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2 The Guardian 18.05.17 I misspoke Pass notes No 3,857 I don’t recall that Elle Woods

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Semantics having “angry, sweary” phone Age: Late 30s, by now. rows with May’s team. “This is Occupation: Actual soothsayer. How to perfect absolute tittle-tattle made up by Elle Woods? The woman from Miss Congeniality ? the media,” he said. No! The woman from Legally Blonde. Listen, the political when this is over, I’ll educate you on the ways of non-denial No recognition the early- 00s quasi-empowering chick fl ick. Saying “I don’t recognise that” is Don’t do that. Fine. Anyway, Woods was a bright code for backtracking wildly. Project Loon, which and irrepressible law student who won over Who has used it? Jeremy Corbyn. beams internet from naysayers with her compassion, quick mind and f only all our mistakes could When? The Labour leader used the skies via tennis can-do attitude. Remind you of anyone? I be ignored as easily as those the phrase when asked about court-sized balloons, I hope you’re not going to say Donald Tru … It’s of politicians. “You forgot to commitments in the Labour has helped thousands Donald Trump! He and Woods are basically one put the bins out, and now the election manifesto. Shadow of people get online and the same. I have proof. rubbish is overfl owing .” Sorry, I business secretary Rebecca Long- in flood-hit Peru. Oh God, is there an unreleased Legally Blonde Over three months, don’t recognise that description. Bailey had discussed spending users have sent and fi lm in which Woods tweets a stream of angry “Did n’t you describe as brilliant commitments estimated at about received 160GB- treason from her toilet at 3am? Unfortunately that article that commentators £60bn but Corbyn later said the worth of data, the not. This is about the commencement speech that savaged as: ‘Wow. Great piece … fi gure was “not one we recognise”. equivalent of 30m Trump gave at Liberty University on Saturday. *snore*’?” That’s not something instant messages or What about it? In it, Trump said: “As long as you I’ve ever heard of, or read, or I don’t recall that … 2m emails. have pride in your beliefs, courage in your convic- seen. “Don’t you still owe your When all else fails, blame your tions and faith in your god, then you will not fail ... colleague a fi ver?” This is no more memory – forgetfulness can be Most importantly, you have to do what you love.” than idle gossip. endearing, after all. Right. Now, in Legally Blonde, Woods gives Politicians ha ve mastered Who has used it? Tim Farron. a commencement speech in which she sa ys: “It the “non-apology ”. (“I’m sorry When? Asked about an interview is with passion, courage of conviction and strong for any off ence caused,” is the from 2007, in which he sa id sense of self that we take our next steps … you classic. ) But recently there has abortion was wrong, the leader must always have faith in yourself.” been a n intriguing twist – the of the Liberal Democrats claimed They’re sort of similar, I guess. Trump also non-denial . The non-denial not the publication in which the piece mentioned passion and going forth into the only enables you to avoid having ran was not one “I’ve ever heard world, as Woods did, although his were spread to say you’re sorry, but implies of or read or seen!” – although he out across a 3,700-word speech at an event that the criticism is not true – without has since told the Guardian he is traditionally favours bland platitudes. quite calling it a lie. But who is “pro choice” . So, what’s the fuss? US comedian Jimmy Fallon using it and why? took a bunch of Trump’s lines and spliced them Misspeaking together so it looked like Trump was directly The tittle-tattle approach Saying you “misspoke” at least ripping off Legally Blonde. It’s quite a funny video. This is the best line to take if you suggests you knew the right Not exactly Melania lifting Michelle’s speech , want to instil in your critics the answer all along. US politicians is it? Not really. But the speech was a success, so idea that their complaint is too far are experts at it. perhaps Trump will be a bit more explicit about beneath you even to address. Who has used it? Diane Abbott. lifting from Woods next time. Who has used it? Theresa May When? The shadow home Why, what are some of her other Trump-appli- and Philip Hammond. secretary got her fi gures wrong cable quotes? “Exercise gives you endorphins. When? Faced with leaked reports on a radio show when she said of Endorphins make you happy.”

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I-D Juncker ended with the European extra police offi cers for England store of energy , and exercise wastes it. OK, what commission president saying, and Wales would cost £300,000 about: “The rules of hair care are simple and “I leave Downing Street 10 times over four years, then corrected fi nite”? No? I’m at a loss, then. Sorry everyone. as sceptical as I was before”, May this to “about £80m”. Corbyn Do say: “I always had Trump down as more of responded that it was “Brussels later confi rmed the policy would a Cruel Intentions guy.” gossip ”. Hammond tried it this cost £300m. Don’t say: “Is a Bend and Snap grounds for COVER PHOTOGRAPH COVER PHOTOGRAPHS THIS PAGE PHOTOGRAPHS week when he was accused of Homa Khaleeli impeachment?”

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Suzanne Moore Clothes moths are driving me mad. Will no oonene rid me of these troublesome beasts?

ere they are again, always in my By the time male moths. Sexist mothth trapstraps! It It meansmem ans thethe fe-fe peripheral vision, the tiny papery males die without mating and laying eggs. The H things that make me feel neither you see beauty of these is that you get to see all the dead strong nor stable. Indeed, I would them, the men moths stuck like the stupid things they probably vote for anyone who are. So for a while you can feel slightly on top of vowed to get rid of the clothes moths that I al- damage is things. Until you see another one … ways think have gone, until they come fl uttering Still, I feel my daughter’s pain for I grew up back. Everything may feel manageable but they done, the astonished by creepy-crawlies of all kinds and are here to undermine that – by the time you see battle lost huge feathery moths are creatures of wonder. them, the damage is done. They serve only to Days were spent collecting and keeping caterpil- remind you of that, for moths don’t eat anything l ars on the nearest heath. One huge hawk-eyed at all – the larvae do. Once you see them, you have moth caterpillar was a favourite . I called it lost and they have won. “Horny” on account of its horn, and never under- They acquire all the nutrition they will ever stood why everyone laughed at my pet. need as caterpillars. They live on nothing. Their But Tineola bisselliella are diff erent critters mouth parts have atrophied, their only goal is to altogether. They speak of decay, of things being reproduce. Every year I think I have stopped their eaten from the inside out; they make me feel life cycle, that I am in control – and every year it more Miss Havisham than is comfortable. They turns out that I haven’t. They are eating their way induce in me a low-level anxiety that cannot be through clothes that are loved and unloved. The simply about holey clothes. We didn’t always world appears infested and the world is warming, have these damn moths. But then we didn’t so they appear more and more. always have a moronic gibbon running America, “Have you tried cedar balls or lavender?” the constant talk of coming war, the idea that the the uninfested say, for a certain kind of person Tories would be in power for ever and the general likes to stop nature with natural things. The understanding that everything will just get worse fashion designer Giles Deacon recommends and worse and that little can be done about it. putting conkers in drawers. All this reminds me These things are not connected. I know that in too much of another stage in my life when my a rational way, but the moths have come to repre- own larvae were continually infested with nits Holey moly sent to me a kind of mental instability and sense … Tineola and I could have put nit-combing on my CV as of doom that it is impossible to be zen about. bisselliella eat I did it for longer than any job I have ever had. woollens, loved This is just the way we live now. Fighting insects. Tea-tree oil was the thing then, but I broke down or unloved And losing. Of course, I have read the myriad on holiday in France whe n I found pharmacists ways of how to get rid of them , microwaving who would sell pure organo phosphates to put on or freezing your clothes, boiling and wrapping your children’s heads. This may have been a last stuff . All to save it from them. I prefer the nuclear resort, but I had been driven so mad that I once option, but I note that many pest controllers picked a nit out of my hair on live TV as Tony won’t guarantee that there will not be another Parsons was talking. Electric combs didn’t work infestation after a month. any more than anything organic. Thankfully, in A piece in the Daily Mail insinuates that moths the end – as my youngest informed her nursery are a result of contemporary slovenliness as they teacher, displaying her Irish heritage – “ the like dirty clothesclo . What is required is a return feckers just fecked off ”. to the thorthorough cleansing routines that were That same child – now a teenager andd “once part p of every housewife’s lot”. I knew deeply concerned about animal rights it! I needn a housewife – and feminism has – killed a moth the other day and has causedcaus everything bad in the world, even felt bad about it ever since. When I said mothsmot – but why am I being driven so she shouldn’t, she accused me of being madma by them when there is so much big “such a human”. Well, yes, I am more stuffstu to worry about? human than moth, so murdering these These tiny colourless fl ickers bring things feels fi ne to me. Perhaps she up a nameless anxiety, that even my hasn’t noticed the moth traps all over smallsm world cannot be controlled. I the house. Sticky pheromone strips thatt catchca one and squash it between my make me feel a certain sense of achieve-- fi ngersn and it turns to dust. These ment . These strips are impregnated withh pestspe are made of nothing. Nothing a female pheromone attractive only to at all. ALAMY PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH

18.05.17 The Guardian 5 Grime stars such as Stormzy, JME and Novelist are uniting behind Jeremy Corbyn. Can they help the Labour leader beat the electoral odds, asks Alexi Duggins. Overleaf, Sam Wolfson looks at attempts around the world to get the young to vote ast Sunday, Snapchat users seeking the latest updates L from Jeremy Corbyn were greeted with something unexpected. “It’s JME on Jeremy’s Snapchat and I’m here right now to tell you to register to vote!” grinned the Tottenham-based grime Rap MC, while the words “Jeremy Corbyn” hovered in the background. To grime fans, this was not an unexpected development. The fi rst public declaration of admiration for Corbyn by a grime artist happened in April 2016, when Novelist – a (then) 19-year-old MC from south London – the vote tweeted a screengrab of a text message 6 The Guardian 18.05.17 confi rming his membership of the through and the homeless and the (From left) JME; mental . At one point more people were Labour party. At the time, Corbyn working class”). For Stormzy, Corbyn Novelist; AJ tweeting the hashtag #grime4corbyn was under pressure to resign over came across as a decent man who Tracey; Akala; than #LabourManifesto . his performance during the Brexit wasn’t there purely for the fun of (below) Jeremy No one expects young creatives to campaign, but Novelist’s support braying and jeering across the dispatch Corbyn with JME fl ock to the Tories – but why all this was unequivocal: “Do not resign,” he box – unlike other s (“Have you seen grime support for Labour? tweeted. “The mandem need you.” that footage of the House of Commons? “I know people will be like: ‘What’s The politically active Novelist The way they all laugh and cheer. Is going on behind the scenes with all was once a deputy young mayor for this fucking Game of Thrones? You lot these MCs supporting Corbyn?’” laughs Lewisham. He has tracks such as have got real issues to talk about and Akala. “But no one has reached out to Tax the MPs , which layers someone deal with”). me . I’ve never even met the man; I’ve screaming “Liar, liar, pants on fi re!” When Theresa May called a snap just studied his politics. He isn’t all over a sample of a David Cameron election, the support intensifi ed. Corbyn glitz and glamour – he’s willing to be speech. He also spent an entire year was championed by tweets from west diff erent and we like that about him. beginning every gig leading a chant of London star AJ Tracey as well as JME So what if he goes to his allotment and the phrase: “Fuck David Cameron!” – the latter of which the MP retweeted, doesn’t dress like the other politicians? A month later, Stormzy did an inter- eventually leading to the Snapchat We want someone who doesn’t pursue view with the Guardian in which he collaboration. The hip-hop artist Akala the traditional route!” declared the leader of the opposition also wrote a Facebook post explaining In the 2015 general election, turnout to be: “My man, Jeremy!” His support, that, for the fi rst time in his life, he among black and minority ethnic he claimed, was due to admiration of would be voting – and that it would (BME) voters was 56%. According to Corbyn’s campaigning history (“I saw be for Corbyn – which went viral and groups such as Operation Blackvote some sick picture of him from back was published in the Guardian . Grime- – who attempt to engage BME commu- in the day when he was campaigning based pro-Corbyn posters also started nities with the political process – this about anti-apartheid and I thought: appearing around south London. isn’t apathy, but a silent protest against SUKI DHANDA FOR THE GUARDIAN; DAVE J HOGAN/GETTY; ID J HOGAN/GETTY; DAVE FOR THE GUARDIAN; SUKI DHANDA ‘Yeah, I like your energy’”), as well Then a campaign group created a a system that “they they think either as the fact that he seemed to express pro-voting registration website called ignores them or works against them”. concern for segments of society that Grime 4 Corbyn – featuring the track But when it comes to Corbyn, other parties don’t (“I feel like he gets Corbyn Riddim , which sets one of something is changing, according

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18.05.17 The Guardian 7 A Labour- supporting poster in south London; Stormzy (right); Big Narstie (below)

But can #grime4corbyn help Corbyn Brexit has helped hammer home the in that way that Jay Z and Diddy’s benefi t of voting . “It’s defi nitely made support helped Barack Obama in 2008? people go: ‘Woah! Look what happens “I’d argue that our support of when we don’t do anything!’,” suggests Corbyn is a more astute political Woolley . But even among grime fi gure- analysis than hip-hop’s support of heads there’s still a sense of political Obama,” says Akala. “I get what the disenfranchisement that Corbyn’s idea of a black president meant to a rhetoric hasn’t been able to breach. people who’d been excluded from the “I’m not going to be voting. I feel electoral process for so long, but our like we don’t just need to change the support is based on policies, humanity leader, we need to change the whole and voting record. I wouldn’t support system,” says the DJ Grandmixxer. on the street talking about him ‘My fans a politician just because they were “The other day Jeremy Corbyn was ← constantly – people I’ve never black – I’d never support someone saying: ‘I’m not a pacifi st.’ Why’s he known to be interested in politics have been like David Lammy, for instance. But saying that? I want my leader to be before,” off ers Lewisham artist P going: ‘Bruv, it does have that similarity of popular a pacifi st! Why do we live in a world Money, who has worked with the likes culture being used to motivate voters where a leader has to announce that of Ed Sheeran and whose album, Live you’ve got – and this is the fi rst time that we have he’s not a pacifi st to be taken seriously? and Direct, recently made the iTunes British MCs who are popular to the For me, that tells you everything that’s chart’s top 20. “Last week, every day to get same level as the big American artists.” wrong with the system.” I was getting Whatsapp messages behind Some MCs are worried that backing from people going: ‘Vote Corbyn! Vote t is notable how much more Corbyn takes grime across a line that Corbyn!’ I’ve never known anything Corbyn’ proactive Corbyn has been should not be crossed. “To be honest like it before.” I in chasing up the support of with you, I’m not a fan of any politi- The already political Akala initially grime MCs since the elec- cian – I don’t trust any of them,” off ers found himself less of a convert to tion was called. It might have Big Narstie, one of grime’s founding Corbyn’s cause than the people around started as a group of artists spontane- fathers, who recently had a top 20 him. “My core audience has been ously declaring their support for him hit with Craig David. “If the grime pushing me to support the guy for ages, – to no reaction from the Labour leader. scene makes them vote for Corbyn to be honest with you. Same thing But the i-D website is currently trailing and the country ends up in the shitter, with a lot of the activist groups in the footage from the JME/Corbyn meet- then we’ve lost the power that we community. They’ve been going: ‘Bruv, ing as: “Coming soon. When JME met had – we’ve lost the confi dence in the you’ve got to get behind Corbyn!’” So, Jeremy Corbyn.” This suggests that strength of our word. I wish the MCs it’s partly artists representing what Labour’s campaign is embracing the who’ve supported him all the best, but their followers are telling them? “Yeah, potential of this support, not to men- it’s a big risk to take.” I’ve actually been under pressure to tion the refl ective cool . In three weeks’ time we’ll fi nd out come out in his favour – although I did “The data doesn’t lie, Corbyn needs whether grime’s support of Corbyn is wait to speak out until I felt convinced the black vote to save his skin. In 31 a game-changing shift or just an inter- that it was something I wanted to do.” out of the top 50 marginal seats in the esting pop cultural moment. Some Corbyn’s stance on the NHS seems country, the number of black voters people obviously already think it’s to have played well in grime circles there absolutely dwarfs the majority pretty entertaining, given the ropey (“Listening to him talk about the NHS, that the MP holds,” explains Simon prank phone call Corbyn received from it’s like: ‘Wow, I didn’t realise it was Woolley, the director of Operation a comedian pretending to be Stormzy this bad. I’m listening now!’” explains Black Vote . “A lot of people might last week, and the fact that the Wiki- P Money). Corbyn’s lack of deference have written him off , but if he can get pedia page for the Boy Better Know to Britain’s imperial past helps, too. underground and mop up hundreds collective briefl y included Corbyn “I’ve never seen that before: someone and thousands of those young votes, alongside members Skepta and JME. who approaches politics without the who knows what might happen? Even But for the MCs who are involved assumption that Britain hasas inherent Theresa May knows those votes matter: in trying to motivate people to vote moral superiority over the rest of the why else do you think she’s started Corbyn, this is no joke. world,” says Akala . And hiss beibeingng promising to lower the pay gap between “In the way that Ukip mobilised portrayed as a man of principleciple rather young people and the rest of society ?” a group of people who pulled the Tory than a power-hungry politicoico has So, will grime MCs get young people party to the right, hopefully people also helped. “He has been onon the to the ballot box? Their message may like myself, JME and Novelist will backbench not seeking powerwer fforor penetrate more than the mainstream show that our demographic can be SHIRLAINE FORREST/WIREIMAGE @DANHANCOX/TWITTER; 30 years: for him standing upup forfor media. “Doing music, we’re involved mobilised,” says Akala. “Hopefully, what’s right is more importanttant with the streets – they need to talk we’ll show that we need to start being than promotion,” ran one of to us,” claims P Money. And there’s factored in in a way that we haven’t

