Stiff Upper Lip Once Helped the British Build the Empire But, As Even Princes William and Harry Have Admitted, It Has Taken a Devastating Toll
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US news limply by his side. It immediately Rio Olympics. No, the true test of However, straight-armed Trump springs up towards the First patriotism was the position of her had been Photoshopped in from Hand on heart, Ticker as the anthem reaches its hand during the medal ceremony. a diff erent image . second line. Disaster averted. It did not reach her heart, and the Of course, Barack Obama’s this gesture Honouring the fl ag during the backlash traumatised the athlete. hands were frequently scruti- pledge of allegiance or anthem This gesture is so important nised. As a senator, he failed to matters in the US used to require more eff ort. The that some have sought to unleash raise his hand during the anthem Bellamy salute, introduced in the fake news of misdemeanours. at an Iowa steak fry (egg rolls, 1890s to unite the US after the After a Republican presidential steak fries – yep, US politics is erhaps it was tired from all civil war, involved raising a hand debate in 2015, a photo circu- weird). As president, he drew P those weird gestures – or skywards, arm straight, palm lated, showing Trump not raising heat for saluting a marine while the golf – but it appeared down . Sounds a bit Nazi, doesn’t his hand to his heart during the clutching a coff ee cup as he for a moment as if Donald Trump’s it? Which is why the 1942 US Flag anthem while his rivals did . stepped off his helicopter. hand had failed to go in the same Code required that civilian Amer- Trump has required prompting direction as those belonging to his icans place a hand on the heart before. At his own inaugura- son and the 7ft rabbit next to him instead. Doing so stopped being tion concert, a band asked the – namely towards his heart. optional some time later. crowd to “stand up if you love Footage of the national anthem So, it wasn’t enough that America”. Trump remained at the White House Easter egg Gabby Douglas had sacrifi ced seated until he felt a now-familiar roll on Monday (right) suggests everything to win for her country spousal nudge . Behind every Melania comes to the rescue. She as part of the US women’s great man and all that. nudges Trump’s arm, which hangs gymnastics team at last year’s Simon Usborne
2 The Guardian 19.04.17 What the world loves with Weetabix ... peanut butter, jam and Vegemite Pass notesn NoNo 33,842 Wealth mountains
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Breakfast accounts for 70% of sales. The Age: Quite new. company has joint ventures in Appearance: Wealthy. Mountainous. Why did China South Africa and Kenya , and Is this a Brexit thing? Are these wealth moun- a manufacturing plant in Ontario tains that we’re saving or losing? And, while not fall for a to supply the North American we’re at it, what’s happening with the butter bland biscuit? market. Although some US mountains? Are they still a thing? It’s not a Brexit consumers, reared on the obvious thing. It refers to the £400bn in grandparental charms of Froot Loops and Cap’n wealth (mostly in the form of property) that is set Crunch, express puzzlement Huge news from to be inherited by the next generation. Albert Square: Dean owever much aff ection at this “entirely unappealing” Gaffney is coming And the butter? Is back, a bit, but need not H you feel for Weetabix, mush , others laud the biscuits back for a regular role concern us here. a product that, for me, as a vehicle for maple syrup or in EastEnders. His OK. So, £400bn. That sounds – yeah, fairly will for ever be associated with peanut butter and jelly, while in beloved character, the mountainous. How come it is so large? Roughly goofy road sweeper the rough scrape of the maternal Australia (where Weetabix was Robbie Jackson, is 1 million people in the UK will leave estates handkerchief, it’s not hard to invented nearly a century ago), indelibly imprinted on each worth on average between £400,000 and understand why it has failed they’re given a local fl avour with the national psyche, £500,000. Multiply t’one by t’other and hey to win over those with no such the addition of Vegemite. despite exiting the show poncho – kabillions stack up quickly. full-time in 2003. It’s fond childhood memories. The No wonder the UK – which still unclear at the time of Wow. So we should all be nice to grandma and cereal’s Chinese owner, Bright appreciates the attractions of a writing whether he will grandad. Well, only if you’re the off spring of one Foods – which bought the brand gloriously bland, comfortingly have a dog sidekick of the lucky million. If you’re not, obviously you in tow. in 2012 believing that the world’s soggy serving of mush – remains can continue to treat them however you like. most populous country was on its biggest market. A nation I use mine as cheap childcare and draught the brink of a Damascene conver- requires a certain sort of mild- excluders. You might want to play nice if you’re sion in the breakfast department mannered temperament to start a grandchild of one of them, too – about half – has sold it to US giant Post the day on a dish so inoff ensive intend to will their wealth directly to their chil- Holdings after failing to win over in both texture and fl avour that dren’s children. consumers. Frankly, it’s little it’s classic weaning fodder, and, Millennials! I knew they’d show up sooner or wonder – if I could walk out of my frankly, not everyone has it. later, with their overprivileged, entitled snow- front door and fi nd stalls selling Which is not to say that fl akiness. Ye-es … although this passing on of fl uff y barbecue pork buns, spicy Weetabix has nothing going for wealth is actually intended to try to make up for hand-pulled noodles or crispy it . In comparison with many the fact that the surge in house prices, rental and spring onion pancakes , I wouldn’t upstarts in the cereal aisle, it’s other living costs have made both saving for and much fancy an unseasoned lump low in sugar, high in fi bre and has buying a property of their own a distant dream of compressed grass either. a refreshingly short list of ingredi- for most of the younger generation. Perhaps if Chinese customers ents, at the top of which is British That’s nice for the lucky legatees. What about had benefi ted from the recent wheat – grown within 50 miles everyone else? Umm … serving suggestion on British pack- of its Northamptonshire mill. So, Nothing doing? Not really, no. Under current aging, encouraging consumers although it may not economic conditions it’s very hard to accumulate to put a spin on US favourite eggs be able to compete the kind of wealth earlier generations managed. benedict “by switching a muffi n in a market where So, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, is for our nutritious Weetabix”, breakfast tastes run that it? Unless some powerfully charismatic leader things might have been diff erent. more to the hot and converts the country to socialism and imposes Although, as one of the few people savoury than the a variety of changes, including an unprecedent- to have tried a wheat biscuit cold and … well, edly drastic redistributive tax programme, yes. topped with ham, poached eggs let’s say neutral, I shouldn’t hold my breath then? In all honesty, and hollandaise sauce, I doubt it. its failure to break probably not. ALLSTAR; GETTY; REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; WHITE HOUSE REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; GETTY; ALLSTAR; Somewhat surprisingly, for China is unlikely to Do say: “Another parma violet, Grandma? And a product without much discern- make us love it any then a long walk near a cliff edge?” ible fl avour, Weetabix is sold in less. Just hold the Don’t say: “Yes, that cats’ home does look like more than 80 countries around hollandaise. it could do with a half-million-pound donation,
