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Bercow accused of bullying staff by his former top aide
Francis Elliott Political Editor
Esther Webber
John Bercow’s hopes of a peerage have
suffered a potentially fatal blow after
his most senior former official filed a
formal bullying complaint.
Lord Lisvane, who served as the
chief clerk of the House of Commons
for the early part of Mr Bercow’s time
Off the wall The actor and writer Terry Jones, a driving force behind Monty Python’s Flying Circus, has died of dementia at the age of 77. Page 7; Obituary, pages 52-53
Britain heads for clashes
with US on three fronts
6 Johnson committed to tech tax 6 Row over Huawei 5G plan 6 Iran nuclear tensions grow
Steven Swinford Deputy Political Editor
Philip Aldrick, Callum Jones
Boris Johnson is risking a post-Brexit
rift with President Trump as he pre-
pares to clash with the United States
over tax, trade and foreign affairs.
The prime minister is planning
to push ahead with a levy on large
technology companies despite the
threat of a trade war with Washington.
Downing Street says that it will
introduce a 2 per cent sales duty on
companies such as Facebook and
2G
as Speaker, has passed a dossier of
allegations to the parliamentary
commissioner for standards.
It is understood to detail incidents in
which Mr Bercow was alleged to have
bullied and humiliated staff, including
some in which he was said to have used
inappropriate language.
The former Speaker has been
nominated for a peerage by Jeremy
Google from April amid concerns that
they are “undermining trust and confi-
dence in our international system”.
Steven Mnuchin, the US Treasury
secretary, said at the World Economic
Forum in Davos that Mr Trump
intended to hit back with tariffs on
Britain’s car industry if the digital
services tax went ahead. Downing
Street warned that this “would harm
businesses and consumers on both
sides of the Atlantic”.
Relations between London and
Washington will become more fraught
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Corbyn after he was passed over by the
government in a break with precedent.
Mr Bercow’s supporters claim that
the snub was petty revenge for a series
of decisions that helped MPs to
frustrate Brexit in the last parliament.
Ministers insist, however, that
persistent allegations of bullying,
which Mr Bercow has always denied,
were the main reason. Lord Lisvane,
if, as is expected, the government gives
the green light to Huawei building
“non-core” parts of Britain’s 5G net-
work at a meeting of the National
Security Council next week. The US
has said that this would be “madness”
and threatened to limit intelligence-
sharing with Britain if it goes ahead.
There are also tensions between the
US and Britain over the Iran nuclear
deal. This month Mr Trump criticised
Britain, France and Germany for
their continued support of the accord.
They subsequently triggered a dispute
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clerk of the parliament for three years
until he retired in 2014, is the most
senior official to file a formal complaint.
Mr Bercow said last night: “During
the five years that we worked together,
Lord Lisvane had ample opportunity
to raise any accusations of bullying
with me. At no stage did he do so . . . the
timing of this intervention is curious.”
All nominees are vetted by the House
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mechanism in the deal after violations
by Iran, with Mr Johnson saying that it
should be replaced by a “Trump deal”.
The row over plans for a digital
services tax erupted as Sajid Javid, the
chancellor, shared a platform with Mr
Mnuchin in Davos. Mr Javid made clear
that Britain would impose the tax,
which will raise £1.5 billion over four
years. “It’s important — as we said at
the time when we first introduced it to
parliament and legislated for it — it is a
proportionate tax,” he said. Mr Mnuchin
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of Lords Appointments Commission,
which must consider whether past
conduct could be regarded as bringing
the upper chamber into disrepute. The
body has been made aware of the new
complaint. If the commission advises
against Mr Bercow being made a peer, it
is unlikely that his name will be put to
the Queen by Boris Johnson. The prime
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Don’t worry,
but hair really
can turn grey
through stress
Rhys Blakely Science Correspondent
If you are fretting about going grey,
try to relax. Scientists have discovered,
after centuries of anecdotal evidence,
that stress really can turn hair white.
New research suggests that anxiety
and fear cause the body to exhaust its
supplies of a type of stem cell required
for hair colour. The findings could
explain why some world leaders, such
as Barack Obama, appear to grow grey
at an accelerated pace as they shoulder
the burdens of office, experts said.
The study, published yesterday in the
journal Nature, might also put
researchers on the path to a treatment
for premature salt and pepper hair.
Scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell
Institute looked at how hair colour is
determined by pigment-producing
cells, which develop from a special type
of stem cell. We have a finite number of
these stem cells inside each of the
100,000 hair follicles found on the
scalp. As we age, they are depleted and
when they run out the follicle begins
producing snowy white hairs.
The study showed, through experi-
ments on mice, that a stressed nervous
system caused the stem cells to change
into pigment-producing cells at an
abnormally fast rate. Within days the
stem-cell reservoir was empty.
“The detrimental impact of stress
that we discovered was beyond what I
imagined,” Dr Ya-Chieh Hsu, a co-
author of the study, said.
The scientists were able to use drugs
to slow the loss of the pigment cells.
“Our hope is that our discovery will
help others investigate the links
between stress and ageing, and to
eventually find ways to intervene in
the process,” a spokeswoman for the
Harvard Stem Cell Institute said.
The research suggests there may be
some truth to several legends. It is said,
for instance, that as Marie Antoinette
sat in jail awaiting the guillotine during
the French Revolution, her auburn hair
turned a ghostly white overnight. The
phenomenon of losing one’s hair colour
rapidly because of stress is sometimes
known as “Antoinette syndrome”.
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economic cold war between the US and China
Airport begins
virus screening
Travellers flying to
Britain from Wuhan,
the Chinese city at the
centre of a deadly
virus outbreak, were
screened for signs of
illness as ministers
scrambled to deal with
the threat of a new
epidemic spreading
across Asia. Page 4
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by Saudi prince
Jeff Bezos received a
message about his
marriage from Saudi
Arabia’s crown prince
before the Amazon
chief’s affair was
publicly known, the UN
said. The Washington
Post, owned by Mr
Bezos, had been critical
of the kingdom. Page 32
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Green levy on air travel would
SPORT TIMES2
pay for 100m new trees a year
Ben Webster Environment Editor stores vast amounts of carbon that is
Carbon-neutral future released when it is extracted.
Airline passengers would pay a levy to The committee also suggests requir-
help to fund the planting of 100 million Proposals from the committee on ing farmers to add substances such as
trees a year in Britain under a proposal climate change garlic and seaweed to cattle feed to re-
by the government’s climate advisers. 6 A levy on airlines or fossil fuel duce the amount of methane they pro-
The recommendation comes in a re- suppliers to fund the planting of duce. Methane is a potent greenhouse
port that calls for a fifth of agricultural 100 million trees a year gas and studies have shown that addi-
land to be taken out of production to tives reduce the amount a cow burps by
6 A tax on beef, lamb and dairy
help the country to reach its legally up to 38 per cent.
ANY OLE RUBBISH DIFFERENT LIFE products if voluntary measures fail
binding target of being carbon neutral The changes outlined in the report
to reduce consumption
Manchester United A new film of by 2050. would cost about £1.4 billion a year in
A tax on meat may also be needed to 6 Public sector canteens required to private and public funding but would
slumped to a 2-0 David Copperfield offer vegan option every day
reduce emissions from rearing live- deliver £4 billion in annual benefits.
home defeat at the is weighed down stock but the committee on climate Some 12 per cent of Britain’s green-
6 A 10 per cent cut in cattle and
hands of Burnley by virtue-signalling change, which carried out the review, sheep numbers by 2050 house gas emissions came from the way
PAGES 70-72 AN WILSON, PAGES 8-9 says it hopes that this could be avoided land was used in the country in 2017, but
6 A ban on sales of peat
if the trend towards more plant-based with support for farmers and land man-
diets continues. 6 A ban on burning of heather on agers that could be cut by almost two
COMMENT The report says consumers should be grouse moors thirds by 2050, the report says.
“nudged” towards changing their diets, 6 Farmers required to add methane- Airlines UK, which represents the
labelling food to show its emissions and reducing substances to cattle feed British industry, rejected the proposal
stating the carbon impact of a person’s for a UK levy, saying that the industry
shopping on till receipts. But if these was going to be “paying out billions for
GERARD BAKER, PAGE 29 measures fail to reduce meat consump- mittee suggests that a levy on the avia- offsetting projects around the world”
tion sufficiently, the report says “finan- tion industry or fossil fuel suppliers under a global scheme called Corsia
cial incentives and price signals” may could generate £700 million a year for backed by the UN.
‘Crossbow killer Charles’s plea be needed, with a review to consider tree planting. This could be used to Lord Deben, chairman of the com-
this in about five years’ time. create an “auction mechanism” under mittee on climate change, said: “Chang-
lay in wait’ over climate The report adds: “They could be ap- which landowners would submit bids to ing the way we use our land is critical to
Terence Whall, 39, a The Prince of Wales plied through subsidies or taxes to en- plant trees. delivering the UK’s net zero target. The
sports therapist, used a called in a speech at sure that the price of food reflects the Chris Stark, the committee’s chief ex- options we are proposing would see
crossbow to kill Gerald the World Economic climate impact of production.” ecutive, said it was in effect a “national farmers and land managers delivering
Corrigan, 74, a retired Forum in Davos for The report also sets out how to deliv- offset scheme”, a compulsory version of actions to reduce emissions.
lecturer, after lying in business and political er the recommendation made by the the programmes that encourage airline “Doing so can provide new revenue
wait outside his home leaders to bring the committee last year for the tree-plant- passengers to offset emissions by pay- opportunities for farmers, better air
near Holyhead, planet “back from the ing rate to triple, which the Conserva- ing for tree planting. quality and improved biodiversity, and
Anglesey, in April last brink”, emphasising tive manifesto promised would be The committee also recommends more green spaces for us all to enjoy.”
year, Mold crown court the importance of the achieved by the end of 2024. The com- banning sales of peat by 2023. Peatland Charles’s plea at Davos, page 8
was told. Mr Whall next decade in curbing
denies murder. Page 5 climate change. Page 8
continued from page 1 appointed” that Britain would prioritise
Accountants in Saracens stars
Britain heads for rift with US talks with the EU. “We thought we’d go
first. The [EU] might be a little harder to
Brexit finish
break-up talks
The Big Four
‘want to stay’
Saracens’ director of
argued that it was discriminatory
because it would mainly hit US compa-
nies. “If people want to just arbitrarily
deal with than we are,” he added.
A government source said that Mr
Javid was referring to there being a
line is crossed,
accounting firms are in
discussions with the
rugby has said that the
club’s England players
put taxes on our digital companies, we
will consider arbitrarily putting taxes
“hard” deadline of securing a trade deal
with the EU by December 31. Mr
says Johnson
Financial Reporting will not want to leave on car companies,” he warned. Trump said yesterday that Mr Johnson
Council watchdog after the impending The automotive industry is at the would “come out great” from trade Francis Elliott Political Editor
about a self-imposed demotion from the heart of the British economy, with negotiations with Brussels, adding that
separation of their Premiership and will manufacturers from Jaguar Land Rover the prime minister has “a lot of guts”. Boris Johnson said last night that
audit and consulting treat one season in the to Honda exporting 81 per cent of Other senior figures in Davos advised Britain had crossed the “Brexit finish
divisions to get ahead Championship as a what they make. Almost a fifth of the Mr Javid to wait for the global deal line” after legislation enabling the
of any official action “sabbatical” before the 1.5 million cars sold abroad by Britain being worked out by the Organisation country’s exit from the EU cleared its
against them. Page 37 2021 Lions tour. Page 72 each year go to the US. for Economic Co-operation and final parliamentary stages.
The prime minister’s spokesman said Development. Kristalina Georgieva, The House of Lords gave up attempts
that the government’s “strong prefer- managing director of the International to amend the withdrawal bill after MPs
REGISTER 52 SPORT 62 ence” was for an internationally agreed Monetary Fund, said: “There is a process voted down amendments including the
COURT CIRCULAR 54 CROSSWORD 72 tax, but it was taking “too long to ad- under way and it is an encouraging restoration of a guarantee to accommo-
LAW 58-59 TV & RADIO TIMES2 dress”. France has backed down over a process. But do it properly, do it so it is date unaccompanied child refugees.
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FOLLOW US end of the year if the US shelves plans to rather than countries popping up with would leave on January 31, adding: “At
timesandsundaytimes thetimes impose tariffs on wine and cheese. taxes here, there and everywhere.” times it felt like we would never cross
Mr Javid also said yesterday that The former chancellor George Os- the Brexit finish line, but we’ve done it.
OFFER the government’s “first priority” was borne had predicted that the Treasury Now we can put the rancour and divi-
securing a trade deal with the EU rather would delay the tax. “It would certainly sion of the past three years behind us.”
than the US. His comments appeared be a very brave British government that No 10 officials said that Mr Johnson
to go further than No 10, which has said walks into a trade war with the United was likely to sign the treaty setting out
that talks will be conducted in parallel. States at the very moment [that] the the terms, including a £39 billion
Mr Mnuchin responded: “We are very centre point of its economic policy is to “divorce bill”, within days.
much looking forward to a new trade strike a trade deal with the US,” he told Final formal ratification will come
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Downfall of the not-so secret agent
‘Mr Super Prime’ quits
after posting his clients’
spectacular homes on
Instagram, writes
Louisa Clarence-Smith
Discretion is everything for the estate
agents who buy and sell London’s most
expensive properties on behalf of the
world’s publicity-shy super-rich.
So when one tried to break the mould
by becoming a social media “influencer”
and posting photos of clients’ luxury
homes on Instagram, it was perhaps
inevitable that it would cause problems.
Daniel Daggers, who is known as
“Mr Super Prime”, has resigned from
Knight Frank, the upmarket estate
agency, after posting photos of multi-
million-pound mansions on the social
media platform. Mr Daggers, 40, had
built up a following of more than
30,000, frequently updating his
account with images of the swimming
pools, spas, cinemas and enviable
interiors of homes costing more than
£10 million.
He has boasted of advising on the
acquisition of properties for ultra-rich
clients including Ken Griffin,
the US hedge fund billionaire
who bought a £95 million
Georgian home near Bucking-
ham Palace last year. However,
his sales technique has resulted
in complaints over privacy and
security concerns.
A source close to Knight
Frank said that the estate agen-
cy had received two complaints
from multi-millionaire home-
owners after Mr Daggers post-
ed photos of property interiors
without the sellers’ permission.
One photograph included art-
works and concerns were raised
about attracting burglars.
One of the complainants is
understood to be a motor indus-
try chief with an estimated for-
tune of £500 million who lives in
Hampstead Garden Suburb.
Another who is understood to
have complained is an entrepre-
neur living in Hamilton Terrace in St
John’s Wood. The street has been home
to celebrities including Robbie Williams,
who rented a house for a reported
£20,000 a month during his planning
spat with Jimmy Page.
Mr Daggers, who had worked at
Knight Frank for 12 years, rose to be a
partner in the company’s super-prime
team and mimicked the approach of
Opera attack lawyer’s ‘lack of remorse’ Pushing the envelope as a
Harry Shukman
A judge criticised a lawyer yesterday for
showing “little genuine remorse” as he
was sentenced for punching a fashion
director at the Royal Opera House.
Matthew Feargrieve, 43, lost his tem-
per when Ulrich Engler sat next to his
partner, Catherine Chandler. Mr Eng-
ler, 56, said that he felt a “constant flow
of blows” from Feargrieve when he took
the empty, more expensive seat and
claimed he had developed post-trau-
matic stress disorder.
Police suspected Mr Engler of being
the aggressor and arrested him at the
performance of Siegfried, part of Wag-
ner’s Ring cycle, in October 2018. He
spent a night in a police cell and was
banned from the opera house in Covent
Garden. The ban has since been lifted.
The vacant seat taken by Mr Engler
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American estate agents who build
up a personal brand online. He won
a property adviser of the year award
from Spear’s, the wealth magazine,
last year.
However, the super-wealthy have
become increasingly worried about the
security of their homes. Last year there
was a wave of incidents in which
machete-wielding criminals targeted
was one that cost hundreds of pounds
more than the £356 seat he was moving
from. He said that he had been able to
take the seat, which had a better view,
on a previous night of the opera with-
out issue. He said he sat down and
Matthew
Feargrieve was
found to have used
“excessive force”
handed Ms Chandler her coat before
her partner told him: “How dare you
talk to my wife like this?” and struck
him several times.
In an impact statement read out at
Westminster magistrates’ court, Mr
Engler, the personal couturier of the
Daniel Daggers had 30,000 followers and advised on the purchase of a £95 million house by Ken Griffin, below
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a piece of art could be worth thousands
of pounds and you might not realise.
Discretion is so important.
“We have a privileged position being
invited into people’s homes and you
cannot abuse that.”
Increasingly, wealthy property
owners are requesting that their
property is sold off market, via net-
works of agents and buyers, with little
Countess of Derby, said: “The pain last-
ed for about six weeks, causing me sleep
issues. I received numerous sessions of
counselling. I am still anxious in public.
My attitude to strangers is fearful.”
Feargrieve, who was a director at MF
Consultancy until his contract was
ended after the incident, denied assault
but was found guilty at City of London
magistrates’ court last month. Lisa
Wilding, QC, for the defence, said that
Feargrieve, who dislocated his shoulder
in the scuffle, “regrets that an incident
arose”, adding: “The coverage of these
proceedings has been devastating.”
Judge John Zani said that Feargrieve
used “excessive” force. “The complain-
ant did suffer pain and discomfort.
There is little genuine remorse.”
He fined Feargrieve £900 and or-
dered him to pay £775 in costs and £500
in compensation.
or no marketing. Last
year 7 per cent of sales
in the UK were off
market, although this
rose to 18 per cent of
properties sold for
more than £1 million,
remedy for phone addicts
Tom Knowles
Technology Correspondent
Many of us would like to cut down the
time we spend on our phone, but
Google has come up with a solution
that may raise a few eyebrows among
the tech-savvy.
The web giant, which also makes
mobile phones, wants to improve
“digital wellness” among its users
through techniques such as placing
devices inside an envelope.
Google is encouraging consumers
who own its Pixel 3a phone to create
envelopes using a provided PDF with a
basic keypad printed on it.
When the user wants a break, they
can place their phone in the envelope
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according to Hamptons International.
For properties worth £10 million or
more it is thought that 40 per cent could
change hands this way. The prime
motivation for many is privacy: they do
not want nosey neighbours, employees
or shareholders to know they are
selling. Another concern is the digital
footprint: floorplans and pictures could
be a security risk while price cuts
could scupper a deal.
A spokesman for Knight
Frank said: “Knight Frank
can confirm Daniel Daggers
resigned in November
2019 and will leave the
firm in February 2020.
However, we are
unable to com-
ment further on
client matters.”
Mr Daggers
did not respond
to a request for
comment.
Additional
reporting:
Carol Lewis
and Helen Davies
and seal it with glue. Once sealed, users
will only be able to dial numbers or take
pictures. Google said the envelope will
“temporarily transform your phone in-
to a simpler, calmer device”.
The firm added: “We were inspired
by a recent trend where people pur-
chase a second, simpler phone as a way
of limiting their access to technology.
“The idea is to try and last as long as
possible before opening the envelope.”
Google has also launched an app
called Activity Bubbles, which places a
bubble on the device’s background
screen each time the phone is used.
If the user’s screen is covered in
bubbles, it is a sign they have been on
the phone for too long.
What not to do with a phone, Times2
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The app will see you now: hospital to move half of all consultations online
Chris Smyth
Alex Ralph Business Correspondent
Patients have been told that half of hos-
pital appointments can be conducted
online as an NHS trust sets up a “digital
first” system to manage care.
Royal Wolverhampton has signed a
deal with the technology company
Babylon Health to adapt its “virtual
GP” programme used by the NHS to
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Airports on alert as threat Drugs firms
rush to find
from Chinese virus grows a vaccine
Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor
Tom Whipple Science Editor
Travellers flying into Britain from the
Chinese city at the centre of a deadly
virus outbreak were screened for signs
of illness as ministers scrambled to deal
with the threat of a new epidemic
spreading across Asia.
Last night, with authorities in Wu-
han shutting down its public transport
network, including flights, the Foreign
Office advised against all but essential
travel to the central Chinese city and
Public Health England upgraded the
threat of the coronavirus.
With the death toll rising and cases
around the globe, the World Health
Organisation is set to declare the coro-
navirus a public health emergency,
prompting stricter controls to prevent it
becoming an international epidemic.
Passengers arriving at Heathrow from
the city were met by doctors checking
for cases of flu-like illness.
Cities in many countries have intro-
duced health checks on international
travellers, as the Chinese authorities
announced the death toll had risen to 17,
all of them close to Wuhan, a city of
more than nine million people where it
was identified last month.
More than 500 cases have now been
work across all its services, including
hospitals. An app would share informa-
tion between GPs and specialists as well
as allow patients to consult online and
see test results. The trust hopes to sell
the technology to the rest of the NHS if
it proves successful.
Matt Hancock, the health secretary,
has praised the “revolutionary” com-
pany and uses its GP at Hand service as
his NHS doctor, but GPs have accused
confirmed but scientists believe there
are many more. Yesterday a team from
Imperial College London more than
doubled its estimate of those infected,
from 1,700 to 4,000.
In Britain, passengers who report
illness after contact with a confirmed
case of the coronavirus will be taken to
an NHS isolation unit for observation.
There is no treatment, although most
cases are relatively mild.
Before they were suspended, three
direct flights a week arrived at Heath-
row from Wuhan. There was concern
that screening would be ineffective
because many travellers would not
have symptoms when they arrived in
Britain. “This sort of measure of trying
to identify people who are sick coming
off a plane will only identify, if you’re
lucky, people who will have fever com-
ing off a plane,” said Neil Ferguson, who
led the Imperial College team behind
the latest prevalence estimates. “If
somebody was infected two days before
they travelled, they will arrive without
any symptoms at all.”
There are no vaccines or treatments
for coronavirus, and neither is there
resistance in the population. Until it is
better understood, researchers said it
should be considered a significant
threat. “Novel viruses can spread much
it of cherry-picking fit young people
and leaving surgeries with hard-to-
treat, and thus expensive, patients.
David Loughton, chief executive of
the trust, said that the app’s AI triage
system was as good as doctors at mak-
ing initial diagnoses, flagging those
who need further tests from those who
can manage with online advice.
“I think 50 per cent of consultations
could be done remotely,” he said. “A lot
faster through population than those
that circulate all the time — we have no
immunity,” said Professor Ferguson.
“Most seasonal flu viruses have a case
fatality rate of less than one in 1,000.
Here with this virus we don’t know the
full details, but there is a possible
fatality rate of 2 per cent.”
He said that would make it compara-
ble to the 1919 Flu outbreak, although
its fatality rate is disputed. “So it is a
significant concern globally.”
He added, however, that it was likely
once all cases were discovered that the
death rate would prove to be lower.
Nick Phin, of Public Health England,
emphasised the risk to people in Britain
was low. However, he added: “Individu-
als should seek medical attention if
they develop respiratory symptoms
within 14 days of visiting Wuhan, either
in China or on their return to the UK,”
he said.
Peter Horby, from the University of
Oxford, said it was now clear that the
outbreak should be classed as a global
health emergency. “There are three
criteria. One, is this an extraordinary
event. Two, is it spreading internation-
ally. Three, is an international response
required? In my opinion all three of
these have been met.”
City in quarantine, page 33
of this is chronic conditions because we
know so much about how to manage
those.” He insisted that older patients
were “not as frightened by technology
as you might think” and a younger gen-
eration would expect the NHS to be as
digital as the rest of their lives.
Mr Hancock has insisted that tech-
nology can ease the pressure on the
NHS caused by the shortage of doctors.
Sir Simon Stevens, chief executive of
Alex Ralph
Drugs makers are racing to develop a
vaccine to combat the deadly virus
spreading from China.
Moderna, a $7 billion Nasdaq-
listed company, is working with the
National Institutes of Health in Amer-
ica on a potential candidate. It said that
its “vaccine technology could serve as a
rapid platform that may be useful in
responding to newly emerging viral
threats, such as novel coronavirus”.
More than 500 cases of the virus —
which emerged in Wuhan, China —
have been confirmed.
Shares in biotechnology companies
rallied this week in New York as fears
over the coronavirus increased. They
include Novavax, which developed a
vaccine candidate for Middle East res-
piratory syndrome, or Mers, in 2013. A
spokeswoman said it had an “extensive
history of working with coronaviruses”.
Nano Viricides, another New York-
listed drugs company, is testing its
products against the virus.
In Europe the big vaccine makers in-
clude Glaxosmithkline, which is based
in west London, and Sanofi, the French
pharmaceuticals company. Sanofi is
not working on any clinical pro-
grammes related to the virus and it is
not clear whether Glaxo is or plans to.
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NHS England, has set a ten-year aim of
carrying out a third of hospital appoint-
ments online.
Paul Bate, Babylon’s director of NHS
services, said in London its system
guaranteed a smartphone consultation
within two hours. “We can take so
much of the pain away from the doc-
tors’ and nurses’ daily lives because a lot
of the admin tasks they are having to do
can be done through our technology.”
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Leicester attack charge
A man arrested after a boy aged
ten was stabbed as he walked
with his mother has appeared in
court to face four charges of
attempted murder. Carlos
Racitalal, 32, of Leicester, was
also charged with possession of a
knife blade or sharp pointed
article in a public place when he
appeared before Leicester
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‘Crossbow killer
lured lecturer
out to shoot him’
Will Humphries
A sports therapist murdered a retired
lecturer with a crossbow after lying in
wait, a court was told yesterday.
Gerald Corrigan, 74, who lived near a
coastal path two miles south of Holy-
head, Anglesey, was hit by a bolt in a
planned killing, the prosecution alleg-
es. Terence Whall, 39, denies murder-
ing Mr Corrigan, who was shot at about
12.30am on April 19, Good Friday, last
year.
Peter Rouch, QC, for the prosecution,
told Mold crown court that Mr Corrigan
went outside to adjust the satellite dish
in his front garden after the signal was
interrupted. “When he left his home
there was someone waiting outside . . .
Gerald Corrigan
died three weeks
after the attack
from multiple
organ failure
armed with a high-powered crossbow,”
he said. “The person waiting, probably
hiding behind a wall, fired a crossbow
bolt at Gerald Corrigan.”
Mr Rouch said Mr Corrigan “felt a
terrible pain” and thought he had had
an electric shock from the dish. The bolt
passed through his left side, cutting his
spleen and penetrating his large intes-
tine, stomach, liver and diaphragm. It
also bruised his heart before exiting.
Richard Alwyn Roberts, a shot. The bolts were of the same type as
paramedic, arrived to find a crossbow
bolt covered in blood on the grass. Mr
Corrigan died in hospital three weeks
later on May 11 as a result of multiple
organ failure caused by the injury.
The court was told that two weeks
after Mr Whall was questioned by
police about possessing crossbows a
Land Rover Discovery belonging to his
partner, Emma Roberts, who was away
on holiday, was found burnt out on
June 3. Mr Whall claimed that the car
Johnson also got WhatsApp
messages from Saudi prince
Steven Swinford
Boris Johnson communicated with
Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s
crown prince, over WhatsApp, it was
claimed last night.
The allegation comes after Prince
Mohammed was accused of being
involved in the hacking over WhatsApp
of a phone owned by Jeff Bezos, the
billionaire owner of Amazon.
A forensic analysis of the alleged
hacking has found that a phone belong-
ing to Mr Bezos was probably corrupted
by a file sent from a WhatsApp account
that purportedly belonged to the crown
prince in April or May 2018.
Within hours there was “an extreme
change” in the device’s behaviour and
the volume of outgoing data jumped.
It was claimed last night that Mr
Johnson had also been in contact with
Prince Mohammed on the app. Former
government sources told The Daily
Telegraph they believed that the two
men had swapped messages. One
source said that they were “99 per cent
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had been stolen. The vehicle’s GPS was
destroyed but information retained by
Jaguar Land Rover showed that two
nights before the attack the car was
driven to Mr Corrigan’s home and on to
Porth Dafarch beach, in what Mr
Rouch alleged was a reconnaissance. Terence Whall is alleged to have interfered with a satellite dish to get Gerald Corrigan to go outside his cottage on Anglesey
On the night of the shooting the car
was driven from Mr Whall’s home to
Porth Dafarch beach, where it re-
mained for about 90 minutes until
12.42am, about 12 minutes after Mr
Corrigan was hit. The system showed
that the boot was opened and closed
when the car arrived and before it left.
Mr Rouch said that Mr Whall walked
from the beach to Mr Corrigan’s home,
close to the coastal path. “He interrupt-
ed the satellite signal and, hiding
behind the wall, waited for Mr Corrigan
to exit his house,” he said. “When he did
so, he shot him.”
Mr Whall had owned two crossbows,
but claimed that he sold one to a
stranger last year and said the second,
bought online last April, was not deliv-
ered until after the shooting.
One of the largest suppliers of cross-
bows was said to have contacted police
offering to help after the death. Its
director provided a list of 17 people on
Anglesey who had bought a crossbow
from them in the past ten years.
The jury was told that records of on-
line purchases showed that Mr Whall
had ordered crossbow bolts on April 7,
two months after the date he claimed
he had sold the crossbow and almost
two weeks before Mr Corrigan was
the one that killed Mr Corrigan, the
prosecution said.
Mr Whall, of Bryngwran on Angle-
sey, denies murder. He also denies
perverting the course of justice, along
with three other defendants, who are
alleged to have conspired to set fire to a
vehicle that was later found burnt out.
Martin Roberts, 34, Darren Jones, 41,
and Gavin Jones, 36, all with addresses
in Bangor, also deny perverting the
course of justice. The trial continues.
sure” they communicated on Whats-
App. The source said: “He [Mr Johnson]
certainly had his number and would
ping him the occasional message.”
Downing Street declined to com-
ment. Mr Johnson’s spokesman said:
“We are not going to comment on the
security arrangements of ministers.”
The United Nations called yesterday
for an investigation after it was con-
firmed that Mr Bezos received a mes-
sage taunting him about his collapsing
marriage from the crown prince’s per-
sonal phone before his extramarital
affair became public knowledge.
Mr Bezos had previously had warm
relations with the kingdom. However,
The Washington Post, which is owned
by Mr Bezos, strained relations when it
hired Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissi-
dent. Khashoggi was murdered in the
Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in
October 2018, months after Mr Bezos’s
phone was corrupted. Waves of tweets
from Saudi Arabia attacking Mr Bezos
and Amazon then began to spread.
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Grammar schools fail the top university test
Rosemary Bennett Education Editor
Grammar schools do nothing to boost
the chances of their pupils getting into
a top university, research suggests.
However, private schools do bring
some advantage, increasing the chan-
ces of youngsters taking a degree at an
elite Russell Group institution.
The findings come in a series of es-
says on grammar schools, published by
the Higher Education Policy Institute,
which examine the results of academic
selection both on those who went to
one and those who did not.
Alice Sullivan, professor of sociology
at the UCL Institute of Education, said
the vast British Cohort Study, which
follows the lives of more than 17,000
children born in 1970 who went to uni-
versity around 1990, made it possible to
look at all sorts of factors affecting
children’s educational outcomes.
A new cohort study is under way for
children born in the year 2000-01.
Overall 29 per cent of private school
pupils in the cohort got a degree from
an elite university, comprising the
members of the Russell Group, Bath
and St Andrew’s, compared with 12 per
cent of those who went to grammar
school, and 5 per cent who went to a
comprehensive school.
“One could infer from this that gram-
mar schools provided an important ad-
vantage in university entrance com-
pared to non-selective schools,” Profes-
sor Sullivan said. However, once the
figures were adjusted for “prior attain-
ment”, or academic ability, and social
and economic background, the results
were not so dramatic. “In other words,
private schools appeared to confer a
genuine advantage in the chances of at-
tending an elite university whereas
grammar school pupils’ chances were
comparable to those of comprehensive
school pupils with similar socio-eco-
nomic backgrounds and primary school
test scores,” Professor Sullivan said.
The original research the figures are
drawn from said higher aspiration in
the private school sector, both among
parents and schools, could provide
some explanation of why more pupils
end up at elite universities. It also spec-
ulated on “links between the universi-
ties and the private schools . . . partic-
ularly salient in the case of top universi-
ties such as Oxford and Cambridge and
a small number of elite private schools.”
Professor Sullivan said: “What these
studies demonstrate very clearly is that
expanding the number of grammar
schools is unlikely to increase levels of
educational or social mobility in this
country.”
Boris Johnson’s government is un-
Teenagers’ dream jobs
‘stuck in last century’
Rosemary Bennett
The aspirations of children have
changed little over the past 20 years
despite the technological revolution,
with teenagers still wanting to become
teachers, doctors and lawyers, a global
study has revealed.
The results suggest that large
changes to work in the 21st century
have had little impact, even on “digital
natives”, when it comes to choosing a
career path.
Their career expectations have be-
come even more concentrated in a few
occupations despite the proliferation of
new industries such as social media,
and technologies such as artificial intel-
ligence, according to a report from the
Organisation for Economic Co-opera-
tion and Development (OECD), which
is made up of 36 wealthy countries.
Traditional occupations such as the law
and the police continue to capture the
imaginations of young people.
The findings come from the latest
Programme for International Student
Assessment (Pisa) survey of 15-year-
old children in 79 countries and
regions. It has caused concern that
career aspirations do not match the
jobs that will be created.
Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s
education and skills director, said: “The
surveys show that too many teenagers
are ignoring, or are unaware of, new
History a thing of the past
as Sunderland shuts faculty
Rosemary Bennett
Sunderland University has closed its
history faculty after only 14 students
chose to study the subject this year.
It will also close its modern langua-
ges department after no one enrolled
for its courses. The combined history
and politics degree will also be with-
drawn after only 15 students signed up.
Research and postgraduate courses in
the subjects will also cease.
The university said the decision to
scrap the subjects was in line with a new
“career-focused, professions-facing”
approach. That was greeted with horror
by historians and linguists who said the
subjects were very much a good prepa-
ration for a large number of careers.
John Mowbray, chairman of the uni-
versity’s board of governors, said:
“While recognising the value of the
subjects the university is withdrawing
from, the board of governors agreed
that they do not fit with the curriculum
principles of being career-focused and
professions-facing.
“Nor are they of a size and scale to be
Thursday January 23 2020 | the times
derstood to have little interest in new
grammars, concluding they do little for
social mobility given most places go to
middle class children.
There are 163 grammar schools in
England, collectively teaching about
167,000 children who are selected
based on academic ability shown in
tests taken at age 10 or 11.
Research, also at UCL, has already
begun on the next birth cohort study. It
has found that at age 14 there was “no
benefit to young people of attending
grammar school” in terms of academic
performance, teenagers’ attitudes to-
wards school, their self-esteem or
future aspirations.
types of jobs that are emerging, particu-
larly as a result of digitalisation. It is a
concern that more young people than
before appear to be picking their dream
job from a small list of the most popular
traditional occupations, like teachers,
lawyers or business managers.”
Gender continues to exert an influ-
ence on career aspirations, the report
said. Among students who scored high-
ly in the Pisa tests, it was overwhelm-
ingly boys who expected to work in
science and engineering.
The top ten occupations cited by boys
has changed very little since 2000,
although girls are now more likely to
want to be architects, police officers or
designers rather than hairdressers,
writers or secretaries.
The findings will also lead to con-
cerns that careers advice given in
schools is out of date, with advisers
perhaps unaware of the sorts of jobs
that will become available.
The Education and Employers char-
ity has called for a significant expan-
sion of career-related learning in Brit-
ish primary schools to address the dis-
parity between aspiration and
opportunity in the labour market. Nick
Chambers, its chief executive, said:
“Our vision should be of a world where
employer engagement is an everyday
element of schooling, from the first
years of primary school to the last days
of upper secondary.”
educationally viable in the medium to
long term, given the competition from
other institutions.” About 34 academic
staff will be affected.
History has declined in popularity
over the past decade. The decline in
languages is well documented. The
number of universities offering modern
foreign languages has dropped by
40 per cent over the past 15 years.
Sunderland recently opened a medi-
cal school and is planning to expand
programmes related to medicine, phys-
iotherapy and occupational therapy.
Education courses will also be
expanded, along with those related to
the arts and creative industries. Work is
also under way to develop courses “that
provide clear routes into employment”.
Nick Hillman, director of the Higher
Education Policy Institute think tank,
said he expected to see increased spe-
cialisation in universities, which would
inevitably mean courses closing down
— so that “the sorts of changes going on
at Sunderland reflect the wider envi-
ronment universities are operating in
and may represent the start of a trend”.
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ALAMY

Finding the words

Terry Jones was diagnosed

with primary progressive
aphasia, a rare
neurological syndrome
which is a subtype of
frontotemporal dementia.
The condition affects
the frontal or temporal
lobes of the brain, home to
the tissue that is crucial for
speech and language,
which causes these areas
to shrink. People have
difficulty expressing their
thoughts, finding the right
words or understanding
Pythons pay tribute the meaning, and
remembering the names

to Terry Jones, their for objects.

Initial symptoms tend to
start gradually and can be
master of the absurd marked by a deterioration
in grammar and inability
to understand complex
Jones as the

T
erry Jones,
who helped
to redefine
comedy as
part of Monty
Python’s Flying Circus,
has died at the age of 77
(Jack Malvern writes).
His fellow Pythons led
tributes to the man with
a gift for making others
laugh who was latterly
robbed of his speech by
a rare form of dementia.
“It feels strange that a
man of . . . such endless
enthusiasm should have
faded so gently away,”
John Cleese, 80, tweeted,
adding: “Two down, four
to go,” a reference to
Graham Chapman,
who died in 1989.
Michael Palin, 76, said
he had been impressed
by Jones’s “dark, Welsh
intensity” when the pair
met at Oxford in 1963.
“He was very keen on
being Welsh, although
he unfortunately spent
much of his early life in
Esher in Surrey — you
couldn’t get more
suburban,” he said. He
added that Jones was not
only one of the funniest
writers and performers
of his generation, but
“the warmest, most
wonderful company you
could wish to have”.
Eric Idle, 76, said: “It’s
too sad if you knew him,
but if you didn’t you will
always smile at the many
wonderfully funny
moments he gave us.”
Arguably Jones’s
greatest achievement
was as director of Monty
Python’s biblical parody
Life of Brian, in which
he played, among other
roles, a naked hermit
and the central
naked hermit in
sentences. Sufferers can
Life of Brian
also pause more
(1979) and as Mr
frequently while speaking.
Creosote in The
As the condition
Meaning of Life
develops, it becomes hard
(1983); with his
to create the right sounds
fellow Pythons;
to form words, sometimes
and, below, with
leading to speech
his second wife,
sounding nonsensical. It
Anna Soderstrom
can eventually affect
memory and
movement and end
character’s mother, who Soderstrom, his second to Alison Telfer. in a total inability to
admonishes a crowd of wife, by his side. His Although he and Dr speak, write and
her son’s followers with family said: “We have all Telfer divorced in 2012 understand written
the eternal words: “He’s lost a kind, funny, warm, after 43 years of or spoken
not the messiah, he’s a creative and truly loving marriage, the two language.
very naughty boy.” He man whose individuality, re-established a It can
also co-directed 1983’s relentless intellect and friendship when cause
The Meaning of Life, in extraordinary humour his illness set in. problems
which he played Mr have given pleasure to She would have with
Creosote, a grotesquely countless millions across him to stay everyday
obese diner who explodes six decades.” His work every other tasks
after capping his meal “will live on forever” they weekend at such as
with a wafer-thin mint. added . their old using a
Jones, who had three Jones had two family home. phone or
children, died on children, Sally and Bill, Obituary, pages w
writing
Tuesday with Anna from his first marriage 52-53 an email.
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‘Abuse’ teacher
was accused
in previous job
David Brown
A teacher arrested for sexually abusing
a pupil was able to find a new job at a
primary school where he committed a
series of similar offences against young
girls, a court has been told.
Jonathan Clayton’s new head teacher
was “shocked and horrified” when she
was told of the allegations made two
years before the supply teacher was ac-
cused of sexually assaulting six girls at
her school, Teesside crown court heard.
An eight-year-old girl at his first
school claimed he put his hand up her
skirt while at his desk. The case was
dropped after her mother said she some-
times made up stories for attention.
His new school should have been told
about the accusation. Checks on Mr
Clayton, 27, were the responsibility of
Vision for Education, an employment
agency, the court was told.
Mr Clayton, from Carlton, Stockton-
on-Tees, denies 13 charges of sexually
assaulting six girls aged 7-11 between
April and May last year. He says he is a
victim of “Chinese whispers”.
The girls said he would touch them
while helping them to dress after PE,
even though they had not asked for
help. He touched girls as they stood at
his desk, leaving one alleged victim
“feeling disgusting”, the court was told.
The trial continues.
Parkinson’s isn’t a disaster,
sufferer tells his idol Ozzy
Lianne Kolirin
As Ozzy Osbourne comes to terms with
his Parkinson’s diagnosis, he may take
comfort from one of his fans. Matt
Eagles has told his hero that his four
decades with the disease has been a
tough gig — but not a catastrophe.
Mr Eagles, who was diagnosed at the
age of seven, wrote an open letter
yesterday to Osbourne, 71, after the
former Black Sabbath singer revealed
he was suffering from the degenerative
disease.
“Dear Ozzy, as the Prince of Dark-
ness I know you’ve had some rough
times, particularly in the last year or so,”
he wrote. “Parkinson’s diagnosis is a
tough gig . . . however, it isn’t a catastro-
phe. With a strong family around you,
with the humour you share and the love
you have . . . you can do this!”
Mr Eagles, 51, who classes Black
Sabbath’s Paranoid as “one of the most
iconic songs on the planet”, told
Osbourne and his wife, Sharon, that the
public perception of Parkinson’s was
out of date.
“Guys — don’t google Parkinson’s —
[it] sends you to the Wikipedia page
with an old guy in slippers hunched
over. This image is over 140 years old.
Parkinson’s doesn’t discriminate
between ages, races, sexes or religions.
It is my lifelong goal to change the
world’s perception of this neurological
disorder and with your help we can do
this together! There is no shame in Par-
kinson’s. It just presents us with differ-
ent challenges each day! Keep moving,
keep rockin’.”
Mr Eagles said that although his con-
dition meant he struggled with tasks
such as dressing, showering and shav-
ing, he considered himself a “positivity
Ozzy Osbourne was sent an inspiring
message of support by Matt Eagles
activist”. The nature of Parkinson’s
means symptoms constantly evolve
and worsen, but thanks to pioneering
brain surgery in 2006 Mr Eagles still
has a good quality of life.
When not working full-time in com-
munications, he runs Parkylife — a
website that helps to “fight Parkinson’s
with positivity”.
He said: “I work 24 hours a day, seven
days a week but I love it so much. I’ve
even had the Parkylife logo tattooed on
my leg. I want it to be my legacy.
“I don’t set out to be inspiring. People
are inspired because I get out and do
stuff and I’m not afraid to fall in public”
— something which he says he does up
to ten times every day.
His wife, Viv, who lives with him in
Cuddington, Cheshire, is a big support.
“I honestly never believed anybody
would want to get married to me,” he
said, describing her as his life-saver.
Paul Jackson-Clark, from the Parkin-
son’s UK charity, said: “While a Parkin-
son’s diagnosis can be life-changing,
Matt’s a shining example from the com-
munity of how it doesn’t have to limit or
define you.
“His positive attitude to his condition
and life in general is a great source of
inspiration, not only for the 145,000
people living with Parkinson’s and their
family and friends, but to the world.
“By sharing his story through Parky-
life, Matt’s helping to increase under-
standing of the sometimes brutal real-
ity of this serious condition.
“Globally, Parkinson’s is the fastest
growing neurological condition so the
need for new and better treatments is
more urgent than ever. If Parkinson’s
UK is going to reach our goal of finding
a cure, we need people to take notice.”
Women’s army
war veteran
dies aged 108
Lucy Fisher Defence Editor
A woman believed to be the oldest
British female veteran of the Second
World War has died aged 108, the
Women’s Royal Army Corps Associa-
tion has said.
Gladys Anne Logan Robson, who
was known as Anne, lived through the
tenure of 21 British prime ministers,
four monarchs and both world wars.
Born in Duns in the Scottish Borders
on September 14, 1911, with the maiden
name MacWatt, she lived through the
suffragette movement and saw the rad-
ical advance of women’s rights.
She trained as a physiotherapist
before becoming a teacher in the 1930s.
Serving as a physical training in-
structor in the auxiliary territorial ser-
vice (ATS), she rose to the rank of
senior commander (major) as assistant
inspector ATS physical training. “It was
a huge job that involved co-ordinating
teams in Scotland, England and Ger-
many,” she told a magazine last year.
In her later years she recalled the end
of the war fondly and was said to have
had “a naughty twinkle in her eye”
when remembering the VE Day
celebrations in 1945.
Mrs Robson was the oldest member
of the association, which provides
support to more than 3,000 female
army veterans.
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Make us pay higher taxes — we can afford it, demand billionaires
Callum Jones Trade Correspondent
Billionaires and millionaires are de-
manding to pay more tax because they
are among the “most privileged” people
who have ever lived.
More than 120 wealthy celebrities
and business people urged their peers
to step up and call for tax increases
across the world “before it’s too late”.
Identifying themselves as “members
of the most privileged class of human
beings ever to walk the Earth”, they
claimed that tensions caused by eco-
nomic disparities were at crisis level,
resulting in erosion of trust within soci-
eties, increased resentment and the un-
dermining of basic social cohesion.
In an open letter addressed to “our
fellow millionaires and billionaires
across the globe”, they lamented a “pre-
cipitous” decline in tax receipts from
ultra-wealthy individuals and corpora-
tions. They added that tax avoidance
had reached “epidemic proportions”.
Signatories included Richard Curtis,
the screenwriter; Simon Pegg, the ac-
tor; Abigail Disney, the film-maker and
granddaughter of Roy Disney, who co-
founded the entertainment company
with his brother, Walt; the retail tycoon
Julian Richer, of Richer Sounds; Rich-
ard Reed, co-founder of Innocent
Drinks; and Paul Polman, former chief
executive of Unilever.
“There are two kinds of wealthy
people: those who prefer taxes and
those who prefer pitchforks,” the letter
said. “We prefer taxes. And we believe
that, upon reflection, you will as well.”
The international campaign —
launched to coincide with the World
Economic Forum in Davos — was co-
ordinated by Patriotic Millionaires, a
US-based campaign for higher taxes on
the wealthy, and Human Act, an orga-
nisation that tackles extreme poverty.
Tax increases were the “only appro-
priate way” to provide societies with ad-
equate funding, according to the signa-
tories, who described philanthropy as
“an inadequate substitute for govern-
ment investment”.
They cited research suggesting that
close to a tenth of the world’s gross do-
mestic product was hidden in tax ha-
vens and about 40 per cent of foreign
investment passed through empty cor-
porate shells.
Pegg, who appeared in and co-wrote
Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, said:
“We live in a world where just 22 men
have the same wealth as all 325 million
women in Africa combined.
“It’s a responsibility for all of us who
are fortunate enough to be wealthy to
do our bit, pay our fair share and make
sure people struggling to survive have a
better chance at building a better life.”
Thunderer, Simon Pegg, page 28
DENIS BALIBOUSE/REUTERS

Bring world
back from the
brink, Charles
urges business
Philip Aldrick Davos
Steven Swinford Deputy Political Editor
The Prince of Wales has urged business
and political leaders to bring the planet
“back from the brink” and emphasised
the importance of the next decade in
his strongest warning yet on the threat
of climate change.
Prince Charles said “the time to act is
now” in a keynote address at the World
Economic Forum at Davos before
meeting the environmental cam-
paigner Greta Thunberg.
“We are in the midst of a crisis that is
now, I hope, well understood,” he said.
Prince Charles met Greta Thunberg
after making his keynote speech
“Global warming, climate change, the
devastating loss of biodiversity are the
greatest threats humanity has ever faced
and one largely of our own creation.”
He called on the private sector to
seize the initiative by mobilising invest-
ment and innovation to build a
profitable green economy. “Do we want
to go down in history as the people who
did nothing to bring the world back
from the brink?” he said. “This is why I
need your help, your ingenuity and
your skills to ensure the private sector
leads the world out of the approaching
catastrophe.
“Everything I have tried to do over
the last 50 years has been done with our
children and grandchildren in mind
because I did not want to be accused by
them of doing nothing. Now, of course,
they are accusing us of exactly that. We
cannot waste any more time.”
Downing Street refused to endorse
his claim that the world was facing a
“climate crisis”, however. “The prime
minister has been clear that there is a
huge climate challenge,” a No 10
spokesman said.
Charles, 71, met Miss Thunberg, 17,
after his speech. As they appeared
before the world’s media, she remarked
to the prince: “I guess you’re very used
to this.” He replied: “This has taken
many years to get used to.” She told him
that she was “still not used to it”.
The prince said: “With 2020 being
seen as the superyear, kick-starting a
decade of action for people and
planet . . . I intend to do my utmost to
ensure that the message of urgency,
systemic change, collaboration and
integration is heard.”
His call for the private sector to invest
trillions of dollars in sustainable pro-
jects comes as climate change leaps up
the corporate agenda. Several large
companies have made commitments to Charles gave his speech under a stylised version of the heraldic badge of the Prince of Wales, ostrich feathers in a coronet
reduce or eliminate their carbon foot-
print, including Microsoft and the drug that catalyses sustainable markets.” our market systems.” His call to arms hurled fireworks and bottles as part of a
company Astrazeneca. Across the world, fossil fuel subsidies came 24 hours after President Trump protest against the Davos meeting.
Charles said that taxes and regula- are three times as large as renewable called activists such as Miss Thunberg Three people were arrested, one person
tions needed to be reformed: “Public incentives. The prince said: “Reorienta- “prophets of doom”. was injured by fireworks and a police-
policy has a role to play. It is time to tion of economic subsidies, financial Last night Swiss police used water man was taken to hospital.
think about how we properly deploy incentives and regulation can have a cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas to David Aaronovitch, page 27
taxes, policies and regulation in a way dramatic and transformative effect on subdue demonstrators in Zurich who Boeing is out, pages 38-39

Google boss: Artificial intelligence will do more for humanity than fire
Richard Fletcher Davos
Artificial intelligence will be more pro-
found for humanity than fire and elec-
tricity but must be developed to benefit
everyone, the owner of Google has said.
Sundar Pichai, chief executive of
Alphabet, told the World Economic
Forum in Davos that global leaders
must make sure that AI “did not have
bias, that it was built and tested for
safety and that it was ultimately ac-
countable to people”. “AI is one of the
most profound things we’re working on
as humanity. It’s more profound than
fire or electricity,” he said. “It has tre-
mendous positive sides to it, but it has
real negative consequences,” he said.
“You think about technologies like
facial recognition . . . it can be used to
find missing people. But it can also be
used for mass surveillance.
“Take radiology. There are often
times cancer gets missed and the differ-
ence in outcomes is profound. We know
we can use AI to make it better.”
Mr Pichai, 47, said that the world
needed to agree on common standards
to ensure the technology developed to
the benefit of all humanity. “AI is no
different from climate,” he said. “You
cannot get safety by having one coun-
try or a set of countries working on it.
You need a global framework.”
Experts believe that artificial intelli-
gence will disrupt economies across the
world and displace millions of low-
skilled jobs as increasingly sophisticat-
ed software comes into use.
Mr Pichai, who has been Google’s
chief executive since 2015 and was pro-
moted to lead Alphabet last month, also
spoke about the potential for quantum
computing. “What is exciting about
quantum computing is it will allow us to
understand the world in a deeper way.
We can simulate nature.” He warned,
however, that over the next five to ten
years quantum computing would
“break encryption as we know it”.
Asked by Klaus Schwab, founder of
the World Economic Forum, what kept
him awake at night, Mr Pichai said: “I
worry that we turn our backs on tech-
nology. I worry when people do that
they get left behind. It is our duty to
drive this growth in an inclusive way.”
Alphabet is one of the world’s biggest
companies, valued at $1 trillion. It owns
several companies developing AI.
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GERAINT LEWIS/REX; TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE

The actress Tilda Swinton

Scene is set is backing a bid to raise
£3.5 million to buy Derek
to save late Jarman’s beach house. The
garden was an inspiration
director’s for him and other artists

beach idyll before we reached Lydd

that he would buy it.”
The house and the

T
ilda Swinton
recalled her
friendship with
the late film
director
Derek Jarman yesterday
as she led efforts to
secure his beach house
for the nation as an
artists’ retreat (Jack
Malvern writes).
The actress, whose
first film was Jarman’s
Caravaggio in 1986,
appealed for donations
to raise £3.5 million to
safeguard the house and
garden on the shingle in
Dungeness in Kent,
which has become a site
of pilgrimage for garden
lovers.
The Art Fund, a
charity that secures art
for the public, needs to
raise the money by
March 31 to buy the
house and set up a
scheme to maintain it.
The charity has secured
almost half of the
money from grants,
including £750,000
from the National
Heritage Memorial
Fund, but is relying on
the public for about
£1.8 million.
Swinton, 59, said that
she had seen Prospect
Cottage for the first time
in 1986 as she and
Jarman sought a
bluebell patch for a
filming location. She
told Jarman that she
remembered a bluebell
wood in Kent. “We
pottered down in my
ramshackle little car
and found a housing
estate in its place. A
little disheartened, we
headed for the coast.”
They skimmed stones
before turning back to
drive to London. “We
saw a small black
painted wooden house
with yolk-yellow window
frames on the left hand
side of the road facing
the sea. It had a ‘for sale’
sign stuck in the stones
at its feet.”
Jarman, who had
received an inheritance
garden became a source
of inspiration for his
work, and for artists who
dropped by. In Derek
Jarman’s Garden, his
final book before his
death in 1994, he
described his rejection
of conventional
gardening advice. The
garden has had
thousands of visitors
including Sir Paul
McCartney.
Jarman left the
cottage to his partner,
Keith Collins, who died
in 2018. Collins wished
the house to be left to
the public but wanted to
leave a legacy for his
husband, who has
survived him. If the
fundraising falls short
then the house will be
sold privately.
Stephen Deuchar,
from his late father and director of the Art Fund,
was seeking a refuge said that Jarman was
from London, knocked “one of the most
on the door and was influential figures of late
invited in for a tour. 20th-century British
As they returned to culture” and that the
London, Swinton house would inspire
recalled: “Derek decided future generations.

‘Weinstein asked actress to hotel Family judge

room for audition and raped her’
Will Pavia New York
An image of Harvey Weinstein flashed
on a television screen at the front of the
court room in Lower Manhattan. He
was on a red carpet. Another snap
showed him at a party with Bill Clinton.
“He was a powerful producer, living a
lavish lifestyle that most of us will never
know,” Meghan Hast, an assistant
district attorney, told the jury. “You will
come to learn what most of us would
never want to know.”
Thus began the trial of Mr Weinstein.
Pictures of the former movie mogul
behind Shakespeare in Love were
followed by headshots of the young
women who alleged that he had
sexually assaulted them and details of
sexual violence.
“Meet Miram Haleyi,” said Ms Hast.
Born in England, raised in Sweden, an
abused child, she had left home “at an
early age” and began working as a
Harvey Weinstein claims that all
the relationships were consensual
production assistant. In July of 2006
Mr Weinstein’s driver brought her to his
Manhattan loft for what she thought
was a meeting and sexually assaulted
her despite her protests that she was on
her period, Ms Hast said.
The jury was shown a photograph of
Jessica Mann, “a 27-year-old aspiring
actress from Washington state” who met
Mr Weinstein, now 67, in Los Angeles.
Ms Hast said that in 2013 the producer
invited Ms Mann to a hotel bedroom for
an audition and raped her.
The two women’s allegations form
the basis of the charges against Mr
Weinstein. Another rape allegation,
from 1993 or 1994, too long ago to allow
for charges in itself, have been made by
the actress Annabella Sciorra and were
used by prosecutors seeking to prove a
pattern of predatory sexual assault.
They met at a restaurant and Mr
Weinstein then dropped her home. She
was about to go to bed when she heard
a knock at her door. Ms Hast said Mr
Weinstein barged in, pushed Ms
Sciorra on to her bed and raped her. She
woke the next morning “with her night-
gown wrapped around her,” Ms Hast
told the court.
The prosecutor also outlined the
stories of three other women. One of
them, Dawn Dunning, would recall
being brought into a hotel room, aged
23, to find Mr Weinstein naked, loom-
ing over the contracts for three roles he
told her she could have “if you have a
threesome with me and my assistant,”
Ms Hast said. The assistant, whose
name was Bonnie, “looked down,
clearly embarrassed,” the prosecutor
said. “’This is how the industry works,’
he screamed at her,” as she fled, Ms
Hast said. “How do you think other
actresses get ahead?”
Ms Hast said Mr Weinstein selected
his “prey” carefully. “He used his power
and prestige in the entertainment in-
dustry to ensure their silence,” she said.
Damon Cheronis, for the defence,
said the relationships Mr Weinstein
had were consensual and showed the
jury the texts of affectionate emails that
Ms Mann had sent him.
He could face life in jail if convicted of
predatory sexual assault and rape. The
trial is expected to conclude in March.
criticised for
assault ruling
Jonathan Ames Legal Editor
Catherine Baksi
A High Court judge said yesterday that
her colleagues in the family courts
needed training after one ruled that a
woman could not have been raped by
her partner.
Ms Justice Russell said that a family
judge had made a “flawed” ruling when
he said that a victim had not been raped
because she did not fight back.
Judge Robin Tolson had been asked
to rule last August in relation to access
arrangements for the couple’s child,
aged four, after they separated. Judge
Tolson found in favour of the father’s
request for more time but the mother
appealed. Yesterday, in a written judge-
ment, Ms Justice Russell said that the
ruling was flawed and the dispute
should be sent back to the family court.
She criticised Judge Tolson for ex-
pressing a view “that a complainant
must and should physically resist pene-
tration, in order to establish a lack of

Italian backpacker in court over stud farm death
Will Humphries
Southwest Correspondent
An Italian backpacker accused of mur-
dering a worker on a stud farm has been
pictured for the first time.
Luigi Palmas, 26, is alleged to have
killed Kate Bevan, 53, in the yard of
Combe Farm, Gittisham, Devon, on the
evening of January 3. He had been at
the Arabian horse breeding farm for
about three weeks after being recom-
mended by an Italian friend who had
spent time there. Mr Palmas appeared
before magistrates in Exeter yesterday
on a charge of murdering Mrs Bevan on
January 3 and also an assault occasion-
ing actual bodily harm on January 20.
Patrick Moore, the chairman of the
magistrates, told Mr Palmas through an
interpreter that he would be remanded
in custody and sent to Exeter crown
court for a preliminary hearing next
month.
It had initially been believed that Mrs
Bevan was crushed by a bull she was
looking after. However, after a post-
mortem examination on Saturday
Luigi Palmas is
accused of killing
Kate Bevan, 53
police arrested Mr Palmas on Monday
on suspicion of murder.
Mrs Bevan, who had a day job as a
stock manager at the Vale Veterinary
Group, had been living at the farm,
which is next to The Pig hotel at
Combe, for the past year after splitting
from her husband, Michael.
The farm is a well-established stud,
which has been run by Michael Harris,
68, for 40 years. He judges Arabian
horses nationally and internationally
and was director of the Royal Stud of
Oman. He said that the arrest of the
man, one of many live-in volunteers
and backpackers working at the farm,
was a complete shock.
Last month Mrs Bevan published a
book, Knowing Daisy, about her experi-
ences at Combe Farm.
consent”. She also criticised his noting
that after the alleged rape the mother
“took no immediate action to report the
matter to the police, or indeed to any-
one else”. Many victims do not do so.
Police records showed that the
mother had reported domestic abuse
on several occasions and had to go to
live in a refuge in 2016.
Judges in family cases are not
required to undergo special training for
handling sexual assault allegations,
even though they are often made in
such cases. Ms Justice Russell said she
had discussed the issue with the presi-
dent of the family division, who would
make a formal request to the Judicial
College for training to be introduced.
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Police get £1bn More than 100 people,

and their bearded collies,
were in Dorset to hunt
for Arran, below, who

cash injection
was missing for two days

in biggest boost
for a decade
John Simpson Crime Correspondent
Police forces will receive their biggest
cash injection in a decade with an
increase in funding of more than
£1 billion paid for in part by tax rises.
Priti Patel, the home secretary, said
that forces would get nearly £900 mil-
lion from the government to hire 6,000
officers, tackle violence and combat
organised crime.
Ms Patel also said that elected police
commissioners would be free to in-
crease the policing element of council
tax to raise up to an additional
£248 million nationally.
The injection of money means the
total policing budget for the coming
financial year could reach £15.2 billion.
The proposition is complicated
because commissioners will be stand-
ing for re-election in May, and many
officers tackling the crime blighting our
streets so people can feel safe in their
communities. The police must now
make full use of this significant invest-
ment to deliver for the public.”
While the additional funding, partic-
ularly for extra officers, has been wel-
comed, there have been warnings
about the capacity within police forces
to train new recruits.
An estimated 45,000 new police offi-
cers are needed to ensure that the re-
cruitment drive delivers on its promise
of increasing the workforce by 20,000.
The Police Federation for England
and Wales praised the move to increase
funds but called for an overhaul of the s
said she thought
police funding formula, which it said
was too short-term and made it difficult
Collie comrades c
th number of
the
collies wandering
for forces to plan.
The federation also pointed out that come to the rescue a
around
a
alerted
the town
locals to the
much of the additional money had s
search.

