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What happened What the editorials said The Conservative campaign is misfiring badly, said the Closing the gap London Evening Standard (now edited by George Osborne). A number of opinion polls showed a marked It has “meandered from an abortive attempt narrowing of the Conservatives’ lead over to launch a personality cult around Mrs Labour, while YouGov’s first constituency- May to the self-inflicted wound of the most by-constituency projection had the Tories disastrous manifesto in recent history and, actually losing 20 seats in next week’s after the atrocity in Manchester, shrill election and Labour gaining 30, leading to a attacks on Mr Corbyn’s appeasement of hung parliament. These surveys followed the terrorism”. The final week will see the Tories troubled launch of the Tory manifesto, which zeroing in on Brexit, said The Independent. saw Theresa May ditch a key pledge on But the election isn’t just about Europe; it’s social care funding within days. Other polls, also about Britain. And the narrowing polls however, suggested that the Conservatives suggest Corbyn “may have a better feel for maintained a comfortable lead (see page 6). the underlying desires of the electorate than the Tories give him credit for”. Jeremy Corbyn continued to exceed Corbyn: calm and assured? expectations: he appeared calm and assured If politicians have learnt anything in the past when he appeared with the Prime Minister on Monday few years, “it is not to place too much faith in opinion polls”, night’s live TV broadcast. However, on Woman’s Hour on said The Times. Yet the general trend is clear. Having Tuesday, Corbyn was unable to remember the cost of envisaged a landslide victory, by perhaps 200 seats, Tory HQ Labour’s promise to provide universal childcare for two- to is now hoping for a majority of 80 at best. In most elections, four-year-olds; he was seen rifling through his manifesto for “there is a moment when the leading party takes a tumble in the figure. May later unleashed a series of personal attacks the ratings”, said The Daily Telegraph. But the Conservatives on the Labour leader, claiming that he was not prepared for shouldn’t panic. “On the contrary, they must exploit this news Brexit talks and would find himself “alone and naked in the to the fullest – to focus the minds of the voters. Do they want negotiating chamber”. Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn to run the country?”

What happened What the editorials said A nation on alert One vital lesson of the Manchester bombing is the “urgent need to upgrade and extend” our counter-terrorism powers, As the investigation into last week’s suicide said the Daily Mail. Why not, for example, bombing in Manchester continued, police restore the control orders – “watered down” said that they thought the bomber, Salman under Lib Dem pressure – which stop Abedi, had probably carried out the attack terrorist suspects from using the internet and alone – but refused to rule out the limit their movements? The priority, possibility that he was part of a wider however, must be stemming the “torrent of network. In the days after the atrocity, at terrorist poison” on social media. The briefest least 16 suspects were arrested in raids in online search currently reveals bomb-making Manchester and elsewhere. However, five manuals and calls for the murder of children. have since been released. Last Saturday, the security threat was downgraded from But it’s vital not to overreact, said The “critical” to “severe”, and this week Economist. When UKIP leader Paul Nuttall Operation Temperer – which put troops on and others talk of detaining terror suspects the street – was scaled back. Police remain vigilant without trial, it simply serves as a “recruiting message” for the jihadists. Nor should we Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn sparked fierce controversy by jeopardise existing reserves of goodwill, said The Spectator. A suggesting that British foreign policy had increased the risk survey last year found that the overwhelming majority of of terrorist attacks at home by destabilising the Middle East British Muslims say it’s important to “integrate into British and fuelling suspicion of the West. In response, the Prime life” and that they feel they “belong strongly to Britain”. To Minister accused the Labour leader of making an “excuse undermine that spirit would be to “bring on precisely the for terrorism”. clash of civilisations that the Islamists want”.

An Indian climber has The world’s first wind farm It wasn’t all bad become the first powered by giant kites is to be A field in Cornwall has become woman to scale Mount built in the UK. Twenty of the the first single vineyard in the Everest twice in five kites, flying in loops more than UK to be awarded Protected days. Anshu 300 metres above the ground, Designation of Origin status. To Jamsenpa, from the will work in pairs to generate secure the designation – which state of Arunachal electricity by rotating a took five years – Bob Lindo of Pradesh, climbed generator on the ground. Kite Camel Valley wines had to show Everest by its Power Systems plans to build that the ancient slate subsoil Southeast Ridge route the farm, which it says would and steep south-facing slopes of on 16 May and produce enough electricity to the Darnibole vineyard produce repeated the feat on 21 power 5,500 homes, by 2020, at consistently good wines with a May – beating the previous record for the fastest double ascent by a location due to be confirmed character unique to the area. a woman by two days. The 37-year-old mother of two had later this year. Less obtrusive “It’s a moment of history,” said previously climbed the mountain twice in ten days, in 2011. She than wind turbines, the kites, Lindo, who began growing now intends to reach the summit of Kangto, a 23,160ft mountain in each measuring up to 70 square grapes on his former livestock Arunachal Pradesh that has never been climbed, as well as other metres, will also be cheaper to farm 30 years ago. “virgin peaks” in the Himalaya. erect and easier to maintain.

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What the commentators said What next? I never bought the idea that May would win by a landslide, said Rod Liddle in The Spectator. After the political surprises of Labour’s vote is a lot “stickier” than pollsters think, particularly in the North. Like Greece’s 2015 and 2016, are pollsters Syriza or the SNP, Corbyn is offering an “anti-establishment populist left-wing agenda” to an “heading for another electorate with “a certain appetite for such radicalism”. He’s also a far better campaigner than embarrassing election”, ask May, who has “the personal warmth, wit and oratorical skills of an Indesit fridge-freezer”. Will Jennings and Patrick Sturgis on The Conversation? The Tories have fought a very dispiriting campaign, said Rachel Sylvester in The Times. Their After their predictions for the over-reliance on the PM has exposed her as “brittle and indecisive rather than ‘strong and last election proved so faulty, stable’”. Now that “the high priest of negativity”, Sir Lynton Crosby, is back in charge, they the polling companies held will lead on “vicious personal attacks” against Corbyn: that he is “soft on terrorism”, an IRA an inquiry, and concluded sympathiser, and so on. The Conservatives will probably get their victory on 8 June, but it will that they had used be a bitter one because they have had “so little positive” to say. “There must be more to politics “unrepresentative samples”. than Project Fear.” The Tories seem strangely reluctant to attack Corbyn’s greatest weakness, They came up with some said Philip Johnston in The Daily Telegraph: his “profligacy”. His failure to remember the cost proposed reforms, but of his own pledge to provide free care for 1.3 million children was just the latest expression of although some changes have Labour’s “carelessness with public money”. At the last election, it was generally agreed that been made, many of the spending had to be reined in. This time, the Tories have “partially grasped the nettle” by proposals have not yet been pledging to cut old age benefits and pension inflation. Yet they too are trying to buy the voters implemented. with more cash for “police, health, social care and the rest” (see page 13). Between 1945 and 2015, the On the contrary, said Steve Richards in The Guardian: the last two elections were “framed average polling error on the around an outdated Thatcherite fantasy”. Both main parties declared that there would be no Tory-Labour margin was significant tax rises, and yet the deficit could be wiped out in one Parliament or slightly more. around 4-5%. There’s “no Thankfully, the debate this time round is different. Both Labour and the Tories have made it particular reason” to assume clear that some tax rises will be needed if decent public services are to be preserved. Whatever that the pollsters’ record will the result, this election has moved the centre ground; British politics has shifted “leftwards”. be any better in 2017.

What the commentators said What next? When Corbyn talks of a link between British foreign policy and terrorist attacks on British soil, At last week’s G7 summit he “is perfectly right”, said Simon Jenkins in The Guardian. Isis and al-Qa’eda routinely cite in Sicily, Theresa May our intervention in the Middle East and the killing of innocent Muslims that it entailed as won support from world justification for their “atrocities”. And there’s no denying that in bombing Baghdad in 2003 we leaders for a crackdown on committed “armed aggression against sovereign peoples who had not attacked us”; in so doing websites peddling terrorist we provided the terrorists with a “cause, a reason and an excuse, however perverted”. It’s also advice and propaganda. clear that had it not been for David Cameron’s reckless policy of regime change in Libya, the A summit communiqué suicide bombing in Manchester “would probably not have taken place”, said John R. Bradley expressed a shared resolve in the Daily Mail. By toppling Muammar Gaddafi, he helped create “a blood-soaked, chaotic to introduce legislation country” in which Islamists emerged triumphant and in which the likes of Abedi were able to forcing social media receive military training and cultivate their “murderous hatred of the West” (see page 22). companies to take more responsibility in this regard. Enough of this self-flagellation, said Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian. It makes no sense to blame ourselves for jihadi terrorism when most of it is directed at other Muslims – Shias for the The government is also said most part. Besides, when it comes to Western military action, the extremists are totally to be toying with the idea inconsistent. In the 1990s, many Muslims were furious when we failed to intervene on behalf of of setting up a commission Bosnia’s Muslims. In any case, what would Corbyn have us do, asked Dominic Lawson in The for countering extremism, Sunday Times. He puts his faith in the power of negotiation, but how to negotiate with a group and of introducing new like Isis? In its literature, it most explicitly states that the “invasion of Muslim lands” is by no counter-terrorism measures, means the main thing it hates about us. Worse by far, in its eyes, is the “secular, liberal” nature including wider powers to of our societies and the “devilish practices” we engage in. They will only cease their attacks if restrict hate preachers, and we abandon democracy and submit to the rule of Allah. Still, if you think dialogue “is worth to close premises used for trying Jeremy, pop off to Raqqa and give it a go”. extremist meetings.

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Controversy of the week SNP manifesto A transatlantic rift? The SNP has called for a referendum on Scottish Donald Trump isn’t the fi rst president to make Europe’s leaders independence, “at the end of nervous, said Chris Cillizza on CNN.com. Recall how spooked the Brexit process”, in its they were by George W. Bush’s “cowboy” approach to foreign manifesto. Nicola Sturgeon affairs. But at least Bush “never sought to undo the basic tenets had previously demanded of Nato or the G7”. Whereas Trump did just that on his fi rst that such a vote be held between the autumn of 2018 official trip to Europe last week, said Tom Peck in The and spring 2019, before a Independent. He hectored his Nato allies for “chronically final Brexit deal was signed. underfunding” Nato; looked set to pull out of the Paris climate Launching her party’s change agreement; and called Germany “bad, very bad” for manifesto this week, she fl ooding the US market with its cars. Who can blame Angela indicated that she’d want Merkel for suggesting an era of transatlantic co-operation is a referendum to take place coming to an end? “The era in which we could fully rely on later, if the negotiations dragout beyond two years: others is over to some extent,” she said. “We Europeans truly Merkel: the “leader of the free world” have to take our fate into our own hands – in friendship, of a vote, she said, should be held “when the final terms course, with the US and Great Britain – but we must fi ght for our own future and destiny.” of the deal are known”. Salute the new “leader of the free world”, said Suzanne Moore in The Guardian. There is “a vision, However, a second a morality, a core” to Merkel that the arrogant, bumbling Trump entirely lacks. She’s in a class of her referendum would have to have approval from own: “this is what strong and stable actually looks like”. But she was highly irresponsible in talking Westminster, and Theresa as she did, said Gideon Rachman in the FT. Yes, Trump’s performance – notably his pointed refusal May has repeatedly said that to reaffirm the “one-for-all, all-for-one” principle enshrined in Nato’s Article 5 – has widened the rift “now is not the time” for it, in the Atlantic alliance. But by implying that the alliance is indeed coming to an end, Merkel while Jeremy Corbyn has compounded his error. And how unfair to bracket the UK – which has sided with the EU on climate described it as “unwanted change and stressed its commitment to Nato – with Trump’s America. In any case, Trump’s actions and unnecessary”. speak louder than his words, said The Times. The US is deploying four battalions to the Baltic states The manifesto also calls and Poland: Western European Nato members are deploying only two. This is the true measure both for an increase in the of the US commitment to Europe and of Europe’s failure to take more responsibility for its own security. minimum wage to more than £10 an hour by the end Whisper it quietly, said Yascha Mounk on Slate, but Trump actually makes Europe’s leaders happy. of the next parliament, and They’ve always looked down on America: its culture, its cuisine, its brash politics. And they can’t backs a UK-wide increase in quite conceal their jealousy that this vulgar upstart isn’t just richer and more powerful, but the “world the top rate of tax from 45p to 50p. It says the party’s centre for fashion, science, pop culture and technological progress”. Trump, with his plebeian MPs would vote to protect manners, his bellicosity and his crude plans to keep out Mexican immigrants and Muslims, helps the triple lock on pensions restore their good image of themselves. They forget that their governments, too, have built hundreds and the winter fuel allowance, of miles of border fortifications and spent vast sums to get a sworn enemy of democracy, President and oppose welfare and NHS Erdogan of Turkey, to keep migrants at bay. Their centre-right parties, including Merkel’s CDU, have funding cuts in the rest of the shamelessly failed to expel Viktor Orbán of Hungary, another enemy of democracy, from their group UK – as well as any increase in the European Parliament. Merkel, the “new leader of the free world”, remains his political ally. in National Insurance, VAT Europe and America’s leaders need to recognise that they’re far more alike than they like to admit. or taxation on the low paid.

Good week for: Spirit of the age The environment, with news that Tesco is considering scrapping Poll watch We do like to be beside the its five-pence carrier bags in a bid to reduce plastic waste. If a The Conservatives’ lead seaside – so much so that small trial goes well, Tesco customers may in future have either to over Labour is now just six house prices in coastal bring their own bags, or buy a reusable Bag for Life for ten pence. points, according to a areas have boomed over the The supermarket has promised that the money raised from these Survation poll for ITV. The past decade. The average sales would still go to good causes. Tories are on 43% and price in a seaside town has Labour 37% – up three risen by a quarter since points on last week. The 2007; it has shot up 70% in Bad week for: Liberal Democrats are on West Sussex’s Shoreham- Katie Hopkins, whose contract with the talk radio station LBC 8% and UKIP 4%. A YouGov by-Sea, and nearly doubled was terminated after she responded to the Manchester bombing poll for The Sunday Times in Fraserburgh, in by calling, on Twitter, for a “final solution”. She later amended put the Tories seven points Aberdeenshire. The south the tweet, blaming a typo, but her weekly show was axed ahead, while an ICM poll for coast of England is home to nonetheless, with immediate effect. The Guardian put them 12 nine of the ten most points ahead – down from expensive seaside towns: as Eastern European immigrants, following research showing 14 points last week. usual, Sandbanks in Dorset that after a couple of years in the UK, they become as lazy as tops the list, with an British workers. The University of Bath study found that levels of Just 11% of voters support average price of £664,655. absenteeism are far lower than average among newly arrived the Tories’ manifesto pledge immigrants – but that once they have settled in, and no longer feel to repeal the fox hunting Our diets are not as healthy the need to prove themselves, they adopt the native work ethic. ban. 64% oppose it. as they may appear from The study also found that 63% of migrants work as machine ORB/The Independent our shopping trolleys. New operatives or in manual work, compared with 16% of Britons. research has found that as 46% of Christians think much as 40% of the bagged The OCR exam board, after it mixed up the Montagues and the Theresa May is the party salad we buy in Britain is Capulets in a GCSE English Literature exam on Romeo and Juliet. leader most similar to Jesus thrown away. In total, 178 Thousands of students were asked: “How does Shakespeare Christ. 27% opt for Jeremy million bags of salad are present the ways in which Tybalt’s hatred of the Capulets Corbyn and 20% for Lib binned a year, adding up to influences the outcome of the play?” Tybalt is a Capulet. The Dem leader Tim Farron. 37,000 tonnes of waste. board apologised, and said candidates would not be marked down. Premier/Daily Mirror

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Paris Berlin Moscow Going underground: The mayor of Paris Rock-star Killer storm: Sixteen people were killed in has unveiled Reinvent Paris 2 – an welcome: and around Moscow on Monday when international competition to develop 34 Barack Obama the city was struck by a fi erce storm. abandoned underground spaces, including had a rapturous Scores of people were injured, and more three “ghost” Metro stations that have welcome when than 3,000 trees were uprooted as winds been unused for over 70 years. Champ he addressed reached 67mph. Local news agencies de Mars, by the Eiffel Tower, Croix- 70,000 described it as the deadliest storm to hit Rouge, on the Left Bank, and Saint- Berliners last Moscow in a century. A number of Martin, near Place de la République, were week, at an buildings had their roofs torn off, and among 16 stops closed in 1939 as part of event that reunited him with Angela 1,500 cars were damaged. The dead a restructuring of the Metro. The other Merkel (pictured) for the fi rst time since he included an 11-year-old girl, who was sites include fi ve disused road tunnels, left the White House. “Not only do I love crushed by a falling tree, and an elderly three car parks, a huge former Renault this city, but one of my favourite partners man, who was killed when the bus stop he garage, and some vaulted cellars below throughout my presidency is sitting next was waiting at blew down. Moscow’s the Esplanade des Invalides that were built to me,” he said, at a festival marking 500 mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, described it as for the 1900 Universal Exhibition. years since the start of the Reformation. a “calamity”, and said that the families of Architects are now invited to imagine new Praising Merkel’s refugee policy, Obama those killed would receive one million uses for them – perhaps as art galleries, told the crowd: “We can’t hide behind a rubles (£13,710) each. concert venues, or even swimming pools. wall” – one of several coded references “These untypical spaces are an incredible to his successor, who was at a Nato wealth and we cannot neglect them,” said summit in Brussels where he later had mayor Anne Hidalgo. “Paris will never be a rather less relaxed encounter with a fi nished city.” the chancellor.

Paris Touch of frost: President Emmanuel Macron met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for talks at Versailles on Monday (pictured) – just weeks after a cyber-attack on Macron’s campaign was blamed on Russian hackers. Macron didn’t repeat the “white-knuckle” handshake he had used on President Trump (see page 23). However, the pair’s body language was notably cool, and Macron took the opportunity to condemn the Russian “propaganda” organs that had spread “slanderous lies” about him. Visibly annoyed, Putin retaliated by paying tribute to the far-right Marine Le Pen, who Macron defeated in last month’s election.

Bordeaux, France Taormina, Italy Istanbul Winegrowers despondent: French Uneasy summit: Donald Trump attended a President bans “arenas”: President viniculturists are warning of a disastrous G7 summit in Sicily last week, where he Erdogan has ordered the word “arena” to grape harvest this year – leading to a came under intense pressure from the be removed from all football grounds and collapse in profits and higher prices for other six nations to declare his support for other sporting venues, because he wine lovers – following an April freeze that the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate considers it un-Turkish. “I am against destroyed up to 90% of some Bordeaux change. The president refused to do so and ‘arenas’,” he said in a speech to graduates vines. Bitterly cold weather struck twice instead tweeted that he would make his of a religious college in Istanbul last week. within a week, meaning that many fragile decision on the UN accord in a few days “You know what they do in arenas, don’t buds and shoots that had emerged during (as though, commentators noted, he was you? People were dismembered there [by mild weather in March shrivelled and died. creating a cliffhanger for a reality TV animals]. There is no such thing in our Winegrowers say they have not suffered show); this week he seemed poised to pull language. Look at the definition, there such a damaging late frost since 1991, and the US out. The purpose of the summit cannot be such a thing.” Erdogan insists are now relying on the June fl owering had been to build consensus among the the correct word is “stadium”, from the phase to save some of their crop. “Eighty world’s richest nations – and the deadlock ancient Greek. In his youth Erdogan was a per cent of our vineyard was hit by the was plainly frustrating to other world semi-professional football player, and his frost. It’s all our work that has been leaders. Angela Merkel said the discussions government has courted popularity by wiped out,” said Jean-François Galhaud had been “very difficult”, a case of “six using public money to build dozens of new of the Saint-Emilion Wine Council, against one”. In a further assertion of US stadiums over the past decade. His bid to representing nearly 1,000 growers. “Let’s unilateralism, Trump also forced the rename all sports stadiums is part of his cross our fi ngers that we have another summit’s host, Italy’s PM Paolo Gentiloni, stated aim of rebuilding Turkey’s 1961, a year with a small harvest that was to scrap an ambitious fi ve-page statement traditional “national values” in the face of of very good quality,” he said. on tackling the global migrant crisis. “cultural alienation and imperialism”.

