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You should chew your food until it is small enough to Are you doing swallow easily, so your stomach does not have to work too hard. Digestion starts in the mouth. it right? Saliva contains amylase, the enzyme that helps to chemically break down food . There is also mechanical Chewing digestion, the physical action of breaking down food. If food does not stay in the mouth long enough, it is not exposed to amylase to break down the carbohydrates – there is very little carbohydrate digestion in the stomach, and if food gets there without being properly digested, the stomach has to work harder. There are also some things the stomach cannot digest. If bits of food enter the top of your small intestine still quite whole, it can lead to bloating and discomfort. Rather than advising an absolute number of times to chew your food, I recommend people put their food or cutlery down between mouthfuls – then, when you have fi nished chewing and swallowing, pick up your cutlery and take the next mouthful . There is something that invites urgency when you have a fork full of food in front of your face . Just putting your cutlery down between mouthfuls can give you a sense of when the food has been chewed enough. Jo Travers, nutritionist at the London Nutritionist and the author of The Low-Fad Diet , was speaking to Tolani Idris Five ways to reduce plastic in the bathroom The one change that worked Search out alternatives Reduce waste gradually “Use “A bamboo toothbrush is the 1 fi rst swap I suggest,” says up what you have before buying Swimming for fun Beth Noy, who founded the online anything new,” says Chillingsworth. shop Plastic Freedom . She also 2 suggests swapping disposable “Start simple and change one thing at a razors for a safety razor, using time. It’s useful to see how a new product bars of soap and shampoo instead works for you before changing anything period of anguish. Rather, it was of bottles, ditching cottonwool After having an three years or so in which I’d pads for reusable cleansing pads else.” Noy says : “ Make a list of all the eating disorder, fl it between nervy months of and tampons for menstrual cups . plastic items you have in your home restraint and periods of respite Jen Chillingsworth, author of Gwendolyn Smith when I somehow felt grounded Live Green: 52 Steps for a More and alternatives enough to … well, chill out a bit. In Sustainable Life, recommends you want to swap learned that a lazy these stretches, I could skive my a konjac sponge for cleansing as runs entirely – or ditch them for a the naturally derived sponges are them for; you can dip helps her control more leisurely form of exercise. biodegradable and compostable. then budget to her obsessive side I started going for lazy, pleasure- Plastic-free earbuds are also make a couple of driven swims . now available. As a child I had enjoyed visiting swaps a month.” my local pool, but seeing as you can hardly open a newspaper Recycle While 90% of packaging in kitchens It was last September, while on nowadays without someone is recycled, only 50% from the bathroom gets a hen weekend in north Wales, that gushing about wild swimming , 3 the same treatment, according to the Recycle I realised how important swimming the adult me gravitated outdoors. Now campaign . One option recommended by the had become to me. On trips to visit family in Sweden, Circular Economy Taskforce is to keep a separate There was a temporary break I fl oated languorously around recycling bin in the bathroom. Some beauty brands, in the organised fun and a clutch calm, cavernous lakes. And like all including M ac and Kiehl’s , run packaging return of attendees I vaguely knew from good arty millennials in London, programmes, and Beauty university asked if I would join them on boiling Saturdays I made for the Kitchen runs a return-refi ll- for a dip at the nearby beach. The ponds on Hampstead Heath. repeat programme on its conditions were hardly dreamy: It wasn’t until the hen party, products. Lush has a wide range it was raining; I hadn’t bought a though, that I realised how of body and haircare bars and bathing suit; the only towel I could profoundly swimming had Use refills More a recycling scheme for its black use was the child-sized one provided changed me. pots, and off ers a variety of by the Airbnb. But I took them up on Tragically, a women-only and more brands packaging-free products . it all the same. “I’ll be with you in weekend like that – one involving now off er bulk refi ll fi ve minutes,” I said, grinn ing. glamorous outfi ts and carefully 4 Join a zero-waste group While some plastic In the past, I would have required apportioned “getting ready” time options. Salt of the Earth swaps are straightforward, accessibility and more coaxing; spontaneous, – would normally bring out the sells one-litre refi lls of its 5 expense can vary. Search for zero-waste groups sociable swims were hardly my worst of my neuroses. But instead natural deodorant, while in your area (there are many on Facebook), says default mode of exercise. I’d of glaring at my thighs in the mirror, Chillingsworth. “They can guide you to local refi ll stores suff ered from anorexia in sixth form, I was bobbing up and down in the brands such as Ecover or suggest plastic alternatives for whatever you are and although I’d recovered while at sea in greying underwear, too busy have a range of fi ve-litre looking for.” She also encourages researching products university, in my mid-20s I’d started squealing at the cold to think about on websites such as the Ethical Consumer before buying to slip back into that old, punitive anything else. refi lls. Many zero-waste them . Be mindful of greenwashing , she warns: “Lots of mindset. Supposedly “healthy” The physical benefi ts of wild shops also off er refi ll brands shout about their green credentials but often are eating plans were accompanied by a swimming are well documented. not entirely truthful.” strict exercise regime: running. Five But for me it was about more than stations where you can top times a week. Solo. the rush of adrenaline that comes up your own containers. By Amy Sedghi To clarify, this wasn’t a constant with charging into a freezing sea, or • The Guardian Monday 15 July 2019 3 Wellness or hellness? Rhik Samadder one who didn’t make the fi nal cut. Tangram Smart Rope (£79.95, from (Velázquez, the Pete Best of hero amphibians! Swinging his light-up Apple) Can a jump rope with embedded rope with frictionless bearings!) LEDs get me skipping like a six-year-old? None of this is bad. Trying to get into the groove, however, I’m frustrated . The central section of the rope is reinforced and infl exible , to protect the row of LEDs inside, and, as a result, it has a diff erent density and feel. Moreover, the join between the cable and LED strip segments the rope, which impacts on the swinging of it. The thicker section is burdensome, and thuds when it slaps against the fl oor. It also increases resistance, making it hard to get a good rhythm going. the blissed-out peace you feel while Arguably, the heavier rope increases towel-drying your hair in the cool its fi tness potential, requiring evening air. Swimming outdoors, greater exertion to rotate. But it’s it turned out, had fundamentally a drag, dude. recalibrated my mindset around The linked Tangram app is fi ne, exercise. After all, unlike running, and reliably counts the swings and it wasn’t an activity that I could also has a stab at estimating the control and schedule. Unless you’re number of calories burned . But the phenomenally hardy, it’s weather- chief selling point of this model – the dependent . You do it with friends , mid-air running counter – severely and having company blasts any disappoints. The CGI on the box perfectionist routines (“If I don’t pictures a fi tness model with a high do blah lengths in blah amount number (2016 and rising) hovering of time, I will have failed!”) out of before her at chest level, like the the water. I started to appreciate projection of a digital alarm clock. the relief that comes with letting When I try it, the lights stay forces beyond you – the weather, the that rubs jagged memories smooth. largely dark, erratically bursting seasons, other people – dictate your Things aren’t necessarily better for into life for a few rotations before agenda. While it’s no bad thing to belonging to our past. disappearing again. My pathetic take your fate into your own hands, Jump ropes don’t belong to my fi gure (“0006”) is barely legible, I had a habit of squashing it once it past, in any case. When I was young, like a fugitive fi refl y fl ashing on the was there. Swimming taught me the skipping was for six-year-old girls in ground, around my knees, above my good that can come from letting go. school playgrounds and 26-year-old head. It is strangely beautiful, this It also helped me to embrace men in boxing clubs, and I couldn’t breathless grasping at phantasms . my body. After all, in the water, here exists no relate to either. Now absent of In fact, the rope could be a metaphor plumpness is power. When I was purer evocation of childhood than such hangups, I’m interested, but for life itself. But it would be more at my lightest, in school, I was Tthe skipping rope. A rope, two inexperienced. Perhaps the Tangram useful if it worked. cold all the time – and swimming, Well, handles, hours of fun. Of course, Smart Rope can show me the ropes, This whole business of trying to particularly outdoors, was out of well adults have a way of taking the same 2019-style. spot and then interpret the fl ashes the question. But now I can do ingredients and making them far less The model I am testing is of light is unnecessarily stressful. It lengths and lengths without a worry. innocent. Which possibly explains certainly a semi-handsome thing. may sound odd to wish for exercise I’ve stopped dieting, and while A report by the Tangram Smart Rope (£79.95, Brushed metal handles in cherry that was more relaxing, but the joy numerous factors brought that the European apple.com/uk): an “LED-embedded red are topped with low-friction of skipping is a zen-like emptiness of about, the way swimming made me Centre for jump rope that displays your fi tness bearings, allowing free rotation of repetition. When you are not in the feel more comfortable in my own Disease data in mid-air ”. Why? Does anyone the matte-black rubber cable. The zone, you are forced to remember skin undoubtedly contributed. Prevention really need an electronic skipping look is thrillingly reminiscent of a that skipping is insanely, brutally Nowadays, I get into the water and Control rope that has its own app? Surely this child’s fi rst nunchaku. I feel like a hard work on the calves, glutes as much as I can. But it isn’t a strict has revealed is the defi nition of fl ashiness for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, albeit and lats. Maximum respect to six- routine; I approach it as a treat, that there sake of it? year-old girls. After 15 seconds, like going for an ice-cream. While were 33,189 I put on my special shorts my legs are aching, my stomach is I still run, swimming has helped me confi rmed cases and get swinging, to see if such complaining – and I have to skip to see the benefi ts of exercising less of syphilis in monstrosity can be defended. my loo, my darling. intensively. I do a slow jog a couple Europe in 2017, There is a good chance it can. While I try a few more times over several of times a week – and most of the a 70 % rise since totally unnecessary, the image of days and my stamina improves, but time it is motivated by a desire to let 2010. a virtual counter racking up rope After 15 seconds, the LED functionality never does. off steam rather than a compulsion turns in mid-air is striking . And, as An analogue rope wouldn’t let you to shed calories. we know, coolness is infuriatingly my legs are down like this. Turns out this update I’d be lying if I said I had shaken self-justifying. on a classic is not fl ashy enough. off my anxieties completely. I But it is important not to fall aching, my Smart Rope thinks it’s too cool suspect I will always have an into a nostalgia trap – exalting for school; really it needs to work obsessive side. Happily, though, our childhood games and the way stomach is smarter, not harder. swimming is not only helping to we played them. Remember how Licen ce to be ill. Very ill keep this under control – it is also Father would smuggle a piece of complaining and I eventually reached 0007, which the result of doing so. If I’m relaxed coal home? We would pretend it is the closest I’ll get to Daniel Craig enough to jump into the waves on was a mighty horse, taking turns I have to skip to levels of fi tness. an overcast Saturday, chances are, to ride its dusty back! Ahhhh. But, Wellness or hellness?

