21.09.14 / 7 Gove aide damns Clegg for resisting curbs on school Islamists

Richard Kerbaj the deputy prime minister, some schools in . an education secretary of rare extremism which, he argues, resignation of May’s special sities must be a key focus,” he to the peaceful religion of , as a “consistent “Nick Clegg was a consistent moral courage.” has left Britain “as a weak link adviser Fiona Cunningham. writes. “The grotesque spec- than Stalinism did to demo- SECURITY CORRESPONDENT source of opposition”. source of opposition,” Martin Martin’s anger about polit- in the fight against global Martin also suggests an tacle of fascist preachers cratic socialism”. A FORMER aide to Michael Writing in The Sunday claims. “On one remarkable ical correctness hampering terror”. “ingrained culture of appeas- addressing gender-segregated A source close to Clegg said Gove has accused ministers Times,Martin,aspecialadviser occasion in June [he] asked action against extremism fol- The controversy over the ing” resulted in poor decisions audiences in taxpayer-funded the deputy prime minister had and Whitehall officials of who worked alongside the why we were singling out lows similar concerns raised in Trojan Horse affair, which was in Whitehall. He suggests Peter institutions must end.” not heard of Martin and had no trying to block efforts to tackle former education secretary for above other forms of the wake of the child sex abuse first exposed by The Sunday Clarke, a former anti-terror Martin also laments a failure interest in his views. “He extremism in schools because three years, also suggests extremism. scandal in Rotherham, where Times in February, led to a rift chief at Scotland Yard and the of “our governing elite” to sounds like a former adviser they were “hamstrung by Whitehall mandarins failed to He adds: “We succeeded in abusers of Pakistani descent between Gove and the home man asked by Gove to investi- tackle Islamism which, he trying to show off and make a political correctness” and co-operate with Gove as he avoiding government’s usual escaped the attention of the secretary over the gate the Trojan Horse affair, says, “rejects every tenet of our name for himself now he does- feared being labelled as Islam- sought to tackle the so-called cycle of appeasement and in- authorities. infiltration by Islamists of state should be commissioned to pluralistic society and will not n’t have a job,” the source said. ophobic. Trojan Horse scandal. The action only thanks to an unu- Martin, who left govern- schools. An investigation by leadabroaderinquiryinto pos- compromise on its belief in a Quivering Sir Humphrey Condemning a failure in affair revealed how Muslim sually talented and committed ment in July after Gove became the cabinet secretary Sir sible extremism in schools totalitarian theocracy”. leaves it to parents, government to confront Islam- fundamentalists had sought to civil service team at the Tory chief whip, also criticises Jeremy Heywood into the across the country. He says the extremist ide- Jamie Martin, page 30 ism, Jamie Martin describes impose an Islamist agenda on and Muslims for failing to confront fallout ultimately forced the “Islamic societies in univer- ology “bears no more relation @richardkerbaj

Nicholas Hellen SOCIAL AFFAIRS EDITOR Squeezed incomes Price of four-bedroom School fees IT IS the new inequality, the property in prime per term £100m winter growinggapbetweenthehaves central London Day school 1989 2013-14 and the have-lots. People Inflation earningbetween£160,000and UK increase Increase fuel payouts for £370,000 gross a year are £760 £4,019 struggling to maintain their 1989-2013 429% lifestyle and resentful of those 118% earning even more, according Southeast retirees in sun to a new book. 1989 2014 The “squeezed upper mid- £783 £4,325 Increase dle” have scraped into the £800,000 £5.1m 452% country’s top 1% of earners, Becky Barrow but feel hard done by as they MONEY EDITOR watch the richest in that elite London Increase group leave them behind. Source: Savills MORE than £100m has been Danny Dorling, a professor 523% £873 £4,899 Increase spent on winter fuel of geography at Oxford Uni- 461% payments to pensioners versity, who has identified the Mark Simmonds, pictured with his wife, Lizbeth, resigned as a junior living in some of Europe’s phenomenon in his book Ine- Foreign Office minister, complaining he couldn't afford a family life. hottest countries, official quality and the 1%, to be pub- The couple received around £140,000 in income and allowances Boarding for UK figures reveal. lished by Verso this week, said: Record numbers of “It would be very hard to find £1,780 £9,596 Increase pensioners living in sunny someone in London with a 439% spots such as Spain, Cyprus, household income of between Malta and Portugal, are £200,000 and £350,000 who Source: Independent Schools Council receiving the payout, worth told you they felt comfortable, up to £300 a year, despite its and that is remarkable.” purpose being to help the From 2015-2016, the People in the “squeezed elderly with heating bills. government plans to axe upper middle” group of ear- Net household Last night experts payments to pensioners who ners often mistakenly believe income to described the situation as live in those seven countries they are in the “squeezed enter top 1% “farcical”. — subject to the approval of middle”, even though the The figures, published by MPs. Countries