The Amazing Story of Timbuktu's Book Smugglers by Charlie English

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Monday 01.05.17 Strike a pose When the voguing of New York’s gay black subculture made its way to Europe, photographer Ewen Spencer was there to capture it. Alex Rayner reports

hen Lasseindra Ninja, scene – where dancers from Lasseindra says a more recent Events are more mixed in Eu- W a French-born veteran diff erent groups or “houses” cultural phenomenon has rope, both racially and sexually, of the New York ball- compete in a wide variety of helped this 20th-century dance and some of the fi ner cultural room scene, fi rst came to vogue highly stylised dance routines style – still popular in New York delineations have been blurred. in European competitions, she – fi rst came to prominence in – fl ourish on the far side of the Lasseindra remembers that, dur- noticed one key diff erence among the late 80s and early 90s, via Atlantic. ing her fi rst few competitions, her fellow dancers. Malcolm McLaren ’s 1989 single “People in Europe got to held in Switzerland, voguing was “I was surprised to see Deep in Vogue , Madonna ’s 1990 know voguing via YouTube,” she put in same category as waacking , [cis] women,” she says. “I was hit Vogue , and Jennie Living- says. “YouTube started in 2005, another dance from US gay sub- surprised to see them trying to do ston’s 1990 documentary Paris I returned to Paris in 2006, and culture, which may look similar vogue femme. My style is vogue Is Burning . by 2007-8 there you were see- to the uneducated viewer, but is, femme. It is the dance of the Less astute followers of club ing it in European street dance she says, entirely diff erent. transsexual.” culture might have assumed competitions.” “Waacking is west coast, it’s Voguing and the associated that, soon after its rise, the scene Voguing did not transfer from disco and funk and it draws culture of the gay black ballroom would fade into obscurity. Yet North America entirely unaltered. from movies, from Hollywood,”

2 The Guardian 01.05.17 she explains. “Voguing is from Spencer travelled to Berlin, Although there is a small and exploited. Yet Spencer thinks New York, it’s more house and Stockholm, Tallinn and Rotter- vogue scene in Britain, Spen- this multiracial, polysexual scene fashion.” dam to photograph dancers, after cer believes it has proved more is exactly what Europe needs at Over the past seven years, seeing footage from a Swedish popular on the continent, as the moment. And while Europe’s Lasseindra and her fellow event on a colleague’s phone. British clubbers seem more inter- balls may not meet the exacting voguers have helped educate “I’ve been clubbing for years, ested in hedonism. “You barely standards of NYC purists, “it’s European audiences, and with and without a camera, and see people drinking at these interesting to see diff erent establish a distinctly European these events certainly stand out events,” he says. “A lot of them cultures coming through ”, says take on the ballroom culture. as a high point for me,” explains have made an outfi t and have Spencer. British photographer Ewen Spencer. “The scene in Europe come there to compete.” “I like progress, and the Spencer, best known for his isn’t very black or very gay. It’s With its new-found popular- mixing of diff erent cultures. award-winning coverage of the quite inclusive. You can see how ity, some senior fi gures in the I think it’s all quite timely.” UK garage and grime scene, has the central and eastern European scene fear voguing – once the documented these events in his ballet and gymnastics traditions preserve of gay African Ameri- Bring, Come, Punish is available from latest book, Bring, Come, Punish . have fed into it.” cans – could become co-opted ewenspencer.com

01.05.17 The Guardian 3 (Right) A museum worker sorts through burnt manuscripts in Timbuktu in 2013

(Below) Abdel Kader Haidara looking through some of the vast collection in 2009

PHOTOGRAPHS REUTERS; GETTY IMAGES 4 The Guardian 01.05.17 ne hazy morning in 2012 in contacts in Timbuktu, 600 miles away. a greeting that left a hint of remem- Bamako, the capital of the The rebels were advancing across the bered contact, no more. He was well O west African state of Mali, desert, driving government troops and versed in the history and content of an ageing Toyota Land refugees before them. Haidara had the documents, but appeared not so Cruiser picked its way to known when he left his apartment much a scholar as a businessman who the end of a concrete driveway and that driving into this chaos would be controlled his aff airs in a variety of pulled out into the busy morning traf- dangerous, but now it was beginning languages via his mobile phones, or fi c. In its front passenger seat sat a large to look like a suicide mission. in person from behind a desk the size man in billowing robes and a pillbox Responsable is a French noun of a small boat. He was not the only prayer cap. He was 47 years old, stood whose meaning is easy to guess at in proprietor of manuscripts in the city, over 6ft tall, and weighed around 14st, English. There were few better words but as the owner of the largest private and, although a small, French-style to describe the librarian then than collection and founder of Savama, an moustache balanced jauntily on his as a responsable for a giant slice of organi sation devoted to safeguarding upper lip, there was something com- neglected history, the manuscripts of the city’s written heritage, he claimed manding about his appearance. In his Timbuktu, a collection of handwritten to represent the bulk of Timbuktu’s brown eyes lurked a sharp, almost imp- documents so large no one knew quite manuscript-owning families. ish intelligence. He was Abdel Kader how many there were, though he him- Sitting in his car on the morning of Haidara, librarian of Timbuktu, and self would put them in the hundreds of 31 March, Haidara knew there was only his name would soon become famous thousands. The manuscripts contained one place he should be. The cumber- around the world. some of the most valuable written some Land Cruiser made a U-turn once Haidara was not an indecisive sources for the so-called golden age again, and headed north-east, toward man, but that morning, as his driver of Timbuktu, in the 15th and 16th cen- Timbuktu and the war. piloted the heavy vehicle through turies, and the great Songhay empire Northern Mali had long been a rough the clouds of buzzing Chinese-made of which it was a part. They had been neighbourhood, a refuge for bandits, motorbikes and beat-up green mini- held up as proof of the continent’s smugglers and revolutionaries. In 2011, buses that plied the city’s streets, he vibrant written history. Few had done an extra ingredient had been added to was caught in an agony of indecision. more to unearth the manuscripts than the simmering stew. That year, a rebel- The car stereo, tuned to Radio France Haidara. In the months to come, no lion in Libya, backed by Nato jets and Internationale, spewed alarming one would be given more credit for cruise missiles, toppled the Gaddafi updates on the situation in the north, their salvation. regime, and hundreds of Malian Tuareg while the cheap mobile phones that In person, the librarian was an who had been employed in the dicta- were never far from his grasp jangled imposing man with a handshake of tor’s armies returned home with continually with reports from his astonishing softness, a drive-by of all the weapons and ammunition → The race to save the ‘library of Timbuktu’ In 2012, tens of thousands of artefacts from the golden age of Timbuktu were at risk in Mali’s civil war. In an exclusive extract, Charlie English describes the desperate attempt to rescue them from the fl ames – and how lethal attacks could still threaten the town’s treasures

