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overwhelmingly to delay Brexit
over several days, mean that Britain’s trooping through the no lobby to reject
• May expected to Heather Stewart departure from the EU should not now that argument. Government sources
bring twice-defeated Jessica Elgot take place before 30 June, giving the How MPs voted insisted he was not intending to resign,
Peter Walker prime minister a window to resusci- despite his unprecedented action.
deal back on Tuesday
Yes 413
tate her plan. The shadow Brexit secretary, Sir
Brexit is to be delayed by at least Eight cabinet ministers, including Keir Starmer, said: “ This evening
three months after parliament opted the Brexit secretary, Steve Barclay, and the Brexit secretary voted against
• PM narrowly wins overwhelmingly to ask the EU for an the leader of the house, Andrea Lead- his government’s own motion on
amendment to keep extension to article 50 on another som, voted against the government’s Brexit, which earlier in the day he had
No 202
day of divisive votes that exposed the motion extending article 50, seeking defended in the House of Commons.
control of process splits in Theresa May’s cabinet. to keep the threat of no deal in place. That’s the equivalent of the chancel-
The prime minister is now expected In all, more than half of Tory MPs voted lor voting against his own budget. This
to bring her twice-defeated Brexit deal against the motion. is a government that has completely
• Labour abstains on back to parliament on Tuesday, after Barclay had wound up the debate lost control.”
211
new referendum but she narrowly retained control of the
next steps of the process.
for the government, saying “it is time
for this house to act in the national
Majority Labour’s divisions over Brexit were
also clearly on display, however. The
17 rebels vote against The votes, the last in a series of vital interest, it’s time to put forward an party whipped its MPs to
7 
parliamentary decisions on Brexit extension that is realistic” – before abstain on an amendment
One soldier
to face trial
over Bloody
Sunday
Owen Bowcott
Legal affairs correspondent
Only one former British paratrooper is

to be charged in connection with the
killings of civil rights demonstrators
on Bloody Sunday, prompting dismay
and calls for accountability from fam-
ilies who lost loved ones 47 years ago.
Prosecutors announced the deci-
sion yesterday after relatives of the 13
people who died on one of the darkest
days of the Troubles in January 1972
marched together through the Derry
streets where the victims fell.
After examining evidence in 19
cases, the director of public prosecu-
tions for Northern Ireland, Stephen
Herron, said: “It has been concluded
that there is sufficient available evi-
dence to prosecute one former soldier,
Soldier F, for the murder of James Wray
and William McKinney, and for the
attempted murders of Joseph Friel,
Michael Quinn, Joe Mahon
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▲ Families march through Derry before being told only one ex-paratrooper would face charges over their relatives’ deaths PHOTOGRAPH: CLODAGH KILCOYNE/REUTERS and Patrick O’Donnell.
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• The Guardian Friday 15 March 2019
Inside 15/3/19 News

▼ John Kelly, whose brother was
Four sections every
very weekday killed, comforts Alana Burke, who
was injured, after the announcement
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those soldiers who served with cour-
News and Sportt age and distinction to bring peace to
Northern Ireland. The welfare of our
former service personnel is of the
utmost importance and we will offer
Sign of the times full legal and pastoral support to the
Children being taughtt individual affected by today’s deci-
sion. This includes funding all his legal
how to save their friends’
nds’ costs and providing welfare support.
lives if they are stabbed
ed “The Ministry of Defence is working
Page 5 across government to drive through a
new package of safeguards to ensure
our armed forces are not unfairly
Racing into history treated. And the government will
Bryony Frost is first woman urgently reform the system for deal-
to win a Grade One racece at ing with legacy issues. Our serving and
former personnel cannot live in con-
the Cheltenham Festivalival stant fear of prosecution.”
Page 50
Families devastated after
A statement on behalf of all of the
families was read out in the Guildhall
by four people affected.
Journal Outside G2
Opinions and ideas
just one soldier charged John Kelly, whose brother died,
said: “There’s a terrible disappoint-
ment at the outcome … We have
over Bloody Sunday deaths travelled a long journey since our

brothers were brutally slaughtered on
our streets … The full cost of Bloody
In the future, David Sunday cannot be measured just in
Cameron will be seen as the Continued from page 1 those who died that day.” The shoot-
architect of this mess Timeline ings deepened the conflict, he said.
Aditya Chakrabortty In respect of the other 18 suspects, Alana Burke, who was injured on
including 16 former soldiers and two
A 47-year campaign Bloody Sunday, said the three aims of
Page 5 alleged Official IRA members, it has the relatives’ campaign had been to
been concluded that the available Sunday 30 January 1972 Parachute overturn the “whitewash” of the initial
Capitalism is evidence is insufficient to provide a Regiment soldiers open fire on inquiry led by Lord Widgery, have
reasonable prospect of conviction.” demonstrators at a civil rights the victims’ innocence recognised
stealing young people’s Details of the charges were revealed march in the Bogside area of Derry. and pursue prosecutions of soldiers
most basic rights to the families at a hotel, before a Thirteen men are killed; a 14th man responsible for the killings.
George Monbiot formal announcement by Northern subsequently dies of his wounds. Michael McKinney, who lost a
Ireland’s Public Prosecution Service 1 February 1972 The UK prime brother, continued: “If these crimes
Page 4
(PPS) in Derry’s Guildhall. The families minister, Edward Heath, appoints had been investigated properly and
said they were “devastated” and that the lord chief justice, Lord Widgery, evidence gathered then the outcome
the decision was a denial of justice. to produce a report on what became today would have been different …
The former serviceman will only known as Bloody Sunday. There can be no statute of limitations
G2 Centre pullout be identified by the letter used in the 22 February 1972 The Official IRA used to deny justice, no new laws to
Features and arts 12-year Saville inquiry into Bloody detonates a car bomb at barracks protect state killers.”
Sunday. The inquiry found the kill- where the Parachute Regiment Geraldine Doherty, whose uncle
ings were unjustified, none of the dead is headquartered. Seven people, died, said: “Today’s decision is 47
‘I’m a very placid human’ were carrying a gun, no warnings were mostly female cleaners, are killed. years overdue … Killers should not be
Daniel Mays is known for given, no soldiers were under threat 18 April 1972 Widgery produces his given anonymity.” She called for those
and the troops were the first to open report. Many call it a whitewash. in charge of the army operation to also
his intense characters. But fire. The image of a priest waving a 1 January 1973 Col Derek Wilford, face prosecution, saying: “If the senior
he feels no great angst blood-stained handkerchief as he tried who commanded Parachute officer in charge of the police operation
Page 5 to help a victim to safety on 30 January Regiment soldiers on Bloody at Hillsborough [can face charges] then
1972 was broadcast around the world. Sunday, is awarded the OBE. so too can those who were in charge on
As well as the 13 who died on the day, 29 January 1998 The Labour prime Bloody Sunday. There can’t be one law
Ordinary boys 15 others were shot. One died months minister, Tony Blair, announces a for the military and political elite and
Why are the charts full later from an inoperable tumour; many new inquiry. another law for the others.”
of white men who all consider him the 14th fatality. 3 April 1998 The Saville inquiry Ciaran Shields, a solicitor with the
The PPS said prosecutors would opens. It lasts 12 years and costs Belfast law firm Madden and Finucane,
sound interchangeable? now consider charges against others hundreds of millions of pounds. which represents most of the families,
Page 6 in relation to allegations of perjury. 15 June 2010 Final report of the said civil cases against the government
Herron added: “I am mindful that Saville inquiry is published. It securing compensation for most of the
it has been a long road for the fami- states: “We found no instances relatives had already succeeded. The
lies to reach this point and today will where it appeared to us that soldiers last ones are expected to be agreed by
Weather Cartoon be another extremely difficult day either were or might have been this summer. “When Soldier F ulti-
Page 40 Journal, page 5 for them. There has been a level of
expectation around the prosecution
justified in firing.”
July 2012 The Police Service of
mately faces charges [in court] we
would expect that his anonymity is
decisions in the light of the findings Northern Ireland launches a murder struck off,” Shields added.
Quick crossword Cryptic crossword of the Bloody Sunday inquiry. investigation. The law firm will now examine the
Back of G2 Back of Journal “However, much of the material
which was available for considera-
December 2016 Files passed to
the Public Prosecution Service for
PPS’s statement and seek a review of
its decisions. “If those challenges don’t
tion by the inquiry is not admissible Northern Ireland. find favour we will then challenge the
in criminal proceedings due to strict 14 March 2019 Prosecutors decisions in the high court in Belfast,”
rules of evidence that apply. We rec- announce their decision on charges. Shields said. No British soldier con-
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Friday 15 March 2019 The Guardian •
News 3
Punk to
Beto O’Rourke
on the campaign
trail in Texas
last year. He has
president? been compared

to Barack Obama
but faces a tough
Democrat fight to become

the Democratic
nominee
O’Rourke
PHOTOGRAPH: CHIP
SOMODEVILLA/GETTY
starts run
for White
House
Sabrina Siddiqui Washington

Ed Pilkington New York
Beto O’Rourke, the former US con-

gressman whose grassroots campaign
in Texas last year brought him national
attention, has announced he will
seek the Democratic nomination for
president. which he was pictured sitting next to O’Rourke has the backing of a A onetime guitarist for an El Paso reporter, Jenna Johnson, spent time
Ending months of speculation, his wife on a sofa. “We saw the power network of advocates who have inde- punk band called Foss, O’Rourke had with O’Rourke at the Mexican border
O’Rourke yesterday threw his hat into of this in Texas.” pendently been campaigning for him kept a relatively low profile as a three- in January and noted: “When it comes
a crowded field vying for the party’s O’Rourke stated his intention in the to run. The organisation Draft Beto term congressman with little name to many of the biggest policy issues
blessing to challenge Donald Trump in video to “travel this country and lis- has already mobilised thousands of recognition before his senate bid. facing the country today, O’Rourke’s
the 2020 presidential election. ten to those I seek to serve”. He said grassroots volunteers, many on col- But as his upstart campaign to defeat default stance is to call for a debate.”
O’Rourke, 46, rose to national he would then return to El Paso on 30 lege campuses, and held 30 house Cruz gained steam, O’Rourke – 6ft 4in, He also has a more conservative vot-
prominence during the 2018 mid- March to kick off the campaign and parties in nine states. with a beaming smile and a thumping ing record on Capitol Hill than many
terms, when his bid to unseat Ted invited would-be supporters “to the Its co-founder, Nate Lerner, told the stage presence – transformed into an might have expected at a time when
Cruz in the Texas senate race garnered greatest grassroots campaign this Guardian: “Now the real work begins. overnight celebrity who earned the the Democratic party has taken a leap
unprecedented grassroots support and country has ever seen”. We’re shifting the grassroots, finan- approval of public figures from the to the left in reaction to Trump. He
a historic fundraising haul. cial, and political resources we’ve built singer Beyoncé to the basketball star has come under liberal fire for being
Although he fell short, O’Rourke over to Beto’s campaign and focusing LeBron James. too closely aligned with Wall Street,
outperformed expectations for any entirely on electing Beto in 2020.” During the Senate race, he wore insufficiently daring on healthcare
Democrat in deeply conservative Yesterday, O’Rourke made his first down his political shoe leather with and under the influence of the fossil
Texas, falling less than three per- trip to Iowa, popping into a coffee a relentless road trip to all of Texas’s fuel industry.
centage points behind Cruz, the shop where he fielded questions while 254 counties, built up an army of vol- He will need to find his feet against
Republican incumbent. characteristically gesticulating. Don- unteers that by the end was 25,000 the economic radicalism of Sanders
O’Rourke swiftly emerged as a top ald Trump told reporters in the Oval strong, and amassed a fortune of more and Warren, the civil rights radical-
Democratic presidential contender, Office: “Well, I think he’s got a lot of than $70m – a sum greater than any in ism of Harris and Booker, and the
drawing comparisons to Barack Obama hand movement. Is he crazy or is that US Senate campaign history – drawn ambitious immigration plan of Julián
for his charisma and hopeful message. just how he acts?” from all over the country, overwhelm- Castro, who was housing secretary
“This is going to be a positive cam- O’Rourke has joined a diverse Dem- ingly in small donations. But he faces under Obama.
paign that seeks to bring out the very ocratic field that includes senators some daunting challenges. And he will be up against perhaps
best from every single one of us, that Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, He will need to elevate himself from the biggest gun of all in the Democratic
seeks to unite a very divided country,” Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, state-level politics to the far more field if Joe Biden, Barack Obama’s vice-
O’Rourke said in a video announce- ▲ Beto O’Rourke (left) in 1990s band Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, and testing stage of national and world president, throws his hat in the ring in
ment posted yesterday morning in Foss. He was the group’s guitarist Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard. affairs. The Washington Post’s political the coming weeks.
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4 News
▼ Greta Thunberg (centre) has
become the focal point for a global
youth climate change protest
PHOTOGRAPH: STÉPHANIE LECOCQ/EPA
Nobel nomination for

to demand that politicians take this
crisis seriously,” she said.
While some politicians have
opposed the school strikes, many
girl who inspired global have supported them, including Ger-

many’s Angela Merkel and Ireland’s
Leo Varadkar. The mayors of Paris,
climate change protests Milan, Sydney, Austin, Philadelphia,

Portland, Oslo, Barcelona and Mon-
treal added their backing yesterday.
Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris,
honoured and very grateful for this said: “It is truly inspiring to see
Damian Carrington nomination. Tomorrow we #school- young people, led by brilliant young
Libby Brooks strike for our future. And we will women, making their voices heard
Matthew Taylor continue to do so for as long as it takes.” and demanding urgent climate action.
She challenged leaders in person at They are absolutely correct that our
Greta Thunberg, the founder of the the UN climate summit in late 2018 and actions today will determine their
Youth Strike for Climate movement, at Davos in January. “Change is coming futures. My message to young citizens
has been nominated for the Nobel whether they like it or not,” she said. is clear: it is our responsibility as adults
peace prize, a day before the biggest National politicians and some aca- Global climate strike events planned for today and political leaders to learn from you
demonstrations yet to demand action demics can nominate candidates for 195 and deliver the future you want.”
over the climate crisis. the Nobel peace prize, which will be Germany Anna Taylor, 17, who co-founded
Children at tens of thousands of awarded in December. There are 301 the UK student climate network, said:
schools in 1,659 towns and cities across candidates for the 2019 prize: 223 indi- 107 “Young people in the UK have shown
105 countries are due to take part in the viduals and 78 organisations. 51 UK 123 that we’re angry at the lack of govern-
walkouts today, inspired by 16-year- In the UK more than 10,000 chil- Canada Sweden 26 ment leadership on climate change.
209 India
old Thunberg’s solo protest outside dren walked out of class last month France “Those in power are not only betray-
the Swedish parliament that began and organisers expect today’s event to 158 ing us, and taking away our future, but
last year. be even bigger, with about 100 events US 63 16 are responsible for the climate crisis
“We have proposed Greta Thun- across the country. Spain New that’s unfolding in horrendous ways.”
berg because if we do nothing to halt One of the UK’s most prominent 178 Zealand Taylor said the UK had been rela-
climate change it will be the cause school strikers, Holly Gillibrand, 13,
17 Italy tively shielded from the effects of the
Brazil
of wars, conflict and refugees,” said will be taking part, after staging a crisis, adding that those least responsi-
the Norwegian Socialist MP Freddy weekly action outside her school in 12 48 ble for contributing to climate change
Chile Australia
André Øvstegård. “Greta Thunberg has Fort William, in the Highlands. “There 17 were “suffering the worst effects”.
launched a mass movement which I are thousands of students out there Argentina
see as a major contribution to peace.” who care very deeply about the envi- Journal Panel Page 3
Thunberg wrote on Twitter: “[I am] ronment and are willing to miss school Source: Fridays for Future Journal George Monbiot Page 4

Making a splash at 466 Spain’s master of light 5

Cracknell to be Boat Sorolla on show at
Race’s oldest entrantt the National Gallery
Page 11 Page 12
Weapons offences at highest level

Nearly 4,000 offences were dealt
with by a suspended sentence, while
just over 5,000 resulted in a commu-
nity punishment.
for a decade, official figures reveal

The figures also showed that repeat
offenders were more likely to go to
prison, though more than a third of
those sentenced under a “two strikes”
regime were spared immediate cus-
and shatters communities, and this immediate custodial sentence for knife and offensive weapon offences tody last year.
Jamie Grierson government is doing everything in a knife and offensive weapon offence, resulted in an immediate custodial In 2015, minimum sentences were
Home affairs correspondent its power to tackle its devastating with custodial sentences at the high- sentence, compared with 5,734 or 20% introduced for those aged 16 and over
consequences. Sentences for those est level since the statistical series in 2008. Average length of sentences who were convicted of a second, or
The criminal justice system last year carrying knives are getting tougher – started in 2008. also increased over the same period, subsequent charge of possession of a
dealt with the highest number of knife they are more likely to be sent straight In 2018, almost 8,000 or 37% of from 5.3 months to 8.1 months. knife or offensive weapon.
and offensive weapon offences in to prison, and for longer – than at any For 72% of offenders it was their Diana Fawcett, the chief officer at
nearly a decade, official figures show. time in the last decade. There were 21,484 knife and first knife or offensive weapon pos- the charity Victim Support, said: “It’s
In 2018, 21,484 knife and offen- “But we are doing more – yesterday weapon offences in England session offence, a proportion at its horrifying to see knife crime offences
sive weapon offences were recorded, the government committed a further and Wales in 2018 lowest level since the 2008, when it at the highest levels in a decade, which
the most dealt with since 2009, when £100m to tackle knife crime, while our Thousands was 80%. The criminal justice system is yet more evidence that violent crime
25,103 offences were registered, serious violence strategy works to pre- dealt with 13,555 offences involving is an increasing problem that must be
according to the Ministry of Justice. vent young people picking up a knife 24 possession of an article with a blade tackled urgently.
The figures come after the chancel- in the first place.” or point last year. “Families and communities are
lor, Philip Hammond, handed an extra Total funding for forces in England There were 7,016 cases of an indi- being devastated by knife crime and
£100m to police forces in England and and Wales fell by 19% in real terms 20 vidual being found with an offensive it is the responsibility of all agencies
Wales after a spate of fatal stabbings from 2010-11 to 2018-19, according to weapon, and 913 in which a blade or to come together to solve this.”
led to a renewed focus on the response the National Audit Office. Officer num- weapon was used to make threats. In the 12 months to March last year,
to knife crime and fresh debate over bers have dropped by nearly 20,000 In 4,430 instances in 2018, 21%, the the number of fatal stabbings in Eng-
16
police resources. since 2010. 2009 2012 2015 2018
offender was aged 10 to 17. The pro- land and Wales reached the highest
The justice minister Rory Stew- The figures show offenders portion of cases leading to a caution level since records began more than
art said: “Knife crime destroys lives are now more likely to receive an Source: Ministry of Justice fell from 30% in 2008 to 11% last year. 70 years ago.
Education
out are often the ones in tears on the
wards where no one can see them.
“We are getting much, much
better at saving lives,” Carver adds,
‘It’s about but they do not always succeed and
it is hard when someone has to break
the news to a desperate mother that
confidence’: her 15-year-old son has died. “It’s

demoralising and draining when
you’ve worked a really long time
pupils learn on someone and they don’t come

through.”
Newham had the highest murder
rate in the capital last year. As
how to cope the NewVic event got under way,
figures from the Ministry of Justice
provided a stark reminder of the
with attacks scale of the problem. Last year the

criminal justice system dealt with
21,484 knife and offensive weapon
offences, the highest number
since 2009.
Sally Weale Many students are frightened.
Education correspondent “When you are out there, you have
S
that feeling that anything can
uzanne Palka is in the happen any time,” said Anwar Said,
business of saving lives. 17. “You don’t feel safe.”
In a crowded hall of an Ricardo Guerra, a 16-year-old
east London college, she fellow student who recently
is showing teenagers arrived in the UK from Venezuela,
how to stop their friends was shocked by the knife crime in
bleeding to death from a knife ▲ Students at Newham sixth form today – why?” says Palka of the Michael Carver has brought some London. “A friend of mine was going
wound. “The key message is, if college in east London attend special increase in stabbings. “I don’t have of the tools used to save the lives to his house and a group of three
someone is stabbed, you need to lessons in first aid and self-defence the answers. But I can show them of stabbing victims. There’s a Gigli people with knives attacked him and
apply direct pressure to the wound. PHOTOGRAPH: GRAEME ROBERTSON/GUARDIAN simple first aid and it can save lives. saw to cut through the sternum stole his wallet. I come from Caracas,
It’s very effective. It buys time for They’re frightened to help. But the to provide emergency access to the second most dangerous place
the ambulance to get through and it quicker they act, the greater the the heart; an intraosseous needle, in the world. I thought London was
saves lives.” ‘You need to apply likelihood of that person’s survival. which drills into bone to enable safe, but I started feeling a little bit
Palka is a youth education It’s about confidence.” the delivery of drugs and fluids less safe,” he said.
co-ordinator at the British Red
direct pressure to the At the other end of the hall, a if vascular access is impossible Sanjeeva Camillus is from the
Cross and one of a range of experts wound. It buys time group of students are getting self- after major blood loss, and a stoma St Giles Trust which works in the
brought into Newham sixth form defence training. They practise bag, used to collect faeces after Royal London’s major trauma
college (NewVic) for a day of Life Not
for the ambulance using their forearms to block and a knife wound in the intestines. centre. He has worked with a young
Knife workshops designed to teach to get through a wristlock to disarm. Elsewhere, The students handle them with man who was blinded after being
students how to protect themselves there are trauma staff from the Royal avid curiosity. shot and two young people who
at a time of growing knife crime.
and it saves lives’ London Hospital in Whitechapel “Statistics can dehumanise have stoma bags after suffering knife
It’s the event’s 10th year, but the who treat injuries, and the charity it,” Carver says, “but they are all wounds. His youngest client was 12.
increase in knife crime has given it workers who join them on the wards individuals with their own trials and “I’m here,” Camillus said, “to
new urgency. Suzanne Palka to try to rebuild the lives of those tribulations.” The young men who show there are consequences to
“I’ve had a lot of people ask me British Red Cross affected by knife crime. strut around with their chests puffed carrying a knife.”

6 National
▼ Jeremy Corbyn shortly before the
Brexit voting in which 41 of his MPs refused
to follow his abstention line
PHOTOGRAPH: MARK DUFFY/UK PARLIAMENT
Corbyn describes second Party rebels

Labour MPs who refused to abstain
referendum as ‘realistic 17 Labour MPs voted

against the amendment
for a second referendum
Emma
Lewell-Buck
South Shields
Six of them also
voted against
the Benn
option’ – but not for now

amendment
Kevin Barron Justin Madders
Rother Valley Ellesmere Port Kevin Barron
and Neston Rother Valley
Ronnie Campbell John Mann
Blyth Valley Bassetlaw Ronnie
including Caroline Flint, Kate Hoey, The Labour decision to abstain to Campbell
Dan Sabbagh John Mann and Gareth Snell. avoid a more profound split in the Blyth Valley
Flint, Hoey and Mann were also party was underpinned by a statement Rosie Cooper Stephanie
among six Labour MPs who voted from the People’s Vote campaign: “We West Lancashire Peacock Caroline Flint
Labour ordered its MPs to abstain on against Hilary Benn’s separate amend- do not think today is the right time to Barnsley East Don Valley
a second referendum amendment last ment that would have given parliament test the will of the house on the case
night but its internal divisions were further control of the Brexit process. It for a new public vote.” Caroline Flint Ruth Smeeth Kate Hoey
laid bare by 24 MPs who defied the was defeated by two votes. Yesterday’s votes were a moment, Don Valley Stoke-on-Trent Vauxhall
whip to support it. Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit it said, for parliament to declare it North
The amendment, put forward by the secretary, told the Commons that wanted an extension of article 50 “so Yvonne Fovargue John Mann
Gareth Snell
Independent Group (TIG) and seeking Labour was supportive of the second that, after two and a half years of vexed Makerfield Bassetlaw
Stoke-on-Trent
a delay so another referendum could referendum principle, but that it was negotiations, our political leaders can Central
be held, was roundly defeated by 334 “a question of timing”. finally decide on what Brexit means”. Graham
votes to 85, with 17 Labour MPs vot- This prompted Anna Soubry, of the Labour MPs who voted for a second Kate Hoey John Spellar Stringer
ing against it. It would not have passed TIG, to call out “shame on you”. referendum included David Lammy, Vauxhall Warley Blackley and
even if all those who abstained had Following the vote, Jeremy Corbyn Owen Smith and Siobhan McDonagh, Broughton
voted in favour. said: “Today I reiterate my conviction considered by some as the most likely
Ruth Smeeth, the MP for Stoke- that a deal can be agreed based on our to defect to TIG. Lloyd Russell-Moyle Helen Jones Graham Stringer
on-Trent North, quit her job as alternative plan that can command in effect abstained by walking through Warrington Blackley and
parliamentary private secretary to support across the House. both lobbies. North Broughton
the Labour deputy leader, Tom Wat- “I also reiterate our support for a McDonagh, speaking before the Kevan Jones Derek Twigg
son, to vote against the amendment. people’s vote – not as a political point- voting, had said: “Sometimes politics North Durham Halton
Others who voted included those scoring exercise but as a realistic can be messy but I always think it’s
whose concerns were well known, option to break the deadlock.” better to try and be straightforward.

Explained 7
The amendments and motion
Continued from page 1 “The government’s motion won

‘We do not think Conservatives Labour
Motion to extend article 50
SNP Lib Dems DUP Green Plaid Cymru TIG Ind.
with a substantial majority, one in
today is the right time Splits show as MPs the name of the prime minister,” the
413 For spokesman said. “It was a free vote
to test the will of the
House of Commons
vote to request and people were free to exercise their
votes as they so choose. But the cabi-
on the case for a article 50 extension net is united around allowing the UK to
leave the EU with a deal and we need to
new public vote’ 202 Against calling for a second referendum – but
get on and deliver that,” he said.
Asked if cabinet ministers were now
24 Labour MPs defied the whips to vote bound by the government’s position to
for it; and 17 rebelled to vote against, extend article 50, which was passed
Spokesperson including several frontbenchers. overwhelmingly by 412 votes to 202,
People’s Vote campaign The Stoke-on-Trent North MP, Ruth a No 10 spokesman said: “Yes, that is
Labour amendment Wollaston amendment Benn amendment Smeeth, resigned as the parliamen- how collective responsibility works.”
Extend article 50 and seek a new Call a new referendum Indicative votes in the
I support a people’s vote and I will be Brexit approach Commons
tary private secretary to Labour’s The past few days have seen an
voting for a people’s vote tonight. Sim- For For For
deputy leader, Tom Watson, after vot- extraordinary collapse in Tory disci-
ple. No ifs. No buts. No ‘maybe next 302 85 312 ing against a referendum. “This was a pline, with four ex-remainer cabinet
week’. Just voting for it tonight.” Against Against Against really difficult decision to make, but I ministers abstaining on a whipped
Smeeth, also speaking before the 318 334 314 made a promise to my constituents vote on Wednesday night, and May
vote, explained her decision to quit to that I would not consider a people’s forced to offer a free vote on yester-
vote against the amendment, saying: Source: House of Commons. Note: tellers are not included in totals, but are included in the graphics vote, and I can’t just pretend this vote day’s motion to delay Brexit.
“I made a promise to my constituents What has happened? there will be a brief extension, to 30 is not happening,” she told her local The prime minister has consistently
that I would not consider a people’s June, allowing legislation to pass. If paper, the Stoke Sentinel. emphasised the importance of keep-
vote, and I can’t just pretend this vote The Commons yesterday passed not, the delay will last longer. The amendment, tabled by the for- ing the threat of a no-deal Brexit on
is not happening. I need to consider a motion for the government to mer Tory Sarah Wollaston, now of the the table, to avoid weakening Britain’s
the views of my constituents and vote extend the Brexit deadline beyond Will the UK get new MEPs? Independent Group, and signed by negotiating hand. But a group of her
against the people’s vote.” 29 March. Ministers were obliged about 30 MPs, was voted down by 85 own ministers threatened to resign en
Others who voted against a sec- to table the motion after Theresa’s If the longer extension happens votes to 334. masse if she refused to offer them a
ond referendum included the junior May’s Brexit plan was voted down then, according to the government, The official People’s Vote cam- vote on requesting to extend article 50.
shadow ministers Yvonne Fovargue, on Tuesday. There were five the country would take part in the paign had urged MPs not to support The government’s motion said that
Emma Lewell-Buck, Justin Madders, amendments voted on, all of which European elections in 10 weeks the amendment, arguing it was not yet if May’s plan were approved by next
and Stephanie Peacock. Party sources were defeated. One was pulled. from now. And, as we have learned the time to press the case. But Anna Wednesday, the government would
said their fate would be a matter for the this week, UK officials are already Soubry of TIG criticised Labour for request a brief extension until 30 June,
party whips. What was voted on? making contingency plans for such declining to support it, saying, “this to give parliament time to pass the leg-
Senior Labour sources said they an eventuality. is a betrayal of Labour party mem- islation needed to leave the EU.
were suspicious of the motives of TIG First there was a cross-party bers and voters, Labour MPs, Labour’s Government sources indicated
in putting their amendment, and said amendment seeking a second But the indicative votes conference policy and, most impor- another meaningful vote was likely
they believed some were backing it to referendum; this was defeated tantly, the British public. The Labour to be held on Tuesday, with Downing
expose Labour tensions. by a huge margin of 334 votes will not happen? party leadership are determined to Street working intensively to win over
But TIG insiders said they were fed to 85. Then came another cross- Perhaps not, it is uncertain. The deliver Brexit, which would harm our Democratic Unionists and the Brexit-
up being told to wait for the right time party amendment, to impose cross-party motion seeking to country.” backing European Research Group.
to put the vote. Chris Leslie, who has so-called indicative votes by MPs impose this on the government was Asked whether Conservative MPs If the deal does not pass on Tuesday,
joined TIG, added: “So now we know to determine a consensus outcome, very narrowly defeated. But opening who had voted against the govern- it is likely May will set out her request
it. Labour frontbench won’t support which was defeated by just two the debate, May’s de facto deputy, ment’s motion would be disciplined, for a longer extension before the Euro-
a people’s vote. Long suspected, now votes, 314 to 312. the Cabinet Office minister, David May’s spokesman said it was clear it pean council summit on Thursday.
confirmed.” Slightly confusingly this was Lidington, said the government was a free vote last night, but that cab- Downing Street said the blame for
Sarah Wollaston had twice talked preceded by an amendment to that would push for such a plan if May’s inet ministers who had voted against delay lay with parliament and was
about putting forward a second refer- amendment, which sought to limit deal fell again and there was a the motion would now be expected to against the prime minister’s will. “The
endum amendment this year, but was any delay to Brexit caused by the resulting long delay to Brexit. follow government policy. prime minister absolutely wanted and
persuaded by People’s Vote campaign- process; this also narrowly lost. strived for the UK to be leaving the EU
ers to withdraw, because of worries Then there was a vote on a Labour Is a second referendum on 29 March. Everything she has done
that a bad result could damage the frontbench amendment pushing the
now off the table? Effect of abstensions since entering office was intended to
credibility of the campaign. party’s own Brexit plan, which fell deliver that,” the spokesman said.
Labour MPs who are opposed to a by 318 votes to 302. It depends who you ask. Brexiters
Lobby looking empty Earlier, MPs narrowly passed up a
second referendum also enthusiasti- Following this the House had an reacted to the crushing defeat of chance to seize control of the Brexit
cally backed the opportunity to hold amendment put forward that sought that plan by cheerily tweeting about The view in the voting lobby last process through a series of indicative
a vote in parliament on the issue, with to discover if, under parliamentary its demise. But supporters of the night for MPs supporting the votes in the Commons, defeating by
one MP saying it would “lance the boil” protocol, May could bring her Brexit scheme were adamant that this was amendment backing a second 312 votes to 314 an amendment tabled
and prove there was no support for a plan back to the Commons again. It an inevitable defeat for a premature referendum. The proposal, tabled by the Labour MPs Hilary Benn and
second referendum in parliament. was pulled by its proposer, Labour’s effort at forcing the issue. It was, by former Tory MP Sarah Wollaston, Yvette Cooper, and the Conservative
Caroline Flint, a Labour MP opposed Chris Bryant. nonetheless, a setback for them. It was defeated by 334 votes to 85. former minister Sir Oliver Letwin.
to a second referendum, had said she Finally, the main government is obvious that if the plan is ever to Labour had issued a three-line whip The amendment called for steps
was “really delighted” that Bercow had motion on extending article 50 pass in the Commons it will need the ordering MPs to abstain from voting. to “enable the House of Commons
selected the amendment because she (delaying Brexit), was unamended, wholehearted, whipped support, of However, 24 broke this to vote on to find a way forward that can com-
would have the opportunity to vote and passed by 413 votes to 202. the Labour leadership. the proposal, 17 of them against it. mand majority support”. Six Labour
against it. Lib Dem education spokeswoman MPs voted against the motion.
Phil Wilson, the Labour MP for So Brexit will be delayed? Was it a better day for the Layla Moran posted the picture on The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn,
Sedgefield, devised a different strat- Twitter, writing: “Where is the rest said: “After the last few days of gov-
egy for obtaining a referendum with Yes, on the assumption the EU prime minister? of the Labour party? A few notable ernment chaos and some defeats, all
his fellow Labour MP Peter Kyle, by member states unanimously agree Yesterday was probably better exceptions but...” of us now have the opportunity and
offering an amendment at the next to the extension. If they don’t, than Wednesday, but that was, the responsibility to work together to
meaningful vote to back Theresa May’s which seems unlikely, the UK will admittedly, a low bar. May won find a solution to the crisis facing this
deal in exchange for a referendum. still leave the EU on 29 March, but the government motion (even country, where the government has so
“Other opposition parties and without a deal. though she did not want it) and dramatically failed to do so.”
groupings may have their reasons The government motion decrees the amendments were all seen off. There is no EU consensus over how
for putting down an amendment on that the government will seek But she had long promised that 29 to handle a request for an extension.
a people’s vote, but I will be abstain- agreement with the EU for an March would be Brexit day, and it is Before the Commons vote, the Euro-
ing today,” he said. extension to article 50 beyond 29 a heavy political blow for her that pean council president, Donald Tusk,
Alastair Campbell, a leading figure March. It says that if a Brexit plan she is not delivering this. expressed his backing for an extension
in the People’s Vote campaign, said is agreed by 20 March (it is widely Also even the move to allow a beyond three months.
it was wrong to press a people’s vote assumed that the prime minister, free vote on the main motion did “During my consultations ahead of
amendment when the issue of the day Theresa May, will make a third not prevent further signs of cabinet [the leaders’ summit next week], I will
was article 50 extension. attempt to squeeze her deal through disunity, with ministers lining up in appeal to the EU27 to be open to a long
He said a second referendum was “a the Commons early next week) then the “no” lobby. extension if the UK finds it necessary
possible solution to the current crisis, to rethink its Brexit strategy and build
not an option within it” and that there consensus around it,” Tusk tweeted.
would be more opportunities ahead Peter Walker
when other options to solve the Brexit Political correspondent Journal Simon Jenkins Page 1
crisis had been exhausted. Journal Leader comment Page 2

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Brexit
EU reaction
Tusk suggests
leaders grant
long delay to
allow rethink
Daniel Boffey Brussels
Jennifer Rankin Brussels
Philip Oltermann Berlin
Donald Tusk is pushing EU leaders to

consider a long Brexit delay to allow
the UK to rethink its goals in the nego-
tiations after the Commons backed an
extension of article 50.
In an apparent shift in the EU’s red
lines, the European council president
suggested even before MPs voted that
a lengthy extension beyond 29 March
could be granted simply to give West-
minster time to recalibrate. Officials
had until now said that only calling an
election or second referendum could
justify a delay beyond a few months.
“During my consultations ahead
of [an EU summit next week], I will
appeal to the EU27 to be open to a long
extension if the UK finds it necessary
to rethink its Brexit strategy and build
consensus around it,” Tusk tweeted.
However, a European commis-
sion spokesman expressed concerns
in Brussels over the impact of a long
extension after MPs voted 413 to 202
to push back Brexit to at least 30 June.
“A request for an extension of article
50 requires the unanimous agreement
of all 27 member states,” the spokes-
man said. “It will be for the European
council to consider such a request, giv-
ing priority to the need to ensure the
functioning of the EU institutions and
taking into account the reasons for and
duration of a possible extension.”
May rounds on
Delays of between a few weeks and We know that is bad for the whole of uncomfortable” and said the prime
21 months have been mooted, with the the UK and we want to make sure that minister had made it very clear
Irish deputy prime minister, Simon we get there. When you come to the how angry she was at the scenes on
Coveney, being the latest yesterday to end of the negotiation, that’s when you Wednesday night.
cabinet ministers
suggest a lengthy delay could be help- really start to see the whites of people’s “It was quite tense in the room, but
ful. “If you have a long extension of eyes and you get down to the point people did need to clear the air, the
article 50, that opens up the debate where you can make a deal.” conversation needed to be had,” the
in a much broader way to the overall Foster said her party’s main concern source added. “The remainer minis-
who defied whip

approach that the United Kingdom was “not only about the attorney gen- ters said their piece and they got what
takes to Brexit. That may facilitate a eral changing the advice” and added they thought they would get – a dress-
fundamental rethink, it may not, we that the government had to prove that ing down.”
just don’t know,” Coveney said. the constitutional integrity of the UK Clark, the business secretary,
on no-deal motion
Detlef Seif, the Brexit point person would be preserved. attempted the longest explanation
for the Christian Democrat party of the The prime minister’s spokesman about the group’s actions, saying that
German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said there had been a “productive, ministers had been promised a free
told the Guardian the European com- open and honest discussion” at the vote in order to vote down no deal
mission could even relax its refusal to political cabinet yesterday afternoon but had then found themselves being
negotiate the terms of a future trade After the confrontation, Geoffrey Cox, and that the “cabinet collectively ordered to vote the other way.
deal during such a 21-month extension Jessica Elgot the attorney general, urged cabinet agreed to redouble their resolve on “They are mostly angry about the
in order to “rebuild trust”. Chief political correspondent ministers to unite and focus on efforts working to deliver on the result of the cock-up,” one source said.
“I agree with [EU deputy chief to win over the Democratic Unionist referendum to leave the EU, by secur- But there was little appetite for the
negotiator] Sabine Weyand that the A furious Theresa May rounded on her party before the third meaningful vote. ing support for a deal”. explanation, with the chief whip Julian
much-discussed technical solution cabinet ministers yesterday, upbraid- Strenuous diplomatic overtures Later yesterday eight cabinet min- Smith abruptly leaving the room.
for doing customs checks without the ing the four who defied a three-line have been made to the DUP, whose isters, including the Brexit secretary, “No one was much in the mood
infrastructure of a hard border don’t whip and abstained on the no-deal leader, Arlene Foster, suggested yes- Stephen Barclay, voted against the to hear about it,” one source said. At
yet exist,” said Seif. motion on Wednesday night. terday that she was ready to broker prime minister’s plan to delay arti-
“But if Theresa May were to submit In a cabinet meeting described as a deal to secure the party’s backing. cle 50 but Downing Street made clear
a declaration to Brussels in which she “difficult” and “tense” the day after a Foster, who is visiting Washington that all would be bound by collective
stated her intention to spend the next chaotic night in parliament, the prime for an event she attended with the responsibility to support the plan.
21 months developing such technical minister angrily criticised the rebel Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, Sources said the prime minister’s
solutions in order to avoid a hard bor- ministers as well as the entire cabinet said her party was back in talks with anger at cabinet was not reserved for
der between Northern Ireland and the for its tendency to leak – only for busi- the government. She said she believed her rebellious ministers, however. She
Republic, then that should suffice to ness secretary, Greg Clark, to leap to a compromise would be found. scolded her entire cabinet over the
grant an extension.” the rebel group’s defence. “We want a deal, we’ve said we scale of leaks, suggesting some min-
The heads of state and government The other rebels were the Scottish want a deal, and we’re talking to them isters were self-serving and concerned
will need to come to a unanimous view secretary, David Mundell, the work around that,” Foster told the BBC. “We only with their leadership prospects.
when they meet at the summit next and pensions secretary, Amber Rudd, hope that can be the case, because One cabinet source described ▲ Amber Rudd, Greg Clark and David
Thursday and Friday. and the justice secretary, David Gauke. nobody wants to leave without a deal. the atmosphere as “difficult and Gauke defied a three-line Tory whip

