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Monday 05/08/19 Four pages of wellbeing! Rhik Samadder, how to say sorry and life without soap pages 2-5

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In Britain, we over-apologise out of politeness . Are you doing That not only detracts from an apology when we do have something to be sorry for, but it can be seen as it right? submission, especially in our professional lives. The classic example is at a social gathering or Sayingyg sorry y networking event. If you try to infi ltrate a group by saying, “sorry to interrupt”, the fi rst thing you have told people is that you are apologetic and interrupting. Likewise, people responding to emails with “sorry for the delay in getting back to you” are highlighting the fact there was a delay. Instead, start by thanking the person for allowing you the time to come back to them. In terms of saying sorry when you have something to apologise for, it is better to do it succinctly . You can tell a sincere apology by the fact that it is short and to the point. Qualifying an apology generally means the apologiser does not fully mean it. Preferably, the apology should be face to face; if that is not possible, then do it over the phone. If you have really annoyed someone and done the initial apology face-to-face or over the phone, it is fi ne to follow up with something more expansive in writing. You have to know your audience. Flowers might not always work if your apology is to a blokey man, but it is always good to add something tangible and thoughtful to your words. William Hanson is an etiquette expert at the Help I Sexted My Boss podcast. As told to Ammar Kalia Five ways to form a good habit that sticks

Identify a cue Forming Be specific “Don’t say something a habit is trying to form a 1 cue-behaviour link in the broad like: ‘I want to eat more fruit memory, meaning “you perform and vegetables’,” says Lally. “You the behaviour without having to 2 intentionally make yourself do it”, need a specifi c plan for how you will do it ” says Phillippa Lally, a research – for example, by having vegetables and associate at University College fruit in the house . A behaviour is more The one change London. Cues can be internal or external (such as feeling hungry or likely to become habitual if you enjoy it or making a cup of tea) and are most fi nd it rewarding. Even if it is something eff ective when encountered every that worked day, including the weekend, to you think you’d rather not do, such as minimise daily planning and exercise: “When you’ve done it you’re willpower. Good ones include getting up and mealtimes. likely to be pleased with yourself. ” I found love after

Think about who you are There is some evidence to suggest that we moving house 3 are more likely to create a habit when it connects to our sense of identity. “Some [habits] are representations of certain important goals or values,” says Bas Verplanken, a professor of social Of course, there were a few lovely psychology at the University of Bath. “Take a person Leaving London men with whom it just didn’t work who is very concerned about the environment – to renovate an old out, but, overall, it felt as if there was habits that relate to environmentally friendly no one out there for me. I knew it behaviour link to that identity. If you manage to link house on her own was possible to meet someone – lots Don’t give up certain behaviours to your sense of identity, it might of my friends are with partners they help to establish those habits.” started badly, until met online – and I veered between Lally’s research gritting my teeth and thinking, “ It’s debunked the Choose your moment Louise Voss met just a numbers game, you have to 4 “Make use of what we call kiss a lot of frogs” to “What’s wrong widespread belief that a romantic tiler 5 ‘habit discontinuities’,” saysays with me?” I hated it. But what else forming a habit takes 21 Verplanken. These are the could I do? I’m a self-employed days – she found the “moments when people go writer – I mean, I was hardly going through life-course changes, I had been internet dating on and off to meet a man while typing at my average was 66 days, with such as moving house, starting a for 16 years, since getting divorced kitchen table, was I? some people taking more family or a relationship, divorce,e, in my mid- 30s. I had a couple of Then, a couple of years ago, a retirement or organisation relationships during this time but, few things happened at once. My than 25 0 days and some changes ”. These kind of events in between these, I must have grownup daughter moved out and just 18. “My message from disrupt old habits, and allow corresponded with hundreds of my mother, who had Alzheimer’s you to create new ones. It’s whyy men, and been on loads of dates. I and had spent years in a care home, that is it is very variable.” New Year’s resolutions tend to failfail met nice-but-dull guys, ghosters, died . She left the family home Don’t despair if you miss a – your life, and old routines, are terrible kissers and even the odd in Salisbury to my brother and day. “We don’t know how still the same on 2 January. But Walter Mitty. There was the guy me, but it was in a dreadful state, switching jobs or schools, or who turned out to be married , having been rented out for almost much you can miss and it getting a pet, can become a the guy with beard dandruff , and a decade to help pay for her care still be OK, but one time is catalyst for broader change. the “medical professional” who fees. My brother wanted to sell, but later admitted he sold stairlifts I couldn’t bear it – that would have not disastrous.” By Emine Saner and wheelchairs. felt like yet another major loss. • The Guardian Monday 5 August 2019 3 Wellness or I don’t have a big close family, and my happiest memories are from my childhood in that house . I grew up in Salisbury but had lived in London for 30 years, since hellness? graduating from university in the 80s, and had brought up my daughter in the same house since she was six. When she moved out, I was living alone for the fi rst time ever . I had always been happy Rhik Samadder there, with a wide circle of friends and interests locally, but now it felt healing can occur. It’s a nicer way of stagnant and lonely. Mind Like Water ayurvedic massage putting it than: “You fell asleep on I had told myself that when she the job, you worthless sack.” Now left home, that would be my chance with sound therapy Or, if you prefer, that I am totally relaxed – perhaps to do something diff erent. So I took ‘getting mashed to a trippy jam’ too much – it’s time for the sound a major decision: I would move back portion of the therapy. Tibetan to Salisbury, get the house done singing bowls are placed on my up, and live in it. I remortgaged and chest. Eyes closed, I feel their vibrato rented my home in London, buying in my body as much as my ears. my brother out of his half of the Cade has many instruments, most of Salisbury house. which I can’t identify. She even sings I moved last September, and it at one point, so in tune with them was horribly stressful doing it solo. that I’m not sure the tone is human. I had struggled to fi nd tradespeople There’s a drum, more boom to do all the work required so the than volume, which reverberates house was like a building site for the pleasurably in my belly; a particular fi rst few weeks. I immediately came soothing, shushing noise that makes down with a grim chest infection me feel like a baby. I take a peek and found myself lying in bed, to fi nd myself staring down the feeling very sorry for myself and business end of a seeded baguette bitterly regretting the whole thing. (which I’m later told is actually Once I recovered from my illness, a rain stick). Most extraordinary of I made an eff ort to start integrating, all: surgical-looking tuning forks, in the hope that I would make some like something out of Marathon new friends or even meet a man; Man, placed at points around my although this felt incredibly unlikely head. I can feel their muscular – the Wiltshire dating scene seemed thrum resonating against the walls even more woeful than the London of my skull, long after any audible one. When I went on Bumble, my noise has died away. It is like being local matches included a guy who massaged from the inside. declared he liked “buses, donkeys, This is what I didn’t understand bell-ringing and drawing”. before; that sound therapy is about Yet, gradually, I started to feel feeling, not hearing. Does it do more settled. Work progressed on say, a frequency associated with any good? You have to believe in the house and I stopped worrying a meditative state. A nicer way of healing frequencies, which for many about meeting someone. My putting it than “getting mashed to is a big ask. But you don’t need decorators recommended a friend a trippy jam”. I like jam. Thoughts peer-reviewed science to know of theirs who was a fi re fi ghter, like this wash through me and away. that relaxation feels nice, and is but also did tiling and carpentry, The transporting massage is more healing than being majorly so I hired him to do loads of stuff . intended to put me in an optimal stressed out. I can’t think of another Then one day I realised how state to receive the good vibrations, treatment as absurdly relaxing as much I was looking forward to ound massage? and it’s working. She sprinkles an this. The sound portion makes it him arriving to start work in the Sounds like woo-woo to me. I have ayurvedic powder over me like more holistically sensual, every mornings – although I assumed he Sbeen to a gong bath before, lying seasoning, works warm sesame oil sense touched and calmed. Cade was married or taken, as all the good at the back of a sweaty studio for into my legs. Is this is how it feels doesn’t wrap me up in a carpet (is ones seem to be. I discovered we an hour, confused in the dark to be a posh Pot Noodle? Smells far my fantasy to be thrown into a boot, had a very similar sense of humour Well, while a yogi fi ngered a large gong. nicer. She is burning resin to cleanse like a rival gangster in a Guy Ritchie and I would try to make him laugh, well, It was a pleasant soundscape, but whatever energy is clearing my fi lm? Unclear), but I feel so much because he had a lovely smile. Then well nothing more. I’d only gone because system. Essential oils twist through lighter. The day’s anxieties have I discovered to my joy that he was the event description promised my brain: bergamot, peppermint, evaporated. When I walk out, it is single. I came up with more things participants would be wrapped in something … something. on a cloud. I don’t know if I should that needed tiling – it’s a miracle my a carpet at the end, which sounded I wake myself up with the tickling be banging the drum for sound house doesn’t resemble a municipal amazing; when it came to it, we were graze of a light snore, dignity once therapy in general – I’m not sure how swimming baths. He built some told to cover our legs with a blanket again nowhere to be seen. Cade tells strongly the experience would have wardrobes in my bedroom (and has in shavasana (AKA corpse pose) if we me that in sleep we access the delta resonated without the massage. Yet since confessed that he wondered were chilly. I had pictured someone brainwave, at which point internal I can’t deny it has done me a power if one of them might be his one A US study of rolling me up like a cigarillo – not of good. I sleep soundly that night, day). Eventually, in January, having 123,000 p eople something a grown man can request too – the best therapy of all. discreetly checked how many suggests that with any dignity. I didn’t go back. toothbrushes resided on the sink, to increasing Only fair to give it another go, Some employees are unentrainable make sure I was also single, he asked your vitamin this time one-on-one. Michelle I’ve been caught napping in every if he could take me for dinner. A intake may Cade, the founder of Mind Like job I’ve ever had. Should have told We have been inseparable ever reduce the risk Water (£90 for 90 minutes) leads I fi nd myself my supervisors I’d been accessing since. The irony of meeting someone of skin cancer. various sound therapies, and today a delta state to facilitate healing. Feel in the one way I was convinced Researchers I’m experiencing it with a full-body staring down free to try this, and report back. I never would – sitting on my own in from Brown ayurvedic massage. I clamber on to my house – does not escape me, and University say the table, ungainly, clammy, full of the business Wellness or hellness? I have happily deleted every dating eating a healthy unrelated anxieties. Luckily, Cade is Cymbally the best. 4/5 app. Life is great, and I’m so glad I diet could be an innately soothing presence. She end of a seeded had the courage to make that change preventative, is also a composer of binaural beats , I Never Said I Loved You by Rhik and stick to it. What I thought was in addition and describes brain entrainment to baguette, which Samadder (Headline, £14.99) the biggest mistake turned into the to wearing me; the theory by which brainwaves is published on 6 August. To best thing I ever did. sunscreen and supposedly align with the frequency I’m told is actually order a copy for £11.99, go to The Last Stage by Louise Voss is reducing sun of a supplied beat. This allows guardianbookshop.com or call

