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Leave vote would have consequences for Calais border deal, warns French President

JOHN LICHFIELD IN AMIENS
AND NIGEL MORRIS
The two most powerful
nations on the European
continent issued dark
warnings yesterday about
the consequences for Britain
and for Europe if the UK
votes to leave the EU.
The French President,
Franois Hollande, said
Brexit would inevitably have
some impact on his countrys
willingness to stop illegal
migrants from crossing the
English Channel. The German
Finance Minister, Wolfgang
Schuble, argued that Brexit
would make the whole of
Europe less stable and more
volatile, adding that Britain
would be shut out of the single
market if it left the EU.
Their interventions pro-
vided a boost for David Cam-
eron, who is facing fierce
opposition to his pleas for
Britain to stay in the EU from
nearly 130 of his MPs and the
majority of Tory activists.
The gloomy French and
German forecasts could sway
some undecided voters, with
about one-third believed to
be wavering over which way
to jump in the referendum on
23 June. However, Leave cam-
paigners are convinced that
comments by foreign politi-
cians could backfire and be
seen by Britons as an attempt
to bully the country into line.
Chris Grayling, the Leader
of the Commons, said:
The Euro establishment is
desperate for Britain to stay in
the EU. We spend billions of
pounds each year supporting
the EU, and they dont want
to lose our money.
Mr Hollande made his
remarks at the end of a Franco-
British summit in the Somme
region with Mr Cameron. It
is for British voters to decide.
It is not for me to warn or
threaten. That would prob-
ably be counter-productive,
he said. But there will, of
course, be consequences if
Britain leaves the EU, includ-
ing consequences for how we
handle the question of immi-
gration in Calais.
Earlier, the French Econ-
omy Minister, Emmanuel
Macron, had warned that the
Jungle refugee camp in Calais
could be transplanted to the
Kent coast if Britain votes
to leave. But Mr Macrons
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NEWS Banksy unmasked by
geographic profiling
A technique used to catch serial
criminals has named him as
Robin Gunningham
P.4
Online dating agencies
told to increase security
Judge who jailed Match.com
rapist for life demands more
protection for web-users
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WORLD Syrian ceasefire hotline
needs some work, says US
Volunteers manning the phones
to record violent incidents are
unable to understand Arabic
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another Beadle about
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racism, sexism and other forms
of abuse to gauge public reaction
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new French hands, and are
pushing fashion forwards
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of its UK stores
More than 2,000 jobs could be
at risk in shake-up following last
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Editorials
Hope for Hillary
The US presidency is Clintons to lose so long as she
concentrates on her country rather than her competitor
The line-up for the US presidential campaign
proper is all but confirmed. Donald Trump
will win the Republican nomination, unless
party elites can find a way to derail his progress
towards the required tally of delegates;
Hillary Clinton, for the Democrats, will face
him across the divide.
The contrast between the two could hardly
be more marked. Mr Trump is a Ku Klux
Klan-indulging demagogue who lacks any
understanding of policy but knows how to
worm his way into the hearts of voters. Ms
Clinton is a wonk of the very highest calibre,
running on a message of love and kindness,
but unable to reach Americans on the same
guttural level. There may be some way to
go yet, before the duel begins in July, but
both campaigns and both candidates are
arranging their arsenals.
It would be a disaster for America and for
the wider world if Mr Trump were to make it
to the White House, and that prospect must
now be taken seriously. Certainly, Mr Trump
can change character in a flash, as he showed
in a gracious speech after his barnstorming
victories in seven states on Super Tuesday.
But even if he were able to leave the race-
baiting and buffoonish machismo behind
(something which is far from certain), he
would plough the nation into the ground.
Building walls, raising tariffs on China, mass
deportations: these are policies by crayon. They
may soothe a sense of angst among a proportion
of the US electorate, but they will not improve
the economic fortunes of the low-paid, nor will
they make America great again a mantra
that Mr Trump ceaselessly repeats.
There are voters who label Mr Trump a sheep
in wolfs clothing and believe he could make
a more moderate president than is expected.
Besides being too clever by half, this overlooks
Hall order
Students in London are being priced out of degrees
Students at University College London are
withholding rent owed on their accommodation
in protest at high prices. With 500 people now
participating, it is said that 1m in hall fees is
at stake.
