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would be more popular if he promised
unfunded tax cuts.
Sunak denied claims by Truss’s allies
that he was re-running “project fear”
from the EU referendum and said her
plans for £30 billion of tax cuts risked
inflation becoming “entrenched”. He
said: “That’s not project fear . . . Ignoring
that problem is irresponsible.”
He added that high levels of inflation
could last for far longer than forecast as
he ruled out making any further commitments to cut personal taxes during
the leadership campaign.
“What I worry about is the inflation
we’re seeing now becoming entrenched
for longer,” he says. “If that happens it
will be incredibly damaging for millions
across the UK. The cost for families is
going to be enormous.”
In a further criticism of the government’s record, Sunak suggested ministers had lost their grip on the nation’s
borders. More than 15,000 migrants
have crossed the Channel this year.
He pledged to push on with the government’s policy of sending migrants to
Rwanda and to deal with legal challenges “robustly”. He also suggested that
his relationship with President Macron
of France would be more constructive
than Boris Johnson’s, enabling progress
on talks to tackle the problem.
“I don’t think people feel that we do
[have control] when they see the
pictures on their screens [of migrants
arriving on beaches],” he said.
Today Sunak is promising an emergency package to force down NHS
waiting lists through tougher targets
led by a “backlogs task force”. The
health service, he said, would “break”
without radical change as long waiting
lists force people to go private “with a
gun to their head”.

Steven Swinford Political Editor

Britain is facing a national emergency
over the economy, NHS backlogs and
illegal migration, Rishi Sunak says
today as he pledges to put the government on a “crisis footing” from day one
if he becomes prime minister.
In an interview with The Times, the
former chancellor said the government
was not “working as well as it should”
and warned that a “business-as-usual
mentality” was no longer enough.
He said families were facing “enormous” costs from rising inflation, the
NHS was under unsustainable pressure
and the public believed the government
had lost control of Britain’s borders.
Sunak will announce policies to
tackle five national crises over the coming weeks in a challenge to Liz Truss,
the foreign secretary, who is leading
polls of Tory members before the final
vote in the party leadership race.
“Having been inside government I
think the system just isn’t working as
well as it should,” he said. “And the
challenges I’m talking about, they’re
not abstract, they’re not things that are
coming long down the track. They’re
challenges that are staring us in the face
and a business-as-usual mentality isn’t
going to cut it in dealing with them. So
from day one of being in office I’m
going to put us on a crisis footing.”
In other developments:
6 Truss’s favourite economist, Professor Patrick Minford, told The Times
yesterday that interest rates would
have to rise as high as 7 per cent as part
of her tax-cutting package, saying this
would be “good” for the economy
despite concerns over mortgages.
6 Sunak and Truss will take part in a
head-to-head debate on Tuesday, hosted by The Sun and TalkTV.
6 Robert Halfon, a senior backbench
MP and ally of Sunak, took a swipe at
Truss by saying the former chancellor

Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor, said it would be irresponsible not to tackle the
problems facing Britain head on as he set out his pitch to be the next prime minister

Rishi Sunak interview, pages 6-7
To win this fight, Sunak must make it
personal, Matthew Parris, page 25
Thatcher’s heir, letters, page 28

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Today’s highlights
8.20am Nick Thomas-Symonds, the shadow international
trade secretary
8.35am Nigel Gibson, lead negotiator with the rail
company Greater Anglia
9.35am Sajid Naeemi, a former Afghan interpreter
who has been separated from his son
11.15am Vitali Klitschko, right, the Kyiv mayor
and former heavyweight boxing champion
12pm
John Sweeney, the award-winning
journalist, talks about his new book on
President Putin, Killer in the Kremlin

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French warned
over Dover wait

Rwanda scheme
‘limited to 200’

Welby happy to
stay until 2026

France has been told
to staff its immigration
points at Dover
properly or six-hour
queues endured by
holidaymakers
yesterday will continue
all summer. Page 5

The government of
Rwanda has said it has
capacity to take only
200 migrants from the
UK despite Boris
Johnson claiming
thousands would be
sent there. Page 12

The Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Most
Rev Justin Welby, has
said that he will stay in
post until he reaches
retirement age in 2026
if he remains in good
health. Page 20

Russia agrees
deal on grain

Twitter blames
Musk for slide

Maguire ‘can
stop booing’

Millions of people in
the developing world
could be spared famine
after Russia agreed to
allow Ukrainian grain
exports to resume
from blockaded Black
Sea ports. Page 38

Twitter has blamed
Elon Musk’s erratic
pursuit of the company
and a worldwide
advertising slowdown
for its last quarter
revenues unexpectedly
declining. Page 43

Erik ten Hag, the
Manchester United
manager, has told his
centre-back Harry
Maguire that he must
rediscover his top form
if he is to stop fans
booing. Sport, pullout

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Rail strikes to go ahead next
week as pay dispute talks fail
Simon Cable

Nationwide rail strikes are set to cripple
Britain’s network a day before the
Commonwealth Games starts after a
breakdown in talks to resolve a dispute
over pay, jobs and conditions.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport
union (RMT) accused Network Rail
yesterday of threatening its workers
with compulsory redundancies and
“ransacking our members’ terms and
conditions”.
Mick Lynch, the RMT’s general
secretary, confirmed that negotiations
had broken down, saying the union “will
not be bullied or cajoled by anyone”.
More than 40,000 workers at
Network Rail and 14 train operating
companies plan to walk out on
Wednesday. The Transport Salaried
Staffs’ Association (TSSA) has already
announced a strike by its members at
Avanti West Coast that day.
This month Network Rail offered
workers a 4 per cent pay rise backdated
to January, which the RMT described
as paltry.
“Network Rail have upped the ante,
threatening to impose compulsory
redundancies and unsafe 50 per cent

cuts to maintenance work if we did not
withdraw our planned strike action,”
Lynch said.
“The train operating companies have
put driver-only operations on the table
along with ransacking our members’
terms and conditions.”
Tim Shoveller, Network Rail’s lead
negotiator, said the RMT had “walked
away from ongoing and constructive
talks”.
He added: “A two-year, 8 per cent
deal with a no-compulsory-redundancy guarantee and other benefits and
extras was on the table and they have
walked away without giving their
members a voice or a choice.”
The strike will disrupt parts of
Transport for London’s network as the
District and Bakerloo Tube lines,
London Overground and the Elizabeth
Line all share some sections of track
with Network Rail.
Passengers should also expect some
disruption on Thursday morning, with
a later start to services as signalling staff
return to work.
A week today members of the drivers’
union Aslef at eight train operators
across the country will go on strike.
There will be strikes by RMT

members on August 18 and 20 if the
dispute is not resolved.
The companies involved in the RMT
strikes are Network Rail, Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry Trains, Greater
Anglia, LNER, East Midlands Railway,
c2c, Great Western Railway, Northern
Trains, South Eastern, South Western
Railway, TransPennine Express, Avanti
West Coast, West Midlands Trains and
GTR (including Gatwick Express).
Unison, the public services union, is
to bring a legal challenge to a new law
allowing employers to use agency staff
to replace striking workers during disputes. The law came into force on
Thursday.
Unison has written to Kwasi
Kwarteng, the business secretary,
about its intention to seek a judicial
review of the regulations. The union
said Kwarteng has 14 days to respond,
otherwise it will take the government to
the High Court to try to get the measure overturned.
A government spokesman said: “The
business secretary makes no apology
for taking action so that essential
services are run as effectively as possible, ensuring the British public don’t
have to pay the price for strike action.”

Exam staff walkout may delay results
Simon Cable

Pupils’ results could be delayed this
summer after staff at the largest exam
board announced plans yesterday to
hold a 72-hour walkout over pay.
Union members at AQA will strike
for three days, from Friday, July 29, to
Sunday, July 31, after rejecting a 3 per
cent pay rise plus a £500 payment.
Some of those striking are helping to
mark the results of pupils who sat
GCSE or A-level exams this year, although AQA insisted it would prevent
disruption.
A-level pupils are to receive their
results on August 18 and GCSE pupils a
week later.
Unison, which represents about 160
of the 1,200 staff at AQA, said industrial
action was likely to escalate unless talks

were reopened. The strife comes as the
union said it was challenging the
government over a new law to allow
employers to use agency staff to replace
striking workers.
Staff at AQA received an increase of
0.6 per cent last year, with 3 per cent
offered this year. Unison said this was a
real-terms pay cut.
Lizanne Devonport, a Unison
official, said the workers had been left
with no option but to strike. “Pay has
been falling behind prices for years and
3 per cent isn’t a wage rise,” she said.
With costs spiralling, it’s a pay cut.
Things are so bad staff are fearful they
will no longer be able to make ends
meet.
“Workers only strike as a last resort.
They’d rather be doing the jobs that
they’re proud of. They don’t want to

disrupt students and know how
important exam results are to them.”
The walkout is the latest industrial
unrest this year after disruption among
staff on the railways and at courts.
AQA said the proposed strike was
“disappointing” because it had offered
an “affordable” pay rise.
“Our priority is always to make sure
students get the results they deserve on
time and we have robust plans in place
to make sure any strike action won’t
affect that,” an official said. “It’s a shame
that Unison is claiming otherwise, as
this is wrong and only serves needlessly
to alarm students and teachers.
“We’re giving our people a pay rise
that’s affordable and higher than many
organisations, so it’s disappointing that
Unison has decided to take strike
action.”

Soham killer should die in Goldsmith
jail, insists retired detective says climate
Sean O’Neill

Ian Huntley, who killed the schoolgirls
Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman
almost 20 years ago, should die in jail,
the detective who caught him has told
The Times.
Chris Stevenson arrested Huntley
within days of taking charge of the
investigation in Soham, Cambridgeshire. He said that despite his Christian
faith he could not forgive Huntley.
Holly and Jessica, who were ten,
went missing on August 4, 2002, triggering a huge investigation. Huntley, a
school caretaker, was initially discounted as a suspect. As police
searched for the girls, he spoke to
reporters saying he had been the last
person to talk to them before they
disappeared. He was arrested after
Stevenson took control of the investigation in its second week.
In December 2003 Huntley was
jailed for life by the Old Bailey, with a
minimum term of 40 years. His partner,
Maxine Carr, 45, a former teaching
assistant, was jailed for perverting the

course of justice and lives under a new
identity.
Stevenson, 71, said he was not moved
by reports in 2018 that Huntley, now 48,
had expressed remorse for the murders.
“Christian teaching says you should,
but I personally can’t bring myself to
forgive him. I think Huntley should
spend 40 years getting up day after day
after day knowing that he can’t go
anywhere. Should he ever be released?
No, no, not in my view.”
The Soham case was the last investigation of the detective’s career. “It’s
there and it’s never going to go away,”
he said. He has given hundreds of
“warts-and-all” lectures to police officers on the lessons of the inquiry.
In his interview with The Times
Magazine, he disclosed how recovering
from a nervous breakdown had
prepared him for what became the
most intense case of his career. He said:
“I thought I’d had a heart attack. ‘Your
heart’s fine,’ [my GP] said. ‘The trouble
is your head is full. You are up to here
and this is the body reacting.’ ”
Interview, Magazine

protests work
George Sandeman

Lord Goldsmith, the environment
minister, has said methods used by
climate protesters are effective and
justified after activists scaled gantries
on the M25 on Wednesday to declare
the motorway a “site of civil resistance”.
They demanded a statement from
the government saying that it would
end the development of fossil fuels.
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, a
former editor of The Ecologist
magazine, told the BBC’s The Week in
Westminster: “That kind of pressure
does work. It may be annoying, but it
works.” He added that many people felt
“we’re not doing enough” to tackle
climate change, although “stopping
ambulances and things, it’s not going to
win any friends”. The programme airs
on Radio 4 tonight at 11pm.
Goldsmith is supporting Liz Truss for
the Tory leadership. During the televised debates Truss did not commit to
making Britain net zero by 2050.

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Man who made
Mars Ice Cream
is frozen out of
history no more
Jack Blackburn History Correspondent

His bosses weren’t interested anymore,
but Dan Jacoby persisted. He brought
his work home to his own kitchen, his
children helped him perfect it, and he
did not relent until his superiors agreed
to give the Mars bar ice cream a chance.
Jacoby was a real-life Willy Wonka
who changed the world of British ice
creams, but his name has remained
largely secret.
Now his widow is thrilled that he is
getting his just deserts after correspondence in The Times brought his
name into the spotlight.
It began when our columnist Max
Hastings wrote on Tuesday about his
love for the product and how, as an
editor, he had asked his reporters to
find the inventor. It was to no avail as
Mars would not release any details.
“Mars is a very private company,”
said Bob Beveridge, who worked as an
accountant for the confectioner, and
was the first to identify Jacoby, in a
letter the day after the Hastings’ col-

umn appeared. “Reporters would have
been told, ‘No, it was the company’ .”
Mars guards its secrets jealously.
Apparently, no visitors are allowed on
to the floor where they make Maltesers,
so protecting the name of the man who
had cracked the secret of frozen chocolate bars was standard behaviour.
Now, though, former Martians
— as workers for the company are
known — have decided that enough
time has passed for Jacoby to get his
recognition for the Mars bar ice cream,
with Britons eating tens of millions of
them since their release in 1989.
“I’ve always thought that his family
would love to feel there was a bit of
public recognition for a man who was a
lovely human being and the invention
he was responsible for,” said Angus
Porter, who worked with Jacoby for
more than a decade and joined the
correspondence, describing him in a
letter on Thursday as “inspiring, infuriating, exhausting” but also “a genius”.
Indeed, Jacoby’s widow Linda is
thrilled by the attention now being

given to her late husband, who died
in 2015 aged 63 after a long illness.
“My girls and I feel like he’s getting
his just kudos,” she said. “He didn’t
get as much recognition as he
should have and worked very hard.”
She played her role in the creation of the ice cream, recalling the day
that he came home with the task of
inventing a new product. She mentioned putting chocolate bars in the
fridge in summer and “watched a lightbulb go on”.
Perfecting the recipe was difficult,
and involved getting the correct tempering of chocolate, trying to make a
caramel that wouldn’t go rock-hard
in the freezer and creating the right sort
of nougat. “He was discouraged from
pursuing the project at work,” Porter
said. “He went home and made
mocked-up samples at his kitchen table, then brought them in.”
Porter thought this might have been
apocryphal, but Linda Jacoby backed it
up, saying that her husband had their
children working at the family Ther-

Dan Jacoby with his kitchen-table
confection, above, and an early
advert for Mars Ice Cream, top left

momix food blender as he pursued
confectionary perfection.
“He had boundless energy,” Porter
recalled. “He was exhausting in the
sense that he would push and push and
pester and pester until he got you to do
whatever it is he wanted you to do. He
wouldn’t take no for an answer.”
While not all of Jacoby’s ideas were as
good — Mars Milk was less successful
— Porter has no hesitation in calling
him a genius. “The proof is in the pudding,” he says, metaphorically and literally. Jacoby’s invention was sold at 50p
in 1989 — more than double the price of

a choc ice at the time, but he insisted
that his real dairy ice cream would
be worth the expense. Its success
transformed the way ice creams
were created and marketed.
The invention opened the door for
other chocolate bar ice creams to be
made, such as Bounty and Snickers,
with Jacoby playing a key role.
Thirty-three years on, the market is
still growing. Some 2.8 million people
bought Mars Ice Cream bars in 2020.
while last year the company’s ice
cream division grew by more than 50
per cent.
Jacoby was more than just an inventor, too. He was a school governor
and worked for the Prince’s Trust,
though never sought credit for the
things he did. “He was a very humble
person,” said his widow. “It was his job
and he was astounded when they won
innovation awards. He was definitely
an innovator ahead of his time — a real
blue-sky thinker.”
Deserved recognition for Dan Jacoby,
leading article, page 29

Farmers bowled over by berry boom Faulty ejector seats force
Ali Mitib

The heatwave has produced bumper
crops of strawberries and cherries, forcing farmers to slash prices to offload
tonnes of extra produce and prevent
them from going to waste.
The prolonged spell of sunshine has
led to a growth spurt for both fruits in
counties including Norfolk, Lancashire, Herefordshire and Kent.
Alastair Brooks, the managing director of Langdon Manor Farm, near
Faversham, Kent, said the weather during the spring through to the heatwave
had provided perfect growing conditions.
He said: “Following a mild, settled
spring, we have experienced prolonged
sunshine, extra daylight and very little
rain in the last few weeks. This has resulted in an abundance of healthy, perfectly ripe, extra-sweet strawberries.

After a wet Jubilee weekend, we are excited to be able to finally celebrate the
British strawberry season.”
Tesco has begun selling 1kg boxes of
strawberries at more than 750 stores
across the country for £4. Last month, a
400g box of strawberries cost £2.50.
Cherries in 1kg boxes will also be sold
at more than 850 of the supermarket’s
stores for £5. A 400g punnet was
previously available for £3.
Brooks added: “With a
few extra tonnes of strawberries being available we
are thankful for Tesco’s
support at this time. It allows us to minimise
wastage and get more of
the very best, high-quality
and nutritious Driscoll’s
Zara strawberries packed,
picked and distributed to stores
ready for consumers to enjoy.”

Laura Mitchell, the buying manager for
berries at Tesco, said: “British shoppers
are going through a tough time at the
moment, and if there’s something that
can put a big smile on faces right now,
it’s being able to buy sweet, lush, British
strawberries for less than normal.
“The heatwave has brought on the
strawberries faster than expected, with
many growers seeing production about 10-15 per cent
higher than normal for
this time of year.”
This week, British
Berry Growers, the industry body that represents 95 per cent of
the UK’s soft fruit
growers, said that 65
per cent more raspberries would be on supermarket shelves compared
with the same period last year.

RAF to ground fighter jets
Larisa Brown Defence Editor

The RAF has been forced to ground its
fleet of Typhoon fighter jets due to a
fault that may affect the ability of the
ejector seats to function properly.
The hitch has also affected the Red
Arrows aerobatics team, who were due
to fly over swathes of the country yesterday as part of a flypast to mark the
end of the Farnborough airshow.
In a statement, the RAF said: “We
have been notified of a technical issue
which may affect the safe operation of
our ejector seats in Typhoon and RAF
Red Arrows aircraft. We have paused
non-essential flying as a temporary
safety precaution until the situation is
better understood.” Defence sources
said that the Typhoons would continue

to carry out crucial missions and it was
only those carrying out training and
routine patrols that were affected. A
source said that there was deemed to be
a “low risk” to the pilots given the chances of them needing to use the seats.
It is understood the problem is with
the cartridge in the seat. Typically, an
ejector seat is operated using the ejection handle, which pulls off an explosive cartridge in the catapult gun,
launching the seat into the air.
An RAF source said that the problem
was identified during a “routine inspection”. The ejector seats are supplied by
Martin-Baker, a British manufacturer.
It was unclear whether the Red Arrows, flying Hawk jets, would be able to
perform at their scheduled displays this
weekend.

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Backlog of visas leaves interpreter’s
baby son stranded in Afghanistan
Larisa Brown Defence Editor

An Afghan former interpreter and his
wife who were given sanctuary in
Britain have been separated from their
two-year-old son for more than six
months because of delays to his visa.
Sajid Naeemi, 29, said he had been
left devastated and that his wife, Mena,
25, cried “every single day” over the
heartbreaking decision to leave their
son Yosuf in Afghanistan with his aunt,
Mena’s sister, after complications with
Mena’s own application.
The Ministry of Defence requested
copies of Yosuf’s passport and birth certificate in January, but the couple have
heard nothing since as the MoD struggles with a vast backlog of cases.
“I am devastated,” Naeemi said. “I
feel like I am being betrayed by the
MoD and the government as a whole.
My wife is feeling the same. She is crying when she sees him over the phone.”
Thousands of applications for sanctuary have been submitted by Afghans
who worked with British forces or the
government during the war. The MoD
is struggling to process them all.
The government’s policy towards
Afghan interpreters has changed over
the years as ministers have come under
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relied on
hundreds of
Afghan
interpreters
when they were stationed
in the country, some of
whom were killed while
helping them on the front
line in Helmand province
(Larisa Brown writes).
Many of those who
survived were targeted by
the Taliban, who branded
them “infidels” and
“spies” because of their
work with British forces.
Some were killed, while
others were shot at,
threatened or suffered
attacks on their families.
As combat forces
pulled out of Helmand in
2014, some interpreters
were allowed to come to
Britain. They had to have
been working for the
British on an arbitrary
date in December 2012.
They also had to have

served in Helmand —
the scene of some of the
fiercest fighting — for at
least a year.
A second scheme
allowed them to come if
they could prove they
had been “intimidated”,
but for years the
government refused to
believe their stories.
In 2018, Gavin
Williamson, the defence
secretary at the time,
changed the rules to
allow those who had
served at least a year as
far back as 2006 into the
UK, as long as they had
been made redundant. He
admitted at the time that
the existing policy had
“failed to take account of
the immense sacrifice
and service of many who
had left before that time”.
The rule change was
meant to help about fifty
interpreters to come to
the UK, but the

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N
and his wife
Mena ha
had to leave Yosuf, their
son, left, ba
back in Afghanistan

qualifying criteria was so
stringent that two years
later only two of them
had been let in.
In a further injustice,
it also emerged that
interpreters who had not
brought their wives and
children with them on
the same flight to the
UK were not allowed to
bring them at a later
date. This meant that
families were separated
for years until the
government reversed the
policy.
After coming under
more pressure, in
September 2020 Ben
Wallace, the defence
secretary, and Priti Patel,
the home secretary, said
that they would change
the rules again. This
time interpreters were
allowed in if they had
resigned, a policy that
took into account those
interpreters who quit

in 2016 after spending two years on the
front line in Helmand. He moved to
Oldham with his wife at the time and
started a job with Amazon. They later
divorced and in 2019 he married Mena
on a visit to Afghanistan.
Naeemi applied for Mena and, as
they waited, Yosuf was born. Solicitors
told Naeemi that if he restarted Mena’s
application it would be rejected on the
basis that he did not have the money to
support her and Yosuf. When British
troops withdrew last August, Mena was
told she did not have the right papers t
fly to the UK. Days later Naeemi’s old-

because of death threats.
This time it was more
successful, but when
western troops withdrew
from the country entirely
in August last year,
many interpreters and
their families were still
stuck in the country.
Dozens were told that
they were blocked from
coming as officials cited
misdemeanours during
their employment, only
for the rules to be relaxed
as the threat to their lives
increased. Complications
in visa applications and
confusion about which
policies they were
potentially eligible for
also led to delays.
Many interpreters have
since been allowed to the
UK, but there are still
some stuck in Afghanistan
and in third countries
with their families
waiting for a decision
on their applications.

est brother was shot dead in what the
family believe was a revenge attack.
In October, two years after Naeemi
applied for Mena, she was granted a
visa by the Home Office. Hoping they
could apply for a separate visa for Yosuf,
Mena, pregnant with their second
child, Aqsa, who is now four months
old, boarded a flight in November.
The MoD stated: “We are investing in
a new casework system which will enable swifter processing and improved
communications with applicants, and
we are putting more resource into processing applications.”

A man has been charged over
allegedly plotting with a Nigerian
politician to harvest a man’s
kidney. Obinna Obeta, 50, from
Southwark, south London, faces a
charge under the Modern Slavery
Act for allegedly arranging the
man’s travel between last August
and May. Ike Ekweremadu, 60,
and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka
Ekweremadu, 55, both deny
conspiracy to arrange the travel
of another person with a view to
exploitation. All three will appear
at the Old Bailey next month.

Third appeal for Archie
The parents of Archie Battersbee
have mounted a third legal appeal
against a ruling that doctors can
stop treating him. Archie, 12, is
said to be “brain-stem dead” after
an accident with a ligature at his
home. Lawyers for Hollie Dance
and Paul Battersbee, of Southend,
Essex, told the Court of Appeal
that the case should be sent back
to the High Court for review.

Gardeners’ happy place
Gardening can lift your mood
even if you are a novice and have
no mental health problems, new
research has revealed. Charles
Guy, who lead the study at the
University of Florida, said: “This
shows promise for plants in
healthcare and in public health.
The reason might be found in the
important role of plants in
human evolution.”

Historic bridge unsafe
A historic footbridge close to
Birkhall, the Prince of Wales’s
home in Aberdeenshire, has been
shut over safety worries. In 2019
the prince backed efforts to
restore the cast-iron Cambus
O’May suspension bridge after it
was damaged by Storm Frank
four years earlier. It reopened last
year but the local authorities say
that further work is needed.

Spray stops overdoses
A nasal spray that can limit the
impact of a drug overdose before
paramedics arrive is being tested
by police officers in Bedfordshire.
Naloxone starts to displace opioid
drug molecules from receptors in
the brain and body within two to
five minutes. The force said that
it can block the effects of opioids
for up to 40 minutes, until an
ambulance arrives.

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French blamed
for six-hour
queues to cross
to Continent
David Brown, Charles Bremner Paris
Emma Yeoman

France has been told to properly staff its
immigration checkpoints at Dover or
risk a summer of the six-hour queues
endured by holidaymakers yesterday.
Families missed ferry crossings after
half of French border posts were closed
at the start of one of the busiest days of
the year as summer holidays began.
The Dover chief executive, Doug
Bannister, said the port declared a
“critical incident” with the problems
“escalated to the highest level” in government. “We’ve been badly let down
this morning by the French border,” he
said. Bannister told Times Radio that
the new border booths installed for the
holidays and some of the existing facilities were not manned overnight. “We
had less than half the resources that we
had requested to be able to keep on top
of it,” he added.
P&O Ferries warned passengers to
allow at least six hours to clear all security checks, while the Dover authorities
told families to bring food and water.
Natalie Elphicke, Tory MP for Dover,
claimed that French border officials
“didn’t turn up for work” despite weeks
of preparations. “This has caused massive delays. It’s vital that the French
passport controls are fully staffed during this peak holiday period,” she said.
“Only six of the 12 booths for passport
checks were open.”
The port, which handles 13 million
passengers and 2.5 million freight vehicles a year, said: “We urge French
colleagues to adequately resource the
border, not just to relieve the current
situation, but for the rest of the weekend and indeed the rest of the summer
to keep our community clear, to get
families on their holidays and to keep
essential trade moving.”
Sarah Hudson and her husband Alan
were meant to be on the autoroute
through the French countryside with
their two excited children, aged 11 and

14. Instead the couple from Maidenhead, Berkshire, spent yesterday morning crawling with thousands of other
holidaymakers in queues of traffic towards the ferry port at Dover. Hudson,
a GP, said: “We left at 4am and
should’ve got here for 6.15am but we’ve
been queuing for over four hours now.
We’ve already missed two ferries.”
Once they reached Calais the family
faced an 11-drive to their hotel in Verdon Gorge in southeastern France.
Artur Majchrzyk and his wife Sylwia
waited more than five hours and were
still waiting to board a ferry. The couple
and their children Nicola, 15, and Antonio, seven, still face a long journey
when they have crossed the Channel as
they are driving to a small town near
Alicante in Spain.
Majchrzyk, from Felixstowe, Suffolk,
said: “We left at one in the morning and
we’ve been stuck here since 7.30am. It’s
a long time — we all need a wee.” He
believes the French authorities are
“punishing” Britons for voting to leave
the EU. “I think they’re making our
lives hell because of Brexit,” he said.
“They’re punishing us all the time.
We’ve never had any trouble with the
British authorities but there’s always
problems with the French. The level of
traffic today is dangerous — it’s going to
cause accidents.”
Dover said it increased the number of
border control booths by 50 per cent
and shared traffic volume forecasts “in
granular details” with the French
authorities.
France rejected responsibility for the
long delays and suggested its officials
were unable to reach Dover because of
problems with the Channel Tunnel.
Holidaymakers using the car shuttle
service at Folkestone suffered fivehour delays. Privately, French officials
blame Britain’s Brexit decision for the
slowdown in processing flows through
the Channel ports and bristle at claims
that they may be withholding co-operation or doing only the minimum.

Long queues at Dover were said to have been caused by half the French border
posts being closed at the start of the summer getaway. It was little better at
Bristol airport, with cancelled flights, and King’s Cross station was heaving

Best value holiday destinations revealed Heathrow strike averted as
Simon Cable

There has not been much good news for
holidaymakers this year but at least
those heading to Bulgaria and Turkey
have something to smile about.
Popular resorts in both countries
have just been named as Europe’s bestvalue destinations for British families.
The cost of 12 holiday expenses
such as suncream, buckets and spades and ice creams at Sunny Beach in
Bulgaria and Marmaris in Turkey
were estimated at a wallet-friendly
£86, according to the Post Office
Travel Money’s annual Family
Holiday Report.
It is, however, a different story
for those heading to Ibiza, where
the items, which also included a
family meal, drink, insect repellent, pedalo rides and lilos, were
found to be the most expensive
at more than £186.
The report’s Beach Barometer,
produced with the travel com-

What the hotspots cost
The price of 12 holiday expenses
such as suncream, buckets and
spades and ice creams:
Sunny Beach, Bulgaria ............... £85.63
Marmaris, Turkey ......................... £86.07
Algarve, Portugal ................... £108.47
Funchal, Madeira .................. £125.23
Costa del Sol, Spain ............. £127.33
Corfu, Greece ......................... £133.78
Mallorca,
Balearic Isles ..................... £138.81
Kos, Greece ................... £140.28
Rhodes, Greece ........... £143.00
Lanzarote,
Canary Isles ..................... £143.41
Paphos, Cyprus ............ £144.57
Porec, Croatia ................ £154.75
Sliema, Malta ................. £156.27
Crete, Greece ................. £161.86
Puglia, Italy ...................... £185.81
Ibiza, Balearic Isles ..... £186.47

pany Tui, compared costs in 16 European destinations and found prices had
risen in three quarters of them since the
pre-lockdown summer of 2019.
Costs for the items at the two destinations were more than 20 per cent lower
than in the cheapest eurozone resort,
the Algarve in Portugal, which came in
at £108. Funchal in Madeira was next
cheapest at £125, followed by the Costa
del Sol in Spain at £127 and Corfu in
Greece at £133. After Ibiza, Puglia in
Italy was estimated to be the second
worst-value European destination,
according to the report, at about £185.
It found that almost 60 per cent of
families were planning trips abroad this
year but more than three quarters of
them exceeded their budget by almost
38 per cent on their last holiday, spending £243 extra on an average budget of
£644. Nick Boden, head of Post Office
Travel Money, said: “We found big price
variations in the 16 destinations. This
makes it doubly important for holidaymakers to do their homework.”

BA staff accept new offer
British Airways staff have accepted a
new pay offer and called off a planned
strike at Heathrow airport, two unions
said yesterday.
The move has averted a further
escalation in the disruption suffered at
airports this summer.
This month hundreds of British
Airways’ mainly check-in staff at
Heathrow suspended strike action after
the airline agreed to improve its pay
offer. Staff represented by the GMB and
Unite unions voted to approve their
respective pay offers from BA.
“No one wanted a summer strike at
Heathrow, but our members had to
fight for what was right,” Nadine
Houghton, national officer for the
GMB union, said.
The GMB said workers would now
receive a consolidated pay rise of 8 per
cent, a one-off bonus and the reinstatement of shift pay. In addition, more

than 500 members of Unite who
initially voted in favour of industrial
action over a pay dispute with British
Airways also accepted a new pay offer.
Unite said the offer was worth a 13 per
cent pay rise for staff, which would be
paid in several stages.
Unite said this month that it
welcomed the fact that “BA has finally
listened to the voice of its check-in staff.
Unite has repeatedly warned that pay
disputes at BA were inevitable unless
the company took our members’ legitimate grievances seriously.”
BA welcomed the announcements
from the unions, saying it was happy
with the “positive news”.
Any strike at Heathrow could have
further pressured an aviation industry
struggling with staff shortages that
have resulted in cancelled flights amid
increased demand from travellers after
the Covid-19 pandemic.

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‘Business as usual won’t cut it. I’ll
Rishi Sunak homes in
on inflation, education
and the NHS in a battle
for the Tory party’s soul,
writes Steven Swinford
Is Rishi Sunak too nice to be prime minister? Before the Tory leadership contest there were questions over whether
the hoodie-wearing, California-loving
former chancellor had the killer instinct for the top job.
The past three weeks have changed
those perceptions. His resignation
helped trigger the end of Boris Johnson’s premiership, leading to the most
vitriolic leadership campaign in
decades.
After initial criticism for pursuing a
“safety-first” approach, Sunak came
out swinging, taking on his rivals directly during the two televised debates with
an unexpected level of ferocity.
“I’ve spent my life having to be tough
to get results,” Sunak says.
“Everyone is focused on me now and
where I am. I’m in the position I am professionally because I’ve been able to be
tough in my career.”
Sunak nearly quit in April after the
scandal over his wife’s tax affairs dominated the headlines for days. The experience, he says, has made him stronger.
“That was a tough period,” he says.
“But what people should take away
from that is that I’m now sitting here
talking to you, running to be prime
minister of our country after having endured that. I’ve got the resilience to deal
with some pretty tough stuff when it’s
thrown at me, and I’ve got the energy
and fight to keep going because I really
believe in this.”
Sunak’s battle for the final two has
turned into a genuine ideological clash
for the soul of the Conservative Party
with Liz Truss, the foreign secretary.
The cornerstone of his pitch is fiscal responsibility and dealing with the threat
of runaway inflation.
Truss is offering Tory members more
than £30 billion worth of tax cuts in an
effort to get the economy growing. For
once, Sunak finds himself in the position of underdog as he lags behind in
the polls.
His strategy — set out for the first
time in an interview with The Times —
is to argue that the government he was
part of fewer than three weeks ago is
not doing enough.
Over the next week, Sunak will claim
that Britain is facing a national emergency on five fronts including the economy, the NHS and migration. His
window to appeal to Tory members is
brief, with ballots landing on doorsteps
within the next fortnight.
“Having been inside government I
think the system just isn’t working as
well as it should,” he says. “And the
challenges that I’m talking about,
they’re not abstract, they’re not things
that are coming long down the track.
“They’re challenges that are staring
us in the face and a business-as-usual
mentality isn’t going to cut it in dealing
with them.
“So from day one of being in office
I’m going to put us on a crisis footing.”
Inflation, he says, is the “number one
challenge we face”. Truss has said that
she expects inflation, which stands at
9.4 per cent, to begin to fall by early next
year. Sunak does not agree.
“Every forecast about inflation over
the past year has been wrong,” he says.
“Inflation has been consistently higher
than people thought and has lasted
longer. We absolutely cannot be and
should not be complacent about it.”
Truss’s plans, he suggests, will see in-

flation become embedded at an “enormous” cost for millions of families.
“What I worry about is the inflation
we’re seeing now becoming entrenched
for longer. That’s the risk we need to
guard against. If that happens, it will be
incredibly damaging for millions across
the UK. The cost for families is going to
be enormous.”
He suggests that under Truss’s plans
interest rates in the UK — presently at
1.25 per cent — could rise significantly.
“Imagine what that’s going to do to
people’s mortgage rates,” he says. “If we
get this wrong interest rates [will] have
to go up even more because of a government that borrowed too much and
made the situation worse.”
His position, he says, is based on traditional conservative values shaped by
his family’s pharmacy business.
“I was brought up in a home with kitchen-table conservative values, my
mum ran a small business, Margaret
Thatcher talked about family budget,”
he says. “All of us care about what we
leave our children and our grandchildren. Sound money is the most conservative of conservative values. If we
don’t stand for that, I don’t know what
the point of the Conservative Party is.”
The former chancellor has said that
he will cut personal taxes further only
when inflation has been gripped. While
the tax burden has risen to the highest
level since the 1950s during his time in

UK inflation
Consumer price index (CPI)
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England target
2021
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Oct

2022
Jan

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9
8
7
6
5
4
3
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office, Sunak defends his record as
chancellor by highlighting the increase
in the income tax threshold and plans
to take a penny off income tax in 2024.
Will he make further commitments
to cut income tax during this campaign,
as some of his allies want him to? The
answer is no. “I think I’ve set out my
stall pretty clearly,” he says.
Truss allies say Sunak’s approach is
reminiscent of “project fear”, the tactic
said to have been deployed by David
Cameron and George Osborne during
the EU referendum campaign.
Sunak, who voted for Brexit, rejects
the claim. “Anyone who doesn’t take
really seriously the fact that inflation is
running at the level it is is being hugely
complacent about the challenge that is
facing this country,” he says. “That’s not
project fear, that’s being honest with
the country about what is happening
and being responsible in saying this is a
pressing priority that the government
needs to help resolve and not make
worse. Ignoring that problem is irresponsible, that’s not leadership. This is
not theoretical. Inflation is already running close to double digits in this country. That is a clear and present danger
we are already experiencing.”
One of the immediate issues facing
whoever wins the contest will be energy
bills. In the spring Sunak announced a
£21 billion package of support offering
people about £1,000 to help with energy
bills. That package, however, was based
on the assumption that the energy price
cap would rise to £2,800. It is forecast to

hit £3,200 in October. Sunak indicates
that he is prepared to offer more. “I’m
pragmatic, I’m flexible, no one should
be dogmatic about this.”
He says that he wants to see hundreds of millions of pounds currently
focused on measures such as heat
pumps and decarbonising publicsector buildings refocused on an insulation programme for those on low incomes. “If we can refocus that money to
do these types of interventions, which
are quicker and cheaper, that seems like
a sensible thing for us to be focusing
on,” he says.
Sunak supports the target to cut
carbon emissions to net zero by 2050
and believes the target can be met by
advances in technology, citing the falling cost of offshore wind and batteries.
“With the right set of incentives, the
right set of nudges from government,
we will bring the cost of those things
down. That’s how we’re going to solve
the problem.”
On the NHS, Sunak says he wants
greater value for money for taxpayers.
He today sets out a plan that attempts
to reduce backlogs and stop “privatisation by the back door”.
It is something deeply personal to
him. His grandfather has been in hospital for the past 2½ weeks.
He says: “This is personal for all of us,
the backlog issue. He literally has just
come out and he’s very sick. We’ve been
extremely worried as a family about
everything over the last few weeks, he’s
my last remaining grandparent. It will
be unacceptable if millions and millions
of people are waiting too long for the
treatments they deserve.”
Sunak confirms he will announce his
own plans to tackle illegal migration
next week. He says people do not feel
that Britain has control of its borders: “I
don’t think people feel that we do [have
control] when they see the pictures on
their screens [of migrants arriving on
beaches]. I think it’s absolutely imperative we have control of our borders.”
He says that he supports the Rwanda
policy and pledges to make it work after
a series of legal setbacks. “We can’t shy
away from tackling the legal challenges
head on because Rwanda is the right
idea,” he says. “We need to make sure it
works properly. I’m not going to be shy
about robustly making sure we overcome them.” He suggests that he will be
able to have a more “constructive” relationship than Johnson with President
Macron of France to help tackle illegal
migration. “All I can tell you is my relationship that I have with my counterparts everywhere has been very strong.”
Sunak has committed to increasing
defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP
by 2030 but has been outbid by Truss,
who has pledged to increase it to 3 per
cent. Is he willing to go further? His response is noncommittal. “I’ll invest
whatever it takes to keep our country
safe,” he says.
Sunak does not hide his own background and the fact he attended
Winchester College, one of Britain’s
most expensive private schools, saying
he is “proud” of Winchester and the
sector. “Education is how you change
people’s lives,” he says. “I don’t think
there are silver bullets in social policy.
But the closest thing we have to a silver
bullet is providing a transformative
education for people. Education helped
change my life, and as prime minister I
want to make sure as many people as
possible have the opportunity of a
transformative education.”
Sunak’s biggest challenge during the
leadership campaign will be the issue of
trust. Allies of Truss accuse him of betraying Johnson, and four in ten Tory
members believe that he cannot be
trusted to tell the truth. Sunak believes
his candour will overcome concerns.

Rishi Sunak will become the first
Hindu prime minister if he wins the
Tory leadership. He says his faith
gives him “strength and purpose”

“I’m the one telling the truth about the
economic challenges we face, the one
saying that there aren’t always easy answers to these things.”
If Sunak wins, he will be the first
Asian — and Hindu — prime minister.
He ranks lighting ceremonial diyas on
the steps of Downing Street as one of

the his proudest career moments. On
his faith, he says: “It gives me strength,
it gives me purpose. It’s part of who I
am. It was one of my proudest moments
that I was able to do that on the steps of
Downing Street. And it meant a lot to a
lot of people and it’s an amazing thing
about our country.”

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put government on crisis footing’
LUCY YOUNG FOR THE TIMES

Rishi Sunak
Curriculum vitae
Born 1980 Educated Winchester
College, a first in PPE from Lincoln
College, Oxford, MBA at Stanford
where he was a Fulbright scholar.
Career Spent three years at
Goldman Sachs after graduating in
2001. Met his wife while studying for
an MBA in California in 2005. Upon
his return to London he worked for
the hedge fund TCI, before setting
up his own fund, Theleme Partners,
with $700 million in starter cash in
2009. Elected to William Hague’s old
Yorkshire seat of Richmond in 2015
and campaigned to leave the EU in
the 2016 referendum. Appointed to
a junior ministerial role in the
Department for Housing by Theresa
May in 2018, before promotion by
Boris Johnson to chief secretary to
the Treasury. Became chancellor
after the resignation of Sajid Javid in
February 2020, and delivered his
first budget a month into the job.
Oversaw emergency packages of
support during the coronavirus
pandemic and a £37 billion package
to help with energy bills. Quit as
chancellor this month after deciding
“enough was enough”.
Family Eldest of three children born
in Southampton to East African
immigrants. His father was a GP in
the NHS and his mother was a
pharmacist. He is married to
Akshata Murty, daughter of a
billionaire businessman, and has
two daughters.
Quickfire
Boris Johnson or Liz Truss? Liz
Truss. We need to look forward now.
Green card or blue passport? Blue
passport. Mine’s on its way actually.

Sunak promises health
targets to cut wait times
Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor
Eleanor Hayward
Health Correspondent

Waiting for treatment on the NHS is
forcing people to go private “with a
gun to their head”, Rishi Sunak has
acknowledged
The former chancellor is promising
an emergency package of tough targets
for the health service, claiming that
long delays amounted to “privatisation
by the back door”. Sunak said the NHS
would “break” without radical change.
The comments raised eyebrows in
the NHS, which repeatedly clashed
with Sunak while he was chancellor.
He told the service to cover the cost
of Covid testing and staff pay rises despite being warned it would slow
progress on waiting lists.
But Sunak argues that a vaccineprogramme style “backlogs taskforce”
with leaders from outside could triage
patients and treat them quicker without extra money. He says the state of
the health service should be regarded
as a national emergency.
The pledge comes as figures show
tens of thousands of patients facing
record waiting lists are “opting out” of
the NHS and paying for private care.
About 6.6 million people are on waiting lists for routine care, ambulances
are taking an hour to get to heart attack
patients while soaring numbers of
people are waiting 12 hours or more in
Accident and Emergency units.
Sunak’s plans to tackle “the biggest
public health emergency” appear simi-

lar to a backlogs recovery plan published by NHS England in February but
with tougher targets. At the time the
Treasury delayed publication of the
plan in an attempt to demand the NHS
deliver more but health chiefs said the
proposal was unrealistic.
Sunak now wants waiting lists to stop
rising next year. Under current plans
they will continue to increase until
March 2024. He wants one-year waits
eliminated by September 2024, six
months earlier than existing plans.
He wants patients who have waited
more than 18 weeks to be contacted by
the NHS, rather than current plans to
offer treatment elsewhere to those
waiting more than 18 months.
He plans to be more ambitious in expanding diagnostic hubs, with 200 by
the next election instead of a looser
ambition of 160. As with current plans,
he wants the NHS to pay to send
patients to private hospitals.
In a speech today to launch his campaign to win over Tory members, the
contender to become prime minister
will say: “Already many people are
using money they can’t really afford to
go private. That is privatisation by the
back door and it’s wrong.
“People shouldn’t have to make a
choice with a gun to their head. If we do
not immediately set in train a radically
different approach the NHS will come
under unsustainable pressure and
break.”
Sunak was among senior ministers
said to be frustrated that Sajid Javid, the
former health secretary, failed to hold

the NHS more firmly to account. He
will argue that “Britain’s heroic response to Covid proves that where the
political will exists . . . we can bring
everyone together and win the battle”.
Miriam Deakin, a director at the hospitals’ group NHS Providers, said there
was “a growing mismatch between
capacity and demand, workforce shortages, a funding squeeze and a need to
reform social care”.
She told Sunak: “Growing financial
pressures mean the NHS is already
severely stretched and being forced to
confront difficult choices.”
New data shows patients paid for
69,045 hospital treatments themselves
in the three months between October
and December last year, a 39 per cent
increase on the same period before the
pandemic.
The figures from the Private Healthcare Information Network have raised
concerns that the NHS backlog is
creating a two-tier health system.
There were a total of 258,445 selffunded admissions for procedures such
as hip and knee replacements last year,
up 29 per cent from 199,675 in 2019.
These figures exclude care covered by
private medical insurance, meaning
patients paid thousands of pounds.
Jonathon Holmes, policy adviser at
the King’s Fund think tank, said: “If the
NHS were providing the immediacy of
services that people need, I am quite
sure they would select the NHS rather
than spend their own resources. People
are opting out of the NHS, not opting
into the private sector.”

Hoodie or suit? Hoodie.

Sunak says that he misses his family
during the campaign and is trying to
keep up with them on FaceTime.
“Family is core to who I am. I miss them
a lot right, they are in Yorkshire and I
am here. We’re on video every day. It’s
not the same but they’re used to that. As
prime minister, you can expect that I

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Farmers respect MP who mucks in

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will be someone who is incredibly supportive of families. Families are amazing, families do something that no government can ever hope to replicate. . .
As prime minister I would absolutely
champion families.”
To win this fight, Sunak must make it
personal, Matthew Parris, page 25

On a Friday afternoon in late May,
Rishi Sunak arrived at Wensleydale
rugby club in his constituency of
Richmond in North Yorkshire to speak
to local farmers.
Inflation rates were reaching almost
8 per cent and the Tories had suffered
heavy losses in the local elections, yet
the chancellor spent several hours at
the club listening to the concerns of
farmers struggling to cope with labour
shortages and the rising price of animal
feed.
“He listened to everyone carefully
and responded very well to them,”
Ian Carlisle, a dairy farmer who was at
the meeting, said. “He would have had
a lot on at that time. But the fact he
came and spoke to us — people respect
that.”
Respect among his constituents was
not something that came automatically
to the man now running to be prime
minister. When Sunak was selected in
2014 as the Conservative candidate to
represent Richmond, a constituency of
farmland, villages and market towns,
there were more than a few eyebrows
raised.
Here — seeking to replace William
Hague, a Yorkshireman who had
served as MP for 26 years — was a man
who had been born in Southampton,
had been educated at Winchester
College, an illustrious public school,
and had spent most of his working life
at a bank in London.
“No one knew who he was,” Carlisle,

Rishi Sunak milks a
cow at a farm in
Wensleydale, North
Yorkshire. Local
Tories say the
former chancellor
took a keen interest
in rural affairs when
he became the MP
for Richmond

60, said. “He wasn’t local and there were
one or two people saying ‘Who is this
guy? The party has just fobbed us off
with him.’ ”
However, Sunak, 42, who was elected
to parliament in May 2015 with a
majority of 27,000, set about immersing
himself in local issues.
The constituency, which stands on
the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, retains
its strong agricultural heritage. As a
measure of the number of individual
businesses, farming is the biggest sector
of the local economy. And so, shortly
after becoming an MP, Sunak visited
Carlisle’s 1,000-acre farm in Finghall,
along with two others nearby, where he
arrived at the break of dawn to spend
the day milking cows.
“He didn’t know a damn thing about
farming, but he was willing to get his
hands dirty,” Carlisle recalled. Sunak
was then a member of the environment,

food and rural affairs select committee.
“He asked lots of questions and when I
mentioned to him a point about subsidies given to Belgian farmers, he asked
his aide to note it down.
“The next day, he phoned me up and
said he had read up about it and would
take it forward to the department for
agriculture. I was impressed by that.”
Matthew Bell, 86, whose farm near
Askrigg Sunak also visited that day, was
similarly impressed. “He seemed all
right and he didn’t mind getting stuck in
with the milking,” he said.
Sunak’s attentiveness to local matters
has been rewarded. In 2017 and in 2019,
he extended his majority to 36,000.
“My father used to say that you could
put a blue rosette on a sheep up here
and it would win,” Carlisle said, “but I
think he is genuinely liked by a lot of
people who recognise the work that he
does for us.”

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Truss mentor says
tax cuts could push
interest rates to 7%
Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor

Interest rates will have to rise as high as
7 per cent to allow tax cuts, according to
Liz Truss’s economic guru.
Professor Patrick Minford said that
despite fears over mortgages, higher
interest rates were “a good thing”
because they protected savings and
killed off “zombie companies” that were
holding the economy back.
Truss cited Minford as one of the few
economists who agreed with her as she
attacked 20 years of “economic orthodoxy” this week and insisted that cutting taxes was not only affordable but
essential to avoid a recession.
Minford, of Cardiff University, came
to prominence as an adviser to Margaret Thatcher and has long argued that
tax cuts are the way to encourage the innovation that produces growth. He is a
leading advocate of “supply-side” reform that would sweep away regulation
and other barriers to business.
Though Minford has been in contact
with her campaign, Truss’s team say he
is not a formal adviser and insist she
would not allow interest rates to rise to
anything like 7 per cent through plans
for a “more directive” mandate to the
Bank of England.
But in an interview with The Times,
Minford says he is “pleased that she has
understood the argument and is prepared to make a completely fresh start”.
He argued that labour market
regulation was “ripe for thinning out” as
he criticised Rishi Sunak’s “puerile”
economics and accused the former
chancellor, who campaigned to leave
the European Union, of being a supporter of Brexit “in name only” in his
unwillingness to challenge the Treasury. “Getting rid of a lot of regulations
will upset a lot of pressure groups. But it
all really starts in Whitehall and the first
thing [Truss] has got to do is get
Treasury into line,” Minford said.
Truss has committed herself to “bulldozing” through supply-side reform to

Champion
of sweeping
away rules
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f many of Professor
Patrick Minford’s
academic peers
regard him as an
eccentric outlier, he
thinks they embody an
orthodoxy that has failed
to produce growth for
almost 20 years (Chris
Smyth writes).
Now 79, he was
educated at Winchester,
Oxford and the London
School of Economics,
worked briefly for the
Treasury then pursued an
academic career at the
University of Liverpool,
where he helped to

use Brexit to achieve what she promises
will be “the biggest change to economic
policy for 30 years”. Minford has been
offering advice to her campaign and
said that he is “pleased that she has understood the argument and is prepared
to make a completely fresh start”. He
argued “the key to growth is not having
high taxes. We’re not talking about cutting them, we’re just talking about not
putting them up to catastrophic level.”
Truss is promising to reverse the rise
in national insurance and scrap plans to
raise corporation tax as part of a package costing more than £30 billion.
“If we raise corporation tax we’ll kill
off growth,” Minford said, dismissing
concerns about borrowing. “It’s crazy to
try to begin getting the debt-to-GDP ratio down five minutes after Covid. Borrowing is actually something that allows you to pursue the right policies and
not be blown off course by temporary
shocks. Borrowing allows you to keep
taxes constant even if you’re not funding it on annual basis . . . What matters is
that you’re solvent in the long run.”
Sunak has been “captured” by an
“incredibly stale” Treasury, Minford
believes, and that in prioritising business investment has “got the causality
completely wrong”.
However, Minford does not entirely
dismiss Sunak’s warning that cutting
taxes will fuel inflation and push up
mortgage rates. “Yes, interest rates have
to go up and it’s a good thing,” Minford
said. “A normal level is more like 5-7 per
cent and I don’t think it will be any bad
thing if we got back to that level.”
Sunak’s team seized on the comments, saying interest rates at 7 per cent
would add £585 a month to the average
mortgage, leaving homeowners £6,600
a year worse off even after her tax cuts.
Minford acknowledged that more
expensive mortgages were “part of the
adjustment” but argued: “If you’ve got
incredibly low interest rates you kill off
savings and create febrile markets with
a lot of zombie companies surviving

develop rational
expectations theory,
which underpins the
Thatcherite idea that
markets can be relied
upon to allocate
resources efficiently.
He came to political
attention when 364
economists attacked
Margaret Thatcher’s
decision to raise taxes in
1981 to tackle inflation,
warning it would “deepen
the depression” and
threaten social stability.
Minford was one of very
few economists who hit
back, accusing the critics
of playing “a dangerous
and dishonest game”. He
wrote in The Times: “To
carry out this reversal of
inflationary process . . .
political courage and
determination of a high
order are necessary.”
Rishi Sunak has taken
to citing Thatcher’s
decision as justification

because it costs them nothing to borrow. It’s right that a healthy economy
should have a decent interest rate.
That’s certainly one thing I want to see.”
Interest rates stand at 1.25 per cent at
present and while the Bank of England
is likely to raise them by 0.5 points next
month, there is nervousness that
increasing them too much could cause a
recession. Minford argued that cutting
taxes would reduce this risk and “make
it safe” for the bank to raise rates higher.
“There is an impact on demand [from
tax cuts] which is desirable as it supports
the economy and it allows monetary
policy to do its battering with a clean
conscience,” he said. “Hopefully out of
this we’ll get to a more healthy economy
with interest running at 3, 5, 7 per cent,”
he said, adding that “3 [per cent] as the
new normal wouldn’t be too bad”.
Minford cited EU limits on working
hours, union powers and employee consultation rights as rules that Truss
should scrap to boost growth, saying:
“One of things Boris Johnson refused to
touch was the labour market and that
makes no sense at all.” However, he said
that, unlike in the 1980s, environmental
and medical regulation were now the
rules that needed to be relaxed after
Brexit to boost growth. He wants to reverse the EU’s “highly risk-averse approach” and shift to a system where instead of banning things in case they
cause harm, people are compensated
afterwards if they do. “Our commonlaw system already gives people rights
and remedies and we don’t need a lot of
‘you can’t do this and that’,” he said.
A Truss campaign source said:
“Patrick Minford has no formal involvement in Liz’s campaign. Liz’s absolutely
priority is tackling the cost of living and
getting our economy growing faster. We
can’t have business-as-usual economic
policy.”
Public has right to know about changes
of mind, leading article, page 29
The political heir to Margaret Thatcher,
letters, page 28

for his stance against
lowering taxes now.
Today Minford argues
the opposite: that taxes
can safely be cut without
worrying about
borrowing or inflation.
He insists the situation
has been transformed by
an independent Bank of
England with the ability
to raise interest rates to
tame inflation. In 1981
“the government printed
money and presided over
a disastrous situation
where inflation was
close to 20 per cent.
So the task was to
convince the
markets of the
credibility of
government
policy,” he
said. In 2016
Minford,
right, gained
renewed
prominence
arguing for

Brexit — Vote Leave
privately acknowledged it
could find almost no
other economists who
agreed that it would be
good for the economy.
His predictions
included that a hard
Brexit would boost the
economy by £135 billion,
and an estimate that the
recent Australia trade
deal would increase GDP
by £69 billion, 37 times
the government’s
estimate. His
argument, boiled
down, is that any
border bureaucracy
imposed by
having left the
EU would be
far outweighed
by freedom to
sweep away
regulation.
If we believe
Truss, she is
about to put the
theory to the test.

Insults fly as allies clash
George Grylls Political Reporter

Rishi Sunak would be more popular if
he promised unfunded tax cuts, an ally
of the former chancellor has said in a
swipe at Liz Truss amid escalating
attacks between the rival camps on
economic policy.
Robert Halfon, a senior backbencher,
accused Truss of making wild promises
during the leadership contest and suggested that she would be unable to fulfil
her pledges if she made it to No 10.
Allies of Truss hit back, however, and
dismissed Sunak as little more than a
“Gordon Brown tribute act”.
John Redwood, the Conservative MP
for Wokingham, said the former
chancellor had pursued “boom-bust
policies based on wrong forecasts”
when he was in the Treasury and he
accused Sunak of peddling Project Fear
— a reference to the campaign to
remain in the European Union during
the referendum in 2016.
Redwood, who was director of
Margaret Thatcher’s policy unit in
No 10, disputed Sunak’s claim to be the

true political heir of the longest-serving
prime minister of the last century.
Sunak has said that his plan to reduce
borrowing to tackle inflation is
moulded on Thatcher’s economic
policy from the 1980s, in particular her
budget of 1981, when she raised taxes at
a time when Britain was suffering from
a deep recession.
Redwood said that the opposite was
the case and Sunak’s pitch to raise tax
was more akin to the approach of New
Labour after the financial crisis in 2008.
Sunak’s allies expect him to lay out a
path to future tax cuts once inflation is
brought under control.
“Rishi Sunak says he wants to
become a Thatcherite. In office he was
a Gordon Brown tribute act,” Redwood
said. “When someone says something
and does the opposite, I judge them by
what they do. When Rishi says he wants
tax cuts I see he introduced a social care
tax, a digital tax, a windfall tax, raised
company tax [and] broke our
manifesto
pledge
on
national
insurance. He is Mr high tax.”
Halfon, the MP for Harlow and

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over economic plans
chairman of the Commons education
select committee, defended the tax
rises and questioned the economic
reasoning behind Truss’s pledges to
reverse the planned rise in corporation
tax and to scrap the increase in national
insurance.
He said Truss could not just “wish
inflation away” and he said that Sunak
was tackling the cost of living crisis
“responsibly”.
Halfon told Sky News: “Tory
members know that he’s not making
promises he can’t keep — if he wanted
to be popular, he could say anything
and everything about tax cuts.
“You can’t just have unfunded tax
cuts because you have to deal with the
debt — you have to fund public services. If you just have unfunded tax
cuts, where is that money going to be
for vital public services?”
Truss released a new video yesterday
in which she again put the economy at
the front and centre of her campaign to
become prime minister.
“This is the time for boldness,” she
said. “I am the only person who can

deliver the change we need to the
economy in line with true Conservative
principles. That means cutting taxes to
help hard-pressed families deal with
the cost of living.”
The total cost of Truss’s tax cuts is
estimated to be more than £30 billion,
but the foreign secretary has argued
that a combination of fiscal headroom
after public sector debt fell at a faster
pace than predicted, increased borrowing and a Whitehall efficiency drive will
cover the costs.
She also has pointed to the fact that
Britain has a lower debt-to-GDP ratio
than Japan, the United States, France
and Canada as proof that the Treasury
can borrow more.
However,
most
mainstream
economists argue that tax cuts in the
immediate term could exacerbate the
inflationary crisis.
Philip Shaw, chief economist at
Investec, the global banking and
wealth management group, said there
was “little economic justification” to
cut taxes now, despite the “obvious
temptation”.

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Liberal Democrat, whose radicalism
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once upset Paddy Ashdown, to a
dyed-in-the wool Thatcherite has put
her at odds with her family and
closest friends.
Her uncle, Richard Truss, a retired
vicar who lives in Weybridge, Surrey,
said the family had liberalism “in its
blood” and “it must still be in her
blood as well”.
He last saw his niece in March at
his 80th birthday party and was
“touched she had been able to make it
after returning from working abroad”.
He said: “My grandfather lived and
died quite young but he used to turn
up and campaign for the Liberals
before the First World War, so it’s
kind of in the genes.
“I think our family, her father and I,
have always been liberal. I
call myself liberal, which
can be used as a term of
abuse sometimes. I mean
the sense of being open
and concerned for those
who are in need.
“We saw quite a lot of
her when she was small.
One of our children was
the same age as her. They
lived a long way away, we
were down in London,
they were up in the
Midlands or later in
Scotland, after that
Yorkshire.
“We remember her
very fondly as a child.
She was fun and very
bright. She had very bright parents
as well. She’s always been questioning
and determined.
“It’s interesting that her political
views are different from the family, it’s
not a problem.
“After she went to Oxford, it [her
political conversion] happened.
“Education was important to the
family. Having been ambitious, I
think she would have wanted to have
become education secretary when
going into politics, I think she
would’ve done that very well.”
He added: “I find it difficult to see a
government which is not what I
would consider a Christian
government. One hallmark of a
Christian is welcoming a stranger. I
think the way immigrants and
refugees have been treated is
appalling.
“I also think the division between
people in poverty has got worse. It
needs healing and I hope she might
do something on both fronts.”
Liz Truss’s parents, John Kenneth
and Priscilla Mary, are both, in her
words, “left of the Labour party”. Her
father was a university maths
professor and her mother worked as a
nurse and volunteered as an antinuclear campaigner.
In an interview with The Times,
Truss revealed that her father had
refused to campaign for her when she
first stood for election.
Born in Oxford in 1975, Truss
moved to Paisley, Renfrewshire, at the
age of four when her father became a
lecturer at the local college.

Living not far from the Faslane
nuclear submarine base, Truss’s
mother took her to marches for the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
in the 1980s and to the peace camp
set up close to the base.
Talking to the BBC’s Nick
Robinson, she recalled shouting the
anti-Thatcher slogans of the time.
Speaking in her now Yorkshire
accent, she told Robinson: “It was in
Scottish so it was ‘Maggie, Maggie,
Maggie, oot, oot, oot.”
The family later moved to Leeds,
where Truss attended Roundhay
School, a state secondary, after her
father got a job in the city.
This month she faced a backlash
over comments she made in a
television debate in which she cited
her experience of “seeing kids at my
school being let down in Leeds” as to
why she became a Conservative.
Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate, 77,
who represented Leeds North East,
including Roundhay, as a
Conservative MP during the time
Truss was a pupil, said she seemed to
have “exaggerated” to “suggest that
[she] is a sort of minority that escaped
the working class ravages of the
school system”.
A photograph of Truss at school

Truss, second right, with close friend
Anj Handa, left. They went to Roundhay
School, which Truss has since criticised

shows her with Anj Handa, 46, who is
one of her oldest friends and the
godmother of her eldest daughter,
Frances.
Handa has since worked with Truss
in her role as a woman’s advocate to
tackle domestic abuse.
The pair often exchange messages
on Twitter and Handa once posted
that “there have been many times I’ve
disagreed with Liz over politics (and
other stuff besides) over the years”.
In another post, she wrote “Liz
Truss is one of my oldest friends. We
went to Roundhay School, a comp
with kids from all backgrounds
#studiedhard”.
Bernie Haynes is a retired teacher
who taught at Roundhay when Truss
was a pupil. He said her comments
were “a kick in the teeth” because the
school had an Oxbridge programme
that she would have benefited from.
Haynes, 71, said: “The school had
some rough edges, like any
comprehensive, but it had a good staff
and was a good school.
“In my year I had the children of
MPs and High Court judges, but
there were also the children of armed
robbers.
“It seems extraordinary to me that
she is decrying her education while
being favourite to become prime
minister.”
In 1992 Truss spent a year in

Canada before reading politics,
philosophy and economics at Merton
College, Oxford, where she became
president of the university’s Liberal
Democrat society.
In 1994 she gave a speech at the
Liberal Democrat conference in
Brighton where she called for the
abolition of the monarchy.
Neil Fawcett, a Liberal Democrat
councillor in Oxfordshire and chief of
staff for the MP Layla Moran, was
canvassing with Truss at the
conference.
He said: “In those days Liz was very
much on the radical side of the
Liberal Democrats. As well as the
abolition of the monarchy, she was
calling for the legalisation of
cannabis.
“Paddy Ashdown, the party leader,
was at the conference and it really
upset him because he felt like we were
on the brink of a breakthrough and
should be courting wavering Tory
voters rather than drawing attention
to these divisive issues.”
Seven years later, and by then
standing for the Conservatives, she
told NME magazine that she did not
support the legalisation of cannabis:
“I don’t agree with it. Where do you
stop?”
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t work with,” Fawcett said.
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ssurprised if she made a choice
that she wanted to get on in politics
and jumped horses to do it.
“What has surprised me is that she
has got to the level she has, because I
never felt that she was particularly
talented.”
Until 2005 Truss forged a career as
an economist, during which time she
served as the chairwoman of the
Lewisham Deptford Conservative
association and became a
Conservative councillor for Eltham
South in Greenwich in 2006.
Truss stood for the Labour-held
constituency of Hemsworth in West
Yorkshire in 2001 and impressed
senior figures by raising the
Conservative vote by 4 per cent.
In 2005 she was selected to fight
the Labour seat of nearby Calder
Valley, narrowly losing, before being
chosen in 2009 to contest the South
West Norfolk seat.
Shortly after her selection, some
members of the constituency
association objected, saying that her
extramarital affair with the
Conservative MP Mark Field had
been withheld from members.
After the affair, Field got divorced
but Truss stayed with her husband,
Hugh O’Leary, an accountant with
whom she has two daughters. In 2019
she posted a photograph of them
together, captioned “love of my life”.
Meanwhile, Truss had won the
Norfolk seat and her transformation
to becoming a Conservative was
complete.

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Sunak’s foes sharpen knives as
Liz Truss’s backers are
lining up to attack her
rival, Steven Swinford,
Henry Zeffman and
Chris Smyth write
When Boris Johnson gathered his
cabinet in Downing Street’s rose garden
for a picture to mark the end of his
premiership on Tuesday, the official
photographer was having trouble
getting ministers to smile.
After the trick of asking them to say
cheese, Guto Harri, the prime minister’s
director of communications, tried a
different tack. “Say ‘ready for Rishi’,” he
shouted.
The joke was met with an awkward
silence from most of the cabinet. Liz
Truss, the foreign secretary who is fighting Rishi Sunak for the leadership, was
“stony-faced”, according to one minister. The photographer had to try again.
The prime minister may be on the
way out but he looms large over a
Conservative leadership contest in
which the issue of trust, particularly
claims that the former chancellor betrayed Johnson, will play a central role.
The latest YouGov poll of Conservative Party members showed just how
much attitudes to Johnson will dominate this contest. Asked whether Sunak
could be trusted, 40 per cent said he
could and the same proportion said he
could not. By contrast, 62 per cent
said Truss could be trusted and only
18 per cent said she could not.
The foreign secretary and her
allies are hammering home the
point to Tory members. Now that
the contest is under way, two of
her most zealous supporters —
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Brexit
opportunities minister, and
Nadine Dorries, the culture
secretary — will be hitting
the road together to argue
for Truss, but perhaps
more against Sunak.
Their attacks on
Sunak focus mainly on
two areas. The first is
character, where it is
argued that his resignation on July 5, precipitating
the collapse of Johnson’s
government, means he cannot be trusted. “People can
smell his lack of sincerity a
mile off,” an ally of Truss said.
“Liz is just being Liz. She is
trustworthy. She is loyal. She

is very strong in what she believes.” The
second focus is on the economy. The
Truss team will target Sunak over his
record as chancellor, with two themes at
the fore: the fact that the tax burden has
risen to the highest level since the 1950s,
and the huge levels of quantitative
easing carried out on his watch.
Truss believes that Sunak’s attack
lines about Truss’s “unfunded” £30 billion package of tax cuts — he has
suggested she is a socialist and that her
plans will lead to hyperinflation and
drive up mortgage rates — will
ultimately rebound. “He’s running a
really negative campaign,” a friend said.
“It’s Project Fear meets dirty tricks.”
Sunak insists, however, that he is
campaigning as he governed: through
intense hard work and relentless focus
on details. The teetotal former chancellor is down to one Coca-Cola a week, as
a Saturday night treat with his wife,
though does confess to having a Twix
and Sprite, which is lower in sugar than
Coke, before debates.
It is not just his diet that Sunak has
had to rethink. Though he topped the
ballot at every stage of voting among
MPs, he has the support of a far smaller
portion of the parliamentary party than
Johnson in 2019 or Theresa May in
2016. Sunak is not in a position to glide
into No 10. He will have to scrap for the
prime ministership instead.
There are signs that he has realised
this. An interview with Today on BBC
Radio 4 last week after the first round of
voting was seen as weak even by his
supporters. Sunak struggled with
questions about when he had lost
faith in Johnson and generally
dodged opportunities to land blows
on his rivals.
In the two televised
debates he shifted his
approach, ripping into
Truss for planning a
“huge borrowing spree”
and accusing her of
believing in economic
“fairytales”.
The tieless Sunak’s
willingness to fling
personal jibes around the
stage showed a side that
even some of his closest
allies had not seen
before. Yet while many
of them have welcomed
the former chancellor’s
newfound feistiness, he is
still hoping that in the end
an appeal to fiscal
The No 10 aide Guto
Harri is no fan of Sunak

prudence will be enough to outweigh
Truss’s clear promises of tax cuts.
Some of his leading backers fear that
he needs to offer Conservative members more on policy if he is to have any
hope of overhauling Truss’s polling lead.
“He needs to show them much more red
meat,” a Sunak supporter said. “His
inherent small-c conservatism is holding him back. These contests are all
about throwing out policy, being
bombastic and being optimistic. The
boring but correct approach isn’t going
to excite people, sadly”.
Another MP said they had urged
Sunak to “go further” on tax, by making
explicit his plans to reduce personal
taxes and giving a clear timescale for
doing so. “His view is that he’s said he
will do it once inflation has come down
and that has settled things,” the MP said.
Sunak and his team — now operating
out of a swish corporate HQ in central
London organised by Oliver Dowden,
the former party chairman, along the
lines of Conservative headquarters —

remain confident that an intricately
planned grid of announcements will
build momentum. He will unveil plans
to tackle five national emergencies over
the coming days, starting today with a
proposal for a vaccines taskforce-style
body to drive down NHS waiting lists.
Sunak is said to relish being an underdog, whereas Truss, counted out and
tipped for the sack throughout her eight
years in the cabinet, is growing used to
the role of prime ministerial
frontrunner.
Their contrasting personalities and
political positions were reflected in the
way they celebrated reaching the final
round of the election on Wednesday.
Sunak slipped away from Westminster to host a dinner for his supporters in
a gastropub in Chelsea near the home of
Mel Stride, who headed his whipping
operation. Sunak made a joke about a
voter saying to him that the difference
between him and Johnson was that
Johnson looked like he never brushed
his hair, whereas Sunak looked like his

mother brushed his hair. That was
about as lively as the night got. Sunak
gave a speech “about the real challenges
facing this country and the dangers of
irresponsible populism”, saying that
“controlling inflation was absolutely key
and if we get this right we can win in two
years”, an attendee said. He left after one
course and a glass of water.
Truss, meanwhile, was in the grand
Commons office provided to the foreign
secretary with her two teenage
daughters and closest advisers when the
results came in. She was said to be euphoric after seeing off Penny Mordaunt,
the trade minister, to become one of the
final two candidates.
After a photoshoot with her MP
supporters the evening quickly evolved
into “really raucous celebrations”, spilling out onto the Commons terrace in
London’s sweltering heat where Team
Truss launched into three cheers for
their candidate. Among her backers are
stalwarts of the long march to Brexit
such as Sir Iain Duncan Smith and

Brussels steps up legal action over Northern Ireland protocol
George Grylls Political Reporter
Jennifer Baker Brussels
Henry Zeffman Associate Political Editor

The EU has begun a new legal action
against the UK as it accused the government of breaking parts of the
Northern Ireland Brexit deal.
Brussels alleged that the government
was failing to carry out sufficient
checks on goods crossing the Irish Sea,
which it said had increased the risk of
smuggling into the EU. The Northern
Ireland protocol was part of the postBrexit agreement to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.
Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, has
threatened to override the protocol
after a backlash from the Democratic
Unionist Party (DUP), which is refusing to return to a power-sharing government in Stormont until progress is
made on scrapping it.
The EU said that to do so would be a

contravention of international law.
Truss has introduced a bill in parliament that would effectively rip up the
protocol. The Northern Ireland Protocol Bill went through the Commons
this week and will be debated in the
autumn in the Lords, where peers are
likely to raise objections.
The progress of the bill has infuriated
Brussels, which launched a first round
of infringement procedures last month.
In a new set of four infringement
procedures, the EU has accused the
government of failing to comply with
customs arrangements, failing to implement EU rules on e-commerce and
ignoring the bloc’s rules on alcohol
excise duties. The cases could be heard
by the European Court of Justice,
which has the power to impose fines of
millions of pounds a day on the UK.
In a statement, the EU accused the
UK of an “unwillingness to engage in
meaningful discussion” and said that

Q&A
Is this the first time
the EU has done this?
No. The EU’s four legal
claims against the UK
over the Northern
Ireland protocol follow
three cases last month.
They accuse the UK of
failing to implement the
2019 Brexit deal for
Northern Ireland,
specifically rules on
customs, VAT and
excise.
What happens next?
Formal infringement

procedures often take
years before ending up
in court. The first step
is for the European
Commission to formally
write to the UK to
demand remedial
action. If the UK does
not take steps to solve
the issue within two
months, the
commission could
escalate the case to the
European Court of
Justice, which could
then fine the UK. In
practice, the row is
likely to return to the
political domain when
the Conservative Party
chooses its new leader
in September.

What might the
leadership candidates
do?
Liz Truss has
spearheaded the
Northern Ireland
Protocol bill, which
would rewrite parts of
Northern Ireland’s postBrexit arrangements,
so she is personally
invested in the
government’s strategy.
Some in Brussels hope
that Rishi Sunak would
adopt a more
conciliatory approach
but the truth is there is
a chasm between the
commission and the
Conservative Party
on this issue.

the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill
went “directly against this spirit”.
A UK government spokesman said:
“It is disappointing that the EU has
chosen to bring forward further legal
action, particularly on goods leaving
Northern Ireland for Great Britain,
which self-evidently present no risk to
the EU single market. A legal dispute is
in nobody’s interest and will not fix the
problems facing the people and
businesses of Northern Ireland. The
EU is left no worse off as a result of the
proposals we have made in the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. We will
review the EU’s arguments and
respond in due course.”
Separately, the government admitted that Britain’s Brexit divorce bill
could rise by almost £8 billion to
£42.5 billion. The UK’s settlement of its
outstanding spending commitments,
primarily EU pensions, has been affected by surging global inflation.

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upset Johnson leaves the frame
ANDREW PARSONS/NO10 DOWNING STREET

Boris Johnson
took his seat in
cabinet for the
last time on
Tuesday

North-South divide
among members
on who should win
Tom Ball Northern Correspondent
Will Humphries
Southwest Correspondent

Steve Baker. Truss, a repentant Remainer, has clearly learnt lessons from the
EU referendum.
While Sunak is urging caution over
Britain’s economic situation, Truss is
vowing to challenge orthodoxy in order
to foster growth. This week she tore into
“a consensus of the Treasury, of economists, of the Financial Times and other
outlets peddling a particular type of
economic policy for the last 20 years”, a
denouncement reminiscent of her
former cabinet colleague Michael
Gove’s notorious claim in 2016 that
Britain had had enough of experts.
Her allies believe that this strategy
will tempt Sunak into falling into the
trap of repeating the mistakes of the
Stronger In campaign’s “Project Fear”
as he warns that Truss’s plans will lead to
economic ruin. An ally of Truss said:
“Sunak’s running a really negative campaign. It’s Project Fear meets dirty
tricks. We all know Dominic Cummings’s involvement in the campaign.”
Sunak has said he has not spoken to

Johnson’s former chief of staff and fierce
critic since he left the government in
November 2020, and that Cummings
had no involvement in his campaign.
Truss wants to spend much of the
coming weeks travelling around the
country. On a visit to a charity in Peterborough on Thursday she received a
grilling from the children present. One
asked of Johnson: “Have they not kicked
him out yet? Why didn’t they kick him
out?” Another chipped in: “Do me a
favour: when you become prime
minister, evict him.”
Johnson has no choice but to leave in
September, yet his presence will hang
over the final weeks of the contest.
Sunak’s team are nervous about a possible intervention to help Truss, saying it
could be the “wild card” in the campaign.
Johnson’s antipathy to Sunak and
sense of betrayal are keenly felt. He told
eliminated candidates during the contest that he wants “anyone but” Sunak
to win and believes that Truss is best
placed to carry his torch, although pub-

licly he will not make an endorsement.
“The truth is he’s very upset,” a Downing Street source said. “It’s his dream job
and he’s been cut off in his prime.”
Before MPs left Westminster on
Thursday, Johnson allies were prowling
the corridors muttering darkly: “This
contest shouldn’t be happening. I’m
angry and members are angry. That is
going to make itself felt in the contest.”
One minister, asked who he was
voting for, said simply: “The person I
want to be prime minister has just been
removed.”
Johnson used his valedictory prime
minister’s questions on Wednesday to
aim several barbs at Sunak, urging his
successor — “whoever he or she may
be” — to cut taxes and not “always”
listen to the Treasury. During rehearsals
with tearful aides, Johnson drew laughs
from his advisers by pointedly changing
a crucial line. “I want to give some words
of advice to my successor,” Johnson said,
“whoever she may be.”
My Week, page 36

“In the middle of a cost of living crisis,
how could someone married to a
billionaire possibly understand what
it’s like to live through that?”
The view of Nick Farmer, 60, a
retired firefighter and local councillor,
is shared by many fellow Conservative
Party members in Wakefield, which
Labour regained in a by-election last
month. When The Times visited two
battleground seats, support for Rishi
Sunak was far stronger in Tiverton &
Honiton, the constituency lost to the
Liberal Democrats the same day.
As Conservative Party members
choose between Sunak or Liz Truss, the
foreign secretary, as their leader and
prime minister they will need to heed
what non-party members think of the
candidates.
In Wakefield, a former mining and
manufacturing heartland, members
and voters leant towards Truss. Farmer
said he was supporting her on an “anyone but Rishi” basis.
“Liz Truss is someone who grew up
not far from here [in Leeds] and went to
a comprehensive school,” he said. “I
think she’s someone who would have
more of an idea of what it’s like to live
like normal people and to struggle.”
Tony Whitmore, 52, was also backing
Truss, who, he said, had shown “what it
takes to lead” in her stance against
Russia over the war in Ukraine. “She’s
very direct, which I like,” he said. “And
I don’t like how Rishi betrayed Boris
like that by resigning. It wasn’t the
action of a team player.”
Whitmore was previously a Labour
voter but swung to the Conservatives in
2017 and 2019 because of Brexit. Some
66.4 per cent of Wakefield residents
voted Leave. The Tories won the seat in
2019 for the first time since 1931, having
just missed out in the 2017 election.
A by-election was triggered in May
after the conviction of the MP Imran
Ahmad Khan for the sexual assault of a

teenaged boy. Labour regained the seat
with a majority of nearly 5,000.
Nadeem Ahmed, 42, a teacher who
stood for the Conservatives, said Sunak
was more popular than Truss on the
doorstep, being better known, but said
Truss had more “grassroots appeal”.
In Tiverton & Honiton, Tory voters
were leaning towards Sunak as a “safe
pair of hands” on the economy. Leslie
Mayne, 75, a former RAF serviceman
who runs a kennels in Bampton,
switched to the Lib Dems last month
because he “lost trust” in Boris Johnson.
“I have an inclination towards Rishi
Sunak rather than Liz Truss,” he said. “I
don’t actually warm to her and I don’t
agree with her policy of immediate
income tax cuts because that has to be
paid for and would be a legacy passed
on to future generations.”
Stella Harvey, 73, and her partner
Dugald Simmonds, 72, both retired, are
lifelong Tories but Harvey was so
“angry and disappointed” in Johnson
that she did not vote, although Simmonds did back the party.
Shopping on Tiverton high street,
Harvey said: “I like Dishi Rishi — sorry,
slip of the tongue. I like him, he is intelligent, although I think his wealth will
stand against him with Tory members.”
Simmonds preferred Truss, though
felt she lacked “leadership qualities”. He
said: “She didn’t come across well in the
debates. You need personality. Rishi
deals with the big money men, he is at
home there and they run the world.”
Heidi Bates, 55, a Tory voter and
retired civil servant, said she thinks
Sunak “has shown his worth”, while
Truss’s plans to cut taxes were “crazy”.
Donna Montague, 57, a charity
finance administrator and Tory voter,
said she wanted “Rishi definitely”
because “I just really don’t like [Truss].”
She added: “I have been on benefits, I
have got a mortgage and I work full
time.I just don’t feel cutting taxes is the
right thing to do and I feel we are going
into a recession and we need people like
Rishi to get us through it.”

Pincher’s constituents want him out Zahawi sends ‘threatening’
Tom Ball

Constituents of Chris Pincher have
begun a campaign to oust him as their
MP after he refused to step down
despite being suspended from the
Conservative Party.
The MP for Tamworth, in
n
Staffordshire, has not been
seen in his constituency
since the start of this
month, when he resigned
as the deputy chief whip
after allegations that he
had drunkenly groped two
n.
men at an event in London.
naThe fallout from his resignaarture
tion contributed to the departure
of Boris Johnson as prime minister
minister.
For two consecutive weeks, residents
have held protests attended by dozens
of people outside Pincher’s office and
the town hall.
A petition calling for him to resign

has also been set up, garnering almost
2,000 signatures.
Since 2015, if an MP has been jailed,
convicted of giving false or misleading
expenses claims or been suspended
from the Commons for at least ten sitday constituents have had
ting days,
ri
the right
to remove them if 10
per cent of the local elector sign a petition to do
orate
so The process has been
so.
u
used
three times, with
tw petitions reaching
two
th threshold and new
the
M elected.
MPs
P
Pincher,
52, left, is the
subjec of two investigations,
subject
t
one by the
independent complaints and grie
grievance scheme and the
other by the party. If the former investigation leads to him being suspended
from the Commons, he could face a
recall petition, triggering a by-election.
“I think if there were to be a recall

petition, we would easily reach the
10 per cent threshold,” said Huw
Loxton, 46, one of the leaders of the
campaign to oust Pincher, who had
voted for the MP twice in the past. “No
one knows where he is. I’ve emailed
him several times but heard nothing
back. It isn’t right that we have an MP
who is entirely absent and who is not
there to be representing us.”
Pincher has not attended his usual
Friday constituency surgery for the
past three weeks. A sign bearing his face
and name has been removed from his
constituency office since last Friday.
In response to a request for comment
from The Times, Pincher’s office
responded: “Chris is now on leave of
absence, focused on receiving medical
support. Chris’s constituency team continues to operate as normal both in the
office and working from home to deal
with constituent queries and support
local people on a range of issues.”

letters to online tax critic
Billy Kenber, George Greenwood

Lawyers hired by Nadhim Zahawi have
sent “threatening” legal letters to a
blogger who accused the new chancellor of lying about his tax affairs.
Dan Neidle, former head of tax at
Clifford Chance, the law firm, and
founder of Tax Policy Associates, a
think tank, has written several blog
posts scrutinising Zahawi’s tax affairs.
The allegations centre on whether
Zahawi avoided tax by using an
offshore company, named Balshore
Investments, to hold valuable shares in
YouGov, the polling company he cofounded. Balshore is registered in
Gibraltar and held by a trust controlled
by Zahawi’s parents.
Neidle suggested the arrangement
may have allowed Zahawi to avoid

paying millions in capital gains tax and
other taxes. Last Saturday he was
contacted by lawyers representing
Zahawi demanding he retract an accusation that the MP gave a dishonest
explanation of why the shares were
given to Balshore. The correspondence
asked him to withdraw the allegation
that day and recommended that he
seek advice from a libel lawyer.
Neidle said: “There’s vital public
interest in the allegations [Zahawi]
hasn’t been straightforward in
responding to criticism of his tax
affairs. But instead of providing
explanations, he gets his lawyers to
send threatening letters.”
A spokesman for Zahawi said:
“Nadhim sent a polite, confidential
letter through his solicitors to Mr
Neidle to correct a few inaccuracies.”

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Parents are more gentle than in my day, claims 70s childcare expert
Ali Mitib

Penelope Leach, the childcare guru, has
said that parents are “warmer, kindlier
and gentler” with their children than
her generation used to be.
The child psychologist came to
prominence after the publication of her
book Your Baby and Child: From Birth to
Age Five in 1977.
The book was hailed as the “baby
bible” for a new generation of parents,

selling more than three million copies
in the UK.
In an interview with The Times
Weekend supplement, she says that the
revised edition of the book, to be released in September, adapts her no-nonsense approach to child development to
the reality of modern society.
The book retains Leach’s trademark
advice to parents, however, such as if
their baby is not falling asleep while
being rocked they are doing it too slow-

ly. And anyone trying to get their baby
to imitate sounds should “remember
you are trying to bring up a person, not
a parrot”.
Leach, 84, said: “It was a case of rewrite or kill, frankly. It’s nearly 50 years
since I wrote it and it was a different
world.
“The expectation was still that
parents would be a heterosexual
couple, that daddy would go out to
work and mummy would primarily stay

at home with the baby. Do you recognise today’s world? No, neither did I.
“I think parents are warmer, kindlier
and gentler with very small children
than we used to be. Parents talk about
their children, they watch them and are
aware of where they’re at. That’s hugely
important.”
Leach is a proponent of attachment
theory, which suggests that a strong
emotional and physical bond to one
primary caregiver in our first years of

life is critical to development. She said
fathers could be as important as the
mother at the start of a child’s life.
“Babies will have a principal attachment figure and if it’s not the mother it
will be whoever is available, and very
often that will be the father. The trouble
is that it’s difficult enough to get the
flexible working you need as a mother;
it’s almost impossible as a father.”
The queen of baby gurus
is back, Weekend, page 9

MATT DUNHAM/AP

Energy firm
accused of
hoarding
payments
David Byers Assistant Money Editor

More than 10,000 migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in small boats since the government agreed the removal scheme with Rwanda in April

Rwanda defends migrant deal
but says it can take only 200
Matt Dathan Home Affairs Editor

The Rwandan government has said it
only has capacity to accommodate a
maximum of 200 migrants from the
UK despite Boris Johnson claiming
tens of thousands would be removed
there.
Yolande Makolo, a spokeswoman for
the Rwandan government, also accused critics of the deal struck with the
UK to transfer Channel migrants to her
country of wrongly depicting Africa as
a “hellhole”.
She hit back at officials in the UK
government who had opposed the
policy internally because of Rwanda’s
poor human rights record, which was
revealed in court documents published
this week.
She said that a “narrative” had been
created that had portrayed the whole of
Africa as “poor and full of diseases” and
suggested that had contributed to the
UK’s migrant removal policy stalling.
However, fresh questions have been
raised over Rwanda’s preparedness to
receive migrants who are transferred

from the UK under the deal. Makolo
said Hope Hostel in Kigali was the only
accommodation that was ready to accept migrants under the £120 million
deal struck between the UK and Rwanda in April.
The hostel is empty after being
cleared and prepared to receive the first
migrants, who were due to be transferred earlier this month before the
flight was grounded by last-minute
legal challenges.
Doris Uwicyeza Picard, chief adviser
to the Rwandan justice minister, said
yesterday that her country was “ready
accommodate as many as the UK is
willing to send”.
However, Makolo later clarified that
Hope Hostel was the only accommodation available at present and that it
could accommodate a maximum of
200 people. This is despite the UK government saying that there was no limit
on the number of migrants who could
be removed this year and Johnson saying “tens of thousands” would be transferred over the next few years.
When The Times revealed that a gov-

ernment analysis had predicted that
this year’s total number of removals
would be only about 300, the Home
Office disputed it and insisted that the
scheme was uncapped.
The 200 maximum capacity is
dwarfed by the 10,000 migrants who
have arrived in the UK in small boats
since the Rwanda deal was signed in
mid-April. In total, more than 15,000
migrants have crossed the Channel this
year, almost double the number that
had arrived by this time in 2021.
Makolo said the Rwandan government had the ability to “scale up very
quickly,” adding: “We’re looking into infrastructure development, we have
identified other accommodation developments.”
Picard said Rwanda would be able to
receive “thousands in the lifetime of
this partnership”.
The UK government has already
paid Rwanda the £120 million, which
has been spent on preparing for the
arrival of migrants. The first migrant
flights to Kigali under the arrangement
are unlikely to go ahead until October

at the earliest, if the government wins a
High Court challenge brought by refugee charities and a trade union.
Asked why she believed the policy
had sparked such controversy in the
UK, Makolo blamed false narratives
that had created an inaccurate impression of life in both the UK and Rwanda.
She said: “When you pull back and
look at this with a wider lens, part of the
reason that people would think that
they should be living in Europe, in richer countries is they think that the
streets are paved with gold.
“Part of the reason is this narrative
that is cast by different media that
Africa is basically a hellhole — the kind
of stories that are coming out of Africa
are presented as a terrible place to live,
which isn’t true. I think we have some
disadvantages, we have limited means
to offer the kind of opportunities that
we want to offer to the level that we
want to, but we’re working on it.
“I think this innovative partnership
that we’ve got is the beginning of reversing the flow of migration, to create
opportunities here.”

Customers of the energy supplier Bulb
face having their direct debits
increased at short notice and being
blocked from getting any money they
are owed under changes to its terms
and conditions.
The company, which is being
propped up by the taxpayer, has written
to customers making several changes
that some observers said were designed
to hoard money inside the company to
maximise its chances of a sale.
In one notable change, Bulb said it
would require customers to keep at
least a month’s credit in their account,
and reserved the right to refuse to refund people’s balances if it considered it
“fair and reasonable” to do so.
The supplier also halved the notice it
would give customers to warn of a
change to their direct debit, to five days.
The company futher appeared to be
protecting itself against mass defaults
as energy prices rise by saying it would
“take legal action to recover the debt” if
people stopped paying for their energy.
The new terms come into force on
August 22.
Bulb, which was founded in 2015,
became a casualty of soaring wholesale
gas and electricity prices when it went
bust in November with 1.6 million customers. Because the supplier was considered too big to fail, the government
stepped in to keep it going under a process called special administration until
a buyer could be found. It has received
at least £900 million of public money.
Bulb denied the latest moves were
unfair to customers, claiming they were
routine and simply brought it into line
with other companies.
However, industry experts suspected
that the moves were designed to hoard
money in the company as Teneo, Bulb’s
administrators, tried to finalise a sale.
“By requiring customers to keep at
least one month’s credit in their
account, Bulb is using customer
deposits to fund the company’s working
capital,” Joe Malinowski, founder of
TheEnergyShop.com, an energy comparison service, said.
In April the energy price cap imposed
by the regulator Ofgem, which limits
what suppliers can charge the 22 million households on variable tariffs, rose
54 per cent to £1,971 per year for the
average household on a dual-fuel tariff.
It is expected to go up to £3,200 in
October and to more than £3,300 in
January.
Bulb said: “The main reason we’ve
updated our terms and conditions is to
adapt to faster switching rules, which
came into effect this week, as well as
industry changes like more frequent
updates to the price cap, which will
mean we may not always be able to give
30 days’ notice when prices change.”

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Writer’s
sales soar
thanks to
Netflix
he Gruffalo has
a rival as the
Netflix effect
propels a 27year-old from
Rochester into the
upper reaches of the
literary world (David
Sanderson writes).
Alice Oseman, creator
of the Heartstopper
series of graphic novels,
has secured £5.5 million
of book sales in Britain
during the first six
months of the year
alone, new figures have
revealed.
Oseman is now biting
at the feet of Julia
Donaldson, creator of
The Gruffalo, who for
more than a decade has
achieved annual sales in
excess of £10 million.
According to Nielsen
BookScan data reported
by The Bookseller,
Donaldson has nearly
£200 million of lifetime
sales through the steady
purchase of her
children’s books, putting
her second only to

T

K Rowling
JK
Rowling, the Harr
Harry
Potter author.
Oseman’s rise to the
top of the publishing
league table has been
propelled, however, by
Netflix’s adaptation of
the Heartstopper series.
The “boy meets boy”
coming-of-age drama
stars Olivia Colman,
with Kit Connor and Joe
Locke playing the school
corridor lovers Nick and
Charlie. It has reached
Netflix’s top ten list in 54
countries since it was
released in April and the
company recently

Alice Oseman
hasn’t missed a
beat since she
wrote her first
novel at school

commissioned two more
series.
Oseman suggested in
a recent interview that
part of the Heartstopper
success was down to
having begun writing
the characters while still
in her teens. They

appeared in Oseman’s
first novel Solitaire,
written while she was
studying at Rochester
Grammar School in
Kent.
“Now, as an adult
writing teenagers, for
me the main thing is to

always treat teenage
characters as mature
human beings and never
try to write down, to
pretend you’re being a
teenager,” Oseman told
The New York Times in
May. “Because
teenagers don’t feel like

teenagers. Teenagers are
the oldest that they’ve
ever been.”
While Heartstopper
has propelled the
author, illustrator and
screenwriter to fame,
Oseman has been
known about for almost

a decade since
embarking on an
unusual route to the top.
In 2014, while 19 and a
student at Durham
University, she secured a
two-book publishing
deal reported to be
worth upwards of
£100,000, a rarity for
teenage authors.
Two years later she
began Heartstopper as a
black and white
webcomic, which drew a
global following. In 2018
Oseman launched a
crowdfunding campaign
to self-publish the first
physical edition, which
she said would ensure
her international fans
could buy the book. It
raised enough money in
two hours, the first print
run sold out, Oseman
secured a publishing
deal with Hachette and
Netflix began talks
about an adaptation.
Oseman’s own magical
sales added lustre to
what is already shaping
up to be a huge year for
book sales in Britain.
According to The
Bookseller, the
£767 million of sales in
the first six months of
the year is the highest
since accurate records
began. The £187 million
in sales of children’s
books is also the
largest yet.

Low-alcohol beer set to pack more punch
Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor

Beers described as “alcohol free” and
“low alcohol” will be allowed to be
stronger under plans designed to tempt
drinkers into switching to healthier
alternatives.
A relaxation of alcohol by volume
(ABV) limits covering the products is
awaiting sign-off by the next prime
minister.
At present “no alcohol” beer must
contain less than 0.05 per cent ABV and
“low alcohol” less than 1.2 per cent.
These limits could be increased to
between 0.5 and 1 per cent and up to
about 3 per cent respectively.
The shift in policy is designed to help
people cut down on their alcohol intake
by helping brewers make low-strength
options more appealing.
Ministers
believe
encouraging
people to opt for weaker beers will
improve health by reducing alcohol
consumption
without
attracting
accusations
of
“nanny-state”
restrictions on freedom.
The plans were days away from being
published as part of a health disparities
white paper drawn up by Sajid Javid
before he quit as health secretary.
When Boris Johnson resigned as
prime minister, the paper was paused
until his replacement takes office in
early September.
However, neither the Treasury under
Rishi Sunak nor the Foreign Office
under Liz Truss raised objections when
they were sent for approval by ministers
before being formally signed off by the
government.
Sir Chris Whitty, the chief medical
officer, is said to be pushing the policy
within government.
While the promotion of loweralcohol drinks has been welcomed by
industry, health campaigners say it is
“tinkering round the edges” and only

Three of the best
Guinness Draught 0.0
Alcohol Free Stout
Sainsbury’s and Asda,
4 x 440ml cans £4
With its rich, creamy head and
wonderfully satisfying, roasted
malty wallop of flavour, Guinness
0.0 looks and almost tastes like the
real thing.
The Original Small Beer
Session Pale, 2.5 per cent
350ml bottle, Waitrose £2.20
One of the best of the mid-strength
small beer brigade, with a rich,
malty taste and the added pump of
wheat and oats.
Beavertown Lazer Crush IPA,
0.3 per cent
4 x 330ml cans, Tesco £6
Gorgeous, floral, frothy, citrusscented India Pale Ale, with a terrific
hoppy finish, boosted by citra,
azacca and amarillo hops.

restrictions on advertisrtisely
ing and price are likely
n
to cut consumption
significantly.
Javid’s
white
paper was set to
disappoint health
campaigners, as it
planned
a
“market-based
approach
to
y”
reducing obesity”
ess
Alcohol-free Guinness
ar
went on sale last year

based on an industry taskforce. It was
also due to reject the recommendation
from a government review that the
legal smoking age be raised every year.
Instead, it would have promised “a
revolution in the use of vaping” that
would lead to e-cigarettes being
prescribed on the NHS.
On drinking, it set out to reduce
consumption and “encourage the
switch to alcohol-free and low-alcohol
alternatives”.
“Getting the alcohol down really low
makes it much harder to make products
that people like so, if you can promote
better alcohol-free and low-alcohol
drinks, that makes people more likely to
switch from standard beers,” a health
source claimed.
Consumers have increasingly been
moving towards lower-alcohol drinks.
The market doubled over a five-year
period to an estimated £171 million in
sales last year.
Figures from the market research
company Mintel show that more than a
third of drinkers say there are not
enough low-alcohol and alcohol-free
beers available in pubs and bars.
Tom Stainer, chief executive of the
Campaign for Real Ale, said: “Whereas
five to ten yyears ago most
consumer had very little
consumers
choice in the lowalcoh section, today
alcohol
we are seeing some
inc
incredible
initiative
an innovation in
and
th sector.”
the
He said that any
b
beer
up to 3.5 per
ce ABV should
cent
be classified as low
alc
alcohol,
adding:
“We believe this
would make lowalcohol beers more
attractive to consumers at

the bar, encouraging consumption of
lower-strength beers and improving
consumer choice.
“The government’s policy aim of
encouraging the growth of the
consumption of low-strength beers is
severely undermined by the existing
labelling regulation, which prevents
brewers promoting low-strength beers
as low strength.”
Stainer claimed that this was “out of
step with the forthcoming changes to
the alcohol duty regime”, which will
reduce tax on beer of 2.8 per cent ABV
or under — far higher than the current
definition of low-alcohol.
Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, chairman
of the Alcohol Health Alliance of
doctors and charities, suggested that
more evidence was needed on lowalcohol products but said “if it could be
done in a way without brand
promotion, we would be supportive”.
He said: “We do support people
switching to lower-strength drinks
[but] firms are often using the same
branding and we’ve got real concerns
that they’re using ‘low alcohol’ with
exactly the same branding [as fullstrength products] and it could be a
route in for children and young people
to use alcohol.”
Gilmore said the plan was “tinkering
round the edges” and that the
government had “consistently put its
head in the sand on evidence-based
policies that have been shown
worldwide to reduce harm”, chiefly by
increasing prices and reducing
availability.
While younger people are drinking
less than in the past, those in middle age
are increasingly drinking unhealthy
amounts. Gilmore said a minimum unit
price in Scotland had reduced harm
caused by alcohol and expressed
frustration that “this ‘nanny state’
argument comes up again and again”.

Brewers have
learnt secrets
of good taste
Jane McQuitty
Comment

F

orget the faffing around with
the alcohol percentage points
of what is and isn’t a nolo beer.
What drinkers need to know is that,
unlike most of the baked, jammy,
de-alcoholised wines and overpriced
spirit substitutes, lots of low and noalcohol beers are surprisingly tasty.
Early nolo beers, launched in the
1980s, were thin, sour, tasteless
offerings, lacking vital yeasty, hoppy
oomph. When you remove alcohol,
you remove some of the flavour, so
nolo beers need to be full of
character to compensate.
Gradually, brewers caught on to
continental brewing tricks of using
lazy yeasts, reverse osmosis and cold
filtration methods to create
flavoursome low and no-alcohol
beers that really did taste like the
real, full-strength thing.
Using better ingredients (not just
malted barley but oats and wheat,
plus intensely flavoured hops,
including the appositely named,
citrusy citra) to boost nolos’ aroma,
mouthfeel and finish made for more
full-bodied brews. Of all the nolo
flavour-enhancing tweaks, giving
beers a final blast of hoppy flavour
by dry-hopping, adding one or more
hops to the fermentation tank late in
the process, was a game-changer.

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Museum row
over Uighur
treatment

Co-op to cut
400 jobs as
inflation bites

George Sandeman

Simon Cable

The appointment of a private equity
boss as a director of a British Museum
charity has been criticised because of
his support for the Chinese government’s abusive treatment of Uighurs.
Weijian Shan, co-founder of the investment firm PAG, has been appointed by British Museum Friends, which
provides trustees for the museum’s collection, according to The Spectator.
In April last year, Shan wrote an
opinion piece in the South China
Morning Post newspaper in Hong Kong
defending Beijing’s policies towards
Uighurs. “China has been waging its
own counterterrorism offensive in Xinjiang,” he wrote. “The extremists operate across China’s porous borders and
train alongside the Taliban and Islamic
State. Returning to Xinjiang, they hide
among the general population, working to convert young people to their
radicalism, and plotting and carrying
out terror attacks.”
British Museum Friends provides
funding to the museum via membership schemes. Other board members
include Grayson Perry, the artist, Dame
Mary Beard, the historian, and George
Osborne, the former chancellor who is
its chairman.
Shan’s appointment was criticised by
Luke de Pulford, of Hong Kong Watch,
a human rights group. “The mass sterilisation of Uighur women is not a ‘war
on terror’. You should urgently reconsider the appointment,” he told the
museum. Among alleged abuses by
China towards the Muslim minority
group are the internment of millions in
“re-education camps”, forced labour
and violence described as “genocide”.
A museum spokesman said: “The
British Museum has a world-spanning
collection and we believe that our trustee board should reflect this plurality.”

The Co-op is to axe 400 jobs, with the
retail and funeral firm blaming tough
trading conditions and rising inflation.
The move comes after the 138-yearold mutual — one of the world’s largest
co-operatives — revealed in April that
its annual profits had been hit by supply
chain problems and driver shortages.
The company said that no customerfacing roles in food stores or funeral
homes will be affected, with most of the
cuts expected at its Manchester headquarters.
A spokesman said: “The tough trading environment, including rising inflation, means we have taken the difficult
decision to bring forward some of the
changes we had planned for 2023.
“These changes will sadly mean a
number of colleagues in central functions will leave the business.
“We make these changes with a
heavy heart, but it is the right thing to
do for the long-term health of our Coop and for all of our members.”
The Co-op employs a total workforce
of 63,000 people and has 2,600 shops. It
also supplies more than 8,000 convenience stores, in addition to its funerals
division and an insurance business.
Chief executive Shirine Khoury-Haq
had warned earlier this year of further
“shocks” after its annual profits more
than halved.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted supplies of sunflower oil. Animal
feed and wheat prices have also been affected, which has had a knock-on effect
on the meat, dairy and bakery segments. Floods in Spain hit supplies of
broccoli, lettuces and courgettes.
“It impacts not only fresh produce
but ingredients for other things as well,”
Khoury-Haq said. “Compound that
with the cost-of-living issues that
household budgets are facing.”

Summertime sparkle The Ukrainian dancers Julia Moskalenko and Stanislav Olshansky prepare for Ballet Under the Stars,
which is being held this weekend by the Covent Garden Dance Company in the walled garden of Hatch House in Wiltshire

The medic taking scalpel to NHS sexism
The government’s new
health ambassador tells
Eleanor Hayward she
is on a mission to fix
institutional failings
Professor Dame Lesley Regan has
spent her life caring for women in a
health service built around the needs of
men. Women, she says, “have not had a
good deal. Our healthcare systems are
failing them because NHS services are
not designed to meet women’s day-today needs.”
The gynaecologist is the government’s first women’s health ambassador, handed the task of implementing a
ten-year strategy promising to “right
the wrongs” of decades of institutional
sexism.
Central to her vision is new network
of women’s health hubs providing “onestop shops” for smear tests, mammograms, HRT, contraception and sexual
health checks. She believes that women
are failed by the present system, which
requires multiple consultations with
different staff to get basic care. “I don’t
want to have three or four different
appointments to get my contraception
or my STI check or my smear test or my
mammogram.”
As president of the Royal College of

Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from
2016 to 2019, Regan used motoring
analogies while lobbying male ministers for reform: “I used to say to the
health secretaries Jeremy Hunt and
Matt Hancock that it’s like taking your
car for its annual MOT. You don’t come
back in the afternoon and pay your
money and then get told, ‘Well, you
can’t have your back tyres done. We
have to send you somewhere else for
windscreen wipers.’ My argument is
that if we can get those simple things
done well, we can free up an enormous
amount of resources.”
Six women’s health hubs are up and
running in England, bringing together
existing services “in one time and one
place”. More NHS regions will be urged
to open such clinics as part of the
women’s health strategy launched this
week in response to a government
consultation that found 84 per cent of
women felt their pain or concerns were
ignored.
The report said that women were
failed by the NHS throughout their lifetime, from anorexic teenage girls stuck
on mental health waiting lists to young
women told their excruciating periods
are normal, same-sex couples struggling to access IVF, menopausal
women denied HRT and elderly
women twice as likely to get dementia
as men. When women’s voices are
repeatedly ignored, some of them die.
This was exposed by the Ockenden

report in March, which found that 201
babies and nine mothers had died at
Shrewsbury and Telford hospitals
because of appalling care and a repeated failure to listen to women.
Regan believes this systemic neglect
of women’s health can be tackled only if
everyone is comfortable talking about
female bodies. “Most women have 12
periods a year for nearly 40 years of
their life. This is a day-to-day occurrence. For many of them, they can’t talk
about it and they can’t access help. A lot
Professor Dame
Lesley Regan is
working to achieve
better healthcare
for women

of male standoffishness about female
health is because they’re frightened of
it. They don’t understand it.”
She has no time for men who say that
sexism has nothing to do with them:
“Following the MeToo movement and
Sarah Everard’s murder, some people
were saying it’s not all men. I don’t
accept that.”
Instead, she believes that men must
speak up about misogyny on hospital
wards after female doctors highlighted
their experiences of sexual assault in a
campaign described as medicine’s
#MeToo. “We’ve got to get all the men,

whether they’re in healthcare or anywhere else, to call it out and be part of
the solution.” She finds it easier to
persuade men to take women’s health
seriously by framing it as “making
things better for female employees or
members of their family”.
The economic case for inclusive
menopause policies such as flexible
working is compelling. Women over
the age of 50 are the fastest-growing
segment of the workforce, but about a
million have quit or retired early
because of the menopause. When
Regan started talking to “leaders of
FTSE companies about what they
could do to retain their 45 to 60-yearolds, they just said, ‘Why hasn’t someone told me this before?’ ”
When she’s not meeting ministers or
City executives, Regan is as an obstetrician and gynaecologist at St Mary’s
hospital in Paddington, central
London. Her experience on the wards
underpins her unequivocal support for
safe and legal abortion as a cornerstone
of women’s health.
She recalls being an NHS junior
doctor in the 1980s, treating a young
woman who had gone into was
suffering from kidney failure after a
botched at-home abortion. “If you live
in a country or a society where you
make abortion illegal or difficult to
access, the problem doesn’t go away —
girls and women die. I think people
pay lip-service to that fact. It’s not until

they see it in front of their own eyes that
they realise quite how shocking that
can be. A lot of people have very strong
views. They’re entitled to their
opinions, but they can’t make up the
facts.”
Regan supports liberalising abortion
laws. She cites MPs passing a law allowing at-home abortions via pills sent in
the post as one of the few good things to
have come out of the pandemic.
Five decades on from the 1967
Abortion Act, Regan, 66, is adamant
that society is slowly moving in the
right direction as lingering taboos surrounding female health are shattered.
A mother to twin 29-year-old daughters, she says that “when they were
little, and when I was pregnant, we
didn’t talk about menopause and we
didn’t really talk about periods. You
certainly wouldn’t be at a drinks party
and tell someone you’ve met this marvellous gynaecologist. If there was a
man in earshot, you would probably
have lowered your voice and he would
sidle off.
“We need to make girls and women
part of the solution. If I teach you how
to control your menstrual periods, you
share it with someone. You tell your
sister, you tell your cleaning lady, you
tell all your friends. It might change
your life from being strapped to the
toilet for three days every time you had
a heavy period. You wouldn’t keep the
information to yourself.”

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Harry, 102,
still enjoys a
fine vintage
Kieran Gair

“Life is beautiful, and I’ve always lived it
to the full,” says Harry Gamper, a 102year-old D-Day veteran who has
revealed the secret ingredient to a long
and happy life. It will please all those of
us who enjoy a glass of wine.
Celebrating an Italian-themed birthday at Malin Court care home in South
Ayrshire, put on by staff and fellow residents after the pandemic prevented celebrating his 100th, Gamper said: “I love
art, music, good food and the finest
wine — all of these things, and the
Harry Gamper says
good food, fine
wine and friends
are essential to live
a long life

Time flies John “Paddy” Hemingway, who flew a Spitfire in the Battle of Britain and now lives in South Dublin, celebrated his 103rd birthday this week and was a guest at
an Irish Veterans Day event celebrating the Irish Air Corps’ centenary. The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight led a flypast with the Silver Swallows air corp display team

Police refused to chase my
stolen money over border
Fiona Hamilton Crime Editor

An Oxford-educated lawyer cheated
out of almost £30,000 in Scotland was
told police could not pursue her case
because the money had been transferred to England.
Jane Smith, an advocate who has a
double first-class degree and went on to
lecture in law, was conned into moving
a large part of her savings by criminals
purporting to be from her bank’s fraud
department.
Their deception was particularly
convincing because they had personal
information, including her date of
birth, address and bank account details.
Smith, 50, said she was caught in a
jurisdictional trap where police said
they were unable to investigate
adequately. Most of her money was
transferred into the account of an appbased bank registered in London.
The lawyer, who lives on the Isle of
Arran, said Police Scotland told her it
did not have the jurisdiction to follow
the money because it had been deposited in England. She reported the fraud to
City of London police via its online portal and heard nothing back. She wrote
to Angela McLaren, the force’s commissioner, and did not receive a reply.
The force said it did not receive a letter.
Smith said that Police Scotland
appeared to consider the case closed
when her bank, Santander, agreed to
partially reimburse her, even though
the fraudsters were at large and free to
target others.
Police Scotland said that it liaised
with the City of London police but the

“offences did not meet their threshold
for recording these crimes”.
Smith said: “I think it makes
complete and utter nonsense of having
banks that trade across the UK and are
subject to the same laws on money
laundering and regulation. To split off
the capability of Police Scotland from
forces in England is absurd.”
She questioned why police were not
taking bank fraud more seriously when
it cost the UK more than £1 billion a
year.
Sir Tom Winsor, the former chief
inspector of constabulary, said that
even though fraud is now the most sigJane Smith was
cheated out of
nearly £30,000

nificant type of crime, police forces and
policymakers were not doing enough.
Winsor, who was chief inspector for
ten years until March, said the proceeds
of fraud were being used for serious
crime and that some victims had killed
themselves after losing everything.
Such cases were “murders in slow
motion”.
Smith became a victim of an “authorised push payment” scam after she was
contacted in March by a man purporting to represent her bank’s fraud investigations department, warning that her
account had been compromised. It was
credible not only because he had her

personal details but also because she
had reported two fraudulent card payments to Santander four months
earlier.
She made a transfer of almost
£10,000 to Barclays. The next month
she was contacted by a different man
also falsely purporting to be from the
fraud department, who said that he was
part of a consortium of the National
Crime Agency, Financial Conduct
Authority and leading banks.
He said that there had been more
suspicious activity and that transfers
were necessary to “flush out” anyone
within Santander who could be disclosing or selling customer details. Smith
transferred £20,000 to Cash Plus, an
online bank.
Santander originally refused to reimburse the full loss, arguing that
Smith had failed to take appropriate
steps to protect herself, but backed
down after she went to the media.
Smith said many fraudulent transfers
were not flagged by banks, which were
imposing an unacceptable level of due
diligence on customers.
“I am pretty savvy, but this happens
to a lot of savvy people,” she said. “You
mustn’t ever feel ashamed or embarrassed to come forward about something like this . . . The fraudsters are
really smart, they know what buttons to
press. I did say I wasn’t convinced
before transferring but the guy got
really aggressive and made me feel like
I would be impeding an investigation if
I did. People need to be told about this,
and to be told they should not feel it’s
their fault.”

people around you, are what matter
most in life.”
He was an RAF pilot during the war
and described the D-Day landings as
“incredible”. He said: “I’ll never forget it
. . . The Channel was extraordinary — I
think you could have almost walked
across the Channel because every boat
was going across it.”
He was awarded medals for his service and clocked up 1,000 hours of flying in the RAF. After the war he married and had two sons. He worked in advertising and retired to Dorset with his
wife in 1983, but he has lived in Ayrshire
since the late 2000s.

‘Slow motion murder’ is not
taken seriously by officers
Tom Winsor
Comment

A

dults are more likely to
be victims of fraud than
of any other crime. The
detrimental effect of
fraud is as great today as
it has ever been — if not greater —
yet fraud indefensibly continues to
be treated as a low priority.
This is far from commensurate
with the agony of the victims and
their families. Victims of fraud can
face levels of human suffering as
catastrophic as those experienced by
victims of many other crimes. Police
forces don’t take it seriously enough
and they don’t have the resources.
Policymakers do not take it
seriously enough either, yet fraud
now accounts for more than 50 per
cent of all crime. It needs to be
taken seriously because honest
people are losing large amounts of
their money.
Some people whose savings
have been stolen kill themselves
through despair, desperation
and sometimes unjustified
shame. Such cases are murders
in slow motion. Victims can suffer
terribly, and the suffering does not
end with them. Fraud
proceeds can be used
to finance guns, drugs,
prostitution, human
trafficking, child
abuse and terror.
If the
extraordinary
proliferation of

fraud, largely enabled by the
internet, is to be brought into check
in any meaningful way, those who
commit fraud must realise that
policymakers have decided that this
corrosive and extraordinarily
expensive offending will now be
tackled with resources
commensurate with its seriousness
and prevalence. Fraud costs the UK
many billions of pounds every year.
For too long, police forces have
placed an unjustifiable reliance on
Action Fraud, the national fraud
reporting centre, to solve the
problem. But Action Fraud exists
mainly to record fraud allegations,
not investigate them. Many police
forces are not taking their
responsibilities to prevent and
investigate fraud anywhere near
seriously enough. The suffering will
rise as the perpetrators continue to
believe that politicians care so little.
In Jane Smith’s case, the receiving
bank refused to co-operate with the
police in Scotland because they said
it was an English
jurisdictional matter. That’s
just absurd. The border
should not have any such
effect. Just because
someone has been cheated
out of money in Scotland,
that does not mean it should
not be investigated
because the
money has gone
to England.
Sir Tom Winsor
is the former
chief inspector
of
constabulary

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Royal Navy
shadows
Putin subs
along coast

T

wo Russian
submarines
were tracked
by a Royal
Navy warship
in the North Sea as
Ukrainians were being
trained to operate
minehunters (Larisa
Brown writes).
HMS Portland, a
frigate, shadowed the
nuclear-powered
Severodvinsk and the
Akula-class Vepr after
they surfaced separately
northwest of Bergen,
Norway. A navy
spokesman said the subs
were followed along the
Norwegian coast.
A navy source said
they were going to
St Petersburg for
Russia’s annual
maritime celebrations.
It is rare for the Royal
Navy to make such

HMS Portland,
left and inset,
shadowed the
Severodvinsk in
the North Sea

operations public. It last
disclosed a similar
operation in February
last year, well before the
invasion of Ukraine.
The spokesman said:
“Portland and her

specialist Merlin
helicopter — both
equipped with cuttingedge sonars, sensors and
torpedoes for
submarine-hunting
operations — reported

on the movements of the
Russian Northern Fleet
vessels.”
A source said the navy
was surprised at how
easy it was to track the
second vessel. “You’d

think if they realised the
first one had been
tracked they might be
more careful with the
second,” the insider said.
The operation came as
crew from Ukraine’s

navy were learning to
use two Sandown-class
minehunters that their
country is buying.
Volodymyr Havrylov,
Ukraine’s deputy
defence minister, met

James Heappey, the
armed forces minister,
before visiting his
countrymen training in
Scotland. The Sandown
minehunters can trace
mines in deep waters.

Charge of the electric bike brigade
Sales boomed in the
pandemic and show no
sign of slowing down as
motoring costs increase,
writes Ben Clatworthy

This isn’t
exercise, this
is the future
Comment

Standing in his newest shop in
Battersea, south London, Iwan Jones is
extolling the virtues of electric bikes.
“We get a bit evangelical,” he says.
“These days there are absolutely no reliability issues with e-bikes and people
are turning to them in their droves.”
He is not exaggerating. Jones is the
commercial business manager of The
Electric Bike Shop, one of the country’s
fast-growing bike retailers. It started
business in 2014 but has boomed in the
last two years. At the start of 2020 it had
seven staff. Now it has 70 and is preparing to open its ninth shop — and its
fourth this year — in the next week.
“In the past many people who bought
e-bikes were, for example, older people
who wanted to keep up their health
without so much strain as conventional
biking,” Jones said. “Now they’re a
viable mode of transport and we’re
seeing more and more people turning
to them not only for leisure but also
commuting.”
Jones said it was in 2016 that the
appetite for e-bikes really arrived in
Britain with more mainstream brands
moving into the sector. Initially uptake
was gradual. Then the pandemic hit. “It
completely exploded,” he said. “Gyms
were closed, so people who were used to
going on an exercise bike suddenly
looked at the option of getting an
e-bike.”
But what looked like a bubble has not
burst. As home working eased and
people cautiously started returning to
offices, they wanted new ways to travel.
Jones said: “People were scared of
public transport, they wanted to be in
fresh air away from others. People
whose commutes would be too far, or

I

t’s the best thing I’ve
ever bought. No
hyperbole. I really
mean it (Hugo
Rifkind writes).
Don’t think of it as a
normal bike but better.
Think of it, instead, as
your ultimate urban
transport solution. The
nearest parallel is a
moped, but they’re heavy,
dirty, dangerous things.

Go into a bike shop,
and they’ll tell you that
you need to spend
thousands on an electric
bike or you’ll regret it.
That’s rubbish. Mine cost
about £700. You’ll want
something bigger and
better if you’re ferrying
kids to school, but for a
workaday, modern horse
equivalent, the Deliveroo
guys have the right idea.
Basically it’s a bogstandard, quite heavy
bike (and heavy is good;
you’ll want the stability)
with a motor and a
battery. I take the battery
off when I lock it up,
because it’s worth as
much as the rest
altogether. Plus, it means

too hilly on a normal bike, suddenly
wanted an e-bike.”
E-bikes are ordinary bikes but with
the added bonus of an electric motor
and battery. The battery supplies power
to the electric motor and can be
charged from a regular socket. The assisted speed is restricted to 15.5mph.
Recent research by Mintel, the
market analyst, found that 14 per cent
of cyclists now own an e-bike, double
the number who owned one in 2020.
Among regular cyclists (those who ride
at least once a week), almost one in five
now own an e-bike and the numbers
continue to soar. Last year they accounted for a quarter of spending on
bikes, an estimated £315 million. That
figure, experts believe, will be eclipsed
this year as soaring petrol prices send
motorists seeking alternative ways to
commute.
At Halfords stores, nationwide sales
of e-bikes are up 265 per cent on this
time last year. Across the sector retailers are rubbing their hands together.
“It’s been absolute boom time,”

I can charge it without
lugging the bike into the
house. The range is about
40 miles.
In traffic, I leave cars
for dust. Regular cyclists
do that, too, to be fair, but
you’ll lose them, too, on
hills, and there is huge
pleasure to be derived
from how much they
mind. The law is fairly
stupid in this regard,
because you’re legally
limited to just over 15mph
under electric power
alone, which feels
unreasonable. Regular
bikes already go faster
than that, as will you
down a hill. Also, you’ll
realise pretty quickly that
at least half of all electric

Gordon Riley, the founder of Sheffieldbased Electric England, said. “I think
people are fed up of being beholden to
other countries — and the price rises
— at the petrol pumps. We have lots
of people coming to us with the
aim of changing how they commute. My son is one of them.
He ditched his van and
started using an e-bike. We
also get lots of gig economy
workers, Deliveroo drivers,
Uber Eats, that sort of thing, who
are looking for an alternative to
the car, given it’s so prohibitively
expensive at the moment.”
Riley sells “basic commuter
bikes” starting at £500 but
prices go up to about £2,000
for a higher spec model. He
said: “You won’t get a
premium for £500, but
they fold in half, can go in
the boot and on trains.
“I think it’s important to
get the word out there that
you don’t have to spend

bikes on the street are
cheerfully illegal already,
thanks to amateur hacks.
Don’t dress for cycling.
You don’t need to. You’ll
freeze. This isn’t exercise.
Probably it would be
fairly stupid to ride one in
a city if you don’t know
how to drive, but the
same is true of normal
bikes. Within a week,
you’ll wonder how you
ever lived without it.
Within a month, you’ll
wonder why anybody who
is physically capable of
riding one — which is
almost everybody —
doesn’t have one. We
should be basing our
cities around them. They
are the future. You’ll see.
£2,000 to get into the e-bike
market.”
The range of the higher spec
models varies from about
80 to 100 miles on a single
charge, depending on the
size of the battery, and it
costs about 12p in electricity.
James Metcalfe, 48,
founded Volt, a Britishbased manufacturer, just
over a decade ago and
was one of the first on the
bandwagon. “At that
point they were relatively new as a public
proposition,” he said.
“At the time the batteries were turning from
lead acid to lithium iron
and it was a game
changer. The previous
generation of bikes never

Volt is among manufacturers riding
a wave of enthusiasm for e-bikes

Pumped up
Petrol and diesel pump prices per litre
£2
1.60
Diesel

1.20
0.8

Petrol
0.4
0
2004 08

12

16

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Industrial Strategy

really worked as the batteries didn’t
give enough distance or have reliability.
You’d get a few miles and run out of
power and just be left with a heavy
bike.”
Metcalfe, who won a Red Dot Bicycle
Design Award, said his aim was to
create a bike that didn’t look too different to a conventional bike. “Old e-bikes
stood out,” he said. “We wanted to make
a stylish bike.” Like others in the sector,
Metcalfe pointed to the pandemic as a
turning point in the growth of the sector, adding that demand was being sustained by the jump in petrol prices.
Last month the cost of filling a typical
55-litre family-sized car with petrol
rose by a record £9.12, with diesel just
behind at £8.59. For a car that does 40
miles to the gallon, that means it costs
a driver around 22p for every mile they
drive — up from around 16p at the start
of the year.
Price is still the biggest barrier to the
e-bike market although the growth in
popularity of the government’s cycle to
work scheme is attracting employees
seeking a cheaper way to commute.
And for those who think that going
electric is cheating? “Nonsense,” said
Jones. “The tide is completely turning.
And whether it’s hills or a summer’s day
you can get to work without needing a
shower once you arrive.”

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Mystery of mummy
stashed in the attic

TMS

diary@thetimes.co.uk | @timesdiary

Johnson takes
French leave

every time he saw food, he ate it.
“And always have a spoon to share
dessert,” the agent added, “because
he will never order his own but will
definitely want some of yours.”

On the day Boris Johnson was
forced out, his father, Stanley, was
exploiting his freshly gained French
citizenship. “My new passport lost
its virginity the same day as my
son, the chief architect of Brexit,
resigned,” Stanley tells Paris Match,
“which is quite ironic.” Johnson
père, right, was in the Loire at the
time visiting the chateau of some
newly discovered French cousins.
Stanley says he regrets that his new
citizenship can’t be automatically
handed down to his children, but
suggests they could always join the
Foreign Legion. He adds that he
fancies going into French politics
now he has a passport, saying that
if Emmanuel Macron can form a
party called On the March he
might lead one called In Retreat.

Barry Humphries briefly thought he
still had it. The Australian comedian
writes in The Oldie that he was
recently approached in Claridge’s by
an attractive young student who
wanted his autograph and seemed to
be after more. As he scribbled his
name all fantasies were dashed,
however, when she told him: “My late
grandmother was a big fan of yours.”

As a former senior Labour spin
doctor, Patrick Hennessy knows how
to polish a story. He bragged to a
journalist this week that his recent
displays in five-a-side football have
brought him to the attention of
Chelsea. “I drew comparisons with
Franz Beckenbauer,” he said, in
reference to the former German
captain. “Mind you, he is 76.”

house of correction
A holiday home owned by the Kray
brothers has gone on the market for
the first time in more than 30 years.
The Brooks in Bildeston, Suffolk,
was bought by the gangsters in 1967
for £11,000. They knew the area
well, having been evacuated to
nearby Hadleigh during the war,
but sold it soon after when a
change in circumstances meant
they couldn’t easily escape to the
country.
feeding frenzy
When Mims Davies became MP for
Mid Sussex in 2019 she had big
trousers to fill. She succeeded Sir
Nicholas Soames, who was never
knowingly underlunched, and told
the Commons this week that she
was given some advice by his agent
on how to win his support. “If you
order scampi and chips, get spare
scampi,” the agent said. Soames at
the time was on a seafood diet:

peer living in sin
As a life peer for a mere 25 years,
Lord Steel of Aikwood admits to not
feeling like a “real lord”. At a delayed
retirement dinner on Thursday, the
former Liberal leader, 84, said when
he first went to the Lords he got into
conversation with a hereditary peer
who lived in Surrey. “With a name
like yours you must have some
Scottish connection,” Steel asked.
His companion lowered his voice.
“Yes, but we left in rather a hurry.”
Steel wondered what scandal he had
forgotten. “You see,” this peer went
on, “we were implicated in the
murder of Lord Darnley.” Though it
had been 430 years, he was clearly
worried someone bore a grudge.
patrick kidd

Mario Ledwith

Those with something to hide are
often asked if they have any skeletons
in the closet. Yet for one man in Ramsgate in Kent the question should
perhaps have been: “Any mummies in
the attic?”
The family of a man who had died
were shocked when they were clearing
his house and found the decapitated
head of a mummy among his possessions.
The head, thought to be at least 2,000
years old, was found in the attic. It is
thought it was brought to the UK as a
souvenir in the 19th century.
Unsure what to do with the discovery, the family passed it to experts, who
are using scanning technology to create
a 3D replica of the mummy’s head.
The object, which did not have any
wrappings, has been inherited by
the brother of the man
in whose house it was
as
discovered. The man has
not been identified. The
brother took it to Canterbury Museums and
Galleries, with initial
tests being carried out
by Canterbury Christ
Church
University.
They suggested it wass
ult
the head of an adult
female.
n carried
A secondary CT scan
pital indicated
out at Maidstone hospital

that the brain had been removed, the
teeth well worn and the tongue well
preserved.
James Elliott, senior radiographer at
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS
Trust, said: “During the Victorian times
items like this used to be brought back
from Egypt as souvenirs and may well
have been passed down through generations to the person who owned it.”
Elliott said mummification was common in ancient Egypt among commoners and royalty alike as a way to safeguard the spirit in its journey to the
afterlife. “The ancient Egyptians believed that a person’s mind was held in
their heart and had little regard for the
brain,” he said.
Experts from Canterbury Christ
Church University, University of Kent
and University of Oxford are trying to
reconstruct the history of the mummy.
CT scans use x-rays to create
detailed images of the inside
of the body.
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Bowen, of Canter
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Pester power means
toy shops back in play
Andrew Ellson
Consumer Affairs Correspondent

Tales of doom and gloom on Britain’s
high streets are ten-a-penny as stores
close down and once-familiar names
disappear, but “pester power” and
parental worries over product safety
are pushing a revival in toy shops.
The Toy Retailers Association
expects the number of bricks-andmortar toy stores to increase by 10 per
cent over the next two years after a
“bumper” year of trading.
Alan Simpson, chairman of the
association, said that toy stores were
benefiting from having the “wow
factor” that children love and the
“focus on safety” that parents want.
He said: “There are many others in
retail suffering, but toy stores have
done very well in the past couple of
years. People love having a local toy
shop and seeing children’s eyes light up
when they come in and see the range of
toys on offer.
“Parents also love the fact we are very
hot on safety. We are hyper-vigilant.
Sadly, online has rogue elements that
have got involved and bogus toys have
surfaced.”
Vicky Brown, 48, who owns the Just
Williams chain of two toy stores in
south London, said that her sales were
up by between 12 per cent and 22 per
cent so far this year on pre-pandemic
levels.
“I think people want to support their

local high street,” she said. “People also
want that shopping experience and kids
want to touch and feel things rather
than have to look at them on a screen.
Also, kids don’t like having to wait for
their toys and I think we benefit from
that.”
There are about 600 toy shops in
Britain, down from 900 five years ago,
but now that trend is reversing. Even
Toys “R” Us is set to make a comeback
by reopening stores in Britain: the
American brand is now owned by
WHP Global, an investment firm that
last year signed a licensing agreement
with Toys “R” Us Australia and New
Zealand to run “digital and physical
retail commerce” for the brand in the
UK. The company has already started
recruiting before its relaunch, although
no date has been set.
The Toy Retailers Association
expects most of the expansion of stores
to be from existing chains rather than
new independent retailers. The biggest
chains at present are Smyths, The
Entertainer, Toytown and Toymaster.
Clive Black, a retail analyst at Shore
Capital, a broker, said: “We’ve seen a
contraction in online participation that
I think is deeper than just pandemic
normalisation and the optimal business
model in retailing, both grocery and
non-food, does involve a store.
“It’s not an either/or, it’s the multichannel approach. I think the longterm future of retailing in the UK is one
where stores are up front and centre.”

Poet who always made
time for his Neighbours

O

ver 37 years
and almost
9,000
episodes,
Neighbours
amassed a following that
included the pop star
Sinitta and the novelist
and critic Clive James
(Jack Malvern writes).
Perhaps the most
incongruous, however,
was Sir Stephen Spender,
the poet.
Barry Humphries, best
known for his alter ego
Dame Edna Everage,
recalls in Saturday Review
today that his father-inlaw would become
agitated if he was denied
his daily dose of the
Australian soap opera.
Spender, known for

poetry dealing with class
struggle, set a deadline of
5.25pm for any activity to
allow him to watch the
latest goings-on in
Ramsay Street.
Humphries, who
married Spender’s
daughter Lizzie, writes
that “few would dare” to
call upon Spender early in
the evening.
“On occasion I would
find myself at his house in
St John’s Wood having tea
with him at the Formica
kitchen table, and while
deep in a satisfying
discussion about the ghost
stories of Elizabeth
Bowen, I would notice a
shifty look coming into
the poet’s eyes, a tendency
to respond to my

perspicacious remarks
and observations with a
distracted ‘Yes’ and absent
nodding of the head,”
Humphries writes. “I
would glance at my watch
and realise that the time
was 5.25pm . . . I was told

that distinguished poets
and other visitors to the
house would find it
annoying to have the
convivial afternoon tea so
brutally interrupted and
one of them even
grumbled, ‘Darling

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Neighbours starred Jason
Donovan and Kylie Minogue.
Sir Stephen Spender, left,
and Barry Humphries, below

Stephen, you are just
mesmerised by all those
beautiful young bodies.
It reminds you of your
time in Berlin in the
Thirties.’ ”
Humphries recalls that
there was a similar trait

in Sir John Betjeman, the
only other poet he knew
well. “Betjeman regarded
6.30pm every evening as
sacrosanct, for that was
the time for Coronation
Street,” he said.
Betjeman, poet laureate
from 1972 to his death in
1984, regarded Corrie as a
20th-century version of
Charles Dickens’s The
Pickwick Papers.
Kingsley Amis, the
novelist, adored Benny
Hill and The Bill. Peter
Conrad, the literary critic,
likened a story of a cat
having cancer on an
episode of Animal
Hospital to King Lear.
Princess Margaret
had such a fondness
for The
Professionals,
the 1970s
crime show,
that she
invited its
stars Lewis
Collins and
Martin
Shaw to
Kensington
Palace to
discuss it.
Barry
Humphries on an
unlikely Neighbours fan,
Saturday Review, page 4

Calls for masks on trains
and ferries to curb Covid
Fariha Karim

Transport companies are joining
hospitals and NHS trusts in asking
people to wear facemasks again.
Although face coverings in England
are not required by law, some hospitals,
doctors’ surgeries and healthcare
providers are asking patients and staff
to wear masks amid a rise in Covid
rates.
Now passengers on trains, the
London Underground and ferries have
been asked to return to wearing masks.
Brittany Ferries has been requesting it
since the first week of this month. C2C,
the rail operator, also has started to
encourage passengers to wear masks.
This week Transport for London
emailed travellers about updates,
adding that “we continue to strongly
recommend” wearing a facemask,

although later it claimed the remark
was an error.
The number of people testing positive for the coronavirus in England
peaked in March then fell back. This
month numbers began to rise again,
with about one in seventeen people
infected at present.
The government suggests that
people in England continue to wear
face coverings in enclosed spaces, but
there is no way of legally enforcing it.
Last month NHS England said that
responsibility for infection control
decisions was a “matter for local discretion”. The University Hospital
Southampton NHS Trust said it had
decided “to reintroduce mask-wearing
. . . following a sharp rise” in Covid cases.
In Sussex, all NHS organisations have
reintroduced masks and NHS England
Midlands sent out a letter to providers

asking to review guidance with a view
to moving back to universal maskwearing for all staff.
Jackie Applebee, a GP in east
London, urged people to wear masks.
She told LondonWorld: “It’s far from
over. It’ll keep mutating and we’ll keep
getting new variants . . . but nobody is
wearing a mask.”
Brittany Ferries said the move back
to masks was because it had a duty of
care to its mature passengers as cases
rose in France and Britain. Transport
for London said asking commuters to
wear masks had been “a mistake”, and
added: “If people want to wear masks,
they should, but there is no strong
recommendation to do so.”
C2C passengers said there had been
public address announcements asking
them to wear masks. The operator did
not respond to requests for comment.

Surge in infections begins to level off
Eleanor Hayward
Health Correspondent

The summer wave of the coronavirus
appears to be peaking, with cases at the
highest level since April.
About one in 17 people are infected,
the weekly Office for National Statistics (ONS) infection survey found.
However, hospital admissions are fall-

ing and the increase in cases has started
to level off.
In total 3.76 million people in the UK
had the virus in the week ending July 13,
up from 3.5 million the week before.
Kara Steel, senior statistician for
the Covid-19 Infection Survey, said:
“Infections have, overall, continued to
increase in England, reaching similar
levels to those seen in April during the

Omicron BA.2 wave. [But] we are seeing
some uncertain trends in the latest data.
It is too early to say if this most recent
wave is starting to peak, but we will continue to closely monitor the data.”
The ONS figures, based on testing a
representative sample of the population, revealed that cases have started to
fall in children and young adults but are
increasing in over-50s.

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Andy Murray
sells mansion
for £5 million
Stuart MacDonald

Catch of the day An osprey carrying its lunch near Aviemore. The birds are well adapted to hunting fish, with semi-transparent eyelids that help them underwater

Sir Andy Murray has sold his former
home for almost £5 million after having
a new mansion built near by.
The two-times Wimbledon winner
put the property in Oxshott, Surrey, on
the market last year after moving with
his wife, Kim, and their four children.
The house has five bedrooms, a swimming pool, cinema room, sauna and
gym. Records show it sold for
£4,950,000, £28,000 more than the
£4,922,000 Murray paid in 2009.
Murray’s new home is a few miles
away in Leatherhead. He bought a
house there, with a tennis court in its
28 acres of grounds, in 2016. The
Murrays initially built an extension
before deciding to demolish it and build
a new house in its place.
Murray, 35, has said he intends to
spend more time in Scotland when he
retires from tennis but would remain
living in the south of England as long as
his family were happy there.

Welby: I’ll stay on if it’s good for the church
Kaya Burgess
Religious Affairs Correspondent

The Archbishop of Canterbury has said
that he will stay in post until he reaches
retirement age in 2026 if he remains in
good health and “people are happy”
that he is still there.
The Most Rev Justin Welby, 66, will
complete a decade in the role next
spring. If he continues until he reaches
70, the retirement age for clergy, in
January 2026, he will have reached
almost 13 years and be the longest-serving Archbishop of Canterbury in half a
century. The Most Rev Michael
Ramsey, later Lord Ramsey of Canterbury, retired in 1974 after just over 13
years. Lord Williams of Oystermouth
was archbishop for ten years, the Lord
Carey of Clifton and Lord Runcie for 11
and Lord Coggan for five.
“It’s not about me, it’s what’s best for
the church,” Welby said in an interview
with The Times ahead of the Lambeth
Conference, a once-a-decade gathering
of global Anglican leaders that starts

next week in Canterbury. “I will certainly take advice and if my health is
good and people are happy that I’m still
there, then I’ll still be there . . . it’s not
about me and what pleases me. It’s a decision that would be arrived at in
prayer, thoughtful consultation with
others, family, colleagues, friends.”
The archbishop has spoken about his
experiences of depression and said the
job can be “gruelling”, but added:
“Every stimulating job is gruelling and
will have tough moments. But I am still
enjoying myself enormously. It’s such a
privilege to do this job.”
Welby will face a challenge when
more than 650 Anglican archbishops
and bishops from around the world,
many with differing views on issues including sexuality, gather for prayer and
talks at the first Lambeth Conference
since 2008. The conference would have
been held in 2018 but differences over
some of those issues were so deep that
it was delayed to 2020 and then held up
further by the pandemic.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the

spiritual figurehead, seen as a “first
among equals”, for the Anglican Communion, a grouping of independent
Anglican churches with about 85 million worshippers, particularly in the
poorest regions of the world. Welby
said it is not an organisation with a
“pale, male and stale bloke at the top”.
Church leaders from Rwanda, Nigeria
and Uganda, representing half the
world’s Anglicans, are boycotting the
conference over moves by Anglican
churches in the US, Scotland and
Wales to conduct or bless same-sex
unions. They accused conference organisers of focusing on
“peripheral matters about
the environment and . . . disadvantaged communities”.
Welby said: “I’m concerned
. . . We will miss them. We regret
very much they won’t be there.”
He said those leaders were still
welcome, but that only one threehour session in the two-week
conference would be spent
discussing sexuality.

Welby said he would “like there to be
more awareness” among Church of
England members that they are part of
a global family in the Anglican Communion. He said it was time for the
body to “turn outwards after 30 years
[of] inward-looking” and said he wants
“Anglicanism to be seen as the first of
the global Christian denominations
which is profoundly involved in helping
the poorest with a changing world”.
The archbishop said he hoped Anglican leaders would issue calls at the
conference pledging to tackle climate change and continue leading efforts for “reconciliation”
in war-torn areas.
The Anglican Communion has set up a science commission in Oxford to share new
advances with poorer nations.
Welby said changes in science
and technology “will accelerate
over the next 30 or 40 years” and
Justin Welby says the job is
gruelling but stimulating

warned: “Exclusion from those will
leave the poorest parts of the world infinitely further behind the richest parts
of the world than they are now.”
The next Archbishop of Canterbury
will be chosen by a panel of 17 people,
which will include five representatives
from overseas Anglican churches after
a General Synod vote last week increased this overseas contingent from
one to five.
He called on Britain’s politicians to
provide “vision and imagination that
gives people hope” during the cost of
living crisis.
Welby faced anger from Boris Johnson and Conservative ministers after he
said in his Easter sermon that the policy
of deporting migrants to Rwanda could
not “stand the judgment of God”. He
said that “the idea that I shouldn’t be
political is a nonsense”.
He refused to be drawn on who he
would support in the Conservative
leadership contest but said Britain
“needs that leadership that will give
hope, particularly . . . to the poorest”.

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‘Catch Me If You Can’ PR man winds up latest firm owing £150,000
Ben Ellery

A company founded by the public relations mogul Paul Blanchard is being liquidated owing £150,000 to creditors,
while he posts photographs on social
media in the Bahamas with Tony Blair
and Bill Clinton.
The firm, CEO PR Ltd, was founded
by Blanchard, 47, and has advised celebrities and politicians.
Earlier this year while it was being
wound up Blanchard posted a tweet,
later deleted, from a beach, with the

caption: “OK I could get used to this”.
Three other businesses founded by
Blanchard, host of the podcast series
Media Masters, have been liquidated.
The Times can also reveal that bailiffs
who were sent to his house to retrieve
money he owed to a former employee
found him in his hot tub, before he ran
inside his home and locked the door.
Last year this newspaper revealed
Blanchard, a former Labour parliamentary candidate, wound up another
company owing £300,000 to HMRC.
One former corporate client said:

Paul Blanchard
fled bailiffs sent to
his home over
£13,000 he owed a
former employee

“This is a real life Catch Me If You Can.
What’s incredible is that his very business is founded on providing reputation
management advice — yet every
couple of years he’s embroiled in
another horrendous scandal.”

In May an insolvency petition was
lodged against the company. Also that
month Blanchard posted a photograph
from a cryptocurrency conference
where Clinton and Blair were speakers.
Another ex-client said: “In any other
profession he’d have been disbarred.”
He was visited by bailiffs at home in
Milton Keynes on behalf of Allie Dickinson, his former editor-in-chief, whom
a court ordered he pay £13,152 in wages.
The bailiff report said: “As the agent
pulled up on the driveway the debtor
was outside in a hot tub, he jumped out

SUSANNAH IRELAND FOR THE TIMES

Gurus accused
of sexually
abusing their
yoga students
Trainees are not being
protected from assault
by influential teachers,
their union claims.
By Will Humphries
When Clair Yates left the banking
world to become a yoga teacher she
thought she was joining an “ethical
profession”.
She soon discovered that the practice
has been tolerating sexual harassment
and abuse by teachers and leaders for
decades. “I get why people want to shut
their eyes,” Yates said. “No one wants to
face this but we need to because if we
don’t, we are complicit.”
Police forces across the country are
investigating at least five cases of sexual
abuse after the Yoga Teachers Union
(YTU) received numerous reports soon
after its creation in October 2020.
“We have had 39 separate members
make disclosures of sexual harassment
and abuse and our membership is pretty low,” Yates said from her home studio
in Sidcup, Kent. “Some members have
multiple disclosures. The cases range
from sexual assault during hands-on
Pattabhi Jois
was alleged to
have been a
predator

assists [when teachers help
students into positions],
going through to senior
teachers having serial
coercive sexual relationships with people
they are responsible
for teaching, grooming and all the way up
to rape.
“Women are coming forward
to us in such numbers because
there is nowhere else to go.
“The union wasn’t set up
to take disclosures. We
thought we would be talking
about pay.”
The union accuses the British
Wheel of Yoga (BWY), the national

governing body, of failing to offer sufficient regulation and of not providing
survivors of sexual offences with somewhere appropriate to report their cases.
Yates, 48, a member of the union’s
anti-sexual harassment working group,
said the governing body’s response had
been “woefully inadequate”.
She said: “The BWY was awarded
governing body status in 1995 but it’s a
messy situation because there are other
associations teachers can join and you
don’t need to be a member of an organisation at all if you don’t want to. As long
as you are insured you can teach.
“It’s totally unregulated. There is a
big opportunity for change but it feels
like the BWY doesn’t want to be that
organisation that leads the change.
“Currently if we are sexually harassed at work as yoga teachers we have
nowhere to turn, nowhere to report. We
are basically alone.”
Yates, who has been a yoga teacher
since 2011, was sexually assaulted by a
senior male teacher during continuing
professional development training.
“During the training a male teacher
came up to me without warning and
put his hand under the leg I had to the
side and slid his hand on to my buttock
and so far that his finger tip was on my
anus,” she said.
“My instinctive reaction was to
shout: ‘Oi! What is going on?’
“His reaction was to say:
‘What are you on about? This is
a standard assist.’
“What is putting his fingers
up my butt crease going to
do anatomically to help my
positioning? In any other environment that would be
considered sexual assault
but because it happens
in a yoga classroom
it is considered OK
amongst large parts
of the yoga teaching
community.”
Since the death in
2009 of Pattabhi Jois,
founder of the Ashtanga yoga practice, allegations
have emerged that he was
a sexual predator. He popularised many of the assists that have become
common among teachers.
Yates said: “Now we know it
was sexual abuse these assists

of the tub and locked doors. The agent
listed the hot tub for removal to see if
payment would be forthcoming, the
debtor called the police who advised
him they wouldn’t attend.”
He was also exposed by this newspaper in 2020 for making antisemitic
and homophobic remarks.
Blanchard denies any wrongdoing
and said that he resigned as director of
CEO PR Ltd in March. He said was appealing against the ruling made in favour of Dickinson. He added he was invited to the conference by a client.

Clair Yates says the yoga community must confront the widespread allegations of sex abuse and grooming by teachers

need to stop.” She said a long-held
secret in the yoga community was that
some senior male teachers abused their
positions of power when awarding
qualifications.
“Teacher training courses can last
years and sometimes teachers are
having multiple sexual relationships
with students,” she said. “There have
been cases where women have been
groomed, the spiritual teachings have
been manipulated . . . women have been
slowly moved along a path to serious
ritualised spiritual and sexual abuse.”
A survivor of this abuse, who wished
to remain anonymous, told The Times:
“The stakes were high. If I hadn’t gone
through with it, I would have been
shunned by the whole community.”
Gillian Shippey, 50, a yoga instructor
for 22 years, joined the YTU after seeking advice about having been groomed
and sexually abused more than 20
years ago while training to be a teacher.
She was in her early twenties and the
male instructor was 20 years older than
her. He is still running training courses.

“He abused his power,” Shippey,
based in York, said. “He worked on me
over several months and eventually I
trusted him and believed him.”
Shippey said clear boundaries had to
be set — teachers should not be having
sex with their students.
Another female yoga teacher, who
did not want to be named, said that
when she reported her experience of
being groomed into having sex with a
teacher to her membership organisation they “had no process, no protocol,
no resources and no boundaries”.
The YTU campaign, Safety &
Dignity at Work, a call to end sexual
violence, is urging all venues to have a
clear and visible sexual harassment
policy in yoga studios and gyms.
It wants awarding bodies to make
training in sexual harassment mandatory for all teachers and the governing
body and membership organisations to
introduce clear reporting mechanisms.
Hayley Johns, YTU secretary, said
the BWY complaints procedure was
available only to its members. There

was no guidance on what steps to take if
yoga teacher members abused their
position. She said most people in any
class would not be BWY members.
Johns asked: “How can a complaints
procedure be fit for purpose if it is not
accessible? A transparent complaints
procedure should be the bare minimum
for any ethical organisation.”
Diana O’Reilly, BWY chairwoman,
said the organisation had the “highest
ethical standards for our training and
accreditation courses”. She said the
body did not have the power to regulate
the policies that private venues displayed or to create mandatory training
for other organisations.
“What the BWY does is ensure our
teachers and those training with our
accredited associations understand
their responsibilities towards their
students,” she said. “Should a complaint
be made about one of our teachers . . .
the BWY will launch an anonymous
investigation. BWY has always had our
safeguarding details on our website for
members and non-members.”

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News

JCB family feud takes new twist

ALAMY

Jonathan Ames Legal Editor

Three members of the billionaire Bamford family behind the JCB empire have
clashed in a legal battle over its future.
The decade-long row started over allegations of lax corporate governance
at the tractor and building-site equipment company, which was founded in
1945 by Joseph Bamford and has an
annual turnover of more than £4 billion.
Richard Bamford, 59, the cousin of
Lord Bamford and his brother, Mark,
claimed that he was owed £2.6 million
for consultancy services. A High Court
judge has now dismissed that claim on
the basis that the cousin’s “success fee”
was only to be paid if the company had
been sold.
Mr Justice Jacobs came to that ruling
after hearing a complicated saga involving the running of the family company, which is based in Staffordshire.
Lord Bamford, 76, who became a
Conservative life peer in 2013, is JCB’s
chairman, having taken over from his
father in 1975, when he was 30. He is estimated to be worth £4.32 billion. Mark,
71, is a director of several branches of
the JCB business and also sits on the
board of the Conservative Foundation,
a fund-raising group for the Tory party.
The judge was told that there was a
dispute over Joseph Bamford’s will after
his death aged 84 in 2001. That wrangle
was settled three years later and his
sons began negotiations over the
ownership of JCB. In 2007 Mark raised
concerns over an alleged misuse of
corporate funds and weak corporate
governance at the JCB Group. That
triggered a meeting with the trustees

Lord Bamford, who became a Tory life peer in 2013, is chairman of the JCB empire and estimated to be worth £4.32 billion

who oversaw the family business, and it
was agreed that a so-called buy-sell
deal between the brothers would be
agreed, or that the corporate and family
governance regime would be overhauled.
The court was told that the sale of the
company was considered to the point
that it was referred to within the family
as Project Crakemarsh. At that time,
Richard provided advisory services to
Mark. An agreement between the two
men provided for two payments. The

first covered Richard’s advice to Mark
over negotiations with Lord Bamford
and the judge was told that there was no
dispute over that fee. However, the
second “success fee” was payable “on
the completion of Project Crakemarsh”,
and a row broke out between Mark and
Richard over whether it should be paid.
In his ruling, the judge said that the
agreement did not provide for a success
fee if the JCB Group was not sold.
Because the company was still owned
by the family, the judge said that

Richard’s claim “must be dismissed”.
The family row is not the first time JCB
has been involved in legal struggles.
The two brothers were previously
involved in a dispute over the
ownership of JCB Research, which
between 2001 and 2010 donated about
£2 million to the Conservatives.
Slaughter and May, the City law firm
that acted for Mark in the High Court
claim, declined to comment on the
result. Richard did not respond to a
request for comment.

Woman, 27, is
charged with
fiancé’s murder
A woman who has been accused of
stabbing her fiancé to death blew kisses
to her family yesterday when she
appeared in court charged with his
murder.
Blaze Wallace, 27, is accused of fatally
stabbing Samuel Mayo, 34, in southwest London.
Police found Mayo with stab wounds
on Lower Richmond Road, Mortlake,
at 10pm on Monday. He was taken to
hospital, but died shortly after arrival.
Wallace, of Richmond, was arrested
near the scene.
She appeared in custody at
Wimbledon magistrates’ court in south
London wearing a grey prison tracksuit
and spoke only to confirm her name.
She was remanded in custody ahead of
a pretrial hearing at the Old Bailey on
Tuesday.
As Wallace returned to the cells, she
blew kisses to members of her family
who were sitting together in court and
who left sobbing.
This week Superintendent Roger
Arditti, from the South West Command Unit, which covers Richmond,
said: “I would urge anyone who was in
the area around the time of the murder
and who saw anything they think could
assist the investigation to please get in
touch.
“You will also see local officers in and
around the area. They are there to help
and any residents who have concerns
should approach them and speak to
them.”

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England’s ‘terrier’ is ready to roar
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Match-winning scorer
Georgia Stanway will be
unstoppable if Lionesses
reach the Euro final,
writes Mario Ledwith
Kicking a football along the sideline as
a four-year-old while her brother
played with his boys’ under-8s team on
a Cumbrian playing field, Georgia
Stanway’s desire to succeed was already
taking shape.
When a coach, sensing the youngster’s eagerness to participate, invited
her to join the group of older boys, she
was on the pitch before he knew it.
“I jumped in and never looked back,”
she said of the formative experience in
Barrow-in-Furness, with her “terrier”
performances soon overwhelming
many of the boys.
As 9.1 million people nervously
watched the Lionesses’ quarter-final on
BBC One on Wednesday, it was Stanway who broke the stalemate, winning
the game against Spain with a strike
in extra time. She joked with teammates that the goal, which she has
struggled to remember amid the
delirium, had established her as a
“national hero”. Friends said the performance epitomised a relentless will to
succeed that developed in a male-dominated sport while growing up with
three brothers. Stanway, 23, was shown
no special treatment as she played with
her siblings, including her brother,
Wyll, 21, who plays for Chester FC in
the National League North.
Graham Fraser, 60, a former youth
coach at Furness Rovers, her first club,
said that while it was highly unusual for
a girl to play football in the town at the
time, she was unperturbed. “When she
played with my lads, half of them
wouldn’t even tackle her,” he said. “She
was like a terrier. She was a little
dynamo with bags of energy.”
Steve Liddicott, 69, the chairman of
the club, who also coached Stanway,
said: “She got the boys to raise their
game as she was always trying to prove
that she was better than them.”
Her sporting drive partly derives
from her parents, both PE teachers,
with the midfield player’s mother
Joanne a former athlete who represented Great Britain at the youth
Olympics. Paul, her father, is a fan of
endurance sports who describes himself as a “sportaholic”.
A close friend said: “She grew up in
quite a male and very, very competitive
environment. That’s one of the reasons
I think she is so aggressive at times on
the pitch.”
Stanway
credits her
parents, who
are separated,
with “sacrificing
their
lives” to fulfil
her rise in the
sport.
Devoid of
opportunities
to progress in
local all-girls
teams, at the
age of 11 she
joined Blackburn
Rovers
FC’s academy,
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her
parents undertaking
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hour round trips to Lancashire.
The
schedule often left Stanway having to
do her homework on her lap in the car.
Having been unaware that a professional career was an option for a

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Euphoria recalled the joy of Euro 96 Next
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t was a mass euphoria I had
never witnessed before. The
disbelief, the entertainment, the
frenzy as the goals went in at
Euro 96 in England’s 4-1 win
over the Netherlands. It was my first
major game of live football as a
spectator and it’s never quite been
the same since. Until last week,
when, buoyed by the opportunity to
watch England in the European
championship, I saw the Lionesses
annihilate Norway 8-0 in Brighton.
Both games passed by in a flash
and after each experience I knew I
had just seen something special. The
exhilarated shock afterwards, what
Georgia Stanway
scored in extra
time to send
England to the
Euro semi-finals.
She credits her
mother and father,
left, with her
transformation
from a young fan
into a star of the
national side

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just happened there? After the
Holland game, strangers were
hugging, voices wobbling from the
exuberance. As we left Wembley, we
heard tales of old, games that had
come close but fans knew would
never quite compare. The crowd at
Brighton last week were equally
blown away.
It hasn’t stopped there. In
England’s dicey 2-1 win against Spain
in the quarter-finals, you could see
the players sucking up the energy of
the crowd, again at Brighton, to help
see them through from a goal down.
“Toone” ringing out from the stands
when Ella, the young Manchester
United star, was subbed on, and
again when she scored the goal that
got the Lionesses back in the game.
There has been some criticism
about the size of venues, but when

the bid was assembled by the FA
four years ago women’s football was
in a different place. It’s grown
exponentially since then.
The magic of following England at
this Euros is everyone’s welcome.
The women’s game has always been
more inclusive than the men’s, it’s a
safe space whoever you are,
whatever you stand for.
Fans’ favourite “It’s coming home”
was born at Euro 96 and at Brighton
last week it swirled around the
crowd as fresh as the first day it
aired at Wembley, encouraged by
fans attending their first major game.
I hope they’ll be spared the 26-year
wait to experience it all over again.

landing her promotional deals with
companies such as Nike and EA Sports,
the video games company.
Although she has won plaudits from
stars such as Ian Wright, the former
Arsenal star who sent her a message
after the quarter-final, one of her
biggest fans in the world of sport is her
boyfriend. Olly Ashall-Bott, 24, a rugby
league player who has been going out
with Stanway since 2018, described her
as a “hero” after Wednesday
night’s game. The full back,
who plays for Toulouse, said last
year how he “looks up” to his girlfriend for inspiration in his own
sporting career, which was hindered by early injuries.
The couple, who have a home in
Widnes, Cheshire, will begin a
longer-distance relationship next
year after Stanway’s recent transfer
to Bayern Munich. Asked about their
future last year, Stanway said: “I’ve
got trophies that I want to lift before I
lift any children up.” Ashall-Bott has
had to watch the Euros from afar owing

to his own schedule, although he hopes
to attend the final if England make it —
before the couple go on holiday.
Friends say Stanway will be undaunted if England progress to the final. Such
coolness is likely to serve her well if the
desire to become a police officer after
her football career is over comes to
pass. England fans will be hoping the
career change is some time off.

Kait Borsay is a presenter for Times
Radio and co-founder of The Offside
Rule podcast

Falling in love with Wiegman, Sport

actually fit
Molly Hudson

As the European championship creates
millions of viewers for women’s football, budding female players may
struggle to find boots that fit them.
Nearly all boots for sale on the high
street are designed for male anatomy.
Fifa estimates there are 30 million
female players globally and wants to
double that number by 2026. Yet the
vast majority play in boots designed for
boys or men.
Mainstream manufacturers do sell
women’s boots, but many are simply
smaller versions of men’s boots. And
they are often more expensive.
“The system isn’t set up for women,”
said Laura Youngson, co-founder of Ida
Sports, which has created a boot custom-designed for the female foot. “The
industry term is ‘shrink it and pink it’.
‘Let’s start with the man’s, whatever it is,
shrink it for women, slap pink on it and
sell it.’ ”
The differences between male and
female feet include a wider toe box and
a narrower heel cup in women. Ida’s
boot has extra studs to support the inner foot. Many players, including the
England team, will wear
boots designed by big
manufacturers such as Nike
and adidas, under sponsorship
deals.
However, some players in
the Women’s Super League,
England’s professional domestic division, have worn the Ida
boot. They include Veatriki
Sarri, a Greek international
forward who has signed for
Brighton & Hove Albion. “It is
not just a pink boot, it’s a boot
designed to fit women’s feet,
which is amazing,” Sarri said.

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Secret report tells
of bullying and
racism by judges
Catherine Baksi
Jonathan Ames Legal Editor

Fasta la vista Six Boris Johnsons appeared to be among the competitors in the RNLI raft race on the River Brit in Dorset

Widespread allegations of bullying and
racism by judges are revealed in a secret
report commissioned by the senior
judiciary.
Focus groups that included senior
judges cited examples of bullying and
“exclusionary behaviour,” according to
a statement posted by the lord chief justice on the judicial intranet this week.
The research was commissioned this
year by the judicial executive board,
which includes the nine most senior
judges in England and Wales.
Its results emerged after judges
claimed to have been bullied or experienced or witnessed sexual, racial and
class discrimination — some to such an
extent that they felt suicidal or required
time off work, they said.
For the latest research, an equality
consultancy was asked to “gain a better
understanding of inclusion, bullying,
harassment and discrimination issues”.
In what Lord Burnett of Maldon, the
lord chief justice and most senior judge
in England and Wales, called a “frank
appraisal of what they observed”, he
said the researchers “identified some
examples of behaviours described by
participants in engagement groups
which amount to bullying”.
Burnett said the research also
“pointed to examples of exclusionary
behaviours that would not be classed as
bullying, but could nonetheless have a
significant adverse impact on those
who experience them”.
These “incivilities or microaggressions”, he said, “can be unintentional”
and included “comments based on stereotypical assumptions about another
judge’s background, the mispronunciation or misspelling of names and groups
that make others feel unwelcome”.
Burnett’s summary said that the
work was commissioned as “internal
research” and that the judiciary “do not
intend to publish the findings”.
As a result of the report, he said,
“there is a need to take action to foster

a more consistently inclusive culture
throughout the judiciary”, including
training for leadership and fostering an
“inclusive working environment”.
Burnett has asked the Judicial College to develop training to help judges
“understand better the impact of any
exclusive behaviours” and “encourage
working practices and a working environment in which judicial holders
from all backgrounds can thrive”.
Burnett said: “There is no place for
bullying in the judiciary and all reported instances will be dealt with firmly
through the relevant policies.”
The Times has previously reported
allegations made by judges of serious
bullying and harassment. One judge
said that the behaviour occurred on an
“industrial scale” and another said “the
casual racism and sexism among the judiciary made me feel like an extra on
[the 1970s sitcom] Love Thy Neighbour”.
Last year, Claire Gilham, a district
judge who said she was bullied, ignored
and undermined, received a payout
from the Ministry of Justice for alleged
harassment and disability discrimination after a ten-year legal fight.
Peter Herbert, a retired black judge,
settled a claim last year against the judiciary for bullying after being suspended
over a speech he made in 2015.
Kaly Kaul QC, a crown court judge, is
suing the lord chief justice and the Ministry of Justice over claims that senior
judges bullied her after she complained
about “disrespectful” barristers appearing before her in a lengthy trial.
The Judicial Support Network was
launched last year by a group of judges,
including Kaul, and has alleged that
bullying by senior judges often targets
ethnic minority and women judges.
Last year, Emilie Cole, a solicitor at
the law firm Cole Khan, who acted for
Gilham, said her firm had heard of
many cases of “bullying, harassment
[and] discrimination” from judges.
A spokesman for the judiciary said
that office holders would be informed
of any action taken as a result of the
report.

Disabled drivers warned
over blue badges in Europe
Disabled British drivers have been
warned about using their blue badges in
popular European holiday destinations
because they may not be accepted after
Brexit.
Ministers are still negotiating with 11
nations on the status of UK blue badges,
which were recognised across the
European Union until Britain left the
bloc in 2020.
France, Spain, Portugal, Greece and
Italy are among countries “undecided”
about whether British blue badges will
be recognised, according to the UK
government website. The others are
Iceland, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Romania and Slovenia.
The AA said the situation was “simply unacceptable” and warned that disabled drivers could leave themselves
open to parking fines if they used their
permits in those countries.
The government has told badgeholders to “check with the embassy of
the country you are travelling to for the
latest developments”. However, the
motoring association said consulates

had insisted they could not issue advice
to disabled drivers until an agreement
was reached.
Jack Cousens, head of roads policy at
the AA, said: “To keep blue badge users
in limbo is simply unacceptable. Blue
badges are issued because of specific
health reasons and to not have their
status confirmed two years down the
line is simply outrageous. We would
encourage blue badge users to use
drop-off and collection zones where
possible while the car is parked in a
non-disabled bay. While problematic, it
reduces the risk of a vehicle being given
a ticket or towed away.
“While the government website asks
blue badge users to ask the consulates
for further advice on if their blue badge
would be accepted, most could not provide any assurances or advice to the
AA. The UK government and the 11
European nations yet to ratify the status of UK-issued blue badges need to
resolve the matter urgently.”
The Department for Transport was
contacted for comment.

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The scientists who are inventing
a way out of climate change
Weekend essay
Pages 32-33

Comment

To win this fight, Sunak must make it personal
If the former chancellor’s ‘sound money’ message is to prevail he’ll need to drop the courtesy and rip Liz Truss apart
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elieve nothing you hear
from rune-readers about the
national membership of the
Conservative party and its
supposed opinions. Neither
the list of names nor even its size are
public knowledge. How accurate and
up-to-date the party’s London HQ
is with its records must also be
doubted: I continued to receive its
emails long after I resigned my own
membership. I understand, too, that
there’s been a good deal of “churn”
this year, throwing into question
confident claims that Tory
membership stands at 200,000.
It briefly did in 2021. Insiders think
it has since dropped.
Nor should you accept the media
caricature of a collection of pucefaced retired brigadiers, and matrons
in Pringle sweaters and tight white
perms. The party has its quotient
of these — let’s call them Sir Robert
and his wife Caroline (her MBE for
charity and magistrates’ work).
Grandparents may outnumber
their grandchildren among the
membership but average ages are
only guesses, and an informed guess
would put this in the high fifties.
Nearly a third of the British
population are over 55, and some 40
per cent are 50-plus. In age terms,
your average Tory member is not so
very far off the national average.
Yet age is not the only marker. We
need to consider income and social
class too. So if we’re talking “typical”
members, here’s another group that
are neither wrinkled nor wealthy.
Well-represented in “red wall” local
Conservative associations are the

small-town shopkeeper, car dealer,
borough councillor, café owner or
self-employed contractor. A butcher’s
grandson myself, I recognise this
model of Tory: socially conservative,
irritable about public spending and
only roused to anything approaching
passion by local government red
tape. Let’s call them after my
grandparents: Frank W Parris
(“High-class family butcher” it said
over our shop in Penge, southeast
London) and his wife, Frances.
Frank belongs to the Masons, and
his application to join the Bromley
golf club is pending.
Third, don’t overlook the Tory boys.
Well-represented and in his (less
often, her) twenties or early thirties,
he’s puppy-like in his adoration of a
somewhat pantomime-dame idea of
Margaret Thatcher, and excels at
affectionate impersonations of her.
He and his friends are very
accessible to pollsters: IT-literate and
social media-visible, he’s informed,

Truss’s approach to
economic management
is daft and dangerous
unnaturally interested in politics,
and often more radically right-wing
than his grandparents. I remember
this type from my own days in
politics. Let’s call him Connor.
Connor will be noisy for Liz Truss.
Frank and Frances like the sound of
Truss too, and are tilting slightly her
way, but Frances does Frank’s
bookkeeping and they’re both
neuralgic about mortgages and debt.
Rishi Sunak’s strictures against
socialist fairytales hit home with
them, as does the expression “sound
money”. They don’t mind him being
rich but (they privately wonder) is
a brown person like this really,

completely English? I say “wonder”.
They are persuadable.
You may be surprised that despite
his service medals and her pearls,
Sir Robert and his wife are pretty
wary about Truss and her pledge
of immediate, unfunded tax cuts,
regardless of the economic weather.
After a decade on the magistrates’
bench Caroline is not unmindful of
the problems poverty brings. Neither
of the couple can put their finger on
it but they think there’s something
distinctly odd about Truss, and
they’re tilting Sunak’s way. They
don’t care about either his wealth
or his race, and would if anything
feel proud if someone of Indian
heritage were to lead the party.
Crude stereotypes, I concede, but
in its membership the Tory party
is by no means homogenous, and
has a curious diversity all its own.
Whenever you hear about “Tory
activists”, always remember the
vast majority of Tory members are
anything but active politically and
notice the news only in passing.
As for being “grassroots”, we’d do
better to draw our metaphor from
herbaceous borders.
So whenever you hear claims to
know the mind of this strange tribe,
always remember Edmund Burke:
“Because half a dozen grasshoppers
under a fern make the field ring with
their importunate chink, whilst
thousands of great cattle, reposed
beneath the shadow of the British
oak, chew the cud and are silent,
pray do not imagine that those who
make the noise are the only
inhabitants of the field.”
Remember, too, that it is MPs
and not party members for whom
“winning the next election” may be
the most pressing thing. Lose it, and
scores of them will lose their jobs,
while all will lose the possibility of
ministerial office. But the national

Rishi Sunak trails in the polls but many
Tory members are still undecided

membership have no skin in this
game, and care more about who
will be able to lead an effective and
successful government. I’ve already
heard supporters expressing
irritation that the media keep talking
about choosing an election winner
rather than a good prime minister.
Many (probably most) cardcarrying members honestly haven’t
made up their minds yet, and it’s
early days. They will genuinely listen,
but what are their first impressions?
I sense a weak but nagging
antipathy towards Sunak. The
accusation that he “betrayed” his
leader has registered. The charge is
rebuttable, so on the positive side a
Sunak charm offensive is called for.
And on the negative side, he’ll need
to dismantle Truss.
We’ll never know the final balance
of MPs’ preferences (which of Truss

and Sunak would Penny Mordaunt’s
parliamentary backers have
preferred) but with the national
membership it’s now Truss’s to lose.
Sunak is the challenger. Against his
rather courteous instincts, he and his
team will have to be merciless. Sunak
will need to go for her: go for her
with all guns blazing, burning bridges
and destroying all hope of
reconciliation. He must attack like
there’s no tomorrow because if he
loses then for him and for his kind of
Tory there will be no tomorrow and
he might as well pack his bags and
move on.
This cannot avoid being personal.
It may rip the Tories beyond healing,
but the split is an unbridgeable gulf
between conservatism and populism,
and someone has to win. Sunak
must forget all thoughts of the
Clintonesque tactic, “triangulation”
— trying to find a way of appealing
to Truss’s supporters without
confronting their beliefs. Her
approach to economic management
is daft and dangerous. There’s
no triangulating that.
In this contest, the brigadier Sir
Robert (retd) and Caroline, Frank
and Frances, and young Connor, are
looking at two candidates, one of
them a steady and experienced
grown-up, the other a seriously
crazy careerist. She’s crackers. She’s
reckless. Her ambition is boundless
and her thinking only inches deep.
There’s no way to confront this
madness except head-on. The weeks
ahead will be a cage fight. They
ought to be.

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Carol Midgley Notebook

Hot weather
is no excuse
for ditching
a suit and tie

‘P

oor Prince Charles” sighed
the public as he visited
Cornwall in runwaymelting heat wearing not
only a full suit, tie, socks
and shoes but cufflinks and a pocket
square. Others sniggered that this was
typically “stuffed shirt” and he should
lighten up. It just made me nostalgic.
If only more dressed likewise.
Because Charles was channelling
every 1950s northern grandad. There
are old photos of my grandad Victor,
who lied about his age to fight in the
First World War and was injured at

Ypres, in a deckchair on
Blackpool beach wearing
a suit, shirt and tie, the only
concession to summer his
trousers rolled up to reveal
a slim ankle (no one was
fat then). Around him
every man is similarly
attired. Heat was no excuse
to let standards slip.
Meanwhile, this
week I got the full, eyebleeding “builder’s bum”
experience from a man in
baggy shorts walking his
dog. I’ll never unsee it.
And “barefoot guys”,
kicking off sandals and
putting your dirty bare
trotters, like the gnarly hoofs
of a Sumatran rhino, on
pub chairs — please, no.
Lidl says its only dress
code is that customers
must wear shoes. You mean
some don’t? I’ve seen women in
Asda wearing G-string bikini

bottoms. Sorry to sound all Mary
Whitehouse but no one wants to
see wobbly, pocked
buttocks when
choosing plums.

Sour faced

S

kittles, those
tarty sweets that
make you gurn
like a bulldog licking
a nettle, are “unfit for
human consumption”
because they contain
titanium dioxide, a
“known toxin” alleges
a US lawsuit. Ah well.
They’ve only been a
children’s party staple
for the past 30 years. A
YouTube video shows a
man eating 5lb of sour
Skittles until the skin
peels off his tongue. That
said, you get the same effect
with pickled onion Monster
Munch and I find them delicious.

Gulls will be gulls

A

Paris councillor believes rats
are unfairly stigmatised and
should be renamed “surmulots”.
I know this will be an equally
unpopular view but I feel similarly
about seagulls. Terrible acts of cruelty
are visited on them because they’ve
become a bit cocky. Some people
were outraged when firefighters
rescued a seagull caught in netting on
a roof in Hereford. “Waste of
taxpayers’ money!” went the cry. Oh
please. Wouldn’t you rather live in a
society that doesn’t watch a creature
slowly die to save a few quid? I know
many think seagulls are feathered
thugs but I love their uppity swagger,
even when they dive-bomb my ice
cream. Humans have encroached
hugely on wildlife habitat, so we
can’t complain when they return fire.
My friend, out “wild” swimming,
saw a seagull with a broken wing.
“Ignore it; it’ll be dead by morning,”
said a fellow swimmer. She scooped

it up in a towel then rang around to
find a local seagull saviour. Good
woman. It’s now recovering. And
probably soon coming for your chips.

Pussy riot

F

inally I’m at one with Edwina
Currie. We both think pussy bow
blouses, as worn by Liz Truss
copying Margaret Thatcher, are
hideous. Currie called them an “awful
look”, which “didn’t work in the
Seventies and Eighties and doesn’t
work now”. Miaow! But she’s right.
They are fussy, prissy affairs evoking
Mrs Slocombe. When women began
getting executive jobs, they were the
female twist on the necktie, though
with that toe-curling word. Ugh.
Some US stores call them “secretary
blouses” which is equally reductive.
But mostly I hate them because,
unless you’re flat-chested, they make
you resemble an all-in wrestler.

@carolmidgley

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Comment

Oh gosh, darling, must you speak like a local?
It starts with the little things, like pants and poop, and before you know it your expat kid sounds like a Brooklyn gangster
Will
Pavia

@willpavia

I

f you’re an expat raising children
in the United States, there’s one
thing that really fascinates and
horrifies the folks back home.
Even more, I think, than the
prospect of the little darlings
cowering under their school desks
in the obscene ritual known as
an active shooter drill, there’s the
thought that Giles and Lucia
might grow up with an American
accent. This is really the most
appalling prospect of all.
With it comes a vision of what life
would be like. You’re sitting there
having a cup of tea and an imported
Hobnob, when a voice cries: “Gee
willikers, pops, I gotta have three
bucks for a cream soda.”
Then their friends are there,
hollering and buddy-boying each
other like the cast of West Side Story
while you stand alone, smiling
pleasantly like the foreign exchange
student in the school staff room, the
speech by the banished Duke of
Norfolk in Richard II echoing in your
head: “The language I have learn’d
these forty years, my native English,
now I must forgo. And now my
tongue’s use is to me no more than
an unstringed viol or a harp.”
I mean, it’s not quite as bad as that.
The duke had to go to Venice and
mingle with Italians. Your progeny
are at least speaking a form of
English. Why does the thought

that they might do it like Americans
inspire such particular horror?
If they all developed Scottish
accents, you wouldn’t mind at all.
Or if they all began to sound faintly
Scandinavian, like tiny UN
secretaries-general, that would be
fine too. Very unexpected, but fine.
Recently the actor Cillian Murphy
told an interviewer that he had
moved his family back to Ireland
because his children had developed
very posh English accents. He didn’t
like it. I imagine the kids looking up
at him as he clutched the car keys
and saying: “Must we go, pater?
What a terrible bore.” His feelings for
received pronunciation presumably
correspond to an Englishman’s
twitchiness about his offspring
becoming fully formed Americans.
A friend of mine from
Lincolnshire, who is raising kids in
Chicago, has both feelings at once
and finds himself fighting a battle
on two fronts: to keep his children’s
vowels northern and flat, and to

I felt a kinship with my
father, who worried
we would say ‘toilet’
fend off the inevitable advance of
America in their voices.
For him it’s partly about alienation
— the thought that he has strayed so
far from where he came. But it’s also
about American soft power, isn’t it?
It must be, because the French in
New York have it too. For them, an
American accent in their children is
properly terrifying: worse, even, than
a well-cooked steak or the thought
no one else is sleeping with their wife.

Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood seemed
to spend the Crusades in California

It is the prospect of global
hegemony in the kitchen. It is all the
exported television shows and films
and ideas, the arguments from
college campuses that hopscotch
across the Atlantic and somehow
become ours too. It’s one thing
when it’s on Channel 4. It’s quite
another when America is banging
about in your home, eating
everything in the fridge.
This must be what drove me to
alter words in bedtime stories,
installing pavements and car
bonnets. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
didn’t even rhyme the way I told it.
But at least we weren’t saying pants
when we meant trousers.
With our eldest, initially it was
a roaring success. No one in New
York could understand him. A
paediatrician told us he had a speech
delay and needed therapy. But it was

just that he had an English accent.
Teachers would speak of it with
baffled amusement and I would feel
pride, akin to the feeling a new
father has when someone says the
baby looks just like him.
An old friend from Utah, meeting
the kids for the first time in a while,
looked at me as if I was Henry
Higgins in Pygmalion, with a little
band of Elizas. “You should write a
book,” she said. “On how to raise
your children in New York and have
them all sound British.”
I would do it too, though even
then the game was up. There had
been some notable setbacks. The
word “poop”, for instance. Whenever
I heard my offspring saying it, as
they started to do continually, I felt
a piece of my soul shrivel and die.
I felt a kinship then with my father,
a man who worried that all of his
progeny would start speaking as if
they came from the wrong side of
the A3. The point of no return, for
him, was the thought that we might
say “toilet” instead of “lavatory”.
It pushed him to extremes. “I would
rather you said shithouse than
toilet,” he would tell us. Now
here was I, dying on the same
scatological hill.
For steadily, of course, I was
overwhelmed. America
overwhelmed me. The younger
children were the first to go. It
seemed, each time, that their
personality had a lot to do with
it. The middle child is the sort of
fellow who stares longingly at
pick-up trucks, driven by bearded
men in Yankees caps — he seemed
almost from the start to talk as if
he was raised by a street gang in
Brooklyn. The eldest, who is a

little more impressionable, still
has the ghost of an English accent
and must sound, I suppose, like
Katharine Hepburn in The
Philadelphia Story.
At least I think he does. The
strange thing is that I can’t really
tell. I can’t hear it. My siblings do
impressions of them, making them
sound like characters from Gossip
Girl, and I don’t know what they are
talking about. Your children loom so

Initially it was a success.
No one in New York
understood our eldest
large in your life, their personalities
like planets, so enormous that you
can’t see round them.
It’s a bit like seeing Kevin Costner
in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and
not quite noticing or minding that
the hero sounds as if he spent the
Crusades in southern California.
It is Kevin Costner, you say to
yourself. He is Robin Hood. Of
course he is. It’s fine. It actually
works rather well: all those speeches
about one free man defending
his land sound better with an
American accent.
So it is with your children. How
they got here, what they really sound
like, how the rest of the world sees
them: you only have the vaguest idea
about all these things. They are the
heroes in your story now and you
can only watch, enthralled, as they
take over the woods.
Will Pavia is New York correspondent
Giles Coren is away

Miriam Darlington Nature Notebook

Domestic
bliss follows
a quick life
on the ledge

I

t was already scorching when we
boarded the MS Oldenburg in
Ilfracombe on the north Devon
coast. We were heading for the
tiny island of Lundy. Three miles
long and half a mile wide, this
granite outcrop sits where the Bristol
Channel meets the Atlantic. The
sky was bright as beaten zinc.
Sun-dazed, enduring the heat
and craving cool from the limp
breeze, we crawled westward on
our faithful old craft. I wanted
dolphins, and scoured the
velvet calm with my
binoculars: I found only
guillemot pairs, devoted
dads bobbing alongside
their newly fledged
youngsters. The juveniles,
who each had recently
performed death-defying
plummets from their
crowded cliff-edge
colonies at just three

weeks old, were now being coached
in seafaring survival.
Guillemots, below, spend their
whole lives at sea and only frequent
the rocky coastline when it’s time to
breed. The youngsters, who a short
time ago were tucked on ledges in
their pear-shaped eggs, were still
coated in their soft pre-adult
plumage. Some seemed alone,
looking around nervously. Had they
lost their parent? But each time the
male resurfaced from the fishing
deep-dive that is the most impressive
among all our seabirds. They can
dive to a maximum of 180m but that
is an extreme, the Lundy warden
Rosie later told me. There were the
low-skimming Manx shearwaters
and our biggest seabird, the
gannets, and the odd
razorbill, but for the dramatic
mix of diving charisma and
domestic devotion, the guillemots
were my most beloved.
When the snaggle-tusks of
the island’s 400ft cliffs loomed
nearer, and towered yet
higher, the idea crept upon me
that I had unfairly judged this
15 million-year-old granite bulk
in the sea. I had thought it
wouldn’t live up to expectations,
but there is always something
magnetic about islands, and the
smaller the better.
Approaching, we could smell

its kingdom of salt-spray and
meadows, the green and gold of its
grassy flanks visible on the eastern
approach, and higher up, its peaty
moorland and shivering cotton grass,
like a tiny version of Dartmoor.
From the aquamarine depths a
dark-wet head snoozily bobbed, its
whiskered nose tipped skyward,
bottling in the gelatinous water.
Another Atlantic grey seal peered,
glistening in the gurgly tidal race.
Lundy’s peak population is now 250
of these hulking beasts, the guide
told us. Unusually friendly here,
the seals can sometimes become
playful with divers, initiating games
of fin-pulling and kiss chase. Seals
should never be approached, and so
encounters like these should always
be on the seals’ terms.

Sea of wonders

A

shoal of little, long fishes
swirled around us, also
unafraid. Sand eels, I realised
later, the main food item of many of
our seabirds, especially the puffins
who nest here each summer. The
sand eels are essential puffin food,
squishy enough to feed the single
pufflings in their burrows, packed in
beakfuls of ten, 20 or more. Lundy is
named after these puffins, who must
have been breeding on the windy
Atlantic cliffs on the west-facing side
of the island for thousands of years:

nine-metre tidal range, nutrient-rich
waters positioned where estuarine
waters meet the Atlantic — Lundy
became the UK’s first marine nature
reserve and first marine conservation
zone. As a recognised protected area,
it’s a successful blueprint for how we
could and should be caring for the
precious marine habitats that wrap
the spectacular archipelagic coasts of
the British Isles.

Pod casts its magic

The waters around Lundy are home to
many corals including the pink sea fan

“lund” is old Norse for puffin, and
“ey” means island. Puffin Island.
People only came later and Bronze
Age remains show this place has been
important to humans for millennia.
The waters around Lundy are
especially inviting for wildlife —
several jellyfish pulsed into view as
we watched, their deceptively gentle
tresses floating in the teal-deep
waters with their translucent,
patterned bodies and threatening
stings. Moon jellies, compass and
blue jellyfish inhabit these precious,
waters which are also internationally
important for corals — rare and
unusual sunset, scarlet and gold cup
corals, and fragile pink sea fans that
can survive up to 50 years.
Due to its unique conditions — the

L

eaving, we looked back at the
rocky fastness, the towering heft
of the cliffs, and swore to come
back. As the sun beat down on our
return to the mainland all eyes
sleepily gazed on the pinkening sky
and sea. Then something jinked,
breaking the water’s surface. The
quick gleam of a dorsal fin, and
another, and another. There they
were at last: slender, jumping clear,
their glassy pattern of silver-grey and
gold sides gleaming with sky and
ocean. A whole pod of dolphins.
Shining, playing and diving, they
accompanied us home, emblazoning
themselves deep in our streaming
eyes.

