Wednesday 03.05.17 Wednesday ‘There are cranes in the sky while people are sleeping in doorways’ Can Andy Burnham fi x Manchester? Mermaid frappuccino Coff ee crimes Arwa Mahdawi The Brexit spitegeist Selfi es and stair naps Met Ball power moves Paddy Considine Screen to stage 12A Shortcuts Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘presidential’ tour takes in a Ford factory, firefighters, a farming family – and a really cute calf US politics documented on the site he built . During Barack Obama’s presi- Is Zuckerberg dency, the idea that the head of Facebook could have presidential out on the ambitions may have seemed laugh- campaign trail? able. But now it feels as if all options are on the table. Camp Zuck has denied all rumours. When asked by BuzzFeed hy are people con- in January, the Facebook boss W vinced Mark Zuckerberg answered with an emphatic “No.” is gearing up for a His line has always been that he is presidential run? Well, for months focusing on building Facebook and now, Zuckerberg’s Facebook the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative , profi le has looked less and less a project he runs with his wife, like that of a tech CEO and more Priscilla Chan. But some say there’s like that of a man out to win the no smoke without fi re. Vanity Fair’s Iowa caucus on the way to an out- Nick Bilton wrote : “When I’ve asked sider bid for the White House. people in Silicon Valley if a Zucker- At the beginning of the year, he berg bid is potentially real, the announced that, as his “personal consensus seems to be: absolutely.” challenge for 2017” , he would Yet Bilton added that becoming US visit and meet people in every US president would actually be a step state. In February, he published a down for the founder of a website 5,700-word State of the Union-style with 1.8 billion monthly users. post on the future of Facebook. He Others say this certainly is a also said he no longer considers political campaign – just not for himself an atheist – a stance that’s elected offi ce . From fake news to good for a presidential hopeful. the way it moderates suspect con- First of all he visited a Ford tent, Facebook has been facing factory in Michigan and, last hefty criticism . Some have sug- week, he made a surprise visit to gested the recent moves are more Ohio , hosted by a family of Demo- about restoring public trust in crats who voted for Donald Facebook. “Zuckerberg’s manifesto Trump. By the weekend he was on suggests a far more signifi cant to Indiana , where he “stopped by” eff ort by Facebook to wage a cam- at the fi re department in Elkhart, paign for the public’s trust,” wrote and had a ride around town with Kathleen Chaykowski in Forbes . South Bend mayor Peter Buttigieg . Whatever the case, prepare for Next was Wisconsin, for a photo widespread speculation in the opportunity feeding a calf while run-up to presidential elections in also enjoying another family 2020 and 2024. And, who knows: dinner. He concluded his travels by given the way 2017 has gone so sampling th at Wisconsin favourite, far, perhaps we will live to see brat and cheese curds. And, of Zuckerberg v Kanye yet. course, his every move has been Elena Cresci Beverages pink drink – in the US. Starbucks over her creation . Elsewhere, of the impact on people’s lives in say the beverage starts off “sweet other employees masterminded producing countries,” he says. Frappers’ delight and fruity, transforming to pleas- the Dragon Frappuccino (green “But the part of me that loves the antly sour” and is “fi nished with tea with vanilla-bean powder and taste of coff ee thinks th ese – the latest crime whipped-cream-sprinkled pink a berry swirl). 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We get more irritating than selling point perhaps wasn’t its introduces people to have a coff ee from Rwanda that extra hot, venti, soy, quadruple- taste but rather its looks , the coff ee – and coff ee tastes like blackcurrants – if you shot lattes (minus the foam) , Star- Unicorn has already spawned shopss – he worries that brew it over ice it is an instantly bucks has kickstarted a new trend copycats . A Mermaid Frappuccino frfrapp es that do contain produced cold drink with masses for magical, colour-changing (green swirls instead of blue and coffco ee are often “covering of sweetness and the rich, fruity versions of the Frappuccino, its pink) has been created by a barista upup delicious fl avours that fl avour that people are looking popular blended coff ee drink . in Michigan who mixed a vanilla- fafarmersr have developed”. for when they add syrups.” Insta- Last month, the chain bean base blended with freeze- “I want as many people grammers will probably take a unleashed the Unicorn Frappuc- dried blueberries and drizzled to ddrink well-sourced little more convincing. cino – a limited-edition blue-and- “a toasted coconut matcha sauce” coffcoff ee as possible because Homa Khaleeli 2 The Guardian 03.05.17 Pass notes No 3,849 The Putin Interviews All in it together: commuters on the Moscow metro BABY BEARS Psychology “Can you give me some privacy?” Age: Minus six weeks. It’s not much of a leap to extend Appearance: Like David Letterman’s programme, Why Russian this to personal space. but with fewer jokes. In Russian, you can have a Letterman is retired. I know, but I’m a little life has no space private life (chastnaya zhizn’) and behind with my late-night TV chatshows. for privacy you can have personal business Vladimir Putin is going to be a chatshow host? (lichnoye delo). There are a lot of Not exactly. Film director Oliver Stone has visited words for solitude and secrecy: the Russian president four times over the past what a surprise! But there is no News from One two years, conducted a dozen interviews with hy do Russians have word that denotes physical space Direction’s Liam him, and the results have been condensed into no sense of personal around you that should be private Payne and the four hours of TV. It is being shown over four W mononymous Cheryl, space? A study by and unique to you. Communal evenings from 12 to 15 June on the US cable who have called the Journal of Cross-Cultural living has to play a role here. Most their son Bear. They channel Showtime , and is said to be a no-holds- Psychology surveyed 9,000 people born in Russia between follow in a hallowed barred, gloves (but not shirt) off encounter. people from a series of countries 1900 and 1980 would have lived line of celebrity It’s Frost/Nixon all over again. That is how in order to calculate an inter- in a communal fl at at one time or Bear offspring, from Showtime sees it, exactly 40 years after that national scale of personal space. another. That is a place where Kate Winslet’s third celebrated meeting of egos. Dubbed “the space invaders”, the there really is no privacy at all. child Bear Blaze, to And Stone made a fi lm about Nixon, of course. Russians came out of it looking As for the British? We were Alicia Silverstone’s Indeed, one of three he has directed about US son Bear Blu, and either extremely needy or among the most squeamish in presidents. Power is the thread that runs through Jamie Oliver’s Buddy extremely squashed. the survey, of course. Although, Bear Maurice. his career. The study was an attempt to weirdly, the Romanians were How did Stone pull off such a coup? He got test theories about temperature even more wary of strangers than access to Putin when making his fi lm about and conversation distance. we are. The Brits observe 1 metre’s the whistleblower Edward Snowden . The two Some sociologists believe warm distance from strangers, and like apparently got on like a dacha on fi re, and these weather brings people closer. to be around 50cm from a close extended exchanges are the result. Others say it drives them apart friend. For acquaintances: 80cm. Will they really be that hard-hitting ? That is because of the risk of parasites Which sounds positively halitosis- the 64,000-rouble question. Stone is likely to be and disease. The former were level closeness to me. No, thanks. pretty well disposed towards Putin. He supports proved correct. (A warm climate Unless it’s on the Moscow Metro, What do Russia’s view that the Ukrainian revolution you mean, does collapse personal space. in which case, prepare you want to of 2014 was a CIA plot aimed at driving a Argentina scored very highly.) to snuggle up. be alone? wedge between Russia and Ukraine, and But then came the outliers.