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Portland, Oregon Washington DC White supremacist murders: Two men Kushner’s “back channel”: Jared Kushner, President Trump’s were stabbed to death on a train in adviser and son-in-law, suggested to the Russian ambassador last Portland last Friday by a suspected white year that they set up a “secret and secure” communications supremacist. The killer, identified as channel between the Trump transition team and the Kremlin, Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, had been according to unnamed US officials cited in The Washington Post. yelling what police described as “hate Kushner allegedly proposed creating this back channel during a speech” at two young women, one of meeting at Trump Tower in December, which was attended by whom was wearing a hijab, on an Michael Flynn, the Trump national security adviser forced to quit afternoon train, when some of their for giving a misleading account of his contacts with Russia. The fellow passengers intervened. Christian back channel – using Russian diplomatic facilities, and bypassing (pictured), who was reportedly a member US intelligence – would have been used to discuss policy in Syria. of violent online groups, allegedly pulled Last week it was reported that Kushner is a “significant person of out a knife and killed two of the men, and injured the third. He interest” in the FBI’s inquiry into the Trump team’s Russian links; has been charged with aggravated murder – a capital offence. he has promised to co-operate with any investigation.

Washington DC Civilian deaths: The Pentagon has admitted that at least 105 civilians – and possibly as many as 141 – were killed in a US air strike on Mosul on 17 March. The strike, aimed at jihadi fi ghters, hit a residential building in which many people had taken refuge. According to a Pentagon investigation published last week, Isis fi ghters had planted explosives in the house, causing it to collapse. In terms of civilian casualties, it was probably the most deadly attack of the three-year air campaign against Isis in Iraq and Syria. This week, the Pentagon said it was stepping up its strikes on the militants, and warned that though US forces would do everything possible to avoid them, further civilian casualties were all but inevitable.

Bogue Chitto, Mississippi Murderous spree: A man shot dead eight people in rural Mississippi last weekend, after an argument with his estranged wife and in-laws over access to his children. The shooting began late Saturday night, when police were called to a domestic disturbance in the small town of Bogue Chitto. The suspect, Willie Godbolt, 35, shot dead a police officer and three women in the house, who are believed to have been his mother-in-law and two of her relatives. He then drove off, and killed four more people – two of them children – at separate addresses in the nearby town of Brookhaven, before being arrested on Sunday morning. “I ain’t fi t to live, not after what I’ve done,” Godbolt said as he was taken away. “Suicide by cop was my intention.”

Washington DC Communication chief quits: President Trump’s communications director Mike Dubke resigned this week, for undisclosed reasons, after three months in the job. Dubke was hired in February to revamp Trump’s media strategy; he tendered his resignation on 18 May, but agreed to stay on until the president returned from his recent foreign trip. There have been reports of disarray in the White House media team, in particular over the handling of the sacking of FBI director James Comey. This week it was reported that a shake-up in the Trump administration was imminent, and that this would include the creation of a “war room” to deal with allegations about Trump’s contacts with Moscow.

Caracas Brasília Maduro’s unlikely friends: Julio Borges, Army withdrawn: Brazil’s the leader of Venezuela’s opposition- embattled president, Michel Temer, dominated National Assembly, has suffered a further humiliating blow accused Goldman Sachs of “aiding and to his authority last week when he abetting the country’s dictatorial signed a decree ordering troops onto the streets of Brasília – only regime” through its acquisition of to have to revoke it a day later. Temer issued the decree when $2.8bn in bonds (at around 30 cents in mass anti-government protests in the city turned violent: several the dollar) in the country’s state oil fi rm. government buildings were attacked, and one of the city’s famous The deal provides much-needed cash for modernist landmarks, the Agriculture Ministry, was set on fi re. Nicolás Maduro’s government, which is However, the city authorities strongly criticised the move as presiding over a collapsing economy and unnecessary, as did some of Temer’s own allies. Brazil has been in has seen weeks of deadly protests. Borges (pictured) said the Wall turmoil since the release, a fortnight ago, of leaked audio Street bank was making “a quick buck” out of suffering, and recordings in which Temer appears to be encouraging bribes; the warned that a future government might not honour the debt. president is now under investigation by the Supreme Court.

THE WEEK 3 June 2017 The world at a glance NEWS 9

Adwa, Egypt Grozny, Chechnya Kabul Christians massacred: At least 29 Coptic Gay men tortured: The details of an Bomb carnage: Christians, including several children, were anti-gay purge in Chechnya have been laid At least 80 murdered by jihadist militants last Friday, bare in a report by Human Rights Watch. people were as they travelled by bus to a monastery in The report, which is based on the killed and 350 Minya, where a third of the population is testimony some of the purge’s victims, injured on Christian. The attack, 160 miles south of says that the wave of violent repression Wednesday, Cairo, was claimed by Islamic State: the began in late February and continued until when a powerful gunmen reportedly travelled from Libya at least the fi rst week of April, in which bomb – possibly through Egypt’s western desert to reach time around 100 men were detained in hidden in a their target; they escaped in 4x4s on roads secret prisons, where they were tortured. water lorry – that, despite the state of emergency in Novaya Gazeta, the paper that broke the detonated in Egypt, were unguarded. In response, Egypt news of the crackdown – which prompted Kabul’s heavily carried our air strikes on what it said were an international outcry and intense guarded diplomatic zone. The attack took militant training camps in Libya. The diplomatic pressure on Moscow – says that place during morning rush hour, and most atrocity was the fourth of its kind since 26 gay men have been killed. Russian of the casualties were civilians. Such was December, when a suicide bomber killed officials are now actively investigating the the blast’s force that windows were blown 29 people at St Mark’s Coptic Cathedral in reports from the semi-autonomous out hundreds of metres away, and 50 cars Cairo. Isis has vowed to step up its attacks republic, which is ruled by the Kremlin- were destroyed. The Taliban denied on Egypt’s Christians, whom it has backed Ramzan Kadyrov – he, however, carrying out the attack, raising speculation described as its “favourite prey”. has dismissed the claims as “lies”. that it was the work of Islamic State.

Taipei, Taiwan Same-sex marriage: Taiwan is to become the fi rst country in Asia to allow same-sex marriage following a landmark ruling by the constitutional court that preventing same-sex couples from marrying is contrary to individual freedom and social justice. The case was brought by Chi Chia-wei, who has been fi ghting for gay rights since 1986 when, aged 28, he was jailed for publicly declaring his homosexuality. He said he could now “die without regret”.

Pretoria Exit plan?: South Africa’s Ratnapura, embattled Sri Lanka president Jacob Deadly fl oods: Zuma has been More than 200 making plans to set people have up home in Dubai, been killed in according to local media reports. Leaked Sri Lanka’s emails, which include a letter purportedly worst fl oods since Marawi, Philippines drafted by Zuma’s son and addressed to 2003, with scores Battle for city: Government forces in the Dubai’s Crown Prince, support the still missing. Philippines have been fi ghting a fi erce existence of such a plan. However, Zuma Around half a battle with Islamist Maute militants, linked – whose term as president is due to run million people in to Islamic State, who last week overran the until 2019 – has dismissed the reports as the south and city of Marawi. The military launched a “pure fabrication”, and said that when west of the island nation were driven from fi erce aerial and ground campaign, he retires, it will be to his home in their homes by the fl oodwater and involving attack helicopters backed by Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal. In any case, mudslides. The government warned that close support planes – yet this week, the he may not have need of an exit strategy further heavy rainfall was expected this Maute rebels, armed with weapons stolen just yet: although he has been facing week, prompting fears of further chaos. from police stations, were said to still be mounting dissent in his own party, at the This week, India sent ships carrying holding around a tenth of the city. Most of weekend he survived an attempt to oust medical and food aid, as well as inflatable the city’s 200,000 residents have fl ed; and him at a crunch meeting of the ruling Gemini boats and specialist Navy divers around 130 people including 19 civilians, ANC’s executive committee. to assist the rescue efforts. have so far been killed in the fi ghting.

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Surviving James Bond patronising.” He ponders the Anthony Horowitz has implications. “Taking it to its emerged from his fi rst Twitter logical extreme, all my storm shaken but intact, says characters will from now on Cole Moreton in The Mail on be 62-year-old white Jewish Sunday. It began in 2015, men living in London!” when the bestselling novelist – who’d just been commissioned Self’s modern issues to write a new James Bond Will Self used to say that the story – was asked whether he novel was dying; but now, thought the black British actor having just completed his 23rd Idris Elba would make a good book, he is not so sure. “I think 007. He replied: “For me, Idris the canon will survive,” he told Elba is a bit too rough to play Bryan Appleyard in The the part. It’s not a colour issue. Sunday Times, “but I think it I think he is probably a bit too will be studied by young ladies ‘street’ for Bond.” Although in white pie-crust collars going Horowitz went on to name to Paris to get cultural degrees other black actors he felt of one sort or another. And it would be a good fi t, the quote will be like classical music – was taken as evidence of coded same sort of people. Eeeeurgh! racism, and Twitter erupted in Whereas 25 years ago, the self-righteous fury. “A Twitter novel had swagger; it wore a storm is like an oil slick,” leather jacket.” As professor Horowitz says now. “When it of contemporary thought at hits you, it’s disgusting and you Brunel University, Self has a can’t breathe and everything is bird’s-eye view of the tastes covered in s***. But then, like and mores of the young – and all oil slicks, nature takes over he fi nds them pretty puzzling. Kevin Bacon has been famous for more than 30 years, ever since and it recedes.” “It’s a real difficulty, growing his breakthrough role in the dance movie Footloose. There’s even The experience has changed old, for our generation… We a game based on his long Hollywood career: Six Degrees of Kevin him, however. “I’m now much thought that nobody would be Bacon, which works on the theory that anyone in show business more guarded, more careful, square again. I’m deeply can be linked to him by, at most, six removes. “Hmm, I don’t know more discreet. It’s just a shame, shocked that my kids are a if I’d call it a compliment,” he told Hadley Freeman in The Guardian. isn’t it?” In this age of little bit squarer than me.” “I thought it was a joke at my expense: ‘Can you believe, in less heightened sensitivities, he says, Partly, he says, this must reflect than six steps we can connect Kevin Bacon to Laurence Olivier, one you have to be careful about the pressures of modern of the greats?’” Bacon realises that even now – at 58, and with a CV what you say – even in fi ction. technology. “What an odd full of highbrow fi lms – he is best known for his fi rst big role. Is it Horowitz had been planning world they live in, where they true that he pays wedding DJs $20 not to play the song from to write a teen novel featuring can pick up a phone, go to the Footloose? “Yes. Actually, $20 sounds kind of cheap now, doesn’t a black character, but was most bizarre porn you can it? But a wedding is the one f***ing night the bride and groom get warned off by an editor. imagine and get it in two to be the biggest stars. So when somebody puts that record on, “There is a chain of thought in seconds. We had to skulk suddenly, whether I want to or not, I’ve [changed] that, and that’s America that it is inappropriate along hedgerows looking for the fundamental thing that bothers me.” On balance, though, he for white writers to try to old damp copies of Razzle, enjoys being famous. Recently, Bacon went shopping in LA create black characters. That it and unpick the pages. No wearing a disguise – and hated going unrecognised. “Yeah, it did is not our experience, and wonder they don’t feel safe, suck. No one was smiling at me!” he says. “Life where people are therefore to do so is by its very while, at the same time, they reacting to you in an unusual way is kind of strange. But it’s been nature artificial and possibly are safer than ever.” so many years now, I think life without it would be stranger.”

Castaway of the week Viewpoint: Farewell This week’s edition of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs featured Tks for nothing the Turkish author and columnist Elif Safak Gregg Allman, frontman “In the age of busy-bragging, work of The Allman Brothers 1* Famous Blue Raincoat, written and performed by Leonard Cohen emails have become a key peacocking Band, died 27 May, 2 Le Vent Nous Portera, written and performed by Noir Désir ground. Have you noticed that people aged 69. (Bertrand Cantat, Jean-Paul Roy, Denis Barthe and Serge Teyssot-Gay) fl aunt how ‘up against it’ they are – Zbigniew Brzezinski, ‘I never have a minute!’ being humble- 3 Misirlou (Greek folk song), performed by Tetos Dimitriadis national security brag for ‘look how in demand I am!’ advisor to Jimmy 4 Nothing Else Matters by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, Carter, died 26 May, performed by Apocalyptica – via ever newer abbreviations? My friend, an office manager, now aged 89. 5 Creep by Thom Yorke, Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood, performed by Radiohead frequently gets ‘PCB’ (please call back). Sir Alistair Horne, historian, journalist 6 Chop Suey!, written and performed by System of a Down (Daron How rude! And how time-pressed and ex-spy, died 25 Malakian, John Dolmayan, Serj Tankian and Shavo Odadjian) must you be to write not ‘thanks’ but May, aged 91. 7 Babel, written and performed by Mumford & Sons (Winston ‘tks’ or, worse, ‘tx’, those extra letters Marshall, Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett and Ted Dwane) presumably too much of an ask on John Noakes, former 8 War Eternal by Michael Amott and Nick Cordle, performed by your tight schedule? Other cringers Blue Peter presenter, Arch Enemy include ‘KR’ for ‘kind regards’ and died 28 May, aged 83. ‘BW’ for ‘best wishes’. And a special Manuel Noriega, Book: Orlando by Virginia Woolf hats off to those who are so busy they ousted Panama dictator, must even write busy as ‘bz’.” died 29 May, aged 83. Luxury: a stationery cupboard * Choice if allowed only one record Carol Midgley in The Times

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THE ROAD TO BREXIT would use a dedicated tax increase to raise earners would “be asked to contribute On few issues are the three main parties so funding for NHS and social care by £30bn more in tax”, with the rate rising to 45p in clearly divided as on our departure from over the next parliament. The Tories are the pound for earnings above £80,000, the EU. The Conservatives are effectively offering a more modest extra £8bn for the and to 50p over £123,000. The Tories committed to a hard Brexit: they pledge to NHS. They had also pledged that could also raise some personal taxes leave the EU single market and its customs pensioners should meet their own care through modest rises in tax thresholds. union. They want a “deep and special” costs, however high, protecting only And Theresa May wants to scrap David future partnership with the EU, but insist £100,000 in assets (the value of their Cameron’s “tax lock” pledge not to raise “no deal is better than a bad deal”. house included). But the outcry that incomein tax, national insurance Labour, by contrast, wants to start the greeted this proposal led to a hasty andan VAT: Only VAT would now negotiations anew, with “a strong retreat: they will now reinstate the be protected. The Lib Dems, who emphasis on retaining the benefits of the idea of placing a cap on care costs pledgepled £14bn of extra spending, single market and the customs union” – at a level yet to be specified. wouldwo raise income tax by 1p in (though, perhaps implausibly, also wishing the pound, to be ring-fenced for to end the free movement of people), and … AND ON SCHOOLING NHSNH and social care spending; and rejects outright the option of a “no deal”. The Lib Dems are offering an extra £7bn£7bn theythey wouldw reverse planned Tory The Liberal Democrats want to give voters for education over the next parliament, the cuts to corporation tax. another referendum on any Brexit deal Tories just £4bn – hardly an increase in (with the option of remaining in), and aim real terms. But Labour wants to spend a WHO’LL PAY? DOING WITH LESS to retain membership of the single market, vast deal more: its proposal to scrap After years of placating older voters, the as well as free movement ofpeop people. university tuition fees would alone cost up Tories have changed tack, promising to to £11bn a year. Labour also wants to end end the pension “triple lock” (which the pay cap for teachers and to restore the ensures the state pension rises annually by education maintenance allowance for whichever is highest: inflation, average poorer 16- to 18-year-olds. The Tories earnings or 2.5%) and replacing it with a want to see at least 100 new free schools less generous “double lock” (which scraps built each year; and they’d end the ban on the 2.5% minimum rise). Winter fuel pay- new selective secondary schools (but allow ments for the elderly would also be means- WHAT’S THE LINE ON MIGRATION? pupils to join at other ages besides 11). tested, not (as now) universal. Labour All three manifestos are strikingly vague They’d also abolish most free school would keep both the triple lock and on the issue, but have very different lunches for the fi rst three years of primary universal winter fuel allowance; the Lib emphases. The Tories want “to reduce and school, offering free breakfasts instead. Dems would keep the former, but means- control” the numbers coming from the EU test the latter. Labour and the Lib Dems after Brexit, and have retained their often- … AND ON BUILDING HOUSES would reverse many of the welfare cuts of criticised target of reducing net migration There are optimistic pledges all round on the Cameron years (such as the “bedroom to the “tens of thousands” (last year, it this front. The Tories promise to build a tax”) and increase working-age benefits. was 248,000). Labour, however, aims to million new homes by 2020, the Lib prioritise “growth, jobs and prosperity” Dems 300,000 a year (up from today’s over “bogus immigration targets”. The Lib 100,000), Labour to build at least Dems want to make “the positive case” for 100,000 council and housing association immigration and asylum, and to seek “the homes every year. Labour would also migration necessary to meet the UK’s suspend the right-to-buy policy for needs”. Both Labour and the Lib Dems affordable homes (unless councils can DEFENCEDEFENCE OF THETHE REALMREALM want to lessen the strains placed on public show they’ll replace them like-for-like). All three parties have pledged to continue services with a “migration impact fund”. The Lib Dems would end right-to-buy for to meet the Nato commitment of spending housing associations. Labour and the Lib 2% of GDP on defence. Both the Tories SPENDING PLANS… ON HEALTH Dems would reverse the abolition of and Labour have committed to keeping Everyone wants to spend a lot more on the housing benefit for 18- to 21-year-olds. Trident; the Lib Dems want a “minimum” NHS. Labour proposes a generous £30bn nuclear deterrent. The Conservatives want of extra funding over the next fi ve years, WHO’LL PAY? THE TAX BURDEN to raise the defence budget by at least promising a big reduction in waiting lists Labour, which pledges to spend a 0.5% above inflation every year. 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Caged hens, a fat cat levy and energy caps: the wilder shores of the party manifestos The most radical manifesto is unquestionably Labour’s. It plans to it two years ago – and to oblige listed companies to publish the renationalise the railways, Royal Mail and utility firms; to increase ratio of executive pay to workers’ salaries within the company. the minimum wage to at least £10 an hour; to end zero-hours Old-school conservatism has managed to get a look in, however, contracts; and to slap a “fat cat levy” on firms paying salaries of with the decision to allow a free vote on hunting with dogs. more than £330,000. Jeremy Corbyn also wants four new public While the Lib Dems’ main pitch to the voters is that leaving Europe holidays and a ban on both fracking and unpaid internships. isn’t inevitable, their most eye-catching policy is to create a legal, But Theresa May’s “Red Tory” manifesto is, in its way, no less regulated market for cannabis, which they estimate could raise surprising – with its attack on “untrammelled free markets” and £1bn a year in tax revenue. Other striking proposals include bans “the cult of selfish individualism”. The party has promised a cap on caged hens and on the sale of diesel cars and small vans by on energy bills – a policy it ridiculed when Ed Miliband suggested 2025, and a council tax hike of up to 200% on second homes.