Trump said: “I don’t think another vote would

be possible because it would be very
unfair to the people that won.”
Sketch
‘I would have Earlier in the day Trump said the EU
would “negotiate its own trade deals,
John Crace
done things including with the US, for the first time
differently’
in decades … we can do a very big trade
deal with the UK”.
Turning to Varadkar, visiting the
A win (of sorts) for the
Leader in Name Only
White House to celebrate St Patrick’s
Day, he said: “Leo, I’m sure you agree
on that. Would you like to express your
David Smith feelings on Brexit? Maybe I shouldn’t
Washington let you do it, I’ll just get you in trouble.”
The taoiseach replied: “We have a
on another dismal day
Donald Trump yesterday renewed his different opinion Mr President. I regret
criticism of Theresa May’s handling of
Brexit, claiming she ignored his advice
that Brexit’s happening.”
He added: “I think it will be a few
in the Big Brexit House
on how to negotiate and that now the years until the UK sorts itself out, but
F
issue was “tearing a country apart”. in the meantime the European Union
The US president also insisted that a is available to talk trade with the US.” inally. Theresa May had found a vote she
second referendum on Britain’s depar- The White House has some strong could win. A narrow two-vote victory. A
ture from the EU would be “unfair” Brexit backers but many in the US largely pyrrhic victory, as the government
and said he looked forward to making a business community are baffled by had won on a motion to extend article 50
bilateral trade agreement with the UK. it all. Yesterday Trump tweeted: “My it had never actually wanted to put to the
Trump, who is friendly with the for- administration looks forward to nego- house in the first place. Even when the
mer Ukip leader Nigel Farage, has long tiating a large scale trade deal [with Leader In Name Only is winning, she still contrives
been a cheerleader for Brexit and has the UK]. The potential is unlimited!”. to lose. Another crank on the pathos handle. The
realised its domestic parallels. During government still just about had control of the
his presidential election campaign in parliamentary timetable. For a few more days at least.
2016 he tweeted: “They will soon be Not that Lino took any pleasure in the result. No smile
calling me MR. BREXIT!” escaped her lips, no sign of relief. Just a hunched figure,
Speaking yesterday in the Oval lost in a near catatonic state. She clearly hates her life
Office alongside the Irish prime min- almost as much as she hates many of her colleagues.
ister, Leo Varadkar, Trump said: “It’s a Hating is one of the few things she does well. The body
very complex thing right now, it’s tear- language between her and Philip Hammond was of a
ing a country apart, it’s actually tearing couple who had long since realised there had never been
a lot of countries apart, and it’s a shame two of them in this relationship. She left long before the
it has to be that way. But I think we will final result was declared.
stay right in our lane. With Lino’s voice on either life support or a damage
“I’m surprised at how badly it’s all limitation exercise, it had been left to David Lidington,
gone from the standpoint of a nego- minister for the Cabinet Office, to open the latest Brexit
tiation. I gave the prime minister my debate the government had been hoping to avoid. He
ideas on how to negotiate it and I think looked like a man who knew he had drawn the short
you would have been successful. She straw. Lidington is usually one of the cabinet’s more able
didn’t listen to that and that’s fine … I performers, yet he too has been corroded by Brexit. His
think it could have been negotiated in self confidence is shot, anxiety is now lined on his face
a different manner, frankly.” ▲ Leo Varadkar, Nancy Pelosi, and he has developed a nervous tic. Not as pronounced
Speaking about the idea for a second Arlene Foster and Donald Trump as Chris Grayling’s, but similar. Perhaps it’s contagious –
Brexit referendum in Britain, Trump at the White House yesterday the inevitable legacy of spending too much time close to
ministers who don’t know what they are doing and have
no authority. A government whose
▲ Theresa May found something to
laugh about as the Commons debated Business radically new approach, business fears
this is simply a stay of execution,” the
She clearly hates her only doctrine is to fail. Fail again.
Fail better. Samuel Beckett’s time
extending article 50 yesterday lobby group said. life almost as much as has come.
PHOTOGRAPH: JESSICA TAYLOR/UK PARLIAMENT Firms want The Institute of Directors said the
Brexit process had “parted with rea- she hates many of her The cabinet minister hopped
from side to side nervously, like
the end of the meeting it was Cox
who appealed for unity, saying he
details to halt son” a long time ago and a no-deal
departure was still the default option.
colleagues. Hating is someone who had mistakenly
imagined that only 12 double
one of the few things
could understand how people could
feel marginalised. “His intervention, no-deal plans Edwin Morgan, its interim director
general, said: “Few in business will she does well
espressos could get him through
his impending ordeal. He began by
probably because it came from him, be stepping forward to thank par- trying to lay out the government’s
seemed to soothe a lot of nerves,” one liament for its efforts this week. We position. A near impossible task
cabinet source said. know a tiny, tiny amount more about when it changes by the hour. If Lino
A new route to winning over both Staff and agencies the next steps than we did a couple of was in any position to enforce this, then we’d now have
the DUP and some members of the days ago, but the problem is that the reached the point where ministers could face show trials
hard-Brexit European Research Group clock is still ticking and no deal is still for thought crimes for failing to understand that she no
emerged as some members of the latter British business groups gave a cautious the default.” longer believed what she had believed in the morning.
group told the Guardian they could be reaction to the parliamentary vote to The British Retail Consortium said Um, er … As far as Lidington knew, what the
persuaded to back May’s Brexit deal extend article 50 as they warned that the vote offered “a glimmer of hope” government currently thought was that if the Brexit deal
if Cox gave clearer legal advice about considerable uncertainty still clouded but Britain still stood on a no-deal was passed then the UK would ask for a short extension
how the UK could withdraw from an the Brexit process. “knife edge.” Markets reacted with to the article 50 process. And if it wasn’t then we would
international treaty. The British Chambers of Commerce caution. The pound dipped slightly have to ask for a longer one. Which wouldn’t be good as
The majority of ERG MPs voted said the economy was “still firmly in after the extension vote to $1.322. we might have to spend £16m on European elections.
against May’s revised deal, but dis- the danger zone” because the time- Ian Wright, the chief executive Rather less than Failing Grayling manages to waste in an
cussions have now started which aim frame and purpose of an extension had of the Food and Drink Federation, average morning.
to get legal advice on how the UK could yet to be decided. said the vote provided clarity on Predictably there were countless interventions, with
unilaterally end the backstop (the “Once again, businesses are left how the Commons might break the MPs quick to observe they were being asked to forget
mechanism designed to keep an open waiting for parliament to reach a con- Brexit logjam. “However, as the focus the government had previously said it would never ask
border on the island of Ireland) using sensus on the way forward and are moves away from a 29 March exit date for an extension because it would never be granted and
article 62 of the Vienna convention. losing faith that they will achieve this. towards a later date, we must not over- it was only the prime minister’s own incompetence that
Some leading lawyers have ques- In the meantime, firms are continuing look that 29 March is still the date in had led to this current request – which now apparently
tioned the plan. Martin Howe, QC, the to enact their contingency plans, anxi- the withdrawal act. It is critical that would be granted. Hilary Benn and Oliver Letwin both
only non-MP in the ERG “star cham- ety amongst many businesses is rising, MPs now follow through with actions. made the very obvious case that it was clearly time for
ber”, which looked at Cox’s legal and customers are being lost,” said its “The government must swiftly parliament to start thinking about what it did want.
advice before the meaningful vote this director general, Adam Marshall. agree the length of delay with the EU Day 993 in the Big Brexit House. The inmates had
week, said the idea was a non-starter. The Confederation of British Indus- and table a statutory instrument to voted for something, but nobody was quite sure what.
try said the vote showed there was change that date. Only then can the We were now well into an infinitesimally small twelfth
Journal Aditya Chakrabortty still common sense in Westminster diversion of time, effort and money dimension. A near airless vacuum, devoid of intelligent
Page 5 but more had to be done. “Without a towards no-deal planning be halted.” life. Where’s an asteroid when you need one?
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Cracknell to be Boat
Cambridge’s
team is unveiled
in London, left
to right: Dara
Race’s oldest ever Alizadeh, Grant

Bitler, James
Cracknell and
competitor at 46
Dave Bell
PHOTOGRAPH:
JOHN WALTON/PA
the BBC. “I am seven years older than

Jessica Hayden one of the guy’s dads. I stopped row-
ing in 2004 and haven’t rowed since.”
Prior to Cracknell, the oldest per-
The double Olympic champion James son to compete in the Boat Race was
Cracknell will become the oldest com- the coxswain Andy Probert, who was
petitor in the history of the Boat Race 38 in 1992. The oldest to row was Mike
next month after he was named in the Whearley, who was 36 when he was
Cambridge crew at the age of 46. selected by Oxford in 2008.
Cracknell, who became a house- The Olympic veteran’s journey is
hold name when he won his first gold all the more remarkable because of
medal alongside Steve Redgrave and his continuing recovery from a brain
Matthew Pinsent at the 2000 Sydney injury suffered in 2010. Cracknell was
Olympics, will compete alongside hit by a petrol tanker while cycling in don’t all wear capes … sometimes appreciate what getting selected for
rowers up to 25 years his junior in the the US, leaving him in hospital for ‘Heroes don’t all they wear really tight Lycra and dodgy the Boat Race is actually like. Training
annual clash with Oxford on 7 April. three months and needing to learn boots” – a response to images of Crack- so intensively and competing with a
After being announced in the how to walk and talk again.
wear capes … nell and his Cambridge teammates in group of guys for the same seats in
Cambridge line-up, Cracknell, who is Having been part of the crew to Sometimes they wear their kits at City Hall, London. a boat whilst studying hard at a top
studying for a masters in human evo- defend the Olympic coxless fours title Redgrave also tweeted his con- university, you could easily fall apart.”
lution and has six world titles as well in Athens in 2004, Cracknell embarked
really tight Lycra gratulations to Cracknell: “We knew Despite having trekked through the
as his Olympic medals, described his upon a series of endurance challenges, and dodgy boots’ he could do it! Congratulations to Arabian desert, and raced to the South
selection as “arguably my proudest including rowing the Atlantic and trek- @jamescracknell, watch this space for Pole, this may be Cracknell’s biggest
achievement in rowing”, coming 13 king to the South Pole with his friend, next year, I do like a broken record!” challenge yet, but he is determined to
years since he retired. the TV presenter Ben Fogle. The Oxford and Cambridge squads succeed. “I and the other lads aren’t
“I’ve had to get back to being able to On hearing of Cracknell’s selection Ben Fogle have been training since September. there for the kit and being selected, it’s
move in a rowing boat,” Cracknell told yesterday, Fogle tweeted: “Heroes Friend and TV presenter Cracknell said: “It’s impossible to about delivering on 7 April.”
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Art review Modernity seems far away with

journey up Sorolla’s quirky garden
path into a luscious, sun-kissed and
ambiguously sensual place.
Sorolla cannot raise his pastoral
this trip into sun-dappled, archaic Spain moments to the symbolic grandeur
of Water Lilies, by his contemporary
Monet. He’s not a thinker. This
makes him the slave of sight. Led by
A black-robed monk towers over his eyes he seems unconscious of
Sorolla: Spanish Master naked disabled boys as they head what he’s doing.
of Light into the sea for a therapeutic swim. This has frankly embarrassing
They are the victims of hereditary results. In 1909 he painted Boys
National Gallery, London syphilis, implies the title. Sorolla, an on the Beach, three nudes in
★★★☆☆ artist of immense style, juxtaposes sunlit water. The National Gallery
blue sea, pale bodies and the raven- catalogue notes, without irony,
Jonathan Jones like priest to truly unsettling effect. how he explores “the texture of
Sad Inheritance won a prize at the their wet skins”. Painted shortly
L
Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900 before Thomas Mann wrote Death in
uis Buñuel called the and helped make Sorolla the global Venice, this and other beach scenes
first chapter of his face of Spanish art. Few as yet knew have a Death in Valencia quality.
autobiography “Growing anything about a teenager called It’s an odd place to be – a confused
up in the Middle Ages” Pablo Picasso, who went to Paris that and perhaps self deceiving Spanish
because he remembered same year to see the exposition. middle-class psyche at the dawn of
Spain at the start of the Today Sorolla is doubly archaic. modernity. But one of the joys of art
20th century as a country barely Not only do his paintings capture the is to take us where we never thought
touched by the modern world, and claustrophobia of traditional Spain of going. Sorolla’s painted reality is
dominated by the Catholic church before surrealism, anarchism and heartfelt. He’s at his best when he
and near feudal poverty. If you want civil war shook its pieties, but his teeters towards sunstruck madness.
an eyeful of that archaic Spain stand flamboyant academic style, touched Elsewhere he can be a crashing bore.
in front of Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida’s by French innovations in painting The tensions of Spanish identity
almost three-metre-wide 1899 wedded to much older ideals of would soon produce the surrealist
canvas Sad Inheritance. figurative art, is pre-modern. Why visions of Picasso, Dalí and Buñuel.
If you squint and look only at would anyone now spend time at a Sorolla lacks their courage, their
the turquoise sea rippling into light retrospective of such an oddity? depth. But if he’s no surrealist, he
blue waves it’s a vivid seascape The National Gallery does not is at times utterly surreal. That’s
reminiscent of Manet. The scene on seem to think that question needs something to take away.
Sorolla’s beach, however, is a far cry answering and perhaps it doesn’t.
from the parasols of impressionism. Instead, this show takes you on a From 18 March until 7 July

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Types from Roncal, an oil painting ▼ Surreal but not a surrealist.
by Sorolla, dated 1912, included in the Joaquín Sorolla’s 1905 work Clotilde
National Gallery’s new exhibition and Elena on the Rocks, Jávea
PHOTOGRAPH: MUSEO SOROLLA, MADRID PHOTOGRAPH: ESTHER KOPLOWITZ COLLECTION
School suspends Ofsted. The watchdog praised school’s

record on promoting “tolerance,
acceptance and mutual respect” and
lessons on LGBT confirmed its rating of “outstanding”.
On the same day, talks were held
rights to seek between parents, education chiefs and
the Excelsior Multi Academy Trust,
parents’ support which runs Parkfield, leading to the
announcement that the lessons would
be suspended. “We are eager to con-
tinue to work together with parents
Nazia Parveen over the coming days and weeks to find
North of England correspondent a solution that will support the chil-
dren in our school to continue their
A Birmingham primary school that education in a harmonious environ-
taught pupils about LGBT rights as part ment,” the school said.
of a programme to challenge homo- Last month, the Guardian reported
phobia has suspended the lessons that the school’s assistant headteacher
until “a resolution is reached” with had been forced to defend the lessons
protesting parents. after 400 predominantly Muslim par-
Parkfield community school in ents signed a petition calling for them
Saltley has been the scene of weekly to be dropped from the curriculum.
protests over the lessons, which par- Andrew Moffat, who was awarded
ents claim are promoting gay and an MBE for his work in equality educa-
transgender lifestyles. tion, said he had been threatened and
The school previously said the No targeted via a leaflet campaign after
Outsiders lessons – which teach toler- the school piloted the No Outsiders
ance of diverse groups, including those programme. Its ethos is to promote
of different races, genders and sexual LGBT equality and challenge homo-
orientation – would continue as nor- phobia in primary schools.
mal after the Easter holidays. Moffat is the author of Challeng-
This month, about 600 Muslim ing Homophobia in Primary Schools
children, aged between four and 11, and is shortlisted for a world’s best
had been withdrawn from the school teacher award, the Varkey Foundation
for the day, parents said. The school Global Teacher prize. He resigned from
would not confirm the number. another primary school – Chilwell
However, on Tuesday the school Croft academy, also in Birmingham
was cleared of any wrongdoing by – after a similar dispute with parents.

14 National
National
▼ Bishop Edward Daly, waving a
xSubjectxxxx
Bloody Sunday bloodied handkerchief, clears a path
for dying teenager Jackie Duddy
PHOTOGRAPH: PACEMAKER
Soldier F
The prosecutors’ decision
A central issue behind the decision

to bring charges against Lance
Corporal F – and not other members
of the Parachute Regiment – was
that evidence presented to the 1998
Bloody Sunday inquiry cannot be
relied upon for a criminal trial. Also,
the standard of proof for conviction
in a court – beyond reasonable doubt
– is different from the inferences the
inquiry could make.
Northern Ireland’s public
prosecution service (PPS) said: “In
relation to Soldier F it has been
concluded that there is a reasonable
prospect of conviction and Soldier F
is to be prosecuted for the murders of
James Wray and William McKinney
[as well as] the attempted murders
of Joseph Friel, Michael Quinn, Joe
Mahon and Patrick O’Donnell.”
Four soldiers were reported in
connection with those casualties:
soldiers F, H, G and E. G and E have
since died. “In relation to Soldier
H …there was no evidence capable
of proving that he fired …(when
the casualties were sustained)
other than his own inadmissible
accounts”. Referring to shootings in
area where Jackie Duddy died, the
prosecutors said: “A fundamental
difficulty in relation to this sector
was in attributing responsibility for
the various casualties to particular
soldiers.” Owen Bowcott
Families react
deepened and prolonged a bloody con-
flict unimaginable even in those dark
winter days of 1972.
“The passage of time has made
charges difficult in this case, and in
with dignity other cases. But the passage of time

should not be used as a form of blanket
immunity to block proper investiga-
tions. Everyone deserves justice,
after high hopes

including those whose loved ones
were murdered by the British state.”
The families dealt with the disap-
pointment with dignity. At the end
of the news conference, there was a
are devastated minute’s silence at the Guildhall in

memory of the dead, followed by a
round of applause.
Afterwards Jean Hegarty, whose
younger brother Kevin McElhinney
was killed, said she was disappointed
Prosecution Service briefed the fam- ▲ A British soldier apprehends a protester during Bloody there had not been more charges but
Owen Bowcott ilies about its decision. Sunday when 13 men were shot dead in Derry was not surprised. “There were a few
“People were totally devastated,” PHOTOGRAPH: THOMPSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES families who were really upset,” she
said John Kelly, whose brother Michael said. “It depended on expectation
For the families of Bloody Sunday’s was shot dead. “But at least six families levels. It was very mixed emotions.
victims, who have campaigned for have something to look forward to.” “If there’s a trial of Soldier F, I will go
justice for decades, the announcement Soldier F has been charged with two along – even if it’s in London. Maybe it
that only one Parachute Regiment sol- murders and four attempted murders. will be a jury trial? We have came a long
dier would be prosecuted represented Having heard the news they walked way but we are still a divided commu-
an anticlimax. across to the Guildhall. Their joint nity. It would be nigh on impossible to
Expectations that at least four statement reflected contradictory get a jury that everyone here consid-
former soldiers would face charges emotions. It declared: “Justice for ered fair. If it’s held in England, I don’t
had been widespread. Relatives had one family is justice for all of us. We think it would be fair.”
marched together to Derry’s Guildhall, stand in full solidarity with those of us Julieann Campbell, whose uncle
bearing photographs of their loved whose loved-one’s death or injury has Jackie Duddy was killed in 1972,
ones – civil rights demonstrators who not been included in the announce- agreed. “People feel a bit gutted, a bit
were shot dead on 30 January 1972. ment of prosecutions. underwhelmed,” she explained. “But
A banner bearing the words “We have also faced the disappoint- the fact that six families came out with
“Towards Justice” was shared as ing news that in some cases there will good news, that’s a success.”
they processed through the streets not be prosecutions, and we are mind- Others at the nearby Museum of
where 47 years ago soldiers opened ful of those families who received that Free Derry stressed the importance
fire. Along the way, they halted to news today.” of finally resolving the bitter events.
sing the civil rights anthem We Shall The statement added: “Bloody Sun- “Without Bloody Sunday and the
Overcome. day was not just a wanton act carried Ballymurphy army shootings of 1971
Shortly before 10am, they all out by a trained army against defence- ▲ Families of Bloody Sunday victims gather at Guildhall [in which 11 civilians died],” said one
filed into the City hotel, overlook- less civil rights activists. It also created in Derry following the PPS decision to prosecute a single man, “the war would not have gone
ing the river Foyle, where the Public a deep legacy of hurt and injustice and Parachute Regiment soldier PHOTOGRAPH: ALAN LEWIS/PHOTOPRESS on for 40 years.”

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Park gathered to protest peacefully about ▲ British paratroopers take away
1 Soldiers on
2 North internment, a new law allowing protesters on Bloody Sunday
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k3 Marchers flee. By between the security forces and Irish who chaired the Bloody Sunday
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Bl about 4.40pm the republicans in which firearms had inquiry, found that Gerald Donaghy,
Barricade shooting ends been used by both sides. a member of the IRA’s youth wing,
with 13 people
Free Derry While their intended destination was “probably” carrying nail bombs.
dead and one
Corner City Wall
was the Guildhall, the marchers were The inquiry was also “sure” he was
fatally injured. A
further 13 are hurt. instead directed by the British army not preparing to throw a bomb when
Coal lorry platform for speakers
towards the landmark of Free Derry he was shot. His family insisted that
Corner. Troops had arrived in force the four bombs were planted by the
1 Gerald Donaghy, 17 8 John Young, 17
Donaghy, who had been a member of the IRA’s Young, who worked in a menswear shop, was killed
just over two years earlier following security forces.
youth wing, was shot once. A man tried to take him by a single shot to the head at the rubble barricade violent clashes between civilians It would take two investigations
to hospital but was told to leave the car at a as he tried to take cover. He was shot as he tried to and police in 1969. By 1972 however, – including one by Lord Widgery
checkpoint. He was driven by a soldier to a battalion crawl forward to a boy who had been hit. Two the nationalist community had that largely cleared the soldiers and
post, where an army medic pronounced him dead. witnesses said Young was unarmed. largely turned against the troops, authorities of blame – before David
regarding them as being agents of Cameron made a formal apology
2 Gerard McKinney, 35 9 Kevin McElhinney, 17 the same oppressive regime as the on behalf of the UK government for
The father of eight was shot dead in Glenfada Park. McElhinney, a supermarket worker, was hit from Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). what had happened on the day.
He had been part of the group caught trying to get behind as he tried to crawl to safety in the Rossville On the morning of what would
to safety towards Westland Street. Two witnesses Flats. He was shot close to the flats’ front entrance, become known as Bloody Sunday,
stated McKinney raised his arms in surrender and near to the rubble barricade, and was dragged inside
shouted: ‘Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!’ by people sheltering there.
troops from the Parachute Regiment Sentencing
were manning barricades. They
were later ordered to move forward
Doubt over two-year limit
3 William McKinney, 27 10 Hugh Gilmour, 17 to make arrests after skirmishes
A printer at the Derry Journal newspaper, McKinney Gilmour, a trainee tyre fitter, was shot by a single
broke out with young men who had The trial of Soldier F for murder
was shot dead after he left the safety of cover to try bullet as he ran from soldiers near the rubble
to assist Gerard McKinney (not a relation), who had barricade in Rossville Street. A photograph taken
detached from the main protest. and attempted murder on Bloody
been shot moments before. He was hit from behind seconds afterwards shows he was unarmed. Rubber bullets, teargas and water Sunday in 1972 will test the limits of
as he bent over. cannon were used at about 4pm as Northern Ireland’s criminal justice
stones were thrown, before troops system and legal arrangements
4 James Wray, 22 11 Bernard ‘Barney’ McGuigan, 41 made their way down William made in accordance with the Good
Wray, who had been working in England and was McGuigan, a factory worker and father of six, was Street with orders to arrest as many Friday agreement.
engaged, was shot twice in Glenfada Park. The first going to the aid of Patrick Doherty and was as possible. Soon soldiers opened The Northern Ireland (Sentences)
bullet travelled superficially from right to left signalling with a white handkerchief when he was fire around the corner on Rossville Act 1998 says anyone subsequently
across his body, the second entered his back and killed by a bullet in the back of his head. He died Street. In all, according to army convicted of a scheduled, normally a
travelled from right to left. where he fell. evidence, some 21 soldiers fired terrorist, offence committed before
108 live rounds on a day in which 13 April that year, would only serve a
5 William Nash, 19 12 Patrick ‘Paddy’ Doherty, 31 people were killed and 15 wounded. maximum of two years in prison.
Nash, a dock worker, was killed by a single shot to Doherty, a father of six, was shot from behind by a One further death was subsequently The assumption has been that
his chest near the rubble barricade at almost the single bullet while trying to crawl to safety near the attributed to the shootings. the terms of that limited amnesty
same time as John Young. He was possibly shot by flats’ forecourt, between the building and Joseph
The first casualty of gunfire after in sentencing should also apply to
Soldier P. Witness accounts state that Nash was Place. Photographs show he had not been armed.
unarmed and was going to someone’s aid.
soldiers had gone into the nationalist members of the security forces.
Bogside area of the city in an attempt More problematic is that the
to make arrests was John Duddy, 17, reductions only apply to crimes
6 Michael McDaid, 20 13 John ‘Jackie’ Duddy, 17
who was shot and mortally wounded committed after 1973 when the
McDaid, a barman, was shot in the face at the rubble A keen boxer, Duddy was probably the first to be
barricade. He probably died immediately. A book, shot dead that day. He was killed by a single bullet on the western side of the Rossville first Emergency Provisions Act
Eyewitness Bloody Sunday: The Truth, included a to the chest in the courtyard of Rossville Flats. flats car park. A photograph of a was passed. The government has
photograph of McDaid moments before he was shot, Witnesses said he was unarmed and running away priest and others carrying the dying indicated it intends to extend the
showing him walking away from the soldiers. from soldiers. teenager – also known as Jackie, two-year limit to security force
and one of six 17-year-olds who members and include, for everyone,
7 Michael Kelly, 17 14 John Johnston, 59 died – would become one of the the early years of the Troubles,
The sewing machine mechanic died from a single Johnston, a draper, was shot in the leg and shoulder best-known images of the Northern probably from 1966 or 1968.
shot to his abdomen, probably fired by Soldier F. He on William Street while on his way to visit a friend in Ireland Troubles. However, no legislation
died within a few minutes of being shot near the Glenfada Park. His death four-and-a-half months The oldest victim was Bernard implementing those changes has yet
rubble barricade in front of Rossville Flats. later was attributed to the injuries he received. McGuigan, 41, a father of six been presented at Westminster or
children. McGuigan, who been in the Northern Ireland assembly,
waving a white handkerchief in his which is currently suspended.
Sources: Bloody Sunday Inquiry, Widgery Report, University of Ulster, Museum of Free Derry hand, died instantly after he was Owen Bowcott


National 17
TfL to remove ads claiming

£20,000, with campaigners arguing: prioritise advertising revenue over the
“We would not think twice in turning option of remaining neutral on such
our backs on his legacy if we for one an emotive topic is disappointing.”
Jackson accusers were lying second felt that there was any truth at
all in these heinous events.”
After weathering numerous allega-
tions of child sexual abuse before his
Speaking to the BBC, TfL said the death in 2009, Jackson’s legacy as one
People do” appeared on buses and bus posters would be removed. It said they of the greatest pop stars of all time has
Ben Beaumont-Thomas stops after the documentary Leaving “have been rejected due to the public been badly damaged in the wake of
Neverland was shown on Channel 4. sensitivity and concern”. the documentary, despite his estate,
The film features testimony from two The Survivors Trust, a charity for relatives and hardcore fans making
Transport for London (TfL) is to remove men, Wade Robson and James Safe- survivors of sexual abuse, had criti- vociferous denials of any wrongdo-
advertising that claims Michael Jack- chuck, who allege Jackson abused cised TfL for allowing the posters to be ing. Radio stations have removed his
son was innocent of charges of sexual them from the ages of seven and 10. displayed, saying the advertising “per- songs from playlists, and a new bio-
abuse against children. The posters had been funded by a petuated fear” that victims would not ▲ A crowdfunding campaign paid for graphical musical, Don’t Stop ’Til You
Adverts reading: “Facts don’t lie. crowdfunding campaign that raised be believed. It added: “The decision to the posters to appear on London buses Get Enough, has been postponed.
Pay rises
week, more than 3,500 UK bankers are
paid more than €1m (£850,000) a year,
with total income of almost €10bn
between them. Average pay was €2m.
for highest The IFS said pay growth had risen

rapidly for lowest-income workers,
after hikes to the minimum wage.
earners However, average pay – after inflation

– for the workforce at large remained
below the level of 2007.
outstrip Johnson said the Bank of England

had looked back through history to see
if there was a worse period for work-
workforce ers’ pay, adding: “It’s reached the early

1800s, I think it might be heading to
the Black Death soon.”
The stark analysis came a day after
Philip Hammond used the spring state-
Richard Partington ment to tell MPs that ratifying the
Phillip Inman prime minister’s Brexit plan could
unlock a “deal dividend”.
Recent big pay rises for people already The IFS warned that crashing out
earning at least £1m a year could be the of the EU without a deal would erase
result of a return to pre-banking crisis the £26.6bn in spending headroom the
levels of reward for bankers and top chancellor said he had built up for han-
company bosses, according to the head dling a chaotic exit or ending austerity.
the UK’s leading economic thinktank. The IFS also attacked his claim that
New data collected by HMRC and the funds represented a “dividend”.
released alongside the chancellor’s “It’s not really a deal dividend, it’s
spring statement showed pay for the if things go as planned,” Johnson said.
highest-income workers rose nearly The spring statement forecasts from
6% between April and September last the OBR had been “predicated on a
year, compared with 3.7% for the rest fairly smooth transition, they’re cer-
of the workforce. The Institute for Fis- tainly not predicated on crashing out
cal Studies (IFS) said the pay disparity without a deal”, he added.
would exacerbate inequality. The IFS said the chancellor, if he is
Paul Johnson, director of the IFS, going to raise spending, would need
said the full reasons for fast-rising top to ignore a Tory manifesto pledge to
pay were unclear, but suggested that balance the books by the mid 2020s.
top salary growth could be returning However, the IFS said the deficit –
to levels last seen before 2008. “Chief the annual shortfall between spending
executive pay, and pay in the finan- and tax income – could probably not
cial sector, maybe that’s returning to be removed by the mid-2020s.
where they were pre-crisis,” he said. The IFS said several measures were
There are 31,000 people in the still in place which suggested austerity
top 0.1% income bracket. This group was continuing, including the freeze
accounted for 8% of all PAYE income on benefits, which has cost 10 million
tax and national insurance receipts families an average of £420 a year.
in 2017-18, according to documents Matthew Whittaker of the Reso-
prepared by the Office for Budget Res- lution Foundation, an independent
ponsibility (OBR), the government’s thinktank, said it was clear Hammond
independent economic forecaster. has the spending power to end auster-
OBR data shows just over £286bn ity. By 2022-23 he has the headroom
was paid in PAYE and National Insur- to allocate £24.9bn to unprotected
ance contributions in 2017/18 – so Whitehall departments, thus raising
£22.6bn came from just 31,000 peo- their share of GDP back to levels seen in
ple, the equivalent of £730,000 each. 2015-16. He could also afford to spend
According to figures released by £10.7bn on reversing welfare cuts.
the European Banking Authority this The Resolution Foundation said
a rise in inequality in 2018 will get
6%
worse in 2019 without a change of
course, as the benefit freeze in April
and increases in council tax of at least
Average pay rise for the highest- 4% were only slightly offset by a rise in
income workers between April and the work allowance on universal credit
September 2018, according to IFS and a freeze on fuel duty.
An increase in the personal allow-
3.7%
ance to £12,500 will also benefit the
richest taxpayers. The policies, it said,
“boost 2019-20 incomes by an average
Average pay rise for those not in the of £280 for households in the top fifth
highest income bracket – most of the of the income distribution but reduce
workforce – in April-September 2018 them by £100 those in bottom fifth”.

18 News
Ethiopian
Airlines crash
Inside
Bradford’s heritage
Boeing’s Max fleet
How bhangra DJs to stay grounded
put city’s Asian
youth on the map as flight recorders
Page 29 arrive in France
“We need to wait for the hard data from
Dominic Rushe these readers.”
New York One central question is whether
software known as MCAS used to
Boeing’s 737 Max 8 and 9 planes will prevent stalling was central to the acci-
remain grounded indefinitely, US dent. Lion Air officials said sensors on
politicians said yesterday, as flight their crashed plane produced errone-
data and cockpit voice recorders from ous information on its last four flights,
the crashed Ethiopian Airlines plane triggering an automatic nose-down
arrived in France. command the pilots were unable to
After a briefing with the Federal overcome on its final flight.
Aviation Administration (FAA), con- The chief executive of Ethiopian
gressman Rick Larsen said the planes, Airlines, Tewolde GebreMariam,said
which have been involved in two its pilots had received special train-
fatal crashes in the last five months, ing on how to deal with that problem.
would be banned from flying “at least “In addition to the basic train-
through April” while new software is ings given for 737 aircraft types, an
installed and investigations continue. additional training was given for the
Investigators will begin analysing Max version,” Tewolde said. “After the
flight recorders from the Ethiopian Lion Air crash, questions were raised,
Airlines plane wreckage today in an so Boeing sent further instructions
attempt to establish what caused the that it said pilots should know.”
crash that has grounded Boeing’s 737 The two crashes have shaken the
Max fleet worldwide. aviation industry, scared passengers
In a photograph of the data recorder worldwide and put significant pres-
released by France’s bureau of civil avi- sure on the world’s biggest aircraft
ation safety (BEA), the central part of manufacturer.
the recorder appears intact, although A software fix for the 737 Max that
the edge appears somewhat mangled. Boeing has been working on since the
A BEA spokesman said it was unclear Lion Air crash would take months to
whether the data was retrievable. complete, the FAA said on Wednesday.
There is mounting anger in Ethiopia A spokesman confirmed yesterday the
over the handling of the crash. In Addis FAA would not unground the airplanes
Ababa, about 200 family members of until the software patch was approved
victims left a briefing with Ethiopian and installed.
Airlines officials saying the carrier had Under international rules, Ethiopia
not given them adequate information. is leading the investigation, but the
Officials said they had opened a BEA will analyse the black boxes as
call-in centre that is open 18 hours a an adviser.
day to respond to questions, but rel-
atives said they were not getting the
answers they needed. Lion Air flight JT610 climbed
Relatives arrived at the crash scene erratically shortly after takeoff
in Hejere, about 30 miles from Addis before crashing in October 2018 ...
Ababa, some wailing or beating their Vertical speed (feet per minute)
chests as a bulldozer navigated piles of 1,000
debris. Blue plastic sheeting covered 500

the wreckage of the plane. 0
The crash on Sunday, in which 157
-500
people were killed minutes after take-
-1,000
off from Addis Ababa, was the second
involving Boeing’s 737 Max in less than -1,500
six months. A Lion Air jet crashed in -2,000
Indonesia in October, also shortly after 4 mins 5 mins 6 mins
takeoff, killing all 189 people on board.
Source: FlightRadar24
Citing newly refined satellite data
and evidence from the scene of the
Ethiopian Airlines crash, the FAA has ... while Ethiopian Airlines flight
suggested the possibility of a shared ET302 also displayed this pattern
cause for the two crashes. almost immediately after takeoff
After assessing that data, “it became Vertical speed (feet per minute)
clear to all parties that the track of the 3,000
Ethiopian flight was very close and
behaved very similarly to the Lion Air 2,000
flight”, the FAA administrator, Daniel 1,000

Elwell, told reporters.
But aviation experts cautioned that 0
it was still too early to draw conclu- -1,000

sions. “To my mind people are drawing
-2,000
optical conclusions at the moment,”
0 1 min 2 mins
said Robert Mann, an aviation con-
sultant and former airline executive. Source: FlightRadar24
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19
The Boeing 737 Max

Doubts over fastest-selling plane in history
Why did it take four days for

Boeing and the FAA to ground the
737 Max when other air regulators
did so much sooner? American
and Canadian regulators cited
new evidence to suggest a link
between Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines
crash and October’s Lion Air one.
Investigations are ongoing but
preliminary satellite tracking data
suggests they were caused by a ▲ The Ethiopian jet’s flight recorders
faulty automated system designed are handed to French air investigators
to prevent stalling, known as MCAS.
Marc Garneau, Canada’s transport How important is the 737 Max
minister, said the new data revealed to Boeing? It is the fastest-selling
“vertical variations” in the two plane in history: with more than
flights were similar. 5,000 orders placed, and more
than 350 in service. At its listed
How do the two crashes compare? price ($121m, or £91m, per plane),
Both planes were the same model that amounts to more than $600bn
of Boeing 737: a new iteration, worth of planes sold already and
the Max 8, that first flew in 2017 being manufactured, though
and had only been in service a most airlines will have bought at a
matter of months for Lion Air and substantial discount.
Ethiopian Airlines; and both pilots Boeing’s 737 was already the most
reported difficulties immediately common plane in the sky, a short-
after takeoff. haul workhorse. The latest iteration
The Lion Air plane showed promised significantly greater fuel
sharp changes of altitude, which efficiency, more seats on a similar-
▲ Ethiopian relatives of crash victims 157 people onboard. The French air suggested the pilots may have sized plane, and a longer range – a
mourn and grieve at the scene where accident investigation authority is to been effectively trying to wrestle promise that had seen airlines all
the Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed shortly handle the analysis of the black boxes against in-flight control systems over the world clamour to buy them.
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20 National
Amazon
Autism by Kerri Rivera, which advo- chelation, which involves using a dose would not say whether it was part of a
Alison Flood cates dosing autistic children with a of chemicals to remove heavy metals larger effort to clean up the site.
bleach-like substance, chlorine diox- from the body. It is not an approved Social media companies have been
drops books Books that promise cures for autism

ide, was no longer available yesterday.
The Autism Research Institute said the
treatment for autism and can be dan-
gerous: in 2005, a five-year-old boy
accused of amplifying the anti-vac-
cine movement. Last week Facebook
through potentially dangerous thera- so-called “miracle mineral solution” died after chelation treatment. banned adverts that included mis-
that offer pies have been quietly removed from
Amazon over the past week.
had “side effects known to be seri-
ously damaging”. The Miracle Mineral
Larry Cook, the founder of Stop
Mandatory Vaccination, highlighted
information about vaccines, while
Cook’s videos were demonetised by
risky ‘cures’ The move followed an exposé in

Wired magazine this week that high-
lighted how Amazon was selling
Supplement of the 21st Century by Jim
Humble, the man behind the “miracle
mineral solution”, is also no longer for
the books’ removal in a Facebook
post, claiming “Amazon censorship
has begun” and urged readers to “stock
YouTube in February, meaning he can
not earn money from adjacent ads.
The moves follow last week’s rev-
for autism dozens of books that claimed to cure
the lifelong condition with everything
sale on Amazon.
Another book named in Wired,
up on books and DVDs right now”.
Amazon has been contacted for
elation in the Guardian that Amazon
appeared to be helping anti-vaccine
from camel milk to yoga and veganism. Fight Autism and Win, has been comment. It confirmed to NBC News groups in the US through its charity
Healing the Symptoms Known As dropped by Amazon. It advocates that it had withdrawn the books, but arm, the AmazonSmile Foundation.
Scientists’ jaw-dropping
finding: how soft food
helped us voice F-words
consonants than when the upper and
Ian Sample lower teeth are aligned.
Science editor When the researchers went on to
look at ”f” and “v” sounds in lan-
It was the texts of the 16th century guages around the world, they found
that first brought the F-word to the that hunter-gatherer languages had
attention of the masses. It appeared only about a quarter of the number
in William Dunbar’s poem A Brash of found in languages spoken by farming
Wowing in 1503 and later, thanks to an societies. Further analysis found that
angry monk, in a note scrawled in the labiodental consonants could have
margin of a 1528 copy of De Officiis, spread rapidly in languages since the
Cicero’s moral manifesto. dawn of agriculture, to the point that
But according to researchers, the they are now found in half of the 7,000
English language might never have or so languages still spoken.
enjoyed a richness of F-words had “We find that labiodentals couldn’t
it not been for early farmers and the have emerged much before about
food processing they favoured. Dairy 4,000 years ago,” said Damián Blasi
products and other soft foods, such at the University of Zurich. “That’s
as gruel, porridge, soup and stews, really recent in terms of anatomically
helped shape our faces, the research- modern humans.” The arrival of the
ers claim, and allowed us to form the new labiodentals may have driven a
sounds “f” and “v”, known as labio- fresh diversification of language across
dental fricatives. Europe and Asia.
The international team reached this The researchers, writing in the
conclusion while testing a theory put journal Science, describe how early
forward by the late American linguist modern humans would typically have
Charles Hockett. In 1985, Hockett pro- lost the overbite they were born with
posed that the overwhelming absence after growing up on a diet of hard-to-
of sounds like “f” and “v” in languages chew food. But farming, milling and
spoken by hunter-gatherers was partly cooking in pottery vessels led to softer
down to their diet. foods, and so the overbite remained
The argument went that chew- and new sounds became possible.
ing tough foods subjected the mouth Retaining an overbite had not led
to strong forces that wore down the directly to labiodental consonants,
teeth and caused the lower jaw to grow but had allowed people to make the
larger, leading the lower teeth to align sounds more easily, Blasi said. As
with those in the upper jaw. Without softer foods continue to spread, ever
the usual overbite, it is hard to press more languages are expected to adopt
the bottom lip against the upper teeth the sounds, the scientists believe.
to make “f” and “v” sounds. Blasi believes the finding should
Hockett’s theory was rejected at force a rethink of the factors that could
the time but, as the researchers gath- drive the evolution of language. He
ered evidence for their study, they said: “We’re taught about language
came to suspect he was right. Com- in the context of the humanities, and
puter models of the jaw showed that that is completely separated from the
with a normal human overbite, it takes biological underpinnings of language.
29% less energy to form labiodental But all of our speech apparatus is made
up of bones and muscles, which are
affected by mechanical forces. They
‘Our speech change when you change your diet.”
While the F-word did not appear in
apparatus is affected English dictionaries until the 18th cen-
by mechanical tury, it cropped up in court records as
early as the 13th century. The Eng-
forces. They change lishman John le Fucker was put away
when you change for a double murder in 1278, while
Roger Fuckebyethenavele became
your diet’ an outlaw when he failed to show at a
Cheshire court in 1310. The origins of
the nicknames are unclear, but there
Damián Blasi is a chance the men had different
University of Zurich reputations for sexual competence.

