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Tuesday 13.11.
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Between boom and bust

The business disaster that shook Indias economy By Jason Burke
54 days
12A
Aditya Chakrabortty
Fiscal cli explained
Paralympic inspiration
By Mike Brearley
Michele Hanson
I love the BBC
Town Called Malice

How we made
The shortest-serving club
Shortcuts
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George Entwistle and the Shortest Serving Club
Brian Clough Entwistle should remember that, sometimes, short tenures can lead to immortality. Cloughs notorious 44-day reign as Leeds manager in 1974 might have been embarrassing, but they ended up making a lm about it. Michael ONeill In April 1999, ONeill became the new head of Barclays. Then, during his rst day, he became the shortest-serving head of Barclays ever, after failing a medical. He suered from an arrhythmic heartbeat that was exacerbated with stress. At least getting and losing a high-prole job on the same day isnt too stressful. Pope Urban VII The gurehead of the ShortestServing Club is undoubtedly Pope Urban VII, the shortestserving pope. Yes, he only managed to hold his job for 13 days in 1590, before passing away from malaria ahead of his ocial coronation, but in that time he still managed to pull o the worlds rst smoking ban. Proof that its not the time youre given that matters, but what you do with it. Entwistle will do well to remember this. After all, only a titan could get rid of Total Wipeout that easily. Stuart Heritage
lthough it might appear that George Entwistle didnt achieve very much in his 54 days as BBC director general other than getting bellowed at by John Humphrys the opposite is probably true. For instance, Total Wipeout was on TV before he took the job. Now it isnt. That alone is probably cause for some sort of footnote. Isnt it? Entwistle has also qualied to join one of the most elite groups in history: the Shortest-Serving Club. William Pulteney William Pulteney, the rst Earl of Bath, became prime minister on 10 February 1746 and then resigned two days later because nobody wanted to be in his cabinet. William Henry Harrison Harrison was the ninth president of the United States. As a show of bravado, he took the oath of oce in a rainstorm on 4 March 1841 without a coat or hat, and then died of pneumonia a month later.
William Pulteney 2 days
William Henry Harrison 30 days
Brian Clough 44 days
Pope Urban VII 13 days
Boris Yeltsin Entwistle kept his job for much longer than Boris Yeltsin. In 1998, during his presidency, Yeltsin sacked his prime minister and cabinet and declared that he was going to be prime minister from now on. Then a few hours later he changed his mind.
Sweyn Forkbeard Entwistle has also edged out Sweyn Forkbeard, who was the king of England for a mere ve weeks between 1013 and 1014. Sweyn did, however, name his oldest son Cnut, which you have to admit takes some balls.
Music
Seven ages of a boyband when to get the tattoo?
1 The honeymoon period. Everyone is smiling. Photoshoots involve primary colours, larks and some sort of trampette. The teen sensations pose in Santa outts for festive photo shoots. See: Gary Barlows naked bottom covered in red jelly. 2 The suit phase. By album two, boybandism has s become a job. The lads lets call them Antony, Lee, Duncan n and Simon show how mature they are by ram-raiding Dolce & Gabbana.
See: Westlife, whose second suit phase was prompted by the existence in 2004 of rat-pack covers album Allow Us To Be Frank. 3 That inking feeling. Boyband members react to the fact that their lives are no longer their own ar lashing out with a risky by lash new haircut, while public smoking, indie allegiances smo and an tattoos are the next step. st See: Se Boyzone wildman Shane Lynch. m
Zayn Malik and Harry Styles from One Direction
ike grief and the ages of man, boybands exist in seven stages, and One Direction are already at the third. This week, Harry Styles has unveiled his latest tattoo, while Zayn Malik has been pictured fag in hand sporting a Nirvana T-shirt. Wheres your favourite boyband right now?
Shorter cuts
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How to be Danish
Hooked Hook on The Killing? Got Go 280 euros to spare? You can s buy Sarah Lunds latest jumper from gudrungudrun. com.
Big bang
Kuwait celebrated 50 years of its constitution at the weekend with the biggest rework display in history: 77,282 reworks, costing 10m, over an hour. Suck on that, the Olympics.
An image from Dronestagram showing the si te of a US drone attack

Military studies
The website that reveals the US drone war
Pass notes No 3,280 Stepping aside

This is where James Bridle comes in. Using what little information there is, Bridle, creator of the New Aesthetic micro-blog, has set up Dronestagram. By marrying images from Google and target details from the BIJ, he has started to show the places hit in UAV attacks. On his blog, booktwo.org, Bridle argues that drone strikes are the consequence of invisible, distancing technologies, and a technologically disengaged media and society... The images on Dronestagram may be just foreign landscapes, but he hopes their immediacy will add to the demand for transparency. Earlier this year, Apple rejected an App that did much the same thing, apparently on the grounds that many people would nd the content objectionable. Not, presumably, the relatives of the civilians who are often inevitably killed in drone strikes, however carefully targeted the attacks. Nick Hopkins Age: Pending. Appearance: More of a disappearance, really. Sorry, you seem confused. Im trying to explain a new oce craze called stepping aside, in which BBC executives temporarily leave their jobs. Oh right. Like taking a sabbatical? A bit like that, yes. Only you do it after something embarrassing has happened. Wait a minute This is just posh talk for a suspension, isnt it? Not in the least! Being suspended is when youre told not to come to work while they decide whether to re you. Stepping aside is removing yourself from the oce for the duration of an inquiry. Completely dierent. I see. It began with the Newsnight editor Peter Rippon, who stepped aside with immediate eect on 22 October, pending the outcome of the Pollard review into his cancellation of an expos of child abuse by Jimmy Savile. This is on full pay, presumably? Presumably. So to step aside is to announce that you are going to stop doing any work while continuing to get the money? I suppose so. No wonder its caught on. Not everybody is a fan, though. The BBCs head of news, Helen Boaden (above), and her deputy Stephen Mitchell both had to be asked to step aside from their jobs on Monday morning. Asked to? Not told to? Thats what BBC News says. Hang on. Is this the BBC News thats being reported on, or the BBC News thats doing the reporting? Step aside is a quote attributed to the former. The latter reports that the pair were asked to. Look, I will admit Im quite confused. People should just resign, like that nice George Entwistle. He didnt resign. What he actually said on Saturday was that he would step down. Down? And that means he wont come back and he wont get paid? Oh, hes being paid all right. He will get 450,000 double what he was entitled to for resigning, but exactly what he would have got for being red. So stepping down is like ring yourself? I dont know. I dont know anything. Please dont ask me any more questions. Do say: Sorry, I have a terrible hangover. Id better step aside for a few days. Dont say: I blame Strictly Come Dancing.
he military is normally only too pleased to herald its successes, and to praise the courage of those who put their lives on the line for their country. Perhaps it is the link (or lack of it) between these two that encourages them to talk-up certain missions, and come over all sheepish when it comes to drones. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been the one unqualied triumph of the war in Afghanistan. That is, if success comes in an equation where lots of people get killed, at next to no risk, at an aordable price. According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which compiles gures on drone strikes, the US has killed up to 3,378 people in 350 drone strikes in the past eight years. And thats just in Pakistan. The US also orchestrates drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia from a base in the tiny African state of Djibouti (which nobody is supposed to know about). But does the White House want to talk about this? Not unless it has to. And not even then.
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$21m
Payment by Apple to license the Swiss Federal Railways clock design, according to a report in Tages Anzeiger. The company was accused of copying it for a screen icon when iOS 6 was released in September
COVER PHOTOGRAPH ROBERT NICKELSBERG/GETTY
4 Bye bye bye. Remember the member least excited to be wearing that Santa hat? Well hes o. Doing A Robbie only works if you happen to be Robbie Williams (right). See: Bryan Brian McFadden, last spotted apologising for 2011 date rape-themed single Just The Way You Are (Drunk at the Bar). 5 The band plays on. Even if the lineup is still intact, a greatest hits will be deployed, usually with a protesting-too-much title such as Volume One or The Journey So Far. Then a member leaves.
See: Backstreet Boys Greatest Hits: Chapter One, which pre-empted Kevins departure. 6 The split. Unfortunately, the rumours are true, and from today theres no more See: All of the above. 7 Rebirth. The band announces a tour, repackaged greatest hits and a brand new album the following year. As with Doing A Robbie, Doing A Take That really only works if youre Take That. See: Most of the above; others TBA. Peter Robinson
Flawed genius
Polling guru Nate Silver didnt do so well predicting the 2010 UK election. According to the blog Political Scrapbook, he forecast far heavier losses for Labour and big gains for the Lib Dems.
Contrite, moi?
Lance Armstrong has tweeted this picture of himself layin around beneath seven framed Tour de France yellow jerseys.
Texter-in-chief
All men are created equal. LOLZ! Daniel Day-Lewis apparently remained in character throughout the lming of Lincoln even texting his co-stars in the style of the US president.
