AFC Wimbledon (0) 2 Colchester (1) 1 Halifax 11 2 2 7 7 19 -12 8 Tennis
Dolan 57 Cooper 75 Coyle 58 Astley 77og Davison 47 66pen Appiah 18
Brereton 64 12,164 Hamilton 81 7,328 Aldershot 1 Wealdstone 2; Barnet 0 York 5; Boreham Wood 3 Norrie to miss Japan
Leigh 85 2,916 Maidstone Utd 1; Chesterfield 1 Maidenhead Utd 2; Open with Covid
Blackpool (0) 0 Norwich (1) 1 Carlisle (0) 0 Crewe (0) 0 Dorking Wanderers 5 Dag & Red 1; Gateshead 1 Eastleigh 1;
11,594 Pukki 21 5,012 Halifax 0 Woking 4 Notts County 3 Altrincham 1; Cameron Norrie has confirmed
Bolton (1) 2 Lincoln City (0) 0 Oldham 1 Wrexham 2; Solihull Moors 2 Bromley 2; he has tested positive for Covid.
Charles 40pen 17,263 Southend 1 Yeovil 0; Torquay 1 Scunthorpe 1. The 27-year-old pulled out of his
Bristol City (0) 1 QPR (2) 2 Bödvarsson 84 Crawley (0) 1 Stevenage (1) 2 Korea Open quarter-final against
Wells 61 Johansen 19 Nadesan 47 Roberts 23 America’s Jenson Brooksby on
21,665 Roberts 22 Burton Albion (1) 3 Forest Green (0) 2 2,732 Norris 85pen VANARAMA NATIONAL LEAGUE NORTH Friday. The ATP said it was due to
illness while the British No 1 had
Cardiff (0) 1 Burnley (0) 1 Adeboyejo 6 82 90 Brown 52 Leamington 2 Telford 2; Southport 4 Bradford PA 1. previously complained he was
Robinson 90 Tella 48 Leading standings: 1 King’s Lynn Town P10 Pts21; jet-lagged. It means he will miss
18,508 2,620 Wickham 69pen Gillingham (0) 1 Sutton Utd (0) 0 2 Banbury Utd 10-20; 3 Darlington 10-20. this week’s Japan Open, which will
MacDonald 90 4,153 be a blow to his chances of sealing
Cambridge Utd (0) 0 Derby (1) 2 a place at the season-ending ATP
6,813 Collins 45, 83 Finals in Turin. “Unfortunately I
Coventry (1) 1 Middlesbrough (0) 0 Harrogate (0) 1 Bradford City (1) 2 VANARAMA NATIONAL LEAGUE SOUTH had a positive Covid test in Korea
Gyokeres 17 19,788 Headley 48 Cook 15pen and wasn’t able to compete in
Charlton (0) 1 Oxford Utd (1) 1 2,505 Wright 73 Dartford 2 Hungerford Town 0. the rest of my matches. I have no
Stockley 55 Browne 11 Leading standings: 1 Ebbsfleet Utd P10 Pts28; symptoms and I am feeling 100%,”
Reading (2) 3 Huddersfield (0) 1 12,806 2 Havant & Waterlooville 10-26; 3 Dartford 11-21. he wrote on Twitter. “I was really
hoping to go to Tokyo but because
McIntyre 29 Lees 90 Leyton Orient (0) 1 Newport County (2) 2 of the quarantine period I will not
Drinan 64 Evans 22 be able to play there.” PA Media
Nicholls 36og, Méïté 81 16,684 Cheltenham (1) 2 Shrewsbury (0) 0 7,403 Bogle 26pen ISTHMIAN PREMIER LEAGUE
Long 45 3,842 ▲ Jamie Chadwick faces a wait for
Rotherham (0) 0 Wigan (1) 2 May 46 Aveley 3 Margate 1; Bishop’s Stortford 0 Wingate & Finchley 0; her third W Series championship
10,761 Bowers & Pitsea 0 Horsham 0; Canvey Island 3 Bognor Regis 2.
Keane 12, Naylor 84 Rochdale (1) 1 Doncaster (1) 2 Leading standings: 1 Aveley P9 Pts19; 2 Hornchurch 8-18;
Quigley 44 Agard 39 3 Enfield Town 10-18.
Sheffield Utd (0) 1 Birmingham (0) 1 Exeter (0) 2 Bristol Rovers (0) 2 3,264 Miller 68
McBurnie 64 Deeney 70 J Brown 72pen Marquis 62
29,927 Nombe 81 Loft 90
7,816 Salford City (1) 1 Grimsby (1) 1
Vassell 2 Richardson 29 NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE
Stoke (0) 0 Watford (1) 4 3,521
19,905 Sarr 12, Sema 64 Fleetwood (0) 0 Barnsley (0) 1 Atherton Collieries 2 Ashton Utd 0; FC United 1 Marine 1;
Davis 78, Bayo 84 4,024 Aitchison 90 Guiseley 1 Warrington Rylands 1; Lancaster City 1
Stockport County (1) 1 Walsall (0) 1 Belper Town 1; Matlock Town 1 Nantwich Town 1;
Ipswich (1) 3 Portsmouth (1) 2 Stafford Rangers 2 Liversedge 0; Stalybridge Celtic 0
Sunderland (0) 0 Preston (0) 0 Harness 25 Madden 27 Williams 88 Morpeth Town 3; Warrington Town 1 Radcliffe 0.
41,825 Ladapo 74 Bishop 32pen 79 pen Leading standings: 1 Stafford Rangers P12 Pts21;
Burns 80 8,805 2 Matlock Town 13-21; 3 Hyde Utd 10-20.

West Brom (0) 2 Swansea (1) 3 28,434 Swindon (0) 1 Northampton (0) 2
Livermore 48 Sorinola 6 Williams 62 Fox 68
Diangana 65 Ntcham 71 MK Dons (0) 2 Peterborough (2) 3 9,789 Pinnock 88 SOUTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE CENTRAL
22,369 Obafemi 89 Harvie 90 Clarke-Harris 3
Smith 90 Poku 36 Tranmere (1) 1 Barrow (0) 0 Bedford Town 2 Stourbridge 4; Hednesford Town 5
(played on Friday) 8,963 Jade-Jones 54 Hawkes 25 6,123 (0) 2 Rushden & Diamonds 0; Kings Langley 2 Bromsgrove
Hull Sporting 5; Redditch Utd 4 Royston Town 2; Stratford Town 0
(0) 0 Luton (2) 2 Port Vale (0) 0 Sheffield Wed (0) 1 (played on Friday) (0) 2 Hartlepool Rushall Olympic 5; Tamworth 4 Barwell 1.
15,730 Jones 6og 11,336 Vaulks 63 Mansfield Umerah 62 89 Leading standings: 1 Tamworth P10 Pts23;
Lansbury 44 Lapslie 51 6,891 2 Nuneaton Borough 9-20; 3 Coalville Town 9-19.
Wycombe (0) 0 Plymouth (1) 1 Harbottle 59
5,869 Cosgrove 8pen
LEADING GOALSCORERS SOUTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE SOUTH
LEADING GOALSCORERS LEADING GOALSCORERS
7 Conway (Bristol City); Estupinan (Hull). 6 Morris (Luton); Beaconsfield Town 0 Poole Town 2; Chesham Utd 3
Sargent (Norwich); We lls (Bristol City). 5 Brereton 8 Bishop (Portsmouth); Clarke-Harris (Peterborough). 12 Cook (Bradford City). 11 Hoskins (Northampton). Tiverton Town 0; Dorchester Town 3 Harrow Borough 2;
(Blackburn); Hogan (Birmingham); McBurnie (Sheffield 7 J Brown (Exeter). 6 Collins (Bristol Rovers); Nombe (Exeter). 8 Dennis (Carlisle). 7 Gordon (Barrow); Johnson (Walsall). Gosport Borough 2 North Leigh 0; Hartley Wintney 0 Truro 1.
Utd); Ndiaye (Sheffield Utd); Ogbene (Rotherham); 5 Adeboyejo (Burton Albion); Brannagan (Oxford Utd); 6 Baker-Richardson (Crewe); Bogle (Newport County); Leading standings: 1 Truro P10 Pts24;
Rodriguez (Burnley); Stewart (Sunderland); Willock (QPR). Chaplin (Ipswich); Harrison (Port Vale); Mehmeti (Wycombe). Miller (Doncaster). 5 Umerah (Hartlepool). 2 Weston-super-Mare 9-23; 3 Chesham Utd 9-20.

Other results RFU CHAMPIONSHIP THIRD WOMEN’S T20 INTERNATIONAL Tennis

P W D L F A B Pts North Sound (innings break) West Indies 93-9 ATP KOREA OPEN (Seoul, South Korea)
(HK Matthews 30; FC Jonas 3-16) v New Zealand. Final: Y Nishioka (Jpn) bt D Shapovalov (Can) 6-4 7-6 (7-5).
Ealing Trailfinders 4 4 0 0 153 39 4 20
WOMEN’S ASIA CUP ATP SOFIA OPEN (Bulgaria)
Jersey Reds 4 4 0 0 152 66 3 19 Final: M-A Hüsler (Swi) bt H Rune (Den) 6-4 7-6 (10-8).
Sylhet Malaysia 57-9 (Omaima Sohail 3-19).
Bedford 4 3 0 1 160 112 3 15 Pakistan 61-1 (Sidra Ameen 31no). ATP WATERGEN TEL AVIV OPEN (Israel)
Pakistan beat Malaysia by nine wickets. Final: N Djokovic (Ser) bt M Cilic (Cro) 6-3 6-4.
Nottingham 4 3 0 1 107 67 3 15
Sylhet Sri Lanka 109-9 (HMD Samarawickrama 37; WTA PARMA OPEN (Italy)
Doncaster 4 2 0 2 107 99 2 10 Vaishnave Mahesh 3-15, Mahika Gaur 3-21). UAE 54-7. Final: M Sherif (Egy) bt M Sakkari (Gre) 7-5 6-3.
Sri Lanka beat UAE by 11 runs (DLS Method).
Coventry 4 2 0 2 71 132 2 10 WTA TALLINN OPEN (Estonia)
Golf Final: B Krejcikova (Cz) bt A Kontaveit (Est) 6-2 6-3.
Cornish Pirates 4 2 0 2 75 95 0 8
ALFRED DUNHILL LINKS CHAMPIONSHIP (St Andrews) Motorcycling
Rugby union Richmond 4 1 0 3 89 118 4 8
Leading final scores (GB/Ire unless stated) 273 R Fox (NZ) GRAND PRIX OF THAILAND (Buriram)
Ampthill 4 1 0 3 121 101 3 7 66 74 65 68. 274 A Norén (Swe) 67 69 69 69; C Shinkwin MotoGP: 1 M Oliveira (Por) KTM 41min 44.503sec; 2 J Miller
68 71 68 67. 275 A Rozner (Fr) 63 74 69 69; R McIlroy 68 (Aus) Ducati +0.730; 3 F Bagnaia (It) Ducati +1.968; 4 J Zarco
GALLAGHER PREMIERSHIP Caldy 4 1 0 3 104 144 3 7 75 66 66. 276 D Gavins 65 73 67 71. 277 N Nørgaard Møller (Fr) Ducati +2.490; 5 M Márquez (Sp) Honda +2.958;
(Den) 63 74 69 71; R Mansell 66 68 67 76; T Hatton 68 76 6 E Bastianini (It) Ducati +13.257; 7 M Viñales (Sp) Yamaha
PW D L FA B Pts Hartpury 4 1 0 3 71 117 2 6 66 67. 278 T Pulkkanen (Fin) 66 73 69 70; P Uihlein (US) 65 +14.566; 8 A Márquez (Sp) Honda +14.861; 9 JMartin (Sp)
0 122 84 3 15 77 68 68; D Whitnell 66 77 67 68; C Syme 68 76 65 69; Ducati +15.365; 10 B Binder (SA) KTM +18.097.
Saracens 330 0 94 62 2 14 London Scottish 4 0 0 4 74 194 1 1 L Oosthuizen (SA) 72 73 65 68; B Horschel (US) 71 71 67 Championship standings: 1 F Quartararo (Fr) Yamaha
1 123 111 2 14 69; G Forrest 70 74 67 67. 279 G Coetzee (SA) 67 75 72 65; 219pts; 2 F Bagnaia (It) Ducati 217; 3 A Espargaro (Sp)
Sale 3 3 0 1 109 103 2 14 Ampthill 59 London Scottish 7; Bedford 52 Caldy 29; Coventry 5 P Harrington 69 71 69 70; R Højgaard (Den) 67 74 67 71. Aprilia 199; 4 E Bastianini (It) Ducati 180; 5 J Miller (Aus)
2 144 133 5 13 Ealing 20; Richmond 19 Hartpury 15. Friday Jersey 21 Ducati 179; 6 B Binder (SA) KTM 154; 7 J Zarco (Fr) Ducati
Exeter 430 2 150 130 4 12 Cornish Pirates 10; Nottingham 30 Doncaster 15. SANDERSON FARMS CHAMPIONSHIP (Jackson, Mississippi) 151; 8 M Oliveira (Por) KTM 131; 9 J Martin (Sp) Ducati 127;
2 115 117 3 11 10 M Viñales (Sp) Yamaha 122.
Bristol 430 3 110 127 48 Leading third-round scores (US unless stated)
1 66 62 37 201 M Hubbard 67 69 65. 202 M Hughes (Can) 71 63 68. Motor sport
Harlequins 420 2 68 81 26 NATIONAL LEAGUE ONE 204 G Higgo (SA) 70 66 68; S Stallings 69 67 68; S Straka
3 87 130 26 (Aut) 69 66 69. 205 K Bradley 70 71 64; N Hardy 70 67 68. WRC RALLY NEW ZEALAND (Auckland)
London Irish 420 2 74 86 15 Birmingham Moseley 43 Hull 26; Cambridge 32 Sale FC 19; Final times after stage 17: 1 K Rovanpera (Fin) Toyota 2hr
4 118 154 33 Leeds 27 Chinnor 24; Plymouth 45 Esher 29; Rams 40 48min 01.4sec; 2 S Ogier (Fr) Toyota +34.6; 3 O Tanak (Est)
Leicester 420 Darlington MP 15; Rosslyn Park 33 Bishop’s Stortford 29; Hyundai +48.5; 4 T Neuville (Bel) Hyundai +1:58.8;
Taunton 12 Cinderford 23. 5 O Solberg (Swe) Hyundai +3:55.3; 6 H Paddon (NZ) Hyundai
Northampton 410 +10:03.7; 7 L Bertelli (It) Ford +10:39.0; 8 K Kajetanowicz
(Pol) Skoda +12:36.8; 9 S van Gisbergen (NZ) Skoda +13:28.8;
Gloucester 210 10 H Bates (Aus) Toyota +16:51.6.
Championship standings: 1 K Rovanpera (Fin) Toyota
Wasps 310 237pts; 2 O Tanak (Est) Hyundai 173; 3 T Neuville (Bel)
Hyundai 144; 4 E Evans (GB) Toyota 116; 5 T Katsuta (Jpn)
Newcastle 410 NATIONAL LEAGUE TWO Toyota 100; 6 C Breen (Ire) Ford 77; 7 E Lappi (Fin) Toyota
58; 8 S Ogier (Fr) Toyota 55; 9 D Sordo (Sp) Hyundai 49;
Worcester 310 East Barnes 48 Sevenoaks 10; Blackheath 46 10 G Greensmith (GB) Ford 36.
Bury St Edmunds 28; Dorking 59 Rochford 24;
Bath 4 0 0 North Walsham 29 Henley 23; Tonbridge 20 Guernsey 10; Snooker
Westcliff 12 Old Albanian 38; Worthing 38 Canterbury 18.
Gloucester P Worcester P; Harlequins 35 Northampton 29; BRITISH OPEN (Milton Keynes)
London Irish 47 Bath 38; Sale 28 Exeter 20; Saracens 51 North Fylde 42 Blaydon 7; Huddersfield 15 Harrogate 29; Semi-finals: R Day (Wal) bt R Williams (Eng) 6-5; M Allen
Leicester 18. Friday Newcastle 30 Bristol 15. Sedgley Park 18 Hull Ionians 10; Sheffield RUFC 38 (NI) bt N Saengkham (Tha) 6-1.
Preston 17; Sheffield Tigers 15 Chester 37; Tynedale 22
UNITED CHAMPIONSHIP Otley 25; Wharfedale 23 Rotherham 29.

