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revolution Alan Rusbridger elcome to the Berliner Guardian. No, City academy plans condemned we won’t go on calling it that by ex-education secretary Morris for long, and Wyes, it’s an inel- An acceleration of plans to reform state education authorities as “commissioners egant name. education, including the speeding up of of education and champions of stan- We tried many alternatives, related the creation of the independently funded dards”, rather than direct providers. either to size or to the European origins city academy schools, will be announced The academies replace failing schools, of the format. In the end, “the Berliner” today by Tony Blair. normally on new sites, in challenging stuck. But in a short time we hope we But the increasingly controversial inner-city areas. The number of acade- can revert to being simply . nature of the policy was highlighted when mies will rise to between 40 and 50 by Many things about today’s paper are the former education secretary Estelle next September. This month 10 city acad- different. Morris accused the government of “serial emies started, bringing the total to 27, and Starting with the most obvious, the meddling” in secondary eduction. Mr Blair will insist the government is on page size is smaller. We believe the In an article in tomorrow’s Education target to reach 200 by 2010. City acade- format combines the convenience of a Guardian she writes: “Another round of mies have proved to be among the most tabloid with the sensibility of a broad- structural change won’t by itself achieve hotly debated aspects of his public sector sheet. Next most conspicuously, we universally high standards. Worse than reforms. The Commons education select have changed the paper’s titlepiece and that it could be a distraction. In five years’ committee has criticised them as divisive headline fonts. Gone is the striking 80s time, whose children will be going to and teaching union leaders have also de- David Hillman design — adapted over these new academies? Will choice and nounced the expansion of an “unproven” the years — which mixed Garamond, market forces once again squeeze out the scheme. Miller and Helvetica fonts. In their place children of the disadvantaged?” However, this will not deter Mr Blair is a new font, Guardian Egyptian, which Today, the prime minister will say: “It is who will point out that in the last is, we hope, elegant, intelligent and not government edict that is determining academic year the proportion of highly legible. the fate of city academies, but parent pupils receiving five good GCSEs 4≥ The next difference you may notice is power. Parents are choosing city acade- in city academies rose by 8 per colour. The paper is printed on state-of- mies, and that is good enough for me.” cent, four times the national average. the-art MAN Roland ColorMan presses, He will also set out the future of local Patrick Wintour and Rebecca Smithers which give colour on every page — something that sets us apart from every other national newspaper. The effect will be to give greater emphasis and power to our photography and, we UK link to terror snatches hope, make the whole paper a touch less forbidding than it sometimes may have seemed in the past. The United Nations is investigating the secret flights, telling MPs on the foreign G2 has also shrunk: it is now a full CIA’s use of British airports when abduct- affairs select committee that the ministry colour, stapled news magazine with ing terrorism suspects and flying them to has “not granted any permissions for the newspaper deadlines. Sport has ex- prisons around the world where they are use of UK territory or air space", and sug- panded into its own section — at least 12 alleged to have been tortured. The in- gesting to the Guardian that it was “just a pages every day, again in full colour. quiry, led by Martin Scheinin, a special conspiracy theory" Privately, Ministry of As the week progresses you’ll notice rapporteur from the UN Commission on Defence officials admit that they are aware further changes. There are one or two Human Rights, comes as an investigation of the flights, and that they have decided new sections. There will be new colum- by the Guardian reveals the full extent of to turn a blind eye. “It is not a matter for nists, both in G1 and G2 — most notably the British logistical support. Aircraft used the MoD," said one. “The air- the pre-eminent commentator Simon in the secret operations have flown into craft use our airfields. We don't 13≥ Jenkins, who joins us from to the UK at least 210 times since the Sep- ask any questions. They just write on Wednesdays and Fridays. tember 11 terror attacks. Foreign Office of- happen to be behind the wire.” ficials have denied all knowledge of the Ian Cobain and Richard Norton-Taylor Shane Warne at the Oval yesterday. Sport ≥ Photograph: Kieran Doherty/Reuters Continued on page 2 ≥

National Law International Financial Police chief blames Judges may block Israeli troops leave Sky’s Premiership Orangemen for riots deportations Gaza after 38 years rights under threat

More than 2,000 police officers and sol- The government faces a confrontation Israel lowered its flag in the Gaza Strip for BSkyB’s 13-year monopoly over live broad- diers clashed with loyalists in Belfast in with judges over its attempts to deport the last time yesterday as the government casts of Premier League football games is the worst riots for more than a decade. terrorist suspects to Middle Eastern and declared an end to 38 years of occupation under immediate threat. Media regulator The violence erupted after a small Orange north African countries with poor human and troops withdrew from demolished has told the European Commission Order parade was rerouted by fewer than rights records. Four appeal court judges Jewish settlements. The last troops were it should force whoever holds the Pre- 100 metres away from Catholic homes. who may have to decide whether depor- expected to leave overnight. Palestinian miership TV rights to sell a number of , Northern Ireland chief con- tations can go ahead have told the leaders described it as a “liberation”, but games to rival broadcasters. A separate stable, accused Orangemen of taking part Guardian they will refuse to rubber- said Israeli controls on border crossings regulatory plan under consideration in in and stoking up the riots, which spread stamp the UK's human rights deals with and other restrictions maintained the Brussels could see individual broadcast- to Ballymena, Antrim, Carrickfergus, countries such as Jordan and Algeria. occupation. Thousands of Palestinians ers limited to 50% of the live games put Larne, Ballyclare, Glengormley and Despite being urged by the home secre- gathered on roads leading to the settle- up for sale. The League, meanwhile, is Ahoghill. More than 30 police and soldiers tary to respect the country-to-country ments, ready to storm the rubble once the resisting all attempts to remove its were injured as rioters used auto- agreements, the judges say they last troops were gone. A 12-year- “exclusivity premium,” arguing matic weapons, petrol bombs and 3≥ will demand evidence that the as- 15≥ old boy was seriously wounded 17≥ that clubs’ finances will be un- 26≥ blast bombs to attack the security forces, surances are “worth the paper they're by gunfire from an Israeli tank still guard- dermined. The current rights deal expires

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Belfast riots

Barricade of fire Vans set alight by loyalist paramili- taries block Belfast’s Shankill Road during the rioting, the worst in many years, according to the chief constable Sir Hugh Orde Photograph: Alan Lewis/Photopress

Return of the gun and the bomb

Chief constable condemns role of Orange Order as violence erupts after re-routing of loyalist parade

Angelique Chrisafis remarks “inaccurate and inflammatory”, val loyalist paramilitary groups, the UVF knocking aside large bins with their ar- but the chief constable said he would re- and LVF, that has claimed four lives this Outbursts moured Land Rover before withdrawing. lease footage showing Orangemen work- summer. The turf war escalated further Despite admitting to being “beat out” The chief constable of Northern Ireland ing alongside paramilitaries. on Friday when two men were shot in sep- after 18 hours of “non-stop action”, the yesterday accused members of the Orange The violence erupted in west Belfast arate gun attacks in Portadown, one a clear young loyalists’ anger at the police and the Order of stoking a weekend of violence in and then spread to the north and east of attempt to kill the son of the murdered peace process was unabated. “ This is not Belfast that led to more than 30 officers the city as well as to Ballymena, Antrim, LVF leader Billy “King Rat” Wright. a peace process, this is a republican being injured as they came under auto- Carrickfergus, Larne, Ballyclare, Glen- Then tension hit a higher notch when process,” one of them told the Guardian. matic fire and were bombarded with gormley and Ahoghill. Paramilitary gun- Ian Paisley, leader of the Democratic Ligoniel road Another added: “We have got the guns petrol bombs. men opened fire on police and soldiers Unionist party, warned that the Whiterock Crumlin road out now and we are not putting them Sir Hugh Orde said his officers had and cars were hijacked and set alight so parade could prove “the spark which away. They have got rid of everything come under sustained and organised regularly that roads were closed and mo- kindles a fire there could be no putting Protestants hold dear, the UDR and the attack in one of the worst nights of rioting torists urged to stay at home. out". Mr Paisley had been due to address Shankill Royal Irish Regiment. The police is now road Newtonards in years and the “worst violence ever All this had happened because one rel- Orangemen at Saturday’s march before road filled with Taigs [Catholics] and they treat faced by a force in the UK”. It was lucky atively small Orange march at Whiterock the rally was abandoned when loyalist W. Circ road BELFAST us young Protestants as scum. They have Albertbridge that none of his men and women had in north Belfast had been rerouted fewer paramilitaries opened fire on the police road the Americans, the South, Blair and all the died. “Petrol bombs don't appear by acci- than 100 metres away from Catholic and army and the first gun battle broke rest. Who have we got? The Grand Old Shaftesbury dent, blast bombs do not appear by acci- homes and the gate in the peace wall be- out. Police officers later admitted that it place Duke [of York, aka Ian Paisley] and Reg dent and certainly firearms have to be tween the two communities welded shut. had been “mob rule”. 0.5 MILES bloody Empey [Ulster Unionist leader].” planned to be produced in the way they Such was the fury among the Orange Or- Yesterday young men in pink and yel- The Irish foreign affairs minister, were produced," said Sir Hugh. der and unionists in general that the pa- low jumpers (the current fashion for Outbreaks of violence Dermot Ahern, said yesterday: “It's an ex- “I have seen members of the Orange rade had been postponed for three young loyalists) ate bacon sandwiches af- Fighting outside tremely worrying turn of events. What Belfast Order in their sashes attacking my officers. months until this weekend. ter setting up a new burning barricade fur- 1 happened last night was a huge effort to NORTHERN 2 1 Ballymena and I have seen them standing next to masked Last week saw two nights of serious ri- ther down on Albert Bridge Road, which Ahoghill intimidate nationalist communities, who IRELAND 3 men. The Orange Order must bear sub- oting and a daily blockade of rush-hour for quarter of a mile looked like a battle 4 5 2 Larne fear very much for the future. " stantial responsibility for this. They pub- traffic by small groups of loyalist zone, with burned-out cars, lorries and Belfast 3 Antrim licly called people on to the street." protesters after police had launched raids even a caterpillar digger. The police 4 Ballyclare Eyewitness, page 20 ≥ The Orange Order called Sir Hugh’s aimed at curbing the feud between the ri- “opened” the road yesterday morning by 5 Carrickfergus Jonathan Freedland, page 33 ≥

