January 20 | 2021

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Forget Blue Monday. It’s I knew I was February that’s the thug. An LSE study has concluded that a lot of people fib about being working class. Except this year, maybe But the assumptions others make about Carol Midgley social status are also wildly inaccurate wasn’t. “But you went to university, ow that we’re past ‘I do not miss right? I didn’t,” she said. “Just moving Blue Monday, which working in a up a few tax brackets doesn’t make you everyone knows was Those middle class. It’s an attitude, it’s the a PR brainfart garment factory’ way you do your house up, how you invented to flog ‘flawed’ handle money. I’m just like a pools holidays to shivering Sathnam Sanghera winner, a poor person who got lucky.” Ncommuters waiting murderers She doubtless had a point, but I at bus stops in the like oat milk in my coffee. I’ve think the ultimate difference between January sleet, can we turn to the The BBC has read and actively enjoyed Hilary me and people like Burchill — perhaps real culprit, the true thug of the apologised for a Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy and because immigrants and the children calendar year? I speak, obviously, of headline reading Ihave strong opinions about its of immigrants are not embarrassed February. All of it. Every interminable “Talented but flawed TV adaptation. I watch French by success — is that I do not minute. Each and every day is “blue” producer Phil Spector spy dramas on Amazon Prime. I’m sentimentalise being working class. in February if you ask me. Oh dies aged 81” because thinking of repainting my bedroom I do not miss Park Village, the inner- yes. Tiresome Tuesdays, Woeful it omitted the teensy in a new shade of Farrow & Ball. city Wolverhampton slum where I Wednesdays, Sod This for a Game matter of him I have a cleaner, and every week I grew up — the atmosphere bristled of Soldiers Sundays. murdering Lana spend the half-hour before her arrival with racial tension, violence was What is the point of it, tell me? Clarkson. Honestly! frantically tidying my home so she routine, and the housing was damp It’s an insipid yet excruciating blob You shoot one actress doesn’t think I’m a pig. and dilapidated; one of my earliest waiting like a flasher behind a tree at and folk never let you In other words I am utterly middle school memories is of cockroaches the end of January to say, “Thought forget it. class. But I’ve been aware for some crawling out of my shoes after I had you were over the worst, suckers? I’m getting déjà vu time now that there’s a difference taken them off for a PE lesson. Well cop a load of this,” before sending from last year when the between me and many of my equally I do not miss the lights going out us a brutal cold snap. It is a nothing BBC apologised for its middle-class friends whom, before because we ran out of coins for the of a month: still dark, still winter, still trailer to a gushing the pandemic, I would meet in cafés meter. I do not miss seeing my credit card bills to pay and not even restrictions start to be eased. So many Oscar Pistorius where sausage rolls cost up to £5 to grandfather, suffering from arthritis in a bank holiday crumb to nibble. good things are being said about documentary that discuss side-return extensions, with his seventies, still doing hard manual When I think of February coming February that I am almost beginning never mentioned a fluffy cockapoo nestled underneath labour in local foundries alongside my like a punch in the face after January to love it. Roughly 14 million will his victim, Reeva the table. Unlike me, they are uncles. I do not miss sleeping in a I feel like the person sitting in the (fingers crossed) have been vaccinated Steenkamp, by name. embarrassed about it. duvet on the floor of my parents’ audience of the Glasgow Empire when by mid-February, comprising most of The vibe was less “man Indeed, it is no surprise that — bedroom because the house was so Mike and Bernie Winters came on the elderly and vulnerable. Schools kills girlfriend” and after conducting 175 interviews with crowded. I do not miss the poverty of stage who exclaimed: “Oh Christ, may gradually open again after more “poor Oscar’s actors, TV professionals, architects ambition, in which the best I could there’s two of them!” half-term so that exhausted parents ruined sports career”. and accountants — sociologists at the imagine for myself was a job at a local And then there’s Valentine’s Day, working full-time from home while In this spirit maybe School of Economics found building society, and which led to my the crappiest, most cynical date on the attempting to home school may not we should airbrush that 36 of them from middle-class best friend from infant school — at calendar, which is a flimsy excuse to even feel like hurling themselves off other killers’ CVs. backgrounds identified as working least as clever as me — never getting flog wilted carnations and Viagra. I’d the nearest high building or setting Peter Sutcliffe could be class and that the “misidentification” more than a minimum-wage retail job. honestly rather mark National Dog fire to their own heads. Hooray! “Troubled Yorkshire was “notably higher” among those I do not miss being ridiculed for Biscuit Day (February 23, should you No, naysayers — button it please. lorry driver with a fine in acting and television, accounting reading. I do not miss being rejected wish to make a note). Yes you, the people hitching up their collection of hammers”. for 24 of the 36. for a job at McDonald’s and eventually Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying trousers, blowing out their cheeks and Harold Shipman, The media is liberal and getting one at Burger King, where an January has much to recommend it saying gleefully: “February? Nah. No “Trusted family GP self-loathing, and — with countless embittered manager once made me either. No, no. For starters there is chance, mate. Schools won’t open until with an unorthodox efforts afoot to improve social clean a toilet five times in half an hour. Januhairy, when people grow their after Easter. Earliest. Probably May, bedside manner”. diversity — those within it naturally I do not miss desperately wanting to body hair and smugly stagger around actually. If then.” Shut up. Even if you Jack the Ripper, want to identify with the fashionably learn a musical instrument or new with 15th-century-style merkins, think this, keep it to yourselves and “Whitechapel legend subjugated. It is human nature to languages, but instead spending all saying: “This may be frightening the don’t prick our hope bubble. Hope is and anti-prostitution want your hard work acknowledged, my weekends and holidays working cat, but I feel so free!” At least it has a all we have. You might be getting off activist”. whatever your background; I bet even in a garment factory where the owner freshness about it, though, the promise on these lockdown strictures, Matt Meanwhile, the Jacob Rees-Mogg feels as though he paid kids 50p an hour to work up to of new beginnings, flab-shedding or Hancock and Chris Whitty your narcissist serial killer has struggled against the odds. In 90 hours a week. eschewing alcohol possibly leading to spanky dominatrices, but some of us Dennis Nilsen (you a few notable cases these people I spent years working in that fewer barnacled livers. It is also the are ready, if it’s safe, to be let out of know, Des — the actually did grow up working class and factory, and not only did the owner furthest point from New Year’s Eve. the handcuffs now. guy with the drains — even though they now have kids at never give me a pay rise, but he once I honestly don’t know how vapid So let this be the year when problem) has just had private school — being “working class” deducted money from my wages when February has got away with it all these February is not the cruellest, greyest his writings published is part of their professional identity. I requested a toy from his stock room years letting January take all the flak. month but reinvents itself as a sunlit in a book in which we Julie Burchill is a classic example. (for the shop he ran elsewhere). I met But at last, finally, it has a chance to upland. Let it be the year when the learn he got quite upset I remember interviewing her 15 years him a few years ago and not only did redeem itself. Because there is a speck best thing you could say about it was at seeing a seagull die. ago for the Financial Times and he fail to apologise for the illegal slave of hope that February will be the not that it only lasted 28 days but that Aww. It’s exactly what listening to her complain about how labour to which he had subjected me, glorious month when lockdown it was when the spanking stopped. he would have wanted. medialand was run by a white middle- he claimed that he was the secret to class elite and how she was one of my success, insisting he had given me “only about two working-class people my work ethic. Like My Vagina flaming vagina.” With Thompson of “faking in every generation” to penetrate it. I wanted to punch him. But I am, candles, which I that, Jody? Stand well it”, but I see no I told her that I found her obsession of course, too middle class for that Gwynnie’s imagine is hundreds if back, I say. Safety first. evidence that she was with class a bit sixth form and she nowadays. Instead I muttered under not thousands of you. Besides, what a missed fannying the flames (oh replied: “You could be right — it’s my breath, got into the Mercedes waxwork One such candle has opportunity to write: come on: open goal). really tragic, and it is incredibly limousine that I was test-driving for exploded in a woman’s “burning bush”. But let’s count our freaking sixth-formish, but I get work (which I had parked around the bushfire London home. Pictures of Paltrow’s blessings. If it had been such a kick out of it, such a sense of corner because I was worried it looked “There was an charred and blackened one of Paltrow’s jade inverted superiority, that I don’t think too flash), picked up my parents and Urgent warning for inferno,” said vagina candle can be vaginal eggs that had I can let it go now.” took them out for a nice day at a those who have lashed unsatisfied customer seen on Instagram and exploded mid-use, the Why couldn’t she just accept that nearby National Trust property. And £69 on one of Gwyneth Jody Thompson, it’s not a pretty sight. smoke damage doesn’t she was middle class? I had done: you know what? On that day, being Paltrow’s This Smells adding: “Stuff your Japesters have accused bear thinking about. I was once working class, but now I middle class felt especially fantastic. the times | Wednesday January 20 2021 1GT 3 times2 posh. Tatler dubbed me an It girl