P W D L F A B Pts

Leinster 3 3 0 0 95 52 2 14

Blue Bulls 3 3 0 0 92 60 2 14 West Barnstaple 6 Luctonians 31; Bournville 20 Greg Wood’s racing tips
Old Redcliffians 24; Clifton 48 Exeter Univ 14; Leicester
Ulster 3 2 0 1 104 69 3 11 Lions 15 Dings Crusaders 19; Loughborough 35 Hinckley 35;
Redruth 95 Newport 7; Stourbridge 55 Hornets 25.
Stormers 2 2 0 0 72 33 2 10

Sharks 2 2 0 0 62 56 1 9

Benetton Treviso 3 2 0 1 77 76 1 9

Lions 3 2 0 1 74 76 1 9 Rugby league Stratford 1.00 Storm Dennis 1.35 Oneforthegutter
2.10 It’s A Good Name 2.45 Time To Bite 3.20 Kazontherazz
Ospreys 3 1 1 1 82 68 3 9 3.55 Dream In The Park 4.30 Borderline

Edinburgh 3 1 0 2 93 73 3 7 BETFRED CHAMPIONSHIP Pontefract 1.25 Baroque Prince 1.55 Reward Smile
Playoff final Leigh 44 Batley 12 2.30 Emperor Caradoc 3.05 Wynford 3.40 Gainsbourg
Munster 3 1 0 2 51 48 2 6 4.15 Sobegrand 4.50 Patontheback 5.25 Sweet Glance

Glasgow 3 1 0 2 80 89 1 5 BETFRED LEAGUE ONE Windsor 1.30 Big Bard 2.02 Fanciful 2.37 Divina Grace
Playoff final Swinton 16 Doncaster 10 3.12 Surrey Mist 3.47 Novaportian 4.22 My Lion
Dragons 3 1 0 2 48 81 1 5 4.57 Gentle Whinny 5.32 Rose Barton

Cardiff 3 1 0 2 62 96 0 4 Wolverhampton 4.46 Showman 5.20 Palifico (nb)
5.55 Pop Dancer 6.30 Laurentia (nap) 7.00 Three Dons
Zebre 3 0 0 3 71 96 4 4 Cricket 7.30 Chookie Dunedin 8.00 Georgia Madeleine
8.30 Quarter Blue
Scarlets 3 0 1 2 85 112 1 3

Connacht 3 0 0 3 39 102 0 0 SECOND T20 INTERNATIONAL

Benetton Treviso 34 Scarlets 23; Dragons 19 Sharks 20; Guwahati India 237-3 (SA Yadav 61, KL Rahul 57,
Munster 21 Zebre 5; Ospreys 32 Glasgow 17; Stormers 34 V Kohli 49no, RG Sharma 43). South Africa 221-3
Edinburgh 18. Friday Bulls 28 Connacht 14; (DA Miller 106no, Q de Kock 69no, AK Markram 33).
Cardiff 18 Lions 31; Ulster 13 Leinster 20. India beat South Africa by 16 runs.

• The Guardian Monday 3 October 2022

34 Sport A star is
Athletics TCS London Marathon born in
debut to
remember American football

Yalemzerf Joseph’s late
Yehualaw field goal gives
reaches the Vikings win
finishing line over Saints
to celebrate
her historic
victory at
the London
Marathon

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New Orleans Saints 25
Minnesota Vikings 28

Graham Searles
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Pride comes after the fall: Meanwhile the men’s race was won The NFL waltzed back into London as
Yehualaw races into history by Amos Kipruto, who has often been the Minnesota Vikings edged the New
the bridesmaid but never the bride in Orleans Saints 28-25 thanks to a dyna-
The 23-year-old trips over but in my hip, knee and my hand. They ‘More than 40,000 runners major races. mite display from Justin Jefferson
recovers to become youngest are still sore now.” from 18 to 89 created their and the trusty boot of Greg Joseph.
female winner in London own London memories’ The 30-year-old Kenyan had won
A leading group of six was whit- Sean Ingle the bronze medal at the 2019 World The receiver’s electric pace set up
Sean Ingle tled down gradually so that with News Page 4 Athletics Championships and was the winning field goal for Joseph as
The Mall two miles remaining the race was a second at the 2022 Tokyo Marathon the Vikings move to 3-1 and top of the
shootout between Yehualaw and last Results behind Kipchoge. Here he looked NFC North, while New Orleans sink to
First she flew like superwoman. Then year’s winner Joyciline Jepkosgei. strong throughout. 1-3 and last in the NFC South.
she ran like one. And, on the streets But it was then that the Ethiopian hit Men
of London, a new star was born as the afterburners. She ran that 24th 1 A Kipruto (Ken) ( ) 2:04:39 The decisive strike came as the The optimism for Andy Dalton v
the 23-year-old athlete Yalemzerf mile in an extraordinary 4min 43sec 2 L Gebresilase (Eth) leading group entered the Blackfriars Kirk Cousins II, a sequel to the 27-27
Yehualaw became the youngest to power to victory by 41sec. 2:05:12 tunnel. At that point four athletes overtime tie between Cincinnati and
woman to win the London Marathon. were still in contention but Kipruto Washington in 2017, was admirable
Yehualaw, who runs for the same 3 B Abdi (Bel) 2:05:19 put in a 4:21 on mile 25 to bound clear but, after a first half full of mistakes
What made Yehualaw’s victory NN group as the men’s world cham- to victory in 2:04:39. “I was thinking from both quarterbacks, the contest
more stunning was that she endured pion Eliud Kipchoge, now plans a Women this is the day,” Kipruto said. “And simmered into a thrilling shootout.
a spectacular faceplant on a sleeping return to London in April to defend 1 Y Yehualaw (Eth) I made it. This is the biggest win of
policeman speed bump with six her title. But she admits she will have 2:17:26 my career.” The final twist was provided by Jef-
miles  to go. It sent the Ethiopian bigger goals on her mind then, too. ferson as he left Marshon Lattimore
sprawling, caused considerable 2 J Jepkosgei (Ken) 2:18:07 The Ethiopian Leul Gebresilase in his dust to catch a 39-yard pass
soreness to her hip, hand and knee, “It is my first time in London, so I was second in 2:05.12, followed by from Cousins with the scores level
and left her at least 25 metres behind am so happy to win,” said Yehualaw, 3 A Megertu (Eth) 2:18:32 the Belgian athlete Bashir Abdi seven and 97 seconds remaining. The Saints
the leading pack. who runs 180km to 195km a week seconds back in third. Meanwhile the prevented a touchdown but Joseph
in training. “People were shouting Men’s wheelchair 40-year-old Kenenisa Bekele, the sec- sealed the victory from 47 yards.
Yehualaw, however, picked her- a lot and it inspired me. But the longer 1 M Hug (Swi) ond fastest marathoner of all time
self up, rushed back into conten- plan I have is that I would like to next 1:24:38 and one of the greatest distance run- The first half burst into life as Min-
tion and then destroyed her rivals time break the world record.” ners in history, dug in deep to finish nesota caught New Orleans napping
with a devastating burst to win in 2 D Romanchuk (US) 1:24:40 fifth in 2:05:53. to set Alexander Mattison scampering
2hr 17min 26sec. The best British finisher, Rose Har- home for an opening score with seven
vey, said she was delighted to do so 3 D Weir (GB) 1:30:41 The first Briton home was the minutes gone. Tyrann Mathieu then
It was the third fastest time in well having started training seriously 28-year-old Weynay Ghebresilasie, kicked the Saints into gear as he antici-
the history of the women’s race, in lockdown. “I got made redundant,” Women’s wheelchair who was born in Eritrea but qualified pated a Cousins pass and intercepted.
behind only Paula Radcliffe and the 30-year-old athlete said, after 1 C Debrunner (Swi) last year to represent Great Britain. Dalton capitalised on the favourable
Mary Keitany. finishing 10th in 2:27:59. 1:38:24 He finished ninth in a personal best field position and levelled the score
time of 2:11:57, followed closely by his with a four-yard pass to Chris Olave.
“I was heading to a water station “I work in corporate finance 2 S Scaroni (US) 1:42:21 compatriot Philip Sesemann. Joseph nudged the Vikings ahead as
so I did not see the bump coming,” law. I had three months’ gardening the period ticked away.
Yehualaw said afterwards. “It was leave and I started training for a 3 E Rainbow-Cooper (GB) 1:47:27 In the men’s wheelchair race, the
very painful. I have lost some feeling half ironman. My coach spotted me 43-year-old David Weir was delighted In the second half Latavius Murray
at the track and asked if I needed to finish in third in his 23rd consecu- and Taysom Hill notched touch-
some coaching. I got a new job but tive London Marathon. downs to give the Saints hope of
kept going.” an unlikely win from Dalton drives
“There’s still a lot of pressure on downfield and, alarmingly for Minne-
me to do well because people expect sota, they could only answer through
me to podium every time I race but the boot of Joseph.
they forget how old I am,” Weir said.
“But the London marathon is special New Orleans had the lead at 22-19
to me because it’s one of the first races with nine minutes remaining. But it
I did in a race chair.” did not last after some running trick-
ery on the three-yard line. Jefferson
swung around the offensive line and
Cousins handed him the ball on the
move to stun the Saints.

Wil Lutz had a moment to celebrate
as he nailed a kick from 60 yards to
tie the score at 25-25, but it fell to his
opposite number Joseph to score the
decisive kick.