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Aditya Chakrabortty
Those predictions of Obamas America falling o a scal cli ? Just as in Britain, its the right peddling scare stories
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he morning after Barack Obamas re-election, panic broke out. Radio 4 described nancial markets slumping on worries over something called a scal cli . The New York Times, normally drunk on its own sobriety, warned of a looming scal crisis. Other newspapers and TV networks predicted an economic abyss, peril, even imminent armageddon. And that was before you got to the blogs. The clock is ticking, apparently. Obama has until New Years Eve in which to strike a deal with the Republicans otherwise nearly 50 tax cuts will expire and the defence department alone will get slapped with $1.2tn in cuts. Unless the Democrats give the Republicans what they want in the form of further tax giveaways for the richest, the senator Mitch McConnell and his rightwing allies will block any attempt to extend borrowing with disastrous economic consequences. It sounds like a budgetary version of the lm Speed; but this is the scal cli Washington is driving o. And the result will be another recession in the US (and, more likely than not, around the world, too) and soaring unemployment. No wonder ABC News calls it taxmageddon. There is just one problem with this version of events: its exaggerated. Distorted. More spiced-up than a bargain balti. For a start, the very term is wrong. Even if the most bloodcurdling predictions are borne out, there will be nothing cli-like about 1 January 2013. Americans are not about to have a collective Wile E Coyote moment, in which they suddenly nd themselves paddling furiously in mid-air before the inevitable descent begins. This isnt a cli-edge at all; its more of a slope. Over a full year, the measures surely will be devastating (enough, predicts the Congressional Budget Oce, to see the US economy go from growth of more than 2% this year to shrinking by 0.5% next year). Most recipients of a payslip will not immediately clock that they are paying a bit more in tax although they certainly will over the course of a year. But that gives the Democrats plenty of extra time to come up with their own proposal for a deal and haggle with the Republicans. Yet metaphors matter; and so does media noise. Making out that some indescribable calamity is already inked into the calendar allows the right to hijack the Democrats budget plans even before Obama begins his second term in oce. Britons have had some experience of this. After the general election of 2010, as Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems negotiated over who
Americans are not about to have a collective Wile E Coyote moment
would form a government with whom, the press and commentators in nancial markets colluded in the pretence that the Great God of Gilts had no time for democratic deliberations. Nick Robinson was on TV heckling Lib Dems: Are you not in danger of playing both sides while the country waits and the markets quake? And then, when Cameron and Osborne were safely installed in Downing Street, they regularly warned that unless historic cuts were laid out now, the markets would treat Britain as callously as Greece. The results we now know: businesses and consumers sat on their hands; tepid recovery was snued out; Britain went back into recession, and even now our annual national income is some 5% below what it was before the crisis. Democratic debate was railroaded; the wrong economic policy was followed and it was all done to avert a wildly inated threat. Something similar is happening in the US this time. Not everything is the same, of course, since history rhymes rather than repeats. So the argument in the US is about avoiding having too small, av rather than too big, a decit next year; even rightwing Americans acknowledge that severe and acknowl sudden austerity would be disastrous. b But the budget hawks i the US do want Obama in to accept austerity over th longer term; and, the whats more, they have p plenty of money behind them. One of the major gures in that debate is the private-equity baron Peter Peterson, who has his Pet own foundation and is pumping fou in millions to push for a mil grand bargain in which g the Democrats are forced to slash social security and health spending to avoid the scal spend cli. With t that much money, he has plenty of allies in Washington, too including former Clinton includ House White Hous ocial Erskine Bowles, being who is now bei talked of as a possible new treasury secretary. Americas Democrats learn I can only hope that Am British experience. Because their lesson from the Brit the right here owned the language and framed wasnt the debate. But that wasn enough to defy economic reality. The US, like the rest of the west, needs to about have a serious debate abo its long-term budget outlook. But that needs to take into account how t and to reduce its debt fairly an sustainably and in a growth. way that allows for growt Exactly the debate that, two years into its austerity government, au Britain is still waiting to h g have.
This week Aditya bought a stack of old Grantas. Five for 4 from Charing Cross Road, for all my old favourites: Dirty Realism, Richard Lloyd-Parry from Indonesia, Philip Knightly on news
rive out of Delhi, across the heavily polluted Yamuna river, turn right and head towards the new $400m Formula One track Indias rst at Buddh. Take the Noida expressway, a six-lane speedway through what was farmland only a few years ago. Either side, skeletal concrete monoliths rise among the remaining elds. They are apartment blocks, homes for Indias new middle classes. Many projects have names that mix supposed European sophistication with a sense of bucolic rural idyll: Lotus Boulevard, Gardenia Glory, Blossom County. Then there is the Brys Buzz, an immense 81-storey glass and steel skyscraper, which is apparently a dream born out of a vision to give the super-rich the home they deserve. In fact the Indian super-rich can aord something a little more exclusive. Vijay Mallya, Indias most amboyant businessman and the chairman of the vast beer and spirits conglomerate
United Breweries, has a sprawling coastal villa in Goa and a dozen or so other properties. Other tycoons live behind high walls and broad green lawns in mansions in the centre of Delhi. Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries and Indias richest man, has built himself a home towering above the slums of the commercial capital of Mumbai. With a reported price tag of $1bn (625,000), it is the worlds most expensive private residence. It is Mallya who is in the news in India these days. Watching Sahara Force India, the F1 team he leads and co-owns, compete in the countrys second ever grand prix last month, the 56-year-old multimillionaire bullishly rejected any suggestion from reporters that he might have avoided the xture. After ying in from overseas he asked: Was there any doubt about my presence here? Well, yes, is the answer. There was plenty of doubt. For Mallya, the selfcrowned king of good times, has fallen on hard times. His seven-year-old airline has been grounded after authorities suspended its licence to y on safety concerns. Crippled by debts which may exceed $2bn, Kingsher had diculty paying employees salaries. When engineers downed tools,
its planes stopped ying. There were even reports, denied by Mallya, that the tycoons own private jet might be impounded by Indian airport authorities, which say Kingsher owes them huge sums. Some suggested that the man described as Indias Richard Branson might choose not to come back at all. But the Kingsher saga is about more than just 4,000 jobs, an airline, large amounts of public money and the career of a maverick tycoon. It is about India. Economic growth is slowing falling below the level seen by economists as necessary to keep up with the fast-growing population and condence is faltering. There are huge problems with key parts of the infrastructure as shown by the three-day power cut that hit hundreds of millions in the summer. Graft is rampant, the currency weaker than it has been for years and public nances fragile. Cut-price tickets failed to boost tepid sales for the F1, with a third less seats sold than in 2011. The pundits say that is usual for a new grand prix, but like Mallya with his parties, his $95m yacht and his calendar girls, like the $200 caviar pizza at the new luxury hotel in
Fall of an Indian hero

Over the past 10 years the Indian economy has soared, and with it enterprises such as Vijay Mallyas Kingsher Airlines. But now the super-rich tycoons eet is grounded and debt-ridden, does it mean the boom-time is over for India? By Jason Burke
Delhi, the event already seems part of an earlier time when nothing seemed capable of slowing, let alone halting the inexorable rise of India. And when everything was possible even a high-end luxury domestic airline in a country where almost one toddler in two is malnourished. When it was launched in 2005, Kingsher Airlines was intended to break the mould of Indian air travel. For decades, Indian travellers had put up with a single national carrier. The economic reforms of the early 1990s that partially dismantled a socialist-style command economy that had limited
economic growth to negligible levels in previous decades led to a boom in private air operators. Mallya, who inherited the chairmanship of United Breweries when he was 28, spent the early years of the post-reforms era consolidating its dominance in the beer and spirits market. As well as a talent for self-promotion and a taste for high living, Mallya showed acumen, determination, drive and considerable appetite for risk. Kingsher beer became a household name and the business of making it hugely protable. But Kingsher Airlines was a late addition to a crowded and tough market. Its USP was glamour. Flying Kingsher meant being part of the Kingsher world, a world of parties, fun and
good-looking, wealthy people. It meant being part of the new, booming India. Kingsher was aspirational. Mallya put his own persona at the heart of the brand. The traditional Indian businessman had been reclusive, hardworking, traditional and often pious. Mallyas own father was low-key, gritty and obsessed with accountancy. Many of the countrys richest men Ambani or NR Narayana Murthy, the co-founder of IT giant Infosys are still in that mould. Mallya was very dierent, and represented a very dierent India. The inuence of decades of socialist ideology, of Gandhi and his asceticism, of a generalised distaste for conspicuous consumption have waned rapidly. Other hierarchies beyond those dependent simply on money, such as caste dierences, inherited prestige, title or oce, have become less sure too. India had never had a leader, especially in business, who had been unapologetic about his wealth and enjoying his wealth, said Saritha Rai, a columnist for the Indian Express. New younger Indians see wealth as a gauge of status. They are more westernised and more materialistic. They are also wealthier. In 1992, according to the World
High rise a child on the building site of a new housing estate south of New Delhi
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95m