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(Left to right) Kit Wallen Russell of JooMo and Mother Dirt’s CEO, Jasmina Aganovic

Why we gave up washing

for solutions. Even the mainstream odour-free armpits are a sign that Soap. “I’ve talked to people who brand Dove claims vaguely that its her skin microbiome is healthy. haven’t used any kind of detergent products are “microbiome-gentle” . Jackie Hong, a reporter in Yukon, in years and they’re perfectly fi ne.” A growing number Sarah Ballantyne, a medical north-west Canada, has eschewed She says that, since 1950, we have of people are biophysicist turned author and soap in the shower for nine years. gone from bathing once a week to lifestyle guru known as the Paleo “I use my hands to scrub myself and every day. “Has that changed our eschewing soap Mom , has been an advocate of get any grime off , but I’m sitting in skin microbiome? I think the answer living in a more “stone age” way court or at my desk most days, so it’s is yes. And has that caused a rise in – and an entire avid Whitlock has since reaching a healthy weight not like I’m getting bombarded with infl ammatory skin diseases? I think not showered or bathed for 15 years, after adopting the Paleo diet . She, fi lth.” She was curious to go without the answer is yes, but we don’t know.” industry has sprung D yet he does not have body odour. too, uses only water to wash, even soap after an artist told her that he For Whitlock, a former chemical “It was kind of strange for the fi rst though she is “at the gym sweating hadn’t lathered up in 20 years. She engineer based in Cambridge, up around them. few months, but after that I stopped buckets six hours a week”. “I use says she saves time and money and Massachusetts, not washing has missing it,” he says. “If I get a specifi c coconut oil to shave and that’s needs “a lot less body lotion”. been a serious science experiment, By Amy Fleming part of my body dirty, then I’ll wash it,” she says. “Over time, my skin “There’s nothing wrong with just the success of which has led that specifi c part” – but never with has adjusted. I don’t smell.” She is rinsing,” says Sandy Skotnicki, a him to become a trailblazer in soap. As well as germs, soap gets rid working on a book about the human Toronto-based dermatologist and a skincare revolution in soap-free, of the skin’s protective oils and alters microbiome and is convinced her the author of the 2018 book Beyond microbiome-friendly and probiotic its pH level. Although Whitlock products. His inspiration came appreciated gaining an extra 15 from researching why horses roll minutes a day from soap-dodging, in dirt. His conclusion? To top his primary motivation was to up their ammonia-metabilising encourage friendly microbes to live bacteria, making the skin less on him in symbiotic harmony. The Jackie Hong has susceptible to infection. bacteria get to feast on the ammonia not used soap in Whitlock had hoped that he from his sweat and he gets low- the shower for would naturally acquire this type maintenance, balanced skin. nine years of bacteria simply by stopping Just as awareness of the washing . He didn’t – and grew importance of the gut microbiome quite pongy. So, he harvested has led to a boom in probiotic and bacteria from the soil at a local farm fermented foods and supplements , and fed them with ammonia and there is increasing interest in our minerals. When they turned the skin microbiome: the trillions ammonia into nitrate, he knew he of microbes that protect us from had what he wanted and started pathogens and keep us healthy by narrowing them down to a single making vitamins and other useful strain that seemed happiest on chemicals. In this unprecedentedly human skin. After he applied the sanitised era, in which eczema, acne bacteria he had cultured – the stuff and problems associated with dry the horses were apparently after skin are rife, consumers are hungry – he stopped smelling. • The Guardian Monday 5 August 2019 5