UCL denies students claims that it is raking in
huge profits; officials point out that the college
is a not-for-profit institution. Still, rent has
risen sharply since 2009, and rooms in UCLs
halls of residence typically cost about 200 a
week. This, on top of the burden of tuition fees,
is fuelling student frustration. Financial stress
does not aid successful study.
The latest comments by UCL officials
have further inflamed a tense situation. Not
only has it been made clear to students that
they can expect to face eviction in the event
of non-payment, the director of estates has
told protesters it is a fact of life that some
individuals can no longer afford to study in
London. Some will say that this is mere realism
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Mr Trumps insatiable desire for popularity. The
people who love him most are angry and want
The Donald to reshape America. If Mr Trump
does not fulfil their desires, they will desert him,
leaving only the marginally less cold disdain of
the other half of the electorate.
Just as complacency in the Republican
Party allowed Mr Trump to build up his
formidable lead, some Democrat strategists
think cheerfully of his nomination. They should
reconsider. Some polls show a mere three-point
gap between Ms Clinton and Mr Trump when
voters are forced to choose between the two.
Mr Trump is riding a wave, and the cautious
Ms Clinton has already proved vulnerable to a
candidate promising revolution, in the shape
of Bernie Sanders.
The way Ms Clinton can ensure that sanity
prevails is to concentrate on appealing to
America, rather than countering Mr Trump and
stooping to his level. Her campaign wisely plans
to leave direct confrontation to her husband
Bill, and President Barack Obama is as he
showed at the White House Correspondents
Association dinner in 2011 another ready and
willing attack dog. Mr Trump has proved adept
at insulting men, but his misogynist attacks on
women played less well. When her male peers
have attempted to bully Ms Clinton in the past,
it has rebounded to her advantage. She should
let Mr Trump walk into that trap.
Forty-six per cent of Americans have a very
unfavourable view of Mr Trump. Ms Clintons
political action committee will angle in on his
bigotry and a business record that veers towards
the disastrous.
Against such a figure as Mr Trump, the
Democrats could clinch the Senate as well as
the White House in 2016 and set America on a
healthy course. It is Ms Clintons to lose. But she
should steel herself for the fight of a lifetime.
but it is also symbolic of an atmosphere in
which empathy is desperately lacking.
It is no wonder students think that their
college authorities do not care. Claims that UCL
is engaged in some sort of social engineering
are wide of the mark. It is true that bursaries are
available for less-well-off students. But when
set against the costs of studying, the money
on offer seems inadequate. A student with
an assessed household income of 12,000 or
less can receive a cash bursary of 2,000 a year
little more than two months rent.
Compromise may still be possible, yet
UCL is clear that it will not agree to cut
accommodation costs by the 40 per cent
demanded by protesters. More broadly, this
student action has rekindled the debate about
access to higher education, especially in the
UKs most expensive cities. As things stand,
some students are, by degrees, being priced
out of the university market.
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Who is Banksy?
Statistical
geoprofiling
has the answer
Scientific technique usually devoted to
finding criminals used to solve mystery
ADAM SHERWIN
MEDIA CORRESPONDENT
A technique used to catch
serial criminals has proved
that the elusive artist Banksy
really is a man named Robin
Gunningham, according to
academic research that the
artist hoped to keep under
wraps.
Scientists at Queen Mary
University of London claim
to have tagged Banksy using
geographic profiling, by
identifying a pattern between
the locations where his graf-
fiti artworks most frequently
appear and addresses with a
close association to Mr Gun-
ningham, identified as Banksy
in a 2008 newspaper investi-
gation.
The secretive street artist
was the unwilling subject of
a statistical geoprofile. The
research was delayed after
Banksys lawyers contacted
the university with concerns
over how the study, titled
Tagging Banksy, would be
promoted.
The researchers said they
wanted to demonstrate the
broader potential of geo-
graphic profiling, a sophisti-
cated form of statistical analy-
sis used in criminology to try
to narrow down possible loca-
tions where a repeat offender
might be living.
Setting themselves the
challenge of establishing
Banksys identity, the aca-
demics selected 140 sus-
pected works by the artist
in London and Bristol. The
locations suggested clusters
of hot spots which could be
narrowed down, with further
investigation, to pinpoint an
individual.