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19.04.17 The Guardian 3
Lindy West Worried about a US led by a tyrant who may destroy the earth? Blame Alex Jones’s ‘performance art’
merican far-right radio host Alex Jones actually mean it. But where does that leave his Jones believes that Hillary Clinton listeners? A is literally a demon – a red monster called That means that Jones was just playing with a rubber face, an unregistered Hillary a character when he claimed that the Bush foreign agent from hell, which is administration orchestrated 9/11, and that the US a real place, where Satan, who is real, tortures Clinton government was behind the 1995 bombing of the unbapti sed babies with a big fork in between a ‘demonic Oklahoma City Federal Building. demanding sacrifi ces of “blood, semen, and Jones was only goofi ng around when he breast milk” from Clinton campaign manager warmonger’ accused Obama of staging the mass shooting at John Podesta. I am only editoriali sing a little. Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Jones, an ardent Trump booster, has made such who in which 20 small children and seven adults claims over and over again on his too-popular-for- personally were murdered, so that the government could comfort radio programme, the Alex Jones Show, as justify taking all our guns away . It was Jones the well as on his websites, the best known of which murders character, not Jones the person, who insisted that is Infowars.com . He’s called Clinton a “demonic children the dead children and their grieving parents were warmonger” who attends a “witches’ church” and paid actors, Jones the “performance artist” who has “personally murdered and chopped up and galvani sed an army of internet sleuths to hound raped [children]”. If she won the election, Jones and harass said grieving parents for evidence of warned his followers last year, Clinton would “try the “false fl ag” operation. Good one! to destroy the planet”. He once accused former It was a particularly fi ne piece of performance secretary of state John Kerry of membership in a art when Jones joined in the transparently satanic sex cult, in which devotees have “gay sex fi ctitious furore known as “Pizzagate”, a hundreds of times in coffi ns begging for spiritual conspiracy theory manufactured by white entities to possess them. That get in coffi ns hun- supremacist Trump supporters claiming that dreds of times in giant pits of faeces and have sex John Podesta’s leaked emails contained evidence with each other. OK? That’s who’s running things! of a child sex ring operating out of several pizza ... That’s what we’re dealing with, ladies and restaurants, after which a man barged into a DC gentlemen .” Jones thinks the moon landing was pizzeria with a big rifl e and nearly shot everyone, faked and the government is putting chemicals in including children, because he thought children the water to turn people (and frogs) gay. were in danger . Give that guy an arts grant! The current president of the United States , There’s something very faintly relatable about Donald J Trump, who has access to nuclear weap- a true believer. I can understand why a person ons, once appeared on Jones’s radio show, call- would want to believe in something more – life is ing the host “amazing” and vowing, “I will not hard, and boring, and cruel, and then you die, so let you down … I think we’ll be speaking a lot.” why not indulge your fantasies of lizard people Earlier this year, Trump pushed one of Jones’s in the White House and gay frogs in the water conspiracy theories , claiming that the “dishonest Alex Jones ... supply? It’s Dungeons & Dragons. And it’s a club, press” is covering up terrorist attacks by Muslims ‘just playing a a little exclusive , something to belong to. But in order to coddle Isis . Name a conspiracy theory, character’ knowingly leveraging the bigotries of the lonely and Jones has almost certainly screeched it into a and paranoid to expand your media empire – and, microphone with his signature drunk-leafb lower in the process, traumati sing mourning families, panache. And the president is listening. OK? That’s nearly getting people shot, and helping to elect a who’s running things , ladies and gentlemen. tyrant who may destroy the earth either through But a fresh and unexpected conspiracy is war or environmental collapse or both – is a gripping the Jones camp this week, and this time degree of cynical greed that’s diffi cult to fathom. the supposed puppetmaster is Jones himself. We don’t know which is the lie: whether Jones In the thick of a bitter custody battle with his is just a guy playing an outlandish character or ex-wife Kelly (who alleges that Jones is “not a if he’s a delusional monster contorting himself stable person” and “wants J-Lo to get raped”), toward normalcy to win a court case. It doesn’t Jones’s lawyer has made the surprising claim that really matter. Whether he means them or not, his client is “playing a character” and “is a perfor- his words and infl uence have the same impact. mance artist” and therefore can’t be held account- Presumably, Jones is doing this because he loves able for his on-air behaviour and ideas, his kids. Well, immigrants love their kids too, and or how they might impact his children. theth parents of Sandy Hook. Gay people love their Alex Jones, according to Alex kids.k People eating pizza love their kids.
LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS LUCAS Jones, isn’t the real Alex Jones. He’s To know what it’s like to love someone just playing a character, exploiting likel that, and then to actively strive to his audience’s prejudices for fame rip other families apart for profi t or and money (like a really great attentiona or power – that’s about as
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19.04.17 The Guardian 5 The stiff upper lip once helped the British build the empire but, as even Princes William and Harry have admitted, it has taken a devastating toll. Homa Khaleeli looks at the psychology of repression, while overleaf Tim Dowling off ers an American perspective No hard feelings
t was Diana, of course, who Princes William him a national hero, haven’t we moved opened the fl oodgates of tears and Harry at the on from this buttoned-up stereotype? I that swept away the notion of funeral of their From Barack Obama crying over the the British “stiff upper lip”. The mother in 1997. death of children at Sandy Hook to public mourning at her death Gazza lets it out Vladimir Putin shedding tears at a was seen as a turning point for a nation in 1990 (left) victory rally , even world leaders are where emotional repression had been unafraid to show their emotions. Yet, a point of pride. So it seems fi tting that as consultant clinical psychologist this week it is her sons, William and Sally Austen points out, such public Harry, who are warning us that our weeping invariably takes the form of emotional journey is not yet over. “tidy tears”. The emotion we accept, or This week, Prince Harry even encourage, in public fi gures is still described how he went for controlled. “To be with someone who counselling after repressing his is crying snot and choking on their sad- own grief over the loss of ness takes a level of courage for which his mother led to a two- we might not yet be ready,” she says. year period of anxiety, For individuals, the terror that anger and “total chaos”. strong emotions will overwhelm us His brother, the Duke of remains deep-seated . “The fears are Cambridge, has since underpinned by negative automatic gone on to warn in an thoughts; powerful, often unexamined interview that keeping thoughts that aff ect the choices we “a stiff upper lip” should make, often without us even noticing. not be at “the expense of This leads us to worry that, ‘If I start
your health”. crying I will never stop’ or, ‘If I cry my IMAGES AFP/GETTY More than 25 years colleagues will lose all respect for me’, since Paul Gascoigne’s and even, ‘I can’t cry because I need to famous tears during the look after everyone else’.”