I
are likely to balk at the prospect of already been announced, including the n the days after search and trying Fellow bearded
raising taxes while campaigning. funding for additional officers and the Madeleine Fear’s to alert one of c
collie breeder Mary
The spending pledge represents a extra cash for counterterrorism. prized bearded collie their own. There B
Busby, 60, a
significant reversal of Conservative John Apter, the federation’s chair- bolted during a walk were over 100 b
biomedical scientist,
austerity measures over the past man, said: “Boom-and-bust, short- on Sunday morning people looking m
made an 80-mile
decade in response to year-on-year term, one-year financial settlements do and disappeared, the for Arran, even r
round trip from
rises in crime for the past five years. not work, and forces shouldn’t have to breeder grew increasingly late at night in F
Fareham in
According to the announcement, the operate on a ‘hand-to-mouth’ basis. desperate (Emma the woods. One H
Hampshire. She said:
money includes £700 million to recruit The government has admitted the Yeomans writes). man had an “
“The bearded collie
6,000 officers. This forms the first funding formula is outdated and must So, in scenes infrared camera, b
breeders community
phase of the 20,000 pledged over the urgently address this. reminiscent of One another had a drone.” ver close so whenever
is very
next three years to replace an equiva- “Over the last decade the police ser- Hundred and One Ms Fear, 34, said that been accepted for this something awful happens
lent number lost since 2010. vice has been hit hard by budget cuts Dalmatians, in which more than 40 dogs and year’s Crufts. “Even we all band together.
The central funding also includes and it needs more than a one-year cash dogs all over England plot their human companions though it was minus 6C “I would like to think
£150 million to fight organised crime injection to put things right. So, this in- daring deeds through a descended on Verwood, one night we slept in our they would do the same
and crack down on internet child abuse, crease is welcome, but it must be the network of night-time Dorset, to join the hunt cars because we were so thing if something ever
as well as £39 million allocated to tack- start of long-term genuine investment barking, Ms Fear called and the distinctive shaggy desperate to find him. happened to my dog.”
ling serious violence, including £20 mil- in policing.” on an army of bearded collies barked constantly Without the sheer Bearded collies are a
lion for county lines drug dealing. Roger Hirst, finance lead for the collies to help reunite her in the hope that Arran volume of people breed of herding dogs
Earlier this week the government Association of Police and Crime Com- with six-year-old Arran. would respond to the searching for Arran he developed in Scotland,
announced a £90 million increase in missioners, said that the funding an- She said: “We are a familiar sound. would not have been where they were bred to
funding for counterterrorism, bringing nouncement was welcome, adding: very close community as One owner and their found,” she said. withstand bitter weather
its overall budget to £906 million. “We need to focus on bringing crime only about 200 bearded pet made a 160-mile After two days of and tough terrain. They
Ms Patel said: “This government is down and this settlement will mean collies were born last round trip from searching, Arran was are known for their long,
delivering on the people’s priorities by police and crime commissioners can year. The bearded collies Guildford, Surrey, to located in a neighbour’s fluffy hair and their
giving policing the biggest funding invest more into policing to tackle were barking during the search for Arran, who has back garden. Ms Fear energetic personality.
increase in a decade. It will mean more crime and keep our communities safe.”

Gangs hiding knives in playgrounds MP loses bid for anonymity

John Simpson
Street gangs are increasingly stashing
knives in parks, playgrounds and other
public spaces in response to additional
police stop-and-search measures, a
senior officer has said.
A machete, combat knives and
swords were found in one children’s
play area in Islington, north London,
during a series of weapons sweeps by
officers in recent weeks, Detective
Chief Superintendent Lee Hill said.
The weapons are being found on a
daily basis in London as the capital’s
murder rate continues to rise despite
the national figure starting to fall last
year. The murder rate in London rose to
149 last year from 133 in 2018 and
officers admitted yesterday that tack-
ling it was a “huge” challenge.
Asked if there was a link between in-
creased use of stop-and-search and the
number of weapons found, Mr Hill said:
“It’s difficult to say with any certainty
that is the case, I’ve no doubt that does
play into it. Obviously with the increase
in stop-and-search, people come alive
to that, that’s the reality of the situation,
and we are seeing more weapons being
concealed.”
Scotland Yard is under pressure to
show that measures taken over recent
years have been effective and the force
said yesterday that it would renew its
focus on violent crime in 2020.
Although some indicators, such as
gun violence, have improved, violence
with injury increased last year, as did
overall knife crime offences and
robbery. Knife crime with injury and
knife attacks on victims under 25 both
fell.
Three weapons sweeps took place
over a week in the Crouch Hill area, to
the north of the Islington borough.
Eight knives were found hidden,
several of which were in a playground.
Mr Hill added: “These knives could
have fallen into the wrong hands;
worse, they could have been acquired
by young children.”
Merseyside police, which received
£4.2 million extra government funding
to tackle violent crime, has also record-
ed an increase in the number of con-
cealed weapons found in open spaces.
Mark Simmons, an assistant
commissioner with the Metropolitan
Police, insisted that the force is taking
the right action to try to bring the num-
ber of murders in the capital down, but
acknowledged the scale of the task.
Speaking at Scotland Yard, he said:
“The challenge remains huge for us in
terms of how we take the next step in
tackling violence.”
One hundred officers have been
moved into teams targeting violent
crime from other parts of the Met.
As well as targeting areas that are
known hotspots, investigators are
focusing on about 200 known crimi-
nals.
Commander Jane Connors said:
“They are a range of habitual knife
carriers, prolific robbers, prolific violent
offenders, so it is a range of different of-
fenders within that who we believe are
causing the highest harm and exploit-
ing young people, driving violence.”
in sexual harassment case
Sean O’Neill Chief News Correspondent
A Labour MP failed yesterday in an
attempt to keep his name secret during
legal proceedings in which he is ac-
cused of sexual assault and harassment.
Mike Hill, the MP for Hartlepool
since 2017, has been accused of groping
and inappropriately touching a woman
who worked in the House of Commons.
He asked the Central London
employment tribunal to impose an
anonymity order, which was op-
posed by the complainant and The
Sunday Times, which has previously
reported the case. Judge Oliver
Segal rejected the request.
Mr Hill, 56, who strongly
denies the allegations, was
suspended from the parlia-
mentary Labour Party in
Mike Hill denies groping
a Commons worker
September but had the whip restored in
October. He said it had been reinstated
after the complaint was withdrawn.
The woman has denied dropping the
allegation.
The woman spoke to The Northern
Echo on the eve of the general election
after Jeremy Corbyn had campaigned
alongside Mr Hill in Hartlepool. She
said: “The Labour Party should not
have reinstated him until this was
investigated fully. They have
completely misconstrued what I
said.”
Labour said last year that it
took “all complaints of sexual
harassment extremely
seriously” and pursued
appropriate disciplinary
processes. The woman
said after the hearing that
she was pleased that
“justice is going to be
seen to be done”.
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Python had to
shed his skin
Having ticked off Graham
Chapman for dying on the eve of
Monty Python’s 20th anniversary in
1989 — “The worst case of party-
pooping I have ever seen” — Terry
Jones waited a full three months
after the programme’s golden
jubilee before he too, to quote a
Python sketch, rang down the
curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir
invisible yesterday. Jones directed
The Life of Brian, in which
Chapman was cast as the mistaken
messiah on the grounds he looked
the part, but found a flaw when
filming the scene where a naked
Brian addresses his followers. Jones
pulled Chapman to one side after
the first take, coughed and said: “We
can see that you are not Jewish.” It
was corrected for the next take with
a rubber band, an innovative twist
on the director’s cut.
top of the popes
Sir Anthony Hopkins, Oscar
nominated for playing Benedict XVI
in The Two Popes, does more than
act, drink Fanta and speak Latin in
it. He also plays the piano and the
tinkling is all his own. It was
supposed to be Mozart but Hopkins
2G M
TMS
asked if he could play a lullaby by
Smetana “as he had a much darker
life”. It was only later, when the
producer sought permission to use
it, that they discovered the music
did not publicly exist. It had been
composed by Hopkins himself.
Jonathan Pryce, his co-star, suspects
he was after the royalties.
Boris Johnson is accused of avoiding
tough interviews, preferring
soft-soap online inquisitions from his
adoring fans. That description was
apt yesterday when a member of the
public, entranced by the PM’s locks,
asked what shampoo he used. “I
honestly don’t know,” Johnson
replied, unable to think off the top of
his head. “It’s blue.” Vidal Buffoon?
foxes make believe
As Laurence Fox continues to
dabble with politics, his cousin
Emilia also ponders a career away
from acting. “I’d be very happy
working in a garden centre,” she tells
Saga magazine. “I’d love that.” She
also wonders if she should be
digging up corpses professionally
rather than merely pretending to, as
she has for 15 years. “I’d like to go
back to studying,” she says. “I could
have become an actual pathologist
in the time I’ve been on Silent
Witness if I’d put my mind to it.” At
least the next Foxes are making wise
career choices. “I’m pleased to say
my little girl doesn’t want to be an
actor,” says Fox, left. “She thinks it’s
too early to get up in the morning.”
briers family business
Nepotism only gets you so far in
acting. Lucy Briers, whose dad,
Richard, was arguably more
popular than any Fox, also went
into the family business. She tweets
that the worst audition she ever had
was when the director told her she
wasn’t attractive enough to be in his
movie. “It was set in a Japanese
prisoner-of-war camp,” she sighs.
John Northey’s entry for our series
on amusing phrasing by estate agents
comes from a newspaper in the
Midlands advertising a house that
boasts “two lavatories for busy
periods”. It may have said something
for the owners’ diet that the house
was called Windrush.
patrick kidd
Inspector flees as staff
ignore school fire alert
Neil Johnston Midlands Correspondent
Ofsted inspection day is always a stress-
ful prospect, but staff at a school in
Birmingham probably hadn’t counted
on a fire breaking out — with the
inspector trapped inside.
As the inspector struggled to open
the emergency doors, he was confront-
ed by teachers who were ignoring the
fire alarm, insisting that it was a drill.
Management at the Birmingham
academy had hoped to open a school
for 70 vulnerable children. Approval at
the site in Smithfield House, Digbeth,
seems unlikely after the watchdog also
found rat-infested floors, exposed wires
and an abandoned shopping trolley.
Dan Owen, the Ofsted inspector who
led the survey, said in a pre-registration
report this week that a fire alarm went
off in a kitchen on the ground floor.
“The leaders of the proposed school
suggested that this was a drill and that
evacuation was not necessary,” he
wrote. “The inspector decided to leave
the building.”
Mr Owen said that the inspector
tried to go down the stairs but struggled
when several adults were going in the
other direction, ignoring the alarm. He
then tried to open two sets of fire doors.
“The fire doors, which should allow
easy escape, were either locked with a
padlock, tied up with electrical cable
from the inside and boarded up from
the outside or could not be opened easi-
ly,” the report added. “The main door
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was secured by a magnetic lock and
could not be immediately opened from
the inside by the inspector. The build-
ing was not properly evacuated. As a
result, the premises were not safe . . . the
on-site inspection was terminated.”
Inspectors on the third floor of the
building pulled a window off its hinges
and noticed staples holding peeling
wallpaper. They found exposed wires
and evidence of rodents. One window
on the third floor was so wide that a
pupil could fall through it.
Mr Owen said that he could enter
derelict floors where he faced “serious
hazards” that posed a risk to the “highly
vulnerable” pupils that the proprietor
proposed to educate.
Inspectors on the school’s ground
floor found more peeling wallpaper and
exposed wires, and no medical room or
fire escape routes were provided.
Upstairs the building was in a “state
of dereliction and posed serious haz-
ards to pupils”, the report said. Inspec-
tors found evidence of water damage,
collapsed ceilings, a shopping trolley
and low-dangling light fittings. There
was also “mouldy food” and “signs of
rodent activity”.
Ofsted said that the school was un-
likely to meet the required standards
and the management was criticised for
not noticing that the premises posed
serious risks to pupils.
Empire Coaching Academy, the
group behind the proposed school, did
not respond to requests for comment.
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News Politics

Low-skill migrants won’t

be spared new visa curbs
Steven Swinford Deputy Political Editor
Low-skilled workers in sectors such as
construction and social care will not be
exempt from new immigration rules
after Brexit despite staff shortages, Priti
Patel has told ministers.
The home secretary made clear at
cabinet on Tuesday that there would be
no “carve-outs” under the points-based
system. Although people in “shortage
occupations” may be given more points
under the Australian-style system,
there will be no guarantee that they will
be able to enter the UK.
There have been warnings that Brit-
ain will face a shortage of social care
workers if care homes are unable to re-
cruit enough staff from overseas. Min-
isters have also said that foreign con-
struction workers should be given spe-
cial treatment to ensure that Boris
Johnson’s pledge to “level up” the coun-
try with £100 billion of infrastructure
investment can be met. However, Ms
Patel is said to have warned that ex-
emptions for certain sectors risked un-
dermining the new migration system,
which she said should be “simpler and
fairer”. There are concerns that the
present system is so complex it has be-
come a “lawyer’s paradise”.
“The immigration rules have become
a real spaghetti mess,” a cabinet source
said. “Even the judges think that’s the
case. Priti was arguing that we need a
much clearer rules-based system. She
doesn’t want a system with carve-outs
all over the place.”
The prime minister is prepared to
scrap the £30,000 minimum salary
threshold for migrants after Britain
leaves the European Union in an at-
tempt to ensure that the UK can attract
the “brightest and the best”.
The government has announced
plans for NHS visas to allow doctors,
nurses and other health professionals
fast-tracked entry into the UK. How-
ever, similar schemes will not be intro-
duced for other sectors.
Nadra Ahmed, chairman of the
National Care Association, said: “With-
out us the NHS would struggle even
more than it does currently. Some of
the challenges that the NHS faces are
that they cannot find anywhere to
transfer people to post-intervention.
Social care workers should be included
in the NHS visa system.”
Danny Mortimer, chief executive of
NHS Employers, which represents
health bosses, said: “Future immigra-
tion policy, whatever form it takes, must
allow health and social care to recruit
from overseas at all levels.
“An effective immigration policy is Boris Johnson was in his customary
essential if we are to provide the health
and social care services that people ex-
pect and deserve. We would like to see
social care roles awarded additional
points under the proposed system.”
Quentin
Under Mr Johnson’s plan migrants’
earnings will be taken into account as
part of their application to enter the
Letts
UK. Other criteria could include En-
glish proficiency, educational qualifica-
tions, occupation and willingness to
Breathless
work in particular areas of Britain.
During the election campaign, Mr
Johnson said that migrants would be is-
Boris urged
sued with one of three visas under his
government. Those with “exceptional
talents” such as “violinists, nuclear
to get out
physicists, prima ballerinas” would be
allowed to come to the UK “simply
because of what they contribute”.
Skilled workers, including NHS staff,
his plunger
could come if they had a job lined up
and met the points requirement. Both Political Sketch
groups would be allowed to settle.
A third group of unskilled workers
would be granted short-term visas in
sectors where there were shortages if
they can amass sufficient points.

The Migration Advisory Committee,
an independent body, will publish a re-
port next week on how the new system
would work and the government is ex-
pected to publish its white paper in
March. The aim is for the system to be
introduced at the end of the Brexit tran-
sition period in December.
The government is also axing a tem-
porary extension of the present rules
until 2023 that would have let tempo-
rary workers continue to come to
the UK. The extension was promised by
Theresa May and had been demanded
by business groups. However, the gov-
ernment is said to believe it would be
out of keeping with its pledge to “take
back control” of Britain’s borders.
T
he moment prime
minister’s questions
ended, Boris Johnson was
up and away. He grabbed
his folder, clutched it to
his tummy and launched off in the
direction of the rear double-doors.
The health secretary, Matt
Hancock, was first to pull into his
slipstream, following close on
Boris’s heels. He’s good at that, Mr
Hancock.
A pace behind came the Scottish
secretary, Alister Jack, one of
those amiable, slightly day-dreamy
senior officers happy to appear
close to the boss but hope not to be
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boisterous mood at PMQs but seemed unsure of his brief. A question from Caroline Nokes led to uproarious laughter
infected too much by his work ethic.
Boris was moving fast and had
almost passed the Speaker’s chair
when he remembered he must nod
to the Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle.
And so he screeched to a halt and
reversed a few inches, which meant
Mr Hancock went crump. Mr
Johnson shot a thumbs-up at Sir
Lindsay, grunted a few words and
bowed, all in one moment. Old black
and white films sometimes have that
sort of speeded-up, jerky quality.
Mr Jack, while walking, had been
gazing to one side, moonily
acknowledging some onlookers, and
there was a concertina of colliding
limbs. Then Boris was off again, and
the followers had to straighten
themselves and scurry to keep up
with him. Through the swing doors
he sped — bouff! — with his
shoulders hunched, head down, nose
twitching at the thought of some
lunchtime trough. Had he been a
cartoon character he would have
had little circular puffs of velocity at
his heels.
His life these heady days is
conducted at a bewildering lick. He
bowls down parliamentary cloisters
with the force of an Underground
train approaching a station.
Members of his retinue have no
need for keep-fit classes — they are
kept breathless by the blond
maniac’s hurtling pace. It is as if he
is galloping bareback on Areion,
winged horse of Olympus, pushing
its flowing mane out of his face as
he eyeballs his destiny.
All of this may create an
impression of executive fury but it
may not last. Keeping up such a
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pace will exhaust him. He will also
make mistakes. In his PMQs
appearances so far there has been
little evidence of the sort of
intensive preparation that made
Thatcher, Blair and Cameron strong
parliamentary performers. At
present this does not matter because
his opponent is Jeremy Corbyn and
nobody is taking much notice.
Perhaps inevitably, Mr Corbyn has
put in a couple of decent
performances. Yesterday he asked
about lower-paid bakery workers
and universal credit. Mr Johnson
evaded the question shamelessly and
resorted to a low jibe about how the
JESSICA TAYLOR/UK PARLIAMENT
Conservative benches were
grateful that Mr Corbyn was so
useless. It was far from clear that
Mr Johnson understood the ins
and outs of universal credit.
For the moment, that does not
matter to his Commons troops.
There may come a time when it
will.
Ian Blackford, for the SNP, came
a cropper when he attacked the
government on Brexit and said
that “Scotland said no and we
meant it”. Everyone was quick to
grasp that Scotland also said no to
independence in 2014 — and
presumably meant it. Mr Johnson
had an easy hit with that but he
also started reeling off various
statistics about the Scottish
economy in such a jabbering,
staccato manner that he sounded
mad. Slower, mon ami. Slower.
The session later descended into
very English farce. Caroline Nokes
(C, Romsey & Southampton N)
fretted about the waters of the
Solent being gummed up with
algae. There was a blockage in the
system, she cried, and “I urge my
Right Hon Friend to get out his
plunger”. The rest of Ms Nokes’s
question was inaudible for
laughter. Tim Loughton (C, East
Worthing & Shoreham) was eating
a jelly baby and it went down the
wrong way. On Ms Nokes’s other
side, Karen Bradley (C,
Staffordshire Moorlands) fanned
herself and shuddered. Ms Nokes
turned pink but Boris was unfazed.
A Tory grande dame was asking to
see his plunger? Happens most
days of the week.
Second candidate
through in race to
be Labour leader
Oliver Wright Policy Editor
Jess Phillips has endorsed Lisa Nandy
in the Labour leadership race, saying
she was the best placed candidate to
“win back the trust of the electorate”.
Ms Nandy, the MP for Wigan, has
cleared the threshold to get on the
ballot paper after receiving the support
of the Chinese For Labour group.
Ms Phillips, who pulled out of the
leadership race on Tuesday, said she
would make Ms Nandy her first prefer-
ence, followed by Sir Keir Starmer, 57.
“Jess will be backing the candidates
who she thinks can bring the party to-
gether and win back the trust of the
electorate,” a spokesman said.
Chinese For Labour, while a small
group, secures Ms Nandy’s place on the
ballot as she has been backed by three
affiliates of the party. She was endorsed
by the GMB this week and the National
Union of Mineworkers last week.
The deadline to gain enough support
(33 local parties or three affiliates) is
February 14 and while Rebecca Long
Bailey is expected to garner enough
backing to join Sir Keir and Ms Nandy,
Emily Thornberry faces a tougher task.
The shadow foreign secretary said she
would make it into the ballot.
Ms Thornberry, 59, said she had
warned Jeremy Corbyn he would be
defeated by Boris Johnson in an elect-
ion held before Brexit was resolved. “I
did see it coming,” she told The Andrew
Neil Show on BBC Two. “I warned in
shadow cabinet and I wrote to Jeremy
and I’m afraid that letter now reads like
a prophecy.”
Ms Thornberry also said she would
not scrap the Trident nuclear deterrent
and defended sending her son to a par-
tially selective school. “As a mother, I
will never apologise for doing the best
for my kids,” she said.
Ms Nandy, 40, in her first significant
policy speech of the campaign, called
for a fundamental change to the tax and
welfare system. She said capital gains
tax should be changed so that income
from shares, property and gifts were
taxed at the same rate as marginal
income. This would increase tax rates
from 28 per cent to either 40 or 50 per
cent depending on earnings. She also
Civil service chief to step
down as overhaul looms
Oliver Wright
The chief executive of the civil service is
to step down before an expected reor-
ganisation of Whitehall.
Sir John Manzoni, a former BP exec-
utive, will leave this year, which the
government said had been planned for
“some time”.
However, his departure is expected
to coincide with a wider shake-up of
government priorities being led by
Boris Johnson’s chief adviser Dominic
Cummings. Mr Cummings is critical of
Whitehall’s ability to complete big pro-
jects and attract staff with science and
data skills into senior roles.
Sir John was brought into govern-
ment by David Cameron in 2014 to
shake up project management and pri-
oritise commercial skills in Whitehall,
but that project fell down the political
agenda after the EU referendum as
ministers prepared for Brexit.
Last month Mr Cummings criticised
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promised to ditch the government vow
to raise the national insurance thresh-
old, saying the money should be spent
on reversing benefit cuts. She also
pledged to reform the Department for
Work and Pensions to give every per-
son a case worker to help them to navi-
gate the system.
Ms Nandy defended New Labour’s
record on introducing the minimum
wage and public investment, but
claimed that the party took only “small
amounts” from the rich. She said parts
of Margaret Thatcher’s political
approach were allowed to continue
under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
and needed reversing. “Tax is not an
evil. Tax is how we contribute to some-
thing bigger, better than ourselves,” she
said.
Ms Long Bailey, 40, has said that she
would take Labour in “completely dif-
ferent directions” from Mr Corbyn,
Lisa Nandy has the
support of three
Labour affiliates
amid criticism that she is the continuity
candidate in the leadership race.
The shadow business secretary dis-
missed claims that the outgoing leader
and his allies would still run the party if
she won. In an interview with the Daily
Mirror, Ms Long Bailey said: “Insinua-
tions have been made, ‘Oh these men
have been pulling strings in the back-
ground’. I’ve been proud to stand on the
policy platform that we’ve had. That’s
not to say I’m not a completely different
person from Jeremy because I am, and
I’ll take the party in completely differ-
ent directions.” She had given Mr Cor-
byn a score of 10/10 for his leadership,
but told the Mirror that Labour had to
recognise what it got wrong and that
the party “can’t get them wrong again”.
Last night Ms Long Bailey told the
BBC she had no Conservative friends in
parliament. She added, however, that
she thinks some of her friends outside
politics had voted Tory, and that in par-
liament she was “friendly to everyone”.
the failure of the civil service to hire
people with “deep expertise in specific
fields” and asked for applications from
data scientists, mathematicians and
physicists. His call infuriated senior
civil servants who said he had no power
to hire officials and that he had ignored
significant progress under Sir John.
A senior government source dis-
missed suggestions that Sir John’s
departure was linked with the arrival of
Mr Cummings in Downing Street.
They pointed out that he was on a five-
year fixed contract that ran out in
October and said Sir John had agreed
to carry on to minimise disruption
running up to the previous no-deal
Brexit deadline of October 31.
Sir John, 60, who was knighted in the
new year’s honours list, spent 24 years
at BP.
The Cabinet Office said: “As has been
planned for some time, Sir John
Manzoni will step down from his post at
some point this year.”
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As if royal life were not animated enough . . . Family Guy writer takes aim
Ben Hoyle Los Angeles
A satirical animated series about the
royal family is to scrutinise the monar-
chy from the perspective of the young
Prince George. It will have an all-star
cast voicing the Windsors and the
palace staff.
The Prince is the creation of Gary
Janetti, a writer and producer of Family
Guy, the long-running animated
comedy about a dysfunctional Amer-
ican family. The show has been com-
missioned by HBO Max, the streaming
service from the cable network behind
Succession and Game of Thrones, two of
the most popular drama series in recent
years about dynastic struggles and the
ruthless pursuit of power.
The series will follow Prince George,
six, voiced by Janetti, and his observa-
tions on the behaviour of family mem-
bers. Iwan Rheon and Lucy Punch will
voice the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge; Orlando Bloom and Condola
Rashad will play the Harry, Duke of
Sussex, and his wife, Meghan, and
Frances de la Tour and Tom Hollander
will provide the voices of the Queen
and the Duke of Edinburgh. Alan Cum-
ming will be Prince George’s butler.
Janetti has almost one million fol-
News
lowers on Instagram, where he often
pokes fun at the relentless hunger for
gossip about the royal family.
This week he fused the Sussexes’ de-
cision to give up their royal lives and the
hope that a public rapprochement
between Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston
during the Hollywood awards season
may lead to the former husband and
wife reuniting. Janetti juxtaposed a pic-
ture of Prince George apparently glan-
cing towards Pitt and Aniston while
they shared a friendly moment at the
Screen Actors Guild awards on
Monday. It was captioned: “Hey guys,
The new HBO Max show will feature Orlando Bloom as the voice of Prince Harry there’s an opening in the royal family.”
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Kate tells of
her isolation
as William
worked nights
Valentine Low
The Duchess of Cambridge has de-
scribed how she felt isolated as a first-
time mother when the family was living
in north Wales and the duke was
working nights as a helicopter pilot.
The duchess was speaking at a
children’s centre in Cardiff on the
second day of a tour to promote a
national poll on early childhood which
she hopes will “provide lasting change
for generations to come”. Later she
returned to the women’s prison she
visited in 2015, when she said she was
“shocked” at how much the inmates’
problems could be traced to childhood.
After talking to young mothers at the
children’s centre in Cardiff, she recalled
living in Anglesey when Prince George
was a “tiny baby” and William was
working with an RAF search-and-
rescue team.
“It’s nice to be back in Wales. I was
chatting to some of the mums earlier. It
was the first year and I’d just had
George — William was still working
with search and rescue and we came up
here and I had a tiny, tiny baby in the
middle of Anglesey. It was so isolated,
so cut off. I didn’t have any family
around and he was doing night shifts.”
The Duchess of Sussex yester-
day released photographs of a
visit to an animal shelter in
London two weeks ago.
The pictures, which ap-
peared on the Sussexroyal
Instagram account, are
the latest instance of
clashing campaigns. They
are understood to have
dismayed courtiers at
Buckingham Palace,
who normally co-
ordinate their work.
Meghan visited the
Mayhew shelter in north-
west London during her
brief return from Canada.
progress made throughout the festive Netflix has altered how it
period.” At the same time the @ken- counts viewers for shows Numbers up
singtonroyal account posted a video of such as The Crown. Filming
Kate promoting her survey. continues for the next Netflix gave only one
The study by Ipsos Mori on behalf of series with Emma Corrin example of how viewing
the Royal Foundation called “five big as Lady Diana Spencer figures changed under its
questions on the under-fives” is aimed new system: Our Planet
at improving understanding of the more than two minutes. rose from 33m to 45m.
importance of early childhood. This means a subscriber However, its data for both
During her visit to the children’s who abandons The systems gives a sense of
centre Kate talked to Rhi Logue, 29, as Irishman not long after the impact:
her 11-month-old daughter Eleanor the opening scene will Old system
covered herself in cooked spaghetti. Ms count just as much as
The Irishman 26.4m
Logue said she felt supported by the someone who makes it to
accounts in first four weeks
other mothers. “You can come here and the end of the 210-minute
tell people, ‘I haven’t slept’, ” she said. epic. Bird Box 80m in four weeks
“And everyone else is like, ‘I haven’t Netflix previously Sex Education (first series)
either!’ ” laughed Kate. “It normalises it. required account-holders 40m in four weeks
No one is going to judge you for it. And to watch 70 per cent of New system
it’s a social thing for you.” one episode, or 70 per
The Witcher 76m in four
Ms Logue said later: “We talked cent of a feature film, to
weeks
about post-natal depression and be counted as a viewer.
how hard it is to have a kid and how The change was You (second series) 54m in
important centres like this are.” revealed in a letter to four weeks
At Send Prison, near Woking in investors published The Crown 73m overall,
Surrey, Francesca told Kate that she alongside the company’s 21m for third series
started taking drugs and offending latest quarterly earnings.
after her parents separated. She said Sir David Attenborough’s
that through a Forward Trust pro- nature series Our Planet industry, casting doubts
gramme at the prison she had begun to was seen by 33 million on Netflix’s new-found
resolve issues going back to childhood. Netflix households under commitment to
“Coming to jail is one of the best things the old metric, but transparency.
that has ever happened to me,” she said. 45 million under the new The on-demand service
The duchess said: “Why does it have to system, indicating that has long been reluctant
get to that point before people receive 12 million switched off to share viewing data,
the help and support?” before watching much saying that it is under no
She told the women: “I’m hugely more than two thirds of obligation to release
passionate about trying to really an episode. figures because, unlike
help get into this crisis, trying to Netflix said that the old broadcasters, it has no
help provide that prevention methodology did not advertisers to satisfy.
mechanism and that support account for the wildly However, in the past
system in our communities.
Particularly that support in
the early years of life.”
Netflix retunes varying lengths of its
programmes. “This way,
short and long titles are
12 months it has started
releasing snapshot
ratings of its most
Among the former
offenders she met was Julie
Muir, who now works as
viewing figures treated equally,” the
company said, noting that
BBC iPlayer and
popular series, in part to
placate actors who want
reassurance that their
head of recovery at the
Forward Trust. She became
addicted to drugs after
to boost ratings YouTube calculated views
in a similar way.
It insisted that the two-
work has an audience.
In its fourth-quarter
report Netflix said that it

I
The caption read: “The family problems when a t’s the easiest way for the number of people minute threshold was had 167 million global
Duchess of Sussex popped teenager. Asked why most a television service who watch its series and long enough to indicate paying subscribers at the
in to see the amazing people ended up committing to boost its ratings: films, at a stroke lifting that viewers’ choice was end of last year, up from
people at Mayhew to hear crimes and going to jail, she change the way they audiences by a third. intentional and they had 158 million in September.
about the incredible replied: “It’s all to do with are counted From now on the not clicked on a The company’s revenue
trauma in the early years — (Matthew Moore writes). streaming platform will programme by mistake. for the quarter was
The duchess yesterday in parents separating, domestic abuse, Netflix has quietly define a “view” as anyone The manoeuvre raised $5.47 billion.
Cardiff, where she spoke of addiction, children not being given altered how it calculates who watches a show for eyebrows in the media Simon Duke, page 41
her time as a new mother the right emotional tools.”
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IN THE TIMES
T O M O R ROW Blood test to predict menopause
Kaya Burgess
A blood test could be used to predict
when a woman will experience the
menopause two years in advance,
scientists have said.
The results would show whether it
would be likely to happen within the
next 12 to 24 months and could
influence a range of health decisions,
researchers said.
BRICKS & MORTAR Immature egg cells in the ovaries
are surrounded by granulosa cells,
DOWNSIZE DOWNTON-STYLE which produce the anti-Müllerian
Live in a converted stately home hormone (AMH), helping the devel-
PULLOUT opment of the ovarian follicles from
which mature eggs emerge.
Scientists have found that measur-
ARTS ing the levels of AMH in a woman’s
blood can give doctors clues about
WHEN BAKE OFF MET BROADWAY how many eggs she has left. Women
Henry Bird talks to the actress and are born with a lifetime’s supply of
composer Sara Bareilles eggs and this decreases along with
PULLOUT
SPORT . . . as study finds breastfeeding can delay its onset
STUART BARNES
Kaya Burgess
What Umaga’s call-up tells us about
Eddie Jones’s new England The risk of an early menopause is
MAIN PAPER greatest in women who have never
had children, a study has found, sug-
gesting that pregnancy and breast-
BUSINESS feeding offer protection.
Researchers concluded that
DAVID WIGHTON women who had been through two
The climate change lobby is missing pregnancies lasting at least six
the smoking gun months had a 16 per cent lower risk
MAIN PAPER
of experiencing an early menopause
than those who had never been preg-
levels of AMH as they approach the
menopause.
“Establishing a way to measure
time to the final menstrual period
has long been the holy grail of meno-
pause research,” Nanette Santoro of
the University of Colorado Medical
School, one of the study’s lead
authors, said.
“Using bleeding patterns or previ-
ously available tests to predict the
time to menopause can only help us
narrow the window to a four-year
period, which is not clinically useful.
Women can make better medical
decisions with the more complete
information offered by new, more
sensitive anti-Müllerian hormone
measurements.”
Her team analysed blood tests
conducted on 1,537 women between
the ages of 42 and 63. These were
taken from a study called the Study
nant. It found that women who had
been pregnant three times had a
22 per cent lower risk.
Women with three children who
breastfed exclusively for between
seven and 12 months had a 32 per
cent lower risk than those with three
children who had breastfed for less
than a month.
The researchers said their work
was the first large study to look at the
link between breastfeeding and a
reduced risk of early menopause and
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of Women’s Health Across the
Nation in the United States, which
monitored women’s health as they
went through the transitional time
during which their periods ended
and the menopause began.
Their blood samples were tested
for levels of AMH and for follicle-
stimulating hormone (FSH), using
the most sensitive test developed for
AMH levels. The results showed that
it is possible to use AMH levels to
predict when a woman will have her
final period up to two years before it
happened.
“Researchers have long thought
AMH would be a superior marker of
the time to menopause, but tests
haven’t been sensitive enough to
detect the very, very low levels that
occur in the year or two leading up to
menopause,” Joel Finkelstein of the
Massachusetts General Hospital in
that it confirmed previous research
on the link between pregnancy and a
reduced risk.
Christine Langton, of the Univers-
ity of Massachusetts, said: “Our
breastfeeding findings not only add
new insight into ways to prevent
early menopause but they align nice-
ly with recommendations of both the
American Academy of Paediatrics
and World Health Organisation that
US women exclusively feed their in-
fants breast milk for at least six
Boston, another lead author said. He
added that the study “followed the
same women year after year from
well before menopause until well
after, to get the kind of data necessa-
ry to be able to demonstrate the
predictive value of AMH”.
The study was published in the
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and
Metabolism.
Researchers said that average life
expectancy for American women
had increased from 47 to 79 since
1900, but the average age of the final
menstrual period had only increased
from 45 to 51, meaning that women
now live for much longer after the
menopause.
They said that previous tests,
which analysed FSH levels, could
only “measure ovarian reserve
indirectly” and fluctuated through-
out the menstrual cycle.
months and continue breastfeeding
for up to one year.”
The NHS states: “Giving nothing
but breast milk is recommended for
about the first six months . . . After
that, giving your baby breast milk
alongside family foods for as long as
you and your baby want will help
them develop healthily.”
The study, published in the journal
JAMA Network Open, followed
more than 108,000 premenopausal
women aged between 25 and 42.
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Homeowners in Skipsea,
Help! Our in the East Riding of
Yorkshire, feel abandoned
homes are by officials as they watch
the sea eat away at their
falling into cliff-top properties

the sea along the shore is

vanishing at a rate of a
metre a month.

R
esidents Deborah Hawksley,
whose homes who has a holiday chalet
are at risk of in Skipsea, said the
tumbling into thought of losing her
the sea need cliff-top home was
government help, East utterly devastating.
Yorkshire councillors Ms Hawksley, 61, a
say (Emma Yeomans former opera singer, said
writes). that she felt abandoned
More than 200 homes by officials. “There are
on the Holderness coast times when the sea is
are expected to be lost hitting this cliff,” she
in the next century, with said. “Then you realise
24 likely to vanish in five it’s metres from your
years. home. And there’s
The East Riding nothing you can do.
council is calling on the Once this has gone, we
government to help lose our slice of
people who face having paradise.”
to pay thousands of Ms Hawksley said that
pounds to demolish their she would pay to
homes and move to demolish the home. But
another site. Monitoring she added: “What a
of the soft cliffs has terrible way to have to
found that one stretch spend your money.”

Ground down trying for a perfect coffee?

Tom Whipple Science Editor mouth mathematician who led the re- already had a serious go,” Dr Foster said
search, said. This makes sense: finer Behind the story — so he decided to rectify that.
Ask baristas for coffee-making advice, grains have more surface area exposed He and his colleagues worked out

T
and they will lean on their rustic pine to the steam. However, he found that he formula Coarsely ground how a ground coffee grain should be-
bar with a serious expression and give other factors are also in play. “The won’t on its Expert tips coffee will have less of have when exposed to steam and pres-
the same response: it is all in the grind, strength increases only up to a point.” own guarantee a body and be slightly sure. Then, for a paper in the journal
they will say, and the finer the particles, That point, typically, comes at a coarser a perfect cup 6 Measure your coffee more acidic thanks to Matter, they produced a model of the
the stronger the coffee. grind than is used in most espressos. (Emma Yeomans by weight, not volume, the shorter brewing behaviour of an espresso “bed”, the
Scientists have news that will send The findings imply that if you grind writes). as different grinds vary time as water passes container that holds the coffee in the
shockwaves around the most hipster of less you also need less coffee to achieve George Hood, a in density. through quickly. A machine.
coffee shops. For the optimal espresso the same taste. When they tried out barista with the 6 Grind just before longer brew will give When they tested the model in Bris-
baristas should, in fact, be grinding less. their recommendations in a coffee shop Colombian Coffee brewing. more bitter, even bane’s award-winning Frisky Goat
Through mathematical modelling in Oregon the results were impressive. Company, said: “The overdeveloped coffee; Espresso café, there was a surprise: “It
and experimental measurements, re- Over the course of a year the shop used most important part 6 Do not boil the water: the midpoint is where turns out the theory did really well, ex-
searchers have found that after a cer- 25 per cent less coffee — with its dis- is the coffee. If it’s a 91C to 96C is best. sweeter flavours cept for if you set the grinder too fine.”
tain point the more finely a coffee is cerning clientele none the wiser. basic filter coffee, you emerge. The coffee’s “If you overgrind your coffee, the
ground the less strong it is — and the There is a quote, attributed to the don’t want an roast also matters. “If small particles clog up,” Dr Foster said.
espresso it produces will be more in- Hungarian mathematician Alfred Ren- espresso grind, which bitter, try grinding it it’s lightly roasted, it “The water can’t reach those bits and so
consistent. yi, that “A mathematician is a machine is really fine. coarser. will be more acidic,” it’s wasted.”
The reason, they believe, is that finer for turning coffee into theorems.” Yet “Beyond that the “All the varieties we he added. “If it’s Espressos are notoriously difficult to
grains clump together and clog the despite the drink’s importance to the grind doesn’t really use are grown at high darker, like Italian produce consistently. He thinks this
flow. “Conventional wisdom is that if trade, mathematicians had never stud- matter as you can altitude, so are very varieties, it tends to may be why. “The clogging is an unpre-
you grind finer you get stronger coffee,” ied it. “It’s somewhat rare to find a prob- play with it. If it’s too acidic,” he added. be more bitter.” dictable and chaotic process. What you
Jamie Foster, the University of Ports- lem where mathematicians haven’t need is for the water to flow uniformly.”
the times | Thursday January 23 2020
Oxfam to cut
staff after Haiti
scandal leaves
£16m shortfall
Sean O’Neill Chief Reporter
Oxfam will lay off scores of staff as it
tries to fill a £16 million shortfall in its
budget, The Times has learnt.
It is the second big cutback in the two
years since employees were accused of
sexual misconduct in Haiti.
In a leaked memo to staff, Danny
Sriskandarajah, the chief executive,
warned of a “difficult time” and said
“the [budget] gap must be filled primari-
ly by reducing our core costs”.
Oxfam had income of £434 million in
the year 2018-19 but the memo says it
faces a deficit of £7 million for 2019-20
and a further deficit of £9 million in
2020-21 unless action is taken.
Mr Sriskandarajah said he would be
bringing forward plans to “review the
size and shape of Oxfam GB” and the
process would begin by reducing the
The Times
revealed
that staff
were using
prostitutes
in Haiti
number of senior managers. After the
Haiti scandal, when The Times revealed
a cover-up of serious sexual miscon-
duct, Oxfam cut 100 staff after
donations declined sharply. While
Oxfam shops last month had their best
Christmas in eight years, the memo
said that “this will not solve the finan-
cial challenges we face”.
The charity was forced to withdraw
from applying for new funds from the
UK aid budget and remains cut off from
that source of income until ministers
are satisfied that it has reformed its
safeguarding practices.
The memo says investment in “our
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TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP
compliance and assurance framework”
has been expensive but adds that
Oxfam has also been hit by factors
affecting the charity sector as a whole.
The Charities Aid Foundation’s 2019
report on donations found a “steady
decline” in people giving to charity
combined with a significant loss of trust
in charities. International humanitar-
ian organisations were also affected by
a reduction in donations for overseas
aid and disaster relief.
Mr Sriskandarajah said in a speech
last year that he wanted to make Oxfam
“less corporate and less wedded to our
brands” and hoped it would move
towards supporting the work of others
and become more of a campaigning
organisation.
Oxfam said it had brought forward its
review process because of cost pres- Burning bright An actor playing Robert Burns is illuminated by lanterns in St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh. This year Burns
sures and “the challenging environ- Night, Saturday, January 25, coincides with the Chinese new year, an alignment that won’t happen again for another 76 years
ment for charity fundraising”. The
Unite trade union said it was speaking
to the Oxfam management.
In his memo, Mr Sriskandarajah,
who took charge of Oxfam after Mark
Goldring resigned in 2018, said: “This
BBC top job may be unfilled for months
will be a difficult time for many. I am Matthew Moore Media Correspondent chairman of the National Gallery. If the strong external candidates should they
acutely conscious that some of you board selects an outsider this person wish to apply. Tim Davie, boss of BBC
have gone through multiple change The BBC could be without a permanent would have to serve their notice, leav- Studios, and Charlotte Moore, director
processes before, including the most director-general for months at the most ing the BBC without a leader just as the of content, are the BBC frontrunners,
recent one in 2018, and I know the sav- critical time in its history if an external government fleshes out its plans to re- although many staff support Bob Shen-
ings we have asked you to make have candidate is appointed, sources claim. form the corporation’s funding. No 10 nan, the ex-Radio 2 controller who is
already added to your workload.” Lord Hall of Birkenhead steps down has indicated it will seek to replace the now group managing director.
He said Oxfam had to change if it was this summer but the hunt for a replace- next director-general if they are not Meanwhile it was confirmed last
to respond to “big shifts in the land- ment has barely begun. A job descrip- committed to reform. night that Victoria Derbyshire on BBC 2
scape for international development”. tion is still being written and the advert Adding to the pressure, the first over- will be axed in cuts to news budgets re-
In its inquiry report on the Haiti is unlikely to appear until next month. 75s will receive demands for the licence vealed by The Times. The show, which
scandal, published last June, the Char- Applicants will be expected to pro- fee in June. Age UK has warned hun- began in 2015, won awards for its jour-
ity Commission condemned Oxfam for duce detailed visions for the national dreds of thousands of older people could nalism but failed to attract large ratings.
tolerating “a culture of poor behaviour” broadcaster and attend interviews or- struggle to pay utility bills if they are George Osborne, the former chan-
among some of its aid workers and is- ganised by the BBC nominations com- forced to find the extra £154.50 a year. cellor, told Today on Radio 4 that who-
sued an official warning over the mis- mittee led by its chairman Sir David Jay Hunt, the former BBC and C4 ever takes the job of director-general
management of the charity. The com- Clementi. Sources said that the board executive now at Apple TV, Alex must review the licence fee because
mission called on Oxfam’s bosses to de- was expected to name a successor by Mahon, the C4 chief executive, and Jane “relying on a way the BBC was funded
vise and implement a plan for change. the time Lord Hall leaves to take over as Turton, of All3Media, are considered 50 years ago is not going to work”.
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At the sharp end Fearless Connie Blacklaw, 5, at Tyrannosaurs, an exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Tougher rules to close driving ban loophole
Graeme Paton
A loophole that allows thousands of
motorists to escape a driving ban
despite accumulating 12 penalty points
could be closed.
The Sentencing Council is proposing
to recommend to magistrates a tough-
ening of rules that allow drivers to plead
“exceptional hardship”. It is claimed
that too many motorists are avoiding
bans often for “pitifully inadequate rea-
sons”. Figures obtained by Brake, the
road safety charity, show that more
than 10,000 drivers in Britain were still
on the road last month despite having
12 or more penalty points.
Joshua Harris, director of campaigns,
said: “These are dangerous repeat of-
fenders who have been granted ample
opportunity to change their driving be-
haviour yet continue to put lives at risk
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP
through their complete disregard for
the law.” In a consultation document
the Sentencing Council says that courts
“should be cautious before accepting
assertions of exceptional hardship”.
Last year Steve Coogan, the actor,
avoided a ban for speeding after
successfully arguing exceptional hard-
ship on the grounds that a new series
featuring his character Alan Partridge
could not be filmed on public transport.
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Struggling rail giant
could be nationalised
Graeme Paton Transport Correspondent
One of the country’s largest rail opera-
tors could be renationalised within
months because it is “not sustainable”,
the transport secretary said yesterday.
Grant Shapps said South Western
Railway, which carries 216 million
passengers a year between London,
Surrey, Berkshire, Hampshire, Wilt-
shire, Somerset, Dorset and Devon, was
making “significantly” less money than
anticipated and would be unable to
continue in its current form.
He has ordered the “operator of last
resort” — the state-owned rail com-
pany — to draw up detailed plans to
take over South Western. The current
operator, which is owned by a consort-
ium led by First Group, has also been
asked to submit alternative proposals
for the future of the network.
Mr Shapps is expected to make a
decision whether to bring the network
into state hands or award South West-
ern’s owners a new short-term contract
on different terms in the spring.
The move follows an admission from
South Western at the end of December
that it would collapse “within the next
12 months” after reporting an operating
loss of £137.8 million in the year to the
end of March 2019.
It blamed a combination of strikes
staged by the RMT union over the role
of guards combined with timetabling
problems and delayed track upgrades.
The government’s intervention
Thursday January 23 2020 | the times
raises the prospect that three out of 17
rail franchises in Britain could be rena-
tionalised despite widespread Tory
opposition to the policy. Renationalisa-
tion of the railways was a general elect-
ion pledge made by Labour.
The main intercity east coast fran-
chise was brought into public hands in
2018 after the private operator Virgin
East Coast effectively went bust.
The government has said that a
decision will be made by the end of this
month on whether to renationalise
Northern Rail because of a spike in
delays and cancellations on the line.
The prospect of renationalising so
many networks underlines the perilous
state of private train operators.
As well as Northern and South
Western, TransPennine Express,
Greater Anglia, Scotrail and West
Midlands Trains are believed to be in
trouble, mainly because of overly ambi-
tious financial targets drawn up when
contracts were awarded.
Many companies have subsequently
failed to make enough money, often
because of a national slowdown in
passenger growth, the delayed intro-
duction of new trains and the slow pace
of upgrades to the existing rail infra-
structure.
Under the Railways Act 1993, the
transport secretary has a legal duty to
ensure that passenger services con-
tinue running when a particular line
nears collapse, prompting the interven-
tion over South Western.
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also plenty that was

Prince or princess. . .
you will go to the ball
Anna Murphy
fashion director
more principal boy. A
stunning black evening
suit came haloed with
gypsophila-like
embellishment at
of Hubert de shoulder and sleeve.
Givenchy. One chiffon Another had been
and lace concoction had retooled into a fishtail
ruffles so extravagant as gown, the knee-length
to look like wings. And tuxedo worn over a

C
outure has
always been
the most
fantasy-fuelled
variety of
fashion and the nature of
those fantasies —
unmitigated as they are
— can be revealing.
What does the woman
for whom money is no
object want to wear in
2020? Does she still want
to be a princess, or is she
more interested in being
the prince?
Givenchy’s spring/
summer show gave her
options for both, with
gowns so gargantuan
they put the meh in any
mere meringue:
spectacular coalescences
of form and colour that
referenced the geometry
woe betide the woman floor-sweeping billow of
who tried to sit down in more black.
a pansy-strewn black Yesterday evening was
number that sported not the turn of an Italian
so much a bustle as a designer who is similarly
balloon. fearless when it comes
Just in case anyone to both colour and
had forgotten it was volume. Valentino’s
Givenchy that created Pierpaolo Piccioli threw
the Duchess of Sussex’s contrasting hues
wedding dress in 2018, together with his typical
there was also a bridal audacity, to wit an eau
froth of flower-appliquéd de nil bustier with long
lace. Kaia Gerber, Cindy red skirt and even
Crawford’s daughter, was longer fuchsia opera
the model charged with coat. Prints had an
manoeuvring not a mere orientalist feel, stylised
veil, but what might best goldfish and blossoms
be described as a animating ensembles
chrysalis. that were all about
Yet Givenchy’s British wowing after dark.
artistic director, Clare What’s clear is that the
Waight Keller, built modern couture
her career on her Valentino’s designs were all about wowing after dark, while Givenchy dresses customer still wants to
tailoring, so there was put the meh in any mere meringue. Franck Sorbier sent his models out on horses go to the ball.

Woman who halted gender

transition sues child clinic
Greg Hurst Social Affairs Editor
A woman who underwent gender re-
assignment treatment but has sought
to reverse the process is to lead a legal
challenge to practices at Britain’s first
NHS child gender clinic.
Keira Bell, 23, was in her mid-teens
when she was given hormone block-
ers and cross-sex hormones at the
gender identity development service
for children and young people run by
the Tavistock and Portman NHS
trust in north London.
She says she found the experience
so traumatic that she has since de-
transitioned and has become the fig-
urehead for a test case that seeks to
challenge the basis on which the
clinic obtains consent for treatment
for children, some as young as 12.
Yesterday Ms Bell, an unemployed
IT engineer from Cambridge, be-
came the most prominent claimant in
the case, which some lawyers believe
will be decided by the Supreme Court
and define the terms on which gender
reassignment treatment is granted
for children.
Her barrister, Jeremy Hyam, QC,
told the High Court that Ms Bell had
direct experience of the treatment
path offered by the clinic. She
argues that the clinic’s approach is
unlawful because the risks are not
adequately explained and children
cannot give informed consent to such
treatment.
Mr Hyam said: “She now very
seriously regrets the process and
Keira Bell took
drugs to change
sex in her teens
feels that the way it was handled
and her involvement in it was not
appropriate.”
The Times reported in October that
the case was originally brought by
Sue Evans, 62, from Beckenham,
south London, who worked as a men-
tal health nurse and psychotherapist
at the Tavistock in 2003-07 and who
said she became alarmed by the
speed at which children were
assessed and referred for hormone
blocking therapy. The second claim-
ant is the mother of a child who is
awaiting assessment for gender reas-
signment therapy at the clinic but
who opposes its approach.
Mr Justice Supperstone, renewed
an order giving anonymity to the
mother and child, who were referred
to as Mrs A and Child B, and ap-
proved the substitution of Ms Bell for
Ms Evans as a lead complainant.
In a statement after the hearing Ms
Bell said: “I do not believe that child-
ren and young people can consent to
the use of powerful and experimental
hormone drugs like I did.”
She added: “The treatment needs
to change so that it does not put
young people, like me, on a torturous
and unnecessary path that is per-
manent and life changing.”
The Tavistock and Portman trust
said its service had an international
reputation for being cautious, ob-
served national specifications and was
monitored by NHS England, adding:
“The service has a high level of report-
ed satisfaction and was rated good by
the Care Quality Commission.”

