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MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Ministerial/Departmental

MP caught in Albania tangle 1 Western Daily Press {Main}, 02 Feb 2018, p3, Keyword: Mark Lancaster, Journalist: Not Credited,

Thousands left in limbo as Carillion jobs saved 2 The Times {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p51, Keyword: Ministry of Defence, Journalist: Alexandra Frean,

British soldier dies serving on Iraqi base 3 The Times {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p20, Keyword: Ministry of Defence, Journalist: Deborah Haynes,

Also reported in:

Soldier's Iraq end 4 The Sun {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p8, Keyword: Ministry of Defence, Journalist: Not Credited

Soldier dies at air base in iraq 5 Daily Record {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p30, Keyword: Mark Lancaster, Journalist: Lucinda Cameron

Black Watch soldier dies in Iraq base incident 6 Scotsman, The {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p5, Keyword: Ministry of Defence, Journalist: RICHARD WOODWARD

Army probe as Black Watch captain dies at Iraqi air base 7 Press & Journal (Aberdeen) {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p10, Keyword: Mark Lancaster, Journalist: Alistair Munro

MoD probe into mystery death of Scots officer in Iraq 9 Herald, The (Glasgow) {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p7, Keyword: Mark Lancaster, Journalist: Jody Harrison

Council at loggerheads with MoD over sale of historic military hub 10 The News (Portsmouth) {Main}, 02 Feb 2018, p4, Keyword: Ministry of Defence, Journalist: DAVID GEORGE,

Mea culpa: a bad metaphor can spoil the whole barrel 12 The Independent (App Edition) {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p34, Keyword: Gavin Williamson, Journalist: John Rentoul,

Dust off your... duffel coat 15 The Daily Telegraph {Saturday}, 03 Feb 2018, p6, Keyword: Ministry of Defence, Journalist: Stephen Doig,

Abbreviation worthy of the Royal Navy's largest warship 21 The Daily Telegraph {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p7, Keyword: Ministry of Defence, Journalist: Ben Farmer,

US defence wants a 'credible' UK military after voicing concerns over budget cuts 23 The Daily Telegraph {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p4, Keyword: Gavin Williamson, Journalist: Ben Farmer,

NOW & THEN 24 Scotsman, The {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p33, Keyword: Ministry of Defence, Journalist: Not Credited,

Thousands march in call to end troops w itch-hunt 25 Daily Mail {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p28, Keyword: Ministry of Defence, Journalist: Ian Drury,

WAKE me up when Gavin [...] 27 Daily Express {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p13, Keyword: Gavin Williamson, Journalist: Jennifer Selway, Ministry of Defence

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Defence Equipment & Sales

Cobham sale fails its first test with City investors 28 The Times {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p54, Keyword: DEFENCE INDUSTRY, Journalist: Callum Jones,

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Cobham offloads two non-defence divisions to cut debt 30 The Daily Telegraph {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p35, Keyword: DEFENCE INDUSTRY, Journalist: Alan Tovey

Defence

Booking now 31 The Guardian {The Guide}, 03 Feb 2018, p33, Keyword: BRITISH MILITARY, Journalist: Not Credited,

Troubled waters 32 Scotsman, The {Magazine}, 03 Feb 2018, p20, Keyword: BRITISH MILITARY, Journalist: ALLANMASSIE,

How I found out Dad was one of the 3,000 heroes sacrificed by Churchill to save Dunkirk 35 Daily Mail {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p58, Keyword: BRITISH MILITARY, Journalist: John Jay,

Falklands hero honoured by both sides 40 Daily Express {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p41, Keyword: BRITISH MILITARY, Journalist: Rick Jolly,

Veterans

National memorial to honour Sikh [...] 41 The Times {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p78, Keyword: VETERANS, Journalist: Not Credited,

Readers to kit out home for SAS Bob 42 The Sun {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p11, Keyword: VETERANS, Journalist: Andrew Parker,

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Readers all gave Bob hope 43 The Sun {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p35, Keyword: VETERANS, Journalist: Lorraine Kelly

MORE than 400,000 [...] 44 Daily Mail {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p19, Keyword: VETERANS, Journalist: Amanda Platell

Battle to halt Canada VC's export to UK 45 Daily Mirror {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p9, Keyword: VETERANS, Journalist: Louie Smith,

Wills' poetry competition to find a new Wilfred Owen 46 Daily Mail {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p30, Keyword: VETERANS, Journalist: Rebecca English,

Royal Navy/Marines

Mocking witches is a recipe for double trouble 48 The Times {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p28, Keyword: ROYAL NAVY/MARINES, Journalist: Rose Wild,

British Army

Kung fu for 'soft' soldiers 49 Daily Star {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p8, Keyword: BRITISH ARMY, Journalist: Not Credited,

Army officer killed in Iraq 50 Daily Mirror {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p23, Keyword: BRITISH ARMY, Journalist: Not Credited, Ministry of Defence

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RAF

Court Circular 51 The Times {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p82, Keyword: RAF, Journalist: Not Credited,

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Court Circular 52 The Daily Telegraph {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p30, Keyword: RAF, Journalist: Not Credited

Queen sees base for fighter force 53 Press & Journal (Aberdeen) {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p19, Keyword: RAF, Journalist: Not Credited,

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Queen's jet mission 54 Daily Record {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p24, Keyword: RAF, Journalist: Not Credited

Worldwide

Saudi leader's visit to Britain is likely to reveal tensions as well as ties 55 The Guardian {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p7, Keyword: United Nations, Journalist: Patrick Wintour,Owen Bowcott,

Beware of Trump's nearest and dearest - they read from 'the Washington playbook' 58 The Independent (App Edition) {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p29, Keyword: Donald Trump, Journalist: PATRICK COCKBURN,

Nuclear strategy shift Washington The [...] 62 The Times {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p42, Keyword: Donald Trump, Journalist: Not Credited,

ANIMALS

Army's new regimental goat evades capture 63 The Daily Telegraph {Main}, 03 Feb 2018, p13, Keyword: BRITISH MILITARY, Journalist: Harry Yorke, Source: Western Daily Press {Main} Edition: Country: UK Date: Friday 2, February 2018 Page: 3 Area: 36 sq. cm Circulation: ABC 15544 Daily Ad data: page rate £2,624.80, scc rate £12.06 Phone: 0117 934 3000 Keyword: Mark Lancaster

MP caught in Albania tangle

Stroud MP David Drew has been left red-faced after con- fusion over whether Albania is a member of Nato. The Labour MP, who is a shadow minister for environ- ment, food and rural affairs, submitted a written question to the defence secretary asking him whether he plans to support the Balkan state’s application to join Nato. But Mark Lancaster replied that Albania had been a full member since April 1, 2009. Mr Drew, who has been pro- lific at submitting written questions to the Government since he won his seat back in last year’s general election, admitted the question was “asked in error”.

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Thousands left in limbo as Carillion jobs saved

Alexandra Frean working on had been halted. He added: “Employees who have The fate of thousands of staff at been working since the liquidation was Carillion was still uncertain last night, announced will be paid for their work. despite hundreds being told that they The payments will be from the custom- had kept or lost their jobs. ers (some private, some government) The Insolvency Service said that 919 on whose behalf the work is being people had been told that their jobs done.” were safe and that 377 had been made 6 Small businesses and workers affect- redundant, leaving a huge question ed by the collapse have been promised mark over a further 16,700 workers at a multimillion-pound package of the collapsed construction contractor. support. The state-owned British Busi- The official receiver said that those ness Bank said it would provide £100 whose jobs had been saved worked million worth of lending via high street primarily in back-office functions, such banks and other finance firms. as administration and sales. They will be transferred to new employers. “Most staff are transferring on existing or similar terms and I will continue to facilitate this wherever possible as we work to find new pro- viders for Carillion’s other contracts,” the receiver said yesterday. The receiver has not managed to secure the jobs of 377 people, mostly back-office staff. They include 253 who had been working on public sector contracts and a further 124 working on private sector contracts. Those affected will be entitled to claim statutory redundancy payments, funded by the taxpayer. Carillion went bust last month owing more than £1 billion to its suppliers and banks, putting the future of 18,000 directly employed workers in doubt, plus tens of thousands more in its supply chain. Its failure has raised questions over many of its public sector contracts in hospitals, schools, prisons and for the Ministry of Defence. As the Insolvency Service picks over the rubble of the collapsed company, trying to salvage what it can, a spokesman said yesterday that, for the time being, those who had not been made redundant or officially offered a new job must “turn up for work until told otherwise”, even though many of the construction contracts they were ki h d b h l d

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British soldier dies serving on Iraqi base

Deborah Haynes Defence Editor A British officer has died at a base in Iraq where UK forces are operating as part of a mission against Islamic State. Captain Dean Sprouting of the Adju- tant General’s Corps died on Wednes- day at the al-Asad airbase in Anbar province, where British troops are training their Iraqi counterparts. An investigation has begun into the death, which was not caused by enemy fire, the MoD said. No firearms are thought to have been involved and it

Captain Dean Sprouting was not killed by enemy action

was not a suicide. Defence sources said it could have been a vehicle accident. Captain Sprouting, 46, from Denny, near Falkirk, was married with children. He is the second British soldier to die on Operation Shader, the British element of the US-led mission to combat Isis. Lance Corporal Scott Hether- ington was shot dead in an accident at another base in Iraq last year Lieutenant Colonel Rob Hedderwick described Captain Sprouting as “an indispensable part of the battalion, not only for his professional expertise but also for his compassionate manner”.