Novelist’s messages of supportport. reason to suggest that frustration over been for a very long time.” PHOTOGRAPHS

8 The Guardian 18.05.17 The battle for the youth vote With the voter registration deadline looming, young people are being targeted by the political parties with the usual patronising hashtags and bad Snapchats. Is there a better way, asks Sam Wolfson

Jeremy Corbyn addresses young supporters after the launch of the Labour party’s manifesto

oung people of Britain do country recently that we have got to and “Votin” fl ashed up on the screen not fret, Brian May is reppin’ know their structure and rhythms, like like a Robin Thicke video. Y you. The 69-year-old an old married couple having the same We know what’s coming next, too: guitarist and badger enthu- argument for years. The campaign “youth debates” on Radio 1; there will siast last week tweeted a buses and lectern slogans have been be the claim that this will be the fi rst picture with the words: “Make them revealed, and voter registration will social media election (just like the last represent the ends. This is our time, close on Monday, so a well-meaning fi ve ) and then, as polling day nears, these are our streets, come we rize up.” but patronising campaign to get young tentative predictions that young people May was supporting the launch of people to vote is right on time. Between could decide this outcome. #RizeUpUK , a new campaign aimed at Back in 2015, Sky News launched a 1992 and Finally, of course, the result: which, young voters that was co-founded by youth-vote initiative called Stand Up again, we already know. As with the photographer Josh Cole and fi lm-maker Be Counted, perhaps unaware that it is 2005, youth AV, Scottish independence and EU Jane Powell. They have created a call- also the name of a widely panned play referendums and the 2010 and 2015 to-arms , littered with hashtags and yoof by Jim Davidson and an anthem of the turnout general elections, young people will slang, to be shared on social media. The KKK. During the EU referendum, the at general vote overwhelmingly one way, as the campaign’s other vehement supporters Stronger In campaign launched its rest of the country votes the other. include UB40, Steel Pulse, Doc Brown #Votin campaign video , which showed elections This, we are told, is because 18- and branches of Lush Cosmetics. young people doing hip activities such has declined to 24-year-olds don’t turn out in This is all to be expected. There have as graffi tiing and skydiving while the big enough numbers. All the been so many major elections in this words “Ravin”, “Sharin”, “Chattin” by 28% “vote 4 me bruv” campaigning is →

18.05.17 The Guardian 9 The Scottish referendum saw 16-year-olds vote for the first time in the UK

entirely ineff ective. Between 1992 Democratic party we’ve had a problem ← and 2005, youth turnout at UK where everyone keeps levering down the general elections declined by 28% , and message to not scare off moderates or has hovered around the 40% mark ever older voters, and Bernie said: ‘I’m not since. In local and European elections, going to change what I’m saying, I’m not youth turnout has been less than 20%, going to water down my message.’” the lowest among the longest-standing Sanders’ broad themes of inequality 15 members of the EU. and the dangers of climate change There is one ray of hope for the young. turned his largely tokenistic primary Michael Bruter , professor of political run into a huge youth movement. science at the London School of Eco- Once you have a message that reso- nomics, revealed last year that youth is not an eff ective way of channelling ‘Young nates with voters, you need to get it out turnout in the EU referendum was their frustration, then that frustration there. M any parties believe they have almost double the 36% that was initially only increases and they feel that the people found the panacea, “micro-targeting” . reported using incorrect data. Indeed, policies are neither legitimate nor things find it Social networks such as Facebook let you turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds in that they need to obey . That is a very directly reach young voters, creating that election was higher than in any serious problem for democracy.” easier to get bespoke adverts that will only be seen vote in recent memory. Britain is not alone in facing this passionate by them. Both Labour and the Tories are Bruter is an important fi gure in the crisis: youth turnout across western spending millions on this, but Goudiss attempt to increase youth participation. democracies tends to be low, but there about an is not impressed by their attempts. “It’s His research involves huge multi-wave, are a number of important exceptions. a big mistake. If you’re only targeting multi-year, multi-mode surveys, as well One guarantee of higher turnout issue than a the 20% of people who like your message as in-depth interviews, lab work and is an election where the stakes are party’ you’re not inspiring the other 80%. What controlled experiments in democracies perceived to be high. Sometimes this Bernie did diff erently was reach people around the world, to try to work out happens because of a perceived threat, on Facebook who, say, care about what would get young people voting in normally a far-right candidate: young healthcare – that’s a much bigger audi- the numbers they did in the 60s and 70s. people voted in high numbers in ence – and talk to them. Don’t worry He says the EU referendum bucked the second round of the French about if they’re a certain demographic, the trend because, while young people presidential election in 2002 when if they’re registered to vote, if they’ve tend to be suspicious of elites and Jean-Marie Le Pen was running, and donated. Let’s talk to them about a big politicians, “they fi nd it easier to get in this year’s Dutch election when idea that people care about. ” passionate about an issue than they do anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders Indeed, much of what the Sanders about a party”. The problem is exacer- seemed to be in with a chance. campaign did went against social media bated in general elections because the But the stakes can also be raised by orthodoxy. At the senator’s behest, the main political parties are often not even politicians projecting a grand vision campaign team made eight-minute interested in courting the youth vote. to voters. “When you talk to political social media videos, sent 2,500-word “There’s little to motivate parties to parties about addressing young voters, campaign emails, and fi lmed long make changes. It makes more sense for the fi rst thing that comes to mind is speeches that were shared millions of them to address the concerns of old maybe we should lower university times. They didn’t try to hide Sanders’ voters rather than younger ones, who tuition fees and increase housing,” says age; rather, they poked fun at it, with a they consider not to vote in suffi cient Bruter. “They try to give them freebies, cartoon Bernie appearing on dedicated numbers. So young people feel like the or make their personal situation better. Snapchat fi lters, only accessible at political parties don’t talk to them and But voters in general are much more rallies, which were extremely popular as a result they vote less. It’s a very likely to vote for what they think is with supporters under 24. They launched bad vicious circle.” best for the country rather than what Artists for Bernie, an organisation for Young supporters This problem of youth abstention is they think is best for themselves. It’s musicians and artists to get involved in were vital in getting often portrayed as a problem of com- about big ideas.” Justin Trudeau the campaign, not just with photo-ops, munication. If only the parties used Both Obama’s presidential bid in elected in Canada but thoughtful engagement and com- some more hashtags and some photo 2008, and the 2015 Canadian federal in 2015 bined concert-rallies. In the space of opportunities with grime stars , the election , in which Justin Trudeau six months, Bernie went from polling young would come out and vote. “All became Canadian prime minister, at 3% to beating Clinton in a number of the parties think the problem is that projected a positive political narrativeative important primarypr states, and coming their message is not heard by young about the future, and inspired higher-gher- close to beinbeingg the Democratic nominee. people. This is completely the wrong than-usual youth turnout. But thee most In contrascontrast,t Corbyn has taken a couple way of looking at things,” says Bruter. unlikely upsurge of youth interest t came of SnapchatsSnapchats of local party meetings, “The problem is a problem of substance, in the 2016 US primary candidacyy ooff momostly from the wrong angle. not communication.” Young people Bernie Sanders, who commandedd as AAtt the time of writing, the fully understand what the parties are much as 80% of the youth vote TTories have 2,578 followers off ering, and are rejecting it. in some states, and ensured, for oon their offi cial Instagram . This is a more serious problem than the fi rst time, that millennial In Argentina, voting is we realise, he says. It is not just that voters formed as large a voting compulsory, so the prob- young people are apathetic while they block as baby boomers . lem is not turnout but are young, but that society is creating “Younger voters were looking disillusion with politi- generations of people who may never for someone who wasn’t afraid cians. By the 1990s, cor- vote. “If young people don’t vote for the to talk about bigger ideas,” says ruption was so high and fi rst election of their lives, they’re not Keegan Goudiss, a partner at trust in politicians so low likely to vote in later elections either . Revolution Messaging who servedd that even the word They will be lost for good. If you give as director of digital advertising forfor “política” was pejorative. So, at the young people the impression that voting the Bernie 2016 campaign. “In thee startstart of the 2000s,the 2 groups and parties

