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Publishing being faced with rows of book surely a case of wishful thinking. catch up with Susan Bordo’s The jackets featuring nicely lit shots of Fictionalised Clintons are also Destruction of Hillary Clinton, Why Hillary and one of the Clintons looking weary taking shape. Next year, William and Shattered: Inside Hillary but unbroken. Gibson’s sci-fi novel Agency is set Clinton’s Doomed Campaign , both Bill are the new First, due in September, Hillary’s partly in a present-day world in already published. Practise your books sensation book will be pub- which Hillary is president. The eye-rolling at last year’s “alt-right” lished . It is not a year after, Curtis Sittenfeld’s conspiracy theses on what a Clin- memoir exactly, but next novel will reimagine how ton presidency would look like, a collection of essays Hillary Rodham’s life would including Armageddon and Crisis o the great literary move- based on inspirational have unfolded had she never of Character. Work your way T ments of the 21st century quotes that have, she married Bill (Sittenfeld has a through the Clintons’ own off er- so far – transrealism and says, “helped me thing for fi rst ladies, having al- ings over the years – at least six books with the word “girl” in the celebrate the good ready fi ctionalised books apiece – including Hillary’s title – we can add another: books times, laugh at the Laura Bush’s life). excellent, if cautious, Living His- by, and about, the Clintons. Book absurd times and A memoir, Hillary- tory and Bill’s Back to Work: Why deals will be impossible to get persevere during the hard times”. land, written by We Need Smart Government for a unless your name is Hillary or Bill After that will come Bill’s one of Clinton’s Strong Economy (maybe just skim Clinton; proposals will be rejected novel , penned with bestselling advisers and that one). Then have a nice lie- unless they feature the former crime-writer James Patterson. All speechwriters, down and try to come up with a president or presidential candidate. we know is that it is a thriller Lissa Muscatine, better word than Clinterature to Within a year, you will not be able about a sitting president, and is is also planned. describe the deluge. to go into a bookshop without called The President Is Missing – Before then, Emine Saner

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Television to pop a cap at the gruff -voiced Age: Younger than us. Mitchell brother at one point or Younger than us? I’m pretty sure that things How long soap another? So many suspects – but, have been striped since the 1950s, at least. in a sign the soap was ahead of My mum had a skirt. And there are rainbows. fans wait for the the times, it took mere weeks for And zebras. And sabre-toothed tigers. They big reveals Phil to pin it on former lover Lisa. are ancient. Sabre-toothed tigers are usually How fast? One month. thought to have been plain or spotted, but Never mind maggots, I take your point. EastEnders Who killed glass or fingernails Thank you. I am talking about very regular, crisply oaps are becoming “like Lucy Beale? (2014-16) – animal droppings rendered stripes, which are a relatively modern S fast food”, according to the Eleven laborious months preceded have been named phenomenon and one we evolved without. actor Shane Richie, with the Bobby Beale reveal and, to add the worst things And why are you suddenly talking about plotlines unfolding more quickly to to the fun, the storyline rumbled on Brits could imagine modern, crisply rendered stripes? Scientists cater for shorter audience attention. for another year or so while Ian and finding in their food. think they may be the trigger for some migraines Thankfully, they He should know : his EastEnders Jane covered up for the evil pre- and epileptic fi ts. are rarely found character Alfi e Moon waited 14 teen before fi nally turning him in . in supermarket or Really? Yes. Research from the Netherlands months before his fi rst kiss with How fast? Two years, four months. restaurant grub – and the US just published in the journal Current on-off love Kat. Arguably, if script- more prevalent are Biology suggests that looking at intensely stripy writers nowadays want to attract Hollyoaks The Gloved Hand plastic, mould and things causes an increase in gamma oscillations the Snapchat generation, they are Killer (2014-16) hair. Bon appetit. in the brain, which are associated with headaches not going to do it with long, lum- Hollyoaks loves a serial killer on and seizures. Source: YouGov bering storylines. But how long did the loose, but this murderous What does this mean? It means that you viewers have to wait for those most storyline ran and ran. Junior shouldn’t eat a Wall’s Viennetta while wearing a momentous episodes in the past? doctor Lindsey Butterfi eld was pinstripe suit in a room full of venetian blinds. Hannah Verdier revealed as the handy culprit, I see. It seems that our brains are not designed but carried on killing until fellow to cope with such extreme regularity, as it doesn’t Brookside Trevor Jordache under murderer Silas bumped her off . occur in nature. The researchers found that once the patio (1993-95) How fast? 18 months. they distorted the lines slightly or blurred their Long-suff ering wife Mandy stabbed edges, the oscillations died down. her abuser Trevor, the man whose Coronation Street Kylie’s death I do always feel a bit weird when I look at evil eyes gave Brookside viewers (July 2016) Kylie met a sticky end escalators and stuff . My eyes go funny. That nightmares, and buried him under She was a hoop-earringed legend in Coronation Street is because your brain is going funny. the patio. It took two years for his who had cage-danced on to the in just 20 minutes; Because these kind of stripes aren’t supposed body to be found, during which cobbles and eventually cleaned Alfie and Kat took to be happening? Exactly. Your brain has a sort time barbecues and plumbers’ up her act, but Kylie met a swift 14 months to kiss in of zebra-comfort zone. Anything that could be visits triggered full-on panic. exit when she was stabbed at the EastEnders (top) used as camoufl age as you roam the savanna is How fast? Two years. end of one episode and died in processable. Anything that requires a geometry AFP; GETTY IMAGES the next . set or computer to design – not so much. Coronation Street The evil of How fast? 20 minutes. I’d better cancel that seven-layer cake I ordered Richard Hillman (2001-3) for my birthday. I don’t want to set anyone Corrie’s conman Hillman enjoyed EastEnders Tina and Woody off . Actually, horizontal stripes aren’t as bad

PHOTOGRAPHS a long downward spiral, from (April 2017) as vertical. extorting cash from locals to killing It took just moments for Why? No one knows. Maybe our brains are just Maxine Peacock. His fi nal evil act Woody to convince gay clever enough to make an exception that allows was to drive wife Gail and her kids Tina to change her sexual- for pudding. You could have that Viennetta too. into the canal. They lived; he didn’t. ity and seduce her. That’s NOW it’s a party. Happy birthday to you. How fast? Two years, two months. the magic of Lee Ryan of Do say: “Another reason to ban venetian blinds Blue’s charms . – hurrah!”