MICHAEL LECKIE, MARK HARRISON AND JAY BROOKS FOR THE TIMES ‘My dad went to Eton and Cambridge’ Candida Crewe

uccessful actors often misidentify as working-class. I failed to get into five drama Sschools, including Rada, twice. I’m a crap actress, so if I ever tried to pretend not to be middle-class, no one would be fooled. Everything about me stinks of it: my accent, my friends, the schools I went to, where I’ve lived, even the Sweaty Betty leggings I wear to go running. It never crossed my mind to try to be something I am not. I have had many privileges, too many to hide. What on earth would be the point? I remember once asking my father, the writer, critic and bon viveur Quentin Crewe — who went to Eton and Cambridge (although he was sacked from both) — why he didn’t speak with the loud bray of many of his contemporaries. His answer was simple: he didn’t wish to be a dick. The implication was that neither should I. That he contracted muscular dystrophy aged six and had a walking stick when he went to Eton in 1939 meant he identified Working class Middle class Very posh with other boys who were teased for being poor or Jewish. It gave (now loves (but known to squash (but poor) him a compassion that may otherwise have passed him by. Candida Crewe That and never having any money. Farrow & Ball) vowels when it suits) The family estates were sold decades Robert Crampton before I was born and he lived much Sathnam Sanghera of his life hand-to-mouth, latterly on benefits. Money wasn’t interesting to him or to my mother, only a thing to facilitate the essentials, to survive. Lack of it was discussed, but the pursuit of lots of it, never. He had many faults, but the entitlement associated with many folk from his background wasn’t one of them. While there was no point in trying to pass myself off as something I was gegeographyography as eeconomics,conomics 141400 milesil When, in relative if not absolute not, I was brought up never to get ‘I’m middle class counts as a significant gulf. At an terms, your origins compared with above myself. My father was withering establishment institution such as those of your contemporaries and when I was young because I was and from Hull. Not Oxford many people cannot bring competitors actually do (sort of) count frivolous and led a particular life in everyone gets that’ themselves to believe that the middle as humble, and a potentially lucrative London that had Tatler dubbing me class exists north of the Trent, niche as token proletarian is available, an It girl. I wasn’t because I didn’t have Robert Crampton especially when the borderline noble it is hard not to take advantage. the figure, always had to work and savage turning up in their sacred I may, therefore, have emphasised never lunched, but I did spend a lot groves attended a comprehensive that our muesli at home in the 1970s of time at Groucho’s and parties. grew up in a four-bedroom school, as I did. was Co-op own brand rather than I was a dick. But the lessons my mock-Tudor Edwardian villa on When I was a student, one friend — revealing that no one else in my class parents taught me about manners and the poshest street in the poshest naive as he was compassionate, head at school had heard of the stuff. I may open-mindedness filtered through. Isuburb of Hull. My dad was a cocked to one side in sympathy — have majored on having once worked I married someone from a very college lecturer. The same month asked how severely my family had in a factory, neglecting to mention different background to mine and I sat my finals at Oxford in 1989 he been impoverished during the recent that I got the job because my parents my children enjoy the benefits of became a member of the European miners’ strike. Other peers with a knew the owner. I may have gone big both. I’ve never asked them what Parliament. My mum was a teacher. better, albeit still woefully incomplete, on watching rugby league (a few times, class they feel, but they went to private They had met at university in the grasp of sociological detail preferred to before I got bored) without letting on schools and state schools and didn’t early 1950s. We had two cars, went position my forebears on the docks or that the crowd scared me stiff. I may, go to university. Their paternal on foreign holidays and did not speak clinging to the deck of a trawler. when required, have squashed my grandparents were from working-class in strong regional accents. We were, The temptation to go along with vowels down a bit flatter than they areas of Northern Ireland; their in short, middle class. Solidly middle these assumptions is strong, then and already were. maternal great-great-grandfather class. About as middle class as it gets. now, which is why I’m not surprised by I’m not proud of these adjustments. was a marquis. I have never tried to claim otherwise. the results of the LSE study. Although, They were not of my choosing. It’s I have What does that make them? Who The trouble is, other people have unlike the actors mentioned in the complicated, this business of social cares? Even if their ridiculous mother on my behalf. Why? The clue is in study I like to think that I haven’t class. My preference is to say — as had many can’t help occasionally telling them to the two place names above. Hull lies played a spurious “humble origin” those including me often do when say scent, not perfume. Baffled, they barely 140 miles in a straight line card to get ahead. That’s what I tell advocating immigration from overseas privileges, roll their eyes and ignore me. Quite from Oxford. But in this peculiarly myself, anyway. The truth, however, — that in this mongrel nation too many right too. I am a middle-class snob divided country, where perceptions of is that I’ve seen others do it and I may everyone has come from somewhere about language. And that, as they social class have as much to do with on occasion have done the same. else. And then leave it at that. to hide would say, and I agree, is my bad. 4 1GT Wednesday January 20 2021 | the times fashion

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an fashion help you to £167.30, also in midnight blue, £249, Ugg Classic Mini (£80 for an outsize brooch, essentiel- Put on some jewellery hold on to your sanity uk.maje.com) with silk velvet track Boots II, £145, ugg.com. antwerp.com), metallic boots (reduced I love jewellery, but I have right now? I happen pants (Ridley’s grey ones, Above left: Mac to £100, hush-uk.com) and sunglasses always been someone who puts to think it can. Here reduced to £169, ridleylondon.com) lipstick, £17.50, indoors. I — and the other females — on the bigger stuff when I am are my ten top tips. or satin ones (Iris & Ink’s khaki Diana lookfantastic.com loved it. But we weren’t the only ones. going out. Not any more. I am wearingwearing style, £115, theoutnet.com). Or match The teenage boy channelled Harry cocktail rings as I type and theyy mamakeke CThe two-day rule Hush’s aqua zip sweatshirt with its Styles in a skirt and pearls. The me happy every time they catchch my This is a new thing for black leather joggers (£59 and £295 50-year-old QC sported the frilly cuffs eye. The British brand Monica Vinader me, a 2021 thing for me. But I can respectively, hush-uk.com). and buckled shoes that he wore when has some real stunners, to wit tthehe already report that it’s working well. he took silk. You don’t have to go the diamond Riva hoop cocktail ringing ((fromfrom We all know that lockdown is the most Wear something that needs Have a fancy dress route. But I advocate some £180, monicavinader.com). Earringsrrings rutty of ruts. We all know how easy it ironing (really) kind of sartorial date night. A change and — most days — a necklacece too is to plonk on the same thing every Until this week I couldn’t remember dress code is as good as a rest. have also become a default foror me. darn day, but also how depressing. the last time I put on anything that The Krista multi-crystal hoopsps Conversely, getting togged up in required ironing. Why even would — for me Dig out one thing with from Oliver Bonas are a discoo in something new every morning is you, as ’twere? After two days in my a backstory from your earring form (£22, oliverbonas.com).as.com). certainly beyond my capabilities. beloved broderie blouse from Me+Em that’s wardrobe each week Don’t underestimate how muchuch Every other day I can manage. I can furnish you with the definitive When it comes to clothes the past better you will feel when somethingmething So that’s my new MO. On day one answer to that question. To sport marabou few months have been all about what glitters at you as you pass thee mirror I put some effort into changing things something crisp and creaseless makes we haven’t worn as well as what we in the hall. Bling should be availablevailable up. On day two I wear the same outfit you feel crisp and creaseless too. and have. Remember that dress you rocked on prescription. — it’s not like it’s getting dirty — yet Result. And, heck, even the act of the night you stayed out until, well, still feel the benefits. On day three — ironing was a refreshing change. sunglasses morning? Remember that blazer Do your lips or eyes just when I might start getting bored Result number two is that this very indoors you relied on to help you to slay in For similar reasons I am noww aann — I enact a complete switcheroo. Yes, blouse is now back in stock at Me+Em meetings? The clothes that are full of advocate for adding one beautifyingutifying complete. Nothing I wear is the same. in cream and black, with a new pale good memories are like friends. Don’t flourish into your morning routine.outine. Mood changed. And oddly lifted. Day blue and white stripe coming next abandon them. At least once a week Again, I never used to botherr when four, repeat day three. Day five, start month, and a restock of the already wear something that you used to love I was staying at home. But a strong llipip over. Even if you are toggling between sold-out white (£95, meandem.com). wearing back in the good old days. It (Mac’s matt red Lady Dangerr andand hothot just two different ensembles — which If ironing a whole blouse seems — House will help you to look forward to the pink Candy Yum-Yum are mymy faves,faves, I would advocate against if possible; ha — an excitement too far, go for good new days when you can take it £17.50, lookfantastic.com) or a strikinstrikingg the more the merrier — it really helps. a detachable collar. Asos’s frilly white shoes out for a proper spin again. eye (I favour Sisley’s Phyto-EyeEye TwiTwistst one would do the job (reduced to Or buy one super-special party piece in lagoon, emerald or amethyst,yst, from Embrace texture £11.20, asos.com). — there are lots of great reductions — £29.75 on assorted websites) are easy-easy- Our senses are deprived at the for when the games (finally) begin, peasy spirit lifters. moment. So seek to give them a boost Have a dress-up night and start wearing it now on dress-up by way of what you wear. I write a lot It was my birthday the other night, as above. Ridley’s shirred Buy some new house shoeshoes about the power of colour. Yet don’t day. Who could have predicted top in gold silk or scarlet velvet No. Not slippers. Exactly. Theyhey are overlook texture when it comes to that a January birthday could would do nicely (£269, and my only new fashion purchasese inin making yourself feel more alive, become any more depressing? Except reduced to £189 respectively, ages, There are Uggs — Imann Bowie especially when you offset like with it wasn’t. Because we had a dress code ridleylondon.com),i as would wears hers at home. But I wentent fforor not-like. You might pair a fluffy knit for dinner. Front row. Which for me Shearling Arizona Uterqüe’s toile de jouy denim blazer Birkenstock’s shearling Arizonasonas (£115(£115,, (Maje’s lilac mohair cardi, reduced to meant shoulder-robing, marabou Birkenstocks, £115 (reduced to £99.90, uterque.com). birkenstock.com). And I have been the times | Wednesday January 20 2021 1GT 5 fashion