The cost, in dollars, of Vijay Mallyas luxury yacht
1 million
The number of passengers Kingsher carried in May 2009
800m
Mallyas personal wealth in dollars, having been relegated from Forbes list of billionaires
Bank, Indias gross national income per head of population (GNI) was around $350 (220). By 2005, when Kingsher was launched, it had reached $700. Much of this new money was concentrated in the super rich one recent study found that billionaires wealth comprised less than 1% of national income in India in 1996 and more than 20% in 2008 but even in a country where middle class really means not desperately poor there was much more cash being spent. India is the youngest nation in the world, Mallya told an interviewer in 2007. We have 500m people under 25, and 400m under 20. India has 1 million university graduates each year. Today, these people are getting jobs in industries that didnt exist in my time, in software and biotech. They want to live like kids in Europe with satellite TV, cars, bars and restaurants. They also wanted to y. But did they want to y Kingsher, with its owner who welcomed passengers in pre-takeo videos, boasting in a plummy drawl of personally picking cabin sta and instructing them to treat customers as if you were a guest in my own home? At rst it seemed so. For several years everything went as planned even if Kingsher never actually made a prot. The airline expanded rapidly. In May 2009, Kingsher carried more than a million pashighest market sengers, giving it the hi share in India. An international inte service was launched. By 2011, launched Indias GNI per capit had doucapita bled again to more t than $1,400, and Mallya was being hailed as bei a standard bearer for the new wave of swashbuckling swas Indian entrepreneurs all while having fun. It was a time when t he could not h put a step p
wrong. The champagne was owing and no one asked: whos going to ride these planes?, said Rohit Bansal, a former aviation journalist and business consultant. Kingsher shared its name with Indias most popular beer and the link with high-living was reinforced at every possible opportunity. Mallya bought a franchise to run a team in the brash new Indian Premier League, a TV-friendly rapid-re cricket tournament, guaranteeing further publicity in a sports-mad nation. The Mallya Collection, comprised of hundreds of cars in over 10 countries owned by sports enthusiast Dr Vijay Mallya, got its own slick website. Images of the tycoon, diamonds in his ears and his wrists, mane of greying blond hair swept back, posing with bikini-clad calendar models or Bollywood celebrities lled the society pages. But there was trouble brewing. The rst warning sign was a series of unexpected ight cancellations at the end of last year. The company blamed technical issues but the problems rapidly worsened. In a cut-throat business with wafer-thin prot margins, Kingshers glamour simply did not make money. Indeed, the airline was losing huge amounts of money, even before it became clear that Indias economic growth had started to slow, and with it peoples willingness to pay over the odds for luxury. Kingsher soon had diculties paying for fuel, particularly as costs were inated by surging oil prices and punitive government levies. Tax demands began mounting up. So, to, did claims for airport fees. Salaries went unpaid. Through this spring and summer, further ights were cut. Expensively leased planes stood idle. Key sta repeatedly walked out. A Kingsher store managers wife killed herself, leaving a note blaming nancial worries for her decision. Almost all employees stopped work. Shortly after the companys licence was suspended by regulators on 20 October, civil aviation minister Ajit Singh told a TV channel: It is unrealistic to expect Kingsher to y again. The question immediately asked
was: how did it come to this? Many blame the imprudence of Mallya himself, arguing that his emotional attachment to the airline blinded him to hard economic reality. Others point to a broader responsibility, asking why the banks and the regulators failed to act sooner. According to the campaigning magazine Tehelka, the Kingsher episode, with its high-octane mix of politics and business and smell of cronyism has raised questions about the independence ... of Indias banking system. In fact, although Mallya sits in parliament as an independent senator and is known to have had good relations with a string of civil aviation ministers and regulators, his networking is barely worthy of comment by current Indian standards. Recent years have seen corruption scandals costing the public exchequer tens of billions of dollars but even in a country where allegations of graft are common, no one is alleging any wrongdoing by Mallya. Anyway, the money came easily, without any illegality. In the past ve years, the debt of the 10 biggest corporate houses in the country to banks has risen vefold. Mallyas companies are not among them, but the tendency of Indian public lending institutions to lend vast sums on comfortable terms to people who are already extremely wealthy, rather than to small businessmen and entrepreneurs, is well established. The banks mantra is to recapitalise those who already have massive net worth, often without real collateral, said Bansal the consultant. This cosy relationship is a key reason for the extraordinary wealth of many of Indias super-rich, recent studies have concluded. It is at the heart of the nations distinctive economic system, dubbed curry capitalism by some commentators. The considerable leeway oered to Mallya, particularly by public banks that may now lose very large amounts of taxpayers money, may also simply
By Patrick Kin
gsley
Making democratic music

The orchestra isnt the rst place you would look for non-hierarchical democracy. Its music is sometimes seen as elitist, while its musicians are often (if not always) beholden to two individuals: the composer and the conductor. Tod Machover wants to change that. A composer and inventor, Machover is currently writing a symphony about the city of Toronto in collaboration with not just the citys orchestra, but also its 2.6 million residents. Its beyond crowd-sourcing, he says over afternoon cake. I think of it as massive collaboration. Crowdsourcing is a one-way ask for something very specic. Collaboration is something that goes back and forth, and turns into something truly open. Machover already has a loose backbone of the piece but the rest is up for grabs. He might give two of the pieces main chords to schoolchildren, and ask them to come up with melodies that link them. For the last few months, residents have sent him recordings of their favourite city sounds, which he then turns into music at public workshops around the city. He also uploads recently imagined sequences, and invites all-comers to improve them often on Hyperscore, a composing programme that simplies music notation. A lot of the project has to do with whos actually responded, he admits but even so, it has blown a usually conservative institution wide open. Orchestras are expensive. The economics make it more dicult to generate much new repertoire now than it was 100 years ago. So the temptation is to turn the orchestra into a museum institution. With the Toronto symphony, Machover wants the orchestra to do the opposite: to democratise classical music, while still making something that is creatively excellent. I want it to be something that I feel proud of, and I dont want to feel like Ive just managed something, explains the man who, incidentally, created the technology behind the computer game Guitar Hero. But equally, he says: I want something to be created that I couldnt have done by myself, and for everyone else to feel that way too.
We thought India was impregnable and Mallya was the embodiment of that India
have been due to an almost irrational collective desire to see Mallya succeed, at all costs. Mallyas victories were, and still are, to a certain degree, those of his country. We thought that India was impregnable and Vijay Mallya was the embodiment of that India, said Bansal. Well before launching Kingsher, Mallya had established his credentials as a patriot by spending millions of his own money to bring the sword of 18th-century warrior king Tipu Sultan, seized by the British after a bloody war, back to India from the UK. Though the champagne has long stopped owing, Anjun Kumar Deveshwar, a 33-year-old Kingsher maintenance engineer who had not received his 2,000 monthly wage since March, recently described Mallya to the Guardian as an Indian hero. It is perhaps only when living in India, and exposed every day to the white heat generated by the desire of so many people for a better life, that such adulation becomes comprehensible. There are tens of millions of people who are living vicariously through Mallya, Saritha Rai, the columnist, said. They know they could never reach his level of wealth but still think, maybe one day, its possible they might just have a little bit of his lifestyle. The tycoon has 1.46m followers on Twitter. Opprobrium has instead been directed on Mallyas 25-year-old son Siddhartha, known as Sid, who has been groomed as the tycoons successor at
the head of the family business. Sids onerous task in recent weeks has been to scour the world for models for the next Kingsher calendar. Like his father, he is a fan of social networking. Recent tweets have given some clue to how he has been spending his time. One read: Just spent the morning playing volleyball with 12 bikini-clad models on the beach now I understand why people hate me. HA! There is a chance that Mallya senior may just yet bring things round. He has just sold a huge chunk of his beer and spirits empire and could potentially use some of the $1bn the deal generated to get Kingsher Airlines ying again. The Indian government recently eased restrictions on foreign investment in domestic air businesses, which could, perhaps, see a new infusion of capital from a big international carrier. As Kingshers licence was suspended, not cancelled, its planes can y as soon as nancing and safety issues have been resolved. A deal with the unpaid sta by which some of the arrears in salaries will be paid in coming weeks has, at least for now, ended the walkouts. One recent Mallya tweet spoke of relief at being relegated from the Forbes list of Indian billionaires he is now worth a mere $800m (500m) as his new status will mean less jealousy and wrongful attacks. Another tweet pointed to a degree, if not of contrition, then of somewhat embittered regret. I have learnt the hard way that in India wealth should not be displayed. Better to be a multibillionaire politician dressed in Khadi [homespun cotton], it read. On the Sunday of the Indian Grand Prix, the tycoon was at the F1 track, cigar in hand, watching the race. Vast advertising hoardings on circuit approach roads, urging Cmon India, raise the ag!, declared Mallyas drivers to be the only ones powered by the hopes of a billion people. The claim was hyperbole, of course. Most people in India have never heard of motorsports. But it was not entirely unjustied. The hopes are certainly there. And it would take more than the failure of a single airline, glamorous or otherwise, to dampen them.