the negative eff ects of soap or you shouldn’t take aspirin or ibuprofen at the over washing. “It sounds like same time as Gaviscon, because it can aff ect the something people just say and pass way the painkillers are absorbed by your body? around like: ‘Well, that makes sense That’s important to know if you take daily to me,’” says Julie Segre, a senior aspirin to lower the risk of stroke. Conversely, We’re excitedit investigator in microbial genomics did you know that some antacids, such as at the National Institute of Health Alka Seltzer, contain aspirin? That could be about the in the US. She says there is limited important, too – in 2016, the US Food and medical evidence for the effi cacy of Drug Administration (FDA) said that excessive potential, but skincare targeting the microbiome. aspirin use can cause stomach bleeding. “My position is there’s a lot of Though antacids may alleviate symptoms we must also promise in this fi eld, but we need a in minutes, over-reliance on them may not lot more basic science.” only mask more serious issues but could even be careful not Even in her own clinical work create them. Fagan, a 42-year-old architect with childhood eczema, she says, from Bristol, says: “It was only while my wife to overclaim there is a long way to go before was pregnant and suff ering acid refl ux herself microbes could become part of that it got mentioned to our GP. It wasn’t a food medical intervention – although that issue at all, but a medical problem.” is not to say there is no potential. Fagan was diagnosed with overactive acid Segre singles out the possibilities of production and started taking proton-pump prebiotic ingredients “where you put inhibitors (PPIs), which reduce stomach acid creams on your skin that can help production, rather than simply neutralising the benefi cial microbes grow”. it. Now, Fagan rarely needs to take them. While Mother Dirt, as a cosmetic Hard to However, the duration of treatment can vary brand, makes no health claims, its hugely, and long-term PPI use is linked to side- Lifestyle owner, AOBiome, is a pharmaceutical eff ects including pneumonia, hypocalcaemia company running clinical trials on a and Clostridium diffi cile infections (leading guru Sarah surprising array of treatments: not swallow to severe diarrhoea). One study even made a Ballantyne only acne, eczema and rosacea, but link between PPI use and early death. Some also allergic rhinitis, hypertension PPI s are available over the counter, which has and migraine. Whitlock says that, The trouble led to concern that – like antacids – they will after using AOB, he was able to stop be overused and under-monitored. The NHS taking a drug for his high blood notes that prolonged use should be avoided. pressure, a result that was replicated with In fact, according to US research, the in AOBiome’s acne study. majority of people with recurring heartburn “When we looked at the safety don’t seek medical advice at all, instead self- After co-founding the company data, people’s blood pressure antacids treating the symptoms for years. This may AOBiome in 2013, Whitlock dropped,” says Jim Hoff man, also have had a signifi cant eff ect in skewing launched it as a spray: Mother Dirt one of the company’s directors. data – the researchers note that women are AO+ Mist, billed as containing “Nobody’s blood pressure dropped more likely to seek medical attention than “ammonia- oxidising bacteria (AOB), dangerously . All of a sudden, you’re men, “resulting in the false impression that a peacekeeper that once existed on looking at hundreds of people and We eat millions of nonerosive refl ux disease and functional our skin, but was cleaned away with saying there’s really something anti-indigestion tablets heartburn are primarily female disorders”. modern hygiene and lifestyles”. here.” In the resulting blood pressure For everyone, even innocuous-looking As most people still want to take study, it was observed that no one every year – which over-the-counter remedies should be used showers and purchase nice products trialling AOB treatment had had a carefully. “In terms of using them ‘blind’,, ttheyhey for their skin, the Mother Dirt range headache. “In the placebo group, would be fi ne if we are treating a symptom, not a disease,”se,” now includes hair, face and body people had the normal number of says Ford. “If someone has had ann washes free from preservatives headaches, but in the drug group: took them correctly. endoscopy and this is normal, thenn and detergents. zero headaches ,” says Hoff man. it is reasonable to use them. In mostst Michelle Strutton, a global beauty A hypothesis for a migraine Unfortunately, we don’t, young people with indigestion, theree analyst at the research fi rm Mintel, treatment evolved from there. will not be a serious underlying cause,se,ee, says that while probiotic skincare Trials are continuing. writes Kate Carter so they are probably OK. But older still has a low market share, it has Meanwhile, the jury is out on the people – above 50 or 55 years – mig mightht increased more than 300% from best way to ensure a healthy skin be masking the symptoms of 2015 to 2019, “so it is defi nitely microbiome. Mother Dirt’s CEO, a peptic ulcer or a stomach an area that’s worth watching”. the biochemist Jasmina Aganovic, oah Fagan says he “used to go cancer. These people shouldld For example, the French brand says detergents such as sodium through antacids like sweets . consult their GP.” Gallinée uses lactobacillus bacteria lauryl sulphate and sodium dodecyl I’d take at least three antacids Bayer, which makes “deactivated by heat”, while sulphate should be avoided, so as on average – going up to six on Rennie, says: “Bayer La Flore , a US brand soon to launch to protect the sensitive AOB . Even a bad day. This went on for at encourages people taking antacidsids in the UK, suspends microbes in a essential oils, such as lavender least seven years.” to read the information provided “gel matrix”. What exactly makes and tea tree, have antimicrobial NIf you have reached for a chalky tablet after with the product. Antacids will only manageanage a product “microbiome- friendly” capabilities. “It doesn’t mean you a meal, you are not alone. T he World Health the symptoms rather than curing a problem.m. or “probiotic”, however, can be shouldn’t use them, but you need to Organization says more than $10bn (£8.2bn) As with all antacids available without a hard to pin down. be careful about how – not all over worldwide is spent on them every year. In the prescription, if symptoms persist for longer “There isn’t a whole lot of the body, not super-concentrated,” UK, more than 40% of us use them – 2.8 million than 14 days in a row, then it is advisable to defi nition for things like natural she says. people reach for the market leader, Rennie . see a healthcare professional to check there probiotics,” says Kit Wallen Russell, Spending time outdoors, and Indigestion is often caused by excess is no underlying cause.” This information is the co-founder of the “forest bathing” in particular, has stomach acid and results in discomfort, pain, stated on the packet – if we only read it. British startup JooMo . also been shown to be benefi cial bloating, nausea or wind. With acid refl ux, For all indigestion suff erers, the message is “There’s no regulation in to the microbiome. But, Aganovic acid travels up the oesophagus to the throat, consistent: if symptoms persist, see a doctor the cosmetics industry, hastens to add : “ The tempered leaving an unpleasant taste. Alexander to rule out anything serious. If all is well, which means it’s the wild approach of the scientist is there’s a Ford, a professor of gastroenterology at the then you can try to reduce your reliance on west for companies saying lot we don’t know, and we’re excited University of Leeds, says: “The two main antacids and alleviate symptoms by other their products do certain about the potential, but we must groups of antacids are those that contain an means. Specifi c foods may be triggers, but things.” JooMo’s products also be careful not to over claim.” alkali which ‘neutralises’ acid, like Rennies; generally it’s a good idea to avoid very spicy, don’t contain live cultures, There is one area where most and those, like Gaviscon, greasy or fatty foods. Eating smaller but but they are preservative- agree that soap is still useful. Over-reliance on which form a ‘raft’ on more frequent meals can help, as can losing free and, Wallen Ballantyne continues to reach for top of stomach contents, weight if you are overweight. Try not to eat Russell says, create the soap for hand washing, but opts antacids could preventing refl ux up into just before bed; allow for an hour or so before conditions for microbes for a lower pH type. Segre also the oesophagus.” you lie down. You can also try raising your bed to be attracted from the recommends hand-washing with mask serious Antacids are perfectly at one end, so that when you lie down, your environment. soap. As Skotnicki puts it: “Washing safe when taken correctly. head and chest are raised – enlisting gravity’s Hard evidence is lacking your hair and your body has very issues or even The problem is that many of help in reducing the stomach acid travelling in this fi eld. There are no little to do with hygiene. But us don’t. Who has read the up to your oesophagus. And if you do use studies demonstrating washing your hands is essential.” create them small print and knows that antacids, read the label. • The Guardian 6 Monday 5 August 2019

‘The land where we lived has gone’

go,” he says, with a laugh that has little humour in it. We speak in English and Habib Rohingya refugee wrote the book in English with the help of a French journalist, Sophie Habiburahman Ansel, who has reported extensively on the Rohingya. He explains that fl ed oppression the book began with Ansel writing in Myanmar and him questions, to which he provided long answers about his life. It was lives, stateless, in fi rst published in 2018 in French and is now being released in English. Australia. Now he Habib says he wanted to write his story because “ my generation, my has written his life grandfather, great-grandfather – we have been oppressed for a long time story – and the story and this has never been reported. Our history is [becoming] lost. The of his suff ering Habiburahman land where we lived in the past is now and (below) now replaced with government people, he tells during the 32 buildings, new projects; everything months he spent has gone. The new generation of Gay Alcorn in Australian Burmese, they don’t know anything detention centres about Rohingya.” He called the book First, They Erased Our Name. Habib’s own life has been one of erasure and running. In 1982, when “A tyrant leant over my cradle and he was a small child, the military fl ed to Sittwe, deep in Rakhine state, the UN’s refugee convention, and traced a destiny for me that will dictator Ne Win introduced a law the ancestral home of the Rohingya, Habib and hundreds of thousands be hard to avoid: I will either be a that said that in order to be a citizen, where they face intense persecution. of others were illegal immigrants, fugitive or I won’t exist at all.” you had to be a member of specifi c Habib tried to have a life. He tolerated because they were needed – From First, They Erased Our ethnic groups – but the more than dreamed of becoming a lawyer and on worksites, but regularly rounded Name: A Rohingya Speaks, by one million Rohingya were not became involved in a political group up and detained. Eventually he was Habiburahman. among them. From then on, Habib while studying in Yangon, secretly put in contact with the UN ’s refugee writes, “the word Rohingya is distributing pamphlets identifying agency, which identifi ed him as a here has been much prohibited. It no longer exists. I am the riches of Myanmar plundered by refugee. Life was exhausting and written about the three years old and am eff ectively the military. The group was raided. precarious, and he began to talk to Rohingya people of erased from existence.” Burma Habib and others were tortured. He the media about the harassment Myanmar, formerly became isolated and desperately writes that he was held for days and of refugees with nowhere to go. “I known as Burma. poor. The Rohingya were declared beaten, his interrogators demanding am tired of being on edge, day after The Muslim ethnic to be illegal immigrants from to know whether his papers were day, a ball of stress in my stomach,” Tgroup has been persecuted for Bangladesh. It was a “secret fake, and he was really Rohingya. A he writes, “in a world where a single generations, most recently from identity” talked about only at home. His parents returned the next day, teacher helped organise bribes for lapse of concentration could turn my 2017, when 800,000 picked up Clandestine language lessons were beaten and terrifi ed. Then soldiers the guards and Habib escaped to life upside down … Because I am my whatever they could carry to fl ee organised for children. told the family their home was being Thailand, eventually ending up in mother’s and my father’s son and I to Bangladesh. But little has been The book is written in simple requisitioned and would be destroyed Malaysia. miss my family. Because I am a man written from the point of view of a language and tells the story without to make way for military toilets. It His nine years in Malaysia like any other.” Rohingya growing up in Myanmar – embellishment. There is no need for became impossible to live in their brought a new world of purgatory. Habib ran again, ending up on a the daily humiliations, the struggle fl ourishes; it is relentless. village, so in the mid-1990s the family The country is not a signatory to boat from Indonesia to Australia in for survival, the fear, the stories Habib was regularly called 2009. He was safe, but his ordeal whispered through generations “kalar”, a derogatory term referring was not over. He spent 32 months to ensure they are not lost . to dark skin. He grew up in a in immigration detention centres Habiburahman, known as Habib, world where Rohingya must get A Rohingya around the country. Frustrated was born in a village in the west of permission before leaving their refugee boy by delays, he and others staged a the country around 1979 – he is not village and offi cial approval before pleads for aid rooftop protest and hunger strike quite sure of the year. He has written marrying . Many are denied access at a refugee in Darwin. He was convicted of his life story, and through that, the to education or healthcare – Habib camp in damaging commonwealth property, story of his people. had to falsify documents to pretend Cox’s Bazar, a decision quashed on appeal. But in We meet in his publishers’ bland he was not Rohingya in order to Bangladesh a country with harsh policies toward offi ce in Melbourne, Australia. He is study at college. They are constantly in 2017 refugees who arrive by boat, that dressed in a neat blue shirt and dark harassed in a country where, he incident has meant he is still waiting trousers, and his black hair is slicked writes, “tormenting the Rohingya for a permanent protection visa a back. He laughs readil y and his has become a national sport”. decade after he arrived. phone buzzes with messages. For Habib and his family, life He has little contact with his Habib arrived in Australia by outside the home meant keeping family. H is mother, brother and boat in 2009 and, although he is their heads down, trying not to sister live a precarious life on the a recognised refugee and has a be noticed. Members of the army Myanmar-China border. A sister lives temporary visa, his status remains trashed his father’s small goods and in a Bangladesh refugee camp, and unresolved. He is still stateless. He herbal medicine shop, and dragged another is a refugee in Norway. One has no passport. “I have nowhere to him and his wife off for questioning. sister followed him to Australia. He • The Guardian Monday 5 August 2019 Private lives 7