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Editorial desk Telephone: 020-7239 9580 National Fax: 020-7239 9787 Email: [email protected] Charles tells City academies high-speed Britain to learn are unstoppable, from the north says Blair Stephen Bates

The Prince of Wales last night urged the cellor, Gordon Brown, is anxious about nation to slow down and eulogised the Schools programme to some of Mr Blair’s plans for an education less frenetic pace of life in the far north be further expanded white paper, as well as the burgeoning role of Britain. of the private sector within the NHS. How- For an interview on the BBC religious Local authorities may no ever, Mr Blair is determined to ensure his programme Songs of Praise, he also public sector reforms are irreversible by revealed a hitherto unappreciated talent longer be providers the time he stands aside. for wooing seals by singing Scottish Contrary to recent suggestions that ballads at them. Patrick Wintour Downing Street was cooling on city acad- Interviewed in the grounds of the Cas- Rebecca Smithers emies, Mr Blair will instead portray them tle of Mey, his late grandmother's country as the centrepiece of the education sys- estate on the far northern tip of Caithness tem, saying the movement is now un- where he spends a week every August, the Tony Blair is to signal a speeding up of his stoppable. He will argue there is prince railed once more against the mod- radical domestic reforms today when he overwhelming evidence that they are rais- ern life that his future subjects find them- announces he wants to push ahead ing standards faster than other schools. selves having to lead. rapidly with his controversial programme He will point to evidence that the num- He spoke about the calmness of the to build city academy schools. ber of pupils in city academies who se- region: “It is a gentler, calmer approach to The prime minister will announce that cured good GCSE results in 2004-05 life in a world which has become frenetic, the government is on course to have 40 increased by 8%, four times the national really, and the aim seems to be to go ever city academies in place by September next average, and a PricewaterhouseCoopers faster, but I often wonder ‘how much year and will meet its target of 200 by survey showing nine out of 10 parents in faster can we all go?’ 2010, changing the face of secondary city academies are satisfied with their “I just think we need to remember we education in Britain's cities. child's education. Mr Blair will also reject are a part of nature and not apart from it, He will also unsettle Labour back- suggestions that they are selecting atypi- which I think has been one of the great benchers by saying he wants local educa- cally wealthy pupils by suggesting the problems of the 20th century.” tion authorities no longer to be providers number of children receiving free school The remarks chime with his often- of education but instead commissioners meals in city academies is nearly twice the voiced support for the environment, old- and champions of good standards. The national average. fashioned architecture, traditional city academy programme is arguably one But David Chaytor, Labour MP for Bury approaches to teaching methods and of the government's most controversial North and a member of the all-party edu- organic farming. education policies because it hands power cation select committee, which earlier this The prince's annual report, published and influence to private-sector sponsors year called for the programme to be halted in July, detailed 500 engagements under- who have no track record in education. subject to an evaluation, said he opposed taken, 2,300 letters written and 5,000 Sponsors, ranging from self-made mil- a rapid expansion. “My view is that the guests entertained last year. The prince lionaire businessmen to church groups, academies programme is a very exciting came under criticism for his lavish trans- some of which believe in creationism, idea but hugely problematic. Nobody dis- port costs, paid for out of the public purse, donate up to £2m and in return are given putes the fact that the government is com- to get him to events. a major say in the school's ethos and mitted to improving urban education, but He was said yesterday to be resting at operations. Taxpayers meet the remain- is the way to do it really by handing huge his country home at Highgrove after ing costs of a new academy, which run to power and control to private sponsors for attending the wedding of his wife's son, about £25m so far. The schools are free to just £2m?” Tom Parker Bowles, in Oxfordshire on run their own curriculum, set pay and and As a further thrust of his renewed push Saturday. control assets. for state education reform, Mr Blair will During the interview with the broad- There have been reports that the chan- today encourage academies and top spe- caster Sally Magnusson, the prince spoke cialist schools to act in federation with about his childhood visits to the Castle of At a glance neighbouring schools that are failing. Mey, which was bought and renovated by He has already given secondary schools the Queen Mother in the 1950s and is now powers to become foundation schools if run by a charitable trust from which • Academies are publicly funded, governing bodies wish them to do so, Charles rents the castle when he stays independent schools set up to raise giving them freedom from local admission there. standards in disadvantaged areas policies. He recalled how, during his childhood, • Sponsors can give up to £2m in In a speech last week, the education the royal family used to sail up the west return for a say in the curriculum, secretary, Ruth Kelly, said she would halve coast of Scotland in the royal yacht, ethos and staffing. This is a form of the time for failing schools to improve to Britannia, and anchor off the nearby vil- privatisation, say teaching unions 12 months. Those judged to have made in- lage of Scrabster before going ashore for • The government wants to build adequate progress would be closed or re- lunch and a potter on the beach. The 200 academies by 2010 placed. Teaching unions claimed the pro- prince said that his grandmother's close • Faith schools are permitted to give posal may be part of a covert drive to meet association with the area was what made priority for admission to children on the government city academy target. it special to him. the basis of religious affiliation Jackie Ashley, page 33 ≥ Prince Charles: ‘How much faster can we all go?’ Photograph: MJ Kim guardian.co.uk/monarchy ≥ Blunkett hits back at ex-Met chief’s WHERE YOU LIVE accusation of duplicity and bullying

TRACY CHAPMAN Patrick Wintour and Mr Blunkett displayed a complete Stevens, who was commissioner between change of attitude. “For the first two years 2000 and 2005, never forgave Mr Blunkett of my commissionership, relations with for giving him two years, not the six 12/09/05 The former home secretary David Blun- him remained very difficult," Lord months reported yesterday, to sort out the kett has hit back at extraordinary claims Stevens writes. “Articles in the press bore issue of street crime. It was also pointed by the former Metropolitan police com- no relation to what had been said at meet- out that the Home Office secured an extra missioner Lord Stevens that he was a du- ings they reported.” £50m from the Treasury and boosted the plicitous bully. Mr Blunkett told friends Mr Blunkett’s aides formally took the number of London officers by 5,000, con- yesterday that his job as home secretary high ground yesterday, dismissing the tributing to a fall in street crime of 25%. had been to sort out street crime and not book as an effort by Lord Stevens to pro- Before then street crime had doubled in become a friend of the commissioner. mote his book, but there is private anger 12 months. Mr Blunkett regards the attacks on him at the allegations. There is also anger Mr Blunkett’s friends said he did not by Lord Stevens as similar to those of an- across the cabinet that Lord Stevens has see his role as “getting on with the com- other strong-willed public servant, former written a book, and writes a regular col- missioner, but to make sure the job got chief schools inspector Chris Woodhead. umn in the . “To do all done”. At the end of the process, police The criticism of Mr Blunkett, who is this so soon after leaving the job is in morale had been lifted and a new “respect currently work and pensions secretary, breach of the spirit of the rules,” said one. agenda” had been developed by Mr Blun- comes in a new autobiography by Lord Mr Blunkett’s aides claim that Lord kett, they said. Stevens being serialised in the News of the Mr Blunkett has previously admitted World. The two men worked together dur- he had disputes with Lord Stevens on how ‘THIS ALBUM HER SEVENTH ing Mr Blunkett’s stint at the Home Office to inform the public of the terrorist threat. between June 2001 and December 2004. Often accused of overhyping the threat, IS AN ABSOLUTE DELIGHT.’ Lord Stevens, who retired as Met chief Mr Blunkett had been taken aback when earlier this year, claims people found Mr the commissioner had said an attack on Blunkett “duplicitous and intimidating”. London was inevitable. He adds that Mr Blunkett knew little about The former home secretary also let it be fighting crime, and constantly briefed known that he had no desire to go back to against him. He recalls a newspaper story the Home Office, scotching reports that that condemned him following a meeting he was being lined up by Mr Blair to A COMPELLING AND he had had with Mr Blunkett. “There were replace Charles Clarke. Mr Blunkett re- only three of us in that office — myself, the gards himself as having got his life back UNCOMPROMISING WORK.’ home secretary and his dog. And it didn’t since returning to government as work come from his dog.” and pensions secretary. INDEPENDENT Lord Stevens claims it was only after he No 10 officials also denied recent re- warned senior political contacts that he ports of a cabinet reshuffle in the autumn. would “come out fighting” to defend his as home secretary with reputation that the problems stopped, then Met commissioner Lord Stevens guardian.co.uk/politics ≥ Section:GDN BE PaGe:5 Edition Date:050912 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 11/9/2005 19:10 cYanmaGentaYellowblack