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6 The Guardian 19.04.17 Margaret you try to put [your emotions] in a box” Thatcher in tears or you “allow them to be the horses to as she leaves your chariot – you are led around by Downing Street them. Of course, there is a middle way in 1990; David – when you hear and listen to your feel- Cameron fi ghts it ings, and are guided, but not led by back in 2014 them.” This, she says, is the diff erence (below) between allowing your emotions to “spill out everywhere”, and containing them. By refusing to acknowledge our own emotions, Perry argues, we risk losing our ability to empathise with were “led by youth from the middle others. The long-term eff ects can be and upper classes tempered and tough- detrimental. Counselling psychologist ened in the forges of public school”. Victoria Galbraith says: “There is still The journalist Alex Renton , whose this idea that men need to ‘keep it book about the dark side of boarding together’. Suicide is much greater schools is titled Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, among younger men, which might be Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling down to them feeling they have to keep Class , says this is what makes William’s these things to themselves. Having the words “stunning”. “Those three words opportunity to talk to people … I can’t are understood across the world to overemphasise how positive that is. sum up a sense of British reserve and “If we keep our emotions in, they resilience and qualities that, to many come out somehow. That can be through people, are what made Britain great. poor physical health in time, or anger It’s the core creed of the empire. The outbursts or taking things out on other notion that the British were excep- people. It’s almost impossible for it not tional and the best rulers the world has to have an impact – it’s about how soon known through the training of being we choose to engage with the emotions tough and taking things on the chin is we experience.” very strong. So it’s pretty revolutionary Linda Blair says she has noticed a to have one of the titular heads of a change in the UK’s attitude in the near nation say it’s not always a good thing 40 years she has been a psychologist. might be classed as emotionally ‘strong’ and that speaking up might be better.” UK patients were much more likely to – the stiff upper lipped – are more likely Psychotherapist Philippa Perry says be ashamed or defensive about seeking to end up with depression or PTSD an old French and Saunders sketch help, and saw it as being a “bother” . than those who recognise their need to neatly sums up the problem with the And, she says, there was a lingering express their feelings,” she says. stiff upper lip. In it, a caricature of a feeling that men should not ask for It’s not hard to fi nd pockets of “hunting, shooting and fi shing” woman help; where once only one in six of nostalgia for the idea of a stiff upper lip accidentally chops off her fi nger and, her patients were male, this is now in the UK , fuelled in part by a hanker- rather than crying, throws it to her around one in three. ing for a time when boarding school- nearby dog. When another dog starts But Blair does have a word of warning bred army offi cers were moulded to barking for a similar treat, she cuts off about letting everything hang out: we take charge of the empire. A recent Sky another fi nger. This, says Perry, illus- should think about who we are releasing News article , for example, railed against trates “how ridiculous it is not to listen our emotions on to. “We need to be “thin-skinned millennials” as it to your feelings”. sensitive. If someone is very stressed, mourned the loss of the days when “The stiff upper lip type thinks there dumping your problems on to them is tough “ploughmen and labourers” are only two options,” she says. “Either not a favour. If you are meeting your best friend, say: ‘I know we are meeting for a fun lunch but I need to talk about a problem.’ We can’t lose our sense of community as we start being able to feel.” Ultimately, however, she thinks the ‘The stiff upper lip is the princes should be thanked for their intervention in reducing the stigma core creed of empire. So it’s around showing your emotions. As she puts it: “Ugly feelings left unattended revolutionary to have one of just fester.”
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19.04.17 The Guardian 7 face – who might take comfort from people who would have me maintain a ‘I decided to your weakness. stiff upper lip on their behalf. There is nothing wrong with prizing I have also learned that most British give up crying’ resolve, but the most famous examples traits come with a competing counter- of the stiff upper lip in action – think of trait: they are the uncomplaining people Tim Dowling’s Antarctic explorer Captain Oates leaving who complain all the time; they have the tent and walking into the blizzard an intimate relationship with their emotional journey with the words, “I may be some time” – weather, but they never, ever dress for often seem more like evocations of it; the men aspire to stiff upper lips, futility. To remain calm in the face of but they are also happy to admit to a situation that warrants considerable deep insecurities; everybody spurns panic is generally a sign that you are help in the fi rst instance, but nobody mentally unwell, or in shock, or both. likes to be thought of as well-adjusted. hen I was a small boy grow- Over the years, I have learned to avoid I love it here, I really do. W ing up in the US, I was what I do sometimes worry about raising was technically known three sons in a nation where the myth as a cry baby. I cried over everything of the stiff upper lip still holds sway. I including, on many occasions, spilt was conscious of trying not to dissuade milk. So prodigious was my ability to To remain calm in the face them from crying when they were produce tears that other children used little, but of course one ends up doing to take things away from me, just to see of a situation that warrants it anyway. A crying child triggers a me cry. strong emotional reaction in a parent; Eventually, I realised this was putting considerable panic is a it’s exhausting. Somewhere along the me at a social disadvantage, so I decided line, children have to learn the lesson to give up crying. It took years to sign that you are mentally about spilt milk. learn how to choke off this particular What I can never do is create an emotional outlet, but I managed it. unwell, in shock, or both’ emotionally appropriate world for my I fi gured, good riddance. children to live in. It is how it is out I suppose this was my version of the there, and they learn more about how stiff upper lip – at the time, I thought Captain a young British man is supposed to I had invented it. It didn’t quite turn Lawrence Oates: comport himself from a one-hour bus me into the confi dent, fearless person the epitome of ride than they ever will from me. We I hoped it might. I remained self- the British stiff all fi gure out where and when we can conscious, awkward and anxious. upper lip let our guard down. There is a kind I just didn’t cry. There was only one of resilience in just possessing thing left to do: I found an island that information. nation over the sea where all the men That said, there are two lessons were like me, and I moved there. we can take away from the publicity The earliest citations for the expres- created by William and Harry speaking sion “keep a stiff upper lip” are actually out. The fi rst is that if people habitually from the US, but I won’t pretend I have avoid displaying emotions, they can ever considered it an American trait. I get into terrible mental distress with- have never even really thought much out anyone else knowing about it, and about what it means. As an admoni- that’s dangerous. The second is that if tion, it seems a little wrongheaded; you don’t actually engage with your when you are on the cusp of betraying own emotions, like I stopped doing emotion, the lower lip is usually the decades ago, you end up hauling them fi rst to go. It also seems to imply the about with you like an overfull bucket. presence of an enemy – perhaps some- It’s time to stand up and be British: body standing on the deck of a nearby face your scary emotions squarely, frigate with binoculars trained on your with a stiff upper lip.
8 The Guardian 19.04.17 As Sir Howard Bernstein calls time on a career that transformed Manchester from post- industrial decline to thriving metropolis, he talks to John Harris about the threat of Brexit, the future for the northern powerhouse and why George Osborne is ‘a top guy’ Living for the city
don’t think anybody can ‘Remarkable the city”. In 2011, he also became ever say that a city is things have been the de facto boss of the Greater Man- ‘I complete,” says Sir How- achieved’ … chester combined authority, which ard Bernstein. “Cities former chief blazed a trail for English devolution, constantly reinvent them- executive of and will see the election of its fi rst selves, and there are diff erent phases Manchester city mayor this May. In between, alongside in a city’s transformation. So the job’s council, Howard long-standing Labour council leader never done. I could be here for another Bernstein; (above) Sir Richard Leese, Bernstein enacted 50 years.” St Peter’s Square one of the great modern British stories He laughs at the absurdity of the – of Manchester’s reinvention, from thought, but it’s not hard to see what being locked into a post-industrial he means. A stone’s throw from where decline, to the young, thriving metrop- we are talking, there are sights that will olis it is today. be familiar to any visitor to modern By any measure it is quite a tale, Manchester: a skyline dotted with involving two bids for the Olympics, cranes, innumerable new buildings, a hugely successful Commonwealth and endless gangs of construction Games , and an IRA bomb . The saga workers. As ever, the city feels opens with early examples of regen- impatient, and restless. eration – “little nuggets”, Bernstein CHRISTOPHER THOMOND FOR THE GUARDIAN; GETTY IMAGES THOMOND FOR THE GUARDIAN; CHRISTOPHER Bernstein turned 64 this month. calls them – such as the legendary From 1998 until March this year, he nightclub-cum-venue the Haçienda, was the chief executive of Manchester and the early stirrings of entrepre- city council – as he saw it, therefore neurialism in the hipster honey-