01.05.17 The Guardian 5 coordinator, had never met Haidara and Diakité, but she felt he, in particular, “seemed to have a good track record”. At the start of October, the information Stolk was receiving from Bamako via email, phone and Skype was increasingly alarming. In particular, Diakité told her the city’s occupiers had implemented a “search- and-seize” policy in private homes and businesses, and Haidara was growing concerned that manuscripts would become the target. On 8 October, Stolk received an email from Diakité informing her that the manuscript-owning families of Timbuktu wanted Savama to evacuate their collections. A lack of checks on the road south had provided a window of opportunity. Diakité gave details of how it would work: the documents would be taken to Bamako in lockers, each of which would contain 250 to 300 documents, via two overland they could carry. In Mali, they organi sation, D Intl. Fundraising was A restored routes. Each shipment would be ← joined forces with a political central to their operation, and Diakité, manuscript in accompanied by couriers recruited movement that had been campaigning in particular, had contacts among the 2014; (below) from the manuscript-owning families, for an autonomous Tuareg state called foreign governments and foundations Abdel Kader and there would be “supervisory and Azawad, and the National Movement she knew from her career in develop- Haidara with security personnel” camped out all for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) ment. It was these organi sations that rescued along both routes, ready to give “indi- was born. The MNLA declared war on would end up donating the largest manuscripts in rect support services” and help in case the Bamako government and, with quantities of cash. Bamako in 2015 of emergency. For extra security, each the aid of its al-Qaida allies, infl icted a One of them was an Amsterdam- courier would check in eight times a string of humiliating defeats on Mali’s based foundation, the Prince Claus day, Stolk was told. Once in Bamako, demoralised military. In mid-March Fund, named for the husband of Queen The journey the precious manuscripts would be 2012, a group of disaff ected Malian Beatrix of the Netherlands. This fund, hidden in safe houses. All that was army offi cers launched a coup, and in which was supported by the Dutch south was missing was funding. the political chaos that followed, the government and the Dutch national fraught – and Stolk was convinced. She knew rebels took their opportunity, sweeping lottery, even had a “cultural emergency there was a risk involved in evacuat- across the north as the army retreated response” programme, set up in the included ing the manuscripts, and that it in disarray. The jihadists of al-Qaida in wake of the Taliban’s destruction of the ransom might not succeed, but since there the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) were not Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan in was clearly an imminent threat, this far behind. They took over Timbuktu 2001. Deborah Stolk, the programme’s demands seemed the best option. and governed it for almost a year. On 17 October, the Prince Claus Fund signed a contract for the evacu- aidara stayed in jihadist- ation of 200 lockers of manuscripts. occupied Timbuktu for a The cost to the Dutch fund would be H month, covertly organis- €100,000, or roughly €500 a locker. ing the hiding of his man- The money wasn’t just for transporta- uscripts in family houses. tion, but for “overall coordination, He then returned to Bamako, where he transportation costs, couriers, mobile began to consider moving them south. phones to be used during evacua- As a Timbuktien, he didn’t yet have tion, stipendium for families/safe an offi ce in the city but his American houses” and so on, according to Stolk. friend Stephanie Diakité did. By According to a later report of the October 2012, Haidara and Diakité had evacuation in The New Republic that become a team: in future months they was fact-checked by Diakité, the fi rst would describe themselves as a “con- shipments started to leave Timbuktu sortium”, consisting of Haidara’s NGO the day after the Prince Claus con- Savama and Diakité’s development tract was signed: “On 18 October,

6 The Guardian 01.05.17 the fi rst team of couriers loaded 35 seriously they even marked down the lockers on to pushcarts and donkey- money they gave the book smugglers drawn carriages, and moved them to as being for school exercise books in a depot on the outskirts of Timbuktu their own accounts. where couriers bought space on buses The Dutch foreign ministry allo- and trucks making the long drive cated €323,475 to Savama and that south to Bamako.” afternoon, Tjoelker began to make That trip would be repeated daily for arrangements. On Saturday 19 January , the next several months, according to she took the contract to the librarian The New Republic , sometimes many for him to sign, meeting him in the times a day, as the teams of smugglers Bamako lockup where the manuscripts passed hundreds of lockers along the were being received and dispatched to same well-worn route to Bamako. the safe houses. He looked unwashed, The manuscripts’ journey south she remembered, and “so tired”, and was fraught, and barely a day went by to cheer him up she told him the work without a courier ringing in with what he was doing was “important for all Haidara described later as “petits prob- humanity”. The contract stipulated lèmes”, which ranged from mundane that he would evacuate 454 lockers, breakdowns to ransom demands and or 136,200 manuscripts, which meant dangerous run-ins with the jihadists. the cost of transporting each had now By the end of 2012, however, Savama reached a whopping €660, though this informed the German embassy in included storage for a year, the making Bamako that between 80,000 and of an inventory, at €212 for each locker, 120,000 manuscripts had been suc- and a 10% “management fee” for cessfully evacuated from Timbuktu. Savama and for D Intl. The manuscripts would now be t this time, the Malian cri- moved by boat, Tjoelker was told, sis was entering a far more since the French advance meant it was A dangerous phase. In early too dangerous to drive to Timbuktu. January, the rebels began “That weekend, a large numbers of to advance south, taking boats – around 20 – were already start- Konna, 40 miles inside government ing to leave Timbuktu,” she says. These territory, and on the morning of Friday travelled 250 miles upriver, across the 11 January , France’s president, François inland delta and Lake Debo, to Mopti, Hollande, announced that his country where they turned south up the Bani was going to war. Operation Serval, the prophet’s birthday, which fell on 24 (From top) river for a further 70 miles to Jenne, French off ensive to retake the north of January. “After the battle of Konna, President where the lockers were transferred to Mali, was about to begin. the AQIM fi ghters who were occupying Hollande visits bush taxis that took the manuscripts Haidara had been warned by herit- Timbuktu became very angry,” she Mali in February the last 350 miles to Bamako by road. age experts that the end of the occupa- recalls. “They said: ‘ OK, we will show 2013; (below) the Once or twice during the operation of Timbuktu would be the most you. We will do a big auto-da-fé on the remains of an tion, the Dutch ambassador, Maarten dangerous period for the manuscripts: day of Mawlid.’” ancient Brouwer, asked how things were going, “People told me that the day they leave Tjoelker had no budget for saving mausoleum in and recalled being told of diffi culties they are going to burn everything. culture, but Diakité had come knocking 2013, destroyed on the route: “We got some stories They are going to sabotage it all.” at an opportune moment: the Dutch by Islamist about [lockers] full of manuscripts that He and Diakité now renewed their foreign minister, Lilianne Ploumen, militants in were transported by pirogues [dugout energetic fundraising. On Tuesday had just sent a note to the embassy Timbuktu canoes] and that it was done during the 15 January , Diakité pitched up at asking what the government could night, and they had a lot of problems the Dutch embassy in Bamako for a do to help Mali, and Tjoelker was on the way because there was the meeting with the embassy’s head of convinced this was it. By 17 January , ‘We got police, there were rebels, and so on,” development aid, To Tjoelker. She Ploumen had given her blessing to the he says. He had heard that boats had told Tjoelker the problem. “They said operation. The project had to remain stories that been kidnapped or that people had we would like you to help us because confi dential: “I said to [Ploumen]: threatened to set manuscripts on fi re. there are still 180,000 manuscripts left ‘You can’t tell anyone about it, it has dugout “It was the people on the ground that in Timbuktu and we can’t get them out to be kept really secret because, if it canoes solved those issues.” CHARLIE ENGLISH; GETTY IMAGES without extra money,” the diplomat becomes public al-Qaida will react ... It As the lockers reached Bamako,

recalls. In particular, Tjoelker was is top secret and you can only get the were being Haidara took Tjoelker to see them. “He

informed, the jihadists had threatened publicity after four or fi ve months but really made me part of the reception used for ← to burn the manuscripts on the day not now, you have to keep quiet.’” of all those boxes. Every box had

PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS of Mawlid, the celebration of the Embassy staff took this entreaty so transport’ a number and the name of the