▲ Justin Jefferson (right) and Kris
Boyd celebrate Vikings’ victory

Monday 3 October 2022 The Guardian •

Sport 35
Formula One Singapore Grand Prix

Pérez sees off Leclerc in to be and he was suitably blunt in fucked it up big time,” he said. “My
style as rivals slip and slide his assessment. apologies to the team, we live and we
learn. I am not going to punish myself
Giles Richards he mastered the slippery surface and and he sunk backwards to 12th in “It’s not what I am here for,” he for a mistake.”
fought off a race-long challenge from seconds. The win that was required said. “Not with a car like that, it was
The Singapore Grand Prix was billed Leclerc. His victory hung in the bal- if he was to take the title in this race incredibly messy.” The two champions were not alone.
as a potential title decider for Max ance for more than two hours after- had gone but he fought back, making Yuki Tsunoda similarly plunged into
Verstappen but instead of a corona- wards for a safety-car infringement it up to fourth after the mid-race pit Such has been his dominance the barriers, while Alex Albon planted
tion there was but consternation and but the five-second penalty imposed stops – only to see it slip away. this year, however, that Verstappen his front wing in the barrier with such
contrition. Nor was he the only world did not deny him the place. remains in a strong position to wrap determination that it chose to stay
champion found wanting on the After another safety car, the calm, up the championship at the next put as he pulled away to trail back to
streets of Marina Bay. Lewis Hamilton Yet what had caught the eye was considered Verstappen that had won round in Japan. He leads Leclerc the pits before retiring.
was among a swathe of drivers caught behind him as many careered about 11 races this season with iron control by 104 points and Pérez by 106. He
out as these gladiators at the pin- the circuit with considerably less appeared to have melted away in the will secure his second title if he is Pérez, however, showed no such
nacle of motor racing lumbered in grace. Not least Verstappen, who heat of Singapore. ahead of both drivers by 112 points shortcomings. He deserved a mighty
ungainly style into the barriers under put  in what was comfortably the after the race at Suzuka. A win will win, having taken the lead from
an unforgiving, floodlit glare. worst race of his season, a roller- He went hard on the restart but was suffice if Leclerc finishes lower Leclerc off the line – after an hour-
coaster of charging up and falling far too ambitious, taking too much than second. long delay to the start because of the
Red Bull’s Sergio Pérez won the back that ended with him managing pace into turn seven. He locked- heavy rain – and held it throughout.
race with a commanding victory over only seventh. up trying to pass Lando Norris and Hamilton, too, had been hope- There were no flaws, indeed he saw
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc that served sailed straight on into the escape ful of better, yet he was also found off huge pressure from Leclerc in the
as a salutary reminder of how the The scale of just how far off his road. This was rookie stuff, the flood- unusually wanting. Bottled up final quarter and opened enough of
track in treacherous, wet conditions recent form he had been was evident lights leaving nowhere to hide in this behind the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz, a gap to negate the penalty the team
could be tamed, in a race featuring as he sat slumped on the ground after- edition of wacky races. who finished in third, he was clearly had warned him might be imposed.
a series of incidents prompting five wards, apparently dumbfounded by frustrated: on lap 33 went in too deep The Mexican knew he had earned
interruptions by the safety and vir- a shocking day. Nor was the pain over. The lock- at turn seven and pitched nose-first the victory.
tual safety car. It was Pérez’s fourth up shot his tyres and he was forced into the barriers.
win and the best of his career, in that Verstappen had been on the back to pit and emerged in 14th, at the “It was certainly my best per-
foot from the off having qualified back of the field. Another laudable It was an error of the kind it is hard formance,” Pérez said. “The last
only eighth. Worse followed as the fightback ensued to secure seventh, a to remember the seven-time cham- few  laps was so intense I didn’t
Dutchman cursed his luck. The anti- reminder of how well he can execute, pion making in almost a decade. His feel it that much in the car but when
stall kicked in on his car off the start but it was far from where he wants car is a handful, the track is bumpy I got out I felt it. I gave everything
and was still slippery, but his touch for the win.”
in the wet is such it was a moment
that felt almost surreal, prompting a The championship moves on to
double-take of disbelief. Suzuka, then, where Verstappen
will be expecting a return to normal
With his front wing damaged he service. It would, it seems, only be
too fell down the field to manage only fitting to seal the title in more style
ninth but Hamilton held his hands than was on show in Singapore.
up. “I am so sorry about that guys, I

Mistakes Results and standings
aplenty in
difficult 1 Sergio Pérez Mex 25pts
conditions
Red Bull 2hr 2min 15.238sec
Sergio Pérez
held fast on 2 Charles Leclerc Mon 18
a slippery Ferrari +7.595
circuit even
as Max 3 Carlos Sainz Jr Sp 15
Verstappen Ferrari +15.305
and Lewis
Hamilton 4 Lando Norris GB 12
came McLaren +26.133
unstuck
5 Daniel Ricciardo Aus 10
DANIAL HAKIM/AP McLaren +58.282

6 Lance Stroll Can 8
Aston Martin +1:01.330

7 Max Verstappen Neth 6
Red Bull +1:03.825

8 Sebastian Vettel Ger 4
Aston Martin +1:05.032

9 Lewis Hamilton GB 2
Mercedes +1:06.515

10 Pierre Gasly Fr 1

AlphaTauri +1:14.576
*bonus point fastest lap of 1min 46.458sec

Also finished

11 Valtteri Bottas Fin Alfa Romeo+1:33.844

12 Kevin Magnussen Den Haas +1:37.610

13 Mick Schumacher Ger Haas +1 lap
14 George Russell GB Mercedes* +2 laps

Not classified

15 Yuki Tsunoda Jap AlphaTauri 35 laps

16 Esteban Ocon Fr Alpine 27 laps
17 Alexander Albon Tha Williams 26 laps
18 Fernando Alonso Sp Ferrari 21 laps
19 Nicholas Latifi Can Williams
20 Guanyu Zhou Chn Alfa Romeo 8 laps
7 laps

Championship standings
Drivers
1 Max Verstappen 341;
2 Charles Leclerc 237; 3 Sergio Pérez 235;
4 George Russell 203; 5 Carlos Sainz 202;
6 Lewis Hamilton 170; 7 Lando Norris 100;
8 Esteban Ocon 66; 9 Fernando Alonso 59;
10 Valtteri Bottas 46
Constructors
1 Red Bull 576; 2 Ferrari 439; 3 Mercedes
373; 4 McLaren 129; 5 Alpine 125; 6 Alfa
Romeo 52; 7 Aston Martin 37; 8Haas 34;
9 AlphaTauri 34; 10 Williams 6

• The Guardian Monday 3 October 2022

36 Sport Hands up
if you’re
winning
the series

England
celebrate
taking the
wicket of
Iftikhar
Ahmed
during their
convincing
victory

ALEX DAVIDSON/
GETTY IMAGES

Cricket Seventh T20international It was a shame the game ended so he was fielding at cover. Pakistan’s Ben Duckett was run out too,
fielding cost them all as much as their although Malan was blameless for
Malan leads England tamely.Foratimeitreachedapitchof batting did later in the match. Rauf that one. He played the ball down by
intensity not many T20 matches do. served Brook a slower ball, which he his feet, it bounced up past Rizwan,
It caught light in the 15th over of Eng- missed, and followed through right who pulled it down one-handed
land’s innings, when Dawid Malan down the wicket, presumably to tell and whipped the bails off as Duck-
Brook exactly how impressed he was ett lurched forward for a run. These
to secure T20 series and Harry Brook were together and by his burgeoning reputation. were rare blemishes, though, almost
set. Malan had 42 off 26, Brook 23 off forgotten (at least almost forgot-
14, and Azam brought Mohammad Azam decided this was the ten by everyone except Salt) by the
moment to bring Mohammad Wasim end of what turned out to be one of
with dominant win Hasnain into the attack. Brook tried into the attack, which was a mistake. England’s most authoritative per-
to scoop his second ball, which was England took 14 off Wasim’s over. It formances this year. By the time it
91mph, but was beaten by it. Then he was smart batting, the sort of discrim- was over, one could hear the crickets
inatory violence Moeen Ali has been singing in the stadium rafters.
tried to scoop his third too, and this saying he wants to see from the team.

time he was hit in the helmet. Has- Then it was back to Hasnain.
This time he hit Malan with a ball
nain stopped to check on him, then that ricocheted off his elbow and
into his ribs and left him flat on the
It receded further into the dis- turned back to his mark, and started ground, winded. He got back to his
feet and then launched a slog sweep
Andy Bull tance when David Willey had Iftikhar in again, harder and faster, this time. for six. Rauf took the 19th over and
had Malan dropped in the deep by
Gaddafi Stadium Ahmed caught by Phil Salt off the top Malan swayed away from a the hapless Wasim, who then had to
bowl the last over. Malan pulled him
edge in the sixth over. Willey was bouncer, Brook played and missed for one six, Brook punched him for Scoreboard
another, in an over that went for 20.
After seven games, 12 days and count- pleased, since he dropped him once at another. They only managed to His fours overs cost 61, which was
seven more than Rauf and Hasnain
less twists and turns, this helter-skel- off his own bowling. Pakistan were 37 scrape three runs off it. And then went for in eight between them.
Malan finished on 78 off 47 balls.
ter T20 tour of Pakistan ended in a for three at the end of the powerplay Haris Rauf came on at the other Lahore England beat Pakistan by 67 runs and win series 4-3
He needed it, not least because
4-3 victory for England. The decid- and the match drifted to a conclusion, end. He lured Brook into hitting a earlier he had helped run out Salt. England Balls 4s 6s
Malan had just come in after Has-
ing match, which had been one of the Shan Masood plodded on to 56 off 43 steepling catch to Azam at mid-on, nain had Alex Hales leg-before with †PD Salt run out (Shadab Khan) ..........20 12 3 0
another quick ball. Hasnain hit Malan
on the thigh and Salt came for a leg AD Hales lbw b Mohammad Hasnain....18 13 3 0
bye. Malan was so worried about Has-
most anticipated games held here in balls in an odd and solitary vigil for a but he dropped it. He had already nain’s appeal that by the time he sent DJ Malan not out................................78 47 8 3
Salt back again he could almost have
the last decade, did not leave a lot for long-dead innings. put down a chance off Malan when tapped him on the nose with his out- BM Duckett run out (Mohammad Rizwan)30 19 3 1
stretched palm. Salt doubled back the
way he came and made a futile dive HC Brook not out ...............................46 29 1 4
for the line while Malan stared at his
the local fans to cheer about. Their feet, as if he had only just noticed his Extras (b4, lb3, w10) .........................17
shoelaces had come undone.
team lost by 67 runs. Total (for 3, 20 overs) ......................209

The game was as good as done Fall 39, 39, 101.

inside the first few overs of Pakistan’s Did not bat MM Ali, SM Curran, CR Woakes, DJ Willey,
AU Rashid, RJW Topley.

innings. They had put England in, Bowling Mohammad Nawaz 1-0-12-0;
Mohammad Hasnain 4-0-32-1; Mohammad Wasim
because they think of themselves 4-0-61-0; Haris Rauf 4-0-24-0; Shadab Khan-3-0-39-0;
Iftikhar Ahmed-4-0-34-0.
as a chasing team. But they lost both
Pakistan Balls 4s 6s
openers in the first eight deliveries.
†Mohammad Rizwan b Topley .............1 4 0 0

Chris Woakes had Babar Azam caught *Babar Azam c Brook b Woakes ............4 4 1 0

at cover and two balls later Reece Top- Shan Masood c Rashid b Woakes.........56 43 4 1

Iftikhar Ahmed c Salt b Willey ............19 16 3 0

ley bowled Mohammad Rizwan. Khushdil Shah c Salt b Rashid.............27 25 1 1

England’s 209 already felt like Asif Ali c Topley b Woakes.....................7 9 1 0

Mohammad Nawaz c Woakes b Curran..9 9 1 0

a mountain and this was as if their Mohammad Wasim b Willey.................5 5 1 0

expedition leaders had stepped out of Haris Rauf not out................................1 1 0 0

the tents and fallen straight into the Mohammad Hasnain not out ...............5 4 0 0