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tamases (ESBLs), were identified in Britain Rogue E coli strains have in 2001 and concern grew in 2003. The killed more than 80 type causing all the problems is CTX-M- 15, of which there are different strains. Hospitals and GPs urged to This is not the type of E coli which causes food poisoning. This strain is usu- chart number of infections ally associated with urinary tract infec- tions. Most people will recover quickly James Meikle with a standard course of antibiotics, but Health correspondent some cases can progress to blood poisoning. Complications are more likely in the elderly and those with other seri- A strain of new superbugs thought to have ous medical conditions. A study of more caused more than 80 deaths may have than half the known deaths so far suggests come into Britain in imported food, a only between a fifth and a quarter were study suggests today. At least 83 mostly directly attributable to the infection. elderly patients infected with the anti- David Livermore, the director of the biotic-resistant bacterium have died over antimicrobial resistance monitoring and two years and many more have been reference laboratory at the Health Protec- admitted to hospital. tion Agency, said a that food source was Public health officials want to establish plausible. “You get low-level infection in the scale of the problem, usually linked to your gut. You are then later in hospital, urinary tract infections, and the origins of you are on antibiotics for other reasons, the bugs and their mutant enzymes. and a lot of the normal gut E coli get killed Today’s study comes from the Health off. This one gets growing, and then you Protection Agency (HPA), which has been get a urinary tract infection and it has a collecting reports of blood poisoning resistant strain.” caused by E coli submitted voluntarily by No bugs similar to those causing the hospitals since 1994. The figures show a latest crisis have surfaced in livestock in recent increase in the number of infec- this country, but they have been found in tions that are resistant to more than one chickens in Spain and cattle in Japan. They antibiotic. The agency is now calling for spread very quickly in Argentina in the more surveillance by hospitals and GPs. 1990s and are now causing problems in Georgia Duckworth of the HPA, who continental Europe and Asia. The problem compiled the report, said: “The findings bugs are resistant to penicillins and in our report show evidence of people car- cephalosporins, the common workhorse rying these bacteria in their gut. If this is antibiotics. Only two oral antibiotics and found to be commonplace in the general a few intravenous ones remain effective. population this may point towards the Patients who have had the bug have had food chain being a potential source; how- complicated infections, rather than sim- ever this area still needs researching.” ple (if painful) conditions such as cystitis. The problem E coli bugs, carrying en- The Sydney fashion label Sass & Bide made its first appearance at New York fashion week yesterday. Its look for next summer zymes called extended spectrum beta lac- SocietyGuardian.co.uk/health ≥ pays homage to Kate Moss’s much-photographed wardrobe at Glastonbury Photograph: Steve Wood Nursing home doctors face GMC hearing over lax care standards switch to smile for

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In three cases, The Guardian has learned how health the reviewers found the causes of death and social care professionals officials recorded as “unsatisfactory”. reacted to a catalogue of incidents and The Guardian first revealed concerns omissions at Maypole Nursing home in about the Maypole last year, when Aiden Birmingham. Documents show they dis- Cotter, the Birmingham coroner, was covered three alleged cases of abuse, one asked to formally review 16 of the deaths. involving a nurse who was recorded as Seven nurses employed by the Maypole having slapped and hit a female resident. are now being investigated by the Nurs- In other incidents, one resident received ing and Midwifery Council. Today in scalds to the inner thigh and another sus- After an initial review, officials con- tained extensive bruising. 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Yard says arms Keep your face straight: fair may affect passport grins pass into history anti-terror drive Richard Norton-Taylor

One of the world’s biggest arms fairs opens in London tomorrow amid strong opposition from Scotland Yard and human rights campaigners. The biennial Defence Systems and Equipment International in Docklands has provoked an angry response from senior officers concerned about the resources needed to police the event at a time when they are under pressure from the threat of terrorist attacks. Campaigners are angry that countries whose human rights records have been criticised by British ministers, including China, have been invited. China is subject to a European Union arms embargo. Steve House, an assistant commis- sioner responsible for security at the arms fair, said taxpayers should not have to foot the bill. “It is denuding London of polic- ing at a time of unprecedented demand”, he said. “The defence industry makes huge profits. I think we should be getting some money from the people exhibiting inside the centre. At the moment the tax- payers are having to pay. I don't think it looks right or is right." The previous arms fair, two years ago, cost more than £4m in a police operation involving about 4,000 officers. Spear- head, a subsidiary of the publishing group organising the exhibition, Reed Elsevier, said it was too late to ask the arms com- panies to pay for policing. Sir Robin Wales, the mayor of Newham, said the fair was not welcome in his borough. “I have never welcomed this event; I don’t want it in this borough. I hope this will be the last fair of its kind to be held here.” But neither he

The cost of policing m one of the world’s biggest arms fairs in an As airports around the world are forced At an earlier time when assassination lips and cheeks that really give us away, £4 operation that Mark Lawson to show their teeth against terrorism, em- rather than terrorism was what nations for good or ill. could involve some bracing “international anti-fraud stan- most feared, one of the best remembered Richard Nixon's ill-timed, ill-fitting grin 4,000 officers dards”, travellers will soon be unable to images of JFK’s presumed killer, Lee Har- — coinciding, for example, with police From today, Britons must show their own at most immigration con- vey Oswald, was also the one he used to attacks on students — captured his essen- nor Ken Livingstone, London’s mayor, reveal less in photobooth trols. show to border guards. tial character, just as Kelly Holmes's gog- who is equally opposed to it, can stop it. The irony of these little rectangular The most famous image of the German gle-eyed, open-mouthed joy on taking a The Ministry of Defence is so sensitive snaps — for security reasons snaps being changed by terrorism, spy Mata Hari is also the one she carried second gold symbolises the incredulous about the countries it has invited to the though, is that some of the most haunt- next to her breast. vindication of athletic effort. exhibition that it will not identify them It sounds like something from an Orwell ing images of the attacks on travellers in Crucial clues in the American atom spy The most powerful screen actors — Jack until today, although Chinese defence novel: British citizens who hope to be the last four years come from passport case in 1949 were six sets of passport Nicholson, Julia Roberts and Nicole Kid- officials have told the Guardian they will allowed to leave the country are no photographs. snaps used by the conspirators on docu- man, for example — are often associated be attending. Delegations from Indonesia longer allowed to smile. But this new se- When newspapers or books print gal- ments. with signature displays of amusement: a and Colombia, two other countries with riousness really did come into effect at leries of the homicidal hijackers from 9/11, While the introduction of face recogni- terrifying rictus, a face-wide smile and an poor human rights records, will also be midnight: forthwith, if you want to get the men all stare straight from the page tion technology may improve interna- impish, dimpled twist of the lips. there, according to Campaign Against out, then keep your mouth shut. with a uniform margin of neutral back- tional security, the denial of the right to Conspiracy theorists, though, may note Arms Trade. The campaign said officials In fiction, this interdiction on grinning ground around their hair and ears: one of smile means that our passports (and, in that the government that has put our from the two countries had told it they would result from some tyrannical ban on them even has a telltale flash of curtain time, ID cards) will now paradoxically re- laughing gear into storage is led by a would be coming. More than 1,000 com- happiness. behind him. The same is true of many of veal less of our identity than before. politician whose perma-smile has become panies will be exhibiting their latest In fact, it’s a practical matter: the new the 7/7 and alleged 21/7 terrorists in As shown by the invention of the poker a political handicap, identified with weapons systems, including the biggest biometric recognition scanners purchased Britain. face by gamblers, it's the twitches of the insincerity. American and British arms firms. Israel to improve security at border controls are Perhaps it isn't a software problem with will also be represented. Two years ago, only able, due to some idiosyncracy of the scanners at all but part of a wider New Israel Military Industries Ltd showed off their digital instructions, to recognise In happier times Labour drive towards public gravity. its cluster bombs — controversial weapons straight faces. The poignancy of today’s enforced because unexploded “bomblets” pose a So, from this morning, potential trav- Richard Nixon Tony Blair solemnity is that, somewhere at a gov- threat to civilians. ellers must produce in the curtained after a TV address demonised for ernment office in Britain late on Friday The sale of cluster bombs was singled booth or photographer’s shop what the to the country in Tory billboard afternoon, someone will have become the out last week by the editors of the Lancet official form calls “a neutral expression October 1970 adverts in 1997 last Brit to be allowed to show their teeth in their call for the medical journal’s own- with your mouth closed”. around the world. ers, Reed Elsevier, to stop promoting the Because some people’s eyes close when Whatever the reasons — technological arms fair. At least 15 manufacturers of they produce what you might call a seri- innovation, security or Labour conspiracy cluster bombs will be at the arms fair, ac- ous smile, you are also required to show — the death of the toothy passport grin cording to Campaign Against Arms Trade. your whites. Jack Nicholson as Kelly Holmes wins now takes its place alongside other Two Chinese firms are exhibiting, in- If the arrival of this rule itself tempts Batman’s nemesis, the 800 metres at moments of cultural transition in the his- cluding the Hainan XinXing Import and anyone to leave the country, they should the Joker, in the the 2004 Olympics tory of the UK: the end of peacetime con- Export Company. Arms companies and not go to the United States, where the ear- 1989 film in Athens scription in 1960; AA patrolmen ceasing traders from Pakistan, India, South Africa, lier introduction of this sombre equip- to salute their customers in 1961 and, due Sweden, Norway, France, Germany and ment means that passport holders have to become law in December this year, the the Czech Republic also have stands. already been staring straight ahead for removal of the terms “bachelor” and more than a year. “spinster” from wedding certificates. guardian.co.uk/armstrade ≥