The hot spot peaks cor-
related to a pub, playing fields,
a residential address in Bristol
and three addresses in Lon-
don. Using publicly available
information, the researchers
concluded that those loca-
tions were all places lived in
or frequented by Mr Gun-
ningham.
The geoprofile created
for Mr Gunningham provided
strong evidence for the claim
that the former public school-
boy from Bristol, unmasked
in 2008, was indeed Banksy.
The academics made the
unflattering comparison
between Banksys street art-
work, which sells for up to
500,000 and acts of criminal
vandalism.
The pseudonymous artist
Banksy is one of the UKs most
successful contemporary art-
ists, but his identity remains
Banksy strikes again... with an arresting piece of guerrilla street a mystery. The model takes as
art in London C HR IS JAC KSO N / GE T T Y IMAGE S input the locations of these
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artworks and calculates the
probability of offender resi-
dence across the study area,
they wrote.
Our analysis highlights
areas associated with one
prominent candidate (eg, his
home), supporting his iden-
tification as Banksy. More
broadly, these results sup-
port previous suggestions that
analysis of minor terrorism-
related acts (eg, graffiti) could
be used to help locate terror-
ist bases before more serious
incidents occur, and provides
a fascinating example of
the application of the
model to a complex, real-
world problem.
Biologist Steve Le Comber,
a co-author of the report, told
the BBC: Id be surprised if
its not [Gunningham], even
without our analysis, but its
interesting that the analysis
offers additional support for
it. Banksys legal interven-
tion did not alter the research,
which was published in the
Journal of Spatial Science after
a short delay. It is believed that
the artists concerns centred
on the press materials accom-
panying the paper.
The validity of the Banksy
paper has been questioned
by the Gizmodo technology
blog, however, which called
the method incredibly
imprecise.
THE INDEPENDENT FRIDAY 4 MARCH 2016
McDonalds
paints itself
into corner
with graffiti
decor
PAUL GALLAGHER
McDonalds has been criti-
cised for using fake graffiti
tags to decorate one of its res-
taurants in an inner city area
plagued with such daubings.
The fast food chains newly-
refurbished branch in Brixton,
south London, features lamp-
shades covered with graffiti.
But many locals are not
impressed. One said the rede-
sign was a poorly thought
through, corporate attempt
at being down with the kids,
while another said the fast food
giant was trying too hard to be
urban cool. Lambeth resident
Matthew Jupp said: Hopefully
this is another step towards
graffiti being really dated and
corporate and thus not worth
doing.
Lee Dema, who runs the St
Matthews Project, a young
peoples support network
named after a Brixton estate,
told The Independent: This is
just another misguided attempt
by suits to identify with edgy
Brixton. They should have
opened up another outlet in
Brixton Village and used Laura
Ashley lampshades for all the
middle-class poseurs around
UCL tells rent-strike students: it is a fact of life
that some people cant afford to study in London
EXCLUSIVE
RACHAEL PELLS
The rent strike dispute at
University College London
has worsened after an official
told students it was a fact of
life that some people couldnt
afford to study in London.
Hundreds of students are
at risk of eviction after pledg-
ing to join an indefinite rent
strike declared last month.
The group, who are tenants at
UCLs Ramsay Hall and Max
Rayne House residences, are
said to be withholding a total
of more than 1m in protest
against soaring accommo-
dation fees.
During a meeting between
UCL representatives and Cut
the Rent, the campaign group
behind the protest, manage-
ment officials said they were
not prepared to meet the
groups demands to cut rent
prices by 40 per cent. UCLs
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them. The food critic and TV
presenter Jay Rayner called the
design a truly offensive idea
saying that the real thing
blights Brixton.
However, many street artists
disagree with the view graffiti
has had a negative effect on
the south London district.
director of estates, Andrew
Grainger, was recorded telling
students: We do not set out
rents on the basis of the least
well-off students some peo-
ple just simply cannot afford
to study in London and that is
just a fact of life.
The directors comments at
the meeting last month have
enraged the protesters, a
number of whom have already
received written warnings
about their payments.