Extras (lb3, w5)...................................8

nearest crevasse. Azam and Rizwan Total (for 8, 20 overs) ......................142
Fall 5, 5, 33, 86, 99, 125, 135, 135.
together had scored 601 runs at the Did not bat Shadab Khan.
Bowling Woakes 4-0-26-3; Topley 4-0-34-1;
start of this game, over 200 more than Willey 4-0-22-2; Rashid 4-0-25-1; Ali 1-0-5-0;
Curran 3-0-27-1.
the other 13 Pakistani batsmen had Toss Pakistan elected to field.
Umpires Ahsan Raza (Pak) and Asif Yaqoob (Pak).
between them. That total looked a ▲ Mohammad Wasim is bowled by David Willey during Pakistan’s defeat

very long way away now. ALEX DAVIDSON/GETTY IMAGES

Monday 3 October 2022 The Guardian •

Sport 37
Football
▼ People light candles at
Indonesia has a vigil for those who died Football Sky Bet Championship
a huge passion in Malang on Saturday
for football but Bilic cheers
is no stranger MADE NAGI/EPA dream start as
to tragedy Watford romp
never coming close to matching
population and passion, qualified Stoke 0
in June for the 2023 Asian Cup and
will appear on the continental stage Watford 4
for the first time since 2007, thanks
to an impressive win over Kuwait in Sarr 12, Sema 64, Davis 78, Bayo 84
Kuwait City.
A grieving country has been Slaven Bilic enjoyed a memorable
left to reckon with a complex Next year Indonesia is scheduled start to life as Watford manager with
legacy of fan violence, police to host the Fifa Under-20 World a fine 4-0 victory at Stoke, thanks to
brutality and neglect Cup. This tournament was driving goals from Ismaïla Sarr, Ken Sema,
investment in facilities and was Keinan Davis and Vakoun Bayo.
John Duerden hailed as a huge step in the country’s
development and long-term dream Bilic, who managed West Ham
Indonesia’s love for football Fans believe that will eventually be allowed in. This of one day becoming the “Brazil of between 2015 and 2017, became Wat-
is the greatest in all of Asia security forces have has happened in international Asia”, not just in terms of passion ford’s ninth manager in three years
but along with that passion a habit of hitting games, too. In the 2007 Asian and colour but also in terms of after Rob Edwards was sacked on
comes a long list of tragedies. first and asking Cup, when Indonesia played ability. While there are bigger Monday following a torrid run of one
The disaster on Saturday questions later Saudi Arabia, there was an official problems at the moment, there win in seven Championship games.
in Malang, in which at least attendance of 88,000 and the have already been statements of This victory was the club’s biggest
125 fans died when they tried to incompetence, corruption and Gelora Bung Karno Stadium was concern as to whether this disaster since hammering Bristol City 6-0 in
escape being teargassed by police, mismanagement. The popularity full even before thousands more will cause the world governing body February 2021 and was also their first
is not only by far the worst in the of the game has attracted leaders managed to gain entry later to sit on to stage the event elsewhere. clean sheet in 11 fixtures.
history of the world’s fourth most who use it for their own ends steps and in gangways.
populous country but one of the and care little about how it The country’s president, Joko “It’s the dream start,” said Bilic.
worst anywhere. operates. Nurdin Halid served Fans believe that security forces Widodo, has ordered a stop to “It’s a great win for us. It’s well
time in prison for corruption have a habit of hitting first and all league games until there is an deserved. A clean sheet, four goals,
Fans in Indonesia complain in 2007 but was still allowed asking questions later when it investigation as to what happened the strikers scoring goals. That’s what
about the international media’s to continue as president of the comes to football, and police were and an evaluation made into the you dream of before games. We suf-
focus on negative stories from football association. When he was accused of beating a 16-year-old security situation of all matches. “I fered together when needed and
the archipelago rather than eventually banned by Fifa in 2011 supporter, Muhammad Fahreza, regret that this tragedy occurred,” defended as a team.
examples of a deep football for standing for a third term in to death at a game between Persija he said. “And I hope this is the last
culture but anyone who has office, such was the battle for power and Persela Lamongan in 2016. football tragedy in the country.” It “If you give space to our players
attended games in the country that two rival leagues, federations Thousands of fellow supporters could be that this huge and tragic out wide and up front [they will
would attest that, while it can be a and national teams emerged. In held a vigil for the youngster loss of life finally forces real change punish you] because they are good
thrilling experience, it is also often 2015 Fifa banned the country from and held up signs demanding in the attitudes of all parties: players. The group is good. We aren’t
intimidating. That was, perhaps, the international game. an end to police brutality against government, sporting federations going to rave now because we won.
why early reports suggested that football fans. and security forces, as well as the This is the blueprint that we want to
there had been clashes between Yet when the suspension was fans themselves. For the moment, follow. This is the pattern.”
rival sets of supporters; it would lifted a year later, not much had Teargas is at a different level, however, a country mourns.
not have been the first time. But changed. Fan groups say that however. The tragic events of the Bilic’s opposite number, Alex Neil,
on this occasion there were only authorities do not, or cannot, weekend come at a time when has suffered a shaky start since jump-
Arema Malang fans present as plan properly and that there is there had been some encouraging ing ship from Sunderland to Stoke
followers of Persebaya Surabaya little attempt to manage crowds. news coming out of the country. at the end of August. This mauling
were not allowed to attend in an Overcrowding is not unheard of. The national team, long-term means the former Preston manager
attempt to reduce the potential Authorities on Saturday said that underachievers in Asia with results has won just one of his first five games
for violence. there were 42,000 tickets issued in charge.
for a 38,000-capacity arena. ‘Victims came to be treated
This is a country where away Those without tickets for big by the team doctor. Fans “It’s disappointing,” he said.
teams are sometimes escorted to games can sometimes gain entry died in the arms of players’ “When you lose any game in that
stadiums in armoured personnel by gathering outside entrances in Disaster in Indonesia manner it’s really disappointing and
carriers. In 2019 Malaysia the hope or expectation that they News Page 19 frustrating.
requested one for their World Cup
qualifier in Jakarta. Violence is “The fact is in any game the pride
not uncommon. It is estimated you’ve got as an individual and the
that from 1994 to 2019 there were pride you’ve got as a team and pride
74 football-related deaths (some to show for your club, you’ve got to
say the figures are higher, others rally, you’ve got to give it a go and
lower). There have been plenty of you’ve got to never give in.
times in the past when football fan
groups – such as “Jakmania”, who “I don’t think we can say that and
follow Persija Jakarta – that have that was certainly a bit of an eye
six-figure memberships and plenty opener for me today, and a big frus-
of influence have come together tration.” PA Media
to say “no more”. One such time
was in 2018 when the league was Stoke Watford
suspended after the death of 3-1-4-2 4-2-3-1
Haringga Sirila, a fan of Persija who Bursik; Wilmot, Flint, Bachmann•; Gaspar,
was beaten to death by fans of their Fox; Laurent; Fosu-
bitter rivals Persib Bandung. Two Henry•, Baker, Kabasele, Sierralta•,
years earlier a 17-year-old Persib Smallbone, Sterling
fan, Muhammad Rovi Arrahman, (Clarke 77); Delap•, Kamara; Choudhury•,
suffered the same fate at the hands Gayle (Campbell 72)
of Jakarta supporters. Subs not used Kayembe; Sarr (Bayo 81),
Bonham, Jagielka,
Authorities have struggled Wright-Phillips, Asprilla• (Louza 59),
to deal with it all, not helped by Taylor, Sparrow
Sema• (Hungbo 87);

Davis (Gosling 87)

Subs not used
Hause, Okoye, Morris

Referee Josh Smith Attendance 19,905

▲ Slaven Bilic celebrates victory in
his first game as Watford manager

• The Guardian Monday 3 October 2022

38 Sport
Football Premier League

Wolves sack Lage after lem, with Wolves scoring only three a free and made his debut as a substi-
one win in 15 matches in eight games. Lage was unfortunate tute in the 2-0 defeat at the London
that the striker Sasa Kalajdzic, a £15m Stadium. Lage pointed to Costa’s
Ben Fisher the Wolves chairman, Jeff Shi. Last summer arrival from Stuttgart, sus- ▲ Bruno Lage lost his job following appearance and the absence of strik-
season tailed off badly, as Wolves tained a serious knee injury on debut Wolves’ 2-0 defeat at West Ham ers as mitigation for his side’s poor
Wolves have sacked Bruno Lage as finished 10th and squandered the last month. form. “Strikers are important, not just
head coach after a dismal start to the chance to qualify for European foot- Orient manager and now Wolves’ for my team,” Lage said on Saturday.
season culminated in the club drop- ball, and Lage has failed to provide Wolves are working to appoint under-21s coach, and James Col- “We are completely different when
ping into the Premier League relega- any uplift this campaign. Lage’s successor and, while nothing lins, the under-18s coach, will take we have a striker in our team. When
tion zone. The club’s owners, Fosun, is imminent, they hope to have a new training in the interim before the trip we have started with a striker in the
decided to act after defeat at West Wolves backed Lage with more manager in the dugout for the trip to Stamford Bridge. Lage’s backroom first eleven, we have not lost in the
Ham on Saturday extended their dire than £100m for signings in the sum- to Chelsea on Saturday. Lage suc- staff, including his brother and assis- Premier League. This is not an excuse
form to one win in 15 matches, a run mer but a series of alarming displays ceeded Nuno Espírito Santo, with tant coach, Luis Nascimento, have but it’s a fact.”
that dates back to April. led to fans turning on the Portuguese. both clients of the Gestifute agency also departed.
headed by Jorge Mendes, who rep- Shi said Wolves were left with “no
Lage took charge in June 2021 Fosun had hoped to see the resents several Wolves players Lage was disappointed that choice but to act”. The chairman said:
but he and his backroom staff were fruits of their heavy investment, including the £27.5m summer signing Wolves did not sign a centre-back and “Bruno is an excellent coach, a hard-
dismissed yesterday after talks with including a club-record £38m outlay Gonçalo Guedes, who remains another striker before the transfer working and dedicated manager, and
on Matheus Nunes from Sporting, without a goal. deadline but Diego Costa arrived on a warm, wise and honest man.
but new signings have struggled
and goals have been a major prob- The former Olympiakos coach “On behalf of everyone at Wolves,
Pedro Martins is keen on managing I would like to place on record our
in the Premier League, while Wolves gratitude to Bruno and his coaching
previously considered the Sevilla team for all their efforts during their
manager Julen Lopetegui. Steve time with the club, and wish them
Davis, a former Crewe and Leyton the very best for the future.”

Leeds make their point despite Silliest In between all the hostilities, not
Sinisterra’s red in fiery contest red card to mention those moments when
of the Attwell either seemed in peril of los-
Leeds 0 disciplinary fault lines which, quite played their part in provoking that, season? ing control or overly pedantic, Illan
Aston Villa 0 apart from preventing his side dis- Leeds allowed themselves to be Meslier reminded everyone of his tal-
playing their true abilities, prompted wound up far too easily. Luis ent, making a couple of decent saves
Louise Taylor a few alarming tremors yesterday. Sinisterra from Ollie Watkins and another from
Elland Road “There’s moments where I think protests after Leon Bailey.
Ultimately an often ill-tempered we can be smarter, manage the referee receiving
The puzzling thing is that, along the contest involving two feisty yet frag- and everything,” conceded Marsch, a second Despite initially dominating
way to collecting an Ivy League his- ile teams – if the jury remains out who was clearly irritated by both Ger- yellow for around 70 per cent of possession,
tory degree from Princeton Univer- on Marsch, Steven Gerrard’s Villa rard’s tactics and Stuart Attwell’s offi- blocking Leeds struggled to test Meslier’s
sity Jesse Marsch produced a 117-page tenure also seems perched on deli- ciating. “But it was a good clean sheet a free-kick counterpart, the underworked Emil-
dissertation entitled: “Shaken, not cately between impending calamity and, with a man down, a good result. I iano Martínez as they failed to pass
stirred; an evaluation of earthquake and mid-table stability – concluded feel sorry for the fans. They had to sit LEE SMITH/ the ball cleverly enough to challenge
awareness in California.” with just the one sending-off, namely through a game where almost from ACTION IMAGES/ Gerrard’s central defensive axis of
Leeds’ Luis Sinisterra for a ludicrous the first minute it seemed the tactic REUTERS Tyrone Mings and Ezri Konsa.
With that background the Leeds second bookable offence. of the opponent was to slow the game
manager might have been expected down.” two red cards in their last five Premier Sensing opportunity, Villa gradu-
to be a little more conscious of the There were, though, moments League meetings. ally improved and, with Watkins
when a game sporadically illumi- By the final whistle the bookings making a nuisance of himself,
nated by Philippe Coutinho’s skill score was 5-2 to Leeds, meaning that Attwell swiftly found himself pre- Coutinho started making his pres-
threatened to descend into a full-on two teams who seem to have devel- siding over an extremely tricky game ence felt, sending a volley ricochet-
brawl. If a Villa ensemble prone to oped an almost chemical mutual dis- to referee with snide little off-the-ball ing off a post early in the second half.
time wasting at every opportunity like have now collected 31 yellow and fouls happening all over the pitch as
Leeds failed to establish their pre- Gerrard probably could not believe
ferred high tempo. his luck when Sinisterra was sent
off for that idiotic second bookable
Indeed it was probably a blessing offence. As the winger not merely
in disguise that Marsch had been ban- failed to retreat 10 yards but stuck out
ished to the press box in the wake of a leg to block Douglas Luiz’s attempts
his sending off in Leeds’ last game, to take a swift free-kick, Marsch’s
a 5-2 defeat at Brentford 29 days ago head sunk into his hands.
which prompted a one-game touch-
line ban. Without that suspension Leeds had paid the price for the
few would have bet against the some- sort of hot-headed indiscipline
times volatile American and Gerrard which their manager has failed to
crossing technical-area swords. control. Admittedly Luiz provoked
the Colombian by arguably aiming
“We came here to frustrate Leeds,” his delivery at his shin but, had Sin-
admitted Villa’s manager. “If you let isterra – earlier booked for a challenge
them play to their rhythm they’ll run on John McGinn – not raised his foot,
all over you, so we slowed the game he would have gone unpunished. “I
to our tempo and went to war where think Luis knows that was not an
needed. I’m not interested in what intelligent decision,” said Marsch,
Jesse thinks about our tactics. We did who has already scheduled conver-
what we need to do.” And the referee? sations about time-wasting with the
“He didn’t do much wrong,” said Ger- refereeing authorities.
rard, smiling. “He had a very good
game.” Down to 10 men Leeds switched
to 5-3-1 but, although Konsa’s block
denied Patrick Bamford, Meslier
looked relieved when Emi Buendía
bent a shot fractionally wide.

“I’m frustrated,” said Gerrard.
“We’ve got the quality but we need
our big players to step up in big
moments.”