military has committed massacres your mother-in-law. Any mother or undertaken ethnic cleansing . who keeps contact with a man who After the 2017 military clampdown My partner’s ex is abandoned her daughter because on the Rohingya , which saw the she was ill is simply not the type of burning of villages and the killing coming between person you want in your life anyway. of thousands of people, the UN Seth Jones described the attack as ethnic cleansing with “genocidal intent”. us and the in-laws Does she have a crush on him? Those who fl ed are reluctant to It’s a diffi cult one because there return without guarantees of safety My partner and I have been together are children involved. Even from and human rights. The estimated a distance, it’s as if this ex-partner 400,000 Rohingya who remain in for four years and have a daughter. We has a direct line into your lives via Myanmar are, according to a UN also raise her son, 10. Her ex-husband the mum-in-law. Concentrate on investigator, living in conditions your partner, making sure they know akin to concentration camps and kicked them both out because she was they are loved, supported and have ghettos . diagnosed with a serious lifelong illness. you onside 24/7. As for your mother- “She’s just really taken a step for He is treated like family by most of the in-law, I would suggest that she has majority representation,” he says of some kind of crush on him. Don’t tell Aung San Suu Kyi. “She doesn’t care in-laws, especially my partner’s mother, her anything you don’t want him to about minorities. Not only that, who thinks he is a “brilliant dad”. She know. WishfulStinker she is defending the military. She is saying, ‘this is not happening, what sees him secretly and at family events. Is counselling a way forward? they [Rohingya] are saying is fake’ We are treated like spare parts. Are my In a way, no drama would be the best and she is blocking the international policy. I can understand if your wife community coming to Burma.” He partner, me and our children being cast is struggling with this and that is recognises international eff orts out because of this man? having an impact on you. However, and the work of NGOs, but says if this is just you, then stop, take developed nations are reluctant to a deep breath and walk away. It’s use their power. “The international not a competition, and who your community’s power has to be mother-in-law associates with is backed by the UN, and UN power not under your control. If your wife has to be backed by developed is really struggling to cope, then nations, and developed nations getting her help would be the best have their own interests as to way forward. Her having a heart-to- where they will interfere and not heart with her mum may be useful, interfere. This is why they are not but probably best not tried until she fi nding solutions to solve the crisis has had counselling to help begin to of Rohingya.” sort it out for herself. Bellas1 Habib thinks about these big issues all the time and is in contact It’s their business with groups around the world. Try not to let it get to you Everyone involved is an adult, In Melbourne, his life is nomadic It is certainly a drama . I wonder if and capable of making their own still. During the week, he works your partner’s mother has a huge decisions. If these people want to on projects in Geelong, a city to crush on the ex-husband? My maintain a friendship, that’s their the south-west of Melbourne. On late mother had one on a former choice. Surely you wouldn’t want the weekends, he moves in with boyfriend of mine. This woman has someone telling you who you can friends 35km away in Dandenong , Want to lost all sense of propriety and loyalty and cannot be friends with, so you where many migrants and refugees share a to her daughter. I would not concern shouldn’t do that to someone else. live and where local Rohingya problem? myself about being “cast out”. You Wascallywabbit The new organisations are based. Or think you are all better off if she keeps her We meet for the second time have all the distance. Margot333 Talk about what to do generation of in a modest blond-brick house, answers? Email From what you say, you are being its living room decorated by private.lives@ You are right to be angry reasonable, but you don’t say how Burmese don’t spectacular arrangements of paper theguardian. My mum’s mother also sided your partner feels. After all, this is fl owers. Shy children arrive to say com or write to with my mum’s ex when they not your mother; it’s hers. I suggest know anything hello. Habib knows the adults, also Private Lives, split up, and through the divorce you discuss this with your partner Rohingya, from when they all lived The Guardian, proceedings. You have every right to and decide how to behave towards about Rohingya in Malaysia. They too arrived by Kings Place, be outraged by this behaviour. Show the mother. If your partner wants boat and are living on temporary 90 York Way, her that family is whoever loves and to keep in touch with her mother, says most of his family has rejected visas, unsure of their future. In London N1 9GU. supports you through the worst and support that. You don’t have to join him for leaving Myanmar because, Rohingya culture, he says, anyone Submissions best of times. maschruhm her on visits . If she doesn’t, then you as the eldest son, he was unable to can stay with anyone, even a are subject to can both stay away. If she is as angry help them or send them money. stranger. This afternoon, he has our terms and Selfi sh people stick together as you are, then bingo! You can tell He has received no counselling. a meeting about helping to train conditions: Ending a relationship over a medical the mother how you feel, and then “Culturally, and personally, we Rohingya refugees so that they see gu.com/ diagnosis is one of the most need never see her again. Binwoman don’t like digging up the old wound , can fi nd work more easily. Habib letters-terms despicable things anyone can do scratching back the scar and talking says he is proud to be Rohingya to a spouse. I wonder if the mother about the past,” he says. He manages and always has been. It took him actually empathises with the ex. Next time Should I lend my a broad smile. “Whenever I feel it is years to understand why his people I have noticed that really selfi sh boyfriend money? very hard, I used to take sleeping pills were treated so badly, to see the people tend to stick up for one My boyfriend and I are in our mid- when I was in detention, but outside, structures and the politics behind another. GladysGlover 20s. We’re in full-time employment instead of sleeping pills, I take beer.” it. When he was a child, he was just and live separately. We each earn His daily life involves working for hurt and bewildered. Do you know the whole story? a modest amount, with him about community organisations helping “Sometimes I feel, ‘why I was I wonder about the relationship a grade higher than me. I’m frugal, the around 3,000 Rohingya living born Rohingya? Why I was born between your partner and her he’s frivolous. He often borrows in Australia, and earning his living a Muslim in Burma?’ Now I’m mother before she got divorced. money from me and returns it in welding and construction. Once thinking, no, I’m not alone. Because The cause of the situation may on payday. a supporter of Aung San Suu Kyi , of who we are, we are targeted, and be hidden in the past, before you I have recently moved out the leader at one time considered why can’t we fi nd a way to have even became part of this family. from my parents’ house . I have the great democratic hope of coexistence and a peaceful life? I ZethaAquarii savings, but these are strictly for Myanmar, he is disillusioned by her am always feeling that way.” a house deposit. I told him that failure to recognise and prevent First, They Erased Our Name, by Get on with your life I wouldn’t be able to lend him the persecution of the Rohingya. Habiburahman with Sophie Ansel, Ignore that ghastly person and get money any more, but he asked again After decades held under house is published by Scribe Publications on with your life. Your focus should and this escalated into an argument. arrest, she became state counsellor (£14.99). To order a copy for £13.19 be on your partner and kids, not I’m not sure how to move forward. in 2016, and has been criticised for go to guardianbookshop.com or call