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Soldier’s Iraq end

A BRITISH Army captain has died in Iraq but it wasn’t linked to enemy activity, the MoD says. Married dad-of-two Dean Sprouting died in an incident at Al Asad Airbase on Wednesday. Cpt Sprouting, of Denny, Stirlingshire, was with the Adjutant Gen- eral’s Corps serving with the Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland. CO, Lt Col Rob Hedderwick, said: “He was indispensable.”

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SOLDIER DIES AT AIR BASE IN IRAQ Tributes to father of two LUCINDA CAMERON [email protected] A SCOTTISH soldier has died in an incident at an air base in Iraq. The Ministry of Defence said the death of Captain Dean Sprouting was not the result of enemy activity. The incident at the Al Asad base on January 31 is being investigated. EXPERTISE Dean Sprouting Captain Sprouting, of the compassionate manner and Adjutant General’s Corps, camaraderie. was serving with Black “His loss is keenly felt by Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal us all and our thoughts and Regiment of Scotland. prayers are with his wife and Lieutenant Colonel Rob children.” Hedderwick, Commanding The father of two, from Officer of The Black Watch, Denny, Stirlingshire, joined said: “In no time at all he had the army in 1989. become an indispensable Minister for the Armed part of the battalion. not Forces Mark Lancaster said: only for his professional “Our thoughts are with his expertise but also for his family and friends.”

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MoD probe into mystery death of Scots officer in Iraq

JODY HARRISON NEWS REPORTER

DEFENCE chiefs have launched an investigation into the sudden death of a Scottish Captain soldier at an army base in Iraq. Dean Black Watch Captain Dean Sprouting, Sprouting’s from Denny, near Falkirk, was serving with death was the Adjutant General’s Corps at the air base not the result when he died on January 31. of enemy The Ministry of Defence has said that his action. death was not the result of enemy action, but have not commented further. Royal Mili- tary Police are leading the probe into his to none and his sage advice already some- death. thing I had come to rely on. His loss is A spokesman for the MoD said: “It is with keenly felt by us all and our thoughts and regret that the MoD must announce the prayers are with his wife and children death of Captain Dean Sprouting of the whom I know he cherished more than Adjutant General’s Corps at Al Asad Air anything else in this world. Base, Iraq, on 31st January 2018. “I am hugely proud and thankful to have “He was serving with Black Watch, 3rd known him. He was a very good man.” Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland. The Warrant Officer Class One Tam Millsip, incident is currently under investigation, but Visiting Warrant Officer, 51 Infantry we can confirm that it was not the result of Brigade added: “Dean’s warm, personable enemy activity.” nature was never diluted while conducting Tributes have been paid to the father-of- his duties and those who he had dealings two by soldiers who served with him, with were always left smiling after Dean describing Mr Sprouting as a professional imparted his unique wisdom and outlook and compassionate soldier. on life. Lt Col Rob Hedderwick, Commanding “Dean was a tremendously entertaining Officer, The Black Watch, said: “It is hard to man to be around. He would bring a great do justice to a man such as Dean Sprouting deal of joy and laughter to those around him with simple words. often at the expense of himself; there was “In no time at all he had become an indis- never a boring day spent with Dean and my pensable part of the battalion, not only for thoughts go out to his family at this very sad his professional expertise but also for his time.” compassionate manner and camaraderie. Minister for the Armed Forces, Mark His intelligence and sharp wit was apparent Lancaster, said: “It is with deep regret that from the outset. the Ministry of Defence confirms the death “There was an ever-present twinkle in his of Capt Dean Sprouting of the Adjutant eye and he would gladly admit that his General’s Corps, who died earlier this week youth had been full of adventure. at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq. “Dean was simply one of those people “Our thoughts are with his family and whose infectious humour and enthusiasm friends at this very difficult time. An investi- drew others to him. gation is under way to establish the detail “His professional knowledge was second but it is not a result of enemy activity.”

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Mea culpa: a bad metaphor can spoil the whole barrel John Rentoul’s regular roundup of our errors and omissions

A comment article this week took issue with the view that Carillion, the company that went bust last month, was a one-off failure, rather than evidence of a widespread problem among public contractors. “Many will say the firm was just one rotten apple,” the article said.

This is not what the rotten apple metaphor means. It refers to the way a single rotten apple can contaminate a whole barrel. The question is whether Carillion is a single, self-contained and non- contaminating instance of rottenness, or whether private contractors for public services are all a bit rotten to start with.

Make history: Saturday’s Daily Edition carried an article with the headline “Gavin Williamson confesses to historic office romance”. As Philip Nalpanis pointed out, the Defence Secretary’s affair is unlikely to be historic. It might have made history in the two families affected, but what we meant was “historical” – that is, something that happened a while ago.

The distinction between historic and historical is arbitrary, and there was no ambiguity here, but it is worth knowing the convention and observing it because it inspires confidence, among those readers who know the convention, that we care about language.

Battle forgone: The struggle to maintain the difference between two other similar words has probably been lost, if indeed it was ever won. We referred in News in Brief in the Daily Edition this week to Casey Affleck’s “decision to forego giving away” the Best Actress Award at the 2018 Oscars. Forgo means “go without”, but is usually spelt forego, which can also mean “go before”. Hence “forgoing” pleasures means doing without them, while “the foregoing” means the stuff we have just been writing about. The Oxford Dictionary tries to preserve the version without the “e”, citing the difference between the Old English prefixes for- (against or without, as in forbid and forget) and fore- (before or in front). But I am not sure forgo was ever widely used. A search of Google Books (using Ngram Viewer) suggests the “e” form was always more common, and that forgo was rarer in the 19th and early 20th centuries than it is now. Sometimes we pedants need to know when we are beaten, and this is one of those times. “Forgo” just looks

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odd to most people. My advice is to rephrase. On this occasion we used the word only because we had already referred to “the actor’s decision to withdraw from presenting”. At the second mention, we could have talked about his pulling out of the ceremony instead.

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Apples, seemingly uncontaminated

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DUSTD OFF YOUR...UR... DUFFEL COAT

From the MoD to modern-day mods, this winter menswear classic bears revisiting, says Stephen Doig

n today’s tumultuous the Ministry of Defence – rolled them world, it’s understandablele out for public consumption. that many of us might And as with other traditionally wish to retreat to a more British “uniforms”, it wasn’t long I innocent age. On the before the subcultures came calling. catwalks, models strut The duffel coat became an essential their stuff in camo printss part of the mod wardrobe, from Sixties and utility attire, like scooter boys to modern-day mod Liam soldiers preparing for conflict, butw ewe Gallagher. It has long been a student are also seeing more clothes that hintt staple (see Art Garfunkel and Jack at happier, simpler, bygone times. Nicholson in 1971’s Carnal Knowledge) There are few items more redolentt and has even been thrust into the high of blissful childhood years than the fashion limelight by the likes of Saint duffel coat. This is in part due to its Laurent and Dior Homme. At the more association with a certain London- accessible end of the scale, Coatmaker centric bear, as well as its mass appealal is a new outerwear brand that employs as a primary school cover-up (toggless wool from British mills and creates are easy for little hands to master). covetable coats in a variety of colours, Which is ironic, because the duffel from standard beige to myriad cobalt, coat has its roots – like so much of teal and poison green shades, as well men’s fashion – in military wear. The as striking tartan. And while it’s Belgian town of Duffel became famous perfectly fine to shrug a duffel coat on in the 15th century for its heavy, rough over your work suit, we’d err on the wools; by the 18th century it had side of classic and casual; pair with a become incorporated into coats for the slim cut pair of jeans to modernise it British Navy, which were substantial a touch. A word of caution: when enough to withstand North Sea winds. fastened, this coat can look too cosily It saw active service during the Second Paddington, so if the weather allows, World War, but it wasn’t until the leave it undone for a certain French Fifties that British outfitters Gloverall insouciance. No one wants to be – who had been supplying the coats to compared to a stuffed animal.

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TRACKING THE TREND FORMATIVE YEARS BEST DRESSED The duffel coat evolved as Jean Cocteau, the French a hardy perennial for thethe writer, artist and film- British maker, was a fan of the military, duffel coat, and could be includ- found lunching with Coco ing Fieldd Chanel while wearing his Marshal cream number. A young Mont- Prince Charles admired gomery, the coat, while David thanks Bowie’s alien wardrobe in to the 1976’s The Man Who Fell to weight Earth featured an avant- of the garde duffel. wool.

FRONT MEN Manchester band Oasis adopted the duffel as their signature mod-redux attire, while fashion houses since have turned the coat into a four-figure luxury item. GC IMAGES; GETTY IMAGES; ALAMY; WIREIMAGE ALAMY; IMAGES; GETTY GC IMAGES;

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THREE OF THE BESTBEST

WOOL DUFFEL £795 (mackintosh.com) MONTY DUFFELDUFFEL £315£315 (gloverall.(gloverall. com)com)

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AMIAMI AALEXANDRELEXANDRREE MATTIUSSIMATTIUSSI DUFFELDUFFEL £333£333 ((farfetch.com)farfetch.com) SLIMSLIM CUTCUT JEJEANSANNS £125£125 (jcrew.(jcrew. com)com)

CONNOLLYCONNOLLYO CABLE CABLE KNITKN BEANIE HAT £120£12 (mrporter.com) A BEAR NECESSITY Coatmaker has produced a distinctive tartan duffel

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WEARWEAWEAAR IT WITH BARNWELL BOOTSBOOTS £380 (crockettand(crockettand jones.com)

THEONTHEONO CCOTTONOTTON ANANDD CASHMERECASHMERE SSWEATERWEATER £160 (johnsmedley.com)(j hnsmedley.com)

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DUFFER THAN THE REST Jack Nicholson, left, and Art Garfunkel in Carnal Knowledge