Miriam Darlington’s most recent book is
Owl Sense

@MimDarling

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Soldiers should not be buying sex anywhere
The MoD is right to ban troops from foreign brothels but using prostitutes at home or abroad is inherently abusive
Janice
Turner

@victoriapeckham

F

or centuries brothels were
part of military planning,
prostitution seen as an
auxiliary service, vital for the
men’s morale. The French
army had Bordels Militaires de
Campagne, trailer trucks each
containing ten women which
followed battalions servicing, in
order of rank, soldiers who’d line up
with a ticket, a condom and a towel.
In France’s colonial campaigns
these mobile units were staffed by
young Algerian or Vietnamese
women, sold by relatives into
servitude. The Japanese imperial
army rounded up “comfort women”
in occupied Korea or China, local
girls who believed they were to
become nurses. Throughout the
Second World War Germany had its
official military brothels stocked with
pretty Polish or Russian girls
snatched off the street.
These women, who were
brutalised, forced to have sex with 50
men a day, made pregnant and then
ostracised by their families so they
could never return home, are rarely

mentioned in military histories.
Their purpose was to keep the troops
biddable. Besides, with a cadre of
designated women to rape, it was
hoped soldiers might leave civilians
alone and not catch venereal disease.
The British Army approach was
less formal: tolerate but don’t
condone men who far from home
might line up outside “red lamp”
knocking shops in the Somme. Even
in this decade, it turned a blind eye
to hundreds of troops deployed to
Kenya for hot weather training
having sex with prostitutes through
chain-link fences or taking a brace
of girls off to £10-a-night hotels.
When Agnes Wanjiru, a
hairdresser driven into sex work
to feed her baby, was killed and
stuffed into a septic tank, squaddies
at a British base in Kenya covered
up the death, then laughed about it
on WhatsApp groups. The army
washed its hands and the murder
remains unsolved.
It took this scandal, brilliantly
exposed by Sunday Times journalists,
to bring the British military into the
#MeToo era. The MoD has
announced that from now on it will
prohibit “all sexual activity which
involves the abuse of power,
including buying sex while abroad”.
This has been met with much
derision: how can it be policed, why
should “consensual” acts be subject
to court martial, what about men’s

sexual needs? But as the defence
secretary, Ben Wallace, says: “Life
has moved on, it is a different
generation”.
Indeed it would be hypocritical
for the government not to act. After
Oxfam was involved in a series of sex
abuse scandals following the 2010
Haitian earthquake, including
trading sex for basic supplies and
hiring locals for staff orgies, it was
denied UK aid contracts. When
further Oxfam scandals emerged in
the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC) the ban remained. How can it

Research shows trading
money for consent
reduces empathy
be wrong for charity workers to
exploit vulnerable women but fine
for British soldiers?
The Oxfam scandal exposed the
sexual impunity of staff at many
NGOs operating in developing
nations. There is something
particularly grotesque about a
western aid worker, high on his
own virtue, bartering with a young
mother after a natural disaster: sleep
with me and here’s a box of baby
milk. But is it any better if money
is traded instead?
The United Nations classes such
prostitution as exploitation. From

Haiti to Sierra Leone, its
peacekeeping forces have been
implicated in sex scandals. In the
1990s blue helmets were found to
frequent brothels in Bosnia and
Kosovo staffed by trafficked women,
and in Cambodia where girls were
under age. Peacekeepers in the
DRC were found to have bought
sex with two eggs from their ration
packs. In Liberia, a 2016 report
found half of women in Monrovia
had turned to prostitution, with
75 per cent of clients being
peacekeepers. UN presence was
debasing a whole community.
It is almost 20 years since the UN
secretary-general Kofi Annan
announced peacekeepers should be
“discouraged” from engaging in
sexual relations with locals they
are supposed to be assisting, since
there is an “inherently unequal
power dynamic”. Not that Annan’s
words stopped the abuse. But it is
right that the British Army is now
pledging the same.
Inherent in the tolerance of
soldiers buying sex is the belief it
prevents rape, as if prostitutes are
a buffer zone, dehumanised to
protect virtuous women. But
research shows men who buy sex
are more likely to rape: trading
money for consent reduces empathy,
makes a man believe only his
pleasure counts and increases
his likelihood of partner abuse.

Sarah Everard’s killer, Wayne
Couzens, a prolific punter who
paraded escorts to his police
colleagues, tried to book a prostitute
just after he’d disposed of Sarah’s
body. Read any review on “punter”
websites where men rate women’s
bodies, obedience and enthusiasm,
marking them down if they balk at
painful demands.
The question is not why soldiers
should be banned from foreign
brothels, but why only abroad. What
prostitution is not a “sexual activity
that involves the abuse of power”? In
Germany’s legalised super-brothels,
women, many trafficked from
Romania or Africa, must sleep with
six men a night before they’ve even
paid their brothel rent. It is not a
“job like any other” if basic health and
safety — from avoiding contact with
bodily fluids, unwanted touching or
even violence — cannot be enforced.
The vast majority of prostitutes are
not swinging Belle de Jours but were
abused as children, lured in by pimpboyfriends and muffle their pain
with drugs or alcohol.
Ben Wallace is right: this is a new
generation. It is time that the Nordic
model, which decriminalises sex
work but makes buying it a crime and
has been adopted in France, Ireland
and Sweden, is debated in parliament.
No man should have impunity when
buying a woman’s body, whether out
on a stag night or serving his country.

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Sir, You report that Simon Case
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(letter, Jul 22).
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Sources of news

Sir, Your review of Liz Truss’s
comments as a “Remainer” and the
present realities is most timely
(“Six years on, do this recovering
Remainer’s prophecies hold up?”,
report and analysis, Jul 22). She is
trying to position herself as the
“heir to Thatcher”, but as a member of
the Conservative Party when
Margaret Thatcher moved into No 10
I remember a brutal honesty about
the economic situation with tax cuts
only after several tough years. Too
many of those in parliament seem
more concerned, as Boris Johnson
was, in believing illusions about the
past than in accepting reality. The
reality is that Brexit is nowhere near
“done”. Our economy is being
hammered by world events but also
by the collapse in sterling since the
Brexit vote and will suffer further if
daft, unfundable policies are pursued.
Colin Fuller
Bishop’s Cleeve, Glos

Sir, Your leading article (“Bad News”,
Jul 21) makes an important point
about the value of trusted news from
traditional outlets, such as some
newspapers and broadcasters. While
the relationship between the BBC and
newspapers has its ups and downs, I
think we all agree that the positive
impact to democracy proper
journalism delivers is incalculable.
Ofcom’s research focuses on the
platforms young people consume
news on. It is less vocal about what
they are consuming once on those
platforms. Here there is some good
news: for example, BBC News has
more than 180,000 followers on
TikTok and 22.3 million on Instagram.
The need for trusted, reliable and
impartial news has never been greater.
Traditional outlets have an important
role and the challenge is to ensure we
deliver news to young people in ways
that are most accessible to them.
Jonathan Munro
Interim director, BBC News and
Current Affairs

stages, one far from the mutual
respect and lack of public rancour
prevalent when, from the 1950s to
1970s, I was an active Tory member.
John Kidd
Surfers Paradise, Australia
Sir, I note that both candidates to be
prime minister are keen to stress that
they would return us to the values of
the Thatcher era. Neither has
mentioned a key aspect of her time in
office: the quality of the cabinet. I
disagreed with just about everything
they stood for and tried to achieve but
I hope we can return to appointing
cabinet ministers based on their
ability, not their loyalty to the leader.
Chris Guy
Reading, Berks

Governments are not magic money
trees, which, thankfully, Rishi Sunak
seems to have realised.
Rosemary Heaversedge
Shrewsbury, Shrops
Sir, It is hardly surprising that the
Conservative Party has totally lost its
philosophy and direction. We have
had several years of an “enthusiastic
amateur” running the country — a
parvenu from the left of the party
who threw his lot in with a right wing
that is led by dogma rather than by
pragmatism. Reducing tax has never
been a fundamental principle of Tory
philosophy, though the “small state” is
an aspiration. Margaret Thatcher and
Winston Churchill must be turning in
their graves at the cavalier manner in
which their names are invoked.
Dr N P Hudd
Tenterden, Kent

Sir, James Forsyth argues
convincingly that of the two
Conservative leadership candidates
Rishi Sunak has the greater claim to
be Margaret Thatcher’s political heir
(“If Tories want a Thatcher it has to
be Sunak”, comment, Jul 22). Yet, just
as importantly, his contribution is an
example of the kind of civilised
political debate needed in such an
in-party contest. I was saddened by
the bitterness displayed in the earlier

Sir, Margaret Thatcher spoke of a
bigger cake and everyone getting a
bigger slice. Today there seem to be
fewer, very large slices and, for many,
only crumbs. This is a situation that
appals many in the middle wanting a
fairer redistribution of wealth. The
spectacle of politicians chasing votes
by offering tax cuts is unpalatable to
many in all parties. It is time to point
out that if one values living in Britain
and feels it is a country in which one
would want the next generations to
live, people need to stop making
demands and, rather, consider how
they might tighten their belts and help
to contribute to a better future.

Childhood obesity

The dentist’s chair

Our great athletes

Sir, Imperial College London is right
to call for regulations to cap junk food
in school lunches (report, Jul 20). As
the cost of living crisis bites, now is
the perfect time to make bold changes
and ensure the healthiest food is most
available to our children. Our work in
south London has shown us that
schools have a vital role to play. So
here is the opportunity: better
training for school kitchen teams to
procure and prepare healthy and tasty
food, and stronger accountability
mechanisms to ensure school meals
meet the School Food Standards.
People across the political spectrum
recognise the need to tackle the UK’s
wide health inequalities. The best
place to start is by putting children’s
health first. Extending eligibility to
free school meals would also help
more young people to access the
nutrition they need.
Kieron Boyle, chief executive,
Impact on Urban Health, London SE1

Sir, Your article “Dental check-ups
every two years to improve access”
(Jul 20) mentions a proposal for
dental therapists to carry out fillings
on patients as a possible solution to
the problems in NHS dentistry. Most
dentists would roll their eyes in
despair at this half-cocked plan. It
takes four and a half years’ training to
become a dentist, followed by a year
as a probationer. For how long would
therapists be trained to do this job?
Under whose auspices? Will they be
able to identify possible pathology?
This proposal is not the answer.
The present contract is generally
regarded as hopeless. A root-andbranch reassessment of the dental
service is needed, and a great deal
more money. You can only patch up a
failing service so many times before
going back to the start.
Diana Hailey
Dental surgeon (ret’d)
Deddington, Oxon

Sir, Jake Wightman’s victory in the
World 1,500m championship
(reports, Jul 20, 21 & 22), together
with a series of other impressive
performances by British
middle-distance runners, has had
people recalling the 1980s, when this
country dominated these events.
Seb Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram
are always rightly mentioned. Too
often Peter Elliott is not. In 1987 he
took the World Championship 800m
silver medal and in the 1988
Olympics he was the best-placed
Briton in the 800m, when he was
fourth, and in the 1,500m, when he
was second, with Cram two places
behind. In the Commonwealth
Games he was a 800m bronze
medallist in 1986 then 1,500m gold
medallist in 1990. He deserves
recognition.
John Goodbody
Sports News Correspondent,
The Times, 1986-2007; London SW5

this is not the whole story. We are
well aware of the mistakes which the
miners have made since the end of
the war. Happily they seem to have
awakened to the danger of extreme
courses. Human nature being what it
is, a certain recklessness might have
been expected from delegates at the
annual conference of the miners’
Federation at Blackpool last week. In
the event the proceedings were
marked by moderation. If the South
Wales miners are still dominated by
leaders of the extreme school they
signally failed to carry the rest of the
conference with them. They asked
the Federation to affiliate itself to
the “Red International”, but failed to
secure the support of a single other
district. Even more important was
the refusal of the conference to be
stampeded into terminating the
national agreement. The Lancashire
district, which has been especially
hard hit by wage reductions, alone
voted for this desperate expedient.

There was an overwhelming
majority in support of the executive’s
wise recommendation for improving
the agreement and that proposals to
this end should be submitted to the
coal owners. These will presumably
be ready for presentation to the
National Board when it meets this
week. It cannot be doubted that the
decision of the miners to seek a
peaceful way out of their difficulties
imposes a corresponding obligation
on the coal owners. All who know
the miners and their sterling worth
must deeply sympathize with them
in their misfortunes, and the coal
owners will do well to meet them in
as generous a spirit as is compatible
with the actual solvency of the
industry. There can rarely have been
an industrial crisis which so
imperatively demanded comradeship
between employers and employed.

COAL
AND
COMRADESHIP
from the times july 23, 1922
In all the changing fortunes of our
industrial life there have been few
sadder spectacles than the present
plight of the miners. Their wages,
based on the selling price of coal,
were high during the war, and even
higher during the industrial activity
which followed the Armistice. Then
came the trade depression, from
which we are still suffering, and it hit
the miners in two ways. Not only
was the standard wage reduced, but
there were fewer opportunities of
earning it, with the result that very
real distress prevails in the coalfields
of Great Britain. It may be said that

Sir, Whatever one thinks of Liz Truss’s
candidacy one has to note her novel
approach to politics. Her criticism of
the economic policies of her party
since it regained power in 2010 in
effect writes Sir Keir Starmer’s first
general election campaign speech,
and the repeat of Jeremy Corbyn’s
2019 promise of massive borrowing
certainly differs from the staid selfjustification invariably presented by
party politicians.
Sir Michael Pepper
London W1

Yes minister
Sir, Yes Minister was a brilliant
comedy series, not a documentary
(letter, Jul 22). In 17 years in the
Treasury I never once heard an
official suggest pursuing a policy
other than that laid down by
ministers. No historian has ever
provided evidence to the contrary, to
my knowledge. Let’s keep the
programme for entertainment alone.
Dr Craig Pickering
London W4

Punching the ball
Sir, Punching a football rather than
heading it (letters, Jul 21 & 22) would
destroy the beautiful game. The
answer is for a manufacturer of
headgear to invent a suitably padded
skull cap.
Eric Ickinger
Felixstowe, Suffolk

Bin overload
Sir, Ann Treneman notes the adverse
impact bins have on front gardens
(Notebook, Jul 22). She is lucky to
have only four. Here in Cotswold
District we have seven: general,
garden, plastic, cardboard, glass,
paper, food. Another one and I will
have to consider a bin annexe.
Charles Grene
Tetbury, Glos

All aboard for the
Trolleybus Museum
Sir, While the Trolleybus Museum is
poorly served by public transport
(letters, Jul 21 & 22) it is not
impossible to visit other than by car.
On Saturdays when the museum is
open we run a free bus to connect
with First South Yorkshire service 87
from Doncaster at Thorne, and on
bank holiday Mondays and Sundays
when significant events are being held
we run a free bus from Doncaster
Interchange. July 31 is the Sandtoft
Gathering, our biggest event of the
year, and buses will leave Doncaster
Interchange half hourly between
10am and midday, then hourly until
3pm. We look forward to your visit.
Chas Allen
Commercial director, Trolleybus
Museum at Sandtoft, Lincs

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Leading articles
Daily Universal Register
UK: Women’s football: France v Netherlands
quarter-final of Euro 2022 in Rotherham at
8pm; a coalition of climate activist groups
hold a march in London.

Birthdays today
Jo Brand, pictured,
comedian, writer and
actress, Going Forward
(2016), 65; Prof
Christopher Andrew,
former official historian,
MI5, 81; Alan Barnes,
saxophonist, composer,
The Sherlock Holmes Suite (2003), 63; Prof
Sir Ross Cranston, High Court judge (200717), Labour MP (1997-2005), 74; David Essex,
singer-songwriter, Rock On (1973), and actor,
Silver Dream Racer (1980), 75; Alex Fraser,
chief executive, London Institute of Banking
and Finance, chief operating officer, Cass
Business School, London (2009-15), 63;
Graham Gooch, cricketer, former England
captain and coach, 69; Prof Edward
Gregson, composer, Three John Donne
Settings (2013), 77; Woody Harrelson, actor,
Cheers (1985-93), 61; Mike Hulme, professor
of human geography, University of
Cambridge, 62; Air Vice-Marshal GC
“Larry” Lamb, former international rugby
referee, 99; Sergio Mattarella, president of
Italy, 81; Len McCluskey, general secretary,
Unite (2011-21), 72; Daniel Radcliffe, actor,
the Harry Potter films (2001-11), 33; Robin
Simon, founding editor, British Art Journal,
75; Mark Skipper, chief executive, Northern
Ballet, 61; David Strettle, rugby player,
England (2007-13), 39; Prof Michael Wood,
historian and broadcaster, The Story of China
(2016), 74.

Question of Truss
Liz Truss has captured headlines with her promises of tax cuts. But the public has
a right to know why she has changed her mind so often on many important issues
Liz Truss is presenting herself as the “change” candidate in the Conservative party leadership election. That shows some chutzpah given that the foreign secretary is the longest continuous serving
member of the cabinet, having been first appointed in 2014. Nor does her record mark her out as a
reformer. To the extent that she has intruded on
public consciousness, it has often been as a figure
of fun. She has been mocked for a 2014 speech in
which she extolled the virtues of British cheese
and apples, for her fondness for Instagram and
recreating Margaret Thatcher’s poses, and for
being gulled by Sergey Lavrov, her Russian counterpart, into refusing to recognise Russian sovereignty over Voronezh and Rostov, two cities that
have been part of Russia for centuries.
Yet Ms Truss’s longevity is proof that in one respect she is indeed the change candidate. Her ability to navigate the transitions from David Cameron to Theresa May to Boris Johnson is testimony
to her flexibility and pragmatism. This mutability
was also evident in her transformation from Liberal Democrat activist to Conservative MP, and
from Remain campaigner in the 2016 referendum
to standard bearer of the right-wing Brexiteers today. Indeed, Ms Truss now insists that she was
“wrong” to have ever backed Remain.

Of course everyone is entitled to change their
minds, and it would be more worrying if a politician’s views didn’t evolve in the light of experience.
Nonetheless a candidate whose positions have
shifted so dramatically has a particular obligation
to explain their reasons. When Ms Truss says that
the economic orthodoxy of the past 20 years has
failed and that she now supports unfunded tax
cuts, it would be useful to know how she arrived at
this conclusion. After all, she has been a minister
for ten of those years, including two at the Treasury. According to Sir Patrick Minford, an economist who is advising her campaign, interest rates
might have to rise to up to 7 per cent to offset the
inflationary impact of tax cuts. Mortgage holders
and businesses will want to know if she agrees.
Similarly Ms Truss should explain her Brexit
conversion, particularly when her pre-referendum warnings that it would hurt British exporters
have been proved right. The chaos at Dover yesterday, which ruined the start of thousands of
people’s holidays, was at least in part because of increased border checks. On the other hand, her
claim to have solved the Northern Irish border
problem by introducing a bill that repudiates the
protocol negotiated by Mr Johnson is wrong, given
that the bill faces significant opposition in the

Lords. The EU’s decision yesterday to launch four
lawsuits against Britain for failing to implement
the protocol is a forewarning that if she wins and
persists with her confrontational approach, a
trade war with the EU becomes more likely.
Moreover, if Ms Truss is a genuine change candidate, she should say what else she would reform.
The Times Education Commission has highlighted the many ways in which the system is failing,
and set out a blueprint for radical reform. As a
former education minister, what does she think?
She says that Whitehall efficiency gains can pay
for tax cuts. As a former chief secretary to the
Treasury, where does she think these savings can
be made? And why as foreign secretary did she resist cuts demanded of her own department? As a
farming minister, she claimed to champion farmers but as a trade minister she negotiated a deal
with Australia so damaging to farmers that the
government refused to put it to a parliamentary
vote. Where would she stand as prime minister?
Ms Truss’s eye-catching promises of tax cuts
have captured headlines and made her the favourite to win the leadership. But with five weeks to go
before the ballot closes, the public has a right to
know whether she really is a conviction politician
or simply a media-savvy shapeshifter.

Birthdays tomorrow
Quinlan Terry, pictured,
architect, Brentwood
Cathedral, 85; Zaheer
Abbas, cricketer,
Pakistan (1969-85),
president, International
Cricket Council (201516), 75; Julia Bradbury,
broadcaster, Countryfile (2004-14), 52; Lynda
Carter, actress, Wonder Woman (1975-79), 71;
Prof Frank Close, theoretical physicist, The
Infinity Puzzle (2012), 77; Tracey Crouch,
Conservative MP for Chatham and
Aylesford, minister for sport and civil society
(2017-18), 47; Catherine Destivelle,
mountaineer, the first woman to make a solo
ascent of the north face of the Eiger (1992),
62; Danny Dyer, actor, EastEnders (since
2013), 45; Kevin Ellis, chairman,
PricewaterhouseCoopers UK, 59; Andy
Gomarsall, rugby union player, England
(1996-2008), 48; Lord (Jonathan) Hill of
Oareford, European commissioner for
financial stability, financial services and
capital markets union (2014-16), 62; Jennifer
Lopez, singer, Ain’t Your Mama (2016), and
actress, 53; Tim Montgomerie, co-founder,
Centre for Social Justice, comment editor,
The Times (2013-14), 52; Elisabeth Moss,
actress, The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-22), 40;
Anna Paquin, actress, The Piano (1993), 40;
Lord (Chris) Smith of Finsbury, master,
Pembroke College, Cambridge, chairman,
Advertising Standards Authority (2007-17),
71; Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill, a
maid of honour to the Queen at her
coronation in 1953, 93; Gus Van Sant, filmmaker, Good Will Hunting (1997), 70.

On this day
In 1982 the International Whaling
Commission voted to ban commercial
whaling, starting in 1986.

The last word
“The quietly pacifist peaceful/ always die/
to make room for men/ who shout.” Alice
Walker, poet and novelist, The QPP (1973)

BBC Betrayal
The corporation treated Princes William and Harry’s former nanny disgracefully
That the former nanny to Princes William and
Harry should have been defamed by a false rumour that she had become pregnant by Prince
Charles is scandalous. That this rumour should
have emanated from the BBC is appalling. And
that in order to extract an apology from the corporation she has had to wait a quarter of a century
and take it to court is beyond belief.
Tiggy Legge-Bourke, as she was called when she
worked for the royal family, was a victim of a
scheme cooked up by Martin Bashir, a BBC reporter, in 1995 to persuade Princess Diana that those
around her were in league with her husband and
conspiring against her. Bashir hoped this would
persuade the princess to grant an interview to the
BBC’s Panorama programme.
The plan involved spreading a false rumour that
Ms Legge-Bourke, now known as Alexandra Pettifer, had had an abortion as a result of an affair
with Prince Charles. According to a joint statement by Pettifer and the BBC, released as part of
a court settlement, Princess Diana believed this
rumour; not even the sharing of private medical
information would persuade her it was untrue. Ms

Pettifer says that her life was scarred by it. Ms Pettifer was one of many harmed by Bashir’s wicked
scheme, most notably the princess and her family.
Prince William said last year, when Lord Dyson’s
report into the deceit and cover-up was published,
“it brings indescribable sadness to know that the
BBC’s failures contributed significantly to [my
mother’s] fear, paranoia and isolation that I remember from those final years with her”.
Other victims included those brave enough to
question Bashir’s methods. Matt Wiessler, a
graphic designer who became suspicious about
how his work was being used by the reporter, was
never allowed to work for the BBC again. Mark
Killick, a Panorama producer, was fired 24 hours
after raising concerns about how Bashir had got
that interview, and was subsequently defamed.
The financial cost to the BBC is considerable. It
is to pay Ms Pettifer £200,000 in damages; it has
paid Commander Patrick Jephson, Princess
Diana’s former private secretary, £100,000, and
Mr Killick £50,000; last year it agreed a settlement
with Mr Wiessler worth potentially £750,000.
Lord Dyson’s review cost £1.4 million, and the BBC

has paid £1.5 million to a charity chosen by the
royal family.
The cost to the corporation’s reputation is incalculable. At a time when the rise of streaming platforms is undermining the BBC’s economic raison
d’être, one of the main justifications for its continued financing through the licence fee is a moral
one. The BBC should represent, at home and to
the rest of the world, the highest standards in
broadcasting. In the lies told and the pain caused
in the making of this programme, it has fallen far
from that aspiration.
Tim Davie, the BBC’s director-general, took the
opportunity of the settlement with Ms Pettifer to
apologise to her, to the Prince of Wales and to
William and Harry. The Panorama programme, he
said, would never be screened again, in Britain or
elsewhere. After many years of near-silence from
the corporation’s leaders, Davie’s profuse apology
is welcome, but it is not enough. The BBC has yet
to come clean about who was to blame for the
cover-up of Bashir’s duplicity. If it is to regain the
moral authority that a public-service broadcaster
should enjoy, it needs to do so now.

Just Deserts
The creator of Mars ice cream receives public recognition at last
Some connoisseurs maintain there is no true ice
cream but vanilla. It is hard to maintain such certitude, however, when confronted with a Mars bar
ice cream. In The Times this week, Max Hastings
recalled the gastronomic revelation of first tasting
this “supreme delicacy” and lamented that, owing
to tight secrecy maintained by the manufacturer,
the identity of its inventor remained unknown.
Former Mars employees have since provided
the answer on our Letters page. They disclose that
the creative genius behind the product, developed
in the 1980s, was a researcher called Dan Jacoby.
He created the recipe and persuaded sceptical col-

leagues of its feasibility. It swiftly became the
nation’s top-selling ice cream. Jacoby sadly died at
a young age in 2015 and it is past time his contribution to confectionery received its due.
The creator of Mars ice cream stands in a great
tradition. Since the development of reliable freezing techniques in the 18th century, innovation has
been integral to ice cream. The first book entirely
devoted to ice cream, L’Art de bien faire les glaces
d’office; ou Les vrais principes pour congeler tous les
rafraîchissements (1768), by a chef known only as
Emy, contains numerous variations, including
rye-bread ice cream (a precursor to brown-bread

ice cream, a delicacy to this day) and truffle ice
cream (not chocolate, but fungus).
Indeed vanilla ice cream is the interloper.
Though early confectioners did make it, with vanilla beans rather than extract, the flavour didn’t
become common until the mid-19th century. Even
the great French chef Auguste Escoffier, with his
philosophy of Surtout, faites simple (“above all,
keep it simple”), was celebrated for his creation of
asparagus ice cream. Jacoby, who had the revolutionary idea of using chocolate and caramel, may
not yet command similar culinary name-recognition but he richly deserves to.

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This gaslighting
has been going
on for decades
Rose
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‘T

he muffin bell rings
through the gaslit
Pimlico of Victorian
London. In a drawingroom horribly cluttered
with objects of fake and gimcrackery
the master of the house bullies his
timid, foolish wife. His demands
grow more and more unreasonable,
and slowly we realise she is afraid of
going mad. Then we suspect that he
is systematically driving her mad.”
This was how The Times began its
review of Patrick Hamilton’s new
play Gas Light on its pre-West End
opening at the Richmond Theatre in
December 1938. The reviewer went
on to comment that “Mr Hamilton

gives the impression that he is less
interested in the crime than in
the psychological relations of the
husband and the wife. Wherever
they are together the play reaches
a higher plane of excitement.”
In 1940 the play was filmed as
Gaslight in Britain with Anton
Walbrook and Diana Wynyard, and
four years later Ingrid Bergman won
an Oscar opposite Charles Boyer
for her performance in Hollywood’s
remake. It didn’t take long before
the title was being used in academic
circles to personify the pattern of
behaviour that made the films such
a dramatic success. Anthony FC
Wallace, an anthropologist at
Pennsylvania university, wrote in
Culture and Personality (1961): “It is . . .
popularly believed to be possible to
‘gaslight’ a perfectly healthy person
into psychosis by interpreting his own
behaviour to him as symptomatic of
serious mental illness.”
It may be something of a leap
from academic psychology to the

2018 series of Love Island but the
current ubiquity of the term
“gaslighting” — in more or less
exactly the sense that Wallace used
it — owes itself to a protest by
Women’s Aid, a charity campaigning
against domestic abuse. The charity’s
chief executive, Katie Ghose, issued
a much-publicised statement about
the behaviour of one of that year’s
Love Island contestants: “In a
relationship, a partner questioning
your memory of events, trivialising
your thoughts or feelings, and
turning things around to blame you
can be part of a pattern of
gaslighting and emotional abuse.”
Such was the response that
“gaslighting” was shortlisted for
Oxford University Press’s 2018
“Word of the Year”, and now it is
simply part of the language.
More or less. A reader from Surrey
wrote to us after he came across it in
a report on an employment tribunal:
“The expression ‘racist and ableist
gaslighting’ is somewhat dated.
Most of us have lighting powered
by electricity. What has happened to
communication and comprehension?”
I hope the above has shone a light.
The year 2018, incidentally, was quite
fruitful for new word trends. The
actual word of the year was “toxic”
— no argument there — but the
shortlist also included “gammon”
and “incel”, both universal now.
Not all the choices were prophetic,
though. I may move in the wrong
circles but I don’t think “big dick
energy” (BDE) has the same appeal,
not in this weather anyway.

Knockout contest

D

avid Blake writes from
Salisbury, “I knew if I trawled
your paper I would find the
contest for the next PM described as
a race and lo and behold there it was
in a first leader. Nothing could be
less like a race than this last-man/
woman-standing knockout event.”
More of a slow-motion car crash,
I agree. Where Graham Booker’s
contribution takes us I’m not sure,
but perhaps it’s something we should
know. He wrote to tell us that the
cruiser HMS Penelope, after which
Penny Mordaunt is said to have been
named, received so much shrapnel
damage in the Second World War
that it was nicknamed “Pepperpot”.

Ticked off

O

ur headline “Waterstones hails
uptick in sales” distressed
David Rudd. “I was delighted
to read about the rise in book sales,
but wondered why the headline
eschewed the use of the word
‘increase’. I fear that I will be
earmarked as a dinosaur if I continue
to use the perfectly good old words.”
Sometimes we’re just too clever for
our own good. We don’t encourage
the use of “uptick” but it was allowed
on this occasion because the story
was all about TikTok. Ho ho.
And sometimes we’re not very
clever at all. The Saturday quiz
question, “Which Australian sports
stadium is pictured?” was illustrated
with a photo of the Talisman of
Charlemagne, a 9th-century

Carolingian reliquary medallion
supposed to contain a fragment of
Christ’s cross. The question had been
changed late in the day for lack of
good stadium pictures, but the text
stayed the same. Ken Taylor says he
was baffled. He wasn’t the only one.
I’m reminded by a colleague of the
time he let through a photograph of
a daffodil captioned “Sir Peter Hall”.
Thirty years on, he’s now in charge
of dealing with serious complaints.

Our archive expert

I

was sorry to hear of the death
this week of David Walsh who,
for some years, has enhanced the
online version of From the Archive
with daily comments filling in
historical detail and perspective.
Michael Booth was one of many
readers who posted tributes to David
in the comment threads. “From the
Archive represents all that is best in
The Times. The comments on it are
well informed and good-natured.
David Walsh contributed to a level
which can only be described as
Herculean, and his efforts stimulated
contributions from others.”
Another wrote that “In the age of
the troll and keyboard warrior David
brought calm and respect”.
And, touchingly, another said,
“Before Covid I preferred my news in
paper format as it encouraged me to
venture forth and seek conversation
and friendship in my local café. In
many ways the From the Archive
comment section filled the void
left by lockdown.”
He will be missed.

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asta la vista, he said, like he
was the Terminator and
not the terminated. Boris
Johnson left the Commons
threatening to have “more
to say” in the coming months (price
on application at speakers4hire.com).
And with him left the dreams of
one-trick sketchwriters, Twitter’s
professionally angry and about 90
per cent of the comedy shows at next
week’s Edinburgh Fringe. How will
they cope without the philandering,
fibbing funnyman? They need not
worry. Whoever wins this race,
politics will still be risible:
Fashion Clothes matter. Johnson
hadn’t always just shinned down
someone else’s drainpipe, but he
looked like he had, because that’s his
brand. Of course he knows how to
knot a tie to the right length or
tighten his belt so he doesn’t need to
keep hoicking up his trousers, but he

doesn’t because that’s the brand.
Margaret Thatcher had a strong
brand too, which Liz Truss is now
copying, the political equivalent of
Aldi ripping off M&S’s Colin the
Caterpillar cake with one called
Cuthbert: squinting, they look alike,
but you suspect the cheap imitation
might not be very good. Truss says
she gets “frustrated” by comparisons
with the Iron Lady. I mean, come on,
she literally wore a tank.
People say diddy Sunak is out of
touch for wearing expensive suits, but
the only tax he is avoiding is VAT,
which doesn’t apply to the children’s
clothes he can fit into. Then there are
the hoodies, the plastic sliders and
the £490 Prada loafers he wore to a
building site, dramatically increasing
the value of the land he stood on.
Now that’s levelling up.
Food “Coke addict” Sunak gave the
nation “Eat Out to Help Out” and did

Frustrated by
the Thatcher
comparisons,
Liz? Come on,
you literally
wore a tank
Matt Chorley
Listen to Matt Chorley
every Monday to Friday,
10am to 1pm

that weird stunt waiting tables in
Wagamama but he has nothing on Liz
“pork markets” Truss. Start stockpiling
now, because if she becomes PM we
will no longer import two thirds of
our cheese. And that. Is. A. Disgrace.
Childhood Footage of a teenage
Sunak shows him saying “I have
friends who are working class . . . well,
not working class”. No workingclass kids at Winchester?
Amazing. Maybe he could have
taken up smoking with the
groundsman. Truss is haunted
by having been a Lib Dem in
her youth. It would be less
damaging in Tory circles if
she admitted to bestiality.
Relatives Families are
tricky. (Just ask Johnson.)
Truss first came to tabloid
prominence when she spent
the 2005 election not getting
elected, but instead getting

into bed with married MP Mark
Field. Her marriage survived, his
didn’t. Sunak has had his own
troubles but the only person his wife
tried to screw was the taxman.
Presentation Never mind the EU,
Truss couldn’t find her way out of her
own leadership launch. Sunak boasted
his biggest weakness was being too
focused on detail, while sitting in
front of a sign asking people to “join
the campiaign”. Genuinely.
Social media For two people who
exist almost entirely in Insta form, it’s
amazing how bad they can be at the
socials. One Sunak supporter tweeted:
“If you’re happy, can you tweet and
include the hashtag Ready4Rishi”.
Truss, having made it to the final
two, tweeted she was “ready to hit
the ground from day one”.
So you see, it’s all going to be
fine. Whoever wins, we will have
to laugh. Or we’ll cry.

Quidditch is part of our sporting magic
JK Rowling follows in a long line of Britons who have conjured up fantastical games that have spread around the world
general rules set down at the first
meetings of the Football Association
in the Freemasons Arms, Holborn, in
1863. Boxers worldwide still fight
according to regulations publicly
endorsed by the Marquess of
Queensberry in 1867 (no boots with
nails or “sprigs”, wire spikes).
People have often tried to change
the rules or the names of these
games, mostly for political reasons,
like the nervous organisers of
modern “quadball”, and they usually
fail.
Major Walter Clopton Wingfield,
who popularised lawn tennis, wanted
to call the sport sphairistike, from the
Greek meaning “skill at playing ball”.
The game caught on rapidly, but the
name did not. Golf, played in
Scotland since medieval times, was
unsuccessfully banned in 1457 by
King James II on the grounds that it
distracted from archery practice.
Adolf Hitler is believed to have

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t the height of empire,
when two or more Britons
found themselves in some
far-flung corner of the
globe, they often invented
a new sport, supported by a rigid set
of rules.
Snooker (adapted from billiards,
itself adapted from croquet) was
invented by one Neville Chamberlain
(alas, not that one) in the British
Officers’ Mess in Jubbulpore in 1875.
A snooker was a slang term for a
first-year cadet: when a young player
missed an easy shot, Chamberlain
derided him as “a regular snooker”.
Table tennis is thought to have
originated with soldiers using empty
cigar boxes to knock a rounded cork
over a line of books erected across
the middle of a dining table.
Most of the world’s major sports,
including football, cricket, rugby,
tennis, boxing, hockey and golf, were
devised, adapted, appropriated or
regularised by the British. And
beyond the mainstream sports, there
are the myriad games that have
emerged from specific circumstances
and local cultures: Gloucestershire
cheese rolling, Devon wrestling in
which the competitors kick each
other into submission with hardened
boots, and ferret-legging played by
Yorkshire miners: the trousers are
tied at the ankle and two ferrets
inserted, an unwise and extremely
painful test of endurance involving
no skill whatever.
Which makes JK Rowling’s
sporting achievement, as the inventor
of quidditch in the Harry Potter
books, all the more remarkable. In
her fictional sport, competitors fly
around on broomsticks in pursuit of
the golden snitch. In the sport
adapted from Rowling’s fiction and
now played around the world,
players run with a broomstick
between their legs and the snitch is
represented by a runner in a yellow
shirt with a tennis ball attached.

Quidditch has moved from fiction to the playing field. The Marquess of Queensberry, below, endorsed boxing rules in 1867

Quidditch organisations recently
announced the sport’s name would
be changed to “quadball” to distance
themselves from Rowling’s views on
transgender issues — a gesture
roughly equivalent to arguing that
rugby should be renamed “eggball”
because the Rev William Webb Ellis,
who supposedly first picked up a
football and ran when a Rugby
schoolboy, once preached in favour
of the Crimean War (which he did).

Harry Potter books have sold more
than 500 million copies worldwide,
but Rowling’s sporting impact has
been inadequately celebrated: she is
the first person in modern times to
invent a new global sport from
scratch, and the first woman ever to
do so.
Like so much of the Hogwarts
world, quidditch emerges from a
British public school tradition. From
Eton came the field game, the wall
game and Eton fives, the latter two
dictated by the particular geography
and architecture of that school.
Rugby, of course, started in Rugby. At
Winchester pupils play a peculiar
form of football known as “Winkies”
with its own arcane language. (When
pushing Italy’s army back in North
Africa in 1941, the Old Wykehamist
General Wavell received a telegram
congratulating him on “hotting the
enemy over worms”, the term for
winning a scrummage.)
British-concocted sports have
always been tailored to the place of
origin. In Colditz the prisoners
devised “stoolball”, a violent species
of rugby that could be played in the
dark, cobbled inner courtyard of that

11th-century gothic German castle,
and nowhere else. Rackets was
invented in English debtors’ prisons,
as bankrupt inmates whiled away
the time by whacking a ball against
a wall.
The astonishing range of
British-invented sports came about
partly because, as an imperial power,
Britain was in a position to set and
enforce the rules for much of the rest
of the world. But it also emerged
from the idea that sport was morally
improving, an instinct for regulation
in all aspects of life, and boredom:
one way to combat the sheer tedium
of colonial life was to think up
another pastime involving a ball and
some other implement.
Major sports were created in
specific British circumstances and
environments, yet the rules still
endure and apply everywhere.
Tennis emerged on the rolled lawns
used for croquet, and follows the
timing, court size, scoring system,
and net height broadly appropriate
to a leisurely garden party in
suburban Victorian England.
Football is played by every country
in the world, yet it still follows the

At Colditz prisoners of
war devised stoolball, a
violent form of rugby
played cricket just once, after he
spotted British PoWs playing it in
1917. He is said to have tried to
change the laws to make it more
“manly”, by removing pads and
making the ball larger. This did not
work, because it was just not cricket.
All sports are initially a form of
fiction, but few truly catch on and
embed in the culture. “Extreme
ironing” sounds like a grand idea
(rock climbing with a domestic chore
at the top), a sport that “combines
the thrills of an extreme outdoor
activity with the satisfaction of a
well-pressed shirt”, but it has never
quite taken off.
At its origins, British sport is not
really about winning or losing, but
inventing, imagining, codifying and
then sitting back to watch others
excel.
JK Rowling stands firmly in this
grand tradition: others may seek to
tamper with the rules or change the
name, but quidditch will endure, a
sport that started on paper but
ended up on the playing field, a very
British sort of magic.

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weekend essay

The scientists who
are inventing a way
out of climate change
If the world is to hit net zero in the next few decades, cutting emissions may not
ot be
enough. Rhys Blakely talks to visionaries who believe that to save the planet we
need to suck carbon from the air, create clouds and perhaps even block the sun
n

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large unmanned balloon takes off from
near the Arctic town of Kiruna in Sweden.
At an altitude of 12 miles, it releases a small
plume of powdered chalk. A team of
Harvard researchers track it as it drifts into
the stratosphere. They assess whether this could be
the first step towards dimming the sun.
That, at least, was the plan. As science experiments go
it was hardly the work of an evil mastermind
but the backlash was furious. Environmentalists argued
it would mark the beginning of a slippery slope towards
drought, famine and geopolitical chaos. The Swedish
government, having initially given its blessing to this Bill
Gates-funded project, withdrew its consent. The idea
was shelved, and with it, for now, the first serious
attempt to explore whether global warming could be
checked by cooling the planet.
The Swedish trial wouldn’t have changed the weather.
It was a small study of how dust behaves high in the sky.
The results would have been used to improve computer
simulations. Symbolically, though, it became a lightningg
rod in a debate gathering urgency as the mercury
rises: can we invent our way out of the climate crisis?
The experiment would have been the first work
related to “solar geoengineering” to be conducted
outside a laboratory. David Keith, a professor of applied
lied
physics at Harvard University, suggests that if it were
ere
ever implemented at scale, it could involve dozens of
aircraft taking off every day, releasing two million
tonnes of sulphur each year high above the Equator.
or.
The aim would be to mimic the effects of a largee
volcanic eruption, something like the explosion of
Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991,
which reduced the average global temperature
by about 0.5C for more than a year as the
sulphate particles it belched out deflected the
energy of the sun into space. A report by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) has suggested solar geoengineering
could cool the planet by roughly 1.5C at a costt
of no more than $10 billion a year.
For some the idea will carry an unnerving
echo of Don’t Look Up, the Netflix film that
became a lockdown hit. A Silicon Valley billionaire,
ionaire,

This week’s fires across
Britain, including in
Wennington, east London,
above left, were a
reminder of the urgent
need to address global
warming. But Mark
Rylance’s character in
Don’t Look Up, below,
served as a warning that
peddlers of fantastical
projects can be a
dangerous distraction

played by Mark Rylance, promises that an unproven
technology can save the world from a looming
cataclysm, giving politicians an excuse to avoid actions
far more likely to work. Critics warn that solar
geoengineering could have disastrous consequences;
that it could ruin the ozone layer or disrupt South
Asia’s monsoons and harvests. It would do nothing to
solve the underlying causes of global warming, they
add, so if you started you might not be able to stop
without a terrifying upward jolt in temperature.
For Myles Allen, an Oxford professor credited with
being the first to recognise the need for “net zero”
carbon emissions to halt global warming, it’s a
non-starter. It “would be geopolitically massively
destabilising . . . anyone who does this is liable for the
world’s weather.” Even Frank Keutsch, a Harvard
professor who was one of the leaders of the Swedish
experiment, has said he finds the thought “terrifying”.
Yet as temperature records tumble in Britain,
France sees a “heat apocalypse” and Alaska battles
unprecedented wildfires, Keith says attitudes are
shifting. The White House has asked scientists to
explore the concept and in May the UN created the
expl
Commission, a panel that will
Climate Overshoot
Over
ethics and feasibility of last-ditch climate
discuss the eth
technologies that are “problematic” or unproven at
believes “solar geo” is finally being
large scale. Keith
K
seriously: “Things are really changing fast.”
taken seriou
technologies help to cool the planet?
Can untested
untes
The latest aassessments from the IPCC suggest they
sees no way to limit the global temperature
must. It se
which would still involve huge societal
rise to 1.5C,
1.
upheaval, without new tools to remove vast
upheav
amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
amou
And no, we can’t just plant lots of trees.
Maintaining existing forests, which remove
Ma
carbon from the air through photosynthesis,
ca
will be critical and more could help, but
w
sscientists say it will be impossible to plant
enough new ones to stabilise temperatures.
Dimming the sun is only one idea on the
table. Interest in Earth-cooling devices is rising.
ta
They stretch from the prosaic — Mediterranean-style
shutters on British houses — to the construction of
shut

giant solar power plants in space. Researchers in
Cambridge are looking at whether we could refreeze
the Arctic. Y-Combinator, an influential “startup
accelerator” that supports young companies in Silicon
Valley, is looking for genetic engineers to create new
strains of algae to pull CO2 from the air more
efficiently than their wild cousins. Ideas that once
looked outlandish — zero-emissions meat grown in
petri dishes — now seem tame. Last year, scientists
began creating low-lying cloud off the coast of
Australia in an effort to cool the Great Barrier Reef.
Much of the progress so far towards net zero has
depended on technology. When India cancelled plans
to build 14 gigawatts of coal-fired power stations in
2017 (enough to meet about half the UK’s electricity
needs over the past week), it wasn’t buckling to
environmentalist pressure. Thanks to improved
Chinese production methods, solar power had
become far cheaper. The cost of solar cells fell by
nearly 90 per cent between 2010 and 2020.
Yet authorities such as Sir David King, a former
chief scientific adviser to the government who now
leads the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge, say
cutting emissions won’t be enough. He argues we must
focus on three “Rs”: reduction, removal and repair.
The first is familiar: reducing the amount of
greenhouse gases we pump out. That in itself will be a
colossal task. For all of the focus on solar and wind,
generating electricity accounts for just 27 per cent of
emissions. Making things — the cements, steel and
plastics industries — accounts for 31 per cent. Growing
plants and animals is 19 per cent; transport 16 per cent;
and heating and cooling about 7 per cent.
Among other things, we could do with inventing
zero-carbon steel, concrete and plastics; a means of
producing hydrogen and fertilisers without emissions;
and breakthroughs in storing city-scale amounts of
electricity. Meanwhile, Bill Gates has lamented that
government funding for clean energy research is
about $22 billion a year, about 0.02 per cent of the
global economy. “Americans spend more than that on
gasoline in a single month,” he recently wrote.
The other two Rs are also daunting. King thinks we
should repair damage already done. He envisages an

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than 150 million children have been immunised,
saving an estimated 700,000 lives.
The hope is that Frontier can have a similar impact,
and green shoots are sprouting. Future Forest, based
in Darlington, is a start-up supported by a similar pilot
scheme backed by Stripe. Its main focus is on what’s
called “enhanced weathering”. This typically involves
spreading basalt rock dust, a waste product from
quarries, on arable land. The dust reacts with CO2 in
the air; they combine to form a solid mineral, which
should last tens of thousands of years and can improve
the quality of the soil.
About 10,000 tonnes of rock dust has been spread so
far on fields in the UK, enough to capture roughly 2,500
tonnes of CO2, says Jim Mann, the chief executive, who
believes the process can be scaled up quickly. “We have
a model for getting to a billion tonnes of carbon
dioxide removal.” Stripe has been his first customer. It
paid for 1,500 tonnes of CO2 to be removed, at $200
per tonne. Mann thinks the cost can go below $100.

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Blocking the sun
High-flying planes
release small
sulfate particles into
the stratosphere to
block some of the sun’s
energy. One study said
this could cut global
temperatures by 1.5C
for $10bn a year

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effort to refreeze polar regions, using a fleet of robot
boats to spray seawater droplets into the sky to form
bright white clouds, which would deflect the sun’s rays.
He also holds the consensus view that we must
remove greenhouse gases at scale from the
atmosphere. The world is warming because the
concentration in the air of carbon dioxide (plus other
gases including methane) has risen as a result of
humans burning fossil fuels. Prior to the Industrial
Revolution, CO2 levels remained at about 280 parts
per million for thousands of years. By 2021 they’d risen

to 415 ppm. That’s a problem because CO2 traps heat
that would otherwise escape into space. And while
methane will disappear after about 12 years, CO2
lingers for centuries. Hence the need to remove it.
There are many ways of stripping carbon from the
atmosphere. “Direct air capture” (DAC) often involves
blowing ordinary air through a liquid solution or solid
filter, which can grab hold of CO2 molecules but not
others. The next stage usually involves applying heat,
to extract pure CO2 from the solvent or filter. At the
largest DAC plant built so far, called Orca in Iceland,
the CO2 is used to make fizzy water which is pumped
into volcanic rock formations. After a few years, it
reacts with them to turn to stone. Other options
include combining the CO2 with industrial waste
materials to create aggregates for concrete.
It sounds simple enough. So far, though, less than
10,000 tonnes of CO2 has been permanently removed,
perhaps a millionth of the amount needed each year.
Could one solution involve more innovative ways of
nurturing start-ups? Hannah Bebbington works on
climate issues for Stripe, a giant payments company.
At present, carbon removal technologies are “super
expensive and small scale and thus they can’t attract
massive customers,” she says. It’s a chicken-and-egg
problem: until the companies behind the technologies
attract big customers, they can’t grow.
Stripe, along with the parent companies of Facebook
and Google, is part of a coalition called Frontier,
which aims to change that. They have pledged to
spend $925 million on carbon capture by 2030. The
idea is that Frontier will be the first customer for
promising carbon removal ventures. “In essence, we’re
saying to carbon removal companies: build it and we
will buy,” Bebbington said.
The idea, known as an advance market
commitment, was first used 15 years ago when five
countries and the Gates Foundation joined forces to
inject a sense of urgency into the pharmaceuticals
industry. They told drugmakers that if they could
invent a vaccine to protect against pneumococcus, a
disease that preys on children in poor countries, they
would spend $1.5 billion buying doses. After decades
of inertia, three vaccines were quickly created. More

“

So far, less than
10,000 tonnes
of CO2 have
been removed, a
millionth of the
amount needed
each year

rofessor Allen believes that at those kinds of
prices, carbon removal, once widely viewed
with the same kind of suspicion as solar
geoengineering is today, can make sense. The
real issue, he argues, isn’t technological
innovation. It’s government policy. In particular, he
wants laws to make fossil fuel companies pay for
carbon removal rather than taxpayers, philanthropists
and Silicon Valley tech giants. If the cost was $100 per
tonne of carbon, forcing oil companies to capture and
store the emissions their product generates would add
about 19p to the cost of a litre of petrol, he calculates,
far less than prices have spiked in recent months.
If this leaves you wondering why are we making all
this fuss about global warming and not just requiring
the fossil fuel industry to clean up after itself, well, the
problem is that the carbon removal industry is still
embryonic, unproven and tricky to audit. The world’s
biggest DAC plant can remove only 4,000 tonnes of
carbon emissions a year. This year, humans will emit
more than 33 billion tonnes. To stabilise the climate,
carbon removal will have to become one of the world’s
largest industries. And bear in mind, it won’t deliver a
traditional, tangible product, only the knowledge that
levels of CO2 in the air are being chipped away.
What of the third of King’s “Rs” — repair? One of
the more colourful ideas is being studied by his group
at Cambridge: can artificial whale dung revitalise the
oceans? It’s estimated that a blue whale can produce
several tonnes of excrement a day during its foraging
season. For millions of years this waste was a pillar of
a carbon-capturing marine ecosystem.
Whale faeces is rich in iron, nitrates, phosphates and
silicates. These are required by micro algae, which pull
in carbon dioxide and convert it into food through
photosynthesis. The algae are eaten by tiny
crustaceans called krill and other creatures. The
whales eat the krill and defecate more nutrient-rich
waste, allowing the cycle to repeat. During the 19th
and 20th centuries, industrial whaling meant this
system collapsed. King is hoping that artificial whale
dung can resurrect it.
A first, very small trial has just been carried out in
the Arabian Sea off Goa. It involved rice husks, a
waste product, to which iron and other nutrients
were added. The researchers looked at whether the
husks behaved like whale poo and lingered in the
upper layers of the ocean, where sunlight allows
algae to photosynthesise.
Dr Matthew Savoca, of Stanford University, has
estimated that the population of blue and fin whales
fell by about a million between 1910 and 1970. From
those two species alone, the oceans would have lost
an amount of mammalian flesh, blood and bone
equivalent to roughly 3 billion humans. Artificial
whale dung might help to restore the natural order, he
said. “It is plausible, but I think we need to proceed
with caution. If there’s one thing we’ve learnt over
the past century or two, it’s that human interventions
have many rippling consequences.”
Which brings us back to solar geoengineering.
Done carefully, Keith believes it could cut the risks the
world faces from climate change. It may be, he has
suggested, the “least worst” option to cool the planet.
King is far more cautious, but pragmatic. The risk of
unanticipated outcomes is high, he says. “I think there
should be a moratorium on using the stratosphere as a
means of reflecting sunlight away from the Earth,
because the impacts could be horrendous,” he said.
“But I think the experimental work needs to progress,
because at some point some government is going to
become desperate, and they’re going to want to try it.”
Rhys Blakely is science correspondent

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Private allotment
owners tap into
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waiting
lists for
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decades or more, the
law of the jungle says
that private companies
will step in — and,
indeed, businesses
offering would-be

growers a chance to
manage their own plot
of land are blooming
(Fariha Karim writes).
Today, 114 years after
councils were forced to
allocate allotments by
law, supply has fallen
but demand has
soared. Last year the
longest official waiting
time for an allotment
The Roots allotment
outside Bath offers
plots starting at £9.99 a
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the council waiting list
and they said it will be
around seven years.”
He now grows a variety
of produce, including
chillies and melons.

I want to die too,
says man who slit
sick wife’s throat
Tom Ball Northern Correspondent
Andy Russell, Kieran Gair

A pensioner who cut his terminally ill
wife’s throat in a suicide pact said he still
wanted to die to join her after a court
accepted that he had acted out of “love
and compassion”.
Graham Mansfield, 73, said he had
been forced into an “impossible situation” after his wife Dyanne, 71, asked
him to kill her when the pain from her
cancer became too great.
A jury took 90 minutes to find him
not guilty of murder at Manchester
crown court this week. He was found
guilty of manslaughter and was given a
suspended two-year jail sentence.
Gazing over the garden where he had
killed his wife of 40 years, Mansfield
said he was relieved not to have woken
up in a cell yesterday — but he added
that he would have preferred to have
died beside her as they had planned.
On the morning of March 24 last
year, Mansfield was found at the
couple’s home in Hale, Greater
Manchester, after having tried to kill
himself. The body of his wife was in a
chair at the bottom of their garden.
The retired airport baggage handler
said: “Every fibre of my body was saying, ‘I cannot do this.’ But I had to
because of Dyanne, because she was in
misery and she had asked me to do it.
“We wanted something which was
certain, quick. As quick as possible and,
it might sound daft, but as painless as
possible. That was the only thing I
could think of and that is what we
decided on. She said to me on the way
down [to the garden] when we were
going to do it, ‘I won’t make a noise.’
“When we were talking on the final
day, hours before we were going to do it,
we reflected on our lives together and
we were telling each other the truth,
how much we loved each other and
how we had had a wonderful life.”
Euthanasia is illegal in the UK and
can be prosecuted as murder or manslaughter. Under the terms of the

Graham Mansfield said that his wife
Dyanne’s pain had become too much

Suicide Act, “assisting or encouraging”
another person’s death is illegal in
England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
From April 2009 to last March, the
police referred 174 cases of assisted
suicide to the Crown Prosecution
Service. All but 26 of these were withdrawn or did not proceed.
Mansfield, who now has a criminal
record, called for the law on assisted
dying to be changed. He said “nobody
should be made to go through” the
same “barbaric” circumstances as he
and his wife.
“We could have a system where two
doctors, or even the police, could interview people and the person who wants
to die,” he said. “If we had had that
choice, then I could have held Dyanne’s
hand while a doctor gave her a lethal
injection. That would have been a
much better end than what we had to go
through. Why should you be forced to
cling on to the very end when you have
lost all that energy and love for life? We
felt like we had no choice.”
The case comes after a senior coroner warned that suicide pacts between
couples were becoming increasingly
common as people tried to take control
of the end of their lives in the absence of
state-sanctioned assisted dying.
David Ridley, the coroner for
Wiltshire and Swindon, said in May
that the organisation was “increasingly” dealing with cases in which “people
want to take control at the end of life”.

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GUY BELL/ALAMY

Harry wins
first round of
his legal fight
over security
Valentine Low

The Duke of Sussex is set for a High
Court confrontation with the Home
Office after winning the right to
challenge the decision to reduce his
security arrangements while in Britain.
Harry is taking legal action over a
decision not to allow him to pay for
police protection for himself and his
family when visiting from the United
States after stepping down as a working
member of the royal family.
In the first stage of the case this
month, the duke’s lawyers asked Mr
Justice Swift to grant permission for a
full hearing to have a judge review the
Home Office’s decision.
In a judgment yesterday Swift said
the case could proceed, granting permission for part of Harry’s claim to have
a judicial review.
Harry is challenging the February
2020 decision over his security by the
Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures
(Ravec), which falls under the remit of
the Home Office, after being told he
would no longer be given the “same
degree” of personal protective security
when visiting. His lawyers previously
had said the duke and his family were
“unable to return to his home” as it was
too dangerous.
Harry’s legal team argued that the
security arrangements set out in a letter
from Ravec, and their application when
he visited the UK in June last year, were
invalid owing to “procedural unfairness” because he was not given an
opportunity to make “informed representations beforehand”. They also said
he initially was unaware that members
of the royal household, including Sir
Edward Young, the Queen’s private secretary, with whom he had “significant

tensions”, had played a role in the decision. Shaheed Fatima QC, for the duke,
told the court this month: “He was told
it was an independent decision.”
Lawyers for the Home Office said
Ravec was entitled to reach the decision
it did, which is that the duke’s security
arrangements would be considered on
a “case-by-case” basis, and argued that
permission for a full judicial review
should be refused.
The judge said there was no evidence
to support the claim that Ravec had
approached the decision with a closed
mind, or that it was affected by bias. He
rebuked Harry’s lawyers for hinting
that a claim for bias might be put even
though they ultimately accepted that
no such case could be argued. “It would
have been better had these proceedings
not been the occasion to raise matters
that are not part of [the duke’s] legal
challenge,” he said.
Harry was granted permission on
arguments including that Ravec’s
decisions were legally unreasonable
and that the duke should have been told
about its policy before its decision. The
judge accepted it could be argued that
Harry should have had the opportunity
to make representations directly to
Ravec about his security.
The judge denied permission for
other parts of Harry’s claim, including
that he should have been told who the
members of Ravec were. The judgment
rejected the argument Harry should
automatically get security because he
was sixth in line to the throne and thus
among those royals who had to seek the
Queen’s permission to get married.
The judge said the Home Office had
“yet to have the chance to address in
evidence” the process by which Ravec
had taken its decision and this “should
be considered at a final hearing”.

Dyed-in-the-wool Every photographer’s favourite, the pink sheep of the Latitude festival in Suffolk, are back as it returns
this weekend. Their grass may not be greener after the heat, but they are looking forward to Foals performing tomorrow

Deckhand’s £130k bill for harassing student
Jonathan Ames Legal Editor

A yachting deckhand who tried to have
a student expelled from university after
she stopped messaging him on Tinder is
facing a £130,000 legal bill.
Oliver Mills-Nanyn was described in
court as having launched a “manipulative” and “predatory” campaign of
harassment against Scarlett Dew,
having met on the dating app in 2019.
Dew, a medical student at the
University of Manchester, initially had
a “brief friendship” with Mills-Nanyn,
but she cut off contact with the deckhand after several months, the court
heard, as his behaviour grew increasingly “erratic”.
Lawyers for Dew said Mills-Nanyn,
23, from Oldham, had created puppet
accounts on social media to contact
Dew and “follow her friends and

family”. Despite agreeing earlier this
year to end contact, he wrote to Dew’s
university accusing her of “stalking and
harassing” him, leaving him “scared to
leave home”, and asked officials to
remove Dew from her course. Ben
Oliver Mills-Nanyn
used puppet social
media accounts to
contact his victim
and her family

Hamer, a barrister representing Dew,
told the court: “The reverse was true
and his account is the narrative of a
fantasist.”
Hamer said that after a brief correspondence online, Dew decided not to
continue contact. When she blocked

his messages, Mills-Nanyn turned
abusive. “From this point, he began a
serious campaign of harassment, including contacting her friends and
family via social media and via various
accounts,” Hamer said.
Dew brought a civil claim against
Mills-Nanyn. Mrs Justice Collins Rice
imposed a suspended six-month jail
term on the yachtsman for breaching
his undertaking to cease contact.
He must now pay Dew £30,000 in
damages and faces a bill of more than
£98,000 after being ordered to pay her
legal fees.
The judge said Mills-Nanyn had “no
excuse” for his “calculating and abusive
conduct”. She explained that the jail
sentence for contempt of court was
suspended owing to a lack of previous
convictions and the effect of jail on his
future maritime career.

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My Week Boris Johnson*
Monday
Rallying the troops in cabinet.
“OK folks,” I say, “let’s get in to the
chamber and all vote that we have
confidence in me.”
Everybody shifts, uncomfortably.
Dominic Raab says it’s awkward,
though, because he’s pretty sure they
all just said they didn’t.
“It’s a mess,” agrees Nadhim
Zahawi. “You don’t even have a
chancellor.”
“You’re chancellor,” I remind him.
“Didn’t I resign?” says Nadhim, but
nobody really knows.

The point is, I tell them, that I
may be more popular in Kyiv
than Kensington, but I need to
leave on my terms. Victory
today, PMQs on
Wednesday. Then
“hasta la vista, baby”!
“Latin,” says Jacob
Rees-Mogg,
confidently.
“No,” I say.
“I meant
Greek,” says
Jacob.
“No, you fool,”

I say. “I’m quoting the
robot.”
“Who, me?” says Liz
Truss.
I sigh.
“Look,” I say.
“Just do what
you’re told. One
last time. I’ve got
a great speech
planned.
Blaming the
Deep
State.”
“Atlantis?”

says Jacob, uncertainly.
“Maybe it’s only deep,” says
Dominic, sadly, “compared with us.”
Tuesday
Carrie is shouting at me. At first I
thought it was just because we have
to move back to south London. But
she says it’s actually because all of her
clique of Tory friends support Rishi
Sunak and it’s really awkward that I
don’t.
“Piffle,” I say. “Ghastly socialist
traitor. Anyone but Rishi.”
“Even Penny?” says Carrie.
“Yep,” I say.
Carrie says she’s backed by all the
mad people, though.
“No, that’s Liz,” I say.
“The other mad people,” says
Carrie.
Funny how there are so many.
“God,” I say. “I’m so hot. I left all
my shorts at Chequers.”
Carrie says I should steal some of
Rishi’s. Because he abandoned his
whole wardrobe and they’re probably
Prada.
“I did,” I say. “But they’re too tight
to get past my knees.”
Wednesday
Final PMQs. Emotional. Alok Sharma
is crying. Obviously. Spoddy Starmer
raving on. Bollard! He’s a bollard!
Why can’t I stop saying bollard?
Bollard! Pointless plastic bollard!
“You mean traffic cone?” whispers
Liz Truss, who is sitting next to me.
“Blast,” I say, because I actually do.
Then I’m up on my feet again,
talking about how splendidly the past
few years have gone.
“Mission largely accomplished!” I
say. “And hasta la vista, baby!”
Totally works. Everybody cheers.
“I suppose that’s not the first time
you’ve said goodbye to a baby,” says
Carrie, afterwards, quite bitterly.
“Don’t sulk,” I say. “We’ll take the
curtains.”
Thursday
Now it’s just Liz and Rishi. So I’m
Team Liz.

Rishi calls.
“Just a minute,” I say, and I close
the door, because Carrie is ripping up
the carpets and it’s really loud.
“Come on,” he says. “You know I’m
not a socialist.”
I giggle. Then I ask him why they
all pulled out of the last TV debate,
and he says it’s because they were
making the party look bad.
“Worse than it looked already?” I
say. Because, to be honest, even I find
this implausible.
“Also,” I add, “do you really think
that your greatest weakness is that
you’re a perfectionist?”
“No of course not,” says Rishi. “It’s
that I was in your government.”
“Well, you should have said that,” I
say.
“I couldn’t,” he says.
“I would have done,” I shrug.
Friday
Sitting on one of Wilf’s swings in the
sun, wearing one of Rishi’s kimonos.
Can’t do it up. Jacob Rees-Mogg is
sitting on the climbing frame. Can’t be
bothered to run the country. Bored.
Through the windows upstairs, I
can hear Carrie playing Abba really
loudly and smashing things.
Then I look up and see that Liz
Truss is standing there.
“Make yourself comfortable,” I say,
nodding at the other swing. But
obviously, she can’t.
“Hasta la vista?” she says. “I didn’t
get it.”
“Phoenician?” says Jacob, warily.
“Oh for God’s sake,” I say. “Did you
never see The Terminator?”
Liz asks if that was the one with a
terrifying robot that has no shape of
its own and takes the form of
whoever it wants to replace.
“Yes,” I say. “Like you. But actually I
meant the other robot. Which you
might remember also said something
else.”
Liz frowns.
“I’ll be back!” I say.
“Don’t care,” says Liz. “I’m still
redoing those horrible walls.”
*according to Hugo Rifkind

BBC failed to say critic of
NHS pay rise was union rep
Jake Kanter Media Correspondent

The BBC interviewed a paramedic
about the below-inflation NHS pay rise
without declaring that she was a union
organiser and Jeremy Corbyn supporter.
Hugh Pym’s report on Tuesday’s
News at Six featured an interview with
Debbie Wilkinson, who said that the
rise of at least 4 per cent was a “slap in
the face” amid the cost of living crisis.
Pym did not mention that the paramedic of 30 years was a Unite representative, although she wore a red
union badge during the interview.
An earlier report, on the News at One,
had made clear that Wilkinson was a
“paramedic and a union representative”.
“It’s not enough, nowhere near
enough,” she told News at Six. “We need
something that’s going to address the
cost of living and the inflation rises and
actually gives us a comfortable way of
working and being able to live in
between work.”
Millions of viewers tune into the
BBC’s News at Six television bulletin.
Wilkinson has been critical of the
Conservative government on Twitter.
“As a paramedic it is my #publicduty to
tell you that if we don’t get the Tories out

Debbie Wilkinson is a fan of Jeremy
Corbyn, the former Labour leader

on June 8th . . . it will be the death sentence for #ourNHS,” she wrote in 2017.
She also has voiced support for
Corbyn, posing for a selfie with the
former Labour leader in 2017. “So good
to meet @jeremycorbyn in my locality
and told him I was a local paramedic . . .
told me he was glad to shake my hand,”
she said.
Ministers set out on Tuesday what
they insisted was a “fair and sustainable
settlement” that largely accepted the
recommendations of independent pay
review bodies.
However, with inflation heading
towards 11 per cent this year, nurses,
doctors and teachers have threatened
ballots on industrial action.

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Plain or patterned,
visors help the
fashion pack
avoid the problem
of hat hair. Dior’s
example, below,
costs £710

Visors have
sporty style
off to a tee

Direct, needless to say,
but rather the designer
boutiques of London,
Paris and Milan. Dior’s
D-Oblique red cotton
visor costs £710. Gucci’s
is tennis-inspired and

Y

ou may have
been avoiding
heatstroke
recently by
slathering on
factor 50 and sheltering
under a wide-brimmed
hat. The fashion pack,
however, have been
spotted wearing
crownless visors — the
kind that was once
strictly for the links or
tennis court only.
Editors and
influencers at the recent
Couture and Cruise
shows paired their
designer visors with
everything from Chanel
tailoring to Dior silk
pyjamas. It’s certainly
one way to prevent socalled hat hair and
preserve that pre-show
blow dry. Never have the
fashion pack and those
attending last week’s
Open at St Andrews
looked so similar.
Whatever next? An
it-caddy-bag?
Those worn by
the front row don’t
come from Sports

Billie Piper stalker is banned from
postcode after years of harassment
Will Humphries

A stalker who is obsessed with the
actress Billie Piper has been banned
from visiting an entire postcode area
after he harassed her by turning up at
her home.
Philip Jerome, 44, must wear an electronic tag that will alert officials if he
enters her London postcode after his
“obsessive” behaviour left Piper, who
starred in Secret Diary of a Call Girl,
feeling unsafe in her home.
Jerome, from Winchester, posted
cards through Piper’s letterbox, bombarded her with social media messages
for a decade and had written her 18page love letters, a court was told.
Portsmouth magistrates’ court was
told Jerome had broken his existing
restraining order and had not attended
court-mandated therapy sessions.
He has been given a Stalking Protection Order that lasts until 2026.
Under the new order, Jerome has

been banned from visiting an area
covering the NW1 postcode in London
and given an electronic tag for two
years.
A judge imposed the order after
Jerome breached the restraining order,
wrote a letter to Piper “explaining his
fixation and obsession”, and visited her
Philip Jerome
had written
Billie Piper
18-page love
letters

home. He was warned that
he could be jailed for five
years if he breaches the
latest order.
District Judge David
Robinson said: “I have
agreed that you have
carried out actions asso-

ciated with stalking and that a stalking
protection order is necessary.
“I am making a series of prohibitions
and requirements . . . You mustn’t do
any of these things.
“The tag you will have to wear at all
times. You must notify the police if you
have changed your address, changed
your name or your usernames.
Failure to comply with these
notification requirements may
be an offence.”
In 2018 Jerome appeared in
court in London and admitted
stalking and was handed a
restraining order.
In February 2019 he
appeared in court in
Southampton and admitted harassment by
breaching the restraining order after he sent
Piper an 18-page message when she did not
attend the previous

court hearing. The hearing was told he
sent a lengthy Facebook message of
“adoration” to the actress via her
mother and sister, after tracking them
down on the social networking site.
Six months later he appeared at court
in Southampton again after he failed to
turn up to “important” sessions with a
psychologist which the court had
ordered him to attend to deal with his
stalking.
His latest case was his fourth court
appearance in as many years.
At one previous court hearing , Piper
had said in a statement: “I do not feel
safe being at home. I do not believe he
would show up and hurt me, however I
don’t know that for sure.”
A court was previously told Jerome
“clearly thinks there’s a relationship
between them”.
At the latest hearing, the court was
told that Jerome also “poses a risk
associated with stalking to another
person”.

Man ordered to stay away from frightened Foy
Claire Foy’s “delusional” stalker has
been ordered to stay away from the
actress for five years after sending her
thousands of emails and knocking on
her door.
Jason Penrose, 39, sent Foy a letter
and parcel even after an interim stalking protection order (SPO) had been
issued in February, magistrates were
told. He gave his address as Highgate
Mental Health Centre and was accompanied by NHS workers at Highbury
Corner magistrates’ court in London
yesterday, where a full stalking

protection order was granted. Foy, 38,
who played the young Queen in the
first two series of the Netflix show The
Crown, was said to have found the stalking a “deeply frightening experience”
after Penrose targeted her in November and December last year.
District Judge Michael Oliver said: “I
am sure based on the evidence Mr Penrose has carried out acts associated
with stalking.” He added: “Thousands
of emails were sent to Ms Foy and on
one occasion he attended her address. I
am satisfied this order is necessary, this

was sustained and repeated conduct
due to a delusional belief Mr Penrose
had about Ms Foy.”
He said that the order was necessary
to ensure that Foy had “protection from
further acts of stalking”. Penrose has
been “deemed fit for release” from the
mental health centre, the court was
told.
Ella Crine, on behalf of the Metropolitan Police, applied for a full SPO
against Penrose, saying his actions “affected [Foy’s] life”.
It was previously said that Penrose

sent an email to Foy’s agent last year
saying that he was a film director. He
followed this with thousands more
emails. In December last year Foy
called the police after Penrose rang her
doorbell.
The five-year-order prohibits Penrose from directly or indirectly contacting Foy or her publicist Emma Jackson.
There is also an exclusion zone
covering all but five districts in the
London borough of Camden.
He must also tell police about any
device which can access the internet.

stamped with a vintage
monogram print; a snip
at £410. Burberry’s
leather-trimmed canvas
design in the brand’s
signature check seems a
bargain in comparison
at a mere £260. Even
second-hand styles are
in high demand.
Gucci’s vintage rattan
version is going for £300
on Vestiaire Collective.
The original pioneers,
Olivia Newton-John and
Madonna, wore them to
work out or dance with
matching skimpy skirts
or cycling shorts and
sweat bands.
The singer Gwen
Stefani wore her visor
well into the 2000s.
Even Barbie had one, in
saccharine pink with
“Baywatch” emblazoned
on the peak.
This month Margot
Robbie was spotted
rollerskating in a swirl
print, neon iteration
while filming the new
Barbie film in Los
Angeles, which is set to
be released in July next
year.
Yours may be reserved
for the odd tennis match
or an afternoon on the
putting green. One
thing is certain — you
won’t catch the fashion
pack playing golf in
theirs.

Mother and
partner beat
boy to death
John Simpson Crime Correspondent

A mother and her partner murdered
her 15-year-old son after a campaign of
abuse and torture recorded on CCTV.
Sebastian Kalinowski was beaten
with a bed slat, whipped with an
extension lead and stabbed with a
needle. He suffered 81 injuries before
dying of an infection at home in
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, on
August 13. He had moved from Poland,
where he lived with his father, less than
a year earlier.
Agnieszka Kalinowska, 35, and
Andrzej Latoszewski, 38, had denied
murder. Police seized CCTV cameras at
the house that had been installed partly
to “monitor and exert control over
Sebastian”, Leeds crown court was told.
Kalinowska, who had admitted child
cruelty, sobbed when the murder
verdict was returned yesterday.
Latoszewski, who had admitted manslaughter, showed no emotion. Mrs Justice Lambert said the killers would not
be sentenced until at least October. She
praised the jury for enduring the “quite
horrifying” CCTV videos and excused
them from future service.
Jason Pitter QC, for the prosecution,
said: “The punishments, if that is an
appropriate way to describe them, were
by any stretch of the imagination cruel
and became increasingly more severe
and violent over time. It would appear
that the punishments were precipitated
by things such as Sebastian merely
dropping food on his bedroom floor or
even just having gone to the toilet
during the night.”
Sebastian attended North Huddersfield Trust school, where staff described
him as “a pleasant and well-mannered
boy” who “at times appeared sad”.

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Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

World
Ukraine and Russia
agree deal on grain
to tackle food crisis
Ukraine

Analysis

Tom Parfitt

Millions of people in the developing
world could be spared famine after
Russia agreed to allow Ukrainian grain
exports to resume from the Black Sea
ports that have been blockaded by
President Putin’s forces.
The accord, brokered by President
Erdogan of Turkey and António
Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, was signed yesterday in
Istanbul. If implemented, it will help to
alleviate a global food shortage caused
by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Today there is a beacon on the Black
Sea,” Guterres said. “A beacon of hope,
a beacon of possibility, a beacon of relief
in a world that needs it more than ever.”
The goal is to export five million
tonnes of grain a month, a UN official
said. At least 20 million tonnes are
stuck in silos in Odesa. Huge quantities
of wheat, barley, oil and other agricultural products that have accumulated
in Ukrainian warehouses also will
finally be exported.
President Zelensky said that the deal
was “entirely” in Ukraine’s interests,
but warned that Russia could use it to
discredit his nation. “Russia could
engage in provocations,” he said in his
daily video address. “But we trust the
United Nations. Now it’s their responsibility to guarantee the deal. There is a
chance to reduce the seriousness of
the food crisis caused by Russia and
prevent a global catastrophe.”
Countries in Africa and elsewhere in
the developing world to which much of
the produce would have been sold in
recent months have been struggling to
feed their people.
The agreement is expected to be
accompanied by a guarantee that
western sanctions against Russia will
not affect exports of its own grain and
fertilisers. Those products have not
been sanctioned as yet, but international shipping companies have been
wary of working with Moscow, meaning it has struggled to send such cargos
from its own Black Sea ports. The deal
is expected to ease that problem.
Britain and other western states had
accused Russia of “weaponising food”
through its blockade of the Black Sea
ports. Liz Truss, the foreign secretary,
said: “Putin’s barbaric invasion of
Ukraine has meant some of the poorest
and most vulnerable people in the
world are at risk of having nothing to
eat. It is vital that Ukrainian grain
reaches international food markets and
we applaud Turkey and the UN secretary-general for their efforts to broker
this agreement.”
Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s defence
minister, and Oleksandr Kubrakov,
Ukraine’s infrastructure minister, also
signed copies of the deal at Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul. Roman
Abramovich, the UK-sanctioned Rus-

P

resident Putin
does not make
deals that do
not benefit
him, and he does not
honour those that
become inconvenient
(Maxim Tucker
writes).
The world will be
tempted to breathe a
sigh of relief at
yesterday’s grain
export arrangement,
which may help to
stave off starvation in
the developing world
and provide a lifeline
to Ukraine’s economy.
Yet it must be wary
of Russia’s intentions,
implementation and
expectations.
Putin will try to use
the deal to extract
more concessions —
not least having a
blind eye turned to
Russia’s burgeoning
trade in grain stolen
and shipped from
occupied Ukrainian
territories. He will
hope his co-operation
will be rewarded by

the easing of
sanctions. The EU has
already drafted
changes that would
allow frozen bank
funds to be released
in an effort to
facilitate the trade of
food and fertilisers.
An example of good
behaviour could be
used as a wedge to try
to splinter Europe’s
strong anti-Kremlin
alliance at a moment
when right-wing
sympathisers are in
the ascendant in Italy
and France.
Russia will also be
pleased with the
legitimacy the
agreement accords it
despite its status as an
international pariah.
When Russian troops
invaded the Donbas
under the guise of a
separatist uprising in
2014, the Kremlin
used a patchwork of
peace accords to
cement the status quo
and keep hold of
seized territory.

Monthly grain exports from Ukraine
(million tonnes)
2021
2022
Russia invades
Feb 24

J

F M A M J

J

A S O N D

7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0

Source: State Customs Service of Ukraine (June 7, 2022)

UKRAINE
Odesa

Pivdennyi

RUSSIA
Chornomorsk

Crimea

Black Sea

Istanbul

TURKEY 100 miles

sian oligarch, was present at the ceremony, although his role was unclear.
Shoigu said the agreement would
begin to be implemented within days.
Ukraine’s three main ports of Odesa,
Pivdennyi and Chornomorsk are
expected to resume exports.
Robert Mardini, director-general of
the International Committee of the
Red Cross, welcomed the agreement,
hailing it as “nothing short of lifesaving
for people across the world who are
struggling to feed their families. No-

Facing profound
difficulties on the
battlefield, it may try
the same approach
now, waiting for
global indignation to
die down before
slicing off further
slivers of Ukrainian
land.
Part of the deal
envisages a joint
co-ordination centre
in Istanbul, where UN
staff and military
officials from Russia,
Ukraine and Turkey
would monitor the
movement of ships in
and out of Ukrainian
Black Sea ports.
A similar centre
was set up in Donbas
in 2014 under the
auspices of the
Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Russia used the
centre, which was
based behind
Ukrainian lines, to spy
on troop movements,
fortifications and
supply lines.

where are the consequences felt harder
than in communities already impacted
by armed conflict and climate shocks.”
Over the past six months, Mardini
said, the price of food staples had risen
by 187 per cent in Sudan, 86 per cent in
Syria, 60 per cent in Yemen and 54 per
cent in Ethiopia compared with the
same period last year.
David Beasley, executive director of
the UN World Food Programme,
warned in May that the Ukraine turmoil was “piling catastrophe on catastrophe”, coming as it did after other
conflicts, the climate change crisis, the
pandemic and surging food and fuel
costs. All of that had created a “perfect
storm”, with hunger “surging to terrifying levels” worldwide, he said.
The Istanbul deal allows for Ukrainian vessels to guide cargo ships down
a corridor, avoiding mined areas.
Military craft will not be involved and
must keep to an agreed distance.
Ukraine said exports could be restarted
within weeks if safety guarantees were
fulfilled. Russia has insisted on inspections of the grain-carrying cargo ships
to be sure they are not also delivering
weapons to Ukraine.
The accord will last for 120 days and
can then be renewed. Josep Borrell, the
European Union’s foreign policy chief,
said it was “a step in the right direction”.

Donald Trump Jr texts to Mark Meadows, chief of staff
Donald Trump Jr Jan 6, 2021 2.53pm

He’s got to condem this shit.
Asap. The capitol police tweet
is not enough.

Mark Meadows Jan 6, 2021 2.54pm

Donald Trump Jr Jan 6, 2021 2.58pm

I am pushing it hard.
I agree

This his one you go to the
mattresses on. They will try to
f**k his entire legacy on this if
it gets worse

How artful belly dancers
Egypt
Melanie Swan

A belly dancing school has been embraced by the cultural division of the
United Nations in a move welcomed by
Egyptian dancers anxious to improve
its reputation.
The Taqseem Institute has been
opened in Cairo under Amie Sultan, a
former ballerina who hopes the link
with Unesco, through its partner
organisation the International Dance
Council, will mean the dance becomes
perceived as a respected art form.
Unesco has already recognised other
Egyptian culture forms, including the

epic poems of al-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah, alAragoz, an old form of Egyptian theatre
using hand puppetry, and tahtib, a
Pharaonic stick-fighting ritual.
Sultan wants the dance to be known
as “Egyptian dance”, removing the
stigma attached to the name “belly
dance”. It was named danse du ventre
(dance of the stomach) by French colonialists, but has never been known that
way in Arabic.
Sultan made a name for herself by
teaching at New York University, which
helped her to garner the support of
Naguib Sawiris, an Egyptian businessman, to help to fund the centre. The
school is open to women of all ages and

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America torn on whether
Trump should face justice
United States

Analysis

David Charter Washington

Outtakes of a video
message recorded
the day after the riot
showed Donald
Trump being urged
by his daughter to
condemn the attack,
when his supporters
stormed the Capitol.
The commitee was
also shown texts
between Donald
Trump Jr and staff
in the White House

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Half of Americans believe Donald
Trump should be charged over the
Capitol riot and almost half do not,
highlighting the dilemma over whether
to prosecute the former president.
Only a quarter of voters believe that
Trump will end up in court, a sign that
many Americans do not think the
Department of Justice will have the
nerve to prosecute or should risk
further violence by doing so.
Members of the committee investigating the rampage by Trump supporters on January 6 last year said yesterday
that they had presented sufficient
evidence to warrant criminal charges.
That decision is up to the Department
of Justice under Merrick Garland, the
attorney-general.
At their final hearing before the
summer recess, witnesses said Trump
had spent three hours in a small White
House dining room watching the attack
on television and refusing entreaties by
senior staff, advisers, friends and his
children to call off the mob.
Trump was accused of setting
his supporters on the Capitol after
Mike Pence, his vice-president, refused
to follow Trump’s unconstitutional
demands to reject election results from
swing states won by Joe Biden. Secret
Service agents guarding Pence were so
shaken by the fury of Trump supporters
that they called loved ones to say goodbye in case they were killed, a security
official told the committee’s hearing on
Thursday night. The official’s identity
was hidden and voice disguised to
prevent reprisals.
“I think we have proven, not basically
just in this hearing, we’ve proven
different components of a criminal
case against Donald Trump or people
around him in every hearing,” Adam
Kinzinger, one of two Republican
members of the committee, told CNN
yesterday.
“I think taken in totality, this represents the greatest effort to overturn the
will of the people, to conspire against
the will of the people and to conspire
against American democracy that
we’ve ever had, frankly, since the Civil
War . . . It’s up to [the Department
of] Justice now to make a decision . . . If
we become a country that accepts
attempts at coups, and attempts at

B

ennie Thompson,
chairman of the
January 6 committee,
was unequivocal in his
opening remarks to the
hearing on Thursday night (Hugh
Tomlinson writes).
“There must be stiff
consequences for those
responsible” for the effort to
subvert the 2020 election and the
peaceful transfer of power that
led to the riot, he said. Without
it, “I fear we will not overcome
the threat to our democracy”.
With Donald Trump eyeing
another run for the White House
in 2024 that threat is clear. But
the wealth of evidence produced
by the January 6 committee, and
the revelations by members of
Trump’s inner circle, have
strengthened the potential
criminal case against him.
Legal experts have identified
three potential charges against
Trump: “obstructing an official
proceeding”, for his attempts to
block the official vote count in
Congress on January 6;
“conspiracy to defraud the
United States”, for the wider
scheme to overturn the 2020
election result; and “seditious
conspiracy”, for his alleged role
in inciting the riot.
The January 6 committee
members have made plain that
they believe Trump should be
indicted, but the panel itself does
not have the power to prosecute.
That lies with Merrick Garland,
the US attorney-general.
Even if he believes there is
sufficient evidence for a
conviction, he must consider
the impact that a criminal trial
would have on a divided
country.
However, Liz Cheney, the
Republican vice-chairwoman,
posed the question: “Can a
president who is willing to make
the choices Trump made in the
violence of January 6 be trusted
with any position of authority in
our great nation ever again?”

overcoming the will of the American
people, we can’t survive that.”
Trump’s allies are preparing a dramatic government overhaul if he is reelected, purging potentially thousands
of civil servants and filling career posts
with loyalists to him and his “America
First” ideology, Axios reported last
night. The plans could “strip layers” at
the justice department, including the
FBI, and reach into national security,
intelligence, the State Department and
the Pentagon, it said.
Although 50 per cent of Americans
think Trump should face criminal
charges, 45 per cent do not. Twentyeight per cent believe he will be prosecuted, according to a PBS NewsHour/
NPR/Marist poll released on Thursday.
There were signs that the committee’s eight hearings — featuring evidence from senior Republicans including Bill Barr, Trump’s attorney-general,
who called the former president’s allegations of election fraud “bullshit” —
had shifted public opinion slightly. The
poll found 57 per cent thought Trump
deserved at least “a good amount of
blame”, up from 53 per cent in January.
Voters are polarised: 86 per cent of
Democrats, 52 per cent of independent
voters and 12 per cent of Republicans
consider the events of January 6 to have
been an insurrection and a threat to
democracy. Among all voters, this was
50 per cent. A further 19 per cent said it
was a political protest protected under
the First Amendment and 25 per cent
said it was “an unfortunate, past incident and not cause for future worry”.
Although the committee planned
to wrap up its evidence on Thursday, it
said it was receiving so much information that there would be more hearings
in September. The committee revealed
that Trump, 76, eventually agreed to
record a video message telling his supporters to “go home, we love you”, but
only after the White House had learnt
that National Guard troops and other
reinforcements were being mobilised.
In another video recorded the following day, outtakes presented by the committee showed that the president still
refused to say “the election’s over”.
6 Steve Bannon, the former adviser to
Donald Trump, was found guilty of
contempt charges by a court in
Washington last night after refusing to
comply with a subpoena from the congressional committee.

of Egypt beguiled the UN Biden, 79, given aspirin to thin his blood
runs 150-hour courses. Women also
can take lessons in instruments
such as the tabla, an Indian
drum, and alongside classes
she aims to curate a photographic, written and recorded
archive of all types of traditional
dance across Egypt.
“Oriental dancing is an authentic
Egyptian art with a long history and
origins just like different types off
dance, such as contemporary dance
and ballet,” Sultan told Al-Monitor, a
news website. “At the end of the day,
The suggestive tradition
has often raised eyebrows

this dance represents
Egypt,” she has said. “It’s
how we show ourselves
to the world, just like
we identify Spain with
flamenco.”
Sultan is highly
sought after in Egypt
and has been invited to
perform at lavish weddings
there and in the Gulf. Her
next project is a touring production based on the music
of Umm Kulthum, one of
the most famous Egyptian
singers of the 20th
century.

David Charter Washington

President Biden is receiving aspirin as
an alternative blood thinner while he
cannot take his regular medicine
alongside antiviral treatment for
Covid-19, his doctor said yesterday.
Biden, 79, had “improved” despite
developing a raised temperature after
his diagnosis on Thursday morning
with his first coronavirus infection.
The president, who is double-jabbed
and double-boosted, is continuing to
work and hold meetings online while
remaining in isolation at the White
House until he tests negative. Concern
for his health is heightened because of

his age — he is the oldest US president
— and previous health problems. He
came close to death aged 45 with two
brain aneurysms and a pulmonary
embolism.
He regularly takes two preventive
medicines: apixaban, an anticoagulant
used to ward off blood clots and prevent
stroke; and rosuvastatin for reducing
cholesterol. Neither is being taken in
combination with Paxlovid, the Pfizermade antiviral he is taking for five days
to treat the symptoms of Covid-19.
“During this time it is reasonable to
add low-dose aspirin as an alternative
type of blood thinner,” Kevin O’Connor, the president’s doctor, wrote in a

letter released by the White House,
adding that Biden was “tolerating treatment well”.
O’Connor wrote that “his symptoms
have improved. He did mount a temperature yesterday evening to 99.4 F
[37.4C], which responded favourably to
acetaminophen (Tylenol). His temperature has remained normal since
then. His symptoms remain characterised as rhinorrhea (‘runny nose’)
and fatigue, with an occasional nonproductive, now ‘loose’ cough. His
voice is deeper this morning. His pulse,
blood pressure, respiratory rate and
oxygen saturation remain normal, on
room air.”

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Island paradise on Japan’s front line
ALAMY

Japan
Richard Lloyd Parry Ishigaki

Ishigaki island is one of the most peaceful places in Japan and even from a
perch in the hills you have to look hard
for the cause of all the bitterness.
Herons and eagles fly through the air
and fields of sugar cane, pineapple and
mango stretch for miles, against a backdrop of the blue waters of the East
China Sea.
It is only through binoculars that you
can clearly make out what is causing all
the trouble: a cluster of tractors and
cranes at the foot of a green mountain.
In a few months’ time this untidy
construction site will be a military base
for the Japan Self-Defence Forces
(SDF). Close to 600 military personnel
will be based here, along with batteries
of anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles
on mobile launchers.
To its proponents, it is an essential
component of Japan’s accelerating
efforts to protect its outlying islands in
a region transformed by the growing
power and assertiveness of China. To
its opponents, it is the equivalent of a
giant bullseye painted on the green
innocence of Ishigaki; a provocation
that will make the tranquil island an inevitable target in any future conflict.
It is also throwing up resentful memories of the bloody and tragic history of
this part of Japan, which more than any
other has reason to fear the effects on
civilians of war between great powers.
Setsuko Yamazato
survived the
horrors of war in
1945 and wants to
prevent a repeat
Construction of a military base has begun on Ishigaki, which is close to the flashpoints of Taiwan and the Senkaku Islands

“When it’s finished this base will be the
perfect target for an enemy,” said Setsuko Yamazato, an 84-year-old activist
who is campaigning against the SDF
base. “If there is a war, then the whole
island will be a battlefield.”
Ishigaki is 1,200 miles from Tokyo. It
is closer to Shanghai than the Japanese
mainland. To the casual observer it is a
delightful subtropical backwater, a
place of beaches and coral reefs, but in
geopolitical terms it is on the front line
of East Asia’s security tensions, close to
two of the region’s most dangerous
potential flashpoints, either of which
could give rise to a future superpower
conflict.
The first is the Senkaku, the small uninhabited islands which are administratively part of Ishigaki but which are
claimed by China under the name
Diaoyu. More important still is Taiwan,

JAPAN

CHINA

East
Pacific
China Sea
Ocean
Senkaku
Okinawa
Islands
Ishigaki Island
Taiwan

300 miles

the self-governing democratic island
which China insists must be retaken, by
force if necessary.
An invasion of Taiwan would provoke a crisis in East Asia at least as grave
at that caused in Europe by the Russian
invasion of Ukraine, potentially dragging the US and its allies into war with
China. It could also unleash a flotilla of
boat-borne refugees who would

naturally head towards Ishigaki and the
nearby smaller islands. Some fear that
China might seize the Senkaku or other
Japanese islands as a base for an assault
on Taiwan from the east.
Beijing is doing nothing to soothe
fears about its intentions. In May it
staged “realistic combat exercises” in
the East China Sea. Chinese warships,
submarines and aircraft carriers increasingly pass through international
waters between Japan’s southwest islands, and Chinese coastguard vessels
chase Japanese fishing boats away from
the Senkaku.
Okinawa island, the centre of the
prefecture of which Ishigaki is a part,
hosts 26,000 US military personnel
under Tokyo’s treaty with Washington.
In the past six years, in a conscious effort to take greater responsibility for its
own defence, the SDF has established

units on the Nansei chain between the
mainland and Taiwan.
As the government’s latest white
paper on defence, published yesterday,
puts it: “Japan must position SDF units
that suit the security environment and
deploy them according to the situation
in order to defend Japanese nationals’
lives and property.”
Nowhere is the anxiety felt more
keenly than in Ishigaki. “Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine I have heard
our people saying, ‘That could happen
in Taiwan,’ ” said Yoshitaka Nakayama,
the island’s mayor. “Amami island has a
base, Miyako island has one, and so
does Yonaguni island. Ishigaki doesn’t
— and that means we would be the first
to be attacked.”
The new base promises economic
benefits for what is Japan’s poorest
prefecture. On an island with little

business other than tourism and farming, the arrival of an estimated 1,000
SDF personnel and their dependents
will be a welcome boost for the shrinking, ageing population, with collateral
benefits to the locals building and
supplying the structure and its occupants. Even so, the base is passionately
opposed by some islanders, for reasons
that have their roots in the Second
World War.
In 1945, months before the atomic
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Okinawa was the scene of the only battle of the Pacific War fought on Japan’s
home islands. Some 14,000 American
troops, 77,000 Japanese soldiers and
149,000 Okinawan civilians perished in
a savage battle that came to be known
as the “typhoon of bombs and steel”.
It remains a cause of resentment to
those who believe that the Japanese
high command consciously sacrificed
Okinawans in order to delay an invasion of the mainland. The prefecture
continues to bear a disproportionate
defence burden 77 years later: Okinawa
hosts 70 per cent of American bases in
Japan despite having only 1 per cent of
the country’s population, and 0.6 per
cent of its land area.
There are plenty of people who believe that the SDF base in Ishigaki is a
consequence of indifference to the
wellbeing of Okinawans. Among them
is Yamazato, leader of a group calling
itself the Society of Grannies to Protect
Life and Livelihood. She lost her
brother in a torpedoed ship, her baby
sister to malnutrition, and her mother
to the malaria epidemic that killed
more people in Ishigaki than bombs or
bullets combined as they cowered in
the island’s jungle.
“People in Tokyo talk about defending the country but why must we be the
ones to pay the price?” she said. “At the
core of my being is the determination
never to allow the lives of islanders be
sacrificed again.”
Despite the opposition of people like
her, Nakayama has been re-elected as
mayor four times, a record that he insists speaks of public support for the
base. Activists demand a referendum
on the issue, which he steadfastly refuses. Instead, he attempts to soothe anxieties with a plan that would attempt to
evacuate Ishigaki’s 50,000 locals, plus
tourists, by air in the event of a conflict.
His opponents say the small airport
itself would be a target of Chinese
attack. “Compared to the last war, it will
be completely different next time,” said
Yamazato. “They’ll fire missiles, they
may use atomic bombs. Last time, we
survived for half a year in the jungle.
This time it will be over in minutes, and
there will be nowhere to run.”

Lawless South Africa faces its own Arab Spring, warns former president
South Africa
Jane Flanagan Africa Correspondent

Record unemployment, poverty and
growing unrest have put South Africa
on course to “explode” with its own
version of the Arab Spring protests,
Thabo Mbeki has warned.
The 80-year-old former president
said in a blunt statement that the “corrupt” African National Congress
government had “no national plan” to
tackle a deepening crisis. “You can’t
have so many people unemployed, so
many people poor, people faced with
this lawlessness,” he told mourners at a
memorial service for a government
figure. “One day it’s going to explode.”
Mbeki succeeded Nelson Mandela as
president and has made only cautious
public statements since leaving office in

2008. However, he pointed the finger of
blame directly at President Ramaphosa, accusing him of failing to tackle
the country’s problems. “When he
delivered his state of the nation address
in February, he said in 100 days there
must be a comprehensive social compact to address these matters. Nothing
has happened. Nothing,” he told the
gathering of party loyalists.
The attack is a further blow to
Ramaphosa’s ambition to win an ANC
leadership election later in the year. He
has many enemies in the party who
have remained loyal to Jacob Zuma, his
predecessor, who is accused of corruption on a huge scale.
Ramaphosa has not helped himself
after being ensnared in his own sleaze
scandal. He yesterday responded to
questions from South Africa’s anti-

corruption watchdog about the alleged
theft of up to $4 million in cash from his
private farm, something that was never
reported to police.
The president, one of South Africa’s
richest men, has denied any wrongdoing and said that the amount involved — proceeds from the
sale of rare cattle — was far
less than the sums reported.
The public protector’s
office had threatened to
subpoena Ramaphosa after
he asked for more time to
provide
information
about the incident in
2020. Opposition
members have
called for the
revenue service
and
reserve

bank to investigate. Susan Booysen,
author of Precarious Power: Compliance
and Discontent under Ramaphosa’s
ANC, said the scandal had “collapsed”
his efforts to style himself “as the kingpin of the [party’s] clean-up . . . I cannot
see how this will not impact the ANC
leadership election. He needs a miraculous explanation to survive this one.”
A judicial inquiry into corruption
during the Zuma presidency was also
critical of Ramaphosa’s decision to
stay silent about the worst excesses
during the years he spent as Zuma’s
deputy. In July last year South Africa
had a glimpse of the sort of widespread unrest envisaged by
Thabo Mbeki has attacked
the government for not
having a “national plan”

Mbeki when at least 330 people were
killed as rioting and looting swept
through parts of the country in violence
prompted by the jailing of Zuma for
contempt of court.
Jakkie Cilliers, of the Institute of
Security Studies, echoed Mbeki’s alarm
over further unrest, again fuelled by
ruling party power struggles. “It’s a
dangerous year for South Africa
because the violence and the instability
in the ANC is spilling over and becoming practically a threat to ordinary
South Africans,” he said.
South Africa is grappling with an unemployment rate 45 per cent, which
rises to nearly 64 per cent for those
aged under 24. Africa’s most industrialised economy also ranks as the
world’s most unequal nation for which
wealth data is available.

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Herculean labour returns looted $1m fresco to rightful owners
Philip Willan Rome

An ancient Roman fresco from Herculaneum that depicts an infant Hercules
strangling a snake has been returned to
Italy after being confiscated in the
United States.
Known as the Ercolano Fresco and
valued at $1 million, the work was one of
48 antiquities seized from Michael
Steinhardt,a hedge fund manager who
is one of the world’s most important
collectors of ancient art.
The fresco, which dates from AD50,

was looted from a villa in Herculaneum
in 1995 and purchased that year by
Steinhardt for $650,000, with —
according to US prosecutors — no verifiable provenance.
Steinhardt undertook to refrain from
acquiring antiquities in exchange for
immunity from prosecution.
Like its larger southern neighbour
Pompeii, Herculaneum was buried
under volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79.
The depiction of Hercules, the Greek
hero who gave his name to Hercula-

The Ercolano Fresco was among
the 142 artefacts returned to Italy

neum, was part of a total of 142 antiquities valued at about $14 million which
were handed over to Italian officials in
New York and will go on show in

Rome’s new Museum of Rescued Art.
Sixty works of art that formed part of
the restitution were recovered from the
Royal-Athena Galleries, a New York
dealership closed by Jerome Eisenberg,
its owner, in 2020.
Eisenberg, who died this month, described himself as “an idealist and a
hypocrite”, admitting it was likely he
had unwittingly bought illegally
exported objects. Manhattan’s district
attorney’s office thanked him for cooperating with its investigation.
Steinhardt, in contrast, was accused

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Young mafiosi
use TikTok
to flaunt their
family fortunes
Italy
Tom Kington Rome

Italian mafia bosses once ran their
criminal rackets from the shadows but
such secretiveness has become a thing
of the past as a new generation of
mobsters talk to each other, and the
world, on TikTok.
Long used by teenagers for posting
videos from their bedrooms, the social
media platform has attracted criminals
in Naples, who are using it to show off
their opulent lifestyles, announce
vendettas and forge alliances.
Typical videos show them swigging
expensive champagne from the bottle,
flashing designer watches, enjoying
luxury holiday resorts and eating in
Michelin-starred restaurants.
“For the first time these gangsters
have found a direct way to speak up
about their lives,” Marcello Ravveduto,
a professor of modern history at the
University of Salerno and an expert on
mafia communication, said. “The
Camorra [the Neapolitan mob] has the
youngest members of
Italy’s mafias
and they love
TikTok because
it’s so quick and
has less rules
than other platforms.”
The trend is in
stark contrast
with the Sicilian
mafia tradition of
pencilling cryptic
notes for go-betweens to take to
fugitives in hideouts.
“Now that it has
discovered TikTok, the Camorra
iitt iiss up there
wants to show that
with the glamorous elite,” Ravveduto
said.
Crescenzo Marino, son of a Camorra
boss and who also has been investigated for mafia membership, has garnered 43,000 followers with his videos
of designer clothing, pit bull dogs and
meetings with Neapolitan rappers.
Luxury lifestyles apart, Camorra
clans are also using TikTok to make
Crescenzo Marino, son of a mafia boss,
flaunts his lifestyle to 43,000 followers

threats, notably this month after the
murder of a man linked to members of
the Carrillo-Perfetto clan, who may
have been killed by enemies in the
Calone-Marsicano clan. A TikTok
message, apparently written by
Carrillo-Perfetto
clan
members,
named the alleged killers and warned
police: “We are giving you a week to
arrest them or we will raise hell.”
After a kneecapping by one family
said to have been carried out in
response to taunting by another clan on
the platform, the Il Mattino newspaper
in Naples appealed for police to remove
accounts linked to mobsters.
Severino Nappi, a Naples councillor,
filed a complaint with magistrates after
finding a page with smiling photos of
mobsters designed like a Who’s Who of
the Camorra.
“The Camorra has followed the
Mexican narcos, who are keen users of
TikTok, while gypsy criminals in Rome
are also using it,” Ravveduto said.
In Naples, gangsters are using it to
idolise murdered friends, including
Emanuele Sibillo,
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boats and eating lobster shortly before
he was arrested at the age of 28 in 2014.
Police wiretaps suggest that local
bosses are becoming alarmed at the use
of TikTok. Officers listened as Antonio
Abbinante, a prominent gangster,
blamed an affiliate for provoking police
pressure on the clan by boasting online
about its power and ability to murder its
rivals.
“I get really furious about this,”
Abbinante said. “I am going to split
open the head of whoever did this.”

by Cyrus Vance Jr, the district attorney
when many of the artefacts were seized,
of displaying a “rapacious appetite for
plundered artefacts without concern
for the legality of his actions”.
Steinhardt denies wrongdoing and
his lawyers have indicated he may take
legal action against dealers who gave
him unreliable provenance papers.
Among other items returned to Italy
were three 4th-century BC frescoes
from Paestum depicting mourning
women. They had been hacked from
the wall of a tomb.

Water hazard A farmer receives a soaking during a Miochara cattle-racing festival near Canning, West Bengal. The event
goes back 100 years but its popularity is waning in part because of the danger to onlookers from beasts running wild

Paris stores fined if they keep doors open
France
Charles Bremner Paris

Air-conditioned shops in Paris have
been ordered to shut their doors or face
fines after the council voiced outrage
over a “huge, irresponsible waste of
energy”, especially at department
stores and luxury brand outlets.
“This aberration must cease in the
present context of climate emergency
and energy crisis,” Anne Hidalgo, the
mayor, tweeted. Starting immediately,
municipal police will issue penalty

tickets leading to court fines of up to
€150. Dan Lert, the deputy mayor in
charge of “ecological transition”, said he
was “outraged” by the large number of
shop managers who thought nothing of
leaving entrances open in a heatwaves.
Restaurants and cafes with adjoining
terraces will be exempt from the rule.
Last week Elisabeth Borne, the prime
minister, attacked the air-conditioning
habits of shops across the country.
Several other towns have imposed
doors-closed rules. France has long enjoyed relatively cheap electricity,

thanks to its heavy use of nuclear
power, which supplies 70 per cent of its
energy, but President Macron is imposing a programme of “energy sobriety”
in response to the crisis over Russian
gas.
The government wants business to
lead the way with an array of “small gestures” on electricity and gas and it is
urging the population to follow suit.
Thermostats must be set at 19C or
below, and wi-fi and internet systems
must be off and appliances unplugged
when absent for a weekend or more.

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Roe rebels take
fight to homes of
top US justices
Hugh
Tomlinson
washington

T

wo weeks after he and his
fellow conservatives on the
US Supreme Court voted to
overturn Roe v Wade, the
constitutional right to
abortion in America, Justice Brett
Kavanaugh went out for dinner at
Morton’s, an upmarket steakhouse
in Washington.
Within minutes, protesters acting
on a tip-off gathered in front of the
restaurant to harangue him for his
vote in a ruling that has led to
nationwide protests by pro-choice
activists and Republican states
enacting their own abortion bans.
Witnesses said that Kavanaugh,
one of three judges appointed to the
court by Donald Trump, securing a
6-3 conservative majority on the
bench, neither saw nor heard the
protests but left by a back entrance.
Morton’s, outraged, said: “Politics,
regardless of your side or views,
should not trample the freedom at
play of the right to congregate and
eat dinner.”
Pro-choice activists show no sign
of backing down. In the days since
the protest at Morton’s, the group
ShutDown DC has appealed to staff
in the expensive bars and
restaurants of the capital for tips on
sightings of the six conservative
justices. ShutDown has offered cash
rewards to waiters and bar staff who
find themselves serving one of the
judges, with $50 for a confirmed
sighting and $200 more if they are
still there when protesters gather.
The offer has provoked outrage
among Republicans and some
commentators. Activists have staked
out the justices’ homes amid anger
at the ruling, as Republicans call for
other constitutional rights, including
gay marriage and access to
contraception, to be reversed.
A man armed with a pistol and a

knife was arrested near Kavanaugh’s
home in Maryland on the outskirts
of Washington last month. Nicholas
Roske, 26, faces charges of
attempted murder.
Conservatives pounced on the
incident to claim that Democrats,
left-wing activists and even the
White House were encouraging
vigilante attacks to avenge the
abortion ruling. Ted Cruz, a
Republican senator, claimed that
the protests outside the justices’
homes were worse than the riot on
January 6 last year, when Trump
supporters stormed Congress.
“Shameful. And the Biden White
House is encouraging this lawless
mob intimidation,” Cruz tweeted.
The Texas senator also claimed on
Fox News that the January 6 mob
were “protesting peacefully”.
That comparison has been
challenged on the left. The abortion
protests come amid evidence from
the congressional committee
investigating the riot that Trump
and his allies encouraged the
violence as a last-ditch attempt to
cling to power. One protester was
shot dead, a police officer died after
he was beaten and hundreds were
injured during the riot.
Challenged on Fox News about
the demonstrations targeting the
justices, Pete Buttigieg, the
transport secretary, said that public
figures “should expect” peaceful
protest and criticism, particularly
after “an important right that the
majority of Americans support was
taken away”.
ShutDown DC is unrepentant.
After declaring the justices fair
game, the group announced plans to
picket next week’s congressional
charity baseball game, in protest
against the evidence from the
January 6 committee that several
Republican congressmen conspired
with Trump in his attempt to
overturn the 2020 result and then
sought pardons.
“We disrupted Brett Kavanaugh’s
steak dinner and we will disrupt the
congressional baseball game,”
Shutdown tweeted this week. “The
monsters tearing apart our country
deserve no peace.”

LA finds
its sole at
the trainer
mecca store

W

alking is not
the preferred
mode of
transport for
many in Los Angeles, a
city synonymous with the
car, so its love affair with
shoes may come as a
surprise (Keiran
Southern writes).
Yet Angelenos with an
eye for fashion place
great importance on their
trainers and the Flight
Club store, home to rare
and valuable shoes, was a
cultural hub before its
doors closed in March
2020 at the start of the
pandemic.
Its long-awaited
reopening this week was
welcomed by customers
who could again browse

shelves stacked high with
sought-after footwear.
Although online
business boomed in the
past two years, Eddy Lu,
chief executive of GOAT
Group, which owns Flight
Club, said: “Sneakers are
such a tactile experience.
“It is a physical product
and something you can’t
replicate online. That’s
why it’s so important to
have that in-person
experience, to really have
all the feels and smells of
the store.”
Once a niche pursuit,
being a “sneakerhead”
now means being part of
a global community.
Flight Club has almost
three million followers on
Instagram, and GOAT
Group, which also runs
stores in New York and
Miami, was valued at
$3.7 billion last year.
Fans visiting the LA
branch will find brands
such as Yeezy, designed
by the rapper Kanye
West, and Nike Air

Jordan on the shelves.
The store’s return marks
another sign of LA’s postCovid revival. The trendy
Fairfax area, which has
been blighted by a spate
of robberies, should also
benefit from Flight Club’s
comeback.
Lu said that although
the space has been
redesigned — an
industrial look has
replaced the minimalist
pre-pandemic layout —
the core attraction
remained. “Traditional
retail stores are all about
the sales transaction,” Lu
said. “We’ve never felt
that way about Flight
Club. In some ways it’s
like going to a
museum.”
Bas Roels, a 16year-old
tourist
from

Nike is one of the brands
that is luring committed
“sneakerheads” to
congregate at Flight Club in
LA now it has reopened
after a pandemic closure

Amsterdam, agreed that
shopping online did not
capture the joys of
visiting the store in
person.
He left Flight Club as
the proud owner of a
$485 pair of Nike Patta x
Air Max 1 trainers,
“ecstatic” to have visited
and insisting it was
superior to a well-known
rival store close by.
“The atmosphere
here is way
better,” he said.
Flight Club
sells the soughtafter Travis
Scott X Air
Jordan 1 Low
OG sneakers,
which
depending on
the size can cost
more than $1,450.

Pink sky at night is a psychedelic delight Plight of the crabs who give
Australia
Foreign staff

Residents of Mildura, northern Victoria, were surprised when a pink glow lit
up the night sky above their quiet rural
town. Some speculated that aliens were
invading. Others feared it was the coming of the apocalypse.
“I was just being a cool, calm mum,
telling the kids: ‘There’s nothing to
worry about,’” said resident Tammy
Szumowski. “But in my head I’m like,
what the hell is that?”
Other locals thought the unworldly
pink light might be coming from an
unusually bright red moon before realising that it was emanating from the
ground, rather than the sky.
Szumowski told the BBC: “Mum’s on
the phone and Dad’s in the background
going: ‘I better hurry up and eat my tea

Clouds above Mildura reflected light
from a medicinal cannabis farm

because the world’s ending’. And Mum’s
like: ‘What’s the point of eating your tea
if the world’s ending?”
Officials in the town on the banks of
the Murray River soon realised that the
source of what locals called a “sunset on
steroids” was closer to home. It was
caused by a new area of a farm set up by
Cann Group, the first licensed medici-

nal cannabis company in Australia. The
drug is still illegal for recreational use in
Australia, but its medical use has been
allowed since 2016. About 260,000
prescriptions have been approved for a
variety of illnesses, from chronic pain to
sleep disorders.
Although the location of the farm is a
closely guarded secret, for locals the
glow has shed some light on it.
Peter Crock, Cann’s chief executive,
said the cannabis grew under lights
until 7pm each day.
“Normally the blackout blinds close
at the same time as the sun sets,” he
said. “Last night we had the lights on
and the blinds hadn’t yet closed. When
we put the plants to sleep, the lights
went off.”
He said the LED lamps glowed pink
because they worked on a different
wavelength to most lights.

their blue blood for science
United States
Keiran Southern Los Angeles

On the moonlit beaches of Cape Cod,
fishermen go hunting for an ancient
species that helps to check modern
medical science is safe.
The horseshoe crabs are taken to a
laboratory and drained of about a third
of their blue blood, which contains the
only known natural source of a substance that detects toxins, such as in
coronavirus vaccines.
However, campaigners fear the
impact on the vulnerable species is far
greater than drug companies admit.
This year Charles River Laboratories
has been permitted by the state of
Massachusetts to harvest the crabs.
The company said about 4 per cent of

the creatures died after the procedure.
However, Mark Faherty, science coordinator at the Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, said such
low numbers were unsupported. The
true figure, he said, could be 30 per cent.
Other crabs suffer reduced mobility
or have their reproductive ability
harmed.
Faherty accepted that the importance of limulus amebocyte lysate — the
substance found in the crabs’ blood —
meant harvesting must continue, but
said Massachusetts’ crab population
could not support the procedure.
Birgit Girshick, chief operating officer of Charles River Laboratories, said
it worked closely with local regulators
to ensure the crabs were handled safely
and returned to their native waters.

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Port Talbot caught in political limbo as Tata warns of closure
Robert Lea Industrial Editor

The future of Britain’s biggest steelworks is set to become a political football in the run-off between Liz Truss
and Rishi Sunak to be the next leader of
the Conservative Party.
With six weeks more of campaigning
between the foreign secretary and the
former chancellor to replace Boris
Johnson, Tata Steel has warned that it
needs urgent answers as to whether the

government will continue to support its
Port Talbot plant in south Wales.
The company, part of the giant
Indian multinational Tata Group,
which also owns Jaguar Land Rover
and Tetley, has been in talks with ministers for two years about what support
the taxpayer will give it to close the blast
furnaces and decarbonise Port Talbot
— measures needed to keep the 120year-old steelworks viable.
The plant, near Swansea, employs

Twitter parks
its losses at
Musk’s door

more than 4,000 people and, along
with Tata’s sold-off Scunthorpe steelworks, now Chinese-owned, is the
foundation of much of British industry
across the energy, automotive, aerospace, rail and construction sectors.
Pleas for answers to Tata’s demands
for £1.5 billion of support this week were
met by Kwasi Kwarteng, the business
secretary, washing his hands of the
affair, saying that any decision must be
signed off by a new prime minister.

The Financial Times reported Kwarteng
aides as saying that the business secretary was a supporter of the steel industry’s need to decarbonise “but not at
any cost”. An aide was reported as
adding: “This is an issue for the new
administration.”
Kwarteng has supported Truss during the Tory leadership campaign,
which suggests that if Sunak were to
win he might be out of a job, while if
Truss wins he might be promoted.
JD SPORTS

Twitter has blamed Elon Musk’s erratic
pursuit of the company and a global
advertising slowdown for its revenues
unexpectedly declining last quarter.
The social media group swung into
the red in the three months to June,
during which Musk revealed a 9 per
cent stake and agreed to buy the
business for $44 billion, only to then
threaten to terminate the deal. He has
subsequently pulled out entirely, setting the scene for a court battle.
Revenue at Twitter declined 1 per
cent to $1.18 billion over the period, shy
of the average $1.32 billion forecast
among analysts. It reported a net loss of
$270 million, down from profit of
$65.6 million in the same period in 2021.
Trading was challenged by “uncertainty” surrounding the acquisition and
“advertising industry headwinds associated with the macroenvironment”,
Twitter said. Advertising sales increased
2 per cent to $1.08 billion while other
revenue, including subscription fees,
dropped 27 per cent to $101 million.
The failure to meet consensus Wall
Street expectations — hours after
Snap, owner of Snapchat, reported its
weakest sales growth since listing and
did not provide guidance for the current quarter — has set the stage for a
choppy set of earnings from Silicon
Valley next week.
At the close yesterday, shares in Snap
had slumped 39 per cent, or $6.40, to
$9.96 in New York; Twitter rose 0.8 per
cent, or 30 cents, to $39.84; Meta Platforms, owner of Facebook and
Instagram, fell $13.90, or 7.6 per cent, to
$169.27; and Alphabet, the world’s

largest advertising business and owner
of Google and YouTube, slipped $6.44,
or 5.6 per cent, to $107.9.
Musk, 51, formally moved to drop his
purchase of Twitter this month, citing a
lack of clarity over the prevalence of
fake accounts on its platform and alleging executives had “failed or refused” to
provide relevant information. The
company, in turn, sued the tycoon,
claiming he caused “irreparable harm”
to its business and setting the stage for
months of legal wrangling. Both sides
are expected in court in October.
Twitter has asked a Delaware judge to
force Musk to complete the deal.
Twitter, founded in 2006 and based
in San Francisco, runs one of the
world’s largest social networks. It
accepted Musk’s $54.20-a-share offer in
April after he built up a large stake and
rejected an invitation to join its board.
Monetisable daily active users on the
platform — a key metric for Twitter —
grew 16.6 per cent on the year to finish
June at 237.8 million “driven by product
improvements and global conversation
around current events”, it said.
Twitter maintains that fake accounts
amount to fewer than one in 20 of its
active users. Musk has repeatedly cast
doubt on the claim. Twitter acknowledged that it applied “significant judgment” to reach this figure, however, and
the number of so-called spam accounts
“could be higher”.
“We are continually seeking to
improve our ability to estimate the total
number of spam accounts and eliminate them from the calculation of our
mDAU [monetisable daily active
users], and have [suspended] a large
number of spam, malicious automation
and fake accounts,” Twitter said.

Revolt over
bosses’ pay
at JD Sports
Dominic Walsh

Global headwinds compound ad slowdown
Callum Jones
US Business Correspondent

Tata wants to pull down its carbon-intensive blast furnaces and replace them
with much lower-emission electric arc
models designed to produce so-called
green steel.
Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata Group, told the Financial
Times: “A transition to a greener steel
plant is the intention, but this is only
possible with financial help from the
government. Without this, we will have
to look at closures of sites.”

A leap in demand for its sportswear enabled JD Sports to deliver a £654.7 million
pre-tax profit over the course of the year, with like-for-like sales rising 5 per cent

JD Sports suffered a backlash over pay
yesterday as investors speaking for
more than a quarter of the shares voted
against the remuneration report.
A year after the chairman of the
retailer’s remuneration committee was
kicked off the board over executive
bonuses, the report received backing
from investors accounting for 72.3 per
cent of votes cast.
The company said that the slight increase in votes backing the report from
68.5 per cent to 72.3 per cent “recognised the progress that is being made”. It
added that it was “committed to maintaining dialogue with shareholders”.
At last year’s annual meeting Andrew
Leslie, 75, then chairman of the remuneration committee, was voted off the
board as investors rebelled against almost £6 million of bonuses paid to Peter
Cowgill, 69, its chairman. Shareholders
were unhappy at the payment of bonuses while the company was accepting
furlough support.
In a trading update at yesterday’s
annual meeting, JD Sports forecast
another year of record profits.
Like-for-like sales rose by 5 per cent
year-on-year in the five months to the
end of June and pre-tax profits for the
full year to the end of January 2023 “will
be in line with the record performance”.
It delivered a £654.7 million pre-tax
profit over the year after a leap in
demand for its sportswear. Shares fell by
½p, or 0.4 per cent, to 142p.
6 Shareholders at HomeServe, the
emergency home repairs business,
delivered a rebuke to Tommy Breen, the
chairman, and Tom Rusin, head of the
US division. At yesterday’s annual meeting more than 36 per cent voted against
the remuneration statement after proxy
investors led a revolt against Rusin’s 15
per cent pay rise last year. More than 20
per cent voted against the re-election of
Breen after shareholders complained
about a lack of diversity on the board.
HomeServe is about to be taken over
by Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management in a deal worth £4 billion.

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

44

Business

Need to know

1

Nationwide rail strikes are set
to cripple Britain’s network a
day before the Commonwealth
Games after talks to resolve a
dispute over pay, jobs and
conditions broke down. Elsewhere,
British Airways staff accepted a
new pay offer and called off a
planned strike at Heathrow
airport. Pages 2, 5

2

Interest rates will have to rise
as high as 7 per cent to allow
tax cuts, according to
Professor Patrick Minford, Liz
Truss’s economic guru, as the runoff between the foreign secretary
and Rishi Sunak to be the next
leader of the Conservative Party
gathered pace. Page 8

3

Twitter has blamed Elon
Musk’s erratic pursuit of the
company and a global
advertising slowdown for its
revenues unexpectedly declining
last quarter. The social media
group swung into the red in the
three months to June. Page 43

4

The future of Britain’s biggest
steelworks is set to become a
political football in the runoff to be the next leader of the
Conservative Party. Tata Steel has
said it needs urgent answers as to
whether the government will
continue to support its Port Talbot
plant in south Wales. Page 43

5

JD Sports suffered a backlash
over pay as investors speaking
for more than a quarter of the
retailer’s shares voted against the
remuneration report. Page 43

6

The Falklands might seem an
odd candidate to become an
energy powerhouse; but the
Sea Lion field, an on-again, offagain prospect since oil was found
there 12 years ago, is on again.
Rockhopper, the exploration
venture that found it, has struck a
development deal with Navitas, an
Israeli oil company. Pages 44-45

7

Shoppers cut back on online
spending and were hit by
rising petrol costs in June,
offsetting a boost to food sales on
the Jubilee bank holiday weekend.
Official figures show a 0.1 per cent
dip in retail sales volumes between
May and June. Page 46

8

Britain’s biggest banks have
been named and shamed by
the regulator for publishing
inaccurate information about
interest rates, overdrafts and levels
of performance. Lloyds Banking
Group, HSBC, Barclays and
NatWest were among six
institutions identified for
transgressions by the Competition
and Markets Authority. Page 47

9

Carl Pei’s Nothing, as the 32year-old Swede’s Londonbased start-up is called, is
aiming to take on the might of
Apple and Samsung with its
Nothing Phone, which went on
sale on Thursday. Page 48

10

Patrick Drahi, the
telecoms tycoon building
a stake in BT, is pursuing
a potential sale of part of his
heavily indebted US business, a
deal that could have ramifications
for Britain’s largest telecoms group.
Altice USA is exploring the sale of
Suddenlink, which provides cable
and internet services in the southcentral part of the US, for up to
$20 billion. Page 49

Falklands’ black gold rush
The odds are shortening
on the South Atlantic
becoming an energy
powerhouse, writes
Dominic O’Connell
Head north from the Falkland Islands,
across the South Atlantic waves where
albatross wheel and whales sound, and
you pass over what could be a big new
oil province — a significant source of
hydrocarbons controlled not by
sheikhs or oligarchs, but by the United
Kingdom.
The Falklands might seem an odd
candidate to become an energy powerhouse. The likely presence of commercial quantities of oil has been known for
decades, yet successful development
has always seemed improbable. The
islands were too remote, the weather
too inhospitable, the cost too high.
Now, however, the odds are shortening. The Sea Lion field, which has been
an on-again, off-again prospect since
oil was discovered there 12 years ago, is
on again. Rockhopper, the exploration
venture that found it, has struck a
development deal with Navitas, an
Israeli oil company with a reputation
for bringing difficult prospects into production. Its chief executive, Gideon
Tadmor, was an influential figure in the
opening up of the eastern Mediterranean as a big new source of gas, and the
company recently completed a deal to
develop the Shenandoah field in the
Gulf of Mexico, which had previously
been discounted for being in water too
deep with well pressures too high.
“We are closer than we have ever
been to it actually happening,” says
Ashley Kelty, senior oil and gas analyst
at the stockbroker Panmure Gordon,
who made the trip to the islands to
examine the project when it last looked
likely to happen. “It will transform the
economy of the Falkland Islands,” says Sam Moody,
Rockhopper’s chief executive. “And it is big enough to
make a difference to the
security of the UK’s
energy supply.”
Argentina, which has denounced oil and gas exploration in Falklands waters as illegal because of its territorial
claim to the islands, remains implacably opposed. Environmental
campaigners have in
the past also objected,
although a local wildlife charity is not calling for a blanket ban.
If all goes accord-

ing to the Rockhopper plan, and there
are regulatory hurdles still to overcome, including a sign-off in Westminster, a final investment decision could
be taken in two years’ time.
The Falklands has been the next big
thing in oil several times in the past.
Industry giants, including Shell, explored without luck in the 1990s, and
there was a flurry of interest around
2010 when a rapidly-rising oil price
sparked a prospecting rush.
A gaggle of Aim-quoted explorers
nicknamed the “sheikhs of the South
Atlantic” — including Desire Petroleum, Falkland Oil and Gas, Argos
Resources, Borders & Southern and
Rockhopper — raised money from
investors eager to believe that riches
awaited. It was a febrile atmosphere;
comments on investor bulletin boards
at the time showed many who bought
the shares believed Britain’s willingness
to fight to reclaim the Falklands from
Argentine invasion in 1982 was proof
enough that large quantities of oil
would be found.
After that rush of activity, however,
the oil price dropped and market interest fell. Rockhopper, a tiny company
headquartered in a Wiltshire farmhouse, is one of those to have stayed
the course, and has the licence not
only for Sea Lion but other potential
fields. Moody, below, who is Rockhopper’s co-founder as well as its chief
executive, first got involved in 2004
after having conversations with
Richard Visick, the one-time owner of
Weddell Island, the third-largest in the
Falklands. “The acreage that Shell and
others had been exploring was coming
off licence — it was open for someone
else to come in. Richard said ‘I think
there is an opportunity here’, and we set
it up together.”
In 2010 Rockhopper struck oil on Sea
Lion, not far from where Shell had been
working more than a decade earlier.
“They missed it only by about 1,000
metres,” Moody says. The discovery,
which is estimated to contain at least
500 million barrels, made Rockhopper a potential target for other oil
explorers hungry for promising
prospects. It held talks with
Cairn Energy before striking a
development deal with Premier
Oil, a London-listed company
with interests in the UK,
Mexico and Asia.
Premier
paid
$231 million upfront for a 60 per
cent stake, with
the promise to
pay
another
$770 million of
development
costs. The partners predicted

The Falkland Islands’ GDP could triple and production in the nearby Sea Lion field

that oil would flow by 2017. It never
came to pass, though. The oil price fell,
and while Premier and Rockhopper
spent money on studies and
engineering work on how to bring the
field into production, actual development was shelved.
Premier was distracted by problems
at other fields and a shaky balance
sheet. In March last year it merged with
another medium-sized oil company,
Chrysaor Holdings, with the combined
company renamed Harbour Energy.
Harbour was less interested in the

Falklands, and in December it withdrew, with Navitas taking its place.
When the deal closes the Israeli company will take a 65 per cent share of the
field, with Rockhopper keeping 35 per
cent. Rockhopper raised $10 million
this month to help to fund its side of
the agreement.
Tadmor, who has separate interests
in film production, including the 2016
movie Norman, starring Richard Gere,
said that the Israeli group had been
tracking the Sea Lion field for some
time. “We were interested going right

Phoenix reveals plan to take Stanley Gibbons off Aim
Emma Powell

The rare stamp and coin trader Stanley
Gibbons has become the second company this week to unveil plans to delist
from London’s junior Aim market, after
pressure from its largest shareholder.
Phoenix Asset Management, which
has a stake of just over 58 per cent in the
company, said that there were “clear
benefits” in withdrawing from the
public market including cost savings
and a lack of financing benefits, with
the listing unlikely to deliver “significantly wider or more cost-effective
access to capital” than the funding
options provided by Phoenix.
“The company’s peers also have far
greater insight into its strategy, opera-

tional activities and future plans than
the company has into theirs, a factor
which reduces the company’s relative
competitiveness,” the board said.
Taking the company private requires
75 per cent of shareholders to vote in
favour of the shares being delisted.
Given the likelihood of the delisting
being approved, the company has
instructed its broker to purchase any
shares from investors willing to sell at a
price of 1½p each, equating to a 3.5 per
cent premium to Thursday’s closing
price, until the last day of trading on
Aim. The delisting is expected to take
place on September 7.
This week Abcam, one of Britain’s
most successful biotechnology businesses and largest companies on Aim,

Taking the stamp trader private needs
the backing of 75 per cent of investors

announced it would be quitting the UK
market and maintaining a sole listing on
New York’s Nasdaq. The company
added a secondary listing in the US in
October 2020, designed to boost the
liquidity in its shares, attract more USbased life science investors and enable
more acquisitions in the US.
If shareholders do not vote for the
delisting, Phoenix said it would “reconsider its continued financial support”.
Phoenix is the company’s sole creditor and the asset manager’s support was
vital to Stanley Gibbons continuing to
trade, the company said. The continued
support of Phoenix would be a prerequisite to obtaining auditor sign-off
as a going concern for the company’s
accounts for the year to March.

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Business

might at last be a reality

could replace all UK Russian oil imports, say the heads of Rockhopper and Navitas, which have signed a development deal
Sea Lion field
ARGENTINA

FALKLAND
ISLANDS

Stanley

Development field
Exploratory wells
Production licence areas

125 miles

back to when Premier got involved,”
he said. “It is a perfect fit for us. We like
situations where there are challenges,
and we have a track record of making
things work in difficult places.”
According to Tadmor, much of the
hard work has already been done. “Premier and Rockhopper together have
spent a lot of money on the development. We will refine the production
concept, but basically we see this as
getting an asset which is already a long
way down the road.”
Navitas also brings access to an inter-

esting source of funds: Israeli investors,
who Tadmor says are eager for more access to oil and gas assets. He dismisses
opposition to new oil and gas fields on
climate change grounds. “The truth is
that the transition from hydrocarbons
to new sources of energy is going to take
much longer than people think, and in
the meantime we will need new sources
of oil and gas.”
He is also relaxed about Argentina’s
denunciations. “We are aware of the
conflict, but it is a UK territory.
“Our experience in the eastern Medi-

te
terranean
makes me believe that oil
d
discoveries are positive developments
— if we do well then other oil companies, even the majors, will come to the
n
F
Falklands.”
Both Moody and Tadmor are, undersstandably, keen to stress the impact that
o
oil production could have on British
energy security. “This could be big
enough to replace all the oil imports the
UK has from Russia,” Moody says.
It will also be a big deal for the Falklands economy. The Falkland Islands
government — there is a newish
administration in place after elections
that took place in November last year
— will take a 9 per cent royalty on each
barrel produced, and will also charge
corporation tax on the Sea Lion operations. “Depending on what your assumption is about the oil price, that is a
giant amount of money for the islands,”
Moody says, while Tadmor estimates
that the first phase could triple the
Falklands’ gross domestic product at
a stroke.
In a statement, the Falkland Islands
government said that it supported oil
production “provided it is done to the
necessary standards”. It said it was too
early for definitive plans on how oil
revenues would be used. “However, the
Falkland Islands have significant
infrastructure renewal requirements,”
a spokesman said.
Esther Bertram, chief executive of
Falklands Conservation, a charity that
is devoted to protecting the island’s
wildlife, said that the group did not
oppose all oil development but wanted
additional environmental safeguards,
including new laws, protection for
inshore waters and funds in place for
any remedial work required.
“I think it will be quite interesting to
see what happens because in the recent
elections many voters talked about the
environment being one of the big issues
for them,” she said.
While some Falkland islanders may
hope that the deal with Navitas will
bring their dream of riches closer,
others will remember that much has
been promised before, and that much
hangs on the oil price. Rockhopper
and Premier calculated that the Sea
Lion field had a breakeven cost of about
$40 a barrel, well below the current
$100-plus.
“I think there is a much higher
chance of it happening than at any time
in recent years,” said Werner Riding,
oil and gas analyst at Peel Hunt,
Rockhopper’s broker. “It will have a
motivated new operator in Navitas, and
they should be able to finance it. It is a
good-sized resource and by the time
they reach the final investment decision they will have confidence on
proven reserves. At a $100 oil price it is
definitely bankable.”

Controversial Volkswagen boss ousted by unions
Russell Hotten

Volkswagen’s chief executive Herbert
Diess, who led the carmaker’s big push
into electric vehicles and has also
repeatedly clashed with unions, is to
leave the company.
His future at the German auto giant
had been called into question several
times but intensified last year during
disputes with the powerful works
council over his strategy and management style.
Diess, 63, will leave on September 1
and will be succeeded by Oliver Blume,
chief executive of Volkswagen-owned
Porsche, who will keep his position as
head of the luxury car brand alongside
his new responsibilities. Diess took

over the top job after the diesel emissions scandal that cost the company
billons of euros, and subsequently
vowed to turn VW into the world’s
biggest maker of electric vehicles.
The company owns brands, including Audi, Seat, Lamborghini, Bentley
and Skoda.
He is leaving three years before the
end of his contract and the announcement came hours after he posted on
LinkedIn: “After a really stressful first
half of 2022 many of us are looking forward to a well-deserved summer break.”
Diess pushed through tough costcutting and accelerated the electrification strategy in a bid to catch up with
Tesla, whose chief executive Elon
Musk has praised the German’s effort

several times. Diess also pushed for the
stock market listing of Porsche.
However, the VW works council,
with seats on the supervisory board and
backing from 300,000 employees,
fought Diess’s efforts. The Cox Automotive analyst Michelle Krebs said the
turmoil around Diess had possibly become a distraction at VW. “It shouldn’t
be a surprise because his tenure has
been rocky and controversial,” she said.
The former chief executive Bernd
Pischetsrieder and a head of the VW
car brand, Wolfgang Bernhard, were
both ousted after clashes with VW’s
works council.
Hans Dieter Pötsch, chairman of
Volkswagen’s
supervisory
board,
thanked Diess in a statement and

praised his role in “advancing the transformation of the company”.
“Not only did he steer the company
through extremely turbulent waters
but he also implemented a fundamentally new strategy,” Pötsch said.
Blume, 54, was always considered a
replacement for Diess when his contract expired in 2025. He started his
career at VW’s Audi brand, and was
appointed to VW’s management board,
responsible for production, in 2018.
Pötsch said: “Oliver Blume has
proven his operational and strategic
skills in various positions within the
group and in several brands and has
managed Porsche from a financial, technological and cultural standpoint with
great success for seven years running.”

Centrica and
Shell profits
return sector
to scrutiny
Emily Gosden Energy Editor

Shell and Centrica are poised to
reignite scrutiny of energy company
profits next week as they report surging
income and consider an increase of
returns to shareholders.
Shell is expected to say that secondquarter adjusted earnings doubled to a
record $11 billion from $5.5 billion in the
same period of 2021 because of soaring
prices and refining margins after
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The company is expected to launch
more buybacks of its shares, which Ben
van Beurden, the chief executive,
described last week as “very significantly underpriced”. Some analysts
also believe it could increase its dividend, which stands at 25 cents per share
or almost $2 billion per quarter.
Centrica, the owner of British Gas, is
due to report the same day as Shell and
is expected to declare a five-fold surge
in first-half adjusted operating profits
to £1.3 billion as it too benefits from
higher commodity prices. Analysts believe it will bow to shareholder pressure
and risk a political backlash by resuming a dividend payment for the first time
since before the pandemic.
The results come as consumers face a
cost of living crisis with record fuel and
household energy prices, which have
already triggered a windfall tax on
North Sea oil producers.
Yesterday, TotalEnergies agreed to
cut fuel prices for motorists in France,

$11bn

Second-quarter adjusted earnings
are expected to double at Shell
Source: Times research

under pressure from the government.
Centrica’s profit surge is expected to
be driven by its Norwegian oil and gas
fields, which it has now sold. Even excluding these, Martin Young of Investec, forecasts that its profits could hit
£676 million because of the UK North
Sea business and its stake in Britain’s
nuclear plants, which have cashed in on
high electricity prices, more than offsetting a fall in profits at British Gas.
He believes that it could declare an
interim dividend of 0.75p per share, or
about £44 million. “It’s not a blowout
number,” he said, adding that Centrica
needed to be “a healthy investment
proposition” and if it didn’t reinstate the
dividend now “we’re having the same
conversation six months down the line
in the depths of winter”, by which time
energy bills are forecast to have risen
even higher.
Shell cut its dividend for the first time
since the Second World War in 2020,
when the pandemic led to a collapse in
oil prices, slashing quarterly payouts by
two-thirds, from 47 cents to 16 cents per
share. As oil and gas prices rebounded
it rebased its dividend to 24 cents per
share a year ago and has since edged up
the payout to 25 cents.
Biraj Borkhataria, head of European
energy research at RBC Capital
Markets, said Shell could raise its dividend by 30 per cent, to 33 cents per
share.
Giacomo Romeo, of Jefferies, said he
thought Shell may announce a $4 billion quarterly buyback. Oswald Clint, a
senior analyst at Bernstein, suggested
that Shell’s board “may now see recession risks as too great and prefer to bolster the balance sheet”.

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Business

Jubilee celebrations soften blow
to retailers as web spending falls
WILLIAM BARTON/ALAMY

Mehreen Khan Economics Editor

Shoppers cut back on online spending
and were hit by rising petrol costs in
June, offsetting a boost to food sales on
the Jubilee bank holiday weekend.
Official figures show a 0.1 per cent dip
in retail sales volumes between May
and June, better than a drop of 0.2 per
cent forecast from economists, but
another slowdown after sales were
revised down to a decline of 0.8 per cent
the month before.
Retail sales figures have become a
key indicator for the health of the economy as rising inflation eats into
household income and savings while
many businesses are being forced to
pass on higher costs to customers.
The retail sector as a whole has fallen
into recession after contracting in the
first and second quarters, Martin Beck,
chief economist at the forecasting
group EY Item Club, said.
Online retailers suffered a 3.7 per
cent drop in sales, the worst since
March 2020 last month, while a rise in
market oil prices led fuel sales to fall by
4.3 per cent. The Office for National
Statistics said “retailers suggested the
fall was linked to record-high petrol and
diesel prices impacting the amount of
fuel people were buying”.
Monthly retail sales excluding fuel
rose by 0.4 per cent.
Surging inflation and a slowing
economy has pushed UK consumer
confidence to the lowest on record, according to a monthly survey by GfK.
Inflation is running at 9.4 per cent
but a rise in global oil and natural gas
prices could force inflation higher than
the 11 per cent peak forecast by the
Bank of England for this year. Analysts
at Bank of America are projecting a
peak in inflation of 12.5 per cent in
October, when households will receive
their winter electricity bills.
Rising food sales over the Jubilee was
the only bright spot in the data. “Clothing purchases dipped along with household goods, with retailers suggesting
consumers were cutting back on spending due to higher prices and concerns
around affordability,” Heather Bovill,
deputy director for surveys at the ONS
said.
Aled Patchett, head of retail and consumer goods at Lloyds Bank, said retail-

US business
activity drops
for first time
in two years
Callum Jones

The surge in inflation and the slowdown in the economy has seen UK consumer confidence fall to its lowest on record

ers were under pressure to slash prices
to stimulate spending, despite facing
higher energy and materials costs.
“As the cost of goods goes up, there is
increasing pressure on businesses to
reduce prices as consumers cut back on
their discretionary spending, prioritise
discounts and offers, and switch to
value and non-premium brands. Such
cuts may narrow margins but are
essential to maintaining cashflow,”
Patchett added. Samuel Tombs, the

chief UK economist at Pantheon
Macroeconomics, said that consumer
spending could pick up in the coming
months on the back of government
support measures to alleviate the cost
of living crisis.
“The total of £4.6 billion of [government] support in the third quarter is
equal to 1.2 per cent of quarterly nominal disposable incomes. Accordingly,
households’ real disposable incomes
likely will edge up in the third quarter,

facilitating a modest recovery in retail
sales,” Tombs added.
He said that incomes would fall to a
post-Covid-19 low “as government
policy support announced to date will
not offset the huge hit to real disposable
incomes from October’s likely 65 per
cent rise in the energy price cap. So unless the next prime minister acts fast,
both retail sales volumes and households’ total real expenditure looks set to
fall back again in the fourth quarter.”

Business activity has contracted for the
first time in the US since the early
months of the pandemic as rampant
inflation and rising interest rates took
their toll.
Output across the world’s largest
economy fell by more than expected
this month, according to a closely
watched survey, amid a sharp slowdown in key service sector industries.
S&P Global’s preliminary composite
PMI output index fell to 47.5, down
from 52.3 in June and the worst reading
since May 2020. Anything short of 50
indicates a contraction in activity.
It comes amid heightened concern
over the direction of the US economy,
which some people fear has already
entered a recession as the Federal
Reserve tries to combat price growth.
Chris Williamson, chief business
economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said: “The preliminary PMI
data for July point to a worrying deterioration in the economy. Excluding
pandemic lockdown months, output is
falling at a rate not seen since 2009
amid the global financial crisis, with the
survey data indicative of GDP falling at
an annualised rate of about 1 per cent.
“Manufacturing has stalled and the
service sector’s rebound from the pandemic has gone into reverse, as the
tailwind of pent-up demand has been
overcome by the rising cost of living,
higher interest rates and growing
gloom about the economic outlook.”
Fed policymakers are due to convene
next week for their latest rate-setting
meeting. They are widely expected to
order another significant increase to
try to curtail inflation, which has
remained stubbornly high.
The latest weak economic reading is
likely to intensify concerns that the US
economy is mired in a protracted
downturn. GDP data for the second
quarter will be released next week.
The equivalent PMI indicator for the
eurozone fell into outright contraction
for the first time since the start of the
pandemic, indicating that the 19-country bloc is heading for a recession by the
end of the summer. The index fell to
49.4 this month, from 52 in June.

Private sector maintains run of growth Amex lifts sales forecasts
Mehreen Khan

Output in the UK’s private sector is
holding up better than expected this
month, with tentative signs that
inflationary pressures on businesses
are beginning to ease.
A closely watched survey showed
that economic output had continued to
expand in July but the rate of growth
was the slowest since Covid-19 lockdowns in 2021.
The flash purchasing managers’
index (PMI) hit 52.8 this month, down
from 53.7 but still above the 50 threshold that marks expansion, and above
analysts’ expectations. The economy
has expanded for 17 consecutive
months, according to the index.
Businesses said that cost inflation
was showing signs of easing after a fall
in global commodity and energy prices
in the past month, according to the
survey, which was compiled by S&P
Global and the Chartered Institute of
Procurement & Supply.
Services companies said they still

faced intense wage pressures from a
shortage of labour and demands from
workers for higher pay. Other businesses said they were feeling the pinch from
the falling value of the pound, which
has made imports more expensive.
Chris Williamson, chief business
economist at S&P Global, said that

17

Number of consecutive months that
the economy has expanded
Source: S&P Global/Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply

companies’ costs were rising at the
slowest pace in nearly a year, helping
businesses that had been hit by surging
inflation and supply disruption since
the pandemic. “Inflationary pressures
have cooled markedly, stemming from
fewer supply shortages and more discounting in response to the weakened
demand environment,” he added.
The survey is an early indicator of

economic growth in July and is consistent with a GDP expansion of 0.2 per
cent at the start of the third quarter. The
economy faces being on the brink of
recession if official data shows it contracted in the three months to June.
Consumer price inflation is expected
to peak well above 11 per cent this year
on the back of rising global food and
energy prices. But significant drops in
big commodities in the past month,
driven by recessionary fears, has helped
to reduce cost pressures on businesses.
Output prices fell to their lowest since
January, according to the PMI survey.
The services industry, which powers
the economy, was the best performing
sector last month, while manufacturing
production levels fell for the first time in
two years.
Services were held up by spending on
travel and leisure, the survey said, while
“goods producers typically cited a lack
of new work to replace completed
orders, reflecting subdued client confidence and weaker global economic
conditions”.

as customers splash out
Callum Jones
US Business Correspondent

American Express has lifted its annual
revenue forecast after consumers
continued to spend heavily on their
credit cards despite the highest inflation in a generation.
The financial group now expects
annual sales growth of between 23 and
25 per cent, up from a previous projection of between 18 and 20 per cent.
Stephen Squeri, the chairman and
chief executive of American Express,
said that card member spending had
risen by 30 per cent on the year, driven
by the recovery of travel and entertainment expenditure.
In the second quarter, American
Express earned $1.96 billion, or $2.57
per share, on revenue of $13.4 billion.
Last year it earned $2.28 billion, or
$2.80 per share, in the second quarter.
Spending on travel and entertain-

ment came roaring back in the quarter.
The company said that consumer
spending in the category topped prepandemic levels for the first time in
April. There also was a significant uptick in corporate travel.
The results are yet another example
of the conflicting headlines that investors are seeing as they weigh up the
likelihood of a recession.
Decades-high inflation is forcing the
Federal Reserve to raise rates in order
to cool off the economy.
At the same time, pent-up consumer
demand, particularly for experiences
like travel, concerts and other entertainment, has many spending freely.
Weighing on American Express’s
performance was the need to add
$410 million as a provision for credit
losses.
However, shares in the company
closed up $2.81, or 2 per cent, at $153.01
in New York yesterday.

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47

Business

Dominic O’Connell

Big banks
rebuked for
failing their
customers

Politicians have had their chance . . . it’s time to
call in Britain’s best bosses and entrepreneurs

‘‘

It’s amazing what
you can find out if
you just hang
around chatting to
people. At a book
awards in 2011 I was talking to an
Italian industrialist when he pointed
to a distinguished-looking man on the
far side of the room. “You see him?
He will be prime minister of Italy in
two weeks’ time”, he said.
I vaguely recognised the person
indicated — Mario Monti, an
economist and former European
commissioner. Italy had just had a
debt crisis and was struggling to form
a government (as it is again now). I
thought no more about it — until, of
course, Monti’s appointment as head
of a new technocratic government
was announced a fortnight later.
After a depressing week of
squabbling between the candidates to
lead the Conservative Party in
Britain, perhaps we could learn from
Italy. Why not get a group of
businesspeople to run things here?
This is not a serious suggestion.
Voters would not accept an unelected,
unaccountable group of bosses
running the country, and it would tax
the brains of constitutional experts to
come up with the circumstances
under which it might be possible. It’s
more of a game of fantasy football —
which entrepreneurs and chief
executives would you choose for your
dream cabinet?
Let’s start with transport secretary.
There are lots of reasonable
contenders — Sir Brian Souter, cofounder of Stagecoach, would
certainly put the fear of God into civil
servants, while Sir Stelios HajiIoannou, another entrepreneur who
made his millions from mass
transportation, would make life less
dull. My choice, though, is another
knight, Sir Richard Bowker, the
former chief executive of the Strategic
Rail Authority, who went on to run
National Express and to chair the
Football League.
Bowker would rub many people up
the wrong way, as he did when he
steered the railways out of one of
their periodic crises in the early years
of the century, but he has the rare
combination of understanding
operations and finance. He also
delivers withering putdowns when
confronted with dumb ideas, which is
something that should always be
encouraged.
How about foreign secretary? I am

sure he would like the publicity,
however, so is probably ruled out.
Some of the best chancellors have
been Scottish, so why not Jane Fraser,
Scottish-born boss of one of the
world’s biggest banks, Citi? You don’t
get to the top of Wall Street without
being clever and having rat-like
cunning. She did spend time at
McKinsey, but we can let her off on
that one.
The most difficult appointment is
health secretary. The future of the
NHS is one of the most intractable
issues for any government. It will in a
couple of years account for 44 per
cent of departmental spending, yet
even that amount of money is not
delivering a good service. Treatment
lists are long, and growing longer;
healthcare is being rationed by
making people wait. Radical reform is
difficult, because any attempt is
stopped by alarm that the door is
being opened to privatisation.
There will be no queue of
applicants for this job, so I am going
to volunteer Justin King, the former
boss of Sainsbury’s. Not only has he
run big organisations before, but he
has seen up close the shortcomings of
the healthcare system during his time
as chief executive of Four Seasons
care homes.
A cabinet of all the talents; now I
need to hear your suggestions for
prime minister.
comforted by the thought that any
appointment could scarcely do worse
than the two most recent holders of
the post, Liz Truss and Dominic Raab.
The latter stayed on holiday during
the evacuation of Kabul, the former
seems to take delight in screaming
about cheese imports.
Sir Roger Carr, outgoing chairman
of BAE Systems, is my pick; well used
to lengthy negotiations, and, having
spoken to many people who have sat
on boards with him, it is uncanny
how they found themselves doing
what he wanted when they set out to
do something completely different.
It will be hard to do without Nadine
Dorries as culture secretary, but
sacrifices must be made. Her
replacement should never talk again
about the future of Channel 4 or the
BBC, but concentrate instead on
Britain’s future media industries.
There are many good candidates.
How about PewDiePie, the Swedishborn influencer, real name Felix
Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, who is reckoned
to be Britain’s most successful

YouTuber? Or Dua Lipa, model
turned singer who has shown herself
to be a canny exploiter of social
media? Either would bring a fresh
approach, but in the end I will go for
Angela Ahrendts, former boss of
Burberry. She has an outsider’s
appreciation of UK culture, knows all
about making the most of brands
online, and did a sterling job of
supercharging a big organisation
while at the fashion house. Simon
Cowell could be a junior minister.
Chancellor is where you might
expect a wealth of choice, but it is
tricky to think of names with the
necessary experience of managing a
big debt burden, endless calls on a
limited pool of money, and
formulating a long-term strategy to
restore productivity and growth.
If you think we are heading for a
debt crisis, a good call might be
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the boss of Ineos,
who understands how debt markets
work and faced down a giant
consortium of banks when Ineos
came under pressure in 2008. I’m not

PS
EDF is asking for more time to
complete its new nuclear power
station at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
It wants the government to give it a
year’s grace so it doesn’t miss out on
payments for electricity. The officials
considering this should also think
about something else — what
happens if EDF just walks away?
The French government will take
control of the company next year; the
expense of a British power station
might not fit its plans. If EDF ditches
the contract, we are left with a big
hole in the ground, and not much
chance of completing it to the original
design. Governments can outsource
many things, but
failure on important
national projects
always lands back in
Whitehall.

’’

Dominic O’Connell is business
presenter for Times Radio
dominic.o’connell@times.radio

David Byers Assistant Money Editor

Britain’s biggest banks have been
named and shamed by the regulator for
publishing inaccurate information
about interest rates, overdrafts and
levels of performance which in some
cases went back five years.
Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC,
Barclays and NatWest were among six
institutions identified yesterday by the
Competition and Markets Authority
for transgressions, which the regulator
said had “let down” their savers.
The banks volunteered information
about their breaches to the CMA under
the body’s “retail banking market investigation order”, which it introduced
in 2017 to set out standards for displaying information accurately to customers to stop mis-selling scandals.
Where products are found to be
misrepresented to savers, banks must
refund the affected customers. If banks
fail to correct their errors, the CMA has
the power to take them to court to force
their removal.
Barclays was found to have failed to
keep interest rate information for its
overdrafts up to date on two of its web
pages between August 2019 and November 2021, while HSBC failed to publish information about its maximum
charge for overdrafts between February 2020 and May 2022.
Lloyds branches as well as Halifax
and Bank of Scotland, which it owns,
published incorrect information about
their service rankings and failed to
update interest rates on its website
between April 2021 and April 2022.
NatWest was found not to have
updated its records digitally after
branch and ATM closures, as well as
misrepresenting interest rates for small
business loans online.
Another bank, Metro Bank, will be
forced to refund almost 100 customers
after overcharging them for entering
unarranged overdrafts between August
2017 and January 2022.
Bank of Ireland was criticised for
listing incorrect details of branch locations and current account charges
between June 2020 and April 2022.
James Daley, of the consumer ratings
organisation Fairer Finance, said:
“These organisations all have significant compliance teams and yet they are
still getting the basics wrong. Hopefully
these letters from the CMA will serve as
a wake-up call and eliminate misinformation on banks’ websites.”
The CMA said all six banks had said
they were “making changes to their operations” to prevent further breaches.

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

48

Business

How to make much ado about Nothing
JOSHUA BRATT FOR THE TIMES

Carl Pei aims to take
on the might of Apple
and Samsung with
his new smartphone,
James Hurley writes

Unlike a traditional
smartphone, Carl
Pei’s Nothing displays
on front and back

An entrepreneur’s big idea being
greeted with the accusation that they
have lost their marbles is one of the
more familiar founder clichés, but
Carl Pei is more justified than most in
deploying it.
Nothing, as the Swede’s Londonbased start-up is called, is aiming to
take on the might of Apple and
Samsung with its Nothing Phone,
which went on sale on Thursday.
“Most people think we’re crazy, a
lot of investors thought we were
crazy during the fundraising as well,”
says Pei, 32.
The scepticism over the first smartphone from a British company in six
years is understandable. With close
to 1.4 billion handsets sold last year, it
is one of the biggest consumer product categories in the world, but a
mere five players have 70 per cent of
the global market. “The entry barrier
is so high that no other start-up will
really attempt this,” says Pei.
At least he has industry credentials
on his side. At the age of 24 he cofounded OnePlus, a Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer. The
company’s first device, a smartphone,
sold close to a million units in 2014
against a sales target of 50,000.
Pei left the company in 2020, feeling that his desire to shake up the
industry was being stifled. Nothing,
he says, is an attempt to challenge
what he calls “supply chain thinking”.
Rather than trying to inspire users
through innovative and provocative
design choices, smartphones have
become dull and commoditised
because of the need to optimise for
efficiency across a global supply
chain, the reasoning goes.
“It’s let’s talk to our supply chain,
figure out their roadmaps, what
components are available, what’s the
colour, what’s the new material finish,
versus something more fundamental:
what kind of change do we hope to
bring about? What’s our product
design vision?”
Instead of relying on market research about what consumers think
they want, Nothing’s phone is the
result of the choices of Pei, colleagues
and partners including Adam Bates,
ex-design lead at Dyson.
“It’s a product we made for ourselves first and foremost because
once you get too data-driven you get
stuck,” Pei says. “You end up with a lot

of products looking and feeling the
same. It’s hard for consumers to distinguish between brands. At the start
of the smartphone revolution, companies took a lot more risk. Today,
people are playing it way too safe.”
At first glance the Nothing phone
does not look like a radical departure
from industry norms, but it does have
some unusual design features. Only
two cameras, for example; most rivals
have three or four. “The dirty little
secret is that brands will only put one
good camera [on] and two or three
cheap ones, with the intention of getting the consumer to believe, wow,
four cameras, it must be
good.”
The phone’s most unusual feature is its “glyph
interface”: a back inset
with more than 900
LEDs that can be illuminated in different ways
to silently communicate
notifications from the
phone even when it is
face down, such as a call
from an important person, or to indicate battery life.
“The modern smartphone is a slab of screen,
half of the surface area is
unused,” Pei says, calling
that a “very controversial, hard to understand
decision” in a low-margin product category.
The phone’s competi-

tive pricing, it starts at £399, means it
is unlikely to break even, Pei admits,
not least because of recent exchange
rate swings (it is designed in London
but made in China and India).
However, he says a higher price
would have likely been commercial
sucide. “Our industry is one of scale.
Today we’re small but if we cannot
show tomorrow that this is a company that has a chance to become the
next Apple, then we’re not going to
get the support we need.
“There’s no boutique smartphone
in the world. If your volume is low,
you’re going to get charged more for
components [and] suppliers want you
to prepay, so you need a lot of cash.
You’re kind of stuck as a niche player.”
Pei says that the phone’s development has given him some (barely
perceptible) grey hairs. Convincing
suppliers that Nothing was a serious
prospect during a global logistical
logjam caused by the pandemic was
among the biggest challenges.
“We had to beg, borrow and steal
from the entire industry. I tried every
angle, like, I’m just a kid with a
dream,” he jokes. “Eventually we got
it together.”
The company has raised about
$145 million in equity backing from
investors including Sweden’s EQT
Ventures, fortunately secured shortly
before the recent crash in listed technology stocks. Pei hopes that strong
sales figures would mean he can raise
further funds if they are needed.
Nothing’s headquarters are in
London, where about 50 of its 360
staff are employed. The city remains
a “great place to really tap into talents
from all over the world”, he explains.
“If you’re going to start anything in
Europe, I do think London is the best
place because of the deep talent pool.”
Pei hopes that technology enthusiasts and those working in creative
sectors will be among the
early adopters who can
drive interest in Nothing’s handset, although he was concerned about hype
before its launch,
tweeting that it’s “only
a phone”.
“There’s a lot of
market anticipation
and interest in us. But
we need to remember
that we haven’t passed
our real test, which is
getting the product
into the hands of
consumers and seeing
if they’re satisfied. It’s
easy for founders to get
caught up in PR. It
doesn’t matter what
the buzz is. You need to
focus on the product.”

New phone has the backing to stand out

W

ith a
starting
price of
£399,
the
Nothing Phone is a midrange handset that will
directly compete with
other Android-powered
rivals such as Google’s
Pixel and Samsung’s
Galaxy ranges rather
than more expensive
iPhones from Apple.
To the untrained eye,
when its screen is facing
up, there’s little to

distinguish the British
start-up’s new effort
from smartphones by
those more established
players. But its back is
decidedly unusual: a
network of LEDs laid
out under a transparent
cover in a circuit said to
be inspired by Harry
Beck’s famous map of
the London
Underground.
The white lights can
be set to produce
unique patterns for
certain notifications, or

even aid picture-taking
in low light. It’s well
executed and fun, if a
little gimmicky —
although it can be
useful in circumstances
where you want to avoid
looking at your screen
but still be silently
alerted to important
calls or messages; a “flip
to glyph” mode silences
the phone when facedown so users can
instead rely on light
notifications.
More importantly, the

phone does all the other
stuff you would expect it
to do without much
fuss, the display and
camera are impressive,
sound and battery life
are decent and the build
quality is good.
The phone may not be
the revolution that the
hype surrounding it
suggested it might be,
but for an affordable
debut handset from a
hardware start-up only
formed in 2020, it’s an
admirable feat.

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BT’s biggest shareholder looks to sell stake in US cable business
Alex Ralph

The telecoms tycoon building a stake in
BT is pursuing a potential sale of part of
his heavily indebted US business, a deal
that could have ramifications for
Britain’s largest telecoms group.
Altice USA, whose chairman is
Patrick Drahi, is exploring the sale of
Suddenlink, which provides cable and
internet services in the south-central
part of the US, for up to $20 billion and

is working with investment bankers at
Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg reported.
A possible sale triggered a rebound in
shares of Altice USA in New York,
which this year had fallen to their
lowest since Drahi, 58, spun off the US
business from his other international
telecoms assets in 2017.
The stock rallied by more than a fifth
on Thursday but remains about two
thirds down on its $30 issue price, and
closed yesterday at $11, 3 per cent up.

Suddenlink is a brand of Altice USA,
one of the largest broadband and video
services providers in the country with
more than five million residential and
business customers across 21 states.
Drahi emerged as BT’s largest shareholder in June last year, via Altice UK,
a Luxembourg-based vehicle, but the
fortunes of parts of his empire have
since deteriorated.
Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, in May called in Drahi’s stake-

building for a review, raising further
uncertainty over his investment in BT.
Drahi, who has declined to comment
on his intentions for BT beyond issuing
a statement in support of management
and its strategy, has a reputation as a
serial dealmaker, renowned for leveraged buyouts and fierce cost-cutting.
A potential sale of Suddenlink comes
after a series of abortive deals by Altice.
Plans to sell its business in Portugal
were halted in January; the US listing of

Teads, an ad tech company, fell through
last August; and a float of Sotheby’s, the
auction house Drahi bought in a
$3.7 billion deal in 2019, has gone quiet.
Analysts at Exane told clients with
regards to Drahi’s BT stakebuilding
that the fall in Altice USA shares, new
entrants to the telecoms market in Portugal and the aborted Teads float had
“stymied Altice’s ability to raise capital”.
Altice declined to comment on a sale
of Suddenlink.
THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

The tie-up between BT
Sport and Eurosport UK will
bring together events from
the Champions League to
the Tour de France

Sports TV tie-up is
cleared by watchdog

T

he competition
regulator has
cleared BT’s
deal with
Warner Bros
Discovery to set up a
televised sports joint
venture that will
combine BT Sport and
Eurosport UK (Alex
Ralph writes).
The Competition and
Markets Authority
launched an initial
merger inquiry at the
end of May after the
deal was struck that
month. Officials
reviewed whether the
tie-up would result in a

“substantial lessening”
of competition in the UK
and had given the
industry until last
Sunday to raise issues.
The CMA said
yesterday that it did not
plan to launch an indepth phase two inquiry.
The green light for the
deal left shares in BT
down 3¾p, or 2 per cent,
at 177¼p, suggesting the
City had not been
expecting competition
issues to jeopardise the
joint venture.
The 50-50 partnership
will bring together
sports rights including

the Uefa Champions
League and Premier
League football,
Premiership rugby, the
Olympic Games, tennis
Grand Slams and the
Tour de France. BT
customers will also have

access to the Discovery+
entertainment service.
BT said yesterday that
the CMA’s decision
would allow the creation
of the joint venture in
the “coming weeks”,
although “both BT Sport

and Eurosport UK will
initially retain their
separate brands”.
The venture provides
BT with a potential full
exit in the future. It has
spent billions buying
rights since BT Sport

Beazley cheered despite a
$193m hit to investments
Beazley has cheered investors after a
better-than-expected
underwriting
performance at the Lloyd’s of London
insurer cushioned the blow that its
investments suffered from recent
market turmoil.
First-half pre-tax profits dropped by
87 per cent to $22.3 million after the
group was hit by $193 million of net
investment losses in the period. The fall
in earnings was less severe than City
analysts had feared because the losses
were partially offset by Beazley’s best
underwriting result since 2015.
The group’s combined ratio, a key
insurance industry measure of underwriting profitability, stood at 87 per cent
at the end of last month, an improvement from the 94 per cent that the
company reported a year earlier.
The lower the ratio, the better the
profits, with anything above 100 per
cent indicating an underwriting loss.
Beazley’s strong performance during
the six months prompted it to upgrade
its forecast for the year to a ratio in the
high 80s, from its previous guidance of
about 90 per cent. Investors responded

Share price
550p
500
Source: Refinitiv

Ben Martin Banking Editor

450
400
2021

Q3

2022

Q4

Q1

Q2

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to the figures by sending shares in the
group up 36p, or 7.5 per cent, to 513p.
Beazley was founded 36 years ago
and is a leading player in the Lloyd’s
market. The group insures everything
from marine cargoes and satellites to
the injuries of professional sportsmen
and women. It is led by Adrian Cox, a
company veteran who was promoted
from chief underwriting officer to the
top job last year.
He said the group’s investment hit
was driven by mark-to-market losses
on its sovereign bond book. Fewer
claims during the period, particularly in
cyber and property, bolstered its underwriting performance. Its cyberbusiness,
which insures against online attacks,

was its most profitable division, with a
combined ratio of 74 per cent. Pre-tax
profits rose to $64.8 million from
$22.1 million a year earlier, while premiums nearly doubled to $472.7 million
from $267.1 million.
Like other insurers, Beazley is exposed to the war in Ukraine and in May
it estimated that it would take a hit of
$50 million, net of reinsurance, from
the Russian invasion. It has stuck with
that forecast, which includes claims in
its political violence, trade credit and
marine books. Cox said that so far the
insurer had received “very few actual
claims” from the war. “We’re unable to
go and see the assets which may have
been impacted in Ukraine because we
can’t send anyone there,” he added.
The Ukraine estimate does not include possible claims for aircraft that
have been stranded in Russia since the
war began. Moscow has effectively
seized hundreds of jets owned by leasing companies and the insurance industry is braced for litigation.
However, Beazley’s exposure to this
area is small and it has said that any
claims will not affect its forecast for its
combined ratio.

was launched in 2013 as
a free service to retain
broadband customers.
Gavin Patterson, the
former chief executive,
had wanted to stem
customer losses to Sky,
which had dominated

the pay-TV sports
market for two decades.
Philip Jansen, BT’s
chief executive since
2019, has prioritised
investment in upgrading
the Openreach
broadband network.

More companies struggling,
says restructuring firm boss
Tom Howard

The number of companies beginning to
struggle is rising as the economic outlook gets gloomier, the boss of a corporate restructuring specialist has warned.
Geoff Rowley, chief executive of FRP
Advisory, has seen “an increase in the
level of inquiries for [our] restructuring
services” in recent months.
He put that down to the ending of
government
pandemic
support
schemes such as furlough, as well as
rising interest rates, runaway inflation
and falling consumer confidence.
However, although FRP has had an
increase in inquiries from struggling
businesses, the number of companies
entering administration or undergoing
a restructuring remains “suppressed”.
Rowley, 51, said: “When you look at
administration numbers in particular,
we’re still seeing a suppressed level of
activity, which doesn’t entirely correlate with the challenges that we read
about every day.
“I think that will continue until the
autumn, when we’re likely to see a postsummer-holiday return where people
have to start addressing their issues.”
As well as directors fixed on muddling through over summer, Rowley
believes that key creditors, especially

the taxman, are still being “supportive”
for the time being.
If the economy does take a turn for
the worse, he expects FRP to be “very
well placed”. The group is best known
for handling the collapse of Debenhams. Over the past year it acted as the
administrator for Corbin & King, the
owner of London’s Wolseley restaurant,
as well as Cleveland Bridge, the Darlington-based structural engineer.
FRP also has a corporate finance division which advises clients on mergers
and acquisitions, the market for which,
especially the mid-market in which
FRP operates, “remains active”.
In the year to the end of April, FRP’s
revenues rose by a fifth to £95.2 million
from £79 million a year earlier. However, pre-tax profits fell to £15.1 million
from £16.6 million as costs, particularly
staff wages, rose sharply.
FRP increased its headcount by 15
per cent over the year to 504 and expects to make “greater investment” into
its people over the coming years given
its belief that the “competition for talent will become more intense”.
The numbers were in line with what
the City had expected but the smaller
profit prompted the shares to close
down 12p, or 7.9 per cent, to 139p, valuing the business at £350 million.

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Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

Business Markets

Investors sense a bargain at S4
despite downgrade by broker
Jessica Newman Market report

I

t hasn’t been the best week for
investors in Sir Martin Sorrell’s
S4 Capital.
The shares lost nearly half
their value on Thursday after the

advertising group said big hiring costs
had forced it to slash profit targets.
Although the stock is cheap
compared with September’s 870p
peak, and an attractive play for

bargain hunters, having fallen almost
78 per cent since the start of the year,
analysts at Morgan Stanley said there
were plenty of reasons to be cautious.
They argue that S4’s problems
appear to “reflect a mismatch”
between its strong client offering and
its corporate infrastructure.
“The profit warning reveals another
control issue at the company and we
have lost confidence in S4’s ability to

resolve it quickly in the aftermath of
the recent audit delay,” Omar F
Sheikh, an analyst at Morgan Stanley
said, as he downgraded the stock to
“underweight”, equivalent to “sell” in
old money.
Despite the bearishness, investors
swooped on the shares which closed
up 2¾p, or 2.2 per cent, at 123½p.
With few corporate updates, the
FTSE 100 edged up 5.86 points, or
0.1 per cent, to 7,276.37, which added
up to an increase of 117.36 points, or
1.6 per cent, over the week.
Among the risers was Antofagasta,
the Chilean copper miner, up 29p, or
2.8 per cent, at £10.76 on the back of
stronger metal prices.
Bargain hunters pushed Ocado to
the top of the index. Shares in the
online grocer and technology
company gained 38½p, or 5.1 per cent,
to 791½p after it fell on Thursday
when it reported a widening of halfyear losses. Investors were also
reassured by what they read into the
results of Delivery Hero, the German
food delivery company, which said it
forecast a smaller loss for the year.
In the mid-caps, Beazley’s shares
jumped 45p, or 9.4 per cent, to 522p
after it raised its annual profit
guidance, which helped propel the
FTSE 250 115.53 points, or 0.6 per
cent, higher to 19,824.77, for a weekly
gain of 990.97 points, or 5.3 per cent.
Lancashire Holdings, Beazley’s

Wall Street report
New York closed the week higher
despite losses yesterday, when the
S&P 500 fell 0.9 per cent to 3,961.63
points and the Nasdaq fell 1.9 per
cent to 11,834.11 as investors digested
Snap’s poor results. The Dow Jones
lost 0.9 per cent to 31,899.29.
fellow Lloyd’s of London insurer,
improved 19¼p, or 4.8 per cent, to
420¾p.
Fears about consumers cutting back
on online shopping, which Royal Mail
flagged as a reason for a drop in
quarterly revenue, led investors to
dump their shares in London’s biggest
paper and packaging companies.
Shares in Mondi, down at the bottom
of the City leaderboard, slipped 81p,
or 5.4 per cent, to £14.16½; DS Smith
retreated 14¾p, or 5.2 per cent, to
270p; and Smurfit Kappa gave up
117p, or 4.1 per cent, to £27.39.
Aston Martin dropped 46p, or
8.7 per cent, to 483½p as Jefferies
shaved its target price on the shares
by 30 per cent to 530p after its
recently announced £653 million
“untenable” capital raise.
Down on Aim, Mirriad
Advertising, the tech company that
uses AI to insert billboards, posters
and objects into content, fell to its
lowest level in more than two years,
closing down 6¼p, or 42.4 per cent, at
8½p after it reported that revenues
had halved in the first half of the year.

Hilco ensures chase
is on for Paperchase
The investment group Hilco
Capital, which owns Homebase
and recently bought Cath
Kidston, has entered the race to
buy Paperchase, the high street
stationer. Permira Credit, which
has controlled Paperchase since
2021, has held talks with other
undisclosed buyers. Paperchase
was among many retailers hit
hard by Covid-19 restrictions and
underwent a pre-pack
administration. Sky News, which
first reported Hilco’s interest,
said that talks with Permira were
at an early stage. The sale
process is being led by
PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Although Permira Credit, part of
the private equity firm Permira,
has invested in new Paperchase
shops, the possible sale comes at
a time of falling consumer
confidence. Permira Credit
declined to comment and Hilco
did not immediately respond to a
request for comment.

Drilling contractors’
merger gets all-clear
The competition watchdog has
said a £2.6 billion merger of two
oil and gas drilling contractors
should be able to proceed after
they addressed its concerns about
the impact on UK North Sea
producers. Maersk Drilling and
Noble Corporation agreed last
November to merge, but in April
the Competition and Markets
Authority stepped in. They are
two of the four main suppliers of
jack-up rigs used for offshore
drilling in the North Sea and the
watchdog found that the deal
could cut competition and so
increase costs for producers in
the North Sea, as well as
Denmark and the Netherlands.
Noble agreed to sell its fleet of
five jack-up rigs in northwest
Europe and in June struck a deal
to sell them to Shelf Drilling for
$375 million. The watchdog said
the sale would address its
concerns “in a clear-cut manner”.

Coinbase hits back at
watchdog’s claims
Coinbase, the cryptocurrency
exchange, has hit back at claims
by the US Securities and
Exchange Commission that it
trades in unregistered securities,
following fraud charges brought
on Wednesday against a former
employer who allegedly sold
inside information about which
digital tokens it was planning to
list. In a separate complaint filed
by the SEC, the financial
regulator said several of the
newly listed tokens that Coinbase
listed were securities, which
would face tougher regulation. In
a blogpost titled “Coinbase does
not list Securities. End of Story”,
the exchange’s chief legal officer,
Paul Grewal, wrote: “We have
said it before . . . Coinbase has a
rigorous process to analyse and
review each digital asset before
making it available on our
exchange — a process that the
SEC itself has reviewed.”

The day’s biggest movers
Company
Beazley Raises full-year profit outlook
JTC Positive trading update
4imprint Group Shares rally after positive trading update
Ocado Recovers some losses
Lancashire Holdings Positive read across from sector peer
Currys Positive sentiment evaporates
Smurfit Kappa Investors take profits ahead of next week’s interim results
DS Smith Soured sentiment towards box companies
Mondi Fears of a slowdown in online shopping
Aston Martin Lagonda Jefferies reiterates “hold” rating

Change
9.4%
6.2%
5.2%
5.1%
4.8%
-3.2%
-4.1%
-5.2%
-5.4%
-8.7%

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The Manifesto Business

Schwimmer splashed out but insists
big buy never put him off his stroke
ROB PINNEY FOR THE TIMES

With the deft purchase
of data group Refinitiv
the exchange boss has
created a global giant,
Patrick Hosking writes

F

or all chief executives, there
comes a time when the
honeymoon with the City is
over, even if the rift is only
temporary. For David
Schwimmer, chief executive of
London Stock Exchange Group, it
came in March last year, just weeks
after he had succeeded in landing his
gigantic trophy acquisition, the
financial data group Refinitiv.
It had all been going swimmingly.
Shareholders loved the idea of the
$27 billion deal. Regulators had all
been coaxed over the line.
Schwimmer had easily smacked away
an opportunistic gatecrashing
£32 billion bid from his oriental rival
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing.
But the mood turned chilly when
for the first time he said the capex and
opex needed to invest in the combined
business was going to blow out to
£1 billion. It was a shock for some. The
City had a mini-tantrum. LSEG shares
dived by 14 per cent that day.
Recalling the episode, Schwimmer
insists he had never made a secret of
the fact there were going to be heavy
upfront costs, but admits it was never
quantified. “There were, I can’t argue
with that, some people who were
surprised by it. With hindsight we
could have been more explicit . . .”
It was, he says, mostly a case of
“the market getting a little ahead of
us, in being a little bit exuberant,
before we were ready for the market
to be excited”. That exuberance, when
the share price blasted past £98, has
never quite been rekindled. The
LSEG share price yesterday was
bobbing around the £80 mark.
But it’s water under the bridge now.
The integration of Refinitiv has since
gone “very well,” says Schwimmer,
with every target for synergies met or
beaten. The process of transforming
LSEG from a narrow Europe-focused
exchanges group to a global and much
broader-based financial infrastructure
business is fully on track.
Schwimmer, an American former
Goldman Sachs investment banker,
says that while he has advised on
hundreds of deals in his time, he
genuinely cannot think of a single one
“as transformational and valuecreating” as this one. Safe to say, he is
as convinced of its merits as ever.
Schwimmer, 53, has big shoes to fill.
His predecessor was Xavier Rolet, a
charismatic Frenchman who in his
nine years of running the business
boosted the LSEG share price from
£8 to £37, winning him many fans.
Such admiration indeed that his
announced departure in 2017
triggered one of the great City rows,
when the hedge fund manager Sir
Christopher Hohn insisted he was
being improperly ousted.
A protracted battle followed
between Hohn and Donald Brydon,
the LSEG chairman. Hohn wanted
Brydon’s head on a plate and called a
special meeting. The row was settled
only after the intervention of Mark
Carney, then governor of the Bank of
England, and it was agreed that both

David Schwimmer makes light of Brexit and plays down the danger that it could pose to his clearing house operation

Q&A

Who is your mentor?
I’ve had a number over
the years. My dad was
key, in particular in
dealing with people.
Does money motivate
you?
I’m primarily motivated
by dealing with really
interesting, challenging
situations.
What was the most
important event in
your working life?
Leaving Goldman Sachs
for the CEO role at LSEG
Which person do you
most admire?
My wife!
What is your favourite
television programme?
I’ve recently been
enjoying Borgen.

What does leadership
mean to you?
Setting a direction,
setting a tone and
helping people get the
most out of themselves.
How do you relax?
Running, cycling,
swimming, playing with
our dog and reading
histories or biographies.

CV

Born 1969, New York
City
Education
1991 — BA, Yale
1996 — Master of Arts in
Law and Diplomacy,
Tufts University
1996 — Juris Doctorate,
Harvard
Professional life
1996-98 associate, Davis

Rolet and Brydon had to go.
Rolet had produced superb returns
through some decisive deals including
the London Clearing House and
Russell, the US-based indices group
which was successfully combined
with LSEG’s own FTSE indices group.
But he came unstuck when a plan to
merge with Deutsche Bourse (for the
third time) was blocked by the
European Commission.
Into the Rolet-shaped hole stepped

Polk & Wardwell
1998-2018: Goldman
Sachs; 1998-2005:
Financial Institutions
Group, covering market
structure, brokerage
and trading; 2005-06:
chief of staff to the
president & COO, Lloyd
Blankfein; 2006-09: cohead, Goldman Sachs
Russia and head of
Russia/CIS investment
banking; 2010-11: head,
metals and mining,
North America; 2011-17:
global head of metals
and mining; 2012:
elected partner; 2017-18:
global head of market
structure; global head
of metals and mining
investment banking.
2018: chief executive,
London Stock Exchange
Group
Family Married, with
two sons, 13 and 11

Schwimmer, who didn’t take long to
alight on his own big project. Refinitiv
was the financial data arm of
Thomson Reuters, its assets including
the securities data and software tools
piped to 40,000 traders’ screens
across the globe, as well as a couple of
bond trading platforms.
LSEG is indeed dramatically
changed from the acquisition. When
Schwimmer arrived in August 2018, it
had 5,500 employees in 18 countries.

Today he has more than 23,000 in 70
countries. The actual London Stock
Exchange, the 300-year-old securities
market, accounts for less than one
twentieth of total group revenues.
Schwimmer, who was paid
£6.4 million last year, is now boss to
more people in India (6,000) than the
UK (4,100). The company is the 13th
biggest in the FTSE 100.
For City traders and analysts, the
most visible aspect of the deal is that
it pitches LSEG head-to-head with
Bloomberg. Most use either
Bloomberg terminals or Refinitiv’s
Eikon version. The chat on the
dealing floors is that Bloomberg is the
superior product, certainly in terms of
reliability. Eikon can be clunky and
sometimes crashes completely.
Schwimmer can’t bring himself to
utter the B word. “I understand why
there may be a bit of a focus on one
particular product, but the important
thing about Refinitiv is what a diverse
business it is. Our desktop offering,
while it may be subject to some
criticism, is the No 2 in the world, and
we are improving it dramatically.”
A new web-based version called
Workspace is being rolled out to
thousands of customers, he says. It is
faster, flexible and more efficient with
greater functionality and is scoring
well in customer feedback, he adds.
He also defends the quality of some
of the data put out by Refinitiv. It was
the butt of jokes among investment
bankers after publishing a league
table of fees that placed tiny M&A
boutiques ahead of some of the giants
of Wall Street because of unrealistic
assumptions made by its software.

Why on earth did no human eyes
pick up on what was clearly a bonkers
ranking? “As we have worked through
our integration, we’ve been very
focused on improving the risk
management capabilities, improving
the processes across the
organisation,” trots out Schwimmer,
who occasionally sounds as robotic as
one of his algorithms.
The whole area of data and
analytics, now LSEG’s biggest division
by far, is taking more of his time
because the division head, Andrea
Remyn Stone, resigned three weeks
ago for “personal reasons” after just a
year in the role. Schwimmer is taking
personal charge until a permanent
successor is found.
We chat on a difficult day for
London as a financial centre. The
financial headlines are about
Softbank deciding to halt work on a
possible London listing for its Arm
Holdings business, apparently
preferring a New York listing. Arm,
the computer chip designing colossus,
is one of the greatest tech companies
in Britain by any measure. Ministers,
as well as Schwimmer, had been
lobbying hard for a local listing.
Was he disappointed? “I wouldn’t
comment on any particular listing
specifically. I would say that London
remains a great place for terrific
companies to list and we view it as
highly competitive with other
financial centres around the world.”
What about all those tech-enabled
companies that listed in London last
year to cheers from LSEG, but have
since collapsed in value. Companies
like Deliveroo, Wise and Made.com,
which had just put out another profit
warning that very day. Weren’t LSEG
and UK policymakers, who last year
proposed reforms to make tech
listings easier and tech entrepreneurs
welcome, hopelessly late to the tech
party?
“I don’t see it that way,” he says. “If
you and I were having this interview
in New York, we’d be having a similar
conversation about the performance
of biotech companies in the US
markets. Markets go up and markets
go down,” he shrugs.
He adds diplomatically: “I think
that there is this, er, tendency in this
market to really focus on, er, where
companies might not have done so
well in terms of market performance,
but there are many great success
stories.” Schwimmer, a New Yorker, is
far too polite to say we’re a bunch of
moaning pessimists over here.
He makes light of Brexit and plays
down the danger it could pose to his
clearing house operation, LCH, if EU
banks were to be told to stop clearing
through London. LCH was too global
to be seriously hit, he suggests.
He is more concerned about the
Russian invasion of Ukraine. He ran
Goldman’s office in Moscow for three
years from 2006 when it was “a boom
town” for east/west deals. Then came
Putin’s “infamous” speech at the
Munich Security Forum in 2007, in
which he so starkly rejected the USled liberal order of the West.
What about a merger with another
big exchanges group? For 20 years
LSEG has been linked with different
exchanges, but never clinched a deal.
“I would say for now, we’re very
focused on the integration and any
M&A we would do would be on the
smaller side.” Big deals are off the
table, for now at least.

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How to avoid
the airport
parking pinch
Pages 56-57

Money

Speedy ways to make money
from the things you do already
Saving cash doesn’t have to be complicated — you can earn hundreds of pounds in minutes through small changes
0 Buy yourself a gift card
Cashback is a good way to save money,
but you typically have to buy the goods
online and the shops you want to use
may not offer it. However, many shops
do regularly offer gift cards through the
TopCashback website. You buy the gift
card and get cashback on that amount.
It is automatically added to your TopCashback account, then you can spend
the card online or in-store. Shops offer
cashback, and the digital gift cards are
emailed to you.
Example: You want to buy £49.99
trainers from Adidas. Buy a £50 Adidas
giftcard through TopCashback, get
£3.50 added to your cashback account.
Use the giftcard to buy the trainers.

Use all those
railcard perks

0 Switch that credit card
Do you shop a lot at Asda, Amazon,
Sainsbury’s or Tesco? They all offer
credit cards that will give you extra
points on your spending that you can
swap for shopping vouchers or other
perks. John Lewis is relaunching its
popular Partnership Card this year.
If you’re a frequent flyer, American
Express and Barclaycard credit cards
give you airline points. Amex pays 5 per
cent cashback on spending for the first
three months on its Platinum Cashback
Everyday card and between 0.5 per cent
and 1 per cent after this initial period.
Lloyds’ cashback credit card pays up to
0.5 per cent.
0 Phones that give you discounts
The chances are that if you have a contract with one of Britain’s big four net-

did you know that you can also borrow
them digitally? Ask your local library
which digital app it uses and download
it to your phone or a tablet – the most
popular services include BorrowBox
and Libby by Overdrive.
0 Don’t pay a child premium
Stop wasting money on expensive
children’s bank accounts. GoHenry,
which costs £2.99 a month, offers a
bank and debit card that can be used by
your children. It claims to have 2 million customers in the UK and US.
Starling Bank’s connected card service is free. It provides an additional
card linked to your account and you can
put a spending limit on it of up to £200
and monitor usage via your app.

0 Use what you have
Plenty of services you already pay for
will have perks. The insurer Vitality
gives free cinema tickets, coffees and
gym membership discounts. Platinum
bank accounts, such as Club Lloyds, offer perks including a Gourmet Society
Plus membership, which gives you 25
per cent off a range of restaurants.
Check to see if your employer offers
any benefits such as discounted gym
memberships,
tax-free
childcare
vouchers or free subscriptions to
streaming services. Some large employers offer discounted cinema tickets.
0 Don’t double up
Before you sign up to any new service,
check to see if there is a way you can do
it cheaper, free or with a bonus. If you
have an Amazon Prime account you
can get a free year of Deliveroo Plus
(which gets you free delivery on all orders over £25). The Sky Ultimate TV
package includes Netflix, so don’t waste
money signing up separately. BT
Broadband usually comes with BT
Sport. And some mobile phone contracts also offer Netflix or Disney Plus.
Vitality insurance offers a free Amazon Prime membership, worth £79 a
year. Some home insurance, such as Direct Line, also comes with travel cover,
as do some bank accounts.