National 21
Steel faces
him to continue in office and waved Peter Lawrence
through a recommendation for a holding a
knighthood. photograph of
Lib Dem Smith stepped down as an MP in

1992 and died in 2010. He faced claims
that he abused young boys from the
his daughter
Claudia at his
home in York.
inquiry over 1960s to the 1980s. Steel, 80, has been

a central figure in centre-party politics
since the 1970s.
The university
chef was last
seen near her
Cyril Smith A meeting of senior Scottish Lib-

eral Democrats will discuss whether
home in 2009,
when she was 35
to suspend his membership, said a
admission
PHOTOGRAPH: DANNY
spokesman. LAWSON/PA
“Following his remarks at the

inquiry, the party has begun an inves-
tigation into Lord Steel.”
Jo Swinson, MP for East Dunbarton-
Rajeev Syal shire, wrote on Twitter: “Clearly this
is incredibly serious and he should be
suspended while this takes place.”
David Steel was last night facing sus- Under questioning at the abuse
pension from the Liberal Democrats inquiry, Steel said he confronted Smith
after admitting he was aware that about allegations in Private Eye mag-
Cyril Smith was a child sex abuser but azine. “He said, rather to my surprise,
failed to assess whether he was a risk ‘It is correct’ that he had been in charge
to children. of or had some supervisory role in a
Party officials were discussing
whether the peer and former leader
children’s hostel, that he’d been inves-
tigated by the police, and that they had After 10 years, Press Association
been “horrible”. Police believe that she
has been murdered, although no body
of the Liberal party should have the
whip withdrawn and face a formal
taken no further action, and that was
the end of the story,” the peer said.
father of missing has ever been discovered.
Mr Lawrence has said in the past
investigation.
It follows his testimony to the
Steel said he did not question Smith
further but concluded the allegations
chef doubts his The father of the missing university
chef Claudia Lawrence has said it is
that he believed his daughter, who was
35 when she vanished, was still alive.
independent inquiry into child sex- were true. daughter is alive getting more difficult to believe she But, speaking to the Press Associa-
ual abuse that in 1979, the late MP for The inquiry counsel, Brian Alt- is alive after nearly 10 years since her tion from his home in York, he said he
Rochdale confirmed reports that he man QC, asked: “So you understood disappearance. was now less certain.
had assaulted children. that he’d actually committed these Peter Lawrence said the decade “It’s getting more difficult to believe
Rather than launch an investiga- offences, from what he said to you?” since his daughter was last seen near that she is alive as time goes on,” he
tion into Smith, Steel said he allowed Steel responded: “I assumed that.” her home in York on 18 March 2009 had said. “It just keeps going on and on.”
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Struggling councils criticise The NCS was one of Cameron’s early

announcements as prime minister in
2010, part of his “big society” policy. It
year, took part in the NCS. In some
areas the take-up was as low as 4%.
NCS is seeking a creative agency to
breathe through every single touch-
point in our customer journey”, said
the advert. The contract would run for
£10m Citizen Service revamp offers three- to four-week programmes

in which 15- to 17-year-olds work in
“help us deliver a razor-sharp brand
proposition, a brand identity that is
two years and be worth £4m to £10m.
The maximum outlay would be
teams on projects connected to skills fit for purpose in the digital age and more than a £9.8m government fund
The request for a “brand and cre- and the community. a creative platform that can not only announced last month to help commu-
Peter Walker ative agency partner” to revamp the Last year parliamentary questions cut through the clutter but live and nity projects steer young people away
Political correspondent National Citizen Service prompted to the then culture minister, Tracey from gang culture and knives.
95%
condemnation from the Local Govern- Crouch, found that in the four years The LGA says the money would be
David Cameron’s flagship youth ment Association, which represents from 2014-15, the NCS used up 95% better channelled into council-run
scheme, which has faced criticism 370 councils in England and Wales. It of all central government spending on youth services, which have seen a 52%
for using large amounts of funding to said the money could be spent coun- youth services, or £634m of the £668m The amount of government funding funding cut since 2010, with more than
reach relatively few teenagers, is to tering the recent spate of knife crime outlay. Other figures showed just 12% for youth services swallowed up by 600 youth centres closed between
receive a rebrand costing up to £10m. among young people. of eligible young people, 93,000 in one David Cameron’s project in 2014-15 2012 and 2016.
Sport
Paul Scholes
quits Oldham
‘Regret’ as dream
job turns sour
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Schools giving food

parcels and clothes
to poorest families
left by cutbacks to local services. Pol-
Richard Adams iticians must end their fixation with
Education editor Brexit and work together to build a
new sense of social mission in our
Schools have become “an unofficial country. We simply must do better for
fourth emergency service” for vul- struggling families and invest properly
nerable families across England and in our schools, colleges and other vital
Wales, offering food parcels, clothing public services.”
and laundry facilities to those worst Nearly all the headteachers who
affected by austerity, according to a responded to the ASCL survey said
new report by a headteachers’ union. schools struggled to access mental
Most of the 400 school leaders sur- health services for pupils needing spe-
veyed by the Association of School cialist care, which they attributed to
and College Leaders (ASCL) said they cuts and increased demand.
were seeing a “rising tide” of poverty Nine out of 10 heads said they
among pupils, at a time when they gave clothes to their most disadvan-
were having to cut their own budgets taged pupils, and nearly half said they
and receiving less support from local washed clothes for pupils. More than
councils. 40% reported operating a food bank
Sarah Bone, the head of Headlands at the school or giving food parcels to
school, a comprehensive in Bridling- pupils and their families. It’s an honour Twiggy, a star of British fashion in the 1960s,
ton, east Yorkshire, said: “We have far One school leader commented: “In
too many children with no heating in 24 years of education I have not seen
at Buckingham Palace yesterday to accept the title of Dame
the home, no food in the cupboards, the extent of poverty like this, children Commander of the Order of the British Empire, awarded for
washing themselves with cold water, are coming to school hungry, dirty and her contribution to fashion, the arts and charity. Twiggy, whose
walking to school with holes in their without the basics to set them up for
offstage name is Lesley Lawson, not only had a career in fashion
shoes, and trousers that are ill-fitted life. The gap between those that have
and worn out, and living on one hot and those that do not is rising and is PHOTOGRAPH: YUI
but also in film and singing. With her at yesterday’s investiture,
meal a day provided at school.” stark.” MOK/AFP/GETTY were, from left, daughter Carly, husband Leigh and son Jason.
Other heads reported pupils with Edward Conway, the headteacher
no winter coats, while others said they of St Michael’s Catholic high school
“regularly” had to buy shoes for their in Watford, said: “Pupil poverty has
pupils. increased significantly over the past
“A decade of austerity has wreaked eight years, with us providing food,
havoc with the social fabric of the clothing, equipment and securing
nation and schools have been left to funds from charitable organisations
pick up the pieces while coping with to provide essential items such as beds
real-term funding cuts,” said Geoff and fridges.”
Barton, the ASCL’s general secretary. The report comes as the ASCL
“They have become an unofficial meets for its annual conference in
fourth emergency service for poor and Birmingham, with Damian Hinds, the
vulnerable children, providing food education secretary, addressing head-
and clothing and filling in the gaps teachers today.
Hinds will unveil a new strand in his
efforts to make teaching more attrac-
‘A decade of austerity tive, with a new expert panel to advise
on teacher well-being headed by Paul
has wreaked havoc Farmer, chief executive of the mental
and schools are left to health charity Mind.
“Like any really important job,
pick up the pieces’ teaching comes with its own chal-
lenges and, whilst rewarding, I don’t
need to tell you how stressful it can
Geoff Barton be,” Hinds will tell the audience of
ASCL general secretary about 1,000 school leaders.
Worker jailed for Lancashire, had pretended that she

was having radiotherapy to get three
four years after months’ sick pay from Yorkshire Can-
cer Research in Harrogate, where she
defrauding cancer worked as an events manager.
While off work, Robertshaw used
charity of £85,000 fake degree certificates to apply for
other jobs, the same documents she
had used to get her job at the charity.
Press Association The court heard how the papers helped
her get a £10,250-a-year pay rise, which
she was paid for seven months. She
A woman who pretended to have earned £86,833 at the charity from Sep-
cancer to help her defraud the cancer tember 2015 to November 2017. The
charity she worked for out of more judge, Andrew Stubbs QC, told her she
than £85,000 was jailed for four years had claimed “without any apparent
and five months yesterday. sense of shame, that you had cancer
Patricia Robertshaw, 42, pleaded while working for a cancer charity.”
guilty to four counts of fraud and one Catherine Silverton, defending,
of forgery. York crown court heard said her client had a history of men-
that Robertshaw, of Barrowford, tal health difficulties.

24 In brief
Courts appear at the Old Bailey on Monday, Health Memorabilia

the court said.
Teenager in court over Jodie was fatally stabbed in a
Third death at hospital Penny that deflected
Jodie Chesney murder park in Harold Hill, east London, after fungus infection WWI bullet up for sale
on 1 March as she listened to music
A teenager has appeared in court in with a group of friends. A man and A woman who became critically A penny thought to have deflected
east London accused of murdering a boy have also been charged with ill after contracting the fungal a bullet during the first world war,
17-year-old Jodie Chesney. her murder. infection mucor in hospital has died. thus saving a soldier’s life, is to be
Svenson Ong-a-kwie appeared Manuel Petrovic, 20, of Romford, Mito Kaur, 63, was admitted sold at auction. Pte John Trickett,
at Barkingside magistrates court and a 16-year-old who cannot be to Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth of the Northamptonshire regiment,
yesterday charged with one count named are due to face trial at the University hospital on 7 January would have been shot in the heart if
of murder. The 18-year-old, from Old Bailey in September. Another and became seriously ill shortly the bullet had not struck the coin in
Romford, is the third person to be three people who were arrested on afterwards. his breast pocket, the seller said.
charged with her murder. suspicion of assisting an offender Her family said she had died The dented penny, below, to
He was remanded in custody to have all been released. PA about 2am yesterday. Their solicitor, be sold next week by Hansons
Aamer Anwar, said they were auctioneers in Derbyshire, is in a
devastated and that many questions collection of war-related ephemera
remained unanswered. that belonged to Trickett, which
Kaur’s death comes after a includes his medals. PA
10-year-old boy who was being
treated at the hospital died there as
a result of contracting the unrelated
cryptococcus fungus which is linked
to pigeon droppings.
The £842m hospital opened in
2015. The Crown Office previously
said it was looking into the death
of a 73-year-old woman from
cryptococcus at the hospital in
January. PA
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Council cash Pi is calculated to a

pipes on the route are properly iden-
tified and if necessary moved; the
second will lay the track and signals.
record 31tn places
speeds up The decision to authorise the line’s
completion was opposed by the Con- using Google Cloud
servatives, who insisted the council
Edinburgh needed to wait until the inquiry into
the first phase, under the former lord
tram project advocate Andrew Hardie, had pub-

lished its report.
Members of Edinburgh’s commu-
Press Association
nity councils are also worried, and A Google employee has broken the
want the construction to be carefully world record for the most accurate
Severin Carrell phased and buses given priority on value of pi, calculating it to more than
Scotland editor nearby roads to minimise disruption, 31 trillion digits.
which they fear could affect 75,000 Emma Haruka Iwao smashed the
Edinburgh’s urban tram line is to be residents and 1,500 businesses. previous record of 22tn, using 25
finally completed, nearly a decade The council has set aside £2.4m to Google Cloud virtual machines. Com-
after its half-built track first opened help affected businesses. It said the ing up with the figure – putting the
to customers. costs of the extension would be met by number of digits at 31,415,926,535,897
The city’s council agreed yesterday borrowing, to be repaid by extra tram – used about 170 terabytes of data and
to spend up to £207m on extending fares, as well as by a £20m injection took 121 days to complete.
the line to its original destination in ▲ A tram on Princes Street, Edinburgh. The extension scheme is scheduled to be from Lothian Buses, the city’s publicly “The biggest challenge with pi is
Newhaven, on the Forth, finally link- ready in 2023, a decade after the first track opened PHOTOGRAPH: DANNY LAWSON/PA owned transport company. that it requires a lot of storage and
ing the east end of the city by tram to Its projections suggest the tram will memory to calculate,” Iwao said.
£207m
Edinburgh airport. first phase soaring to more than £1bn. carry 16 million passengers in the first “I’m really happy to be one of the
It is hoped the newly completed The botched project, now being inves- year of operation; the current line car- few women in computer science hold-
line will take its first passengers early tigated in a judge-led public inquiry, ried 7.4 million last year. Mindful of ing the record, and I hope I can show
in 2023, nearly 10 years after the first led to the tram line being built in two Potential amount Edinburgh council the original cost overruns, it estimates more people who want to work in the
section opened, in 2014. The legisla- phases with its first phase ending in has agreed to spend on extending the extension will cost £165m but has industry what’s possible.”
tion authorising the line was passed the city centre, 2.8 miles short of its the urban tram line to Newhaven added a £42m contingency fund. Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumfer-
by the Scottish parliament in 2006 but original terminus in Newhaven. The Harald Tobermann, spokesman for ence to its diameter. It begins with 3.14
16m
the project has been dogged by politi- complete finished length of the line the Community Councils Together on and continues infinitely.
cal battles and rows with contractors. will be just under 12 miles. Trams umbrella group, said tough con- “We use pi for everything in our
Many of the city’s residents remem- The council insists it has learnt trols on parking along the route were daily life, designing buildings, build-
ber the disruption, delays and cost lessons from the debacle and has cut Number of passengers expected to needed, essential to “prevent the tram ing bridges, highways – pi is one of
overruns that hampered the tram pro- the contract for the new extension in use Edinburgh city’s tram line in corridor from turning into Edinburgh’s the most important constants in
ject from its start, with the costs for the two; one consortium will ensure utility the first year of its operation largest park and ride area”. mathematics and science,” Iwao said.
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Eyewitness

▼ New York City 27

Vessel, a 46-metre-high sculpture
with 155 flights of stairs, one of the
attractions in Hudson Yards
PHOTOGRAPH: DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES
Sanitised or
revived?
Manhattan
gets opulent
new district
Erin Durkin
New York
A glittering new development in New

York, billed as the largest private real
estate project in the history of the
United States, will be officially opened
on Manhattan’s west side today.
It overlooks the Hudson River, west
of the heart of midtown Manhattan
and at the northern end of the hugely
popular High Line park. Some hail it as
the city’s next great neighbourhood,
while others criticise it as a sanitised
playground and work campus for the
rich.
“This is one of the great transforma-
tions of New York City,” said Mitchell
Moss, an urban planning professor at
New York University.
“They took an area of the city that
had been run down, that had been a
place people avoided, and they turned
it into a live, active part of the city.”
While today marks the official open-
ing for the $25bn (£18.8bn) project,
some of the 15 buildings designated
for the 11.3 hectare (28-acre) site are
already open, while some are years off.
When complete, it will include
homes and offices, a hotel, a school,
the highest outdoor observation deck
in the western hemisphere, a perform-
ing arts centre and a shopping centre
that also opens today.
Apartments in the towers start at
$4.3m, and go up to $32m for a duplex
penthouse. Two-bedroom apartments
are around $9,000 a month to rent.
From today the public will be able
to view the plazas surrounding Ves-
sel, a 46m (150ft) high, 3,200-tonne
climbable sculpture made up of inter-
locking flights of stairs that has been
created by the British designer Thomas
Heatherwick.
Even the trees at Hudson Yards are
air conditioned, with a climate con-
trol system installed to “ensure that
the plants and trees at Hudson Yards
will be the most pampered in New
York City”.
All the opulence has drawn its
share of criticism as a mega-project
pandering to the rich and tourists
with tax-payer dollars, while ignor-
ing the real lives of the majority of New
Yorkers.
“I can’t help feeling like an alien
here, as though I’ve crossed from real
New York, with all its jangling mess,
into a movie studio’s back-lot ver-
sion,” wrote the architecture critic
Justin Davidson in New York maga-
zine. “Everything is too clean, too flat,
too art-directed.”
Nevertheless, the distaste in some
circles never became the sort of
opposition that greeted some New
York mega-projects, such as the now
scuttled plan for a new Amazon head-
quarters. In a mostly undeveloped
area, there were few home and busi-
ness owners to fight the wrecking ball.


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Hillsborough trial jury

days previously. “Others may have Equally, it’s not about sympathy for
failed, others may have made mis- ‘Do not be influenced David Duckenfield, who did not set
takes. No one else was the match by sympathy. Look at out to kill or cause the deaths.
commander ... He was the person with “He is not charged with doing any-
told: police commander ultimate responsibility on the day.

“We suggest it is not unfair to prose-
cute David Duckenfield, and certainly
the hard evidence’ thing on purpose to kill people. He is
charged with failing in his duty in an
extraordinarily bad way.
not unfairly singled out it is not unfair to ask you to look at the
evidence and, where you are sure, to
hold him accountable for his actions
Richard Matthews QC
Prosecuting
“Do not be influenced by sympathy.
Look at the hard evidence in this case.”
The prosecution alleges that Duck-
and failures. What is unfair is that and crushing” amounted to gross enfield took command on the day
the prosecution’s closing speech in thousands of fans attended that foot- negligence. without adequate knowledge of the
David Conn the ninth week of the trial at Pres- ball match; 96 didn’t come home.” The trial judge, Sir Peter Openshaw, ground’s “hazards and dangers and
ton crown court, said bad design of Matthews explained that the directed the jury on Wednesday that problem areas”. He did not realise that
Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough basis of the prosecution’s case is that for negligence to be gross, it must be people coming through the turnstiles
The former South Yorkshire police ground, poor planning, and mistakes Duckenfield’s failure to prepare ade- considered so “bad, reprehensible and were faced with a tunnel opposite that
match commander at the 1989 FA made by others may have contributed quately for the semi-final, his admitted blameworthy” as to be criminal. drew them into the central “pens”.
Cup semi-final at Hillsborough, Shef- to the disaster at the match between ignorance of the “geography” of the Matthews told the jury of six men The case, he said, is not based on
field, at which 96 people were killed, Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Leppings Lane end, where 23 turnstiles and six women: “It’s not about sym- hindsight, but on what should have
has not been “unfairly singled out” for However, he said, David Ducken- were allocated for 24,000 people with pathy for the 96 people who lost their been foreseeable to a “reasonably
the charge of manslaughter, the jury at field was ultimately in charge of the tickets to support Liverpool, and his lives. We’re not going to ask you to competent” match commander.
his prosecution has been told. safety of 54,000 people, having been failures to protect them from an “obvi- weigh up their tragedy and all the Benjamin Myers QC, defending, is
Richard Matthews QC, making appointed to chief superintendent 19 ous and serious risk of overcrowding many people affected by their tragedy. expected to speak today and Monday.
▲ Young women could let their hair

down with friends, away from the
watchful eye of their parents
PHOTOGRAPHS: TIM SMITH
cultural spaces, and to challenge

stereotypical ideas about Bradford.”
The exhibition’s organiser, Helen
Graham, said the daytimers were
about self-expression. “This has
always been a key part of Bradford’s
Bradford’s
identity and it is showcased in
different forms in the exhibition –
from post-second world war Polish
and Ukrainian exiles building
heritage communities to the Bradford
Heritage Recording Unit, which
documented these lesser-known
How bhangra stories. There’s a really positive

creative energy about this city.”
The lead image for the exhibition
DJs put city’s ▲ The word-of-mouth daytimer

events took place in some of
Bradford’s biggest music venues,
shows Rani Kaur, aka DJ Radical
Sister, in a Punjabi suit mixing vinyl.
Kaur began playing the events in
and attracted thousands of people 1990 at the age of 21. “I was the only
Asian youth and I used to be very self-conscious
female DJ there,” she said. “Some of
the guys could get intense, but they
of my identity, but by hearing my didn’t mess around with me because
on the map heritage reflected in the music it

felt special,” said Hardeep Sahota,
I didn’t take any crap. I wasn’t going
to dress up and play a role and I
also known as DJ Deepsta. “I’d see guess that was something new –
found a voice through Wednesday ▲ DJ Radical Sister, top, at the decks; other Sikhs with turbans and Muslim that’s how I got my DJ name.”
Ammar Kalia afternoon club events. above, Britain’s first outdoor mela, or friends. We were all joined together Kaur believes that if it wasn’t
These “daytimers” brought gathering, on the Shearbridge Road in this space and we all wanted each for the daytimers, there would
S
together young British Asians playing fields in Bradford in 1988 other not to tell our parents.” be no mainstream British Asian
outh Asian immigrants to listen to homegrown bhangra The photographer Tim Smith’s culture. “The scene died out in the
in Bradford in the 1950s records from the likes of Bally Sagoo of Asian DJs. The story of this black-and-white images of the dance mid-90s because we had become
and 1960s had little to and Apache Indian, away from musical community forms part of floors tell the daytimers’ story. “This more accepted then, we could be
connect them culturally the watchful eye of their parents. an exhibition, Above Noise, at the exhibition is an insider’s view,” he more visible,” she said. “We had to
to their homeland. Asian The word-of-mouth events took National Science and Media Museum said. “We want to reflect stories take some shit, like National Front
jukeboxes and Bollywood over some of the biggest venues in in Bradford until 19 June. back to the people who created protests and disapproving older
movies provided a link, but it was Bradford, such as the 3,000-capacity “I used to wear a turban when I them. It’s about British Asians using generations, but we made it in the
not until the late 1980s that they Maestro’s, and spawned a generation was 16 and going to the daytimers, their own media to create their own end and established ourselves.”


Mafia killing Vanishing cash 31

Reputed mob boss Hyperinflation leaves
shot dead in New York bolívar worthless
Page 32 Page 35
Businessman charged with ordering

prosecutors. They protected him.”
On the first anniversary of the kill-
ings last month, about 30,000 people
marched in Bratislava and thousands
the murder of Slovakian journalist

of others gathered across the country.
Although Fico stepped aside last year,
he is still considered the most power-
ful politician in the country, and his
Smer party is still in government.
To coincide with the anniversary, a
prime minister, Robert Fico, stepping in Bratislava. He said there might be 27 at the time of the killing. “I was not group of media freedom organisations
Shaun Walker aside. The prosecutors did not give the further arrests in the case, and added surprised, because Marian Kočner was penned an open letter to Slovakian
full name of the suspect, in accordance that while the weapon had not been practically from the first days after the authorities demanding answers to
with Slovakian law, but the man was found, there was evidence of what murder among a group of potential three questions: whether the author-
Slovakian authorities have charged widely reported by Slovakian media to kind of weapon had been used. suspects,” wrote Peter Bárdy, edi- ities knew or should have known about
a controversial businessman with be Marián Kočner, a businessman who From the outset, police have worked tor-in-chief of Aktuality, in a column an imminent threat to Kuciak; whether
ordering the murder of an investiga- had previously threatened Kuciak. on the assumption that it was a con- posted on its website. steps were taken to protect him, and
tive journalist and his fiancee last year Kočner, a 55-year-old multimil- tract killing linked to Kuciak’s work. A Bárdy said Kočner had previously what steps would be taken to protect
in an attack that shocked the country lionaire, owns more than a dozen data journalist with the online portal threatened Kuciak, who complained in Slovakian journalists in future.
and led to street protests. companies, and has been held since Aktuality.sk, Kuciak was investigat- a Facebook post a few months before News of the arrests comes two days
At a press conference yesterday June, when he was detained on sus- ing alleged government corruption the killings that he had reported a before Slovaks vote in the first round
afternoon, special prosecutors said picion of fraud. He is in custody in the and mafia links with Slovakian poli- threat to police but feared they were of a presidential election. The front-
a man named Marian K had been city of Banská Bystrica. ticians. Both he and Kušnírová were not acting on it. runner, Zuzana Čaputová, was part of
charged with the murder of Ján Kuciak Four suspects were charged with Bárdy said it was for the courts to the protest movement against the gov-
30,000
and Martina Kušnírová, who were the killing but the alleged master- prove Kočner’s guilt, but that if he was ernment and is calling for a new and
shot dead in their home in February mind had not been publicly identified indeed guilty, he should be punished more inclusive type of politics. She is
last year. until now. harshly, having long operated outside up against Maroš Šefčovič, a vice presi-
Protests after the killings called for “The reason for the murder was the Number of people who marched in the law. dent of the European commission who
an end to corruption and official impu- journalistic work of the victim,” one of Bratislava to mark a year since the “Kočner had influential friends is running as an independent but is
nity, which resulted in the long-serving the special prosecutors told reporters journalist and his fiancee were killed in politics, the police, and the backed by Smer.
‘I thank the police,

and the churchgoers
who kept up the
secret’
Daniele Montebello
Town mayor
months later. They were watching

the criminals.
Daniele Montebello, the town’s
mayor, was privy to the subterfuge,
and had to keep up the pretence, tell-
ing journalists that losing the painting
was a hard blow for the community.
Montebello said on Wednesday
night: “Rumours were circulating
that someone could steal the work
and so the police decided to put it in
a safe place, replacing it with a copy
and installing some cameras. I thank
the police but also some of the church-
goers, who noticed the painting on
display wasn’t the original, but kept
up the secret.”
The painting was donated to the
church by a wealthy family and was
hidden during the second world war
to prevent theft by German soldiers.
Brueghel was the son of Pieter
Bruegel the Elder, considered one of
the greatest artists of the Flemish and
Dutch Renaissance. He made a living
from copying his father’s works. The
Crucifixion is an oil painting on an oak
panel.
Fake that fooled Angela Giuffrida

But there was just one hitch. The
artwork was a copy. The bona fide
▲ The
Crucifixion by
While art thefts in Italy fell from 906
in 2011 to 449 in 2016, the country is
Rome version of The Crucifixion, donated to Pieter Brueghel still the biggest market for stolen art
thieves who Santa Maria Maddalena church in the the Younger. owing to the abundance of works.
The heist appeared to have gone small Ligurian town of Castelnuovo Thieves thought Almost half of the artefacts stolen in
stole ‘£2.5m entirely according to plan, and no
doubt the thieves who made off with
Magra more than a century ago, was
safely stored away last month as part
they had the real
thing – but the
2016 had been kept in churches. Italian
art police have drawn up guidelines on
masterpiece’ the €3m (£2.5m) painting by the 17th-
century Flemish artist Pieter Brueghel
of a carefully concocted bluff.
Police were aware that thieves had
picture they took
was a copy
protecting churches that remain open
all day, such as the installation of alarm
the Younger, from an Italian church, set their sights on the masterpiece, PHOTOGRAPH: SANTA and surveillance systems and getting
were celebrating their audacity. stolen in 1981 but recovered a few MARIA MADDALENA volunteers to keep watch.

32 World
▼ New York City police teams outside
the Cali family home on Staten Island
yesterday after the shooting
PHOTOGRAPH: BRENDAN MCDERMID/ REUTERS
Students sue
top universities
over alleged
bribes for entry
Associated Press
San Francisco
Two college students have filed a law-

suit against the University of Southern
California (USC), Yale University and
other colleges where prosecutors say
parents paid bribes to ensure their
children’s admission.
The lawsuit was filed by Erica Olsen
and Kalea Woods in a federal court in
San Francisco and alleges they were
denied a fair opportunity for admis-
sion to Yale and USC.
The lawsuit also named six other
institutions: the University of Cal-
ifornia, Los Angeles; Wake Forest
University in North Carolina; the Uni-
versity of San Diego; the University of
Texas at Austin; Georgetown Univer-
sity; and Stanford University.
The alleged scheme gave unqual-
ified students admission to highly
Suspected boss of US mobster

history. Castellano owned a home selective universities, said the plain-
on Benedict Road, while a home on tiffs, both students at Stanford.
nearby Longfellow Road served as the “Each of the universities took the
location for the Corleone compound students’ admission application fees
family shot dead at his home in the Francis Ford Coppola film The
Godfather.
The Gambino family was once
among the most powerful criminal
while failing to take adequate steps
to ensure that their admissions pro-
cess was fair and free of fraud, bribery,
cheating and dishonesty,” the plain-
safe neighbourhood.” But, he added: in prison and released in 2009. The last organisations in the US, but federal tiffs said in the lawsuit.
Erin Durkin Staten Island “There’s so many mob members out crime family boss to be shot in New prosecutions in the 1980s and 90s sent Charges were announced earlier
Jamiles Lartey and agencies here. They ain’t gonna talk to you ... York City was Paul Castellano, also one its top leaders to prison and dimin- this week against 50 people, includ-
They’ve been here for over 40 years, of the Gambino clan. He was killed out- ished its reach. ing sports coaches and dozens of
Behind the yellow crime-scene tape, before I was even born.” side Sparks Steak House in Manhattan One of the most infamous god- parents, in a scheme where prosecu-
Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali’s house Investigators said they were still in 1985. fathers in US mob history, John J tors have said wealthy parents paid
could be clearly seen, a two-storey red searching for the gun and a blue Cali’s neighbourhood on Staten Gotti, became head of the family to rig standardised scores and bribed
brick property with a two-car garage, pickup truck that a witness claimed Island, Todt Hill, is known for its mafia after Paul Castellano, whose murder sports coaches to get their children
on a curve in the road. had run over Cali. Officers could be he had ordered. Gotti was convicted into elite universities.
The reputed head of New York’s seen combing through bushes out- of racketeering and murder in 1992, The colleges named have cast
notorious Gambino crime family had side neighbouring homes. Cali’s wife and died of cancer in 2002. In 2013 his themselves as victims of the scheme,
been shot dead in his home in the first and children were reportedly home at son, the former Gambino boss John and have moved to distance them-
targeted killing of a mob boss in the the time of the attack. A Gotti, was stabbed in the stomach selves from the coaches accused of
city in more than 30 years. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn in Syosset, New York, the New York involvement.
The 53-year-old gangster was found had previously referred to Cali in court Times reported. He survived. “We understand that the govern-
with multiple gunshot wounds just filings in recent years as the underboss Last October, Sylvester Zottola, a ment believes that illegal activity was
after 9pm on Wednesday. He was of the Gambino organisation, related suspected associate of the Bonanno carried out by individuals who went to
pronounced dead in hospital. By yes- through marriage to the Inzerillo clan crime family, was shot and killed at the great lengths to conceal their actions
terday morning police had sealed off in the Sicilian mafia. drive-through window of a McDon- from the university,” USC officials said
the residential block in Staten Island Press accounts since 2015 said Cali ald’s in the Bronx. Three months in a statement earlier this week.
where the killing happened, a short had ascended to the top spot in the earlier, Zottola’s son Salvatore was Yale officials said earlier this week
ferry ride from Manhattan. gang, although he had never faced a shot multiple times by a gunman at that they were cooperating with the
“Yesterday was crazy,” said a criminal charge alleging that. the Zottola family’s compound in the investigation.
neighbour who was only prepared to His only mob-related criminal con- Bronx. He survived. “As the indictment makes clear, the
disclose his name as Thomas. He said viction came a decade ago, when he “We thought those days were over,” Department of Justice believes that
he had been watching television when pleaded guilty in an extortion con- said the mayor of New York City, Bill Yale has been the victim of a crime
he heard gunshots. “I heard five, six, spiracy involving a failed attempt to ▲ An Italian police handout from de Blasio, yesterday of Cali’s death. perpetrated by its former women’s
or seven gunshots,” he said. “Nobody build a Nascar racing track on Staten 2008 of Frank Cali, who has been shot “Very surprising, but I guess old habits soccer coach,” Yale spokesman Tom
was expecting that, because it’s a Island. He was sentenced to 16 months dead at his home in Staten Island die hard.” Conroy said.
Man assaults New Zealand’s minister, Jacinda Ardern, to warn that

the normal easy accessibility of poli-
ticians in New Zealand should not be
Zealand where politicians are accessi-
ble – and that’s something we should
feel proud of. We are after all here to
the party was taking advice from
parliamentary security on whether
protection for their MPs needed to be
minister for climate change taken for granted.
Shaw was under observation in
serve people. But today’s events really
show we cannot take that for granted,”
increased in the wake of the attack.
“There is nothing to suggest this had
hospital, where he was described by Ardern said. anything to do with the Green party
leader of the Green party, was outside the Green party spokesman as “very “I think all of us will probably be or James’s work … but this person did
Eleanor Ainge Roy the Botanic Garden in the capital, shaken”, a sentiment shared by the united in wanting to ensure we have know who James was and did use his
Dunedin Wellington, yesterday morning when political community. the kind of political environment name,” he said.
he was assaulted. Senior Sgt Matthew Morris of New where everyone can hold their views, Acts of violence against politicians
New Zealand’s climate change minister A spokesman for the Green party Zealand police said a 47-year-old man but they can do that safely. “When you are extremely rare in New Zealand, and
has been attacked while walking to said Shaw was grabbed and punched in had been arrested over the attack. go into politics in New Zealand you just most politicians move freely with-
Parliament House, the first physical the face in an unprovoked attack that Ardern said the incident was “an don’t expect these things to happen, out bodyguards or security. Only the
assault on a politician in the country has shocked MPs and the wider public. incredibly unprovoked and surpris- and I know it will be especially chal- prime minister or acting prime minis-
in more than 10 years. The attacker referred to Shaw by name. ing thing to happen”. lenging for loved ones,” she added. ter is guarded around the clock by the
James Shaw, who is also the joint The incident prompted the prime “We have an environment in New The Green party spokesman said Diplomatic Protection Service.