10 The Guardian 18.05.17 Young people showing their support for Bernie Sanders as he stood for the Democrat nomination

such as getting your driving licence, or losing your virginity. Bruter says that getting young people excited about voting for the fi rst time has far more of an impact than guilting them into it. In studies, Bruter and his team have tried more than 30 diff erent ways to make fi rst-time voting more of a ceremony, from receiving an offi cial notifi cation by letter invit ing you to vote “for the fi rst time in your life”, to dedicated polling stations and “happy hours” solely for fi rst-time voters. All have been shown to improve voter turnout. What with young people constantly glued to their phones, you might think that electronic voting could make a diff erence, too. Indeed, it is currently being considered for the next UK that supported the presidency of Cris- visible in Argentin ian secondary schools, ‘Young US general election . But Bruter’s research tina Fernández de Kirchner formed a which have “extremely active” unions shows that people who e-vote are less coalition, now called Unidos y Organi- and political parties . “Students know voters were satisfi ed with the experience than zados (United and Or ganised). It was a everything about every party and every looking for people who go to a polling station; campaign group, not dissimilar to the policy; even nine-year-olds have political experiments with 15-17 year olds in Stop the War coalition, but it also did opinions,” says Sarah Raphael, who someone six diff erent countries found internet community outreach. Martina Rodri- taught primary and secondary school who wasn’t voting was counter-productive. guez, who has been involved in the classes in Buenos Aires. “There’s a pro- The sobering truth is that the current organisation since she was 15, tells me test in the street literally every weekend afraid to UK election has almost none of the how they visited shanty towns , read – all the children know everything.” talk about conditions that would engender a books with children, held breakfast The culmination of this engagement change. The stakes are extremely low, clubs, and off ered support and advice to of the young was the lowering of the big ideas’ because everyone already believes their local communities. They did all the voting age in Argentina from 18 to 16. vote won’t make a diff erence. The voting things a charity would do, but they “I was in congress the day the law age is still 18, and the election is in June, were there on behalf of the state. was passed,” says Rodriguez. “It was when many students will have left uni- The diff erence is a subtle one, but it unbelievable. The gallery was fi lled with versity and may be away or at a festival. has a big impact: imagine going to the young people singing and chanting. This week, the Electoral Reform Society jobcentre and fi nding the person at the It was so amazing.” reported that the number of school centre was wearing a Labour T-shirt and leavers on the electoral roll has dropped telling you about what Labour policies oting at 16 is more than just by more than a quarter in three years. could do for you. Over a decade, the a way of inspiring young Most damningly, no party is articulating supporters of President Kirchner built V people, however. Accord- a big idea about the future of Britain; a a movement of millions. Similar tactics ing to Bruter’s research, it message of citizenship, hope or change. have been used by the radical left party could transform youth A young boy All are focusing on transactional policies, Syriza in Greece , which was involved in participation in democracy, for mainly backing Barack trying to woo young people with free Obama during his setting up health clinics, markets for boring practical reasons. For most tuition fees or legalising cannabis. Even victorious 2008 fresh produce and educational classes. young people, their fi rst opportunity to presidential run Labour, with its radical Berniesque People start to see public services and vote comes between the ages of 18 and leader, can struggle to imagine the politics as entirely intertwined, and 20, when they are likely to be downing future, off ering piecemeal off erings politics as much bigger than parliament. pints in a student union bar or in such as “more bobbies on the beat” Corbyn’s plan for a huge Labour move- Thailand on a gap year. Even if they in television and radio interviews. ment that is bigger than the political re-register at a new address, they are YetYet there is still much to be hopeful party perhaps has the potential to do unlikely to know the candidates or the about.about All the main opposition parties something similar. local issues . “But when you are 16, you supportsuppo votes for 16- to 18-year-olds. If this all sounds like statist propa- live in a place where you are likely to Indeed,Inde it is easy to imagine the sort ganda, it is. “Yes, the opposition said it have grown up, you typically live with ofof candidate,c the sort of campaign, was biased, that we were recruiting our your parents, and you typically go to thattha could spark wild enthusiasm own supporters,” says Rodriguez. “There school, so you are socialised in an envi- fromfro young people. Perhaps Corbyn was obviously a sense of propaganda in ronment where you are aware of the couldco even be that candidate if he everything we did. But it was needed. state and aware of the election,” Bruter couldco be persuaded to give up on People fell in love with this project, it says. The Scottish referendum was the theth focus-tested giveaways and changed their lives – it let them go to fi rst UK vote in which the voting age was thinkth more about the broad vision university. That’s not buying their sup- lowered to 16 . Estimates suggest 75% of he wants to communicate to young port.” During that time, many people in 16- to 18-year-olds turned out, compared voters.vo There were hints of that Argentina had moved from abject pov- with 54% of 18- to 24-year-olds. broaderbro vision at the Labour mani-

GETTY IMAGES erty to the middle class, but, Rodriguez There is another crucial change that festofesto launch this week, with the leader says, unlike previous generations they Bruter has trialled at elections in more callingcalli the document “a draft for a thanked central government for this. than six countries, with excellent betterbett future”. That is certainly more Politicians were viewed as heroes. results : make voting for the fi rst time galvanisinggalv than Brian May tweeting

PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS The results of this shift are most as important as other adolescent fi rsts, as if he has got a bit part on Top Boy .