Say yes to
loyalty cards

0 Get dinner on the cheap
The Too Good To Go app gives you access to leftover food from local restaurants and cafés at heavily discounted
prices. Log on and you’ll see bags of
goodies that you can reserve and pick
up within a designated time slot. The
magic bag of perishable items that
didn’t sell that day usually costs about
half the original sale price and includes
sandwiches, cakes and biscuits.
The Olio app allows you to give and
get free food and household items from
neighbours. For example, you could
pop round to pick up a bunch of ripe bananas or half a loaf of bread that is going
to go uneaten with the idea that you reciprocate by also sharing things you
don’t need. Local community WhatsApp groups often do the same thing.

Five-minute
tricks

Get a cheap
dinner
works, you will be able to get a cheaper
deal elsewhere when it ends. And
switching can also earn you cashback
from websites such as Mobiles.co.uk,
Quidco and TopCashback. Mobiles.co.uk will give you £48 if you use it
to buy Apple’s new iPhone 13. Keep an
eye on forums on sites such as Hotuk
deals.com for new cashback offers.
0 Embrace loyalty cards
It is a little exasperating to be constantly asked whether you want to join a loyalty scheme at a shop till, but instead of
automatically saying no why not accept
the cashback or loyalty points? Yes it is
annoying getting spam in your email
inbox, but you can always cancel or set
up a special email account just for deals.
Tesco Clubcard and Nectar from
Sainsbury’s are the best known loyalty
cards, but almost every chain you set
foot into is likely to offer you something
if you spend enough there. The Waterstones Plus scheme gives you a stamp

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subscriptions
for every £10 you spend and every ten
stamps adds £10 to your Plus balance.
Costa Coffee’s card gives you one bean
for every drink you buy and eight beans
gets you a free drink. Greggs’s reward
app gives you a stamp each time you
buy something. After nine stamps you’ll
get the tenth purchase free.
Watch out for the small print,
though. For example, Holland & Barrett’s Rewards for Life scheme will give
you four points for every £1 you spend
and convert them into vouchers, but
they are sent out only four times a year.
And watch out for expiry dates on
vouchers; some Tesco Clubcard holders were caught out during the pandemic because their vouchers are valid
for only two years.
0 Cancel subscriptions with a tap
About 1.66 million subscriptions were
cancelled between April and June, according to the consultancy Kantar, as
those looking to make savings realised

that they could live without Netflix
Netflix.
Some firms make it hard to cancel, forcing you to call up instead of simply
clicking a button online, but any subscriptions that involve direct debits or
standing orders can be easily cancelled
through your bank account app.
Some subscription services are recurring card payments rather than direct debits, though. The smartphone
banks Monzo and Starling, and high
street ones such as Halifax, HSBC
and Lloyds, let you cancel these
through your banking app. Look for a
tab called something along the lines of
“manage subscriptions”.
Any subscriptions you’ve taken out
through the Apple App Store or Android’s Google Play Store can also be
cancelled through your phone. Look
for the option within “settings”.
0 Use the library . . . on your phone
Everyone knows that libraries have
books to borrow without charge, but

0 Sharing is caring
Get the most out of your Netflix or Spotify account. An individual ad-free Spotify premium account is £9.99 a month,
but a family plan for up to six people is
£16.99 and Premium Duo for two
people is £13.99. A basic Netflix subscription costs £6.99 a month and lets
only one person stream at a time. A
£15.99 premium subscription gives four
users access to the account at once.
0 Make the most of your railcard
Anyone under 30 and living in London
can link their young person’s railcard to
their Oyster account to get a third off
off-peak travel on Transport for
London. If you live in large parts of England and have an annual season ticket,
you could get a gold card, which gives
you 33 per cent discounts on off-peak
travel and 60 per cent off fares for up to
four children travelling with you.
Booking in advance and split ticketing can also lower the cost of train
journeys (always try the rail company
site first rather than trainline.com since
it is often cheaper.) Split ticketing websites such as Trainsplit.com and MyTrainpal.com will help you to work out
whether taking multiple trains or travelling at a specific time will be cheaper.
You don’t need to actually get off the
train for the trick to work.

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When investing, think Lionel Messi
been only interested in investing in
crypto. She approached it not by
telling her sons what to do, but by
making her point another way. She
said that if they were running a shop
on a beach, would they only want to
sell sun umbrellas? What if the
weather was bad? Shouldn’t they sell
drinks too? This, she said, has
persuaded her elder son to invest in
something other than crypto.
Another analogy is a football one:
Lionel Messi may be the greatest
footballer: he’s quick and skilful and
a brilliant goalscorer. But you
wouldn’t field a team of 11 Lionel
Messis because he is little over 5ft 6in
tall and so probably wouldn’t make a
very good centre back or goalkeeper.
And while he is a brilliant passer, he’s
not the greatest tackler. So a football
team that allowed Messi to perform
to the best of his abilities also needs a
solid defence and some taller players.
This diversification should be at the
heart of your investing.
The other financial lesson I’d like
my sons to learn far earlier than their
mum is to think about pension saving
sooner. I remember my dad telling
me I had to get a pension when I was
in my mid-twenties. I wanted to
please him, but back then I was
earning £125 a day on a celebrity
news website while having to pay rent
and go out each night to the pub,
and retirement is what happens
just before you die, so why worry
about it now?
The trick, Hepburn tells me, is
to not use the word “pension”. It
sounds too complicated. Instead
talk about “future money”. If
you can save £100 a month of
future money, that money
will most probably turn into
£500, say, by the time you are
retired. Do you want to spend
the £100 on a couple of nights
out now or spend it on an
amazing holiday later?
If I could teach my two anything, it
would be that money does make life
more comfortable but that hard work
and a job you find fulfilling will make
you happier (as long as you earn
enough).
Don’t make money the end point
— and certainly don’t believe
everything TikTok tells you.

Home Economics
Jessie Hewitson

M

y seven-year-old’s
favourite song at the
moment is called
Banana Song (I’m a
Banana). It goes like
this: “I’m a banana, I’m a banana, I’m
a banana, LOOK AT ME MOVE!” It’s
highly sophisticated.
This, my friends, is the type of thing
you get on TikTok. I haven’t been on
the social media site for a while so,
after confiscating my phone from the
seven-year-old, I was curious to see
what else was on there.
About 40 minutes later I was still
scrolling. It is awful. It’s not just the
videos that make me worry for the
future of feminism that I hate, or the
shouty songs, it’s the kind of
financial advice that is
dished out.
d
It is often delivered
by the young and
overconfident
Bitcoin Bros, who
publish videos on
how to get rich
through
cryptocurrencies.
To prove their
u
claims they show you
some graph on their
laptops followed by an
ll so
arrow going up. It’s all
s, they will
macho: you take risks,
pay off and you can then live your
best life, which means driving a
supercar and taking a beautiful girl
shopping (vomit).
Your parents will not understand,
they explain, because they are
dinosaurs who don’t understand tech
or are jealous because you’ll be
making more money than them in
your early twenties, freeing you up to
travel nonstop rather than having to
do any boring actual work.
I should add that I’m not against
cryptocurrency. I don’t see it as a
Ponzi scheme, but I do think it’s
environmentally a disaster-zone (the

amount of electricity that is needed to
mine the coins is huge), and I’m
certainly not minded to invest any
money in an obscure coin just
because some spotty 20-year-old is
telling me to on a TikTok video.
I’m with Andrew Bailey, the
governor of the Bank of England,
who said that people need to be able
to lose whatever money they invest.
Invest in crypto, that’s fine, but don’t
invest too much or the result could be
catastrophic.
Recently, I’ve had emails from
parents worried that if they die and
their children inherit their money, the
financial stability they have worked so
hard to pass on will go on some
cryp
random cryptocoin,
some of
ha lost most or
which have
t
all of their
value lately.
W
Watching
the
Bitc
Bitcoin
Bros I see
ex
exactly
why they
ar worried.
are
T
They
will never
c
caution
anyone
n to put too
not
m
much
money on
cry
crypto.
One
vide I watched
video
had a young man
had
describ
describing
diversifica
diversification
as not
you money in
putting all your
in
one type of coin — instead
you
had to split it up between
different coins. As Charlie
Brown would say: good grief.
So how do I talk to my
12-year-old (who will be old
enough to download TikTok
himself next year rather than
use it on my phone) about
risk in a way he will listen to?
How do I counter the Bitcoin
Bros for a boy whose heroes
are YouTubers?
Gillian Hepburn from the
investment company Schroders has
two sons in their twenties who have

Only bad banks would punish the prudent
Comment
James
Coney
Money
editor

F

or organisations that employ
lots of very clever people,
banks can make some very
foolish decisions.
Take mortgages. The
thirtysomething son of a friend is
buying his next home. When he
and his wife applied for a mortgage
the bank stammered: why could it
not see evidence of mortgage
repayments on their bank
statements? The answer was that
they had overpaid the mortgage
on their first home and paid it off
in a decade. Bravo.
But this prudency was a problem
for the bank because it meant that

there was no evidence of their
There are growing concerns that
ability to repay a mortgage. That
this may mean that anyone who
made them more of a risk, despite
has stretched their income to the
the masses of equity they had
maximum to get a mortgage when
built up by being such prudent
rates were lower and household
borrowers.
bills were lower may find that they
I’m sure it will get sorted,
no longer pass affordability checks
but being judged in this way
from lenders.
for being financially
This is exactly what
responsible is madness.
happened to the
A bit like how those
borrowers with
who don’t have
lenders such as
a credit card are
Northern Rock
viewed negatively
and Bradford &
when they apply
Bingley after the
for a home loan.
financial crisis.
owed on
There is more
What it means in
interest-only
of this crackpot
practice is that
mortgages
behaviour coming
many homeowners
from the banks. At
will not qualify for
the moment they are
a cheaper fixed-rate
all tightening their
mortgage because the
affordability calculations and
banks are worried that they
factoring rises in the cost of living
will not be able to repay it. So
into their assumptions. At the
instead they end up on a much
same time, higher rates mean that
higher rate, which they are less
the rising monthly cost of your
likely to be able to afford.
loan will also affect how much you
It’s like banking as imagined
can borrow.
by Joseph Heller.

£46bn

The problem of mortgage
prisoners created by the 2008
financial crisis has not been solved.
Thousands of people are still
paying mortgage rates far higher
than they need to because they
took out types of mortgages that
are no longer available, such as
interest-only deals, sub-prime
loans and self-certified loans,
which didn’t require any proof of
income.
Even though many of them have
never missed a repayment, they
cannot switch deals because banks
are no longer willing to be that
flexible.
When economies stutter and
people start falling behind on their
bills, banks get nervous. That
means the prudent get punished
too. If that happens this time
around, it is going to exacerbate
the problems of the cost of living
crisis.
It’s time for those clever people at
banks to come up with some
sensible solutions.
@jimconey

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Money

‘How could it
take 6 months
to get probate
for my mum?
Fees have gone up but waiting times are at their
highest, so what’s going wrong, asks David Byers

A

fter 93-year-old Barbara
Lewis died on November
24 last year, her daughter
Yvonne Davies applied for
a grant of probate so she
could deal with her mother’s estate,
access her bank accounts and distribute
her assets.
The courts and tribunal service said
Davies could expect to wait eight weeks
but the process actually took six
months. “After the eight weeks were up,
I began making regular phone calls requesting an update. Each call I was on
hold for a minimum of 45 minutes
before I could speak to someone,” she
said. “On one occasion I was cut off
after a particularly long wait, and no
one attempted to call back. I emailed
but got a generic reply each time. I
found the whole process upsetting”
Davies’s probate grant finally came
through last week. She was told that
there had been a delay in scanning her
documents by Exela, a private firm appointed as the Ministry of Justice’s
“scanning partner” in 2019.
The delay meant that Davies, from
Cwmbran, has been unable to sell her
mother’s garage and has faced questions from her bank about when she

‘We fear
the delay
will mean
our whole
property
chain
collapses’

will be able to settle her accounts.
She is not alone. Other families are
reporting delays as staff at the courts
service, which is managed by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), try to clear a
backlog caused by the coronavirus pandemic, when staff had to work from
home and there was a higher number of
deaths. The MoJ says it hired more staff
to meet “unprecedented” demand.
Probate applications made on paper
that were granted in May had taken an
average of 13.1 weeks, down from
8.4 weeks in the same month last year.
Lawyers say the problems have not
been helped by the fact that many offices were closed down in 2019 and services such as scanning were outsourced.
In 2019 the MoJ had a target of ten
working days to process applications,
which it missed in 90 per cent of cases.
That target has since been dropped.
According to estimates from the Law
Society of England and Wales, 35 per
cent of probate applications are delayed
because they are returned to the
applicant requesting more information. Applications made on paper take
an average of 22.8 weeks to be processed if they are stopped for more

Yvonne Davies waited more than six months for a grant of probate after the death of her mother, Barbara, in November

information to be requested, up from
17.2 weeks a year ago. It takes 13 and a
half weeks to process online applications if there is a query, but six and a half
weeks for online applications overall.
The Law Society said that sometimes
correct documentation had been sent
back to applicants. Stephanie Boyce,
the president of the Law Society, said:
“We have been aware of the probate
service delays for some time. The service must allow executors to settle a
loved one’s estate in a reasonable time
frame. Delays can adversely affect families in what is already a difficult time.
“Our members are continuing to see
cases being ‘stopped’. We suggest that
users should be offered reimbursement
for delays. We will continue to monitor
the situation closely.”
0 Will things get better?
The Law Society has questioned why
the service is so far off target despite the
MoJ raising probate fees from £215 for

R

ussell George, 45,
right, is a film and
TV producer from
Woking. He married
Sabina, 29, in the
Seychelles this year and
they want a bigger
home to start a family
(David Byers writes).
In March, they found a
doer-upper owned by a
family going through
probate after the death of
their mother and their
£775,000 offer was
accepted on March 29.
The sellers said probate
should be granted within

weeks But the
eight weeks.
couple’s 2.3 per cent
mortgage rate offer was
due to expire on July 21
and there was still no sign

t probate grant.
of the
T best rate they are
The
lik to get now is
likely
3. per cent, which will
3.5
c
cost
them an extra £450
a month. The clock is
a
also ticking on the sale
of Russell’s house in
W
Woking,
which has been
und offer at £390,000
under
sin March. He fears
since
tha the whole chain will
that
col
collapse.
“It’s incredibly
anx
anxiety-provoking,”
he
said. “The longer it takes,
the more we’ll have to
pay. The system seems
dysfunctional.”

Executors should be
able to settle an estate
within a reasonable time
non-professionals and £155 for professionals to a flat rate of £273 in January.
“Obviously, the pandemic placed an
additional strain on the service with the
increased death rate and we continue
to ask when they’re likely to return to
pre-Covid levels,” the Law Society said.
The MoJ said: “As with any court
proceedings, there will be instances
where cases take longer due to complexity or additional information being
needed. In January 2020 we began to
digitise paper applications through
bulk scanning, allowing staff to process
more applications more quickly.”
0 How to execute a will
When someone dies, you need to announce the death at a register office
within five days in England, Wales and
Northern Ireland and eight days in
Scotland. When you do, you will be
given a certified death certificate.
If there is a will, it will name one or
more people as executors. If you are
one, you need to give HM Revenue &
Customs an estimate of the estate’s
value at tax.service.gov.uk. At this
stage, your estimate only needs to be
accurate enough for you to know if the
estate owes tax. You may write to utility
providers, mortgage lenders, banks,
loan or credit agencies and care homes
to get the value of debts and investments. You can use an estate agent to

value a property, but HMRC will also
accept a surveyor’s valuation.
If any tax is due, you will need to give
precise financial details. HMRC’s
checker at tax.service.gov.uk will give
you an idea of the estate’s value.
There is no inheritance tax to pay on
estates worth less than £325,000, or
£500,000 if the estate includes someone’s main home that they are leaving
to a direct descendant. Spouses and
civil partners do not have to pay inheritance tax on each other’s estates and
they can pass their inheritance tax allowances on to each other too. This
means some couples have £1 million
worth of tax-free allowance.
Once HMRC has been informed,
probate can get under way. This can be
done online at gov.uk or on paper. You
need the original will if you’re the executor. You will also need the original
death certificate or an interim death
certificate from the coroner.
Once you have a grant of probate you
have the legal right to deal with someone’s property and possessions. You can
start closing bank accounts and passing
assets on to beneficiaries, including
selling the family home.
0 When don’t you need probate?
If the person who died owned all their
assets and held all their accounts jointly
with another person who survives
them (ie a spouse) that person will automatically take over their estate and will
not need permission to close bank accounts etc. You may also not need probate if all the deceased person’s assets
were held in a trust and not owned by
them. If the value of the estate is small,
and does not include property, you may
not need probate, if the companies
holding any accounts in the deceased’s
name are willing to pass on the assets.

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hundreds of pounds worse off.
The best easy-access savings rate is
1.6 per cent, from the sharia-compliant
bank Al Rayan, but older versions of the
account pay 1.1 per cent.
Cynergy Bank pays 1.46 per cent on
issue 52 of its online easy-access
account, but savers in old issues can be
earning as little as 0.2 per cent. This
makes a difference of £126 a year on
£10,000 of savings. The bank applies 12month teaser rates to these accounts,
after which the rate falls. You can usually call and ask to be transferred to the

latest account, or apply for a new account as an existing customer online.
Nationwide pays 1.5 per cent on its
triple-access online saver, but older
issues pay 0.5 per cent, £90 less a year
on £10,000 of savings. Issue 30 of
Sainsbury’s Bank’s defined-access saver
pays 1.4 per cent on balances above
£1,000, but older issues pay 0.2 per cent
— £120 less a year on £10,000.
Only Shawbrook Bank, which pays
1.52 per cent on its easy-access account,
has raised rates on all older versions to
the same level. So banks can do it, they
just prefer not to.
George Nixon

T

he number of mortgage deals
available is falling as lenders
become increasingly concerned
about people’s ability to afford their
loans at a time of rising inflation and
interest rates.
Andrew Bailey, the governor of the
Bank of England, told a Mansion House
dinner on Tuesday that a half-point
increase in the interest rate from its
1.25 per cent level would be “among the
choices on the table” at the next
monetary policy committee meeting,
on August 4.
According to the analyst Moneyfacts
there were 4,556 mortgage products
available on July 11, down from 4,987 in
June. The average two-year and fiveyear fixed rates have risen by the largest

3.74%

The average two-year fixed-rate,
up from 3.25 per cent last month

monthly amount since the company
started keeping data in 2007. The average two-year fixed-rate deal went from
3.25 per cent to 3.74 per cent; it was
2.55 per cent a year ago.
The five-year fix average is up from
3.37 per cent to 3.89 per cent; it was
2.78 per cent last July.
The average standard variable rate,
which borrowers default to after their
fixed-rate deals end, has gone from
4.91 per cent to 5.06 per cent in a month.

Scottish Widows Bank has removed
its two-year fixes for new customers,
and HSBC pulled its three-year fixes.
Kensington Mortgages has withdrawn
its fixed-for-life, super-long-term loans.
Meanwhile, Santander removed all
products with 60 per cent loan-to-value (LTV) ratios. Andrew Montlake,
managing director of the broker Coreco, said having the cheapest interest
rate on the market was “not where
many lenders want to be right now”.
“Lenders are also looking carefully
at affordability given the current high
levels of inflation and the increasing
cost of living, which is leading to more
cautious underwriting and more
questions being asked.”
David Byers

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The airport parking pinch: £6 for
Should you get a lift, park off-site or take the
train? George Nixon does the maths for you

I

t’s not just the cost of flights, car
hire and accommodation that
have gone up this summer — if
you’re planning to drive to the airport you will see a huge rise in
parking prices too.
The average price of a typical eightday stay at UK airports booked in advance for this summer is 57 per cent
higher than it was in 2019, according to
the comparison site Airport Parking
Shop. In the last summer before the
pandemic, the average cost of parking
for eight days across 11 airports and all
types of bookable car parks was £56.06.
Now it is £88.28.
Over the past three years, six of the
UK’s seven busiest airports have also
introduced or increased charges for
dropping passengers off at the terminal.
This can now cost up to £30.

Airport car parks
There are three types of aiport parking:
on-airport, off-airport and usually the
most expensive option, which is meetand-greet or valet parking.
On-airport car parks are run by the
airports and are usually the closest to
the terminal.
Off-airport car parks are run by
third-party companies and are generally further away so that you have to take
a shuttle bus or other transport to the
terminal, but they tend to be cheaper.
With meet and greet you drop your
car at the terminal and someone takes
it to a car park for you, then brings it
back when you return.
The average cost of off-airport parking at Birmingham for eight days in
August is £28.98. Parking at the airport
would cost an average of £49.39 —
70 per cent more. Meet and greet would
cost an average of £53.31.
At Manchester it costs an average of
£47.79 for a week of off-airport parking
next month, £52.60 for on-airport
parking and £59.18 for valet parking.
At Heathrow the off-airport average
is £32.46. Parking at the airport would
cost an average of £171.55 and valet
parking would be £46.72.
At Stansted, the valet premium is
high. Across August, you would expect
to pay £83.06 for valet parking, compared with £56.45 for airport parking
and £52.89 for off-airport parking.
The earlier you book, the cheaper
the deal. In 2019 it would have cost you
an average of £50.88 for eight days
parking across 11 UK airports if you
booked two weeks ahead. If you had
booked a month in advance it would

have cost £44.96 — a saving of 12 per
cent.
Today it would cost you an average of
£66.88 if you booked a month in
advance and £128 if you left it until two
weeks before you were due to fly —
91 per cent more.
If it’s too late to book months ahead,
there are still a few things you can do to
cut the cost.
The first is to use a comparison sitesuch as Airport Parking Shop or SkyParkSecure because you will get a wider
range of options with third-party companies. Also check cashback websites
such as Quidco and TopCashback,
which offer cashback of up to 49 per
cent on some parking bookings.
For example, if you wanted to book
valet parking at Heathrow Terminal 2
from August 6 to 13, it would cost you
£233 directly with the airport, but you
could get it for £109 with the company
Happy Days Meet & Greet through a
comparison site.
At Manchester Airport, which is
owned by Manchester local authorities,
for the same period you would pay at
least £118 for a multistorey on-site car
park within walking distance of one of
the three terminals. An off-site park-

£77.10
cost of 24 hours’
short-stay parking
at Heathrow if you
don’t book

The Stansted Express is
the only London airport
express worth its fare
and-ride service would cost £70 with
Toadparking.
Before you book a third-party company, check its reviews on sites such as
Google, Trustpilot or Tripadvisor.
Make sure that you arrive in plenty of
time before your flight if you are going
to have to get a transport bus.
Even if you park at the airport, there
are still ways to save money.

On-site airport parking is often divided into short and long stay. Short
stays are calculated hourly, according
to the parking firm Airparks, and so is
more expensive. Short-stay is usually a
brief walk from the terminal, whereas
long-stay often comes with a shuttle
bus. If you are planning to be away for a
week or more, choose long stay and
don’t park in the wrong one by mistake.

Short stay parking at Heathrow Terminal 5 from August 6 to 13 would cost
£203.60 if booked this week, while
long-stay parking would cost £156.30 —
23 per cent less.
At Gatwick’s North Terminal, a
short-stay booking for the same dates
would cost £207 this week, but long stay
would cost £119 — 43 per cent less.
Edinburgh airport’s long-stay car
park is 12 minutes’ walk from the terminal while its mid-stay one is 4 minutes.
A booking to park at the long-stay costs
£58.99 between August 6 and 13, compared with £68.99 at the latter.
Again the longer you book in advance, the more you save. If you turn up
at the airport without a booking, you
can expect to pay through the nose.
Alice Fowler from Airport Parking
Shop said airport car parks blamed
soaring prices on the rising costs of fuel

for transfer buses at park-and-ride
services, and staff shortages. “A lack of
staff means fewer parking spaces can be
sold as there are not enough people to
manage the car parks and drivers, and a
lack of spaces always means that the
cost is driven up,” she said.

Drop-off parking
Even getting someone to take you to
the aiport has a cost these days, and not
just the price of petrol, which is now
over £2 a litre for super unleaded, according to the RAC.
Of the UK’s seven busiest airports,
only Birmingham has not increased the
cost of drop-off parking in the past
three years, but it was among the first to
introduce charges.
Heathrow and Gatwick went from
not charging at all to drop off passen-

Why investment trusts are better than funds Taxman on

M

any fund houses run two types
of investment products to offer
to potential investors —
conventional funds and investment
trust versions.
There has long been debate about
which is the best — and now, it seems,
the jury is in.
Bestinvest, an online investment
platform said that for almost two-thirds
of the time fund management teams
that run both types of product delivered better returns in the investment
trust over five years.
A fund is a diversified portfolio of
assets. The manager that runs them can
invest in company shares, bonds, gold
and other commodities, or a combination of all of them.
When you buy a fund, the manager

Diverging fortunes
000s
40

Return on £10,000
Pacific Horizon
investment trust

30
20

Source: FE fundinfo

2018

19

Baillie Gifford Pacific
20

21

22

10
0

can keep your money as cash or buy
shares with it. When you sell your units
in the fund, the units are effectively
cancelled and the managers return
your money, normally by selling part of
the fund’s portfolio.
Investment trusts, meanwhile, are
funds that are listed on the stock

market and have a set number of shares.
In order to sell your shares you need a
willing buyer.
Funds and investment trusts run by
the same management team are normally run in the same way but with
investment trusts, managers have more
scope to improve performance.
One of these enhancement levers is
the use of gearing. This is where the
trust borrows money to increase its
holdings. This tends to boost returns
when stock markets are rising, but is
bad news when share prices are falling,
because the losses are greater.
This gearing however, is one reason
why successful investment trusts
perform better than their equivalent
funds: they put more money behind
their investment choices and if their

choices are right, they make more
money.
Pacific Horizon trust, run by Baillie
Gifford, for example, is up 125 per cent
over five years compared with a 74 per
cent gain from the Baillie Gifford Pacific fund. Both are managed by Roderick
Snell.
The good news is that it’s possible to
pick up investment trusts on the cheap.
Jason Hollands from Bestinvest said:
“They can represent a bargain for new
investors.”
The performance of the Ruffer Investment Company, a trust that invests
in a number of assets including shares,
inflation-linked bonds, and gold, is
10 percentage points better than its sister fund, the LF Ruffer Total Return.
David Brenchley

W

ealthy cryptocurrency investors could owe the taxman as
much as £2.28 million for the
past financial year, it estimates. In
2020/21 the missing sum was £427,800
and in 2019/20 it was £142,000.
HMRC said that it could also be owed
£543 million in tax due on capital gains
made by investors and medium-sized
businesses in the last tax year.
Meanwhile individuals earning more
than £200,000 and medium-sized businesses (those with a turnover of over
£10 million or more than 20 employees)
could owe a maximum of £8.69 billion
in taxes, according to the Revenue’s
worst case scenario.
HM Revenue & Customs said that as
many as one in ten people in the UK
own or have bought cryptocurrency

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ten minutes

£180
cost of eight days’
parking at
Edinburgh airport
if you don’t book

gers to charging £5 last year. Gatwick’s
drop off fee gives you up to ten minutes
to unload your passenger, but it will cost
you £1 extra for every minute after that
up to a maximum charge of £25. The
maximum stay is 30 minutes.
At both airports, your number plate
will be scanned by the cameras and you
have until midnight the day after you
drop someone off to pay the charge online. If you don’t, you face a penalty
charge of £40 at Heathrow and £60 at
Gatwick.
Tony Caccavone from Heathrow said
last year that the charge would “protect
the business financially” and encourage more people to take public transport to the airport.
Gatwick’s chief commercial officer
Jonathan Pollard said: “We know that a
drop-off charge is not going to be popular with everyone, but we have just lost
£465 million and more than 40 per cent
of our staff, so this new revenue stream
will help us to protect jobs.”
At Stansted you pay the charge by
card or cash before entering. It went up
from £4 for up to 15 minutes to £7 in November 2020. If you stay up to 30 minutes it will cost you £25.
In 2020 Manchester airport increased the drop-off charge from £3 to
£5 for five minutes and from £4 to £6 for
ten minutes. You can pay with a bank
card or cash, and if you stay longer than
ten minutes there is a charge of £25.
Drop-off parking at Luton airport
has also been affected by the parking
shrinkflation. Before January last year
drivers paid £4 for up to 13 minutes
drop-off time, but the cost has since increased to £5 while the maximum
amount of time you get has been reduced to 10 minutes.
In 2020 Edinburgh doubled its dropoff charge to £4 for up to 10 minutes,
rising to £30 for up to an hour.

Drop-off charges
Airport

August 2019

August 2022

Increase

Heathrow

None

£5

£5

Gatwick

None

£5 for 10 min,
then £1 a min to 20 min

£5

Stansted

£4 for 15 min

£7 for 15 min,
£25 for 30 min

£3

Manchester

£3 for 5 min
£4 for 10 min

£5 for 5 min,
£6 for 10 min

£2

Luton

£4 for 13 min

£5 for 10 min,
then £1 a min

£1

Edinburgh

£2 for 5 min
£4 for 10 min
£10 for 15 min

£4 for 10 min,
£8 for 15 min
£30 for an hour

£2

Birmingham

£3 for 15 min
£8 for 20 min

£3 for 15 min
£8 for 20 min

None

hunt for the missing billions
but only 42 per cent were aware that
they might be liable to pay tax on it.
The tax authority has been clamping
down on the use of digital assets for tax

£8.6bn

HMRC’s worst-case estimate of tax it is
owed by top earners and businesses

evasion. HMRC said in February that it
had opened 20 criminal investigations
involving cryptoassets.
A non-fungible token (NFT), which
is a digital receipt of ownership of assets
such as art, videos or music, was seized
by HMRC for the first time this year as
part of a fraud case. Steven Porter from

the law firm Pinsent Masons said: “The
seizure of NFTs by HMRC should
sound alarm bells for those who think
that they can get away with evading tax.
HMRC is rapidly improving how it
tracks down and traces cryptoassets.”
The tax office is working with the
joint chiefs of global tax enforcement
group (J5) in Canada, the US, Australia
and The Netherlands to share intelligence and coordinate efforts on cryptorelated tax evasion. HMRC said: “We
have detailed guidance to help customers to apply tax law to cryptoassets. We
gather data from a range of sources and
take action to make sure everyone pays
the tax due, from individuals operating
in the hidden economy through to sophisticated organised crime groups.”
Lily Russell-Jones

Express trains
Those who would rather travel by
public transport should steer clear of
express train services to London’s airports, which are up to 47 per cent more
expensive than their slightly slower alternatives. Heathrow, Gatwick and
London Stansted have direct express
services to central London. The shortest possible journey is 15 minutes from
Paddington to Heathrow. The Stansted
Express takes 50 minutes from Liverpool Street and the Gatwick Express
takes 30 minutes from Victoria.
But you can only book these services
directly, rather than through third-party sites such as Trainline, and they cost
a lot more than slower trains. An open
return from Paddington on the Heathrow Express leaving today and returning up to a month later costs £37.

You could instead take the Elizabeth
Line, which takes 29 minutes from Paddington and costs £25.40 at peak times,
£21.40 off-peak. There is no need to
book in advance.
You could also take the Piccadilly
Line to Heathrow, but this takes about
50 minutes. It would cost £5.50 one way
from Piccadilly Circus at peak times, or
£3.50 off-peak.
An open return on the Gatwick Express costs £36.80 departing today, but
a return on the Southern Rail service
(we chose a return date of August 6,
which was cheaper than an open
return) cost £25 — 37 per cent less. The
train stops twice on the way but would
only take 2-3 minutes more.
Only Stansted’s express service,
which costs £32.70 from Liverpool
Street, is worth it, because there is no
other direct train to the Essex airport

from London. Unlike other airport
express trains it does make a stop, at
Tottenham Hale (departing from there
will cost £31.90 for an open return), and
there are also slightly slower trains
from Stratford (£32.70). However, if
you’re looking to save money, a return
National Express coach ticket from
Liverpool Street, which takes one hour
and 20 minutes, can cost as little as £10.
Outside London, it’s much cheaper.
A train from Manchester Piccadilly to
Manchester airport can take 16-24 minutes and an open return costs £11.70.
You can get a tram from St Andrew
Square in central Edinburgh to the airport in 37 minutes for £9 open return.
A train from Birmingham New Street
to Birmingham International airport
takes 9-18 minutes and is £7.90 for an
open return. There are also X1 and X12
buses from the city centre.

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The advice firm cutting
costs, but not for you
COPING
WITH
THE
CRISIS

‘My flatmates and
I now shop and
cook together’

L

ike millions of
other young
workers Alex
Mylonas is feeling the
pinch. (David Byers
writes). He is 24, lives in
Acton, west London,
earns £26,000 a year
in his first job in
recruitment and
sometimes gets a few
thousand pounds extra
in commission.
Mylonas pays £700 a
month rent. He and his
two flatmates split
household bills three
ways but are each
paying £120, up from
£100 six months ago.
“I seem to be scraping
the barrel every month,”
he said. “It does seem
a bit of a battle to get
out of the overdraft at
the moment.”
Mylonas has stopped
driving his car, which
was costing him £50
a fortnight, and the
flatmates are working
together to cut costs.
“Trying to turn lights
out and batch washing
are two examples,” he
said.“We also try to
shop in bulk. Instead of
popping to the shops as
we used to do, we do one
big shop together each
week, at Sainsbury’s or

Morrisons, and get it
delivered. We split the
£4 delivery cost.”
He has cancelled his
£25 a month Pret coffee
subscription and agreed
with his company that
he can work from home
three days a week,
saving Tube fares.
Yorkshire Building
Society’s Inflation
Nation survey of 4,000
people suggests that
24 per cent of people
plan to cut back on
non-essential items such
as restaurants, holidays
and trips to the pub by
£50 to £99 a month,
while 19 per cent plan to
save £100-£199. Some
70 per cent of under-40s
said they would cut
back, with 14 per cent of
those planning to save
between £200 and £500.
Nitesh Patel, a
strategic economist at
Yorkshire Building
Society, said: “If people
are not spending,
businesses cannot
survive. Taken to the
extreme, this could be
closures and job losses.
“Business, as well as
people, are going to
need considerable
support to get through
a very difficult period.”

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fees. You can turn off the SJP advice
charge, saving you about 0.5 per cent a
year, and your adviser will stop monitoring your investments.

What you are paying
Fee for every £100 invested
Fund management cost
£0

SJP’s UK fund

£0.30

Global Emerging

£0.30

£1.00

Markets
ritain’s largest advice service
has put up fees on six of its
£0.24
North American
funds despite claiming that it
Strategic
£0.22
is cutting costs for customers.
Managed
St James’s Place (SJP) hires
£0.25
Equity Income
third-party fund managers to create
Sustainable &
bespoke products that are available
£0.24
Responsible Equity
only through its advisers. In its annual
value assessment report, in which it is
£0.40
Allshare Income
required to justify its charges, SJP says
£0.10
Global Equity
it has reduced its fund management
charges from an average of 0.36 per
International
£0.03
cent in 2018 to 0.3 per cent today.
Equity
The report states: “Our scale allows
£0.25
Property
us to negotiate a very competitive price
for all our clients, irrespective of how
much you choose to invest.” However, Another 40 per cent weighting is given
the total fee paid for six of its funds has to whether or not the fund has met its
risen in the past year.
objectives, and the final 20 per cent is
The cost of fund management is a based on whether or not risks have
tiny portion of the fees clients pay the been managed properly, and to what
company. The biggest portion is the extent the fund’s manager has considcost of the SJP platform used to make ered ethical and sustainability issues.
investments, followed by the cost of
Based on this, SJP has concluded
an adviser, which customers are auto- that only three of its funds performed
matically opted into paying.
unsatisfactorily and were not offering
Take, for example, the Global Equity value for money. These are the Gilts,
fund, the largest managed by the com- Global Emerging Markets and Japan
pany. If you have £100 invested in it, funds. The rest are rated as good,
you pay 10p to the four experts who broadly delivering value, or have a new
make the decisions about where to management team in place so it is too
invest. Another 50p is paid to the early to say.
adviser and 75p for the use of the SJP
The Property fund is given a good for
platform. Another 8p covers other performance, but it is up 3.8 per cent
administration costs, taking the total and 8.4 per cent respectively over three
charge to £1.43 a year.
and five years, compared with 9.1 per
Comparisons with the company’s cent and 18.6 per cent for its benchearlier value reports show a rise
marks. SJP’s UK income fund,
in total fees paid by clients.
up 4.25 per cent over five
The Allshare Income
years compared with the
fund, for example, costs
benchmark of 16.91 per
1.96 per cent today, but
cent, is also described
it cost 1.81 per cent in
as having good per2020. The Property
formance.
fund costs 1.99 per
SJP’s UK income
cent but customers
fund is managed by
client
funds
under
paid 1.89 per cent two
Adrian Frost from
management by
years ago.
Artemis, another fund
The Diversified Asgroup. If you invested
St James’s Place
sets fund now has a
in the Artemis Income
2.42 per cent charge, up
fund, managed by Frost,
from 2.41 per cent in 2020.
you would be up 17.5 per cent
Equity C, Equity B (both available only
over five years.
to overseas customers) and Money
SJP said: “While our fund manager
Market fund charges have increased costs are coming down, some thirdtoo.
party costs can vary from time to time,
By charging an all-inclusive fee that and we seek to reduce these where
includes advice, SJP funds almost possible.”
always fail to beat their benchmarks
if you take account of its fees. SJP What can I do about it?
disputes such analysis, but does provide SJP offers everything you need to
benchmark comparisons on its website. invest, including the advice, investment
Of the 35 unit trust funds available products and platform with which to
to UK clients, four beat their bench- make an investment. However, as with
marks. They are Asia Pacific, Emerging a packaged holiday you will be paying
Markets Equity, Global Value and more than you would have if you had
Sustainable and Responsible Equity. bought each element separately and
The remaining 31 funds, which hold left out the bits you didn’t need.
DIY services such as Interactive
£32.6 billion, are underperformers over
Investor and AJ Bell have been
five years.
in a price war, driving down
How SJP judges performance engaged
the cost of investing. AJ Bell has a platValue reports require companies to form charge of up to 0.25 per cent a
justify their charges, but they can year, a third of the SJP’s fee.
choose how they do this.
Iweb, another investment platform,
SJP judges performance using the which is part of Halifax, charges you
following criteria: how well a fund nothing to hold your money, but you do
compares against its benchmark or pay a flat £5 a trade. SJP charges up to
other similar funds accounts for 40 per 5 per cent on any new money added to
cent of a fund’s performance figure. its products, to cover advice and other

B

£154bn

Why it matters

Fee to SJP
£0.50

£1.50

£2.00

£1.36
£1.37
£1.31
£1.29
£1.36

Source: St James’s Place

St James’s Place claims
to be reducing fees. Not
that many customers
will have noticed,
writes Ali Hussain

£1.37
£1.56
£1.33
£1.36
£1.74

Value assessment reports were introduced by the Financial Conduct
Authority, the City regulator, to enable
investors to better understand the value
they are getting from those managing
their pensions and investments.
If you have £100,000 in a pension
that grows by 5 per cent a year, with no
fees you would make a profit of £331,194
after 30 years.
If your annual cost were 2.3 per cent,
as applied by SJP on average, your
profits would shrink to £122,389, losing
63 per cent of your return to the people
managing your money. If you cut the
fees down to 1 per cent by using a lowercost platform, no adviser and cheaper
funds, you would gain £224,340, losing
32 per cent of your profits.

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Fashions come and go —
just look at Blockbuster
Get rich
h slowly
David
Brenchley

I

t was the year I was born, 1987,
that the Chicago-born
entrepreneur Wayne Huizenga
moved from rubbish collection
into video rentals by buying
several Blockbuster Video stores.
At that point, Blockbuster’s shop
count in the US amounted to 19, but it
wasn’t long before it became one of
America’s best-known firms, at one

point opening a new shop every 24
hours. Huizenga sold the firm to
Viacom for $8.4 billion in 1994, and
bought the American football team
the Miami Dolphins. But it’s neither
Blockbuster nor the Dolphins that
he’s best known for today, at least in
the investment industry: it’s his waste
disposal company.
Waste Management started in Fort

Following a theme
Thematic funds' performance since launch
Beat benchmark
1-year

Below benchmark

23.9%

72.5%

3-year

52.5%

5-year
10-year
15-year 8.9%

Fund closed

39.6%
21.5%

26.2%
29.8%

30.6%

25.9%

52.6%

14.7%

Data correct to 31 December 2021

Lauderdale, Florida, with a single
garbage truck and expanded
aggressively by buying smaller rivals.
It listed on the stock market in 1972
and Huizenga left 12 years later.
Today, Waste Management is a
mainstay of many sustainable funds
because its biggest operation is
recycling. Funds that hold the
company include the Pictet Global
Megatrend Selection, a £9.6 billion
fund offering investors access to 12
investment “themes”.
Thematic funds invest in
companies that contribute to a
common goal and they are very
popular at the moment.
An electric vehicles thematic fund
would invest in companies that
produce electric cars as well as the
ones that make components. The
iShares Electric Vehicle and Driving
Technology exchange traded fund
(ETF) holds the carmakers Tesla and
Suzuki, as well as the sat-nav maker
Garmin and chip-maker Qualcomm.
Popular themes are artificial
intelligence and robotics, and
thematic funds are being pushed by
fund houses that are struggling to
hold on to customers who have
realised that most stockpickers aren’t
actually any good. The data firm
Morningstar said that 589 thematic
funds were launched globally last
year. Many will get plenty of take-up
and pocket plenty of profit for the
managers.
So, are thematic funds worth
investing in?
Since 2013, an index of thematic
funds constructed by the ratings
agency Morningstar has returned
7.5 per cent a year compared with
6.28 per cent for the global stock
market more broadly. Some individual
themes have done better: digital
economy funds have returned
9.48 per cent and cloud computing
8.5 per cent a year.
Still, identifying the themes that
will endure is not easy. By the end of
2021, about 30 per cent of all thematic
funds launched over the past five
years had been shut down. Of the
funds launched in the past 15 years,
80 per cent had been closed.
More damningly, of those that did
survive, just 3 per cent gave better
returns than the benchmarks that
they compare themselves against.
The problem, said Sabeeh Ashhar
from Morningstar, is that thematic

19.3%

76.4%
Source: Morningstar Direct

funds tend to be launched near the
end of big bull markets, a period of
generally fast-rising share prices that
tend to come crashing to an end.
This period is normally followed by
a spike in the number of fund closures
the next year — time will tell if that
trend continues in 2022.
Thematic funds do well for a bit
because the theme that they are
linked to performs well and more
investors get sucked in, then the
companies that they invest in get too
expensive, performance falls sharply,
investors bail out of the funds and
they are shut down.
Even the Pictet fund, which is
picked out by Ashhar and has
survived for almost 14 years, has only
narrowly performed better than the
Vanguard Global Stock Index fund,
which simply follows the performance
of all listed companies around the
world.
Fund managers will try to convince
you that thematic investing is the way
forward. It’s not. Most of us should
carry on investing as we have been:
buying a fund that returns the value
of a global index on a monthly basis
and ignoring the market movements
in the meantime.
I had an ill-fated flirtation with the
L&G Hydrogen Economy ETF, which
invests in firms with hydrogen-related
products, such as Denmark’s clean
power company Orsted and the green
energy firm Bloom Energy. It also
invests in China’s diesel engine maker
Weichai Power and the carmaker
Hyundai. The share price had already
fallen when I bought at £6.60; I ended
up selling about 11 per cent lower at
£5.90. Today it’s at £4.60, so I’m
happy I’m out and don’t plan on
making the same mistake. The ETF
was launched in February 2021 and
has lost almost half its value.
If even fund houses can’t tell the
right time to launch a fund, how can
you and I?
It may be that thematic funds
become a good bet for investors, but
after a bumper year of launches, the
smart money is on most of the new
cohort going the way of Blockbuster.

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Can we escape the tenancy trap?
government has promised a Renters’
Reform Bill, which could abolish
fixed-term contracts. But it doesn’t
sound like you have time to wait, so
the best bet is to try to negotiate the
terms of the tenancies.
Demand tends to be highest in the
summer as parents look to settle their
children into a new home before
school starts, so if you could hold off
then you might have more chance of
negotiating an agreement without
getting into a bidding war.
Don’t solely rely on the popular
websites like Rightmove and Zoopla.
You could try to connect directly
with landlords by joining Facebook
groups or searching on websites like
OpenRent. Perhaps a landlord reading this article could help.
I hope you find somewhere for you
and your young family to live.

Times Money
Mentor
Troubleshooter
Katherine
Denham

M

y wife and two children
and I are looking to
move house so that my
son can be in the
catchment area for our
preferred school by January, but we
are struggling to find a place to rent.
There is fierce competition for
properties in Wandsworth, southwest London. We have focused our
search on two-bed flats and can
stretch to paying £3,000 a month in
rent but we keep being outbid.
Many of the tenancy agreements
also have really onerous terms and
most have annual rent increases of
between 3 per cent and 6 per cent.
Some even say that your annual
salary must be 30 times the rent to
qualify. As my wife is on maternity
leave, I barely squeak through on my
own for some of these properties.
Every place we have viewed has a
minimum-length tenancy of three
years with no break clause. In less
than three years we hope to buy a
home, so locking ourselves into such
a long contract seems very unwise.
We have tried to negotiate on properties by asking for a one-year break
clause but they just get snapped up by
other renters.
Some contracts have a change in
occupancy clause, but if we decide to
move we would have to find new tenants ourselves by advertising the
property and conducting viewings.
We have savings for a house deposit, but we can’t afford a mortgage at
the moment because we are living on
my earnings alone so we have little
choice but to rent. Is it normal or even
legal to ask tenants to lock themselves into a three-year contract with
no way out?
Relte, south London

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Troubleshooter says
Your experience paints a worrying
picture of the rental market. In the
three years to March the number of
properties available to rent through
letting agents halved, mostly because
lots of landlords decided to sell,
according to the industry body
Propertymark.
When Covid restrictions were
lifted there was a huge spike in demand for homes in cities. This high
demand and a shortage of homes are
causing bidding wars and propping
up rents, which are now at a record
high average of £1,113 a month.
Annual rent increases of 6 per cent
seem very harsh but there’s nothing
to stop landlords from doing this.
Affordability tests like the one you
describe have been common for

years, but Dan Wilson Craw from the
campaign group Generation Rent
said the shift towards longer tenancies is a more recent trend. He thinks
they are designed to lock in high
rents before the cost of living crisis
suppresses what people can afford.
It’s also not illegal for landlords to
offer long tenancies of three years
without a break clause, which allows
the tenant or the landlord to end the
tenancy early. But it does seem unusual given that 90 per cent of
assured shorthold tenants started on
initial six-month or 12-month contracts, according to the latest English
Housing Survey.
You can ask for a break clause but
as you know landlords don’t have to
agree. The housing charity Shelter
told me that any tenancies that are
longer than three years have to be
executed by deed. So landlords are
exercising the limits of what they can
do legally before they would have to
jump through hoops themselves.
The letting agent can charge a fee
to find a replacement tenant on your
behalf. Unless they can prove it costs
more, this is capped at £50. The

Smart meters, but dumb suppliers
In December I contacted my
energy supplier, British Gas, to
ask about getting smart meters
installed in my home.
I was offered an appointment
the following day which I
accepted and the technician
arrived and installed both gas
and electricity meters. However,
he was unable to connect them to
the communications network to
allow them to report back and he
didn’t install my in-home
monitor either. He implied that
communication would be
established within days.
But six months have now
elapsed and despite many
attempts to get this sorted, my
meters remain unconnected and
British Gas has ignored my
complaints. This means I still
have to read the meters manually
and send the readings to British
Gas. My main issue is that British
Gas has left this job unfinished.
We try to live in an ecologically

sound manner and want to run
our home using smart
technology to achieve this.
Paul Horbury, West Yorkshire
Troubleshooter says
Energy suppliers are very eager
to install smart meters because
they have government quotas to
fill yet we often speak to readers
who encounter issues with the
technology.
Just over half of all gas and
electricity meters in the country
are smart meters, but about one
in eight aren’t operating in smart
mode. Smart meters
automatically send details of your
energy usage to your supplier.
You can keep an eye on your
consumption and the cost using a
digital display gadget.
This is particularly useful given
that the energy cap, which limits
the amount suppliers can charge
custmers on their variable tariffs,
is set to go up in October to what

could work out at an eyewatering annual bill of £3,244 for
the average dual fuel customer.
Your smart meter didn’t sound
too clever. I’m not sure why the
technician gave you the
impression that the connection
issue could be sorted remotely.
When you got in touch with
British Gas in March to get an
update the firm looked into it
again. You needed another visit
from a technician to connect it,
but in March the company had
no available engineers and it
expected you to call again to
book an appointment. It was only
when I got in touch in July that
you miracullously got an
appointment the following week.
British Gas said it was sorry for
the delay.
You told me your smart meter
and display have now been
installed and you thanked me for
my help. Now you can watch in
real time as your bills go up!

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

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-0.32

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INVESCO FUND MGRS LTD
Dling: 0800 085 8571 Inv Serv: 0800 085 8677
Brkr Serv: 0800 028 2121
INVESCO Funds
UK Str Inc N/Trl ‡@

323.57

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-2.78

7.05

INVESCO PERPETUAL Funds
Childrens Acc ‡@
453.70
Corp Bond Acc ‡@
204.36
High Income Inc ‡@
315.76
Income & Grth Inc ‡@
414.67
Income Inc ‡@
1235.03
Money Acc ‡@
91.02
Monthly Inc Plus Inc ‡@ 94.54
UK Aggressive Inc ‡@
154.28

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+18.17
+2.26
+8.53
+18.12
+38.58
+0.04
+1.55
+0.90

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2.43
2.97
1.36
3.28
0.07
4.62
3.15

161.20
800.10
335.50

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+5.20
+38.20
+13.20

3.13
0.76
0.58

1496.62

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+37.54

Asia A Acc ‡@
263.30
Emerging Mkts ‡@
257.70
Eur Dyn (ex-UK) A Acc ‡@ 261.30
Euro Smllr Cos ‡@
882.80
Europe A Acc ‡@
1682.00
Gbl Hi Yld Bd A Acc ‡@ 117.60
Gbl Hi Yld Bd A Inc ‡@
31.40
Gl ex-UK Bd A Acc ‡@ 263.30
Gl ex-UK Bd A Inc ‡@
201.50
Glb Fins A Acc ‡@
1077.00
Global A Acc ‡@
2010.00
Japan A Acc ‡@
524.50
Multi-Man Tst A Acc ‡@ 1273.00
Multi-Man Tst A Inc ‡@ 1131.00
Nat Resources ‡@
857.40
New Europe A ‡@
155.70
Portfolio ‡@
299.40
Stg Corp Bd A Acc ‡@
91.43
Stg Corp Bd A Inc ‡@
51.72
UK Act 350 A Acc ‡@
199.00
UK Dynamic Acc ‡@
203.30
UK Dynamic Inc ‡@
147.40
UK Equity A Acc ‡@
401.90
UK Equity A Inc ‡@
46.44
UK Eqy & Bd Inc Acc ‡@ 167.10
UK Eqy & Bd Inc Inc ‡@ 90.29
UK Higher Inc A Acc ‡@ 1132.00
UK Higher Inc A Inc ‡
531.30
UK Sm Cos A Acc ‡@
579.60
UK Str Eq Inc A Acc ‡@ 195.90
UK Str Eq Inc A Inc ‡@ 100.00
US A Acc ‡@
1036.00

Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 119.47
Target Return A Acc ‡@ 102.03
Target Return A Inc ‡@ 87.63
UK Alpha A Acc ‡@
2549.21
UK Blue Chip A Acc ‡@ 770.11
UK Smaller Companies A Acc ‡@ 5035.83
UK Smaller Companies A Inc ‡@ 4516.83
UK Special Situations A Acc ‡@ 1235.58
UK Special Situations A Inc ‡@ 452.03

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+0.23
+0.39
-0.07
+96.20
+5.67
+176.37
+158.19
+64.60
+23.63

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0.82
0.87
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0.37
0.37

Investors Serv: 0800 832 832 Dlng: 0845 946 4646
All Stks Credit A Inc ‡@ 123.30
Asian Div Inc U Trst Inc ‡@84.58
Cautious Man Fd A Acc ‡@ 284.90
Cautious Man Fd A Inc ‡@ 143.30
China Opp Fund A Acc ‡@ 1371.00
Emg Mkts Opps Fd A Acc ‡@ 201.60
Erpn Grth Fund A Acc ‡@ 273.00
Erpn Sel Opps Fd A Acc ‡@ 2004.00
Fix Int Mnthly Inc Fd Acc ‡@ 29.78
Global Equity Fund Acc ‡@ 4414.00
Global Equity Income A Inc ‡@ 63.39
Global Tech A Acc ‡@ 2931.00
Instl UK Idx Opps A Acc ‡@ 108.43
M-Asset Abs Ret A Acc ‡@ 162.40
M-Man Active Fd A Acc ‡@ 257.60
M-Man Inc Grth A Inc ‡@ 149.90
M-Man Inc Grth Fd A Acc ‡@ 188.70
Sterling Bond U Trst Acc ‡@ 218.40
Sterling Bond U Trst Inc ‡@ 60.20
Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 111.50
UK Abs Ret Fd A Acc ‡@ 163.30

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+1.40
+1.89
+7.70
+3.80
-4.00
+3.20
+11.80
+77.00
+0.50
+190.00
+1.42
+164.00
+3.06
+2.00
+6.30
+3.00
+3.90
+2.40
+0.43
+0.90
+1.70

1.66
7.42
3.10
3.07
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0.44
1.39
8.58
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3.54
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2.72
0.66
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2.26
2.23
1.28
1.28
3.34
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US Sm Cos A Acc ‡@

921.70

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+3.50
+7.40
+9.70
+41.60
+73.00
+3.30
+0.90
+0.80
+0.60
+12.00
+101.00
+23.70
+72.00
+64.00
+36.60
-73.10
+7.20
+0.94
+0.53
-1.30
+8.40
+6.10
-4.70
-0.54
+2.30
+0.88
+12.00
+4.30
+34.00
+6.90
+3.48
+14.00

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5.21
5.36
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0.60
0.62
2.65
2.11
0.99
1.16
1.15
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1.79
1.74
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3.41
3.50
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JUPITER UT MGRS LTD
020 7581 3020
Absolute Return ‡@
33.84
Distribution and Growth ‡@ 94.47
Emg Euro Opps ‡@
145.34
Euro Special Sits ‡@
433.16
European ‡@
2736.17
Financial Opps ‡@
691.97
Income Trust ‡@
490.56
Merlin Bal (Acc) ‡@
224.65
Merlin Gwth (Acc) ‡
520.25
Merlin Inc (Acc) ‡
338.54
Merlin Wwide (Inc) ‡
365.56
UK Growth ‡@
249.00
UK Special Sits (Inc) ‡@ 198.62

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-0.66
+0.90
-72.04
+29.01
+168.59
+25.62
+16.85
+6.40
+18.03
+3.33
+13.56
+9.02
+6.94

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0.68
3.68
2.20
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2.42
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0.52
1.71

LEGAL & GENERAL (UT MGRS) LTD
Enquiries: 0870 050 0955 Dealing: 0870 050 0956
2616.00
893.80
470.40
315.80
139.40
66.23
243.90
109.20
89.92
106.00
120.10
67.25
198.50
180.90
249.90
328.00

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Weekly
+/-

Yld
%

152.00
280.20
266.60

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+0.30
-0.70
-0.50

0.60
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+176.00

0.51

Overseas Growth Investment Funds
Eur Sel Gth A Acc ‡@

UK Trkr A Acc ‡@
UK Trkr A Inc ‡@

Sterling Class A Investment Funds 1
Euro Smlr Cos Acc ‡
Euro Smlr Cos Inc ‡

525.29
462.50

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+6.31
+5.55

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0.69

Sterling Class A Investment Funds 2
Extra Income Inc ‡
693.91
Gilt & Fxd Int Inc ‡
87.76
Gl Hi Yd Bd Inc ‡
39.90
Index Linked Bd Inc ‡
134.21
Index Trckr Inc ‡
73.39
Short Dated Corp Bd Inc ‡ 25.01
UK Select A Inc ‡
2870.42

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+14.82
+1.34
+0.55
+1.20
+2.39
+0.12
+129.42

5.13
1.09
5.56
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3.84
1.33
2.39

+0.47
+0.75
+4.14
+21.35

2.85
5.36
2.27
2.14

+3.23

2.29

+1.10
+3.00
+13.40
+6.80
+14.60
+29.90
+19.90
+11.70

4.58
4.48
2.99
3.06
3.25
1.41
0.85
0.86

Sterling Class A Investment Funds 3
Corp Bd A Inc ‡
Dividend Inc ‡
Recovery A Inc ‡
Sml Cos Inc ‡

35.82
52.18
103.29
354.82

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3189.00

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Episode Allocation A Inc ‡@ 134.56

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MARKS & SPENCER UNIT TRUST LTD
0808 005 5555
90.43
245.00
425.60
215.70
325.10
662.30
931.90
548.10

90.43
245.00
425.60
215.70
325.10
662.30
931.90
548.10

Dev Opp Fund F Acc ‡@ 764.54
Dev Opp Fund I Acc ‡@ 761.51
Glob Bal Inc F F Acc ‡@ 945.91
Glob Bal Inc F F Inc ‡@ 898.84
Glob Bal Inc F I Acc ‡@ 945.08
Glob Bal Inc F I Inc ‡@ 897.95
Glob Bal Sust F F Acc ‡@ 949.77
Glob Bal Sust F F Inc ‡@ 939.60
Glob Bal Sust F I Acc ‡@ 948.92
Glob Bal Sust F I Inc ‡@ 939.48
Glob Br Eq Inc Fund F Inc ‡@ 1340.56
Glob Br Eq Inc Fund I Acc ‡@ 1817.40
Glob Br Eq Inc Fund I Inc ‡@ 1437.59
Glob Br Fund I Acc (PH) ‡@ 1546.48
Glob Br Fund I Acc (PH) ‡@ 13565.23
Glob Br Fund I Inc (PH) ‡@ 1480.81
Glob Br Fund I Inc (PH) ‡@ 3727.53
Glob Ins Fund F Acc ‡@ 575.83
Glob Ins Fund F Inc ‡@ 575.83
Glob Ins Fund I Acc ‡@ 574.08
Glob Ins Fund I Inc ‡@ 574.08
Glob Sust Fund F Acc (PH) ‡@ 1152.70
Glob Sust Fund F Inc ‡@ 1256.75
Glob Sust Fund I Acc ‡@ 1272.89
Glob Sust Fund I Acc (PH) ‡@ 1153.56
Glob Sustain Fund F Acc ‡@ 1278.52
Stg Corp Bond F F Acc ‡@ 125.18
Stg Corp Bond F F Inc ‡@ 100.82
Stg Corp Bond F I Acc ‡@ 2664.52
Stg Corp Bond F I Inc ‡@1413.47
Sust Fixed Inc Opps F F Acc ‡@ 931.69
Sust Fixed Inc Opps F F Inc ‡@ 907.00
Sust Fixed Inc Opps F I Acc ‡@ 928.70
Sust Fixed Inc Opps F I Inc ‡@ 906.84
US Adv F F Acc ‡@
1522.47
US Adv F F Acc (PH) ‡@ 852.15
US Adv F I Acc ‡@
1622.65
US Adv F I Acc (PH) ‡@ 894.28

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2639.00
902.00
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243.90
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106.50
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180.90
252.90
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+17.00
+5.60
+20.10
+13.50
+2.50
+1.16
+0.60
+2.20
+5.75
-2.10
+2.70
+2.12
+4.80
+7.60
+1.80
+10.50

2.12
2.15
1.50
1.52
1.76
1.79
1.15
0.71
0.10
0.17
5.73
1.52
2.47
3.19
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3.07

356.20
182.30

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+11.30
+5.80

2.99
3.06

+1.50
+0.60
+7.30
+6.70
+2.04
+10.80
+3.50
-0.14
+3.80
+1.70
+7.40
+105.00

1.67
1.69
1.37
4.96
5.08
3.95
4.05
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2.66
2.69
3.35
2.50

UK and Income Investment Funds
Corp Bond A Acc ‡@
303.50
Corp Bond A Inc ‡@
114.20
Envir Invtr A Acc ‡@
372.60
Hi Inc Bond A Ac ‡@
229.60
Hi Inc Bond A Inc ‡@
70.43
Hi Res A Acc ‡@
367.00
Hi Res A Inc ‡@
116.90
Safety Plus A Acc ‡@
40.49
Strat Inc A Acc ‡@
196.60
Strat Inc A Inc ‡@
88.28
UK Gwth A Acc ‡@
184.20
UK Sel Gwth A Acc ‡@ 2150.00

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OEIC B Class
Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds
UK Trkr B Acc ‡@
UK Trkr B Inc ‡@

393.00
181.20

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+12.50
+5.70

3.17
3.24

+0.40
+0.10
-0.60
+8.00

1.39
1.40
1.79
1.09

+4.90
+8.00

3.95
1.29

UK and Income Investment Funds

Sterling Class A Investment Funds 4

+50.32
+50.09
+17.41
+16.54
+17.38
+16.52
+18.03
+17.83
+17.99
+17.82
+48.77
+66.03
+52.23
+70.05
+523.16
+67.06
+143.76
+72.56
+72.56
+72.31
+72.31
+56.48
+53.74
+54.40
+56.50
+54.67
+1.99
+1.60
+42.31
+22.45
+7.05
+6.88
+7.01
+6.84
+180.59
+107.82
+192.39
+113.13

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3.80
3.90
3.81
3.91
0.67
0.67
0.61
0.61
4.08
4.06
4.16
0.68
0.62
0.69
0.62
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0.55
0.50
0.38
0.42
0.49
2.78
2.87
1.94
1.97
1.86
1.88
1.65
1.67
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Corp Bond B Acc ‡@
370.70
Corp Bond B Inc ‡@
136.30
UK Gwth B Acc ‡@
205.60
UK Sel Gwth B Acc ‡@ 2481.00

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OEIC C Class
UK and Income Investment Funds
UK Gth C Inc ‡@
122.40
UK Sel Gwth C Acc ‡@ 2598.00

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STANDARD LIFE INVESTMENTS
0845 279 3003
Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Shares
AAA Inc CAT Acc ‡@
AAA Inc CAT Inc ‡@
AAA Income Acc ‡@
Amer Eq Gth Acc ‡@
Corp Bond Acc ‡@
Corp Bond Inc ‡@
Euro Eq Gth Acc ‡@
Glb Advtg CAT Acc ‡@
Glob Advtg Acc ‡@
Glob Eq Uncstrd Acc ‡@
Higher Inc Acc ‡@
Higher Inc Inc ‡@
Japan Eq Gth Acc ‡@
Managed Acc ‡@
Select Inc Acc ‡@
Select Inc Inc ‡@
UK Eq Gth Acc ‡@
UK Eq Hi Alpha ‡@
UK Eq Hi Inc Acc ‡@
UK Eq Hi Inc Inc ‡@
UK Ethical Acc ‡@
UK Opps Acc ‡@
UK Opps Inc ‡@
UK Smlr Cos Acc ‡@

93.16
52.78
101.20
213.80
164.30
55.93
232.10
150.80
199.20
150.20
138.00
44.04
127.40
355.90
91.51
51.26
348.30
214.70
261.20
74.01
198.40
245.00
222.60
841.90

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+0.43
+0.24
+0.50
+9.50
+2.10
+0.69
+15.20
+4.30
+5.80
+6.60
+3.40
+1.10
-0.30
+11.30
-0.06
-0.29
+14.10
+8.90
+8.60
+2.44
+11.50
+16.10
+14.60
+52.60

1.05
1.06
1.48
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2.94
2.96
0.30
0.74
0.70
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4.47
4.54
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0.31
2.21
2.21
1.99
3.38
3.91
4.04
1.48
0.06
0.06
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+4.81
+4.31
+2.32
+2.03
+14.96
+13.54
+14.10
+7.05
+1.39
+0.54

0.71
0.71
1.22
1.23
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1.17
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SVS BROWN SHIPLEY FUNDS
Enquiries: 0141 222 1151
Balanced A Acc ‡@
Balanced A Inc ‡@
Cautious A Acc ‡@
Cautious A Inc ‡@
Dynamic A Acc ‡@
Dynamic A Inc ‡@
Growth A Acc ‡@
Income A Acc ‡@
Sterling Bond Acc ‡@
Sterling Bond Inc ‡@

135.27
121.66
111.69
97.71
330.27
299.03
339.66
247.14
242.37
97.00

THREADNEEDLE INVESTMENTS
Client Serv: 0800 0683000
Intermediary Serv: 0800 0684000
Institutional Shares (Class 2) (500000 GBP)
Threadneedle UK Eq Opps Ins Inc ‡@ 121.59

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+3.81

0.98

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+0.86
+2.36
+0.72
+0.72
+0.62
+0.72
+3.04
+3.42
+5.83
+1.96
+5.72
+13.79

4.17
3.31
1.97
1.59
0.80
2.62
3.41
2.60
1.38
3.96
1.08
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878.80
219.40

+48.70
+3.90

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SANTANDER UNIT TST MGRS
08457 413002
Bal Pfolio Inc ‡@
Bal Port Gwth Acc ‡@
Equity Inc Inc ‡@
N&P UK Gwth Inc ‡@
Stkmkt 100 Tkr @
UK Growth Acc ‡@
UK Growth Inc ‡@

110.50
231.10
206.10
182.80
245.20
450.10
245.50

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+3.20
+7.90
+6.00
+5.20
+22.00
+12.00

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1.08
5.85
3.09
1.52
3.39
3.46

+12.14
+3.79
-0.13
+0.57
-73.67
+19.09
+19.24
+39.33
+29.21
+16.53

0.78
1.42
0.75
0.56
1.11
0.61
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3.01
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3.16

SCOTTISH MUTUAL INV MNGRS LTD
0141 248 6100

Equity Acc @
Equity Dist @
Euro Ind Acc ‡@
Euro Ind Inc ‡@
Fixed Int Acc ‡@
Fixed Int Dist ‡@
Glob Gwth Acc @
Glob Health Acc ‡@
Glob Tech Acc ‡@
Gwth Tst Acc @
High Inc Acc ‡@
Japan Ind Acc ‡@
Pacific Ind Acc ‡@
UK 100 Ind Acc @
UK Active Opps Acc @
UK Index Acc ‡@

Caut Port A Inc ‡@
Opps Port A Acc ‡@
Prog Port A Acc ‡@

Sell

5.18

MORGAN STANLEY INVESTMENT MGMT LTD
Enquires: 0800 0961 962
The Morgan Stanley Funds (UK)
Class A Shares
Equity

JANUS HENDERSON INVESTORS

96.05
93.79

Yld
%

Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds

High Income
High Income Acc
UK 100 Comp Acc @
UK 100 Cos @
UK Select Pflo @
UK Selection Port Acc @
Worldwide Mgd Acc @
Wwide Mgd @

For ISIS Asset Mgmt see F&C Fd Mgmt Ltd (OEICS)

INSIGHT INVESTMENT FDS MANAGEMENT LTD
Client Servs: 0207 163 4000
Insight Investment Multi-Manager Funds

Weekly
+/-

OEIC

0.57
…
3.00
3.05
1.19
1.58
3.62
3.72
3.21
3.79
3.48
3.57
3.48
3.57

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JP MORGAN ASSET MGMT

OEIC Series i,ii,iii, & iv
American A Acc ‡@
647.75
Asia ex Japan A Acc ‡@ 770.74
Capital Accumulator A Acc ‡@ 231.48
Cautious Managed A Acc ‡@ 371.79
Cautious Managed A Inc ‡@ 235.85
Diversified Growth A Acc ‡@ 131.42
Diversified Growth A Inc ‡@ 139.19
Diversified Income A Acc ‡@ 313.49
Diversified Income A Inc ‡@ 68.38
Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Acc ‡@ 106.83
Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Acc Gross ‡@ 125.82
Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Inc ‡@ 64.21
Emerging Mkts Equity A Acc ‡@ 155.76
Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt A Acc ‡@ 172.14
Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt A Inc ‡@ 70.26
Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt Gross I Acc ‡@ 220.49
Enhanced Natural Resources A Acc ‡@ 134.24
Global Bond A Acc ‡@
139.30
Global Bond A Inc ‡@
109.33
Global Bond I Gross Inc ‡@ 1167.00
Global Dynamic A Acc ‡@ 195.53
Global Energy A Acc ‡@ 170.97
Global Equity A Acc ‡@ 235.31
Global Franchise A Acc ‡@ 306.61
Global Free Enterprise A Acc ‡@ 1201.00
Global Gold A Acc ‡@
165.38
Global Special Situations A Acc ‡@ 286.91
Global Special Situations A Inc ‡@ 221.93
Managed Growth A Acc ‡@ 281.33
Monthly High Income A Acc ‡@ 243.45
Monthly High Income A Inc ‡@ 63.17
Multi-Asset Protector A Acc ‡@ 165.98
Strategic Bond A Acc ‡@ 244.54

UK Index Dist ‡@
US Ind Acc ‡@
Worldwide Acc ‡@

Sell

M & G SECURITIES
Enq: 0800 390 390 Dealing Line: 0800 328 3196
Authorised Inv Funds

IGNIS ASSET MGMT
Dlg: 0141 222 8282

Well Bldr Bal Acc ‡@
Well Bldr Gwth Acc ‡@

Corporate Bd ‡@
52.58
Emerging Mkts ‡@
123.30
Euro Gwth & Inc 1 ‡@ 1133.00
Extra Inc Bond ‡@
44.16
FTSE All-Shr Track ‡@ 412.10
Global Gwth SC1 ‡@
305.90
High Inc Trst @
11.54
Max Inc Bond ‡@
43.14
Multi Man Caut ‡@
70.41
Multi Man Distr ‡@
60.44
North Amer ‡@
839.40
Pacific Gwth ‡@
501.70
Strategic Bd ‡@
195.80
UK Equity ‡@
3382.00
UK Gwth & Inc Acc 1 ‡@ 658.50
UK Gwth & Inc Dist ‡@ 234.70
UK Smaller Cos ‡@
1040.00

+71.00
+259.00
+29.40
+124.00
+0.34
+251.00
+153.00
+1.10
+14.60
+0.87
-1.90
+0.20
+0.40
+3.94
+173.00
-0.11

Weekly
+/-

HSBC Specialist Investment Funds (OEIC)

CIS UNIT MANAGERS LTD
08457 46 46 46
European Gwth ‡@
Sus Leaders ‡@
UK Growth ‡@
UK Income ‡@

…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
327.60
…
…
…
…
72.18

Buy

HSBC Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Share Class
…
…

UK/Global Investment Companies
Euro Acc A ‡@
Extra Inc Inc B ‡@
Global Gwth Acc R ‡@
Japan Acc A ‡@
Pac Gwth Acc A ‡@

2329.00
5170.00
535.60
3096.00
24.26
5459.00
2896.00
149.50
527.50
45.78
327.60
76.12
32.29
122.20
4294.00
69.75

Sell

European Inc
Far Eastern Inc
Intl Growth Inc
Japanese Inc
Mutual European
Mutual Far Eastern
Mutual North Am
Mutual UK Eq
Nth American Inc
UK Equity Inc

1777.00
584.69
380.56
41.85
2762.93
953.35
1983.00
1340.52
1227.65
562.93

1873.48
617.09
400.59
41.85
2908.99
1006.17
2092.88
1414.80
1295.67
594.12

SCOTTISH WIDOWS UNIT TRUST MGRS
0845 300 2244
Authorised Inv Funds (OEICs)
OEIC A Class
Managed Investment Funds
Bal Port A Acc ‡@
Caut Port A Acc ‡@

237.60
207.10

…
…

-0.10
+0.30

0.01
0.43

Retail Shares (Class 1)
Threadneedle HY Bd Rtl Inc ‡@ 36.50
Threadneedle Mthly Etr Inc Rtl Inc ‡@ 80.96
Threadneedle SterlingCorpBd Ins Inc ‡@ 57.33
Threadneedle SterlingCorpBd Rtl Inc ‡@ 57.24
Threadneedle Stg Bd Ret Inc ‡@ 52.30
Threadneedle Strat Bd Ret ‡@ 42.47
Threadneedle UK Eq Inc Rtl Inc ‡@ 97.52
Threadneedle UK Growth & Inc Rtl Inc ‡@ 92.81
Threadneedle UK Insti Rtl ‡@ 174.66
Threadneedle UK Mthly Inc Rtl Inc ‡@ 68.07
Threadneedle UK Rtl Inc ‡@ 130.93
Threadneedle UK Smaller Coms Rtl Inc ‡@ 364.45

For Resolution see Ignis
TU FUND MANAGERS LIMITED
British
European

878.80
210.70

This list contains unit trusts and Oeics widely held
by private investors. The weekly price change is
based on a Friday-to-Thursday trading period.*
Yield expressed as CAR (Compound Annual
Return); † Ex dividend; ‡ Middle price; . . . No significant data. # Periodic charge deducted from capital; @ Exit charge

Data as shown is
for information
purposes only. No offer is made by
Morningstar or this publication

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

63

Money

Best buys

Data supplied by

Mortgages

Savings

Personal loans

First time buyer mortgages

Easy access (without introductory bonus)
Provider

Contact

Account

Min

AER

Al Rayan Bank A

via website

Everyday Saver (3)

Virgin Money

0800 121 7365 M Saver

£1 1.56%

Cambridge BS

Virgin Money

via website

M Plus Saver

£1 1.56%

Barclays Mortgage

Shawbrook Bank

via website

Easy Access - 29

£1,000 1.52%

Chase

via website

The Chase Saver

£1 1.50%

£5,000 1.60%

Long-term fixed rates
Min

AER

Provider

Contact

Period

Max Fee
LTV
95% £199

Redmptn
charge
until
1st 2 yrs

0345 601 3344

Initial
Rate
3.49%F

for 2 years

0333 202 7580

3.92%F

to 30.11.24

95%

- To 30.11.24

West Brom BS

0800 298 0008

3.89%F

to 30.11.25

95%

- To 30.11.25

Cambridge BS

0345 601 3344

3.69%F

for 5 years

95% £199

Bath BS

01225 475702

3.65%F

for 5 years

95% £999

Provider

Contact

Period

Marsden BS

0800 801645

Initial
Rate
3.29% F

to 31.10.24

Max
LTV
80%

3.49% F

to 31.10.24

75%

Provider

Contact

Rep
APR

Amount per
month

Total
repaid

M&S Bank

via website

2.8%

£178.64

£10,718.40

cahoot

via website

2.9%

£179.07

£10,744.20

Santander

via website

3.1%

£179.94

£10,796.40

1st 5 yrs

Bank of Ireland UKvia website

3.1%

£179.94

£10,796.40

1st 5 yrs

Borrowing rates and availability of products are subject to individual credit ratings.

Remortgages

Provider

Contact

Account

PCF Bank

via website

Term Deposit 35 (5 yr)

Hodge Bank

via website

Fixed Rate Bond (5 yr)

Monument Bank

via website

Fixed Deposit (5 yr)

£25,000 3.30% F

Aldermore

via website

Fixed Account (5 yr)

£1,000 3.25% F

HSBC

0800 169 6333

Gatehouse Bank A

via website

Woodland Saver (5 yr)

£1,000 3.25% F

Nationwide BS

0800 302010

3.29% F

for 3 years

75% £999

1st 3 yrs

Cumberland BS

01228 403 141

3.22% F

to 1.11.27

75% £999

To 1.11.27

first direct

0800 482448

3.19% V

for term

75% £490

None

Max Fee
LTV
75% £1,495

Redmptn
charge
until
To 31.8.24

£1,000 3.45% F
£1,000 3.31% F

Easy access cash Isas
Provider

Contact

Account

Newcastle BS

via website

Triple Access Isa (2)

Min

AER

£1 1.50%

Cynergy Bank

via website

Online Isa (Issue 24)

£1 1.40%

Shawbrook Bank

via website

Easy Access Isa - 20

£1,000 1.40%

Paragon Bank

via website

Triple Access Isa (9)

Nationwide BS

via website

Triple Access 14

Provider

Contact

Account

Aldermore

via website

Fixed Isa (3 yr)

Secure Trust Bank

via website

Castle Trust Bank

via website

Paragon Bank
Shawbrook Bank

Redmptn
charge
until
- To 31.10.24

Contact

Initial
Rate
2.85%

£1 1.35%

Post Office Money®

0800 077 8033

£1 1.35%

Marsden BS

Period
to 31.8.24

0800 801645

3.29%

to 31.10.24

80%

Credit cards

Fee

- To 31.10.24

Short-term fixed-rate mortgages
Provider

- To 31.10.24

Introductory rate for balance transfers
Product name

Transfer

Bal trans Purch
fee APR

Provider

Contact

Sainsbury's Bank

08085 40 50 60 Balance Transfer CC MC 0% 1st 34 mths

2.88%

Halifax

0345 944 4555 Longest Bal Trf CC MC 0% 1st 34 mths

2.89%

21.9%

MBNA Limited

0345 606 2062 Long 0% BT CC MC

0% 1st 34 mths

2.99%

21.9%

Tesco Bank

0345 300 4278 Clubcard CC BT MC

0% 1st 33 mths

2.59%

21.9%

Santander

0800 912 3123 Everyday long-term MC 0% 1st 33 mths

2.65%

21.9%

21.9%

Introductory rate for purchases
Provider

Contact

Product name

Introductory
Term

Purch
APR

HSBC

0800 169 6333

3.44%

to 31.10.24

90% £999 To 31.10.24

Sainsbury's Bank

0808 540 5060 Dual Offer CC MC

0% 1st 24 mths

21.9%

AER

Nationwide BS

0800 302010

3.29%

for 3 years

75% £999

1st 3 yrs

M&S Bank

0800 997 996

0% 1st 24 mths

21.9%

£1,000 2.75% F

Nationwide BS

0800 302010

3.39%

for 3 years

90% £999

1st 3 yrs

Barclaycard

0800 151 0900 Platinum All-rounder Visa

0% 1st 24 mths

22.9%

Fixed Isa (18.8.27)

£1,000 2.75% F

Long-term fixed-rate mortgages

Tesco Bank

0345 300 4278 Clubcard CC Purchases MC

0% 1st 23 mths

20.9%

Fixed Isa (5 yr)

£1,000 2.71% F

HSBC

0345 7404 404 Purchase Plus CC Visa

0% 1st 23 mths

22.9%

via website

Fixed Isa (5 yr)

£500 2.70% F

via website

Isa Bond 11 (7 yr)

Fixed-cash Isas
Min

£1,000 2.70% F

Lifetime cash Isas

Provider

Contact
0800 077 8033

Initial
Rate
3.09%

Post Office Money®
Cumberland BS

01228 403 141

3.22%

to 31.8.27

Max Fee
LTV
75% £1,495

Redmptn
Charge
Until
To 31.8.27

to 1.11.27

60% £999

To 1.11.27

Period

Provider

Contact

Account

Cumberland BS

01228 403 141

3.39%

to 1.11.27

90% £999

To 1.11.27

Beehive Money

via website

Homebuyer Lifetime Isa

£1 0.90%

Halifax

0345 727 3747

3.33%

to 30.11.32

60% £995

To 31.8.32

Beehive Money

via website

Retirement Lifetime Isa

£1 0.90%

Halifax

0345 727 3747

3.43%

to 30.11.32

75% £995

To 31.8.32

Moneybox

via website

Cash Lifetime Isa

£1 0.85% B

Variable-rate mortgages

Skipton BS

via website

Online Lifetime Isa 4

£1 0.85%

Paragon Bank

via website

Cash Lifetime Isa (3)

£1 0.70%

Max Fee
LTV
75% £490

Redmptn
Charge
Until
None

Min

AER

Regular savings accounts
Provider

Contact

Account

NatWest

via website

Digital Regular Saver

Min AER
Mntly
£0 3.30% V

Royal Bank of Scotland

via website

Digital Regular Saver

£0 3.30% V

Nationwide BS

via website

Flex Regular Saver

£0 2.50% V

Nationwide BS

via website

Start to Save 2

£0 2.50% V

TSB

via website

Monthly Saver

£25 2.50% F

Provider

Contact

Period

first direct
first direct

0800 482448
0800 482448

3.34%

term

75%

-

None

first direct

0800 482448

3.64%

term

80% £490

None

first direct

0800 482448

3.79%

term

80%

-

None

first direct

0800 482448

4.29%

term

90% £490

None

Pension annuities
Single life

term

Period

Principality BS

0330 333 4002

Initial
Rate
2.40% D

Mansfield BS

01623 676345

2.93% D

for 3 years

75% £1,499
60%

to 30.11.24

Max
LTV
60%

Redmptn
Fee
Charge
Until
- To 30.11.24
1st 3 yrs

Provider

Contact

HSBC

0800 028 3844

3.49% F

to 31.10.24

Canada Life

0345 300 3199

£2,587.68 £2,927.28 £3,362.88

Virgin Money

0330 057 1701

3.16% F

to 1.12.25

75% £1,995

To 1.12.25

Legal & General

0345 765 4465

£2,584.20 £2,857.92 £3,278.40

Post Office Money®

0800 077 8033

3.05% F

to 31.8.27

75% £1,495

To 31.8.27

The selections above are based on a combination of initial rate, fee and incentive available.

Age 60

Age 65

Age 70

Aviva

0800 015 5064

£2,376.85 £2,831.01 £3,245.33

Just

0345 302 2287

£2,381.16 £2,734.44 £3,124.92

Notice or
Term
Contact

Canada Life

0345 300 3199

Male: Age 60
Age 65 Age 70
Female: Age 55
Age 60 Age 65
£2,262.96 £2,469.36 £2,777.40

Legal & General

0345 765 4465

£2,087.88 £2,298.48 £2,529.60

Aviva

0800 015 5064

£1,974.54 £2,261.54 £2,464.55

Just

0345 302 2287

£1,979.28 £2,172.12 £2,381.40

Based on a pension pot of £50,000

- To 31.10.24

National Savings & investments

Joint life

Min

AER

Interest
Paid

Accounts and bonds
Green Bonds 2

3 Yr Bnd

Provider
American Express
American Express

Lloyds Bank
Barclaycard

Purchase
APR
Cashback
31.0% 0.75% - 1.25% standard
Intro 5%/3mth (max £125)
0800 917 8047 Plat Cashback Everyday
25.7% 0.50% - 1.00% standard
Intro 5%/3mth (max £100)
0345 944 4555 Cashback CC MC
19.9% Standard 0.25% - 0.50%
on spend over £1 a year
0345 602 1997 Cashback CC MC
19.9% Standard 0.25% - 0.50%
on spend over £1 a year
0800 151 0900 Rewards Visa
23.9%
Standard 0.25% on
spend over £1 a year
Contact
Product name
0800 917 8047 Platinum Cashback

Borrowing rates and products are subject tol credit ratings. Terms apply to all cashback

Current accounts
Credit interest

Buy-to-let mortgages
Contact

Shopping Plus Offer MC

Cashback credit card

Halifax
Initial
Rate
3.19%

Provider

Provider

Fixed monthly repayment on £10,000 for 5 years
(without insurance)

£100

1.30%

Provider

Contact

Account name

Halifax

0345 720 3040

Reward Current Account

Account
Fee

AER

None

£5 pm C

Nationwide BS

0800 30 20 10

FlexDirect

None

5%B

TSB

0345 975 8758

Spend & Save

None

£5 pm B

Virgin Money

0800 678 3654

M Plus Account

None

2.02%

The Co-op Bank

0345 721 2212

Current Everyday Rewards

None

£1 pm C

Arranged overdrafts
Provider

Contact

Account name

Starling Bank

via website

Current Account

first direct

0345 600 2424 1st Account

Account
Fee

0% OD
EAR Limit

None

15.0%

£0

None

39.9%

£250

Virgin Money

0800 678 3654 M Plus Account

None

19.9%

£0

Yearly

Lloyds Bank

0800 015 4000 Club Lloyds

£3pm

27.5%

£50

TSB
0345 975 8758 Spend & Save Plus
£3pm 39.9% £100
Current account interest rates paid up to a specified level, terms may apply to qualify for
rates shown. A = Provider operates under Islamic finance principles, rate shown is expected
profit rate. B =Introductory rate. C = Paid net of income tax. F = Fixed rate. D = Discounted
variable rate. V = Variable rate. All savings rates are shown as AER variable unless otherwise
stated. Methods of opening and operating accounts will vary. All rates and terms are subject
to change without notice. No liability accepted for any loss arising from the use of, or reliance
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Direct Saver

None

£1

1.20%

Yearly

Income Bonds

None

£500

1.21%

Monthly

Junior Isa

Age 18

£1

2.20%

Yearly

Direct Isa

None

£1

0.90%

Yearly

Tax-free products

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Money Equity prices
12 month
High Low Company

Price
(p) +/- Yld% P/E

12 month
High Low Company

Automobiles & parts
2081

371N Aston Martin Lag

483K –

46

Banking & finance
299
3688
88K
440V

148Y abrdn
1729 Admiral
49 ADVFNv
246V AJ Bell

27919W 19456 Aon Corpn
30O
1055
21
399V
1691

21K Appreciate Groupv
820 Arbuthnot Bkgv
14 Argo Groupv
192 Ashmore Gp
1211O Aus New Z

161K +
1735K –
52

W 9.0

23448

8.7

8.8

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9.0

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29

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1N 3.4 12.6
10

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602Y

382N Aviva

391X –

2K 5.4 51.5

193W Banco Santander

206Y –

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140K Barclays

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277 BP Marsh&Ptnrsv‡
11N Braveheart Invv
266 Brewin Dolphin
208 Bridgepoint
53 Cenkos Secsv
256K Chesnara

76

31 City of Lon Gpv

550

400 City Lon Inv Gp

1602

987 Close Bros

4.9

…

8.5

238

178N M&G

215N +

435

172 EPE Special Oppsv

172K

…

…

9.6

274

178O Man

274

916Y

646K FBD

6K 2.1 15.9
1

556W

441X Br Land‡

489

+

–

Y 3.0 10.9

1.9 15.1

8K

…

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157K

110 Caledonian Tstv

157K

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2

…

…

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179N

138W Cap & Count Prop

148Y +

1

0.3 43.7

83K

61 Frenkel Toppingv

71K

…

1.9 41.5

89X 1.5 27.1

70W

58V

…

… -0.5

54 Cap & Regnl

725
1005
415

458K Georgia Capital

630

+

12

765 Gresham Housev

876

+

1

260 H&T Groupv

415

+

…

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684 Mattioli Woodsv

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2400

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24

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118K Clarke T

162

+

4

2.7 11.6

12X 2.7 17.1

262

185V CLS Hldgs

206

+

3

3.6

4

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38

…

11.7 13.1

1939K 1487K Nat Aust Bk

1727W +

856O +

1K 4.4 15.2

253K

192O NWG

225

–

2

4.6

8.8

571K

225O Countryside Prop

270O +

5

… 19.7

195

142K Helios Underv

158K

…

…

383

230 Numisv

263

–

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4.5

5.3

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18X

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359O HSBC

515V –

8V 3.1 11.2

599

418O Onesavings Bank

507

–

1

3.8

6.7

4002

2756K CRH

2984

+

945

648 IG Group

775

–

8

7.9

741

522 PayPoint

593

–

6

5.4 18.5

3802

2570 Derwent London

2924

+ 108

2.5 13.0

1482

550 Impaxv‡

644

+

36

1.6 21.2

14

3 PCF Groupv

…

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3V

…

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36K

28V First Propv

28V

…

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52K

36K Fletcher Kingv

44

…

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57K

31 Foxtons Group

38Y

…

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0.7

8.5

…

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2K
…

1284K Intermed Cap‡
73O IPF
155X Intl Public Pntshp

1425K –

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8.1

701W

568V Phoenix Gp

606

+

6

80V +

2O 2.7

4.5

381K

187W Provident

218

+

2V

4.5 20.9

1553K

162K –

1

536O

270K Investec‡

427W –

5V 3.0 10.7

320

281 Investment Co

283

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155V

66X IP Group

80W +

0.3 10.1

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3.0

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197
188W

1002K +

881 Prudential

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96N Quilter PLC

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96

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1914

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81V Randall & Quilterv

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365
289K
106

…

675K

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162K Jarvis Securitiesv
135V Jupiter Fund Mgmt
63N Just Group

165

…

142X +
68Y +

2
1K

8.1 11.8
11.9

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346K Lancashire Hdgs

420O +

19V 2.7

406

+

11

8.1

9.5

307O

233V Legal & Gen

256X –

2K 6.9

+

7

5.5

8.0

52766X

502X Liberty Group

502X –

2X

+

4K 9.8

9.5

2485

854 Liontrust‡

958

429W Commerzbk

538N –

26K

… 27.5

1233K

654K Deutsche Bk

701Y –

16O

…

8.2

193X Direct Line Ins

201K +

X 11.0

8.3

4.2

7.9

1W
1820

1518 Rathbone Grp

Y RiverFort Global Oppsv

Y

1370 Rockwood Strategicv 1380

20

206V

157K Galliford Try

174K +

1V 2.6 38.8

801

373 Genuit Group

415

2

+

…

850

508 Gleeson (MJ)

520

1412

715 Grafton Gp Uts

810

269O Grainger

297V +

564 Gr Portland

614K +

…

2.1

2.7

335

…

1.9

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741

–

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8.1

2

4.3

9.3

6K 1.8 18.4
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62

43W Livermore Invsv

+

52N

…

…

2950

7.8

3V

…

60O

2022K S & U

2120

1X Sancus Lending Grpv
47X Schroder REIT

+ 100

1X

4.2 10.0

…

51X +

… -0.7

W 4.9

5.5

39Y
191

138 Harworth Gp

160

+

630

375 Heath (Samuel)v

630

+

4.9 11.9

3871

2578 Schroders

2766

–

20

4.1 12.7

497

…

6.7

3.3

2650

1732 Schroders N/V

2340

–

25

4.9 10.7

1065

6.0

1731K 1054 St James Place 1185

…

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333
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97O
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402K Asia Dragon Tr
440
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210
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250K Baillie Gifford Ch Gr 324
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88N
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153O
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uAIM company; # Price at suspension;
† Ex dividend; ‡ Ex scrip; s Ex rights issue;
t Ex all; § Ex capital distribution; * figures
or report awaited; . . . No significant data.
Companies in bold are constituents of the
FTSE 100 Index. Investment Cos sector Nav
Dis or Prm supplied by Morningstar.
Data as shown is
for information
purposes only. No offer is made by
Morningstar or this publication

66

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

2GM

Money
Wall Street

Major indices

July 22
close

wkly
+/-

3M
134.12
Abbott Labs
109.20
AbbVie
148.47
Accenture
288.01
Activision Blizzard 79.23
Adobe Sys
401.90
Aflac
55.28
Agilent Tech
125.04
Air Prods & Chm 234.56
Albemarle Corporation221.46
Alexion Pharmas 182.50
Allergan
193.02
Allstate
116.20
Altria
43.09
Amazon
122.42
Amer Elec Pwr
94.35
Amer Express
153.01
Amer Tower
259.60
Ameren Corp
87.43
American Int
51.33
American Wtr W 148.22
Ameriprise
245.06
AmerisrceBerg
142.50
Ametek
115.33
Amgen
245.95
Amphenol
69.82
Anadarko Petrlm 72.77
Analog Devices
163.27
Aon Corp
279.49
Apple
154.09
Applied Mats
101.67
Archer Daniels
73.84
Arthur J. Gallagher168.23
AT&T
18.40
Auto Data Proc
220.34
Autodesk
195.95
Autozone
2147.62
AvalonBay
198.25
Baker Hughes
57.68
Ball Corp
69.49
Bank NY Mellon
42.72
Bank of America
33.43
Bard (CR)
331.24
Baxter Intl
66.16
BB&T
54.24
Becton Dickinsn 242.13
Berkshire Hath
285.93
Biogen Idec
206.25
Blackrock
633.64
Boeing
158.16
Boston Sci
38.12
Bristol-Myrs Sq
72.95
Broadcom Ord
512.52
Brown-Forman- B 71.22
Capital One Fin
108.93
Caterpillar
178.62
Celgene
108.24
Centene
90.94
CenterPoint Egy
29.70
Cerner
94.92
Chevron
144.19
Chipotle Mex Grill1347.33
Church & Dwight
94.06
Cigna Corp
269.20
Cintas
396.73
Cisco Systems
44.46
Citigroup
51.91
Citizens Financial 37.17
Clorox Co
147.85
CME
204.48
CMS Energy
65.18
Coca-Cola
61.59
Cognizant Tech
69.10
Colgate-Palm
77.47
Comcast
42.60
ConocoPhillips
88.13
Consd Edison
92.44
Constellation Brs 242.38
Corning
34.37
Costco Whole
529.72
Crown Castle Int 172.86
CSX
30.89
Cummins
205.20
CVS Caremark
94.06
Danaher
273.84
Deere&Co
312.26
Delta Air Lines
31.35
Devon Energy
55.19
Digital Realty Tr. 127.42
Discover Financial 100.00
Dollar General
247.81
Dollar Tree
172.01
Dominion Res
77.35
Dover
128.64
Dow Chemical
50.85
D.R. Horton
77.39
Dr Pepper Snap
123.66
DTE Energy
123.75
Duke Energy
104.98
Eaton
136.65

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+5.24
+1.28
+0.09
+0.07
+6.54
+47.34
-1.52
-4.91
+8.45
+1.39
+1.93
+0.37
-0.82
+2.54
-1.02
-0.91
+3.24
-0.68
+1.70
+5.24
-0.96
-2.16
+1.17
+6.77
-0.54
+2.03
+8.84
-1.31
+18.06
+14.56
+1.26
+2.48
+6.44
-4.01
+3.67
+4.05
-1.85
+8.11
+1.30
+3.93
-0.02
-1.43
-2.45
+7.66

July 22
close
eBay
Ecolab
Edison Intl
Edwards Life
Electronic Arts
Eli Lilly
Emerson Elec
Entergy
EOG Res
Equifax
Equinix
Equity Res
Estee Lauder
Evrsurce Engy
Exelon
Express Scripts
Extra Space Stor
Exxon Mobil
Facebook
Fastenal
Fedex
Fifth Third
FirstEnergy
FIS
Fiserv
Ford Motor
Freeport-Mcm
Garmin
Gen Dynamics
Gen Electric
General Mills
General Mtrs
Genuine Parts
Gilead Sciences
Global Payments
Goldman Sachs
Google Class A
Google Class C CS
Grainger (WW)
Halliburton
Harris
Hartford Financial
HCA Hldngs
Hershey
Hess
Home Depot
Honeywell Intl
Hormel Foods
HP Ent
HP Inc
Humana
Huntington
IBM
ICE Group
IFF
Illinois Tool
Illumina
Ingersoll-Rand
Intel
Intuit
Intuitive Surg
JB Hunt Trprt
Johnsn & Johnsn
Johnson Controls
JP Morgan Chase
Kansas City
Kellogg
Kimberly-Clark
Kinder Morgan
KLA-Tencor
Kroger
Lab Corp Amer
Lam Research
Lennar
Level 3 Coms
Lockheed Martin
Lowes Cos
LyondellBasell
Marathon Petrol
Marriott Intl
Marsh & McLenn
MartinMarietta
MasterCard
McCormick
McDonald's
McKesson
Medtronic
Merck & Co
Metlife
Microchip
Micron
Microsoft
Mondelez
Monster Bvrge
Moodys
Morgan Stanley
Motorola Sols
M&T Bank Corp
Netflix
Newmont Mining

wkly
+/-

July 22
close

wkly
+/-

46.68 +3.07
162.99 +7.81
61.33 -0.23
102.58 +3.15
130.16 +7.00
328.75 -2.85
83.10 +3.50
109.37 -0.75
101.00 +3.72
200.85 +8.43
653.78 +34.03
73.31 +1.99
260.10 +14.56
84.06 +0.40
44.02 -0.21
92.33
177.91 +8.34
87.08 +2.54
196.64 +8.00
48.46 +0.42
227.30 +9.47
33.63 -0.11
38.32 +0.85
99.02 +3.80
99.87 +5.71
12.82 +0.94
27.76 +1.94
104.95 +5.05
216.76 +3.99
68.19 +5.33
73.63 -1.29
34.67 +1.80
144.49 +5.95
60.80 -1.80
118.71 +3.91
323.93 +30.06
107.90 -2127.65
108.36 -2146.98
473.88 +16.48
27.46 -0.40
189.13 -8.09
63.78 +0.79
202.03 +30.42
215.92 -0.88
101.39 +6.18
306.59 +14.18
181.47 +8.67
47.59 -0.20
13.77 +0.50
32.47 +0.81
488.97 +1.43
13.02 +0.51
128.25 -11.67
99.11 +3.28
122.26 +6.28
191.56 +10.94
201.69 +12.48
44.54 +3.54
39.20 +0.58
434.74 +41.78
211.85 +0.93
173.75 +6.17
172.12 -6.11
50.78 +3.87
114.76 +1.81
293.59
71.14 -1.31
132.40 -2.28
17.65 +0.89
354.02 +27.79
46.24 -1.51
246.34 +1.83
463.99 +36.86
83.08 +4.99
53.63 +0.43
394.74 -3.64
195.58 +10.58
86.80 +2.06
85.65 +1.23
150.91 +7.56
156.84 +5.86
326.21 +11.25
343.88 +11.31
84.11 +2.37
253.99 -1.02
330.44 +0.44
90.72 +1.60
90.11 -4.85
60.85 +1.82
64.72 +2.34
61.29 -0.24
260.36 +3.64
61.99 +1.25
95.07 -2.08
295.46 +13.85
82.43 +4.38
221.16 +6.14
168.96 +12.75
220.44 +31.33
51.39 -3.34

NextEra Energy
80.25
Nike
109.12
Norfolk Sthn
243.10
Northern Trust
97.40
Northrop Grum
451.85
Nucor
119.86
Nvidia
173.19
Occidental Petr
61.06
ONEOK
57.99
Oracle
74.90
O'Reilly
688.20
Paccar
84.73
Parker-Hannifin 267.87
Paychex
122.44
Paypal Hldngs
81.05
PepsiCo
169.61
PerkinElmer
146.67
Pfizer
51.23
PG&E
10.63
Philip Morris Intl 95.93
Phillips66
84.53
Pioneer Ntrl Rscs 209.80
PNC Finl
161.76
PPG Inds
127.73
PPL
27.33
Price T Rowe
121.08
Priceline.com
1905.64
Procter & Gmbl
143.02
Progressive Cp
111.19
Prologis
126.90
Prudential Finl
95.51
Public Serv Ent
60.10
Public Storage
319.33
Qualcomm
153.70
Quanta Services 133.06
Realty Income
71.35
Regeneron Pharm 586.11
Regions Financial 20.65
Republic Serv
131.02
Rockwell Auto
221.60
Rockwell Collins 141.04
Roper Inds
410.92
Ross Stores
83.24
Salesforce.com
182.47
Schlumberger
35.07
Schwab (Charles) 62.99
Sempra Energy
154.24
Sherwin-Williams 259.01
Simon Prop
103.68
Southern Co
71.94
S&P Global
361.94
Spectra Engy
77.32
Starbucks
83.59
State Street
68.16
Sthwest Airlines
40.24
Stryker
199.42
SunTrust Banks
70.13
Sysco
86.86
Target
157.74
TE Connectivity 123.05
Texas Insts
163.90
TheKraftHeinz
38.32
Thermo Fisher
561.54
TJX
63.76
Tractor Supply Co 194.89
Transdigm Group 581.12
Travelers
156.42
TSYS
133.27
Tyson Foods
82.08
Ulta Salon
406.40
Union Pacific
213.40
Untd Rentls
274.29
UPS
187.98
US Bancorp
47.71
Utd Health
521.41
Utd Tech
86.01
Valero Energy
104.02
Ventas
51.78
VeriSign
185.30
Verisk Analyt CS 184.78
Verizon Comm
44.45
Vertex Pharma
280.29
VF Corp
47.46
Visa
213.70
Vulcan Mats
155.65
Walgreens Boots 38.66
Wal-Mart
132.21
Walt Disney
102.72
Waste Mgt
154.93
Waters
345.68
WEC Engy
97.86
Wells Fargo
43.17
Welltower
52.22
Weyerhaeuser
35.51
Williams Cos
32.34
Xcel Energy
68.67
Xilinx
194.92
Yum Brands
119.45
Zimmer
107.00
Zoetis
178.18

+1.54
+4.42
+15.21
-1.88
-9.35
+9.54
+15.57
+2.35
+2.29
+4.16
+5.00
+4.68
+19.51
+7.44
+7.14
-1.51
+11.52
-0.52
+0.31
+5.75
+2.89
+1.35
+8.34
+10.93
-0.20
+5.70
+20.64
-2.05
-4.89
+5.89
+3.18
-0.45
+6.01
+9.33
+5.05
+1.04
-21.43
+1.46
+2.02
+15.25
+15.77
+5.26
+15.09
+2.77
+0.81
+3.00
+13.44
+7.32
-0.39
+12.49
+8.17
+3.97
+2.49
+0.66
+4.66

3-Mth Sterling

31899.29 (-137.61)
11834.11 (-225.50)
3961.63 (-37.32)

Tokyo
Nikkei 225

27914.66 (+111.66)

Hong Kong
Hang Seng

20609.14 (+34.51)

Amsterdam
AEX Index

705.04 (+0.43)

Sydney
AO

7011.80 (-6.60)

Frankfurt
DAX

13253.68 (+7.04)

Singapore
Straits

3181.34 (+29.04)

Brussels
BEL20

3738.95 (-21.02)

Paris
CAC-40

6216.82 (+15.71)

Zurich
SMI Index
DJ Euro Stoxx 50

11096.12 (-38.62)
3596.49 (-0.02)

London
FTSE 100
7276.37 (+5.86)
FTSE 250
19824.77 (+115.53)
FTSE 350
4062.26 (+6.47)
FTSE Eurotop 100
3261.08 (+6.87)
FTSE All-Shares
4028.28 (+6.78)
FTSE Non Financials
4916.95 (+16.75)
techMARK 100
5994.02 (+8.08)
Bargains
n/a
US$
1.1982 (-0.0013)
Euro
1.1741 (+0.0007)
£:SDR
0.98 (+0.00)
Exchange Index
78.73 (-0.23)
Bank of England official close (4pm)
CPI
121.79 Jun (2015 = 100)
RPI
340.00 Jun (Jan 1987 = 100)
RPIX
290.10 Jun (Jan 1987 = 100)
Morningstar Long Commodity
677.16 (+5.72)
Morningstar Long/Short Commod 4703.45 (+27.75)

Commodities
ICIS pricing (London 7.30pm)

Crude Oils ($/barrel FOB)
-0.76
+11.07
+7.39
+3.36
+0.31
+22.67
+3.20
-8.31
+42.96
+0.24
+0.15
+9.16
+4.27
+22.45
+5.39
+1.14
-8.34
-18.63
-0.57
+1.04
+7.82
+5.95
-6.57
-12.55
+2.01
+3.66
+6.93
+0.63
+3.14
+7.52
+2.92
+11.67
-2.89
+2.04
-2.58
+0.73
+0.96
-1.29

Brent Physical
BFOE(Oct)
BFOE(Sep)
WTI(Sep)
WTI(Oct)

107.56
103.27
98.54
94.70
92.43

-2.93
-0.67
-1.10
-1.65
-1.35

Products ($/MT)
Spot CIF NW Europe (prompt delivery)
Premium Unld
Gasoil EEC
3.5 Fuel Oil
Naphtha

1091.00
1132.50
459.00
780.00

1093.00
1134.50
474.00
782.00

-11.00
+41.00
-1.00
+25.00

ICE Futures
Gas Oil
Aug
Sep
Oct

1063.75-1062.50
1040.75-1040.25
1023.25-1022.50

Nov
Dec

1001.50-999.75
974.50-974.00
Volume: 572353

Dec
Jan

96.09-96.06
95.00-94.42
Volume: 1706978

Brent (9.00pm)
Sep
Oct
Nov

105.27-105.23
100.52-100.50
98.02-97.98

LIFFE
Cocoa
Sep
Dec
Mar
May
Jul
Sep

1702-1698
1752-1750
1752-1750
1752-1750
1757-1754
1762-1761

Dec
Mar
May

1944-1750
1738 BID
1738 BID
Volume: 65776

RobustaCoffee
+1.30
+3.49
+3.64

London Financial Futures
Long Gilt

Eurotop 100

New York
Dow Jones
Nasdaq Composite
S&P 500

Jul
Sep
Nov
Jan

1908-1950
1961-1958
1960-1954
1958-1935

Mar
May

1954-1916
1925-1911

Open

High

Low

Sett

Vol

Open Int

Sep 22

116.63

117.67

116.41

117.27

221863

585831

Dec 22

116.65

116.65

116.65

115.46

1

68

Sep 22

98.885

98.890

98.860

98.866

3885

301735

Dec 22

98.820

98.825

98.790

98.806

7310

347378

Mar 23

98.785

98.795

98.755

98.771

8310

229855

523.70-523.00
502.30-500.60
494.20-492.00

May
Aug
Oct
Dec

487.00-484.10
505.00-478.00
472.20-470.00
494.30-470.00
Volume: 61216

3-Mth Euroswiss

Sep 22

99.125

99.275

99.125

99.235

171119

547993

Dec 22

98.570

98.800

98.550

98.740

209556

761385

Mar 23

98.410

98.700

98.390

98.645

173719

669681

Jun 23

98.360

98.680

98.315

98.610

136847

439029

Sep 23

98.295

98.660

98.285

98.595

126720

408114

Sep 22

100.68

100.68

100.67

100.68

710

31355

Dec 22

100.61

100.62

100.59

100.62

488

22748

Mar 23
Jun 23
FTSE100

FTSEurofirst 80

Sep 22

7222.5

7266.5

7205.0

7234.5

77570

607155

Dec 22

7213.0

7213.0

7213.0

7214.0

1

2411

Sep 22

4944.0

Dec 22

4933.0

Yield

P/E

37.28
246.00
18040.00
18195.00
27.55
129.34
105.58
174.12
2660.96
53.07
23.04
522.50
10766.00
110.22
98.57
21.21
2.43
4.15
158.06
43.14
56.79
2152.54
77.10
43.82
383.50
3426.00
177.65
87.31
623.00
43.29
5.33
54.69
53.74
8.26
18.16
3720.00
8.46
11.77
4.72
11.42
10.97
73.67
1748.93
423.10
95.08
60.70
61.28
1205.00
515.90
9.99
1855.00
24.56
9.05
1.66
280.85
43.38
353.60
634.70
219.20
1102.00
116.46
82.95
10.12
185.50
21.75
1006.50
6498.00
106.75
4785.50
394.60
92.79
120.90
2044.00
97.36
92.06
125.58
105.42
575.04
246.00
71.54
4.39
12.49
260.00
39.69
15.93
45.93
89.57
10.01
128.98
190.50
176.94
408.80

-0.66
-0.40
-250.00
-205.00
-0.21
+0.60
+1.02
-0.26
+33.46
-0.32
+0.12
-4.50
-28.00
-0.86
-0.91
-0.04
-0.02
-0.05
-0.90
-0.53
-0.61
+55.54
+0.21
-0.72
-0.40
-24.00
-3.40
+0.19
+2.50
-2.43
-0.10
-0.39
-0.09
-0.20
-0.57
+13.00
+0.34

43.98
312.10
23160.00
24070.00
35.30
153.40
121.00
232.50
4996.80
59.19
31.31
777.50
11289.62
114.72
133.60
29.09
3.48
6.29
209.45
69.52
67.99
3040.00
97.60
68.07
456.00
3645.00
201.40
90.04
733.50
67.63
10.18
77.90
65.30
14.64
19.39
4364.10
12.54
12.67
8.10
14.61
14.85
83.15
2753.96
548.30
100.95
79.65
88.96
1678.00
567.20
11.49
1918.66
32.63
14.00
2.92
315.35
54.50
433.65
741.60
282.25
1271.45
128.94
88.42
11.94
214.50
42.01
1566.00
8020.00
146.10
6343.00
439.20
161.91
265.00
2459.23
106.08
129.74
173.78
156.98
641.00
312.10
102.20
5.06
16.36
304.10
42.19
19.90
49.17
103.74
12.16
141.60
313.00
218.65
461.70

29.83
215.70
15170.00
15965.00
24.85
122.42
88.91
168.20
2350.00
46.66
20.56
403.45
8029.00
25.13
22.08
20.34
2.32
3.97
140.06
39.33
43.91
1774.56
67.58
40.67
281.00
2507.50
134.85
45.21
513.00
39.20
4.99
50.19
46.48
7.53
14.47
3282.50
7.72
6.64
4.61
9.79
9.59
63.51
1228.06
302.55
77.50
56.55
56.56
957.60
329.55
8.47
1434.23
18.55
7.90
1.58
244.00
38.10
300.45
535.00
205.15
880.60
105.90
72.84
8.93
166.60
19.16
881.00
5782.00
90.28
4354.00
341.00
77.87
100.34
1282.78
80.51
83.84
110.02
93.67
406.20
215.70
70.48
3.61
8.04
230.48
24.51
13.10
39.36
80.74
5.45
106.30
162.40
148.24
362.90

2.25
1.33
1.87
1.85
2.83
2.10

35.26
17.77
2.97
3.00
13.40
24.15
19.58
11.13
5.28
26.78
1.97
40.82
1822.89
7.41
6.63
7.23
4.93
5.71
3.83
7.23
56.34
9.43
4.16
6.38

-0.02
-0.01
-0.03
-0.85
+2.13
+3.30
+1.36
-0.20
-0.32
+9.00
-7.50
+0.20
-17.50
-0.19
-0.13
+0.15
+0.05
+6.60
+1.40
+0.20
+21.00
+1.40
-0.02
-0.19
-0.85
+0.08
+4.50
+6.00
-0.10
+93.00
+0.40
+0.44
-0.45
+15.50
-0.36
+3.92
+0.18
-1.72
-12.16
-0.40
-0.08
+0.14
-1.10
+0.87
-0.16
+0.33
+0.57
+0.01
-0.62
+0.70
-0.22
+1.80

5.45
6.69
0.99
1.10
0.64
1.92
6.63
7.42
6.66
3.11
8.85
1.90
7.56
3.48
2.44
6.04
6.30

11.57
17.20
8.80
23.01
10.04

1.11
3.24
1.76
2.44
3.57

5.53
18.50
8.22
21.13
28.62
4.75
9.16
22.24
8.14
4.67
20.87
20.13
15.46
16.67
16.34
16.49
52.33
11.26
17.34
6.20
26.21
7.44
52.06
44.15
6.00
43.58
26.88
10.60
25.72

3.26
1.95
5.49
4.09
7.67
4.59
6.07
1.94
4.59
2.10
1.02
2.98
2.95
0.37
3.14
4.17
7.45
0.89
6.55
2.18
1.31
5.94
1.12
1.09
4.42
4.45
3.41
5.86
1.66
3.86
1.17
2.69
1.72
10.53
2.09

9.13
3397.74
28.33
32.84
16.28
25.80
4.99
26.80
62.99
4.76
10.75
19.91
20.89
22.41
16.04
12.84
17.77
17.52
3.24
10.75
13.21
7.83
8.31
23.58
20.10

8.68
2.97
3.25
1.99
2.05
3.28
1.55
1.33
7.75
7.80
1.98
3.53
6.63
2.04
3.12
2.97
5.92
6.00
2.49
3.68
4.60

6.51
11.60
13.81

Base Rates

Clearing Banks 1.25

ECB Refi 0.00

US Fed Fd 1.50-1.75

3i
1,330
abrdn
4,145
Admiral
498
Airtel Africa PLC 1,403
Ang Am
3,448
Antofagasta
1,298
Ashtead
610
AB Foods
594
AstraZeneca
1,021
Auto Trader
2,102
Avast
1,025
Aveva Gp
259
Aviva
3,592
B&M European
1,687
BAE Sys
5,921
Barclays
54,389
Barratt Devs
2,806
Berkeley
293
BP
23,456
Brit Amer Tob
2,201
Br Land
1,877
BT Group
23,867
Bunzl
450
Burberry Grp
535
Centrica
13,806
Coca Cola HBC
376
Compass
1,932
CRH
1,011
Croda
167
DCC
137
Dechra Pharma
446
Diageo
2,255
Endeavour Mining PLC
286
Entain
1,882
Experian
1,082
Flutter Ent
446
Fresnillo
546
Glencore
21,254
GlaxoSmKline
6,672
20,604
Halma
1,029
Harbour Energy
3,504
Hargreaves L
771
Hikma Pharms
208
Howden Join
3,034
HSBC
20,758
Imperial Brands
798
Informa
2,956
Intercont Htls
271
Intermed Cap
668

(000s)

Intl Cons Air
Intertek
JD Sports
Kingfisher
Land Sec
Legal & Gen
Lloyds Bkg Gp
Lond Stk Ex Gp
M&G
Meggitt
Melrose
Mondi
Natl Grid
NatWest Gr
Next
Ocado Gp
Pearson
Pershing Sq
Persimmon
Phoenix Gp
Prudential
Reckitt Benck
Relx
Rentokil Itl
Rightmove
Rio Tinto
Rolls-Royce
Sage Gp
Sainsbury J
Schroders
Scot Mtge
Segro
Severn Trent
Shell PLC
Smith & Neph
Smith (DS)
Smiths
Smurfit Kappa
Spirax-Sarco
SSE
St James Place
Stand Chart
Taylor Wimpey
Tesco
Unilever
Utd Utilities
Vodafone Gp
Whitbread
WPP

LIFFE Wheat (close £/t)
255.50
261.00

Jan
Jul

unq
unq

Mar
unq
Volume: 1473

London Metal Exchange
(Official)
Cash

3mth

Copper Gde A ($/tonne)
7370.0-7372.0
7391.0-7393.0
Lead ($/tonne)
2003.0-2005.0

Dec 22
7410.0-7420.0

1999.0-2001.0

1958.0-1963.0

Zinc Spec Hi Gde ($/tonne)
3044.0-3045.0
2976.0-2978.0

2635.0-2640.0

Alum Hi Gde ($/tonne)
2459.0-2460.0
2457.0-2457.5

2495.0-2500.0

Nickel ($/tonne)
21525.0-21530.0 21625.0-21675.0

21980.0-22030.0

Tin ($/tonne)
24600.0-24700.0

15mth
22670.0-22720.0

24100.0-24150.0

1 mth

2 mth

3 mth

6 mth

12 mth

Interbank Rates

1.4144

0.0000

1.9023

2.5325

0.0000

Eurodollar Deps

2.2 - 2.45

2.43 - 2.68

2.64 - 2.89

3.35 - 3.6

3.8 - 3.87

Sterling spot and forward rates
Mkt Rates for

17,546
178
5,412
5,272
2,015
7,977
92,975
521
6,756
870
19,132
1,702
3,763
6,485
220
3,109
1,675
152
883
2,796
5,616
698
1,830
3,683
1,046
2,061
14,676
1,691
1,287
4,268
192
3,361
2,724
407
5,735
1,274
5,073
820
240
86
2,328
1,472
3,389
6,481
10,623
2,046
522
1,256
85,803
302
4,248

European money
deposits %
Currency
1mth
Dollar
0.13
Sterling
1.48
Euro
0.10

3mth

6mth

12mth

0.20

0.29

0.55

1.90

2.53

0.81

0.15

0.20

0.50

Gold/precious
metals
Bullion: Open $1718.35
Close $1730.32-1730.47 High $1738.66
Low $1712.96
AM $1686.55 PM $1705.10
Krugerrand $1712.00-2805.00 (£1425.032334.81)
Platinum $886.00 (£737.49)
Silver $18.74 (£15.60)
Palladium $2043.00 (£1700.54)

Dollar rates
Australia
Canada
Denmark
Euro
Hong Kong
Japan
Malaysia
Norway
Singapore
Sweden
Switzerland

1.4405-1.4406
1.2875-1.2875
7.2812-7.2817
0.9781-0.9781
7.8488-7.8490
136.15-136.15
4.4495-4.4545
9.9168-9.9218
1.3870-1.3871
10.215-10.218
0.9614-0.9618

Other Sterling
Argentina peso

155.88-155.89

Australia dollar

1.7305-1.7307

Bahrain dinar

0.4493-0.4564

Brazil real

6.5475-6.5511

Euro

1.1746-1.1752

Hong Kong dollar

9.4286-9.4297

India rupee

95.896-95.909

Indonesia rupiah

17981-17983

Kuwait dinar KD

0.3681-0.3705

Malaysia ringgit

5.3282-5.3342

New Zealand dollar

1.9162-1.9166

Singapore dollar

1.6661-1.6664

S Africa rand

20.176-20.186

U A E dirham

4.4070-4.4094

Exchange rates

Halifax Mortgage Rate 4.49

Treasury Bills (Dis) Buy: 1 mth 1.400; 3 mth 1.890. Sell: 1 mth 0.920; 3 mth 1.390

Sep 23
3-Mth Euribor

12mthlow

Bid

London Grain Futures

Nov
May

Jun 23

12mthhigh

Money rates %

Reuters
Oct
Dec
Mar

RWE AG
Swatch Group AG
AP Moller-Maersk A Dn Kr
AP Moller-Maersk B Dn Kr
ABB Ltd S SF
Air Liquide Fr ¤
Airbus Fr ¤
Allianz G ¤
Anglo American UK p
Anheuser-Busch InBev B ¤
Arcelor Mittal
ASML Holding Nl ¤
AstraZeneca UK p
Atlas Copco A Sw Kr
Atlas Copco B Sw Kr
AXA Fr ¤
Banco Santander Es ¤
BBVA Es ¤
Barclays UK p
BASF G ¤
Bayer G ¤
BHP Group UK p
BMW G ¤
BNP Paribas Fr ¤
BP UK p
British Am Tob UK p
BT Group UK p
Centrica UK p
Christian Dior Fr ¤
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
CS Group S SF
Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Danone Fr ¤
Deutsche Bank G ¤
Deutsche Telekom G ¤
Diageo UK p
EON G ¤
EDF Fr ¤
Enel It ¤
Engie (FR)
ENI It ¤
Fresenius Medical Care Ag & Co
GlaxoSmKline UK p
Glencre Xstrata
Heineken NV Nl ¤
Henkel KGaA G ¤
Henkel KGaA Pref G ¤
Hermes Intl SCA Fr ¤
HSBC UK p
Iberdrola Es ¤
Imperial Tobacco UK p
Inditex Es ¤
ING Nl ¤
Intesa Sanpaolo It ¤
Linde G ¤
Lloyds Bkg Gp UK p
L'Oreal Fr ¤
LVMH Fr ¤
Munich Re G ¤
Natl Grid UK p
Nestle S SF
Novartis S SF
Orange
Pernod Ricard NV Fr ¤
Philips Elect Nl ¤
Prudential UK p
Reckitt Benckiser UK p
Richemont S SF
Rio Tinto UK p
Roche Hldgs S SF
Rolls-Royce UK p
Royal Bank Scot UK p
Shell
Sanofi-Aventis Fr ¤
SAP G ¤
Schneider Electric Fr ¤
Siemens G ¤
Standard Chartered UK p
Swatch Gp BR S SF
Swiss Re AG S SF
Telefonica Es ¤
Tenaris SA It ¤
Tesco UK p
TotalEnergies
UBS AG S SF
Unilever NV Nl ¤
Vinci Fr ¤
Vivendi Fr ¤
Vodafone Group UK p
Volkswagen G ¤
Volvo B Sw Kr
Zurich Fin S SF

+/-

Volume: 13112

White Sugar (FOB)

Period

FTSE volumes
Close

Range

Close

1 month

3 month

Copenhagen

8.7338-8.7707

8.7469-8.7482

65pr

409ds

Euro

1.1786-1.1733

1.1752-1.1748

12pr

38pr

Montreal

1.5348-1.5476

1.5466-1.5468

12pr

36pr

New York

1.1919-1.2064

1.2013-1.2014

9pr

26pr

Oslo

11.864-11.965

11.914-11.917

10ds

35pr

Stockholm

12.223-12.294

12.271-12.274

173ds

452ds

Tokyo

163.41-165.12

163.56-163.57

24ds

89ds

Zurich

1.1526-1.1596

1.1552-1.1553

17ds

58ds

Premium = pr

Discount = ds

Australia $
Canada $
Denmark Kr
Euro ¤
Hong Kong $
Hungary
Indonesia
Israel Shk
Japan Yen
New Zealand $
Norway Kr
Poland
Russia
S Africa Rd
Sweden Kr
Switzerland Fr
Turkey Lira
USA $

1.730
1.546
8.762
1.177
9.450
467.719
18083.351
4.146
163.819
1.917
11.921
5.579
70.142
20.257
12.285
1.157
21.385
1.204

Change
+0.01
+0.04
+0.07
+1.17
+121.01
+0.02
-0.88

+1.64
-0.14
+0.07
+0.22
+0.01

Rates supplied by Morningstar

Data as shown is
for information
purposes only. No offer is made by
Morningstar or this publication

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

67

Money
Unit-linked insurance investments
Sell

Buy

ABBEY LIFE
01202 292373
80 Holdenhurst Road,, Bournemouth
BH8 8AL
American Ser 4
3784.00 3983.20
Custodian S4
585.60
616.40
Equity Ser 4
745.80
785.00
Ethical S4
412.60
434.30
European S4
869.80
915.60
Fixed Int Ser 4
884.10
930.70
High Inc Ser 4
2516.60 2649.10
International S4
777.10
818.00
Japan Ser 4
506.60
533.30
Man Ser 4
2263.20 2382.30
Money Ser 4
526.30
554.00
Prop Fd Ser 4
1109.20 1167.60
Protected Gth S4
213.80
225.00

Weekly
+/-

+133.00
+6.20
+15.90
+8.40
+30.20
+1.90
+76.20
+23.30
+11.20
+40.40
…
+0.50
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Yld
%

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Fomerly Hill Samuel Life Assurance Ltd
Equity Fund
2799.10 2962.00
+80.70
European Fund
4545.20 4809.80 +158.20
Fixed Intl
981.60 1038.70
+2.20
Income Fund
3111.20 3292.30
+94.80
International
2096.60 2218.60
+62.90
Managed Series A
2125.20 2248.90
+37.20
Managed Units
3870.30 4074.00
+67.90
Money Series A
477.40
505.20
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Money Units
672.90
708.30
+0.10
Property Series A
1527.60 1616.50
+0.70
Property Units
2814.70 2962.90
+1.40
Smaller Cos
2952.00 3123.80 +130.50

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Formerly Target Life Assurance Co Ltd
Deposit
355.20
373.90
…
Financial Ser 1
244.30
257.20
+8.50
Fixed Interest
656.00
690.50
+1.40
Managed
2098.70 2209.20
+35.60
Mngd Growth
771.50
812.10
+22.40
Property
903.60
951.10
+0.40
TSB Intl
1487.10 1565.30
+44.50

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AEGON SCOTTISH EQUITABLE
Q
08456 100010
Edinburgh Park, Edinburgh EH12 9SE
American
2095.10 2205.37
+36.17
Cash
276.19
290.73
…
Distribution
96.00
101.05
+1.10
Ethical
653.33
687.72
+34.98
European
1211.18 1274.92
+52.73
Fixed Interest
507.68
534.40
-2.84
Global
364.96
384.17
+7.82
International
1102.95 1161.00
+22.64
Japan
429.60
452.21
+8.93
Mixed
942.17
991.76
+13.15
Pacific
1594.46 1678.38
+6.46
Technology
4669.68 4915.46 +202.79
UK Equity
898.75
946.05
+18.59

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ALBA LIFE
50 Bothwell St,, Glasgow
g
G2 6HR
0141 248 2000
Formerly
y Britannia
Life
European
1454.90 1531.50
Far East
625.00
657.90
Fixed Interest
841.10
885.40
International
1352.60 1423.80
Japan
663.60
698.60
Managed Fund
1459.10 1535.90
Money Market
399.70
420.70
North America
1393.30 1466.60
Property
1148.30 1208.70
UK Equity
2496.50 2627.90

+54.00
+6.90
-5.80
+34.80
+10.20
+19.90
…
+43.50
+0.70
+66.20

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Pensions
Equity
European
Far Eastern
Fixed Interest
International
Japan
Managed
Money Market
North America
Property

+46.40
+75.40
+6.20
-7.50
+36.00
+5.10
+15.50
…
+74.90
+0.70

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1749.90
1813.90
508.40
873.80
1164.00
326.70
1028.30
471.70
2054.70
1041.40

1842.00
1909.40
535.20
919.80
1225.30
343.90
1082.40
496.50
2162.80
1096.20

AXA SUN LIFE
PO Box 1810,, Bristol BS99 5SN
AXA Assurance - 02476 235500
Sun Life - 0117 989 3000
AXA Equity
q y & Law - 02476 235400
Life Assnce - AXA Equity & Law Series 6. 1% AMC
Balced Ser 6
2629.40 2767.70
+45.60
…
Distribution Ser 6
99.80
105.00
+1.00
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Europe Ser 6
1872.60 1971.20
+70.40
…
Higher Inc Ser 6
4817.50 5071.00 +100.80
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Property Ser 6
1889.80 1989.30
+1.20
…
UK Equities Ser 6
3823.80 4025.10
+97.50
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Life Funds - Sun Life (inc Birmingham Midshires)& AXA Assurance 1% AMC
Cash Acc
469.00
493.70
-0.10
…
Deffrd Dist
723.40
761.50
+6.90
…
Distribution Fund
366.10
385.30
+3.50
…
Equity Acc
5592.10 5886.40 +142.60
…
European
884.40
930.90
+33.30
…
Far Eastern Acc
2221.10 2338.00
+12.50
…
Fixed Int Acc
991.10 1043.30
-3.70
…
Global Eqty Acc
2473.90 2604.10
+62.70
…
Japan Acc
356.10
374.90
+5.70
…
Managed Acc
3222.10 3391.70
+55.80
…
North Amer Acc
2979.20 3136.00
+71.70
…
Pacific Acc
1689.50 1778.50
+1.60
…
Property Acc
1442.40 1518.40
+0.90
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BARCLAYS LIFE ASSURANCE CO LTD
0845 603 5000
Level 12, 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP
500 Accum
1392.03 1465.29
+22.73
America Acc
2752.64 2897.52
+90.42
Comb Inc Acc
2647.30 2786.63
+38.65
Equity Acc
3721.76 3917.64
+61.93
Far East Gwth
1247.94 1313.63
+23.00
Gilt 2 Init
237.36
249.85
-2.46
Gilt Edged Acc
938.64
988.05
-9.07
Inter 2 Init
472.69
497.57
+11.44
International Acc
1867.99 1966.31
+46.43
Japan Acc
429.89
452.52
+7.46
Managed 2 Init
555.21
584.44
+7.73
Managed Acc
2186.67 2301.76
+31.92
Managed Alpha
1591.37 1675.13
+25.98
Money Acc
429.32
451.92
-0.07
Prop 2 Init
281.75
296.58
-0.07
Property Acc
1107.26 1165.54
+0.45
UK Growth Acc
1175.10 1236.95
+19.48
Univ Tech Acc
815.39
858.31
+20.27

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& AXA Assurance 1% AM
Equity 2 Init
939.22

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988.65

+15.01

CANADA LIFE
01707 651122
2-6 High Street, Potters Bar, Herts EN6 5BA
Cash
320.20
337.00
-0.10
CLife Euro Mgd
1684.00 1772.00
-44.00
CLife Intl Fd
1662.00 1749.00
-16.00
Deposit Fund
514.90
542.00
…
Equity
1174.00 1235.00
-17.00
Equity Fund
2889.00 3041.00
+85.00
European
1673.00 1761.00
+77.00
Fixed Interest
1090.00 1147.00
-11.00
Gilt & Fxd Int
631.20
664.40
+5.30
Gilt Edged Fd
1335.00 1405.00
-13.00
International
2550.00 2684.00
+93.00
Intl Mgd
3437.00 3617.00 +126.00
Investment Fd
1466.00 1539.00
-25.00
Japanese
362.10
381.10
+7.90
Managed
1291.00 1358.00
-9.00
Managed Fund
2675.00 2815.00
+61.00
ML Intl Fxd Int
697.00
733.60
-0.30
Money
530.10
557.90
…
Multiple Inv
3392.00 3570.00
+77.00
North Amer
2286.00 2406.00
+80.00
Property
1020.00 1073.00
+2.00
Property Fund
2142.00 2254.00
-1.00
UK Equity
4392.00 4623.00 +129.00
UK Property
1534.00 1614.00
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Sell

Buy

Weekly
+/-

Yld
%

CLERICAL MEDICAL INVESTMENT GROUP
Narrow Plain,, Bristol BS2 0JH 0117 9290566
Life Funds
Cash
294.90
310.42
+0.01
Dist Acc S2
210.16
210.16
-0.17
Fidelity Bal
1152.24 1212.89
+9.36
Gilt & Fixed Int
517.95
545.21
-5.04
Non Eqty
415.36
437.22
-1.46
Nth American
2965.75 3121.84
+64.29
Property
804.28
846.61
+2.55
UK Gwth
1228.73 1293.40
+32.62
With Prof Bd S2
121.90
121.90
…
With Profits Flex
127.80
127.80
…
With Profits Reg
397.30
418.30
+0.20

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Pension Funds
Cash
European
Gilt & Fixed Int
Halifax
Nth American
PP Bal Pens
PP Caut Pens
PP UK Gth Pens
PP UK Prop Pens
With Profits Reg
With Profits Spec

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334.53
1867.22
589.81
142.88
4521.21
1155.75
379.44
1071.86
865.09
713.80
707.10

352.14
1965.49
620.85
150.40
4759.17
1216.57
399.41
1128.28
910.62
751.40
744.40

+0.03
+83.63
-7.22
…
+112.22
+10.76
+2.60
+28.47
+2.88
+0.50
+0.40

COUNTRYWIDE ASSURED
Harbour House,, Portway,
y, Preston,, Lancs
PR2 2PR
CA Funds 0800 262536
Deposit Life
220.10
231.60
…
Deposit Pen
307.80
324.00
+0.10
Intl Life
948.00
997.80
+34.60
Intl Pen
1302.30 1370.80
+50.70
Mgd Life
783.20
824.40
+10.30
Mgd Pen
1164.70 1226.00
+18.90
UK Eqty Life
793.50
835.20
+20.80
UK Eqty Pen
1027.00 1081.00
+32.60

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CWA Series Funds 0870 600 0014
Equity Fd
1701.10 1790.60
Glob Cash
362.60
381.70
Glob Eqty
3326.50 3501.60
Glob Fxd Int
1392.00 1465.30
Glob Mgd
2346.90 2470.40
Glob Prop
951.90 1002.00
Managed Fd
2932.80 3087.20
Property Fd
782.60
823.80

+27.40
…
+73.50
-9.50
+16.90
+1.70
+21.10
+1.40

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FRIENDS PROVIDENT
01722 413366
Castle Street, Salisbury, Wilts SP1 3SH
Cash
321.60
338.50
…
European
1418.10 1492.70
+51.90
Fixed Inter Life
708.10
745.40
-0.20
Index Linked
615.10
647.40
-15.30
Managed
1136.30 1196.10
+12.20
North American
1178.60 1240.60
+26.30
Overseas Equity
1705.60 1795.40
+44.20
Pacific Basin
565.90
595.70
+3.20
Property
769.30
809.80
+0.80
Stewardship
1678.60 1766.90
+41.10
UK Equity
1693.00 1782.10
+26.30

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Formerly London & Manchester Assurance
Equity Ex Cap ‡
…
…
+4.90
Equity Life ‡
…
…
+27.70
Fixed Interest ‡
…
…
-0.40
Fxd Int Ex Cap ‡
…
…
-0.20
Gtd Dep Ex Cap ‡
…
…
-0.10
Guaranteed Deposit ‡
…
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Inter Life ‡
…
…
+43.20
Intl Ex Cap ‡
…
…
+7.90
Prop Ex Cap ‡
…
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Prop Life ‡
…
…
+0.60
FP Life Assurance ex NM
American
3169.40
Deposit
539.10
European
3462.70
Fixed Interest
1479.80
Income Acc
3833.90
Income Dist
680.50
International
1692.10
Managed
2543.80
Mixed
1776.00
Property
2169.60
Singapore & Mal
1266.20
Tokyo Fund
1096.40
UK Equity
2344.60

3336.20
567.50
3644.90
1557.70
4035.70
716.30
1781.10
2677.70
1869.50
2283.80
1332.80
1154.10
2468.00

+70.70
-0.10
+124.80
-0.50
+77.80
+14.20
+43.90
+27.10
-17.90
+2.20
+0.70
+17.30
+36.20

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Friends Prov (London & Manchester) Ass Ltd Fd
Capital Gth Acc ‡
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+10.90
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Flexible Acc ‡
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+17.50
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Flexible Cap ‡
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+3.00
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Inv Trust Acc ‡
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Moneymaker Acc ‡
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GUARDIAN
01253 733151
Ballam Rd, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire FY8 4JZ
Deposit
433.80
456.60
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Equity Life
4434.80 4668.20 +149.10
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European
674.90
710.40
+23.00
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Fixed Interest
1767.60 1860.60
-0.10
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Index Linked
667.80
702.90
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Inter Life
2697.00 2838.90
+91.90
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Managed Life
2679.80 2820.80
+60.30
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North American
1385.80 1458.70
+47.20
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Pacific
836.70
880.70
+28.50
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Prop Life
1018.10 1071.70
+22.90
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HALIFAX LIFE LTD
PO Box 285,, York YO1 1YB 01904 611110
Life Funds
Balanced
97.42
102.55
+0.70
Deposit
36.08
37.98
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Foundation
101.36
106.70
+0.58
Opportunity
115.12
121.18
+1.73

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Pension Funds
Balanced S2
Deposit S2
Foundation S2
Opportunity S2

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99.28
41.68
100.82
114.45

104.50
43.87
106.12
120.48

+0.95
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+2.20

INVESCO FUNDS MGMT LTD
Alban Gate,, 14th Flr,, 125 London Wall,, Lond
EC2Y 5AS 020 7710 4567
Formerly GT Global Fund Mgmt Ltd
Plan Far East
554.30
583.40
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Plan Wwide
924.50
973.20
-0.10

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LEGAL & GENERAL INVESTMENT MGMT
0203 1243000
One Coleman Street, EC2R 5AA
B Soc Lnkd Init
136.20
143.40
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Brit Opps Int
221.20
232.80
-3.70
British Opp
757.40
797.30
+26.40
Building Soc Linked
283.40
298.30
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Cash
437.80
460.90
…
Cash Initial
119.10
125.40
-0.30
Equity
4575.20 4816.00 +116.80
Equity Initial
1073.10 1129.60
-14.50
Fixed Initial
463.80
488.20
+3.70
Fixed Interest
1487.00 1565.30
+2.30
Index Linked Gilt
714.80
752.50
-5.70
Index Lkd
270.30
284.50
+0.60
International
2342.40 2465.70
+90.70
Intl Initial
537.00
565.30
-6.40
Life Property
1663.50 1751.00
+0.60
Managed
3030.30 3189.80
+61.20
Managed Initial
770.70
811.30
-3.70
Property Initial
349.80
368.20
-0.60

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LINCOLN FINANCIAL GROUP
Barnett Way,
y, Barnwood,, Gloucester GL4 3RZ
01452 371371 For further p
prices 0800 7315139
Life
Aggressive Mgd 4
719.00
756.80
-2.20
Balanced Mgd 3
1645.50 1732.10
+35.30
Cautious Mgd 2
490.90
516.70
-1.90
European
771.40
811.90
+28.90
Far Eastern
1752.50 1844.70
+20.60
Framlington
215.60
227.00
+0.40
Green
607.80
639.70
+23.30

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International
Japan
North Amer
Perpetual
Schroders
Select Mgd
UK Eqty Inc
UK Equity Gwth
UK Fxd Int
Pension
Aggressive Mgd 4
Balanced Mgd 3
Cautious Mgd 2
European
Far Eastern
Framlington
Green
International
Japan
North Amer
Perpetual
Schroders
Select Mgd
UK Eqty Gwth
UK Eqty Inc
UK Fxd Int

Sell

Buy

Weekly
+/-

Yld
%

608.90
299.40
4047.70
468.00
1479.10
147.80
1540.30
2146.20
569.30

640.90
315.10
4260.70
492.60
1556.90
155.60
1621.30
2259.10
599.20

+18.10
+8.70
+139.90
-1.30
+14.40
-0.30
-39.50
+73.00
+2.50

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1003.20 1055.90
3717.40 3913.00
815.90
858.80
1186.70 1249.10
2779.70 2926.00
258.10
271.70
968.20 1019.10
892.00
938.90
371.30
390.80
11656.30 12269.70
566.20
595.90
2846.70 2996.50
158.90
167.30
3789.50 3988.90
2512.60 2644.80
1214.70 1278.60

-3.70
+97.70
-3.90
+55.00
+38.10
+0.80
+45.30
+32.00
+11.40
+501.90
-1.90
+33.90
-0.30
+159.60
-64.20
+5.40

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LLOYDS TSB LIFE LTD
01634 834000
Mountbatten Hse,, Chatham,, Kent
Life Funds
Equity
1601.50 1685.70
Managed
3608.00 3608.00
Income
3128.50 3293.10
Managed Inv
1879.00 1977.80

+22.50
+23.00
+45.60
+11.80

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Life Funds-Series Two-Current Series
American
3243.90 3414.60
+66.70
Balanced
2368.90 2493.60
+50.00
Cash
412.00
433.70
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European Gth
805.90
848.30
+20.90
Fixed Interest
811.80
854.50
-10.10
German Growth
1443.30 1519.30
+83.10
Income
2894.30 3046.60
+42.10
Japan Growth
304.80
320.90
+4.50
Managed Inv
2040.80 2148.20
+12.90
Pacific Basin
1410.70 1484.90
+11.60
Property
1842.90 1939.80
+5.40
Smllr Cos Recov
4904.30 5162.40 +164.70
Worldwide Gth
1972.00 2075.80
+38.00

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Pension Funds
American Pens
Cash Pen
European Pen
Far East Pen
Fixed Int Pen
FTSE 100
Managed Pen
Property Pen
UK Equity Pen

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1975.30
309.90
1479.20
603.90
585.70
366.10
989.40
1147.80
738.40

2079.30
326.20
1557.00
635.70
616.50
385.30
1041.50
1208.20
777.30

+47.90
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+47.20
+6.10
-9.30
+5.20
+13.80
+3.80
+15.60

LONDON LIFE
0117 984 7777
Spectrum, Bond Street, Bristol, BS1 3AL
Deposit
506.60
506.60
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Deposit A
290.70
306.00
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Deposit P
648.70
648.70
+0.50
Equity
3944.60 3944.60 +108.50
Equity A
877.90
924.20
+24.10
Equity P
3440.20 3440.20 +116.90
Fixed Int A
519.50
546.90
+2.10
Fixed Int P
1920.00 1920.00
+10.00
Fixed Interest
1220.50 1220.50
+4.90
Index Stock A
615.90
648.40
+4.30
Index Stock P
1106.50 1106.50
+10.50
Indexed Stock
819.90
819.90
+5.80
International
1403.40 1403.40
+45.00
International A
841.20
885.50
+27.00
International P
1849.90 1849.90
+72.00
Mixed
2340.20 2340.20
+51.00
Mixed A
737.90
776.80
+16.10
Mixed P
2339.40 2339.40
+59.00
Property
774.90
774.90
+0.10
Property A
332.70
350.30
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Property P
595.80
595.80
+0.60

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MERCHANT INVESTORS ASSURANCE CO LTD
St Bartholomews House,, Lewins Mead
Bristol BS1 2NH
Far East
761.30
801.40
+18.90
Gilt Edged
1488.20 1566.50
+6.30
Interest Fund
560.30
589.80
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Intl Equity
2045.40 2153.10
+74.30
Managed Fd
1256.70 1322.80
+16.50
North American
793.60
835.40
+29.90
Property
1492.90 1571.50
-3.30
UK Equity
1031.70 1086.00
+27.40

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MGM ASSURANCE
MGM House,, Heene Road,, Worthing
g
BN11 2DY 01903 836000
Deposit
114.48
120.50
-0.08
Deposit Acc
369.23
388.66
+0.04
Fixed Interest
387.54
407.93
-3.32
Fixed Interest Acc
1174.59 1236.41
+0.18
Managed
483.36
508.80
-9.19
Managed Acc
1557.35 1639.31
+32.69
Property
250.17
263.34
-0.42
Property Acc
988.97 1041.02
+1.18

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NAT WEST LIFE ASSCE LTD
PO Box 886, Trinity Quay, Bristol BS99 5LJ
Growth Mgd Pens
557.96
587.32
+9.47

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NORWICH UNION LIFE INSURANCE
SOCIETY - Ex NUAM Funds
PO Box 140,, Norwich NR3 1PP
01603 622200
Deposit Fund
604.88
636.71
Eqity Fund
15149.32 15946.65
Fixed Int Fd
1770.72 1863.91
Higher Inc Plus
218.42
229.92
Intl Fund
1246.93 1312.56
Managed Fund
6245.23 6573.93
Property Fd
2728.75 2872.37

+0.08
+239.39
-24.61
+1.97
+31.09
+91.34
+0.98

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Formerly Commercial Union
Cash
307.40
323.60
Fxd Int
562.20
591.80
Index-Lnkd
613.20
645.50
Int Equity
1375.90 1448.30
Managed
1429.30 1504.50
Property
929.90
978.90
UK Equity
1842.20 1939.10
Var Ann (5) ‡
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Var Ann Acc (5) ‡
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-7.90
-23.30
+34.20
+20.80
+0.20
+28.90
-4.70
-119.20

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Formerly General Accident
American
1450.70
Cash Deposit
260.50
Conv Life
431.60
European
1029.90
Fixed Int
472.20
Index-Linked
595.30
International
860.10
Japan
392.90
Japan Smllr Cos
401.90
Managed
722.30
Pacific Fund
994.60
Property
675.20
UK Equity
1054.60
Unitised Profit
403.00

1527.10
274.20
454.20
1084.10
497.00
626.70
905.40
413.60
423.10
760.40
1047.00
710.70
1110.20
424.20

+48.80
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+24.70
-6.60
-22.60
+29.70
+6.00
+6.10
+10.50
+18.50
+0.20
+16.50
+0.20

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Formerly Provident Mutual
Deposit Initial
88.20
Deposit Ord
320.60
Equity Init
746.00
Equity Ord
2750.70
Fixed Int Init
196.60
Fixed Int Ord
712.20
I-Linked Gilt Init
224.90
I-Linked Gilt Ord
748.30
Managed Initial
466.50
Managed Ord
1701.60
Oseas Equity Init
464.40

92.90
337.50
785.30
2895.50
206.90
749.60
236.70
787.70
491.00
1791.20
488.90

-0.10
…
+11.20
+43.20
-2.80
-9.90
-8.70
-28.40
+6.50
+24.80
+11.20

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Oseas Equity Ord
Property Init
Property Ord

Sell

Buy

Weekly
+/-

Yld
%

1793.20
298.90
1081.70

1887.50
314.70
1138.70

+44.60
-0.10
+0.30

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NPI
020 7477 5567
55 Moorgate, London EC2
Americas
2535.60
Deposit
358.40
Far East
1622.40
Fixed Interest
1000.10
Indexed Gilt
789.50
Managed
1668.70
Overseas Equity
2271.90
UK Equity
2377.30

2669.10
377.30
1707.80
1052.80
831.10
1756.60
2391.50
2502.50

+94.50
…
+32.90
+4.10
+5.60
+34.10
+71.40
+66.90

PEARL
The Pearl Centre,, Lynch
y
Wood,, Peterborough
g
PE2 6FY 01733 470 470
Inv Equity
5630.00 5926.40 +147.00
Inv Managed
3792.60 3992.30
+75.90
Inv Prop Ac Grs
854.40
899.40
+0.10
Inv Prop Dist
270.40
284.70
+0.10
Ret Managed
4496.40 4733.10 +111.40

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PHOENIX LIFE LTD
Edward Pavilion,, Liverpool
p
L3 4SL 0151 239 3000
For further fund prices
p
please
p
ring:
g 0800 731 2031
For further fund p
prices p
please ring
g 0800 731 2031
Broker Life Funds
Moneyhill Grth
510.43
537.29
+2.58
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Lifestyle Bond Funds (Post 29/1/01)
Cautious Mgd
252.90
252.90
Deposit
150.50
150.50
Equity
254.30
254.30
Equity Inc
285.10
285.10
European
321.20
321.20
Eurotech
90.10
90.10
Far East
416.40
416.40
Fixed Int
216.50
216.50
FTSE All Share Tkr
275.70
275.70
Income Dist I
113.60
113.60
Income Dist II
113.50
113.50
International
299.60
299.60
Japan Grth
193.60
193.60
Managed
272.50
272.50
North America
469.90
469.90
Pacific Grth
666.90
666.90
Property
411.20
411.20
UK Leader
261.70
261.70
UK Smlr Cos
305.90
305.90
With Profits
153.07
153.07

+3.60
…
+8.20
+9.70
+14.60
-0.20
+7.60
+0.60
+6.30
+2.20
+2.10
+9.60
+4.10
+5.30
+17.30
+10.70
+0.20
+4.00
+13.20
+0.10

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+0.12

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Pensions Solution Funds (Post 6/4/2001)
Balanced Grth
284.80
284.80
+5.00
Cash Deposit
159.70
159.70
…
Equity
259.60
259.60
+9.60
Equity Inc
292.60
292.60
+11.20
European
373.80
373.80
+19.40
Eurotech
173.80
173.80
+4.40
Far East
506.70
506.70
+10.70
Fixed Int
249.90
249.90
+0.80
FTSE All Share Tkr
307.80
307.80
+7.50
Index Linked
317.70
317.70
-2.90
International
361.40
361.40
+13.70
Managed Grth
299.90
299.90
+7.20
Pens Protector
277.60
277.60
+1.70
Property
547.50
547.50
+0.30
UK Leader
281.90
281.90
+5.30
Unitised W Prof
201.80
201.80
+0.19

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PRUDENTIAL INDIVIDUAL LIFE FUNDS
0345 601601
55 King's Road, Reading, RG1 3AH
Euro Fund ‡
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+54.20
N American Fd ‡
…
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+60.30
Strategic Fund
644.30
678.20
-11.00

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Scottish Amicable Life Fds (First Series)
Cash Fund ‡
…
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Equity Fund ‡
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Fixed Interest ‡
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-12.50
Intl Fund ‡
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+62.50
Managed Fund ‡
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+51.10
Property Fund ‡
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+5.00

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PRUDENTIAL LIFE FUNDS
01786 448844
PO Box 14962,, Craigforth,
g
, Stirling,
g, FK9 4ZD
Others
BonusBond
240.70
253.40
+5.70
Cap Gteed Bd
390.40
410.90
+1.20
Prud Inher Bd (Cap) ‡
…
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+0.20
Prud Inher Bd (Inc) ‡
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+0.20

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Scottish Amicable Life Fds (First Series)
Cash
371.30
390.90
-0.10
Equity
2398.80 2525.00
+73.20
Fixed Interest
976.60 1028.00
-9.10
Index-Linked
652.90
687.20
-17.80
International
1891.50 1991.00
+44.70
Managed
1980.80 2085.10
+31.30
Property
1284.70 1352.30
+5.00

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The M & G Series
Amer Bond Acc
Deposit Bond Acc ‡
Equity Bond Acc
Euro Smlr Cos
European Bd Acc
Extra Yld Bd Acc
Gbl Basics Bd Acc
Gilt Bond Acc ‡
High Yield Bond
Index-Lnkd Gt Bd
International Bd
Japan Bond Acc
Japan Sm Cos Acc
Managed Bond Acc
Prop Bond Acc
Rec Bond Acc ‡
S East Asia Bd Acc

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Other Life & Pension Funds
Pens Unit W Prof
239.68
252.30
With Profits Bd
187.25
187.25

1351.10
…
4924.60
209.30
1852.80
4274.80
1161.30
…
458.50
375.60
5475.60
446.30
235.80
3599.30
1802.60
…
1300.20

1418.80
…
5170.90
219.90
1945.50
4488.60
1219.40
…
481.60
394.40
5749.40
468.70
247.70
3779.30
1892.80
…
1365.30

PRUDENTIAL PENSION FUNDS
Scottish Amicable Non Series A
100% Safeguard
155.80
164.00
95% Safeguard
171.90
180.90

-21.40
…
+150.60
-21.90
+68.60
+56.10
+16.90
-10.00
+3.00
-6.10
+172.10
+8.90
-3.80
+57.00
+7.00
+83.90
-20.40

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+1.80

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SAVE & PROSPER INSURANCE AND PENSIONS
St James's House,, 27-43 Eastern Rd,, Romford
RM1 3NH
Customer Helpline: 0845 3000144
Bal Inv Fund
348.90
367.30
+4.60
…
Deposit Fund (2)
641.10
674.80
+0.10
…
Gilt Fund
1497.10 1575.90
-12.90
…
Global Equity Fd
1569.20 1651.80
+49.50
…
Property Fund (46)
344.00
362.10
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SCOTTISH LIFE INVESTMENTS
0131 225 2211
19 St Andrews Square, Edinburgh EH2 1YE
American
1762.60 1855.40
+63.80
Deposit
310.70
327.10
+0.10
European
2557.50 2692.20
+96.80
Fixed Interest
736.40
775.20
+8.60
Global Mgd
1398.80 1472.50
+48.20
Index Linked
773.60
814.40
+5.90
Managed
1327.70 1397.60
+14.40
Pacific
1116.60 1175.40
+22.80
Pen Worldwide
494.80
520.90
+19.80
Property
1102.60 1160.70
+2.20
UK Equity
1630.80 1716.70
+51.10
Worldwide
430.30
453.00
+15.10
SCOTTISH MUTUAL ASSURANCE
0141 248 6321
301 St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5HN
Cash Fund
282.90
297.80
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European Fund
1938.70 2040.70
+72.60

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Sell

Buy

Weekly
+/-

Yld
%

562.10
839.90
1209.30
2218.20
823.10
633.50
908.80

591.70
884.10
1273.00
2335.00
866.50
666.80
956.70

-4.90
+11.50
+30.60
+69.30
+15.90
-1.30
+21.10

…
…
…
…
…
…
…

SCOTTISH PROVIDENT INSTITUTION
0131 556 9181
6 St Andrews Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YA
Cash
299.70
315.50
…
Equity
864.50
910.00
+25.40
Fixed Interest
716.20
753.90
-4.50
Index Linked
558.70
588.10
-14.30
International
1011.30 1064.50
+25.70
Managed
865.40
910.90
+12.10
Property
684.00
720.00
+0.40

…
…
…
…
…
…
…

Formerly Prolific
Adventurous Mg
Bal Gwth Mngd
Cash Fund
Cautious Mngd
Equity Fund
Equity Inc Dist
European
Extra Income Fd
Far East
Fxd Interest Fund
High Income
International
Managed Dist
North American
Property Fund
Technology
UK Mid Cap

Gilts & Fxd Int
Growth Fund
International Fd
North American
Opportunity Fd
Safety Fund
UK Equity

835.70
2626.80
542.70
394.30
3539.00
152.50
750.00
1395.80
2133.30
1215.60
2932.60
1213.20
138.40
3673.90
1034.70
6636.60
3394.50

879.70
2765.10
571.30
415.10
3725.30
160.60
789.50
1469.30
2245.60
1279.60
3087.00
1277.10
145.70
3867.30
1089.20
6985.90
3573.20

+15.40
+36.20
…
-0.50
+89.20
+3.90
+27.90
+21.10
+23.50
-10.60
+81.70
+31.00
+1.40
+114.70
+0.50
+260.40
+163.70

…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…

Henderson Investment Bonds
Deposit Fund
368.70
388.20
European Fund
1230.30 1295.10
Far East Fund
2096.20 2206.60
Fixed Interest
59.10
62.30
Global Managed
1512.70 1592.40
North America
1638.20 1724.50
UK Equity Fd
906.10
953.80

…
+45.70
+23.10
-0.50
+20.90
+51.20
+16.80

…
…
…
…
…
…
…

SCOTTISH WIDOWS GROUP
PO Box 902, Edinburgh EH16 5BU
Cash Fund
359.90
378.90
Equity Fund
2268.50 2387.90
Fixed Interest Fd
996.50 1048.90
Indexed Stock Fd
715.30
752.90
International Fd
2345.90 2469.40
Inv Cash
546.60
575.40
Inv Pol 1
4979.50 4979.50
Inv Pol 2
4223.50 4445.70
Inv Pol 3
3495.30 3679.20
Mixed Fund
1927.70 2029.10
Property Fund
1114.90 1173.60

…
+48.00
-12.30
-19.80
+36.70
+0.10
-89.40
-76.00
-63.20
+13.90
+3.60

…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…

SKANDIA LIFE ASSURANCE CO LTD
01703 334411
Skandia House,, Portland Terrace
Southampton SO9 7BX
Balanced Acc
947.70
997.50
+4.90
Equity Acc
2024.30 2130.90
+66.70
Global Acc
812.50
855.20
-1.20
Property
580.30
610.80
+0.40

…
…
…
…

STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO
Standard Life House,, 30 Lothian Road,,
Edinburgh EH1 2DH 0131 225 2552
Cash ‡
435.50
…
…
Equity ‡
4411.80
… +121.80
European ‡
913.70
…
+38.60
Far East ‡
532.70
…
+6.50
Fixed Interest ‡
1072.60
…
-8.20
Index Linked ‡
705.30
…
-24.00
International ‡
2763.30
…
+66.30
Managed ‡
3029.10
…
+46.10
Nth American ‡
1068.90
…
+24.00
Property ‡
988.10
…
+0.30

…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…

Pensions (Series 4)
Cash ‡
Equity ‡
European ‡
Far East ‡
Fixed Interest ‡
Index Linked ‡
International ‡
Managed ‡
Nth American ‡
Property ‡
Stock Exchange ‡

…
+4.60
+10.60
+3.60
-1.80
-10.40
+9.90
+4.60
+10.30
+0.10
+8.60

…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…

SUN LIFE OF CANADA
Basingview,
g
, Basingstoke,
g
, Hants RG21 2DZ
Dealing: 01256 841414
Equity Account
7176.60 7176.60 +245.70
Equity Fund Acc
2714.50 2857.30
+92.70
Equity II
6342.70 6676.50 +215.50
Fixed Int Fd Acc
842.20
886.50
+3.70
Growth Acc
8518.70 8518.70 +291.60
Indx-Lnkd Scs Acc
660.90
695.60
-4.00
Managed Account ‡
…
…
+93.60
Managed IV
3908.40 4114.10
+84.70
Mngd Fund Acc
1700.90 1790.40
+37.10
Money Fund Acc
337.60
355.30
…
Pens Equity
1771.80 1865.00
+75.00
Pens Fixed Int
1082.60 1139.50
+4.70
Pens Guarantee
1463.90 1540.90
+1.30
Pens Indx-Lnkd
840.70
884.90
-5.20
Pens Intl
1277.10 1344.30
+44.10
Pens Mngd Acct
4424.80 4657.60 +117.20
Pens Money
431.50
454.20
…
Pens Property
2053.70 2161.70
-0.20
Pers Pens Acct ‡
…
… +252.80
Prop Fund Acc
1609.10 1693.70
-0.20

…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…

TESCO PERSONAL FINANCIAL LIFE LTD
0845 845 5555
PO Box 23042, Edinburgh EH3 8YG
Balanced Growth
284.70
284.70
+4.80
Intl Growth
424.70
424.70
+16.30
UK Growth
266.10
266.10
+4.80

…
…
…

133.40
238.60
270.20
280.10
236.20
270.30
342.50
278.10
405.40
314.40
348.10

…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…

WINDSOR LIFE ASSUR CO LTD
01952 292929
Windsor House,, Telford,, Shropshire
p
Formerly
y AEtna
1982 Series
Cash Deposit
327.20
344.40
Far East Equity
1642.00 1728.50
Fixed
736.50
775.30
Index-Linked Fd
690.90
727.30
Managed
1468.20 1545.40
N Amer Equity
2338.60 2461.70
Property
612.00
644.20
Special Opp
2008.00 2113.70
UK Equity
1548.30 1629.80

-0.10
+30.20
+1.70
-5.00
+33.10
+82.70
+0.20
+96.50
+50.30

…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…

Formerly AEGON Life
Balanced
2047.30
Fixed Interest
683.00
International
2345.60
Money
394.60
Property
1541.70
UK Equity
2561.70

2166.50
722.80
2482.10
417.50
1631.40
2710.80

+46.00
+1.60
+76.60
…
+0.60
+83.10

…
…
…
…
…
…

Formerly Crown
Life Equity Acc
Life Fxd Int Acc
Life High Inc Acc
Life Intl Acc
Life Inv Tst Acc
Life Managed Acc
Life Money Acc
Life Property Acc

3897.20
862.40
3172.40
2841.70
3589.20
2597.50
471.50
905.50

4102.30
907.80
3339.30
2991.30
3778.10
2734.20
496.30
953.20

+126.60
+2.00
+84.50
+92.90
+80.70
+58.30
-0.10
+0.30

…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…

65.60
74.98
21.76
40.69
88.32

69.05
78.93
22.90
42.83
92.97

+0.95
+1.68
…
+0.09
+2.51

…
…
…
…
…

Life Funds
Bear
Bull
Deposit
Gilt Edged
Owl

Sell

Buy

Weekly
+/-

Yld
%

28.57
91.45

30.07
96.26

…
+4.39

…
…

112.20
117.20
34.59
66.30
133.90
46.23
149.60

118.10
123.30
36.41
69.79
140.90
48.66
157.50

+2.00
+3.00
…
+0.18
+4.30
…
+7.50

…
…
…
…
…
…
…

Pre 1982 Series
3-Way Fund

2968.10

2968.10

+66.90

…

Gresham
American & Genrl
Capital Fund
Equity Fund
Fixed Interest
Income
International Gth
Japan & General
Managed Bond
Money Fund
Property Fund
Recovery Fund

4659.00
2423.40
2760.70
692.30
950.30
3783.60
585.20
3284.00
525.40
1436.50
2643.60

4904.20
2550.90
2906.00
728.70
1000.30
3982.70
615.90
3456.80
553.00
1512.10
2782.70

+165.10
+78.70
+89.60
+1.60
+30.90
+123.50
+12.90
+73.90
…
+0.60
+127.20

…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…

WINTERTHUR LIFE UK LIMITED
01256 470707
Winterthur Way,
y, Basingstoke
g
RG21 6SZ
Formerly Colonial
Cash ‡
285.70
…
…
Cash Inv Pens ‡
532.70
…
-0.10
Cash Pens ‡
146.40
…
-0.10
Equity ‡
1403.90
…
-0.30
Equity Inv Pens
8662.50 9118.40 +171.80
Equity Pens Cap
2246.60 2364.90
+43.10
Fxd Int ‡
1003.90
…
-7.20
Fxd Int Inv Pens ‡
2451.20
…
-12.30
Fxd Int Pens Cap ‡
677.60
…
-3.30
Idx Lk Inv Pens ‡
1479.60
…
…
Idx Lk Pens Cap ‡
408.40
…
-0.40
Key ‡
…
…
+7.10
Managed
1308.00 1376.90
+19.90
Mngd Inv Pens
3549.90 3736.70
+56.90
Mngd Pens Cap
921.40
969.90
+14.10
Pacemaker ‡
…
…
+13.90

…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…

ZURICH ASSURANCE LTD
0845 300 2332
UK Life Centre,, Swindon SN1 1EL
Life Funds
Equity
10290.00 10831.60
Managed (1)
1095.80 1153.50
Managed (2)
832.60
876.50
Managed (3) ‡
645.00
…
Mangd Gen 4
156.80
165.10
Property
2204.10 2320.10
Property (1)
463.30
487.70
Property (2) ‡
500.60
…

+315.00
+19.40
+14.80
+11.60
+2.80
-1.30
-0.30
-0.30

…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…

1555.90 1637.80
+35.00
28697.80 30208.20 +1044.40
16780.50 17663.70 +367.40
859.20
904.40
+0.50
906.40
…
+0.70
10223.10 10761.20
+5.90
236.00
…
+0.10
207.30
…
+0.10

…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…

Squirrel
Stag
Pensions
Bear
Bull
Deposit
Gilt Edged
Owl
Squirrel
Stag

Pension
Managed (1)
Equity Acc
Managed Acc
Property (1)
Property (2) ‡
Property Acc
With Profs (5) ‡
With Profs (6) ‡

Share Class 1 - Retail
Managed (2) ‡
806.70

…

+18.30

…

British funds
Stock
Outstanding(£)

Stock

Price
(£)

Wkly
+/–

Int Yld
%

Grs rd
yld

Index-linked
108.78
379.62
111.98
120.56
135.63
130.64
132.52
141.65
402.06
161.90
160.29
324.74
161.43
186.89
169.23
186.19
180.53
199.86
188.86
196.96
229.64
209.00
232.71
231.36
306.14
248.27
256.47
297.03
309.47
335.00
395.45

102.69
358.44
105.29
106.89
115.22
109.59
110.13
113.53
352.13
126.53
122.23
263.85
115.78
132.63
115.08
124.96
116.40
127.59
115.79
116.17
133.62
116.63
128.03
121.04
158.17
117.90
118.46
129.80
122.90
126.07
135.60

Tr IL 1Y% 22
Tr IL 2K% 24 *
Tr IL 0V% 24
Tr IL 0V% 26
Tr IL 1N% 27
Tr IL 0V% 28
Tr IL 0V% 29
Tr IL 0V% 31
Tr IL 4V% 30 *
Tr IL 1N% 32
Tr IL 0O% 34
Tr IL 2% 35 *
Tr IL 0V% 36
Tr IL 1V% 37
Tr IL 0V% 39
Tr IL 0X% 40
Tr IL 0V% 41
Tr IL 0X% 42
Tr IL 0V% 44
Tr IL 0V% 46
Tr IL 0O% 47
Tr IL 0V% 48
Tr IL 0K% 50
Tr IL 0N% 52
Tr IL 1N% 55
Tr IL 0V% 56
Tr IL 0V% 58
Tr IL 0W% 62
Tr IL 0V% 65
Tr IL 0V% 68
Tr IL 0V% 73

102.69
376.45
105.50
107.72
116.78
111.50
112.06
116.80
364.13
129.52
125.01
273.46
119.21
136.67
119.21
129.53
121.31
133.11
121.37
122.37
140.74
123.70
135.99
129.41
169.26
127.78
128.82
142.03
136.11
140.38
152.71

– .04
+ .96
+ .14
+ .34
+ .48
+ .50
+ .55
+ .73
+ 1.84
+ .80
+ .75
+ 1.51
+ .73
+ .80
+ .70
+ .76
+ .81
+ .92
+ .88
+ 1.10
+ 1.20
+ 1.24
+ 1.38
+ 1.47
+ 1.85
+ 1.60
+ 1.65
+ 1.82
+ 2.10
+ 2.23
+ 2.79

1.88
1.44
…
…
1.17
…
…
…
1.77
0.97
…
0.89
…
0.87
…
…
…
0.47
…
…
0.54
…
…
…
0.81
…
…
…
…
…
…

–6.15
–2.39
–3.08
–1.90
–1.74
–1.67
–1.58
–1.59
–1.43
–1.40
–1.24
–1.12
–1.11
–1.07
–0.94
–0.91
–0.90
–0.86
–0.78
–0.74
–0.71
–0.70
–0.68
–0.65
–0.62
–0.60
–0.60
–0.57
–0.60
–0.64
–0.73

+ 1.12
+ .96
+ 1.29
+ .96
+ 1.21
+ 1.24
+ .98
+ 1.14
+ 1.33
+ 1.22
+ 1.41
+ .98
+ 1.08
+ 1.15
+ 1.53
+ 1.03
+ 1.33
+ 1.14
+ 1.61
+ 1.25
+ 1.31
+ 1.89
+ 1.31
+ 1.84
+ 1.03
+ 1.64
+ 1.99
+ 1.44

3.48
…
3.62
…
3.40
…
…
…
3.42
…
3.24
…
…
…
3.16
…
…
…
…
…
…
2.99
…
…
…
…
…
…

2.35
2.43
2.42
2.46
2.46
2.48
2.48
2.52
2.50
2.52
2.52
2.48
2.49
2.46
2.49
2.42
–0.65
2.44
2.45
2.44
2.43
2.41
2.37
2.35
2.28
2.30
2.31
2.26

+ .14
+ .15
+ .21
+ .23
+ .27
+ .33
+ .37
+ .40
+ .46
+ .52
+ .57
+ .64
+ .59
+ .69
+ .75
+ .61
+ .69
+ .72
+ .84
+ .76
+ .80
+ .94
+ .89
+ 1.17
+ .99

…
…
…
…
…
4.62
…
…
…
…
…
3.78
…
…
4.78
…
…
…
3.86
…
…
3.52
…
3.62
…

1.98
2.00
2.03
1.83
1.83
1.80
1.71
1.76
1.69
1.74
1.70
1.81
1.70
1.69
1.74
1.80
1.77
1.82
1.78
1.92
2.00
1.94
2.10
2.20
2.35

–
–
+
+
+
+
+

…
5.66
…
…
…
…
…

1.24
1.19
0.50
1.36
1.53
1.90
1.79

Longs (Over 15 years)
147.98
113.52
163.31
103.54
156.78
159.73
106.42
147.71
169.96
154.93
175.82
99.79
114.76
122.26
185.65
95.59
220.50
111.21
180.27
120.44
124.61
205.69
132.79
213.01
96.16
173.16
219.03
149.85

115.86
86.09
124.62
76.76
118.42
119.18
75.70
105.26
124.40
109.55
123.45
65.65
75.34
79.28
125.75
57.26
116.68
68.51
118.31
72.83
74.80
131.08
76.71
128.74
46.70
94.54
120.46
71.56

Tr 4N% 36
Tr 1O% 37
Tr 4O% 38
Tr 1V% 39
Tr 4N% 39
Tr 4N% 40
Tr 1N% 41
Tr 3N% 44
Tr 4K% 42
Tr 3K% 45
Tr 4N% 46
Tr 0Y% 46
Tr 1K% 47
Tr 1O% 49
Tr 4N% 49
Tr 0X% 50
Tr 0V% 51
Tr 1N% 51
Tr 3O% 52
Tr 1K% 53
Tr 1X% 54
Tr 4N% 55
Tr 1O% 57
Tr 4% 60
Tr 0K% 61
Tr 2K% 65
Tr 3K% 68
Tr 1X% 71

122.03
91.44
131.32
81.94
124.94
125.92
81.24
112.12
131.68
116.72
131.29
71.49
81.58
86.26
134.66
63.42
124.53
75.28
127.41
79.72
82.17
141.96
85.35
141.04
54.04
105.36
133.57
81.26

Mediums (5-15 years)
101.41
104.63
100.00
102.49
108.14
117.41
101.82
107.50
99.56
106.30
105.60
124.68
98.46
108.94
140.50
99.77
103.32
98.50
138.58
96.58
102.46
138.01
101.40
147.21
97.55

98.42
99.88
96.51
97.70
100.80
106.82
95.28
98.95
92.58
96.86
94.92
109.49
88.26
95.72
121.38
88.01
89.57
84.16
117.27
81.09
85.93
114.06
82.51
117.75
75.70

Tr 0O% 23
Tr 2N% 23
Tr 0V% 24
Tr 1% 24
Tr 2O% 24
Tr 5% 25
Tr 0X% 25
Tr 2% 25
Tr 0V% 26
Tr 1K% 26
Tr 1N% 27
Tr 4N% 27
Tr 0V% 28
Tr 1X% 28
Tr 6% 28
Tr 0K% 29
Tr 0Y% 29
Tr 0W% 30
Tr 4O% 30
Tr 0N% 31
Tr 1% 32
Tr 4N% 32
Tr 0Y% 33
Tr 4K% 34
Tr 0X% 35

98.80
100.28
97.18
98.59
101.90
108.14
96.97
100.71
94.70
99.10
97.87
112.42
91.73
99.59
125.54
92.02
93.91
88.96
123.00
86.23
91.38
120.69
87.99
124.39
80.76

Shorts (under 5 years)
117.13
142.92
100.46
101.91
100.12
100.26
100.41

108.58
135.65
99.88
100.04
98.87
94.49
91.79

Tr 3O% 21
Tr 8% 21
Tr 0K% 22
Tr 1O% 22
Tr 0V% 23
Tr 0N% 25
Tr 0W% 26

115.83
141.44
100.00
100.04
99.27
95.96
94.25

.08
.10
…
…
.07
.37
.53

* maturities as having a 3-month indexation lag and
which trade on a real clean price basis, excluding
inflation adjustment charge

Data as shown is
for information
purposes only. No offer is made by
Morningstar or this publication

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Weather Eye
Paul Simons

Today Increasing amounts of cloud will bring spells of rain in the north and west. Max 26C (79F), min 12C (54F)
Around Britain

Five days ahead

Key: b=bright, c=cloud, d=drizzle, pc=partly cloudy
du=dull, f=fair, fg=fog, h=hail, m=mist, r=rain,
sh=showers, sl=sleet, sn=snow, s=sun, t=thunder
*=previous day **=data not available

Unsettled with cloud
and rain in the north
and west but staying dry
further southeast

Temp C

Rain mm Sun hr*

midday yesterday

24 hrs to 5pm yesterday

Aberdeen
Aberporth
Anglesey
Aviemore
Barnstaple
Bedford
Belfast
Birmingham
Bournemouth
Bridlington
Bristol
Camborne
Cardiff
Edinburgh
Eskdalemuir
Glasgow
Hereford
Herstmonceux
Ipswich
Isle of Man
Isle of Wight
Jersey
Keswick
Kinloss
Leeds
Lerwick
Leuchars
Lincoln
Liverpool
London
Lyneham
Manchester
Margate
Milford Haven
Newcastle
Nottingham
Orkney
Oxford
Plymouth
Portland
Scilly, St Mary’s
Shoreham
Shrewsbury
Snowdonia
Southend
South Uist
Stornoway
Tiree
Whitehaven
Wick
Yeovilton

15
17
17
16
18
21
17
19
20
16
22
18
20
15
14
16
20
23
18
16
16
22
16
17
13
12
**
17
15
21
20
14
**
20
14
14
13
21
20
19
20
19
16
17
20
15
14
15
14
13
18

C
PC
C
B
PC
C
PC
C
PC
C
PC
PC
PC
C
DU
C
C
PC
B
DU
C
PC
C
C
R
C
**
DU
R
PC
C
R
**
PC
C
R
C
B
B
C
S
R
C
C
PC
C
C
DU
C
PC
R

0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.2
1.2
0.0
0.0
4.4
0.0
0.0
0.0
2.8
1.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
3.2
0.0
2.2
0.0
2.4
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.4
6.8
0.0
0.0
2.0
4.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.8
7.4
0.8
0.0
0.0
0.0
2.4
2.6
0.0
5.4

5.3
2.8
0.5
0.1
**
**
2.6
**
1.1
**
0.1
6.1
9.3
2.6
2.2
4.4
**
**
0.9
4.5
**
5.5
**
1.1
**
7.1
0.0
0.0
**
2.2
0.3
0.2
**
**
**
0.0
0.2
**
**
**
**
3.1
0.1
**
0.9
**
0.0
7.0
1.1
**
0.8

Tomorrow
Blustery with rather cloudy skies
and outbreaks of rain over Scotland,
northern England, Wales and Ireland,
heavy and thundery in places. Dry,
warm and sunny in the south.
Max 30C, min 9C

21

PC
S
S
S
PC
PC
PC
PC
S
PC
B
PC
S
S
B
PC
PC
S
PC
PC
B
R
SH
S
SH
S
PC
S
S
PC
S
S
B
PC
PC
PC
DU
SH
PC
S
B
PC
S
S
S
B
S

9

Slight

Temperature

Shetland
Sh

17

15

Moderate
Rough

28 (degrees C)

12

13

6

18

At 17:00 on Friday there were no flood
alerts or warnings in England, Wales
or Scotland.
For further information and updates
in England visit flood-warninginformation.service.gov.uk, for Wales
naturalresources.wales/flooding and
for Scotland SEPA.org.uk

17
19

Aberdeen

NORTH
SEA

21

30

Edinburgh

Glasgow

18

18
26

Londonderry

ATLANTIC
OCEAN

Monday
Mainly dry with sunny spells in
southeastern Britain, but a scattering
of showers elsewhere across Britain
and Ireland.
Max 25C, min 7C

20

Dublin

25

LLlandudno

Cork

Swansea

23

Thursday
Dry, sunny and warm over England and
Wales. Areas of cloud in Scotland and
Ireland will bring the risk of showers
at times.
Max 26C, min 9C

21

22
24

25

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32
23

-10

14

-15

5

London

Southampton

Exeterr

Plymouth

General situation: Dry and sunny in
southeastern England but increasing
amounts of cloud elsewhere over
Britain and Ireland bringing rain.
Cen S Eng, E Mids, E Anglia, London,
SE Eng, Channel Is: A dry day with
sunny spells and areas of patchy cloud.
Light increasing to moderate south or
southwesterly wind. Maximum
26C (79F), minimum 16C (61F).
Republic of Ireland, N Ireland, SW Eng,
Wales, IoM: Mostly cloudy with
showery rain spreading, turning heavy

Cambridge
26

2
22

Bristol

Brighton

CHANNEL

ery in places.
places Some
So
and thundery
sunny
intervals at times. Light to moderate
southwesterly wind, perhaps fresh
near coastal areas. Maximum
22C (72F), minimum 14C (57F).
Moray Firth, NE Scotland, N Isles:
Some areas of thicker cloud but it will
remain dry with sunny spells at times.
Maximum 20C (68F), minimum
12C (52F).
W Mids, NW Eng, Cen N Eng, Argyll,
Lake District, SW Scotland,
NW Scotland: Dry with sunny spells at

10

first, then cloud increasing to bring a
cloudy day with showery rain. Light to
moderate southerly wind. Maximum
20C (68F), minimum 12C (54F).
E Eng, NE Eng, Edinburgh and Dundee,
Aberdeen, Cen Highland, Glasgow,
Borders: Cloudy with a few spots of
rain at first, then turning dry with
sunny spells for a time before cloud
increases from the west to bring rain
later. Light to moderate southerly
wind. Maximum 22C (72F),
minimum 12C (54F).

Noon today

Tidal predictions.
Heights in metres
21

0
-5

19
8
18

9

Today
Aberdeen
Avonmouth
Belfast
Cardiff
Devonport
Dover
Dublin
Falmouth
Greenock
Harwich
Holyhead
Hull
Leith
Liverpool
London Bridge
Lowestoft
Milford Haven
Morecambe
Newhaven
Newquay
Oban
Penzance
Portsmouth
Shoreham
Southampton
Swansea
Tees
Weymouth

41

Oxford
Cardiff

CELTIC
SEA

Tides

20

50

5

i h
Norwich

20

20

59

10

12

Birmingham

23

Wednesday

68

15

Nottingham

16

17

Channel Islands

Rather cloudy with the risk of a few
showers in northern and eastern
England, Scotland and northwest
Ireland. Dry with sunny spells
elsewhere.
Max 23C, min 9C

77

20

Sheffield

19

Shrewsbury
24

23

25

Hull

24

ooo
Liverpool

IRISH
SEA

22

19

18

86

Yorkk

20

The risk of a few showers and sunny
intervals over Scotland, Ireland, Wales
and northern and western England.
Mainly dry with sunny spells in
southern England.
Max 23C, min 5C

30

22

17

Manchester

Tuesday

F
95

Carlisle

Belfast
16

18

24

C
35

Newcastle

Galway

20

24
Madeira
35
Madrid
29
Malaga
33
Mallorca
30
Malta
17
Melbourne
Mexico City 26
32
Miami
35
Milan
27
Mombasa
30
Montreal
22
Moscow
30
Mumbai
29
Munich
19
Nairobi
31
Naples
New Orleans 32
31
New York
30
Nice
35
Nicosia
17
Oslo
22
Paris
17
Perth
28
Prague
13
Reykjavik
29
Riga
Rio de Janeiro 25
43
Riyadh
32
Rome
San Francisco 18
15
Santiago
22
São Paulo
27
Seoul
27
Seychelles
31
Singapore
St Petersburg 28
17
Stockholm
17
Sydney
31
Tel Aviv
29
Tenerife
29
Tokyo
21
Vancouver
34
Venice
32
Vienna
31
Warsaw
Washington 32
29
Zurich

Orkney
ney

Calm

15

All readings local midday yesterday

S
B
S
S
S
PC
SH
S
S
PC
S
PC
PC
B
S
S
S
S
S
S
B
PC
PC
B
S
T
S
B
S
S
S
PC
PC
S
PC
PC
S
PC
PC
PC
**
PC
PC
DU
PC
B
S

Sea state

(mph)

22

17

31
19
33
12
37
31
30
30
31
30
34
24
30
25
21
32
35
19
31
33
13
16
32
20
34
30
43
19
29
35
27
32
27
26
34
30
27
31
16
33
**
30
26
15
30
23
37

34

Flood alerts and warnings

The world
Alicante
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Bahrain
Bangkok
Barbados
Barcelona
Beijing
Beirut
Belgrade
Berlin
Bermuda
Bordeaux
Brussels
Bucharest
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cairo
Calcutta
Canberra
Cape Town
Chicago
Copenhagen
Corfu
Delhi
Dubai
Dublin
Faro
Florence
Frankfurt
Geneva
Gibraltar
Helsinki
Hong Kong
Honolulu
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Kuala Lumpur
Kyiv
Lanzarote
Las Palmas
Lima
Lisbon
Los Angeles
Luxor

Wind speed

1008
10:16
03:20
07:45
03:03
01:42
07:47
07:04
01:21
08:41
08:15
07:04
02:52
11:27
07:40
10:16
06:43
02:30
07:54
07:45
01:29
02:29
13:41
08:05
07:38
06:51
02:31
12:28
02:31

Ht
3.4
10.2
3.0
9.5
4.4
5.3
4.5
4.1
2.8
3.3
4.5
5.8
4.5
7.5
6.0
2.2
5.4
7.4
5.1
5.5
2.9
4.3
3.8
4.8
3.6
7.3
4.6
1.3

23:02
15:46
20:26
15:29
14:25
20:08
19:52
14:09
21:02
20:34
19:54
15:07
00:02
20:23
22:42
18:26
15:07
20:36
20:13
14:05
14:52
--:-20:37
20:08
19:20
15:02
--:-15:31

Ht
3.4
10.0
3.0
9.3
4.4
5.5
4.4
4.0
2.8
3.4
4.5
6.0
4.5
7.4
6.1
2.2
5.3
7.3
5.4
5.4
2.8
-4.0
4.9
3.7
7.1
-1.4

LOW

LOW

HIGH

1008
HIGH

1008

LOW

1016

1016
1016

LOW
1008
1016

1016

LOW
1024

Synoptic situation
Low pressure to the northwest
of Ireland will push a complex
set of fronts across northern
and western Britain and
Ireland, bringing mostly cloudy
skies and spells of rain, heavy
and thundery in places. High
pressure over western Europe
will ridge into southeastern
Britain leading to mainly dry
and warm conditions with some
sunny spells.

HIGH Cold front
Warm front
Occluded front
Trough

Highs and lows

Hours of darkness

24hrs to 5pm yesterday

Aberdeen
Belfast
Birmingham
Cardiff
Exeter
Glasgow
Liverpool
London
Manchester
Newcastle
Norwich
Penzance
Sheffield

Warmest: Pershore,
Worcestershire, 24.4C
Coldest: Cairngorm, 4.7C
Wettest: Leek,
Staffordshire, 9.6mm
Sunniest: North Wyke, 9.3hrs*

Sun and moon
For Greenwich
Sun rises: 05.11
Sun sets: 21.01
Moon rises: 00.48
Moon sets: 17.12
New moon: July 28

22:10-04:21
22:10-04:51
21:44-04:45
21:44-04:55
21:42-04:59
22:11-04:37
21:52-04:45
21:32-04:42
21:50-04:42
21:55-04:32
21:31-04:32
21:48-05:10
21:46-04:39

I

t was 370 years ago that the
English admiral Robert Blake
was stationed off Fair Isle
between Orkney and the
Shetland Islands, waiting to
ambush a Dutch East Indies convoy
of merchant ships returning home
around the coast of Scotland. But
before Blake caught sight of the
convoy, his fleet was spotted on July
24, 1652, by a mighty Dutch force of
82 warships and nine fireships
commanded by Admiral Maarten
Tromp. Blake was outgunned and as
Tromp prepared to attack, Blake
had an amazing stroke of luck. A
northwesterly gale blew up and
Blake’s fleet took shelter in the
refuge of Bressay Sound in the
Shetlands. In three days of severe
winds most of the English ships
suffered damage, although none was
wrecked. However, the storm was
calamitous for Tromp, his fleet was
scattered and many of the ships
wrecked on the rocks around
Sumburgh Head on the southern tip
of Shetland.
When the gale subsided on July
27, both admirals agreed to sail
home. It was an unhappy return for
Tromp, who arrived with less than
half of his fleet. Although more
ships made it back over the
following weeks, the losses were a
severe blow and Tromp’s political
enemies blamed him. He was also
blamed for failing to protect the
Dutch fishing fleet, which Blake had
previously attacked. Tromp resigned
his commission rather than be
dismissed.
There had been another close
escape for the English earlier. In
June 1652, a squadron of ten ships
led by George Ayscue had attacked
Dutch merchant shipping in the
Channel and Tromp’s fleet sailed out
to get revenge. Tromp seemed
certain to pin down Ayscue’s ships
on the Kent coast. Hopelessly
outnumbered, Ayscue took up a
defensive position in the Downs
anchorage, but in another stroke of
luck for the English, Tromp was
frustrated by calm weather followed
by a southerly wind that prevented
him from entering the Downs to
attack, and so Ayscue managed to
escape certain defeat.