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ast week I was a guest on a regional TV I’ll criticise was a staunch advocate of marriage equality) and talk show where politicians and other intent and willingness to listen and change. And L public fi gures discuss civic issues over Colbert. But criticism within the arts is a living dialogue, not a wine. During the Q&A, a man leapt to I won’t fight hard-and-fast binary. the mic. His question was succinct and But as the Colbert situation mushroomed, seemingly rehearsed: “What have you done and a proxy war I reali sed that there was another potential reading what do you plan to do to hold Stephen Colbert to against of the man’s question. The far right, smelling an account for his gay joke regarding the relationship opportunity to manipulate the left into eating between Mr Trump and Mr Putin?” equality their own powerful and popular satirist, had If you’ve not been following the Colbert “gay pounced on Colbert. Oh, the homophobia, they joke” dust-up , the short of it is that the comedian, wailed! Wasn’t it terrible? #FireColbert took hold host of America’s The Late Show, referred to on Twitter – on the feeds of homophobes. That Donald Trump’s mouth as “Vladimir Putin’s cock same week, Trump signed his executive order on holster” at the peak of a short but furious religious liberty, which turned out to be a monologue lambasting the US president for being toothless dud, but was a symbolic nod to religious a tacky clown who has earned exactly as much homophobes . Colbert is now being investigated respect as Colbert was off ering. by the Federal Communications Commission , a I’d watched the video earlier that day. It was relatively routine procedure, but alarming in the behind some clickbait headline like, “Stephen context of Trump’s obsession with punishing Colbert SNAPS and Does ALL THE THINGS to unfriendly media outlets and fl irtation with DESTROY Donald Trump Once and for ALL: You amending the fi rst amendment. Won’t BELIEVE How Much Trump Wishes He Was I’ve spent much of my career writing at the Never BORN, or He Would Wish That, If He Hadn’t intersection of feminism and comedy, being Already Been VAPORIZED by Colbert’s VERBAL called “too fat to rape” by men outraged that LASER!” I didn’t think much more about it. Later, I suggested comedy might have a misogyny I came across a couple of lovely, heartfelt takes problem, being called a “censor” by the same from gay comedians I respect, explaining why the people now salivating over the FCC investig ation, joke was irritating at best, harmful at worst being called a “special snowfl ake” by conser- (abridged version: there is no coherent reading vatives so delicate they cannot even stand to that does not hinge on the implication that share a four-million-square-mile landmass with people who put penises in their mouths are weak gay fl orists and Muslim librarians and trans and people who put their penises in other dentists who have to go to the bathroom. I don’t people’s mouths are powerful, an assumption know if the Q&A guy was sincerely hurt by that reinforces damaging stigmas against people Colbert’s joke or just thought he could use my who are already in disproportionate peril under own principles to trap me. I’m happy to believe the Trump administration). I made a mental note the former, but if it’s the latter, sorry, that’s not that they were right and headed to my taping. #FireColbert … how principles work. “I don’t like the joke,” I told the man from the the TV host has I’m happy to criticise Colbert, and to have a been targeted by audience, who I assumed was gay and felt hurt, homophobes nuanced conversation about language and power despite the strange trajectory of his question (why with other good-faith actors. What I won’t do is was it about me, not the joke ?). “I don’t think it fi ght some proxy battle against justice and equality was a good joke. It relies on miso gyny yny and homohomo-- bbecauseecause disingenuous di bigots think they’ve found phobia. In terms of holding people account able, a loophole and I’m gullible enough to fall through we have good social processes in placelace – we have it. 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10.05.17 The Guardian 5 For years, Apu in The Simpsons was the most famous south Asian on US screens. But now actors and comedians such as Riz Ahmed, Mindy Kaling, Arwa MahdawiMahdawi Aziz Ansari andDOWN Hasan Minhaj are pop royalty. reports WITH THE BROWN

6 The Guardian 10.05.17 PHOTOGRAPHS GETTY; REED YOUNG FOR THE GUARDIAN; AP; SKY; ALLSTAR; ALAMY (From left) Apu; Peter Sellers in The Party; Fisher Stevens with Johnny 5 in Short Circuit 2

