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What happened What the editorials said With this Budget, “Eeyore” transformed himself into The giveaway Budget “Feel-good Phil”, said the Daily Mail. There were jokes Philip Hammond declared this week that and cash pledges aplenty, and some excellent Britain’s era of austerity was “finally coming new policies, including atax on hard-to-recycle to an end”, as he unveiled the biggest giveaway plastic packaging, higher duty on online Budget since the Tories came to power in 2010. gaming, an “end to ruinous PFI contracts” and Buoyed by a£13bn annual windfall from apackage of measures to help high streets. The better-than-expected tax receipts and borrowing long-overdue levy on tech giants’ UK revenue, forecasts, the Chancellor announced plans to which will potentially raise £400m, was boost funding for strained public services, and to particularly welcome, said The Sun. We would bring forward income tax cuts and increases in have preferred Hammond to have announced the national living wage. But in aclear warning afew more radical low-tax measures. “But to Eurosceptics, Hammond insisted that these that gripe aside, what was not to like?” spending commitments were dependent on the UK securing aBrexit deal with the EU, a All this extra spending was made possible sentiment he later softened. by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), said The Independent, which offered The biggest beneficiary of the Budget is the Feel-good Phil: “a gamble”? Hammond a£13bn windfall by revising its NHS, which is set to receive £20.5bn ayear of projections. Hammond could have banked this extra funding. Hammond also announced another £1.7bn money to reduce the deficit, but he chose to spend it instead. ayear to smooth the introduction of universal credit; extra He’s taking “an Augustinian stance”, said the FT: “Let me be cash for defence, roads and schools; and cuts to business rates virtuous but not quite yet.” The result will be yet more cash for smaller high street shops to help them cope with online for the health service, said The Daily Telegraph. In 2000, the competition. In addition, he unveiled some revenue-raising NHS accounted for 23% of public service spending; by 2024, measures, including anew “digital services tax” aimed at big that will have risen to 38%. We must hope the new money tech platforms such as Google and Amazon (see page 49). is well spent, but past experience suggests it won’t be.

What happened What the editorials said Merkel’s long farewell Europe is going to miss Merkel, said the FT. Under her leadership, the continent’s most powerful nation has been “a Angela Merkel has signalled the end of strong and stabilising influence”. Indeed, the an era in German politics by announcing ten years since the financial crisis have shown she will not stand for chancellor at the that little can be achieved without Berlin’s next elections, in 2021. Merkel, who has consent or support. Merkel has her critics, said led Germany for the past 13 years, also The New York Times. Some think her refusal said she would be quitting as leader of the to cut Greece any slack when it was on the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU). ropes was excessive, and her decision to admit Her decision was prompted by the CDU’s more than amillion migrants in 2015 proved disastrous performance in elections in the highly divisive. But she is still “one of the most state of Hesse, where its share of the vote remarkable Western leaders” of her epoch. It fell to 27.9%, down 11 points from the isn’t eloquence or charisma that marks her previous regional election, in 2013. Merkel out: it’s her calm attachment to stability. At said the result was a“turning point”, and “Mutti”: calm attachment to stability atime when strident populism is on the rise, that it was time to “open anew chapter”. “Mutti” Merkel exemplifies the sober values of her Lutheran background: “moderation” and “decency.” The Hesse election brought more bad news for Merkel’s coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which Merkel had to go, said Die Zeit. After the electoral debacle recorded its worst showing since 1946, down 11 points to in Hesse, her position was untenable. The result showed 19.8% from 2013. Many voters switched support to the how in recent years she has lost touch with ordinary CDU Greens or to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), members, by sacrificing the party’s core conservative values which tripled its vote to 13%. to political pragmatism. Now she has paid the price.

The Galápagos Islands are not Two teenagers from asouth It wasn’t all bad the remote wilderness many take Wales valley have just bought William Morris’s country home them to be. They contain 317 the screen rights to aStephen is to be saved from dilapidation hotels and attract 245,000 visitors King story –for just $1. Alfie by a£4.3m lottery grant. ayear. But now acrowdfunding Evans, 16, and Cerys Cliff, 14, Kelmscott Manor, a16th campaign has ensured that a from Tredegar, are writing the century estate in the Cotswolds, 568-acre site on San Cristóbal, the script for, and filming, Stationary was the designer‘s idyllic retreat island where Charles Darwin first Bike;itwill be shot in Tredegar from 1871 until his death in went ashore on his visit in 1835, and make use of local actors. 1896. Its wild flowers and trees will be saved from development. The teenagers are benefiting inspired his wallpaper designs; The site was reportedly being from ascheme devised by King, his novel News from Nowhere eyed by hotel developers, but to let young people make films features afictionalised version conservationists raised £1.35m for festival release based on of it. The grant will enable the online to create the new his work. Aprevious beneficiary owners, the Society of Galápagos Nature Reserve and was Frank Darabont, director of Antiquaries of London, to carry help protect –among others –the The Shawshank Redemption:he out repairs to the house and endangered Galápagos petrel, the began his career by adapting a renovate the gardens. blue-footed booby (pictured) and the renowned giant tortoises. King story when he was 24.

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What the commentators said What next? The Chancellor had three tasks in this week’s Budget, said Francis Elliott in The Times. He The UK will benefit from a needed to “add credibility to Theresa May’s promise that austerity is over; to buy support for “double dividend” if adeal aBrexit deal; and to hose down the fiercest fires licking at the Government’s slender majority”. is agreed with Brussels next By and large, he pulled it off. Unlike most recent Budgets, which have started falling apart spring, Hammond told MPs. within hours of delivery, Hammond’s Budget has so far “stayed pretty ravelled”, said Not only will the economy John Rentoul in The Independent. The plethora of spending announcements closed off benefit from aboost to every line of attack for Labour, which was reduced to complaining that “it’s not enough”. confidence, he said, but he’ll be free to spend the The Budget may win May some “short-term political advantage”, said Peter Oborne in the £15bn set aside as a“fiscal Daily Mail. But by undermining the Tories’ reputation for fiscal responsibility and encouraging buffer” against ano-deal exit. an ill-advised “spending arms race with Labour”, it could exact aheavy price in the longer term. The promise of an end to austerity is certainly “a hostage to fortune”, said Alex Massie The Institute for Fiscal in The Spectator. Once you strip out the boost for the NHS –which is set to account for £84bn Studies (IFS) warned that of the extra £103bn spending between now and 2023 –the reality is that most departments will Hammond had taken “a bit still be left “having to do more with less”. The extra money for defence won’t make up for of agamble” with the public earlier cuts. Nor, “almost certainly”, will the new money for universal credit be enough. finances. The independent think tank pointed out that The NHS pledge aside, the sums on offer are “hilariously small”, said Jonn Elledge in the the OBR could revise its New Statesman. The £400m set aside for schools, for instance, amounts to only £10,000 per forecasts downwards next primary school and £50,000 per secondary. That’s not going to make much difference at atime year, upsetting Hammond’s when many cash-strapped schools have been forced to close on Friday afternoons. Nor will the calculations. The IFS reckons £420m for patching up potholes go far. In spending terms, these pledges are “more like there’s aone-in-three chance thimbles than pots”, agreed Jane Merrick in The Independent. But with Brexit looming on the of the forecasts for the horizon, Hammond lacks the freedom to engage in much more than “tokenistic” gestures. As public finances deteriorating he suggested at the weekend, he’ll be forced to return with an emergency Budget in the spring significantly over the next if the UK crashes out of the EU without adeal. Britain, for now, is stuck in a“holding pattern”. year, even with aBrexit deal.

What the commentators said What next? Merkel’s announcement has “shocked political Berlin”, but it should come as no surprise, Deep divisions may emerge said Matthew Karnitschnig on Politico. Until now her record at the polls –she has won four when the CDU chooses successive elections –has silenced her enemies inside the CDU, who fret over the party’s Merkel’s successor as party perceived drift to the Left and its liberal line on immigration. But the clamour for change has leader in December. Her been growing ever since the party’s drubbing in last year’s federal election: the issue had own preferred candidate become not whether she’d step down, but when. German voters have reason to be exasperated is Annegret Kramp- with her, said Ines Pohl in Deutsche Welle. The coalition has spent much of the last year on Karrenbauer, the CDU’s “navel-gazing” and internal squabbling, rather than addressing such urgent issues as the rise general secretary. But she of the nationalist Right. Now we see that even in prosperous regions such as Hesse, voters have is likely to face achallenge had enough. Arecent poll indicates that the CDU, and its sister party, the CSU, now enjoy just from 38-year-old health 24% support nationwide. The public wants “renewal” and they don’t trust Merkel to deliver it. minister Jens Spahn, who has openly attacked The big question now is whether Merkel can survive as chancellor until 2021. After their Merkel’s liberal line humiliation in Hesse, her SPD allies won’t want to trigger anew federal election by pulling out on some key policies, of the coalition, said Oliver Moody in The Times. But their calculations could very well change: notably immigration. better to be in opposition than face further defeats tied to an unpopular government. The resulting uncertainty is bad news for Europe as well as Germany, said Jon Henley in The According to the Brussels Guardian. It was Merkel’s blend of “principle and pragmatism” that guided the EU through grapevine, Merkel was in the 2008 financial crisis, the migration crisis and Russian aggression in Ukraine. Now the bloc line for asenior job in the faces aslew of new problems –from Brexit and the Italian budget crisis to the likelihood of EU. However, she has big gains for populist parties in next year’s elections to the European Parliament. What’s more, indicated that she plans Britain was hoping Merkel might have fixed afavourable last-minute Brexit deal. But now, to leave politics altogether “hugely weakened” by admitting to her imminent departure, she is in no position to help. after quitting as chancellor.

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Controversy of the week New civil service head Mark Sedwill, the UK Brazil finds its Trump National Security Adviser, has been appointed Cabinet “Jair Bolsonaro is aright-wing Brazilian who holds repulsive Secretary and head of the views,” said The New York Times. “He has said that if he civil service. He replaces Sir had ahomosexual son, he’d prefer him dead; that afemale Jeremy Heywood, who, colleague in the parliament was too ugly to rape; that Afro- owing to ill health, is stepping Brazilians are lazy and fat; that global warming amounts to down from the role he held ‘greenhouse fables’.” Aformer army captain, he has frequently for six years. Sedwill, a expressed his admiration for the military dictatorship that ran veteran of the Foreign Office, has worked closely Brazil between 1964 and 1985. And last Sunday, he was with Theresa May since 2013, elected president of the world’s fourth largest democracy, when she made him her beating his leftist rival, Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ permanent secretary at the Party, by 55% to 45%. Brazil is emerging from its worst-ever Home Office. As Cabinet recession; acorruption scandal has engulfed much of its ruling Secretary, he will be her class; and crime is sky-high, with 175 homicides per day Bolsonaro: is he afascist? principal adviser. His last year. Bolsonaro, an evangelical Christian who “preaches appointment is unusual in ablend of social conservatism and economic liberalism”, has promised to clean out the stables. so far as every other cabinet “Sound familiar?” He is the latest in aline of populists who have ridden awave of discontent and secretary since WWII has had abackground in the Treasury. frustration all the way to the highest office. Not surprisingly, he is often described as Brazil’s Trump. Fracking halted Trump has nothing on Bolsonaro, who is probably “the most extremist elected leader in the world”, Fracking at the UK’s only said Benjamin Fogel in The Independent. He openly speaks of killing or banishing his political active shale gas site was opponents, whom he depicts as “some sort of combination between the Sinaloa Cartel and Stalin’s halted this week, following Soviet Union”. Bolsonaro regards torture as legitimate, and he has promised to give police “carte the largest earth tremor since blanche to kill” (in acountry where they already kill more than 5,000 people ayear). In short, work began two weeks ago. “fascism has arrived in Brazil”. The election result also spells environmental disaster for the world at The earthquake on Monday, large, said Daphne Leprince-Ringuet on Wired. Bolsonaro has threatened to pull out of the climate which measured 1.1 on the change accords. He thinks that Brazil’s Forest Code –which limits the deforestation of the Amazon Richter scale, prompted the firm Cuadrilla to halt work –isharming agriculture, and he has apersonal vendetta against the agency that enforces it (he was at the Lancashire site for once caught fishing illegally in areserve and fined $2,700). The reservation of land for indigenous 18 hours –the third such minorities is also under threat. “Minorities,” he said recently, “have to bend down to the majority.” pause in four days. The firm was forced to stop fracking To his critics, Bolsonaro is afascist, said the FT. To many Brazilians, though, he “was simply the entirely in 2011 following a lesser evil at Sunday’s ballot box”. The Workers’ Party was “unelectable”: it had presided over the series of tremors in the area; “Car Wash” corruption scandal –for which its ex-leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was imprisoned under its current licence, it –and economic meltdown. Much of South America has recently swung to the right, without turning must halt work in the event to dictatorship. Brazil badly needs economic reform, and the markets are hopeful that Bolsonaro – of atremor of 0.5-magnitude or more. None of the who has appointed arespected liberal economist, Paulo Guedes, as his finance minister –may bring earthquakes so far have been it. If the new president discards his “gratuitously offensive election talk”, said The Times, and makes powerful enough to be felt at clear he will not bring back military rule, then “he can bring urgent and positive change”. ground level (see page 47).

Good week for: Spirit of the age Ruth Davidson, who is celebrating the birth of ababy boy: Poll watch The head of Southampton’s Finn Paul Davidson, weighing in at 10lb 1.5oz. The head of 59% of Britons support the student union came under the Scottish Conservatives is the first British party leader to give full legalisation of cannabis fire last week for vowing to birth while in office. “Ruth did brilliantly,” said her fiancée, –upfrom 43% in May – take down a“mural of white Jen Wilson, “and Finn clearly has his mother’s lungs on him”. while 31% oppose it. 15% of men” in the university Slough, which has achieved the distinction of being judged the people have used cannabis senate room, “even if Ihave 76% best town in Britain to work in –for the second year running. in the past year. would to paint over it myself”, on be willing to consume it if Twitter. Emily Dawes had Belying its undeserved reputation for dreariness (it was where the prescribed by adoctor. apparently not realised that sitcom, The Office,was set) it came top in asurvey of 25 towns Populus/The Independent the mural, painted by Sir compiled by job search website Glassdoor that, among other William Rothenstein in 1916, things, measured overall job satisfaction and ease of getting ajob. 51% of UK adults sleep is amemorial to students Equality, after the government announced that all roles in the for six hours or fewer a killed in the First World War British Armed Forces, including in the Royal Marines and the night. Amere 17% get the who were unable to front-line infantry, will now be open to women. recommended eight hours. complete their degrees. Censuswide/The Times She has since apologised. Bad week for: 43% of Britons think Islam is British pet owners will spend Christmas glitter, after several big retailers, including incompatible with Western £1.7bn this year on pets, and John Lewis, Next and Paperchase, announced they’d be cutting liberal society. 40% would it is millennials who are back severely on its use on their Christmas items. They are be concerned if afamily fuelling the boom. According deglittering their stock due to concern for the environment: member married aMuslim to research group Mintel, and 43% would worry if a more than half of 19- to 38- glitter contributes to the tide of microplastics polluting the mosque were built in their year-olds say they’d rather world’s oceans; and glitter-covered products cannot be recycled. neighbourhood. 58% think cut back on spending on Martin Amis, after afilm of his classic novel London Fields, Islamophobia is aproblem themselves than their pets; starring Amber Heard, had the second-worst opening weekend in Britain; 47% believe the two out of five would spend since records began. The 613 US cinemas it was shown in made country is becoming less as much on aChristmas gift only £205 from ticket sales on average. Critics described it as tolerant of Muslims. for their pet as for afriend. “aggressively awful”, among other jibes. ComRes/The Sunday Times

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Oldenburg, Venice, Italy Budapest Germany Worst flooding for ten years: An University to emigrate: Auniversity Hospital killings: exceptionally high tide, driven by ferocious founded by George Soros, and regarded At the opening winds, left three-quarters of Venice flooded as one of the best in eastern Europe, says of the trial of on Monday, as the water level rose by it will quit Budapest and move most of the most prolific more than five feet. Even the raised walk- its teaching to Vienna if Viktor Orbán’s serial killer in ways erected to deal with the emergency government refuses to recognise its right to German history, were submerged, and water reached the exist. Hungary’s ruling Fidesz Party, which the accused centre of St Mark’s Basilica for only the regards the Budapest-born philanthropist has admitted to fifth time in its 900-year history. The as an enemy of the state, passed alaw last the murder of disaster has fuelled controversy over the year stating that aforeign university could 100 patients. Mose Project, amultibillion-euro system operate in Hungary only if it had acampus Niels Högel, 41, a of underwater barriers designed to protect in its own country, which the US-accredited former nurse, had already been jailed on six the city in extreme weather conditions: Central European University did not. counts of murder and attempted murder, originally scheduled to open in 2014, Michael Ignatieff, the CEU’s president, but has now confessed to further killings, but still unfinished, it has been dogged says it has opened acampus in New York prompting anew investigation. Prosecutors by rising costs and corruption. “If ever state, but is still threatened with closure. A at his latest trial say that in each case he there was one day it would have been government spokesman said the threat to administered adrug that caused cardiac useful, it was yesterday,” said Il Gazzettino depart was “a Soros-style political ploy”. arrest, and then tried to revive the patient, newspaper. High winds and heavy rain hoping to be seen as ahero –but in most also wrought havoc in other parts of Italy, cases he failed. The victims’ ages ranged with 11 deaths reported. In Rome, from 34 to 96, and investigators say he both the Forum and the Colosseum may have killed more than 200 people. were closed on safety grounds.

Dublin Green light for blasphemy: In adecisive 65% to 35% vote in last week’s referendum, Ireland has decided to abolish its constitutional ban on blasphemy (see page 21). The vote is the latest in aseries of plebiscites that have approved major social changes, including gay marriage and abortion, in asociety once known for its domination by the Catholic Church. In aseparate vote, Ireland re-elected its president, Michael D. Higgins –only the second time asitting president has been challenged for the largely ceremonial post. The race was notable for the presence of three panellists from Ireland’s version of the TV show Dragons’ Den on the ballot paper. One, Peter Casey, finished in second place. He surged from 2% in opinion polls to take 23% of the vote after giving an interview slamming the status of Irish Travellers as an official ethnic minority, insisting they were just “basically people camping in someone else’s land”.

Paris Rome Istanbul, Turkey Blow to Airbnb: Acourt in Paris has Citizens’ anger: Khashoggi fallout: Turkey and Saudi dealt apotentially devastating blow to the Thousands Arabia were at loggerheads this week market for short-term holiday lets in Paris of Romans over the continuing investigation into by evicting the long-term tenant of aflat protested Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. Saudi Arabia’s in the French capital, and ordering her outside most senior prosecutor, Saud al-Mojeb, to pay her landlord all of the s46,000 she city hall visited the Istanbul consulate where the had earned over the past seven years by on Saturday journalist is believed to have been killed, subletting it to tourists on Airbnb. The over the but was denied access to the full dossier flat’s owner took her tenant to court after dilapidated of evidence compiled by the Turkish seeing it listed, without her permission, on state of the Italian capital, and the failure authorities. The refusal was apparently the site last year. France is Airbnb’s biggest of the Five Star Movement mayor, Virginia designed to increase pressure on the Saudi national market after the US and, like Raggi, to clean it up. Under the slogan crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, other world cities, Paris has taken steps Roma dice basta (“Rome says enough”), who is suspected of authorising the to limit holiday rentals due to their impact residents showed their anger over potholed murder: Turkey’s President Erdogan told on the housing market (pushing up prices roads, uncollected rubbish and the wild reporters that it made “no sense to try for locals) and hotel industry. Paris boars spotted foraging in rubbish heaps to save certain people”. The Saudi foreign requires residents who let out their homes across the city. More than 20 buses have minister, Adel al-Jubeir, said that the short term to register, and limits them to caught fire on Rome’s streets this year global outcry over Khashoggi’s death had amaximum of 120 days of letting ayear. (pictured), largely as aresult of inadequate become “hysterical”. Khashoggi’s fiancée, So far this year, the city authorities have maintenance, and last week an escalator Hatice Cengiz, has called on President issued s1.38m in fines for breaching the sped out of control at ametro station, Trump to ensure that justice is done and rules, an average fine of s12,000. injuring 24 Russian football fans. not to “pave the way for acover-up”.