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Abbreviation worthy of the Royal Navy’s largest warship By Ben Farmer SAILORS have long been known for speaking their own nautical language that leaves landlubbers baffled. That tradition continued yesterday when the Royal Navy’s largest-ever warship published its daily orders for the public to see on Twitter as the 65,000-ton vessel left Portsmouth. As the £3.1 billion HMS Queen Eliza- beth was prepared for departure, com- manders shared the string of shorthand orders given to the 700-strong crew, joking that it was the “longest abbreviation known to humankind”. The orders, reading: “SSDCUADCS- 3CYHTHSHOOTROTDCOTUDCAS- DAH” equated to “Special Sea Dutymen Close Up Assume Damage Control State 3 Condition Yankee Hands to Harbour Stations Hands Out Of The Rig Of The Day Clear Off The Upper Deck Close All Screen Doors And Hatches”. Or, as naval sources explained for those still none the wiser: “Get ready to go”. The UK’s future flagship sailed for the first time since being officially com- missioned into the Royal Navy in De- cember and will be launching her first helicopter trials at sea. Two Chinook helicopters from the aircraft test and evaluation facility at MoD Boscombe Down landed on the warship before it sailed and two Merlin Mk2 helicopters will join later. Specialist equipment on the aircraft will test landings, take-offs and ma- noeuvres in different seas and winds. Flight trials for the new F-35B stealth jet will take place later in the year. Capt Jerry Kyd, the ship’s commanding officer, said: ““This is an important milestone in the ship’s progression towards embarking the F-35B Lightning jets later this year, and ultimately the achievement of carrier strike capability.”

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The Royal Navy’s HMS Queen Elizabeth departing from her home base of Portsmouth yesterday morning

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US defence wants a ‘credible’ UK military after voicing concerns over budget cuts

By Ben Farmer and up to seven frigates to save money tion as we carry out our responsibility DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT as part of a Whitehall security review. to strengthen the special relationship, Two months ago, Lt Gen Ben turning it over to the next generation BRITAIN must kdblkeep a “credible” mili- Hodges, who was the commander of stronger than we inherited it”. tary as part of the special relationship Dana White, the chief spokesman for with the US, Donald Trump’s defence the Pentagon, said after the meeting: chief has said. Jim Mattis, the US “Secretary Mattis emphasised the Jim Mattis called on Gavin William- Defence Secretary, value of the US-UK special relationship son, his new British counterpart, to wants to make the and reaffirmed the importance of cred- strengthen transatlantic defence ties, speical relationship ible defence capabilities.” making the relationship “stronger than ‘stronger’ One diplomatic source said there we inherited it”. was alarm in the US at the prospect of He is the latest US military leader to its closest military ally shrinking its suggest concern about the prospect of armed forces. further cuts to Britain’s Armed Forces the US army in Europe at the time, One US source told The Daily Tele- as the Ministry of Defence wrestles warned that Britain risked losing its graph: “We get you have got other with a black hole of more than £20 bil- place at Nato’s top table if it continues things like the NHS to spend money on, lion over the next decade. military cuts. but so have we.” Leaked proposals show that chiefs Mr Mattis met the Defence Secretary “When we see your forces now, you last year considered cutting 11,000 sol- at the Pentagon on Thursday to discuss have got some great capability, but diers, more than 1,000 Royal Marines “ways to bolster our defence coopera- how sustainable is that?”

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Thousands march in call to end troops witch-hunt bearing the name of a soldier, police Ian Drury officer or civilian murdered by the - ByTHOUSANDS of campaign- IRA in Ulster. t Home Affairs Editor The Daily Mail has long cam- paigned for an end to the hounding THOUSANDS of campaign- of our troops. ers will march on Parliament Justice For Northern Ireland Veter- today demanding an end to ans says action is unjustly being taken against soldiers while IRA the ‘witch-hunt’ against members who committed atrocities troops who served in North- get off scot-free. ern Ireland. The group wants to highlight the They are calling on Theresa May disparity in treatment between the to halt the ‘appalling’ decision to veterans and 187 on-the-run para- re-examine historical killings dur- military suspects who received ‘com- fort letters’ from Tony Blair’s govern- ing the Troubles. ment which told them they were not Up to 1,000 ex-soldiers, many in being sought by police. their 60s and 70s, are now potential Organiser Alan Barry, who served murder or manslaughter suspects in the Grenadier Guards, said: ‘We over actions at the height of the want to show the imbalance between IRA’s campaign. The Prime Minister was urged to the terrorists who received get-out- act over the Police Service of North- of-jail-free cards giving them immu- ern Ireland’s controversial move to - nity from prosecution and the unac- hold a fresh investigation into every ceptable decision to prosecute Army killing in the fight against Irish British soldiers. republican terrorism. ‘We want to send a message to The rally, which begins in Horse Parliament that we will not tolerate Guards Parade and ends in Parlia- the hounding of veterans who went ment Square with rousing speeches, to Northern Ireland on the side of has been organised by the protest law and order to fight terrorism. ‘To haul them before the courts group Justice For Northern Ireland is grotesque.’ Veterans and is expected to attract Tory MP Julian Lewis, chairman of 2,000 campaigners. the Commons defence committee, is They will hold up 200 placards, each set to speak at the event. He has bearing the name of a soldier, police demanded an end to the prosecu-

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demanded an end to the prosecutions and says the Government Critics are angry that, although should pass a statute of limitations 90 per cent of the 3,500 killings in to prevent veterans facing legal Northern Ireland were at the action over the killings. hands of terrorists, the investigation This would effectively grant immu- has focused on the actions of nity to those who served in Ulster British forces. from 1969 to the signing of the Good The former soldiers’ treatment has Friday Agreement in 1998. been compared to that of John Retired soldier Dennis Hutchings, Downey, who escaped prosecution who is facing an attempted murder for the 1982 Hyde Park bombing charge over a fatal shooting more because he was given a police guar- than 40 years ago, will also attend antee of immunity. the rally. Downey has always denied involve- The 76-year-old said the veterans ment and pleaded not guilty at the had been ‘abandoned’ by ministers. Old Bailey in 2014.

He said: ‘It is imperative we get the [email protected] politicians to start listening. My gripe is that they and the serving generals in the Ministry of Defence WITCH-HUNT are not speaking out and trying to stop this injustice.’ AGAINST The Police Service of Northern Ireland’s taxpayer-funded Legacy Investigation Branch is re- OUR HEROES examining 302 deaths during the Troubles. Critics are angry that, although

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Jennifer Selway \dX`ca\eep%j\cnXp7\ogi\jj%Zf%lbkn`kk\i7a\ej\cnXp WAKE me up when Gavin Williamson resigns. He sounds a bit ofÊ a prat. The current Defence Secretary once worked for a ﬁreplace company called Elgin & Hall, ﬂirted with a colleague and kissed her. In 2004. That’s 14 years ago. He told his wife. Now he’s told everyone. And to think we used to rely on the Tories for cracking sex scandals to add to the gaiety of the nation. Elgin & Hall’s parent company is Aga, so I thought about working up an Aga saga joke. But in the end I really couldn’t be bothered.

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Callum Jones Market report

Cobham sale fails its first test with City investors

he chief executive of American fell 42p to £16.48, BHP devices revealed that persistent Cobham said yesterday he Billiton slipped 23¾p to £15.37¼ and challenges in India had almost halved was “delighted” that the Antofagasta dropped 20½p to 901½p. its revenue in the last six months of aerospace and defence BP came under pressure, retreating 2017. Shares in the company dropped T by 12p to 489½p after it unveiled a 35 per cent to 1¾p as investors and group had agreed to sell its test and measurement businesses, but traders contemplated why, with a base plan to expand its retail business in of more than a million users, Mobile his suggestion that it was “a good deal China, working with Dongming for Cobham shareholders” wasn’t Streams had only 180,000 active Petrochemical across three of the paying subscribers. The company necessarily shared across the City. country’s provinces. “We have been able to conclude the warned in September that fresh Vodafone provided some light, competition and a failure to get some portfolio review of the Avcomm and jumping 5p to 219½p after confirming Wireless businesses expeditiously, customers to pay for content had “media speculation” that it was in pushed earnings “materially lower after a competitive auction process,” talks with Liberty Global, the cable David Lockwood said. “Today’s than current market expectations”. company controlled by John Malone, Simon Buckingham, chief announcement [of a sale to Viavi and was considering whether to buy Solutions for £325 million] is a good executive, said: “Our primary focus “certain overlapping continental during the period was to reduce losses deal for Cobham shareholders, as we European assets”. can now focus on delivering value- with our key accounts in India The FTSE 250 stooped back below through a process of marketing and added technology and capabilities to 20,000 for the first time since early our defence, aerospace and space customer churn optimisation, as well December, closing down 1.11 per cent, as working to convert zero-rated customers, supported by a more or 223.08 points, at 19,962.46. Over resilient balance sheet.” mobilegaming.com customers into the course of the week, it gave up 653 active paying subscribers.” Shares in Cobham might have risen points, or 3.2 per cent. after news of the deal, peaking at Mobile Streams said that it had On the junior market, a temporary generated revenue of £1.8 million in 130¼p in the first minute of trading, seating and structures provider with but then they sank into the red. The the six months to December 31, down company closed down 8p, or 6 per clients including ITV’s Dancing On Ice from £3.6 million. While the company cent, at 116¾p last night. slipped. Arena Events Group shed a reported an earnings loss of £700,000 Executives are seeking to revive penny to 58p after saying that it had before interest, taxes, depreciation, Cobham in the wake of five profit agreed to buy GLD Productions, and amortisation, it insisted that warnings in a year. They pledged to which hires out furniture for events losses would be lower during the use the money raised by the sale to including the Strictly Come Dancing present half-year. strengthen the balance sheet and tour and London Fashion Week. Executives conceded, however, that reduce its £440 million in debt. Avanti Communications closed they were not out of the woods yet. Cobham wasn’t alone in struggling flat at 9p after announcing that “Trading conditions in the company’s on another difficult day for the Kyle Whitehill would become its chief core markets of India and Argentina London market. The FTSE 100 closed executive in April. Alan Harper, its are unlikely to change materially in down 46.96 points, or 0.63 per cent, at interim boss, will resume his previous the second half of the current 7,443.43, completing its worst week in role as non-executive director. financial year, meaning that the nine months. Over the course of five Investors were disconnecting with company expects that second-half sessions, it surrendered 222 points, or Mobile Streams after the AIM-listed revenues will be slightly below those 2.9 per cent. seller of games and apps for portable recorded in the first half of the year,” Glencore led a mining slump, they said. shedding 17p to 382¾p. Anglo Vaguely describing how “certain Aif ll 42 £16 48 BHP h ll ” i h billi h d

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challenges” with billing partners had “hindered growth”, Mobile Streams sought to soothe concerns by insisting that directors believed such problems have been addressed.