S culture has a new mantra: surge of brown faces on US screens decidedly not-Indian. And, in 2012, it’s down with the brown. may seem a little been-there-done- a Popchips advert featured the very U In the past few years, that. After all, the relationship between white Ashton Kutcher impersonating entertainers of south Asian Britain and south Asia goes all the way a Bollywood producer. origin have gone from back to the founding of the East India South Asian actors are still asked to being a minor footnote in American Company in 1600 and, you know, that do accents and play stereotypical roles. popular culture to a headline event. You whole colonialism thing. South Asians This year, Kal Penn (of Harold and can see a snapshot of this new America have played a signifi cant part in British Kumar fame) shared some of the audi- in a picture British-Pakistani actor Riz culture for a while. Hell, even Britain tion scripts he was given at the begin- Ahmed tweeted this month at the Met First supporters go out for a curry . ning of his career. These demanded Gala, the annual gathering of pop- But things are very diff erent in the an accent and were for roles such as culture royalty. Captioned “Taking over US, where south Asians make up a far “Gandhi lookalike”, “snake charmer” the #metgala2017”, it showed Ahmed newer, far smaller percentage of the and perspiring “Pakistani computer standing next to comedians Mindy population and have traditionally geek”. In a 2015 essay for the New York Kaling, Aziz Ansari, and the Daily Show’s occupied little, if any, space in the Times , Ansari recounted similar expe- senior correspondent, Hasan Minhaj. national consciousness. You can see this riences: “Even though I’ve sold out South Asians aren’t just taking over refl ected in the diff erent nomenclature: Madison Square Garden as a standup the Met Gala, they’re popping up every- in Britain, “Asian” refers to south comedian and have appeared in several where. Last month, Minhaj headlined Asians; in the US, it refers to east fi lms and a TV series, when my phone the annual White House correspond- Asians. South Asians are a subgroup of rings, the roles I’m off ered are often ents’ dinner . In April, Ahmed was one of a subgroup. It is not an exaggeration defi ned by ethnicity and often require the cover stars for Time magazine’s list to say that, for decades, the most accents.” It should be noted that the of the 100 most-infl uential people in the famous south Asian in the US was Apu “perspiring geek” stereotypes and world. And Kaling and Ansari are both Nahasapeemapetilon, proprietor of the fresh-off -the-boat accents tend to be fi rst-generation Indian-Americans who Kwik-E-Mart in The Simpsons. And not reserved for men : south Asian stereo- have created, written and star in major only is Apu a cartoon character, he’s types tend to emasculate the men and TV shows – The Mindy Project and voiced by Hank Azaria, a white man. eroticise the women. Master of None, respectively. There’s Indeed, for a long time, if there Stereotypes don’t just aff ect the sort also Kumail Nanjiani, who plays the was a south Asian in a US produc- of roles south Asians are off ered, they leading man in The Big Sick, a romcom tion, chances are that it would be have an impact on the way that south produced by Judd Apatow, which a white guy in brownface aff ecting Asian creativity is parsed. In a profi le in comes out in July. Not to mention a “hilarious” Indian accent. Peter the New Yorker, Iyer notes that: “Crit- Oscar-nominated Dev Patel, Priyanka Sellers, for example, plays Hrundi ical writing used to attempt to place me Chopra , who plays an FBI agent in Quan- V Bakshi, a bumbling Indian actor, by othering me, by putting me outside tico, and Archie Panjabi in The Good in the 1968 movie The Party; Azaria the history of jazz. Everything I did Wife. In music, there’s Vijay Iyer, a fi rst- has said that he based Apu’s accent, was seen as diff erent and not as the generation Indian-American who is one in part, on Sellers’ performance. In continuity of a tradition. Critics of the most famous living jazz musicians Short Circuit 2, a 1988 comedy about never describe black music as → in the world. There’s Zayn Malik who a robot who befriends an Indian scien- is, perhaps, the most famous Bradford- tist, the Indian is played by Fisher born Muslim to quit a boy band in the Stevens (“They got a real robot and South Asian world. And that’s without mention ing a fake Indian,” Ansari jokes in one Ahmed’s musical side project, Swet episode of Master of None). Don’t stereotypes tend (From left) Shop Boys , or Brit-Sri Lankan rapper think we left the brownface behind to emasculate the Riz Ahmed; MIA, whose south Asian identity politics when we entered the 21st century. Aziz Ansari; have played out on the blogosphere Divya Narendra, an Indian student in men and eroticise Hasan Minhaj; since her fi rst release in 2003. the 2010 movie The Social Network, Mindy Kaling If you’re British then this sudden is played by Max Minghella, who is the women

10.05.17 The Guardian 7 rigorous or cerebral or mathemat- example, acts as a complement and preference to people with medical and ← ical, although [John] Coltrane was contrast to the rest of the furniture science backgrounds. interested in mathematics. Since I was in the room. Davé hypothesises that Pawan Dhingra, professor of soci- Asian, I was seen as having only my Indians have worked as a sort of accent ology and American studies at Tufts intellect to use.” piece in popular culture; an exotic University, explains that this meant Why have these stereotypes gone set decoration that spices things up “many of the south Asians who came relatively unchallenged for so long? without being too threatening. “The in the 60s, 70s, even the 80s, were of a When the Popchips ad fi rst aired in way Indians function in representa- relatively fi nite number of occupations. 2012, blogger Anil Dash wondered tions of Hollywood is oftentimes as They came as physicians or engineers how the American media could be an acceptable form of diff erence. Yes, and then, later, as computer scien- blind to the “obvious off ensiveness they are diff erent, but it’s a diff erence tists.” This helped create a self-perpet- of this campaign”. Dash pointed out that we can accommodate.” uating stereotype of south Asians that both the New York Times and the US immigration policy has also been being doctors and engineers. “It’s very Washington Post covered the campaign very clear about the sort of diff erence it common, regardless of your ethnicity, “with no note of how obviously off en- is willing to accommodate. While south for children of people in these kinds of sive the featured ad is … It’s astounding Asians have been emigrating to the US occupations to continue in these occu- that this wouldn’t be obvious on fi rst for more than a century, they didn’t pations,” says Dhingra. Demographics, glance to those who are paid to under- start arriving in large numbers until then, are one reason why we’re starting stand media and culture.” the Immigration and Nationality Act of to see more south Asians in American The reason it wasn’t obvious, 1965. This allowed far more immigrants popular culture. South Asians have perhaps, is because 99% of those who from south Asia into the US than before been in the US long enough to have are paid to understand media and (previously, 70% of all immigrant slots children who have br oken through into culture in elite American media come were allocated to people from the creative professions. from homogeneous white backgrounds. UK, Ireland and Germany), but gave Perhaps more importantly, we’ve But, explains Shilpa Davé, assistant also got to a point where south Asians professor of media studies and Amer- aren’t just starting to get a seat at the ican studies at the University of Virginia, table, they’re critici sing the seating another reason may be that “south arrangement. Ansari, for example, Asians have always been in an ambig- has brought issues of representation uous racialised space in the United and racism directly into the plotline States”. In the early 20th century, south of Master of None. Indeed, there’s a Asians were thought of as white in the whole episode in the fi rst season called US. This changed in 1923 when a court Indians on TV, which begins with ruled that they were “Asian others” a montage of how Indians have been and aliens – something that had huge represented – ranging from monkey- ramifi cations, as it meant they were brain eaters in Indiana Jones to Zac in unable to become naturalised citizens. Saved By the Bell making jokes about “So, they’re one of the only groups who 7- Elevens in a fake Indian accent. Ansa- had citizenship and then had it taken ri’s character, Dev, then fi nds himself away,” Davé notes. “That ambiguity has grappling with the diffi culties of trying followed how south Asians have been to push back against these stereotypes characteri sed in the United States.” while still making a living as an aspiring They’re not quite white, but they’re actor. He refuses to do an accent for the not as other as African-Americans. role of “Unnamed cab driver” on a TV Which means that making fun of south show, for example, and doesn’t get the Asians isn’t seen as full-blown racism. South Asians aren’t part. His friend Ravi goes up for the (Clockwise from In her book Indian Accents, Davé same part and does an accent. “I think top) Hasan looks at the raciali sation of south just starting to get about [stereotypes], too,” Ravi tells Minhaj at the Asians through what she terms “brown Dev. “But I’ve got to work.” White House voice” in American TV and fi lm. “An a seat at the table – Minorities can often feel a pressure correspondents’ accent highlights the norm … and it they’re criticising to shut up and put up with things and dinner; MIA; Riz also points out its own diff erence,” she avoid being seen as an Angry Ethnic, Ahmed on the says. An accent piece of furniture, for the seating plan if they want to get ahead. A pressure cover of Time