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“Earth is poorly named,” says The Economist. Most of our planet – almost three-quarters, in fact – consists of ocean. Were all that IT MUST BE TRUE… Our planet’s water placed over the US, “it would form a column of liquid 82 I read it in the tabloids miles tall”. In short, “if anything ought to be too big to fail, it is oceans are the ocean”. Yet it is failing. The effects of years of pollution and Having made its way across the US, goat yoga has arrived overfishing – along with the warming and associated chemical slowly failing in Britain. The craze was changes caused by climate change – are becoming ever harder to started by a farmer in ignore. Scientists expect almost all of the world’s coral to be gone Editorial Oregon, who found that by 2050, by which time the ocean may contain (by weight) more stretching and balancing with The Economist plastic than fi sh. It’s technology – satellite imaging, drones, more a goat perched on her back powerful computers – that has made us alive to the plight of the was so therapeutic, it got her marine ecosystem, and it’s technology that may provide some through her divorce. Goat solutions. But enforcing better governance is hard when you’re yoga schools have since been dealing with a global commons that is everybody’s, and nobody’s, opened in various US states – and now there’s one in responsibility. “Mankind is increasingly able to see the damage it Devon. Anyone struggling to is doing to the ocean. Whether it can stop it is another question.” imagine how a goat might help them unwind will be No state can bind its economy and its people together simply by surprised by how light and creating a shared currency, says Jeremy Warner. It also needs to gentle their hooves feel, says ensure that its rich regions generously subsidise its poorer ones. In Donna McCheyne, an The real reason Britain, for example, London and the Southeast “bankroll the rest instructor at Pennywell Farm the euro is of the country”. While the average Londoner generates £3,070 near Buckfastleigh. more in tax revenues than he or she consumes in public spending, doomed elsewhere a lot more is taken out of the public purse than put into it – in Scotland, the differential is £2,824 per person; in the Jeremy Warner Northeast, £3,827; in Wales, £4,545; in Northern Ireland, a hefty £5,437. Germany, likewise, has poured billions into the former The Daily Telegraph East Germany since reunification in 1990, largely by imposing a special tax on prosperous West Germans (and has i doing so has been more successful than we have in boosting regional equality: per capita incomes in the East have risen from 42.8% to 72.5% of West German levels. Stable economic and monetary union relies on such transfers, but are only possible if people share a history, language and culture. Germany will bankroll Dresden – it won’t bankroll Greece. That’s why the euro is eventually doomed to fail.

Whatever happens in the election, the next government faces a “huge but little-known problem”, says Felicity Lawrence. A large A tax rebate number of multinationals, from British American Tobacco to BP and Tata Steel, are suing HM Revenue and Customs over tax bills Photographs of a smiling that will make stretching back to the 1970s; and after a decade and a half of legal hunter clutching a vast dead battles, HMRC is close to accepting defeat. It thinks that it may frog in one hand, and a gun us poorer have to repay big business a staggering £55bn in taxes – nearly in the other, have gone half the NHS’s annual budget. Few outside “a handful of viral. Nicknamed Frogzilla, Felicity Lawrence specialist law and accountancy fi rms” grasp this issue in detail. the bullfrog is said to have But essentially, HMRC imposed a series of tax rules on UK fi rms been hunted down in a pond The Guardian with subsidiaries or parent companies elsewhere in Europe, which in Texas. A local wildlife were later judged contrary to EU law: for instance, that dividends expert has confirmed that it received by UK corporations from European subsidiaries are is real – though it’s perhaps subject to corporation tax. Now these companies want their taxes not the monster it looks. back – money that was spent long ago – with interest. “No one “[It’s an] optical illusion doubts the skill of the lawyers.” But these cases will leave a strong created by extending [the] sense “that the smart people with the money” can “magic up” frog towards the camera,” ways to make more money “while leaving the rest of us poorer”. said Steve Lightfoot of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Every parent knows how fascinating it is to watch a child learning Department. “Still a big through play, says Tom Bennett. By tumbling around and putting bullfrog, though.” Children can’t everything into his mouth, my own toddler is absorbing vital A Mexican just learn lessons about the tastes, textures and dangers of his planet. lawyer is Educationalists from the 19th century on have argued that this planning to innate joy in learning should be carried into the classroom: that market a through play instead of passively ingesting information from teachers, children Trump- Tom Bennett should discover it themselves through play. And now Cambridge branded toilet University has appointed the world’s fi rst “Lego professor of paper, and use the The Observer play” to examine how this works. The trouble is – it doesn’t. Play is a great way to learn basic skills, such as throwing a ball; but to proceeds to help Mexicans understand the Newtonian physics behind throwing a ball, you deported fromm the US. Antonio Battaglia says he need to listen to a teacher, concentrate and work hard. As a was spurred into action teacher myself, I dread to think how many weeks of children’s by Trump’s claim, during the lives have been wasted “building a papier-mâché volcano when presidential campaign, that they could have just been learning about volcanos”. Believe me, Mexico has “bad hombres “when you try to teach children the same way infants learn, you down there”. suddenly fi nd out why infants don’t write novels or fi x engines”.

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An inquiry that will “hugely” disrupt our government If Donald Trump thought sacking the of this case, the Democrats, who have FBI director James Comey would kill relentlessly hyped up the story, will be off the investigation into his team’s left with no leg to stand on. Trump connections with Russia, “he was and his team have a chance at “real wrong”, said The New York Times. and full exoneration”, said Chris The investigation is to continue, but Cillizza on CNN.com. But equally, if now under the leadership of a special this inquiry does fi nd wrongdoing, it counsel – Comey’s predecessor, Robert will be “damn near impossible” for Mueller. A decorated Vietnam veteran the White House to discredit it. and former prosecutor, Mueller led the Trump’s fate – and that of his party FBI for 12 years under presidents – “is now largely in Mueller’s hands”. George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and is respected on all sides. The Whatever the result, the mere appointment puts the president “on existence of the inquiry will be hugely a path he has never travelled”, said Mueller: Trump’s fate is in his hands disruptive, said David Brooks in The Jennifer Palmieri in USA Today: “a New York Times. People who have collision course with the truth”. Mueller is charged with served in administrations under investigation speak eloquently investigating links with Russia, and any matters that may arise of how miserable it is, and of the climate of paranoia it creates. from that inquiry. He will be dealing not in spin, but hard facts. Trump’s administration can ill afford more distraction. “The Anyone who lies to him, even the president, can be prosecuted. Nixon, Reagan and Clinton White Houses had hired quality teams by the time their scandals came. They could continue to Republicans should “rejoice” at Mueller’s appointment, said function, sort of, even when engulfed.” But Trump still has Erick Erickson on FoxNews.com, because it will give the White hundreds of senior and mid-level positions unfilled. And who is House some welcome breathing space. They can now say that now going to “want to join a self-cannibalising piranha squad they can’t discuss the Russia issue because to do so might whose main activity is lawyering up”? The administration may compromise the Mueller inquiry. And when, as will most likely survive the Mueller inquiry politically, “but any hopes that it happen, Mueller concludes there is no actual crime at the heart will become an effective governing organisation are dashed”.

Americans are famous for their perfect, pearly white teeth, say Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan, but this stereotype conceals a huge disparity in dental health. Better-off Americans collectively spend well A nation over $1bn a year just to make their teeth a few shades whiter; individuals splash out some $2,000 per tooth on porcelain veneers to hide imperfections. The Washington area is home to “one of the divided by greatest concentrations of dentists in the world, with many offering high-end services in offices that resemble luxury spas”. At the other end of the income scale, though, the situation is dire. More than its teeth a third of American adults have no dental coverage, and many of them can’t afford to pay for Mary Jordan and treatment. Last year, more than two million US emergency room visits were attributable to neglected teeth. Those who can’t afford expensive procedures either have to put up with problems, treating Kevin Sullivan themselves with endless antibiotics and opioid painkillers, or travel miles to attend periodic charity clinics, where volunteer dentists treat hundreds of people at a time in huge venues. Many simply The Washington Post have teeth pulled. “Nearly one in fi ve Americans older than 65 do not have a single real tooth left.” As the gulf between rich and poor grows in the US, so does the “humiliating divide in dental care”.

“America’s ‘youth culture’ was invented, more or less, in California in the 1960s,” say Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox, “from the surfing spots of Los Angeles and Orange County to the countercultural Not such a hotbeds of the Bay Area.” But the Golden State is no friend to the young today. Thanks to the authorities’ long-standing bias against suburban development, and other highly restrictive Golden State environmental policies, property prices are increasingly rising beyond the reach of millennials, minorities and the poor. When you factor in the high housing costs, California “leads all states – if you’re poor even historically poor Mississippi – in the percentage of its people living in poverty”. Californians Joel Kotkin and aged 18 to 34 are far more likely to have to lodge with their parents, or with relatives, than their peers elsewhere in the US. Little wonder many are heading out of the state: since 2010, “the biggest Wendell Cox gains in millennial residents have been in low-density, comparatively affordable cities such as Orlando, Austin and Nashville”. If the Golden State wants to reclaim its “historic role as the nation’s City Journal beacon of opportunity”, it will have to provide a better environment for growth and family formation. “A California that works only for the wealthy and well established is not sustainable.”

Donald Trump is a ruthless operator who has always looked out for Number One, says Jeet Heer. So why is he sticking so determinedly to Michael Flynn, his former national security advisor? Flynn Why is Trump was forced to resign back in February after it emerged that he had misled the vice-president about the content of his discussions with the Russian ambassador. The retired general is now the focal so loyal to point of investigations into the White House’s growing Russia scandal. Trump is usually quick to Michael Flynn? throw damaged subordinates under a bus, yet he has repeatedly stood up for Flynn, even when it has undercut his own position. In April, against the advice of White House lawyers, he contacted Flynn Jeet Heer to say “stay strong”. Why such loyalty? White House officials say Trump and Flynn bonded on the campaign trail, where Flynn, an early and avid supporter of the president, often led the “lock her New Republic up” chants against Hillary Clinton. Perhaps this explains it. Or perhaps it’s down to Trump’s “sheer obstinacy”, or to the fact that he has always been impressed by men in uniform. But knowing the president’s character, it’s hard not to suspect a more sinister motive. “When he tells Flynn to ‘stay strong’, the message might simply be: ‘no snitching’.”

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Indonesia: does democracy foster fundamentalism? Why has a nation noted for its commit- a Christian and ethnic Chinese that did ment to democracy started to resemble for Ahok, said Siauw Tiong Djin in a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism, The Jakarta Post: it was his willingness asked Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian in to break with the “rotten political Foreign Policy (Washington DC). Every system”. He was a “breakthrough”, five years since the fall of Suharto’s a politician with the guts to fight dictatorship in 1998, Indonesia has corruption, and the old guard used the held national elections. The world’s corrupt judicial system to nobble him. largest Muslim nation (87% of its 258 million people are Muslim) is a The “shariafication” of Indonesia is secular state that guarantees freedom following a path we’re all too familiar of religion and is home to Islam with in Pakistan, said Farooq Sulehria Nusantara, a centuries-old progressive in The News (Karachi). Currently, the Islamic movement. Its Muslims are only Indonesian province where sharia known “for being both personally Governor Purnama: jailed for the crime of blasphemy is officially on the books is Aceh, observant and accepting the non- where alcohol is banned, women must observance” of others. Yet in the last month alone, Indonesia dress modestly and vigilante groups police neighbourhoods to has seen an Isis suicide bomb in Jakarta, the public flogging of root out immorality. Hundreds of sharia laws have, however, two men caught having sex together, and Jakarta’s popular been adopted in provinces and districts across Indonesia. Yet Christian governor jailed for the crime of blasphemy. very few have been introduced by Islamist parties – in some 1,000 local elections since 1998, they’ve only won a majority in two Governor Basuki Purnama, known as Ahok, came unstuck districts. No, the harsh truth is that the drive to sharia enforce- last year when campaigning for re-election, said Bruno Philip in ment comes not from Islamist parties, but from “opportunist Le Monde (Paris). When he upbraided rivals for invoking a Islamisers anchored in secularist parties”. We know the type Koranic verse telling Muslims not to show friendship to Jews well in Pakistan, from “the ‘socialist’ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to the and Christians as a reason not to vote for him, extremists cried capitalist Nawaz Sharif to the celebrity Imran Khan”. Across the “blasphemy”. Thousands demonstrated – some demanded he be Muslim world, democratic candidates from the elite “flirt with lynched. There was no legal case, but Ahok was sent to trial and religion to gain legitimacy and popularity and to build a social convicted anyway, on the grounds he’d shown no signs of guilt base”. The shariafication of Indonesia is not ideologically driven and had “hurt Muslims”. It wasn’t his double minority status as – it is fuelled by the expediency of electoral politics.

Is Poland heading for a “Polexit”, asks Maciej Stasinski. “By trampling on the constitution, the rule POLAND of law, the separation of powers and civil liberties,” its ruling right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) has already set it apart from the democratic and liberal European Union. But now the PiS is on course Openly defying for an outright showdown. The issue is simple: at the height of the migrant crisis, in 2015, the EU agreed to spread some 160,000 asylum seekers among the bloc’s member states, a decision Poland Europe’s voted against. The EU has warned Poland that it will face legal sanctions if it doesn’t participate. Yet the PiS still refuses, saying it’s “impossible” for our country of 38 million to resettle the 6,200 people migrant policy who make up our share of the refugee burden. Clearly, “that’s a lie”. The Catholic Church in Poland has presented a plan for each parish to take in at least one refugee family: with more than 10,000 Gazeta Wyborcza parishes, we could take in many thousands of people. Yet our “ostentatiously Catholic” government, (Warsaw) which welcomed Pope Francis to Poland last year with open arms, won’t even consider it. How long will the EU continue to support a country that simply “doesn’t care about European values”?

Surely even “thoroughly pacified” Germans can see our army needs to be an effective fi ghting force, GERMANY asks Jan Fleischhauer. So what does defence minister Ursula von der Leyen think she’s doing by decreeing that every German barracks be searched top to bottom for Nazi memorabilia? The pretext was the arrest in April of a junior officer who, seeking to stir hatred against refugees, had been An anti-Nazi poised to launch a terror attack while posing as a Syrian asylum seeker. This raised understandable purge that just fears that the army might be harbouring other far-right extremists – but von der Leyen’s response is way out of proportion. Even portraits of German army officers who heroically resisted the Nazis are hurts the army being ripped from the barrack walls. It’s mad to equate the familiar enthusiasm of young recruits for military souvenirs with the “murderous fantasies” of the arrested officer. All this does is feed public Der Spiegel distrust of the modern Bundeswehr, which many “foolishly” see as the heir to Hitler’s army. Training (Hamburg) people to kill is a serious business, and our soldiers should be respected, not reviled. Demoralise them in the way von der Leyen is doing, and “we could soon say goodbye to peace and freedom”.

No civilised country should encourage its soldiers to use civilians as human shields, says Omar INDIA Abdullah. Yet that’s what recently occurred in India when some soldiers defending a polling booth in the troubled region of Kashmir were surrounded by a stone-throwing mob. To rescue them, fellow This “war soldiers grabbed a bystander and marched him at gunpoint through the crowd. Their commanding officer then had the wretched man tied to the front bumper of a jeep and paraded through the region crime” should “as a lesson to stone-throwers”. Unbelievably, the officer was praised for his “presence of mind” and for making the right call in a tricky situation. Never mind that the traumatised victim was not a outrage us stone-thrower, but one of the few who’d turned out to vote – deserving of protection, not assault. The act was in clear violation of the Geneva Convention, which condemns the use of human shields The Indian Express as a “war crime”, and a court of enquiry has since been set up. But as the officer has been lauded by (Mumbai) the defence minister and army chief, that’s unlikely to result in any kind of censure. One shudders to think of the implications that this blatant fl outing of human rights has for India’s democracy.

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Build on CBRE.com/ClientAdvantage Advantage Health & Science NEWS 21 What the scientists are saying… ovaries to the uterus. Now a team at the Did humans evolve in Europe? University of Adelaide have tested the Some 12 million years ago, Europe was an theory, in a study involving 1,119 women. apes’ paradise, says New Scientist. But the They found that 40% of those who had climatic conditions then deteriorated, and their fallopian tubes fl ushed with poppy the apes began to die out – leaving the seed oil conceived within six months, creatures largely confined to Africa. So it compared with just 29% of those whose was in Africa that they then split into tubes were fl ushed with water and iodine. gorillas, chimps and humans. That’s the “This is an important outcome for women conventional wisdom, at any rate. But now who would have had no other course of Africa’s reputation as the birthplace of action other than to seek IVF treatment,” mankind is being challenged by researchers said Professor Ben Mol, who led the study. who claim to have found fossil evidence that one species of ape clung on in south- Britain: polluted and boozy eastern Europe; moreover, they claim that Pollution kills twice as many people in Graecopithecus was no ordinary ape, but Britain than in the US – and 64 times as a hominin that had developed human-like many as in Sweden, according to the features 200,000 years before the earliest World Health Organisation (WHO). In the known hominins in Africa. The fossils – UK, 25.7 deaths per 100,000 of the a lower jaw found in Greece in 1944, and Could this relaxing pastime be unhealthy? population are attributable to pollution, a premolar more recently uncovered in compared with 12.1 in the US, and 0.4 in Bulgaria – are about 7.2 million years old, candles – whether scented or unscented – Sweden. In Spain, there are 14.7 deaths per and show that the creature’s teeth had a raised indoor pollution levels by around 100,000, in France, 17.2. Eleven other characteristic unusual in apes: fused roots. 30%, and opening doors and windows European countries also had lower “This condition is so far only known to didn’t do much to help. Other major mortality rates than the UK. However, the occur regularly in hominins – pre-humans sources of indoor pollution include frying UK has a lower rate than any country in and humans,” says Professor Nikolai food in oil. However, the study – based on Africa except for Mauritius – possibly Spassov, of the Bulgarian Academy of analysis of pollution levels in 300 homes, because of people cooking indoors on open Sciences. “It is extremely rare in recent and published in the journal PLOS ONE – fi res. Levels of fi ne particulate matter in the chimps.” If he is right, it would suggest our suggests that smoking cigarettes remains air are more than twice as high in the UK last common ancestor was a European. the main contributor to such pollution. as in Sweden, at 12.4 micrograms per However, other scientists are sceptical: cubic metre, on average – but far lower they argue that one distinct characteristic, Try poppy seed oil before IVF than in Poland, at 25.4mcg. The WHO’s established from two fossils, is not enough Women struggling to conceive should try annual World Health Statistics report also to prove Graecopithecus was a hominin. having their fallopian tubes fl ushed out reveals that Britons drink heavily, consum- with poppy seed oil. For years, fertility ing almost double the global average each The dark side of scented candles doctors looking for blockages in women’s year. Worldwide, the average person aged Lighting candles is, as the Danes put it, fallopian tubes have injected them with over 15 drinks the equivalent of 6.4 litres very hygge. But even if it’s good for your poppy seed oil because it contains iodine, of pure alcohol a year: in the UK, it’s 12.3 soul, it may not be good for your lungs: a which shows up on X-ray scans. Doctors litres. Only 11 nations were found to have study in the US has found evidence that have noted that many women fall pregnant higher per capita consumption rates: candles are a significant source of airborne soon after such scans, raising speculation Belgium, Russia, Romania, Lithuania, pollution. The research, by a team at San that this investigative technique may itself Moldova, Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Diego State University, found that burning clear the way for eggs travelling from the Republic, Ukraine, Estonia and Bulgaria.