01.05.17 The Guardian 7 funder on it so they knew who Restoration According to the Malian journalist 100 were injured in what is described ← had paid for what.” Brouwer experts at Ousmane Diadié Touré, who fre- as the most lethal terrorist attack in accompanied Tjoelker on one of these work in quently travels to Timbuktu and the the country’s history, on a military visits. He counted roughly 500-600 Bamako in 2016 north, security is now as bad as ever. base in Gao. The jihadist insurgency containers in the room, easily enough “All the forces have had time to reor- also seems to be spreading: since 2015, for Savama to have fulfi lled its contract ganise and are now pursuing diff erent a new group, the Macina Liberation with the Dutch government, and was strategies,” he says. Though some Front, has brought terror to the centre told there were more elsewhere. “I al-Qaida commanders were killed in and south of the country. looked at To [Tjoelker] and I said: ‘This 2013, many of those who led the rebel- Timbuktu town itself is still secure, is a lot. Are these all full?’ They said: lion are still in business. In January this with a UN blue helmet force regularly ‘Yes, they are all full.’” year, more than 70 soldiers died and patrolling the streets. However, the To be doubly sure, he even singled wider political situation has had a sig- out one chest-deep in a stack at the nifi cant eff ect on the economy, since back of the stockroom and said: “OK, the tourists who provided a substantial show me that one.” portion of Mali’s income no longer When the locker was opened, he come. Business is going “very badly saw it was piled to the brim with for the librarians”, says Abdoulwahid manuscripts. Haidara , the proprietor of the town’s Mohamed Tahar manuscript library. Postscript: On 2 February 2013, after Four years after Timbuktu’s libera- Operation Serval had succeeded in tion, many of its manuscript libraries recapturing northern Mali, François remain in the south and only two Hollande stood in Timbuktu as the libraries are now open in the city itself, city’s hero and liberator. French he says. He hopes his own Mohamed troops kept Mali secure for a short Tahar library will reopen its doors in a time, but the situation has long since month’s time, when renovation work GETTY IMAGES deteriorated. Once again, innumerable by Unesco is complete. armed groups of diff erent beliefs and Extracted from The Book Smugg lers of ethnicities are fi ghting for a slice of the Timbuktu by Charlie English, published country’s future. by William Collins on 6 May. PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH Doonesbury Garry Trudeau

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Justin was my shining light, my life. He became my arch enemy

he story of Justin Fashanu Justin Fashanu, the fi rst openlyy – the world’s fi rst £1m black gay footballer, killed himself T footballer and Britain’s fi rst openly gay footballer, who killed himself aged 37 in with his life mired in chaos 1998 – makes a moving, challenging, and injury. As documentary troubling biopic. Forbidden Games tells how Justin and his brother John , aged Forbidden Games casts light on four and three, were removed from their mother and three siblings, to be his tragic story, his brother John fostered by Barnardo’s. The more sensitive Justin could never reconcile what talks about their troubled he perceived to be an abandonment, but John saw things diff erently. “No relationship. By Daniel Harris mother wants to give away her own

10 The Guardian 01.05.17 children,” he says, “and it propelled us to become major celebrities all over the world. We made ourselves millionaires, so it couldn’t have been all that bad, could it?” John’s resulting insecurity mani- fested itself in shyness and a speech impediment. He clung to Justin, “the only person who could hear what I was talking about … that was part of the bonding of us at a young age”. Eventually, the brothers were fostered by a white couple in Shropham, Norfolk, where their real mother would visit once a month. They were excited by the opportunity to be part of a family, but the passage was not seamless – John struggled to sleep, so a doctor told his foster mother to hug him tight. “She used to grab me and give me a great big cuddle every morning, every evening, and that gave me a lot of security,” he recalls. “It was a lovely feeling, your whole face disap- pearing into Mummy’s breasts.” The boys’ colour made them outsiders in Norfolk. “If you saw a black person,” says John, “that was Michael Jackson’s picture somewhere, and maybe, maybe, if you were lucky, Mu- hammad Ali … they were the only black people I saw in my life till I got to 18, 19.” Accordingly, they grew up knowing “nothing about race”; had the 16-year- old John been asked about colour, “I’d have told you I was white because the environment was white.” But his world changed when, at the age of 18 and without Justin, he visited Nigeria – his father’s homeland, and now his home. “The plane landed, and for the fi rst time the doors opened and I just saw black people everywhere,” he says. “I was shocked! I thought: ‘Wow, wonderful!’ My own people! People who look like me! I can walk around Nigeria free as a black man! That was the beginning of (Clockwise from left) John and Justin Fashanu, 1994; Justin playing for my life as far as I was concerned.” Nottingham Forest, 1982; John playing for Wimbledon, 1991 Meanwhile Justin, though proud, was ambivalent regarding race; prin- cipally, he wanted to be left alone. Scarred by the childhood trauma from which he had protected John – he who deemed them dangerous – or, as spendng and fast living, also making ‘I was endured violent nightmares into adult- John sees it: “He was always getting regular appearances in Notting- hood – he was simultaneously vulner- something and dropping it.” ham’s gay bars. Before long, Clough worried that able and charismatic, desperate for But his footballing excellence was excommunicated him, even calling people acceptance and searching for identity. unignorable. “That was the easiest way the police to the training ground on Growing up where and when he for us to make money, which we made one occasion. Beset by injury, Justin’s would think did, this was not easy. “It was a racist an awful lot of,” says John. “There were career tailed off , while his personal it was me. society,” John recalls. “Times have, no black bankers, lawyers, or anything life grew increasingly chaotic and his thank goodness, changed, but they’ve at all. We knew the only way to make behaviour increasingly erratic. I was the changed on our backs.” money if you were black was either to John left Norwich in 1983 to escape

REX FEATURES After suff ering numerous beatings, sing, dance or play football – that’s it.” his more talented brother’s shadow; he hard man’ the brothers took up boxing and Justin soon carved a niche at Nor- was also angry that Justin hadn’t used martial arts. The single-minded John wich, before signing for Brian Clough’s his infl uence to help him at the club became an expert, while the impres- Nottingham Forest in 1981. During or elsewhere. The man he saw as →

PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS sionable Justin was dissuaded by those that time, he developed a taste for big “my mother and father”, “my shin-

01.05.17 The Guardian 11 John and Justin in Norfolk and (below) with their foster father

fered by a teammate at Leyton Orient that Justin would arrive at training with “rent boys”, and says that an allegation of raping a minor in the US is untrue; on the other hand, after questioning and blood testing, a warrant was issued for Justin’s arrest on charges of fi rst- and second-degree assault and second-degree sexual assault. But he had already left for England. The last time the brothers spoke, Justin feared for his liberty, but John, despite now accepting homosexuality as “a normal thing”, was “too annoyed to understand what he was really saying” and did not believe that Justin deserved his unconditional loyalty. “There comes a time when it’s enough help,” he says. “Enough is enough. He was my older brother, not my younger brother. Why am I continually giving him money?” T hree days later, John was baptising his son Amir when the police arrived, media in tow, to tell him that his brother had killed himself and asking him to identify the body. “I feel a bit cross with myself that I didn’t see these challenges Justin was having,” he says. “A little bit more understanding and a little bit more softness could’ve changed a lot of things … the misunderstanding Justin had with Mother is the same misunderstanding I had with Justin.” But even if he might have acted dif- ferently, he has no regrets: “You can’t go ing light” and “my life” became that,” he said. “I will give you £100,000 ‘I feel a bit back and say: ‘Oh my God, how would it ← “my arch enemy”, and their rela- if you just keep your mouth shut .” have been diff erent?’ Because the whole tionship never recovered. John was also concerned for cross with world would have been diff erent.” Nor In 1986, John joined Wimbledon, himself: “I was worried that people myself that does he think that things might have and was a key fi gure as the Crazy would think it was me. John Fashanu, turned out diff erently had he not han- Gang established themselves in the Justin Fashanu, J and J … I was the I didn’t dled Justin’s coming out the way he did. top division before winning the FA hard man, we were hard men, Vinnie see the “I think that he would have possibly Cup in 1988. In 1989, he was picked Jones, John Fashanu, Dennis Wise, committed suicide even earlier … and I for England, and in 1990 at the we were the hard team with a macho, challenges now thank God I didn’t give him all the Professional Footballers’ Association strong image, we had a massive fol- money I’d promised to give him.” dinner, he was accosted in the toilet. lowing of people who loved the way Justin was Although he remembers Justin in his “One of the most famous players, we played, and suddenly my brother’s having’ prayers every Sunday, he has moved on. playing for Nottingham Forest, just coming out and saying this?” “Put it in perspective,” he insists. “ Why said to me: ‘Hey, your brother’s gay.’ So to “empower” his brother, John would I be crying after 15 years. My I’d heard little things, but when he said wrote a cheque and had his agent take mother has died, my other mother has that, the fi rst thing I was gonna do, I Justin to a hotel, only to discover that died, my father has died, people die.” was gonna beat the hell out of him. I “my agent was a gay sympathiser”. In He remains proud of his brother. was with Vinnie Jones , and it was Vin- the event, Justin kept John’s money “Whether you like him or you don’t nie who held me back … I was gonna and sold the story to the Sun anyway. like him, or you love him or you hate give him a good slap because I thought Justin also revealed that he had slept him, Justin Fashanu is a legend.” he was insulting my brother.” with a married Conservative MP and John, “a red-blooded African man”, that they had kissed in the House of Forbidden Games, which previews did not believe it – until Justin confi ded Commons. He later retracted the claims tomorrow at Toronto’s Hot Docs festival, in him. Both their mothers were ill, and – despite overwhelming evidence to the is a Fulwell73 fi lm in association with assuming that Justin was simply after contrary – but John now believes that Darke Films and Black Sun Media, money and attention, John responded the liaison never happened. produced and directed by Adam Darke angrily. “Right now, we don’t need Nor does he accept the evidence of- and Jon Carey