8 The Guardian 10.05.17 linear and that the prominence of minority narratives is often cyclical. In the UK, for example, there was a boom in British-Asian culture in the 90s; shows such as Goodness Gracious Me were mainstream entertainment and Cornershop’s Brimful of Asha was No 1 in the charts. But, as Ahmed and actor and comedian Meera Syal have recently pointed out, ethnic-minority representation on British fi lm and tele- vision is at its lowest point since the early 80s. Let’s hope what we’re seeing happen in the US is more long-lived. Digital media has also helped give a new generation of south Asians a chance to share their stories without establishment approval. Rather than be subject to traditional gatekeepers, desis are doing it for themselves. Last year, Canadian-Indian Lilly Singh – who goes by IISuperwomanII online, was the third-highest-paid vlogger on YouTube (and the highest-paid female), earning a reported $7.5m (£5.8m) in 2016 with videos such as to be a subservient “Uncle Taj”, as charge and hate crimes against south Sh*t Punjabi Mothers Say, The Rules Dev puts it on Master of None. And it’s Asians spiking . Anupama Jain, the of Racism, and When a Brown Girl fair to say that for a long time, south author of How to Be South Asian in Dates a White Boy. Now, more south Asians haven’t been particularly vocal America and a teacher at the University Asians are hoping to emulate her about critiquing the racial divide in the of Pittsburgh, says she feels that “there success. Krishna Kumar, a 26-year-old US. After all, it’s a racial divide that’s is a widespread raising of south Asian You Tuber, explains: “When someone traditionally been very black and white consciousness” at the moment. Her tells us no, we can still say yes to – with south Asians grudgingly being south Asian students are reaching out ourselves.” Kumar is, with his friend allowed to stand on the white side to her, saying: “People are killing south Kausar Mohammed, currently working if they behaved and didn’t draw too Asians right now,” and asking what on a parody of Ariana Grande’s much attention to their otherness. they should be doing. Dangerous Woman music video called September 11 changed all that. Entertainment has become one Dangerous Muslims. The video is an Suddenly, it didn’t matter if you were way of doing something. Minhaj, for open letter directed to Trump, which Indian, Sri Lankan, Pakistani, Hindu, example, did not mince his words at the the pair hope will help dispel fear Sik h or Muslim – after 9/11, being brown White House correspondents’ dinner about Muslims. “I’m a strong believer meant being a potential terrorist. The – something that clearly made the that artistic expression is a strong response to 9/11 has created a genera- largely white crowd quite uncomfort- catalyst of social change,” Mohammed tion of highly politici sed south-Asian able. A sample joke: “As a Muslim, I like says. “Comedy comes from a place of Americans who are pushing back to watch Fox News for the same reason hurt often. You either laugh about it against the model-minority label and I like to play Call of Duty. Sometimes, or cry about it.” Like many minority fi nding new commonality with black I like to turn my brain off and watch comedians before them, they’re America. As Ahmed raps on the Swet strangers insult my family and heritage.” choosing to laugh. Shop Boys album: “My only heroes In these Trumpian times, the high- are black rappers / So, for me, Tupac profi le success of so many talented Series two of Aziz Ansari’s Master of None was a true Paki.” brown people is a truly heartening is on Netflix from 12 May. Hasan Minjaj’s Homecoming King is on This politici sation is particularly thing. However, it’s worth remem- Netflix from 23 May. marked now, with Donald Trump in bering that progress isn’t necessarily The Big Sick is in cinemas in July. TIME; REUTERS PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS

10.05.17 The Guardian 9 ▲ Red, White and Who? Luke Smith ‘This picture is very mysterious – you almost don’t know what’s going on. I love mixing colours, and feel like my work really represents who I am. I’m a very creative person but have never been able to fully express my creativity until now.’

‘This picture is about me’ What does London look like through the eyes of a young homeless person? A new exhibition of images taken by youths working with the social enterprise Accumulate explores ▲ Natural Beauty the loneliness, mystery and of a Rose Tree beauty of the city Thurshika Pathmanathan ‘It was a rainy day, and I was roaming around when I noticed a small garden. I wanted to reveal its real colour and beauty. I like taking pictures with meaning. I pay more attention to nature, and things that look natural.’

10 The Guardian 10.05.17 Emptiness Everald James ‘This picture is about me. I don’t have any family here. I see myself as a lonely person – this picture is how I see my life. I find it lonely and beautiful, because the bench is just waiting for someone to come and sit and keep me company. Loneliness, memories of my life growing up. ’

▼ The Busker Jeremiah Ebenezer

Shady Shard Louis Davies ‘After taking this photograph through a dirty window, I discovered it created an interesting effect: an image of the Shard expressed in a unique way. Shady.’

Kneeling Man Kevin Harriott ‘I sensed the contented state of the individual, and used it artistically.’ →

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Portrait of Eric Jayakrishanth Narayanan ‘Photography takes me through a different thought process as I move through my environment. Now, I stop to look at the moments happening around me. I was interested in photography before, but didn’t know I could capture good photographs. This project has helped me find myself.’

 British Old-Time Phone Box Everald James ‘This woman had been at London fashion week and I approached her and asked if I could please take her picture beside the phone box. The phone box is a disappearing part of British history – I found it beautiful and interesting. I didn’t notice the guy taking my picture as I took it. If I could speak to this woman now I would say: “My lady, where did you buy your earrings?” and “I like your style.”’ ▲ Tate Modern Jovan Washington ‘I was in Tate Modern and I noticed two people looking up at me, so I decided to take a photograph of my view. It’s almost as if it’s a black-and -white picture with some red standing out. It made me think: “What are these two people seeing?” I tried to see things from their perspective.’

12 The Guardian 10.05.17 ▲The Red Head Scarf Kat Jagne ‘As I tried to find a direction for my work, I noticed I was drawn to run down buildings, the general London atmosphere, the fast pace and vibrant colours this city has to offer. Photography has always given me an escape from real life. Visual art was always my preferred form of expressing emotions.’