PHOTOGRAPHS: GWENDOLYN SMITH; LINDA NYLIND/THE GUARDIAN NYLIND/THE SMITH; LINDA GWENDOLYN PHOTOGRAPHS: life is pretty sweet. no. Nostalgia is merely sandpaper my loo, my darling I’d rather pay money for old rope. 1/5 • The Guardian 4 Monday 15 July 2019

Mid-year burnout: does it exist, or are we permanently tired?

readers to assess their moods and it felt as if I was already out of fuel in Worcester. “It is worse than energy levels at this point in 2019 when I thought I’d only just stopped December by some distance as there – were they tracking upwards with to fi ll up. The thought of another six is only a long summer of juggling Halfway through the mercury? Or were the longer, months of running on empty seemed childcare and work commitments as 2019, Guardian warmer days not having the positive both impossible and inevitable. a reward.” impact they usually did? Gina, 33, from Kent, knew just how As in the run up to Christmas, readers say they It was undeniably, as one reader I felt. “The weekends don’t seem to social calendars also tend to fi ll up said, “a self-selecting sample bring respite at the moment,” she in summer – and the assumption of are feeling more answering a leading question” – but wrote . She and her husband were a lighter workload and a break is not many more saw the words : “Could both “unusually tired and in need always borne out. “It seems that it’s exhausted than you be suff ering from mid-year of a holiday this year”, despite a not only the onslaught of work, with burnout?” and responded with an good work-life balance and holiday various people off on holidays and previous summers. unequivocal yes . Their responses, allowance. “I don’t think you would clients wanting everything, even on mostly submitted on condition of know from looking at us that we feel a Sunday, but the birthdays, parties, What’s causing anonymity, told of sleep disrupted burned out – we are very active, busy gigs, all at once,” said Robert, 35, the malaise? by lighter evenings, of unusually bad people, with wholesome leisure from Manchester. “It sounds like I’m hay fever, of illnesses still lingering activities and an active social life. being ungrateful. I’m not – I’m just Elle Hunt reports after months. But it all feels like too much.” utterly drained.” Readers wrote of feeling as if There is some psychological Chris, 53, from Hampshire, had they could fall asleep standing up, signifi cance to the midway point of been “alarmed and a bit puzzled” of waking with a racing heart or the year, as a logical opportunity to by his lack of energy, even though clouded mind, of having lost their take stock. People may be reminded he ate well and liked his job. He energy , appetite or libido. They of the optimism that they felt in the had been thinking of going to see felt stretched too thin, in and out new year, or the goals that they set his GP. Many readers did reach for of work. They would go on holiday and are now no closer to achieving. a medical explanation. An early and spend all day in bed . They “I think all the prospects of possible start to pollen season (confi rmed were regularly surprised to fi nd change die down, and it just by the Met Offi ce ) had caused hay themselves irritable or tearful. Many becomes a slog towards the end so fever suff erers – thought to number said it was as if the joy had been you can start afresh,” said Louise. up to 30% of adults in the UK – to sucked from life. Parents (and teachers) fi nd experience symptoms earlier in the Some were people whose themselves beset with demands for year than usual. The greater light, existence was threatened – by debt, end-of-term events such as sports heat and humidity could also disrupt poor physical and mental health, days and performances. “It is like a sleep and body clocks, increasing underemployment, austerity, race to get to the fi nish line at home tiredness and irritability. hate crimes or insecure work and and work,” said a 42-year-old mother Some readers fl oated the housing. But even those who should of two working in higher education possibility of seasonal aff ective have been thriving, or at least disorder, said to aff ect around 6% broadly fi ne, reported an apparent of the UK population. Though it is mid-year . It was that the alternative groundswell of malaise. typically associated with autumn and was too grim to consider: that this For every reader who scoff ed at winter, there is a summertime variant threadbare feeling wasn’t seasonal, the premise of mid-year burnout with similar depressive symptoms, tied to longer, warmer days – but our (“a trendy tag for tiredness. What when too much sunlight results new basal temperature. the hell has the calendar got to do That a holiday in reduced melatonin production, But Dr Natasha Bijlani, a with this?”), there were many like aff ecting the body’s circadian consultant psychiatrist at the Priory Charlotte, a 47-year-old from East may not be as rhythm . Joanne , 37, from Surrey, hospital in Roehampton, south-west ouise set herself Sussex . “I wake up in the morning likened it to “walking through London, says that is exactly right. “I two New Year’s resolutions for 2019: and think, did I get drunk last night?” restorative as treacle … like a low-level fl u that am sceptical about there being such L to start yoga, and to keep a journal. she wrote. “And then I remember, no, only goes away mid-September”. a thing as mid-year burnout. We do She did better than most people, this is just what normal feels like now. you’d hoped Other readers attributed their know that there are high levels of sticking to both for fi ve months. I’m just tired and moody all the time.” low mood and energy levels to the burnout in our society in general; I About six weeks ago, however, I understood, because I felt the can be a dismal news cycle. Jan , 38, from Edinburgh, think it’s reaching epidemic levels. she recognised something was off . same way. Summer was typically the said the expectations of picnics, If you asked people the question in “During May, I noticed all I kept season when everything just fl owed, wake-up call barbecues and socialising were April or September, you could say it writing was how lethargic, below when longer days and warmer nights “emotionally incongruous” with was the three-quarter-year burnout.” average or ill I was feeling.” seemed to make it easier to balance the climate emergency, Trump, the That doesn’t dismiss the issue; Writing in her journal in the life and work , while making the life possibility of a no-deal Brexit and rather, it casts it as catastrophic. Any fi rst week of June, the 30-year-old part eff ortlessly more fun. “the Tory leadership nonsense” . discussion of burnout is valuable from Nottinghamshire wondered if Not this year, though. This year Many readers were holding out when so many people are suff ering hitting the six-month mark and “the Lana Del Rey’s seven-year-old for autumn, winter, September, in silence, says Bijlani. “I t allows downwards slope to winter” was Summertime Sadness re-entered November, Christmas – a point in the people to be aware of all the time, taking its toll. “I was ready to brush the US iTunes chart (“Is everyone not-too-distant future when this low not just in the middle of the year.” it off as irrational,” she said, “until I OK?” fretted a viral tweet ). Though ebb would pass, like bad weather. The World Health Organization saw this.” I love my job, ha ve no children or I thought I understood why . It was clarifi ed in May that it does not “This” was a Guardian callout mortgage, am in good health and the same reason that I’d classifi ed consider burnout a medical issue; on “mid-year burnout” , asking ha ve taken regular holidays, by June my own desperation as being of the rather, it understands it to be an • The Guardian Monday 15 July 2019 5