with an Couple, Couple, 2 children, Single average annual UK salary last the Department for Work average winter temperature no children aged 14 and 10 year was £24,596, says Dor- and Pensions, show that higher than the UK’s ling. He adds, however, that £101m of taxpayers’ money warmest region will be they are right to believe they 2012-13 £124,100 £190,300 £82,700 has been spent on fuel banned. have lost out — but only by payments since 2005-2006 Ros Altmann, a comparisonwiththeeliteatthe to pensioners in Gibraltar, government adviser and top of the 1%. The gap between 2009-10 £121,400 £186,200 £80,900 France, Greece, Portugal, leading champion of the the top and bottom of the 1% is Spain, Malta and Cyprus. rights of the elderly, said: In today’s terms £138,300 £212,000 £92,200 much greater than the range The number of pensioners “Winter fuel payments are a across the whole of the re- not living in the UK but still political gimmick. It makes maining 99%. 1989 £42,000 £64,400 £28,000 receiving the handout has little sense to try to identify Peter York, co-founder of jumped to an all-time high countries that are hotter or In today’s terms £91,800 £140,800 £61,200 the SRU management consult- of 139,000, according to colder in winter than others, ancy, and a social commen- figures for 2013-2014. Last because the reality is that tator, said: “People who are Source: Institute for Fiscal Studies winter overseas pensioners many parts of the countries doing very well consider living in countries from that are included are themselves hard done by, as in Norway to Romania were warmer than parts of the London and the southeast they paid a record £21.7m. excluded ones.” are squeezed out of the places Jonathan Isaby, chief At present the payments they want to live, squeezed into executive of the Taxpayers’ are made to pensioners born private services they can’t Alliance campaign group, on or before July 5, 1952, afford and psychologically It’s a struggle to get by said: “It is farcical that hard- including those who do not squeezed by the presence pressed taxpayers are paying live here but have “a genuine nearby of the luxury life.” for sun-kissed pensioners’ link with the UK”. Divyang Mistry, 50, was winter fuel allowance. The A Department for Work earning £200,000 as a director payments should be for and Pensions spokesman of a corporate communications those who need help to get said: “Winter fuel payments firm but decided to change through cold winters, not as are intended to encourage career when he had to borrow on £370,000 a year an extra helping hand for older people in Britain to money from his father to buy a retirees spending keep themselves warm.” family home in Hertfordshire. on a sun lounger.” @beckymbarrow He realised that so long as he was paying the top rate of tax there would be little money to Dorling, you are also likely much better off than you. As tax,or£200,00ifthey have two Calculations by the Institute themselves to the super-rich, Warm left after school fees for three to resent paying for other Dorlingputsit:“They maybein children. The mean for the top for Fiscal Studies show the and this “sense of grievance” is Total winter fuel Number of children. So he set up a couple people’s education through thetop1%oftheUKbutthey’re 1% is £369,000. Above them in squeezed upper middle have bad for society. front payments* pensioners** of online firms — leesman- your taxes, while paying pri- not in the top 1% of London. the top half per cent are FTSE enjoyed earnings growth in “It matters if you don’t France £29.8m 29,535 index.com and accesssolic- vately for your own family. Outside London, anyone in the 250 company board directors, the past 25 years well above realise that you’ve never had it itor.com — and said: “Why pay Members of the top half per top 1% nationally is acutely bankers and a few hundred inflation of 118%. Yet the price sogood,and itmattersifpeople Greece £2.1m 2,065 top-rate tax for 10 years when cent would not brood over it. aware that they are among the footballers and entertainers. of status purchases has risen no longer want to go into more Portugal £3m 3,305 you need pay only 10% tax Tick if you have had to ask richest people in their area.” The backlash against Mark faster: a four-bedroom prop- worthytypesofwork,” he said. Spain £55.9m 49,870 when you sell companies?” grandparents to help pay your The squeezed upper middle Simmonds, the Foreign and erty in prime central London @nicholashellen How, then, can you check if school or university fees. Tick includes senior managers, Commonwealth Office min- has gone up by 523%; private Malta £1.6m 1,685 you are also a member of the again if you worry about the lawyers, accountants, BBC ister who resigned last month, day-school fees in London by ST DIGITAL Cyprus £8.5m 8,170 squeezed upper middle? impact of interest-rate rises on executives, hospital consult- sayingheandhiswifecouldnot 461% (nationally 429%), and Gibraltar £307,000 315 If you grumble that you pay your mortgage, because the ants and university vice-chan- afford a family life on a joint in- boarding school fees by 439%. hefty taxes, but the only public seriously rich buy with cash. cellors, who think they have come and expenses of about York suggests the upper Are you a member of the *Between 2005-6 and Total Total squeezed upper middle? 2013-14 ** Pensioners service you use is a fortnightly Tick a third time if you live socially usefuljobs. To beinthis £140,000, shows there is little middles have developed an £101.3m 94,945 Go to tablet edition or who claimed the winter bin collection, then you are in London or the southeast, group a childless couple would public sympathy for high “unrealistic vision of the fuel payment in 2013-14 probably a member. According because so many people are need to earn £160,000 before earners. world” because they compare thesundaytimes.co.uk/news