18.05.17 The Guardian 11 Food

eople, says Prue Leith, sitting in her spectacular P kitchen, still think of her as a cook. She is surrounded by a mind-boggling array of bottles and jars, utensils and several food processors. “I haven’t written a recipe for 25 years,” she says. Instead, she has been writing novels (she is working on her eighth), but people keep wanting to talk about food. “It’s my own fault, because I go on doing telly. I think I’m going to be forced back into cookery writing.” She doesn’t sound disappointed. Until last year, Leith was a judge on Great British Menu, the BBC2 cooking contest, but she is about to replace her friend Mary Berry in the The Great Brit- ish Bake Off . She is an inspired choice. Like Berry, Leith is warm and familiar, having been around seemingly for ever . But if Berry was the grandma who took you out for tea, Leith is the one who would make you go on for cocktails and gossip about boyfriends. ‘I don’t want to be She has warned me that she can’t talk about Bake Off . All she will say is she “really likes the lineup” and that the nation’s nanny’ “my great battle is going to be not eating all the cake ”. Was it daunting to sign up for such a huge show, with the extra pressure of Channel 4 poaching it from the BBC? She thinks for a minute. “No,” she says. “I like the show. I think it’s encouraging … I’m pleased about it, I’m thrilled about it. Paul Hollywood She is ‘thrilled’ to replace Mary Berry on Bake Off was a bit daunting, because he’s so – but Prue Leith would rather talk about sexism good at it, he’s so expert. But he’s incredibly nice to me.” She doesn’t, she and ageism than cake, fi nds Emine Saner says, “really want to get back to being the nation’s nanny, but I think all cook- ing is good, and [Bake Off encourages] children join the clubs and take their possible advantage [who won’t eat]. an interest and understanding of food.” parents along, “they get there and they Children are so quick to grab power – if Leith has just been announced as fi nd it’s fascinating and they’re not you give an inch, they take a yard. ” patron of the Children’s Food Trust’s condescended to. We know it works.” Food has changed so much in Let’s Get Cooking programme, which Does she have sympathy for parents Britain in the 24 years since Leith’s runs cooking clubs in schools. She who are just too tired to cook from Prue Leith in her last cookbook was published. She was has been on at diff erent governments scratch at home or can’t face wasting kitchen; with pleased, she says, to have skipped about improving children’s nutrition money on – and energy battling with Bake Off ’s Paul the fashion for drizzles and foams: for decades – long before Jamie Oliver – children who won’t eat vegetables? Hollywood, Sandi “I hate all that. ” And she has no time came along with his Turkey Twizzlers “It is very diffi cult,” she says. “But I Toksvig and for the “clean eating” trend, which campaign. She laughs. “I did say for know middle-class children with every Noel Fielding she calls nonsense. “I think most of about four or fi ve minutes: ‘Who is these women in the whole clean eating this whippersnapper? ’ but, as far as thing are good cooks,” she says, but I’m concerned, he is a saviour. I mean, “what they do is frighten the socks off Tony Blair reacted immediately.” people who start worrying about how Leith became chair of the newly cre- clean their gut is. The body is a very ated School Food Trust (which became well-designed thing. If you give it good the Children’s Food Trust). Childhood nutrition, it will look after itself.” obesity could be reversed, she says, “if Leith has a fearsome work ethic and every child learned to cook and every has been a trailblazer for women in child learned to eat ... it would be good business – she was a successful entre- if you could start with the parents, preneur and later sat on many boards but you can’t, because the parents are of huge companies, including British grown up, can’t be told, they probably Rail and Halifax. She is inspiring, but hated school and they didn’t learn to she was also privileged (she grew up in cook, so why would they think it was a huge house in Johannesburg). Could important for their children?” But if she have had the career she has with-

12 The Guardian 18.05.17 out housekeepers and nannies? “No. I could have had some of it, I presume.” Inspect a gadget But by the time she had children at the age of 35, her business was successful. Fondoodler, $30, Had she had children sooner, it prob- ably wouldn’t have been possible, she fondoodler.com admits. “I was earning enough to be able to aff ord help. I do think the idea that you can have it all is nonsense. You have to earn an awful lot of money to have it all. Most people just can’t.” By Rhik Samadder Leith is a feminist and has dealt with sexism throughout her career (when W h a t ? fat. Then I draw some boobs, and then she was introduced to the rest of the H ollow cartridge and ratcheted plunger I’m out of ideas. Actively trying to Leeds Building Society board mem- mounted in a nozzled pistol, with doodle defeats the point, whatever the bers, the chairman told the men not to heated tip. Discharges cheese. point of doodling with cheese is in the worry, that Leith wasn’t a feminist and fi rst place. “indeed, she is very nice, and I am sure Why? Fondoodler’s Instagram page you can agree with me that she is very Want to eat food that looks like radio- suggest using hot monterey jack good-looking”). How did she handle active worm casts and will eventually as mortar to build a cabin made of sexism? “I generally take people on kill you? You, my friend, are in luck. crackers. Fat chance. No one is going but … if I think I’m up against blind to do that, or follow the safety note stupidity, then what’s the point?” Well? that advises “do not apply melted When she starts on Bake Off , the Some people believe a supreme cheese directly on to skin”. Because 77-year-old may well be the oldest intelligence loved us so much, he left this is a tool destined for an accident woman on prime-time television, us alone, to make our own choices. on a stag-do hazing. I can picture the although Berry, 82, is sure to be back. How would we live, what would we groom, comatose in a Czech Republic How great to have them both. “ Broad- create? Behold the Fondoodler, an dormitory, while friends violently casters have woken up to the fact that electric dairy glue gun that lets you epilate his most intimate hairs and a lot of telly is watched by older people pipe hot cheese like Polyfi lla. “Lightly draw cheese ones on instead. and the audience is there.” She has pull trigger until cheese extrudes from But this is what we want, isn’t it? seen ageism elsewhere – her publisher tip,” read the instructions, and you The fi nal word in idiocy, a device so turned down her fourth novel because can’t help but think: “My God, what pointless it can only be understood as it was about older women. She have we done?” art, and so messy it turns snacks into changed publishers. “People always I’m looking at it right now, and dirty protests. What is it? The perfect thought it was perfectly acceptable for ‘I do think I still don’t know what it is. First gadget for our times. men to be lusting after women when impressions are that it resembles one they’re 90, but women were expected the idea of those “pump up your junk” home Redeeming features? to have their children and then lose that you can devices that, once Googled, will be When Fonzie from Happy Days was interest in love ,” she says. Her fi rst advertised to you for ever ( #apparently fi nally arrested (he would be, he husband died in 2002. Last year, Leith have it all is #whoknows #notme). I push the was older than those other kids, married John Playfair , whom she met nonsense. cartridge through a block of red and his “offi ce” was a toilet) I at a dinner party. leicester – like taking a punch biopsy imagine the Fondoodler could be “He’s younger than me [by seven Most people – then return it to the gun, and plug in his prison nickname. years], so he might stay the course. I to heat. The process “works” with any think it has given us both a new lease just can’t’ cheese – I pull the trigger and orange Counter, drawer, cupboard? of life.” They married in October, and discharge wriggles forth on to Ryvita, Landfi ll, or the Smithsonian. I honestly Leith gave him a young spaniel as a where I write my name in coagulating don’t know. 1/5 wedding present, to join their other two ageing dogs. The puppy arrived, she says , “and within seconds they were all going on walks together and jumping around. I think that, in a sense, the same thing happened to me.” She was the old dog? “I’m the old dog. Old bitch!” She laughs. “And John came along.” Leith, ever independent and unconventional, doesn’t live with Play- fair. He stays with her at night, gets up and walks the dogs, then goes home to his house down the road. “At this very moment, he’s busy Hoovering his car- pet or mowing his lawn. He comes back CHANNEL 4; SAM FROST AND JILL MEAD FOR THE GUARDIAN at lunchtime, and then he goes away again and comes back at night. I don’t have to do any domestic stuff , wifely stuff .” Except cooking, she adds, “which

PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS I like”, as if there were any doubt. The fi nal word in idiocy … Rhik constructs a cracker cabin with the Fondoodler