as long as two months. “There are degrees of burnout,” she says, “and the average Guardian reader isn’t necessarily at that high end where they’re being signed off or going to the Priory – but they could fast be approaching it.” The discovery that a long-awaited getaway may not be as restorative as you had hoped can be a dismal wake-up call. Shorter, more regular holidays throughout the year can help – she suggests taking a week off every three months. We can dream of the introduction of a universal basic income or four- day working week – but for as long as burnout is the baseline of society, Murray says individuals must be realistic about the demands on their time. She recommends a regular “life audit”, reassessing commitments or goals to prioritise those that matter. “You can’t hit a gym class in the morning and be a parent and travel with your job and see your friends because there are not enough hours in the day. We spring clean our houses; we have to get into the habit of doing that with our selves and our lives.” A more balanced schedule – grounded in individual priorities and realistic expectations, and protected against every attempt to undermine it – may enable us to feel more in control of our lives, says Murray. “It’s about being able to get “occupational phenomenon” was supportive, their jobs were urges people to observe strict limits into bed every night and say : ‘OK, resulting from chronic and rewarding and meaningful, their on work, and to put themselves fi rst: this didn’t work, but this did, so you unmanaged workplace stress. It four children “thriving” – but she if that sounds indulgent, she says, it’s know what, I did a good job today.’” “should not be applied to describe was hanging on by a thread. “My only more evidence of the ridiculous More openness about the pressures experiences in other areas of life”. husband is exhausted with work state we’re in. “I’ve had people come that many of us are under can help too, and every day we say, ‘We in and say, ‘It’s all right for the CEO We do know that us realise that we are not alone, and can do this – just keep swimming.’ to do that, but I can’t,’” says Bijlani. seek help when we reach breaking Some days it feels like everything is “It needs to fi lter down.” there are high point. “There’s a sense of personal working; other days – like today – it Siobhan Murray, a resilience coach, failing to burnout, but it’s not,” says feels like the wheels are coming off .” psychotherapist and author of The levels of burnout Murray. “Sometimes we just need to The fi x is not as straightforward as Burnout Solution, says the pressure be able to say : ‘I’m not coping.’” taking time off when that can create is built into society – from millennials in general; The people who have successfully more work in the leadup, and another who have had their worth eroded by safeguarded themselves against pile on your return. Londoner Claire, competitive but unpaid internships it’s reaching burnout have learned to go easy on efi nitions 35, used to work 60-hour weeks, only and unstable work (“By the time themselves, and they have defi ned serve a purpose – especially when able to catch up on sleep and laundry they’re into their late 20s, they’re epidemic levels personal boundaries that they defend Dclassifi cation as a medical condition at the weekend. “It always got worse already burned out”) to thirtysom- against everything the world is going paves the way for treatment by in summer – the bosses would take ethings racing to achieve the “bizarre to throw at them. “I can guarantee medication . But for many, the the full six weeks off work and come goal” of retir ing by 40. that those are not people who are suggestion that feelings about back all refreshed, while my ‘holiday’ Others took on more obligations, never going to get burned out and work can be restricted to “the was the August bank holiday such as caring for their elderly who just have it all sorted,” says occupational context” will provoke weekend, whe n I’d go to visit family parents, without thinking to let go Murray. “They’re the ones who have hollow laughter. and I’d crash out from exhaustion.” of others, only realising they were actually experienced it, and know Readers wrote, with no small Bijlani sees only the most severe overcommitted when they reached what they have to pull back on in desperation, of the impossibility cases of burnout at the Priory, but breaking point. Of Murray’s 12 order to be able to live.” And not just of keeping their job separate from she lays the blame with a culture that current clients, more than half had until the autumn. other areas of their life. A 38-year- frames overwork as the norm, and been signed off work with burnout All names except Murray and Bijlani

ILLUSTRATION BY ALVA SKOG AT JELLY LONDON JELLY AT SKOG ALVA BY ILLUSTRATION old public servant said her husband the technology that facilitates it. She on their doctors’ orders – some for have been changed • The Guardian 6 The G2 interview Monday 15 July 2019

it has a wider resonance, capturing the collapse of the music industry . Now 32, Nash was signed to Polydor when she was 17, in the wake ‘In Hollywood, of Lily Allen’s MySpace success. I feel so much She recorded her fi rst songs in her more protected’ bedroom in Harrow, north London … Kate Nash after a broken foot put paid to her job at Nando’s and her fresh-faced eclecticism earned her a young and dedicated fanbase. When I ask who she was infl uenced by, she ranges freely among Celine Dion, the Spice Girls, Nirvana, Misteeq, the Beatles and UK garage, before alighting on the Buzzcocks. “They helped me write songs. I was like: ‘A-ha! You can just talk about working in River Island or whatever.’” MySpace, she reckons, represented a brief window in musical history when teenagers genuinely took control. “It was kids putting music on their pages, other kids listening, people from the labels messaging people like me. MySpace was so punk. That’s probably why it got shut down – the industry was like, we’re not in control.” But her success was wildly disorienting and she signed her record deal in a state of extreme anxiety. “My mum was like: ‘Look, if you don’t want to do it, we can just get on the tube, go home and forget about it.’ And she meant it. But afterwards, my manager at the time said to her: ‘Well played.’ And my mum was like: ‘Excuse me? I’m not playing my own child!’” But everyone else was playing her. Polydor worked her relentlessly: she toured for two years straight Th e article touched a nerve when Nash was spending her own and ended up having panic attacks . with Nash. Not long before it was money touring the punky songs from Meanwhile, the tabloids were published, she had been having her self-released album Girl Talk. The experimenting with their own new a teeth-gnashing, snot-in-the- intention was to make an upbeat, business model; stories about Nash ‘I was frozen – hair breakdown in Death Valley, vaguely empowering story about a having a pimple (or similar) made California. Dropped by her label, in kooky English musician moving to regular appearances in sidebars of dispute with her manager, she was Los Angeles and making a comeback. shame. Nash is amazed that she had left bankrupt, broken, wailing at the It became a kind of millennial female no pastoral care whatsoever. “Artists I couldn’t “wankers” in the music industry. version of the Bros documentary, often have mental health issues. And “This is a matter of life and death with Nash forced into ever more their lifestyles are unstable because to me because making music keeps humiliating compromises to make of all the travelling and the media me alive – and being in the music her music. But the “shit really hit commentary on their lives. Now I’m even cry industry has almost killed me ,” as the fan” when she discovered that like: ‘How were all these 40-year-old she put it. what money she had managed to men hanging out with me and happy That moment is captured in the scrape together had been spent, to profi t from me and not concerned documentary Underestimate the leading to a total breakdown in her about my health in any way?’” Girl, which went up on the BBC3 relationship with her new manager, After her second album fl opped, any more’ iPlayer channel at the end of June Gary Marella. “I guess I just decided Nash began channelling her rage into and has won Nash a wave of support. to keep fi lming because I felt like it her music . In 2012, she uploaded “What I’ve really loved is seeing my was a really important story to tell,” a thrashy new track called Under- fans being really emotional about she says. While it is a personal story, Estimate the Girl and was duly it,” she says. “Musicians have been messaging me saying: ‘Oh my God, I was in tears watching this, the same thing happened to me.’ I think a lot of Overnight fame musicians are in this same situation.” I meet Nash at her favourite vegan and constant cafe in Hackney, east London. She wears her red hair in bunches as she touring led Kate did in the MySpace days – but the ate in 2017, an slouchy sweatpants, vest top and Nash to have a article appeared on Buzzfeed with toned physique suggest a new Lthe headline: “33 Singers That steeliness. That is partly due to Nash in breakdown, as a Only Exist in the Mind of British her training regime for Glow , the Glow Millennials”. At No 9 was Kate Netfl ix wrestling comedy that has new fi lm reveals. Nash, the mid- noughties MySpace helped her recent career move sensation who had a huge hit with into acting. But it also refl ects She talks to Foundations and went on to win best someone who has learned their British female at the Brits. The article lessons the hard way. Richard Godwin explained: “She was the cute vintage- Nash stresses that the about the dangers dress-wearing girl we all wanted to be documentary was never supposed back in 2007. Presumably these days to be so raw. She was approached by musicians face she’s wearing baggy jumpers and the director Amy Goldstein after a DMs, but who knows?” performance at Coachella in 2014, • The Guardian Monday 15 July 2019 Private lives 7