World 33
Israel’s Leader of EU
give a shit about what is going on.” forthcoming election, she says,
After years of failed attempts, because a new generation has come
many Israelis are asking whether “to regard this reality as normal”.
peace, not to mention a Palestinian There used to be an “unease” in parliament
last peace state, is necessary when Gaza is
entirely blocked off, the West Bank
occupation is tightly managed, and
society, “because there was still
an understanding that there was
a contradiction between our self- in hot water
protesters
the economy is booming.
Goldman no longer protests
image as enlightened, progressive,
liberal, democratic country, and the for praising
to convince his fellow citizens. occupation. You had a generation
He comes because he believes who knew what life was like before Mussolini
‘This he can stand as a human shield
for Palestinians who face forced
evictions or attacks. “We only live
[the occupation began in] 1967.”
But the idea of settlers annexing
huge swaths of land is rapidly
once. I could not forgive myself if I becoming mainstream, she says. Angela Giuffrida Rome
reality is let all this happen.”
The former soldier

“They are high middle class, they are
savvy, they are in the military, they
are in hi-tech.” There are no longer
Jennifer Rankin Brussels
The president of the European parlia-
normal to a
Yehuda Shaul is 37, but his beard pro- or anti-peace camps in Israel, ment is under fire for playing down
and weatherbeaten face make him Hass adds, just “the winning camp”. the crimes of Benito Mussolini after
appear older. On many days, the he said Italy’s fascist dictator had done
former Israeli soldier is at the front The politician positive things for the country.
generation’ of a bus touring the West Bank to

show Israelis and foreign visitors
what the occupation looks like. The
Yossi Beilin, the only one of the
four to have held a position in
government, is the most optimistic.
Antonio Tajani, a close ally of the
Italian former prime minister Silvio
Berlusconi, told Italian radio that Mus-
organisation he founded, Breaking Much of his three decades of solini had a good record on developing
the Silence, is made up of veterans political life was in the pro two- infrastructure. “I’m not a fascist, I have
who want to expose the reality of state Labor party but also in Meretz, never been a fascist and I don’t share
Oliver Holmes Israel’s grip on Palestinian life. which is anti-occupation. Both [Mussolini’s] political thought, but
Quique Kierszenbaum Jerusalem When the group first started parties are now in decline. In the if we must be honest, he built roads,
I
after the violent second intifada, 1990s, he was part of secret talks in bridges, buildings,” he said. “He
t’s a sad-looking protest. A Shaul says it was “mainstream” – a Norway that led to the Oslo accords, reclaimed many parts of our Italy.”
few dozen members of Israel’s critical voice, but from the respected a framework to make a peace deal Tajani is the deputy leader of Forza
beleaguered peace movement institution of the armed forces. “We that ultimately stalled. Italia, the centre-right party Ber-
mill around on a road in East had earned the right to speak out.” “There is a general feeling that lusconi founded. His comments were
Jerusalem, holding signs in But after Benjamin Netanyahu there is nothing to do,” he says. swiftly denounced in Rome and Brus-
Arabic, English and Hebrew made deals with hardline religious The Israeli parliament has few sels. “Someone who finds merits in
declaring: “Stop the occupation.” nationalists in 2015 to form the most doves left. The former Israeli the deadly fascist regimes of the past
Well-dressed older leftwingers rightwing coalition government in foreign minister Tzipi Livni, one is unworthy to remain president of the
mingle with a scruffier younger the country’s history, pro-settler ▲ Members of Israel’s beleaguered of the most prominent peace European parliament,” the co-chair of
crowd. This is part of what remains forces grew in power and the attacks peace movement: from the top, advocates, left politics this month the Green group, Philippe Lamberts,
of the Israeli peace camp, crippled on Breaking the Silence ramped up. Pepe Goldman; Yehuda Shaul; after polls indicated her tiny party tweeted. “Tajani should retract his
by a political system that has lurched “When the defence minister calls Amira Hass; and Yossi Beilin would not make it into parliament statements or go.”
to the right. Four members of the left you a spy, and the prime minister again. She said peace had become Udo Bullmann, the leader of the
wing explain why they keep going: says you crossed a red line, and the cold. She has lived in the territories a “dirty word”. parliament’s Socialist group, said the
tourism minister says you’re a traitor since 1993, first in Gaza and now in Beilin, now 70, denies peace is remarks were unbelievable. “How
The protester people answer the call,” he says. the West Bank. She believes writers off the agenda. It is a primary part can a president of the European par-
Pepe Goldman, 67, an Argentinian “Remember McCarthy? He’s alive should live in the place they write of the Israeli psyche, he argues. liament fail to acknowledge the nature
Jew, has protested since emigrating and kicking and here in Israel.” about. But she cannot think of a “Sometimes it is the elephant in of fascism?” he asked.
to Israel in 1976. “Unfortunately, we single other Jewish Israeli journalist the room [but] this is the real story Stefano Buffagni, the Five Star
are a small minority. Israelis are very, The columnist who lives here. of Israel.” Asked to explain his Movement’s undersecretary for
very …” he says, before restarting the Amira Hass drinks a small whisky Ending 51 years of Israeli steadfast optimism, he replies: regional affairs, said: “Tajani has
sentence: “I would say they don’t in a bar in Ramallah to fend off a military rule is not an issue in the “Because we need it badly.” shown his true colours and should be
ashamed of what he said about Musso-
Pepe Goldman lini … Remember that our constitution
holds a placard is based on other values. I’m proud to
urging ‘Stop the be different from them.”
Occupation’ Beppe Sala, the mayor of Milan and a
during a demo in member of the centre-left Democratic
Sheikh Jarrah, party, said: “I would have expected the
East Jerusalem, president of the European parliament
against evictions to have exercised silence on this issue.”
of Palestinians Berlusconi has also spoken highly
PHOTOGRAPH: QUIQUE of Mussolini, once saying that the
KIERSZENBAUM/ dictator had never killed anyone.
THE GUARDIAN
“Mussolini used to send people on
vacation in internal exile,” he said.
He also said the dictator’s racial laws
were his worst fault, and that he “in so
many other ways did well”.
Tajani’s views of Mussolini’s posi-
tive achievements are shared by many
Italians, who yearn for a strongman
leader and have long helped to keep
his spirit of Mussolini alive. The more
recent revival of rightwing populism
‘Sadly, we has also helped to dismantle the taboo.
are a small Matteo Salvini, the interior minister
minority. and leader of the far-right League,
But I could sometimes quotes Mussolini, and
not forgive League supporters have attended ral-
myself if I lies carrying signs featuring pictures of
the dictator alongside Salvini’s name.
let all this
Marches organised by the neo-fascist
happen’ groups Forza Nuova and CasaPound
Pepe have also become a regular occurrence.
Goldman Tajani responded to the furore
by accusing people of manipulating
his words, but later said he had not
intended to cause offence.

34 World
▼ People make their way out of
Baghuz in the eastern Syrian province
of Deir ez-Zor yesterday
PHOTOGRAPH: DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/GETTY
French gynaecologists’
threat to halt abortions
‘holds women hostage’
country” and said she regretted the
Kim Willsher “distorted image” that such statements
gave of French gynaecologists and
obstetricians “from a union that is
A French gynaecologists’ union has supposed to represent them”.
threatened to halt pregnancy termi- The row erupted months after
nations in an attempt to force the Syngof’s president, Dr Bertrand de
country’s health minister to meet dis- Rochambeau, justified his refusal to
gruntled doctors. perform pregnancy terminations,
The Syngof union wrote to its 1,600 declaring that abortions amounted
members calling on them to be pre- to homicide.
pared to stop carrying out abortions In the letter sent this week and
to “make ourselves heard” and force signed by his colleague Jean Marty, a
the government’s hand. former union president, gynaecolo-
Syngof, which represents about gists were urged to “be ready to stop
a quarter the country’s gynaecolo- carrying out terminations to make our-
gists and obstetricians, published the selves heard”.
letter as a protest over what it claims After provoking a wave of criticism
is a lack of insurance funds for col- Marty told journalists he had been
leagues who have been convicted of deliberately provocative. “That’s why
medical errors. we did it,” he said.
The health minister, Agnès Buzyn, The French Order of Doctors, the
Aid pledge
along with a number of feminist equivalent of the General Medical A full-scale assault could lead to refugees in Jordan, 1 million in Leb-
organisations, said the threat was Council in Britain, condemned the hundreds of thousands of refugees anon, a sixth of its population, and as
unacceptable and amounted to “tak- threat, which it declared “totally con- joining the 4 million who have already many as 3 million in Turkey.
ing women hostage”.
In a statement, Buzyn wrote: “In
no case should taking women hostage
trary to medical ethics”.
The French equality minister,
Marlène Schiappa, also said it was
of £5bn for fled the country. As many as 3 million
live in Idlib province, including many
jihadist fighters.
Mark Lowcock, the UN humanitar-
ian affairs co-ordinator, said: “Some
6.2 million people inside Syria are still
in this way be used as a lever for
negotiations or for media coverage of
an issue the department is following
“unacceptable blackmail”.
“Everywhere in the world, women’s
rights are threatened, sometimes by
Syria’s war In September, Turkey persuaded
Russia to hold off from a full-scale
attack on Idlib, but it appears Moscow
displaced from their homes, and 4.7
million still need help with shelter.
Two million children inside Syria are
very closely.”
She added that the threat went
governments, sometimes by interest
groups, non-governmental organisa- refugees is losing patience with Turkey’s efforts
to disentangle the main rebel fighting
out of school.
Idlib residents said Russian aircraft
against the “unconditional respect for tions, unions … the mere existence of group from the rest of the population. had conducted at least 12 airstrikes
the right to abortion guaranteed in our these threats is shameful,” Schiappa Russia also has a history of mounting on residential areas, including a civil-
said. assaults at times when western lead- ian prison, where they said dozens of
The feminist organisation Osez le ers gather to discuss Syria. inmates had escaped. At least 10 civil-
Féminisme tweeted: “Syngof threat- Patrick Wintour The $7bn commitment from for- ians had been killed and 45 injured.
ens an abortion strike. They could have Brussels eign ministers, made at a conference Russia’s defence ministry con-
had a cervical smear strike, non? This in Brussels, is short of the UN’s target firmed it had hit Idlib in coordination
from the same union of [Bernard de The United Nations has been promised of $8.8bn for this year, but an improve- with Turkey, targeting drones and
Rochambeau] who called abortion a nearly £5.3bn to help Syrians inside the ment on pledges made last year. weapons stores of the Hayat Tah-
homicide”. country and on its borders, as Euro- In Brussels yesterday, Jordanian rir al-Sham jihadists that it said had
The joint president of the Family pean officials consider the possibility and Lebanese leaders warned of social been intended for use in an attack on
Planning Association, Caroline Rebhi, of large numbers of refugees return- upheaval in their countries if assisted a Russian base near the Mediterra-
said it was a “backwards step … but not ing home this year. returns to Syria did not speed up. It is nean coast.
entirely a surprise”. The pledge came as Russia sent in likely 2019 will be the first year since Johannes Hahn, the EU commis-
1,600
She said Syngof had a habit of “going aircraft to attack the rebel-held prov- the eight-year civil war started when sioner for neighbourhood policy and
too far in this way”. ince of Idlib in its first significant the numbers of people returning are enlargement, insisted refugees needed
“This new incident shows us that assault for months. The bombard- not exceeded by new refugees or those to return under conditions of safety
Number of gynaecologists urged to even if the right to abortion is written ment of the country’s last rebel-held who are internally displaced. and dignity when they chose to do so.
halt abortions in a move Agnès Buzyn, in the law, it cannot yet be taken for enclave by Russian and Syrian planes The figures are disputed, but
above, described as unacceptable granted.” was the most extensive yet. estimates put more than 600,000 Reuters contributed to this report
trial, saying lawyers for the woman United States within ourselves and then clearly Malaysia
In brief had fundamentally failed to show its
World Cup teammates within our relationship. We were
Plea fails to free second
baby powder contained asbestos. like, now is the right time … and I
“We respect the legal process announce plans to wed feel like it’s a massive weight off of accused in Kim murder
and reiterate that jury verdicts are my shoulders. Finally, after all these
not medical, scientific or regulatory The US footballing teammates and years, I just feel like I don’t have to Malaysian prosecutors yesterday
United States conclusions about a product,” World Cup winners Ali Krieger and hide anything or feel like I’m not rejected a request from Vietnam to
Johnson & Johnson said in a Ashlyn Harris have announced they living up to the community I’m in.” free a Vietnamese woman on trial
Johnson & Johnson’s statement. The New Jersey-based are engaged to be married. They plan to wed after the World for the murder of Kim Jong-nam,
$29m cancer payout company denies that its talc causes Krieger, a 34-year-old defender, Cup in France this summer, when the half-brother of the North Korean
cancer, saying numerous studies said the pair were previously the US team will try to defend the leader, Kim Jong-un.
A California jury has awarded and tests by regulators worldwide reluctant to reveal their partnership trophy it won in 2015. Guardian sport Vietnam made the appeal after
$29m (£22m) to a woman who said had shown that it is safe and out of fear it would be a distraction. Doan Thi Huong’s co-accused, the
asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s asbestos-free. “We wanted to be professional Indonesian Siti Aisyah, was released
talcum-powder-based products The lawsuit was brought by Terry and make sure that we showed on Monday. Yesterday, the same
caused her cancer. The award, Leavitt, who said she used Johnson’s up every day and did our job and court ruled that Doan’s trial be
in California’s superior court in Baby Powder and Shower to Shower it wasn’t just because we were postponed until 1 April after she was
Oakland, marks the latest defeat – another powder containing talc together, it was because we love declared “mentally and physically”
for the healthcare conglomerate sold in the past – in the 1960s and what we do, and we’re really good unfit to testify.
facing more than 13,000 talc-related 1970s and was diagnosed with at what we do,” Krieger told People The women were charged after
lawsuits nationwide. mesothelioma in 2017. It was the magazine. “And that was most Kim Jong-nam died in 2017 when a
The company said it would first of more than a dozen talc cases important for us.” toxic nerve agent was smeared on
appeal, citing “serious procedural against the company scheduled for Harris, 33, a goalkeeper, said: “We ▲ Ali Krieger (left) and Ashlyn Harris his face at Kuala Lumpur Airport.
and evidentiary errors” during the trial this year. Reuters San Francisco became more and more confident arrive at a Los Angeles party in 2015 Hannah Ellis-Petersen

World 35
Venezuela
Hyperinflation
People buy
food from a
street vendor
in the capital
during a power
Vanishing cash and cut – some of

these stalls
now even
accept euros
soaring prices make PHOTOGRAPH: MATIAS

DELACROIX/AFP/GETTY
bartering and dollars ▼ A market

trader in Caracas
clutches US
only way to survive dollars

PHOTOGRAPH:
CRISTIAN HERNÁNDEZ/
AFP/GETTY
the world, and says Venezuela’s is

Emma Graham-Harrison the fourth longest, though nearer
and Patricia Torres Cupira the median for the rate of price rises.
Joe Parkin Daniels Caracas That does not mean an end is in
T
sight. The longest episode Hanke has
he sign on Angelica recorded, in Nicaragua about three
Monasterios’s stall in decades ago, lasted nearly five years.
Cupira, a town on the The cliched image of hyper-
main road east from inflation is of people rushing to the
Caracas, simply reads: shops with cash in wheelbarrows. In
“Barter”. Her niece Venezuela, however, while the value
painted the sign for her in early of money crashes, so does the ability
February, after spiralling inflation to get your hands on it. Bolívar
and vanishing reserves of hard cash banknotes are increasingly scarce.
made it hard to do business. The government’s mint no longer
“We accept dollars and euros as works, so it gets banknotes from
well,” she said with a grin, sitting abroad, and manufacturers expect to
beside rows of handmade yucca be paid in something other than the
wafers, the town’s speciality, balls of fast-devaluing notes they produce.
pure cacao farmed nearby and hand- There are a few things in
carved toys. Venezuela for which cash is
Venezuela has the world’s largest indispensable, such as bus fares
oil reserves, and was once one of and supplies in very remote areas,
the wealthiest countries in Latin but Venezuelans are using barter,
America, but its economy has dollars and – when the power supply
been ravaged by years of runaway allows – online transfers, debit cards
inflation. The devastating blackout and even cryptocurrencies to scrape
that struck last week has pushed it to together what they need to survive.
the verge of collapse. They can sometimes go for weeks
Venezuela officially entered without touching banknotes. conventionally spend several days
hyperinflation at the end of 2016, Before the power cut, most putting together an index of prices,
and has now endured one of the people in urban areas relied on but in Venezuela these are creeping
longest runs of warp-speed price online transfers and debit cards to up every day.
rises in the world, according to make payments, leaving anyone “In the normal environment it
Steve Hanke, a professor of applied without a card or internet banking doesn’t matter if they measure the
economics at Johns Hopkins dangerously vulnerable. prices of bread in the beginning,
University and one of the world’s Gindel Delgado spent two months middle or end of the month. With
leading experts on the phenomenon. excluded from the system because hyperinflation, you’d have to
Hanke has logged 58 historical a shortage of plastic meant his bank measure them all simultaneously
episodes of hyperinflation around refused to issue him with a new on the same day,” Hanke said. “It
card. His salary was paid into his becomes almost unfeasible to do it.”
father’s bank account, and the pair He believes the best way to
sat down every evening to make a measure the true level of inflation
list of online transfers to people he is to look at the foreign exchange
owed money to. rate, because that now is the basis of
“I gave up until I had a week off the economy. Even prices quoted in
work,” Delgado said of his long quest bolívars are based on an assessment
to get a new card. He spent that week of the black market exchange rate.
trekking from branch to branch to Hanke said: “The measuring
A market trader makes find someone who could finally saved at home,” said Trina Cedeño, ▲ A market in the upscale Chacao rod has already been changed to
bags out of bolivars issue him with a new card. a publicist looking to buy food for district of Caracas the US dollar.” The only way out
The devastating blackout – which her husband and their toddler. “But PHOTOGRAPH: MATIAS DELACROIX/AFP/GETTY for Venezuela, whether under the
still afflicts much of the country – I was saving them for emergencies, government of Nicolás Maduro or
has only accelerated Venezuela’s not to buy groceries.” “You can’t keep going like that.” his challenger, Juan Guaidó, will be
creeping unofficial dollarisation. A butcher in Caracas said he The scale of price increases is making that unofficial measuring
Many hotels and shops now only now made up to 10% of his sales a problem even for economists rod official, he said.
accept dollars. At a supermarket in in dollars, even though they were who want to study them, because That could either be by overt
the wealthy Chacao district, security not technically legal tender. Much systems for measuring inflation in dollarisation, or pegging the bolívar
‘All this government guards turned away customers of that was from bulk purchases a normal economy stop working as securely to another country’s money
talk of American without US currency. by Venezuelans abroad supporting costs spiral, Hanke said. with hard currency reserves backing
“All this government talk of family at home, but some was cash. People’s spending priorities every note issued.
imperialism and now American imperialism and now Inflation has made it hard to break shift towards food and other basic “There usually is some end point
we have to use dollars’ we have to use dollars,” said Celina even, even with dollars. “Sometimes necessities as their salaries lose [to hyperinflation] because one
Bareto, whose daughter was buying I will buy a kilo of meat at 10,000 value, so the basket of goods used to of two things happens. You get a
vegetables with the few dollar bills bolívars [£1,093 at today’s exchange calculate inflation, which in the UK political change, and then you get
she had lying around the house. rate], sell it in the shop for 14,000, includes everything from quiche to a currency reform. Or you get the
Celina Bareto Others without dollars were then go back to restock and the leggings, becomes less relevant. same guy in power and you get a
Caracas resident not so lucky. “I have some dollars wholesale cost is 15,000,” he said. Economists would also currency reform.”


37
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On the list
Investors raise concern at
to firms that fail to address a lack of
female representation.
Named and shamed It says those issues “will also be
noted against the re-election of the
lack of women on boards

In total 69 firms were contacted for chair of the nominations committee”
lacking women in their boardrooms: ahead of each company’s annual gen-
eral meeting.
The 66 one-woman boards Shareholder advisory firm Glass
included: St James’s Place; 888 Lewis has historically taken aim at
female board member to receive let- and leadership teams by 2020. “Inves- Holdings; Acacia Mining; Baillie nomination committee heads and
Kalyeena Makortoff ters, having been pointed out in the tors consider diversity to be a critical Gifford Japan Trust; Cairn Energy; voted against their re-election if they
latest Hampton-Alexander Review in issue for business success,” the letter Caledonia Investments; Capital & continued to be led by all-male boards.
November. explained. Counties Properties; Centamin; But its director of research for the
An influential investor group has writ- A further three companies that have Chris Cummings, the IA’s chief Clarkson; ContourGlobal; Domino’s UK and Europe, Martin Garcia Mor-
ten to more than 60 publicly listed all-male boards – property firm Daejan executive, said: “Investors have been Pizza Group; Energean Oil & Gas; tell, told the Guardian this month that
companies with only a single female Holdings, Millennium & Copthorne consistently clear that they want to see Ferrexpo; Grafton Group; Greencoat attention will now be turned to boards
director, including Domino’s Pizza Hotels, and TR Property Investment greater diversity in the boardroom so UK Wind; Greene King; HarbourVest with only one woman among senior
and JD Sports, raising concerns over Trust – have also received the letters. it is totally unacceptable that one in Global Private Equity; Hilton Food ranks.
a lack of gender diversity and warning Targets set by the government- five of the UK’s biggest companies are Group; Hochschild Mining; JD The IA and Hampton-Alexan-
of investor anger if progress is stalled. commissioned Hampton-Alexander falling so far short. Companies must Sports Fashion; JPMorgan American der team are now urging dozens of
The Investment Association (IA), review body aim to have women mak- do more than take the tokenistic step Investment Trust; Pantheon firms,including Acacia Mining, online
which represents 250 asset manage- ing up at least 33% of FTSE 350 boards of appointing just one woman to their International; Personal Assets gambling group 888 Holdings, and
ment firms with £7.7tn in assets under board and consider that job done. Trust; Plus500; Primary Health Frankie and Benny’s owner Restau-
management, have joined up with the “There is also compelling evidence Properties; Rank Group; Restaurant rant Group, to draw up a clear roadmap
Hampton-Alexander Review team to ‘One in five of the UK’s that boards with greater gender bal- Group; Riverstone Energy; Schroder for how they plan to address the gen-
criticise FTSE 350 firms with “one and ance outperform their less diverse AsiaPacific Fund; Softcat; Stobart der imbalance.
done” boardrooms that have just a sin-
biggest firms are peers. These companies must up their Group; Syncona; Telecom Plus; “We would like you to set out how
gle female board member. falling far short on game and explain clearly how they are Worldwide Healthcare Trust; Civitas you intend to make genuine pro-
Domino’s Pizza Group, JD Sports planning to meet the Hampton-Alex- Social Housing; 3i Infrastructure. gress to improving board diversity.
Fashion, pubs group Greene King,
boardroom diversity’ ander targets, or risk investor dissent We therefore ask you to set out what
the owner of the Wagamama and Gar- at their AGM.” The three men-only boards were: actions the board is taking to ensure
funkel’s restaurant chains, and the The IA has already pledged that Ivis, Daejan Holdings; Millennium & that substantial progress is made to
gambling company 888 Holdings are Chris Cummings its voter information service, will give Copthorne Hotels; TR Property meet the Hampton-Alexander 2020
among the 66 firms that have only one Chief executive of the IA a “red top” or highest warning level Investment Trust. targets,” the letter said.
Govia’s £5m Shell chief’s pay

package doubles to
fine for new £17m on back of
rail timetable increasing profits
debacle Jasper Jolly
Julia Kollewe The pay of Shell’s chief executive, Ben

van Beurden, more than doubled in
2018 to €20.1m (£17.2m) as the oil firm
Govia Thameslink Railway is facing a rewarded him for increasing profits.
£5m fine for the chaos caused by the The pay package was the largest in
introduction of a new timetable last Shell’s history except for 2014 when
May, which led to train cancellations complex pension calculations inflated
and delays for commuters. the chief executive’s reported salary.
An investigation by the Office of Van Beurden’s pay was three times
Rail and Road into the “severe disrup- more than the average of his fellow
tion” identified failures on the part of FTSE 100 chief executives in 2017, and
Govia, which operates the Thames- 143 times greater than the average pay
link, Great Northern, Southern and of Shell’s British workforce.
Gatwick Express franchises. For 2018, Van Beurden received
The watchdog said Govia failed to €1.53m in base salary and benefits and
communicate changes to services, an annual bonus of €3m.
cancelling trains with short notice However, the lion’s share of the
and leaving commuters unable to plan payment came from a 2016 long-term
their journeys. industry-wide factors and we are sorry biggest rail franchise, despite calls for ▲ Passengers pack in to a congested incentive plan, which paid out €15.2m.
Stephanie Tobyn, the deputy direc- for the serious effect this had on our it to be stripped of the contract. Govia Thameslink train at London Luke Hildyard, the director of the
tor for consumers at the ORR, said the passengers.” Andy McDonald, the shadow trans- Blackfriars during the disruption High Pay Centre, which campaigns on
disruption experienced by passengers He added that Govia had paid out port secretary, described the proposed PHOTOGRAPH: LOUISA COOK/ALAMY excessive executive pay, said: “These
had been “awful”. “When disruption £18m in passenger compensation fine as “only a slap on the wrist for very large payouts are indicative of a
happens, poor-quality information and was investing £15m to improve Govia Thameslink,” and added that the Some trains were reintroduced at flawed governance model and warped
makes an already difficult and frus- services – a move ordered by the fact it still retained its contract – with short notice, leaving insufficient time corporate culture that has made the UK
trating situation worse,” she said. Department for Transport. the transport secretary, Chris Gray- to input journey information into one of the most unequal countries in
Govia said it was disappointed The firm has held on to Britain’s ling, still in his position – showed the systems; replacement buses were used western Europe.”
by the fine. The firm has 21 days to lack of “accountability for failure on on some routes but passengers did not Gerard Kleisterlee, chairman of
£18m
respond to the penalty notice from the railway”. know about them, with frontline staff Shell’s remuneration committee,
the ORR. In the eight weeks after the time- left with little information because of wrote that it had rewarded Van Beur-
Patrick Verwer, the company’s table change, trains were permanently inadequate internal communication. den in part for “framing a methodology
chief executive, said: “The severe The total Govia has paid out in removed but passengers were not The ORR has written to train compa- for aligning with the Paris agreement”,
disruption following last May’s passenger compensation following clearly informed until several weeks nies and Network Rail asking them to which envisages net zero carbon emis-
timetable introduction was due to last year’s timetable disruption later, the watchdog said. review their crisis management plans. sions in the second half of the century.

38 Financial
scheme that used shares granted up and Interserve’s lenders stand

Business view at early-2016 prices, when oil cost Hedge fund hellhounds ready to take control via a pre-pack
Nils Pratley
close to $35 a barrel. By the end of
the performance period, December
could soon be the arrangement.
Over at the Cabinet Office,
2018, oil was nearer $60. The significant part-owners feelings may be mixed. The good
beneficial effect on Shell’s share of a company supplying news is that a Carillion-style
price, and Van Beurden’s share- calamity should be avoided and,
Shell boss’s well oiled £17.2m based rewards, is obvious.
That’s the madness of these
school meals and in theory, all 45,000 jobs in Britain
should be protected. And the angry
incentive plans. The oil price is
cleaning hospitals 27% shareholder Coltrane’s hopes
highlights arbitrary nature outside the control of the executives
yet is a major influence on pay
of bidding for bits of Interserve look
remote, which ministers will surely
packages that are defended as cheer. Coltrane, a New York hedge
of ‘performance’ incentives “performance related.” It’s true
Shell had to beat a few competitors
fund, made about £4m by betting on
Carillion’s demise. It might be hard
H
on a few yardsticks but, once those pay rows. “If I had been paid 50% to explain to voters why it deserves
ere, as sure as as shareholders would see things. hurdles were cleared, the arbitrary more, I would not have done the job to run government contracts.
spring, comes Just in case, the remuneration factor kicked in. better,” he said. “If I had been paid On the other hand, the
another row over chair, Gerard Kleisterlee, littered his Some €3.2m of Van Beurden’s 50% less then I would not have done prospective new owners of
pay at Shell. The report with references to the vast jackpot came from a higher share it worse.” Interserve – its lenders – aren’t an
chief executive, sums the company generates these price and another €3m from Well, quite. Van Beurden’s pay entirely pretty bunch. They include
Ben van Beurden, days – an astonishing $53bn of cash dividends, themselves semi- for 2018 equates to about £47,000 an alternative crew of hedge funds,
collected €20.1m (£17.2m) last year, from operations last year. And, yes, determined by oil prices. Maybe luck a day. If the figure had been, say, including Cerberus, named after the
a tidy 126% increase on 2017. The we can agree the takeover of gas will swing the other way next time. a mere £27,000 a day, one can be three-headed hound of Hades. As
only other time he passed €20m producer BG Group in 2015 turned But, if you hang around long enough reasonably sure the outcome for you might suspect, Cerberus is not
was 2014, when he apparently out not to be the over-priced stinker at the top of a large oil company, you Shell shareholders would have been noted for its commitment to cuddly
needed an enormous pension top- it seemed at the time. Energy prices are almost guaranteed a big win at exactly the same. inclusive capitalism.
up and “tax equalisation” handout recovered, easing the strain on Van some point. But, yes, the hedge fund hounds
to ease his arduous journey from Beurden’s acquisition arithmetic. Pay committees ignore the issue. Are we being served? could soon be significant part-
London to Shell HQ in the Hague. But therein lies a factor in his In Shell’s case, they also overlook Is Interserve going in and out of owners of a company supplying
For practical purposes, he is bonanza: the oil price. About the candid admission of a former administration today? That was the school meals, cleaning hospitals
setting pay records for a Shell boss. 80% of Van Beurden’s winnings chief executive, Jeroen van der betting last night. and servicing the armed forces. Isn’t
No doubt he’s doing a great job, came from a three-year incentive Veer, who himself walked into a few An administrator from EY is lined outsourcing wonderful?
US fund could cherrypick

Interserve’s contracts include
maintaining Falklands military bases
PHOTOGRAPH: SGT ROB TRAVIS/RAF
Interserve if rescue fails to cherrypick parts of the business to

buy. A source close to Coltrane said
the fund “believes in outsourcing and
meals provision to maintaining mil- Interserve as a company”.
Rob Davies itary bases in the Falklands. “Coltrane thinks the market, post-
The US hedge fund Coltrane, the Carillion, has taken the wrong view
largest shareholder, with a stake of on outsourcing as a business model
Interserve could go into administra- nearly 28%, has been holding out for a so they might well be interested [in
tion today as the outsourcing group better offer and may command enough buying assets out of administration].”
fights to win support for a restructur- support to derail the plan. The pro- Interserve has so far rejected an
ing plan before a crunch vote. posal needs the support of more than alternative proposal put forward by
Shareholders will give their verdict 50% of voting shareholders. Coltrane that would also involve a
at an emergency meeting on a proposal If the plan is derailed, Interserve debt-for-equity swap and a £110m
put forward by banks and hedge funds, is all but certain to go into a pre-pack rights issue, leaving existing share-
which have offered to forgo £485m of administration. The process would holders with 55% of the company.
the company’s £631m debt in return wipe out shareholders altogether but The Cabinet Office, which mon-
for most of its equity, leaving existing allow the company to keep trading, the accounting firm EY would oversee the lenders’ restructuring plans. It is itors the government’s contracts
investors with 5% of the shares. avoiding a spectacular collapse like a process under which shares in the also understood to have turned down with private sector suppliers, said it
The Reading-based Interserve that of fellow outsourcer Carillion. group’s parent company are delisted a tentative verbal offer that would have was receiving regular updates from
employs 45,000 people in Britain. It Interserve has run into financial dif- and operations are sold to the lenders. sweetened the deal to give sharehold- Interserve. Officials at the department
is the largest provider of probation ficulty after delays and cancellations Interserve has said this would allow ers 7.5% of the company. believe that there will be no disruption
and offender rehabilitation services in to significant construction projects, business to continue as usual, includ- Coltrane is understood to have indi- to public services even if the company
England and Wales and has thousands as well as an unsuccessful foray into ing on its government contracts. cated it would be happy to allow the goes into administration, a process
of government contracts that range waste-to-energy projects. Despite the risk that its shares would company to go into administration they expect to be wrapped up by Sat-
from hospital cleaning and school If the restructuring plan is rejected, be wiped out, Coltrane has rejected and would seek to negotiate with EY urday morning at the latest.

Financial 39
Fashion
Chief v founder
The men behind the brand
Euan Sutherland, chief executive

Sutherland is better known for the
way he quit the Co-operative Group
than for running Superdry.
The 50-year-old Scot angrily
stormed out of the crisis-hit mutual
in 2014 after details of his £3.6m pay
deal was leaked to the Observer.
He immediately took to the Co-op’s
Facebook page to rage against
people trying to undermine him
and quit the next day, blasting the
Manchester-based group for being
“ungovernable” in his resignation
letter. He later received a £1m payoff.
Standing an imposing 6ft 6in,
Sutherland started out as a graduate
trainee at Boots but soon switched
to the consumer goods giants Mars
and Coca-Cola. He did stints at high
street chains including Dixons,
Matalan and Superdrug, working
his way up to the top job at B&Q
Julian Dunkerton, right, Euan Sutherland, the chief before joining the Co-op. Married
and James Holder, with executive of SuperGroup, to Jacqueline with four sons, he
whom he founded Superdry which owns Superdry lives in a village near Guildford.
Julian Dunkerton, co-founder

and biggest shareholder
Dunkerton is Mr Superdry. A self-
made multimillionaire thanks to
the streetwear brand’s success, he
cut his teeth selling clothes from
a Cheltenham market stall. His
first retail chain was called Cult
Battle for soul of Superdry

creative, James Meigh, who left last Clothing but things took off in 2003
year. He claims Sutherland has a when he created Superdry with
“supermarket” mentality that has designer James Holder. Known for
fuelled the brand’s descent into its trademark hoodies and T-shirts
“discount hell”. emblazoned with Japanese-inspired
Creators of high street brand

“If [Dunkerton] wanted Superdry graphics, the first Superdry store
to be Next he would have done just opened in 2004. It kickstarted a
that but he wanted a cool brand. period of breakneck growth that led
Euan [Sutherland] will never to a stock exchange float in 2010.
understand creative or cool.” After three decades in the
try to wrestle back control Ian Keely, a small shareholder, has

purchased the Superdry shareholder
register and plans to write to the
firm’s 600-plus shareholders ahead
fashion industry Dunkerton’s role
at Superdry’s Cheltenham base
became less hands-on following
the appointment of Sutherland
of next month’s meeting. Keely is as chief executive in 2014. Last
It is easy to see why Dunkerton is In a broadside aimed at worried City investors are apathetic. March he stepped down altogether,
Zoe Wood upset. Superdry shares were worth Sutherland, Dunkerton says the “Who wouldn’t welcome back the purportedly to concentrate on
£20.39 at the start of 2018 but are company now has a “misguided Steve Jobs and the Steve Wozniak of his other ventures, which include
S
now £5.32. His personal 18% stake is consultant-led business model”. the UK fashion world?,” said Keely. a small group of upmarket pubs
uperdry used to be one down by £230m and the company’s Dunkerton has demanded, and He wants to rally the support and hotels in the Cotswolds and
of the hottest fashion market value has dwindled so far it got, a shareholder meeting, to be of the small shareholders, who the Dunkerton Cider Company.
labels on the high street, has fallen out of the FTSE 250 Index. held on 2 April, to settle the issue. He together own 13% of the company. However, it later emerged there had
feted by investors for its Dunkerton wants to retake con- also wants to install Peter Williams, “We can make a real difference.” been a row over strategy.
financial performance. trol, and yesterday wrote to share- chair of the online retailer Boohoo It seems the only people who The 54 year-old is worshipped by
But it is now the scene of holders and used his Save Superdry and once boss of Selfridges, as a non- don’t think Dunkerton is a genius are former staff who praise his fashion
one of the City’s biggest bust-ups, website to set out his turnaround executive director to work with him. in the boardroom. nous and generosity. The company’s
as its founders fight an increasingly strategy. “I understand the brand,” “This is about people who are out They have slammed his recent problems have wiped more
bitter battle for control with its he wrote. “I created it with James of their depth,” Dunkerton told the “leadership style”. His return, they than £230m off the value of his
current management. Holder [the designer], and we Guardian in December. “In the top say, would “damage morale”, lead to 18.5% shareholding.
When the firm’s multimillionaire achieved sustained and profitable team, there is nobody with clothing “dysfunctional relationships” and
co-founder Julian Dunkerton organic growth over many years, or brand experience, and that’s a prompt key people to quit.
stepped down a year ago, it was said and can do so again. ” Holder owns major issue.” He cites the recent The board said it had also received
to be a friendly farewell. He was, he nearly 10% and backs Dunkerton. move into childrenswear as a prime an unsolicited letter of support,
said at the time, leaving the brand example of cluelessness. He argues signed by 31 senior executives.
built on hoodies and T-shirts, and it would destroy the “cool factor” for A spokeswoman also hit out
favoured by celebrities such as David Superdry share price 16 to 24-year-olds. at those who have posted on
Beckham, in safe hands in order to Pence His Save Superdry website has Dunkerton’s website.
focus on other business interests. become a lightning rod for private “We always listen to all points
2,000
But then the Superdry share shareholders, current staff and of view,” she said, “but many of
price went into freefall. Sales former employees to vent about the those providing unsubstantiated
are down, there have been profit 1,500 state of the company. comments and opinions on the
warnings and the real reason for Morale has been hit by cost- Save Superdry website are friends
Dunkerton’s departure emerged: 1,000 cutting plans. Up to 200 out of the and business associates of Mr
an old-fashioned fallout. The 1,000 staff at the Cheltenham HQ Dunkerton and Mr Holder or former
new leadership team, led by Euan 500 could lose their jobs as part of a plan Superdry employees.”
Sutherland, sought to move away to cut costs by £50m over the next Dunkerton, however, will not give
from selling the heavily branded three years. up. His own financial losses will spur
0
casual wear that made Superdry Mar 2017 Jan 2018 Jan 2019
Among the harshest critics of him on. “Our interests are directly
cool, whereas Dunkerton was keen the current management on Save aligned to those of all shareholders,” ▲ Superdry urged shareholders to
to stick with his trusted formula. Source: Thomson Reuters Superdry is its former head of he said. “This is not an ego trip.” oppose Julian Dunkerton’s return

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Rugby union Football 41
Jamie Roberts: Watford’s

smart Wales will Mariappa hailss
wrap up the slam his vegan diet
Page 46 Page 48
Cristiano at home to Manchester UnitUnited in the group stage and

Ronaldo (main) at the Wanda Metropolitano against a tough, stubborn
and Lionel Messi Atlético side known for their
thei exceptional defence. Many
showed once doubted the team’s ability tot come back but that spirit
again this week is built into the side and the
they found a way from the first
they are the two minute to put Atlético under
unde waves of pressure.
best players Last summer the men’s te team moved to a new training
in Europe ground at Continassa while we work at their old one,
PAUL CURRIE/BPI/REX/ so I have not been able to se
see evidence of Ronaldo’s
SHUTTERSTOCK
legendary commitment with wit my own eyes, but I know
his dedication has continued
continue since he moved to Turin.
He asks a lot of questions and
an always wants to know why
he’s doing what he’s doing. His mentality, work ethic
and the drive that have powered
pow him towards greatness
inspire all of us individually and collectively. The recipe
U
for perfection starts with ha
hard work.
ntil this w
week I don’t think he had
delivered a truly outstanding
performa
performance for Juve in the
Champio
Champions League. I went to that
game against
aga United, when he scored
a wonderful
wonder volley, but his all-round
play was not amazing. On Tuesday he
stood ou
out. There were other players
perfo
who put in exceptional performances too: Miralem
Pjanic, who often seems to g go under the radar, Leonardo
Spinazzola, who got up and down the left and put some
Federic Bernardeschi, who created
good crosses in, and Federico
Ronaldo’s first goal and won the decisive penalty.
The buildup to the penalt
penalty demonstrated the
determination and drive of tthe team. For Bernardeschi
p
to have that energy at that point , to have the awareness
and ability to cut inside, get into the box and force a
desperate defender into a ra rash shove, was the stuff
of champions. A week ago I don’td think many people
Juventu as potential winners of the
would have fancied Juventus
Champions League but after that performance and with
Ronaldo in great form they w will certainly be feared.
I think the men can go on to win it. The tournament
Ma
is pretty open, with Real Madrid already out, but with
the best player in the world in i the Juventus side I can
see them getting to another final. There is something
that happens when you win in the manner they did on
inv
Tuesday. There’s a sort of invincibility that is created
within the team. That confidenced will stand them in
T
good stead against anyone.
Ronald celebrated his winning
Ronaldo
he Juventus motto is “fino alla fine” – in Until this penalty by mockingly recreating
Fino alla fine other words, until the end. On Tuesday

evening the men’s team proved these
words are not empty but alive. Juve
Diego Simeone’s “cojones” gesture
week I don’t from the first leg, which was great
think he had entertainment, and I don’t think the
Ronaldo’s defining
aspire to be a team who never give up, Argentinian will be boasting about his
a team who burn with an indefatigable delivered team’s balls for a while. I was surprised
spirit, and this week it was there for all a truly by Atlético’s lack of ambition. They
to see.
outstanding never showed any desire to win the
display shows ‘until

They showed it against Real Madrid in the quarter- game, when one away goal would
finals of the Champions League last season, when they display almost certainly have decided the
came back from a 3-0 first-leg deficit to level the tie at for us in tie in their favour. Álvaro Morata
the Bernabéu, an incredible comeback that ended in was isolated and Antoine Griezmann
Europe. The looked as if he didn’t want to be there.
the end’ spirit is
disappointment when a late Cristiano Ronaldo penalty
decided it in Real’s favour. This year it was a different men can go I was shocked by how passive they
Madrid club, Atlético, a 2-0 deficit and Ronaldo – now were. This was a club that has reached
wearing Juve’s famous black and white – decided matters on to win it two of the past five finals.
alive at Juventus
from the spot again. It was interesting that 24 hours
I had tickets to Tuesday’s game but the women’s after Ronaldo produced a statement performance Lionel
team had a match in Milan on Wednesday, the first leg Messi scored twice and created two more as Barcelona
of the Coppa Italia semi-final, and travelled the day beat Lyon 5-1. I think comparisons between the two
before, so instead of being at the stadium we watched it players are futile. I have been learning a lot about Italian
together at the team hotel. It was hugely inspiring. We history in my spare time and recently visited Florence
share the same shirt and philosophy, and the timing was and Rome, where I saw the incredible Renaissance
perfect for what is a crucial month. The following night, artwork of Michelangelo and Da Vinci. It made me
motivated by the performance of the men’s team, we realise that having two greats in the same field at the
went a goal down and came back to win 2-1. We are all same time can help produce greater achievement.
part of a culture at the club that strives for excellence, Comparing Ronaldo and Messi is similar to comparing
with that fino alla fine spirit at the core of our mentality. those two magnificent artists.
Eni Aluko I thought it would be tough to come back against You can make your own mind up about which is the
Atlético Madrid, primarily because the men have not greater player, and there are strong arguments for both,
been tested that much this season, especially in Serie A, but what Ronaldo has proved beyond doubt, time and
where they are 18 points ahead. When they have been again, is that when it really, really matters, in the biggest
truly pushed in the Champions League, they have lost: games of all, he is the difference.