Leeds Aston Villa
4-2-3-1 4-3-3
Meslier; Kristensen Martínez; Young, Konsa,

(Ayling 68), Koch•, Mings, Augustinsson•

Cooper, Struijk; Adams, (Bednarek 45); J Ramsey

Roca• (Firpo 58); (Ings 83), Douglas Luiz,

Harrison (Summerville McGinn; Bailey•

79), Aaronson (Klich 79), (Buendía 64), Watkins,

Sinisterra•; Rodrigo• Coutinho

(Bamford 68) Subs not used
Olsen, Sanson, Nakamba,
Subs not used
Klaesson, Llorente, Dendoncker, Bogarde,

Gnonto, Greenwood Archer

Referee Stuart Attwell Attendance 36,582

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Aubameyang could Palace’s area. Textbook stuff from a Saturday’s talking points
be the one to end textbook centre-forward, the very
Chelsea’s No 9 curse thing Chelsea have been lacking Arsenal 3-1 Tottenham
for so long and which suggests
Having cycled through elite Fernando Torres, Álvaro Morata, yet another turbulent season in Never has an Antonio Conte team Antonio Conte must
centre-forwards in recent Gonzalo Higuaín: just some of the the club’s history could, again, gone an entire league season with lift his players’ spirits
years, Chelsea may finally elite-level goalscorers who have end with success. less than 50% possession. Right for Europe this week
have found the right man looked anything but while wearing now Tottenham’s is 48%. In part
Chelsea’s No 9 shirt during the “It feels very good to score,” Spurs’ inability to keep the ball Liverpool 3-3 Brighton
Sachin Nakrani past couple of decades and, after Aubameyang said. “When you are stems from deliberate choices:
Romelu Lukaku became the latest a striker you just want to get that a low defensive block, a reliance The apprehension inside Anfield
Immediately after Chelsea’s to flop in that particular item of first goal as soon as possible and it on the counterattack, a two-man was palpable as Liverpool struggled
2-1 victory against Crystal clothing, Thomas Tuchel admitted came today so I am really happy. midfield picked for physicality to preserve a 3-2 lead over Brighton.
Palace on Saturday, much of there was a belief within the I am really happy to get back to the rather than control. Conte would It was also revealing when Jürgen
the focus was, quite rightly, dressing room that it was cursed. Premier League with a goal.” argue that without a midfield Klopp compared the anxiety – that
on the visitors’ second playmaker and with four high-class he shared – to the early “heart
goal. Conor Gallagher’s “Players sometimes want to What also caught the eye forwards, he is simply playing to attack” days of his reign when he
90th-minute winner was as change numbers but nobody wants in regards to Aubameyang’s Tottenham’s strengths. But it does would glare at supporters heading
spectacular as it was dramatic to touch it,” the German said in performance was his willingness to mean they will often be forced to for the exits before the final whistle.
and, given it came against the club early August, shortly after Lukuku drop deep and go wide in order to soak up pressure against strong The doubts are back and with good
where he enjoyed a successful loan had returned to Internazionale get involved in Chelsea’s buildup technical sides. Jonathan Liew reason. Roberto De Zerbi’s side
spell last season, rich in narrative. on loan. Yet someone has taken play, something for which he is could have been four up inside 17
it – a man Tuchel brought to hardly renowned. The 33-year-old Bournemouth 0-0 Brentford minutes and Liverpool’s ability
However for Chelsea, their first Chelsea just before he also left completed 20 out of 23 passes, to recover cannot be overlooked.
goal of the afternoon was arguably the club and who showed at the made one pass into the final On the face of things this was a But nor can their weakness as a
more noteworthy, not only because weekend he has what it takes to third, created one goalscoring poor result for Bournemouth, the defensive unit. With Arsenal and
it got them back into the game break this most curious of spells. opportunity and even made one exact kind of game a promoted Manchester City up next in the
following Odsonne Édouard’s interception. It was an all-round side would hope to win. But this Premier League, the recurring flaw
seventh-minute opener for Palace Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang display and, while time will tell represented progress. When Gary needs addressing. “We are trying to
but because it came from a centre required only 38 minutes of his if that continues, the early signs O’Neil succeeded Scott Parker put pressure on the ball but teams
forward, and specifically a No 9. Premier League debut for Chelsea are undeniably encouraging from after the 9-0 defeat at Anfield, are adapting to us as well,” said
Mateja Kezman, Hernán Crespo, to score his first goal for the a player who, it is fair to say, has Bournemouth had conceded 16 Virgil van Dijk. Andy Hunter
team. The strike may have been gone through a lot during the past times in three games; in the four
The early signs are controversial given it was set up 19 months, from joining Barcelona since then they have been breached Southampton 1-2 Everton
encouraging from by Thiago Silva not long after the after his time at Arsenal turned four times. Broadly speaking,
a man who has gone Brazilian centre-back should have sour to moving to Chelsea in order O’Neil has used the same players as Frank Lampard repeatedly alluded
through a lot during been sent off for a cynical handball, to rekindle the successful working his predecessor; what has changed to the strength of character in his
the past 19 months but it was also a thing of beauty, relationship he had with Tuchel at is his defence is better organised. Everton squad after this victory, a
Aubameyang guiding a quickly hit Borussia Dortmund only to see him But what has really changed is his spirit that was often conspicuous by
and perfectly precise low shot past sacked after one game together. defence is more confident. There its absence last season. Conor Coady
Vicente Guaita, having expertly Oh, and in between he suffered a remains work to do but a team that and James Tarkowski have forged a
turned away from Joel Ward inside broken jaw during a home robbery. looked extremely likely to go down steely partnership in front of Jordan
now look in with a serious chance Pickford, while Idrissa Gueye and
“He [Aubameyang] has had of staying up. Daniel Harris Amadou Onana, two more summer
a difficult summer for different signings, dictated the midfield at
reasons,” said Graham Potter Crystal Palace 1-2 Chelsea St Mary’s. Another of Everton’s
after securing what was his first eight new faces, Dwight McNeil,
victory as Chelsea manager. “He’s It was an afternoon of fury and scored the winner to send the noisy
had a quite traumatic experience frustration for Crystal Palace, and 3,000-strong away support home
that can affect you. The way he overall they did not play well, but happy. Lampard said: “There has
has handled himself has been A1, there were still positives. Among been a change of personnel and I
so I’m really happy for him to get them another encouraging display think it was needed. We tried to
a goal and contribute to a win.” by Eberechi Eze almost a year bring in good people as well as good
since his return to action following players.” Ben Fisher
Next up for Chelsea is a serious knee injury. He was
Wednesday’s Champions League an especially lively presence in West Ham 2-0 Wolves
encounter with Milan. For the first half, twice forcing Kepa
Aubameyang that means another Arrizabalaga into duty. Eze also Bruno Lage’s struggles with Wolves
chance to show he definitely has carried out his share of defensive threw up a philosophical question:
what it takes to snap Stamford duties and, there is little doubt how long can it be acceptable
Bridge’s No 9 hoodoo as well this is a player who is slowly but to play decent football and look
as reacquaint himself with the surely working his way back to the nothing like winning a match?
club where he began his career consistently high levels he was Lage’s sacking yesterday brought
a little over 14 years ago. Having at for Palace before his setback. the answer. At the London Stadium
come through Milan’s academy Sachin Nakrani the classier play came from Lage’s
Aubameyang never actually played team but Wolves showed nothing
for the first team, but for someone Fulham 1-4 Newcastle like the incision that brought West
who was a raw and inexperienced Ham’s goals. Wolves had won just
teenager at the time just being If anyone epitomised Newcastle’s once in 15 league matches and
able to train with the Rossoneri’s hunger here, then it was Sean scored only three this season.
stars was enough, with one in Longstaff. While Miguel Almirón Without the suspended Nathan
particular making an especially deservedly took the headlines for Collins their defence was ravaged
dazzling impression on the aspiring his wonder strike, the 24-year-old by the speed of West Ham’s
striker – Ronaldo. Il Fenomeno. midfielder set the tone throughout Jarrod Bowen. “If a new manager
at Craven Cottage as Eddie comes in, he’ll still have the same
“To tell the truth, he was a bit Howe’s side took full advantage problems,” Lage said on Saturday,
fat by then,” recalls Aubameyang of Nathaniel Chalobah’s early embracing his inevitable departure.
with a trademark grin. “But he red card. The lifelong Newcastle John Brewin
was still the best. I will always fan celebrated his goal with the
remember when Carlo Ancelotti travelling supporters and, on a
had a go at him about his fitness, he day of train strikes, Longstaff paid
said: ‘What do you want me to do, tribute to their commitment. “You
run or score goals?’ Ancelotti said: can make it as difficult as you want
‘Score goals,’ and the next time for them but they’re always going
Ronaldo scored twice. to pack out the away end,”’ he said.
“That’s why they are the best in the
“For sure that is part of the world.” Ed Aarons
character you need as a striker
because you need to be strong
mentally. I learned a lot [from
Ronaldo] and now I want to show
what I am capable of doing.”

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
celebrates his goal with Thiago Silva

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• The Guardian Monday 3 October 2022

40 Sport Haaland’s
Football Premier League hot streak
continues
at home

Erling
Haaland
leaps above
Manchester
United
defenders to
double City’s
advantage

LAURENCE
GRIFFITHS/
GETTY IMAGES

LAURENCE GRIFFITHS/GETTY IMAGES

MICHAEL REGAN/GETTY IMAGES

Hat-trick heroes Haaland and Foden A final humiliation came with 25
humiliate United in derby mauling minutes left when Pep Guardiola
made a quadruple substitution, two
Manchester City 6 The phenomenon that is Erling ‘They’ve seen enough …’ of those replacing the scintillating
3 Haaland ended Manchester City’s Jack Grealish and Kevin De Bruyne.
Foden 8 44 72, Haaland 34 37 64 dismantling of Manchester United ▲ United fans walking out before half-time, leaving plenty of empty seats
Man Utd with a third consecutive home Pre- Antony and Anthony Martial were
Manchester United 46% mier League hat-trick in a chastening SKY SPORTS; MICHAEL REGAN/GETTY IMAGES United’s scorers but their strikes
7 afternoon for Erik ten Hag’s men. made it first 4-1, then 6-2 and 6-3
Antony 56, Martial 84 90pen 11 (the Frenchman scoring two), on a
At the moment Haaland is too day when United fans were shown
Possession powerful, too hungry and simply leaving at the interval, unable to
Man City too good for the opposition. The stomach further bullying of their
54% Norwegian can also create, as he did dazed players.
for the passes that allowed Phil Foden
Shots on target to register his second and final finish As Haaland, who now has 17 in 10
9 as he, too, enjoyed a hat-trick. games for City, said: “Yeah, not bad.
Total attempts We scored six goals, what can you
22 This 188th derby was the mother say? It’s nice. We always want to go
and father of all mismatches, City forward, we always want to attack.
Jamie Jackson handing their neighbours a lesson This is what I love about the team. In
Etihad Stadium that had them reeling, United 4-0 the end it’s amazing. There’s nothing
down at half-time – as at Brentford – more to say.”
and praying this would not end in a
double-digit defeat. City blew their guests away from
kick-off. They monopolised the ball
and space and were ahead inside
10 minutes. Before Foden’s opener
only desperate defending from Scott
McTominay and David de Gea pre-
vented them being breached.