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Plantation, Florida Synagogue massacre: Eleven Pipe bomb suspect: The bodybuilder suspected of sending crude people were killed at Pittsburgh’s pipe bombs to 13 of President Trump’s most prominent critics Tree of Life synagogue last and political opponents appeared in court this week, to hear the Saturday, when agunman charges against him. If convicted, Cesar Sayoc, 56, faces up to stormed the building shouting “all 48 years in jail. He is believed to have put 15 packages Jews must die”. It is believed to containing explosives into the mail and is reported to have had have been the deadliest anti- alist of 100 targets (see page 21). On his arrest in Plantation, Semitic attack ever perpetrated in Florida, he allegedly admitted sending the packages, but claimed the US; Pittsburgh’s mayor called the pipe bombs would never have gone off. However, the director it the “darkest day” in the city’s of the FBI, Christopher Wray, insisted that “these are not hoax history. The suspect, Robert devices”. An obsessive Trump supporter, Sayoc was well known Bowers, 46, was overpowered by police 20 minutes into his to the police, having been arrested several times on suspicion of a attack. An avowed white supremacist, he is believed to have been range of crimes, including grand theft and drug possession. behind aslew of anti-Semitic posts on Gab, asocial media site used by white nationalists, one of which accuses Jews of bringing “evil Muslims” to the US. President Trump condemned the attack, but was criticised for joking at aconvention, hours later, that standing in the rain talking to journalists about the atrocity had left him with a“bad hair day”. The massacre took place three days after awhite man shot dead two black people in asupermarket in Kentucky, having first tried and failed to get into apredominantly African-American church near by. “Whites don’t shoot whites,” Gregory Bush, 51, is reported to have said to abystander, moments after he allegedly gunned down his victims.

Menlo Park, California Google payoff: Google gave a$90m exit package to Andy Rubin, the creator of its operating system Android –while concealing the misconduct allegation that had led to him being asked to leave, The New York Times has reported. According to the paper, an employee with whom Rubin had been having an affair accused him of putting pressure on her to perform asex act on him in a hotel in 2013. Google investigated, found the accusations credible and asked for Rubin’s resignation; he left in 2014. Rubin has denied the claims. Reportedly, he is one of two senior executives to have left the firm with large pay-offs after being accused of harassment. In amemo to staff last week, Google insisted it was “dead serious” about workplace harassment and that it had fired 48 people for sexual harassment without giving them payouts.

Oaxaca state, Mexico Caravan still coming: With thousands of migrants still making their way up through southern Mexico, President Trump this week ordered that 5,200 troops be deployed to the US border. Last week, he claimed, without evidence, on Twitter that there were “unknown Middle Easterners” in the caravan; on Monday, he tweeted that “Many Gang Members and some very bad people” were among the migrants and warned them that “our Military is waiting for you”. Most members of the caravan are escaping brutal gang violence and grinding poverty in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador (see page 17). This week, as asecond, smaller wave of migrants headed north, aHonduran man was killed during aviolent confrontation with Mexican police on the Mexico-Guatemala border.

Bruceton Mills, West Virginia Gangster killed: The notorious Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger was Buenos Aires found dead this week in aprison in Falklands claim: Argentina will West Virginia. Bulger, 89, who was take advantage of Brexit to push serving alife term, was reported to its claim for sovereignty over the have been killed by afellow inmate Falkland Islands, the country’s foreign minister has said. The with Mafia ties. He’d only been islands are recognised as aBritish overseas territory under the transferred to the jail, in Bruceton EU’s 2009 Lisbon Treaty; this means that while the UK is in the Mills, aday earlier. Born into an EU, other members are obliged, by the bloc’s duty of sincere Irish-American family, Bulger was cooperation, to support its claim to the territory. In an interview involved in crime from his teens and with The Daily Telegraph, Jorge Faurie said that, post-Brexit, ended up running the powerful Winter Hill gang in the 1970s, Buenos Aires would ask for its claim to be recognised. Italy and while his activities were covered up by corrupt FBI agents. On the Spain are believed to be sympathetic to Argentina’s position. run for 16 years, he was arrested in 2011, and convicted two Theresa May is due to hold talks with Argentina’s centre-right years later of racketeering and of involvement in 11 murders. president, Mauricio Macri, at the G20 summit this month.

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Karachi, Pakistan Taliban leader released: Officials in Colombo Pakistan have confirmed that they have Return of Rajapaksa: Sri Lanka was plunged into released from prison aco-founder and crisis last Friday when the country’s president, former head of the Taliban, who was Maithripala Sirisena, announced live on TV that arrested in Karachi eight years ago he had dismissed the elected prime minister, following ajoint US-Pakistani intelligence Ranil Wickremesinghe, and appointed in his place operation. Quietly freed from jail last the “strongman” ruler who he himself replaced. week, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is Mahinda Rajapaksa (pictured) was president of now believed to be back in Afghanistan. Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015. His government His release, along with that of two other was accused of corruption and human rights abuses, especially against the Tamil imprisoned senior Taliban, is believed to minority, and of forging excessively close ties to China. be the outcome of the tentative dialogue This week both Wickremesinghe, 69, and Rajapaksa, 72, were insisting that they currently under way between the Taliban were the legitimate PM. Rajapaksa was sworn in, took control of the PM’s office and and the US –and to reflect Pakistan’s began appointing acabinet. But Wickremesinghe continued to occupy his official efforts to retain influence over any moves residence, in Colombo, and on Tuesday, tens of thousands of his supporters gathered towards peace. US diplomats held a outside to protest against what some are calling a“constitutional coup”. He argues he second round of talks at the Taliban’s can only be dismissed if he loses the support of parliament; but Sirisena has suspended political office in Qatar on 12 October. At parliament until 16 November. The speaker of the parliament has warned that if MPs the time of his capture, Baradar had been are not able to resolve the issue swiftly, there will be a“bloodbath” on the streets. interested in exploring peace negotiations.

Beijing New era for old foes? Japan’s PM, Shinzo Abe, received an unusually warm welcome when he made arare trip to Beijing this week. When he last met President Xi, in 2014, relations were decidedly frosty. But this time, as the pair sealed trade deals worth $18bn, Abe pledged a“new era” for Japan and China, while Xi said that they must move together in a“new direction” at a time when “instability and uncertainties” are growing (interpreted as a reference to Donald Trump’s leadership). Damascus Museum reopens: Syria’s National Museum, in the heart of Addis Ababa Damascus, Gender reopened last landmark: week, six years Ethiopian MPs after its antiquities have elected and artefacts were the country’s put into storage as aresult of the first female encroaching civil war. The reopening was president. The Jakarta hailed by Syrian officials as alandmark position is largely Deadly crash: ABoeing 737-Max 8 moment in the return to normal life in the ceremonial, but passenger plane crashed into the sea capital. It is “a genuine message that Syria carries symbolic shortly after take-off from the Indonesian is still here and her heritage will not be weight and capital, Jakarta, on Monday –killing all affected by terrorism,” said the Syrian influence. 189 people on board. Lion Air flight culture minister Mohammad al-Ahmad. Sahle-Work Zewde, a68-year-old JT610 had been airborne for 13 minutes Separately, the leaders of Russia, Turkey, diplomat who becomes Africa’s only when it plunged into the sea. The pilot had France and Germany met in Istanbul to female head of state, promised to work asked to return to Jakarta airport before discuss apostwar constitution for Syria for greater gender equality. Aweek the disaster, suggesting amassive technical and the path to peace in Idlib, the last earlier, the prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, failure might have been the cause of the rebel-held province. France’s President had filled half his new cabinet with crash. However, the single-aisle jet – Macron praised the ceasefire negotiated women. On Twitter, his chief of staff said Boeing’s bestselling commercial aircraft by Russia and Turkey, but said that all having afemale head of state “normalises –was almost brand new: it had only been sides must remain “vigilant”. women as decision-makers in public life”. in operation since 15 August.

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Agroundbreaking kiss it, who’s gonna see it, again The first black actor to have and again and again?” won an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony, Viola Davis has been in Grisham’s racist past some 75 films –but it’s only John Grisham is aDemocrat now, at 53, that she has been and aliberal, but as the son of given alead role in amajor aMississippi cotton farmer he movie, says Benjamin Lee in was brought up to be aracist. The Guardian. An adaptation “It was terrible,” he told Jim of Lynda La Plante’s 1983 White in The Mail on Sunday. miniseries, Steve McQueen’s “Lynching was still common. Widows opens with her lying Through church, school and in bed, kissing her on-screen what was said at home, we husband, Liam Neeson. A were taught that the black man married couple kissing is not would always be kept in his remarkable, but for Davis, the place.” His school was the last scene is groundbreaking. “This in the US to desegregate: black is something you’ll not see this children weren’t admitted until year, last year, the year before 1970 –and even then it was that,” she says. “That is, a fiercely resisted. “It was almost dark-skinned woman of done at federal gunpoint: there colour, at 53 years old, kissing was tremendous tension and Liam Neeson. Not just kissing violence. Iremember seeing awhite man,” she adds, “Liam black kids being bussed under Neeson, ahunk. And kissing armed guard. All our lives we him sexually, romantically.” were taught this would never Widows is about the wives happen. It had: suddenly and of agroup of career criminals forcibly. Yet Irecall sitting in who continue their husbands’ the locker room afew months In his days as an international cricketer, Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff work after the men are killed. later with the black guys on always seemed irrepressible, says Decca Aitkenhead in The Sunday The cast is racially diverse, but the football team thinking: Times. In reality, he was abulimic depressive who felt he was being their race is incidental –which, ‘Why was this so difficult?’” idolised for qualities he didn’t have; even when England won The she says, is another thing that Grisham, 63, can’t understand Ashes, he struggled with praise. “It’s exhausting, because you’re makes the film unusual. “I why some people are nostalgic trying to live up to this idea people have of you. With cricket, that always say that one thing for the South of that era: all he feeling of euphoria was always short-lived. Ifound it all abit missing in cinema is that regular wanted to do was to get away. embarrassing.” Alcohol provided an escape from the awkwardness black woman. Not anyone He practised law; then, to he’d felt ever since his schooldays: teased at his comprehensive for didactic, or whose sole purpose boost his income, he began liking cricket, he felt out of his depth playing with boys from posher in the narrative is to illustrate writing. Huge sellers, his books backgrounds; picked by Lancashire while still an adolescent, he some social abnormality. are plot-driven and fast-paced. hated sharing adressing room with grown men. It was only when There’s no meaning behind it, “With Ian McEwan or John le he made adocumentary about sportsmen and their demons that he other than she is just there.” Carré, I’ll read aparagraph accepted that he had mental health problems of his own. Flintoff, Davis says she’d like to play and think, that’s beautiful. I’m 40, now takes antidepressants and sees atherapist, but he never the sort of roles Jane Fonda so envious of writers who have knows what will trigger his black mood. “It can be just aword: it’s and Meryl Streep have been such acommand of language. never anything big. You know it’s happening and there’s very little offered. “I would love to have But Iknow Ican’t match it.” you can do. It’s like the shutters are coming down: you see the ablack female Kramer, or Oddly, it was “bad writers world going on around you and you just can’t get involved. Then Annie Hall. But who’s gonna who inspired me. Ithought: people will come round and have the most trivial conversation –and write it, who’s gonna produce surely Ican beat that.” I’ll think they’re geniuses, because Ican’t get athought in my head.”

Castaway of the week Viewpoint: This week’s edition of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs featured Farewell businesswoman and CEO of Ann Summers, Jacqueline Gold No pianos please... Wanda Ferragamo, 1 Girls Just Want to Have Fun by Robert Hazard, performed by “The actor Mark Gatiss posted avideo entrepreneur who grew Cyndi Lauper of someone playing music in public her family shoe firm into 2 IFeel Love by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, last week and remarked that pianos in aglobal brand, died performed by Donna Summer railway stations –including St Pancras, 19 October, aged 96. 3 IWas Made for Lovin’ You by Paul Stanley, Vini Poncia and Leeds and Dundee –are ‘such asimple, Aubrey Manning, Desmond Child, performed by Kiss life-enhancing joy’. I’m afraid I zoologist, lecturer 4 Tell It to My Heart by Seth Swirsky and Ernie Gold, performed can’t get on board with it. Such and broadcaster who by Taylor Dayne performances are fundamentally campaigned for human 5 My Love Is Your Love by Wyclef Jean and Jerry Duplessis, population control, died attention-seeking, like extravagant 20 October, aged 88. performed by Whitney Houston public marriage proposals. Worst of 6 Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) by Cristiano Spiller, all, there’s the inherent whimsy of it Alexander McLeish, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Rob Davis, performed by Spiller all, making me feel I’m trapped inside RAF pilot who flew and Sophie Ellis-Bextor during WWII, died aJohn Lewis Christmas advert. 26 August, aged 98. 7* Wishing on aStar by Billie Rae Calvin, performed by Rose Royce Richard Curtis is the one Iblame the 8 Uptown Funk! by Mark Ronson, Jeff Bhasker, Bruno Mars, most. He popularised the idea that we Vichai Philip Lawrence, Devon Gallaspy and Nicholaus Williams, uptight Brits have an inner performer Srivaddhanaprabha, performed by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars businessman and owner aching to escape. Can we please return Book: The Secret by Rhonda Byrne of Leicester City FC, died to playing pianos in private?” Luxury: afeather pillow *Choice if allowedonlyone record 27 October, aged 60. Sathnam Sanghera in The Times

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Option 1 The Norway model Option 2 The Chequers plan What does it involve? What does it involve? This is the option that preserves the closest possible trading Afudge concocted by May and agreed by her Cabinet on ahot relationship with the EU without being part of its political union. Friday in July at the PM’s official country residence, the Chequers It’s modelled on the compromise Norway made in 1994 after its plan means going one step further than the Norway model. It bitter referendum on EU membership, in which 52% voted “out” would end the free movement of EU citizens, and have Britain and 48% “in”. So rather than join the EU, Norway remained leave the EU customs union and the single market for services amemberemb of the newly created European Economic Area –but keep it in asingle market for goods. That would entail (EEA),(EEA and thereby of the EU’s single market but not accepting Brussels’ rules and standards for all goods and its customs union (see box). It has left Norway free agricultural products. It would enable us to make our own to decide its home affairs, farm and fisheries policies, trade deals with countries outside the EU, but to do so, a andan to negotiate trade deals with non-EU nations. complicated new customs system would be required: UK customs UnderUn this model, Britain would be able to sell most would apply domestic tariffs for goods intended for the UK, but goodsgo and services to EU states without paying charge EU tariffs for goods passing through Britain to the EU. importimpo taxes (tariffs). But it would have to conform to EU regulationsre on goods and services, and to its four Pros and cons of Chequers freedomsfr do (on( thehe movement of goods, services, capital and people). It would give us some degree of independence, while preserving frictionless trade –amajor concern for British business, from Pros and cons of the Norway option retailers importing fresh food, to car manufacturers who rely on It carries the least risk of economic upheaval, giving us almost the the timely delivery of parts using supply chains that stretch across same level of uninterrupted trade with the EU as today –notably Europe. But like “Norway”, it involves indefinitely accepting EU in the crucial services sector. But it would also mean the UK regulations –albeit only those covering goods –while having no having to pay into the EU budget and accepting swathes of EU say in Brussels. The EU, for its part, has flatly rejected the plan: rules on which it had no say. Like Norway, we’d also have to to accept asingle market membership for goods, but not services, accept EU migration; the EEA agreement does allow some latitude capital or people, it says, would undermine the single market and in this area, but the extent is contested. Besides, the Norway tag encourage EU members to “cherry pick” rights and obligations; it conceals two very different options. Barnier has expressed support is all or nothing. Barnier also thinks the customs bureaucracy for “Norway plus”, which means “being part of the single market involved would be “insane”. Nor is he convinced it plus acustoms union”: that would ensure frictionless EU borders, can achieve one of its main objectives –obviatingng but would stop us from trading freely with the rest of the world. the need for ahard border in Ireland. Conversely, “Norway minus” –leaving the customs union – would mean trouble at the borders, particularly the Irish border. Who supports it? “It’s not perfect, but business can work with Who supports this option? this,” says the CBI, the UK voice of business. Not Theresa May, whose Lancaster House speech last year stated But to Brussels and the Eurosceptic wing of the that the UK would leave the single market and the customs union. Tory party, it is unacceptable. Boris Johnson, Many Brexiteers dismiss it as “Brino” (Brexit in name only). But who along with David Davis resigned over the some veteran Eurosceptics support it, arguing that at least it offers plan, has called it “a moral and intellectual humiliationmili io forfo this aplan for freeing the UK from the EU; it has also been mooted as country”. But if –abig if –Brussels were to agree to aversion atemporary solution while atrade deal is concluded. Whether that didn’t involve too many further concessions, May might get it Brussels or indeed the EEA would accept that is less clear. through Parliament with the backing of Labour rebels.

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Option 3 Canada plus Option 4 No deal What does it involve? What does it involve? If May won’t budge on her Lancaster House “red lines” –the Also known as the “cliff edge”, it would be the UK is to be outside the single market and the customs union –the very hardest of Brexits: leaving the structures only viable option, says Brussels, would be afree-trade agreement of the EU without any deal to replace them. In like Canada’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement practice, the term covers quite afew different (Ceta) with the EU. This would ensure that nearly all goods could scenarios, all the way from utter chaos –with be imported tariff-free, and non-tariff barriers (regulatory checks, planes unable to fly between Britain and Europe, quota controls) would be kept to aminimum. It would also put British meat prevented from entering Europe, an end to budget payments to the EU and free movement for EU medicine shortages and the Channel ports gridlockedocked –to citizens. The “plus” signals that the UK deal would go further abasic but more orderly contingency plan to moveove UK-EU trade than the agreement with Canada, though it’s unclear how far: it to World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules. Either way, there’d be might involve making it easier for the UK to sell services to the EU immediate and extensive border checks and heavy tariffs on some and forging other joint arrangements –onsecurity, for example. goods. For example, on WTO terms, cars and car parts would face 10% duties every time they cross the border. Agricultural tariffs Pros and cons of Canada plus would be significantly higher, up to some 35% for dairy products. To many Brexiteers it represents freedom –aclean break with Brussels. The European Court of Justice’s jurisdiction over Pros and cons of no deal British affairs would end; EU immigration would once Most commentators think it would be acatastrophe for Britain agaiagain be amatter for Parliament. And we’d have and Europe, with disastrous effects on supply chains, trade and compcomplete freedom to trade freely with the world. transport. Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary BuBut most economists think it would impose aheavy Fund, warned last month that a“disorderly” exit from the EU cocost. There’d have to be new customs and “rules of would send the UK into recession. The IMF says it would cost ororigin” checks on goods moving over the borders: us about 4% of GDP in the long term. And Brexiteers fear that it evevenen small amounts of additional border formalities could trigger apolitical crisis that would end with Britain staying woulwould create long queues and uncertainty in ports in the EU. But looking on the bright side, the average WTO tariff used for UK-EU trade, notably Dover. And it would for EU imports is in general not particularly high (2.6% for non- make the need forfo some sort of controls at the Irish border almost agricultural products) and, in the absence of adeal, Britain inevitable. Besides, free-trade deals also take years to negotiate: probably wouldn’t have to pay its EU divorce bill, which would Ceta took seven years, though presumably aUKdeal would be give it £39bn to offset the negative economic effects. easier, because British and EU regulations are currently identical. Who supports it? Who supports Canada plus? Almost no one actively seeks it, but some claim it’s far preferable Many Tory Brexiteers, such as Jacob Rees-Mogg, Johnson and to agreeing punitive “Carthaginian terms” with the EU. The more Davis, who pushed hard but unsuccessfully for Canada plus when swashbuckling Brexiteers claim that, free from Brussels’ control, he was Brexit Secretary. The EU has, in principle, always been the UK could unilaterally slash tariffs and taxes, and embark on open to such an agreement –but, again, it’s subject to asatisfactory abright Singapore-type future. However, Toyota recently warned resolution on the Irish border. The CBI is dead against it: “It that if the firm’s sizeable investment in the UK is to continue, ano would introduce friction at borders, it would not solve the Irish deal scenario must be avoided. On amore calming note, WTO border, it would damage the supply chains on which thousands director general Roberto Azevêdo declared in June that no deal and thousands of jobs depend.” And at the moment, there is wouldn’t create “a situation where all trade stops”. Then again, nothing like amajority in support of it in the Commons. he added, “it’s not going to be awalk in the park”.