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here’s nothing like a I have ordered some cropped f you’re looking for different shop year spent sitting on straight-leg blue jeans — J Brand’s windows to peer into (albeit your own at the Sadey, reduced to £134 on the Idigitally), here are a few of my kitchen table to make Outnet — and I’m considering my lesser-known British favourites. you re-evaluate your denim skirt options. In an ideal wardrobe. In the first world I’d ditch last year’s weekend Aethel Tlockdown my friends miniskirt for Frame’s gorgeous With production in north London and bought jaunty Trapunto £275 indigo denim midi to direct-to-consumer sales, Aethel offers earrings for Zoom meetings and wear on duty and off, with bare legs designer quality knitwear at the lower bikinis for summer in the garden. in spring and boots in winter. Failing end of that price spectrum. aethel.com Lacking meetings or a garden, I that, Massimo Dutti’s straighter sulked. In the second lockdown they version is reduced to a more Aligne Metallic boots wore leggings and trackie bottoms manageable £29.95. This sustainability-driven brand does and I warned them that no good Say what you like about white outerwear very well and has quilted for dress-up would come of it. Meanwhile, all the jeans — and fashionistas can be jackets marked down in its sale — just money I didn’t spend in 2020 on sniffy about them — I love them. I in time for the cold snap. aligne.co living and shopping accumulated in have a tendency, which this year I’m night my bank account. So it is that I find indulging to the full, to buy clothes By Pariah myself now, on the lockdown home that are gorgeous but wildly This jewellery brand uses recycled straight, eyeing my wardrobe with a unsuitable. It takes a bold, not to say gold and natural materials to make dangerous combination of profligacy stupid person to wear white or palest pieces that feel organic and utterly and boredom. ice blue to commute on the filthy special. Think malachite hoops and We’re talking root-and-branch Tube and work surrounded by filthy pearl-drop earrings. bypariah.com reform here. The great gift of newsprint. I am that person. lockdown is that it has speeded up This summer, when it comes to Felt a process that normally takes me white jeans, I want any style except This tiny jewellery boutique on months, if not years: adjusting my skinny, and preferably two pairs. Chelsea Green, southwest London, is a BBold earrings eye to a new silhouette. Most of Long flares, slim on the thigh, to joy to poke around and also offers my clothes rolled over from season wear with chunky heels and that online poking. Vintage finds and Felt’s to season and year to year: a new slim-fitting silk shirt tucked in; and own designs will inspire you out of jacket here, some trousers there. another pair of straight legs to wear your comfort zone. feltlondon.com Fashionistas jump straight in, but with flats and my new linen tunic. I’m normally one for evolution, not If you have spindly legs like me, Fund revolution. Not this year. This year then slim-leg styles can easily be Donations from sales of these British- everything must go. All of my wide enough; think J Brand’s Ruby, made jumpers help to fund school trousers are too skinny, my racks of reduced to £138 on Net. As for shoes, meals in 26 countries. 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L’Agence’s off-white box (and Zoom calls) — add charms to I am also a fan of Carole Maggio’s A-line button-through jeans your earrings, or personalise one of its bbook The Ultimate Facercise for midi is in the returns pile necklaces instead. roxannefirst.com eexercises that visibly lift the face. and would be lovely on Oh yes, and while we are on the someone with a completely Ven Store ttopic of self-improvement, one more different figure. The fine Founded by the fashion editor uupside to my new Birks is that I can wool pinstripe trousers Charlotte Lewis, this brand’s staples wwear my CorrectToes silicone toe by the same brand are are beautifully cut and made to last. sspacers all day, the better to transform the stuff of office-wear I’m tempted by its striped cotton mmy tootsies from ugly sister to Cinders dreams, if I were beach shirt and shorts for a bit of ((£56, emperorsnewshoes.co.uk). prepared to spend escapism while lounging around the Best foot — and face — forward, a fortune having Girlfriend house. ven-store.com and all that. them tailored jeans, £65, Charlie Gowans-Eglinton Twitter: @timesfashion to fit. Instead boden.co.uk Instagram: @charliegowans 6 1GT Wednesday January 20 2021 | the times fashion Love ‘Sex and the City’ heels? Enrol at Jimmy Choo’s brand new school The high-heel king is launching a fashion academy with a difference — it will teach students how to make money, he tells Charlie Gowans-Eglinton immy Choo is wearing a suit Education is something that Choo is and tie when we speak over hoping will be part of his legend too. Zoom and he tells me: “I Choo sold his 50 per cent stake in his have my crystal shoes on.” company in 2001 and since then, as I’d be disappointed if he well as designing his couture line, he didn’t. He became a has “been travelling for 20 years to Jhousehold name thanks to different cities, different types of his shoes — or rather, his school, working with so many fashion Choos — when he teamed up with weeks, attending all the design fashion the Vogue accessories editor forums”, he says. He was awarded an Tamara Mellon to launch the OBE in 2003 for helping to make Jimmy Choo brand in 1996, London a global centre for fashion although at that point he was and design. already a regular visitor at Choo has worked with the Kensington Palace, where British Council, which specialises he talked Diana, Princess in international cultural relations of Wales through his shoe and education, for a decade. It designs for her. was his son’s idea that perhaps “She influenced the whole he might one day open a world, and even people right school of his own. now, they’re still talking about The project has kept the her,” he says. “Not only Euro 72-year-old motivated for the countries, but the Far East past year while locked down countries, everyone is talking alone in his second home in about her because she gave a lot Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with some ideas, sometimes I will sit 10, 11 o’clock, I will get my paper and of love to her country. She cared separated from his wife and family down and switch on my UK radio and my cup of tea, and I’ll sketch designs. about charities, she cared about in London by Covid-19 restrictions. listen to Magic, Capital radio, BBC, You have to move your mind all the old people and young people, she “Because I’m at home by myself, listen to the news, listen to music. But time. The more you create, the more cared about education.” even when you say you’ll come up in the mornings, or in the evenings at ideas come up. I cannot go out, but the times | Wednesday January 20 2021 1GT 7 fashion