Sonos speakers are obsolete within months

Tom Knowles
Technology Correspondent
The speaker maker Sonos has been
criticised for announcing it will no
longer issue software updates for
older devices that were on sale less
than two years ago.
The American company’s products
are known for their high-quality
sound and ability to “speak” to each
other, allowing users to play the same
song in different rooms. Audiophiles
have spent thousands of pounds on
the loudspeakers, which cost £150 or
more.
The company said that from May it
would stop updating a number of
models released between 2006 and
2015, meaning that eventually some
of the devices may stop working. It
said the hardware had been “stretched
to its technical limits in terms of
memory and processing power”.
The change affects four models, in-
cluding the Connect: Amp and Con-
nect, which Sonos said would be re-
ferred to as “legacy products”. More
recent devices connected to them will
need to be separated to get their own
updates. Sonos said that customers
could trade in old speakers and de-
vices for 30 per cent off new ones.
Some of the models were being
sold as recently as 2018 and custom-
ers expressed dismay. Andy Powell,
an internet consultant, tweeted:
“Wait a minute, Sonos. I can either let
you brick my £400 speaker and send
it to landfill in exchange for 30 per
cent off a new one or keep it and I’ll
stop receiving updates to my entire
house full of your products. Are you
having a laugh?”
Executives at other tech compa-
nies also expressed surprise. Rick
Klau, a senior operating partner at
Google Ventures, said he had always
adored and recommended Sonos.
“Regretting all of that now,” he said.
Sonos said that it had to “take re-
sponsibility for helping [customers]
through the transition once products
near the end of their useful life”.
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Beat that: robotic heart aims to
win competition for £30m grant
Kaya Burgess
A robotic heart that combines soft arti-
ficial muscles with a patient’s cells
could end the need for transplants
within the decade, scientists vying for a
£30 million research grant say.
The British Heart Foundation is
offering its largest single grant to the
winner of its “big beat challenge” aimed
at reducing heart-related deaths.
All four shortlisted ideas announced
today are under development. They
include the robot heart, a potential
“vaccine” for heart attacks, a genetic
cure for inherited heart diseases and a
new generation of wearable sensors to
monitor patients.
Dutch researchers led by Jolanda
Kluin, of Amsterdam University, said
that by 2028 they will have developed a
long-lasting “robotic heart”, providing
an alternative to heart transplant for
those with end-stage heart failure.
Artificial hearts are usually made of
Drug flushes dormant HIV out of hiding
Tom Whipple Science Editor
Scientists have taken a “significant
step” towards a cure for HIV after find-
ing that they could flush the virus out of
hiding while it was latent in the body.
One reason HIV has been so hard to
cure is that even if it is prevented from
How it might look
Soft-robotic
material mimics
contractions
Wireless
charging
Bio-compatible
lining
Heart coated
with patient’s
own cells to
prevent rejection
plastic and have a short life. The new
heart will have a soft shell made of arti-
ficial muscles that “precisely mimic” a
natural organ and will be lined with
tissue grown from the patient’s cells to
prevent infection and rejection.
A project led by Hugh Watkins, of
Oxford University, aims to silence a
faulty gene that causes diseases of the
circulating in the body it can persist in
reservoirs in cells, disguising itself from
the immune system. This means that
people on modern antiretroviral treat-
ments can be non-infectious and
apparently unaffected but if they stop
the treatment the virus returns.
In two papers in Nature researchers
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JIM MARSHALL PHOTOGRAPHY
heart muscle and is the leading cause of
sudden cardiac death. He said that his
team can find “the first cure by correct-
ing the fundamental genetic defect”.
A third idea led by a researcher from
Cambridge University will create “3D
maps” of the fatty deposits that build up
in arteries and their genetic make-up.
He hopes that this will “lead to a new
wave of medicines and vaccines that
can prevent heart attacks and strokes”.
Lastly, Belgian researchers aim to
create a new generation of devices that
can be worn by patients at home to
track heart activity in daily life, saying
this could “transform diagnosis, moni-
toring and treatment” of heart diseases.
Professor Sir Nilesh Samani, of the
British Heart Foundation, said that
progress against heart disease was
taking “small steps forward every year”.
“What’s needed is a giant leap.
[Our] ‘man on the moon’ moment,” he
said. The winner will be announced
this year.
have demonstrated in mouse and pri-
mate trials that a drug can expose the
virus. Scientists used different methods
to reactivate it but this means that they
can now search for ways to kill it.
Richard Dunham, of Glaxosmith-
kline’s HIV division, said: “This is a Psychedelic furs The life of the photographer behind this image of singer Janis
significant step on a long road.” Joplin is explored in the film Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture, out next week
the times | Thursday January 23 2020
January crash diets are
a fat lot of good
Jenni Russell
Page 28
Trump v Thunberg is the battle of our age
We are increasingly incapable of tackling any problem without dividing into tribes and trying to trash the other side
David
Aaronovitch
@daaronovitch
D
avos 2020 started with the
heavyweight political
contest of the world,
Trump v Thunberg. The
battle between world views
could hardly be more physically
embodied. Pony-tail versus
improbable quiff, pink hoodie versus
expensive suit and stars-and-stripes
pin, meaty frame versus vegan wisp.
And on the sidelines the rest of us,
invited by partisans to take one side
or another on just about everything.
This is not a column about climate
change, but it starts there because it’s
the exemplar of how polarisation
may be driving us mad. Two
sentences in particular of the US
president’s Davos address stood out
to me. “These alarmists [climate
activists] always demand the same
thing,” he said, “absolute power to
dominate, transform and control
every aspect of our lives. We will
never let radical socialists destroy
our economy, wreck our country or
eradicate our liberty.”
At almost the same time as I was
watching a recording of this speech I
came across an article by the
intelligent left-wing activist George
Monbiot. He wrote: “If seeking to
defend life on Earth defines us as
extremists, we have no choice but to
own the label. We are extremists for
the extension of justice and the
perpetuation of life.”
Last summer Pew Research
published polling showing that in the
US there is a growing belief that
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man-made climate change is a big
threat. But it also clearly showed that
almost none of this increased belief
was happening among Republicans.
Eighty-four per cent of Democrats
were in the “major threat” camp,
with just 27 per cent of Republicans.
In America climate change is a
highly partisan left-right issue.
A visitor from space, looking at
this data with galactic impartiality,
might wonder at how odd this is.
Why would the threat or otherwise
from CO2 emissions be an
ideological question? It’s not as
though left and right literally
inhabited separate planets, subject to
different scientific laws.
Or perhaps the wonderer might be
a visitor from just a few years ago.
That was when these words were
addressed to the UN: “What we are
now doing to the world, by adding
greenhouse gases to the air at an
unprecedented rate — all this is new
in the experience of the earth . . . the
problem of global climate change is
Not since the days of
Stalin has science been
so ideologically driven
one that affects us all and action will
only be effective if it is taken at the
international level.”
Obama? European subsidy-junkie
or regulation-loving quangocrat?
Perhaps you’re way ahead of me. You
spotted my trap and know it was
Margaret Thatcher. Yet, 30 years on,
the most vociferous of those who
claim her political legacy have it
almost as an item of faith that Trump
is broadly right about climate change.
It’s a question of sides. In many
European countries the old social
democratic parties have faded and the
political momentum is behind the
Greens. As in this country, where you
stand politically is increasingly linked
to your education and age. Younger
“cosmopolitans”, for whom climate
change is a critical issue, are
internationalist in outlook and
socially liberal. As in the US, this has
a geographic dimension with such
voters seemingly concentrated in
cities and suburbs and in east coast
and west coast states.
Back at the time of that Thatcher
speech, though there was rancour
enough, there was a general belief in
the West and elsewhere that
something had been settled. We no
longer lived in a bipolar world where
everything had to be navigated
between two opposing stars. Those
were the halcyon days when the
establishment of Soros-funded
institutions in Soviet bloc countries
to help develop democratic habits
seemed a consensual act.
Not since the days of Stalin and his
pseudo-biologist Lysenko has science
been ideologically driven: viruses,
resistant bacteria, melting ice caps,
the challenge of massive
technological change are common
problems with common (if complex)
solutions. Yet increasingly everything
is treated as though it was a matter
for partisan contention. We find our
camp, locate our tribe and set about
the business of mutual reinforcement.
The leaders of the tribes gain their
positions by telling their audiences
how very, very right they are and
how very, very wrong are the others.
In this situation argument and
persuasion become lost arts. Large
branches of the Labour Party invite
fringe far-leftists to instruct their
members, where once these folk
were consigned to Workers’ Struggle
meetings in a small room above a
dingy pub. Rather than begin to deal
with the new reality, triumphant
hard Brexiteers concoct an argument
Comment
Greta Thunberg renewed hostilities
with Donald Trump at Davos this week
about Big Ben, their entire motive
being to rub the hated Remainers’
noses in their defeat.
Our cultural curators seek out
polarising characters to get us
fighting with each other rather than
trying to solve problems. You put an
actor on a political panel show, he
sounds off about stuff which he has
clearly never thought deeply about
before and, bingo, you have your
desired outcome — outrage. Now
Laurence Fox appears on everything.
And everyone is shouting at each
other. The tribes reinforce those
beliefs in their virtue and rightness
that they already possessed.
Polarised talk becomes polarised
action. When the primary school
curriculum changed in the past
people didn’t noisily picket their local
schools. Except maybe in some areas
of Northern Ireland. Now, in
Birmingham, they do. Meanwhile,
27
speakers are “no platformed” for
expressing opinions that the group
has declared inexpressible.
Somehow we must do better. Let’s
return to Monbiot. Let’s imagine that
activists set themselves the task of
actually persuading Trump
supporters in rust-belt states of the
case on climate change. That they
made it a priority. In that situation
embracing extremism is the last
thing you’d admit to.
Or let’s say that you want to
engage with older voters who you
might think are a bit racist, but who
Cultural curators find
polarising characters
to try to stir up anger
don’t believe they are. If that was
your brief would you go about it by
shoving placards in their faces?
And this goes both ways. That
Hillary Clinton won several million
more votes than Trump in 2016 is
important for conscientious
Republicans. They shouldn’t worry
about what happens if they lose in
2020, but what happens if they win.
The political structure increasingly
works against the country’s political
majority. The senators from Kansas
and Idaho might easily outvote those
from California, and the president
chosen by electoral college might
decide the future of the Supreme
Court, but they should remember
what happens when a system is too
obviously rigged against a majority.
I’m not the Archbishop of
Canterbury. I feel the tug of
partisanship and pleasure of self-
righteousness. But at some point, if
we’re to avert disaster, we have to
look at the folks in the other tribe
and really try to understand what we
have in common.
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Comment
January crash diets are a fat lot of good
A new book shows counting calories and switching to processed foods is wrecking our bodies
Jenni
Russell
@jennirsl
I
t’s new year, time for new diets
and new theories on why the
world is getting inexorably fatter.
Evenings out are not a lot of fun.
I am surrounded by friends
looking glumly into their water
glasses over dinner, refusing wine
and cheese, butter and steak, looking
anxiously at the apps on their wrists
to check whether they’ve hit 12,000
steps or 1,200 calories. Others decide
not to come out at all. Why be dull in
company when they could be
scourging themselves with a couple
of hours at Pilates or the gym?
Andrew Jenkinson is a bariatric
surgeon who has spent 15 years
studying this issue, treating people
who’ve been tortured beyond
endurance by trying to control their
weight. His agonised patients have
been reporting that they do what’s
recommended, losing weight on any
and every diet, only to gain it all
back and more. Jenkinson began to
wonder why. In his new book, Why
We Eat (Too Much), he’s concluded
that most official advice about diet,
exercise and health is wrong.
A calorie is not just a calorie,
regardless of where it is from. A
carbohydrate-based, low-fat, meat-
minimising regime, like the
government’s EatWell plate, is
wrecking our bodies. Saturated fat
Janice Turner Notebook
The tenants
who drove
Airbnb host
bonkers
I
asked a friend why she’d stopped
letting out her little garden
guesthouse on Airbnb and she
reeled off the types of maddening
tenant who, since they were
sleeping about 20 metres from her
home, she disliked but couldn’t avoid.
First were the rude ones who
never thanked her partner when he
carried their suitcases, including
some elderly South Africans who
moaned bitterly how they no longer
had servants at home. Then came
the cheapskates who booked a single
night only later to ask if it was OK
for them to hold a family christening
party in her garden. “So cheeky!
They want a venue for 50 people for
less than a hundred quid!”
She was also weary of “the
bonkers”: young (mainly Asian) lovers
who lived with their parents and
sought a brief private assignation. The
blinds would go down in the middle
of the afternoon then, a few hours
later, the flushed couple emerged to
from steak or butter does not make
us fat, and the processed vegetable
oils we’ve been advised to eat for
years are a terrible substitute.
“Eat less and exercise more” is
misleading and simplistic. That’s not
how bodies function. Low-calorie
diets are a disaster. They work in the
short term, only to rebound as the
body determinedly lowers its
metabolic rate and ups its fat storage
to protect against future famines.
Jenkinson wants solutions because
he knows how recent and
overwhelming the global weight
problem is. Obesity only began to
climb in the late Seventies, after
America produced guidelines
recommending diets low in saturated
fat, and the sugar, oils and processed
food in the world’s intake started to
soar. That’s what’s disrupting our
bodies’ inbuilt weight controls. Now
most of us live in obesogenic
Medical advances have
been nullified by
new lifestyle diseases
environments, fighting fatness,
surrounded by unnatural food and
plagued by newly widespread
diseases: high blood pressure, heart
disease, type 2 diabetes, depression
and cancer.
The consequence is that the life
expectancy for a working-class man
is 73, the same as for a Victorian man
once he had survived past the age of
five. Medical advances have been
nullified by lifestyle diseases which
our expensive healthcare system is
struggling to treat. The big question
wave a cheery goodbye, leaving my
friend to clean up the detritus. “Like
running a knocking shop.”
But the ones that finally made her
cancel her Airbnb listing were
elderly overseas mothers who
arrived ahead of a grandchild’s birth
but, for reasons of space or privacy,
were not invited to stay with their
adult child. These women languished
alone in this rented bolthole waiting
for a phone call. “My son is very
busy,” they’d say dolefully. My kind
friend often took pity on them,
organising sightseeing
itineraries. “But in the end,”
she says, “they were just
making me too sad.”
Fruit fool
T
hat one in 20
British people
believes potatoes and
parsnips grow on trees —
according to a report by the
Mushroom Bureau — is
seen as further proof of
how estranged we are
from nature. But it
reminded me of the first
time I saw a pineapple
in the wild. Such exotic,
ostentatious fruit, I’d
assumed, must grow
nestled in tall, swaying
trees similar to coconut
palms. I imagined lucky
pineapple tree owners
Jenkinson asks is: shall we simply
firefight? Or deal with the cause?
His key insight is that weight isn’t
chosen by our conscious mind. Our
bodies are designed to keep our
weight at a set point. That set point,
dictating how much fat we carry,
how hungry we feel and whether
our metabolic rate ratchets up or
down in response to diets or
overeating, is controlled by chemical
messages from our unconscious
brain. We can override those in the
short term but in the long term the
body’s insistent demands and
mechanisms always triumph.
That set point is decided by our
environment, history and genes.
People with thrifty genes, because
their ancestors survived inhospitable
environments, like Solomon
Islanders or the descendants of
transported slaves, will put on weight
more easily, as will the children of
obese mothers. Others will burn off
excess. In general though, the sharp
rise in sugar, carbohydrates and
unnatural fats has created a mass
disruption of that set point upwards.
Losing weight is not a matter of
willpower but of resetting it
downwards, changing the
environmental signals the body
receives. That’s what Jenkinson
prescribes.
His message is for individuals
wanting help, not industry or
government, who may block their
ears. It’s one of enjoyment, not
deprivation, summed up by “eat
more, rest more”. The first priority is
to slash insulin, which drives fat
storage. Sugar, corn and modern
bread are banned but he doesn’t
advocate the misery of a high-fat,
shinning up their trunks to harvest a
ripe fruit for breakfast.
Then, in Sri Lanka, I visited a
pineapple plantation and was
astounded to find each pineapple
grows upon a stubby knee-high stalk.
It’s just a big thistle! So incongruous,
like finding a Hollywood legend lives
in a Macclesfield Travelodge.
Pyjama police
W
omen who
wear floral
pyjamas in the
street were named
and shamed by
government
authorities in eastern
China armed with
facial recognition
technology and tasked
with eliminating
“uncivilised behaviour”.
As the owner of a
dozen pairs of cosy
pyjamas, which I wear
at all hours (albeit
indoors), I am aghast.
But also note that this
is how the surveillance
state spreads its reach:
by slowly insinuating
itself into irritating
everyday matters.
When I complained
that Sainsbury’s had
positioned a camera
over each self-
1G M
low-carb ketogenic diet. Potatoes
and rice are fine.
His next priority is to rebalance
our essential fats, omega 6 and
omega 3. Humans evolved to eat 3
and 6 in ratios of between 1:1 and 1:4.
Omega 3 is in green leaves and
vegetables, and anything that eats
leaves or algae, from cows to fish. It
cuts inflammation and keeps cells
flexible. But it goes off fast and has
no shelf life, so it has been ruthlessly
cut from modern foods and from
intensively farmed animals’ feed,
replaced by omega 6 from seeds like
rape and soybean, which increase
inflammation.
Jenkinson points out that countries
which still have high omega 3 ratios,
like Japan, have low obesity. But in
some western cities the ratio of
omega 3 to omega 6 is 1:50, meaning
almost none of the critically
necessary omega 3 is reaching our
cells. We must reverse that.
He wants us to make time for the
pleasure of preparing unprocessed,
home-cooked food; good meat, fish,
dairy and vegetables. Eating keeps
the metabolic rate high and the
rituals of having meals together
makes us happy. Resting and
sleeping more cuts stress and hunger
hormones. Exercising three times a
week, for 20 minutes, is vital, not to
work off food directly but to build
muscle, lower insulin and reduce the
set point for our weight.
He promises no incredible
solutions, no drastic fat loss, no
scourging or short-term January
misery, just a gradual improvement
in metabolic health, weight and
wellbeing over months and years. I
hope he’s listened to.
checkout till, people shrugged: surely
only shoplifters would object? The
latest phones can be opened with
your iris: so cool! If a crime is not
captured on camera we are outraged.
Where was the CCTV?
Now the Chinese use “smart
lampposts” not just on Hong Kong
demonstrators but to identify
spitters, jaywalkers or even people
who steal loo roll in public
bathrooms. Any high-resolution
CCTV footage can be run through
facial-recognition algorithms. Why
not use it to identify our own public
nuisances: litterers, pavement
cyclists, those who don’t clean up
after their dogs? The technology is
already here, while social media has
given us a taste for spiteful public
shame. China’s pyjama police will be
ours soon enough.
Moderately amusing
A
Corbynite conspiracy theory is
going around that Jess Phillips
only stood as leader to act as a
membership magnet, to attract
centrists back into the party who
would go on to vote for Sir Keir
Starmer. What a dastardly plot. Yet it
presupposes a level of organisation
Labour’s moderate wing hasn’t had
since the days of Blair — or it
wouldn’t be in its current mess.
@victoriapeckham
Thursday January 23 2020 | the times
Inequality will only
be tackled if the
rich are taxed more
Simon Pegg
Y
esterday I put my name to
an open letter inviting
millionaires and
billionaires around the
world to join the demand
for higher and fairer taxes on the
very wealthiest, and for international
reforms to stop tax dodging.
I joined 120 other people from eight
countries, including Paul Polman, the
former chief executive of Unilever,
and the director Richard Curtis, in
what at first glance seems an
antithetical move from people lucky
enough to have very high paying jobs.
I didn’t hesitate when asked to sign, it
was absolutely the right thing to do.
Inequality is not inevitable, it’s a
policy choice. It’s the product of
governments passing policies that
favour the very wealthy at the
expense of the less fortunate. New
estimates show that almost half of the
world’s population is trying to survive
on $5.50 a day or less, and that the
rate of poverty reduction has halved
since 2013. In the last decade the
number of billionaires has doubled.
This inequality is the driving force
behind both societal breakdown and
the very real climate crisis we face.
Fixing this broken economy might
feel too complex to many world
leaders, so let the millionaires help
get you started. Tax them. Tax them
more and do it now.
As people in this pay bracket, we
enjoy more power and privilege than
most. Wealth inequality entrenches
this: those who are already wealthy
accrue more wealth, such as profit
on investments, widening the gap
between themselves and those who
can’t afford to invest or save. This
limits equality of opportunity and
makes inequality worse.
Too often, the injustice of the
global economy is exacerbated rather
than ameliorated by tax systems. The
law in many countries is so full of
loopholes that a billionaire can
legally pay a lower rate of tax than
his assistant, and a multinational
company can pay less tax than a
corner shop. This may be legal but it
is still wrong.
Internationally, tax avoidance and
evasion has reached epidemic
proportions. Poor countries lose an
estimated $100 billion a year in tax
revenue. And when big businesses
and the super-rich don’t pay their
fair share of tax, everyone else pays
the price. As Oxfam argued this
week, a world in which 22 men own
more wealth than all the 325 million
women in Africa is unsustainable,
not to mention obscene. Those of us
who are in a privileged position
should contribute more, not less.
Our fractured world is repairable,
we can build a more equal society
where the richest contribute their
fair share. Our politicians must
govern in the interests of all, not just
those with the deepest pockets.
Simon Pegg is an actor, screenwriter
and producer
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Tussle with US over Huawei won’t end well
America is in the early stages of an economic cold war with China and Boris Johnson is caught in the crossfire
Gerard
d it was the continuing economic
Baker
@gerardtbaker
E
veryone loves a good
fairytale and Davos, where
each January the world’s
richest people come to tell
each other about their
commitment to equality and social
justice, is as good a place as
anywhere to enjoy the genre.
This year the simple moral fable
that held the denizens of the Swiss
resort in rapt attention was the story
of St Greta and the Great Orange
Monster. While Greta Thunberg,
the secular child-saint, was
castigating the world’s business and
political leaders for not committing
to carbon neutrality by next
Christmas, Donald Trump was
performing to a very different script,
denouncing “prophets of doom” and
hailing the economic nirvana that
has already arrived — at least in
the United States.
But if the dissonance between the
planet-destroying American
president and the self-designated
saviours of the world was the most
1G M
public disagreement on display here,
conflict between the US and China
that led most of the discussions in
the coffee houses and hotel suites.
For now at least, a truce has been
called in the trade war between the
two countries, with last week’s
announcement of agreement on
phase one of negotiations that
reduced some tariffs and removed
the threat of the imposition of more.
US officials insist talks on a
phase-two deal that would remove
all tariffs and restore peace are
already under way but no one is
holding their breath.
For genuine peace to break out,
the US is looking for China to make
The likelihood of a
genuine US-China
peace deal is remote
the kind of change — the reduction
of the role of government in the
Chinese economy — that would
essentially entail the transformation
of the state-directed communism
that is core to its political and
economic model.
The US objectives remind me a
little of the scene from Monty
Python’s Life of Brian when the
People’s Front of Judea demand that
Pontius Pilate dismantle the entire
apparatus of the Roman imperialist
state in two days or face the
consequences.
Even if the Chinese were to prove
more responsive than Pilate, the
likelihood of a genuine US-China
peace deal is remote, as some of the
more consequential conversations at
Davos indicated.
The US remains in the early stages
of a much larger economic cold war
with China that centres on
technology. The immediate
battlefront in that war is the global
competition for 5G networks, the
latest in communications that
will dramatically speed up the
ability of business and consumers
to download, interact and generally
enhance their digital and
electronic productivity.
Just about everyone acknowledges
that Huawei Technologies, the
Chinese company, is the leader in the
global competition to build these
networks. Huawei is, like all Chinese
companies, closely invigilated by the
Chinese Communist Party.
In the US view, widely supported
by intelligence assessments, Huawei’s
accountability to political masters is
so great that any network that the
company builds is going to be in
effect a portal for the Chinese
government to spy on the activities
of anyone using it. So the US has
banned Huawei from doing business
in the US and blocked American
companies from working with it. But
the larger struggle is unfolding over
Huawei’s business with other
countries, in particular US allies.
A senior American official told me
that one of the Trump
administration’s main priorities for
2020 is to persuade countries around
the world not to use Huawei in
building their 5G networks. Critics
The question is how far
efforts will be taken to
dissuade its key ally
say this is, in essence, a form of
barely disguised protectionism, that
the Huawei threat is overstated and
that the US is simply trying to
impede the commercial success of a
rival Chinese company.
To counter that criticism, officials
told me, their ideal outcome would
be a US-European joint venture that
could produce networks just as well
as Huawei. But for now that
alternative does not exist.
Britain, of course, is in America’s
sights, with Boris Johnson’s
government set to approve a
contract with the Chinese company
any day now. Last week there was an
explosive meeting in London
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Comment
between senior American and British
officials. A top US official said that
Sir Mark Sedwill, the cabinet
secretary, “erupted” at a senior
policymaker from the White House
during a heated exchange over
Huawei, as No 10 stood firm in
defending its pending decision.
The question is how far will the
US take its efforts to dissuade its key
ally. So far it has said that it would
keep the issue separate from the
planned negotiations over a
post-Brexit trade deal with Britain,
but it may not stay that way.
“The UK has a mixed record on
Huawei, but we’re working with
them. We’re trying to show them
different options,” Larry Kudlow,
Mr Trump’s economic adviser and an
enthusiastic backer of a US trade
deal with Britain, said.
When pressed on whether the US
might use the trade negotiations to
influence the Huawei decision, Mr
Kudlow said, enigmatically, not “at
this point”.
Much will depend on the judgment
of a famously mercurial president.
Does he want a trade deal with his
friend the prime minister so much
that he will look past this skirmish
in his larger tech war with China?
Or might he decide that the China
fight is the bigger priority?
This is one story not guaranteed a
happy ending.
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Letters to the Editor
Future of the BBC
Sir, On the topic of the licence fee,
most of your correspondents (Jan 22)
defend the continuation of the status
quo in some form. This is no longer
feasible. To survive and compete with
commercial rivals BBC Television
long ago broadened the concept of
“universality” to allow it to make
popular programmes. These are now
the mainstay of its output and very
few of them are made by the BBC
itself. Its rivals now are so rich and
powerful that it is laughable to
suppose an organisation funded by
the licence fee can continue in the
same vein. BBC Television needs to
move to a subscription model.
Parliament should then decide
whether the rest of the corporation —
the radio networks, news and online
output — deserves public funding.
Hugh Williams
Former director of broadcasting, BBC
Worldwide; London SW1
Sir, Your leading article supporting
public money for opera (Jan 22) was
refreshing. What a pity that a day
earlier you advocated a wrecking-ball
approach to another great cultural
institution: the BBC (“Saving Auntie”,
leading article, Jan 21). If opera is
deemed important enough to warrant
subsidy, surely our public service
broadcaster is too. I do not yet
see Netflix providing fine orchestras,
supporting live music, covering
national events or providing local TV
and radio news. The BBC’s place in
the creative arts industry is too
important to be jeopardised for the
sake of the latest shiny box set.
Colin Sykes
Buxton, Derbyshire
Chlorine taste test
Sir, Michael Glasby (letter, Jan 21)
raises a valid point. Treating foods
with chlorine can produce chemicals
named chlorophenols, which have a
strong antiseptic taste (think of TCP).
Not necessarily unsafe, but definitely
unpleasant. Investigating these
occurrences for food companies
contributed significantly to my
income for many years.
David Kilcast
Reigate, Surrey
Corrections and
clarifications
6We wrongly said that Sir Patrick
McLoughlin and Lord Deighton, two
parliamentary members of the
Houses of Parliament restoration and
renewal shadow sponsor board, “will
each be paid £24,000 a year for two
days work a month” (“Ex-MoD chief
will be paid £300,000 a year to deliver
parliament’s facelift”, news, Jan 22).
No parliamentarian is paid for board
duties by the restoration programme.
We are
committed to
abiding by the
Independent
Press Standards Organisation rules and
regulations and the Editors’ Code of
Practice that IPSO enforces. Requests
for corrections or clarifications should
be sent to feedback@thetimes.co.uk or
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London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF
High-speed rail and infrastructure ambitions
Sir, Further to Daniel Finkelstein’s
article (“HS2 decision is a test of
Johnson’s ambition”, Jan 22), what do
the Victoria Line, Jubilee Line,
Channel Tunnel, M25 and
Buckingham Palace have in common?
They were all way over budget, long
delayed, and the Treasury wanted to
cancel them. As for the claim by
opponents of HS2 that high-speed rail
is a white elephant, try that on the
French, whose TGV between Paris
and Lyons opened in 1981. Or on the
Japanese, who opened the world’s first
high-speed line from Tokyo to Nagoya
and Osaka 56 years ago, an inter-
urban corridor similar to London-
Birmingham-Manchester-Leeds.
Stop-start is the curse of British
infrastructure planning and we are
doing it again with HS2.
Lord Adonis
Chairman, National Infrastructure
Commission, 2015-17; transport
secretary 2009-10
Sir I detect that, like me and indeed
Boris Johnson, Daniel Finkelstein
instinctively wants to support HS2,
but once he looked at the project in
detail realised that it was deeply
flawed. Unlike other projects he
mentions, such as the Channel
Tunnel and the Victoria Line, HS2
has no unique selling point. People
Secular schools
Sir, Rachel Sylvester (Jan 21, and letter,
Jan 22) suggests it is time to end the
“steady encroachment of religion into
education”. Given that faith schools are
thriving within the private schools
sector, it is perhaps surprising that she
stops short of calling for the
secularisation of state education akin
to the distinction operated in most
of France since the 1880s. This would
help to end the ugly middle-class
clamouring for places that distorts local
authority admissions arrangements, as
many families rediscover their faith in
the year before applications are due.
Children from disadvantaged
backgrounds are woefully under-
represented in higher-rated faith
schools, further serving to perpetuate
division. If secularisation is deemed a
step too far, the education secretary
must ensure that disadvantaged
families are guaranteed equal access
to schools of all faiths and that this
becomes a priority within local
admissions arrangements.
Neil Roskilly
CEO, Independent Schools Association
JEWS’
WAR
HONOURS
from the times january 23, 1920
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord
Reading, presided over a large
company, which comprised most of
the leading members of the Jewish
community resident in this country,
at a dinner given at the Connaught
Rooms in Holborn last night, in
celebration of peace and in honour
of the semi-jubilee of the Jewish
Historical Society of England. The
American Ambassador and the
Chinese Minister were among the
guests.
The Chairman, in proposing the
toast of the Jewish Historical Society
of England, said that from the early
can already travel by train between
London and the cities of the Midlands
and north quickly and in relative
comfort. Worse, it is being managed
appallingly, with an overuse of
outsourcing that has allowed costs to
run out of control.
There is nothing transformational
about HS2. It merely adds a vast
amount of capacity on intercity rail
routes when the need is for improved
services for commuters, particularly
in those very same cities. And it has
no environmental case. Johnson
should bite the bullet and ditch the
project. Crucially, he should
compensate disappointed parties by
creating a big infrastructure fund for
projects in the Midlands and north.
Christian Wolmar
Railway analyst and author
of The Crossrail Story
Sir, I am dismayed that Professor
Terence Kemp (letter, Jan 22) feels it
right that we should plough on with
HS2 regardless. The projected
overspend is likely to be an
underestimate, if past examples of
civil engineering projects are
anything to go by. Whether or not the
north and Midlands need increased
connectivity to London and the
south, it seems unreasonable to
continue with the project just to keep
Sir, Rachel Sylvester says “religion
and politics are a toxic mix, as the
Catholic Labour leadership contender
Rebecca Long Bailey discovered last
week”. She also points to the
experience of the former Liberal
Democrat leader Tim Farron and to
Alastair Campbell’s famous quip “We
don’t do God”. Only in Britain is
religious belief among those in public
life regarded as something weird or
to be avoided. That should be a cause
for shame, not glorification.
David Levy
London N3
Pray in parliament
Sir, Crispin Blunt MP objects to the
prayers that start the parliamentary
day because the practice is seen as
contrary to freedom and equality. In
reality many Christians also feel
marginalised. Although I do not
support the Establishment of the
Church of England, the presumption
of Godlessness must not replace it.
Neither Anglicanism or atheism
should be a state-sanctioned world
view. True diversity is about accepting
records of the Exchequer one might
learn the meaning of the term
“capital levy” — (laughter) — which
formed a not unimportant part of
the history of their community in
those days. Their community had
done its share nobly in the war. They
asked no credit for that; they
recognized that Jewish citizens
should devote the best of their
efforts to the defence of this country,
which had shown so much regard for
civil and religious liberty. (Cheers.) It
was computed that the Jewish
community in the United Kingdom
numbered altogether 275,000 men,
women, and children. To that
number might be added 145,000
Jews in the British Dominions,
Colonies, and Possessions, making a
total of 420,000 in the Empire. Of
that number just over 50,000
belonged to some branch of his
Majesty’s Forces. Those who died,
died gladly for a cause which was
worthy of them. Of those who
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people in work and to save face, two
of the reasons Professor Kemp gives
for continuing.
Anne King
Rossendale, Lancs
Sir, HS2 may or may not prove to be a
test of the prime minister’s ambition.
But as a test of the UK’s national
ambition it falls woefully short: it
should have been planned to connect
with the Channel Tunnel line, and to
run from Manchester to Glasgow too,
via Heathrow, so that people from
Scotland and the north of England
could avoid the time-consuming
nuisance of having to go into central
London to get to the airport.
Dr Lindsay Hall
Elie, Fife
Sir, Daniel Finkelstein says that “extra
capacity is needed on the route and it
is not obvious how else it could be
provided”. I suggest we use “double
decker” trains, as seen on the
Continent. For a fraction of the cost
of HS2, bridges and overhead
obstacles on the existing line from
London to the north could be rebuilt,
thereby almost doubling capacity and
avoiding the enormous upheaval
entailed in constructing a new line.
Raymond Smyth
Sheffield
difference, not enforcing sanitised
assimilation.
Tim Farron MP
Liberal Democrat leader, 2015-17,
House of Commons
Federal kingdom
Sir, In consideration of proposals to
move the House of Lords north, John
Muston (letter, Jan 21) writes from
Canada of the advantages of a federal
structure and advocates its adoption
in the UK. Unfortunately, there is no
solution to the problems caused by
England being substantially greater in
both population and tax revenue than
the three other nations. If seats in a
federal assembly were distributed
according to population then England
would dominate, as now. If Wales,
Scotland and Northern Ireland were
able to combine to overrule England,
we would have a perpetual minority
government and, almost certainly,
calls for independence for England.
Thus, no federal government of the
UK would be stable.
Dr Graham Read
Cardiff
served, five won the VC, 50 obtained
the DSO, 240 the MC, 70 the DCM,
250 the MM, and 330 were
mentioned in dispatches. The
struggle was one which commended
itself to them because their
community throughout the
generations had suffered from the
denial of liberty and the refusal of
equality.
Lord Birkenhead, replying to the
toast of Law and History, which was
submitted by Mr Israel Zangwill, said
he was immensely surprised to learn
that in the population of these
islands there were only 275,000
members of the Jewish community.
If he were a Jew he would be proud
of nothing more than that so
infinitesimal a proportion of the
total population had played so
immense and so determined a part
in the destinies of our national life.
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Holocaust lesson
Sir, Adam LeBor is right (“We don’t
need a new building to mark the
Holocaust”, Thunderer, Jan 22). Far
better than pouring millions of
pounds into an edifice that will
annoy local residents, duplicate the
Imperial War Museum and be
London-centric, the money should go
into increasing school programmes
across the country.
As someone whose mother fled the
Nazis and found sanctuary in Britain,
I have no doubt that the Holocaust
needs to be remembered — as a
protection not only for Jews but for
all minorities where the majority says:
you are less human than us.
Many fear that abandoning the
building means dismissing the
Holocaust. Not true. It is appreciating
that its lessons can be learnt in more
effective and enduring ways.
We need the courage to say no to a
museum and yes to education.
Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain
Maidenhead Synagogue
Sir, How many Holocaust memorials
do we need? I pass each day what I
regard as the loveliest memorial in
London. It is in Hyde Park and is
composed of a grove of birch trees,
two granite boulders and an
inscription in English and Hebrew. It
was opened in 1983 by the Board of
Deputies of British Jews as “London’s
Holocaust Memorial”. Services are
held there annually. It is a deeply
moving spot and does not deserve to
be upstaged.
Sir Simon Jenkins
Chairman, National Trust, 2008-14
Age of equality
Sir, Sir Mark Waller (letter, Jan 21)
considers that what a person thought
40 years ago complicates determining
whether age discrimination is
justified. One wonders if the same is
true in justifying religious
discrimination because a religious or
atheist young person changed their
mind as they grew older. It may be
that young people have a different
perspective on retirement when the
reality is not imminent, just as an
immigrant may not understand
racial discrimination until they
arrive in that foreign country. Such
complicating factors are surely
irrelevant in determining justice.
We should be grateful that the
Equality Act 2010 is free of such
mental complications.
Professor Paul Ewart
Emeritus fellow, Worcester College,
Oxford
Sleepless nights
Sir, You quote the expert Dr Neil
Stanley as recommending sleeping
with the bedroom window open
(Times2, Jan 21). He obviously does
not live under the flight path to
Heathrow. Planes fly over until at
least 11pm and start up again at
4.30am. Not much chance of eight
hours’ peaceful rest, even with the
window firmly shut.
Elizabeth Balsom
London SW15
Nature of the beast
Sir, Matthew Parris writes that the
former Bolsover MP Dennis Skinner
could be “a sour old thing” (My
Week, Jan 22). Maybe so, but it’s not
the whole story, as an anagram of his
name is “inner kindness”.
Tim Moorey
Crossword setter for The Times,
London EC1
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Daily Universal Register
Switzerland: The World Economic Forum
annual meeting continues in Davos.
Today’s speakers include Angela Merkel,
the German chancellor, and Rupert Read,
spokesman for Extinction Rebellion.
Israel: The Prince of Wales begins a two-day
visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Nature notes
A new flower to
look for now is the
winter aconite.
Where the air
temperature around
them is lower than
10C, these small
flowers remain in tight little buds. They
grow in clusters on grassy slopes, very often
under overhanging trees in an adjacent
wood, but are also found in churchyards and
gardens. The flowers open up when the
temperature reaches the right level, in the
form of a cup of bright yellow petals. This
cup also has a dainty green ruff beneath it,
which gives the flowers a quaint and
charming 17th-century look, as if they were
standing about at court. They are often in
the company of the early snowdrops.
derwent may
Birthdays today
Rupert Pennant-Rea,
pictured, former
chairman, The Times’s
independent directors,
Royal London Group,
Economist Newspaper
Group, 72; Lady Arden
(Dame Mary Arden),
justice of the Supreme Court, 73; David
Arnold, film composer, Spectre (2015), 58;
Lord (Gavin) Barwell, chief of staff to
Theresa May (2017-19), Conservative MP for
Croydon Central (2010-17), 48; Georg
Baselitz, painter, Nackter Mann (Naked Man,
1962), 82; Claire Bassett, chief executive
designate, UK Trade Remedies Authority,
chief executive, Electoral Commission
(2015-19), 46; Peter Bellingham, chief
executive, Sinfonia Cymru, managing
director, Welsh National Opera (2009-15),
64; Dee Caffari, sailor, in 2006 became the
first woman to complete a solo world
circumnavigation against the prevailing
winds and currents, 47; Princess Caroline
of Hanover (née of Monaco), the eldest
child of Rainier III, the Prince of Monaco,
and the actress Grace Kelly, 63; Sir Richard
Dearlove, master, Pembroke College,
Cambridge (2004-15), head of MI6
(1999-2004), 75; Bill Hayden, 21st
governor-general of Australia (1989-96), 87;
Adrian Jenkins, director, Bowes Museum,
Barnard Castle, Co Durham, 55; Ruben
Loftus-Cheek, footballer, Chelsea and
England, 24; Sir Christopher Nugee, High
Court judge, 61; Dawn O’Porter, broadcaster
and writer, 41; Chita Rivera, actress, dancer
and singer, ten-time Tony award nominee,
87; Lord (Ted) Rowlands, former Labour
MP and minister, 80; Lisa Snowdon, fashion
model and TV presenter, 48; Chesley “Sully”
Sullenberger, pilot, who successfully ditched
his passenger aircraft on the Hudson River
off Manhattan after it struck a flock of
geese, 69; David Tyler, chairman, Domestic
& General, J Sainsbury (2009-19), 67.
On this day
In 1790 Fletcher Christian, other Bounty
mutineers and Tahitian natives landed on
uninhabited Pitcairn Island and burnt the
ship. The community was discovered on
February 6, 1808.
The last word
“Nowhere probably is there more true
feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in
a churchyard.” Benjamin Jowett, classicist,
Letters of Benjamin Jowett (1899).
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Strained Relations
Boris Johnson is taking on the Trump administration on several fronts.
The potential for a bust-up is growing all the time
Boris Johnson was not allowed to bask too long
in the praise of the US president. Donald Trump
unblushingly described Mr Johnson as a
“wonderful new prime minister” at Davos this
week but his Treasury secretary soon put the
boot in. If Britain and others went ahead with new
taxes on America’s tech companies, said Steven
Mnuchin, then “they’ll find themselves faced with
President Trump’s tariffs”.
That is how the current iteration of the special
relationship is being framed. Britain is already
proposing to admit the Chinese telecoms group
Huawei into the future expansion of its 5G net-
works and to find ways of dealing with Iran that can
allow the regime to sidestep Mr Trump’s sanctions.
America’s response is blunt. If Mr Johnson opts
for a deeper relationship with Huawei, the US
threatens to restrict his access to intelligence
through the US-dominated Five Eyes club. The
pressure on Britain to declare the Iranian nuclear
deal well and truly dead is also heavy handed.
Now comes a new challenge in the form of the
digital services tax, which the Johnson govern-
ment says it is determined to roll out from April.
Unlike the Huawei case, which has divided
political decision-makers and the intelligence
community, there is a broad popular consensus for
Saudi Skulduggery
The West should speak out against the kingdom’s egregious violation of rights
Mohammed bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi
Arabia, is hailed by his advocates at home and
abroad as an agent of reform. In reality, the young
prince, commonly known as MBS, gives every
indication of wishing to turn the kingdom from a
deeply conservative autocracy into an only slightly
different state. The latest apparent instance of
MBS’s targeting of critics is flagrant. Two officials
of the United Nations called yesterday for an
investigation into allegations that he instigated the
hacking of the phone of Jeff Bezos, chief executive
of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post.
The US and its allies should not prevaricate.
Saudi Arabia’s co-operation in opposing Islamist
extremism and containing the regional ambitions
of Iran is crucial. But acquiescing in arbitrary
repression at MBS’s behest is a squalid stance that
will ultimately diminish western authority in the
Middle East. Western governments should speak
out and hold the regime to account.
MBS’s reputation as a moderniser rests on a few
high-profile reforms, including restrictions on the
powers of the religious police and lifting the ban
on women driving. Against these changes, he has
The Maths Whisperer
A teacher in Wales deserves praise for his pupils’ amazing success
Francis Elive, 55, a maths teacher at Fitzalan High
School in Cardiff, has just presided over an
extraordinary achievement. Of the 30 pupils he
teaches who sat their GCSE six months ahead of
schedule, all received an A star. Well done to them
all. Not for nothing is Mr Elive described locally as
a “legend of a teacher”. The unsolved equation:
how does he do it?
Mr Elive’s colleagues say he is a reserved man.
Not the kind of teacher who, in mimicry of the
Robin Williams character in Dead Poets Society,
jumps on desks and behaves like a circus performer.
He denies any secret method, choosing instead to
taxing the tech companies for their activities in
the United Kingdom. The Times reported last year
that Amazon was paying barely £220 million in
direct taxes despite total revenues in the UK
market of nearly £11 billion. That amounted
to 2 per cent of its total revenues. Google, in 2018,
paid £49.3 million in corporation taxes on total
British sales of about £5.7 billion.
The government is planning a levy of a 2 per
cent tax on the UK revenues of search engines,
online marketplaces and social media companies.
The Treasury predicts that this could raise
£500 million a year. The US is determined to block
the move and has already persuaded France to
delay a similar tax. America argues that the tax
is discriminatory and that the only way forward
is a comprehensive multilateral arrangement. The
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) agrees with Washington,
warns of a “cacophony and a mess” if bilateral
deals are struck, and is urging Britain to hold fire.
The problem, however, is that it could take years
to reach an international consensus and that the
clout of the tech companies could dilute the final
agreement. The pragmatic solution, already hinted
at by Sajid Javid, the chancellor, is that the tax is
imposed this spring as planned but allowed to
mired Saudi Arabia in war in Yemen and
imprisoned critics. He is also widely suspected of
having instigated the gruesome murder of Jamal
Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident lured to his death at
the country’s consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
The new allegations of MBS’s misconduct relate
to that murder. Khashoggi entered the consulate
to obtain documentation needed to marry his
Turkish fiancée. He was killed and his body was
dismembered. Last month a Saudi court convicted
eight men of the murder in a secret trial that was
condemned by human rights organisations as a
public relations exercise. The court’s decision is not
final, the men’s sentences may yet be commuted
and the role of MBS in the affair has not been tested.
He has formally accepted “full responsibility” for
the murder but this could mean anything. It is far
short of an admission of personal guilt.
Khashoggi was a columnist for The Washington
Post. The two UN officials, Agnès Callamard and
David Kaye, claimed that forensic evidence
showed Mr Bezos’s phone had been hacked in
2018 after he had downloaded a file sent by MBS
on WhatsApp. Mr Bezos was a few months later
commend his pupils’ hard work. That remark
offers the best clue to his success, suggesting as it
does an ability to motivate youngsters in what can
be a tricky subject. Even the brightest pupils can
lose their way as its complexities unfold. Mr Elive’s
gift is to instil enough enthusiasm and self-belief to
keep young minds focused not only on achieving
understanding, but excellence.
Mr Elive does not seem to be particularly strict
or particularly liberal, neither seeking to be his
charges’ jailor nor their friend, the polarised
approach which has bedevilled British education
for generations. Rather, he shows that what makes
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lapse when a collective deal is eventually struck
with Silicon Valley.
Deadlines are clustering, adding to the weight
of expectation on the government’s shoulders.
OECD representatives from 135 countries are
supposed to draw up a digital tax blueprint by the
end of this month but are still deeply divided. At
the same time Britain will formally leave the EU.
The National Security Council may take a vote on
Huawei by then. And preparations for trade talks
with Washington will be gathering pace.
Mr Johnson appears sensitive to charges that he
could become a vassal to the Trump administration.
His various spats may reflect that. Or they may be
an attempt to improve Britain’s negotiating
position. The president, after all, makes explicit
linkages between politics and trade in his
transactional diplomacy with friends and rivals
alike. The special relationship was often fraught
in the past. But though frayed, the need for
joint security and a commitment to free trade and
open markets are still at the heart of the axis. That
was what made the partnership between Ronald
Reagan and Margaret Thatcher so effective,
despite their differences. Mr Johnson and Mr
Trump have to rekindle something of that mutual
respect. And someone is going to have to blink first.
exposed for having an extra-marital affair which
led to a very expensive divorce. The suspicion
is that Saudi Arabia collected compromising
information on Mr Bezos to pressure him to quell
criticism of the kingdom in the newspaper. Instead
of acquiescing, Mr Bezos went public. If this charge
is substantiated, it will be significant for relations
with Saudi Arabia. The kingdom would stand
exposed as a violator of privacy in an egregious
attempt to subjugate opposition. The US and its
allies will need to have a principled response.
There are strong strategic reasons for wishing
to cultivate good relations with Saudi Arabia. It is
a crucial source of oil, a counterweight to the
aggressive designs and nuclear adventurism of
Iran, and in principle, though not always in
practice, an adversary of militant Islamism. Yet if
MBS faces no sanction for suppression of dissent,
such as jailing rivals and allegedly assassinating
critics, it will only encourage such malevolence.
The outcome will be a diplomatic disgrace
that will come back to haunt the reputation of
the free world. It is better to speak out and risk a
temporarily ruptured alliance.
a great teacher is a love for their subject and a
desire to pass it on. Fitzalan has almost double the
national average of pupils eligible for free school
meals. Thus Mr Elive has performed the added
service of demonstrating that brainpower is not
determined by social class.
There have been calls for Mr Elive to be
recognised in the next honours’ list. That would be
richly deserved, although he is clearly not a man
motivated by personal glory. Parents, teachers and
children alike will be hoping, however, that he can
overcome his modesty long enough to post his top
tips on YouTube.
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MBS ‘taunted Bezos
about secret affair
after phone hack’
Saudi Arabia for but failed to stop the mission that
fatally targeted Mr Khashoggi.”
Ben Hoyle
Jeff Bezos received a message taunting
Malware that Mr Bezos once enjoyed warm rela-
tions with Saudi Arabia and in April
him about his collapsing marriage from
the personal phone of Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi
reveals all you 2018 he swapped numbers with MBS at
a dinner in Los Angeles, providing the
two of them with the contacts to set up
Arabia long before his extramarital
affair became public knowledge, the
say and do a WhatsApp exchange. At the time Mr
Bezos, 56, was pursuing a $1 billion con-
United Nations has confirmed. tract to build three data centres in Saudi
A photograph of a woman loosely Behind the story Arabia for Amazon Web Services, the
resembling the Amazon billionaire’s cloud computing business that powers

secret girlfriend was sent to Mr Bezos
from a WhatsApp account belonging to
the prince, known as MBS, “along with
a sardonic caption”, according to Agnès
Callamard and David Kaye, two UN
special rapporteurs.
The message arrived just over a
month after the murder of Jamal Khas-
hoggi, the Saudi dissident who had
written a column for The Washington
Post, which Mr Bezos owns. It was ap-
parently intended to silence the paper’s
critical reporting of Saudi Arabia.
The newspaper had been publishing
“ever-expanding revelations about the
role of the Saudi government and of the
crown prince personally” in the killing
and a consequent backlash against Mr
Bezos, Amazon and itself on social
media in Saudi Arabia, the UN said.
Khashoggi was killed inside the
Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on
October 2, 2018, a crime that MBS has
claimed was carried out without his
knowledge by rogue operatives.
Yesterday the two UN officials, who
have seen a report on the Khashoggi
C
ybersecurity experts
commenting on the
alleged hacking of Jeff
Bezos’s phone are
increasingly bringing
up the name Pegasus (Tom
Knowles writes).
This is a highly sophisticated
malware created by NSO Group,
an Israeli cybersurveillance firm
whose clients include states such
as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and
Mexico.
Last October WhatsApp,
owned by Facebook, urged its
1.5 billion users to update their
app immediately after it found
that Pegasus had been installed
on thousands of phones via the
messaging service. Included were
devices belonging to at least 100
journalists, human rights
activists and political dissidents.
From a hacker’s perspective,
the beauty of Pegasus is that
when it runs on a phone, the user
is unlikely to realise because the
Amazon’s corporate empire.
However, a much smaller part of his
portfolio, The Washington Post, was
already becoming what the billionaire
has since called “a complexifier” in his
dealings with Riyadh. Its editors had
hired Khashoggi, a dissident in self-im-
posed exile, as an opinion writer. His
first column, stating that Saudi Arabia
was “repressive” and “unbearable” was
published in September 2017.
On November 8, Mr Bezos received
the text with the picture of a woman
who looked slightly like Lauren Sán-
chez, 50, a pilot and former TV host
with whom he was having a then clan-
destine affair. It was sent “precisely dur-
ing the period Bezos and his wife were
exploring divorce”, according to the
report compiled for the billionaire by
Anthony Ferrante, a former FBI and
White House cybersecurity chief.
The accompanying message read:
“Arguing with a woman is like reading
the Software License agreement. In the
end you have to ignore everything and
click I agree.”

murder investigation, declared that
they were “gravely concerned” and
called for an “immediate investigation
by US and other relevant authorities”.
According to a report commissioned
by Mr Bezos’s head of security last year,
several months before Khashoggi’s
murder a malicious video file sent from
the prince’s WhatsApp account is be-
lieved to have compromised the billion-
aire’s phone and made possible the theft
of a tranche of personal data.
Ms Callamard, a rapporteur on sum-
mary executions and extrajudicial kill-
ings who has been investigating the
Khashoggi case, and Mr Kaye, who ex-
amines violations of press freedom,
have reviewed the evidence in the re-
port and found it credible.
Phones belonging to a Saudi human
rights activist and a Saudi political ac-
tivist, both of whom were in frequent
contact with Khashoggi, were also in-
fected with malware in the weeks after
Mr Bezos’s phone was corrupted.
The evidence “suggests the possible
involvement of the crown prince in sur-
veillance of Mr Bezos, in an effort to in-
fluence, if not silence, The Washington
Post’s reporting on Saudi Arabia,” they
wrote. The circumstances and timing of
the surveillance also “strengthen
support” for a deeper look into claims
that “the crown prince ordered, incited,
or at a minimum, was aware of planning
device works normally.
Once in the target’s phone,
spyware lets a hacker access
almost everything, including all
messages, emails and incoming
or outgoing calls, as well as
pictures, cameras, microphones
and location data. WhatsApp’s
end-to-end encryption is no help
because it only stops people
hacking a message in between its
two destinations— with Pegasus
the hacker is already at the “end”
bit of the encryption.
Jake Moore, cybersecurity
specialist at ESET, an internet
security company, said the hack
had “all the hallmarks of Pegasus
spyware” because it used an
apparently innocent video or link
containing a malicious file over a
messaging app. “Engineering a
file to look like a photo or video
from a contact is the perfect way
of executing the malware, so no
doubt Bezos was unaware what
had occurred,” he said.
Users should beware of
unexpected links posted in
messaging groups or sent via
email. People should also use a
different password for every app
and service, and where possible,
enable two-step authentication.
Two months later, in January last
year, an exposé of the affair was pub-
lished in the National Enquirer, a tab-
loid with links to President Trump —
who has been a critic of Mr Bezos, Ama-
zon and The Washington Post.
In February Mr Bezos hinted that
Saudi Arabia was involved in a plot by
American Media, owner of the Enquir-
er, to blackmail him. Later that month
Gavin de Becker, Mr Bezos’s security
adviser, hired Mr Ferrante to examine
the breach of the iPhone. In March Mr
de Becker wrote that “investigators and
experts concluded with high confi-
dence” that the Saudis had taken pri-
vate information from the phone.
Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud,
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, dis-
missed the allegations as “absurd” yes-
terday. Speaking in Davos he said: “The
idea that the crown prince would hack
Jeff Bezos’s phone is absolutely silly.”
Downing Street declined to com-
ment on the security of UK ministers’
communications. The prime minister’s
spokesman said: “All ministers and MPs
are routinely given advice by the
National Cyber Security Centre.”
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Don’t touch that file: 20 things not to
do with your phone, Times2, pages 2-3
A
towering dust A video taken
Australians plume covering
an area larger
by drone on
Sunday captures
engulfed by than Britain
was moving
the town of
Parkes in New
dust storm across Australia yesterday
towards the cities in the
South Wales
as it lies in the
east of the country, path of a huge
bigger than forcing travellers away dust cloud
from roads in the outback
Britain and smothering small
towns (Bernard Lagan
writes). The plume,
Trump: I can’t let Bolton
United States military aid to Ukraine and obstructing
Congress inquiries into the allegation,
David Charter Washington
which he says is a hoax.
President Trump has said he would Mr Bolton was said to be furious
block John Bolton from his impeach- about the alleged interference in
ment trial because they had fallen out Ukraine. He was barred by the White
and his former national security advis- House from earlier hearings but has
er might reveal what he really thought said he is willing to testify if issued with
of world leaders. a subpoena from the Senate.
The president dismissed calls for Mr Trump, who fired Mr Bolton last
several key officials to appear on September, told a press conference in
national security grounds despite the Davos: “He knows some of my thoughts
White House being accused of a cover- . . . what happens if he reveals what I
up. Mr Trump, 73, is on trial for abuse of think about a certain leader and it’s not
power by withholding $400 million in very positive . . . I don’t know if we left on
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covering more than
106,000 square miles,
turned the sky deep
orange and reduced
visibility to dangerous
levels as gusts of wind of
up to 70 miles an hour
shook homes and cars.
Australia’s Bureau of
Meteorology said fierce
winds sweeping across the
outback had picked up
dry, loose soil, a
consequence of years of
drought which have
parched areas of the
country so there is little
or no remaining
vegetation to bind the soil.
The bureau tweeted:
“The dust extends into
New South Wales and
[Victoria] and covers an
estimated area of over
275,000 square kilometres
[106,000 square miles].”
Concerns have been
raised about the impact
on those who suffer
respiratory conditions
and many residents of
towns in the path of the
dust storm rushed to buy
breathing masks.
The size of the dust
storm approached the
infamous “Red Dawn”
that hit Australia in 2009
and covered more than
Flights grounded
as virus city goes
into quarantine from Wuhan, but have warned against
China
panic.
Richard Lloyd Parry Asia Editor
Anutin Charnvirakul, Thailand’s
The Chinese city at the centre of the public health minister, insisted that no
viral outbreak that has claimed 17 lives secondary infection had taken place in
and prompted a global health emer- his country, saying: “We checked all of
gency was effectively under quarantine them: taxi drivers, people who wheeled
last night, with all outbound flights and the wheelchairs for the patients, doc-
trains suspended and public transport tors and nurses.”
halted. Hong Kong confirmed two cases
The People’s Daily newspaper said no yesterday, including a man who had
one would be allowed to leave Wuhan, arrived on a high-speed train.
a city of 11 million in northeast China. In Wuhan pharmacies people
The transport hub has 60 international queued to buy masks but sales were
air connections, including direct flights limited to one package per customer.
to London, New York, Paris, San
Francisco and Sydney, as well as more
than a hundred domestic destinations.
The food market where the outbreak is
believed to have started is near to one of
Wuhan’s main railway stations.
As of last night at least 526 cases in
China had been confirmed as far apart
as Beijing in the north and Macau and
Hong Kong in the south.
Cases of coronavirus, which is from
the family of viruses that gave rise to
severe acute respiratory syndrome
(Sars), have also been confirmed in the
United States, Taiwan and the Philippi-
nes following diagnoses in Japan and
South Korea.
Among those suspected of being
infected, according to Chinese state
media, was Wang Guangfa, a doctor
who visited Wuhan recently with a
team of experts to investigate the virus.
After a meeting at its Geneva head-
quarters last night, the World Health
Organisation said it would decide today
whether to declare the outbreak a
global health emergency, which would
step up the international response.
Li Bin, deputy director of China’s A suspected sufferer is put into an
National Health Commission, told a incubator at Huizhou airport, China
news conference that there “has
120,000 square miles — already been human-to-human trans- Staff in protective suits could be seen
an area the size of Poland. mission and infection of medical work- carrying supplies and stretchers into
The dust storms follow ers”. He added: “Evidence has shown the Wuhan medical treatment centre.
extreme thunderstorms that the disease has been transmitted Mr Li said measures were being taken
that hit Canberra on through the respiratory tract and there to monitor and detect infected people.
Monday with hailstones is the possibility of viral mutation.” Compared with the prolonged cover-
the size of golf balls, Gao Fu, head of the Chinese Centre up that followed the last serious epi-
causing extensive damage for Disease Control, said the corona- demic in China — Sars in 2002 — the
to cars and buildings. The virus would continue to develop. “It has authorities have been relatively trans-
country has endured developed different features compared parent to avoid panic as hundreds of
months of bushfires since with the early stage, and the prevention millions travel for the Lunar New Year.
September, killing 29 and precautionary measures need to There are suspicions, however, that
people. change accordingly.” there are many more cases of the coro-
Mr Gao said officials were working navirus than the official tally.
on the assumption that the outbreak The Washington Post reported three
resulted from exposure to wild animals cases of Chinese people who recently

reveal my views of other world leaders
the best of terms. I would say probably
not, you know, so you don’t like people
testifying when they didn’t leave on
good terms — and that was due to me,
not due to him.”
Adam Schiff, the Democratic chair-
man of the House intelligence commit-
tee, began the prosecution case yester-
day. Mr Schiff, 59, said that Mr Trump’s
alleged actions met the fears of Amer-
ica’s founding fathers that “a man
would seek to perpetuate himself in
office by inviting foreign interference in
cheating in an election”.
Both the White House defence team
and Republican leaders want to wrap
up the trial without witnesses being
called. Democrats accuse the defence
of seeking to keep key documents and
testimony away from the public. A two-
thirds vote is required to convict the
president.
Chief Justice John Roberts, who is
presiding, admonished both sides and
called for an end to “language that is
not conducive to civil discourse”.
The rules were set for the trial in a 12-
hour session on Tuesday when 11
amendments were voted down on
party lines. Susan Collins, a Republican
sold illegally at a food market in Wuhan
and that the virus was mutating,
which could make it spread
faster, or make people who
became ill in Wuhan and died after
showing symptoms consistent
with the coronavirus. Their
bodies were hastily cremat-
senator from Maine, was the only sena- acquired it sicker. In more ed and their death certifi-
tor to switch sides for one vote. severe cases it can cause cates listed other causes of
Mitch McConnell, the Senate major- pneumonia and breathing death.
ity leader, was forced by dissent from difficulties. Cathay Pacific Airways in
Republicans to extend to three days the The largest number of Hong Kong announced
time each side has to make its case and infections outside China that it would allow
to admit evidence from the House of have been in Thailand, flight crew to wear
Representatives automatically into the where four patients surgical masks while
record. There have been reports of a have been treated, three flying within main-
possible deal, with senior Democrats of them Chinese and one land China.
willing to hear evidence from Hunter Thai. All had been in
Biden, son of Joe Biden, Mr Trump’s Wuhan. Families arriving
probable election rival and the focus of Airports around the in Thailand from
his interest in Ukraine, in exchange for world have introduced air- China take
Mr Bolton appearing. port monitoring of arrivals precautions
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World
Woman, 90, reveals diary that tells
of meeting Mengele in Auschwitz
Germany
David Crossland Berlin
The diary of Jewish girl has been pub-
lished describing her deportation to
Auschwitz and an encounter with the
notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.
Sheindi Miller-Ehrenwald, 90, the
daughter of a Hungarian wine mer-
chant, said that she had released her
work to counter Holocaust deniers and
ensure that the world did not forget the
suffering of the Nazi victims. Her diary is
being hailed as a unique document con-
veying the horror of what happened.
“I will die soon and I don’t want that
all the people who were murdered are
forgotten,” she told Bild newspaper,
which published excerpts of her diary.
She travelled from her home in Israel to
Berlin to present the 54-page account
of her suffering. The diary, written in
Hungarian, will go on
show tomorrow in Ber-
lin at the German His-
torical Museum.
She is one of several
survivors who are telling
their stories this week to
mark the 75th annivers-
ary of the liberation of
Auschwitz on January 27.
The remaining survivors’
stories are being recount-
ed with urgency as
antisemitism spreads
across Europe, with right-
wing revisionists casting
doubt on Nazi crimes.
“The way in which this
diary was recorded makes
it unique, even just the fact
that it was smuggled
through two concentra-
tion camps is unheard of as
far as I can tell,” Thomas
Jander, a curator at the
museum, told The Times.
Ms Miller-Ehrenwald
lived in the town of Galan-
ta, now part of Slovakia,
with her parents, two sisters
and two brothers. Her diary
begins with the German in-
vasion of Hungary in
March, 1944, when she was 14. They
were among more than 430,000
Hungarian Jews sent to Auschwitz
Birkenau in a few months. Most
were killed on arrival.
“In the night there was heavy
knocking on the door,” she wrote in
April, 1944. “My father opened the
front door and there were three
Hungarian policemen in front of
him and ordered him to leave the
Poland boycotts ceremony in row over rewriting history
Catherine Philp
Diplomatic Correspondent
When world leaders gather at Yad
Vashem in Jerusalem today to com-
memorate the 75th anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz, one significant
figure will be missing.
President Duda of Poland is boycott-
ing the event after he was denied a plat-
form to address the gathering alongside
other leaders, most notably President
Putin. Poland and Russia have many
areas of disagreement but none so pois-
onous in the context of today’s ceremo-
ny as the historical revisionism sur-
rounding Poland and Russia’s role in
the Second World War.
“A situation in which the president of
Poland will sit and listen to the false
words of President Putin without being
able to reply is unacceptable,” Mr Du-
da’s spokesman said. Despite the inter-
vention of the United States, Israel has
refused to let Mr Duda speak, an ac-
knowledgement of the sensitivity and
growing geopolitical importance of its
relationship with Russia as Moscow
consolidates its presence in the Middle
East.
Relations between Poland and Israel
have also been strained amid Israeli
accusations that Warsaw is trying to re-
write history to play down instances of
Polish collaboration in the Holocaust
and to criminalise mention of them.
Russia, meanwhile, has outraged
Warsaw with its own historical revi-
sionism surrounding what it calls the
Great Patriotic War. This ignores
Stalin’s purges, the Soviet Union’s non-
aggression pact and collaboration with
T horrors of Auschwitz are detailed in a diary kept by Sheindi Miller-Ehrenwald,
The
le on scraps of paper which she transcribed and took with her to Israel in 1949
left,
h
house. He turned round with tears and
sa ‘Don’t cry, be strong. We’ll return
said:
so
soon.’ But we never returned.”
She and her older sister Jitti sur-
v
vived. Her younger sister Dori, 12, her
tw brothers Rüvi and Beri and her
two
p
parents were killed. Two older broth-
eers, who were soldiers, were killed.
H
Her diary ends in June, 1944, when she
h
hid the scraps of paper in a wall at her
h
hut in Auschwitz.
When she was sent to work at a mu-
n
nitions factory in Silesia she tran-
sc
scribed her notes on to cards and hid
th
them until the end of the war. “I’m as-
to
tonished how I could write it all,” she
sa
said. “It was so dangerous.”
She told Bild journalists in a docu-
m
mentary film about her arrival at
A
Auschwitz, where SS guards separat-
ed families
f into those who would be
sent straight to the gas chambers and
those who would be kept as labourers.
“The boys and girls from Galanta
were immediately separated,” she said.
“We walked a few steps and had not
noticed that we had not said goodbye to
our parents and siblings. We turned and
looked everywhere. They were gone.”
Initially the three sisters were taken
to a sauna to be disinfected. She wrote
in her diary: “One of the soldiers started
talking. ‘Now everybody take your
Nazi Germany, and the suffering im-
posed on eastern Europe by decades of
communist rule from Moscow. It goes
as far as to suggest that Poland, invaded
by German and Soviet forces in 1939, is
to blame for starting the war and enthu-
siastically participating in the murder
of Jews. It airbrushes out the Molotov-
Ribbentrop Pact and the Soviet inva-
sion of Poland and recasts the Red
Army solely as liberators, including of
Auschwitz.
Israel has appeared happy to accept
this version from the first leader in
Moscow to acknowledge the Holo-
caust’s industrial slaughter of European
Jewry.
It is Moshe Kantor, a Russian billion-
aire with close ties to Mr Putin and Bin-
yamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime
minister, who is picking up the bulk of
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STANISLAW MUCHA/EPA
clothes off. Your hair will be cut off
first.’ ” They obeyed. “The men walk
around laughing. We stand naked and
red with shame.”
She said in her interview that Meng-
ele entered the disinfection room. “I saw
him as our heads were shaved,” she said.
“He looked around. When they were
about to cut off Dori’s hair he stopped
and said: ‘Don’t cut off the hair.’ ”
She wrote in her diary: “Dori was
very pretty and one officer liked her a
lot. They gave her a pretty dress.”
Dori was taken to Mengele. When
she returned after several days she did
not say what had happened to her.
“They woke us early one morning,”
Ms Miller-Ehrenwald said. “We
noticed smoke coming in from outside.
It smelt terribly. One girl asked a sol-
dier: ‘What’s that smell?’ He just said:
‘We’re burning your parents now.’ ”
Dori was later taken away because
she was deemed too young. “We don’t
know if she died of hunger or froze to
death,” Ms Miller-Ehrenwald said.
After the war she returned to Galanta
and married before going to Israel in
1949, where she had three children.
Ms Miller-Ehrenwald said that de-
spite her suffering she had had a good
life. She added: “Soon God will help me
be together with my family again.”
the tab for the commemoration, the
largest gathering of world leaders in
Israel. Mr Kantor, 66, is the founder of
the European Jewish Congress, a vanity
project that is a rival to the World Jew-
ish Congress, led by Ronald Lauder, an
American who is Mr Netanyahu’s es-
tranged former patron.
Israel’s decision to placate Russia
over Poland is hardly surprising, even if
it has deeply dismayed the United
States. Israel is focused on its present
and future: it needs Russia’s permission
to launch airstrikes on Iranian and
Hezbollah targets in Syria.
Mr Duda will instead host a ceremo-
ny at Auschwitz on Monday that Mr
Putin is boycotting. More than 1,000
survivors will join him in what may be
the last commemoration that a signifi-
cant number of them can still attend.
Thursday January 23 2020 | the times
France sends troops to
quell African jihadists
France French forces opposing
jihadists in northern Africa are to
be bolstered. The troops will be in
addition to the 220 soldiers sent
to the region recently to curb a
surge of violence. General
François Lecointre, who is
serving as chief of staff, said that
he would tell President Macron
of the proposed build-up in the
coming days. France has almost
5,000 soldiers helping local forces
against a rising insurgency in
Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger,
Mauritania and Chad. Thousands
of civilians and dozens of soldiers
have been killed. General
Lecointre said that France hoped
to have a European force working
by autumn. (AFP)
No more interviews,
Bolsonaro tells press
Brazil President Bolsonaro has
declared that he will no longer
speak to journalists after he was
accused of damaging the freedom
of the press. “I will not give more
interviews,” he told reporters in
Brasilia. The country’s National
Federation of Journalists said
last week that there were 208
verbal and physical attacks on the
media last year, and blamed him
for more than half. (AFP)
Greece makes judge its
first woman president
Greece MPs have elected the
country’s first female president.
Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou, 63, a
senior judge with no party
political allegiance, gained 261
out of a possible 294 votes to
secure the largely ceremonial
position. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the
prime minister, said: “Parliament
has elected a remarkable jurist, a
consensus figure who symbolises
the transition to a new era.”
Pleas in court over law
after 20 die in protests
India The supreme court began
hearing petitions that seek to
revoke amendments to a new
law offering citizenship to
non-Muslims fleeing persecution.
It is claimed to discriminate
against Muslims and has led to
protests in which more than
20 people have been killed. The
court said that it would reach a
decision in four weeks after
consulting the government. (AP)
Police destroy load of
smuggled Chinese pork
Italy Police have seized and
destroyed 9.5 tonnes of illegally
imported Chinese pork. The
Italian health ministry has
banned pork from China after an
outbreak of swine fever there.
The meat was hidden in a storage
facility managed by a Chinese
citizen near Padoa. He has been
charged with smuggling, trade in
harmful foodstuffs and spreading
animal diseases. (Reuters)
Caterpillar invasion
adds to food shortage
Malawi A caterpillar invasion has
affected 467,000 farmers in all
the country’s 28 farming districts.
The fall armyworm, native to the
Americas, has hit about 355,000
acres of crops, nearly triple that
of an invasion in 2017 that was
declared a state of disaster. About
1.9 million people are already
struggling with food shortages
after a drought that is affecting
much of southern Africa. (AFP)
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World

Consul guilty of smuggling tomb treasures

Egypt
Tom Kington
A former Italian honorary consul has
been sentenced to 15 years in jail by an
Egyptian court for smuggling a trea-
sure trove of ancient artefacts out of the
country, including thousands of gold
coins, numerous gold-plated mummy
masks and a wooden sarcophagus.
Ladislav Otakar Skakal was not in
court to hear the verdict as he is on the
run, reportedly in Italy where his
shipment of smuggled artefacts was
discovered hidden in containers after
arriving by sea from Egypt.
During a routine inspection at the
port of Salerno in 2017, police discov-
ered 21,855 artefacts, including 21,000
golden coins, 151 figurines, five mummy
masks, a pottery vessel with 40 oars-
men, amphorae, wooden sculptures
and the sarcophagus.
Most of the items are thought to have
been looted from around the city of
Minya, 150 miles south of Cairo, where
Ladislav Otakar
Skakal was consul
in Luxor from
2003 to 2014
ancient catacombs date back to
between the 7th and 4th century BC.
There was a surge of looting in the
chaos following the Egyptian revolu-
tion that toppled Hosni Mubarak. The
artefacts found in Salerno, which were
returned to Egypt in 2018, did not
appear in the government’s register of
antiquities, suggesting they had been
dug up by looters from tombs unknown
to official archaeologists.
In 2018, the Egyptian government
announced the discovery of eight
tombs in the area around Minya con-
taining 40 coffins of pharaonic priests
and more than 1,000 statues.
Skakal, an Italian citizen, was ap-
pointed honorary consul in Luxor in
2003 but resigned in 2014. Italian media
said his attempt to be reappointed to
the role in 2017 was turned down by the
Italian ambassador. Honorary consuls
are private citizens appointed by
governments in foreign countries to
give advice to their nationals. After the
The series of mummy masks were
among a hoard of 21,855 artefacts
discovery of the shipment in Salerno,
Egyptian authorities found more arte-
facts in Skakal’s flat in Cairo and in a
safe he used at an Egyptian bank.
Prosecutors also arrested an Egyp-
tian man, Raouf Boutros-Ghali, a Coptic
Christian who is accused of assisting the
Italian. The brother of Youssef Boutros-
Ghali, a former finance minister under
Mubarak, Mr Ghali is also a nephew of
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former UN
secretary-general. Raouf Boutros-Ghali
has denied involvement in the at-
tempted smuggling, telling the court
that he had inherited the artefacts from
his great-grandfather, Boutros Ghali,
who served as Egypt’s first Coptic prime
minister between 1908 and 1910.
A verdict in Mr Boutros-Ghali’s case
is expected next month. Nabil Ahmed
Sadek, Egypt’s senior prosecutor, has
ordered Skakal’s arrest and asked to
Interpol to issue a red notice to track
him down. Calls to his address in
Rome’s Via Del Governo Vecchio went
unanswered yesterday.