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together, then? He sighs. Despite his opinionated outbursts in the press, he is no more sure than any of us about how to get out of this mess. Noel is also slightly sheepish of ‘I know what the fact he didn’t bother voting. “Because, I thought, who would be stupid enough to change the way things are? But then I’m living in a massive house in Maida Vale [in north-west London]; why would I want to change the way things are?” gender I am – Despite all the division, Gallagher remains sanguine about the future. “That’s the great thing about nuclear bombs,” he says, introducing the subject of apocalypse with alarming cheer. “Ever since they’ve been invented, everyone’s been like: Mancunian’ ‘Hang on a minute, are we going for it or what?’ We’re all fed this Noel Gallagher thing that the guy from North Korea on stage in 1996; is an insane lunatic. But he’s into up to mock-assess the weather, (right) in basketball! How mad can he be? fully aware he is about to send some London today So we’ll be all right. As for beyond Guardian readers berserk, “... it’s not that, well ... fuck the grandkids – Jeremy Corbyn, the even remotely chilly. Sure, it’ll be remember, they might be cunts. I’ve climate, nuclear bad for my grandkids. But I’ve not said it to my sons many times. They met them yet. They might be a load go: ‘Dad!’ but I tell them they don’t war and feminism: of cunts, d’you know what I mean? ” know who they’re gonna marry. She B ut let’s start with the music, might be a n idiot. Or he might be. Noel Gallagher has as Noel prepares to release This Is We’re all modern men.” the Place, the second of three EPs Does Noel feel modern? Over the opinions to burn. planned for this year. It follows years, he has developed something Black Star Dancing, his Nile Rodgers- of a grumpy old man persona. But, as Tim Jonze approved disco single. T hat saw “I feel modern in some respects him throw away the shackles of and old-fashioned in others.” fi nds out, it’s all a the guitar-led sound that once How does he feel about gender laugh until he gets dominated his career as it moved fl uidity? from incredible peaks – those “What’s that?” he asks. “I know to his brother Liam glorious fi rst Oasis albums, whose what gender I am – Mancunian.” melodic euphoria led to generation- Would he describe himself as defi ning gigs at Knebworth in 1996 a feminist? – to the troughs, in which the band “Oh, absolutely. I didn’t realise became plodding and predictable, fool who voted for Brexit, and that’s until my wife told me I was and only to implode with a blazing the rise of the cunts trying to get the I said: ‘Really? Well, I’ve got to backstage row before a gig in Paris vote overturned.” announce that to the world then.’ in 2009. “And people started calling me a But defi nitely, I am. When you’ve got Gallagher admits to being “set Nazi!” he says. “I thought : ‘Really? a teenage daughter, you better get in my ways” , but it sounds like he Liam has pulled A member of the Third Reich?’ with it pretty quick.” is having fun writing music again. Look, I think it’s ridiculous that He credits the producer David off the trick of we’re leaving. None of us were his,” says Holmes for getting him to ditch his even qualifi ed to vote. You ask a Noel Gallagher, nodding towards favoured instrument and write in making those guy above a chippy in Bradford if ‘Tmy dictaphone, “ is going to end the studio. This Is the Place (the title we should leave Europe. ‘Yeah! ’ in trouble. It always does.” Well, is taken from Tony Walsh’s poem Oasis songs But I still think if there’s a second let’s hope so! An hour spent in to Manchester, read aloud in Albert referendum, as a nation, we’ll Gallagher’s company is thrillingly Square after the Manchester arena sound weedy never recover. We have to come out unfi ltered territory. “Interviews are bombing) takes a space-rock journey because, no matter how ill-informed an occupational hazard,” he says, through Ian Brown, Primal Scream and thin – if you people were, you’re saying to them allagher is settling down with a cup of tea. “But and the Smiths, and it is almost can’t sing ’em, their vote doesn’t count.” 52 now, but it seems Anaï s and that’s because they’re such weird frustrating it has taken him so long Oasis were renowned for drunken Ghis boys, Donovan and Sonny, situations. You’re sat in a room with to get here. You wonder how things debauchery, bust-ups and brawls, are helping him keep up with the some guy from Stockholm who might have panned out if he had don’t play ’em! but what is often forgotten is the changing cultural landscape. Last you’ve never met and he’s asking written more adventurous songs like spirit of togetherness they fostered . month, on tour in the Netherlands, you about your mum. It’s fucking these for Oasis back in the late 90s. While their Britpop rivals Blur he turned on his hotel TV to watch preposterous. Because the honest “Well, for a start, Liam wouldn’t examined the country’s condition Stormzy headlining Glastonbury and answer to that is: ‘What ’s it got to fucking sing them,” he says. with lofty detachment, Oasis were thought: “Oh, so that’s what my two do with you?’ But the smart answer “Because he famously said to me all about the collective experience. lads are on about. Because they’ll is always: ‘I liked her until she gave one night [adopts parody of Liam’s Noel says he has the Hacienda and be doing these dances in the kitchen birth to Liam.’” voice]: ‘I don’t like quirky weird rave culture to thank for it. when they’re getting ready for Oh yes, Liam. There will be plenty things ...’ and I was like: ‘ Oh OK, well “Acid house changed my life,” he school and I’ll be thinking: ‘ What ’s more about the youngest Gallagher this is going to be fun then.’” says. “You look at the words to those a vossi bop?’ I didn’t realise it was to brother, some of it delivered with Gallagher says there is a new songs ... it’s all about unity, ‘us’, the do with grime.” real venom now their relationship generation of Oasis fans that have whole communal thing. So when I Stormzy and Oasis are musically has sunk to its lowest point . Last come along following the 2016 started writing songs, instinctively, worlds apart, but both are products month, Noel accused Liam of documentary Supersonic – and they that’s how I did it. It was never of working-class Britain, even if “intimidating women” after posting are not always open to his more about me, it was ‘you and me’. It Stormzy’s union fl ag stab vest is a screenshots allegedly showing experimental leanings, either. “I love was never ‘us versus them’ because diff erent beast to the one painted Noel with aggressive texts sent to Noel’s winding them up,” he says. “I’d love there is no them! So when people on Gallagher’s guitar for Oasis’s Liam in 1995 teenage daughter, Anaï s. And there to be in the room when they heard go on about Oasis, they miss the triumphant shows at Manchester will be plenty more on other subjects this [new EP] for the fi rst time.” He point. It wasn’t about snarling and City’s ground in 1996 – a symbol of likely to land him in a spot of bother, has a knack for winding people up, shouting and gobbing in the street. Cool Britannia, an icon of a country too: including the rarely discussed and not just with his music. Lately, It was inclusive. That’s why so many shaking off years of Tory rule. benefi ts of global warming. “I’m he has been enraging remainers – of people turned up to the gigs.” “It’s music as English as Pulp, or walking around today in a T-shirt, which he is one – by saying: “ There’s Can’t he just reunite the group the Jam or the Kinks,” says Noel of and I’m thinking ...” Gallagher looks only one fucking thing worse than a and bring the country back grime in general. “And it’s their own • The Guardian Monday 5 August 2019 9

were just an uncle who worked in a garage, you’d be getting a visit from the police. But because you’re a rockstar, wahey, you get away with that shit.” I saw Corbyn Has this gone past the point of you two ever making up? walk onstage Noel nods: “Because I’ve got one fatal fl aw in my otherwise perfect at Glastonbury makeup as a human being, which is I don’t forgive people. Once you start and thought: texting my children – and his two sons have been going for her, too – ‘Really? For and legitimise my wife being bullied on the internet, where she has to a start, your shut down Instagram accounts because of the vile shit being written name’s Jeremy.’ about her and my daughter, then it ain’t happening.” I don’t trust him When did he last see Liam? “At the Etihad Stadium when City won the league about three years ago. Whenever I see him, he’s political rally. We’re there to get high, actually very polite, and you can and listen to music, and experience see in his eyes that he’s just about to things we don’t get to do in our daily piss his trousers. But then he comes lives. Nobody wants to hear that up with these scenarios of when we at 2pm . And I’ve even seen Tory meet, that only ever take place in politicians there! Walking through his own head.” He puts on his Liam in the middle of the night with a voice again: “Ah fuckin’ went over pint of white wine and you think : and fl icked him in the ear and said: didn’t Margaret Thatcher try to shut ‘Eh, fuckin’ ’ell, keep it dangerous, this festival down?” He adopts the you cunt.’” voice of a port-soaked Tory grandee: Has he heard Liam’s solo material? ‘Oh, weren’t the Stones just bladdy “I don’t listen to the albums, marvellous?’” because I can’t stand his voice. But I And just wait until we get to hear it on the radio.” Liam’s recent solo performance at What does he think? the festival. “I’d read somewhere “I think it’s unsophisticated that it was a headline set in the music. For unsophisticated people. making, so I thought: ‘F ucking hell, Made by an unsophisticated man. better watch this,’” he says. “I don’t Who’s giving unsophisticated orders think I’ve ever been so embarrassed to a load of songwriters who think for a man in my entire life. He’s they’re doing the Oasis thing. Which pulled off the incredible magic trick goes back to what I was saying of making those Oasis songs sound before. You can turn the Marshall weedy and thin. And he looked like amp up to 12 all you want and do a he was having the worst day of his bit of glam, but Oasis words were life, walking around in what looks about including people, everyone like a pair of my son’s pyjamas, in it together. And what I hear from shouting into a mic about some him is just a load of bile ... angry perceived injustice ... if you can’t nonsense.” sing ’em, don’t play ’em!” It is time to wrap up, but Noel hasn’t seen Liam’s recent Gallagher’s still going. documentary, As it Was, although “I reckon if I put my two sons in he plans to : “Because I’ve heard a room – one’s nine, one’s 11 – they it’s hilarious.” The fi lm is clearly a could probably muster up something PR job for Liam’s side of the story, better than that new single of his,” although it is an entertaining watch he says. due to Liam’s onscreen charisma Is this all just a crafty way of and the fact it shows a diff erent side hyping up a future Oasis reunion? to the singer – one who displays “I wish it was,” he laughs. “It boils self-doubt and admits to being lost down to, on a personal level, fuck after the breakup of Oasis. Noel isn’t him . But also, artistically, why do the focus , but he is portrayed as it again? You know, I was watching aloof and uncaring, the brother who the news the other night and he wasn’t there for Liam when he was was on there, threatening to break struggling through his divorce from my jaw – live on the ITV news! Isn’t language, which is a great thing that guitar music,” he said. “I’m not a rapturous reception when he Nicole Appleton. there a law against that? – and it’s something born on council estates having hip-hop at Glastonbury.”) delivered a speech there in 2017. Noel bursts out laughing when about an Oasis reunion and he’s like: out of poverty and street culture has Does he regret that now? “I saw him walk onstage to I bring this up: “I wasn’t there for ‘Me bags are packed, mate.’ And I’m got to the main stage at Glastonbury. “That happened because I’d ‘Oooh, Jeremy Corbyn’ and thought: him? Well, he wasn’t there for his thinking: ‘Who are you expecting Now, if I’m a 52-year-old father of been away in the States for four ‘Really? For a start, your name’s wife either, was he?” to call you? Me?’ Nobody wants to three living in Maida Vale, then months and some reporter told me Jeremy.’ I don’t trust him. I think that Noel’s tone changes dramatically be in a band with him apart from a he’s talking street jive to me. He’s Glastonbury had hip-hop on and the bare requirement for a politician, when we talk about Liam. Most of load of indie Championship players – talking about some guy stabbing hadn’t sold out. So, I was just like: particularly a leader, is to be forward- his outrageous comments are said journeymen, who are in it for all the him in the back when he was a kid ‘Oh well, hip-hop’s shit!’ That was it . looking. When I watch the news, I for a laugh, but when it comes to crisps they can eat.” – I’m not humming along to that! Of course, your esteemed colleagues just think that, for these people, the Liam he seems genuinely angry. It seems silly to ask whether He is good, though, and Skepta is at the Guardian seemed to make a lot big picture is communism, right? What did he mean when he accused Gallagher has anything else he great. I remember seeing him at the more of it than it was …” And that’s not British.” his brother of intimidating women? would like to add. Because of course Brits – just him under the spotlight, So, it is all our fault then? They are not communists, “That’s not the fi rst time he’s he does. He always does. and thinking: ‘Wow, it’s fucking “Absolutely it’s your fault. though. sent texts to my daughter, or left “Yeah,” he says, getting up and powerful, man.’” Everything is your fault.” “They fucking are! You’re not threatening phone calls on my wife’s pointing again at my dictaphone: In 2008, Gallagher was criticised There is, however, one person telling me the big picture is not to answering machine. So when he’s “Don’t quote me on any of that.” for saying Jay-Z was the “wrong” Gallagher thinks will always be nationalise everything? Anyway, threatening my wife via my teenage This Is the Place is out today, taken act to headline Glastonbury wrong to appear at Glastonbury: [Glastonbury] is where you go to daughter, I’m thinking, you know, from the EP of the same name, which