GETTY IMAGES Diana, Princess of Wales, Kim Cattrall and Taylor Swift. Far left: Jimmy Choo Goodbye, athleisure —

After growing up in Penang, Malaysia, Choo moved to London and it’s all about athflow in 1982 began studying at Cordwainers Technical College (now part of the London College of Fashion) “when It’s the WFH-appropriate style we’ll everything had to be made by hand — there were no computers”. all be wearing, says Anna Murphy The UK capital doesn’t exactly have a shortage of fashion schools, however. Condé Nast, the publisher ust about managed to workingw in finance. “When most of Vogue, opened its college of fashion get your head around ofo the men in the room — and and design in 2013 on a site in Soho the term athleisure? mostm in the room are men — are that used to house part of Central Introducing this wearingw bespoke suits you need Saint Martins’ fashion and fine art month’s fashion tot be on a par sartorially to hold campus, which itself is now part of a neologism, athflow. youry own.” much larger site in King’s Cross. And JAccording to the 2021 Now that it’s a Zoom room there with tuition fees at an all-time high, Pinterest Predicts report area different yet related issues to you have to wonder if there’s the athflow is what this year will be beb addressed. The Fold’s peplum demand — or need — to justify all about. “Flowy pants, casual knitk jacket — also available in another institution. jumpsuits and oversized outfits blackb and midnight — is another However, the school of Choo will replace athletic clothes as the 20212 winner if super-smartness has a USP: business. Design new go-to loungewear.” hash to be your Monday-to-Friday courses offer training in “design and Er, if it hasn’t already, that is. thingt (£245). Just don’t forget to entrepreneurship” and “professional Think athleisure’s chic-er cousin:; adda colour by way of jewellery/ incubation” of each student’s fledgling more flattering, more grown-up blouse/make-up.b One final pair of business. When I studied at Central and — this is key — more athfauxa — sorry, flow — trousers Saint Martins “commercialism” was appropriate in the new workplace, I rate: Me+Em’s flat-fronted jersey a dirty word. Success wasn’t measured for which read spare room/corner joggersjo in black, navy or khaki in profits, but by being featured in the of the living room/under-stairs (£85,( meandem.com). pages of the right magazines or worn cupboard. It’s basically what many How these clothes make you by the right people; to follow the of us were finding our way to for feelf is at least as important as money was to sell out. our leisure hours before Covid, but howh they make you look. No one Then came the 2008 recession, the are now living in during our is going to see your trousers on deepest since the Second World War. working hours too. “Different parts ZoomZ but you are going to feel of our lives have collapsed into likeli you mean business wearing each other,” is how Aya Kanai, them.t You don’t need me to Pinterest’s head of content, puts it, explaine the corollary to that. And with considerable understatement. youy are also going to be I want them to Fabrics are key, obviously, as is TheThe FoFold’sld’s wworkweark comfortable. You don’t need me to suggested by the idea of flow. But performance explain the corollary to that either. come to study, athflow also encompasses items that trousers, from £175, athleisure doesn’t, such as pyjamas thefoldlondon.com. not to be famous and so-called nap dresses (basically Below: Dior’s Tribales Will it be a knit for Biden? a daytime nightie). Essentially, any earrings, £310, dior.com It’s Joe Biden’s inauguration speech And now the Covid-19 recession. clothing whose origins lie in comfort tonight. No one’s wondering what he is Many of those “cool” magazines have and/or performance — including the going to be wearing. A suit, obviously. shuttered their businesses, as have facilitation of a good night’s sleep — Kamala Harris will no doubt be many of the “cool” fashion designers are in the line-up. wearing a suit too, although she has whose clothes appeared in them. Then there are the athleisure pieces more room to manoeuvre in terms of Even fast fashion is struggling, as the that are so smart they bear little said suit’s colour and cut, and will permanent closure of Topshop’s relation to their origins. Do you have inevitably garner more comments. Not world-famous Oxford Street flagship the kind of job in which you could as much room to manoeuvre as her I still have to do exercise at home. store this month proves. And cut the mustard on a Zoom call in a stepdaughter, Ella Emhoff, though. Physically, I think I’m strong. I eat poses further problems for an industry common-or-garden tracksuit? Nope, Emhoff, a knitwear designer, rocked a proper food, have vitamin C . . . but, used to sourcing materials and me neither. That’s where athflow, 1980s-inspired pinstriped two-piece by more importantly, I have a vision. producing clothes in European hubs. or what might equally be called Any the Frankie Shop (yes, them again) I think about my academy that will “A lot of designers, they know athfaux, comes in. when Harris was voted in and almost open soon, so my mind is very strong.” design,” he says, “but they do not No one is going to question your clothing broke Twitter as a result. The Jimmy Choo Academy is to know about business. In the old days, professionalism in a wool two-piece This time round Emhoff has already open its London campus in Mayfair, once I’d come up with a design, I’d from the Frankie Shop, a New York whose said she’s thinking of a knitted suit. London, this September (jca.ac.uk). look at it — ‘Oh, it’s so beautiful, label that has a cult following among Which, if she executes it in the usual Paying fees of £18,000 a year, a group definitely it will catch the press’s the fashion pack. The deep V-neck origins lie out-there style of her label, could be of 100 students will study fashion attention!’ I wasn’t a businessman. wool ribbed knit and matching tapered anything from green and neon yellow design and entrepreneurship at But working for years and years, you lounge pants in, er, butter present as in comfort checks to rainbow stripes. Even if she three levels, foundation diploma, learn it slowly. My vision for the preposterously 0.1 per cent (£159 and keeps it tame, knitted tailoring on a undergraduate and postgraduate, academy is to teach them my £155 respectively, thefrankieshop.com). are in the presidential stage would certainly be a with Choo to guide them. knowledge for design, but also to Its black cotton-terry track pants line-up step-change. Ditto that this week’s “London is still home to me, so I’ll have a business mind as well. And with tab cuff also feel fresh (£95.81, Prada menswear show included be in and out. I want to see what you have to love what you’re doing. net-a-porter.com). The small knitted bodysuits. It’s all so 2021; so they’re doing. I want to talk to them, If you say, ‘I love money’, then you homegrown brand Ven Store delivers very athflow, it hurts. Or rather to make sure they come to the cannot get ideas. Money covers similar with its cashmere double acts doesn’t, which was exactly the point of academy to study, not because they both eyes.” in assorted neutrals (£210 and £170, this phenomenon in the first place. want to be famous. A week before our call news of ven-store.com). “It’s not easy to become famous,” a Sex and the City revival broke. Its Taking things to another level he says. “It’s a lot of people helping shoe-loving protagonist helped again in terms of office-appropriate What earrings to wear when masked you, promoting you. You have to be Choo’s rise to pop culture stardom: smartness are the new workwear I have written about Dior’s Tribales something very good as well. If you losing her shoe as she runs to catch performance four-way stretch twill earrings before (£310, dior.com). I have don’t have good skills, good ideas, a ferry, Carrie Bradshaw cries, “I lost trousers from the Fold, available in long considered them the ultimate people cannot promote you in the my Choo!” a phrase that entered the black and midnight, and in skinny and manifestation of classic with a twist. first place. If my father never modern vernacular. I ask him what slim cuts (£175 and £195 respectively, One large faux pearl sits behind your gave me the ideas, skill and love, shoes he would design for her now. thefoldlondon.com). lobe; a smaller one sits in front. They taught me how to design and make Couture trainers? Unsurprisingly, it has been a look great whether you are 18 or 80. a shoe, I wouldn’t be here today. And “I can do one thing at a time. I’m challenging time for any tailoring- My Tribales are also the perfect I’m thankful to my college teacher putting my effort, my heart into focused brand. Yet I am anything but earrings to wear with a mask since who helped me, slowly and patiently. education so I think I would give it to surprised that Polly McMaster, the they won’t get tangled in your straps. The Chinese always say, ‘When you an up-and-coming student. My father Fold’s founder, is up to a new kind of So I am tempted by a more recent drink water, think about where the always said to me, whatever you do, if problem-solving. McMaster began her Instagram: version, with one crystal stud, and water came from.’ ” you can share out, share out.” brand as a response to her years @annagmurphy antique gold on the pearls (£340). 8 1GT Wednesday January 20 2021 | the times JAY L CLENDENIN/LOS ANGELES TIMES/CONTOUR BY GETTY IMAGES arts