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Belgium uses Five Star head

drones to halt
migrant boats
Belgium
Bruno Waterfield Brussels
Belgium is to use drones to stop
migrants heading to Britain across the
North Sea from its Flemish coast.
The decision comes after a small
motor vessel carrying 14 migrants
capsized on Tuesday in the first known
case of an attempted crossing to the UK
by a boat from Belgium.
The country’s authorities fear that
migrants are heading from northern
France and the region around Calais to
the Flemish coast.
Carl Decaluwé, the governor of west
Flanders, said: “The problem is moving
from northern France to here. The
French use soldiers to guard the beach,
so the pressure on us will increase.
“We absolutely must avoid that. It is
also extra dangerous because the dis-
tance from us by sea is a lot longer com-
pared to France. Innovative resources
must be deployed, you can’t place a
police officer every ten metres.”
Last year 4,648 migrants left France
by boat, up from 562 in 2018. Most were
intercepted at sea by the French coast-
guard but more than 1,800 made it to
Britain. Since January 1, at least 52
migrants have been intercepted.
The 14 migrants swam back to shore
in the early hours of Tuesday after their
small vessel sank off the coast of De
Panne, a Belgian seaside resort.
The alarm was raised at 5am when
one of the migrants called at a home in
De Panne asking for help. Five migrants
were found on a local bus. The remain-
ing eight, including two children, fled.
resigns amid
party revolt
Tom Kington
Luigi Di Maio resigned as head of the
Five Star party yesterday, unsettling
Italy’s coalition government as Matteo
Salvini, the populist hard-right leader,
plots a return to power.
Mr Di Maio, 33, was forced out by a
growing rebellion in his party, deserted
by more than 20 MPs and senators,
reducing to single figures the senate
majority of its governing partnership
with the centre-left Democratic Party.
“The worst enemies are those within,
not outside,” Mr Di Maio said in a fare-
well address to his colleagues. “Enough
of being stabbed in the back.”
A former steward at a football stad-
ium, Mr Di Maio, from near Naples,
rose through the party ranks after the
comic Beppe Grillo formed Five Star in
2009 to fight corruption. Mr Di Maio
became party leader in 2017.
Five Star was triumphant in the 2018
elections, forming a coalition with Mr
Salvini’s anti-immigrant League party.
When Mr Salvini stormed out of the
partnership over policy differences last
year, Five Star formed a coalition with
the Democratic Party.
Mr Di Maio is set to remain foreign
minister, but will be replaced tempora-
rily as party chief by senator Vito Crimi
before a new leader is elected in March.
The shake-up weakens the govern-
ment as Mr Salvini campaigns hard to
overturn decades of Democratic Party
control of the wealthy central region of
Emilia Romagna at elections on Sun-
day. He hopes victory there will bring
Mein hair Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, with a member of the regional carnivals committee in Berlin yesterday him a step closer to a return to power.

Glass wall will help to save St Mark’s from Venice floods

Italy when we fear that high water will attributed the flooding to climate
St Mark’s return,” Pierpaolo Campostrini, a basil- change, which is raising sea levels and
Tom Kington Rome
Stt M
S Mark’s
ks Basilica ica official, said. Propelled by wind and provoking extreme weather.
A glass barrier around St Mark’s Basilica VENICE
V
VENI
E IIC
CE
C Sq
Sq
Square Last November’s tide, the water reached 1.87m above the Mr Campostrini said the entrance, or
Rio de

flood height: 187cm

in Venice is likely to be built to protect its normal level of the Venice lagoon in narthex, of the basilica had been under
marble panels and gold-leaf mosaics ccm November, the highest since 1966, water for an unprecedented 250 hours
500m
l Palaz

from frequent and devastating floods. 180

18 when thousands fled the city. in the last 20 days of November.
A plan to install a 1.2m (4ft) barrier 160
16 Facing St Mark’s Square, the lowest The narthex is the lowest point in the
along the front of the basilica was de- point in Venice, the basilica is particu- church and floods when water rises to
zo

140
14
veloped after flood water surged larly vulnerable. Repairs for the recent 85cm above normal levels, enough to
120
12
through the 11th-century building in damage have been estimated to cost send the sea through the basilica door.
November, smashing windows, soak- St Mark’s 100
10 €5 million. At 1.6m the water rises up the stairs
Square
ing mosaics in corrosive salt water and 8
80 Church officials want the barrier to from the narthex and enters the central
filling the crypt to the depth of a metre. 6
60 be 150m long, which would cost hall of the church.
Preliminary permission has now Proposed 1.2m-high 4
40 €3.5 million. If approved by the city’s In November water rose to 1.87m, so
been granted by city officials. “The glass protective Doge’s cultural superintendent, it would be St Mark’s Square was under a metre of
2
20
barrier is essential and feasible and we 20 metres barrier Palace sited 1.8m from the basilica wall. water. The proposed 1.2m barrier would
aim to get it in place by November, 0 Luigi Brugnaro, the mayor of Venice, have protected the church.
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World
Outcry frees teenager jailed for filming hospital cockroach Asteroid put
Jordan
Jassar Tahat
A 19-year-old Jordanian who was jailed
for posting a video of a cockroach he
saw in one of the country’s biggest hos-
pitals has been released after an outcry
on social media.
Thaer Hamo was visiting his grand-
father in the intensive care unit of the
al-Bashir Public Hospital in the capital,
Amman, when he noticed a cockroach
running across the floor. A caretaker
was called, who killed the insect, but Mr
Lebanon gets
‘government
of last resort’
Lebanon
Richard Spencer Beirut
Lebanon’s new government has
announced that the country is facing
“catastrophe” in a bleak assessment.
“Today we are in a financial, eco-
nomic and social dead end,” Hassan
Diab, the new prime minister, said.
The announcement of a new cabinet
was forced on the country’s main
parties after Saad Hariri, the previous,
pro-Saudi prime minister, resigned
following mass protests.
Mr Diab, 61, was supported by Hezb-
ollah, which strengthened its grip on
the establishment in the ensuing crisis.
Nevertheless, al-Akhbar, the main
newspaper associated with Hezbollah,
was scarcely more optimistic about his
appointment than the rest of the coun-
try, describing the cabinet as a “govern-
ment of last resort”.
Lebanon has faced economic and
political crises since protests broke out
in October triggered by an austerity
drive. The country has the third worst
national debt in the world, proportion-
ate to the size of its economy, and its
banks are on the verge of collapse.
The government must decide whe-
ther to devalue the currency, which
might free up local dollar bank ac-
counts, currently part frozen, but which
would damage long-term confidence.
Zimbabwe doctors will return to
work after billionaire pays wages
Zimbabwe
Jane Flanagan
A Zimbabwean billionaire has stepped
in to end the country’s crippling doc-
tors’ strike by offering those who return
to work a monthly allowance of at least
£230 and their taxi fares.
The Zimbabwe Hospital
Doctors Association
(ZHDA) welcomed the
offer from Strive Masi-
yiwa, 58, after failing to
get the government to peg
their wages to the US
dollar.
Junior doctors
stopped work-
ing in Septem-
ber to demand
an increase to
their wages, say-
ing that they
could no longer
afford to travel to
a stop to
Hamo then saw another nestling
among equipment on the ward and
filmed it.
early ice age
After posting it on Facebook last
August the clip went viral, adding to a
debate in the country on underfunded
public institutions and the state of
Jordan’s services.
The hospital reported Mr Hamo to
the police on grounds of insulting a
public institution. Dr Mahmoud Zrei-
kat, its director, said that the hospital
had done what it could to improve
conditions, last year fining the cleaning
Activists have burnt tyres in street protests that have brought Beirut to a virtual halt amid a political and economic crisis
work because of inflation of more than
500 per cent.
Senior doctors joined the strike and
warned of a “silent genocide” in state
hospitals that had run out of drugs,
gloves and syringes.
Mr Masiyiwa, a telecoms tycoon esti-
mated to be worth $1.1 billion, is one of
Africa’s most prolific philanthropists.
He will fund the doctors for six months
through a fellowship programme run
by the Higherlife Foundation, a charit-
able organisation he runs with his wife,
Tsitsi. The scheme will be open to doc-
tors from junior ranks to senior
consultants working in
government hospitals and
for six months will offer
monthly subsistence
allowances of between
Strive Masiyiwa’s
programme will end
almost four months
of doctors’ strikes
service company to force it to improve
standards.
News that Mr Hamo had been jailed
pending trial caused outrage online
and even among MPs. “How can a
cockroach send someone to jail?” one
social media user asked.
Ibrahim Badour, a former head of the
parliamentary health committee, said
that the case was being used to scare
people out of complaining about
underfunding and poor management
at state-run hospitals.
“The financial issue is not the only
£230 and £460. The ZHDA urged its
members yesterday to take up the offer.
The union had initially rejected it when
Mr Masiyiwa first offered funding in
November, as it had demanded a long-
term plan from the government to fix
the decrepit healthcare system.
A spokesman for the union said that
its members had voted to accept Mr
Masiyiwa’s “generosity” but added that
doctors would be returning to wards
that remained hazardous for staff and
patients.
“These allowances will be a huge
help to our members even though they
will still be working in an incapacitated
system,” he said. “We hope that we can
reach a longlasting solution with the
government.”
Mr Masiyiwa, who for the past
decade has lived in the UK with his wife
and six children, remains a popular
figure at home, where he funds educa-
tion projects that have benefited thou-
sands of children. His parents fled what
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issue facing the public health sector but
the administrative issue is also a major
one,” he said. “The ‘cockroach case’ is
not a novelty and everyone knows that,
but the behaviour of the hospital
administration is new.
“Filing a case and placing the teen-
ager in detention is a message meant
for others rather than the young man
himself — it’s saying that this will be our
response for anyone who does the
same.” Yesterday, in the face of public
pressure, Mr Hamo was released after
one night in a police cell.
IBRAHIM AMRO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
was then Rhodesia under Ian Smith, to
Zambia when he was seven. The
family’s new neighbours were Scottish
and Mr Masiyiwa was sent to the same
Edinburgh boarding school as their
friends’ son.
He graduated from the University of
Wales with a degree in engineering
before returning home. He successfully
challenged the Mugabe government’s
refusal to grant him a licence to operate
a telecoms business and by the time he
left Zimbabwe for South Africa in 2000
he had made a fortune.
The businessman’s wealth dropped
from $2.3 billion almost overnight last
June when the Zimbabwean govern-
ment converted US dollar assets into
local currency, which then collapsed.
Mr Masiyiwa has devoted the past
few years to mentoring the next
generation of African entrepreneurs on
Facebook. He has one of the largest
online followings of any global business
leader.
Thursday January 23 2020 | the times
Australia
Bernard Lagan Sydney
Scientists believe they have identified
the world’s oldest asteroid crater, which
formed more than two billion years ago
in the Australian outback and may have
triggered the end of an ice age.
The 43-mile wide Yarrabubba crater
has been known since 1979 but new
research, published in Nature Commu-
nications, shows that it is the world’s
oldest known asteroid crater, eclipsing
South Africa’s Vredefort by more than
200 million years.
The latest, more precise age, calcu-
lated by dating minerals, is 2.229 billion
years old. The time of the impact may
also explain why the world experienced
a thaw around that period.
Researchers believe that when the
asteroid hit, the planet was still in one of
its “Snowball Earth” periods, a time
when it was largely covered in ice,
which at some point melted and Earth
began to warm. It is possible that this
was caused by the asteroid’s impact,
about 520 miles northeast of where
Perth is now located.
“The Earth had glacial ice before the
time of the impact but afterwards ice
disappeared for hundreds of millions of
years. Was the Yarrabubba impact a
trigger for global climate change?” the
study’s authors wrote.
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AUSTR
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A TRALIA
T IA
Site of
asteroid
impact
Perth
Perth 200 miles
Maduro spends
€1m on return
of sacred rock
Venezuela
Stephen Gibbs Caracas
In the midst of the deepest recession in
its history, Venezuela’s socialist govern-
ment is paying for a “sacred” 35-tonne
rock that has been sitting in a Berlin
park for two decades to be repatriated
to Venezuela.
The cost of the operation is under-
stood to be more than €1 million.
The Kueka rock formed part of an art
installation close to the Brandenburg
gate. It was extracted from the Canaima
national park in southern Venezuela in
1998 by Wolfgang Kraker von Schwar-
zenfeld, a German artist, and was part
of his Global Stones exhibit, promoting
world peace. Germany insists that the
pink rock was a gift from Rafael Calde-
ra, then the Venezuelan president.
Since 1999, when Hugo Chávez be-
came president, Venezuela has sought
its return. Chávez, who died in 2013,
claimed that the Kueka was stolen and
was part of the Pemón people’s cultural
heritage, citing a legend that it was one
of two lovers from rival tribes who were
discovered by a jealous god and turned
into stone. Some anthropologists dis-
pute whether this myth has ever been
part of Pemón culture.
The government has been in conflict
with the Pemón people, who have been
highly critical of the destruction caused
by open-cast gold mining in their lands.
the times | Thursday January 23 2020
world markets (Change on the day)
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Musk set for
big payday as
Tesla smashes
$100bn mark
James Dean US Business Editor
Tesla’s market capitalisation has bro-
ken through $100 billion to secure its
place as the world’s second largest car-
maker by value and put Elon Musk on
course for a bumper payday.
Mr Musk, co-founder and chief
executive, will receive $346 million in
share awards if he keeps Tesla’s value
above $100 billion on average for the
next six months. It is the first milestone
in a lucrative pay deal that ultimately
could lead to him picking up share
awards worth as much as $55.8 billion.
Tesla’s shares have soared after it
published a surprise third-quarter
profit, delivered more cars than expec-
ted at the end of last year and benefited
from analyst upgrades.
Mr Musk, 48, has tied the success of
the company to the Model 3, Tesla’s first
mass-market car, and it is increasing
production quickly after a series of
setbacks.
Tesla shares hit an intraday high of
$583.95 yesterday, well above the
$554.80 needed to achieve a $100 bil-
lion market cap. They closed up 4.1 per
cent, or $22.36, at $569.56, valuing the
company at nearly $103 billion.
Only Toyota’s market capitalisation
of about $201 billion exceeds that of
Tesla. Volkswagen, the new No 3 by
value, was valued at $99.5 billion yes-
terday and General Motors, the largest
American carmaker by sales, was
valued at $50 billion.
Mr Musk needs to bring Tesla’s
Big Four jump gun on break-up
Accountants in talks to separate audit and consulting arms
Louisa Clarence-Smith
The Big Four accounting firms are in
talks with the audit regulator about a
self-imposed break-up in an attempt to
get ahead of any enforcement action
taken by the government.
Guidelines for the separation of audit
and consulting operations at firms
including PWC, Deloitte, EY and
KPMG are being drawn up by the
Financial Reporting Council.
Proposed changes include to “gov-
ernance, leadership, financials and
remuneration” at the firms’ audit and
consulting divisions, according to a
person briefed on the discussions.
The watchdog would oversee the
implementation of new standards and
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27,500
26,500
31 Jan 9 17 Dec 20 Jan 2
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$346m
First tranche of
$56bn
Potential share awards
share awards for Elon Musk, right
$650bn
Market cap that Tesla
$22bn
Value of Musk’s
must hit for full awards existing stake in Tesla
to be triggered
market capitalisation to $650 billion
and to hit 12 of 16 financial targets set by
the company to pick up his maximum
award, which assumes no dilution of
Tesla’s shares. He will be awarded share
options worth 1 per cent of the com-
pany each time that he increases Tesla’s
would hold the firms accountable if
they failed to meet them. The changes
would be a radical shift in the opera-
tions of the firms in the UK, where they
employ about 70,000 people.
The industry-driven standards
would help the sector to get ahead of
any government-led overhaul of the
profession, as ministers have yet to
decide how to respond to four govern-
ment-commissioned reviews that pub-
lished reports last year.
The reviews have proposed different
measures to improve choice and com-
petition in the sector after criticism of
the Big Four firms for not doing enough
to spot problems at companies that
collapsed, such as Carillion, the govern-
ment contractor, and BHS, the depart-
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market cap by $50 billion and hits an
additional financial target, which in-
volves increasing both revenue and un-
derlying profit. He also must remain as
chief executive or executive chairman
throughout.
His deal, agreed in 2018, is the subject
ment stores chain. MPs criticised the
Big Four for focusing on generating
revenues from consulting work while
the quality of audits dwindled.
A spokesman for the regulator said:
“The FRC is in early discussions with
the audit firms to understand their
thinking on operational separation
with a view to establishing some com-
mon principles to which we might hold
them accountable.
“Our objectives are that the audit
practices should be focused first and
foremost on audit quality; and that they
should be financially self-standing,
with no structural cross-subsidies.”
The Competition and Markets
Authority, the watchdog, proposed a
break-up of the Big Four in April last
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of shareholder legal action alleging see the potential for Tesla to become
breach of fiduciary duty by board mem- a trillion-dollar company within a ten-
bers, among other things. Tesla said year period.” Tesla achieved the highest
that the claims were without merit and valuation for an American carmaker
that it would defend them vigorously. this month, eclipsing Ford’s 1999 record
When the compensation deal was of $80.8 billion.
announced, Mr Musk said: “I actually Trump praises Musk, page 38
year as part of a review of the audit interest between audit and consulting
sector. The proposal was met with divisions.
opposition from firms including EY, The introduction of new standards
which said that it “fundamentally dis- would show decisive action from the
agreed” with a break-up of its business. council, which has been accused of
However, some of the firms more being slow to investigate misconduct
recently have begun to take their own and lacklustre in its supervision.
measures to make their audit divisions The regulator has appointed Simon
more separate in preparation for a poss- Dingemans, former chief financial offi-
ible forced break-up. cer of Glaxosmithkline, as its new
KPMG has moved hundreds of staff chairman and Sir Jon Thompson,
and about 20 partners from its advisory former chief executive of HM Revenue
division into its audit department as & Customs, as chief executive.
part of measures to create more separa- It is due to be replaced by a more
tion between the divisions. powerful body, the Audit, Reporting
Deloitte has given final say on the and Governance Authority, that will be
pay and bonuses of its auditors to its able to impose harsher penalties on
non-executive directors in response to companies and auditors and to inter-
concerns about possible conflicts of vene directly in company accounts.
38 1G M RM Thursday January 23 2020 | the times

Business

Need to know
1
Boris Johnson is planning to
push ahead with a levy on large
Sainsbury’s After six years, a Coupe d’état
2014 Now

chief resigns
technology companies,
imposing a 2 per cent sales duty Employees 161,000
on firms such as Facebook and 178,000
Google from April and risking a
post-Brexit rift with President Market share 16.8%
Trump as he prepares to clash 16%
with the United States over tax,
trade and foreign affairs. Pages 1, 2

2
The Prince of Wales has
urged business and political
leaders at the World
Economic Forum in Davos,
after failed Supermarkets

Argos 600 shops plus a further 281

concessions in Sainsbury’s stores
592
608

Switzerland, to bring the planet

“back from the brink” and
emphasised the importance of the
next decade in his strongest
warning yet on the threat of
climate change. He later met
Asda merger
Greta Thunberg, the environment Ashley Armstrong Retail Editor was terminated, at a cost of £46 million
campaigner. Page 8 in advisory fees, Mr Coupe set out a
Mike Coupe is to stand down as chief plan to cut costs by £500 million, which

3
South Western Railway, which
carries 216 million passengers
a year between London,
Surrey, Berkshire, Hampshire,
Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset and
Devon, could be nationalised
within months because the
business is “not sustainable”, Grant
Schapps, the transport secretary,
said. Page 22
executive of J Sainsbury, a year after its
failed £12 billion merger with Asda.
Mr Coupe, 59, who has been at the
company for 15 years and boss for six,
will hand over to Simon Roberts, 48, in
June. Mr Roberts joined Sainsbury’s as
its retail and operations director in 2017
after 13 years at Boots. The announce-
ment sent shares in the retailer down by
4½p, or 2 per cent, to 208p.
Mr Coupe’s future had been the
he insisted was not a plan B.
Since Mr Coupe became chief
executive in 2014, Sainsbury’s sales
have grown by £6 billion to £32.4 bil-
lion, helped by adding Argos to the
business. However, profits have fallen
by 73 per cent to £239 million, while the
shares are down by almost a third, more
than any of its rivals. Jan 5, 2016 Sainsbury’s
Clive Black, an analyst at Shore confirms plans to take over
Capital, the broker, said that Mr Coupe Argos and Habitat oowner
Home Retail Group

4
PWC, Deloitte, EY and
KPMG, the Big Four
accounting firms, are in
discussions with the Financial
Reporting Council, Britain’s audit
regulator, about a self-imposed
break-up in order to beat any
enforcement action imposed by
the government. Page 37
subject of intense speculation ever
since competition regulators scup-
pered the would-be tie-up with Asda, a
key rival, which would have created
Britain’s biggest supermarket chain.
Experts criticised Mr Coupe’s unwaver-
ing confidence that the deal would be
cleared by regulators as an “expensive
folly”.
The executive also will be remem-
had “shown immense ambitions,
effectively acquiring and integrating
Argos . . . but materially over-extending
the business’s capabilities in the eyes of
the regulator with the proposed Asda Jan 29, 2014
merger”. Justin King
Mr Coupe said that stepping down steps down and
had been a “difficult decision for me Mike Coupe,
personally” and that “Sainsbury’s is a group
very different business today to the one commercial

5
Tesla’s market capitalisation
has broken through the
$100 billion watershed to
secure its place as the world’s
second largest carmaker by value
and putting Elon Musk, its co-
founder, on course for a bumper
payday. Page 37
bered for being caught on camera I took over in 2014”. He added that the director, named
singing “we’re in the money” while takeover of Argos had resulted in a fifth as his successor
waiting for a television news interview of its sales coming from online. July 2016
1
when the proposed merger was an- “There is never a good time to move Sainsbury’s
r
nounced. on, but we and the industry continue to pulls plug
u on
One top 20 investor in Sainsbury’s evolve and I believe now is the right Netto joint
i
said that Mr Coupe had “put his job and time for me to hand over,” he said. He venture
reputation on the line” with a deal that added that he was confident that Mr
would have seen Sainsbury’s leapfrog Roberts “was the right choice for our

6
Mike Coupe is to stand down
as chief executive of
J Sainsbury, a year after its
failed £12 billion merger with Asda.
Mr Coupe, who has been at the
company for 15 years and its boss
for six, will hand over to Simon
Roberts in June.
Tesco to the No 1 spot. customers, our colleagues and our
However, Sainsbury’s always insisted investors”. 2015 2016 2017
that Mr Coupe had the full support of Sainsbury’s said that Mr Coupe
the board. Martin Scicluna, 68, would continue to receive his
its chairman, called Mr £962,297 salary and benefits
Coupe an “exceptional until he retired in July, but he What’s in Simon Roberts’ inbox
chief executive” and said was waiving his entitlement to
that he had “been bold and a bonus and share awards for 6 Defend the shoppers to stay with integration of Argos and
ambitious on behalf of our 2020. supermarket group from Sainsbury’s. get its sales back on
6 Decide whether to

7
About 500 jobs are being shed
at the Range Rover Evoque
factory at Halewood on
Merseyside as the recession in the
British motor industry bites. The
plant, which employs 4,000
people, also makes the Land Rover
Discovery Sport. Page 40
shareholders, customers Mr Roberts will receive a
and our colleagues”. base salary of £875,000,
After the deal a pension benefit of
7.5 per cent of salary
Mike Coupe, left, and a bonus policy in
will be replaced line with that of his
by Simon Roberts predecessor.
the creep of Aldi and
Lidl, the discounters,
into the south of
England by ensuring
that its new value range
of groceries persuades
keep the banking unit
after pulling out of
mortgage lending last
September.
6 Manage the
track after a dismal
Christmas.
6 Take advantage of
lease expiries to push
through more high
street store closures and

8
Britain’s largest train
manufacturing plant, the
historic Litchurch Lane works
in Derby, could fall into French
Boeing is out and Musk is in as Trump climbs on
hands. Bombardier, the struggling a “very disappointing company”
Canadian train and aircraft maker, because it was hurting US growth and diary
has been in talks to sell its rail davos 2020 pulling down the Dow Jones industrial
business to Alstom, of France. average. The president is normally an Not really a ban, then The golden ticket has (rightly) secured a
Page 42 advocate of the aviation group, Amer- “Boris Johnson has David Blaine was the talk white badge this year.
ica’s leading manufacturing exporter. banned ministers from of the slopes last year The former WPP chief

9
Berkeley Group, one of
Britain’s biggest upmarket
housebuilders, has announced
a £1 billion payday for shareholders
and pledged to sell more new
homes as it bets on the recovery of
the housing market in London and
the South East. Page 43
James Dean US Business Editor Mr Trump, 73, said: “This is one of the sloping off to the Davos after he ate Jamie executive and Davos
great companies of the world — let’s summit,” No 10 sources Dimon’s wine glass and veteran was forced to
President Trump yesterday lauded say as of a year ago — and then all of a briefed. “Our focus is on picked the shards from attend on a hotel badge
Elon Musk’s “genius” as he turned cold sudden things happen.” Two crashes delivering for the his teeth. But the last year.
on Boeing for the first time. involving Boeing’s 737 Max within six people; not champagne magician’s feat was
Mr Trump likened the achievements months in 2018 and 2019, which killed with billionaires.” Mr nothing on this year. His Force for good?
of Mr Musk, co-founder and chief 346 people altogether, have left the air- Johnson’s advisers may hosts forgot to acquire Salesforce, the cloud
executive of Tesla, to those of Thomas craft grounded since March last year. frown on Davos, but it is him an access-all-areas computing company, is
Edison, inventor of the lightbulb. In the interview, Mr Trump said that a favourite of previous white badge, but then keeping up the party

10 Demand for Riccardo
Tisci’s striking designs has
given Burberry the
confidence to look beyond
challenges in its key Hong Kong
and Chinese markets and boost its
growth forecasts. Pages 44-45
Tesla’s recent rise contrasts with the
decline of Boeing, which has lost its
crown as the world’s leading aircraft
maker as a crisis involving the 737 Max,
its bestselling jet, drags on.
In an interview with CNBC at the
World Economic Forum in Davos yes-
terday, Mr Trump described Boeing as
he had been “worried” about Mr Musk, leaders with David managed to conjure up standards. Lenny Kravitz
48, “because he’s one of our great Cameron, Gordon Brown a temporary last-minute is being flown in to
geniuses and we have to protect our and Tony Blair on the one. Magic, indeed. perform on the final
genius”. Last year Tesla was struggling official delegates list this night of the billionaires’
to ramp up production of the Model 3, year and Theresa May Sorrell’s upgrade boondoggle. Davos ain’t
its new car. flown in to entertain Good to see that Davos over ’til it’s over, as the
“We have to protect Thomas Edison; PWC’s guests. veteran Sir Martin Sorrell singer might say.
we have to protect all of these people
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Business
Welcome to
Convenience shops 611
820 elite club of What swansong for
Online sales £1bn
£4.7bn
retail bosses ‘money’ singer?
Group sales £26.4bn Profile
£32.4bn business commentary Alistair Osborne
Three decades after starting as a

Profit before tax £898m 16-year-old shopworker at Marks &
Spencer, Simon Roberts has risen to be
£239m the boss of Britain’s second biggest food
Dividend per share retailer (Ashley Armstrong writes).
In taking charge at Sainsbury’s, the
based on company 48-year-old, who turned down a place
annual reports 17.3p 11p to study electrical engineering at
King’s College London to join Marks &
Spencer’s trainee scheme, is part of a
small club in the City that includes
David Potts, Wm Morrison’s chief exec-
utive, and Steve Rowe, the head of
M&S, to have gone from Saturday boy
to boss.
Mr Roberts, who was born in
I
f only Mike Coupe had picked a
different musical. What was
wrong with Hello, Trolley! or
whatever it was called? Or the
one with The Tills are Alive in
it? Or even a complete rendition of
Little Shop of Horrors?
Instead, the Sainsbury’s songbird,
now off after six years, gave us We’re
in the Money. And look at the cheap
shot that invited — to say, not if
you’re a Sainsbury’s shareholder, Mr
Coupe. Indeed, his looming exit at
the end of May had AJ Bell
declaring: “Sainsbury has been the
three more years to see it through”.
At least now he’ll keep his wife
happy by handing over to retail
chief Simon Roberts — like Tesco’s
Ken Murphy, formerly of Boots.
As for Mr Coupe, he kept a diary
of his tenure and is toying with an
account of what it’s actually “like to
do the job”. Or, as they chirrup in
the musical: “If they ask me, I could
write a book.”
Taxing question

N
400p Croydon, south London, spent 15 years worst performer of the major owhere beats Davos for hot
with M&S, where he held operational quoted grocery firms in the UK air on a ski slope. So no big
and customer leadership roles in stores, during Mr Coupe’s time as CEO.” It shock to hear the latest from
divisions and its central operations reckons total shareholder returns Sundar Pichai, the boss of Google-
before leaving to join Boots. fell by 13 per cent. And maybe they owner Alphabet. Apparently,
During 11 years with the health and did. But, not for the first time, such artificial intelligence will be “more
350 pharmacy chain, he invested in boost- metrics fail to tell the real story. profound” for humanity than “fire
ing its online business and worked Mr Coupe took charge in July or electricity”. Really? Isn’t it a bit
April 30, 2018 alongside Ken Murphy as joint chief 2014, when the discounters Aldi and early to tell?
Sainsbury’s and operating officer before being promot- Lidl were cranking up the Still, Mr Pichai was hardly alone
Asda announce ed to president of Boots. Now Mr Rob- competitive volume and internet in making outlandish statements.
merger talks erts will be pitted against Mr Murphy, shopping was breezily exposing all Chancellor Sajid Javid, was at it, too.
300 who replaces Dave Lewis as Tesco’s the excess space in Britain’s He insisted that the UK “plans to go
Jan 22, 2020 Mike chief executive this year. hypermarkets. Low inflation souped ahead” with a digital services tax on
Coupe announces “It just shows how incestuous this up the challenge. So it says big tech: the likes of Google and
retirement, Simon industry is,” a retail source said. “It’s something for Mr Coupe — plus his Facebook. Moreover, the 2 per cent
Roberts named as going to be very interesting because legacy from predecessor Justin King levy could come in as early as April.
next chief executive Simon and Ken used to be very close, — that he’s negotiated a tough So how will that play out while
250 they know each other extremely well market without his rivals’ bloopers. Brexit Britain tries to hammer out a
April 25, 2019
and will be aware of each other’s As Bernstein analysts have noted, trade deal with America? Well, Mr
Tie-up formally
strengths and weaknesses.” Sainsbury’s is the “only Big Four Javid’s fellow Davos panellist, US
blocked by
competition
Mr Roberts, who lives in York with supermarket that did not require a Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin,
watchdog
his wife Helen, is “a great guy, very like- major margin reset in response to made that perfectly clear: “If people
able, with great energy” a senior retail hard discounter growth”. Tesco was want to just arbitrarily put taxes on
200 figure said. He was seen as the leading pushed so hard it ended up with a our digital companies we will
internal candidate for the job after John £263 million accounting black hole consider arbitrarily putting taxes on
0 Mike
Sept 25, 2019 Rogers, the Argos boss, joined WPP, the and a £235 million settlement with car companies.” Not quite the thing
Coupe unveils
v five- advertising group, last October. the Serious Fraud Office and other UK carmakers want to hear — not
year plan tto cut Since Mr Roberts joined Sainsbury’s regulators. Morrison’s experiment least on the day Jaguar Land Rover
5
costs by £500m in July 2017, he has been responsible for with Dalton Philips and his “misty cut 500 jobs at its Halewood plant
150 its stores, central operations and veg” ended with new managers and on Merseyside (report, page 40).
2018 2019 2020 logistics and has improved product a turnaround. Asda’s underlying True, Mr Javid said a unilateral
availability. sales fell for three years. UK tax would only be “temporary”
“He’s a lot more comfortable in stores Mr Coupe managed a far less and would “fall away once there is
than Mike is,” one source said, while painful transition, reconfiguring the an international solution”. Even so,
another said that it was not apparent business to serve customers it took one of his predecessors to
whether he had the necessary strategic “whenever and wherever they want point out the realpolitik. As George
put more Argos shops with more grocery and perspective for his new role. to shop”, as he put it. His response Osborne told the BBC, it would be a
into supermarkets to homeware products to Two years ago Mr Roberts said that to excess space was the £1.1 billion “very brave British government that
save money (this license to other one aspect he found “enriching and Argos buy: no stunner, but decent walks into a trade war with the US”
would have to be retailers. exciting about retail is that you can’t say enough. Taking ownership of the just when the “centre point of its
executed well to avoid 6 Make money from ‘we’ve sorted it now’ or ‘it’s done’, data-rich Nectar scheme was also a economic policy” is striking a US
a political backlash). customer data because the job of this industry is to smart move in this internet age. trade deal. Quite.
6 Develop Sainsbury’s gathered through the keep reinventing itself”. And he’s lifted digital sales to a fifth
He won’t be short of excitement in his of the total.
wholesale business, Nectar loyalty scheme.
new role. Yet there is one memorable black Not Maxed out yet
mark: the mooted £12 billion Asda

A
tie-up that Shore Capital analysts s if persuading the passengers

board Tesla Johnson’s deadline will deliver were hardly alone in feeling was
“doomed from the start”. Mr Coupe
spent far too much time listening to
to board a Boeing 737 Max
won’t be enough of a
challenge. Relations with the pilots

that came up with the lightbulb, the

wheel and all of these things,” Mr
Trump said. “He’s one of our very smart
people and we want to cherish those
people.” Comparing Mr Musk to
Edison is ironic, given that Tesla is
named after Nikola Tesla, a rival in the
battle to develop electric power trans-
mission systems in the late 1800s.
Mr Trump said it was “shocking” how
Tesla’s rise had “come so fast. You go
back a year and they were talking about
the end of the company. Now they’re
talking about these great things. He’s
going to be building a big plant in the
United States.”
Referring to SpaceX, Mr Musk’s
space exploration company, Mr Trump
said: “He likes rockets, and he does
good at rockets, too. Where the engines
come down with no wings and they’re
landing — I’ve never seen that before.”
Boeing crisis, page 40
trade deal, says UBS chairman
Philip Aldrick
One of Europe’s leading business
figures has backed the government’s
hard deadline for a trade deal with
Brussels and has predicted an econo-
mic boost for Britain, despite concerns
that Boris Johnson’s timetable threat-
ens a no-deal Brexit.
Axel Weber, chairman of UBS, the
Swiss investment bank, said that the
December 31 deadline would drive talks
forward and he was confident that a
deal would be reached.
“Time pressure is helpful. Keeping
the time pressure on is important here,”
he told the World Economic Forum.
The former head of the German
central bank said that the prime minis-
ter’s majority would provide clarity that
would help to deliver a deal, claiming
that investment was already flooding
back to the UK. “Some of the investor
strike, we [are] seeing that disappear.
People are coming off the sidelines and
that’s going to be very good for the
economy,” he said.
Patrick Thomson, chief executive of
JP Morgan Asset Management in
Europe, which handles $400 billion of
client funds, said that investment
would return to the UK this year.
“We’re pretty excited about the UK,” he
said. “There is a lot of demand. One
thing inhibiting it has been the lack of
clarity over Brexit. That, to a large
extent, has now been lifted.”
Mr Weber said that the trade deal
would not be finalised by the end of the
year, but it would be enough for
business and investors to press ahead
with their plans.
his banking and legal advisers. But
somehow they all missed the arrival
of Andrew Tyrie as the Competition
and Markets Authority chairman.
No way was his first decision going
to be sanctioning a Sainsbury’s-
Tesco supermarket duopoly with
60 per cent-plus of the market.
Sainsbury’s shares hit 309p the
day Mr Coupe unveiled his Asda
deal and burst into song. But they’re
£1 lower now: down 2 per cent to
208p on news of his exit. And since
the Asda farrago the £3.9 million-a-
year Mr Coupe has come up with
little more than cost cuts: hundreds
of managers only this week.
Besides, he’s 60 in September and
had promised his wife that he’d call
it a day then: something he admits
would have caused him a “big
personal issue” if he’d landed Asda
because “I’d have needed two to
are at breaking point, too — at least
to judge by the remarks of Dennis
Tajer from the Allied Pilots
Association, the outfit representing
15,000 American Airlines pilots. He
said trust in the US planemaker had
been “crushed, blended and diced”
after its response to two fatal
crashes that killed 346 people.
Yes, Boeing’s new boss Dave
Calhoun is showing a little more
grasp of reality than his predecessor.
He’s put back any chance of the
plane returning to service until June
or July at the earliest. But that also
guarantees higher production and
compensation costs: a bill that could
reach $25 billion on the estimates of
Jefferies analysts. Or far more than
the $9 billion set aside by Boeing to
date. That’s nowhere near enough.
alistair.osborne@thetimes.co.uk
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Boeing is hurting for every

Boeing flies day that its Max aircraft
are parked at its factory
into more company has booked
$9 billion in charges
trouble over over the Max crisis.
Jefferies predicted
Max costs yesterday that Boeing
would need to set aside

B
oeing’s woes
deepened
yesterday as
Wall Street
earmarked billions of
dollars more in charges
related to the grounded
737 Max aircraft and as
pilots reported a crisis of
confidence in the
company (James Dean
writes).
Shares in Tui, the
Anglo-German travel
group, fell by 5.5 per
cent amid concerns that
an extension to the
Max’s grounding would
leave it without enough
aircraft in the busy
summer months. In
contrast, shares in
Airbus, Boeing’s great
rival, hit a new high.
The Max has been
grounded since March
last year after two
crashes involving the
jets killed a total of 346
people. Boeing is
struggling to win
regulatory approval for
the Max after updating a
faulty flight control
system that was blamed
in part for the disasters.
It said on Tuesday it did
not expect approval
until the summer.
Dennis Tajer, a
spokesman for the
Allied Pilots
Association, which
represents 15,000
American Airlines
pilots, said trust in
Boeing had been
“crushed, blended and
diced”. Pilots would not
be “arm candy for any
public relations shows”
as Boeing sought to win
public trust in the
aircraft, he added.
Jon Horne, president
of the European Cockpit
Association, which
represents 40,000
commercial airline
pilots, said: “Pilots will
be watching from the
facts on the ground if
trust in Boeing is
justified. Boeing needs
to focus on engineering
quality over speed and
cost, actively rebuilding
a damaged safety
culture.” Last year,
Boeing set aside
$4.9 billion for airline
compensation, assuming
that the jet would be
airborne again by
December. To date, the
closer to $25 billion to
compensate airlines and
to cover higher
production costs.
David Calhoun,
Boeing’s new chief
executive, said yesterday
that the company would
restart production of the
Max months before its
expected green light
from regulators.
Mr Calhoun, 62, said
recently disclosed
internal messages from
Boeing, in which
employees working on
the Max programme
joked that the aircraft
was “designed by
clowns”, were
“appalling”. “This was a
very unusual group of
folks using horrible
language and should
have been dealt with a
long time ago,” he said.
Boeing shares closed
down $4.36, or 1.4 per
cent, at $309.01 in New
York. Airbus shares
closed up €1.58, or 1.2
per cent, in Paris at
€137.98. Tui shares in
London fell 49p to 837p.

Jaguar Land Rover sheds 500 jobs Borrowing

at Halewood in ‘efficiencies’ drive
Robert Lea Industrial Editor
Hundreds of jobs are being shed at the
Range Rover Evoque factory at Hale-
wood on Merseyside as the recession in
the British motor industry bites.
About 500 jobs are being cut at the
plant, which employs 4,000 people and
also makes the Land Rover Discovery
slumped by 15 per cent in 2018 and its
sales fell by 6 per cent to 557,000 vehi-
cles last year.
The company, whose parent Tata
Motors is listed in Bombay, said that it
was cutting the third of its three daily
shifts at Halewood from April.
Jaguar Land Rover is Britain’s biggest
automotive employer and its factories
fortunate SS insignia, had been taken
off the London stock market in 1990,
while Land Rover was acquired by Ford
a decade later from BMW during the
break-up of Rover Group.
Jaguar and Land Rover were taken
over by Tata in 2008 for a knockdown
£1.15 billion amid the dispersal of Ford’s
non-homemade brands, which includ-
volumes. “This will deliver significant
operating efficiencies at the plant,
while enabling us to meet the growing
customer demand for our new Range
Rover Evoque and Land Rover Discov-
ery Sport,” a spokesman said.
A new version of the £31,000 Evoque,
the bestseller in the Range Rover-Land
Rover stable, was launched last year
falls before
spring budget
Patrick Hosking Financial Editor
The chancellor has been given a litte
more wriggle room in his budget after
government borrowing figures for
December were below expectations.
Public sector net borrowing was
£4.8 billion in the month, less than the
£5 billion recorded in December 2018,

Sport.
Over the past two years Jaguar Land
Rover has made 6,000 people redun-
dant, paring its workforce back to
34,000. Most of those jobs went in the
West Midlands and at its headquarters
in Coventry.
The company has suffered as motor-
ists turn their backs on diesel, the fuel
that not long ago drove 90 per cent of
Jaguar Land Rover’s vehicles.
The company enjoyed rapid growth
after it was acquired in 2008 by the
interests of Sir Ratan Tata, the Indian
billionaire. However, its car production
— at Halewood, Solihull and Castle
Bromwich in Birmingham and its
engine plant at Wolverhampton — vie
with Nissan in Sunderland for the title
Britain’s largest car producer. Between
the two companies, they produce more
than two thirds of cars coming off UK
assembly lines.
The company was created after the
Land Rover and Jaguar businesses were
bought by Ford, of the United States, to
become part of its premier automotive
group. Jaguar, which traces its history
back to the pre-Second World War
Swallow Sidecar company and its un-
6%
Fall in Jaguar Land Rover sales last year
ed the sale of other acquired companies
such as Aston Martin and Volvo. After
expanding rapidly under Sir Ralf Speth,
its chief executive, the wheels ccame
off. Last year Jaguar Land Rover repor-
ted record losses of £3.6 billion.
The company insisted that the Hale-
wood lay-offs were not about cutting
and the £31,000 Discovery Sport has
undergone a “refresh”.
Unite, the union, contested the com-
pany’s claims, saying that the job cuts
were a response to a slower rate of
growth for the Evoque and the Discov-
ery Sport than had been forecast.
The UK car industry is struggling.
About 5,000 jobs will be lost with the
closure of Honda’s factory in Swindon
and Ford’s engine plant in south Wales.
“This is a further blow to the UK car
industry in general and to our members
at Halewood in particular,” Des Quinn,
Unite’s national officer, said.
putting the public borrowing on track
to undershoot the official target by
almost £7 billion this fiscal year.
The Office for Budget Responsibility
said that borrowing had risen more
slowly than expected. The budget on
March 11 will be the first for 17 months.
Sajid Javid is expected to announce
higher investment spending on infra-
structure in the regions, as well as to
carry out the Tories’ pledge to raise the
national insurance threshold to £9,500,
which will benefit 31 million workers.
Andrew Wishart, at Capital Econo-
mics, a consultancy, said the figures
gave Mr Javid “more headroom to

. . . but confidence jumps among UK manufacturers
Robert Lea
Manufacturers have declared them-
selves more bullish about the future
than at any time in the past six years,
despite output tumbling and expansion
constrained by labour shortages.
The latest quarterly industrial trends
survey from the CBI, the business lobby
group, found a positive balance of
optimism among businesses in manu-
facturing of 23 per cent, a huge turn-
around from the -44 per cent recorded
in the last quarterly survey in October,
when Boris Johnson was struggling to
secure a Brexit deal. It is the largest
quarterly swing since the survey began
in 1958.
The findings reduce the chances of
the Bank of England’s monetary policy
committee cutting interest rates at its
meeting next week. Until this week
financial markets had estimated a two
in three chance of a cut in rates from
0.75 per cent to 0.5 per cent. However,
encouraging job figures on Tuesday
and the CBI survey have cut the
chances to less than 50 per cent.
The optimism among manufacturers
is the highest the CBI survey has re-
corded since April 2014, when David
Cameron was in government and no
referendum on Britain’s membership of
the EU was on the agenda.
Anna Leach, the CBI’s deputy chief
economist, said: “It’s clear manufac-
turers are entering the new year with a
spring in their step. Firms are now
planning to invest more in plant and
machinery, which ultimately will help
to increase capacity and output.”
However, of the 300 manufacturers
surveyed, only 19 per cent reported a
growth in output and 33 per cent said
that production rates were down, giv-
ing the survey a -15 per cent balance.
For new orders the figure was -21 per
cent, while headcount came in at
-16 per cent. A net 20 per cent of manu-
facturers reported rising costs.
Tom Crotty, a director at Ineos, the
chemicals group, and chairman of the
CBI manufacturing council, said: “It is
clear that the sector is not yet out of the
woods in terms of performance, which
means that this optimism could prove
to be short-lived, unless the govern-
ment uses its new-found strength to
help to address underlying issues hold-
ing back manufacturers,” he said.
loosen policy, but they don’t give him a
blank cheque”. He already has the free-
dom to increase investment spending,
thanks to a tweak to the fiscal rules an-
nounced before last month’s election.
Borrowing was on track to reach
£41 billion, up from £38.1 billion last
year but lower than the £47.6 billion
forecast last March by the OBR. Total
public sector debt is £1,819 billion —
80.8 per cent of total GDP, down from
81.7 per cent in December 2018.
The OBR said the better numbers
were because tax receipts had grown by
3.7 per cent, faster than the 2.9 per cent
increase in government spending. But
it cautioned that there was uncertainty
about the full fiscal year as January is a
key month for tax receipts.
the times | Thursday January 23 2020
Simon Nixon
Our economic model is broken, but do
‘‘
ministers have the vision to change it?
Boris Johnson is not
the first Tory prime
minister with a large
majority to want to
fix a broken
economic model and level up the
regions. Margaret Thatcher came to
power in 1979 with a mission to junk
Britain’s failed postwar corporatism.
In its place she proposed a new model
based upon deregulated labour
markets, the withdrawal of public
subsidies from loss-making industries
and reviving growth by attracting
global investment into Britain as a
base to serve Europe’s newly
emerging single market — which she
did so much to create. Levelling up for
Thatcher meant luring Japanese
carmakers to Tyneside.
Under this model, Britain was
transformed from the sick man of
Europe into one of the richest and
fastest-growing advanced economies
in the world. Yet its flaws have long
been clear. While some sectors and
regions thrived in the single market,
others were conspicuously left behind.
The reality is that Britain’s economic
model became too reliant on financial
services, consumer spending and
cheap labour at the expense of capital
investment and skills. The result was
chronically weak productivity, high
levels of inequality and political
division. Britain had become, as one
wag put it, “like Switzerland attached
to East Germany”.
The irony is that Britain’s
European Union membership
had little to do with any of the
flaws in this economic model,
which largely reflected
domestic policy choices. Yet
now, as a result of Brexit and,
indeed, the political pressures
that drove it, this model
will have to change. As
Sajid Javid reiterated
in an interview with
the Financial Times
last week, Britain will
not just leave the EU
but its customs
union and single
market, too. And,
while the
government hopes to
agree a new free trade
deal based on zero
tariffs and quotas,
Margaret Thatcher
pressed the button on
bringing Nissan to the UK
1G M
businesses should forget about a deal
that maintains close alignment with
EU rules. That means new border
checks on EU trade, unpicking a core
part of Britain’s appeal.
But does Mr Johnson’s government
have any coherent idea of what
should take its place? Early
indications are hardly encouraging.
Mr Javid, who until July was a senior
member of a government whose
policy was to keep Britain effectively
in a customs union with the EU and
to retain close alignment with the
single market, now professes to
support a deep rupture. Yet the
chancellor is unable or unwilling to
say what regulations should change.
The result is that sectors that have
built supply chains over decades on
the assumption of frictionless access
to the European market don’t know
what they are supposed to be
preparing for.
The risk, as the Treasury itself
pointed out in its 2018 Brexit analysis,
is that the kind of Brexit deal being
contemplated will hit hardest the
high-end manufacturing jobs in those
very regions that the government
wants to “level up”. Indeed, border
frictions could become even more
disruptive if trade deals with other
countries lead to more intrusive
checks on goods entering the EU.
Moreover, those new deals are likely
to prioritise market access for our
financial services sector, so the
outcome could be to raise the
preponderance of the London-
based financial services sector in
the economy. Brexit could end
up exacerbating the flaws in
the present model.
Nonetheless, trading
arrangements are only one aspect
of Britain’s economic model.
Equally, if not more,
important to the country’s
longer-term prospects are
what changes the
government makes to
domestic policy. There
are risks here, too. One
of the successes of
British policymaking
over the past 40 years
has been the way it
has been able to
create clear rules
and frameworks
for economic
decision-
making. By
providing a
degree of predictability to the way
that monetary policy, fiscal policy,
trade policy, exchange rate policy and
regulation are set, in some cases by
hiving off responsibilities to
independent agencies and external
bodies such as the EU, businesses are
able to plan more effectively. This
lowers their cost of capital and
encourages investment. The danger is
that a new government that has taken
back control without a clear vision of
what the new economic model should
be becomes susceptible to lobbying by
vested interests. That was, of course,
one of the chief flaws in the old
corporatist model from which
Thatcher rescued Britain.
There are worrying signs that this
government may be susceptible to
these risks. Although the Treasury is
justified in insisting that its role in the
rescue of Flybe did not amount to a
bailout since no public money has
been put at risk, it did agree to defer a
tax liability and there was talk of a
government loan as well as a
commitment to review airline tax.
That has raised questions about
how the government will respond to
future demands for state aid, not least
when politically sensitive sectors
suffer as a result of Brexit. Similarly,
the government has talked of
changing Treasury rules on
infrastructure spending to encourage
more investment in the north. But no
good is likely to come from a return to
spending decisions unanchored from
any analysis of value for money.
To his credit, Mr Javid seems aware
of these risks. He fought off an
attempt by Downing Street to
abandon the fiscal rules that constrain
public spending. That was important
to signal to markets that this
government won’t embark on a
massive spending spree. Mr Javid’s
instincts are also right in that the key
to a long-term levelling-up agenda
lies in investment in productivity
enhancing infrastructure and skills.
’’
But he is hardly the first chancellor
to recognise that these hold the key to
raising the performance of Britain’s
poorest regions. The lesson of the past
40 years, however, is that there are no
quick fixes. The
question is whether
Mr Johnson has the
patience to see the
task through.
Simon Nixon is chief leader writer of
The Times
Simon Duke
Netflix faces growing
competition for biggest
prize of all — profits
I
f awards were a harbinger of
financial success, Netflix would
be looking forward to a
glittering future. Thanks to
critically acclaimed dramas
such as Roma, its trophy cabinet is
brimming and the streaming giant is
up for a fistful of gongs at next
month’s Oscars.
With Two Popes, The Irishman
and Marriage Story, Netflix has
three runners in the race for best
film — an accolade that so far has
proved elusive. Landing Tinseltown’s
most coveted prize could change the
picture for the Silicon Valley upstart.
As Ted Sarandos, its content chief,
said on Tuesday, every statuette
burnishes its “reputation [for] doing
well for talent”.
Keeping A-list actors and viewers
sweet is only one side of the
equation for Reed Hastings, who
Netflix global customer base
167m
139m
111m
89m
54m
71m
2014 15 16 17 18
Source: Company reports
founded Netflix in 1997 as a DVD
rental service and switched to
internet streaming a decade later.
Balancing the books has
confounded him and this task will
become more arduous as the war for
subscribers escalates. Apple and all
of Hollywood’s main players, from
Disney to Warner Brothers to NBC
Universal, are targeting streaming.
Mr Hastings started out by
licensing television shows and
movies from Hollywood. With the
2012 political drama House of Cards,
it became a producer in its own
right. Netflix wanted to seize full
control of the supply chain,
marrying distribution (an internet
platform) with product (TV series
and films). Hollywood is following
his lead; studios have put their back
catalogues on to apps to sell direct
to consumers.
Netflix’s excursion into film has
been a success, albeit a costly one.
Last year, its revenues rose from
$15.8 billion to $20.2 billion after
increasing its customer base to
167 million. However, its cash
outflows rose from 10 per cent to
41
Comment Business
$3.3 billion last year after splurging
$14 billion on original productions
and broadcast rights. The company
has tapped the high-yield debt
markets for nearly $15 billion in debt
and owes a further $8 billion to
producers and rights-holders.
On one level, it makes perfect
sense for Netflix to invest so freely
on its own shows. It’s playing catch-
up with the likes of Disney, which
has been in the movie business for a
century and has a formidable
catalogue. Netflix investors hope
that its library will soon be big
enough so that it can rein in
spending and begin extracting fat
profits from its customers.
This way of thinking has flaws. It
rests on an assumption that Netflix
can create content that will cut
across continents. But TV and films
don’t cross borders that easily. After
signing up more than 100 million
international subscribers, Netflix
has had to invest heavily in local
shows. Some, like Narcos, a Mexican
drug cartel drama, have gained a
global fan basem, but most won’t. As
the service expands into new
territories, its production spending
is likely to rise in lock-step.
19 To justify its $150 billion valuation,
Mr Hastings will need to show a
clear path to sizeable and
sustainable profits. Price rises are
not an option. Netflix is fighting for
consumers’ finite attention with
myriad free or cheap alternatives,
from Youtube to Fortnite.
As for its streaming rivals, they
have every incentive to keep prices
low, as they have other ways to
monetise their content. Apple, for
instance, is using television to
bolster its services business and to
keep customers buying iPhones.
Amazon uses TV to sell Prime
memberships. Warner Brothers, the
owner of AT&T, makes its money
from mobile phones and cable
broadband. And Disney sells cruise
holidays, owns theme parks,
publishes books and runs TV and
radio stations. Forging a direct
relationship with consumers
through its TV streaming app could
boost these businesses. Netflix
moved first and has the advantage of
having only one string in its bow, but
now life is about to get much harder
for the streaming pioneer.
Simon Duke is Technology Business
Editor of The Times
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Fender faces
record penalty for
such behaviour.
Crude price
music over Fender was started
by Leo Fender, who
opened a repair shop
jumps amid
price-fixing in California in 1938
offering homemade
supply fears
T
he world’s instruments. The
biggest guitar company made the Robert Miller
maker may first mass-produced
count Ronnie Spanish-style electric Oil prices fell by almost 3 per cent yes-
Woods and Keith guitar in 1950. terday as the International Energy
Richards, right, as Prices for its Agency forecast a market surplus, US
fans of its products, sought-after guitars inventories rose unexpectedly and as
but price-fixing by the can range from about worries grew about the effect on
European division of £500 up to more than demand from the outbreak of a
Fender has struck the £40,000 for a limited deadly virus in China.
wrong note with the edition. The price of Brent crude, the inter-
competition The regulator could national benchmark, was 2.97 per
watchdog (Robert have fined Fender cent lower at $62.67 a barrel in New
Miller writes). £14.2 million, or up to York last night, a drop of 4.2 per cent
The Competition 10 per cent of its since the start of the year.
and Markets global sales, but it Fatih Birol, executive director of
Authority has fined said that the penalty the Paris-based energy agency, said
Fender Europe had been reduced that he expected the market to be in
£4.5 million after because the company surplus by a million barrels per day in
concluding that it had had admitted the the first half of this year. Meanwhile,
pressured online anti-competition the American Petroleum Institute
retailers to sell its charge. published figures that revealed a rise
guitars at or above a Fender Europe in US crude inventories of 1.6 million
minimum price previously was fined barrels last week, a stark contrast
between 2013 and £25,000 after it was with the drop of one million that had
2018, thereby found to have hidden been expected.
stymying customers notebooks during a Analysts also were concerned by
shopping around for 2018 inspection the spread of the deadly coronavirus
the best deal. It is a related to the inquiry. from China and the possible impact
that a pandemic might have on global
economic growth. Goldman Sachs
said in a note that if the virus devel-

Bombardier sets in oped dramatically, demand for oil

could fall by 260,000 barrels a day.
The effects of lower oil prices was
emphasised by a report revealing that

train sale of British number of oil and gas bankruptcies in

the United States and Canada rose by
50 per cent in 2019 over the previous
year. Haynes and Boone, the Dallas-

business to Alstom based law firm that compiled the

report, said that exploration and pro-
duction company bankruptcies had
totalled 42 in 2019, up from 28 in 2018.