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York Stoke-on-Trent Dumfries Weston-super-Mare

Inmate injured in attack Ceramics firm insures Britain’s most pleasurable Bones may solve mystery at high-security prison star designer for £1.5m road revealed of 1972 migrant tragedy

A top security prisoner is in hospital with A pottery designer has had her life insured In a country where traffic jams and grid- Human bones found on a beach may be- serious injuries after being stabbed by two for £1.5m on the advice of bankers to the lock are becoming the norm, it is increas- long to an immigrant who drowned while other inmates at Full Sutton high security ceramics specialists Moorcroft. Work by ingly difficult to indulge in the joy of the trying to reach Wales more than 30 years jail near York. Police are questioning pris- Emma Bossons, 29, accounts for 40% of open road. But a panel of racing drivers ago. Parts of a skeleton that were discov- oners and staff after the attack at the the company's £6m annual sales. Moor- and motoring journalists has named the ered by a dog walker at Sand Bay near We- weekend, a year after another inmate, Arif croft's chairman, Hugh Edwards, called A708 from Moffat to Selkirk as the best ston-super-Mare are to be examined by Hussain, was found dead in his cell. Prison Ms Bossons, who started as a pottery place to experience the joy of driving free pathologists today. Up to three people of staff have been accused of ignoring painter at rivals Wedgwood, “a phenome- from the irritation of fellow motorists. The Asian origin are thought to have drowned Hussain’s screams for hours before he non who has helped us in a difficult eco- remote road takes in St Mary’s Loch and in 1972 after paying to be smuggled into died. Full Sutton, which opened in 1987, nomic environment". Mr Edwards, whose the rolling Scottish lowlands as it snakes the country. Four people were dropped to specialise in high-risk prisoners, holds firm employed only four designers be- 10 miles through Dumfries and Galloway. into a dinghy from a motorboat and tried some of the most dangerous criminals, tween 1897 and 1993, said: “It's not a case Motoring pleasure can also be found in to row ashore, but the craft overturned. including those suspected of terror of saying our other designers are no good. Wales, on the A481 from Builth Wells to One survived and the body of a second offences. The injured man has not been They are extremely good, but Emma is Radnor, which came second on the list. was found, but the fate of the other two named. Martin Wainwright unbelievable.’’ Martin Wainwright Gerard Seenan has remained a mystery. Steven Morris

East Lothian

Power plant transformed into head-turning art

For the 16.5 million travellers who make “unmissable” their way from Edinburgh to London down the east coast each year, Torness nu- james king - radio one clear power station is an unmissable, if un- remarkable, building. But the East Loth- ian power plant is about to become one of “Keira Knightley is the most spectacular art installations in Britain. Ricky Demarco, a Scottish arts im- presario, is planning to project art on to BREATHTAKINGLY BRILLIANT” the huge structure. The first piece will be a six-minute film by the artist Ken Mc- CHRIS TOOKEY - DAILY MAIL Mullen, Lumen De Lumine, exploring the relationship between science and art. The film will run on continuous loop for a year. “A JOY TO BEHOLD” Gerard Seenan ★★★★★ Cornwall EVe L-plates to help identify Celtic language novices

The revival of the Cornish language is gathering pace, but newcomers to the ancient Celtic tongue have always had a problem — finding others to practise with. Now Cornishman Robbie Wright has come up with a novel way of making sure stu- dents recognise each other on the street and stop for a chat. He has designed learner plates, an L superimposed on a Cornish flag badge. Mr Wright, 43, said: “Learners will be able to recognise fellow speakers.” It is thought that several hun- dred people speak Cornish reasonably flu- ently and a few thousand have some knowledge of it. Steven Morris

Dales on rails

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Matthew MacfaDYen  Brenda Blethyn  Donald Sutherland and Judi Dench

The daily railcar service that opens today restoring the link between the Pride & Prejudice Wensleydale railway and the East Coast main line for the first time in 50 years

Darlington

Forget holes in one. Golfer hits round in one

The shortest round in the history of golf ended at the weekend when a charity player’s opening shot scored a hole in one — at the 18th and final green. Peter Barron skewed the ball so badly it flew 150 metres in a huge loop, over several trees and spec- tators and into the hole where it — and other players’ balls — had not been ex- pected for at least an hour. Mr Barron, 43, the editor of the Northern Echo, was given a round of applause at the Blackwell PREVIEWS THURSDAY  at CINEMAS FROM FRIDAY Grange golf club in Darlington. He said: “I am so bad at golf that I will never get a real advance booking open now - CHECK LISTINGS FOR DETAILS hole in one so I will settle for this happily.” Martin Wainwright Section:GDN BE PaGe:9 Edition Date:050912 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 11/9/2005 16:47 cYanmaGentaYellowblack

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Culture clash Sir Nicholas Serota on his radical vision for British art

Taking the Tate into the future

Charlotte Higgins took the job in 1988, presiding over the nerve”, he said, by ditching the Arts correspondent opening of Tates Liverpool and St Ives innovative displays introduced at the and masterminding the creation of Tate millennium that fused painting and Modern. The undisputed titan of British photography. It returned to a more Approached by a narrow, dimly lit corri- art, to many he “is” the Tate. traditional presentation after its recent dor, the room is dramatically dark. It Sir Nicholas, 59, has a contract for redevelopment. would be black except for the 13 paint- another four years. He said he wanted to He admitted that Tate Modern’s col- ings, which, each illuminated by a single stay on for “as long as I am really con- lection is so defective that the museum bright beam, seem to throw out their tributing”, and not “beyond my wel- could never mount a chronological own rich gleam of turquoise, fuchsia, or come”, but did not rule out continuing history of modern art as in Paris or gold. The room is lined — floor, ceiling, after 2009. “The Tate is good, not excel- New York. walls — in an elaborately knotted walnut lent. There is still much to do,” he said. panelling. One end of the room curves The Tate Britain rehang sees a new Redevelopment gently outwards, like the apse of a focus on immigrant artists of an earlier Next year, however, radical new displays cathedral. This is the extraordinary new generation, including a room devoted to in Tate Modern will focus on moments Chris Ofili installation, The Upper Room, the largely forgotten FN Souza, an in art history — such as surrealism, or in Tate Britain. Indian-born artist who died in 2002. the minimalism and conceptualism of Giving the Guardian an exclusive pre- In a neighbouring gallery a work by the 1960s — and chart their effects on view of the gallery’s new rehang, Sir the artist John Latham involves a collec- artists working today. Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate, tion of live piranhas. They symbolise the He said that the Tate was actively col- said: “The question is, will the visitors art world and political establishment, lecting contemporary and modern art ever let us take it down?” according to the artist, and are trapped from Latin America, south Asia and Loosely based on The Last Supper, in a tank with one of his essays, which China. “We are also buying from Africa. but depicting monkeys in place of apos- they are forced to “read”. We are actively searching out places tles, the works feature Ofili’s trademark Sir Nicholas told the Guardian that in where there’s energy.” elephant dung. The panelled room has the future the Tate should be dramati- The museum will soon start the been specially created by the architect cally recast to integrate “graphics, film, process of redeveloping the unused David Adjaye. photography and performance. Visual space to the south of its Turbine Hall, The Upper Room is not just a major culture is so much more complex than which is planned to result in a 60% new acquisition by the Tate, but key to painting or sculpture. expansion by 2012. Sir Nicholas’s vision for his remaining “The big idea,” he said, “is that the He said that when discussing the ex- years at the helm of Britain’s most signif- old hierarchies between painting and pansion plans with a former arts minis- icant arts institution, which he revealed sculpture and other forms of expression ter, she had told him: “Don’t be too to the Guardian. have evaporated. greedy.” He plans a radical unseating of paint- “Artists are reflecting on the culture “Politicians lag a long way behind ing and sculpture from their positions as around them — club culture, or what- the public in their appreciation of the the “king and queen” of art. In addition, ever it is — and the institution needs to importance of art in this country,” he he aims to create a Tate that “does not reflect that in the way it shows, presents said. “Notwithstanding the huge public appear monocultural” but reflects a and buys art.” interest in Tate there is still an innate “broader British society, in all its rich- As for Tate Modern, he said, it should conservatism that creeps out at the ness”. His ambition also includes repre- be leading the way with innovative slightest excuse.” senting the full depth of contemporary displays and ideas, not trailing in the He added: “There is never a moment life, such as club culture. wake of Paris’s Pompidou Centre and when you can say you’ve completed the New York’s Museum of Modern Art, task, but I’d like to see the moment New generation whose collections of 20th-century art, when the visual arts are recognised “One of the most important things that he admitted, are fundamentally superior as a very strong part of culture in this has been happening in British art over Sir Nicholas Serota, who has to the Tate’s. Moma had shown a “loss of country.” the past 25 years is the way it has been a contract to direct the Tate The vision for the Tate, he said, steadily infused by artists who were per- for four more years, prepares included the idea that the museum in haps not born here, but are working to open the rehang of Tate ‘The old hierarchies have society should be “not a cathedral, but a here, or perhaps who are second genera- Britain, which includes Chris evaporated. Artists are meeting place, where you see and recog- tion — such as Mona Hatoum, Steve Mc- Ofili’s extraordinary new nise other people in society; a place of Queen, Chris Ofili and Veronica Ryan,” Upper Room, above, as well as reflecting on the culture debate and dialogue and exchange, not a he said. classics such as Jacob Epstein’s around them and the place of worship”. 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10 The Guardian | Monday September 12 2005 National Family drama that keeps the audience right up to date