12 The Guardian 01.05.17 Private lives

He must be more sensitive A problem shared After my separation, it took me years to feel that my son was ready to meet someone Is it too soon for my young daughters whom I was seeing, and even then with the caveats that I was in a stable relationship with to ﬁ t in with their father’s new family? that person and that they were introduced as a friend. Being in a new relationship is great and you want everyone to know about it, but at the same time you have to be sensitive to people’s feelings, especially those of your children. jimbo246

I was married for 20 years, with two daughters, The kids should be allowed to choose Next week When I met the father of now aged eight and 13. One day, my husband I’d suggest going to the doctor together so your SHOULD I WAIT FOR THE my unborn child, I thought told me he “needed to breathe” and was ex can hear it straight from the horse’s mouth. FATHER OF MY UNBORN I had found the one. When CHILD TO CHOOSE moving out the next day. A week later, he was Maybe some counselling (for him) would also be BETWEEN ME AND I fell pregnant after three arranging a holiday with a new girlfriend. I am a good idea, so he can come to grips with the HIS EX-WIFE? months of dating, it was a not a fool and understand that this person had magnitude of what he has done. I would try to shock, but we were excited. been around for some time. I was deeply hurt, make him see that your children love him and This changed soon after the 12-week scan. He but I tried to keep things as normal as possible while he has a new family, his children don’t had been married , but was negotiating a divorce, for the girls. We started sharing custody but know that family and might not even like th em , and had to inform his ex-wife of my pregnancy. just weeks later they were introduced to his and they should be able to make that choice. As he had played down the seriousness of our new girlfriend and her two kids. They now Simother relationship, this came as a huge shock to her. spend all “his” weekends doing things I was understanding but, as he withdrew, together. What do your daughters want? I began to feel vulnerable. I hoped that cooling Now my youngest has started having “belly Sadly, the children will probably be thinking things between us for a while would give him aches” that have no physiological explanation; they had some part in this change. The fact the head space to come to a decision between his the doctor says she is under emotional stress. that Daddy now has other children and is part ex-wife and me. Three months on, this hasn’t When I addressed this, my ex accused me of of th is new family’s lives will almost certainly happened. I still see him regularly (though not inventing illnesses to make him feel bad. Am I upset them. I would ask your daughters what romantically) and I know he has had contact silly to think that two and a half months is not they want as they are old enough to know. If with his ex-wife. I have tried to take control, by long enough for my daughters to get used to they don’t want to spend time with his new trying to end contact between us (that isn’t all these changes? girlfriend and her children, they shouldn’t baby-related) and by saying I would be willing to have to. give us another go. Neither course has worked . Your kids have had an emotional shock Xtrapnel He is genuinely excited about being a dad, It seems as if he is expecting everyone, especi- and I would love for us to be a little family, but I ally the kids, to just fall in line and seamlessly Try some kind of mediation am confi dent that I can raise a child with the fi t in with his new family. How simplistic. Your Could your GP’s surgery suggest a mediation support of my family. I can’t see how I can con- kids have had an emotional shock and need service that you could attend together, so that tinue like this, and I don’t think he knows what time to deal with it. They also should not have you can try to get on the same page regarding he wants, either. Do I wait it out or cut and run? to be introduced so early to this woman and your children? It could help to establish that her kids and be expected to spend time with you are moving forward, that he has nothing Any answers? Be an agony aunt or tell us your everyone. Your ex should make time for your to fear about you trying to deny him custody, dilemma. To give advice or send us your problem for two children on their own and accept that he but that the children may vote with their feet Private Lives, email: [email protected] has caused a major upheaval in your family. if he doesn’t show a bit more sensitivity. or write to Private Lives, The Guardian, Kings Place, MonkeySoul FeedtheSquirrels 90 York Way, London N1 9GU