An astonishing petrified dinosaur A balloon to combat obesity In 2011, excavators working in the tar A balloon that inflates in the stomach sands mines of northern Alberta struck could be a cheap and effective some oddly patterned brown rock. They alternative to gastric bypass surgery for had a feeling it was something special; so obese patients, scientists say. The the rock was cut out and transported device is the first of its kind that requires away, and palaeontologists began no surgery or anaesthetic. The balloon is painstakingly chipping away at it – to simply swallowed – deflated – in capsule form, while connected to a plastic tube. reveal the most spectacularly well- Once in the stomach, the tube is used to preserved armoured dinosaur ever found fill it with water, before the tube is (pictured). The fossilised nodosaur, a vast detached from the balloon by tugging it. herbivore some 18ft long, lived around The balloon remains in the stomach for 110 million years ago, yet it is so eerily four months, making the patient feel intact, it looks like a sculpture. Its skeleton full, and then bursts, and is naturally is encased by body armour dotted with 20-inch spikes, and ridged, fossilised skin; the excreted. In a study of 42 patients – toes on its right foot are splayed; its neck curves gracefully to the left. presented to the European Congress on It’s believed that the nodosaur was killed in a flood, and swept out to sea; bloated Obesity – severely obese patients lost an average of 2st 6lbs (15.2kg) using the by gas, its carcass burst and sank to the ocean floor where, lying on its back, it was Elipse Balloon. More than 6,400 people rapidly buried by sediment. Minerals in the seabed preserved its remains before it have weight-loss surgery in the UK each could decompose, and the creature largely kept its shape. “Normally when we find year; whereas gastric bands and dinosaur fossils we just have a skeleton, the bones,” said Caleb Brown, of the Royal bypasses typically cost £8,000, the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. Here “we have a dinosaur as it would have been”. balloon costs around £3,000. © ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM

3 June 2017 THE WEEK 22 NEWS Talking points Salman Abedi: from “dislikeable boy” to suicide bomber In the CCTV footage, Salman Abedi looks In the years after, it was evident that Abedi almost nonchalant, with his hands thrust into was being radicalised, said The Observer. In his Hollister bodywarmer, said the Daily Manchester, he reportedly punched a girl for Mail. Yet moments after these images were wearing a short skirt; he became involved in captured, the 22-year-old detonated the nail a violent, death-exalting gang culture, and – bomb he was carrying in his rucksack, killing having shrugged off his father’s anti-Isis 22 people, and maiming scores more, in the allegiances – was so vocal in his support of foyer of the Manchester Arena. We now Islamic State that he was reported several know that the attack was long in the times to the anti-terrorism hotline. This planning: back in March, Abedi rented a fl at April, he went back to Libya, where his which he is believed to have used as a bomb father (who claims to have no truck with factory. He is thought to have made the global jihad) was so concerned by his state bomb alone, but the police have not ruled out of mind that he confiscated his passport. the possibility that he had help, and have Abedi told his family he needed it back to detained several people, including his older go on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Instead, on brother. His younger brother and his father 17 May, he set off for the UK, but travelled have also been arrested, by officials in Libya. via Istanbul and Düsseldorf, raising suspicions that he was plugged into a Like so many before him, Abedi seemed an European jihadist network. unlikely jihadi, said The Guardian. Friends from his youth in Manchester’s Moss Side Why did the security services not pick him remember a none-too-bright teenager who Abedi: fought in Libya as a teenager up? Clearly, they missed several chances, said smoked cannabis, drank, and listened to rap Chris Stephen in The Guardian: members of and grime music. He was prone to anger, but one of his teachers Britain’s Libyan diaspora have been warning the authorities said he showed no signs of a murderous future: he was merely about Islamic radicalisation in Manchester for years. The city a “dislikeable” boy who “refused to complete his homework was known to be fertile ground for IS recruiters. But they ontime”. On the other hand, he had close ties to militancy: couldn’t track every potential jihadi, said Niall Ferguson in The hisfather, Ramadan, had by some Sunday Times. Intelligence officials say accounts been a member of the Libyan there are 23,000 Islamic extremists in Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an “Abedi was so vocal in his support Britain, some 3,000 of whom are armed Islamist group with links to of IS that he was reported several believed to pose a threat. One was al-Qa’eda, which opposed Colonel always going to get through. Gaddafi’s tyrannical regime. In the times to the anti-terrorism hotline” 1990s, Ramadan and his wife, like Still, our spymasters have questions to thousands of other dissidents, fl ed Libya, sought asylum in answer, said Sam Jones in the FT. In the run-up to the Arab Britain (which then regarded Libya as a pariah state) and settled Spring, they were aware that British Libyans were joining the in Manchester, where Salman was born in 1994. fi ghting in Libya: indeed, they facilitated their journeys, to swell the anti-Gaddafi opposition. Despite their affiliations to Islamist The turning point for Abedi seems to have come when his father groups, the returnees were believed to be focused on waging a went back to Libya, during a period of reconciliation between jihad in their home country, and to pose no threat to the UK. Gaddafi and his opponents, said The Sunday Times. Then 13, Intelligence officials failed to consider the impact on hot-headed Abedi stayed in Manchester, but visited Tripoli when he was 16 young men of taking up arms in a bloody war, in a lawless – by which time the peace had broken down, and his father was country populated by Islamists from all over the region and engaged in the anti-Gaddafi uprising. Abedi took up arms, too, beyond. They should have foreseen that this war, like that in and – during subsequent school holidays – he is believed to have Syria, would create a cohort of Britons brutalised by conflict, fought with an Islamist faction in the civil war that later engulfed skilled in the tools of warfare, alienated from their former Libya. By then, Islamic State had declared its caliphate, attracting communities, and connected instead to “transnational hundreds, maybe thousands of British extremists to fi ght in Syria, networks of fellow fi ghters by powerful bonds of kinship and Iraq and Libya. Quite possibly, Abedi also fought for IS in Syria. shared suffering”.

Chippenham’. When we came painting and all sorts of things Pick of the week’s out, a man stopped her and need adjusting,” she said. asked what she was doing in “I can’t confirm or deny.” the mayor’s space. Mummy Gossip smiled and said, ‘I’m so sorry, Harper Lee only published two I’m the mayor’s wife…’ and novels: To Kill a Mockingbird Since marrying Prince Charles, hurried me into the car. The and Go Set a Watchman. But the Duchess of Cornwall has man followed us and said, according to a former grown accustomed to ‘What a joy to meet you for the neighbour, she wrote a third following protocol. But Camilla first time – I’m the mayor!’” novel – and then drunkenly set Parker Bowles used to be quite fire to it. George Malko, who the rule-breaker, according to The portrait of Shane Warne lived in the same Manhattan her daughter, Laura. “We’d that hangs in the Long Room at building as Lee in the 1960s, gone to Sainsbury’s in Lord’s is not quite true to life, told The Mail on Sunday he Chippenham,” Laura told The according to the Australian was once woken at 2am by the Mail on Sunday. “Most of the cricketer. “They had to adjust author banging on his door. parking spaces were filled, but the painting because they said saying it would never “She told me, ‘I just threw Mummy saw one right outside my balls looked too big in it,” “intervene” in the artistic 300 pages of a manuscript the front door and nipped in he told The Guardian. “They process. But artist Fanny Rush, down the incinerator’.” He there. The parking space was had to come and touch it up.” who painted the 2005 portrait, added: “She had her demons – ‘reserved for the Mayor of The MCC denied the story, was less clear. “You make a sometimes she drank.”

THE WEEK 3 June 2017 Talking points NEWS 23 British Airways: a company in meltdown? Wit & “In the past, this country efforts to limit the had just reason to be proud inconvenience. BA managed Wisdom of British Airways,” once none of this. It failed “on known as the “world’s all fronts”, agreed The “We don’t have a plan, and favourite airline”, said the Times: basic competence, when we discover people Daily Mail. “After this contingency planning and, who do have plans, we take weekend’s computer above all, customer vehemently against them.” meltdown, that good name relations. Its PR efforts Roger Scruton on the British lies in tatters, bringing shame consisted of “smarmy character, on CapX on the fl ag emblazoned on clichés”: Cruz donned a “The first man gets the BA tail fi ns.” On Saturday, high-vis jacket for a public oyster, the second man the company suffered a Cruz: offered only “smarmy clichés” announcement, as if he gets the shell.” “catastrophic” worldwide IT were “personally fi xing the Andrew Carnegie, failure. More than 1,000 fl ights were cancelled computers”. Desperate customers calling quoted on Forbes or delayed, affecting 75,000 people, many at helplines were left hanging on the phone, and Heathrow, on one of the busiest weekends of the charged 55p per minute. “A government that robs year. It was bad enough that such a failure could Peter to pay Paul can always happen in the fi rst place. But unforgivably, tens BA appears to be in meltdown, said Matthew rely on the support of Paul.” of thousands of distraught customers were left Lynn in The Daily Telegraph. It has suffered a George Bernard Shaw, for hours without information, “while staff series of IT disasters and staff strikes, while quoted in The Irish Times clocked off as usual at the end of their shifts”. customer service is in sharp decline. The “Inspiration is for amateurs. Telephone lines, jammed all day, closed at 8pm, problem is that the airline has been “hammering The rest of us just show up leaving travellers in the dark as to how to make away at costs, outsourcing IT departments, and get to work.” their journeys, or reclaim missing luggage. laying off staff, and chipping away at passenger Artist Chuck Close, quoted perks” such as free food on short- in The New York Times “On the scant information available so far, there haul fl ights. It doesn’t have much choice: “You know, it’s a terrible appears to be no good excuse for the crippling low-cost competitors such as Ryanair have thing to appear on IT failure,” said the FT. Álex Cruz, the airline’s turned the market upside down. But some television, because people chief executive, blamed a “power supply issue” companies are “brilliant at cutting costs” – think you actually know (he denied that a cyberattack was involved). Amazon, John Lewis and Dyson have all done what you’re talking about.” BA’s backup systems must be “woefully it without sacrificing quality – while others, David Attenborough, deficient” if they cannot withstand a power such as WHSmith, “just grind themselves into quoted in The Independent cut. But the subsequent failures were even oblivion”. British Airways was once a “great harder to explain. People can be “remarkably brand”. But it won’t be for much longer unless it “The art of the creative tolerant” of long delays when this information is fi nds a way to compete without “abandoning process is not seeking and clearly communicated and accompanied by quality and service”. finding; it’s bumbling.” Jonathan Safran Foer, quoted in The Guardian Trump: the body language of an apha male “Life is a long preparation for something that Donald Trump isn’t good uses body language to “assert never happens.” with words, said Frank Bruni his superiority”, said Gyles W.B. Yeats, quoted in in The New York Times. But Brandreth in the Daily Mail. The Irish Times that’s OK, because his body His usual method is the language – and that of the crushing handshake, “Some people have a way people around him – speaks accompanied by an arm with words, and other volumes. The story of his fi rst wrench that bends his victim people not have way.” big foreign trip, for example, into a posture of Steve Martin, quoted can be told through its subservience. (Shinzo Abe, on The Browser moments of excruciating the Japanese PM, survived a “A politician complaining physical chemistry. In Israel, Trump and Macron: a white-knuckle grip 19-second power grip, at the about the press is as absurd there was “the swat heard end of which he rolled his eyes as a sailor complaining around the world” – when, striding up a red and sighed.) But in Brussels, Trump fi nally met about the sea.” carpet, Trump reached for his wife Melania’s his match – in the form of Emmanuel Macron, Enoch Powell, quoted hand but was brusquely batted away. At the France’s youngest ever (and fi ttest) president. As in The Guardian Vatican, he grinned cheesily for a picture with the two men locked hands, their grips tightened the Pope, who stared ahead with “a mien as until the knuckles turned white. Trump tried to joyless as a gulag”, while Melania – dressed in disengage twice before Macron, jaw clenched, Statistic of the week black, and wearing a black lace veil – adopted relinquished his hand. Afterwards, Macron Net migration to the UK has an expression of deep mourning. The image boasted: “My handshake with him – it wasn’t fallen by 25% since the went viral on social media, with the caption: innocent… It was a moment of truth.” Brexit referendum, to “Dress for the job you want. #widow.” 248,000 – the lowest figure If Trump’s behaviour is childish, said David for three years. The fall is But the “body language battles” really kicked Usborne in The Independent, so is stage- chiefly caused by a rise in off in Brussels, said Jon Henley in The Guardian. managing events “to make him look foolish”. the number of people At a meeting of Nato leaders, Trump physically Trump may be petulant and oafish, but he’s also leaving Britain. Almost 340,000 people emigrated shoved Montenegro’s prime minister aside in chronically insecure (not that you’d know it from Britain last year, among order to get to the front of the group, before from his “shoulder pads and cockatiel hair”). them 117,000 EU citizens. drawing himself up tall and sticking out his jaw If we want the leader of the free world “to be in The Times for the cameras. Like any “alpha male”, Trump a better mood, we need to be nicer to him”.

3 June 2017 THE WEEK 24 NEWS Sport

The FA Cup: “one of Wenger’s finest achievements” All season long, Arsène Wenger was written off, forcing Chelsea to defend “incredibly deep”. And said Jason Burt in The Daily Telegraph. he stuck with the three-man defence that has “Yesterday’s man. Too old. Time to move on.” brought the side a run of nine wins from ten Yet last Saturday, his Arsenal side confounded matches. Yet there were still signs of the expectations to defeat Chelsea 2-1 and win the FA “fragility” that has hobbled Arsenal this season, Cup for a record 13th time – their seventh triumph said Matt Dickinson in The Times. This, after all, in the competition under the French manager. is a side that recently lost 3-0 to Crystal Palace It was “an extraordinary performance of and 3-1 to West Brom. With Wenger’s contract intelligence, organisation and resilience”: the newly extended for two seasons, it won’t be long Gunners dominated and outplayed the Premier before “the old questions return about whether League champions. Watching Arsenal, it was hard Arsenal can, truly, compete for the biggest prizes”. to believe they only finished the season fifth in the league. “Why can’t the team play like this every Chelsea had a “superb” season, said Burt. But you week? Or even just slightly more often?” wouldn’t know that from this performance. They looked “undercooked” – as if they considered Arsenal pulled off one of the FA Cup’s most themselves so superior that they expected to memorable victories, said Oliver Holt in The Mail Wenger: still setting records “simply roll Arsenal over”. As Chelsea struggled on Sunday. Chilean forward Alexis Sánchez “ran to get the better of the Gunners, one of their the show”, scoring his 30th goal of the season. Midfielder Mesut players resorted to “deception”, said Ian Hawkey in The Sunday Özil “caressed the ball and his opponents into submission”; Per Times. With 22 minutes to go, wing-back Victor Moses dived in Mertesacker was a “colossus” in defence, despite having played the box in a bid to get a penalty. Fortunately, referee Anthony just 37 minutes all season. “Even in Wenger’s canon of works, Taylor made “a courageous decision”: he showed Moses a second this must rate as one of his finest achievements.” The manager is yellow card and sent him off. Coming at the end of a season in “rarely praised for his tactical acumen”, said Michael Cox in The which diving has “contaminated an especially high number of Guardian. But on this occasion, at least, his decision-making was elite” matches, the punishment was all the more significant. It “spot on”. He selected the speedy Danny Welbeck up front, may prove to be a watershed for the sport. Rugby union: Exeter’s musketeers win the Premiership Two decades ago, Exeter Chiefs were stuck in coach, Rob Baxter, has assembled a gang of “waifs English rugby’s fourth tier, said Mick Cleary in The and strays” that he has “turned into gold”. Take Phil Daily Telegraph. Seven years ago, they were still Dollman, who scored their second try in the final: playing in the second tier. How extraordinary, then, when he was signed, “nobody else” seemed to want that last Saturday they defeated Wasps 23-20 in him. These “cast-offs” have been complemented by extra time to become Premiership champions. It’s a an “endless supply” of homegrown talent – including triumph that looked utterly unlikely at the start of England star Jack Nowell – from rugby-mad Devon the season, when the Devon club won only two of and Cornwall. Baxter has devised a playing style that their first seven matches. But these “all-for-one “perfectly suits the temperament and abilities of the musketeers” ended the season with eight successive squad”, said Brian Moore in The Daily Telegraph. bonus-point victories, and at the weekend they Exeter’s spine – made up of players including became the first team from the Southwest – in any Dollman and Gareth Steenson, who both joined major sport – to win a national championship. before the club was promoted – may not be flashy, but they “get the job done”. No English rugby team It was a triumph of “remarkable character”, said Sir Exeter’s Phil Dollman has ever experienced such a “remarkable rise”, said Ian McGeechan in The Sunday Telegraph. There Robert Kitson in The Guardian. The only side that was no standout Chiefs player, precisely because this is a side that comes close, in any sport, is Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forest plays as a collective. Unlike their rivals, Exeter don’t splash out on F.C. in the 1970s. The season after winning the league, Forest big names, said Steve Bale in The Sunday Times. Instead, their lifted the European Cup; Exeter are now aiming to do the same.

The man who ran up Everest twice in a week Sporting headlines “Kílian Jornet is a freak of climber who set out from the Football In the Championship nature,” said Jonah Ogles in advanced base camp the play-off final, Huddersfield Outside magazine. Last week, same week as Jornet, and took Town beat Reading on the 29-year-old Spanish climber three days to reach the penalties to secure promotion claimed to have raced up Mount summit. It’s not that Ballinger to the Premier League. Everest in a mere 26 hours, is weak; the Spaniard is just Cycling Dutch cyclist Tom setting the fastest known time “absurdly gifted”. Dumoulin won the Giro up the 29,029ft-high mountain Jornet’s latest feat is “no d’Italia by 31 seconds. from base camp – and he did surprise”, said John Walters in Cricket England lost their it without fixed ropes or Newsweek. The son of a final one-day international supplemental oxygen. Then, five Jornet: “absurdly gifted” Pyrenean mountain guide, he against South Africa, but won days later, Jornet scaled Everest scrambles up and down “the the series 2-1. all over again: setting off from the much higher world’s tallest and most precarious peaks with advanced base camp, he reached the summit in the alacrity of a mountain goat”. Jornet holds Rugby union England beat 17 hours – just 15 minutes short of the record. the fastest known times for ascent and descent Barbarians 28-14. That involved running 8,000 vertical feet up a of the 14,692ft-high Matterhorn (completing the Tennis British women’s No. 1 mountain “on which it’s hard to breathe, period, round trip in two hours and 52 minutes), Mont Johanna Konta was knocked for the last third of it”, in less than a day. To get Blanc, and Denali, North America’s tallest peak. out of the French Open in the a sense of his achievement, compare him with For most people, the phrase “no mountains left first round after losing to Adrian Ballinger, an “extraordinarily strong” to climb” is metaphorical; “for Jornet, it is real”. Hsieh Su-wei.