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19.04.17 The Guardian 9 Aftermath of the IRA bombing in 1996 … Bernstein initiated a comprehensive rebuild; (below) George Osborne we now call regeneration, and how to on a Manchester use their power to bring jobs to a city in airport dire need of them. construction site In 1991, they demolished the infamous Crescents in the inner-city neighbourhood of Hulme : vast hous- ing blocks, ridden with structural defects, which symbolised the city council’s failings – and worked with an array of companies and housing asso- ciations to give the area a new start. At around the same time, the city council launched an audacious bid for the 1996 Olympics (“a leap in the dark”, Quarter; its latter stages involve his father made his money selling rain- says Bernstein), which were succeeded ← China and Abu Dhabi, Manches- coats – with paternal grandparents who by a more serious stab at the 2000 ter’s place at the heart of the “northern had come to Manchester from Russia. Games, only for the honour to go to powerhouse”, and billions of pounds Having left Ducie High School at 17, Sydney. “We thought we were going of investment. he started work in 1971 for what was to come second or third. And when The story will go on, but Bernstein’s then the Manchester Corporation, as a we found out we were the second city role is now at an end. “Every two or junior clerk. The fi rst task he was given to get knocked out, it was a shock. It three years,” he tells me, “I’d always was washing teacups – but he was soon desperately hurt.” said, ‘What do I want to do over the studying for an external law degree, That disappointment came in 1993; next two or three years?’” When he and gradually making his way up the three years later, a whole chunk of the last mulled it over he began to wonder council hierarchy, in a professional city centre was destroyed by an IRA whether he could guarantee the same world stubbornly stuck in the past. bomb. Bernstein heard the explosion level of commitment he had managed The only women he saw were fi ling while he was at a wedding in Cheetham for the last 20 years. “And when some- clerks, and even close colleagues ‘George Hill. Having worked on plans for a one like me starts getting thoughts like addressed each other using “Mr” and Osborne comprehensive rebuild partly inspired that, you really do need to sit down “Mrs”. Worse , the people he worked by Barcelona, he and Leese then went and think about succession.” with had a grim view of Manchester. gave real to London to ask for fi nancial help Bernstein is in his new offi ce at Man- “The whole idea was, ‘Let’s put council from deputy prime minister Michael chester University, where he has just housing wherever we can’ – think- credibility Heseltine. “We took him through the been appointed professor of politics , a ing that the only way we could drive to the plan, explained the timescales, and role whose fi ne details have apparently the future of the city was by building he said, ‘Well, fi ne – how much do you yet to be decided. He will soon start a hundreds and thousands of council northern need?’ I said, ‘It’s £97–98m .’ He said, part-time job with the global consul- houses. There was no understanding powerhouse ‘Right – I’ll get in touch with you as tancy fi rm Deloitte, “focusing on cities, that successful cities are really about soon as I can.’ And by the time we got and what makes them work”. His in- how you attract people who have got strategy’ out of the cab at Euston, he said, ‘Right tention is to still work fi ve days a week, money. And of course, when I – I’ve got the money.’” as opposed to the seven he is used to. used to talk about all that they Bernstein became chief executive With distinct sartorial echoes of used to look at me like this two years later. Then, in 2002, Tony Wilson, he wears a navy blue …” His face assumes a look of Manchester hosted the 17th Common- suit with matching trainers and has a mock-horror. “We didn’t have wealth Games , fi rmly putting Man- soft, deep, lived-in voice . Though he a strategy for culture, or sport, or chester on the international map. But often lapses into offi cialspeak, using science – we didn’t have a strategy he didn’t have an easy time. “My back- words like “access, “amenities” and for anything, really.” side was hanging out of the window “holistic”, he tends to quickly spring From the early 1980s , on it, from start to fi nish. The control back out . more forward-looking ideas that I’d been used to wasn’t there: it Bernstein has the kind of up-from- gradually began to cohere. was, ‘Well, actually, I can’t control the the-bottom career story that is now Bernstein, some of his fellow weather, I can’t control the security, so rare as to seem almost incredible. council offi cers and a new and I can’t control the money side as He was born to Jewish parents in the clutch of leftwing councillors much as I want.’ And we were given a Cheetham Hill area of the inner city – started to think about what very hard time by the government. A
10 The Guardian 19.04.17 ‘Tony Blair said, we want the Games to be a success, and May’s government preoccupied ern powerhouse, there are other with Brexit, is he worried about the uncertainties hanging over Manches- why are we project’s future? ter’s future. Some relate to the city giving these “The government has gone out of council, and what it does: Osborne its way to say that the northern pow- may have been one of the prime guys such a erhouse is part of its economic policy movers behind Mancunian devolution, hard time?’ for the future,” he says, before pausing. but he was also chiefl y responsible for “The proof of the pudding will be in the cuts that took 40% out of Man- the eating, when they have to make big chester’s budgets over the past six decisions about investment.” years. “I don’t think anybody thought This, he says, will all become clear there didn’t have to be reductions in in the coming months. “If these things public spending, but local government are endorsed, the northern power- disproportionately took a hit,” says house is alive and kicking. And if Bernstein, diplomatically. Labour government, I hasten to add.” they’re not … Well, we’ve got to hold And then there is Brexit. Bernstein They were being diffi cult? “Oh God, the government to account, to deliver says that as much as £500m of EU yeah. Labour ministers didn’t want on the promises.” money has been spent in Manchester to give us much money. It was, ‘It’s What should people keep an eye on? in the past fi ve years alone , and is at your Games, you bid for it, you fund “The Manchester-Leeds railway. The pains to point out that much of the it.’ It was ultimately Tony Blair who Liverpool-Manchester railway. Con- city’s success has been built on both intervened and said, ‘We want this to necting Sheffi eld to Manchester, and the free movement of people, and col- be a success – why are we giving these Sheffi eld to Leeds. The delivery of HS2. laboration with no end of European guys such a diffi cult time?’ Because These are all transformative invest- organisations, as well as continental of our pragmatism in working with a ments which are absolutely essential.” cities. “Anything that starts to threaten Conservative government, particularly Does he miss Osborne? that network of collaboration and during the late 80s and early 90s, it “Yeah! Because George Osborne movement will be a signifi cant threat was another example of how Manches- was an inspirational fi gure. Devolution to the future,” he says. “I think we face ter was seen by some people in the would not have been possible without a real period of uncertainty over the Labour government: ‘Well, you sold a senior fi gure in government taking next couple of years.” out to the Tories.’” responsibility for it. George Osborne His face darkens for a moment, That was clear? played a fundamental part. He gave before I ask him about how much “Absolutely. John Prescott spent real political and economic credibility the city has changed since his days most of his life telling me that on a to the northern powerhouse strategy.” washing teacups, and whether he has daily basis: saying that there were How did Bernstein feel when he moments when the new Manchester things we were denied, in terms of heard that Osborne had perhaps spoiled suddenly reveals itself anew. “Part of support, which were only rationalised his northern credentials by taking his my problem is, I never really look back- on the basis of, ‘Manchester should job at the London Evening Standard? wards, so I’ve never really spent time be punished for working with the “I laughed,” he says. “I never knew appreciating some of the things that Conservatives’.” about that. But look: at the end of the have happened in the city,” he says. day, he’s a top guy.” Nonetheless, he says he does have oc- n the wake of the Brexit refer- A lot of Labour people will really like casional moments when he surveys the endum and Theresa May’s that kind of talk. skyline, or catches sight of some new I arrival at No 10, it now seems “Well, you’ve got to give credit development, and gets a sudden sense like something from a diff erent where it’s due, haven’t you? When we of transformation. age – but it was in June 2014 had a Labour government, Manchester “There have been remarkable things that chancellor George Osborne made a never had devolution. I’m not even achieved in Manchester over the last 10 big speech in Manchester announcing sure we’ve got a Labour party that talks or 15 years,” he says. He then suggests the birth of what he called the northern about it very much at the moment.” that any kind of retirement will have to powerhouse , and a plan in which Bern- Aside from the future of the north- wait. “But we’ve got to do more.” stein was soon fully involved. Osborne talked about “joining our northern cities together … by providing the modern transport connections they need; by backing their science and universities; by backing their creative clusters; and giving them the local power and control that a powerhouse economy needs.” Some of these plans have now materialised, not least when it comes to devolution – as of April last year Regeneration … Greater Manchester became the fi rst the Crescents English region to be given control housing blocks of its health and social care budget. in Hulme, Bernstein, however, says the Man- shortly before PA; GETTY IMAGES; PHOTOFUSION/UIG VIA GETTY IMAGES PHOTOFUSION/UIG GETTY IMAGES; PA; chester region is hungry for even demolition; more powers, not least over economic (above) the 2002 policy. But with Osborne out of power, Commonwealth the dedicated northern powerhouse Games opening