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74

Register
Obituaries

Uwe Seeler
West German footballer who was gracious in
defeat to England in the 1966 World Cup final
As West Germany lost the 1966 World
Cup final to England in controversial
circumstances, their captain Uwe
Seeler showed sportsmanship in defeat
that matched the England captain
Bobby Moore’s dignity in victory.
England’s striker Geoff Hurst scored
the famously disputed winning goal
that the Swiss referee Gottfried Dienst
decreed had bounced over the line off
the underside of the crossbar to make it
3-2 in extra time. The West Germans
were adamant that the ball had not
crossed the line. Several of their
players, including their young playmaker Franz Beckenbauer, surrounded
the referee to protest. As slow-motion
video replays would later attest, West
Germany had every reason to feel hard
done by.
During jubilant scenes at Wembley
stadium for what remains England’s
only World Cup victory, Seeler demonstrated to his incensed team-mates how
to lose a game of football,, showiousness as
ing as much graciousness
own in
Moore had shown
eiving
delicately receiving
met
the Jules Rimet
he
trophy from the
d
Queen’s gloved
k
hands. In stark
contrast to some
of
Seeler’s
younger teammates, he never
whinged about
“the goal thatt
d
never was” and
complimented England on being “an
m, worexceptional team,
thy of the title”.
orward who
A centre forward
V
played his entiree club career with SV
d revenge on
Hamburg, Seeler exacted
England at the 1970 World Cup in
Mexico. He scored a late equaliser
against England in the quarter-final in
sweltering conditions, latching on to a
long, hopeful ball into the box from
Karl-Heinz Schnellinger. The ball
appeared to be sailing over him, but
Seeler just managed to connect with it
on the back of his head. Almost in slow
motion, the ball floated high over
England’s goalkeeper Peter Bonetti and
into the net. As England wilted in the
heat, Gerd Müller (“Der Bomber”)
would volley home from close range to
secure a 3-2 victory for West Germany
and knock out Alf Ramsey’s World Cup
holders.
Seeler retired from international
football after the tournament in
Mexico with 43 goals from 72 caps over
16 years, earning his place in the
pantheon as one of the most popular
and durable footballers to come out of
Germany since the Second World War.
The fact that he hardly looked like a
leading athlete only added to his cult
status. Seeler was just 5ft 7in and later in
his career would be described as “tubby”
rather than barrel-chested. And like
Bobby Charlton, whom Seeler much
admired, he had started balding. Yet
Seeler had an explosive turn of pace and
with his low centre of gravity was almost
impossible to knock off the ball. His
muscular spring made him deceptively

good in the air, able to hang seemingly
for seconds and execute overhead kicks,
which became his trademark. Pelé, who
particularly respected him, said: “His
handling of the ball was perfect, his shot
precise, and what really amazed me was
his ability to head the ball.”
Above all, and perhaps more than
any of his compatriots, Seeler exemplified the way German footballers played
the game: ultra-competitive, with unquenchable fighting spirit, tough but
fair (most of the time). Jimmy McIlroy,
a member of the Northern Ireland
team that played out a 2-2 draw against
Seeler’s West Germany at the 1958
World Cup, said of him: “If there was a
brick wall there and the ball was on the
other side, then Uwe Seeler would go
right through it.”
For many years, until surpassed by a
modern generation of players, Seeler
and Pelé were the only players to have
played in four World Cup tournaments
(
, 1962,, 1966 and 1970). Like
(1958,
the great Braz
Brazilian maestro,
sco
Seeler scored
in each
one.
Uwe Seeler was
born in 1936 in the
nor
northern
port
city of Hamburg
to Erwin and
An
Anny
Seeler.
H father, who
His
ha
had
himself
pla
played
for SV
Ham
Hamburg
and
work on a barge
worked
in the local docks,
in
was a man
m deeply in
was
lo
lo
wit
love
with sport. He
en
Uw and his elder
enrolled
Uwe
br
br
brother,
Dieter, in the junior
footb
tball division at the club.
clu
football
Th story goes that
h when Sepp
The
Herberger, the famous Germany coach,
noticed Dieter Seeler playing in a youth
match and struck up a conversation with
his parents, the boys’ mother responded:
“Wait until you see my little Uwe.”
Having signed as a schoolboy for SV
Hamburg, Uwe broke into the first
team in 1953, scoring 28 goals in his first
season. He followed up with more than
30 goals in each of the next two seasons.
Still not 18, he made his international
debut in October 1954 as a substitute
against France. A few months earlier
West Germany had sensationally won
their first World Cup in Switzerland
when they beat the mighty Hungarians
3-2 in what became known as the
“Miracle of Bern”. However, the team
was ageing and Herberger saw Seeler as
a key component of the rebuilding
process.
So it proved. In the 1958 World Cup
finals in Sweden, Seeler scored the crucial goal in the opening game against
Argentina, the favourites. He scored
again against Northern Ireland as the
West Germans advanced to the semifinals before their defeat to Sweden.
In Chile in 1962, a typical flying header by Seeler against the hosts put West
Germany into a quarter-final with
Yugoslavia, which they lost.
Seeler believed he had played his
final international after suffering a torn
achilles tendon. Yet after losing weight

Seeler, the German captain, left, greets the England skipper Bobby Moore before the 1966 World Cup final. The pair’s

and training like a man possessed he
returned to lead West Germany in a
crucial qualifier against Sweden late in
1965. He booked West Germany’s place
in England with a trademark toe-poke
to beat the Swedes.
Seeler made his mark at the 1966
tournament, scoring the winning goal
against Spain and another in a bruising
quarter-final against Uruguay. Horacio

He exacted revenge on
England in the 1970
World Cup in Mexico
Troche, the Uruguay captain, had been
sent off for retaliation. As he trudged
off the field, he tried to even up the
numbers by slapping Seeler in the face.
The West German ignored him and
turned away. Seeler later said: “The silly
fellow was trying to provoke me.”
As the Sixties wore on he played fewer games for West Germany and, with

the emergence of the scoring sensation
Müller, was surprised to be included in
the squad for the 1970 tournament in
Mexico. It would prove to be a shrewd
selection. Overcoming a threat from a
left-wing guerilla group to kidnap him,
as well as tactical disagreement with
Germany’s coach Helmut Schön, Seeler would play in all six games, scoring in
three.
He mentored young Müller, with
whom he shared a room. They formed
a deadly understanding on the pitch,
with Seeler in a deeper role feeding
Müller with passes and headers.
In the semi-final against Italy Seeler
was magnificent in a fierce match, celebrated as “the game of the century”,
which the Italians won 4-3. West
German supporters chanted “Uwe,
Uwe, Uwe” throughout, the final game
of Seeler’s international career.
Seeler would play on for SV Hamburg for two years. He had remained
loyal to them, turning down lucrative
offers to join Spanish and Italian teams.

For SV Hamburg he won the national
championship in 1960 and played 239
games in the national Bundesliga
(which had been founded in 1962),
finishing as top scorer in 1964. He
retired after more than 700 career
appearances, scoring 551 goals.
There was to be one final professional
appearance, although he did not know it
at the time. In 1978, at the age of 41, he
agreed to play what he thought was a
charity match in Ireland for Cork Celtic
against Shamrock Rovers. Unbeknown
to him, it was an official League of
Ireland fixture, the rules allowing guest
players to appear. Cork Celtic, who
would go bust the following year, lost
the game 6-2. Seeler scored the two, one
of them, of course, an overhead kick.
By then he was working as a representative for Adidas, the German
sportswear brand. He set up his own
sportswear company, and owned a
petrol station and several properties in
Hamburg. A modest and courteous
man, Seeler married Ilka in 1959. They

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

75

From teenage romance to
marital bliss
Marriages and
engagements, page 76

POPPERFOTO / GETTY IMAGES

Alan Blaikley
Chart-topping Sixties songwriter turned psychotherapist

personal battle at Wembley, far left

had three daughters: Kirsten, Helle and
Frauke, a former tennis player. His
grandson, Levin Oztunali, is a professional footballer for Union Berlin.
For three years in the mid-1990s, Seeler served as SV Hamburg’s president. In
2005 a giant bronze sculpture of his right
foot was unveiled outside SV Hamburg’s
stadium. The German women’s team
wore black armbands in his honour in
their Euro 2022 quarter-final against
Austria in London on Thursday.
Seeler’s misfortune was that his playing career started just after West Germany’s World Cup triumph in 1954 and
ended before their World Cup victory
in 1974. However, at the 1974 final in
Munich, Seeler’s spirit was much in evidence. Müller may have been the hero,
scoring the winning goal against the
Netherlands, but West Germany’s supporters chanted “Uwe, Uwe, Uwe”.
Uwe Seeler, German footballer, was born
on November 5, 1936. He died of undisclosed causes on July 21, 2022, aged 85

When the 14-year-old Alan Blaikley
wrote his first song with his best friend
Ken Howard, rock’n’roll had barely
been invented.
It was 1954 and they recorded a demo
of their juvenile composition on a
Dictaphone in Howard’s father’s office.
It was never professionally recorded,
but Blaikley and Howard went on to
become one of the most successful
songwriting duos of the 1960s, writing a
hundred songs together and scoring a
string of Top Ten hits.
Prominent among them were Have I
the Right? for the Honeycombs, which
gave the writers their first No 1 in 1964,
and the melodramatic The Legend of
Xanadu, a No 1 in 1968 for Dave Dee,
Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.
In between Howard and Blaikley also
wrote hits for Peter Frampton and the
Herd (From the Underworld), Lulu
(Boy), the Marmalade (Wait For Me
Mary-Anne) and countless others.
“We started songwriting as a joke,”
the pair told Jonathan Aitken, who
featured them in his 1967 book The
Young Meteors. “But suddenly we were
forced to take it seriously. Now we are
well enough off to have to think of tax
fiddles.”
They were also the first British composers to have a hit song recorded by
Elvis Presley, who made the UK Top
Ten in 1970 with the duo’s I’ve Lost You,
a song which Blaikley described as
“about good love imperceptibly turning
bad” and “a couple who go through the
motions but are finally only held
together by the existence of their child”.
Presley may well have found in its lyrics
an echo of his own failing marriage to
Priscilla, the mother of his daughter
Lisa Marie.
The coveted invitation to write for
Presley came about via Freddy Bienstock (obituary September 26, 2009),
an American music publisher
employed to find songs for the singer
and whose company Carlin Music had
acquired the rights to Howard and
Blaikley’s catalogue.
“Freddy was a larger than life
character with a mischievous sense of
humour,” Blaikley recalled. “One day
he said, ‘Have you guys got anything for
Elvis?’ Elvis had been an idol since
schooldays and we thought he was
joking.”
They submitted some demos, including I’ve Lost You, and after a long wait a
stream of telegrams began to arrive.
“The first was saying that Elvis liked
the song and might include it on his
next session. Then that he had recorded it — and then that it was to be his
next A-side and in his movie That’s the
Way It Is. A completely dreamlike
sequence of events.”
The duo did not even use their own
names on the song, which was originally written for Matthews Southern
Comfort. Led by the former Fairport
Convention singer Iain Matthews, the
group’s folk-rock style was far removed
from the Tin Pan Alley commercialism
of Blaikley and Howard’s regular fare.
“We decided that we needed a
pseudonym to distance ourselves from
the pure pop of Dave Dee and the
Honeycombs,” Blaikley admitted. They
came up with “Steve Barlby”, the
fictitious surname lifted from a road
close to BBC Television Centre, where

Alan Blaikley, far
left, with his
songwriting
partner Ken
Howard in 1965,
and the group
Dave Dee, Dozy,
Beaky, Mick &
Tich, for whom
they wrote at
least 13 hits

both had worked as trainee producers.
The pseudonym was a recognition
that the pop landscape of the 1960s was
changing and the pair also anonymously wrote and produced the 1969 progrock sci-fi concept album Ark 2 by a
band called Flaming Youth, which
featured a youthful Phil Collins.
Reviewing the album’s prog-rock
leanings in The Sunday Times, Derek
Jewell noted that “pop is becoming the
serious music of the age”. Yet in truth
Blaikley and Howard were out of time
in a rapidly changing musical landscape. As disco and punk wrought two
quite different kinds of musical revolution in the mid-1970s, they decided to
venture into more traditional areas of
composition.
Their first West End musical Mardi
Gras opened in 1976 and was followed
by The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. For
television they composed the theme
music for the dramas The Flame Trees of
Thika (1981) and By the Sword Divided
(1983–85) and for the BBC’s long-running Miss Marple series.
A third unlikely partner briefly
joined the writing team in 1978 when
the psychiatrist RD Laing recited his
poetry to an original musical score by
Blaikley and Howard on the 1978 album
Life Before Death. The one-off
collaboration reflected Blaikley’s
interest in psychology. Inspired by the
work of Jung, Blaikley trained as a
psychotherapist at the Westminster
Pastoral Foundation and ran a successful private practice in Hampstead for
more than 20 years.
Alan Tudor Blaikley was born in 1940
in Hampstead Garden Suburb, north
London, the son of Francesca (née
Hall), a schoolteacher, and Ernest
Blaikley, a founder member of the
Society of Graphic Art and an official
First World War artist who later
became keeper of art at the Imperial
War Museum.
As a chorister at St Mary-at-Finchley

he picked up the formal musical
education that he credited as the
foundation of his later success as a
songwriter, and he met Howard at
University College School, Hampstead,
when they were eight. They remained
friends with barely a serious argument
between them for 74 years.
The two briefly separated in their late
teens while Howard read anthropology
at Edinburgh University and Blaikley
read Latin and Greek at Wadham
College, Oxford, where he also served
as reviews editor of Cherwell, the
student newspaper.
They were reunited after graduating

He wrote a pamphlet
about homosexuality
when it was an offence
when both landed jobs as trainee television producers with the BBC, Howard
working in the drama department and
Blaikley in the talks department and on
the daily current affairs programme
Tonight.
Blaikley also wrote and narrated the
BBC radio series Writing for Children, in
which he interviewed CS Lewis, JRR
Tolkien and Enid Blyton, and under the
pseudonym Anthony Rowley wrote
Another Kind of Loving, a pamphlet
about homosexuality, which was still a
criminal offence.
The pamphlet was an offshoot of a
quarterly magazine he and Howard
co-edited, which published early work
by Melvyn Bragg, Ray Gosling and
Simon Raven, among others.
When the pair began hawking their
songs around London’s music publishers, numerous rejections followed
before they discovered a group called
the Sheratons (soon to become the
Honeycombs) playing in a pub in Balls
Pond Road.
Impressed by the novelty of the

group having a female drummer in
Anne “Honey” Lantree (obituary,
December 31, 2018), they offered them
some of their songs, including Have I
the Right?
When the song went to No 1, the pair
left the BBC’s payroll by mutual
consent, the corporation unimpressed
by its employees’ foray into pop music
and Blaikley and Howard keen to build
on their success.
It was at a Honeycombs gig in
Swindon that Blaikley found the act
that would bring them their next chart
success. Supporting the chart-topping
headliners were an unknown group
known as Dave Dee and the Bostons,
and Blaikley was struck by how different they were from most of the beat
groups of the time with “something of
the British music hall tradition about
them”.
Blaikley and Howard took over their
management, renamed them and
proceeded to write and produce no
fewer than 13 hit singles for the group,
including Hold Tight!, Bend It!, Okay!
and Zabadak!
Aside from the surfeit of exclamation
marks, they gave the group’s 1966 LP
the music hall title If Music Be the Food
of Love . . . Prepare for Indigestion.
Among the Blaikley-Howard compositions on the album was one titled Loos
of England.
Blaikley never married but in 2007
entered a civil partnership with David
Harris, a translator, with whom he had
lived since 1978. Harris predeceased
him in 2015.
His writing partner Howard survives
him. The pair never lost their belief that
songwriting was an art in which the
best results were achieved collectively.
“Alan and I have known each other for
so long that we have developed an
intuitive empathy that allows us to
short-cut the creative process,”
Howard noted.
“It’s like a rally in tennis, keeping
ideas in play which individually one
might have discarded,” Blaikley added.
“Then you examine what you’ve got
and you can tell at once if it’s a winner.”
Alan Blaikley, songwriter and
psychotherapist, was born on March 23,
1940. He died in hospital after a short
illness on July 4, 2022, aged 82

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Chloe Steer, 29, a veterinary nurse,
and James Clack, 30, a graphic
designer, were married on April 15,
2022, on the Channels Estate in
Chelmsford, Essex
Chloe’s best friend was going out with
the drummer of an indie rock band
called the Bliss and she agreed to
watch them play at a local pub. During
the concert, she noticed James, who
was on guitar, but mostly playing with
his back to the crowd. “I thought, ‘he
is the one for me’,” she says.
James was in the year above Chloe
at Shenfield High School in Essex.
She mentioned to her friend that
she thought the guitarist was
good-looking and it turned out that
he was interested in meeting her.
They got to know one another as part
of a group.
Their first date, just the two of
them, was at Starbucks on Brentwood
High Street in 2009. Chloe was 16
and remembers asking her parents for
money. “As I arrived, James just said
‘hello’, walked through the door and
bought himself his Starbucks,” she
says. Apart from that, he was
surprisingly gentlemanly, she says,
and insisted on walking on the road
side of the pavement.
“He was very different to other
boys I had spoken to in my own year,”
she says. “He was into Arctic
Monkeys and Amy Winehouse —
music that was a bit more alternative
than I was used to at the time. He is
very handsome, but he is very modest
and very sweet.” He remembers her
being confident, attractive and
carefree.
They went back to James’s house
afterwards to watch the cartoon film
Ratatouille and Chloe met his mother
gardening on the driveway. “She held
out her hand to shake my hand,” says
Chloe. “I was so nervous.” Early
dates were spent watching films at
their homes. He would serenade her
on the guitar. She would go to see
him at gigs.
“I’ve always wanted to work with
animals,” says Chloe, who is a
veterinary nurse. Growing up, she had
dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits and a pygmy
hedgehog. She has been vegetarian
since the age of 13. James, who is a
graphic designer, turned vegan before
her. “We’ve definitely become more
similar in ways and have perhaps
picked up some of each other’s
idiosyncrasies along the way,” he says.
They describe themselves as
opposites. “James is probably a bit
more reserved,” she says. “I am
probably the more outspoken,
confident one.” She appreciates his
compassion and loyalty. He still writes

Aoife Alexandra Wychrij was born
on March 2, 2022, at Barnet General
Hospital in north London to Claire,
38, and Andrew Wychrij, 32
Aoife’s parents
are of Ukrainian
and Irish descent,
so they wanted to
choose a name
for her that
honoured all
parts of her
identity. In Irish
mythology Aoife
means “radiance” and denotes a feisty
female warrior; her surname Wychrij,
comes from “vikhr”, which means
whirlwind in Ukrainian. She has her
father’s blue eyes and long eyelashes
and her mother’s lips and chin.
Aoife was born just weeks after
Russia invaded Ukraine and it was a
difficult time for the family. Her birth
has, however, been a gift. Having
been born to the soundtrack of I’m
Coming Out by Diana Ross, Aoife
loves to be rocked to sleep to songs by
the Strokes. Claire and Andrew are
excited to take Aoife on her first
holiday in November to Tenerife,
where they will stay in the same
resort as on their honeymoon.

James and Chloe met at a pub gig. Their wedding cake was made by the friend who introduced them years ago

and records music with friends under
the name Goldiva. From the age of 18,
the couple have been saving to buy a
house. In 2018 they bought a flat in
Writtle, a village in Essex.
Marriage had been a running joke
after being together so long. Chloe
had imagined a proposal might
happen on her birthday or at
Christmas but began to give up hope.
“I always said he would never be able
to propose and surprise me because I
can read him like a book,” she says.
James waited until between
Christmas and New Year in 2019 on a
surprise trip to see the light show in
the grounds of Audley End House,
Essex, considered to be one of the
most impressive Jacobean houses in
England. Halfway round, he went
down on one knee. “I have never
been so shocked,” she says. “He was as
cool as a cucumber.”
They booked to get married in the
17th-century thatched Essex Barn on
the Channels Estate in Chelmsford.
Chloe had more time to plan because
her work hours were cut due to the

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pandemic. She really enjoyed it and
had the help of her old schoolfriend,
Jade, who had introduced her to
James. Jade now runs a cake
company. She made their wedding
cake and favours, which were cookies
and packets of wildflower seeds.
Chloe was struggling to find a dress
when her older sister, who was maid
of honour, suggested that she try a
local dress shop in Ongar, which was
a success. She is the first of her
siblings to get married. Her older
brother was a ring bearer and
her younger brother gave a reading.
James’s younger brother was
best man.
The 2pm ceremony took place
outside. Chloe walked in with her
father to Samm Henshaw’s Only
Wanna Be With You. She and James
had written their own vows and
exited to Chuck Berry’s You Never
Can Tell. “That livened things up,” she
says.
They booked Fil Straughan to sing
during the wedding breakfast. In the
run-up to their wedding, he made it to

the final of ITV’s talent show
Starstruck, and Chloe nervously
wondered if she might have to book
someone else if he won. At the
wedding, he talked to guests and
picked up enough information to
personalise the lyrics of songs.
The newlyweds had their first
dance to Arctic Monkeys’ Baby I’m
Yours. “We completely winged it,”
says Chloe. It was the first time they
had successfully danced together
without injuring one another. “We
make each other laugh a lot and we
understand each other as much as
two people can,” says James. “I am
always drawn to her.”

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Inigo Charles Patrick Stenning was
born on May 4, 2022, at Chelsea and
Westminster Hospital in southwest
London to Clarissa MartynHemphill, 36, and Jonno Stenning, 36
By the time they
had their third
child, so many of
Clarissa and
Jonno’s friends
had children that
it felt almost
impossible to find
an original name.
They chose Inigo
after their favourite architect, Inigo
Jones, but when his birth was
announced in The Times it just so
happened that there was another
announcement for a baby called
Inigo. “We thought we were being
unusual but clearly other people had
the same idea,” says Clarissa.
Inigo’s two older sisters — Sienna,
three, and Elora, two — are
“completely obsessed” with him. Inigo
is wonderfully docile and very
tolerant of their affection; he is
starting to reciprocate his sisters’
affections with constant smiles, and
he loves to accompany them to their
classes and “cheer” from the sidelines.

‘She has her father’s eyes
and face shape but her
mother’s lips and nose’
PIPPA SUZANNE DRACOTT WAS BORN ON MAY 28, 2020,
AT BROOMFIELD HOSPITAL IN CHELMSFORD, ESSEX,
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Hong Kong
tram designer
who drove
like Mr Toad

to developing transport plans for the
Chinese cities of Shenzhen, Wuhan
and Nanjing. His greatest
achievement, he said, was suggesting
cameras be installed on platforms
across Johannesburg’s metro
system after he noticed the high rates
of homicide.
Timothy was the author of more
than 30 articles, papers and chapters
in technical and academic
publications and was the Hong Kong
correspondent for Railway Gazette. He
lectured at Imperial College London
and at the University of Hong Kong,
where his method of making the
quieter students contribute was to
point directly at them and ask for
their thoughts.
In his early twenties Timothy
married Michelle, a friend of one of
his housemates, but the union lasted
only five years. In 1983 he married for
a second time, having met Doris
Kwan, his boss’s secretary, in the

Timothy Runnacles, 75

He sent memos to Hong
Kong colleagues titled
‘Linguistic Horrors’

The light rail expert Timothy
Runnacles did not like to call himself
a trainspotter, preferring the term
“rail enthusiast”, although his
obsession with what he referred to as
“big things that move” incorporated
trams, planes, buses and ships as well
as trains. It started from an early age.
At four his scribbles of steam trains
filled his drawing books and by his
early teens he was hunkering down at
Portsmouth railway station, noting
the serial numbers of locomotives.
Thereafter his holidays — in his
twenties around Europe and later
with his family exploring the west
coast of the US — were planned
around visits to railway stations.
It was thus a dream job for Timothy
to be sent in 1977 to Hong Kong and
be put in charge of researching public
transport options for a new town in
the New Territories district. Tuen
Mun, in the west, was built in the
1960s to deal with overcrowding from
mainland China and Timothy, who
had already worked on the Croydon
Tramlink in south London, came up
with the light transit rail system,
which he designed and saw through
to completion over the following
11 years. It was no mean feat. When
the Tuen Mun Light Railway was up
and running, it was carrying more
than half a million passengers a day,
placing it among the busiest modern
tram systems in the world.
Born in 1946 in Emsworth,
Hampshire, Timothy Vernon
Runnacles, or TVR as he liked to be

called, was the only son of Vernon
and Eva (née Greenwood). An
enthusiasm for transport ran in the
family. His grandfather, described by
Timothy as a “grand gentleman”, set
such store by his car — and his dog
Peter — that he insisted Peter sit
beside him in the front while the rest
of the family crammed into the back.
When Timothy’s father, a motor
engineer, was asked by Timothy and
his mother, both avid readers, which
book he wanted for Christmas he
would answer, “I have one already.” It
was a Ford car manual.
At Portsmouth Grammar School
Timothy embarked on a lifelong habit
of chronicling every aspect of his life.
He took photographs of geography
field trips and at Fitzwilliam College,
Cambridge, where he studied
geography, he was a member of the
photographic society. He followed his
Cambridge degree with a diploma in
town planning at the Oxford
polytechnic and a master’s in
transport engineering and planning at
Imperial College London.
The biggest contributing factor

Timothy Runnacles on the Glacier Express in the Swiss Alps in 1984 and, left,
with his Rover 2000 in 1979 that he drove erratically through Hong Kong

behind Timothy’s move to Hong
Kong lay in his early work in the
planning office of what was then the
London Transport Executive (now
Transport for London), which later
sent him to their international branch
in Hong Kong. His responsibilities at
the London Transport Executive
included writing the proposals for the
Docklands Light Railway, which
opened in 1987, and the Croydon
Tramlink. At the time the idea of
having trams in Croydon was viewed
with apprehension but Timothy
insisted that they could be
incorporated in the traffic on the
road. He also praised their
environmental benefits.
Arriving in Hong Kong in 1977,
Timothy travelled into China and,
fond of elaborate description, likened
its urban sprawl to a “medieval
agricultural landscape, with smoky,

almost unlit cities thronging with
cyclists, shabby people and dodgemlike trolleybuses”. When presiding
over the annual boat race dinner at
the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club in
evening dress, he would announce
that “fumigatory materials” could be
enjoyed after the loyal toast. In the
Hong Kong office he was keen to
raise standards of English and issued
a regular memo to colleagues titled
“Linguistic Horrors”.
From 1978 to 1993 Timothy was
with the Hong Kong government,
rising to the role of principal
transport officer and responsible for
the running of buses, minibuses,
trams, taxis and ferries in Hong Kong,
as well as liaising with rail and
underground railway operators. His
work took him around Asia, from
revitalising public transport in
Kazakhstan and Bandung, West Java,

Hong Kong transport office. The
second largest bedroom in their flat
was given over to Timothy’s model
railway, complete with lakes and
mountains, and their own bedroom
was filled with hundreds of railway
magazines. Timothy and Doris had
two children: Jenny, who is a director
of corporate affairs, and Pamela, a
senior communications manager.
In retirement in 2004 Timothy
moved his family back to his roots in
Portsmouth. His passion for transport
remained undimmed, and he was
fond of his two cars, an ageing Rover
2000 and a 1979 Datsun Cherry. His
driving style was distinctive and his
focus on getting to his destination
intense. A friend described a trip
with him down Garden Road, one of
the busiest thoroughfares on Hong
Kong island, as being “not unlike
being driven by Mr Toad
in his automobile, with arms waving
and verbal abuse aimed at anyone
whom he even vaguely felt was
impeding his progress”.

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International arbitration lawyer and nightclub owner in the 1960s
Tony Connerty, 83
When the Liverpool-born Tony
Connerty opened 7 Club, a nightclub
for mods in a furniture repository in
Shrewsbury in 1964, he naturally took
his cue in decor from the Cavern
Club, which he had frequented as a
teenager. His opening act was the
Moody Blues, the Birmingham
progressive rock band, but they
inconveniently cancelled as Denny
Laine, the lead singer, had laryngitis.
It was a blow for Tony but he found a
replacement and continued with the
club for another couple of years,
billing among other 1960s groups the
Phantones, the Missing Links, Terry
and the Golden Stones and, one
December night in 1966, a 19-year-old
singer called David Bowie with his
band the Buzz. It was three years
before Space Oddity hit the top five in
the UK charts.
The nightclub years — 7 Club was

preceded by the 51 discotheque in
Douglas on the Isle of Man — were a
om his job
hiatus for Tony from
rk but
as an articled clerk
ived.
they were short-lived.
as
By the time he was
30 he was back
practising
accountancy on
Jersey and then
training to be a
barrister. He
was called to the
Bar in 1974,
when he was 36,
and into a career
that would last thee
ext
best part of the next
50 years.
ractised
Tony initially practised
n Gray’s Inn
from chambers in
and the Temple, with his early work
concentrating on landlord and tenant
law for the church commissioners. He
moved into construction disputes,
with expertise in international

arbitration, and pioneered links with
China. By the mid-1980s he was
spending weeks
week at a time in
its main cit
cities, earning
the trust of Chinese
lawyer and
lawyers
retur
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he met S
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Sandra Day
O’Connor, the
t first female
O’Connor,
associate justice of the
Supreme Court
Court. She of
offered to write
the foreword for his Manual of
International Dispute Resolution
published in 2006. Tony’s next move
was to launch, in the Palace of

Westminster in 2000, his own group
of international dispute resolution
specialists. The IDR Group was a
successful venture and led in 2019 to
his final move to 6 Pump Court,
which he described as the most
charming place he had worked in. It
may have had something to do with
his own generous spirit, boundless
enthusiasm and knack of bringing
people together. He was also involved
in mediation and invited to set up a
mediation scheme for the Mayor’s
and City of London Court.
Born in 1938 into an Irish Catholic
family in Liverpool, Tony was the
second child of five. His grandparents
had run a stevedoring business on the
docks and his father, Bill, worked as a
clerk for the Commercial Cable
Company. His mother, Madeleine
(née Mathieu), known as “Ma”, was a
school secretary. During the war the
family moved to Eltham, southeast
London, and then returned to
Liverpool, where Tony went to the

Jesuit school of St Francis Xavier. He
got married in his early twenties and
had a son, Julian, who is a solicitor.
The marriage broke down and later,
on Jersey, he met Margaret Carr.
They married in 1971 and raised
Sarah, a governance manager, and
Simon, an accountant. A move to
Hendon, northwest London, followed,
where Tony studied law while
Margaret supported the young family.
In later years Tony, a keen sailor, and
Margaret moved to St Leonards-onSea, East Sussex.
Tony retained his links with
Liverpool, particularly with the city’s
international cotton association,
whose arbitration service started in
the 1840s and is seen by some as a
forerunner to international
arbitration today.
It was usual for Tony to work seven
days a week, not least, he joked,
because it meant he got paid. In his
final week he was still writing a
judgment as an arbitrator.

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Births, Marriages and Deaths
WHOEVER walks with the wise becomes
wise, but the companion of fools suffers
harm.
Proverbs 13.20 (NRSV)
Bible verses are provided by the Bible
Society

Births
BUNNAGE-ZAIR on 19th July 2022 to
Soohie and Jack, a son, Edward “Eddie”
George.

WYNNE DAVIES on 15th June 2022 to
Julia (née Scheufler) and John, a daughter,
Camilla Julia, sister to Sophie.
HAREN
On 31st May 2022 to Victoria Koehn
and Stephen, a daughter, Eliza Lillian
Renata, a miraculous little expression
of German-Irish alliance.

HENNING on 18th July 2022 to Gemma
(née Mullin) and Samuel, a son, Douglas
Lomond, born 3.43am, at Colchester
Hospital, weighing 8lb 9oz.

MALCOMSON
On 17th April 2022 to Michelle (née
Hoe) and Nicholas, a son, Oliver
Renjun Michael.

MORTON on 15th July 2022 to Freddy

and Alex Morton, a son, Luke Andrew Guy.

O’DUFFIN on 18th July 2022 to Greta

Scott-Larsen and Seumas O’Duffin, a son,
Struan Michael Somhairle.

POOLEY on 30th June 2022 to Ms Amy
Brooks and Dr Sam Pooley, a son, Hadley.
SWINGLAND on 1st June 2022 to
Victoria (née Huxster) and Joseph, a
daughter, Grace Huia Huxster, sister to
Rose.

Forthcoming Marriages
MS H. M. SKELLERN
AND MR N. W. BAKER
The engagement is announced
between Hannah, daughter of James
and Judith Skellern of Wadhurst, East
Sussex, and Neal, son of John and
Elizabeth Baker of Newtownabbey,
Co Antrim.

MR J. R. CALLEN
AND MISS L. C. BRADLEY-WATSON
The engagement is announced between
James, son of Mark and Mary Callen of
Dulwich, London, and Lily, daughter of
Richard and Tavy Bradley-Watson of
Melbury Abbas, Dorset.

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MR H. CLARKE
AND MISS A. J. BURTON

The engagement is announced between
Harry, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Clarke
of Cornwall, and Alexina, eldest daughter of
Mr and Mrs Burton of Shropshire.

MR E. B. G. HODGSON
AND MISS I. L. D’ARCY CLARK

The engagement is announced between
Edward, son of Mr and Mrs Michael
Hodgson of South Harting, West Sussex,
and Isabelle, daughter of Mr and Mrs Brian
D’Arcy Clark of Barnsley, Gloucestershire.

MR. C. D. WILLIAMS
AND MISS J. A. C. GRAHAM

The engagement is announced between
Chris, son of Dr David Williams and the late
Dr Julie Friend of Newcastle, New South
Wales, Australia, and Jennie, daughter of
Lord and Lady Donald Graham.

MR A. J. QUINN
AND MISS F. L. LONG

Deaths
DEELEY Monica Clara (née Boyer) on 11th

July 2022, aged 95, peacefully after a short
illness. Widow of the late W S Deeley of
Souldern, Oxfordshire, and devoted sister
of Isabelle. Beloved mother of Richard and
grandmother of Susan, Edward and David.
A service of thanksgiving will be held at St
Mary’s Church, Souldern, on Thursday 28th
July 2022 at 2.30pm. Family flowers only.
Donations if desired to St Mary’s Church,
Souldern, or Katharine House Hospice may
be made via www.humphrisfuneral.co.uk or
given at the service.

GILL Candida Mary (née Butler) passed
away peacefully on 5th April 2022, aged 83.
Beloved wife of the late Christopher and
much loved by her children Nicholas,
Elizabeth and Charlotte and grandchildren
Christopher, Sasha, Benjamin and Tom. A
memorial service will be held in Surrey on
6th August 2022, details may be obtained
from nick_545816@yahoo.co.uk

The engagement is announced between Mr
Alexander John, son of Mr and Mrs Sean
Quinn of Cowden, Kent, and Miss Felicity
Louise, daughter of Mr and Mrs James
Long of Richmond, Surrey.

SEDGLEY
Helen Lesley passed away peacefully
on 12th July 2022, aged 77, with loving
husband Robin and sons Max and
James by her side. Funeral on
Thursday 28th July at St Nicholas
Church, Cuddington, 12.15pm.
Followed by cremation at Aylesbury
Vale Crematorium at 1.30pm.
Donations in lieu of flowers to Breast
Cancer UK c/o Surman & Horwood
Funeral Service, The Green, Crowell,
Chinnor, OX39 4RR.

MR J. C. H. ARCHER
AND MISS H. V. MARTIN

The engagement is announced between
James, son of Mrs Olivia Carding of
Buckland Newton, Dorset, and Mr N Archer
of London, and Harriet, only daughter of Mr
and Mrs John Martin of Allington, Wiltshire.

MR J. N. M. ANDERDON
AND MISS S. C. MONTGOMERY

The engagement is announced between
John Nicholas Manisty, elder son of Mr and
Mrs James Anderdon of Milland,
Hampshire, and Sophie Clare, daughter of
Mr and Mrs Douglas Montgomery of
Hennerton, Berkshire.

MR C. J. C. GIRARDOT
AND MISS L. C. PEDDER

The engagement is announced between
Charles, only son of Mr Paul Girardot and
Mrs Muff Delevingne, both of Battersea,
and Lucy, youngest daughter of Mr and
Mrs John Pedder of Wimbledon.

MR S. R. PEACOCK
AND MISS O. J. K. SCOTT

The engagement is announced between
Steven, son of Mr Ian and Mrs Denise
Peacock of Durham, Co Durham, and
Oenone, elder daughter of Sir Christopher
and Lady Scott of Yews Windermere,
Cumbria.

Marriages
FLT LT A. T. BARKER
AND DR A. V. GREGORY

WASLEY Gwyneth Isabel (née Parsons)

died peacefully on 14th July 2022, aged 95,
in Cheltenham. Dearly loved by her late
husband Richard, her children Andrew,
David, Joanna and Penny, her
grandchildren Harriet, Greg, Caroline and
Susie and her extended family. For details
of her funeral arrangements contact Mason
& Stokes, 01242 224877. No flowers please,
but donations to wrnsbt.org.uk would be
welcomed.

YATES William Hugh, MBE, died peacefully
on 18th July 2022, aged 86. Dearly loved by
Elisabeth (Lip), his son Stuart, his stepsons
Toby, Harry, Tom and Charlie, his
daughters-in-law and many grandchildren.
Funeral private. A thanksgiving service to
be announced later.

In Memoriam
PAYA Oswaldo, winner of the European
Parliament’s Sakharov Prize and his aide,
Harold Cepero, brave fighters for true
democracy and untrammelled freedom of
worship, murdered in Cuba in July 2012.
May they rest in peace.

The marriage took place on 8th May 2021,
at St Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton,
between Alexander and Anna.

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Church of England will
struggle to reverse decline
Credo
Martyn
Percy

I

t is hard to imagine the
Church of England
hanging on to its powers
and privileges in the next
50 years. Especially since
the majority of citizens
expect equality and
accountability from their
institutions.
Moreover, as the number of
paid-up members of the
Church of England has
seemingly fallen off a cliff
edge already, and there is no
sign that this decline is
temporary or seasonal, some
questions need to be asked.
The present state of the
Church of England would
pose an enormous challenge
for the very best estate agent
to elicit serious interest.
True, the CofE is not for
sale, but it is constantly on
the lookout for long-term and
loyal tenants who will take
care of the storefront as
though they were the owners.
Upkeep, appearance,
productivity, regional brand
compliance and purpose are
devolved to the local
occupiers, who mostly do an
extremely good job on very
tight budgets.
However, for all their
labour, laity and clergy will
receive little thanks from
their somewhat distant
landlords, who only seem
interested in the productivity
and turnover.
The Church of England
recently announced a bond of
£550 million that would
provide long-term financial
support for its mission and
ministry. The Sustainability
Bond, as it is known, will
repay investors at between
3.25 per cent to 3.65 per cent
over the next 30 years. That

might look like smart
business. Borrowing money is
cheap, and repaying it with a
small rate of return over a
lengthy period is attractive to
lender and spender alike. (But
I do hope those brokering the
deal remembered that the
CofE had £500 million wiped
off its investments in the
stock market slump of 2003).
Leaving the finances to one
side, the senior leadership of
the CofE have been
remortgaging the actual
identity of the church for
some time. They have been
banking on the past, and
borrowing from the future, to
try to resolve the present
problems.
As with any home, this is
risky. It only makes sense if
the value of your property
keeps going up. But as the
social, moral, spiritual and
intellectual capital of the
Church of England is in
negative equity, there may be
a default at any point.
A senior colleague and
friend from a diocese in the
Church of England, and one
that enjoys a very fine and
lengthy coastline, was
surprised to come back from
a short sabbatical and be met
by the recently appointed
leader of the enabling team,
charged with rolling out the
new Mission Action Plan for
the diocese.
Naturally, my friend had to
be paid a visit by the leader of
the enabling team promoting
the fizzy Mission Action Plan
replete with maps, diagrams
and charts, so everyone was
“fully on board”.
My friend studied the maps
carefully, which showed
where all the new
congregations were to be
“planted”, and how the “old
parishes” were to be
“consolidated and merged”
into new Missional Minster
Areas.
This was all meant to be met
with breathless excitement.
Who could not be excited at

such good news? For example,
the rural deaneries were to be
replaced with “active-outfacing resource hubs geared
for equipping disciples and
enabling transformation”.
(Who in God’s name writes
this stuff?) This would all be
done and dusted by 2035.
There was a new catchy
strapline for the diocese too,
and a specially commissioned
prayer (written by a
committee) for this bold
endeavour.
My critical colleague asked
if the authors had seen a
predicted 2035 climate
change map for their region.
Of course this map of the
future had not figured in
missional groupthink. “Well,”
said my colleague, “that map
shows half the diocese under
water, so most of these new
congregations will be
submerged. Worse still, our
rural economy, tourism,
fishing, shipping and port
industries, and many of our
current transport
infrastructures will be
decimated. Did the group
think about what kind of
world we might be living in by
2035?” Answer came there
none.
Remortgaging the CofE is
risky business. Especially
since tomorrow’s parishes
will have to repay what was
borrowed today. Local
branches may want to start
asking questions.
Who actually owns this
business? Do the
shareholders have any say?
Who does it serve, and for
what purposes? Who are
these people in regional and
national headquarters, telling
parishes how to run things
locally, cutting local support
to fund such speculative
strategies?
The Very Rev Professor Martyn
Percy is an honorary fellow at Harris
Manchester College, Oxford, and
former dean of Christ Church,
Oxford (2014-2022)

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The Prince of Wales,
President, The Prince’s
Foundation, this morning
attended the Traditional
School of Arts’ End of Year
Show at the Garrison Chapel,
8 Garrison Square, London
SW1.
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22nd July, 2022
The Duchess of Gloucester,
Patron, Civil Service Sports
Council, this morning attended
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Home Park Tennis Club,
Romney Lock Road, Windsor,
Berkshire.

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Complete the saying: “Red sky at
night, shepherd’s delight. Red sky in
the morning, …”?

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Which annual music competition
is the subject of Tim Moore’s 2006
book Nul Points?

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In 1905, Henry Fairfield Osborn
gave which dinosaur a name
meaning “tyrant lizard king”?

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The latest movie spin-off of which
ITV period drama is subtitled
A New Era?

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Which Rossini opera premiered
in 1816 under the title Almaviva
o sia l’inutile precauzione at Teatro
Argentina, Rome?

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be straight or
mildly cryptic,
always lead to
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Located in Brazil, what is the most
populous city in the Southern
Hemisphere?

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Immortalised in an 1857 novel, who
was headmaster of Rugby School
from 1828 to 1842?
Alba Campeol gave which coffeeflavoured dessert a name that
means “pick me up” in Italian?
Murder Before Evensong (2022)
is “A Canon Clement Mystery” by
which celebrity vicar?

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Which author of Jonathan Wild
(1743) became justice of the peace
for Westminster in 1748?

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Which medal was recently
awarded to Hugo Duminil-Copin,
June Huh, James Maynard and
Maryna Viazovska?

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Featuring Jim Carrey, which 1985
horror comedy film stars Lauren
Hutton as a vampire countess?

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Which Swiss psychiatrist
introduced the terms
“introversion” and “extraversion”
into psychology?

Competing for Alfa Romeo, who
is Formula One’s first Chinese
driver?
The pictured rodent,
Desmarest’s hutia, is endemic
to which Caribbean country?

Last week’s O Tempora! solution

Magic was the lead single from
which California rapper’s 2022
album Ramona Park Broke My Heart?

Borrowed from the Queen, the
dress worn by Princess Beatrice
for her wedding was designed by whom?

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The Tory MP Gavin Williamson
has championed which African
republic’s campaign to be recognised as
a sovereign nation?

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Which 15th-century lord of
Rimini was “canonised” to hell by
his enemy, Pope Pius II?

7 Belonging to bulls (contracted
form, as it so often is) (4)
8 In “formal speech”, opp. in
sermone, which means in
conversation (8)
9 I creak and rattle (the shorter 3rd
conj. form) (6)
10 That girl you’ve just mentioned (6)
11 Consequently, accordingly, so (4)
12 Shakes — “pocula lactea” fallax est,
quatit (8)
15 You lot are snatching (something)
away: prehenditis (8)
17 Prima ____: the crack of dawn (4)
18 Fillets (non piscium), bands (non
cantorum), sacred ribbons (6)
21 Barba ____: a quite grey beard (6)
22 I spoiled or dishonoured (ponder
the meaning of immaculate) (8)
23 The A of a.m. (4)

Down

Which England footballer wrote
the 2001 autobiography 1966 and
All That?

1 I should encourage (imperf. subj.,
hortor) (8)

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iam perii, Pl. Asinaria 233 (6)
3 She asked with some sense of
urgency: flagitavit, postulavit (8)
4 Beech trees on which Paris carved
Oenone’s name, Ovid Her. 5.21 (4)
5 This drove Aeneas: voluntas grata
in parentes, Cic. Pro Plancio 80 (6)
6 From where? Whence, as they used
to say (4)
13 Looks back: nati ____ alas Daedalus,
Ovid Ars Amatoria 2.73f (8)
14 Tooled up (with a blade) — perf.
ppl. describing Juno at Aen. 2.614
(8)
16 Adv., rather than and adj., preferred
(comp. neut. potis) (6)
17 One may be allowed, it might be
right (subj. impersonal verb) (6)
19 You were going alone (4)
20 Consumam caseum (4)

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5 Concerned with recent delivery of
gas the least bit short (8)
9 Resting place for the great cat, not
quite running (8)
10 Cook wraps poorly with fancy
trimmings (6)
11 Gold car reversing round island
I’m leaving... (2,6)
12 ...which is translated on right
devices for listeners (6)
13 Frank beginning to feel anger is in
order for troops (4,4)
15 Attempt to push back society
entertainer (4)
17 Love games after Pamplona’s
leader is one releasing bulls (4)
19 Refuse to promote religious
festival (4,4)
20 Man picked up fruit, making
asinine utterance (3-3)
21 Protecting arrangement of sails,
cross water (8)
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(6)
23 Most disruptive cry for attention
cut sleep after noon (8)
24 Part of capital in China with large
retail area (4,4)
25 Gas — more than enough bottles
(6)

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2 In extremis, alcoholic has drunk
cola up in resort (8)
3 Ten rolling, lush rises in port for
storing goods (8)
4 Excluding guys in rubbish heap —
they’re amazing (9)
5 Lay claim to occupy no French
island with lake (15)
6 What account providers do
managed to raise amount of
interest? (7)
7 Convince to do carpeting, but less
grand (4,4)
8 Discard song — song intended to
be popular (3,5)
14 Bank run with current and diverse
changes (9)
15 Tents on mountain maybe being
affected (4,4)
16 African swamp-dweller quiet over
online invoice (8)
17 Moralising Republican, beastly on
the outside (8)
18 Unbalanced painter with no time
to plug rubbish (8)
19 Key skill of one cutting power and
mains supply (7)

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that the number in each circle is equal to
the sum of the four surrounding spaces,
and each colour total is correct.
Solution MindGames in Saturday Review

Quiz answers 1 Shepherd’s warning.
2 Eurovision Song Contest.
3 Tyrannosaurus rex. 4 Downton
Abbey. 5 The Barber of Seville. 6 São
Paulo. 7 Dr Thomas Arnold — as in
the novel Tom Brown’s Schooldays.
8 Tiramisu. 9 The Reverend Richard
Coles. 10 Carl Jung. 11 Norman
Hartnell. 12 Somaliland. 13 Henry
Fielding. 14 Fields Medal. 15 Once
Bitten. 16 Vince Staples. 17 Sigismondo
Pandolfo Malatesta. 18 Geoff Hurst.
19 Zhou Guanyu. 20 Cuba.
Concise Quintagram answers 1 Haze
2 Wiped 3 Jet ski 4 Glove box
5 Frequency.

Sport
SATURDAY JULY 23 2022

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Bronze for
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Former PM looks back on the
London Games, ten years on

Dina runs superbly to claim
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England’s seamers reduce South Africa top order to six for four
before spinners clinch crushing victory in rain-reduced ODI.
Pages 10-11

Willey gets
England off to
a great start
with the wicket
of De Kock

Ten Hag: Maguire can stop boos
Paul Hirst
Perth

Erik ten Hag has told Harry Maguire
that he must rediscover his best form if
he is to stop Manchester United fans
booing him.
Maguire was booed on 18 separate
occasions by United supporters in the
3-1 win over Crystal Palace in
Melbourne on Tuesday.
Last season some supporters at Old
Trafford cheered when Maguire was
replaced by Juan Mata in the
Champions League round-of-16 match
against Atletico Madrid. Those fans
were unhappy with his form last term.
He was booed in England’s match
against Ivory Coast in March for the
same reason.
“The team and Harry himself can

stop it [the booing] by performing,” Ten
Hag, the United manager, said. “That’s
what we are working on. We heard [the
boos] but we saw [that] if you perform it
[the criticism] slows down and I think
Harry and the team impressed by the
way they played. Then it stopped.”
Ten Hag gave Maguire’s spirits a lift a
couple of weeks ago when he confirmed that the defender would retain
the United captaincy, even though
some supporters were advocating that
Bruno Fernandes or Cristiano Ronaldo
should lead the side instead.
Some of the 5,000 fans who watched
a training session in Perth on Thursday
chanted Maguire’s name in support of
the 29-year-old centre back, who joined
for £85 million from Leicester City
three years ago. It remains to be seen
whether he will get a similar reception
today when United play Aston Villa in

front of a full house at the 60,000capacity Optus Stadium in Perth.
It is the last match of a four-game
tour to Thailand and Australia. United
have recorded impressive wins over
Liverpool, Melbourne Victory and
Palace so far, but Ten Hag warned that
his team could struggle in the Premier
League this season unless they sign
another forward.
One of the representatives of
Antony, the Ajax winger, is understood
to be in Manchester this week. The
Dutch club are demanding £68 million
for the Brazilian.
“Because of the number of games this
season, you need more options in
offence,” Ten Hag said. “I think it’s
vital [to sign another forward] if you
want to get success. The season is
really long. But we also still have time
[to sign someone].”

Transgender women to be
banned from female rugby
Martyn Ziegler
Chief Sports Reporter

Transgender women will not be
allowed to play in female contact rugby
competitions in England, under new
recommendations from the RFU.
Until now the governing body has
allowed some transgender women to
play women’s rugby, but they have had
to apply on a case-by-case basis.
However, after a two-year review, it is
now recommending to the RFU
Council that anyone whose sex was
assigned as male at birth should not be
able to play girls’ or women’s rugby.
That falls into line with World
Rugby’s guidelines and is similar to the
approaches announced recently by

rugby league and the international
swimming federation, Fina.
At the moment there are five or six
transgender women playing community rugby in England. They applied to
the RFU, and were permitted to play on
the basis there is no higher risk to opponents based on their size and weight.
Those rules also applied to the
Allianz Premier 15s, though it is understood that no transgender women play
in the elite game in England.
Girls and boys will still be able to play
in the same teams up until the age of 12.
The RFU said that it “has contacted
registered trans female players, on
whom the policy will have a direct
impact, to offer its support in continuing to encourage them to participate in
the sport”.

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WEEKEND
BRIEFING
Ones to watch
Jonas Vingegaard is
poised to win his first
Tour de France. The
penultimate stage, a timetrial from Lacapelle-Marival
to Rocamadour, is the last
significant test for the Dane.
Today, 2pm, ITV4

France face the
defending champions
Holland in the last of the Euro
2022 quarter-finals. The
French have never made it
beyond this stage. Vivianne
Miedema returns for Holland.
Today, 8pm, BBC1

Guess the star
This former striker won the
Champions League, World
Cup and Premier League in a
decorated career. However,
here he is working for a
national side he would not be
commonly associated with.
Answer on page 24

Va-va-vroom
Charles Leclerc’s fortunes
finally turned two weeks ago
in Austria, and he will look to
make further inroads into
Max Verstappen’s
championship lead at the
French Grand Prix.
Tomorrow 2pm, Sky Sports F1

Headingley hero?
England and South Africa
cross the Pennines to Leeds,
where Jos Buttler’s side will
be looking to build on
yesterday’s crushing victory
in Manchester.
Tomorrow, 10.30am, Sky Sports

On the box
TODAY
10.30am The Amundi Evian
Championship, day three
Sky Sports Golf

2.30pm England v South
Africa, second Women’s T20I
Sky Sports Cricket

8pm World Matchplay Darts,
semi-finals
Sky Sports Main Event

TOMORROW
1am World Athletics
Championships, day nine
BBC1

11am England v South Africa,
third ODI
Sky Sports Cricket

3pm Tour de France, final
stage
ITV 4

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

England falling in love
comes from the west of the Netherlands where the Dutch are known to be
particularly direct — so she does not
have a problem with giving bad news.
Those awkward calls might not be
received so equably if they did not turn
Chief Sports
Writer
out so often to be correct.
The classic, of course, was against
The question that will never get Spain. England were 1-0 down and she
answered is: what if Sarina Wiegman brought off Mead (the tournament’s
hadn’t passed her Covid test on top scorer, remember), Ellen White
Wednesday? Or, to put it another way, (England’s all-time top scorer) and
and slightly more directly, because that Fran Kirby (their playmaker/provider).
is how the England head coach prefers Most would consider that bold deciit: would the Lionesses have won their sion-making; Wiegman’s demeanour
quarter-final against Spain if she hadn’t did not suggest that at all.
been there?
Then another change came in the
In the post-match press conference, 82nd minute: Wiegman switched to a
after England had come back from 1-0 back three and shifted Bright up into
down and Georgia Stanway had scored attack to win headers and cause havoc.
that pile-driver winner, Wiegman Two minutes later, England scored.
remained the most composed person in
Again, would England have won that
the stadium. Yes, she conceded, she had game if Wiegman had not been in the
indeed skipped on to the pitch at the stadium? Would she have called those
final whistle, both fists clenched in cele- changes if she had been watching a TV
bration. “I think I went a little crazy,” monitor from afar? Yes of course, she
she said, as if she couldn’t understand says, these decisions are shared by the
what had come over her. Of course, coaching staff. Don’t make it about me.
normal service would soon resume.
You want to catch her with her guard
Would the team have won in her down? There are a couple of fulfilling
absence? She dispatched any such moments on a podcast called Vision of
glorification of her influence politely a Champion when she is interviewed
but dismissively and preferred to talk (before taking the England job) by the
about the quality of her team. When coach who recruited her to the Universshe was asked whether her ability to be ity of North Carolina in 1989. In it, she
ruthless with her substitutions was one recalls going as an intern to work with
of her strengths, she again shrugged off the men’s team, Sparta Rotterdam, in
any sense that ”it’s all about me” and 2016 when the head coach explained
explained that being able to make that he needed to get to know her a bit
strong decisions on substitutions more before deciding how often she
“starts with the quality of the players”. could come in. “That took one day,” she
Increasingly, though, as this team says, “then he said: ‘OK, you can come
plot their fraught passage through this every day.’”
home tournament, the extent to which
Then, after her time at Sparta was up
their success — their survival — does and she was back as assistant of the
start with her is becoming clear. Wieg- Dutch women’s team, Sparta lost a
man will courteously explain
coach through a temporary
that there was a plan in place
illness and got back in touch
had Covid again forced
with her. “They said: ‘We
Euro 2022
her to be absent for the
need someone for a
Spain game and that
couple of months, we
semi-finals
there would have been
made a list but there’s
constant communicaonly one person on the
Tuesday:
tion between her and
list and that’s you.’”
England v Sweden, 8pm
her coaching team. Her
Try, now, to match
Wednesday: Germany
players, however, say
this personality up with
v France/Holland, 8pm
that just her presence on
the head coach who inthe touchline gives them
spires such trust in her
confidence.
players. She is both direct and
That is an extraordinary
unsparingly tough with her decicompliment. Just having her there, sions and yet treasured by her team to
seeing her there, gives them faith.
the point where just seeing her on the
If you hadn’t seen her in action in the touchline delivers a jolt of confidence.
technical area, then, you might have
Keira Walsh explained it a little after
thought that she was another kind of the Spain game. “When you make a
Pep Guardiola, all action, direction, mistake in training or in a game she’s
expression, gesticulation, living out the not barking at you on the side,” she said.
game and its emotional fluctuations “As long as you’re trying to do the right
and tactical nuances.
thing and it’s what she’s asked of you,
Yet Wiegman could not be more then she’s never going to shout at you. If
different. The game goes into the last you’ve got a coach who shouts when
ten minutes of normal time, England you’re running up and down the touchare still a goal behind, and she does not line, it does affect you.”
betray the slightest glimmer of concern.
It sounds simple, doesn’t it: why ever
It is a considerable force of personality would coaches yell at their players
that, because of the unblemished when, having seen how Wiegman opercomposure with which she conducts ates, you understand what being calm
herself, can persuade her players that and composed can achieve?
all is in hand, we may be 1-0 down but
With a semi-final on Tuesday, Wiegthe plan will still work out.
man will be back at the centre of the
The further the Lionesses’ progress, story. She has more big calls to make,
the more these players will be making particularly at centre half and left back.
household names of themselves: Beth It feels inevitable that whatever deciMead, the tournament’s top scorer, sions she makes, they will be respected
Millie Bright, the rock in defence, and applauded for being right again.
Stanway, she of the ferocious right boot,
History suggests that when English
scrapping box-to-box. Yet Wiegman, football hires a foreign head coach,
the inscrutable Dutch coach, part ice- however the love affair starts, it finds a
maiden, part svengali, is very much one way of going sour. At this point in the
of the leading cast — not that she would women’s Euros, it does not look that
want to be.
way. It looks as if English football has
She is intriguingly cool. She will call properly fallen for Wiegman and the
courageous, calculating substitutions only way that is going be altered is if it
with an unflappable ruthlessness. She falls in even deeper.

Owen
Slot

BIG CHANGES
DUTCH COACH
HAS MADE

Sweden stand in way of
Sweden
Sembrant 90+2

Belgium

1
0

Charlotte Duncker

England will face Sweden in the European Championship semi-final on
Tuesday after Peter Gerhardsson’s
team beat Belgium with a last-gasp
stoppage-time winner at Leigh Sports
Village.
On paper it should have been a walk
in the park for Sweden, who sit second
in the Fifa world rankings, against 19thplaced Belgium but Ives Serneels’s side
defended resolutely and were one minute from taking the tie to extra time.
As the Red Flames sobbed at fulltime and were consoled by their family

members it was celebrations for the
Swedes, who can now look ahead to
Tuesday’s semi-final clash.
“England are a really good team, it
will be an interesting challenge, we
have played against them twice before
so we know what we need to do tactically,” Gerhardsson said.
And Sarina Wiegman can take notes
from the way Belgium set up and performed if they want to book their place
in the Wembley final and win on Tuesday night.
If England are to get past Sweden
they will need to defend like the Red
Flames. They were compact, organised
and kept their shape, making it difficult
for the Swedes to find space. They were
aided by some poor decision-making by
Gerhardsson’s side. The clash ended
with Sweden having had 33 shots to
Belgium’s three, with one golden

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with Wiegman
VINCE MIGNOTT/EPA

W DARING
SUBSTITUTIONS
Reputation
counts for
nothing under
Wiegman. With
England needing a
goal on
Wednesday night,
Wiegman made
the surprising
decision to take off
Beth Mead England’s leading
scorer at the
tournament with
five goals – Ellen
White who is
chasing the all-time
goal record and key
creator Fran Kirby.
The plan worked:
replacements
Alessia Russo and
Ella Toone combined
to drag England into
extra-time.

No one has been more
central to trophy quest
than Kay Cossington,
write Rebecca Myers
and Molly Hudson

K
U COMING IN FROM THE COLD
W
Wiegman’s appointment heralded returns for
M
Mary Earps, the Manchester United
go
goalkeeper who had not featured in an
En
England shirt for nearly two years, and Beth
Mead the Arsenal forward who was omitted from
Mead,
the Team GB Olympic squad by former manager
Hege Riise. The pair have been key figures in
England’s unbeaten start under Wiegman.

U TOUGH SELECTION CALLS
Wiegman was quick to sort out the captaincy well
in advance of the tournament. She replaced
Steph Houghton, who had suffered from longterm injury problems, with Leah Williamson in
April and did not include the Manchester City
defender in her final squad. Departing from
England’s previous strategy of informing players
of the squad via a phone call, Wiegman held faceto-face meetings at St George’s Park.

U EMBRACING
ACING THE FANS
Adopting a strategy she employed for Holland’s
home European Championships in 2017, Wiegman
wanted to strengthen the connection between
players and supporters by holding open training
sessions for the public at St George’s Park. In
June, aspiring young players from the England
stars’ own grassroots teams were invited to meet
the squad and watch them train.

Lionesses after dramatic late winner
chance in the first half being squandered by Stina Blackstenius from six
yards out.
What Belgium were lacking was
quality in the final third. Sweden are
good at keeping the ball and when Serneels’s side found a way through they
did nothing to test Hedvig Lindahl, with
their best chance coming in the first
half as Justine Vanhaevermaet drilled a
shot just wide of the post. If the Red
Flames were hoping to cause an upset
those were the sort of chances that
needed to end up on target.
The chances kept on coming for the
Swedes but they were hampered by
both a lack of clinical finishing and the
exceptional form of Nicky Evrard. The
goalkeeper, who was named player of
the match, is a semi-professional player
and has a business selling bouncy
castles as her other job. She was the one

Unsung visionary who
refined blueprint for
success at St George’s

to give the Belgium contingent in the
7,517-strong crowd at Leigh Sports Village a glimmer of hope that a first ever
Euros semi-final could be possible.
With her standout save, she denied
Blackstenius from point-blank range in
the second half, after the Arsenal forward had latched on to a deep free kick
that was hooked into the penalty area
by the Barcelona forward Fridolina
Rolfö.
Most of Sweden’s attacking threat
came from set pieces, with Kosovare
Asllani’s wicked delivery causing problems in the area. They are the side that
scored the most goals from set pieces in
the group stage and continued to pose a
threat from each dead-ball situation
here. England will have to defend as
well as Belgium during set pieces if they
are to get through in Sheffield on Tuesday night.

And in the end it was a set piece that
undid Belgium. An Asllani corner in the
92nd minute was punched to Nathalie
Bjorn, her shot was blocked on the line
and Linda Sembrant slammed in the rebound.
Heartbreak for Belgium and a clash
against England is Sweden’s reward but
they know they will have to improve if
they are to reach the semi-final.
SWEDEN
(4-3-3): H Lindahl 6 — A Ilestedt 6, L Sembrant 6,
A Nilden 6, M Eriksson 6 — N Bjorn 7, K Asllani 8,
F Angeldahl 7 (H Bennison 84min) — F Rolfo 7,
S Blackstenius 7, J Rytting Kaneryd 7.
BELGIUM
(4-3-3). N Evrard 9 — D Philtjens 8, De Neve 7,
S Kees 7, Deloose 7 (E Dhont 7, 67) — J Biesmans
7 (K Missipo 88), Minnaert 7, J Vanhaevermaet 6
— T De Caigny 6, Cayman 6, T Wullaert 6
Booked Biesmans, Philtjens
Referee K Monzul (Ukraine)

ay Cossington, the FA’s
head of women’s technical
development, remembers
walking into the St
George’s Park base of
the national team when it was being
built in 2012, with her hard hat
and high-visibility jacket on, being
shown the plans for the world-class
facility that promised to give teams
optimum preparation for matches
and tournaments.
“If I’m honest, it surpassed all of
our aspirations and dreams,”
Cossington tells The Times.
Fast-forward a decade, and the
state-of-the-art facility was the home
of the warm-up camps that gave the
E
England team the desired preparation
th has led them to a European
that
C
Championship semi-final, and
p
perhaps the best chance yet to win
aan elusive major trophy.
If they do so, Cossington's role will
b
be key. She manages three areas: the
w
women’s and girls’ teams from seniors
tto under-15 level, in which a model
ffor success has been created; the
n
national talent pathway, to bridge
tthe gap between the domestic and
iinternational game; and the
professional youth academy system.
Cossington has often been praised
by Baroness Sue Campbell, the FA’s
head of women’s football, for her
unsung work in the background and
she highlights the creation of the
blueprint as a landmark moment for
England women.
“We developed a blueprint for
success for all our national teams,
which is basically a coaching, playing
and operating philosophy for all of
our age groups, in line with how we
want to operate with our seniors,”
Cossington explains.
“It is a curriculum, no different to
one for maths, science, or English. It’s
working out the operating philosophy
that’s going to help them get there [to
the top level].”
The FA has quickly identified that,
although much is learnt and achieved
by working together, some nuances of
the women’s game mean elements
need to be treated differently,
something that was accelerated
during the first year of the pandemic.
Sarina Wiegman, the England head
coach, was keen to work with the FA
on utilising the experience of home
tournaments — she had won one
with Holland in 2017, and the FA had
experienced one last summer in
which the men’s team reached the
final. Declan Rice and Kieran
Trippier shared their experiences of
dealing with the pressure of a home
tournament and the bond they had
built with their team-mates.
“We’re really fortunate with the
men having a home Euros a year
before,” Cossington says. “I think the
sharing and learning of those guys —
player-to-player contacts as well — is
really important, and that’s where we
say the uniqueness comes in . . . while
the games are slightly different in

Wiegman’s century
England have won 16 and drawn two of
their 18 games under Sarina Wiegman,
scoring exactly 100 goals in the process
and conceding just four. These are the
players who have contributed to their
remarkable goal tally
B Mead
E White
E Toone
G Stanway
L Hemp
B England
A Russo
Own goals
M Bright
R Daly
A Greenwood
J Scott
F Kirby
N Parris
L Williamson
J Carter
J Nobbs
C Kelly
L Bronze

19 goals
13
11
9
8
7
7
5
5
4
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1

terms of the men and women, those
experiences are the same. That’s the
way that we bring those values to life,
of ‘one team England’.”
What has impressed Cossington is
the spontaneous interactions between
the teams — the coffee meetings,
card games and chats that, she is keen
to emphasise, are organic connections
and have not been forced by the FA.
“Harry Kane coming to watch a
training session, Harry Maguire
sitting in the stadium watching the
game, those are fantastic moments of
support that show the connectivity . . .
I genuinely feel that shows the real
interest the male players [have] in the
female game, and it’s not scripted.”
Wiegman spoke in the build-up
to the quarter-final against Spain
of her dislike of expectation and
pressure, preferring to focus on the
controllable, such as how England
perform. This was another strategy
to cope with the burden of being a
home nation which was developed at
St George’s Park.
A second technique that worked
against Spain was the impact of
substitutes, with the likes of Nikita
Parris, who had not played a single
minute in the tournament, a key part
of England’s game management in
the closing exchanges.
“[The build-up] was an opportunity
also to discuss things such as when
you’re playing and when you’re not
playing, being part of a squad not in
the first XI, and your role and
responsibility,” Cossington says.
She explains that, given the
“enormous” build-up to tournaments,
the FA prides itself on having a team
of staff, from analysts to medical
professionals, that are available for
whichever squad requires them.
If England can finally overcome the
hurdle of a semi-final — the stage at
which they have fallen in the past
three major women’s tournaments —
to go on and lift the trophy, it will be
a success forged at St George’s Park,
and the dream of a base that
cultivated success will be rewarded
with its first senior silverware.

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Sport World Athletics Championships

Dina dedicates ‘sweet bronze’
outrageously fast that it was always
going to take something special to catch
her. The 35-year-old, sporting a bright
pink wig for this one, clocked 21.81 to
add a silver medal to the gold she
Chief Sports
collected at the weekend.
Correspondent,
Eugene
But it remained a field stacked with
talent; one that included Elaine
The race lasted only 22 seconds but the Thompson-Herah, a four-times indistory of Dina Asher-Smith’s coura- vidual Olympic sprint champion, Abby
geous pursuit of yet another World Steiner, the much fancied American
Championship medal was one that who has just secured a seven-figure
spanned more than 70 years.
shoe contract on the back of some
It dated back to when Sislyn Asher, superb performances, and Aminatou
her maternal grandmother and a Seyni, a DSD (differences of sex
member of the Windrush generation, development) athlete from Niger with a
came from Trinidad to England to work dangerously strong finish. Not to menfor the NHS shortly after the war, tion another American, Tamara Clark.
becoming a nurse at Lewisham
For Asher-Smith in lane three, there
Hospital and raising a family in was danger all around her. But the
southeast London. “My whole family motivation to fight all the way to the
wouldn’t be who we are without her; finish, and take a precious place on the
without her hard work and her podium, was considerable. There was
sacrifices for us,” Asher-Smith said.
the pride of coming to Oregon as the
Aged 92, Sislyn died in May, leaving a defending world champion, and the
family in mourning and an athlete misery of finishing fourth in the 100m
struggling to compete when saddled by on Sunday. And then there was her
so much grief. The body, she said, was precious Sislyn.
willing, but the mind was burdened
It was, she conceded after the race,
with the loss of a woman with whom partly why she has been a little short of
she shared so much. They looked the her best these past few weeks.
same, had the same sense of
But from somewhere Asherhumour, and, with birthSmith again became the fiery
days only two days apart,
competitor who so often
they always celebrated
excels when the stakes are
as one.
highest, displaying a
It made competing
combination of speed
at
these
World
and pure bloody-mindOnly three women have
Championships pered determination that
more 200m World
haps the most difficult
she also says she gets
Championship medals
challenge Asher-Smith
from that special person
than Asher-Smith, who
has faced, with the
in her life. “She’d like to
now has two
medal the 26-year-old
claim she was a sprinter,”
claimed all the more satisfyAsher-Smith. said. “So thank
ing because it was secured in
you, Grandma.”
such dire circumstances.
Grandma would have been proud,
It was hard enough anyway, with few not least by the way Asher-Smith burst
in doubt after the semi-finals that from the blocks to pull away immediAsher-Smith was among five sprinters ately from Thompson-Herah in lane
battling for bronze. Shericka Jackson two and reach the end of the bend in
was quite clearly in a league of her own, third, ahead of Clark, Seyni and Steiner
and the manner in which she stormed outside her.
to victory in the final here on Thursday
It was from here, however, that the
night — crossing the line in 21.45sec, pressure started to mount, with the
the second-fastest time in history — chasing pack battling to erode what
demonstrated as much.
advantage she had.
While Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce,
Asher-Smith, however, held her
already the champion over 100m at nerve as well as her form, clocking
these championships, ran the bend so 22.02 to finish a tenth of a second clear

Matt
Lawton

3

Asher-Smith’s major
outdoor medals
2016 European Championships
Gold 200m....................................20.37sec
Silver 4x100m.....................................42.45
2016 Olympics
Bronze 4x100m...................................41.77
2017 World Championships
Silver 4x100m......................................42.12
2018 Commonwealth Games
Bronze 200m......................................22.29
Gold 4x100m.......................................42.46
2018 European Championships
Gold 100m.............................................10.85
Gold 200m.............................................21.89
Gold 4x100m........................................41.88
2019 World Championships
Silver 100m...........................................10.83
Gold 200m.............................................21.88
Silver 4x100m......................................41.85
2021 Olympics
Bronze 4x100m...................................41.88
2022 World Championships
Bronze 200m......................................22.02

of Seyni, a result that not only secured
a third medal of the championships for
the British team but spared her from
being at the centre of a yet another
storm of controversy around the
participation of intersex athletes.
Ahead of her something quite extraordinary had happened. Only once
had a woman run inside 21.5, and that
was in 1988, when Florence Griffith
Joyner set that ridiculous world record
of 21.34. For Jackson to go as close as she
did, albeit with the benefit of super
spikes and a super-bouncy track, was
nothing short of remarkable.
The statistics confirmed as much.
After the first 100m only five hundredths of a second separated the front
three, with Fraser-Pryce a fraction
ahead. But Jackson then engaged the
after-burners, covering the second half
of the race in a quite staggering 10.41
and putting more than half a second
between herself and the third-placed
Asher-Smith.
“It’s mad,” Asher-Smith said afterwards. “Does that mean Shericka came
round the bend in like, 11 flat, and then
ran a 10.4 straight?” Well, yes.

For the Briton, it nevertheless felt like
victory. “I am so happy with that,” she
said. “The calibre of the women in that
final was insane. Forget the times there;
all those women are capable of running
sub-22. I don’t think we have ever been
in a world final with that kind of talent.”
Her success, she dedicated to Sislyn.
“100 per cent,” she said.
But she said that it had been immensely difficult. “As an athlete I’ve
never been in this position,” she said.
“My body has been in great shape but
my brain wasn’t in the room. It felt like

I was watching myself do stuff. It’s that
psychological element which is so
important to running at this level.
“There’s no timeline on that kind of
thing and I was hoping, with the help of
my psychologist, to get my brain and
body on the same page. I am in great
shape, but at this level your mind has to
be there too.
“I had to take myself from being so
profoundly sad to being OK to race. But
when you are racing women of this
calibre, being OK to race isn’t good
enough — you need to be excellent. It’s

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to granny Sislyn
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SPORT
NOTEBOOK
Martyn Ziegler
Chief Sports Reporter
SPORTS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR

From Riyadh to Reading – key
players in golf’s new landscape
An English sports marketing
company has become a key player
in the civil war that has enveloped
golf since the launch of the Saudi
Arabia-funded LIV series.
Performance 54, based in
Reading, has been taken over by
ed Al
the Saudis, with Majed
Sorour, the chief
executive of Saudi
Golf — and recently
appointed as a
director of
Newcastle United
— the initial
director of the
holding company
that now controls
the agency.
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LIV this week signed
nset,
up Henrik Stenson, inset,
ar-old former
leading to the 46-year-old
Open champion from Sweden
being stripped of the European
Ryder Cup captaincy. There has
been opposition to the tour on the
grounds that it is a sportswashing
exercise by Saudi Arabia.
Asher-Smith’s
bronze, behind the
two Jamaicans,
top, was dedicated
to her grandma
Sislyn, right

something I’ve never really struggled
with before.
“My life is never going to be the same
but she would want me to come here
and be in as good a mental shape as I
possibly could be. I know I’ve done
her proud.”
It was quite the night for sprinting,
with the men — running their 200m
final only a few minutes later —
impressing almost as much as the
women. Noah Lyles led another
American clean sweep, with the
winning time, of 19.31, erasing Michael

Johnson’s longstanding United States
record of 19.32.
“I was running so fast, I was breaking
down in form, which is something I
never do,” Lyles said.
“But then I looked over and I saw I’d
levelled Michael Johnson’s time, and I
thought, ‘Really?’ And then that
number changed from a two to one and
my whole mood changed.
“I feel incredible. If I didn’t have the
fear of God put in me from Erriyon
[Knighton] and Kenny [Bednarek]
I wouldn’t have come out here

Henderson extends lead
Golf
Cathy Harris
Brooke Henderson made the most of
perfect scoring conditions to surge into
the outright lead at the halfway stage of
the Amundi Evian Championship,
moving to 14 under par after a second
consecutive round of 64.
On another scorching day on the
hillside overlooking Lake Geneva, the
24-year-old Canadian’s round featured
eight birdies and a solitary bogey as she
opened up a three-shot lead over her
nearest challenger, the American world
No 3 Nelly Korda.
Henderson’s all-round game was in
perfect order and, helped by her older
sister and caddie, Brittany, she gave a
masterly performance on tricky greens.
An exhibition of precision golf has
given Henderson a decent cushion at
the head of the leaderboard and a realistic chance of capturing her second
major title, having triumphed at the
2016 PGA Championship aged 18.
Several players, including the former
major winners Lydia Ko and Ryu

So-yeon, fell away after making strong
starts and Henderson was pleased to
have put together two such solid
rounds.
“There’s no doubt the greens are
really challenging but I’ve had three
top-20 finishes in the season’s first three
majors so I’ll look to keep it going over
the weekend,” she said.
England’s Charley Hull, 26, remains
hopeful of mounting a challenge for her
first major title, albeit from seven shots
back of Henderson after an eventful
round of 69.
A sloppy three-putt at the par-three
2nd from four feet was followed by an
unlikely par at the 15th when she was
given a free drop after her drive landed
in a spectator’s picnic under the trees.
Hull’s group were put on the clock for
slow play but she finished with a
brilliant approach to the 18th only to see
her eagle putt lip out.
“I’ve been creating a lot of chances
and feel I’m in a good position,” she said.
“There’s plenty of golf to be played and
it is a major so anything can happen.
But if I care too much about what I’m
trying to achieve I never play well.”

Performance 54 was set up in
2015, since when it has worked
closely with the Saudis on a
women’s golf series sponsored by
the state-owned oil company
Aramco. Two of the agency’s
three founders, Gary Davidson
and Jed M
Moore, are
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new audience, but
because of the br
broad ranging
benefits available for the entire
golfing ecosystem from its
launch.” For some reason,
however, Performance 54’s
website makes no mention of its
connection with the LIV tour.

Champions City Dr no for Purslow
Purslow, the Aston Villa
lose their Kloss Christian
chief executive, delayed his trip to
and tried to run away from them so
fast.”
Being the showman that he is, Lyles
tore off the top half of his race suit in
celebration for slapping the track.
Earlier in the evening, four British
women progressed to the semi-finals of
the 800m. For Keely Hodgkinson,
Jemma Reekie, Ellie Baker and Alex
Bell, reaching the next round proved
fairly comfortable. The same could not
quite be said of Marc Scott, who had to
work hard to secure a place in the
5,000m final as a fastest loser.

Commentator Feherty
joins LIV Golf series
David Feherty, the former Ryder Cup
player turned broadcaster, has joined
the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series as
on-air commentator and co-executive
producer of its live coverage.
The 63-year-old Irishman, who
since his playing days has worked for
NBC and the Golf Channel, said: “As
a storyteller, this is a one-of-a-kind
opportunity to help write a new
chapter in this sport’s history.
“LIV Golf is developing ideas and
innovations that are going to grow
the audience and engage the next
generation of players and fans. I’m
excited by the energy LIV Golf is
creating and I’m eager to contribute
to a world-class broadcast production
that has a vision towards the future.”
Feherty will make his debut at the
tour’s third event, being held at
Trump National Golf Club
Bedminster in New Jersey this month.
Meanwhile, Rory McIlroy will
return to the BMW PGA
Championship at Wentworth for the
first time in three years in September.
The PGA Championship is one of the
flagship events on the DP World Tour
and has a prize fund of £6.6 million.

It is the end of a 21-year era at
Manchester City after the chief
communications officer, Vicky
Kloss, decided to call it a day for
family reasons.
A lifelong City fan, Kloss joined
the club when they were still at
Maine Road via an unusual route
— she did a degree in Latin at
Cambridge and then became a
detective in the Metropolitan
Police before going into
communications. She became a
key figure in the running of the
club, and the broader City
Football Group, after the Abu
Dhabi takeover in 2008 and was
renowned for fighting City’s
corner with vigour.
Roberto Mancini publicly
criticised her immediately after
City’s 1-0 defeat by Wigan
Athletic in the FA Cup final in
2013 — while she was in the room
— after a series of reports that his
job as manager was under threat.
He was sacked two days later.

Athletics aims to
get out of blocks
Jack Buckner, the new chief
executive of UK Athletics, has
recruited the data and technology
company Two Circles to boost the
governing body’s commercial
income and drive fan interest in
events, including the London
Diamond League.
Two Circles is run by Gareth
Balch, the former British 800m
runner. The company already
works with Wimbledon, Uefa, the
Premier League and the Hundred
in cricket.

join the club’s pre-season tour to
Australia as he was being awarded
an honorary doctorate by Aston
University this week.
But it will not be a case of “Dr
Purslow, I presume” when he
meets his fellow Premier League
executives at a shareholders’
meeting next week, as he does not
intend to use the title.

Blair’s Tweedie
dumb moment
Tony Blair had to eat some
humble pie after an embarrassing
mistake in his autobiography, the
former British Olympic chief Sir
Craig Reedie revealed this week.
In his reference to the
successful London 2012 bid, Blair
referred to Reedie as “Craig
Tweedie”. The amiable Scot
pointed this out to the publishers
and three weeks later a reprint
arrived with a handwritten note,
saying: “Dear Craig, my most
humble apologies. Put it down to
my execrable handwriting.”
Boris Johnson and Sadiq Khan,
the city’s mayor, may be talking
up a new London bid for the 2036
Games but Sir Hugh Robertson,
the BOA chairman, told the IOC
president, Thomas Bach, this
month that it had not been
consulted on any such move.
Meanwhile, dozens of cinemas
are showing a newly edited
version of Danny Boyle’s London
2012 opening ceremony as part of
the “Turn Up for Tessa” initiative.
All the money raised will go to
the foundation named after the
late Tessa Jowell, who was culture
secretary during the 2012 bid.

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Sport Rugby union’s health crisis

Simple things rugby can
do to help stop shocking
cases like my old captain
and overassessing my memory. I
would still play the game today but, if
I took a head knock, I would be very
cautious about when I came back, as I
was with all injuries.
I played the sport knowing that
injuries might affect my later life. I
can’t play tennis with my daughter
t was a huge shock to read in last now because of my bad shoulder,
weekend’s Sunday Times that my
which has recently been diagnosed as
former Wales team-mate, Ryan
arthritic. I can’t lift my arm and rotate
Jones, has had early-onset
it to serve, for instance. But it is a
dementia diagnosed at the age of small price to pay for the amazing life
only 41.
rugby has given me. The crucial point
I have always had the greatest
is, though, that all the injuries I had
admiration for Ryan. He was Wales
can be operated upon and managed
captain when I made my debut in
in some way. Brain injuries cannot.
2009 and I will always remember the
What I will say, though, is that
way he reacted when I was made
throughout my career I was never
captain a couple of years later,
forced to play on with a head injury
aged 22.
or encouraged to return earlier than I
A few of the senior players were not should have. I always had exceptional
particularly happy with my
medical care as a player.
appointment, which I could fully
For example, when there were all
understand, but Ryan was one of the
those high-profile heart cases in
first to congratulate me and
football, we had full heart
was a tremendous source of
screenings at Cardiff. That
support over the next
is the sort of diligence
couple of years. He was
rugby gave me, and it
the first person to
would be good if we
teach me the
could get to the point
importance of the
where similarly
relationship between
extensive screenings
Games Jones and
captain and referee,
take place on the brain
Warburton played
and I will always be
for all players.
together for Wales
thankful for his advice
I obviously can’t
and encouragement. No
speak on behalf of Ryan
other player was as helpful
and the others like Alix,
to me as captain.
who have had early-onset
Understandably, the news about
dementia diagnosed, because I don’t
Ryan has attracted much attention,
know what treatment they had. But I
and there is no doubt that there are
do feel extremely sorry for them and
huge concerns for the game, with
those players who were involved once
more of these cases emerging and
the game first went professional and
more of these players taking legal
into the Noughties, when everyone
action against the rugby authorities.
was getting bigger and stronger very
Is it a game in crisis, though,
quickly, and defence was becoming
because of its safety problems? I
more important. I am not sure they
wouldn’t say so, because I know how
had the same advice as I had in my
seriously this issue is being taken and
career later on.
the steps that are being taken to make
Some people must just respond to
the game safer.
head impacts more severely than
Things are not perfect, of course,
others. I have spoken to three World
and mistakes are still being made. For
Cup-winners recently between the
instance, when the Wales prop,
ages of 40 and 50 and all of them are
Tomas Francis, did not go off straight
fine. Some players are more
away after taking a head knock
vulnerable than others. There are no
against England at Twickenham this
consistent trends.
year, that was human error rather
That lack of concrete knowledge
than any sort of negligence.
must be a real worry. I think the game
Rugby does get a bad name
is doing it all it can (and my brother,
sometimes in that respect and there is Ben, is a physio at Cardiff, so he keeps
a lot of scaremongering. I watch
me informed as to how much is being
boxing and I wonder what would
done), but there is still so much
happen to the sport as a whole if they
research that needs to be done
had the same Head Injury
around concussion.
Assessment protocols as rugby.
The tests are still so subjective. I
What would I think, were I still a
don’t know how we get there, but
player now and these stories about
there really needs to be a scientific
dementia were rapidly emerging? I
test for concussion.
would be alarmed no doubt, as I
If you have a ligament strain on
suspect most players would. It was the your ankle you don’t test it by going
same when my colleague at Cardiff,
for a run. You are put in a boot and
the centre Owen Williams, was left
told to do nothing until you have had
paralysed in 2014. I questioned
the results of an MRI scan. We need
playing the game then, as I’m sure did to get to that point with concussion,
many others.
because at the moment you have to
When Alix Popham first told his
do a certain exercise and then stop if
story in 2020, I was asking myself
you get symptoms. If it is causing
whether I needed to get some scans
pain, then it is probably causing
done and was overthinking things
damage.

Sam
Warburton

I

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There are still changes that can be
made. I was still a player when I
advocated no more than 25 games a
season for any player. Some players
have gone beyond 30 this season. It is
way too many.
I remember chatting to Courtney
Lawes on the 2017 British & Irish
Lions tour to New Zealand, and he
said that he already had 35 games
under his belt at the start of the trip. I
said, “That’s just not right!”
I don’t think there should be any
more than ten minutes of full-on
contact work in training each week,
and at every level from the grassroots
to the Test arena any concussive
symptoms should result in a
mandatory two-week break.
A big bugbear of mine is the poor
tackle technique even at the top level
that leads to so many head knocks. It
is very simple. You need to tackle
with the correct shoulder so that your
head is not in danger. So, if the player
runs to your right-hand side, your
head needs to be on the left as you
make a right-shouldered tackle, and
then vice versa.
Obviously late changes of direction
can cause problems but, if you are
making a cover tackle, you have
plenty of time to think about it and I
still see too many wings and full backs
getting this wrong. It is a skill of the
game, like passing off both hands, that
every professional should have.
Every match I cover as a pundit on
TV I see it happening and feel like a
broken record at times. When I was
coaching Wales, a member of staff
said to me that the tackle drills I was
doing were quite basic, but my
response was that they would remain
basic until the players made better
tackle choices.
I even ended up having a debate
with a Lions player when he thought
that his head should be in front of the
player’s knees rather than behind
when making one of those cover
tackles.
This whole concussion issue is
complex, concerning, sad and
distressing in equal measures, but
maybe a return to basics in those
tackle techniques can be an
important step forward in tackling it.

RYAN
JONES

How Wales’s Jones revealed the latest
dementia diagnosis to shock rugby
Ryan Jones revealed in
The Sunday Times last
weekend that he had
had early-onset
dementia diagnosed
and probable
chronic traumatic
encephalopathy.
Jones, 41, played 75
Tests for Wales and
captained his country
33 times as well as
winning three caps for
the British & Irish Lions.
“I feel like my world is
falling apart,” Jones

said. “And I am really
scared, because I’ve
got three children
and three stepchildren
and I want to be a
fantastic dad. I lived
15 years of my life
like a superhero
and I’m not. I don’t
know what the
future holds.”
He said he now
suffered from anxiety,
depression, memory
lapses and extended
“dark” periods.

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Sport

If I took a head
knock, I would
be cautious
about when I
came back

Tests could identify the
risk of dementia or MND
DAVID ROGERS/GETTY IMAGES

Martyn Ziegler
Chief Sports Reporter

It may seem a drastic step for a young
rugby player, but in the not-too-distant
future those embarking on a professional career may be urged to take a
genetic test to see if they have a greater
risk of developing dementia or motor
neurone disease (MND).
Within the past week Gloucester’s
33-year-old lock Ed Slater confirmed
that he has had MND diagnosed and
the former Wales captain Ryan Jones,
41, that he has probable chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), likely to
have been caused by repeated head
trauma.
Such is the existential crisis facing
the sport over the possible increased
risk of developing dementia — the
rugby bodies are facing a class
action on this issue from a
number of former players —
as well as links between
MND and professional
sport, that medical
chiefs have decided
that innovation
and science are
the only way
to
tackle
those concerns.
One area
that
researchers
are looking at
is
whether
people with a
genetic predisposition to developing
neurological
brain
disorders can have those
conditions triggered by
contact or high-intensity
sports, such as rugby union,
rugby league and football.
Steve Thompson, a Rugby World
Cup winner with England in 2003, is
among those taking legal action after
developing early-onset dementia.
Sportsmen who developed MND
include Joost van der Westhuizen and
Doddie Weir (rugby union), Rob Burrow (rugby league), and Stephen
Darby and Fernando Ricksen
(football).
Scientists agree that the likelihood
of developing MND can be linked to a
person’s genes. The same applies to
dementia — according to the Alzheimer’s Society, a gene known as
APOE-e4 leads to “an increased risk

The lock Slater, 33, pictured for Leicester, retired this week after an MND diagnosis

of developing Alzheimer’s”, and those
people who inherit copies from their
parents have an even higher risk, but
not a certainty.
“In addition to raising risk, APOE-e4
may tend to make symptoms appear at
a younger age than usual,” the charity
adds.
In relation to MND, scientists at the
University of Sheffield published
research last year showing that regular
strenuous exercise — not only contact
sports — increases the risk of developing the condition in people who are
“genetically vulnerable”. The researchers stressed, however, that the numbers
involved were so low that the health
benefits of exercise far outweigh the
risks involved.
Yet if the welfare of players is the biggest worry for rugby at the moment,
and few would argue with that, the only
way forward is to identify the risks and
causes down to the smallest details.
The challenges facing sport, and particularly the rugby codes and American
football where head injuries are common, is to determine whether playing at
an elite level increases the risks, either
to those without the genes or for those
who do carry the genes, and to what
extent.
In an interview that appeared in The
Sunday Times last weekend, Jones said
that rugby “is walking headlong with its
eyes closed into a catastrophic situation”.
The RFU and World Rugby insist,
however, that players’ health is their
priority. They have high hopes that the
results of trials of players using “smart”
mouthguards will provide critical
information on head impacts that will
inform future laws of the game, such as
tackle height, to make it safer.
All players in the Gallagher Premier-

ship, England representative teams and
the Allianz Premier 15s will be offered
the mouthguards for next season, and
youth players involved in trials where
the legal height of tackles is being
brought down to waist level will also
wear them. The take-up is expected to
be close to 100 per cent — an RFU visit
to Wasps this week to explain the programme found unanimous support.
They will also be used by all players at
the women’s Rugby World Cup in New
Zealand this autumn, including for
training sessions.
The mouthguards are charged in a
case before use, and a chip inside
measures head movement, particularly
acceleration and deceleration, in case it
is those movements that affect brain
health, rather than actual concussion.
It takes about an hour after use for the
data to be transmitted to a computer for
analysis.
The RFU and Premiership Rugby are
also funding 200 places at the Advanced Brain Health Clinic in central
London, where former elite players
aged between 30 and 55 can have their
brain health assessed. So far 73 former
players have signed up, 51 of whom have
already been seen.
The findings are still being worked
on, but although some of the group
have shown signs of CTE or early-onset
dementia, the symptoms of many of
them have been shown to be linked to
other factors, such as anxiety, depression and alcoholism.
Parents will increasingly demand
reassurance that they are not putting
their children on a pathway that greatly
raises the risk of developing neurological diseases at an early age. Rugby’s
only way forward is to provide the
answers through science.

Priorities are research and supporting Slater
Owen
Slot
Chief Sports
Writer

SAM WARBURTON

R

ugby union was shaken by the
devastating news on Thursday
that Ed Slater, the Gloucester
lock, had retired having had motor
neurone disease (MND) diagnosed.
Well, it’s not only rugby that is
suffering; anyone who has met,
known or watched Slater will feel the
same way, because he was a popular,
honest and massively respected rugby
player, and is a hugely decent man.
His diagnosis came only four days
after a devastating interview in The

Sunday Times in which Ryan Jones,
the former Wales captain, announced
that he has early-onset dementia.
Jones is 41 years old. Slater is 33.
This feels the most cruel
accumulation of bad news and, if you
follow social media, you will know
that it has already led people to the
conclusion that rugby isn’t a healthy
game, that rugby must be bad for you.
Without wishing to diminish in any
way the appalling news that Jones
and Slater are having to cope with,
the two conditions have to be
considered as completely separate.
Yes, rugby does have a serious
problem with brain injuries — more
often referred to as concussions —
and it is dealing with that. It has
moved too slowly to deal with it, it
does not know how to solve it, it is

only trying to limit the risk.
MND is a different matter. There
are a number of high-profile former
players who have it, including Doddie
Weir and Rob Burrow, while Jarrod
Cunningham and Joost van der
Westhuizen both died of it. You can
lump those names together and
conclude that rugby is the cause;
however, there is no scientific proof
that rugby — or head trauma — and
MND are related.
This point is made by the Doddie
Weir Foundation. It says: “While the
evidence around a link between head
trauma and dementia seems to be
gaining momentum, we cannot imply
the same for MND.”
The priority for rugby, here, is to
support Slater. The priority for society
is to fund further research into MND.

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Sport Rugby union

No end in sight for All Blacks woe
Will Kelleher
Deputy Rugby Correspondent

When the All Blacks lose, New
Zealanders do not really do gallows
humour. They do not find light in the
dark, or move on quickly. It stings their
soul, fires their bellies and makes them
demand answers.
After Ireland completed their series
win in Wellington last weekend, beating the All Blacks 32-22 in the capital
and ensuring the Kiwis lost only their
third three-match series at home in 119
years, some around the country
lowered the nation’s flag to half-mast.
The rest of the world laughed. Come
on New Zealand, a bit dramatic, right?
“Not really mate,” Sir John Kirwan, an
All Black World Cup winner from 1987,
says on the phone from Auckland.
“It’s our national sport. It’s hectic
down here, especially for Ian Foster
[the head coach] and his staff, New
Zealand Rugby and rugby in general.
“It’s a poignant time. We’re a proud
nation, and we don’t mind losing if the
team performs well, but there was a
whole lot wrong over this Ireland series
which we’re not used to seeing.”
This is a historically bad time for the
All Blacks. Steadily, they have been in
decline since their stupendous form of
the 2010s, when they won two World
Cups and lost only 13 times in the
decade.
Already in the 2020s they have
suffered seven defeats, including their
first ever loss to Argentina and three
sets of back-to-back defeats, having not
been beaten in consecutive matches
since 2011. They have lost to Ireland
three times, France once and their
recent form now reads one win in five.
The Ireland series was the first they
had lost at home since 1994 and the first
three-match series they had lost on
their shores since 1986 against Australia. This is all harrowing for Kiwis.
“You’re an All Black today but are
carrying the legacy of your past,”
Kirwan says. “You cannot forget that.
We stop on the Severn Bridge going to
Wales to make sure we don’t lose there.
You don’t lose a series at home. We’ve
started breaking down the mana of the
jersey.”
“Mana” — a Maori word meaning
prestige or status — was cited by the
No 8 Ardie Savea, one of the few

The damning stats
How All Blacks attacking game has declined
Line breaks

Turnovers won
2019
2020
2021
2022

6.9

13.2
7.8

7.8

9.1

7.1
4

5

Offloads
2019
2020
2021
2022

Defenders beaten
34.9

13.5
7.2
11.3
4.3

*Figures per match

shining lights for New
Zealand still, after the
third Test defeat by
Ireland.
“We’ve got to
question our mana
Days until New Zealand’s
and our heart,” he
next match, against
said. “We’ve got to
South Africa at the start
get out of the trenof the Rugby
ches and put some
Championship
pride back in the black
jersey, because it’s not
there at the moment.”
Rugby in New Zealand is a spiritual
business, but the cold, on-field numbers
cannot be ignored. They have played
only three Tests this year, but 2022 is
New Zealand’s worst since the last
World Cup in several attacking areas.
Their tries per game average hit 5.6 in
2019 and now is 3.7; the average metres
they made was in the 600s in 2019 and
2021, and has dipped to 425. New
Zealand are beating 13 fewer defenders
per Test compared with 2019 and in the
Irish series made only four line breaks
in three Tests. This is the All Blacks
we are talking about.
They have won an average of
only five turnovers a game this
year, way down from nearly eight
per match in 2020. Their traditional
offloading style is gone too. In 2019
they threw an average of 13.5 per Test,
Sam Cane, the
now it is 4.3.
New Zealand
In the first Test, New Zealand
captain, during
showed their counterattacking can still
the third Test
be devastating. Sevu Reece’s gather of a
loss to Ireland
loose ball to score from distance stood
out, but their best is coming more from
individual moments than collectivism.
“There’s obviously a disconnect in

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24.5
28.3
3
21.3

the rugby team,” Kirwan says. “The
defence, tactical kicking and individual
errors under pressure were poor.
When’s the last time you said that?
“When you see a defence system
breaking down under pressure, there’s
something not right there. That’s been
happening for the last 12 months. Ian
Foster needs to fix those up and quick.”
This is a country that does not enjoy
bagging its team. The Times contacted
several former All Blacks to speak
about New Zealand’s parlous state —
and only Kirwan was prepared to.
One was not keen to “kick them
when they’re down”, saying: “I’ve
not watched the third Test,
because I was so pissed off with
the performance in the second
Test. I know they’ll be feeling like
a bag of s*** and the Kiwi public
will set them straight.” Another said
he wanted to see the dust settle
before commenting.
Largely, the Kiwi public
have decided that the head
coach “Fozzy” has to go. A
“yeah, nah” poll on the
Stuff.co.nz website has
gathered more than
34,000 votes — 85 per
cent want Foster gone.
Mark Robinson, the
New Zealand Rugby
chief executive, labelled, in an unprecedented statement,
the Irish series loss
“not acceptable”
and
promised
immediate reactions. But no one
can
seemingly
confirm that Foster was hauled in
front of his board
this week, having
been reviewed six
months ago.
“This is part of
the problem,” Kirwan says. “You either
back him or sack him. Ian Foster
is a good man, I like him, but he
needs to sort out the team. He’s
got two games, or the Rugby
Championship, to do it. Otherwise we’re in real bad shape for
next year’s World Cup. This is a
critical moment where we turn
around or we don’t.”

There are myriad, pressing wider
issues in the New Zealand game. A
player drain to Europe, with younger
players travelling north earlier, not
convinced to stay just on the lure of the
silver fern, is a great concern.
All Blacks now go on Japanese
sabbaticals to supplement their
incomes, or leave entirely. Kirwan cites
Bristol Bears’ Steven Luatua and
Charles Piutau, and Malakai Fekitoa at
Munster as those with a handful of caps
lost to the world of pounds and euros.
Piutau and Fekitoa now represent
Tonga, having switched nationality.
Covid-19 had an acute effect on
southern hemisphere finances, and
New Zealand Rugby signed a £100 milion deal with the private equity firm
Silver Lake because it needed the
money. Players and fans were up in
arms that the All Blacks had become a
commodity.
The Sanzaar body representing
Australia, South Africa, Argentina and
New Zealand is at war too, splintered
over television broadcast sharing and
the Springboks’ unrequited love
towards the Six Nations.
In New Zealand, for the first time in
decades, there are doubts whether the
next generation are up to standard.
Who will replace Sam Whitelock, 33,
and Brodie Retallick, 31, Aaron Smith,
33, and Beauden Barrett, 31, when they
retire?
More pertinently, for now, who will
coach the All Blacks at the World Cup?
Foster never had full public backing,
with the Crusaders coach Scott Robertson — who has won six Super Rugby
titles in a row — the overwhelming
people’s choice.
The former Ireland coach Joe
Schmidt did come in for the first Irish
Test when Foster caught Covid-19, and
will surely be added formally to the
coaching ticket. But is he the long-term
man, at 56?
“Foster will get the Rugby Championship, and if results don’t turn round
there will be change,” Kirwan says.
“The only alternative they have is
‘Razor’ Robertson for the next five
years — you have to wipe the slate
clean. There needs to be a strong look at
the board, CEO . . . this is a train wreck.
“Well, not yet. We’re off the rails, we
might come back, win the championship, and who cares — it’s a blip — but
it hasn’t been going well for a while.”

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French Grand Prix Sport

Hamilton’s
best chance
yet to snatch
elusive win
Rebecca
Clancy
Motor Racing
Correspondent

The Circuit Paul Ricard up in the hills
in Le Castellet, a short drive from
Marseille, is not wholly conducive to
producing exciting races — with the
exception of last year, which was mostly
due to Lewis Hamilton’s title rivalry
with Max Verstappen.
Traditionally used as a test track, the
surface is extremely smooth, and there
is mixture of medium and high-speed
corners. But while that may not raise
hopes of a great spectacle, Hamilton
knows it should give him a chance of a
first victory of the season in what will be
his 300th grand prix — though a dispiriting performance in yesterday’s
practice sessions suggested otherwise.
That Hamilton has failed to finish
higher than third in the first 11 races of
the season may also offer little cause for
optimism, but the circuit will suit the
Mercedes cars, which have struggled
around slow corners.
The track is similar to Barcelona and
Silverstone, circuits where Hamilton,
37, and Mercedes have performed
strongly. Damon Hill, the 1996 world
champion, has tipped Hamilton for
victory this weekend, as he can foresee
an incident between this year’s title
rivals — Red Bull’s Verstappen and
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc — at the
first corner.
“I’m going to go for Lewis Hamilton,”
Hill said on the F1 Nation podcast this
week. “I think there’s going to be an
incident. That first corner is a bit tricky,
the little chicane thing. Let’s say
Charles loses his front wing, or Max
gets a puncture, or something like that.
Or maybe even on pure pace, the
Mercedes springs a surprise.”
Mercedes are certainly heading in
the right direction. Having secured
only three podium finishes in the first
seven races of the season, they now

have four in the past four, with
Hamilton claiming three of those.
Those early podium finishes were a
case of taking advantage of being in the
right place when Ferrari and Red Bull
faltered, but the more recent achievements have came more as a result of
their own pace.
Hamilton and his team-mate,
George Russell, have been handed an
early boost because Ferrari’s Carlos
Sainz will be subject to a ten-place grid
penalty for taking an engine part above
the season’s allowance. The Spaniard’s
engine exploded at the previous race, in
Austria, and it was already his third of
the year, so it is little surprise that he has
a penalty here. It is likely that the team
will choose to change more parts in the
power unit and Sainz will end up starting from the back of the grid — as they
did with Leclerc in Canada, taking the
initial ten-place hit early in the weekend before accepting the full penalty as
the weekend progressed.
Sainz, 27, was quickest in practice
yesterday but while he cannot take pole
due to the penalty, he has shown that
the dominant pace of the Ferraris looks
set to continue this weekend. That
could hamper Hamilton’s bid to
maintain his streak of winning a race in
each of the 15 seasons he has competed
in Formula One.
His initial bullishness at the potential
for a win came before he had stepped
into the car, and he was certainly less
optimistic after emerging from the one
practice session he had yesterday
afternoon. Nyck de Vries had replaced
him for the first session, meaning the
seven-times world champion had only
an hour to get to grips with the car, and
he was not overly happy.
He set the fifth-fastest time of the
day, nearly a second back from Sainz
and behind Russell, who was fourth.
“Today we’re in fourth and fifth, so
that’s kind of the region that we’ll be
fighting for [in the race],” Hamilton
said. “It doesn’t mean that we can’t be
on the podium, I think we can still be up
there. We’re just still not as quick as
those front guys — we’re a little bit

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Lewis set for
300 club
Hamilton can become the
sixth driver to compete in
300 grands prix though
none of the other five have
won a race after reaching
the milestone

Total Grand Prixs
Kimi Raikkonen
350
Last win: 289th GP

Fernando Alonso
345
202nd GP

Rubens Barrichello
323
281st GP

Michael Schumacher
307
247th GP

Jenson Button
306
228th GP

Lewis Hamilton
299
287th GP

Hamilton is yet to win a race in 11 attempts this season, but the track in France this weekend should suit him and Mercedes

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The Northern Irishman became a
household name after winning the
1964 Monte Carlo Rally in his Mini

Djokovic to join Europe’s
greats for Laver Cup duel

Olpherts scores four
in Castleford victory

Tennis Novak Djokovic has confirmed

Rugby league Derrell Olpherts scored
four tries as Castleford Tigers
produced a stunning second half to
blow Hull FC away and claim a vital
two points against their closest rivals
for a place in Super League’s top six.
Hull battled back from eight points
down to take a slender lead into the
break but Castleford ran in six
second-half tries without reply, four
of which while having a player in the
sin-bin, to claim a 46-18 win.
At the Halliwell Jones Stadium,
Matt Parcell, Ethan Ryan and
St Helens loanee Sam Royle crossed
after the break as Hull Kingston
Rovers beat Warrington 30-22 to
move into sixth place.

Drivers

Team

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

M Verstappen
C Leclerc
S Pérez
C Sainz
G Russell
L Hamilton
L Norris
E Ocon
V Bottas
F Alonso

Red Bull
Ferrari
Red Bull
Ferrari
Mercedes
Mercedes
McLaren
Alpine
Alfa Romeo
Alpine

1
2
3
4
5
6

Red Bull
Ferrari
Mercedes
McLaren
Alpine
Alfa Romeo

Next three races
Hungary

Laps 53
(Hungaroring), July 31
Circuit length
Belgium
5.842km
(Spa-Francorchamps),
Race distance
Aug 28
309.69km
Netherlands
Lap record
(Circuit Zandvoort),
1min 32.740sec
Sep 4
Sebastian Vettel (2019)

further back than we were in the last
race. The car’s not spectacular here, we
don’t know why, but hopefully overnight we can make a bit of a step.”
The drivers are likely to have to contend with temperatures in the mid-to-

Rally legend Hopkirk dies at age of 89
Paddy Hopkirk, a legend of motor sport
who won the Monte Carlo Rally in
1964, has died aged 89.
The victory made Hopkirk a household name — he appeared with his
Mini on Sunday Night at the London
Palladium and received telegrams of
congratulations from the prime
minister at the time, Alec DouglasHome, and the Beatles.
The British Racing Drivers’ Club,
which owns Silverstone — the home of
the British Grand Prix — said in a statement: “It is with great sadness that we
share the news of the death of BRDC
vice-president and former president
(2017-19) Paddy Hopkirk MBE. We
thank Paddy for his dedication and love

high 30s, as it is forecast to be the hottest race of the year so far. Russell got
used to the heat by cycling around
London’s Richmond Park at the weekend, as the mercury hit close to 40C. It
was also searingly hot in Monaco,

where Leclerc is based. Victory last
time out in Austria helped him to close
the gap to Verstappen after a run of five
bad races, but he will need to win these
final two grands prix of the first half of
the season — F1 goes to Hungary next
weekend — before the summer break.
Leclerc, who started out in go-karts
60km down the road from this track, is
still 38 points behind Verstappen in the
standings and the Ferrari driver
admitted that the gap was “significant”
but “not impossible” to overturn.
Ferrari were quickest yesterday, with
Verstappen third — more than half a
second off the pace.
Even if Hamilton does not win this
weekend, he is confident that he can be
back on the top step within the next five
races. However, the statistics are
against him. None of the other five F1
drivers who passed 300 races have
entered the winners’ circle after reaching the milestone. Hamilton has never
gone this deep into a season without a
win and is already out of the championship hunt, sitting in sixth place, some 99
points adrift of Verstappen.
However, with both Red Bull and
Ferrari faltering at times, there is every
chance that a win is possible for
Hamilton before the end of the season.

Race 12 France,

for the club. On behalf of the club we
send our love and thoughts to his family
at this difficult time.”
Hopkirk was at the helm of the
BRDC as Silverstone negotiated a new
five-year deal with the Formula One
owners, Liberty Media, in 2019. The
Northern Irishman won the Acropolis
Rally in Greece for Mini in 1967 and in
2010 was one of the first people
inducted into the Rally Hall of Fame.
Hopkirk is survived by his wife,
Jennifer, and three children, Katie, Patrick and William. A family statement
read: “His family, friends and fans will
never forget his sharp wit and wicked
smile. He brought fun and joy to anyone in his company and inspired many.”

Constructors

Points
208
170
151
133
128
109
64
52
46
29
Points
359
303
237
81
81
51

that he will join Rafael Nadal, Roger
Federer and Andy Murray and
compete for Team Europe in this
year’s Laver Cup.
Europe’s line-up, captained by
Bjorn Borg, will take on John
McEnroe’s Team World at the O2
arena in Greenwich from September
23 to September 25. It will be the first
time that Djokovic has appeared in
the event since 2018.
Two Team Europe roster spots have
yet to be announced, while Canada’s
Félix Auger-Aliassime, Taylor Fritz
of the US and Argentina’s Diego
Schwartzman have been named in
Team World’s six-strong squad.

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Sport England v South Africa: Second ODI

Devastating opening
spell helps England
rediscover their mojo
England v South Africa
Emirates Old Trafford (South Africa won
toss; 29 overs a side): England beat South
Africa by 118 runs; Three-match series level 1-1

Simon Wilde
A brilliant bowling performance from
England’s left-arm trio of Reece Topley,
David Willey and Sam Curran — and a
stupendous run-out from Jos Buttler —
set up a dramatic series-levelling win in
the second one-day international at
Emirates Old Trafford. Not since Sri
Lanka were dismissed on this same
ground for 67 in 2014 had England
dispatched opponents for fewer than
South Africa’s 83 here, and it was
enough to deliver a handsome victory
by 118 runs.
England appeared to have posted a
below-par score of 201 in a match
reduced by rain to 29 overs per side. But
in an extraordinary opening to South
Africa’s reply, four wickets tumbled in
ten balls for no runs to leave them reeling at six for four, England’s best-ever
start to an ODI innings with the ball.
After being kept on nought for six
balls, Janneman Malan succumbed to
pressure and was caught at mid-on, and
then Rassie van der Dussen shuffled
across his stumps and feathered his
fourth ball down the leg side to Buttler
to give Topley his tenth and eleventh
wickets in three ODIs.
Willey then claimed the big scalp of
Quinton de Kock, who was drawn into
aiming into the vacant leg side only to
give a leading edge to cover. Most
eye-catchingly of all, Buttler then ran
out Aiden Markram as he scampered
forwards and removed his right glove
before gathering, diving and throwing
all in one movement to break the
stumps with the batsman, who
had yet to face a ball, out of his ground.
When Curran then bowled the dangerous David Miller with an off cutter,
South Africa were 27 for five and going
nowhere. With the threat of more rain
around, England looked to hurry
through the 20 overs needed to constitute a bona fide match.
Heinrich Klaasen’s stumping off
Moeen Ali left South Africa 66 for six,
which became 67 for seven when Adil
Rashid bowled Keshav Maharaj, and
the spin twins went on to finish the
job by polishing off the tail, Ali
finishing with two for 22 and Rashid
three for 29.
England were dependent on cameos
from Curran, who struck 35 from 18
balls, and Liam Livingstone, with 38
from 26, as well as a useful 21 from

Scoreboard
ENGLAND

R

B

J J Roy
14
12
c Pretorius b Nortje
J M Bairstow
28
27
b Preorius
P D Salt
17
10
c Miller b Pretorius
J E Root
1
3
c de Kock b Pretorius
M M Ali
6
9
c Nortje b Maharaj
*†J C Buttler
19
27
c Pretorius b Shamsi
L S Livingstone
38
26
c Miller b Nortje
S M Curran
35
18
c Markram b Shamsi
D J Willey
21
21
c Klaasen b Pretorius
A U Rashid
12
12
run out (de Kock)
R J W Topley
1
4
not out
Extras (lb 5, w 4)
9
TOTAL (28.1 overs)
201
Fall of wickets 1-22, 2-52, 3-58, 4-62, 5-72,
6-101, 7-144, 8-167, 9-191
Bowling Maharaj 6-029-1; Ngidi 5-0-39-0;
Nortje 5.1-0-53-2; Pretorius 6-0-36-4;
Shamsi 6-0-39-2.
SOUTH AFRICA

R

B

†Q de Kock
5
9
c Livingstone b Willey
J N Malan
0
6
c Curran b Topley
R E van der Dussen
0
4
c Buttler b Topley
A Markram
0
0
run out (Buttler)
H Klaasen
33 40
st Buttler b Ali
D A Miller
12
13
b Curran
D Pretorius
17
25
c Roy b Rashid
*K Maharaj
1
2
b Rashid
A A Nortje
6
12
c Bairstow b Ali
L T Ngidi
0
8
c & b Rashid
T Shamsi
5
5
not out
Extras (lb 1, w 3)
4
TOTAL (20.4 overs)
83
Fall of wickets 1-6, 2-6, 3-6, 4-6, 5-27,
6-66, 7-67, 8-76, 9-77
Bowling Topley 4-0-17-2; Willey 4-1-9-1;
Curran 2-0-5-1; Rashid 6-1-29-3;
Ali 4.4-1-22-2.

Umpires D Millns and R Illingworth

Willey to scramble their way to 201,
adding 100 from the last 65 balls.
They were again all out with balls
unused, as they had been in the first
game of the series and in all three
matches against India — the first time
this century that they have been
dismissed within their allocation of
overs in five successive matches.
This time they fell only five balls
short and might have made it to the end
had Rashid’s stroke to deep cover not
hit a pigeon, the deflection slowing the
ball’s progress to Klaasen but perhaps
luring Rashid and Topley into going for
a second run. Klaasen’s throw was too
good for the diving Rashid.
England’s top six had been and gone
inside 18 overs through a mixture of
rashness and some high-class bowling
from Dewald Pretorius, who was playing only because of Andile Phehlukwayo’s concussion in Durham, and finished with four for 36 from six overs.
Pretorius’s first victim was local hero
Phil Salt but any Lancastrian angst may
have been assuaged by his three other
victims being Yorkshire players — Joe
Root, Jonny Bairstow and Willey (soon
to depart for Northamptonshire).
Pretorius was shrewdly advised by the
new-ball bowlers to avoid seam-up
deliveries, which came on to the bat
nicely, and go straight to cross-seam.
Curran struck three sixes down the
ground against the spinners — the middle one going through an open door
into the press box — before holing out
to long off, while Livingstone piled into
Anrich Nortje, hitting him for three
mighty leg-side sixes before carving
him over third man for four. However,
like Curran, he perished while the
beans were jumping: Nortje pushed a
short ball wider that Livingstone could
only loop to wide mid-on.
In damp conditions, with the pitch
expected to grip and the likelihood of
further showers leading to revised
targets, South Africa won an important
toss but they backed up their advantage
with some superb variations of slower
balls and wobble-seam deliveries from
their seamers, well supported by the
spinners.
Jason Roy and Bairstow began
brightly. When Roy cut Nortje’s first
ball, timed at 92.4mph, for four and
then pulled him for another, it looked as
if it might finally be his day, only for him
to drag the ball into the hands of short
mid-wicket. Salt, brought in to replace
Ben Stokes, was nearly run out first ball
but recovered to take 14 off Lungi
Ngidi’s next over, though not without a
bit of luck.

4

South Africa got off to
the worst start in their
run chase, losing four
wickets with the score
on 6 in a 10-ball spell

At 49 for one after the six-over
powerplay, England were well placed
but it was then that things unravelled
after the introduction of Pretorius. In
his first nine balls Salt was well caught
by Miller at mid-on, Root skipped down
the track aiming over mid-wicket and
top-edged to the wicketkeeper, and
Bairstow, who mixed attack and defence as well as anyone, was bowled for
28, the best score from any of the top six.
Ali, promoted to No 5 as a left-hander
to counter the spinners, tamely holed
out to deep square leg against Maharaj
for six to leave England tottering at 72
for five, four wickets having evaporated
in 31 deliveries.
Buttler began to rebuild with Livingstone but was thwarted in his attempts
to accelerate by the left-armer Tabraiz
Shamsi’s googly, which he could only
slice to short third man. At 101 for six off
17.2 overs, England were heading for
defeat. Then came the fightback.

Playing on a

†M G K Burgess c Billings b Milnes
7
D R Briggs c and b Milnes
10
H J H Brookes not out
27
C N Miles c and b Leaning
9
O J Hannon-Dalby c Cox b Milnes
4
Extras (lb 5nb 6)
11
Total (39.5 overs)
147
Fall of wickets 1-5, 2-28, 3-51, 4-86, 5-90, 6-97, 7-98,
8-107, 9-129.
Bowling Henry 12-3-36-1; Saini 9-1-39-2; Milnes 6.5-1-11-4;
Quinn 3-0-20-2; Denly 5-0-22-0; Leaning 4-0-14-1.
Umpires M A Gough and I D Blackwell

*J M Vince c Khan b Higgins
N R T Gubbins c Dent b Khan
J K Fuller b Higgins
K H D Barker not out
L A Dawson not out
Extras (lb 2, w 8)
Total (4 wkts, 9.3 overs)
Fall of wickets 1-28, 2-54, 3-64, 4-70.
Bowling Higgins 5-0-41-3; Khan 4.3-0-39-1.
Gloucestershire: First Innings 201 (O J Price
G L van Buuren 58 not out; L A Dawson 4 for 44.)
Second Innings (overnight 191-4)
M A H Hammond c Vince b Abbott
*G L van Buuren c Vince b Barker
R F Higgins c Fuller b Abbott
Z G Khan c Brown b Abbott
T J Price lbw b Abbott
Z J Chappell not out
J Shaw c Gubbins b Abbott

John Westerby
After several seasons of grind on batsman-friendly pitches, England’s leftarm opening duo of Reece Topley and
David Willey enjoyed the chance to
bowl in friendly conditions last night,
their opening bursts helping to reduce
South Africa to six for four on the way
to a comfortable victory.
South Africa’s innings never recovered from losing four wickets for no
runs as England tigerishly defended
their total of 201 in a 29-over match. As
the white ball swung under the Emirates Old Trafford floodlights, Topley
impressed again with two for 17, while
Willey took one for nine from his four
overs. A sharp run-out of Aiden Mar-

Scoreboards
LV Insurance County Championship
Division One
Northamptonshire v Lancashire
Northampton (final day of four): Lancashire (19pts)
beat Northamptonshire (4pts) by four wickets
Northamptonshire: First Innings 235 (L D McManus 61;
R I Keogh 54; W Sundar 5 for 76)
Second Innings 174 (R D Rickelton 59 not out;
W S A Williams 5 for 41; T E Bailey 4 for 65)
Lancashire: First Innings 132 (C J White 5 for 14)
Second Innings (overnight 192-5)
J J Bohannon c Young b White
103
W S A Williams not out
29
W Sundar not out
34
Extras (b 6, lb 7, w 2, nb 16)
31
Total (6 wkts, 86.2 overs)
278
Fall of wickets 1-7, 2-48, 3-165, 4-185, 5-188, 6-209.
Bowling Sanderson 24-7-76-3; White 20-5-58-1;
Kerrigan 18.2-2-57-0; Keogh 12-3-42-1; Taylor 12-1-32-1.
Umpires B J Debenham and N Pratt

Somerset v Yorkshire
Taunton (final day of four; no play on day four):
Somerset (15) drew with Yorkshire (12)
Somerset: First Innings 424 (T B Abell 116; L Gregory 77;
D M Bess 4 for 68)
Second Innings 225 (G A Bartlett 88 not out)
Yorkshire: First Innings 276 (T Kohler-Cadmore 100)
Umpires T Lungley and M H A Syed

O J D Pope not out
4
Extras (lb 3nb 8)
11
Total (4 wkts, 57.4 overs)
162
Fall of wickets 1-63, 2-84, 3-132, 4-157.
Bowling Cook 14-4-25-0; Porter 11-0-40-0; Snater
11-3-26-1; Harmer 15.4-5-38-2; Critchley 6-1-30-1.
Umpires N L Bainton and P J Hartley

Warwickshire v Kent
Surrey v Essex
The Kia Oval (final day of four): Surrey (22) beat Essex
(5) by six wickets
Essex: First Innings 271 (A M Rossington 100; S R
Harmer 50; D J Worrall 6 for 56)
Second Innings 208 (D J Worrall 5 for 66)
Surrey: First Innings 319 (W G Jacks 150 not out)
Second Innings (overnight 85-2)
R S Patel c Rossington b Harmer
38
T E Lawes not out
32
J Overton c Walter b Critchley
21

Edgbaston (final day of four): Kent (19) beat
Warwickshire (4) by 177 runs
Kent: First Innings 165 (O J Hannon-Dalby 6 for 40)
Second Innings 384-9 dec (J L Denly 141; J M Cox 79)
Warwickshire: First Innings 225 (S R Hain 99; N A Saini
5 for 72)
Second Innings (overnight 28-2)
D P Sibley b Milnes
33
S R Hain c Billings b Saini
16
*W M H Rhodes c Billings b Quinn
15
D R Mousley c Billings b Quinn
2

Gloucestershire v Hampshire
Cheltenham (final day of four): Hampshire (23) beat
Gloucestershire (2) by six wickets
Hampshire: First Innings 457 (F S Organ 118; J M Vince
95; K H D Barker 50)
Second Innings
F S Organ c van Buuren b Higgins
17

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MIKE EGERTON/PA

‘Angry’ Abbott helps
Hampshire beat rain
Gloucestershire v
Hampshire
Cheltenham (final day of four): Hampshire
(23pts) beat Gloucestershire (2) by six wickets

LV= County Champioship
Ivo Tennant
The strength of Hampshire’s attack was
never more evident than when Kyle
Abbott, displeased with himself over
how he had performed in this match,
effectively defeated Gloucestershire
and the imminent rain through his
determination not to allow his
standards to drop. Five wickets in 12
balls including the second hat-trick of
his career ensured that his adopted
county remained in contention with
the leaders, Surrey.
When Abbott prepared to bowl the
last over before lunch, Gloucestershire
had a lead of 60 with half their wickets
intact, and Miles Hammond was playing the innings of his life. He was on 169,
with 27 fours and three sixes, had survived being dropped three times off
Liam Dawson and was batting with
such panache that a draw was becoming a distinct possibility. A strong likelihood of rain was showing on the
groundsman’s radar and no one quibbled with his findings.
This meaty South Africa fast bowler,
35, put paid to all that. He had Hammond caught at first slip and then, with

Topley
celebrates the
wicket of Van
der Dussen as
South Africa
slump in
their reply

livelier pitch thrills new-ball star Willey
kram from Jos Buttler, the captain, also
contributed to South Africa being dismissed for 83.
“The guys are bowling
wling
brilliantly, Topley and
Dave with the earlyy
wickets,” Buttler said.
“I’m delighted with
the win, the guys
played in the fashion
we want to play with
as a team.”
Willey has relished
his new-ball pairingg
with Topley, both of them
m
finding movement with
h the
new ball last night in
n damp
Willey was happy to finally be bowling
on pitches that offered help to seamers

Extras (b 12, lb 2, nb 4)
18
Total (98.2 overs)
337
Fall of wickets 1-9, 2-14, 3-77, 4-111, 5-201, 6-316, 7-316,
8-316, 9-325.
Bowling Barker 23-6-65-4; Abbas 16-2-66-0; Dawson
31-3-89-0; Abbott 19.2-5-76-6; Organ 7-1-15-0; Fuller
2-0-12-0.
Umpires N G B Cook and G D Lloyd
Surrey
Hampshire
Lancashire
Essex
Yorkshire
Kent
Northamptonshire
Warwickshire
Somerset
Gloucestershire

P W
10 6
10 7
10 4
9 4
9
1
10 2
9
1
10
1
9 2
10 0

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0
2
1
2
2
3
2
4
5
7

T
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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D N/R Pts
4
0 187
1
0 173
5
0 156
3
0 123
6
0 113
5
0 109
6
0 107
5
0 99
2
0 87
3
0
57

Manchester conditions. “We’ve played
a lot of cricket on flat pitches and we’ve
dominated teams on those flat
pitches,” he said. “It helps that
we’ve played on some
pitches that have been
pitc
bowler-friendly. We’ve
bo
both
bo got a little bit out
of the pitches, but
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you’ve
got to put the
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ball
b in the right place
to get the reward.
We’ve
done that quite
W
well and hopefully that
wel
can ccontinue.”
After a stop-start innings
of their own,
ow Willey was surmargin of victory, but had
prised by the marg
felt that a total of 201 would be competitive in the circumstances, as England

scrapped for the victory that sets up a
series decider at Headingley tomorrow.
“We definitely didn’t expect to win by
that margin,” Willey said. “But we
thought we had something that we
were in the game with, and we knew
that we were going to have to bowl well,
field well. We put them under pressure
and managed to keep our foot on their
throat.”
Heinrich Klaasen was South Africa’s
top scorer with 33 and had attempted to
hold England up in the field by asking
for changes to be made to the sightscreen set-up while light rain was falling, a none-too-subtle piece of timewasting that ultimately proved futile.
“It was frustrating, to be polite,” Willey said. “I think it was clear what they
were trying to do.”

Division Two
Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire

Umpires J D Middlebrook and P R Pollard

Derby (final day of four): Nottinghamshire (16) drew
with Derbyshire (12)
Nottinghamshire: First Innings 618-8 dec (B M Duckett
241; H Hameed 196; L Patterson-White 54)
Derbyshire: First Innings 318 (B D Guest 109)
Second Innings (overnight 39-0)
H R C Came b Slater
70
L M Reece c Mullaney b Patterson-White
86
†B D Guest lbw b Paterson
14
W L Madsen not out
19
*J L du Plooy c Moores b Paterson
11
H W R Cartwright not out
9
Extras (b 27, lb 8, w 1, nb 4)
40
Total (4 wkts, 97 overs)
249
Fall of wickets 1-161, 2-191, 3-217, 4-233.
Bowling Fletcher 10-8-9-0; Pattinson 14-3-48-0;
Paterson 20-5-62-2; Mullaney 10-3-13-0; PattersonWhite 29-9-59-1; Slater 14-7-23-1.

Middlesex v Sussex
Lord’s (final day of four): Sussex (14) drew with
Middlesex (14)
Sussex: First Innings 523 (C A Pujara 231; T P Alsop 135;
T G Helm 5 for 109)
Second Innings
A G H Orr run out
1
T G R Clark b Yadav
56
T P Alsop c Simpson b Helm
7
*C A Pujara c Eskinazi b Helm
2
†O J Carter lbw b Helm
2
D M W Rawlins c Robson b Helm
7
D K Ibrahim b Murtagh
13
A D Lenham b Roland-Jones
19
A Karvelas c Hollman b Robson
57
S T Finn not out
10
B J Currie not out
0
Extras (lb 3nb 4)
7

his first two balls after lunch, had Zafar
Gohar caught behind the wicket and
Tom Price leg-before to one that cut
back a fraction. Ryan Higgins, who
made 63, was caught at deep square leg
in Abbott’s next over and Josh Shaw
became his sixth wicket. “I had felt
pretty angry with myself for conceding
more runs than I should have, but
something clicked when I came down
the hill,” he said.
Hammond, who had reached a
century overnight, always looked to
attack the bowlers, moving down the
pitch to Dawson despite having been
stumped off his left-arm spin in the first
innings. He made the highest score of
his career, and now it is a question of
whether he can reach the next level of
batsmanship. He clipped and straightdrove three fours off Keith Barker, who
had Graeme van Buuren caught at first
slip for his fourth wicket of the innings.
What with Mohammad Abbas and
competent spinners, Hampshire have a
more potent attack than when they last
won the championship in 1973. They
needed only 82 and pushed the big
hitters up the order. James Vince
opened and struck 24, including a
slogged six off Higgins, who had
already been hit for three fours by Felix
Organ in an over. James Fuller flicked a
six off the first ball he faced and it did
not matter that four wickets were lost in
the charge to beat the weather.

Surrey see off Essex to move
a step closer to county title
Elizabeth Ammon
Surrey knocked off the 76 runs they
needed for victory against Essex to
remain on top of Division One with
four rounds of the County Championship remaining.
Chasing a target of 161 at the Kia
Oval, the England Test batsman Ollie
Pope sealed the win with a reverse
sweep for four to complete a six-wicket
win and keep Surrey 14 points clear of
second-placed Hampshire.
“You have to take your hats off to
Surrey,” the Essex captain, Tom Westley, said. “They’re playing some fantastic cricket this year, similar to what
we’ve done in the last few years. If we’re
being realistic, Surrey are running away
a little bit with the title now.”
Lancashire, 31 points off the top in
third, still have some hope of lifting the
trophy after holding their nerve to beat
Northamptonshire at Wantage Road.
The match was delicately poised overnight with Lancashire needing 86 to
win and the home side five wickets, but
the Indian all-rounder Washington
Sundar, on his county debut, added to
his five-wicket haul in the first innings

Total (9 wkts, 78 overs)
181
Fall of wickets 1-12, 2-53, 3-65, 4-69, 5-69, 6-85, 7-96,
8-143, 9-178.
Bowling Yadav 18-6-42-1; Roland-Jones 16-5-38-1;
Murtagh 12-4-37-1; Helm 18-5-37-4; Hollman 10-3-21-0;
Robson 3-1-3-1; Eskinazi 1-1-0-0.
Middlesex: First Innings 485 (J A Simpson 109;
T S Roland-Jones 85; P J Malan 64; S D Robson 62;
B J Currie 6 for 93)
Umpires R White and R Warren

Leicestershire v Glamorgan
Leicester (third day of four): Glamorgan, with five firstinnings wickets in hand, trail Leicestershire by 21 runs
Leicestershire: First Innings 584 (P W A Mulder 156;
B W M Mike 91; L J Hill 81; L Kimber 68; R I Walker 64;
H J Swindells 52; A G Salter 4 for 158)
Glamorgan: First Innings (overnight 111-2)
C A Ingram c Swindells b Mulder
139
S A Northeast not out
308

with an assured unbeaten 34 to see the
visitors over the line.
Kent boosted their hopes of staying
in the top flight with only their second
win of the season, a 177-run victory over
the struggling champions, Warwickshire. Resuming on 28 for two in pursuit
of 325, Warwickshire subsided to 147.
Matt Milnes took four wickets, including that of the opener Dom Sibley, and
Matt Quinn pitched in with two in
three overs.
The final day of the drawn match
between Somerset and Yorkshire at
Taunton was rained off.
In Division Two, Nottinghamshire
could take only four of the ten wickets
they needed on the final day against
Derbyshire. The combination of rain
and some gritty batting between Luis
Reece and Harry Came in an opening
partnership of 161 meant the game
petered out into a draw.
That looks to be the likely outcome at
Grace Road, where only 15 wickets have
fallen. The third day was notable for
Sam Northeast reaching his first triple
century for Glamorgan. The 32-yearold made an unbeaten 308 off 363 balls
as Glamorgan closed 21 runs behind
Leicestershire going into the final day.

K S Carlson b Wright
9
W T Root c Ackermann b Wright
0
†C B Cooke not out
71
Extras (lb 11nb 22)
33
Total (5 wkts, 129 overs)
563
M G Neser, J A R Harris, A G Salter and M G Hogan to bat.
Fall of wickets 1-5, 2-9, 3-315, 4-334, 5-334.
Bowling Wright 24-5-74-3; Walker 16-3-63-1; Mulder
19-1-87-1; Mike 11-0-59-0; Evison 16-2-61-0; Parkinson
25-2-119-0; Ackermann 18-0-89-0.
Umpires P K Baldwin and N J Llong
P W
L
T D N/R Pts
Nottinghamshire 10 5
1
0
4
0 175
Middlesex
10 4
2
0
4
0 152
Glamorgan
9 4
2
0
3
0 137
Derbyshire
10 2
2
0
6
0 136
Worcestershire
9 3
2
0
4
0 127
Durham
9
1
2
0
6
0 111
Sussex
10
1
4
0
5
0 107
Leicestershire
9 0
5
0
4
0 66

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Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

Sport London 2012

Above, Hannah Cockroft wins the 200m T34 final; below, dancers at the
opening ceremony; right, synchronised swimmers in the free routine final

‘This century, what event would
LONDON 2012: TEN YEARS ON
OWEN SLOT
Part One Tony Blair, the man who brought
the Olympics to London, tells The Times of
his initial reluctance to bid and how Games’
success has not left a lasting sporting legacy

T

he anniversary will roll around on
Wednesday. That point will mark ten
years since the start of the 2012
London Olympics. It will trigger a
flood of memories, a barrage of
retrospectives and, you can be sure, it will give
the London Games some context, where two
questions, above all, will be addressed: did it
work, and was it worth it?
Is it even possible to come close to an answer
in the space of a newspaper article? Probably
not, because the territory for debate is so wide.
There is no longer even anyone or any official
body responsible for a PR reply. The London
2012 organisation has long closed down, the
British Olympic Association claims no
ownership of the Games, the prime ministership
has changed four times since winning the bid,
in 2005, and it is about to change again.
We therefore start our retrospective where
the Games began: with Tony Blair, the prime
minister who signed off on the London bid and
was instrumental in winning it.
In this interview with The Times, he says: “If
you look back on this century, what event would

the country be more proud of that we have done
or put on as a nation? I can’t think of one.
“It was the best showcase of what is best
about Britain. It was very professionally done,
well executed, but its spirit was very bright,
very tolerant, very welcoming of people.
It said something about Britain that was very
important and very heartwarming.
“You can’t really put a value on that but, by
the way, I think it has a value in the sense that
your capital city, your country, becomes an
attractive place to visit. That was the thing, it
was almost worth doing for that reason alone.
“I know you can compare the cost of what it
was and what was stipulated [in the original bid].
But for me, that was the essence of what it was
about. And in those terms, it did work.”
Blair recalls specific moments: a tour he
himself was given of the Olympic village, and
witnessing the vision come so fulfillingly to
fruition, or attending the opening ceremony,
that stunning celebration that found so much to
cherish in Britain and Britishness.
“If it hugely enhances the reputation and
attraction of your country,” he says, “there are

a whole set of things that then reverberate as
a result of that, all of which, quite apart from
having their own kind of cultural value, have a
financial value.”
Blair acknowledges that he strongly
considered turning down the idea of bidding for
the Games in the first place. That would have
been the safety-first approach, especially when
the odds were heavily against the London bid.
“To be absolutely honest, that was my initial
instinct,” he says. He recalls the late Tessa
Jowell, then the secretary of state for the
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and
Sport (DCMS), setting out the case to him in
the Downing Street garden.
“She persuaded me that this was a big
moment, that we should take the risk. I was
hesitantly reluctant; the system was deeply
reluctant,” Blair says.
Having taken the plunge, the cost of
the Games then spiralled from the
£2.4 billion promised in the bid to
£9.3 billion. That was when the
question started being asked
more urgently: is it worth it?
“Frankly,” Blair says, “I don’t
think anyone ever believes
these contracts will come in
on the amount they’re
supposed to.” He also points to
the regeneration of Stratford,
ed
the east London area that housed
the Olympic Stadium and the
ames
athletes’ village. “We put the Games
right in the heart of the part of London
eration ”
that was most in need of regeneration.”
Indeed, the physical legacy of these Games is
an indisputable success. “Sometimes,” Blair says,
“you see these projects around the world and
the regeneration kind of stopped, or it disappears
once the sporting event leaves town.” The cases

in point are the tumbleweed facilities of Athens
and Rio de Janeiro, the 2004 and 2016 host cities.
The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park covers
560 acres and a number of remaining sports
facilities, plus waterways and parkland that has
received more than 34 million visits in the eight
years that it has been open. By 2025, it expects
to have created 40,000 new jobs; by 2036, it
expects to have 33,000 new homes.
London 2012 did successfully avoid building
white elephants. Remember, this was a vast area
that was largely derelict. The Aquatics Centre,
for instance, has staged big events at world-class
level, plus it delivers swimming lessons to 1,000
children a week.
Where the Games do not hold up so well to
scrutiny is the participation legacy. In 2005,
when Lord Coe — who led the London bid —
delivered his final, hugely influential address
Inter
to the International
Olympic
Commit
Committee
before its members
voted to award the city the
Gam he explained that
Games,
Lo
London
2012’s particular
m
mission
was “to inspire young
p
people
to choose sport”.
That message now sounds
li a cliché; at
like
th time, it was original and
the
up
uplifting, and it suggested that
the government had farreach
reaching
plans to use the Games
tra
as a transformative
mechanism to
create a h
healthier nation.
Yet it took three years before any
polic to deliver such
semblance of a policy
transformation in the UK appeared, and then
headline news in the DCMS press release was
that the 2012 legacy had a “free swimming plan
Blair was prime minister at the time of 2012 bid

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Sport
From equestrian
obsession to table
tennis rock stars –
our 2012 memories
OWEN SLOT
My three overwhelming memories: first, getting
my accreditation. The process was quick and
efficient — a first indication that this might not be
the national embarrassment many had expected.
Second, driving across Box Hill on the eve of the
men’s road race. Camper vans everywhere — it
looked like a Tour de France stage. “Wow,” I
thought, “people are really up for it.” Third, Super
Saturday in the stadium, and my nine-year-old’s
weak bladder. Do you take him to the toilet and
risk missing Jess Ennis winning gold? Or do you
let him find his own way and risk never seeing
him again? A terrible decision.

Above left,
Terezinha
Guilhermina
and her guide
Guilherme Soares
de Santana win
the women’s
100m T11 final;
above right,
Simmonds sets
a world record
during the heats
of the women’s
200m SM6; left,
Kristian Thomas
on the horizontal
bars; right, Ennis
wins gold in the
heptathlon at the
Olympic Stadium
Photographs by
Marc Aspland

d UK be more proud of?’
for over-sixties at the forefront”.
Blair was two years gone from No 10 by
then, but this is his take on the subject of the
participation legacy: “The one thing I’m sure
about is this: it’s not worth putting on [the
Games] just to have a spectacle for a few weeks.
It’s not worth it for that. It’s worth it to make a
statement about the country, and it’s worth it for
what we can do for community sport and for
people’s participation in sport. I was always
passionate that we should put sport at the heart
of education and schooling, and that there were
a whole series of educational benefits that came
along with the obvious benefits of fitness.”
It soon became clear that there was no big
plan for a participation legacy. Blair insists,
though, that Coe had not been flogging a false
sales pitch. “Seb,” he said, “was speaking about
something we’d discussed in detail and agreed
was pivotal as to why we wanted the Games
and what they should represent.
“My recollection is we did have a whole
programme. Tessa was very keen on it; she’d
also been the public health minister. I’ve always
been a big advocate of sport in schools. The
Olympics, if it was handled in the right way,
was bound to give a boost to that.”
The intentions that Blair says had been
prepared before he left office, however, were
never properly delivered. “I tend, perhaps overoptimistically, to the view that it did make a
difference,” he says. “I don’t know that it ever
quite fulfilled what we wanted out of it.”
What the London Games proved was that
magic moments and role models with gold
medals are not enough alone to tempt viewers
off the sofa. Has there ever been a sporting
occasion on home turf to match the three
British golds on that warm, magical Super
Saturday evening in the athletics stadium? Or a
more dominant fleet of sailors and rowers? The

Was it the dirtiest Games?
Medals stripped
Year
1968
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016
2021

Gold Silver Bronze
0
1
2
0
0
3
0
0
8
8
9
14
0
0

0
1
1
0
2
1
0
0
1
2
22
17
1
2

1
2
0
0
0
1
0
0
5
5
19
11
3
0

Total
1
4
3
0
2
5
0
0
14
15
50
42
4
2

Total
athletes
disqualified
1
7
11
0
12
10
8
7
15
37
81
125
16
5

There have been more gold medals (14) stripped
from athletes at the 2012 Olympics than at any
other since the modern drug-testing regime was
introduced before Mexico 1968. Of the 42 athletes
sanctioned, 19 were Russians. The most famous
athlete to fail a test was the US sprinter Tyson Gay.
Arguments remain over whether it was the dirtiest
Games or whether detection had just improved.
In total 125 athletes were disqualified after 2012,
compared with the next highest, 81, at Beijing 2008

PART TWO
in the Sunday Times tomorrow
Ten years after the gold rush, Matt Dickinson
talks to two of the heroes of 2012

intense, and very national, joy of that brief
period in the capital now seems stuck firmly in
another era. Yet we know for sure, now, what
we thought we knew then: that it takes more
than joy and medals to trigger an active nation.
Cycling, for instance, took responsibility to
deliver on its success and was rewarded with
huge participation growth.
Overall, the Active People Survey, conducted
by Sport England, shows that between 2005
and 2016, the number of people playing sport at
least once a week increased by 1.9 million. It is
more complicated than that, though. What
happened was that those who already did some
sport just did more sport. The inactive tended to
remain so.
Ten years on, the value of sport — or activity
— does not appear to have grown. Swim
England recently published a “Decade of
Decline” document which reported that, at the
present rate of swimming pool closures, by the
end of the decade, 40 per cent of England’s
pools will have gone.
The Paralympics left a similar legacy. You
cannot put a price on the success that they
were at the time. “I don’t think there has been a
better Paralympics, before or since,” Blair says
— and he is right. Certainly, the Paralympics
changed some attitudes towards disabled
people, but real change was limited.
It is still not easy for people with disabilities
to be sport-active. It remains the case that they
are twice as likely to be unemployed as those
without disabilities.
London 2012 did not change the world, or
the UK. It certainly changed a part of London.
It certainly changed some lives.
Yet ten years on, Blair is unequivocal about
the Olympic experiment. “I can’t believe,” he
said, “that anyone would seriously not want to
have done it.”

ALYSON RUDD
I had to tell overseas journalists who were
practically weeping at how wonderful London
was, with its blue skies, jolly volunteers and
smiling strangers, that it was not always this way.
Still, I did worry that the Paralympics would
suffer by comparison — that they did not will be
my abiding memory of that summer. The crowds
were as passionate, the competition as intense,
and the noise as Ellie Simmonds powered her
way to glory in the pool was spine-tingling.
MARC ASPLAND
Of course Super Saturday is without doubt one
of the greatest days in British sporting history
but it was the opening ceremony which still
causes the biggest smile. From the Queen and
James Bond arriving by parachute to Mr Bean
joining the London Symphony Orchestra, Danny
Boyle’s odyssey of Britishness announced the
Games to the world with grace, style and fun.
MARTYN ZIEGLER
The opening ceremony. There was much
uncertainty about whether London could match
the scale and expense of Beijing’s four years
before, but it was an absolute triumph. It was a
visual, emotional and sensual imagining of what
it meant to be British, with the highlight being
the prescient tribute to the NHS.
PATRICK KIDD
I had gone to Weymouth to cover the sailing, but
someone had forgotten to order the wind, so I
went to the pub instead. There I found four men
in paint-stained overalls standing round a
television. I suspect they were not normally avid
fans of showjumping but it was the Olympic final
and Britain were on for their first gold for 60
years. “Come on, my son,” one shouted as Peter
Charles set off on Vindicat. Tied with the Dutch, it
went down to a jump-off, an equine penalty
shoot-out. “Should we go back to work, boss?”
one asked. The gaffer downed his pint. “One
more,” he told the barman. And this is the beauty
of the Olympics: sports we have no interest in for
47½ months become an obsession.
JOHN WESTERBY
It was the ninth day of the Olympics when I was
sent to report on the canoe slalom at Lee Valley,
by which time the gold rush had yet to kick in.
There was a chance of a minor medal, or so we
thought, in the men’s C2, in which there were
two British pairs, David Florence and Richard
Hounslow, the British No 1 boat, along with Tim
Baillie and Etienne Stott. This being the London
Olympics, though, it all went much better than
that. Baillie and Stott powered their way to gold,
Florence and Hounslow won silver, and the world
wanted to know everything about these athletes
who suddenly found themselves centre stage.
JAMES GHEERBRANT
The best thing I witnessed was an epic tabletennis quarter-final at the Excel Arena, between
Denmark’s Michael Maze and the eventual
bronze medallist, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, of Germany.
It was electrifying, and classic Olympics: a sport
in which nobody would take an interest in the
intervening four years holding a rapt audience in
its grip. By the end, the table was the focus of the
crackling emotional energy of a stadium-rock
crowd, as four years of training, striving and
dreaming came down to a handful of points.

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1981
WHEN I FELL
IN LOVE WITH
CRICKET
TV presenter
Chris Hollins
says Botham’s
Ashes and bowling
in garden
ignited his
passion
Cricket came on my radar at
Bickley Park School in Kent.
Mr Marsh showed me how to
bowl and for some strange
reason, I could do it. I got
picked for the under-9s but it
was rained off. We didn’t play
for another year. Until then I
was a footballer, for obvious
reasons [his dad, John, played
for Chelsea and Arsenal].
My best mate, Dave Penfold,
was a cricket nut, so I used to
go round to his house and
play, which consisted of me
bowling at him for hours and
then having a five-minute bat.
Then, suddenly, it took off for
me with Ian Botham and that
1981 Ashes series. Dave taught
me a lot and it turned out I
was quite good. We played in
every team together thereon
in until our thirties, really —
Kent, England schools.
But it was Botham who
made me think: “Oh my God,
cricket.” We were playing
down at Bickley Park Cricket
Club, a really hot summer. I
used to watch him in the
morning, then have a match
in the afternoon and then
come back and catch the
highlights. What I fell in love
with was the fact that it was

an individual challenge, and I
can quite happily say that the
highs in cricket are the
highest of highs and the lows
are the lowest of lows.
I slightly fell out of love
with it at one point because of
a bad run of form. Fielding for
three days, getting a firstballer, then fielding again and
then getting a full toss and
smashing it straight at a
fielder and thinking: “What
am I doing?”
But I love the tradition, the
whites, and I played at some
amazing places with my
mates, giggling. If you’re
facing someone quick you
have to be courageous — it
brings out so many things in
people, the bravery, the
tactics, thinking about the
game. You have to be clever.
I haven’t played cricket for
five years but when I drop my
kids off at school, and I smell
the cut grass, the rope has
gone out and you see the lines
marked on the pitches — it’s
the start of summer and
there’s no feeling like it.
Interview by Elizabeth Ammon

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

Sport Cycling

It’s taken 119 years but finally,
women’s Tour de France is here
HANDOUT

Matt Dickinson on
how a band of female
amateurs fought uphill
battle — literally — to get
race on the calendar

T

he road always feels long
and gruelling at the Tour de
France, but for the female
professional peloton in
particular, it has been an
interminably tough journey for a fair
opportunity. History will be made
when the Tour de France Femmes
heads out of Paris tomorrow, and no
one will be more delighted, or proud,
than an English woman standing
among the crowds.
Three years ago, as founder
of the InternationElles,
Louise Vardeman led a group
of female amateur riders
around the entire 3,460km
route of the Tour, covering
every mountainous metre of
climbing one day before Egan
Bernal, Geraint Thomas and
the men’s peloton.
“In fact, we did more than
the men because it was the
year of the crazy landslides
which stopped them getting up
to Tignes,” Vardeman recalls.
“We had torrential rain,
dangerous roads. It was
freezing at times, almost sleet
and snow.
“I have been rewatching
some of the stories we recorded
and I’d forgotten just how
awful it was a lot of the time —
so gruelling. We weren’t pros.
We didn’t have the set-up so we were
doing our own washing, cooking, very
long transfers in a hot van. But it
meant the world to us to be shouting
the message that women should have
the opportunity to have a prestigious
race like the Tour de France.”
This three-week slog was
Vardeman’s most high-profile, and
exhausting, contribution to the
campaign for women to be given their
own version of the most famous bike
race in the world, which was first held
119 years ago. As far back as 1955,
there was a five-day women’s race and
there have been many versions since,
including La Course, which shifted
between one and two days over
recent years. But the Tour de France
Femmes represents a fresh start by
ASO, owners of the Tour — a weeklong stage race which begins in Paris
and finishes, more than 1,000km
later, at the summit of the brutal
Planche des Belles Filles eight days
later. A total of €250,000 (about
£213,00) in prize money is on offer.
Vardeman will be cycling out from
London to Paris in under 24 hours to
be there for the start on the ChampsÉlysées and joining her fellow
InternationElles to follow the race
and celebrate the progress they
fought for.
“I’m just so proud to have been
involved in some of the campaigning
to make it happen,” she says.
Remarkably, seven years ago
Vardeman had barely ridden a bike,
but a bad hip curtailed her running
and a divorce was an incentive to
throw herself at a new challenge. “I

Tour de
France
Femmes
Starts tomorrow, 12pm
TV: GCN+, Eurosport 1,
Eurosport Player,
discovery+

Vardeman in the saddle and, inset, with her fellow InternationElles in 2019
V

thought cycling
li people
l were weird in
all this Lycra and then I became one
of them,” she laughs.
Now she rides five days a week,
covers up to 12,000km a year, and has
represented Great Britain as an
amateur while also juggling life as an
events manager and mother of two
boys. And then there is the
InternationElles campaign, which
linked with their French equivalents,
Donnons des Elles au Vélo, as part of
the amateur push for advancing the
women’s sport and a female Tour.
Amateur involvement mattered
because, according to Vardeman, it
could be difficult for leading female
pros to kick up a fuss. “A lot of what
we were saying, they could not risk
their contracts by saying it,” she says.
“We could be a bit cheekier. So we
had messages from pros through
social media letting us know they
loved what we were doing.”
She says that the campaign has
been notable for its positivity rather
than protests. “We were really careful
from the beginning not to be stepping
on too many toes and talking in a
negative way,” Vardeman adds. “We
are all massive fans of the Tour de
France. We love the Tour. We just
want the opportunity shared with the
female peloton. So it’s not saying,
‘This is terrible.’ It’s saying, ‘This is
great and we want more of it.’ ”
The initial reaction to seeing that
the women’s race would be
concentrated in northeast France was
one of disappointment — “not really
a tour of France,” Vardeman says —
but that has turned to hope that it
will make it easier for the crowds to

f
follow.
Eight stages, rather
t
than
the 21 for the men, feels
aabout right. “I don’t think the
w
women’s peloton is ready for
tthree weeks,” Vardeman says.
““There is not the same depth
as the men. As a start, this is great for
a women’s version.”
Many different ideas for a female
Tour have been kicked around,
including the possibility of staging it
on shortened routes on the same day
as the men’s event, but Vardeman
thinks this race, which will set off as
the men finish in Paris, is optimal.
“The men’s race is such a big
spectacle that the women might not
be seen [if they were at the same
time],” she says.
“The way it is being done, with the
men’s Tour finishing and straight into
the women’s, makes sense. The
momentum will be building and we
are already hearing on the Tour
commentary that the women’s race
will be starting straight after.
“It’s historic and it should be
exciting. Women’s stages being
shorter, they can attack from the
start. And it’s great to know that it is
going to get proper TV coverage.”
Discovery platforms (discovery+,
GCN+ and Eurosport) have signed up
the UK rights for four years, and
proper backing is vital given that a
lack of funding killed off previous
versions of a women’s Tour.
Cycling teams are almost entirely
sponsor-funded and making the
business model work is one reason, or
excuse, that Team Sky (now Ineos
Grenadiers) gave for not having a
women’s team despite having the
sport’s biggest budget.
“You would hope they would lead
the way they do in so many other
ways,” Vardeman says. “It’s a shame in
the first Tour de France Femmes that
Ineos don’t have a team because

people would be looking at them to
dominate. I hope it is something that
will come.”
She did encounter the Ineos team
in 2019 during her epic three-week
ride, and was thrilled by the reaction
of Thomas and Luke Rowe.
“They said they couldn’t do what
we were doing,” she says. “They were
on two massages a day, their meals
cooked, their own washing machine
on the bus. They said, ‘Hats off, that’s
incredible,’ that we were making it
round.”
Vardeman looks back almost with
disbelief at how gruelling it was
spending more than ten hours in
the saddle on the toughest days,
almost falling off the bike with
exhaustion.
She remembers crawling to the top
of the Col d’Izoard on stage 18 ready
to drop and then realising that the
mighty Galibier still lay ahead.
“And the Planche des Belles Filles,
the 22 per cent gravel section, I
thought I was going to come off my
bike,” she says. “It was crazy, but I
think it did make a difference. We had
so many people asking questions like,
‘Why isn’t there a women’s Tour de
France?’ The questions simply could
not be ignored any more.
“People don’t think they can make
a change themselves, but if lots of
people do their bit it all adds up. That
is what has happened, but I did not
think that it would move so fast.
“It is a great honour to feel so
involved in something that is
changing history. There will be little
girls who will be able to watch and
think, ‘I can be a professional rider
winning the Tour de France.’ They
could not say that before.”
6 The inaugural Tour de France
Femmes is live and exclusive on
Warner Bros Discovery. Available
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Tour de France Sport

Laporte ends French
drought as despair
continues for Ewan

THEDEBATE
In a documentary, Andrew Flintoff called cricket “the most elitist
sport in Britain”. Mike Atherton and readers assess the claim . . .
Cricket is the most elitist sport? What
about polo (horse), equestrian in general,
rowing?
D Sellars

The programme (unwittingly) disproves the
accusation thankfully; elitism and breadth
of opportunity are two different things.
Mike Atherton

3
Three of England’s
2022 U19 World Cup
squad finished their
education at state
schools (13 of them
started in one)

GUILLAUME HORCAJUELO/EPA

Sixty years ago my dad, an Irish
immigrant with no cricket background,
took me to my local club because he
thought it would “bring me out of
myself”. It did. The access is there, but
you have to grasp it. Mind you, I see that
a decent bat these days is several
hundred quid. Now that’s a problem.
Pastaman

David
Walsh
There was a time, and it was not so long
ago, when the last-placed rider in the
Tour was celebrated. He was the
lanterne rouge, so called after the red
lantern once hung on the back of the
last carriage on French trains. For a
long time the final finisher in the
standings could monetise his status in
post-Tour criterium races.
The attention was not as ludicrous as
you might imagine. People appreciated
that finishing a race as torturous as the
Tour was a feat worthy of respect. The
pursuit of money spoilt what was a
noble tradition. In the 1979 Tour
Gerhard Schönbacher and Philippe
Tesnière got into a battle for last place.
They were both thinking of all those
criterium appearance fees.
Alas for Tesnière, he went so slowly
in the time-trial on the 21st stage at
Dijon that he exceeded the time limit
and was eliminated. From that point
onwards the poor lanterne rouge, like
Tesnière himself, fell into disrepute. It is
now the Tour’s mad aunt, hidden away
in the attic. That is a shame.
Cast your eye down through the
remaining 139 riders left in this Tour,
while remembering the 37 we have lost
along the way, and at the very bottom is
the Australian sprinter Caleb Ewan. He
has taken 5½ hours more to get this to
this point than the race leader, Jonas
Vingegaard.
It has been so much harder for Ewan.
Two heavy falls, shoulder and knee
injuries, chasing the bunch while his
wounds bleed and still he carries on.
The mountains for him are one long
slog and the only reward is the opportunity to go through the same hell on the
next day’s stage. He stays in the game
because on certain days there may be a
bunch sprint and when the finishes are
really rapid, Ewan can be the fastest.
He won three stages in 2019 and two
in 2020. Last year he crashed out on the
third stage. And now he is back in
search of more. His problem is every
sprinter’s problem: this year the Tour
has been no country for fast finishers.
Before the 19th leg into Cahors, there
had been a mere three bunch sprints.
For different reasons, Ewan missed out
on those three.
Still, there was always Cahors. Three
riders escaped on the Côte de SaintDaunès, 30 kilometres from the finish.
And somehow young Fred Wright was
one of the breakaways. A Londoner,
Wright rides for the Bahrain Victorious
team, who have not had a good race.

Lowering the economic barriers to entry
is the most critical thing of all.
Mike Atherton

Laporte of Jumbo-Visma sprinted to victory in Cahors on yesterday’s stage 19

How they stand
Stage 19 (Castelnau-Magnoac to Cahors,
188.3km): 1, C Laporte (Fr, Jumbo-Visma) 3hr
52min 4sec; 2, J Philipsen (Bel, AlpecinDeceuninck at 1sec behind; 3, A Dainese (It,
Team DSM), 4, F Senechal (Fr, Quick-Step
Alpha Vinyl), 5, T Pogacar (Slovenia, UAE
Team Emirates), 6, A Capiot (Bel, Team
Arkea-Samsic), 7, D Groenewegen (Neth,
Team BikeExchange-Jayco), 8, H Hofstetter
(Fr, Team Arkea-Samsic), 9, L Mezgec
(Slovenia, Team BikeExchange-Jayco), 10, C
Ewan (Aus, Lotto Soudal) all same time.
Selected other 13, J Vingegaard (Den,
Jumbo-Visma) 6sec behind.
Overall leading positions: Individual 1,
Vingegaard 75hr 45min 44sec; 2, Pogacar at
3min 21sec behind; 3, G Thomas (GB, Ineos
Grenadiers 8min. Points 1, W van Aert (Bel,
Jumbo-Visma) 460pts; 2, J Philipsen (Bel,
Alpecin-Deceuninck) 236pts. Climber 1,
Vingegaard 72pts; 2, S Geschke (Ger, Cofidis)
64pts. Youth 1, Pogacar 75hr 49min 5sec; 2,
T Pidcock (GB, Ineos Grenadiers) at 51min
26sec behind. Team 1, Ineos Grenadiers at
227hr 39min 38sec; 2, Groupama-FDJ at
32min 53sec behind.

Without Wright, we would hardly
know they are here.
The three breakaway riders never got
much of a lead, and with 10km to go it
was down to about ten seconds. Wout
van Aert, the pedalling monster in the
Green Jersey, was driving the pursuit
and it seemed that the gaps would close.
Wright, though, can ride and his breakaway companions, Jasper Stuyven and
Alexis Gougeard, did their share of the
pacemaking.
With 3km left, Van Aert pulled away
to the side and two of Ewan’s teammates went to the front. It was only a
ten-second gap for goodness sake.
Then an Alpecin–Deceuninck équipier,
working for his sprinter, Jasper Philipsen, got to the front and gave it every-

thing he had. Still the breakaway group
kept going, especially Wright.
A little over a kilometre from the line,
Wright went to the front and pedalled
like a man fleeing a fire. Gougeard and
Stuyven could not follow and Wright
went a bit harder. At the front of the
peloton, the Jumbo-Visma rider Christophe Laporte accelerated past the
Polish rider Maciej Bodnar and went in
pursuit of Wright. And all the sprinters’
teams did not have the men to pull
them up to Laporte.
Once he got up to Stuyven, Laporte
tucked in behind but soon realised that
the Belgian was not closing on Wright
and decided to go himself. With 450
metres to go, he flew past Wright, who
was just beginning to pay for his considerable efforts. Laporte went on to
win the stage, Philipsen won the race
for second place but, for a sprinter such
as Philipsen, second is nowhere. Wright
had ridden brilliantly. It was a first stage
victory for a French rider at this year’s
Tour and that felt right.
Fred also felt right. “I’m not
disappointed,” he said. “I saw the
opportunity on that climb, 30km to go.
In everybody’s mind it was going to be
a sprint. I went flat out to the top and we
had a gap, the three of us. We just kept
fighting. It was close but sometimes
that’s just the way it goes.”
All the general-classification riders
finished in the bunch one second after
Laporte. Down in tenth was Ewan.
Another day, another disappointment.
Still, he will carry on. There is always
the Champs-Élysées. The finale is sure
to end in a bunch sprint and perhaps we
will the see the last finish first on the
world’s most famous avenue.
That would a hell of a result for the
lanterne rouge.

Cricket was not always elitist. My father
worked at a large defence company and
played in their cricket team. Their
opponents were other factory sides or
the local West Indian side. Most factories
had sports grounds for the workforce.
This is no longer the case and, coupled
with high schools not playing cricket, has
caused a decline in children playing.
Lysias54

It’s not inherently elitist is the point; it’s just
that too many don’t come by the
opportunity. My experience of club cricket in
the north of England was anything but elitist.
Mike Atherton

Mike, you haven’t acknowledged that
developing the batting skills needed to
get to the very top is always going to be a
very limited opportunity. It is an
incredibly scarce resource by its very
nature and only those who are the most
committed can possibly do so.
Brian Cox

ra, who is under investigation over
alleged drug trafficking and money
laundering. López, 28, initially a witness in the case, was intercepted at
Madrid’s Barajas airport by police in
connection to the investigation, the
media report said, adding that the allegations concern the distribution of
medicines that are not authorised in

Spain. The Guardia Civil told Reuters
that López was not being investigated.
“The news that was spread in the
media caught us by surprise,” Astana
Qazaqstan said in a statement on Twitter. “In this regard, the team decided to
suspend Miguel Ángel López from any
activity within the team until all the
circumstances of the case are clarified.”

Ben, one of Flintoff’s
new cricketers, gives
his verdict in the BBC
documentary.

If I hadn’t
played the
game, nor
would you
Flintoff’s father, Colin,
speaking to his son in
the documentary

Yes, but this article is not about getting to
the very top; it’s simply about opportunity
to engage with the game.
Mike Atherton

What next?
Vernon Carus Cricket
Club, the home of
Flintoff’s young team,
is looking to grow
after receiving
£200,000 of funding
and a membership
boom. Meanwhile, the
ECB has promised
regular progress
updates on its Equity,
Diversity and
Inclusion Plan.

Rider linked to drug-trafficking inquiry
The Colombian rider Miguel Ángel
López has been suspended by his
Astana Qazaqstan team amid media
reports linking him to a drug trafficking
case in Spain.
The Spanish website Ciclo21 reported that police were scrutinising his connections to Dr Marcos Maynar, a professor at the University of Extremadu-

Why would
you come
round here
and think
anyone
would play
cricket?

Flintoff made it
to the top after
attending a
state school in
Preston

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Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

Sport Football

How Forest
hijacked deal
for Lingard in
only four days
Charlotte Duncker
and Gary Jacob with
the inside story of how
Premier League new
boys stole England
midfielder from under
the noses of West Ham

I

t took only four days of
negotiations but on Wednesday
night Nottingham Forest knew
they had landed their big-name
signing of the summer.
Evangelos Marinakis, the owner,
wanted a statement signing as Forest
prepare to show they are ready to
compete and challenge in the Premier
League, and that is exactly why they
went after Jesse Lingard.
After positive talks with Steve
Cooper, the head coach, on Tuesday
in London, the former Manchester
United midfielder had a medical
before his move to the City Ground.
It was a transfer that surprised many
after he had been tipped all summer
to join West Ham United.
But while the London club have
been in continual contact with
Lingard’s camp, they were denied by a
last-minute move from the Premier
League new boys, who made the
England international their tenth
senior signing of the window.
Lingard signed a one-year deal
under which he will earn up to
£115,000 a week once he has boosted
his £80,000 basic salary with bonuses
and add-ons. A lucrative signing-on
fee and agent fees mean that the deal
will run into millions of pounds

. . . and Cornet to follow?
Nottingham Forest hope to follow
Jesse Lingard’s arrival by signing
Maxwel Cornet from Burnley.
They are competing with Everton
for the forward, who has a release
clause of about £17.7 million.
Cornet, 25, joined Burnley from
Lyon for nearly £13 million last
summer and was the club’s leading
scorer with nine goals from 26
appearances as they were relegated
from the Premier League.
Forest, who won promotion to the
top flight via the play-offs, have been
one of the busiest teams in the
transfer market, with ten permanent
signings for the first team.

despite the midfielder arriving as a
free agent after the expiration of his
contract at United.
Plenty of clubs were linked with the
29-year-old over the summer, with his
brother and agent, Louie, touting him
across world football.
David Moyes, the West Ham
manager, had been keen to sign
Lingard, who impressed on loan at
the club in the second half of the
2020-21 season, scoring nine goals
and contributing five assists.
Moyes wanted him to be in with
the squad by the start of pre-season
training, which began two weeks ago,
but with the financial side of the deal
dragging on and West Ham not
prepared to meet the demands of
Lingard’s camp, a deal was never
finalised.
West Ham offered him a contract
that would have made him the club’s
top earner, above the centre back

Lingard was presented as a Forest player on Thursday despite widespread expectations that he would join West Ham

Kurt Zouma, who is on £120,000 a
week. But they did not want to go
beyond that and break their wage
structure to bring him back to the
club.
Lingard was offered to several clubs
at the start of the window but the
feeling was that he would end up at
West Ham, so there was no official
offer from Forest before the weekend.
Marinakis promised to back the
club heavily this summer in
preparation for their return to the
Premier League for the first time in
23 years and sources said before the
start of the window that they could
spend upwards of £100 million on
strengthening the squad.
Forest, who were promoted via the

play-offs, had already shelled out
£70 million before Lingard arrived on
a free transfer and they are not done
with their spending spree yet, with
more experienced players and
strength in depth needed to help
them compete in the top tier.
Lingard met Cooper in London on
Tuesday before Forest’s friendly
against Hertha Berlin at Burton
Albion. It is understood that Lingard
was impressed with the vision laid out
by the Forest manager and was
convinced that it was the right move
for him, although some club sources
believed West Ham would still turn
up with a counter offer at the last
minute.
With West Ham deciding not to

budge and Lingard happy with the
financial package on offer, he
completed his medical on Wednesday
night and was presented officially as a
Forest player on Thursday. Lingard
had offers from clubs in Saudi Arabia
and MLS in the United States but the
midfielder, who has won 32 England
caps, has ambitions of getting back
into Gareth Southgate’s squad before
the World Cup and so decided to stay
in the Premier League.
It is understood that he will stay in
England this weekend as the rest of
the squad take on Union Berlin in a
friendly in Germany this afternoon.
He will work on his fitness, having
missed out on a specific
pre-season training programme.

Chelsea beat Barcelona to sign Koundé West Ham’s bid for Italian
Martin Hardy
Chelsea are expected to sign the Sevilla
central defender Jules Koundé today
for a fee of about £55 million.
It is believed that the offer made by
the club will not be matched by
Barcelona, who were also keen on the
France international.
Thomas Tuchel, Chelsea’s head
coach, has been keen to strengthen his
defence after losing Antonio Rüdiger
and Andreas Christensen, and
Koundé’s arrival would be the second
significant defensive signing the club
have made this month. Last week they
signed Kalidou Koulibaly, the 31-yearold Senegal centre back, who joined
from Napoli for £34 million.
It was thought the transfers would
spell the end for César Azpilicueta at
the club but Tuchel suggested he may
not allow the club captain to leave and
said that he was unhappy about Barce-

lona approaching a contracted player.
“Maybe a little bit [angry],” he said.
Barcelona are understood to
cueta, 32,
have offered Azipilicueta,
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a two-year deal and
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Spain defender is keen
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to make the move but
is now contracted at
Stamford Bridge for
another
season
after activating an
extension
last
season.
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want to give Azpi
what he wants,””
me
Tuchel said. “At some
point it is also aboutt us.
“I don’t think so much
about other clubs as I think
ocus is on us and
about us. The full focus
what we need and what we have in Apzi.
Koundé was close to joining Chelsea
from Spanish side Sevilla last summer

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career level. I can understand his
point of vie
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only in this role to give
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he wants. I
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said.
Chelsea are also in talks with Paris
Saint-Germain about signing the leftsided centre back Presnel Kimpembe.

striker Scamacca accepted
Gary Jacob
West Ham United have had an increased bid of £36.5million for Gianluca Scamacca accepted after getting
frustrated with Chelsea dithering on
the proposed sale of Armando Broja.
The Sassuolo and Italy forward, 23,
scored 16 times in 36 league appearances last season. The east London club’s
offer of £31 million plus bonuses has
been accepted although any sell-on fee
has not been agreed yet. The 6ft 5in
striker has risen to prominence in the
past year, from spending time on Genoa’s bench two seasons ago to making
his Italy debut in September last year.
West Ham have been told to increase
their offer from £11 million to £15 million for Filip Kostic, the Eintracht
Frankfurt left back. The 29-year-old

has one year left on his deal worth
about £75,000 a week and has had
interest from Italian clubs and Tottenham Hotspur.
AC Milan have held talks with
Tottenham about signing Pape Matar
Sarr on loan in addition to Japhet
Tanganga. Sarr, a defensive midfielder,
joined Tottenham from Metz for an
initial £14.6 million last summer and
stayed at the French club on loan. He
was named the Young Player of the
Year at the Confederation of African
Football Awards this week.
Atalanta have made an approach to
sign Nuno Tavares on loan from
Arsenal. The left back started 13 of 22
league matches in his first season at the
club after a £7 million move from Benfica. He will have fewer opportunities
after the arrival of Oleksandr
Zinchenko from Manchester City.

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De Gea relishing Ten Hag’s intensity
CHALINEE THIRASUPA/REUTERS

United No 1 says new
manager can change
mentality after
‘disaster’ of last
season, writes
Paul Hirst

D

avid de Gea and José
Mourinho did not always
see eye to eye, but they
firmly agree with each
other on one thing: if
a goalkeeper wins the player of
the year award at a big club such as
Manchester United, it has not been a
good season.
“Something is wrong if that
happens,” Mourinho said in 2018.
“Yep,” De Gea says, nodding his head
when reminded of the former United
manager’s words. “I love to win the
award, but I’d prefer it if a striker or
a midfielder won it.”
Eleven years since arriving from
Atletico Madrid, the Spaniard has
won as many player of the year
awards (four) as team trophies. One
of the best goalkeepers in the world
over the past decade has only one
Premier League, one FA Cup, one
Carabao Cup and a single Europa
League to show for his excellence.
De Gea, 31, should have probably
won the player of the year award last
season but he was pipped at the post
by Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored 24
goals. United cancelled their awards
night at Old Trafford because they
were so embarrassed at their sixthplace finish, and one suspects that
De Gea agreed with the decision.
“Last season was a disaster,” he
said. “It was the worst season I’ve
had at the club. I was embarrassed
sometimes. Some games were a mess,
it was painful. To lose by four or five
goals is unacceptable.”
The last point refers to the fact
that United conceded four or more
goals in six league games last season,
including defeats by Leicester City,
Brighton & Hove Albion and the
eventually relegated Watford.
De Gea pulls no punches as he
speaks to the national press in a beige
room at a hotel in Perth, where
United play the final game of their
pre-season tour, against Aston Villa,
today. One senses that he is speaking
so freely for two reasons: first, he
wants supporters to know that last
year was painful for him and his

De Gea has won as many player of the year prizes as team trophies in his 11 years at United, something he wants to change

Bittersweet honour
David de Gea was named United’s
player of the year in four of the
first five seasons after Sir Alex
Ferguson’s retirement:
2013-14 ......................................................De Gea
2014-15 ......................................................De Gea
2015-16 ......................................................De Gea
2016-17 ......................................Ander Herrera
2017-18 .......................................................De Gea
2018-19 ..............................................Luke Shaw
2019-20 ...............................Bruno Fernandes
2020-21 ..............................................Fernandes
2021-22 ..............................Cristiano Ronaldo

team-mates. Second, he wants to
assure them that there will be no
repeat this year under Erik ten Hag,
the new manager.
Each time De Gea speaks about the
horrors of the previous campaign, he
ends the sentence with: “That can’t
happen again this year.”

The goalkeeper, who has made 486
appearances for United, knows better
than most that it is possible to get
through a sticky patch and rediscover
your best form. His 2019-20 campaign
was littered with errors. The season
after, he was lambasted by sections of
the United fanbase for failing to score
a sudden-death penalty in the Europa
League final defeat by Villarreal,
having failed to stop any of the
Spanish side’s spot kicks.
As he left the stadium in Gdansk,
Sir Alex Ferguson put his arm around
the goalkeeper. “He [Ferguson] said:
‘Sometimes life is like this, it’s a
penalty, that’s it, keep working and
next season show your best,’ ” De Gea
said. “It was a bit strange to have to
take the penalty, but that happens in
football sometimes.”
Had history taken a different
course, De Gea would have been
spending the summer celebrating
Real Madrid’s 14th Champions
League triumph. Does he ever think
about what might have been, had that

fax machine not broken just as it was
sending the relevant paperwork over
to the Bernabéu in the final minutes
of the 2015 summer transfer window?
“No,” he says firmly. “I don’t mind
saying that. I’m just thinking about
Manchester. It’s my home. It’s an
honour to be at this club.”
Indeed, De Gea wants to spend
the rest of his career at United. His
present £375,000-a-week contract has
one year left to run — with an option
to extend it by one season — but he is
happy to begin talks over a new deal.
“I didn’t talk with anyone [about a
new contract] yet but of course, I
would be really happy to be here for
as long as they want me,” he said.
When asked whether he would like
to finish his career at the club, De
Gea said: “Yes, if it’s possible, of
course. I’m really comfortable here.
I’m really happy and hopefully before
I leave we can win something.
“You want to win one or two or
three titles, to try to fight for the
Champions League and the cups.”

When De Gea arrived at United in
2011, the dressing room was blessed
with talent, but also players who had
an elite mentality. The likes of
Nemanja Vidic, Paul Scholes, Wayne
Rooney and Ryan Giggs shared
Ferguson’s mindset. They were
restless unless they were competing
for the biggest trophies.
Conversely, the dressing room
last season seemed content with
mediocrity, and De Gea admits that
standards slipped. “We needed a
better culture of football,” he said.
“We needed to be just thinking about
football, nothing else. I hope everyone
reflects [on the previous campaign]. I
think many things have to change.”
United responded by installing the
52-year-old Ten Hag, a disciplinarian,
and he has not been afraid to chastise
his players if they are late or if they
do not follow his instructions in
training. Zidane Iqbal, the 19-year-old
midfielder, was the latest player to
receive a tongue-lashing from the
manager. During Thursday’s training
session at the Waca, Ten Hag shouted
“f***ing rubbish” towards Iqbal after
he gave the ball away.
“The new manager is intense,”
De Gea said. “He is very focused on
football, on what he needs, so I have
good feelings [about this season].
“You cannot be late for training,
we cannot be late for the meetings.
That’s life — you have to be on time
and professional.”
Despite De Gea’s impressive
form last season, he is by no means
bulletproof. Dean Henderson, his
main rival, has been allowed to join
Nottingham Forest, but only on
loan. The 25-year-old England
international will return to Old
Trafford next season and could still
dislodge De Gea because of his
superior ability with his feet.
De Gea is a better shot-stopper
than Henderson, but there is still
room for improvement in his passing,
which may become an issue as Ten
Hag wants United to play the ball out
from the back with speed.
One of the reasons that Luis
Enrique dropped De Gea from the
Spain squad was because he was not
happy with his passing, but the
goalkeeper takes umbrage at those
who say that he is not good enough
with the ball at his feet.
“I showed already that I can do it,”
he said. “If you watch my games with
the national team or when we played
with Sir Alex at the beginning, you
could see it. I don’t need to prove it to
anyone. I’ve been playing that way for
many years.”

Mount: I’ll take any chance to be Chelsea captain
Tom Roddy
Orlando

On Thursday afternoon, a day off for
the Chelsea squad, Mason Mount was
part of a group of players on a golf
course in Orlando. He has been shaving
shots off a handicap that is falling fast
and, while the football field is more
familiar than the fairways, Mount still
has a lot to learn on the pitch as he aims
for a new target.
In the second half of Chelsea’s FC
Series defeat by Charlotte in North
Carolina, Mount was handed the
captain’s armband. The 23-year-old
academy product has emerged as a
contender to assume the honour
permanently, with César Azpilicueta
aiming to secure a move to Barcelona.

Mount is regarded as the future of
Chelsea, alongside his academy teammate Reece James, and that was shown
through his promotion as a leader in the
team. It was not the first time the midfielder had assumed the responsibility,
with Frank Lampard having handed
him the armband in his final game as
head coach, an FA Cup tie against
Luton Town in January last year.
But it is a position that Mount hopes
will become permanent. “I am still
young and I am still learning, but
whenever the opportunity comes to
step up I want to take it,” he said.
“The gaffer trusted me with captaining the side in the second half and I take
that responsibility. Whether we win,
whether we lose, I always want to be the
one to be able to take it.” Mount captained the youth teams at Chelsea,

having joined the club at the age of six
and excelled through the age groups
alongside the likes of James, Tammy
Abraham, Fikayo Tomori, Conor Gallagher and Billy Gilmour. He has become a senior player within Thomas
Tuchel’s team but is still aiming to learn
from the present captain, Azpilicueta,
and the vice-captain, Jorginho.
“I’m naturally not the most vocal,”
Mount said. “When I was captain of the
under-18 FA Youth Cup side, I was always someone who tried to lead by example on the pitch. I am constantly trying to learn off the likes of Azpi [Azpilicueta] and Jorgi [Jorginho] who have
been captains of this club. Just trying to
learn off them and trying to add that
[being more vocal] to my game.”
Mount may be seen as the future at
Chelsea, yet he is entering the last two

years of his contract and is one of the
lowest-paid players in the squad.
Chelsea’s new owners are intent on
changing that, with contract talks set to
begin soon, but they will need to convince Mount that the club will remain a
contender for titles.
Signing Raheem Sterling and Kalidou Koulibaly has been a positive start
and Tuchel, the head coach, is hoping
for at least two more arrivals. “We want
to be up there, we want to be pushing,”
Mount said. “We are strengthening as a
team. We are going in the right direction. It’s an exciting start.”
Sterling’s move from Manchester
City may have been a surprise for some,
but Mount had prior knowledge,
having given the 27-year-old forward
an insight into life at Chelsea while they
were away with England.

“I spoke to him a little when we were
away on international duty,” Mount
said. “He didn’t have a clue what was
going on. He just said there was interest
there and I was obviously saying, ‘We’d
love to have you at the club.’ ”
Sterling played with Mount on his
first Chelsea appearance, in an attack
alongside Kai Havertz, at the Bank of
America Stadium in Charlotte. “I know
what he is like as a person, as a player,”
Mount said. “I’ve played with him for
the last couple of years with England
and he’s a top, top guy with a lot left to
go and a lot more winning to do, so it’s
brilliant to have him.”
In a summer of change at Stamford
Bridge, Mount is one of the few figures
of stability. One day he hopes to cement
that relationship by inheriting the
armband.

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‘Leaving home at 11 was painful. I
Caglar Soyuncu tells
Henry Winter
that his family
depended on
his football

C

aglar Soyuncu has always
had resilience. One of the
most admired defenders in
the Premier League,
whose pre-season with
Leicester City intensifies this
weekend, will never forget the
moment when he first said goodbye
to his parents, Ayse and Omar, after
they dropped him off to board and
develop at Bucaspor, a club on the
outskirts of Izmir, Turkey. Soyuncu
was only 11.
The experience strengthened him,
and helped to accentuate the skills
that make him such an exciting, risktaking player, who dribbled down the
wing and put in a cross in the 4-0 win
over Hull City on Wednesday, and
who will play in one of Leicester’s
friendlies against Preston North End
or Derby County today.
We meet at his house on the edge
of Leicester. He’s just completed
another double training session under
Brendan Rodgers, offers Turkish tea
and then opens up on what shaped
him in the past and also talks about
his future.
“Leaving home when I was 11 was
very painful,” Soyuncu begins. “Tears?
Yes, at night. Some players would go
back to their homes after training but
there were about 25 of us there,
staying in like a dormitory, working
really hard, cleaning toilets, sweeping
the floor, doing washing up in order
to learn about life. The lights would
go off at 9pm. We were like orphans.
cult
“It was very difficult
ere
psychologically. There
were many who
couldn’t do it. Somee
would return to
their homes after a
month. It was
challenging,
giving so much of
my childhood
and maybe it does
impact me later in
my life. I felt I
missed out on somee
things. You cannot
show some of your
feelings.
“I was dedicated to football
d to push forward
even then. I wanted
with my football. To be honest with
you, we [as a family] needed it a lot as
well, financially. My family did so
much to support me. I saw my
parents only once a month. My
mother says she does not know how

she let me go at the time but I’m glad
she did.
“I had a phone but sometimes no
credit. Sometimes my father would
give me some money for phone credit
or pocket money but I’d spend the
money ringing my friends. And the
credit ran out. You then wait for them
to call you because you have no credit
left. Communication is easier now.
We were writing letters then. I was at
Bucaspor for two years.”
It was there that he became good
friends with another future Turkish
international, Cengiz Under, and the
two talents then progressed through
the system to Altinordu, also in Izmir.
Soyuncu’s path has been wellchronicled. He moved on to Freiburg
and then Leicester for £18 million in
2018, eventually reuniting with Under
when the winger joined Leicester on
loan from Roma in 2020.
Soyuncu was disappointed when
Under was not kept on, although he
felt that Rodgers handled a difficult
situation well. “There were no
problems,” he replies. “Unfortunately,
he [Under] had some injuries. He
played well when he did actually play.
But technically, he was very gifted.
Still is. The players nicknamed him
David Silva. He really wanted to stay.”
As for his own future, there has
been talk linking Soyuncu, whose
contract expires next year, with
moves elsewhere.
“I’m a Leicester player,” he
emphasises. “I’m very lucky to have
been given a fantastic chance by
Leicester. The season is starting and
as long as I’m one of the players here,
I’ll give 100 per cent and do the best I
can do. My priority is Leicester
because I cannot forget the
importance of the club and what
coming here has done for my career. I
developed as a player here. Leicester
is like a family to me. That’s what the
club represents to me — a huge
family — and huge ambition.”
hug respect for
He has huge
“
Rodgers. “He’s
very
handshands-on,” the centre
back explains. “If, at
train
training, he spots
tha
that you are
m
missing some
th
things, he
in
intervenes. He
sa
says, ‘This is
w
what I’m looking
for
for. That needs
som
some work.’ And
show
shows you.”
Rod
Rodgers
encoura
encourages his
adventurou
adventurous side. “He
gives me freedo
freedom but I only
take the risk at the rig
right time in the
right place,” he says. “I’m lucky I have
the backing of the manager to try
things in games. There’s mutual trust.
With that confidence, I can express
myself with ease. It’s important to
have fun and entertain the fans.