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Patrolling in vain Exchange of the week group of Americans. Cricket To The Independent was, in fact, America’s first The odd soldier or two Foreign wars and terrorism organised sport, and its swanning around a shopping rules were codified in 1754 centre is not going to stop To The Guardian by Benjamin Franklin based suicide bombers. Community Jeremy Corbyn’s attempt to draw a link between Britain’s on a copy of the English policing, which was decimated foreign policy and terror is disingenuous. Islamist terrorism rules he brought back from by previous governments, was preceded, not followed, the West’s “war on terror”. Sayyid England. George Washington the best preventative solution Qutb and Sayyid Abu al-Ala Mawdudi produced Islamism is said to have played a game to the problem, as it meant long before the Iranian Revolution. But, despite all its of “wicket”, organised by locals could easily give influence on the young Muslims, Islamism remained a American soldiers at their information to the local marginal heterodoxy. Valley Forge winter bobbies on the beat regarding Qutb and Mawdudi were theological dabblers, whom Sunni quarters, before proceeding to any concerns with people in scholars had already refuted and dismissed. It was Ayatollah engage the British at the Battle their locality. Khomeini who revived the concept and gave modern Islamists of Monmouth. This was much more religious respectability they had previously lacked. Khomeini The first international game effective than ringing a distant promised a constant struggle against the satanic West in 1979. in any sport took place in helpline number which relies The first instalment of that struggle was delivered in the form Manhattan in 1844 between on switchboard operators to of an attack on US marines in Beirut in 1983, killing 241 of American and Canadian attempt to prioritise them. Under these circumstances, it is difficult to see how cricket teams, and a Test information, and, as we have Jeremy Corbyn can possibly blame the West for the rise of match between the US and seen with the Manchester Islamist terrorism in Europe. England took place in New suicide bomber, these warnings Randhir Singh Bains, Gants Hill, Essex Jersey in 1859. Cricket has a can go unheeded. Armed growing audience in modern policeman and soldiers To The Guardian America. Last year, two walking the streets is a vanity It is wrong to claim that the blowback theory is irrelevant in Twenty20 international games exercise. It’s a bit like having the case of the Manchester attack. Islamic State germinated in between the West Indies and firefighters walking the streets the scorched earth left behind when we removed the regime of India were played in Florida, to deter arsonists. Saddam Hussein. If we had not invaded Iraq, the organisation with four T20 games scheduled Toby T. Brewster, Cardiff that is now attacking us would not exist. That is blowback. for the 2017 season. The plan proclaimed to stabilise Libya, after the overthrow John Coen, Cheam, Surrey Signalling support of Muammar Gaddafi, was never going to work. There were To The Times realistic alternatives, put forward at the time, to bombing on For your ears only Today I drove some 400 miles the side of the rebels – such as setting up UN safe areas – but To The Times on French motorways. Every they were ignored. Nato turned a blind eye to shipments of Visitors to the Forbidden City message gantry that was not weapons bound for Misrata, with the result that one big in Beijing will find that audio carrying specific traffic Gaddafi turned into lots of little Gaddafis. That is what has commentaries in various information read: “Solidarity brought about the ungovernable space in Libya which Isis languages are available for with Manchester.” has exploited. That is blowback. Now Trump has loosened hire. There is no English Andrew Neame, Faversham, the rules of engagement for US bombing, with the result that language commentary Kent 50 civilians in Syria were killed in the week before the attack available, but there is one in on Westminster, and 200 in Iraq the week before that – both “American”. It’s narrated An attack on girls in raids targeting Isis, with UK support. Unlike in Manchester, by Roger Moore. To The Guardian the Westminster attacker apparently had no organisational John R. Thompson, Greenock, As we attempt to come to links with Isis – but that does not mean there is not an indirect Inverclyde terms with what has happened connection. That, too, is blowback. Violence begets violence. in Manchester, it is very Jeremy Corbyn is right, we need to find alternatives. Amen to that important to draw attention Associate Professor Jake Lynch, chair, Department of Peace To The Times to the fact that the attack was and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney Further to your leading article not simply an attack on on song lyrics getting shorter, children and teenagers: it was The only euro winner place, as it works so well to its this is nothing new. Handel’s an attack on girls. The To The Daily Telegraph advantage. The only alleviation Messiah managed to make a overwhelming majority of Mrs Merkel has said that of this situation would be by five-minute chorus out of one those attending the concert “Germany can only do well a transfer of funds from word, “amen”. were female, and the if Europe is doing well”. Germany to its neighbours or Simon Eadon, Yetminster, perpetrator knew that. We will Unfortunately for the rest of a breakup of the eurozone. Dorset not grasp the irrational, Europe, this is the exact Sadly, neither confused and hate-filled opposite of the truth. option is likely thinking behind it unless we The strong German economy to happen in the see it as an act of gender enjoys export success around near future. violence. Isis and those the world and within the EU David James, brainwashed by them think because the euro is Kidderminster, that women are less than undervalued. The euro is Worcestershire persons, and that their lives are undervalued precisely because to be disposed of as men see the other countries in the euro American cricket fit. The emancipation of area are doing badly and are To The Times women in the West forms a unable to devalue. The cost to I write in response to large part of any explanation these other countries is high Jayne Mitchell’s for why our civilisation is unemployment and debt. letter about her hated by these brutal men. Germany is determined to attempt to teach the Dr Rufus Duits, London keep this state of affairs in rules of cricket to a © KAAMRAN HAFEEZ/NEW YORKER/CARTOON BANK

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Book of the week Kellaway in The Observer. Raulff is a “one-off” with an “extraordinarily connective mind”. He ranges “at a Farewell to the Horse lick” across a vast terrain, from the by Ulrich Raulff sexual symbolism of horses in Allen Lane 464pp £25 19th century novels to the fact that the The Week Bookshop £22 (incl. p&p) first cowboys in America were Jewish. At times, it does feel as if Raulff is simply “rifling through history for For several millennia before the horse-related anecdotes”, said James Industrial Revolution, horses were McConnachie in The Sunday Times. “at the heart of human history”, said Some sections lack a clear “narrative Jane Shilling in The Mail on Sunday. line”. And yet his “horse’s-eye view” Their speed and endurance were opens up some “extraordinarily fresh the foundations on which most historical vistas”. He examines, for “technological advances rested”. A horse and cart carrying goods to Sainsbury’s example, the different ways in which Warfare, food production, transport dictators related to horses: Napoleon and communications: “all ran on horsepower”. But as the was famed for his riding prowess, while the “animal lover” German historian Ulrich Raulff shows in Farewell to the Horse, Hitler “hated” them. In Manhattan in 1900, he tells us, 130,000 the advent of mechanisation gradually brought an end to this horses worked in the city, producing 1,100 tonnes of manure “special relationship”. Somewhere between Napoleon and the each day. This is a “heroic exercise in reimagining a lost world”. First World War, Raulff writes, horses stopped being “man’s Farewell to the Horse is full of “provocative” ideas, said chief zoological partner in the making of history” and became, Melanie Reid in The Times. Horses, Raulff contends, have given instead, a “recreational item, a mode of therapy, a status symbol, humanity “three gigantic gifts: energy, knowledge and pathos” and a source of pastoral support for female puberty”. In this (animal rights began with a concern for mistreated horses). For “witty” and “richly textured” history, Raulff avoids roman- teenage girls, he suggests, horses are a “kind of living metaphor”, ticising the past: as he shows, most working horses led “wretched a “safe cargo ship to carry a girl’s libido to the shores of lives”, and an estimated eight million died in WWI alone. heterosexual sexual attachment”. Yet beware: this “seriously Within a few paragraphs of starting this book, it becomes intellectual” book can be “hard work”. And at more than 450 clear that you have never read anything quite like it, said Kate pages, it may be a bit too much for “the average horsey Brit”.

The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray Novel of the week Bloomsbury 352pp £18.99 The 7th Function of Language The Week Bookshop £16.99 by Laurent Binet Harvill Secker 400pp £16.99 The Week Bookshop £14.99 “There are two books lurking in these pages,” said Clive Davis in The Times. The first is a “cogent” account of how, in recent French author Laurent Binet’s second novel decades, Europe’s “well-meaning but takes inspiration from an actual event, said Alex misguided” elites have turned a blind eye to Preston in The Observer: the death of Roland the failures of integration and to the rise of Barthes. In 1980, the celebrated post-structural Islamism. This, Douglas Murray suggests, has allowed extremism to take hold in theorist was hit by a laundry van after lunching some immigrant communities. Encased within these arguments, however, is a with François Mitterrand. In this “riotously “diatribe” against mass immigration that is “so lurid, it often reads like an inventive” novel, Binet reimagines his death not overheated Breitbart editorial”. In his opening line, he declares that “Europe as an accident but as an “intricately plotted is committing suicide”: decadent and godless, and rendered helpless by our assassination”, and weaves around it a detective relativism, we have become “easy prey” for a resurgent Islam. There is a story with “lashings of critical theory”. Binet “lofty, dismissive” tone to Murray’s views on ethnic minorities that “evokes a renders the “bitchy, brilliant world of the French Peterhouse don sweeping aside the great unwashed while sipping a good port”. intelligentsia” with “aplomb”. “Gentrification comes for everything eventually,” said Gaby Hinsliff in The I loved Binet’s Second World War-set debut, Guardian: poor neighbourhoods, peasant food, football. Now Murray is giving HHhH, and this book starts amusingly enough, UKIP-style xenophobia the same treatment: polishing it up “for middle-class said Janice Turner in The Times. But the cast of consumption”. Though “posher” and better read than your average bigot, he French intellectuals becomes “exasperating”: for warms to the same themes: Muslim immigrants “raping and murdering and British readers, they “seem like Pseud’s Corner terrorising”, welcomed in by idiots “who’d gladly trade a few beheadings for made fl esh”. And the detective story at the heart some colourful ethnic restaurants”. Opponents of mass immigration have of it turns out to be “made of hot air”. I disagree always been dismissed as racist, said Rod Liddle in The Sunday Times. And entirely, said Nicholas Lezard in The Spectator. The Strange Death of Europe “mordantly” exposes the many familiar “canards” The 7th Function of Language is a “hugely that we have been fed on the subject – such as the claim that immigration entertaining” thriller, and it will delight even brings great economic benefits, or that Britain has always been a “nation of those who don’t know “much about semiotics”. immigrants”. Lacerating and elegant, this is a “brilliant” if “depressing” book. To order these titles or any other book in print, visit www.theweek.co.uk/bookshop or speak to a bookseller on 020-3176 3835 Opening times: Mon to Fri 9am-6pm, Sat 9am-5.30pm and Sun 10am-2pm

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“Emma Rice was never going make the most of the Globe. to go quietly,” said Fiona I for one loved it, said Quentin Mountford in the London Letts in the Daily Mail. There Evening Standard. After just two are Irish jigs, a dance routine to seasons, the innovative artistic Sister Sledge’s We Are Family, Theatre director has been asked to leave and any number of splendidly the Globe by the theatre’s board, over-the-top turns, such as a who were unimpressed by her “superb” Malvolio from Katy “distinctly nontraditional Owen, strutting about in a Twelfth Night practices”: an excess of flashy dodgy wig. Hurrah for Rice! lighting, ramped-up sound Down with the “timid bores” effects, disco music, and so on. on the Globe board! Playwright: For her swansong show in the To my mind, the production William Shakespeare Globe’s main outdoor space, she makes it all too clear why Rice is Director: Emma Rice has given us a Twelfth Night going, said Michael Billington in that’s “exuberant, anarchic, The Guardian. It has “brio” in accessible and quite, quite spades, but “never gets to grips maddening”. It’s Twelfth Night with text and character”. One of Shakespeare’s Globe, as knockabout musical, with Le Gateau Chocolat as Feste Rice’s impish touches, said Matt 21 New Globe Walk, Feste, Olivia’s licensed fool, as Trueman on WhatsOn Stage. Bankside, London SE1 master of ceremonies. Yet as played by drag com, has been to include numerous nods to the (020-7401 9919) artiste Le Gateau Chocolat, this Feste “fails Globe’s own domestic drama. In fact, the play Until 5 August to capture any of the character’s unique closes on a choreographed set piece featuring the melancholy and wisdom”. What Rice gives us is waving of white flags: a “semaphore dance the “theatrical equivalent of a scorched-earth routine that signals a surrender”. Running time: policy”, lacking the depth and “rich ambiguity” 2hrs 45mins the play requires. Even so, a “mischievous part The week’s other opening (including interval) of me” hopes it breaks all box office records. An Octoroon Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond Ironically, Rice’s final show achieves what (020-8940 3633). Until 24 June many critics of the new regime have found This “dazzling” postmodern adaptation of a ★★ wanting, said Dominic Cavendish in The Daily 19th century melodrama features white actors Telegraph: a “joyous complicity between player in blackface, and black actors in whiteface. It is and space, and a warm audience rapport, too”. “infinitely playful” and deeply serious, and If it doesn’t fully honour Shakespeare (his words offers some first-rate performances (Guardian). have been much mucked about with), it does

Glyndebourne’s summer has up the second”. On the contrary, Opera kicked off with an oddity, said said Fiona Maddocks in The Andrew Clements in The Observer, once your ear adapts Guardian – the British premiere to the fact that most of the vocal of an almost unknown opera line is recitative (sung speech), first performed in Florence in and that the “glories of the Hipermestra/ 1658 that later lay neglected for music” lie in the richly coloured La Traviata more than three centuries. Its continuo, this opera becomes Venetian composer, Francesco “miraculous and addictive”. Cavalli, a protégé of Monteverdi, Be that as it may, said Anna Composer: Francesco is known to have composed Picard in The Times, the Sussex Cavalli/Giuseppe Verdi 32 operas in all, a dozen of opera house is undoubtedly on Director: Graham Vick/ which remain lost – so there are surer ground with its first festival Tom Cairns surely more treasures of his to be revival of Tom Cairns’ “chic, Conductor: William unearthed. This one is based on bleak” 2014 production of La a Greek myth in which the Traviata. This brilliant offering, Christie/Richard Farnes 50 daughters of Danao, king of as subtle and satisfying as ever, (May-June) and Andrés Argos – whom an oracle has is especially notable for the Orozco-Estrada (August) foretold will be killed by a La Traviata’s Mkhitaryan magnificently sung Violetta of nephew – are married off to the Russian soprano Kristina 50 sons of his brother Egitto, with orders to kill Mkhitaryan, in a memorable Glyndebourne their husbands on their wedding nights. The debut, said Mark Valencia on WhatsOnStage. Glyndebourne, Lewes, only daughter to refuse, Hipermestra, is “the com. “The closing moments are beautifully East Sussex epitome of a tragic, traduced, operatic heroine”. conceived and extraordinarily moving.” (01273-815000) But the work itself turns out to be dramatically Until 8 July/27 August and musically “uneven”. You are unlikely to see CD of the week this rarity better staged than in this classy Roger Waters: Is This the Life We Really production by Graham Vick. “Whether you Want? Columbia £9.99 Running time: need to see it at all is another matter.” In his first studio album since 1992, the Pink 4hrs 20mins/3hrs 55mins You most certainly don’t – it’s a “colossal Floyd man “tempers the polemic with extra- (both including interval) bore”, said Rupert Christiansen in The Daily ordinary emotional force”. His voice is affecting, Telegraph. The punishing 130-minute first half and Nigel Godrich’s production, “full of eerie ★★★ offers barely five minutes of “truly melodic echoes, works its magic” (Sunday Times).

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“Oh, Pirates of the Caribbean, I’ve given you every chance down the years,” said Deborah Ross in The Spectator. With each new instalment in the big- Pirates of the budget Disney franchise, starring Johnny Depp as the rum-sozzled buccaneer Jack Sparrow, I think: this Caribbean: could be the one with “a proper story I can follow”. Salazar’s Alas, the fifth film in the series is just as baffling as the others. The “turgid” plot sees a winsome “Keira Revenge Knightley stand-in” (Kaya Scodelario) and a fresh- Dirs: Joachim Rønning faced “Orlando Bloom clone” (Brenton Thwaites) and Espen Sandberg team up with Jack to battle the zombie-ghost captain 2hrs 9mins (12A) Salazar, played by a scene-stealing Javier Bardem, said Kevin Maher in The Times. They must also locate a “mythical McGuffin”, the Trident of Poseidon, and so “bring everything to a messy, noisy CGI climax”. The worst thing about this Yo ho hum confusing action film, almost indistinguishable from its predecessors, is Depp himself, said Dan Jolin in Empire. Once an “engaging oddity”, his slapstick brigand has become a tired vaudeville routine. ★★ Salazar’s Revenge is no masterpiece, said Geoffrey Macnab in The Independent, but it’s packed with comedy and CGI spectacle, and delivers pretty much “what you want from a summer blockbuster”.

The online streaming service Netflix likes to boast that it has the resources to make risk-taking movies at a time when Hollywood mainly sticks to superhero War Machine hokum, said Robbie Collin in The Daily Telegraph. Yet this “fantastically dreary” anti-war satire shows Dir: David Michôd how horribly wrong it can go. Helmed by Australian 2hrs 2mins (15) director David Michôd, War Machine stars Brad Pitt as an eccentric alpha-male general – a fictionalised Netflix misfire version of General Stanley A. McChrystal – who is with Brad Pitt assigned to oversee the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. Yet despite all the evidence, he nurses the conviction that the war can still be won. There is ★★ “much here that works”, said Tom Huddleston in Time Out, including a witty, incisive script and an amusing turn from Ben Kingsley as the sly Afghan president, Hamid Karzai. It didn’t work very well from where I was sitting, said Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian. War Machine is “not funny enough to be satire”, and “not realistic enough to count as political commentary”. As for Pitt’s over-the-top performance, posturing and grimacing, I found it excruciatingly embarrassing. Overall, this film is “an imperfect non-storm of unsuccess”.

If you feel apprehensive at the prospect of watching an animated film without dialogue or songs, banish your fears, said Dan Jolin in Empire. This “lush and The Red Turtle luminous visual symphony” from Japan’s legendary Dir: Studio Ghibli demands to be seen. The plot of this Michaël Dudok de Wit “superb” silent, directed by the Dutch-British 1hr 21mins (PG) animator Michaël Dudok de Wit, is pretty straightforward, said Geoffrey Macnab in The Independent. A man, whose name we never learn, is A Zen version of shipwrecked on an island. He tries to escape, but each Robinson Crusoe time he embarks on a raft, it’s attacked and broken up by a giant red turtle. Then the turtle transforms, ★★★★ for reasons never explained, into a beautiful woman, with whom the man falls in love. But can the pair survive the blows and buffets of the elements? This “Zen variation on Robinson Crusoe” takes delight in small details such as the waves lapping on the shore, and a Greek chorus of scuttling crabs, said Steve Rose in The Guardian. The “meditative” approach sets The Red Turtle apart from the hyperactive cartoons of Disney and Pixar. It’s “a movie to bask in”.

Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki makes movies that are “effortlessly funny, even when they’re dealing with the darkest subject matter”, said Geoffrey Macnab in The Other Side The Independent. His latest offering is a “brilliantly of Hope observed” comedy about a Syrian asylum seeker (Sherwan Haji) who has endured unimaginable Dir: Aki Kaurismäki suffering, only to reach Finland and face the driest 1hr 40mins (12A) bureaucratic scrutiny. Eventually he receives help from an impassive Finn (Sakari Kuosmanen) who, Droll Finnish though lacking any obvious culinary flair, has opened art-house flick a restaurant. Kaurismäki’s films are a taste I’ve yet to acquire, said Kevin Maher in The Times. But if your idea of fun is watching “expressionless actors who smoke a lot and stare into camera while not ★★★ saying much”, by all means seek this out. You won’t regret it, said Tim Robey in The Daily Telegraph. The Other Side of Hope combines laugh-out-loud moments (“Just the dining hall and kitchen scored badly,” Kuosmanen’s character remarks dourly after a visit from the restaurant inspectors) with haunting emotional poignancy. Prepare to be won over.