It wasnt a fact of life
seven years ago, said Sarah
Benamar, who lives at Max
Rayne House. I dont believe
facts of life are subject to
change. UCL has made this
situation a reality, and it is
definitely within their power
to unmake it now. That is what
we are asking for.
At the meeting, Mr Grainger
confirmed that UCL manage-
ment will pursue evictions
against students participating
in the rent strike, describing
Several graffiti murals have
been painted on the shutters
of small businesses in Brixton
as part of a campaign to stop
them being pushed out by a
railway development.
The Brixton McDonalds
redesign is the latest in a long
line of similar interior revamps
the process as a last resort.
He said: If people withhold
their rent, which is a very
clear, decisive action on the
students part, then ulti-
mately UCL will have to take
action.
Cut the Rent campaigners
estimate that UCLs rents
have risen by 56 per cent
since 2009 and are set to rise
UCL students have withheld more than 1m in rent and have
demanded that accommodation fees be cut by 40 per cent
from the fast food company
that have usually been met
with complaints. Leicester,
Northampton and Brighton
are just some of the cities that
have already been given the
extreme makeover.
Last October, customers in
Redhill, Surrey, denounced
again next year. Rooms in
the universitys three halls
of residence range between
143.50 and 270.06 per
week, making them some of
the most expensive student
digs in the country. A small
number of shared rooms are
available for less.
UCL runs its accommoda-
tion with a 45 per cent profit
the same kind of refurbish-
ment at their local outlet as
too ghetto.
A McDonalds spokesperson
said: The exciting and fresh
designs used in Brixton are in
use across the UK, and in other
markets, and have received a
great reception. With self-
margin of more than 15m,
yet shows flagrant disregard
for socially accessible educa-
tion, the group said. This can
only be described as a social
cleansing of the university.
About 150 students have
been withholding rent since
the strike began, with a further
500 signing an agreement to
refuse the payments requested
for next terms fees.
As well as calling for reduced
rent, students are campaign-
ing for greater transparency
in the way their fees are spent,
accusing UCL of exploiting
its residents for profit to fund
the universitys vast expan-
sion plan.
Campaign organiser Angus
OBrien confirmed that UCL
management have started
procedures to evict student
strikers, and said the group
would continue to oppose
the universitys response.
UCL spokesman Domi-
nique Fourniol disputed
Some people
in Brixton,
south
London, say
McDonalds
has gone too
far with this
restaurant
refurbishment
MICHA
THEINER
order kiosks and free-to-use
tablets, the refreshed restau-
rant has digital innovation at
its heart and provides custom-
ers with more choice in how
they order and pay. We look
forward to hearing what local
residents think of their new
McDonalds.
claims that the university
made a profit from tenants,
but confirmed that income
from accommodation serv-
ices was being used to fund
planned new residences.
He added: We fully appre-
ciate that affordability in
London is an issue, and we
do everything we can to keep
rents affordable.
This is a challenge not just
for UCL but all universities
in central London. We do not
make any profit on rent. We
are a not-for-profit organisa-
tion, and any surplus each year
on rent is ploughed back into
residences.
Alfie Duffen, a student par-
ticipating in the rent strike,
said: The cost of accommo-
dation should not affect a stu-
dents ability to come to UCL.
We will continue striking until
UCL has made this a reality,
not a pretence.
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Britain and the EU
Germanys warning:
no access to single
market unless you
pay into EU budget
< Continued from P.1
remarks were dismissed by
Leave campaigners as part of a
scare campaign stage-man-
aged by Downing Street.
Mr Schuble, the second-
most powerful politician in
Germany, reflected his nations
fears that Britains departure
from the EU would create tur-
moil in the bloc. Berlin regards
the UK as an important coun-
terbalance to the countries in
Southern Europe. Speaking at
a British Chambers of Com-
merce conference in London,
Mr Schuble said: I think the
UK would take the risk that
continental Europe would be
less stable, more volatile.
Asked how Germany would
feel if Britain voted on 23
June to leave, he replied: We
would cry But I hope we will
not. Look, its a decision of the
British people, of course.
Mr Schuble added that
Britain would be able to con-
tinue having access to the
single market only if it agreed
to pay into the EU budget and
accept freedom of move-
ment of people as well as of
goods and services. He said:
That will not be a reasonable
position for the UK.