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usic to your ears, or rather for your eyes: M geek glasses – the thick, dark acetate frames associated with Le Corbusier, SpongeBob SquarePants and last decade’s much-maligned hipster stereotype – are on the wane. So claims the New York Times , any- way. It says that aviator-shaped glasses – thin, steel or titanium frames, based on the shape worn by pilots during the second world war – are this season’s frame of choice. If this seems unlikely , then keep looking . Luxottica , the Italian com- pany with the monopoly on eyewear (Chanel, Persol and Ray-Ban frames are all sold through them) has noticed the same thing: “Wired frames, and aviators in particular, have become more popular lately.” So popular, in fact, that Ray-Ban relaunched its avia- tor opticals this year. Vision Express The only way is up has also seen a 40% increase in aviator sales, with metal frames jousting with Thick frames are out, and the classic pilots’ specs – designed for plastic for popularity. aviation and then sold as sporting equipment – are back, thanks Aviators are also happening on an indie level. At Cubitts , a specialist Lon- to the vogue for the 70s look. Morwenna Ferrier reports don-based optician which handcrafts frames from water-buff alo horn, and plays Bon Iver in-store, the stainless- steel Bemerton frame – also based on this “pilot” shape – is out of stock. It’s interesting to note that these, its hip- (Main picture) and Bella Hadid, both recent adopters of Parliament – in this case, on the pest glasses, are named after Bemerton Aviator of the aviator; in particular, the Carrera nose of the British home secretary, Street which was destroyed and rebuilt afi cionado Bella frame. They wear aviators to off set Amber Rudd . in the now infamous 20th-century Hadid; (right) an overly feminine outfi t. Part of this The men’s style director at match- gentrifi cation (or “slum clearance” ) of Bemerton shape’s appeal is, after all, its mas- esfashion.com , Simon Chilvers, thinks King’s Cross. frames; (top left) culinity (gender-blending is Hadid’s it’s all down to the current 1970s trend. So why now? The eyewear market from the Gucci brand ), not to mention further proof Alessandro Michele featured oversized is set to grow 19% by 2021, and we catwalk; (below) that fashion is focused less on the frames in both his SS16 and AW16 can probably thank geek glasses for Gloria Steinem binary; most aviators are unisex. womenswear Gucci shows . Chilvers that. If geek glasses were once signi- Attempts have been made to describes Gucci’s glasses with a fl oral fi ers of seriousness, worn by anchors dethrone geek glasses before now. embroidered tracksuit as “the icing or celebrities-in-confession, more In the last few years, Perspex frames on the cake” – but also references Cliff recently they have morphed into an (or crystal frames, as retailers call Richard circa 1980 and US GQ’s crea- accessory. Perhaps the crucial moment them, the sort worn by Andy Warhol tive director Jim Moore. was in 2011 when the then-White and Devo ) got close. Cutler and Gross The aviator shape was developed for House press secretary, Jay Carney, was recently launched a new line of crystal pilots to provide “real scientifi c glare accused of wearing hipster glasses . specs which it describes as “a juxta- protection”. Co-designed by eyewear Within a fortnight, he had ditched position of modern construction and manufacturer Bausch & Lomb and a them. Or perhaps it was when Justin time-honoured style”, and Cubitts pilot who witnessed a rather unpleas- Bieber wore a pair in 2010. These are, claims crystal frames are “relatively ant accident caused by ineff ective fl y- after all, objects designed to aid seeing popular” for the same reason as wire ing goggles in the 1920s, Ray-Bans were but that have become more about being ones: “They’re visible without being intended to be light and large, while seen. In many ways, aviators provide too heavy.” But, like many trends, that giving “a good fi eld of vision”, explains a welcome relief. Take Kendall Jenner fad ended when it reached the Houses Cubitts founder Tom Broughton.
12 The Guardian 19.04.17 This large, lightweight design acci- dentally ties into several trends, includ- If you see it at Coachella now … ing this season’s oversized fashion . It is “statement through size rather than … you’ll be wearing it at Glastonburyury in June weight”, says Broughton, although he thinks the look “overspills” more neatly Mismatched into athleisure, a look that blurs the line prints between sportswear and elevated fash- Call it accidentism ion, and which “isn’t going anywhere” if you want, but according to US Vogue. dressing in pink on Aviators certainly fi t in with spring/ Wednesdays like thee summer 2017, although naysayers may Plastics is sooooo fi nd it hard to divorce this style from 2004. Instead, your some of the more controversial wearers squad at festivals this season should bee who coopted them – such as photog- happily clashing. Thee rapher Terry Richardson and one-time band Tennis did this CEO of American Apparel Dov Charney, Coachella could ▼ Highlighter hair – with one member two men who made “pornstar”-shape be seen as the As designer wearing a 70s-style start of festival frames (as they came to be known) Christopher Kane geometric print and season, or a photo once observed, “Neon cool, while embodying the frames’ the other wearing a opportunity gets me going. Every namesake a little too well. Although shirt with tumbling for digital other colour is so tigers, as you do. both men have denied accusations of influencers. What’s banal.” Kylie Jenner But it’s easy – just sexual harassment, some people chose indisputable obviously agrees, avoid WhatsApp ▲ Bralettes is that the to distance themselves from this look. if her decision to chats about what The Bardot top is California-based All of which may explain variations dye her hair the you’re wearing and last year’s festival event – complete on the shape. “The aviators we’re colour of a yellow embrace chance. favourite. Coachella’s with palm-tree seeing are generally slender and pared Stabilo highlighter 2017 attendees were, backdrops, VIP is anything to go by. ▼ Slogan T-shirts instead, all about the back,” says Broughton. See Hadid’s areas and air- Others experimented T his trend is an bralette – a Prada - larger Carrera frame, and the everyday conditioned toilets with pink and green excuse to take a approved item that style seen on the Balenciaga AW17 – is the catwalk of neons. Expect Kane- minute to admire has now filtered down festival fashion. catwalk. On closer inspection, the approved hair to Rihanna’s Coachella to the high street. Study these Bemerton isn’t far off the frames worn become the tonsorial outfit – a Gucci It’s a bra-shaped Coachella trends by the dentist in American Gothic . trend of festival vest with a Voltaire top usually cropped for a head start on Trends in spectacles are notori- season. quote, denim around the end of the what to wear in a shorts and body wearer’s ribcage. The ously diffi cult to trace in fashion. “We field this summer.e don’t generally go for what’s high stocking covered clean-eating brigade in rhinestones. She wear theirs with fashion or on trend because our pre- Fans even posted a selfie teeny-tiny shorts but scriptions tend to outlive the fashion Forget Lady with the caption: “I the fashion way is Windermere. cycle,” says Tyler Laurén Weatherly, can’t go home yet, over a T-shirt. More Exactly 125 director of communications for cuz enough people fashionable and less years on from Archibald Opticians. Spectacles, at ain’t seen my outfit.” skin? Now there’s an Oscar Wilde’s Confirmation, then, unexpected bonus least the bespoke ones, aren’t cheap play, fans are cool of two facts: One, that will come in (Cubitts cost £125; Carreras can cost again. Fan user Rihanna slays; two, handy when it gets a up to £500), and tend to be viewed Karl Lagerfeld says Coachella is both a bit chilly on Worthy more as investment pieces. they are “like a wall festival and a fashion Farm this June. between the world As to whether aviators will overtake show. Lauren Cochrane geek glasses is debatable. “I don’t and myself”. Which agree that thick-rimmed frames are makes them festival- friendly – after dead,” says Broughton. “ But there is Aviator all, this is a world certainly more and more interest in design ties that might contain thin, wire-frame shapes.” Weatherly a man dressed as agrees: “The traditionally darker and into several a cow, and food thicker frame has and always will hold trends, trucks selling kimchi GETTY IMAGES; E-PRESS/XPOSUREPHOTOS.COM; WIREIMAGE; DAVID LEVENE DAVID WIREIMAGE; E-PRESS/XPOSUREPHOTOS.COM; GETTY IMAGES; its own regardless of incoming trends.” at 11am. Swap And Bieber was also seen a few months including out 1892’s bustle and bonnet for a ago in a pair of delicate, gold-framed oversized jumpsuit and flower aviators – so maybe they have already crown.