18.05.17 The Guardian 13 Food

retzel or brezel , soft or 1 tbsp malt syrup crunchy – what is not up for 255ml warm water debate is that this ancient P 150g bicarbonate of soda Germanic bread is utterly delicious, and much easier Rock salt, to scatter to make than you would imagine. Whisk together the fl our, yeast and salt Where to start(er) in a large mixing bowl or the bowl of That said, the recipe in Bouchon Bakery a food mixer, then mix in the butter. by Sebastien Rouxel and Thomas Keller In a separate bowl, whisk together the calls for a liquid starter that takes fi ve syrup and warm water, then stir into days to make, and Richard Bertinet the mixture to make a fi rm, dryish uses an overnight pre-ferment. Happily, dough – it should just come together you can get great results in only a few to leave the bowl clean, without being hours, but leave the shaped dough in damp. Knead on a low speed for about the fridge overnight, as Julia Moskin 15 minutes, or on a clean surface by suggests in the New York Times, and hand for about 20-25 minutes, until the fl avour will be even better. smooth and very elastic. Rest under These chewy Germanic breads are an a cloth for 15 minutes, then divide The dough into 10 pieces of about 75g each. A fairly low hydration is vital for that ancient delight with wonderful bite. They Meanwhile, line two baking sheets characteristic fi rm, chewy texture – use are even easy enough to whip up in your with lightly greased greaseproof paper. milk as well as water, as Bertinet does, own home. By Felicity Cloake Keeping the remainder covered, and they will be too soft. I based mine roll out one of the pieces into a on Anne Shooter’s excellent Sesame sausage about 35cm long (don’t worry & Spice recipe. Most pretzel doughs How to make if it’s fatter in the middle, just call it include sugar of some sort – preferably Bavarian-style). Form into a circle, malt syrup – for colour as much as fl a- crossing the two ends at the top, then vour, but the soft brown sugar in Ruth the perfect twist them round each other again, Joseph’s Warm Bagels & Apple Strudel bring down across the middle and stick isn’t a bad substitute. Old-school down fi rmly at about four and eight recipes such as Joseph’s are fat free, but pretzels o’clock on the circle. Put on to the bak- a little butter, oil or, if you’re feeling ing tray and repeat. Leave the preztels particularly Germanic, lard will make covered at room temperature for 30 the dough more supple, while bread minutes, then uncover and put in the fl our and intensive kneading will help fridge for between two and 24 hours. give it the requisite robust consistency. An hour before you want to bake, The baking and topping heat the oven to 160C/320F/gas mark The alkali test Pretzels should be baked at a high 3 and bake the bicarbonate of soda for Pretzels are traditionally dipped into temperature to encourage browning, one hour. Allow to cool, and turn the a strong alkali to help achieve that and topped with rock salt. Serve oven up to 220C/425F/gas mark 7. crispy, burnished crust, as well as the with butter, pickles or just a large, Wearing rubber gloves, mix 100g of attendant slightly soapy fl avour. The cold beer. the bicarbonate of soda with 500ml lye used in Germany is hard to fi nd THE DEBATE water in a large glass dish. Carefully here, but you can achieve similar, if not (Makes 10) dip the pretzels in the solution for four To share your quite as gorgeously bronzed, results 500g strong white bread flour minutes each (you’ll need to do this tips, read more of by baking bicarbonate of soda to turn in several batches), then drain very Felicity’s techniques 5g quick-action yeast it into sodium carbonate, as Harold well and arrange, well spaced out on and join the 1 tsp fine salt McGee suggests, which has a higher conversation, visit the baking sheets. Scatter with salt, pH than bicarb or indeed the lye water theguardian.com/ 25g room-temperature butter, cut into then bake for 12-15 minutes until well used in Chinese and Japanese cookery. food small pieces browned. Eat warm.

14 The Guardian 18.05.17 Notes and queries

ANY ANSWERS?

With longer encounters, I’ve resorted How did people certainly be dead. A body fat Notes for queries at the to, “It’s lovely to be able to sit quietly eat the oranges percentage of below 5% in men is for a while.” that Nell Gwynn associated with signifi cant health supermarket checkout and others sold at Barbara Cummins, Lewes, East Sussex risks, including heart problems. the theatre? They There’s an older lady who works wouldn’t want to pollystyrene at our Waitrose who always tells sit through the Read Ranulph Fiennes’ book me how much she loathes the deputy whole performance Cold, and you will see how by What’s the best response to intrusive manager. I choose her till, even when it with sticky fingers, taking a simple walk across Antarctica questions from supermarket checkout has the longest queue. I love her. She’s would they? you too could burn off every gram of staff who have been trained to ask a kind of disloyalty card. Peter Billing, fat in your body, and then some. personal questions rather than chat OneAnotherName Portsmouth Forlornehope about the weather? I’m a middle-aged What exactly is an woman and am at a loss about how to Could you lose all your itch and why does Why was he the ‘Lone’ respond to the youth who regularly scratching relieve asks me if I’ve “got any nice plans for body fat in one session? it? What is its Ranger if he had Tonto? tonight?” function in nature’s broad picture? I just try to be kind. They have Russell Jones, Penry, Cornwall been told by their management to do it, and some people might wel- Would it be possible for a human to Send questions Why was the Lone Ranger “lone” if he come it if they don’t have many other lose every excess gram of fat from and answers to always had his friend Tonto with him? interactions. Smile, meet their eye, say, their body in one, continuous bout of nq@theguardian. com “No, not really, is there something exercise – for example, running for or online at He’s the Lone, not the lonely you’re looking forward to?” If you don’t several days non-stop on a treadmill – theguardian.com/ (Texas) Ranger; and Tonto isn’t like it, go to the miserable cold machine, on an empty stomach? lifeandstyle/series/ a ranger at all. In the original story a where the chat is very one-sided. notes-and-queries. group of rangers was ambushed by a Please include name, Nichola Jeans Running for several days non- address and phone gang of baddies and only one survived. I’ve noticed it creeping in as stop on an empty stomach leads number. Hence, although he has Tonto for well. It used to be, “How are to fainting. At some point, your blood company, he is the Lone Ranger. you?” or “Is it still sunny out there?” sugar level will drop below the John Tierney, Durham but now it’s, “What have you been minimum necessary for the body to That reminds me of the Lenny doing today?” It throws me, I don’t like function; blood pressure drops too. Bruce joke where the Lone Ranger it. I usually mumble something like, Think of fainting as a clever emergency and Tonto are surrounded by Indians “Bits and bobs, how about you?” shutdown mechanism, to prevent and facing certain death. The Lone I’m ready for it when my hairdresser further lowering of the sugar levels and Ranger says: “This time, old friend, it asks – I expect it. But not in the shops. related organ damage. looks like we’re fi nished.” Tonto replies: BeckyDavidson We take energy from two sources: “What’s with the ‘we’, white man?” It has spread much further than sugar and fat, but sugar is much more Peter7728 supermarkets. My dentist and his readily available to our metabolism. If “Toronto? That wis the Lone assistant are consistent off enders, as we drive ourselves on while totally Ranger’s mate, wis it no?” – are many clothes shop staff . I overcome exhausted, we can’t take in sugar and Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting.