Appearing alongside him,
the Chancellor, George
Osborne, said: Is it the case
that the national security
of the UK, the security of
Europe, will be helped if we
were to leave the EU? I dont
think it would be the case, and
my colleague here, Wolfgang
Schuble, agrees with me.
Following the French
Presidents comments, Mr
Cameron angrily denied any
collusion with Paris to bolster
the Remain campaign. He
likened the suggestion to the
ideas advanced by the conspir-
acy theorist David Icke.
When important people
abroad when the Economics
Minister of a friendly country,
gives a warning, we should lis-
ten to them, the Prime Minis-
ter said. Of course you can say
this is all some giant conspir-
acy That is just nonsense.
The best thing to do is to
listen to the arguments, to
listen to what people are say-
Wolfgang Schuble said that
Germany would cry if the UK
voted to leave the EU G ETTY
ing, and to understand some
of the risks and some of the
uncertainties about leaving
the European Union.
Mr Cameron also
announced that Britain was
giving France another 17m
on top of 51m already spent
to cover part of the costs of
security in Calais and shipping
migrants to reception centres
elsewhere in France.
Without being as direct
as Mr Macron, Mr Hollande
said the British must face up
to the fact that their decision
would have consequences
for many aspects of their rela-
tionship with France and the
rest of Europe. This included
maintaining full access to the
European single market, he
said, but also the people situ-
ation in Calais.
He added: It doesnt mean
everything will be destroyed,
I dont want to give you cata-
strophic scenarios, but there
will be consequences. All
democratic votes have conse-
quences Otherwise there
would be no point in voting.
Since 2003, a bilateral
Franco-British treaty signed
at a similar summit in Le Tou-
quet has in effect shifted the
British frontier to the French
side of the Channel. British
passport officers and security
officials, backed by security
This [Calais] treaty has
a limited life. If Britain
leaves the EU, it will be
time to renegotiate
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fences and hundreds of French
police, work together to try to
prevent illegal migrants or
asylum-seekers from reach-
ing British soil. In an interview
with the Financial Times, Mr
Macron said his government
wanted this treaty to con-
tinue but it would inevitably
be threatened if Britain
quit the EU. If Britain left, the
migrants will no longer be in
Calais, he warned.
French officials insisted
there was no collusion with
Britain. One source said Mr
Macron had given the inter-
view several days ago and was
just thinking aloud.
Several senior French
politicians from the right
and left already believe that
the Franco-British border
should be moved back to the
UK. Among them is the newly
elected centre-right president
of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-
Picardie region, Xavier Ber-
trand. After yesterdays sum-
mit, he told The Independent:
For me, this is a treaty which
has a limited life. If Britain
leaves the EU, it will be time
to renegotiate.
Will Straw, the executive
director of Britain Stronger In
Europe, said: The main argu-
ment of those campaigning
to leave the EU lies in tatters.
The people who will decide
what deal we get if we leave
Europe are unanimous we
cannot end free movement,
end budget contributions or
unilaterally ignore EU regu-
lations without losing access
to the EUs free-trade single
market. This would put jobs
and low prices at risk.
However, the Leave cam-
paign received a fillip when
John Longworth, the director-
general of the British Cham-
bers of Commerce, threw his
weight behind the Brexit cam-
paign. With the reforms we David
have received so far, the UK Cameron
would be better off taking a and Franois
decision to leave, he said. Hollande in
He argued that the UK could the Muse
create a brighter economic de Picardie
future for itself outside the in Amiens
EU and the long-term risks of after the
staying in the bloc were likely 34th Franco-
to be as daunting as the short- British
term risks of leaving. summit AP
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Q& A THE FACTS AB OUT
MI GRATI ON P OST-B REXI T
Q | Would Brexit really mean
that migrants could pour over
the Channel unchecked?
A | Legally, there is no reason
why this should be the case.
Politically, it is likely that the
UKs departure from the EU
would call into question the
2003 treaty which, in effect,
moved Britains border to the
French side of the Chan-
nel. The French Economy
Minister, Emmanuel Macron,
delighted the Remain camp
by suggesting that Calais
migrants would be allowed
to reach Kent unhindered.
His comments do not reflect
French government policy but
do reflect growing political
pressure in France to scrap
the present arrangement.