01.05.17 The Guardian 13 Health

ur knees are a marvell off en- gineering. They take quite O a battering over the course of a lifetime, especially an active one; knees bear our full weight when we’re standing, with extra force when we run, jump, twist, go up and down stairs, kick a ball or improves, and if they need surgery, cavort around a tennis court or down they do better.” Haddad encourages a ski slope. Little wonder knees are people to take a low dose of mild pain- susceptible to short-term (acute) inju- killers if they need something to keep ries and long-term (chronic) problems active, but he is concerned about the such as osteoarthritis rise in the use of opiates (strong and (“wear and tear”). Most addictive painkillers such as morphine), acute knee problems which is a huge problem in the US and is get better without increasing in the UK. Steroid injections specifi c treatment, and A kneesYour knees to are unsung heroes, know writes help some basis people in the short-term, the best initial treat- but injections of platelet-rich plasma, ment for chronic knee pain is exercise Ann Robinson stem cells or hyaluronic acid haven’t and weight loss. Other options include should you pay attention to, and been shown to work. simple painkillers, physiotherapy, . But which problems steroid injections, cartilage and liga- which treatments are worth trying? Ever since I Googled “knee osteoar- ment repair, and total knee replace- thritis” I have been bombarded by ment. Claims are made for dietary things to buy and try. How do I know supplements and spices such as fi sh what works and what doesn’t? oils, turmeric and glucosamine. Newer Look at evidence and price. Does it therapies being investigated include work? Does it cause any harm? Is it injecting the knee with hyaluronic acid, worth the money? The trial evidence to stem cells or platelet-rich plasma. date is that acupuncture doesn’t work, but it’s safe and may help some indi- Does it matter if my knees pop or crack viduals. There’s a lack of evidence for when I squat? the eff ectiveness of a Tens machine , A popping or cracking noise does not but is cheap and safe. Lateral wedge matter if there’s no pain, swelling insoles can be bought online and put or diffi culty moving your knee. The in shoes to take pressure off the knee; alarming sound can be caused by air evidence is weak, but they’re cheap, bubbles popping in the joint fl uid or safe and sometimes eff ective. Glucosa- ligaments and tendons snapping back mine and chondroitin supplements into place after moving or catching on are popular, but there’s no evidence bits of bone or cartilage. If you also get surgical repair is sometimes needed. The best to recommend their use. The yellow pain, swelling or fi nd the knee catches An ACL tear is a common sports injury pigment in the spice turmeric contains in certain positions, you may have that makes the knee painful and initial chemicals that are said to be benefi cial a small cartilage tear. Most minor tears unstable. It particularly aff ects skiers, treatment in osteoarthritis, but it’s likely you get better without specifi c treatment footballers and rugby players who stop would have to eat a ton of it for any within six weeks; if not, see your GP. or change direction suddenly or get a for chronic signifi cant eff ect, says Haddad. direct blow to the knee during a tackle. knee pain I have heard people talk about ACL and What about a steroid injection? meniscal tears. What’s the diff erence? My knees are dodgy; should I avoid is exercise Steroid injections into the knee joint can It helps to visualise the whole knee. The running? provide rapid relief from pain, swelling joint between the femur (thigh bone) Not necessarily. Elite athletes, runners and weight and stiff ness. The eff ect lasts up to three and tibia (shin bone) is helped by the and footballers certainly get knee inju- loss months or more. But the evidence patella (kneecap) and stabilised by four ries as an occupational hazard. But for is inconclusive; 44% of people given powerful ligaments, which are fi brous the rest of us, the evidence suggests a steroid injection reported an improve- bands between the bones (anterior that even long-distance running ment in pain compared with 31% and posterior cruciate – ACL and PCL – doesn’t increase the chances of devel- given a placebo injection. Some 36% which cross the joint space, and lateral oping osteoarthritis. Older runners said they noticed improved function, and medial collateral – LCL and MCL – with mild osteoarthritis don’t seem to compared with 26% given a placebo. which run down either side of the joint). make it worse if they keep on running. The strong quadriceps (thigh muscles) The waiting list for NHS physio in my are attached to the patella via a tendon I’ve been told that my knee pain is area is more than six months. What and are key to the smooth movement osteoarthritis and there’s nothing should I do? and stability of the joint; strong quadri- I can do. Is that really true? Stay on the waiting list, but meanwhile ceps make for strong knees. Cartilage No, there’s lots you can do, but it’s not walk every day and do exercises on lines the surfaces of femur and tibia to about heroics or headline-grabbing new your own to strengthen and stabilise prevent bone grinding on bone, and therapies. Leading orthopaedic surgeon the knee. There’s no good evidence two cushions of cartilage (menisci) sit Fares Haddad of University College that physiotherapy or other manual in the joint as shock absorbers. Most hospital, London, says it’s essential to therapies are much more eff ective than cartilage and ligament tears get better keep exercising and lose weight. “If exercising on your own, so long as you on their own within a few weeks, but people lose weight, their knee pain can motivate yourself.

14 The Guardian 01.05.17 Dr Dillner’s dilemma Are fresh vegetables better than frozen? Sexual Healing Pamela Stephenson Connolly

When you are shopping for juicy A study by Ali Bouzari and colleagues After a series of unsuitable boyfriends, strawberries or fresh greens, you may at the University of California, com- I have met a wonderful loving man. not stop at the frozen food aisle. paring nutrients in eight diff erent WRITE TO US However, he has an extremely small Frozen fruit and vegetables often don’t fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables penis. He can get an erection and we look the part once defrosted, and you (corn, broccoli, spinach, carrots, peas, Send us your own are able to have penetrative sex, but may think that the freezing process green beans, strawberries and blueber- problem for I often feel little to nothing, although depletes them of some nutritious ries), found no consistent diff erences Sexual Healing, he is a sensitive lover in other ways. by emailing value. Nothing is as good for you as between fresh and frozen. I am full of regret that, if this is to be private.lives@ fresh – right? On the other hand, frozen Vitamin C was higher in frozen corn, theguardian.com my life partner, I might never be able is often cheaper and is there all year green beans and blueberries than in or writing to to enjoy penetrative sex in quite the round. And fresh is a relative term; their fresh equivalents. There was Private Lives, The same way again. fruit and vegetables can be in transit, more ribofl avin (a B vitamin) in frozen Guardian, Kings sit in stores or wait in your fridge for rather than fresh broccoli, though Place, 90 York Way, Regarding relationships, what exactly some weeks. But can you get the same fresh peas had more than frozen ones. London N1 9GU is your goal? Is it to fi nd the perfect nutritional benefi t from your frozen In another paper , the researchers person, or the perfect penis? Would fi ve a day? looked at fi bre and levels of minerals you accept my word for the fact that such as magnesium, calcium, zinc neither exists? Your search for complete The solution and iron and foundnd no big didiffff er-er- and utter satisfaction on every scale Many had a go at perfecting the ence between thee frozenfrozen anandd frfreshesh is likely to lead to disappointment, freezing process before Clarence forms of the samee eieightght ffruitruit dissatisfaction and regret. True intimacy Birdseye (the captain himself) came and vegetables. and wonderfully loving human con- up with “quick-frozen” technology Fans of frozen ffruitruit aandnd nections are partly defi ned by the ability in the early 1920s . He copied Inuits vegetables (and therehere are of each person to see and accept the in Alaska, who preserved their fi sh many in the food industrindustry) y) “failings” of the other, and to accept by freezing them quickly, meaning argue that freezingng stopsstops the and share one’s own shortcomings. that large ice crystals didn’t form to rotting process in its tracks. You are at an early stage in this new damage cells and destroy the taste Frozen fruit and vvegetables,egetables, relationship, but rejecting an otherwise of the food. Fruit and vegetables are if kept undisturbeded in a “wonderful” man on the basis of his between 70% and 90% water, and, good freezer, will have bebeenen penis size may be very unwise, espe- once harvested, rapidly lose moisture, captured and preservedserved cially since he is a fulfi lling lover in are attacked by microbes and degraded in their prime andd nonpenetrative ways. Most nerve by enzymes . retain their mineralsrals endings that help trigger pleasure and Nowadays, newer techniques are and vitamins. Issuesues orgasm are in a woman’s clitoris, not used, such as blanching vegetables such as preferringg the the vagina. And over time, needs and before fl ash freezing. There are no taste of fresh are momorere bodies change, and desire waxes and chemicals involved, and, if you worry subjective . And, of wanes. When judging a partner’s ability about frozen fruit and vegetables course, frozen peasas to be satisfying in the long run, the only losing nutrients, then remember that are much better thanhan reliable benchmark is his willingness fresh ones lose them too. Green peas fresh ones for apply-ply- to learn to please you. lose just over half their vitamin C in ing to minor bumpsps Pamela Stephenson Connolly is a US-based the fi rst 24 to 48 hours after picking. on the head. psychotherapist specialising in sexual disorders ALAMY PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS

01.05.17 The Guardian 15 Arts

olk horror sounds like a contradiction in terms, like F a blend of Aran knitwear and paranoia, morris- dancing and carnage. Mark Gatiss coined the phrase, which is apt, since The League of Gentlemen helped seed the genre’s recent revival. The League found the funny in The Wicker Man, though it wasn’t hard to locate: it was always diffi cult to take seriously a movie where a strutting, bewigged Christopher Lee sonorously orders Edward Woodward, disguised as a dour jester in a Punch costume, to: “Cut some capers, man! Use your bladder!” According to Gatiss, folk horror’s central trinity consists of three fi lms from the late 1960s and early 70s: Michael Reeves’s Witchfi nder General , a brooding tale of sadism and revenge in East Anglia during the civil war; Piers Haggard’s Blood on Satan’s Claw , in which a cult of adolescents hundreds of years ago commit a series of murders in order to incarnate Satan in the countryside; and Robin Hardy’s Human sacrifi ce, secret cults, pagan sex … from Kill The Wicker Man , about a policeman lured into being a human sacrifi ce for List to The Loney, folk horror is fl owering once again island-dwelling pagans. in Brexit Britain. For May Day, Michael Newton However, a new wave has appeared in the last decade. It includes: Ben takes a trip into the dark heart of the countryside Wheatley’s Kill List , which begins like Get Carter, with hitmen out on a job, and ends with a terrifying twist; David Keating’s eerie, gory Wake Wood, about a couple who move to a village after the Neighbours death of their daughter; and, in print, Andrew Michael Hurley’s recent som- bre masterpiece The Loney , in which a family go on a pilgrimage to a shrine, seeking a cure for the elder brother. from hell Folk horror, which is the subject of a new season at the Barbican, presents the dark dreams Britain has of itself. The fi lms pick up on folk’s association They may lurch into the ludicrous, These films spiring coven are merely jokers busy with the tribal and the rooted. And but with surprising earnestness these manipulating the lonely dupe, and our tribe turns out to be a savage one: fi lms nonetheless play out a three-way display duping the audience in the process. the countryside harbours forgotten philosophical debate: between enlight- a power The agnostics and Christians are per- cruelties, with the old ways untouched ened rationalism, orthodox Christian- plexed and doubtful, while the pagans by modernity and marked by half- ity and renewed paganism. Sex is at the worship and satanists are smugly knowing. remembered rituals. heart of this debate: just as these fi lms They’re in on the gag. It is a place that is both enticing and both adore and recoil from natural – of the mob The fi lms feature a recurring threatening. The fi lms are symptoms of beauty, so human loveliness entrances over the archetype: the arrival of a stranger, the disease they purport to diagnose: and repels them. the discovery of a secret cult, then a manifestations of our troubled, citifi ed Hence the repeated moment when individuaindividuall vicious murder, perhaps a sacrifi ce, response to anything natural, beautiful a young, beautiful blond woman designeddesigne to propitiate pagan gods. and not mechanical. Sometimes, these (Linda Hayden in Blood on Satan’ss TheThe metropolitanme visitor, the outsider works seek to unnerve us through fear Claw, Britt Ekland in The Wicker fromfrom theth mainland, comes into a situ- while still reaching for an enchanted Man) tempts some ascetic out- ationation stranges to them and to us. Here vision of landscape and rural peace. sider, like a pale imitation of tthehe enlighteneden laws of the nation But the ecstatic quietness of Samuel Salome trying to seduce John the do notno pertain. In these forgotten Palmer’s paintings of Shoreham, or Baptist. So we have tight-lipped spaces,spac there are other laws : rules Wordsworth’s universal Cumbria, do Woodward sweating in his neatly andand rituals that are both familiar not sit well with gothic shudders. The ironed pyjamas while a nude remnants rem of some tribal memory anxiety undoes the idyll and, rather Ekland cavorts and croons in the yet yet utterly strange. The locals than imagining a visionary Britain, folk neighbouring bedroom. understand,un while we do not. horror evokes a land haunted by the In the best of such fi lms, in Their rootedness in place becomes past, by old nightmares, by sex. Kill List for example, the con- uncanny.uncan Once, almost everyone

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was so rooted. But now – in the dis- mon up a mystical intensity, as vision continuous world of modernity, where and reality blur . relationships are casual and work What’s diff erent, and striking, here comes and goes – such belonging feels is that it is almost a rule in folk horror strange and even sinister. that the supernatural is banned . In The As the stories progress , that solitary Wicker Man or Kill List, no one expects fi gure gets caught up in a myth and a some gloomy god to appear. The evil is rite. Alan Garner’s marvellous novel entirely human. There is no divine ap- The Owl Service, which was adapted pearance in Kill List, no conjuration, just for TV, follows this pattern: it’s based on bleakly absurd acts of extreme aggres- a Welsh myth about a woman created sion, suicidal and murderous all at once. from fl owers who betrays her husband In fact, in the folk horror revival, the and is turned into an owl. Here, as in mystery no longer draws on fecundity other folk horror tales, being inside a and rebirth. Now the secret is violence. myth is terrifying, a fall from the indus- Wheatley is undoubtedly the master trialised, supermarket world into one here. Both Kill List and A Field in Eng- possessed by abysmal powers. In these land , his psychedelic fable set during dramas, The Golden Bough turns gothic. the English civil war, transform cinema For, if it were only a matter of sex into a nightmare imbued with history versus asceticism, we’d just have a load and politics. Although he lives a drab of re-enactments of Lady Chatterley’s suburban life, one built on and paid for Lover. But in folk horror, the crowd by violence, Kill List’s returned soldier destroys the individual. You are not up protagonist has become an essentially against some forlorn witch, but a cult. murderous man. He and his partner It is not the government that’s out to may think they are crusaders, King get you, but your neighbours. You are Arthur’s knights executing horrible going to be killed, but you cannot pro- people, but we quickly realise they are test, for it is the will of the people. The just vicious killers themselves. majority prevails. When they fi nally appear, the cult- But this victory for “decent people” ists are empty, faceless, uninterested in looks manic: the grins are forced, all their own self-preservation, thanking doubt is suppressed. In their portrayal the men who torture them, charging of the crowd, these fi lms display a kind Penda’s Fen, meanwhile, somehow Rooted and tribal carelessly into a hail of bullets. Only of power worship – the mob over the manages to bring together Edward … clockwise from mayhem, cruelty and violence engages individual. Later, we may side with Elgar, a coming out in 1970s rural main, Kill List; them. As one, they politely applaud another crowd, the revengers, but that England, religious doubt, cold war Blood on Satan’s each extreme act of violence, their bland identifi cation will be just as dehuman- paranoia, and an encounter between Claw; Witchfi nder automatic approval part of the ritual. ising. As long as there is blood and suf- a grammar-school boy and the last General; The Ultimately, this ghastly applause fering, we are supposed to be satisfi ed. pagan king of England. It is a dream Wicker Man tells us that the cultists are the cinema In two works on one edge of the of renewal: the countryside stands audience. The pagan rite we are wit- genre – David Rudkin’s BBC drama against cold rationality, against indus- nessing is the fi lm itself. A sense of Penda’s Fen and Peter Shaff er’s play try. Like Equus, which was fi lmed in complicity was always part of folk Equus – sexual confusion is also at work . 1977 and recently revived with Daniel horror. The gang-rape and murder in But, although there is horror, there is Radcliff e, this is folk horror at its most Blood on Satan’s Claw begins from no murderous crowd. To the jaded psy- fruitful. The connection – the religious the victim’s point of view, but then chiatrist in Equus, the young man he is experience – belongs to a solitary fi g- plays out through the watching mob’s treating possesses an enviable ecstasy, ure. There is no crowing crowd. These lascivious gaze. The killing crowd in even if the youth’s sexual feelings and are not stories of coercion, nor of hu- these movies is us. instinct for worship are directed at a man victims, but of selves “dark, true, horse. Behind all Freudian ism, the play impure and dissonant” as Rudkin has Into the Woods is at the Barbican, London, taps the root of a connection to the wild. it. In both , a lonely boy tries to sum- 3-25 May. ALLSTAR/OPTIMUM RELEASING; RONALD GRANT; ALLSTAR/AIP ALLSTAR/AIP RELEASING; RONALD GRANT; ALLSTAR/OPTIMUM PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS

01.05.17 The Guardian 17 Arts The cyclist vs the limo driver …Jane Jacobs, secondbelow left,, her at a protest in 1963; nemesis Robert Moses

here is nobody against north and south Bronx in a piece of this,” insisted a fl ustered vandalism described by writer Mike ‘T Robert Moses at the Davis as “the single most destructive hearing for his plan to act in the history of US cities”. drive a four-lane high- The Lower Manhattan Expressway, way through New York’s Washing ton which Jacobs and her allies halted, Square Park in 1958. “Nobody, nobody, would have infl icted a similar fate on nobody but a bunch of ... a bunch of Soho and Little Italy – framed by Moses mothers.” as a crime-ridden “hell’s hundred The despotic city planner hadn’t acres”, to be swept clean by gleaming counted on the determination of the new arteries topped with futuristic mothers or their leader – an owlish mega-structures. Old TV clips show freelance journalist by the name of Jane “Big Bob the Builder” oozing arrogance Jacobs. As part of his insatiable hunger and reptilian cunning, as he condemns for grand public works, Moses wanted whole areas, describing a low-income to extend Fifth Avenue through the part of Harlem as “a cancerous square, ostensibly to ease congestion, growth that has to be carved out” and but with the real motiv e of rewarding scoffi ng at the idea of compensating developers and raising property values landowners who stand in his way : south of the park, where he had already “Do you think anything would ever be razed a swath of Greenwich Village for built if we did that?” redevelopment. By contrast, Jacobs is the champion Jacobs, who lived in the West Village , Street fighter of the people, gliding around town on mobilised a vocal coalition of cam- her bicycle, choreographing stunts like paigners, residents and politicians, who Robert Moses was the despotic planner mock funerals for neighbourhoods and eventually halted the project. “It is very hellbent on building four-lane highways staging colourful protests with snappy discouraging to do our best to make the badges and banners. city more habitable,” Jacobs wrote to through neighbourhoods. Jane Jacobs If it all sounds a little black and the mayor, “and then to learn that the set out to stop him. Oliver Wainwright white, that’s because it is. Told , retold city is thinking up schemes to make it on a new documentary about a David and and even produced as a children’s uninhabitable.” story, the pantomime goody-baddy Th at hearing was the only time Goliath struggle for the soul of New York narrative has become drastically Jacobs and Moses ever crossed paths, oversimplifi ed . Yes, Moses was a bul- the single meeting in an oft-recounted, lying megalomaniac , but he also built years-long David and Goliath saga 13 bridges , two tunnels, 637 miles of of the saintly protector of the streets highways, 658 playgrounds, 10 giant fi ghting the villainous master builder. public swimming pools, 17 state parks, Their duel is the focus of a new docu- not to mention dozens of housing mentary, Citizen Jane: Battle for the projects and city parks. City, made to commemorate her cen- Neither should Jacobs’ theories and tenary last year . Now arriving in the we might call the natural proprietors ‘Do you her infl uence on contemporary “good UK , the fi lm brings home the enduring of the street. The buildings on a street practice” go totally unquestioned. relevance of her ideas. Three years after equipped to handle strangers, and think “Jacobs romanticised social conditions her Washington Square victory, the to insure the safety of both residents anything that were already becoming obsolete ,” inquisitive self-taught journalist pub- and strangers, must be oriented to the says urban sociologist Sharon Zukin, lished a book that would change urban street. They cannot turn their backs or would ever while Deyan Sudjic, director of the planning for ever. The Death and Life of blank sides on it and leave it blind.” be built if Design Museum in London , believes Great American Cities was a rallying cry It all sounds like common sense her “ underlying message is of against the destruction the broad brush now, but to postwar planners – infected we had to unblinking paranoia”. of postwar urban renewal was wreaking with the modernist dogma of sweep- Ironically, in an echo of Big Bob’s on the fi ne grain of the city . ing the slate clean – this was an aff ront. compensate hunger for demolition, Jacobs’ With startling precision and sensi- Jacobs had witnessed at fi rst hand the people?’ arguments are now being deployed tivity, Jacobs detailed how streets and failures of urban renewal in Philadel- to raze postwar council estates across spaces are actually used by people, phia , where a zoning masterplan siloed the world, her principles mobilised to as opposed to how they are perceived diff erent functions – housing, industry, lambast “sink estates”. They are the from above on the politician’s grand offi ces, shops –into towers, separated new cancer to be carved out. plan. Jacobs looked at the city through by yawning public spaces lined with A hint of this would have added a an anthropologist’s eye, using ecologi- retail units that were soon lying empty. welcome cautionary tone to the fi lm. cal metaphors to describe urban life as People weren’t behaving as they Instead it ends with Saskia Sassen, a complex and fragile ecosystem. To should, the planners said . the Dutch sociologist, railing against her, the success of a vibrant city came The documentary forcefully charts China’s new megacities as “Moses on from the “intricacy of pavement use, the level of destruction power-hungry steroids”, over footage shot from a bringing with it a constant succession Moses infl icted on communities in speeding car. If urbanists got out and of eyes”. This daily “street ballet” of the name of improving New York for looked more closely, as Jacobs herself public interaction is depicted with the greater public good. We see the did, they’d fi nd that urban life contin- AP DARAN/GETTY; WALTER archive footage of bustling Manhattan carnage infl icted by the Cross Bronx ues to fl ourish in unexpected places. dating from the mid 20th century . Expressway, the country’s fi rst major “There must be eyes upon the street,” urban highway, which carved a ravine Citizen Jane: Battle for the City is out on 5 May

she wrote, “eyes belonging to those through the borough, fatally separating PHOTOGRAPHS