When Haaland leaped at the far
post to head a Bernardo Silva cross,

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his penchant for dribbling engineered Analysis
an opening from which City went Barney Ronay
close to a second. After he skipped
beyond Fernandes, Lisandro Mar- Insatiable Nordic goal-devourer kind of leap that is beyond most
tínez upended the left wingman; humans of this size, the kind of
Gündogan’s dead-ball curved away spearheads a team of beauty leap where Haaland seems briefly
from De Gea and clipped the post. to blot out the sun. His second
playing high-speed digital game (3-0) was a hooked left-foot finish
This was already riot from those in from one of those De Bruyne
▲ Phil Foden’s ▼ Foden (right) blue. Further disturbance occurred ‘Yeah, not bad.” With performance. It felt like something passes that step outside the usual
second goal put celebrates with when the potent Grealish tapped to 44 minutes gone at else, the result of unarguable categories of cross and through
a dominant Haaland after Silva and his drag-back was met by the Etihad Stadium maths. On the one hand a mortal, ball to create some new kind of
Manchester City the England Foden, who should not have missed. Manchester City everyday football team, all joins trajectory, an angle that exists at
4-0 ahead midfielder scores scored a goal and cuts and snagged gears. On the De Bruyne degrees to the earth.
at half-time City’s sixth United could not stop City pouring that brought the other a blend of pure imagination
through them. Manuel Akanji, in for usual cheers and roars, but also and bottomless resources, 12 years Later Haaland helped make
Three in three a surprisingly dropped Rúben Dias, something else, the urge to laugh. in the making, finessed and refined Foden’s own hat-trick goal,
showed one way when floating the to create this fine pitch of touch and and this was slack from United,
Erling Haaland is the first player ball over the top to Kyle Walker, as City had already spent the first movement. And yes Haaland was who allowed Haaland to turn
to score Premier League hat- Guardiola’s men enjoyed what United half playing football that seemed to right. It wasn’t bad. and find a pass. It has become a
tricks in three consecutive home craved: total control – this despite have benefited from an operating commonplace to suggest Haaland
games. He is the first City player their midfield metronome, Rodri, system upgrade, demonstrating Haaland will draw the eye resembles an adult playing with
to score one versus United since an absentee due to injury. the latest miracle processor against naturally. He scored a brilliant children. This was like an adult
Francis Lee in 1970 – and the third a batch of red-shirted patsies. The hat-trick and never at any stage playing with mediocre children.
overall, with Horace Barnes in There was then zero surprise at move to make it 4-0 was a moment looked like doing anything other
1921. Phil Foden is the fourth. what happened next. Varane had of super-compression, lines cut in than scoring a brilliant hat-trick. For all the starry moments
gone down near the area, causing Fer- a perfect zigzag from outside City’s All being well Haaland will score a big part of what City did here
McTominay stabbed this away only nandes to unload at Michael Oliver penalty area to the far left-hand 78 league goals this season at his was their defensive cover and
to see De Bruyne rifle a shot that was when the referee allowed the contest corner of the Manchester United current rate. This is obviously the architecture of the midfield.
goal-bound before De Gea’s save, to continue. The passage ended in a goal without friction or drag or loss an impossibility. Something will They counter-pressed fiercely.
Silva having his follow-up stymied. City corner, Varane went off for treat- of scale. happen to stop him scoring. But There was a glimpse of how
ment and De Bruyne swung the kick what exactly? It’s not like he’s on a Pep Guardiola might make this
United were punch-drunk already. in. Up rose Haaland, whom Christian It took eight touches to make hot streak or playing above himself. iteration work in a high-speed
Not required was Bruno Fernandes Eriksen, McTominay and Dalot could it, starting with Kevin De Bruyne opening spell in which Jack
gifting the ball to the champions not stop heading home. surging through the centre, After that poor start in the Grealish and Foden stayed wide,
needlessly, and how they struck. shrugging Christian Eriksen off like Community Shield some cautious while De Bruyne kept shifting
Foden initiated and finished a Finish No 16 of the campaign for a rugby centre while delivering a judges had suggested Haaland sides to double up: like some
sequence that had possession going the Norwegian soon ensued, his fine touch to Erling Haaland. The would take time to settle at City. super-slick version of old-school
rat-a-tat between him, Grealish, Ilkay partner in goal-plundering again De pass basically told Haaland what And they were right. It did take 4-4-2, Wilcox and Ripley with
Gündogan and Silva. It came back to Bruyne. The latter wandered for- to do. He took one touch to make time. It took one game. “If I time Shearer in the middle, but
the No 47, whose finish beat De Gea ward and delivered one of his slicing the space then curled a dream of a my runs properly I know that no replaced by a blur of blue-shirted
at his right post, going over Raphaël parabolas which left Varane out of pass that took out three defenders one can stop them,” he said before overlaps and an insatiable Nordic
Varane’s shoulder. position and Haaland in the perfect and found Phil Foden, already this game. This might sound like goal-devourer.
spot to slide in. networked into this, already in the arrogance from another footballer.
Grealish had already caused Diogo chat, bullocking through to zing the With Haaland it’s just true. He’s run The game was over by
Dalot to be booked very early on and Cue Varane being replaced for ball into the corner. the numbers. It’s empirical fact. half-time, and even more over by
Victor Lindelöf. Walker also had Just letting you know. the time both teams emptied their
to be removed, for Sergio Gómez, And in that moment 4-0 benches. Perhaps Erik ten Hag
who went to left-back, João Cancelo really didn’t feel like a stretch, Haaland’s first here, City’s might take heart from winning
switching to the right. or a surprise, or even much of a second, was made by a vast the second half 3-2, a deceleration
humiliation for United, who had standing jump in from a corner, the that felt like a note of early-season
For his next trick Haaland turned spent that half chasing ghosts and misdirection from City, like
provider. De Bruyne, too, had an shadows, shapes at the edge of This was a mortal, Shane Warne spending two days
inevitable part feeding the 22-year- their eyeline. everyday football bowling badly at Graeme Hick
old who bent his run and drilled team against a blend before the first Test just to keep
over a sweet ball Foden swept past By the end a 6-3 defeat was even of pure imagination a little mystery.
De Gea. All of a blue persuasion were quite generous. But then this was
in raptures. also a strange game, not the usual What really happened here was
thrashing, some tactical oversight United met opponents operating
For the second half Luke Shaw exploited, or a career-high on another plane, high-speed
replaced Tyrell Malacia but instantly digital football versus a kind of
De Gea had to parry from Foden, ▼ Manchester City fans do the and bottomless hand-cranked dial-up version,
who skated through the left-back’s Poznan to celebrate another goal resources football yelled down a piece of
corridor and went close. Guardiola twine between two cans.
having a fit at 4-0 up when Gómez MICHAEL REGAN/GETTY IMAGES
failed to ping a ball forward was an What are we to make of this?
instructive sight. Perhaps he could Are there notes of doom in City’s
smell how Antony was soon to career brilliance? The president of La
past Grealish and the dozing Gómez Liga, Javier Tebas, spoke again
before letting fly to ripple the City net. this weekend about nation-state
super-clubs skewing the field,
Ten Hag made like-for-like killing competition and so on.
switches in McTominay for Casemiro
and Marcus Rashford for Martial leav- But that kind of talk just doesn’t
ing Cristiano Ronaldo benched, the add up at this elite level. Both
Portuguese’s response a pout. of these teams have spent vast
amounts of money, as have Real
Haaland’s third ended a classic Madrid and Barcelona.
City move that had De Bruyne one-
two-ing with Grealish, the Belgian The difference is that City
passing to Gómez whose delivery was have done it well, have cheated
smacked in by the lethal marksman. by removing human frailty,
short-term commercial greed,
Martial bundled one beyond Eder- boardroom stupidity from the
son for 6-2 and there was still time to equation. Chuck in bottomless
score a penalty after Cancelo fouled resources and the greatest coach
him in the area. But 6-3 seriously flat- in the world and the result is
tered United, who have to recover this: something without edges or
quickly from this. drag, a project that will perhaps
soon reach its final expression;
Manchester City Manchester United and which in Guardiola’s hands
4-1-2-3 4-2-3-1 remains unarguably a thing
Ederson; Walker De Gea; Dalot•, Varane of beauty.
(Gómez 41), Akanji,
Aké, Cancelo; Gündogan (Lindelöf 40), Martínez,
(Laporte 75); De Bruyne
(Álvarez 75), Silva; Malacia• (Shaw ht);
Foden (Mahrez 75),
Haaland, Grealish Eriksen, McTominay
(Palmer 75)
Subs not used (Casemiro 59); Antony,
Ortega, Carson, Dias,
Lewis Fernandes•, Sancho

Referee Michael Oliver (Fred 70); Rashford

(Martial 59)

Subs not used
Heaton, Ronaldo, Pellistri,

Elanga

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Moeen hopeful
for World Cup
after Pakistan
series victory

Andy Bull
Lahore

Manchester Manchester ‘Not brave enough’ ▲ Erling England’s stand-in Twenty20
City United Haaland captain, Moeen Ali, believes the team
scored his third are ready for a tilt at the World Cup in
6 3 Australia after clinching a 4-3 series
consecutive win against Pakistan with a 67-run
Foden 8 44 72, Antony 56, Ten Hag tears into dire hometreblein victory in the decider in Lahore.
Haaland 34 37 64 Martial 84 90pen the win against
Manchester “If you look at the last two games of
United this series, both must-win matches,
United after City frenzy MATTMCNULTY/ going into a World Cup that’s really
MANCHESTER CITY important, because the pressure
FC/GETTY IMAGES to perform was huge,” Moeen said.
“We’re in a very good position now
going into the World Cup.”

Moeen stopped short of describing
them as favourites. “But I know
we’re a very dangerous team to play
and a lot of teams will fear playing
us.” England will find out how they
measure up against Australia in Perth
this Sunday, when they play the first
of three more T20 matches.

Moeen was particularly frustrated
by the fourth and fifth matches of
this series, which his team lost while
chasing low totals. “In the end, we’ll
look back and think if we were really
on it we would have won 6-1 in this
series, so we were disappointed with
those two in particular.”

In the end, though, this tour was
not about runs and wickets, or even
the World Cup. This tour was about
the renewal of an old and occasionally
testy friendship between the two
countries. It had been badly damaged
by England’s decision last year to pull
out of their first tour since 2005.

That is all forgotten. After this tour,
the friendship between the teams is
as strong as it has ever been. “It’s
been amazing to be back here and
playing cricket here once again after
17 years,” Moeen said. “Even before
the cricket started, it was a big thing
for us to come here. It’s a privilege.”

Jamie Jackson then you can’t win games: that is didn’t get the message through. With for Cristiano, for his big career,” the Match report Page 36
Etihad Stadium unacceptable. The plan was to show this lack of confidence we cannot win manager said.
bravery and confidence but we didn’t games. I don’t think this attitude is Moeen Ali says
Erik ten Hag told his Manchester from the first minute. We left Haaland Manchester United, we can act much Many United fans left at half-time England will be
United players they lacked belief and we were not tight. For the first more brave. We are in the process and with their team trailing 4-0. “Yes, of a team to fear
and said they folded like a “pack of goal we won the ball and could have I knew before that big teams like City, course, in a derby when you are 4-0 it at the T20
cards”, after they were humiliated created a great chance but instead we when you are not good you get ham- is unacceptable,” Ten Hag said. World Cup
6-3 by Manchester City. gave it easily away and then it was like mered and we were not good. We
a pack of cards. didn’t follow the rules of the way we The manager suggested there
Erling Haaland and Phil Foden play and you get hammered. We have would not be a repeat of the punish-
each scored hat-tricks, taking City up “We get undisciplined at following to accept that but this performance ment of his team having to do extra
to second in the table, a point behind rules and you get hammered. For me was not acceptable.” running after the 4-0 defeat at Brent-
Arsenal. Antony and Anthony Martial it was a surprise. We were not on the ford. “That was because they outran
(with two) scored for United. front foot, we were not brave on the Ten Hag said United being so poor us and we didn’t work hard enough.
ball and there were spaces to play but was why Cristiano Ronaldo remained It’s not always about punishment, we
Ten Hag said: “It’s a lack of belief. we were not brave enough. an unused substitute. “I wouldn’t have to criticise each other.”
When you don’t believe on the pitch bring him in because out of respect
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“I didn’t cry
until I knew
I was going

to live

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on surviving
pancreatic cancer

Monday 03/10/22 Top dog
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the most of their
royal connections
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under a bridge!’
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and having fun
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A new start after 60

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

I became a mother at 62

T wo and a half months year at the University of Dallas, to her students in which she shared was not allowed to touch him. us 10 minutes and we were into COVER PHOTOGRPAH: LILY IDLE
into her retirement, when she met her boyfriend, the story of her pregnancy, and She recalls his red face, his head a rhythm, disclosing, sharing
Martha Einerson “a powerful first love”. She the same question always arose. of dark hair. But nothing that stories.”
received an email initially dismissed her morning “People would ask: ‘Don’t you want amounted to a complete image
redirected from her sickness as a bug, then delayed to find him?’” And she would say: to carry in her mind’s eye. “I kept They discovered they share
former department telling her parents – this was 1977 “You know, I don’t.” trying,” she says, “but I couldn’t.” a host of similarities, including
secretary, with the words “This – but when she did, they and her Yet when Tallert sent a photograph a love of music. “We have the same
seems kind of important” and seven siblings were supportive. “My mother always told me: of himself, she recognised him favourite candy – Chick-O-Stick,”
a smiley face. Einerson scrolled Her relationship with Tallert’s ‘You were his mother for nine immediately. “Something in my Einerson says. “We both had
down. Written by a Jonathan birth father was ending; with her months …’,” Einerson says. “She heart knew. I looked at him and a really rough start in college and
Tallert, the note began: “Hello, I’m family’s support, she decided to taught me that when you make thought: ‘Oh, yeah.’” then ended up doing really well.
Martha Einerson’s birth son.” give the child up for adoption. a big decision, affirm it and We both like making pizza and
reaffirm it as often as you need. Einerson had no more children; we’ve been working for years on
Her adrenaline surged, her heart Einerson, 63, is a retired And I did. It worked.” she and her husband have perfecting our dough.”
started racing. She told her husband professor of communication “a fantastic relationship … We were
James. She called her sisters. She studies who specialised in Every few years, Einerson would unable to have children of our own Tallert calls her Martha. “But
planned to craft a profound reply – interpersonal communication wonder if her birth son was OK, if so we both dove into our careers.” once in a while, in a close moment,
“something he’d remember”. But and personal relationships, an he was alive. “I would imagine what he’ll call me Mom,” she says.
that evening as she got ready for expertise she found after changing it would be like if he came to the Two years have passed since “And it still feels as good as it did
bed, she looked out of the window, her studies at least five times in door.” She registered with adoption Tallert emailed Einerson. They the first time.” Her life has changed,
“and there was this amazing double the aftermath of her pregnancy. agencies so he could track her down, share a stream of texts. They speak but “only for the better. I feel
rainbow in the east. I thought, that’s Her mother had always seen her but never wavered from her decision on the phone, or FaceTime. Last more grounded, more at peace …
a sign. I wrote a short note: ‘Hello, as “a people person”, she says, but not to look for him. “I felt like year, Tallert and his fiancee visited A lot of joy.”
oh my gosh, I haven’t seen you maybe she partly gravitated to this I would be reneging on a promise,” Einerson at home in Minnesota. Paula Cocozza
since you were teeny tiny.’” At 62, career because she had so much she says. “I made a commitment – to They cooked together. She hopes Tell us: has your life taken a new
Einerson had “become a mother”. raw material of her own. give him to a family.” to visit them in the spring. direction after the age of 60? fill in
the online form at theguardian.com/
Einerson was 19, in her first For years Einerson gave a speech When Tallert was born, Einerson Their first phone call felt like new-start-after-60
could briefly look at the baby, but their first meeting. “It only took

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Emma

Beddington Please, men, How we met
make it easier Tori and Stella
Depop is where Gen Z to get presents
buys vintage – so why for you
not my old clothes?