42 Sport
Alpine skiing Shiffrin finished fourth in the Cricket

women’s race, which was won by Vik-
Shiffrin wins World toria Rebensburg of Germany, for her Farbrace considers Bayliss for
Cup super-G title first globe in a speed discipline. She
has also won three overall titles and six
slalom titles and is a strong favourite Edgbaston-based Hundred team
Mikaela Shiffrin won the World Cup to add the giant slalom season prize on
super-G title for her 10th career crystal Sunday. “It’s special because I really
globe and Dominik Paris secured the never thought I could be in this posi- Big Bash experience and you want that
men’s title by winning the season-end- tion this season already in super-G,” Ali Martin when you’re starting a new tourna-
ing race at the World Cup finals. Both said Shiffrin, who had not won a race in ment and putting a team together in
skiers won super-G titles at the world the discipline before this season. “The Mikaela Shiffrin’s a short space of time.”
championships five weeks ago but had way that everybody came together and super-G win was Paul Farbrace began life as Warwick- The Professional Cricketers’ Asso-
not won the season-long World Cup made this work was just amazing,” her 10th career title shire’s new director of sport yesterday ciation has voiced concerns over
prize in the discipline before. Shiffrin said. AP but England’s recently departed assis- county coaches such as Troughton
tant coach is already eyeing a reunion also working at their equivalent team
with Trevor Bayliss. in The Hundred, with its chairman,
Farbrace will sit on the board that Daryl Mitchell, claiming it could
runs the Edgbaston-based team in The skew player recruitment at domestic
Hundred – the new 100-ball tourna- level and lead to the creation of eight
ment that begins in 2020 – and there “super-counties”.
have been informal chats with Bay- On this Farbrace said: “The big clubs
liss about running the men’s side after have always had a slight advantage.
stepping down as England head coach You want to work at the best places. I
in September. don’t think there will too much con-
No teams can make such appoint- cern in terms of tapping players up. It’s
ments just yet as new companies must an opportunity to get the best playing
be set up first. But Warwickshire, and with the best.”
those at Worcestershire who will also Farbrace replaces Ashley Giles at the
pair up to run the new team – one newly promoted Warwickshire and,
of which will carry the Birmingham having previously enjoyed working
name – are seemingly keen to have directly with players, he must now
their county first-XI coaches Jim adjust to being more hands-off in a
Troughton and Alex Gidman working role that oversees all levels of both the
under a more experienced No 1. men’s and women’s teams. “There’s an
Asked about the prospect of hiring element of the unknown,” he admit-
Bayliss for this role and being his boss, ted. “I’m keen to develop my own way.
having previously worked under the I won’t try to copy Ash.”
Australian at both Sri Lanka and Eng-
land, Farbrace replied: “To be fair, he’s
not the sort of bloke who made me feel
like he was my boss. He’s a hands-on
coach and organisation came down
to me. So, if he does end up working
here, that would be easy. We’ve never
spoken about how we work. We always
just got on with it. And I have learned
so much from him.
“He’s not the only candidate. But ▲ Paul Farbrace has already held
he’s got Indian Premier League and informal talks with Trevor Bayliss
Golf ill-effects whatsoever from falling

short at the Arnold Palmer Invitational
Fleetwood win on Sunday. “It’s a new week,” McIlroy
said. “That’s the great thing about golf.
in US is a matter Once you wake up on Monday morn-
ing, it’s a fresh start. It’s a new tourna-
of time – McIlroy ment, it’s a new opportunity. That’s
the nice thing about our game, which
doesn’t happen in some other sports,
and it’s nice to take advantage of that
Ewan Murray luxury.”
Sawgrass This, however, was Fleetwood’s
day again. It is to the 28-year-old’s
It was hardly a shock to hear Rory credit that he embraces the prospect
McIlroy endorse the chances of of breaking his PGA Tour duck rather
Tommy Fleetwood winning in the than being weighed down by the scale
United States before long. Singing of the challenge.
Tommy’s praises has become an “I love playing out here,” Fleetwood
understandable theme. said. “It’s clearly the next step for me
The Players Championship has not to win over here, but winning is not
been kind to British players – Sandy easy, and I’ve just got to keep plugging
Lyle is the only one to have won it, in away, keep doing the right things and
1987 – but Fleetwood is clearly of a focus on myself.
mind to break the mould. A first-round “Hopefully that [victory] will come
65, which included a closing nine of but there’s no point in sort of not think-
30, catapulted the Southport player ing about it or letting other people do
to the top of the leaderboard. “He is the talking. Clearly that’s sort of the
one of the best players in the world, next thing that’s going to happen, eve-
and he’s had his chances already,” said rybody’s career goes in those stages,
McIlroy of his Ryder Cup teammate. and hopefully mine will be the same.”
“So, yes, I think it’s only a matter of Dustin Johnson and Sergio García
time for sure.” opened with three-under-par 69s.
McIlroy’s round was impressive Justin Rose took a triple bogey at the
enough. A bogey-free 67 may well have 1st and double bogey at the 5th, which
been better but for a freakish break at rendered his 74 far from disastrous.
the 9th, his 18th, as McIlroy’s ball flew The American Brian Harman and
50 yards over the green having hit a South Korea’s An Byeong-hun lie a
sprinkler head. He demonstrated no shot adrift of Fleetwood.

Sport 43
Racing Cheltenham Festival
Preview Sir Erec is a value price at the even-

money on offer as I type but betting
2.50 A wildly impressive winner at
Clonmel last month, Allaho is clearly Today’s big race 3.30pm ITV
Obeaux can
against him does not appeal in light a really promising youngster in the
of his storming Grade One success care of Willie Mullins. His stamina is
Cheltenham Gold Cup Chase
Grade 1, Class 1, 3m 2f £351,688
strike Gold
at Leopardstown. The stable has a not taken for granted, given that he
good grip on the value of juvenile races freely, but the ground seems to 1 Al Boum Photo 83 11 Might Bite 86
2F1R-1 (73) 11-10 121-50 (79,C,BF) 11-10
hurdle form just now, having won be drying here and he will hopefully
for Nicholls the Fred Winter on Tuesday. Sir Erec
can be a second Triumph winner for
be able to outpace the likes of
Birchdale and Commander Of Fleet. 2
Mrs J Donnelly WP Mullins (Ire)
Anibale Fly
P Townend
84 12
Knot Again
Native River
N Henderson
N de Boinville
90
F34-62 (27) 11-10 /11-23 (79,CD) 11-10
Joseph O’Brien, or a first, depending 4.10 A regular winner in points JP McManus AJ Martin (Ire) Brocade C Tizzard
on who you think was really training and hunter chases, Hazel Hill still B Geraghty R Johnson
Chris Cook Ivanovich Gorbatov, which won in seemed short of this class until 3 Bellshill 85 13 Presenting Percy 89
151-41 (40) 11-10 1121-1 (50,C) 11-10
Cheltenham Day Four guide the name of his father, Aidan. an especially impressive win at A/G Wylie WP Mullins (Ire) PJ Reynolds PG Kelly (Ire)
2.10 Gordon Elliott’s Eclair De Warwick in January. The veteran did R Walsh D Russell
The good times are back at Paul Beaufeu, on his first attempt in a enough there to suggest he may be 4 Bristol De Mai 86 14 Thistlecrack 87
632-1F (79,D) 11-10 /54-32 (79,C) 11-10
Nicholls’ yard, which has been handicap, ran on well to be fourth able to hold off Stand Up And Fight. Munir/Souede N Twiston-Davies J/H Snook C Tizzard
celebrating the wins of Frodon and after having rather a lot of ground 4.50 Nicholls is the most successful D Jacob T Scudamore
Topofthegame. Not since Kauto to make up at Leopardstown last trainer in Grand Annual history, with 5 Clan Des Obeaux 87 15 Yala Enki 82
23-411 (27) 11-10 66-135 (27,D,BF) 11-10
Star’s Gold Cup a decade ago has month. It was a promising prep four wins since 2004, and it is hard Barber/Mason P Nicholls Hills of Ledbury Miss V Williams
Nicholls won two Grade One chases run for this County Hurdle and not to resist the claims of his ex-French H Cobden C Deutsch
at a single Festival but he has dissimilar to the previous outing youngster, Magic Saint. He showed 6 Definitely Red 83 16 Shattered Love 84
6U-112 (29,C,D,BF) 11-10 25-220 (77,C) 11-10
managed it this week and can crown of Elliott’s Sire Du Berlais before he something in a couple of starts in P/J Martin B Ellison Gigginstown G Elliott (Ire)
the achievement in today’s Gold Cup won the Pertemps here yesterday. the autumn but had evidently taken D Cook J Kennedy
with Clan Des Obeaux (3.30). a big step forward by the time he 7 Double Shuffle 82
Betting
4-F252 (20) 11-10
For a long time this horse threat- reappeared in February, winning Crossed Fingers TR George 100-30 Presenting Percy
ened not to make good on his big home comfortably at Wincanton after J Burke★ (), 4-1 Clan Des Obeaux,
Native River, 8-1 Bellshill,
reputation but he did so in thrilling being well backed. He is surely still 8 Elegant Escape 86
3-1212 (48,BF) 11-10 10-1 Kemboy,
style in the King George and his effort- ahead of his rating. JP Romans C Tizzard 12-1 Thistlecrack,
less lope around Ascot last month con- 5.30 Dallas Des Pictons is a worthy T O’Brien 14-1 Al Boum Photo.
firmed he is all class. Both those wins favourite but there might be a bit of 9 Invitation Only 83 Form
P3U-31 (50) 11-10 Native River showed great
were at right-handed tracks but it will value in the 16-1 about Daybreak Boy. A/G Wylie WP Mullins (Ire) toughness when getting
be a surprise if he has a real problem A useful performer on the Flat, he has P Mullins the better of Might Bite
turning the other way here and he taken well to hurdles and was really 10 Kemboy 88 12 months ago and looks
F11-11 (77) 11-10 ready to peak once more
looks the one to be with in a hot race. ▲ Joseph O’Brien saddles Sir Erec in eye-opening in victory at Clonmel in Graham/Sharp WP Mullins (Ire) having not been at his best
1.30 There is no pretending that the Triumph Hurdle this afternoon January. D Mullins
in his two runs since.
name for himself at the top level. Stand Up And Fight should be well
2.50 Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) (Class 1)
Cheltenham card 3m ⁄ £73,506
respected based on connections and Ucello Conti can play a big part if
jumping efficiently. Today’s tips
1 2-41 Allaho (29,D) W P Mullins (Ire) 5 11-5 R Walsh 87 Chris Cook
2 2-1V12 Ask Ben (27,D) G McPherson 6 11-5 K Woods 83 4.50 Grand Annual H’cap Chase (Grade 3) (Class 1)
2m ⁄ £61,897
3 4-2166 Aye Aye Charlie (48) F O’Brien 7 11-5 P Brennan 84
4 1-11 Birchdale (48,C,D) N Henderson 5 11-5 B Geraghty 89 1 6-3F32 Forest Bihan (49,D) B Ellison 8 11-12 D Cook 86 Fakenham
5 26/141 Cap York (23,D) N Meade (re) 7 11-5 B Cooper 86 2 123-22 Gino Trail (27,CD) Kerry Lee 12 11-11 R Johnson 87 1.20 American Tom
1.30 JCB Triumph Hurdle (Grade 1) (Class 1) 4YO 6 11-141 Commander Of Fleet (41,D) G Elliott (Ire) 5 11-5 J Kennedy 88 3 1P-250 Le Prezien (41,CD) P Nicholls 8 11-10 B Geraghty 83 1.55 Cap Du Nord
2m 1f ⁄ £70,338 7 -14200 Darlac (27) C Tizzard 6 11-5 R Power 76 4 35-251 Magic Saint (27,D) P Nicholls 5 11-8 H Cobden 89 2.35 Swaffham
8 422-11 Derrinross (76,D) J P Dempsey (Ire) 8 11-5 L Dempsey 83 5 335-12 Bun Doran (90,CD,BF) TR George 8 11-7 P Brennan 85 Bulbeck
1 1-3123 Adjali (48,D,BF) N Henderson 11-0 D Jacob 82
9 1-21 Dickie Diver (20,D) N Henderson 6 11-5 A Coleman 88 6 -111P5 Diakali (78,CD) GL Moore 10 11-6 J Moore★ 82 3.15 Sideways
2 13 Authorizo (20,BF) G Elliott (Ire) 11-0 J Kennedy 80
10 111110 Dinons (110,CD,BF) G Elliott (Ire) 6 11-5 D Russell 90 7 125-24 Tree Of Liberty (62,D) Kerry Lee 7 11-6 R Patrick (3) 84
3 12F4 Coeur Sublime (27,BF) G Elliott (Ire) 11-0 D Russell 83 3.55 Demopolis
11 115160 Dorrells Pierji (41,D) WP Mullins (Ire) 6 11-5 N Fehily 79 8 3-6211 Whatswrongwithyou (19,D) N Henderson 8 11-4 N de Boinville★ 88
4 6 Ecco (20) P Nicholls 11-0 H Skelton 81
12 214614 First Approach (41,D) N Meade (Ire) 6 11-5 S Flanagan 82 9 -12P21 Caid Du Lin (111,D) Dr R Newland 7 11-3 S Twiston-Davies 81
4.35 Come On
5 122 Gardens of Babylon (40) Joseph P O’Brien (Ire) 11-0 B Geraghty 87
13 -32211 Lisnagar Oscar (27,D) Miss R Curtis 6 11-5 S Bowen 87 10 253121 Theflyingportrait (107,D) Jennie Candlish 10 11-3 S Quinlan 82 Charlie
6 212 Hannon (19) J McConnell (Ire) 11-0 D Noonan 84 5.10 Sir Jack Yeats
14 13-32 Minella Indo (29,D) H De Bromhead (Ire) 6 11-5 R Blackmore 84 11 30-4FF Top Gamble (78,D) Kerry Lee 11 11-2 M Enright 81
7 116 Nelson River (48,CD) A Carroll 11-0 H Bannister 82
15 4121 Nadaitak (48,D) B Pauling 5 11-5 N de Boinville 83 12 311265 Champagne At Tara (49,D) Jonjo O’Neill 10 11-2 J O’Neill Jr (5) 80
8 1 Pentland Hills (18) N Henderson 11-0 N de Boinville 84
9 -21F22 Pic D’Orhy (131) P Nicholls 11-0 S Twiston-Davies 88
16 20-142 Rhinestone (41) Joseph P O’Brien (Ire) 6 11-5 M Walsh 85 13 -21655 Mind’s Eye (41,D) H de Bromhead (Iew) 7 11-1 R Blackmore 83 Cheltenham
17 202146 Rockpoint (27,CD) C Tizzard 6 11-5 T Scudamore 81 14 31-166 Mr Medic (55) R Walford 8 11-0 J Best 85 1.30 Sir Erec
10 211111 Quel Destin (27,C,D) P Nicholls 11-0 H Cobden 89
18 -12123 Stoney Mountain (27) H Daly 6 11-5 R Johnson 87 15 -11542 Theo (13,D) Dr R Newland 9 10-12 C Hammond (5)★ 84
11 4 Runrized (47,BF) WP Mullins (Ire) 11-0 D Mullins 78 2.10 Eclair De
19 1-1116 Alsa Mix (76,D) A King 7 10-12 W Hutchinson★ 83 16 460632 Marracudja (78,CD,BF) D Skelton 8 10-12 H Skelton 86
12 11 Sir Erec (40) Joseph P O’Brien (Ire) 11-0 M Walsh 90
20 F5-11U Salsaretta (41) WP Mullins (Ire) 6 10-12 P Townend 84 17 0035/2 Croco Bay (227,D) B Case 12 10-12 K Woods 82
Beaufeu
13 24 Tiger Tap Tap (40) WP Mullins (Ire) 11-0 R Walsh 84
18 /11-31 Not Another Muddle (28,D) GL Moore 8 10-11 J Moore 90 2.50 Allaho
14 21 French Made (64,D) WP Mullins (Ire) 10-7 P Townend 82 Betting 5-1 Commander Of Fleet, 11-2 Birchdale, 6-1 Lisnagar Oscar, 7-1 Dickie 3.30 Clan Des
Diver, 8-1 Derrinross, Allaho, 10-1 Dinons, 12-1 Rhinestone. 19 -22151 Brelan D’As (28,D) P Nicholls 8 10-9 B Frost 83
Betting Evens Sir Erec, 5-1 Quel Destin, 8-1 Pic D’Orhy, 10-1 Gardens of Babylon, 20 10P113 All Set To Go (140,D) Kevin Frost 8 10-7 G Sheehan★ 84 Obeaux (nap,
Tiger Tap Tap, 14-1 Adjali, 16-1 Pentland Hills, 25-1 Hannon. Form Traditionally a treacherous race for favourites and with that in mind it could
Betting 7-2 Magic Saint, 6-1 Whatswrongwithyou, 7-1 Not Another Muddle, 8-1 Le
, below)
pay to side with the experienced Dinons, who won here in October and who
Form The fact Sir Erec managed to finish placed in Group Two company on just his is easily excused his latest run when bidding for a six-timer. Birchdale, Prezien, 12-1 Brelan D’As, Mind’s Eye, 14-1 Caid Du Lin, Bun Doran. 4.10 Hazel Hill
fifth Flat start marks him down as out of the ordinary for the division and his Commander Of Fleet and Dickie Diver are among the many others with 4.50 Magic Saint
easy Spring Juvenile Hurdle win is the best form on offer. The Paul Nicholls- bags of potential who should feature. Stoney Mountain is one to consider at Form Plenty of exposed sorts here and the progressive Not Another Muddle could
be the answer. His excellent jumping was a key feature of an impressive win 5.30 Daybreak Boy
trained pair Quel Destin and Pic d’Orhy have had contrasting preparations a huge price.
but both are interesting. at Sandown four weeks ago and he should get the race run to suit. Magic (nb)
3.30 Gold Cup Chase (Grade 1) (Class 1) Saint and Whatswrongwithyou are also going the right way and they head
the dangers.
2.10 County Handicap Hurdle (Grade 3) (Class 1) 3m 2f ⁄ £351,688 Lingfield
2m 1f ⁄ £56,270 2.20 Cheerfilly
(Colour card and betting above) 5.30 Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ H’cap Hurdle (Class 2)
3.00 Osho
1 1-4014 Mohaayed (55,CD) D Skelton 7 11-12 B Andrews 84 2m 4f ⁄ £43,330
2 1-3441 We Have A Dream (29,D) N Henderson 5 11-11 D Jacob 85 4.10 Foxhunter Hunters’ Chase (Class 2) 3.40 Unforgiving
3 5-5333 Western Ryder (55,CD,BF) W Greatrex 7 11-9 H Teal (5)★ 83 3m 2f ⁄ £26,685 1 030-52 Early Doors (77) Joseph P O’Brien (Ire) 6 11-10 J O’Neill Jr 88 Minute
2 5/F2P- Acapella Bourgeois (425,D,BF) WP Mullins (Ire) 9 11-9 R Doyle★ 82
4 1122-2 Mr Adjudicator (125) WP Mullins (Ire) 5 11-8 P Townend 86 1 21-422 Ardkilly Witness (27) Miss K Smith 13 12-0 W Thirlby 84 4.20 Distant Mirage
3 P-1232 If You Say Run (27,BF) P Nicholls 7 11-6 B Frost 86
5 0-5602 Ch’tibello (97,D) D Skelton 8 11-5 H Skelton 84 2 42-221 Asockastar (29) Daniel Bourne 11 12-0 B O’Neill 82
4 2-525P Mr Antolini (41) N Twiston-Davies 9 11-5 J Nailor 83
5.00 Petite Jack
6 F-1220 Lisp (27) A King 5 11-4 W Hutchinson 82 3 01P-40 Balnaslow (33) GJ McKeever (Ire) 12 12-0 P Mullins 83 5.40 Allocator
7 4342-0 Whiskey Sour (F131,BF) WP Mullins (Ire) 6 11-3 R Walsh 89 5 344230 Getareason (41) WP Mullins (Ire) 6 11-5 L Gilligan 84
4 1151-1 Caid Du Berlais (12,C) Mrs R Loxton 10 12-0 W Biddick 85
8 /6-132 Leoncavallo (179,D,BF) Dr R Newland 7 11-3 S Twiston-Davies★ 85 6 -14211 Dallas Des Pictons (40,D) G Elliott (Ire) 6 11-5 D Meyler 89
5 2-3124 Chosen Dream (54) GJ McKeever (Ire) 11 12-0 M O’Hare 82 Chelmsford
9 -01116 Mister Fizz (121) Miss I Pickard 11 11-3 L Williams (5) 84 7 5-F152 Coolanly (24,C,BF) F O’Brien 7 11-5 C Brace 86
6 2-1152 Coastal Tiep (26) S Crawford (Ire) 7 12-0 B Crawford 85
10 F54450 Mitchouka (41) G Elliott (IRE) 5 11-1 D Russell 82 8 P-1R22 Style De Garde (37,BF) N Henderson 5 11-5 N Curtis★ 87 4.40 Zapper Cass
7 13-201 Cousin Pete (19,C) Mrs Brown 11 12-0 N Phillips 86
11 13/455 Pingshou (55,CD) C Tizzard 9 11-1 R Power★ 81 8 11-12P Dont Do Mondays (12) Mrs L Lawson 12 12-0 O Wedmore 81
9 -21320 Defi Bleu (41,D) G Elliott (Ire) 6 11-4 C Brassil 83 5.20 Time To Reason
12 016132 Sternrubin (24,D) P Hobbs 8 10-13 M Nolan 85 10 0-1221 Pym (46) N Henderson 6 11-3 R Patrick 85 6.00 Zipedeedodah
9 0/1-22 Double Whammy (292,D,BF) I Jardine 13 12-0 T Hamilton★ 84
11 5-2161 Daybreak Boy (64,D) H de Bromhead (Ire) 6 11-3 D McInerney 87
13 0-4111 Crooks Peak (13,C,D) P Hobbs 6 10-11 (5lb ex) R Johnson 90 10 -P3011 Haymount (20) T Ellis 10 12-0 G Andrews 86 6.30 You’re Cool
14 F5-041 Capitaine (24,D) P Nicholls 7 10-10 H Cobden 86 12 241465 Garo De Juilley (24) Mrs S Leech 7 11-3 S Houlihan 83
11 112-11 Hazel Hill (53) Philip Rowley 11 12-0 A Edwards 90
13 0-0332 Discordantly (33,BF) Mrs J Harrington (Ire) 5 11-3 C Orr 84
7.00 Jack Berry
15 P0-022 Cut The Mustard (40) WP Mullins (Ire) 7 10-10 N Fehily★ 82 12 -21212 Just Cause (29,BF) JP Owen 9 12-0 J Andrews 81
14 5-0560 Cartwright (41) G Elliott (Ire) 6 11-2 F Gregory★ 90 House
16 233114 Eclair De Beaufeu (41) G Elliott (Ire) 5 10-9 J Kennedy 83 13 1-2F12 One Conemara (19,BF) Mrs C Coward 11 12-0 J Dawson 79
17 1F2160 Due Reward (41) H de Bromhead (Ire) 6 10-9 R Blackmore 82 15 1230-2 Mount Mews (61) D McCain 8 11-2 D McMenamin 86 7.30 Pheidippides
14 4/31-5 Pacha Du Polder (27,CD) P Nicholls 12 12-0 H Tucker 85
18 151104 Storm Rising (6,C,D) Dr R Newland 6 10-8 C Hammond (5)★ 84 16 364211 Big Time Dancer (62) Jennie Candlish 6 10-13 R Chapman 84 8.00 Irish Times
15 111111 Road To Rome (27) JJ O’Shea 9 12-0 S Waley-Cohen 84
19 /2115- Countister (365,D) N Henderson 7 10-6 B Geraghty 82 16 123242 Samanntom (26) PM J Doyle 11 12-0 S Doyle 80
17 -02501 Le Musee (39) N Hawke 6 10-11 T Buckley 83 8.30 Pocket Warrior
20 452103 High Expectations (78,D) G Elliott (Ire) 8 10-6 D O’Regan 86 18 526214 Not That Fuisse (20) D Skelton 6 10-10 W Marshall 82
17 2P-511 Shantou Flyer (19,C,D) Richard Hobson 9 12-0 D Maxwell★ 86
21 -3F112 Monsieur Lecoq (6) Mrs J Williams 5 10-5 L Kelly (3) 88 19 -60632 Sakhee’s City (25) P Kirby 8 10-9 T Dowson 84
18 -11311 Some Are Lucky (26) S Curling (Ire) 8 12-0 G Spain 80
22 -11422 Thistle Do Nicely (15) J Snowden 5 10-5 G Sheehan 85 20 2-2211 Doctor Dex (23) TR George 6 10-8 L Williams 85
19 3-P121 Southfield Theatre (47,C) Mrs Sara V Bradstock 11 12-0 L Bradstock★ 86
23 265022 Magic Dancer (27,CD) Kerry Lee 7 10-3 R Patrick (3) 84 21 /61123 Burrows Park (27,D) Miss V Williams 7 10-7 H Nugent 86
20 4P-112 Stand Up And Fight (47) E Bolger (Ire) 7 12-0 D O’Connor 87
24 12F005 Brex Drago (13) G Cromwell (Ire) 7 10-2 J Kane (5) 82 22 104-52 Casa Tall (20) TR George 5 10-7 K Edgar★ 87
21 5P04-2 Sybarite (27,C,D) Miss V Collins 13 12-0 L Pinchin 78
25 -03115 Ar Mest (27) G L Moore 6 10-0 J Moore 83 23 -21506 Kapgarry (62,D) N Twiston-Davies 6 10-6 S Sheppard 83
22 /1312- Timewaitsfornoone (322) A Fleming (Ire) 7 12-0 R Deegan 83
26 123014 Chieftain’s Choice (90,D) Kevin Frost 10 10-0 S Coltherd (3)★ 81 24 -41553 Champagne Court (25,BF) J Scott 6 10-5 R Dingle 84
23 /112P- Top Wood (322) Miss Kelly Morgan 12 12-0 T Worsley★ 84
Betting 5-1 Whiskey Sour, 8-1 Capitaine, 10-1 Crooks Peak, Western Ryder, 24 PU-111 Ucello Conti (26) G Elliott (Ire) 11 12-0 J Codd 88 Betting 4-1 Dallas Des Pictons, 7-1 Early Doors, 8-1 Cartwright, 10-1 Pym, 12-1
Ch’tibello, 12-1 Monsieur Lecoq, 14-1 Ar Mest, Mr Adjudicator. Defi Bleu, 14-1 Discordantly, Getareason, Acapella Bourgeois.
Betting 10-3 Stand Up And Fight, 5-1 Ucello Conti, 11-2 Road To Rome, 6-1 Hazel
Form The assessor did not have a lot to go on when allotting Crooks Peak’s Hill, 7-1 Shantou Flyer, 8-1 Caid Du Berlais, 14-1 Pacha Du Polder, 16-1 Top Form Cartwright is in better heart than his form figures would suggest and this
opening mark and he took full advantage at Newbury a fortnight ago. Given Wood, Haymount, 20-1 others. prolific Flat stayer is unexposed over this sort of trip over hurdles.
he was value for extra and promises to be suited by this big-field Stablemate Dallas des Pictons has been the subject of a big gamble in
Form The way Hazel Hill travelled and jumped before readily clearing away from a recent days and he is clearly very progressive but Cartwright looks the value
environment, the follow-up under a 5lb penalty is a distinct possibility. competitive field at Warwick really sticks in the mind and this 11-year-old,
Whiskey Sour was third in this a year ago and has been aimed at this. play. Of the rest, Early Doors seems sure to go well.
who is actually not fully exposed, looks to have all the attributes to make a

44 Sport
Racing Cheltenham Festival
Paisley Park
satisfies will of
the people to
give Gemmell
emotional win
Chris Cook
Cheltenham
Andrew Gemmell, the owner who has

been blind since birth, got his cher-
ished Festival winner 46 years after
his first visit when Paisley Park carried
his colours to win the Stayers’ Hurdle.
“I can’t believe it’s happened, it’s
brilliant. It’s a joke! Just a joke. I’m in
tears. It’s fantastic,” said Gemmell as he
was surrounded by well-wishers and
led towards the winner’s enclosure.
Paisley Park was sent off a well-sup-
ported favourite and there was little
doubt where the crowd’s sympathy
lay at the turn for home as he raced
alongside Faugheen in the pink and
green colours of Rich Ricci. Would it
be a first victory after years of trying
for Gemmell or another trophy for
Ricci, the executive chairman of a
bookmaking firm that closed last week
to great ill-feeling among its former
customers?
Faugheen’s stamina ebbed, leaving
the final challenge to Sam Spinner, a
disappointing favourite in this race last
year and forgotten at 33-1 this time. Joe
Colliver, Sam Spinner’s jockey, makes
Dream team of Frost and Frodon

life hard for himself and had to post-
pone a drink-driving court hearing in
order to be racing, but he delivered a
fine ride and came up short by only a
couple of lengths.
“I hope it’s the first of many. Let’s
keep coming back,” said Gemmell,
who has not allowed his disability to
get in the way of what seems to have
been a richly rewarding life, which
etch names into racing folklore
lately includes attending major sports
events around the world. Such records to eulogising his performance. “That well and was on him again the next Still, he replied: “Oh, hundreds better.
are not kept but it seems a fair bet he is
Rider’s historic success minute where he got overtaken two time. This is how the job must be done Both the children are better than me,”
the first Festival owner to have spent follows victories for Kelly out, most horses would quit,” she if, like Frost, you are working for a big gesturing to his son, Hadden, who rode
time on a picket line during the miners’ and Blackmore at the Festival added, determined that all should stable among more senior jockeys and his own winner here in 2010 and flew
strike, at which time he was a union share in her appreciation of Frodon’s she has seized every chance that has back from his job riding in the US to
official based in Westminster. qualities. “But no, he grabbed me by come her way, winning major races at cheer on his sister.
“If the will of the people was any- Chris Cook the hands and said, ‘Don’t you dare regular intervals. Four different women rode winners
thing to go by, this horse was just going Cheltenham give up. Don’t you dare not send me Jockeys often say the first taste
to win,” said Paisley Park’s trainer, into the last. I want this more than you, of glory in this hectic environment
Emma Lavelle. “I cannot say quite Bryony Frost, with an ecstatic triple now come on! Where are you?’” is fleeting and only a second one Frost’s rise to the top
how bad our hangover is going to be fist-pump as she crossed the line, made And, patting the diminutive chaser can really be savoured. Frost has
in the morning. history on an emotionally charged day on the neck, she finished with: “He’s been anticipating this Festival for
“I felt calm until the race was about at the Festival when, most unusually, unbelievable. I love you, mate!” weeks, since she and Frodon won 17 Mar 2017 First Cheltenham
to jump off and then I thought I was both the big races gave in to public It was at the Festival two years ago here in January, and she milked the Festival winner () aboard Pacha
going to burst into tears. You just feel demand and yielded the longed-for that a 21-year-old Frost first made experience, from her well-chosen Du Polder in Foxhunters’ Chase,
those fairytales don’t always happen. ‘fairytale’ results. Angry words have headlines, winning the Foxhunter words straight afterwards through getting home by a neck from Katie
The most emotional I’ve been today been bandied around here this week, Chase on Pacha Du Polder when she her triumphal return past the stands Walsh on Wonderful Charm.
was when Frodon and Bryony [Frost] the result of conflict between rac- was still an amateur. Her partnership to the celebrations with her family on
won and I was like: ‘Oh my God, that’s ing professionals and those who run with Frodon is an indicator of the way dismounting. 26 Dec 2017 First Grade One win
amazing.’ And then: ‘Oh no! She’s sto- the sport, but those tensions were her career has gone since; he was sup- Among those there to greet her was on Black Corton in the Kauto
len the fairy tale!’ But now we’ve got a forgotten in collective admiration of posed to be someone else’s ride but she her father, Jimmy, whose own riding Star Novice Chase at Kempton,
chunk of it, so it’s OK.” the ebullient, charismatic Frost and happened to get on him one day, did career included a Champion Hurdle becoming only the second woman
her splendidly game partner, Frodon, win here in 1991. “This is incredible,” to win at the highest level.
who fought off all challengers to win said the man to whom Frost still turns
the Ryanair Chase. ‘He said I want for guidance every day. “I’m so proud 12 Nov 2018 Rides out her
“He is Pegasus, he has got wings,”
gushed Frost, who became the first
this more than of her. I don’t think they missed a
beat out there, did they? We walked
claim with her 75th victory – on
Marienstar at Kempton – and
woman to ride a Grade One winner you, now come on! the course this morning and she just joins the ranks of full professional
over these fences. The most blue- rode it absolutely to the minute, to the jockeys.
sky-thinking PR worker could not have Where are you?’ letter, to the second.”
dreamed up a more likeable jockey to Is she as good as you were, he was 14 Mar 2019 First female jockey to
achieve the feat, or a more versatile asked. Frost has certainly not had a win a Grade One over jumps at the
▲ The popular favourite won the one, since Frost can drive a horse to career yet to match her father’s, con- Festival as Frodon leads the field
Stayers’ Hurdle by a couple of lengths the line and then immediately switch sidering he won a Grand National, too. home in the Ryanair Chase.

45
Ferguson
against John Magnier, one of the
club’s major shareholders.
Ferguson had been an owner for
dream will only a few years when the Rock took

the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket
in 2002 at the start of what was to
come true become a record-breaking seven-

race winning streak in Group One
events.
if Clan With hindsight Ferguson’s claim

to a half-share in the colt’s £50m
lifts Cup
breeding rights appears naive.
Yet his determination to pursue
it led to protests at racecourses
by Manchester United fans taking
his side in the dispute. The threat
of further disruption at the 2004
The former Manchester Cheltenham Festival receded only
▲ Lizzy Kelly is United manager may realise when Ferguson himself intervened,
ecstatic as she his ultimate ambition in issuing a plea to supporters to
returns following racing today at Cheltenham “refrain from any form of protest” as
her triumph “Cheltenham is such a great festival
yesterday ▼ Rachael and I don’t want it marred in any
Blackmore Greg Wood way”.
celebrates after Cheltenham None of Ferguson’s subsequent
A Plus Tard’s Flat horses have threatened to scale
win on Tuesday Many owners get into racing as an such heights but over jumps he has
escape from the pressures of their enjoyed regular success via shares
day job. Few have done so with as in horses in Paul Nicholls’s yard.
pressurised a day job as manager Clan Des Obeaux, already the winner
of Manchester United, nor enjoyed of the King George VI Chase at
such a full, colourful and at times Kempton on Boxing Day, is a young,
controversial career on the turf as hugely talented chaser with the best
Sir Alex Ferguson, who will be at of his career still in front of him.
Cheltenham today to watch Clan “It’s exciting stuff and it’s good to
Des Obeaux, a horse he part-owns, have him on board,” Nicholls says.
line up for the Gold Cup as one of the “He still loves his racing and this is
favourites. probably the best jumps horse he’s
Nothing could ever match the been involved in.
excitement and triumphs during “He loves the sport and loves
Ferguson’s 26 years at Old Trafford talking to people about it and I think
but his 21 years as a racehorse owner he likes having the young people
have still seen plenty of drama. around him, who are so enthusiastic
Racing, he said after a winner at about everything they do. He’s
Aintree nine years ago, has been always supported Harry [Cobden,
▲ Bryony Frost at the last Festival and this one is going “wonderful” for him and “a release Clan Des Obeaux’s jockey] and said
on Frodon the same way, as Lizzy Kelly scored from the grind” of life as a football that he’s a good young lad who’s
becomes the an hour after Frost (“I watched Bry- manager. Now, in his retirement going to get better and better.”
first woman to ony and thought, that was my game- and still recovering from life-saving Nicholls has been resurgent at
win a Grade plan!”) while Rachael Blackmore had brain surgery less than a year ago, this Festival, winning two Grade
One Chase at her moment here on Tuesday. There he is on the verge of what would One races following several leaner
the Cheltenham is no parity in the weighing room, not arguably be the most memorable years after the era dominated by the
Festival yet anyway, since men still take the success of all. Gold Cup winners, Kauto Star and
TOM JENKINS/ lion’s share of the rides, but women are It all started on a spring afternoon Denman.
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evidently able to muscle their way in, at Newmarket in April 1998. Football “It’s like a football team, as Alex
which did not seem true 15 years ago. royalty met the sport of kings as always says,” Nicholls said. “Its dips
At some point Frost’s achieve- Queensland Star, a relatively cheap and troughs and you’re only as good
ments may stop being framed in the buy at around £17,000, won a minor as the team you’ve got. You can’t
context of her being a female jockey. race at the first time of asking. expect to get the top players or the
But for as long as she is doing things The colt was named after a ship top horses all the time. You have to
that have never been done by a woman which Ferguson’s father, who be patient and wait until they come
before, it seems valid. Surely there is worked in the Govan shipyards and along and then have the patience
another generation of female riders had a “tanner Yankee” on the horses not to rush them before they’re
on their way, taking inspiration from every Saturday, had helped to build. ready. You let some go at the top and
her deeds, as well as those of Nina Car-
he Since then the highs have bottom and keep replacing them
berry,
b e Katie Walsh and others. included a Classic winner, several and hope to get a championship
Frost, like Blackmore, could not be victories at the highest level both team.”
more clear that she does not want to
m on the Flat and over jumps and Ferguson has a relatively
be
b e defined by her sex. “I do what I do,” a fancied runner in the Grand minor role to play in the latest
she said here. “If I was a boy, I’d ride the
sh National. The nadir, of course, was championship squad being
same. I’d show my emotions exactly
sa the long-running saga of Ferguson’s assembled at Nicholls’s stable.
the same. It’s just the style I’ve got.”
th claim to a share of the breeding It would still seem appropriate,
And there is no danger of anything rights in Rock Of Gibraltar, a dispute though, if Clan Des Obeaux could
go
going to her head, as she promised to which placed Manchester United’s come with a late charge in Friday’s
be
b e in bed by 9.30pm, ready for an early manager in the uncomfortable Gold Cup and get his head in front in
shift of mucking out at Paul Nicholls’
sh position of launching a legal action Fergie Time.
Somerset stable this morning. “That’s
So
one of the best days ever,” said the
on Sir Alex
trainer, who, perhaps crucially, took
tra Ferguson
Frodon to Wincanton for a racecourse
Fr with Clan Des
gallop last Friday to sharpen up his fit-
ga Obeaux’s jockey,
ness. Nicholls has now had two Grade
ne Harry Cobden
One wins here this week and hopes to
On (second left),
m
make it three, with Clan Des Obeaux, and trainer,
in today’s Gold Cup. “I knew he had to Paul Nicholls
be
b e mega, mega fit today, to bowl along (third left), at
in front like that,” Nicholls said. “I said Old Trafford
to Bryony, just keep saving and use one
run from the back of the last, and she
ru
di
did that brilliantly.”