Generation Z go-getters HEAD GIRL Churchill’s War Office to be hotel HULTON ARCHIVE LENA DUNHAM Jon Ungoed-Thomas work started on the building in shrug off geeky image 1901. It took five years to com- and Kate Mansey ON LOVE, SEX plete and used 26,000 tons of AND SURVIVING ONE of Whitehall’s most Portland stone, 3,000 tons of Hazel Shearing The research, We come from a culture where famous buildings — the Old York stone and 25m bricks. commissioned by the maker whenever you fail you think, LIFE War Office where Winston During the First World War, THE image of Britain’s young of the sports drink Lucozade ‘That’s it’, but sometimes it’s Churchilloncehadhisoffices— Lord Kitchener, the war secre- people as insular geeks Energy, found reading (54%) a great thing. You can learn STYLE is being rebranded in a sale that tary, and David Lloyd George, obsessed with Twitter and was a more popular pastime from it.” could raise more than £300m munitions minister, worked Facebook has been challenged for Generation Z than While members of for the government. there. TE Lawrence — Law- by research that found they engaging on social media Generation Z have visited an Developers are being offered rence of Arabia — was em- prefer reading to social media (51%), and cooking (43%) average of seven countries and the chance to turn the building ployed there to produce a and cooking to computer was preferred to playing 10% say their knowledge of into a hotel and residential large-scale map of Sinai in games. computer games (39%). current affairs is “excellent”, complex. It is being marketed Egypt and a military guide to A survey of 1,800 members After failure, the group’s double that of those aged over as an “exquisite building, an the region. Churchill worked of Generation Z, a term given biggest fears were 25, more than two-thirds unparalleled location”. there as secretary of state for to those aged 16-25, found disappointing people and not (69%) feel under more The Ministry of Defence war and air in 1919, as did John almost two-thirds (62%) having money (both 24%). pressure than their parents at property, which covers seven Profumo from 1960, when he aspire to run their own Leonie Owiredu, 18, a the same age. floors and has more than two was war secretary, until 1963 business or create their fashion blogger and Lesley Stonier, marketing miles of corridors, has been when he resigned over his own brand but that 38% photographer from manager at Lucozade Energy, renamed 57 Whitehall. It is Churchill worked at the Old War Office after the First World War affair with Christine Keeler. fear failure above anything London, said: “Failure is said: “The research shows the thought developers are un- It was originally thought the else. something no one wants negative perception of young A BUGG’S LIFE likely to wish to retain the Old sale would raise about £100m According to the study, to encounter. It’s people is wrong.” War Office name. for a 250-year lease but experts entitled Gen-erators Z, the embarrassing, you The survey also questions WHY ROCK STAR Barney Hillsdon, a director now believe it could fetch at vast majority (91%) feel like you’ve the portrayal of Generation Z of GVA, the property consult- least £300m. Any buyer will think society has a wasted your as shirkers. JAKE BUGG FINDS ancy handling the sale, said face checks because the poor opinion of young time.” One in three of those in the IT HARD TO LET there had already been consid- building is in the government people. Bejay survey put their work-life erable interest, including from security zone. However, almost Mulengas, 19, balance at 50-50 and 36% GO OF THE PAST foreign buyers, since the prop- In 2012, another historic two-thirds (62%) of also from claim they work 75% of the MAGAZINE erty went on the market last government building, Admi- the 1,000 people aged London, who time. week. “It is in prime position ralty Arch, was sold for £60m over 25 who were co-founded Supa Ed Hardy, 17, from London, on Whitehall and is a chance to to a Spanish developer, which surveyed for a , an who co-founded Edge Mobile, buy a piece of history,” he said. plans to convert it into a five- comparative poll said organisation a firm that creates apps, said: The sale is part of a govern- star hotel. they envied Generation Z, helping teenage “Running the business keeps ment drive to cut the size of its An MoD spokesman said the who are better travelled entrepreneurs, you focused ... I can’t imagine estate. Central and local gov- sale should save about £8m a and have a greater said: “In school not being busy all the time.” ernment own property worth year in running costs. He awareness of domestic there is too Find out more about the study at £370bn, with annual running added: “We will seek to secure and foreign events than much focus on generatorsz. costs of more than £20bn. the best deal for the taxpayer.” they do. Hardy: runs a business exam results. tumblr.com Designed by William Young, @jonungoedthomas