Northern Ireland and the “backstop” The aim of acustoms union Europe and Britain are united in their May’s government, and to the Democratic The EU’s customs union is an agreement determination not to impose ahard Unionists, the Tories’ allies in Parliament, between all EU nations to abolish border in Ireland –aborder once led by Arlene Foster (pictured). It would customs controls and tariffs on goods monitored, during the Troubles, by cross her “blood red lines”, she said. The crossing their shared borders. To make customs officials and security forces. UK believes that there are technological that workable, all EU member states But if, after Brexit, Northern Ireland and solutions to the border issue: Switzerland have to apply common custom tariffs on the Republic end up with and Norway, for instance, all goods imported from outside the bloc different customs rules and have land borders with the –about 10% on cars from Korea or the product standards, goods EU that allow relatively US for example. Such tariffs are collected passing between will have frictionless trade. Failing by each nation, but paid on to the EU. to be monitored somewhere that, it has proposed its own Clearly anation can’t strike free-trade –orthe EU’s single market backstop: that the UK as a deals with outside countries and remain could be undermined. whole should –for alimited inside acustoms union: if apost-Brexit Last December, to keep time –remain inside the Britain were free to buy cheap US chicken negotiations going, May EU’s regulatory regime. But or Chinese steel, it could then re-export agreed to the “backstop”: since that only kicks the can them (or products made from them) to that “in the absence of agreed solutions”, down the road, Brussels has rejected this, the EU, and undercut local producers. Northern Ireland, post Brexit, would stay demanding “a backstop to the backstop”; That is why goods entering the EU from fully aligned with the rules of the EU Tory Brexiteers, for their part, fear this Norway (which is outside the customs customs union and its single market. could become apermanent arrangement. union) have to be checked to make sure There is, as yet, no sign of such an agreed Many Brexiteers accuse Brussels of using they comply with “rules of origin”. But solution. The EU argues that to keep the Irish border as aploy to ensure that Britain is unlikely to accept remaining the Irish border open would require a the UK stays inside the EU’s regime. inside the customs union yet being customs border between Northern Ireland Brussels insists the UK simply isn’t facing outside the EU –asTurkey is –because and mainland Britain –effectively hiving facts or offering solutions. Either way, the it would mean surrendering trade policy it off from the UK. This is anathema to issue has snarled up the entire process. to Brussels, while having no say in it.

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“Are spies becoming more incompetent?” You’d think as much from the recent spate of high-profile espionage incidents, says IT MUST BE TRUE… The spies who Ben Macintyre. Russian poisoners in Salisbury claim to be Iread it in the tabloids innocent tourists; aSaudi hit squad murders ajournalist in came out of Istanbul and then heads home on traceable charter planes. The ARussian scientist stationed in Antarctica tradecraft was absurdly amateurish –but for reasons of chutzpah the closet plunged akitchen knife rather than ineptitude. Forget cloak and dagger. Autocratic into acolleague because – regimes no longer carry out their dirty work in secret: they not Ben Macintyre it’s alleged –hewas fed up only “operate in the space where espionage meets terrorism”, they with the man telling him the The Times want to be seen to do so. Pointedly brazen, the new espionage is endings of books he was designed to send achilling message to dissidents, and cock asnook reading. Sergey Savitsky, 55, at the West, while retaining aflimsy cover of deniability. When had spent six months at the Soviet spies were told to disrupt the 1983 British general election isolated Bellingshausen by planting fake news, they did so as discreetly as possible. By Station on King George Island with Oleg Beloguzov, 52, contrast, the Russian attack on the US presidential election was before the reportedly alcohol- blatant, but deniable. The pattern is clear: “deny, confuse, self- fuelled altercation. Beloguzov contradict, brazen it out”. And be sure the perpetrators disappear. was evacuated to Chile with achest injury, but is not You fly back to England and no sooner has your plane touched believed to be in danger. down than the man in front of you turns on his mobile and starts Savitsky, who has been Submerging watching hardcore porn. That’s what happened to ahorrified charged with attempted colleague of mine recently, says Sarah Vine, and her experience is murder, has expressed our society in far from unusual. On buses, trains and the Tube the same occurs. remorse over the attack. Viewing porn is now so routine some men do it anywhere. A asea of porn parliamentary committee has concluded that porn is as damaging Sarah Vine to public health as smoking. But if anything, it’s worse: it has “stunted the emotional well-being of an entire generation”. Daily Mail Teenagers blithely send sexts; many men used to hardcore videos find they can’t perform in the real world; sexual harassment has become increasingly common. Meanwhile, established norms are allowed to fray: Sainsbury’s has just announced that it’s going to launch aline of sex toys. Yet there’s not much Parliament can do, because most hardcore videos are “streamed from abroad”. The tide will only be stemmed when the digital media giants wake up to their responsibilities and block porn. “I won’t hold my breath.”

Slow growth; stagnant incomes; spiralling public debt as the cost of caring for an ageing electorate rises; public anger at uncontrolled They’ve done immigration: this seems to be the inescapable fate of Western Pope Francis has reportedly democracies, says The Economist. Yet one country has escaped it: given his blessing to a things better Australia. Its overall growth in the past 27 years has been almost Catholic version of Pokémon three times that of Germany and –almost uniquely –recession- Go,the mobile gaming down under free; its median income has risen four times faster than that of sensation. Follow JC Go uses the US. Akey factor in this success has been sound policymaking. similar GPS and augmented Editorial In 1991, Australia –under aLabor government –reformed its reality technology, but rather than tracking Pokémon, it The Economist healthcare and pensions systems by requiring the middle class to pay more of its own way. As aresult, the share of GDP that the allows players to capture state spends on pensions is half the OECD average. Its immigra- saints and biblical characters, tion policy is no less striking: to reassure voters, it takes atough who then join their line on illegals, but it has made entry easy for bona fide applicants. “evangelisation team”. Today about 29% of its inhabitants were born in another country One reviewer, JR SV, –twice the proportion in the US. An affordable welfare state; wrote: “I feel happy to rising incomes; popular support for mass immigration: shouldn’t follow the path of the Lord more of our policymakers be looking towards Australia? from my smartphone.” The “worst robbers in My heart goes out to Gordon Ramsay, says Joanna Moorhead. Belgium” were tricked by a It was aquestion he wasn’t expecting. How was he dealing, shopkeeper into returning It really hurts James Corden asked him on The Late Late Show last week, with to his business so that police his son’s departure to the University of Exeter? “Gutted,” was could arrest them. The owner when they walk the reply. In aconfession of pure anguish, the legendary tough guy of the e-cigarette shop in admitted he had gone into 18-year-old Jack’s bedroom and put Charleroi, Belgium, identified out that door on apair of pants lying in Jack’s drawer. Iknow the feeling. My as Didier, was confronted by eldest left home eight years ago, but Istill go into her bedroom, six robbers at about 3pm. “I Joanna Moorhead told them that 3pm is not the look at her books and squirt some perfume from the bottle on her best time to hold up astore,” The Guardian dressing table. “It is the fundamental paradox of parenthood.” he said. He convinced them We bring them up to be self-sufficient. The better they leave and to come back later, promising enjoy an independent life, the more we congratulate ourselves on them s2,000-s3,000. They ajob well done; yet the more it hurts and the more redundant we came again at 5.30pm, but feel. Istill recall the first time Isaw my daughter off at the airport: Didier told them it wasn’t yet she walked away at the security gates and didn’t look back once. closing time. When they “I took it as agood sign, but it broke my heart.” Leaving home is returned at 6:30pm, the abig moment for children; for parents, facing up to the sadness police were in the shop, ready to catch them. that they’re not around any more, it’s ahugely poignant one.

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Italy openly defies Brussels in budget battle One might have laughed at the farcical The eurozone’s third-largest economy, incident in the European Parliament it’s too big to rescue, and its govern- last week were it not so serious, said ment is ruthless in exploiting that. But Cécile Ducourtieux and Jérôme the budget is a“ramshackle” mess, Gautheret in Le Monde (Paris).Euro- said Alessandro Sallusti in Il Giornale pean commissioner Pierre Moscovici (Milan).The northern small-business had just announced his unprecedented owners and anti-immigrant nationalists decision to reject the deficit-busting who vote for the League were promised budget proposed by Italy’s government, tax cuts; Five Star voters expect higher when Angelo Ciocca, aright-wing welfare spending, much of which will Italian MEP, crept up behind him, go to immigrants. No government can took off ashoe and slammed it down satisfy such conflicting goals without on Moscovici’s notes. “I trampled – massive spending. with asole made in Italy –the moun- tain of lies written against our nation,” Salvini: the driving force of Italy’s truculence But EU nations that get into financial boasted Ciocca. “These Euroimbeciles difficulties usually play for time, said have to understand that Italy deserves respect.” It’s hardly what Andreas Schnauder in Der Standard (Vienna).Italy’s behaviour Moscovici meant when he spoke of Rome and Brussels engaging –open defiance of budget rules, spiky complaints about EU in dialogue to resolve the impasse. “enslavement” and “market terrorism” –isquite new. Yet the situation is too explosive for this sort of carry-on. Italy’s debt, Since the far-right League and populist Five Star Movement at s2.3trn, is one of the highest in Europe in cash terms, and the coalition took office in June, even the mildest reproofs from government plans to borrow more to service it. But the markets Brussels are met with fury, said Ulrich Ladurner in Die Zeit have been pounding Italy as investors take fright, said Rachel (Hamburg).The loudest barks come from the League’s leader, Donadio in The Atlantic (Washington DC),and when the Matteo Salvini –the interior minister and the government’s Italian public sees borrowing “spreads” expanding to unsustain- driving force. Italians hear how he “steamrolls” leaders like able levels, they’ll feel less like applauding the “Italy is avictim” Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron. But how can officials rhetoric of men like Salvini. These politicians can’t step back negotiate with politicians who can’t talk without “foaming”? for fear of losing face, but they must be “scared to death”. Optimists point out that some Greek politicians also cursed the Whether this ends in the “usual European political theatrics” or Eurocrats, but submitted in the end. Italy, however, is different. a“genuine clash that could reshape Europe”, no one can foretell.

There are few clearer signs of the “conservative winds” blowing through Europe, says Jonna Sima, SWEDEN than the anti-feminist sentiments now being peddled by young Swedish women. Greta Thurfjell, a24-year-old journalist, has created astir with anewspaper article pushing an unapologetically Longing to be traditional view of awoman’s role. She wants nothing more than to be asubmissive “housewife”, devoted to pleasing men. For girls in her PC generation, she says, conservatism’s “forbidden” status asubmissive makes it “new and exciting”, whereas feminists are “uncool”. Having walked into awell-paid, secure job at aculture magazine, she clearly has no idea how hard women had to struggle to achieve housewife the freedoms she takes for granted. This reflects the baleful influence of Donald Trump’s former guru Aftonbladet Steve Bannon: he has been travelling through Europe firing up the far-right and calling the women’s (Stockholm) rights movement “the biggest threat to the patriarchal social order”. Right-wingers in Sweden are mobilising against abortion rights and complaining that “feminism has gone too far”. Women like Thurfjell may get athrill flirting with these ideas, but they may not like the long-term consequences.

After abrief “civilising process” in the early 2000s, Russia is returning to the bad old days of the RUSSIA 1990s, when contract killings and the theft of assets were “acceptable business tactics”. And it is oligarchs like Yevgeny Prigozhin who are responsible for the return of these dirty habits, says The oligarchs Mark Galeotti. Prigozhin is typical of anew breed of opportunist, abusinessman whose fortune depends on his willingness to do the Kremlin’s bidding. He built acatering empire thanks to his links desperate to to Vladimir Putin, who often visited his Moscow restaurant. Next he set up atroll factory to enable Putin to influence public opinion in Russia and overseas; then he helped Putin’s military adventure in serve Putin Syria by setting up aprivate company, Wagner, reportedly acivilian front for mercenaries. Men like The Moscow Times Prigozhin are invulnerable when their stars are in the ascendant. But as uncertainties mount –over geopolitics, the economy, Putin’s future –they feel pressure to make money and settle feuds before their luck runs out. Desperate to retain favour, they push the Kremlin’s agenda. It is “Putin’s needy little helpers” who are to blame for the growing incivility of Russia’s conduct at home and abroad.

There are more imaginative ways to end plastics pollution than the ban passed by the European GERMANY Parliament last week, says Frank-Thomas Wenzel. MEPs voted to outlaw the sale and manufacture of drinking straws, cotton swabs and other such items from 2021. But even if the restrictions are Here’s how to rigorously enforced, they can’t help much, because Europeans aren’t the ones mainly responsible. Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research have shown that 90% of the plastic end plastics waste polluting the oceans originates from large river systems in Asia and Africa –such as the Mekong, Ganges, Nile and Yangtze –which are used as waste dumps by the hundreds of millions pollution of people who live on their banks. Far better to fund European experts to work with governments Berliner Zeitung in Vietnam, China and elsewhere to develop modern collection and recycling systems –tohelp them copy the deposit system for reusable bottles, pioneered in Germany, that has achieved anear-100% return rate, or to set up plastic waste incineration plants like those found across Germany. If the EU had the nerve to push for “courageous” initiatives along these lines, it could make areal difference.

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The migrant caravan Trump calls a“national emergency” Wild-eyed panic. That seems to Morocco. But now he “has the be America’s standard response image he wanted all along”. to every challenge these days, said Mona Charen in National “Trump has quite literally bet Review.Just witness the the house on anti-immigrant “hyperventilation” last week fearmongering,” said León Krauze over the news that a“ragtag” on Slate.Hehas no doubt column of up to 7,000 would-be been encouraged in this by the immigrants was marching towards knowledge that an “astounding the US border from Honduras. 75% of potential Republican This is not the first such caravan. voters consider illegal immigration Asimilar 1,500-strong group to be avery big problem for embarked on the same journey in the US”. It’s acrucial swing April. Only 400 of those would-be issue, said Fareed Zakaria in immigrants actually got as far as The Washington Post.Astudy the US border and requested by the Democracy Fund found asylum. President Trump has The Honduran caravan makes its way through Mexico that voters who switched from nevertheless declared the new Barack Obama to Trump in caravan –which is still 900 miles away from the US border in 2016 agreed with the Democrats on most economic issues, Mexico, and is travelling at all of about 3mph –a“national but disagreed with the party on immigration and other cultural emergency”. It’s an “assault on our country”, he says, that matters. Trump himself has admitted that there’s no evidence to threatens the “safety of every single American”. He claims, on support his “Middle Easterners” claim, but he knows the more no apparent basis, that there are “unknown Middle Easterners” attention the media give to this story, the more he benefits. in the group. You’d never guess from this fuss that annual illegal border crossings are “at a40-year low”. Trump is wrong to inflame and exploit fear of immigrants, said Megan McArdle in the same paper, but Democrats are There isn’t a“crisis of numbers today so much as acrisis of also wrong if they think they can get away with simply resources”, said Dara Lind on Vox.America’s border policy condemning his unsubstantiated claims and then “hastily is geared towards catching and deporting young Mexican men changing the subject”. For even acaravan made up of who try to cross the border illegally for work. But over recent “nothing but decent, hard-working people” still raises big years, the real pressure on the border has come from families questions. There are billions of such people in the world, but with children fleeing extreme poverty and gang violence in the any sane immigration policy must recognise that the number Northern Triangle of Central America –Guatemala, Honduras of immigrants America can accept is finite. We have to defend and El Salvador. Processing these complex asylum claims takes our borders, agreed David Frum in The Atlantic.A2013 survey time and has led to large backlogs. Working out which of the found that 58% of Salvadorians would move to the US if they people in the latest caravan can claim a“credible fear” of could. More than 60% of the population of Honduras lives persecution, and which are merely looking for abetter life, will in poverty, as does nearly the same proportion in Guatemala. be aheadache. In the meantime, though, footage of this mass Yet in response to Trump’s provocations, liberals increasingly of people pressing towards the US is aboon for Trump as he argue that any form of border enforcement is “inherently campaigns for next week’s midterm elections. In Trump’s first illegitimate, and usually racist too”. That attitude only further TV ad of the presidential primary in 2015, he used an image empowers abudding authoritarian like Trump. “If liberals of ahorde of supposedly US-bound immigrants –fact-checkers insist that only fascists will defend borders, then voters will subsequently revealed that the picture had in fact been taken in hire fascists to do the job liberals will not do.”

CANADA Wealthy Chinese people have squirrelled alot of money into safe assets abroad over recent years, say Matthew Campbell and Natalie Obiko Pearson, and much of it has ended up in Vancouver. The Canadian seaport is ideal for the purpose, being the closest big city in the West to Asia, with Vancouver: a awelcoming attitude to immigrants and asomewhat “lax record of fighting financial crime”. Thanks to the “tidal wave of Chinese cash”, the city is now groaning with luxury shops. Property city afloat on prices have gone through the roof: the average cost of adetached house in Vancouver has tripled since 2005. But this has led to growing anger among younger voters who have been priced out Chinese cash of the market. As neighbourhoods have emptied of long-term residents, Vancouver has come Bloomberg “to resemble arainy Monaco, albeit one with far better dim sum”. British Columbia’s left-leaning (New York) government has set out to curb the influx of Chinese cash by hiking taxes and tightening tran- sparency rules, but change will be difficult given how reliant the city’s economy has become on this source of money. “Vancouver was perhaps the first major Western city to experience the full force of Chinese capital. Soon, it could be the first to learn what happens when you try to stop it.”

The world’s longest sea bridge opened last week, and very impressive it is too, says Richard Harris. HONG KONG Stretching from Hong Kong to Macau and the mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai, it’s an “engineering marvel to be proud of”. But is it worth the cited $20bn cost, of which Hong Kong stumped up a An eye-catching “whopping” $15bn –eight times more than originally planned? Absolutely not. The bridge serves three centres, two of which are already “highly developed and too crowded to allow any more way to waste traffic”, and, in any case, it will shortly be made all but redundant by the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge, due to open in 2024 further up the Pearl River. At that point, the structure’s 26-mile-long $20 billion expressway will be ideal for staging marathons, but little else. The $15bn would have been far better South China Morning Post spent on more modest, and useful, improvements to Hong Kong’s infrastructure, such as footbridges, flyovers and tunnels, to help people get around the congested, multilevel city. Hong Kong needs (Hong Kong) “local, cost-effective improvements for the many, not monuments to the egos of the few”.