J ust when I thought I was out of Depop, the secondhand When Tori, 68, moved to San Francisco from
clothing platform has pulled me back in, with a message
offering up to 40% off “blokecore”. I struggle to explain London in 2000, she was keen to meet new
– even to myself – how or why I ended up regularly
trespassing on a site where “90% of our active users are people. In 2002, she was invited to a brunch,
under 26”, and their preferred category of vintage is
where she was briefly introduced to Stella,

“Y2K”. Of my active wardrobe, 90% is Y2K – and the rest wishes it was. 64, an art therapist. “We caught each other’s

But there’s something alluring about Depop. Partly, it’s an instant eye but didn’t interact very much,” says Tori,

shot of youth, the kind you would pay many francs for in a Swiss who was transitioning at the time. “I thought

clinic. Is that what the kids wear, I think, baffled but invigorated by she looked really nice.”

corset tops (“sooo stunning”) and acid-washed cargos (“insane”). It In March 2003, they bumped into each

also feels like a force for good. The app’s popularity – $1bn (£940m) other again at a party. “I was quizzing

made to date by the Depop community – seems like a rejection of someone about Burning Man festival because

fast fashion. Of course, there is some grimly unethical tat, but most I’d never been,” says Tori. “Stella joined the

sellers seem genuinely creative with, and excited by, old clothes. conversation and I recognised her.”

There is also an anarchic charm to the platform. You can get Stella, who’d been active in the Burning

anything there: customised Covid tests, handmade A-level A shiver of dread traverses my spirit Man arts community, was happy to offer tips.
at this time of year, despite the
flashcards, even absolution – recently someone offered a $5 “Virtual golden-leafed glories of autumn: They were both smitten with each other, and
three men I know have birthdays in
Catholic confession penance” (“I perform all penances at holy table quick succession. Why are many – if spent the rest of the night chatting. “I like to
#NotAllMen – so hard to find gifts
… #angelcore #lolita”). The enthusiastic rebranding of ordinary stuff for? Do they not have stuff they think of myself as rational and logical, but
hanker after and once-in-a-lifetime
– and stuff I would run from screaming – is bizarre and obscurely extravagances in open tabs on their this felt like love at first sight,” says Tori.
phone to be examined, covetously,
pleasing. “Remember when the jumper I liked the look of was late at night? There are about 40 But when Stella invited her to a drag show,
things I want at any given time,
tagged #goblincore?” reminisces my friend Marianne, who has gone from a bike bell to a “deathlayer” Tori worried she’d made a mistake. At the
hen (“like having royalty visit your
even deeper on Depop than I have and forwards me many gems. coop”, according to the page I look time, she thought Stella was only inviting
at on my phone late at night).
I also enjoy the chaos intrinsic to 26 million gen Zers sending each her to a drag event because she was a trans
The men in my life don’t,
other emoji-strewn, oversharing offers by private message, and apparently. My husband only wants woman. “I definitely wasn’t,” says Stella.
technological items so abstruse
tackling the ultimate “adulting” that is the post office. Much of that they must be sourced via URLs “I’ve always loved those performances.” They
he provides. My stepfather is a
chaos is gleefully catalogued on the life-affirming @depopdrama notorious ascetic whose current soon ironed out the misunderstanding and
goal appears to be to liberate
Instagram account, from spats (there are lots of spats) to the grim himself of all material possessions. agreed to meet at a piano bar in early April.
And in 40 years of gift buying,
bran tub of items left in pockets: a vibrating butt I have only had two successes On their night out together, they “clicked
I don’t recommend plug, a belly button ring, a live cockroach. Then with my father: pictures of his
grandchildren and a wildlife cam instantly” and soon became a couple. “I was
(both my husband’s idea).
your husband there are the inventive excuses for not posting in a band and sometimes Stella would meet
items: grounded, hit by electric scooter or phone It hurts because presents
matter to me. I want to be known me after rehearsal,” remembers Tori.
intimately enough to be surprised
taking photos of dropped “in a crevice in KFC”. The Queen’s and delighted by, say, a Victorian Their first trip together was to Burning
death has featured heavily and, I am sorry to say, lustreware mug with a poorly
sculpted frog inside. Yet I am deep Man festival. “I had my friend make us
in Man Gifts 101 shame, sheepishly
you in ‘fun’ poses unconvincingly, in recent weeks. presenting books, booze and food, some matching pink costumes and Tori was
Short of cash and opportunities to wear my year after year. Capitalism seems
similarly bewildered, offering either appalled,” laughs Stella. “But when everyone
set dressing from Fast & Furious 8
former-life Y2K wardrobe of trouser suits and or accessories for a PG Wodehouse was fawning over us, she loved it and didn’t
character. It’s that or admit defeat
LBDs, I moved from Depop lurker to active seller with an “experience”: three hours take it off for two days.”
cheating death at an airfield for £250.
earlier this year. I inveigled my husband to take pictures of me in Tori appreciates how supportive Stella
Which is why I am pleading: men,
“fun” poses – a marital activity I absolutely do not recommend – and please share your private passions. was while she continued her transition. “She
Say “Ooh!” at shop windows.
laboriously listed my items. I followed advice for successful Depop Start collecting antique pencil encouraged me to come out as trans at work
sharpeners, Mountain Dew flavours
selling, including suggesting where you could wear the outfit (“the or false teeth. Anything, please. Call in 2006,” says Tori. “I worked in software
it your present to me.
past?”), using hashtags (#outofmydepth), and bought bags of sweets and assumed I’d have to quit my job, but she

and pretty labels to send out with my sales. Then … nothing. Gen Z made me see things differently.”

may love vintage but mine failed to generate a flicker of interest. The They got married in 2016 and moved in

only items I sold were a Zara shirt and two pairs of very fancy heels together two years later. “We had enjoyed

(bought shortly after my mother’s death in a moment of “it’s what she having our own places but

would have wanted” madness). The first pair was snapped up with I think I’m we decided we didn’t want to
be apart any more,” says Tori.
absolutely no chat or emojis by a Depop seller who covers Louboutin

shoes in Swarovski crystals and sells them on for hundreds; the rational Their relationship
grew stronger during the
second, by a 52-year-old who wanted them for burlesque classes:

delightful, but not the core demographic. but it felt pandemic. “We were each
like love at other’s everything for two
I was then seduced into spending my meagre proceeds on a skirt first sight years,” says Stella. One of
the things she loves most
from a popular seller who promptly vanished for a month. The about her partner is her
kindness and generosity.
veneer of laid-back chill on my unanswered messages to her wore

thinner and thinner until eventually she re-emerged (“dissertation

and personal stuff”; broken-heart emojis) and the skirt arrived.

PHOTOGRAPHS: PAT MAZZERA; GETTY There were no pocket surprises, but I haven’t worn it. Depop “Tori is a very good listener

bamboozled me into forgetting how wedded to my uniform of and she cooks lovely food, too.”

allotment-core (a sub-genre yet to trend) I am. Tori says that food is her “love language”.

All that remains of my Depopping is £15 on PayPal, which I “I really love Stella’s wackiness,” she says. “I

have no idea how to access, and the memories. It’s no country for grew up in a strait-laced family and her zany

old women, but at least I get regular notifications on what’s hot. personality makes me a bit wilder and crazier.”

Blokecore, if you’re curious, seems to be football strips and tassled Lizzie Cernik

loafers of the kind Frank Butcher from EastEnders would wear. Just Want to share your story? Tell us a little

the update my look needs … about yourself, your partner and how you got

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• The Guardian
Monday 3 October 2022
4

‘It’s just
so easy,
isn’t it?’

Buy now, pay their own longstanding schemes met the charity’s definition of being of psychological methods used to People may
later is booming. (such as those offered by online in severe financial difficulty. encourage people at the checkout,” have multiple
But borrowers retailers Very and Littlewoods). The says Anderson. “Let’s remember BNPL products
are missing number of retailers that Klarna, one Among clients seeking help, that buy now, pay later emerged as with different
payments and of the biggest BNPL operators in StepChange is seeing more BNPL a sell-in to retailers to enable them providers. That
falling into debt. the UK, works with has risen 59% loans among their range of debts. to increase their sales.” Companies can stack up
Is online credit to 22,000 in the past year. Apple is The organisation is noticing “quite that offer BNPL products to
spiralling out about to enter the BNPL market in a correlation between use of buy retailers claim consumers are more
of control? By the US, PayPal also offers it, and UK now, pay later, and inability to likely to buy something and spend
banks are joining in – Barclays has a make ends meet and pay bills”, says more, and less likely to abandon
WEmine SanerhenEmma BNPL deal with Amazon, NatWest Anderson. “It was a product that their online shopping basket.
was shopping launched a BNPL scheme in June most people originally associated
online for and later in the year, Virgin Money is with highly discretionary A spokesperson for Klarna says
clothes or launching a BNPL scheme. purchases – like fashion, maybe the company does not benefit
makeup, and some of the treats of life. But as the from consumers overspending.
saw the option In the UK, more than £5.6bn product has begun to mature, we’ve “Unlike credit card companies, we
to pay later, “it sounded great”, she was spent using BNPL between seen people using it for different gain nothing from late or missed
says. “I thought: ‘I can just pay this January and June, according to a purposes.” People have been using payments. In fact, our business
off when I get paid.’ But I quickly study by the credit reference service it to pay for supermarket shopping loses out if a customer can’t repay,
realised what I racked up was not Credit Karma; last year, it took until and even utility bills, she says. so we have robust eligibility checks
realistic to pay off in a month, October to reach that amount. There and only loan small amounts of
especially not when all of it is due at are benefits to the deals – if you A review commissioned by credit on a short-term basis. Our
the same time.” know you can afford the payments, the Financial Conduct Authority products inherently protect against
it can make sense to spread the cost, (FCA) found that BNPL was overspending and come with
Before long, she owed £900. She and Credit Karma found that many particularly attractive to younger additional services such as an in-app
now has to pay £300 within the next people were using BNPL instead of people – about 75% of customers budgeting tool and 24/7 support
few days, and doesn’t have it. She bank overdrafts, which can charge are thought to be under 36, and the if someone’s financial situation
started using buy now, pay later on high interest rates. However, the majority are female. “There are lots
clothes, but once she was in a cycle study also revealed 41% of borrowers
of paying off previous months’ had missed a payment (last year, it
purchases with each payday, she was 11%), which suggests people
was soon using it for essentials are taking on debt that they cannot
such as groceries. Emma says her afford. Last month, a study by the
limit was increased without her University of Edinburgh found that
knowledge and, therefore, she was one in 10 public-sector workers,
spending more than she thought including NHS staff, turned to BNPL
she was. “I always assumed I was after failing affordability tests for
within my limit. I didn’t consider conventional lending and being
that the limit had actually gone up.” refused conventional loans. And
earlier this year, Citizens Advice
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is found that 42% of people who had
booming, even as financial experts recently paid with BNPL were using
are warning of growing pressure credit cards or borrowing from other
on the business model, amid sources to make the repayments.
consumer belt-tightening and
greater regulatory scrutiny. Go The idea that something
to the websites of many retailers expensive becomes affordable if
– including Marks & Spencer and paid for in instalments “is quite
online fashion companies such as a powerful message”, says Sue
Asos – and they will offer a chance Anderson, head of media at the debt
to “spread the cost” through charity StepChange. “The problem
companies such as Klarna and is, the attractiveness of that perhaps
Clearpay (most BNPL companies outweighs any concern about
take a cut of retail sales), or through whether you really will be able to
afford it when you have to pay in
the future. Particularly if people
have taken out multiple BNPL
products with different providers,
that can stack up.”