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‘True to his spirit’ … Andrew Koji, right, in Warrior; below, its portrayal of San Francisco during the Tong wars

‘I feel guided by him’ … Shannon Lee with a waxwork of her father

‘We have They thought of him as a righted one-trick pony. They never the wrong’ understood his skill and talent

made Fist of Fury, Way of the Dragon ready” to tackle a TV show, so she thing is held together by an ice-cool and Enter the Dragon, the three fi lms put the notes back in the box, where turn from British actor Andrew Koji that secured his legend and saw his they stayed – until an out-of-the-blue as Ah Sahm, the wandering warrior Shannon Lee image – washboard stomach, raised call from Fast and Furious director who arrives in San Francisco intent fi sts, ready for action – plastered Justin Lin. “He said, ‘I just wanted on tracking down his missing sister, has fi nally made across posters in student fl ats the to ask you a question – I’ve always only to fi nd himself caught up in world over. That legend only grew heard this story that your dad had an a burgeoning gang war. Koji told the kung fu epic after the star died suddenly in 1973 idea for a TV show. Do you have any the US website Collider that he was he legend that at the age of 32. idea what happened to it?’ I laughed infl uenced by Lee’s own philosophy : her father Bruce Shannon Lee grew up with goes “We grew up with this story,” and said, ‘Yeah, I have it right here.’” “If I just wanted to look good because Tlike this. In 1971, when her father says Shannon. “That my father Lin brought on board Jonathan I want to be fl ashy and fancy, it dreamed of. As Bruce Lee was at the height of his created this show and was told he Tropper, the co-creator and writer of would be what Bruce Lee would’ve Hollywood kung fu fame, he tried to couldn’t star in it because American super-violent crime saga Banshee . called an empty, hollow mess.” Warrior hits the develop a TV show called The Warrior. audiences wouldn’t accept a Chinese He expanded Lee’s original idea into For Shannon, executive producer, It followed a Chinese immigrant with leading man. If you were to speak to a 10-part series. The result, Warrior, it’s the perfect realisation of her screen, she recalls martial arts skills who gets caught up Warner Bros, I’m sure they’d say they is a ferociously paced mix of period father’s dream. “Not only have they ‘the inner energy’ in the Tong wars of the late 1800s, the had the idea for Kung Fu prior to my drama and martial-arts moves – like righted the original wrong and cast violent clashes between rival factions father’s pitch. However, they have a the gangster hit Peaky Blinders an actual Asian in the lead role, of the superstar in Chinatowns across America . lot of similarities, so you know…” transported to San Francisco and they’ve created this whole complex Our hero fi nds himself journeying While Shannon, now 50, never given an extra jolt of adrenaline. world that’s dynamic and funny and Hollywood – and through the wild west. doubted her dad’s story, it was only It’s the sort of show where people interesting and sexy . My father’s Lee envisaged himself in the in her 30s that she uncovered just are only ever one fantastically original treatment was very modern Tarantino – made leading role, and pitched The how detailed his pitch was. “In late choreographed move away from a and this really refl ects that. It feels Warrior to a US studio, which told 2000,” she says, “I agreed to take knockdown fi ght, where sharp one- true to his spirit.” a mockery of. By him America wasn’t ready for an over looking after my father’s legacy liners are delivered with a knowingly Shannon was four when her father Asian leading man. A year later, from my mother and she sent his raised eyebrow, and the plot moves died of cerebral oedema and admits Sarah Hughes Warner Bros released Kung Fu , which things to me in LA . There were boxes with a pulpy momentum . she has struggled with separating the followed a Shaolin monk with martial and boxes of writing. While I was While there are lovely turns from screen star from the reality. “I used arts skills journeying through the going through them, I came across Jason Tobin as sly gangland heir to think I was a little crazy because wild west. The monk was played by a the treatment for The Warrior. It was Young Jun and Olivia Cheng as a I’d feel like I knew my father so white actor: David Carradine. this revelatory moment, ‘Wow, it fi ctionalised version of the notorious intimately. And I’d think, ‘But how So , frustrated with Hollywood, really does exist!’” Ah Toy, reportedly the fi rst Chinese can I because I was so young when

Lee returned to Hong Kong, where he At that time, Shannon “didn’t feel madame in San Francisco , the whole he died.’ Then I realised my strongest HBO LIVINGSTON/GETTY; DAVID PHOTOGRAPHS: • The Guardian Monday 5 August 2019 11