Robert Lea Industrial Editor Willesden in London, as well as in

Britain’s largest train manufacturing
plant could fall into the hands of the
French.
Bombardier, the struggling
Canadian train and aircraft builder,
which has owned the historic
Litchurch Lane works in Derby since
2001, has been in talks to sell its rail
business to Alstom, of France.
A merger of Alstom and Bombar-
dier Transportation would create a
global powerhouse in the rail busi-
ness, with about $15 billion of annual
revenues and employing more than
70,000 people, although clearly there
would be scope for restructuring.
In Britain, a deal would
bring together 6,000 000
workers and two com- m-
panies, both of which h
are bidding to build
trains for the HS2
high-speed line
from London to
Birmingham and
the North, which
are regarded as being
in the forefront off
er-
electric and next-gener-
ation hydrogen stock.. The
st report-
potential deal was first
ed by Bloomberg.
Bombardier Transportation em-
ploys 4,000 people in Britain, 2,000
of them at Derby, where it is working
on five orders for UK train operators.
It is behind the Aventra electric trains
for London’s Crossrail and Over-
ground network. It also is working on
orders for more than 1,500 Aventra
carriages, designed and developed in
Derby, for Greater Anglia, South
Western Railway and West Midlands
Trains. It recently won a $4.5 billion
contract to produce trains for the
Cairo monorail system in Egypt.
Bombardier has maintenance
depots at Old Oak Common and
Crewe, and a rail signalling business
in Plymouth.
Alstom is widely known in the UK
as the maker of the Pendolino tilting
trains for the west coast main line, as
well as trains for London Under-
ground. It was a big builder of trains in
the UK after acquiring the Metro-
Cammell yard at Washwood Heath in
the West Midlands, where it made
the original Pendolinos. However,
Alstom pulled out and closed it down
in 2005. Ironically, the site is ear-
marked to become an HS2 depot.
Alstom, which employs 2,000
people in the UK, is a key player in
maintenance market, recently sign-
ing a €75€755 million deal to
look after
af the Virgin Pen-
dolinos
dolin passed on to
the Avanti, the new
west
we coast main line
operator.
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maintains
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Caledonian
C Sleep-
er
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ham’s trams.
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Its facility in
Wig
Wigan is Britain’s
most sophisticated roll-
iing
ng stock
sto modernisation
centre and will become home
to Alstom’s plans to develop zero-
emission hydrogen trains for the UK.
It is also a serious player in the train
signalling market.
Talks between Alstom and
Bombardier started last year after a
merger of Alstom and Siemens, of
Germany, another rolling stock pro-
vider, was blocked by the European
Commission.
A deal might complicate the
£2.75 billion HS2 train manufactur-
ing competition, as Bombardier is a
partner with Hitachi Rail at Durham,
Britain’s only other trainmaker.
Both Alstom and Bombardier
refused to comment last night.
Bosch backs
Ceres Power
with £38m
Emily Gosden Energy Editor
An Aim-listed maker of fuel cells has
secured a £38 million investment
from Bosch. Ceres Power said that
the German conglomerate, which
acquired a 4 per cent stake in 2018,
had increased it to 18 per cent by buy-
ing a combination of new and exist-
ing shares.
The company’s solid oxide fuel-cell
technology converts natural gas or
hydrogen into electricity through an
electrochemical process that it says is
much more efficient and environ-
mentally friendly than burning gas.
Ceres said that it would use the
proceeds of the Bosch deal to develop
more powerful fuel cells and to
develop the potential to effectively
use the fuel cell in reverse, using elec-
trolysis to produce clean-burning
hydrogen from renewable electricity.
Phil Caldwell, 49, chief executive,
said that this could enable surplus
renewable electricity to be stored by
converting it to hydrogen, which
could then be turned back to power
through a fuel cell when needed.
Ceres Power reported revenues of
£16.4 million in the year to June 2019.
Last year it launched its first com-
mercial use of the technology with
Miura in Japan.
Bosch reported profits of €5.5 bil-
lion on revenues of €78.5 billion in
2018. Christian Fischer, a member of
its management board, said: “Bosch
strongly believes the highly efficient
fuel cell has an important role to play.”
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Rolet resigns as hedge fund group boss after only year in the job
Patrick Hosking Financial Editor
The former chief executive of London
Stock Exchange Group is resigning as
boss of CQS, the hedge fund group,
only 13 months after joining it.
Xavier Rolet, right, asked to stand
down from the chief executive’s role for
private reasons unconnected to the
business, CQS said. He will remain as a
part-time strategic adviser.
Mr Rolet, a 60-year-old Frenchman,
is regarded by some investors as one of
the great value creators, after building
Capital outlook
Share price
2007 08 09 10 11 12 13
Berkeley is homing in on £1bn payout
Louisa Clarence-Smith
One of Britain’s biggest upmarket
housebuilders has announced a £1 bil-
lion payday for shareholders and
pledged to sell more new homes as it
bets on the recovery of the housing
market in London and the southeast.
Berkeley Group said that it planned
to return £1 billion to shareholders over
the next two years, an increase of
£455 million on a previous promise.
It also has committed to increasing
its delivery of homes by 50 per cent over
six years across its 25 large regenera-
tion sites in London and the South East.
The announcement marks a shift in
strategy at the builder, which has
shown a strong eye for a change in
Tim Martin heaps more scorn on City Prospect of rising costs and
Dominic Walsh
The chairman of JD Wetherspoon
renewed his attack on City corporate
governance practices yesterday as the
pubs company reported strong sales
over Christmas and the new year.
In the 12 weeks to January 19,
Wetherspoons’ like-for-like sales rose
by 4.7 per cent, taking growth for its first
half to 5 per cent — a slight slowdown
from the first quarter but ahead of most
of its competitors.
Tim Martin, the company’s founder,
took issue with the failure of fund
managers and proxy advisers to apply
relevant “comply or explain” provisions
on corporate governance relating to
the length of service of non-executive
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London Stock Exchange Group from
an £800 million takeover target into a
£14 billion business before being
ousted in 2017 in a row that
shook the City.
He joined the London-
based CQS in December 2018,
hired by Sir Michael
Hintze, its founder and
executive chairman,
who wanted to
move away from
the day-to-day
running of the
£60
50
40
30
20
10
0
14 15 16 17 18 2019
market mood in the past. It has cut back
its investment in recent years amid a
slowdown in the housing market
caused by Brexit uncertainty, high
stamp duty costs and a crackdown on
buy-to-let landlords. That has led to an
increase in its net cash position from
£107.5 million in 2016 to a record high of
£1.1 billion.
Tony Pidgley, Berkeley’s co-founder
and chairman, has forecast a recovery
in the London housing market this year
after Boris Johnson’s decisive election
victory. House prices in London’s most
expensive postcodes have fallen by
more than 20 per cent since their peak
in 2014, according to Savills, the estate
agent.
Mr Pidgley, 72, has a track record of
directors. “If shareholders say nothing
in response to company explanations,
which have been made in order to
comply with the code, it is reasonable to
assume their assent,” he said.
“In reality, detailed explanations are
ignored by many fund managers and
their corporate governance advisers.
Comply or explain has been corrupted
to mean ‘comply or be humiliated in
public and voted off the board’ — a risk
which most non-executive directors
are understandably reluctant to take.”
He cited Columbia Threadneedle,
the pubs group’s biggest shareholder,
which withdrew support for its long-
serving non-executives for non-com-
pliance with the rule on length of
service, despite “detailed explanations
business to concentrate on investment.
CQS, which manages $20 billion on
behalf of individuals and institutions,
declined to explain the change of
role.
Serge Harry, a former London
Stock Exchange colleague hired by
Mr Rolet in June as finance di-
rector, will be deputy chief
executive. There will be no
chief executive.
The named senior
figure at CQS under
the City’s senior
£1 billion
Amount Berkeley will
return to shareholders
in next two years
+50%
Increase in housebuilding
in London and southeast
over next six years
making shrewd market calls. He sold off
assets before the housing crash in 1989
and bought large amounts of urban
land when he realised that people were
buying again. Before the financial crisis
of 2008 he slowed the buying of land
£3.3bn
Berkeley’s profits target by 2025
and later used the company’s strong
cash position to buy central London
sites at knockdown prices.
The housebuilder has reaped the
rewards of his timing in recent years by
developing those sites. Berkeley un-
in the preceding years in our annual
reports”.
Mr Martin, 64, who owns 32 per cent
of the shares, started Wetherspoons in
London in 1979. The chain sells cheap
ales, breakfasts, lunches and dinners. It
has 875 pubs.
In this financial year, it has opened
one new pub and sold five and intends
to open ten to fifteen in the second half.
It said that it expected to spend about
£80 million this year on new pubs and
extensions to existing properties.
Wetherspoons said that it was “in a
sound financial position”, with net debt
at the end of this financial year
expected to be between £780 million
and £820 million. Its shares fell by 32p,
or 2 per cent, to £15.63.
manager’s regime will be Sir Michael
alone. For the past year he and Mr Rolet
have shared that responsibility, oper-
ating out of neighbouring offices in the
firm’s Trafalgar Square headquarters.
The pair previously worked together at
Goldman Sachs in New York in 1984.
Sir Michael, 66, whose personal
wealth is put at £1.5 billion, said that the
firm had “benefited hugely from Xavi-
er’s drive and business acumen”.
Mr Rolet had a rocky relationship
with Sir Donald Brydon, the LSE
Group chairman, who pushed him out,
£1.1 billion
Berkeley's net
cash, a record
veiled a record profit of almost £1 billion
in 2018, selling 3,678 homes for an aver-
age price of £725,000.
Owing to a land bank dominated by
regeneration sites in outer London and
the home counties, the company
reported a 31 per cent fall in interim pre-
tax profit in December to £278 million,
but it has promised profits totalling
£3.3 billion by 2025.
Mr Pidgley, who has an estimated
fortune of more than £300 million, sold
shares worth £72.9 million in the
second half of last year, reducing his
stake by 40 per cent to 2.1 per cent.
Berkeley said that it intended to
inform shareholders next month of
proposed changes to its pay policy, after
an investor revolt in September when
debts hits Close Brothers
Ben Martin Senior City Correspondent
Investors in Close Brothers took fright
after the merchant banking group
reported slowing growth in loan-
making alongside rising costs and bad
debts.
Close Brothers unveiled a 0.4 per
cent increase in its loan book to
£7.68 billion in the last five months of
last year, a slowdown from the 0.9 per
cent growth it had reported for the
three months to the end of October.
It also disclosed that bad debts at its
banking operations had edged up to
0.8 per cent, albeit from historic lows of
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leading to a shareholder revolt led by
Sir Christopher Hohn, the hedge fund
manager.
Sir Michael said that CQS’s fund
performance over the past year had
been good, with assets under manage-
ment rising by 12.5 per cent. The firm
aims to make money for clients by
taking positions in the bond, currency
and share markets.
“Xavier will continue to provide the
firm with strategic direction and advice
and use his network to help us with
client development,” Sir Michael said.
£725,000
Average selling price of Berkeley
home in last financial year
£73 million
Amount banked by Tony Pidgley in
share sales in second half of 2019
Berkeley is marketing
apartments at One
Blackfriars in
Southwark, London
43 per cent of voting shareholders
opposed its directors’ pay arrange-
ments.
Shares in Berkeley jumped by 226p,
or 4.4 per cent, to £54.12 yesterday.
Clyde Lewis, an analyst at Peel Hunt,
a broker, said: “Clearly the perception of
the trading environment post the
election has also improved. This
news will be taken well as it locks in
higher capital returns and also
implicitly talks about the better market
conditions.”
Aynsley Lammin, an analyst at
Cannacord Genuity, another broker,
said that indications of a stronger
trading outlook and Berkeley’s “im-
pressive track record suggests that it
will at least deliver on its targets”.
0.6 per cent, and that costs at the
division were expected to grow faster
than income this year. The net interest
margin, the difference between what it
pays for deposits and what it earns from
loans, slipped from 7.9 per cent last year
to 7.8 per cent.
Total client assets at the asset man-
agement division rose to £14 billion
from £13.3 billion at the end of last July
and Winterflood, the equities market-
maker that it runs, enjoyed “an im-
provement in trading activity towards
the end of 2019” after a slow start.
Shares in FTSE 250 company fell by
77p, or 4.9 per cent to £14.90.
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Business Retail

Burberry has designs on growth
Ashley Armstrong Retail Editor
Demand for Riccardo Tisci’s striking
designs has given Burberry the confi-
dence to look beyond challenges in its
key Hong Kong and Chinese markets
and boost its growth forecasts.
Nevertheless, the luxury brand spelt
out the impact of pro-democracy
protests in Hong Kong, where sales
halved in the 13 weeks to December 28,
and addressed fears that the emergence
of the coronavirus in China could dis-
rupt its business across Asia.
Julie Brown, its finance officer, noted
that Hong Kong was an important
market for Burberry, previously
accounting for 8 per cent of its
sales. “This quarter we’ve
seen a halving of those
sales,” she said. Of the
coronavirus outbreak,
she said that Burberry
was “keeping the situa-
tion under review. We
monitor it every single
day.”
Burberry said, how-
ever, that its overall sales
worldwide had risen by
1 per cent to £719 million in the latest
quarter, were up 3 per cent on a like-
for-like basis and that it now
expected to increase its total
annual sales by a “low-single-
digit percentage”, compared
with a previous forecast of
flat growth.
“This was another good
quarter as new collections
delivered strong growth
and we continued to
shift consumer percep-
tions of our brand and
align the network to our
new creative vision,” Marco Gobbetti,
59, chief executive said. “While mindful
of the uncertain macroeconomic envi-
ronment, we remain confident in our
strategy and the outlook for full-year
2020.”
Burberry was founded in 1856 by
Thomas Burberry, who created the
gabardine fabric used in its trench
coats. It has 230 shops worldwide. Mr
Gobbetti recruited Mr Tisci, 45, from
Givenchy in 2018, but it has taken
almost two years for the Italian design-
er’s collections, which include bolder
use of Burberry’s signature check and a
new logo, to account for three quarters
of the products sold in its shops.
The company has not closed any of
its 12 stores in Hong Kong, but in
November it said that it would write
down the value of its sites in the territo-
ry by £14 million. It also said that it was
in talks with landlords to cut rents to re-
flect the steep drop in tourists visiting
from the Chinese mainland, put off by
months of violent demonstrations.
Chinese shoppers account for 35 per
cent of global luxury sales and about
90 per cent of last year’s growth in the
market, according to Bain & Company,
the consultancy. Burberry has put an
extra emphasis on appealing to young
Chinese shoppers and is moving its
runway show to Shanghai in April.
However, hopes of cashing in on
China’s Lunar New Year celebrations
could be disrupted by fears of the new
epidemic spreading across Asia. At least
440 cases of the coronavirus have been
confirmed and nine people have died.
The virus, which started in the Chinese
city of Wuhan, can be transferred by
coughing and sneezing, stoking fears
that infection rates may accelerate as
millions of Chinese use a week off work
to travel to their home towns and over-
seas.
Shares in luxury goods companies
have fallen sharply this week amid fears
that the outbreak could hurt their sales.
Burberry was no exception yesterday,
its shares falling by 113p, or 5 per cent, to
£21.50. They hit a six-month peak of
£23.29 at the end of last week. Burberry’s stores in Hong Kong have

Struggling shops sector

sheds thousands of jobs
Miles Costello
About 57,000 retail workers lost their
jobs last year, according to an assess-
ment that underscores the problems on
Britain’s high streets.
Only a fortnight after it published
figures that showed the first fall in total
retail sales for a quarter of a century last
year, the British Retail Consortium said
that the number of employees in the
sector had dropped by 1.8 per cent in the
fourth quarter, compared with the
same period the previous year.
The organisation said that the
number of new shops being opened
during the final three months of 2019
had increased by only 0.2 per cent, its
lowest level in three years.
As it highlighted a rise in the number
of retailers planning to take on fewer
staff this year, the consortium called on
the government to provide relief to the
struggling sector by reforming business
rates and making the recruitment of
apprentices more flexible.
The BRC is the main trade associa-
tion for the retail industry. It was
formed in 2002 when the British Retail-
ers’ Association and the Retail Con-
sortium merged. Its membership is said
to consist of more than 5,000 business-
es behind £180 billion of annual sales.
High streets are undergoing almost
unprecedented upheaval because of the
widespread downturn in consumer
confidence and as shoppers buy more
goods over the internet.
Although the BRC said the figures
showed that employment in the retail
sector has been falling year-on-year for
16 consecutive quarters, the annualised
drop of 1.8 per cent between October
and December was smaller than the
2.8 per cent fall recorded in the fourth
quarter of 2018.
It said that the figures offered proof
that the transformation of the retail
industry is continuing, with full-time
employment dropping by 3 per cent in
the final quarter last year and part-time
jobs down by 1.2 per cent.
Helen Dickinson, 53, chief executive
of the BRC, said: “There were many
challenges in 2019: businesses had to
contend with the repeated risk of a no-
deal Brexit, a general election and the
transformation of the industry, leading
to weak consumer demand. As a result,
employment has suffered in retail, the
UK’s largest private sector employer.
This matters.”
After temporarily increasing their
workforces to deal with the Christmas
rush, the BRC said that 38 per cent of
retailers were planning to hire fewer
staff during the first quarter, up from
29 per cent at the end of 2018.
the times | Thursday January 23 2020
despite challenges in Far East
been hit by a decline in Chinese customers, as visitors from the mainland avoid pro-democracy protests in the territory
US investors
‘returning to
British retail’
Louisa Clarence-Smith
American private equity suitors are
viewing British retail property with
renewed interest after the general
election, according to the owner of
several UK retail parks and shopping
centres.
Allan Lockhart, chief executive of
Newriver Reit, said: “There is no doubt
that there is a lot more capital,
particularly after the general election
result, that is looking at the UK retail
market.
“[The investors] recognise that there
is potential value to come from UK
retail real estate, particularly when you
compare it to logistics, residential and
offices, which are at all-time high valu-
ations. Retail relative to those sectors
looks pretty good value.”
Newriver was set up in 2009 to buy
distressed property assets. It has
proven resilient to the rise in retailer
failures because of its focus on discount
shops, value retail and convenience
stores, with lower-than-average retail
rents in convenient locations. It has a
£1.3 billion portfolio of 30 shopping
centres, 25 retail parks and 650 pubs.
The switch to online shopping has
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ANTHONY KWAN/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES
Ted Baker in double
trouble over accounts
Ben Martin Senior City Correspondent
An accounting scandal at Ted Baker
deepened yesterday when the fashion
chain revealed that the value of its
inventory had been overstated by
£58 million, more than double its origi-
nal estimate.
Accountants were brought in to
examine the books last month after
Ted Baker said that the value of stock
on its balance sheet at the end of its
previous financial year had been over-
valued by an estimated £20 million to
£25 million.
Ted Baker said yesterday that
Deloitte, the Big Four accountancy
firm, had “largely concluded” its review
and that the non-cash overstatement
was “materially higher” than the
board’s initial assessment.
Shares in the company fell by 21¼p, or
6.6 per cent, to 297¾p last night. The
shares have lost about 84 per cent of
their value in the past 12 months, hit by
a harassment scandal and a series of
profit warnings.
Ray Kelvin opened the first Ted
Baker shop 32 years ago and built it into
a business with revenues of £617.4 mil-
lion last year. However, Mr Kelvin, 64,
stepped down as chief executive last
March after allegations of misconduct,
which he denies.
Lindsay Page, his successor as chief
executive, and David Bernstein, the
group’s executive chairman, also quit in
December after Ted Baker sounded its
fourth profit alert in the space of a year,
warning that it expected annual pre-
tax profits of as little as £5 million. It had
reported profits of £50.9 million last
year.
Ted Baker had valued its inventory at
£225.8 million in its last set of annual
Pets at Home takes the
lead with bumper sales
Ashley Armstrong
Animal lovers who wanted their dogs to
look their best for Christmas family
photos helped to push festive sales
higher at Pets at Home.
The retailer increased its sales by
7.9 per cent to £255.9 million over the 12
weeks to January 3. Shop like-for-like
sales rose by 5 per cent, while online
sales went up by 10 per cent to
account for almost ost a
report a 7 per cent rise 19 per cent, led by the quarter of revenues.
Travel buy in revenue over the acquisition of 9,
Peter Pritchard, 49,
holiday period, Marshall, the chief executive, saidd
sets Smith’s boosted by its travel American travel the figures meant
business (Robert retailer, for that Pets at Home
on its way Miller writes). £305 million in was “a shining
WH Smith, founded December which light in an other-
T
he world’s oldest in 1792 by Henry nearly doubled Smith’s wise depressed en-
national retail Smith, said that in the presence in the United vironment”.
chain has defied 20 weeks to States. A record 27,555
the blues affecting January 18 its travel Its shares fell 20p, dogs were groomed
many of its rivals to revenues had risen by 0.8 per cent, to £25.20. by the chain in thee
mas.
week before Christmas.
“I book myself in for a
cut shopping centre rents and values private equity-style investor, last year, Christmas haircut and pet
and left investors with big losses. How- which has acquired £105 million of owners want to do the same for
ever, some investors believe that values assets, including retail parks in Aber- h llook
their dogs to make sure they k great
have fallen far enough for them to take deen, Dundee, Dorset and the Isle of in photos and not smelly when guests
the plunge. Wight. Newriver is also working for come,” Mr Pritchard said.
Newriver is hoping to market its councils that have bought rundown Pets at Home was founded by
expertise. It formed a joint venture with shopping centres. Its shares closed up Anthony Preston in 1991. It has 452
Pimco’s Bravo Strategies III fund, a US 3¼p, or 1.7 per cent, at 190¾p. stores, but since listing in 2014 it has
45
Business
results, which were audited by KPMG.
A £58 million overstatement suggests
the 2019 figure should have been
£167.8 million and that its stock was
overvalued by almost 35 per cent.
Ted Baker has not said what caused
the miscalculation. It is thought that
the next stage of inquiries will try to
determine if it was a mistake or deliber-
ate. “Our concern is focused on the
reason for the error,” analysts at Peel
Hunt, the stockbroker, said.
It is unknown whether the mis-
statement was caused by overvaluing
stock, such as products from a previous
season, or by the company including
stock that, in reality, wasn’t there.
Ted Baker’s mounting problems have
£25m
Earlier estimate of stock overstatement
Ted Baker
increased speculation that it could
breach its banking covenants and seek
to renegotiate the terms of its borrow-
ings. Analysts also believe that the
retailer may strike a sale and leaseback
deal on its head offices to shore up its
finances.
In 2018 KPMG, which remains the
retailer’s auditor, was fined £2.1 million
by the Financial Reporting Council, the
regulator, for misconduct relating to its
work for Ted Baker in 2013 and 2014.
The watchdog declined to comment
yesterday on whether it was examining
the inventory error.
A Ted Baker spokesman declined to
comment on whether the company had
contacted the police. Its full-year
results are expected in March or April.
been beset by profit warnings and
plagued by fears that its sales are being
eroded by supermarkets.
Mr Pritchard responded by institut-
ingd a turnaround operation, focused
on overhauling its vet business, boost-
ing online sales and cutting prices to
become more competitive.
“Pets at Home is wise to focus on
integrating its retail and veterinary
o
divisions, as offering specialist
services helps
h to differen-
tiate iit from non-spe-
cialis
cialist competitors,
suc
such as B&M and
Am
Amazon,” analysts
at Global Data
s
said. “It encour-
a
ages cross-group
p
purchases and has
h
helped Pets at
H
Home to drive loy-
alt
alty.”
M Pritchard said:
Mr
“Two years ago we had
mak some really
to make
brave decis
brave decisions. It was pain-
ful at the time, but
ful bu it meant we are
now ready d and d we have
h joined every-
thing up to make it easy for customers
to shop how they want to.”
Pets at Home shares rose by 3¼p, or
1.1 per cent, to 290p yesterday, building
on a 131 per cent jump in value last year.
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Moneybldr Bal ‡@ 51.05 … +0.14 3.94 Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt A Acc ‡@198.12 … -0.65 4.26 UK Eqy & Bd Inc Acc ‡@ 167.10 … -0.20 3.41 0808 005 5555 Sterling Bond Inc ‡@ 97.00 … -0.11 3.61
ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS
Inv Serv: 020 7065 1400 Helpline: 0800 317 573 Moneybldr Glob 327.60 327.60 -0.10 0.21 Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt A Inc ‡@92.92 … -0.30 6.09 UK Eqy & Bd Inc Inc ‡@ 90.29 … -0.48 3.50 High Income 114.10 114.10 +0.20 4.25
Moneybldr Gwth ‡@ 76.12 … -0.95 … Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt Gross I Acc ‡@220.49 … -0.05 … UK Higher Inc A Acc ‡@ 1142.00 … +4.00 4.69 High Income Acc 280.00 280.00 +0.50 4.13
Gilt Yield A ‡@ 192.30 … +0.71 1.29 Moneybldr Inc ‡@ 38.33 … +0.10 2.74 UK Higher Inc A Inc ‡@ 549.80 … +2.10 4.82 UK 100 Comp Acc @ 412.80 412.80 -2.20 3.74
Enhanced Natural Resources A Acc ‡@125.44 … -0.60 1.62
Strategic Bond Fund ‡@ 166.67 … -0.05 1.24 Moneybldr UK Ind ‡@ 118.40 … +0.40 3.07 UK Sm Cos A Acc ‡@ 581.00 … +3.00 0.88 UK 100 Cos @ 224.70 224.70 -1.20 3.86
UK Corp Bond C ‡@ 104.79 … -0.78 3.87 Global Bond A Acc ‡@ 139.30 … +4.03 0.82 THREADNEEDLE INVESTMENTS
Special Sits ‡@ 4165.00 … -1.00 1.46 Global Bond A Inc ‡@ 109.33 … +3.00 0.82 UK Str Eq Inc A Acc ‡@ 196.80 … +0.30 4.65 UK Select Pflo @ 358.00 358.00 -1.40 2.81 Client Serv: 0800 0683000
UK Eqty C ‡@ 6317.26 … -14.91 … Wealthbuilder 69.75 72.18 +0.53 … UK Str Eq Inc A Inc ‡@ 107.60 … +0.20 4.70 UK Selection Port Acc @ 685.90 685.90 -2.70 2.75
UK Eqty Inc A ‡@ 321.13 … +0.40 4.51 Global Bond I Gross Inc ‡@1167.00 … +29.78 1.25 Intermediary Serv: 0800 0684000
US A Acc ‡@ 1036.00 … +25.00 … Worldwide Mgd Acc @ 903.40 903.40 -4.90 1.59 Institutional Shares (Class 2) (163500,000 min)
UK Gwth A ‡@ 6704.07 … +3.25 1.75 Global Dynamic A Acc ‡@ 177.69 … -1.02 0.28
US Sm Cos A Acc ‡@ 836.00 … -5.60 … Wwide Mgd @ 546.20 546.20 -3.00 1.74
UK Index A Inc ‡@ 1423.81 … -5.83 3.01 Global Energy A Acc ‡@ 189.88 … -1.37 1.69 UK Oseas Earns ‡@ 130.45 … +0.05 2.20
HALIFAX INVESTMENT FUND MGRS LTD Global Equity A Acc ‡@ 180.94 … -0.88 0.59
UK Mid Cap A ‡@ 5060.17 … +19.96 0.24
01296 386 386 Global Franchise A Acc ‡@260.96 … -0.42 0.31 MORGAN STANLEY INVESTMENT MGMT LTD
Authorised Inv Funds Global Free Enterprise A Acc ‡@1032.29 … -4.06 0.24 Enquires: 0800 0961 962
Share Class `C Global Gold A Acc ‡@ 173.88 … +1.22 … The Morgan Stanley Funds (UK)
JUPITER UT MGRS LTD Managed Funds
Corporate Bond ‡@ 39.37 … +0.09 2.95 Global Special Situations A Acc ‡@281.33 … -2.86 1.06 Class A Shares
ARTEMIS FUND MGRS LTD 020 7581 3020 Def Eqty & Bd Acc @ 121.80 121.80 +0.20 0.89
Ethical ‡@ 93.99 … -0.17 0.52 Global Special Situations A Inc ‡@218.78 … -2.22 1.08 Equity
0800 092 2051 Absolute Return ‡@ 47.99 … -0.27 0.68 Eqty & Bd Acc @ 166.40 166.40 +0.10 0.87
European ‡@ 94.92 … -0.24 1.89 Managed Growth A Acc ‡@246.53 … +0.12 …
Authorised Inv Funds Distribution and Growth ‡@116.59 … +0.17 4.24 Eur (Ex UK) Eq A Acc ‡@1310.92 … +4.24 … Mgd Income @ 80.43 80.43 +0.08 3.78
Far Eastern ‡ 110.80 … +0.50 1.63 Monthly High Income A Acc ‡@235.96 … … 3.00
Emg Euro Opps ‡@ 270.85 … -1.89 2.69 Glob Brands A Acc ‡@ 11066.63 … +33.86 0.91
Capital R Acc ‡@ 1729.18 … -2.24 2.92 Fund of Inv Tst ‡@ 130.30 … +1.20 0.82 Monthly High Income A Inc ‡@67.36 … … 4.39
Euro Special Sits ‡@ 438.83 … -0.42 0.34 UK Eq A Acc ‡@ 1184.53 … -0.02 1.66
Euro Opps R Acc ‡@ 109.66 … -0.36 1.04 Intl Gwth ‡ 98.76 … -0.51 0.96 Multi-Asset Protector A Acc ‡@187.57 … -0.02 …
Euro Opps R Inc ‡@ 102.58 … -0.33 1.05 Japanese ‡ 64.40 … +0.19 1.29 European ‡@ 2625.66 … +8.94 …
Strategic Bond A Acc ‡@ 244.54 … +0.19 …
European Growth R Acc ‡@340.01 … -2.47 1.18 North Amer ‡ 109.00 … -0.70 0.59 Financial Opps ‡@ 755.46 … -1.26 … Fixed Income Retail Shares (Class 1)
Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 119.47 … +0.09 …
Global Energy R Acc ‡@ 31.44 … -0.51 0.87 Smaller Cos ‡@ 119.90 … +0.80 1.33 Income Trust ‡@ 531.08 … -1.91 4.33 Stg Corp Bd A Acc ‡@ 2618.35 … -3.81 2.00
Target Return A Acc ‡@ 101.71 … -0.08 0.81 Stg Bd Ret Inc ‡@ 61.31 … +0.23 1.16
Global Growth R Acc ‡@ 288.82 … -0.37 1.34 Special Sits ‡@ 55.25 … -0.07 0.71 Merlin Bal (Acc) ‡@ 204.42 … -0.90 2.13 UK Ind Lnkd A Acc ‡@ 1350.60 … -3.80 4.24
Target Return A Inc ‡@ 87.63 … +0.01 0.87 Strat Bd Ret ‡@ 47.20 … +0.05 2.52
Global Income R Acc ‡@ 132.09 … -0.57 3.14 UK Equity Inc ‡@ 89.81 … +0.29 5.00 Merlin Gwth (Acc) ‡@ 467.20 … -2.88 … UK Long Bd A Acc ‡@ 1288.90 … … …
UK Alpha A Acc ‡@ 2720.80 … +19.33 1.67 UK Corp Bond ‡@ 65.25 … +0.13 2.51
Global Income R Inc ‡@ 93.19 … -0.41 3.22 UK FTSE 100 IT ‡@ 64.47 … +0.24 3.11 Merlin Inc (Acc) ‡@ 326.60 … -1.27 2.72
UK Blue Chip A Acc ‡@ 770.11 … +3.15 … UK Corp Ret ‡@ 65.12 … +0.13 2.19
Global Select R Acc ‡@ 127.43 … -0.09 0.04 UK FTSE All-S IT ‡@ 74.34 … +0.27 2.98 Merlin Wwide (Inc) ‡@ 336.69 … -2.05 …
UK Smaller Companies A Acc ‡@5462.82 … +23.05 0.66 UK Growth ‡@ 313.15 … +0.72 1.52 SANTANDER UNIT TST MGRS UK Eqty Inc Ret ‡@ 99.24 … +0.31 3.97
High Income R Inc ‡@ 76.19 … +0.11 … UK Growth ‡@ 83.61 … +0.29 2.75
UK Smaller Companies A Inc ‡@4899.83 … +20.67 0.66 UK Special Sits (Inc) ‡@ 193.91 … -0.44 2.54 08457 413002 UK Gwth & Inc Ret ‡@ 98.24 … +0.30 …
Income R Acc ‡@ 468.62 … +1.73 4.25
Income R Inc ‡@ 231.83 … +0.85 4.39 UK Special Situations A Acc ‡@1356.32 … -7.55 1.86 UK Hi Yld Bd 1 ‡@ 43.05 … … 4.02
Bal Pfolio Inc ‡@ 110.50 … +0.40 2.41
Monthly Dist R Inc ‡@ 70.34 … -0.03 4.09 UK Special Situations A Inc ‡@502.19 … -2.79 1.95 UK Inst Acc ‡@ 174.63 … +0.14 2.12
HSBC GLOBAL ASSET MGMT (UK) LTD Bal Port Gwth Acc ‡@ 226.00 … +0.50 1.70
Strategic Assets R Acc ‡@ 83.38 … -0.21 … UK Mnthly Extra Inc ‡@ 85.39 … +0.27 3.60
Enq: 0845 745 6123 Dlg: 0845 745 6126 Mon-Fri 8-6 Equity Inc Inc ‡@ 231.70 … +0.60 5.05
Strategic Bond R M Acc ‡@101.47 … +0.09 2.73 UK Mnthly Inc Ret ‡@ 75.00 … +0.19 4.75
HSBC Index Tracker Investment Funds (OEIC) N&P UK Gwth Inc ‡@ 182.80 … +0.10 …
Strategic Bond R M Inc ‡@ 57.34 … +0.05 2.78 LEGAL & GENERAL (UT MGRS) LTD UK Retail ‡@ 146.63 … +0.44 2.20
Stkmkt 100 Tkr ‡@ 231.20 … +0.80 1.98
Strategic Bond R Q Acc ‡@101.28 … +0.08 2.48 Amer Ind Acc ‡@ 673.07 … -2.14 1.35 Enquiries: 0870 050 0955 Dealing: 0870 050 0956 UK Sel Retail ‡@ 131.39 … +0.39 2.25
UK Growth Acc ‡@ 453.20 … +2.70 3.01
Strategic Bond R Q Inc ‡@ 57.40 … +0.05 2.51 Amer Ind Inc ‡@ 560.74 … -1.78 1.37 UK Smaller Cos ‡@ 384.66 … +0.85 …
Equity Acc @ 2616.00 2639.00 -8.00 … UK Growth Inc ‡@ 264.70 … +1.60 3.09
UK Growth R Acc ‡@ 598.34 … +2.22 1.72 Euro Ind Acc ‡@ 973.14 … -1.53 2.48
Euro Ind Inc ‡@ 664.48 … -1.04 2.57 For ISIS Asset Mgmt see F&C Fd Mgmt Ltd (OEICS) Equity Dist @ 893.80 902.00 -2.70 …
UK Smaller Cos R Acc ‡@1919.87 … +7.24 1.24 Euro Ind Acc @ 436.50 436.50 -0.80 2.26
UK Special Sits R Acc ‡@ 642.47 … +1.35 1.85 FTSE 100 Ind Acc ‡@ 248.95 … +0.87 4.02 JANUS HENDERSON INVESTORS SCOTTISH MUTUAL INV MNGRS LTD
FTSE 100 Ind Inc ‡@ 123.91 … +0.43 4.15 Euro Ind Inc @ 301.50 301.50 -0.60 2.31 0141 248 6100
Fixed Int Acc @ 154.00 155.00 +0.40 2.07 For Resolution see Ignis
FTSE 250 Ind Acc ‡@ 304.03 … +1.33 2.34 Investors Serv: 0800 832 832 Dlng: 0845 946 4646
Fixed Int Dist @ 76.26 76.80 +0.18 2.10 European Inc 1495.34 1577.40 -2.72 1.98 TU FUND MANAGERS LIMITED
FTSE 250 Ind Inc ‡@ 199.16 … +0.87 2.57 Far Eastern Inc 584.69 617.09 -0.73 1.42
FTSE All-S Acc ‡@ 645.50 … +2.72 3.85 All Stks Credit A Inc ‡@ 141.00 … +0.30 2.06 Glob Gwth Acc @ 243.90 243.90 -1.30 1.15 British 836.00 836.00 +8.00 0.71
Asian Div Inc U Trst Inc ‡@106.60 … +0.10 6.53 Glob Health Acc @ 86.19 86.35 -0.30 0.82 Intl Growth Inc 604.83 636.64 -0.02 0.50 European 210.70 219.40 +1.00 …
AXA FRAMLINGTON UNIT MGMT LTD FTSE All-S Inc ‡@ 358.37 … +1.51 4.17 Japanese Inc 41.85 41.85 +0.43 0.56
Dling: 0845 602 1952 Priv Clients: 0845 777 5511 Jap Ind Acc ‡@ 131.01 … +0.40 1.78 Mutual European 2370.55 2499.98 -4.31 1.94
Equity Inc ‡@ 572.40 … -2.70 4.43 Jap Ind Inc ‡@ 107.95 … +0.34 1.83 * Yield expressed as CAR (Compound Annual Return);
Mutual Far Eastern 943.30 995.57 +1.92 1.37 † Ex dividend; ‡Middle price; . . . No significant data. #
Gilt Acc @ 201.30 211.80 +0.10 1.08 Pac Ind Acc ‡@ 427.06 … +1.94 2.70 Mutual North Am 1983.00 2092.88 +6.23 0.24
Pac Ind Inc ‡@ 286.26 … +1.31 2.79
Periodic charge deducted from capital; @ Exit charge
Gilt Inc @ 74.35 78.24 -0.39 1.09 Mutual UK Eq 1383.39 1460.04 +3.79 3.19
Health Acc ‡@ 2284.00 … +1.00 … Nth American Inc 1227.65 1295.67 -7.28 …
Jap Smlr Co Ac @
Managed Inc ‡@
62.56
138.30
66.09
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4.20 HSBC Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Share Class
UK Equity Inc 619.80 654.14 +1.70 3.26 British funds
Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 262.80 … +0.80 4.27
Balanced Acc ‡@ 234.76 … -0.32 1.37 SCOTTISH WIDOWS UNIT TRUST MGRS 12 month Price Int Yld Grs rd
UK Growth Inc ‡@ 247.60 … +2.00 1.08
Balanced Inc ‡@ 152.22 … -0.20 1.39 0845 300 2244 High Low Stock (£) +/– % yld
UK Select Opps Inc ‡@ 2071.00 … +9.00 1.04
Corp Bd Acc ‡@ 307.73 … +0.66 2.36 Authorised Inv Funds (OEICs)
UK Sml Cos Inc ‡@ 319.50 … -0.40 …
Corp Bd Inc ‡@ 129.25 … +0.28 2.40 OEIC A Class
Gilt & Fd Int Acc ‡@ 501.86 … +1.93 1.73 Managed Investment Funds Index-linked
Gilt & Fd Int Inc ‡@ 75.69 … +0.29 1.75 107.89 104.85 Tr IL 0V% 19 107.04 – .07 … –1.29
Income Acc ‡@ 697.19 … +0.69 3.96 Bal Port A Acc ‡@ 219.10 … -0.60 0.59
358.78 353.17 Tr IL 2K% 20 353.17 – .03 1.80 –2.40
AXA FUND MANAGERS LTD Income Inc ‡@ 319.94 … +0.32 4.08 Caut Port A Acc ‡@ 196.90 … +0.20 1.11 117.74 112.22 Tr IL 1Y% 2022 * 113.19 – .10 1.71 –2.59
Admin & Enq 0117 989 0808 Monthly Inc Acc ‡@ 322.17 … +0.40 3.46 Caut Port A Inc ‡@ 146.10 … +0.10 1.12 377.93 358.76 Tr IL 2K% 24 363.20 – .45 1.49 –2.44
AXA Trusts Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 146.96 … +0.18 3.55 Opps Port A Acc ‡@ 251.70 … -1.90 0.59 115.79 109.98 Tr IL 0V% 24 111.50 – .13 … –2.48
Prog Port A Acc ‡@ 242.50 … -1.40 0.60 123.52 115.24 Tr IL 0V% 26 118.07 – .15 … –2.56
Gen Acc ‡@ 2101.00 … +6.00 2.64 UK Grth & Inc Ret B Acc ‡@145.21 … +0.17 3.78 141.09 130.08 Tr IL 1N% 2027 * 134.03 – .19 1.02 –2.63
Gen Inc ‡@ 1079.00 … -2.00 2.70 UK Grth & Inc Ret B Inc ‡@71.01 … +0.08 3.88 134.70 121.31 Tr IL 0V% 29 128.11 – .20 … –2.58
UK Gth & Inc Acc ‡@ 145.21 … +0.17 3.78 Overseas Growth Investment Funds 404.22 364.65 Tr IL 4V% 30 383.32 – .58 1.68 –2.52
167.61 147.41 Tr IL 1N% 2032 * 156.80 – .10 0.80 –2.48
UK Gth & Inc Inc ‡@ 71.01 … +0.08 3.88 Eur Sel Gth A Acc ‡@ 3063.00 … -19.00 … 164.20 142.57 – .02 … –2.37
Tr IL 0O% 34 152.96
314.07 271.65 Tr IL 2% 35 293.25 + .45 0.83 –2.29
162.43 137.32 Tr IL 0V% 36 149.47 + .10 … –2.27
UK/Global Investment Companies Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds 190.18 161.81 Tr IL 1V% 2037 * 175.22 + .10 0.68 –2.27
HSBC Specialist Investment Funds (OEIC)
Euro Acc A ‡@ 259.40 … -0.60 2.85 185.76 156.02 Tr IL 0X% 40 170.26 + .23 … –2.14
American Index Retail Acc ‡@673.07 … -2.14 1.35 UK Trkr A Acc ‡@ 350.50 … -1.90 3.41 197.84 163.56 Tr IL 0X% 42 * 180.21 + .34 0.35 –2.10
Extra Inc Inc B ‡@ 86.74 … +0.24 1.16 UK Trkr A Inc ‡@ 192.50 … -1.00 3.51 184.36 150.29 Tr IL 0V% 44 167.70 + .37 … –2.03
American Index Retail Inc ‡@560.74 … -1.78 1.37
Global Gwth Acc R ‡@ 244.10 … -0.70 0.73 190.81 154.07 Tr IL 0V% 46 172.85 + .49 … –1.99
Asian Gth Acc ‡@ 147.77 … -0.07 … 223.26 180.92 Tr IL 0O% 2047 * 201.81 + .61 0.38 –1.98
Japan Acc A ‡@ 168.90 … +0.60 1.63
Asian Gth Inc ‡@ 130.99 … -0.06 … UK and Income Investment Funds 199.96 159.58 Tr IL 0V% 48 179.71 + .56 … –1.95
Pac Gwth Acc A ‡@ 478.60 … +1.50 2.29
Chinese Eq Acc ‡@ 513.81 … +0.27 0.40 222.97 178.35 Tr IL 0K% 50 * 200.16 + .65 … –1.93
Corp Bond A Acc ‡@ 344.20 … +0.70 2.03 221.12 173.59 Tr IL 0N% 52 196.92 + .77 … –1.92
Chinese Eq Inc ‡@ 434.76 … +0.22 0.34
Corp Bond A Inc ‡@ 134.10 … +0.30 2.06 294.37 231.82 Tr IL 1N% 2055 * 262.27 + .97 0.52 –1.89
Euro Gth Acc ‡@ 846.39 … -4.13 1.74 233.48 179.30 Tr IL 0V% 56 205.94 + .90 … –1.86
Envir Invtr A Acc ‡@ 351.20 … -0.80 0.39
Euro Gth Inc ‡@ 709.61 … -3.47 1.76 238.68 181.66 Tr IL 0V% 58 * 209.21 + .92 … –1.84
CIS UNIT MANAGERS LTD Hi Inc Bond A Ac ‡@ 245.30 … -0.10 5.12
274.78 208.06 Tr IL 0W% 62 238.31 +1.17 … –1.80
08457 46 46 46 Hi Inc Bond A Inc ‡@ 84.09 … -0.04 5.27 279.87 205.35 Tr IL 0V% 65 238.68 +1.25 … –1.81
Hi Res A Acc ‡@ 387.10 … -1.40 4.31 298.07 214.92 Tr IL 0V% 68 252.48 +1.41 … –1.83
European Gwth ‡@ 173.20 … … 0.22 IGNIS ASSET MGMT Hi Res A Inc ‡@ 134.30 … -0.50 4.43
Sus Leaders ‡@ 708.90 … +7.30 1.05 Dlg: 0141 222 8282 Safety Plus A Acc ‡@ 40.49 … … …
UK Growth ‡@ 620.50 … +5.70 1.90
UK Income ‡@ 225.10 … +0.20 5.36
American Gth Inc @ 322.55 340.42 -3.34 … Strat Inc A Acc ‡@ 218.50 … +0.30 2.73 Longs (Over 15 years)
Balanced Growth @ 262.17 276.69 -0.93 … Strat Inc A Inc ‡@ 103.60 … +0.20 2.77
155.86 139.41 Tr 4K% 34 149.69 + .05 3.01 0.87
Balanced Growth Acc @ 393.13 414.92 -1.40 … UK Gwth A Acc ‡@ 198.40 … -1.00 2.44 155.71 137.93 Tr 4N% 36 149.36 + .08 2.85 0.94
Corporate Bond ‡@ 99.69 … -0.89 4.77 UK Sel Gwth A Acc ‡@ 2207.00 … -3.00 0.60 116.47 99.93 Tr 1{ }% 37 111.62 + .10 … 1.03
European Growth @ 403.88 426.26 -3.57 2.18 171.75 150.56 Tr 4O% 38 164.29 + .14 2.89 1.00
CLOSE FUND MANAGEMENT LTD European Growth Acc @ 475.71 502.07 -4.21 2.24 163.82 142.88 Tr 4N% 39 156.91 + .16 2.71 1.04
OEIC B Class 166.54 144.58 Tr 4N% 40 159.23 + .18 … 1.07
0870 606 6402 Glob Gwth @ 331.53 349.90 -3.09 0.12 176.63 152.17 Tr 4K% 42 168.63 + .24 2.67 1.10
Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds
Beacon Inv ‡ 84.88 … +0.35 … Higher Yield @ 83.98 88.64 -0.29 4.43 151.43 128.22 Tr 3N% 44 144.47 + .24 … 1.13
Higher Yield Acc @ 275.04 290.28 -0.92 4.32 UK Trkr B Acc ‡@ 383.60 … -2.00 3.87 159.03 134.24 Tr 3K% 45 151.49 + .27 … 1.13
Japan @ 49.06 51.78 -0.03 0.94 UK Trkr B Inc ‡@ 191.80 … -1.00 3.98 180.95 152.55 Tr 4N% 46 172.19 + .32 2.47 1.13
Cautious Man Fd A Acc ‡@285.10 … +0.50 3.38 Glob Tech Acc @ 61.75 61.84 -0.44 0.46 114.76 92.60 Tr 1K% 47 108.64 + .26 … 1.13
Managed @ 130.89 138.15 -0.06 0.66 Cautious Man Fd A Inc ‡@154.10 … +0.30 3.46 Gwth Tst Acc @ 106.00 106.50 -1.00 … 188.86 157.43 Tr 4N% 49 179.29 + .46 2.37 1.12
Managed Trust @ 71.96 76.96 +0.17 … China Opp Fund A Acc ‡@1529.00 … +4.00 0.21 High Inc Acc @ 134.70 136.70 … 4.79 UK and Income Investment Funds 182.25 149.70 Tr 3O% 52 172.90 + .66 … 1.08
Dealing: 020 7426 6232 Mngd Pfolio Inc @ 95.54 100.84 -0.11 0.58 206.16 167.58 Tr 4N% 55 195.14 + .81 2.18 1.06
Emg Mkts Opps Fd A Acc ‡@208.40 … -0.40 0.62 Japan Ind Acc @ 64.94 64.94 +0.17 1.63 Corp Bond B Acc ‡@ 356.20 … +0.70 2.27 129.93 100.05 Tr 1O% 57 122.12 + .74 … 1.04
Winchester ‡ 3154.07 … +20.16 1.20 Pacific Grth @ 498.71 526.34 -2.81 1.34 Erpn Grth Fund A Acc ‡@ 244.80 … -0.60 0.86 Pacific Ind Acc @ 172.80 172.80 +0.60 2.72 Corp Bond B Inc ‡@ 134.00 … +0.30 2.30 209.19 166.42 Tr 4% 60 197.37 +1.08 … 1.03
Smaller Comp @ 756.24 798.14 +1.64 … Erpn Sel Opps Fd A Acc ‡@1840.00 … -6.00 0.44 UK 100 Ind Acc @ 180.90 180.90 +0.90 3.20 164.59 124.66 Tr 2K% 65 153.62 +1.00 … 1.02
Smaller Cos @ 628.94 663.79 +1.36 … UK Gwth B Acc ‡@ 214.00 … -1.20 2.76
Fix Int Mnthly Inc Fd Acc ‡@32.12 … +0.05 4.03 UK Active Opps Acc @ 249.90 252.90 -0.10 … 208.10 158.53 Tr 3K% 68 194.23 +1.29 … 1.03
UK Sel Gwth B Acc ‡@ 2309.00 … -3.00 …
Global Equity Fund Acc ‡@3673.00 … -16.00 … UK Index Acc @ 318.60 318.60 +1.00 3.56
EDENTREE INV MGMT LTD Global Equity Income A Inc ‡@63.82 … -0.25 3.63 UK Index Dist @ 168.60 168.60 +0.50 3.66
0800 358 3010 INSIGHT INVESTMENT FDS MANAGEMENT LTD Global Tech A Acc ‡@ 2346.00 … -6.00 … US Ind Acc @ 603.30 603.30 -4.50 1.12 OEIC C Class Mediums (5-15 years)
Client Servs: 0207 163 4000 M-Asset Abs Ret A Acc ‡@145.80 … … 0.78 Worldwide Acc @ 328.90 328.90 -0.20 1.04 UK and Income Investment Funds 107.74 105.19 Tr 3O% 21 105.34 – .04 … 0.44
Amity European A ‡ 264.00 … -1.60 2.00
Insight Investment Multi-Manager Funds M-Man Active Fd A Acc ‡@242.90 … -0.20 … UK Gth C Inc ‡@ 144.00 … -0.80 3.32 104.42 102.95 Tr 1O% 22 103.52 – .05 … 0.40
Amity International A ‡ 293.50 … -0.40 0.96
M-Man Inc Grth A Inc ‡@ 158.70 … -0.60 2.55 UK Sel Gwth C Acc ‡@ 2409.00 … -3.00 … 107.95 105.70 Tr 2N% 23 106.58 – .06 … 0.42
Amity Sterling Bond A ‡ 106.30 … +0.10 3.87 Well Bldr Bal Acc ‡@ 96.05 … -0.32 … 112.46 109.35 Tr 2O% 24 110.61 – .07 … 0.43
Amity UK A Inc ‡ 256.80 … +1.80 1.40 Well Bldr Gwth Acc ‡@ 93.79 … -0.36 … M-Man Inc Grth Fd A Acc ‡@189.60 … -0.70 2.51 126.04 122.14 Tr 5% 25 123.07 – .09 4.06 0.44
Sterling Bond U Trst Acc ‡@242.70 … +0.50 1.83 M & G SECURITIES 110.87 105.99 Tr 2% 25 108.86 – .08 … 0.40
Higher Income A ‡ 133.10 … -0.10 4.92 STANDARD LIFE INVESTMENTS
Sterling Bond U Trst Inc ‡@68.96 … +0.14 1.85 Enq: 0800 390 390 Dealing Line: 0800 328 3196 108.89 102.68 Tr 1K% 26 106.79 – .09 … 0.44
UK Equity Growth A ‡@ 316.00 … +1.70 1.13 0845 279 3003
Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 126.80 … +0.20 2.89 Authorised Inv Funds 107.75 100.18 Tr 1N% 27 105.56 – .06 … 0.49
INVESCO FUND MGRS LTD Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Shares 132.76 125.46 Tr 4N% 27 129.01 – .09 3.29 0.49
Dling: 0800 085 8571 Inv Serv: 0800 085 8677 UK Abs Ret Fd A Acc ‡@ 160.20 … +0.50 … Charifund Inc ‡ 1664.49 … +3.86 5.00 152.14 143.36 Tr 6% 28 147.25 – .07 4.07 0.54
UK Alpha Fund A Acc ‡@ 159.20 … +0.90 1.70 AAA Inc CAT Acc ‡@ 100.90 … +0.20 1.48 147.89 136.17 Tr 4O% 30 142.91 – .08 3.32 0.65
Brkr Serv: 0800 028 2121
UK Index Fund A Acc ‡@ 645.20 … +1.20 3.04 AAA Inc CAT Inc ‡@ 58.64 … +0.10 1.50 146.36 132.72 Tr 4N% 32 141.03 – .03 3.01 0.77
F & C FUND MANAGEMENT LTD (OEICS) INVESCO Funds
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Share Class 1 - Retail UK Property A Inc @ 100.83 106.40 +0.01 3.26 Euro Smlr Cos Acc ‡ 401.36 … -2.31 0.58 Corp Bond Acc ‡@ 182.60 … +0.40 2.69 Shorts (under 5 years)
Corporate Bd ‡@ 60.34 … +0.09 2.00 UK Tracker Fund A Acc ‡@289.30 … +0.60 3.22 Euro Smlr Cos Inc ‡ 359.79 … -2.07 2.19 Corp Bond Inc ‡@ 66.28 … +0.16 2.06
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Extra Inc Bond ‡@ 49.85 … +0.04 2.30 Corp Bond Acc ‡@ 216.66 … +0.25 2.53 Glob Advtg Acc ‡@ 190.00 … +0.10 1.18 115.07 111.17 Tr 4K% 19 114.36 – .02 3.72 0.91
Glob Eq Uncstrd Acc ‡@ 153.30 … -0.50 0.40 113.00 108.02 Tr 3O% 19 112.24 – .02 3.34 1.01
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Asia A Acc ‡@ 249.90 … +0.30 0.19 Gl Hi Yd Bd Inc ‡ 49.82 … -0.03 4.91 117.00 110.28 Tr 8% 21 110.28 – .05 7.25 0.47
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the times | Thursday January 23 2020
Isabelle Kocher is backed by the unions who have criticised the treatment of France’s only woman blue-chip chief executive
Former Vale boss on homicide charge
Emily Gosden Energy Editor
Prosecutors in Brazil have charged the
former boss of Vale with homicide in
connection with the deaths of 270
people killed when a dam collapsed.
Fabio Schvartsman, 66, was charged
alongside ten other people who worked
for the Brazilian iron ore miner, which
owned the Brumadinho dam, and five
who worked for Tüv Süd, the German
company responsible for inspecting the
structure. Vale and Tüv Süd also were
charged with environmental crimes
over the disaster in Minas Gerais state
on January 25 last year.
The dam at Vale’s Córrego do Feijão
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mine in Brumadinho had been holding
“tailings”, or mining waste. When the
dam wall collapsed, it unleashed about
ten million cubic metres of the muddy
waste, engulfing everything in its path.
Vale has said that 259 victims had
been identified: 123 were its employees,
117 were working for contractors and 19
were local residents. It is searching for
11 people who are still missing.
Prosecutors in Minas Gerais allege
that the companies were aware of the
risk of collapse and had deliberately
hidden the information, issuing false
reports about the stability of the dam.
William Garcia Pinto Coelho, a pros-
ecutor, said: “Vale, with the support of
MARLENE AWAAD/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES
Tüv Süd, produced a large amount of
technical information about . . . various
dams owned and managed by Vale, that
were . . . internally recognised as dams
with an unacceptable risk profile.
“The two companies imposed on
society a risk that they decided society
should take.”
Vale, which is listed in Rio de Janeiro
and in New York, is the world’s biggest
iron ore producer. The Brumadinho
tragedy was the second deadly collapse
at a Vale tailings dams in Minas Gerais
in little more than three years. The col-
lapse of the Fundão dam at its Samarco
joint venture with BHP in Mariana in
November 2015 killed 19 people and
Future of France’s top
female chief in balance
Charles Bremner Paris
Isabelle Kocher, the chief executive of
Engie and France’s only female boss of
a CAC 40 company, has failed to meet
many of her aims and may lose her
post, the company’s chairman said
yesterday.
Jean-Pierre Clamadieu said that the
board of the energy group, whose
biggest shareholder is the French state
with a 24 per cent stake, will make a
decision on whether to replace Ms
Kocher, 53, next month.
“There is no such thing as a perfect
record. We are in a situation in which a
certain number of things have been
done very well and then there are many
things still to do. The group must
undertake a new stage in its transfor-
mation,” he said at the World Economic
Forum in Davos.
After four bumpy years, Ms Kocher is
reported to have lost the confidence of
some of the board after a disagreement
on strategy.
Last month, President Macron, who
clashed with Ms Kocher when he was
economy minister in the last govern-
ment, was reported to have decided not
to back her renewal but not to force her
departure. Spokesmen denied that any
government decision has been taken.
Engie agreed this week to sell its
British residential energy supply busi-
ness with 70,000 customers to allow the
caused Brazil’s worst ever environ-
mental disaster.
Mr Schvartsman had taken the top
job in 2017 and suggested that the com-
pany’s motto should be “Mariana, never
again”. He resigned last March in the
wake of the Brumadinho disaster.
Brazilian federal prosecutors are
continuing to investigate the tragedy
and could bring charges of their own.
The disaster has led to intense pres-
sure on the mining industry to improve
safety. Brazil has banned the construc-
tion of new dams of the “upstream” type
used at Brumadinho and has ordered
the decommissioning of existing ones.
A Vale spokeswoman said: “The
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Business
group to focus on working with busi-
nesses and local authorities. It entered
the British domestic market in 2017.
In 2018, the French government
blocked an attempt by Ms Kocher, a
mother of five and the first woman to
head a leading, publicly quoted French
company, to become chairwoman
when Gerard Mestrallet, 70, retired. It
backed Mr Clamadieu, 61, head of
Solvay, the Belgian chemicals group.
While refusing to sell gas assets such
as Storengy, a storage unit, the former
GDF-Suez executive embarked on a
divestment plan to switch from fossil
fuels and focus on power grids, renew-
able energy and energy services.
Critics inside Engie, which employs
160,000 people and reported a turn-
over of €60 billion in 2018, complain
about Ms Kocher’s “solitary” and “bru-
tal” management style. She is strongly
supported by unions, which fear the
company being effectively dismantled.
Laurent Berger, head of the CFDT,
France’s biggest union federation,
started a social media campaign to back
her. In November, Forbes magazine
named her 13th on its list of the world’s
most powerful women.
Feminists see hostility towards Ms
Kocher, a product of France’s elite
grandes écoles and a former civil
servant, as a symptom of the sexism
that keeps women out of French board-
rooms and top executive posts.
company believes the accusations of
fraud are perplexing. It is important to
note that other authorities are investi-
gating the case and, at this point, it is
premature to claim there was conscious
assumption of risk to cause a deliberate
breach of the dam.”
A spokeswoman for Tüv Süd said
that the company was “still very much
interested in clarifying the facts of the
dam breach and therefore continues to
offer its co-operation to the responsible
authorities”, but could not comment
further.
A spokesman for Mr Schvartsman
said that the charges were “unfair”
since investigations were continuing.
48 1G M Thursday January 23 2020 | the times

Business Markets
news in brief
Miles Costello Tempus
Buy, sell or hold: today’s best share tips
AJ Bell faces revolt
More than a fifth of outside

Landlord has good day at the office

shareholders of AJ Bell, the
investment platform, revolted
against resolutions that prevent
senior managers from having to
make a bid for the company if
their aggregate holding pushes
derwent london Derwent London actively manages through the normal trigger point
Wait for weakness its portfolio, selling properties or of 29.9 per cent. The resolutions,
Market value income £86.3m stakeholdings worth £181.7 million in were designed to allow buybacks
£4.6bn H1 rental NAV £38.52 Share price Biggest recent property lets*
£45 the first nine months of last year, and share options for senior staff.
Property size Rent including the Buckley Building in A J Bell reported winning a net

A
ccording to received 1 Soho Place Clerkenwell, which went for 4.8 per new 9,000 clients to its platform
wisdom, there is a 102,600 sq ft cent above its book value. in the three months to December,
resilience about the 40 £94.70 per sq ft Its performance in central London boosting customer numbers to
central London Brunel Building W2 seems to bear out the theory about 227,000 and assets under
commercial property 49,600 sq ft the resilience of its market and the administration to £54.7 billion.
market that sets it apart from the 35 £75 per sq ft handover of power to Mr Williams
regions. Brunel Building W2 appears to have caused no disruption
33,000 sq ft
Regulators eye deal
Even if rents and asset values are to the strategy.
hit by economic cycles, businesses £77.50 per sq ft There is a potential threat from The competition and media
30 80 Charlotte Street W1
will always want to occupy space in Wework, the flexible offices provider watchdogs will scrutinise the
40,650 sq ft
the capital and will be prepared to £82.50 per sq ft that was expanding at a breakneck Daily Mail owner’s £50 million
pay a premium rate per square foot pace until it was forced to retrench takeover of the i newspaper on
Source: Refinitiv

Johnson Building EC1

to be in the smartest places to work.
At least that’s the theory.
It’s hard to imagine a landlord
more exposed to the fluctuation of
this part of the commercial property
sector than Derwent London. It was
established to operate the Derwent
Valley Light Railway, which ran from
1913 to 1981. After its closure, John
Burns, 75, the developer, used it and
the value of its assets to develop a
London-based property business.
A constituent of the FTSE 250, it
became the company it is in 2007
after merging with London
Merchant Securities. In late 2018, Mr
Burns switched from chief executive
to chairman, promoting Paul
Williams, 59, the property director,
to chief. Derwent London owns a
property portfolio totalling
5.7 million sq ft, valued at £5.4 billion
and almost entirely located in the
West End, Shoreditch and
Paddington. It is known for the
gym group
Revenues £153.1m Members
Sites 175 794,000
2015 16 17
ADVICE Avoid
WHY High-quality developer
with attractive portfolio, but
richly valued after a very
strong post-election run
quirkiness of some of its projects,
including the White Collar Factory
with a running track on its roof.
What also distinguishes Derwent
London from some of its peers is that
it chose not to retrench after the
European Union referendum,
pressing ahead with developments in
the expectation that tenants would
still come after Brexit. That
Gym. The company was founded in
2008 by John Treharne, 65, a former
England squash player who
previously had enjoyed success with
Dragons, his health club chain.
25 18,300 sq ft
£47.50 per sq ft
Johnson Building EC1
20 17,800 sq ft
18 19 £45 per sq ft *At Aug 2019
confidence seems to have paid off,
with tenants booked in last year in
advance of developments being
completed including Apollo, the
private equity investor, and Boston
Consulting, the professional services
business. Its new lettings during the
first half of last year were worth
£18.1 million in rental income, 7.5 per
cent higher than the same period the
previous year. Its total net rental
income rose by 7.1 per cent to
£86.3 million. Its lettings rate in the
third quarter was similarly high. A
0.6 per cent vacancy level, as of
November, is impressively low, but
the underlying value of its portfolio
also improved during the first half.
Another encouraging sign is that
in a small box gym. The company
plans to open fifteen to twenty
standard gyms this year, plus a
further five to eight of the new
format, which it opens in smaller
last year after a governance crisis public interest grounds. Baroness
and a failed stock market float. A Morgan, the culture secretary,
revitalised Wework could feasibly has ordered a review to ensure
start to claim market share, but, in there is a “sufficient plurality of
practice, Derwent London’s viewpoints” in British newspapers
corporate customers have tended to after the deal. Daily Mail and
prefer conventionally longer leases General Trust, which sealed its
and a place where they can imprint takeover of the i and its website
their brand. in November, has promised to
After a recent strong run, the preserve the liberal-minded title’s
shares, up 52p, or 1.3 per cent, at editorial independence.
£41.86 yesterday, trade at a
comfortable premium to the net McFarlane lined up
value of the assets, although in
fairness this is a lagging indicator as John McFarlane, the former
it is calculated only twice a year. Barclays chairman who stepped
Nevertheless, the stock is highly down from the bank’s board last
rated, trading at 32.6 times Panmure year, will be appointed today to
Gordon’s forecast earnings for a the same position at Westpac, the
dividend yield of 2.1 per cent. The Australian lender. Mr McFarlane,
richness of the valuation provides 72, has experience in the region
little opportunity for the prospective and was previously chief
investor at present, but this high- executive of Australia and New
quality company is worth revisiting if Zealand Banking Group.
the price weakens. Westpac said he will start his role
as a non-executive director next
month and take over as chairman
enthusiasm for low-cost facilities and of the board from Lindsay
the long-term increase in the desire Maxsted in April.
to be healthier and fitter.
The shares, up 2p, or 0.7 per cent, Revolut hit by glitch
to 308p yesterday, have risen by just

T
he dynamics are changing in
the battle for the loyalty of the
nation’s fitness freaks. The
preferences of those choosing to take
out gym memberships are polarising:
we want either the no-frills basics for
a bargain-basement monthly rate, or
the premium offering, likely to come
with a swimming pool and fresh
towels. Operators in the middle are
likely to get squeezed.
Gym Group sits firmly at the
budget end, competing with the
privately owned and larger Pure
Having opened its first club in regional towns and often in more under 50 per cent in the past year Revolut, the payments and
Hounslow, southwest London, it has deprived areas where a fitness centre and, with a dividend yield of just banking start-up, suffered a
been expanding and now operates is an additional resource. under 1 per cent, are for the growth problem yesterday that affected
175 gyms nationwide. It was listed on Operating an online bookings investor. Trading at 20 times some of its services. It is thought
the stock market in 2015 and Mr service, with no receptionist or Liberum’s forecast earnings, they are the issue was caused by an outage
Treharne remains a director. towels, means that running costs are one to tuck away. at one of its third-party payment
There are two formats. The low. And the high cashflows providers that lasted 25 minutes
standard gyms tend to occupy about generated by membership fees, before services for customers
15,000 sq ft, but the Gym Group also which start at about £15 a month, ADVICE Hold returned to normal. The London-
has begun to open “small box” mean that the company is close to WHY Low-cost operator taking based financial technology group
outlets, which are about half the size. being self-financing, with net debts was launched in 2015 by Nik
It tends to cost about £1.4 million to running at a modest £47.4 million. advantage of growth of Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko and
fit out a standard gym and just over The Gym Group is well placed to budget fitness has been hit by glitches in the
half that to install all the equipment capitalise on consumers’ growing past. A spokeswoman for the
group declined to comment.