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Arts Bowing out … the cast of the final Broadchurch against Dorset’s Jurassic coast
our years after we fi rst met west country plumber Mark F Latimer, striding to work one sunny morning through greetings from members of the community, we saw him for the last time on Monday night. He drove away along the picture sque Dorset cliff tops, leaving behind Broadchurch , the fi ctional town where – across 24 episodes and three series – Latimer had lost his child (killed by a paedophile), his marriage (ruined by mutual recrimination), and almost his life (suicide attempt). But Latimer – played by Andrew Buchan – had gained a place among the special memories of TV drama. When it launched in 2013, Broadchurch introduced to British TV lessons from Scandi-noir dramas such as The Killing, in which a terrible crime was explored very slowly in an extremely beautiful place. Subsequently, other UK dramas – especially BBC1’s The Missing and ITV’s Unforgotten – learned from Broadchurch the benefi ts, in screenwriting, of spending more time looking at the map Cliff s and cliff hangers and less at the watch. It was everyone’s favourite small-town crime drama – a slow-build It’s unlikely viewers will ever know what happens to Latimer, or to David whodunnit in a stunning setting that owed as much to Agatha Tennant’s DI Alec Hardy and Olivia Colman’s DS Ellie Miller, the tetchy but Christie as it did to Scandi-noir. But what will Broadchurch’s mutually dependent detectives who, legacy be? Mark Lawson goes looking for clues in series one, solved the murder of Latimer’s son and, in the third , caught the rapists of Trish Winterman and other local women. This, the ITV announcer declared, was “the last-ever Broadchurch”. Writer and creator Chris Chibnall had left the smallest possibility in interviews of more episodes one day, Broadchurch a landmark. The Dorset The scenery Another advantage of the casting but he will be busy for the next few scenery achieves – in common with the of Tennant and Colman, actors who se years, running Doctor Who. Oxford of Morse and the Sweden of made you talents range from TV comedy to stage If this is the end , then Chibnall has Wallander – the paradox of making you keen to live tragedy, is that they were able to make left viewers happy, if that word is keen to live there, even as the storyline sense of the sometimes jerky mood appropriate for a show that started with warns of the high risk of dying there. there, while swings of a Broadchurch script. an investigation of a child’s death and And the performances of Tennant Although Chibnall’s dialogue rarely fi nished with a case involving serial and Colman were magnetically comple- the story contains direct jokes, there is some rape. The success of the third run is mentary. There are few completely fun- warned you suggestion that he has a dry sense even more notable after the disaster of ctional detectives in crime fi ction but, of humour. For instance, episodes the second, when Chibnall unwisely re- even by generic standards, Hardy and of the high regularly ended with a shot of a cliff , examined the original case (focusing Miller are dragging heavy baggage: he risk of which could be a reference to the on the trial of the man who had conf- has survived a life-threatening illness, “cliffh anger” endings ; while one essed to Danny Latimer’s murder), while she was married to the paedophile dying there suspect’s questionable alibi about undermining the authority and killer they apprehended fi rst time out. having been catching fi sh was never impact of what had gone before. These bleak CVs usefully explained, which may make it a literal The fi rst and last scenes of a drama complicated what could have been a example of a red herring clue. are the hardest to get right. Botch the standard hard cop-soft cop, boss-junior While the show’s look and rhythm beginning and the potential audience combination, in the Morse-Lewis looked to Scandinavian models, there gets smaller, but fail to deliver an end mould. Miller was given the most brutal were also nods to Agatha Christie and that satisfi es and the story immediately moment across the three series (almost even Midsomer Murders in the use of a seems weaker in retrospect. With kicking a suspect to death), while Hardy tight community in which a multiplicity Broadchurch, it seemed only proper was occasionally opened to unexpected of residents have something to hide, that the show should end with a gruffl y notes of vulnerability and comedy, which may not be to do with the crime chummy scene between Hardy and especially in scenes with his daughter. under investigation. The local vicar Miller, sitting on a bench with the Chibnall also deserves cheers for and the newspaper editor sometimes spectacular cliff s of Dorset’s Jurassic resisting any sentimental logic that seemed more like the sort of clerics and coast behind them. Here together were the two divorced detectives should journalists Miss Marple might have the three elements that have made get together romantically. encountered, rather than convincing
16 The Guardian 19.04.17 representatives of the contemporary motives have been least clearly shown The presence of Henry and Higson, Church of England or the fourth estate. to the viewer: a detective’s spouse in however, was an example of another In a way that may be Doctor Who’s season one, a largely peripheral guy in a of the strengths of Broadchurch: gain but is certainly crime drama’s loss, fi shing supplies shop on Monday night. impressive star casting, either as Chibnall is deft at the concealed clues The fact that Humphries ranked low in suspects or, in the case of the second on which whodunnits depend. A detail weekend media speculation ahead of season, Charlotte Rampling as a star QC, that proved to be crucial to the solution the heavily embargoed denouement is whose appearance almost justifi ed the of season three was that the serial rapist a tribute to Chibnall’s plotting, but is silly trial strand. Also to the credit of the attacked only in summer. In a seaside also evidence of the way in which third Broadchurch is that, apart from resort such as Broadchurch, this could detective dramas sometimes have to having to overcome its own second easily have pointed to seasonal labour, gain narrative complexity by losing series, the show also found itself for the but the criminal turned out to be psychological plausibility. fi rst time up against a BBC rival in top another kind of intermittent resident: Admittedly, the sick justifi cation form: Jed Mercurio ’s police corruption a student, Leo Humphries. given by the multiple rapist – a desire series Line of Duty . But deceptive developments of the to subjugate and control women – is Until this year, the production sort that Christie would have admired a recognised psychopathology in such schedules of the two mega-hits meant co-existed with a procedural realism crimes, and refl ected the series’ well- they had always spookily avoided each unknown in classic detective fi ction. developed sub-theme of the eff ect on Star casting … other: the earlier series of Line of Duty Boldly, this series of Broadchurch was young men of the increasing availability Charlotte Rampling, went out in 2012, 2014 and 2016, with trying to be two things simultaneously: and depravity of pornography. But whose appearance the previous seasons of Broadchurch almost justified the a quasi-documentary presentation of the writer’s need to keep Humphries interleaved in the years between. On series two trial best police practice in the investigation under the radar of armchair detectives the evidence of Broadchurch 2 and Line of rape and a top-rating crime drama resulted in him being one of the least of Duty 3, most would have expected with the requisite outlandish twists and fully explored and explained characters. the contest to be handed to Mercurio cliffh angers, in which compromising The revelation as culprit of Lenry over Chibnall on an early knockout. But, biographical details or items of Henry’s Ed Burnett, Charlie Higson’s abutting on Sunday and Monday nights abandoned clothing come to light just Ian Winterman or Mark Bazeley’s Jim this spring, the two shows have fought