memory of him was the feeling of him against him. But what I’ve seen – his energy and his love, the security suggests they’re poking fun at my I felt around him, his playfulness. father . I understand there’s the In a strange sense, even though I chance to be irreverent and that’s lost him so young, I feel as though fi ne, but I hope it’s not negative.” I know him in a very pure way, Shannon later sees the fi lm and because my memory is uncluttered hit s out at it, telling the Wrap her by resentment over the time he father “comes across as an arrogant punished me by sending me to my asshole who was full of hot air, and room or told me not to date that boy.” not someone who had to fi ght triple Charisma and energy It wasn’t always that easy. As as hard as any of those people did to … Bernstein; below, children, she and her older brother accomplish what was naturally given his West Side Story Brandon struggled to cope with their to so many others”. She added: “ It father’s memory – in particular with was really uncomfortable to sit in the kung fu. “There was lots of grief and theatre and listen to people laugh at pressure around it, so my brother and my father.” I didn’t study it at all,” says Shannon. Perhaps she should have seen it “We came round in our teens because coming. After all, during her father’s martial arts was so important to my lifetime, his appeal was continually My wild night with Lenny father and we felt we’d have a closer misinterpreted by Hollywood. connection if we took it up. I don’t “They thought of him as a one-trick really practise it so much now .” She pony. They never understood the As he takes on West Side Story, John Eliot Gardiner studied jeet kune do , the method combination of skill, thoughtfulness made famous by her father, before and talent behind the image.” It relives the time Leonard Bernstein turned to him at she took up taekwondo , wushu and took Hong Kong and the freedom kickboxing to prepare for acting roles it provided to reveal the real Lee, a dinner party in Paris and said: ‘Let’s get outta here!’ in such fi lms as Enter the Eagles and the one the world celebrates today. High Voltage. “Hollywood gave him one direction was in my early 20s studying in Paris Peter Grimes ? He looked at me quizzically: These days, she happily tends all the time whereas in Hong Kong, when Leonard Bernstein came to the “Yeah, you got me there!” And what about her father’s fl ame, overseeing The with Way of the Dragon, he wrote city to conduct. Whenever Lenny was the fabulously catchy huapango rhythm of Bruce Lee Foundation , which was that fi lm, he directed it, he starred in Paris, he would pay his respects to America (“I like to be in America! / OK by me founded in 2002 to spread his blend in it, he choreographed it. He had Nadia Boulanger, the venerable teacher in America!”)? Its rhythmic pattern put me of jeet kune do and motivational full creative control. He was always with whom I was studying. She gave a in mind of Monteverdi’s opera L’Orfeo – that philosophy. “My father was a writing – he had so many ideas.” Idinner party in his honour and I was invited. I characteristic alternation of bars of 6/8 and 3/4 self-educated man with this inner The success of Warrior, which remember being overwhelmed by the concert time that runs all through Orpheus’s aria Vi energy and I think that’s what has already been picked up for a the night before, when Bernstein conducted Recorda, o Boschi Ambrosi. He seemed to imply speaks to people.” Lee does seem second season, has a bittersweet Berlioz’s Carnaval Romain, Schumann’s Second he might have dredged up some memory of it to have been ahead of his time: his resonance for Shannon, whose Symphony and Shostakovich’s Fifth. He turned when, as a 17-year-old, he’d fi rst heard Boulanger vegetable-heavy, dairy-free diet and brother Brandon was on the verge the Orchestre National de France into a world- introducing students at Harvard to the wonders motivational sayings would be all of stardom when he died, aged 28. It class thoroughbred, and opened my ears to of Monteverdi. I was interested to know how over Instagram today. Such sayings happened during the fi lming of cult Schumann’s often maligned orchestral world. he conducted the piece: did he stick to two-in- included “Showing off is the fool’s movie The Crow, when a prop gun Lenny arrived late at Nadia’s dinner party, a-bar, or did he beat the 3/4 bars in three? “The idea of glory” and “If you love life, malfunctioned on set . “Brandon was perhaps a little the worse for wear. He gave latter, of course,” he said. I was chuff ed to bits. don’t waste time, for time is what life such an artist,” she says. “ He had the her a bear hug, then lifted her off the fl oor and I started to study the score seriously. It is made up of”. ability to become a major star and if spun her around the room in a mad waltz. seemed to chime perfectly with those heady Does it feel hard knowing that so that had happened he would have My 80-year-old teacher took it all with good times during the student riots of May 1968. many people feel they have a claim been one of the fi rst actors of Asian grace. She was clearly very fond of Lenny and The social themes it explores are more subtle, on her father? “For sure. It’s always descent to cross over.” She sighs and susceptible to his charisma and energy, complex and pervasive than they were 70 funny when I meet people and they there is a long pause before she adds as were all of us. He seemed restless years ago. Today, shockingly, there is say, ‘Oh, did you know that Bruce quietly: “I think about my father and and easily bored. I watched him more cultural misunderstanding, would do this or that?’ And they’re my brother all the time. I miss them picking up student manuscripts bigotry and, crucially, a failure to fans, they didn’t know him even if the whole time.” lying on the table and muttering address, integrate and empower they think they do. ” Another pause and then a rather too audibly: “Oh my God, young people in eff ective ways. When we speak, she has yet to laugh. “But in my own way, I also this is the dregs of Fauré!” There’s a scalp-crawling see Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon communicate with them – often At one point during the meal, moment in the 1985 a Time in Hollywood , which depicts quite energetically. And I feel he turned to me and said: “Let’s documentary about his remake her father as little more than comic protected and guided and overseen get outta here!” I had no idea of West Side Story with opera relief – a dime-store philosopher by them. On Warrior, people would what he had in mind, but we slid stars Kiri Te Kanawa and José whose hands “are registered as come up to me the whole time and out of the room and hailed a taxi. Carreras when Lenny loses his rag lethal weapons” as he solemnly say, ‘This feels great. I feel like your For the next two hours we zigzagged with Carreras, who struggled to master informs Brad Pitt’s stunt man. “In father is here with us.’ I would say, around Paris. He was the most engaging, the tricky jazz rhythms. The clash was borne a perfect world, I would have loved ‘Believe it’ – because I really feel that congenial company. He asked me about my of Lenny’s frustration and his longing for West them to consult with me, but they he was.” way into music. I mentioned that I had met the Side Story to be treated seriously as an off shoot didn’t,” she says. “I do know Mike Warrior is on Sky One on Tuesdays at Lebanese singer Fairuz in Beirut during a gap of classical music – the underlying reason why Moh [the actor who plays Lee]. He’s 10pm. The whole series can be viewed year, and that I ended up playing in the tiny he cast two opera stars as his Romeo and Juliet. a lovely guy and I have nothing at Sky On Demand and NowTV. band that accompanied her . It never occurred But it isn’t a conventional opera. It is a unique to me Lenny would know her iconic songs. amalgam of Broadway musical, jazz and Latin Yet he did – and we sang all the ones we could American beat, held together by a composer recall at the tops of our voices in the back of with a classical background and a symphonic the cab as we sped through the city. toolkit. No one but Bernstein could have I was dying to ask him about West Side Story. conceived of binding these disparate elements I’d wanted to meet him ever since I bought the together by using the ambiguous (and spooky) LP of the musical as a teenager. I was 15 when musical interval of a tritone ( an augmented the show came to London in 1958 and I went to fourth). It is a work of genius, one that raised see it three times. It bowled me over. There was the level of American musical theatre to heights something galvanising in the way it reworked rarely reached since its fi rst appearance. Romeo and Juliet, transposing it to 1950s New I’ve waited 61 years to conduct West York, that battleground for ethnically divided Side Story. It may not belong to the kind of street gangs. Above all there was Bernstein’s repertoire that people associate with my brilliant palette of orchestral colours and the name, but it’s been a part of my life for so long, rhythmic zest of his dance music, as well as the and I’m thrilled to conduct this work I adore, ‘I remember his seamless way Jerome Robbins’s choreography with its scintillating combination of wild was woven into the story. rhythmic energy, great tunes, romance and playfulness’ … Lenny was a true musical magpie, borrowing American vernacular. Bruce and Shannon and transforming music he’d picked up along West Side Story is at Usher Hall, Edinburgh, the way. Had his music for “the Rumble” scene today and tomorrow. John Eliot Gardiner was

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• The Guardian Monday 5 August 2019 Live reviews 13

Compassion and curiosity ... La Reprise: Histoire(s) du Theatre (I)

Infi nite gentleness ... Dausgaard Highly controlled ... and Kuusisto Simon Brodkin Proms Comedy Kuusisto/ Simon Brodkin BBCSSO/ Dausgaard ★★★☆☆ Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh

Until 24 August ★★★★☆ murder that took place outside attempts to answer while honouring Royal Albert Hall, London Theatre Liège in 2012, while asking probing the victim of a senseless crime. questions about the way we do One of the shocking facts to emerge hen you’ve Proms continue until 14 September La Reprise: theatre now. is that at the trial Ihsane was seen as pranked One of the items in a 10-point the guilty party because he was gay. Theresa May Histoire(s) du manifesto drawn up by NTGent I loved this show for its clarity, at the Tory ibelius’s violin concerto is that theatre is about process as compassion and curiosity. It makes conference , and his Fifth Symphony Theatre (I) well as product. So the evening excellent use of video and live the Edinburgh are among his most begins with an account of how action as in the re creation of the Wfringe presumably holds few fears. admired and frequently three professional actors recruited killing , which plays out both on a But this is a big gig for Simon performed works. So three part-timers for this particular screen and in an onstage car. The Brodkin, his fi rst as “himself” rather Thomas Dausgaard ★★★★☆ project. The amateurs are a mixture traditional barrier between pro than as cheeky-chappy Lee Nelson. S and the BBC Scottish Symphony Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh of bashfulness and bravado and one and amateur actors is also eroded That lowest common denominator Orchestra could easily have left it of them, with a parent from Benin, in a scene where the silver-haired act curdled and its incongruence at that for their Saturday evening Until tonight laconically regrets always being cast veteran, Johan Leysen, and the with Brodkin’s real-world (often programme. This being the Proms, as a type rather than an individual. middle-aged mum, Suzy Cocco, are politically tinged) pranks yawned however, they off ered two strikingly But the bulk of a gripping evening naked before a camera, registering widely. So there’s considerable unusual twists. his is exactly the kind is taken up with the story of Ihsane the horror of Ihsane’s parents. interest in this fi rst glimpse of the The more substantial was to play of show that justifi es Jarfi who got talking to a group of As a director, Rau has the ability 41-year-old Londoner’s “real” self. the Fifth Symphony in its original an international men outside a gay bar in Li ège in of Ken Loach to ask disturbing The opening stages are almost 1915 version rather than the familiar festival since it April 2012 and was subsequently political questions, while extending as self-obscuring as his Lee fi nal 1919 revision. Remarkably, this is fascinating in tortured and murdered. Even the possibility of the medium in Nelson shtick, as Brodkin plays was the fi rst time that the earlier its content and though the killers were put on which he works. This show – which the enfeebled middle-class family version has ever been performed in T exploratory in form. Conceived and trial, we can never know the whole portrays the economic depression of man. It’s more about jokes than this country. Once heard, however, directed by Milo Rau , presented by truth. Why did Ihsane get into the a de- industrialised city and proves authenticity, but the jokes are good, it transforms one’s view of the NTGent and performed in French men’s car? W as their homophobia theatre is a form of inquiry – marks as Brodkin recounts the week when fi nal work. Dausgaard and the and Flemish (with English surtitles), deep-rooted or drink-fuelled? These him out as a major talent. his wife left him alone with the kids BBCSSO combined to play it with it recreates a notorious homophobic are some of the questions the play Michael Billington (“We went over this this morning: tremendous conviction. I’m your dad!”) and sends up the The 1915 version is longer than monoculturalism of his Hampstead the later one, in four movements not just in each other but in the Garden Suburb upbringing. rather than three, and contains Theatre idea that women are rejecting male It’s a highly controlled many passages, including some classifi cation and raising themselves performance, suggesting a set striking discords in the fi nale that Enough up out of the earth. scripted to within an inch of its life Sibelius eventually cut. It also The two characters echo each – the better for the “real” Brodkin starts and fi nishes diff erently . other’s rhythms, engage in constant to conceal himself behind, perhaps. But the great revelation, and alliteration (“they stare at skylines A later section addresses male what made this performance so ★★★☆☆ that shine in the sun”) and at times emotional inarticulacy, as he tells moving, is what the score shows Traverse, Edinburgh sound like feminised versions us how little he knows about his about Sibelius as an artist: his bold of Beckett’s Didi and Gogo. But lifelong friends. If that feels out- reorderings and rescorings and Until 25 August Waiting for Godot seems like a riot of-date, it isn’t for Brodkin, who his readiness to cut and tauten of incident compared to Smith’s ascribes to his own fear of intimacy the symphonic argument. On the brink ... play, in which events are more the fact that he “[hid] behind a The orchestra and soloist, tef Smith wrote a Amanda Wright often described, than seen to be character for 13 years”. supplemented by three singers, fascinating dystopian and Louise Ludgate happening before our eyes. There’s a little here on his harmonium and a Finnish kantele, drama in Human Bryony Shanahan, incoming prankster life: we get a behind-the- prefaced each piece with short Animals which showed joint director of Manchester’s Royal scenes look at him bombarding preludes by Dausgaard and Timo cities of the future Smith’s two characters are female Exchange , provides a physical Donald Trump with Nazi golf Alakotila. These were designed to plagued by animal fl ight attendants. Often seen as momentum absent in the text and balls . But the most striking section situate the concerto and symphony, S infestation. If her latest play also stock farcical properties in plays like the two actors are skilful and well addresses Brodkin’s Judaism and which then followed without a depicts a world trembling on the Boeing- Boeing , here they are long- contrasted: Amanda Wright as the revival of antisemitism. It’s done break in each half of the concert, in brink of change, it is altogether term friends who off er soothing Toni conveys a rootless insecurity with a light touch but he doesn’t a vernacular musical context. The more positive in that it suggests reassurance in the air but whose while Louise Ludgate as Jane soft-soap his hurt at the Labour approach was more successful with women are ready to cast off their lives on the ground are unravelling. suggests someone entrapped by party’s current travails, nor the the concerto, which in Kuusisto’s competitive singularity to become The domesticated Jane has a family life. But Smith’s whole point, diffi culty of explaining anti-Jewish restrained and thoughtful reading, a collective force. house – and possibly a marriage – even if her play is dramatically hatred to his children. It feels like seemed to emerge with infi nite But, while the message is upbeat, threatened with subsidence, while undernourished, is that when they Brodkin is still searching for his gentleness out of a deep pool of it is one of those plays where the single Toni is in a relationship work in unison, women make an own voice. But it’s here that he shared musical memory. patterned, poetic writing takes with an abusive boy friend. They unstoppable force. comes closest to fi nding it.