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What the scientists are saying… Who dies Plastics in the body Riverside, believes it’s simpler in driverless Scientists have obtained the than that: tall people tend to first clear evidence that plastic is have larger bodies, so they have car crashes? finding its way into the human more cells in which mutations body. For the pilot study, can occur. For his research, If your car was in an researchers at the Medical he compared the correlation accident, would you prefer University of Vienna recruited between height and increased it to mow down an old eight adults from across Europe cancer risk revealed by man or achild? Kill four and Asia, and asked them to previous studies with computer- pedestrians or swerve into supply stool samples along with generated predictions of risk awall, killing you? If arecord of what they’d been based on abody’s number of you’re driving, you make eating. Every sample was found cells, and found that the two that split-second moral to contain plastics, including matched perfectly. In some decision; in an era of self- nine of the ten most common cases, the link could be masked driving cars, engineers types. Microplastics –pieces by other drivers of cancer, such will have to programme less than 5mm in diameter – as HPV infection, he says. But computers to do so. Now have previously been found height is still important. psychologists have tried to not only in oceans and in the “Whether that comes from get asense of the public’s air, but also in many packaged abetter diet or the fact that moral preferences in such foods, including bottled water Is his high cell count arisk? your parents happen to be tall cases, through an online and honey. “This confirms doesn’t matter... it is purely [the] survey in which 40 million what we’ve long suspected, that plastics number of cells, however that came about.” people in 223 countries ultimately reach the human gut,” said answered aversion of the Dr Philipp Schwabl, who led the research. On High rates of asilent killer famous trolley problem: its own, the presence of microplastic particles Rates of death from sepsis are five times higher would you divert atram in the digestive system is not thought to pose a in Britain than in Europe’s best-performing to kill one person, or leave serious health risk, though there is concern that country, Finland, an analysis by Imperial College it alone to kill four? chemicals could leach out of the plastic as it London has revealed. Known as the “silent progresses through the gut. The bigger fear is killer”, because it is so hard to spot, sepsis, It seems we are generally that plastic nanofibres could be being absorbed or blood poisoning, kills 40,000 people in the agreed that cars should aim through the walls of the intestine, making their UK each year. Britain’s sepsis mortality rate has to save the largest number way into the blood supply and accumulating gradually decreased over the past three decades, of lives, prioritising the in other organs, aphenomenon that has been falling from 40 to 35 deaths per 100,000 young and valuing humans observed in animals. The team now wants to women, and from 49 to 40 deaths per 100,000 over animals. However, in carry out alarger study to investigate whether, men. Yet other countries have had more rapid France and Latin America, and to what extent, this is occurring in humans. declines: Finland, which once had similar rates there is apreference for to Britain, had arate of 6.5 deaths per 100,000 saving women over men, Why being tall can lead to cancer women in 2014, and 10 per 100,000 men. Early and in some countries Tall people are known to have agreater risk of diagnosis of sepsis is critical, but sepsis is hard to there is apreference some types of cancer –and it’s probably because spot because it often appears when people are ill for saving law-abiding of all the extra cells in their bodies, new research with other conditions; symptoms to look out for pedestrians over suggests. Past studies have found that for every include slurred speech, mottled skin, severe jaywalkers. The Moral ten centimetres of height, aperson’s risk of breathlessness, extreme shivering, passing no Machine project also developing most types of cancer goes up by urine in aday and the feeling that you’re going found evidence of some about 10%. Scientists have proposed various to die. In children, add skin that is abnormally controversial preferences: explanations for this, including that hormones cold, arash that doesn’t fade on being pressed, overweight people were that promote growth in childhood also increase fever, skin colour changes, difficulty waking and 20% more likely to be the risk of cancer later on. But Professor Leonard lethargy. If you notice any of these, call adoctor chosen to die than those Nunney, of the University of California, and ask: could it be sepsis? of ahealthy weight, and homeless people were 40% more likely to die Clever crows learn to make their own tools than executives.

The New Caledonian crow is already famed for its ability As the psychologists behind to make tools, by, for instance, fashioning twigs into the project note, cars will hooks. Now anew element can be added to its skill set: only rarely have to make making tools from multiple components. Researchers at life or death decisions – the University of Oxford presented eight crows with a but they will often have “puzzle box” with some food out of reach within it. The crows were initially given long sticks and quickly learnt to decide how to distribute how to use these to manoeuvre the food to an opening risk: for instance, in lines on the box’s side. Then, they were given sticks that were of heavy traffic, should too short to reach the food, but which could be slotted they edge closer to the together (because some were hollow) to create alonger bicycle on their left or the rod. Four of the crows managed to insert one stick into truck on their right? If another, and used the extended pole to dislodge the food. millions of cars are Inventing novel tools to solve agiven problem is acomplex skill, because it requires anticipating programmed to get closer the properties of as yet unseen objects. Apes are the only other non-human animal known to to bicycles, that will, over possess the skill, which human children acquire at about the age of five. What was particularly remarkable was that the crows received no assistance with the task. “They figured it out by time, lead to more cyclists themselves,” said Dr Auguste von Bayern, the study’s lead author. being involved in accidents. UGUSTE VON BAYERN ©A

3November 2018 THE WEEK 20 NEWS Talking points Sir Philip Green: the downfall of the tycoon “Sir Philip Green, it is fair to say, is It’s also alleged that Green routinely unlikely to attain the status of national addressed Filipino members of the crew treasure anytime soon,” said The on his £115m yacht as “lazy f***ing Independent. The retail billionaire has Flippers”. Such accounts suggest Green courted unpopularity with his “brash” is an “overbearing creep” and a“bully” manner and outrageously expensive who must be anightmare to work for, parties, and will forever be associated but there’s no evidence that he has with the demise of BHS. And he is now committed any criminal offence. On facing renewed calls for the revocation of the basis of what we know so far, his his knighthood following accusations that behaviour “isn’t remotely” in the same he has sexually harassed and racially league as that of Harvey Weinstein, abused employees. Last week, Lord Hain who is accused of coercing numerous used parliamentary privilege to identify of women into having sex with him. Green as the high-profile businessman who had taken out an injunction against Lord Hain was wrong to name Green The Daily Telegraph to stop it reporting Green: “I’m being used as target practice” in Parliament, said The Independent – the allegations against him. The Court of and not just because he is apaid adviser Appeal issued the interim injunction on the grounds that the to the firm of lawyers representing the Telegraph in this case. In complainants against Green had all signed non-disclosure doing so, he second-guessed the judgment of the courts, which agreements (NDAs) in return for afinancial settlement. had put in place atemporary injunction while they decided Green denies doing anything unlawful. whether there was apublic interest in allowing the newspaper to disclose the allegations. Two of the complainants against Green Of course he does, said Matthew Norman in the same paper. In want their NDA to be respected, and none of the NDAs would his four decades in business, he told The Mail on Sunday, there have prevented the reporting of acrime. It’s hard to justify the had “obviously from time to time been banter and abit of use of privilege in this case, agreed David Allen Green in the FT. humour”, but he had never set out to offend anybody. “I’m very, “Sir Philip is not asympathetic individual, but the law is not just very upset,” he said. “I’m being used about him.” as target practice.” This testimony was enough to make one weep for the “Heallegedly enjoys creeping up to There are legitimate uses for NDAs in boorish businessman, who was tracked female colleagues, before caressing commercial situations, said The Daily down to ahealth resort in Arizona, and Telegraph: in the case of mergers and for his wife and daughter, who were their shoulders to ‘reassure’ them” acquisitions, for example, it’s vital to holed up in the family’s lavish Monaco keep information confidential. But it penthouse. “They wanted to go shopping in Cannes this can never be right for staff to be pressured into signing them or weekend,” said asource, “but they can’t face going out.” for “the law to be complicit in employers buying the silence of those alleging harassment or racial abuse”. The misuse of these As aresult of the gagging clauses, we don’t know exactly what contracts to cover up unacceptable behaviour is “completely Green is alleged to have done, said Melanie McDonagh in The contrary to the spirit of the times”. If Green is so confident that he Mail on Sunday. However, we can speculate on the basis of has done nothing wrong, why doesn’t he drop the injunction and material that is in the public domain. An anonymous insider release the individuals from their NDAs, so that the full facts of claimed to The Guardian that Green gives women “lingering this case can be set out? There is “something feudal” about the hugs” in meetings, asking them if they are “naughty girls” who way wealthy men these days can resort to NDAs to effectively need “their bottoms slapped”; that he enjoys creeping up behind buy their way out of scandal, said Janice Turner in The Times. female colleagues to make them jump, before caressing their Weinstein made extensive use of them. But these tactics may have shoulders to “reassure” them; that he calls women “sweetheart”, limited effectiveness for Green. Fashion, as he knows, is a“fickle” “darling” or “love” rather than by their names; that he tells trade and feminism is all the rage at the moment, so there’s a women they are overweight and publicly humiliates staff of both prospect that many girls may boycott his struggling Topshop sexes during foul-mouthed tirades. The former pensions minister chain. “In the end it may not be politicians or journalists who Ros Altmann says Green bombarded her with unpleasant bring Philip Green down, but his own teenage customers in late-night texts during the row over BHS’s pensions deficit. sparkly tops and oddly cut jeans.”

Davitt. The Irish singer, 51, was emerged that the editor of Pick of the week’s brought up aRoman Catholic, its Food magazine had said but in 1992 made headlines that he’d like to print an by ripping up apicture of article about “killing vegans”. Gossip Pope John Paul II live on US William Sitwell,who appears television; seven years later, on BBC One’s MasterChef, Gary Barlow didn’t find life she was ordained apriest in made the remark to journalist easy during his three years as the Irish Orthodox Catholic Selene Nelson,after she had ajudge on The XFactor.He and Apostolic Church, and suggested she write a“plant- developed “a bad case of became Mother Bernadette based meal” series. He replied: showbiz paranoia”, he writes Mary. Announcing her “How about aseries on killing in his new autobiography. And conversion to Islam, she vegans, one by one? Ways to that was because whatever described it as “the natural trap them? How to interrogate the judges discussed behind conclusion of any intelligent them properly? Expose their closed doors would find its theologian’s journey... Iwill hypocrisy?” He later apologised way to the press. Barlow is be given (another) new name. and said he’d been joking, but convinced that the producers – It will be Shuhada’.” Nelson was not amused. “I’ve who would stop at nothing to Sinéad O’Connor (pictured) never seen anything like it,” boost the show’s ratings –had has become aMuslim, and Waitrose’s genteel reputation she told Buzzfeed. Sitwell has

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THE WEEK 3November 2018 Talking points NEWS 21 Trump’s rhetoric: stirring up hate? Wit& He has demonised Mexicans blame Bernie Sanders. Yet who cross the border as rapists Trump’s critics have been quick Wisdom and gangsters; he has defended to suggest that he is responsible white supremacists and for Sayoc’s alleged crimes. “How desperately retweeted anti-Muslim Yes, Trump’s language can difficult it is to be honest propaganda. He urges his be intemperate, even with oneself. It is much supporters to chant threats unpresidential. But “harsh, easier to be honest with against people he dislikes, and overheated rhetoric is endemic other people.” he recently endorsed as “my to our political system, and it Edward F. Benson, quoted kind of guy” acongressman should not be confused with on Forbes who’d physically assaulted a incitement to violence”. No “In arich man’s journalist. President Trump “rational person” would hear house there is no place has frequently been accused of Trump make his most to spit but his face.” endorsing violence and “hate- incendiary claim, that the Diogenes of Sinope, quoted mongering”, said Janet Daley in mainstream press is the “enemy in The Times The Sunday Telegraph. Yet even of the people”, and read that as when pipe bombs were mailed permission to send bombs all “Under normal circumstances, the liar is to 13 of his most prominent The president: normalising distrust over the country. critics last week, Hillary Clinton, defeated by reality; no Barack Obama, George Soros and Robert De But it is absurd to suggest that there is no link matter how large the tissue Niro among them, he refused to tone down his between the pipe bomb campaign and Trump’s of falsehood that an rhetoric. In an official statement, he made all the reckless language, said The Observer: the people experienced liar has to right noises, condemning political violence and targeted were his avowed enemies. America has offer, it will never be large calling for unity, but his first unscripted response changed since he came to office. All the venom enough to cover the –aday after apipe bomb was sent to CNN spewing from the top has “encouraged, and immensity of factuality.” studios –was to suggest that the “Anger we normalised, distrust and outright hatred”. Hannah Arendt, quoted in see today in our society” was largely the fault of Trump may not be responsible for the divisions The Guardian the “Mainstream Media” and its “Fake News”. in US society, but he has fanned them. And he “I have learnt over the years Then, when Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc was has done so wittingly, said Andrew Buncombe that when one’s mind is arrested for the crime, the president accused the in The Independent: Trump knows that his made up, this diminishes media of using the case to discredit him. aggressive, bullying rhetoric plays well with his fear; knowing what must be support base and keeps him in the headlines. If done does away with fear.” On that front, he had apoint, said National he meant what he said last week, about the Rosa Parks, quoted on Review. In June 2017, aTrump-hating country needing to come together, “he must lead YourStory Democrat supporter tried to assassinate agroup the way –bychanging his actions, words and “Grave good people, of Republican congressmen. No one sought to deeds”. But there’s nothing to suggest he will. pious people, regular people, all like to read about naughty people.” Insulting Mohammed: should it be legal? Francis Palgrave, quoted in The Sunday Telegraph “Should it be illegal to call the Prophet of truth”? Apparently not, said Andrew C. Mohammed a‘paedophile’?” That, said McCarthy in National Review. Article 10 “Hard work beats Kenan Malik in The Observer, was the of the European Convention on Human Rights talent when talent question in front of the European Court of purports to safeguard “freedom of expression”, doesn’t work hard.” Human Rights (ECHR) last week. The case but in the court’s view this needs to be balanced Basketball coach dated back to 2009, when an Austrian woman against all sorts of conditions and restrictions, Tim Notke, quoted in known as ES held seminars promoted by including even “the rights of others to have their The Times Austria’s far-right Freedom Party, in which she religious feelings protected”. It’s crazy. In “Being ridiculous is accused Mohammed of paedophilic tendencies – Europe, “free speech has been supplanted by one of the best ways citing his marriage to Aisha, who was, according sharia blasphemy standards”. to tell the truth.” to Islamic scripture, only nine when the marriage Russian activist and was consummated. An Austrian court convicted No it hasn’t, said Erik Voeten in The Pussy Riot member her of “disparaging religious doctrines” and Washington Post. This is not astory about Nadya Tolokonnikova, s fined her 480. The ECHR, finding that her blasphemy laws being imposed across Europe quoted on The Daily Beast words went “beyond the permissible limits of an by amighty international court. In fact, it’s objective debate”, upheld that conviction. Aday “very nearly the opposite”. Austria has its own “In this country, American later, Ireland voted overwhelmingly to scrap its blasphemy laws, and the question here was means white. Everybody blasphemy law, said Fraser Myers on Spiked. whether they should be overruled by the ECHR. else has to hyphenate.” Yet the ECHR, it seems, has created a In recent years, thanks to attacks from right- Toni Morrison, quoted in “blasphemy law by the backdoor”. wing governments in established democracies Teen Vogue –notably in Britain –the court has become The issue of Mohammed’s marriage is complex, very reluctant to interfere with state laws on said Tim Stanley in The Sunday Telegraph. It controversial human rights issues. Here, it found Statisticofthe week was argued that ES didn’t give the cultural that the Austrian authorities should have “a An estimated ten million context, and that she had confused the wide margin of appreciation” to decide such pumpkins are grown in convention of child marriage, common in cases: similar reasoning to that used when it the UK every year, 95% Mohammed’s time, with aproclivity for upheld, for instance, France’s ban on the burqa. of which are used for paedophilia. That may all be true. But who The ruling is evidence that the ECHR is in Halloween lanterns. cares? “Don’t we have aright to insult other retreat: it “thinks it can no longer manage these The Guardian people’s beliefs”, and to speak “our own form highly sensitive issues at the European level”.

3November 2018 THE WEEK 22 NEWS Sport

Football: atragedy at Leicester “It was one of the most evocative, yet strangely top five within three years. It sounded like “bullish incongruous, sights in football,” said Martin talk” –but only two years later, the Foxes were Samuel in the Daily Mail. “The bright blue crowned Premier League champions. It was the helicopter, landing in the centre circle.” It arrived owner, as much as anyone, who deserved credit at Leicester City’s King Power Stadium after every for that success: he hired Claudio Ranieri as home game to take Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, manager, in the face of widespread opposition; the club’s Thai owner, back to his Berkshire home. in total, he spent at least £150m on the club. But on Saturday evening, following Leicester’s 1-1 draw with West Ham, the aircraft spiralled Srivaddhanaprabha didn’t just make Leicester out of control. It crashed in afireball outside the successful, said Henry Winter in The Times. stadium, killing Srivaddhanaprabha and four He genuinely cared about the club and its fans. other people. Since then, Leicester has been in He donated £2m for achildren’s hospital at the mourning. After all, it was Srivaddhanaprabha Royal Infirmary; £23,000 to afan who was who made the Foxes’ remarkable Premier League raising money to research his son’s rare genetic title in 2016 possible. His arrival at Leicester “was disorder. When he turned 60, this year, he gave the greatest thing that happened to the city” –and free season tickets to 60 of the most dedicated probably “the greatest thing to happen to English Srivaddhanaprabha: cared supporters. That marked him out from so many football too”. owners, who are only “in it for the ego ride or the broadcasting gold rush”. Srivaddhanaprabha was “everywhere at Srivaddhanaprabha “preferred to stay out of the limelight”, the club”, said Danny Drinkwater, aformer Leicester player, in said Stuart James in The Guardian. But behind the scenes, he the same paper. You’d see him in the dressing room, the canteen; exhibited a“relentless determination to drive the club on”. When he treated players and staff to lavish dinners. It felt like he was he bought Leicester in 2010, they had just finished fifth in the “one of the lads” –the club’s striker Jamie Vardy was so close Championship. By 2014, they were back in the Premier League. to him that he even invited him to his wedding. Vichai wanted Most owners, at that point, would focus on staying up. Not Leicester to be “a club where everyone from the cleaning staff to Srivaddhanaprabha: he announced that he wanted to finish in the the captain could come and speak to him, and he achieved that”. Formula One: Hamilton joins the greats On Sunday afternoon, Lewis Hamilton “took This triumph confirms that Hamilton is one of agiant leap into Formula One immortality”, Britain’s greatest sportsmen, said Matt Dickinson said Oliver Brown in The Daily Telegraph. The in The Times. So why aren’t more people Mercedes driver came fourth in the Mexican interested? When he won his first world title, Grand Prix, earning enough points to secure a in 2008, 12.5 million people tuned in to the fifth world title with two races to spare. He is now race on ITV. But viewer numbers for races have the joint second-most successful driver of all time, “fallen quite consistently” since then. You can level with Juan Manuel Fangio; and at only 33, he hardly blame people for switching off, said could yet “vault past Michael Schumacher’s seven Oliver Brown. Hamilton’s dominance has made and seal his place as the greatest driver who has F1 predictable: this was his fourth title in five ever lived”. Hamilton has been “near faultless”, years. And the shape of the current crop of cars, winning nine of the 19 races so far; his closest Hamilton: “near faultless” under the regulations on aerodynamics, has made rival, Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, boasts only five the sport even more boring. Once the vehicles get victories. What’s truly remarkable is that Hamilton was driving close to each other, they lose about 50% of their downforce, aMercedes, said Andrew Benson on BBC Sport online. In the slowing them down considerably. As aresult, drivers have been previous four seasons, the team had the fastest car in F1. But this struggling to overtake each other. Fortunately, the regulations are time, it was Ferrari whose engine had the edge. Even that wasn’t set to be “revolutionised” in 2021. That promises to finally make enough to stop Hamilton. It’s proof that he is apreternaturally races more exciting. If only it could happen sooner: this is asport fast driver –perhaps the fastest the sport has ever seen. that desperately needs to be shaken up.