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Cobham offloads two non-defence divisions to cut debt

By Alan Tovey COBHAM has agreed the sale of two non-defence businesses that it ac- quired during its disastrous takeover of the US communications specialist Aero flex in 2014. The British-headquartered Wireless division – which tests wireless and mobile phone networks – and the US-based aircraft electronics division will be bought by US-based Viavi Solu- tions for $455m (£325m) in cash, with Cobham using the proceeds to help cut its debt. Last year Cobham ran a £500m rights issue after putting out five profit warnings in the preceding 15 months, and cleared out management. It was widely considered to have overpaid when it bought Aeroflex for £870m. Problems with Cobham’s biggest contract – building an in-flight refuelling system for the US air force’s new KC-46 tanker – only compounded the problems. Shares fell 6.4pc to 116.8p, a decline analysts attributed to the wireless business performing better than the market had expected.

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Special Forces: Out of the Shadows National Army Museum, SW3, 17 Mar to 18 Nov This exhibition is set to lift the lid on Britain’s most storied military regiments, from their origins in the second world war to what it takes for soldiers to make the cut now. With terrorism and hostage sieges, and settings from jungles to foreign embassies, it promises more action than the next Bond fl ick. SS

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How I found out Dad was one of the 3,000 heroes sacrificed by Churchill to save Dunkirk

Darkest Hour shows the British soldiers ordered to hold back the Germans ‘to the last man’ so the rest of the Army could evacuate. Here one man’s memoir recounts those days – and his horror at bayoneting a German by John Jay

HEY were the lost brigade, angry, impatient and rude, both in his job as a just a few thousand British City stockbroker and at home with his family. soldiers, doomed by a morti- I wasn’t close to him. In truth, I barely knew fied Winston Churchill to fight him and much of what I knew I didn’t like. T When he died suddenly in 1993, aged 73, from to the last man to hold up the a ruptured aorta, I deeply regretted our failure Germans at the French port of Calais. to talk more. They courageously did as ordered, sacrificing Only years later did I sift through dusty their futures and lives to delay the advance of papers he’d left in carrier bags, notes summa- Hitler’s armies, buying time for the miracle rising the chapters of the autobiography he evacuation from the beaches of Dunkirk, just never got round to writing. He had made a 30 miles up the coast, in May 1940. start, though — just seven precious pages. And at last the heroic stand of the Calais gar- As I read them, my real father emerged. Not rison has been widely recognised, figuring the curmudgeon of my childhood, but a hero prominently in Darkest Hour, the marvellous — first on the battlefield at Calais; then as a film starring Gary Oldman that depicts those prisoner of war from 1940 until 1945 who made desperate days when Churchill inspired the five attempts to escape; and finally a freedom nation to defiance rather than surrender. fighter who, as the war neared its end, foughtht I have just watched it at the cinema, choking gun in hand alongside partisans in Easterrn back the tears. I have a very personal interest. Europe. That he was Jewish and in constannt My father, Alec Jay, then just a 20-year-old danger of his Nazi captors discovering his orori-i- rifleman, was one of those who fought in that gins and consigning him to an exterminatioion battle — and at great cost. It left scars on his camp only added to his remarkable bravery.y. mind from which he never recovered. And nor, I needed to know more and set off on yearss ofof indirectly, have I. I never really understood my research — following his footsteps aroundnd Dad when he was alive. He was a remote figure, ,

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, research — following his footsteps around ‘like dervishes’. Screaming, he Europe, tracking down those who knew him,im, plunged his bayonet into a . seeking the understanding of him that hhaad German soldier. eluded me when he was alive. It was an act of primeval violence . I discovered that he was in Calais onnllyy that would always haunt him. ‘In ten because he was brave and principled and hhaad minutes I must have gone back 2,000 gone willingly to war as a volunteer, nott a years,’ he recalled with distaste. conscript. Motivated by an intense hatred of ‘We were complete savages. This fascists and racists, he joined Britainn’’ss was warfare at its most basic, undi- Territorial Army in 1938, luted by distance, fighting a single When Hitler’s forces marauded througgh opponent whom one must kill to Belgium and France, his regiment, the Queeeenn avoid being killed.’ Victoria’s Rifles (known as the Queen Vicscs)),, The sortie silenced the machine was rushed across the Channel on what wwaas gun, but there it had to end. The always going to be a suicide mission. He wwaass choice was to surrender or die point- caught, as he put it in his notes, ‘withh a lessly. My father’s Bren gun was one-way ticket and no passage home’. empty and he had just six rounds left four Forcritical four dayscritical 3,000 days lightly 3,000 armed lightly armed in his revolver when an officer British riflemen held at bay 25,000 announced, ‘Sorry, fellows, it’s bloody crack troops of two fully-mechanised hopeless,’ and the white flag was German tank divisions, while being finally run up. constantly pushed back house by ‘The next thing I knew a very large, house in vicious fighting. very aggressive German soldier was Barrage after barrage of shells ripping away at my revolver, putting pulverised them. Waves of Stuka the muzzle within an inch of my nose dive-bombers dropped their deadly and yelling, “Soll ich? Soll ich?” loads. But, unlike French soldiers in which I jolly well knew was German the town — whose white flags and for “Shall I? Shall I?” Fortunately, cowardice under fire would be a he didn’t.’ grievance for my father all his life — Their faces pale, eyes bloodshot the British refused to surrender. from lack of sleep, throats sore through breathing smoke and their tattered uniforms covered in mud, grease and dried blood, the Queen S THEY fell back to the Vics were herded between rows of port, they could see the triumphant Germans. For some of A white cliffs of Dover bathed them, the surrender felt honourable in sunshine 21 miles across — they had fought hard and yielded the Channel. Three British destroyers only when encircled and out of cruised offshore. But the order to ammunition. They had also achieved evacuate did not come. Churchill’s objective. The German With backs to the sea, ‘we still advance on Dunkirk was slowed. The fought on,’ he recalled, ‘having to rest of the British Army got home withdraw yard by yard, being when all seemed lost. Stuka’ed unmercifully, mortared and To my father, though, this was little shelled by German heavy tanks.’ consolation. For him, Calais would In the Queen Vics’ regimental aid always be an inglorious humiliation. post, the hard-pressed doctor He would also come to see the five amputated arms and legs with just a years he then spent in captivity as a knife and a hacksaw. terrible waste, as well as an awful Outside, corpses littered the and terrifying ordeal. He was never ground as German advances able to move on. compressed the area of Calais still That first night as a prisoner he occupied by the British to the size of slept on earth in a graveyard — a school sports ground. ‘downcast, dispirited, dejected and There could be no more illusions disillusioned’. And that was just the about rescue and the Queen Vics start as the men set off on a gruelling decided ‘the only thing to do was to three-week march through France, make the best of it’. An officer l Belgium and Holland to Germany. ordered a last counter-attack to take If a prisoner stumbled, a guard out a machine-gun nest giving them would club him over the head or a heavy pounding, and rounded up a shoot without warning. Even few soldiers, including my father. stopping to urinate was punished. They fixed bayonets, he recalled, They had to scoop water from ditches crept through the dunes and charged to quench their thirst and grab ‘like dervishes’. Screaming, he dandelions and dock leaves to eat.