Grounded (from left) a Kingsher aeroplane on the tarmac; a sta protest march; and Vijay Mallya enjoys the good life
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Will to win gold medallists Jonnie Peacock and (top) Ellie Simmonds
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ow is it that the Paralympics were so moving? Nearly two months later I still ask myself the question. The memories have stayed with me of the tears I felt at the sensational courage, tness and desire in the wheelchair 400 metres of David Weir and his fellow competitors as they hammered their way, backs horizontal, necks forward and raised, arms pumping; like swans in ight above a river. Or the guided blind runners, young women hand in hand with male runners in the 200m sprint, freed into lightness from all inhibition. Or the women from Saudi Arabia and Jamaica trying to warm themselves in the chilly evening breeze before putting the shot or throwing the javelin from sitting positions. What lay behind my tears? Was it pity, a patronising attitude? Or was it partly denial of a real, though embarrassing, discomfort in relation to disability, an unease combined with triumph that we may all feel at some level? Or, more simply, was it a matter of being moved by the courage of these sportsmen and women in overcoming disadvantages? Though most of us have not had legs blown o, or suered from meningitis as children, we all have nevertheless some inner knowledge of how hard it is to be unable to do things that others can do, to feel vulnerable or ashamed or humiliated. One palpable feeling that stayed with me afterwards was the sense that I, too, could now tolerate more, and face more, of the little and big obstacles of ig living; that I could live with these diculties, and go through the procugh ess of struggling to learn new skills, n new competences. I (and you) can nd learn from these athletes; the es; experience of watching them can result in a calmer, less ess anxious, frame of mind. I . think all present also reccognised a shared sense of generosity in the crowd; d; the powerful insular passsion and patriotism did not push out respect and admiration for tion all the athletes. As I think back to the exe traordinary events of early Separly tember I also reect on how we reacted dierently to dierent i classications of event from athletes with magnicent phyent siques (the blade runners had ers an air of mythical beings, larger gs, than life) to others with more h pervasive and severe disabilities. isabilities.
Power of the blade runners

Two months after the Paralympics, former England cricketer Mike Brearley is still moved by the athletes and what they taught us all
Some of the athletes had inborn limitations, other acquired. Those in the former category will feel that their limitation is their norm, and may therefore feel uncomfortable when people like me go on about their bravery. They cant see what all the fuss is about, says Ian Martin, the England and Wales Cricket Boards head of disability cricket. But I suspect these people have nevertheless had to face down the ridicule, embarrassment or mockery of others, on top of requiring others courage as that of their the same sort of co colleagues. Olympic collea As a psychoanalyst I am fortupsycho privy nate to be priv to similar strengths and courage, mainly in relation to m psychological psychologica limitations. I can be upset or troubled by others problems and diculties, proble but I can also admire and be touched by peoples t orts eo to make the best of a bad job without manic attempts to deny the pain, without shifts to superiority or to callous indiero means ence as mean of dealing with sense envy or a sen of inadequacy. Some patients are remarkably free patient grievance from grievanc or they struggle pluckily with this familiar tendency. th There are two main sources of error that we as analysts or therapists may fall into in relation to i psychopathology psychopatholo or psychological disability. One is to lack empathy, i comprehend and take on to fail to compr the something of th burden of sufwhich is directly fering, both that w expressed and that which is projected and given to us to experience. The op-
posite error is that we allow ourselves to be moved in the wrong way, with too much pity; we may go along with exaggeration of suering, with a victim mentality in which resentment at the cards dealt one becomes more powerful than getting on with life. As analysts or therapists, we need to confront such grievance and envy to enable patients who are in their grip to become more responsible for their actions and attitudes. Oscar Pistorius, the Blade Runner, told a story of his mothers matter-offactness when trying to get him and his siblings to school on time: to his brother she said, in eect: put on your shoes, its time for school; and to Oscar: and you, Oscar, put on your legs. And hurry up. Talking to the former England cricket captain Andrew Strauss, and coach Andy Flower recently, I discovered that their highly successful working partnership in leading the team was based not only on a similarity of attitude to the team. They also balanced each other; Strauss (in Flowers words) had remarkable empathy and support for his team, and earned their love. Flower, according to Strauss, was willing to rue feathers when players needed to be confronted. Empathy and confrontation both are qualities needed by leaders, parents, teachers, coaches and, in fact, everyone. Paralympic athletics has perhaps come of age when ambition can be robustly or even crudely owned, as in the mens sprints, with accusations from one athlete (Pistorius) about the length of anothers (Alan Oliveiras) blades, while in the ensuing 100m there were two tense and touchy false starts, even possible gamesmanship in keeping other runners waiting. Disabled athletes are not exempt from the tensions and temptations of a erce desire to win. All of us have our limitations, our misfortunes, our disabilities and our disadvantages. We all have the choice between underplaying our vulnerabilities (and then being prone to manic ight, addictions, escapes and retreats of all kinds) and overplaying them by becoming victims. We can, in short, learn a lot from the Paralympic athletes. Their predicament is ours, writ large. And something of their achievement, made possible by lottery funding and the states commitment, could be ours. A touch of nature makes us all akin. The experiences of all of us watching the Paralympics may result in such outcomes; I hope they will persist, that the small res lit at the end of the closing ceremony create a growing heat, at both individual and public levels, in sport and beyond it.
Women
udit Polgar is a phenomenon. She is not just the best woman chess player of all time; she is the best by a mile. Chess grandmasters (note master! traditionally, chess barely recognised the existence of women) have ocial ratings. Polgar is the only woman in the worlds top 100; at her peak, and before she had two children, she was in the top 10. In December she will pay a rare visit to the UK for the London Chess Classic and do what she has always done play as the lone woman against eight top male players, including world champion Vishy Anand and world No 1 Magnus Carlsen. Aggressive at the board and now getting back to her best after a mid-career slump when her results were poor following the birth of her second child in 2006, she will give as good as she gets. Does it feel odd to be playing against a eld of men? For me it is very natural, she says. I started when I was ve, and grew up playing against adults and against men most of the time. She never accepted the path many leading female players take, competing in separate womens events and aiming at the womens world title. She took on allcomers from an early age, became the then youngest ever grandmaster (male or female) at the age of 15, and didnt bother competing for the womens world championship because she could have won it in her sleep. She simply aimed to be the best in the world, regardless of gender. Polgar, who was born in Budapest, is one of three chess-playing sisters. The eldest, Susan, was womens world champion; the middle sister, Soa, was an international master; but Judit, hard-working and with an immense will to win, proved the strongest of all. The three were part of a controversial experiment conducted by their teacher father Laszlo, whose contention was that geniuses are not born, but made. He taught his daughters at home the curriculum included Esperanto and drilled chess into them from an early age. I grew up in a very special atmosphere, she says. Everything was about chess. I learned from my sisters and won my rst international competition at nine years old. Did she resent being part of her fathers experiment? In the beginning it was a game. My father and mother are exceptional pedagogues who can motivate and tell it from all dierent angles. Later, chess for me became a sport, an art, a science, everything together. I was very focused on chess, and happy with that world. I was not the rebelling and going out type. I was happy that at home we were
Polgar I grew up in a very special atmosphere a closed circle and then we went out playing chess and saw the world. Its a very dicult life and you have to be very careful, especially the parents, who need to know the limits of what you can and cant do with your child. My parents spent most of their time with us; they travelled with us [when we played abroad], and were in control of what was going on. With other prodigies it might be dierent. It is very fragile. But Im happy that with me and my sisters it didnt turn out in a bad way. Top chess players can be dysfunctional think Bobby Fischer, who Polgar knew when he lived in Budapest in the 1990s but Polgar is relaxed, approachable and alarmingly well balanced. After her 2006-09 slump, she says she worked out how to juggle a career in competitive chess with having two young children, running a chess foundation in Hungary, writing books and developing educational programmes based on chess. My life is very complex and rich now, she says. Has she struck a blow for women by showing they can compete with the best men? There are many guys who say: OK, you are an exception, so you prove the rule. Show me the next. I say: Yes, I am so far exceptional, but I dont think I will be the only one in the upcoming decades. Womens chess is getting stronger, more girls are playing at a very young age, and strong women players are emerging from China and India. Chess would benet from an inux of women able to compete with the top men, because it would add spice to a pursuit that struggles for media attention. The rst ever world title match between a male and female player would generate huge interest. Polgar came close to the summit she was eighth in the tournament to determine the world champion in 2005 but, at 36, realises that the chance to compete for the world title wont come again. Forty is a watershed for top players, and many start to ease away from serious competition, but she has no thoughts of retiring. I dont like never, never, never, she says. I dont think I could ever say that I will never play again, because even if I felt I could never play in top-class tournaments again because I dont have time for the preparation, after a while you might one day think: maybe, maybe, maybe why not?
The London Chess Classic is at Kensington Olympia, London W14 from 1-10 December, hosted by Chess in Schools and Communities. www.chessinschools.co.uk
When the master is a woman

Judit Polgar was the youngest ever grandmaster at 15 and is the best female of all time. When will more join her at the top of chess, asks Stephen Moss
Women
They need an education Roma girls leave school at 10 on average. What can be done about it?