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Rugby union Guinness Six Nations
Gatland
coach and oversees everything, “I have not seen a group as tight
but he knows when to put an arm and close as this for a long time,” said
around a player. He is aware there is Gatland, when asked to compare the
another gear in the side and I think
they will find it.
When I watched Wales keep out
backs squad with those in his grand slam
years of 2008 and 2012. “Rob Evans
[the prop] summed it up when he
Scotland, you could see the work
himself to said there was not anyone in the
MALCOLM MACKENZIE/PROSPORTS/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
put in by Shaun Edwards. One of squad he would not do something

his key phrases is that defence wins for or help out. Our message to the
championships and a significant
reason why Wales are going for the guide team players this week has been that we
will do whatever it takes to get them
grand slam is they are a very hard prepared and we have had a couple of
team to score against. England fell
after failing to work out a way to
to title No 4 unusual requests.”
Gatland knows Ireland will not
unlock them. surrender their title without giving
everything. Discipline will be key for
W
ales are astute at Wales if they are to keep the ball in play
the breakdown, Paul Rees and deny their opponents penalties
the area where a to kick to touch and drive lineouts,
game tends to be the source of three of their four tries
decided. They A feature of Warren Gatland’s coaching against France. Wales were penalised
Grand finale
do not commit career is that his teams tend to deliver only three times against England, a
too many players and they are when it matters. When he had a dig at figure that rose to 11 in Scotland.
ruthlessly efficient at clearing rucks England last month for bottling it on “I have already spoken to the ref-
when they have the ball. Shaun is the big occasion, Wales’ coach did so eree [Angus Gardner],” Gatland said.
There is another gear –

meticulous in his planning; he feels from a position of having won six finals “Our discipline against England was
he is part of the side and it is like he is out of six with Wasps and Waikato and such we negated their set piece: they
on the pitch alongside you. The lads overseen two grand slams with Wales. would have spent three or four hours
thrive off his desire and hunger. He also won and drew decisive Tests working on lineouts and it was a waste
and Wales will find it

Wales’ results this season have in charge of the Lions this decade and of time as they had only four. We must
been all the more impressive given Gatland is drawing on his big-game not allow Ireland a platform to work
what has been going on off the experience as Wales aim for a third off, and a big part of that is making sure
field with the regions. Again, that grand slam and fourth title in his final our discipline is good. I told the referee
is where the coaches come in. We Six Nations with them by defeating we were not at our best last week with
may not have Ireland’s strength in the first country he coached, Ireland, some of the penalties we conceded and
Jamie Roberts depth or successful teams below in Cardiff tomorrow. it has been a big focus for us this week.”
international level, but what we “I pride myself on the record I Like Gatland, Schmidt is prepar-
do have in the national squad is have had in big matches when it has ing his side for the final time in the
concentrated quality. really mattered,” Gatland said after Six Nations. “It has been a frustrating
W
The policy after the last World announcing an unchanged 23. “I get tournament,” he said. “We started on
ales will need to spot-on. They know when to push Cup was to develop strength in even more of a buzz when people write a really flat note against England and
save their best and when to hold back. When I look depth so there were three or four us off, which has happened on a num- have not been as cohesive as we would
for last against back on the tournaments I won with players in each position who were ber of occasions. It’s about building have liked but we go into the final week-
an Ireland team Wales, it was the hardest I trained Test-match ready. I was privileged belief and confidence in the players. It end still in contention for the title.”
who have yet in my career. Warren will have the to captain the side on tour in 2017 is important the coaches are positive
to hit top form, players believing they are fitter, when we played Tonga and Samoa. and often it comes down to which team
but I cannot see them losing. They faster and stronger than anyone I did not know some of the players wants it that little bit more. If you want
have been criticised for not showing and that their hard work will deliver in the squad, but they had been something badly enough and really
much attacking flair, but it is defence what they deserve. identified and were given the chance believe it can happen, it often does.”
that wins tournaments and the way Warren has been hugely to step up. If you do not roll the dice, A crucial match in Cardiff would not
they held on at Murrayfield last influential in his 12 years with Wales. you will never know, and what has be complete without a dispute over
weekend showed the character of a He does not say much during the happened in the past few months whether the roof at the Principality
resilient side. week of a match. He lets his coaches has not been by accident. Stadium should be open or closed.
Wales may not have taken too I would love to be involved Wales prefer the latter, something

many risks, but they have played tomorrow having been in Warren’s Ireland agreed to two years ago ▲ Warren Gatland is looking for his
smart, winning rugby. When they squads for years, but to be successful only to find the sprinklers on shortly third grand slam as Wales’ coach
have had to deliver at key moments, in professional sport you have to be before kick-off.
in attack and defence, they have. We may not have ruthless. Selection is about opinion Joe Schmidt said he was not pre-
They never throw in the towel, a and Warren makes that clear to the pared to leave the decision to Wales. Wales
hallmark of champions. They Ireland’s strength in players. It is about gut feeling, the “A lot was said two years ago about
have shown a desperate desire to direction the game is going and what making it good for the spectators but
wear the jersey this tournament depth but what we do he senses. the sprinklers were on for 30 minutes Ireland
and, as a Welshman, that makes
me very proud.
have in the squad is I was part of it for a long time
and suddenly I wasn’t. The biggest
and the ground was very damp when
the game started,” the Ireland coach
I played in Wales’ last grand slam concentrated quality challenge is not to take it personally, said. “We might as well keep the roof Tomorrow 2.45pm
year, 2012, and while you are a bit although your first instinct is to do open and let the rain come in rather
nervy in the leadup to the final exactly that. Decisions are made for than have it closed and wet.” Wales Ireland
L Williams Saracens 15 R Kearney Leinster
match, you are also excited. As a the good of the side and you have Wales have appealed to the Six
G North Ospreys 14 K Earls Munster
professional rugby player, there to respect that, hoping your chance Nations to make a ruling, with the J Davies Scarlets 13 G Ringrose Leinster
is nowhere you would rather be will come again. At least I will be at weather forecast predicting heavy rain H Parkes Scarlets 12 B Aki Connacht
tomorrow than the Principality the ground as part of the BBC’s radio and strong winds. “It’s our stadium J Adams Worcester 11 J Stockdale Ulster
Stadium with the chance to make commentary team. and we should be able to do what we G Anscombe C’diff Blues 10 J Sexton Leinster
G Davies Scarlets 9 C Murray Munster
history. Only four of the players I remember when Wales won the want with it,” Gatland said. R Evans Scarlets 1 C Healy Leinster
were involved in the grand slam grand slam in 2005. I watched the Schmidt has made three changes to K Owens Scarlets 2 R Best Ulster (c)
match against France seven years game outside the National Museum, the Ireland side who defeated France T Francis Exeter 3 T Furlong Leinster
ago, but all the coaches were and a student overindulging on cider. on Sunday. The former Scarlet Tadhg A Beard Ospreys 4 T Beirne Munster
AW Jones Ospreys (c) 5 James Ryan Leinster
they will make sure every player There were 250,000 people in Cardiff Beirne and Sean O’Brien replace the
J Navidi Cardiff Blues 6 P O’Mahony Munster
is fresh and ready to go come then and there will be again. Wales injured Iain Henderson and Josh J Tipuric Ospreys 7 S O’Brien Leinster
tomorrow afternoon. has a real passion for rugby and van der Flier, while Rob Kearney has R Moriarty Dragons 8 CJ Stander Munster
I can imagine being at training this days like tomorrow, with the chance recovered from a calf strain to return Replacements Replacements
week. The sessions will have been of a grand slam in the toughest of at full-back. E Dee Dragons N Scannell Munster
short and sharp, with the coaches tournaments, are special. Ireland’s Wales are chasing a record fourth N Smith Ospreys D Kilcoyne Munster
D Lewis Cardiff Blues A Porter Leinster
only too aware that Ireland demand ruthlessly efficient machine is grand slam in the Six Nations era, J Ball Scarlets Q Roux Connacht
the best of players physically and starting to work again, but as long as with Gatland aiming to become the A Wainwright Dragons J Conan Leinster
A Davies Ospreys K Marmion Connacht
mentally. I played under Warren The influence of Wales keep the penalty count low, first coach to win three. One statisti- D Biggar Northampton J Carty Connacht
Gatland and his coaching team for Shaun Edwards has another big moment will be nailed. cal quirk is they have only once this O Watkin Ospreys J Larmour Leinster
a long time; they know how a team been key for Wales century defeated England and Ireland
work and how to bring the best out
of individuals.
Jamie Roberts has won 94 caps
for Wales, is a British & Irish Lion,
in Cardiff in the same championship
campaign, 2005, and the previous year
Venue Principality Stadium
Referee Angus Gardner (Aus) 11°
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47
Formula One
World Rugby tempts Six
who have been unable to compete with
clubs in England, France and Japan
over salaries. World Rugby told the Hamilton leads
Nations with £5bn carrot unions that the championship could
generate £5bn over 12 years and that
they would all be better off by some tributes after
have resisted the demand to introduce
£10m a year at the start and consider-
ably more at the end of the 12 years. death of ‘iconic’
Paul Rees promotion and relegation. The Six Nations have been talking
World Rugby, which intends talks
to resume next month after union offi-
to CVC, the private equity company
that has taken a stake in the Gallagher
Whiting at 66
World Rugby wants its plan for a cials receive mandates, wants the Six Premiership and is in talks with the Pro
Nations Championship to be resolved Nations and the Rugby Championship 14. CVC wants to control the commer- Charlie Whiting in
at its council meeting in May so it does to be underpinned by two divisions of cial arm of the tournament in return Barcelona during
not get lost in the buildup the World emerging nations who would all have for 30% of the profits but World Rugby Giles Richards testing last month
Cup. The governing body yesterday a pathway to the top. There would be pointed out that under its plan all the Melbourne
met the chief executives and chair- relegation only every two years, after income generated would go back into
men of all the unions who would be a World Cup and a Lions tour, and a the sport and ensure it remained on Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel his brother for the driver Divina Galica
involved in Dublin, looking to win over team that went down would be given free-to-air television. have led the tributes to Charlie in the 1976 British F5000 series.
the sceptics in the Six Nations with the a parachute payment. “We are encouraged that the format Whiting, the Formula One race direc- He joined the Hesketh F1 team in
promise of a £5bn windfall. The World Rugby chairman, Bill revisions and robust financial model tor who died suddenly yesterday, three 1977 before linking up with Bernie
The championship would start in Beaumont, called the meeting after were well received,” said Beaumont. days before the first grand prix of the Ecclestone’s Brabham, where he
2022, adding to the Six Nations and the leaks about the plan drew the opposi- “As you would expect in an ambitious, season in Australia. Whiting, who remained for a decade and was the
Rugby Championship, which would tion of players and the Pacific island complex and multi-stakeholder pro- had been at the Albert Park circuit in chief mechanic and later the chief
increase from four to six teams, with a countries, who were upset at reports ject, not everyone is in full agreement, Melbourne on Wednesday, died as a engineer as Nelson Piquet won his
series of cross-tournament matches in they would be excluded. The interna- including the matter of promotion result of a pulmonary embolism. He titles in 1981 and 1983. In 1988 he
the July and November international tional players’ association was repre- and relegation, but we will continue was 66. joined the FIA as technical delegate
windows that culminate in a grand sented in Dublin, although club organ- to engage and consult. Whiting had been the FIA race direc- to Formula One and became the direc-
final. isations were not invited because the “This is a pivotal time for the game. tor since 1997 and was responsible for tor in 1997.
The proposal, which was driven by intention is to involve them if the Only by keeping the best interests all track activity over a race weekend, Ecclestone, a long-time friend of
World Rugby’s vice-chairman Agustín unions agree to the championship. of the global game at heart will we including safety, starting the race and Whiting, said: “It’s a big, big, big loss.
Pichot, has been far better received in Part of Pichot’s motivation was be able to achieve something truly enforcing rules and regulations. He He kept things on the road and kept the
the southern hemisphere than in the to establish a better business model impactful for the future success and had been a driving force in promoting FIA pretty well straight, because he’d
north, where the Six Nations countries for the southern hemisphere nations sustainability.” safety in F1, including the introduction look after the rules and everything
of the halo cockpit protection device else. People talk about him as a race
last year, which proved invaluable in director but it was a small part of all
Joe Cokanasiga preventing Charles Leclerc from being the things he did. A talented guy who
was the man of the hit by an airborne car at the Belgian loved doing what he wanted to do.
match in the win Grand Prix. “Two or three of the top teams tried
over Italy but will Well-liked and hugely respected, to get him to be their team manager but
sit out England’s the paddock was left shocked by his he thought he could do a lot better for
Six Nations match death. “I have known Charlie since everyone doing what he did. He did it
against Scotland I started in 2007,” Hamilton said. as a one-man job. It’s finding this per-
with Eddie Jones “Incredibly shocked to hear the sad son who can do what Charlie did. If
saying he is news and my thoughts and prayers are you’ve got three or four people doing
protecting the wing with his family. what he did, it just doesn’t work.”
from hype. ‘I don’t “All he did for the sport, his com- Ecclestone added: “He went to
need to fast-track mitment, he really was a pillar, such bed and didn’t get up in the morning,
him,’ said the coach an iconic figure within the sporting which is as good as it gets if you’ve got
TIM IRELAND/AP world and he contributed so much to leave us.”
to us.” Ross Brawn, the F1 managing direc-
Hamilton also recognised Whiting’s tor of motorsports, said he was dev-
commitment to making F1 safer. astated. “I was filled with immense
“Charlie did so much for this sport and sadness when I heard the tragic news.
helped push on so many areas for the It is a great loss not only for me per-
drivers and their safety,” he posted on sonally but also the entire Formula
Instagram. One family.”
Jones expecting England

the match against Italy last Saturday
but has made way for the returning
Vettel, who has also known
Whiting since he began in Formula
The Mercedes team principal, Toto
Wolff, described Whiting as a “guard-
Jack Nowell, with Henry Slade, Ben One in 2007, was with the race direc- ian of the sport’s best interests”, while
explosion from Moon and Mark Wilson also returning tor the day before his death. “I spoke the Red Bull chief, Christian Horner,
Scotland to the starting line-up in place of Ben to him and walked the first corners of said he was “a great man” and “a man
‘urgent’ England Te’o, Ellis Genge and Brad Shields.
The England head coach says he
the track with him,” the Ferrari driver
said. “It is difficult to grasp when
of great integrity”. The head of Ferrari,
Mattia Binotto, said he was “a tireless
against Scotland Tomorrow 5pm does not want Cokanasiga getting
carried away by the rave notices he is
somebody is just not there any more.
I have known him for a long time, he
and enlightened motorsport expert,
he helped make F1 safer and better. He
England Scotland already receiving, while there is also has been our man, the drivers’ man – was a pillar of Formula One.”
E Daly Wasps 15 S Maitland Saracens
Continued from back page clearly a desire to prevent southern there’s the regulations and there’s us The FIA president, Jean Todt, said:
J Nowell Exeter 14 D Graham Edinburgh
H Slade Exeter 13 N Grigg Glasgow
hemisphere rivals from studying the and he was the middle man. “Charlie Whiting was a great race
gest England have averaged more tack- M Tuilagi Leicester 12 S Johnson Glasgow newcomer in too much detail before “You could ask anything at any director, a central and inimitable
les per game than anyone else in the J May Leicester 11 B McGuigan Sale this autumn’s World Cup. Longer term, time, he was open to anyone; his door figure in Formula One who embodied
tournament but, according to Jones, O Farrell Saracens (c) 10 F Russell Racing 92 however, Jones has no doubt the wing was always open. He was a racer, just the ethics and spirit of this fantastic
B Youngs Leicester 9 A Price Glasgow
his squad are in prime fettle. “We had will prove a huge asset for England. a very nice guy. All our thoughts, the sport.”
B Moon Exeter 1 A Dell Edinburgh
a training run on Wednesday which J George Saracens 2 S McInally Edinburgh (c) “I want him to play 100 Tests – I don’t whole paddock, the whole family of F1, The FIA has appointed Michael
in terms of all the GPS data was by far K Sinckler Harlequins 3 WP Nel Edinburgh want him to just play 10 Tests,” Jones are with him and his family.” Masi as the race director, permanent
our most impressive. So we’re going J Launchbury Wasps 4 B Toolis Edinburgh added. “We don’t need to rush him. Whiting had a long career in motor starter and safety delegate for Sunday’s
G Kruis Saracens 5 G Gilchrist Edinburgh
in a great direction and Saturday will He’s still learning from being around sport. He started out by preparing rally grand prix. The Australian was already
M Wilson Newcastle 6 S Skinner Exeter
be a bit of an explosion. There’s a great T Curry Sale 7 H Watson Edinburgh
the squad and will feature heavily in cars before running a Surtees car with a deputy race director to Whiting and
deal of urgency about what we want B Vunipola Saracens 8 M Bradbury Edinburgh our warm-up games for the World Cup. worked with him at several of last sea-
to do and the point we want to prove. I don’t need to fast-track him. There’s son’s grands prix.
We’ve got an opportunity to show
Replacements
L Cowan-Dickie Exeter
Replacements
F Brown Glasgow only one track: the right track.” ‘All he did for The Haas team principal, Gunther
we’re the best team in the Six Nations
and approaching the best team in the
E Genge Leicester
D Cole Leicester
G Reid London Irish
S Berghan Edinburgh
Scotland have made six changes
as they look to earn their first win at
the sport, his Steiner, said the teams will do every-
thing they can to support Masi. “We are
B Shields Wasps J Gray Glasgow
world, and we’re not going to miss that N Hughes Wasps
B Spencer Saracens
J Strauss Sale
G Laidlaw Clermont
Twickenham since 1983. Hamish Wat- commitment, he here to make it happen for the people
opportunity.” son returns to the starting back row that need to step in, because these are
Jones is also keen to stress he fore-
G Ford Leicester
B Te’o Worcester
A Hastings Glasgow
C Harris Newcastle alongside Exeter’s Sam Skinner, with really was a pillar’ big shoes that need to be filled,” he said.
sees a brilliant future for Joe Coka- Ben Toolis picked in the second-row. “In the end we’ll make sure noth-
nasiga despite omitting the 21-year-old
Bath wing from his 23-man squad to
Venue Twickenham
Referee Paul Williams (NZ) 13° Sean Maitland and Byron McGuigan
are at full-back and wing with Sam Lewis Hamilton
ing goes through the cracks. For this
weekend our aim is, ‘If they need our
face the Scots. Cokanasiga was man of TV ITV Radio BBC 5 Live Johnson back at inside centre. F1 world champion help, we’re here to help.’”

48 Sport
▼ Adrian Mariappa was told, aged 15,
Football he had no future at Watford but he has
made 309 appearances for the club
GRAEME ROBERTSON/THE GUARDIAN
‘Veganism has served

me really well. I feel like
I can recover quicker’
Silva, and the current manager, Javi
Diet, athletics and basketball Gracia, both doubted the defender, ‘I’ll never be able
have helped take Watford’s casting him to the sidelines before to get away from
Adrian Mariappa to an FA Cup being won over. He has played 56
quarter-final against Palace of 77 league games since April 2017, Watford. Whatever
and is now 21st on the list of the
club’s all-time appearance-makers
I’m doing I’ll always
Simon Burnton with 309. be part of this club’
“There’s been moments that
I
have been really tough in my career,
t is three years since Watford when I’m not playing,” he says. “For
last played Crystal Palace in a long time at Palace I was travelling
the FA Cup, Palace prevailing to matches and I wasn’t making
at Wembley in the 2016 semi- the bench, and I hardly played
finals. It is a match that carries any league games. It does become
particularly strong memories tough mentally. But I don’t think I
for Adrian Mariappa; as a graduate ever doubted myself or my ability.
of Watford’s youth system he was I just knew I had to get through this
looking forward to facing his former time and stick to the principles that
club on the nation’s greatest stage, have got me to this place. You skip
but what could have been one of the forward to now, it’s justification to
highlights of his career became one myself, I was doing the right things.
of its greatest disappointments. “Football’s an opinion-based
“I travelled but I didn’t make sport and you can go from one
the bench and I was devastated,” manager who believes in you,
he recalls. “Devastated. We played believes in your ability and plays
a league game during the week you every week, to another manager
and I started that game. I came to who might not think you’re for
Wembley, playing Watford, my them, and through all that you need
hometown club, and when I found to have complete belief and try
out I wasn’t involved at all, not even to do all the small one percents to
on the bench, it was gut-wrenching. improve. That’s what I believe. I’ll
I tried to keep a positive outlook for work on the little one percents to
the guys who were playing, and it improve myself and make myself
was a great day for the club, but it a better player and the rest of it
wasn’t a nice feeling.” essentially isn’t in your hands.”
Four months later he rejoined It is a lesson Mariappa had to
Watford after a four-year absence, learn early. Having joined Watford
apparently as low-cost squad as an eight-year-old he worked his
padding, a free-transfer homegrown way through the system until at
player to make up the numbers. 15 they decided not to offer him
During the first 30 league games a scholarship and for a while the
of that campaign, three while still dream seemed, if not dead, then at
at Palace and the remainder in least very distant.
Hertfordshire, he did not spend “I was playing up with the under-
a single minute on the pitch. The 17s when I got my decision that I
following April, amid a horrendous wasn’t going to get a full scholarship.
injury crisis, Walter Mazzarri was And the next day I was back playing
forced to give him a go and Mariappa in the under-15s. At the time that
kept his place for the remainder of felt like my world had shattered.
the season. But the next day I made the decision
Mazzarri’s successor, Marco that I would do everything I could, centre-half at a very young age and people have said I’m just following There are 31 English clubs,
every
everything that was in my control to probably from the age of 14 onwards a trend but a year and a half later including every Premier League
try to make it in football. I was told, every single year, I was I’m still doing it. I wouldn’t say I’ll team except Bournemouth,
“I ddidn’t use it as an excuse, I going to have to try to adapt my never go back to eating meat but I who exceed Watford’s average
used it i as something to spur me on. game to play right-back or midfield. can’t see myself going back to eating attendance of 20,211 this season,
They’
They’re principles that have stuck “But I knew my best position meat. It’s served me really well so yet Gracia’s side are eighth in the
with me,m throughout my whole was centre-half and I used to work far. I feel like I can recover quicker table and will reach another FA Cup
career
career. When I came here I was relentlessly on my jumping and my and obviously the older you get, semi-final should they beat Palace
proba
probably the sixth-choice centre- timing. My dad used to do loads of the more important being able to tomorrow.
half, and
a I had to wait for a lot of work in the garden with me. I always recover is.” “I don’t think we’ve finished
H
injuri
injuries to get an opportunity. I’ve enjoy the challenge of playing yet,” Mariappa says. “I don’t think
alway
always tried to stick by what I know against someone who’s bigger e is in some ways an the owners here will settle for
is the right thing to do – train hard, than me, and trying to prove that embodiment of the complacency. They won’t let the
keep m myself mentally at it, so when I it doesn’t matter about my height club he represents, players do it and the manager
get an opportunity I can take it.” [5ft 11in]. If I hadn’t worked on that, not only because it definitely won’t. A lot of people
As a teenager Mariappa enrolled and I didn’t get my timing and my is nearly a quarter of thought at this point in the season
with an a athletics club, missing jumping right, I don’t even know a century since he we would just down tools but we
summ
summer holidays to work on what would have happened.” first joined – “I’ll never be able to haven’t – we’re trying to maintain
impro
improving his speed. “My sprint Now 32, he continues to work get away from Watford; whatever our form and keep pushing on,
Mariappa rejoined techn
technique was terrible – quite flat- on those one percents. More I’m doing I’ll always be part of this and we’ve shown that in our
Watford from footed
footed, I needed to learn to run recently, hoping for another small club” – but because Watford, like performances and results.
Palace in 2016 on my toes,” he says. He was also improvement, he adopted a vegan Mariappa, are smaller than many “Who knows where the club can
shorte
shorter than most centre-backs, diet. “I did a bit of research and of their rivals, often unfancied, go? One step at a time. We just want
so he joined
j a basketball club to thought: ‘Let’s give it a go.’ I’ve never forced to work tirelessly on the one to finish the season well and make
impro
improve his jumping. “I moved to been one to follow a fad diet. A lot of percents to remain competitive. another big step forward.”

49
Scholes resigns at Oldham after

and Cambridge, though in a statement will continue to watch and support
released after informing the club of his the club as a fan.”
decision yesterday afternoon he sug- Scholes is believed to have insisted
31 days claiming he was misled gested disappointment at promises he

claimed had not been kept.
“It is with great regret that I have
on no interference from the owner,
Abdallah Lemsagam, as a condition
of becoming the manager. A club state-
decided to leave with immediate ment on his departure limited itself
his only win in seven games, and the effect,” Scholes said. “The fans, the to thanking him for his services and
Paul Wilson subsequent three draws and three players and my friends and family wishing him well.
defeats have left Oldham in 14th place all knew how proud I was to take this “We would like to place on record
in League Two. job, and I hoped at the very least to our thanks to Paul for his efforts dur-
Paul Scholes has resigned as the The 44-year-old joins Gary Neville see out my initial term of 18 months as ing his spell in charge and would
manager of Oldham after 31 days in in the awkward position of being an the manager of a club I’ve supported like to wish him well for the future,”
charge, claiming he was misled over outspoken pundit unable to put his all my life. Oldham’s statement said. “An update
the amount of control he would be ideas into practice when given the “But in the short period since I took on the permanent replacement will be
allowed and did not find it possible to chance, though at least he has left on on the role it unfortunately became made as soon as possible.”
work as he intended. his own terms. Neville was sacked clear I would not be able to operate Lemsagam, a Moroccan for-
The former Manchester United after less than four months at Valencia. Paul Scholes left Oldham as I intended and was led to believe. mer football agent who took over
midfielder won his first match as the Scholes may have been facing the after winning one of his I wish the fans, the players and the Oldham in January 2018, said when
manager of his boyhood team with a same fate after losing at home to seven matches in charge staff – who have been tremendous – all he appointed Scholes that “Paul will
4-1 victory over Yeovil but that was Morecambe and being held by Crewe the best for the rest of the season and have my backing 100%”.
Milner: Today’s draw
Europe Draw for quarter-

and semi-finals
Draw is open but
respects us the Manchester

clubs will not be
able to play at
– now for home on the

same night
Time
trophies
11am GMT,
live on BT Sport 2
Teams remaining
Ajax, Barcelona,
Juventus,
Liverpool,
Manchester City,
Andy Hunter Manchester
United, Porto,
Tottenham
Round dates
James Milner believes Liverpool have
Quarter-finals
earned the respect of Europe with their 9/10 and 16/17
Champions League rise under Jürgen April
Klopp but admits he will not be satis- Semi-finals
fied until a trophy finally returns to 30 April/1 May
Anfield. and 7/8 May
Liverpool’s comfortable defeat of Final
Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena, (Estadio
where the serial German champions Metropolitano,
had lost only one of their previous 26 Madrid)
Champions League games, was argu- Saturday 1 June
ably their finest European away dis-
play under Klopp and demonstrated
the quality that delivered a place in last
season’s final. England will have four
representatives in today’s quarter- ▲ James Milner holds Bayern last year’s Champions League final the quarter-finals. But the prospect
final draw and, though keen to avoid Munich’s Serge Gnabry at bay has increased Liverpool’s desire for of another all-English tie does not
an all-Premier League affair, Milner LARS BARON/GETTY IMAGES a sixth European Cup. “We felt what excite him.
believes all of Europe view Liverpool it is to play in a final and the journey “We have always had the belief
as a team to avoid. was great. We want it again,” he said. that the Premier League is the best in
“I’d like to think teams have that Liverpool but to have not won some- “At a club like Liverpool you have to the world but it has been a top league
respect for us,” the midfielder said. thing when we have given ourselves win everything possible and you without that many teams [in the latter
“We got to the Champions League final opportunities is difficult to take. have to play for both: the Premier stages] of this one,” he said. “Every
last year. We got to the Europa League “It is something I am desperate League and the Champions League. It team left are a good side. People will
final in 2016. There are two European to put right. It’s been so long since suits Liverpool to play for both. Look look at Porto and Ajax but they are
finals since I have been at the club. We we won a league title. Even in recent at Manchester City, they are not [just] young teams and they are flying. They
are challenging for the Premier League years Liverpool haven’t won as many going for the title or the Champions deserve to be there and we all know
too. Whether teams take notice is not trophies as they should do for such League. It is a big club – so is Liver- they will be tough teams. To have
really for us to worry about but they a big club. We have to put that right. pool – so you go for both.” four teams in the last eight is great for
take notice after they have played us We have to get over the line in one of Milner insists Liverpool can England but I don’t particularly want
and we have put them out.” them.” improve on the performance that to play any of the others.
Liverpool are back on the interna- Georginio Wijnaldum, a fellow ensured there would be no German Jürgen Klopp’s “It is always a weird feeling play-
tional map, according to their man- midfielder, shares Milner’s assess- club in the last eight of the Cham- Liverpool are to be ing an English team in Europe. You get
ager, but Milner admits the failure to ment that defeat by Real Madrid in pions League for the first time in 13 feared in Europe used to getting on a plane and instead
win a trophy under Klopp is hard to years. “We have played better games you end up getting on a bus and going
stomach. It is also a motivation to go but you could see some of the experi- across the M62. Whoever we get will
one better in this season’s Champions ‘You get used to ence we have gained over the last few be tough. But we have shown over
b
League and for the Premier League years come through,” he said. “Sadio the last few years what we can do and
title race, the 33-year-old says. getting on a plane, [Mané]’s first goal was very naughty. hopefully we can keep putting in per-
“I have been to three finals since I
have been here, lost them all and I am
instead you get a The way he took it was ridiculous but
that’s the quality he’s got.”
formances and kick on.”
Liverpool’s win also dashed Pep
desperate to put that right. It’s a mem- bus across the M62’ Milner believes the strength of the Guardiola’s hope of seeing Bayern,
ory you never forget. You are proud Premier League is finally beginning to his former club, in the last eight. “Ah,
to have played in the European Cup translate on the European stage, with yes,” said Milner, well aware of the City
final but you don’t go there to lose. I James Milner Manchester City, Manchester United manager’s wish. “That’s unlucky for
have loved every minute of my time at Liverpool midfielder and Tottenham joining Liverpool in him, isn’t it?”

50 Sport
Football Europa League
Arsenal become
superheroes to
overrun Rennes
create a hot atmosphere and no sooner
Arsenal 3 had the game kicked off than the Emir-
Aubameyang 5 72, Maitland-Niles 15
ates was filling with smoke and rau-
cous noise. It happened to come from
Rennes 0 the Clock End, which housed the bois-
terous travelling party of 5,000 Rennes
Arsenal win 4-3 on aggregate supporters. A flurry of scarlet flares
were ignited in the opening minute,
Amy Lawrence cranking up the temperature.
Emirates Stadium The mood soared another few
notches as Arsenal broke early to help
It was a night when Arsenal required themselves to a goal. They moved
superhuman effort and some heroic smoothly down the right, Aubamey-
performances to overturn a two-goal ang backheeling the ball towards Ain-
handicap and seize their ticket for sley Maitland-Niles, who was able to
the Europa League quarter-finals. find Aaron Ramsey in the box. The
An accomplished team performance Welshman’s cross was stabbed in by
was crowned by the moment Pierre- Aubameyang. Arsenal’s taste for the
Emerick Aubameyang scored their task in hand felt suddenly sharper.
third goal and relished the moment Rennes had been, understandably,
with a spot of dressing up. His chosen perplexed by the news on Tuesday that
character, embellished by the mask Alexandre Lacazette was available,
that had been waiting in the goal, was having had a three-match ban reduced
Black Panther. His teammates huddled on appeal. But before they had even
round him relishing another important had the chance to get a feel for the tem-
moment in what has felt like a pivotal perature of Arsenal’s attacking intent, ered the second goal required to level was interesting, as Emery’s team had shot against the post after Shkodran
week. they were badly stretched. the tie on aggregate and give Arsenal what they needed to go through with Mustafi dallied and lost possession.
Aubameyang, it is worth remem- Arsenal pulsed forwards, sending the away-goal advantage they craved. 75 minutes still to play. They knew the Not only were the Ligue 1 team try-
bering, was ineligible for the Europa direct balls for their forward players to Aubameyang was again involved, visitors possessed the quality to score ing to unsettle Arsenal with their play,
League last season, having signed chase. Aubameyang sped up the right. springing to hunt down a ball at the an away goal to change the complex- they were also trying to disrupt with
from Borussia Dortmund in Janu- Sead Kolasinac thundered up the left byline, with more than a suspicion of ion, to reapply pressure. Their coach theatrical episodes whenever they felt
ary, but his effervescent display led and sent in a trademark cutback. In offisde. Kolasinac was certainly offside Julien Stéphan had spoken of his ambi- they could appeal for anything that
the necessary charge to see Arsenal the 15th minute another surge deliv- but tried to stay inactive. Aubameyang tion to score and his players endeav- might resemble a foul, and putting
through this time. pressed on. Amid the brief, confused oured regain a foothold. pressure on the Latvian officials. The
Unai Emery’s record as a Europa pause as the Rennes defence hoped for After the shellshock of a shuddering
League specialist meant he was not a refereeing intervention, the Gabon opening, the game became niggly. Cool Arsenal Rennes
3-5-2 4-4-2
short of what he described as “similar” forward kept his focus to loft a cross heads were needed and Arsenal tried Cech; Mustafi, Koubek; Traoré•, Da Silva,
experiences in terms of the need to towards the far post where Maitland- to prise their opponents open again. Koscielny, Monreal; Sitoe•, Bensebaini;
Maitland-Niles, Ramsey Bourigeaud•, André
engineer a second-leg comeback. He Niles ghosted in to plant his header Özil floated in a cross and Aubamey- (Torreira 87), Xhaka, (Lea Siliki 79), Grenier•
Kolasinac•; Özil (Hunou 70), Sarr;
loaded up the attack, trusting all his past Tomas Koubek. ang took aim with a bicycle kick only (Mkhitaryan• 70); Ben Arfa, Niang
most-experienced players in the front The scale of the 3-1 loss at the to slice it. Lacazette• (Iwobi 70), Subs not used
Aubameyang• Badiashile, Zeffane,
half of the team as he had in the victory Roazhon Park last Thursday set Arse- Rennes emerged after half-time Subs not used Doumbia, Del Castillo,
against Manchester United on Sunday. nal that tough task of needing to with emboldened resolve. Press- Leno, Suárez, Gelin
Guendouzi, Nketiah
Emery had called for the Arsenal ▲ Unai Emery shows his approval for ensure they balance out their search ing higher up the pitch and with
fans to come together with the team to Arsenal’s comeback against Rennes for goals with firm resilience. Now it more intent, M’Baye Niang fizzed a Referee Andris Treimanis (Lat)