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to quench their thirst and grab dandelions and dock leaves to eat. dramatic silence, broken finally by revenge. He struggled to make When they finally crossed into Alec who calmly and politely sense of this carnage. ‘War is not a Germany, teenagers in Hitler Youth explained to the SS officer how his civilising influence,’ he would say. uniforms shouted: ‘England ist kaput,!’ language skills enabled him to act But at least his war was now l A girl spat in my father’s face. as a useful mediator between pris- finally over. It had been a long haul They were unshaven, their uniforms oners and guards. Taking him away from that defeat in Calais, but after in tatters, their boots disintegrating, would be counter-productive. The four years and 354 days he arrived yet a message spread down the Germans backed down. home to Golders Green in London ranks: ‘Get in step and march to He was forced, however, to wear a to a tumultuous welcome from his attention.’ Shoulders were pushed distinguishing mark to show he family. He went back to his stock- back and weary heads raised as, was different — a long, white band- broking firm, soon as a partner. unbowed, they whistled There’ll age, which a guard wrapped round But his jangled nerves simply Always Be An England. My father his head until it resembled a couldn’t cope with normal life. continued in that defiant mood. For turban. It was so humiliating to There was an emotional chasm some POWs, the easiest way tlo him he went to his grave without between him and civilians who did

, survive behind the barbed wire was telling his children. It was only not understand the stress of com- not to make waves — particularly if after his death that his best friend bat or the privations of imprison- you had a secret to hide, as my father in the camp told us the story. ment. It was as if he and they lived did, being Jewish. His time as a POW was hard. The on different planets. Back at Calais, he had covered hist men were undernourished, yet He was obsessed with the fact tracks, burying in the sand his iden-- forced into hard labour breaking that five years of his life had disap- tity disc and Army pay book identify- stones in a quarry. Dysentery left peared, ‘eaten by the locusts’, in ing him as Jewish and registering him passing blood. His weight fell the poignant words of one of his with his captors as ‘C of E’. But he to seven stone. A ‘Dear John’ letter comrades, ‘and gone for ever with was not the sort to cower in the from home told him the girlfriend the wind’. background. He had a smattering of- he’d been with since school and He was overwhelmed by all the German — which he’d studied — and hoped to marry had ditched him. sub-human cruelty he had not so he put himself forward as This broke his heart and almost only witnessed, but taken part interpreter in whichever of the camps his spirit, but not quite. At one in. With that man-to-man killing he found himself in. t work camp he dared lead a strike, with his bayonet at Calais, he felt He felt he had no choice. ‘Rows he had crossed a line, and there when the commandant halved thef would break out between guards and potato ration. He made numerous was no going back. , prisoners, each yelling in his own lan- This was the man I knew as my attempts to escape. Once- , guage, neither understanding a word disguised as a migrant Czech father. Five years after his return of what the other was saying. Then home, he met my mother, and their t worker, he got within 50 miles o f I’d see the guard unshoulder his rifle the border before being caught. marriage lasted the rest of his life, and I just had to step in.’ . producing three children. t The Gestapo beat him with rub - But his facility with languages ber truncheons and made him dig But it was always rocky. His tor- , might also raise suspicions about hisl ment impacted on all of us around r his own grave in a mock execution background, and he had much more before returning him to the camp. to lose than other prisoners if his - TURN TO NEXT PAGE On his fifth escape attempt, he identity ever came out. made it. All the POWs were being On one occasion it did. He claimed t evacuated west away from the , an anti-Semitic fellow Brit had advancing Russians at the begin- turned him in. An SS officer called ning of 1945, on the infamous Death out to the assembled camp: ‘Where March through the snow, in which is Alec the Jew? Where is the hook- some 3,000 prisoners died. nosed bastard?’ He dodged away with six men Before my father could respond, and over the mountains into as one man, his prison-camp com- Czechoslovakia, where they fell rades formed a protective ring into the hands of anti-German par- around him, booing and hissing tisans. For the remaining six weeks the Germans. The guards levelled of the war my father was part of a their rifles, safety catches off, but a guerrilla group which lived in the British sergeant stepped forward forest, bombed troop trains and and addressed them: ‘I don’t care attacked police stations. whether Alec is a Jew. He also took part in an uprising ‘He is in British uniform and there in Prague, and, to his lasting hor- is no way you are going to take him ror, witnessed the partisans dous- away from us. If you try, you will ing Germans in petrol and setting have to shoot us all.’ There was a them alight as ‘living torches’ in

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BEFORE THE WAR AS A PRISONER

Ready to do his bit: Alec Jay in 1938 and (right) after his capture

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FROM PREVIOUS PAGE bayonet were placed on his coffin him, casting a shadow over and a bugler blew The Last Post. my childhood. It was Queen Mary I who apparently He would wake up screaming after said that, when she died, ‘Calais’, some nightmare. When we burned which she lost to the French in 1558, toast, he said the smell was like would be found engraved on her burned bodies — and he had heart. The same could be said of my been ‘within smelling distance father. It was there his life changed of Auschwitz’. for ever and for the worse. Unquenchable anger was his biggest The sacrifice of the British forces demon. Hatred of ‘the Huns’ had kept there was a necessary evil — as him going during his captivity, yet it D ark est H our sh ows. I’ m not qu ibbling about that. served little purpose in peacetime, And it was not taken lightly. poisoning his relationships with Churchill knew his order ‘meant family, friends and colleagues. certain death or capture’ for the The guilt felt by a survivor pursued garrison and his moral dilemma him like a demon, causing anxiety, made him feel sick. ‘It was the only depression, social withdrawal, sleep time during the war that I couldn’t disturbance, nightmares. Why was he eat,’ he once wrote. still alive when others he’d fought It was the pivotal point of World alongside were decomposing in some War II because it meant Britain still foreign field? had an army to defend itself Once, he reluctantly agreed to see a against invasion. psychiatrist, who, unsurprisingly, Without the self-sacrifice of the quickly spotted the canker beneath garrison at Calais, the war might well the surface. ‘Alec,’ he said, ‘I need to have ended in defeat. break you down.’ But the cost was greater, and lasted ‘Well, you won’t,’ my father replied. longer, than many of those audiences, ‘The Germans spent five years trying as they stream from the cinemas that and they failed.’ With that, he after a truly great and inspiring film, marched from the consulting room. can possibly realise. He tried to ease his private pain, making pilgrimages of regret to Cal- OFACING Fearful Odds — My Father’s Story of Captivity, Escape & ais as well as the places in eastern Resistance 1940-1945 is published by Europe where he was imprisoned. ‘I Pen & Sword Military, RRP £25. left an awful lot of friends in Calais,’ he recalled. ‘There are times when one feels one has no right to be alive.’ ‘The Germans tried He was always hoping to find a catharsis ‘but so far I have not’. And and failed to break so he was still at war and consumed by guilt the day he died in 1993. For his me for five years’ funeral, his side cap and rifleman’s

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=XcbcXe[j_\if_fefli\[YpYfk_j`[\j SURGEON CAPTAIN Rick “Doc” Jolly saved the lives of hundreds of British and Argentine troops during the Falklands War and was the only I`ZbAfccp person to have been decorated for distinguished conduct by both EXmXcjli^\fe[liè^ Britain and Argentina. =XcbcXe[jnXi The Royal Navy surgeon, the senior medical officer of 3 9FIEF:KF9<;.( hospital at Ajax Bay where 1,000 troops, including around 300 Argentines, were treated in freezing said: “Without his organisational and basic surroundings as war skills the surgeons and medics raged outside for three weeks. would never have functioned. I can Two unexploded bombs remained only thank him for saving my life lodged in the roof as surgical and many others.” operations went on below. Following the conflict, Jolly was When HMS Ardent was appointed an OBE by the Queen devastated by Argentine fighter and in 1999 received the Orden de DECORATED:CO Hero Rick i Jolly bombers on May 21, 1982, Dr Jolly Mayo, one of Argentina’s highest was lowered from a helicopter to honours, to reflect “the nation’s pluck a drowning sailor from the gratitude”. Charles on an official visit to sea. “I tapped my crewman on the Born in Hong Kong, Jolly was Argentina, taking with him a list of arm, leant across and shouted ‘Me educated at Stonyhurst College 79 Argentinian wounded operated – down’,” he said before studying medicine at St on at Ajax Bay. Plumes of smoke poured from the Bart’s, London. He qualified as a In 2002 he led 250 former British frigate as he was lowered into the physician in 1969 and joined the personnel on a visit to the islands to near-freezing water and bear- Royal Navy, serving in Belfast with mark the 20th anniversary of the hugged the sailor as they were the 3rd Parachute Regiment. conflict and five years later he stood winched to safety. Moments later he He retired from the Navy in 1996 outside the Imperial War Museum in saved a second man. and launched a campaign to London to welcome former Every British soldier whom he highlight the problems of post- Argentinian pilots to the opening of treated at his improvised hospital traumatic stress disorder among a major exhibition on the war. in an old refrigeration plant, Falklands survivors. His memoir He died of complications of a nicknamed the Red and Green Life published in 1983 was the first book heart condition and is survived by Machine, survived, including written by a serving participant in his wife Susie, whom he married in veteran Simon Weston who called the UK Task Force. 1970. Their son James predeceased him an “incredible man”. Weston In 1999 he accompanied Prince him.

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National memorial to honour Sikh soldiers

The communities secretary, Sajid Javid, has announced that the government will fund a national memorial in London to honour the Sikhs who fought in the world wars. During the First World War about 130,000 Sikhs served in the colonial Indian army. A working group will identify possible sites for the war memorial.

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Readers to kit out home for SAS Bob

EXCLUSIVE by ANDREW PARKER

SUN readers are helping homeless SAS hero Bob Curry furnish the pad won with their support. We told yesterday how a council will house him after 400,000 people signed a petition worldwide. Now a Leeds reader wants to supply and fit carpets free for the veteran, 64 — star of the 1980 Iran embassy siege. Another in home city Hereford will provide a three-piece suite and bed. Others offered kitchen appliances for his bungalow as well as temporary accommodation. Bob said: “I’m overwhelmed by Sun readers’ support. They got me the bungalow and are helping me back on my feet.” A charity put him up in a B&B after a marriage split and business failure left him broke.

Happy now . . . Bob Rd

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Lorraine Kelly

[email protected] READERSREADERS ALL GAVE BOB HOPE

WE were all sickened by the treatment of SAS hero Bob Curry after he was left penniless and homeless. Bob, above, famously freed hostages in the iconic 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London but was left down on his luck and without a roof over his head. Council officials in Herefordshire claimed they couldn’t help, yet thanks to a magnificent 400,000 of you signing a petition and demanding action, the authorities have been shamed into doing a U-turn. Members of the council have finally pulled their heads out of their collective butts and discovered they did in fact have a house for this brave man. Never underestimate the power of Sun readers. God bless every one of you.

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, y, y , Platell’s People

[email protected] MORE than 400,0000 Curry, 64, has been people signed a living in B&Bs paid for petition to force by his former regiment. Herefordshire Council It is a scandal that finally to find a home while one in ten for a hero who served council homes goes to for 17 years with the foreigners, veterans in SAS and distinguished need who fought for our himself in the Iranian freedoms are left to Embassy siege. Bob fend for themselves.