towards the end of the episode. Atwood might have been more one of the great heavyweight ratings Chibnall succeeded in both these inherently credible. battles, and seem sure to compete again aims, but separately. Only intermitt- at TV awards ceremonies. ently did the lines of public information There will be delight among and crowd-pleasing overlap, as when traditional broadcasters that – despite Trish Winterman’s refusal to name the the increasing success of self- man with whom she had consensual scheduling seasons on Netfl ix and sex on the day of her rape both Amazon Prime – the last series of thickened the mystery and refl ected Broadchurch and the latest of Line of the legal issue of judging a victim’s Duty have confi rmed the enduring prior sex-life. power of weekly serial s that millions The one big fl aw of this Broadchurch (up to 10 for Broadchurch, more than also applied to the fi rst season and seven for Line of Duty) watch at the affl icts, to some extent, all crime fi ction. same time each week, after seven In the interests of making the puzzle days of wild anticipation and tough to solve – the central pleasure of speculation. Broadchurch may be the genre – the eventual villain often dead, but it has helped old-fashioned has to be someone whose means and TV drama to live longer. ITV/KUDOS PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS
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service, the fi rst to sing in an Ethiopian The nun Orthodox church, the fi rst to work as a translator for the Orthodox Patriarch in Jerusalem. “Even as a teenager I was who rocks always asking, ‘What is the diff erence between boys and girls?’ We are equal!” Prodigy, exile, maverick, That life was brutally disrupted nun … Kate Molleson when Benito Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in 1936 and three members on the extraordinary life – of her family were killed. She was and amazing bluesy music evacuated to Europe, but she was unfazed in her determination to – of Ethiopia’s Emahoy become a musician and eventually Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou found her way to Cairo to study. She practiced nine hours a day and remembers it as a happy time. Emahoy set her sights on London and was off ered a scholarship to the ’m no great singer, but Emahoy album released in 2006, as part of the ‘We can’t always Royal Academy of Music. But for Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou only Éthiopiques collection. That series choose what life reasons that she wouldn’t disclose, I really trusted me after I sang put her poised, bluesy, freewheeling brings’ … above, she was refused permission to go. to her. “Something from your waltzes together with the Ethio-jazz Emahoy today; Whether it was a bureaucratic glitch country,” she instructed . So I that emerged out of Addis Ababa in the below, at the or something closer to the lyrics of my found myself in the tiny bedroom of 1960s. But she insists she’s not a jazz age of 23 Burns song, we may never know. The this 93-year-old Ethiopian composer- artist . Her training is western disappointment made her give up the pianist-nun , croaking my way through classical; her inspiration classical piano and turn to God. “It was a Robert Burns song. comes from the ancient His willing,” is all she would say. “We The room, at the Ethiopian Orthodox chants of the Orthodox can choose how to respond.” church in Jerusalem, was cramped and church. It sounds like Emahoy never rekindled her sweltering. In it was a small bed, an nothing else. nascent career as a classical concert upright piano draped in Ethiopian fl ags, I was in Jerusalem pianist. Instead she invented her own stacks of tapes, and a jumble of to make a documentary musical language. After becoming hand written manuscripts. On the walls about Emahoy. Born in a nun, she spent a decade living were portraits of Emperor Haile Selassie 1923, she grew up in one of barefoot in a hilltop monastery in – Emahoy knew him in the 1930s – and the country’s most privileged northern Ethiopia, and when she her own paintings of religious icons. families. She and her sister were eventually returned to music, she Emahoy is fl uent in seven languages, the fi rst girls to be sent abroad for their wrote her own compositions, infus ing but when I fi nished Ae Fond Kiss, she education – she remembers travelling the classical training of her youth admitted the old Scots lyrics had been by train, aged six, from Addis to the with the pentatonic chants she was tricky to decipher. I gave her a potted port of Djibouti then onwards by singing in church. There’s a stunning translation – lovers meet, part, feel boat to Marseille, en route to a Swiss timelessness to her music: the brokenhearted – and she fi xed me with boarding school. That’s where she fi rst ornaments are virtuosic and the chords a deep stare. “We can’t always choose encountered western classical music. lilt like a Chopin waltz – almost, but not what life brings ,” she said. “But we can She took piano and violin lessons and quite. With Emahoy, nothing is regular. choose how to respond.” turned out to be a special talent. Her melodies fl it between traditions . If anyone is qualifi ed to dish out In the 1930s, she returned to Addis: She went to Before we left, Emahoy fi xed me such wisdom, it’s a woman whose portraits from this period show a with that stare again. She told me to go choices were determined by religious gorgeous young woman with a wry high-society through life fi ghting for equality. She self-exile, maverick gender struggles smile and a bold fashion sense. She parties said she’s working on another album. and Ethiopia’s dramatic 20th-century went to high-society parties and Even from her bed, she’s still choosing political history – and who became a sang for Haile Selassie. She had a car and sang how to respond. singular artist in the process. and raced a horse and trap around for Haile Most people familiar with Emahoy’s the city. She was a feminist: the fi rst The Honky Tonk Nun is available on music come across it via her solo piano woman to work for the Ethiopian civil Selassie BBC iPlayer Radio until 17 May GALI TIBBON PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS
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ily Cole is sitting on a sofa staring at an old photograph L of herself with a look of complete surprise. The shot, which was donated to the National Portrait Gallery 10 years ago, is called Lily Cole As Elizabeth I. But fi ve minutes ago, when Cole and I fi rst sat down in this luxurious London hotel room to discuss her upcoming role as the Virgin Queen, the 29-year-old had no idea she had ever portrayed her before. “Really?” she said. “Really? I didn’t know that . Which image?” The shot, taken by the fashion photographer Eitan Lee Al, is a massive closeup of Cole’s face when she was 17. She laughs when she sees she looks nothing like Elizabeth – except, perhaps, for her rather supercilious expression. “That’s so funny. That title has totally been put on by the photo- ‘A hell of a lot of things happened’ … grapher after.” She looks impressed. below, Lily Cole; above, as the queen “Interesting news. Thanks.” That, I realise later, is her way of Cole asked Amal to fi lm what was congratulating me for doing my home– Killer happening in her refugee camp and work – behaviour of which she un- used the footage in her docu mentary. doubtedly approves. Cole, it turns out, “ Once I knew what she had experi- is a bit of a swot. “I always found that enced, it felt incredibly poignant in school, if I worked really hard, I queen to give her a platform .” She adds: would get the results. So that set up “I got an email from her yesterday. this equation in my brain: it’s just Supermodel and actor Lily Cole tells She’s been given asylum. So that’s about working hard . If I do that with amazing news.” other things, if I put my heart and soul Donna Ferguson what playing Cole is now a mother , she and her into it, almost anything is possible.” Elizabeth I in a new TV drama taught her boyfriend, Kwame Ferreira, having had This would explain how, when she a baby girl in 2015. “I think we’re doing was in her early 20s, she managed to about power, sacrifi ce and