athryn Hahn specialises in playing women caught between child-raising and hell-raising. In ‘It’s unlike Bad Moms her laissez- Kfaire mother drank tequila from the bottle, snogged her female friends and rampaged around a supermarket on a stolen mobility scooter. Her anything empty-nester in Mrs Fletcher turned to pornography, spanking and seducing strangers. In Afternoon Delight she took in a sex worker as a lodger and ended up accompanying her on a job. “You don’t stop living once you Marvel has become a mother,” Hahn says, although you can see why she has told her children not to google her. “My son doesn’t need to know,” she says with a laugh. “Uh-uh.” Even when the Ohio-raised actress doesn’t play done before’ mothers there’s often a tension between responsibility and hedonism: the woman trying to conceive in Private Life, but still attached to Kathryn Hahn tells Ed Potton about her childless freedoms; the rabbi in Transparent, devout yet plugged into playing a housewife in WandaVision, the hazy world of liberal Los Angeles. So what the heck is Hahn, 47, a new series that takes superheroes doing as a dutiful Fifties housewife in WandaVision? A wavy-permed neighbour called Agnes whose to a 1950s American sitcom-land opening line in the Marvel spin-off series is: “What’s your name, where are you from and, most importantly, how’s your bridge game?” This grinning conformist would seem to offer little of the domestic subversion in which Hahn has excelled. “Did I think I was going to be will be like this, locked in a twee Kathryn Hahn. Below, the producers “laid out the whole Jeffrey Tambor, transitioned to female. joining the MCU [Marvel Cinematic timewarp. Gradually, though, the from top: Paul Bettany arc of the show for me, which they Tambor left Transparent after he was Universe]?” Hahn says via Zoom from doubts intrude. The most obvious of and Elizabeth Olsen had to do a couple of times. They accused of sexual misconduct by two her home in Los Angeles. “No! It’s which is: how did the happy couple get in WandaVision; wanted to make it not just a character women, which he denied. Hahn was a real left turn. It was so antithetical here? The last time we saw Vision he Hahn in Transparent study of two people we have not had taking a break from the show at that to anything I’d been in.” Look closer, was being murdered in the present day enough of a chance to dig into in the point. “But it was a heartbreaker all though, and you can see why by Thanos the bum-chinned immortal movies, but also something that’s round, for sure. We were definitely in WandaVision appealed to this in Avengers: Infinity War. Now he’s funny and deals with pretty heavy a holding pattern — I don’t think any intellectually curious Yale graduate. donning a trilby and going to work in stuff like grief and loss and holding on of us knew if we were going to have The Fifties suburban setting conceals a Fifties office disguised as a human, to family. All this stuff was embedded a chance to come back. Whether sinister secrets, just as it did in David leaving Wanda to tend their home in this very charming veneer.” we would be able to build from the Lynch’s Blue Velvet. “When they behind its white picket fence in A llaughteraugh track, as appears in the wreckage.” In the end they wrapped pitched me the show I knew it was pristine Westview. SSixties-setixties-se episode, is a “comforting things up, minus Tambor, with a going to be unlike anything that the Mocked-up period adverts ssound”ound to Hahn. “It’s a piece of who feature-length musical finale. “It was MCU has done before,” Hahn says. offer clues or occasionally a I amam. There’s that classic sitcom hard to find words for that experience, The title of the nine-part mini-series supporting character might referr sset-upet where there’s a conflict or so it felt like singing was the only way derives from Wanda Maximoff and incongruously to something a misunderstandingm and at the to go. It felt so perfect and so joyful.” Vision, the eastern European sorceress from the MCU, or the black- enden of every episode there’s a Hahn’s character in Transparent and superhuman hologram who and-white photography be resolution.re Each episode is a has a miscarriage and the woman became an unlikely couple in the interrupted by a flash of red. self-contained,s comfortable she played in Private Life struggled Marvel movies. Elizabeth Olsen and In later episodes the bubble.b To be able to subvert heartbreakingly through IVF. Paul Bettany reprise their roles in characters and location remain thatth safety, that aspiration, all “Women have been sold a bill of a series whose form and tone, in the the same, but the era shifts. Thee thoseth families we saw in those goods saying they can have children first episode at least, are painstakingly show leaps to the Sixties, the sitcomssitc who looked so perfect. whenever they want and it turns lifted from Fifties sitcoms such as Seventies and beyond, pastichingng ToTo beb able to look at what’s roiling out that biology is a bitch in that I Love Lucy. It’s stiff, wholesome and sitcoms including Bewitched, Thee underneathundern is thrilling.” department,” she says with a laugh. shot in black and white before a live Dick Van Dyke Show, Friends andd ItIt was important, she says, that the She had children earlier, in her audience, whose genteel laughter 30 Rock, as well as the Eighties/ showshow didn’td satirise each decade. thirties, although she felt for several floats eerily above the action. Nineties show Full House, whichh SheShe was careful not to “wink at years afterwards that she was wearing Hahn had watched the Marvel has the added bonkers meta theth Fifties from the perspective a “weird cloak of invisibility” as far as movies with her husband, the actor element of starring Olsen’s ofof a 21st-century woman who’s casting directors went. Ethan Sandler, and children Leonard, older twin sisters, Mary-Kate beenb able to make all these As her children grow up, the 14, and Mae, 11. “I remember seeing and Ashley. autonomousa choices”. challenge has changed. “Now that this the flickers between Wanda and “We could take these They took the Fifties detail child doesn’t need me as much, what Vision in the middle of all this characters and see how they seriously,s though, from the do I do?” she says. Well, in Hahn’s case beautiful mayhem. This teeny spark culturally shift through the clothescl — full skirts and she does the best work of her career, of something so true. That love decades,” Hahn says. “What cinchedcin waists for the women from Transparent to WandaVision to story is so dear. And the domesticity loosens, what doesn’t loosen. Wee — to their voices. The actresses Mrs Fletcher, a show that addresses of the two of them together is did a little sitcom boot camp, all ofof workedwork with a dialect coach, the very problem of an empty nest. really interesting. us, which was really fun. It was CourtneyCourtn Young, who “flooded Next she is starring opposite Paul “She’s a magical gal in a small-town interesting to see how roles startedted usus witwithh iinterviews and commercials Rudd and Will Ferrell in an adaptation locale/ He’s a hol-y who’s part changing in the house, to see Americanmerican from the era,” Hahn says. of a podcast, The Shrink Next Door. machine” goes the syrupy theme history through the lens of a sitcom.”com.” “Courtney“Court said you have to keep “It’s about the tricky boundary song, as Wanda levitates a set of To enter the MCU via a 1950s your voicei lifted, up and floaty so you relationship that can occur sometimes crockery that accidentally smashes sitcom is, Hahn acknowledges, “so never seem like a threat. It was so between a therapist and their patient,” on Vision’s head. trippy and so bananas”. Disney, demarcated, the gender stuff was so she says. Duty versus impulse once “My wife and her flying saucers!” Marvel and the show’s creator, right down the middle.” again. Nobody does it better. Vision chuckles. Jac Schaeffer, who co-wrote Captain That male-female rigidity feels The first two episodes of “My husband and his indestructible Marvel and the forthcoming Black like a different universe from Hahn’s WandaVision are on Disney+ now, head!” Wanda chirps. Widow movie, certainly aren’t playing previous work, especially Transparent, with the other seven episodes being At first you think the whole series it safe here. When Hahn got the part in which a college professor, played by released each Friday until March 5 the times | Wednesday January 20 2021 1GT 9 times2 Sleep your way to the top: why we could all do with a power nap