GETTY IMAGES this by getting my retaliation in fi rst, our metabolism will not have time to cityofevil not with an intrusive question but with attack and use the fat stored in the body. Presumably for the same reason my own comment about weather, stjgan he always took his mask off when traffi c or something I’m buying. Make If you were approaching o% ‘There’s Tonto!’ … the he didn’t want to be recognised. Lone, not lonely, Ranger

PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH sure it’s your conversation, not theirs. body fat, you would almost Anne Liddon

18.05.17 The Guardian 15 Arts

t’s May 1968 and Jean-Luc Godard is marching along a I Paris boulevard during an anti-establishment demo. On the face of it, things couldn’t be better for the leading light of the nouvelle vague: the great director is spending his spring lobbing stones at the riot police, haranguing students at sit-ins, and making love to his beautiful wife Anne Wiazemsky, nearly 20 years his junior and the star of his new fi lm. But, just then, a demonstrator sidles up and praises Godard’s early fi lms – À Bout de Souffl e with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Le Mepris with Brigitte Bardot. As the fan heaps on more praise, Godard’s face gets longer and longer. Doesn’t this guy realise that the old Godard is dead? That he has disowned those fi lms? That, hencefor th, he will only make austerely political cinema , such as his new picture La Chinoise, about a French Maoist cadre’s ill-fated plot to murder the Soviet ambassador? That Godard is now forming a fi lm- making collective called the Dziga Vertov Group, eschewing bourgeois The women, the fi lms, the fi ghts, the fl ops … Michel Hazanavicius norms of artistic genius in favour of collective socialist endeavour? tells Stuart Jeff ries why he has risked infuriating France – by This scene from Redoubtable, Michel Hazanavicius’s unexpectedly hilarious making a hilarious drama about its most notorious director and often touching drama, recalls that moment in Stardust Memories when Woody Allen’s protagonist meets some aliens. “We enjoy your fi lms!” the aliens ‘Godard is not God’ tell Allen. “Particularly the early, funny ones.” Godard is in the same fi x: critics and fans hate his new politicised stuff and want him to continue making fi lms like the old ones they loved. Even the gag about his specs getting repeatedly ‘A sad clown in a Hazanavicius has sympathy for the Chinese authorities, whom he thought crushed in Paris demos . fi lm he doesn’t diabolical genius of the nouvelle vague. might enjoy his championing of Maoist Godard’s plight also resonates with even get to “His fans want him to keep making the politics, send the director a critique of Hazanavicius. The 50-year-old French direct’ … Louis same movies,” he says. “They want La Chinoise, damning it for revisionism. director has made a fi lm that breaks Garrel and Stacy Breathless 2. They can’t bear that he As the demonstrator continues, the with expectations and risks making Martin as Godard wants to change. I’ve been through camera closes in on the eyes behind cinephiles, especially French ones, and Anne that. I get that. All artists get that.” Godard’s tinted lenses – the eyes of furious. In 2012, Hazanavicius won best Wiazemsky In Redoubtable, Hazanavicius depicts a man trapped in a personal tragedy picture and best director Oscars for The Godard being harangued by his friend, yet painfully aware of how funny his Artist , a homage to Hollywood’s silent the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci. predicament looks. Godard has become era . Now he’s made what seems to be He tells Godard disdaining his old work a sad clown in a fi lm he doesn’t even its opposite: a portrait of a Hollywood- is folly, adding that the Franco-Swiss get to direct. Much of Redoubtable has hating fi lm-maker struggling through director knows nothing about the this tragicomic air; there’s a running existential, political and marital crises. proletarians whose cause he purports

16 The Guardian 18.05.17 from her memoir, she explains why she became besotted with the middle-aged director: he was free, witty, charming, an artist who didn’t give a damn for bourgeois mores or artistic tradition. “That’s why I wanted Louis Garrel to play Godard,” says Hazanavicius. “Everybody has heard that he was a mean guy. For me, that couldn’t have been the whole story. There was clearly something very seductive about him. So I cast Louis – he’s so handsome, so seductive.” Garrel had already played a sexually and politically active lead in Paris circa 1968, having starred as Eva Green’s twin in Bertolucci’s ménage à ‘There was what he did : when he creates the Dziga trois The Dreamers. something very Vertov Group, where he no longer When Hazanavicius asked to buy seductive about directs his own movies, he’s essentially the rights to Wiazemsky’s memoir, him’ … Godard killing himself.” Hazanavicius is comp- she initially resisted. “I was about to with Wiazemsky assionate enough to show that Godard hang up,” he recalls. “I said, ‘That’s too in 1967; below, is aware of his absurdity, of his ability bad because I think it would be funny.’ Louis Garrel as to alienate people, of the unbearableness And in that moment, she decided that Godard at a of being Jean-Luc Godard. maybe it wasn’t such a bad idea. She demonstration In one powerful scene straight said, ‘I think it was a funny relationship from Godard’s own 1960s playbook, and a funny time.’” So Hazanavicius Richard Strauss’s Im Abendrot swoons wrote a fi lm that dares to be funny heartbreakingly in the background to share. “Some people probably think about her ostensibly earnest husband. as the couple row in some dismal me telling Godard’s story is blasphemy. “He wants to be serious,” he says, “but hotel room. Godard harangues while My friends were worried . But he’s not you can see sometimes he has a sense Wiazemsky tearfully realises, as do we, my hero or my god. Godard is like the of his own comic absurdity. And his that the man she loved has become a leader of a sect and I’m an agnostic.” At fi lms are very funny, even when he’s controlling, sociopathic, joyless jerk this point, I should point out that we lecturing you politically.” and that their marriage is over. What are chatting in the bar of the Cinéma One striking parallel between Haza- did Wiazemsky think when she saw des Cinéastes in Paris. navicius and Godard is that the former that scene? “It was diffi cult for her to In an earlier age, Hazanavicius might often directs his own wife, Bérénice speak. She recognised something.” have been burned at the stake . In 2017, Bejo (in Redoubtable, she plays one What about Godard? Did you seek he risks getting booed at Cannes, where of Godard’s long-suff ering friends). his consent? “No, but I sent him a Redoubtable is in competition for “I don’t think there is much similarity,” letter. I said I’m doing a movie based on the Palme d’Or. “That won’t be a new he says, “between our marriage and the Anne Wiazemsky’s book and the main experience for me,” he says. In 2014, one I show on screen.” Do you share his character is Jean-Luc Godard.” The Search – a drama about the Chechen politics? “No. I am of the left, but not Although Godard, now 86, asked war – was poorly received at the festival the extreme left like him. Maybe if I’d to see the script, he has not passed (the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw called been his age in 1968, I’d have been judgment – yet. He may step in and try it “desperately well-meaning” in his a revolutionary, too. But I wasn’t.” to shut down the Cannes fi lm festival. two-star review ). “I’m prepared for the And there’s another fault line: Does that sound far-fetched? Well, 49 worst, but hope for the best.” Hazanavicius is Jewish and in the fi lm, In tears, his years ago he, along with other French Hazanavicius wanted to make Godard tells a booing Sorbonne sit-in directors, did just that, successfully Redoubtable after reading the memoirs that “the Jews have become the new wife realises arguing that in solidarity with the of Wiazemsky, the German-born Nazis” and that the question now is to he has workers and the students who were Frenchwoman who serially captivated think who are the new Jews. “I think protesting across France, the festival directors. In 1966, aged 18, she what he said was ridiculous – nobody become a should be cancelled. starred in Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard needed to think, then, about who the We’re speaking just days before Balthazar, fending off the director’s on- new Jews were. And the idea that Jews joyless jerk the second round of the French set advances . While fi lming, she met are Nazis is absurd.” presidential election. Hazanavicius Godard and they married a year later. So what’s the point of that scene? feels obliged to vote for Emmanuel Godard’s biographer Colin MacCabe “To show someone who wants to be Macron, the centrist ex-banker, if only once suggested that fi lm-making is a provocative.” While researching the to keep Marine Le Pen from power. But ploy used by unprepossessing and sex- fi lm, he met Daniel Cohn-Bendit , the he stills feels disenfranchised: there is obsessed men to get beautiful women soixante-huitard student leader and a no leftwing candidate. to act out their fantasies. If so, Godard Jew, who remains a friend of Godard’s “You know what?” Hazanavicius was a virtuoso. He was married fi rst to despite everything. “He says Godard’s says about Godard’s protest. “Maybe Anna Karina then to Wiazemsky, and a masochist and I agree. He always puts thet same thing should happen now. directed both. In La Chinoise, Godard himself in painful situations.” FranceF was in crisis then and today.