drawn Josh (Ben Caplan), son of Rachel New play and smug Danny (Allan Corduner), is keeps the setting domestic shown drawing the curtains and strapping up his arm. Just when you think he will Starring role on coffee fix himself up with heroin, he says a Jew- ish prayer instead. table for the Guardian His left-liberal parents are as shocked by their son’s new-found religiosity as by Patrick Barkham any discovery of drug addiction. “I don’t understand. It’s like having a Martian in the house,” says Danny. “How come an First it was whispered to be about the war expensively educated, scientifically- in Iraq. Then a rumour suggested it would minded undergraduate brought up in a be set among Jewish settlers in Israel in secular household turns to God?” asks 1948. Finally, one of the most eagerly Grandpa Dave (John Burgess). His mother awaited theatrical mysteries was solved also despairs. “What is he going to eat? over the weekend when the curtain rose Will he want to go kosher?” on Mike Leigh’s new play, revealing a fam- Leigh’s script implies that the cosy lib- ily drama in a familiar domestic setting. eralism of Danny and Rachel is based on a The preview of Two Thousand Years, view of the world every bit as unques- Leigh’s first foray into theatre for 12 years, tioning and rigid as Josh’s traditional Jew- was enthusiastically received at the Na- ish faith. Danny rails against his son’s tional Theatre on Saturday night. With all “irrationality” while telling off his daugh- 16,000 tickets for the entire 20-week run ter Tammy for leaving her keys on the of the mystery play sold out, queues table. “It’s bad luck,” he snaps, repeatedly. Crime scene examiners and armed police after the shooting in Ashton-under-Lyne Photograph: Andy Kelvin formed at 6am for 30 extra tickets. After the performance, Leigh briefly The play zipped across the political ter- mingled with an appreciative audience. rain of Israel, Iraq, withdrawal from the “It was one of the most brilliant pieces of Gaza Strip and even the floods in New work I have ever seen,” enthused Nigel Gunman shot dead by police Orleans, as Leigh, 62, perhaps proved why Shaps. “I’m Jewish and this nails Jewish family life like nothing that has ever been Mike Leigh: his around in this country. It’s so truthful. I Martin Wainwright The shooting is the first time that lived in the street for 11 years, described first foray into the couldn’t imagine anyone who exists in a Greater Manchester police have killed a the attacker as “a really burly type, quite theatre in 12 years family not finding this moving and civilian, and Police Com- fat and about six foot tall”. After the looks at the strains funny.” An inquiry was launched yesterday after plaints Commission began an inquiry last machete attack, she ran across the road of relationships in Some were left breathless at the play’s police shot dead a gunman who opened night. Among issues on the agenda was and took in the two children, Ben, 10, and a London Jewish up-to-the-minute script. “When did he fire on a house in Greater Manchester after why the area around the £70,000 house 12-year-old Alex. family decide he was going to stop writing it?” earlier smashing its windows and the in Crawford Street had not been cordoned “They were terrified after the first inci- asked Susie Reay-Jones. owner’s 4x4 pickup with a machete. Po- off after the machete attack. dent and I brought them into my house to the first performance was suddenly post- While many in the audience savoured lice later named the gunman as Craig King. Investigators are also expected to ques- calm them down,” she said. “I believe it poned last Thursday: it was clear the au- the suspense of not having a clue what Horrified neighbours watched as the tion detectives about how much effort was their mother’s brother who turned up thor of Abigail’s Party and Secrets & Lies they had paid to see, others confessed a man used a rifle in a quiet terraced street had been made to arrest the man after the with the machete. We heard the sound of was still writing it. sense of anticlimax at a play that was slow in Ashton-under-Lyne, where armed po- machete attack, when his car registration smashing glass and then he drove off. Set amidst the comfortable sofas and to get going and domestic exchanges that lice had arrived after an emergency call number and suspected identity were “A number of people got his registra- stripped pine of a middle-class north Lon- sometimes seemed banal. following the earlier attack. given in 999 calls by neighbours, as well tion and phoned the police. While they don living room, in typically naturalistic But the real star of the show sparked Officers were interviewing Peter Brom- as one from the victims. were interviewing Pete the man phoned, style Leigh’s play looks at the strained the opening line of the play and stimu- ley, 42, whose partner and her children Mr Bromley had been drinking in a local But I don’t think Pete or the police relationships between three generations lated discussion at the end. It was there, were in the house during the first attack, pub before the first incident, watching the expected him to actually come back so of a Jewish family. stealing every scene with its method act- when the man phoned to say: “I’m going Premier League derby between Manches- quickly, if at all.” Opening with mother Rachel (Caroline ing from the living room coffee table. A to blow your fucking head off.” ter United and City. An argument is said Another resident, Jean Fox, said: “This Gruber) reading the comment and analy- standing ovation for the Guardian please. He appeared within minutes, fired to have started involving the brother of has always been a lovely family neigh- sis pages of the Guardian, the first scenes The only remaining mystery of Leigh’s through the window and was then fatally Mr Bromley’s partner, who moved in with bourhood. Pete is a hard-working man poke fun at the comfortable assumptions play is: will it be Berliner-shaped by the injured as officers returned fire. He died him six months ago with her two children. who doesn’t attract trouble, and this has of the chattering classes. Moody, with- end of the show tonight? later on Saturday in Tameside hospital. Marilyn Rider, a grandmother who has been a terrible shock.” Section:GDN BE PaGe:11 Edition Date:050912 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 11/9/2005 17:32 cYanmaGentaYellowblack

The Guardian | Monday September 12 2005 11 National BBC’s new day dawns Marr turns up the volume on restyled politics show