A certain age
Michele Hanson
Florina lives in a two-room house with no running water in Targoviste, a city north-west of the Romanian capital Bucharest. Despite the smiles of her four oldest children, who crowd around to cuddle their two-month-old brother, her family faces crisis. I havent paid rent since January. Im borrowing money to survive but Im in great debt. I earn what I can by collecting bottles on the streets for recycling, but its not enough. Florina dropped out of education when she was 10 the average age at which Roma girls leave school. Illiterate and unskilled, any job she does secure is likely to be for minimal pay. Studies into the status of Roma women in eastern Europe suggest that Florina is not alone. While the educational divide between Roma and nonRoma populations is stark, within the community, it is women who fare worst. A 2004 study by the United Nations found that a third of Roma women living in south-eastern Europe are illiterate, compared with a fth of Roma men. More recent research carried out by Unicef in Albania shows a similar gender gap Roma women there spend an average of 5.5 years in education, a gure which stands at eight years for men.
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Percentage of most senior jobs held by women across 11 key sectors
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Florina Milos (pictured with her son) dropped out of education aged 10 We show mothers the benets of school, says Danela Gatlan, head teacher at Mihai Viteazul School, Targoviste. At the upper echelons of the EU, the benets of improving Roma access to education are acknowledged. Roma represent a growing proportion of the European workforce, making up for more than a fth of new workers in countries such as Romania. But so far, EU initiatives have had little impact. And while Save the Childrens project has proved successful the majority of children who attended last years programme performed above the average by the end of their rst school year, regardless of gender plans to expand the project were suspended after the Romanian government failed to deliver EU funding on time. It is seven years since European governments signed up to the Decade of Roma Inclusion, an initiative that also highlighted the needs of Roma women. But there has been little help for Elena, a young mother. My oldest daughter says she wants to become a nurse. I explain that is not a possibility now because we dont have money for college. We will manage somehow, I hope. For now I tell her to study. Rebecca Ratclie
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1.3%
Percentage of top jobs held by women in the armed forces
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Prostitution is a problem
In Romania, education is free but equipment, and shoes to wear when trekking through snow to get to school in winter, are not. Desperate poverty combined with traditions such as early marriage or, more commonly, the belief that girls should care for younger siblings means many do not complete school. But a lack of education has lasting consequences, says Sorina Fekette, a social worker in Bucharest. Domestic violence is a problem so is prostitution, she adds. Its the only way they can earn money. If their husbands leave, they are powerless. Florina insists that despite nancial pressures, she wont let her children drop out of their school, which is run by Save the Children. Established to help Roma children access education, and funded through the Ikea Foundation, it does not charge for the equipment or dinners provided.
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The man at the top has to take responsibility for whats broadcast David Dimbleby (below) But does it always have to be a man? guardian.co.uk/ women
Rotten luck if you work for the BBC. Its almost as bad as being a social worker. Damned if you do, damned if you dont. A few of you cockup atrociously, and then the whole organisation must be lashed like a boatful of galley slaves. They even lash themselves. I heard someone doing it on the radio last week. He was questioning a hopeless, miscreant, BBC weed mercilessly, on and on and on. Rosemary couldnt stand it. She switched o. But I lasted longer than her. The Weed was ayed alive. I dont mind a bit of aying. I just dont like total removal of all skin. Why ask 50 questions, when 25 would do? But I suppose the public wants blood, and I suspect our government wants the last drop, because to them the BBC is stued with Bolsheviks, and worse still, not yet privatised. And so I feel obliged to defend the BBC to my last breath. I love the BBC. Its been with me all my life, from The Flowerpot Men, Dick Barton, Quatermass and The Secret Garden, to The Thick of It, Sarah Lund and EastEnders, with loads of David Attenborough most of the way through, among a million other gems. And no adverts. I cant live without it. Music while I work, Radio 4 in the bath, World Service when I cant sleep. I even have a Shipping Forecast drying up cloth. We map our lives to it, says Rosemary. We have our rituals. Walkies, then market, then back for Week in Westminster and From Our Own Correspondent. I love them whizzing round the world. Without it my life would be almost meaningless. We ring each other with instructions. Listen to/watch this, that or the other. Wouldnt you be heartbroken if it was all lost? Yes I would. Ive seen what happens when you dont have a proper BBC, warns Fielding, who has just returned from downtown Brooklyn. You get American mainstream telly. Its compulsory misinformation and brain-rot. Give us Newsnight any day. We still love it. No ones perfect. Not even Lord Reith. And I heard all about him on BBC radio.
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Style Q&A
Why does the Victorias Secret fashion show get so much publicity? I dont see anyone giving a hoot about Ann Summers new range Mollie, London Last week was a great week for fashion hypocrisy. There was the Kardashian Kollection for Dorothy Perkins (although I do think its a shame they havent yet made a range for Kenzo as then it could be called KKK), a pairing that plumbed new depths. According to a spokesman for the store, the Kardashians are bringing their exciting style to British high streets, as well as, coincidentally, easy publicity for the oft-overlooked store while subjecting the British public to sub-Jane Norman clothes. Then there was the interview with Kate Moss in Vanity Fair in which Moss talked at length about how being told to pose topless as a teenager made her so miserable it nearly drove her to a nervous breakdown. So how did Vanity Fair decide to illustrate this heartfelt and rather astonishing interview? Why, how else? By getting Moss to take her top o and pose for three closeup photos, in one of which she is on all fours and, apparently, imitating a dog peeing. ng. But in the fashion-hypocrisy competition, the extensive coverage of erage the annual Victorias Secret show is, by w a healthy measure, the winner. Lets be clear about this: Victorias orias Secret is a lingerie company. Not a particularly posh one, not even a particularly nice one, just a run-of-the-mill knickers manufacturer that has managed to convince a lot of people that it is somemething special and is now the largest st US manufacturer of lingerie. It is the Playboy Club of underwear manufacufacturers, selling an insultingly retrograde ograde vision of femininity (from Playboy: oy: bunnies, from Victorias Secret: angels), ngels), which some women, for reasons wholly unclear to this column, buy into. .
Ask Hadley Heres the grubby truth about Victorias Secret and its so-called fashion show
The brand is the Playboy of underwear companies
I walked past the newly opened Victorias Secret store on New Bond Street the other weekend and there were passing female tourists having their photos taken by their boyfriends and husbands in front of the angelically themed window displays. Photos! You dont get that in front of La Senza, which is all, really, Victorias Secret is but with an American accent. How has this company done this, you ask? I will tell you: it has done it by openly encouraging menfolk everywhere to masturbate over its wares. Victorias Secret is known for its catVictor alogue and annual fashion show, reads an the companys commendably po-faced comp Wikipedia Wikiped entry. Indeed. In the US, the Victorias Secret catalogue has Vic become so infamous that it is now beco used use as a shorthand for easyaccess quasi porn in US sitcoms acc (Friends was especially fond of (Fr referencing it). ref The T fashion show has taken whole new level. Because this to a w Victorias Secret is so lucrative, it can aord to drag in improbably successful models to wear their tacky lines and excellent stylists who make the to hire ex thing whole thi look a bit less La Senza on runway. They then haul in cheesy the runw sleazehounds including Justin Bieber, sleazehou
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Diddy and Justin Timberlake who, one imagines, dont need too much persuasion to spend an evening with models in their underwear. There are only two reasons to have a fashion show for underwear, and I speak as someone who likes fashion shows and nice lingerie: to create the illusion that this brand is something more than a meh underwear label, and to get men o. Websites, magazines and, in particular, tabloid newspapers that generally ignore fashion shows altogether cover the Victorias Secret show with thigh-rubbing enthusiasm, delighted at having an excuse to publish pictures of young women in underwear and angel wings, and no one covers it more enthusiastically than that bastion of moral anxiety MailOnline. Now, to accuse MailOnline the home of Smartphones are sexualising children and Hard to believe shes only 16! Kendall Jenner looks older than her years as she shows o her model shape in a stunning bikini shoot of hypocrisy is to slap oneself in the face with the giant hand of obviousness. But it is hard even for us old hands of MailOnline bullshittery not to admire its shamelessness in running around 30 stories on the Victorias Secret show. The Mail generally hates fashion shows as it believes that they cause anorexia. Yet its outrage dims when the models the same models who appear in the usual shows are walking on the runway in underwear as opposed to haute couture. A lot of men like looking at women in underwear. And thats OK! But at least be honest about it and admit thats all the Victorias Secret fashion show is. This isnt the most popular fashion show in the world: its just a live-action Loaded magazine.