18 The Guardian 01.05.17 Arts ‘I lived ‘Part of me still wants to go hide under the table’ in fear of … James Van Der Beek awson Leery is the after eight episodes he took a TV character no one teenage role in police procedural CSI: D will let James Van Cyber but it was “a desert for me, Der Beek forget. creatively. There’s a lot of stand- The teen drama he girls’ ing around and laying exposi- moped about in for seven series is tional pipe. ” nearly 20 years old, and his career What has James Van You can see why he was has been on a curious trajectory drawn to his current role as an ever since, but still the possibility Der Beek been doing obnoxious tech entrepreneur in of a Capeside reunion is all that since his days as the Sky comedy Carters Get Rich, anyone wants to ask him about. in which his character appears And so Van Der Beek begins our Dawson’s Creek teen out of a briefcase as a hologram, conversation by bringing it up heartthrob? High- kimono-clad and dancing to before we’ve even ordered coff ee. 90s house music. But it’s while “That’s the question that comes minded nonsense with discussing What Would Diplo Do? at the end of every interview,” he a layer of ridiculous that his blue eyes light up. It’s his tells me. “Somebody says, ‘OK on top, the star tells fi rst time as star and show runner: now, you know I have to ask…’” “What we pitched was parables Well, seeing as he mentioned Kate Hutchinson through the eyes of a clown: EDM it, would he indulge the show’s Jesus Sucks at Life!” fans – one of whom is absolutely The show started life as a video not sitting opposite him in a hotel promo for one of Diplo’s live tours bar this morning and totally did but soon spiralled into a scripted not spend a lot of her early teens comedy miniseries. Van Der imagining that one day she’d gif of Dawson mid-cry, lifted from Beek hired writers – including, in fall for someone who spoke in an episode where he is dumped an ironic twist, Hal Oszan , who impossibly long monologues – by long-standing crush Joey. The played Dawson’s odious director- with Dawson’s Creek The Movie? meme still makes him chuckle. mentor Todd Carr back in the Is there a Netfl ix- enabled future He has a mischievous titter – at Creek – and they set about story- in which Michelle Williams, Katie odds with his off -duty 50s fi lm- boarding the exaggerated world Holmes , Joshua Jackson and him- star outfi t of tweed trousers and of Diplo (aka Wes Pentz). “Every self would play midlife versions of cream shawl cardigan . episode we would try and fi gure their former breakout roles? Kickstarted by Ugly Cry Face, out: what is a universal truth Inevitably, the answer is a he’s riding a second wave as a about life, about ego, about rela- sighed no. “Some characters live meta-star . There’s been skits for tionships, or self-preservation? with you for a while and you the comedy website Funny Or Die We’d write high-minded non- wonder how they’re doing and – including one, Vandermemes , sense on the whiteboard and then what they’d be doing now,” he where he owns the phenomenon layer ridiculousness on top . So off ers. “I felt pretty complete by demonstrating more “intense the idea is that fake Diplo is able putting that one on the shelf and emotional closeups” – and a role to channel philosophical wisdom not looking at him again.” as himself in the TV comedy at the same rate as he channels But the show’s theme tune still Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment the right hook and the right beat. haunts him (for the uninitiated, 23. Very soon he will be parodying And he gets to ride a horse!” it’s Paula Cole’s breathlessly irri- superstar DJ Diplo in upcoming Pentz was onboard from the tating I Don’t Want To Wait ). “If I Vice series What Would Diplo Do? get-go and, according to Van was at karaoke and it started play- His leap into comedy came Der Beek, not taking himself too ing there’s a part of me – and I’m a after his big TV comeback show, seriouslyeither. “ When I was fucking grown-ass man with four NBC medical drama Mercy, was fi rst very famous and people kids – that still wants to go hide cancelled. “I was 33, I had my fi rst were passing out and all that, I under the table . I was at a phar- kid, and I thought: OK, what doors remember watching a Beatles macy in Philadelphia and it came are open right now?” he says. “And documentary and George saying on and I immediately went into a I was thinking, I’m having more how people were looking for any weird panic. I think it’s tied to the fun doing this [comedy] than I excuse to go mad. ” pandemonium that accompanied would crying every day! ” And it’s the same with club that, for which there was no off Apartment 23 sounds in many culture. “ People really want to be button. Walking around at that ways like a bizarre kind of therapy. moved, they want to throw their time was very tricky because one “It [was] great to go in and oblit- hands in the air. Music catches autograph could turn into a mob erate any shards of ego or self- the edge of something metaphys- scene. So I walked around,” he preservation that may have been ical and these DJs – the good ones laughs, “in fear of teenage girls.” left ,” says Van Der Beek of what it – are sensitive to that. We make No wonder he doesn’t want to was like to play an infl ated version a joke in the show about how resurrect Dawson. It might also be of himself. they’re modern-day shame n. ” because, while his wannabe fi lm- In the 14 years since Dawson’s And has any of that superstar maker may have been the poster- Creek ended, Van der Beek has DJ shine stuck? “I’d like to think DAVID LEVENE FOR THE GUARDIAN DAVID boy for teen romanticism in the taken all sorts of roles in mainly so,” he smirks. “The crotch in late 90s, the character was aston- short-lived sitcoms, including the sweatpants that I wear has ishingly wet. The internet agrees, Friends With Better Lives, made dropped an inch or two.” and in 2011 volunteered some by the people behind Friends and Carters Get Rich fi nishes on Sky

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he interview room, the The best cop on TV: Dunbar as best location in Line of Hastings, with McClure as Fleming T Duty (BBC1, Sunday). On one side of the table: AC-12, whose decision-making is looking more or what’s left of it. Ted is and more questionable. With little red under a Regulation 15, suspected of laser dots to show where the bullets are being Dot Cott an’s dying H (for Hast- going to hit (in Jamie’s chest, mainly). ings), his career in serious jeopardy. Balaclava Man! In the house! Got Steve’s in a wheelchair, of course, may him, good shot, Ted, sir. Are they going never walk again, also hit by the return to unmask him, Scooby Doo style? It’s of his ex. Only Kate is (relatively) un- … Michael Farmer’s granny after all, scathed from this brutal fourth series. I knew it. And is she Mrs A as well…? But, after fi nding the hidden ruck- Sorry, my mistake, it was MRSA not sack – the one containing all the blood- Last night's TV Mrs A, that did for Roz’s hand. stained clothes, DNA to die for, three Actually, there’s no on-screen of Tim Ifi eld’s fi ngers, the power saw, Line of Duty’s brazen debalaclava-ing. And he turns out to be Occam’s razor etc – they’ve fi nally got a long-term violent criminal with asso- DCI Roz Huntley. Arrested in connec- bonkersness comes to a ciations going back to Tommy Hunter tion with Ifi eld’s death. Hastings will be from series one. Almost certainly just asking the crown prosecutor to charge one of many Balaclava Men, too. Roz her with both Ifi eld’s murder and per- head in this brilliant ﬁ nale is a bent cop, a cold fi sh, motivated verting the course of justice. by greed and ambition, and by pres- She – Roz – is on the other side of sure from above. Wh ile Hilton is an the table, with her counsel, Jimmy even benter cop. (I knew it, really this Lakewell. Yes, Jimmy Lakewell who is time!) Now also a dead one. Suicide, acting for her husband Nick, too, who the coroner says (yeah, right). But he’s was also recently arrested, of course – not Mr Big either, the rot goes deeper by her! – and who has now been charged still, and higher; there are darker forces with the murder of Tim . It’s an incestu- By Sam Wollaston out there, but no one’s saying where, ous orgy of fi nger-pointing and caution- or who – they’re too scared. “There ing: you do not have to say anything, no bonkersness. And it’s off set by under- are some people there is no immunity you do not have to say anything … stated, cool performances (Thandie from,” says Jimmy , ominously. Then, in yet another fi sherman’s Newton is a revelation; Adrian Dunbar’s A satisfactory conclusion? Yes, bend of a twist, Roz turns things not Superintendent Hastings is still the although it fl ew past – I would have around this time but to the side, to best cop on TV). And by intriguing but liked a feature-length fi nale. But the Jimmy. She and Ted, arch enemies believable characters who do normal series strings are tied up neatly, mostly. throughout though suddenly acting things such as get jealous of each other Big picture unfi nished though, there together, arrest Jimmy – her lawyer, her at work, get exposed to normal behav- is scope for more – with Hastings in husband’s lawyer and friend – in con- iour and emotions such as prejudice charge. And Steve walking! Well, just nection with the attack on Steve, and and loneliness, and speak like real about . Hobbling, but still, that’s nice. for also perverting the course of justice. people do. Great acting, great writing. I have a few questions remain- What!? Has LoD reached peak bonk- Also, there’s no time for another AND ANOTHER ing. Like how long can a fi ngerprint - ers, beyond even last week’s hand sev- arrest – hardly time to breathe even THING enabled phone be operated by a fi nger ering? Jed Mercurio, you do not have to because now it is galloping inexorably that is no longer attached to its owner? say anything etc, but I am arresting you towards its climax. This is less like I’m sorry to learn, Would freezing help, or not? And will not just in connection with crossing the watching TV, more like being abducted from Escape To Costa this mean a spike in real-life digit WORLD PRODUCTIONS threshold of credibility but for actually by it, cuff ed then dragged along. It Rica, that a sloth removal? But mainly just what the hell comes down its tree jumping the Sherlock ... am I going to do with the huge void doesn’t go quite as Jack Bauer as the to the ground to Except – plot twist! – I’m not. previous series fi nale, but still there’s poo. If you could, that has opened up with Line of Duty’s Because it’s so utterly brilliant. The a lot of weaponry about the place, from a height, ending? What is there to lie awake wor-

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01.05.17 The Guardian 21 Film of the day TV and radio Margin Call (11pm, BBC2) JC Chandor’s compelling drama follows a NYC investment bank through a dark night in the midstst of 2008’s economic crisis. Stars Kevin Spacey.

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