terrible decisions, I’m attracted to Ultimately, this seems to be all the wrong people. I can’t do this a case of a massive gap in because I’m too naive and too open- My husband has communication. If your husband hearted, I trust people too quickly. has behaved as you suspect, then But I can’t become hardened, I don’t been having an aff air yes, that’s a terrible breach of trust even know how to do that.’” and you would have every right The fi lm could easily have to feel exceptionally betrayed. ended with Nash going back to with his ex-wife However, if fi ve years have passed, Nando’s. But eventually she found a then has anything prompted you resolution. “You have to go: ‘Why do Five years ago, my husband reconnected to now decide “enough”? I want to do this? It’s torturing Whether – having heard his side ‘My audience me, it’s really painful, I’m with his ex-wife after she had told him of the story – you decide to stay are honest on the edge, why do I need she was a lesbian and married a woman. with your husband or not can only with me because to continue?’ But this isn’t a be your decision. However, the I’m honest choice, this is who I am. ” I helped care for the three teenage reasons behind you not discussing with them’ … The stars somehow aligned: a daughters she left behind for roughly six this with him at the time need Nash onstage successful Kickstarter campaign years, until they graduated. I found out looking at. Was this down to fear? reconnected her with her fans; a Because the children were still surprise callback from Netfl ix opened about the aff air through a text he was sent living at home? up new horizons. But she has still when he left his mobile behind. I believe Five years is a long time to sit on faced two years of fi nancial upheaval this. It does make me wonder how dropped by her label. NME’s headline and legal machinations. Marella he left it at home on purpose, because he much you put other’s needs above was: ‘Kate Nash has committed off ered to settle three-quarters of her was afraid to talk directly to me. Years have your own. Whichever way this works career suicide – and it sounds claim out of court but she decided out, please try to make sure that amazing.’ She maintains it was the to take the risk of going to court and passed, but I’m struggling, as I do not love your needs are given as much best thing she ever did. But it is one eventually won. Marella is paying her and trust him as I once did. Is it time to go? attention as others . thing fi nding your voice, and another back in instalments. He is still in the xtrapnel mak ing money from it, as she music business and recently took on discovered when she moved to LA. Timbaland as a client. Seek support to make a decision This is where the documentary Nash’s experience in Glow has Your letter is so brief but so full of picks up the story – and at times, it not only taught her some useful sadness. It appears his children have all becomes a little cringe-making, wrestling skills; it has also showed grown up, and you have known especially when Nash starts her that creative industries can be about the aff air for a while. I have to rapping . There is an excruciating professional and unionised. “As say a huge well done on supporting scene at an advertising agency, many problems as there are with the three teenage daughters caught where Marella persuades Nash to Hollywood, I feel so much more up in their parents’ initial break-up. I perform a lunchtime gig in the hope protected because if there’s a serious am sure they are thankful you were of securing some infl uencer cash. issue, I have someone I can talk to. there to help and provide stability. “That’s the kind of thing I was doing Where’s that in the music industry? But given this and the fact you all the time ,” she laughs. “If you’re We need it. Because our lifestyles are don’t trust him the answer might on an indie label, you’re not getting associated with partying, it hasn’t Try to fi nd joy appear obvious but I don’t know enough money. And if you’re on a had to be professional. But you’re I am so sorry this is happening to enough about you, your mental major, you’re not getting enough like: ‘Where’s HR?’” you. Summon up your courage resilience, your fi nancial situation or support.” Marella also landed her a She feels particularly protective and leave. After almost 20 years support network to advise, other publishing contract, but she hated of young musicians starting out. “I of marriage, I learned that my six than to say it would help for you to being part of a pop production always say: ‘Here’s my number, just step-children (whom I helped get talk through why you have asked for line. “Those places are so weird. call me.’ I have loads of artists that Want to through college and four weddings) help now and what support you Someone comes up with a word like I’m in touch with .” She has noticed share a were complicit in their father’s need to make the right decision . ‘volcano’ and then everyone makes more solidarity among musicians problem? infi delity, which began 24 hours Look after your physical health fi rst loads of metaphors about love being in recent years – she can’t think of Or think you after our wedding. They all lied to and foremost, fi nd some outlets as like lava and stuff .” anyone who looked out for her, have all the me for years about golf games, well and good luck with your After her Death Valley breakdown, though she did fi nd a kind note answers? Email tennis matches, college tours and decision. she went home to her parents’ from Annie Lennox when she was private.lives@ who knows what else. First lizzyvs house , but she still had a tax bill clearing out her bedroom . She has theguardian. spouses, no matter how horrible on her publishing deal to pay and also remained good friends with com or write to the marriage and contentious the Does this situation really suit you? mounting legal fees. Ultimately, she Sam Duckworth, AKA Get Cape. Private Lives, divorce, often have a hold on their It sounds as if you have accepted had to sell the fl at she had bought Wear Cape. Fly, who, like her, is The Guardian, other half that is very diffi cult to living in a very grey, unhappy zone with the money she had earned releasing music direct to his fans. Kings Place, break. It will take some time to get for quite a while. It might suit your early on in her career. “I remember “You have to fi nd your own lane 90 York Way, over this betrayal but the absence husband. Does it suit you? The being at mum’s house and lying on now,” she says. London N1 9GU. of the source of the pain is helpful. human mind is pretty ingenious my sister’s bed for some reason and Things seem to be looking up for Submissions Be good to yourself and try to in fi nding reasons for putting up I was frozen and I couldn’t even cry Nash. She is in a relationship with an are subject to fi nd joy. with a very unsatisfactory status any more. When I had to sell my old schoolfriend, a hair stylist, who is our terms and TexasAnglophile quo. Life is short. Work out whether fl at, I was like: ‘ I’m an idiot, I make about to move to LA with her. “He’s conditions: See you want to spend any more of the fi rst boyfriend I’ve had that’s a gu.com/letters- They are not worth your anguish your own life basically being treated really good person,” she laughs. “It terms It would seem that both your partner badly by the most important turned into a bit of a Notting Hill and his ex are utterly wrapped up in person in your life. romcom accidentally.” She is also themselves, which must be terrible WhatAGuy in the Horrible Histories movie, for their children. If she left three out this summer. And the 10-year teenage girls to go and explore her How were all anniversary tour in 2017 of her debut sexuality, and now has decided she Would it be fair to retire and album Made of Bricks reminded her quite likes the man she had in the let my wife carry on working? these 40-year- why she got into music in the fi rst fi rst place, and he is happily I married quite late in life, to a place. She was initially surprised to betraying you , then they are not woman 10 years younger than me. old men happy see teenagers in the audience. But worth your anguish . Be the She earns a lot more than I do, and one fan explained that he listened to grown-up here and opt out of this her career is booming, unlike mine, to profi t from my her when he was eight and she found toxic situation with dignity. which has pretty much stagnated. this strangely touching. TN310877F We are both very relaxed about this. music and not “They are so honest with me I don’t feel that my masculinity is because I’m honest with them,” she Learn the truth threatened; it’s nice that, between care about me? says. “My openness has brought in If you only know about this through us, we’re doing OK. I hope to retire these special, fragile people, people a text message, I would start by in another 10 or 15 years, and I can’t who have troubles and are quite shy. trying to learn the truth – or as wait! But would it be wrong to do I value that so much. This is why I’m much of it as you need to know, that if she is still working? She not hardened.” as there might be grounds for would end up paying even more Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl is misunderstanding here. of the bills. 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Craig Newmark > Internet entrepreneur > Greenwich Village