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Markets Business
GORAN TOMASEVIC/REUTERS

It’s only natural insurers get

boost from lower claims
Tom Howard Market report

L
ondon’s insurers were given a
boost yesterday after it leisure
emerged that the amount
they paid out in natural
disaster claims had fallen
sharply last year.
Protest vote falls on deaf ears
According to Aon’s annual

A
catastrophe report, there were 409 quarter of and John Magnier,
natural disasters around the world in investors in the Irish horse racing
2019 that caused $232 billion worth of Mitchells & tycoons.
damage. Two typhoons in Japan in Butlers have voted Despite the
September and October were the against the re- rebellion, with the
costliest events, with their combined appointment of a trio backing of the two
insured losses put at $15 billion. of board directors, largest shareholders,
Not all of the total damages of including the son of who between them
$232 billion were covered and the Daniel Levy, the own more than half of
global insurance industry was on the Tottenham Hotspur the company, the
hook for “only” $71 billion — still a lot chairman. three directors were
of money, clearly, but much lower Just shy of 23 per Josh Levy and his successfully re-
than the bill insurers faced in cent of shareholders father Daniel attend a appointed to their
previous years. In 2018, they paid out voted not to re-elect Tottenham match positions.
Josh Levy, while a Mitchells & Butler
had fallen to northeast of Santiago, little more than 25 per shareholders: declined to comment
Protests 185.5 kilotonnes in the the capital, which was Wall Street report cent did not want Piedmont, the on the results of the
three months to the gripped with anti- Eddie Irwin and Ron investment vehicle of vote, which took place
leave miner end of December, from government Wall Street tried to look beyond the Robson, the deputy Joe Lewis, the at Tuesday’s annual
197 kilotonnes in the demonstrations last coronavirus and its effect on world chairman, to return to billionaire owner of general meeting in
seeing red previous quarter. year, above. The mine trade, but the stream of bad news their roles. Tottenham, the Birmingham.
Output was affected accounts for nearly about the outbreak pushed indices The three non- Premier League Mitchells & Butlers

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ntofagasta has by issues including half of the company’s steadily down after a bright start. The executive directors all football club; and shares closed 11½p, or
reported a disruption of fuel total copper output. Dow Jones industrial average fell 9.77 have links to the pubs Elpida Group, which 2.9 per cent, higher
5.8 per cent drop deliveries to its main Chile is the world’s points, or 0.03 per cent, to 29,186.27. group’s two largest is run by JP McManus yesterday at 413½p.
in fourth-quarter Los Pelambres mine, largest producer of the
copper production, maintenance at its red metal.
hampered by months Centinela mine and a London-listed shares $100 billion and in 2017 a record 0.75 per cent next week. Before the back in. The shares dropped 3¾p, or
of civil unrest in Chile workers strike at its in the miner fell 43p, $157 billion. Over the past decade, the data came out, the markets had been 1.5 per cent, to 245¾p.
(Robert Miller writes). Antucoya project. or 4.5 per cent, to 907p, average annual cost to the insurance pricing in a 61 per cent chance of a The FTSE 250, which is less
The miner said that Los Pelambres is valuing Antofagasta at industry from earthquakes, cut. That helped to push sterling up sensitive to fluctuations in sterling,
production of copper located about 150 miles £8.9 billion. hurricanes and the like has been by 0.7 per cent against the dollar to made a small gain of 17.57 points, or
about $85 billion. $1.313, while the pound made a similar 0.1 per cent, to close at 21,762.98.
Analysts said that many in the move against the euro to €1.185. A Brave investors thinking about
Results in brief industry had hoped for an even lower strong pound is rarely good news for taking a punt on Tullow Oil after its
Name Pre-tax figure Dividend figure to help to offset a rise in Footsie constituents, who make three recent woes were deterred from doing
Profit (+) loss (-) casualty claims in the United States, quarters of their earnings overseas. so by Investec. Even with the shares
Ideagen (technology HY) £93,000 (-£0.6m) 0.104p p Mar 18 where litigation and big jury awards M&G, the investment group spun down 65 per cent over the past six
Van Elle (industrials HY) £0.9m (£2.4m) 0.2p p Mar 27 have hurt insurers, but the news was out of Prudential, became a victim of weeks, its analysts said they saw
Wynnstay (in dustrials FY) £7.6m (£9.5m) 14p f 9.40p p Apr 30 welcomed all the same. Shares in its own success as Barclays “limited scope for investment” in
6 Results in brief are given for all companies valued at more than £30 million. f = final p = payable Hiscox closed 28p, or 2.1 per cent, up downgraded it to “equal weight”. Tullow. It helped to send Tullow
at £13.68, while those of Beazley, its Analysts at the bank said that M&G shares down another 3½p, or 6.4 per
The day’s biggest movers smaller peer, rose 17½p, or 3.3 per had “surpassed expectations” since its cent, to 49½p. They had been at 141p
cent, to 552½p. demerger last October, with its shares before last month’s horror update.
Company Change The FTSE 100 found itself in the up by almost a quarter in that time. Elsewhere, shares in Consort
Trainline Recovers losses from earlier in the month 5.7% red, falling 38.78 points, or 0.5 per One of their concerns was the asset Medical, the drug delivery devices
Berkeley Plans to return £1 billion to shareholders 4.4% cent, to 7,571.92, driven lower by a management business, from which company, closed flat at £10.10, the
PPHE Hotel Shares hit record highs 4.0% resurgent pound as expectations of a investors have been pulling their level at which Recipharm, its Swedish
Clarkson Shares have risen by more than a third since beginning of September 4.0% cut to interest rates started to recede. money over the past couple of years. rival, has tabled a £505 million cash
Sage Encouraging performance in first quarter 3.9% With yesterday’s manufacturing data Barclays reckons that this trend will offer. Recipharm yesterday swept up
Close Brothers Cautious trading update -4.9%
Burberry Analysts describe update as “underwhelming” -5.0%
showing a post-election bounce in need to reverse if the shares are to almost 4.9 million shares in Consort,
NMC Health Investors remain nervous while review goes on -5.4% optimism, the City thinks it is now a move higher, but it doesn’t think representing 9.9 per cent of the stock,
TUI Boeing pushes back 737 Max return date -5.5% toss-up as to whether the Bank of M&G’s funds have performed well at that price, and a further 118,563
Tullow Oil Investec warns off investors looking to take a punt -6.4% England cuts rates or holds them at enough for investors to start piling shares at £10.

Gold/Precious Money rates % Dollar rates Exchange rates

London Grain Futures
LIFFE Wheat (close £/t)
metals (US dollars per ounce) Base Rates Clearing Banks 0.75 ECB Refi 0.00 US Fed Fd 1.50-1.75 Australia
Canada
1.4627-1.4628
1.3151-1.3152
Bank buys Bank sells
Australia $ 2.070 1.800
Jan 154.70 Mar unq May 156.50 Bullion: Open $1556.25 Halifax Mortgage Rate 4.24 Denmark 6.7414-6.7419
Canada $ 1.850 1.610
Jul unq Nov 166.00 Volume: 727 Euro 0.9021-0.9022
Close $1557.50-1558.30 High $1559.04 Denmark Kr 9.430 8.260
Treasury Bills (Dis) Buy: 1 mth 0.640; 3 mth 0.644. Sell: 1 mth 0.580; 3 mth 0.560 Hong Kong 7.7716-7.7720
Egypt n/a n/a
London Metal Exchange Japan 109.88-109.89
Low $1550.18 Euro ¤ 1.280 1.120
Malaysia 4.0628-4.0678
(Official) AM $1558.10 PM $1556.90 1 mth 2 mth 3 mth 6 mth 12 mth Norway 8.9812-8.9835
Hong Kong $ 10.880 9.570
Hungary 433.240 356.430
Cash 3mth Dec 19 Krugerrand $1541.00-1625.00 (£1173.29-1237.25) Interbank Rates 0.6713 0.7030 0.7525 0.7963 0.8681 Singapore 1.3489-1.3491
Indonesia 20441.000 16304.900
Sweden 9.5125-9.5142
Platinum $1020.22 (£776.78) Clearer CDs 0.80-0.70 0.84-0.74 0.88-0.78 0.97-0.82 1.04-0.89 Switzerland 0.9693-0.9694
Israel Shk 4.950 4.220
Copper Gde A ($/tonne) Japan Yen 155.220 134.430
Silver $17.85 (£13.59) Depo CDs 0.80-0.70 0.84-0.74 0.88-0.78 0.97-0.82 1.04-0.89 New Zealand $ 2.200 1.860
6103.0-6103.5 6138.0-6139.0 6220.0-6230.0
Palladium $2449.50 (£1865.01) Eurodollar Deps 1.50-1.60 1.69-1.89 1.73-1.93 1.76-1.96 1.84-2.04 Other Sterling Norway Kr 12.610 10.900
Lead ($/tonne) Poland 5.490 4.500
Argentina peso 78.886-78.890 Russia 86.340 71.900
1972.0-1974.0 1965.0-1967.0 1992.0-1997.0 European money Sterling spot and forward rates Australia dollar 1.9211-1.9213 S Africa Rd 20.860 17.660

Zinc Spec Hi Gde ($/tonne) deposits % Mkt Rates for Range Close 1 month 3 month
Bahrain dinar
Brazil real
0.4917-0.4988
5.4945-5.5006
Sweden Kr
Switzerland Fr
13.230
1.390
11.760
1.200
2466.0-2466.5 2449.0-2450.0 2408.0-2413.0 Copenhagen 8.7890-8.8696 8.8531-8.8544 106ds 301ds Euro 1.1847-1.1848 Turkey Lira 8.620 7.370
Currency
Euro 1.1871-1.1765 1.1848-1.1847 8pr 24pr Hong Kong dollar 10.206-10.208 USA $ 1.420 1.250
Alum Hi Gde ($/tonne) 1mth 3mth 6mth 12mth Rates for banknotes and traveller's cheques as
Montreal 1.7053-1.7274 1.7272-1.7274 16pr 47pr India rupee 93.334-93.340
1807.0-1807.5 1817.0-1819.0 1945.0-1950.0 Dollar Indonesia rupiah 17910-17922 traded by Royal Bank of Scotland plc yesterday
New York 1.3034-1.3149 1.3133-1.3134 12pr 37pr
0.13 0.20 0.29 0.55 Kuwait dinar KD 0.3978-0.4001
Nickel ($/tonne) Oslo 11.700-11.817 11.794-11.798 93pr 296pr
Sterling Malaysia ringgit 5.3354-5.3419
Stockholm 12.394-12.519 12.492-12.496 71ds 187ds
13640.0-13645.0 13730.0-13750.0 14120.0-14170.0 New Zealand dollar 1.9930-1.9935 Data as shown is
0.63 0.70 0.74 0.81 Tokyo 143.34-144.57 144.31-144.33 10ds 31ds Singapore dollar 1.7714-1.7718 for information
Tin ($/tonne) 15mth Euro Zurich 1.2640-1.2754 1.2731-1.2732 15ds 45ds S Africa rand 18.826-18.839 purposes only. No offer is made by
17550.0-17575.0 17575.0-17600.0 17475.0-17525.0 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.50 Premium = pr Discount = ds U A E dirham 4.8238-4.8240 Morningstar or this publication
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Business Equity prices

Please note: dividend yields are 12 month Price 12 month Price 12 month Price 12 month Price 12 month Price
supplied by Morningstar. They are High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E
calculated on the basis of dividends
that have been recorded in the 19V 7K EIHv 7K … … -2.5 50 34Y Livermore Invsv 50 + 1 … 12.7 2N Y Aukett Fitz Robv 1Y … … -2.0 3001 1836 Persimmon 3001 + 24 7.8 10.8 646K 416X Babcock 619 + 5O 4.8 15.7
annual or half-year reports 1 K Energiser Invv 1 … … -1.3 67N 48K Lloyds Bkg Gp 58 – W 5.6 19.3 295 194V Balfour Beatty 260W + K 1.8 16.1 3N 1O Pires Investmentsv 2Y … … 1.4 640 443Y BAE SYS 640 – 5 3.4 15.4

210 150 EPE Special Oppsv 197 … … 3.2 59K 38W LMS Capital 38W … … -6.7 803 532K Barratt Devs 803 – 3O 3.4 11.1 40 22K Plaza Cent 37K … … … 971 652 Bodycote 895 – 19K 2.1 17.0

823X 702X FBD 707V + 5Y 6.3 4.8 4W 1V Location Sciencesv 1K … … -1.1 4040 2698 Bellway 4040 – 32 3.6 9.2 9K 3 PME African Infrav 3 – W … -0.7 … … Bould Opportunitiesv# … … … -0.3
12 month Price
High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E 546K 372O Polypipe Group 535K + 5 2.1 21.6 2600 1400 Braime A N/Vv 1650 – 100 0.7 10.9
70 59 Fiskev 59 – 2K … … 7986 4413 Lond Stk Ex Gp 7986 + 278 0.7 58.8 5412 3437 Berkeley 5412 + 226 0.5 13.5
160 112 Primary Hlth‡ 157O … 3.4 … 2500 1450 Braime Groupv 1550 … 0.7 10.3
39 27 Frenkel Toppingv 38 … 3.3 27.3 248 202X M&G 245O – 3O … 4.1 1200 918 Big Yellow Group 1170 + 6 2.8 12.0
51O 36W Raven Property 48K – 1X … -4.6
Automobiles & parts 1149K 814 Georgia Capital 814 + 1 … … 175V 130K Man 153X – V 5.9 10.7 396 260 Billington Hldgsv 396 + 13 3.2 10.2
140K 130 Raven Property Group 135K + K … …
425 365 Caffyns 400 … 5.6 …

7K 2N GLI Financev 5W + X … -0.8 9O 7K Manx Finv 8Y … … 3.4 335 233 Boot (Henry) 332 – 2 2.7 12.4 9V 2O Cap XX Ldv 3W – V … -6.9
… … Raven R CNV Pref 119K … … …
1374W 399N Aston Martin Lagonda 434 – 1K … -6.5 650 440 Gresham Housev 650 … 0.4 … 1N X Marechale Capv Y … … -2.9 93 58 Breedon Groupv 93 + 3K … 21.1 449 347 Castings 417 + 3 3.5 14.8
… … Raven Russia Wnts 21 … … …
1355 892K Gresh Hse Stratv 1355 + 5 1.4 … 8667Y 6323N Marsh McLn 8667Y – 4K 1.5 36.3 638O 468N Br Land‡ 578W – W 5.4 -8.5 76 18K Chamberlinv 27 – 1K … -0.3
815 99W RDI REIT 136O … 9.8 18.4
Banking & finance 100X 82N Gulf Invest 100 … 2.3 6.9 822K 662K Mattioli Woodsv 822K – 2K 2.1 26.7 255 162K Caledonian Tstv 197 – 3 … 11.2
58 49 Real Estate Invsv‡ 55N + N 6.5 22.3
56K 29K Checkitv 30K … … 19.0
729 354 Cohortv 725 … 1.2 40.7
398 269 H&T Groupv 361 – 9 3.0 11.8 1K 1V Metal Tigerv 1N … … 2.6 270K 184O Cap & Count Prop 253O – 3X 0.5 …
788 533 Redrow 788 + 1 3.8 8.5
50K 23O 1PMv 32O … 2.8 4.9 114K 82 Croma Securityv 95 + K 1.7 12.1
48V 36V Hansard Global 43 + N 10.3 13.0 2202 166 Metro Bank 207V + 2V … … 333 136 Cap & Regnl 240 – 4 1.0 … 817K 527K Safestore 781 + 12 2.0 12.9
2324 2014 Admiral 2300 + 5 3.9 16.6 1125 825 Dewhurstv‡ 1075 … 1.1 21.6
42K 16K ADVFNv 16K … … … 2433 1633 Hargreaves L 1807 + 11 1.7 34.7 1579X 1256 Nat Aust Bk 1338V + K 7.4 14.0 1775 1700 Cardiff Prop 1725 … 0.9 14.0 1240 773 Savills 1240 + 12 1.2 23.0
570 230 Dialight 266 + 10K … 51.1
141 73K Amryt Pharmav 123K – 2K … -2.1 231K 167Y Hastings Gp 180 … 7.5 12.4 306 212 Numisv‡ 284 – 1K 4.2 21.1 52 35K Carecapitalv 37K – N … -3.0 10 6K Secure Propertyv 8K + N … -6.6
16153V 11663Y Aon Corpn 16153V + 76 0.8 33.6 2148V 1664O Electrolux 'B' 1898X – 45K 3.6 18.8
141K 117K Helios Underv 135 … … 21.8 452 313K Onesavings Bank 410O + K 3.5 7.7 140 91 Clarke T 130K – K 3.0 8.7 904O 625W SEGRO 904O + 11 2.0 10.4
61O 46V Appreciate Groupv 59O – 1K 5.3 12.2 1Y X Feedbackv Y … … -3.3
1390 1040 Arbuthnot Bkgv 1300 … 2.6 26.8 … … Highway Capital# 15K … … -5.0 N V Origo Partnersv V … … -0.4 312K 212 CLS Hldgs 280 – 2K 2.4 8.1 153 93V SIG 95 … 3.9 …
4Y 2V Arc Mineralsv 3 … … -2.8 1527K 954 Gooch Hsegov 1420 – 5 0.8 94.6
1777 1213 Hiscox 1368 + 28 2.4 39.8 553K 388 Paragon‡ 501K + 7K 3.8 9.4 507 277K Countryside Prop‡ 507 + 8V 2.4 13.5 52K 38 SigmaRocv 50O – N … 29.1
27 15 Arden Partnersv 17 – 1 5.8 -2.3 3700 2440 Goodwin 3480 + 120 2.7 23.8
680K 552N HSBC 581V – 4W 7.0 11.1 1118 825 PayPoint 1044 … 3.7 16.4 564 162O Countrywide 374K + 5K … 0.1 124K 109K Smart (J) 124K … 2.5 8.0
25 15N Argo Groupv 24K … … 15.6
2164 1390 Halma‡ 2118 – 11 0.7 44.5
561K 377V Ashmore Gp 561K + 8 2.9 22.4 708 474O IG Group 683K – 6O 6.8 15.9 38 24K PCF Groupv 35K … 0.8 14.8 298W 141K Craven Housev 228N + 7K … -3.9 510 373 St Modwen Prp 500 + 7K 1.4 18.4
1524O 1277V Aus New Z 1338X + 10Y 6.5 11.4 43K 20 Steppe Cementv 32 … 9.3 7.5 1510 1049 Hill & Smith 1425 – 5 2.2 21.9
402 184 Impaxv 402 + 17 1.1 33.2 758X 627K Phoenix Gp 744 + 4Y 6.1 9.8 445 332 Crest Nicholson 444K + 3K 7.4 8.3
438O 352N Aviva 410N + Y 7.3 7.0 46 35 Holders Techv 45 … 1.6 12.2
216W 142Y Taylor Wimpey 216W + 2 2.8 10.8
402 295 Banco Santander 301X – 5O 4.8 10.6 1693 971K Intermediate Cap 1693 – 13 2.6 23.9 K … Plutus PowerGenv … … … -0.4 3100 2170 CRH 2915 – 30 2.2 16.8
232 171 Town Centre 230 + 8 5.1 -9.8 3W O Image Scanv 2N … … -7.1
1755 1252 Bank of Georgia 1554 – 1 4.4 5.8 218 87 IPF 158K + O 7.8 5.2 4X 2O Polo Resourcesv 3X – V … -1.8 6160 4715 Daejan 5210 – 80 2.0 14.2
192W 136V Barclays 174O + N 4.0 16.2 1692K 1166 Travis Perkins 1620 – 19K 2.9 54.9 1206 906 IMI 1163K + 2K 3.4 18.6
628 492K Beazley 552K + 17K 2.2 23.5 171 146O Intl Public Pntshp 169W + K 4.1 15.8 610 356 Provident 473W + 11 2.1 20.2 4186 2884 Derwent London 4186 + 52 1.5 21.2
159X 135N Tritax Big Box REIT 140K – V 4.7 10.1 V … Inspirit Energyv … … … -3.8
V … Blue Star Capitalv V … … 1.8 518K 395N Investec 440W + 4V 5.5 9.1 1528K 1132N Prudential 1412 + 7K 3.5 13.8 5Y 4 Dolphin Capitalv 4V … … -1.5
271K 116 Tyman 260 … 4.6 20.9 6020 2560 Judges Scientificv 5580 + 380 0.7 32.5
311 208 BP Marsh&Ptnrsv 262 … 1.8 8.0
347 293 Investment Co‡ 331 – 10 5.5 … 7W 2K Quadrise Fuels Intlv 2Y … … -8.6 12V 9Y Dragon-Ukra Propv 10O – N … 6.9
13N 8N Braveheart Invv 10K … 4.7 -1.3 1302 872 Unite Group 1302 + 22 2.2 14.4 112K 79 LPAv 93K … 3.1 16.2
375V 287K Brewin Dolphin‡ 363 … 4.5 21.8 112W 55X IP Group 69W + 2 … … 167K 120O Quilter PLC 165W … 2.0 21.7 1W … EQTECv V … … -0.4
358 262 Urban&Civic plc‡ 351 – 4 1.0 11.4 697V 489Y Meggitt 679W – 12K 2.4 36.7
47W 29O Carador 29O … 12.9 -4.7 … … IRF Euro Fin Inv V … … … 223 147 Randall & Quilterv 177K … 3.1 8.1 52 39K First Propv 44O … 3.7 8.5
73 38 Cenkos Secsv 59K + 2 7.5 19.1 1382 939V Vistry Group‡ 1382 + 15 4.1 12.6 244N 156O Melrose 244N + 2K 1.8 …
513 435 Jarvis Securitiesv 479 … 5.4 14.0 2540 1974 Rathbone Brs 1974 … 3.3 45.2 46 40 Fletcher Kingv‡ 43K … 4.0 19.1 115K 98O Warehouse REITv 115K – 1 5.1 13.8
334 235 Charles Stanley 330 … 2.6 14.7 324O 232W Morgan Advanced 320 + 2K 3.4 15.8
389K 259K Chesnara 325K … 6.3 8.6 432 314 Jupiter Fund Mgmt 386 + 2Y 4.4 13.3 187 90 Reddev 104 – 1K 11.2 9.3 88 48N Foxtons Group 83O + N … … 1198 806 Workspace Grp‡ 1197 + 26 2.7 16.2 299 131K Mpac PLCv 299 – 7 … …
145 132K City of Lon Gpv 132K – 2K … …
108Y 36 Just Group 71O + 1V … … … … Robeco N/V 2670Y … … … 886 132K Galliford Try 132K – 3O 54.3 1.6 612K 550 Wynnstay Propsv 612K + 5 3.1 6.9 222 162K MS Intlv 190 … 4.3 35.1
467 372K City Lon Inv Gp 462 + 4 5.8 13.5
X V Clear Leisurev N … … -0.5 780K 561K Lancashire Hdgs 759K – 1K 1.5 … … … Rolinco N/V 2489O … … … 984 698 Gleeson (MJ) 976 + 26 3.5 16.1 179K 112 Northbrdg Indv 156K … … …
1663 1227 Close Bros 1490 – 77 4.3 11.2
160W 77W CMC Markets 160W + 8V 1.2 18.4
200 18K Leaf Clean Energyv 197 … … 1.7 270W 177X Ryl Bk Scot 222X – 2 2.4 13.4 937 645K Grafton Gp Uts 899 + 3 2.0 14.1
Consumer goods 1626 866 Oxford Inst 1580 – 2 0.9 26.8
27 14 Leeds Groupv 17 … … -3.6 597 501K RSA Ins 555V + 5K 3.7 21.9 315K 217W Grainger‡ 300 + 1O 1.7 15.1 3843 2661X Philips El nv 3843 + 53K 1.9 29.7
693 402W Commerzbk 432 – X … 7.5
696Y 501X Deutsche Bk 638V + 6 1.5 -3.2 317X 216X Legal & Gen 310N + 2X 5.2 9.8 2440 1767K S & U 2140 + 20 5.5 9.0 943 649W Gr Portland 943 + 5W 1.2 41.7 8K 5W Agriterrav# 5W … … -0.5 6O 4 PipeHawkv 6V … … 8.5
366K 270K Direct Line Ins 336K + 4W 6.2 10.7
65605K 583X Liberty Group 583X – 6N 6.6 10.5 59 52K Schroder REIT 56 … 4.6 28.0 388W 203Y Hammerson 251W – 1 10.3 -3.0 77 37 Aireav 43K … 8.6 5.9 133 75 Pressure Techv 121 + 3K … …
78K 71 Downing ONE VCT 72 … 6.9 …
189O 126N EFG-Hermes Hldg 153X – 6 4.2 8.8 1295 570 Liontrust 1295 + 20 1.7 39.7 3419 2541 Schroders 3259 + 7 3.5 19.5 117 86N Hansteen Hldgs 116K – V 5.3 11.0 590 427K Anglo-Eastern 588 + 23 0.3 … 583 59K PV Crystalox Solar 60 … … 3.9
196 115 Animalcarev 195 … 2.2 … 4670 3232 Renishaw 3538 – 62 1.7 27.9
2672 2106 AB Foods 2670 + 6 1.7 24.0
Investment companies 170 93N Bakkavor Group 139V + O 4.3 18.3
35K
988W
17V Renoldv
649 Rolls-Royce
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649 – 15
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12 month Price Yld Dis(-) 12 month Price Yld Dis(-) 975 526 Barr (AG) 555 + 10 3.0 19.6 4 Y Ross Gp 1W … … …
High Low Company (p) +/- % or Pm High Low Company (p) +/- % or Pm 37K 5O Bidstack Groupv 8O – W … -4.3 341V 267K Rotork 320 – 4K 1.8 30.7
3507 2375 Brit Amer Tob‡ 3388 – 25 5.8 12.6 91X 32O SDI Groupv 91X + 1N … 40.4
1189 808K 3I Group 1121K … 4.3 31.0 640 447 IP UKSmallerCos 632 + 2 1.7 1.8 1068 850 Britvic‡ 898 + 1K 3.1 20.1 239V 165 Senior 165 + V 4.5 15.3
306K 229O 3i Infrastructure 303 – K 3.7 26.9 507Y 408 JPM American 502 – 1 1.3 -4.9
2345 1695 Burberry Grp‡ 2150 – 113 1.9 24.8 87 61 Severfield 87 + 2O 3.2 16.3
121K 100Y Abrdn Div I&G 109K … 4.2 -9.5 428 332 JPM Asian 408 … 3.7 -1.6
1547X 1095 Aberforth Smlr 1496 – 4 2.5 -3.3 80O 61K JPM Brazil 79 + N 0.8 -15.1 410K 269 C&C Grp 366 … 3.7 16.6
21K 13 Six Hundredv 15K … 4.8 5.1
874 708 Alliance 858 – 6 1.5 -4.6 381V 233O JPM Chinese 367K + 3K 0.6 -8.3 173 130 Carr's Grp 156 + 2 2.9 12.1
438 356 Asia Dragon Tr 424 – 2O 1.0 -9.6 798 650 JPM Claverhs 796 + 4 3.6 -0.9 1595W 1155K SKF B 1471V – 37V 3.3 12.2
249 175 Athelney Trust 235 – 5 3.4 -16.8 106 99 JPM Elect Mg C 102K … 0.3 -0.7 582K 322 Character Grpv‡ 325 + 6 7.0 6.7
97K 65 Slingsby (HC)v 65 … … -0.8
802 695 AVI Global Trust 796 … 1.9 -9.2 924O 755O JPM Elect Mg G 917K … 1.7 -2.1 2020 1160 Churchill Chinav 1990 … 1.4 27.7
940 748 Baillie Gifford Euro Gr 936 + 14 2.9 -5.7 113 96 JPM Elect Mg I 111K … 4.1 -2.6 1748 1378 Smiths 1729K – 5 2.5 49.2
3074 2299 Coca Cola HBC 2752 – 27 1.8 26.7
851 708 Baillie Gifford Jpn Tr 836 – 1 0.4 0.1 1277K 859 JPM Em Mkts 1062 – 10 1.2 -6.3 670 343 Solid Statev 667K + 12K 1.8 16.0
193O 167 Baillie Gifford SN 181W – 1O … … 305 263 JPM Eur IT Gth 302 + 4 2.5 -12.8 540 410 Colefaxv 435 … 1.1 11.0
390 185 Somero Enterv 288K + 28K 5.1 11.1
206N 129K Baillie Gifford UK Gr 201 – 1 2.1 -5.5 166 138K JPM Eur IT Inc 162 + 3K 3.7 -11.0 3464 2472 Cranswick‡ 3448 – 36 1.6 24.3
1037X 801 Bankers 1018 – 4 2.1 1.0 398 337 JPM Euro Smlr 395 – 2 1.5 -12.2 2962 2234 Spectris 2780 – 13 2.1 67.9
221K 155K Devro 170W + V 5.2 18.7
1680 1430 BH Global 1575 + 40 … -3.7 144X 122K JPM GEMI 138 … 3.6 -4.5 9400 6240 Spirax-Sarco 9095 – 80 1.1 30.3
2840 2250 BH Macro 2640 + 20 … 1.3 360 293 JPM GG&I 357 + 2 3.8 1.7 3625K 2701 Diageo 3222 – 30 2.0 24.7
964N 648 Biotech Growth 950 – 10 … -7.7 812 631 JPM Indian 738 – 10 … -8.2 26O 10 Surface Trsfmsv 26O – K … …
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Obituaries
Terry Jones
Affable, modest and ‘quasi-academic’ Monty Python star who loved absurdity
The Pythons, members of
Monty Python’s Flying Cir-
cus, were known as “the
Beatles of comedy” and just
like the Fab Four they could
never really leave the group,
even when it was disbanded.
Terry Jones was always
described as “ex-Python
Terry Jones”, in the same
way that Paul McCartney
has always been “ex-Beatle
Paul McCartney”, despite
both of them going on to
have successful solo careers.
Jones, who became a film
director, author and histori-
an specialising in the Middle
Ages, never minded being
labelled in this way. He was
as affable off screen as on,
and such was his modesty he
declined to have a blue
plaque put up outside the
house in Colwyn Bay, north
Wales, where he was raised.
Yet a blue plaque would
have been appropriate, given
that he helped to revolution-
ise British comedy not only byy writing
some of the most memorable Python
sketches, in partnership with Michael
Palin, but also playing some of the
funniest characters, ranging from a
naked organist and a strait-laced City
gent, to a series of gloriously dowdy,
screechy-voiced old crones known
collectively to the Python team as
“pepperpots”. The waitress he played in
the Spam sketch was one such.
He and Palin were considered the
gentle Pythons. “Mike and I just wanted
to be loved,” he once said of their
output. John Cleese and Graham
Chapman formed a second writing
partnership within the group, one that
was considered more dangerous and
provocative, while Eric Idle tended to
work on his own, writing the songs, and
another Terry, Gilliam, handled the
animation, including the giant cartoon
foot that was wont to stamp with a
splodge sound.
Jones showed early signs of wanting
to expand beyond the confines of comic
actor-writer when he co-directed
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
with Terry Gilliam. He also directed
Jones and Eric Idle in the 1971 film And Now for Something Completely Different.
Top: Jones and Michael Palin, who formed a partnership at university, in 1975
Life of Brian (1979), the team’s most
acclaimed and controversial film, as
well as The Meaning of Life (1983), their
more hit-and-miss swansong in which,
among many other roles, Jones played
Mr Creosote, the obese diner who
explodes after being tempted to eat a
wafer-thin mint when he is already
“absolutely stuffed”.
After the first break-up of the troupe
Eric Idle maintained that
Jones was ‘the most
boring man in the world’
in 1974 — Cleese took on the
McCartney role and was the first to
officially walk out — Jones initially
shied away from acting. His subsequent
profile would in consequence never be
as high as that of Cleese, who made
Fawlty Towers, or Palin, who became
the doyen of the travel programme. He
did, however, enjoy a successful and
wide-ranging career as a film director,
popular historian and author of books
for children and adults. He was also a
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situation, that and his voice
— the way he pronounced
his Rs as Ws in a distinctive croak.
There was always a chuckle just below
his surface and, combined with his
distracted air, this made him seem like
an absent-minded don who couldn’t
remember where his next lecture was
supposed to be.
Terence Graham Parry Jones was
born in 1942 in Colwyn Bay, where his
father, Alick, worked for a bank. The
family moved to Surrey when Jones
was young, though he remained proud
of his Welsh roots. He excelled academ-
ically and at just about everything else
he tried. Head boy at the Royal
Grammar School in Guildford, he also
captained the rugby and boxing teams,
though he had no opportunity to act
because at his school, he reckoned,
“drama was a synonym for
homosexuality and all that is bestial in
human nature”.
His relationship with his father was
distant. “I remember seeing him for the
first time when I was four and a half. I’d
only seen photographs of him before
then because he had been based in
India during the war, in the postal
service. I grew up with women doting
on me — my mother and grandmother
— and when my father came back he
wanted to impose some strict
Edwardian values. I suppose I resented
the intrusion.”
His mother, Alice, certainly did adore
him. “She treated me like her little pet.
I felt my first duty was to please her, and
that could be onerous.”
His earliest ambition was to be a poet,
to which end he studied English at
Oxford University. While there he
also worked on Isis, the university
magazine, and performed in Brecht
plays as a member of the Experimental
Theatre Club. As a break from serious
drama, the club also did an annual revues attracted impressive audiences television comedy and satire
revue, for which Jones — inspired in and played at the Edinburgh festival programmes, including The Frost
part by listening to Peter Sellers and and on the West End. For their Report, Do Not Adjust Your Set and The
Spike Milligan performing on the radio final show they moved away from Complete and Utter History of Britain,
in The Goon Show — wrote material satirical material to the more zany and which featured television interviews at
with another undergraduate, Palin. surreal style of comedy that would the battle of Hastings, an anachronism
Their sketches included a deadpan characterise Python. that would become a favoured device of
analysis of custard-pie jokes that he Jones graduated in 1964, Palin in the Pythons.
would still be performing years later 1965, and they subsequently wrote for, The “Oxford men” Palin and Jones
at Monty Python gigs. Their Oxford and occasionally appeared in, several soon came into contact with the
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“Cambridge men”, those Footlights
stalwarts Chapman, Cleese and Idle.
Jones was developing a new show with
Palin, Idle and Gilliam when Palin
was approached by Cleese, with an
invitation to join him and Chapman on
an entirely different programme. The
upshot was that all six joined forces, as
writers and actors, and Monty Python’s
Flying Circus was born. When Jones
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went home and told his family the title
for the show, his brother said: “It’ll
never catch on.”
It was first broadcast in 1969 and was
soon pushing the boundaries of accept-
ability both in terms of content — in-
cluding nudity, live and animated —
and style. Jones advocated a stream-of-
consciousness approach. He favoured
sketches that simply ended when
grew into a full-blown phenomenon,
with books, records and “concert”
tours, which included playing at the
Hollywood Bowl. The word “Pytho-
nesque” was given an entry in the
Oxford English Dictionary. In his offbeat
way, Jones took this accolade as a sign
of failure because “we wanted to be
unquantifiable”.
The Pythons also made four feature
films. The first, And Now for Something
Completely Different (1971), simply
reworked some of the TV sketches.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, how-
ever, was a vaguely linear story that
successfully married Arthurian legend
and Pythonesque silliness and played
well to Jones’s sense of the absurd. In
rehearsals, for example, they used
halves of coconuts to create the
clip-clop sound of horses’ hoofs and
were so tickled by this they kept them
in. Jones later claimed to feel guilty
about perpetuating the myth that
Terry Jones at the everyone in medieval England had
Cheltenham blackened teeth. “It was before the
Literature Festival opening of the sugar trade with the
in 2006, far left. West Indies,” he said, drawing on his
Above: in The expertise in this period, “so, actually,
Complete and people had very good teeth.”
Utter History of Jones’s co-director was Gilliam, and
Britain in 1969. this arrangement did not always
Below: Jones and work out as smoothly thly as
his fellow Pythons both parties hoped d it
John Cleese, might. On the two wo
Michael Palin, subsequent (andd
Terry Gilliam and more polished)
the comedian Python films,
Eddie Izzard in Jones had sole
1999. Jones’s roles director credit.
in Monty Python Life of Brian was
films included banned in Ireland
Brian’s mother in and parts of the
Life of Brian UK, and, to Jones’s
(1979), right, with chagrin, it was initial--
Graham Chapman ly dismissed as just ust
another in a long linene of
films designed to cash sh in on
ritish tele-
the popularity of British
vision comedy shows. s Eventually it was
acknowledged as “the greatest comedy
film ever” in a Channel 4 poll in 2005.
“The thing to remember about Life of
Brian is that it wasn’t blasphemous, it
was heretical,” Jones once said. “There
is a difference.”
In the film the central character of
Brian is born in the stable next to Jesus
and is thereafter repeatedly mistaken
for him. It was a satire on religious cults
and false prophets, though some
He favoured sketches
that ended abruptly with
performers walking off
cinemagoers fell into the same trap as
the characters on screen and confused
Brian with Christ, leading to the
conclusion that the film was belittling
Christ. One of the scene-stealing
characters Jones plays in the film is
Brian’s mother. “He’s not the Messiah,”
she screeches at the multitude below.
“He’s a very naughty boy.”
“It’s the whole history of the church
in five minutes,” Jones once said. “You
find somebody to believe in and then
within five minutes everyone splits up
into factions, and they end up killing
performers walked off without deliver- each other because they can’t agree on
ing a punchline. Cleese preferred a what he meant.”
more structured approach and a crea- Continuing his working relationship
tive tension began to emerge between with Palin, Jones co-wrote Ripping
them. One compromise was found in Yarns (1976-79). Each episode was an
the form of Cleese’s serious-looking affectionate parody of a traditional
presenter announcing: “And now for British literary genre or model, such
something completely different.” as gentleman adventurer, explorers,
The show first became popular on schooldays and PoW escape stories.
university campuses and then quickly Palin took the lead role in each,
53
playing a series of dim-witted, but
likeable heroes.
Although Jones did not give up
acting altogether, he concentrated his
efforts behind the camera, writing the
screenplay for the David Bowie fantasy
film Labyrinth (1986) and directing
Personal Services (1987), a comedy-
drama about a suburban brothel,
inspired by the story of Cynthia Payne
and starring Julie Walters.
Erik the Viking (1987), starring Tim
Robbins, Mickey Rooney and Cleese,
was an ambitious adaptation of Jones’s
award-winning children’s book. He
wrote and directed the film, but it left
the critics underwhelmed and was a
commercial disappointment.
On television he directed an episode
of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
(1992), but it would be four more years
before he directed another film, an
adaptation of The Wind in the Willows
(1996), in which he played Toad and
Idle was Ratty.
“What I like about Wind in the
Willows is that it creates a world that I
like to go into,” he said. “I just love the
ability of film to create a door to
another world that you step into and
which you accept as real for 90 min-
utes.” Again, the film performed
modestly ata the box office.
b
His books aimed at a
more adult audience
inclu
included Who Mur-
der
dered Chaucer? A
M
Medieval Mystery
(2
(2003). He also
w
wrote and
p
presented the TV
h
history series
Cr
Crusades (1995),
An
Ancient Inventions
(199 and Medieval
(1998)
Lives (2004).
20 the Pythons
In 2014
re-formed for Monty
P ython Live (Mostly): One
Python
Down Five to Go,
Down, Go a sell-out
s show (in
every sense) at the O2 that was prompt-
ed by legal bills of close to a million,
after they lost a case over royalties for
the musical adaptation Spamalot. The
acclaim was (mostly) universal.
In later years Jones described himself
as a “quasi-academic” and said what he
liked most in life was “laughing” and
“silly things”.
In 1970 he married Alison Telfer, a
biochemist, and they had two children:
Sally, a furniture maker; and Billy, an
editor and producer. Although the
couple had what amounted to an open
marriage — Jones once said his hobby
was sex — they divorced after he
confessed that he had fallen in love with
Anna Soderstrom, a Swedish Oxford
graduate 41 years his junior. They had
a daughter, Siri, when Jones was 69 and
married in 2012 in a register office.
There were only five guests, none of
them Pythons, because “we wanted to
keep it quiet from the press”. He said his
venerable age did not make any differ-
ence to him as a father. “I kind of feel
about 15 anyway. Probably 20.”
In the summer of 2016 “ex-Python
Terry Jones” was diagnosed with a rare
form of frontotemporal dementia and
bowed out of public life with an
outstanding contribution Bafta, which
his son Billy, who was standing along-
side him, accepted on his behalf. It was
presented to him by one of his oldest
friends, “ex-Python Michael Palin”.
Terry Jones, comic, writer, film director
and historian, was born on February 1,
1942. He died of complications arising
from dementia on January 21, 2020,
aged 77
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The Prince of Wales this
morning departed from
Prestwick International Airport
for Switzerland.
His Royal Highness
today attended the World
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Meeting in Davos.
Mr Clive Alderton, Mrs
Jennifer Jordan-Saifi and Mr
Julian Payne were in attendance.
The Prince of Wales later
departed for Israel and was
received this evening upon
arrival at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion
International Airport by Her
Majesty’s Ambassador to the
State of Israel (His Excellency
Mr Neil Wigan).
The Duchess of Cornwall,
Patron, this morning visited
Elmhurst Ballet School,
249 Bristol Road, Edgbaston,
Birmingham, and was
received by Her Majesty’s
Lord-Lieutenant of West
Midlands (Mr John Crabtree).
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Patron, Roald Dahl’s Marvellous
Children’s Charity, this afternoon
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Stained Glass Windows at
Birmingham Children’s Hospital,
Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham,
and was received by Colonel
Dr Heidi Doughty (Deputy
Lieutenant of West Midlands).
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Mr David Frost (Deputy
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The Duke of Cambridge,
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Air Commodore, Royal Air Force
Waddington, this afternoon
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Thomas Burke upon
relinquishing his appointment as
Station Commander and Group
Captain Steve Kilvington upon
assuming the appointment.
The Countess of Wessex today
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Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Her Royal Highness this
morning visited the Sierra
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Kenyatta Road, for a Roundtable
Discussion with female members
of the Sierra Leone Armed
Forces on their experience of
the Civil War and subsequent
role of women in the Armed
Forces in the peace-building
and reconciliation.
The Countess of Wessex
today attended a Roundtable
Discussion with representatives
of Sierra Leone civil society on
Sexual and Gender-Based
Violence during the Civil
War given by the British
High Commissioner to the
Republic of Sierra Leone
(His Excellency Mr Simon
Mustard) at the Residence.
Her Royal Highness this
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Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh (Vice
President of the Republic of
Sierra Leone) and Ms Manty
Tarawalli (Minister for Gender
and Children’s Affairs) at
State House.
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given by the British High
Commissioner to the Republic
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Law
QC appointer
builds up
£1.4m surplus
Is the company that chooses who gets silk growing
too rich on application fees? Jonathan Ames reports
Fizz all round last week at the Inns of
Court as the annual QC appointments
were announced, with the number of
lawyers popping champagne corks
increasing slightly to 114, from 108 the
previous year.
The company pulling the levers on
the appointments machinery focused
on the positive trends, including the
fact that of the 42 lawyers from ethnic
minorities who applied, 22 were
successful. The previous year only 13 of
42 ethnic minority applicants made the
grade. The total number of applications
rose from 240 to 258.
However, moves to increase gender
diversity stagnated over the year, with
30 of the 52 female applicants appoint-
ed in the most recent silk round, the
same level of success from 55 applicants
the previous year. The youngest new
silk in the latest round was 37, while the
oldest was 60.
While those figures are interesting,
there was a far more tantalising num-
ber to emerge from this year’s silk
round: 1.35 million. That was the
number of pounds that the supposedly
not-for-profit company that runs the
appointments process has built up as a
surplus.
Having such a large pool of dosh is
not an attractive look for the company,
which goes by the does-what-it-says-
on-the-tin name of QC Appointments,
not least because it is wholly owned by
the Bar Council and the Law Society,
the quasi-trade unions for barristers
and solicitors in England and Wales.
Applying for silk is very expensive,
which may deter less wealthy candi-
dates. The fees alone are steep,
Court on camera: why has step towards open justice taken so long?
John Battle
Comment
Britain’s three main TV news
producers — ITN, the BBC and Sky
— have for many years argued for
the lifting of the ban on filming
court proceedings in England and
Wales, and last week the justice
secretary announced that cameras
would be allowed into crown courts.
Legislation tabled by ministers
and backed by Lord Burnett of
Maldon, the lord chief justice,
should come into effect within two
months and will overturn a ban
going back to the Criminal Justice
Act 1925. Before that photos were
sometimes taken in court — the
notorious murderer Dr Crippen
was photographed in the dock at
the Old Bailey in 1910. Filming
will be strictly regulated and only
especially for those in less lucrative
practice areas. This year applicants had
to stump up £1,800 initially, down from
£1,950 the previous year, and then an
additional £3,000 if they succeeded —
this was cut by £500. VAT must also be
paid on both fees.
Those fees are just the start of the
expenditure. It is estimated that when
coaching and kit are accounted for,
successful applicants will shell out
about £15,000 each to add the QC
badge to their letterheads.
Therefore, the £1.35 million surplus
at QC Appointments raises an impor-
tant issue: should the two professional
bodies be salting away fees from their
members amid suggestions that the
expense of applying for silk is damaging
diversity?
Russell Wallman, the chief executive
of QC Appointments and a former
senior figure at the Law Society, is
adamant that the company is simply
planning for the future.
“It does need reserves so as to be able
to continue to function if there were to
be a sharp downturn in the number of
applications, or if for some reason one
year’s competition had to be cancelled
or aborted,” he says. He adds that the
company’s two directors, Paul Tennant,
the chief executive of the Law Society,
and Malcolm Cree, his counterpart on
the Bar Council, “consider the prudent
level of reserves to be in the region of
£600,000 to £750,000”.
In a step to pump some of the surplus
back into the profession, the directors
have allocated annual grants of £75,000
each to the society and the council for
diversity programmes. Even that
judges’ sentencing remarks will
be recorded, rather than witnesses,
the jury or court staff.
In 1989 the Bar Council
recommended cameras in court in a
report chaired by Jonathan Caplan,
QC. The matter lay in hibernation
until a study by broadcasters in
2004, which in time led to filming
in the Court of Appeal and the
Supreme Court.
Last week’s step should be seen in
the context of other open justice
initiatives. Public inquiries are now
usually filmed, including witness
evidence. A protocol drawn up in
2005 means that the Crown
Prosecution Service and police
disclose to the media images shown
to juries in court. And in 2011
Lord Judge, at the time the chief
justice, issued guidance allowing
reporters to tweet from court.
These developments have changed
court reporting, which not long ago
Candidates must stump up £1,800 to apply to take silk. If they are successful, this is followed by another £3,000 payment
relatively small move has caused some
controversy at the Bar. The council is
using its grant to employ a consultant
who is a former colleague of its head of
diversity — an appointment that was
made without a recruitment process.
A council spokesman has told The
Times that the relationship meant that
senior officials had “familiarity” with
the consultant’s work “that meant a
‘The QC status is not
outdated — it is seen
across the globe as a
badge of excellence’
tender process did not need to take
place. We were confident we had found
the right person for the job”.
At the Law Society, officials say that
they will channel their £75,000 towards
the launch of a “campaign to raise
awareness among solicitors about the
possibility of applying to become a QC”
and to study the reasons why so few
solicitors apply for silk despite being
was illustrated mainly by sketches
and pictures of prisoner vans and
court buildings. Now reports show
images of what the jury saw, and
what is said in court can be
immediately put on social media.
Filming of sentencing will soon
become standard practice.
I have been involved for nearly
two decades in the broadcasters’
group seeking change. Reform has
been slow — slower than in many
other jurisdictions, including
Scotland.
Why has it taken so long? It is a
shame, especially considering that,
to encourage public engagement
with the work of the courts, it is
crucial that the people know how
the legal system works, what
happens and who does what.
My experience is that the
judiciary and the system generally
come out well from being filmed.
The system stands up to scrutiny.
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allowed to since 1995. Only nine
applied in the latest round, of whom
four were successful.
Perhaps solicitors are voting with
their feet on the value of the QC title.
For the past 20 years there have been
rumblings of discontent over the
system, with critics pointing out that no
other profession has an internal rank
— apart from NHS doctors.
In 1999, 103 MPs signed a Commons
motion calling for the abolition of the
QC title, describing it as an “expensive
and anachronistic” distinction that
“has no place in a 21st-century legal
system”. Four years later, three QCs
from Matrix Chambers, which was then
in its embryonic stage after being
launched by Cherie Blair, QC, also
called for abolition. In a letter to the
Bar’s magazine, Counsel, they insisted
that “the QC system cannot be justified
as being in the public interest or pro-
moting competition”.
That year the Labour lord chancellor,
Lord Falconer of Thoroton, QC,
suspended the appointment system
over concerns that it relied on a shad-
The fact is that moves to create
more open justice have not led to
significant problems.
Certain principles set the
parameters: the judge decides
whether filming takes
place, there are special sensitivities
regarding filming of witnesses,
victims and children, and the
normal reporting laws on contempt
of court apply.
It is not right to suggest that
the move will turn the courts into a
circus — judges simply will not let
that happen.
This is not the end of change.
It is inevitable that there will be
further reforms, with the next
step likely to be the filming of
defendants entering and leaving the
courtroom, and after that, the
filming of a full trial, as has
already happened in Scotland.
Filming may in time also be rolled
out to the High Court, the coroner’s
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TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE
owy old-boys’ club approach to award-
ing the rank. A reformed system under
QC Appointments was launched two
years later and calls for abolition of the
title appear to have diminished. Indeed,
the two beneficiaries of the process
remain steadfastly supportive.
“The QC status . . . is a globally recog-
nised badge of excellence and one that
is achieved on merit after a rigorous
competitive process,” a Bar Council
spokesman says. “Far from being out-
dated, it is appreciated by clients and
legal colleagues domestically and
across the globe as a gold standard to
aspire to.”
Even the honorary QC badge, which
some view as being the height of vanity
accolades and confusing to boot,
because recipients occasionally neglect
to append the “hon” suffix, is staunchly
defended.
“It is a recognition of the significant
contribution that people make to the
legal system beyond practising as
advocates,” the Bar official says.
It appears there will be no silk cut for
some time.
court and magistrates’ courts.
Cameras play an important role in
engaging the public and informing
them of how our system works. It is
healthy for the public, our courts,
judges and lawyers that proceedings
are filmed so the public can see
what happens.
It is hoped this initial reform will
herald a new age of openness and
will lead to further advances that
recognise that openness is part of
the solution, not the problem.
John Battle is a barrister and head
of compliance at ITN
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Flybe deal has rivals up in arms
Edward Fennell
The government’s decision this month
to keep Flybe airborne sent a strong
message that Boris Johnson’s new re-
gime will back British business.
Full details of the deal are not yet
clear, but the government is under-
stood to have deferred part of the troub-
led regional airline’s outstanding
£106 million air passenger duty bill
until the spring to allow it to weather a
cashflow crisis. The airline’s rivals IAG
and Ryanair were outraged, claiming
that the rescue was unfair and breached
EU rules on state aid, which ministers
have denied. Flybe is believed to have
come within days of collapse, putting
thousands of jobs at risk.
The carrier has also confirmed that it
is in negotiations with the government
over a loan, which it insists would not be
a bailout because it would be taken out
on commercial terms.
The state-aid rules are complicated,
according to Jonathan Cornthwaite, a
partner at Wedlake Bell. “Competition
law is never simple or straightforward
— it’s where law, economics and public
policy all collide,” he says.
He adds that it is especially difficult at
the moment because Brexit will sever
UK domestic competition law from the
EU anti-trust prohibitions that have
bound it for almost half a century.
“Who can accurately predict how
that will work out in practice?” he says.
After the transition period, which is
scheduled to finish at the end of 2020,
oversight of state aid is supposed to
move away from Brussels and come
under the jurisdiction of the UK’s
Competition and Markets Authority.
As Lindsay Draffan of Bates Wells says,
there are questions over the change.
“The results of last year’s consulta-
tion on this proposed move to CMA
have not been published,” she says. The
authority will take responsibility for
UK state aid only when domestic legis-
lation is in place and the State Aid (EU
Exit) Regulations 2019 are still awaiting
approval by parliament.
What happens next with Flybe
remains to be seen, not least because
some details of the deal remain unclear.
Lawyers are split, but Cornthwaite is
convinced that IAG, which has written
to the European Commission express-
ing its concerns over the alleged breach
of state aid rules, has a case. “The tax
holiday reportedly granted to Flybe
would fall within the definition of aid,”
Lawyer of the week Shelley Maybin
Shelley Maybin, a solicitor with the
Equality Commission for Northern
Ireland, acted for Ava Moore, a
transgender woman who was
interviewed by Debenhams but not
offered the job despite believing that
she had peformed well. Her sex
discrimination claim was
settled by the department
store for £9,000 with no
admission of liability.
What were the
main issues in this
claim? My client
believed that she
was not offered a job
because she was
transgender. She
received an anonymous
email supporting her
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The troubled regional airline is understood to have been days away from collapsing, putting thousands of jobs at risk
he says. “[Because] it favours one
business over others, it cannot fail to
affect cross-border trade.”
Cornthwaite adds that none of the
exceptions in the EU treaty appear
applicable. “The arrangement there-
fore smacks of state aid.”
The three tests of illegal state aid are,
as Conor Quigley, QC, of Serle Court
points out, whether it gives economic
advantage, is selective in scope, and
would not be available in the normal
course of business. There are excep-
tions, but they can be complicated and
contentious. For example, “rescue aid”
is permitted, Quigley says, but it has to
be short term and be based on a
commitment to a fundamental restruc-
ture of the business — as happened
with the bailout of the banks during the
2009 financial crisis.
That does not seem to be the case
with Flybe. However, when it comes to
the deferral of payments to the taxman,
there may be mileage in the claim that
this is simply business as usual.
HMRC tweeted that its “time to pay”
arrangement with Flybe was “common
in her belief and ongoing support
from Sail NI, a transgender support
organisation, showing the importance
of having allies. It was important to
take on this case in this jurisdiction,
where we have high levels of
prejudice against the transgender
community, to raise awareness
of the legal protections
available. It was extremely
brave of Ava to go public
to highlight this.
What is the best
decision you have
taken as a lawyer?
To move from
commercial practice
into the equality
field. The work is
complex and not
where taxes or duties are owed” and
Jonathan Branton of DWF agrees.
“HMRC has discretion over the
enforcement of debt and extended pay-
ment periods for the payment of debt
are agreed with many companies every
year in the normal course of things,” he
says. “Bear in mind that we are not talk-
ing about forgiveness of a tax debt. It is
in the interest of the government for
Flybe to survive, if it is viable, in order
for the debt to be paid in the long term.”
Bethan Lloyd, a partner at Geldards,
points to a public service angle, also
accepted in the rules, which permit sub-
exclusive to members
‘I burst into tears’ CPS
in-house lawyer takes silk
Right royal row Impact of
Harry and Meghan’s move
Mind the gap Strict rules
needed on pay reporting
thetimes.co.uk
well-funded, but vital if we are to
have a truly inclusive society.
Who has inspired you? Atticus Finch
in To Kill a Mockingbird. Helping
individuals who believe they have
been discriminated against to
challenge their treatment and have
their voice heard is so important.
What is the funniest thing that has
happened during your career? One
time a client unexpectedly, during an
interview about his case, blurted out
his infatuation for the interviewer.
No one knew where to look.
What is the best advice you
have received? Enjoy your work —
life is short and you spend a
long time working.
ALAMY
sidies for services that are important to
supporting remote communities.
“It may be possible to classify some of
Flybe’s domestic routes as public
service obligations if they are no longer
commercially viable, but, in the longer
term, the government should really go
out to public tender to choose the
providers to run those routes,” she says.
If IAG persists with its complaint to
Brussels the case could drag on for
years. Meanwhile, looking ahead to the
end of the transition period, there is a
lack of clarity about how the state aid
rules will work in the international
context, says David Harrison, a partner
at Mayer Brown, especially in the light
of the chancellor’s recent comments
that there will no longer be alignment
with Brussels.
“It’s really not clear what the govern-
ment has in mind,” he says. “There is a
suggestion that we would move on to
World Trade Organisation rules, al-
though these cover goods but not ser-
vices and the regimes are quite distinct.
“This would be a major flashpoint in
the negotiations with Brussels”.
Which three qualities should a
lawyer have? Trust in your instincts,
persistence and compassion.
What law would you enact? A Single
Equality Bill. Some of Northern
Ireland’s equality laws have fallen
behind Great Britain. For too long,
big gaps have not been remedied
and our laws are piecemeal.
How would you like to be
remembered? Hopefully as having
made an impact on making Northern
Ireland more equal. Also to have
raised my children to have open
minds, challenge inequality and
stand up for what they believe in.
Linda Tsang
l_tsang@hotmail.com
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Law Diary
Edward
Fennell
Sun, sea and spying
The QCs Tim Lord of Brick Court
and Hugh Tomlinson of Matrix
Chambers are starring at the Rolls
Building this week (and probably
for a few weeks to come) in
an extraordinary court battle
between the investment authority
of the tiny Gulf emirate of Ras
al-Khaimah and the businessman
Farhad Azima. Neil Gerrard,
Dechert’s head of white collar
crime, will be asked how his
firm, which is representing the
investment authority, came into
possession of data stolen from
Azima’s computer. Gerrard is
described on the firm’s website as
having a “unique skill set”, which
may have come in handy last
summer, when he claimed that
he was targeted by corporate
investigators while on a family
holiday in the Caribbean.
Heads up
Chris Thorne, the personal injury
chief at Clarke Willmott, has
weighed into the debate of
whether children should head
footballs. He argues that the
supposed link to dementia is not
proven and that governing bodies
should think twice before stopping
children fully enjoying the
sport. “Banning heading for
under-12s may be a sensible
precaution in light of the potential
risks,” he says. “Equally, it may be
an overreaction to an unproven
hypothesis, which simply inhibits
children’s pleasure in engaging
fully in their sport, and the
chance to emulate their heroes.”
Peace of mind
With a recent survey indicating
that two thirds of solicitors in
England and Wales face high
levels of stress at work, mental
health is increasingly on the
radars of law firms. EIP, a patent
law specialist practice, has just
trained ten members of staff, at all
levels of seniority, to be mental
health first aiders. “This is a new
and exciting journey for EIP,” says
the partner Matthew Jones.
Amicable break-up
While we are waiting for the
introduction of no-fault divorce
it is worth being aware of
innovations in the system we
already have. This week the
High Court said in a landmark
judgment that Amicable, a legal
services company, had not broken
the Legal Services Act or conflict
of interest laws by helping
divorcing couples to draft their
own documents without using
lawyers. Mr Justice Mostyn said:
“There can be no doubt that the
initiative of Amicable has greatly
improved access to justice for
many people effectively
disenfranchised from the legal
process by the near total
withdrawal of legal aid from
private family law proceedings.”
fennell.edward@yahoo.com
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Sport
Gauff to show more aggression
against Osaka in budding rivalry
Stuart Fraser
Tennis
Correspondent
Melbourne
It was one of the most memorable
scenes in tennis last year, Naomi Osaka
comforting the 15-year-old American
Coco Gauff after defeating her in the
third round of the US Open and then
extending an invitation to join the
post-match interview on court, in
which traditionally the winner only
takes part.
Less than five months after that
emotionally charged moment at
Flushing Meadows, when both players
were overcome by the significance of
their first meeting, Osaka and Gauff
will go up against each other once again
at the same stage of the Australian
Open tomorrow.
There are seven years between the
pair, but already there is a sense that a
friendly yet competitive rivalry —
which is much-needed in the women’s
game — is developing.
Osaka, the two-times grand-slam
champion from Japan, rightly received
many plaudits for reaching out and
insisting to a reluctant Gauff that she
should speak to the New York crowd
before departing the court for the
locker room. “I think it’s better than
going into the shower and crying,”
Osaka told Gauff, who greatly
appreciates the gesture to this day.
“It was definitely a good moment for
both of us, especially me,” Gauff said
yesterday. “But I think more just for the
people watching, the little girls and
little boys who can kind of see what
sportsmanship really is.
“If I had a child or something, that’s
something I would want my child to see.
It just shows what being a competitor
really is. Sometimes when we’re on the
court, we say things we don’t mean
because we have that mentality. When
it’s all said and done, we still look at each
other with respect.”
Such a comment is yet another
indication of the remarkable level of
maturity that Gauff — already up to
No 67 in the world rankings — possess-
Evans will snub Olympics to focus on world ranking
Stuart Fraser
Dan Evans is unlikely to take up a place
at the Olympic Games in Tokyo this
year. The British No 1 admitted after his
second-round exit from the Australian
Open today that improving his world
ranking is of more importance to him.
Now at a career-high ranking of
No 32, Evans is comfortably in line to
qualify for the men’s singles. The best 56
players in the world on June 8, the day
after the final of the French Open, will
secure direct entry, with no more than
four representatives from each nation.
Evans, however, is showing no inter-
est in becoming a member of Team GB
for the first time. The 29-year-old has
been a stalwart for his country in
various team competitions through the
years, but the Olympics does not appeal
to him because there are no ranking
Gauff celebrates victory against Cirstea after coming back from 3-0 down in the deciding set. She meets Osaka tomorrow
es for someone so young. This was also
evident on the court yesterday, Gauff
remaining composed at 3-0 down in the
final set to Sorana Cirstea, the world
No 74 from Romania, before fighting
back for a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory.
One suspects that the scoreline
tomorrow will not be so one-sided as
the 6-3, 6-0 result in favour of Osaka in
New York. Gauff has more experience,
winning her first WTA tour title in Linz
three months ago, and knows what to
expect from the other side of the net.
points. Instead, he will likely compete in
the early stages of the concurrent
American hard-court swing, where
points and prize money are on offer.
“I love playing Davis Cup and I think
everyone should represent their
country in the Davis Cup, Fed Cup and
ATP Cup,” Evans said. “But the Olym-
pics is sort of an individual event and
I’m not sure I’ll be going to Japan.
“First and foremost, I have to take
care of myself and my life rather than
maybe taking time out [from the ATP
Tour]. There’s some good tournaments
on at that point. I don’t have long to play
[in his career] as well, so I probably
won’t go over to Japan.”
It is possible that there will be no
British representatives at all in the
men’s singles. Andy Murray is ranked
No 128 and there is uncertainty over his
future because of hip problems. If he did
“I’ll be less nervous this time,” Gauff
said. “I think at the US Open I was
nervous. It was my first time on
[Arthur] Ashe [Stadium, the main
court]. We’re both familiar with each
other’s games. She plays really
aggressively. This time I’m going to be
more aggressive and more confident
because I have felt her ball before.”
Osaka — who eased through with a
6-2, 6-4 victory over Saisai Zheng, of
China — is regarded in the sports
business industry as the world’s most
wish to compete, then he could be
eligible for a special place in the draw as
a double gold medallist and three-times
grand-slam champion.
Cameron Norrie and Kyle Edmund
are both ranked outside the top 56 at
No 62 and No 65, respectively. While
this would still likely be enough, as it
stands, to qualify because the cut will
drop due to player ineligibility and
withdrawals, a poor series of results in
the coming months could put them in
danger of missing out.
This would not be the first time that
Evans has turned down a spot in the
Olympics. He was offered one at the
last minute before Rio 2016 but again
decided that it was best for him to focus
on climbing up the rankings.
The ten-day tennis event in Tokyo
begins on July 25, less than two weeks
after the conclusion of Wimbledon.
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Djokovic nearly went downhill
Novak Djokovic believes that he
would have been a professional
ROMAN PILIPEY/EPA
skier had he not taken up tennis.
After comfortably securing his
place in the third round, the record
seven-times Australian Open
champion recalled his childhood as
a resident at a Serbian winter resort,
where his family owned a
restaurant. “I grew up in the
mountains and skied a lot when I was
younger,” Djokovic said. “I’d probably
be on the slopes right now.”
Wozniacki anger at injury ‘trick’
Caroline Wozniacki, the former
world No 1 from Denmark, did not
hold back with her thoughts on yet
another dubious medical timeout by
Dayana Yastremska, of Ukraine,
above. Wozniacki, who is set to
79
Per cent win rate at
retire after this tournament, was
leading 7-5, 5-4 when her opponent
suddenly called for the trainer. “I
don’t think there was anything
grand-slam events for
Coco Gauff, compared with
wrong,” Wozniacki, 29, said. “She
64 per cent in her career
was running fine. That’s a trick that
overall
she’s done before, and I knew that it
was coming.” Wozniacki went on to
win the second set 7-5.
The oldest swingers in town
A pair of 38-year-olds provided quite
a treat for the ticket-holders for
yesterday’s night session on the Rod
marketable athlete, yet even she has Laver Arena. Serena Williams’s 6-2,
been taken aback by the feverish level 6-3 victory against Tamara Zidansek
of “Coco Mania” in the past seven was followed by a 6-1, 6-4, 6-1 win for
months. Roger Federer over Filip Krajinovic.
“It’s amazing what different Such events should be savoured as
personalities can bring to the sport,” it seems unlikely that there will be
Osaka said. “Since she is so young, she many more times in which Williams
has brought so much interest and a new and Federer — who have 43 grand-
wave. She played doubles in one of the slam singles titles between them —
stadiums at the US Open last year and are both on the schedule for the
it was full. That is not normal and I don’t same session after this tournament.
think it is something that can be taken Words by Stuart Fraser
for granted.”
A busy period for Evans in Austra- ranked No 164 in the world, will
lia came to a disappointing end take centre stage on the Rod
with a 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 defeat by Laver Arena tomorrow for her
Yoshihito Nishioka, the world second-round match
No 71 from Japan. As the No 30 against Simona
seed, Evans was on course for a Halep, the reigning
first encounter with Novak Wimbledon cham-
Djokovic, the world pion and No 4 seed.
No 2 from Serbia, in Heather Watson,
the next round, but the British No 2, won
he ran out of steam her opener yesterday,
after playing seven overcoming windy
matches across 14 conditions to defeat
days. This was Kristyna Pliskova, the
exposed by fast- world No 64 from the
moving Nishioka. Czech Republic, 4-6,
Harriet Dart, 6-3, 6-1. Watson was
the 23-year-old due to contest her
British qualifier second-round match
overnight against Elise
Evans also chose not Mertens, the No 16 seed
to compete in 2016 from Belgium.
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It’s getting harder to win but I can be No 1, says McIlroy
Golf like a matter of time, but if I keep doing the undisputed star turn of last year. at the Masters. Fred [Couples], [Bern-
what I’m doing then if it isn’t this week Tiger Woods’ wins at the Masters and Koepka’s reign under threat hard] Langer or somebody’s up there
Rick Broadbent
then hopefully it’s a couple of weeks then the Zozo Championship, tying for about two to three days and then
Rory McIlroy begins his year at Torrey down the line.” Sam Snead’s PGA Tour record of 82 Ulsterman sits just behind World they fade. It’s hard to put it together for
Pines today in the knowledge that a win McIlroy had a stellar 2019 without victories, gave golf a new take on the old No 1 in the latest official rankings all four days as you get older.”
could take him back to the top of the adding to his major tally, but conceded story. Inevitably, expectation is The notion of Woods appearing at
world rankings for the first time in more it is getting harder to win. “When I first through the roof, with Woods also look- .................................................... Pts Average the Olympics is by no means a given.
than four years. came on Tour and started winning ing at the Olympics and the Ryder Cup 1 Brooks Koepka (US).................9.8818 Four Americans will qualify, as long as
The world No 2 was happy to play majors you could count the guys on one as well as the perennial goal of Jack 2 Rory McIlroy (N Ire)................9.0859 they are ranked in the top 15. Woods is
down the prospect of overhauling hand who played a similar game to how Nicklaus’ 18-major haul. 3 Jon Rahm (Sp)............................8.0185 the last American in but could conceiv-
Brooks Koepka. “It’s a byproduct of I play,” he said. “Nowadays it’s 40, 50, 60 The 44-year-old also admitted it is ably be displaced by the likes of Patrick
playing consistently good golf and I feel guys that play that sort of game. That’s getting harder rather than easier, with 4 Justin Thomas (US)..................7.6973 Cantlay and Xander Schauffele. “For
I’ve done that for some time,” he said going to be the biggest challenge.” more bad days than good ones. “That’s 5 Dustin Johnson (US)...............6.7977 the US guys, we’re going to have to play
before the Farmers Insurance Open in McIlroy turned 30 last year, which the hardest part about being an older 6 Tiger Woods (US).....................6.2563 well [to qualify],” Woods said.
San Diego. “I don’t want to say it feels still makes him a young pup alongside athlete,” he said. “You see it all the time TV: Live on Sky Sports Golf from 5pm