Berliner, combining the gravitas of the Rusbridger: “It looks like that.’’ Simon Hoggart Economist with the colourful good Leslie: “Oh, my God …’’ humour of the Beano. Which is one view. Everyone was taut with nerves but Then on to the new US ambassador, esterday saw the first trying to hide it. “Andrew, I want you on Robert Tuttle, who reveals that George edition of Sunday AM, the floor — now,’’ said the editor, Barney Bush is a “strong, resilient and visionary the new politics and Jones. It was four minutes to the start, leader’’. The ambassador adds that he arts show on BBC1 that which seemed to be running it a little loves Britain, and has bought many of replaces Breakfast With fine. At 9.00 they ran a short film of him our antiques. The people in the gallery Frost. It has a new pre- “arriving’’ in a tiny powder-blue car. think this is funny, and the laughter in- Ysenter, Andrew Marr, This is in line with other newsreaders dicates their growing relief. and a new set, which who have very modest means of trans- Kevin Spacey talks about his work at was much admired but which looked to port. Jon Snow has his bike. Huw Ed- the Old Vic, then the chancellor of the me like a penthouse flat decorated by a wards will shortly be seen hitchhiking to exchequer appears and provides the cru- Mike Leigh character, possibly Abigail. It Television Centre. “We’re off, we’re cial lines about petrol prices and ra- was full of stuff, for no apparent reason. away!’’ shouts Jones. tioning — the key answers that will get Andrew Marr claimed to be very ner- After the news, a discussion of the pa- the programme talked about on the vous. I offered the actors’ traditional pers with Rusbridger, and Ann Leslie of news through the day. Mr Brown is good luck cry of “break a leg’’ and he the Daily Mail. Jones stalks nervously wearing a bright pink tie. What’s with said: “I might do just that. I’ve got to and constantly round the gallery, occa- these ties? Was there a power cut when walk on at the start. If I manage not to sionally barking an instruction down a they all got dressed? fall over, that’ll be a triumph.’’ mike into Marr’s ear. “Alan Rusbridger Then over to John Major at the Oval, Well, it was never all that likely. Marr has got his new Guardian under the waiting for the penultimate day’s play. has been on television more often than table, he wants to show it.’’ He can’t, be- He too is in a bright pink tie. Marr asks most of us have had dinner, and he loves cause Leslie is still talking about Satur- what the feeling in his bowels is. The it. It’s his arena, like Freddie Flintoff at day’s celebrity weddings. Finally he is feeling in his bowels is that England can Old Trafford. “We had a rehearsal the allowed to whisk it out. do it. I begin to be glad that I haven’t had other day,’’ said one of the team, “and breakfast. Marr leaves the autocue at Andy was prancing round the set like a one point, causing near panic upstairs in little boy with a new toy.’’ the “gallery’’, or control room. “He’s off He was also wearing a tie in incredibly piste!’’ says someone, and there is huge bright yellow, brown, gold and pink This is the kind of tie that relaxation when he gets back to the stripes. This is the kind of tie that tells script. you something about a man, chiefly that tells you something Then John Williams plays out over the he likes very loud ties. titles, and the gallery breaks up in laugh- One of the guests was our editor, Alan about a man, chiefly that ter, applause and relief. “It went better Rusbridger, who was helping out with he likes very loud ties than I could ever have hoped,’’ says the review of the day’s papers, and hop- Jones, and a sort of mass hug-in ensues, ing to plug the wondrous object you Andrew Marr, presenter of the BBC’s new politics show, Sunday AM, questioning followed by a fry-up, washed down with presently hold in your hands, the new Gordon Brown about petrol prices yesterday Photograph: Dan Chung champagne. Section:GDN BE PaGe:12 Edition Date:050912 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 11/9/2005 18:14 cYanmaGentaYellowblack

12 The Guardian | Monday September 12 2005 National

Education Health Environment Defence

Half of primary staff ‘not 250 clinics to tackle Protests over honorary Nato prepares for Afghan able to teach science’ depression epidemic degree for Clarkson deployment of UK troops

Half of all primary schoolteachers do not Plans for a national network of 250 psy- BBC presenter Jeremy Clarkson will be John Reid will tomorrow meet his fellow feel they understand basic science well chological treatment centres to provide met by student protests today as he is Nato defence ministers in a Berlin hotel to enough to teach the subject, even at the therapy for 1 million people a year are be- awarded an honorary degree from Oxford prepare the ground for the biggest de- elementary primary level, according to a ing considered by ministers to tackle a na- Brookes University for his “contribution ployment of British troops since the inva- survey published today. The research, tional epidemic of depression and anxi- to learning and society". Clarkson, who sion of Iraq. In public, the ministers are carried out by the Wellcome Trust, ety. A framework for making behavioural has ridiculed cyclists and environmental- likely to play down the significance of Queen’s University Belfast and St Mary’s therapy freely available under the NHS ists and questioned global warming, is de- their meeting; but privately, defence offi- University College Belfast, involved ques- will be set out today by Lord Layard, a scribed by the university as an “exemplary cials say it will be important in paving the tioning 300 primary schoolteachers across Downing Street adviser who has con- role model for the university's students". way for the deployment of some 4,000 the UK. The survey also revealed that vinced the prime minister that mental ill- A spokesman for Transport 2000 said the British troops in in May next teachers who had taken part in pro- ness has become Britain’s biggest social award “was like Inspector Clouseau being year. Britain, which will also deploy fessional development programmes in problem. He will call for an extra 10,000 given detective of the year award by the Apache helicopters for the first time, has science were more confident in almost therapists to be trained over the next 10 head of Scotland Yard. He doesn’t deserve agreed to take charge of Nato’s expanding every aspect of teaching the subject. years to provide an alternative to pills. it." Clarkson was not available for com- role in a country facing more attacks from Rebecca Smithers John Carvel ment. John Vidal Taliban recruits. Richard Norton-Taylor

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The Guardian | Monday September 12 2005 13 National

CIA terror flights Destination Cairo: human rights fears over CIA flights

Snatched suspects tell of torture UN investigator to look at British role

Ian Cobain Stephen Grey Richard Norton-Taylor

It was only a matter of time before the CIA caught up with Saad Iqbal Madni. A Pakistani Islamist and, allegedly, a close associate of Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, he turned up in Indonesia in November 2001, just as the Taliban regime was crumbling and members of al-Qaida were fleeing Afghanistan. Renting a room in a Jakarta boarding house, he told locals he had arrived to hand over an inheritance to his late father’s second wife. On January 9 2002, Iqbal was seized by Indonesian intelligence agents. Two days later, according to Indonesian officials, he was bundled aboard a Gulfstream V exec- utive jet which had flown into a military airfield in the city. Then, without any extradition hearing or judicial process, he Flying in the face of the law? was flown to Cairo. The United States claims its Iqbal, 24, had become the latest terror- ‘rendition’ policy of delivering ism suspect to fall into a system known in seized suspects to countries US intelligence circles as “extraordinary believed to carry out torture is not a rendition” — the apprehension of a sus- breach of international law. Human pect who is not placed on trial, or flown to rights lawyers strongly disagree Guantánamo, but taken to a country where torture is common. logistical support. There is no suggestion napping operations may violate These suspects are denied legal repre- How UK airports were used that any of the UK airport authorities have international law, according to some sentation, and their detention is con- colluded in any wrongdoing. The CIA’s lawyers, while the CIA agents involved cealed from the International Committee renditions programme, and its use of UK may also be breaking British domestic law. CIA jet CIA-chartered jet Inverness 5 of the Red Cross. The most common des- airports, has angered some human rights “In international law, states are required tination is Egypt, but there is evidence of Leuchars 6 lawyers. Concern is also being expressed to prevent acts of torture, and not turn a Belfast 1 detainees also being flown to Jordan, Mo- in a number of other European countries, blind eye to it,” said Paul Green, a member Luton rocco, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Syria. Biggin Hill 11 19 where authorities have barred the agency of the Law Society’s international human Precise numbers are impossible to de- from making unauthorised flights or have rights committee. Birmingham 8 termine. A report on renditions published launched investigations into abductions. It remains illegal under US law for any by New York University school of law and Bournemouth 2 American citizen to torture a foreigner. Crit- the New York City Bar Association sug- Unauthorised flights ics of the rendition campaign argue that the Brize Norton 8 gests that around 150 people have been 84 Last month Denmark announced that CIA gets around this by practising “torture “rendered” in the last four years, but that Edinburgh 3 unauthorised CIA flights would not be al- by proxy”, taking detainees to countries Mildenhall 2 is only an estimate. A handful have 11 lowed into the country’s airspace, while where they know they will be tortured. emerged from what has been labelled a Northolt in Austria, in January 2003, two fighters President George Bush has defended the Farnborough secret gulag, and have given deeply dis- were scrambled to intercept a Hercules renditions programme, saying: “We oper- 17 33 turbing accounts of horrific mistreatment. transport plane thought to be involved in ate within the law and we send people to Previous media reports have uncovered Gatwick 22 Prestwick the renditions operation which had not countries where they say they're not go- sketchy details of a British link to CIA declared itself to be on a government mis- ing to torture the people.” Critics doubt Glasgow abduction operations, but the full extent sion. In Sweden, a parliamentary investi- whether such pledges are credible. The US of the UK’s support can now be revealed. 67 gator into the abduction of two Egyptian State Department describes torture as be- Drawing on publicly available information 8 men flown from Stockholm to Cairo in De- ing systemic in most of the countries. Even from the US Federal Aviation Adminis- 69 cember 2001 concluded that CIA agents the CIA has described the “curtailment of Stansted 14 tration, the Guardian has compiled a 5 had broken the country’s laws by subject- human rights” in Uzbekistan as a concern. database of flight records which shows the Heathrow 11 Wick 2 ing the pair to “inhuman treatment”. In The CIA declined to comment. extent of British logistical support. Italy, a judge has issued warrants for the Aircraft involved in the operations have arrest of 19 CIA agents said to have been flown into the UK at least 210 times since renditions is clear: “When several states as long as possible.” Some of the flights behind the kidnapping of Osama Mustafa Footnote 9/11, an average of one flight a week. The can, through cooperating, breach their which the Guardian has examined were Hassan Nasr, an Islamist cleric dragged 26-strong fleet run by the CIA have used obligations under international law simul- made during operations which clearly into a van near his home in Milan in Feb- Extraordinary rendition 19 British airports and RAF bases, includ- taneously, if they are all involved in torture, ended in the abduction of a terrorism sus- ruary 2003. He was flown to Egypt for in- The US policy of taking moving sus- ing Heathrow, Gatwick, Birmingham, they all bear their own responsibility. It is pect who was then tortured, such as Iqbal. terrogation, and later told relatives that pects from one country to another Luton, Bournemouth and Belfast. The my intention to look at acts where more Other data points to the strong possibil- he had been tortured with electric shocks. without any court hearing or extradi- favourite destination is Prestwick, which than one state is involved. It is too early to ity that the CIA was using British airports The aircraft and their crews are the suc- tion process. CIA aircraft have flown into and out from say what will happen with the UK.” during an abduction operation. On March cessors to Air America, the CIA-owned air- more than 75 times. Glasgow has seen 74 Although the Foreign Office has denied 26 2002, the Gulfstream used in the ab- line that flew covert missions during the Uzbekistan flights, and RAF Northolt 33. any knowledge of the use of British air- duction of Iqbal flew from North Carolina Vietnam war. Many of the aircraft are op- One destination for suspects ab- The Gulfstream V on to which Iqbal was ports during renditions, Prof Scheinin to Washington and on to Prestwick, where erated by a company called Aero Contrac- ducted during rendition operations is bundled and flown to Egypt, for example, says: “It isn’t unusual that governments it remained overnight before flying to tors, which was founded by a former chief Uzbezkistan. Craig Murray, former left Cairo on January 15 and headed for deny involvement and try to keep it secret Dubai. Two days later, FBI officials and pilot of Air America, and is based in a re- British ambassador in Taskent, Scotland. After a brief stopover at Prest- Pakistani police stormed a house in Faisal- mote corner of an airfield at Smithfield, believes they were probably tortured. wick, probably to refuel, it departed again abad, where they arrested a number of al- North Carolina. for Washington. Iqbal was held in Cairo for Qaida suspects, including Abu Zubaydah, Most of the CIA’s fleet, which includes Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr two years before appearing in Guantá- one of Osama bin Laden’s senior aides. executive jets, a Boeing 737 and a Hercules Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, is an namo, where he told other detainees who Flight records do not show where the transport plane, is owned, at least on pa- Egyptian national who had been have since been released that he was tor- aircraft flew after Dubai, and where per, by a network of seven other compa- granted political asylum in Italy. CIA tured by having electrodes placed on his Zubaydah was taken remains a mystery. nies. Examination of records in the US agents are wanted by the Italian au- knees. It also appears that his bladder was There have been rumours that he is being shows these seven firms to be a series of thorities for abducting him in Milan. damaged during interrogation. held in the far east, however, and the Gulf- shell companies with no premises, and stream next appeared in Alaska before the directors of the companies appear to Air America Violations returning to Washington. be fictitious. Aero’s company president, Funded and controlled by the CIA, Human rights campaigners insist that these On other occasions the same aircraft has Norman Richardson, would not talk to the the airline flew covert operations at operations violate international law. Wash- stopped off at Prestwick before and after Guardian, although he has told one Amer- the height of the Vietnam war. ington insists they do not. Nevertheless, flying people from Pakistan to Tashkent ican journalist: “Most of the work we do is the United Nations is seeking to examine in Uzbekistan. Craig Murray, the former for the government. It’s on the basis that Stockholm Britain’s role in the policy, as part of a wider British ambassador in Tashkent, says he we can’t say anything about it.” A former Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad Zery, inquiry into ways in which counter-terror- Abu Zubaydah, above, is aware of detainees being flown into the Aero Contractors pilot has confirmed to asylum seekers convicted in absentia ism operations around the world may was seized in Pakistan, country on an executive jet, and believes the New York Times that he had been re- of membership of Islamist group. Ac- breach basic human rights. they were probably tortured. cruited by the CIA, and that the agency ran cording to inquiry evidence last year, Martin Scheinin, a UN commission on but where he was It is not clear whether any detainees are the airline. He said the crews did not use they were abducted by Swedish police human rights special rapporteur, has sub- taken remains a mystery on board the aircraft when they land in the the term extraordinary rendition: “We and Americans. Both said they were mitted a number of queries to the British UK, or whether the CIA is using British air- used to call them snatches.” later tortured in Egypt. government. His view about complicity in ports purely for refuelling and other British assistance for covert CIA kid- Section:GDN BE PaGe:14 Edition Date:050912 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 11/9/2005 19:16 cYanmaGentaYellowblack