“If it’s carelessness, you can tell someone: ‘Hey, you got it wrong; here’s the evidence.’ If it’s ‘I am a nerd staying disinformation, they don’t care, they will just publish it again. Meanwhile, when you point out the problem, they might decide that you’re a target for harassment.” true to my nerditude’ There is an entire ecosystem at work, he continues, that can enable a falsehood from the obscure Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, is a survivor from the reaches of the web to jump on era of internet optimism. He is sinking millions of dollars into to millions of TV screens with dizzying speed. “It’s a small amount journalism – while rejecting the idea that his website destroyed of disinformation originating in some of the social media platforms the fi nancial base for newspapers. By David Smith used by foreign adversaries and their domestic allies. They get amplifi ed: there’s multiple levels including conspiracy sites, then news sites which don’t care about fact-checking. And then once that becomes news, sometimes Some express gratitude to Craigslist does not know him well, declines that emerges into conventional or for life-changing opportunities to criticise him or suggest mainstream media.” to fi nd a spouse or a job. Others Zuckerberg has created a monster. How can it be stopped? “People condemn it for gutting the classifi ed “I have no idea what he’s done in mainstream media can just do advertising market and accelerating personally . I focus on how we all things like fact-checking. They the demise of local newspapers. work on this together. It’s all hands could avoid giving airtime or space This ambivalence was captured on deck. People need to enlist to people they know routinely by a New York Times headline last much like in the US after the attack disinform and they can just avoid s the Craig October that described Newmark as [on Pearl Harbor] in December of amplifying disinformation.” The in Craigslist, the free online a “newspaper villain” and another 1941, much like people during the new journalism centres he is funding Anoticeboard that changed last month that called him a “new Battle of Britain. There are foreign are considering whether journalistic everything, Craig Newmark friend to journalism”. The latter adversaries who’ve come out, ethics codes should explicitly say: can surely get his hands on just referred to Newmark’s latest act of published their public statements “Don’t amplify this information.” about anything. His new home philanthropy, a $6m (£4.8m) gift and say that they’re at war with us.” If this sounds like a swipe at in Greenwich Village, New York, to Consumer Reports – the biggest Victory is unlikely to be as clear as Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News , contains everything from an ancient donation in the 83-year history of in the second world war, however. Newmark ducks an invitation to be Roman mosaic to 18th-century the nonprofi t watchdog – that will “The measure of success would be critical. He is similarly circumspect British portraits to Simpsons be used to set up a digital division to that I would be able to choose from a when asked if tech giants should fi gurines to artworks by his beloved scrutinise products and platforms, high number of publications wherein be broken up, if the existence of Leonard Cohen. But something is including social media. I know that I can trust everything billionaires is unethical (he is a mere missing. Something vital. “I’m mostly concerned about the they say with the occasional millionaire) or whether the decline “We’re low on bird seed now,” way social media platforms can be mistake, which they will then fi x. of local journalism contributed to Newmark observes anxiously. weaponised, that they sometimes Because news is hard; you’re going the ascent of Trump. “I don’t know,” “That’s a crisis.” forget to provide informed consent to make mistakes, then you correct is his default response. The scale and scope of the regarding the uses of your personal them and Bob’s your uncle.” Speaking of the president, crisis become evident when data,” he explains. “I do feel that any Newmark, who has previously Newmark, who has donated to you understand Newmark’s site should tell you what it would observed “a trustworthy press is Democratic presidential hopefuls ornithological obsession. During like to collect and what it would like the immune system of democracy”, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, an hour-long conversation, his to share with others and then ask prefers not to use the term “fake gives an unorthodox answer when eye keeps wandering to the small your permission.” news” – perhaps it has been tainted asked what he thinks of his term garden where morning doves, house The political consultancy for ever by Donald Trump. He in offi ce so far. “He’s been very sparrows, cardinals, blue jays and Cambridge Analytica , which reasons: “Some people have said eff ective in terms of getting elected.” “a hopefully limited number of harvested the data of up to 87 fake news is news that I don’t like, He pauses. “I am very passionate pigeons” come and go. Just last night million Facebook users during the so I will talk about misinformation about understatement.” he installed a webcam so he can 2016 US presidential election, is one or disinformation and that is often Newmark embraces his nerdiness. watch them all remotely. For good such example, he says. However, either false news or false witness, After university, he worked for the measure, there are numerous photos Newmark, who has met Facebook’s either weaponised information or computer giant IBM. He also took 15 July 2019 of birds on the walls and a papier- founder, Mark Zuckerberg, but just carelessness. ballet and jazz dance classes in a n mache model, made by his 11-year- attempt to meet women, but suff ered old nephew . a hernia and was hospitalised. Aged It may be that Newmark feels 40,4 he took a programming job with more comfortable around featheredd theth fi nancial fi rm Charles Schwab friends than the human variety. He anda moved from Pittsburgh to San is a self-declared “nerd of the old Francisco,F then switched to more I was gonna call it San Francisco school, 1950s style”, squirrel watcherer lucrativelu freelance work. Events – people around me told me and sci -fi fan who, sitting in a jacket,t, In 1995, he began sending out they already called it Craigslist. I had trousers and slippers, cheerfully ana email list of events to a dozen inadvertently created a brand.” admits he is “simulating” social friends.fr As word spread, the group But in a portent of the wider skills. He is a computer geek who expanded.e Before long, the list web’s dark side, it has been abused checks email obsessively and in 199595 includedin job vacancies and places by criminals. In 2007, for example, founded Craigslist – which is, with toto rent. Soon, Craigslist ruled the a woman from Minneapolis pleaded about 50bn page views a month, world.w Looking back now, would he guilty to using its personal ads one of the world’s most popular haveh done anything diff erently? to run an underage prostitution websites. Now 66, he is a survivor off “In that time frame, probably ring. Last year, Craigslist took the age of internet idealism, before notn because I got lucky. For down its personals section after fake news and perpetual outrage example,e when the mailing list Congress passed the Fight Online cast long shadows. I was running needed to have a Sex Traffi cking Act, designed to But he is also a divisive fi gure. namen – I’m very literal as a nerd; crack down on sex traffi cking of • The Guardian Mondayonday 15 5 July 2019 0 9 9

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from American newspapers over a seven-year period. In the Bay Area, the media was especially hard hit.” The decline is continuing and >> even accelerating. The US media is reportedly facing its worst job losses Outrage is in a decade with about 3,000 people laid off or off ered redundancy in profi table. Most the fi rst fi ve months of this year. of the outrage “News deserts” are spreading across the US with alarming I’ve seen online, implications for democracy. Newmark says: “I feel very strongly someone’s faking about the issue because journalists lose jobs and that’s accelerated this it for profi t year. But in the last two or three years, I found economists and industry analysts [who have looked] at the numbers – they adjust for infl ation, household growth and all that – and they say that there’s two things that happened in the early 50s, one of which was TV news, and from hopes for citizen journalism 10, there [we have seen] a straight-line 15 years ago. It hasn’t worked out. decline in newspaper circulation One reason is that journalism is a revenues, accelerated 10 years ago profession. You have to know how to by the advent of the platforms. write well. You have to fact-check. “Now, my gut tells me that You have to know how to develop Craigslist must have had some sources, often over years. You have eff ect, but apparently it’s pretty tiny. to have specialised knowledge Mostly it’s the eff ect of TV news. ” on a beat like disinformation or When the City University of crime or birds. Citizen journalists New York (CUNY) named its can complement what’s going on graduate school of journalism and, sometimes, citizens come to after Newmark following a $20m journalism with skills. ” donation, there was a backlash. Newmark denies, however, that Felix Salmon, the chief fi nancial he was pollyannaish about the correspondent at the Axios website, web itself, even after the much- tweeted : “It’s utterly bizarre to publicised bile , poison and rancour name a journalism school after the of the 2016 presidential election man who almost single-handedly and what some now call a cold civil destroyed local newspapers.” war in the US. Social media fi ghts, he insists, get attention but are not representative of what is really going on. Much of it is manufactured. “Americans are much more reasonable and moderate than what you might guess when you see a little Twitter war. But I’m guessing that the purpose of many Twitter wars is to polarise people ow does and, in fact, we’ve seen that happen that make Newmark feel? “I do because you can often trace some Hwonder why he hasn’t talked to the of the fi ghting groups to the same economists or industry analysts location. Outrage is profi table. involved,” he says, android-like, Most of the outrage I’ve seen in the before pivoting to a paean for CUNY’s online world – I would guess 80% – work in giving a break to people someone’s faking it for profi t.” from diff erent ethnic, religious After 24 years at Craigslist, often Craig Newmark at his home in Greenwich Village and economic backgrounds and dealing with customers directly, boosting diversity in newsrooms. Newmark refl ects: “When you’re Thus he fi rmly rejects any notion looking at tens or hundreds of ads in (New York City, NY > millionaire philanthropists) that all the philanthropy – an a day you get a better grasp of what estimated $50m in the past year people are really like than the more including to New York Public Radio, dramatic fl are-ups. So that’s the new publication the Markup and basis for my optimism.” children, which could have made That’s a lesson from [his teachers] with birds. Children are not a local journalism eff orts such as the Indeed, he remains convinced the site liable to prosecution when Mr and Mrs Levin in Sunday school: consideration, but we do have 21 American Journalism Project – is an that the internet is still a positive its users broke the law. you should know when enough nephews and nieces; No 22 is under attempt to assuage guilt, a reach for for humanity. “It allows people of Newmark could have sold is enough. In more current terms, construction . We’re looking forward atonement. “That takes an active goodwill to get together and work Craigslist for a huge fortune and it’s no one needs a billion dollars . to their launch party.” imagination that I don’t understand. together for common good. Bad joined the Silicon Valley super-elite, Also, in very pragmatic terms, And yet there is a persistent, I have very little imagination.” actors are much louder, they make yet never considered making a quick take less and give more, so I’m widespread view that Newmark’s The ascent of Craigslist, Wikipedia for more sensational news and we’re profi t; the site itself remains defi antly in the process of doing that with humble-looking site destroyed and others also led some to predict seeing a period of that now. ” basic and unadorned by banner forthcoming announcements.” classifi ed advertising, one of that user-generated content would How, then, would he like to be ads. “When I had to make Craigslist Newmark, who married Eileen the newspaper industry’s most conquer all, providing the ultimate remembered? He considers for a from a hobby into a real company, Whelpley in 2012, adds: “The deal valuable cash cows. Last October’s expression of grassroots democracy. moment before stepping outside to I decided, given what I learned in is I live comfortably. I’m helping New York Times article – the one To the storied newsrooms of the US, see the birds. “As a nerd that stayed Sunday school, I should monetise my family and some friends live that called him a “villain” – stated: it was a naive and dangerous fantasy. true to his nerditude,” he says. “And it minimally. The business model comfortably. That ain’t bad. I can “Researchers eventually estimated Newmark, by his own admission that I knew that I wasn’t as funny as