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(3) B Curtis Emma Smith-Chaston (7)
9-4 Maskada, 5-2 Mystic Dreamer, 4-1 Quantum Of Solace, 9-2 others. 3 02-11 XIAN EXPRESS 12 (B,D) M Appleby 9-3
(6) L Morris 1.45 Handicap (£3,429: 1m) (5) 9 04-PF BATTLEBRAVE 20 J Groucott 7-10-8 A Johns
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2 -6520 STRICTLYADANCER 42 (P) Christian Williams 6-11-12
A Wedge
3.45 Novices' Hurdle (£6,498: 2m 7f) (6) 11-10 St Just, 9-2 Blake's Vision, 6-1 Xian Express, 7-1 others.
4 (3) 0261- CASINA DI NOTTE 246 (B,D) M Botti 6-9-3
Morgan Cole (7)
3 23336 OUR UNCLE PAT 49 (P,T) Olly Murphy 9-10-13 C McKinnes (7) 1 42501 OSCAR ACADEMY 26 Olly Murphy 7-11-4 L Stones (7) 5 (4) 63-51 FORSETI 10 (H,C,D) M Appleby 4-9-2(5ex) A Rawlinson 2.10 Handicap Chase (£4,809: 3m) (8)
4 P0-1P TWO SAMS 44 (BF) J Scott 7-10-13 N Scholfield 2 2-01 YOUNG OFFENDER 37 (C) Stuart Edmunds 5-11-4 C Gethings 7.00 Handicap (£2,782: 7f) (11) 9-4 Little India, 3-1 Forseti, 4-1 Casina Di Notte, 9-2 Makambe, 5-1 Six Strings. 1 24213 DINO BOY 19 (BF,CD) N Twiston-Davies 7-12-6
5 5-041 BLUE MONDAY 35 (D) F O'Brien 7-10-12 P Brennan 3 0P BALAGAN 51 N King 5-10-12 Bryony Frost
1 (8) 23-22 THE RIGHT CHOICE 2 (B) James Ferguson 5-9-9 Doubtful S Twiston-Davies
6 530-1 TOUCH SCREEN 16 M Gillard 10-10-8 Mr F Gillard (7) 4 530 FRIENDS DON'T ASK 34 Martin Smith 5-10-12Jamie Moore
3-P4 RUMBLE B 49 Mrs S Humphrey 6-10-12 G Sheehan
2 (11) 100-6 TIERCEL 13 (CD) Rebecca Bastiman 7-9-9 P Dennis 2.20 Handicap (3-Y-O: £7,781: 1m) (3) 2 -0P50 NEWBERRY NEW 24 (P,C) William Bethell 8-11-12 A Coleman
7 -0003 ROBIN DE BROOME 51 (B) Olly Murphy 8-10-3 G Sheehan 5 3 (9) 3055- BUGLER BOB 36 (V,C) J J Quinn 4-9-7 J Hart 3 U4502 VIRNON 12 Mrs S Humphrey 9-11-11 D Noonan
6 6-03F TENSION TIME 37 Mrs L Wadham 6-10-12 L Aspell 1 (3) 301-1 MERRYWEATHER 20 (CD) M Appleby 9-7 A Rawlinson
8 0PPPP HEDIDDODINTHE 14 P Winks 6-10-0 Alison Clarke (7) 4 (10) 606-6 INNER CIRCLE 20 (P,D) M Loughnane 6-9-7 L Morris 4 1-P3P CLONDAW RIGGER 57 (T,BF,D) Katy Price 8-11-11
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2-1 Blue Monday, 5-1 Our Uncle Pat, 11-2 Two Sams, 6-1 others. 5 (1) 5060- RICH APPROACH 168 (CD) J Bethell 4-9-5 J Mitchell
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Rob Wright’s choice: Blue Monday improved at Hereford Wright choice: Oscar Academy won by 13 lengths on his 6 (7) 0203- INTENSE STYLE 78 (D) D P Quinn 8-9-3 D Brock
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and is well-in Dangers: Strictlyadancer, Robin De Broome 7 (5) 1531- BILLY WEDGE 45 (CD) Miss T Waggott 5-9-3 B McHugh
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12.55 Conditional Jockeys' Handicap 9 (4) 300-1 DECISION MAKER 16 (C) S Bowring 6-8-13 L Edmunds
2.55 Handicap (£5,208: 1m 4f) (7) 8 06635 ROLLERBALL ROCCO 23 (B,D) C Pogson 8-10-3 C Todd (7)

Hurdle (£4,265: 2m 7f) (8) Newcastle 10 (3) 200-0 MACS BLESSINGS 14 (B,C,D) Stef Keniry 4-8-13 H Shaw (3) 1 (4) 45/5- AL KHERB J19 (D) J J Quinn 5-9-7 P Mulrennan
026-2 SEVEN CLANS 16 (P) Mrs K Tutty 8-9-4 Gemma Tutty (3)
11-8 Dino Boy, 11-4 Sigurd, 8-1 Clondaw Rigger, 10-1 Virnon, Itsamanslife,
12-1 Packettotherafters, 16-1 Newberry New, Rollerball Rocco.
11 (2) 00/0- MINOR MELODY 97 (T) P Downey (Ire) 6-8-2 S P Davis (3) 2 (2)
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B Curtis
3 P-150 RAISE YOUR SHADES 100 B Pauling 6-11-7 Luca Morgan (6) 5.00 Ritchie Star 7.00 Bugler Bob 7.30 Handicap (3-Y-O: £2,782: 6f) (8) (£3,509: 3m) (12)
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5 -4053 IRSKA 20 (T) J Snowden 6-11-5 Ben Hicks (8) 2 (7) 4651- REBEL REDEMPTION 43 (V,D) J J Quinn 9-7 J Hart
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7 135-6 OLIVER'S ISLAND 13 (B,D) Sean Conway 8-10-7 E Austin (3) Draw: no advantage 4 (5) 032-3 CONSTITUTIONAL 11 (BF,C) K Burke 9-4 H Shaw (3)
3 6-302 MCCRACKENS GATE 22 Justin Landy 9-11-12
8 -6222 STONEBRIGG LEGEND 22 (BF) Mrs S Humphrey 8-10-5 5 (4) 000-6 UPSTAGE 19 D M Simcock 9-2 L Morris C McCormack (3)
A Thorne (3) 4.30 Handicap (£2,782: 1m) (11) 3.30 Handicap (£8,086: 5f) (5)
6 (8) 0405- REDZONE 36 B Smart 9-0 G Lee 4 6004 KENDELU 20 (P) N Hawke 5-11-12 D Noonan
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5 010-2 LUKOUTOLDMAKEZEBAK 14 (P,CD) D Thompson 7-9-5
(1)
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P Mulrennan
9 03P4- LEOPARD 310 (H,T) Miss J Foster 6-10-13 R Mania
1.25 Novices' Handicap Chase 6 (2) 504-4 STRAWBERRYANDCREAM 14 (P) J Bethell 5-9-5 1 (4) 000-0 JAN VAN HOOF 14 (CD) M Herrington 9-9-9 B McHugh 10 5-0FP COMMANDING SPIRIT 28 (P) M Hammond 8-10-10 A Cawley
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(£5,458: 2m) (4) J Mitchell 2 (7) 0466- MONTALVAN 99 Roger Fell 4-9-7 B Curtis 11 -5066 REAL ARMANI 20 (T) Mrs J Walton 8-10-7 D McMenamin (5)
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4 /01-0 UISCE UR 254 (BF) Laura Morgan 8-10-6 R Day 11 (9) 50-5 SIXTIES COED 18 (T) N Tinkler 5-8-7 Izzy Clifton (7) 2 (8) 6060- PERCY J28 (P) Mrs M Fife 6-9-10 P Mulrennan
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7 (5) 40-22 FINAL LEGACY 8 D Shaw 4-8-7 L Morris
3 (5) 3220- CROESO CYMRAEG 114 (BF,CD) H Evans 6-9-10 R Da Silva
3.20 Handicap Chase (£7,408: 2m 3f) (10)
13-8 Little Light, 9-4 The Flying Sofa, 5-2 Eskendash, 8-1 Uisce Ur. 8 (9) 003-0 HOT STUFF 13 (T,D) P Downey (Ire) 7-8-7 S P Davis (3)
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when a respectable third at Ascot Danger: Eskendash 5.00 Handicap (£2,782: 1m) (10) 10 (1) 000-5 ENCODED 13 (CD) Miss L Siddall 7-8-7 A Mullen 5 (7) 013-5 MOTAHASSEN 11 (T,BF,C) D Carroll 6-9-7 D Nolan 3 -1421 STORM CONTROL 40 (P,T,D) Kerry Lee 7-11-12
1 (4) 3000- MUDAWWAN 146 (P,C) J Bethell 6-9-8 J Mitchell 11(11) 3/0-0 MARCELLA 16 (B) Mrs R Carr 5-8-7 JP Sullivan 6 (9) 331-4 PRINCESS HARLEY 8 (P,CD) M Quinn 5-9-6 C Bishop S Twiston-Davies
2.00 Maiden Hurdle (£6,628: 2m) (8) 2 (1) 2152- BETTY GRABLE 124 (CD) W Storey 6-9-7 Rhona Pindar (7) 11-4 Final Legacy, 4-1 Qaaraat, 11-2 Jeffrey Harris, 6-1 Montalvan, 7-1 others. 7 (10) 0421- GRANDSCAPE 35 (C) E Dunlop 5-9-6 4 1F-45 CHARMANT 27 J Ewart 8-11-9 B Hughes
1 40F BRAN 22 Stuart Edmunds 5-11-4 C Gethings 3 (7) 060-6 EQUIDAE 14 (T,D) I Jardine 5-9-7 J Gormley Miss Sophie Smith (7) 5 33/3U HOLLYWOODIEN 28 (CD) T Symonds 9-11-8 A Coleman
2 P ORSINO 27 P Bowen 6-11-4 S Bowen 4 (9) 0000- CROSS STEP 50 (P) C Moore (Ire) 6-9-5 D Keenan (3) 8 (6) 224-2 SOCIOLOGIST 8 (P,C) S Dixon 5-9-4 Jonathan Fisher (5) 6 0-U31 BEAU BAY 28 (H,T,CD) Dr R Newland 9-11-8 C Hammond (3)
3 063 PISGAH PIKE 36 (T) J Snowden 5-11-4 G Sheehan 5 (10) 13-02 PROCEEDING 6 (CD) Miss T Waggott 5-9-4 J Fanning Southwell 9 (4) 0413- DOCTOR JAZZ 35 (T,V) M Appleby 5-9-4 T Ladd (3) 7 0/3-3 PROTEK DES FLOS 42 B Haslam 8-11-3 R McLernon
6 (2) 060-0 FALSE ID 14 (V,C) F Watson 7-9-2 S Gray 10 (2) 4-103 NEVER A WORD 10 (B,T,C) Alexandra Dunn 6-9-2 8 -232P MONSIEUR CO 47 (P,T) K Dalgleish 7-10-11 Craig Nichol
4 2434 TOUCHTHESOUL 28 G L Moore 5-11-4 Jamie Moore Rob Wright D Muscutt
5 P0 ALEATORIC 37 Martin Smith 4-10-7 E J Walsh 7 (8) 6205- RITCHIE STAR 36 B Haslam 4-9-1 A Mullen 9 /5-36 BERNARDELLI 46 (P,BF,D) N Richards 12-10-10
8 (6) 032-5 IRISH MINISTER 20 (T,D) D Thompson 5-8-10 K O'Neill 12.40 Robsdelight 2.55 Azari 4-1 Cold Harbour, 5-1 Grandscape, 6-1 Croeso Cymraeg, Sociologist, 8-1 Doctor D McMenamin (5)
6 6-314 GRAND ROI 22 (BF) N Henderson 4-10-7 N De Boinville Jazz, Motahassen, Skeaping, 12-1 Princess Harley, Never A Word, 14-1 others.
9 (3) 60-00 HEY JAZZY LADY 2 (B) A Crook 4-8-7 Doubtful 1.15 Barbelo 3.30 Hareem Queen 10 24-03 THE PADDY PIE 13 Mrs S Smith 7-10-7 D Cook
7 20 BREAK THE RULES F19 Martin Smith 4-10-0 E Edge (7)
10 (5) 000-0 HURRICANE HEIDI 12 (V) D Shaw 4-8-7 C Hardie 1.45 Little India (nb) 4.05 Cold Harbour 5-2 Beau Bay, 10-3 Storm Control, 13-2 Kilfilum Cross, 15-2 Hollywoodien, 8-1
8 POSTIE F105 J Eustace 4-10-0 J Quinlan
2.20 Merryweather Protek Des Flos, 12-1 Monsieur Co, Charmant, The Paddy Pie, 14-1 others.
11-8 Grand Roi, 3-1 Bran, Touchthesoul, 13-2 Break The Rules, 16-1 others.
9-4 Proceeding, 7-2 Betty Grable, 5-1 Ritchie Star, 6-1 Equidae, 7-1 others.
Going: standard to slow Wetherby
Wright choice: Touchthesoul struggled in a better race at Rob Wright 3.55 Novices' Hurdle (£4,549: 2m) (10)
Kempton; this is more realistic Dangers: Grand Roi, Bran 5.30 Novice Stakes (3-Y-O: £3,429: 7f) (9) Draw: no advantage Sky Sports Racing
1 (1) AL HURR M Botti 9-5 J Quinn 1 2321 ADICCI 52 (D) Jonjo O'Neill 5-11-8 Jonjo O'Neill Jr.
1.05 Dark Lochnagar 2.45 Jobsonfire
2.35 Handicap Chase (£8,837: 2m 5f) (9) 2 (9) 0 ALMQVIST 11 M Johnston 9-5 J Fanning 12.40 Handicap (£2,782: 6f) (13) 1.35 Starplex 3.20 Hollywoodien 2 02- BATTLETANK 276 J Groucott 7-11-2 A Johns
3 (2) 644- ARBITER 49 J Gosden 9-5 K O'Neill 2.10 Clondaw Rigger 3.55 Eden Du Houx 3 420 CALL ME FREDDIE 42 (BF) J O'Keeffe 5-11-2 J Colliver
1 -2U3F VINNIE THE HODDIE 19 O Sherwood 6-11-13 L Aspell 1 (2)5-640 OUR CHARLIE BROWN 1 (P) D C Griffiths 6-9-9P Dennis
4 (7) 0-5 CELESTIAL WOOD 17 K Dalgleish 9-5 G Lee 4 2-230 CHANCE A TUNE 27 N Twiston-Davies 5-11-2
2 3-113 ECEPARTI 27 (BF,D) Miss V Williams 6-11-12 C Deutsch 2 (10)065-5 CHIAVARI 12 Alexandra Dunn 6-9-8 R Havlin Going: soft Racing TV S Twiston-Davies
5 (5) 0-0 JORGIE 15 I Jardine 9-5 J Gormley 3 (8)023-0 FIRST EXCEL 22 (B,CD) S Bowring 8-9-7 L Edmunds
3 30543 CAP DU NORD 19 (CD) Christian Williams 7-11-9 5 11-24 EDEN DU HOUX 67 (W,T,D) D Pipe 6-11-2 T Scudamore
Jack Tudor (7) 6 (3) BELLA BELIEVE J Ward 9-0 T Eaves 4 (11)033-3 SIX TIL TWELVE 10 (P) R Brisland 4-9-7 K O'Neill 1.05 Juvenile Hurdle 6 5-00 HENRI LE BON 62 Kerry Lee 5-11-2 D Cook
4 00P15 EUREU DU BOULAY 26 (T,BF) Richard Hobson 6-11-7 7 (8) 0- BRODICK 34 K Burke 9-0 Rhona Pindar (7) 5 (3)06-02 ROBSDELIGHT 10 (V) Miss G Kelleway 5-9-6 B Curtis (4-Y-O: £4,549: 2m) (8) 7 F550- KNOCKNAGOSHEL 380 (W) G Hanmer 7-11-2 J Bowen
Paul O'Brien (3) 8 (6) 4-0 FULL SECRET 21 R Fahey 9-0 S P Davis (3) 6 (9)55-21 LE MANEGE ENCHANTE 10 (V,CD) D Shaw 7-8-13(4ex) 231 CAWTHORNE LAD 14 (D) T Easterby 11-4 J Hamilton
1 8 22546 STIMULATING SONG 26 (H) M Harris 5-11-2 S Quinlan
5 PRP-P HOLBROOK PARK 43 (T,C) Tom Clover 10-11-5 J Quinlan 9 (4) 30- SAVAGE BEAUTY 48 R Fahey 9-0 Connor Murtagh (3) L Morris
2 1 COUP DE GOLD 26 D Thompson 11-4 A Anderson (7) 9 30-0 ANIGHTINLAMBOURN 46 B Pauling 6-10-9 D Bass
6 -516P ECLAIR DE GUYE 12 (BF) Mrs L Wadham 6-11-1 11-8 Arbiter, 4-1 Al Hurr, 5-1 Savage Beauty, 8-1 Celestial Wood, 10-1 others. 7 (12) 34-00 HELLOFAGAME 10 (T) R J Price 5-8-8 R Da Silva
Maxime Tissier (5) 3 16 TAVUS 27 (D) J O'Keeffe 11-4 J Colliver 10 6-064 BLACK OPIUM 19 Miss T Jackson 6-10-9 Ross Chapman
8 (7) 030-6 ALISIA R 10 J L Eyre 4-8-7 Doubtful
7 -2UP2 COUGAR'S GOLD 34 (P,T,D) P Bowen 9-11-1 S Bowen 4 202 BURNAGE BOY 62 M Hammond 10-12 B Garritty (5) 13-8 Eden Du Houx, 9-4 Chance A Tune, 9-2 Adicci, 15-2 Stimulating Song, 10-1
8 3P-12 THOMAS TODD 37 (H,CD) Laura Morgan 10-10-13 R Day
6.00 Handicap (£5,208: 6f) (9) 9 (5) 40-56 RESHAAN 9 (B) Alexandra Dunn 5-8-7 C Hardie
5 DARK LOCHNAGAR F90 K Dalgleish 10-12 B Hughes Call Me Freddie, 20-1 Henri Le Bon, Anightinlambourn, 33-1 others.
505-4 FOOLAAD 22 (T,CD) S Bowring 9-9-7 L Edmunds 10 (4) 20-30 MESHARDAL 7 (P,CD) Mrs R Carr 10-8-7 JP Sullivan
9 15P-4 AWAY FOR SLATES 26 (H) M Harris 10-10-12 K Jones (3) 1 (6) 6 5 DEHRADUN 16 G McPherson 10-12 Kielan Woods
2550- LORTON 180 (D) Julie Camacho 4-9-6 V Santos (7) 11(13) 00-00 ESSENTIAL 2 (C) Olly Williams 6-8-7 Doubtful
3-1 Eceparti, 9-2 Cap Du Nord, 5-1 Thomas Todd, 13-2 Eureu Du Boulay, 7-1 2 (3) 7 303 GORDALAN 14 (V) P Kirby 10-12 T Dowson
32-02 HART STOPPER 15 (P,T,BF,D) S C Williams 6-9-6 H Turner 12 (1) 0300- CHAMPAGNE MONDAYS 25 (B,CD) S Dixon 4-8-7
Vinnie The Hoddie, 8-1 Eclair De Guye, Cougar's Gold, 14-1 others. 3 (4) 8 SHOWSHUTAI F239 C Kellett 10-12 D Crosse
D Keenan (3) Blinkered first time: Fakenham 3.10 Alys Rock. Newcastle
4 (1) 1200- TREACHEROUS 257 (CD) E De Giles 6-9-5 C Shepherd 13 (6) 050-0 NEWGATE ANGEL 16 (P) T Coyle 4-8-7 Robbie Walsh (5) 9-4 Tavus, 11-4 Cawthorne Lad, 9-2 Dark Lochnagar, 11-2 Coup De Gold, 10-1 5.00 Hurricane Heidi. 8.00 Marcella. Southwell 1.15 Flight
Wright choice: Cap Du Nord was given too much to do when
third at Sandown Dangers: Eceparti, Cougar’s Gold 5 (5) 5402- FENDALE 48 (C) B Smart 8-9-5 G Lee 15-8 Le Manege Enchante, 5-1 Robsdelight, 11-2 Six Til Twelve, 8-1 others. Burnage Boy, Gordalan, 16-1 Dehradun, 50-1 Showshutai. Of Thunder. Wetherby 1.05 Gordalan. 2.10 Rollerball Rocco.

Yesterday’s racing results

Catterick
Going: soft (good to soft in places)
1.20 (2m 3f 66yd hdle) 1, Show Promise
(Thomas Dowson, 15-2); 2, O Connell Street (7-
2); 3, Judex Lefou (8-1). 8 ran. 10l, 22l. P Kirby.
1.55 (3m 1f 54yd ch) 1, Ask Paddy (Jonathan
England, 10-11 fav); 2, Paddling (5-1); 3,
Brotherly Company (9-1). 8 ran. NR: Benarty
Hill. 2Nl, 9l. Sam England.
2.30 (2m 3f 51yd ch) 1, Schiehallion Munro (Joe
Colliver, 3-1 fav; Rob Wright’s nap); 2, Return
Ticket (4-1); 3, Diamond Fort (4-1). 6 ran. NR:
Dream Du Grand Val. 3Kl, 1l. Micky Hammond.
3.00 (2m 3f 66yd hdle) 1, Annsam (Adam
Wedge, 9-4); 2, Minella Trump (10-11 fav); 3,
Trapper Peak (6-1). 8 ran. NR: Ahead of The
Curve. 2Kl, 4l. Evan Williams.
3.35 (3m 1f 54yd ch) 1, Valadom (Jonjo O’Neill
Jr., 15-8 jt-fav); 2, Wishmoor (15-8 jt-fav); 3,
Ash Park (10-1). 5 ran. 28l, 15l. Richard Hobson.
4.05 (1m 7f 156yd hdle) 1, Summer Lightening
(C O’Farrell, 11-4 fav); 2, Russian Royale (25-1);
3, Madam Scully (25-1). 12 ran. 2Nl, 6l. Mrs
Dianne Sayer.
Placepot: £56.90.
Quadpot: £10.90.
Lingfield Park
Going: standard
12.40 (7f 1yd) 1, Velvet Morn (Callum
Shepherd, 15-2); 2, Kraka (4-1); 3, Mochalov
(3-1 fav). 9 ran. NR: Tio Esteban. Nk, ns.
W Knight.
1.10 (7f 1yd) 1, Dancing Rave (A Kirby, 7-2); 2,
Bint Dandy (10-1); 3, Bedtime Bella (6-1). 8 ran.
1Nl, 1Ol. D O’Meara.
1.45 (6f 1yd) 1, Badri (K Shoemark, 9-4); 2,
Bring The Money (14-1); 3, Dark Silver (10-11
fav). 10 ran. 2Ol, 1Nl. C Hills.
2.20 (1m 7f 169yd) 1, Padleyourowncanoe
(Hollie Doyle, 11-4 fav); 2, Homesick Boy (8-1);
3, Social City (3-1). 14 ran. Ol, sh hd. C Tizzard.
2.50 (1m 2f) 1, Felix (Hollie Doyle, 9-4); 2,
Singing Sheriff (9-4); 3, Victory Bond (15-8
fav). 4 ran. Ol, 2l. M Botti.
3.25 (1m 1yd) 1, Prince Of Eagles (B A Curtis,
Evens fav); 2, Tolmount (11-4); 3, Bullington
Boy (20-1). 12 ran. 1Kl, 1Kl. D Lanigan.
3.55 (5f 6yd) 1, Green Door (Grace McEntee,
4-1); 2, Something Lucky (7-2); 3, Roundabout
Magic (7-2). 6 ran. NR: Cappananty Con, Laith
Alareen. Sh hd, 1Nl. R Cowell.
Placepot: £29.40.
Quadpot: £6.20.
Warwick
Going: soft
1.00 (2m hdle) 1, Blacko (T Bellamy, 30-100
fav); 2, The Pink’n (7-1); 3, Innerpickle (33-1).
7 ran. NR: Scorched Earth. 2Nl, 24l. A King.
1.35 (2m 5f hdle) 1, Molly Ollys Wishes (Harry
Skelton, 11-4); 2, It’s Probably Me (Evens fav);
3, Temple High (11-1). 12 ran. 2Kl, 2l. D Skelton.
2.10 (3m 1f 100yd ch) 1, High Counsel (A
Thorne, 11-2); 2, Lord In Red (28-1); 3, From The
Heart (9-4 fav). 9 ran. 7Kl, Kl. G Hanmer.
2.40 (3m 2f hdle) 1, Golden Sovereign (T J
O’Brien, 11-4); 2, Flowing Cadenza (2-1 fav); 3,
Terrierman (3-1). 6 ran. 1Nl, 1Ol. P Hobbs.
3.15 (3m ch) 1, Minella Rocco (Miss A B
O’Connor, Evens jt-fav); 2, Kashmir Peak
(14-1); 3, Roseyroo (33-1). 4 ran. 7Kl, 39l.
Jonjo O’Neill.
3.45 (2m hdle) 1, Jaisalmer (Jack Tudor,
100-30); 2, Bardd (8-1); 3, The Raven’s Return
(5-2 fav). 10 ran. Nk, nk. M Bradstock.
4.15 (2m hdle) 1, Main Fact (T Scudamore, 7-4
fav); 2, Detatched (16-1); 3, Hollywood Ken
(13-2). 8 ran. NR: Demopolis. 4Nl, 2Ol. D Pipe.
Placepot: £11.90.
Quadpot: £10.70.
Kempton Park
Going: standard to slow
4.30 (1m) 1, Zarkavon (Jason Hart, 11-2); 2,
Satchville Flyer (15-2); 3, Jupiter (25-1). 13 ran.
NR: Bescaby. 2Nl, Ol. J S Wainwright.
5.00 (1m 3f 219yd) 1, To Nathaniel (R Havlin,
7-2); 2, Punctuation (20-1); 3, Royal Castle
(13-8 fav). 7 ran. Hd, 1Nl. J Gosden.
5.30 (7f) 1, Lottie Marie (L Morris, 7-2); 2,
Stormy Mountain (4-6 fav); 3, Princesse
Animale (10-1). 10 ran. NR: Hot As. Kl, 1Kl.
R Cowell.
6.00 (7f) 1, Badrah (K Shoemark, 9-4); 2, Arju
(20-1); 3, Glitter Queen (14-1). 10 ran. 2l, Ol.
C Hills.
6.30 (7f) 1, London Calling (Hollie Doyle, 11-4);
2, Phuket Power (6-1); 3, Shine On Brendan (2-1
fav). 8 ran. 1l, nk. R Spencer.
7.00 (7f) 1, Revolutionise (Jason Hart, 3-1);
2, That Is The Spirit (11-1); 3, Busby (5-2 fav).
5 ran. 1Kl, ns. S Williams.
7.30 (1m) 1, Candelisa (Thomas Greatrex, 6-1);
2, Divine Messenger (14-1); 3, Family Fortunes
(4-1 fav). 14 ran. 1l, Ol. David Loughnane.
8.00 (7f) 1, Hieronymus (Nicola Currie, 25-1);
2, Merweb (3-1); 3, Champion Brogie (16-1).
11 ran. NR: Atletico. 1Nl, 2Nl. G Baker.
Placepot: £137.00. Quadpot: £11.80.
64
Sport
Mike Atherton
Chief Cricket Correspondent
England juniors still playing catch-up
S
o far, watching intermittently in between
stoppages for rain at Port Elizabeth and
travel days to Johannesburg, I have seen
a perfect imitation of a next-generation
Lasith Malinga and an uncanny
impersonation of Sheldon Cottrell’s salute-style
wicket celebration. No doubt, there have been
other young cricketers mimicking their heroes
during the early stages of the Under-19 World
Cup, which started last week in South Africa, as
well.
This is the 12th edition of the competition
since my contemporaries enjoyed the first
tournament in Australia in 1988. Staged in the
outback of south Australia, in places like
Renmark and Mildura where temperatures were
routinely 40C and more, some serious cricketers
emerged: Brian Lara, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Sanath
Jayasuriya among others, and nine young
Englishmen who would go on to claim
international honours.
At such an embryonic stage of a career, it
would be foolish to suggest that these players
ought to be judged on results alone, but
England’s record since a semi-final place in that
inaugural competition has been poor. England
won it the next time it was played ten years
later, but that has been the only success. India
have won it four times, Australia three, Pakistan
twice and West Indies and South Africa, like
England, have won it once. England’s win
percentage in the competition is lower than that
of every major cricket nation bar New Zealand
and Sri Lanka.
At this stage, England’s cricketers are less
advanced than many of their contemporaries. In
1988, I felt we were a long way behind Australia’s
players, for sure, in technical and physical
comparisons. Interestingly, while nine of my
team went on to play for England, only two
Australians made it to the top: Stuart Law and
Alan Mullally, the latter, ironically, for England.
Australia’s first-class system was more
streamlined, more competitive and therefore of
higher quality — one reason why it was tougher
for their under-19 players to make the grade.
Now the most advanced cricketers at that age
group are from India. Clearly it is a numbers
game to some degree. With such a huge
population, you would expect India to produce
some of the world’s best players, given the
Did they succeed?
Nine of England’s 13-man squad at the 1988
Youth Cricket World Cup — the first edition of
the tournament that is now the Under-19 World
Cup — went on to play for the senior team
Mike Atherton (c) Chris Lewis
115 Tests, 54 ODIs 32 Tests, 53 ODIs
Mark Alleyne Peter Martin
10 ODIs 8 Tests, 20 ODIs
Martin Bicknell Mark Ramprakash
4 Tests, 7 ODIs 52 Tests, 18 ODIs
Simon Brown
1 Test No internationals
Warren Hegg (wk) James Boiling
2 Tests Neil Stanley
Nasser Hussain Harvey Trump
96 Tests, 88 ODIs Trevor Ward
intense competition that exists to exploit the
opportunity cricket offers to escape poverty.
Role models such as MS Dhoni, from a
cricketing outpost like Ranchi, have helped
democratise the game and move it beyond
the traditional cricketing power bases of
Mumbai, so increasing competition.
The money that India boasts through rich
television deals for international rights and,
especially, Indian Premier League rights, means
that infrastructure and facilities have been
transformed from a generation ago. When you
combine high numbers of cricketers desperate to
reach the top with resources that facilitate rapid
advancement, it is not surprising that their
cricketers are highly developed for their age.
In this tournament, they have four players
who have already received IPL contracts. There
is Yashasvi Jaiswal, who has one of those
fascinating backstories, having left his family
and moved to Mumbai aged ten in search of
opportunity. For three years he lived in a tent
next to the Azad Maidan ground, and earned
enough to eat and live by selling fruit and
breads. Already he has scored a double-hundred
in India’s domestic 50-over competition — at 17
years old he became the youngest cricketer to
do so in List A cricket — and averaged more
than 100 in six matches. He has been bought by
Nasser Hussain,
i left,
l ft and Atherton were part of
the England team in the 1988 Youth World Cup
Rajasthan Royals in this year’s IPL for about
£260,000. He can wave goodbye to life in a tent.
There is Ravi Bishnoi, a leg-spinning all-
rounder, good enough to have been selected for
India A, purchased by Kings XI Punjab, and
fresh off a haul of four wickets for five runs
against Japan’s youngsters this week. There is
Priyam Garg, the captain, averaging 66.69 with
the bat after a dozen first-class games and set
for Sunrisers Hyderabad. There is Kartik Tyagi,
a seam bowler who has also played first-class
cricket and is bound for Rajasthan, alongside
Jaiswal. All these cricketers will be ahead of
most of their contemporaries.
When I spoke to Rahul Dravid two years ago,
during his stint as coach of India Under-19, he
emphasised just how precocious his charges
were. “At 19 our boys are very advanced now,”
he said. “I certainly can’t take credit for it, as it’s
1G M Thursday January 23 2020 | the times
a consequence of the amount of cricket they
play.
p These guys are playing an unbelievable
number
n of matches and they are learning
through
th play, rather than through coaching,
which
w I think is a real advantage. The number
of
o tournaments and matches they play makes
them
th very street-smart in cricketing terms for
their
th age.”
Dravid was of the opinion that young
English
E cricketers catch up by about 22 or 23
years
y of age, because of the effectiveness of the
county
c system. A handful of England’s under-
19 players in this year’s tournament have had
limited
li first-class exposure, the most notable
impact
im being Hamidullah Qadri’s five-wicket
haul
h for Derbyshire against Glamorgan in 2017,
when
w he became his county’s youngest first-
class
cl cricketer.
For all kinds of reasons — education,
conservatism,
co pressures created by two
divisions
d — English counties tend to fight shy
o throwing very young players into the first-
of
class
cl game, and because of the weather and the
prevalence
p of indoor practice in the winter,
th game awareness is more limited. When
their
th get the opportunity eventually, the varied
they
n
nature of our first-class cricket and the amount
o it, and the pathways that exist outside the
of
c
county game, allow our cricketers to quickly
c
catch up, so that at “A” team level and beyond,
the gap has significantly narrowed.
David Tossell’s book on the boys of 1998,
Following On: A Year with English Cricket’s
Golden Boys, is a reminder that international
recognition at this age is no guarantee of
success. For every Rob Key, Graeme Swann and
Owais Shah, all graduates of that side who went
on to have long and successful cricket careers,
there is a Jonathan Powell, Ian Flanagan and
Giles Haywood who did not. Performing at
under-19 level is a curious thing, because the
players have achieved everything and nothing.
If the pattern of previous years is anything to
go by, do not expect England to win the
competition (in all likelihood they must beat
Australia today to progress) but expect a decent
number of them to go on to enjoy good careers
as their development speeds up in the next few
years — assuming, of course, the authorities
have the good sense to play some first-class
cricket in high summer.
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Cricket Sport
PHILIP BROWN/POPPERFOTO/GETTY IMAGES

We are always Snack firm

drops logo on
looking out for children’s kit
for Hundred
amazing Jofra, Elizabeth Ammon
KP Snacks has agreed not to put its