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Arts
ackson Pollock and David Hockney are a strange coupling. They occupy the rst room of Tate Moderns new exhibition A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance. The 1948 Pollock, called Summertime: Number 9A, sits on a raised section of oor, under glass, with a clip of Pollock playing above it. On the other side of the room, Hockneys 1967 A Bigger Splash hangs alone. Nearby, footage of the artists glamorous California life and loves plays on a screen. I try to listen to Pollock talking, but my concentration is shattered by a phone ringing in the Hockney clip. Hi Jacko, its David, I imagine the conversation going, as they swap paint recipes. But it doesnt happen. In the Pollock lm, the artist spends a long time struggling into his spattered old workboots before leaning over a skinny length of canvas, loading a brush, then dribbling and icking paint over it, rst from one side, then the other. Meanwhile, Hockney looks owlish and neat in round glasses as he tints the coiure of a male portrait a
And fire!
Niki de Saint Phalle shot paintlled balloons. Yves Klein used women as brushes. So why does Tates new show about painting and performance feel so safe? Adrian Searle wants more dirt
shade darker with a small brush. While Pollock works up a rhythm on one screen, a naked young man plunges into a pool on the other. The room seems to be all about oppositions: vertical and horizontal, spontaneity and calculation, guration and abstraction, gay and straight. Hockney took two weeks to paint the splash caused by a dive, with its little passages of tiny dots, curly white lines, and carefully executed passages of overlayed hatching and tonal gradations. The Pollock just seems to happen. But so what? In the end, a Pollock is as calculated as a Hockney, and the pairing feels like an irritating academic conceit. All painting is a kind of performance. I guess curating is, too. Bodies present and absent are at the heart of this awkward and largely disappointing exhibition, which sets out to examine the relationship between painting and performance art since the 1950s. Niki de Saint Phalle used a gun to shoot holes in paint-lled balloons stuck to lumpy canvases. Kazuo Shiraga suspended himself in a kind of Japanese rope bondage over a canvas and painted
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with his feet. This is a famous mess. The Viennese actionists Otto Muehl and Gnter Brus and their friends mudwrestled in paint, which was even messier, but not as shocking as Stuart Brisleys performances which, in black and white photographs, look distinctly coprophagic, a kind of dirty protest. (Theres too much photography here.) Video footage of Yves Klein using naked women as living brushes or stencils is accompanied by a blue monochrome that has nothing to do with his Anthropometries, as the canvases that came out of these staged performances were called. This is a pity. Similarly, the lm of Brazilian artist Hlio Oiticica and his friends dancing while wearing his painted capes needs to be screened larger for the euphoric, languid energy to come across. But I did enjoy the repeated up-crotch shots of Oiticicas unartistic underpants. Oiticica went on to commission a series of photographs of drag queen Mario Montez on the streets of New York. Theres quite a bit of crossdressing, body paint and slap throughout the show: Warhol as Marilyn, Zsuzsanna Ujj painting a skeleton on her own skin. Paint can be like mud or faeces, and it can be delicate as makeup; it can adorn or besmirch, beautify or degrade. I wish there were a bit more of it here, and a few more real performances. So many of the artists here cry out to be dealt with in their own full-on, ecstatic, dirty, smelly, sexy, theatrical, orgiastic, atavistic, abject and even frightening ways. But theyre not. It all feels like a very goody-two-shoes Tate show. Everything is kept at a distance. What the show rarely does is give you the feeling that paintings, let alone performances, are made by bodies. We are tethered by earphones to video screens, kept on the threshold of stage sets in which there are no performers. There is very little sense of our own bodily engagement, of ones own performance as spectator. Wheres the jolt of confrontation, our desires or repulsion as viewers? Karen Kilimnik is known as a painter, but her stage set for Swan Lake adds little to our understanding of any relationship between painting and the stage one still, the other a place for action. Fake fog drifts, along with Tchaikovsky, through the gloom. Performance pioneer Joan Jonas is represented by a stage set, for her theatre piece The Juniper Tree. There are painted elements, along with a real kimono, wooden balls, and a gure made of sticks with a mask for a head but so what? Shots of Valie Export in androgynous man-drag, Cindy Sherman in various
Clockwise from main, Niki de Saint Phalles Shooting Picture, 1961; Inhabited Painting, 1975, by Helena Almeida; With a Throne, 1986, by Zsuzsanna Ujj; Jean Cocteau, 20032012, by Marc Camille Chaimowicz early photoshoot guises, and the gender play of Andrew Logans Alternative Miss World, of Leigh Bowery, Urs Luthi and others all tell us something about how gender as well as age or race can be performed through dress, cosmetics and body language. But surely this is another show? This is something other than painting. A Bigger Splash nods to queer aesthetics and politics, to the transgression of social and artistic normative values, but it doesnt go nearly far enough. It shortchanges its subject. Much of it is little more than a checklist a bit of photodocumentation here, a video there, a lone unstretched painting here. A few photographs of Portuguese artist Helena Almeida walking between canvas stretchers, or overpainting her reection in a mirror, give very little idea of her powerful performance works. The piece with mirrors and blue electrical tape by Polish artist Edward Krasinski is interesting enough, but to really understand how bizarre his work is, you need to visit the late artists preserved Warsaw apartment, which I was lucky enough to do last year. Krasinski had a perverse and absurd approach to living and performing the role of the artist that doesnt come across here. At least Marc Camille Chaimowiczs room-sized installation, loosely themed around Jean Cocteau, has the feeling of a whole world with its wallpapers and furniture; paintings by Vuillard, Marie Laurencin and Duncan Grant; a Warhol Electric Chair screenprint; and numerous furnishings either built or arranged by Chaimowicz himself. Sadly, you can only stand on the brink, looking in. It does, however, give a sense that a whole life is to be performed. The shows nal space, by Lucy McKenzie, is rather beautiful. Are these paintings or a stage set? The whole thing is an imaginary room, with walls, fake marbling, trompe loeil radiators, a phone on the wall, the scus and stains and desuetude of a formerly elegant house, subdivided for multiple occupation. Its brilliantly done. This is a set for an imaginary version of Muriel Sparks 1963 novella The Girls of Slender Means. The whole thing has a feeling of sadness, of life as anticipation and anticlimax. What a performance it all is.
A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance is at Tate Modern, London SE1, tomorrow to 1 April. Details: tate.org.uk
PHOTOGRAPHS NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE; MISSION ART GALLERY; DAVID LEVENE
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Wake up call
Famed for his inspired nonsense, Ross Noble is now switching to real things. The comic tells Brian Logan why
ve no sooner turned on my tape recorder than Geordie comic Ross Noble unleashes a routine about Jimmy Savile. Funnily enough, it begins, I told a joke about him at an awards ceremony years ago ... On the story goes it features necrophilia and an appearance by Paul Gambaccini while Nobles publicist shifts uneasily in her seat. But what else should we expect? Nobles current tour marks 21 years in standup for the 36-year-old, during which he has rarely stuck to the script. Noble is comedys great freeassociator. Give him a line and hell show you a tangent. Give him a stage and hell digress for hours. Yes, there are strands of scripted material but theyre launchpads for his loopy ights of fancy involving snooker-playing pirates, ballerinas blasted by giant fans, and Gerry Raerty songs played on a squirrel saxophone. Few people have had more success just making stu up. If its in the head, it comes out the mouth, says Noble, but its not quite as simple as that. His skill is not in generating nonsense, but knowing how to use it what to leave, what to weave, what to conate, what to reincorporate. In Nobles hands, its a feat of virtuosity and a celebration of the unfettered imagination. Not that hed like it to be seen that way. I dont want people to think about what Im doing, he says. I want them to get lost in the show. Noble is halfway through a national tour, an almost annual occurrence over the last 15 years. Few comedians gig so relentlessly; even fewer have built as big a fanbase while keeping TV appearances to a minimum (Eddie Izzard, Daniel Kitson, not many others). A few years ago, I wrote an article asking who actually makes money on
If its in the head, it comes out the mouth Ross Noble
Id do a gig, go back to my hotel, watch a lm, then go to the next gig. I didnt live in the real world
the notoriously expensive Edinburgh fringe. The answer was almost unanimous: No one except Ross Noble. But times are changing. The compulsive performer is now on stage less often, partly because hes married to his Australian partner Fran and has a four-year-old daughter; the family lost their 100-acre farm near Melbourne in the 2008 bush res. And his debut movie is also now on release director Conor McMahons comedyhorror Stitches, which stars the comic as a zombie childrens clown. Me slashing people to pieces, he says. Its horrible, but its funny. His standup is changing, too, he says. For ages, people used to come and see me, and I was basically like an alien on Earth. You didnt get any sense of was I married, did I have kids, did I have a life? The answer was: I didnt. All I did was gig, go back to hotel, watch lms, travel to the next gig. So the fact that [my shows were just] loads of pop-culture references is because I didnt live in the real world. Partly because Ive got more of a life, I now tend to talk about real things. Its an exciting development one thats anchored Nobles colourful noodling, oset his meaninglessness and made a really good act great. Stitches has also got him dreaming of a multiplatform existence in which his indie lms (hes now writing his own script) spark interest in his comedy, while his live show sends audiences to his lms.
Ross Noble plays Newcastle City Hall (0191261 2606) tonight; then touring (rossnoble. co.uk). His DVD Nonsensory Overload is out now.