motherhood a decent job of it between the two of model, act and get a double fi rst in – and relives the tragedy she saw while us,” she says. “But with so many of my history of art from Cambridge, all at friends, the woman ends up perform- the same time. She remains a massive directing a fi lm about refugees in Greece ing the ‘mother’ role, being more of the history buff , and spent a long time caretaker, sacrifi cing her career. I’m not reading about the queen before she saying that’s wrong, but it’s not always agreed to play her in Channel 5’s new that they want to do that. I’ve started drama. “Her life was so peculiar – to feel like feminism is one of the most having so many family members try with refugees on the Greek island of ‘Did I enjoy important issues we have.” to kill you, that by the time she’d made Samos. “At the same time, we had the Did that feed into her portrayal of it to queen …” She hesitates. “It was a travel ban in the US . It seemed an wearing all Elizabeth? “I tried to think about her complete headfuck, really, for want of interesting comparison. I don’t want those silly from her own perspective – and I a better word.” to be reductive, but the confl ict don’t think she would have thought of In the three-parter, which combines between Protestant and Catholic in ruffs? Yeah!’ herself as a feminist. But I do think she drama and commentary , Cole plays Elizabeth ’s time – in my opinion, felt capable, smart, intelligent, sure of Elizabeth from the age of 20, when today, it’s just [the same] confl ict by her own merits, and anxious not to be she was almost tried for treason by a diff erent name. Ultimately, they are put into a submissive position just her sister Mary I (or Bloody Mary, as diff ering belief systems, diff erent because she was a woman. I think by she was known after death, due to her enough for people to die over .”” avoiding marriage she made sure she execution of Protestants). Cole’s part in When she tells me about whathat stayed in power and control. But there the series culminates when Elizabeth, happened to a Syrian refugee ccalledalled were big sacrifi ces. She lost her ability now 55, executes her cousin, Mary Amal, she stops speaking and loolooksks to have a child, she didn’t get to marry Queen of Scots. “That’s a long time,” away . “Ah,” she says, “it makess me the man she loved .” says Cole. “ A hell of a lot of things want to cry all over again.” Amal,mal, What about dressing up in all those happened, and the confl ict on the a journalist, had been imprisonedned silly ruff s – did you enjoy that? “ Yeah, continent was intense. But the in Syria for seven months for yeah, yeah!” she laughs. “And getting impression I got was that Elizabeth fi lming what was happening to play a queen. I’d normally feel quite always tried to keep peace and bring in the country. But her guilty if I was bossing people around.
BRENDAN MCGINTY/CHANNEL 5; DAVID BENETT/GETTY 5; DAVID MCGINTY/CHANNEL BRENDAN unity to the country.” punishment did not stop But when you’re playing Elizabeth I, Filming took place in January, while there: in one of the most you can really enjoy being superior.” Cole was also in the middle of editing chilling moments in the doc- Lights in Dark Places, a documentary umentary, Amal reveals that Elizabeth I is on Channel 5 in May.
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love an enthusiast, and an Tusks at dawn: competition for female expert. Professor Doug Emlen elephants is intense I is both. You can see it when he holds a huge elk antler, turning further; he visits Malmstrom Air Force it and looking at it admiringly, Base in Montana, which is equipped the way a fi rearms enthusiast would with Minuteman III nuclear missiles. look at a big gun. Well, an antler is They are the big ones, the most destruc- a weapon, weapons are Prof Doug’s tive weapons on earth, though Ross, the things, this is Nature’s Wildest Weap- corporal showing him round, can’t go ons: Horns, Tusks and Antlers (BBC2). into detail. “We will launch the missiles Emlen likes chameleons, too, but the person who has the authority because they are the quintessential is the president,” says Corporal Ross in ambush predator: they sit tight, cam- a missile launch training facility. Yeah, oufl aged, their eyes can swivel in Last night's TV thanks for the reminder. A giant golden- diff erent directions, and they thwap haired rogue male dung beetle, with out their tongues to ambush their prey. A terrifying look at the tiny minute man hands but massive But there are varieties of chameleons nuclear horns, 150 of them just here. Doug gets especially excited about: parallels between animals’ So in nature, the really big weapons the ones with horns. “These guys look – like the giant claw of the fi ddler crab like little dinosaurs,” he says, gleefully. – are rarely deplo yed, they are just a “Think of this like Jurassic Park joust- arms races and our own deterrent? Hmmm, not sure that’s reas- ing as these males try and push and pry suring, when this particular fi ddler crab, and twist each other off the branch.” the Mar-a-Lago variety, shows few signs But Emlen is not just a TV person of following predictable patterns of evo- getting the horn about macho preda- lutionary science. Yeah, I know he was tors, and nature’s epic battles. As a a dung beetle before he morphed into biologist, he has spent years studying a fi ddler crab, all right? Watch out for the species whose weapons are taken to that claw, ladies. Ouch. extremes, piecing together the evidence By Sam Wollaston It’s fascinating, and terrifying, with to explain their evolution. And he has a few jolly subplots and anomalies found that, for an arms race to happen, recorded human history the only sort along the way. Like the Jesus Christ certain conditions need to be in place. of fi ght that has ever mattered for birds for whom it’s the females who are By watching male Chilean beetles (very honour or status is the duel.” the aggressors and hold the weapons. big jaws, very macho) knock each other Ah. There’s another species that has And the sneaky weaponless male dung off trees so they can stay at the sap and developed extreme weapons: us. And beetles who dig secret love tunnels to get female beetles (small jaws, prettier), it was hard not to think of the cold war, mate with the big guys’ females. Doug concludes that there needs to be a and what’s going on now, the moment Donald Jr and Eric gets parts in defendable resource (sap = sex) against this began. Does ideology count as a the story, too. Weapon sizes in some which fi ghts can take place. defendable resource I wonder? That animal populations – including Elephants next. Females are fertile elk might as well have been called Kim elephants, big horn sheep and caribous for only about fi ve days every four Jong-un. The only way it can develop – are decreasing. And the trigger for years. So competition for them is its big weapons is to shunt reserves (of AND ANOTHER this change? Trophy hunters, who, THING intense – that’s condition number calcium) away from the rest of its body, in prizing the biggest horns, tusks two for an arms race, and why male pulling important reserves to allocate and antlers are actually inadvertently elephants have very big tusks. to the weapons, so that it is sick, dying Best thing about removing the genes for the biggest Billy Connolly & Me: And for the fi nal evolutionary even. Antlers, missiles; calcium, weapons. Quite ironic really. A Celebration (ITV)? pressure, it’s back to beetles, dung money; body, population – what’s the The population But I’m afraid it’s only a small ones this time . Doug fi nds that they – diff erence? Oh, Kim’s antlers don’t even of nurses in one part of the story. The big one is still and all other creatures with extreme work, snapped on impact. Canadian hospital that the males with the biggest and weapons – do battle one-on-one. “It’s Emlen explores the parallels between who learned how to most extreme weapons are the most no accident that for 5,000 years of animals arms races and our own swear in Glaswegian successful. Daddy still wins. BBC/ANUP SHAH/NATUREPL.COM PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH
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