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Fear and petting …Thompson and his wolverine at the cabin

His lifestyle is the clickbait, says Anita, his widow – but it’s the writing that we need more than ever

– and still be able to function.” Anita helped Thompson get back to writing in the last half-decade of his life; he produced as much work in those fi ve years as he had in the previous 15. That included a regular column for sports network ESPN that included a startlingly prescient piece, published the day after 9/11, that predicted the US military follies that would defi ne the decade to come. In 2001, he also returned to campaigning journalism with his battle to free Lisl Auman, a Colorado woman convicted of murdering a police offi cer even though she had been handcuff ed in the police car when the shot was fi red by her companion. The supreme court is the spot where Thompson’s ashes a pair of crazed great danes on the overturned her conviction two were fi red into the sky from a 153ft boardwalk of LA’s Venice Beach . At weeks after Thompson died. “It was tower in the shape of a “Gonzo least, that’s how he tells it in his 2003 bittersweet for all of us,” says Anita. fi st”, a logo he adopted during his sort-of memoir Kingdom of Fear . These days, Anita fi nds herself My night unsuccessful 1970 campaign to be In truth, they were introduced by a charged with preserving her sheriff of nearby Aspen. Johnny mutual friend: she had a question husband’s legacy. There have been Depp, who played Thompson in Fear about football and the friend rumours of TV shows, a fi lm of his and Loathing in Las Vegas, picked up thought Thompson, then primarily 1983 Hawaiian escapade The Curse of at gonzo the $3m tab for that send off , which a sportswriter, would know the Lono, even a branded cannabis line, took place shortly after Thompson answer. She had no idea who he was. but she is understandably cautious. killed himself in 2005. “I was 25 and I had an instant “I try to steer the conversation back There is still a piece of rebar buried crush on him,” she says. “I’d never to his writing, because there’s always in the ground where the tower once met anyone like him. I knew him a focus on his lifestyle,” she says. ground zero stood. It now marks the heart of a as Hunter before I knew him as a “That’s the clickbait, but it’s the labyrinth, picked out in red rocks writer. He was an intense and kind writing that’s important. We need that were placed there by Anita person. When I met him, he wasn’t a him now more than ever, and his several years ago. Walking there wild partier. He wasn’t a Raoul Duke work is so poignant and personal. during the day, I found myself lulled character.” That’s his drug-snorting He’s always in the present moment. In into a state of meditation. It was alter ego, the name he gives himself every story, he’s showing you what it reading Thompson as a teenager that in Fear and Loathing. “When he was felt like, all the smells and sensations. Fuelled by drugs made me want to write for a living. under stress or having a lot of fun, Every time you read a page, it makes Like many, my gateway drug was that character would come out, but you more empowered today, in 2019, and righteous Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, his generally he was just like you and whether you’re reading about the vicious satirical broadside against the me. Having said that, he had a way of 1970s or 2003.” anger, Hunter American dream that begins with the consuming more food, alcohol and I have worked as a journalist for t is 4.30 on a Thursday line: “We were somewhere around drugs than anybody I’ve ever seen the best part of a decade now, and S Thompson’s morning and I am writing these Barstow on the edge of the desert there are elements of Thompson’s I words on the big IBM Selectric III when the drugs began to take hold.” Anita Thompson mythology I can no longer incendiary that once belonged to Hunter S There is, I realise now, a n irony to with our writer; Thompson. Owl Farm, Thompson’s the fact that a journey beginning with right, Thompson’s writing shook “fortifi ed compound” in Woody that debauched and hallucinatory ashes being blasted Creek, Colorado, is dark and tale has brought me to one of the America. Kevin silent outside. Even the peacocks most peaceful places I’ve been. While he raised are sleeping. The only sitting at the typewriter, I glance out EG Perry spends sound anywhere is the warm hum of the window and see a lone white- of this electric typewriter and the tailed deer standing on the ridge the night at his mechanical rhythm of its key strikes, just above Thompson’s cherry-red Colorado cabin, as clear and certain as gunfi re. Pontiac Grand Ville. In the afternoon, In April, Thompson’s widow, Anita shows me around their home, now on Airbnb Anita, began renting out the writer’s including the kitchen that was once cabin to help support the Hunter S his “command centre”. Another Thompson scholarship for veterans at typewriter remains where he left it, Columbia University, where she and engulfed in a snowdrift of books and Hunter studied. It sits beside the main papers. Indeed, the room is largely Thompson home on a 17-hectare unchanged, part of Anita’s plans to estate marked with hoof prints and preserve the home as a museum. elk droppings that rises towards a She met Thompson in 1997, when

mountain range. A short walk uphill he saved her from being mauled by COLLECTION/ GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS: CRAIG TURPIN PETER MOUNTAIN/AP; KEVIN EG PERRY; ALAMY; • The Guardian Monday 15 July 2019

You’re fi red … Hunter in the snow ‘Most courageous artist in Turkey’ … Akyol at the wheel

‘Make war against fascists!’

romanticise. There’s a section of Fear death of Mexican-American reporter Turkish psychpop powerhouse Gaye Su Akyol and Loathing that begins with this Rubén Salazar at the hands of the leads Robin Denselow round Istanbul to explain editor’s note: “The manuscript is so LAPD – a story that has resonance splintered that we were forced to seek with President Trump’s attacks on how political turmoil feeds into her potent songs out the original tape recording and immigrant communities and the transcribe it verbatim.” Any illusion Black Lives Matter movement. his is the hub of pop culture by her partner and guitarist Ali G üçl ü Şimşek, I once held that this was a sort of “ Reading that piece , I began to in Istanbul,” says Gaye Su are sporting dark glasses and dressed in priest- meta-joke was shattered when I read realise that this is one of the great Akyol. “This is where I was like robes, while Akyol comes on like an exotic that it had been written up by Sarah literary political voices of our raised and where I live. This butterfl y, wearing boots and black shorts , with a Lazin, an editorial assistant at Rolling time,” says Denevi, down the line is where my friends and bare midriff and transparent wings attached to Stone in the 70s. “I had done a lot of to the cabin. “He was indicting and memories are. And when her wrists. transcribing in several languages,” attacking those with the most power ‘T politics made things diffi cult for musicians, this The image may be pop but the music is she recalled last year in a Vanity Fair for their dishonesty. Although I don’t is where they ran to.” anything but, veering from dark rock balladry, piece , “but this was pretty intense. mention Trump or his administration, Turkey’s most intriguing psych-folk-rock sometimes with twanging surf guitar, through In one of the tapes they’re in this of course my book was coloured by singer and songwriter is providing a musical to Turkish folk infl uences and tributes to her restaurant, and they’re essentially the present corruption that shines history lesson as she shows me around Kadiköy , Turkish musical heroes. There’s a reference to torturing the waitress – yelling and its garbage light on us all. Thompson a neighbourhood of narrow streets, coff ee the singer Selda Bağcan , who was imprisoned in screaming and throwing things – and understood that power is inseparable shops, bars and clubs on the Asian side of the 1980s, and songs by Erkin Koray , “the father I had no idea how to transcribe that.” from the people who abuse it. That Istanbul, across the Bosphorus from the main of Turkish psychedelic rock”, and by the late While that sort of behaviour may means you have to look at the people tourist attractions. She explains how the city’s rock singer and TV host Bariş Manço. make Thompson seem like a relic abusing it to understand its nature music scene used to be centred over the water Her compositions include İstikrarli Hayal from a diff erent time, when one could and how it can be manipulated, in on the European side, in the Taksim area and the Hakikattir (Consistent Fantasy Is Reality), the be a nightmare to work with and be America especially, to hurt the people venues along Istiklal Street. “It was a cultural title track of her latest album. Then there’s the forgiven, his writing still resonates who already have the least.” centre,” she says. “ But the religious government angry Nargile , which includes the line: “Dig – some of it more noisily than ever. This isn’t the fi rst time Thompson’s was not happy about the situation.” your grave deeper, your body is worthless.” She Unfortunately, there is nothing prescience has rung bells . Alex President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wanted says: “The police once questioned me about outdated about this observation from Gibney’s 2008 documentary Gonzo the area transformed and for a mosque to be the lyrics and I said it was general, not specifi c.” Fear and Loathing on the Campaign made it clear how easily his work in built in Gezi Park – a space, Akyol says, “where (A girl in the crowd tells me Akyol is “the most Trail ’72 : “The main problem in any the 1960s and 70s also applied to the people could come together”. In 2013, those courageous artist in Turkey right now”.) democracy is that crowd pleasers George W Bush era. Here we are again, plans led to demonstrations, in which she took It’s a musical fusion that refl ects her are generally brainless swine who a decade later. History doesn’t repeat part, and to a violent police response that led upbringing. The daughter of the artist Muzaff er can go out on a stage and whup their itself, but it does rhyme. “ That’s to injuries and deaths, Akyol, she’s a social anthropology graduate supporters into an orgiastic frenzy because what Thompson is really which led, in turn, to and a painter (she sometimes exhibits her – then go back to the offi ce and sell writing about is how people abuse My dad was a further anti-Erdoğan work alongside that of her father) who grew up every one of the poor bastards down the American system to gain more protests, regularly met surrounded by music. “My mum was a classical the tube for a nickel apiece.” power, and that’s as old as America fan of Anatolian with tear gas. It became singer, while my dad listened to Turkish pop A new biography, Freak Kingdom itself,” says Denevi. “Thompson’s impossible for musicians and jazz, and my uncle was a fan of Anatolian by Timothy Denevi, focuses on insight is like Mark Twain’s insight, psychedelia to work in Taksim. psychedelia and Led Zeppelin . Then when I was Thompson’s incendiary writing in in that it lasts outside of its cultural and Led Zeppelin Some left the country 10 my brother played me Nirvana – and that’s the decade between two seismic moment. It’s his logic, perspective while others moved to exactly what I was looking for at that age.” events in American politics: the and rigour that allows his work to Kadiköy, a cosmopolitan So how important was it to keep a strong assassination of John F Kennedy in fi t into the Bush administration, or area far more supportive Turkish element in her songs? The aim, 1963 and Richard Nixon’s resignation Reagan, or now.” of the music scene. she said, was to be “authentic and original. in 1974. Denevi started writing Having spent roughly half my life But this summer Music should refl ect the pain and happiness his book after rereading Strange reading and rereading Thompson, it the mood in of your culture.” She regarded herself as a Rumblings in Aztlan , Thompson’s is serious fun to come to Owl Farm Istanbul has political artist, but used metaphors in her 1971 Rolling Stone piece about the and hear the sound of his typewriter, changed. We pass an lyrics “because if you use slogans, that doesn’t moving once again under my fi ngers. old election poster for aff ect people. You should fi nd your own way I come away thinking that his voice Ekrem İmamoğlu, the new of thinking and using language.” And was this too, leaping from every page with mayor , from the opposition also a way of escaping the censors? “There may righteous anger, is still needed. party CHP, who in June won be a small percentage of fear in it. But it’s about Before I leave, I tell Anita how a rerun of the previously fi nding a unique artistic way of saying things.” meditative I found walking the annulled election, this time When asked to explain Constant Fantasy Is labyrinth. “It’s a really powerful with a massively increased Reality, she says: “It may sound cheesy, like spot,” she says. “It’s almost like majority. It was a major blow new wave shit, but it’s going against escapism. a tattoo. You pin something very for Erdoğan that was greeted We should dream together to make war against painful to the earth and it frees your with celebration . “People the evil, the fascists, the crazy guys around the mind. All labyrinths serve the same went crazy,” sa ys Akyol. world who are spreading like cancer.” purpose, which is to centre you and “This is big. This is the start Her concert was part of Vitrin , a showcase set you in the present moment. As of things. Erdoğan said that for contemporary Turkish music that included Hunter said, we only have the present if you lose Istanbul, you lose jazz-rock, folk and electronica. Festival director moment, and it’s so easy to get out of Turkey.” Harun Izer thinks the political climate’s eff ect it. The future can bring anxiety, the Akyol … ‘Police Tonight, Akyol is playing on the music scene has been “positive because past can bring depression, but right questioned me on home ground in Kadiköy, political turmoil and argument help young here? Right here is good.” about my lyrics’ at a large basement hall , with people to be more creative”. Akyol thinks of Hunter S Thompson’s cabin is beer sellers stationed along the it diff erently. “If you put pressure on people, available to rent via Airbnb sides. Her four-piece band, led they’ll fi nd a way to express their feelings.” PHOTOGRAPHS: AYTEKIN YALÇIN; DUNGANGA RECORDS