GETTY IMAGES; ALPHA PRESS regulating our circadian rhythm, The prime minister which is in danger of going awry if we stay cooped indoors all day,” Browning is said to be partial says. “For this reason, I would say that a lunchtime walk is more useful than to a quick daytime a daytime nap.” Optimally, however, you could try fitting both into your day. There snooze. He could would certainly be no harm in that. Just ask Dr Neil Stanley, the director be on to something, of science for the sleep-improvement programme sleepstation.org.uk and says John Naish a self-confessed napper. “If I feel sleepy in the afternoon hould we all emulate while working from home, I’m only 3ft Boris Johnson by taking from my bed, so what’s the problem?” a 20-minute power nap he asks. “Daytime napping isn’t a sign every afternoon, in the of weakness. It is a sign of someone interests of boosting our trying to get through long days as productivity, morale and productively as possible.” Shealth — or at least Stanley even sees benefits in the escaping lockdown for a extreme end of power kips, the while? A source close to the prime minister has let slip on Times Radio that Johnson is known to shut his No 10 office door for a half-hour nap between meetings to “get him ready Longer than for the rest of the day”. The Downing Street insider 30 minutes and revealed: “It would not be entirely uncommon in the diary for him to you’ll feel groggy shut the door and have a kip for half an hour or so — a power executive and horrible business nap to get him ready for the rest of the day.” “caffeine nap”, which has become In doing so, Johnson is sleeping popularised on the internet as a way with the best of them. Michelle to get the absolute most out of a quick Obama has advocated the habit lie-down. Quite simply, you take a and Arnold Schwarzenegger says sharp caffeine jolt just before putting he likes to lie down for an hour if your head down, then wake up flying. he’s feeling sleepy. “The caffeine takes 30 minutes to take The prime minister can also claim full effect. So if you drink coffee before ample precedent from his hero, a 20-minute nap, it will kick in as you Winston Churchill, who had beds wake, intensifying the boost you get installed in his private offices, in from sleep,” he says. parliament and in his wartime bunker Many caffeine-nappers are doing it at the Cabinet War Rooms. Churchill Below: Michelle Obama is an advocate of the power naps supposedly also taken by Boris Johnson, below wrongly in his view because they rely learnt the joy of naps while working as on coffee or tea for the drug hit. First Lord of the Admiralty during Neuroscientists at the National from your ability to sleep at night.” “These are bad delivery systems the First World War. University of Singapore concluded last Moreover, she says we should not nap because you don’t know how much In The Gathering Storm, his year that short naps perk up our for longer than 20 minutes; “Longer you’re getting; it could be hardly Second World War memoir, he brains by improving their ability to than 30 minutes and you go into the anything or so much that you declared: “Nature had not learn and remember. They reported in deep part of sleep.leep. YouYou’ll ll wake overdose and it mmakes you intended mankind to work from the journal Sleep that brief dozes groggy with sleepeep inertia ttired.ired. EnergEnergyy drinks, by eight in the morning until particularly revive the hippocampus, and feel horrible.”ble.” contrast, giveg you a midnight without the an area of the brain responsible for Any daytimee measuredmeasur dose,” refreshment of blessed oblivion, forming new memories. nap is a bad hehe says.say which, even if it only lasts Our hearts can benefit too. A idea if you haveve OneO wonders 20 minutes, is sufficient study of 500 Swiss adults in the trouble gettingg if JohnsonJ is to renew all the vital journal Heart in 2019 found that to sleep at poweringpo his forces.” He was also known daytime naps may reduce our risk of night because true-bluetr to take to his bed when suffering coronaries and strokes. This it reduces napsn with dispatches brought news benefit accrued from taking a daytime the sleep RedR Bull. of battlefront disasters. nap only once or twice a week. More drive that WeW may Johnson’s need to power frequent nappers didn’t enjoy the same you steadily nevern know, nap seems entirely reasonable. advantage. Why? It may be that they build up becausebe We’re told that by 6am the sleep a lot because their physical during the DowningDo prime minister is up, out and health is already poor. waking day. StreetStre is keen running around The whens and hows of napping are “It’s similar to to smothersm Buckingham Palace’s vital to ensure that a brief shut-eye snacking ruininging thethe story.stor A gardens before beginning does you good rather than ill, says Dr your appetite fforor a spokesmanspokesma says his typical 12-hour days Lindsay Browning, a neuroscientist large healthy mmeal,”eal,” thatthat thethe primeprim minister with a working and expert at the sleep clinic Trouble Browning says.s. actuallyactually has no timeti breakfast. Why not Sleeping. “Power napping is great for There is, however,wever potentially a for naps because his days aare filled sneak in a quick lie-down? boosting your alertness, but it has to better alternative to daytime power with meetings. Medical research be done at the right time in the right naps at this time of year — a walk We could try phoning Johnson certainly confirms way,” she explains. Lunchtime or early outside at lunchtime when natural to get the definitive lowdown on his the restorative powers afternoon are optimal, Browning says. sunlight is strongest. “This precious lie-downs, but we wouldn’t want to of a quick snooze. “Anything after 2pm and it will detract daylight is important for properly wake him. 10 1GT Wednesday January 20 2021 | the times times2

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STAGED FILMS LTD/BBC that bulged out of the follicular merely be a curious time-capsule of explosion that is now his head. “In the bleak midwinter of 2021. James these digital little boxes,” the edgy “Prejudice towards disability is very Tennant replied, running a finger rarely spoken of,” began Cerrie Burnell Jackson round their Zoom window. “How long in her film Silenced: The Hidden have we been here?” Sheen moaned. Story of Disabled Britain, and it is an “What, in this hellscape pixel time uncomfortable truth. Despite ours TV review dungeon? A million years,” Tennant being in many ways a more suggested. To which Sheen uttered the progressive era, a lot of people are still question no one dares ask: “How do unsettled by others’ deformities or we escape?” There was no answer. disability. Prejudices linger on. Forget its starry cameos, there is One disabled interviewee said: no series that describes our Zoom- “Who are the people living more in imprisoned discontent as mercilessly poverty? Who is the hardest hit as Sheen and Tennant’s clash of the throughout the pandemic? Disabled egos. It can be very funny, but it’s a people.” Thought-provoking stuff, Staged dangerous game. When does the although the programme was most BBC One intensity stop being amusing and shocking when looking into history. {{{{( become simply unnerving? Sheen’s In the late Victorian era even social meltdown about Tennant — ranted reformers were misguided. Mary Silenced into his laptop at the American actor Dendy’s vision to protect disabled BBC Two {{{{( Josh Gad — was genuinely alarming children from poverty was to shut in its ferocity. “Listening to your shit . . . them away in institutions for life. She don’t know when this second series is f***ing KILLING ME!” he roared. wrote: “Fortunately, the feeble-minded of Staged was filmed, but you have With this mini tour de force Sheen are much more easily made happy to wonder how they could have might just have provided a public than sane persons.” So that was OK. Iknown they would be nailing the service, offering by proxy the Dendy later pursued a eugenics nadir of frustration so many of us emotional explosion many may feel agenda to exclude the disabled and are feeling this exact week. Last night’s they are a hair’s breadth away from. thus weed “the defects” out of society. was the sixth of these 15-minute The other view is that a man’s nervous This was a view apparently endorsed thespy contretemps and ended with a breakdown venting forth in HD by such great minds as Winston conversation between Michael Sheen close-up from your living room’s large Churchill and Aldous Huxley. and that would have plasma screen isn’t strictly healthy So while this was illuminating made you hoot at its accuracy or right now. Yet you watch on because history, it was also an uneasy one. finally lapse into a lockdown delirium. Sheen and Tennant are so good at For all the stories of the past, what “I feel trapped,” Sheen whispered acting off each other, and in the nagged away was how far there is desperately, madness stalking the eyes knowledge that one day this series will Actor Michael Sheen was feeling the lockdown strain in Staged still to go in attitudes to the disabled.