Australian cricket gets a“kick up the backside” Sporting headlines It was the biggest scandal to hit that celebrates aggression and Cricket In aone-off cricket in years, said Sam Perry winning at all costs. Twenty20 international, in The Guardian. When “Australian cricket needed England beat Sri Lanka by Australia’s captain, Steve Smith, this huge kick up the backside,” 30 runs. and vice-captain, David Warner, said Paul Newman in the Daily Football Manchester City admitted in March to ball Mail. On the past two Ashes beat Tottenham 1-0 to return tampering against South Africa, tours, the Australian players to the top of the Premier it set off a“moral panic”. The resorted to poisonous League. Manchester United punishments were “swift and methods: one even allegedly beat Everton 2-1. Chelsea eye-wateringly fierce”: Smith addressed England cricketer beat Burnley 4-0. Julen and Warner were banned for a Smith: banned for ball tampering Moeen Ali as “Osama”. What’s Lopetegui was sacked as year; Darren Lehmann resigned particularly shocking is the way Real Madrid manager. as head coach. But according to adamning new administrators brought out the worst in players, Rugby league England’s report, the problems go much deeper than that: said Mike Atherton in The Times. In their hunger three-match series against the whole culture of Australian cricket is to for success, they encouraged cricketers to play New Zealand began with an blame. In particular, the report points the finger the “mongrel” –toabuse their opponents. 18-16 victory. at Cricket Australia (CA), the governing body, The report reveals CA to be abody that “knows Tennis Ukrainian player calling its administrators “arrogant” and the price of everything, but the value Elina Svitolina beat “controlling”. Ball tampering was not an of nothing”. It needs to remember that cricket America’s Sloane Stephens “aberration”, it says, but the fault of asystem is “a sport and not abusiness”. to win the WTA Finals.

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24 LETTERS Pick of the week’s correspondence

Exchange of the week Which vote should be decisive? And who should make it? To The Times on 29 March. Legislation passed this for another referendum. Uh? Philip CollinssuggeststhatMPs should summer means it has to happen no later Heather Barton, Cheltenham, back anydealTheresa Maynegotiates, than the last week of January. So there Gloucestershire even though they know it will be will be two to three months to sort out miserable, becauseotherwise we may fall an alternative to purgatory and hell. To TheDaily Telegraph into an even deeper circle of hell –crash- The most sensible option will be to ask In arecent letter, your correspondent ing out of the EU with no deal at all. the people what they want, an idea MPs suggests that having Jeremy Corbyn as If the only choices were the Prime are likely to rally behind if they reject a prime minister would be more damaging Minister’s purgatory and Boris Johnson’s deal. But if the worst came to the worst than abotched Brexit, and that this is a hell, Collins’s advice might be sensible. and Parliament couldn’t reach consensus, reason to continue to vote Conservative. But there is athird: holding anew refer- there would still be time to switch back Ifear he may not have fully considered endum and giving the people the option to purgatory. So MPs should have no the consequences, for our democracy to avoid both hell and purgatory. The truck with Collins’s defeatist thinking. and our freedoms, of continuing to vote chance of getting such aPeople’s Vote Hugo Dixon, deputy chairman, for aparty that disregards the largest is high after 700,000 people took part People’s Vote democratic vote in our history. If one in last month’s march. So Collins vote’s outcome may be ignored, why not presents MPs with afalse dilemma. To TheTimes another? And if aparty that fails to act Some risk-averse MPs might still be In January 2017 there was acourt on our votes faces no consequences for tempted by his logic, on the basis that case to ensure that Parliament had the doing so, why should it pay any there is no guarantee we will secure a final vote on Brexit. Ithought it ironic attention to our other needs? People’s Vote with the option to stay then that, after more than 40 years Failing to implement aBrexit that is in the EU. But there is aflaw in this of being content with subjection to recognised as such by those who voted thinking too. The MPs’ vote on any deal Brussels, Remainers were discovering for it will ruin not only the Tory party, will not take place in the last minutes the importance of our parliamentary but our democracy itself. before we are supposed to leave the EU sovereignty. Now they are clamouring Phil Coutie, Exeter, Devon

Victims’ justice Imaginary combat 2007, when running for difficulties. Educational To The Sunday Times To The Daily Telegraph the deputy leadership of psychology services, speech Your report “Man who Iamgladthe soldierinthe the Labour Party, failed therapy, home tuition for sick ‘dreamtup’ aVIP abuse ring Duke of Lancaster’sRegiment, to declare donations and children, teams of highly on trial” might cause readers featured in your photo, had a resigned in 2008. It is qualified specialist support to wonder why the man wood to fight in for training. debatable whether Green teachers and advisers have known as “Nick” still has Ihave, over the years, been could now receive afair trial. been reduced to arump. anonymity, while I, being obliged to take part in JEWTs Sidney Hauswirth, London Specialist integrated units falsely accused of three child –jungle exercises without trees in mainstream schools are murders, have been “named –and even DEWDs (desert Vulnerable children closing. Vandalism is too kind and shamed” for more than exercises without dunes). To The Guardian aterm. The worry and stress three years without any Others included aNEWD – Aframework of supportfor caused to the families of these evidence whatsoever. Others night exercise without darkness some of thenation’s most deserving children denied their have similarly been traduced, –during which we were vulnerable children and their right to life-enhancing and the effect on our families required to transit Woodbury families, young people with education is incalculable. and friends has been monu- Common’s numerous obstacles special educational needs and Dr Robin C. Richmond, mental. Is it not time for afair wearing blindfolds. disabilities –that has shown Bromyard, Herefordshire balance in our criminal justice The TEWT –tactical steady progress since the system, whereby “suspects” exercise without troops –is 1978 Warnock Report – Dangerous machines are not routinely identified well known to military officers has been destroyed by the To The Sunday Telegraph until charges are brought? while, sadly, our maritime policies of Michael Gove If thebicycle hadonlybeen The automatic “believe the forces seem to be heading and George Osborne. invented yesterday, it would victim” policy promoted by for aseries of NEWS, or As aformer local education undoubtedlybeillegal. our government and national naval exercises without ships. authority senior adviser and Neale Edwards, Chard, policing establishment has Ionce conducted aSLEWP, higher education lecturer for Somerset torn up the ancient principle appropriately named for the special educational of innocent until proven guilty. yacht club in which Iwas needs, Ican’t express This has significant implica- lecturing. When the projector how angry Ifeel over tions for us all. broke during the second of the destruction of To better protect real 50 slides, Iwas forced to these services. It is victims, it is time for equality continue with aslide show not “looming”; it is of treatment towards those extravaganza without pictures. acrisis. Fifteen out who are accused before police Ewen Southby-Tailyour, of every 100 children charges are brought. We elect Ermington, Devon have these needs, MPs to address grievances and which include protect liberties. We have a Afair trial? disabilities from the right to ask what they are To The Times partially sighted and doing about this injustice? Of course SirPhilipGreen is hearing impaired to “Due to the latest police cutbacks, I’m going to have to be Good Cop and Bad Cop” K. Harvey Proctor Belvoir, innocent untilprovenguilty, children with mild Leicestershire unlike Lord Hain,who in and complex learning ©PRIVATE EYE

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Book of the week (from some 4,000 that survived) make it into this volume, and they reveal that, for all his misanthropic reputation, Philip Larkin: Larkin was capable of selfless devotion. Letters Home This is avolume worth celebrating, by Philip Larkin said Andrew Motion in The Spectator, Faber 688pp £40 if only for being the “last significant collection” of Larkin papers. But the The Week Bookshop £32.99 (incl. p&p) sad truth is that most of the letters are remarkably banal. There are pitifully Philip Larkin’s best-known line – few insights into Larkin’s poetry, or “They f*** you up, your mum and relationships with other people. Instead, dad” –has encouraged the idea that we learn about his shopping habits and the poet must have had amiserable his digestion (“My inside feels atrifle childhood, said John Carey in The congested at the moment, for Ihave Sunday Times. But one of the striking Larkin and Eva in 1965: both mother and “muse” eaten nearly awhole tin of salmon for things about this selection of letters, supper”). “The cumulative effect is not “superbly edited” by James Booth, is that it shows how much just dull”, but somehow belittling. Icouldn’t disagree more, said Larkin “loved and respected his parents”, and how much they Roger Lewis in The Times. It’s precisely the commonplace focus “worshipped him”. The earliest letters, dating from Larkin’s of these letters that makes reading them a“blissful” experience. schooldays, reveal his father, Sydney, to have been an avid reader Tin openers, shopping trolleys and chiropodist appointments are who inspired his son’s love of literature, and who “introduced all discussed at length. Darning socks is another big topic. It’s him to modern literature: Aldous Huxley, Katherine Mansfield, “like adialogue composed by (and starring) Alan Bennett and T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and, above all, D.H. Lawrence, whom Victoria Wood”. Yet it isn’t all “monochrome comedy”. Eva both father and son idolised”. Sydney died of cancer when Larkin emerges as someone who, by “bellyaching and smothering her was in his mid-20s, aloss his mother, Eva, “never really recovered son”, created “something unsound in him”, rendering him from”. For the next 25 years, Larkin wrote to her every Sunday, incapable of having amature romantic relationship. And Larkin, and visited her frequently too. When, in 1972, she moved into a for his part, exploited the resulting misery in his poetry. As Booth care home, he “stepped up his rate, writing virtually every day wisely puts it: “Larkin is agreat poet of domestic joys and until her death, aged 91, in 1977”. More than 600 of these letters sorrows. Eva haunts his poetry, as theme and muse.”

The Finance Curse by Nicholas Shaxson Novel of the week Bodley Head 368pp £20 Unsheltered The Week Bookshop £16.99 by Barbara Kingsolver Faber 480pp £20 Seven years ago, Nicholas Shaxson published The Week Bookshop £16.99 Treasure Islands,ariveting exposé of Britain’s tax havens, said John Arlidge in The Sunday Barbara Kingsolver specialises in writing “highly Times. His new book concentrates on readable novels about ordinary people caught up something even more damaging: the progressive in the tumult of history”, said Claire Allfree in “financialisation” of our economy. Ordinarily, The Daily Telegraph. This one, set in New Jersey, Shaxson argues, the financial sector performs a chronicles two sets of events, spaced 150 years useful role, regulating markets and providing apart, both involving dilapidated houses and the credit to businesses. Yet once it grows above an overthrow of “once-trusted ideologies”. In 2016, optimal size, “it begins to harm the country that hosts it”. With forensic analysis just before Trump becomes president, journalist and sharp reporting, he shows how most large businesses (not just banks) are Willa and academic Iano inherit asprawling structured in bewilderingly complex ways that not only facilitates tax avoidance, 19th century farmhouse, into which they move but enables investors to increase their share of the spoils in good times, while with their two adult children, both homeless. In offloading the “costs of failure” onto staff and customers. Shaxson also suggests 1871, another married couple living on the same that the City of London acts as a“brain drain” on the country, sucking up talent plot come into conflict with local religious elders. that might usefully have gone into more productive enterprises. This may be the “first great political novel of The book’s chief value lies in Shaxson’s ability to demystify high finance, said the Trump era”, said Johanna Thomas-Corr in Emma Duncan in The Times. He elucidates credit default swaps, special purpose The Times. It’s both funny and “chewy”, and vehicles and the opaque world of private equity. He’s also excellent at showing the dual time structure enables Kingsolver to how Britain’s pre-eminence as afinancial centre depends on its combination of a suggest the forces that produced Trump are not strong legal system (“which stops people stealing your money”) and aweak regu- so new. “Kingsolver has always been abossy latory one (which makes it easier to “steal other people’s”). The more polemical writer,” said Kate Clanchy in The Guardian. sections are less convincing: here, Shaxson directs his anger at the usual targets Here, alas, that tendency dominates. Unsheltered of left-wing ire. Yet he is right to insist we need radical solutions, said Oliver is an over-researched and “progressively Bullough in The Guardian. Both major parties have signally failed to grasp the exhausting” novel, whose characters are urgency of tackling the bloated financial sector. “Politically difficult” though it never allowed to “breathe for themselves”. may be, scaling back the City would result in everyone having “more money”. To order these titles or any other book in print, visit theweek.co.uk/bookshop or speak to abookseller on 020-3176 3835

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3November 2018 THE WEEK 28 ARTS Drama Theatre: AVery Very Very Dark Matter Bridge Theatre, London SE1 (0333-320 0051). Until 6January Running time: 1hr 30mins ★★ AVery Very Very Dark Matter Guardian. Ifound its is a“very, very, very strange “Gothic fantasy macabre, play”, said Matt Trueman funny and ultimately serious”. in Variety. Written by the It contains remarkable playwright and Oscar-winning performances from Broadbent screenwriter Martin McDonagh and Johnetta Eula’Mae Ackles (who wrote and directed Three as the captive. And it confirms Billboards Outside Ebbing, McDonagh as a“genuine Missouri), the play is an original with atalent to disturb”. extended surreal metaphor Iloved it, said Ian Shuttleworth for colonial guilt. It finds in the FT. It’s a“magnificent Hans Christian Andersen wild card of ashow, at once (Jim Broadbent) living in a gaudy yet umbrous”. loft and holding captive –in Well Iloathed it, said amahogany box –Marjory, Fergus Morgan on What’s On aone-legged Congolese pygmy Stage. The racial stereotyping, woman. She, it turns out, is the Jim Broadbent: aremarkable performance the “Tarantino-esque” violence, true author of his works. So far, the banal subversion of well- so odd. But even if this were an interesting set-up, what McDonagh known literary figures: it doesn’t feel “cheeky or charming, it feels gives us is a“very, very, very damp squib”. The attempts at black offensive, irresponsible and, well, childish”. What comes to mind comedy aren’t funny, and the “stylistic mash-up” of thriller, is Andersen’s tale The Emperor’s New Clothes.“McDonagh has vaudeville and fairy tale adds up to adisappointing muddle. stood up on the South Bank, and everyone can see he’s starkers.” The play is “indulgent, opaque and messy”, agreed Andrzej Lukowski in Time Out. Did Imention the ghost The week’s other opening Belgians? Or the time-travelling attempt to forestall genocide? The Wild Duck Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, London N1 Or Andersen’s trip to see Dickens, who has his own pygmy (020-7359 4404). Until 1December proxy? Or the haunted accordion? Or the rambling voice-over “Ifyou want an exampleofthe arroganceofdirector’stheatre,” from Tom Waits? It’s all wildly incoherent. Yet it has asort of head to Robert Icke’s “parasitic rewrite” of Ibsen’stragicomic “malevolent brio” that lingers long after you’ve given up masterpiece. It “treats this elusive play as if it were alecture”, wondering what McDonagh “was on when he wrote it”. It’s a and seems “oblivious” to its comedy and irony (Guardian). play you will either love or loathe, said Michael Billington in The CDs of the week: three new releases Robyn: Honey Thom Yorke: Daniil Trifonov, Konichiwa Suspiria The Philadelphia Records XL Recordings Orchestra: £10 £11 Destination Rachmaninov – Departure Deutsche Grammophon £10.99

It is eight years since Swedish pop genius Thom Yorke’s new solo album, the “History looms large over this new disc” Robyn’s last album, said Alexis Petridis in soundtrack for the remake of the cult classic of Rachmaninov’s Second and Fourth Piano The Guardian. Naturally, this is not ideal in 1970s horror film Suspiria,isan“intriguing Concertos from Daniil Trifonov, said Richard afield “where attention spans are short and sideways swerve” for the Radiohead man, Fairman in the FT. Rachmaninov’s own memories shorter still”. But with this terrific who’s “still finding new ways to unsettle historic recording of his piano concertos collection, Robyn “shows her imitators how and delight listeners after all these years”, with The Philadelphia Orchestra (under it’s done” –playing with the modern pop said Simon Vozick-Levinson in Rolling Leopold Stokowski and Eugene Ormandy palette to create awonderfully “complex Stone. It’s not aconventional film score in between 1924 and 1941) are “among the heartbreak album”. It may not help Robyn the style of bandmate Jonny Greenwood’s classics of the gramophone era”. Taking dominate the charts; it feels too opaque and “avant-orchestral opuses” for There Will Be on these great works is achallenge for any introspective for that. But “as evidence of Blood and Phantom Thread.Rather, it’s an young pretender; going to Philadelphia to aunique artist pursuing apersonal vision 80-minute “grab bag of witching-hour do so “seems like tempting fate”. in aworld filled with the commonplace, instrumentals, strange grunts ‘n’ gurgles, Happily, Trifonov aces it, said Andrew however, Honey is perfect”. creepy monk chants –and, every so often, Clements in The Guardian. The 27-year-old Balancing melancholy and escapism, adrop-dead gorgeous song”. Russian, perhaps the most exciting pianist these new songs –amere nine, which An example of the latter, said to have emerged in the past 30 years, is seems atouch miserly –“wrap themselves Phil Mongredien in The Observer, is surely “peerless today as aRachmaninov around you like the Robyn of old”, said Suspirium –asong of “fragile beauty”, interpreter”. His (oddly-titled) album offers Dan Cairns in The Sunday Times. They featuring akeening vocal and piano performances of “such musical awareness, are “all warm-breeze electropop textures, backing, that would have fitted seamlessly tonal variety and dazzling virtuosity that glitchy beats, club grooves, insistent, onto Radiohead’s recent albums. Other even the Second, one of the most popular inclusive, whisper-in-your-ear lyrics and highlights are the jazz-tinged Unmade and of all piano concertos, has every trace of arcing vocal lines”. Achurl might point the “hypnotic” Open Again,onwhich an over-familiarity stripped away”. Trifonov’s out how familiar the soundscapes are on a acoustic guitar is “gradually submerged versions belong with the finest yet made, couple of tracks. “But who likes achurl?” beneath awash of eerie sounds”. including those by the composer himself. ANUEL HARLAN

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During the troubled production of this biopic of the rock group Queen, astring of directors and actors came and went –soit’s some achievement it got made Bohemian at all, said Steve Rose in The Guardian. Yet the end product is disappointingly formulaic for afilm about Rhapsody aband that claimed to eschew formulae. Too true, Dir: Bryan Singer said Kevin Maher in The Times. It ticks off the early 2hrs 14mins (12A) stages in their history with all the dramatic verve of aWikipedia page. We see the future Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek) –born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar – Conventional biopic of arrive in London, convinced of his destiny. “We are the rock group Queen going to do great things!” he tells his future band- mates Brian May (Gwilym Lee) and Roger Taylor (Ben Hardy), in one of many “achingly obvious” ★★ one-liners. The film is competent enough, but it’s overly timid in its decision to focus on Mercury’s relationship with his bland girlfriend Mary rather than any of his gay affairs, said Olly Richards in Empire. Yet it has a“secret weapon”: Malek’s spectacular lead performance. His climactic recreation of Mercury’s performance at Live Aid in 1985 is breathtaking. Like the band itself, Bohemian Rhapsody is mainly unexceptional, but occasionally it provides “fabulous entertainment”.

This quirky new biopic of the late cartoonist John Callahan, noted for his sense of the macabre and preoccupation with physical disabilities, takes Don’t Worry, its title from one of Callahan’s own brilliantly dark cartoons: asheriff, in pursuit of the occupant of a He Won’t Get wheelchair found abandoned in the desert, turns to Far on Foot his posse and says, “Don’t worry, he won’t get far on foot”. And as we learn from this film, said Dir: Gus Van Sant David Hughes in Empire, Callahan only became a 1hr 54mins (15) cartoonist when, after being involved in an alcohol- fuelled car crash, he had to use awheelchair himself. Joaquin Phoenix shines in Films about alcoholics tend to be saccharine, as do this dark true-life drama films about people struggling with paralysis, said Kevin Maher in The Times. Van Sant gives us both –yet avoids sentimentality to deliver acompelling portrait of alife on the edge. He is helped by a characteristically brilliant turn from Joaquin Phoenix, who imbues Callahan with a“furious self- ★★★ pity”. There’s fine support from Jack Black as an irresponsible drinking buddy and Jonah Hill as an eccentric AA sponsor. The film’s messy structure and ambling pace somewhat mute its impact, said Tim Robey in The Daily Telegraph. Nevertheless, it is still “genial, funny and invigorating”.

The key to agood thriller lies in what’s left to unfold in your mind, said Wendy Ide in The Observer –and The Guilty seldom has that lesson been put to better effect than in this superb debut feature from Danish director Dir: Gustav Möller Gustav Möller. The Guilty essentially involves 1hr 25mins (15) only one central character: police officer Asger (Jakob Cedergren) is answering 999 calls when he Brilliantly stark, stripped- receives one from awoman who has been kidnapped down Danish thriller by her volatile ex-husband. Asger keeps her on the line and talks to her, but it’s soon clear he has dubious reasons of his own for needing to be ahero. ★★★★ The tight structure “keeps us glued”, said Tim Robey in The Daily Telegraph, but it doesn’t quite manage to ratchet up the tension. Well Ithought it was “flat-out brilliant”, said Cath Clarke in The Guardian. Cedergren is riveting, the smallest flicker of his face as gripping as the police chases we don’t see. We’ll no doubt be hearing more of Möller.