Absolutely! Football is a show after
all.”
Leicester fans debate Rodgers using
the right-footed Soyuncu on the left
side of a back three. “I’m comfortable
on the left because I like to use my
left foot,” he replies. “I’m happy in a
two but also three. We can adapt.
Look at history — when Leicester
finished fifth in the league [in 201920], we played with a back four
[Soyuncu partnering Jonny Evans].
Then we played a back three [with
Wesley Fofana also involved] and we
won the FA Cup [in 2020-21].
“We had many injuries last season,
with Jonny Evans and with Fofana, a
player with huge potential, and it was
tough for us, we were short in defence
and we felt the impact. It would have
been difficult for any team to go with
injuries like that.”
Leicester lost Jamie Vardy for four
months to hamstring and knee
injuries. “He still managed to score 15
Premier League goals [in 25 games].
The Golden Boot was 23 goals. It’s
incredible what he did,” Soyuncu says.
“I am very lucky to play in the same
team as him. He’s an exceptional
player.
“He’s got it all. He’s great in the air,
on the floor. He’s very fast and makes
runs in behind. And he’s a really good,
really nice character. He’s fantastic
with all the new players. He makes
them feel very welcome and included
in the Leicester family. He involves
you when he’s talking, or he makes
jokes at the right times. He gets on
well with everyone.”
Vardy has played jokes on Soyuncu.
“Yes. All the time. But in a positive
way. When he’s working, he’s fully
focused and other times he makes
you enjoy being there,” he says. “So is
Kasper [Schmeichel]. They are ten
years older than me so they have that
experience and knowhow that makes
people feel very comfortable.”
Leicester’s sense of family
embodied by Vardy and Schmeichel
was apparent in their grieving
following the tragic death of the club’s
beloved owner, Vichai
Srivaddhanaprabha, when his
helicopter crashed outside the King
Power Stadium on October 27, 2018.
“It was a terrible shock,” Soyuncu
says. “What it did was bring us even
closer together, staff, players,
supporters, even more like a small
family unit. It strengthened our bond.
This happened two months after I got
here and I found it really difficult to
deal with. I was thinking what a great
chairman we had. I can only imagine
how difficult it was for those players
[such as Vardy and Schmeichel] who
had been working with him for so
long.”
Our conversation turns back to the
field, and the quality of Rodgers’s
squad, including the likes of Youri
Tielemans and James Maddison.
“Tielemans was a really good player

My mother
says she does
not know how
she let me go
at the time

Soyuncu enjoys
having the
freedom to take
risks. Left, as a
child prodigy

when he got here [from Monaco in
2019] but he’s started contributing
more and more to the scoreline. His
defensive and offensive play has
improved, especially his offensive.
He’s scoring goals and making assists.
He’s improved as a box-to-box player.
“I was surprised Maddison was not
in the [most recent] England squad
but it’s not up to us. I have a lot of
respect for the England manager. So
this is not a criticism. But he has done
very well for us scoring 14 goals and 11
assists [2021-22 all competitions]. He’s
a phenomenal player. He’s a great
influence. He’s always very positive.
He’s not really a shouter, he doesn’t
have a go at people, he’s more of a
doer. He fully focuses on his game at
training and also in games.”
Soyuncu experiences the quality
daily in training at Seagrave and has

strong hopes for the new season. “Our
aim is to be in the top four but worstcase scenario finish in the top six,” he
adds. “We target the Champions
League season after season.”
He understands the challenges in
store. “When you look at English
football, it’s the best league in every
category, financially and it’s the most
competitive with the quality of the
players and the teams,” he says. “Any
team can beat any other here and the
champion is not decided ten games
before the end of season. Every team
is very strong here. Nothing is
predictable in the Premier League.
There’s this buzz around English
football.”
Even more so with Erling Haaland
and Darwin Núñez arriving at
Manchester City and Liverpool
respectively. “The best players prefer

Mee joins Brentford – and makes carbon neutral vow
Ben Mee has become Brentford’s fourth
signing of the summer after joining
from Burnley on a free transfer.
The 32-year-old, who spent a decade
at Turf Moor, was out of contract after
the club’s relegation to the Sky Bet
Championship and has signed a twoyear contract with the west London
side.
Mee joins fellow new signings Aaron
Hickey, Keane Lewis-Potter and
Thomas Strakosha at Brentford, who

have lost Christian Eriksen to Manchester United on a free transfer.
The former Burnley captain played
376 times for the club and his new head
coach, Thomas Frank, said yesterday
that Mee’s experience would be valuable as Brentford embark on their
second season in the Premier League.
Frank said on Brentford’s website: “I
am very happy that we have signed Ben.
He will add a lot of quality and experience to the squad. He had six good

years for Burnley in the Premier
League.
“I really love his defensive mindset; he knows how to defend the
box, he knows how to block a
shot and he knows how to win
duels.
“He will bring leadership
and communication to the
team, which is very attractive. He has a very good left
foot and will be very good

for us on set pieces in both boxes. I
am looking forward to adding
him to the squad.”
The centre half, who
began his career at Manchester City, lives in the
North West and has
vowed to make his
transfer carbon neutral
by donating to Carbon
Neutral Britain, an organisation certified by the

United Nations which helps to offset
carbon footprints with solar and wind
farms and by planting trees. Mee has
donated a sum that should offset the average carbon footprint of a person for
one year.
“I am conscious that transfers rack up
a lot of air miles and driving miles so I
am looking to offset my emissions,”
Mee said on social media. “I am not
perfect but I am trying to do my bit to
make this transfer carbon neutral.”

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to play here,” Soyuncu adds. “We’re
very lucky to attract some of the
world’s best players. I’m excited by the
challenge of playing against these
players. Anything is possible on any
given day. No matter who we’re
facing we are perfectly capable of
beating that team.”
There’s always a challenge for him.
“Cristiano Ronaldo came this year
and despite his age, he did amazingly
well and scored great goals. Before
him, there was Sergio Agüero, who’s
left here now. Then you look at Harry
Kane and there are many more.
These are world-class players. To play
in the league with these people, and
they on their A-game, we relish those
challenges.”
Leicester’s ambition is embodied by
Seagrave. There is still a lot of chatter
among Leicester fans, looking for

reasons for last season’s
disappointments, that the sumptuous
new training ground has taken
something from the players, taking
them away from the modest but
characterful old home of Belvoir
Drive. “I do miss the old [training]
ground,” Soyuncu says. “It had a
special atmosphere, very warm. But
what they have done with the new
training ground is fantastic. It’s such a
beautiful place.
“I can say that it is maybe the
leading training ground in Europe.
They’ve thought of everything. There
is the room where you chill, you have
your own rooms, there’s fishing and
the golf course. Because there are so
many activities, it brings us even
more together.
“There is even a small mosque at
our training ground where we can

pray. The club has a lot of respect for
everyone.”
Soyuncu tries to pray five times a
day. “Yes. When I find the time, I try
and pray but sometimes you’re on the
road and you’re very busy. I generally
try and do it though,” he says. He
keeps to Ramadan, the annual fast
observed by Muslims, which was from
April 1 until May 1 this year, the peak
of the football season. “The first days
are a bit difficult because after 11
months of not being used to it, you
are dealing with hunger and fasting
but of course God helps you and gives
you the strength,” Soyuncu says.
“We’ve been doing it since we were
kids. It’s part of our life. You get used
to it after a couple of days. You wake
up early for Sahur which is the meal
before dawn during Ramadan. I try
not to fast on match days.” He simply
delays his fast for a day. “Yes. I know
from the Quran [that he is allowed to
do that].”
He enjoys being low key. “We
[Turkish people] are quite reserved as
people,” Soyuncu continues. “I’m not
that super active on social media. My
dedication is to football and my
family.” Yet when he does post on
Instagram about international duty
with Turkey he can get 250,000 likes.
“I post things at the right time, like
when we win or do something good
for our country,” he says. “I try not to
neglect the people who watch us, who
love me or see us as role models.
There’s a young population in Turkey,
and especially the younger generation
are very active on social media, and
it’s great for me to have that
interaction and show things we are
proud of as a nation.
“As a country, we really love
football. The supporters have a very
strong bond with their teams. We see
it as a job here but in Turkey it is
more than that and you feel that on
the pitch. Sometimes this puts a lot of
pressure on our shoulders but
sometimes it also pushes us forward.
“I’m very proud to play in the
Premier League but the intensity of
the fans in Turkey is different to a lot
of other places. Every year they break
the decibel records over there. They
are constantly standing, shouting and
singing. It’s a rarity for anyone to sit
down. There is a fanaticism.”
Capped 48 times by his home
nation, Soyuncu is huge in Turkey. “I
can’t walk across Taksim Square,” he
says, laughing, referring to Istanbul’s
famous, teeming hub. “Very difficult.
I’d get mobbed. In a nice way. They
love you.” Because he played for a
club outside Istanbul, Altinordu,
Soyuncu doesn’t get caught up in
Istanbul rivalries. “If I was playing for
Besiktas, only the Besiktas fans would
love me. If I came from Galatasaray, it
would be the same. But because I
came from a second-division team, all
supporters love me now. Also I play in
the best league in the world.”

Dalglish leads tributes to former chairman
The former Liverpool chairman David
Moores has died at the age of 76.
Moores, whose family founded the
Littlewoods retail empire, was a lifelong
Liverpool fan and served as chairman
for 16 years from 1991. His wife of 39
years Marge died a few weeks ago.
The Moores family held a majority
stake in Liverpool for more than half a
century and after taking over he and
Rick Parry, the chief executive, oversaw
the appointments of Roy Evans, Gérard
Houllier and Rafa Benítez. The club

won ten leading honours during his
tenure, including the Champions
League in 2005. However, in the
pursuit of external investment to help
develop a new ground, Moores sold his
controlling interest to Tom Hicks and
George Gillett Jr two years later.
It was a move that quickly turned
sour with the Americans eventually
forced out in a bitter boardroom battle
after considerable fan opposition, and
RBS calling in a £237 million loan resulted in a sale to New England Sports

Ventures (who subsequently became
current owners Fenway Sports Group).
“The thoughts of everyone at Liverpool FC are with David’s family,” said a
statement from the club.
Kenny Dalglish wrote on Twitter:
“Marina and I are both very saddened
by the passing of David Moores. He was
a loyal Liverpool fan whose dream
came true when he was appointed
chairman, and he did a tremendous
amount to help the club. He’ll be greatly
missed by all who knew him. RIP.”

THETAILENDER
Patrick Kidd

Stricken Pinky far from perky
Nick Friend says he will be
haunted for a long time by the
memory of his public humiliation
on the biggest stage. Drenched in
sweat from an exertion last
weekend that he described as “like
running into a volcano wrapped
in a duvet”, Friend was suffering a
side-strain and “an ego bruised
beyond repair”. As he stumbled
down the final straight, all he
could hear was cruel laughter.
People on Twitter told Friend he
had let his team down, especially
when his head fell off. Worse, he
lost an ear in the ball-pit. Truly
there is no more chastening
experience in sport than coming
last in the mascot race on
Twenty20 finals day.
Friend was inside Pinky the
Middlesex Panther for the race at
Edgbaston over the traditional
course: through the ball-pit, under
the cargo net, round the inflatable
ball, through the stumps and over
the giant bat. He did not rise to it,
passed at the last by a giraffe who
had found its second wind, for
shame. There was also some
cricket played, if you like such
things, with Hampshire beating

Lancashire by one run in the final.
For those who prefer
cricketainment, the Hundred
starts soon.
Yesterday was the 50th
anniversary of the first Benson &
Hedges Cup final, a reminder that
a proliferation of county
competitions is nothing new: the
B&H was the third limited-overs
tournament at that time, after the
Gillette Cup (introduced in 1963)
and the Sunday League (1969).
Leicestershire won the final after
Yorkshire made only 136 for nine
in 55 overs. It seems a different
world. In the seven matches from
the quarter-finals, the team
batting first made 150 only once,
barely a competitive score in
Twenty20.
In one thriller in Cardiff in 1972
Glamorgan raced to 104 for nine
and Warwickshire needed 46
overs to chase it. Yet while runscoring was slow, the game was
much faster in one respect.
Wisden grumbled that in the 1972
Ashes they had bowled only 15.5
overs an hour and called for
teams to raise it to 18. Now even
15 seems frantic.

PIC OF THE WEEK
Poop-Poop! Looking
like Mr Toad and
friend, Sebastian
Vettel and Johnny
Herbert take to the
track before the
French Grand Prix
driving a 1922 Aston
Martin “Green Pea”.
The company was
founded in 1913 and
set speed and
endurance records
after the First
World War.

Chile step into Hats off to the
the big time
amateur era
They were dancing in the streets
of Valparaiso last Saturday as
Chile qualified for the rugby
World Cup with a 53-52 aggregate
win over the US. In the biggest
story in Chilean rugby for 50
years, since 16 Uruguayan players
and fans survived two months in
the Andes after their plane
crashed in Santiago, Chile had
trailed for 154 minutes of the
play-off and were 20 points
behind with 50 minutes to play.
Chile will be the 26th side to
play in the World Cup and
first debutants since
Russia in 2011. Having
lost 45-5 to Scotland A
last month, they will play
against England, Japan,
Argentina and Samoa,
but it is chastening for
the US, who had
reached eight of the
nine previous World
Cups and are hosting
it in 2031. They have a
last chance to qualify
in November, in a
repechage with
Kenya, Portugal and
Hong Kong.

Philippe Saint-Andre, the former
France wing, once told me his role
model as a boy was Ken Kennedy,
below, who died last week. When
they played in the garden, SaintAndre’s brother would be JeanPierre Rives but Philippe chose to
be Ireland’s hooker. An attraction,
he said, was that as a doctor by
profession, Kennedy always
seemed to be as concerned with
healing injuries as causing them.
The days when rugby players had
a day job are long gone. I recently
found a set of cards from the 1991
World Cup that listed professions:
Rory Underwood, pilot; Garin
Jenkins, miner; Peter Fatialofa,
piano mover etc. Some stretched
amateurism too
far, especially in
1926 when Jean
Bourrel, owner
of Quillan, a
weak French
club, hired seven
Perpignan players
and their coach to work in
his hat factory. Quillan
won the league in three
years. But were their hats
any good?

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1.50 Lezoo
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5.20 Bond Chairman
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Going: good to firm-good in places
Draw: no advantage
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Chiefofchiefs, 16-1 Rhoscolyn, King Zain, Aratus, Ropey Guest.

Thunderer choice: Air To Air won in taking style on his return at Yarmouth and
a 4lb rise may not be enough to stop him following up. Danger Chiefofchiefs

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8
(7)
1 ROYAL CHARTER 29 (D) W Haggas 9-2
71
T Marquand
9
(2)
7-4 Lezoo, 6-1 Kinta, 7-1 Glenlaurel, 8-1 Palm Lily, Minnetonka, Royal Charter, 10-1 Breege,
14-1 Omniqueen, Cuban Mistress.

118
R L Moore
1
(1) 020-51 BROOME 35 (CD) A P O’Brien (Ire) 6-9-9
James Doyle v123
2
(2) 214-02 MISHRIFF 21 (D) J & T Gosden 5-9-9
111
3
(4) 12-042 PYLEDRIVER 50 (BF,CD) W Muir & C Grassick 5-9-9 P J McDonald
-4
(5) 211-61 TORQUATOR TASSO 21 (D) Marcel Weiss 5-9-9 Rene Piechulek
122
C T Keane
5
(6) 22-131 WESTOVER 28 (D) R Beckett 3-8-12
117
L Dettori
6
(3) 1-112 EMILY UPJOHN 50 (BF) J & T Gosden 3-8-9
11-8 Westover, 9-4 Emily Upjohn, 3-1 Mishriff, 14-1 Torquator Tasso, 20-1 Broome, 25-1 Pyledriver.

Thunderer’s choice: Lezoo stands out on form after being edged out by
Mawj in a group-two race at Newmarket last time.
Danger Palm Lily

1 BAJAN BANDIT 31 (D) R Hannon 9-5
71
C Fallon
1
(3)
314 FINN’S CHARM 35 (D) C & M Johnston 9-5
95
L Dettori
2
(5)
41 MASCAPONE 51 D M Simcock 9-5
64
J P Spencer
3
(1)
11 NAVAL POWER 30 (D) C Appleby 9-5
82
W Buick
4
(4)
v98
James Doyle
5
(2) 1555 WAITING ALL NIGHT 16 R Spencer 9-5
6-4 Naval Power, 3-1 Waiting All Night, 7-2 Finn’s Charm, 6-1 Bajan Bandit, 10-1 Mascapone.

2.25

Longines Valiant Stakes
ITV
(Fillies’ Group 3) (Rnd) (£45,368: 1m) (9)

97
Rene Piechulek
1
(6) 053-54 NOVEMBA 38 (D) P Schiergen (GER) 4-9-5
75
J P Spencer
2
(3) 31-061 ROMANTIC RIVAL 52 (D) G Boughey 4-9-5
87
P J McDonald
3
(4) 552405 SERENADING 18 (D) J Fanshawe 6-9-5
96
R Scott
4
(7) 24-403 EIDIKOS 31 E Bethell 3-8-11
H Doyle v109
5
(5) 41-206 JUMBLY 41 (T,BF) H & R Charlton 3-8-11
211 KIND GESTURE 27 (H,D) R Varian 3-8-11
92
A Atzeni
6
(2)
104
W Buick
7
(8) -02123 OSCULA 14 G Boughey 3-8-11
99
S James
8
(9) 00-216 SNOOZE N YOU LOSE 31 K R Burke 3-8-11
108
J Crowley
9
(1) 1-312 ZANBAQ 36 R Varian 3-8-11
9-4 Zanbaq, 3-1 Jumbly, 9-2 Oscula, 5-1 Novemba, 8-1 Kind Gesture, 12-1 Snooze N You Lose,
33-1 Eidikos, Romantic Rival, Serenading.

Thunderer choice: Zanbaq ran a cracker when runner-up in last month’s
Sandringham Stakes and can go one better. Dangers Jumbly, Novemba

3.00

Moet & Chandon International
Stakes (Heritage Handicap)

ITV

(£77,310: 7f) (22)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

(19)
(6)
(2)
(14)
(8)
(10)
(21)
(3)
(16)
(5)
(12)
(13)
(15)
(20)
(18)
(7)
(11)
(17)

0-1200
1-3633
05-064
-34630
0-1010
11-011
554-21
513001
11-300
12-003
30-240
00-000
56-304
1002-1
-53210
5-5422
-22612
-14605

ACCIDENTAL AGENT 14 (B,CD) E J-Houghton 8-10-0 C Bishop
JUMBY 14 (P,CD) E J-Houghton 4-9-8
H Doyle
TACTICAL 14 (C,D) A Balding 4-9-6
R L Moore
RHOSCOLYN 14 (T,D) D O’Meara 4-9-6
C Fallon
ASJAD 35 James Horton 4-9-4
P J McDonald
DARK SHIFT 38 (CD) C Hills 4-9-4
W Buick
KING ZAIN 80 (D) H & R Charlton 4-9-4
James Doyle
BLESS HIM 14 (H,C,D) D M Simcock 8-9-4(3ex)
J P Spencer
ARATUS 38 (D) C Cox 4-9-2
T Marquand
DOCUMENTING 15 (CD) K Frost 9-9-1
J Hart
FRESH 35 (T,BF,C) J Fanshawe 5-9-0
D Tudhope
STAR OF ORION 14 (D) R Beckett 4-8-12
R Hornby
CHIEFOFCHIEFS 37 (V,C) C Fellowes 9-8-12
C T Keane
AIR TO AIR 29 (D) G Boughey 4-8-11
Rossa Ryan
LION TOWER 21 (D) G Tuer 5-8-9
S James
ROPEY GUEST 14 (V,D) G Margarson 5-8-9
C Hutchinson (5)
NORTHERN EXPRESS 15 (D) M Dods 4-8-8
G Lee
EAGLEWAY 21 (V,D) I Furtado 6-8-6
J Haynes

Lingfield Park
Thunderer
5.08 Wannabe Betsy
7.10 Counsel
5.40 Mhajim
7.40 Federal Street
6.10 Crown Land
8.10 Prenup
6.40 Bungle Bay
8.40 Goldsmith
Going: standard
Sky Sports Racing
Draw: 5f-7f, high numbers best

5.08

Handicap (£3,726: 1m 4f) (10)

Ethan Jones (7)
(2) 5-545 BIG WING J92 L Carter 5-10-2
Mollie Phillips (5)
(8) 51433 BE FAIR 32 (CD) A Carroll 6-9-11
K Shoemark
(1) 05000 MELEAGANT 16 E Walker 3-9-8
(9) 056-1 WANNABE BETSY 35 (CD) D Menuisier 5-9-8 D Probert
(3) 650 QUEEN OF CHANGE 21 S & E Crisford 3-9-6 P Cosgrave
N Currie
(6) 11321 SHUT UP AND DANCE 12 J Osborne 3-9-5
(5) -6005 PYRRHIC DANCER 56 (P) R Hannon 3-9-3
Alexander Voikhansky (7)
8 (7) 000 ARCADIAN FRIEND 65 Sir M Prescott 3-9-2 D Keenan
Doubtful
9 (4) 3-400 MINT JULEP 23 D Steele 4-9-1
R Dawson
10(10) 00-06 WOLF OF OXSHOTT 68 Joseph Parr 3-9-0
13-8 Shut Up And Dance, 5-1 Be Fair, 6-1 Wannabe Betsy, 7-1 Arcadian Friend,
Queen Of Change, 12-1 Big Wing, 14-1 Pyrrhic Dancer, 16-1 others.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

5.40

Handicap
(3-Y-O: £5,508: 1m 4f) (6)

D Costello
1 (6) 42-50 THE GADGET MAN 21 R Beckett 9-11
D Probert
2 (4) 3-13 NEANDRA 51 (C) A Balding 9-7
421
MHAJIM 148 (CD) J & T Gosden 9-7
K O’Neill
3 (5)
N Currie
4 (3) 53-02 DREAM HARDER 21 J Osborne 9-2
D Keenan
5 (1) 0-542 CAPPOQUIN 16 (BF) Sir M Prescott 9-2
6 (2) 24560 MASHKUUR 15 (B,T) J Chapple-Hyam 8-12 T Heard (3)
7-4 Mhajim, 3-1 Neandra, 4-1 Cappoquin, 13-2 Dream Harder, 8-1 Mashkuur,
12-1 The Gadget Man.

6.10

Restricted Novice Stakes
(2-Y-O: £3,672: 5f) (5)

W Carson
1 (3) 0310 ROCKING ENDS 38 (D) B Johnson 9-11
00 GUMAIS 16 G Scott 9-4
D Keenan
2 (1)
04 SENOR POCKETS 17 (H) H Spiller 9-4
R Dawson
3 (4)
CROWN LAND G Boughey 8-13
D Probert
4 (5)
R Kingscote
5 (2) 026 MIA PARADIS 10 J Butler 8-13
6-4 Rocking Ends, 7-4 Crown Land, 4-1 Mia Paradis, 10-1 Senor Pockets,
16-1 Gumais.

6.40

Handicap
(3-Y-O: £3,726: 1m) (12)

N Currie
1 (8) 55-33 BRYNTEG 25 (BF) J Osborne 9-10
D Keenan
2 (3) 30543 SICILIAN VITO 17 (B,BF) J Ryan 9-9
K Shoemark
3 (7) 060-2 TRANS MONTANA 9 (V) C Cox 9-8
T Saunders (5)
4 (1) 03463 SILVERDALE 14 J Portman 9-7
5604
THE
SPOTLIGHT
KID
17
D
Ivory
9-7
C Bennett
5 (5)
P Cosgrave
6 (10) 3-500 ADDIE BOO BOO 33 Darryll Holland 9-6
R Dawson
7 (12) 00-50 FAMILLE VERTE 18 (P) R Varian 9-6
W Carson
8 (9) 60562 DAMASCUS FINISH 21 B Johnson 9-6
0602
KENILWORTH KING 12 (BF) W Jarvis 9-4
D Probert
9 (4)
S Hitchcott
10(11) 40035 SANDY PARADISE 25 R Hannon 9-4
Mollie Phillips (5)
11 (6) 36404 BUNGLE BAY 15 H Evans 9-4
Doubtful
12 (2) -1100 RUITH LE TU 23 (CD) J S Moore 9-2
9-2 Kenilworth King, 5-1 Brynteg, Sicilian Vito, 11-2 Trans Montana, 7-1 The
Spotlight Kid, 10-1 Sandy Paradise, Damascus Finish, 14-1 others.

v114
110
104
106
105
105
85
95
90
96
98
91
98
97
95
95
94
88

7.10

Thunderer choice: Mishriff was an unlucky loser in the Coral-Eclipse and
can go one better than he did in this race last year. Danger Westover

4.10

Stakes (2-Y-O: £25,520: 7f) (5)

Thunderer choice: Finn’s Charm ran well when fourth in the Chesham
Stakes here last month and a repeat may suffice. Dangers Naval Power

4.45

Handicap (£32,400: 1m) (10)

105
H Doyle
1
(5) 162023 TEMPUS 38 (CD) A Watson 6-10-0
104
A Atzeni
2
(4) -24221 DUBAI MIRAGE 31 (P,D) S bin Suroor 5-9-13
105
D Tudhope
3
(9) 36-500 BOPEDRO 38 (V,D) D O’Meara 6-9-12
3-2001
v108
TACARIB
BAY
21
R
Hannon
3-9-9
Rossa
Ryan
4
(6)
106
B Sayette (5)
5
(8) 21-262 SAGA 37 (B,T,C) J & T Gosden 3-9-8
25
D O’Neill
6
(2) 1650-3 POWER OF DARKNESS 16 (CD) M Tregoning 7-9-3
88
S Osborne (3)
7 (10) -02021 RANDOM HARVEST 14 (CD) E Walker 4-9-0
95
J Crowley
8
(1) 0-1034 REPERTOIRE 16 (CD) D M Simcock 6-9-0
86
S De Sousa
9
(7) 014230 COASE 16 (H,D) M Wigham 5-8-11
95
J P Spencer
10 (3) 1-4103 ATRIUM 15 (BF,CD) C Fellowes 3-8-9
3-1 Saga, 6-1 Tacarib Bay, Dubai Mirage, 7-1 Tempus, Random Harvest, 8-1 Atrium,
10-1 Power of Darkness, Repertoire, 14-1 others.

Sky Bet ‘Jump Jockeys’
Nunthorpe’ Handicap
(Professional Jump Jockeys)

ITV

(£10,476: 5f) (20 runners)
(5)
(17)
(3)
(15)
(13)
(7)
(16)
(19)
(9)
(1)
(12)
(18)

42-200
00-006
-14003
625303
005040
605221
-14101
250400
005023
314014
010142
524030

Thunderer’s choice: Eeh Bah Gum again ran well when runner-up here last
time and has been eased 1lb in the ratings.
Danger Val De Travers

2.40

Sky Bet Dash Handicap

ITV

(£33,501: 6f) (15)

Thunderer choice: Bond Chairman has run fine races in defeat here on his
past two starts and is capable of better. Dangers Mountain Peak, Corazon

Thunderer choice: Venturous is into the veteran stage now but he’s 2lb
lower than when landing this race last year.
Danger Ghathanfar

Handicap (£30,924: 5f) (10)

Novice Stakes (£4,320: 7f) (10)

Novice Stakes
(£4,320: 7f) (10)

Fillies’ Handicap
(3-Y-O: £4,536: 7f) (9)

D Probert
(6) 45304 MELODRAMATICA 28 (CD) R Guest 9-10
K Shoemark
(9) 310 PUBLIC OPINION 33 (C) W Haggas 9-10
L Steward
(5) 04-66 PRENUP 27 H Morrison 9-9
F Marsh
(1) 2-360 BRIDES BAY 16 (P) R Hughes 9-8
S Hitchcott
(2) 05023 LOQUACE 9 R Hannon 9-6
Grace McEntee (3)
(7) 0-300 LUNA QUEEN 24 (B) C Allen 9-4
Collen Storey
(8) 60001 BREACH 10 (C) J Butler 8-12
R Dawson
(3) 0-550 MEASURED MOMENTS 17 J Butler 8-10
(4) 00030 MY BONNIE LASSIE 57 S Woodman 8-6
Josephine Gordon
5-2 Breach, 3-1 Public Opinion, 5-1 Melodramatica, 13-2 Loquace, 7-1 Brides
Bay, 12-1 Prenup, Luna Queen, 25-1 My Bonnie Lassie, 33-1 other.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

8.40

Thunderer choice: Dubai Honour has run well in group-one company and,
favoured by the weights, should be hard to beat. Danger Dubai Future

61
MARNIE JAMES 22 (CD) S Dixon 7-11-12
T Cannon
79
INDIAN SOUNDS 21 (D) P Midgley 6-11-12
D Jacob
78
SECRETINTHEPARK 44 (V,CD) R Menzies 12-11-10 N Moscrop
79
GINGER JAM 21 (D) N Tinkler 7-11-9
G Sheehan
79
INTERNATIONALDREAM 42 (V) R Fahey 4-11-8
J Bowen
75
PRIMO’S COMET 4 (D) J Goldie 7-11-8(4ex)
Sean Quinlan
77
VAL DE TRAVERS 26 (D) M Appleby 4-11-7
T Scudamore
73
SOUL SEEKER 21 (T,CD) D O’Meara 5-11-7
S Bowen
78
LEODIS DREAM 16 (D) P Midgley 6-11-7
S Twiston-Davies
79
LA ROCA DEL FUEGO 12 (D) G Deacon 6-11-7
A Coleman
78
SON AND SANNIE 9 (D) A Watson 6-11-7
N Scholfield
v80
THEGREATESTSHOWMAN 15 (B,D) Miss A Murphy 6-11-6
J Quinlan
75
H Cobden
13 (20) 043211 STONE CIRCLE 30 (D) M Bell 5-11-2
73
C Bewley
14 (2) 465164 VAN GERWEN 15 (D) P Midgley 9-11-1
423503
72
ALBEGONE
15
(P,D)
T
Easterby
4-11-0
Jonjo
O’Neill
Jr
15 (11)
74
J England
16 (6) 6D1236 BIRKENHEAD 26 (V,D) P Midgley 5-10-13
71
H Brooke
17 (4) 035006 GLORIOUS RIO 21 (B,D) Mrs Stella Barclay 5-10-12
66
B Hughes
18 (14) 326122 EEH BAH GUM 15 (CD) K Ryan 7-10-11
0-5650
67
NIBRAS AGAIN 16 (CD) P Midgley 8-10-11
Craig Nichol
19 (8)
56
R McLernon
20 (10) 660020 DUKE OF FIRENZE 15 (CD) D C Griffiths 13-10-7
11-2 Val De Travers, 6-1 Stone Circle, 8-1 Primo’s Comet, 10-1 Eeh Bah Gum, Son And Sannie,
12-1 Birkenhead, Leodis Dream, Albegone, 18-1 others.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Handicap (£3,726: 7f) (14)

1 (11) 45-46 PRINCESSE ANIMALE 157 (H,CD) P Phelan 5-10-3
P Bradley (3)
Collen Storey
2 (7) -5200 INAAM 65 (CD) J Butler 9-10-0
60430
SIR
SEDRIC
17
(T,D)
L
Carter
4-9-13
T Heard (3)
3 (4)
4 (9) 0-043 HEALING POWER 28 (CD) I Furtado 6-9-11
Elle-May Croot (7)
5 (6) 26424 CAPPANANTY CON 29 (P,C) M Attwater 8-9-11
W Carson
C Bennett
6 (12) 05006 BROXI 18 (D) D Ivory 4-9-10
J Duern (3)
7 (3) -0001 HECTOR LOZA 16 (H,CD) J Boyle 5-9-9
D Keenan
8 (5) 15453 CATCH MY BREATH 12 (B,C) J Ryan 6-9-9
D Probert
9 (10) 6-326 GOLDSMITH 43 (H) D Menuisier 3-9-7
R Kingscote
10(14) 30-0 SPERANZOSO 94 (H,T) E Walker 3-9-7
11(13) 6-060 MAGNIFIQUE 41 (P) J-R Auvray 4-9-6 Gina Mangan (5)
G Rooke
12 (1) 0560 SIR PHILIP 18 H Candy 3-9-3
R Dawson
13 (8) -2400 DARK FLYER 42 (P) T Ward 3-9-2
L Keniry
14 (2) -1100 RUITH LE TU 23 (P,CD) J S Moore 3-9-2
5-1 Goldsmith, 13-2 Catch My Breath, 7-1 Hector Loza, 8-1 Princesse Animale,
Cappananty Con, Healing Power, 10-1 Inaam, 12-1 others.

Newcastle
Thunderer
1.00 Ghost Rider
1.35 Odd Socks Havana
2.12 Double Dealing
2.47 Shahbaz
Going: standard to slow
Draw: no advantage

1.00

3.22 Roll It In Glitter
3.57 Elegant Erin
4.32 Thundering
5.03 Oh So Chic
Sky Sports Racing

Apprentice Handicap
(£6,885: 1m 2f) (10)

1 (1) 2-235 GHOST RIDER 28 (V,C) James Horton 4-10-2 C Howarth (3)
2 (6) 35-16 LIFE ON THE ROCKS 76 (P,D) R Fahey 4-10-0 C Murtagh
S B Kirrane
3 (5) 245-1 REAL TERMS 16 G Tuer 5-9-13
4 (4) -0430 GRANGECLARE VIEW 69 R Fahey 4-9-13 A Brookes (5)
B Sanderson
5 (8) -3204 EQUION 35 A Carroll 4-9-12
6 (7) 0-600 BRISTOL HILL 91 (W,P,T,D) I Furtado 4-9-11 S Cherchi
7 (3) -6423 HIGHLAND PREMIERE 7 C & M Johnston 3-9-8 A Breslin
Ryan Sexton (3)
8 (10) -5535 DUNGAR GLORY 34 A Keatley 3-9-5
O McSweeney (3)
9 (2) 502-0 VIRGO 192 (P) C Fellowes 4-9-3
10 (9) 00456 WHATWOULDYOUKNOW 60 (D) N Tinkler 7-9-1
Ethan Tindall (7)
15-8 Real Terms, 5-1 Life On The Rocks, 6-1 Ghost Rider, 8-1 Virgo,
10-1 Highland Premiere, 12-1 Equion, Dungar Glory, 14-1 others.

1.35

Handicap (£3,726: 1m) (13)

T Eaves
1 (4) 40004 THAAYER 30 (CD) M Herrington 7-9-10
2 (11) 01500 INEXPLICABLE 75 (W,T,V,D) A Brittain 5-9-10 Mark Winn (7)
3 (8) 15555 ODD SOCKS HAVANA 30 (P,T,CD) R Menzies 4-9-9
Paula Muir (3)
J Peate (5)
4 (5) 21003 IRON SHERIFF 6 (P,D) R Fell 4-9-8
B Robinson
5 (2) -2663 RECLAIM VICTORY 29 (P) B Ellison 5-9-4
Ryan Sexton (5)
6 (12) 0U0-0 ROCKY SEA 126 A Keatley 6-9-3
7 (13) 31-56 CAPTAIN ST LUCIFER 170 (T) Suzzanne France 5-9-3 H Shaw
8 (9) 00-05 TOP ATTRACTION J106 (CD) C Fairhurst 5-9-2 P Dennis
H Russell (3)
9 (7) 45-00 HIGHEST WAVE 16 (P) G Oldroyd 4-9-1
A Mullen
10 (1) 05034 ELUSIVE ARTIST 39 (C) A Carroll 4-9-1
11(10) 45650 TARNHELM 129 (D) W Storey 7-9-0 Laura Coughlan (5)
12 (6) 26400 PERFECT SOLDIER 20 (D) W Storey 8-9-0 Joanna Mason
A Jary (7)
13 (3) -0005 VIOLETTE SZABO 6 N Tinkler 5-9-0
9-2 Iron Sheriff, 5-1 Odd Socks Havana, 6-1 Thaayer, 7-1 Reclaim Victory, 8-1
Elusive Artist, 10-1 Violette Szabo, Inexplicable, Captain St Lucifer, 20-1 others..

2.12

Handicap (£6,885: 1m) (13)

1 (11) 31040 EMPIRESTATEOFMIND 42 (B,D) J J Quinn 4-10-4
Ryan Sexton (5)
2 (9) 2-060 SUMMA PETO 25 (P,D) K Dalgleish 4-10-2 C Rodriguez
3 (12) 05-01 AMAYSMONT 29 (CD) R Fahey 5-10-1 O McSweeney (5)
J Garritty
4 (3) 3323- DOUBLE DEALING 338 R Fahey 4-9-13
L Morris
5 (1) 11045 MUHTASHIM 14 (CD) E Dunlop 3-9-7
6 (5) 411- SOUND ANGELA 220 (D) R Varian 3-9-7Jefferson Smith
T Eaves
7 (7) 1/54- ANIF 527 (CD) M Herrington 8-9-7
8 (10) 0-421 MILLIONAIRE WALTZ 144 (CD) B Haslam 5-9-6 H Russell (3)
9 (4) 2-000 GIVE IT SOME TEDDY 31 (D) T Easterby 8-9-5 S B Kirrane (3)
A Mullen
10 (6) 1-200 BASHFUL 20 I Jardine 4-9-2
H Shaw
11 (2) 45-10 YELLOW BEAR 63 (T,D) D Carroll 3-8-12
Paula Muir (3)
12(13) 54-00 PRINCE HECTOR 66 R Menzies 4-8-11
2/005
NIGHT
RANGER
29
B
Ellison
5-8-11
W
Pyle
(7)
13 (8)
11-4 Sound Angela, 11-2 Millionaire Waltz, 6-1 Amaysmont, 7-1
Empirestateofmind, 8-1 Double Dealing, 10-1 others.

2.47

Restricted Maiden Stakes
(2-Y-O: £5,373: 7f) (10)

1 (3)

0 HIGHFIELD VIKING 39 J J Quinn 9-7

ITV

A Kirby v119
1
(3) 145041 DUBAI FUTURE 39 (P,D) S bin Suroor 6-9-8
112
S Donohoe
2
(2) 1124-0 DUBAI HONOUR 119 (T,D) W Haggas 4-9-8
111
B Curtis
3
(1) 045255 SIR BUSKER 39 (V) W Knight 6-9-8
112
David Egan
4
(5) 1-201 CLAYMORE 37 (D) J Chapple-Hyam 3-8-13
96
K Stott
5
(4) 3-1445 DARK MOON RISING 36 K Ryan 3-8-13
11-8 Claymore, 5-2 Dubai Honour, 3-1 Dubai Future, 8-1 Sir Busker, 25-1 Dark Moon Rising.

4.25 Red Force One
5.00 Molinari
5.35 Variety Island

R L Moore v107
1
(8) 0-2521 MOUNTAIN PEAK 14 (CD) E Walker 7-9-12
87
T Marquand
2
(4) 110-00 HURRICANE IVOR 73 (D) W Haggas 5-9-11
54
W Buick
3
(9) 1130-0 CORAZON 14 (D) G Boughey 3-9-1
97
G Lee
4
(7) 604-42 BOND CHAIRMAN 14 (D) B Smart 3-9-0
064020
101
KING
OF
STARS
7
(P,D)
M
Appleby
5-9-0
S
De
Sousa
5
(5)
99
S Osborne (3)
6
(2) 223114 LOVELY MANA 14 (P,D) G Boughey 3-8-9
91
S James
7
(6) 6-0000 JAWWAAL 22 (P,CD) M Dods 7-8-7
91
H Doyle
8
(3) 000040 LIVE IN THE MOMENT 21 (B,D) A West 5-8-6
85
Amie Waugh (5)
9
(1) 005136 CALL ME GINGER 5 J Goldie 6-8-4
78
Rhiain Ingram (3)
10 (10) -13236 LYNNS BOY 47 (D) J Butler 4-8-4
7-2 Mountain Peak, 4-1 Bond Chairman, 5-1 Lovely Mana, 6-1 Hurricane Ivor, 8-1 Jawwaal,
10-1 King Of Stars, Call Me Ginger, 12-1 Live In The Moment, 16-1 others.

5.20

00 PERMATA 33 G L Moore 4-9-7
A Keeley (5)
1 (4)
FAATTIK R Varian 3-9-5
R Dawson
2 (7)
52 FEDERAL STREET 33 (P) A Watson 3-9-5 K Shoemark
3 (6)
2 FLYAWAYDREAM 22 Sir M Prescott 3-9-5
D Keenan
4 (8)
L Steward
5 (1) 6-6 GLEN COVE 33 D M Simcock 3-9-5
MARLEY HEAD (W) Joe Tizzard 3-9-5
T Heard (3)
6 (9)
5 ROUNDABOUT SILVER 14 J Boyle 3-9-5 P Bradley (3)
7 (3)
R Kingscote
8 (5) 34-4 SHIGAR 118 (W) W Haggas 3-9-5
D Probert
9 (10) 0-3 GRAND CRU GAGA 185 P & O Cole 3-9-0
06 ZANDORA 14 R Brisland 3-9-0
W Carson
10 (2)
6-4 Federal Street, 3-1 Shigar, 7-2 Flyawaydream, 5-1 Faattik, 25-1 Glen Cove,
Marley Head, Grand Cru Gaga, 50-1 Zandora, Roundabout Silver, 66-1 Permata.

8.10

2.05 Eeh Bah Gum
2.40 Venturous
3.15 Dubai Honour (nb)
3.50 Florida Filly (nap)
Going: good to firm
Draw: no advantage
Racing TV

2.05

Sky Bet York Stakes (Group 2)
(£70,888: 1m 2f) (5)

Thunderer

104
C Hardie
1
(1) 300462 MONDAMMEJ 14 (H,D) A Brittain 5-9-12
C Beasley v105
2
(6) -15013 GALE FORCE MAYA 15 (P,CD) M Dods 6-9-12
101
B Curtis
3
(3) 203110 SILVER SAMURAI 35 (H,D) M Botti 5-9-6
98
J Watson
4 (11) -30540 NOMADIC EMPIRE 14 (CD) D O’Meara 4-9-5
90
Oisin Orr
5
(7) 100046 VENTUROUS 14 (CD) D & N Barron 9-9-1
92
D Allan
6 (14) 420321 HYPERFOCUS 22 (P,D) T Easterby 8-8-12
85
D Swift
7 (15) 422114 GHATHANFAR 8 (P,BF,C,D) T Waggott 6-8-12
92
P Mulrennan
8 (10) -05114 FORTAMOUR 52 (D) B Haslam 6-8-12
93
B Garritty
9
(8) 553022 ABERAMA GOLD 5 (V,CD) K Dalgleish 5-8-12
92
D Muscutt
10 (5) 3-1113 NATIONWIDE 56 (D) J Butler 4-8-11
87
T Hamilton
11 (13) 10-630 GABRIAL THE DEVIL 7 (P,D) R Fahey 7-8-9
91
David Egan
12 (9) 116326 LUCKY MAN 15 (P,D) R Spencer 3-8-6
79
J F Egan
13 (12) 1-4500 KIND REVIEW 28 (D) T Easterby 6-8-6
83
D Fentiman
14 (4) 021050 MUSIC SOCIETY 8 (D) T Easterby 7-8-2
81
JP Sullivan
15 (2) 23-000 ATOMIC LADY 16 (CD) T Easterby 3-8-2
5-1 Silver Samurai, 13-2 Gale Force Maya, 15-2 Lucky Man, Mondammej, Ghathanfar,
10-1 Hyperfocus, Nationwide, Aberama Gold, 16-1 others.

Thunderer choice: Saga is 8lb higher than when touched off in the
Britannia Stakes but his rider’s claim helps offset that. Danger Tempus

K O’Neill
1 (6) 53-25 COUNSEL 15 (BF) J & T Gosden 4-9-11
C Bennett
2 (4) 0-4 DULY AMAZED 35 (H) M Usher 3-9-4
60 FLAG OF TRUTH 20 A Watson 3-9-4
K Shoemark
3 (2)
00 GLEN ETIVE 68 W Jarvis 3-9-4
Josephine Gordon
4 (10)
3- KING OF THE DANCE 319 E J-Houghton 3-9-4 D Probert
5 (7)
SALCOMBE
STORM
R
Hannon
3-9-4
S Hitchcott
6 (5)
00 SARKHA 20 E Dunlop 3-9-4
R Kingscote
7 (8)
5- FASHION LOVE 234 R Beckett 3-8-13
D Costello
8 (1)
0 FAWN AT PLAY 66 W Kittow 3-8-13
L Keniry
9 (9)
TWILIGHT MISCHIEF H Candy 3-8-13
G Rooke
10 (3)
9-4 Counsel, 4-1 King of The Dance, Flag Of Truth, 6-1 Salcombe Storm,
12-1 Fashion Love, 14-1 Twilight Mischief, Duly Amazed, 20-1 others.

7.40

3.15

York

H Shaw

3.50

4.25

5.00

5.35

Blinkered first time: Ascot 3.00 Eagleway. Lingfield 6.40 Sicilian Vito. 8.40
Catch My Breath. Newcastle 5.03 Swiss Mistress. Newmarket 3.07 King
Of Jungle. Salisbury 5.25 Amal. 6.30 Thank The Lord; Minhaaj. 7.30 Adaay
Atatime. 8.30 At The Double. York 2.05 Internationaldream.

Restricted Maiden Stakes

Fillies’ Handicap (£6,885: 5f) (5)

1 (1) -1115 ELEGANT ERIN 26 (BF,D) P Midgley 5-10-1Ryan Sexton (5)
2 (3) 16505 MISS NAY NEVER 22 (CD) J J Quinn 4-9-12 B Robinson
P Hanagan
3 (5) 40540 LAZYITIS 12 (P,CD) J Camacho 4-9-3
4 (2) -0000 ETERNAL HALO 16 (V,D) K Dalgleish 3-9-2 C Rodriguez
C Murtagh
5 (4) -0461 LADY CELIA 26 (C,D) R Fahey 5-8-12
2-1 Lady Celia, 9-4 Elegant Erin, 3-1 Miss Nay Never, 6-1 Lazyitis,
14-1 Eternal Halo.

Handicap (£8,100: 1m 4f) (7)

T Eaves
1 (6) 40-45 FAYLAQ 35 (D) Ewan Whillans 6-10-2
P Hanagan
2 (5) 1-001 PRIDE OF PRIORY 31 W Haggas 4-9-13
3 (7) -3542 HAVEYOUMISSEDME 28 (CD) I Jardine 4-9-12 A Mullen
J Garritty
4 (2) 2-635 SKILLED WARRIOR 28 G Tuer 4-9-10
C Rodriguez
5 (4) 2-04U IN THE BREEZE 11 (D) M Appleby 4-9-8
51-10
SEA KING 21 (BF,C,D) Sir M Prescott 3-9-7
L Morris
6 (1)
7 (3) -2521 THUNDERING 30 (CD) K Ryan 3-9-0 O McSweeney (5)
11-4 Pride Of Priory, 3-1 Thundering, 4-1 Sea King, Haveyoumissedme,
10-1 Faylaq, 12-1 Skilled Warrior, 16-1 In The Breeze.

5.03

Handicap (3-Y-O: £9,126: 7f) (9)

54
David Egan
1
(5) 223010 LITTLE PRAYER 15 (P,D) R Spencer 9-9
77
P Mulrennan
2
(7) 10-034 BOND POWER 22 B Smart 9-8
v80
J Watson
3
(2) 13-026 BIN HAYYAN 23 D O’Meara 9-7
321110
79
EY UP ITS THE BOSS 30 (P,D) T Coyle 9-5
D Nolan
4
(9)
77
K Stott
5
(6) 143300 MONSIEUR JUMBO 23 (D) K Ryan 9-4
76
Oisin Orr
6
(8) -24536 FOURTH TIME LUCKY 21 R Fahey 9-3
74
F McManoman (3)
7
(4) 450032 PIASTRELLA 15 (D) N Tinkler 9-2
70
B Garritty
8
(3) 3-3516 NOVAK 19 (D) I Jardine 8-13
62
C Hardie
9
(1) 300452 VARIETY ISLAND 6 (P) Simon Whitaker 8-4
9-2 Bin Hayyan, 5-1 Fourth Time Lucky, Piastrella, 13-2 Bond Power, 15-2 Little Prayer,
Ey Up Its The Boss, Monsieur Jumbo, 10-1 Novak, Variety Island.

(2-Y-O: £5,373: 7f) (10)

4.32

Handicap (£9,126: 1m 4f) (11)

81
K Stott
1 (11) -42110 SHAKE A LEG 31 (P,D) J Camacho 5-10-2
v83
O Stammers (3)
2
(6) 335202 EMARATY HERO 8 (BF,CD) G Tuer 5-10-2
82
J Watson
3
(5) 3-3116 SAGAUTEUR 23 (C) D O’Meara 6-10-1
79
B Curtis
4
(8) 24-064 ZURAIG 19 I Jardine 4-10-0
79
D Nolan
5
(2) -33221 MOLINARI 21 M Todhunter 5-9-13
70
S Donohoe
6
(7) 322404 THREE PLATOON 77 (T) R Menzies 4-9-11
78
B Garritty
7
(1) -61260 GOODWOOD GLEN 48 K Dalgleish 4-9-9
77
P Mulrennan
8
(3) 00-534 INNSE GALL 14 (BF) I Jardine 4-9-8
400004
62
HECTOR’S
HERE
28
(B)
I
Furtado
6-9-4
D
Swift
9 (10)
65
Oisin Orr
10 (4) 044141 LET HER LOOSE 22 (D) R Fahey 5-9-0
58
D Fentiman
11 (9) 025321 GIBSIDE 7 (D) T Easterby 3-8-4
9-2 Gibside, 11-2 Molinari, Emaraty Hero, 6-1 Let Her Loose, 13-2 Innse Gall, 8-1 Sagauteur,
Three Platoon, 10-1 Zuraig, 16-1 others.

6 ROLL IT IN GLITTER 19 M & D Easterby 9-7 Joanna Mason
1 (5)
4 TREMENDOUS TIMES 39 M Dods 9-7
T Eaves
2 (8)
VICTORY HOUSE C Fellowes 9-7
C Rodriguez
3 (10)
0 BOWLAND PRINCE 45 T Easterby 9-5 S B Kirrane (3)
4 (6)
6 CHILLHI 35 B Ellison 9-5
B Robinson
5 (4)
45 JIM’S CRACKER 24 (BF) K R Burke 9-5
S Feilden (7)
6 (3)
2 HENZAR 30 R Fell 9-3
J Peate (5)
7 (9)
0 DEE SEE ARE 34 K R Burke 9-2
H Shaw
8 (7)
4
COUNTESS
KESS
32
P
Midgley
8-12
A Mullen
9 (1)
00 PARIS JET 8 M Walford 8-12
P Hanagan
10 (2)
2-1 Jim’s Cracker, 7-2 Henzar, 6-1 Roll It In Glitter, 7-1 Victory House, 8-1
Tremendous Times, 12-1 Countess Kess, 14-1 Dee See Are, 16-1 others.

3.57

Handicap (£10,476: 2m) (8)

v86
P Mulrennan
1
(4) -53002 GEREMIA 15 (D) J Goldie 4-9-10
86
H Crouch
2
(1) 6-3303 FOX VARDY 22 (P) R Beckett 6-9-7
83
David Egan
3
(7) 442121 DANNI CALIFORNIA 14 (P,CD) R Spencer 4-9-7
83
S Donohoe
4
(2) 4-0303 BLOW YOUR HORN 14 R Menzies 5-9-5
73
B Curtis
5
(6) -31315 GIFT OF RAAJ 14 R Fell 7-8-9
72
J Watson
6
(5) 532211 RED FORCE ONE 6 (P,D) P Kirby 7-8-8
85
7
(3) 54-546 MANJAAM 28 (P,C,D) Mrs Stella Barclay 9-8-5F McManoman (3)
63
C Hardie
8
(8) 00-024 TOMMASO 14 P Kirby 4-8-4
3-1 Danni California, 4-1 Geremia, Red Force One, 11-2 Blow Your Horn, 15-2 Fox Vardy,
8-1 Tommaso, Gift Of Raaj, 33-1 Manjaam.

05 JINXSTER 23 A Keatley 9-7
P Hanagan
2 (4)
NOBODY TOLD ME J O’Keeffe 9-7
J Garritty
3 (5)
SERIOUS LOOK G Boughey 9-7
Ryan Sexton (5)
4 (1)
4 SHAHBAZ 58 C Fellowes 9-7
C Rodriguez
5 (2)
32 SOLUTRE 30 H Palmer 9-7
L Morris
6 (8)
3 TUTHER ONE 30 Adrian Nicholls 9-3
C Murtagh
7 (10)
3 NAOMI’S CHARM 28 K R Burke 9-2
T Eaves
8 (7)
FARIBA K P De Foy 9-0
J Peate (5)
9 (9)
MEDALS GALORE M Walford 8-12
P Dennis
10 (6)
11-4 Solutre, 7-2 Shahbaz, 4-1 Serious Look, 5-1 Naomi’s Charm, 8-1 Fariba,
14-1 Tuther One, Nobody Told Me, 20-1 Highfield Viking, 30-1 others.

3.22

Handicap (2-Y-O: £9,450: 6f) (6)

120 DARE TO HOPE 7 R Fahey 9-9
v87
Oisin Orr
1
(3)
221 CATCH THE PADDY 25 (D) K Ryan 9-5
82
K Stott
2
(1)
71
P Mulrennan
3
(6) 00411 FLORIDA FILLY 14 I Jardine 9-4
68
David Egan
4
(5) 4362 TESSA 7 R Hannon 9-0
232 LUDO’S LANDING 20 C & M Johnston 9-0
74
C Beasley
5
(2)
533 TREBLE GLORY 16 N Tinkler 8-12
83
F McManoman (3)
6
(4)
2-1 Catch The Paddy, 10-3 Dare To Hope, 9-2 Florida Filly, 5-1 Ludo’s Landing, 13-2 Tessa,
10-1 Treble Glory.

Handicap (£3,726: 2m) (14)

H Russell (3)
1 (1) 0/25- JOIE DE VIVRE J149 M Todhunter 7-9-9
H Shaw
2 (10) -4555 LION FACE 31 (B,D) J J Quinn 4-9-9
T Eaves
3 (6) 11146 AUTONOMY 12 (C) P Kirby 6-9-7
Paula Muir (3)
4 (2) 000-3 JACK YEATS 8 (P) W Coltherd 6-9-4
B Robinson
5 (4) -3264 HACKBERRY 114 (P) B Ellison 5-9-3
6 (3) -0U66 SWISS MISTRESS 25 (B) P Chapple-Hyam 4-9-3 L Morris
7 (12) 4066 I’M TO BLAME 8 (H) K Dalgleish 9-9-1 Ryan Sexton (5)
P Dennis
8 (11) 5/00- KINGS CREEK J33 (T,V) M Walford 5-9-0
9 (5) 00-03 TAXMEIFYOUCAN J29 (P) K Dalgleish 8-9-0 C Rodriguez
-1050
GOLD
RING
64
N
Mechie
5-9-0
A
Breslin
(3)
10 (7)
11 (8) 043-0 BELVEDERE BLAST J7 A Keatley 4-8-7 Joanna Mason
W Pyle (7)
12 (9) 30-42 OH SO CHIC 26 (P) E Bethell 5-8-6
Jefferson Smith
13(14) 065-0 CORNELL J42 J J Davies 4-8-4
A Mullen
14(13) 0-064 TOUTATIS 35 (P) Ewan Whillans 5-8-4
9-2 Oh So Chic, 7-1 Autonomy, 8-1 Belvedere Blast, I’m To Blame,
10-1 Lion Face, Swiss Mistress, Hackberry, Taxmeifyoucan, 20-1 others.

Newmarket
Thunderer
1.27 Highbank
3.42 Alligator Alley
1.57 Good American
4.17 Sugauli
2.32 Franceso Clemente 4.52 Vaunted
3.07 Lethal Levi
Going: good to firm
Draw: no advantage
Racing TV

1.27

Maiden Stakes (2-Y-O: £4,320: 7f) (8)

0 BAILEYS SHOWTIME 12 Miss A Murphy 9-7 M Ghiani
1 (8)
BOLD ACT C Appleby 9-7
Harry Davies (5)
2 (6)
CONQUISTADOR J & T Gosden 9-7
R Havlin
3 (4)
DARTMAN B Meehan 9-7
S M Levey
4 (2)
00 FRANK ROSS IS OUT 30 R Fahey 9-7
B McHugh
5 (3)
HIGHBANK C Appleby 9-7
J Mitchell
6 (5)
0 INDIAN RENEGADE 64 R Hannon 9-7
N Callan
7 (7)
4 THE PARENT 22 R Hannon 9-7
P Dobbs
8 (1)
5-2 The Parent, 11-4 Bold Act, 4-1 Conquistador, 5-1 Highbank, 8-1 Dartman,
16-1 Indian Renegade, 25-1 Baileys Showtime, Frank Ross Is Out.

1.57

Fillies’ Handicap (£8,100: 7f) (5)

M Ghiani
1 (4) 50603 DUBAI LOVE 18 (P,BF) S bin Suroor 5-10-2
N Callan
2 (1) 0-331 DIVINE MAGIC 21 (D) M Botti 4-9-10
J Mitchell
3 (2) 0-661 LALANIA 10 (CD) W Stone 7-9-5
S M Levey
4 (3) 10- GOOD AMERICAN 288 (D) R Beckett 3-9-3
Jimmy Quinn
5 (5) 63310 TRUE JEM 22 K R Burke 3-8-6
15-8 Dubai Love, 9-4 Divine Magic, 3-1 Good American, 7-1 True Jem,
12-1 Lalania.

2.32

Handicap (£13,500: 1m 2f) (4)

11 FRANCESCO CLEMENTE 65 (D) J & T Gosden 3-9-9
R Havlin
Harry Davies (5)
2 (4) 03424 MENAI BRIDGE 19 (D) C Hills 4-9-5
P-L Jamin (3)
3 (1) 46323 MIRAMICHI 8 (D) T Dascombe 4-9-3
4 (3) 30240 LOVE IS GOLDEN 21 (P) C & M Johnston 4-9-3 F Norton
8-11 Francesco Clemente, 4-1 Miramichi, 9-2 Menai Bridge, 7-1 Love Is Golden.
1 (2)

3.07

Handicap (3-Y-O: £25,770: 6f) (9)

P Dobbs
1 (4) -1240 WITCH HUNTER 16 (D) R Hannon 9-9
R Havlin
2 (1) 1-220 AUDIENCE 35 J & T Gosden 9-9
F Norton
3 (2) 10002 I’M A GAMBLER 8 (D) C & M Johnston 9-7
P-L Jamin (3)
4 (7) 41421 LETHAL LEVI 16 (CD) K R Burke 9-1
J Mitchell
5 (8) 60402 ROMANTIC TIME 8 (D) W Stone 8-12
B McHugh
6 (9) 4-201 STRAITS OF MOYLE 22 (D) R Fahey 8-8
J Fahy
7 (5) 41-62 WOWZERS 8 C Cox 8-6
M Ghiani
8 (6) 14230 BEAR PROFIT 16 (T) S C Williams 8-5
S Gray
9 (3) 46142 KING OF JUNGLE 12 (B,D) E Walker 8-5
4-1 Lethal Levi, 9-2 King Of Jungle, 5-1 Audience, I’m A Gambler, 7-1 Straits
Of Moyle, 8-1 Wowzers, 10-1 Romantic Time, 12-1 others.

3.42

Handicap (£8,100: 6f) (8)

(6) /1112 PURE DREAMER 28 (T,BF,D) R Hannon 4-9-9 S M Levey
N Callan
(7) 20003 BERGERAC 18 (D) K Ryan 4-9-7
J Mitchell
(1) 40400 ALLIGATOR ALLEY 14 (T) D O’Meara 5-9-7
(5) 00002 MIGHTY GURKHA 22 (D) A Watson 4-9-4
Harry Davies (5)
Connor Planas (7)
5 (4) 03061 OSO RAPIDO 10 (D) R Fell 5-9-3
F Larson (5)
6 (8) -0606 CHIPSTEAD 35 (D) R Teal 4-9-2
M Ghiani
7 (3) 30301 SOCIETY LION 12 (T,D) E Dunlop 5-9-2
8 (2) -2552 SMEATON’S LIGHT 11 (D) M Channon 4-9-0 G Bass (5)
10-3 Pure Dreamer, 4-1 Bergerac, 5-1 Mighty Gurkha, 13-2 Smeaton’s Light,
7-1 Oso Rapido, 8-1 Society Lion, Alligator Alley, 10-1 Chipstead.
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Sport

Fast ground can give Mishriff the edge
Tipping
Thunderer
Mishriff can cement his status as one of
racing’s highest equine earners by
winning what promises to be an enthralling renewal of the King George VI
And Queen Elizabeth Qipco Stakes at
Ascot today.
The midsummer showpiece has
attracted only six runners but it lacks
nothing in quality, with Westover, the
runaway Irish Derby winner, and Emily
Upjohn, so unlucky when beaten a
short head in the Oaks, representing
the Classic generation.
The German challenger Torquator
Tasso, winner of the Arc last year, adds
huge intrigue, and then there is Pyledriver, who has a Coronation Cup on
his CV, and Broome, commanding winner of the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal
Ascot last month, to ponder.
They will all have their supporters
but it is Mishriff, a battle-hardened
three-times group one winner, who
makes most appeal.
4.17

Handicap (£3,996: 1m) (11)

J Mitchell
1 (11) 150-3 SUGAULI 95 (BF,D) Tom Clover 4-10-3
S Gray
2 (1) -0500 ARRANMORE 21 (P,D) D O’Meara 5-10-1
3 (8) 5115- ARTHUR’S VICTORY 326 (BF) Joseph Parr 4-10-0
S W Kelly
N Callan
4 (5) 54303 UZINCSO 30 (D) J Butler 6-9-13
B McHugh
5 (3) 00031 SIR MAXI 11 R Fahey 4-9-11
C Noble
6 (2) 00-10 BELLA VENETA 64 (D) R Guest 3-9-10
D E Hogan
7 (6) 1-606 PRESENT MOMENT 14 (D) M Bell 3-9-9
8 (10) -0203 AUNT BETHANY 15 (B) A Watson 3-9-9
Harry Davies (5)
9 (7) 04042 DANDYS DERRIERE 26 (H) B Meehan 4-9-7 S M Levey
F Norton
10 (9) 44215 RED KITE 21 (D) C & M Johnston 3-9-6
M Ghiani
11 (4) /0040 MR MARVLOS 17 (BF) T Kent 4-9-1
4-1 Sugauli, 11-2 Dandys Derriere, 13-2 Uzincso, 7-1 Sir Maxi,
8-1 Arthur’s Victory, Bella Veneta, 10-1 Red Kite, Aunt Bethany, 14-1 others.

4.52

Handicap
(3-Y-O: £3,996: 5f) (6)

T Whelan
1 (4) 31224 ANTIPHON 15 M Murphy & M Keady 9-11
Harry Davies (5)
2 (2) 2-400 SUANNI 50 (T) Darryll Holland 9-8
L Edmunds
3 (3) 16441 VAUNTED 18 (D) N Tinkler 9-7
S Gray
4 (5) 23315 COTAI WEST 22 (BF,D) K Ryan 9-4
S M Levey
5 (1) 4030 BEST WISHES 35 (T) B Meehan 9-2
M Ghiani
6 (6) -5030 MANETTINO 2 (T,V,D) S C Williams 8-10
11-8 Vaunted, 5-2 Antiphon, 7-1 Manettino, Cotai West, 10-1 Best Wishes,
12-1 Suanni.

The five-year-old, trained by John
and Thady Gosden, will take his career
earnings to more than £12 million if
successful, with his exploits around the
world already including significant
victories in France, Saudi Arabia,
Dubai and England.
He beat all bar Adayar, the Derby
winner, in the King George last year,
and looked as good as ever when
staying on strongly to split two Classic
winners, Vadeni and Native Trail, in the
Coral-Eclipse this month.
Mishriff looked an unlucky loser
when beaten a neck on the latter occasion, losing ground and momentum
when being hampered over a furlong
out.
His potent turn of foot will serve him
well this afternoon in a renewal where
there is no guarantee of an end-to-end
gallop, and he seems sure to get the fast
ground that serves him so well.
Quick going will represent an
unknown for Westover, Emily Upjohn
and Torquator Tasso, although that is
not to say they will not handle conditions. Westover may pose the biggest

Salisbury
Thunderer
5.25 Florence Street
7.30 Secret Handsheikh
6.00 Signcastle City
8.00 Bellstreet Bridie
6.30 Q Twenty Boy
8.30 Madeeh
7.00 Conflict
Going: firm-good to firm in places
Draw: 6f, high numbers best
Racing TV

5.25

Handicap (£3,028: 1m) (7)

1 (3) 4-643 HOT DAY 16 (P) J S Moore 4-11-10
Mr Lewis Saunders (7)
2 (7) -0005 FLORENCE STREET 74 Mrs L Richards 4-11-6
Mr S Walker
3 (1) -0425 MOUNTAIN ASH 15 (P,BF,D) B Millman 4-11-3 Mr P Millman
4 (6) 00226 DEFILADE 21 (T) Mrs S Leech 6-11-3 Mr Henry Main (5)
5 (4) 00503 DAANY 42 (H,BF,D) A West 5-10-13
Mr Matthew Wilson (7)
Mr Joe Leavy (7)
6 (2) 03500 AMAL 29 (T,V,C) J R Jenkins 4-10-9
Dr M Voikhansky (5)
7 (5) 0-000 MILLICENT 56 K Frost 5-10-9
2-1 Mountain Ash, 3-1 Hot Day, 7-2 Daany, 4-1 Florence Street, 12-1 others.

6.00
1 (7)
2 (4)
3 (2)

Maiden Stakes (2-Y-O: £4,860: 6f) (7)
5 SIGNCASTLE CITY 15 R Hannon 9-7
TALIS EVOLVERE R Hannon 9-7
BRASILIAN PRINCESS R Hannon 9-2

C Shepherd
T P Queally
G Halpin

THUNDERER’S WEEKEND GUIDE
Big-race trends

threat as he was an emphatic winner at
The Curragh last time, having previously not enjoyed the rub of the green
when third in the Derby.
The main supporting race on the
card is the 22-runner Moet & Chandon
International Stakes, in which Air To
Air makes most appeal.
The four-year-old is less exposed
than most of his rivals and impressed
when winning on his return at Yarmouth. He is only 4lb higher and that
race should have put him spot-on for
this tougher assignment.
At York, Dubai Honour is the one to
beat in the Sky Bet York Stakes.
The William Haggas-trained fouryear-old developed into a high-class
performer last season, winning twice in
group two company before chasing
home Sealiway in the Champion Stakes
at Ascot, and then finishing a close
fourth in the Hong Kong Cup.
He wasn’t seen to best advantage in
the Sheema Classic on his return this
year but this is a lesser assignment, plus
he reverts to his best trip of a mile and
a quarter.
DAFYRE J S Moore 9-2
Georgia Dobie (3)
4 (1)
66 EXPEDITIOUS 40 Alice Haynes 9-2 T Hammer Hansen
5 (5)
00 MADAM PICKLE 14 B Millman 9-2
G Downing
6 (3)
PRIMROSE WAY M Madgwick 9-2
R Clutterbuck (3)
7 (6)
10-11 Signcastle City, 9-2 Expeditious, 5-1 Brasilian Princess, 6-1 Talis
Evolvere, 16-1 Dafyre, 25-1 Primrose Way, 33-1 Madam Pickle.

6.30

Handicap (£3,186: 5f) (9)

1 (8) 14202 THE DEFIANT 17 (T,D) D Steele 6-10-0 R Clutterbuck (3)
G Downing
2 (9) 05450 HASEEF 16 E Walker 4-9-12
3 (7) 25123 Q TWENTY BOY 18 (D) M Usher 7-9-12
Isobel Francis (7)
C Shepherd
4 (2) 0-003 MINHAAJ 29 (V,D) M Attwater 5-9-9
T Greatrex
5 (4) 00001 WE’RE REUNITED 24 (P,D) M Blake 5-9-2
G Halpin
6 (6) 04041 HATTIE C 10 (D) R Harris 3-8-12
-0000
EASTERN
DELIGHT
33
(H,P)
C
Mason
4-8-11
W Cox (3)
7 (3)
8 (5) 00600 LILI WEN FACH 15 (T,D) R J Price 5-8-9
Elisha Whittington (5)
T Ladd
9 (1) 0-500 THANK THE LORD 9 (V) S Hodgson 3-8-6
7-2 Hattie C, 4-1 The Defiant, 9-2 Q Twenty Boy, 5-1 We’re Reunited,
6-1 Minhaaj, 8-1 Haseef, 10-1 Thank The Lord, 25-1 others.

7.00

Novice Stakes (£4,050: 6f) (3)

1 (1) 5-22 CONFLICT 12 (BF) A Balding 3-9-7
2 (2) 33-02 KARUOKA 14 E J-Houghton 4-9-7
TOPOFTHETRIFLE Mrs R Ford 3-9-2
3 (3)
8-13 Conflict, 11-8 Karuoka, 25-1 Topofthetrifle.

J Bryan
G Downing
R Clutterbuck (3)

King George VI And Queen
Elizabeth Qipco Stakes
(3.35 Ascot)
Six of the winners this century have
been three-year-olds, with all bar one
of them landing a Classic beforehand.
Westover, the favourite, lines up after
a runaway Irish Derby success.

Banker or bust?

Naval Power (4.10 Ascot)
He’s a hot favourite after wins
at Yarmouth and Leicester but this is
a deeper race, with Finn’s Charm and
Waiting All Night probably achieving
more in defeat. Bust.

Red-hot trainer

William Haggas
He’s been in excellent form
all year. He needs only three more
winners at his beloved York to reach
100 victories at the course and his
sole runner there today is Dubai
Honour in the group two Sky Bet
York Stakes at 3.15.

7.30

Fillies’ Restricted Novice
Stakes (£4,050: 1m 2f) (4)

T Greatrex
1 (3) 24-2 ATLANTIS BLUE 86 (H) D Menuisier 3-9-2
G Halpin
2 (4) -32U3 BELLSTREET BRIDIE 21 (V) M Bell 3-9-0
4 MOUNTAIN QUEEN 30 T Dascombe 3-9-0
C Shepherd
3 (1)
J Bryan
4 (2) 00-24 WHIMSY 12 A Balding 3-9-0
5-4 Atlantis Blue, 11-4 Bellstreet Bridie, 3-1 Mountain Queen, 13-2 Whimsy.

8.30

Venturous (2.40 York)
The nine-year-old sprung a
33-1 surprise in this race 12 months
ago and, 2lb lower in the ratings,
demands a second look after an eyecatching run at Ascot last time. He
was also a 25-1 winner at Newcastle
at the start of this year.

What’s in a name

Emily Upjohn (3.35 Ascot)
The three-year-old filly is
named after the hypochondriacal
character in the 1937 Marx Brothers
comedy A Day At The Races.
Margaret Dumont won the Best
Supporting Actress Award from the
Screen Actors Guild for the role.
£

Bet of the day

Florida Filly
(3.50 York)
She’s made all in fine style over the
stiff 5f at Hamilton on her past two
starts. This will be her first run over
6f but it shouldn’t be an issue.

Handicap (£3,591: 6f) (7)

1 (3) 6-164 MICHAELS CHOICE 27 (P,CD) E J-Houghton 6-10-2 G Downing
R Clutterbuck (3)
2 (1) 44640 STRIKE 16 (BF) J Portman 4-10-0
3 (2) -0336 DELAGATE THIS LORD 2 (P,D) S Hodgson 8-9-10
W Carver (3)
4 (6) 06663 SECRET HANDSHEIKH 23 (B,D) J Gallagher 4-9-7 T P Queally
T Hammer Hansen
5 (7) 260/5 PROPHECY 18 S Durack 6-9-2
W Cox (3)
6 (4) 0-665 ADAAY ATATIME 10 (B) C Cox 3-9-1
C Shepherd
7 (5) 00120 ESSME 16 (BF) J Bridger 4-8-11
4-1 Secret Handsheikh, 9-2 Strike, 5-1 others.

8.00

Repeat performance

Handicap (£3,591: 1m 6f) (6)

05-51 TRIBAL COMMANDER 182 (T) Mrs S Leech 6-10-2
R Clutterbuck (3)
00-04 MADEEH J26 (T) P Kirby 6-9-6
T P Queally
2
04132 ALKHATTAAF 17 C Down 4-9-5
C Shepherd
3
-3654 GEELONG 44 (B) P & O Cole 3-9-5
T Greatrex
4
46633 EASY EQUATION 17 (P) J S Moore 4-9-0 Georgia Dobie (3)
5
000-0 AT THE DOUBLE 12 (B) Sir M Prescott 3-8-5
6
T Hammer Hansen
2-1 Alkhattaaf, 9-4 Geelong, 4-1 Easy Equation, 13-2 others.
1

Course specialists
Ascot: Trainers W Muir & C Grassick, 4 from 15
runners, 26.7%; M Dods, 5 from 24, 20.8%; C Appleby,
26 from 146, 17.8%. Jockeys L Dettori, 37 from 191
rides, 19.4%; Saffie Osborne, 4 from 26, 15.4%.
Lingfield: Trainers H J Evans, 4 from 14, 28.6%;
S & E Crisford, 21 from 77, 27.3%. Jockeys L Steward,
13 from 72, 18.1%; R Kingscote, 62 from 342, 18.1%;
P Cosgrave, 19 from 115, 16.5%.
Newcastle: Trainers W Haggas, 39 from 133, 29.3%;
G Boughey, 15 from 58, 25.9%; R Varian, 40 from 169,
23.7%. Jockeys R Sexton, 6 from 24, 25.0%; S Cherchi,
3 from 17, 17.6%; C Rodriguez, 55 from 369, 14.9%.
Newmarket (July): Trainers S bin Suroor, 21 from 69,
30.4%; C Appleby, 50 from 182, 27.5%; E Walker, 9 from 45,
20.0%. Jockeys B McHugh, 3 from 13, 23.1%; M Ghiani,
11 from 51, 21.6%; Harry Davies, 3 from 14, 21.4%.
Salisbury: Trainers Sir M Prescott, 6 from 19, 31.6%;
Sir M Prescott, 6 from 19, 31.6%. Jockeys
Mr P Millman, 3 from 8, 37.5%; Mr P Millman, 3 from
8, 37.5%; R Clutterbuck, 3 from 15, 20.0%.
York: Trainers G Tuer, 7 from 44, 15.9%; W Haggas,
26 from 168, 15.5%; R Beckett, 11 from 80, 13.8%.
Jockeys C Beasley, 16 from 87, 18.4%; D Muscutt,
3 from 19, 15.8%; S Donohoe, 3 from 22, 13.6%.

YESTERDAY’S RACING RESULTS AND OTHER RESULTS
Racing
Ascot
Going: good to firm (good in places)
1.55 (6f) 1, Buccabay (Charles Bishop, 7-1);
2, Bailey Gate (12-1); 3, Piccadilly Circus (11-2).
10 ran. NR: Monopolise. 1Ol, 1Kl. Eve Johnson
Houghton.
2.30 (6f) 1, Clochette (Andrea Atzeni,
8-13 fav); 2, Aunt Violet (3-1); 3, Quantum Light
(13-2). 11 ran. Nk, 2l. A M Balding.
3.05 (1m 7f 209yd) 1, Mostly Cloudy
(Tom Marquand, 10-11 fav); 2, Single (11-1);
3, Mancini (4-1). 5 ran. 4l, 10l. Gemma Tutty.
3.40 (1m 3f 211yd) 1, Juan De Montalban
(Jack Mitchell, 9-4); 2, The Whipmaster
(15-8 fav); 3, Merlin’s Beard (5-1). 6 ran. 2Kl, 14l.
K P De Foy.
4.15 (7f) 1, Carnival Zain (Miss Becky Smith,
2-1 fav); 2, Alazwar (8-1); 3, Global Esteem
(11-2). 8 ran. 3Kl, 2l. Micky Hammond.
4.50 (1m 3f 211yd) 1, Awesome Dancer
(P Cosgrave, 28-1); 2, True Courage (18-1);
3, Buxted Reel (9-1). 11 ran. 1Ol, ns.
George Baker.
5.25 (5f) 1, Cuban Breeze (P Cosgrave, 13-2);
2, Glamorous Breeze (3-1 jt-fav); 3, Rattling
(9-2). 7 ran. Hd, 3Kl. P D Evans.
Placepot: £299.60.
Quadpot: £73.60.

Chepstow
Going: good to firm
6.05 (1m 14yd) 1, Greg The Great (George
Downing, 11-4 jt-fav); 2, Fitzrovia (10-1); 3,
Alyara (11-2). 8 ran. ns, 11l. Eve Johnson
Houghton.
6.35 (1m 14yd) 1, Mayson Mount (Finley
Marsh, 11-1); 2, Chifa (6-4 fav); 3, Grandstand
(11-2). 7 ran. 1Kl, 4N. A Wintle.
7.05 (7f 16yd) 1, Iconic Knight (William Cox,
2-1 fav); 2, Luxy Lou (11-2); 3, Lilandra (10-3). 7
ran. 1Kl, Kl. A W Carroll.
7.35 (7f 16yd) 1, Darcy’s Rock (William
Cox, 7-2); 2, Ravi Road (7-1); 3, Atlantic Heart
(2-1 fav). 7 ran. NR: Connie’s Rose. D J S F Davis.
8.05 (5f) 1, Rhubarb (A Keeley, 11-4fav); 2,
Amor De Mi Vida (7-2); 3, Coronation Cottage
(13-2). 7 ran. Nk, 1l. R Price.
8.35 (6f) 1, Desperate Hero (S Osborne, 12fav); 2, Saucisson (11-4); 3, Foinix (14-1). 5 ran.
NR: Pearly Gaits. 3½l, 5l. M Channon.
Placepot: £56.90
Quadpot: £10.40

Newmarket
Going: good to firm
5.40 (6f) 1, Streets Of Gold (Georgia Dobie, 7-

2); 2, Juliet Sierra (9-4); 3, Manitou (2-1 fav). 8
ran. 1Kl, 1Nl. Eve Johnson Houghton.
6.10 (7f) 1, One Nation (W Buick, 5-6 fav); 2,
One World (9-4); 3, Coco Jack (11-4). 1Ol, 2N. C
Appleby.
6.40 (1m) 1, Laguna Veneta (W Buick, 5-6 fav);
2, Control (15-2); 3, Stubble Field (9-1). 8 ran.
2Ol, Kl. Eve Johnson Houghton.
7.10 (1m) 1, Fulfilled (J P Spencer, 2-1 fav); 2,
Total Lockdown (9-2); 3, Attache (5-2). 6 ran.
Ol, Kl. D M Simcock.
7.40 (1m 4f) 1, Temporize (F Norton, 9-4 fav);
2, Open Champion (11-4); 3, Rechercher (16-5).
6 ran. 1Nl, 2Ol. Charlie Mark Johnston.
8.10 (1m) 1, Dutch Decoy (O Stammers, 9-2); 2,
Al Marmar (9-4); 3, Atheby (8-1). 5 ran. 1¾l, 1l.
C & M Johnston.
8.40 (7f) 1, Tipperary Moon (K O’Neill, 3-1); 2,
Billyb (9-4); 3, Macs Dilemma (8-1). 4 ran. NR:
Liberation Point. ¾l, Shd. I Furtado.
Placepot: £18.10
Quadpot: £7.10

Thirsk
Going: good to firm (good in places)
1.10 (5f) 1, Sugar Baby (Alexander
Voikhansky, 8-1); 2, Foreseeable Future (13-2);
3, Dandy Spirit (7-2 fav). 10 ran. 1Nl, 1Ol.
P D Niven.
1.45 (7f) 1, Candle Of Hope (Rossa Ryan, 8-13
fav); 2, Haughty (18-1); 3, Fahari (3-1). 10 ran.
NR: Verbasca. 4Nl, ns. R Hughes.
2.20 (5f) 1, Miss Brazen (Sam Feilden, 9-4);
2, Hizaam (7-1); 3, Lupset Flossy Pop (3-1).
5 ran. 1Ol, nk. K R Burke.
2.50 (7f) 1, Metahorse (Rossa Ryan, 5-6 fav);
2, Urban Sprawl (9-4); 3, Gulmarg (4-1). 1Kl,
3Kl. M L W Bell.
3.25 (7f 218yd) 1, Caracristi (Joey Haynes,
11-4); 2, Hegemon (16-1); 3, Cobra Kai (9-4 fav).
8 ran. 1Ol, nk. P A Kirby.
4.00 (6f) 1, Pink Crystal (S Donohoe, 2-1 fav);
2, Burning Emotion (8-1); 3, Emeralds Pride
(3-1). 6 ran. 1Kl, Ol. W J Haggas.
4.35 (2m 13yd) 1, Levitate (Connor Beasley,
5-2 fav); 2, Stormbreaker (10-3); 3, Grimsby
Town (7-2). 7 ran. ns, 2N. Charlie Mark
Johnston.
Placepot: £50.20.
Quadpot: £17.20.

Uttoxeter
Going: good
1.00 (2m 3f 207yd, hdle) 1, Biowavego (Jonjo
O’Neill Jr., 6-4); 2, Cluain Aodha (20-1); 3,
Seaforth Mancy (11-10 fav). 7 ran. 4l, 14l. Jonjo
O’Neill.
1.35 (1m 7f 168yd, hdle) 1, George Mallory (B
S Hughes, 12-1); 2, Henri Le Bon (7-1); 3, Ten

Past Midnight (9-4 fav). 9 ran. NR: Annual
Review, Balearic, Boundsy Boy. 4N, 4l. C A
Pogson.
2.10 (3m, ch) 1, Tedham (Nick Scholfield, 7-2);
2, Aviewtosea (13-8 fav); 3, Port O’clock (5-2).
5 ran. 7Kl, 24l. Jonjo O’Neill.
2.40 (2m 7f 70yd, hdle) 1, For Jim (Sean
Quinlan, 17-2); 2, Dellboy Trotter (5-1);
3, Viking Ruby (13-2). 8 ran. 2l, nk. J Candlish.
3.15 (1m 7f 214yd, ch) 1, Goaheadwiththeplan
(G Sheehan, 7-2); 2, Begoodtoyourself (7-2);
3, Koi Dodville (11-4). 5 ran. 6Kl, 8l.
Mrs D O’Neill.
3.50 (2m 3f 207yd, hdle) 1, Latino Fling (B S
Hughes, 9-4 fav); 2, Isthebaropen (3-1); 3,
Maria Magdalena (4-1). 5 ran. NR: Lost In
Montmartre. 3N, Ol. D McCain Jnr.
4.25 (1m 7f 168yd, flat) 1, Masked Matgil (Stan
Sheppard, 7-2); 2, Mini Rivo (11-1); 3, Night On
The Town (5-1). 10 ran. NR: Golden Millie. 2Kl,
7Kl. T Lacey.
Placepot: £70.70.
Quadpot: £19.30.

York
Going: good to firm
5.20 (7f) 1, It Just Takes Time (Harry Russell,
9-1); 2, Danzan (11-2); 3, Brazen Bolt (7-2 fav).
11 ran. Kl, 1Ol. M Walford.
5.55 (7f 192yd) 1, Ghaly (Kevin Stott, 5-2);
2, Blue For You (11-4); 3, La Trinidad (7-4 fav).
4 ran. NR: Magnificence, Red Mirage. Nk, 1Ol.
S bin Suroor.
6.25 (6f) 1, International Girl (O J Orr, 17-2);
2, Good Earth (17-2); 3, Bossipop (18-1). 15 ran.
2l, nk. R A Fahey.
6.55 (7f) 1, Shaquille (S M Levey, 20-1); 2, Spirit
Of Applause (66-1); 3, Impulsive Reaction (112). 13 ran. 1Kl, 2Kl. Miss J A Camacho.
7.25 (1m 2f 56yd) 1, Achelois (David Probert,
16-5); 2, Poptronic (10-3); 3, Pearl Beach (10-1).
6 ran. NR: Via Sistina. 1Ol, 3Kl. A M Balding.
7.55 (1m 2f 56yd) 1, Spirit Dancer (Oisin Orr,
13-8fav); 2, Waht’s The Story (4-1); 3, Lucander
(9-2). 5 ran. NR: Good Birthday, Silver Gunn. 2l,
1l. Richard Fahey.
8.25 (5f 56yd) 1, Alia Choice (K Stott, 13-2);
2, Mattice (9-1); 3, The Dunkirk Lads (11-2jt fav).
15 ran. 3¾l, 1½l. K Ryan.
Placepot: £744.50
Quadpot: £153.60

Cricket
Belfast: Ireland v New Zealand third T20
international
Civil Service Cricket Club (Ireland won toss):
New Zealand beat Ireland by six wickets

Ireland 174-6 (P Stirling 40); New Zealand
180-4 (G Phillips 56 not out).
LV Insurance County Championship
scoreboards page 14-15

Athletics
Eugene,
Oregon
World
Athletics
Championships, day seven
(GB in blue; Q denotes qualified for next
round; q denotes qualifed for next round as
fastest loser; selected results)
Men
200m final 1, N Lyles (US) 19.31sec; 2, K
Bednarek (US) 19.77; 3, E Knighton (US) 19.80;
4, J Fahnbulleh (Liberia) 19.84; 5, A Ogando
(Dominican Republic) 19.93; 6, J Richards
(Trinidad and Tobago) 20.08; 7, A Brown
(Can) 20.18; 8, L Adams (SA) 20.47.
800m semi-finals: semi-final one 1, E K Korir
(Kenya) 1min 45.38sec (Q); W K Kisasy
(Kenya) 1:45.49 (Q); 3, P Bol (Aus) 1:45.58 (q);
4, K Langford (GB) 1:45.91; 5, J T Lopez (Mex)
1:46.17; 6, T van Diepen (Neth) 1:46.70; 7, E
Moujahid (Morocco) 1:47.18; 8, T Bodena (Eth)
1:50.55. semi-final two D Sedjati (Alg) 1:45.44
(Q); 2, G Tual (Fr) 1:45.53 (Q); 3, D Rowden (GB)
1:46.27; 4, C Tecuceanu (It) 1:46.31; 5, M Zahafi
(Morocco) 1:46.35; 6, M Garcia (Sp) 1:46.70; 7,
A Kramer (Swe) 1:46.71; 8, N Kibet (Ken)
1:47.15. semi-final three 1, S Moula (Alg)
1:44.89 (Q); 2, M Arop (Can) 1:45.12 (Q); 3, E
Wanyonyi (Ken) 1:45.42 (q); 4, B Robert (Fr)
1:45.67; 5, M English (Ire) 1:45.78; 6, A Ayouni
(Tun); 7, A de Arriba (Sp) 1:46:30; 8, A El
Guesse (Morocco) 1:46.46.
5,000m heats (only those who qualified for
the semi-finals are listed). Heat one 1, O
Chelimo (Uganda) 13min 24.24sec (Q); 2, G
Fisher (US) 13:24.44 (Q); 3, S Barega (Eth)
13:24.44 (Q); 4, J Cheptegei (Uganda) 13:24.47
(Q); 5, A Nur (US) 13:24.48 (Q); 6, N Kipkorir
(Ken) 13:24.58 (q). Heat two 1, J Krop (Ken)
13:13.30 (Q); 2, J Ingebrigtsen (Nor) 13:13.92
(Q); 3, L Grijalva (Guatemala) 13:14.04 (Q); 4, Y
Kejelcha (Eth) 13:14.87; 5, M Ahmed (Can) (Q)
13:15.17; 6, D S Ebenyo (Ken) 13:15.17 (q); 7, M
Edris (Eth) 13:21.19 (q); 8, M Scott (GB)
13:22.54 (q); 9, S Parsons (Ger) 13:24.50 (q).
Women
200m final 1, S Jackson (Jam) 21.45sec; 2, S-A
Fraser-Pryce
(Jam)
21.81sec;
3,
D
Asher-Smith (GB) 22.02; 4, A Seyni
(Niger) 22.12; 5, A Steiner (US) 22.26; 6, T Clark
(US) 22.32; 7, E Thompson-Herah (Jam) 22.39;
8, M Kambundji (Switz) 22.55.
800m heats (only those who qualified for
the semi-finals are listed). Heat one 1,
D Welteji (Eth) 1min 58.83sec (Q); 2, J Reekie
(GB) 1:59.09 (Q); 3, A Tracey (Jam) 1:59.20 (Q);

4, L Butterworth (Can) (q) 2:00.81. Heat two
1, K Hodgkinson (GB) 2:00.88 (Q);
2, A Horvat (Slovenia) 2:01.48 (Q);
3, L Hoffmann (Switz) 2:01.63 (Q); 4, C Hering
(Ger) 2:01.63 (q); 6, E Bello (It) 2:02.78 (q);
7, C Bisset (Aus) 2:22.25 (q). Heat three
1, A Mu (US) 2:01.30 (Q); 2, H Nakaayi (Uganda)
2:01.41 (Q); 3, E Baker (GB) 2:01.72 (Q).
Heat four 1, R Lamote (Fr) 2:00.71 (Q);
2, F Hailu (Eth) 2:00.93 (Q); 3, A Wilson (US)
2:01.02 (Q); 4, A Bell (GB) 2:01.25 (q); 5, N Korir
(Ken) 2:01.61 (q). Heat five 1, R Rogers (US)
2:01.36 (Q); 2, H Alemu (Eth) 2:01.37 (Q);
3, N Yarigo (Benin) 2:01.58 (Q); 4, P Sekgodiso
(SA) 2:01.60 (q). Heat six 1, N Goule (Jam)
2:00.06 (Q); 2, M Moraa (Ken) 2:00.42 (Q);
3, A Wielgosz (Pol) 2:00.79 (Q); 4, M Kolberg
(Ger) 2:01.21 (q).

Golf
DP World Tour: Hillside Golf Club,
Southport
Cazoo Classic Second-round scores
England unless stated
133 P Waring 63, 70. 135 J Guerrier (Fr); J
Dantrop (Swe) 66, 69; G Forrest (Scot) 66, 69.
136 D Huizing 68, 68. 137 G Porteous 65, 73;
C Shinkwin 69, 68; S Valimaki (Fin) 71, 66. 138
D Horsey 69, 69; R Petersson (Swe) 68, 70; M
Southgate 67, 71; R Sterne (SA) 70, 68; R
Ramsay (Scot) 69, 69; N Elvira (Sp) 73, 65; M
Armitage 69, 69.
PGA Tour: TPC Twin Cities, Minnesota
3M Open Early second-round scores
US unless stated
132 E Grillo (Arg) 67, 65. 135 T Finau 67, 68;
R Streb 68, 67. 137 L Hodges 70, 67; P Kizzire
68, 69. 138 C Davis (Aus) 70, 68; A Long 69,
69; G Sigg 70, 68.
LPGA Tour: Evian Resort Golf Club, Évianles-Bains.
Amundi Evian Championship second round
128 B Henderson (Fr) 64, 64. 131 N Korda (US)
64, 67. 133 S Y Kim (S Kor) 68, 65; S Y Ryu
(S Kor) 67, 66. 134 C Ciganda (Sp) 67, 67;
P Delacour (Fr) 66, 68; H J Kim (S Kor) 68, 66;
Lee An (US) 69, 65; S Schubert (US) 69, 65;
A Thitikul (Thai) 68, 66.

Tennis
Hamburg European Open
ATP Tour: quarter-finals F Cerundolo (Arg)
bt A Karatsev (Russ) 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4);
L Musetti (It) bt A Davidovich Fokina (Sp) 6-4,
6-3; C Alcaraz (Sp) bt K Khachanov (Russ)
6-0, 6-2; A Molcan (Slovakia) bt B Coric (Cro)

7-6 (9-7), 2-0 ret.
WTA Tour: semi-finals B Pera (US) bt
M Zanevska (Bel) 6-2, 6-4; A Kontaveit (Est)
bt A Potapova (Russ) 6-3, 7-5.
EFG Swiss Open Gstaad
ATP Tour: quarter-finals D Thiem (Aut) bt
J P Varillas (Per) 6-4, 6-3; M Berrettini (It)
bt P Martinez (Sp) 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-1; C Ruud
(Nor) bt J Munar (Sp) 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-4).

Rugby league
Betfred Super League
Warrington Wolves 22 Hull Kingston Rovers
30; Hull FC 18 Castleford Tigers 46

FIXTURES
Football
Women’s European Championship fourth
quarter-final
Rotherham France v Holland (8.0).
Premier Sports Cup (all 3.0) Group A Stirling
v Peterhead. Group B Kilmarnock v
Stenhousemuir; Partick Thistle v Montrose.
Group C Dunfermline v Alloa; Ross County v
East Fife. Group D Falkirk v Clyde;
Morton v Bonnyrigg Rose. Group E Arbroath
v Airdrieonians; St Mirren v Edinburgh.
Group F Elgin v Queen of the South; St
Johnstone v Ayr. Group G Inverness v Cove
Rangers; Livingston v Kelty Hearts.Group H
Dundee v Forfar; Hamilton v Queen’s Park.

Cricket
Second women’s Vitality T20 international
Worcester England v South Africa (2.30).
LV= Insurance County Championship
Division Two: Leicester Leicestershire v
Glamogran (11.0).

Golf
DP World Tour: Hillside
Southport
Cazoo Classic Third round

Golf

Club,

Rugby league
Betfred Super League
Catalans Dragons v Huddersfield (5.0);
Toulouse v Salford (7.0).

22

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Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

Sport Sailing

‘Ben gave a talk at my junior rowing
club – now I’m on a boat with him’
SAIL GP

Hannah Mills speaks to
Alyson Rudd about
sailing with Ben Ain
Ainslie
and changing
the face of
their sport

8

Olympic medals
between Ben Ainslie
(four gold, one silver)
and Hannah Mills (two
gold, one silver)

H

annah Mills did not
even know that sailing
was an Olympic sport
until Ben Ainslie turned
up at her local rowing
club when she was 11 years old to give
a talk about his silver medal at the
Atlanta Games in 1996. Even as she
became Olympic champion in Rio in
2016, and then Tokyo last year, she
did not expect that one day she would
share a boat with Ainslie and that her
job would, in effect, be to tell the fourtimes Olympic gold medallist what to
do as part of the Great Britain Sail GP
team.
“To actually sail on a boat with
Ben is a weird journey,” she says. “I
thought, ‘OK, here we go, this is quite
a big pressure.’ ”
Sail GP aims to have a 50-50 split
between men and women on their
craft, but in the meantime each boat
must have a woman on board. The
women’s pathway programme started
in May last year, and by October the
participants were ready to sail.
“The opportunity to inspire young
girls and boys and to let them
know that men and women are
equal is amazing,” Mills says.
“From the girls’ point of view,
it’s understanding that they
can do things and
they have every
right to, and
from the boys’
perspective it’s
that women
have a place
as equals.”
This is why
she is highly
unlikely to
compete at the
Olympics in France in
2024. It used to be only
the Games that gave
women an elite platform
in sailing, but as the
barriers come down
outside of the Olympics,
she wants to be part of
the drive for equality.
Maybe, I suggest to
Ainslie —
who will be competing in
Britain for the first time in
six years next weekend as
driver of the
Great Britain team —
there are areas where
women are superior.
“In communication,
probably,” he says. “One of
the first things Hannah did
was tell us to improve on
communication. Last season
we won a lot of races and
were really pushing hard but
overall it backfired on us
because we had two big
collisions and penalty points.
Maybe we’ve had to
throttle back a bit, which is

Ainslie and Mills, inset left with her three Olympic medals, are teaming up for Great Britain in Sail GP

hard for me.
Knowing what
to say, and
when, takes a
real skill set.”
“I can see why he says
that,” Mills says. “I
would agree. Ben’s
always been a singlehanded sailor [sailing
solo] and I’ve always been
a double-handed sailor
[with a crew member]. In
Tokyo so much of what we
did was about
communication.
“Coming into the Sail
GP, I really felt that was an
area I could have an impact
on. This type of racing is so
short you don’t have time to
think and so the role of the
rest of the team is to provide
Ben with clear
communication so he can
make the best snap
decisions.”
At her first debrief she
was able to explain to the
team how spiralling bad
calls had cost them points,
and when she at last was on
board she realised just how
concise and relevant her
advice had to be.
It is this sense of

urgency that makes the sport
captivating.
It is called “Formula One on water”
and has its own fair share of avid
devotees, the sailing equivalent of
petrolheads.
“There are similarities [with F1],
Ainslie says. “We are close to the
shoreline, so you get the chance to
interact with the spectators. Before
the race starts, we get a lot of people
coming through the technical area
where the teams have their race
briefings. They can meet the teams,
meet the sailors.
“We tend to have three races in a
day, pretty high impact, it happens
fast. In those races unfortunately we
do have collisions, which is not nice
to experience, but it is part of
showcasing how competitive our
sport is. People like that action.
“The data that comes off the boats
is really interesting and that gets
shared among all of the teams, so we
can analyse the Australians, who have
been winning lately, and how they sail
their boats. If you’re a real techie
there is plenty of data to get stuck
into if you have the bandwidth for it.
“Sail GP has broken down the
barriers. It has been seen as an elitist
sport. It’s really exciting for the
younger audiences to see. It’s all
about the sailors, because all of the
equipment is exactly the same. You

Sail GP: how they stand
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Team
Australia
Canada
Great Britain
New Zealand
Denmark
France
United States
Spain
Switzerland

Driver
Tom Slingsby
Phil Robertson
Ben Ainslie
Peter Burling
Nicolai Sehested
Quentin Delapierre
Jimmy Spithill
Jordi Xammar
Sebastien Schneiter

Pts
20
17
17
12
12
9
9
8
4

Event 3 Great Britain, July 30-31. Event 4
Denmark, Aug 19-20. Event 5 France, Sept
10-11. Event 6 Spain, Sept 24-25. Event 7 Dubai,
Nov 12-13. Event 8 Singapore, Jan
14-15, 2023. Event 9 Feb 18-19, 2023. Event 10
New Zealand, Mar 18-19, 2023. Event 11 United
Stated, May 6-7, 2023.

can trim the sails but that’s part of the
skill set. In the America’s Cup it’s
much more about the technology and
there it is like Formula One.”
Sail GP racing, which will be in
Plymouth next weekend, is too
physically demanding for Mills to be
on board this time around. She is
expecting a baby girl, due in October,
and decided early in her pregnancy
that she should not compete.
“There are a lot of bashes and
bruises, the boats turn corners pretty
quickly, it’s not for the faint-hearted,”
the 34-year-old says. “You don’t
notice the bashes until a few hours

later. The legs get knocked against
everything.
“It’s very different to standard
sailing and quite a spectacle, it’s so
intense. It’s clear cut as to who’s doing
what and who’s won. You accumulate
points and the top three go into a
winner-takes-all final.
“I like to think of it as a festival.
You come for the day and watch some
amazing racing and there are lots of
other things going on in the race
village, so it’s a really cool family day
out. The Plymouth course is amazing,
you’re high up on the Hove and the
course is right under that.”
It feels, with Ainslie, that he is
chasing ways to be challenged by
his sport. “I had 20-odd years as an
Olympic athlete; I couldn’t sustain
that any longer,” the 45-year-old
says. “Olympic sailing, the boats
I was sailing in, the classes are
changing now but, in my view, not
quickly enough.
“The sport’s evolved massively. The
first Olympics I went to was in ’96.
The boats we were racing, and then in
the America’s Cup as well, the fastest
they went was 12 knots. The more
wind there was, the boats just got
loaded up more and lower in the
water until finally they broke. Now
we are foiling out of the water and
reaching speeds of close to 100km/h,
so it’s transformed the sport.”
He says he has been carried along
on a wave of reinvention, but that the
technology has also kept pace with his
need for fresh challenges. “There is
always another challenge if you’re
looking for it, which generally I am.
Sail GP is very collaborative. The
boats are all one design, but we are
constantly developing them, bringing
in new technology. It’s a sailor-driver
sport. The designers and engineers
are the incredibly smart people who
put that vision into reality.”
He cut a deal with his mother when
he was 18 that he could go to Atlanta
if he finished his A-levels. “When I
came back I had matured massively
and I was sitting there at Peter
Symonds, a fantastic sixth-form
college [in Winchester], and seeing a
teacher berating a student for handing
in his coursework half an hour late,
and thinking, ‘I’m wasting my time
here.’ I managed to find a sponsor for
the 2000 Olympics and I used some
of that money to fund myself through
tutorial college to finish off my
A-levels in business studies, history
and environmental science.”
He did not go to university and
wonders if he should have taken an
engineering degree. If he had to go
back into education now, however, he
would study for an MBA. “I’m leading
the Sail GP team and the America’s
Cup team, which employ a couple of
hundred people and is a reasonably
sized business,” he says. “I’ve got
people to help me run it but I’m sure
I could do a better job.”
Ainslie certainly looks the part.
He is wearing a smart suit and is
backed by Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Team
Ineos. “I co-own the teams and
run the teams,” he says, “it’s an allencompassing role.”
The communication aimed at
avoiding a collision, though, is,
these days, likely to be delegated
to a woman.
6 The Plymouth Grand Prix, July 30
and 31. Tickets are still available to
purchase at SailGP.com/GreatBritain

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

Sport

A look back at some of the greatest moments in sporting history

THE AGE/FAIRFAX MEDIA/GETTY IMAGES

1950 THE FIRST
POSTWAR ‘BRITISH
EMPIRE GAMES’
Kit Shepard

‘W

e declare that
we are all loyal
subjects of his
majesty the King,”
it was proclaimed
at the opening ceremony of the 1950
British Empire Games in Auckland.
Indeed, as the multi-sport festival
began on New Zealand’s North
Island, the only sensible conclusion
seemed to be that the empire was
thriving. There was the name itself:
“Commonwealth” was only included
in the title from 1954, and “British
Empire” would survive until 1970.
“Commonwealth Games” was
adopted in 1978.
There were the measurements —
be it the 120-yard hurdles, a discus
throw of 158 feet or a snatch-lift of
260lb — that enhanced the imperial
feel. And then there were the teams
themselves. The opening ceremony
at Eden Park welcomed athletes
from Ceylon, Southern Rhodesia and
Malaya — titles only found on maps
printed in the pre-internet era.
Yet it all obscured an empire
whose rapid decline had already
begun. Excluding England, Scotland
and Wales, five of the nine countries
competing had already broken away
from Britain and the plethora of
independent nations formed in the
1960s was soon to come.
The 1950 Games may have begun
under the guise of the empire’s
collective strength, but individuals
completing remarkable achievements
remains the abiding memory. It
was the first time the event had
been held since 1938, the Second
World War forcing the interlude,
and many competitors had fought in
the conflict.
The hurdler Donald Finlay was
part of the Royal Air Force during
the Battle of Britain. His plane was
shot down over Kent in 1940, forcing
him to parachute to safety while
nursing a wound. Later in the war,
Finlay served as a commander in
North Africa and Burma. He had
won Olympic silver in 1936 and

Finlay, second from right, competes in the 120-yard hurdles in Auckland at the age of 41 — he won Empire Games gold in 1934 and was good enough for fourth in 1950

Empire Games gold in 1934. But by
1950, Finlay was 41 and could not
keep up with the twentysomething
Australians Peter Gardner and Ray
Weinberg in the 120-yard hurdles
final. Still, his fourth-place finish and
his role as Team England’s flagbearer was a perfect postwar story.
If Finlay’s appearance was a
triumph for ageless wonders, the
army veteran James Halliday’s story
displays the ineffable power of the
human body. The weightlifter from
Bolton helped to bring soldiers
home from Dunkirk and was then
deployed in the Far East, where
he was captured by the Imperial
Japanese Army.
Despite the terrible living
conditions, working on the Burmese

“Death Railway” and surviving off
minute rations, Halliday lifted tree
trunks to keep fit while a prisoner.
He returned to England in 1946
weighing only six stone, compared
with 11 before the war.
Remarkably, Halliday recovered
to compete at the 1948 Olympics,
winning bronze, and at the 1950
Empire Games. Having survived
some of the worst experiences
imaginable, lifting a barbell a few
times was a doddle, and he naturally
won lightweight gold in Auckland.
The postwar Games welcomed
Nigeria, one of two debut teams,
whose Josiah Majekodunmi won
silver in the high jump. Their fellow
debutants Malaya fared even better,
as Tho Fook Hung and Koh Eng

Tong both won weightlifting gold.
Several female athletes dazzled
the crowds. Australia’s 18-year-old
sensation Marjorie Jackson won four
sprinting golds and equalled the
world record (10.8sec) for the 100
yards, with The Times calling her
“the most remarkable competitor of
all”. Together with her compatriot
Shirley Strickland, the winner of
the 80m hurdles, they formed
the backbone of a triumphant relay
team. Meanwhile, England’s Mary
Glen-Haig won the first women’s
fencing gold.
However, six of the 11 sports at the
Games remained men-only. In one
of the many signs of how the Games
have evolved, the upcoming edition
in Birmingham will have more than

20 sports and is set to give out the
majority of medals to women for
the first time. That, of course, is far
from the only change since 1950.
The name is different. There will be
no Second World War veterans.
Colonies have become independent
nations. Even the metric system has
fully taken over. And to banish any
uncertainty over how much has
changed in 72 years, see below for
the plight of England’s rowers back in
1950 on the other side of the globe.
“It was a shock to all at home to
hear that they had reached Auckland
to find that their boat had not
arrived,” The Times lamented. “The
best boat which could be found was
much too small.” The world is now a
very different place.

MOLLY DARLINGTON/REUTERS

THE NEXT
BIG THING
Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix
x
6 Born September 11,
2004
6 At 16, she was the
youngest member of
Team GB’s diving squad
at Tokyo Olympics
6 Won her first
international gold

medal at the Fina Grand
Prix in Rostock in
February 2020
6 Winner of BBC Young
Spoty in 2020
6 Won bronze in
team event at World
Championships in June

Elgan Alderman
Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix is not a
name you forget in a hurry. The
latter barrel of that surname may be
familiar too: she is the daughter of
Fred Sirieix, the maître d’hôtel on
Channel 4’s First Dates, and her
uncle Pierre Lao-Sirieix is a director

at AstraZeneca,
ca,
the
pharmaceutical
cal
company.
Familial
connections are
a natural point
nt
of interest and
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will continue
to be so

competition in which she first
competed at 13 — and bronze in the
team event with James Heatly at the
World Championships, and she will
compete for England in the
Commonwealth Games on home soil
next month.
Two years ago she was rewarded
for becoming national champion in
the women’s 10m platform by being
named the BBC Young Sports
Personality of the Year, becoming
the second diver to win that award,
after Tom Daley.
Spendolini-Sirieix’s father
was ready to support his
daughter in Tokyo but
was unable to go
because of Covid-19.
Her French
connection means
The age at which
that Paris 2024 has
taken part in the
Spendolini-Sirieix made
added significance,
Olympics. She went
her Olympic debut in
with her grandparents
to Tokyo last summer
Tokyo last year
living in the country.
at the age of 16 as the
More immediately, the
youngest member of
Commonwealths in
Team GB’s diving squad,
Birmingham, where the diving
and finished seventh in the
competitions will run from August 4
women’s 10m platform.
to August 8, will give a flavour of
This summer she has won silver at
her progression.
the British Championships — a
Spendolini-Sirieix
in action and, ieft,
with her father

16

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career, but they
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diminish as she makes a
will dimini
herself in the world
name for h
of diving.
Born in London to her
father and Italian
French fat
Spendolini-Sirieix
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the sport at eight in
took up th
Palace, and has already
Crystal Pal

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Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

1GS

Sport Comment
GARETH COPLEY/ECB/GETTY IMAGES

More is less
as sprawl of
sport reaches
tipping point
James
Gheerbrant
concentration of talent that can be
watched at any event outside the
majors.
For the world, it’s even worse.
Growing the game of golf, far from
being a force for good, is probably one
of the worst things the human race
could do for itself right now. Imagine
for a moment if golf’s breakaway
faction actually succeeded in their
stated aim of popularising the sport in
its new territory, leading to the
topography of the links to be
artificially imposed on landscapes to
which it is alien. The world needs a
rash of lavishly irrigated golf courses
in the Middle East like it needs a hole
in the head. LIV’s best-case scenario is
a planetary nightmare.
Golf in its present form is a
wonderful game underpinned by the
delicate balance of its interaction with
nature and climate, and not
guaranteed to our descendants.
“I think every golf course around
the world is going to be impacted by
climate change to one degree or
another,” the R&A’s director of
sustainability, Steve Isaacs, told The
Independent in 2019. The Old Course
at St Andrews, which lies only six
metres above sea level, is one of those
most imperilled. Expanding golf’s
geographical reach, at an enormous
environmental cost, probably means
shrinking its future.
It is an uncontested article of faith,
across almost all sports, that growing
the game is a good thing. When you
think about it, there is an essential
reason for this. Enlargement is the
natural state of all sports. Like our
universe, they have been expanding
ever since their genesis, spreading
outward in an endless burst from that
tiny grain of an idea, birthing

Stokes cited an unforgiving schedule as the main reason behind his decision to call time on his illustrious 50-over career

constellations of stars, commercial
union full back Freddie Steward
galaxies and vast, swirling nebulas of
surpassed the agreed maximum
debate.
number of minutes a player is
But unlike the universe, sport is not
supposed to play in a season to
expanding into infinite space, but into
protect their welfare. The RFU was
our finite world. And whether it’s the
confident that Steward was not being
colonising of the calendar, the
placed at increased risk of injury, but
relentless sprawl across the globe, the
Christian Day, the Rugby Players
multiplication of tours or formats in a
Association’s head of player affairs,
crowded marketplace, or some
sounded a more worrying note on the
combination of the above, there is a
issue of player workload. “We’re
sense everywhere of limits being
teetering right on the edge,” he said.
breached, tipping points being
Still, sports administrators continue
crossed, silent alarms going off.
to see how far they can squeeze the
This week, for example, Ben Stokes,
lemon without turning the product to
England’s most magnetic and
pulp. The Formula One World
inspirational cricketer,
Championship of 2003
retired from 50-over
comprised 16 races. Next
cricket, forgoing the
season, there will be 23
chance to defend
or 24, despite Sebastian
Sport is not
England’s World Cup
Vettel warning last
title. Stokes has
year that the quest to
expanding into
played four different
“have more and more
infinite space,
forms of cricket in the
races in a short
but into our
past 12 months. The
amount of time is
England men’s team
going to take its toll”,
finite world
have played international
and the enormous carbon
matches on 30 of the past
cost of the ever-growing
52 days. Between the start of
calendar.
next month and the end of March,
In men’s football, the redesigned
they will play eight Tests and as many Champions League, which will take
as 29 white-ball games in six
effect from 2024, will add 100 extra
countries in eight months.
games to the schedule. Everton have
“There is too much cricket rammed
announced that they will avail
in,” Stokes said. “We are not cars
themselves of the winter break
where you can fill us up with petrol
created by this year’s World Cup, a
and let us go. The schedule that is
rare opportunity to rest those players
expected of us these days . . . feels
who are not going to the tournament,
unsustainable.”
to play in a mid-season cup in
Last week, the England rugby
Australia. Last month, the

WEEKENDQUIZ
Which Briton won the

1 1,500m at the World

Athletics Championship in
Oregon?
Hugo Houle became
2 the second cyclist
from which country to win
a Tour de France stage?

three group games at Euro
2022. Who was the other?

hat-trick in the first over
he bowled in international
T20 cricket on
Wednesday?

sign right back Djed
Spence?

French Grand Prix this
weekend. Which driver
won the race last season?

Ireland have beaten

11 New Zealand five

Which Irish county

6 won the All-Ireland
Senior Hurling
Championship last
weekend?

Championships 100m title
last weekend?

Formula One heads

5 to Le Castellet for the

Who won their fifth

7 World Athletics

8 batsman hit his third
County Championship

host the 2022
Commonwealth Games?

From which club did

10 Tottenham Hotspur

Which Indian

England were one of

3 two teams to win all

always sob cold.

Ireland celebrate their
series win in New Zealand

Which New Zealand

4 all-rounder took a

commissioner of Major League
Baseball confirmed that he intended
to expand the league from 30 teams
to 32, while insiders believe the NFL
will eventually swell from 32 teams to
40, including one and possibly even
two London franchises.
Where does it end? Sports cannot
simply keep expanding ad infinitum.
The dilemma that Stokes articulates,
between growth and sustainability, is
one they each must reckon with.
Capitalising, maximising, taking
opportunities wheresoever they
present themselves: this language has
long since bled from the playing
parlance of sports to the planning and
governance of them.
Yet this strategy, pursued
unchecked, is a sure road to a choked
and crowded sporting sphere, full of
exhausted athletes and bloated
competitions, blotting out their
own breathing space like an algal
bloom.
Here are some things that make for
good sport. Simplicity. Scarcity, which
confers a sense of occasion and
importance, allows anticipation to
build, and triumphs to stand in relief.
Small but perfectly formed
tournaments such as the women’s
European Championship. A sense of
kinship with and responsibility to the
planet that cradles all our games. It is
high time sport recognised the
elegance of sufficiency, and said what
too few golfers have had the courage
to say to LIV’s obscene offers:
sometimes, enough really is enough.

double century of the
season this week?

times since 2016, but how
many matches did they
play against the All Blacks
before their first win in the
fixture?

Name the NFL

9 franchise using
the following anagram:

Which city was

12 originally chosen to*

How many Ryder

13 Cups did the recently
dismissed Team Europe
captain Henrik Stenson
play in?
ANSWERS
1 Jake Wightman. 2 Canada.
3 Germany. 4 Michael Bracewell.
5 Max Verstappen. 6 Limerick.
7 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
8 Cheteshwar Pujara.
9 Dallas Cowboys.
10 Middlesbrough. 11 28.
12 Durban. 13 Five.
Guess the star answer
Thierry Henry

W

henever I think about
LIV Golf and Phil
Mickelson, I can’t
help but recall Dave
Eggers’s brilliant
satirical novel A Hologram for the
King. The protagonist, Alan Clay, is a
folksy American man, deep in the
slough of jowelly, indebted middle
age, fighting the slow creep of
obsolescence, when he is offered a
contract to install a holographic
teleconferencing system in Saudi
Arabia. Clay convinces himself that
the job is not only a way to assuage
his financial issues, but a chance to
leave a tangible legacy, to better the
world, though ultimately it amounts
to nothing more than a mirage.
The LIV golfers who haven’t simply
skulked beneath the awnings of their
giant baseball caps have clung to
similar explanations. “We’re trying to
grow the game,” Brooks Koepka said.
Bryson DeChambeau, his rival,
ventured his belief that “golf is a force
for good”. Henrik Stenson’s statement
mentioned both phrases. Mickelson
cited: “The good that the game of golf
has done throughout history.”
Repeated exposure to these
platitudes induces a migrainous
dizziness similar to what you might
experience if you stared too long at a
pair of Ian Poulter’s psychedelic
trousers. Growing the game, the good
of the game, growing the good,
grooming the gain.
This feels more like the harmful
kind of growth than the good kind
though. For the sport itself, LIV
already seems a ruinous development,
devaluing the Ryder Cup, one of the
best things golf has, and dividing the
game’s marquee players down the
middle, thus reducing the

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Art for lunch

Laura Freeman
joins the lunchtime
gallery sketchers

Hooroo!*

The end of
Neighbours
by Barry Humphries
and Jason Donovan
*Australian for goodbye

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showing this week
ALAMY

What the critics are watching and listening to Contents
Cover story 4-5

The end of Neighbours — Barry
Humphries and Jason Donovan
on what it means to them

My culture
fix 6

The actor Alex Jennings
on his cultural life, from
Matisse to Love Island

Alice Krige in She Will, a feminist horror film directed by Charlotte Colbert

Film
She Will
Directed by the Franco-British artist and
film-maker Charlotte Colbert, She Will is
somewhere between a feminist revenge
horror and an arthouse psycho-drama. A
former film star, Veronica, played with
mordant wit by the South African
Alice Krige, is recovering from an operation at a country house in the Scottish
Highlands, a place where witches were
burnt in the 18th century. Don’t expect
too much in the way of gore — it’s rum,
stylish and sometimes strikingly original.
In cinemas
Ed Potton

Television
The Marvellous Maggie Smith:
A Celebration
There’s a fair amount of gush in this profile
of the great actress. Maggie Smith is a
woman who can “do anything at all”, according to Simon Callow, and someone
who is “exquisite, erinaceous and incandescent”, according to “actor and fan” Tom
Read Wilson (“erinaceous” means hedgehog-like, by the way). But there are intelligent insights from critics, and Smith’s old
school friend Miriam Margolyes is also
perceptive about her pal’s sometimes intimidating mien. Channel 5, Sat
Ben Dowell

Theatre
Jack Absolute Flies Again
It’s a hoot. Richard Bean and Oliver Chris’s
Battle of Britain update of Sheridan’s Restoration comedy The Rivals delivers just
the kind of full-blooded laughter we need
at the moment. Caroline Quentin runs
amok with the double entendres as an
exceedingly fruity Mrs Malaprop, while
Natalie Simpson and Laurie Davidson are
note-perfect as the romantically entwined
aviators. Peter Forbes makes a terrifically
choleric Sir Anthony Absolute too. The
director Emily Burns keeps the tempo and
the jokes whizzing along. Olivier, National
Theatre, London SE1 (nationaltheatre.org.uk), to Sep 3
Clive Davis

Classical
Three Choirs Festival
This summer the baton passes to Hereford
and the festival is celebrating a work that
had its delayed premiere in the city in 1946,
George Dyson’s mystical oratorio Quo
Vadis (Mon), being given the luxury treatment with the Philharmonia Orchestra
and soloists including the striking young

alto Jess Dandy. Another highlight is the
world premiere of Luke Styles and Jessica
Walker’s Voices of Power: a celebration of
six women, from Boudica to Margaret
Thatcher (Thu). Hereford Cathedral, to Jul
30 (3choirs.org)
Neil Fisher

Dance
On Before
Yes, it’s Carlos Acosta again. No sooner has
he finished touring his wonderful Don Quixote for Birmingham Royal Ballet than he
sends his own 2010 show back to Norwich
for yet another few performances only a
year after the last ones. On Before, which
tells the story of a doomed relationship
between a man and a woman, brings together a selection of works by choreographers including Russell Maliphant, Kim
Brandstrup, Will Tuckett, Miguel Altunaga and Acosta (who also dances). The
music ranges from Handel to contemporary Cuban. Theatre Royal, Norwich (norwichtheatre.org), Fri-Jul 30
Alex O’Connell

Pop
Martha Wainwright
When you make your name with a song
about your dad called Bloody Mother
F***ing Asshole, it is guaranteed that your
childhood memoir will include a few eyeopening moments. Being a daughter to the
singers Loudon Wainwright III and Kate
McGarrigle and sister to Rufus meant that
Martha had to fight for any scrap of attention, before finding her own voice as an
artist. It is all documented in Stories I Might
Regret Telling You, which she draws on
here in a show that also focuses on her
most recent album, Love Will Be Reborn.
Cadogan Hall, London SW1, Wed; Redgrave
Theatre, Bristol, Thu; Quarterhouse, Folkstone, Fri (marthawainwright.com)
Will Hodgkinson

Visual art
Howardena Pindell: A New Language
Raise your hole-punches to 79-year-old
firebrand Howardena Pindell. As a child in
the 1950s, Pindell, the first black woman
curator of MoMA, New York, remembered stopping in Kentucky for root beer
on a drive with her father. The mugs they
drank from had a bright red circle on the
bottom, signalling that the mugs were only
for black customers. These dots, many
made by hole punch, haunt her art, some
like sequins, some like wounds. A tough
and powerful show. Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (kettlesyard.co.uk), to Oct 30
Laura Freeman

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“I’m bugging out until I have
to do this again for series three”
— Hugo Rifkind reviews Sanditon

Visual art 8-9

Laura Freeman joins
lunchtime sketchers at
the National Gallery

Film 10-11

Simon Napier-Bell on his new film,
George Michael: Portrait of an Artist

Books 12-21

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‘Neighbours feels
like Australia — but
they never cast me!’
The comedian Barry Humphries remembers how his fatherin-law Stephen Spender loved the soap, which ends next week

I

nterrupting poets was never a
good idea. The Person from Porlock, whose interruption famously prevented Coleridge from
finishing his poem Kubla Khan,
has been excoriated for centuries.
I have known only two poets
really well: John Betjeman and Stephen
Spender. The first, a close friend of many
years, and the second, my father-in-law.
Both, I like to think, were always pleased to
see me, but there was always one time of
day when an unauthorised visit would be
ill-advised. Betjeman regarded 6.30pm
every evening as sacrosanct, for that was
the time for Coronation Street. The late
poet laureate never missed an episode, which he always watched
from a comfy chair at an oblique
angle to the screen. His view of The
Street was drastically foreshortened, but that was the way he liked it,
and we never asked him why. “It’s
the modern Dickens,” he would exclaim rapturously, which made a
few of his highbrow friends feel he
was pulling their legs. But he wasn’t.
Few would dare ring the doorbell
of Stephen Spender early in the
evening. That was the time for
Neighbours. On occasion I would
find myself at his house in St John’s
Wood having tea with him at the
Formica kitchen table, and while
deep in a satisfying discussion about
the ghost stories of Elizabeth Bowen,
I would notice a shifty look coming
into the poet’s eyes, a tendency to
respond to my perspicacious remarks
and observations with a distracted
“Yes” and absent nodding of the head.
I would glance at my watch and realise that
the time was 5.25pm — the deadline for
moving into the dining room next door
and switching on the old TV.
I was told that distinguished poets and
other visitors to the house would find it annoying to have the convivial afternoon tea
so brutally interrupted and one of them
even grumbled: “Darling Stephen, you are
just mesmerised by all those beautiful
young bodies. It reminds you of your time
in Berlin in the Thirties.” Even if TS Eliot,
that most distinguished of all the residents
of Porlock, had been alive at the time, he
would have been repulsed by my wife’s addicted father.
What was the fascination of this show?
Mischievously, I told English friends it
was unscripted, and was cobbled together
from real footage caught from hidden
cameras in typical Australian homes. Very
few believed me, to their credit, but never-

perfect blend Barry
Humphries toasts the
Australian show

theless I extolled its authenticity. To me,
Neighbours feels like Australia, or it did
when Jason and Kylie were its stars. It’s so
clean, so self-assured, so comfortable. It
depicts Camelot down under, a suburban
paradise beneath the sun. There are no
shadows, even when the plot takes on a
darker hue. Like real life in my homeland,
it’s “overlit”.
The familiar theme song is known to
millions. It was composed by Tony Hatch
and has been recorded by many since my
friend Barry Crocker first sang it on the TV
series, but few know that the best rendition
of this somewhat saccharine ballad was recorded by my protégée Dame Edna Everage in the late 1980s. Perhaps inspired by
t
this
performance, an Irish-Australian
p
politician,
infamous for his republican
s
sympathies,
proposed in parliament
t
that
the theme from Neighbours should
b
become
Australia’s national anthem.
Of course, another far more sophistic
cated
entertainment has since des
scribed
suburban Australian life as it is
i gruesome reality: Kath & Kim. Gina
in
R
Riley
and Jane Turner have created a
c
comic
masterpiece for which Neighb
bours
is the merest sketch.
And it is impossible to neglect ment
tioning
the other Australian series that
h captured an international audihas
e
ence:
Prisoner: Cell Block H. When I
w a student actor in Melbourne in
was
t
the
early 1950s there were many
y
young
actresses of beauty and talent.
I approaching them I was usually
In
a
awestruck,
frozen with admiration,
b with a very few I enjoyed a juvenile
but
d
dalliance.
Fro time to time in the long intervenFrom
ing years I wondered what happened to
them. Where now was the lovely Fenella,
what had become of the ravishing Carmel
or the frankly sensual Darlene? They ended their careers in jail, incarcerated in the
wobbling and inexpensive sets of Prisoner:
Cell Block H playing ill-favoured “screws”,
aged shoplifters and butch lesbians. With
the decline of the repertory theatres, soaps
have offered the best training for young aspiring actors, no matter what their quality.
One girl I had really liked and who had
once played Viola to my inept Orsino, even
turned up in Prisoner. She had become a
garrulous old hag in the ironing room.
Now with the demise of Neighbours it is
the end of an era. Now there is a proliferation of police and detective stories, often
well written and well acted, but not seldom
against a grungy background.
I will always slightly resent Neighbours.
They never cast me!

It changed my life, writes
its star Jason Donovan

T

his week is the final episode of Neighbours after
nearly 37 years. I’ve been
asked over the past
couple of months about
my thoughts on the series coming to an end. In
my head it’s like the passing of a beloved
family member after a long and full life.
Publicly, my response is that it’s sad but it’s
time to celebrate.
Professionally and personally, a lot has
transpired since I left Neighbours 30-odd
years ago. Some incredible highs. Some
spectacular lows. I’ve always said I don’t
believe in luck. You create your own luck.
Timing, however, is everything.
I owe a lot to those years I spent on Ramsay Street. Most days I am reminded of my
time there. A shout-out from a London
cabbie, “How’s Kylie?”; a fan at a stage door
showering praise on my daughter’s performance in the series — Jemma plays
Harlow Robinson, a relation of my character, Scott. Or, most recently, at the Platinum Jubilee, a royal recounting her favourite Neighbours memories. It seems
from mullets to Mrs Mangel, affection for
Neighbours is never far away. It was massive and it still resonates.
Now with its imminent departure I reflect on how this little Aussie soap meant
so much more than any other Australian
television show in history. More importantly, how before it we nearly didn’t have
an Australian film and TV industry.
It was through watching my father, the
actor Terence Donovan, that I developed
an appetite for acting.
My parents split when I was five, and
Dad got custody of me. After school each
day I would end up in a rehearsal room or
in a theatre somewhere. In the evenings I’d
run through lines with him. I was fascinated by watching him work. I wanted to be in
that club.

I remember catching the No 6 tram in
Prahran, Melbourne, to see my muchloved gran. It was late 1984, I was 17 and
had just done an audition for a new show
that was to be commissioned for Channel
7, a soap set around a fictitious street. The
audition was for a character called Danny
Ramsay. It went well and a few weeks later
I received a call from my dad’s agent informing me I’d landed the role and I
should consider leaving school.
But there was a problem. I was heading
into my final year and I was about to sit my
HSC [the Australian equivalent of GCSEs].
I asked Dad his thoughts. He said it was up
to me, but his honest answer was that this
opportunity would come again and that

‘Wouldn’t it be funny
if Kylie, you and me
came back and saved
the day?’ Guy said
finishing school should be the priority,
based on the insecurity of life as a jobbing
actor. I asked all my teachers what I should
do. Unanimously they said, “Go.” I took
Dad’s advice and turned the offer down.
Channel 7 launched Neighbours in 1985,
but the show was axed after four months.
My dad’s foresight paid off. Just as I was
completing my final year I got a call saying
a new network, Channel 10, had picked up
the series and would I come and audition
for the character of Scott Robinson. I did
nearly four years in the series and that
time would shape my life.
While acting was at the centre of my
love affair with the show, and fame the byproduct, it was the relationships in it that
really shaped the success. One of Neighbours’ USPs was its younger cast — enthusiastic, energetic, not tainted by the business. Some of the more mature members

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Neighbours and me
By Hugo Rifkind

I

of the cast thought it was a step backwards
to work on Neighbours. For the younger
cast, it was an opportunity. We were
match-fit. We wanted to work hard. This
energy paved the way for other stars such
as Russell Crowe, Ben Mendelsohn and
Margot Robbie, who could see that the
club we’d created was going somewhere.
I remember seeing Kylie for the first
time in the wardrobe bus. She joined a few
months after me in the spring of 1986. She
walked into the room and said: “Do you remember me?” I didn’t.
She said we played brother and sister in
a series called Skyways in 1979. Something
clicked and we became mates and more.
That was a long time ago and, yes, we are
in touch from time to time, and, yes, we’re
still good mates.
To be honest, Neighbours had a rocky
beginning, but started to break through big
time in the summer of 1987. It was becoming an international hit, particularly in the
UK. Especially after that wedding. It was
insane. It’s because of this success the producers jumped ship to Sydney to create a
series with a similar concept set around a
certain Summer Bay.
Without the Neighbours energy and
momentum, Home and Away would never
have happened. It even got to the point
that in the early 1990s Australian managers would pitch for their musical acts to
appear on the show. It had become a showcase for musicians as well as actors.
Working five episodes a week, 27 TV
minutes a day — Neighbours is the most
prolific producer of TV drama content in
the world — is intense and requires focus
and discipline. I’ve seen this recently with
Jemma. While her friends (and mine at the
time) were busy having gap years or at uni,
she was in a different country, being a professional actor working with diverse age
groups and getting early nights ahead of
shooting days. You grow up quick. It’s an
apprenticeship like nothing else.
But where did this Aussie series really
begin? The grass roots are closer to home.
Terence Donovan. My dad. My father has
always been a passionate advocate for
Australian stories and the Australian
national identity. Having arrived in Melbourne from London in the 1950s, gaining

work as a carpet salesman, he landed on would not have been Neighbours or Home
his feet as an actor, first appearing in West and Away. All uniquely Australian. All
Side Story in Melbourne in 1960. He would successful on the international markets.
eventually play Doug Willis for more than And all providing the training of producseven years in Neighbours.
tion crews and actors that are the bedrock
In the 1960s there was no government of the Australian film and television indussupport for an Australian film and televi- try today.
sion industry. In 1961 just 1 per cent of
While Neighbours produced future stars
drama on Australian television was Aus- such as Crowe, Robbie, Guy Pearce and
tralian. The other 99 per cent was foreign Mendelsohn, it also helped to shine a light
drama, made in the US or UK and on Australian culture. Not just the exotic
sold cheaply to Australian networks. In outback as in Crocodile Dundee, but the
response to a lack of Australian stories lived experience of suburban life. While I
on Australian screens, the industry can rave about the history, the landscape
united under the banner “TV — Make it and the reasons I think Neighbours beAustralian”.
came what it did, the
r
One of those at
real
stars of the show
a
the front of this
are
those that have
k
campaign was my
kept
this cul-de-sac of
A
father, who in the
Aussie
life buzzing over
t past 37 years — the
late 1960s and
the
ffans. Which brings us
1970s was a regub
lar on one of the
back to now, the end,
tthe final episode.
few Australian TV
dramas, Division
I messaged Guy
P
4. Using his proPearce on WhatsApp:
““Should we be doing
file at the time,
Terence Donovan, second
ssomething for the last
and enlisting the
left, marching in 1970
eep?” His response (jokhelp of other actors, my father lobbied governments to ing): “Wouldn’t it be funny if Kylie, you and
change the policy on local content quotas. me came back to the street and saved the
These efforts worked and an Australian day? Or at least have an OJ at Des’s house!”
film and television industry was created I said the show had given us so much and
out of nothing.
it felt like a subtle nod to the past.
The result of that campaign was an obliI didn’t hear from Guy for a while, then
gation on commercial television broad- I received this at the end of March: “Hey,
casters to broadcast Australian stories. It mate, I thought I should let you know that
also led to the creation of the Australian I’ve quietly been offered a few days back in
Film, Television and Radio School.
Ramsay Street in June.” He then said in a
Whenever I visit Dad at home, there’s message: “I’ve just told Winslet [Kate, who
still a picture in the living room that he was a massive fan] and she sent me a twoproudly displays showing a march orga- page fantasy summary on plots, characters
nised by him and a number of actors in and breakdowns for a 2022 finale.”
1970, heading down Collins Street in MelbWhen Kylie and I dropped an Insta post
ourne holding a coffin with reels of film a month or so ago with images of a script,
hanging out of it.
implying we’d shot some Scott and CharThe coffin represented the death of Aus- lene scenes, it made me think of how much
tralian TV. Without this movement we my gran loved my time on Neighbours, and
might not have seen the growth in the in- as I reminisced about taking that No 6
dustry and indirectly Australian films such tram to see her after my first audition all
as The Man from Snowy River, Breaker those years ago, one of the comments I
Morant, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Priscilla, read resonated: “That’s when good neighMuriel’s Wedding, Crocodile Dundee, Strict- bours become good friends.” Farewell and
ly Ballroom etc. Without this action there thank you.

just remember it all so well. I remember Scott’s mullet, copied
from Shane’s mullet. I remember
Charlene in her overalls, because
she was a mechanic. I remember
that time Plain Jane Superbrain
put on a nylon party dress and
took off her glasses, and Mike had to Do
Acting; the first step on a career pathway
that would lead him to LA Confidential. I
remember when Daphne died, leading
Des to sit morosely in the bar at Lassiters
endlessly drinking extremely small beers,
and that Lassiters was run by Paul, Scott’s
businessman brother, but owned by the —
in retrospect — problematic racial stereotype Mr Udagawa.
I remember how delicious it was to hate
Mrs Mangel, and when Harold Bishop was
swept out to sea and came back and
thought he was called Ted, and that his
friend Lou Carpenter became the mayor
of Erinsborough, and Brad’s excellent hair
and Kerry being shot by a poacher and
Bouncer the labrador falling in love with
the dog next door. And I haven’t googled a
word of that, I swear. I told you. I remember it all.
Keen-eyed Neighbours fans, however,
will have noticed that almost none of these
things happened less than three decades
ago. That, though, was the golden age;
good friends From
when Scott and Charlene got married, and
left: Jason Donovan
their schmaltzy wedding song Suddenly
and Kylie Minogue in
soared to No 3 in the charts, and the whole
the final episodes; the
country tuned into Top of the Pops to see it
pair in the soap in 1987;
the next week, only to be greeted by the
Craig McLachlan; the
baffling yet somehow extremely Austra2008 cast including, at
lian spectacle of it being sweetly sung by
the front, Holly Valance
Angry Anderson, the leatherclad skinhead lead singer of a heavy metal band.
That same year — and check this, because
you’ll think I’m making it up — they
paused the show for a week so that the cast
could fly over here and do a dance at the
Royal Variety Performance for the Queen.
To be honest, I haven’t really watched it
since I was about 12, having drifted away
through the long Stonefish/Toadfish wilderness years. It’s still there, though, imprinted on my soul and that of anyone my
age, as is its great rival Home and Away,
which I learn to my consternation is still
going. (“Summer Bay Diner?” I still say,
whenever I cut open a burger bun.) It
was with Neighbours, though, that it all
began. We all remember Bouncer’s dream,
although we think we might have dreamt
it. We can all do an impression of Todd
g hit by that van. We all
after he got
h
wonder how
Jim Robinson was a
middle
middle-aged
man in 1986, and
t actor who played him
yet the
still apparently is one.
Why did Brits go so nuts
fo
for
Neighbours? British
c
children,
particularly? Perh
haps,
being Australian, it
g
gave
us the impression of
cl
classlessness,
without the
tri baggage of EastEnders
tribal
C
or Corrie.
Perhaps it was the
teena
teenagers,
so many of whom
went o
on to global fame, because
Bouncer, the show’s dog back then I don’t think we got to see
teenag
a lot of teenagers
of our own. I can see,
way why Australians
A
either way,
found it mortifying. The most beautiful country in the
world, home to Uluru and the Great
The three final episodes
Barrier Reef, and your great ambassador
of Neighbours will air on
locale is a newbuild suburb where the walls
Friday on Channel 5. The
wobble? Plus, of course, a whole generafirst of the three at
tion of British kids learnt to say “rack off,
1.45pm and at 6pm, and
you drongo” to them, which I can see must
the final two at 9pm
have been annoying. Sorry.

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my culture fix
The actor lets us into his cultural life

Alex
Jennings

reading Second World War history, but
these books are astonishing, what those
young boys went through. Atkinson is a
wonderful writer.

The book I wish I had written
Anything by Dickens.

My favourite author or book

The book I couldn’t finish

Nicholas Nickleby — which is tied into it
being the most extraordinary theatre
experience of my life. I saw Trevor
Nunn’s RSC production four times; I
then recorded the unabridged audiobook
and unashamedly stole all the
performances from the RSC cast.

Of course, I’ve not yet finished Proust’s
Remembrance of Things Past. I’ve got to
do it before I die, my daughter has read
it twice. And Ulysses; I’ve listened to
most of the brilliant audio recording by
Jim Norton, which is a big help if you’re
having trouble reading it.

The book I’m reading

The book I’m ashamed I
haven’t read

The Day of Battle, the second volume of
Rick Atkinson’s Liberation trilogy: an
amazing military history of the US and
British forces in the Second World War.
The first book, An Army at Dawn,
focused on the campaign in north Africa;
the second is on the invasion of Sicily
and Italy. It’s probably an old-man thing,

Beloved by Toni Morrison. It’s on
the pile.

My favourite film
I have so many. So here’s five. The Third
Man, The Shop Around the Corner (James

Stewart and Margaret Sullavan —
genius), His Girl Friday (Cary Grant and
Rosalind Russell, ditto), Goodfellas (the
late, great Ray Liotta) and Meet Me in St
Louis (Judy at her brilliant best).

The box set that I’m hooked on
The Staircase with Colin Firth and Toni
Collette, which is based on a true crime
documentary series, which I’ve not seen.

My favourite TV series
The West Wing, which I’ve watched four
times, at least, from start to finish. I went
back to it in lockdown. It’s the greatest.

My favourite piece of music
Peter Grimes. I was obsessed with
Benjamin Britten even before I played
him in Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art at
the National. And anything by Prince.

The last TV programme that made
me cry
Natasha and Leanne, adopted sisters,
who had been separately abandoned as
babies, finding each other as adults on
that Davina McCall programme [Long
Lost Family]. A joyous thing.

The instrument I wish I’d learnt
The piano. I’m so jealous of actors like
Roger Allam, Simon Russell Beale and
Hilton McRae who can just sit down
and play.

The music that cheers me up
Duke Ellington’s Diminuendo and
Crescendo in Blue.

If I could own one
painting it would be . . .
Whenever I go to a museum, I
always decide which one I’d
like to take home with me. A
Matisse. Any one.

My guiltiest cultural
pleasure
I watched my first episode
of Love Island the other day.
I was appalled and
transfixed in equal measure.

I’m having a fantasy
dinner party, I’ll invite
these artists and
authors . . .
Picasso, and maybe Matisse

part of the furniture
Matisse’s Spanish Still
Life. Top: Cary Grant and
Rosalind Russell in His
Girl Friday. Below: Colin
Firth and Toni Collette in
The Staircase

could pop in. I’d
d lik
like tto h
hang out with
Duke Ellington and Count Basie, who’d
bring his orchestra and duet with Ella
Fitzgerald. Mel Brooks and Katharine
Hepburn can come as well.

The concert that I’m
looking forward to
I’m hoping to go to the Metropolitan
Opera in New York this winter to see
Kevin Puts’s new opera, The Hours,
adapted from Michael Cunningham’s
novel. Renée Fleming is singing one of
the three heroines, alongside Kelli
O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato. Also, Jacob
Collier on his tour.

The play I walked out of
I never walk out of things. I’m the one
who stays behind when the people I’m
with have gone off for a martini. I want
to see things through to the bitter end.

Overrated
Ooooh, I really can’t answer that. I
have thoughts, obviously . . .

Underrated
I think people were finding
Rodgers and Hammerstein tricky
because of some of the subject
matter. But I believe they’re
absolutely dealing with those issues
— racism, bigotry — and they’re
not sugar-coating it. I worried that
people would think they couldn’t
do these pieces of work any
more. So it’s great to see new
productions reinventing them,
like Oklahoma! at the Young
Vic and Daniel Evans’s
South Pacific, in London
and on tour this year.
Alex Jennings performs
in The Southbury Child
at the Bridge Theatre,
London SE1, until Aug 27

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Hugo Rifkind on TV

Sanditon isn’t Jane Austen’s fault.
I doubt she saw Bridgerton
Sanditon
ITV
The Control Room
BBC1
Britain’s Tourette’s
Mystery: Scarlett
Moffatt Investigates
Channel 4

O

ne of my first gigs for
this newspaper, an easy
20 years ago, was being
sent to Margate after
the toff bible Tatler
called it “the epicentre
of seaside cool”. As I
arrived, a very fat drunk man was on the
beach, mooning the road and slapping his
buttocks. It was about midday. And I
thought: “Yeah, no.”
Sanditon, first broadcast on ITV and now
back on it for a second series after a spell in
the lonely, listless limbo of Britbox, takes
the golden age of the British seaside as its
backdrop. And much like last time, I do
find myself being far more interested in
that backdrop than in any of the characters, who are exactly the characters there
always are in all the other things like this.
This probably isn’t Jane Austen’s fault,
because although she wrote the fragment
of a novel on which Sanditon is based, I
strongly doubt that she had seen Bridgerton on Netflix first. Or even Downton Abbey. To anyone who has, though, could
Sanditon be any more by-the-numbers?
You’ve got the soppy sister desperate for a
husband and the bold, independent one
who is determined not to have one. You’ve
got dashing soldiers sending ladies’ hearts
a-flutter. You’ve even got some dude living
with no wife, in possession of a massive
fortune, apparently without any notion of
what this entails. As if he hasn’t read any
Austen at all.
I don’t care. You will not make me care.
I care so little, indeed, that I don’t even
remember how much of the first series I
watched. I do remember, though, that Esther (Charlotte Spencer) was romantically
keen on her dodgy stepbrother Edward
(Jack Fox) before marrying somebody else.
Now he’s back in Sanditon with his army
bros and she’s desperate to conceive and,
gosh, but that plotline could go anywhere.
Of the two sisters, meanwhile, Charlotte
(the less insipid one, played by Rose Williams) had a crush on Sidney Parker (Theo
James) before he went off and married
somebody else for financial reasons then
left the show to be in other stuff, presumably for financial reasons too. Look, there’s
a coffin with his name on it in the Caribbean, where we think he was pursuing business interests. Regency men pursuing
business interests in the Caribbean was
always fine, right? Anyway, Charlotte is
now off men and has decided to become
the governess for the children of a lonely,
single, but still quite young widower who
lives nearby. See above.

washed up Could the
new Sanditon be any
more by-the-numbers?

He’s back
and she’s
desperate
to conceive
and, gosh,
but that
plotline could
go anywhere

The other sister, Alison (Rosie Graham),
dreams of a carriage with 4ft men. I’m not
sure if that’s height or, wait, hang on, four
footmen, right. Both of them make friends
with Georgiana (Crystal Clarke), who is
being wooed by men for her fortune but
seems to have a crush on some sleazy artist
guy who dresses like the Big Lebowski.
Look, I don’t need to tell you any more.
You can figure it out for yourself. Gossips
gossip. Old ladies dispense arch and mordant wisdom. Soldiers in redcoats stalk
about, causing women to wear hats at a
moment’s notice and persistently have
almost fatal accidents from which they require rescuing. If that sounds like your sort
of thing, you’ll love it. Me, I’m bugging out
until I have to do this again for series three.
The Control Room, over three nights on
BBC1, was a brilliant idea and ultimately
sort of nonsense. If you didn’t see it, on the
one hand I’m loath to spoil it for you, but
on the other hand just watching it will do
that too.
Basically, Gabe (Iain De Caestecker) is a
call handler for the ambulance service in
Glasgow. People phone up and it’s his job
to get details for the ambulance crew and
figure out whether the caller is about to
die, or whether somebody else is, or to keep
them calm while they watch their other
half have a baby in the footwell. Right?
Well, one day a woman gets through to
him while in the process of a murder. And
as they talk Gabe suddenly realises that he
knows her, and she knows him too.
Amazing, right? Alas, what followed was
not. De Caestecker is actually pretty good,
especially at running about in a panic. In
time he was joined by Sam (Joanna Vanderham), who was the woman in question
and turned out to be a childhood friend
with whom he once (wait, what?) started a
fatal fire.

She eventually turned out to be in cahoots with Gabe’s boss Anthony, who was
sadly mixed up with the particular branch
of Glaswegian organised crime that is prepared to murder lots of people to get hold
of the priceless resource that is, erm, information about people needing ambulances
in and around Strathclyde. Yes.
One problem, clearly, was that this was
all mad, lurching drivel. Another was that
quite a lot of the early tension and drama
simply involved us not knowing stuff that
our hero already did, which to me always
feels lazy. A third was that Sam’s character
simply made no sense, as if the script
couldn’t settle on whether she had been
exploiting Gabe for ever, or secretly loved
him, or what. Most annoying, though, was
the simple waste of such a brilliant scenario and device, with the perfectly paced
opening scenes of call-centre drama never
being matched again. In a way, I suppose
it’s an accolade that The Control Room
made me so cross, because it had a strong
cast and a wistful, lonely, Iain Banks vibe
that I came very close to loving. But didn’t.
Finally, Britain’s Tourette’s Mystery:
Scarlett Moffatt Investigates was fascinating, alarming, moving and well done, if
inconclusive. Moffatt, first known for
Gogglebox, was looking into what seems
like a huge explosion of cases of young
people suffering from tics and other Tourette’s symptoms over the past couple of
years. She told us that she faced a similar
problem in her teens, concurrent with her
father having cancer.
Today, the obvious cause of the surge is
the stress of Covid lockdown, but maybe
it’s more complicated than that. Among
the people Moffatt met were numerous
Tourette’s influencers: people who film
themselves suffering and broadcast it.
Some have huge numbers of followers.

Their intent is to destigmatise their condition, but might they be spreading it too?
This is a crass and dangerous accusation to
level at vulnerable people, but that’s not to
say it might not be partially true. Tourette’s
is known to carry an element of social contagion. Friends catch particular tics from
each other. Some consider the condition
spreadable too.
What Moffatt did terribly well was tackle all of these questions without upsetting
anybody. It’s undeniable that some of
those whom she met identified hugely
with their conditions, almost — indeed,
sometimes seemingly beyond almost — to
the extent of being proud of them. Face it,
Tourette’s can be funny. Many of the sufferers here found themselves funny, as did
their families, and it was impossible not to
end up wondering how performative some
of these conditions are.
That thought, though, was swiftly followed by the realisation that many of these
people do suffer from a properly debilitating, compulsive mental disorder that cannot just be wished away. The two can’t be
easily disentangled. Feasibly, indeed, they
are exactly the same thing.
It wasn’t surprising that Moffatt couldn’t
settle this, because who can? She also
didn’t quite manage to settle whether Tourette’s influencers are helping anybody, including themselves, much as they clearly
mean well. Certainly they are removing
stigma, yet we saw a neurologist patiently
explaining that drawing attention to tics
and symptoms is the exact opposite of the
advice doctors would usually give.
It was a missed opportunity, I thought,
for this highly unusual documentary not
to ponder eating disorders and self-harm,
about which the consensus is that any sort
of social media celebration is definitely a
bad idea. And I’m not sure Tourette’s is
very different.

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

8 saturday review

visual art

Pencil me in! Meet
the lunch break
gallery sketchers
Instead of sitting at your desk with a sandwich, why not take
the opportunity to really look at art, says Laura Freeman

W

hat did you do in
your
lunch
break? Pop to
Pret? Queue at
Boots?
Scroll
through Instagram with one
hand while eating pasta salad with the
other? Wouldn’t you like to do something
more . . . inspiring?
Tom Hemming
spends his lunch
breaks sketching. A
quick sandwich at
his desk, then off for
lunch with Caravaggio, Rubens and
Turner. I came
across him while
scrolling
through
Instagram on one of
my own unproductive, put-the-washing-on lunch breaks.
By day, Hemming is
an art handler at the
National Gallery. By
night, or rather
between 1pm and
2pm, he is a gallery draughtsman. Sketchbook out, headphones in. He posts as
@lunch_break_drawings.
I meet Hemming on the
hottest day of the year in
Room 35 at the National Gallery, in front of Hogarth’s
Marriage A-la-Mode. He is so
intent on the fourth painting
in the series, The Toilette,
that I hover before he notices I’m there. He looks up
often — every few seconds
— but only at the canvas. I feel guilty for
tearing him away.
In the café downstairs, he tells me how
the lunch break sketches started. Hemming, 38, has been at it for the past 12 years.
After studying at the Byam Shaw School of
Art, he worked at Russell & Chapple, the
fine art materials company. “There was a
guy there who used to run on his lunch
break to the National Gallery or the British
Museum or the Courtauld to draw and I
started doing that. It kind of lapsed when
I was a jobbing technician out all day in
the vans. But as soon as I came here, it
was perfect.”
Hemming has been at the gallery for six
years. Apart from the conservators and
curators, the art handlers are the only
members of staff allowed to touch the

line of beauty Tom
Hemming’s drawing of
Dutch Boats in a Gale,
and Turner’s original

‘Lesser
artists
borrow;
great artists
steal,’ said
the quip
master
Picasso

works. Hemming and his colleagues are
responsible for storage, packing, installation and transport. “And ungluing protesters?” I ask. Hemming stays shtoom. Most
of the handlers are artists themselves. One
recently left the NG to build his own forge
and make armour for Amazon’s forthcoming The Lord of the Rings.
Copying used to be the foundation stone
of an artistic education. Pupils
ccopied busts, plaster casts and
tthe works of men who came
b
before. The 20th century put a
p
premium on creativity, selfeexpression and originality, and
tthe copy fell from favour. Derivaative, slavish, stale? Not necess
sarily.
The National Gallery’s
e
exhibition
Picasso Ingres: Face
tto Face shows just how inventiive a copy can be. Picasso’s
W
Woman with a Book is an outraggeous reworking of JeanA
Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s
M
Madame
Moitessier. (“Lesser
a
artists
borrow; great artists
steal,” said the quip
m
master
Picasso.)
Hemming describes
t
the
teaching at Byam
S
Shaw
as “quite . . . concept
tual”.
Many graduates
f
from
art school in the past
5 years would say the
50
s
same.
What then does
ccopying give an artist?
““Basic drawing skills,”
H
Hemming says, “but probaably even more, looking.
IIt’s quite hard to sit for
llong enough in front of a
p
painting to look as intently
aas you’d want to look to
ggain everything you’d
i wit
wantt tto gain
without working through it.
Drawing allows you to do that.”
He’s right. Reviewing the Canaletto
exhibition at the National Maritime
Museum in Greenwich, I thought I’d given
the paintings a pretty good squint. But sitting down to sketch a Canaletto a couple of
galleries away from Hemming, I found I
really started to see. My effort is a botched
job — I ran out of space and had to squash
the palazzi and I can’t do people, so no gondoliers — but it didn’t half focus my eye.
Such architectural accuracy, such fiddly
façades, such density of detail.
When Letizia Treves, now a senior partner at Moretti Fine Art, left the National
Gallery earlier this summer, colleagues
commissioned Hemming to sketch Guer-

drawn to art Hemming and Laura
Freeman at the National Gallery. Above:
Hemming’s drawing of Caravaggio’s
Supper at Emmaus, and the original

cino’s Elijah Fed by Ravens as her leaving
present. Treves emails that when she was
curator of Spanish paintings, Hemming
transformed the way she thought about
Juan de Zurbaran’s Still Life with Lemons in
a Wicker Basket. “I had always thought
of this painting in terms of colour — the
intense yellow of the lemons, the bright
orange lilies and splash of red feathers on
the goldfinch’s head — but Tom’s drawing
reduced the painting to its essence in
terms of light and shadow. In spite of me
knowing the painting really well, it forced
me to look at it again with fresh eyes.”
In my half-hour sketching session, dozens pass Canaletto’s Venice: The Grand
Canal with S Simeone Piccolo at vaporetto
speed. Click, walk. Click, walk. Worse:
some stand back-to-canvas for a selfie.
Have smartphones made us lazy about
looking? “I think so,” Hemming says. “You
do really see a lot of people go round,
photograph a painting, photograph the

label and move on.” Hemming had a friend
who used to call visiting the gallery “doing
his grammar” as a painter. “He would
come and choose a painting and each visit
he would look at just one thing.”
You can’t look without being looked at in
turn. Peering over the shoulders of an artist at work is irresistible. Some — the curse
of the smartphone again — take it too far.
“I don’t mind it when people chat. I find it
weirder when people don’t say a word but
then they’ll kneel down and start filming
you without asking.” Wearing headphones
helps, especially if Hemming feels a drawing is going badly and a loiterer is making
him feel self-conscious. One lady told him:
“You’re good! And you’re left-handed!” as
if the two shouldn’t go together. Leonardo
da Vinci was left-handed.
Hemming carries his pencils and sharpener in a Tesco’s plastic carrier bag. (The
Times’s photographer points out that it
ought to be Sainsbury’s given the gallery’s
patron.) He starts by looking up the painting’s dimensions online and drawing a
frame in correct proportion. He works in
big, spiral-bound A3 sketchbooks, the sort
you can buy cheap from Cass Art, and each

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KATIE WILSON FOR THE TIMES; SKETCHES AND PAINTINGS COURTESY OF TOM HEMMING/NATIONAL GALLERY

Tom’s top tips
1 Make a start
The hardest thing is
getting started: deciding
which painting to draw,
what materials to use,
what size to work with.
As simple as it sounds,
the easiest way to find
out is just to start
drawing. Dive in and all
these questions tend to
answer themselves.
2 Get comfortable
I like to pick a painting to
draw that has a decent
seat in front of it but it’s
also important to feel
comfortable in the
environment. If you find
the idea of drawing at
the National Gallery

sketch takes between three and four lunch
breaks. None of his materials costs much.
Discipline matters when you have a
four-day-a-week job, childcare challenges
and only one day a week in the studio. If
Hemming comes to his own work rusty, he
spends half the studio session catching up.
The lunchtime sketches keep his eye in.
When his wife bought him a set of pens,
saying he ought to try something new, he
took on Joseph Wright of Derby’s An
Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump. “The
more time you spend with it,” Hemming
says, “you do wonder, it doesn’t always
look like he enjoyed the painting. Maybe if
Wright of Derby was around now, he’d be
directing film. It’s all about light and atmosphere. That’s probably really offensive . . .” Not offensive, perceptive.
He likens Bronzino’s An Allegory with
Venus and Cupid, that strange painting of
Cupid and Venus almost French kissing, to
a set from the Wes Anderson film The Life
Aquatic “where all the ships are cut in half.
So you’re forced into this foreground. It’s
so intentional and so cryptic.”
Poussin and Rubens are favourites. “I
return to Poussin often. Every time you

draw them they seem to come out differently. The relationships are so complicated, the paintings are so structural, they’re
about movement and dynamism, but
everything is fixed.” He has tried Rembrandt, but: “It’s all about texture and surface and marks in a way that pencil can’t
recreate. You can respond to it, but you
can’t recreate it. Impressionist works are
the same.” In truth, what Hemming is
doing isn’t copying but an act of translation: one medium, one language to
another. He won’t even attempt the
“otherworldly” Piero della Francesca. “I
love him, but I’ve never even tried.”
Why not do something worthwhile with
your lunch break? Sketch your Pret sandwich, draw your Boots bag of crisps. Better
yet, go to a gallery. And to anyone who insists they really can’t draw, Hemming has
this advice: “Drawing is definitely something you can learn. Everybody has their
own style. It’s about embracing it and making peace with it. It’s also weirdly like sport
in some ways. There’s a sort of level of fitness. Working regularly, things start to
drop into place, become instinctive. That’s
when drawing becomes fun.”

intimidating, try the
Friday late opening.
The gallery tends to be
quieter, more informal
and there’s always a lot
of people drawing.
3 Start small
Working small is a great
way to start. It forces you
to distil the image down
to its main shapes and
helps you to find the
structure in the
composition. It can also
be useful to set yourself
a time limit. Enjoy it and
don’t be too precious.
4 Try it out
You don’t need to
spend a lot of money

on materials. Keep it
simple and try as many
different techniques as
you can. Pencils, crayons,
felt tip pens, anything.
Even if something
doesn’t work for you,
what you learn from
trying one medium can
inform and improve how
you use another.

Sketch of a Canaletto
and the original
5 Keep looking
The most important
skill is looking. The key
to drawing is to really
look. Draw things as they
are, not how you think
they should be.
Tom Hemming

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

10 saturday review

film

The truth about George Michael —
Simon Napier-Bell managed Wham! from 1983 to 1985. Now
he’s made a film, George Michael: Portrait of an Artist, about
the star — and no one had a bad word to say about him, he says

D

uring 50 years as a
music manager, I have
often wondered whether it’s been a worthwhile way to spend my
life. It’s a strange job;
you subjugate your
own creative ambitions to be an appendage to someone else’s. But a couple of times
something has come along to validate it,
which is what happened in 1983 when I
started working with George Michael. He
was the type of artist who made being a
manager feel worthwhile.
It wasn’t just his songwriting and performance abilities, it was his awareness of
image and confidence
in himself. He was the
most creatively complete person I ever managed, the only solo artist
who could produce his
own records better
alone than with anyone
else. There is virtually
no other singer who can
do that, not Paul
McCartney, not Madonna, not Jay-Z, not Drake.
I only worked with him
while he was in Wham!,
just three years. When he
went solo I stopped. Yet it
was impossible thereafter
l
not to follow his career in the same close
way you might follow the career of a relative or a great friend.
During the time I worked with him one
of the most striking things about him was
his ability to think ahead about how each
thing he did or planned might affect his
career thereafter. One time he said to
me, “I’ve never done anything I could
regret later.”
Because George always worked with
such a careful plan for where he was going
— the correct flow of songs to build his audience, the correct order to release them
in, the correct imagery to go with each one
— I took what he said as just one more
aspect of his nature. He thought first and
acted accordingly.
But as I continued to manage him, I
sometimes saw him take surprisingly
clumsy steps, do things that really might
not be in the best interest of his future
career, come to decisions that were not as
logical as he liked to think they were. After
I stopped managing him, I saw him do this
more frequently and I began to wonder if
it was deliberate. Obviously, the most famous of these was his arrest in a public toilet in Los Angeles. Maybe what he’d meant
about never doing things he could regret
later was that he liked to challenge himself
— to do silly or unplanned things and then
solve the problems they caused, bringing
himself to a new and refreshed point that
he would never have been able to arrive at
any other way. Coming through unscathed
and thus nullifying any possible regret. In
other words, he seemed to be playing a
permanent game of “dare” with himself.
I had originally planned to call my new
documentary, George Michael: Portrait of

He knew
I was gay,
so if he had
wanted to
discuss it he
could have

an Artist,“The Artist versus the Music
Business versus Himself”. It didn’t really
have to be about George, it could have
been about any of the big pop artists in
Britain; it could have been Lennon, or
Bowie, or Elton. The industry is the biggest
challenge to their fulfilment as artists — its
uncompromising need for commerciality
clashing endlessly with their need to experiment and find new artistic ground.
And their other enemy is themselves, all
those aspects of their characters that come
between common sense and a smoothrunning career. Once I saw it in that light,
I realised the film could be a template for
looking at the life of almost
an
any great artist: Van Gogh,
R
Rachmaninov, Rudyard Kipl
pling, Orson Welles or
F
Francis
Bacon. I hoped that
in the process of following
G
George’s life from Wham!
to the end we’d come to unde
derstand more about him.
When I started doing inte
terviews for the film I
fo
found that everyone who
h
had worked with him,
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whatever they had gone
on to do afterwards, consi
sidered their time workin
ing with George to have
be
been some of the most rewarding
warding. It w
was th
the same for me too; those
three years with Wham! came to seem like
the best thing I’d done as a manager.
During that time my management partner, Jazz Summers, and I managed to get
them invited to play in China, the first
western pop group ever to do so. Then, just
18 months after we started working with
them, we got them a stadium tour in
America, the fastest any British group had
broken to that level in the US. That put the
sales of their second album on a par with
top American artists such as Madonna and
Prince. And then under our management
they each made their first million.
One thing I never discussed directly
with George was his homosexuality. He
knew I was gay, so if he had wanted to discuss it he could have. If he didn’t wish to,
then it was no business of mine to bring it
up. He would have been aware that I knew
he was gay because he was shrewd enough
to know that the gay network, which he
was already a part of, was unable to keep
any secrets from its members. There were
a few occasions, though, when we did talk
about it in a roundabout way.
Once was on an early-morning shuttle
from LA to San Francisco during Wham!’s
first tour of America. It was in February
1985 and they had a gig that night in Oakland. I was reading the Los Angeles Times,
talking to George about the things I was
reading, and I remember him being unusually chatty. On an inside page I came
across an article about Aids, which at that
time was still in its early stages. The article
said scientists had come to the conclusion
that anyone gay who had had sex outside
a monogamous relationship during the
past 12 months would almost certainly
get it and die.

It was a shocking thing to read and I remember dropping the newspaper, shutting
my eyes and fainting. George noticed and
asked what was wrong. So I handed him
the paper. After he’d read it he didn’t say
another word to me, not just for the rest of
the flight but for the whole time we were in
San Francisco. In fact, everyone in the
crew was commenting — George seemed
not to be talking to anyone.
Like all great artists, George was prepared to put his most painful experiences
into his work. He perhaps did it more directly than any other music artist apart
from Leonard Cohen, and like Cohen he
had no fear of throwing his pain right in
your face.
The first time he did this was when he
was still with Wham!. A Different Corner
was obviously about some deep emotional
confusion. In interviews he talked about
it obliquely but few people who knew
him had any doubt that it was about his

own sexual conflict. Yet for George, I felt
that releasing that single wasn’t just an
emotional release; it was almost certainly
a considered part of his master plan for
stardom that he should drip-feed the
public with his inner complexities while
simultaneously carrying them along on a
wave of more traditional pop. He did the
same with Faith, an album that clocked up
four No 1s in America.
However, by the end of the 18-month
world tour that accompanied Faith’s release, the pressure of maintaining the false
façade that supported its image was too
much for him. He snapped and said he
would no longer do promotion for singles.
He then disappeared into the studio to
make Listen Without Prejudice, a covert
coming out.
That he still didn’t come out in a general
way wasn’t surprising. Aids was now at its
height. We were in a period when to say
you were gay was, to the general public, to

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by the friends who knew him best
MICHAEL PUTLAND/GETTY IMAGES; ALAMY

Another journalist, Simon Hattensstone, found himself lecturing George on
h
his drug habits, something George would
aaccept from almost no one. Yet George
tthen drove him home and had afternoon
ttea with Hattenstone’s family.
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ccritics, friends, fans, writers, other artists,
p
people who worked with George and
p
people who advised him. From this came
550 hours of insight and anecdote, from
w
which we culled our 90-minute film.
Fellow artists Stevie Wonder, Rufus
W
Wainwright, Tom Robinson and Sananda
Maitreya (formerly Terence Trent D’Arby) highlighted some of the difficulties of
being a performing artist and commented
on the unique way George dealt with it.
Producers Chris Porter and Johnny Douglas talked about the way he worked in the
studio and his extraordinary method of
young guns Left:
George Michael in
1987. Far left: Simon
Napier-Bell, Michael
and Andrew Ridgeley
in 1985. Above: Ridgeley
and Michael on the Great
Wall of China in 1985

say you were the carrier of a deadly disease. The music business tradition was for
pop fans to want to get close to their idols
and touch them. To have announced he
was gay would have seemed to have been
an instant end to success.
Eventually, his coming out was made
easier by meeting Anselmo Feleppa, his
first overwhelming passion. Anselmo travelled with him when he was gigging and
they were unable to conceal their affection
for each other from the people around
them. Coming out is usually not a single
big moment, it’s more often a dribble, or a
leak. The first group of people to know
were the musicians he worked with, his
road crew and the others travelling with
him. Then a broader group, eventually including his parents. By the time he was
caught in the toilet in LA, the truth was the
press already knew he was gay. The arrest
simply gave them the green light to start
talking about it. For George, too, it was a

Stephen
Fry told
me of his
extraordinary
generosity

George Michael: Portrait
of an Artist is on Google
Play, Apple TV+, Amazon
and YouTube

green light. He could
d now make
k up for all
those years when he’d concealed it.
The public didn’t care much either. As
Dylan Jones says in the film: “There were
several moments when the British public
wanted to put their collective arms around
him and say, ‘It’s all right. We don’t mind.’ ”
What was so admirable about George
from then on was the degree to which he
pushed being gay to the forefront of everything he did and said. After Anselmo died,
he got into a successful long-term relationship with Kenny Goss. It was the normality of their appearances in public that
made the biggest impression. George
would be doing an interview; Kenny would
be in the background. “I’ve got to go home
now,” Kenny would call out to him. “OK,”
George would say. “See you later, darling.”
Nothing camp, nothing hidden, nothing
over-demonstrative, maybe just a peck on
the cheek — just like normal people.
George did his utmost to make this the
image he would project: being gay was
normal; nothing more, nothing less. For
someone in that position, with that much
attention being paid to him, to project
homosexuality in that everyday way gave
young gay people more confidence in
themselves than any amount of proselytising could do. It was impressive.
Admittedly, it went a bit wrong when he
was arrested in the toilet for importuning,
and later again on Hampstead Heath for
cruising. But from then on he always
owned his mistakes and in most cases
turned them to his benefit. He’d become
the world’s most public figure playing the
“dare” game.
Several people who have seen the film
have asked me, “Why did you interview
that person and not this one?” My simple
rule was: “Do we learn something about
George, or his music, or the environment
of celebrity in which he had to exist?”
It was also quite selfish. I was learning
about George for myself, as much as anyone else. Here was someone who for three
years had been a huge part of my life and
I wanted to discover more about what was
behind his story, which like everyone else
I’d mostly only followed in the media and
through his songs.
Interestingly, though George often said
he disliked interviews, he often told journalists more than he was prepared to tell
many of his best friends. After he’d done an
interview with Adam Mattera for Attitude
magazine, George said he’d told him more
than he’d told his analyst in 20 years.

composing lyrics straight from his mind
into the microphone. Stephen Fry told of
his extraordinary generosity, and critics
Pete Paphides and Paul Flynn were hugely
insightful on the impact his music had had
on them and on the general public.
From not a single person did I hear
anything but admiration for George as
a person and an artist. There were
stories of dark moments, angry moods,
stubbornness and self-destructiveness,
but for an artist those are not necessarily
bad qualities. And George knew that all
too well.
Perhaps, though, my favourite remark
came from Kenny Goss. It rang so true
of the George I managed and knew
when he was in Wham! “When George
was talking to you, if you disagreed with
him he’d tell you, ‘It’s because you’re
not listening.’ ”

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books

Narcissistic
and shallow:
is this the real
Meghan?
Book of the week
This 400-page long
demolition job is so
relentless you begin
to feel sorry for the
Duchess of Sussex,
says Melanie Reid
Revenge
R
M
Meghan,
Harry and
tthe War Between
tthe Windsors
bby Tom Bower
Blink, 452pp; £22
B

A

s is the celebrity way, the
Duchess of Sussex has created
her own mythology. She has
curated some of her past to fit
her future, spinning the good,
excising the unsuitable. Up against Tom
Bower, a biographer famous for unauthorised skewerings of the famous, her controlled and carefully burnished image
does not survive beyond page five.
His book depicts Meghan Markle as a
merciless opportunist who found in Harry
the perfect vehicle for personal advancement, and in doing so caused irreversible
damage to a thousand-year-old monarchy. It’s an undeniably gripping read, but
it’s also brutal and ultimately sad.
We knew she came from a dysfunctional
family. But her early life, Bower suggests,
has been reframed to portray her as a
brave mixed-race child who overcame
racism and hard times. From the age of five
Meghan lived with her father, an Emmywinning lighting director, who spoilt her
rotten. Friends said she always got what
she wanted. Far from tough realities, she
grew up in affluence in Los Angeles.
Thomas Markle owned a large house in a
good neighbourhood and sent Meghan to
a racially diverse private Catholic school,
where people assumed she was Italian
because of her pale skin tone, and her
closest friends were white. “My selfidentification was wrapped up in being the
smart one,” she recalled before she was
well-known.
Bower depicts Meghan as shallow and
lacking rigour. He says she was rejected by

Princeton University. Instead, she studied
drama at Northwestern University in
Chicago, “a private, highly selective college favoured by rich, well-connected
white students, where she joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, famous for its
Midwestern blondes”. Her father, quoted
by Bower frequently, and whose veracity
we must make up our own minds about,
paid the annual $45,000 fees.
Bower writes that she failed to get into
the US foreign service. She also turned
down the chance to study the stagecraft of
acting. Like thousands of other beautiful
girls, she wanted to be a famous screen
actress, but according to Bower’s sources,
hadn’t got it. Directors found her unexciting and ordinary. “Like the vast majority
of wannabes, Meghan portrayed her own
wants and needs . . . She could not convincingly become another person.”
If not a great actress, Meghan was
certainly a grafter. Revenge paints an extraordinary tale of hustling and tireless
self-promotion. Eventually, in 2011, she
landed a role in the cable show Suits, which
gave her minor fame. She reinvented herself as an influencer. By her thirties, like
many in Hollywood, she was paying an
agency $7,500 a month to be transformed
into a global star.
Her relationships with men and women
are described as transactional. She sought
celebrity and a rich
and famous husband.
Britain became a new
hunting ground. Bower
implies she had a brief
friendship with the
golfer Rory McIlroy. In
one of the book’s small
killer details, Bower
claims she unsuccessfully tried to become a
contestant on Strictly
Come Dancing.
People, he suggests,
saw through her. She
was rejected in her attempts to become an
ambassador for the UN.
Her humanitarian visits
to Rwanda — on one she
demanded first-class flights — involved
changing into lots of outfits for photos
with the suffering.
Her activism, he says, lacked substance.
The totality of her speeches “was to urge
her audience to admire her own personal
experience and adopt her mantra of togetherness”. Bower accuses her of parroting the chat-up lines of her first husband
(Trevor Engelson, a TV producer) —

“Don’t give it five minutes if you’re not
gonna give it five years” — as her philosophy of life ten years later.
Celebrity friendships appear a gruesome business. Sweet-talking herself into
Serena Williams’s company, Meghan then
boasted online of their friendship. Later, to
a journalist, Williams denied friendship,
and said she was just an acquaintance.
Cynics might note it didn’t stop Williams
attending the royal wedding.
Bower didn’t get where he is by being
nice. He interviewed more than 80 people,
including former girlf
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and agents, to
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agent Gina Nelthorpe-Cowne she had
googled Harry. “I’ve gone deeply into his
life.” Nelthorpe-Cowne believed she knew
the prince was volatile, unhappy and seeking a soulmate. Once they became an
item, Meghan told Nelthorpe-Cowne she
needed “to prevent Harry escaping. She
was not going to let him get away.” The
agent warned her it was the end of her
normal life and privacy. “ ‘We’re going to
change the world,’ Meghan said solemnly.

‘With Harry by my side, we can change
the world.’ ”
Within two weeks of their relationship
going public, Harry and Meghan were in
an unprecedented battle with the media.
Bower believes she embraced victimhood.
Harry’s family and friends didn’t like her,
he says. He claims Harry was warned off
by Diana’s brother and sisters. Prince William is said to have expressed his anxiety.
Harry’s hooray mates took to calling him
“the Hostage” (although I have a sneaking
admiration for Meghan for calling out
their sexist bantz). The Duchess of Cornwall saw her for “a minx”. After the marriage, as family upsets grew and rows with
the press increased, Megxit became a
matter of when not if.
The ever-pushy Meghan saw much
through a prism of personal business opportunity; she wanted global stardom. If
this theme has more than the ring of truth,
it’s the case that in all royal biographies,
especially negative ones, facts can be marshalled to fit the plot. Every royal writer
knows painfully well there are few fresh
revelations, just the endless recycling of
old stories. Bower does, though, spring a
few enjoyable zingers, new at least to me.
There was nearly a royal Wagatha
Christie. Meghan suspected Victoria
Beckham of leaking stories to the media.
Harry called David Beckham. Outraged,
Beckham’s (truthful) denials damaged
their relationship. Then Meghan appeared
to be so jealous of the Duchess of Cambridge being on the cover of Vogue that she
wanted the same when she guest-edited
an edition. Staff recall the decision not to
feature her had to be forced on her.
And then we come to the “racism scandal”. During their vengeful Oprah Winfrey
interview, the couple alleged someone had
speculated what a future child would look

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saturday review 13
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Harvey: the making of a monster
BRENDAN MCDERMID/REUTERS

Even in his early days,
the film mogul was
known for being
mean and menacing,
says Hannah Strong
Hollywood
Ending
Harvey Weinstein
and the Culture
of Silence
by Ken Auletta
Penguin, 480pp; £25

I
The Duke and Duchess
of Sussex with Oprah
Winfrey last year. Below
left: Meghan and the
Queen opening a bridge
in Widnes in 2018

Harry’s
hooray mates
took to
calling him
‘the Hostage’.
Camilla saw
‘a minx’

like. Proof appears fluid. Bower claims: “In
one version, Camilla remarked, ‘Wouldn’t
it be funny if your child had ginger Afro
hair?’ Harry laughed. Subsequently, Meghan’s reaction to that conversation
turned Harry’s amusement into fury.”
At some point Meghan, seemingly
having reconsidered her past, presented
herself as a survivor of racism. Hence the
respinning of childhood, hence the bombshell on Oprah. Through assiduous networking, Meghan has forged relationships
with black America’s leaders. This year the
lawyer and academic Anita Hill described
her as a historic figure in black women’s
empowerment. Yet noticeably — another
bitchy zinger — the Sussexes were not
invited to Barack Obama’s 60th birthday.
Meghan and Harry are now powerful
celebrities in the US, their status and
income dependent on media exposure. In
2021 they made the Time 100 influential
people list, and Bower claims media outlets run scared of their influence, citing
how CNN, at Meghan’s request, withdrew
a report exposing her inaccuracies and
contradictions in the Oprah interview.
The jury remains out. Have the Sussexes
transformed the royal family into a beleaguered institution uncertain of its future?
Have they, singlehandedly, and for considerable financial gain, hurt the Queen
and jeopardised Charles’s succession?
“Thank goodness Meghan is not coming,” the Queen apparently remarked to
her aides before Prince Philip’s funeral. Is it
true? The Palace declined to comment. I
doubt we’ll ever know. Recollections may
vary, as the Palace once memorably put it,
but propaganda creates its own truth.
Meghan may indeed be a piece of work, a
scheming adventuress, but by the end of
this eye-popping character demolition,
one feels almost sorry for her.

n 2002 a New Yorker journalist working on a profile of Harvey Weinstein
was made aware of sexual assault allegations made against the media mogul
by two of his former employees. Rowena Chiu and Zelda Perkins had signed
non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and
when approached about going on the
record did not want to speak for fear of
repercussions. Perkins had been unable to
secure work after leaving Weinstein’s distribution company, Miramax (“In two job
interviews . . . male executives asked if she
had given Weinstein a blow job”) and Chiu
had twice attempted suicide.
Before writing his piece, Ken Auletta
confronted Weinstein. “He started to sob
uncontrollably. ‘If you write that, it will end
my marriage to Eve and humiliate and
make the lives of our three young daughters miserable. This was a consensual relationship. I was not a good husband. But I’m
not a sexual predator. The only reason I
paid money and had them sign NDAs was
to protect my family.’ ”
Auletta wasn’t convinced, but without
concrete evidence or victims willing to go
on record, The New Yorker couldn’t publish
the accusations. The profile, while hardly
glowing, was published nonetheless. It
took 15 years for the truth to come to light,
in a New York Times exposé, which led to a
criminal investigation and kicked off the
#MeToo movement. Hollywood Ending is
Auletta’s attempt to get under the skin of
the former mogul, who is serving 23 years
in prison for sex crimes spanning decades.
Auletta begins with a vivid portrait of
the predator as an old felon in the winter of
2020, shuffling to the courtroom where he
faced multiple charges of rape and assault.
“He now dressed more like a midwestern
businessman out of a Sinclair Lewis novel
than a Hollywood power broker,” the
author notes while detailing the spectacle
that his trial became. He also compares
him to Charles Foster Kane, the grim tycoon at the heart of Orson Welles’s film
Citizen Kane. “What is Harvey Weinstein’s
Rosebud — a loss, a lack, that explains
what came after? Is there an explanation
for a life lived as he has?” Auletta ponders
before rewinding 60 years to New York
City 1952 and the birth of Weinstein into a
working-class family who lived for most of
his youth in a two-bed housing project
apartment in Flushing, Queens.
Weinstein was a lonely child, according
to Auletta — he was awkward in looks
and demeanour, and while intelligent,
developed a reputation for having a mean
temper. Boyhood peers offer damning
memories of him as a child: “I don’t

Harvey Weinstein arrives
at New York Criminal
Court in January 2020

remember him looking at anybody. His
eyes darted about whoever he was talking
to. He never seemed to be interested in
what you were saying.” As one contemporary put it: “He made a reputation for
himself as the Godfather. He started to
talk like Marlon Brando.”
Auletta recounts stories of Weinstein’s
early cunning. He posed as a boy scout to
sell candy bars, and later, fresh out of college, talked his way into distributing a concert film for the rock band Genesis despite
lacking any experience in the industry. Although film was Weinstein’s first love,
music was where he got his start, working
as a concert booker and promoter in Buffalo, New York. The bands he booked include
the Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones.
He was a talented and ambitious worker,
but his menacing reputation soon began to
precede him; a local DJ recalls one of their
unwritten rules: “If you’re a young woman,
don’t be alone with Harvey Weinstein.”

‘Do you really want to
make me an enemy for
five minutes of your
time?’ he told a victim
Later, in an unpublished essay after his
crimes were exposed, Weinstein attempted to defend himself by suggesting
that his raucous rock’n’roll coming-of-age
led to his deviant sexual appetites. “People
had a different way of communicating and
in an incredible way men and women were
there for the same hedonistic reasons,” he
said. Yet as Auletta points out, Weinstein’s
definition of “consensual” differed from
the accepted one. “The hedonism he referred to sometimes camouflaged aggressive sexual behaviour.”
More than 80 women eventually came
forward with accusations of Weinstein’s
sexual misconduct, but Auletta locates the
start with his rape of Hope d’Amore, an
intern, in 1978. After coercing her into
sharing a hotel room during a business
trip, he forced himself on her. When she attempted to fight him off, he asked: “Do you
really want to make me an enemy for five
minutes of your time?” This chilling strategy — suggesting that women should sub-

mit to his advances for fear of retaliation
— became part of his modus operandi.
Weinstein’s ire wasn’t solely reserved for
women. Auletta recounts how he often
threatened — verbally or physically — his
competitors while at Miramax. Once, in a
restaurant, after a disagreement with a
sales executive over the drama Shine,
“Harvey reportedly grabbed [him] by the
shirt collar and screamed, ‘You f***! You
f***ed me!’ ” When Deb Newmyer, the
producer, attempted to calm him, Weinstein called her a “bitch” and was thrown
out of the restaurant. Weinstein’s approach
to business was like that of a Mob boss.
Auletta places a curious emphasis on
Weinstein’s schlubbiness, often commenting on his weight, eating habits and poor
sartorial choices. While this does add colour — this is a readable biography from a
writer whose 2002 New Yorker profile first
exposed some of the unsavoury elements
of his personality — it makes Weinstein
look like a cartoon villain from one of the
thrillers he distributed rather than the
very real, very cruel man he was.
His sadistic streak is more than evidenced in accounts from his victims, who
include the actress Salma Hayek, who had
to fend off Weinstein’s constant sexual
advances during the production of her
Frida Kahlo biopic Frida in 2001. “He
threatened to shut the movie down unless
she agreed to film an explicit lesbian love
scene with her co-star Ashley Judd,” Auletta says. Five years earlier Judd had also
escaped an attempted Weinstein assault.
“In writing about Harvey, I struggled to
convey that he was more than a monster,”
Auletta writes. Indeed, the book looks to
his mother, Miriam, as a potential source
of Weinstein’s behaviour. She was domineering, undermining and obsessed with
the glamour of New York’s elite; Weinstein
adored her despite her contempt for him.
“She created these monsters. I never
knew how she did,” one Miramax employee said. This is a curious choice of blame —
plenty of men with childhoods worse than
Weinstein’s live life without sexually assaulting anyone. Yet this colourful biography diligently paints a picture of a
world where Weinstein was simply too big
to fail; bringing him down threatened to
topple too many dominoes.