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Poker Byron Jacobs Codeword No 4177 Train Tracks No 1228

Solving poker The “particular poker situation” almost always refers to the moment A major recent development in the flop arrives. You specify the

poker has been the advent of flop, the potential range of hands © PUZZLER MEDIA solvers. These are software pro- for Hero and Villain and the stack grams that can “solve” poker sce- and pot sizes. The machine then narios. Feed them relevant data whirrs away for a minute or two and they will willingly number before delivering the answer. crunch, eventually identifying the This answer is what is known best play for both sides. as a Game Theory Optimal (GTO) There are two approaches. In solution. If you have ever wond- the first, an AI-based program is ered what poker players are doing taught the rules and then essen- when they study, nowadays at tially left to play trillions of hands least, here is your answer. They are against itself. It is given no human studying GTO solutions, extract- input as to what works and what ing key concepts and memorising doesn’t. Successful strategies are them. Because the GTO solutions retained, whereas ones that don’t will always be part of a logical work get chopped. Eventually the framework — right? tree becomes sufficiently pruned Not entirely, although most are. and the software emerges with an However, sometimes a solution overall gameplan. This is how pops up that appears impervious AlphaZero, the brainchild of AI to human explanation. An example company DeepMind, learnt to involves situations where the pot play chess and quickly became is already large on the flop because the world’s most powerful chess there has been a lot of pre-flop software engine. Interestingly, the action. In these pots the solver Lay tracks to enable the train to travel from village A to village B. The numbers indicate how many sections of rail go in each pre-flop play recommended by often wants to make a very small row and column. There are only straight rails and curved rails. such poker programs pretty much bet on the flop, typically around The track cannot cross itself. resembles what you will find in 20 to 25 per cent of the pot. standard pre-flop charts. By trial This is hard to understand. A and error, human players appear major reason for betting is to deny to have arrived at the correct the opponent equity, which is a Win a Dictionary & Thesaurus conclusions. fancy way of saying you don’t want In the second approach, a soft- to give them a free or cheap chance Fill the grid so ware program (there are several) to outdraw you. Betting this small that every enables the user to specify a poker rarely denies equity because it offers column, every scenario and input parameters for the opponent such a good price to row and every 3x2 box contains future play. The software crunches continue. However, this play seems Every letter in this crossword-style grid has been substituted for a number from 1 the digits 1 to 6 through all possible card runouts to be the “correct” thing to do. to 26. Each letter of the alphabet appears in the grid at least once. Use the letters along with combinations of poten- And why is that the case? Well, it already provided to work out the identity of further letters. Enter letters in the main tial bets and raises, and concludes just is, and, perhaps frustratingly, grid and the smaller reference grid until all 26 letters of the alphabet have been which lines are the most accurate. that is all you can say. accounted for. Proper nouns are excluded. Yesterday’s solution, right

Cluelines Stuck on Codeword? To receive 4 random clues call 0901 293 6262 or text TIMECODE to 84901. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network For more puzzles, including an extra access charge. Texts cost £1 plus your standard network charge. For the full solution call 0905 757 0142. Calls cost £1 per minute plus your telephone company’s network Codeword, Train Tracks and Futoshiki access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5.30pm). go to page 10 Lexica No 5665 No 5666 Winners will receive a Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus O I W SY L E T P C Solve the puzzle and text in the numbers in the three Winning Move shaded boxes. Text TIMES followed by a space, then G B your three numbers, eg, TIMES 123, plus your name, address and postcode to 84901 (UK only), by midnight. ______Black to play. Or enter by phone. Call 09012 925274 (ROI 1516 303 501) áWDr4WDWD]This position is from Sadhwani- P EIby midnight. Leave your three answer numbers (in any Grigoriants, Titled Tuesday, order) and your contact details. àDWDWDWip]chess.com 2020. RTUA Calls cost £1 (ROI €1.50) plus your telephone company’s ßpDW0WgpD]Black’s huge and decisive asset RDIMnetwork access charge. Texts cost £1 plus your standard Þ$WDWDpDW]in this position is the powerful network charge. Winners will be picked at random from passed pawn on c3, which is GIYUall correct answers received. One draw per week. Lines Ýq)WDpDWD]supported by the c8-rook and f6- close at midnight tonight. If you call or text after this time you will not be entered but will still be charged. Ü)W0W)WDW]bishop. The great chess thinker NYTS Aron Nimzowitsch once wrote of SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5.30pm). ÛWDWDW)P)]the passed pawn’s “lust to P A OW O S V I BIT ÚDN!RDWIW]expand”. This is undoubtedly the kind of position he had in mind. Slide the letters either horizontally or vertically back into the grid to produce a What are your favourite puzzles in MindGames? WÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈWHow can Black crash through? completed crossword. Letters are allowed to slide over other letters Email: [email protected]

KenKen Medium No 5169 Futoshiki No 3873 Kakuro No 2832

Fill the grid using the numbers 1 to 9 only. The numbers in each horizontal or vertical run of white squares add up to the total in the .COM triangle to its left or above it. The same number may occur more than once in a row or column, but not within the same run of white squares.

© © 2010 KENKEN PUZZLE & TM NEXTOY. DIST. BY UFS, INC. WWW.KENKEN All the digits 1 to 6 must appear in every row and column. In Fill the blank squares so that every row and column contains each thick-line “block”, the target number in the top left-hand each of the numbers 1 to 5 once only. The symbols between corner is calculated from the digits in all the cells in the block, the squares indicate whether a number is larger (>) or smaller using the operation indicated by the symbol. (<) than the number next to it. © PUZZLER MEDIA the times | Wednesday January 20 2021 1GT 15 MindGames

times2 Crossword No 8493 Brain Trainer Cell Blocks No 4060

1 2 3 4 5 6 Divide the grid – 1/5 TREBLE +3/4 DOUBLE into square or EASY 48 ÷ 4 x 6 + 3 ÷ 5 + 40 WER rectangular

OF IT IT OF IT IT S 7 blocks, each © PUZZLER MEDIA

AN containing one 8 9 digit only. Every 3 block must + /8 DOUBLE – 1/3 10 MEDIUM 63 x 5 + 37 ÷ 22 x 9 + 126 x 3 WER contain the OF IT IT OF IT S number of cells N indicated by the 11 A digit inside it.