In January, research by
StepChange found that 87% of
people with a BNPL loan also had
at least one other consumer credit
debt, nearly half had trouble
keeping up with household bills
and credit repayments, and 17%

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Monday 3 October 2022

changes and they need additional A pembroke
help.” Traditional credit card Welsh corgi;
providers, he says, “intentionally below, Princess
keep people in debt with high credit Elizabeth with
limits, minimum payments, and Sue, in 1944
extortionate interest rates and fees.
PHOTOGRAPHS: GETTY IMAGES This is how they make money. Our ‘Ah, the at that price, but most of the corgi to do with the work he and others
business loses if people don’t repay, Queen’s puppies for sale on the Pets4Home have put in, travelling to the Kennel
as we don’t charge fees or interest.” dog!’ website are being offered at £2,000, Club’s Discover Dogs shows to
He adds: “The vast majority of which would seem to be a more drum up interest in the breed. Last
Klarna’s customers pay on time and Squat, prone to accurate going rate. year, 1,223 pembroke puppies were
in full, with 40% repaying before mischief and registered with the Kennel Club,
their due date.” occasionally bitey, Interest in the breed has been the highest number in almost 30
the corgi is not for climbing steadily since it was years, but that is still some way off
Emma says she did feel she was everyone. But that removed from the Kennel Club the 1960 peak, when almost 9,000
encouraged to get into debt by hasn’t stopped a watch list in 2018 – a change in were registered. The following
making purchases she couldn’t surge in the price of fortunes that the club in part year, Elvis Presley co-starred with a
really afford. “I’d go through puppies, finds attributes not to the Queen, but to corgi in Blue Hawaii.
my basket and see if I needed the Netflix drama series The Crown.
everything, and then I’d see the ITim Dowlingn 2014, only 274 new Corgis were never really in danger
‘buy now, pay later’ option and go: Welsh corgi puppies were The Queen’s corgis were of extinction. They have been
‘That’s fine – I’ll just pay everything registered with the Kennel pembroke Welsh corgis – not to consistently popular across Europe
next month.’ I didn’t stop to take into Club, a low enough number be confused with cardigan Welsh and especially in the US. What
account the other stuff I’d already for the club to add the dog corgis, which remain on the makes this squat, big-eared working
bought that was going to be due, or to its “vulnerable native Kennel Club’s vulnerable breeds dog a desirable household pet?
necessities I’d have to pay off first. breeds” list. Largely known for list. “The pembroke is a leaner
Some sites give you discounts if you being the Queen’s dog of choice – build,” says Kevin Egan, editor of “Health, intelligence and
use Klarna, so that doesn’t help.” it is said that over her lifetime she Our Corgi World, the newsletter temperament,” says Egan. Corgis
owned at least 30 – the breed did of the principal club for pembroke are obedient when well-trained,
Emma has been diagnosed with not appear to benefit from the owners, The Welsh Corgi League. but their intelligence can make
ADHD, “and impulse spending is royal association. “They are not as high in the withers them prone to mischief. “They
quite a big thing, so they’re making – the shoulders, in other words. have the IQ of a five-year-old child,
it incredibly easy for me. It is Then, last month, it was reported Their faces are foxier, their muzzles apparently,” says Egan. As we speak
massively stressful that I got myself that internet searches for corgis had are narrower.” Cardigans also have on the phone, all three of Egan’s
into the situation.” increased tenfold in the wake of the brushy tails. The tails of pembrokes dogs begin to bark simultaneously
Queen’s death, and that puppies were traditionally docked, but because the clock has just gone four,
Many BNPL schemes, Anderson normally selling for £1,500 – at a some have a naturally “bobbed” and they know it’s feeding time.
points out, are not regulated in the push – were suddenly being offered tail, a more desirable trait now that
same way as other consumer credit, at £6,000. In death, the monarch docking is illegal. People sometimes think of corgis
and are not subject to the same kinds had conferred upon the corgi as lap dogs, but according to Egan
of risk warnings. There is now a plan the one thing it lacked, besides While the two breeds are now they are more appropriately called
from the Treasury to regulate BNPL, proportionate legs: popularity. categorised as “pastoral” dogs foot dogs; his like to rest their
but it isn’t yet in place, she says. for competition purposes, both muzzles on his instep as he sits.
Internet searches do not were bred as working dogs in
However, even among companies necessarily translate into owners, their respective regions of Wales. Welsh pembroke corgis have a
that are regulated by the FCA, it especially once the price tag “Pembroke is a cattle county, which life expectancy of 12 to 15 years and
can be tempting to get into debt becomes apparent. No doubt anyone is why the pembroke Welsh corgi generally enjoy good health. They
using BNPL schemes. When Jessica determined to pay £6,000 for a dog was bred to basically drive cattle do have a reputation as “nippers”,
and her partner moved into their can find somebody to sell them one to market,” says Egan. “Cardigan is but this may be wholly down to
home, they bought furniture and a sheep county, so they did pretty the Queen’s dogs, as they often bit
homeware online. “We started much the same job, but with a footmen and clock winders.
looking at buy now, pay later because different kind of livestock.”
it would spread the cost,” she says. Egan points out that, as working
“Then it would get to the next year, Egan has three pembrokes – dogs, Welsh corgis shepherded
and you’d think: ‘I’ve got to pay £500 Edward, 11, Barney, six, and Mungo, cattle by snapping at their back
– where am I going to get that?’” In 20 months – and remembers what legs while being low and agile
the meantime, she had been buying he paid for each of them: £750 in enough to avoid a kicking. They
more items through the scheme. 2011; £1,200 in 2017, and £1,350 are easily trained out of this
“You think: ‘I’ll pop that on buy now, last year. He has noticed a rise in behaviour individually, but harder
pay later and worry about it later.’” interest when he takes his dogs out to manage in large numbers, and
for a walk. “No longer do I get asked: at certain points the Queen had
Jessica’s limit kept getting ‘What kind of dog is that?’” he says. as many as 13 dogs. “I think
increased, and at one point earlier “I’m getting: ‘Ah, the Queen’s dog.’” the nips and bites and the odd
this year she owed nearly £10,000, accident at court were probably
mostly comprising added interest, as Egan accepts the influence of a result of somebody simply
she had gone past the interest-free television on the resurgence of stepping out of line,” says Egan,
period. She is frustrated with herself the breed. “The Crown did help,” “because there was no doubt
“because it was me that applied for he says. But he reckons the climb that Her Majesty was the alpha
it, me that was spending”, but she is back from the brink has as much of the pack.”
also angry that she was allowed to
spend so freely. “I do think that they
should have looked at the account
and thought: ‘Maybe we should stop
her being able to order stuff.’”

Earlier this year, Jessica wrote to
the company, claiming she had been
the victim of irresponsible lending.
Several weeks later it waived nearly
£8,000 of interest charges and froze
her account. She says she cried with
relief. She is, she says, “trying to have
a bit of a better relationship with
money”. She has used other BNPL
products in the past, but cleared
those debts and has sworn off them.
“Last year, I would have thought:
‘Oh, I fancy some new clothes; I’ll
do it on Klarna.’ It’s just so easy to
get it and worry about it later. It’s
nice to have new things. It’s just so
easy to apply and have, isn’t it?”
Some names have been changed.

• The Guardian
Monday 3 October 2022
6 The G2 interview

‘I try to remember when we

Three years after he optimists: Python gave all these news could be bad. “I’ve been were in the biggest groups of their I’m not
British stereotypes a surreal twist. living six months to six months type – it’s the role they played in particularly
was diagnosed with One of Idle’s most memorable on tests. I didn’t know how much them. Both were outsiders. Lennon close to any of
sketches is Nudge Nudge, in which longer I had. I saw my doctor and McCartney were the main the Pythons.
pancreatic cancer, he asks a stranger in a pub about recently, and that’s when I got the Beatles composers, while Harrison I don’t think
his sex life via a series of terrible real shock. I asked him how long wrote on his own. Similarly in of it like we
Eric Idle has been double entendres. It’s one of I had left, and he said: 10 years. Python, Graham Chapman and were mates
the few Python sketches with a He also said: ‘Had you been two John Cleese, and Michael Palin and
given the all-clear. punchline, and was apparently weeks later you wouldn’t have got Terry Jones, wrote as teams, while
Elvis Presley’s favourite. to see the surgery; you would have Idle wrote alone. “I was like a free-
He tells Simon been straight into chemo’, which floating radical, and that’s where
Hattenstone about Perhaps Idle is best known for is unpleasant and not much use at George and I bonded.” He grins.
Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of that stage.” “And we liked a reefer and to play
Life, written by him and sung by his guitar together.”
losing friends and character Mr Cheeky as he hangs In the UK, only 7.3% survive
from the cross in the Python film five years with pancreatic cancer. Idle says that, like so many
being back on stage Life of Brian. Idle was often at his “And some die within three weeks,” comedians, he was always an
funniest as the sextet’s song-and- he says. “It really is that quick.” outsider. Even in a group of
E dance man. He made his fortune Did he know that at the time? “Of comedians he was the outsider.
ric Idle is a as the writer and lyricist of the course, because I’d been doing the Although all five British Pythons
survivor. We’ve known that for musical Spamalot, based on the musical, and I’d asked my doctor went to Oxford or Cambridge
decades. After all, it’s 53 years since film Monty Python and the Holy that very question.” universities, he was the only one of
Monty Python formed, and the Grail. His estimated worth is $70m them who hadn’t been to grammar
bunch of absurdist jokers are still (£63.3m), but he describes this as Even so, he says, he wasn’t or public school. His father,
regarded as the Beatles of comedy. “laughable” and insists he still has scared. Why not? “George Harrison. Ernest, died when he was two, and
But it was only last week that we to work. My favourite Idle project He always said to me: ‘Well, you can his mother, Norah, never really
discovered what a survivor he is. is the mockumentary The Rutles, a have as much money as you want, recovered. Ernest had survived the
Idle revealed that three years ago brilliant parody of the Beatles story, you can be the most famous person war in the RAF, got back to Britain
he was diagnosed with pancreatic featuring Paul Simon, Mick Jagger in the world, but you’re still going and was hitchhiking home when he
cancer, and that he has come and George Harrison. to have to die.’” He does a cracking got run over. The story sounds like
through it. His medical team has dour scouse impersonation of the one of those bleakly surreal Python
now told him that thanks to early Although he’s in London, we former Beatle. “This was always cartoons created by Terry Gilliam.
diagnosis and surgery, he’s likely to meet on Zoom because I’ve got a his theme. And he prepared for “It absolutely is!” he says. “My two
be around for the foreseeable. bug and he can’t afford to catch it. it his entire life. I was around his watchwords are entropy and irony.”
“As a cancer survivor I am high- deathbed. It was just fabulous to
Idle has always loved his ironies. risk,” he says, “so they try to keep see someone pass away calmly He was sent to a school in
And none come bigger than this, me away from anybody suffering without panic, regret or bitterness. Wolverhampton for children
he says. About 15 years ago, he from anything.” He’s wearing thick It was a great example.” of fathers who had been killed
started working on a project. black glasses and a blue jersey and in the war, paid for by the RAF
Death: The Musical became his looks as cheery as ever. While John Despite what he says about his Benevolent Fund. He hated the
obsession, even though countless Cleese has become grumpier over British stiff upper lip, Idle is an bullying culture and being away
people told him it didn’t work and the years, Idle has retained his emotional man, and probably now from his mother, yet it taught him
would never get made. (It hasn’t idealism and sunny disposition. He more so than usual. He becomes how to get on with people, partly
been.) The basic plot was simple – often looks as if he has just been tearful talking about Harrison. by taking the mickey out of the
a man writing Death: The Musical told the funniest joke in the world. “George was such a force for good, teachers. He was both subversive
finds he is dying. Idle asked his Even when talking about his cancer. and so supportive of me at a time and swotty, and became the first
doctor for advice. “I said: ‘What’s in my life when I was confused and student to win a place at university.
the quickest way to get rid of a He is here briefly for a surprise sad. My first marriage [to Australian
character?’ and he said: ‘Pancreatic appearance on scientist Brian Cox’s actor Lyn Ashley, mother of his In his first year at Cambridge he
cancer.’ This is the same doctor live show at the O2 in London. son, Carey] was breaking up, and was invited to join the Footlights
who ended up diagnosing me. That It will be only his second public he just looked after me. I’d never by Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill
was the fucking plot! So I had to appearance since his diagnosis. A had such a close friendship before Oddie, and performed in a sketch
laugh. And when it’s on yourself couple of weeks ago he made his with anybody.” Nor since. “I think written by Cleese. He went straight
it’s even funnier.” first, on the US’s The Masked Singer George was the most influential from university to writing for TV
singing Love Me Do. “I wanted to person I’ve met in life. And shows such as Do Not Adjust Your
Did he really respond with see if the audience still lifted me certainly in death.” Set (with Palin and Jones) and At
laughter or did the tears come first? in the same way – and if I could Last the 1948 Show (with Cleese
“No, I didn’t cry till I knew I was remember the words, for God’s He and Harrison, who and Chapman).
going to live. I just got on with it. sake.” And? “It’s a bit challenging. remortgaged his house to finance
I’m British! You try not to show I don’t think I’m in danger of being The Life of Brian, had so much in Gilliam, the maverick American
emotions in the face of danger.” out there too much, but if you can common. It’s not simply that they film-maker, joined Idle, Jones and
support other people and be with
Idle, 79, has lived in Los Angeles them, I like to do that.” (From left) PHOTOGRAPHS: LILY IDLE; ROLAND GRANT; ALAMY; GETTY; ALLSTAR
for decades, but few understand Michael Palin,
Britishness like him. Upper-cla Was he shocked when he got his Eric Idle and
ss twits, deadly bureaucrats, diagnosis? No, he says, there wasn’t John Cleese
oleaginous salesmen, pedantic time. “I told my wife [former model in 1971
bores, establishment perverts, and actor Tania Kosevich, whom
heroic stoics, Panglossian he married in 1981, and with whom
he has a daughter, Lily] and kids,
made sure everybody was OK and
within 10 days I was in hospital. My
doctor assured me he had a good
chance of getting it because it was
right in the middle of my pancreas.
It wasn’t attached, it had no nodes.”
The cancer was removed perfectly
intact after a five-hour operation.

For three years, he kept silent
about it. He would turn up for his
twice-yearly scan, knowing the