Q | The 2003 Treaty of Le
Touquet is a French-British
bilateral treaty. Why should
leaving the EU matter?
A | Like any divorce, Brexit
would cause bitterness on
the part of the jilted party.
Many French politicians, of
both right and left, are al-
ready questioning the Calais
status quo. Imagine if the
situation were reversed and
thousands of migrants seek-
ing asylum in France were
being blocked in Dover or
Folkestone. How would Brit-
ish public opinion view the
prospect of UK money and
manpower being deployed
indefinitely to defend
France?
Q | Would the end of the
Treaty of Le Touquet transfer
The Jungle to Kent?
A | Not necessarily. If France
scrapped the present British
passport controls and secu-
rity checks in Calais and if
the French abandoned their
own controls many more
migrants and asylum-seekers
would cross. But the ferry
companies and Eurotunnel,
and individual motorists and
lorry drivers, would still face
steep fines (up to 3,000 a
person) for bringing unau-
thorised people to Kent.
There would be a stream
of extra migrants reaching
Britain but not necessarily a
flood. There would therefore
be a new problem for the
French. Any relaxation of the
controls would attract even
more migrants to Calais and
other French Channel ports.
The Calais Jungle and similar
squatter camps might actu-
ally get bigger.
Q | Was Mr Macron put up to
it by Downing Street?
A | Any collusion is strenu-
ously denied. Mr Macron
is a loose cannon. He often
speaks out of turn. But he
often voices unspoken truths.
JOHN LICHFIELD
Corbyns business tip: if you
cant beat them, bore them
Sketch
TOM
PECK
It is now a firmly established
principle of political life
that a persons suitability for
high office is best measured
through their capacity to
speak without notes. It is
only a historical quirk that
elections continue to be held
at all, the seals of office not
merely handed to whoever
can talk for the longest with-
out recourse to a cue card.
But Jeremy Corbyn is right
when he says it is time for a
new kind of politics, and that
kind of politics will be one
in which it will be required
not merely to speak without
notes but without pauses.
In theory, the Labour
leaders speech to the Brit-
ish Chambers of Commerce
lasted 25 minutes, but should
the entire transcript ever
be produced, it will pose a
higher risk to the structural
integrity of the internet than
the denuded rump of Kim
Kardashian West.
It can only really be
described as meandering at
high speed. It was as if the
entirety of half-baked left-
wing economic thought was
spread out like the surface of
a lake and Mr Corbyn was a
lump of sodium cast upon it.
I stand on a platform
made of three pillars of
Brexit campaigns use of NHS logo
on its leaflets breaches trademark
EXCLUSIVE
ON OTHER
PAUL GALLAGHER
PAGES
Andrew The Department of Health has
Grice: it is in told the Vote Leave campaign
Osbornes to stop using the official NHS
interests to logo in its Brexit literature as
play the role using the trademark breaches
of the unifier its guidelines.
P.8 The anti-EU group has
distributed leaflets and let-
Afghanistan ters bearing the white capital
ruled safe letters on a blue background
enough with the message to Save our
to restart NHS in the top-right corner.
deportations Underneath a large message to
of asylum Help protect your local hospi-
seekers tal is the groups slogan to
P.8 Vote Leave, take control.
The NHS logo and letters are
Voices: registered trademarks owned
Isabel by the Department of Health
Hardman to be used in accordance with
P.31 its brand guidelines.
financial ecology, he began,
I think. Unfortunately, even
my dictaphone fell asleep.
Reforming a national
investment bank with strong
communities and a break
from failed orthodoxy and
speculative finance with
a lopsided economy that
understand the importance
of innovation and supporting
small businesses.
What couldnt be ignored
was that this was the very
same room where, six
months ago, he had formally
ascended to the Labour lead-
ership. The conveyor belt
moves on and Ive just been
elevated up to here, he said
as he took to the lectern.
It was his first speech to an
audience of business people,
who are, in general, sceptical
as to whether a chap several
decades into his own per-
sonal struggle to overthrow
global capitalism is really on
their side. If ever a strong
message were needed, it was
here. My watchword is this,
Jeremy Corbyn eyes up a
business audience R E U T E R S
They can only be used in
official NHS communica-
tions in support of NHS core
principles and values, which
include being honest to
avoid misleading information
and false promises.
research. A spokesman for
The leaflet claims Brexit will
allow more health spending
he told them. Promotion of
human rights and democracy
around the world.