12 13 SQUARE – 7/8 – 2/3 HALVE SQUARE HARDER 18 x 4 + 209 x 3 ÷ 7 WER

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20 21 From these letters, make words of Enter each of four or more letters, always including the numbers the central letter. Answers must be in from 1 to 9 in 22 the Concise Oxford Dictionary, excluding the grid, so that capitalised words, plurals, conjugated the six sums 23 verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending work. We’ve in LY, comparatives and superlatives. placed two 24 How you rate 9 words, average; numbers to get 13, good; 20, very good; 28, excellent you started. Each sum Across 15 Stage work (5) Yesterday’s answers should be calculated left 1 Type of beer (6) 19 Flexible, adaptable (7) enrol, eon, gen, glen, gluon, gnu, gone, © PUZZLER MEDIA to right or top 7 Angelic being (6) 20 Such as antennae (7) goner, gun, gurn, leno, lone, loner, long, lounger, to bottom. 8 Violent, aggressive (8) 22 Roughly calculate (8) longe, lorn, lounge, lune, lung, 23 Sheep's coat (6) lunge, neg, nog, nor, one, oner, rone, run, 10 Captain —'s Mandolin, rune, rung, urn 24 Time of year (6) Please note, BODMAS does not apply novel (7) 11 Small surrounded group (7) Down Killer Tricky No 7548 Solutions 12 Undercover operation (5) 1 More effective (6) 14 Opening passage (5) 2 Cut short (8) Solution to Crossword 8492 3 (Of a payment) made as a Quick Cryptic 1791 Codeword 4176 Kakuro 2831 P O S E R P U B L I S H favour (2,6) H U O A R C I 4 E in radio comms (4) A P P R O P R I A T I O N 5 Most recent (6) R E F L E C T 6 Capital of Ireland (6) A G R A R I A N P L U S 9 Without a smell (9) O N A Y M E H A U N C H T O S S U P 12 Blue mineral (8) M K D R O 13 First letters (8) S L E W F A I T H F U L 16 Native American town (6) W R O N G L Y 17 Alleviation of pain (6) Train Tracks 1227 A M A Z I N G A X I O M 18 Conceal, protect (6) N R N E G R E Sudoku 12,108 Quintagram Suko 3078 21 Coral formation (4) K A Y A K R E E N T E R 1 Optic 2 Uganda Need help with today’s puzzle? Call 0905 757 0143 to check the 3 Trinket answers. Calls cost £1 per minute plus your telephone company’s 4 Echelon network access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm). 5 Repress Brain Trainer Bridge Andrew Robson Easy 166; Medium 1,044; Harder 402 Cell Blocks 4059 Set Square 2834 Lexica 5663 Five Instructive Themes (FIT) If RHO had passed, you’d have Sudoku 12,109 1. Bidding as Opener bid 4♥ with the first, 3♥ with the TEA A (e) Coping with Interference second and 2♥ with the third. AR X After RHO’s 3♠, you have an easy Deadly No 7549 BECOME Contrast these two opening hands. 4♥ with the first. With the second, Killer ♥ HO ♠82 ♠82 you should stretch to bid 4 to ♥K7 ♥AK show your fit. With the third, how- V ♦KQ7432 ♦KQ7432 ever, you really should pass. As a CONVEX ♣ A32 ♣ A32 rule of thumb, you can stretch one After you open 1♦, partner level in order to reveal your fit. ♥ Futoshiki 3872KenKen 5168 Lexica 5664 responds 1 . You’re planning to ♠ rebid 2♦ with the first (guarantee- A4 Dealer: North ♥ PLUCK ing six diamonds as you have the 53 Sudoku 12,110 Vul: Neither ♦AK3 ELD room to bid a second suit with a ♣AQ8732 five-four shape). You’re planning ♠ ♠ VISAGE N J1085 to rebid 3♦ with the second — ♥AQ10862 ♥ UP ♦ W E ♦74 repeating your suit with a jump to 10754 S QJ9 SAT show 16 or more points. ♣5 ♣J964 ♠ Q7632 BONE H If right-hand opponent (RHO) ♥KJ9 bids 1♠, you have no problem — ♦ 862 Tetonor 119 Word watch making your planned rebid. ♣K10 ♠ However, say RHO bids 2 (weak Leporine (b) Harelike jump overcall). What now? S W N E 153 24 99 29 Miggle (a) A marble used as 1♣ Pass a target With the second hand, you can ♠ ♥ ♣ Killer 7546 1x153 14 + 10 9 x 11 25 + 4 go ahead and make your planned 1 2 3 (1) Pass Rondache (b) A small round ♦ ♦ 3NT(2) End 20 140 26 100 shield 3 rebid. The meaning of the 3 Chess — Winning Move bid is largely the same whether or (1) Showing 16 or more points (and six 11+ 914x1020+ 6 4 x25 not South bid 2♠. Think of the 3♦ clubs), just as though West hadn’t bid. 120 24 168 29 1 ... Qxd1+! 2 Qxd1 c2 3 Qc1 and rebid as being a jump over part- (2) Hearts stopped and the values for game. now not 3 ... cxb1Q but instead 20 x 6 20 + 4 21 x 8 21 + 8 3 ... Kh6! is the key move (in ner’s 1♥ — thereby showing 16 or West leads ♥8 v 3NT. You win fact any king move works) as more points. Therefore, you should ♥9 and must not lose a subsequent 80 108 21 154 Black plans ... Bb2. White is lost, ♠ for example 4 Nc3 Bxc3 5 Qxc2 pass over 2 with the first hand. lead to East, for a second heart lead 20 x 4 12 x 9 12 + 9 153 +1 In general, if you cannot make through your ♥KJ would be fatal. Bxb4 leads to an overwhelming your planned rebid because of Needing only five club tricks, you material advantage ♦ ♣ ♣ Quiz RHO’s intervention, you should cross to A and lead 2 to 10 Killer 7547 pass. Having said which, it can pay (key play), not minding if it loses to As with standard Sudoku, fill the grid so that every column, ♣ every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Each set 1 Dolly Parton 2 Imam Khomeini or Ruhollah to stretch a little — especially when West’s J (as West cannot hurt Khomeini 3 Skin 4 18 years old 5 HMP Wormwood you are revealing a fit to partner. you). Here, ♣10 wins, so you cash of cells joined by dotted lines must add up to the target number Partner opened 1♥ and RHO bid ♣K, cross to (say) ♠A and enjoy in its top-left corner. Within each set of cells joined by dotted Scrubs 6 Gary Larson. His final Far Side cartoon was 3♠ (weak with seven spades). What ♣AQ87. With ♦K to come, that’s lines, a digit cannot be repeated. published on January 1, 1995 7 Che Guevara 8 BoJack now with these responding hands? ten tricks made. Horseman 9 Where the Crawdads Sing 10 Melbourne Cluelines Stuck on Sudoku, Killer or KenKen? Call 0901 293 11 Mitsubishi 12 Ford Madox Brown 13 Lászlo ♠82 ♠82 ♠82 For my original Bridge Lesson Series ♥KJ73 ♥KJ73 ♥KJ73 including Bidding as Opener, go to 6263 before midnight to receive four clues for any of today’s Krasznahorkai. The latter novel was adapted into the ♦A8432 ♦A8432 ♦J8432 andrewrobsonbridgestore.com puzzles. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network film Werckmeister Harmonies 14 The Ashes urn ♣ K2 ♣ 32 ♣ 32 [email protected] access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm). 15 Barbara Hulanicki 20.01.21

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Word watch Sudoku Difficult No 12,111 Fiendish No 12,112 Super fiendish No 12,113 David Parfitt

Leporine a An aromatic compound found in liquorice b Harelike c An inhabitant of ancient Lebanon Miggle a A marble used as a target b To change one’s mind repeatedly c A stifled laugh Rondache a Facial hair forming a circle around the mouth b A small round shield c Discomfort around the midriff

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The Times Daily Quiz Olav Bjortomt Suko No 3078

ANDREW H. WALKER/GETTY IMAGES 1 Hello, I’m Dolly (1967) is known as the founder was the debut studio of which conglomerate? album by which US music star? 12 In 1879, which Calais- born pre-Raphaelite 2 Tehran’s international painter began work on airport is named after the Manchester Murals in which ayatollah, who Manchester Town Hall? died in 1989? 13 Béla Tarr has 3 Dermatosis is a generic adapted which term for a disease of Hungarian author’s which part of the body? novels, Satantango 15 and The Melancholy of 4 What is the minimum Resistance, into films? age for a member of the 7 In her 1974 memoir “Marsh Girl”, Kya House of Commons? Conundrum, Jan Morris Clark is the heroine 14 In 1998, the MCC described which of which 2018 Delia commissioned 5 In 1966, the spy George revolutionary as “sharp Owens novel? Waterford Crystal Blake escaped from as a cat in Cuba”? to produce a replica which London prison 10 The Australian of which trophy for and fled to the USSR? 8 The title character in explorer John Batman presentation purposes? Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the spaces so which Netflix show is (1801-39) is best known that the number in each circle is equal to 6 In 2020, which the washed-up star of for his role in which 15 Which fashion the sum of the four surrounding spaces, retired cartoonist, the fictional sitcom city’s founding? designer, born in Poland and each colour total is correct creator of The Far Side, Horsin’ Around? in 1936, is pictured? published his first new 11 Japanese industrialist For interactive puzzles visit work in 25 years? 9 Nicknamed the Iwasaki Yataro (1835-85) Answers on page 15 thetimes.co.uk The Times Quick Cryptic No 1792 by Teazel

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Across 2 Injury from run in European 8 Perhaps consul’s not finished country (6) 8 9 off certificate (7) 3 Go to be with girl at home (4) 9 Man will ring, and say this 4 Scientist argues really well at first? (5) first in row (6) 10 Cocktail ingredient right for 5 Flier’s clothes keep in warmth man to swallow (5) (8) 10 11 11 Shelved piece of furniture that 6 Full meeting in place, menu to now needs replacing (7) be worked out (6) 12 Lack of guile one never has to 7 For the moment, time is prove in court (9) nothing up north (4) 12 13 14 15 14 Damage marrow, destroying 13 In court, unscrupulous type half (3) gets years (8) 16 It’s funny, whichever way you 15 International organisation look at it (3) looking embarrassed and 16 17 18 19 20 18 A character man spared angry (3,5) collapses (9) 17 It’s awkward being left in 21 Doorman that’s aimed at the Calais (6) head (7) 19 Leaving car briefly for teatime snack (6) 21 22 22 Its blades cut blades (5) 23 Different part of bible seen by 20 A couple in old vessel, busy woman (5) (2,4) 24 Pays no attention to singer, 21 Loudly disapprove of new worried about nothing (7) benefit (4) 23 24 22 Object to wits (4) Down 1 Choosing awfully doting Pa? (8) Yesterday’s solution on page 15