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Exhibition of the week Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave British Museum, London WC1 (020-7323 8181, www.britishmuseum.org). Until 13 August Katsushika Hokusai were a “stunning new (1760-1849) began synthesis of two artistic painting when he was six worlds”. The and came to be regarded culmination of this as “Japan’s most famous cultural cross-pollination and influential master”, came with his “glorious, said Rachel Campbell- globally beloved” 1831 Johnston in The Times. masterpiece The Great Yet despite his early start Wave, which used and considerable success, European perspective he considered everything combined with he created before he traditional Japanese reached the age of 70 (he design – and in turn died at 89) to be inspired Western artists unworthy of notice. This including Seurat and van “entrancing” new Gogh. Yet the show’s exhibition at the British “microscopic scholarly Museum explores the obsession” with final 30 years of Hokusai’s old age – with Hokusai’s life, the paintings that came showcasing his “superb after The Great Wave – draughtsmanship” and The “glorious, globally beloved” masterpiece The Great Wave (1831) is “baffling”: there is “restlessly inquiring little evidence to suggest talent”. The show brings together more than 200 drawings, that he developed a distinct late style. Hokusai was a “world paintings and prints, from “eye-giddying eastern panoramas” and great”. His achievements merit a better, more “atmospheric” “exquisite studies of nature” to still lifes that “turn the ordinary exhibition than this one. into something rare and strange”. All are imbued with the kind of “magic” that only a “master artist can evoke”. You will be Nevertheless, we get a “vivid and intimate sense” of Hokusai as “swept up by the surge of his creative obsession”. an individual, said Mark Hudson in The Daily Telegraph. He lived a “rackety” lifestyle and was often “penniless”, moving The exhibition offers “one revelatory insight” into Hokusai’s art, from one cheap lodgings to the next. Towards the end of his life, said Jonathan Jones in The Guardian. Early on in the show, we he adopted a pseudonym that translates as “Old Man Crazy to learn that he was commissioned by the Dutch East India Paint”. Among the highlights of his late work are paintings of a Company (at the time, virtually the only “direct connection” feasting demon, depicted with “brisk, gestural brush marks”, and between Europe and Japan) to create pictures of everyday life in a prayer scene covered with “spattered black ink” that calls to his homeland. Exposure to the Dutch Old Masters greatly mind abstract expressionism. Despite the odd weak moment, this influenced Hokusai, and he responded by producing images that is a “fascinating” exhibition.

Where to buy… Picasso and Pollock in Tehran The Week reviews an “One of the exhibition in a private gallery world’s greatest collections Philip Guston of European at Hauser & Wirth and American art is on show for the first In the early 1970s, Philip Guston found time in four himself in a strange place. Like his decades,” says former schoolmate Jackson Pollock, Christina Lamb he had come to prominence as an in The Sunday Times – and in the “unlikely abstract expressionist, but by the late venue” of Tehran. It was assembled in the 1970s by Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, wife of 1960s he had become frustrated by that the then shah of Iran, and among the 1,700 movement’s brooding, self-imposed pictures in the collection – worth £2.3bn – are seriousness. He started creating crude, works by Degas, Matisse, Picasso, Jackson cartoonish works that superficially had Pollock and Henry Moore. The empress put the more in common with toilet graffiti Untitled (1971), 26.7cm x 35.2cm collection on show in a specially built museum, than high modernism. Predictably, the but 16 months after the opening, the shah was critics savaged them, but Guston (1913- 200 of these ludicrous but highly deposed in the 1979 revolution, and the family 1980) refused to compromise. Instead, compelling pictures, in which Guston flew into exile. Iran’s new leader, Ayatollah he began turning out strange satirical captures Nixon’s paranoia, bluster and Khomeini, was hostile to Western influence, so museum staff hid the works in an underground drawings inspired by the pratfalls of ultimate retreat into self-pity following vault. The pictures re-emerged in early 2005, Richard Nixon’s scandal-ridden his fall from grace. The artist emerges under a more liberal regime, and 60 had been administration, caricaturing the soon- as Cold War America’s answer to due to go on display in Berlin and Rome. But to-be-impeached president as a set of James Gillray. Prices on negotiation. the loan was blocked over fears that the shah’s male genitals, and Henry Kissinger as a family might try to reclaim them – so they’re pair of glasses atop a grotesque nose. 23 Savile Row, London W1 now on display in Tehran instead.

This exhibition brings together almost (020-7287 2300). Until 29 July. © THE ESTATE OF PHILIP GUSTON/COURTESY THE ESTATE AND HAUSER & WIRTH

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Best books… Victor Sebestyen Television Historian and journalist Victor Sebestyen picks his five favourite books. His Programmes new biography Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait has been published Sgt. Pepper’s Musical by Weidenfeld to coincide with the centenary of the Russian Revolution Revolution – with Howard Goodall To mark the 50th The World of Yesterday by finance and the literary world Philosopher Arendt coined the anniversary of the Beatles’ album, and featuring rare Stefan Zweig, 1942 (Pushkin of Victorian England. It’s the phrase “banality of evil” archive footage of its making, Press £12.99). An elegiac way we live still. about the top Nazis, and was the composer Howard Goodall memoir of the “golden age” the first to explain how the looks at why Sgt. Pepper was before the First World War – Sentimental Education by far-left and the far-right are so groundbreaking. Sat 3 and how European civilisation, Gustave Flaubert, 1869 (OUP essentially the same. She was June, BBC2 21:00 (60mins). which seemed so safe and £10.99). Gauche young man… compulsory reading when I secure for decades, was then older, sophisticated woman was writing about the Cold Cardinal First two episodes of all but destroyed by populists, (and French!). Sounds a cliché, War. In the uncertain, a six-part Canadian thriller Nazis and a rogues’ gallery of but there’s never a predictable potentially dangerous world about two detectives hunting down a serial killer in Northern cynical demagogues. page, in one of the greatest of of today, her insights remain Ontario. Sat 3 June, BBC4 Unnervingly topical. all European novels. I first read profoundly relevant. 21:00 (85mins). it at an impressionable age of The Way We Live Now by romantic discovery, but find Pride and Prejudice by Jane Lord Lucan: My Husband, Anthony Trollope, 1875 something new at each reread. Austen, 1813 (Penguin £4.99). the Truth Lady Veronica (Penguin £8.99). 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3 June 2017 THE WEEK 38 Best properties

Properties within commuting distance of London

▲ Hampshire: The Pagoda House, Winchester. Located a short distance from the heart of historic Winchester (67 minutes to Waterloo), this Grade II house was built in 1848 in traditional Chinese style. Master suite, guest suite, 4 further beds, family bath, breakfast/kitchen, 4 receps, utility, orangery, study, laundry, 2 cloakrooms, cellar, double garage, gardens and grounds, summerhouse; 0.67 acres. £3.95m; Savills (01962-841842).

▲ Cambridgeshire: Wrydelands Farm, Thorney. An early-19th century former farmhouse in need of updating, eight miles from Peterborough (66 minutes to Kings Cross). 7 beds, family bath, breakfast/kitchen, 3 receps, utility, 2 WCs, hall, study, boot room, private gardens, double garage; 2.67 acres. A further 6 acres are available, subject to negotiation. £795,000; Bletsoes (01832-732188). ▲ Bucks: The First Sun House, Highover Park, Amersham. A Grade II modernist house, designed by Connell and Ward in the 1930s, close to the historic old town and just half a mile from Amersham station, which is on the Metropolitan/ Chiltern line (35 minutes to Marylebone). 3 beds, 2 baths/showers, breakfast/kitchen, bed 4/study, open- plan recep, utility, galleried landing, roof terrace, integral garage, gardens. £1.275m; Savills (01494-725636).

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▲ Cambridgeshire: Dean House, Duxford. A period village house, close to Whittlesford (70 minutes to Liverpool Street) and ten miles from Cambridge. 3 beds, family bath, breakfast/ kitchen, 2 receps, garden. £500,000; Cheffins (01799-523656). ▲ Surrey: Damson Cottage Farm, Grayswood, Haslemere. Set off a country lane just two miles from Haslemere (55 minutes to Waterloo), this Grade II farmhouse has more than six acres of gardens, paddocks and woodland, plus ground- source heating and a swimming pool. Master suite with dressing room, guest suite, 3 further beds, family bath, breakfast/kitchen, 3 receps, study, halls, TV room, 1-bed staff cottage, garage, stables, outbuildings, sheds. £2.2m; Savills (020-7016 3780). ▲ ▲ Oxfordshire: Bucks: Elegy Manor House, House, Stoke Poges. Lewknor. A fine Built by the Grade II house with renowned architect sweeping views over James Wyatt, this the Chilterns, around Georgian house is a quarter of an hour a short drive from from High Wycombe Slough (30 minutes (30 minutes to to Paddington, with Marylebone). 7 beds, Crossrail to come). 6 baths, kitchen, 7/8 beds, 4 baths hall, 2 receps, (2 en suite), conservatory, library, breakfast/kitchen, games room, utility, 4 receps, utility, cellar, cloakroom, cinema room, stables, tack room, family room, 2 hay barn, 1-bed cloakrooms, cellar, annexe, car port, double garage, summerhouse/office, swimming pool, tennis court; summerhouse, 3.1 acres. £1.95m; landscaped gardens. Knight Frank £2.675m; Savills (01865-790077). (01494-731950). ▲ Essex: Tudor Cottage, Broxted, Dunmow. A beautifully maintained Grade II Tudor house in a hamlet close to Elsenham (56 minutes to Liverpool Street) and Stansted Airport (47 minutes to Liverpool Street). Master suite, 3 further beds, family bath, shower, kitchen, double recep, snug, utility, hall, mature gardens with terrace areas, and ▲ Surrey: 2 Jonathan Kiln Cottages, Crondall. A charming character a driveway with cottage with far-reaching rural views, on the outskirts of Crondall village, off-street parking. less than five miles from Farnham (58 minutes to Waterloo). 3 beds, family £540,000; Cheffins bath, kitchen/family area, large recep, cloakroom, garden, shed, single (01799-523656). garage, 2 parking spaces. £600,000; Savills (01252-729000).

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LEISURE 41 Food & Drink What the experts recommend Swan at Shakespeare’s Globe decent too: corned beef hash, a main of 21 New Globe Walk, London SE1 duck (I could have done with a bigger (020-7928 9444) portion), and a “deliciously melty” grilled Restaurants mainly aimed at the tourist goat’s cheese salad. “It’s the location that trade are not usually “beacons of makes it,” though. Three courses for two, gastronomic pilgrimage”, says Marina about £60, plus drinks. O’Loughlin in The Guardian. It tends to be that they think it’s “job done if they Radici 30 Almeida Street, London N1 can send folk out without actively (020-7354 4777) poisoning them”. But the recently I’ve complained recently that too few revamped Swan, on Bankside – which has restaurants have serious dessert menus, mullion-windowed views of St Paul’s on says Jay Rayner in The Observer. But one side; marble-topped tables and grey Radici, a brilliant and astonishingly good- velvet sofas on the other – has persuaded value modern Italian in Islington, boasts the acclaimed chef Allan Pickett to run the a cracker. There’s an almond cake with show. The result is food that is “way too mixed berries, a Marsala tiramisu with good for just tourists”. Pea and shallot a radical crunchy base and, best of all, tortellini was a “hefty, satisfying bruiser”. Swan at Shakespeare’s Globe: “enchanted” a proper syrup-drenched rum baba A butch terrine of pork and chicken oozed flavoured with bergamot. “Whorls of classy French technique, with its rhubarb you gently in the direction of a long and cream, topped with crumbled pistachios, compote speaking “fluent Franglais”. satisfying slumber.” At the 16th century soothe the sweetness. I spoon it away and Roast hake was “perfectly pearlescent and Five Bells Inn, a “pretty little pub like all the plates here, it goes back squeaky fresh”. But a rhubarb crumble restaurant” in Devon, my wife went for empty.” Chef Francesco Mazzei (known tart was the highlight: the fruit “sweet- the former, a dark chocolate mousse, for L’Anima and Sartoria) has always sharp”, the pastry “impossibly light”, and while I went for the sleepy kind: a sticky been wildly brilliant, but never before has the crumble “celestially” good. We were toffee pudding that was warm and thick he been good value. That rum baba was “enchanted”. About £35 a head, plus and sticky as syrup, topped with just £7. A “primi” dish of taglierini, drinks and service. sumptuous West Country cream. When fagioli and pancetta (thin ribbon pasta, I open my own restaurant, there will be white beans and bacon) is £8 – and it all The Five Bells Inn Clyst Hydon, beds for diners to collapse on at the end comes in a “dense, starchy broth of such Cullompton, Devon (01884-277288) of the meal. Here, I made do with the intensity and such conviction, you could Broadly speaking, there are two types of lawn – and wallowed in the “sheer be forgiven for thinking your very soul is pudding, says Michael Deacon in The glorious aimlessness of a country lost somewhere in its depths”. “Lucky Daily Telegraph. “The light sort, which afternoon, miles from worry”. The rest of us…” Meal for two, including drinks and revives you, and the heavy, which eases the unpretentious British food was very service, £40-£120.

Recipe of the week Wine choice Summer is just around the corner, says Don’t be put off by the long list of ingredients for this ramen – the Japanese- Fiona Beckett in The Guardian. Surely style noodle soup couldn’t be easier to make and is light and nourishing it’s time to uncork a rosé? Vegetable and chicken ramen One of my current favourites is Domaine de Triennes Rosé, Serves 2 2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts, sliced into thin strips which “you may well find on 100g soba noodles 2 tbsps brown rice miso paste 1 tbsp soy sauce 2cm piece tap in hipper watering holes”. of fresh ginger, cut into thin strips 1 carrot, julienned 3 spring onions/scallions, Or you can buy the 2016 by the sliced diagonally ½ red pepper, deseeded and cut into thin strips 2 pak choi, halved bottle for £11.95 from The Whisky lengthways ½ tsp toasted sesame oil a pinch of toasted nori (seaweed) flakes Exchange. I’m also a fan of the well-structured 2 tbsps fresh coriander leaves sunflower oil, for brushing Le Galantin Bandol 2015 (£14.50, Tanners), which is powerful enough to take on a garlicky • Preheat the grill to add the miso paste and stir bourride (fish stew), or grilled lamb chops. high and line the grill pan until dissolved. Add the soy with foil. sauce, ginger, carrot, If you have a slightly sweeter palate or want a spring onions, red pepper wine to stand up to spicy food, the raspberry- • Arrange the chicken in and pak choi. Bring to the scented (£10.99, the grill pan and brush The Ned 2016 Pinot Rosé boil. Reduce the heat or £7.99 in the Mix Six deal, Majestic) is “to with sunflower oil. Grill for and simmer for about my mind a far more appealing off-dry option 5-6 minutes on each side, 3 minutes until the pak than Rosé d’Anjou”. Or for a bit more money, until cooked through. choi is just tender. Stir in try the Black Cottage Rosé 2016 (£12.99, or • Meanwhile, cook the the sesame oil. £10.99 with Mix Six, Majestic), which tempers soba noodles in plenty of • Divide the noodles between two the sweet pinot fruit with a touch of acidity. boiling water (see instructions on the shallow bowls and spoon over the packet). Drain and refresh under cold vegetables and stock. Slice the chicken Last, for a homegrown English pinot, try running water, then set aside. breasts and place on top. Sprinkle with Ingrid Bates’ Dunleavy Rosé 2016 (£11.75, • Put 750ml of hot water into a pan, the nori and coriander leaves to serve. plus p&p, www.dunleavyvineyards.co.uk). With its gooseberry tartness, it would go Taken from Ramen, published by Ryland Peters & Small at £9.99. beautifully with grilled mackerel. To buy from The Week Bookshop for £7.99, call 020-3176 3835 or visit www.theweek.co.uk/bookshop. For our latest offers, visit theweekwines.co.uk

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3 June 2017 THE WEEK 44 LEISURE Travel

This week’s dream: a hip hang-out in upstate New York Two hours by train from Manhattan’s Then, in 1982, its “renaissance” began, Penn Station, the little town of Hudson when Alain Pioton, a Frenchman living is like a pocket of Brooklyn transported in New York, opened an antiques shop to the hills and forests of upstate New on Warren Street. More antiques York, says Steve King in Condé Nast dealers followed – today, about 60 Traveller – an escape from the city that have shops in a town with a popu- is both exquisitely hip and perfectly lation of less than 7,000. The foodies picturesque. Excellent farm-to-table followed in the 1990s, and it became restaurants rub shoulders with “chicly the gourmet capital of the Hudson creaky” boutique hotels on its main River Valley, with inventive “locavore” drag, Warren Street, where the faded restaurants such as Fish & Game, facades are a glorious compendium of “where the bordello-red wallpaper is as 19th century architectural styles luscious as the tasting menu”. Outside (“Greek Revival, Gothic Revival… the town there is lots to see, including Italianate, Second Empire… – you “stately piles” such as Olana, a name it, they’re all here”). And despite Persian-inspired folly built by the 19th a strong vein of “perky metropolitan A glorious compendium of facades on Warren Street century landscape painter Frederic smugness”, the “careworn, small-town Church, and Clermont, ancestral home humility” of the place endures. of the Livingston family, whose descendants include the actor The town was settled in the 1780s by Quakers from Nantucket Montgomery Clift and the presidents Bush. Hotels in Hudson who needed an inland port for their whaling ships. After a brief include Wm. Farmer & Sons (www.wmfarmerandsons.com), flush of prosperity, however, it fell on hard times, becoming a The Hudson Milliner (www.thehudsonmilliner.com) and byword for drinking, gambling and “whoring” in the 1920s. Rivertown Lodge (www.rivertownlodge.com).

Hotel of the week Getting the flavour of… Tracking gorillas in Uganda resort has four shoreside wooden cabins, It has long been possible for tourists to visit with an award-winning minimalist design Uganda’s endangered mountain gorillas, but featuring vast floor-to-ceiling windows. encounters are generally with habituated There is great hiking, climbing, kayaking animals and are limited to one hour. Now, and diving to enjoy, and a hot tub and spa however, visitors can track a semi-habituated to relax in afterwards. The local wildlife family through the “fairy-tale” rainforest of includes Europe’s largest colony of sea the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, and eagles – and there’s a fine museum nearby, spend up to three hours with them, to help in a well-preserved 19th century house that them get used to human company, says Sue feels like a set for an Ibsen play. Sea cabins Watt in The Independent. Expeditions cost cost from £285 a night for two people Kahanda Kanda, $1,500 (£1,160) per person, for groups of (+47 23 38 22 00, www.manshausen.no). Sri Lanka up to four. The day starts with a crash Perched high in the hills course in tracking – looking for discarded A secret island in the Adriatic overlooking Koggala Lake – close leaves, bent foliage, knuckle prints, and the Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast and islands are to Sri Lanka’s beautiful south like. You may not meet the gorillas, who are “overrun” with tourists in the summer, but coast – this revamped tea still “wary” and have been known to charge, you can still find peaceful pockets – such as plantation house is “a knockout”, but any time you do spend with them is the “pretty” island of Šipan, says Laura says Tatler. The ten suites have likely to be “magical”, if nerve-racking. Goulden in The Sunday Times. Little more colonnaded verandas, canopied Steppes Travel (01285-601050, www. than an hour by ferry from Dubrovnik, it beds, Asian antiques, English steppestravel.co.uk) has a six-day trip from has no “must-see” sights – just a small castle, oil paintings, and the family heirlooms of the owner, interior £4,495pp, including flights. 34 churches (many open only on Sundays), designer George Cooper. Best of and two little towns. And that’s the point: all is the Dubu Suite, a Javanese Eco-chic in Arctic Norway this island serves “as a reminder that cottage with an outdoor Norway’s Steigen archipelago – a there’s life beyond your to-do list”. The bathroom and ten floor-to-ceiling mountainous wilderness rising from gin-clear backcountry, fragrant with wild herbs and windows secreted in a “vast” seas, 62 miles inside the Arctic Circle – is criss-crossed by dry stone walls, is great for garden. There’s a rainwater “almost as remote as it gets in Europe”. Even walking. Or spend lazy days just soaking up infinity pool, and a restaurant so, you can now stay there in great style, says the sea views from the terrace at the serving good Asian fusion and Peter Carty in The Guardian, thanks to excellent Hotel Božica, or at Bowa, a beach traditional Sri Lankan cuisine. explorer Børge Ousland, who is the first bar that serves “simple” but delicious Suites from £317. +94 91 494 person to have reached the North Pole alone seafood. Hotel Božica (www.hotel-bozica.hr) 3700, www.kahandakanda.com. and unsupported. His new Manshausen has double rooms from about £85 a night.