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

14 saturday review

books

Putin and a life littered with corpses
DMITY ASTAKHOV/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Is he mad or just bad?
This boisterous book
is a furious attack on
the Russian leader,
says Roger Boyes
Killer in the
Kremlin
The Explosive
Account of Putin’s
Reign of Terror
by John Sweeney
Bantam, 304pp;
£16.99

M

y guess is that John Sweeney
will be waiting quite a while
for his next visa to Russia. I
bet he’s not on the guest list
for embassy blinis either. His
swashbuckling book, Killer in the Kremlin,
traces Vladimir Putin’s bloody career from
hunting down rats in his childhood Leningrad tenement block to ordering the
bombing of Chechen rebels “even as they
sit on their bogs”, from the poisoning of
Alexander Litvinenko to the Bucha (pronounced “butcher”) massacre in Ukraine.
It has been a life littered with corpses.
Killer in the Kremlin isn’t an investigative
masterpiece. Rather it is a parade of adventures, told at breakneck pace, full of righteous indignation and an eye for the absurd.
Some of the stories were reported on by
Sweeney for television or for his admirable
Taking on Putin podcast. Others involve
conversations with experts.
Semyon Gluzman, a Soviet-era dissident, former gulag prisoner and psychiatrist, has a number of useful walk-on roles
in the book to explain whether Putin is
mad or bad. He settles for bad not mad
because insanity suggests they are not accountable for their crimes. “This person is
evil, not because of voices in his head but
because of his own actions,” he says.
This is the starting point for the book
and one of its few analytical flashes. Sweeney fans know what to expect from the
rter with the
author, the former BBC reporter
unted on to
foghorn voice who can be counted
stion at
holler the unanswerable question
some shady person in power. What
o, a
you get from Sweeney is gusto,
sprinkling of off-colour jokes, a
d
determination to nail the bad
guy, an object lesson for
young journalists as to how
intuition can drive forward
reporting.
What you don’t (often)
get is forensic weighing of
the arguments.The polemicist Christopher Hitchens attempted this in The Trial off
Henry Kissinger, in which he
took apart the foreign policy gurious
ru’s alleged involvement in various
roduce
war crimes. Sweeney can’t reproduce
that method, partly because of the laymmified the
ers of mystery that have mummified
ostility of the
Putin regime and the utter hostility
tioning
system to Sweeney-like questioning.
Sweeney, despite his long years working
for The Observer, is too worried about boring his readers to go into the evidence, the
data. Only towards the end of the book

bad boys Vladimir
Putin at the Kremlin in
2007. Below: the Chechen
leader and Putin ally
Ramzan Kadyrov

does he compile a list of critics who may
have died or almost died in Russia or Britain on Putin’s orders. I make it 18 poisonings, seven shootings (some were both poisoned and shot), then there are air and car
crashes, disappearances, defenestrations.
I would have liked to see if linkages
could be found in this data. For example
which spy agencies preferred which poison, and why. More too on the notional
chain of command. Is the elimination of a
Putin opponent ordered by the boss personally? Does Putin
Pu resort to a version of
Hitler’s Führ
Führerbefehl, an execution
command that gets passed down
the hier
hierarchy? Or is the victim
served up by those hoping to
curry favour with Putin? And
wh
what
happens when a
na
national
government, the
Ze
Zelensky administration,
sa
say, attracts the anger of
th
the Kremlin leader? Is the
b
brief of the Russian army
to remove Ukraine’s right
to exist? Or is its function
to punish what is seen as a
del
delinquent government and
dete
deter others from a western
alignm
alignment?
One theory advanced by
S
weeney ffor Litvinenko’s polonium
Sweeney
poisoning is that it was ordered by the
d
eeply offende
deeply
offended Kremlin leader. The
Russian defector had constructed a theory
— based on pho
photographs of Putin lifting
the shirt of a young boy in a procession and
kissing his stomach — that the Russian
leader was a paedophile. And that Putin’s
slow progress in the agency — he had to

wait a long time before the KGB posted
him abroad — was down to doubts about
his sexuality.
Litvinenko seems to have circulated his
thoughts among other former KGB officers. That could explain the grisly death
lined up for the defector — some things
really are personal, it seems, for psychopathic rulers. Yet the story doesn’t add up
to much. It’s meta-gossip (gossip about
gossip) and you wonder whether Sweeney
is merely trying to hold our interest.
More fruitful by far are the threads that
Sweeney draws through the decades he
has been covering regime abuses. Chechnya has clearly become part of the Putin

The West initially
welcomed Putin.
Better him than
a drunken Yeltsin
governing system; the Chechen rulers are
the Kremlin’s loyal bad boys. Sweeney
senses rather than states the connections
— the staged events to create a state of
terror, such as the bombing of Russian
apartment buildings in 1999; the manipulation of a casus belli to start the second
Chechen war; the possible involvement of
the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov in
the murder of Boris Nemtsov, a Kremlin
critic; the arrival of Chechen units to crush
the Ukrainian holdout in Mariupol earlier
this year.
Sweeney has been watching Putin’s warfighting methods from the very beginning.
In 2000 he reported on the “Torture

Train” for the BBC — a long Russian military train parked on a siding, filled with
handcuffed Chechen prisoners who were
beaten row by row. Some prisoners had gas
masks fixed to their faces. The Russians
would unscrew the filter and then squirt
CS gas down the trunk. The prisoner
would start to drown in his own tears and
snot. Soon enough we’ll discover what is
really happening to Ukrainian prisoners.
The West initially welcomed the arrival
of Putin. Better a sober Russian leader, ran
the reasoning, than a drunken out-of-control Boris Yeltsin fumbling for the nuclear
button. Even when psychopathic tendencies became obvious, apologists could
argue that Putin was at least a rational,
self-interested psychopath. Some leaders
were even happy enough that he was running a kleptocracy since kleptocrats can by
definition be bought. Since the Torture
Train days, Sweeney has not entertained
any illusions that Putin could one day be
One of Us. A top-up trip to the Ukrainian
front this spring has confirmed his view
that a killing machine is at work.
How will it end? The book dutifully ticks
off the possible illnesses that could be
afflicting Putin — lymphatic cancer, blood
cancer, liver cancer — but again these
reports are drawn from a hyperactive
rumour mill. Western doctors are reading
too much into brief television footage of
his nervous tics. Sweeney puts a great deal
of faith into the diagnoses — “I predict
that Vladimir Putin has not long left
for this world” — but I would keep that
Crimean bubbly on ice. Putin is dangerous
enough without some doctors advising
him that he’s running out of time.

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saturday review 15
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The Big Irascible
Giant: triumph,
tragedy and the
dark side of Dahl
‘Roald the Rotten’ was
a bit of a snozzwanger
— but his stories will
stay mighty for ever,
says Laura Freeman
Teller of the
Unexpected
The Life of
Roald Dahl
by Matthew Dennison
Head of Zeus,
264pp, £20

W

henever I walk through
Soho at lunchtime I can’t
help thinking of these
lines from Roald Dahl’s
The Twits: “What a lot of
hairy-faced men there are around nowadays. When a man grows hair all over his
face it is impossible to tell what he really
looks like. Perhaps that’s why he does it.
He’d rather you didn’t know.” Nor can I
wake up from a nightmare without a reassuring: “That was a trogglehumper.” I certainly cannot pass a playground without
rehearsing: “That’s not a seesaw! It’s the
Enormous Crocodile and he wants to eat
you up!”
Rare is the author who gets hold of a
child’s imagination and never lets go.
Some authors you grow out of, some you
grow into. Dahl grows and grows like a
giant peach. Every tortoise is an Esio Trot,
every pavement Kit Kat wrapper is a Golden Ticket and every small boy or girl reading a book that’s too big for them in a chair
that’s bigger still is a Matilda.
In 2016 The Bookseller suggested that
Dahl, at “a conservative estimate”, had
sold more than 250 million books in 58
languages. Last September, Netflix acquired the rights to his complete works for
a figure reportedly “a little over” £500 million. Dahl has brought delight to a great
many Georges, Jameses, Matildas and
Lauras. In 2014, however, the Royal Mint
advisory committee rejected plans for a
Roald Dahl centenary coin on the grounds
that he was “associated with antisemitism
and not regarded as an author of the highest reputation”. You can stand up the first
claim. But the second? Pigswizzle! Gobblefunk! Rotsome codswoggle!
Matthew Dennison’s brisk biography of
Roald Dahl, Teller of the Unexpected, gives
the teller a fair trial. “At its best,” Dennison
writes, “Roald’s writing both for children
and adults is lyrical, hilarious, vivid, unpredictable, tender and utterly absorbing: his

darkest fictions portray without regret a
world of cruelty, cynicism, misanthropy
and caprice . . . Roald’s detractors condemn
bullying, vituperation, stridency, subversion and gratuitous scatology as characteristics of the man and his work. This
Roald is coarse, misogynistic and an antisemite — for all his denials, antisemitism
did shape aspects of Roald’s thinking. Irascible, dominant and hectoring, he could
be, as his three-year-old son described
him, ‘just a wasps’ nest.’ ”
Dahl’s parents were as far as can be from
Matilda’s horrid Mr and Mrs Wormwood.
His father, Harald, was the tall son of a tall
Norwegian butcher (Roald would grow to
6ft 5in.) He travelled to Paris hoping to be
an artist and ended up in Cardiff as a ship
broker. His mother, Sofie Magdalene, was,
according to her children, “practical and
fearless”. She told stories of Norway’s
trolls, witches and long, dark winters.
Roald, born in 1916, was named after the
Norwegian explorer
Roald Amundsen,
the first man to
reach the South
Pole. Harald and
Roald’s eldest sister,
Astri, died, by tragic
coincidence, when
Roald was three and
a half. Roald, one of
four surviving children and the only
boy, was nicknamed
“the Apple” (of his
mother’s eye).
Sofie recited nursery rhymes, the
basis, Dahl thought,
for creating a reader.
He dismissed Arthur
Ransome’s Swallows
and Amazons as “too
laire Belloc’s CauCau
soft”, but had learnt Hilaire
tionary Tales — Matilda: Who told Lies, and
was Burned to Death etc — by heart by his
ninth birthday. He used to pad his sister
Asta with cushions and shoot her repeatedly with his air rifle to see how far the
bullets would penetrate (Algernon: Who
played with a Loaded Gun, and, on missing
his Sister, was reprimanded by his Father).
He was wretched at all his schools (at 13
he went to Repton). Sofie Magdalene was
appalled by the sight of Roald’s wealstriped bottom after one headmaster’s
beating. “We were caned,” Dahl remembered, “for doing everything that it was
natural for small boys to do.” In adulthood
he could joke: “I used to wear pants extra
thick/ To lessen the sting from his
stick.” He was probably a difficult pupil.
When a master crossed out several sentences in his work, Dahl wrote: “Don’t do
this on my essays.”

coarse and cruel
Roald Dahl in 1971 and,
below, Gene Wilder
in Willy Wonka & the
Chocolate Factory

‘That goddam
woman has
screwed me
from one end
of the room
to the other,’
he said of
one lover

He skipped university and went straight
to Shell, first at the London headquarters,
then to Dar es Salaam, in modern-day
Tanzania, where he lived like “a ridiculous
young pukka-sahib”. (“I’m very much
against young people thinking they want
to be writers,” he later said. “Writing is a
thing you sort of flow into.”)
At the start of the Second World War he
joined the RAF in Nairobi. He was transferred to Iraq, then Egypt, where, flying a
Gloster Gladiator plane over the Libyan
desert, he crashed and crawled in burning
overalls from the wreckage. He nearly
died. In 1942, partly recovered, but plagued by debilitating headaches, he was sent
to Washington to prom
mote
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Britain’s war effort. He
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moved
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mob” and was
a hit with his hostesses.
“I think he slept with
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had
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of his affair with the
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congresswoman
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woman has
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from
one end of the
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room to the other for three
goddam nights.”
Dahl’s short story Shot Down Over Libya
was bought by The Saturday Evening Post.
He started work on his first children’s
book, The Gremlins, about the “little types
with horns and a long tail who walk about
on the wings of your aircraft boring holes
in the fuselage and urinating in your fusebox”. It was bought by Disney.
Back in England in 1946 Dahl decided
that “writing stories is the only . . . thing
that I want to do.” He worked in a writing
room at his mother’s house with the blinds
drawn all day to avoid distraction.
In September 1951 Dahl, aged 36, met
Patricia Neal, by her own admission, “a
spoiled Hollywood actress”. Their marriage lasted more than 30 years and gave
them five children — Olivia, Tessa, Theo,
Ophelia and Lucy — but it was a fractious
match marked by tragedy. In December
1960 a New York taxi hit four-month-old
Theo’s pram, which was thrown 40ft into

the air. The story of Theo’s extraordinary
recovery and Dahl’s contribution to the
invention of the Wade-Dahl-Till valve, a
shunt that diverted fluid from the brain, is
well known.
In 1962 seven-year-old Olivia died of
measles. Dahl had been teaching her
to make animals out of coloured pipecleaners only a few hours before. The third
trauma came in February 1965 when
Patricia, three months pregnant, had a
stroke. She was unconscious for ten days.
Dahl, Dennison writes, became her
“browbeating Pygmalion”, teaching her
to be herself again. (Some of her garbled
speech would make its way into the
BFG’s lexicon.)
Patricia called her husband “Roald the
Rotten” and “Roald the Bastard”, but later
admitted: “He really did do a wondrous
job. He was a very good man.”
Against this background of family
distress came huge success: James and
the Giant Peach, Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory, The Magic Finger, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Twits, George’s
Marvellous Medicine, The BFG, The Witches, Matilda and Esio Trot, one of literature’s
great romances.
After Dahl and Patricia divorced, in
1983, when Dahl was 67, he married
45-year-old Felicity “Liccy” Crossland
with whom he’d had an on-off affair. She
made him happy, or as happy as a grizzly
old grunion can be. “An adult reader of
books,” he once told schoolchildren in
New Zealand, “has a terrific advantage
over the non-reader. Sooner or later, all
of you are going to suffer some kind of
loneliness or illness, and the comfort
you will get from being ‘a book reader’
will be terrific.”
It would be difficult to make Dahl dull —
every quote pops from the page — but
there is something workaday about Dennison’s telling. A Dahl biographer needn’t
go full frobscottle and snozzcumbers, but
this needs a splash more magic in the medicine. Jeremy Treglown’s Dahl biography
(1995) and Donald Sturrock’s (2010) did it
with more fizz.
Dahl’s last children’s book was The Minpins. He was ailing as he wrote it, “a bit off
colour . . . feeling sleepy when I shouldn’t
have been and without that lovely old
bubbly energy that drives one to write
books and drink gin and chase after girls”.
The Big Irascible Giant died on November
23, 1990. Revolting and Dirty he may
have been, but Fantastic, Marvellous and
Magic too.

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

16 saturday review

books

Who will be the eco era’s Rockefellers?
FREDERIC J BROWN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

The race to go electric
is on — and China is
already in the lead.
Review by Ben Cooke

O

n Boxing Day 2018, Elon Musk
did not let the festivities keep
him away from Twitter. Reminding his followers that
they had only five days left to
take advantage of a $7,500 tax credit on
electric vehicles, the Tesla founder added
that “most importantly, every electric car,
Tesla or otherwise, matters to the environment we all share. Every time someone
chooses electric, the future gets a little bit
brighter.”
It was a beguiling message: that Tesla
owners could enjoy all the comfort and

Volt Rush
The Winners and
Losers in the Race
to Go Green
by Henry
Sanderson
Oneworld,
288pp; £20

electric dreams Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla, unveils his battery-powered Cybertruck in California in 2019

convenience of car ownership without the
environmental guilt. And for the most part
it was true. Electric cars are far better for
the environment, on the whole. As we generate more of our electricity from renewable sources, and as we make more of our
steel with hydrogen rather than coal, the
environmental case for electric cars will
only strengthen.
However, as Henry Sanderson shows in
his book Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers
in the Race to Go Green, the uptake of the
electric car will bring its own set of moral
dilemmas, environmental and geopolitical. That uptake is well under way.
Although electric cars make up only about
1 per cent of the global fleet, their numbers
are growing fast.
Volkswagen is aiming for half of its sales
to be electric by 2030 — this is also the year
after which it will no longer be possible to
buy a petrol car in the UK. All those cars
will be powered by batteries made from
rare earth elements as well as lithium,
nickel, copper and cobalt. Demand will
skyrocket: for lithium, it is expected to
increase thirtyfold by 2030.
Sanderson, a former reporter on China
and commodities for the Financial Times,
writes that whoever controls these resources will be “the new Rockefellers. A new
strategic game has opened up.” His book
is an account of the opening moves of
that game, a travelogue of his journey
through the supply chains that will shape
our decarbonised future.
That journey takes him to the Atacama
desert in Chile, where silvery flecks of lithium are being evaporated from vast pools
of brine, and to cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where child
labour is tarnishing the moral credentials
of electric cars. His intention is to identify
the pitfalls we must avoid if we are to transition equitably to electric cars.
As he travels the world, a pattern begins
to emerge: wherever there are the metals
needed for the green transition, China has
already snapped them up. China, the
world’s most voracious importer of oil, was

quick to see that by embracing electric cars
it could reduce its reliance on the rest of
the world and in 2009 began handing out
lavish subsidies to their buyers. To feed its
domestic electric vehicle market, Chinese
companies began buying up rare earth
deposits in Chile, Australia, Congo and
Indonesia, getting a head start in a race
that the West did not even realise it had
to run.
Sanderson recounts a series of deals that
Chinese companies were able to seal without alerting their western competitors to
their geopolitical import. In Australia, the
Chinese mining company Tianqi bought a
51 per cent stake in the world’s largest lithium mine with the backing of the China
Development Bank (CDB).
“Most western companies cannot get a
vast state-owned bank such as the CDB

Demand for lithium
— crucial for batteries
— will increase
thirtyfold by 2030
to provide credit for a deal,” Sanderson
writes. “The investors who owned [the
mine] were only too happy to accept [Tianqi’s offer] and the deal was waved through
by Australian regulators. It was the first
round in the global race to secure lithium
supplies, and Tianqi had won before anyone was paying attention.”
The pattern repeated itself in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Chinese
companies now own 80 per cent of the
country’s output of cobalt. In Indonesia
too, the Chinese stainless steel company
Tsingshan successfully lobbied for an
export ban on nickel, so only companies
with a presence in the country could take
advantage of demand for the metal.
The impression one gets from these
deals is that western governments have
fallen for a complacent delusion; that it
doesn’t really matter who owns which
resources because whoever owns them

will always want to sell them to the highest
bidder on the international market.
By this logic, it doesn’t matter if most of
the lithium mines are owned by Chinese
companies, so long as Tesla can stump up
the cash to buy it. But what happens if —
as in the case of Indonesian nickel — it’s no
longer for sale? What if a geopolitical calamity such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
suddenly isolates swathes of the global
economy? In such cases, you would rather
your supply chains started closer to home.
Sanderson shows that this penny has
finally begun to drop in the minds of western governments and car manufacturers.
He talks to the entrepreneur Jeremy Wrathall, who hopes to revive Cornwall’s long
tradition of mining by extracting lithium
from the county’s hills.
Commenting on that prospect, the
prime minister Boris Johnson said: “It is a
wonderful thing that Cornwall indeed
boasts extensive resources of lithium,
and we mean to exploit them.” Yet Sanderson adds that Jacob Rees-Mogg, the
minister for Brexit opportunities, “replied
haughtily that the UK had relied on fair
and free trade for its industries and that
would continue”.
Sanderson deftly guides us through the
convolutions of which company bought
what from which, and he livens up that
potentially desiccated subject matter with
an eye for characterful detail. Among the
characters we meet is Robert Friedland, a
copper tycoon and friend of Steve Jobs, the
Apple founder, who posed in his younger
days as a hippy and set up a communal
farm, only for the other members of the
commune to slowly realise he was working
them to the bone for his own profit.
Despite the seemingly insuperable geopolitical quandaries with which it deals,
the tone of Sanderson’s book is one of cautious optimism. “We shouldn’t be hostile to
green technologies,” he writes, “but we
shouldn’t be naive either. The oil age has
left a long scar on the twentieth century.
We should make sure that the industries of
our green future do much better.”

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

saturday review 17
ALAMY

Global Scotland:
how they turned
the world tartan
Foreigners regard
Scots very highly, says
Gerard DeGroot, who
hails a small country
with a big influence
Scotland
The Global
History: 1603
to the Present
by Murray Pittock
Yale, 512pp; £25

O

ver the years, an encounter has
played out repeatedly on the
streets of St Andrews, where I
live. When I meet a Scot for
the first time, I’m inevitably
asked where I’m from because my American accent is strong.
“I was born in San Diego,” I tell them,
“but I live here.”
“How long?”
“Since 1980.”
There follows a short pause while my interrogator gets to grips with this anomaly.
Then comes the same question, every
single time: “Do you like it here?”
That conversation reveals a lot about
the Scots. First, they find it incomprehensible that someone from California would
want to live in Scotland. Second, it seems
entirely conceivable to them that I might
have been utterly miserable here for the
past four decades. Malaise is something
Scots know well; dogged endurance is a
national trait.
Scots love their country, but often seem
surprised when outsiders share that love.
Contrast that with visions of Scotland
abroad, an image composed of mystical
Highland glens, whisky, tartan, bagpipes
and rugged men who look like Sam Heughan in Outlander. My American friends
are jealous of where I live, even more so in
recent years. To them, Scotland seems
idyllic. This contrast between external and
internal opinions — the “brand” versus
the reality — is a central theme of Murray
Pittock’s history of Scotland.
Pittock is an intellectual hybrid; he’s a
professor of literature at the University of
Glasgow, but also identifies as a historian.
Most of his books are, indeed, histories.
His amalgamation of history and literature makes him well suited to analysing
the Scottish image at home and abroad.
This book is a global history, appropriately
so, since the Scots were once a global
people. Their influence on the world might
explain why foreigners regard them more
highly than they regard themselves.
In his introduction, Pittock complains
that global histories of Scotland tend to be
“lists of individual Scots of rank, achieve-

ment or ideas, and are thus celebratory
prosopography stitched together — or not
— with narrative . . . a prolonged ‘wha’s like
us’.” He then goes on to do just that — a lot
of name-dropping without much in the
way of compelling narrative. We hear
about the doctors, explorers, industrialists,
inventors and scientists, a relentless parade of people: John Napier, Joseph Lister,
Alexander Graham Bell, Allan Pinkerton,
John Muir and David Dunbar Buick — he
of those American cars. The list is indeed
impressive and, as such, testimony to an
extraordinary impact, but the names are
never given faces. This is a book about
achievements, not people.
Pittock does, however, move beyond
that pietistic ritual of self-congratulation;
he offers more than just a list of famous
Scots who invented, explored or conquered. He also examines the forgotten
multitude whose impact was soft or subtle,
but still profound. Alexander Chalmers,
who hailed from Dyce, was four times
mayor of Warsaw between 1691 and 1703.
Scottish doctors shone brightly on faculties of medicine around Europe. Scottish
botanists collected plants and created gar-

Native Americans
were fond of their
‘brother Scotchies’ and
wore Glengarry caps
dens on six continents. European students
studied law in Scotland and Scottish lawyers tried cases all over Europe.
The explanation for this global reach is
quite simple: Scots were highly educated
and motivated, but had difficulty finding
opportunities at home. That has always
been the story; between 1951 and 1971, for
instance, 608,000 people left Scotland in
search of greener pastures.
Emigration was sometimes motivated
by ambition, but often by desperation.
Scots frequently had no choice in the
matter. Some of those displaced by the
Highland Clearances were shipped en
masse to Canada. Scots who fought for
Charles I in the Civil War were sold as
indentured servants in the Caribbean
for 365kg of sugar. After the defeat of
Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1746, English
entrepreneurs received £5 a head for
transporting Jacobite soldiers to plantations in the colonies. With penury came
prejudice. Authorities in Massachusetts
lumped “Scotsmen, Negroes and Indians”
together in the same category of suspicion.
Scottish immigrants embedded themselves in new cultures without abandoning
their Scottishness. So to this day there are
Highland games and Burns suppers round
the world, including the Gung Haggis Fat
Choy in Vancouver and the Yak & Yeti
Burns Night in Nepal. There were Scots
masonic lodges in the Caribbean in the
18th century and the Beggar’s Benison, the
gentlemen’s sex club founded in Anstruther in 1732, had a branch in Grenada.

The strength of this book lies in the way
events such as the Act of Union and the
Clearances are revealed to have had global
consequences. This is particularly true of
the Jacobite rising of 1745. Pittock briefly
speculates on what might have resulted
from a Jacobite victory — not just an independent Scotland, but an emasculated
England yielding superpower status to the
French from 1750 onwards. The Jacobite
defeat had an impact of a different sort,
contributing to the emergence of two phenomena — military Scotland and romantic Scotland — that endure to this day.
After that defeat, instead of fighting
against the English, the Scots fought for
Britain, always punching above their
weight. In 1757 they constituted 30 per cent
of the British army in North America; in
the Napoleonic Wars they were 36 per
cent, and one quarter of the officers. They
remained prominent in all the wars of the
20th century, with their sacrifice disproportionate to their size.
Pittock acknowledges that Scots took
part in the excesses of empire, but his main
point is that military service contributed to
a romantic martial image that remains
part of Scotland’s “brand”. Scotland was,
he writes, seen as “a magical landscape of
mighty men, a countryside as violent,
sudden, torrential and dark as the moods
and valour of its inhabitants”. That image
was enhanced by the popularity of Walter
Scott and Robert Burns, both of whom
contributed to the notion of the Scots as a
nation in spirit if not in being. Adversity
intensified the brand.
This is an impressive book, but not an
easy read. It doesn’t help that Pittock starts
with a long, rather dull introduction, and
all those names, facts and figures that drive
home the idea of Scotland as a global
player. However, he is at his best when
discussing the 18th and 19th centuries; I
never realised, for instance, that Native
Americans were fond of their “brother
Scotchies” and took to wearing tartan and
Glengarry caps.
While Scots were seldom vocal in their
celebration of empire, there’s no doubt
that they benefited greatly from it. The
colonies offered a stage on which to shine.
It’s perhaps no wonder, then, that the rise
of nationalism followed the decline of

kilt trip The Battle
of Culloden, part of the
Jacobite rising, which
launched Scotland’s
romantic image

empire. Scots became increasingly inward
looking and more inclined to notice their
relative poverty, not to mention the chauvinism and disrespect of their English
neighbours. The push for an independent
Scottish nation is, in this sense, an attempt
to find a new role, an effort to reconcile
how the world views the Scots with how
they view themselves.

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

18 saturday review

books

What the next
PM should read
Running the country isn’t easy. Times writers
suggest some mind-expanding books for the
two Tory contenders as they prepare for No 10
William Hague
The Age of AI and our Human Future
by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and
Daniel Huttenlocher
It is essential for the new PM to understand that we are entering the fastest
period of innovation in the history of
human civilisation, and that there are profound implications for governments. From
the prospect of dramatic breakthroughs in
medicines to the dangers of “non-human
logic” destabilising military and nuclear
calculations, this book describes the ethical, legal, political and technological challenges that are now imminent. Britain has
to be a leader on new technologies or
become rapidly left behind.
Never Had It So Good: A History of
Britain from Suez to the Beatles by
Dominic Sandbrook
I am always amazed by how few prime
ministers have studied the recent history
of our country. This is the first of an excellent five-volume series, starting in 1956
and eventually reaching 1982. Sandbrook
is an entertaining writer, covering social,
economic and political history. Crucially,
these books cover the many failures of
successive governments in the Sixties and
Seventies, in which very bright people
with good ideas nevertheless managed
to produce a series of economic disasters.
The Avoidable War by Kevin Rudd
This is a recently published book by a
former Australian prime minister and
China expert. It makes the reader think
about a central issue in geopolitics — why
China and the West are on a collision
course over everything from technology to
Taiwan and from an arms race to relations
with Putin. Being prepared for future confrontations with China while thinking
creatively about how to avoid all-out conflict is essential for the next leader of the
UK. Rudd has ideas about how to do this.

Emma Duncan
The Price of Time: The Real Story of
Interest by Edward Chancellor
As the debates have made clear, the economy is bound to be the next prime minister’s principal focus. Chancellor says the
big problem is cheap money. Interest rates
are lower than they have ever been, and
that has driven up inflation and asset
prices. Chancellor’s strangely gripping history of interest rates since the Babylonian
times makes a persuasive case that excessively loose monetary policy has led to disaster in the past and is likely to do so again.
The Way We Live Now by Anthony
Trollope
No contemporary political writer outclasses Trollope. In the unfortunate event
that the Tory party chooses as leader
somebody who is not well versed in his

works, they should start with The Way We
Live Now. The story of a fraudster who
buys his way into high society and the
House of Commons, it is a gripping and
merciless account of the relationship
between money, class and power in Britain
in the late 19th century. These days the
rich are less idle; apart from that, not much
has changed.

Daniel Finkelstein
The Triumph of Politics: Why the
Reagan Revolution Failed by David
Stockman
Stockman was a US congressman who
helped to create the idea of a supply side
revolution — that cutting taxes and reducing regulation would produce prosperity
that would grow the economy, eliminating
any deficit it initially created. He was
appointed Reagan’s budget director and
soon found out things weren’t so simple.
He couldn’t get the deficit down and he
couldn’t stop Congress or the president
from spending, particularly on defence. As
the candidates debate doing the same
thing, this is one to read.
The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham
This compelling book by the
former lord chief justice sets
out the principles of the rule of
law and explains its importance. Any Conservative
should develop an understanding of the basic legal
principles of the country
they intend to govern and of
the constitution they are
there to preserve.

Ryan Bourne
Just in Time: Inside the Thatcher
Revolution by John Hoskyns
This diary account from the head of
Margaret Thatcher’s first Downing Street
policy unit chronicles the limits of a bold
agenda when it hits the constraints of a
cautious civil service and leaders eager to
be popular. Whatever your misgivings
about him, Dominic Cummings, the
former Downing Street chief of staff, was
correct that to deliver anything meaningful No 10 must understand how to govern
the actual government machinery. He
deems this “the best book I’ve read about
post-war British politics”.

Roger Boyes
The Real Special Relationship: the
True Story of How the British and US
Secret Services Work Together
by Michael Smith
In the upside-down world of the Trump
presidency, the relationship between the
US and the UK could best be described as
dazed and confused. Now, apart from cooperation with President Biden in support

premier league Liz
Truss and Rishi Sunak.
Below: David Suchet as
Melmotte in Trollope’s
The Way We Live Now

of Ukraine, it’s just a bit bleh. What keeps
us on an even keel is the extraordinary
connections between the military establishments, the CIA and MI6, between the
Pentagon and the MoD, and above all
between the code-breakers and eavesdroppers at the National Security Agency
and GCHQ. The new prime minister’s first
foreign policy priority has to be drumming
up some more transatlantic vitality and
that means understanding the history of
our intelligence co-operation. Smith’s
topical book provides the answer to the
perennial White House head-scratching
question: do we still need the Brits? Smith’s
conclusion: yes, they do.
Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in
Politics by Michael Ignatieff
Ignatieff gives one of the most literate
accounts of failure and reinvention in politics. The writer and thinker became leader
of Canada’s Liberal Party and seemed
poised to become prime minister in
2008. It never happened. He’s
good on the necessary self-delusion of standing for high office
and the problem of renewing a
party in a new era of recession. Critics told him: “Our
party has lost its soul, we no
longer stand for anything,
years of power corrupted
us.” All this should strike a
chord. Crucially, the book is
under 200 pages long and
can be rewardingly read in a
single sleepless night.

James Marriott
Occidentalism: A Short History of
Anti-Westernism by Ian Buruma and
Avishai Margalit
This is a short (hurrah!) and superbly
entertaining account of the origins of
anti-western thought, which the authors
trace back to . . . the West. From Japanese
kamikaze pilots reading Nietzsche to the
German origins of the “Russian soul”,
Occidentalism is full of surprises. To its detractors the West is decadent, alienated,
soulless and greedy. In a world increasingly hostile to a fading western dominance,
it’s a must-read.
The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel
Markovits
This is a frankly terrifying account by a
Yale law professor of the corruption of
meritocracy by wealthy elites, who cement
their positions by using their wealth to buy
educations for their children, thus steamrollering them into positions at the top of
society. The kids, of course smugly, believe
they’re running things because of their

intellectual (and moral) superiority, not
because of their parents’ cash. The ideal of
meritocracy, which was supposed to make
society fairer, is in fact having the opposite
effect: driving inequality, fuelling populism and endangering democracy.

James Forsyth
Virtual History: Alternatives and
Counterfactuals edited by Niall
Ferguson
It is vital that any leader resist the temptation to think that things are inevitable.
They must remember that decisions
matter. Few books do a better job of illustrating that than this Ferguson-edited collection of essays. It neatly illustrates how
different British, and world, history would
have been if people in power had made different choices. It is also great fun, which is
no bad thing given the stresses of the job.
The Great Acceleration: How the
World Is Getting Faster, Faster by
Robert Colvile
The biggest challenge facing the new
prime minister is to understand a world
that has sped up thanks to tech. The Sunday Times columnist’s work is a thoughtprovoking examination of this phenomenon. The question is how to turn this to the
economy’s advantage while also dealing
with the stresses that this speeded-up
version of life poses.

Quentin Letts
First Person by Vladimir Putin
Know thine enemy. This “astonishingly
frank self-portrait”, published soon after
Putin became Russia’s president, may be a
puff job but it turns the stereotyped tyrant
into flesh and blood, no matter how much
the years have warped him. One story is of
the young Putin nearly crashing his rickety car after he leant out of the driver’s
window to grab some hay from a passing
farm lorry. His passenger complained:
“You take risks!” Putin replied that he was
simply unable to resist “the sweet smell of
the hay”. Dangerous in the face of temptation? He hasn’t changed much.

David Aaronovitch
The candidates are pressed for time, so I
am recommending a short story. Edgar
Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death
tells of how, with a plague laying waste to
the country, the prince and all his nobles
hole up in a walled abbey to escape the
pestilence. There, seemingly secure from
infection, they hold a brilliant, diverting
masquerade. Only to discover that the
awful reality has found a way in after all.

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

saturday review 19

Rewriting women’s
history — badly
These historical
vignettes of women
failed by men are too
much like a manifesto,
says Paula Byrne

After Sappho
by Selby Wynn
Schwartz
Galley Beggar,
275pp; £9.99

I

n 1875 a cab driver called William Seymour was arrested in Liverpool for
stealing 22lb of beef and 5lb of veal
from a butcher. Stealing was not an unusual crime, and the man was clearly
guilty; his coat had traces of suet. Seymour
was an industrious and popular member of
the community, whose wife, Agnes, was
spotted bringing food to his cab stand. But
what made national headlines was the
revelation that Seymour was a woman.

Her name was Margaret Honeywell.
She was married at the age of 14, abandoned her husband and reinvented herself
as a male cab driver. Seymour’s workmates
did not guess the truth, other than noticing
the absence of facial hair. Seymour served
time at a women’s prison and, when released, continued to be accepted as a man
by fellow cab drivers. Nobody seemed to
mind much, although the pronoun “they”
was not available.
This story is told with relish in Selby
Wynn Schwartz’s After Sappho, which has
been racking up rave reviews. It calls itself
a work of fiction, but is really a series of
mostly factual vignettes of women failed
by men — women such as Josephine
Baker, Colette and Isadora Duncan.
The title and the fragmentary structure
are nods to the fact that the works of the
great poet of Lesbos survive mostly as
fragments. Yet instead of brevity and glorious poetic imagery, we are offered cliché
(“gossamer summer”, “sugary snow”), repetition and didacticism. This is a manifesto
masquerading as a novel.
“Whenever we could leave these marriages, we fled. Those of us who had nothing in our pockets but our own badly
stitched handkerchiefs scraped together
what we could . . . But none of us wished to
live overmastered.”

The singer
Josephine
Baker in 1926

In 1902 a leading Italian feminist called
Sibella Aleramo wrote a provocative article
called What We Want. Aleramo had learnt
what she wanted the hard way: at the age of
15, working at her father’s glass factory in
Milan, she was raped in an empty room by
a co-worker ten years her senior, then
forced to marry him. She later escaped,
wrote a novel about it (Una Donna), and
had love affairs with men and women.
Schwartz uses Aleramo’s article as a
prompt to tell us confidently that she
knows exactly what “we” want. “To
begin with, we wanted what half the population had got just by being born, and
then we wanted to change how it had got
that way. We wanted lives that did not lead
us so directly to laudanum and asylums
and puerperal fevers.” And there are
more platitudes: women don’t want to
be “subjugated, oppressed, and kept
quiet” — they long for “writing tables
that were not in the kitchen, stained with
onions”. Fair enough. But, then again,
not every woman longs to be a writer.
Laura Stephen was the daughter of the
distinguished man of letters Leslie Stephen and the half-sister of Virginia Woolf.
She was incarcerated in an asylum and remained in institutions for the rest of her
life. To Woolf, Laura was a vacant-eyed girl
who could barely read. Her shrieks of anguish penetrated the upper floors of the
family home at Hyde Park Gate.
Schwartz implies that Laura was treated
as mad merely because she was a woman.
She is not interested in how mental illness
may run in a family without regard for sex
one of Laura’s cousins was the talented
poet JK Stephen, whose Cambridge landlady found him standing naked, throwing
his possessions out of the window, scream-

ing that he was about to be arrested. His
brothers carted him off to an asylum. One
of his sisters, on the other hand, became
the principal of Newnham College. Not all
women of the late Victorian and Edwardian period were as oppressed as the reader
of this book is led to imagine.
And not all men were dastardly. Some
played important roles in the lives of these
brilliant women, such as the lover who encouraged Aleramo to write Una Donna or
the male cab drivers who showed support
for Seymour’s appropriation of male identity. According to Schwartz: “William Seymour threw into question what was a
woman like any other.” Leaving aside the

Instead of Sappho’s
brevity and glorious
poetic imagery, we
are offered cliché
confusion of the sentence (and there are
many more to bamboozle) it does not do
anyone a service to rewrite women’s history in this way, even if veiled as “fiction”.
Schwartz does not repine: “It has been surprisingly easy to leave out these sorts of
men: a simple swift cut, and history is sutured without them.”
There is the obligatory nod to Radclyffe
Hall’s execrably written 1928 sapphic
novel The Well of Loneliness. Schwartz tells
us that although Woolf vigorously defended Hall’s right to publish, privately she considered the book “a puddle of dank, selfrighteous sentimentalism that leaked its
morals in every sodden direction”. I fear
that by quoting this judgment, our author
was offering a hostage to fortune.

Rereading Persuasion by Jane Austen
Forget the naff
Netflix adaptation —
Susie Goldsbrough on
why this is the most
romantic novel ever

M

ost of my strongest opinions
are unfounded, but of this
one I’m sure: the most romantic book of all is Jane
Austen’s Persuasion. Yes, yes,
I know what you’re going to say. It’s too
sombre, too slow and the heroine’s a bit of
a drag. It’s the self-righteous digestive to
Pride and Prejudice’s fun-loving Hobnob.
Perhaps the manuscript absorbed something of the airlessness of the sickroom in
which Jane Austen wrote it (it was published in December 1817, six months after
her death). And do we really need so many
dreary scenes in Bath?
Well, you’re wrong (although not about
the naff new film). Persuasion is a great,
crashing romance about a love that endures beyond all reason. It’s the tale of a
woman born sensible who learns boldness,
and a man who masters his pride in the
face of overwhelming passion. It’s a fairytale that promises that love can be found
and lost and found again. It’s Austen’s insistence that second chances are real, even
as she lay dying with only her mother and
sister for company. It will break your heart.
We begin at Kellynch Hall, seat of the
aristocratic Elliot family, in the summer of
1814. But really, the story starts eight years
earlier, when 19-year-old Anne Elliot, all

“elegance of mind and sweetness of character”, met a brilliant, spirited young naval
captain called Frederick Wentworth and
fell “rapidly and deeply in love”.
Alas, Anne’s awful family (there’s her
vain father, Sir Walter, and her snooty
friend Lady Russell) persuaded her to give
him up for want of titles and money. Wentworth stormed off to sea to seize loot and
slaughter Frenchmen, leaving Anne anguished and alone. “Her bloom had vanished early,” Austen informs us wistfully.
Now they are thrown together again.
And so we are plunged into that specific
human drama that everyone has played
out in their fantasies — what happens
when you cross paths with a long lost ex?
Austen must have known the particular

It’s a fairytale that
promises that love
can be found and lost
and found again
agony of finding only cold formality in
someone who once couldn’t keep their
eyes off you. How else could she write sentences like these? “Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they
could never become acquainted. It was a
perpetual estrangement.” She sits at the
piano rattling off country dances for her
old lover to twirl younger, bubblier women
around the room, reminding herself,
silently, that she has lost him for ever.
Such deeply felt writing about heartbreak only makes the dazzling, almost unbearably tense final chapters, as we race
towards their reunion, the more deeply

satisfying. And the note Captain Wentworth writes Anne redeclaring his love,
which Austen added to the manuscript at
the last minute, is to my mind the best love
letter in literature. But more on that later.
Persuasion isn’t just a romance. Critics
(mostly men) like to patronise Austen for
the smallness of her concerns. “Her kingdoms are hermetically sealed,” wrote one
now-forgotten critic affectionately in
1817, thinking no doubt of the parish
settings, the country balls, the endless teatimes and long looks and
turns around the room. But even
the quietest lives are touched by
larger forces and Austen, it is
worth remembering, was a writer in wartime. The Napoleonic
Wars lasted most of her adult
life; two of her brothers fought in
the navy (one became an admiral
of the fleet) and in Paris, a favourite
cousin’s husband was sent to the
guillotine.
Austen, a prolific letter writer, kept in
touch with them all. Her life was shaped by
war and Persuasion is unequivocally a war
novel. It is the huge, shadowy engine
behind the plot — Wentworth returns to
England at the start because of a lull in
hostilities (the end of which casts a sombre
pall over the final chapters). And you can’t
help but suspect that Anne’s suffering in
her long separation from Wentworth reflects something of the experiences of
women like Austen, stuck at home while
their men were away at sea.
Another stone often hurled at Austen,
especially by younger readers like me, is
her small-c conservative politics. But Austen was writing at the birth of modern

feminism and Persuasion blazes with feminist feeling. When a man tries to tell Anne
that “all histories are against you, all stories, prose and verse” after she defends a
woman’s capacity to love as strongly, as
faithfully as a man, she bites back (well,
nibbles — Anne’s never sharp): “Men have
had every advantage of us in telling their
own story. Education has been theirs in
so much higher a degree; the pen has
been in their hands. I will not allow
books to prove anything.”
Today there’s a vogue for history
retold from a woman’s viewpoint
(think of Pat Barker’s Iliad revamp The Silence of the Girls, or
the musical about Henry VIII’s
wives, Six). We are just now
catching up with Austen.
For all these reasons, Persuasion is a special book. But above all,
for this:

love regained Dakota
Johnson as Anne Elliot
in the Netflix adaptation
of Persuasion

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must
speak to you by such means as are within
my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half
agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too
late, that such precious feelings are gone for
ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart
even more your own than when you almost
broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not
say that man forgets sooner than woman,
that his love has an earlier death. I have
loved none but you. Unjust I may have been,
weak and resentful I have been, but never
inconstant . . . You sink your voice, but I can
distinguish the tones of that voice when they
would be lost on others — Too good, too
excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed.
You do believe that there is true attachment
and constancy among men. Believe it to be
most fervent, most undeviating, in FW.”

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

20 saturday review

books

A family tree
that bears fruit
A great Renaissance
painter and Joan
of Arc feature in
Antonia Senior’s picks
Ancestry by Simon
Mawer Little, Brown
432pp; £18.99
Sometimes, you approach
a book with dread. This
one is described by its publisher as defying categorisation. It is an
investigation by the novelist Simon Mawer into his family’s past using fiction and
fact. An experimental, navel-gazing sortof-a-novel? Er, no thanks.
Ancestry, however, is utterly absorbing.
Mawer excavates the lives of two of his
great-great-grandfathers and their wives.
Abraham Block is born in Suffolk in 1831
and escapes a life of rural poverty by
becoming a seaman. His wife, Naomi
Lulham, is a dressmaker, whose grand
ambitions were thwarted when she became an unmarried mother. George
Mawer is a soldier in a regiment known as
the Dirty Half-Hundred. When we meet
him he is newly married to Ann Scanlon, a
rootless Irish girl.
Mawer pieces together the facts of these
lives through the archives — the census,
hospital records, parish lists, newspaper
reports, ships’ books, regimental histories
— reproducing them on the page. Poor old
Abraham turns up on HMS Dreadnought,
a hospital ship, suffering with syphilis.
The gaps in between the records are
filled with fiction. George’s regiment is
sent to Crimea. After his first battle, “he’s
thinking of Annie, longing for Annie, im-

Book
of the
month

agining her swollen with their next child,
swollen with love for him as he is swollen
with love for her”. Ann attempts to keep
her children fed and together in his absence. Ancestry is so cleverly constructed
and beautifully written that when tragedy
strikes I cried all the more for knowing that
these were not entirely fictional beings but
real people made vivid again by their
talented great-great-grandson.

historical
fiction

The Colour Storm by Damian Dibben
Michael Joseph, 368pp; £18.99
This exuberant novel has the great Renaissance artist Giorgio Barbarelli (Giorgione)
as its lead character. “Zorzo” is deep in debt
when he hears tell of a new colour, called
prince orient, rumoured to be in the possession of a wealthy merchant called Jakob
Fugger. Constantly on the hunt for “pigments that are more than just a colour, that
are a mood, or a war, or a woman”, Zorzo
sets out to beat his former master, Bellini,
to this new hue, hoping that it will make
his fortune.
The era’s greatest artists are all in
competition to win Fugger’s financial
favour; Zorzo hustles his way into being
commisioned to paint the portrait of
Fugger’s beautiful, unhappy wife, Sybille.
The more time he spends with her, the
more attracted to her he becomes. Meanwhile, plague is nearing the city and his
creditors are circling. The Colour Storm is
a glorious summer read; Damian Dibben’s
triumph is the character of Zorzo, a buoyant, loveable guide to the grandeur and
dangers of Renaissance Venice.
That Bonesetter Woman by Frances
Quinn Simon & Schuster, 448pp; £14.99
Endurance Proudfoot is an embarrassment to herself and her family — “Durie”

The rom-com, 2020s-style
This debut novel set
on a college campus
is messy but joyful,
says Claire Allfree

‘I

t was day 14 of my 28-day cycle,
hence why I was here,” Kiki Banjo
says on page one of this sparkling
new novel, attempting to justify why
she is making out once again with
her “guy”, whom she obviously loathes.
“Ovulation sometimes makes decisions
for you.” If that’s not a sentence to make
you fall in love with a narrator, then clearly
you don’t have a womb.
Honey & Spice is the debut rom-com
from Bolu Babalola, who has built up a cult
following thanks to her pithy social media
presence and her short story collection,
Love in Colour. British-Nigerian Kiki is a
second-year politics, media and culture
student, and self-styled expert in “f***boiology” (that’s just millennial speak for the

study of heartbreaking scallywags) at the
fictional Whitewell University. She has a
weekly radio show, Brown Sugar, in which
she dishes out dating advice.
Yet her arm’s-length approach to dating
and socialising is upended by the arrival of
Malakai Korede, a “stem cell experiment
between Kofi Siriboe and Morris Chestnut”, according to Kiki’s best friend, Aminah. Kiki is soon dismissing him on air for
his “wasteman” behaviour towards the
women of Blackwell (shorthand for
Whitewell’s black communities), only to
find to her horror that her academic supervisor wants her to work with him. Given
Babalola’s transparent affection for the
tropes of the romance genre, you can imagine what comes next.
This isn’t so much a “will they, won’t
they” as a “when the hell will they finally
get it on” kind of story that in essence consists of nearly 400 pages of romantic foreplay as the relationship — sorry, friendship
— deepens and intensifies against the
socially charged backdrop of campus politics. Kiki and Malakai are damaged souls

Honey & Spice
by Bolu Babalola

Headline, 432pp; £16.99

cult following
Bolu Babalola

is too big, too strong, too unusual. Her only
ambition is to be a bonesetter like her
father, but, as he tells her, girls cannot be
bonesetters. You need to be strong to
wrench broken limbs back into place.
When Durie’s pretty and unmarried sister, Lucinda, becomes pregnant, the two
girls are banished to an aunt in London.
The city in the 1750s is a rambunctious
place, to Lucinda’s delight and Durie’s
dismay. Under the care of their more
broadminded Aunt Ellen, Durie dreams of
becoming a bonesetter again. Lucinda,
meanwhile, desperately wants to be an
actress. The two girls must also contend
with predatory men, and a few nice ones,
as they try to make their way in Georgian
London.
Frances Quinn’s debut novel, The Smallest Man, was about a dwarf in the employ
of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I. That
Bonesetter Woman shares similar themes
about being an outsider trying to succeed
in a hostile society. Like The Smallest Man
it is written with a warmth and tenderness
for the characters that makes it irresistible.

Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell, she feels too
modern and agnostic. Joan’s story is so
incredible, though, that it — just about —
survives Chen’s tendency to florid overwriting. The first half is better — Joan’s
toxic relationship with her father is well
done, and the lonely strength of the
abused child is heart-wrenching.

Joan by Katherine J Chen
Hodder & Stoughton, 368pp; £16.99
In Katherine J Chen’s reimagining of the
life of Joan of Arc, the French heroine is
not a devout woman given to visions; the
divine aura is projected on to her by other
people. Hilary Mantel provides a frontcover blurb, and Joan does owe something
to Wolf Hall — the narration is close third
and in the present tense — but, unlike

God’s Vindictive Wrath by Charles
Cordell Myrmidon, 384pp; £8.99
In this first book of a series about the civil
wars, Charles Cordell, a former soldier,
writes with a bravura confidence about the
Battle of Edgehill in October 1642, the first
important confrontation. The events of
that one day take up the first part of the
book, 145 pages of pikes and horses, guns
and guts. Cordell follows the battle order in
detail, from different perspectives.
There are two half-brothers, sons of a
Suffolk farmer — puritanical Francis,
driven by God’s vindictive wrath, is serving
with the Parliamentarians; his fun-loving
brother, Ralph, is with the King’s cavalry.
Ralph is exhilarated by battle but too
squeamish to kill. Among others, we follow
Anthony, a Leveller fighting for Parliament, and Robbie, a miner from Derbyshire, who must wield a giant pike for the
first time. As each man faces his enemy, he
also thinks of how he ended up on this killing field. The earliest chapters feel
weighed down with exposition, but once
the fighting starts, this chorus of voices
re-creates the confusion and complexity
of a large-scale pitched battle.

— Kiki is wary of intimacy after an abusive
encounter with a previous best friend’s
man; while Malakai, a film student, is virtually estranged from his father.
Yet what really draws in the reader is not
their respective emotional histories —
thoughtful, sensitive,
extremely buff Malakai is too good to be
true — but the novel’s
running commentary
on
contemporary
race and gender relations.
Blackwell students
form their own club
night, Freaky Fridayz, because there is
a limit to how many
black people can be
in a club full of white
people before the
white people start
feeling “unsafe”.
Kiki, who has a
fondness for medieval romance stories
and 1990s romti tly
coms but finds the modern man di
distinctly
lacking when it comes to treating women
with respect, divides black “mandem” into
types — “Nigerian Princes”, “Faux Road-

men”, “Future Shiny Suits Who Read”. She
has particular disdain for the sort of chap
who mistakes “vigour for technique”.
Throughout, Babalola cleverly invokes
the romance genre to interrogate whether
romance is even real any more in an era of
casual hook-ups and
m who reply to an “I
men
l
love
you” text with
“
“safe,
babes”.
Granted, the plot is
d
desultory.
Incident
t
takes
second place to
ffeeling and observattion, but then, to be fair,
yyou could say the same
aabout Normal People.
A
And those whose grasp
o
on the semiotics of
m
modern pop culture
iisn’t so refined as Baballola’s might find themsselves struggling to
k
keep up. But everyone
u
understands the giddy
eeuphoria of love — a
ffeeling the extravagantlly talented Babalola is a
particular expert aat expressing. Kiki compares her feelings for Malakai as like swallowing a star. That’s a bit how I felt after
reading this messy but joyful book.

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

saturday review 21

bestsellers
audiobook
of the
week
Sun Damage by
Sabine Durrant, read
by Sofia Zervudachi,
Hodder, 10hr 28min
Ali has “edged through
the world unremarked,
unwanted”, unable to
settle after a childhood
of foster parents until she
is picked up in Goa by
Sean, a master con artist
with a grudge against the
privileged. He trains her
to join him (“the best
grifters always work in
pairs”), but only on his
scarily controlling terms.
When a promising
scam on the French
Riviera goes horribly
wrong Ali flees, grabbing
a chunk of their loot and
taking up the job their
victim was on her way to:
cooking for nine English
holidaymakers in a
French villa.
Dreading discovery by
Sean, but exerting all the
skills he taught her to
chisel out the travellers’
secrets, she is gradually
hit by self-doubt. Sabine
Durrant finely evokes
Riviera beaches and
provincial France, and
gives us a character who
grows more sympathetic
as we admire the
ingenuity with which she
overcomes her perils. The
climax is sheer genius.
Sofia Zervudachi’s
voice is low-pitched and
velvety, with a thread of
menace that makes you
feel apprehensive from
the first — and impatient
of anything that stops
you listening. Ideal for
a sun lounger at home
or abroad.
Christina Hardyment

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children’s book
of the week
Alex O’Connell purrs
over a historical
wildcat adventure
The Fire Cats of
London (8-11) by Anna
Fargher, illustrated by
Sam Usher, Macmillan
Children’s, 288pp;
£7.99
Anna Fargher (The
Umbrella Mouse)
returns with a middle-

grade novel with stunning art from Sam
Usher that starts off with the strong
scent of Bambi and morphs into an
animal version of The Hunger Games.
We are in 17th-century England and
two wildcat siblings, Asta and Ash, are
orphaned when their mother is killed
by hunters. The men have come to
their forest on one of their regular
missions to catch the exotic animals
that they farm for their blood and
whiskers, precious ingredients for a
supposed cure for the plague.
The poor animals end up at Mad
Rathner’s Apothecary Shop in London,
where Ash, weak and vulnerable
with grief, is brainwashed by Beauty,
Rathner’s sly, damaged house cat. Asta,
less trusting, plots her run to freedom
without success; she is caged and

transported to Bartholomew Fair,
where animals are set against each
other in a grim Colosseum scenario.
Thankfully, she makes friends with
a wise bear and her cub and discovers
that not all humans are like Rathner.
After a run-in with a sort of
Restoration-era Brigitte Bardot, who
returns captured animals to the wild,
and a friendly raven called Jet, an
escape plan is formed.
The jeopardy intensifies as it begins

to look less and less likely that Asta
w convince the “converted” Ash to
will
fle the unthinking comfort of Beauty
flee
an his cage. Since this is 1666, Asta’s
and
m
mission
becomes entwined with real
ev
events
as the Great Fire of London
br
brings
its own heat to the plot. It’s
ca
catnip
for lovers of animals, history
a adventure.
and
While we’re on a kitty tip, there
is a joyful new picture book for tinies,
10 Cats (Two Hoots, 32pp; £12.99) by
Emily Gravett (Wolves, Meerkat Mail),
in which the Kate Greenaway medalwinner has a riot with counting and
colours. Ten cats discover three cans of
paint and — spoiler alert — it all gets
very messy. Gorgeous artwork, hardworking words and, this time round,
absolutely no pet death. Purrs all round.

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tv & radio Full seven-day listings & previews
Critic’s choice
The Newsreader

Radio choice
Party’s Over

Sun, BBC2, 9pm

Fri, Radio 4, 6.30pm

Before we bid farewell to the
neighbours of Ramsay Street
on Friday, here’s a fresh taste
of 1980s Australia from this
promising new drama set in a
TV news office. Say “g’day” to
The Newsreader, which has
that seductively soapy pull of
the best Antipodean TV
drama. It’s about a TV news
operation that isn’t quite ailing,
but could be if it doesn’t pull
its finger out of its fundament,
as an Aussie larrikin might say.
Our hero, ingénue reporter
Dale (Sam Reid), is trying to
establish himself while the big
beast anchors Geoff (Robert
Taylor) and Helen (Anna Torv)
are rivals, their antagonism
not helped by the brutishness
of their boss, Lindsay (William
McInnes). Two key events — a
medical emergency and the
1986 Challenger space shuttle
disaster — soon bring Dale
and Helen together, and the
embers of a love story are lit.
It’s pleasingly unpretentious,
alive to the look, feel and
occasional sexism of its era
as well as the complications
and nuances of all workplaces,
settings where, as many of
us know, all human life can
sometimes annoyingly reside.

The second series of this
sitcom following the
adventures of a former
prime minister could not be
better timed, as Miles Jupp’s
hapless Henry continues to
try to fill his empty diary.
In tonight’s opening episode,
recorded at the Crescent
Theatre in Birmingham, he
travels to the West Midlands
city for a Commonwealth
Games opening ceremony and
realises how great it would be
to be a member of the event’s
committee, being wined and
dined in exotic locations. He
may even buy a new tux if he
is successful.
With the help of his wife
and his ferociously devoted
assistant Natalie, and the less
useful support of his gormless
personal protection officer,
Jones, Henry sets about
trying to unearth a scandal to
create a vacancy. The principal
target is Guy, a man with a
propensity for leaving USB
sticks in the wrong places.
Radio 4 comedies, especially
those with a current affairs
edge to them, can be lame at
times, but there are enough
sharp lines in Paul Doolan and
Jon Hunter’s script to keep
you chuckling. Some of the
gags nimbly relate to the real
world — Matt Hancock gets a
mention (and what a gift he
has been to comedy writers)
as does Gary Lineker’s
enormous BBC salary.
As “Useless” Henry, Jupp
is a charismatic central figure,
smoothly entitled and remote
in a way that may put you in
mind of a Tory prime minister
who isn’t Boris.

Anna Torv as Helen
in The Newsreader

Ben Dowell

Best of the rest
Charlie Watts: My Life as
a Rolling Stone
Today, BBC2, 9pm
The drummer and jazz fan,
who died last year, is the final
subject for the series of films
profiling each member of the
Rolling Stones as the band
celebrate 60 years of rocking
and rolling.
A Royal Music Celebration
Sun, BBC4, 8pm
Clive Myrie introduces
a Prom of music written
for royal occasions. The
conductor Barry Wordsworth
leads the BBC Concert
Orchestra and BBC Singers in
a programme that includes

Handel’s popular coronation
anthem Zadok the Priest.
Arena: River
Mon, BBC4, 9pm
Willem Dafoe narrates this
profound piece of slow TV
documenting Earth’s
waterways from new
perspectives, set
to music by the
Australian Chamber
Orchestra.
The Roads to Freedom
Wed, BBC4, 10pm
A first showing since 1976 for
the acclaimed 13-part 1970
drama based on the novels
of Jean-Paul Sartre.

Lancaster
Thu, Sky Docs/Now, 9pm
An impeccable film about the
Lancaster bomber featuring
contributions from surviving
pilots of RAF Bomber
Command and stunning
footage of the plane
soaring above the
English countryside
it once protected.

The Gray Man (15)
Netflix
In a giddily propulsive
action movie from the
Russo brothers (Avengers:
Endgame), Ryan Gosling,
right, plays a CIA black
ops mercenary being
hunted by assassins.

Neighbours:
The Finale
Fri, Channel 5, 9pm
As the Aussie soap bows out,
former stars including Kylie
Minogue, above, Jason
Donovan and Guy Pearce
reprise their roles. Joe Clay

The Secret Garden (U)
Today, C5, 5.30pm
Francis Ford Coppola
produced this
handsome 1993
adaptation of Frances
Hodgson Burnett’s
novel, which features

The best films

Maggie Smith as the staid
matriarch Mrs Medlock.
Escape from Alcatraz (15)
Today, BBC2, 12.35am
Clint Eastwood stars as
Frank Morris, in jail for life
in the notorious Alcatraz
prison and constantly
at odds with the
sadistic prison warden.
Whatever Happened
to Baby Jane? (12)
Thu, BBC4, 9pm
The camp classic
starring Bette Davis
and Joan Crawford as
two faltering showbiz
prima donnas. JC

Ben Dowell

Podcast choice
Who Killed Daphne?
A fascinating investigation
into the murder of the Maltese
journalist Daphne Caruana
Galizia. Was she killed because
of her role uncovering political
corruption on the island?
James Marriott

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Critic’s choice The Marvellous
Maggie Smith: A Celebration
Channel 5, 9pm
Luvvies like nothing better
than gushing about each
other, and here they turn
their attention to the great
Maggie Smith, right. She can
“do anything at all”, according
to Simon Callow, and is
“exquisite, erinaceous and
incandescent” according to
“actor and fan” (and, it seems
very possible, keen thesaurus
user) Tom Read Wilson. At
80 minutes, this largely
adoring profile, narrated by
Dame Maggie’s Downton
Abbey co-star Hugh
Bonneville, does have its
many syrupy moments, but
there is just enough insight,
analysis and grit to keep us
interested. The critics Michael
Coveney and Mark Lawson
provide the most intelligent
contributions (of course),
with insight into the talent
and skill she has deployed in
an array of roles, including
that of Miss Jean Brodie,
the homeless eccentric

Miss Shepherd in The Lady
in the Van and Professor
McGonagall in the Harry
Potter films. Lawson touches
nicely on one of the threads
that runs through this film,
namely how intimidating
some people can find Smith;
his story about “shaking”
before picking up the phone
to call her is funny. Miriam
Margolyes, another Potter
alumna, who knew Smith at
Oxford High School in the
1940s and 1950s, picks up
this theme. “She was admired,
but not, I think, liked, she did
not like the school at all,”
her friend says. Later
Margolyes adds: “I have heard
stories of her not being so
kind to other people, and I
am a little nervous of her . . .
she hates it when people say
that.” The actress Samantha
Bond’s description of Smith
as “formidable” clearly has
more than one meaning.
Ben Dowell

Joe Lycett: Summer A Royal Guide to:
Exhibitionist
Travel
BBC2, 8pm
The comedian and “somewhat
limited artist” is an
appropriately colourful guide
to this year’s Royal Academy
Summer Exhibition. He has
shown work at the event, and
also been rejected, so he knows
its appeal. In this hour-long
programme he explores the
judging process required to
whittle down the 15,000 works
submitted this year, with 900
ending up in the final show.
One artist seeing his work on
display says the experience is
“so unreal, like it shouldn’t be
here”, a sign of the sense of
achievement one gets at being
exhibited. BD

Catch
up
The Girl from
Plainville
Starzplay
Based on a
2017 Esquire
magazine article
of the same
name, this is a
dramatisation of
the shocking
“texting-suicide
case” involving
17-year-old Michelle
Carter. (It was also
the subject of an
HBO documentary:
I Love You, Now Die.)
Elle Fanning, right,
plays Carter, who

Channel 4, 8pm
The latest in the series
examining the Windsor clan’s
traditions focuses on the
royal air miles, whether on
official tours, private ski trips
or holidays to warmer climes.
They all have their favourite
destination, of course. For
Princess Margaret it was
Mustique, while the Queen is
said to always be happiest
among the heather and hills
of Scotland. In this episode we
learn about Prince Philip’s
fondness for manning the
barbecue, as well as about
staff rules on wearing trainers
while aboard the Royal Yacht
Britannia. BD
became the subject of an
involuntary manslaughter
trial in Massachusetts
when she was accused
of sending text
messages to her
boyfriend, Conrad
Roy III (Colton Ryan),
encouraging him
to kill himself.
Roy’s family had
no idea their
son, who
suffered from
depression, even
had a girlfriend,
but was it really
Carter’s texts
that drove him to
suicide? Fanning
is excellent, as is
Chloë Sevigny,
playing Ryan’s
mother, Lynn Roy.
J Clay
Joe

Charlie Watts:
My Life as a
Rolling Stone
BBC2, 9pm
“It’s all about me and I’m the
star . . . for once,” jokes Charlie
Watts early into the last of
these profile films. His death in
August last year makes this
more of an obituary, but it’s a
moving and fascinating one.
The band are still dealing with
the loss of their friend, but they
and talking heads including
Tina Turner and Sheryl Crow
are able to speak eloquently
about his extraordinary
contribution to the Stones.
“The best drummer England
has ever produced,” Keith
Richards says. BD

Trom
BBC4, 9pm/9.40pm
It’s the final double bill of the
atmospheric crime drama set
on the Faroe Islands. Our
journalist hero Hannis (Ulrich
Thomsen) is still trying to
link the case of his daughter
Sonja — found washed up dead
in the sea during a whale hunt
— with the sabotage of her
colleague Pall’s car. Hannis
believes that the industrialist
Ragnar is the one with the
motive. But it still is proving
hard, especially because he
and Sonja’s friend Jenny are
operating outside the formal
police investigation and with
many hostile vested interests
circling. The closing moments
suggest a second series may
be in the offing. BD

Films of the day
Suspicion (PG, 1941)/To Catch a Thief (PG, 1955)
BBC2, 1pm/3.10pm

A double bill of Alfred Hitchcock films with Cary Grant begins with
Suspicion, a masterful study in paranoia. Joan Fontaine plays a
neurotic, wealthy newlywed who suspects that her charming
scoundrel of a husband (Grant) is plotting to bump her off. To
follow is the romantic thriller To Catch a Thief, which has Grant
and Grace Kelly at their most brazenly gorgeous. It features one of
the best fireworks scenes in cinema history. “Ever had a better
offer in your whole life?” Frances Stevens (Kelly) simpers, offering
herself up for a snog with Grant’s dashing cat burglar John Robie.
“I’ve never had a crazier one,” John replies, as the pyrotechnics
spurt suggestively behind them. So that’s where the James Bond
films got their ideas. (99min/102min) Ed Potton

Regional programmes
● BBC1 Wales As BBC1 except:

11.30am
Homes Under the Hammer. Properties
in Kilburn, Huthwaite and Kent (r)
12.30pm-1.00 Royal Welsh Show 2022:
A Wales Today Special. A look back at
this year’s event (r) 4.30-5.00 Iolo: A Wild
Life. Naturalist Iolo Williams recalls the
past 25 years of filming in Wales (r)
● BBC2 Wales As BBC2 except: 2.35pm
Coast (r) 2.40 Hitchcock’s Leading
Actors: Talking Pictures (r) 3.15 FILM To
Catch a Thief (1955) 5.00 Wonders of the
Celtic Deep (r) 6.00-6.30 Gareth
Edwards’ Great Welsh Adventure (r)
● BBC2 N Ireland As BBC2 except:
10.00am A Stitch Through Time (r)
10.30 A Stitch Through Time (r) 11.00
The Travelling Picture Show (r)
11.30-12.00 Barra on the Bann
● STV As ITV except: 1.25-4.00pm Live
STV Racing: From Ascot. Ed Chamberlin
presents coverage from Ascot and York
3.50-5.05am Unwind with STV
● BBC Scotland 7.00pm The Seven 7.15
The Edit 7.30 The Lost Final. Scotland’s
triumph at the UEFA Under-18s European
Championship in 1982 (r) 8.15 Rewind
1980s. Music and stories from Scotland
and around the world in 1982 (r) 8.30 Fish
Town (r) 9.00 Best of Chewin’ the Fat (r)
9.30 Rab C Nesbitt. Comedy series (r)

10.00 The Control Room. Thriller (r)
11.00-Midnight Primal Scream: The Lost
Memphis Tapes. Documentary (r)
● S4C 6.00am Cyw: Blociau Rhif (r) 6.05
Byd Tad-Cu (r) 6.20 Digbi Draig (r) 6.30
Fferm Fach (r) 6.45 Sion y Chef (r) 6.55
Patrôl Pawennau (r) 7.10 Anifeiliaid Bach y
Byd (r) 7.20 Awyr Iach (r) 7.35 Blero yn
Mynd i Ocido (r) 7.45 Cacamwnci (r) 8.00
Siwrne Ni (r) 8.05 Bernard (r) 8.10 Bwystfil
(r) 8.20 Y Brodyr Adrenalini (r) 8.30
Dreigiau: Gwarchodwyr Berc (r) 8.55
Cath-Od (r) 9.10 Dennis a Dannedd (r)
9.20 Gwrach y Rhibyn (r) 9.40
Rhyfeddodau Chwilengoch a Cath Ddu (r)
10.00 Prosiect Pum Mil (r) 11.00 Dim Byd
i’w Wisgo (r) 11.30 Garddio a Mwy (r)
12.00 Ffermio (r) 12.30pm Pysgod i Bawb
(r) 1.00 Cwpwrdd Epic Chris (r) 1.30 Adre
(r) 2.00 Live Seiclo: Tour de France.
Coverage of stage 20, from LacapelleMarival to Rocamadour 5.00 Richard
Holt: Yr Academi Felys (r) 5.25 Richard
Holt: Yr Academi Felys (r) 5.50 Cyfres
Triathlon Cymru 2022 (r) 6.15 Am Dro! (r)
7.10 Chwedloni: Gemau’r Gymanwlad
7.15 News 7.30 Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau:
Dathlu’r 30 9.00 Sgwrs Dan y Lloer: Max
Boyce (r) 10.00 Seiclo: Tour de France
10.30-11.35 Miwsig Fy Mywyd (r)
(r) repeat (SL) In-vision signing

Terminator: Dark Fate (15, 2019)
Channel 4, 9pm

The first good Terminator movie since Terminator 2: Judgment
Day. Gone is the baffling focus on the franchise’s least interesting
character, John Connor, and gone too is the movies’ seeming
inability to use their totemic star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, as
anything other than a camp punchline. What the film handsomely
mines from the first two episodes is the combination of
momentum and emotional empathy. The returning protagonist
Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) is in present-day Mexico City,
where an unstoppable, molten metal humanoid is causing
carnage. Only the sweaty and determined Grace (Mackenzie Davis,
above left with Hamilton) seems capable of saving the day, with
help from Arnie, of course. (128min) Kevin Maher

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6.00am Breakfast 10.00 Saturday
Kitchen Live 11.30 Farm to Feast: Best
Menu Wins 12.00 Homes Under the
Hammer (r) 1.00pm BBC News;
Weather 1.15 Athletics: World
Championships. Another chance to
see day eight from Hayward Field in
Eugene, Oregon (r) 4.30 Garden
Rescue. Transforming a garden in
Bournemouth (r) 5.00 Superman &
Lois. Lois reaches out to her father
as Clark’s visions become worse
5.40 Superman & Lois. Lois and
Chrissy are on a mission to find Lois’s
sister, Lucy. Jonathan and Jordan
become increasingly unsettled as
Clark’s painful visions continue
6.25 BBC News 6.35 BBC Regional
News; Weather 6.45 The Hit List.
Music-based quiz with contestants
from Glasgow, Romford and London

6.45am The Dengineers (r) 7.15 One
Zoo Three (r) 7.30 Marrying Mum and
Dad (r) 8.00 Blue Peter (r) 8.30 Deadly
Dinosaurs with Steve Backshall (r)
9.00 Human Universe (r) 10.00
Mountain Vets (r) 11.00 Mountain Vets
(r) 12.00 Rick Stein’s India (r)
1.00pm FILM Suspicion (PG, 1941)
Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller with Cary
Grant and and Joan Fontaine. See
Film Choice (b/w) 2.35 Hitchcock’s
Leading Actors: Talking Pictures (r)
3.10 FILM To Catch a Thief (PG, 1955)
Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery starring
Cary Grant. See Film Choice 4.50 Flog
It! (r) 5.30 Ocean Giants (r) 6.30 Live
Athletics: World Championships.
Coverage of day nine from Hayward
Field in Eugene, Oregon, featuring the
long jump discipline of the decathlon
and the women’s 100m hurdles heats

6.00am CITV 8.25 ITV News 8.30
Garraway’s Good Stuff 9.25 James
Martin’s Saturday Morning (r) 11.35
Jeremy Pang’s Asian Kitchen 12.40pm
James Martin’s American Adventure.
The chef visits Austin in Texas (r)
1.10 ITV News; Weather 1.25 Live ITV
Racing: From Ascot. Coverage of
racing from Ascot, including the 3.35
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
Stakes, plus the 3.15 Sky Bet Stakes
from York 4.00 Tipping Point: Lucky
Stars. Ben Shephard hosts the quiz
show as Nick Hewer, Zoe Lyons and
Joe Duttine answer questions to win
turns on an arcade-style machine in
the hope of winning £20,000 for
charity (r) 5.00 In for a Penny (r)
5.30 Moneyball. Game show hosted
by Ian Wright (r) 6.30 ITV News;
Weather 6.45 Regional News; Weather

6.15am Cheers (r) 6.40 The Big Bang
Theory (r) 7.05 The Big Bang Theory
(r) 7.25 The Big Bang Theory (r) 7.50
The Simpsons (r) 8.15 The Simpsons
(r) 8.40 The Simpsons (r) 9.10 The
Simpsons (r) 9.40 The Simpsons (r)
10.10 The Simpsons (r) 10.45 The
Simpsons (r) 11.15 FILM Monster
Trucks (PG, 2016) Fantasy adventure
starring Lucas Till 1.20pm Four in a
Bed (r) 1.50 Four in a Bed (r) 2.20 Four
in a Bed (r) 2.55 Four in a Bed (r) 3.25
Four in a Bed (r) 3.55 Kirstie and Phil’s
Love It or List It (r) 5.00 Channel 4
News. Including sport and weather
5.30 Location, Location, Location.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer go
house hunting in north Wales and
Cheshire (r) 6.30 Formula 1 French
Grand Prix Qualifying. The battle for
pole in the 12th round of the season

6.00am Milkshake! 10.05 The Smurfs
10.20 SpongeBob SquarePants (r)
10.30 Entertainment News on 5 10.40
Friends (r) 11.10 Friends (r) 11.35
Friends (r) 12.05pm Friends (r) 12.35
Friends (r) 1.05 Our Yorkshire Farm (r)
2.00 FILM Ruby Herring Mysteries:
Her Last Breath (PG, TVM, 2019)
Thriller with Taylor Cole 3.45 FILM
Ruby Herring Mysteries: Prediction
Murder (PG, TVM, 2020) A reporter
joins forces with a detective to
investigate a years-old murder case
involving a local psychic. Mystery
starring Taylor Cole 5.30 FILM The
Secret Garden (U, 1993) An orphan
girl restores a garden to its former
glory with the help of a village boy.
Children’s drama, based on Frances
Hodgson Burnett’s book, starring
Kate Maberly and Maggie Smith

Danielle van de Donk (7.30pm)

Exhibitionist Joe Lycett (8pm)

The Living Daylights (8pm)

The first Star Trek reboot (11.30pm)

Victoria Wood (10.20pm)

8.00 A Royal Guide to: Travel
The royal family’s travels
around the world, revealing
favourite holiday destinations
and going behind the scenes
with the staff of the Royal Yacht
Britannia. See Viewing Guide

7.30 The Murder of Lord
Mountbatten: 3 Days That
Shook Britain The events
surrounding the killing of
Louis Mountbatten in August
1979, when his boat was blown
up at sea by the IRA off the
west coast of the Republic of
Ireland. Royal insiders, local
journalists and victims’ family
members recall the attack
minute by minute (r)

7.30 Live MOTD: Uefa Women’s Euro
2022 Gabby Logan presents
coverage of the fourth
quarter-final (Kick-off 8.00), as
Group D-winners France take
on the Group C runners-up
the Netherlands at New York
Stadium in Rotherham. France
lost 1-0 to England in the
corresponding fixture of the
2017 tournament, but the
French will be expecting to fare
better tonight after securing
top spot in their group with a
game to spare. With analysis by
Fara Williams, Laura Georges
and Jonas Eideval

10.15 BBC News
10.30 Weather
10.35 Wireless Festival 2022
Highlights Performances from
the rap and R’n’B festival in
Finsbury Park, including Cardi
B, Roddy Ricch, Giveon, ArrDee,
Mahalia, Summer Walker, Jack
Harlow, H.E.R., and Lil Baby
11.35 FILM The Bling Ring (15, 2013)
Five celebrity-obsessed
teenagers steal from the houses
of the rich and famous stars
they idolise. Sofia Coppola’s
fact-based drama with Emma
Watson and Israel Broussard
1.00am Live Athletics: World
Championships. Day nine at Hayward
Field in Eugene, Oregon 4.35 Weather
for the Week Ahead 4.40 BBC News

7.00 Alan Carr’s Epic Gameshow:
Celebrity Special The comedian
hosts an updated edition of
’90s classic Strike It Lucky, with
the showbiz pairings featuring
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen,
Richard Arnold, Ranvir Singh
and Kelvin Fletcher
8.00 Joe Lycett: Summer
Exhibitionist Joe follows a
fascinating mix of artists
submitting to the Royal
Academy Summer Exhibition
2022, the world’s largest
open-entry art contest.
See Viewing Guide
9.00 Charlie Watts: My Life as a
Rolling Stone The story of
Charlie Watts, who passed away
in August 2021, told via tributes
from his fellow band members
and his musical peers and
admirers, along with archive
interviews. See Viewing Guide
10.00Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live
In Texas A concert filmed at the
Will Rogers Memorial Centre in
Fort Worth, Texas, in July 1978,
as part of the tour of the USA in
support of that year’s Some
Girls album. Originally shot on
16mm film, the footage has
been carefully restored and the
sound remixed and remastered
by Bob Clearmountain
11.25 Rolling Stones: Live at Wiltern
Theatre A performance from
2002 at the Wiltern Theatre
in Los Angeles, as part of the
Licks World Tour
12.35-2.25am FILM Escape from
Alcatraz (15, 1979) A cunning convict
tries to break out of the notorious
high-security island prison, a feat
previously thought impossible.
Fact-based drama starring Clint
Eastwood and Patrick McGoohan

8.00 FILM The Living Daylights
(PG, 1987) James Bond crosses
the continents to help a KGB
agent to defect to the West.
While protecting him from
an unknown assassin, the
super-spy is drawn into the
world of arms dealing and a
plot to trade millions of pounds’
worth of diamonds for weapons
to supply mercenaries around
the world. Action adventure
with Timothy Dalton making
his debut appearance as 007,
alongside Maryam d’Abo, Joe
Don Baker and Art Malik

10.30 ITV News
10.50 FILM Ocean’s Twelve (12, 2004)
The crooks reunite when an old
enemy demands they repay the
money they stole from him
three years previously. Crime
caper sequel starring George
Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts,
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Matt
Damon and Andy Garcia

1.05am Teleshopping 3.00 Tour de
France Highlights. Action from the
20th and penultimate stage (r) 3.50
Unwind with ITV 5.05 Ainsley’s Food
We Love. The chef is joined by Dev
Griffin (r) (SL) 5.35 Grow Your Own at
Home with Alan Titchmarsh (r) (SL)

9.00 FILM Terminator: Dark Fate (15,
2019) An augmented human
and Sarah Connor must stop an
advanced liquid Terminator
named Rev-9 from hunting
down a young girl in Mexico
City, whose fate is critical to the
human race. As the Rev-9
ruthlessly destroys everything
and everyone in its path, the
three are led to a T-800 from
Sarah’s past that may be their
last best hope. Sci-fi adventure
with Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Linda Hamilton and Mackenzie
Davis. See Film Choice

11.30 FILM Star Trek (12, 2009)
The first mission of the starship
Enterprise leads the crew into a
battle with a vengeful Romulan
commander from the future.
Sci-fi adventure starring Chris
Pine and Zachary Quinto
1.40am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
USA. A diner in New York (r) (SL) 2.30
Couples Come Dine with Me (r) 3.25
Hollyoaks Omnibus (r) (SL) 5.30 Find
It, Fix It, Flog It (r) 5.50 Cheers (r)

9.00 The Marvellous Maggie Smith:
A Celebration Tracing Dame
Maggie Smith’s life from Ilford
to the dizzy heights of
Broadway and Hollywood,
where she has become one of
the most-loved stars of stage
and screen. Over her long
career, Maggie has played an
astonishing array of characters.
See Viewing Guide
10.20 Victoria Wood: All the Laughs
& More A look back at one of
Britain’s best loved comedians,
featuring interviews with Jo
Brand, Jenny Eclair, Gyles
Brandreth, Susie Blake and the
actors who worked alongside
Victoria Wood. The programme
charts her rise from her
upbringing in Lancashire, via
her partnership with Julie
Walters on Wood and Walters,
As Seen On TV, and her
one-woman shows (r)
12.20am Michael McIntyre Live (r)
1.15 The LeoVegas Live Casino Show
3.15 Entertainment News on 5 3.25
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild (r)
4.10 The Yorkshire Vet (r) 5.10 Wildlife
SOS (r) (SL) 5.35 Peppa Pig (r) (SL)
5.40 Fireman Sam (r) (SL)

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

26 saturday review

The Conjuring 2

Saturday 23 | Primetime digital guide

Vera Farmiga stars in
the 2016 supernatural
horror sequel
BBC3, 9.30pm

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Talk TV

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Sky Atlantic

Sky Documentaries

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6.00am Cristo Wake up to the
news that matters to you
7.00 Claudia Liza and David Bull
The biggest stories of the
day that matter to you
10.00 Peter Cardwell The latest
news from Parliament,
featuring interviews with
political heavyweights
1.00pm Trisha Goddard The
broadcaster looks through
the week’s leading stories
4.00 Nick De Bois The former MP
cuts through the jargon and
asks the big question on
everyone’s minds
7.00 Mike & Kev’s Saturday
Night Talkaway Mike
Graham and Kevin
O’Sullivangive their unique
take on the week’s top
stories, celebrity guests and
non-stop sparkling banter
10.00-1.00am The James Whale
Show Expect bold opinions
as the presenter reacts to
the big stories of the day

7.00pm EastEnders Mitch
arranges a surprise for
Avery, and Stacey is
surprised when Suki
invites her to dinner
7.30 EastEnders Honey
questions Kathy about her
injured lip, and Karen and
Harvey encourage Mitch to
support his nephews
8.00 Live Athletics: World
Championships Jeanette
Kwakye presents coverage
of day nine from Hayward
Field in Eugene, Oregon,
featuring the women’s long
jump and the shot put
discipline of the decathlon
9.30 FILM The Conjuring 2
(15, 2016) Two paranormal
investigators battle sinister
supernatural forces in north
London. Horror sequel
starring Vera Farmiga
and Patrick Wilson
11.35-12.35am Bellator MMA
Action from Bellator 283

7.00pm Socrates: Genius of the
Ancient World A profile of
one of the founding fathers
of Western philosophy (2/3)
8.00 Simon King’s Shetland
Adventure Spring brings an
influx of wildlife to the
islands, allowing the former
Springwatch presenter to
get close to a seal (2/3)
9.00 Trom Hannis devises a
new plan to expose the
police investigation.
See Viewing Guide (5/6)
9.40 Trom Hannis takes drastic
steps to catch the killer.
See Viewing Guide (6/6)
10.25 The Hector: From Scotland
to Nova Scotia The story
of the 1773 highland
migrants who left Scotland
to settle in Nova Scotia
11.25 Face to Face Jeremy Isaacs
presents an interview with
Diana Rigg from 1997
12.00-12.30am Ever Decreasing
Circles Classic comedy (2/7)

6.55pm Darcey Bussell’s Royal
Road Trip Darcey visits
locations important to the
Queen, beginning in the
Scottish Highlands, where
she tosses a caber, tastes
royal whisky and goes
fly-fishing on the Dee (1/4)
8.00 A Lake District Farm Shop
A generational farmer based
in Kirkby Lonsdale has big
plans for sheep’s milk brie
9.00 24 Hours in A&E A man is
brought in with a suspected
abdominal aortic aneurysm,
and staff fight to save a
teenager who was stabbed
in a street fight (12/14)
10.00 24 Hours in A&E A man with
schizophrenia makes his
19th visit of the year (14/14)
11.05-12.10am 8 Out of 10 Cats
Does Countdown Jon
Richardson and Chris
Addison take on Joe
Wilkinson and Katherine
Ryan. Jimmy Carr hosts (8/8)

6.45pm Billions Axe publicly
spars with a rival hedge
fund manager, while
Chuck attempts to find a
case that may salvage
his career (2/12) (R)
7.50 Billions Bobby sets his
sights on buying an NFL
franchise, while Lara
launches her own business
venture. Chuck makes a
last ditch effort to nail a
big case (3/12) (R)
9.00 Game of Thrones Jon Snow
and his team go beyond the
wall to capture a white
walker. Meanwhile,
Daenerys has to make a
tough decision, and Arya
confronts Sansa (6/7) (R)
10.15 Game of Thrones Tyrion
tries to save Westeros
from itself (7/7) (R)
11.50-12.55am Game of Thrones
The Stark children are finally
reunited in Winterfell.
With Emilia Clarke (1/6) (R)

6.00pm FILM I Am MLK Jr
(12, 2018) A deep dive into
the life of Dr Martin Luther
King Jr, celebrating his
achievements and his
continuing impact on
civil rights today
8.00 The Invisible Pilot The story
of the small-town cropduster pilot Gary Betzner,
who unexpectedly jumped
off a bridge in 1977, leaving
a trail of money, drugs, and
secrets in his wake (2/3) (R)
9.00 Michael X: Hustler,
Revolutionary, Outlaw
This is the story of the rise
and fall of the black rights
activist Michael de Freitas,
known as Michael X (R)
11.00-1.15am FILM Inmate 1:
The Rise of Danny Trejo
(15, 2019) Film shining a
spotlight on the darker
moments and incredible
transformation of the
actor’s life

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

E4

Dave

Drama

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FV 20, FS 158, SKY 143, VIRGIN 130

6.40pm FILM Marley & Me (PG,
2008) Comedy drama based on
journalist’s account of life with a
mischievous golden Labrador he
bought for his wife. Starring Owen
Wilson and Jennifer Aniston
9.00 Love Island: Unseen Bits Iain
Stirling presents a round-up of
events in the villa over the week
10.05 Olivia Attwood: Getting
Filthy Rich Olivia delves into the
ever-expanding world of cam girls
11.05 Family Guy (1/2)
11.35-12.05am Family Guy

7.00pm Midsomer Murders
A member of the Bleakridge
Watch, a group of villagers who
walk the streets reporting anyone
who falls foul of the law, is found
dead in his meat freezer
9.00 Midsomer Murders A
cricketer is found dead after a
match in Lower Pampling
11.05-1.05am Van der Valk Crime
drama starring Marc Warren. A
Dutch detective investigates two
seemingly unrelated murders in
different parts of the city. (1/3)

7.00pm Tour de France Highlights
Action from the 20th and
penultimate stage of the race
8.00 FILM The Mummy: Tomb of
the Dragon Emperor (12, 2008)
A family of explorers battles an evil
Chinese Emperor who has risen
from his ancient tomb to take over
the world. Fantasy adventure
sequel starring Brendan Fraser
10.10-12.30am FILM The
Chronicles of Riddick (15, 2004)
Sci-fi adventure sequel starring
Vin Diesel and Judi Dench

6.50pm FILM Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
(12, 2016) The sewer-dwelling
heroes discover their arch enemy
has returned and has joined forces
with an alien warlord. Action
adventure sequel with Megan Fox
9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox Famous
faces appraise Friends: The
Reunion and The Masked Dancer
10.00 Gogglebox The
householders appraise Bridgerton,
Starstruck and Dynasties II
11.05-12.10am Gogglebox

6.40pm Would I Lie to You? At
Christmas With Henry Blofeld,
Kerry Howard, the Rev Richard
Coles and Clive Myrie
7.20 Would I Lie to You?
8.00 Not Going Out
8.40 Not Going Out Christmas
Special Lee faces a desperate
search for a Christmas present
9.40 Sneakerhead Amber
attempts her first sober day
10.20 Would I Lie to You?
11.00 Would I Lie to You?
11.35-12.15am QI

6.00pm The Brokenwood
Mysteries A severed human hand
is found in a crayfish pot
8.00 Shakespeare & Hathaway:
Private Investigators The local
mayor is murdered in the dead of
night. Starring Mark Benton
9.00 Passport to Freedom Aracy
redoubles her efforts to secure
visas to Brazil after a shooting
10.10 The Inspector Lynley
Mysteries A respected playwright
is murdered. Sharon Small stars
11.50-2.35am Taggart

Yesterday

PBS America

Smithsonian

Sky Arts

Sky History

Sky Max

FV 27, FS 159, SKY 155, VIRGIN 129

FV 84, FS 155, SKY 174, VIRGIN 273

FV 57, FS 175, SKY 171, VIRGIN 276

FV 11, FS 147 SKY 130, VIRGIN 165

SKY 123, VIRGIN 270

SKY 113, VIRGIN 122

7.00pm Great Continental Railway
Journeys Michael Portillo travels
from Athens to Thessaloniki (4/6)
8.00 Great Continental Railway
Journeys Michael Portillo
undertakes a masterclass in
carving cuckoo clocks (5/6)
9.00 Great Continental Railway
Journeys Michael Portillo traces
the roots of the Spanish Civil War
from Barcelona to Majorca (6/6)
10.00 Porridge Triple bill
12.00-1.00am Bangers and Cash A
rare Honda S800 sports car (7/10)

7.00pm Ancient Invisible Cities
Revealing the historical secrets of
Cairo and Ancient Egypt (1/3)
8.15 Ancient Invisible Cities
Michael Scott reveals the historical
secrets of ancient Athens (2/3)
9.35 Ancient Invisible Cities
The secrets of Istanbul’s ancient
palaces and aqueducts (3/3)
10.50 Lost and Found: The Search
for the USS Lagarto The discovery
of the US submarine Lagarto
12.00-1.15am The Covid Cruise
The story of the Diamond Princess

7.00pm An American Aristocrat’s
Guide to Great Estates Christmas
at Mapperton House in Dorset
8.00 Inside the Christmas Factory
Discovering how the Royal Mail
produces Christmas stamps
9.00 Inside the Christmas Factory
10.00 Inside the Christmas
Factory Revealing how traditional
Christmas items are made
11.00 An American Aristocrat’s
Guide to Great Estates
12.00-1.00am WWII Battles in
Colour The Blitzkrieg attack

7.00pm Live from the Artists Den
Robert Plant performs at
Nashville’s War Memorial
Auditorium (4/6)
8.00 Discovering: Johnny Cash
Taking a look at the life and career
of the musician (2/9)
9.00 Johnny Cash: The Man in
Black in Britain The connection
that the singer had with the UK
10.00 Johnny Cash: Behind Prison
Walls Concert from the Tennessee
State Prison, Nashville in 1977
11.00-12.50am I Am Johnny Cash

7.00pm Winston Churchill’s War
Exploring the crucial decisions
made by the wartime leader (3/4)
8.00 Winston Churchill’s War How
Britain’s influence began to shrink
9.00 Barbarians Warriors, the
Saxon pirates smashed through
coastal defences in Britain (3/4)
10.00 Barbarians The Vandals, a
ragged and homeless tribe (4/4)
11.00 The UnXplained with
William Shatner Focussing on
the hunt for hidden treasures
12.00-1.00am Forged in Fire

7.00pm NCIS: Los Angeles
A civilian scientist working with
the US marines is killed
8.00 A League of Their Own With
guests Micah Richards, Maisie
Adam, Josh Taylor and Katarina
Johnson-Thompson (3/10)
9.00 The Lazarus Project (6/8)
10.00 Strike Back: Silent War
Section 20 clashes with two
Russian renegades (9/10)
11.00 Banshee (7/10)
12.00-1.00am The Force:
Manchester Documentary (9/10)

Discovery

Nat Geographic

Sky Comedy

Comedy Central

Gold

W

SKY 125, VIRGIN 250

SKY 129, VIRGIN 266, BT 351

SKY 114, VIRGIN 135, BT 346

SKY 112, VIRGIN 181, BT 344

SKY 110, VIRGIN 124, BT 343

FV 25, FS 156, SKY 132, VIRGIN 125

7.00pm Lone Star Law A family are
investigated for illegally keeping a
pet deer within their property
8.00 Gold Rush: Dave Turin’s Lost
Mine Casey gets shocking news
9.00 Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail
10.00 Expedition X
11.00 Expedition Unknown
12.00-1.00am Mountain Monsters

7.00pm Drain the Great Lakes
8.00 Drain Alcatraz
9.00 Draining the Bermuda
Triangle An exploration of the
mysterious area of ocean
10.00 Drain the Oceans
11.00 Drain the Sunken Pirate City
12.00-1.00am Killer U-Boats:
Drains the Oceans (3/15)

7.00pm The Office (US)
9.00 Curb Your Enthusiasm (3/10)
9.35 Curb Your Enthusiasm (4/10)
10.15 Nikki Glaser: Good Clean
Filth The comedian presents a
guide to sex in this special show
11.30 Breeders Ally and Ava argue
12.00-1.00am The Tonight Show
Starring Jimmy Fallon Talk show

6.45pm FILM The Green Hornet
(12, 2011) Comic-book adventure
with Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz
9.00 FILM Grown Ups 2 (12, 2013)
Comedy sequel starring Adam
Sandler and Chris Rock
11.05-12.05am Jason Manford Live
The comedian performs at the
Manchester Arena in 2011

6.25pm Only Fools and Horses
Del faces an explosive situation
7.35 Only Fools and Horses
8.40 The Vicar of Dibley
9.20 The Vicar of Dibley
10.00 Coupling
10.40 Coupling
11.20 Inside No 9
12.00-12.40am Inside No 9

7.00pm My Family Triple bill
9.00 Miranda Comedy show
9.40 Miranda Gary goes dating
10.20 Miranda A dinner party
11.00 Louis Theroux: Law &
Disorder in Lagos Meeting the
gang that run the Nigerian streets
12.00-1.25am Louis Theroux’s LA
Stories Starting with feral dogs

Sky Main Event

Sky Premier League

Sky Cricket

BT Sport 1

BT Sport 2

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8.30am Live NRL: Penrith Panthers
v Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
10.30 Live LPGA Tour Golf
1.30pm Live W Series
2.35 Live Formula 1
4.30 Live European Seniors Tour
Golf Senior Open Championship
7.00 Live DP World Tour Golf
8.00 Live World Matchplay Darts
Coverage of the semi-finals
11.00 Sky Sports News
12.00 Live MLS: New York City FC
v Inter Miami CF (Kick-off 12.00)
2.00am-3.40 Live MLS

10.00am SNF Brentford v Chelsea
12.00 SNF Brentford v Liverpool
2.00pm SNF A replay of Brighton &
Hove Albion v Arsenal
4.00 SNF Chelsea v Aston Villa
6.00 SNF All the action from
Everton v Manchester City
8.00 SNF Liverpool v Arsenal
10.00 PL 100: Petr Cech A look
at the former Chelsea and
Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech
10.30 Premier League Icons
11.00-1.00am PL Retro Arsenal v
Manchester United from 1997

2.00pm-6.00 Live Women’s
International T20 Cricket:
England v South Africa Women
The second T20 in the three-match
series from New Road in Worcester
7.00 Women’s International T20
Cricket England v South Africa
Women. A replay of the second
T20 in the three-match series
from New Road in Worcester
11.00-12.00 One-Day International
Cricket England v South Africa.
Highlights of the second ODI
in the three-match series

7.30am-10.30 Live AFL: Port
Adelaide Power v Geelong Cats
(Bounce-up 7.35)
11.30-1.00pm Live V10 R-League
The third place play-off
4.00 Live V10 R-League The final
6.00 Live UFC The preliminary
bouts at UFC Fight Night 208
8.00 Live UFC: Curtis Blaydes v
Tom Aspinall Coverage of the bout
11.30 UFC Connected
12.00-3.30am Live MLB: Los
Angeles Dodgers v San Francisco
Giants (Start-time 12.15)

6.00pm Live MLB: Chicago White
Sox v Cleveland Guardians
(Start-time 6.10). Coverage of the
match from Guaranteed Rate Field
9.30 WWE Friday Night
SmackDown Wrestling action
11.00 One Day International
Cricket Action from West Indies v
India in the first ODI
12.00-3.00am Live CFL:
Saskatchewan Roughriders v
Toronto Argonauts (Kick-off 12.00)
5.00-10.30 Live Badminton The
finals of the YONEX Taipei Open

A night dedicated to Johnny Cash
shows a performance from
Nashville (Sky Arts, from 8pm)

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

saturday review 27

Saturday 23
Film guide

Radio guide

Film4

Times Radio

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Thunderbirds Are
Go! (U, 1966) Adventure with
the voice of Shane Rimmer
12.55pm Muppets from
Space (U, 1999) Comedy
with F Murray Abraham
2.40 Nutty Professor II: The
Klumps (12, 2000) Comedy
sequel starring Eddie Murphy
4.40 Congo (12, 1995) Action
adventure with Dylan Walsh
6.45 Crocodile Dundee II
(PG, 1988) Comedy adventure
sequel starring Paul Hogan
9.00 The Spy Who Dumped
Me (15, 2018) Comedy
starring Mila Kunis
11.15-1.30am Sputnik (15,
2020) Sci-fi thriller starring
Oksana Akinshina

Talking Pictures TV
FV 82 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am The Big Day
(PG, 1960) Drama
7.15 Ask a Policeman (U, 1939)
Comedy starring Will Hay
8.50 Look at Life
9.00 The Adventures
of William Tell
9.30 Flash Gordon
Conquers the Universe
9.55 A Hitch in Time (U, 1978)
Children’s fantasy
11.05 Looney Tunes
11.15 Stories From Toytown
Featuring Larry the Lamb
11.30 The Adventures
of Robin Hood
12.00 Killers from Space
(PG, 1954) Sci-fi horror
1.30pm The Cat (U, 1966)
Adventure with Roger Perry
3.10 Murder at 3am (PG, 1953)
Mystery starring Dennis Price
4.20 Hell and High Water (PG,
1954) Cold War adventure
6.20 The Flanagan Boy
(PG, 1953) Crime drama
8.00 Maigret
9.05 The Third Secret (PG,
1964) Mystery with Stephen
Boyd and Jack Hawkins
11.00-12.50am Afraid of the
Dark (15, 1991) Psychological
thriller starring James Fox

GREAT! Movies
FV 34 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am GREAT! Movie News
9.10 Ring of Deception
(PG, 2017) Thriller
11.00 GREAT! Movie News
11.10 Killer on the Island
(2018) Thriller
1.00pm GREAT! Movie News
1.10 Gone: Finding My
Daughter (PG, 2018) Drama
3.00 And So It Goes (12, 2014)
Drama with Michael Douglas
4.55 The Bounty Hunter
(12, 2010) Action comedy
7.05 Home Again (12, 2017)
Romantic comedy starring
Reese Witherspoon
9.00 Kill Bill: Volume 2 (18,
2004) Revenge thriller sequel
starring Uma Thurman
11.40-1.45am Martha Marcy
May Marlene (15, 2011)
Thriller with Elizabeth Olsen

Digital only

Reese Witherspoon stars
(GREAT! Movies, 7.05pm)

GREAT! Movies Classic
FV 52 FS 303 SKY 319 VIRGIN 424

6.00am The Orient Express
7.10 Hunt the Man Down
(PG, 1951) Crime thriller
8.35 Watch It, Sailor (U, 1961)
Comedy starring Dennis Price
10.15 Idol On Parade
(PG, 1959) Comedy
12.00 The Wackiest Ship in
the Army (U, 1960) Comedy
2.05pm Those Magnificent
Men in Their Flying Machines
(U, 1965) Period comedy
4.45 The Jigsaw Man
(15, 1984) Spy thriller
6.40 The Spy Who Came in
from the Cold (PG, 1965)
Thriller with Richard Burton
9.00 The Holcroft Covenant
(15, 1985) Thriller
starring Michael Caine
11.15-1.40am The Caine
Mutiny (U, 1954) Drama
starring Humphrey Bogart

TCM Movies
SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s
Best Film Directors
7.10 Off Set
7.25 Sugarfoot
12.55pm Three Violent
People (PG, 1956) Western
3.00 Cattle King (U, 1963)
Western with Robert Taylor
4.50 The Mississippi Gambler
(U, 1953) Romantic adventure
7.00 Code Name: Emerald
(PG, 1985) Wartime adventure
9.00 Lethal Weapon 3 (15,
1992) Thriller sequel with Mel
Gibson and Danny Glover
11.30-1.15am Passenger 57
(15, 1992) Action thriller

Sky Cinema Premiere
SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

2.05pm A Mouthful of Air
(15, 2021) Drama
4.00 Paws of Fury: The
Legend of Hank (PG, 2022)
Animated comedy with the
voice of Michael Cera
5.45 The Survivor (15, 2021)
Drama starring Ben Foster
8.00 Spider-Man: No Way
Home (12, 2021) Comic-book
adventure sequel starring
Tom Holland and Zendaya
10.35-12.50am Raging Fire
(15, 2021) Action adventure
starring Donnie Yen

Today’s pick

6.00am Chloe Tilley and
Calum Macdonald with Times
Radio Breakfast 10.00 Hugo
Rifkind 1.00pm Alexis Conran.
Politics in-depth and consumer
features 4.00 Ayesha Hazarika
7.00 The TLS Podcast.
A round-up of all the week’s
news in the world of books
8.00 Stories of Our Times.
The Times’s daily podcast
8.30 Matt Chorley. An insider’s
take on politics 9.00 Highlights
from Times Radio 10.00
Kait Borsay. An early look at
Sunday’s newspapers 1.00am
Highlights from Times Radio

Brum Britain
Radio 4, 8pm

Radio 2

Radio 4

FM: 88-90.2 MHz

FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz
LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz

5.00am Radio 2 in Concert (r)
6.00 Sounds of the 60s with
Tony Blackburn 8.00 Dermot
O’Leary 10.00 Claudia
Winkleman 1.00pm Pick of the
Pops 3.00 Rylan on Saturday
6.00 Liza Tarbuck 8.00
Sounds of the 80s with Gary
Davies 10.00 Sounds of the
90s with Fearne Cotton
12.00 Fred Sirieix: Vive La
Musique 1.00am Trevor
Nelson’s Divas (r) 3.00
Alternative Sounds of the 90s
with Dermot O’Leary (r) 4.00
Radio 2 in Concert: Billy Joel (r)

Radio 3
FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

7.00am Breakfast
9.00 Record Review
11.45 New Generation Artists:
Summer Showcase Violinist
Johan Dalene plays
Beethoven’s Spring Sonata
12.30pm This Classical Life
Jess Gillam is joined by the
mezzo Lotte Betts-Dean (r)
1.00 Inside Music The viola
player Rosalind Ventris
chooses a selection of pieces
3.00 Live BBC Proms 2022
A CBeebies special from the
Royal Albert Hall, with Kwamé
Ryan conducting the
Southbank Sinfonia in a
musical ocean adventure
for all the family
4.00 Music Planet With a
session by Le Vent du Nord
5.00 J to Z Jumoké Fashola
marks the centenary of the
author Jack Kerouac
6.30 New Generation Artists
The Calidore Quartet plays
Dvorak’s American Quartet
7.30 Live BBC Proms 2022
A concert from the Sage
Gateshead, with Dinis Sousa
conducting the Royal Northern
Sinfonia in symphonies by
John Adams and Dvořák
and a world premiere of a
piece by Judith Weir
10.00 New Music Show Kate
Molleson introduces music at
the Iannis Xenakis Centenary
— Maths and Music festival
12.00 Freeness
1.00am Through the Night (r)

Ah Birmingham, city of
dreams, Stewart Lee, Black
Sabbath and UB40. The jovial
and chirpy comedian Darren
Harriott believes it’s one of
the most exciting places on
earth. And on the eve of the
Commonwealth Games in the
city, he wants to “lay open the
welcome mat”. Helping him
are talking heads including
the Peaky Blinders creator
Steven Knight, right, and the
social historian Professor
Carl Chinn, who starts by

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Four Thought (r)
6.00 News and Papers
6.07 Open Country (r)
6.30 Farming Today This
Week Agriculture
7.00 Today
9.00 Saturday Live
10.30 The Kitchen Cabinet Jay
Rayner presents the culinary
advice show from the Royal
Institution, London, with
Angela Hartnett, Tim
Anderson, Shelina Permalloo
and Professor Barry Smith
11.00 The Week in
Westminster
11.30 From Our Own
Correspondent
12.01pm (LW) Shipping
Forecast
12.04 Money Box
12.30 Dead Ringers (6/6) (r)
1.00 News
1.10 Any Questions? (r)
2.00 Any Answers? Phone-in
2.45 28ish Days Later
India Rakusen meets with
specialists to discuss the
implications of modern day
synthetic chemicals on
the menstrual cycle
3.00 Drama: DH Lawrence
— Tainted Love Women in
Love, dramatised by Ian
Kershaw (3/4) (r)
4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour
5.00 Saturday PM
5.30 Boris Adam Fleming
examines Boris Johnson’s
early career in journalism,
joined by Sonia Purnell and
Geoff Meade, Peter Guilford
5.54 Shipping Forecast
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.15 Loose Ends With
guests Ian McKellen, David
Sedaris and Imelda May
7.00 Profile
7.15 The Infinite Monkey Cage
With guests including
astronauts Nicole Stott
and Chris Hadfield
8.00 Archive on 4: Brum
Britain Darren Harriott
makes the case for
Birmingham being Britain’s
greatest city. See Choice
9.00 Tumanbay (7/8) (r)

6.00 Rock of Eye 6.45 Ghost
Stories by MR James 7.00
The Workin’s of Perkins
10.00 Comedy Club:
Saturday Night Fry 10.30
Life: An Idiot’s Guide 11.00
The Simon Day Show 11.30
Old Harry’s Game 12.00
Rock of Eye 12.45am Ghost
Stories by MR James

BBC World Service
wondering why Birmingham
vies with Manchester for the
status of Britain’s second city.
Who wants to be second,
says Chinn, for whom
Birmingham is “second to
none”. Ben Dowell

9.45 Rabbit at Rest (8/10) (r)
10.00 News
10.15 The Moral Maze (r)
11.00 The 3rd Degree (r)
11.30 Tongue and Talk:
The Dialect Poets (r)
12.00 Midnight News
12.15am Living with the Gods
Documentary (r)
12.30 Commonwealth
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Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

28 saturday review

Sunday 24 | Viewing guide
Critic’s choice
The Newsreader
BBC2, 9pm/9.55pm
A soapy Australian take on
Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom,
this accomplished six-part
drama is set at a busy
Melbourne TV station in 1986.
Sam Reid plays Dale Jennings,
an ambitious young reporter
trying to climb the ladder and
get a place on “the desk” as a
presenter. Already in situ but
unhappy with having to play
second fiddle to her older
male colleague (this is
Australia in the 1980s —
chauvinism is the order of the
day as is homophobic and
sexist language) is the
talented co-anchor Helen
Norville (Anna Torv). In a fiery
exchange with the old-school
news chief Lindsay
Cunningham (William
McInnes, far right with Reid),
she expresses a desire to work
on special reports — an
extended look at one
important story a week.
Sensing an opportunity to kill
two birds with one stone,

Cunningham offers the eagerto-please Dale the chance to
work with Helen on these
special reports as her
producer. In exchange he can
present an update “live on the
desk”. Helen and Dale clash
initially — Cunningham has
warned Dale to steer Helen
away from stories about
“cross-eyed single mothers,
Aids and Christ knows what
else” and she wants to do her
first report on an HIV-positive
mum of two. But soon events
present them with the ideal
story related to the Space
Shuttle Challenger mission
(which ended in tragedy).
From initial antipathy, a bond
grows. It’s great as a drama
(and a comedy — Dale’s
presenting debut is hilarious),
plus the period styling is also
impeccable, while other reallife events featured include
the return of Halley’s comet
and the Chernobyl disaster.
Joe Clay

Murder in Provence A Royal Music
ITV, 8pm
Celebration

Paul Hollywood
Eats Mexico

Better Things

Has there ever been a role
more suited to an actor? Roger
Allam is in sparkling form as
the sophisticated investigating
judge Antoine Verlaque in this
adaptation of the novels by ML
Longforth. In tonight’s case
Verlaque and his romantic
partner Marine (Nancy Carroll),
who is now working for the
police, investigate the death of
an aristocrat at his crumbling
château. But just when the
team thinks they’ve got their
suspects nailed, another body
is found. The plot is almost
incidental to the star attraction
— the beautiful backdrops of
Aix-en-Provence (and those
delicious-looking glasses of
ice-cold rosé). JC

BBC4, 8pm

Channel 4, 9pm

Clive Myrie is at the Royal
Albert Hall to introduce a Prom
of music written for royal
occasions in honour of the
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The
conductor Barry Wordsworth
leads the BBC Concert
Orchestra and BBC Singers in a
programme that features
works by some of the best
British composers from the
past 500 years. Highlights
include Handel’s soaring
anthem Zadok the Priest (used
at the Queen’s Coronation) and
Hubert Parry’s I Was Glad,
which accompanied the
Duchess of Cambridge down
the aisle in 2011. JC

The final episode of Paul
Hollywood’s Mexican odyssey
focuses on drinks, with our
host sampling various tequilas,
including one served inside a
searingly hot chilli pepper. He
visits a mezcal distillery and
has a heavy night out at a
traditional cantina. A hungover
Hollywood is even grumpier
than normal, which doesn’t go
unnoticed by one of his guides,
the actress Eva María Beristain,
who introduces him to pulque
(another alcoholic drink, made
from the agave plant). “I know
you’re happy but your face
doesn’t know you’re happy,”
she says. JC

The fearsome pock-marked
movie star Danny Trejo plays
himself in the third episode
of the fifth and final season
of the superior dramedy
starring Pamela Adlon as the
divorced actress and single
mum Sam Fox. Sam meets
Trejo while she’s volunteering
at the local school. The key
storyline is something that
doesn’t happen — eldest
daughter Max (Mikey Madison)
not telling her mum she got
an abortion. All five seasons
are available on iPlayer. If you
have yet to give it a go, you
are in for a treat. Adlon is
terrific, as is Celia Imrie as
Sam’s interfering mother,
Phil. JC

Catch
up
James May: Our
Man in Italy
Prime Video
Can a shabby and
slightly uptight
Englishman achieve
la dolce vita? Not
my words, but
those of James May.
Like any TV
travelogue these
days he is
trying to get
behind the
stereotypes.
May drives
around in a Fiat
Panda rather than
a Ferrari, and his

principal objectives for
the trip are twofold. First,
can he arrive at ten
commandments of “being
Italian”, or living the
dolce vita? His second
objective is more basic
but also hard to
achieve: do not
become fat. First up
he’s in Sicily, where
he questions the
unusual manhood on
a piazza’s sculpture
and takes part in
a fishing trip
off the
coast,
where he
hauls in a
fish in “a battle
worthy of
Hemingway,
Melville or JR Hartley”.
James Jackson

BBC2, 10.50pm

Films of the day
Emma (U, 2020)
BBC1, 8pm

The latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel is directed by Autumn
de Wilde, is adapted by the Booker prizewinner Eleanor Catton and
stars Anya Taylor-Joy, below. This Emma is a sad-eyed wonder
who dwells in that fragile place between coquettish arrogance and
bewildering vulnerability. She lives near the fictional Highbury
village with her doting father, Mr Woodhouse (Bill Nighy), and
divides her time between sparring with her platonic banter buddy
George Knightley (Johnny Flynn) and secretly orchestrating an
unsuitable romance between a clueless vicar (Josh O’Connor) and
a teenage schoolgirl (Mia Goth), all the while being charmed by a
self-centred smoothie (Callum Turner). Emma is the perfect
Instagram-age heroine. (124min) Kevin Maher

Regional programmes
● BBC1 Wales As BBC1 except:

12.00
Wedding Day Curves: Our Lives. Four
plus-size brides-to-be embark on a
mission to find their dream wedding
dress (r) 12.30-1.00pm Kiri’s TV
Flashback. Funny clips revealing Wales’
pet hates and irritations (r)
● STV As ITV except: 6.45-6.59pm STV
News 3.50-5.05am Unwind with STV
● UTV As ITV except: 7.00pm Mahon’s
Way. Joe Mahon heads to Portaferry to
visit the ‘Portico of Ards’ 7.30-8.00
Rare Breed: A Farming Year. The apple
trees start to blossom in May at the
McKeever farm in Armagh (r)
● BBC Scotland 7.00pm The Seven 7.15
Scotland’s Summer of Medals. The
summer of 2014 when Team Scotland
won a record 53 Commonwealth medals
(r) 8.15 Rewind 2000s. A look back at the
news, music and TV of 2006 (r) 8.30 Life
on the Bay. Live entertainment starts up
again at the Fife caravan park (r) 9.00 Still
Game. Jack and Victor take up walking
football (r) 9.30 Billy and Us. Billy
Connolly shares his ideas on masculinity
and talks frankly about how his time in
the shipyards shaped him both as a man
and as a comic (r) 10.00 Billy Connolly:
Made in Scotland. The comedian reveals
the influences behind his career (r)

11.00pm-Midnight Seven Days. News,
sport and entertainment stories
● S4C 6.00am Cyw: Caru Canu (r) 6.05
Sbridiri (r) 6.25 Octonots (r) 6.35 Guto
Gwningen (r) 6.50 Timpo (r) 7.00
Sigldigwt (r) 7.15 Pablo (r) 7.30 Amser
Maith Maith yn Ôl (r) 7.45 Twt (r) 7.55 Oli
Wyn (r) 8.05 Gwdihw (r) 8.20 Y Brodyr
Coala (r) 8.30 Deian a Loli (r) 8.50
Penblwyddi Cyw 9.00 Efaciwîs (r) 9.30
Garddio a Mwy (r) 10.00 Ffit Cymru (r)
11.00 Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol (r)
12.00 Yr Wythnos 12.30pm Dan Do (r)
1.00 Arfordir Cymru: Bae Ceredigion (r)
1.30 Hewlfa Drysor (r) 2.25 Pobol y Cwm
Omnibws (r) 3.30 Live Seiclo: Tour de
France. Coverage of the 21st and final
stage, featuring a flat route beginning
at La Défense and finishing on the
Champs-Elysées 7.15 3 Lle. Paralympian
Aled Siôn Davies discusses three places
that have played a key role in his life,
such as Whitesands beach in
Pembrokeshire where he spent many
family holidays (r) 7.45 News 8.00 Ras
yr Wyddfa 2022. Highlights of the Castle
Howell International Snowdon Race 9.00
Y Sioe 2022. Highlights from the Royal
Welsh Agricultural Show 10.00 Seiclo:
Tour de France 10.30-11.35 Drych (r)
(r) repeat (SL) In-vision signing

The Mule (15, 2018)
BBC1, 10.30pm

Clint Eastwood’s 90-year-old antihero Earl Stone — based on a
real-life geriatric drug smuggler — breezes along the freeway
between Texas and Chicago, millions of dollars’ worth of cocaine in
the trunk of his Lincoln 4x4. With only one incident of serious
violence, filmed in discreet long shot, this is a disarmingly gentle
movie about the vicious narcotics underworld. He may not be able
to text, but he’s much less likely to be pulled over than a tattooed
thug and he can talk himself out of a tight spot. A surprisingly
elusive target, then, for Bradley Cooper’s clean-cut DEA agent.
Eastwood also directs with his typical lack of pussyfooting (and,
often, nuance). It’s a winningly soft-hearted tale of a hard-hearted
world. (116min) Ed Potton

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5.35 BBC News 5.50 BBC Regional
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6.50am Gardeners’ World (r) 7.50
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FILM Up Periscope (U, 1959) Second
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World War pilot Douglas Bader, who
lost both his legs but went on to
become one of the RAF’s most
decorated heroes. Starring Kenneth
More and Muriel Pavlow (b/w) 4.15
Flog It! Antiques experts visit the
Oxford Union (r) 5.00 Inside the
Factory. Exploring Ribena’s
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Buildings Collapse. The collapse of
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6.00am CITV 8.25 ITV News 8.30
Vick Hope’s Breakfast Show 9.25
Ainsley’s Food We Love (r) 9.55
Jeremy Pang’s Asian Kitchen (r) 11.00
Simply Raymond Blanc (r) 12.00 ITV
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the sky over Cooper Hill (r) 2.15 Alan
Carr’s Epic Gameshow: Celebrity
Special. An updated edition of ’90s
classic Strike It Lucky (r) 3.15 The
Chase Celebrity Special. With Su
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and Jonathan Ross (r) 4.20 FILM
Goldfinger (PG, 1964) James Bond
tracks down a gold smuggler intent
on destroying the world economy by
raiding Fort Knox. Spy adventure
starring Sean Connery, Gert Frobe
and Honor Blackman 6.30 ITV News;
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6.15am Cheers (r) 6.40 Everybody
Loves Raymond (r) 7.05 Everybody
Loves Raymond (r) 7.30 Everybody
Loves Raymond (r) 7.55 The Simpsons
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Family adventure sequel, with the
voice of Michael J Fox 3.05 FILM How
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Romantic comedy starring Kate
Hudson and Matthew McConaughey
5.15 A Place in the Sun. Danni Menzies
tries to find a golf fan the perfect
Costa del Sol property (r) 6.00
Channel 4 News 6.30 Formula 1
French Grand Prix Highlights. Action
from the 12th round of the season

6.00am Milkshake! 10.00 The Smurfs
10.15 SpongeBob SquarePants (r)
10.25 Entertainment News on 5 10.40
Friends (r) 11.10 Friends (r) 11.40
Friends (r) 12.10pm Friends (r) 12.40
Friends (r) 1.10 Dogs Behaving (Very)
Badly (r) 2.10 Dogs Behaving (Very)
Badly. A couple are left devastated
when their two dogs suddenly start
fighting (r) 3.10 Watercolour
Challenge. Fern Britton hosts a
painting contest (r) 4.05 Watercolour
Challenge. Four amateur painters
try to capture the essence of a
seaside holiday (r) 5.05 Cruising India
with Jane McDonald. The singer
explores the sights of the country,
beginning amid the colourful chaos of
the city of Kolkata, where she visits
the largest flower market in Asia (r)
6.55 5 News Weekend

Alison Eastwood in The Mule
(10.30pm)

Pam Adlon: Better Things (10.50pm)

Roger Allam on the case (8pm)

The adventure film Sahara (midnight)

Matt Allwright presents (8pm)

7.00 Antiques Roadshow Fiona
Bruce and the team are in
Christchurch Park in Ipswich,
where items assessed include
memorabilia related to Donald
Campbell’s land-speed record
and a valuable necklace (r)

7.00 Incredible Journeys with
Simon Reeve The presenter
recalls some of the most
dangerous experiences of his
travels, from coming under fire
in war-torn Mogadishu to
squaring off with a female
wrestler in Mexico City (2/4) (r)

7.00 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars
The former footballer David
Ginola, the broadcaster Janet
Street-Porter and the reality
star Chris Hughes compete
in this all star edition of the
game show. Hosted by Ben
Shephard (3/12) (r)

7.00 Billion Dollar Holiday City The
Westgate Hotel in Las Vegas
prepares for 2,000 Celtic
football fans, including one
who heads for the poker table,
despite having lost £500,000
gambling in the past (2/4)

8.00 FILM Emma (U, 2020) In
Regency-era England, a wealthy
woman searches for a new
companion after her governess
marries. The well meaning but
selfish young woman proceeds
to interfere in the romantic
affairs of her friends. Director
Autumn de Wilde’s adaptation
of Jane Austen’s novel starring
Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn,
Josh O’Connor and Callum
Turner. See Film Choice

8.00 Live Athletics: World
Championships Coverage of
the opening session of the final
day from Hayward Field in
Eugene, Oregon, featuring the
discus and pole vault disciplines
of the decathlon

8.00 Murder in Provence Now
working as a consultant for the
police, Marine helps Antoine
and Helene investigate the
death of an aristocrat found
dead at his crumbling chateau,
but just when the team think
that they’ve got their suspects
nailed, another body is found.
See Viewing Guide (2/3)

8.00 Million Pound Motorhomes
New series. Television
presenter Matt Allwright
gives viewers a tour of his
campervan, while resident
reviewer Tomi Adebayo
returns to put three portable
barbecues to the test (1/10)

10.00BBC News; Weather
10.25 BBC Regional News

9.00 The Newsreader New series.
Drama following the bond
between a young reporter and
a newsreader in the 1980s.
Starring Anna Torv and Sam
Reid. See Viewing Guide (1/6)
9.55 The Newsreader Halley’s
Comet is approaching, and
change is in the air. As veteran
newsreader Geoff is pressured
to step away from the desk, the
top job is suddenly within
reach. See Viewing Guide (2/6)

10.00ITV News
10.20 Long Lost Family Special: The
Unknown Soldiers Davina
McCall and Nicky Campbell
trace the families of nine First
World War soldiers whose
bodies were found together in a
trench by roadworkers in
Beselare, Belgium (r)

10.30 FILM The Mule (15, 2018) An
award-winning horticulturist
and Korean War veteran is
facing financial ruin. The Illinois
octogenarian is estranged from
his ex-wife and daughter for
always putting work before
family. In an attempt to put
things right, he becomes a
courier for a Mexican cartel.
Drama directed by and starring
Clint Eastwood, with Bradley
Cooper. See Film Choice

11.20 ODI Cricket Highlights England
v South Africa. Action from the
third and final one-dayer in the
series from Clean Slate
Headingley, Leeds

11.10 Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest
Airport Behind the scenes of
the airport. A pilot requires
police help with a disgruntled
passenger and fire engines give
a bath to a Boeing 777 (1/6) (r)

12.20am The Hit List (r) 1.05 Live
Athletics: World Championships.
Jeanette Kwakye presents coverage
of day 10 at Hayward Field in Eugene,
Oregon, as the championships reach
a conclusion 4.35 Weather for the
Week Ahead 4.40 BBC News

12.20am FILM All the President’s
Men (15, 1976) Political drama starring
Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman and
Jason Robards 2.35 Sign Zone: Super
Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the
Universe. Documentary (r) (SL)
3.35-4.20 Frontline Fightback (r) (SL)

12.00 Teleshopping 3.00am
Motorsport UK. Action from Thruxton,
featuring the Ginetta GT5 Challenge
and the Ginetta Junior Championship
(r) 3.50 Unwind with ITV 5.05 Tour de
France Highlights. Action from the
21st and final stage of the race (r)

10.50 Better Things Max is grateful
for Rich’s support and Sam
tries her hand at volunteer
reading in a sixth grade class.
See Viewing Guide (3/10)

9.00 Paul Hollywood Eats Mexico
The presenter concludes his
trip with a look at the origins of
chocolate, and pays a visit to
the most extraordinary, and
dangerous, firework festival on
Earth. See Viewing Guide (3/3)

9.00 The Cruise As the ship docks in
the capital city of the Bahamas,
word spreads that the Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge are
also visiting, leaving a crew
member on a hunt to track
them down (6/8)

10.00Gogglebox Capturing the
households’ instant reactions to
shows including Antiques
Roadshow, This Morning, Liar,
First Dates and BBC news
coverage of the coronavirus.
From March 2020 (r)

10.00Secret Life of the Holiday
Resort Observational
documentary lifting the lid on
an all-inclusive hotel in the
heart of Spain’s Costa Brava.
There’s a wedding at the resort,
and the tourists’ thoughts
turn to love and marriage.
The Europeans reveal what
we think of their British
neighbours and things get
messy during a game of beer
pong. Last in the series

11.00 First Dates An Essex-born
cleaning fanatic is paired with
an Essex boy, while a quirky gas
fitter is matched up with a
medical lab assistant (r)

10.55 Greatest Hits of the 80s
The stories behind six songs
from the decade (2/2) (r)
12.00 FILM Sahara (12, 2005)
Adventure starring Matthew
McConaughey and Penelope Cruz
2.05am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
USA (r) (SL) 2.55 Come Dine with Me
(r) 5.10 Beat the Chef (r) 5.35 Find It,
Fix It, Flog It (r) 5.55 Countdown (r)

12.30am Whitney: Secrets Behind the
Songs (r) 1.15 Live Casino Show 3.15
Entertainment News on 5 3.25
Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s
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5.10 Wildlife SOS (r) (SL) 5.35 Peppa
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Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

30 saturday review

Janet Baker

Sunday 24 | Primetime digital guide

The classical singer looks
back on her life and career
in the doc In Her Own Words
BBC4, 10pm

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6.00am Cristo Wake up to the
news that matters to you
7.00 David Bull The biggest
stories of the day
10.00 Richard Tice The former
MEP examines the state of
the nation and delivers
some much needed sanity
in his Sunday Sermon
1.00pm Trisha Goddard The
broadcaster looks through
the week’s leading stories
and gives her two cents on
the biggest social dilemmas
making the news this week
4.00 Kevin O’Sullivan After a
lifetime on Fleet Street,
Kevin O’Sullivan tackles
the big stories of the day,
champions free speech and
leads the war against woke
7.00 The Sunday Night Club
with Mark Saggers The
presenter reflects on the
sporting weekend and more
10.00-12.00m’t The Unexplained
with Howard Hughes

7.00pm EastEnders
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Hungry for It For the
semi-final, it is social media
week. The cooks must level
up basic biscuits into
Insta-worthy desserts (7/8)
9.00 Live Athletics: World
Championships Further
coverage of the opening
session of the 10th and final
day from Hayward Field in
Eugene, Oregon
10.00 Gambling: A Game of Life
and Death The stories of
two young men harmed by
their gambling addiction
10.50 Who Stole Tamara
Ecclestone’s Diamonds?
The 2019 burglary of
Tamara Ecclestone and Jay
Rutland’s London home
11.45-12.45am Eddie Hall: The
Beast v the Mountain
Hall’s preparations for a
boxing match with Hafthor
“Thor” Bjornsson in Dubai

7.00pm Lucy Worsley: Elizabeth
I’s Battle for God’s Music
The presenter investigates
the story of choral
evensong, which was
instigated by Henry VIII
during the tumultuous
and violent era of the
English Reformation
8.00 A Royal Music Celebration
at the Proms Clive Myrie
presents a concert of
music written for royal
occasions in honour of the
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Barry Wordsworth
conducts the BBC Concert
Orchestra and BBC Singers.
See Viewing Guide
10.00 Janet Baker: In Her Own
Words The classical singer
looks back on her life and
career, discussing the
traumatic death of her
brother when she was 10
11.30-12.15am Dame Janet
Baker Sings

6.55pm Come Dine with Me A dog
groomer hosts a cruise
ship-themed party in Dudley
in the West Midlands
7.25 Come Dine with Me
A businesswoman hosts the
final dinner party from
Dudley, West Midlands
8.00 Royal Antiques Revived
Victoria Coren Mitchell
meets three royal repairers
as they embark on a journey
of incredible restoration,
including a job involving
King George IV’s piano
9.00 Emergency Helicopter
Medics A farm worker tears
his arm using a potato
harvester. Last in the series
10.00 24 Hours in A&E Two
cyclists are brought into the
A&E department with
serious head injuries (1/14)
11.05-12.10am Emergency
Helicopter Medics
A woman suffers a heart
attack on a Norfolk beach

6.45pm Billions Axe assembles a
war room in the Hamptons
following a disastrous
setback, and seeks counsel
on how to recoup his losses.
Drama starring Damian
Lewis (7/12) (R)
7.50 Billions Axe looks into who
caused a breakdown in his
dealings in Sandicot, but
faces formidable opposition.
Chuck digs up dirt on a
political rival (8/12) (R)
9.00 Westworld Sci-fi drama
inspired by Michael
Crichton’s 1973 film (R)
10.05 The Baby Natasha must
reunite with her mother
Barbara, whom she hasn’t
seen in 15 years (4/8) (R)
10.40 The White Lotus Rachel is
blindsided by an
unexpected arrival (4/6) (R)
11.50-1.20am Game of Thrones
The Night King and the
army of the dead reach
Winterfell (3/6) (R)

5.30pm FILM I Am Jackie O (12,
2020) Profile of Jackie
Kennedy Onassis, providing
a definitive exploration of
her life, from first lady to
widow, unofficial royalty
and fashion icon
7.15 FILM The Alpinist (12, 2021)
Documentary about elusive
Canadian climber
Marc-André Leclerc, who
has made some of the
boldest solo ascents in
history, away from cameras
and with no margin for error
9.00 Richard Pryor: Omit the
Logic A profile of the
comedian, chronicling his
life from a troubled youth
to his career as one of the
most respected yet
controversial comic actors
of the 20th century (R)
10.45-12.30am FILM I Am Burt
Reynolds (12, 2020) Family
and friends pay tribute to
the iconic Hollywood actor

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

E4

Dave

Drama

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5.55pm FILM Bruce Almighty
(12, 2003) Comedy starring Jim
Carrey and Morgan Freeman
8.00 Emergency Nurses: A&E
Stories A senior nurse treats a
serious cardiac arrest patient
whose life hangs in the balance
9.00 Love Island The eighth week
begins with the single people
living like celebrities in the villa
10.00 Love Island: Aftersun
11.05 Family Guy
11.35-12.05am Family Guy
Bonnie and Lois visit Paris

6.00pm Lewis A college quiz
weekend leads to murder (3/4)
8.00 Long Lost Family This edition
follows a 62-year-old woman’s
search for her mother, with DNA
testing revealing layers of her
family she never knew existed (4/7)
9.00 Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road
Adventure The actress begins her
journey along the ancient trade
route, beginning in Venice (1/4)
10.00-12.05am Endeavour Morse
investigates a murder at a family
owned munitions factory (3/4)

7.00pm Ned’s History of Irish
Cycling Ned Boulting delves into
the history of Irish road cycling
8.00 Junk and Disorderly Henry
Cole and Allen Millyard find and
restore a Triumph Trident bike
9.00 Tour de France Highlights
Action from the 21st and final stage
10.00-12.45am FILM Fury (15,
2014) An American tank crew
undertakes a final dangerous
mission behind enemy lines in the
last months of the Second World
War. Drama starring Brad Pitt

6.45pm FILM Bend It Like
Beckham (12, 2002) Comedy
starring Parminder Nagra, Keira
Knightley and Juliet Stevenson
9.00 FILM Kingsman: The Golden
Circle (15, 2017) Secret agents
Eggsy and Merlin join forces with
their US counterparts to bring
down a psychotic femme fatale.
Comedy adventure starring
Taron Egerton and Colin Firth
11.40-12.15am The Inbetweeners
First episode of the comedy with
Simon Bird and Joe Thomas

7.00pm Special Ops: Crime Squad
UK A family committing shocking
animal cruelty in Cheshire
8.00 QI With Bill Bailey, Daliso
Chaponda and Sally Phillips
9.00 Have I Got a Bit More News
for You Bill Bailey hosts, with
guest panellists comedian Fin
Taylor and MP Dawn Butler
10.00 Room 101 Pet hates
10.40 QI With David Mitchell
11.20 QI With Sandi Toksvig
12.00-1.00am Alan Davies: As Yet
Untitled With Lou Sanders

6.40pm Call the Midwife Mother
Mildred returns to Nonnatus
8.00 Sister Boniface Mysteries
When local resident Hillary is found
dead, face covered in cold cream
next to an unfinished jigsaw, it
becomes clear to Boniface a
pattern’s forming across cases
9.00 Silent Witness The team
investigate the murder of a
surgeon in a hospital
11.15-1.15am Dalziel & Pascoe A
housewife is poisoned. Stephen
Tompkinson guest stars

Yesterday

PBS America

Smithsonian

Sky Arts

Sky History

Sky Max

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SKY 113, VIRGIN 122

7.00pm Bangers & Cash:
Restoring Classics Bangers & Cash
spin-off series that follows the
journey of a vehicle being repaired,
restored and re-auctioned (1/6)
8.00 ’Allo ’Allo! Comedy
8.50 ’Allo ’Allo! Comedy
9.25 ’Allo ’Allo! Comedy
10.00 Inside the Factory (7/10)
11.00 Hornby: A Model World Pete
Waterman is commissioned to
construct a monster layout (4/10)
12.00-1.00am Bangers and Cash
Documentary (8/10)

6.50pm Egypt’s Lost Cities The
potential existence of buildings
beneath the sands of Egypt
8.40 A Doctor’s Sword A family
search for the origin of a Samurai
sword gifted in the wake of the
Nagasaki nuclear attack
9.45 The Secret of the Animal
Mummies Ancient Egypt’s
animal sacrifice rituals
10.55 Corona: The Pandemic and
the Pangolin The potential for
deadly viruses to jump species
12.00-1.10am A Doctor’s Sword

7.00pm Lincoln’s Last Day
Docudrama exploring the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln
8.00 America’s Hidden Stories
Evidence suggesting Benedict
Arnold’s wife spied for Britain
9.00 America’s Hidden Stories
Archaeologists make discoveries
about the first successful English
settlement in America
10.00 Inside the Factory: Crisps
11.00 America’s Hidden Stories
12.00-1.00am America’s Hidden
Stories Documentary

7.00pm Soundtracks: Songs That
Defined History (3/8)
8.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
8.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
9.00 FILM Jeff Wayne’s Musical
Version of The War of The Worlds
(PG, 2012) This spectacle of visual
arts brings to life Jeff Wayne’s
groundbreaking musical triumph
— The War Of The Worlds
11.10 Otis Redding: Music Icons
The life of the soul singer (1/13)
11.40-12.10am The Ramones:
Music Icons (2/13)

7.00pm Al Murray: Why Do the
Brits Win Every War? Al discovers
the truth behind how the Vikings
were so successful in Britain (5/6)
8.00 Al Murray: Why Do the Brits
Win Every War? The truth behind
famous battles from the Wars of
Scottish Independence (6/6)
9.00 Blood & Glory: The Civil War
in Colour Documentary (2/4)
10.00 Lost Worlds
11.00 Revolutions: The Ideas
That Changed the World (5/6)
12.00-12.30am Pawn Stars

7.00pm A League of Their Own
Road Trip: Dingle to Dover
Highlights of Freddie Flintoff and
Jamie Redknapp travels (6/6)
8.00 An Idiot Abroad
9.00 S.W.A.T Hondo and the team
race to stop a hacker from
exposing the identities of
undercover officers
10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles A
newborn child is found abandoned
11.00 SEAL Team (4/14)
12.00-1.00am The Force:
Manchester (10/10)

Discovery

Nat Geographic

Sky Comedy

Comedy Central

Gold

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7.00pm Ed Stafford: First Man Out
Ed takes on ex-PSYOPS marine
Hakim Isler in the Zoige Marshes
of Sichuan Province
8.00 Expedition to the Edge
9.00 Serial Killer Tiger at Large
10.00 Deadliest Catch
11.00 Great White Battleground
12.00-1.00am The Last Alaskans

7.00pm Drain the Oceans (8/10)
8.00 Draining the Thames (12/15)
9.00 Vikings: The Rise and Fall
The siege of Paris in 885 (4/6)
10.00 Viking Seas: Drain
the Oceans (4/10)
11.00 Drain the Titanic
12.00-1.00am Lost Giants:
Drain the Oceans (13/15)

6.50pm The Office (US)
7.30 The Office (US)
8.00 The Office (US)
8.30 The Office (US)
9.00 Curb Your Enthusiasm
10.10 Pen15 (10/10)
10.50 Pen15 (1/15)
11.25 Pen15 (2/15)
12.00-1.15am Russell Howard Live

7.00pm Friends
7.30 Friends
8.00 Friends
8.30 Friends
9.00 FILM Welcome to the Jungle
(15, 2013) With Adam Brody
10.45 Kevin Bridges: A Whole
Different Story Documentary
11.45-12.45am Lee Evans: XL Tour

5.55pm Only Fools and Horses
7.10 Only Fools and Horses
8.20 Dad’s Army
9.00 Billy Connolly Does.
10.00 Coupling
10.40 Coupling
11.20 Harry Enfield and Chums
12.00-12.40am Harry Enfield
and Chums Comedy sketches

7.00pm 999 Rescue Squad
8.00 Inside the Operating Theatre
9.00 Killer Women with Piers
Morgan The broadcaster meets
Florida woman Jennifer Mee
10.00 Louis Theroux: Law &
Disorder in Lagos
11.00-12.20am Louis Theroux’s
LA Stories Documentary

Sky Main Event

Sky Premier League

Sky Cricket

BT Sport 1

BT Sport 2

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10.30am Live One-Day
International Cricket: England v
South Africa The third and final ODI
1.55pm Live Formula 1 The French
Grand Prix (Start-time 2.00)
4.00 Live One-Day International
Cricket: England v South Africa
7.00 Live DP World Tour Golf The
fourth day of the Cazoo Classic
8.00 Live PGA Tour Golf: The 3M
Open Coverage of the fourth day
9.00 Live World Matchplay Darts
The final of the tournament
11.00-12.00 Sky Sports News

10.00am Premier League
12.00 Premier League
2.00pm Premier League
4.00 Premier League A replay
of Leeds United v Liverpool
6.00 Premier League A replay of
Leicester City v West Ham United
8.00 Premier League A replay of
Liverpool v Manchester City
10.00pm PL 100: Paul Scholes
10.30 Premier League Icons
An in-depth profile of Gareth Bale
11.00-1.00am PL Retro Tottenham
Hotspur v Arsenal from 2003/04

10.30am Live One-Day
International Cricket: England v
South Africa Coverage of the
third and final ODI in the series
7.00pm Bowled Shane
7.45 Best of T20 Blast Finals Day
8.00 Talking Cricket
8.30 Ace: A Programme For
Change The ACE Programme
9.00 One-Day International
Cricket England v South Africa.
10.00 Vitality T20 Blast Cricket
11.00-12.00 One-Day International
Cricket England v South Africa

6.00am-9.00 Live AFL:
Collingwood Magpies v Essendon
Bombers (Bounce-up 6.20). From
Melbourne Cricket Ground
2.15pm Live One Day International
Cricket — West Indies v India
The second ODI in the three-match
series at Queen’s Park Oval in
Trinidad and Tobago
11.00 Live Baseball Tonight
The latest news and highlights
12.00-3.30am Live MLB: New York
Mets v San Diego Padres
(Start-time 12.08)

12.30pm Premier League
2.00 Premier League
3.30 Premier League
5.00 Premier League
6.30 Premier League
8.00 The Run-In A look ahead to
all the WWE SummerSlam action
8.30 Baseball Today in the UK
The latest news and highlights
9.00-12.30am Live MLB: Los
Angeles Dodgers v San Francisco
Giants (Start-time 9.10). Coverage
of the National League match
from Dodger Stadium

Rishabh Pant lines up for India
against West Indies in the
second ODI (BT Sport 1, 2.15pm)

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

saturday review 31

Sunday 24
Film guide

Radio guide

Film4
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Times Radio

11.00am Crack in the World
(U, 1965) Sci-fi thriller
starring Dana Andrews
12.55pm Harry and the
Hendersons (PG, 1987)
Comedy with John Lithgow
3.10 Flight of the Navigator
(U, 1986) Sci-fi adventure
starring Joey Cramer
5.00 Black Knight (PG, 2001)
Comedy adventure
starring Martin Lawrence
6.55 Gifted (12, 2017)
Drama starring Chris Evans
9.00 Mission: Impossible (PG,
1996) Action thriller starring
Tom Cruise and Jon Voight
11.15-1.20am The Escapist
(15, 2008) British jail-break
thriller starring Brian Cox

Digital only

Talking Pictures TV
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6.00am A Fire Has Been
Arranged (U, 1935) Comedy
7.20 The Strange World of
Planet X (PG, 1958) Sci-fi
drama starring Forrest Tucker
8.50 Saddle Up
8.55 Jubal (PG, 1956)
Western starring Glenn Ford
10.55 Saddle Up
11.00 The Untamed Breed (U,
1948) Western starring Sonny
Tufts and Barbara Britton
12.40pm Saddle Up
12.45 Demetrius and the
Gladiators (PG, 1954) Drama
starring Victor Mature
2.50 Robbery Under Arms (U,
1957) Period action adventure
starring Peter Finch
4.50 Look at Life
5.00 The Footage Detectives
6.00 The Saint
7.00 The Ghost and Mrs Muir
(U, 1947) Romantic fantasy
starring Gene Tierney
9.00 Kessler
10.00-12.20am Room at
the Top (15, 1959) Drama
starring Laurence Harvey

GREAT! Movies
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9.00am A Date with Murder
(15, 2008) Mystery
10.35 Flawless (PG, 2020)
Drama starring Sarah Fisher
12.15pm Seabiscuit (PG,
2003) Fact-based drama
starring Tobey Maguire
2.55 Australia (12, 2008)
Romantic drama with Nicole
Kidman and Hugh Jackman
6.05 Walk the Line (12, 2005)
Biopic of Johnny Cash
starring Joaquin Phoenix
9.00 Wild (15, 2014) Drama
starring Reese Witherspoon
11.15-1.05am Stratton
(15, 2017) Thriller starring
Dominic Cooper

GREAT! Movies Classic
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6.00am Ladies of the Chorus
(U, 1948) Musical
7.15 Crack Up (PG, 1946)
Crime thriller with Pat O’Brien

6.00am Chloe Tilley and
Calum Macdonald with Times
Radio Breakfast 10.00 Carole
Walker 1.00pm Alexis Conran
4.00 Ayesha Hazarika 7.00
Past Imperfect 8.00 Wine
Times 8.30 Matt Chorley 9.00
Highlights from Times Radio
10.00 Kait Borsay 1.00am
Highlights from Times Radio

Dylan Penn stars in Flag Day
(Sky Premiere, 10.30pm)
9.05 Passport to China
(U, 1960) Drama
10.40 The Deadly Affair
(15, 1967) Espionage drama
starring James Mason
12.45pm Footsteps in the Fog
(PG, 1955) Period thriller
starring Stewart Granger
2.35 Robin and Marian (PG,
1976) Medieval adventure
starring Sean Connery
and Audrey Hepburn
4.45 A Twist Of Sand (U, 1968)
Adventure starring Richard
Johnson and Jeremy Kemp
6.40 Boy on a Dolphin (PG,
1957) Romantic drama with
Sophia Loren and Alan Ladd
9.00 The Prime of Miss Jean
Brodie (15, 1969) Drama
starring Maggie Smith
11.20-1.40am The Way We
Were (PG, 1973) Romantic
drama starring Robert
Redford and Barbra Streisand

TCM Movies
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6.00am Hollywood’s
Best Film Directors
7.45 Maverick
1.15pm Murder, She Said (PG,
1961) Miss Marple mystery
starring Margaret Rutherford
3.00 The Hanging Tree
(PG, 1959) Western
5.15 The Outriders (U, 1950)
Western starring Joel McCrea
7.10 Whispering Smith
(U, 1948) Detective Western
starring Alan Ladd
9.00 Absolute Power
(15, 1997) Crime thriller
starring Clint Eastwood
11.30-1.40am Maximum Risk
(18, 1996) Action thriller with
Jean-Claude Van Damme

Sky Cinema Premiere
SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.35pm Spider-Man: No Way
Home (12, 2021) Adventure
3.10 Raging Fire (15, 2021)
Action adventure starring
Donnie Yen and Nicholas Tse
5.25 Spider-Man: No Way
Home (12, 2021) Comic-book
adventure sequel starring
Tom Holland and Zendaya
8.00 King Richard (12, 2021)
Biographical drama starring
Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis
10.30-12.25am Flag Day (15,
2021) Crime drama, directed
by and starring Sean Penn

Radio 2
FM: 88-90.2 MHz

5.00am Tracks of My Years
6.00 Good Morning Sunday
9.00 Steve Wright’s Sunday
Love Songs 11.00 The Michael
Ball Show 1.00pm Elaine Paige
on Sunday 3.00 Sounds of the
70s with Johnnie Walker 5.00
Paul O’Grady 7.00 Tony
Blackburn’s Golden Hour 8.00
Sunday Night Is Music Night
10.00 Radio 2 Unwinds with
Angela Griffin 12.00 OJ Borg
2.30am One Hit Wonders with
OJ Borg 3.00 Alternative
Sounds of the 90s with Dermot
O’Leary 4.00 Vanessa Feltz

Radio 3
FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

7.00am Breakfast
9.00 Sunday Morning
12.00 Private Passions (r)
1.00pm BBC Proms 2022
Xenakis (Allegro molto; Akea;
Ittidra; and À r. — Hommage à
Ravel); Messiaen (Pièce pour
piano et quatuor à cordes;
Louange a l’Immortalité de
Jésus — Quartet for the End of
Time); and Ravel (Pavane pour
une infante défunte) (r)
2.00 The Early Music Show
3.00 Choral Evensong
From the Chapel of Lambeth
Palace with St Martin’s Voices,
led by the Archbishop of
Canterbury ahead of the
Lambeth Conference, with
music from across the
Anglican Communion (r)
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
5.00 Words and Music
Poetry, prose and music on the
theme of Birmingham
6.30 Live BBC Proms 2022
Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s
production of Ethel Smyth’s
The Wreckers from the Royal
Albert Hall, with Robin Ticciati
conducting the London
Philharmonic. See Choice
11.00 World of Classical
12.00 Classical Fix
12.30am Through the Night (r)

Radio 4
FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz
LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Bells on Sunday
5.45 Profile (r)
6.00 News Headlines
6.05 Something Understood
With Mark Tully (r)
6.35 On Your Farm
7.00 News and Papers

Today’s pick

10.55 Comedy Club Interview
11.00 The Hudson and
Pepperdine Show 11.30
The Museum of Everything
12.00 Fear on Four
12.30am Night Terrace

Live BBC Proms 2022
Radio 3, 6.30pm
A chance to hear
Glyndebourne’s recent revival
of Ethel Smyth’s 1906 opera
The Wreckers. Set in Cornwall,
with a libretto in French, it
follows villagers who live off
the cargo of the ships they
wreck by extinguishing the
light from their lighthouse.
The principal story concerns
the zealous local preacher’s
rebellious wife Thirza (Karis
Tucker, right) and her
fisherman lover Mark
(Rodrigo Porras Garulo) who
7.10 Sunday
7.54 Radio 4 Appeal
8.00 News and Papers
8.10 Sunday Worship
8.48 A Point of View (r)
8.58 Tweet of the Day (r)
9.00 Broadcasting House
10.00 The Archers (r)
10.45-7.00 (LW) Live Test
Match Special: England v
South Africa The third men’s
ODI at Headingley
11.15 Desert Island Discs
12.01pm (LW) Shipping
12.04 I’m Sorry I Haven’t a
Clue Comedy panel game (r)
12.32 The Food Programme
1.00 The World This Weekend
1.30 The Listening Project (r)
2.00 Gardeners’ Question
Time Horticulture (r)
2.45 28ish Days Later
Connections between natural
cycles and the moon
3.00 Drama: Separate Tables
The first of Terence
Rattigan’s linked pair of
one-act plays (1/2)
4.00 Open Book
4.30 Tongue and Talk:
The Dialect Poets A guide
to poetry in Portsmouth
5.00 Welcome to Rwanda (r)
5.40 Profile (r)
5.54 Shipping Forecast
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.15 Pick of the Week
7.00 The Archers There’s a
new face at April Cottage
7.15 Alexei Sayle’s Strangers
on a Train A train journey
from Bristol to Penzance
7.45 Three Fires Girolamo
Defeated, by Denise Mina (2/5)
8.00 Feedback (r)
8.30 Last Word (r)
9.00 Money Box (r)
9.25 Radio 4 Appeal (r)
9.30 Analysis (r)
10.00 The Westminster Hour
11.00 Loose Ends (r)
11.30 Something Understood
With Mark Tully (r)
12.00 News and Weather
12.15am Sideways (2/4) (r)
12.45 Bells on Sunday (r)
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World Service

Radio 5 Live
MW: 693, 909

5.00am Sports Desk
5.30 5 Live Formula 1

BBC World Service
Digital only

are punished by the religious
fundamentalist coastal
community for lighting a
beacon that both helps
seafarers and is symbolic of
their passion. Ben Dowell
6.00 5 Live Science 7.00
Sunday Breakfast 10.00
Gordon Smart 12.00 5 Live
Sport 2.00pm 5 Live Formula
1 4.30 5 Live Sport 6.00 6-0-6
8.00 Teach Me a Lesson 8.45
It’s — Wagatha Christie 9.00
1Xtra Talks with Richie
Brave-Black and the Union
Jack 10.00 Stephen Nolan
1.00am Dotun Adebayo

talkSPORT
MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

6.00am Breakfast 9.00 Jonny
Owen and Friends 11.00 The
Warm Up 1.00pm The Sunday
Session 5.00 Darren Bent’s
Boot Room 8.00 A talkSPORT
Special 9.00 Trans Europe
Express 12.00 A talkSPORT
Special 1.00am Extra Time

TalkRadio

9.00am News 9.06 From Our
Own Correspondent 9.30
Outlook 10.00 News 10.06
People Fixing the World
10.30 Heart and Soul 11.00
The Newsroom 11.30 The
Compass 12.00 News
12.06pm The Inquiry 12.30
Assignment 1.00 Newshour
2.00 News 2.06 The Forum
2.50 Over to You 3.00 News
3.06 Music Life 4.00 News
4.06 Sportsworld 7.00 The
Newsroom 7.30 Outlook
8.00 News 8.06 The History
Hour 9.00 Newshour 10.00
News 10.06 Tech Tent 10.30
Pick of the World 10.50 Over
to You 11.00 The Newsroom
11.20 Sports News 11.30
Outlook 12.00 News
12.06am From Our Own
Correspondent 12.30 Heart
and Soul 1.00 The Newsroom
1.30 Discovery: The
Mysterious Particles of
Physics 2.00 The Newsroom
2.30 The Climate Question
3.00 News 3.06 Tech Tent
3.30 Pick of the World
3.50 Over to You 4.00
The Newsroom 4.30
The Conversation

6 Music
Digital only

Digital only

5.00am Cristo 7.00 David Bull
10.00 Richard Tice 1.00pm
Trisha Goddard 4.00 Kevin
O’Sullivan 7.00 The Sunday
Night Club with Mark Saggers
10.00 The Unexplained with
Howard Hughes 12.00 Petrie
Hosken 4.00am Piers Morgan
Uncensored Best Of

Radio 4 Extra
Digital only

7.20am Where Angels Fear to
Tread 8.30 Floggit’s 9.00 The
Code of the Woosters 9.30
Coming Alive 10.00 Desert
Island Discs 10.45 David
Attenborough’s Life Stories
11.00 The Moth Radio Hour
11.50 Inheritance Tracks
12.00 Poetry Extra 12.30pm
Ability 1.00 How Not to Be
a Boy Omnibus 2.10
Inheritance Tracks 2.20 Self
Control Omnibus: Part One
3.30 Non Stop Party People
4.00 The Snow Goose
5.00 Poetry Extra 5.30 Ability
6.00 Fear on Four 6.30 Night
Terrace 7.00 The Moth Radio
Hour 7.50 Inheritance Tracks
8.00 The Snow Goose
9.00 Desert Island Discs 9.45
David Attenborough’s Life
Stories 10.00 Comedy Club:
Ability 10.30 Delve Special

6.00am Amy Lamé 8.00
Radcliffe and Maconie 10.00
Cerys Matthews 1.00pm The
First Time With 2.00 Guy
Garvey 4.00 Iggy Pop 6.00
Now Playing 8.00 Stuart
Maconie 10.00 Don Letts’
Culture Clash Radio 12.00
Lorde at Glastonbury 1.15am
Live Hour 2.00 6 Artist in
Residence 3.00 Dream Fuel
with Arlo Parks 4.00 The
BBC Introducing Mixtape

Virgin Radio
Digital only

6.00am Stu Elmore 9.30
Andi Peters on The Graham
Norton Radio Show 12.30pm
On Demand 4.00 Bam 7.00
Latitude Festival 2022 with
Jayne Middlemiss 8.00 Olivia
Jones 12.00 Sean Goldsmith
4.00am Steve Denyer

Classic FM
FM: 100-102 MHz

7.00am Aled Jones 10.00
John Brunning 1.00pm
Catherine Bott 4.00 John
Humphrys 7.00 Smooth
Classics. The music of Jeneba
Kanneh-Mason 9.00 High
Score 10.00 Smooth Classics
1.00am Bill Overton
4.00 Early Breakfast

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

32 saturday review

Monday 25 | Viewing guide
Critic’s choice
River
BBC4, 9pm
The comforting sound of
flowing river water and the
final line from WH Auden’s
poem First Things First
begin this mesmerising
film. “Thousands have lived
without love,” Auden wrote.
“Not one without water.”
The director Jennifer Peedom
then takes us on an epic
journey down many streams
in a film composed of footage
of waterways in all stages
of being: torrents, trickles
and even glaciers. It is
complemented by the
narrator Willem Dafoe’s
sometimes portentously
enunciated words as well as
some beguiling string playing
from the Australian Chamber
Orchestra. “Where rivers
wandered, life could flourish,”
Dafoe says at one stage,
introducing an almost biblical
flavour to proceedings. “We
share our fates with rivers; we
flow together,” he adds later.
You would be forgiven for

feeling that this is a little
pretentious at times, but
there is also something
hugely seductive about a slow
TV viewing experience that
succeeds in conveying a sense
of the power and fragility of
our arteries of life, as Dafoe
might have put it. Yes we
know that we have “forgotten
to revere” rivers, as the
narrative tells us, because
it’s the sort of environmental
message we get in every film
featuring nature these days.
Yet that doesn’t make it a
worthless homily. And the
shots, including many taken
from archives, or captured
by drones or satellites, are
rarely not stunning. Perhaps
the most hypnotic and
spiritually uplifting moments,
however, can be found in
the simpler sequences, such
as the slow-motion footage
of a raft gliding serenely
across a placid surface.
Ben Dowell

Help! We Bought
a Village

Our Next Prime
Minister

Super Surgeons:
A Chance of Life

Channel 4, 4pm

BBC1, 9pm

Channel 4, 10pm

Across Europe, hundreds of
remote villages and hamlets
are lying empty as many
people leave agricultural work
to seek employment in the
cities, we are told at the start
of this series, which airs across
the week. And for some British
people it is an opportunity.
In this episode, Paul and
Yip, landscape gardeners
from Kent, have bought an
abandoned settlement in
Normandy that was about
to collapse. Meanwhile, a
Yorkshire couple, Francesca
and Carl, set about completing
the purchase of their hilltop
Italian hamlet. As you do. BD

Catch
up
Camilla’s Country Life
ITV Hub
Camilla, Duchess
of Cornwall, has
just turned 75 and
to mark the
occasion the
award-winning
director Michael
Waldman
was granted
exclusive
access for this
one-off film.
Also hitting
a significant
milestone
this year is
Country Life

And then there were two.
With Kemi Badenoch, Penny
Mordaunt, Suella Braverman
and Tom Tugendhat falling in
the early rounds, it’s down to
two. The former chancellor
Rishi Sunak and the foreign
secretary, Liz Truss, who need
to impress the Conservative
Party membership to get the
keys to 10 Downing Street.
They will be debating in
tonight’s “hustings” with
Sophie Raworth presenting in
front of an “80 to 100-strong
audience”. The BBC’s political
editor Chris Mason and
economics editor Faisal Islam
will be on hand for analysis. BD
magazine, which is celebrating
its 125th anniversary. As
p of its celebrations
part
it has invited the
duchess to guest-edit
the July issue, so
Waldman and his
c
cameras
follow her
as she plans and
oversees the
special edition
alongside
performing her
regular royal
duties and
engagements.
Waldman gains
further insight
into the life of
the future
q
queen
consort
as she engages
with those
closest to her.
Joe Clay

An aerial shot
of the Colorado
River in Texas

The series following the
work of surgeons at Royal
Marsden Hospital in London
continues to showcase their
extraordinary achievements.
In tonight’s second of three
episodes the patients include
70-year-old Peter, who has a
fast-growing tumour in his
tongue and in the back of
his mouth. Professor Vin
Paleri must establish if Peter
is viable for a complex and
high-risk surgery, which
would take tissue from Peter’s
leg to reconstruct his throat. It
would probably be the last
hope in the battle to save
Peter’s life. BD

Myanmar:
The Forgotten
Revolution
Channel 4, 11.05pm
This hard-hitting Dispatches
investigation looks at the
efforts of thousands of young
people fighting against a
military coup that has removed
elected government from their
country. More than 20,000
people have been reported
dead, air strikes are hitting
towns and villages, and artillery
is pummelling positions of
armed resistance. The director
Katie Arnold’s programme
asks why international bodies
such as the UN have been
so ineffective in halting
the bloodshed. BD

Films of the day
The Kid Who Whould Be King (PG, 2019)
Film4, 6.40pm

“Gone on quest to save Britain. Don’t worry!” is the hastily
scribbled note that our 12-year-old hero, Alex (Louis Ashbourne
Serkis), leaves on the kitchen table for his mum. Joe Cornish’s film
opens in Alex’s south London home with a radio news broadcast
bemoaning the country’s extreme political divisions. This is soon
followed by the whispering voice of the evil ancient witch Morgana
(Rebecca Ferguson), who has decided that the people of Britain
are “fearful and leaderless” and ripe for subjugation. Morgana
is planning to devastate the UK and Alex is the land’s only hope.
He is assisted by his best buddy Bedders (Dean Chaumoo), the
sword Excalibur and Merlin (the senior incarnation of the wizard
is played by Patrick Stewart). (120min) Kevin Maher

Regional programmes
● BBC1 Wales As BBC1 except:

8.00pm
Iolo: A Wild Life 8.30-9.00 Rescuing Dad:
Our Lives. A lifeboat coxswain returns to
the scene of his most terrifying rescue
10.40 Extraordinary Portraits (r) 11.10
Hungry for It 12.10am Have I Got a Bit
More News for You (r) 12.55 Have I Got a
Bit More News for You (r) 1.40-1.45
Weather for the Week Ahead
● BBC1 N Ireland As BBC1 except:
8.00pm True North: Speed Kids (r)
8.30-9.00 Clean It, Fix It 10.40 Ulster By
the Sea (r) 11.10 Our Place in Space. A
procession of lights and music from the
Giants Causeway 11.15 Extraordinary
Portraits. Laura Quinn Harris creates a
portrait of a rapping teacher 11.45 Hungry
for It 12.45am Have I Got a Bit More
News for You (r) 1.30-6.00 BBC News
● STV As ITV except: 10.30-10.45pm STV
News 3.50-5.05am Unwind with STV
● BBC Scotland 2.00pm Sign Zone: Secret
Body (r) 3.00 Sign Zone: Beechgrove (r)
3.30-4.00 Sign Zone: Grand Tours of
Scotland’s Rivers (r) 7.00 Beechgrove (r)
7.30 Scottish Vets Down Under (r) 8.00
This Farming Life (r) 9.00 The Nine 10.00
Scot Squad (r) 10.30 Stevens & McCarthy.
Sketch show 10.45 Growing Up Scottish
11.00 Limmy’s Other Stuff (r)
11.30-Midnight May Contain Nuts (r)

● S4C 6.00am Cyw:

Timpo (r) 6.10
Halibalw (r) 6.20 Do Re Mi Dona (r) 6.35
Twt (r) 6.50 Oli Wyn (r) 7.00 Nico Nôg (r)
7.10 Stiw (r) 7.20 Caru Canu a Stori (r) 7.30
Blero yn Mynd i Ocido (r) 7.45 Gwdihw (r)
8.00 Blociau Rhif (r) 8.05 Guto Gwningen
(r) 8.20 Wibli Sochyn y Mochyn (r) 8.30
Digbi Draig (r) 8.45 Sigldigwt (r) 9.00
Anifeiliaid Bach y Byd (r) 9.10 Y Brodyr
Coala (r) 9.20 Antur Natur Cyw (r) 9.35
Pablo (r) 9.45 Y Diwrnod Mawr (r) 10.00
Timpo (r) 10.10 Halibalw (r) 10.20 Do Re
Mi Dona (r) 10.35 Twt (r) 10.50 Oli Wyn (r)
11.00 Nico Nôg (r) 11.10 Stiw (r) 11.20 Caru
Canu a Stori (r) 11.30 Blero yn Mynd i
Ocido (r) 11.45 Gwdihw (r) 12.00 News
12.05pm Caru Siopa (r) 12.30 Heno (r)
1.00 Bwyd Epic Chris (r) 1.30 Dan Do (r)
2.00 News 2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00 News
3.05 Y Fets (r) 4.00 Awr Fawr: Timpo (r)
4.10 Pablo (r) 4.25 Halibalw (r) 4.35 Blero
yn Mynd i Ocido (r) 4.45 Gwdihw (r) 5.00
Kung Fu Panda (r) 5.25 Cath-Od (r) 5.35
Cic (r) 5.55 Larfa (r) 6.00 Natur Gwyllt Iolo
(r) 6.30 Rownd a Rownd (r) 6.57 News
7.00 Heno 7.30 News 8.00 Wcrain: 150
Diwrnod o Ryfel 8.25 Garddio a Mwy 8.55
News 9.00 Cefn Gwlad 10.00 Y Sioe 2022
(r) 11.00 Ar Werth (r) 11.30-12.05am
Bethesda: Pobol y Chwarel (r)
(r) repeat (SL) In-vision signing

Revolutionary Road (15, 2008)
BBC2, 11.15pm

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, above, reunited for the first
time since their pairing on Titanic to play April and Frank Wheeler,
a couple who find themselves kicking against the cosy Fifties
suburban existence that claimed them while they weren’t looking.
Their dream of escape to bohemian Paris is short-lived. April finds
herself pregnant with a third child and Frank is tempted up the
treacherous ladder of career advancement. The elegant savagery
of the author Richard Yates’s dialogue, which reads with a
gratifyingly poetic violence, doesn’t sit quite as easily in the
mouths of actors. Still the performances are forceful and there is
a visual eloquence to Sam Mendes’s direction. David Harbour and
Kathryn Hahn play the Wheelers’ neighbours. (119min) Wendy Ide

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Quiz hosted by Alexander Armstrong
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6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather

6.30am Bargain Hunt (r) 7.15 Garden
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BBC News 11.00 Athletics: World
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Quiz show presented by Jeremy Vine
(r) 3.00 Mastermind (r) 3.30 Eat Well
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food bills (r) 4.30 Athletics: World
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Eugene, Oregon 6.00 Live Women’s
T20 Cricket. England v South Africa.
Coverage of the third and final T20 in
the series from The Incora County
Ground, Derby. This will be the final
contest of the series between these
teams, having already faced each
other in a standalone Test and a
three-match ODI series

6.00am Good Morning Britain 9.00
Lorraine 10.00 This Morning 12.30pm
Loose Women. Interviews and studio
discussion from a female perspective
1.30 ITV News; Weather 1.55 Regional
News; Weather 2.00 Dickinson’s Real
Deal. David Dickinson and the team
are on the hunt for items in Bradford,
where Tracy Thackray Howitt puts up
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3.00 Tenable. Five police colleagues
answer questions about top 10 lists,
then try to score a perfect 10 in the
final round (r) 4.00 Tipping Point. Ben
Shephard hosts the arcade-themed
quiz in which contestants drop tokens
down a choice of four chutes in the
hope of winning a £10,000 jackpot (r)
5.00 The Chase. Quiz show hosted by
Bradley Walsh (r) 6.00 Regional News;
Weather 6.30 ITV News; Weather

6.35am 3rd Rock from the Sun (r)
7.00 3rd Rock from the Sun (r) 7.25
The King of Queens (r) 7.50 The King
of Queens (r) 8.15 Frasier (r) 8.40
Frasier (r) 9.10 Frasier (r) 9.45 The Big
Bang Theory (r) 10.10 The Big Bang
Theory (r) 10.40 The Big Bang Theory
(r) 11.05 The Simpsons (r) 11.35 The
Simpsons (r) 12.05pm Channel 4
News Summary 12.10 Ramsay’s 24
Hours to Hell and Back (r) 1.05 Find It,
Fix It, Flog It (r) 2.10 Countdown. With
Levi Roots 3.00 A Place in the Sun
4.00 Help! We Bought a Village.
New series. British people rebuilding
abandoned historic settlements in
Europe. See Viewing Guide
5.00 Couples Come Dine with Me (r)
6.00 The Simpsons (r) 6.30 Hollyoaks.
Key information about the knife
attack falls into the wrong hands (r)

6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine
12.15pm Nightmare Tenants, Slum
Landlords (r) 1.10 5 News at
Lunchtime 1.15 Home and Away.
Xander counsels a bemused Rose
about Cash’s behaviour (r) 1.45
Neighbours: The Final Week
2.15 FILM Deadly House Call (PG,
TVM, 2022) A busy working mother
hires a nurse to care for her wealthy
father, but the nurse makes a play for
the family fortune. Thriller starring
Sierra Wooldridge and Joanne Jansen
4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun
(r) 5.00 5 News at 5 with Dan Walker
6.00 Neighbours: The Final Week.
Refusing to be pushed around by
Izzy, Susan has put her own plan in
motion (r) 6.30 Eggheads. Previous
contestants the Harmer Hillbillies
take on the experts once more (r)

Extraordinary Portraits (8.30pm)

England’s Tammy Beaumont (6pm)

A trip to Emmerdale (7.30pm)

Revolution in Myanmar (11.05pm)

999: Police Hour of Duty (9pm)

7.00 Channel 4 News Including
sport and weather

7.00 Police Interceptors Following
police on a manhunt for a
dangerous suspect, as a
dog-handler and her crimefighting canine search in the
dark for the assailant (r)

7.00 The One Show Alex Jones and
Jermaine Jenas present topical
stories and celebrity chat
7.30 EastEnders At Peggy’s, Ben
clocks Jonah’s drug dealer, Tez,
giving Sam a packet of drugs
— leaving him intrigued.

7.30 Emmerdale Dan confronts Kim,
Mandy is on a mission, and
Paddy makes a suggestion to
Moira that may help Vanessa

8.00 Clean It, Fix It A team of
cleaners and DIY experts
performs home makeovers (r)

8.00 Coronation Street Yasmeen’s
good deed meets with hostility
from Stu, Summer decides to
get a job instead of attending
university, and Kevin is shocked
to hear of Jack’s unhappiness

8.00 Food Unwrapped’s Healthy
Hacks Jimmy Doherty is in
India exploring the health
claims behind pomegranates,
including claims that the fruit
can be useful in helping
Alzheimer’s sufferers (r)

8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching
Britain’s Speeders An urgent
call leads to a multi-vehicle
pursuit to rescue a child,
as a PC tracks down the
suspect on the M6 (3/10);
followed by 5 News Update

9.00 Our Next Prime Minister
Sophie Raworth leads this
debate between the final two
Conservative hopefuls — Rishi
Sunak and Liz Truss — vying
to be the next party leader
and the new Prime Minister.
See Viewing Guide

9.00 Long Lost Family The stories of
two sons who were given up for
adoption and the families who
have stopped at nothing to find
them. Nicky Campbell and
Davina McCall present

9.00 24 Hours in A&E A nurse is
called to resus to help a
71-year-old man who has had a
suspected stroke and has a
narrow window of time to give
him a life-saving drug

9.00 999: Police Hour of Duty A
woman arrives in custody after
being arrested on suspicion of
causing harm to her baby. The
baby is in a critical condition,
and police suspect that the
parents are involved

10.00BBC News at Ten O’Clock;
Weather

10.00ITV News at Ten; followed by
Weather

10.00Super Surgeons: A Chance at
Life Professor Vin Paleri must
establish if a patient with a
fast-growing tumour in his
tongue is viable for a complex
surgery using tissue from his
leg to reconstruct his throat.
See Viewing Guide (2/3)

10.00Casualty 24/7: Every Second
Counts A junior doctor
urgently assesses a man who
has arrived with a 13cm-long
laceration on his thigh from a
DIY accident with an angle
grinder (7/10) (r)

8.30 Extraordinary Portraits
Laura Quinn Harris creates
a portrait of rapping teacher
Christian (6/6)

10.30 BBC Regional News
10.40 Hungry for It For the semi-final,
it is social media week. The
cooks must level up basic
biscuits into Insta-worthy
desserts and create a street
food menu that would wow
on socials (7/8) (r)
11.40 Have I Got a Bit More News for
You David Tennant hosts an
extended edition of the satirical
quiz, with Jack Dee and Helen
Lewis joining team captains Ian
Hislop and Paul Merton (1/9) (r)
12.25am Have I Got a Bit More News
for You. With guests Katherine Ryan
and Tim Shipman (r) 1.10 Weather for
the Week Ahead 1.15 BBC News

10.30 Newsnight Analysis of the day’s
events with Mark Urban

10.30 Regional News; followed by
Regional Weather
10.45 Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club
With Aurie Styla, Fern Brady and
Babatunde Aléshé (5/5) (r)

7.55 5 News Update

11.15 FILM Revolutionary Road
(15, 2008) A married couple live
a picture-perfect life on the
surface, but in truth feel stifled
by their situation. Sam Mendes’
1950s-set drama starring Kate
Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio.
See Film Choice

11.15 All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
Hard-hitting action from the
world of All Elite Wrestling,
featuring all of the biggest stars
on the roster, including Adam
Page, Chris Jericho, CM Punk
and Jon Moxley

11.05 Myanmar: The Forgotten
Revolution — Dispatches
Investigating three major mass
killings by Myanmar’s army,
revealing evidence of soldiers
targeting peaceful protestors
and those trying to help the
wounded. See Viewing Guide

11.05 999: Critical Condition A father
of four is rushed in after
suffering a cardiac arrest, while
another man has fallen from a
roof onto a skip, leaving him
with a gaping wound to his
thigh and serious injuries to
his pelvis and spine (3/8) (r)

1.05am Sign Zone: Countryfile.
Margherita Taylor visits Mahee Island,
County Down (r) (SL) 2.05 Keith
Richards: My Life as a Rolling Stone. A
profile of the guitarist and songwriter
(r) (SL) 3.05-4.05 Ronnie Wood: My
Life as a Rolling Stone (r) (SL)

1.00am Teleshopping 3.00
Girlfriends. Three friends support
each other through a series of difficult
times. Drama starring Phyllis Logan,
Zoe Wanamaker and Miranda
Richardson (r) (SL) 3.50 Unwind with
ITV 5.05 5 Gold Rings (r) (SL)

12.05am Kitchen Nightmares USA (r)
(SL) 12.55 Couples Come Dine with
Me (r) 1.50 Sarah Beeny’s New Life in
the Country (r) (SL) 2.45 Grand
Designs (r) (SL) 3.40 The Great Big
Tiny Design Challenge (r) (SL) 4.35
Location, Location, Location (r) (SL)

12.05am Ambulance: Code Red (r)
1.00 The LeoVegas Live Casino Show
3.00 Entertainment News on 5
3.05 Skin A&E (r) 3.50 The Yorkshire
Vet (r) 4.45 Wildlife SOS (r) (SL) 5.10
Great Scientists (r) (SL) 5.35 Peppa
Pig (r) (SL) 5.40 Fireman Sam (r)

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

34 saturday review

Get Carter

Monday 25 | Primetime digital guide

Michael Caine stars as
the eponymous gangster
in the 1971 crime thriller
ITV4, 9pm

FV Freeview FS Freesat

TalkTV

BBC3

BBC4

More 4

Sky Atlantic

Sky Documentaries

FV 237, FS 217, SKY 526, VIRGIN 627

FV 23, FS 179, SKY 117, VIRGIN 107

FV 9/24, FS 173, SKY 116, VIRGIN 108

FV 18, FS 124, SKY 136, VIRGIN 147

SKY 108

SKY 121, VIRGIN 278

6.00am James Max
6.30 The Julia Hartley-Brewer
Breakfast Show
10.00 The Independent Republic
of Mike Graham The host
tears his way through the
morning newspapers
1.00pm Ian Collins Hard-hitting
monologues and debates
4.00 Kevin O’Sullivan The
presenter tackles the big
stories of the day
7.00 The News Desk with
Tom Newton Dunn The
biggest stories of the day
8.00 Piers Morgan Uncensored
The former Fleet Street
editor presents his verdict
on the day’s global events
9.00 The Talk Sharon Osbourne
and a panel of famous
faces debate the hot topics
everybody’s talking about
10.00 Daisy McAndrew A look at
tomorrow’s newspapers
11.00-12.00 Piers Morgan
Uncensored

7.00pm Top Gear Matt LeBlanc
test drives the aptly named
Ferrari 812 Superfast (5/6)
8.00 We Are England Mobowinning rap artist Graft
embarks on a journey to
trace his ancestral roots
8.30 We Are England The
investigative journalist,
producer and presenter
Livvy Haydock reflects on
her formative years
9.00 FILM 47 Meters Down:
Uncaged (15, 2019)
Two sisters diving in an
underwater city learn they
have entered the territory of
the deadliest shark species
in the submerged caves.
Horror with Sophie Nélisse
10.20 Cuckoo Comedy series
starring Greg Davies (1/7)
10.50 Cuckoo Rachel has an
opportunity to get the
job of her dreams (2/7)
11.20-12.30am RuPaul’s Drag Race
UK With Matt Lucas (1/10)

7.00pm Great American Railroad
Journeys Michael Portillo’s
journey across eastern
Canada ends in Toronto
7.30 Digging for Britain: The
Greatest Discoveries The
key archaeological sites of
Anglo-Saxon Britain (4/4)
8.00 Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean
on Earth Dolphin pods and
penguin colonies in the
South Atlantic (2/3)
9.00 River Orchestral concert
film, taking a journey along
rivers around the world.
See Viewing Guide
10.10 The River: A Year in the Life
of the Tay The writer Helen
Macdonald examines life
along the River Tay
11.40-12.40am Britain’s Lost
Waterlands: Escape to
Swallows and Amazons
Country Exploring the
British landscapes that
inspired Arthur Ransome’s
Swallows and Amazons

6.55pm Escape to the Château:
DIY A couple are on the
hunt for the perfect chateau
to call home (4/10)
7.55 Devon and Cornwall
A steam engine enthusiast
embarks on a coast-to-coast
journey across Devon,
travelling across the county
in an 80-year-old
steamroller (3/4)
9.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Henry
Cole and Simon O’Brien
head to Norfolk to meet the
author and broadcaster Bob
Flowerdew, where Henry
eyes up a pinball machine
from a damp shed
10.00 Holidays from Hell:
Caught on Camera Cameras
reveal what can go wrong
when a dream holiday
turns into a nightmare
11.05-12.10am 24 Hours in A&E
A 16-year-old has suspected
spinal injuries after being
thrown from her horse (2/14)

6.15pm True Detective While
Ray and Frank contemplate
new life choices, Ani and
Paul follow a lead up the
coast. Crime drama starring
Colin Farrell (5/8) (R)
7.25 Game of Thrones After
the Battle of Winterfell, the
Great War to gain control
over the mythical land of
Westeros continues as
Jon and Daenerys look
to the south (4/6) (R)
9.00 Westworld Sci-fi drama
inspired by Michael
Crichton’s 1973 film (R)
10.10 True Detective Cohle
persuades Hart to help him
reinvestigate the Dora
Lange case and the former
partners try to track down
the scarred man who keeps
cropping up in their
inquiries (7/8) (R)
11.15-12.20am True Detective
Cohle and Hart encounter
the scarred man (8/8) (R)

7.00pm Mother Teresa: For the
Love of God An in-depth
look at the life of the nun
and missionary, who was
canonised as a saint by
Pope Francis in December
2015 (1/3) (R)
8.00 Janet Jackson A profile of
the singer in which she
speaks candidly about her
career and the defining
moments of her life (1/4) (R)
9.00 The Invisible Pilot Facing
decades in prison, Gary
testifies in the investigation
into the Iran-Contra affair.
But can the testimony of a
lifelong felon bring down a
president? (3/3)
10.10-12.40am FILM Cobain:
Montage of Heck (15, 2015)
Filmmaker Brett Morgen
explores the Nirvana
frontman’s childhood,
career and tragic death,
using material from the
Cobains’ personal archives

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

E4

Dave

Drama

FV 6, FS 113, SKY 118, VIRGIN 115

FV 10, FS 115, SKY 119, VIRGIN 117

FV 26, FS 117, SKY 120, VIRGIN 118

FV 13, FS 122, SKY 135, VIRGIN 106

FV 19, FS 157, SKY 111, VIRGIN 127

FV 20, FS 158, SKY 143, VIRGIN 130

7.00pm Bob’s Burgers Bob and
Linda work out at the new gym
7.30 Bob’s Burgers Jessica and her
friend search for a sea monster
8.00 Superstore The gang play
laser tag with security scanners
8.30 Superstore Mateo, Cheyenne,
Garrett and Glenn struggle for cash
9.00 Love Island The countdown
has begun on Love Island
10.05 Don’t Hate the Playaz (7/7)
10.50 Family Guy
11.20 Family Guy
11.50-12.20am American Dad!

7.00pm Heartbeat Jackie
prosecutes a quarry boss for
negligence in the workplace
8.00 Endeavour The sleuth
investigates a hit-and-run that
claimed the life of an eminent
Oxford professor (4/4)
10.00 The Pembrokeshire
Murders Drama based on the true
story of John Cooper starring
Luke Evans and Keith Allen (1/3)
11.05-12.15am Wycliffe Suspicion
falls on a pagan sect when a
baby is found dead (6/8)

6.50pm The Chase Celebrity
Special Contestants include Ranvir
Singh and John Sergeant (2/16)
7.55 The Chase: The Bloopers
Outtakes from the quiz show
9.00 FILM Get Carter (18, 1971)
A racketeer returns to his native
Newcastle to bury his brother and
investigate the mysterious
circumstances surrounding his
death. Thriller with Michael Caine
11.15-1.35am FILM Alien 3 (18, 1992)
Sci-fi thriller starring Sigourney
Weaver and Charles Dance

7.00pm Hollyoaks Shocking
evidence into the knife crime
investigation is revealed
7.30 Black-ish Diane and Jack
discover Dre’s inspiration for his
ads are a little too close to home
8.00 Below Deck The captain is
forced to consider a drastic change
9.00 Gogglebox Peaky Blinders,
Love Is Blind, Starstruck and
Coronation Street are appraised
10.00 Naked Attraction A
pansexual woman looks for a date
11.05-12.10am First Dates

7.00pm Richard Osman’s House of
Games Chizzy Akudolu, Charlie
Higson, Kate Williams and Tom
Allen take part in the quiz
7.40 Room 101
8.20 Room 101
9.00 QI XL With Joe Lycett, Shazia
Mirza and Josh Widdicombe
10.00 Big Zuu’s Big Eats Big Zuu,
Tubsey and Hyder head north to
cook for Alex Brooker
10.40 Mock the Week
11.20 Mock the Week
12.00-1.00am QI XL

6.40pm Last of the Summer Wine
Seymour believes it is about time
he offered his considerable talents
and services to the local vicar
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine
Seymour makes a promise
8.00 Miss Marple Villagers
harbour a strange secret
10.05 New Tricks After being
released from jail, a notorious
paedophile admits to the murder
of a child 25 years previously
11.25-12.45am Spooks First-ever
episode of the espionage drama

Yesterday

PBS America

Smithsonian

Sky Arts

Sky History

Sky Max

FV 27, FS 159, SKY 155, VIRGIN 129

FV 84, FS 155, SKY 174, VIRGIN 273

FV 57, FS 175, SKY 171, VIRGIN 276

FV 11, FS 147 SKY 130, VIRGIN 165

SKY 123, VIRGIN 270

SKY 113, VIRGIN 122

7.00pm Abandoned Engineering
Exploring a British fort that
became a bizzare zoo
8.00 Inside the Factory
Gregg Wallace visits a soup
factory in Wigan (8/10)
9.00 Scouting for Toys
Collector Michael Maughan is
selling some of his impressive
Timpo collection (8/10)
10.00 Bangers and Cash (9/10)
11.00 Abandoned Engineering
12.00-1.00am Great Continental
Railway Journeys (5/6)

6.00pm Castles: Britain’s Fortified
History The role of castles in
Britain’s history and art (1/3)
7.10 The Somme 1916: From Both
Sides of the Wire (1/3)
8.30 The American Diplomat
9.35 Shooting the War Amateur
footage of the Second World War
shot by two British and two
German soldiers (1/3)
10.55 Castles: Britain’s Fortified
History Sam Willis presents (1/3)
12.00-1.15am The Somme 1916:
From Both Sides of the Wire (1/3)

7.00pm Inside the Factory: Crisps
Gregg Wallace and the team
investigates crisp production
8.00 How Did They Build That?
A look at some remarkable
structures, including the Grand
Canyon Skywalk in Arizona
9.00 How Did They Build That?
Undertaking the transformation
of London Bridge Station
10.00 Inside the Factory
11.00 How Did They Build That?
12.00-1.00am How Did They Build
That? Construction techniques

7.00pm Andre Rieu: Welcome to
My World The violinist looks back
at an emotional concert for
veterans in Maastricht (3/10)
8.00 Len Phillips Swing
Orchestra’s 100 Years of Big
Bands (2/2) Concert tracing
the history of jazz, swing and
big band music (2/2)
9.15 FILM Runrig: There Must
Be a Place (12, 2021) The career
of the Scottish rock band
11.30-1.30am Blitzed: The
80s Blitz Kids’ Story

7.00pm Forged in Fire Two smiths
must create the Bastard Sword
8.00 Curse of the Lost Amazon
Gold Investigators hunt for a city
of gold in the jungles of Peru (2/6)
9.00 Lost Gold of the Aztecs
10.00 Custer: The Final Mystery
An attempt to solve the last
great mystery of the Battle
of the Little Bighorn (1/3)
11.00 Search for the Lost Giants
Reports of giant skeletons being
found across America (1/6)
12.00-1.00am What on Earth?