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Battle to halt Canada VC’s export to UK

BY LOUIE SMITH THE family of a Canadian Victoria Cross hero want their Government to stop a British collector taking it out of the country. In September £400,000 was paid for medals tank commander Lt Col David Currie won in a fierce battle to cut off retreating Germans after D-Day. Now his son, also called David, 83, wants Canada to refuse a cultural export licence for its only VC from the Normandy campaign. He said: “That medal is part of our heritage.” “My father believed in duty for his country, now his country should do their duty by him.” Lt Col Currie, given his VC by King George VI, died in 1986 aged 73 in Ottawa. His hard-up widow Isabel sold the medals to a Canadian collector.

HERO Lt Col David Currie

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competition

to find a new

Wilfred Owen

By Rebecca English Royal Correspondent that, inspired by those earlier ery that they can make”. PRINCE William launched a works, will have its own mod- ‘He said it was the most poetry competition yesterday ern-day perspective on service, important thing he had ever conflict and humankind’s abil- undertaken in his life, and he to find a modern Wilfred Owen. ity to overcome adversity.’ The contest, to mark the opening worked tirelessly fundraising The DNRC centre will pro- and giving his own money, and of a £300 million centre for wounded vide neurological and complex it will be a great tragedy that military personnel, is inspired by trauma care and a full suite of he won’t be there to see it the likes of Owen, Siegfried Sas- rehabilitative facilities, and open.’ The winning entry will soon and Rupert Brooke and seeks aims to be one of the best of be displayed in perpetuity at its kind in the world. work that reflects on ‘humankind’s the DNRC and its writer will ability to triumph over adversity’. It is the brainchild of the late sixth Duke of Westminster, receive £2,000. Four runners- The winning entry will be chosen by up will each receive £500. the public and will be read by William who served in the Army - A Poem to Remember is at the Defence National Rehabilita- reserves for 40 years and died open to anyone over the age of tion Centre at Stanford Hall near at the age of 64 in 2016. His 17. Entries close on April 9, Loughborough later this year. son-in-law, historian and and 25 poems will be selected The prince, a patron of the centre, broadcaster Dan Snow – who to go forward to the judges. said: ‘The centenary year of the end of will lead a panel of judges dur- They will choose five finalists ing the competition – said: ‘My the First World War is a very appropri- and the winner will be decided father-in-law said he wanted a ate year to be launching a national by a public vote. poetry prize. Many of the memories of centre that made young men To publicise the competition, that conflict, and our understanding and women that have been in Stewart Hill, a former Army of it, have been shaped by the combat feel like someone officer badly injured in a road- remarkable works of poetry cared about them. side bomb attack in Afghani- written by those caught in ‘He said, “if they drive up the stan, read an abridged version that struggle. front drive of what used to be of his poem, Identity, repro- ‘I, like countless other read- this big magnificent stately duced right, on Radio 4’s ers over the decades since the home and they see these state- Today programme yesterday. war, have always been moved of-the-art buildings, all mod- In July 2009, Lt Col Hill was by sentiments invoked by the ern, they will be left in no doubt blown into a hedge by the brave young soldiers. I am that their country and fellow explosion. He still has two delighted to help launch this citizens are backing them all pieces of shrapnel in his brain. competition to find a new poem the way to their fullest recov-

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For information on how to enter visit www.poemtoremember.co.uk ‘Brave young My last memory in Afghanistan tanding soldiers’ Watching a war horse in the sky, carrying away the worst of loads My dead and injured soldiers I remember thinking of a nebulous soul in a suit and tie Who soon after would be knocking beside the door of a next of kin These thoughts exploded, replaced by burning, broken metal bursting through the blancmange of my brain How little I knew, as I am splayed on the floor No awareness of the knock on my wife’s Patron: Prince William door, my worried colleagues, nor the shards that tore through my skull Thirty eight years of personal development,

stubbed out like the post fire-fight cigarettes we smoked about in Afghanistan

No longer can I serve to lead, although I plead just to see again the person I grew to be Now I have a new identity, a poet and a painter of portraits From Sandhurst to the stage, turning the page, new chapters in life, no longer in strife From deployment with colour sergeants, to the enjoyment of John Singer Sargent’s colour

From fighting with platoons to grappling with Sassoon I am living a wonderful life

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Rose Wild Feedback

@timesfeedback Mocking witches is a recipe for double trouble mong this week’s emails Ms Haye’s assertion, and those of the Religion UK (lawandreligionuk.com) the best sign-off was the many other pagans and Wiccans debated the question of whether the one that went: “Sincerely, who wrote to us, that Wicca is an courts were moving towards A very pissed off pagan”. official or recognised religion in this recognising paganism and witchcraft A country. It seems to be based on the as religions that would fall under the The writer had taken exception to Kevin Maher’s Monday fact that the 2011 census collected protection of human rights column in Times2, in which Kevin data on people who designated legislation. Not yet, was the expressed some amusement at the themselves as pagans, Wiccans and conclusion, although things were earnest tone of a protest by a Wiccan witches. The census also collected changing. The writer cited the case at Cambridge about plans for a data on those who put their religion of a naval chief petty officer who in solstice-themed May ball. down as Heavy Metal, the Flying 2004 was given permission to Back in the day, witches used to Spaghetti Monster and the Arsenal. register as a satanist and to perform hang around cauldrons, boiling satanic rituals on board a royal naval While 11,766 respondents identified vessel — apparently the Royal Navy newts and scaring Scottish kings. as Wiccans, 176,632 affiliated Now they’re in chatrooms. Brenda felt this was required by its status as themselves as Jedi knights — a fall an equal opportunities employer. Brock in Florida wrote to say she was from the 2001 census when the alerted to Kevin’s article by social In the United States the armed knights beat Sikhism, Judaism and forces allow the Wiccan pentangle to media. “Your writer makes fun of a Buddhism, with 390,127. (In case be engraved on headstones in you’re wondering, the long-awaited military cemeteries, but then they sacred religion. This upsets me. I Star Wars have been a practising Pagan Witch fourth came out in 1999, also allow the hammer of Thor. I for 18 years, my daughter is also a but there hadn’t been one for six wonder if the president knows. Pagan Witch and many people I years before the census of 2011.) know are also Pagans/Wiccans who In response to the hoo-ha over the don’t think this is very funny at all.” solstice May ball, the Pagan Lee-Anne Haye wrote: “Wicca is a Federation has now publicly recognised religion in the UK, and acknowledged that the solstice is an no doubt many of your readers will astronomical phenomenon that be Wiccans. I think an apology is in predates religions of all kinds. Even order.” Dieter Kok-Joseph went so, they suggested that anyone going further: “I suggest this writer be sent to the ball in white robes could be for sensitivity training.” guilty of “religious defamation”. I’ve struggled to find backing for Again, this seems to be pushing it. MH ’ i dh fh Three years ago the blog Law and R li i UK (l d li i k )

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Kung fu for ‘soft’ soldiers SOLDIERS are being given martial arts classes – because they are not aggressive enough. Kung fu master Neil Webster has been called in to teach ﬁ ghting skills. Lessons are being given at Lille Barracks in Aldershot, Hants. Neil, of Epsom, Surrey, said: “Close-quarter combat demands strength, speed, skill and bravery.”

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Army officer killed in Iraq AN “enormously popular” Army officer has died while serving in Iraq. Captain Dean Sprouting, 46, was not killed by enemy action but the incident on Wednesday at Al-Asad air base, outside Baghdad, is under investigation. The married dad-of-two, from Denny, Stirlingshire, was serving with the Black Watch, 3rd Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland and had 29 years of service. His commanding officer Lt Col Rob Hedderwick said yesterday: “His loss is keenly felt by us all.”