Sex on set –the duties of an “intimacy coordinator” The Harvey Weinstein scandal blew the lid off of its own shows – The Deuce –that induced HBO the systemic power abuses that have blighted the to introduce its new policy. The Deuce is agraphic behind-the-scenes culture in Hollywood for decades. show about the 1970s porn industry, and one of its But what about abuses that happen on set, during stars, Emily Meade, disturbed that abuse charges filming? Last week, HBO –the US TV network that had been levelled against her co-star James Franco, also produces films and miniseries –announced had demanded more regulation of the sex scenes. that, from now on, any of its shows that involve The “intimacy coordinator” HBO has now hired sex scenes will employ an “intimacy coordinator”. to deal with this issue is Alicia Rodis, astunt Ever since the 1933 film Ecstasy,directors have performer, said Kate Branch in Vogue. Two years been shooting sex scenes, said Ben Hoyle in The ago, Rodis set up acompany –Intimacy Directors Times. But if audiences find them exciting, actors International –tocreate aset of standards around often find them embarrassing. In the famous love sex scenes. For stunt work, she’d noticed there scene between Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore in was always aliaison person you could turn to if the 1990 film Ghost,both actors apparently felt asked to do something not in the script; but for sex acutely uncomfortable: Swayze kept turning bright Ghost: awkward for all scenes there was no one. Rodis also teaches other red. Things only became OK, said Demi Moore, coordinators how to help actors be convincing in when “we finally just said, ‘I’m really nervous and Ihate this’.” sex scenes without getting emotionally involved, using such tech- And it was the concerns voiced last winter by an actress in one niques as yoga and meditation to create acalm frame of mind.

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Exhibition of the week Edward Burne-Jones Tate Britain, London SW1 (020-7887 8888, tate.org.uk). Until 24 February Few artists divide as those “progressive opinion quite as giants”. Having sharply as the Pre- originally aspired Raphaelite Edward to become apriest, Burne-Jones, said Burne-Jones fell Mark Hudson “under the spell” of in The Daily Dante Gabriel Rossetti Telegraph. Depicting and decided to become Arthurian legends, an artist. If only he had mythological episodes stuck to the original and Shakespearean plan. Even his best- fantasies, his known paintings, such paintings nodded to as The Golden Stairs medieval art and the (1880) and King Renaissance masters Cophetua and the –and contained Beggar Maid (1884), “not the faintest are exercises in hint of the ugly, “pseudo-medieval industrialised 19th silliness”. His flight century world” he from reality has usually actually inhabited. Love Among the Ruins (1870-73): “intoxicating” and “slightly creepy” been understood as a Burne-Jones was reaction to an phenomenally popular in his time, and remains so today – increasingly mechanised Britain. “But that doesn’t explain the but “a lingering sense of embarrassment” surrounds his work, seances, the fairy chasing, the Merlin hugging and the occult with its “whey-faced maidens and mood of slightly creepy, drivel” –let alone the obsessive “leching over wispy females”. The hypnotised rapture”. This “handsome” exhibition boldly seeks curators deserve amedal for taking this nonsense seriously: this is to reappraise his work, arguing that he “bridged the gap between “a good show about abad artist”. the fine arts and crafts”, experimenting with mixed media well before such things were fashionable. The show brings together The exhibition’s argument that Burne-Jones was, in essence, a some 150 paintings, drawings, tapestries and stained-glass “decorative” artist is avaluable one, said Laura Cumming in The designs created over the course of his career. “The effect en masse Observer. His drawings “do indeed look like designs for stained is quite intoxicating.” glass and tapestry” –into which they were endlessly reproduced. But that doesn’t excuse the strange, gloomy “airlessness” and the Born in Birmingham in 1833, Burne-Jones “was an exact frequent absurdity of his work. There are moments when you’ll contemporary of Manet and only abit older than Cézanne”, find it hard not to laugh out loud, said Nancy Durrant in The said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. Yet looking Times. “Yet give yourself over to this earnest but effervescent at his paintings, it beggars belief that he inhabited the same world Victoriana, and there’s agreat deal in which to take joy.”

Where to buy… Art and artificial intelligence The Week reviews an “Behold the exhibition in aprivate gallery future –here it is,” declared the auctioneer at Lucy Smallbone Christie’s in at Fiumano Clase New York last week, as the bidding began Reality TV is not usually associated on aslightly with artistic excellence, and one might blurry portrait of expect any painter volunteering to achubby man in take part in it to be kissing goodbye adark frock coat to their credibility. Not so in the case and white collar. The painting, Portrait of Edmond Belamy,was the first work of art of Lucy Smallbone, acontestant on this created by artificial intelligence ever sold at year’s series of Sky’s Landscape Artist auction, said the Daily Mail. It went for $432,500 of the Year competition. This show – (£339,000) including fees –far more than a only her second solo exhibition – Roy Lichtenstein and an Andy Warhol in brings together aselection of paintings the same sale. The portrait was created by the French art collective Obvious, using an inspired by arecent visit to Chernobyl. Lilac Swamp (2018), 45cm x35cm The works it contains are less algorithm created by Ian Goodfellow, a documentary recordings of her trip rendered as delicately as Arabic researcher at Google, and tweaked using code than afantastical series of impressions, calligraphy; and night skies in blues written by other programmers. Obvious fed 15,000 classic portraits through their software, which blur the boundaries between as deep as the Mariana Trench. It’s and, once the computer had understood the traditional landscape painting and the thrilling, spooky stuff –much too rules of portraiture, it generated aseries of colourful expressionism of early 20th good for the small screen. Prices new images by itself. One has already sold century German artists such as range from £1,500 to £7,000. to aFrench collector for nearly £9,000; this Emil Nolde. Smallbone variously one went to an anonymous phone bidder depicts Belarusian forests evaporating 21 Wren Street, London WC1 for some 45 times Christie’s’ presale estimate. BVIOUS

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Best books… Peter Robinson Television The author of the DCI Banks novels shares his classic crime primers. His Programmes latest book, Careless Love, the 25th in the Banks series, is available in Beck: Flesh &Blood The hardback, published by Hodder &Stoughton at £20 acclaimed Swedish detective returns, to be drawn into a The Hound of the politicians as he is among Shroud for aNightingale case involving amissing girl in Stockholm. Sat 3Nov, BBC4 Baskervilles by prostitutes and petty criminals. by P.D. James, 1971 (Faber 21:00 (95mins). Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902 £8.99). James’s elegant prose (Wordsworth £2.50). The Chill by Ross Macdonald, takes time setting up the Louis Theroux’s Altered Despite the multiple on-screen 1964 (Penguin £9.99). suspects and motives before States: Love Without adaptations –mypersonal Macdonald brings atouch the crime actually occurs. I Limits New series. The favourite is the 1959 Hammer of psychological drama to the chose this particular one of her acclaimed documentarian version –nothing quite matches hard-boiled PI world, and his novels because it contains one travels to Oregon to meet the book. Although Holmes is detective Lew Archer is every of the most gruesome murders people searching for absent through much of this bit as tough as he is intelligent. I’ve ever read. contentment in non- tale, Watson does afine job of monogamous relationships. Sun 4Nov, BBC2 21:00 creating the sense of dread and The Murder of Roger AJudgement in Stone by (60mins). evil that permeates it. Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, 1977 (Arrow 1926 (Harper £7.99). There’s £8.99). “Eunice Parchman Doing Money This true story Maigret and the Enigmatic no good film adaptation of this killed the Coverdale family of awoman snatched in Lett by Georges Simenon, ever-controversial Poirot novel, because she could not read London and trafficked to 1931 (out of print). The plots for reasons that will be obvious or write.” This the opening Ireland to be used as asex are not always complex and on reading it. The big question sentence of this novel, and slave gives apowerful insight the books are short, but they is, does Christie play fair with Rendell goes on to tell the story into modern slavery and the are richly atmospheric. Maigret the reader? Ithink she does, from the beginning. Despite difficulties in policing it. Mon is an engaging Parisian police but only barely; you’d have the fact that we already know 5Nov, BBC2 21:00 (90mins). detective, equally at home to be asharp-eyed reader to everything, or think we do, it Killer by the Lake In this among businessmen and spot the clue. is an utterly compelling read. follow-up to the French thriller Titles in print are available from The Week Bookshop on 020-3176 3835. For out-of-print books visit biblio.co.uk Vanished by the Lake, Lise and Clovis are now working beside The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing and reading Lake Annecy, where they join forces to find aserial killer. Showing now Wed 7Nov, C4 22:35 (65mins) The Watsons is the witty new play from WWI: The Final Hours Laura Wade (Posh, The Riot Club). It’s based Documentary about the on Jane Austen’s unfinished novel and asks: extraordinary events that led what can characters do when their author to the Armistice negotiations, abandons them? Chichester Festival Theatre, 100 years ago this month, and West Sussex (01243-781312). Ends 1December. the fateful consequences of the peace deal. Thur 8Nov, BBC2 21:00 (60mins). The British Museum’s The Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World Films has been four years in the making. It integrates The Connection (2014) Gritty contemporary commissions with 1,600 objects French crime drama starring from the institution’s collection to explain, and Jean Dujardin as amagistrate illustrate, Islamic art’s “infectious harmony” War Horse at the National Theatre fighting drug smuggling in (Guardian). britishmuseum.org 1970s Marseilles. Mon 5Nov, Professor Bettany Hughes is the keynote Film4 00:55 (165mins). Book now speaker, telling the story of Istanbul, and other Eleven years after its debut, War Horse,the speakers include Professor Kate Williams and Hunger (2008) masterpiece of theatrical puppetry based on Anita Anand. 7-9 December (histfest.com). Steve McQueen’s award- the novel by Michael Morpurgo, returns to the winning drama about the National Theatre, London SE1 (020-7452 3000) Just out in paperback 1981 hunger strike in Northern to mark the centenary of Armistice Day. Tickets Educated by Tara Westover (Windmill £8.99). Ireland’s Maze Prison. Tue are selling fast. 8November to 5January 2019. Westover’s “beautifully written” memoir details 6Nov, Film4 23:45 (115mins). her journey from ahome-schooled survivalist HistFest is anew history festival held at childhood in Idaho to aCambridge doctorate. venues across London, comprising talks, live Her account of trying to find aplace in the Coming up for sale performances, panel discussions and workshops. world deserves “classic” status (Sunday Times). Under aGrand This carefully curated sale of works, all priced at less than The Archers: what happened last week £1,000, is designed to prove Jill puts Elizabeth in touch with Anna –she will offer an opinion on the appeal. Johnny visits that you don’t need ahuge Freddie. Brian apologises to Adam and says he’s done an amazing job taking over the farm. Anna budget to buy great art. The is unable to find grounds for appeal in Freddie’s case and she tells Elizabeth that pursuing it further would waste time and money; none of her reputable colleagues would take the case. Lynda exhibition includes pieces by appeals for backstage help for her play and discusses casting. Helen worries about Henry’s arange of emerging British nerves with his karate test. Lee reassures him and checks Helen is OK herself. Rex hides his artists, working in avariety disappointment on finding that Toby has been staying at Pip’s to look after Rosie. Elizabeth grills of media, and runs from Johnny on his return from the prison –hetries to be positive, later telling Pat that Freddie wants to 13 to 18 November, at protect his mother’s feelings. When Johnny discloses Freddie’s true unhappiness, Elizabeth seems 340 King’s Road, London oblivious and rushes to call abarrister that she claims Anna “recommended”. It’s understandably SW3. Visit grandyart.com. aterrible situation, but Johnny worries that there is something more serious troubling Elizabeth.

3November 2018 THE WEEK 36 Best properties

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▲ Skye: Crionach, 3Kingsburgh. Crionach was designed in 2002 by the renowned Scottish architect Ian Begg, in the style of a traditional laird’s house, and has direct access to Loch Snizort and views to the Outer Hebrides. Set on the northwest coast of Skye, the largest island in the Inner Hebrides, the property includes aconverted 1-bed boathouse. 3suites, 1further bed with adjacent bath, kitchen, 4receps, 2WCs, utility, attic rooms, carport, 2.5 acres. OIEO £735,000; Galbraith via OnTheMarket (01463-357908).

▲ Jura: The Bothy, Knockrome, Craighouse. Acharming, stone-built cottage on the sought-after Inner Hebridean island of Jura, which, despite its size, is only inhabited by about 200 people. The property has asmall garden at the front and far-reaching sea views. Master suite, 1further bed, family bath, kitchen/diner, storage, attic room. OIEO £120,000; Bell Ingram (01631-566122). ▲ Arran: Porta Leacach House, Kildonan. Built in 1896, this traditional property is set within about 32 acres of its own land, on the Isle of Arran, with panoramic views over the Firth of Clyde. Master suite, 1further suite, 3further beds, 2further bath/ showers, kitchen/ breakfast room, 2receps, study, gardens, paddocks, outbuildings with potential to develop into accommodation. OIEO £650,000; Savills (0141-222 5875).

THE WEEK 3November 2018 on the market 37 ▲ Mull: Torr Buan House, Ulva Ferry. Aunique and secluded home built in 2003, and set in approximately 1.8 acres with stunning coastal views across the Inner Hebrides. The house was built to eco-friendly specifications, with sheep wool insulation and ahigh-efficiency boiler. It is set on the northwest coast of Mull, on the shores of Loch Na Keal and overlooking Ben More and the islands of Ulva and Iona. Master suite, 1 further suite, 2further beds, 1further shower, kitchen/dining room, 3receps. OIEO £495,000; Savills Glasgow (0141-222 5875). ▲ ▲ Surrey: Wey Ireland: Horse Holme, Trinity Island, Island, Cork. Wey Meadows, Aspectacular, Weybridge. A fully developed private freehold and entirely private island set in the island, situated in Surrey countryside. Roaring Water Bay It is home to an off the coast of incredible array of Schull in west wildlife through the Cork. Only ashort seasons and, with its boat trip from the own gated parking mainland, the 157- and footbridge, it offers acre island includes complete tranquillity. amain 5-bed house It covers almost an and a“village” of acre, with 223 metres 4guest houses and of frontage to the River 2cottages, plus Wey. 2beds, bath, walkways, sandy kitchen/recep, terrace, beaches and a outbuilding, private 45-metre pier. mooring, 0.72 acres. s6.75m; Engel & OIEO £1.6m; Jackson- Völkers (00353- Stops (020-8943 9777). 214 773 200). ▲ Isle of Wight: 1Barton Lodge, Whippingham. A Grade II period lodge house, occupying a mature garden of just over one-third of an acre. It was built as part of Queen Victoria’s estate, from designs by Prince Albert, and has fine country views towards Osborne House. Master bed with built- in wardrobe, 2further beds, family bath, kitchen/breakfast room, 2receps, ▲ Essex: The Rectory, Foulness Island. Located near Southend-on-Sea, garden, outbuilding, the house was built circa 1845 and occupies amature plot opposite the pond. £385,000; island’s former church, in all about 1.5 acres. Master suite, 4further beds, Spence Willard family bath, kitchen, 2receps, study, scullery, utility, gardens, paddocks, (01983-200880). summer house, stables. £975,000; Savills (01245-293233).

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ANTER 20 EC 17 D LEISURE 39 Food &Drink What the experts recommend The Newport 1High Street, and that”. Still, there are lots of hits: Newport-on-Tay, Fife (01382-541449) we had an “out of this world” kubalah Ihave been known to take pops at chefs (puffy, cake-like bread); sweet aubergine for taking TV cooking competitions too grilled to a“heavenly squish”; alovely seriously, says Marina O’Loughlin in manakish (a sort of foldable pizza) with The Sunday Times. So when Jamie Scott, a“rich, aromatic chickpea splat” called the 2014 winner of MasterChef: The msabbaha.It’s great food, but sometimes Professionals,took agentle swipe back less is more. About £40 ahead. at me on Twitter, Ithought I’d pay his Tayside restaurant avisit. And Iam Assheton Arms Downham, Clitheroe, glad Idid: it’s amarvel. The room is Lancashire (01200-441227) dominated by avast picture window “I went on holiday to Clitheroe framing a“mesmerising” view of the recently,” says Grace Dent in The Tay Bridge. Even more transfixing Guardian. Iknow that sounds like is the glorious food. An opening dish “something Alan Bennett would have of young beans, tender leak and broad- Thora Hird say”, but in my opinion, bean velouté is astonishing. A“beautiful” the Ribble Valley that surrounds the plate of beetroot done any number Coal Office: “delicious” –but abit too much? town is “Britain’s finest jewel for the of ways makes that “plodding” root tourist-who-does-dinner” –full of fine seem exciting again. Cleverly put- otherwise excellent new Israeli country pubs with great cooking. One together dishes of hake, pig’s head restaurant, says Giles Coren in The such is the Parkers Arms at Newton-in- and Gloucester Old Spot belly all work Times. “Except take off maybe three Bowland, where Igorged on “dreamlike extremely well. Duck breast with star things.” Part of aswanky new King’s pie and mash”. Another is the Assheton anise is “plate-lickingly lovely”. And Cross development, Coal Office is very Arms, a“glorious” stone-fronted early there’s acollection of clever desserts glamorously kitted out by designer 19th century pub where awelcoming showcasing (like the rest) local produce. Tom Dixon, and is related (via chef- young team works culinary wonders, About £120 for alarge meal for two. proprietor Assaf Granit) to acclaimed with abias towards fresh fish. Iloved the London restaurants The Palomar Goan-influenced curry that was teeming Coal Office 2Bagley Walk, London N1 and The Barbary. Everything Ieat with monkfish and fat prawns on abed (020-3848 6085) is “unquestionably delicious”, but of aromatic coconut rice. And my guest “You know that piece of style advice sometimes there’s too much of it. Ididn’t enjoyed a“fragrant, peppery and prettily from Coco Chanel about looking at need boiled eggs in my whole octopus crimped” handmade pork pie. This neck yourself in the mirror before going out tentacle sandwich, for instance. Another of the woods is not on many people’s and then taking off one thing?” I’d say dish had far too many berries and bucket list, which “makes it all the more that about several of the dishes at this pomegranate seeds and “blobs of this blissful”. About £30 ahead.