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Our chat ends on the subject of this explosion of standup in the two decades hes been working. Nobles take on the phenomenon clearly establishes that free association isnt just his stage craft, its his way of life. I think its great, he starts, before persuading himself, over the course of a 10-minute ri, that its anything but. There are young acts now tailoring their act so its short and punchy and can get on Live at the Apollo, he laments. Theres no space for someone starting now who wants to do what I do. Be creative, in other words, and unorthodox. After another few minutes of rambling, Noble conjures a dark vision for standups future. Well have gone full circle, back to the shiny-suited, dickie-bow-tie stu that alternative comedy rst railed against. And in that post-apocalyptic world, Ill be in goggles with a shotgun, driving around the wasteland, and therell be a TV show with someone who looks like Jim Bowen doing material thats halfway between Frankie Boyles and Michael McIntyres. So the comedy boom is a good thing? Noble smiles. Well, its good for me. Im not bothered about telly. The whole thing could implode. And like a cockroach, Ill still be here.
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How they made Read more from this series, including the story behind The Piano and the Sooty Show guardian.co.uk/culture
How we made ... Town Called Malice Its partly about Woking where I grew up. I dont think the swinging 60s ever hit there
Paul Weller, singer-songwriter
In 1981, I was going through a few changes. I was taking note of what was going on in our country. When youre touring, youre often in your own bubble, but we were going around the country seeing what was happening. It was the start of the hardline Margaret Thatcher years, and places up north, especially were being decimated. At the same time, I was getting into black American soul. Id heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam tours, we had a DJ called Ady Croasdell, who ran a 60s club. He turned me on to underground stu and what people call northern soul. It just blew my mind. Wed already moved on from punk. Wed been a three-piece for years, and there are only so many variations on the guitar/drums format. So I was getting into brass sections and female vocals and keyboards. Id never read the Nevil Shute novel, A Town Like Alice, but I must have seen the title. The music came from us jamming. I remember us rst hitting that groove and being red up. Then I added the middle eight and sorted the song out, adding the organ. It was all done No 1 here we come (from left) Paul Weller, Rick Buckler and Bruce Foxton pretty quickly. I remember feeling good about it, and when we played it to friends in the studio, everyone went wow. The songs a strange contradiction. Its got an uplifting feel, almost like a gospel song, but its also got a hard realism. I had most of the lyrics before we started the song, but they were just words written down in a book. Theyre partly about Woking, where I grew up, which had always been a depressed place. That line rows and rows of empty milkoats dying in the dairy yard was directly inuenced by Woking. Cut down the beer or the kids new gear was about how people were struggling. I remembered my mum and dad: I dont think the swinging 60s ever hit Woking. They were forever rowing about not having enough money. Malice was our third No 1 [for three weeks, in February 1982]. Its one of my best songs, lyrically and in terms of what it means to people. I think its still relevant. When we play the opening bars, you cant help being swept along. album on a reel-to-reel, which was a tape you could record over. So when I was learning guitar, I actually taped myself playing over Walk Away Renee. Derek was really annoyed! But all this goes in, subconsciously, and I rediscovered it through Paul. The Malice bassline is very similar to You Cant Hurry Love by the Supremes, but it worked. When we hit that groove, you couldnt stop your foot tapping. We were on a treadmill recording, TV, touring which I enjoyed, but its hard to remember things. It becomes a bit of a haze. We recorded the track at Air Studios in Oxford Street, London. and knew it was a winner. Rick [Buckler, drums] was always clicking away with his camera, and took a picture up north of some rundown houses that captured the sentiment, so we used it on the sleeve. Thirty years later, its such a joy to have been involved. As soon as I start that bassline, people go nuts.
Interviews by Dave Simpson. The Jams The Gift Super Deluxe Box Set is released on 19 November on Universal. Bruce Foxton is on tour with From the Jam. Details: brucefoxton.com
Its one of my best songs. When we play the opening bars, you cant help being swept along
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Bruce Foxton, bassist

My older brother Derek had been an original mod. He had a Four Tops
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Television
n a piece the other day, I replaced the characters in a political drama with their counterparts from real life. Today Im doing something a bit similar. Ponies, tricks, not very many, you might be thinking. But its not a drama this time, its a documentary. So Im not turning ction into fact, Im just relocating the action, and changing the cast. OK? So Metropolitan police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe shows up at the US embassy in London in a right old state. His boss, London mayor Boris Johnson, is going to kill him, he says, and hed like to defect to the US please. The reason Boris is going to kill him is that Bernard knows that Boriss wife with whom Bernard became friendly when she was the target of mercury poisoning administered via her herbal supplement pills is herself a murderer. Bernard says she killed a Chinese family friend (sort of) who was trying to extort money from them. His body was found in a Premier Inn close to the M25. Mrs Johnson is arrested. Her trial lasts a day, there is very little evidence against her (the body of the Chinese sort of friend was cremated quickly after his death), the evidence the prosecution claims to have isnt shown in court, but she is convicted anyway and receives a suspended death sentence. Bernard doesnt get his political asylum and is sent to prison himself. Boris, who was seen as going right to the very top in the next government, is under investigation too and is nished politically. Nothing is clear, except that there is the deepest corruption at the highest levels of the British politics. Nah, you say, nonsense (apart from the last bit, of course). If this was a drama, youd claim it was a step too far, belief not just suspended but hung, drawn and quartered. Its not drama though, its Dispatches: Chinese Murder Mystery (Channel 4), just with the location changed from Chinese megacity Chongqing to London, and the English
Chinese CCTV footage showing Gu Kailai being taken into court in August he cant think of anyone less likely to murder anyone. Heywoods Harrow housemaster says he was lazy, there was something missing, and Neil didnt keep in touch after leaving. (Well, why should he? Maybe he hated you and your school? I nd myself warming to Heywood: a bit of a maverick, a bit hopeless, he loved Talking Heads and didnt t in at Harrow.) And heres Denis MacShane, talking about corruption in China. Yeah, pots and kettles, Denis though, admittedly, expense ddling isnt quite murder by poison. Dispatches does have a new source though, a Chinese contact who knew both Heywood and the Bo family. The unidentied source sheds some light on things, but mainly on the characters involved especially Heywood rather than on what actually happened. The trouble is, the people who do know have either been locked up or are in hiding, too scared to talk for fear of being locked up too or poisoned and swiftly cremated before anyone can determine what really happened to them. Its a proper and thorough investigation, an extraordinary story told better here than it has been before. All it lacks is answers, and an ending. Which it will probably never get, given the machinations, duplicity, divisions and dark forces at play within the Chinese communist party. Look, theres Peter Mandelson with Bo Xilai. I told you there were dark forces at play. Whats he doing? Perhaps its not so absurd to think something like this could happen here after all Full English (Channel 4), a new familybased animation, lacks the warmth of The Simpsons and the smartness of Family Guy. Its baser, more British, more about arses, and blow jobs, and shagging the Queen, wey hey. If youre puerile, a 13-year-old boy at heart, it may amuse you. I think its hilarious. Its already series-linked.
Last night's TV A Chinese murder mystery that would be farcical if it werent a real-life tragedy
By Sam Wollaston
and Chinese characters ipped. For Boris and Mrs Johnson read Chongqing mayor Bo Xilai and his wife Gu Kailai; for Hogan-Howe read police chief Wang Lijun, and for the Chinese sort of friend read posh British sort of businessman Neil Heywood. It would be farcical, laughable even, a kind of Chinese Midsomer Murders, if there werent a real human tragedy Neil Heywoods death at its heart. The story is familiar to anyone who has kept even half an eye on the news in the past year. But this Dispatches digs deep. They speak to a lot of people, some more useful than others. Among the latter are Gu Kailais Bournemouth landlord (she spent some time on the English Riviera when her son Guagua did an English course there) who says she was very smart, a real lady, and
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I know hes ours, but of all the TV food programmes. Ottolenghis Mediterranean Feast (More4) looks the best. Mmmmm.
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Film of the day Tyrannosaur (11.05pm, Film4) Paddy Considines debut feature is a bleak tale of domestic abuse that makes for hard viewing, with utterly convincing performances from Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman.