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Giroud’s hat-trick puts

adds a new dimension to this team’s uted in the buildup to Giroud’s second,
Rising midfield. “The potential of Loftus- too, spinning away impressively from
highest to Cheek is very high, physically and Sydorchuk before spreading the play
the big technically, but he is also improving to Alonso. The Spaniard’s centre was
occasion icing on Chelsea cake tactically,” Sarri said. “He can become
one of the best midfielders not only in
England but in Europe.
wonderfully weighted and placed,
bypassing the Dynamo rearguard for
Giroud to dart between centre-halves
Ainsley
“Callum also played very well, and convert with his right.
Maitland-
revelled in a match away from Premier better in the second half, because we The first away hat-trick by a Chelsea
Niles Dynamo Kyiv 0 League right-wingers, the Spaniard found the spaces and Callum in the player in continental competition
outjumps
scoring one goal, assisting in another spaces is really a very good player. I’m since Didier Drogba at Levski Sofia
the Rennes
and seeing a free-kick tipped glori- happy for him but he has to keep the in 2006 was completed with a header
defence for Chelsea 5 ously on to the angle of post and bar feet on the ground because he, too, guided beyond Boyko from Willian’s
Arsenal’s Giroud 5 33 59, Alonso 45, Hudson-Odoi 78
by the overworked Denys Boyko. The can improve more.” free-kick just before the hour.
second goal, Chelsea win 8-0 on aggregate left-back returns with confidence Dynamo found the youth-team Not content with that, Giroud
on their way
bolstered. graduates, like Chelsea as a whole, played a part in the team’s third, his
to a 3-0 win
Dominic Fifield Yet arguably most encouraging irresistible. They managed their first pass sending Hudson-Odoi to the
NICK POTTS/PA
Olympiyskiy Stadium of all was the contribution of Ruben attempt on target across the two legs byline, with the youngster’s cross
Loftus-Cheek. The 23-year-old has had after 141 minutes and, even if Serhiy converted by Alonso. The Frenchman
This ended up more like a bye into the such an anticlimactic campaign after Sydorchuk did strike a post, it was hard also slid Hudson-Odoi free to secure
Europa League quarter-finals than the the progress made on loan at Crystal to fathom how they could have lost Chelsea’s biggest Europa League win
perilous encounter Maurizio Sarri had Palace last season and with England at only two of 14 previous home games near the end.
rather warily foreseen. Chelsea barely the World Cup. He has been hampered in European competition, so easily had
broke into a sweat in dismissing a des- by recurring back problems and Sarri’s they been prised apart. Dynamo Kyiv Chelsea
4-2-3-1 4-3-3
perately naive Dynamo Kyiv, with the scepticism over his defensive capa- Alyaksandr Khatskevich was asked Boyko; Kedziora, Burda, Arrizabalaga; Zappacosta
uneven playing surface probably rep- bilities, and may be fortunate to be if he would consider his position after Kadar, Mykolenko•; (Azpilicueta• 69),
Sydorchuk Rüdiger, Christensen,
resenting more of a threat than over- retained in Gareth Southgate’s squad this thrashing. The manager declined (Tchê Tchê 65), Shepelev Alonso; Kanté
(Andrievsky 87); (Jorginho 65), Kovacic,
awed opponents. for the Euro 2020 qualifiers. Yet, with to respond. Tsygankov, Shaparenko, Loftus-Cheek; Willian
The occasion lacked a competitive yoga alleviating some of the muscular His team had been deflated early, Sidcley (Smyrnyi 81); (Pedro 74), Giroud,
Garmash Hudson-Odoi
edge, though given Chelsea’s toils complaints, this was him at his best: dozing at Chelsea’s first corner as Subs not used Subs not used
over recent months Sarri will have all power in possession, strength on Loftus-Cheek flicked on Willian’s deliv- Bushchan, Bueno, Caballero, Barkley, Hazard,
Shabanov, Alibekov David Luiz
welcomed such a stroll. His team the ball and deceptive pace. ery and Giroud converted left-footed
feel like contenders in a competition When at his best, Loftus-Cheek at the far post. Loftus-Cheek contrib- Referee Tobias Stieler (Ger) Attendance 64,830
that carries the considerable prize
of Champions League qualification.
Their younger players are making their
mark at this level, while Chelsea have
the Europa League’s leading scorer in
Olivier Giroud, a World Cup winner
game was teetering on the edge of con- reduced to bench-warmer status in the
trol, with both teams sensing another Premier League.
goal could be critical. Emotions ran The striker has managed less than
high. Rennes broke dangerously down an hour of top-flight football this year
the right as Niang teed up Ismaila Sarr, but celebrated a perfect hat-trick (both
and when Kolasinac slid in with a per- feet and a header) to swell his goal
fect block tackle he leapt up to his feet tally in Europe to nine in nine games.
with a primal roar. “He was very, very good,” Sarri said.
Emery brought on fresh legs and “But, in the last period, every time he
one of them, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, has been on the pitch he was able to
made an instant impact as he drove play really very well. Olivier for us is a
Arsenal forward en route to a third very important player. I’m really very
goal of the night. After a couple of one- happy for him.”
Olivier Giroud
twos he spotted Kolasinac bombing There were other positives, too.
heads home
forward. A driven cross was prodded Callum Hudson-Odoi, on his seventh
his hat-trick
home by Aubameyang, who celebrated start, contributed to Chelsea’s third
goal against
with the mask he had been promising goal with a neatly worked assist and
Dynamo Kyiv
for the last couple of games. He was not slid in his fourth Europa League goal
MICHAEL ZEMANEK/
confident enough to wear it for 1-0, but this season near the end after sprint- BPI/REX/
3-0 felt emphatic enough. ing on to Giroud’s pass. Marcos Alonso SHUTTERSTOCK
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Chris Smalling during the home Dabbur 25 Milik 14 M Raonic (Can) bt J-L Struff (Ger) 6-4 6-3; H Hurkacz (Pol)
Gulbrandsen 65, Leitgeb 90 (agg 3-4) 29,520 bt D Shapovalov (Can) 7-6 (3) 2-6 6-3; R Federer (Swi) bt
match against Manchester United. PA K Edmund (GB) 6-1 6-4; K Khachanov (Rus) bt J Isner (US)
Slavia Prague (1) 2 Sevilla (1) 2
Ngadeu-Ngadjui 15 Ben Yedder 44pen 6-4 7-6 (7-1); D Thiem (Aut) bt I Karlovic (Cro) 6-4 6-3;
Discipline West Ham Football Soucek 47pen El Haddadi 54
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G Monfils (Fr) bt P Kohlschreiber (Ger) 6-0 6-2
Women: Quarter-finals: B Andreescu (Can) bt G Muguruza
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Stage five (time trial; 25.5km) 1 S Yates (GB) Mitchelton-
Birmingham have been charged with Andy Carroll looks to have played Birmingham 15 9 1 5 20 14 +6 28 BETFRED SUPER LEAGUE
Scott 30min 26sec; 2 N Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin
Bristol City 16 6 4 6 13 26 -13 22 Huddersfield 12 St Helens 40
failing to ensure their fans conducted his final game for West Ham after West Ham 16 6 1 9 21 29 -8 19
+0:07sec; 3 M Kwiatkowski (Pol) Sky +0:11.
themselves in an orderly fashion another injury setback. The striker Reading 15 5 3 7 22 24 -2 18
Racing Overall standings: 1 M Kwiatkowski (Pol) Sky 17hr 23min;
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Fixtures
Brighton 17 3 4 10 12 33 -21 13 1.30 (2m 3f 168yds): 1 Defi Du Seuil (3-1 Fav), BJ Geraghty
against Aston Villa. The midfielder the last two matches with an ankle (P J Hobbs); 2 Lostintranslation (4-1); 3 Mengli Khan (9-1). Football
Everton 14 2 3 9 9 26 -17 9
Jack Grealish was punched by a problem. The 30-year-old will be Yeovil 15 1 1 13 9 43 -34 4
2¼, 7, 3, ns, 6. 10 ran. Sky Bet League One
2.10 (2m 7f 213yds): 1 Sire Du Berlais (4-1 Fav), Doncaster v Barnsley (7.45pm)
Birmingham fan during Villa’s 1-0 out of contract in the summer and, Arsenal (1) 4 Bristol City (0) 0 BJ Geraghty (G Elliott); 2 Tobefair (40-1); 3 Not Many Left Sky Bet League Two
victory at St Andrew’s on Sunday. having started only three Premier Miedema 11 59 79 (16-1); 4 Cuneo (12-1). nk, 1¼, 2, 4½, 1¼. 24 ran. Newport County v Cheltenham (7.45pm)
McCabe 76 2.50 (2m 4f 127yds): 1 Frodon (9-2), Bryony Frost (PF Nicholls); Ladbrokes Scottish Championship
The FA statement read: “Birmingham League games this season, is not 2 Aso (33-1); 3 Road To Respect (9-2). 7-2 Fav Footpad. Inverness CT v Ross County (7.05pm)
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE
City has been charged with breaches expected to be offered a new one. Last 16: Second leg
1¼, 1¾, 2¼, 3¼, 5. 12 ran.
Rugby union
3.30 (2m 7f 213yds): 1 Paisley Park (11-8 Fav),
of FA rule E20 (a) and (b). It is alleged “Andy Carroll has an ankle problem,” Guinness U20 Six Nations
Arsenal (2) 3 Rennes (0) 0 Aidan Coleman (Miss EC Lavelle); 2 Sam Spinner (33-1);
England v Scotland (7.45pm); Italy v France (6pm);
the club failed to ensure that its Manuel Pellegrini said. “How serious Aubameyang 5 72 3 Faugheen (4-1). 2¾, 4, 1¼, 11, 3½. 18 ran.
Wales v Ireland (7.05pm)
Maitland-Niles 15 (4-3 on agg) 4.10 (2m 4f 127yds): 1 Siruh Du Lac (9-2), Lizzie Kelly
spectator[s] conducted themselves we don’t know.” Carroll joined from (Nick Williams); 2 Janika (3-1 Fav); 3 Spiritofthegames (6- Rugby league
Benfica (0) 1 Dinamo Zagreb (0) 1 1); 4 Eamon An Cnoic (10-1). ¾, 2¼, ½, 8, 2½. 22 ran. Betfred Super League
in an orderly fashion; refrained from Liverpool in 2012, initially on loan Jonas 71 (1-1 on agg; score after 90min) NR: Ballyhill, Romain De Senam. Hull v Wakefield (7.45pm); Leeds v London Broncos
improper or violent conduct and before agreeing a £15m move on a Dynamo Kyiv (0) 0 Chelsea (3) 5 4.50 (2m 179yds): 1 Eglantine Du Seuil (50-1), ND Fehily (7.45pm); Warrington v Wigan (7.45pm)
(WP Mullins); 2 Concertista (66-1); 3 Tintangle (40-1). 15-8 Cricket
refrained from encroaching on to the six-year contract. In that time he has (0-8 on agg) Giroud 5 33 59, Alonso 45
Fav Epatante. shd, 1¾, hd, 3¼, hd. 22 ran. 5.30 (3m 2f): Test Match (first day of five)
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Internazionale (0) 0 Eintracht Frankfurt (1) 1 Cross (7-1); 3 The Young Master (22-1); 4 Crievehill (40-1). Third Test Match (first day of five)
fixture against Aston Villa.” Arsenal out of a possible 266. PA (0-1 on agg) Jovic 6 3-1 Fav Measureofmydreams. 3¾, 3½, 5, 2¼, ¾. 23 ran. Christchurch New Zealand v Bangladesh (10pm)

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Europa League Friday 15 March 2019
No masking Chelsea progress

after Giroud
Arsenal’s talent tucks into Kyiv
as Aubameyang
leads thrilling Scholes resigns
comeback at Oldhamm after

n charge
31 days in
Pages 50-51 Page 49
‘I see a
tired team’
Jones puts
pressure
on Gatland
Robert Kitson
Warren Gatland has told Eddie Jones

to mind his own business after the
England coach said Wales looked
“tired” before their Six Nations decider
with Ireland in Cardiff. Jones also
believes the Irish are “peaking” at the
right time and says Scotland can expect
“a bit of an explosion” from an England
team still hoping to claim the title.
The final weekend hardly needs
extra hype as an unchanged Wales seek
to win a third Grand Slam in 11 years
but, with England needing Ireland to
do them a favour, Jones has queried
whether Gatland’s side have enough
in the tank to complete a clean sweep.
“I’m just saying what I see, mate,” he
said. “I see a team that’s looking tired;
I see an Ireland team that’s peaking.
“Wales are a very good team. They
are very well coached and great credit
to them for what they have done, but
it’s a tough tournament and you can
see they’re getting tired. They have
made more tackles than anyone else
in the tournament and they’re playing
against an Ireland side that seems to
be peaking at the right time.
“Guys like Conor Murray, Johnny
Sexton, Garry Ringrose and Peter
O’Mahony weren’t in great form at the
start of the tournament but they look
like they’ve got their mojo back. I’m
sure the crowd will help Wales over-
come that tiredness but its going to be
a great game.”
Jones’s assessment appears based
on Wales’s attritional second half in
Murrayfield, where they had to with-
stand a concerted Scotland fightback.
▲ Bryony Frost Gatland, for one, believes England
Frost’s magical moment and Frodon

celebrate after
winning the
should be focusing on their own issues
rather than querying Wales’s title cre-
dentials. “What the hell is Eddie Jones
Fabulous Frodon creates

Ryanair Chase doing talking about our game? If it
while, left, was me, I’d be concentrating on play-
Lizzie Kelly also ing Scotland. If you look at the stats,
history at Cheltenham
enjoyed success England have made a hell of a lot more
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The Guardian Friday 15 March 2019
Opinion
and ideas
There’s now only one way to

end the deadlock: compromise
The Brexit chasm has seemed

unbridgeable. No path has
appeared to guide us out of
the impasse. Last night a
glimmer of an escape route
came into view. Parliament
decided to ask the European
Union to postpone Brexit day.
It asked for this phase to be extended, probably for the extremes. Last night, the Commons came within
Simon three months. It did so, shamelessly, because it could not two votes of seizing control of the Brexit process from
agree on what on earth to do next. The EU, reasonably, Downing Street. The price May had to pay to secure
Jenkins asks why. If the UK could not decide on Brexit in two her narrow win was to agree that, if she loses again on
and a half years, what difference will three months Tuesday, there will be time set aside to debate how
make? The answer is that Theresa May is refusing to the house wishes to honour Britain’s commitment to
give up on her red lines and her frantic efforts to appease withdraw from the EU, given that by then it will have
the rightwing of her party. Yet her deal has not so far vetoed both her deal and no deal. In other words,
pleased them, and it has now gone down to defeat twice, parliament will have an opportunity to cohere round
by huge margins. Astonishingly, she wants to try one an alternative to crashing out of the EU without any
more time next Tuesday. deal at all. It remains astonishing that it has taken
May hopes that she can bully, bribe or even persuade so long for this pathetic Commons to come near such
a few more of her Tory MPs to change their minds. Even an initiative.
if she wins over the DUP, this is near inconceivable. The question for May will be: can she still keep
I attended the anti-Brexit Bruges Group rally last hold of the process? She really must accept that her
Monday, and can report that these people will never red lines and the appeasement of her rightwing have
support her deal. They would no more strike a bargain failed to pass muster. She must be ready to allow her
with Brussels than vote that the Earth is round. chancellor, Philip Hammond, to live up to his remarks
Even if May wins, she will return to Brussels an on Wednesday favouring a cross-party compromise.
unstable leader. She has an insecure majority, an This means he must join in serious talks with his Labour
undisciplinable cabinet and an alienated opposition. shadow, John McDonnell, and with Jeremy Corbyn, both
She could hardly go forward into the final negotiating of whom have clearly indicated a willingness to seek an
phase on that basis. Her “opening to the right” two years alternative Brexit deal.
ago has been as disastrous to herself as to the country,
as are all such attempts to govern in a democracy from
That alternative is now clear, not least
since the Commons last night rejected a

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second referendum. That option would EU ending EU membership – into a treaty with multiple,
have breached faith with the 2016 vote. It

would have repolarised debate and been a
gift to Brexit fanatics. The time for a second referendum
complex implications for Britain’s relations with the
rest of the world. Sadly, a cross-party plan that would
have allowed MPs to seize control of the agenda was
is way down the line, possibly to confirm a final, MPs must use a Brexit narrowly defeated last night – by two votes. That
permanent deal.
The sensible compromise is clear: soft Brexit. It is delay to let reason and leaves Mrs May still notionally in charge of Brexit,
determined to keep testing parliament’s view of her
variously codenamed common market 2.0, or Norway,
or customs union, or EEA. Under it, Britain leaves the reality back into the debate ailing deal. That is a dismal prospect even with the
partial safety net of an article 50 extension.
EU but remains in Europe’s wider economic zone. Such The whole Brexit question needs reframing around
an off-the-shelf package is known to be acceptable to For nearly two years, Britain has known when it the actual relationship between the UK and the EU –
Brussels. It respects the pleas of industry and commerce is supposed to leave the EU. Its politics have been the facts of what it means to be a leading member of a
not to wreck Britain’s continental trade for pie-in-the- consumed by the question of how. There has been powerful global alliance and what relinquishing that
sky “deals with the rest of the world”. less exploration of why. The simplest answer is that a status entails, as distinct from nationalistic myths
A customs union (plus or minus) would resolve the majority voted to do so and that their preference should, of dissolved sovereignty. A systematic failure of Mrs
insoluble Irish border issue. It would avoid a tariff at on democratic principle, be respected. But when the May’s approach has been to negotiate first with her
Dover and save British farming its present horrors. government has failed to find a safe Brexit path, to own party, which is steeped in a culture of paranoid
The single market would also avert the absurdity of proceed regardless of the consequences is to risk being Euroscepticism, and only then present the results of
replacing Polish workers with those from halfway wantonly destructive. Just such a point of failure has that discussion as unrealistic demands in Brussels.
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around the world. been reached. A vote by MPs last night recognising the That route guaranteed disappointment and amplified
need to delay the 29 March departure date proves it. differences between Britain and its neighbours,
oft Brexit may not please everyone, But there is no more clarity about the purpose of such when the future relationship has to be founded in
but it is now the nearest to a Brexit an extension than there is about the ultimate goals of recognition of commonalities.
common denominator. The essence of Brexit itself. It is feasible that MPs will yet nudge Mrs May’s
compromise is to find a way through An amendment calling for another referendum was withdrawal agreement over the finish line, but if so,
intransigences. This is politics, not a war soundly beaten. That cannot be the end of the idea. that will only be the end of the beginning of Brexit. It
of religions. If May refuses to authorise Labour abstained, with many of its MPs supporting starts to describe how it might be done. But there will
cross-party talks – thus giving Brussels a public vote in principle but believing the question still be mysteries unsolved: how are Britain’s interests
a reason to agree a delay – she has no had been put prematurely. Such tactics aside, a clear served by Brexit; what are the costs in exchanging
alternative. Britain crashes out of the EU in two weeks’ majority of MPs are currently committed to quitting the privileges afforded to a leading EU member for the
time. No-deal Brexit scare stories may have been EU. Sadly, intent alone doesn’t bring practical solutions diminished position of former member; what, in
overstated, but crashing out would devastate the jobs closer. The 2016 result described an action – leave – but the most profound strategic, cultural and economic
and futures of tens of thousands of people, and hugely not a motive. Theresa May has her own interpretation of terms, is the point?
disrupt the economy. what 17.4 million voters had in mind, but her view isn’t Mrs May came to office unequipped with answers
The best news on Wednesday was ostensibly canonical. Politicians see public opinion through their to those questions. She then went looking for them
the worst, the crumbling of discipline within chosen lens. For Mrs May it is immigration control. For in the wrong place, on her party’s rightmost fringe.
May’s cabinet. It must make sense for Hammond others it is deregulation or the power to sign trade deals. She has squandered the whole of the available
and dissident colleagues such as Amber Rudd and Those are priorities for some voters, but none deserves negotiating period and made extension essential.
Greg Clark to find common cause with the backbenchers sanctification as the “will of the people”. But additional time is of limited value if it is not
Sir Oliver Letwin, Nick Boles and Dominic Grieve. It The impossible demand for a Brexit to satisfy that used differently. Parliament must restart the Brexit
must be sensible for them to collude with Labour’s abstraction is a significant cause of the present crisis. It debate. The options cannot be limited by ideological
Corbyn and McDonnell as well the backbenchers makes it harder to turn a one-off vote into a legitimate extrapolations of a mystical “will of the people” from
Yvette Cooper and Stephen Kinnock. Just now, they are settlement of the UK’s relations with the EU. Remain the result in June 2016. The task is to use evidence,
the regiment of the sane. voters are also people with a will. MPs represent people examine facts, heed voices on all sides, and settle on
So far, the Commons has glaringly lacked either the with competing wills in their constituencies. The a relationship with EU institutions that realistically
competence or the chemistry to fashion compromise. Commons has to turn a superficially simple concept – reflects the interests of the whole country.
It is good at feuding, twisting, turning and postponing.
It can kick cans down the road all night, but it
cannot decide. This week, as a nation screamed for
compromise, it had to witness a burlesque of ranting Northern Ireland despite their relief that there are charges at all, and
backbenchers, helpless ministers, “incandescent” will probably challenge the decision not to pursue
whips and negative vote after negative vote, none to other cases.
any constructive purpose. On the BBC’s Newsnight Their distress and anger has been fuelled by the
on Wednesday, all four sides – there now seem to be The Bloody Sunday carelessness, ignorance and crassness of British
four – ended up shouting incoherently together as the
curtain closed on them. A national emergency reduced prosecution comes late, ministers – all the more alarming given the stresses
that Brexit imposes upon a hard-won peace.
to pantomime.
Britain’s Commons can never again trumpet itself as but is still necessary Last week the Northern Ireland secretary, Karen
Bradley, had to apologise for saying killings by
the “mother of parliaments”. It is more an old bag lady security forces were “not crimes” and were carried
mumbling oaths on a street corner. The reason is that it It is now approaching half a century since Bloody out by people “fulfilling their duties in a dignified
is still enacting procedures designed for the polarised Sunday, when British troops fired on civil rights and appropriate way”.
tribalism of the 18th century. It ritualises partisanship demonstrators in Derry. The killings not only left families The defence secretary’s response to this
and disagreement. It dares not unite. This is how distraught but, as the brother of one victim observed prosecution has been insensitive in the extreme.
nations drift to war. Their leaders strut the corridors yesterday, deepened and widened the conflict in Gavin Williamson made no mention of the victims
of power, puffing up their chests and calling down the Northern Ireland. The Widgery tribunal of the same year or families in his statement. He went on to say that
wrath of gods on their foes. Verbal knives outnumber compounded anger. It took more than 25 years, and the the government is working on safeguards to ensure
handshakes. peace process, for the British government to commission the armed forces are not unfairly treated and will
It is no longer only May and her deal that are on trial. another inquiry. In 2010 Lord Saville finally delivered his “urgently reform the system for dealing with legacy
So too is the House of Commons, and whether it is any devastating report. A lengthy police inquiry followed. issues. Our serving and former personnel cannot live
longer a useful adjunct to responsible government. Now one former paratrooper is to stand trial for the in constant fear of prosecution.” A 10-year statute of
When Britain is out of this mess, parliament must murder of two men, and attempted murder of four limitations has been mooted.
reform. It should use its impending exile from the more. Prosecutors concluded that there was insufficient The implications with regard to Iraq and
Palace of Westminster to galvanise its future as a evidence to provide a reasonable prospect of convicting Afghanistan are obvious. So is the message it would
legislature. It should leave London for a while and other suspects on similar charges, though some may yet send to personnel in operations yet to come. That the
immerse itself in the provinces. It should find a face perjury cases. state upholds the law, and especially that it addresses
voting system that better reflects popular opinion. The British state has a long and dishonourable its own breaches, is not less but more important in
The bloated House of Lords should be replaced. A tradition of denying its wrongs and, when that becomes highly charged contexts or full-scale conflicts. If it
fairer balance is needed between England and the UK’s unsustainable, delaying facing the issue for as long as fails to do so promptly and transparently, it must
other nations. possible. The passage of so many years has inevitably address that too. To tackle old wrongs helps to rebuild
Only then will this farrago have served some purpose. had its impact upon the process of justice – witnesses trust and strengthen communities today. It also
As it is, Britain must this weekend await enough MPs and soldiers present on Bloody Sunday have died, as prevents future wrongs by reminding troops and
with the guts to cross the bridge of compromise. have some of the bereaved. Relatives are profoundly those who command them of their responsibilities.
Nothing else will do. disappointed that only one person is to be charged, This prosecution is both important and necessary.

Opinion Youth climate strike 3
Bruno Rodriguez
and Eyal Weintraub
Zel Whiting, 13, Australia
Young activists In October 2018, I helped organise a strike in my

hometown. Initially my goal was to help bring attention
to the plight of our living planet. But after the climate
strike got public attention, politicians began attempting
around the to discredit us, rather than addressing the reason for
our protest. It then became clear to me that our leaders
are too corrupted by the corporate world to address the
most threatening issue to humanity. They are incapable
world: why I’m Kaisanan Ahuan of accepting that clever accounting is not a solution.
The school strike is merely the final alarm for people
to wake up and have a good hard look at what has been
happening. Sure, listen – but listen critically. Listen to
striking today the language our leaders are using to downplay what is
happening and then go and read the science, and look at
things. Take a good hard look.
I don’t blame all adults: the truth has been kept from
them. But we now know what’s happening and the next
logical step is for governments at every level to declare a
Lovina and Delema Janvier
state of climate emergency so that immediate action can
Brianna Fruean, 20, Samoa generations: what we do today, tomorrow and the next be taken to prevent catastrophic outcomes.
I started my activism quite young – at 11. That was when day will impact the next seven generations. We must
I first heard about this thing called climate change. As a change our ways from burning natural resources, from Kaisanan Ahuan, Puli City, Taiwan
young girl in Samoa, a small island in the south Pacific, releasing so much carbon, from poisoning what we need The I am from the Central Taiwan Plains Indigenous
hearing the implications it had for my island scared me to live. We cannot survive by drinking oil. People. As the indigenous people of Taiwan, we
and jumpstarted my passion to do something about it. indigenous have a particular vulnerability to climate change.
I feel like the young people of the Pacific are now Harshini Dhara, 15, Hyderabad, India people of Our traditional culture is deeply rooted in the
experiencing what young people around the world will For as long as I can remember, I have heard climate Taiwan harmony we have with the spirit of nature. We face
experience tomorrow. Right now, along with a lot of change talked about at home. The phenomenon scares heartbreaking loss due to increasingly extreme
other vulnerable communities around the world, we’re me and leaves my future uncertain. Many of our face weather events. We urge the Taiwanese government
having cyclones, floods and droughts. And it’s going to country’s rivers are snow-fed. Due to the melting of terrible to implement mitigation measures and face up to the
be that – and worse – for future generations. glaciers, the rivers of northern India will initially carry loss due to vulnerability of indigenous people, halt construction
It’s great to see young people being passionate and not flood waters, but as their source of water continuously projects in the indigenous traditional realm, and
backing down to older people saying: “You should be in depletes, they will carry less water, and shortages may extreme recognise the legal status of Plains Indigenous People,
school.” Real education sometimes happens outside the lead to conflict between people. weather in order to implement environmental protection as a
classroom. I think the school climate strikes have proved On a personal level, there were no rains on our farm events bottom-up approach.
that. I learned about hope and solidarity outside the last year so we couldn’t cultivate any crops. A few things
classroom. All my friends know about Greta Thunberg, can be done by children of my age to hopefully secure Mone Fousseny, 22, Mali
who has stayed strong and hasn’t backed down. I our future. We can encourage the planting of more trees My awareness about climate change goes back a long
really think that she is going to do great things for this and use public transport as far as possible to reduce way: my uncle was a farmer and taught me about
generation. It’s that solidarity that keeps you optimistic. our emissions. I feel that a subject so serious should the beauty and fragility of nature. Over time, as the
And feeling that you have a team, that you’re not alone, be introduced to children at school, and teachers and torrential rains became more and more frequent,
that we’re all in this together. It’s not just one person children should openly talk about it – and the adverse and led to floods, I saw the balance of nature change,
yelling from outside the UN building or our parliament. effects of climate change should be shown to children and it is quite natural that I wanted to engage. The
And where there are mass numbers, there’s power. Our by taking them on field trips. damage done by multinationals is enormous: the lack
slogan is: “We’re not drowning. We’re fighting.” of transparency, dubious contracts, the weakening of
Eyal Weintraub, 18, and Bruno Rodriguez, 18, Argentina the soil, the destruction of flora and fauna, the lack
Lovina, 15, and Delema Janvier, 17, Alberta, Canada We saw a call to action circulating on social media, of respect for mining codes, the contamination of
We strike for the Earth, to protect and save it from what encouraging youth to stand up and fight against the groundwater. In Mali, the state exercises insufficient
the human race has done. As indigenous youths we have indifference of governments and the criminal behaviour control over the practices of the multinationals, and it is
a close connection to the Earth. We know that without of contaminating corporations. What we needed to do us, the citizens, who suffer the consequences.
it we have nothing, we are nothing. Our community is was clear. We decided to organise a protest in front of I want to tell the people of planet Earth, regardless
directly affected by the Cold Lake oil sands, which is a our national congress in Buenos Aires. of race, colour or religion, that we are all concerned
large deposit of tar sands. Some of the tar sands can be The most extraordinary aspect of this movement and responsible for global warming. The climate alarm
extracted through drilling, which is incredibly dangerous is realising the unlimited potential of our generation. has sounded, and the time has come for us all to realise
to land, animals and people, and affects the water and We have reached a point in history when we have the that there is still time to act locally, in our homes, our
air quality in negative ways. We must think of the future technical capacities to solve poverty, malnutrition, villages, our cities.
inequality and of course global warming. The deciding
factors for whether we take advantage of our potential
will be our activism, our international unity and our
ability to develop the art of making the impossible
possible. Whether we succeed or not depends on our
political will.
Vidit Baya, 17, Udaipur, India

In the winter of 2018 I went to march on the streets of
In the Melbourne with a group of amazing, diverse people of
all ages to urge the Australian government to take action
south against climate change. When I came back to India, I
Pacific started an organisation called No Borders and wrote an
we’re article regarding climate change here in India that was
quite popular among my schoolmates and teachers.
having Then there was no stopping us.
cyclones, Today, young people from all over India will strike
floods and for a sustainable future. We will tell our politicians that Harshini Dhara
our lives are more important than the economy. You
droughts. talk about jobs and better living conditions when you
And it will yourself are not ready to change for a sustainable future. Zel Whiting
get worse We want global leaders to declare a climate emergency.
If we don’t act today, then we will have no tomorrow.
Brianna Fruean Adults have given us an ailing planet – and it is now up Vidit Baya
to us to understand that, and to turn the ailing planet
into heaven again.

4 Opinion
Capitalism is Comic Relief is

money. This is the underlying rationale for the great
pyramid scheme. And it makes no sense.
For a start, it assumes a Year Zero. At this arbitrary
point, a person could step on to a piece of land, mix
stealing the good but ‘white

their labour with it, and claim it as theirs. Locke used
America as an example of the blank slate on which
people could establish their rights. But the land (as
Blackstone admitted) became a blank slate only through
future from saviours’ don’t

the extermination of those who lived there.
Not only could the colonist erase all prior rights, he
could also erase all future rights. By mixing your labour
with the land once, you and your descendants acquire
young people help Africa

the right to it in perpetuity, until you decide to sell it. You
thereby prevent all future claimants from gaining natural
wealth by the same means.
Worse still, according to Locke, “your” labour includes
the labour of those who work for you. But why should
George the people who do the work not be the ones who acquire Amanda Khozi
the rights? It’s comprehensible only when you realise
Monbiot that by “man”, Locke means not all humankind, but Mukwashi
European men of property. Those who worked for them
had no such rights.
Even if objections to this could somehow be
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dismissed, what is it about labour that magically turns
anything it touches into private property? Why not
he young people taking to the streetsfor establish your right to natural wealth by peeing on it? onight will see Comic Relief raise
the climate strike are right: their The arguments defending our economic system are millions, which will go towards poverty
future is being stolen. The economy flimsy. Peel them away, and you see that the whole alleviation around the world. As the
is an environmental pyramid scheme, structure is founded on looting: from other people, from chief executive of Christian Aid, there
dumping its liabilities on the young and other nations, from other species, and from the future. aren’t many people more in favour of
the unborn. Its current growth depends Yet, on the grounds of these absurdities, the rich helping the world’s most marginalised
on intergenerational theft. At the heart arrogate to themselves the right to buy the natural groups than me. But as a black African
of capitalism is a vast and scarcely wealth on which others depend. Locke cautioned that woman, I regularly have to face up
examined assumption: you are entitled to as great a his justification works only if “there is enough, and as to the challenges highlighted in the recent exchange
share of the world’s resources as your money can buy. good, left in common for others”. Today, whether you between TV presenter Stacey Dooley and MP David
You can purchase as much land, as much atmospheric are talking about land, the atmosphere, living systems, Lammy on the issue of so-called “white saviours”.
space, as many minerals, as much meat and fish as you or most other forms of natural wealth, it is clear there is On the one hand, we know we need people in public
can afford, regardless of who might be deprived. If you not “enough, and as good” left in common. Everything life to raise awareness of issues of global injustice. They
can pay for them, you can own entire mountain ranges we take for ourselves we take from someone else. act as go-betweens, bringing the heartbreaking reality
and fertile plains. You can burn as much fuel as you like. You can tweak this system. You can seek to modify it. of abject poverty into the homes of ordinary British
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Every pound or dollar secures a certain right over the But you cannot make it just. people and encouraging them to help. On the other
world’s natural wealth. hand, there is the knowledge that the way we frame
But what just principle equates the numbers in your o what should take its place? It seems to these stories paints some as the saviours and others as
bank account with a right to own the fabric of the Earth? me that the founding principle of any just those without autonomy and in need of salvation.
John Locke in 1689 claimed that you acquire a right to system is that those who are not yet alive In his challenge Lammy raised important questions
own natural wealth by mixing your labour with it: the will, when they are born, have the same about how African countries and their people are
fruit you pick, the minerals you dig and the land you till rights as those who are alive today. The still perceived and portrayed. We in the aid sector
become your exclusive property. first article of the Universal Declaration have to face up to our part in perpetuating a tired and
This argument was developed by the jurist William of Human Rights states that “all human one-dimensional picture of Africa – what the author
Blackstone in the 18th century. He contended that a beings are born free and equal in dignity Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls the danger of a single
man’s right to “sole and despotic dominion” over land and rights”. But there is nothing in the declaration story. It suggests Africans are helpless and lack agency.
was established by the person who first occupied it, to insisting that one generation cannot steal from the To escape this single story, those working in
produce food. This right could then be exchanged for next. The missing article might look like this: “Every international development, in the media and in politics
generation shall have an equal right to the enjoyment of must try to reframe the narratives. Yes, there is poverty
natural wealth.” in Africa – that is precisely why a lot of Christian Aid’s
This principle is hard to dispute, but it seems to work takes place there. But it is false to paint Africa’s
change everything. Immediately, it tells us that no problems as one-dimensional and simplistic – in need
renewable resource should be used beyond its rate of of a hug from a western celebrity to make things better.
replenishment. No non-renewable resource should Not only is this narrative false, but it is also dangerous.
be used that cannot be fully recycled and reused. This Those in Africa – and in Latin America, Asia and the
leads inexorably to towards two major shifts: a circular Middle East – who are living in poverty are caught up
economy from which materials are never lost; and the in much bigger systemic issues. The challenge for us
end of fossil fuel combustion. is to tackle the global economic systems that increase
But what of the Earth itself? In this densely populated inequality and injustice. Because poverty is political. It
world, all land ownership necessarily precludes is not an accident. And there is no easy solution.
ownership by others. Article 17 of the Universal The problem with the white saviour narrative is
Declaration is self-contradictory. It says, “Everyone that it echoes colonialism. Colonialism is not a distant
has the right to own property.” But because it places no crime of our ancestors, but the genesis of our global
limit on the amount one person can possess, it ensures structures that ensure the interests of economic growth
that everyone does not have this right. I would change in the north are prioritised over the lives of those who
it to: “Everyone has the right to use property without are powerless, poorer and usually darker.
infringing the rights of others to use property.” The Of course, I recognise that my own organisation
implication is that everyone born today would acquire an is, in many ways, part of a development structure
equal right of use, or would need to be compensated for that perpetuates some of the problematic myths.
their exclusion. One way of implementing this is through But, as an African woman leading Christian Aid, I’m
major land taxes, paid into a sovereign wealth fund. It committed to helping reverse historical mistakes. I’m
would alter and restrict the concept of ownership, and under no illusion that it makes everyone – including
ensure that economies tended towards distribution, me – uncomfortable.
rather than concentration.  Perhaps the first step for all of us is to not make
I don’t have all the answers. But such issues should Amanda Khozi ourselves the heroes of the story. Let’s see those we are
be the subject of conversations everywhere. Preventing Mukwashi helping or donating money to as people just like you
environmental breakdown and systemic collapse means is the CEO of and me – deserving of dignity and respect, but also able
ILLUSTRATION: BEN JENNINGS challenging our deepest and least-examined beliefs. Christian Aid to play a part in changing their own futures.

Theresa May
fantasies about putting her in a “noose” and “knifing her But which Conservative do you honestly think
in the front”. She is derided, she is hated, she is the target would be so much better? It was once the biggest
for some of the most outrageous abuse ever to be heaped mass-membership party in Britain; it now numbers
on a 62-year-old woman from Eastbourne. somewhere below 150,000, and of its members only one
is the least of
In a democracy intent on beating itself up, Theresa in 20 is below 25 years of age. The professionalisation of
May has become the nation’s punchbag. On radio politicians that has been so much a feature of the past
phone-ins, the callers pour bile upon her. On TV sofas, three decades is clearly visible across its frontbenches,
pundits speculate about how many days she has left at laden as they are with people who have glided from
our worries
No 10. When she isn’t attracting derision, she attracts careers in Westminster or investment banking or
something arguably worse for a politician: pity. Her voice journalism straight into a true-blue seat, with no danger
has gone and, the theory goes, she will soon follow. of immersion in ordinary life.
I understand much of this sentiment, but I want Britain has created a political class set thoroughly
Aditya to argue here that it is misdirected. Of course, May is

hopeless and cynical and robotic. In the tragedy of her
apart from those it seeks to represent. This process has
been going on for decades and it has affected Labour
Chakrabortty premiership she has played a not insignificant role. Yet

I cannot place too much of the blame on a woman who
ranks as much as Tory. This is why the EU referendum
came as such a shock to them; it is also why so many
is ultimately cleaning up one useless man’s mess, even lack any real idea of where to go from here. May
while a bunch of other useless men wait for her to finish, represents this failure, but she is one of many.
simply so they can vie for her job. When these days are By all means, blame her for the stupid game-playing,
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long gone and the judgments are all in, I am confident the partisanship, the rote repetition of meaningless
that David Cameron will be seen as the true architect phrases. Or reach back into her past, and castigate her
ramas need characters, politics of this chaos. He insisted on holding the referendum, for the Go Home vans, the immigrant-bashing and the
requires politicians, and a storm he brought the date forward, he told everyone he’d willingness to make spending cuts. All of this is true; but
must have an eye. Which is why win – even while imposing spending cuts that ensured none of it is central to what has gone wrong. Those who
at the dead centre of Brexit – the he wouldn’t. Yet for the Bullingdon prime minister, cry out in newspaper columns or on social media for
biggest and most multifaceted the deserts have proved to be a handsome advance for “genuine leadership”, whatever that means, miss the
crisis to face this country in more his memoirs and high-paying gigs on the after-dinner point. This is not an age for leaders; it is the era in which
than 60 years – there is just one circuit. I am sceptical that such rewards await May. their followers count for far more. Jeremy Corbyn is one
person. She stands at a Commons But something more profound is going on here. The reflection of that truth; a weekend gardener and former
dispatch box in an elegant outfit day after day, UK is in the middle of a crisis of governability. This is a backbench MP who sits at the head of a mass movement
knowing that the evening will cover her in yet another country in mutinous mood. The factors driving that are that is – as he would say – far more interesting than him.
dung-heap of humiliation that will be daubed all over complex: austerity, decades of the deliberate hollowing Britain has spent 40-plus years arrogating more
the next morning’s front pages. out of nations and regions, a form of capitalism that has and more power to its centre – and now its centre has
All along her frontbench are colleagues just waiting lost much of its sense of responsibility and institutional no idea of how to wield that power. That I think is the
for her to go, so they can take her job and move into counterweight. But the result is clear: whoever was fundamental political and economic crisis we face
her Downing Street home. On her backbenches governing now would find the task close to impossible. It today. Revile May if you wish. But don’t kid yourself that
are MPs who shamelessly boast to journalists their just so happens that May is also especially bad at it. her successor will do any better.