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Court Circular

visited Timberpride Limited, Communications Headquarters, Quercus Road, Tetbury, Cheltenham. Gloucestershire. The Prince of Wales, Patron, Buckingham Palace Welsh National Opera, this evening 2nd February, 2018 attended a performance of “la Forza The Earl and Countess of Wessex del Destino” at Wales Millennium today carried out the following Centre, Bute Place, Cardiff, and was engagements in Sri Lanka. Sandringham, Norfolk received by Her Majesty’s Lord- Their Royal Highnesses this 2nd February, 2018 Lieutenant of South Glamorgan morning visited Court Lodge The Queen, Honorary Air (Mrs Morfudd Meredith). Tea Factory, Nuwara Eliya. Commodore, today visited Royal The Earl and Countess of Air Force Marham, King’s Lynn, Kensington Palace Wessex later visited the Mentally and was received this morning at 2nd February, 2018 Handicapped Children and Families the Lightning Operations Centre by The Duke and Duchess of Educational Project, 26 St Andrew’s the Station Commander (Group Cambridge today carried out the Drive, Nuwara Eliya. Captain Ian Townsend). following engagements in Oslo, Their Royal Highnesses this Her Majesty was received on Norway, accompanied by The evening attended a Reception given parade with a Royal Salute and Crown Prince and Crown Princess by the British High Commissioner afterwards witnessed a flypast by of Norway. to the Democratic Socialist three Tornado GR4 aircraft. Their Royal Highnesses this Republic of Sri Lanka (His The Queen moved to the morning visited Hartvig Nissen Excellency Mr James Dauris) Operations Room and met Station School, President Hartitz’ Gate 3. at the Residence in Colombo. personnel and community The Duke and Duchess of The Earl and Countess of Wessex volunteers before opening the Cambridge today called upon The afterwards called upon The Lightning Operations Centre. Crown Prince and Crown Princess President of the Democratic Her Majesty this afternoon of Norway at Skaugum. Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka attended a Reception in the Their Royal Highnesses this at the President’s Office, Paget Warrant Officers’ and Sergeants’ afternoon visited Holmenkollen Ski Road, Colombo. Mess before viewing a display Jump, Kongeveien 5. Their Royal Highnesses later commemorating RAF 100, the The Duke and Duchess of attended a Dinner with Sri Lankan Centenary of the Royal Air Force. Cambridge afterwards attended Ministers at the Uga Residence Afterwards The Queen was a skiing event given by the Hotel, Park Street, Colombo. entertained to Luncheon in the Norwegian Ski Federation near The Countess of Wessex this Officers’ Mess by the Station Ovresetertjern Lake. afternoon observed a workshop for Commander. Their Royal Highnesses later female Sri Lankan police officers at Her Majesty subsequently arrived at Royal Air Force Northolt the Galle Face Hotel, Galle Road, presented the Firmin Sword of from Norway. Colombo. Peace to the Station Commander, Sir David Manning, Mr Miguel who received the sword on behalf Head and Ms Catherine Quinn Kensington Palace of Royal Air Force Marham. were in attendance. 2nd February, 2018 The Duke of Gloucester, President, Clarence House Buckingham Palace Crown Agents Foundation, this 2nd February, 2018 2nd February, 2018 afternoon attended a Panel The Prince of Wales, Patron, the The Duke of York, Founder, Discussion and Reception at the Canal and River Trust, this Pitch@Palace, today held Blue Fin Building, 110 Southwark afternoon visited the Stroudwater Pitch@Palace on Tour for Street, London SE1. Navigation, Cotswold Canals Trust, entrepreneurs and supporters at The Duchess of Gloucester, Bell House, Wallbridge, Stroud, Cheltenham Racecourse and was Honorary President, the Lawn and was received by Her Majesty’s received by Her Majesty’s Lord- Tennis Association, today attended Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire Lieutenant of Gloucestershire the Davis Cup Tie Matches between (Dame Janet Trotter). (Dame Janet Trotter). Spain and Great Britain at Club His Royal Highness, President, His Royal Highness this de Tenis Puente Romano, The Prince’s Trust, afterwards afternoon visited Government Marbella, Spain.

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The Prince’s Trust, afterwards BUCKINGHAM PALACE visited Timberpride Limited, February 2nd Court Quercus Road, Tetbury, The Earl and Countess of Wessex Gloucestershire. today carried out the following Circular The Prince of Wales, Patron, engagements in Sri Lanka. Welsh National Opera, this Their Royal Highnesses this evening attended a performance morning visited Court Lodge Tea of la Forza del Destino at Wales Factory, Nuwara Eliya. Millennium Centre, Bute Place, The Earl and Countess of Cardiff, and was received by Her Wessex later visited the Mentally Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Handicapped Children and South Glamorgan (Mrs Morfudd Families Educational Project, 26 SANDRINGHAM, NORFOLK Meredith). St Andrew’s Drive, Nuwara Eliya. February 2nd Their Royal Highnesses this The Queen, Honorary Air KENSINGTON PALACE evening attended a Reception Commodore, today visited Royal February 2nd given by the British High Air Force Marham, King’s Lynn, The Duke and Duchess of Commissioner to the Democratic and was received this morning at Cambridge today carried out the Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka the Lightning Operations Centre following engagements in Oslo, (His Excellency Mr James Dauris) by the Station Commander Norway, accompanied by The at the Residence in Colombo. (Group Captain Ian Townsend). Crown Prince and Crown The Earl and Countess of Her Majesty was received on Princess of Norway. Wessex afterwards called upon parade with a Royal Salute and Their Royal Highnesses this The President of the Democratic afterwards witnessed a flypast by morning visited Hartvig Nissen Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka at three Tornado GR4 aircraft. School, President Hartitz’ Gate 3. the President’s Office, Paget The Queen moved to the The Duke and Duchess of Road, Colombo. Operations Room and met Cambridge today called upon Their Royal Highnesses Station personnel and The Crown Prince and Crown subsequently attended a Dinner community volunteers before Princess of Norway at Skaugum. with Sri Lankan Ministers at the opening the Lightning Their Royal Highnesses this Uga Residence Hotel, Park Operations Centre. afternoon visited Holmenkollen Street, Colombo. Her Majesty this afternoon Ski Jump, Kongeveien 5. The Countess of Wessex this attended a Reception in the The Duke and Duchess of afternoon observed a workshop Warrant Officers’ and Sergeants’ Cambridge afterwards attended a for female Sri Lankan police Mess before viewing a display skiing event given by the officers at the Galle Face Hotel, commemorating RAF 100, the Norwegian Ski Federation near Galle Road, Colombo. Centenary of the Royal Air Force. Ovresetertjern Lake. Afterwards The Queen was Their Royal Highnesses later KENSINGTON PALACE entertained to Luncheon in the arrived at Royal Air Force February 2nd Officers’ Mess by the Station Northolt from Norway. The Duke of Gloucester, Commander. Sir David Manning, Mr Miguel President, Crown Agents Her Majesty subsequently Head and Ms Catherine Quinn Foundation, this afternoon presented the Firmin Sword of were in attendance. attended a Panel Discussion and Peace to the Station Commander, Reception at the Blue Fin who received the sword on behalf BUCKINGHAM PALACE Building, 110 Southwark Street, of Royal Air Force Marham. February 2nd London SE1. The Duke of York, Founder, The Duchess of Gloucester, CLARENCE HOUSE Pitch@Palace, today held Pitch@ Honorary President, the Lawn February 2nd Palace on Tour for entrepreneurs Tennis Association, today The Prince of Wales, Patron, the and supporters at Cheltenham attended the Davis Cup Tie Canal and River Trust, this Racecourse and was received by Matches between Spain and afternoon visited the Stroudwater Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Great Britain at Club de Tenis Navigation, Cotswold Canals Gloucestershire (Dame Janet Puente Romano, Marbella, Trust, Bell House, Wallbridge, Trotter). Spain. Stroud, and was received by Her His Royal Highness this Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of afternoon visited Government For more details about the Royal Gloucestershire (Dame Janet Communications Headquarters, Family visit the Royal website at Trotter). Cheltenham. www.royal.uk His Royal Highness, President,

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Queen’s jet mission The Queen yesterday met personnel at the base for Britain’s new F-35B stealth fighter jets – Lightning Operations Centre at RAF Marham in Norfolk.

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Saudi leader’s visit to Britain is likely to reveal tensions as well as ties Crown prince to receive red carpet treatment, despite human rights record Patrick Wintour owned al-Arabiya television channel ferent view, or fi nd it does not have the Owen Bowcott this week, Johnson stressed Britain’s leverage to prevent it. links with the Gulf and a burgeoning In Yemen, Britain has been press- The powerful Saudi crown prince, personal relationship with MBS . “The ing the Saudi-UAE coalition fi ghting Mohammed bin Salman, is set to meet relationship between Britain and Saudi to restore the president, Abd-Rabbu senior royals on a visit to London this Arabia it is historic, it’s more than 100 Mansour Hadi, to power to recognise month that will give him a chance to years old, it’s an extraordinary part- there is no military solution. Brit- present himself as a moderniser but nership, it’s a partnership based on a ain has also helped persuade Saudi could see him face protests over Saudi common view of the world in many Arabia that an all-out blockade of Arabia’s human rights record and its ways, not every way, but in many Hodeidah, the main port for aid into conduct in the Yemen civil war. ways ,” he said, adding : “Reform in the rebel-held north, was not only kill- The visit, announced in principle by Saudi Arabia, the custodian of the Holy ing Yemenis, but MBS’s international Boris Johnson, was discussed by the Places, will be a change in the whole reputation. A stronger UN inspection two men when the foreign secretary regime has been agreed, and the num- went to Riyadh last week. The crown Islamic world, and what’s happening ber of ships entering the port has risen prince, known as MBS, is also expected now is of momentous importance. ” to eight a week, six for food and two to visit Paris and Washington. Johnson, who was once broadly in for fuel. The Saudis have also pledged They will be his fi rst trips out of his favour of British neutrality between $1.5bn of aid. country since the start of an anti-cor- Iran and Saudi Arabia, has in recent Britain would also like to see Saudi ruption purge on 4 November in which months increasingly echoed the anti- Arabia cut its losses in another confl ict hundreds of Saudi princes and busi- Iranian sentiment coming from the – the blockade of Qatar . If the Saudis nessmen were arrested and detained White House and Riyadh. The British thought the blockade would lead to in the Ritz Carlton hotel on “corrup- government regards Saudi concerns internal chaos in Qatar, and a chance tion charges”. As much as £100bn has about Iranian-supplied missiles fi red to intervene militarily with US sup- been confi scated for the kingdom’s use by Houthi rebels from northern Yemen port, they have miscalculated. in exchange for their freedom. as valid . Arms deals are also a mainstay The Qatari economy, built on liquid The London trip is likely to be one of the relationship. gas exports, has proved more resilient, of the most sensitive diplomatic visits But there are also areas of tension. and the emir returned from a visit to this year. Britain is keen to endorse Britain, like France and Germany, Washington with a US commitment MBS’s 2030 vision, an attempt to turn has resisted Saudi and US pressure to to deter and confront any “external Saudi Arabia into a market-based abandon the Iran nuclear deal. Nuclear threat to Qatar’s territorial integrity economy less dependent on oil, and proliferation is also an issue. Riyadh that is inconsistent with the United ministers hope for a bonanza for the wants the right to produce nuclear Nations charter ”. The US is expand- City of London by winning the planned fuel by enriching uranium and repro- ing its huge air base in Qatar . fl otation of Aram co, the state oil group cessing plutonium from spent reactor Finally, there is the issue of human valued at up to $2tn (£1.4tn), over rival fuel. The Bush and Obama adminis- rights. British lawyers have in recent bids from Wall Street and the far east. trations rejected such requests. The days submitted complaints to the In an interview with the Saudi- Trump administration may take a dif-