7.00pm Stargate SG-1 A black
hole threatens the team
8.00 Resident Alien Harry enlists
an unlikely ally (7/10)
9.00 COBRA Political thriller
starring Robert Carlyle (1/6)
10.00 Brassic Vinnie’s friend
Gideon calls to say his mother
has passed away (2/8)
11.00 Flintoff: Lord of the Fries
Freddie and Rob enjoy the sights
and sounds of Scotland (4/6)
12.00-1.00am The Lazarus
Project Sci-fi thrilller (6/8)

Discovery

Nat Geographic

Sky Comedy

Comedy Central

Gold

W

SKY 125, VIRGIN 250

SKY 129, VIRGIN 266, BT 351

SKY 114, VIRGIN 135, BT 346

SKY 112, VIRGIN 181, BT 344

SKY 110, VIRGIN 124, BT 343

FV 25, FS 156, SKY 132, VIRGIN 125

7.00pm Outback Truckers
8.00 Fast N’ Loud
9.00 Celebrity IOU Joyride New
series. Ant and Cristy help Tony
Hawk gift his office manager with
the ultimate camping experience
10.00 Wheeler Dealers
11.00 Great White Open Ocean
12.00-1.00am Expedition Bigfoot

7.00pm Air Crash Investigation
A plane that crashed during a
top-secret mission
8.00 Air Crash Investigation:
Special Report Doomed airlines
9.00 Ice Road Rescue
10.00 Wicked Tuna
11.00 Air Crash Investigation
12.00-1.00am Drugs Inc (16/16)

7.05pm A.P. Bio Double bill
8.00 The Office (US) Double bill
9.00 Last Week Tonight with John
Oliver A satirical look at news
9.40 Vice Principals (2/9)
10.20 Vice Principals (3/9)
11.00 Last Week Tonight with
John Oliver Talk show
11.40-12.10am Breeders

7.00pm Friends Four episodes
9.00 Live at the Apollo
10.00 Stephen Merchant: Hello
Ladies The Office co-creator’s 2011
stand-up comedy show
11.00 Lee Evans: XL Tour The
comedian’s 2005 gig in Cardiff
12.00-1.00am Paddy McGuinness:
Saturday Night Live

6.40pm Dad’s Army
7.20 Dad’s Army
8.00 Gavin & Stacey First episode
of the comedy with Mathew Horne
8.35 Only Fools and Horses
9.45 Mrs Brown’s Boys
10.25 Mrs Brown’s Boys
11.00 Not Going Out
11.40-12.20am Not Going Out

7.00pm Property Brothers at
Home: Drew’s Honeymoon House
8.00 Rochelle Humes: Interior
Designer in the Making Designing
a garden for a mum and daughter
9.00 Inside the Ambulance: Coast
and Country Documentary
10.00-12.00 Stacey Dooley Sleeps
Over Double bill

Sky Main Event

Sky Premier League

Sky Cricket

BT Sport 1

BT Sport 2

SKY 401, VIRGIN 511, BT 440

SKY 402, VIRGIN 512

SKY 404, VIRGIN 514

SKY 413, VIRGIN 527, BT 430

SKY 414, VIRGIN 528, BT 431

6.00pm Live Women’s
International T20 Cricket:
England v South Africa Coverage
of the third and final T20 in the
series from The Incora County
Ground, Derby. This will be the final
contest of the series between
these teams, having already faced
each other in a standalone Test
and a three-match ODI series
10.00 Sky Sports News Round-up
of the latest headlines, featuring
live analysis and comment
11.00-12.00 Sky Sports News

7.00pm SNF A replay of
Liverpool v West Ham United
9.00 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox
Gary sits down with Liverpool
legend John Barnes to look back
at memorable matches in which
they faced each other (3/6)
9.30 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox
Gary sits down with Matt Le Tissier
as they relive some of the most
compelling matches where they
played each other (4/6)
10.00 Premier League Icons
10.30-12.30am PL Retro

6.00pm Live Women’s
International T20 Cricket:
England v South Africa The third
and final T20 in the series from
The Incora County Ground, Derby
10.00 One-Day International
Cricket England v South Africa
11.00 Talking Cricket The story of
South Africa’s most successful
captain, Graeme Smith
11.30-12.00 Ace: A Programme For
Change How the ACE Programme
has re-engaged the black British
community with cricket

7.00pm Badminton The YONEX
Taipei Open finals at Taipei Arena
9.00 Fishing: On the Bank
Angling magazine show presented
by Rob Hughes and Andy Ford
10.00 Ariel Helwani Meets Rey
Mysterio joins Ariel Helwani to
discuss taking off his mask in WCW
11.00-12.00 WWE Raw Highlights
1.00am-4.15 Live: WWE Monday
Night Raw The latest wrestling
action, featuring the likes of Drew
McIntyre, Asuka, Kofi Kingston
and Charlotte Flair

1.30pm Premier League
3.00 Premier League
4.30 Premier League
6.00 Premier League
7.30 Premier League
9.00 South of the River The stories
of some of English football’s most
high-profile young players who all
hail from South London
12.00-3.30am Live MLB:
Philadelphia Phillies v Atlanta
Braves (Start-time 12.05).
Coverage of the National League
match from Citizens Bank Park

Rio Ferdinand looks at South
London football talent for BT
Sport Films (BT Sport 2, 9pm)

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

saturday review 35

Monday 25
Film guide

Radio guide

Film4

Times Radio

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Diary of a Wimpy
Kid: The Long Haul (U, 2017)
Comedy sequel starring Jason
Drucker and Alicia Silverstone
12.50pm A Dog’s Purpose
(PG, 2017) Comedy drama
starring Dennis Quaid
2.50 Captain Scarlett
(U, 1953) Swashbuckling
adventure starring Richard
Greene and Leonora Amar
4.25 Time Bandits (PG, 1981)
Fantasy comedy starring
Craig Warnock
6.40 The Kid Who Would Be
King (PG, 2019) Adventure
starring Louis Ashbourne
Serkis. See Film Choice
9.00 Mission: Impossible 2
(15, 2000) Action thriller
sequel starring Tom Cruise
11.25-1.30am Ghost in the
Shell (12, 2017) Sci-fi
adventure starring Scarlett
Johansson and Pilou Asbæk

Talking Pictures TV
FV 82 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am Get Some In!
6.30 Svengali (PG, 1954)
Period melodrama
starring Donald Wolfit
8.10 The Fan (PG, 1949)
Comedy with Jeanne Crain
9.45 Look at Life
9.55 The Common Touch
(U, 1941) British drama
starring Geoffrey Hibbert
12.00 Hell Is a City (PG, 1960)
Thriller starring Stanley Baker
2.00pm Rooms
3.00 Vendetta for the Saint
(PG, 1969) Action adventure
starring Roger Moore
5.00 The Footage Detectives
6.00 The Sicilians (U, 1964)
Thriller with Robert Hutton
7.20 Go Go with Matt Monro
8.00 Gideon’s Way
9.00 Gentleman’s Agreement
(U, 1947) Drama with Gregory
Peck and Dorothy McGuire
11.20-1.20am Dulcima (U,
1971) Drama with John Mills

GREAT! Movies
FV 34 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am The Wrong Nanny
(2017) Thriller starring
Madison Adams
10.50 GREAT! Movie News
11.00 Murder by Text: Garage
Sale Mystery (PG, 2017)
Mystery starring Lori Loughlin
12.50pm GREAT! Movie News
1.00 Trust No One (PG, 2016)
Thriller with Nicole de Boer
2.40 Stolen Daughter
(PG, 2015) Crime drama
starring Andrea Roth
4.35 Tracker (12, 2010) Action
adventure with Ray Winstone
6.40 S.W.A.T (12, 2003) Action
thriller with Samuel L Jackson
9.00 Die Hard 4: Live Free or
Die Hard (15, 2007) Action
thriller sequel starring Bruce
Willis and Timothy Olyphant
11.30-1.35am First Kill (15,
2017) Thriller with Bruce Willis
and Hayden Christensen

Digital only

Tom Cruise stars in Mission:
Impossible 2 (Film4, 9pm)

5.00am Anna Cunningham
with Early Breakfast 6.00
Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell with
Times Radio Breakfast 10.00
Patrick Maguire 1.00pm
Mariella Frostrup. News, views
and reviews 4.00 Times Radio
Drive. Conversation with
political and economic guests
7.00 Henry Bonsu 10.00
Carole Walker 1.00am Stories
of Our Times. The Times’s daily
podcast 1.30 Red Box. Matt
Chorley’s politics podcast 2.00
Highlights from Times Radio

GREAT! Movies Classic

Radio 2

FV 52 FS 303 SKY 319 VIRGIN 424

FM: 88-90.2 MHz

6.00am She Played With Fire
(PG, 1957) Crime drama
7.50 Port Afrique (PG, 1956)
Mystery starring Philip Carey
9.40 Don’t Panic Chaps!
(U, 1959) Wartime comedy
11.20 We’ll Meet Again (U,
1943) Musical with Vera Lynn
1.05pm Hunt the Man Down
(PG, 1951) Crime thriller
2.35 The Reckless Moment
(PG, 1949) Drama
4.20 Cover Girl (U, 1944)
Musical with Rita Hayworth
6.35 The Taming of the Shrew
(U, 1967) Comedy
9.00 One, Two, Three (U,
1961) Cold War comedy
11.15-12.10am Shampoo (18,
1975) Satirical comedy drama

6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast
Show 9.30 Scott Mills 12.00
Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve
Wright 5.00 Sara Cox 6.30
Sara Cox’s Half Wower 7.00 Jo
Whiley’s Shiny Happy Playlist
7.30 Jo Whiley 9.00 The Blues
Show with Cerys Matthews
10.00 Trevor Nelson’s
Magnificent 7 10.30 Trevor
Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12.00
OJ Borg 3.00am Pick of the
Pops (r) 4.00 Vanessa Feltz

TCM Movies
SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s
Best Film Directors
7.10 Sugarfoot
8.10 Maverick
9.20 Cattle Annie and Little
Britches (PG, 1980) Western
11.15 Sugarfoot
12.20pm Maverick
1.30 Waterloo (U, 1970)
Drama starring Rod Steiger
4.15 Saddle the Wind
(PG, 1958) Western
6.00 Death Valley Rangers
(U, 1943) Western
7.15 Murder at the Gallop (U,
1963) Miss Marple mystery
9.00 Lethal Weapon 4 (15,
1998) Action adventure with
Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
11.40-1.40am National
Lampoon’s European
Vacation (15, 1985) Comedy

Sky Cinema Premiere
SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

2.25pm Raging Fire (15, 2021)
4.40 How to Deter a Robber
(15, 2020) Crime comedy
starring Vanessa Marano
6.10 Paws of Fury: The
Legend of Hank (PG, 2022)
Animated comedy with the
voice of Michael Cera
8.00 King Richard (12, 2021)
Drama starring Will Smith
10.30-12.50am Raging Fire
(15, 2021) Action adventure
starring Donnie Yen

Radio 3
FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

6.30am Breakfast
9.00 Essential Classics
12.00 Composer of the
Week: Beethoven
1.00pm Live BBC Proms 2022
Scarlatti (Piano Sonata in G,
K13; Piano Sonata in C sharp
minor, K247; and Piano Sonata
in C minor, K22); Liszt
(Transcendental Études No 3
— Paysage; Transcendental
Études No 4 — Mazeppa;
Transcendental Études
No 5 — Feux follets);
and Chopin (Piano Sonata
No 2 in B flat minor, Op 35)
2.00 Afternoon Concert
Another chance to hear the
BBC National Orchestra of
Wales’ Two Sheherazades
Prom, alongside listeners’
choice of music and ideas
inspired by a Prom Artist
4.30 New Generation Artists
The pianist Eric Lu plays pieces
by Handel and Schumann
5.00 In Tune
7.00 In Tune Mixtape
7.30 Live BBC Proms 2022
From the Royal Albert Hall.
Kazuki Yamada conducts the
CBSO in Glinka (Overture to
Ruslan and Lyudmila); Ethel
Smyth (Concerto for Violin and
Horn); and Rachmaninov
(Symphony No 2 in E minor)
10.00 John Foulds: Life, Death
and Resurrection Simon
Heffer journeys into the music
of the innovative composer (r)
10.45 The Essay: My Life in
Music Kitty Macfarlane on how
John Tavener’s The Lamb has
shaped her personal life (r)
11.00 Night Tracks
12.30am Through the Night (r)

Today’s pick
Matt Berry interviews . . .
Uri Geller
Radio 4 Extra, 11.30pm
Another chance to hear this
2018 “interview” with the
illusionist Uri Geller by the
comedian behind the fictional
actor buffoon Steven Toast.
Berry, right, deploys many
Toast-like inflections in what
appears to be a chat with the
actual master spoon bender,
but is chopped up from
archive sources. Much fun is
had with the strange things
that Geller claims have
happened to him. This

includes being haunted
by a man who was a “cross
between Guy Fawkes and
Ronald McDonald”. It’s funny
just imagining Berry saying
that, but hearing it is even
more amusing. Ben Dowell

Radio 4

Radio 5 Live

FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz
LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz

MW: 693, 909

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 Tweet of the Day (r)
6.00 Today
9.00 This Cultural Life (r)
9.45 Book of the Week:
Pharaohs of the Sun
By Guy de la Bedoyere (1/5)
9.45 (LW) Daily Service
10.00 Woman’s Hour
11.00 My Name Is Laura
11.30 The Bottom Line (r)
12.01pm (LW) Shipping
Forecast
12.04 You and Yours
1.00 The World at One
1.45 28ish Days Later A couple
who schedule life around
the menstrual cycle
2.00 The Archers (r)
2.15 Drama: Trust By Jonathan
Hall and starring Julie
Hesmondhalgh (1/3) (r)
3.00 The 3rd Degree (6/6)
3.30 The Food Programme (r)
4.00 Sketches The work of
graphic novel author Alice
Planel-Frederiks and the
painter Gerry Mahood
4.30 Don’t Log Off (r)
5.00 PM
5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.30 I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
7.00 The Archers Susan
considers an extreme solution
and there’s a thaw for Brian
7.15 Front Row
8.00 Leeds: Life in the Bus
Lane The lack of public
transport in Leeds compared
with other British cities
8.30 Analysis (9/9)
9.00 China’s Stolen Treasures
The looting of Chinese
antiquities and demand for
them in China (r)
9.30 The Smugglers’ Trail (r)
10.00 The World Tonight
10.45 Book at Bedtime: Mrs
Bridge By Evan S Connell.
Read by Fenella Woolgar (1/10)
11.00 Word of Mouth (r)
11.30 You’re Dead to Me (r)
12.00 News and Weather
12.30am Book of the Week:
Pharaohs of the Sun (1/5) (r)
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World Service

5.00am Wake Up to Money
6.00 5 Live Breakfast 9.00
Nicky Campbell 11.00 Naga
Munchetty 1.00pm Nihal
Arthanayake 4.00 5 Live
Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport
9.00 Athletics 10.00 5 Live
Sport 10.30 Colin Murray
1.00am Dotun Adebayo

talkSPORT
MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00
talkSPORT Breakfast with
Laura Woods 10.00 Jim White
and Simon Jordan 1.00pm
Hawksbee and Jacobs 5.00
Drive with Adrian Durham
7.00 The PressBox 10.00
Sports Bar 1.00am Extra Time

TalkRadio
Digital only

6.30 A Good Read 7.00
Round the Horne 7.30 Flying
the Flag 8.00 Detective 8.30
The Great Impersonation
9.00 TED Radio Hour 9.50
Inheritance Tracks 10.00 I’m
Sorry I Haven’t a Clue 10.30
Everyone Quite Likes
Justin 11.00 Dead Ringers
11.30 Matt Berry Interviews.
A spoof interview with
Uri Geller. See Choice
11.45 Tom Parry’s Fancy
Dressed Life. Comedy

BBC World Service
Digital only

8.50am Witness History 9.06
The Climate Question 9.30
CrowdScience 10.00 News
10.06 The Cultural Frontline
10.30 Dear Daughter 10.50
More or Less 11.00 The
Newsroom 11.30 The
Conversation 12.00 News
12.06pm Outlook 12.50
Witness History 1.00
The Newsroom 1.30
CrowdScience 2.00
Newshour 3.00 News 3.06
HARDtalk 3.30 Business 4.00
BBC OS 6.00 News 6.06
Outlook 6.50 Witness History
7.00 The Newsroom 7.30
Sport Today 8.06 The
Climate Question 8.30
Discovery: Plant-Based
Promises 9.00 Newshour
10.00 News 10.06 HARDtalk
10.30 The Conversation
11.00 The Newsroom 11.20
Sports News 11.30 Business
12.00 News 12.06am The
History Hour 1.00 News 1.06
Business Matters 2.00 The
Newsroom 2.30 The
Documentary 3.00 News
3.06 Outlook 3.50 Witness
History 4.00 The Newsroom
4.30 In the Studio

5.00am James Max 6.30
The Julia Hartley-Brewer
Breakfast Show 10.00 The
Independent Republic of Mike
Graham 1.00pm Ian Collins
4.00 The Afternoon Show
7.00 The News Desk with Tom
Newton Dunn 8.00 Piers
Morgan Uncensored 9.00 The
Talk 10.00 Daisy McAndrew
11.00 Piers Morgan
Uncensored 12.00 Petrie
Hosken 4.00am The Talk

7.30am Lauren Laverne
10.30 Jamz Supernova
1.00pm Craig Charles 4.00
Steve Lamacq 7.00 Marc
Riley 9.00 Gideon Coe 12.00
In Their Own Words: Little
Simz 1.00am Little Simz Live

Radio 4 Extra

Virgin Radio

Digital only

Digital only

8.00am Round the Horne
8.30 Flying the Flag 9.00
Wordaholics 9.30 Heated
Rollers 10.00 Foreign Bodies:
The Bethlehem Murders 11.00
TED Radio Hour 11.50
Inheritance Tracks 12.00
Round the Horne 12.30pm
Flying the Flag 1.00 Detective
1.30 The Great Impersonation
2.00 Every Third Thought
2.15 Where Angels Fear to
Tread 2.30 Back On Highway
61 3.00 Foreign Bodies: The
Bethlehem Murders 4.00
Wordaholics 4.30 Heated
Rollers 5.00 Josh Howie’s
Losing It 5.30 I’m Sorry I
Haven’t a Clue 6.00 Orbiter X

6.30am The Chris Evans
Breakfast Show with Sky
10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris
1.00pm Tim Cocker 4.00
Kate Lawler 7.00 Bam 10.00
Olivia Jones 1.00am Sean
Goldsmith 4.00 Steve Denyer

6 Music
Digital only

Classic FM
FM: 100-102 MHz

6.00am More Music
Breakfast 9.00 Alexander
Armstrong 12.00 Anne-Marie
Minhall 4.00pm John
Brunning. Old favourites and
new discoveries 7.00 Smooth
Classics 1.00am Bill Overton
4.00 Early Breakfast

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

36 saturday review

Tuesday 26 | Viewing guide
Critic’s choice
Mad Tracey from Margate
Sky Arts/Now, 7pm
It says a lot about Tracey
Emin’s talent and charisma
that this film from 1999,
directed by Simon Chu and
produced by the Sunday Times
art critic Waldemar
Januszczak, still feels fresh
and interesting. It follows
her making sketches, talking
about the inspirations
behind her work and is
interspersed with other
archive footage including
the cringeworthy time she
appeared drunk on a
Channel 4 discussion show
about the Turner prize in
1997 and walked out,
promising to go and see her
mum. Emin’s (now late)
mother, Pam, is a lovely
presence here, and we also
meet Tracey’s “daddy”
Enver, who claimed to have
fathered about 20 children.
One scene has Tracey
returning to her home town
of Margate with twin brother
Paul, who says at another

stage that modern
art is “a load of old bollocks”.
The film’s discussion of the
raw, emotional, unignorable
work that often explores the
viscera of her life is neatly
done, and it’s sobering to
know that she is recovering
from a serious cancer
operation. That is now, this
was then, an hour-long film
that really takes you back to
the heady 1990s when
conceptual art was in full
swing. One scene has
Januszczak and other arty
types holding forth in a pub,
talking about whether Emin’s
work has any worth. “I don’t
know if I want my sister to
grow up to want be Tracey
Emin,” says Januszczak before
Tracey herself comes to clear
away the drinks. She has
always said that people
should look at art more and
not just talk about it, and it’s
a fitting way to end.
Ben Dowell

Sky Sci-Fi Launch

Mountain Vets

Sky Sci-Fi, 11am

BBC2, 8pm

Syfy changes its name to Sky
Sci-Fi and alongside the familiar
roster of shows — Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine, Star Trek:
Enterprise and even shows
without Star Trek in the title
such as Quantum Leap and
Stargate SG-1 — is a fresh one
called From, which is being
dropped as a ten-part box set.
It comes from the creators of
the island nightmare series
Lost and has a similar vibe as a
family travelling by motorhome
in the US take a detour and
come across a town where they
cannot escape and where
terrifying creatures reside. It
stars Harold Perrineau (Michael
in Lost), Catalina Sandino
Moreno and Eion Bailey. BD

It’s back to the lovely Northern
Ireland countryside for more
wet noses, straggly fur and
heartstopping tales of
veterinary heroism. The first
patient through the swing
doors of the USPCA in Newry is
the enchanting three-legged
Lurcher, Roo, a rescue dog who
had previously been a stray
that had been hit by a car,
prompting the amputation of a
leg. Now Roo’s stump seems to
be growing and she’ll need
surgery before something even
more worrying is discovered.
Over in Castlewellan a cow that
decides to sit down during a
caesarean section causes
problems for vet Aidan.
Continues on Thursday. BD

Catch
up
McDonald & Dodds
ITV Hub
A third series of lighthearted murder
mysteries featuring
the chalk-andcheese sleuths
— the sassy DCI
Lauren
McDonald
(Tala Gouveia)
and the
bookish DS
Dodds (Jason
Watkins) — is
on ITV Hub. The
first of four
episodes involves
the perplexing case

of a young woman murdered
in broad daylight in a busy
park. But why is she smiling?
Central to everything, it seems,
is a linguistic anthropologist
played by Alan Davies. Another
new episode is set in the highoctane world of Formula One,
where the duo are called
into action when a
driver for Bath’s
famous motorsport
dynasty, the
Addingtons,
dies during a
pitstop. As a
big F1 fan,
McDonald is
right at home,
but as ever it
is Dodds’s
specialisms
that lead to
a breakthrough.
Joe Clay

Bake Off: The
Professionals

Darcey Bussell’s
Royal Road Trip

Films of the day

Channel 4, 8pm

More4, 9pm

Sky Cinema Drama, 11.10pm

The long search for the best
patisserie team in Britain
concludes as Liam Charles
and Stacey Solomon oversee
the three pairings for the final.
It’s been a long (by which I
mean ten-episode) journey,
leaving a final line up of
Nathan and Kevin; Jemima and
Zack, two cake masters from
Puddles Bespoke Patisserie in
London; and I Shan and Jojo
from Hotel Café Royal, also
in London. The first challenge
involves a patisserie window
display of four different
batches of finger tarts followed
by a banquet designed for
80 racegoers. BD

We all knew former ballerina
and Strictly judge Darcey
Bussell has a regal air, so it
might not surprise you to learn
that she lived in the place
where the Queen spent the
first year of her life. White
Lodge in Richmond Park was
the place the Queen’s parents
chose to raise their daughter
in relative peace, and it
became the Royal Ballet
School, where Bussell was a
boarder. It’s one of the places
ticked off in the concluding
part to this deferential but not
uninteresting journey to the
places that mean most to Her
Majesty. BD

The Danish Girl (15, 2015)

Eddie Redmayne makes another astounding transformation in
The Danish Girl, after his Oscar-winning turn as Stephen Hawking.
This time he changes gender, beginning the film as the male
Danish landscape artist Einar Wegener and ending it as a woman,
Lili Elbe, a pioneer undergoing sex reassignment surgery. Tom
Hooper’s drama, adapted from a novel by David Ebershoff, opens
in Copenhagen in the 1920s, in the apartment of Einar and his wife,
Gerda (Alicia Vikander), two ambitious artists who seem wildly
attracted to each other. There is no clue about the impending
implosion until Gerda asks him to pose as her model in silk
stockings and ballet shoes. Soon the female force is within him,
unstoppable. (117 min) Kate Muir

Regional programmes
● BBC1 Wales As BBC1 except:

11.50pm
Hayley Goes... Hayley Pearce finds out
about the safety of the Covid-19 vaccine
(r) 12.25am This Is MY House. With Judi
Love, Richard Madeley, Joel Dommett
and Chris McCausland (r) 12.55-1.00
Weather for the Week Ahead
● BBC2 Wales As BBC2 except:
7.00pm Heart Valley. A day in the life of
Welsh shepherd Wilf Davies 7.20-7.30
The Best Dishes Ever. Winter warmers (r)
● BBC1 N Ireland As BBC1 except:
10.50pm The Big Proud Party Agency
11.20 Our Place in Space 11.25 Alex Scott:
The Future of Women’s Football 12.30am
Question of Sport (r) 1.00 This Is MY
House (r) 1.30-6.00 BBC News
● BBC2 N Ireland As BBC2 except:
8.00pm Farm to Feast: Best Menu Wins
(r) 8.30-9.00 Wild Gardener 10.00-10.30
Home Ground (r) 11.15 Two Doors Down
11.45-12.15am Mock the Week (r)
● STV As ITV except: 1.30pm-5.00 Live
STV Racing: Glorious Goodwood. The
opening day of the festival 10.30-10.45
STV News 3.50-5.05am Unwind with STV
● BBC Scotland 7.00pm This Farming
Life (r) 8.00 The Years That Changed
Modern Scotland (r) 9.00 The Nine
10.00 Glasgow Mela 11.00-Midnight
David Wilson’s Crime Files (r)

● S4C 6.00am Cyw:

Bing (r) 6.10
Cymylaubychain (r) 6.20 Rapsgaliwn (r)
6.35 Shwshaswyn (r) 6.45 Asra (r) 7.00
Caru Canu (r) 7.05 Sion y Chef (r) 7.20 Cei
Bach (r) 7.35 Patrôl Pawennau (r) 7.50 Byd
Tad-Cu (r) 8.00 Peppa (r) 8.05 Abadas (r)
8.20 Sbridiri (r) 8.40 Ben a Mali a’u Byd
Bach O Hud (r) 8.50 Cacamwnci (r) 9.05
Odo (r) 9.15 Sam Tân (r) 9.25 Sblij a Sbloj
(r) 9.35 Octonots (r) 9.45 Deian a Loli (r)
10.00 Bing (r) 10.10 Cymylaubychain (r)
10.20 Rapsgaliwn (r) 10.35 Shwshaswyn
(r) 10.45 Asra (r) 11.00 Caru Canu (r) 11.05
Sion y Chef (r) 11.20 Cei Bach (r) 11.35
Patrôl Pawennau (r) 11.50 Byd Tad-Cu (r)
12.00 News 12.05pm Pobl a’u Gerddi (r)
12.30 Heno (r) 1.00 Y Sioe 2022 (r) 2.00
News 2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00 News 3.05
Cefn Gwlad (r) 4.00 Awr Fawr: Bing (r)
4.10 Cymylaubychain (r) 4.20 Byd Tad-Cu
(r) 4.35 Octonots (r) 4.45 Cacamwnci (r)
5.00 Stwnsh: Bernard (r) 5.05 Gwboi a
Twm Twm (r) 5.15 Un Cwestiwn (r) 5.35 Oi!
Osgar (r) 5.45 Bwystfil (r) 5.55 Larfa (r)
6.00 Bwyd Epic Chris (r) 6.30 Pobol y
Penwythnos (r) 6.57 News 7.00 Heno 7.30
News 8.00 Pobol y Cwm 8.25 Bwrdd i Dri
8.55 News 9.00 Birmingham 2022:
Cymru yn y Gemau 10.00 Afonydd
Gwaedlyd 11.05-11.40 Cheer am Byth (r)
(r) repeat (SL) In-vision signing

Misery (18, 1990)
Film4, 11.25pm

Rob Reiner’s superb adaptation of a knowingly self-referential
Stephen King story is showing tonight as a tribute to James Caan,
who died this month. Caan plays Paul Sheldon, an author of pulpy
historical novels, who wakes from a car crash to find himself
incapacitated and imprisoned in the backwoods house of
obsessive fan Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates, above with Caan, who
won a best actress Oscar). The genius of Bates’s performance is
the delicate balance that can tip without warning from sweetly
cheerful to psychotic rage. Caan’s role was reportedly declined by
a dozen big-name actors, including Robert De Niro, Michael
Douglas, Harrison Ford, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Warren Beatty
and Jack Nicholson. (107min) Joe Clay

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6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Morning Live
10.00 Close Calls: On Camera 10.30
Animal Park Summer (r) 11.15 Homes
Under the Hammer 12.15pm Bargain
Hunt (r) 1.00 BBC News at One;
Weather 1.30 BBC Regional News;
Weather 1.45 Impossible. Quiz show
(r) 2.30 A Countryside Summer.
Marcus Wareing sets a challenge for
chefs visiting his kitchen garden 3.00
Escape to the Country. Sonali Shah
helps a Surrey couple find a new
home in the Welsh Borders (r) 3.45
Garden Rescue. A Chester garden that
brings back exotic holiday memories
for the owners (r) 4.30 Antiques Road
Trip. A juggling clown catches Paul
Martin’s eye (r) 5.15 Pointless. Quiz
hosted by Alexander Armstrong (r)
6.00 BBC News at Six; Weather
6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather

6.15am Bargain Hunt (r) 7.00 Homes
Under the Hammer (r) 8.00 Sign
Zone: Expert Witness (r) (SL) 8.30
Expert Witness (r) (SL) 9.00 BBC
News 10.00 BBC News 12.05pm The
Super League Show (r) 12.50 Lifeline
(r) 1.00 Eggheads (r) 1.30 Jungle
Atlantis (r) 2.30 Mastermind (r)
3.00 Coast and Country Auctions (r)
3.45 Eat Well for Less? Gregg Wallace
and Chris Bavin come to the aid of a
woman with five daughters (r) 4.45
Our Food, Our Family with Michela
Chiappa. The Welsh-Italian cook
discovers a real-life wartime Romeo
and Juliet love story (r) 5.15 Flog It!
The team of experts value antiques
at Birmingham’s Museum and Art
Gallery (r) 6.00 Great Indian Railway
Journeys. Michael Portillo travels
from Jodhpur to Delhi (r)

6.00am Good Morning Britain 9.00
Lorraine 10.00 This Morning 12.30pm
Loose Women. More interviews and
topical debate from a female
perspective 1.00 ITV News; Weather
1.20 Regional News; Weather 1.30
Live ITV Racing: Glorious Goodwood.
Ed Chamberlin presents coverage of
six races on the opening day of the
festival, including the 2.25 Vintage
Stakes, 3.00 Lennox Stakes and 3.35
Goodwood Cup. With analysis from
Jason Weaver and Kevin Blake,
reporting by Sally Ann Grassick, Luke
Harvey and Oli Bell, betting news
from Matt Chapman, lifestyle with
Mark Heyes and commentary by
Richard Hoiles 5.00 The Chase. Four
contestants pit their wits against the
Chaser (r) 6.00 Regional News;
Weather 6.30 ITV News; Weather

6.35am 3rd Rock from the Sun (r)
7.00 3rd Rock from the Sun (r) 7.25
The King of Queens (r) 7.50 The King
of Queens (r) 8.15 Frasier (r) 8.40
Frasier (r) 9.10 Frasier (r) 9.45 The Big
Bang Theory (r) 10.10 The Big Bang
Theory (r) 10.40 The Big Bang Theory
(r) 11.05 The Simpsons (r) 11.35 The
Simpsons (r) 12.05pm Channel 4
News Summary 12.10 Ramsay’s 24
Hours to Hell and Back (r) 1.05 Find It,
Fix It, Flog It (r) 2.10 Countdown. Levi
Roots is in Dictionary Corner 3.00 A
Place in the Sun 4.00 Help! We
Bought a Village. The owners of an
Italian hamlet welcome the first
guests of the season 5.00 Couples
Come Dine with Me (r) 6.00 The
Simpsons (r) 6.30 Hollyoaks.
Shocking evidence into the knife
crime investigation is revealed (r)

6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine
12.15pm Nightmare Tenants, Slum
Landlords (r) 1.10 5 News at
Lunchtime 1.15 Home and Away.
Felicity senses the tension between
Rose and Cash 1.45 Neighbours: The
Final Week 2.15 FILM She Went
Missing (12, TVM, 2022) A woman’s
stalker reemerges when she returns
to her hometown as a reporter to
investigate the disappearance of her
childhood best friend. Thriller starring
Corbin Reid and Jaime M Callica
4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun.
A catch up with some of the big
characters from the season (r) 5.00 5
News at 5 with Dan Walker 6.00
Neighbours: The Final Week. Susan
insists Malcolm makes a choice (r)
6.30 Eggheads. The Single 1s return to
face the Eggheads once more (r)

The chef Marcus Wareing (2.30pm)

Sitcom Two Doors Down (10pm)

ITV at Glorious Goodwood (1.30pm)

Night Coppers (9pm)

New Lives in the Country (9pm)

7.00 The One Show Live chat and
topical reports presented by
Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas

7.00 Nadiya Bakes Nadiya Hussain
shares her favourite recipes for
biscuits and small bites (7/8) (r)

7.00 Channel 4 News Including sport
and weather

7.00 Walking Wartime Britain
Wartime operations in
Hampshire (4/6) (r)

7.30 Live MOTD: Uefa Women’s Euro
2022 Gabby Logan presents
coverage of the opening
semi-final (Kick-off 8.00), which
comes from Bramall Lane in
Sheffield. England impressed
in the early stages of the
tournament, particularly when
thrashing Norway 8-0 in the
group stage, and they will be
in action in this match should
they have come through their
quarter-final against Spain. It
was at this stage of the 2017
tournament that England’s
campaign came to an end
when they were soundly beaten
3-0 by hosts and eventual
champions the Netherlands.
With analysis from Alex Scott,
Ian Wright and Anouk
Hoogendijk

7.30 EastEnders Sam calls Ben’s
bluff and wins his silence by
bringing him onside as
co-manager at Peggy’s

7.30 Emmerdale Charity is stunned
to learn Amelia has been visiting
Noah in prison, and Rishi’s date
takes a surprising turn

8.00 Mountain Vets Two vets need
to operate on a three-legged
Lurcher, but make a worrying
discovery. Elsewhere, a vet
must try to save twin lambs.
See Viewing Guide (3/6)

8.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Celebrity Special Jimmy Carr,
Christine Ohuruogu and Alex
Beresford take part in the quiz,
answering up to 15 questions
that could land their charities a
huge sum of money. Jeremy
Clarkson presents (r)

8.00 Bake Off: The Professionals:
The Final The search for the
best patisserie team in Britain
concludes, as Liam Charles and
host Stacey Solomon welcome
teams of pastry chefs. Last in
the series. See Viewing Guide

8.00 Kew Gardens: A Year in Bloom
Spring is in full flow in Kew
Gardens, and it’s a time for new
beginnings, particularly for the
lucky few on the prestigious
diploma course (2/7); followed
by 5 News Update

9.00 Bradford on Duty How the NHS
is trying to relieve pressure on
hospitals by caring for patients
in their own homes. Cameras
follow two community matrons
on their morning rounds and
their first patient of the morning
is found at home in pain (5/5)

9.00 Doc Martin In the final episode
of the ninth series, Martin
rushes to Ruth’s for a medical
emergency, and preparations
for Morwenna and Al’s wedding
do not go to plan (8/8) (r)

9.00 Night Coppers A PC who is also
an aspiring cage fighter tackles
an aggressive male outside a
busy pub, while Brighton’s
answer to Cagney and Lacey
launch a desperate search
for a vulnerable woman

9.00 Ben Fogle’s New Lives in
the Country The presenter
spends a year following a
couple as they mortgage
their futures and sink every
penny they have into starting
up their own bakery in the
heart of the Peak District

10.10 BBC News at Ten

10.00Two Doors Down Two new
health-conscious residents
introduce themselves (5/6)

10.00ITV News at Ten; followed by
Weather

10.40 BBC Regional News

10.30 Newsnight Analysis of the day’s
events, with Mark Urban

10.00Gogglebox 2021 Highlights of
the past year’s episodes,
featuring lively discussions
based on the best and worst
television of 2021. The shows
featured include I Can See Your
Voice, Mastermind, Ready to
Mingle, Line of Duty, The
Mating Game, Strictly Come
Dancing, Squid Game, An
Audience with Adele,
Headspace Guide to Sleep, Vigil,
Life Drawing Live, Sex, Love &
Goop and Coronation Street (r)

10.00Gabby Petito: The Murder
That Gripped the World The
disappearance and death of
the 22-year-old, who had
embarked on a road trip across
the US in 2021 with her
boyfriend but went missing
and was later found dead.
The film tells the story of
Gabby’s final few months
through the prism of the
internet and found footage (r)

12.05am Miriam and Alan: Lost in
Scotland (r) (SL) 1.00 The Last Leg (r)
1.55 Kitchen Nightmares USA (r) 2.45
Couples Come Dine with Me (r) 3.40
Old House, New Home (r) (SL) 4.35
Location, Location, Location (r) 5.30
Beat the Chef (r) 5.55 Countdown (r)

12.35am Crimes That Shook Britain
(r) 1.25 The LeoVegas Live Casino
Show 3.25 Entertainment News on 5
3.30 10 Years Younger in 10 Days (r)
4.15 The Yorkshire Vet (r) 5.10 Wildlife
SOS (r) (SL) 5.35 Peppa Pig (r) 5.40
Fireman Sam (r) 5.50 Milkshake!

10.50 Alex Scott: The Future of
Women’s Football The former
England star looks at the
growth in popularity of the
women’s game and asks what
its future holds (r)

11.50 Question of Sport Rachel
Furness, Anita Asante, Rachel
Brown-Finnis and Lianne
Sanderson join team captains
Ugo Monye and Sam Quek (r)
12.20am This Is MY House. Panellists
include Judi Love, Richard Madeley
and Joel Dommett (r) 12.50 Weather
for the Week Ahead 12.55 BBC News

10.30 Regional News; followed by
Regional Weather
10.45 On Assignment Neil Connery
reports from Poland

11.15 DNA Family Secrets Triplets
who were adopted as young
boys have their DNA analysed
by Turi King as they attempt to
explore their birth father’s
heritage (3/3) (r)

11.15 Junk and Disorderly
Henry Cole and Allen Millyard
find and restore a Triumph
Trident bike. They then head
out for the historic Prescott Hill
Climb to set up their stall (r)

12.15am Sign Zone: The Real Mo
Farah. The athlete talks about his
childhood in Somaliland (r) (SL)
1.15 Frontline Fightback. Police in
Telford hunt down a serial arsonist
who set fire to five cars (r) (SL)
2.00-3.00 Bradford on Duty (r) (SL)

12.15am Teleshopping 3.00 Save
Money: My Beautiful Green Home (r)
(SL) 3.25 Martin Clunes: My Travels
and Other Animals. Martin’s labrador
puppy goes to dog training (r) (SL)
3.50 Unwind with ITV 5.05 Ainsley’s
Food We Love. A lazy Sunday (r) (SL)

7.30 A Taste of the Country Foraging
for wild flowers and herbs (4/6)
7.55 5 News Update

11.35 Cold Case Killers A look at
the nine-year investigation
into the murder of teenager
Shafilea Ahmed (2/6) (r)

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

38 saturday review

Darcey Bussell’s
Royal Road Trip

Tuesday 26 | Primetime digital guide

The former prima ballerina
meets Frankie Dettori
More4, 9pm

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6.00am James Max
6.30 The Julia Hartley-Brewer
Breakfast Show
10.00 The Independent Republic
of Mike Graham The host
tears his way through the
morning newspapers
1.00pm Ian Collins Hard-hitting
monologues and debates
4.00 Kevin O’Sullivan The
presenter tackles the
big stories of the day
7.00 The News Desk with
Tom Newton Dunn The
biggest stories of the day
8.00 Piers Morgan Uncensored
Piers presents his verdict
on the day’s global events
9.00 The Talk Sharon Osbourne
and a panel of famous faces
debate the hot topics
everybody’s talking about
10.00 Daisy McAndrew Daisy
McAndrew and guests
discuss the day’s big stories
11.00-12.00 Piers Morgan
Uncensored

7.00pm Top Gear Matt LeBlanc,
Chris Harris and Rory Reid
test drive the latest SUVs,
and are joined in the studio
by Jason Manford (6/6)
8.00 Hungry for It The finalists
level up childhood
favourites and cater for a
party attended by Michael
Dapaah and AJ Tracey (8/8)
9.00 Gavin & Stacey Bryn tries to
organise a surprise for
Gwen’s birthday, while
Stacey prepares to tell Gavin
of her big decision (5/7)
9.30 Gavin & Stacey The
newlyweds begin leading
separate lives back in their
home towns (6/7)
10.00 Snowfall An attack leaves
the crew in chaos (5/10)
10.40 Snowfall Franklin and
Gustavo look for an escape
and Teddy puts his trust in
an old friend (6/10)
11.25-12.35am RuPaul’s Drag Race
UK With Matt Lucas (1/10)

7.00pm Great American Railroad
Journeys Michael Portillo
travels from Reno, Nevada
to Colfax in California
7.30 Walking with Nick
Grimshaw The presenter
and DJ walks along the
Northumberland coast
8.00 Keeping Up Appearances
Richard demonstrates his
electrical skills (7/7)
8.30 Ever Decreasing Circles
Paul’s estranged wife turns
up at a dinner party (3/8)
9.00 Royal History’s Biggest
Fibs with Lucy Worsley
A look at how writers,
politicians and artists have
manipulated the history of
the Spanish Armada (2/3)
10.00 Charles I: Killing a King The
king faces the executioner’s
block and the country
becomes a republic (3/3)
11.00 The Stuarts The Wars of
the Three Kingdoms (2/3)
12.00-1.00am The Stuarts (3/3)

6.55pm Escape to the Château:
DIY New owners slowly
discover they may have
taken on more than they
bargained for (6/10)
7.55 Devon and Cornwall
A visit to the Isles of Scilly,
meeting the owners of a
vineyard who are planning
to retire as they show their
successors the ropes (4/4)
9.00 Darcey Bussell’s Royal Road
Trip In Richmond Park,
Darcey visits the hunting
lodge where the Queen
spent the first year of her
life. See Viewing Guide (2/4)
10.00 The Windsors: Secrets of
the Royal Tours A look at
official tours and state visits
in the 1960s, exploring the
changing role of the royal
family’s relationship to the
Commonwealth (2/4)
11.05-12.15am 24 Hours in A&E
A man in his sixties comes
in with a swollen leg (4/14)

5.50pm True Detective Frank
Semyon, Ray Velcoro and
Ani Bezzerides weigh their
options as Caspere’s killer
is revealed, along with the
scope of the corruption they
must deal with (8/8) (R)
7.25 Game of Thrones In the
penultimate episode, Varys
betrays his queen, and
Daenerys brings her forces
to King’s Landing as the
explosive final battle for the
Iron Throne begins (5/6) (R)
9.00 Blocco 181 Ricardo gets out
of jail and immediately
provokes Victor. The trio
partner up with Snake,
as Rizzo tells Lorenzo his
plan for beating the
pandilleros. In Italian (6/8)
10.05 Christian Drama following a
man who lives in a desolate
neighbourhood on the
outskirts of Rome (1/6) (R)
11.10-12.15am Christian Drama,
with Edoardo Pesce (2/6) (R)

7.00pm Mother Teresa: For the
Love of God An in-depth
look at the life of the nun
and missionary, who was
canonised as a saint by
Pope Francis in December
2015 (2/3) (R)
8.00 Janet Jackson A profile of
the singer in which she
speaks candidly about
her early years, her career
and the defining moments
of her life (2/4) (R)
9.00 Red Elvis: The Cold War
Cowboy Documentary
about an American pop star
who defected to the Soviet
Bloc in the 1970s, becoming
a Marxist icon in Eastern
Europe until his mysterious
drowning in East Berlin (R)
10.45-12.45am Music Box,
Exploring rapper Juice
Wrld’s struggles to navigate
his meteoric rise to fame,
drug use and mental health
issues before his death (R)

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

E4

Dave

Drama

FV 6, FS 113, SKY 118, VIRGIN 115

FV 10, FS 115, SKY 119, VIRGIN 117

FV 26, FS 117, SKY 120, VIRGIN 118

FV 13, FS 122, SKY 135, VIRGIN 106

FV 19, FS 157, SKY 111, VIRGIN 127

FV 20, FS 158, SKY 143, VIRGIN 130

7.00pm Bob’s Burgers
7.30 Bob’s Burgers Linda and Tina
agree to help Gayle bulk up the
numbers for her new workshop
8.00 Superstore Amy and Dina
have to visit Cloud 9 corporate
8.30 Superstore The staff come
together to save one of their own
9.00 Love Island Reality show
10.05 Olivia Attwood: Getting
Filthy Rich Olivia takes a look at
the world of Sugar Babies
11.05 Family Guy
11.35-12.05am Family Guy

7.00pm Heartbeat The police
investigate a hate campaign
8.00 Midsomer Murders DCI
Barnaby and DS Winter discover a
dead body surrounded by rabbits
that had been freed from their
cages, revealing a more sinister
side to the local pet show
10.00 The Pembrokeshire
Murders Wilkins and his team face
Cooper head-on in three days of
interviews. Luke Evans stars (2/3)
11.05-12.15am Wycliffe A
magistrate is found hanged (7/8)

6.50pm The Chase Celebrity
Special With Rory Bremner,
Laura Tobin, Deborah Meaden
and Alan Titchmarsh (3/16)
8.00 River Monsters (2/2) Jeremy
Wade takes on the biggest
investigation of his career
9.00 FILM Con Air (18, 1997)
A parolee on his flight home
intervenes when America’s
deadliest criminals hijack the plane.
Action thriller with Nicolas Cage
11.20-12.30am All Elite Wrestling:
Rampage Hard-hitting action

7.00pm Hollyoaks A shocking
conversation reveals to Lizzie
that Juliet has not been faithful
7.30 Black-ish Bow lets Diane
take a day off from school
8.00 Below Deck A woman and
her new beau come aboard Valor
to celebrate her recent divorce
9.00 Gogglebox The households’
opinions on shows including Killing
Eve, The Apprentice and Our House
10.00 Naked Attraction Featuring
two contestants from Yorkshire
11.05-12.10am First Dates

7.00pm Richard Osman’s House of
Games With guests Kate Williams,
Tom Allen, Chizzy Akudolu and
Charlie Higson taking part
7.40 Room 101 Frank Skinner hosts
8.20 Room 101 With Shaun Ryder
9.00 QI XL With guest panellists
Chris McCausland, Justin
Moorhouse and Holly Walsh
10.00 Live at the Apollo Angela
Barnes hosts the stand-up show
11.00 QI XL Sandi Toksvig hosts
12.00-1.00am Mel Giedroyc:
Unforgivable Game show

6.40pm Last of the Summer Wine
Seymour gallantly volunteers to
help teach Edie to drive
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine
The mischievous trio come up
with another madcap scheme
8.00 Dalziel & Pascoe The
mismatched detectives investigate
the murder of a businessman
10.00 New Tricks The team
reinvestigates three cases of rape
11.00-12.20am Spooks An
undercover operation ends in
tragedy for Tom and Helen

Yesterday

PBS America

Smithsonian

Sky Arts

Sky History

Sky Max

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FV 84, FS 155, SKY 174, VIRGIN 273

FV 57, FS 175, SKY 171, VIRGIN 276

FV 11, FS 147 SKY 130, VIRGIN 165

SKY 123, VIRGIN 270

SKY 113, VIRGIN 122

7.00pm Abandoned Engineering
Exploring a crumbling dam hidden
in the Welsh valleys
8.00 Great Continental Railway
Journeys Michael Portillo takes in
Georgia and Azerbaijan as he
journeys through the former
Russian empire (2/2)
9.00 Bangers & Cash: Restoring
Classics A Vauxhall Astra GTE (1/6)
10.00 Bangers and Cash (10/10)
11.00 Abandoned Engineering
12.00-1.00am Great Continental
Railway Journeys (6/6)

5.55pm Castles: Britain’s Fortified
History With Sam Willis (2/3)
7.05 The Somme 1916: From Both
Sides of the Wire The phase of the
battle from the middle of July to
mid-September (2/3)
8.20 Augmented
9.35 Shooting the War The
experiences of children during
the Second World War (2/3)
10.55 Castles: Britain’s Fortified
History With Sam Willis (2/3)
12.00-1.15am The Somme 1916:
From Both Sides of the Wire (2/3)

7.00pm Inside the Factory The
production of baked beans
8.00 Mystic Britain Viking graffiti,
sinister burials and potent potions
9.00 Murderous History A dark
underworld in Victorian London
where society’s most vulnerable
were being exploited
10.00 Murderous History A
murder case in Brazil during the
1970s captures the world’s
attention, leading to scandal
11.00 Mystic Britain
12.00-1.00am Murderous History

7.00pm Mad Tracey from Margate
A profile of the artist Tracey Emin.
See Viewing Guide
8.00 Cirque du Soleil: Alegria The
group perform a televised version
of the acclaimed stage show
10.00 Discovering: Emma
Thompson A profile of the
actress and screenwriter
11.00 Cheltenham Literature
Festival Susie Dent discusses her
linguistic almanac
12.00-1.00am The South Bank
Show Profile of Frank Skinner (1/3)

7.00pm Forged in Fire Four smiths
must brave the unforgiving cold as
they enter the Arctic Forge
8.00 Clash of the Gods
9.00 What on Earth? Documentary
series exploring anomalies
appearing on satellite images
10.00 The UnXplained with
William Shatner Exploring people’s
belief in the existence of Satan
11.00 Paranormal: Caught on
Camera Capturing bizarre objects
12.00-1.00am Buried: Knights
Templar and the Holy Grail (4/4)

7.00pm Stargate SG-1 Apophis is
granted sanctuary
8.00 The Flash Cecile’s powers
experience a growth spurt
9.00 Strike Back: Silent War Pavel
plans to launch VX missiles (10/10)
10.00 S.W.A.T Hondo and the team
race to stop a hacker from
exposing the identities of
undercover officers
11.00 The Blacklist Red digs into
the events leading up to Liz’s death
12.00-1.00am The Force:
Manchester (3/10)

Discovery

Nat Geographic

Sky Comedy

Comedy Central

Gold

W

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SKY 114, VIRGIN 135, BT 346

SKY 112, VIRGIN 181, BT 344

SKY 110, VIRGIN 124, BT 343

FV 25, FS 156, SKY 132, VIRGIN 125

7.00pm Outback Truckers
8.00 Fast N’ Loud
9.00 Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail
Parker Schnabel’s latest adventure
takes him to New Zealand
10.00 Gold Rush: Dave Turin’s Lost
Mine Tensions start to mount
11.00 Jaws vs Kraken Shark Week
12.00-1.00am Expedition Bigfoot

7.00pm Air Crash Investigation
8.00 Bloody Tales from History
Examining true stories (6/6)
9.00 Vikings: The Rise and Fall
The final days of the Viking Empire.
Last in the series (6/6)
10.00 Elizabeth I: The Secret Life
11.00 Air Crash Investigation
12.00-1.00am Drugs Inc (1/10)

7.05pm The Office (US)
9.00 Kidding (7/10)
9.30 Kidding (8/10)
10.00 Looking (7/8)
10.30 Looking (8/8)
11.00 The Tonight Show Starring
Jimmy Fallon American chat show
12.00-12.35am Sex and the City
Charlotte looks for love (1/8)

7.00pm Friends Four episodes
9.00 Greatest Ever Movie
Blunders Mistakes in movies
10.00 Jason Manford Live at the
Manchester Apollo
11.00 Dara O Briain: This Is the
Show At Hammersmith Apollo
12.00-1.00am Kevin Hart Live:
Laugh at My Pain Stand-up show

6.40pm Dad’s Army
7.20 Dad’s Army
8.00 Gavin & Stacey
8.40 Only Fools and Horses
Raquel is offered an audition
9.50 Mrs Brown’s Boys
10.25 Mrs Brown’s Boys
11.05 Not Going Out
11.45-12.25am Not Going Out

7.00pm Property Brothers at
Home: Drew’s Honeymoon House
8.00 DIY SOS: The Big Build
Transforming a home in Plymouth
9.20 Rochelle Humes: Interior
Designer in the Making The
presenter designs her first garden
10.20-12.20am Killer Women with
Piers Morgan Double bill

Sky Main Event

Sky Premier League

Sky Cricket

BT Sport 1

BT Sport 2

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SKY 402, VIRGIN 512

SKY 404, VIRGIN 514

SKY 413, VIRGIN 527, BT 430

SKY 414, VIRGIN 528, BT 431

7.00pm Euro Matchday The latest
news and match updates from
UEFA Women’s Euro 2022
8.00 Euro Matchday The latest
news and match updates from
UEFA Women’s Euro 2022
9.00 Euro Matchday The latest
news and match updates from
UEFA Women’s Euro 2022
10.00 Sky Sports News Round-up
of the latest news, with analysis
and comment, plus interviews
with the headline-makers
11.00-12.00 Sky Sports News

7.00pm Premier League
A replay of Manchester City v
Manchester United
9.00 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox
Gary talks to Thierry Henry about
matches they faced each other in
9.30 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox The
presenter talks to Robbie Keane
about some of the memorable
matches they faced each other in
10.00 Premier League Icons
A profile of Dennis Bergkamp
10.30-12.30am PL Retro Liverpool
v Newcastle from 1996

8.00am-12.00 Women’s
International T20 Cricket A replay
of the first T20 in the three-match
series from The Cloud County
Ground, Chelmsford
4.00pm Women’s International
T20 Cricket England v South Africa
Women. A replay of the third and
final T20 in the series from The
Incora County Ground, Derby
8.00-2.00am One-Day
International Cricket Back-to-back
episodes, featuring action from
England v South Africa

7.00pm Live MLB: Chicago Cubs v
Pittsburgh Pirates (Start-time
7.20). Coverage of the National
League match from Wrigley Field
10.30 The Run-In
11.00-12.00 Ariel Helwani Meets
1.00am-3.15 Live: WWE NXT
The next generation of wrestling
superstars showcase their talents
3.30-6.00 Live Canadian
Championship: Toronto FC v
Vancouver Whitecaps (Kick-off
3.30). Coverage of the final of the
soccer competition from BC Place

1.30pm Premier League
3.00 Premier League
4.30 Premier League
6.00 Premier League
7.30 Premier League A replay of
Burnley v Manchester United
9.00 WWE Monday Night Raw
Wrestling action, featuring the likes
of Drew McIntyre and Asuka
11.30 30 for 30 Shorts
12.00-3.30am Live MLB: New York
Mets v New York Yankees
(Start-time 12.10). Coverage of the
inter-league match from Citi Field

Discovering: Emma Thompson
is a profile of the actress and
screenwriter (Sky Arts, 10pm)

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

saturday review 39

Tuesday 26
Film guide

Radio guide

Film4

Times Radio

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Snoopy and Charlie
Brown: The Peanuts Movie
(U, 2015) Animation with
the voice of Noah Schnapp
12.45pm Two by Two (U,
2015) Animated adventure
with the voice of Tara Flynn
2.30 Carry On Cabby (PG,
1963) Comedy starring Sid
James and Hattie Jacques
4.20 Cowboy (U, 1958)
Western with Jack Lemmon
6.10 Independence Day (12,
1996) Sci-fi adventure starring
Will Smith and Bill Pullman
9.00 Mission: Impossible III
(12, 2006) Action thriller
sequel starring Tom Cruise
11.25-1.35am Misery (18,
1990) Thriller starring James
Caan. See Film Choice

Talking Pictures TV
FV 82 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am The Mind
of Mr JG Reeder
7.00 Frozen Alive (PG, 1964)
Thriller starring Mark Stevens
8.35 Time Piece
9.00 Stagecoach West
10.00 Paper Tiger (PG, 1975)
Comedy starring David Niven
12.00 Breaking the Codes
12.30pm The Motor Car
1960s-1970s: Glimpses
12.45 Who Killed the Cat? (U,
1966) Mystery starring Mary
Merrall and Ellen Pollock
2.30 Sherlock Holmes
3.00 Life in Emergency Ward
10 (U, 1959) Hospital drama
starring Michael Craig
4.40 Della (15, 1965) Drama
starring Joan Crawford
6.00 Scotland Yard
6.35 The Glass Cage (PG,
1955) Mystery starring John
Ireland and Honor Blackman
7.50 Look at Life
8.00 Maigret
9.05 Van der Valk
10.05 Public Eye
11.05-12.00 The Outer Limits

GREAT! Movies
FV 34 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am Fatal Performance
(PG, 2013) Thriller starring
Nicholle Tom and David Palffy
10.50 GREAT! Movie News
11.00 The Beach Murders:
Garage Sale Mystery (PG,
2017) Crime drama with Lori
Loughlin and Chiara Zanni
12.50pm GREAT! Movie News
1.00 Jane Doe: How to Fire
Your Boss (PG, 2007) Murder
mystery with Lea Thompson
2.40 Black Widow (2007)
Drama with Elizabeth Berkley
4.20 Little Women (U, 1994)
Period drama starring Winona
Ryder and Susan Sarandon
6.35 Big Fish (PG, 2003)
Fantasy drama starring Ewan
McGregor and Albert Finney
9.00 I, Robot (12, 2004) Sci-fi
thriller starring Will Smith
11.15-1.35am The Butterfly
Effect (15, 2004) Supernatural
thriller with Ashton Kutcher

Digital only

Madonna stars in Evita
(GREAT! Classic, 9pm)

GREAT! Movies Classic
FV 52 FS 303 SKY 319 VIRGIN 424

5.00am Anna Cunningham
with Early Breakfast 6.00
Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell with
Times Radio Breakfast 10.00
Patrick Maguire 1.00pm
Mariella Frostrup 4.00 Times
Radio Drive. Conversation with
political and economic guests
7.00 Henry Bonsu 10.00
Carole Walker. Late night news
and tomorrow’s front page
1.00am Stories of Our Times.
The Times’s daily podcast
1.30 Red Box. Matt Chorley’s
politics podcast 2.00
Highlights from Times Radio

Radio 2
FM: 88-90.2 MHz

6.00am Berlin Express
(PG, 1948) Thriller
7.40 The Orient Express
8.50 Ladies of the Chorus
(U, 1948) Musical
10.05 Oliver! (U, 1968)
Musical starring Ron Moody
1.00pm Split Second
(PG, 1953) Thriller
2.45 Who Was That Lady?
(U, 1959) Comedy
5.05 The Deadly Affair (15,
1967) Espionage drama
7.10 Footsteps in the Fog
(PG, 1955) Period thriller
9.00 Evita (PG, 1996)
Musical starring Madonna
11.40-1.50am Overrun!
(PG, 1970) Wartime drama

TCM Movies
SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s
Best Film Directors
7.10 Sugarfoot
8.15 Maverick
9.20 Murder Ahoy
(U, 1964) Mystery
11.15 Sugarfoot
12.20pm Maverick
1.30 The Rawhide Years
(PG, 1956) Western
3.15 The Mississippi Gambler
(U, 1953) Romantic adventure
5.25 Cattle King (U, 1963)
Western with Robert Taylor
7.15 Valerie (PG, 1957)
Western with Sterling Hayden
9.00 Passenger 57 (15, 1992)
Thriller with Wesley Snipes
10.45-1.15am Absolute Power
(15, 1997) Crime thriller

Sky Cinema Premiere
SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.20pm Flag Day (15, 2021)
Crime drama with Sean Penn
2.20 A Mouthful of Air
(15, 2021) Drama
4.20 Paws of Fury: The
Legend of Hank (PG, 2022)
Animated comedy with
the voice of Michael Cera
6.15 How to Deter a Robber
(15, 2020) Crime comedy
starring Vanessa Marano
8.00 Raging Fire (15, 2021)
Adventure with Donnie Yen
10.15-12.10am A Mouthful of
Air (15, 2021) Drama starring
Amanda Seyfried

6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast
Show 9.30 Scott Mills 12.00
Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve
Wright 5.00 Sara Cox 6.30
Sara Cox’s Half Wower 7.00 Jo
Whiley’s Shiny Happy Playlist
7.30 Jo Whiley 9.00 The Jazz
Show with Jamie Cullum
10.00 Trevor Nelson’s
Magnificent 7 10.30 Trevor
Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12.00
OJ Borg 3.00am Pick of the
Pops (r) 4.00 Vanessa Feltz

Radio 3
FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

6.30am Breakfast
9.00 Essential Classics
12.00 Composer of the
Week: Beethoven
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime
Concert Korngold (String
Quartet No 3, Op 34);
and Janáček (String Quartet
No 2, Intimate Letters)
2.00 Afternoon Concert
Ian Skelly introduces
performances that includes
the chance to hear the BBC
Singers present a varied
selection of music for
royal occasions from
their Prom on Friday
5.00 In Tune
7.00 In Tune Mixtape An
eclectic non-stop mix of music
7.30 Live BBC Proms 2022
From the Royal Albert Hall,
the BBC Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by Jordan de
Souza, perform works by
Bernstein, Walker, Tchaikovsky,
and with Johan Dalene,
Barber’s Violin Concerto
10.00 Reclaiming the
Bridgetower Sonata Chi-chi
Nwanoku explores the life of
mixed-race violin virtuoso
George Bridgetower, and why
he fell out with Beethoven,
who originally dedicated the
Kreutzer Sonata to him (r)
10.45 The Essay:
My Life in Music Soweto Kinch
discusses Ella Fitzgerald’s
rendition of Rockin’ in Rhythm
by Duke Ellington, and why it
reminds him of the importance
of positivity in musim (r)
11.00 Night Tracks
12.30am Through the Night (r)

Today’s pick
The Forum
Radio 4 Extra, 2.30pm
This welcome repeat of the
2017 programme subtitled
Trailblazer in the Skies and
fronted by Bridget Kendall
marks the 125th anniversary
of the birth of US aviator
Amelia Earhart, right, who
disappeared in 1937.
A woman who defied
convention from a very
young age, Earhart was a
disarming and driven role
model to women who
refused her society’s limited
expectations for her sex.

Radio 4
FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz
LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 Tweet of the Day (r)
6.00 Today
9.00 The Long History of
Argument: From Socrates
to Social Media Why modern
Europe turned against
argument and rhetoric
became a dirty word
9.30 New Storytellers A
retired policeman reflects on
the horrors he witnessed
during his 30-year career
9.45 Book of the Week:
Pharaohs of the Sun
By Guy de la Bedoyere (2/5)
9.45 (LW) Daily Service
10.00 Woman’s Hour
11.00 Science Stories (r)
11.30 Techno: A Social History
12.01pm (LW) Shipping
12.04 Call You and Yours
1.00 The World at One
1.45 28ish Days Later Finding
out about tailoring exercise
and diet to the cycle
2.00 The Archers (r)
2.15 Drama: Trust By Jonathan
Hall, and starring Julie
Hesmondhalgh (2/3) (r)
3.00 The Kitchen Cabinet (r)
3.30 Made of Stronger Stuff
The taste buds
4.00 Word of Mouth Michael
Rosen examines the evolving
lexicon of online dating
4.30 A Good Read With Salena
Godden and Rob Biddulph
5.00 PM
5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.30 Andrew Maxwell Values
7.00 The Archers Disaster
strikes at the post office
7.15 Front Row
8.00 Today Debates
8.40 In Touch
9.00 Inside Health
9.30 The Long History of
Argument: From Socrates
to Social Media (r)
10.00 The World Tonight
10.45 Book at Bedtime: Mrs
Bridge By Evan S Connell.
Read by Fenella Woolgar (2/10)
11.00 Fortunately
11.30 Bridget Christie: Mortal
Comedy series (1/4) (r)

Helping to understand her are
three experts including the
journalist Susan Butler, author
of East to the Dawn: The Life of
Amelia Earhart, which was the
source for the 2009 biopic
with Hilary Swank. Ben Dowell
12.00 News and Weather
12.30am Book of the Week:
Pharaohs of the Sun (2/5) (r)
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World Service

Radio 5 Live
MW: 693, 909

5.00am Wake Up to Money
6.00 5 Live Breakfast 9.00
Nicky Campbell 11.00 Naga
Munchetty 1.00pm Nihal
Arthanayake 4.00 5 Live
Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport 8.00 5
Live Sport 10.30 Colin Murray
1.00am Dotun Adebayo

talkSPORT
MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00
Breakfast 10.00 Jim White
and Simon Jordan 1.00pm
Hawksbee & Baker 4.00
Drive 7.00 Women’s Euros
GameDay. The first semi-final
(Kick-off 8.00) 10.00 Sports
Bar 12.00 Extra Time

TalkRadio
Digital only

5.00am James Max 6.30
The Julia Hartley-Brewer
Breakfast Show 10.00 The
Independent Republic of Mike
Graham 1.00pm Ian Collins
4.00 The Afternoon Show
7.00 The News Desk with
Tom Newton Dunn 8.00 Piers
Morgan Uncensored 9.00 The
Talk 10.00 Daisy McAndrew
11.00 Piers Morgan
Uncensored 12.00 Petrie
Hosken 4.00am The Talk

Radio 4 Extra
Digital only

8.00am The Goon Show 8.30
Home Again 9.00 Dead
Ringers 9.30 Change at
Oglethorpe 10.00 Foreign
Bodies: The Samaritan’s
Secret 11.00 Beckett’s Last
Tapes 12.00 The Goon Show
12.30pm Home Again 1.00
Detective 1.30 The Great
Impersonation 2.00 Every
Third Thought 2.15 Where
Angels Fear to Tread
2.30 The Forum. Discussing
Amelia Earhart. See Choice

3.00 Foreign Bodies: The
Samaritan’s Secret 4.00 The
Museum of Curiosity 4.30
Change at Oglethorpe 5.00
North by Northamptonshire
5.30 Andrew Maxwell Values
6.00 Orbiter X 6.30 Soul
Music 7.00 The Goon Show
7.30 Home Again 8.00
Detective 8.30 The Great
Impersonation 9.00 Beckett’s
Last Tapes 10.00 Andrew
Maxwell Values 10.30 Nick
Revell Show 11.00 Big Booth
Too 11.30 Jigsaw 11.45 Helen
Keen’s It Is Rocket Science

BBC World Service
Digital only

9.00am News 9.06 The
Documentary 9.30
Discovery: Plant-Based
Promises 10.00 News 10.06
The Arts Hour 11.00 The
Newsroom 11.30 In the Studio
12.00 News 12.06pm
Outlook 12.50 Witness
History 1.00 The Newsroom
1.30 Discovery: Plant-Based
Promises 2.00 Newshour
3.00 News 3.06 People
Fixing the World 3.30
Business 4.00 BBC OS 6.00
News 6.06 Outlook 6.50
Witness History 7.00 The
Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today
8.00 News 8.06 The
Documentary 8.30 Digital
Planet 9.00 Newshour 10.00
News 10.06 People Fixing the
World 10.30 In the Studio
11.00 The Newsroom 11.20
Sports News 11.30 Business
12.00 News 12.06am The
Arts Hour 1.00 News 1.06
Business Matters 2.00 The
Newsroom 2.30 The
Compass: The Reclaimers
— Bronzes and Birmingham
3.06 Outlook 3.50 Witness
History 4.00 The Newsroom
4.30 On the Podium

6 Music
Digital only

7.30am Lauren Laverne
10.30 Nemone 1.00pm Craig
Charles 4.00 Steve Lamacq
7.00 Marc Riley 9.00 Gideon
Coe 12.00 6 Music Artist
in Residence 1.00am
Overnight Documentary

Virgin Radio
Digital only

6.30am The Chris Evans
Breakfast Show with Sky
10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris
1.00pm Tim Cocker 4.00
Kate Lawler 7.00 Bam 10.00
Olivia Jones 1.00am Sean
Goldsmith 4.00 Steve Denyer

Classic FM
FM: 100-102 MHz

6.00am Breakfast 9.00
Alexander Armstrong 12.00
Anne-Marie Minhall 4.00pm
John Brunning 7.00 Smooth
Classics 1.00am Bill Overton
4.00 Early Breakfast

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

40 saturday review

Wednesday 27 | Viewing guide
Critic’s choice
Under the Banner of Heaven
Disney+
Inspired by Jon Krakauer’s
bestselling 2003 true crime
novel, this powerful sevenpart drama tells the story of
Brenda Wright Lafferty and
her 15-month-old daughter,
Erica, who were brutally
murdered in their home in a
suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah,
in 1984. Andrew Garfield
heads the cast as Detective
Jeb Pyre, a devout Mormon
whom we first meet
entertaining his two
daughters and praying with
his family (including elderly
mother), before leaving to
attend the crime scene. The
opening scenes are almost
glacially slow as a tearful Pyre
walks through the bloodsoaked house (we don’t see
the bodies), with an emotive
piano soundtrack adding to
the profound sense of loss.
When an officer tells Pyre he
doesn’t think he can go back
into the house, the detective
tells him: “Gather yourself. For

their sake.” Pyre (a fictional
addition) is a good and
honourable man who starts to
question everything as he
investigates the events that
transpired within the Lafferty
family. The action livens up
considerably during flashback
scenes featuring the extended
Mormon clan. The impressive
cast includes Sam
Worthington and Rory Culkin,
as well as lots of familiar faces
for British TV audiences —
Normal People’s Daisy EdgarJones, right, plays Brenda and
Billy Howle (The Serpent) is
her husband, Allen. Also
impressive is the sense of
place and time, although
Mormons have been critical of
the portrayal of their religion
and Brenda’s sister, Sharon,
has said that the drama strays
too far from reality. The series
is written by Tom Daley’s
husband, Dustin Lance Black,
who was brought up as
a Mormon. Joe Clay

Secrets of
the Lost Liners

The Great

Sky History/Now, 9pm

Tony McNamara’s riotous
“occasionally true story” about
life in the court of Tsar Peter III
returns for a second series (it
has been available on Starzplay
since December). In the first
series Elle Fanning’s Catherine
(not yet “the Great”) arrived
from rural Russia to marry
Nicholas Hoult’s boorish swine
of an emperor. She soon
sensibly decided that he had to
go and the series followed her
plot to overthrow her idiot
hubby. As we rejoin, Catherine
is very pregnant and facing up
to the realisation that she has
liberated a country that doesn’t
want to be free. And despite
the coup, Peter is more in love
with his wife. JC

The first subject of a new
marine history series about
ocean liners is the SS
Normandie, famed as the most
extravagant and expensive of
the luxury cruise ships. Built in
1932, the ship entered service
in 1935 and became a symbol
of French national pride. During
the Second World War, the
Normandie was seized by US
authorities at New York and
renamed USS Lafayette. In
1942, while being converted to
a troop transport, the liner
caught fire and capsized. But
was this was the work of Nazi
saboteurs? Experts and
historians seek answers. JC

Catch
up
Aids: The Unheard Tapes
BBC iPlayer
The British Library
archives are home to
many hours of
extraordinary verbal
testimony from HIVpositive gay men and
their friends who
lived through the
Aids crisis. This
three-part series
brings them to
life with young
actors,
including Hugo
Bolton, right,
who lip-sync to
the original

Channel 4, 10pm

voice recordings and offer
a frank, intimate and
sometimes humorous
account of life at the heart of
the story, starting with the
death of the barman Terry
Higgins in 1982. Episode one
features men coping with
their diagnoses at a time
of heightened stigma
and fear with no cure
in sight, while in episode
two, during what is said
to be the biggest
public health
emergency since
the Second
World War, the
g
government
finally
launches its
Don’t Die of
Ignorance
campaign.
Ben Dowell

The Roads
to Freedom

The South
Bank Show

Films of the day

BBC4, 10pm/10.50pm/11.35pm

Sky Arts/Now, 10pm

BBC1, 10.50pm

Showing for the first time on
the BBC since 1976, The Roads
to Freedom is a gripping
13-part drama based on the
trilogy of novels by Jean-Paul
Sartre. It was first shown
on BBC2 in 1970, and David
Turner spent 15 months on the
script, with many doubting that
Sartre could be adapted for
television. It focuses on a
philosophy teacher, Mathieu
Delarue (Michael Bryant),
and his group of bohemian
friends in Paris just before
the Second World War. It is
introduced by Colin Baker,
who made his first TV
appearance in the drama. JC

Helen Mirren is the only person
to have achieved the “triple
crown of acting” in both the
US (Oscar, Emmy, Tony) and
the UK (film and TV Baftas,
Laurence Olivier award).
For more than 50 years she
has proved herself to be
exceptionally versatile in a
diverse and prolific career and
she is an engaging guest for
Melvyn Bragg. We see her
first audition tape and she
discusses her Russian heritage
(her father was a member of
an exiled family of the Russian
nobility) and many of her most
famous roles, including Jane
Tennison and the Queen. JC

Mary Queen of Scots (15, 2018)
The ambition and the betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots is brought
vividly to life in this rousing political melodrama about the
contrasting fates of two very different queens. Saoirse Ronan is in
savagely strong form as Mary Stuart, the eponymous heroine who,
as the film begins (in 1561), has returned from Europe with flawless
French, some progressive ideas and a claim to the thrones of
Scotland and England. Mary’s royal ambitions, naturally, ruffle the
feathers of her distant cousin Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie) so the
action unfolds as a dance of sorts, as each of them aims for
complete supremacy while negotiating with their treacherous
male advisers. The theatre director Josie Rourke’s film debut is a
bravura screen biography of the finest kind. (121min) Kevin Maher

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Stuart’s attempt to overthrow her cousin
Elizabeth I finds her condemned to years
of imprisonment. Drama starring
Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie
● BBC1 Scotland As BBC1 except: 12.45am
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rapping teacher (r) 1.30 Weather for the
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News 8.00 Pobol y Cwm 8.25 Pobol y
Cwm 8.55 News 9.00 Cynefin 10.00
Wcrain: 150 Diwrnod o Ryfel (r) 10.30
Birmingham 2022: Cymru yn y Gemau (r)
11.30-12.05am Bois y Rhondda (r)
(r) repeat (SL) In-vision signing

Nerve (15, 2016)

Channel 4, 2.15am
Adapted from Jeanne Ryan’s young adult novel, Nerve is a fun,
high-concept teenage thriller about a fictional smartphone game
in which contestants roam New York completing dares that the
players must film themselves tackling in exchange for cash and
online followers. Emma Roberts plays Vee, who is goaded into a
new life as an adrenaline fiend by her Nerve-addicted best friend.
Dave Franco is Ian, who is on the receiving end of Vee’s debut dare:
kissing a stranger for five seconds. Soon the pair are anointed as
Nerve stars, delighting their fans with their disregard for safety,
burgeoning romance and willingness to strip off. Like many
teenage flicks, Nerve has a cool soundtrack, neon-streaked
cinematography and telegenic stars. (96min) Ed Potton

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2021) A single mother that was once
subjected to being kidnapped for
seven years must face her captor yet
again. Thriller starring Jessica Morris
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England’s Reece Topley (6pm)

Kevin loses his temper (8pm)

Series two of The Great (10pm)

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7.00 The Gadget Show Craig tests
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Jon Bentley goes full throttle
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7.00 The One Show Magazine show
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7.30 Live MOTD: Uefa Women’s Euro
2022 Gabby Logan presents
coverage of the second
semi-final (Kick-off 8.00), which
comes from Stadium MK in
Milton Keynes. Record eighttime champions Germany
secured their place in the
quarter-finals with a game to
spare and will be action tonight
should they have progressed
from their last eight tie,
something they failed to do in
2017, when they were defeated
by Denmark. The Danes then
went on to eliminate Austria on
penalties before losing to the
Netherlands in the final. With
analysis from Alex Scott, Fara
Williams and Laura Georges,
and commentary by Jonathan
Pearce and Lucy Ward

7.30 Emmerdale Amelia has the
weight of the world on her
shoulders and Gabby is pleased
to have Liv’s support

10.10 BBC News at Ten

10.00Mock the Week Panellists
include Maisie Adam, Angela
Barnes and Jen Brister (9/13) (r)

10.40 BBC Regional News

10.30 Newsnight Analysis of the day’s
events with Kirsty Wark

10.50 FILM Mary Queen of Scots (15,
2018) Following the death of her
husband, Queen Mary returns
to Scotland after years reigning
in France. Despite religious
differences, she hopes to
achieve peace with her English
cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
However, Mary Stuart’s
eventual attempt to overthrow
Elizabeth finds her condemned
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Drama with Saoirse Ronan and
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12.45am Extraordinary Portraits.
Laura Quinn Harris creates a portrait
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11.15 Big Oil vs the World
Documentary telling the story
of what the fossil fuel industry
knew about climate change
more than four decades ago.
Scientists reveal the warnings
they sounded in the 1970s
and early 1980s (1/3) (r)
12.15am Sign Zone: Lenny Henry’s
Caribbean Britain. Lenny explores
how second and third generation,
British-born Caribbean children
began to mesh their identity into their
art (2/2) (r) (SL) 1.15-2.15 Freddie
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battling the property markets
on either side of the Thames

8.00 Police Interceptors A runaway
car mounts the pavement
in a desperate effort to escape,
and an officer spots a serial
offender who failed to attend
court last time he was nicked
on the very same road;
followed by 5 News Update

9.00 Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest
Airport Storm Eunice wreaks
havoc at the airport, as staff
deal with a deluge of delays
and unhappy passengers, and
also try to deter debris from
hitting the runway (2/6)

9.00 George Clarke’s Remarkable
Renovations George meets a
couple who ran their local Post
Office and lived in the building
above it for 20 years. After
closing the business, they could
not bear to sell the building

9.00 999: Critical Condition
A trauma team leader juggles
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arrive at the emergency
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each other. Elsewhere, an
18-year-old is transferred
from another hospital

10.00ITV News at Ten; followed by
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10.00The Great New series. The
Emmy-nominated drama
returns for a second series,
which now sees Catherine
taking the Russian throne.
Starring Elle Fanning, Nicholas
Hoult and Gillian Anderson.
See Viewing Guide (1/10)

10.00Ambulance: Code Red
An HGV crashes into a railway
bridge on the M6 motorway,
and a 67-year-old is stabbed
multiple times while in his
own home, before escaping
his attacker (r)

11.05 Night Coppers A PC who is also
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busy pub, while Brighton’s
answer to Cagney and Lacey
launch a desperate search
for a vulnerable woman (r)

11.05 Skin A&E Four top
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42 saturday review

Wednesday 27 | Primetime digital guide

The Roads to
Freedom
Michael Barclay stars in the
1970 adaptation of Sartre
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6.00am James Max
6.30 The Julia Hartley-Brewer
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10.00 The Independent Republic
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4.00 Kevin O’Sullivan The
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7.00 The News Desk with
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8.00 Piers Morgan Uncensored
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9.00 The Talk Sharon Osbourne
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11.00-12.00 Piers Morgan
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7.00pm Top Gear The team road
test Porsche and Ferrari
estate cars in Norway (1/5)
8.00 Glow Up: Britain’s Next
Make-Up Star The five
remaining make-up artists
take on London Fashion
Week as they are booked as
the backstage make-up team
for a catwalk show (6/8)
9.00 Glow Up: Britain’s Next
Make-Up Star It’s the
semi-final, and the
remaining make-up artists
take on two musical
challenges as they battle for
a place in the final (7/8)
10.00 In My Skin Bethan finds
herself free to experience
the joys of teenage life (1/5)
10.30 In My Skin Bethan meets
the man Trina has been
having an affair with (2/5)
11.00 Fleabag Claire organises
her own birthday party (3/6)
11.30-12.40am RuPaul’s Drag Race
UK Raven drops by (3/10)

7.00pm Great American Railroad
Journeys Travelling from
Sacramento to Napa Valley
7.30 Walking with Monica
Galetti A stroll through
the North York Moors
8.00 Rise of the Continents
The formation of North
and South America (3/4)
9.00 Great British Photography
Challenge The six
contenders photograph free
running and flowers (3/4)
10.00 Colin Baker Remembers:
The Roads to Freedom
10.05 The Roads to Freedom
Adaptation of Jean-Paul
Sartre’s drama trilogy.
See Viewing Guide (1/13)
10.50 The Roads to Freedom
Mathieu tries to arrange an
abortion for his mistress.
See Viewing Guide (2/13)
11.35-12.20am The Roads to
Freedom Daniel visits
Mathieu’s mistress. See
Viewing Guide (3/13)

6.55pm Escape to the Château:
DIY A couple continue their
huge restoration project, as
they battle to complete the
family apartment in their
château’s attic (8/10)
7.55 The Yorkshire Dales and
the Lakes: Season by
Season Documentary series
following life in the national
parks. In Appletreewick, a
pub landlord has a special
night up his sleeve (1/4)
9.00 Extraordinary Escapes
with Sandi Toksvig
Sue Johnston joins Sandi
for a Cornish adventure,
visiting a former shepherd’s
hut on an alpaca farm (3/6)
10.00 999: What’s Your
Emergency? Paramedics
race to help a 76-year-old
who has collapsed (4/6)
11.05-12.15am 24 Hours in A&E
A man with an injured finger
contemplates his gender
reassignment therapy (5/14)

6.15pm True Detective Hays looks
back at the aftermath of the
1980 Purcell case, including
possible evidence left
behind at an outdoor
hangout for local kids
(2/8) (R)
7.25 Game of Thrones In the
aftermath of the devastating
battle at King’s Landing,
Daenerys declares her
intentions for Westeros,
and Tyrion faces the
consequences of his
recent actions (6/6) (R)
9.00 Westworld Sci-fi drama
inspired by Michael
Crichton’s 1973 film (R)
10.05 The Baby Natasha must
reunite with her mother
Barbara (4/8) (R)
10.40 Save Me Too Nelly decides
to take Grace into hiding
and her memories of the
previous night surface (R)
11.40-12.40am Ray Donovan With
Liev Schreiber (4/12) (R)

7.00pm Mother Teresa: For the
Love of God An in-depth
look at the life of the nun
and missionary, who was
canonised as a saint by
Pope Francis in December
2015 (3/3) (R)
8.00 Janet Jackson A profile of
the singer in which she
speaks candidly about
her early years, her career
and the defining moments
of her life (3/4) (R)
9.00 FILM Inmate 1: The Rise of
Danny Trejo (15, 2019) Film
shining a spotlight on the
darker moments and
incredible transformation of
the actor’s life, as he details
an early life of drugs,
robbery and prison time
11.10-1.10am FILM Belushi (18,
2020) The life story of the
comedy star John Belushi,
who captured the hearts
and funny-bones of
audiences worldwide

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7.30 Bob’s Burgers Bob has to
close the restaurant due to a leak
8.00 Superstore A robot co-worker
is introduced to the store and has
everyone fearing for their job
8.30 Superstore Amy struggles to
gather glowing character
testimonies for Mateo
9.00 Love Island Reality show
10.05 Family Guy
10.35 Family Guy
11.05 Family Guy
11.35-12.05am American Dad!

7.00pm Heartbeat Vernon suffers
delusions of grandeur while
playing bodyguard to a Russian
prince staying at Ashfordly Hall
8.00 Lewis A professor is found
dead on Halloween with a stake
through her heart. Drama guest
starring Rupert Graves (4/4)
10.00 The Pembrokeshire
Murders A long-awaited forensic
breakthrough arrives (3/3)
11.05-12.10am Wycliffe A teacher is
found murdered following the
disappearance of a student (3/6)

6.55pm The Chase Celebrity
Special Dr Christian Jessen, JB Gill,
Helen Lederer and Stephen Hendry
take on the Chaser (4/16)
8.00 Junk and Disorderly Bringing
a vintage Morris 8 back to life
9.00 FILM Coogan’s Bluff (15,
1968) An Arizona sheriff searches
New York for an escaped killer
but his disregard for the rules
antagonises the local cops. Crime
drama starring Clint Eastwood
11.05-1.20am FILM Get Carter (18,
1971) Thriller with Michael Caine

7.00pm Hollyoaks John Paul
makes a surprising return and Sid
gets some advice from Lizzie
7.30 Black-ish Charlie announces
that he is marrying Vivica A Fox
and asks Dre to be his best man
8.00 Below Deck A pair’s
flirtations become more obvious
9.00 Gogglebox Opinions on This
Is Going to Hurt and Crufts 2022
10.00 Naked Attraction
Contestants from Scotland and
Manchester look for love
11.05-12.10am First Dates

7.00pm Richard Osman’s House of
Games With guests Chizzy
Akudolu, Charlie Higson, Kate
Williams and Tom Allen
7.40 Room 101
8.20 Room 101
9.00 QI Sandi Toksvig quizzes the
panel on a few revolutionary ideas
10.00 Sneakerhead Mulenga gets
in a fight with a customer
10.40 Big Zuu’s Big Eats
11.20 Would I Lie to You?
12.00-1.00am Mel Giedroyc:
Unforgivable With Phil Wang

6.40pm Last of the Summer Wine
Clegg takes Compo and Seymour
on a journey down memory lane
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine
Compo speculates as to how the
body circulates blood
8.00 The Coroner The patriarch
of a local aristocratic family is
found stabbed to death
9.00 Whitechapel The case takes
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Exploring a complex in Georgia
pointing into deep space
8.00 Ricky & Ralf’s Very Northern
Road Trip Ralf Little and Ricky
Tomlinson explore Cumbria (2/6)
9.00 Bangers and Cash (11/15)
10.00 Bangers & Cash: Restoring
Classics A sun-bleached red
Vauxhall Astra GTE gives the
team a headache (1/6)
11.00 Abandoned Engineering
12.00-1.00am Great Continental
Railway Journeys (1/6)

7.00pm The Somme 1916: From
Both Sides of the Wire Peter
Barton examines the final months
of the campaign (3/3)
8.20 Heroes on Deck: World War
Two on Lake Michigan The story
of how the US Navy trained more
than 15,000 carrier pilots on
passenger steamers
9.35 Shooting the War (3/3)
10.50 Castles: Britain’s Fortified
History With Sam Willis (3/3)
12.00-1.15am The Somme 1916:
From Both Sides of the Wire (3/3)

7.00pm Aerial New Zealand
Bird’s-eye views of the country
8.00 Jaguarland The jaguars of
the Pantanal region of Brazil
9.00 Brazil’s Emerald Oasis The
range of wildlife attracted to the
Pantanal’s Rebel Lake — - including
600lb tapirs and jaguars
10.00 Into the Puma Triangle
Wildlife film-maker Casey
Anderson’s study of mountain lions
11.00 Jaguarland
12.00-1.00am Brazil’s Emerald
Oasis Wildlife documentary

7.00pm Landscape Artist of the
Year 2016 The competition moves
to Scotney Castle in Kent (4/9)
8.00 The British Invasion An
in-depth profile of Peter Noone
and Herman’s Hermits (3/4)
9.00 Celebrity Portrait Artist of
the Year Jim Moir, Joe Lycett, Josie
Long, Phill Jupitus, Maureen
Lipman and Tomasz Schafernaker
take part in the painting challenge
10.00-12.05am The South Bank
Show A profile of Helen Mirren.
See Viewing Guide (2/4)

7.00pm Forged in Fire A bid to
create an Arkansas Toothpick knife
8.00 Swamp People
9.00 Secrets of the Lost Liners
New series. The design, service and
loss of some of the world’s greatest
ocean liners. See Viewing Guide
10.00 Revolutions: The Ideas That
Changed the World Tracing the
invention of the car (2/6)
11.00 Top Secret UFO Projects
Declassified Petrozavodsk (5/6)
12.00-1.00am Lost Secrets of the
Pyramid The Pyramid Of Giza (1/2)

7.00pm Stargate SG-1 An alien
civilisation faces extinction
8.00 SEAL Team Jason and the
team are sent on a sudden mission
in Africa (4/14)
9.00 The Blacklist Red takes
extreme measures to locate a
tracking device
10.00 Resident Alien Harry must
rely on Asta and D’arcy for survival.
Starring Alan Tudyk (8/10)
11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles
12.00-1.00am The Force:
Manchester (4/10)

Discovery

Nat Geographic

Sky Comedy

Comedy Central

Gold

W

SKY 125, VIRGIN 250

SKY 129, VIRGIN 266, BT 351

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7.00pm Outback Truckers
8.00 Fast N’ Loud
9.00 I Was Prey A woman is
attacked by a black bear
10.00 I Was Prey The stories of a
triathlete attacked by a bull shark
11.00 Island of the Walking Sharks
Shark Week documentary
12.00-1.00am Expedition Bigfoot

7.00pm Air Crash Investigation:
Special Report Doomed airlines
8.00 Anne Frank: The Nazi
Capture The diarist’s capture from
the perspective of the Nazis
10.00 Hitler’s Teen Killers The
soldiers of 12th SS Panzer Division
11.00 Air Crash Investigation
12.00-1.00am Drugs Inc (2/10)

7.05pm The Office (US)
9.00 The Reluctant Landlord
9.30 The Reluctant Landlord
10.00 Breeders Ava and Luke feel
frozen out by their loved ones
10.30 Code 404 (3/6)
11.00 Code 404 (4/6)
11.30 Bloods (1/6)
12.00-12.30am Bloods (2/6)

7.00pm Friends US comedy
7.30 Friends US comedy
8.00 FILM Grown Ups 2 (12, 2013)
Comedy sequel with Adam Sandler
10.00 Tracy Morgan: Bona Fide
11.00 Kevin Hart Live: Seriously
Funny A performance in Ohio
12.00-1.00am Jeff Dunham’s Last
Minute Pandemic Holiday Special

6.40pm Dad’s Army
7.20 Dad’s Army
8.00 Gavin & Stacey
8.40 Only Fools and Horses Del
becomes a showbiz manager
9.45 Mrs Brown’s Boys Grandad
becomes addicted to Viagra
10.25 Mrs Brown’s Boys
11.00-12.05am Live at the Apollo

7.00pm Property Brothers at
Home: Drew’s Honeymoon House
8.00 The Three Day Nanny
9.00 The Undateables
10.00 Louis Theroux: The Most
Hated Family in America
11.00 Brainwashing Stacey
12.00-1.00am Inside the
Ambulance: Coast and Country

Sky Main Event

Sky Premier League

Sky Cricket

BT Sport 1

BT Sport 2

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SKY 404, VIRGIN 514

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5.00pm Euro Matchday The latest
news and match updates from
UEFA Women’s Euro 2022
6.00 Live International T20
Cricket: England v South Africa
Coverage of the opening contest
of the three-match series, held at
Seat Unique Stadium in Bristol
10.30 Sky Sports News A round-up
of the latest sporting news, with
live analysis and comment,
plus extended interviews with
the headline-makers
11.00-12.00 Sky Sports News

7.00pm Premier League
A replay of Manchester City v
Tottenham Hotspur
9.00 Premier League Stories
A look behind the scenes.
9.30 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox
The presenter talks to Robbie
Fowler about some of the matches
they faced each other in
10.00 Premier League Icons
A profile of Eric Cantona
10.30-12.30am PL Retro
Manchester United v Tottenham
Hotspur from 1998/99

6.00pm Live International T20
Cricket: England v South Africa
Coverage of the opening contest of
the three-match series at Seat
Unique Stadium in Bristol
10.30 Ace: A Programme For
Change How the ACE Programme
has re-engaged the black British
community with cricket
11.00 Talking Cricket The story of
South Africa’s most successful
captain, Graeme Smith
11.30 My Icon: Nasser Hussain
11.45-12.00 My Icon: Moeen Ali

1.15pm One Day International
Cricket West Indies v India
2.15 Live One Day International
Cricket: West Indies v India
Coverage of the third and final ODI
in the series from Queen’s Park
Oval in Trinidad and Tobago
11.00 The Aussie Rules Show Ollie
Geale presents all the latest news,
views and analysis of the game
12.00-3.30am Live MLB: New York
Mets v New York Yankees
(Start-time 12.10). Coverage of the
inter-league match from Citi Field

5.30pm Live MLB: Philadelphia
Phillies v Atlanta Braves
(Start-time 5.35). Coverage of the
match from Citizens Bank Park
9.00 Premier League
10.30 Fight Week
11.00 The Dan Hardy Breakdown
Show A preview of the women’s
bantamweight bout between
Julianna Peña and Amanda Nunes
11.30-12.30am UFC Countdown
2.00-4.00 Live Canadian
Premier League: Cavalry FC v
Forge FC (Kick-off 2.00)

The actress Helen Mirren is
profiled in The South Bank
Show (Sky Arts, 10pm)

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

saturday review 43

Wednesday 27
Film guide

Radio guide

Film4

Times Radio

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Muppets from
Space (U, 1999) Comedy
starring F Murray Abraham
12.45pm ¡Three Amigos!
(PG, 1986) Comedy Western
starring Steve Martin
2.50 His Girl Friday (U, 1940)
Comedy starring Cary Grant
4.40 Samson and Delilah (U,
1949) Drama starring Victor
Mature and Hedy Lamarr
7.15 Addams Family Values
(PG, 1993) Comedy sequel
starring Anjelica Huston
9.00 Mission: Impossible —
Ghost Protocol (12, 2011)
Action adventure sequel
starring Tom Cruise
11.40-2.00am Skin (15, 2018)
Crime drama with Jamie Bell

Talking Pictures TV
FV 82 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am Lassie from
Lancashire (PG, 1938)
Romantic comedy
7.40 Chipperfield’s
Circus with Mr Pastry
7.55 The Madame Gambles
(U, 1951) Comedy
9.35 Park Plaza 605 (U, 1953)
Drama starring Tom Conway
11.10 A Scream in The Dark
(PG, 1943) Crime drama
starring Robert Lowery
12.20pm Be My Guest (U,
1965) Drama with David
Hemmings and Andrea Monet
2.00 Upstairs, Downstairs
3.00 Saddle Up
3.05 Edge of Eternity (U,
1959) Thriller starring Cornel
Wilde and Victoria Shaw
4.45 Saddle Up
4.50 The Law vs Billy the Kid
(U, 1954) Western starring
Scott Brady and Betta St John
6.20 Saddle Up
6.25 The Finishing Touch
(U, 1928) Comedy short
starring Laurel and Hardy
6.50 The Edgar Wallace
Mystery Theatre
8.00 Kessler
9.00 Eyewitness (15, 1970)
Thriller with Mark Lester
10.50 Look at Life
11.00-12.00 The Champions

GREAT! Movies
FV 34 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am Gone: Finding My
Daughter (PG, 2018) Drama
10.50 GREAT! Movie News
11.00 The Novel Murders:
Garage Sale Mystery VI
(PG, 2016) Whodunit
12.50pm GREAT! Movie News
1.00 Dangerous Company
(PG, 2015) Thriller
2.50 Deadly Exchange
(12, 2017) Thriller
4.40 Secret Window (12,
2004) Psychological thriller
6.35 Burlesque (12, 2010)
Musical starring Cher
9.00 Signs (12, 2002) Sci-fi
thriller starring Mel Gibson
11.15-1.00am Awake (15,
2007) Medical thriller
starring Hayden Christensen

Digital only

Hedy Lamarr and Victor
Mature (Film4, 4.40pm)

5.00am Anna Cunningham
with Early Breakfast 6.00
Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell with
Times Radio Breakfast 10.00
Patrick Maguire 1.00pm
Mariella Frostrup 4.00 Times
Radio Drive. Conversation with
political and economic guests
7.00 Henry Bonsu 10.00
Carole Walker. The stories of
the day 1.00am Stories of
Our Times. The Times’s daily
podcast 1.30 Red Box. Matt
Chorley’s politics podcast 2.00
Highlights from Times Radio

GREAT! Movies Classic

Radio 2

FV 52 FS 303 SKY 319 VIRGIN 424

FM: 88-90.2 MHz

6.00am Nocturne (PG, 1946)
Mystery starring George Raft
7.45 The De Havilland Comet
8.55 We’ll Meet Again (U,
1943) Musical with Vera Lynn
10.35 The Way We Were
(PG, 1973) Romantic drama
1.00pm One, Two, Three
(U, 1961) Cold War comedy
3.15 East of Sudan (U, 1964)
Period adventure
5.10 Port Afrique (PG, 1956)
Mystery starring Philip Carey
7.05 A Twist Of Sand
(U, 1968) Adventure
9.00 Priest of Love (15, 1981)
Biopic starring Ian McKellen
11.10-1.15am They Made Me a
Fugitive (PG, 1947) Thriller

6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast
Show 9.30 Scott Mills 12.00
Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve
Wright 5.00 Sara Cox 7.30
Sara Cox’s Half Wower 8.00
The Folk Show with Mark
Radcliffe 10.00 Trevor Nelson’s
Magnificent 7 10.30 Trevor
Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12.00
OJ Borg 3.00am Sounds
of the 90s with Fearne Cotton
(r) 4.00 Vanessa Feltz

TCM Movies
SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s
Best Film Directors
6.35 Off Set
6.50 Sugarfoot
7.55 Maverick
9.00 The Secret Ways
(PG, 1961) Thriller
11.15 Sugarfoot
12.20pm Maverick
1.30 Rails into Laramie
(U, 1954) Western
3.15 Colt .45 (U, 1950) Western
4.50 The Hanging Tree
(PG, 1959) Western
7.05 Murder Ahoy
(U, 1964) Mystery
9.00 Payback (18, 1999)
Thriller starring Mel Gibson
11.10-1.45am Lethal Weapon 4
(15, 1998) Adventure starring
Mel Gibson and Danny Glover

Sky Cinema Premiere
SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

1.55pm South of Heaven
(15, 2021) Crime drama
starring Jason Sudeikis
4.15 Flag Day (15, 2021) Crime
drama starring Sean Penn
6.10 Paws of Fury: The
Legend of Hank (PG, 2022)
Animated comedy with
the voice of Michael Cera
8.00 Spider-Man: No Way
Home (12, 2021) Comic-book
adventure sequel starring
Tom Holland and Zendaya
10.40-12.20am Zola (18, 2021)
Comedy with Taylour Paige

Radio 3
FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

6.30am Breakfast
9.00 Essential Classics
12.00 Composer of the Week:
Beethoven Donald Macleod
explores Beethoven’s reemergence from torment and
his obsession with contrasting
figures — Josephine von
Brunswick and Napoleon
Bonaparte. See Choice
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime
Concert The Elias Quartet and
friends bring Schubert’s
powerful Octet in F to Fife
2.00 Afternoon Concert
Including another chance to
hear La Nuova Musica in
Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas from
this year’s Proms, originally
broadcast on July 19
4.00 Live Choral Evensong
From Hereford Cathedral
during the Three Choirs
Festival, with music by
Lloyd, Dyson, Dobrinka
Tabakova and Jackson
5.00 In Tune A selection of
music, arts news and guests
7.00 Live BBC Proms 2022
From the Royal Albert Hall,
the BBC National Orchestra
of Wales and Andrew Manze
perform works inspired by
the sea by Doreen Carwithen,
Grace Williams and Ralph
Vaughan Williams
10.00 Then There Was Light
Examining Stockhausen’s
seven operas based on the
days of the week (r)
10.45 The Essay: My Life in
Music Karine Polwart reflects
on an event on the eve of
her Grampa’s funeral (r)
11.00 Night Tracks
Late-night listening
12.30am Through the Night (r)

Today’s pick
Composer of the Week
Radio 4, noon
Beethoven’s piano variations
have been the subject of
presenter Donald Macleod’s
investigations all this week.
Today’s episode, subtitled To
Hope, examines Beethoven’s
adoration of Napoleon
Bonaparte — and his
subsequent disavowal of him.
The composer ripped out the
dedication of his Eroica
symphony in fury at the news
his erstwhile hero had
declared himself emperor.
Eroica is also applied to one

of Beethoven’s greatest sets
of variations. Macleod tells
the story of their composition,
as well as that of Beethoven’s
unrequited love for his
pupil, Josephine Brunsvik.
Ben Dowell

Radio 4

Radio 5 Live

FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz
LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz

MW: 693, 909

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 Tweet of the Day (r)
6.00 Today
9.00 Sideways Scaling back
risks posed by the existence
of nuclear weapons (3/4)
9.30 Four Thought
9.45 Book of the Week:
Pharaohs of the Sun
By Guy de la Bedoyere (3/5)
9.45 (LW) Daily Service
10.00 Woman’s Hour
11.00 Leeds: Life in the Bus
Lane Documentary (r)
11.30 Art of Now:
Berlin’s Nightlife (r)
12.01pm (LW) Shipping
12.04 You and Yours
1.00 The World at One
1.45 28ish Days Later
Hormonal contraception
2.00 The Archers (r)
2.15 Drama: Trust
By Jonathan Hall (3/3) (r)
3.00 Money Box Live
3.30 Inside Health (r)
4.00 Sideways (r)
4.30 The Media Show
5.00 PM
5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.30 Anneka Has Issues
Anneka Rice talks about
therapy, touching on the
time she was hypnotised
7.00 The Archers Fingers
of suspicion are pointed
7.15 Front Row
8.00 The Moral Maze (10/10)
8.45 Four Thought (r)
9.00 Made of Stronger Stuff
Documentary (r)
9.30 The Media Show (r)
10.00 The World Tonight
10.45 Book at Bedtime: Mrs
Bridge By Evan S Connell.
Read by Fenella Woolgar (3/10)
11.00 Tom Mayhew Is
Benefit Scum (r)
11.15 Welcome to the
Neighbourhood
11.30 Alex Edelman’s Peer
Group (1/4) (r)
12.00 News and Weather
12.30am Book of the Week:
Pharaohs of the Sun (3/5) (r)
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World Service

5.00am Wake Up to Money
6.00 5 Live Breakfast 9.00
Nicky Campbell 11.00 Naga
Munchetty 1.00pm Nihal
Arthanayake 4.00 5 Live
Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport 8.00 5
Live Sport 10.30 Colin Murray
1.00am Dotun Adebayo

talkSPORT
MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00
Breakfast with Laura Woods
10.00 Jim White and Simon
Jordan 1.00pm Hawksbee &
Baker 4.00 Drive 7.00
Women’s Euros GameDay.
The second semi-final
(Kick-off 8.00) 10.00 Sports
Bar 1.00am Extra Time

TalkRadio
Digital only

5.00am James Max 6.30 The
Julia Hartley-Brewer Breakfast
Show 10.00 The Independent
Republic of Mike Graham
1.00pm Ian Collins 4.00 The
Afternoon Show 7.00 Tom
Newton Dunn 8.00 Piers
Morgan 9.00 The Talk
10.00 Daisy McAndrew 11.00
Piers Morgan 12.00 Petrie
Hosken 4.00am The Talk

Radio 4 Extra
Digital only

8.00am Hancock’s Half Hour
8.15 The New Elizabethans
8.30 Any Other Business 9.00
The Write Stuff 9.30 Odd Balls
10.00 Wallis: The Life and
Legends of Wallis Simpson
11.00 Rik Mayall on Radio
12.00 Hancock’s Half Hour
12.15pm The New
Elizabethans 12.30 Any Other
Business 1.00 Detective 1.30
The Great Impersonation
2.00 Every Third Thought
2.15 Where Angels Fear to
Tread 2.30 The Ghost Trains
of Old England 3.00 Wallis:
The Life and Legends of
Wallis Simpson 4.00 The
Write Stuff 4.30 Odd Balls
5.00 Boswell’s Lives 5.30
Anneka Has Issues

6.00 Orbiter X 6.30 Dad
Made Me Laugh 7.00
Hancock’s Half Hour 7.15 The
New Elizabethans 7.30 Any
Other Business 8.00
Detective 8.30 The Great
Impersonation 9.00 Rik
Mayall on Radio 10.00
Comedy Club: Anneka Has
Issues 10.30 Goodness
Gracious Me 10.55 Comedy
Club Interview 11.00 The
Million Pound Radio Show
11.30 Hearing with Hegley
11.45 Sir Ralph Stanza’s
Letter from Salford

BBC World Service
Digital only

9.00am News 9.06 Compass:
The Reclaimers — Bronzes
and Birmingham 9.30 Digital
Planet 10.00 News 10.06 The
Documentary: The Bomb
11.00 The Newsroom 11.30
On the Podium 12.00 News
12.06pm Outlook 12.50
Witness History 1.00 The
Newsroom 1.30 Digital Planet
2.00 Newshour 3.00 News
3.06 HARDtalk 3.30 Business
4.00 BBC OS 6.00 News 6.06
Outlook 6.50 Witness History
7.00 The Newsroom 7.30
Sport Today 8.00 News 8.06
Compass: The Reclaimers
— Bronzes and Birmingham
8.30 Healthcheck 9.00
Newshour 10.00 News 10.06
HARDtalk 10.30 On the
Podium 11.00 The Newsroom
11.20 Sports News 11.30
Business 12.00 News
12.06am The Documentary:
The Bomb 1.00 News
1.06 Business Matters 2.00
The Newsroom 2.30
Assignment 3.00 News
3.06 Outlook 3.50 Witness
History 4.00 The Newsroom
4.30 The Food Chain

6 Music
Digital only

7.30am Lauren Laverne
10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs
1.00pm Craig Charles 4.00
Steve Lamacq 7.00 Marc
Riley 9.00 Gideon Coe 12.00
Freak Zone Playlist 1.00am
Overnight Documentary

Virgin Radio
Digital only

6.30am The Chris Evans
Breakfast Show with Sky
10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris
1.00pm Tim Cocker 4.00
Kate Lawler 7.00 Bam 10.00
Olivia Jones 1.00am Sean
Goldsmith 4.00 Steve Denyer

Classic FM
FM: 100-102 MHz

6.00am More Music
Breakfast 9.00 Alexander
Armstrong 12.00 Anne-Marie
Minhall 4.00pm John
Brunning 7.00 Smooth
Classics 1.00am Bill Overton
4.00 Early Breakfast

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

44 saturday review

Thursday 28 | Viewing guide
Critic’s choice
Lancaster
Sky Documentaries/Now, 9pm
From the team behind Spitfire
comes another superb and
sobering documentary about
an aircraft that was pivotal to
the Allies winning the Second
World War. As well as honest
and raw testimony from
the last surviving crew
members, the film is notable
for the extraordinary aerial
footage of the RAF’s last
airworthy Lancaster soaring
majestically over the English
countryside. For the last three
years of the war, the Avro
Lancaster was the main heavy
bomber used by Bomber
Command to take the war
to the heart of Nazi Germany.
It was a crucial weapon
against Hitler, responsible
for some of the most famous
(and infamous) missions,
from the Dambuster raids to
the controversial bombing
of Dresden. But there was
a deadly price to be paid —
more than 57,000 men (half
of all Bomber Command’s

aircrew) died over Nazioccupied Europe. Their
average age was 22. The
men paying tribute speak
fondly of the aircraft (“It was
a living thing,” says Bill Gould,
a former pilot in the RAF
who flew Lancasters. “There
were times when she spoke
to you”), but it is also
obvious how what they
did has stayed with them;
Lancasters dropped
explosives equal to 50 atom
bombs, killing civilians by
the thousands. “I fought
my war from five miles up,”
says Peter Kelsey, another
Lancaster pilot. “I dropped
at one time maybe seven
or eight tonnes of bombs
on somewhere, came back,
had my breakfast, out on the
booze the next day. Thought
nothing of it. It was totally
another world. But I realise
that what I had done was
fundamentally wrong.”
Joe Clay

Commonwealth
Games: Opening
Ceremony

Big Oil vs
the World

My Insta
Scammer Friend

Train Truckers

BBC2, 9pm

BBC3, 9pm

BBC1, 7pm

The important series exploring
the response 40 years ago by
Big Oil to the science that
burning fossil fuels caused
climate change continues.
Christine Todd Whitman,
George W Bush’s former
environment chief, reveals how
the industry lobbied the
president to reverse his pledge
to regulate carbon emissions.
There was hope when Barack
Obama became president, but
the billionaire industrialist Koch
brothers tried to block the new
president’s climate change
legislation. A member of their
legal team speaks on camera
for the first time. JC

The influencer Caroline
Calloway portrayed herself as a
literary star on Instagram and
through the witty captions that
accompanied her posts won a
$500,000 deal for a book
about her aspirational life as an
American in Europe. However,
in 2019 her (former) best friend
Natalie Beach revealed the
truth — she wrote many of the
captions on Calloway’s posts
and helped to write the book
proposal. Sophie Fuller’s film
lifts the lid on the toxic
relationship between one
influencer and her followers —
but is Calloway really a
modern-day con artist? JC

A second run of the series
about an elite crew of heavyhaulage specialists tasked with
moving locomotives around
the UK and Europe by road, rail
and sea. It’s a serious feat of
engineering and logistics, and
the first task for our team is
hauling a mammoth 115-tonne
1960s Class 47 diesel engine
100 miles from its home at
Crewe Heritage Centre in
Cheshire to the Ecclesbourne
Valley Railway in Derbyshire.
On their journey they must
navigate streets barely wide
enough to fit a family car and
other hazards that ramp up the
drama. It’s a must-watch for
railway enthusiasts, with plenty
of history thrown in. JC

Clare Balding introduces
coverage of the opening
ceremony of the XXII
Commonwealth Games at the
Alexander Stadium in
Birmingham. The creative team
has been led by the Peaky
Blinders showrunner Steven
Knight. As well as a 1,000strong choir and the arrival of
the Queen’s baton (which has
travelled 90,000 miles around
the Commonwealth), the
ceremony will also feature the
Parade of Nations, where the
athletes walk behind the flags
of their countries. JC

Catch
up
Ripping Yarns
Britbox
While Terry Jones and Michael
Palin were writing Monty
Python sketches together,
they inclined towards
longer pieces that
allowed for more
narrative and
character
development.
When Python
ended they came
up with Ripping
Yarns, which
parodied Boy’s
Own adventure
fiction, from
wartime escape

stories to John Buchan spy
thrillers. “We were trying to get
good production values — the
type of production values you
get in a drama,” Palin says, “and
then put the jokes in.” Yet
despite its popular success,
there were only nine episodes.
Why? Money. The high
p
production values cost too
much. All episodes
are on Britbox today,
including the pilot, a
d
delightful
spoof of
Tom Brown’s
S
Schooldays,
highlighting the
rigours of 1920s
public school
life, such as
being shot,
flogging the
headmaster, and
being nailed to a
wall. Joe Clay

Yesterday, 9pm

Films of the day
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (12, 1962)
BBC4, 9pm

A memorably grotesque Bette Davis plays the titular demented
former child star who torments her wheelchair-bound sister
Blanche (Joan Crawford, below left with Davis) in Robert Aldrich’s
high-camp psychological horror. “Baby” Jane Hudson is unable to
forgive the fact that Blanche’s career as a matinee queen eclipsed
her own and exacts daily humiliations on her. The intensely bitter
Hollywood rivalry between the film’s two stars was key to the film’s
success and revitalised both of their careers. Davis was nominated
for the Oscar for best actress for her performance. Had she won, it
would have set a record number of wins for one actress. According
to Bette & Joan: The Divine Feud by Shaun Considine, Crawford
campaigned against Davis winning the award. (128min) Joe Clay

Regional programmes
● BBC1 Wales As BBC1 except: 11.10pm
The Merthyr Mermaid (r) 11.40 FILM Only
You (2019) Drama starring Laia Costa and
Josh O’Connor 1.35-1.40am Weather
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(r) repeat (SL) In-vision signing

Walk the Line (12, 2005)
GREAT! Movies, 9pm

Johnny Cash gets the biopic treatment in this superior portrait
of the man, his music, the demons he battled and the love
that saved him. Summarised like that, James Mangold’s film
sounds as if it ticks off every cliché, but this film hooks us in as
surely as any of Cash’s melodies. It’s elegantly structured —
we join him during the famous concert in Folsom prison and
then loop around to follow his early life. Terrific performances
by Joaquin Phoenix as Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June
Carter contribute hugely to the film’s success. Film fact: Phoenix
and Witherspoon performed all their songs themselves; they
also learnt to play guitar and autoharp from scratch. (147min)
Wendy Ide

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

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Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick (8pm)

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Balding introduces coverage as
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Games is officially opened at
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top-class sporting competition.
The creative team behind the
ceremony includes Peaky
Blinders’ writer and creator
Steven Knight, and it is
expected to showcase West
Midlands talent and diversity. At
the heart of the ceremony is the
traditional Parade of Nations,
where all the participating
athletes walk behind the flags
of their countries in a
celebration of sporting unity.
The ceremony culminates with
the Competitors’ Oath and the
finale to the Queen’s Baton
Relay, which has travelled
90,000 miles around every
nation and territory in the
Commonwealth. See Viewing
Guide

7.00 EastEnders Zack tries other
ways to get the money for the
car and calls up for loans

7.00 Channel 4 News Including sport
and weather

7.00 Our Great Yorkshire Life
Two brothers visit the oldest
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famous local confectionary —
Yorkshire Mixture

7.30 EastEnders Everyone reels
from the fight at Peggy’s and
Zack leaves, followed by Kat
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8.00 Mountain Vets Three baby
hedgehogs are adopted and
will be hand fed until they can
fend for themselves, while a vet
has to respond to a call from
her boss’s husband about a
difficult calving (4/6)

8.00 The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick
A beloved fluff monster, a
10-month-old rough collie and
a golden retriever pup make
return visits to the practice

8.00 10 Years Younger in 10 Days
The team meets a man who
needs guidance when it comes
to his appearance, and a
woman who puts all her
energies into healing others
but is struggling to heal herself;
followed by 5 News Update

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American Road Trip The trio
travel from Nevada to Los
Angeles, flying over the Grand
Canyon, trying a $777 burger in
Las Vegas, fishing in the
Colorado River and rounding up
herds of cattle (2/4) (r)

9.00 The Undeclared War Signs of
irregularity in the UK general
election results prompt political
unrest. Cyber thriller starring
Adrian Lester, Simon Pegg and
Hannah Khalique-Brown (5/6)

9.00 The Hotel Inspector Alex
Polizzi visits The Falcon Hotel
in Cambridgeshire, run by
a lifelong hotelier and his
daughter. Last in the series

10.00The Tuckers New series.
Comedy about a family of
chancers, written by and
starring Steve Speirs (1/6)

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Weather

10.00First Dates A larger-than-life
stand-up comedian is paired
with a 30-year-old nursing
home owner, while a Nintendo
geek is introduced to a
29-year-old hairdresser

10.00HMP Wakefield: Evil Behind
Bars Through interviews with
ex-inmates, retired guards and
relatives of Britain’s most
infamous inmates, this
documentary uncovers
secrets of life inside one of
the UK’s toughest jails (r)

10.30 QI Jen Brister, Jimmy Carr and
Chris McCausland join regular
panellist Alan Davies (r)

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Tonight Paul Brand investigates
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7.55 5 News Update

9.00 Big Oil vs the World How the oil
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10.30 BBC News at Ten O’Clock;
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11.10 FILM Only You (15, 2019) A
chance meeting on New Year’s
Eve results in a passionate
relationship between a Spanish
arts council worker and a PhD
student. The couple move in
together and are soon ready to
try for a family but face a ticking
biological clock. Drama starring
Laia Costa and Josh O’Connor

7.30 Emmerdale Sandra is shocked
to suspect Mandy is onto her,
while Lydia vows to plan the
wedding of the decade for Kim

11.45 T20 Cricket England v South
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at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff
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forgot to attach him (r)
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baby is in a critical condition,
and police suspect that the
parents are involved (r)
12.15am Criminals: Caught on
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Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

46 saturday review

Meet the
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Thursday 28 | Primetime digital guide

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1.00pm Ian Collins Hard-hitting
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7.00 The News Desk with
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9.00 The Talk Sharon Osbourne
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7.00pm Top Gear Matt LeBlanc
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pair of tiny tuk-tuks (2/5)
8.00 Glow Up: Britain’s Next
Make-Up Star The
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professional brief to date,
working with acclaimed
photographer Rankin (8/8)
9.00 My Insta Scammer Friend
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viral scandals left some of
her followers feeling duped.
See Viewing Guide
9.45 Gavin & Stacey Nessa
goes into labour a month
early in Barry (7/7)
10.15 Ladhood (1/6)
10.40 Ladhood (2/6)
11.05 Ladhood (3/6)
11.30-12.40am RuPaul’s Drag
Race UK With (4/10)

7.00pm Great American Railroad
Journeys Michael Portillo’s
journey through California
takes him to San Francisco
7.30 Rise of the Continents
The formation of Eurasia,
which consists of Europe
and Asia. Last in the series
8.30 Bette & Joan: Talking
Pictures A dual profile of
feuding Hollywood
superstars Bette Davis
and Joan Crawford
9.00 FILM What Ever Happened
to Baby Jane? (12, 1962)
Drama starring Bette Davis,
Joan Crawford and Victor
Buono. See Film Choice
11.10 Clive James: Postcard from
Los Angeles The Australian
explores the notion of
success in Los Angeles
12.00-1.00am Great British
Photography Challenge
The six contenders
photograph free running
and flowers (3/4)

6.55pm Escape to the Château:
DIY In the Pays de la Loire,
it’s a family affair for the
Strawbridges (10/10)
7.55 The Yorkshire Dales and
the Lakes: Season by
Season A look at spring in
the national parks, with two
Grasmere farmers marking
up their lambs before setting
them and their mothers free
on the open fell (2/4)
9.00 Coroner Jenny is introduced
to the world of true crime
podcasts while assisting
Donovan, as the pair work
to figure out how to solve a
crime with no body (6/8)
10.00 Police Custody USA The
Narcotics squad fights a war
against meth, which is
ravaging Kansas City (2/4)
11.05-12.05am 8 Out of 10 Cats
Does Countdown Jon
Richardson and Jayde
Adams take on Sean Lock
and Joe Wilkinson (4/8)

6.45pm Game of Thrones: The
Last Watch Chronicling the
creation of the Game of
Thrones’ final season, its
most ambitious and
complicated series (R)
9.00 The Baby The baby’s
complicated origin is
revealed (5/8)
9.40 The White Lotus Belinda
tries to redirect Tanya’s
focus to her business
proposal, Paula grows
increasingly disillusioned
with the Mossbachers, and
Rachel begins to question
her future (5/6) (R)
10.45 Euphoria Rue grows
concerned when Jules starts
exhibiting disturbing
behaviour. Meanwhile,
Cassie spends time with
David, and Nate comes up
with a plan (6/8) (R)
11.50-12.55am Blocco 181
Ricardo gets out of jail and
provokes Victor (6/8) (R)

7.00pm Hollywood Couples The
relationship between Steve
McQueen and Ali MacGraw,
which began when the pair
starred in 1972 crime film
The Getaway (3/5) (R)
8.00 Janet Jackson Concluding
the profile of the singer in
which she speaks candidly
about her early years, her
career and the defining
moments of her life (4/4) (R)
9.00 Lancaster The story of the
legendary bomber
synonymous with the
Dambusters, the night raids
against Nazi Germany and
the brave men and women
who made them possible.
See Viewing Guide
11.00-1.10am FILM The Act of
Killing (15, 2012) Director
Joshua Oppenheimer
challenges former members
of Indonesian death squads
to re-enact some of their
many murders

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8.00 Superstore Jonah is forced
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8.30 Superstore The closure of the
local shopping centre brings an
influx of new customers
9.00 Love Island The final week
10.05 Iain Stirling’s CelebAbility
With Rachel Riley, James Lock,
Amber Gill and Kae Kurd
10.50 Family Guy
11.20 Family Guy
11.50-12.20am American Dad!

7.00pm Heartbeat Craddock
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8.00 Vera A mother of two is found
dead in her suburban garden — but
the case is made more complex
when the victim’s estranged
family put in an appearance
10.00 The Long Call A body is
found on a beach in Devon. Crime
drama starring Ben Aldridge (1/4)
11.05-12.05am The Long Call
Connections are made between
the victim and the Brethren
community (2/4)

6.50pm River Monsters A mystery
sea monster washes up on a beach
8.00 Monster Carp The team
head to Hungary to hunt the
biggest king carp on the planet
9.00 FILM RoboCop (18, 1987)
A murdered police officer is rebuilt
as a cyborg but memories of his
human life lead him to turn on his
corrupt creators. Sci-fi thriller with
Peter Weller and Nancy Allen
11.05-1.10am FILM Maximum
Conviction (15, 2012) Action
adventure starring Steven Seagal

7.00pm Hollyoaks A slip of the
tongue leads to a revelation for Peri
7.30 Black-ish Dre gets news that
he has been nominated for an
award and Olivia returns from Yale
8.00 Below Deck The captain
calls an all staff meeting and
gives the crew an ultimatum
9.00 Gogglebox The armchair
critics review shows including
Dynasties II and Pieces of Her
10.00 Naked Attraction Two
women look for new partners
11.05-12.10am First Dates

7.00pm Richard Osman’s House of
Games With Chizzy Akudolu,
Charlie Higson and Kate Williams
7.40 Room 101 Frank Skinner hosts
8.20 Room 101 With Nigel Havers
9.00 QI XL With Stephen K Amos,
Susan Calman and Lou Sanders
10.00 Meet the Richardsons Jon
and Lucy continue their travel
show. Last in the series
10.40 Would I Lie to You?
11.20 Would I Lie to You?
12.00-1.00am Mel Giedroyc:
Unforgivable With Jo Brand

6.40pm Last of the Summer Wine
Compo pulls a piece of antique
silver from the canal
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine
8.00 Jonathan Creek The master
illusionist investigates an attack
on a West End actress
9.20 New Tricks The murder of a
fashion designer is reinvestigated
10.40 New Tricks The team
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who was killed in a fire at
London’s Union club in 1996
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9.00 Train Truckers A Class 47
diesel engine is transported to
the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway.
See Viewing Guide (1/8)
10.00 Bangers and Cash (2/8)
11.00 Abandoned Engineering
A scandal-hit town in New Mexico
12.00-1.00am Great Continental
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6.25pm Russia 1917: Countdown
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9.35 Germany’s Neo-Nazis and
the Far Right Investigating the
rise of far-right extremism and
violence in Germany
10.45 Russia 1917: Countdown
to Revolution Documentary
12.00-2.00am Stalin: Inside the
Terror Portrait of the Soviet leader.

7.00pm Food Factories: How
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8.00 Inside the Factory The
production of baked beans
9.00 How Did They Build That?
A look at remarkable structures,
including Vancouver House
10.00 Impossible Repairs A
mission to haul hefty cargo across
Switzerland to the Netherlands
11.00 How Did They Build That?
12.00-1.00am How Did They Build
That? Remarkable structures

7.00pm Too Young to Die A look
at the life of Sharon Tate (4/9)
8.00 The Directors (4/10)
9.00 Discovering: David Niven
A profile of the British actor (9/14)
10.00 Comedy Legends
11.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A man kills his wife and buries
her in the basement
11.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Two brothers set out to get their
hands on their aunt’s fortune
12.00-1.00am Live from the
Artists Den John Legend performs

7.00pm Forged in Fire
8.00 Treasures Decoded The
story behind the blue-crowned
bust of Queen Nefertiti
9.00 Lost Secrets of the Pyramid
David Suzuki joins leading experts
as they investigate new details of
Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza (2/2)
10.00 The Toys That Built the
World Fierce rivalry between
board game manufacturers
11.00 Forged in Fire
12.00-1.00am Hitler: Uncovering
His Fatal Obsession

7.00pm Stargate SG-1 The team is
propelled back to 1969 and comes
under suspicion at a military base
8.00 An Idiot Abroad Karl
Pilkington visits Egypt
9.00 The Lazarus Project (7/8)
10.00 Brassic Vinnie is called to be
the bag drop man when Ashley’s
cousin is kidnapped (3/8)
11.00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks
With Noel Fielding, Daisy May
Cooper and Jamali Maddix (4/7)
11.45-12.40am COBRA Political
thriller starring Robert Carlyle (1/6)

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SKY 125, VIRGIN 250

SKY 129, VIRGIN 266, BT 351

SKY 114, VIRGIN 135, BT 346

SKY 112, VIRGIN 181, BT 344

SKY 110, VIRGIN 124, BT 343

FV 25, FS 156, SKY 132, VIRGIN 125

7.00pm Outback Truckers
8.00 Fast N’ Loud The Gas Monkey
crew try to make history with a
record-breaking profit
9.00 Naked and Afraid XL Amber
joins forces with Steven and EJ
11.00 Impractical Jokers: Shark
Week Spectacular Documentary
12.00-1.00am Expedition Bigfoot

7.00pm Air Crash Investigation
Examining aviation catastrophes
8.00 Last of the Giants: Wild Fish
Cyril and his team battle for
survival against stingrays (7/8)
9.00 Wicked Tuna
10.00 First Alaskans
11.00 Air Crash Investigation
12.00-1.00am Drugs Inc (3/10)

7.05pm The Office (US)
7.30 The Office (US)
8.00 The Office (US)
8.30 The Office (US)
9.00 Sex and the City
9.40 Sex and the City
10.15 Camping Double bill
11.15 Enlightened (9/10)
11.45-12.15am Enlightened (10/10)

7.00pm Friends Four episodes
9.00 Michael McIntyre’s Big Show
10.00 Michael McIntyre’s
Showtime Stand-up comedy
from the O2 in London
11.00 Rob Delaney Live: Jackie
12.00-1.00am Jimmy Carr: Making
People Laugh The comedian
performs in Glasgow

6.40pm Dad’s Army Frazer loses
part of the platoon’s Lewis gun
7.20 Dad’s Army
8.00 Gavin & Stacey
8.40 Only Fools and Horses
Del is invited to a school reunion
9.45 Mrs Brown’s Boys
10.25 Mrs Brown’s Boys
11.05-12.05am Live at the Apollo

7.00pm Property Brothers at
Home: Drew’s Honeymoon House
8.00 Nurses Down Under
9.00 Emma Willis: Delivering
Babies Birthing stories
10.00 One Born Every Minute
11.00 Inside the Ambulance:
Coast and Country
12.00-1.00am 999 Rescue Squad

Sky Main Event

Sky Premier League

Sky Cricket

BT Sport 1

BT Sport 2

SKY 401, VIRGIN 511, BT 440

SKY 402, VIRGIN 512

SKY 404, VIRGIN 514

SKY 413, VIRGIN 527, BT 430

SKY 414, VIRGIN 528, BT 431

Midday Live DP World Tour Golf:
The Hero Open Day one from
St Andrews in Fife, Scotland
5.00pm Live Ladies European
Tour Golf: The Trust Golf Women’s
Scottish Open Coverage of day one
from Dundonald Links in Ayrshire
6.00 Live International T20
Cricket: England v South Africa
Coverage of the second contest in
the three-match series, which takes
place at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff
10.30 Sky Sports News
11.00-12.00 Live: Total Access

6.00pm Premier League Legends
The career of David Seaman
6.30 Premier League Stories
7.00 Premier League A replay of
Manchester United v Liverpool
9.00 Premier League Stories
9.30 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox
The presenter talks to former
striker Alan Shearer
10.00 Premier League Icons
A profile of Carlos Tevez
10.30-12.30am PL Retro Coverage
of West Ham United v Tottenham
Hotspur from 2006/07

6.00pm Live International T20
Cricket: England v South Africa
Coverage of the second contest in
the three-match series, which takes
place at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff
10.30 Talking Cricket The story of
South Africa’s most successful
captain, Graeme Smith
11.00 Ace: A Programme For
Change The ACE Programme
11.30-12.00 Vitality T20 Blast
Cricket A look back at action
from Sussex v Hampshire in
the 2004 competition

5.30pm Live MLB Action
from Major League Baseball
(Start-time TBA)
9.00 WWE NXT Highlights
10.00 The Run-In A look ahead to
all the WWE SummerSlam action
10.30 ESPN FC The latest news
from the world of football
11.00-12.00 The Aussie Rules
Show All the latest news, views
and analysis of the game
1.00-4.30am Live MLB Action
from Major League Baseball
(Start-time TBA)

1.30pm Premier League
3.00 Premier League
4.30 Premier League
6.00 Premier League
7.30 Premier League West Ham
United v Newcastle United
9.00 BT Sport Films Documentary
charting the rise and fall of one of
England’s greatest ever sporting
icons, Jimmy Greaves
11.00 The Beautiful Game
12.30am-3.30 Live CFL:
Hamilton Tiger-Cats v Montreal
Alouettes (Kick-off 12.30)

The US golfer Ryann O’Toole
defends her title at the Hero
Open (Sky Main Event, noon)

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

saturday review 47

Thursday 28
Film guide

Radio guide

Film4

Times Radio

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Harry and the
Hendersons (PG, 1987)
Comedy with John Lithgow
1.15pm Thunderbirds Are Go!
(U, 1966) Adventure with the
voice of Shane Rimmer
3.05 Born Free (U, 1966)
Drama with Virginia McKenna
5.00 Crack in the World (U,
1965) Sci-fi thriller with Dana
Andrews and Janette Scott
6.55 Congo (12, 1995) Action
adventure with Dylan Walsh
9.00 Mission: Impossible —
Rogue Nation (12, 2015)
Spy thriller with Tom Cruise
11.40-1.50am Terminator 3:
Rise of the Machines (12,
2003) Sci-fi adventure sequel
with Arnold Schwarzenegger

Talking Pictures TV
FV 82 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am The Young Wives’
Tale (1951) Comedy starring
Joan Greenwood
7.35 The Cardboard Cavalier
(U, 1949) Comedy starring Sid
Field and Margaret Lockwood
9.15 Thunder Rock (PG, 1942)
Drama with Michael Redgrave
11.20 Blow Your Own
Trumpet (U, 1958) Children’s
drama with Michael Crawford
12.05pm Carnival (PG, 1946)
Romantic drama starring Sally
Gray and Michael Wilding
2.00 Hannay
3.00 The Brothers (PG, 1947)
Drama starring Patricia Roc
4.50 One Step Beyond
5.30 Derek Fowlds:
A Part Well Played
6.10 It Always Rains on
Sunday (PG, 1947) Crime
drama with Googie Withers
8.00 The Saint
9.00 Out
10.00 The Rivals of
Sherlock Holmes
11.00-12.00 Widows

GREAT! Movies
FV 34 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am Watching Over You
(PG, 2018) Thriller
10.50 GREAT! Movie News
11.00 Garage Sale Mystery:
Murder in D Minor (2018)
Mystery starring Lori Loughlin
12.50pm GREAT! Movie News
1.00 Concrete Evidence:
A Fixer Upper Mystery (PG,
2017) Crime drama sequel
2.50 Secret Liaison (12, 2013)
Thriller with Meredith Monroe
4.45 Texas Blood (2016)
Drama starring Jon Voight
6.35 Legends of the Fall
(15, 1994) Period drama
starring Anthony Hopkins
9.00-11.55 Walk the Line (12,
2005) Biopic starring Joaquin
Phoenix. See Film Choice

GREAT! Movies Classic
FV 52 FS 303 SKY 319 VIRGIN 424

6.00am The Woman on Pier
13 (PG, 1949) Melodrama
starring Robert Ryan

Digital only

5.00am Anna Cunningham
with Early Breakfast 6.00
Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell
with Times Radio Breakfast
10.00 Patrick Maguire 1.00pm
Mariella Frostrup 4.00
Times Radio Drive 7.00 Henry
Bonsu 10.00 Carole Walker
1.00am Stories of Our
Times 1.30 Red Box 2.00
Highlights from Times Radio
Chevy Chase on a European
Vacation (TCM Movies, 9pm)

Radio 2

7.25 The White Tower (U,
1950) Drama with Alida Valli
9.15 Farewell My Lovely
(PG, 1944) Crime drama
11.05 She Played With Fire
(PG, 1957) Crime drama
starring Jack Hawkins
1.00pm Robin and Marian
(PG, 1976) Medieval
adventure starring Sean
Connery and Audrey Hepburn
3.10 Lady Luck (U, 1946)
Comedy with Robert Young
5.05 Don’t Panic Chaps!
(U, 1959) Wartime comedy
6.50 Georgy Girl (12, 1966)
Comedy with Lynn Redgrave
9.00 Runners (15, 1983)
Drama starring Jane Asher
11.15-1.05am Sirens (15, 1994)
Drama starring Hugh Grant

6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast
Show 9.30 Scott Mills 12.00
Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve
Wright 5.00 Sara Cox 6.30
Sara Cox’s Half Wower 7.00 Jo
Whiley’s Shiny Happy Playlist
7.30 Jo Whiley 9.00 The
Country Show with Bob Harris
10.00 Trevor Nelson’s
Magnificent 7 10.30 Trevor
Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12.00
OJ Borg 3.00am Sounds of the
90s with Fearne Cotton (r)
4.00 A Dance Through the
Decades 4.30 Vanessa Feltz

TCM Movies
SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s
Best Film Directors
7.10 Sugarfoot
8.15 Maverick
9.20 The Outriders (U, 1950)
Western starring Joel McCrea
11.15 Sugarfoot
12.20pm Maverick
1.30 The Desperado (U, 1954)
Western with Wayne Morris
3.15 Fort Worth (PG, 1951)
Western with Randolph Scott
5.00 Rawhide Rangers
(U, 1941) Western
6.15 Waterloo (U, 1970)
Drama starring Rod Steiger
9.00 National Lampoon’s
European Vacation (15, 1985)
Comedy with Chevy Chase
11.00-1.45am V for Vendetta
(15, 2005) Futuristic action
thriller with Natalie Portman

Sky Cinema Premiere
SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.45pm Flag Day (15, 2021)
Crime drama with Sean Penn
2.40 Sundown (15, 2021)
Drama starring Tim Roth
4.15 Paws of Fury: The
Legend of Hank (PG, 2022)
Animated comedy with the
voice of Michael Cera
6.10 Die in a Gunfight
(15, 2021) Crime comedy
starring Diego Boneta
8.00 King Richard (12, 2021)
Drama starring Will Smith
10.30-12.50am Raging Fire
(15, 2021) Action adventure
starring Donnie Yen

FM: 88-90.2 MHz

Radio 3
FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

6.30am Breakfast
9.00 Essential Classics
12.00 Composer of the
Week: Beethoven Donald
Macleod untangles the
enigma of Beethoven’s most
famous piano bagatelle
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime
Concert Beethoven (March 1,
Op.45); György Kurtág (Jatekok
IV — Furious chorale);
Beethoven (March 2, Op.45);
Kurtág (Jatekok VIII — Beating
— Quarrelling; and March 3,
Op.45); and Stravinsky
(The Rite of Spring)
2.00 Afternoon Concert
Ian Skelly with music for
the afternoon, including
another chance to hear
the July 23 Folk Connections
Prom from Sage Gateshead
with the Royal Northern
Sinfonia and Spell Songs
5.00 In Tune
7.00 In Tune Mixtape
7.30 Live BBC Proms 2022
From the Royal Albert Hall. The
BBC SSO and Ilan Volkov are
joined by the soprano Elena
Tsallagova and bass-baritone
Shenyang for Brahms’s
A German Requiem
10.00 Tranquility Inc: The
Great New Ambient Wave
Elizabeth Alker explores
Japan’s Kankyo Ongaku
movement of the 1980s (r)
10.45 The Essay: My Life in
Music The composer Sally
Beamish remembers
her mother’s love of
Shostakovich’s Trio (r)
11.00 The Night Tracks Mix
A sonic journey featuring
music from the BBC archives
11.30 Unclassified
12.30am Through the Night (r)

Today’s pick
Your Place or Mine
Radio 4, 11pm
Among the thousands of
podcasts vying for your
ears’ attention, this “travel
show that is going nowhere”
from Shaun Keaveny, right, is
one of the better ones. Here
each guest tries to persuade
him to get off his sofa and
travel to their home town,
allowing for a comic
discussion about their lives
to take off. The first guest
in the ten-part series is the
Australian comedian and
writer Sarah Kendall, who

wants Keaveny to jet to
Newcastle, Australia. Given
that Newcastle’s main claim
to fame is being the largest
coal-exporting harbour in the
world by tonnage, it’s not an
easy task. Ben Dowell

Radio 4

Radio 5 Live

FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz
LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz

MW: 693, 909

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 Tweet of the Day (r)
6.00 Today
9.00 Can the Police Keep Us
Safe? The role of the police
and public safety (3/3)
9.30 The Climate
Tipping Points (r)
9.45 Book of the Week:
Pharaohs of the Sun
By Guy de la Bédoyère (4/5)
9.45 (LW) Daily Service
10.00 Woman’s Hour
11.00 Crossing Continents
New series. Current affairs
11.30 Fairy Meadow (8/8)
12.01pm (LW) Shipping
12.04 You and Yours
12.30 Sliced Bread
1.00 The World at One
1.45 28ish Days Later
2.00 The Archers (r)
2.15 Drama: Little Miss Burden
By Matilda Ibini (r)
3.00 Open Country A visit to
the tiny island of Kerrera
3.27 Radio 4 Appeal (r)
3.30 Open Book (r)
4.00 The Infinite
Monkey Cage (r)
4.30 BBC Inside Science
5.00 PM
5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.30 Carbon Lifeforms
7.00 The Archers Freddie is
mightily impressed
7.15 Front Row
8.00 The Briefing Room
8.30 The Bottom Line (8/8)
9.00 BBC Inside Science (r)
9.30 How Covid Changed
Science (3/3) (r)
10.00 The World Tonight
10.45 Book at Bedtime: Mrs
Bridge By Evan S Connell.
Read by Fenella Woolgar (4/10)
11.00 Your Place or Mine
New series. Travel podcast
with Shaun Keaveny and guest
Sarah Kendall. See Choice
11.30 Dr Phil’s Bedside Manner
Documentary (r)
12.00 News and Weather
12.30am Book of the Week:
Pharaohs of the Sun (4/5) (r)
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World Service

5.00am Wake Up to Money
6.00 5 Live Breakfast 9.00
Nicky Campbell 11.00 Nick
Bright 1.00pm Nihal
Arthanayake 4.00 5 Live
Drive 6.15 5 Live Sport 6.30
5 Live Cricket 9.30 5 Live
Sport 10.30 Colin Murray
1.00am Dotun Adebayo

talkSPORT
MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00
Breakfast with Alan Brazil
10.00 Jim White and Simon
Jordan 1.00pm Hawksbee
and Jacobs 4.00 Drive
7.00 Kick Off 10.00 Sports
Bar 1.00am Extra Time

TalkRadio
Digital only

5.00am James Max 6.30 The
Julia Hartley-Brewer Breakfast
Show 10.00 The Independent
Republic of Mike Graham
1.00pm Ian Collins 4.00 The
Afternoon Show 7.00 The
News Desk with Tom Newton
Dunn 8.00 Piers Morgan
Uncensored 9.00 The Talk
10.00 James Whale 11.00
Piers Morgan Uncensored
12.00 James Whale 1.00am
Darryl Morris 4.00 The Talk

Radio 4 Extra
Digital only

8.00am The Burkiss Way
8.30 Little Blighty on the
Down 9.00 The Unbelievable
Truth 9.30 Coming Alive
10.00 Wallis: The Life and
Legends of Wallis Simpson
11.00 Desert Island Discs
11.45 David Attenborough’s
Life Stories 12.00 The Burkiss
Way 12.30pm Little Blighty
on the Down 1.00 An
Illustration of Modern Science
1.30 The Great Impersonation
2.00 Every Third Thought
2.15 Where Angels Fear
to Tread 2.30 The Actors’
Gang on the Outside 3.00
Wallis: The Life and Legends
of Wallis Simpson 4.00
The Unbelievable Truth

4.30 Coming Alive 5.00
To Hull and Back 5.30 The
Ultimate Choice 6.00 Orbiter
X 6.30 Great Lives 7.00 The
Burkiss Way 7.30 Little
Blighty on the Down 8.00
An Illustration of Modern
Science 8.30 The Great
Impersonation 9.00 Desert
Island Discs 9.45 David
Attenborough’s Life Stories
10.00 Comedy Club: The
Ultimate Choice 10.30 Great
Unanswered Questions 10.55
Comedy Club Interview
11.00 The Maltby Collection
11.30 The Secret World

BBC World Service
Digital only

9.00am News 9.06
Assignment 9.30
Healthcheck 10.00 News
10.06 The Forum 10.50
Sporting Witness 11.00 The
Newsroom 11.30 The Food
Chain 12.00 News 12.06pm
Outlook 12.50 Witness
History 1.00 The Newsroom
1.30 Healthcheck 2.00
Newshour 3.00 News 3.06
The Inquiry 3.30 Business
4.00 BBC OS 6.00 News 6.06
Outlook 6.50 Witness History
7.00 The Newsroom 7.30
Sport Today 8.00 News 8.06
Assignment 8.30 Science in
Action 9.00 Newshour 10.00
News 10.06 The Inquiry
10.30 The Food Chain 11.00
The Newsroom 11.20 Sports
News 11.30 Business 12.00
News 12.06am The Forum
12.50 Sporting Witness 1.00
News 1.06 Business Matters
2.00 The Newsroom 2.30
World Football 3.00 News
3.06 Outlook 3.50 Witness
History 4.00 The Newsroom
4.30 Heart and Soul

6 Music
Digital only

7.30am Lauren Laverne
10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs
1.00pm Craig Charles 4.00
Steve Lamacq 6.00 Steve
Lamacq’s Roundtable
7.00 Marc Riley 9.00 Gideon
Coe 12.00 New Music Fix
1.00am New Music Fix

Virgin Radio
Digital only

6.30am The Chris Evans
Breakfast Show with Sky
10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris
1.00pm Tim Cocker 4.00
Kate Lawler 7.00 Bam 10.00
James Merritt 1.00am Sean
Goldsmith 4.00 Steve Denyer

Classic FM
FM: 100-102 MHz

6.00am More Music
Breakfast 9.00 Alexander
Armstrong 12.00 Anne-Marie
Minhall 4.00pm John
Brunning 7.00 Smooth
Classics 1.00am Bill Overton
4.00 Early Breakfast

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

48 saturday review

Friday 29 | Viewing guide
Critic’s choice
Neighbours: The Finale
Channel 5, 9pm
All things must come to end,
and tonight, after 37 years, a
certain Australian soap
reaches its terminus. You may
have heard about this, given
the howling across the media
that greeted the news of
Neighbours’ demise. Were
those upset at it being axed
mourning the show or a piece
of their youth? Either way,
there will be many of a certain
age who’ll be intrigued to
watch this final double-bill —
schoolkids and students from
the late 1980s/early 1990s
who enjoyed the cheerfully
unironic ups and downs of
Scott and Charlene (Jason
Donovan and Kylie Minogue,
right), of the brooding hunk
Mike (Guy Pearce), of Mrs
Mangel and Bouncer the dog,
and so on. Tonight’s TV event
could be made for those
former viewers, because not
only are plenty of old faces
returning to Ramsay Street,
there are a few evocative

flashbacks, too, as memories
are stirred. It’s like the soap
world’s Top Gun: Maverick.
Sort of. Channel 5 doesn’t
want anyone to spoil the
surprises here, but breathless
reports of Minogue and
Donovan on Ramsay Street
have been hard to miss. It’s
also known that Pearce’s Mike
returns, sharing a gently
emotional tour of old haunts
with his former girlfriend
Jane, aka “Plain Jane
Superbrain” (Annie Jones),
and it’s out there that Harold
Bishop (Ian Smith) is back.
Beyond that you’ll just have to
watch to find out. In fact fans
can make tonight a full-on
Neighbours party — or wake —
because after the finale’s last
bit of magic there is
Neighbours Made Me a Star:
From Ramsay St to Hollywood
(10.10pm), followed by All the
Pop Hits & More: Especially for
You (11.35pm). Tonight could
get emotional. James Jackson

Uncoupled

Commonwealth
Games 2022

Ken Burns Day

BBC1, from 9.15am

To celebrate the 69th birthday
of the fêted American
documentary-maker, PBS is
showing several of his lesserseen early films. From 1985
there is Huey Long (1pm), a
feature-length film about the
Louisiana senator assassinated
in 1935. Long was seen as a
saviour of the poor, but while
he was brilliant he was corrupt
and a drinker. From 3.10pm
there is the two-part profile of
Thomas Jefferson; from 7pm a
two-part story of Frank Lloyd
Wright, arguably the greatest
of American architects; and
things are rounded off by
Brooklyn Bridge at 9.40pm,
telling the tales of the largerthan-life men who built it. JJ

Netflix
Coming from the US TV kingpin
Darren Star, this snappy but
emotional new series feels like
it might be the show he really
wanted to do when he created
Sex and the City 25 years ago:
the travails of a gay man and
his friends on the Manhattan
dating scene. Neil Patrick Harris
is the well-groomed real estate
agent whose life is put in a spin
when his long-term partner
leaves him. How does a
fortysomething fare as he reenters the gay single scene?
What follows is as quick-witted
as you’d expect — sometimes
raunchy, sometimes a bit filthy
— the kind of slickness that
makes it eminently easy to hit
the “next episode” button. JJ

Catch
up
Sneakerhead
UKTV Play
Hugo Chegwin (People Just
Do Nothing) and Big Zuu (in
his first acting role) are the
stars of this new workplace
comedy written by the
Bafta Scotland new
talent writer Gillian Roger
Park (she cut her
teeth on BBC3’s
The Young
Offenders).
Set in
Peterborough in
the fictional store
Sports Depot,
Chegwin, right, plays Russell,
a bona fide sneakerhead,

Today is the opening session
of the 22nd Commonwealth
Games, taking place in
Birmingham and venues across
the West Midlands, and the
morning’s highlights include
gymnastics, swimming and
triathlon. The women’s
triathlon race could be a duel
between England’s Georgia
Taylor-Brown and the
Bermudian Flora Duffy, who
won silver and gold
respectively at last summer’s
Olympic Games. Jason
Mohammad and Holly
Hamilton present, and there
are BBC1 highlights tonight
at 10.40pm. JJ
working there purely for the
love of trainers. He reads
people by the trainers they
wear, but dislikes conflict and is
an unlikely choice as maternity
cover for the store manager,
where he is an easy target for
his useless Gen Z colleagues,
including Big Zuu’s Mulenga.
It’s PhoneShop with
t
trainers,
and will
appeal to anyone
who loves the cult
Channel 4 sitcom.
J Clay
Joe

PBS America, from 1pm

Vaughan
Williams’s Sea
Symphony
BBC4, 8pm
Vaughan Williams’s majestic
A Sea Symphony was written
between 1903 and 1909 and
was a pivotal work for the
composer in terms of its scale.
Tonight the hour-long work,
featuring multiple choirs, will
complete an evening with an
atmospheric nautical theme. It
starts with Doreen Carwithen’s
vivid overture depicting the
harsh Atlantic waters battering
Bishop Rock lighthouse, off
Land’s End, and in between
there will be Grace Williams’s
Sea Sketches, inspired by her
home town of Barry in Wales. JJ

Films of the day
Scream (18, 2022)
Paramount+

The definitive scene in this fifth Scream instalment and reboot
takes place midway through proceedings, after multiple murders
by the returning Ghostface killer in the phenomenally blighted
town of Woodsboro, California. Here, the resident movie nerd
Mindy (Jasmin Savoy Brown) announces that this new sequence of
carnage can be understood only in the context of, oh yes, a reboot.
I know! A reboot explaining the rules of a reboot? How very
Scream. The movie mostly features a bright young cast of fresh
meat, but struggles to weave in the legacy characters of the stabproof heroine Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), ambitious media
hack Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox, below right with Campbell)
and copper Dewey Riley (David Arquette). (114min) Kevin Maher

Regional programmes
● BBC1 Wales As BBC1 except:

11.40pm
Young, Welsh and Pretty Minted.
Featuring a youthful entrepreneur who
invested all his savings into a vintage
clothing business (r) 12.05am FILM
Tomorrowland: A World Beyond (2015)
Fantasy adventure starring George
Clooney 2.05-2.10am Weather
● BBC2 Wales As BBC2 except: 7.00pm
Rescuing Dad: Our Lives (r) 7.30-8.00 The
Wedding Dress Shop. A bridesmaid visits
the shop in search of a scene-stealing
dress (r) 9.00-10.00 Rhod Gilbert:
Stand Up to Infertility. The comedian
investigates male infertility (r)
● ITV Wales As ITV except: 7.00-7.30pm
Coast & Country. Pembrokeshire coast
● STV As ITV except: 1.30pm-5.00 Live
STV Racing: Glorious Goodwood. The
fourth day of the festival 7.00-7.30 What’s
on Scotland at the Festival 10.30-10.45
STV News 3.50-5.05am Unwind with STV
● UTV As ITV except: 7.00-7.30pm UTV
Life. The best of local chat and music
● BBC Scotland 7.00pm The Seven 8.00
Island Medics (r) 8.30 Glasgow Mela (r)
9.30 Selling Scotland. Memorable
adverts (r) 10.30 Still Game (r) 11.00
Islelanders (r) 11.15-12.15am Belladrum
● S4C 6.00am Cyw: Timpo (r) 6.10
Halibalw (r) 6.20 Do Re Mi Dona (r)

6.35 Twt (r) 6.45 Bach a Mawr (r) 7.00
Nico Nôg (r) 7.10 Stiw (r) 7.20 Caru Canu a
Stori (r) 7.30 Blero yn Mynd i Ocido (r)
7.45 Gwdihw (r) 8.00 Blociau Rhif (r) 8.05
Guto Gwningen (r) 8.20 Wibli Sochyn y
Mochyn (r) 8.30 Digbi Draig (r) 8.45 Jen a
Jim a’r Cywiadur (r) 9.00 Anifeiliaid Bach
y Byd (r) 9.10 Y Brodyr Coala (r) 9.20 Loti
Borloti (r) 9.35 Pablo (r) 9.45 Awyr Iach (r)
10.00 Timpo (r) 10.10 Halibalw (r) 10.20
Do Re Mi Dona (r) 10.35 Twt (r) 10.45 Bach
a Mawr (r) 11.00 Nico Nôg (r) 11.10 Stiw (r)
11.20 Caru Canu a Stori (r) 11.30 Blero yn
Mynd i Ocido (r) 11.45 Gwdihw (r) 12.00
News 12.05pm Nyrsys (r) 12.30 Heno (r)
1.00 Am Dro! (r) 2.00 News 2.05
Prynhawn Da 3.00 News 3.05 Rhagflas yr
Eisteddfod (r) 4.00 Awr Fawr: Caru Canu
a Stori (r) 4.10 Nico Nôg (r) 4.20
Anifeiliaid Bach y Byd (r) 4.30 Digbi Draig
(r) 4.45 Awyr Iach (r) 5.00 Ar Goll yn Oz
(r) 5.25 Sinema’r Byd (r) 5.40 Siwrne Ni (r)
5.45 Cath-Od (r) 5.55 Larfa (r) 6.00 Cegin
Bryn (r) 6.30 Garddio a Mwy (r) 6.57
News 7.00 Heno 7.30 News 7.50 Croeso
i’r Eisteddfod 8.00 Live Cyngerdd
Agoriadol: Lloergan. The opening show,
Lloergan 10.00 Birmingham 2022: Cymru
yn y Gemau 10.30 Hyd y Pwrs (r)
11.00-11.35 Curadur (r)
(r) repeat (SL) In-vision signing

The Florida Project (15, 2017)
Channel 4, 1.15am

Like Tangerine, the movie that made his name, Sean Baker’s
vibrant film is another freewheeling story set in the shadow of a
sunny glamour spot, in this case Walt Disney World in Florida.
Magic Castle is a budget motel where hard-up, long-term
residents pop into each other’s rooms and holler from balconies.
Among them are Bobby (Willem Dafoe), the Castle’s manager,
Halley (Bria Vinaite), a single mother, Moonee (Brooklynn
Prince), Halley’s six-year-old daughter, and Scooty (Christopher
Rivera), Moonee’s friend. Left at a loose end on their summer
holidays, Moonee and Scooty make trouble. It’s superficially less
bleak than Tangerine, rendered by Baker in tropical colours, but
poverty lurks throughout. (111min) Ed Potton

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6.00am Breakfast. News and weather
9.15 Live Commonwealth Games
2022. Jason Mohammad and Holly
Hamilton present live coverage of the
opening session of the 22nd
Commonwealth Games, taking place
in Birmingham and venues across the
West Midlands. See Viewing Guide
1.00pm BBC News at One; Weather
1.30 BBC Regional News; Weather
1.45 Live Commonwealth Games
2022. Hazel Irvine introduces this
afternoon’s live action from the
Midlands, including further triathlon
coverage from Sutton Park in Sutton
Coldfield. This afternoon’s schedule
includes the women’s and men’s team
pursuit finals, plus the women’s team
sprint final. See Viewing Guide
6.00 BBC News at Six; Weather
6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather

6.15am Bargain Hunt (r) 7.00 Homes
Under the Hammer (r) 8.00 Sign
Zone: The Airport: Back in the Skies (r)
(SL) 8.30 Extraordinary Portraits (r)
(SL) 9.00 BBC News 10.00 BBC News
1.00pm Live Commonwealth Games
2022. Jason Mohammad present
coverage of the netball match
between England and Trinidad &
Tobago at NEC Arena, as the hosts get
their defence of the title under way
1.45 Impossible. Quiz show (r) 2.30
FILM Pride and Prejudice (U, 1940)
Period drama starring Laurence
Olivier (b/w) 4.25 Antiques Road Trip.
Margie Cooper and Paul Martin head
for Plymouth on their last leg (r) 5.15
Flog It! From Birmingham (r) 6.00
Live Commonwealth Games 2022.
Hazel Irvine presents coverage of the
men’s team sprint cycling event

6.00am Good Morning Britain 9.00
Lorraine 10.00 This Morning 12.30pm
Loose Women. Interviews and topical
debate from a female perspective
1.00 ITV News; Weather 1.20 Regional
News; Weather 1.30 Live ITV Racing:
Glorious Goodwood. Ed Chamberlin
presents coverage of six races on the
fourth day of the festival, including
the 1.50 Goodwood Marathon, 3.00
Golden Mile and 3.35 King George
Stakes. With analysis from Jason
Weaver and Kevin Blake, reporting by
Sally Ann Grassick, Adele Mulrennan
and Oli Bell, betting news from Matt
Chapman, lifestyle with Mark Heyes,
and commentary by Richard Hoiles
5.00 The Chase. Bradley Walsh
presents as four contestants take on
the Chaser (r) 6.00 Regional News;
Weather 6.30 ITV News; Weather

6.35am 3rd Rock from the Sun (r)
7.00 3rd Rock from the Sun (r) 7.25
The King of Queens (r) 7.50 The King
of Queens (r) 8.15 Frasier (r) 8.40
Frasier (r) 9.10 Frasier (r) 9.45 The Big
Bang Theory (r) 10.10 The Big Bang
Theory (r) 10.40 The Big Bang Theory
(r) 11.05 The Simpsons (r) 11.35 The
Simpsons (r) 12.05pm Channel 4
News Summary 12.10 Ramsay’s 24
Hours to Hell and Back (r) 1.05 Find It,
Fix It, Flog It (r) 2.10 Countdown. Neil
Delamere is in Dictionary Corner 3.00
A Place in the Sun 4.00 Help! We
Bought a Village. The last wedding
party of the season is planned at a
restored French medieval village 5.00
Couples Come Dine with Me (r) 6.00
The Simpsons. (2/2) Mr Burns seeks
revenge on Jay G (r) 6.30 Hollyoaks.
John Paul tries to make amends (r)

6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine
12.15pm Nightmare Tenants, Slum
Landlords. Updates on previous
stories (r) 1.10 5 News at Lunchtime
1.15 Home and Away. John gets a
disturbing call from the police 1.45
Neighbours: The Final Week 2.15 FILM
The Neighbour (12, TVM, 2022) A
lethal woman attempts to destroy her
new neighbour after suspecting her
own husband has an eye for her.
Thriller starring Gina Simms and April
Hale 4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the
Sun. A grandmother who set up a
charity to rescue and re-home
canines (r) 5.00 5 News at 5 with
Dan Walker 6.00 Neighbours: The
Final Week. Toadie and Melanie are
thrilled when Callum arrives (r) 6.30
Eggheads. The Windmill Regulars
take on the quiz experts (r)

Fantasy Tomorrowland (11.40pm)

Pride and Prejudice (2.30pm)

Sanditon continues (9pm)

8 Out of 10 Cats/Countdown (9pm)

Summer gardener Carol Klein (7pm)

7.00 Live Commonwealth Games
2022 Clare Balding present
coverage of seven swimming
finals at Sandwell Aquatics
Centre, as the opening day
draws to a close. England’s
Aimee Wilmott will be targeting
a medal in the 400m individual
medley, in which 15-year-old
world champion Summer
McIntosh of Canada is the
athlete to beat. Wilmott’s
compatriot James Wilby is
vying to retain the 200m
breaststroke title, but is up
against Olympic gold medallist
Zac Stubblety-Cook of Australia.
The other finals are the
women’s 200m freestyle and
100m freestyle S9, men’s 400m
freestyle, 100m backstroke S9,
and mixed 4x100m freestyle.
See Viewing Guide

7.00 Nadiya Bakes Nadiya Hussain
wraps up the cooking series
with a selection of recipes for
special occasions (8/8) (r)

7.00 Channel 4 News Including sport
and weather

7.00 Carol Klein’s Summer
Gardening The expert
investigates watery wetlands
and celebrates the iris family,
plants that brings elegance
into the garden (3/6)

7.30 Beechgrove Carole Baxter and
Calum Clunie are working on
produce from the vegetable plot

7.30 Emmerdale The pressure
mounts on Leyla, and Mandy
fills Lydia in on her suspicions

8.00 Gardeners’ World Monty Don
shows how to deal with drought
and takes fuchsia cuttings,
while Advolly Richmond visits
Longleat to reveal the role trees
have played in gardens
throughout history

8.00 Coronation Street Kevin gets a
visit from the police on the day
of Abi’s homecoming, Summer
invites Aaron to spend the
evening at her flat, and
Debbie forms a plan upon
learning that Ryan is skint

8.00 One Question Claudia
Winkleman invites a married
couple from Manchester and
two sisters from Gloucester to
answer a single question to win
a £100,000 prize (5/6)

8.00 Australia’s Most Scenic
Railway Journeys Celebrating
the wonders of Queensland,
Australia, cameras travel from
Brisbane to Cairns onboard
one of the most advanced
trains in the world (10/10);
followed by 5 News Update

9.00 Elizabeth Taylor: A Life in Ten
Pictures A journey through
the actress’s life in 10 photos,
with their secrets revealed by
those who were there and those
who knew Elizabeth Taylor’s
story best (3/6) (r)

9.00 Jane Austen’s Sanditon
Charlotte starts her new job as
governess for the enigmatic
Alexander Colbourne, and while
Alison yearns for her knight in
shining armour, Georgiana
receives alarming news (2/6)

9.00 8 Out of 10 Cats Does
Countdown New series. Jon
Richardson and Lucy Beaumont
take on Richard Ayoade and Joe
Wilkinson in the long-running
words and numbers quiz. Finlay
Christie is in Dictionary Corner

9.00 Neighbours: The Finale Jane
and Mike go on a trip down
memory lane, Susan struggles
to accept the reality of what is
happening, and Toadie and
Melanie’s wedding begins. Final
two episodes of the soap. Last
in the series. See Viewing Guide

10.00BBC News at Ten O’Clock;
Weather

10.00Live at the Apollo Zoe Lyons
introduces fellow comedians
Ria Lina and Tom Ward (3/6) (r)

10.00ITV News at Ten; followed by
Weather

10.30 BBC Regional News

10.30 Newsnight With Kirsty Wark

10.00The Last Leg Adam Hills, Josh
Widdicombe and Alex Brooker
are joined by guests including
Rylan and Jess Phillips MP for a
comic review of the significant
moments of the past seven days

10.10 Neighbours Made Me a Star:
From Ramsay St to Hollywood
Following the soap’s final
episodes, a tribute to the
residents of Ramsay Street and
the stars that Neighbours shot
to fame. See Viewing Guide

10.40 Tonight at the Games
JJ Chalmers and Isa Guha are
in Birmingham to present
highlights from the opening day
of competition at the 22nd
Commonwealth Games.
See Viewing Guide
11.40 FILM Tomorrowland: A World
Beyond (12, 2015) A gifted
teenage inventor discovers a
mysterious futuristic world, and
attempts to uncover its secrets.
Fantasy adventure with George
Clooney and Britt Robertson
1.40am Weather for the Week Ahead
1.45 BBC News 5.00 Yesterday at the
Games. The opening day (r)

11.05 Joe Lycett: Summer
Exhibitionist Joe follows a
fascinating mix of artists
submitting to the Royal
Academy Summer Exhibition
2022, the world’s largest
open-entry art contest (r)
12.05am Sign Zone: Weatherman
Walking. Derek Brockway and the
team travel to Snowdonia to walk a
section of the Slate Trail (r) (SL)
12.35-1.05 Expert Witness. A new
forensic discipline involving the
examination of pollen (r) (SL)

10.30 Regional News; followed by
Regional Weather
10.45 FILM Ocean’s Thirteen (PG,
2007) The thieves need the
help of an enemy to get even
with a casino boss who has
conned one of the team.
Comedy crime caper sequel
starring George Clooney, Al
Pacino, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon,
Andy Garcia and Elliott Gould

12.55am Teleshopping 3.00 South
Africa with Gregg Wallace. The
MasterChef presenter explores the
country (r) (SL) 3.25 The Village. A
year in the life of Portmeirion (r) (SL)
3.50 Unwind with ITV 5.05 Vick
Hope’s Breakfast Show (r) (SL)

7.55 5 News Update

11.05 FILM Charlie’s Angels (12, 2019)
A former MI6 agent and an
heiress jailbird are among the
crimebusters trying to halt the
use of weaponised energy
devices. Comedy thriller
starring Kristen Stewart

11.35 Neighbours: All the Pop Hits &
More, Especially For You
See Viewing Guide

1.15am FILM The Florida Project (15,
2017) Drama starring Willem Dafoe
and Brooklynn Prince. See Film
Choice 3.15 Come Dine with Me (r)
5.25 Beat the Chef (r) 5.50 Find It, Fix
It, Flog It. Henry Cole and Simon
O’Brien head to the Isle of Wight (r)

12.30am 70s Greatest Heart-Throbs
(r) 1.30 Live Casino Show 3.30
Entertainment News (r) 3.35 Britain’s
Favourite Cereal (r) 5.10 Great
Scientists (r) (SL) 5.35 Peppa Pig (r)
5.40 Fireman Sam (r) 5.50 Milkshake!
Monkey’s Amazing Adventures (r) (SL)

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

550 saturday review

The Nine Lives of
Ozzy Osbourne

Friday 29 | Primetime digital guide

Documentary about the
rock star’s life and career
BBC4, 10pm

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6.00am James Max
6.30 Jeremy Kyle Political panel
debates and interviews
10.00 The Independent Republic
of Mike Graham The host
tears his way through the
morning newspapers
1.00pm Ian Collins Hard-hitting
monologues and debates
4.00 Rob Rinder The legal eagle
offers answers to the
week’s big questions
7.00 The News Desk with
Tom Newton Dunn The
biggest stories of the day
8.00 Piers Morgan Uncensored
Best Of Piers presents
his verdict on the week’s
global events
9.00 The Talk Sharon Osbourne
and a panel of famous faces
debate the hot topics
everybody’s talking about
10.00 The James Whale Show
The big stories of the day
11.00-12.00m’t Piers Morgan
Uncensored Best Of

7.00pm The Catch Up
7.05 Commonwealth Games
2022 Coverage of the
evening session on day one
of the 22nd Commonwealth
Games, taking place in
Birmingham and venues
across the West Midlands.
This evening’s action
includes the conclusion to
the men’s gymnastics team
final at Arena Birmingham,
in which England began as
favourites to win a second
successive gold.
See Viewing Guide
10.30 Canada’s Drag Race The
queens face double trouble
as they are put into pairs
for a lip sync challenge.
One team finds perfect
harmony, one duo just
cannot do it, and another
has to drag it out again (3/9)
11.30-12.40am RuPaul’s Drag Race
UK With Little Mix star
Leigh-Anne Pinnock (5/10)

7.00pm TOTP: 1993 The edition
first shown on April 15 1993,
with performances by East
17, Dr Alban, Duran Duran,
Cappella, Terence Trent
D’Arby, Sonia, World Party
and the Bluebells
7.30 TOTP: 1993 Performances
by Whitney Houston, New
Order and Deacon Blue
8.00 Vaughan Williams’s Sea
Symphony at the Proms
Andrew Manze conducts
the BBC National Orchestra
of Wales in Vaughan
Williams’ A Sea Symphony.
Plus, works by Doreen
Carwithen and Grace
Williams. See Viewing Guide
10.00 FILM The Nine Lives of
Ozzy Osbourne (12, 2020)
Biography tracing the
musician’s life and career
11.20-12.20am Sight and Sound in
Concert: Joan Armatrading
A 1977 performance at the
Hammersmith Odeon

6.55pm Château DIY A couple
move into the cellar while
they turn their bedroom
into the new family suite
7.55 The Yorkshire Dales and
the Lakes: Season by
Season A look at summer in
the national parks, with a
shepherding father and son
bringing their flock of
Herdwick sheep down off
the fell for their annual
shearing (3/4)
9.00 Rig 45: Murder at Sea
A lethal cat-and-mouse
game commences on the
damaged rig. The identity of
the killer is still not known
and many others remain at
risk. In English and Swedish.
Last in the series
10.00 24 Hours in A&E A young
woman’s kidneys are
suspected to be failing (6/14)
11.05-12.10am 24 Hours in A&E
A 93-year-old man is injured
by a hit-and-run driver (7/14)

6.35pm True Detective Wayne
and Roland chase new leads
as Amelia attempts to
uncover the whereabouts of
the mysterious one-eyed
man (7/8) (R)
7.40 True Detective Wayne
struggles to hold on to his
memories, and his grip on
reality, as the truth behind
the Purcell case is finally
revealed (8/8) (R)
9.00 Christian Matteo continues
with his investigation and
takes giant steps, while
Christian manages to avoid
several threats (3/6) (R)
10.05 Blocco 181 Ricardo gets out
of jail and immediately
provokes Victor. The trio
partner up with Snake, as
Rizzo tells Lorenzo his plan
for beating the pandilleros.
In Italian (6/8) (R)
11.10-12.15am Treme LaDonna
receives worrying news
about her case (9/11) (R)

6.50pm Hollywood Couples The
relationship between
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard
Burton, who began an affair
during the filming of
Cleopatra and married
twice (4/5) (R)
7.50 The Invisible Pilot Facing
decades in prison, Gary
testifies in the investigation
into the Iran-Contra affair.
But can the testimony of a
lifelong felon bring down a
president? (3/3) (R)
9.00 FILM The Alpinist (12, 2021)
Documentary about elusive
Canadian climber
Marc-André Leclerc, who
has made some of the
boldest solo ascents in
history, away from cameras
and with no margin for error
10.45-12.45am FILM I Am MLK Jr
(12, 2018) A deep dive into
the life of Dr Martin Luther
King Jr, celebrating his
achievements

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7.00pm Bob’s Burgers
7.30 Bob’s Burgers Bob tries to
search for the key to the safe
8.00 Superstore Dina takes
control of Glenn’s diet and fitness
after he has a health scare
8.30 Superstore Amy sets up a
haunted house in the shop
9.00 Love Island
10.05 Apocalypse Wow
Famous faces take on terrifying
Superhuman Bosses for charity
11.05 Family Guy
11.35-12.05am Family Guy

7.00pm Heartbeat Bellamy allows
personal feelings to cloud his
judgement in the case of a robbery
suspect. Drama with Mark Jordon
8.00 Maigret in Montmartre
The detective investigates the
seemingly random murders of a
countess and a showgirl (2/2)
10.00 The Long Call Drama
starring Ben Aldridge (3/4)
11.05-12.05am The Long Call
An important piece of evidence
sets Matthew on the path to
finding the murderer (4/4)

6.55pm The Chase Celebrity
Special Contestants Louise Hazel,
Joel Dommett, Sinitta and Les
Dennis take part in the quiz (5/16)
8.00 King of the Roads
The Southern 100 is back for
more thrilling action on the
public roads of the Isle of Man
9.00-12.05am FILM Armageddon
(12, 1998) A drilling team
transports a nuclear device into
outer space to destroy an asteroid
on a collision course with Earth.
Sci-fi thriller starring Bruce Willis

7.00pm Richard Osman’s House of
Games Chizzy Akudolu, Charlie
Higson, Kate Williams and
Tom Allen compete
7.40 Room 101
8.20 Room 101
9.00 QI With Sara Pascoe, Josh
Widdicombe and Benjamin
Zephaniah. Sandi Toksvig hosts
10.00 Mock the Week
10.40 Big Zuu’s Big Eats
11.20 Would I Lie to You?
12.00-1.00am Mel Giedroyc:
Unforgivable With Rob Rinder

6.40pm Last of the Summer
Wine Clegg and Seymour visit
Smiler in hospital
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine
8.00 Father Brown A body is
discovered on a golf course
9.00 Father Brown The sleuth
races to protect a crown that
contains a nail from the
crucifixion of Christ
10.00 New Tricks A former Irish
dissident sheds light on the
abduction of an 18-year-old woman
11.00-12.20am Spooks

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7.00pm Abandoned Engineering
Exploring a ghost town in Colorado
and the remnants of an industrial
enterprise in Puerto Rico
8.00 The Architecture the
Railways Built Tim Dunn visits the
popular Victorian holiday resort
Saltburn-by-the-Sea (5/10)
9.00 Secrets of the London
Underground (3/6)
10.00 Bangers and Cash (3/8)
11.00 Abandoned Engineering
12.00-1.00am Great Continental
Railway Journeys (3/6)

7.00pm Frank Lloyd Wright (1/2)
The life and career of the architect
8.15 Frank Lloyd Wright (2/2)
Concluding the profile (2/2)
9.40 Brooklyn Bridge The
planning and construction of the
Great East River Bridge
10.55 Mount Rushmore The story
behind the depiction of four US
presidents in South Dakota
12.00-2.00am Huey Long Profile
of the Louisiana senator, who built
his career on a platform of social
reform and justice

7.00pm Aerial America The
Hawaiian Islands from above
8.00 Volcanoes: Dual Destruction
The eruptions of Kilauea in Hawaii
and Fuego in Guatemala
9.00 V-Day: Volcanic Planet
An experiment imagining that
all the world’s volcanoes erupted
on a single day
11.00 Volcanoes: Dual Destruction
12.00-2.00am V-Day: Volcanic
Planet An experiment imagining
that all the world’s volcanoes
erupted on a single day

7.00pm FILM Girl Happy (U, 1965)
A singer tries to keep a gangster’s
daughter out of trouble. Musical
starring Elvis Presley
8.50 FILM Jailhouse Rock (PG,
1957) A hoodlum imprisoned for
manslaughter becomes a rock ’n’
roll star. Musical drama starring
Elvis Presley and Dean Jones
10.40-12.30am FILM Elvis on Tour
(PG, 1972) Rock ’n’ roll’s biggest
superstar performing at concerts
throughout the USA. Directed by
Pierre Adidge and Robert Abel

7.00pm Forged in Fire Two smiths
are tasked to create the vicious
Ginunting Swords
8.00 The Liquidator
8.30 The Liquidator
9.00 Hitler: Uncovering His Fatal
Obsession Hitler’s surprise
invasion of Russia
10.00 Secret History of Comics
The inspiration for Wonder Woman
11.00 The UnXplained with
William Shatner
12.00-1.00am Lost Gold of the
Aztecs An underwater dye test

7.00pm Stargate SG-1 (2/2)
8.00 Flintoff: Lord of the Fries
Andrew Flintoff takes part in a
treasure hunt (5/6)
9.00 Rob & Romesh vs Golf Rob
shares his newfound love of the
sport with Romesh (2/7)
10.00 The Blacklist The Task
Force pursues a target who runs a
dark web stock market
11.00 The Lazarus Project George
wakes up with everything he
wished for (7/8)
12.00-1.00am Banshee (7/10)

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7.00pm Outback Truckers
8.00 Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail
9.00 Expedition Unknown Josh
goes on an international search for
history’s most famous lost plane
10.00 Expedition X
11.00-12.30am Jackass Shark
Week 2.0 Jackass cast members
embark on a Shark Week mission

7.00pm Air Crash Investigation
8.00 The Acropolis: Secrets of the
Ancient Citadel
9.00 Ancient X Files (13/13)
10.00 Vikings: The Rise and Fall
Documentary (6/6)
11.00 Air Crash Investigation:
Special Report
12.00-1.00am Drugs Inc (5/10)

6.25pm The Comeback (1/8)
7.10 The Office (US)
8.00 Young Rock (11/12)
8.30 Young Rock (12/12)
9.00 Girls (9/10)
9.30 Girls (10/10)
10.10 Russell Howard Live
11.30-12.30am The Tonight Show
Starring Jimmy Fallon Chat show

6.50pm Friends Monica turns up
uninvited at her cousin’s wedding
7.20 Friends Ross and Joey get
trapped on the roof
7.45 FILM The Green Hornet (12,
2011) Comic-book adventure
starring Seth Rogen
10.00 Jimmy Carr: Telling Jokes
11.50-12.50am Live at the Apollo

6.40pm Dad’s Army
7.20 Dad’s Army
8.00 Gavin & Stacey
8.40 Only Fools and Horses
9.50 Mrs Brown’s Boys
10.25 Mrs Brown’s Boys
11.00 Live at the Apollo
12.00-1.00am All Round to Mrs
Brown’s With Caitlyn Jenner

7.00pm Property Brothers at
Home: Drew’s Honeymoon House
8.00 999 Rescue Squad
9.00 Inside the Ambulance: Coast
and Country
10.00 Miranda
10.40 Miranda
11.20 Miranda
12.00-1.00am Nurses Down Under

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Midday Live DP World Tour Golf:
The Hero Open Day two from St
Andrews in Fife, Scotland
5.00pm Live Ladies European
Tour Golf Day two of the Trust Golf
Women’s Scottish Open
7.00 Live EFL: Huddersfield Town
v Burnley (Kick-off 8.00). Coverage
from John Smith’s Stadium
10.30 Sky Sports News
11.00-12.00 Live: Total Access
4.10am-6.00 Live MLS: Los
Angeles FC v Seattle Sounders
(Kick-off 4.10)

7.00pm Premier League
A replay of Newcastle United v
Tottenham Hotspur
9.00 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox
Gary sits down with Liverpool
legend John Barnes (3/6)
9.30 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox
Gary sits down with Southampton
great Matt Le Tissier (4/6)
10.00 Premier League Icons
A profile of Duncan Ferguson
10.30-12.30am PL Retro
Manchester United v Liverpool
from the 2008/09 season

7.00pm One-Day International
Cricket England v India. A replay of
the third and final ODI in the series
from Emirates Old Trafford
8.00 One-Day International
Cricket England v South Africa
9.00 One-Day International
Cricket England v South Africa
10.00 One-Day International
Cricket England v South Africa.
The third and final ODI in the series
from Clean Slate Headingley, Leeds
11.00-12.00 Women’s
International One-Day Cricket

11.00am Live AFL: Fremantle
Dockers v Melbourne Demons
3.15pm Live T20 Cricket:
West Indies v India
7.15 The Run-In
7.45 BT Sport Reload
8.00 ESPN FC
8.30 Scottish Football Extra
9.00 Premier League Preview
10.00 WWE NXT UK
11.00-12.00 WWE NXT Highlights
1.00am Live: WWE Friday Night
SmackDown Wrestling action
4.30-7.30 Live AFL

7.00pm AFL Fremantle Dockers v
Melbourne Demons
9.00 The Run-In
9.30 Fight Week
10.00 The Dan Hardy Breakdown
Show A preview of the women’s
bantamweight bout between
Julianna Peña and Amanda Nunes
10.30 UFC Live A look ahead to the
upcoming UFC 277 rematch
11.00 UFC Countdown
12.00-3.30am Live MLB Action
from Major League Baseball
(Start-time TBA)

Burnley’s Dwight McNeil could
line up against Huddersfield
Town (Sky Main Event, 7pm)

7.00pm Hollyoaks
7.30 Black-ish Dre and Bow get a
note that Devante may be falling
behind at his private school
8.00 Below Deck The captain
arranges a full moon party on a
private beach for the crew
9.00 FILM Kingsman: The Golden
Circle (15, 2017) Two secret agents
join forces with their US
counterparts to bring down a
psychotic femme fatale. Comedy
adventure starring Taron Egerton
11.50-12.55am Naked Attraction

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

saturday review 51

Friday 29
Film guide

Radio guide

Film4

Times Radio

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am A Dog’s Purpose
(PG, 2017) Comedy drama
starring Dennis Quaid
1.05pm Nutty Professor II:
The Klumps (12, 2000)
Comedy with Eddie Murphy
3.00 Captain Scarlett (U,
1953) Adventure starring
Richard Greene
4.35 The Hound of the
Baskervilles (PG, 1959)
Mystery with Peter Cushing
6.20 Master and
Commander: The Far Side of
the World (12, 2003) Drama
starring Russell Crowe
9.00-11.55 Mission:
Impossible — Fallout (12,
2018) Action thriller sequel
starring Tom Cruise

Talking Pictures TV
FV 82 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am Just William’s Luck
(U, 1948) Comedy starring
William Graham
7.45 The Seventh
Commandment (PG, 1961)
Drama starring Jonathan Kidd
9.25 Don’t Bother to Knock
(PG, 1952) Thriller starring
Marilyn Monroe
11.00 The Secret Man (U,
1958) Spy thriller starring
Marshall Thompson
12.30pm Subway in the Sky
(PG, 1959) Thriller with Van
Johnson and Hildegarde Neff
2.15 The Finishing Touch
(U, 1928) Comedy short
2.40 The Limping Man
(PG, 1953) Crime thriller
starring Lloyd Bridges
4.10 Albert RN (PG, 1953)
Fact-based Second World War
drama starring Anthony Steel
5.55 Jigsaw (PG, 1962)
Mystery starring Jack Warner
8.00 The Outer Limits
9.00 Cellar Club with
Caroline Munro
9.05 A Candle for the Devil
(18, 1973) Horror starring Judy
Geeson and Aurora Bautista
10.50 Cellar Club with
Caroline Munro
10.55-12.40am Vampire
Circus (18, 1971) Hammer
Horror with Adrienne Corri

GREAT! Movies
FV 34 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am Text to Kill (12, 2015)
Drama starring Dina Meyer
10.50 GREAT! Movie News
11.00 Garage Sale Mystery:
Picture a Murder (PG, 2018)
Mystery starring Lori Loughlin
12.50pm GREAT! Movie News
1.00 Hunt for Truth (PG,
2016) Thriller with Willa Ford
2.45 The Other Mother (PG,
1995) Fact-based drama
starring Frances Fisher
4.25 And So It Goes (12, 2014)
Romantic comedy drama
6.15 Seabiscuit (PG, 2003)
Drama with Tobey Maguire
9.00-11.55 Exodus: Gods and
Kings (12, 2014) Historical
drama starring Christian Bale

Digital only

Oscar Isaac in The Card
Counter (Sky Premiere, 8pm)

GREAT! Movies Classic
FV 52 FS 303 SKY 319 VIRGIN 424

5.00am Anna Cunningham
with Early Breakfast 6.00
Chloe Tilley and Calum
Macdonald with Times Radio
Breakfast 10.00 Patrick
Maguire 1.00pm Ruth
Davidson 4.00 Times Radio
Drive 7.00 Michael Portillo.
Conversation and political
interview 10.00 Kait Borsay.
Late-night conversation
1.00am Stories of Our Times.
The Times’s daily podcast
1.30 Red Box. Matt Chorley’s
politics podcast 2.00
Highlights from Times Radio

Radio 2
FM: 88-90.2 MHz

6.00am The Fugitive
(PG, 1947) Drama
8.00 Journey into Fear
(PG, 1943) Espionage drama
9.25 Nocturne (PG, 1946)
Mystery starring George Raft
11.10 The Locket (PG, 1946)
Drama with Robert Mitchum
1.00pm Split Second
(PG, 1953) Thriller
2.45pm Angel Face (PG, 1953)
Drama with Jean Simmons
4.35 The Caine Mutiny (U,
1954) Wartime naval drama
7.05 East of Sudan (U, 1964)
Period adventure starring
Anthony Quayle
9.00 Revolution (PG, 1985)
Drama starring Al Pacino
11.15-1.20am Bitter Victory
(PG, 1957) Wartime drama

TCM Movies
SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s
Best Film Directors
7.10 Sugarfoot
8.15 Maverick
9.25 Cattle King (U, 1963)
Western with Robert Taylor
11.15 Sugarfoot
12.20pm Maverick
1.30 A Day of Fury (PG, 1956)
Western with Dale Robertson
3.10 Incident at Phantom Hill
(U, 1966) Western
5.00 Mars Attacks! (12, 1996)
Sci-fi with Jack Nicholson
7.10 The Outriders (U, 1950)
Western starring Joel McCrea
9.00 Equilibrium (15, 2002)
Sci-fi with Christian Bale
11.15-1.45am Absolute Power
(15, 1997) Crime thriller
starring Clint Eastwood

Sky Cinema Premiere
SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

2.05pm Flag Day (15, 2021)
3.55 Raging Fire (15, 2021)
Adventure with Donnie Yen
6.10 Paws of Fury: The
Legend of Hank (PG, 2022)
Animated comedy with
the voice of Michael Cera
8.00 The Card Counter
(15, 2021) Crime thriller
starring Oscar Isaac
10.00-11.55 Flag Day (15,
2021) Crime drama starring
Sean Penn and Dylan Penn

6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast
Show 9.30 Scott Mills 12.00
Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve
Wright 4.15 Steve Wright:
Serious Jockin’ 5.00 Sara Cox
7.00 Michelle Visage 8.30
Michelle Visage’s Handbag Hits
9.00 The Good Groove with DJ
Spoony 11.00 The Rock Show
with Johnnie Walker 12.00
Romesh Ranganathan: For the
Love of Hip-Hop 1.00am Roxy
at 50: The Fans’ Story
2.00 TBA 4.00 Sophie
Ellis-Bextor’s Kitchen Disco

Radio 3
FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

6.30am Breakfast
9.00 Essential Classics
12.00 Composer of the
Week: Beethoven A look at the
composition of Beethoven’s
late Diabelli Variations
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime
Concert Pianist Boris Giltburg
joins the Pavel Haas Quartet to
perform Suk (Meditation on
the Old Czech Hymn ‘St
Wenceslas’); Dvorak (Piano
Quintet No 2 in A, Op 81)
2.00 Afternoon Concert
Ian Skelly introduces music by
Rachmaninov, Glinka and Ethel
Smyth, performed by the City
of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra and Kazuki Yamada
at this year’s Proms on 25 July
4.30 The Listening Service (r)
5.00 In Tune
7.00 In Tune Mixtape
7.30 Live BBC Proms 2022
From the Royal Albert Hall, the
BBC SSO, Alpesh Chauhan and
percussionist Colin Currie
perform a new concerto
by Nicole Lizée; plus,
Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony
10.00 Between the Ears
A virtual reality exploration
of Fingal’s Cave (r)
10.30 The Essay: Folk at Home
Rachel Unthank discusses her
childhood memory of songs (r)
10.45 The Essay: My Life in
Music With Chris Wood (r)
11.00 Late Junction
1.00am Piano Flow
2.00 Happy Harmonies
with Laufey (r)
3.00 Through the Night (r)

Today’s pick
Party’s Over
Radio 4, 6.30pm
What happens when the
prime minister suddenly
stops being prime minister?
Don’t ask Boris Johnson just
yet, first listen to the second
series of this jolly caper,
which follows Miles Jupp,
right, as former first lord of
the Treasury Henry, who is
trying to fill his empty diary.
Tonight’s episode finds Henry
and his team travelling to
Birmingham for the opening
ceremony of the
Commonwealth Games.