14 The Guardian | Monday September 12 2005 Culture vulture What the critics don’t say National Join back-row blogger in the first of the series blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture Ginger gene makes redheads more sensitive to the cold

Audrey Gillan pain at around 6C (43F), unlike the “After a previous study we received for having lower pain thresholds and my volunteers with dark hair, who did not more than 100 communications from red- midwife even warned me when I was giv- really begin to flinch until the tempera- heads who claimed that anaesthesia often ing birth to my son Archie. I usually need Not only are they more likely to burn ture got down to freezing. failed or that unusually high doses of local a double dose of anaesthetic when I go to when the mercury rises, but they also feel Researchers think that the ginger gene, anaesthetics were required to achieve the dentist.” the most pain when it drops. known as MC1R, may cause the tempera- adequate analgesia,” he said. “It sug- Simon Cheetham of Red and Proud, a Researchers at Louisville University in ture-detecting gene to become over- gested that the redhead gene may have website that claims to represent redheads,

Kentucky have discovered that people MURDO MACLEOD PHOTOGRAPH: activated, making redheads more sensi- some role in the pain pathway. That red- welcomed the research, but said it shat- with ginger hair are more sensitive than tive to the cold. It is hoped that this heads are subject to sunburn and skin can- tered the myth of the tough, ginger most. A study released yesterday shows research can be used to develop better cer must be linked to the difference in Scottish male. that the presence of a ginger gene means pain-relieving drugs and anaesthetics. pain sensitivity.” “The stereotype of a Celt is a wild, many redheads need extra doses of anaes- Daniel Sessler, the director of the uni- Vanessa Collingridge, a red-headed kilted man with red hair who takes no thetic during surgery because they suffer versity’s outcomes research institute and television presenter and author, said: “I notice of the temperature,” he said. “In pain more acutely. department of anaesthesiology, said the am like a reptile because I am so cold- fact most redheads don’t really like Scientists compared the pain tolerance study had confirmed anecdotal evidence blooded. I have caught hypothermia twice extremes of temperature.” of 60 ginger-haired volunteers with 60 that redheads were more sensitive to cer- while filming in Scotland — and that was brunettes. The redheads began to feel Vanessa Collingridge: cold-blooded tain types of pain. during the summer. Redheads are known guardian.co.uk/life ≥ Teaching unions unite to Great value call for review from of school tests £17.99* Rebecca Smithers a month Education editor A powerful alliance of teaching unions will join forces today to press the government for an urgent review of “high-stakes” na- tional tests for 11-year-olds in England, which they claim are failing pupils and damaging the progress of schools. Does your All six of the teachers’ organisations, representing hundreds of thousands of heads and deputies, teachers and support staff, warn in a report that schools are increasingly “teaching to the test” and pupils are missing out by studying only a narrow range of subjects. The unions urge ministers to carry out an independent review of the so-called key stage two national tests and the use of the results to compile performance broadband tables. The compulsory tests in English, maths and science are taken by 11-year- olds in their final year at primary school in England. The report highlights the central prob- lems of the system, which include the narrowing of the curriculum. With many primary schools spending 70% of their time on English and maths, children come with all are missing out on geography, history, ‘[We] need to know how well schools are performing but we need a better system, one that doesn’t fail schools and children alike’

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The Guardian | Monday September 12 2005 15 Law