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THE WEEK 3 June 2017 Obituaries 45 Self-deprecating star who was forever James Bond

Roger Moore Roger Moore, who aged 24, he met the Welsh singer Dorothy 1927-2017 died last week aged 89, Squires at one of her wild parties, and was not everyone’s began an affair that would lead to his favourite James Bond, and was by his divorce and remarriage, said The Daily own estimation only the fourth-best 007 Telegraph. Squires, 13 years his senior, – but he was, more than perhaps anyone, was determined to make him a star, and responsible for survival of the franchise. took him to America to try his luck there. Sean Connery had defined the role, and But he was not faithful, and the marriage the first attempt to replace him, with deteriorated: there were ugly public George Lazenby, had turned out badly. scenes, and he claimed she once hit him By the time Moore took over, for Live over the head with a guitar. On the set of and Let Die in 1973, there were doubts Romulus and the Sabines (1961), he met as to whether the films would be kept the Italian actress Luisa Mattioli. Though going. But Moore – tall, debonair and she couldn’t speak English, they began an handsome, with a smug smile, a twinkle affair, and married in 1969 (Squires in his eye and an arched eyebrow – having refused to divorce him for years). created a more light-hearted, self-aware Moore and Mattioli moved to Bond that suited the silly, jet-set 1970s: Switzerland and had three children, but he lasted 12 years in the role, longer than that marriage was also volatile; it ended any other actor, and made seven films, in 1996. He was married finally to ending with A View to a Kill in 1985, Kristina Tholstrup. He described their by which time he was 58. relationship as “wonderfully tranquil”.

Flinty and tough, Connery’s Bond – like Moore won his first big TV role in 1958, Daniel Craig’s – was admired but feared; Hated loud noises, and blinked when he fired a gun in Ivanhoe, but it was not until he played the Roger Moore Bond was loved, said Simon Templar in The Saint that he Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian. “And Sir Roger Moore was achieved bona fide stardom, said Ryan Gilbey in The Observer. loved too.” Elegant and charming, he admitted to being an The show ran for seven years until 1969, and was a precursor to egomaniac, but he had no self-importance: asked once what he his turn as 007 – “even his habit of looking directly at the camera thought he’d brought to the role of Bond, he replied: “White prefigures” his later Bond films, in which “he all but winks at the teeth.” His success, he said, had been “99% luck” – and he was audience”. He was then cast in the The Persuaders!, playing an grateful for it. “Being eternally known as Bond has no downside,” English toff who teams up with a streetwise self-made American he once said. “People often call me ‘Mr Bond’ when we’re out millionaire (Tony Curtis) to solve crime. By the time he became and I don’t mind a bit. Why would I?” Bond, he was 45. His first outing, Live and Let Die, had bizarre blaxploitation elements, and saw 007 escaping across a river using Born in Stockwell, south London, in 1927, Moore was the son of crocodiles as stepping stones. His best was arguably The Spy Who a police constable. But though it was honed at Rada, his drawling, Loved Me (1977), which features one of the most enthralling of patrician-meets-mid-Atlantic baritone was his own: he recalled all the Bond opening sequences: 007 being chased on skis down a that when he was a child, his mother, Lily, would tick him off if mountain, soaring off a cliff, and plunging hundreds of feet before he dropped his aitches, while his opening a Union Flag parachute father, George, a keen amateur as the Bond theme tune kicks in. actor who’d adopted a stage “He rated himself as the fourth-best Bond, accent, “sounded very posh and when asked what he’d brought to Moore was a keen skier – but he indeed”. An only child, he won a hated guns and loud noises, and scholarship to Battersea the role, he replied: ‘White teeth’” claimed that every time he had to Grammar, but he didn’t thrive fire Bond’s weapon, he blinked. and, at 15, dropped out to work in an animation studio. When he He was not, he said, a natural cold-blooded killer, so he mined was sacked from that job, he tagged along with a friend who was the part for its humour. “The Bond situations are so ridiculous,” working as an extra at Denham Studios. The once podgy child he said. “I mean, this man is supposed to be a spy and yet had by then grown into a 6ft 2in hunk, said The Independent, and everybody knows he’s a spy. Every bartender in the world offers after three days playing a sword carrier on the 1945 film Caesar him martinis that are shaken, not stirred. What kind of serious and Cleopatra, he was spotted by its assistant director Brian spy is recognised everywhere he goes?” Pre-empting criticism of Hurst, who helped him get into Rada and paid his fees. He stayed his acting abilities, he liked to say that he had three expressions as for three terms, then went to work in rep in Cambridge, where his Bond: “right eyebrow raised, left eyebrow raised, and eyebrows fellow thesps nicknamed him The Duchess, on account of his crossed when grabbed by Jaws”. But he could do more than that, fastidiousness and deportment. When he joined the army for his as he proved in some of his non-Bond outings, notably The Man national service, he was, rather to his surprise, sent to officer Who Haunted Himself (1970). training school and commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps as a second lieutenant. “I think it was mainly because I After stepping down as Bond, he more or less gave up acting, and looked the part,” he observed. dedicated himself to humanitarian work as an unpaid Unicef goodwill ambassador. He was also a keen defender of animal In 1946, aged 19, he married a figure skater named Doorn van rights. He was knighted in 2003. “I was such a coward that I shut Steyn (born Lucy Woodard). They moved into a bedsit in my eyes when the sword was being waved at me, and afterwards Streatham; money was tight, and he struggled to find acting work. I was worried about how I was going to get up,” he joked. But he To make ends meet, he began modelling, advertising Brylcreem was proud of the honour. “The knighthood for my humanitarian and toothpaste but mainly jumpers (hence his nickname The Big work meant more than if it had been for my acting,” he told The Knit). Never able to take himself entirely seriously, he learned, Guardian. “I’m sure some people would say, “What does an actor while modelling, to strike a pose and a faintly ironic expression. know about world issues?” But [working for Unicef] I’ve become His marriage was volatile (he claimed his wife punched and an expert on things from the causes of dwarfism to the benefits scratched him, and once threw a teapot at his head), and in 1952, of breastfeeding. I feel very privileged.”

3 June 2017 THE WEEK

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uring her January vi EU for the last 20 years, making Turkey casus and the Middle East. sit to the country, Prime Mi- an attractive base for foreign investors Nonetheless FDI seems to have contin- nister May highlighted the to access the EU market and spurring ued relatively unaffected. “UK companies continuing importance of Turkish companies to become interna- continue to invest in Turkey,” Dr. Loewen- co-operation between Bri- tionally competitive; a new EU associ- dahl adds. “In fact, the UK was the lar- Dtain and Turkey in regional security and ate partnership model could be a tem- gest source of FDI flows into Turkey in bi-lateral trade. Two months later, Tur- plate for both the UK and Turkey.” 2016 with around USD1 billion in FDI, key’s Minister of Economy Nihat Zey- around 80 per cent of which came after bekci wasted no time in stressing the Why UK? July.” With the benefits that Turkey offers opportunity for a trade deal between For UK businesses investing in the UK businesses, in terms of both trade the two countries as soon as pos- country, it represents a large domes- and investment, the long history of Bri- sible after Brexit. These were the la- tic market of over 80 million people, 42 tish involvement in the country looks to test moves in close, deep and longstan- per cent of whom are under the age of be well established for further growth in ding Anglo-Turkish commercial re- 24. It aims to become one of the world’s the future. It has ridden Turkish political lations. There are around 3,000 UK ten largest economies by 2023. Geopo- and economic crises and incidents over a companies with operations in Tur- litically it is located at the fulcrum bet- number of years and though it may have key, according to Dr. Henry Loewen- ween Europe, Asia, Russia and the Mid- to do so again in future, the two coun- dahl, Turkey-based CEO of specia- dle East. It is positioned at the gateway tries remain close commercial and stra- list foreign direct investment (FDI) for trade with Central Asia, south Cau- tegic partners. consultancy WAVTEQ Limited. This amounts to a UK FDI stock currently val- ued at over GBP12 billion. The UK’s De- partment for International Trade con- FOR UK BUSINESSES firms that British companies currently operating in Turkey include “global com- INVESTING IN panies such as BP, Shell, Vodafone, Unil- THE COUNTRY, IT ever, BAE, HSBC, Aviva and Diageo. Seve- REPRESENTS A LARGE ral retail giants and high street names DOMESTIC MARKET such as Harvey Nichols, Kingfisher, OF OVER 80 MILLION Marks and Spencer and Laura Ashley al- PEOPLE, 42 PER CENT so have extensive operations in Turkey.” OF WHOM ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 24. Why Turkey? "The UK and Turkey have been strong partners over the last deca- des,” says Dr. Loewendahl, “Initial- ly this was driven by the need to work together over Cyprus and cope rate for stability of the wider region. More recently it has been driven by economic and cultural ties emana- ting from a rapid expansion in trade, FDI, education, and tourism link- ages between the countries. The UK has been over a period of many years Tur- key’s strongest supporter in its bid to join the EU and now that the UK is lea- ving the EU this leaves Turkey and UK both looking at what their future part- nership with the EU will look like. Tur- key has had a customs union with the CITY 49 Companies in the news ...and how they were assessed

Fever-Tree: Cheers! Since floating in November 2014, the “posh mixer maker” Fever-Tree has enjoyed a “remarkable shares run”, said Joanna Bourke in the London Evening Standard. But is the fizz starting to go flat? The soft Seven days in the drinks company suffered “a rare hiccup” last week after co-founder Charles Rolls Square Mile cashed in some £73m worth of shares, said Fears of an election shock hit the pound Rob Davies in The Guardian. The “hefty in successive sessions as polls indicated sale” left the company’s stock down 2% that the PM Theresa May’s lead over at £17.12 – but that’s still nearly 13 times Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn had narrowed. its float price. Fever-Tree, founded in 2005, CMC markets forecast that sterling, is now worth more than its “170-year-old which has been hovering around the drinks rival Britvic, and some three times as much as the Debenhams store chain”. The $1.28 mark, could sink to $1.20 or lower company embraced “luxury status” and made much of the “exotic origin” of its on a Corbyn win. The pound’s slide coincided with poor economic news, ingredients, but it was a “serendipitous resurgence in gin” that really put Fever-Tree on showing a fall in Q1 growth to 0.2%, a the map. It has “ridden the crest of this alcoholic wave like no other company”. Rolls jump in public borrowing in April and (pictured, right), who previously revived the Plymouth Gin brand, once observed that inflation rocketing ahead of wage “you’ve got to feel a little sorry for Schweppes”, which, like Britvic, was caught napping growth. UK stock markets sailed on by the botanics renaissance – both are hoping to regain ground with new premium ranges, untroubled, taking their lead from but Fever-Tree may be tough to squash. It recently announced that its 2017 results will be across the Atlantic where indices hit “comfortably” ahead of forecasts, “indicating it is still very much in the ascendancy”. new record highs. Some £360m was wiped off the value of Alfa Financial: all hype? BA parent, International Airlines Group Alfa sells software to companies like Bank of America, Barclays and Mercedes-Benz to following prolonged travel chaos caused help them manage asset-financing agreements. “If that sounds dull,” says Liam Proud on by an IT malfunction. CEO Willie Walsh Reuters Breakingviews, the company’s float last week was “anything but”. Alfa’s already said the BA chief, Álex Cruz, had his “absolute support”. The Greek debt saga richly priced shares leapt 30% as “ravenous investors” wolfed down Britain’s largest continued: talks broke down over initial public offering this year, and the largest UK tech listing since 2015. By the end of whether Greece had done enough to the day, Alfa’s valuation had reached a “stratospheric” £1.3bn. “Part of the enthusiasm receive its latest s7.5bn bailout. could be down to the asset finance market,” which PwC reckons will grow 40% by The Irish government is to float Allied 2021. But a “more plausible explanation is the paucity of large listings” – particularly in Irish Banks (AIB) in London and Dublin to the “much-hyped” financial tech business. With most well-known UK players staying dispose of its 25% stake in the lender. private for now, starved investors “are devouring fintech’s IPO scraps” to gain exposure. RBS reached a legal settlement in Say what you like about Alfa, said Lex in the FT, but at least it “makes money” – principle with a shareholder group which “unlike many of its unicorn peers” (unicorns are tech companies valued at $1bn plus). accused the bank of misleading them Profits in both the US and Europe have jumped 30% annually over the past two years, over a £12bn rights issue in 2008; a and its core market is growing fast. Forget the cynicism: if Alfa fulfils its potential as a minority are reportedly still holding out. “useful UK-nicorn”, shareholders will win. Tesco boss, Dave Lewis, is to be called as prosecution witness in the trial of three former executives accused of fraud. Petrofac: corruption probe The competition watchdog opened an “It was already old news that the Serious Fraud Office’s finest rozzers were having a inquiry into Tesco’s proposed acquisition poke around Petrofac,” said Alistair Osborne in The Times – the oil services giant told of Booker. KPMG dubbed Manchester the market as much on 12 May. So what harm could there be in a little “update”? Plenty, United the most valuable football club in as it turned out. Petrofac’s shares promptly plunged 30%, taking them to roughly half Europe – worth around s3bn. their price when the kerfuffle began. The SFO’s probe into Petrofac is linked to its wider criminal investigation into Unaoil, a Monaco-based outfit that “allegedly fixed contracts in return for kickbacks”. Petrofac “has admitted no such thing”, but you can see why the shares tanked. The company has been forced to suspend its COO, Marwan Chedid, who Playing Jenga is a potential suspect. All contact between CEO Ayman Asfari and “external contacts” The campaign to claim the City’s has been banned while the probe (centring on deals struck in Kazakhstan from 2002 to “lucrative euro-clearing business” has 2009) continues. No wonder the former FTSE 100 outfit is in turmoil, said Nils Pratley stepped up a notch, reports The Times. in The Guardian. “This is a deep crisis and the correct share price is anyone’s guess.” France’s leading financial regulator, François Villeroy de Galhau, has Spotify: tuning in declared it is “impossible” for it to remain in Blighty post-Brexit. Since The Swedish music-streaming service Spotify has been hiring bankers and an “elite cast s of board members”, said Lex in the FT – big clues that it is preparing for a long-awaited nearly 930bn in euro trades is cleared in London daily, “the question is seen as listing, possibly later this year. A successful debut for Spotify, which was valued at central to the fate of the City”: $8.4bn at its last funding round, “will officially crown streaming as the future of the accountants EY reckon it could cost music industry”, said Edward Helmore in The Observer – even though neither Spotify 83,000 jobs. Feeling gloomy? Time to nor its nearest rivals are yet making a profit. “It may not just be streaming that Spotify wheel out the Lloyds Bank chairman, makes mainstream.” The company is considering the “unusual tactic” of a direct listing Lord Blackwell, who thinks the City can on the New York Stock Exchange, rather than offering investors shares before they go weather even the hardest of Brexits: public, as tech companies have traditionally done. “The move saves a fortune in fees, “Rather than a Jenga tower falling but could also make the sale highly volatile.” Still, if Spotify pulls it off, other “hot down,” he muses, “I think of a Tower of start-ups” like Airbnb and Uber could swiftly follow in its wake. London with foundations that are deep.”

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Issue of the week: the election and the economy Politicians appear to think the public has given up caring about economics. That’s quite a gamble When he was chancellor in the mid- unsecured household debt, as the 1990s, Kenneth Clarke coined a phrase TUC notes, is set to reach a record that “more or less” held good with average of £13,900 this year, just as politicians for the next 20 years, said inflation is rising. “The economy is Chris Giles in the FT. “We should never stalling and household debt soaring forget,” said Clarke, “that good and we haven’t even quit the EU yet.” economics is good politics.” It was a Even the supposed benefits of Brexit useful mantra, because it was don’t seem to be registering, said “sufficiently flexible to allow differences Tommy Stubbington in The Sunday of approach”. But last year’s EU Times. The plunge in sterling following referendum changed everything. “The the vote was supposed to boost stunning success of the Leave campaign, exports. But it is so far proving “the based on a heady mixture of blind least successful currency devaluation in optimism and naked deceit, has history”. Britain’s trade gap actually encouraged politicians to ditch worsened in the first quarter to -1.6%. mainstream economics to an extent not Theresa May in Stoke-on-Trent this week seen in a generation.” That much was The downward revisions may give evident in the tax and spending pledges in the main parties’ Remain-voting doom-mongers “something to crow about”, said manifestos, said Larry Elliott in The Guardian. “A plague on both Alex Brummer in the Daily Mail. But it’s way “too early to be your houses” was the considered view of the Institute for Fiscal issuing recession warnings just yet”. Even so, politicians are Studies, once it had combed through the figures. The choice facing foolish not to “fear signs of a slowdown”, said Janan Ganesh in voters, according to Britain’s unofficial fiscal umpire, is between the FT. Party leaders have interpreted “the public anger of recent “undeliverable” Tory policies, and “unworkable” Labour ones. years as a cry for something more than the soulless quest for 2.5ish% annual output expansion”. But there is no evidence that It’s hardly surprising that politicians are so keen to don economic voters “are ready to bear a cost” to live in “their own version of blinkers given what may lie ahead, said James Moore in The Eden”. “It’s fashionable to wave away GDP talk as an abstraction Independent. “Remember the post-Brexit boom? What happened for elites” who “don’t geddit”. But those numbers “translate into to that?” Last week, the official growth figure for the first quarter wage rises, given or withheld”; and public services that are either was revised down to a “positively soporific” 0.2%. Meanwhile, “funded or start to creak”. Politicians forget that at their peril.