Recipe of the week Wine choice If you love white burgundy, but baulk This is agorgeous old-fashioned family pudding, which separates into two at the price, you should “snap up a quite distinct layers when it cooks, says Darina Allen; it has alovely fluffy mouth-watering Mâconnais”, says top and acreamy lemon base, provided it is not overcooked Jane MacQuitty in The Times. The current crop of Mâcon- villages, Pouilly-Fuissé and Lemon fluff with limoncello cream St-Véran, mostly from “the racy yet ripe 2017 vintage”, 40g butter 225g caster sugar 3organic, free-range eggs 75g plain flour is “the best Ihave tasted”. 2organic, unwaxed lemons 300ml whole milk icing sugar, to decorate 300ml softly whipped cream flavoured with limoncello, or crème fraiche, to serve At Aldi, the 2017 Exquisite Collection Mâcon-Villages, Burgundy (£6.99) is a • Preheat the oven add the rind and “light but lively Mâconnais” with sparky to 180°C. juice, then add the milk. lemon zest, quince and yellow apple fruit. Or from Sainsbury’s, the 2016 Taste the • Cream the butter • Whisk the egg whites Difference Mâcon-Villages, Burgundy until really soft, stiffly in abowl and fold (£8) is a“young, fresh, unoaked” example then add the caster gently into the lemon with “juicy star fruit and green apple crunch”. sugar and beat well. mixture. Pour into a1.2- Separate the 3egg litre pie dish, place in a At Tesco, the oak-aged 2016 Finest Viré- yolks and whisk in bain-marie and bake for Clessé (£11) is a“bold, zesty, citrus gem”. one by one, then 35-40 minutes. Dredge At Waitrose, I’d plump for the “elegant, stir in the flour. with icing sugar. appley, smoky” 2017 Mâcon-Lugny, Les • Grate the rind • Serve immediately Charmes (£13.49). Or, if you want to splash of the 2lemons on alongside the softly out on top domaine Mâcon, try the vibrant, the finest part of the whipped cream flavoured leafy, green pear fruit of Domaine de grater. Squeeze and to taste with limoncello, Roncevaux’s 2016 Mâcon-Vergisson, La strain the juice, and or crème fraiche. Roche (yapp.co.uk; £18.95) or the rich, citrus blossom-scented 2016 Domaine Parisse Taken from Simply Delicious: The Classic Collection by Darina Allen, Pouilly-Fuissé (montrachetwine.com; £23). published by Kyle Books at £20. To buy from The Week Bookshop for £16.99,

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This week’s dream: from Durban to beach, battlefield and beyond It is South Africa’s “Cinderella city”, “trash-lined streets” and “market trailing behind Cape Town and traders elbow to elbow”. Many of Johannesburg in size and renown. But the city’s affluent inhabitants seem what Durban lacks in those respects, it to have migrated to the adjacent resort makes up for with its “diversity” and of Umhlanga Rocks, home to The the beauty of its hinterland, the province Oyster Box, one of the best hotels of KwaZulu-Natal. Iwas ajournalist in Africa. From there, “wonderful” there in the 1970s, says Graham beaches stretch northwards along the Boynton in The Sunday Telegraph, coast all the way to Mozambique. At when Ireported on the unionisation Tinley Manor, there’s Impulse by the of black workers until the government Sea, arestaurant that makes one of the declared me an “undesirable alien” and best prawn curries in South Africa deported me. Back in London, Ididn’t –hot but not too hot and with, “as miss the political war Ihad been drawn they say here, ‘so much of flavour’”. into, but Idid yearn for the “sybaritic Further north are the conjoined lifestyle” Ihad enjoyed –the splendid nature reserves of Umfolozi and beaches, the countryside, the food. So KwaZulu-Natal: abeautiful hinterland Hluhluwe, where the white rhino it’s ajoy to return, and easy too, thanks was brought back from the brink to new non-stop flights from London, launched by BA last month. of extinction in the 1970s, and which is also home to lions, KwaZulu-Natal is the home of the Zulu nation, who waged leopards and elephants. Inland lie wild green hills, the “soaring” unrelenting war on rival tribes through the 19th century before Drakensberg mountains and the battlefields of the Anglo-Zulu being subdued by the British. Durban still has much “impressive” wars Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift, fantastic tours of which are colonial architecture, but its heart is abit “faded” today, with given by Andrew and Douglas Rattray of Fugitive’s Drift lodge.

Hotel of the week Getting the flavour of… Bingeing on bubbly in Champagne beautiful shores, which are great for walking. You might feel so bubbly’d out after one of The Northern Irish flank is flat as apancake, LVMH’s champagne harvest weekends that but afew miles inland the landscape rises to you reach instinctively for abeer on the the peak of Binevenagh, where the basalt Eurostar home –but there’s no doubt these crags have such a“mythological” air that three-day “experiences” are fun, says Lynn they were used as alocation for Game of Barber in the FT. Guests of the luxury goods Thrones.The Republic’s shore is hilly, group –its brands include Krug, Moët & and scattered with pretty fishing villages. Chandon and Veuve Cliquot –stay at the Climb the peaks behind Greencastle, with recently renovated five-star Royal its “sea-beaten cliffs”, for spectacular views Champagne Hotel near Champillon while of Scotland. As Europe’s “unofficial capital visiting vineyards and cellars, learning how of cool”, Lisbon has had plenty to prune vines and drinking “an awful lot” Amountainous paradise in China of new boutique hotels opening of champagne. There are dinners in which As big as England and Scotland combined, lately. Of them all, The Lumiares each course is “paired” with adifferent wine the southern Chinese province of Hunan is “channels the Portuguese spirit” (the one at the Moët &Chandon Orangerie dominated by jagged mountains that figure most “winningly”, says in Epernay is “fabulous”) and lots of prominently in the country’s traditional Condé Nast Traveller. Located interesting chatter; Ilearnt, for instance, that paintings. Most dreamlike of all its corners in the old city, it occupies a for the past five years the harvest has started is Zhangjiajie, says Stephanie Cavagnaro in restored 18th century palace and almost everything in it in August, amonth earlier than it used to, National Geographic Traveller –aUnesco- has been designed and made owing to climate change. The Harvest listed national park where thousands of locally, from the mid-century Celebration weekend will run again next quartz-sandstone pillars, many more than modern-style furniture to the year, from £3,500pp; see clos19.com. 200 metres tall, rise in dense clusters from “plush” bedroom rugs and the the forests of the Yangtze river basin. Take typographic artworks featuring The lovely waters of Lough Foyle the glass Bailong Elevator to the top of a Fernando Pessoa’s poems. There For 15 miles north of Londonderry, the particularly tall cliff for agood overview are two great restaurants: one, a border between the UK and the Republic of of this “mad, moist world”. There are also more casual affair, is at street Ireland disappears into Lough Foyle, ahuge natural rock bridges to walk across, and level, the other is on the roof, where there’s also afashionable sea loch over whose waters both states claim macaques and “elusive” clouded leopards bar with wonderful views. sovereignty. It’s along-dormant dispute that to look out for; one “sky-high” pinnacle is Doubles from about £170. might flare up again in the wake of Brexit, known as “Avatar Hallelujah Mountain”, thelumiares.com. says Garrett Carr in 1843 magazine –but for because it is said to have inspired the floating now, there’s no hint of tension on the loch’s rocks in James Cameron’s eponymous film.

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Obituaries 45 The war hero who foiled the Nazis’ atomic bomb plans

Joachim Joachim Rønneberg was weapons, at the Vemork hydroelectric plant, Rønneberg only 23 years old when but because this took place in afortified 1919-2018 he led one of the most basement, there was no point in trying to bomb celebrated commando raids it from the sky. One sabotage mission had of the Second World War. On the night of already ended in disaster, when two gliders full 16 February 1943, he and five other men of troops crashed: the survivors were executed. parachuted onto a1,000-metre mountain However, afour-person Norwegian advance plateau in the snowy wastes of Telemark, party was still out there, in the wilds of in southern Norway; 11 days later, under the Telemark. Rønneberg and his men were sent to cover of darkness, they skied down through join them. They jumped out of aplane in pitch apine forest and halted beside adeep gorge. darkness; under their snowsuits, they wore Below them, on the other side, they could see British battle dress, hoping that if captured, it ahumming hydroelectric plant where the would offer some protection –had they been Nazis were working on atop-secret project, identified as Norwegian resistance, they’d have said The New York Times. All Rønneberg had been shot. They also carried cyanide capsules. been told was that it was distilling something “We very often thought that this was aone- called heavy water, and that the success of the way trip,” Rønneberg told the BBC in 2013. mission, Operation Gunnerside, was vital to the Landing in ablizzard, miles off target, it took war effort. He and his men scaled 700ft down them six days just to find the other party. anear-vertical ravine, crossed an icy river, scrambled up the other side, followed the Rønneberg: “only doing his job” Once they’d reached their target, afortress-like track of asupply railway into the plant, building perched on high cliffs, accessed only crawled through anarrow cable shaft, set their explosives –and by aheavily guarded suspension bridge, the SOE’s carefully blew up Hitler’s hopes of building an atomic bomb. The men conceived plan went remarkably smoothly: the saboteurs got in involved in this raid became known as the “heroes of Telemark”. and out with no shots fired. Then, pursued by 2,800 German Rønneberg, who has died aged 99, was the last surviving member troops backed by aircraft, they skied 280 miles across Norway of that band, and one of his country’s most decorated war heroes. and into neutral Sweden. The plant was out of action for months, and later bombed by US aircraft. “What rewards are to be given Born in the Norwegian town of Ålesund in 1919, Rønneberg to these heroic men?” asked Winston Churchill. Rønneberg was was an active child; he applied for university, but he preferred awarded Britain’s Distinguished Service Order, Norway’s War climbing mountains to studying. He was waiting to join his Cross with Sword, the French Legion of Honour and Croix de country’s navy when the Germans invaded in April 1940. Eleven Guerre, and America’s Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm. Yet months later, he sailed over to Shetland. From there, he made his he hated to be called ahero, insisting that he’d only been doing way to London, where he joined the Special Operations Executive his job. He spent the rest of the War leading sabotage operations, (SOE). Following rigorous training on the west coast of Scotland, then went home, married and started acareer in broadcasting. he became an instructor for Norwegian Independent Company 1 He was appalled by the factually flawed 1965 film The Heroes of and, in December 1942, he was selected to lead the Telemark Telemark,but it was only when he was in his 70s that he started raid. The British had, some months earlier, discovered that the to talk publicly about his wartime work. “People must realise that Nazis were distilling heavy water, necessary for making atomic peace and freedom have to be fought for every day,” he said. Celebrated voice coach to everyone from Olivier to Blair As voice director of the Royal Drama, she began teaching, said The Times, and Cicely Berry Shakespeare Company for 45 in 1951 she married Harry Moore, the American 1926-2018 years, Cicely Berry transformed actor, who was taking acourse at the school. the way actors work. She swept Sean Connery was among her early pupils. “His aside traditional ideas of elocution in favour of voice was wonderful,” she recalled: “It was just adeeply physical approach to speaking lines. amatter of getting him to relax.” In 1969, when Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen Trevor Nunn persuaded her to join the RSC, she and Samuel L. Jackson were among those became one of the first voice coaches to work who sought her help; so did several leading directly with atheatre company; and in 1970 she politicians. Berry, who has died aged 92, told worked on Peter Brook’s groundbreaking pro- Neil Kinnock to keep his heels firmly on the duction of AMidsummer Night’s Dream.But the ground while speaking; she taught Tony Blair to pay was so bad she could only afford adingy flat use the dramatic pause. She believed that great with an outside toilet, and in adesperate attempt writers –Shakespeare above all –conveyed to bolster her income she decided to write a meaning not just in words but in rhythms, and book. Her Voice and the Actor,written in just six that actors should act as much from the gut as Berry: aphysical approach to speech weeks, became aseminal text for drama schools. the head. Rather than just engage with ascript intellectually, they needed to feel its rhythm in their bodies. When From the age of eight –when she read reports about the Samuel West was rehearsing Hamlet,herecalls, she told him to Spanish Civil War and declared herself acommunist –Berry start picking up chairs and throwing them; another actor was was committed to left-wing causes. Theatre, she argued, was given abeer can to kick while soliloquising. aplace not just for entertainment, but for social change; and having aconfident voice was essential to success in life. She Cicely Berry was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, in 1926. taught in schools and prisons, and travelled to Rio de Janeiro in The daughter of ashipping clerk and adressmaker, she was her 70s, where she worked with ayouth theatre group in a favela obsessed from an early age with poetry, locking herself in the even as gunshots echoed outside. And there was aline from lavatory so she could recite Hiawatha away from her unruly Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy that to her had aparticular siblings. After graduating from the Central School of Speech and resonance: “Where words prevail not, violence prevails.”

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WPP: decline and fall? Sir Martin Sorrell, the former boss of WPP, has called the ongoing meltdown at the ad conglomerate “a car crash in slow motion”, said The Observer. After last week’s deep share slump, his successor, Seven days in the Mark Read, “could be forgiven for thinking it feels more like atrain wreck”. The City Square Mile had been expecting to see revenue growth Further steep falls in global markets in the third quarter. News of “a huge miss” reignited fears that the long bull market wiped 14%, or almost £3bn, off shares, may have come to ahalt. Wall Street taking them “to their lowest level since led the moves downwards, as Amazon 2012”. WPP has now formally “lost its and Google shares were both clobbered mantle” as the world’s most valuable when the companies undershot analyst advertising group to its US rival Omnicom. “Signs of trouble were evident long before forecasts. The Nasdaq tech index Read took over.” But with eight major account losses recently –including Ford –“WPP overall is set for its worst monthly loss since November 2008. Traders blamed has to stop the contagion spreading”. New bosses often “throw out the bad stuff before aconfluence of factors, from higher properly getting their feet under the table”, said Jon Yeomans in The Daily Telegraph. interest rates to trade conflicts and And Read (pictured) has done just that. But the City has been underestimating “the fears of afurther downward lurch in the extent to which WPP’s model is broken”. Under the system pioneered by Sorrell, “it had Chinese economy. But many professed two bites of the cherry”: it took money off clients for creating their ads and then charged to be mystified as to the “smoking gun” them again for placing them. But the media-buying side of the business has “slumped” as behind the sell-off. The “Faang” tech clients go direct to the likes of Facebook and Google. “Read has his work cut out halting stocks rallied on Wednesday, buoyed the decline, let alone turning the tanker around.” by strong results from Facebook and abroader Wall Street rally. Deutsche Bank/Commerzbank: merger rumours Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered Germany’s two biggest lenders have been holding on-off talks about atie-up for at least the last Budget before Brexit, signalling two years. Given the continued disarray at Deutsche Bank –scarily, still the biggest aretreat from austerity with giveaways including personal tax cuts –helped holder of derivatives worldwide –isthat now becoming inevitable? Disappointing results by a£13bn windfall from higher-than- last week, in which shares in the once mighty eurozone bank crashed to anew “record expected tax receipts. Brazil’s Bovespa low”, certainly “add urgency to apotential merger”, said Steven Arons on Bloomberg. stock index reached arecord high Indeed, six months into his mission to turn the bank around within ayear, CEO following the election of the far-right Christian Sewing “was forced to plead with investors for patience”, said Stephen Morris politician Jair Bolsonaro as president. in the Financial Times. He showed less restraint to members of his own team, upbraiding Sports Direct‘s Mike Ashley bought top managers for using the tie-up rumour as “an excuse” for failure. When one manager Evans Cycles out of administration said the stories were affecting morale and business, Sewing lost his temper and replied: and is set to close dozens of stores “Bullshit, bullshit.” Speculation about amerger gained ground when the US private amid fears of big job losses. The finance equity group Cerberus revealed minority stakes in both Deutsche and Commerzbank, and boss of Patisserie Valerie,Chris Marsh, was then hired as an adviser by Sewing. But for now, Sewing is playing it down, arguing resigned in the wake of adiscovery of that it makes no sense to think about adeal “until Deutsche had its shop in order”. ablack hole in its accounts. The bakery chain faces calls for aboardroom clean-out and potential buyers are Dyson: Singapore sling circling. The Swiss bank UBS reported Sir James Dyson has been slammed “for refusing to put his money where his mouth is”, that the world’s richest people made said Ravender Sembhy in the Daily Mirror. The “Brexit-backing” entrepreneur has more money in 2017 than in any year decided to build Dyson’s new electric car factory in Singapore, ending hopes it would in history; British billionaires saw their create more jobs in the UK. As one Labour MP observed: “It’s hardly avote of wealth grow by aquarter. confidence in global Britain” when “even someone who claims there will be aresurgence in British manufacturing after Brexit” decides to sling their hook. Singapore has four big advantages for Dyson over Britain, said Jeremy Warner in The Sunday Telegraph: he already has production facilities there; it’s low tax and tariff-free; it’s close to supply Indigestible? chains; and, “most important of all”, it’s near the firm’s biggest markets. “Mass shipping It’s atough time for “casual dining” on of vehicles all the way from Britain to Southeast Asia and China is unlikely to be the high street, says John-Paul Ford economic.” In commercial terms, there’s no contest. “I’m no apologist for Dyson”, but Rojas on Sky News. But some still have he is abusinessman; “if ‘Global Britain’ means anything, it means behaving like one”. big appetites. The Restaurant Group (TRG) –which already owns Frankie Cuadrilla: tremors &Benny’s and Chiquito –has pitched In 2011, the energy company Cuadrilla was forced to stop fracking for shale gas in in to buy the Asian food chain Lancashire “after aseries of tremors measuring up to 2.3 on the Richter scale”, said Wagamama in a£559m deal, much of it financed by debt. TRG reckons the Peter Campbell in the FT. Now, after aseven-year hiatus, its attempts to “revolutionise” move will prove “transformative”, but Britain’s energy supplies may be stalling again. Cuadrilla had to halt its operations near its takeover of Wagamama, which has Blackpool last week after registering two tremors “undetectable at ground level”, but nearly 200 outlets, appears to have greater than the 0.5-magnitude quake that requires companies to stop fracking. Having given investors dyspepsia: shares fell pledged to resume as soon as possible, athird, larger tremor on Monday has put another 17%. In recent years, TRG has been in spanner in the works, said Adam Vaughan in The Guardian. Since Cuadrilla began such dire straits that it was issuing fracking afortnight ago, “a total of 27 minor earthquakes” have occurred near the site. profit warnings and closing outlets. The “stop-start” nature of operations is hitting Cuadrilla financially –every day of delay The fear now is that it may have bitten costs the company £94,000. Music to the ears of environmental protesters, no doubt. off more than it can chew.

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Issue of the week: taxing times for tech giants The Chancellor’s decision to go after Big Tech is ahigh-risk gamble “I’m already looking forward to my call on revenues is “currently bogged down from the former leader of the Liberal in internal bickering and worries Democrats,” joked the Chancellor as about abacklash from the US”. If the he whacked the likes of Facebook, Chancellor gets his way, Britain’s new Google and Amazon with anew tax will be up and running from 2020. “digital services” tax this week. The “The companies cannot complain in discomfort caused to Nick Clegg –the good faith.” When tackled on tax they “prefect-like British politician turned “usually bleat” that if politicians want Facebook PR guy” –is“just aside adifferent system they should change benefit” of amuch-needed crackdown, the law. “Now aUKChancellor is said Lex in the FT. “Tech companies proposing exactly such areform.” have been ingenious tax avoiders”, Taxing revenues rather than profits contributing “little financially” to many “breaks new ground”, but the tech of the societies upon whose wealth and giants have brought this on stability they depend. Facebook paid themselves with their arrogant only £7.4m in UK corporation tax last year after making arecord “lack of transparency of where profits are truly created”. £1.3bn in British sales; Amazon’s main UK subsidiary paid amere £1.7m. “Public anger is running high” and Philip Hammond is Hammond has stressed that “the best way to deal with this right to address it. The question, though, is whether he has come problem would be an international agreement on global rules”, up with “the wrong fix to the right problem”. said The Times. But his announcement this week is “a high-stakes gamble that adirect assault on aUSindustry is the way to bring The measure proposed –a2%charge on UK revenues –certainly about necessary reform”. It’s certainly questionable whether won’t have the tech titans “trembling in fear”, said Nils Pratley unilateral action by Britain “will encourage Washington to reach in The Guardian. For them, the total £400m that Hammond adeal”. President Trump “may decide to retaliate against what he says the tax will raise annually “is arelative trifle”. But they regards as an assault on his own tax base”, particularly if others will be irritated by the UK’s “go-it-alone” approach. Hammond follow suit (Spain, Italy, India, Mexico and South Korea are also has demonstrated that new digital taxes “can be invented considering going it alone). Hammond is bold to grasp the nettle unilaterally” –that “countries do not have to wait for on digital tax reform, but the clear danger is that “a free-for-all” international agreement” –and “he deserves credit for finally could lead to “further fragmentation of the global economy” – taking the plunge”. The EU’s equivalent proposal of a3%tax and “another defeat for the global rules-based system”.