Alone ▲ Emergency Brandon Rendall Stairwell ‘I want to ask the person who Jovan Washington hung the sign questions: do the words say what you were feeling? ‘I chose to take this picture of an Why did you feel that way? And emergency stairwell. It has a San if it is how you felt, why did you Francisco, Kojak type of feel.’ hang it up and what stopped you from talking to somebody?’ Accumulate helps homeless young people to explore their creativity through workshops. This exhibition, Made By Us, runs at the Guardian’s Kings Place offices from 12 May to 3 June, 10am–6pm

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She’s not a ‘trophy wife’, and she’s not a ‘school-run mum’. Does the distinct style of France’s fi rst lady elect, Brigitte Trogneux, signal a new era for the political spouse? By Jess Cartner-Morley The Macron moderniser

eaving her home in Le what it did for Penelope Fillon.) So I Touquet to cast her ballot expect you want to know why we are L in the French presidential talking about her coat. Well, if we accept elections on Sunday morn- that we as a society take an interest in ing, Brigitte Trogneux wore what we wear – and a global fashion a sleek Louis Vuitton navy coat, with a industry, which at the end of 2016 was face-fl attering fl ash of silver leather in the valued at $2.4t n, suggests we do – then raised biker-styled collar. She was still it is nonsensical that Oscar dresses and wearing the coat that evening, by which Met Gala outfi ts worn by twentysome- time she was the country’s fi rst lady thing starlets should be pored over, but elect, raising hands in triumph on stage the style choices of women whose lives with her husband Emmanuel Macron. touch our own in more substantial ways Ours is a visual culture. When we considered off -limits. get dressed, we take a position. Trog- This election campaign has rebooted neux, who has a longstanding personal the optics of politics and fashion by interest in fashion and has been a Paris bringing French sophistication to the front row regular for years, knows this table. The cliche about the French and very well indeed; that coat was a de- English attitudes to wine – the French liberate choice, and an interesting one can have a glass with dinner, while the for several reasons. First, the biker- English can’t be trusted not to drink style collar made it a subtly rebellious two bottles and be sick in the gutter – is look where, traditionally, political echoed in fashion. The French take for wives choose for election day dutiful, granted that a woman can like clothes, church-on-Sunday coats or dull, sen- spend money on clothes, know about ior-management-meeting ensembles. clothes, while simultaneously being a Second, Trogneux has worn this coat fully functioning grownup; in British many times before, including – with culture, one expensive pair of leather leather trousers, that time – to Paris trousers can be a stain upon one’s fashion week in March last year, so the character, as Theresa May discovered choice emphasises Trogneux’s own earlier this year. (When Trogneux taste (this is from her wardrobe, not wore leather leggings, they were com- by order of an image consultant) and mented on, but the French national industry connections. Third , the coat is press did not feel the need to invoke a by Louis Vuitton, France’s biggest lux- national crisis.) ury brand, and reinforces the Macron This healthy degree of fl ex in the message of a progressive administra- French relationship with fashion is tion comfortable with big business. what gives Trogneux’s style a relaxed Trogneux will be the fi rst French allure that is in stark contrast to president’s wife to take a formal role in her across-the-Atlantic counterpart the Élysée Palace. The former teacher Melania Trump , a woman whose her- will have an offi ce and a staff , and a metically sealed chic thrums tightly remit that is expected to include edu- with tension. Trump’s aesthetic itself cation reform and the needs of disad- borrows heavily from Jackie Kennedy, vantaged children. (She will, however, but also from that of Carla Bruni in her forego a salary, mindful no doubt of Élysée years. Bruni’s wardrobe was an PHOTOGRAPH RINDOFF/LE SEGRETAIN/GETTY 14 The Guardian 10.05.17 Subtly rebellious: Brigitte Trogneux in a Louis Vuitton coat and leather leggings

Americanised version of French polish. The insouciant touches – scruff y hair, The totally tropical trend gappy teeth – that make Parisian style How to wear the season’s hottest look, magnetic were photoshopped out. Bruni’s suits were by Christian Dior, by Lauren Cochrane but in their immaculate, apple-pie per- fection they owed something to Walt Disney. Brigitte Trogneux, on the other hand, has a penchant for leather and above-the-knee skirts, which refl ects a distinctly Parisian way of dressing. French fashion-show goers noticeably become edgier rather than cosier in their style after 40. The iconic stylist and ex-Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld, 62, has in the past two decades made the leather pencil skirt her signature. Long- time model and style icon Inès de la Fressange , who in her 30s wore mostly Matisse hothouse tropical viewer of his cut-outs, the source of Chanel tweed, is now at 59 more often In his studio in Nice, Matisse had inspo for all designers after a graphic dressed in a simple black leather jacket. a giant Monstera deliciosa, a swiss take on tropical. Wear these trousers Too much has been made of the cheese plant to you and me now before everyone jumps on Matisse Macron age gap, which is exactly (represented, above, in a Matisse studio style for the Royal Academy’s the same as that of the Trumps. But cut-out at Tate Modern). The silhouette August show . what is relevant to Trogneux’s image of the leaves will be familiar to any Printed trousers, £69, fi nerylondon.com is that by coming into the public eye as a 64-year-old grandmother, she is defi ned neither by her role as a mother nor by being childless. The preced- ing graduating class of modern fi rst ladies – Michelle Obama and Samantha Cameron, more recently joined by Sophie Trudeau – made motherhood a central part of their image. Being what the advertising industry insists on call- ing a Busy Mum is a great leveller, a Rousseau tropical Fruit-basket tropical point of connection that allows women Henri Rousseau was what you might Holland’s weather in the 18th century Former first living privileged existences of staff ed call an armchair traveller. He liked was, we can assume, hardly the kind to ladies Michelle households and private jets to make Obama and to say his paintings of tigers in lush melt your iPhone. But the aesthetic of themselves relatable to the electorate. Carla Bruni green jungles (above) were inspired by Dutch and Flemish vanitas painting – (Another way to do this is through Mexico, but it was more likely to have fruit, fl owers and butterfl ies (above) – is fashion, as Sam Cam with her Zara been the botanical gardens in Paris. an old-school take on tropical and a shoes and Michelle Obama with her Make-believe or not, the photo-realistic sleeper trend. Combine pomegranates J Crew cardigans knew veryy well.) look works really well on a pair of with skulls and a general malaise regard- Being a Busy Mum hhasas trousers. ing the futility of life for the full look. become a key relatable-aspira--aspira- Printed palazzo pants, £39.99, zara.com Fruit-bowl print shirt, £32, topshop.com tional position for womenmen in the public eye. Beyond ppolitics,olitics, the Duchess of Cambridgedge and Victoria Beckham have seized upon it, andnd the identity can be seenn on screen in Big Little Lies . It has undeniable charm, but it is a little one-note, and as the distasteful Angela Leadsom episode of Club Tropicana Instagram tropical last summer under- Paying homage to George Michael’s I mages such as Kim Kardashian’s lined, it has a sharp andd Wham! (pictured) through clothes holiday snaps (pictured above right) excluding edge when is a challenge we have set ourselves make you understand the need for applied to politics. for 2017. This is the route-one way Finstagram – how can a norm compete If Trogneux can bringng to do that – a Hawaiian shirt is with a sunset in stereo, glamsquad, an alternative paradigmm everything to an 80s summer, like pool and palm trees? Wearing a into play, as a woman wwhoho open-back jeeps, infl atables and, backdrop that looks like this picture is defi ned neither by statusatus of course, drinks that are free. without the people is a compromise – as a mother nor by the fact of Update by wearing loose and louche, one that comes with an irony worthy being childless, that willill surely in a pyjama shape. of a selfi e, of course. constitute progress. Printed shirt, £129.50, uk.maje.com Swimsuit, £167, wearehandsome.com