• The Guardian Monday 15 July 2019 Live reviews 13

Multimillionaire with a masterly common touch … Jerry Seinfeld

Scary intensity … Body-positive Maxine Peake pop … Lizzo Theatre Pop The Nico Lovebox Project festival

★★☆☆☆ ★★★★☆ The Stoller Hall, Manchester on the world – well, there are fewer His modern-life-is-funny gags are Gunnersbury Park, London Comedy of those, in a set whose profi ciency hard-wired to be relatable, from feels just a teensy bit soulless. Two- the routine about all-you-can-eat hen 1980s Jerry Seinfeld thirds in, he steps away from the gags buff ets to the number addressing ith East Manchester to promise us a glimpse of where the cult of “hydration”. London’s resident Nico his life is in 2019. But what follows Perhaps because what Seinfeld is Victoria Park released her is more of the same common-touch saying is often trivial, attention strays now home to second solo ★★★★☆ comedy, in this case about marriage to how he’s saying it – with a sense of All Points East, album, she Hammersmith Apollo, London and kids. Several of the “men do this, rhythm and cadence so fi nely tuned, competitors Wdiscarded her image as a beautiful women do that” gags are retrieved it could be applied to almost anything Whave been forced to disperse. model operating in the world of from his back catalogue. His take on and still make you laugh. You might For Lovebox, that has meant an pop (albeit the warped pop of the feel like a blacksmith family life you could call timeless – doubt there’s more humour to be unexpected new chapter on the Velvet Underground) to create up here sometimes,” or lacking in novelty. wrung from mobile phones. But Jerry South Ealing/Acton borders. After something dark, austere and poetic. says Jerry Seinfeld in But the delivery is exemplary. manages it, with a routine looking clearing intense levels of security, Released in 1968, The Marble a routine addressing This man can do comic timing like at the anthropology of Uber, and a largely Gen Z crowd mainlined Index was an unsettling collision of 21st-century Paul McCartney does melody. The wondering whether the human owns Carlsberg and donned festival must- modernist classical orchestration, communication. opening sequence is a belter, as the phone, or vice versa. haves including Stormzy-esque doomy vocals and the discordant ‘ITalking has been superseded; it’s Seinfeld anatomises the night-out The material zeroes in on how utility vests and face jewels. They throb of a harmonium. an outmoded thing to do. That may experience. Why are we here? Why ridiculous we all are. But it also were a smiley and lightly engaged If you’re going to pay tribute to an be true when it comes to phones, is he ? This is a “bogus, hyped-up advertises senior citizen Seinfeld’s bunch; the appearance of outlandish experimental album, there’s a logic but there’s nothing unfashionable event” designed to pass the time and increasing detachment from the rapper 2 Chainz dressed as a tennis in putting on an experimental show. about talking a la Seinfeld, whose make us feel our lives are great. But whole rigmarole. He celebrates life ball raised few eyebrows on Friday. Commissioned by the Manchester brand of observational comedy then – next gag – “‘sucks’ and ‘great’ as a sexagenarian, when you can say Similarly, Saturday afternoon saw international festival, actor Maxine remains standup’s dominant are pretty close”, says Jerry, and isn’t no to everything with impunity, and Four Tet draw fewer revellers than Peake and director Sarah Frankcom mode. Tonight, we see it executed everything a bit rubbish anyway? anticipates his next decade, when – you might have expected, while have assembled an all-female with perfect mastery by a man It’s a deft start, narrowing the gap why bother speaking? – a dismissive a healthy crowd attended a set by company, including an orchestra whose performing powers seem between megastar and audience , wave should suffi ce. It’s a lovely Belgian techno doyenne Charlotte from the Royal Northern College undiminished at a hard-to-credit 65. then stretching it again as comedy joke, but nothing tonight suggests de Witte . Even Friday headliner of Music dressed in the tunics and Laughs fl ow freely throughout his requires. But there’s little in tonight’s that Seinfeld’s appetite for talking is Solange ’s intoxicating set failed to neckerchiefs of the Hitler youth, 70 minutes on stage. Insights into show to suggest the rarefi ed life remotely on the wane. fully enthrall through no fault of her to evoke something of the singer’s the real Jerry, or new perspectives multimillionaire Seinfeld must lead. Brian Logan own . In the chatter between songs , troubled worldview. Unfortunately, she mused on her faith and said how in the case of EV Crowe’s script, grateful she was to see black and “experimental” means never fi ne soulful voice. They concentrated brown faces in the audience. declaring your purpose. Pop on the enthusiastic revival of such Perhaps predictably, the crowds Peake’s performance as a woman classics as People Get Ready and were most taken with the artists seemingly possessed by the ghost Amadou and Amazing Grace, and were backed by dominating the charts. Among of Nico is equal parts fascinating their own guitarist, Joey Williams, them was afroswing/rap favourite and frustrating. With heavy eyeliner Mariam/the and Amadou and Mariam’s drummer J Hus , whose set ran the gamut from and long fringe, she talks cryptically and bassist/ngoni player . breakout hit Dem Boy Paigon to about searching for a person, a Blind Boys This energetic trio also provided the anthem Bouff Daddy. Or Lizzo , feeling, the truth, switching from the backing for Amadou and whose body-positive pop and a her own voice to the singer’s deep of Alabama Mariam’s set, which included Sabali burst of No Scrubs before heartache Germanic slur and back again. and Dimanche à Bamako, and was anthem Jerome had everyone There’s no doubting the atmosphere notable for Amadou’s inspired guitar singing along . of nightmarish desperation, but it’d ★★★☆☆ Inspired … Amadou solos. Working with a small group, Elsewhere, Brockhampton – the help to know who she was and why and Mariam and no keyboards, clearly suited him. all-singing, all-dancing, all-rapping she was taking on Nico’s demons. Barbican, London The highlights were the six collective – got a huge reception The uncertainty is doubly collaborations, which included two for their hyperactive alt-R&B . And, frustrating because, when the music Mariam met in the sandy compound new songs – the upbeat Bamako to despite a slow start, Giggs , the elder kicks in, it can be tremendous. Anna his was a rousing and of the Bamako Institute for the Blind Birmingham and Two Cultures, One statesman of UK rap, command ed Clyne’s arrangements of songs such intriguing pairing in 1975, while the original line up of Beat – and fi ne gospel harmonising the crowd with a smattering of Kano as Frozen Warnings and Evening of that could turn into those gospel harmony specialists, on Welcome to Mali. Best of all was and JME before launching into his Light have a scary intensity, made something more the Blind Boys of Alabama, got Carter’s powerful solo treatment salacious singalong hits Lock Doh edgier still by the terror-stricken interesting than together in the late 30s at what was of the Tom Waits song Down in the and Talkin Da Hardest. look of the players . It ends with cleverly packaged then called the Talladega Institute Hole, now matched with thoughtful Saturday headliner Chance the Peake alone in the gloom singing an Tnostalgia. Here, after all, were for the Negro Blind. Both went on to and inspired guitar work from Rapper closed things in ecclesiastical a cappella Nibelungen, but, however veteran musicians from Africa and international acclaim. Amadou. If they can work up more fashion, creating a megachurch vibe bleak and forlorn, its impact is the US with remarkably similar First up were the Blind Boys, songs as strong as this, it will be a with a backing choir and tracks such diminished by the lack of context. histories. Mali’s bestselling husband- whose last original member, Jimmy partnership worth continuing. as Blessings and Angels .