The Budget: the main points Philip Hammond used the biggest giveaway budget since 2010 to cut taxes and boost spending. Here are the key points Personal tax boost Business matters The centrepiece of the Budget was a Hammond also “rejected calls to scrap surprise £3bn “income tax giveaway”, said entrepreneurs’ tax relief”, said the FT. But Patrick Collinson in The Guardian. Sadly, he has tightened the rules on companies that it will “leave low earners with little or no can qualify, and taken steps to “crack down gain”. The Chancellor has brought forward on abuses”. Some in the City expressed an existing pledge to increase the tax-free relief that Hammond’s move to ditch personal allowance to £12,500 and to raise further use of the discredited private finance the 40p higher-rate threshold to £50,000. initiative for government projects won’t He claims to have given 32 million people cover current projects. About 2.4 million atax cut, and to have taken 1.7 million workers will benefit from arise in the Britons out of tax altogether since 2015. national living wage. And there is to be a But the rises in personal allowances only new levy on non-recycled plastic packaging. really “translate into significant tax cuts Hammond: income tax surprise further up the income scale”. For someone On the high street on £12,500, the increase is worth £130. For those on £50,000, it There was some succour for the beleaguered high street, said is worth £860 ayear –reduced to £520, once changes to national Christopher Hope in The Daily Telegraph: all retailers in England insurance are taken into account. with arateable value of £51,000 or less “will see their business rates bills fall by athird”. According to the Treasury, this could Pension tax reliefs mean an annual saving of £8,000 “for as many as 90% of all “The wealthy will breathe acollective sigh of relief after this independent shops, pubs, restaurants and cafés”. The Chancellor Budget,” said Claer Barrett in the FT. The words many dreaded has also set aside £675m to create a“future high streets fund” –“pensions taxation” –were never mentioned, and the existing that councils can access. An extra £420m is being made available pension savings thresholds (the amount that can be saved into to tackle potholes. apension before tax charges apply) were left untouched. The lifetime allowance will rise from £1.03m to £1.055m from Any other business? next April. Experts said the reprieve was likely to be temporary. “Feel-good Phil” froze duties on most alcoholic drinks People with unused pensions relief from previous years should (champagne and wine were exceptions) “so we could all “endeavour to use the chance to catch up on contributions if celebrate” the end of austerity, said Lindsay Cook in the FT. it is affordable”, said Christine Ross of Handelsbanken Wealth With Christmas approaching, he’s also allowing anyone to buy Management. “Both the level of annual allowance and the rate Premium Bonds –“the country’s favourite form of gambling” –as of tax relief could change in the future.” gifts for children: at present, only parents and grandparents can.

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Among the more telling stats to emerge from Philip Hammond’s “feel-good” Budget were those showing that the 2014 hike in City profiles Adisastrous housing stamp duty has been an “unmitigated disaster”, says Alex Brummer. The move to tap sales of Britain’s most expensive Elon Musk tax on high- Things are finally “looking houses, introduced by Hammond’s predecessor George Osborne, up for Elon and his friends”, end property has signally failed to raise the expected revenues: income from the said Engadget.com. Despite tax is forecast to fall by about abillion, to £12.8bn, this year, and aseries of “very public” Alex Brummer “to decline in each of the next five”. Worse, this “prohibitively gaffes and scandals at Tesla expensive tax” (which starts at an “eye-watering” 10% on sales –mostly springing from the Daily Mail of more than £937,000) has created “a huge blockage” in the antics of its erratic founder – market, preventing the country’s “strivers” from climbing the the electric carmaker has ladder. The Osborne hike “flies in the face of abasic economic blown away expectations truth”: that “when marginal tax rates are too high, revenues with a$312m quarterly profit (only the third in its history). will subside”. Yet the Government is too scared to lower it Shares have bounced back for fear of being painted by Labour as the party of the rich. strongly, trouncing the short- Hammond should “stand up to the left-wing bullies” and abolish sellers betting on Tesla’s it –“before it does even more damage to the nation’s prosperity”. demise. Musk himself might have “spun out of control”, If Britain crashes out of Brexit talks without adeal, the impact on but sales of the Model 3 the City will be particularly pronounced, says Katherine Griffiths. have been motoring, said Aglimmer of Britain is by far and away the world’s “biggest net exporter of The Guardian. Having been financial services”, exporting $88bn annually, compared with stripped of the chairmanship by regulators, Musk, 47, has Brexit cheer only $47bn for our nearest competitor, the US. Fortunately, announced he no longer has there is growing optimism that aservices deal could be “on the ajob title. “I’m now the in the City horizon”. Certainly, progress is being made. British technocrats Nothing of Tesla,” he noted meeting their opposite numbers in Brussels amonth ago reported in atweet. He paid tribute to Katherine Griffiths that, despite “frosty” relations, at least “no one was cutting off the firm’s unusually devoted dialogue about afinancial services deal”. The hope is that one customer base, whose The Times could be put in place once the post-Brexit transition period ends loyalty, he said, “chokes in December 2020. “Some bankers take anegative view of what me up, actually”. could be on the table”: there are still big concerns around the knotty issues of “clearing” and “equivalence”. But these are not Philip Jansen insurmountable given the political will to tackle them. The PM maintains that Brexit negotiations are 95% there. “As ever, the remaining slice contains some of the chewiest issues, but, for the City, after months of darkness, there are chinks of light.”

“Conditions on the high street could hardly be tougher,” says Larry Elliott in The Guardian. And Debenhams, which has been The fight for slow to adjust to the “bracing” new climate, has admitted that it is “battling to survive”. Almost athird of the department chain’s survival at stores are being axed, and landlords are being asked to reduce rents for those that remain. The markets seem to approve of the Debenhams decision “to throw the kitchen sink at things”; but a75% fall in the share price over the past year “suggests investors think it is Larry Elliott touch-and-go whether the company will survive”. On the plus BT’s last boss was shown The Guardian side, the chances of negotiating lower rents look good. With “plenty of empty units on high streets already”, landlords have a the door after losing the choice: reduce rents or risk having empty premises on their hands. confidence of investors. On But drastic cost-cutting alone won’t save Debenhams. There is first impressions, they don’t seem too keen on the new speculation that Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley might launch a guy either, said The Daily takeover bid to merge the chain with his newly acquired House of Telegraph. News of the Fraser. For now, what’s needed is “a solid plan”. This emergency appointment of Worldpay’s package of measures “buys time” –but not all that much. Philip Jansen was met with a4%share fall. Jansen, 51, Donald Trump has “never set foot in Africa” and has seldom arrives at asticky time for been polite about the continent either –once allegedly dismissing BT, which is under pressure America’s African states as “shitholes”, says The Economist. That doesn’t to hive off its unpopular appear to have stopped Africans embracing him. According to a Openreach infrastructure “big man” arm. And he’s already under 25-nation survey by the pollster Pew, some 59% of Nigerians fire for his past membership and 56% of Kenyans rate Trump as “a positive influence on of a“notorious” tax in Africa world affairs” –way above the global median. Pew speculates avoidance scheme, that Africans like Trump because they like America per se: US Editorial Ingenious Film Partners 2. hip-hop, films and fast-food joints are very popular. But there Clearly Jansen, who made a killing selling Worldpay to The Economist may be something about his style that appeals too. “Trump’s boasts about his wealth, power and brains” grate less “on America’s Vantiv for £9.3bn, acontinent that is used to bombastic presidents”. And in “is asucker for punishment”, Kenya –where people favour “an American-led world to one said Alistair Osborne in The Times. After his “Worldpay- dominated by China by aratio of two to one” –many praise the day”, he certainly “doesn’t US president for being “tough enough” to stand up to Beijing. need to work again”. Yet he Trump has been sounding more “conciliatory” about Africa of has “signed up for one of the late. But even when’s he not, many Africans prefer his “usual trickiest jobs in Britain”. blunt talk” to “the insincere flattery of other Western leaders”.

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Facebook Mediclinic International Pendragon Shares tipped 12 weeks ago The Times The Daily Telegraph Investors Chronicle Best tip Shares in the social media Disappointing patient The motor retailer’s BP group are priced to full numbers and achange to the shares have fallen heavily on The Mail on Sunday potential. Yet an executive Swiss regulatory regime have aprofit warning. Disruption up 2.15% to 564.9p exodus, privacy issues and squeezed the private hospital to new car sales continues alikely hit to revenues from group’s margins. Trading to blight the sector, and Worst tip stagnating user numbers spell remains mixed in South investment in the used-car Xaar trouble ahead. Sell. $154.39. Africa and “quiet” in the business will hit profitability. The Daily Telegraph down 40.8% to 148p Middle East. Sell. 371.1p. Sell. 24p. Lloyds Banking Group The Times Metro Bank Stobart Group Although Lloyds has Investors Chronicle The Times Market view resolved the big problems The challenger bank hasn’t Stobart has some good of the past decade, it faces grown as fast as forecast, businesses in the energy, “The stock market... is now taking alittle pause.” “huge headwind” from and net interest margins aviation and rail sectors, the final stages of Brexit have contracted as as well as civil engineering. US President Donald Trump negotiations. Highly competition in the mortgage But as long as “civil war” dismisses fears that we are now in arolling bear cash-generative, but market increases. The return rages in the boardroom, it market. Quoted on with limited ways to boost on equity target looks is “impossible to back”. Dealbreaker.com growth. Avoid. 57.72p. unachievable. Sell. £22.58. Avoid. 218p. Market summary

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After years of searching, Anna Bey has found her perfect banker boyfriend. Now, from her flat in Knightsbridge, she’s offering advice to other women who want to give up their mundane jobs and join the jet set. Julia Llewellyn Smith went to meet her

Self-styled JetsetBabe Anna Bey out with were so tight-lipped. and Iare sitting in the bar of the No one wanted to share their Connaught hotel in Mayfair, secrets.” Well, Isay, those girls sipping glasses of Mâcon-Verzé were her competitors. “True,” chardonnay, which she –fresh Bey agrees. “We are talking from awine-tasting course in about many women fighting for Burgundy –has selected and is, 1% of all the men in the world. very importantly, holding by the If you look at the Forbes list of stem, as she describes some of billionaires, almost all of them her past exploits to me. “So are married. The chances of there was one time when Iwas marrying one are very small.” partying with Paris Hilton on abillionaire’s private yacht – Since 2012, Bey’s been writing that was supercool,” she recalls. asurprisingly thoughtful blog, “Or another time Iwas dating JetsetBabe.com, which features an extremely rich guy, travelling profiles of JetsetBabe (JSB) with him everywhere. It was like heroines. These are mainly being in amovie: there were Russian women from humble always bodyguards; he’d give backgrounds, who’ve married you cash in abag and say, ‘Hey, into the world of the super-rich, go shopping’.” such as Elena Perminova, 32, from small-town Siberia, who Sweet, smiley, glamorous but not was 16 when she met her remotely brassy, Bey is 32 and billionaire husband, 58-year-old from amiddle-class Swedish London Evening Standard owner family. But today, she inhabits Alexander Lebedev, after he aflat “just beside Harrods”, helped get her released from the rent paid by her Lebanese jail, where she’d landed after banker boyfriend, who is her dodgy boyfriend used her as based in Geneva. “I thought adrugs mule. It’s illustrated by Knightsbridge would be aperfect Bey: “I wished Ihad someone like me to help navigate the jetset” aspirational shots filched from place to live,” she sighs in her Instagram of these women softly accented English. “But actually it’s so touristy. There are all breakfasting on hotel balconies in white bathrobes and drinking these Arabs driving their supercars making so much noise.” Bey’s champagne in Jacuzzis in the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc. boyfriend’s support is allowing her to pursue what she believes is her mission in life –tohelp other women who are seeking, just as Women in mundane jobs, with what Bey calls “average Joe” she used to, “an affluent life”; the goal being to ditch the nine-to- boyfriends, scroll through such images (the blog is especially five for alifestyle of having their sunglasses polished by the crew popular with African-American women) and #DreamBig, but of ayacht moored at Porto Cervo, shopping in Dubai and seeing among established JSBs they can spark gossip about who is in the new year in Tulum. “Rich paying for the Rolls-Royce men offer afast track to having and the Céline bags. “Everyone an affluent life,” Bey says. “It’s “I always say it’s like avideo game: you do one speculates, ‘How did she get easy to think they can solve all level, which is dating amillionaire, then you that watch –was it from a your problems and there’s guy?’” Bey says. “I always say it’s nothing wrong with wanting move on to the next –amultimillionaire” like avideo game; you become that. But there are some very obsessive about acquiring the nasty, evil people in the rich world. It took me awhile to navigate next thing. You do one level, which is dating amillionaire, then it and to be fine in it. Iwant my girls to be clever about how you you move on to the next –amultimillionaire. Then you want a position yourself, because that will become your protection.” billionaire. It’s exhausting and never-ending.”

To help these modern-day Becky Sharps avoid her mistakes, Bey In Bey’s closed JetsetBabe group on Facebook, the 3,000-strong has launched her School of Affluence, an “online finishing school community mull over the pros and cons of JSB life, asking, “Is for classy women”, with video tutorials on subjects such as how anyone going to be in Monaco next week?”, debating whether it’s to behave on ayacht (you’ll have to take off your shoes, so plan abad idea to confess to apotential sugar daddy who’s asked you your outfit accordingly), how to eat an oyster (no forks!) and skiing that you hate the sport, and the merits of Russian men. “So how to dress (think Grace Kelly, not Kim Kardashian). “To many women say thank you for creating this community where succeed in the jet-set world you have to have elegance, but that they can discuss wanting the luxury life, because normally they came later for me,” Bey says. “In the beginning, Iwouldn’t say don’t dare,” says Bey. “People judge us. They say it’s just a Iwas behaving trashily, but Icould have been more refined. I gold-diggers’ club, but it’s not. They’ll say, ‘You’re an escort,’ was using bad language. Icould be abit aggressive. Iused to get ‘You’re awhore’ –Iknow, I’ve been called all those things.” drunk –that’s not classy. Ihad to figure it out and I’ve always said Iwished Ihad someone like me to help, because my journey In accordance with her “Dress Classy” principles, tonight Bey is HE TIMES MAGAZINE/NEWS LICENSING

would have gone so much faster. But the other girls Iwas hanging wearing ablack Roland Mouret top, flared black Zara trousers ©T

THE WEEK 3November 2018 The last word 57 that elongate her legs, awhite Chanel jacket Ifelt so scared and lost. And there were other and Louboutin stilettos. Iapologise for my dark moments. People are mean to you; they muddy trainers. “Don’t worry!” she reassures think you’re aprostitute and try to buy sex from me. “So many rich Arabs now wear sneakers.” you. They treat you like garbage.” Many of her She has thick blonde hair (“Of course Ihave boyfriends were unfaithful. “I’m sure there are extensions”), high Slavic cheekbones and billionaires who are super humble and generous luscious lips. They’re natural, and her make-up and kind, but Ithink it’s rare,” she says with is subtle –“Rich men don’t like alot of make- alaugh. Fidelity is arecurring topic in Bey’s up” –but she’s had anose job and has regular Facebook group, with many unfazed at the Botox and fillers in her cheeks. Later, she prospect, posting memes along the lines of “Je sends me photos of herself before her préfère pleurer dans une Ferrari que rire sur un “transformation” –akey part of the JSB vélo”(I’d rather cry in aFerrari than laugh on Cinderella ethos –where she’s pretty, but less abicycle). groomed, slightly chubbier of face and frizzier of hair. “I’m totally pro plastic surgery, if it’s Yet, no boyfriend comes with aguaranteed going to improve your life quality, which it blank chequebook. “Honestly, my girlfriends might. It can help you attract ahigher-quality and Isay to each other, ‘Some of the cheapest partner. JetsetBabe is all about ‘fake it until men are billionaires!’” Bey exclaims. “Some of you make it’.” them don’t want to give you athing.” Maybe they are looking for awoman who loves them That same philosophy runs through the blog’s JSB heroine Perminova, with Lebedev for their personality. “Bleurgh!” Bey grimaces. tips for “entering high society”, with its analyses “I don’t respect men who also want the woman of whether investing in afirst-class air ticket improves your to provide.” Bey is adamant that men should pay for everything chances of meeting abillionaire (nope; better to hang out in because, in so many other areas, women bear the majority of the lobbies of five-star hotels) and advice on meeting the burdens. “Feminism is really important for me, but women have a promoters who recruit beautiful women to visit their nightclubs lot of disadvantages in society, so let us have some fairness when (just be mindful that “the rich men you meet won’t be boyfriend it comes to money. Don’t make us split things,” she declaims. material”) and jobs to consider, such as working as ahotel concierge in Dubai. If such information had been available when Today, Instagram is ashop window for wannabe JSBs to be Ihad astudent overdraft, perhaps now I’d be WhatsApping my spotted by men who offer to fly them round the world and squad to see who’ll be at Art Basel in Miami, rather than “spoil” them, sometimes in return for sex. Some members of Bey’s wondering if Tesco will be open later so Ican pick up dog food. Facebook group are escorts and she’s fine with that. “What is the difference between them and awoman who marries aman for Bey was born in Estonia, then his money? I’ll always defend a part of the Soviet Union, but her woman who is looking for status family emigrated to Stockholm “Men are allowed to get away with treating and wealth in apartner. Men when she was three. Today, women like sex objects, but women aren’t are allowed to get away with her mother is alawyer and her treating women like sex objects, stepfather (she’s never met her allowed to treat men like awallet” but women aren’t allowed to father) works in IT. “My parents treat men like awallet.” built themselves up. We weren’t poor, but there were times when we were struggling.” She was bullied at school, perhaps, Still, Bey makes it clear that the JSB target of trophy wifedom isn’t she thinks, because she was brought up in a“very Russian way” all “caviar, champagne and Chanel”, with astrong likelihood of (she is fluent in Russian). “I never fitted in to Swedish society,” being eventually traded in for ayounger model. You will also, as she says. Obsessed with glossy magazines, she moved to Rome one thrice-married contributor to the blog warns, be bringing up on leaving school and started frequenting “elegant places”, where any children alone and always come second to your husband’s she met arich kid who introduced her to fancy restaurants and work. “He will like to influence you, in some cases control you. designer shopping. “I wasn’t actively seeking the affluent life, but Apowerful man will be acting with power in his private life. And subconsciously all those years at school when Iwasn’t popular not in asexy way,” she writes. In any case, the “golden age” for made me want to seek out the best, because it was important I bagging such aman is tight: JSBs aged 30-plus are mocked in their was validated in away Ihadn’t been before. And once you’ve circles as “used goods”. For all these reasons, Bey urges followers had ataste of that affluent life, it’s very hard to go back.” not to abandon their careers. “I don’t support the idea that women are totally dependent on men. It’s too risky. Everyone She moved on to Ibiza where she worked as ago-go dancer, then should have savings, work experience.” In any case, men don’t with her DJ boyfriend to Malta, where she worked in marketing want awoman “just waiting for them to come home. That’s in the thriving online gambling industry that has made the island boring and it kills the relationship. When Imet my boyfriend he ahub for the super-rich. When the relationship ended, she was like, ‘I’m happy to provide for you, but you need to occupy returned to Sweden where she was in areality show, then went yourself with something you’re passionate about.’” travelling. Six years ago, she arrived in London, broke and single. “I had an office job, but Ileft because it made me unhappy. She met him two years ago, after aperiod of soul-searching made Before that I’d been obsessed with the idea that women need her understand “there are more important things than acollection to pay 50/50, but Isaw how the girls Iwas hanging out with – of Birkin bags. Irealised Ijust want acomfortable, upper-middle- who, like me, were from simple backgrounds –were living, not class lifestyle but to have agenuine love.” Now, she says, “For the working, with aboyfriend or as amistress, so were financially first time I’ve found the right balance of aman who offers me the covered, and Istarted to change my mind. Ifelt ready to request lifestyle Ihave always wanted but who is also very genuine.” The some levelling up from men. Iwasn’t asugar baby, but if Iwas couple have just spent the summer in Ibiza, Bali and Rome, and dating somebody who could be of financial assistance to me Iwas Bey feels she’s on the point of retiring from JSB-dom. Now “I just no longer ashamed to ask.” want to help the younger women. Money may not always bring you happiness, but if you’re going to start looking for happiness Doubts about her chosen path came ayear later, when her drink somewhere, then why not in the rich department?” was spiked during atrip to the Cannes Film Festival. She woke alone in amansion and when she went to ask for help, aburly Alonger version of this article first appeared in The Times. man grabbed her by the throat. “Nobody was looking out for me. ©The Times/News Licensing

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