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The Paradise, BBC1
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Being the nal episode of this Zola adaptation, the plots chickens are nally coming home to roost. With Morays wedding to Katherine imminent, his expansion plans are almost at the blueprint stage, as he plans to buy the freehold to Tollgate Street using money loaned by her father. That, however, would be to reckon without the spell cast over him by plucky Denise. As she returns to the Paradise fold, its clear that Morays feelings for her are undiminished, so he resolves to end his engagement. John Robinson ward eld trip to the Pennines, where Howards lust for Sabine and JPs thirst for adventure leave each stuck between a rock and a hard place (one metaphorically, one literally). Back home, Josie reckons shes discovered a x for her entire future. Providing Heather doesnt mind taking a tiny risk, that is. Mark Jones
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What does it mean to have a severe brain injury in terms of how you can interact with the world? Until comparatively recently, vegetative patients were widely assumed to be out of reach. Now, as a Panorama Special explores, this view is being challenged. Filmed over the course of a year, the documentary-makers bear witness as a patient regarded as vegetative for more than 10 years answers questions while inside a brain scanner. Its a moment with profound implications for patients and their families, and for medical sta and scientists working in this area. JW
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Chateau Chunder: When Australian Wine Changed the World 9pm, BBC4
As the title here suggests, back in the 1970s Aussie wines were regarded as a joke. So what changed? Those who were there help to chart the transformation of an industry from the days when the Australian Wine Bureau had a London oce set amid Soho sex shops. As Oz Clarke, among others, recalls, its in great part the tale of Aussies cannily making and marketing mid-range wines that people actually wanted to buy. Jonathan Wright
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Fresh Meat 10pm, Channel 4

More tertiary education tomfoolery, with Kingsley at war with tutor Dan (Robert Webb) over the latters sedimentary-rock-shaped knowledge gap. Cue an awk-
Fresh Meat, Channel 4
bandleaders like Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw took big band jazz to a mass audience. 1.0 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert. A week of concerts from the Isle of Mans Mananan Festival and Manchester Pride. Ruby Hughes performs Purcell and Roderick Williams sings Ian Venables The Pine Boughs Past Music. 2.0 Afternoon On 3. Katie Derham presents the BBC SSO and Concert Orchestra in music with a First World War connection, by Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Butterworth, plus Schuberts Ninth Symphony. 4.30 In Tune. Sean Raerty introduces performances by jazz vocalist Kurt Elling and pianist Mikhail Rudy, and interviews dancer Tamara Rojo, new artistic director of
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E4 6.0pm The Big Bang Theory. Bernadette takes an interest in physics. 6.30 The Big Bang Theory. Leonards mother visits. 7.0 Hollyoaks. Disaster strikes as the sixthformers try to help Ruby and Jono marry. 7.30 How I Met Your Mother. Barney dees Teds list of things the friends are too old to do. 8.0 How I Met Your Mother. Marshall worries about his past indiscretions. 8.30 The Big Bang Theory. The friends ght over a ring they believe was used in The Lord of the Rings. 9.0 New Girl. Nick and Schmidt become embroiled in an argument over DIY. 9.30 Suburgatory. George takes Dallas and Noah mattress shopping. 10.0 Tool Academy: Boyfriends Behaving Badly. The couples discover there are traitors in their camp. 11.0 The Inbetweeners. The gang goes on a eld trip to Swanage. 11.35 The Inbetweeners. Will is given a work experience placement at a garage. Film4 7.10pm Big Mommas House. Comedy, starring Martin Lawrence. 9.0 Layer Cake. Crime thriller, starring Daniel Craig. 11.05 Tyrannosaur. Premiere. Drama, starring Peter Mullan. FX 6.0pm Leverage. Nate and Sophie are taken hostage. 7.0 NCIS. An agents body is found badly burned. 8.0 NCIS. Gibbs is held captive in Mexico. 9.0 True Blood. Eric plots his escape from the midst of the Authority. 10.0 American Horror Story: Asylum. A raging storm approaches Briarcli. 11.0 The Booth At The End. Inquisitive waitress Doris is reunited with the Man. 11.30 Family Guy. Peter sells Meg to pay a debt. 12.0 Family Guy. Lois is sent to prison. ITV2 6.30pm Youve Been Framed! Harry Hill narrates camcorder calamities. 7.0 The Cube. A primary school teacher and a marketing manager take part. 8.0 Mr Beans Holiday. Comedy, starring Rowan Atkinson. 9.50 Tulisa: The Hot Desk. Interview with the singer and X Factor judge. 10.0 Im A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here Now! With Laura Whitmore and Joe Swash. 11.0 Celebrity Juice. With Inexplicable World 12.0 The Price Of Fear 12.30 The Woman In Black 1.0 Orphans In Waiting 1.30 White Heat 2.0 The Now Show 2.30 Tomorrow, Today! 3.0 Show Boat 4.0 Chattering 4.15 The Moment You Feel It 5.0 Second Thoughts 5.30 Semi Circles guests Dougie Poynter, Tom Fletcher, Mel C and Ashley Banjo. 11.45 Celebrity Juice. With Jonathan Ross, Marcus Collins, Chelsee Healey, Max Beesley and Russell Kane. Sky1 6.0pm Futurama. Featuring the guest voice of Pamela Anderson. 6.30 The Simpsons. Lisa takes out a restraining order against Bart. 7.0 The Simpsons. Bart risks being held back a year. 7.30 The Simpsons. Santas Little Helper runs away from home. 8.0 Last Resort. Chaplin heads the search for three missing crew members. 9.0 A League Of Their Own. With Johnny Vegas, Charlotte Jackson and Harry Redknapp. 10.0 Dude, Wheres My Car? Teen comedy, starring Seann William Scott and Ashton Kutcher. 11.40 Road Wars. Thames Valley Police combat vehicle crime. Sky Arts 1 6.0pm Spectacle: Elvis Costello. Music and chat series hosted by the musician and songwriter. 7.0 Art Of The Heist. How Argentinas military junta proted from stolen art. 8.0 Living The Life. With Ken Livingstone and Timothy West. 9.0 Parkinson: Masterclass. New series. Michael Parkinson is joined by gures from the arts, beginning with Jamie Cullum. 10.0 Classic Albums. The conception of Queens A Night at the Opera. 11.0 Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour 1974. Following the guitarist as he tours his homeland in 1974. TCM 7.10pm Gunghters Of Casa Grande. Western, starring Alex Nicol. 9.0 The Fugitive. Thriller, starring Harrison Ford. 11.30 Breakheart Pass. Murder mystery Western, starring Charles Bronson.
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10.0 Clarissa And The Kings Cookbook (R) (S) The cook tracks down Britains oldest known cookbook. 10.30 Jerusalem On A Plate (R) (S) (AD) Presented by chef Yotam Ottolenghi.
10.0 Obsessive Compulsive Hoarder: The Big Clear Out (R) (S) Documentary about Richard Wallace, whose chronic hoarding made his home dangerous.
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11.55 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (R) (S) (AD) Catherine and Keppler create a fake murder scene.
11.0 Family Guy (R) (S) Stewie falls in love. 11.25 Family Guy (R) (S) Peter joins the police force. 11.45 American Dad! (R) (S) Stan holds a fundraising telethon. (First episode in a double bill.)
2.15 Afternoon Drama: Mad Girl. By Phil Gladwin. 3.0 Making History. With Tom Holland, Helen Castor and Fiona Watson. 3.30 Mastertapes. Paul Weller revisits tracks from the 1982 classic Jam album The Gift. 4.0 Dads Who Do. African Caribbean fathers playing major roles in the lives of the children. 4.30 A Good Read. With Peter White and Heydon Prowse. 5.0 PM. With Eddie Mair. 5.57 Weather 6.0 Six OClock News 6.30 Rudys Rare Records. The Sharpes leap into action after Doreen is mugged. Last in the series. 7.0 The Archers. It is Peggys birthday. 7.15 Front Row. Mark Lawson reports on the Tate
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11.10 Embarrassing Bodies (R) (S) Dr Christian Jessen meets a man with a genetic condition thats left him needing new ears.
11.10 Mad Men (R) (S) Bettys father has a stroke. Petes mother threatens to disinherit him. Jon Hamm stars.
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Quick crossword no 13,265

Across
1 Spiders creation (6) 4 Not transparent (6) 8 British thriller writer, Hammond ___ , d. 1998 (5) 9 Uproar (7) 10 Superior skill (7) 11 District of West London (5) 12 Strip of land cleared to prevent a conagration spreading (9) 17 Fanatical (5) 19 Renaissance (7) 21 Culinary herb (7) 22 Tokyo (anag) former capital of Japan (5) 23 Indulge in retaliation (6) 24 Dont move! (6)
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Sudoku no 2,343
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14 16
8 6 2 4
5 3 7 1 5 9 7
2 6 3 8 4 7 9 5 1 5 7 9 6 2 1 8 4 3 4 8 1 9 3 5 6 7 2 3 1 7 4 9 8 5 2 6
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1 Oversensitive traditional British food shop (6) 2 Play truant (4,3) 3 Result in a particular way (5) 5 Wooden-handled iron tool with a curved head, pointed at both ends (7) 6 Shh! (5) 7 Warm Pacic Ocean current (2,4) 9 Fruit expression of contempt (9) 13 Sign of danger sign of socialism (3,4) 14 Amateur singing to recorded music, perhaps in a pub (7)
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Italian brandy (6) Opt (6) Push boat (5) Motorcyclist (5)
Solution no 13,264
NOT SOF P G U A K I NEPT S I RO C O S S A KERCH I E F L U G E L Z PAE L LA GAU T F L W N HOOF P I Z Z E E R D Z I T OMB O L A B E A B D R A B O YWO N D E R AST R R CCO T U I MB C L CHE I M R I A C K L I E E R
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