PHOTOGRAPHS: GETTY IMAGES; TRISTRAM KENTON/THE GUARDIAN; REDFERNS; ALECSANDRA RALUCA DRAGOI/THE GUARDIAN GUARDIAN DRAGOI/THE ALECSANDRA RALUCA REDFERNS; TRISTRAM KENTON/THE GUARDIAN; GETTY PHOTOGRAPHS: IMAGES; Mark Fisher and-wife team of Amadou and Carter , was born in 1929 and is still in Robin Denselow Hannah J Davies • The Guardian 14 TV and radio Monday 15 July 2019

Dark Money 9pm, BBC One

Theroux with Shirley Phelps- Roper of the Westboro Baptist church

Levi David Addai, writer of the acclaimed Damilola: Our Loved Boy, had already started work on this dark morality tale about Hollywood sex abuse when the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke,

softened since Gramps departed and was replaced by lending it a layer of unexpected Review Louis Theroux: a council of elders. You wonder if this is as much a topicality. In this penultimate episode – Surviving America’s Most product of their inability to match the potency of his the strongest of the series so far – Isaac oratory – and footage of him from Theroux’s previous Hated Family, BBC Two visits in 2007 and 2011 reminds us how uniquely horribly loses his role in Jotham’s fi lm, worsening gifted he was – than a desire to dilute its toxicity. The the already fractured relationship family still picket as strenuously as ever, and seem to feed off the outrage of passers-by. On the other hand, between his parents. Meanwhile, Jess Theroux hears a persistent rumour that Gramps died decides to expose the truth to the press. excommunicated after shouting “You’re good people” Louis goes back at the gay rights charity HQ across the street. Did Concludes tomorrow. dementia strip him down to a better man at the core? Hannah J Davies to Westboro for a Was it a moment of simple madness that meant nothing? Or was it, of course, demonic possession? It seems clear, however, that something has shaken the School of Rock much the current era of deeply troubling church’s members. Is the gentler preaching a sign that 7.30pm, E4 space travel owes to the cracks in the certainties upon which Gramps’s church The charming 2003 fi lm Apollo programme, and was built are starting to appear? No one is willing to starring Jack Black as a describe Nasa’s plans to look at intolerance admit the event even happened. slacker muso teaching resume crewed missions. Theroux stood his ground to an admirable degree with posh students the glory The stuff of science the noxious family – and with Steve, a documentary- of hard rock has already fi ction brought excitingly ★★★★☆ maker who, unlike Theroux, was so impressed with spawned a Broadway to life. MB what he found at the church when he came to fi lm it a musical. This TV few years ago that he joined up. What has always marked adaptation – starring the Big Little Lies Lucy Mangan the Westboro Baptists out is the aggression with which improv veteran Tony 9pm, Sky Atlantic they approach everything, the instant access to fury they Cavalero and screening Perry is almost more all have and the readiness to beat down anyone, especially daily on E4 – goes even trouble dead than alive – those who press points in the way Theroux does, with broader, but ends up as if these women didn’t verbal violence. Steve shares this ability in full. This looking and sounding have enough to worry ust as you did with his previous visits, you is a family of bullies, blood-related or not. like Saved By the Bell. about, what with need to brace yourself before watching Less admirable is Theroux’s treatment of Megan, Graeme Virtue Celeste’s custody battle, Louis Theroux’s return to Topeka, Kansas to daughter of Shirley (one of the most committed and Renata’s bankruptcy see how the Westboro Baptist church – the unforgiving members of that committed and unforgiving Nadiya’s Time to Eat and Madeleine’s folk who picket US soldiers’ funerals with group) and granddaughter of Fred . She escaped the 8pm, BBC Two marriage as rocky as placards reading “God Hates Fags” in protest church a few years ago after fi nding a community of At the start of her the Monterey shoreline. And J at their country’s tolerance of homosexuality – are people on Twitter who gave her the confi dence to winning new series Now that the police are another getting on. Surviving America’s Most Hated Family was question her lifetime of indoctrination, and has built thing about time-saving piling on the pressure, his exploration of whether things have changed since a life without contact with her outraged family since. cookery, a grinning the only question is founder Fred Phelps (known as Gramps to the rest of the He reduces her to tears – as he must surely have known Nadiya Hussain who’ll crack fi rst. church, largely made up of those with his own fervid he would – with the news that two of her siblings recently Shooting has confesses: “I’ve started Ellen E Jones blood running through their veins) died fi ve years ago. became engaged. This will make it that much harder for started on the to embrace every cheat The short answer is – no, not enough to make a them to follow her example and , in all likelihood, means last series of in the book.” She treats Year of the Rabbit meaningful diff erence. Not enough to lift them out of the that she will never see them properly again. We see the Silicon Valley. us to a jam-packed 10pm, Channel 4 category of hate-group. Not enough to stop you wanting chasm of grief opening deeper and deeper in her in real Hold me. half-hour of rapid recipes Lewd and ludicrous, to weep at the contortions of logic and perversions of time . It is profoundly uncomfortable to watch and, for that include a peanut the Victorian spoof thought that can be followed in the name of God. The me, errs fi rmly on the side of exploitation – which is not, butter jelly traybake and detective drama worlds of pain infl icted by this – on others, usually – still generally, Theroux’s stock-in-trade. instant noodles in a jar. shambles its way to a open up behind their words almost every time a member The testimony of more than one new member that Mike Bradley characteristically chaotic speaks. For instance, a new family – the Jacks – has joined it was Theroux’s earlier documentaries that drew them conclusion, as our forces with the Phelpses, and one of the father’s four to the church also raises questions about the ethics of Stargazing: Moon hopeless hero is labelled children explains that they left their mother behind four giving publicity to Westboro. They are hateful, repellent, Landing Special “the most wanted man years ago when he was 13. He doesn’t really miss her appalling in every conceivable way, and they cause a 9pm, BBC Two in London”. Which because, “She claims she loves me but by the standard misery that far outweighs their number. But still, that Tired of endless moon villain of the piece is of God she hates me. Because she doesn’t tell me the number is small, and its impact, in the grand scheme of landing documentaries? behind the stitch-up? truth – that if I don’t obey God, I’m gonna go to hell.” things, remains so too. It’s hard to imagine the attention Try this eye-opening fi lm Enjoy watching Rabbit’s His favourite placard is “God still hates fags”. paid to their extremist tactics didn’t encourage them in which Brian Cox and battle to clear his The preaching in their chapel does seem to have and increase the church’s infl uence. God help us. Dara Ó Briain assess how name. MB • The Guardian Monday 15 July 2019 15

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