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Arts In the 1940s, Peggy Guggenheim fl ed New York and, with a makeshift gallery, became the star of Venice. But she was not the fi rst woman to dazzle the city. As the Biennale opens, Judith Mackrell tells their story

n the summer of 1948, the Venice Art Biennale was back I in business after years of war. The fun palace It was a historic event, celebr- ating not only international peace but also the end of fascism in Italy, and among its showcased artists were several who had been banned as “degenerate” under Mussolini’s rule. The main attraction , however, was not to be found in any of the national pavilions, but in the astonishingly wide-ranging collection of modern art exhibited by one woman, the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim. Embracing European masters such as Picasso, Ernst and Dali, as well as young American contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock , her collection was a vivid register of the art move- ments of the previous three decades. The Italians, exiled from the avant garde for so long, found much of it a revelation, and some of it incompre- hensible. An Alexander Calder mobile, made from broken glass and china, was almost thrown away as rubbish. Peggy adored being the star of the Biennale. She went every day to watch the crowds who thronged her collection, and her two dogs grew fat on the ice creams fed them by admiring tourists. She’d already been planning to make Venice her perma- nent home, and her triumph that summer confi rmed her decision. She had arrived in Venice on a wave of disenchantment with life in New York. Despite the success of her gallery, Art of This Century , and her support for emerging talents, she had routinely been patronised by the city’s very male, misogynist art scene. Too often, Venice stars … money . Locals derisively nicknamed it Peggy was not the fi rst remarkable her gallery had been belittled as a rich clockwise from the Unfi nished Palazzo, but for Peggy, woman to have occupied the Venier woman’s vanity project, and too often main, Peggy who was living alone with her dogs palazzo. In the previous four decades, she had found herself the butt of bla- Guggenheim and her art, it was the perfect size. it had been lived in by the Marchesa tantly sexist and anti semitic attitudes. at the Venier She remained there for the remain- Luisa Casati and, more briefl y, by the Peggy was also condemned for palazzo in the ing 30 years of her life and, during the English socialite Doris, Lady Castle- remaining uninhibitedly sexual in 50s; Marchesa summer, opened it up to the public. It rosse. Like Peggy, both had moved to middle age. For much of her adult life, Luisa Casati in was an eccentrically informal arrange- Venice to relaunch their lives – and she had been acquisitively promiscu- 1922; Doris ment, with Peggy’s collection mixed made a striking impact on the city. ous: her lovers includ ed Samuel Beck- Castlerosse into the muddle of her domestic life. In 1910, when Luisa had fi rst viewed ett, Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst . in 1938 Guests staying at the palazzo would the palazzo, its crumbling walls had Behaviour that might be considered fi nd eager art tourists wandering into been overrun with ivy and its roof was rakish in a man was unacceptable in their bedrooms and (given the lack gaping with holes. Luisa, at 29, ranked a woman of 50. Even Pollock, who had of toilet facilities) catch them peeing high in Italian society. She was heiress benefi ted so much from her largesse, discreetly in the garden. But over time, to an industrial fortune and married to joked that he would make love to her the Venier palazzo became one of Ven- a distinguished aristocrat. But she had only if she were covered with towels. ice’s major attractions, and a spur to fallen under the spell of the writer and Venice promised Peggy a more the city’s development as an interna- aesthete Gabriele D’Annunzio and, in civilised welcome and, after much tional showcase for contemporary art. thrall to his creed that “one must make house-hunting, she found a vacant Peggy also presided over an intellec- one’s own life as one makes a work of palazzo on the eastern stretch of tually colourful salon. Stravinsky, Coc- art”, she was ready to walk out on her the Grand Canal. It was a curiously teau, Chagall, Capote and Gore Vidal all marriage and dedicate herself to art. proportioned building, very wide came to visit. S he became known as An army of builders went to work on but only one storey high. The Venier l’ultima dogaressa, or the last female the palazzo, artfully retaining its air of family, who had commissioned it in doge, fl oating around in her private dereliction while creating a burnished the mid-18th century, had imagined it gondola, in her trademark jazzy sun- interior of glass, marble and gold. A rising to fi ve storeys, but ran out of glasses, her dogs snuggled into her lap. menagerie of parrots, monkeys and