Writ large Judges ready to defy ministers Porky pies at the DTI over terror deportations Marcel Berlins his is a story of cover-up, DTI had appealed against the high double dealing, maladminis- court's decision, but admitted later it Scepticism expressed UPPA tration, dishonesty, and de- had no intention of going ahead with the over ‘no torture’ deals liberately issuing misleading appeal — it was a time-wasting device to Tinformation (also known as enable them to sneak through a change Government not trying to telling lies). The perpetrator in the law. They had given a bogus rea- was the Department of Trade and Indus- son for their opposition to providing the sway courts, says Falconer try, and the full facts have only now be- information. They had reneged on a come public, in a report by Ann Abra- promise to consult the charity on their Clare Dyer ham, the parliamentary ombudsman. plans. And there was more (see Legal editor The story starts with a principle. www.pcaw.co.uk/news). Open justice includes the entitlement to The upshot of all this misbehaviour is know what's going on in our courts. So, that the DTI now has to pay Public Con- Senior judges are preparing to face down it’s possible for anyone to inspect the cern at Work compensation. That, of what they see as ministerial pressure over register of the claims that initiate cases course, comes out of taxpayers’ money. the proposed deportation of foreign ter- in the courts. In the high court, for in- And still the public is denied access to ror suspects under the government's con- stance, you can look up who is suing information it is entitled to have. troversial security measures in the wake whom, for what, and on what grounds; of the London attacks. and there's enough information to find it astonishing that the man The judges, who could ultimately understand the case. George Bush has nominated as decide on deportations, have told the Not so the register of claims brought chief justice of the US supreme Guardian that they will not rubber stamp before employment tribunals, which de- court has never been a judge of that decisions to deport suspects under the hu- cide employees’ allegations of unfair Icourt. John Roberts was to be put man rights deal struck with Jordan and workplace treatment. That just listed forward to replace Sandra Day O'- sought with other countries such as Alge- the names of employee, employer and Connor on her retirement when the ria. They say they will look at each case, the kind of case — sex discrimination, chief justice, William Rehnquist, died studying the history and current situation unfair dismissal etc, but no further de- and, whizzo, within 24 hours Roberts in the particular country, before deciding tails. Another category referred to em- went from potential most junior judge on the risk to the individual. ployees who alleged they had been vic- to the plum job. Shouldn't they have The Guardian spoke to four of the 37 timised for being whistleblowers, draw- waited to see whether he was any good appeal court judges, whose views — given ing attention to some wrong or illegal on the highest court? A bit of a gamble on condition of anonymity — represent practice by their employers. I'd say, but not unheard of. Both Earl wider judicial opinion. One judge said he The whistleblowers' charity Public Warren and Warren Burger had not been had spoken to colleagues who took the Concern at Work wanted to know more on the court before becoming its chief. same stance. The judges are adamant about those cases, and, in 2000, took the Warren had not been a judge at all. that they will not trim their judgments in DTI to the high court, asking the judge President Eisenhower made him chief response to ministerial comments ap- to rule that the register should provide justice, expecting a conservative; War- pearing to blame the judiciary for ham- more information. The judge agreed. ren turned out to be a liberal. pering attempts to rid Britain of danger- Here is where it became surreal. What Could it happen here? The position in ous extremists. is expected when you lose a case and the Britain is complicated by the fact that “The judges won't buckle," said one. high court judge rules that you should the head of the judiciary — the lord chief Another commented: “Judges do not need ‘The judges will not buckle. They do not need lessons on national security’ do something, is to do it. But not so for justice — isn't the head of the highest lessons on national security." the DTI. The direct result of the case in court, the House of Lords (soon to be the Only the fourth questioned the length which the DTI was told to furnish more supreme court). But in principle there's to which judges could go in challenging ing a case, but would not determine the out is allowed. The majority of the Stras- information is that the public today is nothing to stop a relatively low-level agreements between governments. He final decision. bourg judges ruled in the Chahal case that getting no information at all. In effect, judge, even a part-time one, becoming a added: “I'm not influenced by the fact that Lord Falconer insists that the govern- the courts could not balance the state's there is now no register open to the pub- chief justice. I'm sure the government, judges are effectively being told to toe the ment is not trying to influence the judges. interest in national security against the in- lic. The DTI got the law changed. in its present mood, would be happy to line. On the other hand, judges can't “The debate that we are currently having terests of the proposed deportee. Chahal How the DTI achieved this was the see top judges appointed for their anti- ignore the current situation and I think is utterly open and inevitably involves a was released after six years in detention. subject of the ombudsman's scathing re- pathy towards human rights laws. Fortu- instinctively one is likely to be a bit discussion of the role of the judiciary but Under the Human Rights Act, which be- port, which included findings that the nately, we are about to have a new judi- tougher than one might have been three does not involve the government seeking came law in 2000, UK judges are obliged to department had misled the courts, par- cial appointments commission, which months ago." in any shape or form to put pressure on take account of Strasbourg case law. To liament and the public. A full house. The will minimise ministers’ influence. Ministers have concluded a memoran- the judges," he told the Guardian. counter the Chahal ruling, ministers are dum of understanding with Jordan, which The stumbling block to deporting considering bringing in primary legisla- has given assurances that no one deported foreign terror suspects and extremists is tion requiring the interests of the state to there will face torture or inhuman treat- article 3 of the European convention on be balanced against the risk to the indi- ment. They hope to strike similar deals human rights, which guarantees protec- vidual when deciding to deport foreign with about 10 north African and Middle tion against inhuman or degrading treat- terror suspects. Eastern countries. ment or torture. But even under current law, Lord Fal- Last week Charles Clarke told the In 1996, the European court of human coner said, judges could still approve the judges that they should respect the bilat- rights in Strasbourg ruled that Britain deportation if the foreign government's eral deals as genuine. “It cannot be right would breach article 3 if it sent Karamjit assurances in the agreement were specific that government to government agree- Singh Chahal, a Sikh militant, back to In- enough and there was independent ments are not respected," the home dia because he would face a real risk of in- monitoring afterwards. secretary said. human treatment by the authorities there. However, one appeal court judge But one judge countered: “They [the The government opted out of article 5, pointed out: “Certain countries practise government] are not going to get the the right to liberty, to lock up foreign ter- torture absolutely routinely and it may judges to say ‘there's an agreement, so ror suspects without trial. But the right not be altogether easy to credit a promise everything's hunky dory'.” not to be tortured or treated inhumanely that they're going to stop". On monitor- Agreements would be a factor in decid- is an absolute right from which no opting ing, another said: “Whether that's going to work is going to vary from country to country. Some of these countries have conditions which are pretty unpre- dictable. We will have regard to all the ev- idence put before us, including the home office country information reports as well as reports by independent experts. Agree- ment between the UK government and Politics- the foreign government as to how they on-sea: the would behave towards certain people who conference are returned —that would be relevant. season “The government will have to produce some evidence that the agreement is covered at actually worth the paper it's written on. guardian. Assurances from a foreign government co.uk/ may or may not be things to which you attach weight." politics Section:GDN BE PaGe:16 Edition Date:050912 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 11/9/2005 19:28 cYanmaGentaYellowblack

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Jeff Randall, right, the BBC’s high pro- the current Sunday Times business edi- and emotional distress. The jury unani- purchase on Apple's iTunes website, file business editor, will step down be- tor, Will Lewis, is also joining the daily mously found Jackson not guilty in June. after Potter fans spotted bootleg ver- fore the end of the year to return to paper. Lewis will replace Neil Collins, Hultman has since changed his view. sions on the internet. newspaper journalism. Appointed in who left earlier this month after 19 years March 2001 by the then director general as city editor to become a columnist at Google’s new “chief internet evangelist” First time authors rarely enjoy a plug Greg Dyke, Randall is thought to have the Evening Standard. Randall will not Vinton Cerf is tasked with dreaming up from a veteran rival, but Adam Jacot de become increasingly frustrated by the totally sever his connections with the fresh ideas for the technology giant. Boinod’s debut book detailing peculiar strictures of television news. BBC, however, as another series of his Known as the father of the internet for foreign words has attracted gushing He is believed to be close to signing a consumer-focused Weekend Business, on his pioneering work in the 1970s, Cerf praise from the writer and actor Stephen contract worth around £160,000 a year Radio 5 Live, is scheduled. may begin by generating a way of charg- Fry. “A book no well-stocked bookshelf, to return to — ing for intellectual property online, cistern-top or handbag should be with- where he worked as a city correspon- A juror who sat in Michael Jackson’s something that has long frustrated him. out,” enthuses Fry. “At last we know dent between 1986 and 1988 — to con- child abuse trial is taking legal action to “I hope we find a way through,” he said those Eskimo words for snow and how duct a weekly profile interview as well extract himself from a deal to write get last year. “The eBook has turned into a the Dutch render the sound of Rice as penning a weekly column. Randall out of writing a book about the case. Ray frustrating example.” Meanwhile, Harry Krispies.” The pair are friends, and met built his reputation as city editor on the Hultman claims he was talked into sign- Potter author JK Rowling has developed when Jacot de Boinod was a researcher Sunday Times between 1989 and 1995, ing the book deal by the Californian pub- her own solution by selling her books as on Fry’s television series, QI. and his move back to the Telegraph co- lisher Larry Garrison. He is also seeking audio downloads in an attempt to stamp

incides with the announcement that unspecified damages claiming mental out piracy. Her work will be available for [email protected] BY NICOLA JENNINGS ILLUSTRATION Secret plan to put 60,000 jobcentre posts out to tender

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Plans to privatise tens of thousands of Whitehall staff in jobcentres are being pro- posed by the government, according to a leaked letter obtained by the Public and Commercial Services union. The proposals would involve tendering for tasks such as assessing the suitability of people for jobs and helping lone par- ents and disabled people back to work. The letter, from Jonathan Portes, director of work and welfare strategy at the Department for Work and Pensions, to Margaret Hodge, the minister for work, says that once offers have been received from the private and voluntary sector, the scheme could be extended to other job- centre functions. It says: “We believe feasibility studies should be conducted to ascertain whether there might be scope for contesting or outsourcing benefit pro- cessing centres, fraud investigation ser- vices and both jobseeker and employer contact centres.” THEN AN EXTRA... Altogether 60,000 staff — nearly half of the 130,000 employed by the department — could be transferred to the private and voluntary sectors. This would make it one

The plans to privatise jobcentre staff may be seen as a U-turn by the government

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