6 Letters
Brexit fantasies that left

• Owen Jones warns against Brexit’s true implications, costs and
regarding those who voted leave in long-term effects on us all, surely now
2016 as “ignorant”. But they were, is the time to revoke article 50, and
of course – we all were at that time! take a deep breath. Then take the time
us staring into the abyss The real difference is between

those of us who have had to learn
a great deal of which we were
necessary to plan a well-organised
nationwide conversation, through
assembly meetings, and wide-ranging
previously ignorant and those (like consultation, about the future of our
Parliament is in the Brexit endgame, the key reason they have had such the European Research Group) who country, our preferred expenditure,
as your leader notes, where it now influence: the absence of political have chosen not to do so – and who priorities and of course our relations
faces a clear choice (Tories who leadership from Labour has left a should indeed be called stupid. with Europe. The frantic hurry
embrace chaos and delusion demean vacuum which they have filled. Professor Peter Clarke engendered by the current panic at
the Commons and the country, I laid out the case for a Norway- Cambridge Westminster is risking far too much.
14 March). The idea that, at this style compromise in Compass Anna Ford
late stage, the UK should crash out 18 months ago. Keir Starmer clearly • Theresa May is behaving like London
of the EU without a deal is absurd. wanted to go that way. Instead there an old-fashioned parent who,
Large numbers of firms and jobs in has been delay and distraction; when their child will not eat their • It seems that extensions are all the
manufacturing would disappear. plenty of talk about resolutions and (overcooked) greens, serves it up rage, as the Dior exhibition at the
The prospect of no deal has been processes, precious little policy. cold again for the next meal and the V&A is now to run until 1 September.
kept on the negotiating table for two The main reason for the policy void one after that (May’s final warning At least it is a far prettier sight than
years, to give our negotiators some has been the influence of Lexiteers to Tory rebels: back me or lose the Brexit debate.
leverage, but any last-ditch attempts around the Labour leadership. Brexit, 14 March). As well as lacking Jane Moth
at seriously pursuing this destructive They welcome Brexit and have insight, she is inconsistent. Why is Snettisham, Norfolk
fantasy must be stopped. I voted last prevented Labour from pursuing it legitimate and necessary to hold
night to take no deal off the table. a Norway-style option. It’s easy for a second and even a third vote on • I would be happy with a short,
Those Brexiteers who remain Jones to bash “Blairites”. He needs essentially the same proposition, time-limited extension of article 50.
wedded to this fantasy need to face to call out the “socialism in one while it is the end of democracy as we Forty years would seem about right
reality. We either leave the EU with country” nationalists too. know it to consult the people again? for starters.
the deal we are offered or risk there Jon Bloomfield Margaret Pelling Colin Fildes
being no Brexit at all, which is now Birmingham Oxford Sheffield
a real prospect. How would MPs
representing constituencies that • Owen Jones is so determined to • It’s never a good idea to make a life- • Is it now time for a government of
voted leave face the electorate if we promote the Brexit compromise changing decision when all the facts national unity led by Caroline Lucas?
allow the result of the referendum to line that he rebukes those of us who and implications are not clear. Not Pam Lunn
be stolen, as a result of our failure to don’t believe in it for conceding “that when getting married, emigrating, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
pass a Brexit deal next week? austerity is an economic necessity buying a house, or changing your
Frank Field MP rather than a political choice”. That job and moving your family. As • So much head-spinning political
Independent, Birkenhead is a non sequitur and seems an parliament is in total chaos about hokey cokey. Really, what does it
uncharacteristic slur. Yes there would matter whether we’re in, out or
• Owen Jones bravely argues for be economic costs from a soft Brexit, shaking Brexit all about when, as the
finding a middle ground on Brexit even assuming that negotiations could environmental activists interviewed
(The only way back from the abyss is be concluded relatively quickly and for your feature (‘We can’t stand
the middle ground, 14 March). Jones painlessly, but the prime argument by and do nothing’, G2, 14 March)
blames the dangerous polarisation against such an arrangement is It’s easy for Owen Jones make so clear, the main focus of our
on the nationalist right but also political. We would have no say, so it to bash ‘Blairites’. energies ought to be on saving the
directs his fire at the “continuity would be the reverse of taking back much-abused planet for generations
remainers”, absolute in their control. It would be much more of a He needs to call out to come? Whatever path gives us the
determination to overturn the 2016 democratic betrayal than having a the ‘socialism in one best chance of achieving that is the
referendum result. Andrew Adonis new democratic process. country’ nationalists too one we should take, and urgently.
and co have been maximalist in their Dr Ron Glatter Nick Barton
focus on a revote. But Jones omits Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire Jon Bloomfield Henstridge, Somerset
Israel-Gaza violence and the history of life in the West Bank

and Israel but also Palestinians’
activist conferences on ODS have
been held in as many years. The idea BBC’s well-received
perspectives on one as opposed to that all Palestinians (yes, including
history of Ireland
struggle for Middle East peace two states (The struggle for peace:
One-state solution gains ground
the refugees) can be citizens
alongside all present citizens of
among Palestinians battling for Israel in a reunited country is, It may be true that “Irish affairs had
We, Israelis committed to peace, is an imperfect body, but the rights, 14 March). for those who believe in human long been regarded with a mixture of
strongly welcome the report of UN commission of inquiry was Indeed the one-(democratic)- rights and a normal democracy, indifference and apathy in England”,
the UN inquiry into the horrifying independent. Its report is a truthful state’s time has come: inequality the only solution. as Dr Peter Neville asserts (Letters,
killing of Palestinian demonstrators and objective indictment of Israel’s for Palestinian citizens of Israel, Blake Alcott 13 March), but it is misleading to say
in Gaza (UN says Israel may be brutal crackdown, while also progressively less space and Director, ODS in Palestine the BBC neglected Irish history until
guilty of war crimes over Gaza, addressing Palestinian violations. autonomy in the West Bank, no Robert Kee’s “excellent television
1 March). The UN report confirms As the first anniversary of the start longer even a wisp of sovereignty • In a spirit of objectivity, I look history of Ireland” in 1980. In 1972
that almost none of the 189 of the protests on 30 March draws over Jerusalem – all played against forward to reading in the Guardian the BBC made a 10-part series entitled
Palestinians killed and over 9,000 closer, the world must put a stop the tired political cantus firmus an article on the life of the Israeli Ireland: Some Episodes From Her Past,
injured by our forces in the weekly to this ongoing killing. Next week, of the two-state mantra – has led residents of Sderot across the border followed by two further “specials”.
demonstrations since last March countries of the world will have to Bassem Tamimi, Saeb Erekat, from Gaza (Caged generation: The series was produced by Howard
posed any direct threat to Israel or take a position on the UN report at Fadi Quran and thousands of others Young lives blighted behind wire of Smith, who wrote an accompanying
to its citizens. Many were shot while the Human Rights Council in Geneva. to openly stand up for a single ‘world’s largest prison’, 13 March), book, drawing on the expertise of such
peacefully protesting hundreds of We urge all countries, including the democracy in historic Palestine. under constant rocket attacks and eminent Irish historians as FSL Lyons,
metres away from the Gaza fence. UK, to support it unambiguously. There are now at least six groups petrol bombs attached to balloons JC Beckett and Oliver MacDonagh.
The 2 million inhabitants of Gaza Prof Michael Ben-Yair, Avraham worldwide that are organised to setting fire to their crops. You rightly The series was well received, both in
are caged in an open-air prison, Burg, Dr Ilana Hammerman, promote one democratic state (ODS), recall “a time when thousands of the North and in the Republic, where
forcibly isolated from the rest of Prof David Harel, Alex Levac, based in the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinians worked in Israel”. one paper approvingly described
Palestinian society. These people Prof Yehuda Judd Ne’eman, Prof in Israel, in England, in Switzerland, Why “few young people have met an the opening episode as a “quick trot
have every right and reason to David Shulman, Prof Zeev Sternhell in the US and in Holland. Over a Israeli” is because terrorist attacks through 700 years of bondage”.
protest, yet are shot at with live decade ago four seminal books on on Israeli civilians forced Israel to The series was repeated in 1974.
ammunition when they do so. • Thank you for your perceptive ODS came out – by Ghada Karmi, close the crossing. Giles Oakley
The UN Human Rights Council, article, which gives not only a good Ali Abunimah, Virginia Tilley and Alec Nacamuli Researcher, Ireland: Some Episodes
which mandated the inquiry, overview of the realities and recent Mazin Qumsiyeh. A dozen academic/ London From Her Past

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painting clarifications Country diary
‘A mural at
the port in Rio • We said that so far this year nine Ness, Lewis,
de Janeiro in
February 2019’
teenagers had been fatally stabbed
“in London, Birmingham and
Outer Hebrides
ROBERT BOELL/ Manchester”. That should have said
GUARDIAN COMMUNITY “… and Greater Manchester”, and the In my youth, Druim Fraoich – or
Do you have total is 10. An accompanying panel Heather Ridge – was often full of
a photograph wrongly listed Yorkshire, instead noises. At night, there might be the
you’d like to of Greater Manchester, as an area in twanging of guitars or the pounding
share with which these deaths had occurred of an accordion coming from Ness
Guardian (Knife crime up most steeply outside Hall, built in the 1960s on the site of
readers? If so, London as county lines dealing a former quarry.
visit gu.com/ spreads, 11 March, page 14). Another During the day, its stone cliffs
letters-pics to article (Knife crime: 690 child victims – where my father started work
upload it, and in West Midlands, 12 March, page 1) with pickaxe and hammer at the
we’ll print the said the data it discussed related to age of 14 – were home to twites and
best ones on under-16s, when it was for under-17s. sparrows. Their chirping would
these pages accompany me as I dawdled home
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guardian.readers@theguardian.com or The readers’ editor, from Cross primary school in the
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For all that the ceilidh music
has long hushed, Ness Hall having
closed a few years ago, the birds still
Yet another spiffing perch there, an insistent chorus as I
walk my childhood route to school.
gaffe from Johnson I stride through the village of North
Dell, aware that some are still
crofting there, though in a different
What a spiffing fellow Boris Johnson way from their predecessors.
We do not is. I was left spitting and spluttering Polytunnels are now as common
publish letters after reading his latest stupendous, as byres and outhouses, and pigs,
where only an stupid, statement (‘Stop spaffing rather than cattle, are churning up
email address is money on historic abuse cases,’ says soil near old school walls.
supplied; please Johnson, 14 March). Not only does it It would be easy to be negative
include a full entirely ignore the feelings of people about some of these changes, to
postal address, who may have suffered sexual abuse, note that, according to a recent
a reference to he seems to have forgotten how study by Donald Macritchie, a local
the article and a much money he “spaffed” on useless maths teacher, the population of
daytime phone water cannon and a garden bridge north-west Lewis has declined from
number. We in London. He should at least make 2,445 in 1979 to 1,610 in January
may edit letters. some recompense from his own 2019. More than a third of its
Submission and pocket for the money squandered. residents are over the age of 65.
publication of all Celia Coram Yet that would be to overlook the
letters is subject Hackney, London district’s spirit, the way its residents
to our terms have tried to stem the outward drift
and conditions: • One cheer for the chancellor’s of people from these shores. The
see gu.com/ move (Hammond to promise funds community took over the running
letters-terms to end period poverty in English of the Galson estate, between the
schools, 9 March). To qualify for Butt of Lewis lighthouse and the
the other two cheers, remove the stone monolith at Ballantrushal,
Risks of privatising a private company which has less,
or even no, experience in all three We can’t afford to let underlying problem: ensure that no
household is so poor that women
in 2007, employing more than
30 people where no jobs existed
NHS scanner service of these areas.
Since NHS England’s proposals
local news fade away and girls cannot afford to buy
sanitary protection, and exempt all
before, and finding a new use for
Cross primary, which closed due to
impact on patients, and represent these products from VAT. falling rolls in 2011.
We are writing as elected public a fundamental change to the John Harris is right (The demise of Katy Jennison At present, the old school
governors of Oxford University services available to them, there local radio is fuelling a new age of Witney, Oxfordshire building is again full of noises. Drills
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is a statutory requirement that the ‘Unplace’, 12 March). Britain faces a and hammers are transforming it
to clarify some of the facts outlined proposal be reviewed by Oxfordshire crisis in local news and the closure • A discussion of British Jewish into a new museum for Comunn
in your article (Top cancer hospital county council’s joint health and of radio stations exacerbates it. theatre (‘We’ve been ashamed of Eachdraidh Nis, the Ness historical
loses scanning services to private overview scrutiny committee. Such reporting is essential if local our voice’, G2, 13 March) and no society. When it opens in early
sector, 7 March). This committee, which will meet government is to be held to account, mention of Jack Rosenthal, who 2020, there will be photographs
We are at a loss to understand how on 4 April, can refer this matter to justice seen to be done and local wrote episodes for mainstream TV and exhibits displayed in the
the scanning service at the Churchill the secretary of state for health and communities empowered. But there series and overtly Jewish plays – Bar rooms where I used to sit and peer
hospital could be contracted to social care, who in turn can refer it are beacons of hope. Local TV stations Mitzvah Boy, The Evacuees? A pity. out of windows, watching twites
another provider. The Churchill to the independent reconfiguration such as KMTV provide scrutiny every Pauline Strong and sparrows, hordes of starlings
hospital has worldwide recognition panel for further review. day. Our reporters attend council Hertford clouding stretches of moor and
for its research, for its training of In the meantime, we are meetings and courts. They bring croftland nearby.
nuclear medicine cancer doctors, concerned about the significant the views of Kent MPs direct to their • My hopes were raised when I saw Donald S Murray
as well as for outstanding cancer impact that this proposal is constituents. KMTV is dedicated the headline “Has Zidane killed off
diagnostic provision. having on all the highly qualified, to “the provision of local news and skinny jeans?” (G2, 13 March). Alas,
Most importantly, the scanning experienced and extremely content” that Jeremy Hunt sought the fashion police said no.
service at the Churchill is embedded professional clinicians and their in his 2014 speech to the Oxford Mary Glazier
in the rest of the treatment and team colleagues working at the Media Convention. We ask only that Broughton, Flintshire
services provided by the trust for Churchill hospital. ministers find ways to support what
its patients, with all the medical and Rosie Herring they wished into existence. Meagre • Nice to see a full racing card
clinical support available on site. Anita Higham advertising revenue alone cannot for Cheltenham in Wednesday’s
It is difficult for us to understand Elected public governors of fund public interest journalism. Guardian. Just like the good old days.
how the Churchill’s PET-CT scanning Oxford University Hospitals Tim Luckhurst Bob Lamb Twitter: @gdncountrydiary
service could be better provided by NHS Foundation Trust Director, KMTV Chester ILLUSTRATION: CLIFFORD HARPER

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Birthdays He graduated in architecture

from the Polytechnic of Milan in
1959, then worked as an assistant
Lord (David) in Marcello Nizzoli’s studio, which
Alton, former had designed some of Olivetti’s
Lib Dem MP, 68; most significant products. But
Isobel Buchanan, Mendini initially made his mark
operatic soprano, not as an architect or a designer,
65; Lord (Robert) but as an editor, when he took over
Carnwath of the influential design magazine
Notting Hill, Casabella in 1970. His wife, Lidia
justice of the Prandi, worked alongside him
supreme court, as a contributor and occasional
74; David co-designer.
Cronenberg, He set up his own magazine,
film director, 76; Modo, in 1977, and was a leader of
Howard Devoto, the Alchimia group established
musician, 67; in 1979 that moved beyond the
Frank Dobson, political stance of radical design
former Labour into a more personal exploration
MP and minister, of postmodernism. Mendini edited
79; John Duttine, Domus (1980-85), and co-founded
actor, 70; Domus Academy, a private design
Sunetra Gupta, school, in Milan in 1982.
epidemiologist It was only after 1989 when
and author, 54; Mendini and his younger brother
Dame Deirdre Francesco established Atelier
Hutton, chair, Mendini that he began to work on
Civil Aviation large-scale architectural projects
Authority, 70; around the world. From 2000
Lord (Richard) onwards, they coordinated the
Layard, design of a dozen new stations on
economist, 85; the Naples metro.
Inez Lynn, former Mendini was able to span the gap
librarian, the between high culture and the high
Alessandro Mendini
created a self-portrait in the form of London Library, street, between abstruse theory
the Alessandro M corkscrew. 59; Ben Okri, and unabashed populism. In 1980,
At the other end of the scale author, 60; Sir the year that the Venice biennale
he was the architect – though Anwar Pervez, “invented” postmodernism in
Anarchic Italian designer orchestrator is a better description

– of the monumental Groninger
Museum in the Netherlands,
founder, Bestway
Group, 84; Lord
(Andrew) Phillips
architecture, Mendini recruited
Michael Graves and Hans Hollein,
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott
who helped shape which opened in 1994. Mendini

envisaged an architectural version
of André Breton’s surrealist game
of Sudbury,
solicitor and
former chancellor,
Brown to design for Alessi, then
later Starck and his notorious
lemon squeezer, in the belief that
the look of the 1980s of the exquisite corpse, with three

wings each designed by a different
architect, stitched loosely together,
University of
Essex, 80; Lynda
La Plante, writer,
the movement was applicable
to product design as well as
architecture.
P
Frankenstein’s-monster style. 76; Sly Stone, Long after postmodernism had
He invited the French designer musician, 76; gone out of fashion, Mendini’s
layful is the word Mendini was simply signalling their purpose, or Philippe Starck and his fellow Italian Terence Trent work was still full of energy and
most often used to Alessi’s creative hinting at how new or expensive Michele de Lucchi to take on their D’Arby (Sananda experimentation. He worked on
describe the work of director for four they were. own sections. The artist Frank Stella Maitreya), singer, Incheon’s design district in South
Alessandro Mendini, decades. One of Mendini led the Italian was to have been the third player, 57; will.i.am, Korea and collaborated with
the Italian designer, his bestselling contribution to the wave of but he dropped out after his idea musician, 44. Supreme, the LA street fashion label.
architect and editor, designs was postmodernism that transformed for a Teflon-coated gallery proved His marriage to Lidia ended in
who has died aged the Anna G the look of the 1980s, in everything impractical, and he was replaced divorce. He is survived by their
87. It is the quality corkscrew, below from skyscrapers to album by the Austrian architects Coop daughters, Fulvia and Elisa, and his
you see in the apparently childlike LEONARDO covers. He satirised modernism Himmelb(l)au. Mendini took on the sister, Mia, and brother, Francesco.
simplicity of his drawings, with CENDARMO/GETTY by “improving” classic modern design of the entrance, marked by a Deyan Sudjic
IMAGES; ALESSI
their bold, spiky ink lines, in his chairs. Marcel Breuer’s tubular steel golden, windowless tower topped by
exuberant use of colour and in the Wassily chair from the Bauhaus ornamental flagpoles. Alessandro Mendini, designer,
way he turned household objects got a new colour scheme in what None of the individual pieces architect and editor, born 16 August
into whimsical anthropomorphic Mendini called the Bauhaus Side 2 relates to the others, and yet the 1931; died 18 February 2019
creatures, such as his smiling collection. Thanks to Mendini, Gerrit resulting train crash has a powerful
Anna G corkscrew, one of Alessi’s Rietveld’s Zig-Zag chair sprouted presence, summing up Mendini’s
bestsellers. Even in his architecture a cross-shaped back. It was a vision of design as a multilayered Announcements
he sometimes seemed to be trying deliberately transgressive approach, collage. It was certainly Europe’s
to create lifesize dolls’ houses. His representing a determination not to most astonishing new building
best-known piece of furniture, be obvious that pointed the way for until Frank Gehry completed the
He pointed
the Proust armchair, is a baroque other Milanese designers, notably Guggenheim in Bilbao. the way for
fantasy decorated with brushstrokes the fashion designers Elio Fiorucci Born into a prosperous Milanese other
borrowed from the French pointillist and, later, Miuccia Prada. family, the son of Vincenzo Mendini,
painter Paul Signac. Some of Mendini’s most a lawyer, and his wife, Fulvia Di
Milanese
But given the important part successful work was to help brands Stefano, Mendini had an early designers,
that he played in Italy’s “radical such as Swatch and Alessi establish memory of being propped up next such as
design” movement, anarchic, rather their design credentials. He met to his twin sister, Mia, on a zigzag-
than playful, might be a better Alberto Alessi in 1977 and worked as patterned armchair designed
Elio
description of Mendini’s intentions. creative director for the company for by Piero Portaluppi. On the wall Fiorucci
He wanted to rescue design from four decades. Mendini gave a face, opposite hung a painting by Giorgio and, later,
the cult of functionalism, and arms and a powder-blue dress to the de Chirico’s brother, Alberto Savinio.
show that objects could have more bestselling Alessi bottle opener that “That was my first habitat,” Mendini
Miuccia
complex layers of meaning than he named after a friend. Later, he remembered. Prada

The long
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From casinos to cannabis

A new deal for
Native Americans
Gambling transformed US reservations 40 years ago,
but often enriched only a few. Could the legal marijuana
business prove more broadly beneficial?
By David Treuer

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I
n February 2015, amid the cedar masks, canoe and were prepared to make the most of the opportunity between Interstate 5 and Puget Sound just north of
paddles and totem poles at the Tulalip Resort for gaming. Within a year of the tribes winning the right Seattle. It is indescribably beautiful.
Casino north of Seattle, the talk was all about to open casinos in California, gaming was bringing in “That’s where I grew up,” he says, pointing at a
pot. Indian country had been abuzz about $100m a year. The door to economic development – at nondescript house facing a silty bay that was, until
cannabis since the previous autumn, when the least in the realm of gambling – seemed to have been relatively recently, thick with salmon. Cedar, until
Justice Department had released a memorandum flung wide open. recently, grew down to the shore.
which seemed to open the way for tribal But the states, a powerful lobby in their own right, Unlike most tribes, people here are doing all right,
cannabis as a manifestation of tribal sovereignty. were determined to have a stake in Indian gambling, economically speaking. In fact, they are doing very
(I grew up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, and or at least some measure of control. The federal well. The median household income at Tulalip is a
I use the word “Indian” to refer to indigenous people government felt the same way. So in 1988, Congress comfortable $68,000 per year, well above the national
within the US. I also use “indigenous”, “Native” and passed and Reagan signed the Indian Gaming Regulatory average. Tribal members do get a per-capita payment
“American Indian”. These terms have come in and out Act (Igra), which codified the process by which tribes from gaming revenues, though according to Eddy it’s
of favour over the years, and different tribes, and administered gambling. not more than $15,500 a year.
different people, have different preferences.) After the act was passed, Indian gaming boomed. The tribe, as a collective, as a business, is doing
The gathering at Tulalip was technically a legal Revenues grew to more than $26bn in 2009 – more than better as well. Every tribal building is new. The tribal
education conference, so a slew of lawyers in thousand- Vegas and Atlantic City combined. Despite the influx of office where Eddy picked up our permit is a soaring
dollar suits were there, of course, but so were private- money, however, gaming changed little for most Indians. architectural treasure. There’s also the youth centre, the
equity entrepreneurs, tribal officials and tribal potheads. Like all American avenues to wealth, casinos privilege museum, the cultural centre – all of them cedar-clad.
One of the last – a gangly twenty- or thirtysomething the few and leave out the majority. But, at Tulalip, Where once the tribe’s wealth could be measured in fish,
wearing Chuck Taylors, a very ripped T-shirt and a signs of a possible third way have emerged. it can now be measured in income and infrastructure.
headband that held back his lank hair – slouched low in It might seem surprising to suggest that, in order to As for Eddy, without a degree and with three kids to
his chair and didn’t speak a word all day. His companions find America, you need to look at Indian communities support, he hustles. He sees marijuana as something that
spoke a bit more, but with the sleepy demeanour of and reservations. But it’s true. The questions posed by can be added to the mix. “We should get in the business,”
people who have just purchased a dime bag and smoked America’s founding documents and early history – What he says. “Not just opening dispensaries. Or growing. Our
it all. They didn’t talk business as much as they talked is the reach of the federal government? What should it sovereignty can give us a leg up. We should grow, process
relationships: We have a relationship with pot. It’s a be? How to balance the rights of the individual against and dispense. We could control the whole chain.” I
medicine from Mother Earth. Like, cannabis is tribal. those of the collective? What is, at the end of the day, the wonder out loud if the tribe really wants to hitch itself to
It’s consistent with our relationship with Mother Earth. proper role of the federal government in our social another lifestyle economy – like cigarettes and gambling.
Wandering among them were tribal small-business structures and lives? How to balance the demands of “Look,” says Eddy. “Heroin is here. People die from
owners, people who ran gravel companies or sold community and modernity? How to preserve and foster that. No one dies from pot. And the tribe wants it. The
smoked fish or espresso along the freeway. They had the middle class? – are answered by looking at Indians, people want it. We did a survey and 78% (of tribal
forked over $500 for lunch and a name tag to explore at our communities and our history. members) voted yes for bringing our (tribal) code in line
what marijuana legalisation might mean for their with the state. Fifty-three per cent wanted to open it up
community – or maybe to explore where the pay dirt lay Two months after the “pot summit”, I sat across from only to medical marijuana and 25% wanted that and
at the intersection of legalisation and tribal sovereignty. Eddy Pablo in a Minneapolis casino. He had come armed recreational use to be legal. It could be our niche.”
The lawyers and policy people gave talks about state with notes and handouts about marijuana legalisation, By now we’ve reached the beach. We have only an
laws; the history of marijuana legalisation in California, medical uses of marijuana and tribal dispositions about hour, two at most, to dig and sort. Soon the water will
Colorado and Washington; and the social, cultural and legalisation and capitalisation at Tulalip. Eddy is about come back in and cover the clam beds. So much of life
political ramifications of legalisation. Tribal leaders 5ft 10in, with an absurdly strong build, dark skin, small at Tulalip has the same kind of rhythm – small windows
spoke about the ways tribal growing could be a whole eyes and spiky black hair in a neat crew cut. He’s 31, in which one can make a lot of money, slow spells
new revenue stream, if not a new tribal industry. with three children, and he is on the make. when none is to be made. It’s not the kind of labour
Behind these discussions were coded questions, “I’ve lived here my whole life. Both my parents are that breeds confidence or even certainty. So how, I ask,
old and new: How best to provide for a people in the from here. I’m thankful for it.” He is soft-spoken but gives does he make ends meet? What’s his job?
absence of industry and opportunity? How to use off a sense that nothing bothers him. Yet there is plainly a He gets his per-cap from the tribe. He crabs a few days.
tribal sovereignty to the best possible effect? Did tribes kind of seething energy underneath. “My high school was He dives a few days. He goes after geoduck and sea
really want to invest in another “lifestyle economy” a subtle racist high school. Not so much the kids. But the cucumber and salmon. And in the same manner he
like tobacco shops, casinos and tourism? No one teachers had no expectations for us. All of us Indian kids runs his fireworks stand at Boom City in the summer.
knew what to make of the potheads. were underperforming. If you have low expectations, “You’ve got to see it,” he says. “You wouldn’t believe it.
The received notion – reinforced at every turn in then that’s all the kid will strive for. I wanted to go to A fireworks bazaar. Bigger than anything. And there’s
editorials and investigative pieces and popular culture – college but my sophomore English grade was crappy. a place to light them off. It’s like world war three.”
is that reservations are where Indians go to suffer and They put me in a special reading class.” He seems to think this is a good thing. And in a way
die. They are seen by many Indians as well as non- This was followed by depression and tutoring. He I suppose it is, just like his whole operation: a patchwork
Indians not as expressions of tribal survival, however made it to community college but it didn’t stick. He ran of opportunities that are exploited aggressively and
twisted or flawed, but as little more than prisons, afoul of the law and landed in jail. After he got out, he got together add up to a living. A good one.
expressions of the perversion of American democratic hooked on diving for geoduck (freshwater clams). “You “We have a story,” says Eddy as we drive away. “When
ideals into greed – a greed rapacious enough to take don’t get to dive very much. Maybe eight days a year. But all else fails, we were instructed to dig. The clams are
Indian land and decimate Indian populations, but not a boat can make 13k in three hours.” Eddy becomes more A cannabis always there. There’s food waiting there.”
quite harsh enough to annihilate us outright. animated when he talks about being on the water. dispensary
But reservations are not stagnant places. Despite The next day he picks me up to go digging for clams on the In addition to opening new avenues to wealth – and
their staggering rates of unemployment, they are on Cama Beach Point. His car is packed with five-gallon Tulalip Indian creating a wealth gap in Indian country – casinos have
home not only to traditional ways of living but to new buckets, shovels, rakes and his son, Cruz, tucked in the Reservation had another major effect: they’ve thrown into stark
tribal business as well. Pot as a tribal industry has backseat. As we drive, he points out the landmarks. The north of Seattle relief the vexing question of who gets to be Indian at all.
a parent: the casino. Arguably, the casino’s arrival in Tulalip Reservation – 22,000 acres of Indian land – sits GENNA MARTIN America’s first “blood-quantum” law was passed in
Indian country had as defining an effect on the social Virginia in 1705, in order to determine who had a high
and economic lives of Indians in the past 50 years as enough degree of Indian blood to be classified an Indian
the mass migration of Indians to American cities. – and whose rights could be restricted as a result. Blood
Many Indians refer to the time before tribal gaming quantum was simply a measure of how much Indian
as “BC” – Before Casino. blood (full blood, half, quarter, eighth) a person had.
By 1987, gaming enterprises were under way across It was often wildly inaccurate, culturally incongruous
the country, with the biggest concentration of casinos and socially divisive. It is still used to determine who can
in California and Oklahoma. The courts were still be an enrolled member of some federally recognised
deliberating the questions of rights v regulation, but tribes, and it is just as divisive now as it was then.
Indians – having waited for so many years to have their You’d think, after all these years, we’d finally manage
sovereignty affirmed – were not. The increase in funding to kick the concept. But recently, casino-rich Indian
for tribal programmes throughout the 70s, the emphasis tribes have been using it to disenroll those whose blood-
on improving access to education, support for the poor, lines, they say, are not pure enough to share in the profits.
funding for healthcare – all of this positioned Indians As of 2017, more than 50 tribes across the country have
to move, and move fast. By the mid-80s, elected tribal banished or disenrolled at least 8,000 tribal members
leaders had gained 40 years of experience in Indian in the past two decades. Many different rationales have
Rights Association governments, and 40 years of been used to justify it, but it’s telling that 73% of the
experience in dealing with the Bureau of Indian Affairs tribes kicking out members have gaming operations.
and state and federal governments. What’s fascinating to me is that the whole question
They had become expert at playing with soft power, of culture didn’t become part of the conversation about

11
The casino resort
on the Tulalip
Reservation
RICHARD UHLHORN/
ALAMY
who is and who isn’t Indian at all until the period AC –

After Casinos. True, being Indian (as something one did bazaar west of the Mississippi rises from the gravel
in addition to being something one simply was) began on a vacant lot near the casino. Plywood shanties are
back with the Red Power movement and was amplified trucked to the site and arranged in neat rows. The
by the American Indian Movement (AIM), which, at the awnings are opened and the sale begins. Each of the
start, was primarily concerned with Indians’ economic 139 stands is stuffed with fireworks. All of the stands
independence and freedom from police brutality. But in are Native-owned, and the action is administered by
those early discussions and actions, being Indian was a board of directors, which in turn is administered by
more a matter of politics and emotional affinity than the tribe. All of the stands are painted brightly, and
a matter of culture. Even the religions claimed by AIM
were antagonistic and political: AIMsters danced the Sun
‘We could use our many bear equally colourful names: Up in Smoke,
One Night Stand, Boom Boom Long Time, Porno for
Dance as a way of saying “We’re not you” more than as a
positive assertion of religious identity. But after casinos sovereignty to fast-track Pyro, Titty Titty Bang Bang. Others bespeak proud
ownership: Mikey’s, Eddy’s, Junior’s.
began injecting millions and then billions of dollars into
Indian economies, culture really came to the fore of clinical trials. We could It’s slow when I arrive at Eddy’s stand, but even so
there is a lot of money changing hands. Fireworks – like
discussions of Indianness. gaming – are regulated by the state. And as sovereign
By the end of the 1990s, there was enough cushion for do it faster and better nations, Indian tribes in states such as Washington,
enough Indians and enough money to begin pondering, where fireworks are illegal, enjoy a monopoly on their
in earnest, what being Indian meant. They had enough than pharma companies’ sale. I find Eddy deep in his stand, trying to avoid the sun.
space in their lives to want to connect to their tribes in “The weather’s keeping people away. Too hot.” He
ways that were value-positive, that didn’t see being also tells me business is slow because someone was
Indian as a matter of being a full-blood or being enrolled Many of the people I talked to had similar stories. Here caught earlier that day selling illegal fireworks nearby,
or being simply “dark”, as had been the case when I was as elsewhere, survival was the principal challenge for and the incident has made customers skittish. “By
growing up. Rather, being Indian became a matter of Indians for well over a century. And from Les’s story, it’s Friday the cars will be backed up to the highway,” Eddy
knowing your language, attending ceremony, harvesting clear that a tolerance for conflict, pain and uncertainty assures me. “If you’re the last man standing with a full
game and wild rice or piñon or salmon. Being Indian was has been necessary to that survival. What, then, allows load of fireworks on the last day, you can sell it all.”
still to some degree a matter of blood, but it was also in growth? What are the ingredients necessary for a com- The wholesalers set up shop on the outskirts of Boom
the process of becoming about much more. munity not only to make money, but to grow real wealth? City and circle around taking orders for the vendors.
The struggles of Indian people across the country are “My sister-in-law got Parkinson’s disease. It was There are two espresso stands and a few food stands.
bound up in what it means to be Indian. But to be Indian horrible. Pot helped her. It helped her pain a lot.” But Les Someone has lined the back of their pickup with a tarp
is not to be poor or to struggle. To believe in sovereignty, doesn’t want the tribe to sell pot. Or to only sell it. “I want and filled it with water, and five kids cavort and splash
to let it inform not only one’s political and legal existence us to use our sovereignty to fast-track clinical trials for in it. Other kids, as young as four or five, walk through
but also one’s community, to move through the world the uses of marijuana extracts. We could do it faster and the stands chirping “Iced tea! Pop! Gatorade!” in a
imbued with the dignity of that reality, is to resolve one better than any of the pharmaceutical companies out miniature mimic of the men and women selling
of the major contradictions of modern Indian life: it is to there. We’re already talking to Bastyr University. That’s fireworks who have perfected the banter of bazaar
find a way to be Indian and modern simultaneously. where I want us to go. There are a lot of uses for extracts merchants the world over.
and there is no pharmaceutical company in North In the afternoon, the sound of fireworks can be heard
The cannabis industry has started modestly at Tulalip. America that is looking in that direction. We could be the nearby. There’s a field on the edge of Boom City set aside
It is unclear what it will bring or where it will end. first.” He looks off over the sound. “There’s even some for setting them off. Just as fireworks can be sold on the
Some, like Eddy, think pot shouldn’t necessarily be a research that suggests cannabis extracts can be used to “rez” but not in the state, so too can they be exploded on
tribal enterprise, but rather something tribal individuals cure type 2 diabetes. Think about that. Think about an the rez. And Boom City is happy to provide the space. It’s
can participate in, another small-business opportunity Indian company, a tribal pharmaceutical company, a free-for-all. Rockets, mortars, roman candles, spinners.
that can help make up an income. But how the tribe that could cure the greatest threat to our health.” They all go off at once and continuously. A haze settles
will exploit the cannabis market collectively is an open Fifteen per cent of American Indians have diabetes, over the lot like the haze over a battlefield. Periodically,
question, dependent not only on the unique politics at and in some communities, the rate is as high as 22%. And the security guards call a halt to the explosions, but only
Tulalip but also on the way tribes do business in general. diabetes is only part of the problem. Along with high to make room for even larger ones: tribal members – and
Les Parks, the former tribal vice-chairman of the dropout, unemployment and poverty rates, Indians have this seems to be a uniquely cultural thing – will light off
Tulalip and current treasurer, has been at the forefront a mortality rate from accidental death that is twice the upward of $1,000 worth of fireworks as a “memorial”
in trying to get the tribe into the business. While vice- national average. Life, for many of us, is not merely bleak: for someone in their family who has passed on. They
chairman, he put together the “pot summit”. But after it’s short, poor, painful, unhealthy and tumultuous. are remembered with an exploding wall of sound.
the summit and a subsequent election, Les stepped Just as Les moved from poverty to relative comfort in Ideas aren’t quietly laid to rest here either. Having
down, having “shot his bolt” on the whole issue, about 30 years, so too has the tribe. According to the explored the possibility of teaming up with the Lummi
according to him, and having failed to overrule those Tribal Employment Rights Organization (Tero), there are nation to start a pharmaceutical company, and having
who opposed the idea. As on most other reservations, 62 registered small businesses owned and operated by met with resistance there as well, Les Parks has recently
tribal enterprise at Tulalip is controlled by a small group Indians on the Tulalip Reservation right now, but since taken the project back. Political power waxes and wanes,
of people who have grown up together in a very small businesses register annually, that swells to more than and as the dynamics on the council shifted, Les has
community. A small village council can control millions 160 when there’s a big project on the books. And that brought the idea of a pharmaceutical company back
on millions of dollars, and so big decisions are often, at figure doesn’t seem to include fishermen, or the 139 to Tulalip. This time he has more support.
their core, made for very personal reasons. fireworks stands at Boom City, or tribal businesses in I wander back to Eddy’s, dazed by the fireworks and
I’m met by Les, in bolo tie, boots and a very large, very areas that are technically off the reservation. When I add by everything else I’ve seen at Tulalip. What I have seen
new pickup truck. Les is proud of his community, and he all that up, I figure at least a few hundred Indians are in here isn’t just what a tribe could be, but what America
has obviously given the tour of the reservation many on the hustle – no different, in their way, from the many might be. If only. Tulalip is a conglomeration of separate
times. But when I ask how much the casino makes, or who sell crafts on Etsy, auction game on eBay, plough tribes that came together (by choice, circumstance and
the fisheries, or anything else, he is evasive. “Oh, we driveways and make T-shirts on the side. There is, under pressure) to form a nation. It has suffered its own
do OK. Every year we send $62m in taxes to Olympia. despite historical oppression and in contrast to the internal divisions and traumas. It has endured natural
That should give you an idea.” received stereotypes about Indians, an active and and civic disasters, gone through recession and poverty
It’s understandable that a wildly successful tribe like thriving entrepreneurial class at Tulalip. and joblessness. But it has found a way to provide free
the Tulalip don’t want to say how much they’re pulling The tribe has opened a dispensary, but hasn’t given healthcare for all, free education for those who want it,
in. The federal government has treaty obligations to the up on Les’s bigger vision. “Even if we can’t do it, it free (excellent) childcare for working parents, a safe and
Tulalip to provide for housing and services, among other should be done,” he says. I can’t help agreeing. Why comfortable retirement option for its elders, and a
things – obligations that, when all is going well, the shouldn’t the tribe, surrounded as it is by Boeing robust safety net woven from per-capita payments that,
government is only too happy to let slide. So the fiscal and Microsoft and Amazon, wed tribal enterprise while barely enough to support a single person and not
rhetoric of reservations is always one of want and need. and wealth to technological enterprise and wealth? enough to fully support a family, are enough to
Les veers down a long, narrow road that ends near a A pharmaceutical company could be the way to encourage its citizens to venture into enterprises
creek feeding into the sound. This is where his family’s bring Tulalip’s economy out from under the lifestyle small and large. The nation provides for its most
original allotment was. “My great-great-grandfather  economies that have marked, till now, tribal enterprise. vulnerable citizens – the young and the old. And it
must have been important because this was a good place David Treuer Tribal power is an interesting thing. With a structure provides enough security for the people in between
to live, right next to the creek. It would have been full of is a novelist and like Tulalip’s, power rests in the hands of a very few, and life’s beginnings and ends so that they can really see
salmon.” But Les has suffered like so many Indians have academic, and the absence of term limits makes it easy to keep doing what they might become. •
suffered: he lost his mother to a drunk driver, his father author of Rez the same thing but very, very hard to do anything new.
wasn’t around very much. The house he grew up in Life: An Indian’s This is an edited extract from The Heartbeat at Wounded
was of rough-cut lumber and tar paper. He had a lot of Journey Through Boom City is exactly how it sounds. For two weeks Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by
brothers and sisters. There wasn’t much to go around. Reservation Life leading up to the Fourth of July, the largest fireworks David Treuer, published by Corsair on 28 March

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and is represented by the same number wherever it appears. The letters
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row, column and 3x3 box
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No digit can be repeated
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Codeword
Cryptic crossword Guardian cryptic crossword No 27,769 set by Paul

Solution No. 27,768
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(2,5) could be? (10)
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