18 The Guardian 10.05.17 would sit for Jacob Epstein, Augustus John, Man Ray, Kees van Dongen and Giacomo Balla – accumulating a collection as extensive but infi nitely more narcissistic than Peggy’s. After the war, Luisa also acquired a villa in Paris, where her experiments became more strenuously avant-garde. She went to the opera wearing a dress of white swan down, which moulted as she moved. She went to parties as Lady Macbeth, with a waxen hand attached to her throat. Her costume at one ball was a Picasso-inspired “cubist dress” constructed from wire and electric lights. Mortifyingly, the dress was crushed as she entered the ballroom, and she suff ered an electric shock. There was an intensity to Luisa’s obsession with image that transcended vanity. She had a very erratic personal- ity, both theatrical and intensely shy, and might have suff ered a mild form of Asperger’s. Certainly, she found refuge in reinventing herself as an art work. Discomfort and ridicule meant nothing to her, nor did money, and by 1924 she had spent so recklessly that she was forced to give up the palazzo. In 1931, she was declared bankrupt. After Luisa left , the house passed through a succession of owners, until Doris Castlerosse came to view it in 1936. Born Doris Delevingne (she was the great aunt of Cara ), she had always been determined to fl y the coop of her comfortable but conventional upbring- ing in Beckenham , south London. She had married a lord, accumulated trunkfuls of clothes and an address book of glamorous friends. But she was incurably restless and fl agrantly peacocks were imported, along with an When she unfaithful to her husband, Valentine. was light and functional. If Doris would elegant cheetah that accompanied Lu- Her long list of lovers – including have been off ended by the palazzo’s isa everywhere , restrained on a leash and her Cecil Beaton and Winston Churchill – new aesthetic, Luisa would been by her 6ft black manservant, Garbi. cheetah had prompted certain English drawing heartbroken. Almost nothing was left Her wardrobe was no less theatrical, rooms to close their doors to her. In of the fantasy she had orchestrated as she paraded the city in harem trou- floated Venice, she planned to make a fresh back in 1910, and in the years after sers and medieval brocade cloaks. But start as a European salonnière, and Peggy’s death, as the Guggenheim her most elaborate costumes were re- around the with money from her then current Foundation smartened up the palazzo served for her summer parties. At one canals, lover, Margot Hoff man, she had the into an air-conditioned museum , it event in 1913, Luisa welcomed guests palazzo expensively refurbished . was entirely denuded of what Luisa to her palazzo dressed as a harlequin, people During her fi rst Venetian season, would have recognised as poetry. with a monkey and a macaw perched gathered on Doris was able to boast Beaton, Doug- And yet, while she may have railed on her shoulder. At around 2am, her las Fairbanks and the young Prince against the destruction of her vision, entire party was ferried down to the the bridges Philip of Greece among her guests, and Luisa might still have saluted Peggy Piazza San Marco, which she had to applaud she seemed destined to become a so- and Doris as kindred spirits. All had commandeered for the night. cial force. But the outbreak of war put lived their lives at odds with conven- She became one of the tourist sights an end to her ambitions and, tragically, tional morality, and all had occupied of Venice. When she and her cheetah to her life. By the time Peggy came to the palazzo as defi antly single women. fl oated around the canals, people view the palazzo, there was little trace There was an elegant irony in the fact gathered on the bridges to applaud. of Doris’s occupation. The troops that a building that had been planned But Luisa wasn’t just interested in billeted there during the war had as a monument to male Venier pride making herself a living work of art – graffi tied her pretty stuccoed walls. had been rescued from oblivion by FRANK SCHERSCHEL/LIFE/GETTY; HULTON ARCHIVE HULTON FRANK SCHERSCHEL/LIFE/GETTY; she wanted artists to create a record of Peggy was unsentimental in eradi- this maverick trio of women. her . S he began commissioning a lavish cating the rest of Doris’s presence, gallery of portraits. No fewer than fi ve stripping out the luxurious decorations Judith Mackrell’s The Unfinished Palazzo: were exhibited at the 1914 Biennale and converting her black marble Life, Love and Art in Venice is published by Thames and Hudson on 1 June

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ou probably have ToTo the British, it doesn’t mat- to leave the UK to ter.ter. There are plenty of chances Y understand what forfor Europe to buy the records the Eurovision Song of British artists, and they do. Contest can mean. It seems greedy to complain In 1998, I was in Berlin and went to ao a thatt to the sincere tribute very raucous party for it in Kreuzberg berg , of European credit cards, then still the district where anarchistshists all yeara round, ought to be and impoverished Turks shared ann ur- added, on one night of the year, ban space. The German entry wass the the tributethe trib of votes and points and a extraordinary Guildo Horn , an excita-cita- trophytrophy aat the end. On the other hand, ble eccentric in the Kreuzberg tradi-di- this may may bbe the one chance an over- tion. It involved cowbells. For the lookedlooked nationnat such as Sweden has to Kreuzberg drunks, this mattered: get a gooda good hearing for a major talent – a chance to display the benevolentnt I well remremember the 1974 contest that madness of their own festive lives.s. BuButt launched AbbaA on the world. It is not a little later, another sign that these just a singer’s nationality that deserves things mattered: the Turkish entry a good hearing: the Israeli transgender came to an end, and all around there singer Dana International and the were roars of approval from open Have we extraordinary, wonderful fi gure of windows. For three minutes, Europe Conchita Wurst opened a few minds had been listening to Turkey. when they won, in 1998 and 2014. Eurovision , which began in 1956, Clearly, the votes cast refl ect, in was intended to display the unity of lost our some measure, whether a nation peoples. WH Auden had written, with thinks it likes another nation or not. characteristic precision, of “the sixteen Neighbours vote for neighbours across skies of Europe”; Eurovision has taken Eurovision? Scandinavia, the Balkans, and the for- place under the guiding slogans of mer Soviet republics. One year, Georgia “We Are One”, “Come Together” and Utopian, eclectic and eccentric, the song tried to enter an insulting song about “Under the Same Sky” . The original Putin. This year, Russia tried to bring intention was to bring diff erent coun- contest was set up to unite cultures. off a public relations coup by sending tries of Europe together in two ways. Can it survive the rise in nationalism – to Ukraine a singer who performs in a The fi rst was very specifi c: to enable a wheelchair, but who had previously simultaneous live broadcast across na- and how will Brexit Britain’s entry broken a Ukrainian embargo on tional borders – an immense challenge be received? By Philip Hensher Russian artists and performed illegally in an age before satellites. The second in Crimea. Ukraine held its nerve: the has always been rather nebulous: to Russian entry has been cancelled . bring diff erent cultures together in a Nobody likes the British, and this celebration of light entertainment. year, with our bad taste in referendum What “Europe” means has expanded results amply advertised across Europe, over the years. In theory, any country ‘Under the same in 1965 to enter the great operatic it will be astonishing if the entry even within the European Broadcasting Area sky’ … from left, baritone Ingvar Wixell. More subtly, breaks into the Top 20. But it seems as is eligible, including Libya, Egypt and Conchita Wurst there are a lot of very heated tragic bal- if Europe hardly likes France any more Syria. Morocco entered once, in 1980. (Austria, 2014); lads from Italy, cutesy oom-pah from either – they haven’t won for 40 years – But until the 1990s, it was almost en- Guildo Horn the Netherlands, and wacky attempts or Spain, who last triumphed in 1969, tirely a western European contest; sub- (Germany, 1998) at ironic humour from the UK. These or Portugal, who have never won. sequently, the countries of the old So- and Scooch things just don’t travel that well. The audience for Eurovision is a viet Bloc changed the look of the score- (UK, 2007) Embittered British commentators curious one. The most fervent admir- board entirely, and half a dozen new often bring up the UK’s total failure to ers appear to be small girls, immigrant countries emerged from Yugoslavia, achieve anything much in the last 20 communities such as my Kreuzberg which had been competing since 1961. years. There is an unattractive air of Turks, and gay men, who sometimes For many countries, Eurovision upbraiding about this – the UK is one take it alarmingly seriously. What is presents a learning process. The sort of the fi ve biggest contributors to the the appeal? Perhaps a world turned up- of music they have always liked has contest’s budget! In the fi rst 30 years, side-down for one night; a vision of a probably never been heard by the rest Russia tried the UK agreed four times to take over continent where the giants of popular of Europe. They want to do well; they to bring off when the agreed host said it would be culture are Azerbaijan, Serbia and Nor- may want to demonstrate that they too expensive! We’ve supplied the lan- wegian violinists. Meanwhile, in the belong with the western democracies; of a PR coup guage that, last year, all but three en- real world, Eurovision has helped bring they tone it down a little bit. To com- by sending a tries were sung in! For goodness’ sake. about connections in communications pare a Greek or Turkish Eurovision There is, too, the point, never very far that, before 1956, were made arbitrarily entry with a piece of domestic Greek singer who from the surface, that in real life Eng- impossible by national borders. Tech- or Turkish pop is to understand how lish singers and bands dominate Euro- nology and good wishes can bring western Europe imposes its own had broken pean taste. But the fact that Adele and cultures together. Whether they like culture wherever it goes. a Ukrainian Coldplay sell out stadiums every where or understand each other, once they’re Examples of countries following does not mean people are going to vote in the same giant hall in Ukraine, is a AFP GETTY; WIREIMAGE; their own taste, however, are legion, embargo. for four British unknowns dressed as question that has never been answered. and often faintly comic. That single But Ukraine airline cabin crew (Scooch, in 2007) or Moroccan entry is an interesting exam- a middle-aged British rapper leching The Eurovision Song Contest grand final is