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UN Human Rights Council on behalf of more than 60 Saudi activists who were detained last September, some of whom have disappeared. The sub- mission from the former director of public prosecutions, Lord Macdon- ald QC, and Rodney Dixon QC calls for Saudi Arabia to be suspended from the council because of the “deterio- rating human rights situation” in the kingdom. ‘It’s a partnership based on a common view of the world in many ways, not every way, but in many ways’

Boris Johnson Foreign secretary The players Prince, rebels and protesters

Who is Prince Prince Mohammed, 32, is the Saudi crown prince and Mohammed bin defence minister. He was named heir to the throne Salman? last year by his father, King Salman, and his powers 5,000 have soared. He has launched reforms dubbed Vision 2030, designed to transform the kingdom’s moribund economy and recalibrate the relationship between the The war in Yemen has killed or state and its citizens . Last year he led a corruption purge injured more than 5,000 children in which 11 princes, one of the country’s richest men and and left another 400,000 severely scores of former ministers were arrested. malnourished, according to Unicef

Who’s fi ghting The confl ict is between Houthi rebels allied with the The UK sold £841m worth of arms who in Yemen? former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who led the country and security equipment to Saudi until 2012, and forces loyal to Saleh’s successor, Abdu Arabia between April and June 2017 Rabbu Mansour Hadi, backed by Saudi-led coalition air £m • Saudi Arabia • Russia • China power. Houthi fi ghters control the capital city Sana’a and have spread across the country. Saudis and their Sunni 800 Arab allies view Houthi fi ghters as Iranian proxies. 600

Who is On 25 January, Stop the War Coalition, the Arab 400 protesting Organisation for Human Rights in Britain and War on against Want signed an open letter calling for Bin Salman’s visit 200 the visit? to be cancelled, citing the Saudi role in the Yemeni war 0 and human rights record. “The interests of the people 2016 Q2 Q3 Q4 2017 Q1 Q2 of Britain and the peoples suff ering from the Crown Prince’s adventurism, are not served by this visit,” it said. Source: Department for International Trade

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▼ Mohammed bin Salman’s trip is likely to be one of the most diplomatically sensitive of the year PHOTOGRAPH: SAUDI ROYAL COURT/REUTERS

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Beware of Trump’s nearest and dearest – they read from ‘the Washington playbook’ PATRICK COCKBURN

People sitting in cafes in Baghdad under the rule of Saddam Hussein used to be nervous of accidentally spilling their cup of coffee over the front page of the newspaper spread out before them. They had a good reason for their anxiety, because Iraqi newspapers at that time always carried a picture of Saddam on their front page. Defacing his features might be interpreted as an indication of disrespect or even of a critical or treasonous attitude towards the great leader.

Saddam Hussein invariably got star billing in the Iraqi press, but he would be impressed at the astonishing way in which it has become the norm in the US media for the words and doings of President Trump to monopolise the top of the news. Day after day, the three or four lead stories in The New York Times and CNN relate directly or indirectly to Trump. And, unlike Saddam, this blanket coverage is voluntary on the part of the news outlets and overwhelmingly critical. Trump’s outrageous insults and lies have succeeded in keeping the spotlight firmly on him ever since he declared his candidacy for the presidency in 2015. Whatever else he may be, he is seldom boring, unlike so many of his defeated rivals and opponents, who believed that his obvious failings must inevitably sink him. One day they may be proved right, but that day is a long time coming; the open loathing for Trump on the part of much of the American media is curiously ineffectual because it is repetitious and no great disaster has so far hit America one year into his presidency. Commentators note that, for all his bellicose rhetoric, he has yet to start any wars – unlike all his Republican predecessors going back to President Ford. The constant demonisation of Trump carries another danger that is underappreciated and may produce a real-world disaster. The US media blames everything on him and respectfully portrays the bevy of generals who populate the upper ranks of his administration – Chief of Staff John Kelly, Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis and National Security Adviser HR McMaster – as the only adults in the room. Yet it may turn out that they and other business and political figures, such as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the CIA chief Mike Pompeo, are more likely to bring about a war than Trump himself.

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The US media blames everything on Trump and respectfully portrays the upper ranks of his administration as the only adults in the room

Just how poor is the judgement of the very people who are meant to be a restraining force on Trump was shown last month when Tillerson made a classic blunder that may have negative results for the US for years to come. On 17 January, he announced the US military forces would stay in Kurdish controlled north- east Syria after the defeat of Isis, in order to weaken Iran and President Bashar al-Assad. Just three days later on 20 January, Turkey, predictably enraged at what it saw as a US territorial guarantee of a de facto Kurdish state, sent its forces across the Syrian border to invade the Kurdish enclave of Afrin.

Tillerson had unwittingly initiated a new phase in the Syrian conflict in which the US is self-isolated and Turkey, Russia, Iran and Assad had been brought closer together. The Kurds in Afrin, one of the few places in Syria not devastated by war, have to hide in caves as the direct result of the new US initiative.

Trump’s isolationism may be less risky than the neo-interventionism of his senior advisers. Reports from Washington suggest that the decision to get more fully engaged in the Syrian civil war was contrary to what Trump himself wanted. By this account, he would have preferred to use his State of the Union address to announce that the US mission in Syria had ended in triumph with the defeat of Isis and that he was withdrawing US ground forces. Instead, the decision went the other way as McMaster and Mattis, supported by Tillerson, successfully argued for keeping US ground forces in Syria and Iraq.

These senior officials were only advocating the consensus opinion of the US foreign policy establishment, as was swiftly illustrated by media commentators. Even as Turkish tanks were rolling into Syria, an editorial in The Washington Post was applauding Tillerson for having “bluntly recognised a truth that both President Trump and President Barack Obama attempted to dodge” – which is that the US needs a political and military presence in Syria. What Trump and Obama were really dodging was repeating the post-9/11 US mistake in pursuing open- ended military ventures against multiple enemies in fragmented countries like Afghanistan and Iraq where it could not win. In the case of Obama, this sense of caution and ability to see what might go wrong was carefully calculated; in the case of Trump, the caution is instinctive and not always operative, but the end result was often the same.

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The administration acts as an out-of-control wrecking ball, though the damage done is limited by Trump’s low attention span and divisions in Washington

Despite all Trump’s condemnation of Obama’s supposed weakness, his strategy in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria did not differ much from his predecessor – that is until his chief security officials switched to an interventionist policy in Syria last month.

Traditional policy of relying on force to overcome all obstacles, or what Obama nicknamed “the Washington playbook”, looks as if it is back in business. He privately condemned the US foreign policy establishment for being wedded to dubious allies like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in pursuit of overambitious objectives.

American strength in the world was ebbing before Trump, though the divisive and mercurial nature of his presidency is speeding up the decline. In every continent a power vacuum has opened up which is being filled by many eager candidates. They generally have the same ingredients of populism, demagoguery, authoritarianism and nationalism, though the quantities of each may differ, and they are certainly making the world a more dangerous place because they do not know the limits of their own power.

From Manila to Warsaw, there has been the rise of the mini-Trumps who tend to know the politics of their own country well, but be dangerously ignorant of that of other countries. It is in the nature of arbitrary rulers who have suppressed domestic criticism, such as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia, that they pursue exaggerated ambitions, moving over ice that is always thinner than they imagine.

US power in the world is declining, having reached its peak between the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the start of the Iraq war in 2003. Two dangers are emerging: one is the feckless nature of Trump administration which acts as a sort of out-of-control wrecking ball, though the damage done is limited by Trump’s low attention span and divisions in Washington. A second danger is the US foreign policy establishment, which has learned nothing new from past failures, which would like to restore US power to what it once was and which does not understand that this can no longer be done. This is “the Washington playbook”, which Obama came to deride and ignore and is just as dangerous as anything Trump may do.

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Nuclear strategy shift Washington The Trump administration is planning to develop a new generation of low- yield nuclear weapons to counter changes in Russian military doctrine. US officials believe that Moscow would consider using low-yield weapons, similar to the strength of the Hiroshima bomb, in a conflict in Europe. America should have its own stockpile to preserve “credible deterrence”, a review of US nuclear policy says.

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Army’s new regimental goat evades capture By Harry Yorke A WILD goat gave Army officers the slip last night after an eight-hour chase to capture a new mascot for the Royal Welsh battalion. Officers were forced to call off their attempt to capture a goat from the Royal herd on the Great Orme in Conwy county. They were trying to catch a successor to Shenkin III, who died in September last year. An Army team, accompanied by an RSPCA vet, was sent to select and capture a new Shenkin, to be taken to Maindy Barracks, Cardiff, where it will be tamed. However, after pursuing their chosen Kashmiri goat across difficult terrain, they were forced to end the chase when darkness fell. Sgt Mark Jackson, the regiment’s goat major, said: “He’s a cheeky looking chap. He’s got a lovely quiff on top of his horns. He’s the one we want.” Once Shenkin IV is caught, Sgt Jack- son will be tasked with training him to become accustomed to the battalion. Shenkin IV will hold the rank of fusilier and it is hoped its first public appear- ance will be at the National Armed Forces Day in Llandudno on June 30. The Royal Welsh and its predecessor units have adopted goats as mascots since the 1770s. The tradition stems from the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American War of Independence when a wild goat is said to have strayed into the battle and led the Royal Welsh Fusiliers’ colour party from the field.