PHOTOGRAPHS: MURDO MACLEOD/GUARDIAN; CHRIS CHRISTODOULOU/BBC MURDO MACLEOD/GUARDIAN; PHOTOGRAPHS: Martin Kettle precedence over actual drama. both, however, fi nd consolation Michael Billington Brian Logan • The Guardian 14 TV and radio Monday 5 August 2019

Born Famous: Gordon Ramsay 10pm, Channel 4

Professional gambler turned industry watcher Lloyd Griffi th

What kind of life would celebrity off spring have if their parents weren’t famous? This new show investigates. First up is Gordon Ramsay’s son Jack, who swaps the family home for

children while paying themselves silly money. Banbury’s Bretch Hill estate, where Review Can You Beat the Lloyd Griffi th, who presented this show, noted that the his dad grew up. Ramsay’s upbringing Bookies?, BBC Three world’s best paid woman, Bet365’s Denise Coates CBE, shaped his character: he is, of course, earned £265m last year. That’s more than Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar made together. To be fair, the man who can whip up a fi let mignon she is probably doing a better, if more socially eviscerating and fi re f-bombs into fl ailing chefs’ faces. job, than them: Bet365 made $2b n (£1.65bn) last year. Griffi th was once part of Britain’s gambling problem. His family have proved camera-friendly Proof, if it were You may not have heard of him as a comedian or a TV in previous shows, but how will mild- football pundit, but you will likely know him as the mannered Jack fare here? needed, that character Gut Truster from the appalling 2014 TV ads for Ladbrokes. Here, Griffi th, a former poker professional, Hannah Verdier was told by Dr Philip Newall, a postdoctoral researcher gambling is a in applied psychology, that he helped “normalise stupid”. One diabolical trend to exploit Britain’s growing Inside the Megafi re This investigation band of stupid gut-trusters, Newall highlighted, was 7.50pm, PBS America into Michael’s side of mug’s game the multi-bet. Newall spotted a multi-bet at 14-1 that “Paradise is on fi re!” yells the family takes them involved both Lukaku scoring and Belgium winning 2-1. a Californian fi refi ghter to orphanages and Each possibility seemed likely, but the odds of them (outside the hamlet psychiatric hospitals. It ★★★★☆ both happening warranted much longer odds than those of Paradise) in this is so dark that Jack quips: off ered by the bookies. interesting documentary, “We should have done it More prickly still was Griffi th’s old mate, fellow which looks at the US with Mummy’s family.” Stuart Jeff ries standup John Robins, a recovering gambling addict, who state’s 2018 emergency MB reported that Ladbrokes ad campaign to the Advertising and the ecology, forestry Standards Authority. Why? Because the billboards and physics that have led The Conjoined Twins: claimed that the fi rst time you bet, it is luck, the second, to a dramatic increase An Impossible Decision it is skill, which, Robins said, “is such a dangerous in wildfi res around the 9pm, BBC Two f you are serious about becoming a professional message”. Especially at a time when apps and online And world. Luckily, there is Conjoined twins Marieme gambler, and you really shouldn’t be, you betting make gambling much more addictive than when another some encouraging new and Ndeye have survived, will need to grow your hair over your ears. Robins was suckered in during his teens. If he were a thing science. Mike Bradley against the odds, to Then buy a tiny Bluetooth earpiece. Then fl y teen gambler today, Robins reckoned, he would have almost three years old. somewhere outside Europe – Florida, Uganda become hooked faster and would soon be dead. Panorama: Stacey Their father must decide or South Africa are good bets – and start your Griffi th’s task in this programme was to double his Trump’s fans Meets the IS Brides whether to separate them I research. What you are looking for is a tennis match initial stake of £7,500 in four weeks. Imagine that money chant “Send her 8.30pm, BBC One – and risk losing one. He overseen by doughnuts and umpired by a slow-handed, as your child’s university fund, or that, if you lose it, you back!” of Iran- Stacey Dooley travels and the Great Ormond technophobic muppet. will have to remortgage, counselled Robins. born, US-raised to Kurdish-controlled Street clinical ethics Joe from Sussex cleared upwards of £300,000 last year Griffi th initially coined it, making more than £3,000 congress- northern Syria to meet committee wrestle with thanks to this business model. He sits discreetly in tennis by FaceTiming Joe, who was courtsiding in Florida. For woman Ilhan western women who an agonising choice in this crowds and when, say, the usually hopeless server puts Joe, Griffi th was a useful idiot: his online betting profi le Omar. Maritza joined Islamic State. Some poignant fi lm. away an ace, he places a bet in the few seconds before the revealed him as a mug, so the bookies wouldn’t suspect Ramos gets sent still support Isis, others Ali Catterall umpire registers the point with bookmakers. One umpire that his next clutch of spot bets on an obscure tennis back, thanks want to return to face the in Romania, Joe recalled, managed to lock himself match would be the result of inside information. But the to heartless US music. A questioning fi lm Emma Willis: Delivering out of the online system so had to enter his pin before morning after cashing his winnings, he got an email: his immigration that speculates on the Babies registering each point. The result? Pay day for Joe. The gambling privileges had been suspended (although he policies, to fate of these women and 10pm, W longer the delay between point and its registration, the was still allowed to play in its online casino). Colombia, a the many children in the The TV presenter and more likely you are to make money. With the clock ticking down, Griffi th went for one land she only Kurdish holding camps. mother-of-three Emma If you are suspected of engaging in this form of non- big pay day. He bet on Swansea beating QPR, Sheffi eld knew as a baby. MB Willis returns to Princess illegal cheating, called courtsiding, you will not only lose United beating Millwall and Morecambe winning against This season of Alexandra hospital your strawberry and cream privileges, but be invited by his beloved Grimsby Town. At 5.55pm that Saturday, Orange Is the Who Do You Think in Harlow in Essex to security to leave (hence the hair-earpiece trick). Best not Griffi th found he had lost all three bets. The moral? “Can New Black is You Are? complete her training as a to chance it at Wimbledon. you beat the bookies as an ordinary person? No.” Nor can unwittingly on 9pm, BBC One maternity care assistant. Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to mug you, as he had, with the help of a professional gambler. the money. Jack Whitehall and Before long, she is off the bookies. And why shouldn’t we? They have been One last question. Who was, ultimately, mugged off ? his father/double-act completing health checks mugging us off for years eff ectively by taxing stupidity When Griffi th returned the money to his BBC paymasters, partner Michael are on newborn twin boys and at exorbitant rates, using Ray Winstone to sucker us into there was only £4,500 left, meaning he was three grand surprised to discover assisting at her fi rst ever addictions that can result in house repossession, divorce light. Unless the BBC has people to recoup that debt, it that they are not quite water birth. and even suicide , and breaking ads rules on targeting looked as if us licence-fee payers were the real mugs. as posh as they thought. Ellen E Jones • The Guardian Monday 5 August 2019 15

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