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ou know when you make Together again after 65 years … olive oil? You press the Christine and Ron reunited in Wales Y olives, then you press them again to get more out ... all this: the resilience of humanity and Well, maybe not you (unless kindness against the odds. you’re actually Filippo Berio, I know Then there are Cliff and Sue, Filippo reads this column), but olive searching – separately – for their oil makers. Well this – Long Lost mothers. Actually, mother, singular, Family: What Happened Next (ITV) – because it turned out they were is a bit like that, a second pressing. looking for the same person. Didn’t Same people, same stories, more to fi nd her, found each other instead. come out. Here they are, walking along the front Not olive oil, clearly, but tears. at Portsmouth, her arm also through Their tears, your tears, my tears, so her new (half) brother’s. many tears, television doesn’t get Last night's TV The seashore features a lot in this more teary. Because it’s about the one; earlier, Cliff was walking alone things that most make people cry: If these amazing reunions and lonely across a beach in north separation, unhappy childhoods, Devon, where he lives. That’s how it memories, loneliness, searching, and don’t make you blub, goes: tears, old photo, beach, seagulls then – hopefully – reunion, happy (aaoo aaoo, that’s a seagull noise), tears. You might have tried to fi ght it, you may well be a robot letter, beach, sad music, letter, said you weren’t going to have your adoption papers, tears. emotions manipulated again, you’re Nicky, knock knock, Davina, in the fi rst-pressing, extra-virgin only … but Volvo, surprise, new photo, tears, if you got involved and watched, it beach, hand in hand … will have got to you again, reopened Yeah, it’s easy to be cynical, to try to those fl oodgates. mask the fact that you’re bawling your We’re back with Ron and Christine. eyes out, which I am. That letter really It’s an amazing story: unbearably sad, got to me, the one Cliff has carried but then lovely. They were born out of By Sam Wollaston around all his life: “God bless you, and wedlock in disapproving post war rural send you a happy life . Your mother.” Wales, brought up by grandparents, where Christine now lives. Here they They – the LLF people – have found then Christine was given up for are, walking along Paraparaumu beach, her! Cliff and Sue’s mum! She doesn’t adoption. There was a photo of them, hand in hand … Hang on, I’ve a brother want to make contact, though. God, together on a rocking horse, and the and sister, we get on all right, I think that must be tough. Has it got anything faintest of black and white memories – we’re quite close, but we don’t hold to do with the fact she doesn’t want to of being a tight little unit in diffi cult hands on the beach. Maybe you need be judged by a primetime television times, of playing on a stone bridge, that pain, and that huge gap, to audience , I wonder? I’m also AND ANOTHER of an older brother whose name become really close. THING wondering, as I’m sure everyone is, if began with R. And now there are more . Tears , but she’s watching. You would, wouldn’t Then, with help from Davina McCall also more siblings for Ron and I had an operation you, see how the kids turned out? They and Nicky Campbell and the LLF team, Christine. John and Noreen, with the on my hand last – Cliff and Sue – turned out well; they were brought together again, at same mother, and an even unhappier week, under local they’re also both lovely. I’m very glad that same Welsh stone bridge, for the childhood. At least they had each anaesthetic nerve they at least have each other now. fi rst time in 65 years. If that didn’t other. They, too, went to the other side block, meaning I can’t see how this is going to get make you blub, then you’re a liar, or a of the world, to New Zealand and I was conscious back to olive oil. Instead, I’m going to throughout. We robot, or both. Australia, perhaps to get as far away as go home and give away the younger of talked – surgeon, Now Ron and Christine are making possible from the past. Now they’re anaesthetist, nurse, my two children. For the sake of their up for lost time, have become part of meeting up, all four of them, in student and me. relationship, and coastal walking, when each other’s lives, they speak every Wellington. It’s lovely, they’re lovely – Mainly about Line of they fi nd each other, down the line. week, Ron’s been out to New Zealand, that’s something else that comes out of Duty, of course. Best clear it with their mother fi rst. ITV PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH

10.05.17 The Guardian 21 Film of the day TV and radio Martha Marcy May Marlene (2am, Channel 4) Elisabeth Olsen plays the much-troubled Martha, who is on the run from an abusive rural cult led by the Manson-like John Hawkes

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Quick crossword no 14,666 Sudoku no 3,744

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