GETTY; STUDIOCANAL GETTY; whispered Wiazemsky’s lines to her In Redoubtable, those situations WhoW wants to watch fi lms in Cannes through an earpiece. become the stuff of tragicomedy. “He’s withw what’s going on in the country?” Wiazemsky was scarcely out of killing everything around him – his her teens when they married. In a fi lms, his friends, his wife. And then it’s Redoubtable is screening at the Cannes film festival on 21 May.

PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS monologue Hazanavicius adapted logical he kills himself. That, I think, is

18.05.17 The Guardian 17 Arts The language of blades … a still from Duilian; below from left , Wu Tsang and Boychild

Shabby it may have been, but the Silver Platter was a protective environment where regulars could dress up, be beautiful, and feel loved and accepted. It was old school, with a dress code that tended to heavy lipliner, push-up bras and teased hair. Tsang and her art student friends thought it was marvellous and, in 2007, started a party night there on Tuesdays called Wildness, featuring DJs and performance art. The parties, their cultural fallout and Tsang’s evolving understanding of the complexity of life at the Silver Platter form the basis of Wildness, the artist’s breakthrough 2012 fi lm . The Wildness parties became victims of their own success, attracting a growing crowd of young queer bohemians , who upset the y chance, I recently found She has made fi lms about a gay club in LA ecosystem of fantasies that sustained myself seated beside Silver Platter’s regulars. The night’s B Wu Tsang at the Venice that became a phenomenon and rewritten success also drew press attention: a local Biennale. Willowy and history as lesbian kung fu. Hettie Judah paper ran a grotesque description of gender ambiguous, with a the bar, in which the trans women were black topknot and in the soft, draped enters the world of trans artist Wu Tsang portrayed as little more than prostitutes. clothing favoured by dancers, she was In Wildness, we see Tsang in the with her regular collaborator, Boychild, process of fi lming Damelo Todo/Odot huddled together like two chicks on Olemad, almost as a healing process. a branch. The Berlin-based artist met Sisters The resulting work, like Duilian, is Boychild – muscular, eyebrows shaved performed in multiple languages, and and bearing futuristic tattoos – when much remains untranslated, leaving the latter was performing in clubs. the audience to focus on the physical They’re an unmistakeable pairing. performances. Tsang likes working Tsang made a sci-fi fi lm to showcase of the with people with whom she shares no Boychild’s extraordinary physicality common language. “Growing up in soon after they met. “I remember,” a multiracial family , I never learned says Tsang, “the fi rst couple of times Chinese, so I was used to having we worked together. She said, ‘You tell sword ‘conversations’ that weren’t verbal. me the story you want to tell, I’ll tell it When there’s an understanding that back to you in movement.’ And that’s we can’t fully understand each other, how we work now. I created a whole that’s a better space for me. It’s world that was like a platform – a way to happening all the time, but maybe experience her performance.” it’s more obvious when we’re speaking Tsang has created similar “platforms” a diff erent language.” for the two groups of perform ers Language – in particular the gaps who star in her upcoming show at between intent and interpretation – is Nottingham Contemporary. One is a A paper the calligrapher Wu Zhiying ( Tsang). a frequent theme for Tsang. In The band of skilled female practitioners of The denizens of the Silver Platter, Shape of a Right Statement, also fi lmed wushu martial arts, based in Hong Kong; portrayed meanwhile, enact the story of a at the Silver Platter, she wears a wig the other, a sisterhood of trans women, the bar’s Salvadorian teenager who fl ees his cap and lip-syncs to In My Language, mostly of Central American origin, who country’s civil war and ends up in LA. a video posted on YouTube by autism make up the regular clientele of an LA trans Damelo Todo/Odot Olemad was fi lmed rights activist Amanda Baggs that nightspot called the Silver Platter. regulars within the scruff y environs of the Silver presents communication as a slippery They are unconventional performers, Platter itself, and its story echoes th e and fraught process. lured by Tsang into new territory. as little lives of many of its regulars. Both fi lms Tsang is no stranger to her Swords whipping through the air, the contain elements of magical realism work being “overly simplifi ed” or wushu artists perform routines inspired more than and staginess. “ Each one is like a play misunderstood. It is often reduced, by the poetry of Qiu Jin , the female prostitutes within a fi lm,” says Tsang. “There’s an she says, to being solely about gender Chinese warrior and revolutionary of awareness of the performance and their or sexuality, when it’s about so much the early 20th century . They appear as relationship with reality.” more: adversity, fantasy, history, “sword sisters” in Tsang’s fi lm Duilian, Tsang discovered the hard way that communication, intimacy, community. which places Qiu Jin at the centre of a you can’t just insert yourself into a As she learnt at the Silver Platter: sapphic kung-fu romance . This queer tight-knit, self-protecting community things tend to be much more retelling of the feminist hero’s life and decide to make art . Moving to LA in complicated than they fi rst appear. X PRUTTING/BFA/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK OF WU TSANG; DAVID COURTESY was shot around Hong Kong, melding 2005 with friends from Chicago’s queer footage of the modern waterfront with art punk scene, Tsang was introduced to Wu Tsang, Devotional Document (Part 1) is lingering exchanges between the poet the Silver Platter, a gay bar in MacArthur at Nottingham Contemporary, 20 May to 28 August; then at Fact, Liverpool, from October. (played by Boychild) and her friend, Park that had served the area since 1963. PHOTOGRAPHS

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My best shot Jill Freedman ‘It’s not every day you see the Easter Bunny riding a tricycle through Manhattan, is it?’

This was taken in the 1970s, when I was It was a classic Greenwich Village longer wanted to live . It’s not just in love with New York. The place was image and I was lucky to get it. You this city, though. I see it everywhere, full of soul back then: there was life THE CV have to be quick to catch such a sliver with people glued to their phones, on the streets, eccentric characters on of a moment, but that’s the challenge of sitting together in restaurants but not every corner, millions of people with photography. You’re like a hunter, alert talking to each other. I see this terrible Born: Pittsburgh, colourful stories to tell. I mean it’s not and ready to pull the trigger at the exact selfi e culture, which is so cheap and 1939. every day you go out and see an Easter Training: split second. Miss it and it’s gone for ever. narcissistic. bunny on a tricycle, is it? Self-taught. Nowadays, when I look at this photo, I studied sociology and anthropology People came to New York to be New High point: I just see a New York that has lost its and now realise that what I’ve been Yorkers, not just because they got a ‘I haven’t had it yet.’ heart and soul . The city has became all doing with my camera all these years job in the city. It was so alive . I would Low point: about real estate and money. It used to is documenting human behaviour . hang my camera around my neck and ‘Worrying about be about neighbourhoods , each one like But I was taking pictures in my head the rent.’ hit the streets, knowing that some a small town, with its own fl avour and long before I became a photographer. Top tip: ‘Be kind quirky character would soon come my to one another personality. Greenwich Village was the It was the Vietnam war that changed way. And there I was walking through and to animals.’ bohemian area, with bars open late and everything for me. I was angry and Greenwich Village when this charming jazz. I’m heartbroken to think it’s gone. wanted to photograph anti-war elderly lady rode past , full of smiles. I put this image in my book demonstrations , so got my fi rst She was happy that I noticed her. I Madhattan, a love poem to the city camera. I went on to record some remember thinking what lovely spirit and all the lovely things that have milestone events, but this shot she had . There is an innocence about disappeared from it – panhandlers, reminds me that you don’t always her that I still adore – an older woman the dollar-and-a-quarter haircut, have to make political statements. with a sense of fun, enjoying her life gumball machines and characters Sometimes you can be lighthearted. and making everyone around her with stories to tell. The shots were happy. I also like the McDonald’s sign taken between 1966 and 1990, when Interview by Hannah Gal. Jill Freedman’s at the back with two golden arches that I started noticing a lack of civility work features in the Photo London festival at Somerset House, London, 18-21 May. look like two more rabbit ears. in the air and it became a place I no

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