insist England logos on children’s replica shirts for

teams participating in The Hundred
after coming under pressure for
promoting fatty snacks while child
obesity is on the rise.
Simon Wilde Johannesburg was not overly helpful to England’s The company is the main sponsor of
cause, even as he claimed to espouse it. the new 100-ball tournament, the aim
Jofra Archer and Mark Wood are very Pietersen, who was sacked as a player of which is to attract families to cricket.
different fast bowlers. One is a natural in 2014, sought to draw a parallel The ECB has been criticised by NHS
athlete who propels the ball at high between his situation with England and bosses for allowing the names of
speed without obvious physical effort: Archer’s. He said: “There shouldn’t be various crisps and snacks to be on the
the run-up is easy and so is the delivery people drip-feeding bullshit into the kits of the eight franchise sides.
action. The other charges in like a train media about him . . . Close the circuit, Yesterday, the Obesity Health
careering down a mountain pass, because it certainly wasn’t closed when Alliance — a coalition of more than 40
engine clearly under strain, screeching I was playing. If there’s a different organisations including the British
as it goes. character, it’s a problem . . . I don’t know Medical Association, the British Heart
Everyone except the opposition who exactly ‘they’ are but ‘they’ should Foundation and Cancer Research UK
would love to see them playing a Test be doing more to get the best out of — said that removing the logos from
match together, which has not yet him.” replica shirts did not go far enough,
happened, though it could in
Johannesburg tomorrow.
On this front, there was contrasting
Understandably these charges were
denied by Graham Thorpe, the
assistant coach who oversaw training,
52
Tests missed by
given that the large crisp advertising
would still be visible on the players’
shirts.
news from England’s first net session at which was attended only by Archer and Mark Wood since he The five-week competition, which
the Wanderers. Archer, 24, bowled with other players not involved in the Test, made his debut against begins in July, will be played between
enough rhythm and pace to plus the out-of-form Jos New Zealand in May 2015 teams based in seven cities. It will be
inally
suggest that he is finally Buttler. — he has played in 14 screened live by Sky Sports and the
shaking off the effectss of “We
“We’ve felt we’ve BBC, and each of the eight teams has a
the elbow injury that at man
managed it well,” KP Snacks brand on their kit: Hula
kept him out of the Th
Thorpe said. “We Hoops, Skips, McCoy’s, Butterkist, KP
past two Tests — it wa
want to look out for Nuts, Popchips, Pom-Bear or Tyrrells.
may look easy, but it Jo
Jofra. He’s very Archer took wickets but was expensive in the first Test at Centurion before his Last October, when The Hundred
does take its toll — im
important. He’s done elbow injury, while Wood, left, was economical and threatening in Port Elizabeth was launched, the Obesity Health Alli-
while it emerged so
some amazing things
that Wood, 30, fo
for English cricket sent out mixed messages that have privately concede that they will be
reported feeling sore alr
already so from our done Archer few favours. trying to do more.
the morning afterr poi
point of view Jofra is an In New Zealand, Root said he wanted Of Archer’s bowling yesterday,
Monday’s win in Port rt iinvaluable
nva player. We Archer to bowl fast only to give him so Thorpe said: “Jofra bowled well today,
eed
Elizabeth. Both will need want h him fit and firing. It’s many overs that he could not hope to bowling six or seven overs, and came in
to demonstrate their fitness as simple as that.” maintain speeds in excess of 90mph. with good rhythm and pace. The elbow
at training today. Root and Archer have had Here in South Africa, Root and problem has been a big issue. You can’t
They are experiencingencing different their difficulties in T Test cricket. Having Silverwood believe they have in the force that, you have to wait for the
fortunes in other respects. Wood was qualified for England only last year, past two matches — both of which player to be confident with it. He looks
lavished with praise by Joe Root, the Archer did not reach international Archer missed — alighted on a winning good but will have to come in tomorrow
England captain, in the aftermath of cricket through the usual channels, formula in getting their bowlers to keep and back it up.”
the victory in the third Test. Wood which means that he may be prone to a tight rein on the run rate, precisely as For Wood, bowling fast always comes
bowled not only fast but accurately, unconventional behaviour, whether Wood did in Port Elizabeth. at a price. As he likes to say, he is not 6ft
with Root pointing out that his Test that means wearing a sweater tied If Archer plays tomorrow, do they 5in, nor built like a tank. He admitted
statistics — 39 wickets at 36.10 apiece round his waist, riding a TV camera- want him concentrating on pace or on the fourth evening in Port Elizabeth Joe Root will play for Trent Rockets
— fail to do justice to the pressure that man’s Segway during warm-ups, or not economy? During the Ashes last that he was tired from bowling a lot of
Wood builds, and the wickets he helps always appreciating the responsibilities summer, he sometimes managed both, bouncers, but said he had stood up well ance said the sponsorship would create
to take at the other end. attached to public appearances. sometimes neither. In the second physically, before adding: “Something an “unhelpful association between
Archer, meanwhile, yesterday found In terms of the cricket, Archer has innings of the first Test at Centurion, he is going to hurt eventually.” healthy activity and unhealthy food”.
his relationship with the team been a little unlucky to find himself took five wickets while going at six runs England’s concern is that the past The ECB was keen to have one spon-
management once more at the centre starting his Test career at a time when an over. two times he played Tests in quick sor for the tournament, a deal under-
of debate after comments from Kevin there has been a switch in Pietersen’s assertion that England succession — at home to South Africa stood to be worth about £4 million, and
Pietersen in an interview with the Daily management, and Root and the new should do more to get the best out of in 2017 and against Pakistan in the UAE wanted to work with a brand that was
Mail. head coach Chris Silverwood are trying Archer is probably fair comment, even in 2015 — he broke down. “We need to appropriate for the tournament’s ethos.
Students of Pietersen’s work will not to devise a fresh approach for the team. if the charge of behind-the-scenes see how Wood is; I’m sure he’ll be really They have come under fire from
be surprised to learn that what he said There have been times when they have briefings is wrong. England may even honest with us,” Thorpe said. several organisations that are trying to
tackle child obesity. Past figures
suggested that a third of children were
Results overweight or obese at the start of
secondary school; those figures
Football Bristol City........28 12 8 8 42 40 2 44 Ross County (0) 0 Hearts (0) 0 land) 5-2; J Ding (China) bt R Milkins (Eng) (Hun) 6-3, 6-2; C S Navarro (Sp) bt A Sabalen- estimated that by this year half of child-
Sheff Wed ......... 28 12 6 10 39 31 8 42 5-0; M Fu (HK) bt L Ning (China) 5-3; A Carter ka (Bela) 7-6, (8-6), 7-6 (8-6); E Mertens (Bel)
Premier League Blackburn...........28 11 7 10 40 35 5 40
4,301
(Eng) bt T Pengfei (China) 5-3; B Hawkins bt D Kovinic (Montenegro) 6-2, 6-0; H Watson ren would be overweight or obese.
Leicester (2) 4 West Ham (0) 1
Hull....................28 11 6 11 40 36 4 39 P W D L F A GDPts (Eng) bt D Lilley (Eng) 5-2; M Selby (Eng) bt (GB) bt K Pliskova (Cz) 4-6, 6-3, 6-1; A Pavlyu- Caroline Cerny, alliance lead of the
Cardiff................28 9 12 7 39 41 -2 39 Celtic..................21 18 1 2 58 14 44 55 J Jones (Wales) 5-2; S Donaldson (Scot) bt K chenkova (Russ) bt N Stojanovic (Serbia) 6-1,
Barnes 25 Noble 49 (pen) QPR....................28 11 5 12 46 51 -5 38 Rangers ............. 20 17 2 1 54 11 43 53 Wilson (Eng) 5-2. 7-5; T Townsend (US) bt J Pegula (US) 6-4,
Obesity Health Alliance, said: “This
Ricardo 45+5 31,968 Reading..............28 10 7 11 35 32 3 37 Motherwell........22 13 1 8 34 27 7 40 7-6 (7-5) Second round A Barty (Aus) bt P inappropriate sponsorship undermines
Pérez 81 (pen), 88 Derby ................. 28
Middlesbro.........29
9
8
10
11
9
10
29
29
36
36
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-7
37
35
Aberdeen...........22 10 6 6 30 27 3 36 Tennis Hercog (Slovenia) 6-1, 6-4; E Rybakina (Russ) the ECB’s aims of engaging children
Man United (0) 0 Burnley (1) 2 Livingston..........22 7 7 8 31 29 2 28 bt G Minnen (Bel) 6-3, 6-4; An Riske (US) bt
Birmingham.......29 9 7 13 35 46 -11 34 Hibernian...........22 7 7 8 31 37 -6 28 Australian Open Melbourne: Men: Second L Zhu (China) 6-3, 6-1; J Goerges (Ger) bt P with sport and getting them more
73,198 Wood 39 Charlton.............29 7 9 13 37 41 -4 30
Rodriguez 57 Huddersfield......28 7 8 13 31 44 -13 29 Kilmarnock.........22 6 5 11 18 27 -9 23 round S Tsitsipas (Gr) bt P Kohlschreiber Martic (Cro) 4-6, 6-3, 7-5; M Keys (US) bt A active. The latest move to remove
Ross County ...... 21 5 7 9 22 42 -20 22 (Ger) walkover; S Querrey (US) bt R Berankis Rus (Neth) 7-6 (7-3), 6-2; M Sakkari (Gr) bt N
Tottenham (1) 2 Norwich (0) 1
Stoke ................. 28 8 4 16 34 42 -8 28
St. Johnstone....20 4 8 8 16 35 -19 20 (Lithuania) 7-6 (7-2), 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Y Nishioka Hibino (Japan) 7-6 (7-4) 6-4; E Alexandrova branding from children’s replica shirts
Barnsley.............29 5 9 15 35 54 -19 24
Alli 38 Pukki 70 (pen) Wigan ................ 28 5 8 15 25 43 -18 23 St. Mirren..........22 5 4 13 17 30 -13 19 (Japan) bt D Evans (GB) 6-4, 6-3, 6-4; G Pella (Russ) bt B Krejcikova (Cz) 6-1, 6-3; P Kvitova shows KP acknowledge how
Hamilton ...........21 4 6 12 21 36 -15 18 (Arg) bt G Barrere (Fr) 6-1, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; D (Cz) bt P Badosa (Sp) 7-5, 7-5; N Osaka
Son 80 58,182 Luton ................. 28 6 3 19 34 61 -27 21
Schwartzman (Arg) bt A D Fokina (Sp) 6-1, (Japan) bt S Zheng (China) 6-2, 6-4; C Gauff
irresponsible it is to market their high
Hearts................22 2 8 12 18 35 -17 14
6Table on page 71 Scottish Premiership 6-4, 6-2; N Djokovic (Serbia) bt T Ito (Japan) (US) bt S Cirstea (Rom) 4-6, 6-3, 7-5; S Zhang fat and salt products to children.
Sky Bet Championship Aberdeen (0) 0 Motherwell (1) 1 Cricket 6-1, 6-4, 6-2; M Fucsovics (Hun) bt J Sinner (China) bt C McNally (US) 6-2, 6-4; S Kenin “Yet, while the players are still
(It) 6-4, 6-4, 6-3; T Paul (US) bt G Dimitrov (US) bt A Li (US) 6-1, 6-3; O Jabeur (Tun) bt
Charlton (0) 0 Fulham (0) 0 12,365 Donnelly 45+1 First Test (Bulgaria) 6-4, 7-6 (8-6), 3-6, 6-7 (7-3), 7-6 C Garcia (Fr) 1-6, 6-2, 6-3; C Wozniacki (Den) walking adverts for junk food, these
16,424 Hibernian (0) 2 Hamilton (1) 1 Harare: Fourth day of five Zimbabwe 358 & (10-3); M Cilic (Cro) bt B Paire (Fr) 6-2, 6-7 bt D Yastremska (Ukraine) 7-5, 7-5; Q Wang unhealthy snacks will remain centre
30-0 (P Masvaure 15 not out, B Mudzingan- (8-6), 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (10-3); M Raonic (Can) bt (China) bt F Ferro (Fr) 6-1, 6-2; S Williams
Nottm Forest (0) 1 Reading (0) 1 Doidge 64 Gogic 18 yama 14 not out), Sri Lanka 515/9d. Zim- C Garin (Chile) 6-3, 6-4, 6-2; T Sandgren (US) (US) bt T Zidansek (Slovenia) 6-2, 6-3. stage in children’s minds.”
Grabban 80 Baldock 83 Hanlon 86 15,674 babwe trail by 127 runs with ten wickets re- bt M Berrettini (It) 7-6 (9-7), 6-4, 4-6, 2-6, The ECB has defended its decision to
26,840 Kilmarnock (0) 1 Celtic (1) 3 maining. 7-5; D Lajovic (Serbia) bt M Polmans (Aus)
6-2, 6-4, 6-3; J Millman (Aus) bt H Hurkacz
work with KP Snacks, saying it will use
West Brom........28 14
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Fixtures the tournament to promote healthy
8,307 Griffiths 51
Leeds ................. 28 15 7 6 43 24 19 52 Jullien 73 European Masters
Mmoh (US) 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, 6-1; R Federer living and an active lifestyle. Although
Fulham...............29 14 7 8 42 30 12 49 (Switz) bt F Krajinovic (Serbia) 6-1, 6-4, 6-1;
Nottm Forest.....28 13 9 6 39 28 11 48 Livingston (0) 1 St. Johnstone (0) 0 Dornbirn, Austria: First round G Dott (Scot) F Fognini (It) bt J Thompson (Aus) 7-6 (7-4), Football KP has agreed not to have snack brand-
Brentford...........28 14 5 9 44 21 23 47 Pittman 56 1,140 bt W Liang (China) 5-3; N Robertson (Aus) bt 6-1, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (10-4). Women: First round ing on the front of shirts in junior sizes,
Preston..............29 13 7 9 42 34 8 46 L Haotian (China) 5-2; M Holt (Eng) bt D Wells S S Tormo (Sp) bt V Kudermetova (Russ) 2-6, Premier League Wolverhampton Wanderers
Swansea............28 12 9 7 34 31 3 45 Rangers (1) 1 St. Mirren (0) 0 (Wales) 5-0; T Un-Nooh (Thai) bt R Williams 6-1, 6-1; A Kontaveit (Estonia) bt A Sharma v Liverpool (8.0) it has yet to be confirmed whether logos
Millwall..............28 11 11 6 36 32 4 44 Defoe 34 49,297 (Eng) 5-2; J Higgins (Scot) bt F O’Brien (Ire- (Aus) 6-0, 6-2; I Swiatek (Pol) bt T Babos FA Cup Tranmere v Watford (7.45) will appear on replica shirts for adults.
66
Sport Rugby union
Stars want to
stay at Saracens
for ‘sabbatical’
continued from back
breached the salary cap by £319,600.76,
which equated to the 20 per cent that
Wray and another director had paid to-
wards a property bought by Ashton.
With all these payments, which were
found to have been in breach of the cap,
Wray and Saracens’ lawyers argued
that they were intended as honest co-
investments and not as vehicles to
break the salary cap rules.
The biggest breach of the salary cap
rules appears to have been the over-
spend to Itoje of £871,000 by Wray and
two other club directors.
The payments were made for a 30 per
cent stake in Itoje’s image rights
company. They paid £1.6 million for the
30 per cent, based on one valuation.
However, PRL took a value from a
different accountancy firm and
declared that the shares were only
worth £800,000.
According to Sky News, the panel
advised against the relegation of
Saracens, describing the rules breaches
as “reckless”. It said: “We accept that the
breaches were not deliberate, but in
our view they were reckless. We
consider that to impose a deduction of
70 points in one salary cap year is dis-
proportionate and is not required to
satisfy the underlying purpose of the
relegations.”
Saracens insisted they were in favour
of the report’s publication, and insisted
said that they would be fully compliant
with the cap if they return to the top
flight in 2021-22. Yesterday, Neil Gold-
France look biggest threat in an
uncertain era of four new coaches
Owen Slot
Chief Rugby
Correspondent
Fabien Galthié talked about passion,
about rugby and about love. “Our story
is a love story,” the new France coach
said yesterday. It is, he explained, a
story of the long and rocky romance
between the French national team and
the French public.
He also explained that his is a job of
“major responsibility”, that it is for him
to see that the romance blossoms again
and that France return to the top of the
world game. “This,” he said, “is the way
I live it, myself, my life.”
And with that, we started to embrace
the 2020 Guinness Six Nations. Could
there actually be a better introduction
to the championship than a new France
coach telling us that he is going to bring
back the love?
Yet it is not just one new coach who is
starting out at the Six Nations next
week. There are four of them.
The World Cup tends to create turn-
ing, the new chairman who replaced
Wray, urged PRL to release the report
into the salary-cap investigation in a
strongly worded statement denying
that the club wanted their details
suppressed.
The club did receive some good news
in that their established England
players want to remain after relegation
and will treat one season in the Cham-
pionship as a “sabbatical” year in prepa-
ration for the British & Irish Lions tour
in 2021, according to the club’s director
of rugby.
The club have since spoken with
most of their squad, including England
stars Owen Farrell, Maro Itoje, Jamie
George and the Vunipola brothers.
Mark McCall, the director of rugby, said
the club’s highest-profile players have
told him that they want to stay and the
club have been assured by Warren
Gatland, the Lions head coach, that
playing in the second tier would not put
their places on the tour to South Africa
next summer in doubt.
McCall said that he thought a season
in the Championship may benefit the
club’s leading England players. “Eddie
Jones [the England head coach] is on
the whole happy to select players who
are established, Warren Gatland the
same,” McCall said.
“The international players had a very
clear view on what they wanted to do,
all of them. Luckily enough that coin-
cided with what we wanted. A lot of our
internationals are proven international
players. You’ve seen New Zealand
players having sabbatical-type seasons.
over at the start of each new four-year
cycle, but four out of six represents sig-
nificant change, more than ever before.
There were three new coaches in 2008
and 2012. Four new coaches represents
a line in the sand, a fresh approach and,
therefore, uncertainty. More than ever,
we don’t know what we are going to get.
Sir Clive Woodward took six
championships to win a grand slam for
England. It took Joe Schmidt five to do
it with Ireland. Eddie Jones and Warren
Gatland did it in their first seasons, with
England and Wales respectively. What
are we going to get now?
That is partly why Andy Farrell, the
new Ireland head coach, said that “the
buzz has never been better” and
explained: “I’ve been in professional
sport for 28 years and I feel that I have
been waiting for this day to arrive.”
All four new coaches yesterday
described in their own words and
metaphors (it was the Frenchman who
went with love; apologies for the cliché)
the new sense of responsibility that was
weighing upon them.
For Wayne Pivac, the new Wales
coach, there is weight because of who he
is following. “I am clearly well aware of
what Warren’s achieved,” he said, in
reference to the grand-slam specialist
The captains — Charles Ollivon, Owen Farrell, Alun Wyn Jones and Johnny Sexton — pose for the launch of the Six Nations
It would be like that. Warren Gatland is
keen to get as fresh a Lions team as
possible to take to South Africa and cer-
tainly our situation, in a funny kind of
way, is going to help him.”
Ed Griffiths, the interim chief
executive, said that some of England’s
less established players, such as recent
call-up Ben Earl, may be forced to
spend a year away from the club.
“It might mean sending players on
loan,” he said. “Then there is another
Gatland. And then he followed with a
line that had clearly been well prepared
in advance: “I am not the sort of person
that dwells too much on that. It is more
about what I can control.”
For Franco Smith, the South African
who is the new Italy coach, there is
“great honour” and “real privilege”
in coaching in a competition that
he grew up watching as a boy.
There is also, he explained, the
challenge of finding a new way
for Italy to play. Clearly, the blue-
print of the past decade
has not worked.
This sounded
encouraging; in-
stead of hoping
that the old
methods, which
failed repeated-
ly, will finally
come good,
Smith is keen to
innovate. That
should be fun to
watch.
Farrell will not
overhaul his
new Ireland
team
2G M
group of players who have been playing
non-stop for 10-12 years who are on the
point of physical and mental
exhaustion, and we might look at them
next year in a slightly different way. It
may be for the first time in maybe 30
years, a Lions coach watches players
turning up and feeling fresh.”
Griffiths, who was previously at the
club from 2008 to 2015, was brought in
to get Saracens under the salary cap. He
said that he is on course to do that if,
For Galthié, there is this grander
calling: not just getting a young group
of potential superstars to fulfil their
apparent potential, as if that wasn’t
enough, but to play Cupid and get the
French nation to love its rugby team
again. We know some broad
brushstrokes. Farrell’s Ireland are
likely to defend the way they did
before with Schmidt, but may
look to develop in attack. Pivac’s
Wales “will move a bit
more ball”, as he put
it. Yet it takes time
for a game like
that to develop.
Galthié’s France
will look to
rediscover some of
the nation’s tradi-
tional, if long lost,
DNA.
What are the
challenges for a
new coach? Ask
Gregor Towns-
end, the Scotland
coach, who is on-
to his third Six
Nations and
therefore an old
hand, and the
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TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER MARC ASPLAND
and when, they return to the
Premiership. “I don’t think there is any
talk about a team disintegrating, there
is an evolving as every other Premier-
ship team evolves. If you take each
squad, that evolves, the churn rate is
about 20 per cent at most clubs.”
Meanwhile, Billy Vunipola is set to be
out for at least 16 weeks with a broken
arm. The No 8 was injured in the 27-24
Heineken Champions’ Cup defeat of
Racing 92 last Sunday.
answer applies to all international
coaches, but particularly the new boys.
“For all of us,” he said, “it’s a big
switch-up when you come in to camp
because you’ve not coached for two or
three months and you need to be on the
ball straight away.
“You need to make sure there is
clarity and cohesion.”
The four new coaches split into two
distinctive pairs. Farrell and Pivac both
went out of their way yesterday to
explain that there was so much that is
so good in what they are inheriting
from the previous incumbents that
they would be bonkers to make grand
changes. Systems, cultures and the
players are in place, why change them?
The same cannot be said for Galthié
and Smith. They are looking to make
deeper changes in culture and
personnel. They must both reset.
In theory, then, we should expect
more of Pivac and Farrell in the forth-
coming championship; the other two
may be slow-burners.
However, Galthié’s France may well
be the team that pose the greatest threat
to England. That doesn’t make sense,
but that is one of the joys of the Six
Nations. It often doesn’t make sense.
Especially with four new coaches.
the times | Thursday January 23 2020 2G M 67

Football Sport

£1.3 billion to find perfect blend

Liverpool’s recent
transfer successes are
in contrast to mistakes
1990-1991
Total spend £3.07m
Manager*:
1998-1999
Total spend £10.65m
Manager:
218 signings
since last winning the league
Philipp Degen, Free
Andrea Dossena, £7m
Diego Cavalieri, £3.5m
David N’Gog, £1.5m
Rickie Lambert, £4.5m
Adam Lallana, £25m
Emre Can, £9.75m
Kevin Stewart, Free

that led to 30-year title

Graeme Souness Gérard Houllier Robbie Keane, £19m Lazar Markovic, £19.8m
League finish: Second League finish: Seventh Albert Riera, £8m Dejan Lovren, £20m

wait, writes Paul Joyce

Divock Origi, £9.8m
Ronny Rosenthal, £1m Sean Dundee, £1.8m Javier Manquillo, Loan
Tony Cousins, £70k Steve Staunton, Free 2009-2010 Alberto Moreno, £12m
Don Hutchison, £175k Vegard Heggem, £3.5m Total spend £37.35m Mario Balotelli, £16m

A
s Virgil van Dijk opened Jimmy Carter, £800k Jean Michel Ferri, £1.5m Manager: Benítez
the scoring against Jamie Redknapp, £350k Frode Kippe, £700k League finish: Seventh
Manchester United and David Speedie, £675k Rigobert Song, £2.6m 2015-2016
Djimi Traoré, £550k Glen Johnson, £17.5m Total spend £91.75m
Alisson, the goalkeeper, Alberto Aquilani, £17.1m Manager: Jürgen
set up Mohamed Salah to 1991-1992 Sotirios Kyrgiakos, £2m Klopp
add gloss to the result, it was Total spend £8.77m 1999-2000 Maxi Rodriguez, Free League finish: Eighth
tempting to view the outcome — Manager: Souness Total spend £35.35m Raheem Sterling, £500k
inspired by those three key signings League finish: Sixth Manager: Houllier Michael Ngoo, £250,000 Joe Gomez, £3.5m
— as not just another win for League finish: Fourth Adam Bogdan, Free
Mark Wright, £2.2m Danny Ings, £8m
Liverpool but another success for Dean Saunders, £2.9m Sami Hyypia, £2.5m 2010-2011 James Milner, Free
their recruitment team. Mark Walters, £1.25m Vladimir Smicer, £3.75m Total spend £83.35m
Nathaniel Clyne, £12.5m
The club’s surge towards a first title Rob Jones, £300k Titi Camara, £2.6m Manager:
Roberto Firmino, £29m
since 1990, which they will aim to Michael Thomas, £1.5m Stéphane Henchoz, Kenny Dalglish
Christian Benteke, £32.5m
continue at Wolverhampton Istvan Kozma, £300k £3.5m League finish: Sixth
Allan Rodrigues de Souza,
Wanderers tonight, has been founded Scott Paterson £15k Sander Westerveld, £500k
Lee Jones, £300k £4m Jonjo Shelvey, £1.7m
upon Jürgen Klopp’s managerial Dietmar Hamann, Milan Jovanovic, Marko Grujic, £5.1m
acumen, and the work of sporting Free Steven Caulker, Loan
£8m Kamil Grabara, £250k
director Michael Edwards in securing 1992-1993 Erik Meijer, Free Joe Cole, Free
Total spend £6.675m Taiwo Awoniyi, £400k
smart signings over the past four Emile Heskey, Danny Wilson,
years. Yet the true context of the Manager: Souness £11m 2m
League finish: Sixth Fábio Aurélio, 2016-2017
journey Liverpool have been on since
Free Total spend £63.9m
winning their 18th title in 1990 can be Stig Inge Bjornebye £600k
viewed through their overall dealings Nigel Clough, £2.275m Manager: Klopp
League finish: Fourth
in the transfer market. Torben Piechnik £500k
There have been 218 different Paul Stewart, £2.3m Sadio Mané, £30m
signings, costing in excess of David James, £1m Loris Karius, £4.7m
£1.2 billion (excluding players’ wages). Joël Matip, Free
Whether it was a record transfer, Ragnar Klavan, £4.2m
promising youngsters or more Alex Manninger, Free
Georginio Wijnaldum, £25m
established stars, each arrival was
designed to make Liverpool stronger.
The reality proved different. Paul 2000-2001
2
Ince’s move from Inter Milan in 1997, Total spend £21.5m Christian Poulsen,
for example, was viewed as the final Manager: Houllier £4.55m
League finish: Third
M
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Most
ost st e expensive
xp
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enssiivve
e ssigning
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igning
ning
g Brad Jones, £2.3m
Virgil
Vi
V irrg
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van
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Dijk
ijijk Raul Meireles, £11.5m
How they compare to rest Bernard Diomede, £3m Paul Konchesky, £3.5m
Gary McAllister, Free Suso, Unknown
of big six in past 30 years Pegguy Arphexad, Free Luis Suárez, £22.8m
Total spent on players Markus Babbel, Free Andy Carroll, £35m
Nick Barmby, £6m
Chelsea Christian Ziege, £5.5m
£1.719bn 1993-1994 Gregory Vignal, £500k 2011-2012
Total spend £6.5m Total spend £53.48m
Man City Manager: Roy Evans Daniel Sjolund, £1m
£1.716bn Manager: Dalglish
League finish: Eighth Igor Biscan, £5.5m
League finish: Eighth
2017-2018
Man Utd Jari Litmanen, Free Total spend £168.1m
£1.373bn Neil Ruddock, £2.5m Jordan Henderson, £16m Manager: Klopp
Julian Dicks, Swap Charlie Adam, £6.75m League finish: Fourth
Liverpool Mark Gayle, Loan
2001-2002
£1.275bn Total spend £18.8m Alexander Doni, Free
Michael Stensgaard, £400k Mohamed Salah, £43.9m
Manager: Houllier Stewart Downing, £18.5m
Arsenal Phil Babb, £3.6m Dominic Solanke, £4m
League finish: Second Jose Enrique, £6m
£0.974bn Andy Robertson, £10m
Sebastián Coates, £4.9m
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain,
Tottenham 1994-1995 John Arne Riise, £4m
Antonio Núñez, £1.5m Astrit Ajdarevic, £750k
Craig Bellamy, Free
£35m
£0.927bn Total spend £13.5m Milan Baros, £3.2m
Xabi Alonso, £10.7m Daniele Padelli, Loan
Jordon Ibe, £500k
Virgil van Dijk, £75m
Manager: Evans Chris Kirkland, £6m João Carlos Teixeira, £830k
Luis Garcia, £6m Jordy Brouwer, Tony Gallacher, £200k
Jerzy Dudek, £4.85m Danny Ward, Undisclosed
piece of the title jigsaw when the then League finish: Fourth
Nicolas Anelka, Loan
Mauricio Pellegrino, Free Undisclosed
Liverpool manager Roy Evans John Scales, £3.5m Abel Xavier, £750k
Fernando Morientes, £6.3m Francisco Durán, £66k
2018-2019
recruited the ex-Manchester United Mark Kennedy, £1.5m
Scott Carson, £1m Álvaro Arbeloa, £2.5m 2012-2013 Total spend £175.4m
midfielder. But Ince found a squad Javier Mascherano, Loan Total spend £49.9m
Stan Collymore, £8.5m Manager: Klopp
that he felt was capable of winning 2002-2003 2005-2006 Manager:
League finish: Second
Total spend £18.4m Brendan Rodgers
the title but lacked belief and, at
1995-1996 Manager: Houllier
Total spend £27.3m 2007-2008 League finish: Seventh
times, the professionalism to prevail. Manager: Benítez Total spend £71.3m Naby Keita, £52.75m
Total spend £7.75m League finish: Fifth Fabinho Tavarez, £43.7m
It brings into focus the importance League finish: Third Manager: Benítez Fabio Borini, £10.4m
Manager: Evans League finish: Fourth Xherdan Shaqiri, £13.75m
of Klopp in Liverpool’s rise from the League finish: Third Bruno Cheyrou, £3.7m
Antonio Barragan, £240k Joe Allen, £15m Alisson Becker, £65m
team that finished eighth at the end El Hadji Diouf, £10m Oussama Assaidi, £3m
Bolo Zenden, Free Lucas Leiva, £5m Bobby Duncan, £200k
of his first, truncated, season in Stephen Pears, Free Alou Diarra, Free Nuri Sahin, Loan
Pepe Reina, £6m Krisztián Németh, Isaac Christie-Davies, Free
Jason McAteer, £4.5m Patrice Luzi, Free Samed Yesil, £1m
charge. Klopp is the most crucial Salif Diao, £4.7m
Mohamed Sissoko, £5.6m Undisclosed Ki-Jana Hoever
Patrik Berger, £3.25m Daniel Sturridge, £12m
signing Liverpool have made in recent Peter Crouch, £7m Mikel Domínguez, £270k
Philippe Coutinho, £8.5m
Undisclosed
years, working with Edwards, head of Miki Roque, Unknown Sebastián Leto, £1.8m
recruitment Dave Fallows and chief 1996-1997 2003-2004 Jack Hobbs, £750k Dani Pacheco, Free
2019-2020
Total spend £3.5m Total spend £11.5m Besian Idrizaj, £190k Fernando Torres, £20.2m 2013-2014
scout Barry Hunter to overcome the Mark Gonzalez, £1.5m Andriy Voronin, Free Total spend £11.65m
Manager: Evans Manager: Houllier Total spend £41.3m
excesses of previous regimes. League finish: Fourth Paul Anderson, Swap Yossi Benayoun, £5m Manager: Klopp
League finish: Fourth Manager: Rodgers
The success rate of signings since Jan Kromkamp, Swap Ryan Babel, £11.5m League finish: Second
League finish: First*
2016 has been astonishing and Dejan Nicky Rizzo, Free Anthony Le Tallec, £1.5m David Martin, £250k Charles Itandje, Sepp van den Berg, £4,4m
Lovren, who signed before the Klopp Bjorn Tore Kvarme, Free F Sinama-Pongolle, £1.5m Daniel Agger, £5.8m Undisclosed Luis Alberto, £6.8m Harvey Elliott,
era, said last season that there was Oyvind Leonhardsen, £3.5m Steve Finnan, £3.5m Robbie Fowler, Free Emiliano Insúa, £1.675m Iago Aspas, £7m to be decided
now a “perfect match” at the club. Harry Kewell, £5m Lauri Dalla Valle, £600k Simon Mignolet, £9m Adrián San Miguel, Free
Carl Medjani, Free Martin Skrtel, £6.5m Kolo Touré, Free
“It was like a puzzle, you just keep 1997-1998 Paul Jones, Loan 2006-2007 Andy Lonergan, Free
Javier Mascherano, 18.6m Aly Cissokho, Loan
bringing these players you missed. I Total spend £9.05m Total spend £27.2m Daniel Ayala, £160k Mamadou Sakho, £15m
Takumi Minamino, £7.25m
think now we have everything.” Manager: Evans Manager: Benítez Damien Plessis, Tiago Ilori, £3.5m
The three decades of difficulties 2004-2005
should serve as a stark warning to
League finish: Third
Danny Murphy, £1.5m
Total spend £42m
League finish: Third
Craig Bellamy, £6m
Undisclosed Victor Moses, Loan
Total spend
Manager:
Manchester United. Falling from the
summit into mediocrity can be swift
Paul Ince, £4.2m
Karl-Heinz Riedle, £1.8m
Rafael Benítez Gabriel Paletta, £2m
Fábio Aurélio, Free
2008-2009 2014-2015 £1.275 billion
League finish: Fifth Total spend £39m Total spend £116.85m
with wrong moves in the transfer Jorgen Nielsen, £400k Jermaine Pennant, £6.7m Manager: Benítez Manager: Rodgers *Managers at end of each
market leading to an unravelling Haukur I. Gudnason, £150k Djibril Cissé, £14.5m Dirk Kuyt, £9m League finish: Second League finish: Sixth season.
which can take years, and in some Brad Friedel, £1m Josemi Rey, £2m Nabil El Zhar, £200k Source LFChistory.net
cases decades, to correct.
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How to score from the spot every time
After Gabriel Jesus’s
fourth consecutive
miss, Alyson Rudd goes
in search of advice for
the errant Brazilian
When Gabriel Jesus missed his penalty
kick at Bramall Lane on Tuesday
evening, there was one man who had
no idea how the Manchester City
forward felt.
It was the Brazil international’s
fourth consecutive miss from the spot
(not including successful penalties in
shoot-outs) and his third failure in five
attempts in the Premier League,
prompting Pep Guardiola to admit that
he needs to change how the club deal
with penalties. The City manager
might like to bring in Mile Jedinak, the
former Australia midfielder, to have a
talk with his team because Jedinak
scored 17 out 17 from the spot and his
last ever kick in English football was the
penalty that took Aston Villa to the
play-off final in May.
Indeed, Jedinak was brought on in
that semi-final, against West Bromwich
Albion, at the very end of extra time for
the express purpose of taking a penalty
in the shoot-out. Usually, the former
Crystal Palace captain “never thinks”
about the added pressure his reputa-
tion bestows but this time was different.
“The trickiest situation was my most
recent penalty, knowing you are going
on just to take a penalty and having to
prepare yourself for that,” he says. “I’d
not dealt with that before.
“You’ve not got into the game, your
sole purpose is to take the penalty.
There’s a little bit of anxiety, but you
know it’s a good opportunity. I thought,
‘I’ll calm everyone down and make sure
the ball goes in the back of net.’ ”
His stony-faced celebration went
viral. “I just stared into the crowd, I
don’t really know why, I just felt it was
right thing, to say, ‘Here we are, we’re
on our way.’ A lot of people came up to
me to speak about it and even from the
club, people saying, ‘Oh, you show how
it should be done.’ ”
So how should it be done?
“At this point we’re not even charging
for the research,” Dr Martina Navarro,
senior lecturer in skill acquisition at the
University of Portsmouth, says. Navarro
is almost incredulous at the slap-dash
approach towards penalties taken by
clubs who apply rigorous methodology
to other aspects of the game.
“It’s quite early stages that clubs are
using psychology to aid performance,”
she says. “In sport people are resistant to
change in case it does not work, as you
can quickly be fired. Yet it takes time for
psychological interventions to build
Player set to face antisemitism charge Agents vote against fees cap
Martyn Ziegler Chief Sports Reporter
A lower-league striker apparently hell-
bent on becoming the most objectiona-
ble man in English football has been
banned for one match for insulting a
fan — and is likely to be charged within
days for a separate incident in which he
posted an allegedly antisemitic tweet.
Tom Pope, the 34-year-old Port Vale
striker, was given the ban yesterday for
insulting a fan’s appearance by likening
him to the disfigured character Sloth
from the 1985 film The Goonies.
Although that would not usually lead
to a ban, Pope has at least two previous
misdemeanours related to his social
media use, including a one-match ban
Australian Jedinak has a
perfect record from
the spot and one that
Jesus, below, can only
envy after a run of
missed penalty kicks
Penalty kings
Most successful Premier League
penalty-takers
Yaya Touré (11 taken) 100%
Matthew Le Tissier (26) 96
Danny Murphy (19) 95
James Beattie (17) 94
Julian Dicks (16) 94
Thierry Henry (25) 92
Luka Milivojevic (23) 91
Leighton Baines (22) 91
Frank Leboeuf (11) 91
Gary Speed (11) 91
Source: Opta, minimum ten penalties
layers and work. Clubs have analysts
who look at data and as VAR means
more penalties, in time coaches will be
more interested in penalty-kick
training. Some Premier League and
international clubs show interest,
especially the younger coaches.
Previously, coaches would just replicate
their own experiences.”
Her research shows that managers
have to accept some of their best players
might not be the best at taking penalties.
imposed in November that came after
Port Vale had beaten a youthful Crewe
team. Pope taunted a Crewe fan saying:
“It’s nothing to be proud of beating up
kids! In saying that the kids were happy
with the beating instead of a f*** . . .
[thumbs up emoji].” In July, he was also
fined £2,000 after “extremely insult-
ing” comments about Carolyn Radford,
the chief executive of Mansfield Town.
In the latest case, Pope had denied his
Twitter comments were improper but
an independent regulatory commis-
sion found the charge proven and also
imposed a £1,500 fine.
Pope’s record means he is danger of
landing a lengthy ban if, as expected, he
is charged by the FA with an aggravated
“Any professional footballer can kick
the ball fast enough but it is completely
different under pressure,” Navarro says.
“So the clubs have to identify the
players with the best coping strate-
gies under stress and then work to
improve those strategies and mimic
pressure in training, such as dis-
tracting them as they take penalties
so they learn to avoid distractions.”
There are two types of penalty
taker, those who ignore the goal-
keeper and those who factor in
their movement. Navarro argues
that those who think that
they will ignore the
goalkeeper inevita-
bly notice their
movement and so it
is vital every spot-kick specialist is
taught to cope with distraction.
Jedinak was not taught how to deal
with the goalkeeper, he learnt from
experience, sometimes on the biggest
stage of all. The 35-year-old scored
twice from the spot, against France
and Denmark, at the 2018 World
Cup.
“You learn on the job,” he says.
“The first thing I learned was the
importance of technique and
good ball contact. At the
World Cup the keepers
offence for antisemitism. When asked,
on Twitter, to “predict the World War
III result”, Pope replied: “We invade
Iran then Cuba then North Korea then
the Rothchilds [sic] are crowned
champions of every bank on the planet.”
The Rothschild family are often
referenced in antisemitic conspiracy
theories about Jewish influence in the
financial world. When a Twitter user
pointed that out to Pope, he replied:
“How is it racist? I mentioned them
owning the banks which is fact and now
I’m facing all this.”
In one of his less offensive posts, Pope
said he would score 40 goals a season if
he played against the Manchester City
defender John Stones every week.
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Jedinak’s penalty record
Mile Jedinak has scored all 17 penalties he has taken
during his career
2
4
10 8
11 6
17 9 5 16
13 3 1 12 14 15 7
1 Australia v Ecuador March 5, 2014
2 Crystal Palace v West Ham April 19, 2014
3 Australia v Holland June 18, 2014
4 Everton v Crystal Palace September 21, 2014
5 West Brom v Crystal Palace October 25, 2014
6 Swansea v Crystal Palace November 29, 2014
7 Australia v Kuwait January 9, 2015
8 Australia v Kyrgyzstan November 12, 2015
9 Australia v Tajikistan March 24, 2016
10 Australia v Japan October 11, 2016
11 Thailand v Australia November 15, 2016
12 Thailand v Australia November 15, 2016
13 Australia v Honduras November 15, 2017
14 Australia v Honduras November 15, 2017
15 France v Australia June 16, 2018
16 Denmark v Australia June 21, 2018
17 Aston Villa v West Brom May 14, 2019
went slightly early and, in my periph- United and Guardiola indicated that,
ery, I could see the goalkeepers’ feet. rather than let players decide, from now
Just as I’m about to strike the ball you on he will make the decision. At the
can see they are going one way. From start of the season player power was all
history I do like to go across myself, too visible when Paul Pogba took a pen-
to go to my left, and those two alty against Wolves in spite of the fact
times I went to my right because I the Manchester United midfielder had
just thought, these guys prob- missed three times from the spot last
ably know, they’ve been season and Marcus Rashford had
studying, and they ended scored with his penalty against Chelsea
up going up a little bit the previous weekend.
earlier so it looked a little “At some big clubs there are a number
bit easier than it was.” of players who might take the penalty. It
Research on saving seems to be a recent change,” Chris
penalties is usually Rowley, sports psychologist at Leeds
one step behind the Trinity University, says. “It’s indicative
taker’s plan to score of player power that they are having an
them. “You end up increasing say. It used to be the manag-
with game theory,” er’s decision. These on-field discussions
Navarro says, “so I bring what used to be private
know that you discussions into the public domain.
k
know that I know, “I would say that discussion has to
so then it becomes an take place at the absolute latest before
interesting dynamic but kick-off because it will interfere with
the advantage rests with preparation. Instead of thinking,
the penalty taker. If he ‘Where am I placing the kick?’ I am
kicks to the top corner thinking about arguing my case.”
at 80km/h then it is Jedinak boils it down to this: “You’re
impossible for the in a packed stadium, but you’re block-
’keeper to save.” ing it all out. It’s you and the goalkeeper
Jesus chose to standing there, there’s no one else in the
take the penalty stadium and then you hear the whistle
against Sheffield and you go about your business.”
Matt Lawton, Gary Jacob Raiola among them, and they were
united in agreeing that they should
Football agents are expected to launch resist Fifa’s efforts.
a legal challenge against any attempt A source from inside the meeting told
by Fifa to place a cap on their fees after The Times that when agents were asked
voting unanimously against the new if they would instead consider the
proposals in London yesterday. introduction of “a fair cap”, only three
Last October Fifa approved a or four hands went up.
proposal to cap agents’ fees at 10 per Premier League clubs paid £260 mil-
cent of the transfer fee if they are acting lion to football’s middle men during the
for the selling club, 3 per cent of a 2018-19 season, which represented an
player’s contract when acting for the increase of £49 million on the previous
footballer and 6 per cent if also acting campaign. Fifa points to those figures
for the buying club. as a reason for introducing a cap.
However about 200 agents gathered Fifa is looking to introduce the cap
at Barnet FC yesterday for a meeting for next season but any legal challenge
arranged by the Association of Football could push the changes back to the
Agents, with Jorge Mendes and Mino 2021-22 campaign.
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Lloris’s early return inspires
Tottenham to stop slow rot
2
0
Tottenham
Alli 38, Son 79
2 2
1
Norwich City
Pukki 70 (pen)
Premier League
Alyson Rudd
Just as Spurs looked to have fallen into
a rut, arguably the least aesthetically
pleasing goal of Son Heung-min’s
career rescued three points in a contest
that had begun to spiral away from their
control. Five points from their last five
games does not lend José Mourinho’s
team a sense of grandeur but this
victory, their first in the Premier
League this year, halted what could
have become a slow rot.
They took the lead through Dele Alli
but were browbeaten by a spirited Nor-
wich City fight back as the visitors drew
level through Teemu Pukki’s spot kick.
“How can we change the game?”
Mourinho said. “With the family spirit,
the family character and desire.”
The Portuguese made it all sound like
Little House on the Prairie, especially
when he spoke of how goalkeeper
Paulo Gazzaniga “shared our happiness
to have Hugo back as a friend,” when
explaining how he dropped the
Argentinian after the surprise return to
fitness of Hugo Lloris, who suffered a
serious elbow injury in October, but
this all came perilously close to
something far more dysfunctional.
Mourinho spoke of puzzles created
by the injury to Harry Kane but Daniel
Farke has had a sudoku of a first season
in the Premier League with a host of
injuries. His team were under siege
from the start with the best of the early
chances coming from a Serge Aurier
cross-field pass which found Érik
Lamela, whose crisp strike was
athletically saved by Tim Krul.
Norwich, though, were not cowed.
Part of the reason they could yet avoid
relegation is the manner in which they
perform with optimism regardless of
the situation and they fashioned a clear
chance when the Tigger-like Todd
Cantwell played in Pukki only for the
Finland striker to hook his strike wide.
Son tried an ambitious strike from 25
yards out but given the South Korean’s
penchant for glamorous goals, there
was a sort of harrumph from the stands
usually reserved for missed tap-ins
when his effort sailed over the crossbar.
Spurs made the breakthrough in the
38th minute as Son prodded the ball to
Aurier whose firm cross was met by Alli.
It was a fast-paced move that did not
Fulham fail to break down Bowyer’s men Forest suffer late frustration
0 1
Charlton
2 2
1
0 1
Fulham
Sky Bet Championship
Ian Winrow
Charlton Athletic were unable to mark
Lee Bowyer’s new three-year contract
with victory, but they did at least
frustrate a Fulham side hoping to close
the gap on the automatic promotion
places to one point.
Deprived of the injured forwards
Aleksandar Mitrovic and Anthony
Knockaert, Fulham lacked the nous to
2G M
Alli steers home the opening goal for Tottenham, who welcomed Lloris, below, back into the team ahead of schedule
dent the spirits of Farke’s side as they
bounded forward in search of an
immediate equaliser. Not to be outdone
in terms of attitude, Spurs became
occasionally flamboyant with Lamela
attempting to play in Alli with an
eye-catching rabona pass.
After a lengthy VAR review, Cant-
well was cleared to play on following a
foul on Lamela that Chris Kavanagh,
the referee, had viewed as worthy of
just a caution. The reprieve meant
Cantwell played with
even more zest and was
adamant that his effort,
soon after the review,
should have earned his
team a penalty after the ball
struck the arm of Toby Alder-
weireld. Pukki put another
chance wide and then Cant-
well was again at the heart of
the action as Norwich scram-
bled together another move
that ended messily but could
just easily have led to
Pukki toe-poking
past Lloris.
Harry Winks hob-
bled off in pain — he
break down a Charlton side who came
into the game having won only one of
their previous 16 league games.
Aside from a couple of half-chances
in the first half and a good opportunity
that fell to Michael Hector early in the
second, Scott Parker’s side rarely
looked capable of claiming the win that
would have further closed the gap to
Leeds United, who lie second.
The reaction to the announcement
of Bowyer’s new deal inside the stadium
confirmed the club’s supporters are
clearly grateful there is a much greater
sense of stability after the change in
ownership this month and the
manager’s reaction to his new contract
reinforced the view that the club can
should be out of action for weeks rather
than months, according his manager —
after a Cantwell challenge, as the home
team began to be slightly dazzled by
Norwich’s ebullience. A slip by Jan
Vertonghen looked to have set Pukki
free but Giovani Lo Celso made a quick
recovery tackle.
Some calm, intellectual football was
needed by Spurs and so Mourinho
brought on Christian Eriksen, strongly
linked to a move to Inter Milan, and the
supporters were far from impressed.
The Norwich players were not that
bothered either and carried
on with their energetic
forays forward. It earned
them a penalty as Ryan
Sessegnon fouled Max
Aarons, the impressive
full back. Pukki coped
with the long VAR review
and side-footed his penalty
into the left corner of Lloris’s
net. If Gazzaniga, who had
saved a penalty in Sat-
urday’s draw
with Watford,
was wonder-
ing if he would
start looking forward. “I would have
liked it sooner but it was delivered to me
yesterday afternoon and I wanted it
done as soon as possible,” he said. “It’s
been dragging on for two years.
“I want to be part of building things at
this club. I have great people around
me, the players give me everything
when they step onto the pitch. So why
wouldn’t I want to be part of it?”
Fulham’s attack lacked a cutting
edge, frustrating Parker. “I’m a bit dis-
appointed but it’s another clean sheet
and if you don’t win it, you certainly
don’t want lose the game and that is the
biggest positive,” he said. “We have a lot
of front players missing and it was a
game needing a bit of attacking genius.”
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Dele Alli has scored
Spurs’ last two league
goals from open play with
6hr 55min between last
night’s and the one
against Brighton on
Boxing Day
have done better, he presumably kept it
to himself in the name of harmony.
As Tottenham began to run short of
ideas, a delightful pass from Lo Celso
set free Alli whose shot was deflected
high into the air leaving Son with the
simplest of headers for Spurs to take the
lead once more, although this time
against the run of play.
Lukas Rupp’s fine strike was diverted
for a corner as Norwich continued to
hunt, in vain, for another equaliser.
Mourinho told Farke his team “deserve
a happy ending at the end of the season”
but it looks increasingly likely they will
gain more plaudits than points.
Tottenham Hotspur (4-2-3-1): H Lloris 5 —
S Aurier 7, J Vertonghen 5 (sub: G Fernandes
75min), T Alderweireld 5, R Sessegnon 5 —
H Winks 5 (sub: E Dier 56, 6), G Lo Celso 7 — Son
Heung-min 7, D Alli 7, E Lamela 7 (sub: C Eriksen
62, 5) — L Moura 5. Subs not used P Gazzaniga,
D Sánchez, T Ndombélé, J Tanganga.
Norwich City (4-2-3-1): T Krul 5 — M Aarons 7,
C Zimmermann 6, G Hanley 6, S Byram 6 —
A Tettey 5 (sub: O Hernández 82), K Mclean 5
(sub: M Stiepermann 90+3) — L Rupp 6 (sub:
J Drmic 86), O Duda 6, T Cantwell 7 — T Pukki 7.
Subs not used M McGovern, J Lewis, T Trybull,
I Amadou. Booked Cantwell.
Referee C Kavanagh. Attendance 58,182.
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Nott’m Forest
Grabban 80
Reading
Baldock 83
Graham Hill
Sabri Lamouchi watched Nottingham
Forest let slip a chance to move to
within three points of the top of the
table but the head coach preferred to
take the positives after victory was con-
troversially snatched from his side.
Lewis Grabban looked to have settled
the game with ten minutes left after
being set up by Sammy Ameobi inside
the six-yard box. However, the lead
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Chelsea look
to replace
under-fire
Arrizabalaga
Gary Jacob
Kepa Arrizabalaga’s future as Chelsea’s
No 1 goalkeeper is in doubt after the
club began scouting for new signings.
The Spaniard, 25, joined from
Athletic Bilbao in 2018 for £71 million
but has not lived up to his tag as the
world’s most expensive goalkeeper
after a solid first season with the club.
Willy Caballero, 38, is the second-
choice keeper but he is out of contract
at the end of the season and concern
has been growing over Arrizabalaga’s
performances. He tamely let in the
winner in the 1-0 defeat by Newcastle
United, and his failure to prevent
Gabriel Martinelli scoring in the 2-2
draw with ten-man Arsenal on
Tuesday also drew criticism.
Frank Lampard was unhappy with
many facets of Chelsea’s failure to twice
hold on to the lead on Tuesday but the
head coach said of his goalkeeper: “I
know there’s a focus on him at the min-
ute. That’s top-line football. With his
feet a couple of times today, he took too
long and nearly gave it away.
“Sometimes that can change the
momentum of a game. That’s some-
thing obviously that he’ll know and has
to look at — and we have to look at.”
Reports have linked Chelsea with
Nick Pope, the Burnley goalkeeper,
while Dean Henderson, the
Manchester United player impressing
on loan with Sheffield United, has been
mentioned. It is unlikely that United
would want to sell even their No 3
goalkeeper to Chelsea, though.
Meanwhile Chelsea have offered to
sign Edinson Cavani on loan from Paris
Saint-Germain until the end of the
season. Lampard said Chelsea must
strengthen up front after dropping
points against Arsenal and potentially
losing Tammy Abraham, their leading
scorer, who hobbled off at full time after
a knock on the ankle.
Chelsea’s proposed deal is to pay a
loan fee to PSG and cover the forward’s
wages, about £360,000 a week, until his
contract expires at the end of June. His
wages alone would total £7.2 million
and a loan fee would be negotiated
between the clubs but in other transfer
deals has been between £4-8 million for
a full season’s loan.
However, PSG have indicated that
they want to sell Cavani for as much as
£23 million. Cavani, 32, has grown
frustrated in Paris having made only
nine league appearances this season.
Lampard called him a “great player”
and said he “loved his mentality and
attitude” this week.
lasted only three minutes as Sam
Baldock’s shot on the turn was tipped
on to the bar by the Forest goalkeeper,
Brice Samba, and bounced on to the
line. Although a flag went up, the refer-
ee David Webb said the goal was good.
It was a virtual carbon copy of the
game between these sides at the
Madejski Stadium this month in which
Forest took the lead in stoppage time
only for Reading to equalise.
“The stadium is disappointed, the
dressing room is disappointed, the
players are disappointed. But it is not
done,” Lamouchi said. “This is a very
good point against a good team. We
scored at a good time. Unfortunately
they equalised at the wrong time for us.”
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Rebellion in the
air as Solskjaer
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Paul Hirst
Ed Woodward did not have the
misfortune of watching his Manchester
United team crumble to defeat against
Burnley in person last night. United’s
under-fire executive vice-chairman
was away on “club business” but he
should scour the internet for a picture
of last night’s scoreboard at Old Traf-
ford and download it as his screensaver
for his phone. That is what Woodward
did when United lost 2-0 to Olympiacos
six years ago under David Moyes.
Woodward would look at the screen-
saver to remind him of what at the time
was the lowest ebb of his reign and spur
him on to produce more positive times.
United’s first home defeat to Burnley in
58 years felt like a new low.
United had the chance to claw back
the gap between themselves and
Chelsea to three points, but once again
they froze. Once again they failed to
bear their teeth in front of goal. Once
again the fans turned on Woodward
and the Glazer family. As soon as Jay
Rodriguez’s left-footed rocket crashed
off the underside of the bar and into the
United net, the fans behind the goal in
the Stretford End responded en masse
by chanting the name of their manager.
The message was clear: they believe
that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is not princi-
pally to blame for United’s woeful
season, one that has left them with nine
wins from 24 games. They put the
blame at the door of Woodward and the
owners. Sixty-five minutes into this
match, the chant “stand up if you hate
Glazers” echoed around Old Trafford.
Almost all of the stadium rose to its feet.
Most of those fans had left by the final
whistle and who could blame them?
Burnley had outwitted and outplayed
United on their own patch. Sean Dyche
had earned his first win over United at
his tenth attempt thanks to cracking
hits from Rodriguez and Chris Wood.
Ferdinand: With the amount spent you’d expect a stronger squad
continued from back
spiral in seven years has been
remarkable. I have played with Ole, he
is an ex team-mate of mine but the
results have not been good enough. He
has had some key players get injured,
but with the big amount of money spent
on this squad you would expect more in
reserve.”
Solskjaer was left to face the
inquisition that followed a result that
leaves United on six points fewer than
David Moyes had at the same stage of
his solitary season in charge of the club.
And he admitted that he and his
playing staff shared the fans’ disillusion
at the club’s predicament.
“At the end you do feel disillusioned,
because maybe they do,” he said. “But
for us we’ve got to stick to our values
and beliefs. It’s no use feeling sorry for
Rodriguez’s Distance 19 yards
rocket Speed 59mph
United’s shortcomings in the transfer
window were exposed. With Marcus
Rashford missing because of a back
injury, United lacked incision and a
clinical edge up front. Anthony Martial
seemed shaken after taking a whack
early on from James Tarkowski. On two
occasions, the Frenchman fluffed good
opportunities. Nick Pope only made
one save of note in the first half. United
desperately need to add a striker to
their ranks in the next week or so, and
surely they will now try to get the sign-
ing of Bruno Fernandes from Sporting
Lisbon over the line. The central mid-
field was lacking in creativity and in de-
fence, Phil Jones and Harry Maguire
were undone by Wood and Rodriguez.
Solskjaer must of course accept some
of the blame. His decision to start
Mason Greenwood on the bench was
baffling given that Rashford was
unavailable. Greenwood, United’s best
finisher according to his manager,
looked disappointed to be left out of the
team. While the rest of his team-mates
were in the dressing-room before kick
off, Greenwood was consoled by Kieran
McKenna, the coach, on the pitch.
The statistics do not make for good
reading for Solskjaer. Since he was
made permanent manager in March,
United have lost more Premier League
games (12) than they have won (11).
yourself. Go out there, same dynamic, it’s always players who can
commitment, get ready for Sunday.”
With Marcus Rashford out for at
least two months, the United
manager again stressed the
need for new recruits in the
current transfer window
although he conceded
that any incomings will
12
United’s league defeats
be part of a larger “clear- since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
out” at the club. took manager’s job on
“I understand you permanent basis, one
were talking about that more than the games
and that is always going to they have won (11)
be the talk at the moment
because we’ve started a clear-
out and get-players-in job and now
is the transfer window,” he said.
“So I’m going to be answering these players and the club,” he said.
questions until it is closed. We are
working on things.
“That’s the thing with football, it’s helped them, so keep sticking at that.”
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United after 24 games
2010
2011
Final position
57 points 2
54 1
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
40
44
40
58
59
2
1
7
4
5
2017 45 6
2018 53 2
2019 45 6
2020 34 ?
In the first half, Aaron Wan-Bissaka
sent over three pinpoint crosses, but the
recipients could not convert.
Wan-Bissaka’s first cross rolled across
the box to Martial who stuck his left
boot out too late to make a pure con-
nection from six yards. Wan-Bissaka
crossed again, but Juan Mata swung
and missed. Another cross came over
from the right back. This time, Daniel
James leapt high, but Pope swatted
away his header. Martial then ran on to
Nemanja Matic’s clever pass, but the
dawdling Frenchman took two poor
touches and Charlie Taylor intervened.
Wood only needed one sight of goal
to find the net. Ashley Westwood
floated a free kick in, Ben Mee beat
Matic to flick on and Wood launched
the ball past David de Gea on the
half-volley after giving Maguire the
slip. It was a superb finish but United’s
two tallest players had a lot to answer
for. A few boos rang out at half-time.
Solskjaer responded by replacing
Andreas Pereira with Greenwood, but
little changed.
There was too much hit and hope
from the hosts. Burnley showed United
how to do it. Taylor beat Greenwood to
a header, Westwood fed Rodriguez who
played a one-two with Wood and ad-
vanced into the box. Rodriguez left Ma-
guire for dead and struck a rising left-
footed shot that went past a diving De
Gea and in off the underside of the bar.
Most of the fans headed for the exits.
Those who remained watched Luke
Shaw head past Pope, but it was ruled
out for a push, and the boos rang out
again at the final whistle.
Manchester United (4-2-3-1): D De Gea 6 —
A Wan-Bissaka 7, P Jones 4, H Maguire 4,
B Williams 6 (sub: L Shaw 69min, 5) — Fred 6,
N Matic 6 — J Mata 5, A Pereira 4 (sub:
M Greenwood 46, 5), D James 6 (sub: J Lingard
69, 5) — A Martial 5. Subs not used S Romero,
E Bailly, D Dalot, A Gomes.
Burnley (4-4-2): N Pope 7 — M Lowton 7,
J Tarkowski 7, B Mee 7, C Taylor 8 — J Hendrick 7, Rodriguez
A Westwood 7, J Cork 7, D McNeil 7 — C Wood 9,
scores in the
J Rodriguez 9. Subs not used J Hart, R Brady,
second half
E Pieters, A Lennon, M Vydra, K Long,
M Goodridge. to double
Booked Taylor, Westwood. United’s woe
Referee J Moss. Attendance 73,198
little over a week left until the transfer
surprise you in a good and bad way. window closes, The Times understands
“It’s up to the players to understand that United and Sporting are still some
we’re representing and privileged way apart in their valuation of the
to represent the best club in 25-year-old.
the world, a duty every United are unwilling to pay the
single day on and off
pitch. I can’t give another
answer.”
£68 million that Sporting want for the
Portugal international and Mendes
admitted the transfer may not happen.
Solskjaer, however, “I don’t know [if the transfer will go
also called for fans to through],” Mendes, 54, said. “If he
show their support for doesn’t leave now, he will leave for sure
the team rather than in the summer because Sporting have
focusing on criticisms of already spoken with other clubs.”
supper management. United’s players show their dejection Solskjaer is in need of reinforcements
“I can understand in the “embarrassing” defeat last night in midfield because of injuries to Paul
supporters are disappointed but we Pogba and Scott McTominay. United
just need to make sure we try to help the One player unlikely to be arriving at are in talks with Birmingham City over
Old Trafford is Bruno Fernandes after Jude Bellingham, the 16-year-old mid-
“I think today the players hear the his agent, Jorge Mendes, admitted that fielder, although he is likely to be
fans when they support them and that’s other clubs are interested in signing the loaned back to the Sky Bet Champion-
Sporting Lisbon midfielder. With a ship club for the rest of the season.
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Henry Winter Chief Football Writer
English football currently resembles
one of those old Agatha Christie
dramas with leading characters
disappearing one after the other. After
injuries to England strikers such as
Harry Kane, Marcus Rashford and
Tammy Abraham, three lions on a
treatment table, the debate arose over
whether Jamie Vardy would return to
the England fold, answering an
emergency call from Gareth Southgate.
Vardy promptly pulled up lame,
damaging his glute while thumping a
clearance away.
Vardy’s manager, Brendan Rodgers,
sounded positive about his No 9 after-
wards — “thankfully, his hamstring was
fine” — but he has to be a doubt for
Leicester City’s game away to Aston
Villa in the second leg of their Carabao
Cup semi-final on Tuesday. (Vardy was
unlikely to play in the FA Cup against
Brentford this weekend).
The debate should focus as much on
the intense winter schedule, which
undoubtedly contributed to the injuries
to Rashford and Vardy. The quality of
medical attention is now so good, and
the timescale sympathetic, that Kane
(hamstring) and Rashford (back)
should have recovered before the end
of the season, able to resume club
combat, while the initial reports on
Abraham’s ankle were positive and
Vardy should be back soon. But the
gruelling winter has taken a toll.
Pep Guardiola, the Manchester City
manager, has a point when calling for
action over the congestion at this time
of year, especially with the Carabao
Cup and FA Cup overlapping, and a
midweek round of Premier League
games being squeezed in with the
winter break imminent next month.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Danny
Ings will be increasingly linked to
making late runs for the Euros.
Vardy, of course, had retired from
England duty, but there is always the
hope that he might be persuaded by the
prospect of a tournament largely at
home, a final swansong for a team that
could progress far. Vardy has scored 17
scoreboard.
It was a flowing move, full of quick
passes and darting movement, the
attack accelerated by the vision of
James Maddison. The No 10 was in the
hole behind Vardy, usually looking for
Barnes left and Ayoze Pérez right in
that 4-2-3-1 system. Here he picked out
the right back Ricardo Pereira, who
advanced before trading passes with
Pérez and returning the ball to Maddi-
son. The England international quick-
ened the move, passing to Youri Tiele-
mans, who slipped the ball inside to
Barnes. The 22-year-old drove through
the middle, before slipping the ball right
to Pereira. Aaron Cresswell tried to cut
out Pereira’s ball back in, his left foot
stretching out, failing to intervene but
playing Barnes onside, and he ran
through to turn the ball in.
Barnes created Leicester’s second
after Vardy had departed. Picking up
the ball on the left, he raced into the box
before cutting the ball back to Pereira,
who came flying in, thundering in a
shot that carried echoes of Brazil’s Car-
los Alberto in the 1970 World Cup final.
A flurry of boos came from the visit-
ing 2,107 fans at the half-time whistle,
having also vented their ire at the
owners. The shortage of pace and crea-
tivity in midfield was painful to observe.
The defence looked ill-suited to a back
five, Pablo Zabaleta is slowing, and
Sébastien Haller was isolated in attack.
David Moyes acted, sending on
Michail Antonio and Pablo Fornals for
Arthur Masuaku and Robert Snodgrass
and going to a back four. They briefly
got back into the game. Wilfred Ndidi,
making a remarkable return to action
13 days after knee surgery, challenged
Haller in the box, the contact was mini-
mal but David Coote pointed to the
spot. VAR checked, Peter Bankes back
at Stockley Park, confirmed it, and
Mark Noble duly drove the kick down
the middle as Kasper Schmeichel
helpfully dived out of the way.
With nine minutes remaining,
Leicester ended West Ham’s hopes of a
comeback when Vardy’s replacement,
Kelechi Iheanacho, raced past Issa
Diop and was brought down in a tangle
of limbs by Angelo Ogbonna. Pérez was
clinical with his firm penalty, giving
Randolph no chance. Some slick inter-

Tony Cascarino’s talking points goals in 25 games this season, and

Martial outmuscled Desperate up front
I know Anthony Martial scored a
good header against Norwich City
recently but generally Manchester
United offer very little threat in the
air. In the front line there are no
great headers of the ball; you
could say that about some of the
best teams, but Sergio Agüero
still scores with headers for
Manchester City and Roberto
Firmino does so for Liverpool.
Martial is not a centre
forward, which is the
position he was playing
last night, and he had
two no-nonsense
centre backs up against him in Ben
Mee and James Tarkowski. The ball
was just not sticking with Martial.
I can’t believe Manchester United did
not pursue Erling Haaland more
aggressively. The Norwegian teenager
scored a hat-trick on his debut for
Borussia Dortmund at the weekend
after joining from Red Bull Salzburg
and played at Molde under Ole
Gunnar Solskjaer, now the
United manager. United are
desperate for a striker —
they are not offering a
consistent threat — but they
are afraid to overpay in the
transfer market after what
happened with Alexis
Sánchez. It’s embarrassing
for a big club not to have
a director of football
overseeing transfers.
looked lively last night until attempting
a clearance, and falling to the ground.
He tried to continue, before slumping
to the floor, and having
Captain conundrum to limp away with a
minute of the first
In other sports, we often hear people half to go.
talk about how a player’s form drops Leicester
on being given the captaincy and it were leading
can happen with football as well. by then, their
Harry Maguire was made Manchester opening goal a thing off b
beauty.
United captain after the departure of Smarting from criticism and a form
Ashley Young to Inter Milan and he table showing only seven points from
his performance levels have definitely 21, Leicester had immediately gone
dipped in the two games since. hunting victory, taking the game to
He is an £80 million buy who West Ham United’s unconvincing
started the season brightly and five-man defence, Vardy exchang-
overall he has been decent, a seven ing passes with Harvey Barnes and
out of ten, but that has become five testing Darren Randolph, Ben Chil-
out of ten. He was average in the well embarking on long runs and
defeat at Anfield and was weak Vardy chasing back 50 yards to harry
again when Jay Rodriguez scored Declan Rice. So it was no surprise
Burnley’s second goal last night. He is
nowhere near the level of Liverpool’s Vardy clutches his left glute
Virgil van Dijk. before limping off the field
play, involving Maddison, Tielemans,
Pereira and Iheanacho then ended with
Pérez beating Randolph, strengthening
Leicester’s hold on a Champions
League place. “We’re all going on a
European tour,” their fans sang.
Leicester City (4-2-3-1):
K Schmeichel 7 — R Pereira 8,
J Evans 7, C Soyuncu 7,
B Chilwell 7 — N Mendy 6
(sub: W Ndidi 34min, 8),
Y Tielemans 7 — A Pérez 8,
J Maddison 8, H Barnes 8
(sub: W Morgan 83) —
J Vardy 6 (K Iheanacho 44
mins, 7). Subs not used
J Justin, D Gray, M Albrighton,
D Ward. Booked Schmeichel.
West Ham United (4-1-4-1):
D Randolph 8 — P Zabaleta 5, I Diop 5,
A Ogbonna 5, A Cresswell 6 — D Rice
6 — M Noble 6, R Snodgrass 5 (sub:
P Fornals 46, 5), A Masuaku 5 (sub:
M Antonio 46, 7) — M Lanzini 5 —
S Haller 5.
Subs not used W Reid, F Balbuena,
C Sanchez, D Martin, A Ajeti.
Booked Ogbonna.
Referee D Coote.
Attendance 31,968.
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Mike Atherton, page 64

TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER BRADLEY ORMESHER

Wood scores
Saracens ‘paid
United fans
to heap more
misery on
Solskjaer, inset,
at Old Trafford
Itoje £800k
over the odds’
direct fury Owen Slot, Adam Hathaway

Saracens overpaid Maro Itoje by

£800,000 for a stake in his image rights
company, according to leaks from the

at Glazers
Ferdinand: defeat was an embarrassment
legal judgment that found the club
guilty of breaching the salary cap for
three successive seasons.
Hours after Premier Rugby said that
it would publish the full report by the
disciplinary panel in the next few days,
Sky News laid bare the extraordinary
details that led to the domestic and
European champions being docked 35
points and fined £5.4 million for over-
spending in those three seasons. On
Manchester Utd 0 Saturday it was confirmed that they
had failed to stay under the cap this
Burnley 2 campaign and would be relegated to the
Championship.
Ian Whittell The leak alleges that a further
£95,000 was paid over three seasons to
Thousands of Manchester United Itoje by a hospitality company based at
supporters turned their anger Saracens, and run by Lucy Wray, the
towards their club’s owners and Ed daughter of the chairman, Nigel Wray.
Woodward last night during a However, the report states that there is
humiliating 2-0 loss to Burnley. no evidence of Itoje attending any of
Chants of “We want the Glazers these hospitality events.
out” resounded from the stands, The leaked report states that there is
and fans headed for the exits long no suggestion or evidence that any
before the final whistle as United’s player was complicit in any of the club’s
hopes of a top-four finish took actions or was even aware of the salary
another battering. cap violations.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side The judgment reveals a number of
were booed off at the end of each business dealings with Itoje, Richard
half as fans saw their side lose to Wigglesworth, Mako and Billy Vunipo-
Burnley at Old Trafford for the la and Chris Ashton, the wing who has
first time in 58 years. since left the club. It shows that Wray,
But it was the American owners who resigned as the club’s chairman
the Glazers and the executive this month, had gone into joint proper-
vice-chairman Woodward who ty ventures with some players and
were the focus of the most vitriolic made payments totalling £1.3 million.
reaction from the crowd. And that 6 He had made an investment of
mood was reflected by club legend £450,000 in a company owned by Billy
Rio Ferdinand. “In the 84th and Mako Vunipola.
minute I saw people get up and 6 He had made an investment of
go,” he said. “Seeing people leave £220,000 in a company owned by
with disdain on their face, it is an Wigglesworth.
embarrassment. The downward 6 He had made an investment of
Continued on page 70 £250,000 in a company owned by Itoje.
6 Saracens were also found to have
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