Booming tech: what the experts think Brazil nuts? ● $1,000 stock club “vulnerable” if they fall Amazon’s newest out of favour. As After a “challenging” five years, “real-world” Michael K. Farr of the emerging markets have been “one of bookstore opened in money-manager Farr this year’s investment success stories Manhattan last week, Miller & Washington so far, with average gains of around and analysts liked observes, many 12% for British investors”, said Frank Talbot in The Daily Telegraph. For what they saw, said investors buying “passive” funds that long-term investors, with a stomach Tiernan Ray on for shocks, returns have often been Barrons.com. As track indexes, “have more exposure to tech higher. The MSCI Emerging Markets JP Morgan noted, Index has generated a total return of Amazon is “among a than they think”. That 368% in the past 15 years – more than vanguard of online Amazon: shaking up bricks and mortar should raise some double the performance of the FTSE retailers” who are “yellow flags”. All Share index. In recent months, a “experimenting and shaking up the bricks- “steadily improving global economy” and-mortar experience, even as old retail ● Softbank’s bazooka has encouraged more ordinary punters to plough cash into Asia, implodes”. The mood was so positive When you ask Siri whether we are in a eastern Europe and Latin America. that it helped push the company’s stock technology bubble, all that Apple’s above $1,000 for the first time on Tuesday digital assistant can offer is: “Interesting Could the recent turmoil in Brazil – – the latest sign of “big, dominant tech question”, said Robin Wigglesworth in where the newish president, Michel companies driving the US market higher”, the FT. Indeed it is. The total market Temer, has been embroiled in said Adam Shell in USA Today. Google’s capitalisation of the “FAANGtastic five” corruption allegations – act as a parent company, Alphabet, is also “within (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and dampener? Not on the evidence so far, a few bucks” of the magic “$1,000 stock Google) now stands at $2.4trn, making said Eric Platt in the FT. When Brazil’s club”. Should we raise a cheer, or worry? them “bigger than the French CAC 40 main Bovespa index plunged by 9% last week, investors chose to see it as or Germany’s Dax, and nearly as large as a “contrarian bet” – and poured more ● Unhealthy influence? the FTSE 100”. Bank of America points money into Brazilian dedicated stock Amazon, which is up more than 30% to “nascent signs” of an “overshoot”. funds “than in any week since 2012”. this year, and by 1,500% since the Nonetheless, it’s “probably too soon to Fund managers such as Wells Fargo current equities bull market began in 2009, call time on the tech-powered rally” – “see the political situation as noise is one of a handful of tech stocks that have particularly since the big cash keeps on overshadowing the fundamental had an outsized impact on the wider rolling in. SoftBank boss Masayoshi Son improvement they believe is to come”. market. The five biggest stocks in the has just teamed up with the Saudis to But Man GLG warns that investors S&P 500 (which include Alphabet and launch “the world’s largest” tech have become “extremely complacent” about Brazil and its “debt dynamics”. Amazon) “have accounted for nearly one- investment fund, worth nearly $100bn, Exercise caution. third of the index’s 8% gain this year”. said The Economist. That should keep That makes the wider index all the more momentum going for a while.

3 June 2017 THE WEEK 52 CITY Commentators

Theresa May’s pointed refusal to confirm whether the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, “would keep his job if she wins” has fuelled City profiles This is no time rumours that the PM is plotting either to “replace him with a more pliant Chancellor, to trim his powers – or even to break up Simon Arora to castrate Who are the role models for his department”, says the FT. That would be “a serious mistake”. Britain’s next generation of the Treasury True, the Treasury’s “broad remit and political clout” are unusual: home-grown tycoons, asks many other countries split financial and economic policy into Iain Dey in The Sunday Editorial separate ministries; and there are “good grounds to question its Times. “One contender record of economic management”. But this would be the “worst should be Simon Arora” – Financial Times possible time to attempt such a reform”. Given the strain Brexit boss of one of Britain’s most will put on the machinery of government, the last thing Britain successful, but little known, needs is more upheaval in Whitehall. And May’s motives may shop chains – B&M Retail. anyway be suspect. “The problem now is not that the Treasury is Since buying a Blackpool- based chain of 21 stores with too strong or the Chancellor too meddlesome,” it’s that the his brother Bobby in 2004, department “increasingly looks sidelined”. Brexit means making Arora has expanded the difficult trade-offs: we need a strong Chancellor who can voice outfit to 500 sites, employing the concerns of business and advocate the needs of the economy. nearly 22,500. B&M, which “A further tightening of No. 10’s grip would not be reassuring.” listed three years ago, is “now bigger than Here’s “some relief” for the Bank of England, says James Moore: Woolworths ever was”. it doesn’t look as if fuel prices will be adding to inflationary About half of the company’s Opec: between pressures any time soon. The oil price barely budged on news that shareholders are US funds who are tracking its progress Opec has decided to extend production curbs, agreed six months a rock and a against that of Dollar ago, for another nine months. Far from putting “a little extra fuel General, the Tennessee hard place into the price tank”, as the oil cartel must have hoped, prices in the discount chain which has US actually dipped below $50/barrel. Traders, noting the failure rapidly expanded into 43 US James Moore of the original policy to shrink stockpiles, had been hoping for states. If Arora can maintain “deeper cuts”. Opec is in a difficult situation. Even assuming the the same pace of expansion The Independent drilling slowdown eventually succeeds in pushing up the price, its in Europe, “his name will members “won’t have all that long to enjoy the extra revenues”. If soon enter the pantheon of oil shoots “too much above $52”, America’s frackers “start getting British business heroes”. busy”: it’s at that point they can afford to boost production. How Stanley Kroenke galling for Opec if US wildcatters “reap as much benefit from production cuts” as the cartel itself. But the long-term outlook is even worse. Electric and self-driving cars herald the “beginnings of the digital revolution in motor transport”. What price oil then?

Are the Chinese taking over Hollywood? It’s easy to make the case, says John Pomfret. Chinese investment cash has been flood- Is Hollywood ing in to the industry at such an unprecedented rate that fears were recently voiced in Congress that Beijing could soon dictate dancing to “what is and isn’t made”. Those concerns are real. Such has been “Hollywood’s craven currying of Chinese favour in exchange for Beijing’s tune? a piece of China’s vast market”, that it hasn’t made a movie in 20 years that has painted China, or its authorities, in a negative light. John Pomfret But “before we unspool into a tizzy of anti-Chinese paranoia”, it’s Los Angeles Times worth noting that China’s domestic industry is itself flailing: almost every film company is in financial difficulties. What’s The US billionaire behind more, Chinese films “stink” artistically – and will do so as long as Arsenal FC is known as they’re subject to government censorship. That’s an opportunity “Silent Stan”, owing to his low profile and reluctance to for Hollywood: last year it accounted for 42% of China’s box talk to the press, says Murad office take, despite tight caps on Western film releases. Is Ahmed in the FT. But after Hollywood “bending over backwards to please the Red Mandarins the club’s FA Cup victory, he in Beijing”? Definitely. But let’s not exaggerate the threat. certainly has something to talk about, even if it’s just his News that the World Bank’s chief economist, Paul Romer, has relief at avoiding “a hostile been “stripped of his management responsibilities” because staff reception from fans bristling The danger “objected to his efforts to encourage clearer communication” at the club’s performance demonstrates the perils of “standing up for the English language”, under his ownership”. of “writing Arsenal have not won the says Peter Thal Larsen. Romer’s objective was noble – as anyone Premier League since Kroenke by numbers” who has waded through the World Bank’s rambling, jargon- took a controlling interest in loaded reports can testify. It’s his methods that were debatable. 2011, and critics suggest this Peter Thal Larsen “Perhaps inevitably for an economist whose work leans heavily failure stems from a lack of on mathematical models,” he sought “a quantitative solution” investment. Kroenke, who Reuters Breakingviews to the problem of over-long sentences: no flagship report would recently rejected a reported be published, he said, if the word “and” exceeded 2.6% of the $1.3bn offer for his 67% stake total. Easy to see how this could backfire: in their efforts to in the club from fellow avoid breaching the limit, staff might end up writing yet “more Arsenal shareholder, Alisher Usmanov, is not short of contorted sentences”. George Orwell, a stickler for language, readies. Married to Walmart advocated “six rules for effective writing”: but even he advised heiress Ann Walton, his own that it was better to break them than “say anything outright wealth, derived mainly from barbarous”. Clearer language is a fine goal, but economists take property, is put at $7.5bn. note: “writing by numbers is the wrong way to achieve it”.

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Barclays Experian Petrofac Shares tipped 12 weeks ago The Mail on Sunday Sharecast Sharecast Best tip Tough US credit conditions The credit-checking agency is The oil services fi rm is under Barratt Developments may mean Barclays’ investment trading at an all-time high, investigation by the Serious The Times banking arm will struggle to despite an increased risk to Fraud Office over its alleged up 17.92% to 609.64p improve returns, according to the US outlook from slower embroilment in the Unaoil Berenberg. Analysts there employment growth. Deutsche corruption scandal; the COO Worst tip doubt that the bank will return Bank fears a worsening has been suspended. RBC has UBM to a “meaningful dividend” outlook for top-line growth slashed its target from 1,000p The Times down 4.61% to 724p before 2019. Sell. 211.65p. and margins. Sell. £16.13. to 400p. Sell. 430.8p.

Euromoney Institutional Ideagen Yu Group Investor Shares Shares Market view Investors Chronicle Ideagen supplies safety, risk This independent energy “For the market the worst Advertising revenue is falling and compliance software to supplier, focused on small UK outcome is further across the majority of the “high consequence” industries businesses, is a “decent” fi rm uncertainty, with the chance publisher’s business areas, with such as airlines, mining and with an excellent reputation of a hung parliament.” Jordan Rochester of banking- and fi nance-related health care. Shares have risen for service. Shares have jumped Nomura, after polls income taking the largest hits. 45% – faster and higher than by 50%, but the short-term signalled a tighter race than Debt is creeping up and growth expectations. Take profits. upside appears limited. Take expected. Quoted in the FT progress is slow. Sell. £11.75. Sell. 93.5p. profits. Sell. 437.5p. Market summary

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3 June 2017 THE WEEK 56 The last word The urban citadels of the new rich

The French geographer Christophe Guilluy has spent decades studying the creeping gentrification of Paris. His observations, says Christopher Caldwell, can help us understand the backlash against globalisation – and how it led to both Trump and Brexit

The property market in any millionaires, immigrants, tourists sophisticated city reflects deep and the young, with no room for the aspirations and fears. Christophe median Frenchman. Guilluy calls himself a geographer. But he has spent decades as a The urban property market is a housing consultant in pitiless sorting machine. Rich people rapidly changing Paris and up-and-comers buy the private neighbourhoods studying housing stock in desirable cities and gentrification, among other things. thereby bid up its cost. The laid-off, And he has crafted a convincing the less educated, the mistrained – all narrative tying together France’s must rebuild their lives in what various social problems – Guilluy calls (in the title of his immigration tensions, previous book) la France deindustrialisation, economic périphérique. This is the key term in decline, ethnic conflict, and the rise Guilluy’s sociological vocabulary, of populist parties. Guilluy has and is worth clarifying: it is neither a published three books since 2010, synonym for the boondocks nor a with the newest, Le Crépuscule de la measure of distance from the city France d’en haut (roughly: “Twilight centre. (Most of France’s small cities, of the French Elite”), arriving in in fact, are in la France bookshops last autumn. They give périphérique.) Rather, the term the best ground-level look available measures distance from the at the consequences of globalisation functioning parts of the global in France, and an explanation for Christophe Guilluy: “nobody wants to be a minority” economy. France’s best-performing the rise of the National Front (FN) urban nodes have arguably never that goes beyond the usual imputation of stupidity or bigotry to been richer or better stocked with cultural and retail amenities. its voters. Guilluy’s work thus tells us something important about But too few such places exist to carry a national economy. When British voters’ decision to withdraw from the EU, and the France’s was a national economy, its median workers were well astonishing rise of Donald Trump – two phenomena that have compensated and well protected from illness, age and other drawn on similar grievances. vicissitudes. In a knowledge economy, these workers have largely been exiled from the places where the economy still functions. At the heart of Guilluy’s inquiry is globalisation. They have been replaced by immigrants. Internationalising the division of labour has brought significant economic efficiencies. But it has also brought inequalities unseen After the mid-20th century, the French state built a vast stock for a century, demographic upheaval and cultural disruption. – about fi ve million units – of public housing, which now A process that Guilluy calls métropolisation has cut French accounts for a sixth of the country’s households. Much of it is society in two. In 16 dynamic hideous-looking, but it’s all more urban areas (Paris, Lyon, or less affordable. Its purpose Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, “Rich Parisians still need people to serve tables, has changed, however. It is now Toulouse, Lille, Bordeaux, trim shrubbery, watch babies and change used primarily for billeting not Nice, Nantes, Strasbourg, native French workers, as once Grenoble, Rennes, Rouen, bedpans. Immigrants do most of these jobs” was the case, but immigrants Toulon, Douai-Lens and and their descendants, millions Montpellier), the world’s resources have proved a profitable of whom arrived from North Africa, starting in the 1960s, with complement to those found in France. These urban areas are another wave of newcomers from sub-Saharan Africa and the home to all the country’s leading educational and fi nancial Middle East arriving today. In the rough northern suburb of institutions, as well as almost all its corporations and the many Aubervilliers, for instance, three-quarters of young people are of well-paying jobs that go with them. There, too, are the individuals immigrant background. – the entrepreneurs, the fashion designers and models, the fi lm directors and chefs and other “symbolic analysts”, as Robert While rich Parisians may not miss the presence of the middle class, Reich once called them – who shape the country’s tastes, form its they do need people to serve tables, trim shrubbery, watch babies opinions and renew its prestige. and change bedpans. Immigrants – not native French workers – do most of these jobs. Why this should be so is an economic Cheap labour, tariff-free consumer goods and new markets of controversy. Perhaps migrants will do certain tasks that French billions of people have made globalisation a windfall for such people will not – at least, not for the prevailing wage. Perhaps prosperous places. But globalisation has had no such galvanising employers don’t relish paying s10 an hour to a native Frenchman effect on the rest of France. Cities that were lively for hundreds of who ten years earlier was making s20 an hour, and has years – Tarbes, Agen, Albi, Béziers – are now, to use Guilluy’s resentments to match. Perhaps the current situation is an example word, “desertified”, haunted by the empty shopfronts and of the economic law named after the 19th century French blighted downtowns that rust-belt Americans know well. Guilluy economist Jean-Baptiste Say: a huge supply of menial labour from doubts that any place exists in France’s new economy for working the developing world has created its own demand. people as we’ve previously understood them. Paris offers the most striking case. As it has prospered, the City of Light has stratified, This is not Guilluy’s subject, though. He aims only to show that,

resembling, in this regard, London, or New York. It’s a place for even if French people were willing to do the work that gets © PHILIPPE MATSAS/FLAMMARION

THE WEEK 3 June 2017 The last word 57 offered in these prosperous the richest city in the history urban centres, there would be no of France, its residents have way for them to do it, because come to describe their politics there is no longer any place for as “on the left” – a judgement them to live. As a new that tomorrow’s historians bourgeoisie has taken over the might dispute. Guilluy calls private housing stock, poor this the politics of la gauche foreigners have taken over the hashtag, preoccupied with public – which thus serves the redistribution among, not metropolitan rich as a kind of from, elites: “We may have taxpayer-subsidised servants’ done nothing for the poor, but quarters. Public-housing we did appoint the fi rst disabled inhabitants are almost never lesbian parking commissioner.” ethnically French; the prevailing culture there nowadays is often Never have conditions been more heavily Muslim. favourable for deluding a class of fortunate people into thinking Guilluy has written much about that they owe their privilege to how little contact the abstract The banlieues house immigrants who work for the Parisian middle classes being nicer, or smarter, or more doctrines of “diversity” and honest, than everyone else. Why “multiculturalism” make with this morally complex world. In would they think otherwise? They never meet anyone who these neighbourhoods, well-meaning people of all backgrounds disagrees with them. The immigrants with whom the creatives “need to manage, day in, day out, a thousand and one share the city are dazzlingly different, exotic, even frightening, but ethnocultural questions while trying not to get caught up in on the central question of our time – whether the global economic hatred and violence”. Last winter, he told the magazine Causeur: system is working or failing – they see eye to eye. Those outside “Unlike our parents in the 1960s, we live in a multicultural the city gates are invisible, their wishes incomprehensible. It’s as if society, a society in which ‘the other’ doesn’t become ‘somebody they don’t exist. But they do. like yourself’. And when ‘the other’ doesn’t become ‘somebody like yourself’, you constantly need to ask yourself how many of For those cut off from France’s new-economy citadels, the the other there are – whether in your neighbourhood or your misfortunes are serious. They’re stuck economically. Three years apartment building. Because nobody wants to be a minority.” after fi nishing their studies, three-quarters of French university Thus, when 70% of French people tell pollsters, as they have for graduates are living on their own; by contrast, three-quarters of years now, that “too many foreigners” live in France, they are not their contemporaries without university degrees still live with their necessarily being racist; but they’re not necessarily not being parents. And they’re dying early: in 2015, life expectancy fell for racist, either. It’s a complicated sentiment, and identifying “good” both sexes in France for the fi rst time since the Second World and “bad” strands of it – the better to draw them apart – is War. Their political alienation is striking. Less than 2% of getting harder to do. legislators in France’s National Assembly today come from the working class, as opposed to 20% just after the Second World Guilluy came to the attention of many French readers at the turn War. The excluded have lost faith in efforts to distribute society’s of the millennium, through the pages of the leftist Paris daily goods more equitably. The welfare state is now distrusted by Libération, where he promoted the American journalist David those whom it is meant to help. France’s expenditure on the Brooks’s book Bobos in Paradise. Guilluy was fascinated by the heavily immigrant banlieues is already vast, in this view; to fi gure of the “bobo”, an acronym combining “bourgeois” and provide yet more public housing would be to widen the invitation “bohemian”, which described the new sort of upper-middle-class to unwanted immigrants. In a society as divided as Guilluy person who had emerged in the late-1990s tech-bubble economy. describes, traditional politics can fi nd no purchase. For Brooks, “bobo” was a term of endearment. These hipster With its opposition to free trade, nouveaux riches differed from “Those outside the city gates are invisible, open immigration and the EU, those of yesteryear in being their wishes incomprehensible. It’s as if the National Front has more sensitive and cultured, established itself as the main the kind of folk who shopped they don’t exist. But they do” voice of the anti-globalisers. at Restoration Hardware for Traditional parties now collude the vintage 1950s Christmas lights that reminded them of their to keep out the FN as often as they compete. French elites have childhoods. For Guilluy, as for most French intellectuals, “bobo” convinced themselves that their social supremacy rests not on is a slur – meaning a bourgeoisie more predatory and less troubled their economic might, but on their common decency. Doing so by conscience than their predecessors. They chased the working- allows them to “present the losers of globalisation as embittered class population from neighbourhoods it had spent years building people who have problems with diversity”, says Guilluy. One up – and then expected the country to thank them. need not say anything racist to be denounced as a member of “white, xenophobic France”, or even as a “fascist”. To express In France, as in America, the bobos were both cause and effect of discontent with the political system is dangerous enough. It is to a huge cultural shift. In most parts of Paris, working-class faire le jeu de (“to play the game of”) the National Front. Frenchmen are just gone, priced out of even the football stadiums that were once a bastion of French prole-dom. The metropolitan Guilluy sees deep historical and economic processes at work bourgeoisie no longer live cheek-by-jowl with native French behind the evolution of France’s residential spaces. “There has people of lesser means and different values. The previously been no plan to ‘expel the poor’, no conspiracy,” he writes, “just working-class housing stock has been occupied by a second layer a strict application of market principles.” But he is moving of bourgeoisie. For every old-economy banker in an inherited towards a more politically engaged view: that the rhetoric of an high-ceilinged Second Empire apartment off the Champs-Élysées, “open society” is “a smokescreen meant to hide the emergence of there is a new-economy television anchor or high-tech patent a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes”. attorney living in some exorbitantly remodelled mews house in the Marais. They have arrived through different routes, and they Christopher Caldwell is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard. might once have held different political opinions, but they don’t A longer version of this article was originally published in the now. As Paris has become not just the richest city in France but Spring 2017 issue of City Journal.

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Since launch* Return on £1,000 invested 1 year 2 years 3 years 4 years 5 years - 30.04.17

CRUX European Special Situations Fund £1,284 £1,370 £1,507 £1,651 £2,172 £2,629

Sector average : IA Europe ex UK £1,261 £1,252 £1,334 £1,534 £1,929 £1,910

Index : FTSE World Europe ex UK £1,288 £1,237 £1,324 £1,520 £1,947 £1,872

Cash : Bank of England Base Rate £1,003 £1,008 £1,013 £1,018 £1,023 £1,036

Source: FE © 2017, bid-bid, £1,000 invested, cumulative performance to 30.04.17. *Launch date 01.10.09.

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