Hoping for a pampered life on
the Games committee, a plan
is hatched in which team
Henry set about trying to
unearth a scandal to create a
vacancy for their man. Idiocy
ensues. Ben Dowell

Radio 4

Radio 5 Live

FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz
LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz

MW: 693, 909

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 Tweet of the Day (r)
6.00 Today
9.00 Desert Island Discs (r)
9.45 Book of the Week:
Pharaohs of the Sun
By Guy de la Bédoyère (5/5)
9.45 (LW) Daily Service
10.00 Woman’s Hour
11.00 Moving Pictures A
detailed examination of Titian’s
Bacchus and Ariadne (r)
11.30 Mucking In (2/6)
12.01pm (LW) Shipping
Forecast
12.04 AntiSocial
1.00 The World at One
1.45 28ish Days Later India
Rakusen looks at the provision
of menstrual products
2.00 The Archers (r)
2.15 Drama: English Rose
By Helen Cross (3/5)
2.45 Living with the Gods (r)
3.00 Gardeners’ Question
Time Horticulture
3.45 Commonwealth Stories
We Do Everything for You (2/3)
4.00 Last Word
4.30 Feedback
5.00 PM
5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.30 Party’s Over
New series. Comedy starring
Miles Jupp. See Choice (1/6)
7.00 The Archers A solution
is presented for Tom
7.15 Add to Playlist A musical
journey of discovery (9/9)
8.00 Any Questions? A debate
8.50 A Point of View
9.00 Archive on 4: Brum
Britain Darren Harriott makes
the case for Birmingham being
Britain’s greatest city (r)
10.00 The World Tonight
10.45 Book at Bedtime:
Mrs Bridge
By Evan S Connell (5/10)
11.00 A Good Read (8/8) (r)
11.30 Uncanny Summer
Special: Uncanny Live (3/3)
12.00 News and Weather
12.30am Book of the Week:
Pharaohs of the Sun (5/5) (r)
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World Service

5.00am The Big Green Money
Show 5.30 Wake Up to Money
6.00 5 Live Breakfast 9.00
Nicky Campbell 11.00 Nick
Bright 2.00pm Elis James
and John Robins 4.00 5 Live
Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport. Day
one of the Commonwealth
Games 9.30 5 Live Formula 1
10.00 Stephen Nolan
1.00am Hayley Hassall

talkSPORT
MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00
talkSPORT Breakfast with
Alan Brazil 10.00 Jim White
and Simon Jordan 1.00pm
Hawksbee and Jacobs
4.00 Drive 7.00 Kick Off:
Huddersfield Town v Burnley
(Kick-off 8.00) 10.00 Sports
Bar 1.00am Extra Time

TalkRadio
Digital only

3.00 Wallis: The Life and
Legends of Wallis Simpson
4.00 Hidden Treasures 4.30
One Flat Summer 5.00 Dot
5.30 Alexei Sayle’s Strangers
on a Train 6.00 The Gibson
6.30 Sounds Natural 7.00 It
Sticks Out Half a Mile 7.30
The Secret Life of Rosewood
Avenue 8.00 In a Glass
Darkly 8.30 The Great
Impersonation 9.00 Podcast
Radio Hour 10.00 Comedy
Club: Alexei Sayle’s Strangers
on a Train 10.30 Daydream
Believers 11.00 The Pin 11.15
World of Pub 11.30 James
Acaster’s Perfect Sounds

BBC World Service
Digital only

9.00am News 9.06 Tech Tent
9.30 Science 10.00 News
10.06 Real Story 11.00
Newsroom 11.30 World
Football 12.00 News
12.06pm Fifth Floor 12.50
Witness History 1.00
Newsroom 1.30 Science
2.00 Newshour 3.00 News
3.06 HARDtalk 3.30 Business
4.00 BBC OS 6.00 News
6.06 Fifth Floor 6.50 Witness
History 7.00 Newsroom 7.30
Sport Today 8.00 News 8.06
Tech Tent 8.30 CrowdScience
9.00 Newshour 10.00
News 10.06 HARDtalk
10.30 World Football
11.00 Newsroom 11.20 Sports
News 11.30 Business 12.00
News 12.06am Real Story
1.00 News 1.06 Business
Matters 2.00 Newsroom
2.30 Stumped 3.00 News
3.06 Fifth Floor 3.50
Witness History 4.00
News 4.06 Real Story

6 Music
Digital only

5.00am James Max 6.30
Jeremy Kyle 10.00 The
Independent Republic of Mike
Graham 1.00pm Ian Collins
4.00 Rob Rinder 7.00 The
News Desk with Tom Newton
Dunn 8.00 Piers Morgan
Uncensored Best Of
9.00 The Talk 10.00 The
James Whale Show 11.00
Piers Morgan Uncensored
Best Of 12.00 The James
Whale Show 1.00am Darryl
Morris 4.00 The Talk

Radio 4 Extra
Digital only

8.00am It Sticks Out Half a
Mile 8.30 The Secret Life of
Rosewood Avenue 9.00
Hidden Treasures 9.30 One
Flat Summer 10.00 Wallis:
The Life and Legends of
Wallis Simpson 11.00 Podcast
Radio Hour 12.00 It Sticks Out
Half a Mile 12.30pm The
Secret Life of Rosewood
Avenue 1.00 In a Glass Darkly
1.30 The Great Impersonation
2.00 Every Third Thought
2.15 Where Angels Fear to
Tread 2.30 The Keskidee

7.30am Lauren Laverne
10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs
1.00pm Craig Charles 4.00
Steve Lamacq 7.00 The
People’s Party with
Afrodeutsche 9.00 Tom
Ravenscroft 11.00 The Ravers
Hour 12.00 Indie Forever
1.00am Emo Forever

Virgin Radio
Digital only

6.30am The Chris Evans
Breakfast Show with Sky
10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris
1.00pm Tim Cocker 4.00
Kate Lawler 7.00 Ben
Jones 10.00 Stu Elmore
1.00am Emma Nolan

Classic FM
FM: 100-102 MHz

6.00am More Music
Breakfast 9.00 Alexander
Armstrong 12.00 Anne-Marie
Minhall 4.00pm John
Brunning 7.00 Smooth
Classics 10.00 Smooth
Classics 1.00am Katie
Breathwick 4.00 Sam Pittis

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

552 saturday review

MindGames
Samurai Sudoku No 829 — Hard

Square Routes®
No 175 — Easy
Ian Simpson & Richard Heald

Sudoku No 13,368 — Fiendish

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Put one letter in each cell so that each word on
the right can be spelt out by moving from cell
to cell without using diagonal moves. You can
use a cell more than once in a word (including
backtracking into a cell you’ve just used), but
double letters (eg, the LL in ALL) must use two
adjacent cells. The words start in the coloured
cells and the vowels are shown by asterisks.

How to solve Sudoku. Fill the grid so that every column,
every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9

Solution on Monday

Stuck on KenKen, Killer or Sudoku?
Call 0901 293 6263 before midnight to receive four clues
for any of today’s puzzles. Calls cost £1 plus your
telephone company’s network access charge.
SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm).

Answers

Friday’s solutions
KenKen No 5639

Sudoku No 13,365

Sudoku No 13,366

Sudoku No 13,367

Killer No 8410

Killer No 8411

Train Tracks No 1688

Codeword No 4647

Killer No 8412 — Deadly

© PUZZLER MEDIA

Solution to last week’s Samurai Sudoku
Our five-grid Sudoku will
test your powers of logic
and deduction — against
the clock.
Fill each grid so that
every column, every row
and every 3x3 box contains
the digits 1 to 9. Where the
puzzles overlap, the rows
and columns do not go beyond their usual length. The
interlocking nature of the
grid gives you more clues
— and more complexity.
Remember — don’t try to
solve each Sudoku grid in
turn; the puzzle has to be
tackled as a whole.
Stuck? Call 0901 293 6263
to receive four clues for
today’s Samurai Sudoku.
Calls cost £1 plus your
telephone company’s
network access charge.
SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390
(Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm)

Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every
3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Each set of cells
joined by dotted lines must add up to the target
number in its top-left corner. Within each set of cells
joined by dotted lines, a digit cannot be repeated.
For solutions to KenKen, Sudoku & Killer see
Times2 on Monday

KenKen No 5640 — Medium

© 2010 KENKEN PUZZLE & TM NEXTOY. DIST. BY UFS, INC. WWW.KENKEN.COM

Tredoku
No 1743 — Medium
Tredoku is similar to Sudoku:
the digits 1 to 9 must appear once
only in each 3x3 box and in each
line of nine consecutive cells.
However, since the puzzle is
three-dimensional, the lines may
be straight or bent around angles.
Follow each line’s direction in
search of clues.

Sudoku/Killer © Puzzler Media
KenKen™ Puzzles are used with permission
of Gakken Co Ltd and Nextoy, LLC
Puzzle content © 2009 Gakken Co Ltd
Tredoku © Mindome Ltd 2009. TREDOKU®
is the registered trademark of Mindome

All the digits 1 to 6 must appear in every row and column.
In each thick-line “block”, the target number in the top
left-hand corner is calculated from the digits in all the cells
in the block, using the operation indicated by the symbol.

The Listener 4718 Linked by Vismut
In linked pairs, the last letter of the first answer
was the same as the first letter of the second
answer. These links spelt out Mary Macarthur,
who led the Cradley Heath women chain
makers’ strike for a minimum wage in 1910. The
last/first letters of the numbered clues were
similarly linked, spelling “there’s no message
here”. More details at listenercrossword.com.
The winners are Pippa and Hugh Warren of
Winsley, Wiltshire; Michael Young of Royston,
Warwickshire; Duncan Horne of Singapore.

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

saturday review 53

Solve Cryptic Quintagram every weekday online
Go to
Cryptic Quintagram® Word Watch
Solve all five cryptic clues using
David Parfitt
each letter underneath once only

Bonamano
a. A boyfriend
b. A tip or gratuity
c. A predatory fish

--------3 Sudden flood ruins new hotel (6)
-----4 Mass gatherings of Republican

2 Search around a favoured spot (5)

Babouche
a. A headscarf
b. An aubergine purée
c. A heelless slipper

supporters (7)

Vandemonian
a. Chaotic
b. Of a metallic element
c. From Tasmania

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b. A night attack
c. The pilot of a punt

Answers below

Answers below

The 2022 Word Cup (sic!), which
recently concluded in Chicago,
attracted one of the most stellar
line-ups in recent years, with
three former world champions
and multiple national champions
in attendance. There was a feast
of high-quality Scrabble, which
forthcoming columns will cover.
The focus of this week’s column
is a game between former world
champions David Eldar and
Joel Wapnick, of Australia and
Canada respectively. On paper,
the game appeared to end in a
comfortable win for Eldar, who
beat Wapnick by 536 points to
342. However, Eldar needed to
exercise good judgment on two
occasions, using only one tile on
each move.
Early in the game, Eldar faced
the position on the board extract
below with the following rack.

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Mindset 1. {HAS} — A in
French; {JACK, YO-YO} —
have surname MA;
{FACTOR, OUT, PLANCK}
— can follow MAX; {ANKLE,
LENGTH CLOTHING,
ITEM} — MAXI; {ADAGE,
DICTUM, MOTTO,
PROVERB, SAW} —
synonyms of MAXIM.
2. 16 socks. If you calculated
25 you forgot that all my
socks come in pairs.
3. NO is WH-AT FI-NI-SHES TH-IS QU-ES-TI-ON.
Word Watch: Bonamano (b)
A tip or gratuity (Collins).
Babouche (c) A heelless
slipper (Chambers).
Vandemonian (c) From
Tasmania (OED). Camisado
(b) A night attack (Brewer’s).
Polygon admiralty, airy,
amity, amyl, army, arty, aryl,
daily, dairy, diary, dirty, diya,

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The winner is
David Rollinson of
Ipswich, Suffolk

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of EMRS. However, Eldar elected
to play GOX (I6a) for 11 points.
The main benefit of this move
was the retention of EIMPRS,
which would have produced a
number of seven-letter words
with a favourable pick-up from
the bag. For example, below is
a list of full-rack anagrams had
Eldar drawn any vowel. Can you
find the solutions not specified?

EIMPRS
+A IMPRESA and SAMPIRE
+E EMPRISE, EPIMERS,
IMPRESE, PERMIES,
PREMIES, SPIREME and
two others
+I PISMIRE and PRIMSIE
+O IMPOSER, SEMIPRO and
one other
+U RUMPIES, SPUMIER and
one other
Eldar drew a T and subsequently played IMPREST (K2a)
for 79 points. What is the anagram of IMPREST?
Later in the game, Eldar disposed of the Q from his rack
of AELPQRS. The rack subsequently matured into AELPRSY
and Eldar secured another bonus word, SPARELY (H10d), as
shown on the main board below.
What are the four anagrams of
SPARELY?

Collins Official Scrabble Words is the word authority used.
Word positions use the grid reference plus (a)cross or (d)own.

7

double letter
square (dl)

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Solution to times2
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The winner is Peter
Richman of Shenley,
Hertfordshire

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Cell Blocks 4530

dray, lady, lairy, laity, lardy,
limy, malady, malty, mardy,
marly, maty, maya, milady,
miry, myriad, rimy, riyal, tardy,
tidy, tray, yaar, yard, yatra.
Scrabble EMPIRES,
PREMISE, PROMISE,
UMPIRES; PERMITS;
PARLEYS, PARSLEY,
PLAYERS, REPLAYS.
Literary quiz
1 LP Hartley. 2 JL Carr.
3 Ian McEwan. 4 Penelope
Lively.
Cryptic Quintagram 1 Table
2 Haunt 3 Inrush 4 Rallies
5 Informant.

double word
square (dw)

triple letter
square (tl)

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Polygon Roger Phillips Cell Blocks 4531

Using the given letters no more than
once, make as many words as possible of
four or more letters, always including
the central letter. Capitalised words,
plurals, conjugated verbs (past tense
etc), adverbs ending in LY, comparatives
and superlatives are disallowed.
How you rate: 19 words average;
26, good; 33, very good; 40, excellent.
Answers to Friday’s Polygon are to the
left. Today’s answers are printed in
MindGames on Monday

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Divide the grid into square
or rectangular blocks, each
containing one digit only. Every
block must contain the number
of cells indicated by the digit
inside it.
Yesterday’s solution, left

A new era
World champion Magnus Carlsen has ended months of speculation by confirming that he will
not defend his title. The Norwegian cited a lack of motivation as
he declared he will step aside
from the world championship
cycle for the foreseeable future.
Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding
Liren — the top two finishers at
the recent Candidates Tournament — will instead battle in
spring 2023 to succeed Carlsen.
Carlsen’s decision does not
mean retirement from chess. He
intends to play actively over the
board and online. By freeing himself from the pressures of being
world champion, he hopes to
have extra energy for other projects. Carlsen’s company, the Play
Magnus Group, will continue to
promote
the
Meltwater
Champions Chess Tour.
Online chess is often regarded
as a young person’s game, but that
was not the case in the latest Tour
event. The oldest player in the
field, Levon Aronian, used all of
his experience to emerge victorious. Two of the event’s most exciting games featured miraculous
defensive resources.
White: Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Black: Anish Giri
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White is winning. Two extra
pawns should ensure the full
point. The simple 59 Qb5+, exchanging queens, would be the
smoothest way to convert the advantage. 59 b4? Somewhat complacent. The white queen is
locked out of the game, gifting
Black an extraordinary saving resource. 59…Rxh4+! 60 gxh4 Qh7
A whirlwind attack begins. 61
Rh3 Qe4! A rare scenario. Black
sacrifices both rooks to achieve
perpetual check. 62 Qb5+ White’s
checks are futile. 62…Kc7 63
Qa5+ Kb7 64 Qb5+ Kc7 65 hxg5
Qe2+ The king will never find
shelter from the black queen’s
glare. 66 Kg1 Qe1+ 67 Kg2 Qe2+
68 Kg1 Qe1+ 69 Kg2 Qe2+ 70
Kg3 Qxd3+ 71 Kf4 Qd4+ 72 Kf3
Qd3+ 73 Kf2 Qd2+ 74 Kf3 Qd3+
75 Kg4 Qe4+ 76 Kh5 Qh7+ 77
Kg4 Qe4+ 78 Kg3 Qd3+ 79 Kg4
Qe4+ Draw by repetition
White: Levon Aronian
Black: Wei Yi
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Tournament winner Aronian
owed much to his tenacity. 18
Nxd4? Too greedy. A non-committal move was safer: 18 h3.
18…Ng4 Suddenly the white
queen finds herself short of
squares. 19 Qe4 Alas the flashy 19
Nxe6 Nxe5 20 Nxd8 Bf6 favours
Black. Meanwhile 19 Qe2 runs into 19…Rxd4. 19…Nxf2! This
profits from the clumsiness of the
white pieces. 20 Kxf2 Bc5 21 Ke3
In difficult positions, surprising
the opponent is a wise way to disrupt the momentum. White’s
king seeks to hide on the other
flank. 21…Re8 22 Kd2 Bxd4 23
Bxd4 Rxd4 24 Qe3 e5 25 Kc2
Qd6 26 Re1 White is suffering
with a weaker king and an inferior structure. Rather than solidifying the centre with 26…f6,
Black rushes forward. 26…e4
Strong, but this makes Black’s
task more complicated. 27 Qf4!
The tricks begin. Aronian reminds his opponent of the weak
eighth rank. 27…Qg6 27…exd3+
28 Kc3 backfires, though
27…Rxd3 would win a pawn. Wei
Yi wants more. 28 Rad1 Rxd3 29
Rxd3 exd3+ 30 Kc3 Rd8 31 Qd4
Another back rank trick. 31…Qg5
32 h4 Qa5+ 33 Kb2 Qd2+ 34 Ka3
Qa5+ Black repeats, failing to
spot the breakthrough. 35 Kb2
Qd2+ 36 Ka3 Rc8 37 Re3 37 Re5!
is more accurate. 37…Qa5+ 38
Kb2 Qd2+ 39 Ka3 Qc1+? 39…b5!
is the winning blow: 40 Rxd3 b4+
41 Ka4 Qxa2+ 42 Kxb4 Rb8+.
Now the moment passes. 40 Ka4
Qc2 41 Ka3 Qc1+ 42 Ka4 h6 43
Qd7 Rxc4+ 44 bxc4 Qxc4+ 45
Ka3 Qc3+ 46 Ka4 Qc4+ 47 Ka3
Qc5+ 48 Kb3 Qc2+ Sadly
48…Qxe3 49 Qc8+ Kh7 50 Qf5+
also leads to perpetual check. 49
Ka3 Qc3+ 50 Ka4 Qc4+ Draw by
repetition

Winning Move
Black to play. Cruz-Howell, lichess.org 2022. Black can deliver
checkmate in five. Which move
starts the winning sequence? Æ

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The first correct entry drawn on
Thursday will receive a copy of
Collins English Dictionary and
Thesaurus. The two runners-up
will receive a book prize. Answers
on a postcard to: The Times Winning Move, PO Box 2164, Colchester, Essex CO2 8LJ, or email
to: winningmove@thetimes.co.uk.
Open to 18+, UK and ROI residents only. The answer will be
published next Saturday.
Solution to last week’s puzzle:
1…Kd6! wins. 2 Rxa5 e4+ 3 Kd4
Rd2 mate.
The winner is Martin Snellgrove
of Llandudno, Conwy.

Æ

Saturday July 23 2022 | the times

554 saturday review

MindGames
Codeword No 4648

The Times Crossword, Latin Crossword, Saturday Quiz and
Suko are in the back of the main paper

The Listener Crossword No 4721 Quads IV by Shark
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times2 Crossword No 8964
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Across
1 Leave to avoid arrest (7)
5 Gun; ransack (5)
8 Core (5)
9 Two lines of verse (7)
10 Dish with hollandaise
sauce (4,8)
12 Disregard (6)
14 Large property (6)
17 Rough-haired dog (5,7)
Solution to Crossword 8963
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21 Unscrupulous, dishonest (7)
22 Military chaplain (5)
23 Spy (5)
24 Disorder, illness (7)
Down
1 Physically fit (8)
2 Informal language (5)
3 Month (7)
4 Becoming; proper (6)
5 Circular (5)
6 Nile boat (7)
7 Consumes (4)
11 Get back (8)
13 Tell (a story) (7)
15 Tight corners (7)
16 Engraved (6)
18 Holy person (5)
19 Populous country (5)
20 Seabird (4)

Name........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Address .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Postcode .............................................................................. Phone/email..........................................................................................................................
In three cells crossing answers clash; solvers must divide each cell with a backslash and place the
across letter in the top right. After filling the grid, a letter that occurs twice in one column’s
unchecked cells must be changed so that the two affected entries become new words that identify
the theme. Solvers must then draw four illustrations, each consisting of one or two lines tracing a
thematic word and an item associated with it. In two of the illustrations the lines are straight and
incorporate the backslashes; in the other two, each line must be extended to join up with its start.
Each illustration has an element of mirror symmetry. Two unchecked letters must be changed to
convert an entry (with a thematic clue) to the name (including initials) of the initiator of a popular
form of the theme. The Chambers Dictionary (2016) is the primary reference; 16 is in the Oxford
Dictionary of English; one answer is an abbreviation.
40 Poet Spenser’s death-day around November
Across
(5)
1 Spilt liquid swallowing afternoon drink
(5)
Down
6 Church ostracises saint (one whom Barbara
1 Not entirely pleasurable toddy (4)
patronised) (5)
2 Foolish Australian runner? (5)
11 Bird in state of being cooked, twice
3 Recalling mouth without ordinary person’s
skinned (4)
taste (7, two words)
12 Battleship retreats, besieging once enough
4 Spike in Elizabethan verses by the hundred,
for these battleships (7)
out of books (5)
13 One with Red Rum after start of race? (5)
5 Typesetters incorporating hot irons (7)
14 Bone and meat chopped (6)
7 Drippy = dippy (without second consonant)
16 Mariner cycles in these keys (4)
(5)
17 Predicament of medical examiner having
8 Nice name of some Thais heading to
dropped heart (6)
heaven (3)
20 Number to limit arachnid in Perth (8)
9 Indonesian ruler’s canary uniform (4)
21 Realise seat without sides needs wood at
10 Very cross vicar’s sin (8)
the back (6)
15 Secret garden a craftsman has locked up (6)
22 Spicy mixture of Japanese sauce almost
18 Bushranger’s life encompassing dark time at
top grade (6)
the end (8, two words)
24 Restored Asgard shrines (6)
19 Plant’s protections to stem mass of water
25 Section at the rear of a soft fruit (6)
mostly enclosing river base (6)
26 Workers who are crying out for something 22 Dressing allowance covering article (7)
vocally (8)
23 One could pick this soldier before WWI
31 Position of earth card (6)
restriction (7)
32 It’s of no value to work at sex (4)
27 Tropical fish finds seamark with moon (5)
34 Part of vault half over dividing trench (6)
28 Basted sow, with stuffing inside (5)
36 He pays court speaker to drop fine (5)
29 Easy bull’s-eye? (5)
37 Instrumental creator reformer embraces
30 Matter limiting the first Pope (4)
indeed (7)
33 Way is frameless for Dali? (4)
38 Strange getting rid of van in lake (4)
35 Medical agency programme dismissing
Doctor (3)
39 Evacuate during forced take-off (5)

Mindset by 700
1. The following words can be divided into five sets of size
1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Each set is associated with a word of that length, and
these words grow incrementally (eg A-AN-PAN-PAIN-PAINT).
What are the sets?
ADAGE ANKLE
CLOTHING DICTUM HAS

ITEM

JACK

FACTOR

LENGTH

MOTTO

OUT

PLANCK

PROVERB

SAW

YO-YO

2. I own 5 pairs of black socks and some pairs of white socks.
If I draw 2 socks from the drawer at random there is a 50% chance
that they match. How many socks do I own?

Literary Quiz
The Times Literary Desk
Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot
All these novels feature
particularly hot summers.
Name the authors
1 The Go-Between, 1953
2 A Month in the Country, 1980
3 Atonement, 2001
4 Heat Wave, 1996

3. HW TA IF IN HS SE HT SI UQ SE IT ??
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Answers on page 53

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Bridge Andrew Robson
Who is the best bridge player in
the world? It’s hard to say with
any confidence. Unlike, say,
chess, bridge is a partnership
game and you’re only ever as
good as your partnership.
Perhaps 30 per cent is down to
the individual skills of Player A,
30 per cent down to Player B, and
40 per cent to the partnership.
Notwithstanding all that, I
am going to stick my neck out
and say that I think the best
player in the world today is the
six-time world champion
Michal Klukowski, aged only
26. He represents Switzerland
through a sponsorship arrangement but is really Polish.
Why do I think he’s the best?
He almost never makes a mistake. He sees positions incredibly quickly. He has a feel, a flair,
that transcends mere accuracy.
Watch Klukowski rack up this
6♥ from the recent European
National Team Championships,
which the 3,000-plus Bridge
Base Online kibitzers thought
would for sure fail.
Dealer West
Neither Vul

♠J754
♥3
♦ A K 10 9 4
♣ 10 6 5

♠K63
♥A976
♦7
♣AKJ92
N
W

S

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♠A982
♥KJ82
♦QJ6
♣Q3

♠ Q 10
♥ Q 10 5 4
♦8532
♣8 7 4

S

W
N
E
Pass
1♣
Pass
1♥
2♦(1) 3♥
Pass
3♠(2) Pass
4♦(3) Pass
4♠(4) Pass
4NT(5) Pass
5♠(6) Pass
6♥
end
(1) Cheeky, but wants a diamond lead.
(2) Asking for shortage. Some would
have settled for 4♥ here (or even suggest 3NT given the diamond holding).
(3) Singleton diamond.
(4) Control bid. Again, superficially quite
pushy. However, facing the pure ♠xxx,
♥AQxx, ♦x, ♣AKJxx, 6♥ is superb.
South realises how big his ♣Q is.
(5) Roman Key Card Blackwood.
(6) Two of “five aces” (incl ♥K) plus
♥Q. What ♥Q do I hear you say? When
you guess as well as the young (Swiss)
Pole, ♥J is almost as good as ♥Q.

West cashed the ace of diamonds and continued with a
low diamond. Declarer ruffed
(no need to risk the ruffing
finesse) and cashed the ace of
hearts, nothing of interest
appearing. At trick four he led
the nine of hearts and ... ran it.
“Did he really just do that?”
exclaimed one kibitzer?
West discarded and he could
now lead a third heart to the
jack, cash the king, felling East’s
queen, and claim. Slam made.
If you think about it,
though, declarer has to guess
which of the three heart layouts exists which is consistent
with the first three defensive
heart cards: East with
♥Q10xx, ♥Qxx or ♥10xx.
Whichever play he makes on
the second round succeeds
against only one of the three.
A specific 4-1 split is only
marginally less likely than a
specific 3-2 and he will have
been influenced by West’s
pass-then-overcall. Perhaps
West is 4♠-1♥-6♦-2♣ — not
opening a Weak 2♦ because of
holding four spades.
andrew.robson@thetimes.co.uk

the times | Saturday July 23 2022

saturday review 55

For more crosswords and your favourite
puzzles go to thetimes.co.uk
Jumbo crossword No 1567
Cryptic clues
Across
1 Secretly listen to dad turning
back on women’s group (7)
5 Destroyed city conveyance horse
brought in (8)
9 Neighbour’s a music maker
performing around India (6)
13 Deep, airy complex piece of
music: A Dreamy Event (5,3,8)
14 Weekend service cut aid for
travellers (3,3)
16 Perfect croupier’s CV condensed?
(5)
17 Difficult to criticise what
gardeners avoid (7)
18 We love users willy-nilly (9)
19 Great faith sacrificing first
sporting success (5,4)
21 Pig’s surplus weight (7)
22 Shut up Polish plant (5)
23 Slender female in river, doing
backstroke? (5)
25 Punter, jobless, securing one in
Greece (9)
27 Start to pen letter, a gratifying
one (7)
29 Nearly dispatch old carrier’s
measure once (9)
31 Bird stalks parasite that may be
piercing cherry (8,5)
34 Fair act that needs some looking
into? (7,6)
35 Call Italian husband a father of
IT? (9)
37 Berlin quartet visiting inlet’s
coastal area (7)
39 Stepping around hot sewer’s work
(9)
42 Nigerian bread not available
without strain (5)
43 Driver’s unlimited theatre activity
(5)
45 Leaves silver in fit of insanity (7)
47 Fuelled tanks in city out of
necessity (9)
49 Sailor spoils hotel and marine
grassland (4,5)
50 Old car, one of many sent out by
local star (7)
52 Glossy material from head of
news area (5)
54 Set of nine English notes repaid
regularly (6)
55 During beating, writer settled for
paying too much (16)
56 Go round to dispose of deal (6)
57 Perhaps bowler owned equipment
to conserve energy (8)
58 Head of engineering impressed by
modest digital skill (7)

Train
Tracks
No 1689
Lay tracks
to enable
the train to
travel from
village A to
village B.
The numbers
indicate
how many
sections of
rail go in
each row
and column.
There are
only straight
rails and
curved rails.
The track
cannot
cross itself.
Solution
on Monday*

1

Down
1 Queen’s in Surrey town with tiny
king for what’s five days typically
(7,4)
2 Resistance, with Europeans
acquiring dearer unit in Delhi (5)
3 Strolled to outskirts of Deptford
with light (7)
4 Nut with natural poison yielding
in eastern battle of wits? (13,7)
5 Shooter arrived with press article
(9)
6 Accelerate sketch show briefly:
put on pressure (3,2)
7 Weird Munch oil engages posh
people like the Borrowers? (9)
8 Armed vessel’s tackle snaring a
French sub finally (7)
10 Raise small prize bloomers (7)
11 Old customs involving French
wine recalled: we like to taste it
all! (9)
12 After November, ski with Boris
potentially here? (11)
15 New mate and sleeping partner,
having united, draw these up?
(10,10)
20 Legally going topless a lot (7)
21 Cut African flower up on Greek
character’s Italian food (7)
24 American wears this nearly new
kit specially in church (7)
26 Gag miserable type abandoning
wife (5)
28 Oriental festival at end of autumn
(7)
30 Old key put on a pedestal (5)
32 Related measure about to split
Anglicans (7)
33 Sign at the start (7)
34 Wary maiden in big top show
reportedly kissed (11)
36 Hefty boxer, and why he gave it
up (11)
38 Old poet loses right before local
amateur cop (9)
40 Encouraged study involving ship
on river (9)
41 Mine host’s cool northern ring (9)
44 Standing up, rave about a
politician (7)
46 Composer drinks vodka primarily
with last of white port (2,5)
48 Flourish what supporter eats? (7)
51 Daughter leaves knotty loop in
rope (5)
53 Stick around with Heather (5)

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times2 clues
Across
1 Saint who founded Iona monastery
(7)
5 For only some of the working week
(4-4)
9 Disengage; separate (6)
13 Advocate of green policies (16)
14 Word repeated to aid meditation (6)
16 Branch of Islam (5)
17 Non-professional (7)
18 Chatty (9)
19 Strap holding a saddle on a horse’s
back (9)
21 Involve; business (7)
22 Provide financial support for (5)
23 Amass, accumulate (3,2)
25 Infamy (9)
27 Ruler (7)
29 Like a cat’s face (9)
31 Boldness; impudence (13)
34 Market town in North Yorkshire (13)
35 Depravity, wickedness (9)
37 Sudden whim (7)
39 Morally correct behaviour (9)
42 Small flash of light (5)

43 Close to the centre (5)
45 Row of uniform joined houses
(7)
47 US head of state (9)
49 Not cultured (9)
50 Low wall on roof’s edge (7)
52 Invest with (5)
54 A sufficient quantity (6)
55 Bond film set in Japan (3,4,4,5)
56 Sample (6)
57 Fact settling a matter conclusively
(8)
58 Handout sheet (7)
Down
1 Party nibble (6,5)
2 Lock near Kinross (5)
3 Gin-based cocktail (7)
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Table outside, please! 37 great
Courtyards, rooftop gardens and elegant
terraces — Andy Lynes knows where to
find the UK’s top spots for alfresco eating
12 best restaurant
terraces and
gardens
Gees Restaurant
Oxford
This stalwart of Oxford’s dining scene has
just emerged from a £1.5 million refurbishment with a sunlit, southwest-facing
“secret garden” in addition to its front and
side-terrace alfresco seating. Decked out
with yellow and blue furniture set among
extensive planting and a stone fountain,
it’s a Mediterranean-style bolt hole in the
city. The menu has a Med feel too, featuring dishes from Spain, Portugal and Italy
— such as wood-fired octopus with lentils,
lemon and paprika — that incorporate
British produce.
Details 01865 553540;
geesrestaurant.co.uk

Devour at the
Dyehouse

Villa di Geggiano
Chiswick, west London
Tuscany comes to London on the secluded
and covered terrace of this elegant Italian
restaurant surrounded by olive trees and
sangiovese grape vines. Sip wine from
the owner’s vineyard at the original Villa di
Geggiano in Chianti, and sample Italian
classics including wild-boar pappardelle
or a Florentine T-bone steak to share.
Details 020 3384 9442;
villadigeggiano.co.uk

Alto by San Carlo
Central London
Dine at linen-covered tables under a canopy of flowers and foliage, taking in the
views of London on this elegant terrace on
the roof of Selfridges created by the glitzy
Italian restaurant group San Carlo. Sip on
a summery Alto’s fizz cocktail made with
gin, fresh raspberries and elderflower
cordial, then indulge in whole grilled
lobster or veal Milanese.
Details 020 7318 3287; sancarlo.co.uk

Holm

Holmfirth, West Yorkshire

South Petherton, Somerset

Set in a converted wood-turning mill
in the Holme Valley, this modern
restaurant with a pretty covered terrace
overlooks the River Holme. It’s a verdant
spot in which to sample the menu of
Yorkshire produce with an Italian spin,
in dishes such as handmade spaghetti
alle vongole or a radicchio and wild-mushroom pizza.
Details 01484 684793; devour.co.uk

Hidden behind the façade of what was
once the village bank is the elegant,
spacious gravel terrace of this stylish, contemporary restaurant, run by the team
behind Levan and Larry’s in London.
Shaded by umbrellas and peppered with
potted plants, it has an open kitchen where
lingshire countryside. Dine on the terrace
the food for regular barbecue evenings,
underneath vine-covered pergolas surbeginning on August 10, will be prepared,
rounded by foliage and flower and vegetaincluding grilled melon with chilli, mint
ble beds, where the menu might include
and Westcombe ricotta. Tables are availlinguine made with the daily catch
able for lunch and dinner too, for the
from the north coast of Scotland and a
acclaimed chef Nicholas Balfe’s
selection of handmade pizzas.
Summer vegetable tart at
menus of local and seasonal
Details 01877 389900;
Moss and Moor, West Yorkshire
Somerset produce.
nairns.co.uk
Details 01460 712470;
holmsomerset.co.uk

Ockenden Manor
Cuckfield, West Sussex
Alfresco dining doesn’t get much more
refined than a linen-covered table on
the terrace of this Elizabethan manor
house overlooking manicured lawns and
the hotel’s eight acres of grounds. The
food is top quality, celebrating local produce with plates such as roast Sussex
venison saddle with venison croquette,
sweet and sour red cabbage, cauliflower
puree and wild mushrooms.
Details 01444 416111;
hshotels.co.uk

The Yard by
Chubby Castor
Castor, Peterborough
Dine on the pergola-covered paved
terrace overlooking the secluded kitchen
gardens of this grade II listed, thatched
village restaurant. The Gordon Ramsaytrained chef Adebola Adeshina has
launched this more relaxed alternative to
his fine-dining restaurant menu, based
around produce from the garden.
Expect gourmet burgers, spatchcock
chicken, fresh lobster, fish and oysters, and
steaks, plus vegan and vegetarian options.
Details 01733 380801;
thechubbycastor.com

Allegra

Timberyard
Edinburgh, Lothian
Step into the cool, calming
urban oasis of the grey-stone
courtyard at this converted
warehouse just off the Royal
Mile and close to Edinburgh
Castle. The menu at the stylish,
family-run restaurant makes the
most of the finest seasonal Scottish
produce — some grown in the restaurant’s raised beds — in dishes such as
pigeon with lardo, morels and chestnut
mostarda.
Details 0131 221 1222;
timberyard.co

Stratford, east London
With its meadow of wildflowers, water features and
cedar pathways, the seventhfloor wraparound terrace and
roof garden of this highly rated
restaurant at the chic Stratford
hotel is a rural oasis hidden high
above urban east London. The chef
Patrick Powell’s modern British
dishes include fried chicken with
mustard fruit, aïoli and pickles, and rarebreed middle white pork chop cooked on
a wood-fired grill.
Details allegra-restaurant.com

Paco Tapas
Nick’s at Port
of Menteith
Stirling, Stirlingshire
The chef Nick Nairn has opened up the
beautiful kitchen garden at his restaurant
and cookery school set in stunning Stir-

Bristol
Watch the boats bobbing about in Bathurst
Basin from the covered terrace of this
Michelin-starred tapas restaurant, where
the tables are made from sherry barrels.
A short walk from the city centre, it’s an
idyllic, buzzy spot where you can indulge

in Spanish wines, superb jamón croquetas
and the must-order Duroc pork ribs.
Look out too for the always interesting
daily specials that are handwritten on
the paper menus.
Details 0117 9257021;
pacotapas.co.uk

The Boat Inn
Lichfield, Staffordshire
The outside areas of this smart pub and
restaurant (the only one in the county
to hold three AA rosettes) were transformed during lockdown, and now include
a large paved and shaded terrace and a
manicured lawn set with contemporary
garden furniture. A special garden menu
features snacks such as pig’s head fritters
with burnt apple as well as larger
plates, perhaps day boat fish of the
day with brown shrimp and caperbutter sauce.
Details 01543 361692;
theboatinnlichfield.com

7 places with
spectacular views
Moss and Moor
Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Set against the striking backdrop of Ilkley
Moor and the famous Cow and Calf rocks,

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tember) summer terrace of Linthwaite
House Hotel, a luxury country house hotel
set within 14 acres of landscaped gardens.
The chef Simon Rogan, owner of the three
Michelin-starred L’Enclume in nearby
Cartmel, brings a touch of culinary magic
to the daytime-only menu that includes a
barbecue Korean belly of pork sandwich
with black-bean mayo, lime-pickled
onions and crispy kale in XO sauce, and
bone-marrow mac and cheese.
Details 015395 87766; henrock.co.uk

Vineyard Restaurant,
Denbies Wine Estate
Dorking, Surrey

Alto by San Carlo, London

this stylish nursery, garden centre and
food hall offers breakfast, brunch, lunch
and afternoon tea on the terrace, which is
dotted with tropical plants. The menu,
overseen by former head chef of the
Hix restaurant group Kevin Gratton,
includes a broad bean falafel salad with
hummus, mint and parsley.
Details 01943 663699;
mossandmoor.co.uk

Dishes at Water Lane, Kent

Pizzatipi
Cardigan, Ceredigion
Eat stonebaked pizza and drink Welsh
craft beer at this rustic riverside courtyard.
Choose between tables under the tepees,
leafy booths with wooden banquettes, or
the coveted picnic benches with glorious
views of the River Teifi and the surrounding countryside. Look out for the chalkboard specials that include creative
pizza toppings such as pea puree, cashew
ricotta, and rocket and almond. Open
until September 3.
Details 01239 612259; pizzatipi.co.uk

Water Lane
Hawkhurst, Kent
The restaurant in this walled garden in the
Kent countryside is the definition of idyllic. Every table on the covered terrace has
views out on to the vegetable and flowerbeds, vinery and Victorian glasshouses,
where cucumbers, aubergines and nectarines are grown, all of which might make an
appearance on the seasonal menu. Food is
prepared in an open kitchen with a Portuguese wood-fired oven and grill, and seasonal dishes might include summer bean,
padron peppers, pea and romesco salad.
Details waterlane.net

Henrock
Windermere, Cumbria
Holm, Somerset

Windermere and the fells rise above
the covered pop-up (open until end of Sep-

baked Cromer crab with chilli, ginger
and coriander or head along for one
of the Saturday Sessions featuring a live
DJ in the garden and outdoor games
for the kids.
Details 01328 633001;
sculthorpemill.uk

The Swan at Marbury
Marbury, Cheshire
The spacious terrace at this rural village
pub is shaded by parasols and dotted with
flowerbeds, and the pub also has its own
herb garden and orchard. It’s an idyllic
spot for dining on a summery plate of
stone bass with brown-crab croquette,
warm brown-crab tartare sauce and
buttered samphire.
Details 01948 522860;
swanatmarbury.co.uk

The landscaped gardens of this wine estate
set in beautiful Surrey countryside feature
all-weather, cabana-style seating areas
overlooking the vines, where you can
enjoy a glass of the vineyard’s wines. The
menu of simply prepared, locally sourced The Bell in Ticehurst
produce might include a summery salad
of artichoke, chicory, watercress and truf- Ticehurst, East Sussex
fle honey.
Enjoy lunch under the
Details denbies.co.uk
pergola on the terrace of
this
16th-century
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coaching inn, shaded
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Details 0131 357 2865;
coldtownhouse.co.uk
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Beaverbrook
Leatherhead, Surrey
There’s a choice of alfresco dining options
at this luxury hotel set in a magnificent
Victorian mansion in 470 acres of Surrey
countryside. Take in views over the Surrey
hills from the terrace at the main house
where the Japanese-style dishes include
black cod with yuzu miso and fresh lime, or
you can enjoy an Italian summer feast for
six at the Garden Table, surrounded by
the walled kitchen garden.
Details 01372 571300;
beaverbrook.co.uk

11 prettiest
pub gardens
Sculthorpe Mill
Fakenham, Norfolk
The beautiful garden at this rural Michelin
Bib Gourmand-awarded pub-with-rooms,
set in a converted 18th-century mill, is the
perfect place to relax on a summer day.
Take a seat on the riverside terrace for

Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
The secluded, intimate garden of this
17th-century, grade II listed former coaching inn — lovingly restored by the
owners Daniel Crump and Margriet Vandezande-Crump, who both previously
worked for Gordon Ramsay — is set in a
picture-postcard Buckinghamshire town.
The restaurant has a large covered deck
overlooking a well-maintained lawn and a
kitchen garden with raised beds. The
Belgian fries with beetroot ketchup are
a must-order.
Details 01494 671315;
greyhoundbeaconsfield.co.uk

The Great Shefford
Newbury, Berkshire
The spacious semi-covered outdoor
terrace of this recently refurbished, stylish
village pub overlooks the Lambourn
River and is the ideal spot to enjoy modern
gastropub food by Sam Cary, a former
chef at the Hand and Flowers, Tom Kerridge’s Michelin-starred pub in Marlow.
There are inventive dishes on the menu
such as veal sweetbreads with spring

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onion, as well as a range of steaks
including luxurious marbled wagyu.
Details 01488 648462;
thegreatshefford.com

Newlyn fishmonger Richard Adams, and
the short daily changing menu is a masterclass in less-is-more cooking; whole deepfried megrim sole is served with a punchy
aïoli or grilled John Dory simply garnished
with a lemon wedge.
Details 01736 362455;
argoenewlyn.co.uk

The Brewers
Rattlesden, Suffolk
Take a seat on the covered flagstone terrace in the secluded garden of this rural
village gastropub surrounded by foliage
and overlooking the lawn and pretty
flowerbeds. The emphasis is on local produce, with a menu of modern British dishes including Suffolk crab with radishes,
lemon, lime and marigold, and grass-fed
Suffolk lamb rack with spring vegetables.
Details 01449 736377;
thebrewersrattlesden.co.uk

The Terrace
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
Look out over the harbour, Yarmouth Castle and the Solent from the spacious,
umbrella-shaded terrace of this modern
harbourside bar and restaurant. The daily
changing menu is based around Isle of
Wight produce, including roasted haunch
and braised belly of rose veal from Briddlesford Lodge Farm in Ryde. Wine aficionados
will appreciate the expertly chosen list
of fine wines.
Details 01983 303013;
theterraceiow.co.uk

Pipe and Glass
South Dalton, East Riding
of Yorkshire
The stunning gardens of this Michelinstarred, 17th-century rural pub-withrooms in the Wolds have been recently
redesigned, and the chef James Mackenzie
says that everything that grows there now
features on the menu. Dine on the terrace
and tuck into beetroot and East Yorkshire
gin-cured Chalkstream trout with oyster
fritters and some of those garden herbs.
Details 01430 810246;
pipeandglass.co.uk

The St Enodoc Brasserie

The Terrace,
Isle of Wight

Rock, Cornwall
There are stunning views of the Camel
Estuary from the terrace of this smart but
casual hotel brasserie, overlooking beautifully maintained gardens. The menu
features meat and vegetables from the
owner’s family farm in Devon; on Saturdays until September 10, the lunchtime
barbecue menu includes dishes such as
tandoori-style gurnard and prawn skewers.
Details 01208 863394;
enodoc-hotel.co.uk

Acme Fire Cult
Dalston, east London
No, it’s not technically a pub — but this
chic east London patio does have an onsite
brewery. Watch the chefs cooking over a
live fire on a 3m-long bespoke portico grill
on the terrace. There’s a selection of ten
beers to go with the barbecue expert Andrew Clarke’s menu, which puts vegetables
centre stage in dishes such as coal-roast
celeriac with mushroom and XO sauce.
Details acmefirecult.com

The Three Fishes
Mitton, Lancashire
The Lancastrian chef Nigel Haworth
has recently refurbished this gastropub. It
now has a spacious flagstone terrace that
looks out over the extensive kitchen garden and the Ribble Valley beyond. The
Thursday-night barbecue menu, prepared
alfresco and served on the terrace, is available until September and includes wild sea
bass cooked on cedar planks.
Details 01254 826666;
thethreefishes.co.uk

Rockfish
Dartmouth, Devon

The Pant-yr-Ochain
Wrexham, Denbighshire
This historic pub is in a stunning location
in the north Wales countryside overlooking a lake surrounded by hills. There are
picnic benches on the lawn and awningshaded terraces edged with flowers and
shrubs where you can enjoy a glass of
elderflower pink fizz and a plate of Moroccan couscous salad with harissa yoghurt.
Details 01978 853525;
brunningandprice.co.uk

Stables and Meadow at
the Black Bull
Sedbergh, Cumbria

Ice cream at the St Enodoc
Brasserie, Cornwall

Oysters at Riddle & Finns
on the Beach, East Sussex

The Pant-Yr-Ochain,
Denbighshire

There’s a lot going on in the gardens of this
critically acclaimed gastropub, set in a
17th-century inn in a picturesque Cumbrian town. An outdoor kitchen turns out
sourdough pizza from a wood-fired oven
while lobsters are roasted on a barbecue,
all to be enjoyed on the seating set among
the garden’s herb terrace and fruit trees.
You might even encounter the pub’s
pigs and chickens.
Details 015396 20264;
theblackbullsedbergh.co.uk

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Carbis Bay, Cornwall
Sit on the festoon-lit terrace of this casual
yet glamorous beachside hotel restaurant
steps away from the gloriously sandy
beach and crystal waters of Carbis Bay. It’s
the latest addition to the portfolio of restaurants at the luxurious Carbis Bay Hotel,
where sea views are complemented by
dishes such as stargazy mackerel wellington (stargazy pie is a Cornish delicacy)
with horseradish and watercress.
Details 01736 795311;
carbisbayhotel.co.uk

Argoe
Newlyn, Cornwall
Tables on the terrace at this modernist,
Scandi-style wood-clad building on Newlyn’s harbourside are the prime spot here.
Argoe is co-owned by the former Rochelle
Canteen head chef Ben Coombs and the

The terrace of this fish restaurant — part
of the seafood chef Mitch Tonks’s southwest-based Rockfish group — overlooks
the River Dart and the bobbing boats of
Dartmouth’s wide, pretty harbour. Expect
sustainable fish from Brixham Market
cooked simply in dishes such as roasted
turbot T-bone with béarnaise sauce.
Details 01803 832800;
therockfish.co.uk

Sargasso
Margate, Kent
A helping of hip Hackney comes to the
Kent seaside with this characterful restaurant and bar on Margate’s harbour arm
that’s run by the team behind Brawn in
east London. There’s views across the
harbour to the beach from the outdoor
seating where the menu of ingredient-led
dishes might include grilled scallops
with saffron butter. Accompany with a
glass of something from the carefully
curated wine list.
Details sargasso.bar

Riddle & Finns on
the Beach
Brighton, East Sussex
Take in unbeatable views of Brighton
landmarks the Palace Pier, the remains of
the West Pier and the i360 tower from the
beach terrace of this smart seafood restaurant located in the iconic Rotunda building on the seafront. Sip English sparkling
wine, share a platter of fruits de mer and
watch the world go by on the promenade.
Details 01273 821 218;
riddleandfinns.co.uk

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BETHANY CLARKE FOR THE TIMES

rate may be as high as 3-4 litres an hour.
“Your priority should be to ensure you are
hydrated before exercise, and the general
recommendations are to sip 5-10ml of fluid per kilogram of your body weight in the
2-4 hours before a workout on a hot day,”
Bean says.
Starting off well hydrated means that if
you’re doing exercise that lasts less than
90 minutes, as most workouts do on a hot
day, you need to drink only when you’re
thirsty. Over-hydrating can be as problematic as dehydration, causing a potentially dangerous imbalance in the body’s
salt levels. “After exercise both water and
body salts, or electrolytes, need to be replaced to restore fluid balance in the body,”
Bean says. “For most people, water with
regular food and meals is enough, but you
could take a sports drink containing sodium and electrolytes if you prefer.”

Should you work
out when it’s very
hot? Fitness expert
Peta Bee gives
the essential rules

A

s far as exercise is
concerned, we’ve fallen
into two camps during
this heatwave: those who
were too hot even to think
about a workout and
those who rose at dawn to
fit in a walk, run or cycle in the coolest part
of the day. I maintained my daily run —
but I moved it forwards by several hours to
7am and ran in the shade of local woods.
As a nation we are ill prepared for
sudden intensities of heat, but experts say
there are strategies we can apply to ensure
we exercise optimally for the rest of
the summer. “Regular exercise is one of the
things that enables our bodies to become
more efficient at adapting to temperature
changes and remaining ready for sweltering days,” says Jim Pate, a senior exercise
physiologist at the Centre for Health
and Human Performance in London. “It’s
important to stay fit and healthy but also
to help our bodies a bit with the acclimatisation process.”
And while it may be tempting to launch
yourself into exercise for the first time
when the sun is out, he urges caution. “If
you are new to exercise, it is best to start
on a cooler day or at cooler times of the
day, when the experience will be more
comfortable,” Pate says. Here’s how to
exercise safely.

Exercise before 8am —
or avoid it altogether

Exercising outdoors is possible even in a
heatwave but only for some people — and
only at certain times of the day. “Fitter
people tend to respond better to the heat,
so if you are reasonably fit and healthy
then you can probably exercise with
caution,” says Mike Tipton, a professor of
human and applied physiology and director of the extreme environments laboratory at the University of Portsmouth. “But
any activity should be rescheduled to a
cooler time of the day, such as early morning or late evening.” Depending on how
hot it is, you may need to head out before
8am or after 8pm to avoid the worst heat.
Even at rest our bodies produce 100W of
heat, similar to a lightbulb, and that rises
to about 1kW during a decent continuous
running pace. “With maximum-intensity
exercise this shoots up to about 2kW, the
same as a two-bar fire,” Tipton says. “Adding hot weather conditions to this could
mean heat exhaustion — the symptoms
of which are clammy skin, excessive
sweating and fast breathing — which is
a real risk.”

Have an ice-cold drink
before you exercise
Cyclists who had very cold water or some
crushed ice every 5 minutes for 30 minutes
before and every 15 minutes during a
60-minute bike ride in a lab heated to 35C
performed better and had a lower body
temperature when they consumed the
crushed ice than when they drank the cold
water, a 2017 study found.
Other studies have shown that an iced
“slushy” drink before a workout in the heat
helps to pre-cool the body — although the
effects are temporary. “An ice-filled drink

To cool down after
exercise, plunge your
hands in cold water
In a 2009 review of post-workout cooling
techniques conducted for the European
Journal of Applied Physiology, Tipton and
colleagues found the best measures postexercise to be a combination of wholebody fanning — sitting in front of a fan to
allow cool air on the torso, legs and arms
for up to 15 minutes — and placing your
hands in cool tap water (17C) up to your
wrists for several minutes. In studies these
two measures beat the effects of a cooling
vest inserted with ice packs and a meshvented vest with fans directed at the torso.
“It’s a cheap and effective way to cool
down,” Tipton says.

Peta Bee

How to exercise in
the heat: my guide
will lower core temperature if drunk
quickly a few minutes before the start of
exercise on a hot day, but once you start
to move it triggers the process of thermogenesis, in which the body produces
more heat,” Pate says. “So the cooling
benefits will be short-lived unless you
keep sipping on the ice as you work out.
But it is definitely worth trying an icy drink
before you head out on a very hot day.”

Learn to sweat more
efficiently
Sweat cools the body as it evaporates on
the skin. Tipton says you can train your
body to become more efficient at sweating
so that it is better able to cool itself through
this process when you are working out in
the heat. “When you are sitting in the garden relaxing you can create what we call
‘artificial sweat’ by spraying your skin with
fine mist from a simple garden plant spray
container,” he says. “Then sit in front of a
fan to enhance evaporation of the liquid
and this will cool down your skin.”

Don’t run for more than
15 minutes
In the heat, Pate says your first steps
should be to reduce the duration and
intensity of your workout. That means
prolonged tennis matches or rounds of
golf are out; short walks or cycles are in.
“When it’s very hot, the body is under
more strain than usual during exercise as it
tries to reduce its temperature to prevent
overheating,” he explains. “There are
greater demands on the cardiovascular
system too, as the heart comes under
more pressure to deliver blood to the skin’s
surface for cooling, which sees heart rate
rise higher than usual.”
As temperatures creep up, try to minimise exposure by reducing the duration of
more vigorous exercise, such as running,
to no more than 15 minutes a day on
extremely warm days, and by always
avoiding exercising in the hottest part
of the day around noon.

On hot days you can
sweat 4 litres an hour —
make sure you’re hydrated

Regular saunas
help your
body to adapt
to higher
temperatures

Your body’s ability to self-cool depends on
its ability to sweat, which acts as a cooling
mechanism allowing evaporation to occur
— and that comes down to how well
hydrated you are. “Whenever you exercise
you lose water through sweat and also
through water vapour in the air you
breathe,” says Anita Bean, a dietician and
author of The Complete Guide to Sports
Nutrition. “In warm conditions, your fluid
losses can be very high, and if not replaced
quickly can result in a state of reduced
body water, which we call hypohydration.”
In hot and humid conditions your sweat

Avoid the post-workout
ice bath or cold shower

Ice baths are widely used by athletes
and increasingly by everyday fitness
enthusiasts as a recovery aid in the belief
that they reduce inflammation, helping
the body to flush out post-workout waste
products. However, when it comes to cooling down after exercise in the heat, Tipton
says ice baths and even a cold bath or
shower are a bad idea. “Aggressive cooling
with any sort of cold water immersion will
cause the skin circulation to shut down or
vasoconstrict,” he says. “This means that
as skin blood vessels are closed, heat is
‘trapped’ in the body, making it much
more difficult to cool down.”
Post-exercise, he advises having a tepid
shower instead. “Aim for a water temperature of about 30C, which is better than a
very cold shower for cooling the body.”

Take regular
saunas
If we take one lesson from this summer’s
heatwave it should be to teach our bodies
to better acclimatise so that we are ready
for the next one. Taking a regular sauna
in the lead-up to summer is one of the
methods used by elite athletes and tennis
players to prepare for training and competition in the heat, and a study last year
showed that three weeks of regular sauna
bathing after training produced positive
adaptations in a group of distance runners.
The athletes had a better sweat rate,
meaning their bodies self-cooled more efficiently, they had a lower heart rate and
markers of their running speed in the heat
improved.
“We use saunas to help people to prepare for a range of sports in hot weather,
and taking them regularly would help
your body to adapt to higher temperatures,” Pate says. “Although make sure you
consult your GP first if you have an
underlying medical condition.”

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6 Weekend

Zut alors! We bought a château
What happened when a Hertfordshire
couple took on an abandoned castle estate
in rural France? Rachel Carlyle finds out

O

n March 18, 2020, as its seven acres. “When we drove through
the prime minister Boris the non-existent gates and saw the 14thJohnson was announcing century tower, we looked at each other and
the closure of schools both thought: ‘Oh my goodness, this is
and the country was fac- probably the one,’ ” Ted says. “We didn’t
ing imminent lockdown, even speak; there was no ‘shall we, shan’t
Ted Crombie-Rodgers we?’. We just knew. We could barely get
and Lesa Barker were out buying a tent, in some of the rooms because of all the
a roofbox and some basic DIY tools.
rubbish piled high, and there was no light
The couple from Hertfordshire realised to see anything anyway. I said to the
that if they didn’t pack up and move right agent, ‘But we only have €180,000,’ and he
away to the dilapidated French estate they said, ‘That’ll do — in France, everything
were buying they would be stuck in the is negotiable.’ ”
UK for the foreseeable future. “There was
The estate, a 40-minute drive north of
a furious dash round the DIY stores, then Limoges in Haute-Vienne, central France,
I packed up my 4x4 so you couldn’t even consists of a ten-bedroom château dating
get a wafer-thin mint in there. Even our from 1360, with two barns attached, a
poor dog Hanz, a big alsatian, only had a three-storey relais de poste (coaching inn)
2ft square space to sit in,” recalls Ted, 57. that partly dates from the 12th century and
Lesa says she felt sick with fear. “I thought, more barns, a hayloft, stables, piggeries
‘What if we’re turned back at the border?’ and several small overgrown dwellings,
We have now got nowhere to live — we’d plus a lake (which the couple still haven’t
both given up well-paid jobs, we had been able to hack their way to). Maps from
nothing.”
the 1750s show the village as it then was, in
It was just them and a few truckers on the 200-plus acres, with many more buildings.
ferry, and the roads were eerily deserted; In its heyday in the late 18th and 19th centhe estate agent had left the keys in a turies it was an important stopping point
sanitised plastic bag hanging on his gate. for postal service riders to change horses
When they finally arrived at Château de on the road between Paris and Toulouse.
Montmagner, the half-derelict seven-acre “When you say you live in the village of
estate in the Limousin they’d bought on a Montmagner, this is it!” Lesa says.
whim, it was the beginning of the ultimate
By 2020 it was in serious disrepair, with
midlife adventure. Ted and Lesa are one no running water and no power or serof 16 couples — either intrepid or slightly vices. The day they arrived, Ted and Lesa
unhinged, depending on your point of pitched their new six-man tent in one of
view — who have bought
the barns, where they ended up
whole villages or estates to
living for seven months
renovate and whose
until a neighbour took
experiences have
pity and lent them a
been filmed for a
caravan. “That first
new Channel 4
night I hunted
show,
Help!
through
the
We Bought a
house for a
Village.
toilet seat, and
Like many
using a tree
people, they
saw I made
had dreamt
a framework
of retiring
for it, and we
to France,
had a shovel,”
perhaps buyTed says. “We
ing a couple of
put it behind
gîtes to supplethe house, funniment their savly enough where
ings and pensions.
the septic tank is
The couple’s apartment
By November 2019
now, and that was our
in the château
they had looked at
toilet for the first month.
46 properties, plus hunWe had solar lights that didn’t
dreds more online, and were just
really work because it was March,
about to fly home from yet another fruit- and we used to run the car to charge our
less trip and give themselves a year’s break devices until we got electricity.”
to reassess the plan when their phones
The first job was to clear the château
pinged with a notification of a new place of rubbish — everything from broken
for sale. This time, though, it was a whole furniture, timber and rubble to old shoes
estate rather than one house.
stuffed in the giant bread oven (“when the
“It was €239,000 — way over our budget French say ‘sold as seen’, you really do get
of €180,000 — and it said ‘sold by order of everything,” Ted says). Among the rubbish
the court, non-negotiable’,” recalls Lesa, they found handwritten letters from the
51, a former head of fundraising at a child- 19th century and a box in the attic containren’s hospice charity. “We knew we ing a still-white wedding dress. “Lockdown
couldn’t afford it, but I said to Ted: ‘We’ve was a good war for us because we couldn’t
got a few hours before our flight leaves, see anyone or go anywhere, so we cracked
shall we just be nosey?’ ”
on, working 12 to 14-hour days, then cookThey met the agent at the abandoned ing on the fire-pit outside,” Lesa says.
estate, which had not been inhabited for
Phase one of the plan was to turn
15 years; brambles had colonised most of the ground floor of the château into a

The château’s tearoom and restaurant

tearoom/restaurant and create three
self-contained apartments, one in the
old armoury. The couple’s budget was
€80,000 (helped by Ted opting for redundancy from his job in a pharmaceutical
company). They set themselves a deadline
to open the tearoom by summer 2021.
“We have to earn money to be able to put
money back in and move on to the next
phase of the plan,” Lesa explains.
They’ve done almost all the work
(bar the roofing and electrics) themselves.
Neither had any DIY experience; they
hadn’t before owned a house in their eight
years together, so it was a steep learning
curve. And their relatively small budget
meant frugality on a giant scale. Rather
than replace broken windows, costing
£1,000 each because of the château’s
national monument status, Lesa taught
herself to cut glass and replaced each
individual broken pane.
“The whole of the salon de thé had been
rendered in concrete inside, probably
some time in the 1960s,” Ted says. “Lesa
removed it all and proceeded to mortar all
the stone walls with traditional lime after
having had one lesson from a guy in how to
mix it. Now she’s that proficient at it that
we have people dropping in asking her to
teach them.”

Technically they’re the
Count and Countess of
Montmagner but they’re
known locally as Ted and
Lesa de Montmagner
The couple say their lowest point was
when they realised that part of the château
roof was bowing and needed to be replaced,
and a wall collapsed, which took €27,000
out of the budget. But they say they’ve not
once thought that they’ve taken on too
much. “The amount of work is sometimes
overwhelming but we’ve never felt this
was short term — it’s a ten-year project,
realistically,” Ted says. “If my back and my
knees hold up we’re here for the duration.”
They’ve been touched by the reaction of
the local community. “We have had neighbours come and give us furniture, and
advice. They really feel part of it,” Lesa
says. “When we opened for the Journées
du Patrimoine [heritage open days], we
had 300 people through the door. One of

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Weekend 7

— our midlife French adventure
ALAMY

Madly in love with Paris — but
could I live here? Hattie Crisell
MING YEUN

I

Lesa Barker and Ted Crombie-Rodgers

them was a teacher who lives in the next
village, and she said: ‘I just want to say
thank you from all of us for doing this. We
as a community are so proud of you for
taking on this project.’ I came running in
in floods of tears, touched that a French
person would be proud of us for bringing
back Montmagner to the community.
“It’s a landmark, and we have big plans
to get the community and the school even
more involved. We never wanted to be the
English nutters who bought the big house.”
Ted adds: “It would have [once] been the
hub of the community — farriers, farmers,
people tending the lake, preparing the vegetables. I love that, jump forward to 2022,
it’s kind of happening here, in that we are
giving work to local people. We feel like
trustees of this place rather than owners.”
They’ve recently built an outdoor kitchen to service their new outside summer
restaurant, and have just started dinner
and music nights. “We’re thrilled that we
have French visitors to the restaurant,”
Lesa says.
The next phase will be to turn the château’s barns into a kitchen and a medieval
banqueting hall to host the restaurant in
winter. “We don’t have the funds for that
yet, so it’s a case of bringing more money in
so we can afford it,” she says. To that end,

next week they will move out of their
château apartment to free it up for rent —
and will be back sleeping in their trusty
tent in the piggery while they turn it into
a two-bedroom gîte.
Last month they were married in
their grounds in a bilingual service with
75 guests. Technically they’re the Count
and Countess of Montmagner, but they’re
known locally as Ted and Lesa de
Montmagner.
There are parts of the estate they haven’t
yet explored: the lake, for one. And they’ve
yet to test local rumours of a hidden
passageway beneath the château tower’s
spiral staircase to a fortified church several
kilometres away. The staircase is the
original from 1360, with oak planks and
a ship’s mast as central column, but Ted
and Lesa haven’t had time to dig down
through the metres of mud and debris at
the bottom.
“There are so many more things to
explore, but nothing fazes us now. I’m
running water pipes in, installing central
heating, you name it,” Ted says. “I think we
probably have enough work here for my
lifetime, and probably someone else’s too.”
Help! We Bought a Village is on
Channel 4 from Monday at 4pm,
and continues daily for four weeks

am so French right now. I take
morning coffee en terrasse at a café
here in Montmartre; I navigate an
assault course of dog turds on the
walk there and back. I am listening
to podcasts in French, reading a
book about the language and
sprinkling the Gallic interjection ben all
over every (stressful, grammatically
disastrous) conversation. I eat large
quantities of cheese and wear a new red
lipstick because I saw it advertised by the
Parisian It girl Jeanne Damas. I am very
French — apart from the fact that I’m
originally a Geordie. I am like a croissant
but from Greggs.
I’m here in Paris until the end of
August, apartment-sitting for friends,
and it’s heaven. I am a Francophile, from
a family of Francophiles; my Welsh
grandmother was a French teacher. It’s
passé, in 2022, to romanticise this city —
it would be cooler to develop a crush on
Berlin or Copenhagen — but the heart
wants what it wants, and c’est Paris that
je can’t help but adore.
It’s not, by the way, about the city
being romantic or chic. I don’t dream of
intricate pastries, photoshoots by the
Eiffel Tower or anything to do with
Chanel. It’s simply that the French
know how to live. Pleasure, here, is
considered important. It isn’t
accompanied by guilt, self-flagellation or
a chorus of passive aggression. Only
foreigners walk the streets with coffee
cups, because the French feel strongly
that one should stop and enjoy it in situ.
If you leave your office to have the
three-course lunch menu at a restaurant
you won’t be greeted with, “Oh, you
decided to come back, did you, parttimer?” when you return. Sex is treated
as a priority too: a friend of a friend with
depression was advised by her GP to
drink red wine and take a lover. All of
this appeals to me greatly.
Maybe I like it here because some of
my interests fall into what Brits might
consider pretentious: philosophy, poetry,
art, ballet. In most social settings in the
UK I’d think twice about mentioning
this stuff, for fear of being marked out
as posh, arrogant or a snob — yet that
attitude itself is snobbery. In France
everyone is entitled to like what they
like, philosophy is a mainstream subject
on TV and radio, and intellectualism
isn’t attached to class.
Relatedly, the cinemas are incredible.
There are loads of them in Paris, with
affordable prices, and they all show
old and new films in all genres and
languages. To dodge the hottest hours of
last Sunday I went to Le Brady in the
10th arrondissement and watched Singin’
in the Rain with French subtitles; it cost
me €9, which is half what I’d have been
charged in London.
Paris, in some ways, is less demanding
than our capital. Housing, while
expensive, is 16 per cent cheaper than in
London (according to Expatistan, which
monitors the cost of living around the
world), and you don’t have to be a
millionaire to live centrally. Transport in
Paris costs about half what it does in

Hattie Crisell

Sex is treated
as a priority
here: someone
with depression
was advised by
her GP to drink
red wine and
take a lover

London. All this makes it easier
i to
t live
li
well and be sociable. Late on Monday
night, after a stifling day of near 40C
heat, I was lying inert on the sofa when
a friend texted. She and her boyfriend
were taking their dog, Babbet, for a walk
around Montmartre. I got dressed and
went downstairs at 10pm; we had a glass
of wine, strolled the neighbourhood a bit
and stopped somewhere else for another
drink. London at that time of night is
either dead or rowdy, but Paris was busy
yet relaxed, and the bar owners were in
no hurry to close. After a long hot day, it
was magic.
So yes, for me, this city is worth the
hype. I’m wildly in love with it, and I’m
going to be heartbroken in five weeks
when I have to go home.
Then again, if I moved here, might the
novelty fade of being insulted by shop
assistants? I might start to notice, as my
immigrant friends here have, that the
culture is not so liberal. Most of all, I
would miss my big, unruly London,
which is always evolving and looking
forward. Paris feels more traditional. It
integrates visitors but doesn’t adapt for
them, and so its identity is for ever laced
with nostalgia.
So it’s probably best, then, mon amour,
that I tear myself away from you — for a
few months at least — while we still
adore each other. Or at least, I adore
you, Paris. I shall take your snooty
indifference as confirmation that you
feel the same.

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8 Body + Soul

I tried the A-list’s £300 IV drip
treatment: so how do I feel?
An American
an
as
health fad has
just landed in the
UK. Hannahh
Evans tests
it out

I

t sounds like a
miracle: a supplement that slows
down
ageing,
makes your brain
sharper,
your
Cindy Crawford
sleep deeper, your
metabolism faster, your
vision clearer, your
hangovers non-existent
and your body filled
with boundless energy.
m
Too good to be true? I’m
about to find out.
ide
NAD
(nicotinamide
adenine dinucleotide) has
ment
become the new It treatment
for high-flyers looking for an
itamin B3,
“edge”. A derivative of vitamin
orm of a pill
it’s been around in the form
for some time but todayy the trendy
ve it pumped
way to receive it is to have
Kendall Jenner
straight into your veins via a drip.
de American
Fans, I’m told, include
tives and US
politicians, chief executives
rse, Hollywood
navy Seals. And, of course,
stars. The Kardashians are, unsurprisong with the
ingly, also devotees, along
singer Rihanna, the model Cindy
bers. In an
Crawford and the Biebers.
ians’ reality
episode of the Kardashians’
odel Hailey
series on Disney+, the model
p with her
Bieber got a NAD drip
enner. “I’m
best friend Kendall Jenner.
going to NAD for the rest of my
FRANK MICELOTTA/SHUTTERSTOCK;
ng to age,”
life and I’m never going
GABE GINSBERG, KEVIN MAZUR/
GETTY IMAGES; CHRIS MCANDREW
she gushed.
FOR THE TIMES
nks to Dr
The hype is all thanks
neered the
Craig Koniver, who pioneered
017 in the
wellness treatment in 2017
US. Since then he has trained
dozens of practitioners and now
has outposts across America,
from LA to New York. “I treat
d about
NAD, in layman’s terms, is a coenzyme
people who are excited
e. It’s for
that occurs naturally in our bodies and its
life and who want more.
ver Zoom.
Zoom
function is to help cells to convert the fuel
achievers,” he tells me over
This summer Koniver is bringing his we eat (carbs, protein, fats) into energy we
special drips to the UK. He has opened the need to live and grow. Without it, our cells
first Koniver Wellness clinics in the coun- can’t function properly. But with more of it
try and British celebrities from the fashion — or so the patients at Koniver Wellness
designer Vivienne Westwood to the believe —our brain, muscles and organs
former Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw are can work more efficiently. Many of those
who have tried a NAD drip boast of
rumoured to have tried them already.
The first outpost is at Shoreditch House, having razor-sharp memories, clear
where members and non-members can minds, glowing skin, super-speedy metabook an appointment, and this month a bolisms and endless reserves of energy.
residency at Soho Farmhouse begins. The “It’s transformative. It’s like working out
third is on the second floor of 180 your cells,” Koniver says.
The health club at 180 The Strand is exThe Strand Health Club, a members-only
wellness centre in central London, where actly the kind of place you would expect a
I have gone to see if NAD really does treatment like this to operate from. All
the furniture, from the fluffy sofas to the
work magic.

Rihanna

I feel tired and
sick. The doctor
says these are
‘waves’. But the
only thing I can
compare it to is
feeling really,
really stoned

reclining vel
velvet armchairs, is by the British
designer A
Alex Eagle. Small trees are
propped up around the room and dozens
of plants ar
are hanging from the ceiling.
On one side there is an enormous plasmascreen TV showing a swirling orange
animation. Opposite is a coffee shop
serving £7 protein shakes. It’s the most
comfortabl
comfortable and chicest doctor’s waiting
room I have
ha ever been in. Everyone here
is beaut
beautiful.
“I fe
feel invincible,” a patient finishing
up his drip tells me when I
ask him what benefits he has
ex
experienced. Another person
I ask tells me he has lost 7kg
ssince he started. We are sitting
on fluffy sheep’s wool armchairs
(the art deco style that’s
hot right now), with our
legs
propped
up
on
matching blue ottomans —
I later google them and
fi
find out these cost about
£2,0
£2,000 each.
Th
The first thing you should know
abo
about getting NAD therapy is that
it isn’t
i
a pleasant experience. Side
eff
effects
during
the
session
m
may include nausea, stomach
ccramps and a heavy chest. “They
are similar to the physical symptoms of anxiety,” a doctor explains as he prepares a vial of
anti-sickness medication. A sign
of what’s to come.
The next 90 minutes I swing
between feeling extremely tired
and extremely sick. The doctor
describes these as “waves” but the
only thing I can compare it to is
fe
feeling really, really stoned. My
lim
limbs slowly become heavier and
hea
heavier, as though I am melting into
the aarmchair.
Eac
Each session lasts between one and two
hours
hours, depending on how quickly you
want the NAD pumped into your
veins. The faster, the more intense the
side effects. NAD treatment is also
expen
expensive. One session at Koniver wellness costs £300. The staff recommend beginni
ginning with a “loading dose” of five,
space
spaced just a few days apart, before
redu
reducing to one or two a month. Unsurprisin
prisingly, they won’t say no if you want
them more often.
“We have one guy — an ex-Olympian —
who comes in twice a week. He’s operating
on another level,” boasts one member
of staff.
My treatment is rounded off by a booster
shot packed with vitamins and magnesium, which is injected straight into the
tube in my arm. This, I am told, is meant to
help improve my sleep and aid recovery
from exercise.
The night after my first treatment I have
the best sleep I have had in years. It’s undisturbed and deep — as if the mattress has
swallowed me. The next morning I am
wide awake and full of beans by 5am. I then
run a 10k personal best. I feel fantastic
and incredibly, incredibly relaxed, so I
book in again.
Over the next week I feel as though
I am running on fully charged batteries,
with tanks of energy. I need less sleep. I can

Hannah Evans

concentrate better att work.
k I notice the
biggest improvement in my physical
performance. I pump out more push-ups
at the gym. My lungs don’t feel as though
they are about to burst when I sprint on the
treadmill. I can lift more weights. It’s as if
my potential has been taken up a
few notches.
But is this NAD working its supposed
magic or am I just experiencing a very
expensive, very elaborate placebo? NAD
treatment exists in the foggy area between
a drug and a food supplement. It’s
spoken about in “medical” terms but it’s
not actually medicine, which means it
doesn’t have to go through the same
extensive tests to prove that it’s not
just a placebo.
There are no clinical trials that have tested how increased NAD levels improve the
cell function of healthy individuals, which
means there is no solid scientific evidence
that these drips do what people say they
do. There’s also no evidence to show NAD
is more effective when administered via
an IV drip instead of a pill.
Koniver calls the gaps in scientific
evidence “grey spaces” and points me
towards the swathes of observational and
anecdotal evidence instead — the politicians, the ex-military and the professional
athletes who he says are patients and “love
this stuff. There’s a mindset that a treatment doesn’t count or can’t be beneficial
unless it’s pharmaceutical. If it’s in the
wellness world it’s a bit woo-woo,” he
tells me.
And there are plenty of professionals
who think that woo-woo is exactly what it
is. “The jury is out,” says Professor
Patrick Chinnery, head of the clinical neuroscience department at the University of
Cambridge. “The theory is interesting and
appealing, but until there is evidence
that the improvements people report
aren’t a placebo, we’ve got no reason to
believe it works. That’s not a grey space, it’s
a colossal gaping hole.”
It’s all I can think about on my next
run. This one is a 5k race and I’m looking
for a good time. I feel great. Running
doesn’t feel as difficult as it did last
week. But is that because I’ve been turbocharged with superhuman supplements?
Or am I just running on a promise
that I should feel better? Twenty-one
minutes (and an almost personal best)
later, I start to think: I’m not sure if I
really mind.

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Body + Soul 9

GETTY IMAGES; ALEX GREGORY

The queen of baby gurus is back
Dr Penelope Leach
has rewritten her
iconic childcare
handbook. She tells
Rachel Carlyle why

T

here are an estimated three
million copies of Your Baby
and Child sitting on British
parents’ bookshelves in
various states of dog-eared
disrepair. Very soon there
are going to be a few more.
At 84, the legendary child psychologist
Dr Penelope Leach has rewritten and updated her 1977 “baby bible” for a new generation. She jokes that you can always find
out what a parent’s biggest problem was by
dropping their battered copy, because it
falls open at the most well-thumbed page.
Sure enough, my 20-year-old book has a
puree splodge that opens it at “weaning”.
“It was a case of rewrite or kill, frankly,”
Leach says, in that very crisp way that
readers of her books will recognise. “It’s
nearly 50 years since I wrote it, and it was
a different world. The expectation was still
that parents would be a heterosexual
couple, that Daddy would go out to work
and Mummy would primarily stay at home
with the baby. Do you recognise today’s
world? No, neither did I.”
It has been updated several times in
45 years, but the publisher DK says this is
the most extensive yet. However, Leach
fans will be relieved to hear that most of
the no-nonsense child-rearing advice
remains. If your baby doesn’t go to sleep
when you rock her “it’s because you’re
doing it too slowly”; sitting a 12-month-old
on a potty is “a mistake”; and if you’re
spending hours getting your baby to
imitate sounds “do remember you are
trying to bring up a person, not a parrot”.
Leach has lost none of her campaigning
edge, either. The thing that is most exercising her is the raw deal she believes babies
and their parents got during the pandemic.
She’s furious that while the government
and the media endlessly discussed the
things school-age children and students

were missing out on, the youngest children
and their parents got barely a mention.
She believes the damage will be longlasting, perhaps permanent. “For a start,
mask-wearing: babies missed out on seeing faces, which are so very important in
the first three to six months. You watch a
baby who will look at you, she’ll look at
your hairline, your eyes, down to your chin
and scan back up again, and if you’re lucky
she’ll smile at you. It’s the whole feeling
of very early communication. But if you’re
wearing a mask she can’t do that.
“Very young children have lost out on
language development because of screens
and lack of conversation — parents have
had to work at home and look after a very
small child simultaneously.”
Leach thinks the biggest loss was not
being able to see other children. “What we
can see in today’s two and three-year-olds
is a complete blank where their peers
are concerned. They simply don’t recognise that the world is full of people
their size and shape because they didn’t
meet anybody.”
Will they catch up? She pauses. “I’d like
to wait until we see more data. I think
they probably will. If you think of Finnish
children, they start school at seven and
within six months catch up with our children, who have been taught academics for
two and a half years by then. Whether they
will ever be quite the same socially, I don’t
know, as it’s between two and three that
children begin to be conscious of the feelings of others and of other children being
the same as them. That’s a big thing to miss
out, especially for only children.”
The fact that nobody was talking about
these problems, or that when they did it
didn’t cut through, is symptomatic of a
culture that consistently overlooks the
importance of the first two years of a
child’s life. “They’re so important we can’t
afford to ignore them, yet we do.”
A far more positive, if unintended, result
of the pandemic, she says, is the greater
hands-on role of fathers, many of whom
were suddenly at home more often. In fact,
she thinks fathers stepping up is the
biggest positive societal change in the
45 years since she wrote Your Baby and
Child as a research psychologist who’d
given up full-time work after her son
Matthew contracted meningitis.
This may surprise some, because Leach’s
grounding philosophy of attachment

theory means that she’s a big believer in
the primacy of mothers, especially in the
early months. “Yes, she takes biological
priority, but biology ain’t everything.”
Does she think the father can be as important as the mother in the early months?
“Yes. Babies will have a principal attachment figure, and if it’s not the mother it will
be whoever is available, and very often that
will be the father. The trouble is that it’s
difficult enough to get the flexible working
you need as a mother — it’s almost bloody
impossible as a father.”
She’s largely in favour of the new piecemeal arrangements that parents have
cobbled together: swapping early finishes
and late starts, enlisting grandparents.
“It can work provided that the people are
all known and loved by the child. However, not all grandparents want to do it.”
Leach (willingly) looked after four
of her six grandchildren one day a
week after school when she moved
from London to Sussex to be nearer
to her daughter Melissa after the
death of her husband Gerald
in 2004.
So, has she softened her stance on
nurseries? (Leach has always preferred a substitute attachment figure
such as a childminder or nanny for
the under-twos). “I haven’t,” she replies
quickly. She’s aghast at government proposals to cut ratios of staff looking after
under-twos from 1:4 to 1:5. “Who’s going to
benefit? Certainly not the children.”
Every generation of parents makes their
own mistakes. What does she think
parents now do better?
“I think parents are warmer, kindlier
and gentler with very small children than
we used to be,” she says. “Parents talk
about their children, they watch them
and are aware of where they’re at. That’s
hugely important.”
And wrong? She pauses. “There isn’t
time in life for what we expect of ourselves
and each other. It’s partly screens, partly
work. There just isn’t time to sit and stare
or play. While it may seem obvious to hand
your phone to your baby while you’re
making supper, too much time with your
phone [for them] is a bit of a waste of time
that could have been spent talking to you,
or watching you, or dropping cutlery off
the highchair.”
Your Baby and Child by Penelope Leach
(2022 edition) is published by DK, £20

Penelope Leach on . . .

Penelope Leach

When I wrote
it nearly 50
years ago the
expectation
was that Daddy
would go out to
work and
Mummy would
stay at home

Routines for small babies
“The more out of control having the baby
has made you feel, the more tempting
[routines] may sound. However, recent
research findings suggest that ‘babycentred’ parenting, including feeding on
demand and picking babies up as soon as
they cry in the first weeks of life, reduces
the amount of time babies spend crying
later on by as much as 50 per cent.”
Maternal stress
“Until relatively recently, we didn’t have
any idea that what happens to the
mother in pregnancy can have a lifelong
effect on the baby she’s carrying. A
happy, secure and contented pregnancy
is every baby’s right. It really matters.”
Childcare
“Young children only feel entirely
secure when they are cared for by
parents or loved caregivers in
predictable ways and usual places.”
Crying
“If your new baby cries and cries
whenever he is put in his cot, guilty
soul-searching will get neither of you
anywhere. Stop. Listen to him. Where is
he happy? Slung on your front? Then put
him there. Carrying him may not suit you
very well right this minute but it will suit
you far better than that noise. And when
peace is restored you will have a chance
of finding a more permanent solution.”
Talking to babies
“The more they’re talked to, the sooner
they talk and the better they talk, and
the better they will talk for ever.”
Early-years education
“Research has shown that children who
attend a nursery school usually progress
faster at school than those who don’t.
Children who enter reception at the age
of four or five without having attended
nursery school can be at a disadvantage.”
Bed-sharing with a baby
“Under certain circumstances, bedsharing does increase the risk of SIDS
[cot death]: if you smoke, if you’ve been
drinking alcohol or taking other drugs, if
the baby is covered with adult bedding.
But careful bed-sharing can avoid extra
risk of SIDS and can contribute to infants’
safety and wellbeing, as it can encourage
and prolong breastfeeding.”

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Body + Soul 11

His sexts are
too rude for me
Suzi Godson
Sex counsel

Q

I’m dating someone
who is an almost perfect
match for me. Our sex
life is great, we get on and
make each other laugh. We
both like creating a flirty
atmosphere through messages,
pictures and little notes.
The only thing is, his sexts are
so cringey and the language
he uses is sometimes a bit
too rude. I’m definitely
not against sexting — but his
WhatsApps are a turn-off.
What can I do?

A

Couples don’t start off knowing
how to talk to each other. Just as
they have to feel their way with
sex, new couples have to hear
their way with language. In 1992 the
relationship therapist Gary Chapman published his now famous book The Five Love
Languages: How to Express Heartfelt
Commitment to Your Mate. It outlined the
five key ways couples communicate their
love and the central thesis was that relationships work better when they speak each
other’s “love language”. The oft-quoted
love languages he lists are: acts of service,
gift-giving, physical touch, quality time
and words of affirmation. Whether you
agree these are everyone’s top five or not,
Chapman was right about one thing — the
way couples communicate with each other
needs to be compatible. Otherwise they
will struggle to turn each other on.
Getting the tone right is an iterative
process. Couples gradually learn to model
each other in conversation, and through
a process of adaptation, how to speak in a
way that is appealing and appropriate.
Conversation is inherently empathic. The
ability to hear what the other is saying, so

that you can feel what they are feeling, is an
important part of bond building. And it’s a
two-way interaction, so the things you say
to your partner should be just as influential
in setting the tone of your sexual conversations as the things he says to you.
For those who aren’t completely comfortable with communication, texting is
often preferred. It gives them the illusion of
control but it is actually very reductive. It
creates brief, stilted fragments of conversation, or titillation, interspersed with the
odd emoji, which say very little and reveal
even less about the person. When sexting,
many men find it easier to steal ideas from
porn than to mine the depths of their own
desires. It demonstrates a lack of imagination but it is also to do with the fact that
there is no emotion in porn, whereas
revealing something more personal has
the potential to make a person vulnerable.
Great sexting is not about adopting a
false identity. It is about finding your own
authentic voice and not being afraid to be
who you are. It is true that some people are
just not good with words, but that you are
so compatible in every other way suggests

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Great sexting is not
about adopting a
false identity. It is about
finding your own,
authentic voice
that your new man just lacks confidence. His inability to dial down the
rude language when it’s clear that
you don’t reply in a similar way
also suggests that he may not be
very good at reading social cues.
If this is the case, you might have
to help him out. Yes, it’s annoying
to have to teach him. But I think in
this situation you will need to be
explicit about what you do and don’t
like. That means talking, not texting,
about mutual likes and dislikes,
discomfort zones, ground rules and
language. You will need to lead by
example. Show him that the best
sexts are the ones that leave the
imagination to fill in the gaps.
Being really clear about your
own boundaries will give him the
opportunity to learn. You will soon
find out whether he has the potential to change up, or whether he will
always be tone deaf, in which case
you get to decide whether that
is something you can live with.
Send your queries to
weekendsex@thetimes.co.uk

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12 Food + Drink

Do these men
make the best
smoked salmon
money can buy?
Three friends started a fish-smoking business in a shed
in the Cotswolds. They now supply top chefs and
Michelin-starred restaurants. Hannah Evans meets them

T

he French taught us about
the world’s best patisserie.
The Spanish gave us perfect
paella. The Greek blessed
us with feta, moussaka
and all manner of delicious
things. And the Italians?
Well, they’ve given us the best smoked
salmon. Scusi?
Smokin’ Brothers is a luxury smokedsalmon business founded and run by three
Italian best friends in a small wooden shed
in the Cotswolds. It isn’t the first place

that springs to mind when you think of
food-loving Italians, but it is where
you will find Vincenzo Gentile, 28, Iacopo
Fincato, 27, and Alessandro Basaldella, 27,
who set up shop there in 2017 after moving
from Italy to Britain in their teens.
“No Italian believes us when we tell
them that we make smoked salmon,”
Fincato says. “They expect pasta or
pizza, not fish.”
“It’s not a traditional story for an Italian
team,” Gentile says, laughing.
Unconventional it may be, but in the five
years since it launched, Smokin’ Brothers
has garnered a reputation for producing
some of the best smoked salmon in the industry. The chefs Pierre Koffmann, Giorgio Locatelli and Marco Pierre White have
sung its praises. It’s on the menu at Michel
Roux’s restaurant Le Gavroche, and at
Claude Bosi’s two Michelin-star flagship
restaurant Bibendum, while chef Adam
Handling has called it “the best” in the
world. Three years after its launch, Smokin’ Brothers won three stars at the Great

The fish is on the
menu at Michel Roux’s
restaurant, and Adam
Handling has called it
the best in the world
Taste awards. “Every big name you can
think of has eaten Smokin’ Brothers
smoked salmon,” Basaldella says.
The trio say there are several important
factors that make their salmon unique.
During the smoking process the fish is
hung from hooks and suspended from the
ceiling. Rather than using electricity to
burn wood for the smoking, they use a log
fire. A complex extraction system means
that fresh smoke is constantly entering
then leaving the room. The fish is free to
move with the wind. “This is the biggest
thing that distinguishes our process.
In classic production the smoke usually

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Alessandro Basaldella, Vincenzo
Gentile and Iacopo Fincato

The Smokin’ Brothers
smokehouse in the Cotswolds

stands still in the room and the fish is lying
on trays. This means the flesh absorbs as
much smoke as possible,” Gentile explains.
This often produces salmon that is oversmoked. “Usually this is a sign of poorquality salmon. The smoke is used to mask
the cheapness of the raw materials.”
Which brings me to the price. Smokin’
Brothers smoked salmon is very, very
expensive. A 400g packet of tail fillet
smoked salmon, cut into sashimi slices,
costs from £32.90; a 600g packet of their
Great Taste award-winning belly fillet
from £47.50. The cuts are thick, but it’s
probably only enough to fill three generous sandwiches.
“People tell us, ‘Oh I can buy salmon
that tastes better than yours for £5 in the
supermarket.’ I ask them, ‘Think about
why your supermarket salmon is so
cheap,’ ” Basaldella says.
The quality is dependent on the quality
of the fish, he explains. The sign of cheap,
poor-quality salmon is lots of fatty strings
in the flesh. “This means that the salmon
didn’t have enough room to develop

muscles,” Basaldella says. “They were
reared on an intensive farm with too
many fish in the water.”
Each week the Smokin’ Brothers smoke
half a tonne, caught from Wester Ross
farm in Scotland, where the salmon is
hand-reared and hand-fed. Until last
month it was the last family-owned
salmon farm in Scotland. It has now been
bought by Mowi Scotland, the world’s
largest supplier of farm-raised salmon.
So how on earth did three Italian friends
end up selling smoked salmon to the
culinary A-list? The friends’ first foray into
the fish world was a brief stint working on
a stall in Broadway Market, east London,
where Basaldella and Gentile would slice
and sell salmon.
Gentile then began working at Daylesford Organic, where he came up with
the idea for a smoked salmon business and
ambitiously pitched it to the director
but was met with radio silence. Just as
he was about to give up, the idea was
accepted. After he negotiated a contract
with the Daylesford empire and got

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Food + Drink 13

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Taste test:
best smoked
salmon on the
high street
London Smoked Salmon, £13.75 for
200g (secretsmokehouse.co.uk)
{{{{{
Meaty, thick, lean slices with a longlasting smokiness. Top-quality salmon.
Panzer’s Deli Smoked Salmon, £6.95
for 113g (panzers.co.uk) {{{{{
Velvety, melt-in-the-mouth salmon.
Treat yourself to a packet of this
and use it when you want to really
impress guests.
H Forman
& Son
Scottish
Smoked
Salmon,
£7.25 for
100g
(ocado.
com)
{{{{{
This is for
special
occasions:
thick, even slices that are not too dry
or oily, with a mild smoky flavour.

approval from “Lady B and Lord Bamford”,
the Smokin’ Brothers smoking room
was erected.
It’s not the first helping hand the boys
have had. You may recognise one in the
line-up. Gentile appeared in the inaugural
series of Gordon Ramsay’s Future Food
Stars on BBC1. A mix of The Apprentice
and Dragons’ Den, the show featured
owners of restaurants and food companies
fighting it out to secure a £150,000 investment. Gentile’s appearance was a bit of
a belly flop — he was the first to be eliminated — but he sheepishly admits that he
is still in touch with Ramsay. “He was very,
very complimentary.”
So is their salmon worth the hype? I try
the tail cut. The sashimi slices are lean and
meaty, a sign that the salmon had total
freedom. They’re not slippery or overly
oily, or too smoky. They are buttery, and
make the packet of supermarket salmon
I have in my fridge look sad.
I would happily chomp through my
400g packet in one sitting, but it costs
nearly 40 quid, so I ration myself. And
considering how expensive my food shop
has become, I won’t be buying it regularly.
It’s better as a treat, not spoilt in a sandwich or covered with sauce. This is salmon
worth making a splash about.

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The great red you really need
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T

he Rhône is much better value
than Bordeaux and Burgundy. In
particular, the southern Rhône’s
turbo-charged, garrigue herbscented reds hit the barbecue sweet spot
in terms of quality versus price. Keeping
up with this end of the long Rhône
Valley, with wines that have more in
common with those of the sun-baked
Mediterranean and Provence to the
south than they do with the cooler north,
is hard. Clustered round Orange and
Châteauneuf-du-Pape there are nine
superior crus; on the next rung down 22
côtes du rhône villages, some with very
clunky titles: côtes du rhône villages
saint-pantaléon-les-vignes, anyone?
Chances are, though, that many of you
will have enjoyed a tasty red côtes du
rhône villages, one up from a humble
côtes du rhône, at one time. Most come
from the higgledy-piggledy bush vines
that ramble over the southern Rhône’s
fields and hills. Spicy grenache dominates
here, pepped up with peppery syrah
planted on the cooler sites and heatloving mourvèdre in the warmer spots.
Cinsaut and carignan pop up too.
With such a vast area, there is a huge
range of flavours on offer. The good

Smokin’ Brothers Smoked Tail Fillet,
from £32.90 for 400g
(smokin-brothers.com) {{{{{
Bellissimo! Cut from the tail, these
tender slices are lean and subtly
smoky. Don’t spoil with hollandaise.
Savour each slice on its own.

The Rhône is
great value. Its
turbo-charged
reds hit the
sweet spot

news is that quality has leapt up over
the past decade — a far cry from my first
grim rasteau at the local co-operative.
Gigondas, after Châteauneuf-du-Pape,
was the first southern rhône to become
a cru in 1971, but prices have escalated.
Instead, go for its southern neighbour
Vacqueyras, elevated to a cru in 1990
and home to lovely reds, including my
favourite: Domaine du Grapillon d’Or.
Its 2020 Vacqueyras is a floral violet and
sage, 15 per cent wallop (montrachet.co.
uk, £19). Or opt for Pascal Frères’ velvety
14.5 per cent 2019 Vacqueyras Cuvée
Spéciale (yapp.co.uk, £18.50). Cairanne
didn’t get full cru status until 2016, but its
gravel and sandstone soil yields some
thrilling wines at keen prices. Check out
Morrisons’ 2020 Cairanne Le Verdier,
with black olive and black plum fruit, a
mix of grenache and syrah with a dollop
of mourvèdre, which spent six months
in French oak barrels and is given away
for a tenner. Don’t fail to buy Perrin’s
2019 Vinsobres Les Hauts de Julien
(nickollsandperks.co.uk, £39.60), a creamy
sip reminiscent of lavender and sunny
hillsides from a superior cru granted in
2006. You’d pay twice the price for a red
this good from Bordeaux or Burgundy.

Top
rhônes

Tesco Finest Scottish Smoked
Salmon, £5 for 120g (tesco.com)
{{{{(
Smooth, thin, smoky slices. This is
salmon to put on top of canapés
or in a sandwich.
Co-op Irresistible Beech & Oak
Smoked Scottish Smoked Salmon,
£5.50 for 100g (in store) {{{((
Nice and smoky. Good for when
smoked salmon is part of the line-up
with cream cheese and a bagel,
rather than the star.
Aldi Specially Selected Strong &
Robust Smoked Salmon, £3.19 for
100g (aldi.co.uk) {{{((
Not catch-of-the-day quality but great
for chopping up and stirring into
dishes. My easy midweek dinner is
pasta with crème fraîche, salmon,
spring onions and lemon.

2020 Spec
Specially Selected
Cairanne, France,
14.5 per cent Aldi, £8.99
Terrific, juicy black
forest-fruited cru des
côtes du rhône with
the extra grip and
oomph you’d expect.

2017 Domaine La
Roubine Vacqueyras,
France, 15 per cent the
winesociety.com, £16.50
A mini châteauneuf
bursting with hearty yet
floral black cherry fruit
and a spark of spice.

2019 Château de
Rouanne Vinsobres,
France, 15 per cent
Majestic, £18.99
With more peppery syrah
than most and a nip of
mourvèdre, this mocha
red gets my thumbs-up.

2020 Bressy-Masson
Rasteau, France,
15 per cent oldbridge
wine.co.uk, £24
Surprisingly classy, singledomaine rasteau with
masses of silky liquorice
and black-plum pizzazz.

2021 Specially Selected
Bianco Toscana
Sangiovese, Italy,
12.5 per cent Aldi, £6.49
Rare, quirky but uplifting
white, made from the
red sangiovese grape,
with light, elegant,
herby yellow-plum fruit.

2020 Casal de Ventozela
Alvarinho, Portugal,
12.5 per cent
Majestic, £11.99
Portugal’s alvarinho —
one and the same as
Spain’s albariño —
is summer in a glass;
a zingy, leafy sip.

This week’s best buys

. . . and the worst
Marks & Spencer Mild & Delicate
Smoked Salmon, £5.35 for 100g
(ocado.com) {{(((
A bit tasteless and chewy. Great if
you don’t really like smoked salmon.
Asda Extra Special Scottish Smoked
Salmon, £4 for 120g (asda.com)
{((((
Salty, and doesn’t feel luxurious at all.
Leap Smoked Sockeye Salmon, £7.35
for 100g (waitrose.com) {((((
This tastes very fishy and it’s too
salty. Not for me. Chase with mints.
Hannah Evans

2021 Myrtia
Moschofilero Assyrtiko
Rosé, Greece, 12.5 per
cent Marks & Spencer,
£8, down from £10
Hurrah — £2 off one of
my favourite Greek pinks,
brimming with unusual
pink peppercorn spice.

2021 Taste the
Difference Barrihuelo
Rioja Blanco, Spain,
13 per cent Sainsbury’s,
£6.50, down from £8
A brilliant summer
swig, this crisp, zesty,
floral 2021 is made
from old vines.

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16

Outside
Stuck for space?
Plant a stylish
green wall
These cool garden features can turn a
dull boundary into a visual feast —
and they’re perfect for small gardens.
Joe Swift shows how to get started

I

view most walls and fences as a
planting opportunity, especially in
a small garden where ground space
is particularly precious. Climbers
should never be ruled out as a
relatively low-maintenance
solution to green up our upright
elements, but if you want to take it one
step further and create a “vertical living
feature”, consider a green wall. They can
turn a boundary or building wall or fence
into a visual feast, including a range of
plants, textures and colours, bringing
extra elements to the garden party.
Green walls are generally viewed at,
and above, eye level and are accessible
too, so can be the ideal spot to grow

edibles such as herbs or trailing
strawberries. Small ones are relatively
easy to make, but large ones (like those
by the pioneering Frenchman Patrick
Blanc) are very involved. They can also
be expensive, requiring engineered
specifications, complex irrigation
systems and regular maintenance, so
they are rarely seen and better viewed as
a horticultural art installation than a
regular garden element.
My advice for green wall success is to
plan it with precision and start small. I
don’t want to put anyone off, a lush
green wall packed full of a range of welltended plants can look very cool, but
there are few sorrier sights in gardening

Make sure your fence or wall is strong
enough to hold the plants and other fittings

than a failed green wall where all the
plants have died, gone brown and the
frame underneath is showing.

Getting started

The first thing to do is choose the
modules for your wall. There are many

off-the-peg products available, which is
the way to go — that’s experience from
someone who tried to make his own
many years ago! Some are plastic
modules with built-in irrigation channels
that slot together, while others are made
up of recycled felt pockets (which stay

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19

‘With distant cuckoo calls as
a farewell, we left the reserve
and headed for Amen Corner’
Christopher Somerville’s good walk

Vertical herb planter

Weeder’s
digest

moist) to place compost in and plant
into. For a small patch of green wall
some products are ready to go, others
can be easily added to and over time
scaled up into something bigger.

Establish your wall’s
suitability
The combined weight of the modules,
compost, plants and water can be too
much for some walls. Only fix to a
sound strong wall and use fixings
recommended for the product. Moisture
and damp is another consideration
especially on house walls. The back
of most of the products traps moisture
in so only fix to house, boundary,
garage or shed walls that you know are
100 per cent sound and won’t let
moisture seep through.

Watering and feeding

Before venturing into installing a green
wall of any description consider how
the plants will be watered. A southfacing sunny wall may need to be
watered every day in summer to keep

Before installing a green
wall of any description
consider how the
plants will be watered

the plants alive, let alone thriving.
riving.
They are usually watered from
om
the top and gravity feeds thee
water through the system.
Consider what happens at
the bottom too when the
(now soily brown) excess
water drips out. Will it
splash on to paving or go
down a drain? Ideally
there’s a planting area
beneath to soak it up and
benefit, with no water
d
wasted. The best way to feed
ng
any plants during the growing
season is with a liquid feed (weak
xes are
seaweed or tomato feed mixes
n be added
best for most plants) that can
ry few weeks
into the irrigation water every
or as required.

Plan and plant for your
space and budget
It’s surprising how many
plants it takes to plant up a
d
green wall, more than you’d
use on the ground, so
factor this in with any
calculations. The planting
pockets aren’t big so
buying small pots (say, 9cm
ones) is the way to go and
they’ll quickly fill the space.
It’s key to plant accordingly
for the aspect. A green wall is
often drier and sunnier on top
op
and wetter and shadier lower
er down
so look to plant accordingly..

Helianthemum

What to plant on
your wall

Pachysandra

Sunny-side ornamentals
Geum, scabious, salvia,
helianthemum, Erigeron
helianthem
karvinskianus, sedum, pelargonium,
karvinskian
bacopa.
petunia, lobelia,
lo
ShadyShady-side
ornamentals
Perennials:
ferns, bergenia, ajuga,
Peren
heuc
heuchera,
tiarella, vinca minor,
pach
pachysandra,
epimedium,
Cor
Cornus
canadensis, campanula,
vio wallflower.
viola,

Petunias

He
Herbs
and edibles
You can plant seed directly
You
into green wall pockets (some
into
edibles
edibl such as radish and beets
don’t like
li being transplanted) or
don’t
pop in some
so
pop
plants from small pots
or
plants. Most edibles require
or plug pla
sun. Herbs (thyme, marjoram, mint,
basil, sage etc), salad leaves, tumbling
tomatoes, radishes, Asian greens,
chard and many others can all do
well in green walls. Pick regularly to
keep them compact.

Best vertical planting kits
fruugo.co.uk
wholeshopping.com
platipusdirect.co.uk

When clipping fineleaved hedges beside
lawns (box, yew,
pittosporum etc) lay
down some polythene to
catch the clippings. You
might think the mower
will suck up the last few
leaves but it never does
a very good job and
too many remain for
weeks on end, dry and
blackened, looking
conspicuously shabby.
Time to mow your
meadow grass. Ideally,
strim it off first and give it
a day or two to dry and
for the seed to fall into
the soil before following
up with the mower. Don’t
wreck your poor little
mower if you are trying
to grow “long lawn” for
the first time: it may be
fine for short grass but
60cm tangly hay is
another matter. Borrow a
bigger machine.
Dahlias love warmth and
it’s not been so dry, deep
down, to stop growth
roaring away. Tall
varieties need their
supports putting in place
now, strong enough to
hold up that great pillar
of September growth
and dozens of flowers
heavy with rain, so err
on the generous side,
even if the result looks a
bit “architectural” for a
couple of weeks.
You can still put in new
trees and shrubs at this
time of year if the soil
is well prepared, but
regular watering will be
necessary until they root
out into the surrounding
soil. To help keep the
roots healthily moist
without the need for too
much dousing from a
can, lay a generous
mulch of old garden
compost over the roots,
or even newspaper.
Anything to reduce the
evaporation.
Purple-pink rosebay
willowherb, that
beautiful nightmare
weed, is popular in
gardens in its white form
‘Alba’ and paler pink
form ‘Stahl Rose’. But
both garden forms seed
back to the wild form, so
remove those fluffy
seedheads now before
they blow around. SA

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Plants destroyed by the heat?
FRIEDRICH STRAUSS/GAP PHOTOS

Stephen Anderton
explains what
you should do now
— and what can
wait till later

Q Can you pinch out
new shoots on
hydrangeas, in the way
you recently described
for other plants?
R Dollarton
A Yes, in early/mid
season, to thicken and
keep shorter the bushes,
but it must be done in
time for the new shoots
forming afterwards to
have time to develop
flower buds at their ends.
If you pinch after August
you would likely be
removing or discouraging
next season’s flowers.

A

garden that’s endured a
heatwave can be a sad
sight. It can make you feel
a little helpless when you
see wilting flowers on a
big hydrangea in a tub
when you watered it only
a few hours before. Or a delicate fern you
planted a month ago at the back of a border
and forgot to water reduced to crispy
wisps. Still, the damage might not be as bad
as it first appears and there are certainly
measures you can take to mitigate it.

Q A Bowles’s golden
sedge (Carex elata
‘Aurea’) has lived happily
in my small pond for
more than 20 years but
this year the majority of
leaves are green. Should
I cut out the green ones
and hope the golden
ones will take over?
K Knapton

How to tell if a plant is
actually dead (and what
to do about it)
Now that there has been a little rain, and a
few cooler days, you can have a think
about what to do.
Perennials with stems that have withered will usually come back next year
(think of it as a very early autumn), but if
they are carrying a lot of withered, wilting
leaf it can be a kindness to cut it all away
so the roots are no longer being asked
to pump out water and can conserve
their energy.
They may sprout again before autumn
but it’s not vital that they do. What does
matter is that sooner rather than later the
roots are moistened again, ideally with
modest rainfall, so they don’t desiccate and
die. No need to go mad soaking them with
a hose, but slinging on grey water (from the
washing-up, bath etc) would be a good
thing for a few weeks.
In heat and drought many shrubs
will start to cast their inner leaves as a
means of using less water, and they will
turn yellow first. Unfortunate, but not too
terrible. If a shrub’s whole canopy withers
there are greater problems, especially if
it’s evergreen, but there is little you can do
about it. You must simply wait and see
what happens.
If those damaged leaves drop in autumn
as usual it’s a good sign: the tree is living. If

Hydrangea wilts
quickly in the heat

they cling on, it may be dead. By then (not
now) you will be able to nick the bark and
see if there is green underneath or not, the
test of life.
The big unknown result of extreme heat
is root damage. When the soil is cooked
dry, and roots with it, roots die, and become susceptible to various pathogenic
fungi that can spread back into live tissue
and potentially kill the plant and even surrounding plants, in one, two or 20 years.
It’s a natural process, but heatwaves can
increase the likelihood of it happening.
Bedding plants that have partly shrivelled because you were unable to water
them adequately may be able to be snipped
back to firmer leafy growth that will sprout
again and flower. But if they have died
back to the base, well, depending on the
species . . . it’s almost August now, by the
time they have decided to resprout and
flower the season will be over. They may

not sprout at all if their roots have been
cooked. It may be better to cut your losses
or buy afresh.

The lawn — should we
still be leaving it alone?
After heat like this has browned the grass,
even if it turns cooler I’m afraid it’s still best
to keep off the lawn until we’ve had a decent downpour and it’s had two to three
days to be absorbed. Only then are you
unlikely to wear away the turf with your
feet. Yet whereas border plants require
mostly patience to see if they recover,
lawns repay active interference.
As rain returns, the grass will soon turn
green again. What looked like a desert
springs back to life when you thought it
was impossible. A hardpan of soil repels
the rain, so to speed up absorption stabbing it with a fork willl help the rain to go

Recline in style!
y 6g
great deck chairs
V Ravenna double
deck chair, £162.50,
coxandcox.co.uk

deeper. In a few weeks, as you watch the
grass green up, you will see which parts are
weaker, and may wish to feed (those only,
or indeed the whole lawn). Feed alone is
quite enough — there’s no need for moss
and weedkiller combinations.
Let the whole lawn grow longer than
usual for the rest of the year, so it has
plenty of leaf to put strength back into the
roots, and think about applying a proprietary autumn feed as well.

Plan for the future

Any great lessons from this heat? Any new
thing we should be doing? Well, there’s
no point rushing to plant all drought-tolerant plants, as we’ll understand the next
time we have a wet winter and floods. The
real lesson is to remember the old one:
right plant, right place. Put drought-lovers
where you know it’s going to be really
hot and dry.

W Ray
eucalyptus deck
chair, £185,
laredoute.co.uk

V Business & Pleasure
Co Tommy chair, £255,
smallable.com

W Striped wooden
deck chair, £119.99,
gardenesque.com

U Folding
deck chair with
shade, £250,
rajtentclub.com

Question
time

U Creus wooden deck chair (set
of two), £99, alicesgarden.co.uk
Compiled by Marine Saint

A Separate a golden bit
and grow it on elsewhere.
Do it now, it won’t mind.
Better to start a golden
piece afresh than cut out
the green. Then if the
new yellow piece is stable
you can get rid of the old
clump altogether and put
your new one in its place.
Q I have a south-facing
border containing
large numbers of
Sicilian honey garlic
(Nectaroscordum
siculum). They are pretty
up close but a muddy
blur at a distance. I dug
them up last autumn but
even more appeared
this year. What would
combine well with them
to liven up the border?
L Stafford
A Nectaroscordum (once
classed as an allium)
work well with grasses —
Molinia ‘Transparent’,
Stipa gigantea — but that
does make just a different
blur. You could try
peonies; or would lupins
hit the moment? Frankly,
nectaroscordum seem
to grow anywhere,
never mind liking Sicilian
sunshine, and I’ve seen
them look wonderful en
masse under mature
trees, blurring away like
cow parsley. What those
dangling heads really
need to set them off is
substance. Just a few
of them, lurking behind
rosemary or small dense
hebes, would seem right.

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TONY LILLEY, JOHN RICHMOND, NEIL BOWMAN/ALAMY

A good walk Fen Drayton Lakes
and Amen Corner, Cambridgeshire
How hard is it?
4½ miles; easy;
level paths

River Great
Ouse

start

I

t took a noisy age for the car to
crunch down the obscure byroads
leading to Fen Drayton Lakes
Nature Reserve. Once out along the
trails that weave among these
former gravel pits, there was bird
squeal and chatter from every
thicket and reed bed.
Dunnocks chip-chipped away in the
dog rose hedges, coots squawked from
the reedy fringes of Ferry Lagoon, and a
blackcap unwound its melodious string
of a call from within the branches of a
massive, many-stemmed willow.
The RSPB sees that the trail paths
are well mown, and the grass and
undergrowth are kept flattened by the
boots of thousands of birdwatchers and
strollers. This sunny afternoon, gravelly
patches were smeared over by bright
yellow stonecrop flowers. A new hatch of
damselflies made the most of the hot
sunshine, their electric-blue needle
shapes hovering delicately over nettle
beds and grass for a second or two, then
vanishing, only to rematerialise three
feet away.
A stretch of paths led us beside the
Great Ouse, where a bare-chested lad
proudly helmed his hired river cruiser.
Glossy brown cattle munched dewlap-

Fen Drayton Lakes. Top
right: yellow stonecrop
flowers. Above right:
grasshopper warbler

500 metres

Cross
busway

P

FEN DRAYTON
NATURE RESERVE
Ferry
Lagoon

Holywell
Ferry Road

Cross Covell’s Drain
Swavesey
Lake

Cross
busway
Amen
Corner

Peterborough

Cemetery

Fen Drayton

Swavesey
Cambridge
Northampton

C A M B R I D G E S H I R E

deep in dense grass pasture, flicking their
tails rhythmically against the flies. A
spotted dog stood guard over a pair of
fishing poles while its master caught
forty winks in the shade of an umbrella.
We turned off along the banks of a
navigation drain thick with yellow water
lilies. From the reeds on Swavesey Lake,
a grasshopper warbler issued a song like
the buzz of a fisherman’s reel. With
distant cuckoo calls as a farewell, we left
the reserve and headed for Amen
Corner. In times past, the fen village of
Swavesey had more than its share of
religious Nonconformists: Primitive

Methodists, Ranters, Quakers and a raft
of Baptists — Unitarians, Trinitarians,
Particular and Strict, among others.
After their clandestine meetings further
out in the wilds, many of these dissenters
would gather at the piece of ground
called Amen Corner, just outside the
village boundary, for a final prayer and a
last “amen”.
Today a peaceful little Nonconformist
graveyard lies here, next to the village
allotments. We set course past Swavesey
windmill, topped with an exotic onion
dome, and were back among the lakes of
Fen Drayton in time to hear the evening

From the reeds
on Swavesey
Lake, a
grasshopper
warbler issued
a song like
the buzz of a
fisherman’s reel

chorus from briar and bush, and to
watch crook-winged common terns
diving headfirst into the meres for their
last catch of the day.
Start RSPB Fen Drayton car park,
Holywell Ferry Road, Fen Drayton CB24
4RB (OS ref TL 342690)
Getting there The reserve is signposted
off Fen Drayton Road between Fen
Drayton and Swavesey (A14, jct 24)
Walk OS Explorer 225 (trail map
downloadable at rspb.org.uk). From car
park, left along Holywell Ferry Road
(track). In 500m, right (342704,
“Riverside path”). In 1,200m, just before
footbridge, right (352701, “Trails”). In
300m, left across Covell’s Drain, right
along embankment. At gate, left (353696,
“Swavesey”). In 400m cross busway
(356695; take care, fast buses). In 700m
at Amen Corner cemetery (359690),
right past Swavesey windmill (353688).
In 1,000m cross roadway (350686) and
on. In 1,000m cross bends of a farm road
and keep ahead on footpath (341686). In
200m, right (339686, “Public Byway”).
Keep ahead where track bends right
(340690). In 100m pass car park and on.
In 650m recross busway (339696). In
500m, right (339700, “Car Park 250m”)
to main car park.
Lunch Take a picnic
Accommodation Golden Lion Hotel,
Market Hill, St Ives, Cambs PE27 5AL
(01480 492100, thegoldenlionhotel.co.uk)
More information Fen Drayton Lakes
RSPB Reserve (01954 233260,
rspb.org.uk)
Twitter @somerville_c
Christopher Somerville

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Page
44

‘To see a jaguar in the wild
is far more thrilling than
spotting a lion in Africa’
Lisa Grainger embraces eco-lodge life in Brazil
ALAMY

Poussai harbour in
Le Dramont, France

Avoid the airports!

Europe’s best flight-free breaks
Escape to Iceland,
Spain, Denmark and
more. These are the
top holidays that cut
your carbon — and
your travel stress.
By Andrew Eames

G

etting away this summer
doesn’t have to involve
the whole airport
fandango. There’s an
easy way to avoid
the threat of flight
cancellations and lost
luggage by staying close to home — or
by slipping away across the Channel by
tunnel, ferry or train.
One happy side-effect of the pandemic
has been our rediscovery of previously
overlooked destinations and experiences,
here and overseas. Operators have
learnt to be creative, too, so now you
can go whisky-tasting around Scotland’s
islands by tall ship, or head off on a
cruise to go hiking in Iceland, using
the boat as your base and thus
shaving a sizeable chunk off the cost of
holidaying in that nation.

If you are happy to pack the family in
the car, there are great villas and ecocampsites within comfortable reach in
France, while if you cross to the
other side of the Rhine, northern
Germany’s Fairytale Route will
bring ravishing life to the stories
told by the Brothers Grimm.
There are cycle trips around
the low-lying islands in the
Unesco-listed Wadden Sea
in the Netherlands, or
back in France along the new
Seine cyclepath by Rouen,
a setting much loved by
the impressionists.
There’s rail-based travel galore, very
helpful when you’re wine-tasting
across Champagne and Bordeaux, or
meandering down to the French Riviera,
with overnight stops in historic cities.

And a river cruise is pretty handy, too,
especially if you want to step ashore to
try out some of the summer’s wines
along the banks of the Moselle.
Once you’re across the Channel,
you don’t have to go far. There’s a
lively beach resort (Wissant)less
than 30 minutes’ drive from
Calais. The whole history of the
Normandy landings begins
right by the ferry port outside
Caen. And Belgium’s former
capital, as well as the Dutch
canal cities, are easy train rides
away. Here, with minimal travel,
you can savour a very different
flavour of summer than if you’d
stayed at home.
Bernina Express
train in Switzerland

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Villa in the Vendée,
France

W On the Vendée coastline of western
France, about a six-hour drive from
Calais, Le Domaine de Vertmarines in
Saint-Jean-de-Monts has a group of
villas with pools set in 16 acres of
parkland. An hour away is the cultural
city of Nantes and the Puy du Fou
theme park (from £33, under-13s £24,
under-threes free; puydufou.com),
with its spectacular historical reenactments. You’ll have to act fast to
snap up this deal, but as an added
incentive for cost-conscious families

who’d rather not run the risk of airport
disasters, Summer France is offering a
£200 fuel subsidy on its properties,
including these.
Details Six nights’ self-catering for six
from £1,969, minus the £200 if you
quote FUEL200 before July 24
(summerfrance.co.uk)

The Channel Island
of Herm
In the Bailiwick of Guernsey, just
across the water from St Peter Port, is
the car-free island of Herm. This
transplanted chip of the Caribbean has

no endemic community of its own, but
instead provides a seasonal haven for
families seeking a stress-free Swiss
Family Robinson experience. There’s a
hotel and a pub, some cottages, a
glorious campsite, several excellent
beaches, and lots of freedom to roam,
ideal for making those precious
childhood memories. Frequent local
ferries make the short crossing to the
mothership of Guernsey.
Details Four nights’ B&B in the White
House Hotel from £479pp, including
ferry crossing from Poole
(channelislandsdirect.co.uk)

Ride the Swiss railways
If there’s one tip for making pricey
Switzerland seem cheaper, it is a Swiss
Pass, which provides unlimited public
transport for a fixed price. The pass is
integral to (and included in) this Swiss
Railways and Lakes itinerary, which ticks
off two of the most spectacular and
famous trains of Europe, the Glacier
Express and the Bernina Express, as
well as lake steamers and overnights in
half a dozen towns and cities. And if
you want to mix it up a bit, you could
always add in the longest public
transport journey in Switzerland, a
nine-hour rollercoaster bus ride from
Meiringen on PostBus 682, taking in
four key mountain passes.
Details Fourteen nights’ B&B from
£2,995pp, including Eurostar
from London and all other travel
(ffestiniogtravel.com)

Nyhavn harbour
in Copenhagen

Whisky tasting by boat
in Scotland
Now here’s an interesting variation on
a couple of popular themes: tall-ship
sailing and whisky tasting. The tall
ship is the Flying Dutchman, a
two-masted schooner with ten double
cabins. And the whisky distilleries are
in Oban and on the Hebridean islands
of Islay and Jura. There’s an added
twist, too, because this — being a New
Scientist Discovery Tour — goes deep
into the science of how whisky is made
and how different processes and stimuli
affect its flavours. It is led by Professor
Barry Smith, who has written
extensively on whiskies.
Details Eight days’ full board with
tastings from £1,999pp, departing Oban
on October 4 (newscientist.com/tours)

Belgium’s old capital
There’s a sure-fire Belgian formula for
city breaks: carefully curated interiors,
great galleries, gabled houses, beer,
and almost-French cuisine with added
frites. It’s been so successful in Flanders
that you can’t buy a choccy in Bruges
without a chorus line of English voices.
So for this era of steering away from
crowds, we suggest instead the prettiest
Flanders town no one’s heard of. The
former capital Mechelen has all the
charm of Bruges, with a river, cathedral,
brewery and palace museum, and it is
much closer to Brussels and the
Eurostar. Stay in converted church-hotel
Martin’s Patershof.
Details Room-only doubles from
£85 (martinshotels.com). Take the train
to Brussels

Eco camping in
the Auvergne
If you liked Glastonbury, you will
appreciate Cosycamp’s vibe. There’s very
little that’s mass-market about this
distinctive campsite on the banks of the
upper reaches of the Loire, in France’s

Path to Shell Beach
on Herm Island

midriff an eight-hour drive from Calais
(nearest city Lyon). This grassy eco-site
is filled with art and eccentricity: the
accommodation is a mix of tent pitches,
treehouses, Airstreams, safari lodges
and gypsy caravans, while the
simple swimming pool looks as if it
is auditioning for a villa in Tuscany.
Cosycamp’s site is cupped in small
forested hills; canoes and bikes are
free to borrow, and evening campfires
add to the ambience.
Details Seven nights’ self-catering for
four from £676 (cosycamp.com)

Dutch bike and sail
There is no better country for cycling
than the Netherlands, with its 22,000
miles of cyclepaths. A couple of key
routes link the 17th-century towns on
the banks of the giant inland sea of the
IJsselmeer, where the gabled Dutch
Golden Age port of Enkhuizen is still
stuffed with classic sailing ships. One of
them, the Mare Fan Fryslan, does a
regular circuit from the IJsselmeer into
the ultra-shallow waters of the Unescoregistered Wadden Sea. There the ship
spends a day on each of the main Frisian
islands, Texel and Terschelling, to give
passengers (and their bicycles) time
to explore. Make your own way by
Eurostar and local train.
Details Seven nights’ half-board from

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still pleasantly warm. This rail adventure
crosses Germany to Hamburg, the redbrick port city on the Elbe. It then heads
up through Denmark to Copenhagen,
regularly billed as the happiest city in
the world. It crosses the Oresund bridge
to Gothenburg en route to Oslo, a place
of green spaces and Viking museums.
And then it reaches its end-point in
Stockholm, a city of islands buzzing with
ferries and sightseeing boats, before
turning back.
Details Eleven nights’ B&B from
£2,640pp, including all rail travel from
the UK (expressionsholidays.co.uk)

Escape to the Isles
of Scilly
Now is the time for the Scillies to shine.
For much of the year this sand-fringed
spangle of islands on the western
approaches to the English Channel are
at the mercy of Atlantic weather, but
summer is so calm you can even make
inter-island crossings by paddleboard,
fish-spotting as you glide across gin-clear
shallows. Of the five main islands,
St Mary’s is where the Scillonian, the
ferry from Penzance, arrives). Go islandhopping, seek out shipwrecks and
Bronze Age burial chambers, and stay
in a hotel cupped in the walls of a
16th-century castle.
Details Two nights’ B&B from £776
(star-castle.co.uk)

Slow train to the
French Riviera

Stilt houses, Unteruhldingen,
Lake Constance, Germany

Irish exploration. Cabra, the castle, is a
lavish extravaganza near the Dun a Ri
Forest Park in Co Cavan, built around a
predecessor dating from the wars of
Oliver Cromwell and James II. It is
now a good-value four-star hotel. To
the north across the border is Game
of Thrones country, the Giant’s
Causeway and the great beaches around
Portrush. To the south is Dublin, and
rolling green hills that lead up to the
Wicklow mountains.
Details Two nights’ B&B from £216pp,
including ferry crossing from Holyhead
to Dublin (irishferries.com)

£734pp, departing from Enkhuizen on
September 10 (freedomtreks.co.uk).
Take the train to Enkhuizen
via Amsterdam

Swim and cycle at Lake
Constance
Lake Constance is Germany’s largest
lake, although it shares its waters with
Austria and Switzerland. It’s known as
Bodensee in German and its shores are
fringed with orchards and vineyards, the
Alps frescoed across its southerly
horizon. It is a perfect location for
swimming, cycling, lake fish gastronomy
and exploring the lovely gardens of the
area, using local boats, trains and
buses. This easy-walking holiday
stays at three very comfortable
hotels, and highlights include
the monastic island of
Reichenau (a world heritage
site) and the famous gardens
of Mainau.
Details Six nights’ B&B from
£780pp, including rail travel
from London (inntravel.co.uk)

Stay in a castle
in Ireland
An elaborate castle in a forest park,
equidistant between Dublin and Belfast,
makes a characterful base for a bit of

Opal Coast beaches
in France

Star Castle hotel in
the Isles of Scilly

The Opal Coast, between Calais
and Boulogne, is greatly
underestimated by British
travellers. There are good
beaches here, particularly by
the resort of Wissant, plus safe
and spectacular cycling
around Cap Gris-Nez, with
views across to the White Cliffs
of Dover. Also here is the
seaport of Boulogne, whose
Nausicaa aquarium (£25, under 12s
£19, under-threes free; nausicaa.co.uk)
is a huge hit with family visitors.
The four-star Hôtel La Matelote just
across the road, with spa and indoor

pool, is offering a gourmet dining
package for families.
Details One night’s accommodation for
four, plus two gastronomic menus and
two kids’ meals, for £250 (frenchweekendbreaks.co.uk)

Champagne and
wine-tasting by train
You know it makes sense to go winetasting by train, particularly to two of
France’s key denominations, Champagne
and Bordeaux. This tailor-made trip
starts from London with Eurostar and
heads to Rheims, the champagne capital,
with a vineyard discovery tour and a side
trip to Épernay. After three days of
fizz, you take the direct train across to
Bordeaux. Here, the focus is on the
Médoc region with visits to famous
houses such as Château Margaux and
Château Mouton-Rothschild. Your hotel,
a countryside manor overlooking
vineyards, has its own fleet of
complimentary e-bikes for you to use.
Details Six nights’ B&B from
£2,340pp, including all travel and
tastings (wexas.com)

Scandi cities by train
Late summer is a great time to be in
Scandinavia. Schools have gone back,
autumn colours come early and the air is

Skip the speeding TGV in favour of
a gentle meander on little-used local
trains through the countryside down
to the French Riviera. Once you’ve
reached the Mediterranean, having
overnighted in luxurious boutique hotels
in Vichy, Nîmes and Avignon en route,
avoid the tourist hotspots and venture
into the chic villages of Le Dramont and
Mougins instead. This package includes
a private boat trip to explore hidden
coves along the rugged coastline, plus a
day trip to Grasse to learn how to make
the perfect perfume.
Details Eleven nights’ B&B from
£3,400pp, including all train travel from
London (originaltravel.co.uk)

Walks with wine along
the Rhine, Germany
Cologne, on the Rhine, is the entry point
into Germany for the high-speed trains
from Brussels. Venture upriver from here,
and you’re quickly among castles and
vineyards. The Unesco-listed Rhine
Gorge, from Bingen to Koblenz, has
long been celebrated by painters and
poets, although its rapids can be
buttock-clenching stuff for boat captains.
Dotted with half-timbered villages,
cloaked in vines and with woods of
slender-legged oak, the gorge also hosts
Germany’s celebrated long-distance path,
the Rheinsteig. Occasional pavilion-like
rest places have even been provided, with
honesty boxes offering local riesling. The
walk starts from Lorch, reached via
Cologne by a combination of Eurostar
and Deutsche Bahn.
Details Seven nights’ B&B self-guided
from £890 (onfootholidays.co.uk). Train
to Cologne and Lorch

Irish food odyssey
Ireland produces some of the finest
seafood, beef and lamb in Europe, as
well as some of its most successful chefs.

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W A self-drive gastronomic tour starts
with a ferry crossing to Dublin, and a
stroll for a pint down Temple Bar. From
here, head out to Ballyknocken House
cookery school in the Wicklow
mountains to learn how to make
Irish stew. Then cross the country for
another cookery session, this time
in Ireland’s most celebrated school,
Ballymaloe, run by the chef Darina
Allen. From here, the west coast is
your oyster — and your mussels, lobsters
and prawns.
Details Eight nights’ B&B from £3,929pp,
including ferry crossing from Holyhead
to Dublin (abercrombie kent.co.uk)

Cycling the Seine,
France
The newly opened Seine cyclepath
(laseineavelo.com) makes a very
accessible option for independently
minded would-be Tour de Francers.
Put your bike on the DFDS ferry from
Newhaven to Dieppe, and then pedal (or
take the direct train) 40 miles to stately
Rouen, with its cathedral and riverside
restaurants. From here the Seine heads
westwards towards the sea, its cyclepath
winding through orchards and past
abbeys to the pretty river port of
Honfleur, where you can treat yourself to
the lavish Manoir des Impressionnistes
hotel. Return to Dieppe via the coastal
route EuroVelo 4, or just put your bike
back on the train.
Details Room-only doubles from £171
(manoirdesimpressionnistes.com)

Expedition cruise
to Norway

three guided walks. It’s a sociable group
trip, too, sitting down to dinner together
every evening. Rail enthusiasts will enjoy
spectacular views from the Little Yellow
Train of the Pyrenees, while walkers can
tackle the Refugees’ Trail used during
Franco’s regime.
Details Seven nights’ half-board
from £1,249pp, including all travel
from London, departing on
September 11 (arenatravel.com)

The operator of the regular scheduled
Norwegian Coastal Express has started
to reach out to the UK with special
expedition cruises that start and finish in
Dover, and head north for the fjords, the
Arctic Circle, and even up to Svalbard,
one of the world’s northernmost
inhabited areas, complete with polar
bears. These are not ordinary
cruises; on the Northern
Lights Expedition
Cruise passengers
can take part in
dog-sledding,
hiking and
kayaking, and
visit coastal
destinations
such as Tromso,
Lofoten and
Narvik along
the way. Regular
departures from
October to March.
Sail round the UK
Details Fifteen nights’
on a Thames barge
full board from
£3,150pp (hurtigruten.com)

Colourful mountain
trains of Catalonia
This is a tour for train lovers who also
like mountain walking, because not
only is the journey to the Costa Brava on
a mix of Eurostar and TGV, but once
you’re there the focus is on a series of
colourful mountain trains alongside

Sail round
the UK

Snark Sailing
Holidays is partway through its
Round Britain
Jubilee Voyage,
to celebrate all
that’s great
about the
British coast.
The boat is a
Thames sailing
barge, newly
constructed, and
with comfortable
cabins that sleep
six altogether, plus two crew.
The anticlockwise journey, finishing
in Plymouth on September 13, has been
divided into ten legs of various lengths
(each between 5-12 days). Passengers can
join in with the sailing as little or as
much as they want, and there are landbased excursions en route, such as
visiting Tate Liverpool and exploring
Pembrokeshire’s Caldey Island.

Details Seven nights’ all-inclusive from
Caernarfon to Cardiff £1,568pp,
departing on August 23 (snark.limited)

Canal cities of
the Netherlands
With Eurostar increasing its frequency
to Amsterdam, the Netherlands will
become increasingly popular. Avoid
the obvious by branching out from
Amsterdam to the quieter canalside
destinations of Haarlem and Gouda.
The former is a mini Amsterdam, with
its brick cottages and gable ends on the
waterside, but without the stag parties,
although it does have a brewery in a
downtown church, the Jopenkerk
(jopenkerk.nl). Meanwhile Gouda is
a cheese-lover’s paradise, but also
home to 350 preserved buildings and a
gothic town hall.
Details Four nights’ B&B from £691pp,
including rail travel from the UK
(byway.travel)

D-Day history
in Normandy
The Normandy landings, a turning
point of the Second World War, remain
an epic story of human endeavour.
Despite the passing of years, the
museums and cemeteries that dot the
coast get ever more visitor numbers.
If you cross to Caen by Brittany
Ferries, the first museum is right
by the roadside, celebrating the
audacious way that gliders were used,
in the dead of night, to secure Pegasus

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ALAMY; PAUL TERRY

Bridge. There are key sites all along
the shore, but Arromanches, where a
giant port was assembled in a matter of
hours, is a story in itself. The Ferme
de la Rançonnière in the village of
Crépon makes an elegant basecamp.
Details Room-only doubles from
£113 (ranconniere.fr)

Hiking and sightseeing
in Iceland
This innovative combination of cruising
with hiking is ideal for coping with the
high costs, and the remote locations,
of Iceland. The Fred Olsen ship sets
off from Tyneside on a nine-night
itinerary that allows for four days of
hiking in four different Icelandic
landscapes, against a backdrop of
remote fjords and astounding raw
beauty. It manages to pack in popular
sights such as the thermal Golden Circle,
Thingvellir National Park, the capital
Reykjavik and the mighty Godafoss,
“waterfall of the gods”.
Details Nine nights’ full board
from £1,775pp, including guided
walks, departing on August 3
(cruiseandwalk.co.uk)

Fairytale Germany

Hiking near Roses,
Costa Brava, Spain

Northern Germany’s Hameln (Hamelin
in older English) makes a virtue out of
its vermin. It’s not often that a plague
of rodents followed by a mass child
abduction becomes a celebrated tourist
attraction, but every Sunday the
Hameln townspeople present a

re-enactment of the most famous of
German fairytales, The Pied Piper, as
told by the Brothers Grimm. This is
one of many stops on the Fairytale
Route (deutsche-maerchenstrasse.com),
which runs from Bremen in the north
down to near Frankfurt, ticking off
Sleeping Beauty’s castle and Snow
White’s village along the way. Hameln
is 4½ hours’ drive from Hook of Holland,
served by Stena Line.
Details Car crossing from £62 one
way. Find accommodation with the
Fairytale Route’s partner hotels
(deutsche-maerchenstrasse.com)

Rhine and Moselle cruise
The Rhine connects key cities with
mighty fine scenery, so it’s not
surprising that it is the most popular
of Europe’s cruising rivers. Start in
Amsterdam, conveniently Eurostarconnected to London, and head down
through the Netherlands into Germany.
Here, in the Rhine Gorge where the
banks rear up, lined with vineyards and
dotted with castles, cruise ships slow to a
crawl. But a real treat is to branch off
into the Rhine’s delicate steep-banked
tributary, the Moselle. This more
intimate river has its own microclimate,
and is famous for its riesling wines
and half-timbered riverside towns
such as Traben-Trarbach and Bernkastel.
The cruise ends in Basel.
Details Fourteen nights’ all-inclusive
from £4,044pp, including rail
travel from and to the UK
(scenic.co.uk)

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44 Travel

Luxury Brazil

Go wild in style:
South America’s
nature paradise

Canoeing from Casa Caiman

Travelling to Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands and vast tropical
savannah, Lisa Grainger discovers two areas rich in
wildlife, with laid-back eco-lodges from which to explore

R

oberto Klabin can’t rememmy enthusiastic young guide, Pedro de
ber ever seeing a jaguar
Almeida, tunes in to his safari radio for a
when he was a child — even
wildlife update. “If you don’t mind doing a
though his family has
detour to the lodge,” he says, encouraging
ranched in the Pantanal
me to climb aboard his safari truck, “I
since 1952. When he was
think we have something to show you.”
growing up, the 67-year-old
Given that I was in Brazil to see wildlife,
says, all that mattered in remote southI didn’t mind at all — particularly when,
western Brazil was cattle farming.
ten minutes down the road, I trained
There were no roads; when his
my binoculars beside a pond and
family travelled to their estancia,
there, licking a paw, was a
CERRADO
they’d go by rail, then truck,
jaguar with a playful threethen horse. There were no
month-old cub.
Amazon
tourists; the few that came to
To see a jaguar in the wild
rainforest
BRAZIL
Brazil visited Rio or the Amis far more thrilling than
200
miles
Pousada
azon rainforest. And there
spotting a lion in Africa. For
Trijuncao
certainly was no talk of
a start, the South American
preserving the landscape
cat is highly elusive. With
PANTANAL
for wildlife.
only about 15,000 left in the
BOLIVIA
As I fly for an hour on a
wild — fewer than were
Campo
Rio de
Grande
little prop plane from Campo
killed annually in the 1960s
Casa Caiman
Janeiro
Grande to Klabin’s bush
for their prized fur — they are
homestead, Casa Caiman, in
wary of humans. Their habitat
the southernmost Pantanal wetis dense forest. And unlike lions,
lands, it seems extraordinary that
jaguars live alone. To see this fePARAGUAY
this vast area isn’t a national reserve
male with a cub was particularly
Sao Paulo
but is privately owned. Like the Serenspecial, Pedro told me with a grin,
geti in Africa, the Pantanal is in a vast geobecause none of her previous offspring
graphical depression — 81,000 square
had survived.
miles covering Brazil, Paraguay and BolivThat we could sit there for half an hour,
ia — fringed by mountains and floored
our binoculars trained on the giant cat’s fat
with grasslands dotted with islands of
white belly, flicking tail and distinctive
trees. In the rainy season it becomes the
black rosettes, is in large part thanks to the
world’s biggest floodplain, teeming with
conservation efforts of Klabin. Having
birdlife — and mosquitoes.
witnessed the partnership between conIn May, when I fly across it, after devasservation groups and cattle farms used in
tating fires in 2019 and the worst drought
Africa to protect landscapes, while emin nearly a century, the area looks more
ploying communities, he decided to do
like the African savannah than a wetland.
something similar. When he inherited a
From the air, I spot a crescent of red sand131,000-acre section of his family’s estate
stone cliffs dropping into dense green
in 1983, he decided to create the Pantanal’s
scrub. A muddy river wiggles across the
first ecological reserve. In 1988 he opened
landscape, occasionally spilling into an oxhis first lodgings to wildlife tourists and in
bow lake. And then there’s nothing but
2011 the Brazilian wildlife organisation
hundreds of miles of flat, dry landscape,
Oncafari based its Brazilian headquarters
cattle enclosures and eucalyptus forests,
on his farm to research jaguars.
grassland dotted with glinting waterholes,
This May, having persuaded nine other
huge rectangles of scrub.
nearby farms to join him in creating a
Unlike Africa, there are no animals to
giant ecological corridor of 740,000 acres,
see from the air, other than cattle. Then we
he opened Casa Caiman’s newly refurland the plane alongside the forest, disbished lodge, created by combining an
turbing two giant rheas (South American
old guesthouse and his family’s homeostriches) that scatter into the grass, and
stead. This is complemented by two

Pousada Trijuncao

villas with five and six bedrooms apiece
for private groups.
Arriving at Casa Caiman, I feel an
immediate sense of calm. The 18-suite terracotta-tiled estancia overlooks a lake, and
from the open-sided veranda guests are
watching birds through binoculars. A cool
dining room is laid out with a delicious
buffet-style spread, and an airy contemporary living room is decorated with wildlife
photography. There’s a swimming pool
surrounded by landscaped gardens, and
Adirondack chairs set around fire pits
for sundowners.
Most importantly, though, Klabin has
invested in expert naturalists to immerse
guests in the natural riches of the Pantanal. With my guide Pedro and Claudio Jose
do Nascimento, a naturalist who has
worked here since 2005, I spend two days
being dazzled by the miraculous fauna
and flora. The remote Unesco-protected
biosphere has, I soon learn, a far greater
diversity of life than the Amazon, and is
home to more than 2,000 species of plant
and 500 kinds of bird, as well as 124 types
of mammal.
Which is why wherever we go, there’s
something to see. In the mornings, out on
horseback or on game drives, flocks of
parrots and parakeets flit above our heads
— including scores of luminous-blue hyacinth macaws, protected by a local project
that has helped to grow the population of

The pool at Casa Caiman

these endangered birds to 6,000 over 30
years. There are sand-snakes and slender
caimans, giant capybaras and iridescent
hummingbirds, thickets of pink trumpet
flowers and islands of exotic palms: an astonishingly abundant landscape in an
ocean of farms.
Part of the reason that creatures are
flocking here, Klabin explains, is not only
because he has set aside 13,000 acres of
forest purely for animals, but because
there’s water — both resources are disappearing elsewhere thanks to large-scale
soy farms and diverted rivers above the
Pantanal. That’s why he helped to found
the NGO SOS Pantanal, to find sustainable ways to save it. “If soy farms come to
the Pantanal — which is the big threat now
— it will be game over. So we need to get
people here to see the extraordinary natural world we have,” he says. “People go to
India to see tigers, and South Africa to
see leopards, and we should be as well
known for jaguars.” In 2012 in this area, an
Oncafari researcher tells me, “there were
35 jaguar sightings. But in 2021 we had
1,075, which means 99 per cent of visitors
saw one.”
Over three nights at Casa Caiman, I am
what Pedro calls “the luckiest guest we’ve
had”, spotting not only three jaguars, but
scores of other animals too. By torchlight,
we see two ocelots and a puma. Just outside the camp, I watch a long-haired giant

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3 more remote lodges in Brazil

The lounge at Casa Caiman

anteater catching termites on its sticky
pink tongue; I track a prehistoric-looking
armadillo scuttling between anthills; and
almost step on the glistening gold-andblack torso of a resting three-metre anaconda — and then a very hairy, hand-sized
tarantula. And I’m constantly glued to my
binoculars, admiring birds who live here:
snake-hunting owls and giant-eyed nightjars, pretty pink pigeons and toucans.
Flying on to my next stop, Pousada Trijuncao in the Cerrado — or tropical savannah region, which covers 772,200 square
miles — I’m struck not only by how huge
the country is (transfers to airports can
take five hours) but how hemmed in these
wild areas are by agriculture. From the air,
flat farmland stretches to the horizon,
mainly growing soya to feed cattle in
China. Yet, not long ago, says my guide Luciano Lima, the area was wild. So fast is it
changing, with over half of the Cerrado deforested in 40 years (about 8,100 square
miles a year from 2002 to 2008), that the
most biodiverse savannah on the planet is
now more threatened than the Amazon.
Which explains why Trijuncao’s owner,
the philanthropist media billionaire José
Roberto Marinho, bought the 82,000-acre
property: to save it. Unlike the Pantanal,
this northeast area of Brazil is dry, so you
don’t come here for animals (although,
apparently, it is home to armadillos, tapirs,
anteaters, an occasional rare black jaguar

and 13 maned wolves, one of which we
briefly spot). What you come here for is the
wilderness: to view the thick, heavy twirls
of the Milky Way without a glimmer of artificial light; to walk quietly along sandy
roads, stopping to admire weird and wonderful plants; to watch the sunrise as rare
songbirds flit between flowers, and tiny
gremlin-faced marmosets nibble at bark.
Or, if you’re feeling brave (which I was), to
swim in a peaty lake, praying that the only
caimans in residence were the endemic
“dwarf” species I’d spotted by torchlight
the night before.
It’s also a place, given the chef’s cooking
skills, in which you could overindulge. Trijuncao is situated at the juncture of three
Brazilian states, and the chef has taken inspiration from them all. At breakfast there’s
coconut rice pudding and tiny cheesy
eclair-like balls to resist, and later rich
shrimp stew and thick slabs of butter-soft
beef. And considering the comfort and
style of the lodge, it’s rather tempting to
hang out — literally — on hammocks in
the almost ryokan-style wooden living
areas, or beside the little pool or, when temperatures plummet, in the log-cabin sauna.
Mostly, though, I spend my days learning from Lima. Known as “Brazil’s Bird
Boy” because of his extraordinary avian
knowledge at the age of just 13, the now 37year-old naturalist was at Pousada Trijuncao training the already well-educated

young guides. There didn’t seem to be a
thing he didn’t know, from the dangers of
African bees to the songs of birds, some so
rare, he said, that “most twitchers would be
having an orgasm if they saw what’s in
front of you right now”.
I loved watching his multifarious feathered friends fly about. But the thrill for me
was seeing vast swathes of our planet left
untouched — and witnessing the effect
that serious investments in nature can
have. That Joro Experiences, the operator
that organised my trip, offset my carbon
and invests proceeds from the trip via its
Conscious Travel Foundation into Brazilian projects, was the cherry on top, making
it a dream trip that just keeps giving.

Need to
know
Lisa Grainger was a guest
of Joro Experiences,
which has 14 nights’ full
board from £12,785pp,
including flights, stays
in Rio and Sao Paulo,
excursions and transfers,
some on private planes
(joroexperiences.com)

Cristalino Lodge
a Life School, biology, birding
Set in the southern Amazon,
and more. Pursuits range from
this contemporary, 18-room,
tracking the resident northern
family-owned wooden lodge
muriqui spider monkeys and
— eco-friendly from the top
swimming in waterfalls, to
of its solar-lined roof to its
art-trail walks, horse riding and
underground water filtration
hiking in the Atlantic rainforest
system — immerses guests in the
to spot wildlife amid lush
outdoors, with bathtubs and yoga vegetation thick with orchids
studio set in gardens, and towers
and bromeliads.
constructed for bird and primate- Details Full-board doubles
from £326 (ibiti.com).
watching from above. From its
Fly to Juiz de Fora
28,000-acre private reserve,
bordering the Cristalino State
Bom Jardim Loft
Park, with access to six types of
The former boathouse of Brazil’s
rainforest, guests have a chance
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which you’ll go exploring the
emerald bays of the Costa
Comuna do Ibitipoca
Verde, snorkelling off islands,
This 5,000-acre reserve, a few
kayaking and paddleboarding,
hours north of Rio in the
and visiting traditional scallop
Mantiqueira mountain range,
farms. From Paraty, guests can
is guided by community and
take trips into the mountains —
conservation projects: from
one of the last tracts of Atlantic
its accommodation (some
Forest left in Brazil, and rich in
converted farmhouses, some
bird life.
Details Full-board boat
village homes, some rustic
house for six from £1,306,
rural lodges) to its activities,
including housekeeper and
which engage local villagers
chef (senderos.co.uk). Fly
through art projects, vegetable
to Paraty
gardens, wildlife corridors,

Cristalino Lodge

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Travel 47

Try Sweden’s favourite mini-break
ALAMY

Stockholmers love
the High Coast’s
peaks, food and arty
islands. You will too,
says Richard Mellor

J

amie Oliver came to the island of
North Ulvon once. In 2010 a
Sweden-focused episode of his
short-lived Jamie Does . . . TV
series had a scene where the
chummy cook tried surstromming, (fermented herring), a
notoriously sour-smelling snack pioneered on the island.
Few Brits have seemingly visited since,
though. When I inquire how many of my
compatriots patronise the Ulvo Hotell
annually, the head chef, Tobias Andersson,
puffs out his cheeks. “Twenty, maybe?”
That low figure aligns with what I hear
across the Hoga Kusten, or “High Coast”,
the mountainous seaboard along Sweden’s
northeastern flank. Germans, Dutch and
Finns are all reliable incomers to what is
considered one of Sweden’s most dramatic
and beautiful regions, but UK holidaymakers are not. Far more frequent visitors,
however, are Swedes, many from Stockholm, who started coming en masse durRichard on Predikstolen rock
ing the pandemic, and still do.
Beach bums, road-trippers, weekend
walkers, hardcore hikers, trail runners, men, at a time when trade peaked here
foodies and families all have reason to (Baltic herring stocks are now worryingly
head this way, while I was enticed by the depleting). Past the ancient net-drying
epic scenery and an unlikely profusion of racks is a 400-year-old wooden chapel,
whose interior is daubed with cartoonish
cool hotels, art and architecture.
Broadly speaking, the High Coast runs frescoes of Jesus, Jonah and the parable of
along the northeast coast through Vaster- the prodigal son. Innocence informs
norrland County between the towns of North Ulvon as a whole: there are few cars,
no cash machines and just one
Harnosand and Ornskoldsvik,
small supermarket. Quiet
and includes a string of
Umea
airport
reigns, part of the
islands. Near Ornskoldsuncomplicated,
vik, North Ulvon is
Ornskoldsvik
Skuleskogen
wholesome vibe that
one of the most
National Park
attracts people to
popular isles and
FriluftsByn
10 miles
this coast.
known for its
Docksta
North Ulvon
Back at the
tranquillity, pretUlvohamn
hotel,
Tobias
ty villages, easy
NORDINGRA
SWEDEN
South
serves me surstaccess and, yes,
Ulvon
romming
with
surstromming.
Gulf of
cheese, tomato
Only about ten
Bothnia
and dill on flatsquare miles in
Sundsvall–
Timra
bread. The slight
size, it’s served by
airport
Harnosand
stench is mitigated by
small ferries from
a punchy, umami taste
Kopmanholmen
that I like. Dinner folseven times a day in peak
lows, involving smoked,
summer, and at least once
piquant whitefish fillets with a
daily at other times (from £15
syrup of birch sap from nearby trees.
return, mfulvon.se). Catching one, I
Returning to the mainland, I travel
alight at the main village of Ulvohamn,
whose yellow and white homes and stilted south to Skuleberget, a mini-mountain in
a namesake nature reserve, whose crest—
boathouses line the curve of a snug bay.
On the main street, Hamngata, I pass accessed by hiking paths, via ferrata or
smiling locals and ice-cream stands before cable cars — explains the High Coast’s
arriving at the luxurious 26-room Ulvo name. Just shy of the 295m summit, inforHotell, where my nautical-themed room mation boards demarcate the sea level
has pewter-shade timber walls and a bal- after Earth’s last Ice Age. Since then the
cony overlooking the heated pool. Across land here, free from the weight of the ice
a narrow sound looms the less-inhabited sheets, has pushed up faster than anyisland, South Ulvon, where the coast is where on the planet. It’s still rising, too, at
0.8cm a year. Such geology is why Unesco
lined with blood-coloured granite rocks.
North Ulvon is a wonderful place to hike has bestowed World Heritage Status on
or cycle to sandy shores, watching for elk this entire seaboard, and there is a sleek
in forested hills, but I content myself with museum, Naturum, at Skuleberget’s foot
ambling around Ulvohamn. Its lone (free, varldsarvethogakusten.se).
“It renders the High Coast not just beaumuseum (free, ulvomuseum.com) recreates the lives of early 20th-century fisher- tiful, but unusual in Sweden,” says Andreas

Terrace at Ulvo Hotell

Norrfallsviken village

Olsson from the regional tourist board.
“Very few regions of our country combine
mountains, an archipelago and this postglacial rebound landscape.”
The scenery is best admired from gusty
viewing platforms at the top of Skuleberget, where I thrill at the smorgasbord of sea,
forest and hills — some with lush, green
tops (called “till caps” here), which survived when the immediate land beneath,
now rocky, was eroded while underwater.
Lots more purpose-built lookout platforms proliferate in Skuleskogen National
Park, which I find following footpaths
through mossy spruce forest. Rocks are
splattered in pink, blue and green lichen
like a Jackson Pollock project, and a further two-mile hike leads to Skuleskogen’s
headline act: Slattdalsskrevan, a narrow,
sea-formed ravine 200m deep.
Instead I climb Getsvedjeberget (204m),
where a tongue-like rock outcrop known
as Predikstolen (The Pulpit), offers perhaps the High Coast’s fairest vista of all: a
wondrous sweep of seaside beside a splattering of small islands. The rock was
known only to local villagers until 2020,
when the Swedish biathlete Magdalena
Forsberg posted an Instagram photo and
suddenly people materialised in droves.
As with Ulvon and other High Coast
highlights, the peak gets very busy in July,
when Swedes are on holiday, and fairly
busy in August. To dodge them, it’s best to
arrive early or come late when, this far
north, there’s 24-hour summer daylight.
I’m shown the area by Fredric Wedin,
previously a high-flyer at Warner Music,
who returned to his childhood region to
organise concerts and now owns the land
on which Getsvedjeberget is located, as
well as Skuleberget Havscamping with
smart cabin accommodation and a pizza
restaurant (self-catering cabins for two
available from May 2023, from £122, skulebergeth avscamping.se). He is not the High

Need to
know
Richard Mellor was a
guest of Ulvo Hotell (halfboard doubles from £198;
ulvohotell.se), FriluftsByn
(self-catering for two with
a shower from £96; frilufts
byn.se), Bjorkuddens
(B&B doubles from £113;
bjorkudden.se), Hoga
Kusten Turism (hoga
kusten.com) and Visit
Sweden (visitsweden.com).
Fly to Sundsvall or Umea
via Stockholm

Coast’s only entrepreneur: Jerry Engstrom
abandoned his job as a marketing director
for the outdoor brand Fjallraven to open a
nearby campground, FriluftsByn. Its retro
log cabins and tent pitches adjoin a yard
serving burgers to live music. Factor in the
site’s bear-in-a-woolly-jumper logo, found
on enamel mugs in the gift shop, and it’s all
a bit hip, yet welcomingly low-key.
FriluftsByn ramblers tend to undertake
half-day hikes, but meatier adventures
await along these shores. The 80-mile
High Coast Trail links low valleys, and
long-distance routes introduce steeply
falling rivers and pristine Lake Balestjarn.
Nine footpaths feature eye-catching
wooden structures courtesy of the recent
Arknat project (arknat.com/hogakusten),
in which Scandinavian architecture students designed and built wind shelters to
entice Swedes into nature. Most impressive is Tree Cube, suspended in mid-air.
Driving south, I visit the well-to-do
village of Docksta, where the Dutch-run
shop Jeltsjes produces pralines that have
earned royal approval. Mjalloms Tunnbrod, Sweden’s oldest flatbread baker,
eight miles south, has a restaurant, 1923,
where I devour meatballs in a lingonberry
sauce (mains from £8; website 1923.nu),
then I drive east into Nordingra, a region
whose lakes and green hills give way to a
succession of sea-carved peninsulas.
Snaking roads connect artist studios,
quirky museums and cinnamon bun cafés,
en route to Norrfallsviken, a fishing village
of red cottages.
I finish my adventure admiring the Hogakustenbron, a suspension bridge over a
mile long, inspired by San Francisco’s
Golden Gate. The 28-room Bjorkuddens
hotel, previously a sawmillers’ school, military base and factory, affords pole-position views. Cars sporadically speed across,
but, even if we’re bound to catch on eventually, I bet none of them bears Britons.

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Lunar landscapes and luxury:
west coast and it’s surrounded by banana
plantations. I could easily spend days flitting from the hotel’s tranquil swimming
pools among tropical gardens to its sandy
beach on an isolated cove at the foot of
the cliffs. On my first morning I enjoy a typically Spanish breakfast of Iberian ham,
tomato and garlic on crunchy toasted
bread at El Mirador, one of the hotel’s many
restaurants, with views of the Atlantic
Ocean and, on clear days, neighbouring La
Gomera island.
My first adventure is to a protected
national park — nearly half of Tenerife is
safeguarded by the Spanish government in
ver since Admiral Horatio a patchwork of national and local parks. I
Nelson attempted to invade am making for the northwest with my
the island and lost his right guide Manuela from El Cardon Naturarm in the process, Brits Experience. Here the island’s seismic
have had a thing for Tenerife. history has thrown up dramatic landIn the 1970s we fell only scapes, including Los Gigantes: sheer
deeper in love with this cliff faces that would dwarf the white cliffs
Canary island, flocking here for cheap of Dover almost six times over. Formed
package holidays and year-round sun- over the course of millennia, they are a
shine. In big resort towns such as Playa de visual timeline of Tenerife, depicting layer
las Americas, they built tower-block hotels upon layer of volcanic eruption. The enfor us to check into, and shipped in croaching Atlantic has exposed veins of
Saharan sand to complete the holiday basalt where magma has solidified in volfantasy with white, wide beaches.
canic pipes, creating a dramatic
But high-rises and sunburn are
scene of deep blue water
very far from the whole
crashing against charstory in Tenerife.
coal-black rock.
Atlantic
In the north, TenerFrom Los Gigantes
Ocean
ife’s pockmarked volwe go inland, tocanic
landscape
ward Teno Rural
Teno Rural Park
looks lunar, while in
Park. As we gain
Santa Cruz
the dry, desert
altitude (and a lot
TENERIFE de Tenerife
Masca
south, rugged cacti
of it — more than
Los Gigantes
Teide
and
succulents
1,000m) prickly
National
La
thrive amid the rubpears give way to
Park
ble of volcanic erup- Gomera
low-level shrubs
Ritz-Carlton
tions. Taking a road
and,
eventually,
Abama
trip through this
sturdy laurels. It’s
spectacular scenery isn’t
cold too — a good five
like visiting another counor six degrees chillier
10 miles
try, but another planet. So wet
than along the coast. The
is “Tenerife Norte”, it served
clouds are virtually within touchwater to farms in the south via aqueduct ing distance. This part of the island is
— at one point, virtually all the largely unspoilt. The first road was built
bananas in the UK came from the island. here in the 1970s to reach the village of
When you spot swathes of leafy banana Masca, which dates from the time of the
plants tumbling down a hillside, you could pre-colonial Guanche people. But every
be forgiven for thinking you’re in Brazil, not corner offers views of steep mountainsides
the Canaries.
and deep gorges, and the wind practically
There are hotels that will surprise you floors us as we take it all in from the arch
too. I’m staying at the Ritz-Carlton Abama, of a mountain pass.
the island’s foremost luxury hotel. Its
Masca village itself perches halfway up
Moorish-inspired red ochre villas rise out the mountain. There are two dozen small
of the volcanic cliffs on the island’s south- basalt houses, most accessible only by a

Away from the big
resorts, the volcanic
island has a feast
of natural wonders
and smart hotels,
says Rhys Jones

The hilltop village of Masca

E

The cliffs at Los Gigantes

short, steep walk down from the road.
These days most are used as tourist accommodation — the views are astonishing
— but a handful are still called home by
locals who now provide refreshment to
visiting hikers and sightseers.
For much of its 600-year history, Masca
has been reliant on what it could grow
itself and trade with local fishermen. To
that end, the steep mountain sides have
been levelled out into hundreds of narrow
terraces where potatoes, onions and cabbages grow.
A little way north down the mountain
towards the coast, I get a taste of the traditional cuisine at Mesón del Norte, a
charmingly rustic restaurant in the little
town of Las Portelas. Two fridges stuffed
with cuts of aged Iberian ham set the
scene: it’s a farmer’s diet of meat and potatoes, including delicious braised rabbit and
“wrinkly” salted papas with homemade
mojo, a traditional Canarian sauce made
with red peppers and garlic.
Masca feels a million miles away from
the rowdy resorts on Tenerife’s southern
coast. It’s almost a different island altogether. But then Tenerife has always been
a tale of two islands: the dry south versus
the wet north; the rugged coast versus its
towering volcanic interior; commercial
strips versus ancient Guanche settlements. It’s no wonder Nelson wanted to
take the island — you won’t find the same
combination anywhere else.

10 cool
hotels and
villas on
Tenerife
Need to
know
Rhys Jones was a guest
of British Airways
Holidays, which has
seven nights’ B&B at the
Ritz-Carlton Abama from
£871pp, including flights
from Gatwick (ba.com)

Seventies Modernist Villa, El Poris
Susan, the owner, says this villa on the
island’s northeast coast is for people who
like “big waves and rough seas”; it can
feel as if you’re actually in the ocean as
you soak in the natural lava-sculpted
pool down on the rocks or in the manmade circular swimming hole on the
terrace. It’s for those who like design too:
everything is beautiful here, from the
pebble-shaped kitchen window to the
stone-carved children’s play area. The
architecture brings the outside in — the
patio has a partially open roof and
indoor-outdoor fireplace. There are
seven double bedrooms and lots of extra
beds for kids.
Details Seven nights’ self-catering
for up to 19 from £4,170
(welcomebeyond.com)

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staff on site to help with everything from
hiking-trail tips to picnic baskets.
Details Seven nights’ self-catering for 12
from £2,929 (jamesvillas.co.uk)

Seventies Modernist Villa

Casa Infinito, Puerto de la Cruz
There’s something of the luxury liner to
this lavish villa on the north coast, with
its curved, red-carpeted staircase
descending into the main hallway, and
sweeping ocean views filling every
window. There’s no jostling with other
guests here though: you’ve got your own
15m pool, a cave-like wine cellar and a
“mini beach” where white loungers stand
on golden sand. For the active there’s
table tennis, a billiards table, and a
basketball hoop, and Oliver’s Travels can
organise everything from a private chef
to childcare. All five bedrooms are en
suite; one is on the ground floor.
Details Seven nights’ self-catering for
five from £8,259 (oliverstravels.com)

Hotel San Roque

Hotel San Roque, Garachico
Chilli-pepper red and neat as a pin,
this boutique hotel has just 20 rooms,
set around a traditional Canarian
courtyard in the coastal town of
Garachico in the northwest of the
island. Your eyes are drawn skywards,
up the trunks of lofty palms towards
wooden balconies polished to a shine
and bold works of contemporary art.
There’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh
furniture in the bedrooms as well as
whirlpool tubs, but the real treat is the
pool, set in a second courtyard and
transformed into a romantic restaurant
setting come nightfall, the moonlight
dancing off the water as you tuck into
island-grown veggies and local seafood.
Adults only.
Details Three nights’ B&B from £849pp,
including flights and transfers
(kirkerholidays.com)
Royal Hideaway Corales Beach,
La Caleta
Light and space is what this hotel in the
south is all about, the bedrooms decked
out in bright white and blond wood, the
balconies some of the largest and most
sun-drenched we’ve seen. Some rooms
have whirlpool baths on the terrace, all
have sea views, and the structure is split
into Corales Beach (adults-only and
home to a rooftop infinity pool and
Michelin-starred restaurant) and the

family-friendly Corales Suites, where the
main pool is located. The breakfast
buffet is luxurious, and you’re only a
five-minute stroll from the laid-back
seafood restaurants of the fishing village
of La Caleta.
Details B&B doubles from £233
(barcelo.com)
El Vaquero, Icod de los Vinos
Seeking a romantic bolt hole
made for two? Book this
ranch-style villa (the name
translates as “the cowboy”)
near the coast in the
northwest, then whip up
something special on the
built-in barbecue of the
alfresco dining area and clink
glasses on the paved terrace
with sea and mountain views.
Days can be spent by your private
pool or down on the black sands of
Playa Moreno, a five-minute drive away.
This is old-school Tenerife — rural,
agricultural, unspoilt
— and you will need a car; there’s plenty
of unrestricted on-street parking.
Details Seven nights’ self-catering for
two from £929 (plumguide.com)
Adventure Awaits, Callao Salvaje
Gather your tribe: this opulent villa in a
less-developed part of the south feels
more like a boutique hotel and demands

Villa Asombrosa, Costa Adeje
No prizes for guessing where this villa
got its inspiration: the words Casa
Amore are emblazoned in hot neon
lighting by the pool. This is no Love
Island though — your privacy and
complete relaxation are nearguaranteed, thanks to a concierge
team who can sort massages, beauty
treatments, yoga and even reiki, as well
as private drivers and chefs. You’ll also
find a pool, sunken hot tub, alfresco
pizza oven and a games room set up like
an arcade and hung with bright pop art.
The seven bedrooms are all en suite and
there’s daily maid service. The villa is in
upscale Costa Adeje in the south.
Details Seven nights’ self-catering for
14 from £16,799 (jamesvillas.co.uk)

Mount Teide

Villa Asombrosa

a crowd. The focal point is the outdoor
pool area, complete with hot tub and
cinema screen, while the gardens are
dotted with hammocks, hanging chairs
and lounging cushions. Throughout the
interior you’ll find traditional
Canarian wood-panelled ceilings
and polished wooden floors,
while the five bedrooms
include three double en suites
and two twins. Children of all
ages are catered for (cots
and high chairs available on
request), but this is really a
grown-up escape — there’s
even a sauna and steam
room.
Details Seven nights’ selfcatering for ten from £9,268
(plumguide.com)
Villa Ziggy, Vilaflor
Peace and quiet come as standard at
this six-bedroom villa overlooking the
main square in somnolent Vilaflor,
Tenerife’s highest village, in the southcentral part of the island. The view from
your large stone terrace, which comes
with a swimming pool, outdoor bar and
pool table, is all pine trees and black lava
badlands stretching up towards Mount
Teide volcano. The style is rustic
Canarian — whitewashed walls,
terracotta-tiled floors and plenty of
warm wood — and there’s a member of

Villa Sol, Tijoco Bajo
We’ve never seen a pool quite like
the one in this three-bedroom villa,
stretching like a giant covered bathtub
on the private balcony, running alongside
the living room, accessed via floor-toceiling glass doors. Here, loungers and
a barbecue help you make the most of
the Atlantic view, while back inside, the
living area is chic and open plan, with
dining space for six and a contemporary
kitchen with breakfast bar. The
bedrooms are upstairs; the master
comes with a whirlpool and private
balcony, the other two can be double
or twin. It’s in the small village of Tijoco
Bajo, slightly inland in the southwest.
Details Seven nights’ self-catering for
six from £1,760 (stayone.com)
Hard Rock Hotel, Playa Paraiso
OK, Hard Rock might not be cool
exactly, but if you’ve been wishing for a
hedonistic hotel that lets kids join the
party, this is the one. Located in the
southwest in Adeje, its two towers are lit
up violet and gold above a lagoon-style
pool with a DJ podium. The hotel has
some adult-only areas, but for the most
part kids rule, with everything from
games consoles to guitar lessons on tap.
Rooms are bold, with glossy black walls
and pops of lipstick red, the five à la
carte restaurants include a steakhouse
and cocktail-shaking beach club, and
there are regular pool parties featuring
the likes of Tinie Tempah.
Details B&B doubles from £194
(hardrockhotels.com/tenerife)
Helen Ochyra

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Hamptons
style arrives
on Cornwall’s
north coast
Between foodie Padstow and fashionable
Harlyn Bay, Trevone might just be the
perfect place to stay, says Susan d’Arcy

C

ornwall’s north coast is
magnificent, but some
places can be a bit too
second-homey, a bit too
“Did we buy quinoa for both
houses?”. Elsewhere, you
can have too much of the
“I got these three tattoos in Sri Lanka”
surfer-dude ambience.
Trevone village, however, hits the sweet
spot nicely — a sleepy nook that’s a couple
of miles from foodie Padstow in one direction and fashionable Harlyn Bay in the
other. When I visit I’m surrounded by a
pleasing mix of holidaymaking types as
well as hardy locals baffled that their lifelong habit of “getting in” has been repackaged as trendy cold-water swimming.
Beachwise, you can choose sandy or
rocky. Both are glorious. There’s Porthmissen, a butter-soft stretch sheltered by
hunkered-down cliffs with a buzzcut of
pea-green pastures and Baywatchblond wheat fields. There’s Round Hole,
Trevone’s very own natural tourist
attraction, a giant collapsed sea cave that
plunges at least 80ft. Porthmissen’s sibling
beach, Newtrain, has an expanse of slate
slabs as wobbly as dodgy patios — they
promise hours of absorbing crab hunts.
And it has a tidal pool for when the Atlantic’s not playing nicely.
We’re staying at Atlanta Trevone, a
grand, gabled clifftop mansion built in
1899, seconds from the shoreline. It was
converted into a self-catering complex
years ago and has just been unveiled with
a swanky £1.5 million revamp. Four of its
properties opened this month, and a fifth
will be completed during the off-season.
Three retain the building’s Victorian
character, although the original cornicing,
tiles and marble fireplaces are now
supplemented by house-party-meets-theHamptons decor that skips daintily
between period Farrow & Ball paints and
maximalist fabrics and designer wallpapers, cleverly creating “old-new” interiors
as laid-back as they are luxurious.
We’re in the attic, which has been reconstructed as the four-bedroom Penthouse,
where the vibe turns a bit Manhattan loft,
if tenderised by salty Cornish touches. So
the vaulted ceilings are clad in beach-hut
shiplap, satirical artwork by the Connor
Brothers hangs beside a wall-mounted
vintage oar, and the triple-length sprawl of
sofa overlooks French windows that open

on to a glass-fronted balcony. We gaze at
a sea that sparkles across to Trevose Head
and Padstow Lifeboat Station, a view so
mesmerising that you shouldn’t post photographs of it on socials unless you’re prepared to lose a few envy-ridden followers.
Like many self-caterers in Cornwall, we
mostly intend to ignore the concept, particularly since Padstow is so near. There’s
Michelin-starred Paul Ainsworth at No 6
(four courses £135; paul-ainsworth.co.uk)
and more posh nosh from that chap called
Rick, although Stein’s empire also includes
a cracking chippy on South Quay (takeaway cod and chips £13; rickstein.com).
Padstow’s Drang Art Gallery has great
works from high-profile contemporary
artists (free; thedranggallery.com) and
Jo Downs’s covetable glassware is worth
a look (jodowns.com). As is Padstow Kitchen Garden — the owner Ross Geach
supplies the area’s best restaurants and
runs a brilliant honesty-box farm shop
where you can pick up the same produce,
or sign up for one of his gardening courses.
He tells me that padron peppers are this
summer’s go-to greens. Geach used to be
the head chef at Stein’s, and his pop-up
dining experiences in polytunnels are a
legend in anyone’s lunchtime (four courses £50, padstowkitchengarden.co.uk).
Inspired by Geach and the Penthouse’s
TikTok-friendly Neptune kitchen, I don
a pinny. Only then do I realise that I’d
nodded but not really listened when
Atlanta Trevone’s friendly owners, Jess
and Ash Alken-Theasby, explained how to
use the fancy hand-forged Lacanche range
cooker. So I approach the hob as calmly as
a passenger asked to land a plane at a
moment’s notice. Mercifully, it is idiotfriendly, and I rustle up a delicious dinner.
Not a shameless boast, reader — I really do
rustle the greaseproof paper as I unwrap
the herb-crusted turbot from Lola’s
Cornwall, a food-delivery service run by
Tim Spedding, formerly of the Michelinstarred Ledbury in London (seven courses
from £65pp; hello@louisiana-inn.com).
Mainly, we stick to shanks’s pony and
professional chefs, a no-brainer given that
the South West Coast Path runs through
Trevone and provides the perfect amusebouche for any meal. Serenaded by oyster
catchers and skylarks, we stroll to Harlyn
Bay for chargrilled lobster with chips,
devilled cauliflower, oven-baked chorizo
and wood-roast padron peppers at the

Atlanta Trevone Penthouse

The Penthouse’s kitchen

fabulous Lobster Shed, part of the Pig
group (mains from £14; thepighotel.com).
Another evening, Joe Lippman, the
chef-patron of Duchy Grub, a great smallplates restaurant at Higher Harlyn, cooks
us a private dinner on Newtrain beach
(six courses from £40pp; duchygrub.com).
I’ve never understood the appeal of burning sausages outdoors but, suddenly, not
only am I a convert, I’m a smug one too.
Lippman produces a feast of sweet asparagus, succulent fillet steak, plump scallops
and, yep, padron peppers on a “wild” barbecue — literally, burrowing a hole in the
sand with his bare hands and filling it with
smouldering logs. I see other beachgoers
lizard-eyeing us and fear we’ve become a
new social stereotype, the “Darling, are
you fire-pitting the padron peppers?” set.

Need to
know
Susan d’Arcy was a guest of Atlanta
Trevone, which has seven nights’
self-catering from £1,300 in Atlanta
View, which sleeps five plus a toddler,
and seven nights’ self-catering for
eight in the Penthouse from £2,000
(atlantatrevonebay.com)

Trevone Bay

3 more cool Cornish pads
Winnow, Watergate Bay
This grass-roofed eco-retreat is
a stylish bolt hole with one of
Cornwall’s most popular beaches
on its doorstep — high-octane
Watergate Bay. The open-plan
living spaces and four bedrooms
are designer cool, with a mix of
vintage and reclaimed furniture,
natural textures and recycled
fabrics in colours inspired by the
frothy Atlantic and craggy clay
cliffs beyond. Floor-to-ceiling
glass doors lead to the wide
private balcony.
Details Seven nights’
self-catering for ten from
£2,305 (beachretreats.co.uk)
Cinematic Manor, Newquay
Given its name, it’s unsurprising
that this elegant whitewashed
mansion, 15 minutes’ drive
from Fistral beach, has a
cinema in the attic. It also has
an impressive, midnight-blue
dining room, a snug with its
own wood-burner, a bar with

a vintage record player and eight
bedrooms. Outside, three acres
include south-facing lawns and
a hot tub.
Details Seven nights’
self-catering for 16 from £3,325
(plumguide.com)
Balcony Studio, St Ives
On the harbourfront right in
the heart of St Ives, this newly
renovated grade II listed
hideaway is decorated in
nautical navy, with whitewashed
walls and exposed beams.
The bedroom has a king-size
four-poster bed and remotecontrolled curtains so you barely
need to lift your head from the
pillow to unveil uninterrupted
sea views towards Godrevy
Lighthouse. The bathroom has
twin rainfall showers and a
William Holland Alvius spa
bath big enough for four.
Details One night’s
self-catering for two from
£175 (thebalconystudio.co.uk)

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The Times
hotel guide
Marine
Troon
Troon, South
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What’s the story?
Take one historic golf hotel, add a bougie
makeover and you get Marine Troon,
a sandstone monolith marooned near
Ayr on Scotland’s southwest coast. After
being taken over by Marine & Lawn
Hotels and Resorts a year ago, this
Victorian grande dame has been given
a maximalist refurb. Beyond its doors
lies the 18th fairway of Royal Troon’s
Old Course, but there’s plenty to keep
non-golfers amused, including a pool
and a bar with a killer cocktail menu.
What do we like?
The invigorating, no-holds-barred

A double room

approach to decor, for starters. Floral
wallpaper on the ceiling of the Seal
bar clashes tastefully with the navy
cornicing, church pew-style benches
and upholstered armchairs in jewel
tones. There are 89 bedrooms in all and
the Marine ones have received the same
treatment, with seaweed-print wallpaper,
algae-hued headboards and framed
illustrations of Royal Troon golfing
heroes by the artist Luke Edward Hall
(Classic rooms have a more muted
palette of creams and blues).
The Rabbit restaurant is more
elegant, with chequerboard floors and
art deco-style lighting. Food is overseen
by Derek Johnstone, a former MasterChef:
The Professionals winner, who has given
his dishes an elevated gastropub vibe.

A seaview junior suite

Salmon comes from Loch Duart, scallops
and honey from Orkney and cheddar
from Mull. Mains include spinach and
mint ravioli and roast Shetland pollock
with capers and brown butter. I finished
with the burnt cheesecake with baked
rhubarb, and enjoyed the zing from the
tiny flecks of rosemary.
If you’re staying with your four-legged
friend, the same menu can be enjoyed
in the dog-friendly Seal bar, where the
cocktail list includes the knockout Troon
Old Fashioned, infused with maple syrup
and angostura bitters — or you can eat
on the wind-whipped terrace. Both the
restaurant and bar fill up with locals on
Tuesdays and Thursdays, as they’re the
only days when non-members can play
on the royal course. My fellow diners

Gabriella Bennett was
a guest of Marine Troon,
which has B&B doubles
from £159; mains from
£14 (marineandlawn.com)

included Belgian, American and
Canadian guests on golfing tours.
In the spa, the pool could do with
some love (a renovation is in the works),
though the complimentary iced tea in
the gunmetal-grey lobby is a nice touch.
What’s nearby?
The golden horseshoe of Troon beach is
steps from the hotel and never as busy
as other beaches in the area. Troon’s
working harbour is home to the Wee
Hurrie, the best chippy for miles around
(try the monkfish supper) and a west
coast institution. Burn it off with a walk
around Culzean Castle, 35 minutes by
car but worth it for views of Ailsa Craig
beneath Irn Bru-coloured sunsets.
Gabriella Bennett

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58 Travel

Travel doctor Solving your holiday dilemmas

Julia Brookes
Consumer expert

Q

ALAMY; GETTY IMAGES

We’re planning a birthday
trip to Florence in
September and would like to
have a celebration dinner
with a view, away from the
crowds. What can you suggest?
Claire Rolfe

A

The elegant Hotel Lungarno
in Borgo San Jacopo is
tucked out of the way in a
fantastic location — tables
on the terrace of its
Michelin-starred Picteau Bistrot have
a front-row view of the Ponte Vecchio
(beautifully lit up at night) and the
Arno River. Start with an award-winning
negroni before classic dishes such as
tagliolini with black truffle
(£30; lungarnocollection.com).
If you’d prefer a fabulously romantic
view of the whole city, dine under the
16th-century arches of La Loggia at the
Villa San Michele hotel in the
hills in Fiesole, where the vista stretches
beyond the Brunelleschi dome. A tasting
menu featuring Maremma beef and
pasta cooked in fish broth costs £135pp
(belmond.com).
Q My wife and I are staying with
family in Pons, southwest France, next
month. We’d like to visit a couple of
vineyards during our stay and are
particularly interested in houses that
make Crémant de Bordeaux, but
we can’t find any organised tours
that specifically mention this. We’re
resigned to catching a train to
Bordeaux to meet any tour, but
could do without the expense of
a private guide. We also intend
to make the most of the distilleries
in Cognac. How can we see some
variety in a day?
Darrell Wilson
A Bordeaux’s bubbly is delectable,
but it’s still a niche market and
there’s no organised tour of
crémant-producing houses. Without
a car your options are limited, but — if
you’re determined — hop on the No 304
bus next to the tourist office in Bordeaux

The Arno River, with
the Ponte Vecchio
in the background,
Florence. Below:
St Émilion, Bordeaux

city centre and in about an hour you’ll
reach the gorgeous medieval village
of St Émilion, where you can take a
walking tour of Les Cordeliers’
labyrinthine cellars. At the end there’s
a tasting of three crémants (and a St
Émilion macaron) in the cloisters of a
14th-century Franciscan monastery.
Another option is a tuk-tuk tour of
the village and cellars that includes
tastings (lescordeliers.com). In
Cognac it’s easy to sample a range
of brands. Try the Royal Château
de Cognac, Hennessy, Martell
and Rémy Martin, as well as the
lesser-known Bache-Gabrielsen,
where the tour and tasting is free.
Q We have planned a family
holiday to Portugal next month,
flying from Manchester airport.
We’ll be meeting my daughters at the
airport because they are scheduled to
fly in from Italy on the day we depart.
We’ll all check in online, so will they be
able to stay airside, or do they have to
come back through passport control?
They will have hand luggage only.
I’m just hoping that we can minimise
queueing amid the anticipated
summer holiday airport chaos.
Anna Brogden
A Unfortunately, Manchester airport
said that if your daughters are “self-

Don’t put
up with this
Two-year wait for a
£556 flight refund
I have been in dispute with Kiwi.com
for nearly two years over a £556
refund for flights to the Azores in
September 2020. It told me last
November that it had finally obtained
the refunds from the airlines, but I’m
finding it impossible to get the money

transferring” (so haven’t bought
connecting flights from Italy to
Portugal), then they would need to go
landside on arrival in the UK and join
the security queues. Charlie Cornish, the
airport’s chief executive, has said that
it doesn’t have sufficient staff to provide
the level of service that passengers
deserve, and while it expects most
travellers to get through to airside in less
than 40 minutes, there will be times over
the next few months when waiting times
will rise to up to 90 minutes. Good luck!
Q I missed my flight from London City
airport to Dublin on May 27, having
called British Airways (BA) to let the
airline know that I wouldn’t make it,
but my return flight was cancelled
despite repeated requests for that to be
avoided. I was told that this was “per
terms of the contract”, but not which
term or condition, and it was company
policy. I had to buy a new flight and
have been trying since then to find out
which term covers this, and have now
resorted to filing a claim through the
small-claims court and trying to raise
a complaint with the Civil Aviation
Authority. Can you help?
Jane Carter
A Many airlines employ a no-show
cancellation policy, which means that
if you fail to turn up for your first
back. My emails receive various forms
of response, such as: “Thank you for
your message. We’ll get back to you
as soon as we can. Response time
might vary according to events in the
travel industry so please be patient.”
Last year I received an email from the
Czech travel agency telling me that
I was being refunded £5.61, but that
was quickly followed by another
saying that it had made a mistake
for which it apologised. Can you find
someone at Kiwi to help me?
Sara Mason
You were the victim of an administrative
error. Kiwi.com explained that the initial

outbound flight, any other tickets in the
itinerary are made null and void. Buried
in BA’s terms and conditions is this
clause: “Your ticket is no longer valid if
you do not use all the coupons in the
sequence provided in the tickets.” BA
said that had you notified it in advance,
the return flight could have been
“protected”, or you could have been
given a voucher, and its records show
that you didn’t contact the airline until
five days after missing the flight. You
dispute this, and I sent BA the phone
records you supplied, proving that
you tried to contact it 25 minutes before
the flight departed. However, the airline
did not respond. The CAA advised you
to take your complaint to the Centre
for Effective Dispute Resolution, the
alternative dispute-resolution service
to which the airline has signed up, but
you are keen to take your case to
the small-claims court (now officially
known as Money Claim Online;
moneyclaim.gov.uk). To avoid this
situation in future, book with budget
carriers such as easyJet or Ryanair
that sell outbound and return
tickets separately.

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payment of £5.61 was wrong and
was then corrected, but this meant
that your “refund journey” was
interrupted and removed from a
processing queue. Mistakes happen,
but it shouldn’t have been impossible
to rectify. “There are no excuses,
only an explanation that thousands
of refunds were being processed every
day due to the mass cancellations
caused by the pandemic, and an
error occurred,” it said. “We sincerely
apologise for this and will be
providing the customer with €120
in credits for use towards a future
booking. Of course, the refund will
be actioned immediately.” *