He was not the first
politician to give a rambling
speech. He was arguably the
first to do it while actually
dressed as a rambler. Corbyn
observers have long given
up hope of any rapproche-
ment between neck and shirt
collar, but never before has
the tie been hung so loose
around the neck.
Pressed, at the end, for
an elevator pitch on what
Labour might do for busi-
ness, his answer stretched
to two and a half minutes.
Were going to shape a new
Britain, it began. It can
not only be done by public
and private sectors. This bit
alone took him far beyond
the viewing platforms at the
Burj Khalifa. By the time
he was on to the spirit of
practical co-operation that
drives local chambers of
commerce, he was sharing
a vegan space lasagne with
Major Tim Peake.
Then it was on to innova-
tive developers in their back
gardens with glass ceilings,
an idea that, once developed,
had carried him into open
space, past the monkeys
sitting diligently at their
typewriters, before landing
safely on a a distant alternate
Earth, where a chap called
Jeremy Corbyn is gently but
determinedly destroying
the Labour Party without so
much as a pause for breath.
NHS Brand Guidelines, the
body that manages the marks
on behalf of the Health Sec-
retary, said: The trademark
cannot be used by other organ-
isations without our authorisa-
tion. Its use is strictly enforced
to guard against misuse.
A health department spokes-
man said: We have informed
Vote Leave this is an inappro-
priate use of the NHS brand.
One of Vote Leaves central
arguments is that it wants to
stop sending 350m every
week to Brussels and instead
spend it on our priorities,
like the NHS and science
Britain Stronger in Europe
said: Its shameless of Leave
campaigners to use the NHSs
much-loved brand in this
cynical, grubby and under-
hand manner.
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Britain and the EU
Why is Osborne
playing nice with
the Brexiteers?
For the leadership
Analysis
ANDREW
GRICE
George Osborne is deter-
mined to play the good cop
to David Camerons bad cop
during the Conservative
Partys fractious debate about
EU membership.
The Chancellor has told
Tory MPs he is invoking Ron-
ald Reagans 11th command-
ment his pledge to avoid
personal attacks on fellow US
Republicans. I wont speak
ill of a Conservative, he said.
Mr Osborne will turn
down a request from broad-
casters for a shoot-out at
Wembley Arena against
Boris Johnson. He will play
the economic ball, not the
man, in marked contrast to
Mr Cameron, who could
not disguise his anger when
Mr Johnson came out as an
Outer. Unwisely, he accused
the Mayor of London of hav-
ing another agenda in
effect, putting his Tory lead-
ership ambitions above the
national interest.
Of course, Mr Osborne is
not without ambition. So it
is in his interests to play the
role of the unifier who brings
the Tories back together
again after the referendum
and takes the fight to Labour.
The Conservative Party
is a family of people who
have for many years known
that weve disagreed on this
one issue, he told the BBC.
There are so many things we
do agree on.
But the Chancellor has a
problem: the decision of his
main rival in the Tory leader-
ship stakes to campaign for
Brexit has transformed the
contest. As Mr Cameron has
announced he will not lead
the party into the next gen-
eral election, our next Prime
Minister will be chosen by
just 150,000 people Tory
members.
Ominously for Mr
Osborne, the first survey
of them showed that Mr
Johnson is the choice of 43
per cent (up from 38 per cent
before he became an Outer),
with the Chancellor on 22
per cent and Theresa May on
19 per cent. The YouGov poll
for The Times showed that
the London Mayor (56 per
cent) would beat Mr Osborne
(38 per cent) in a run-off
between the two men.
Crucially, the shortlist of
two from which Tory mem-
bers choose the leader is
decided by the partys MPs.
Since returning to the Com-
mons last May, Mr Johnson
has not built much of a fol-
lowing among Tory MPs,
fuelling Team Osbornes
hopes that he might not win a
place on the shortlist.
But by declaring for Out,
Mr Johnson has surely guar-
anteed himself enough sup-
port to make the run-off. So
far, 162 Tory MPs have said
they will vote to Remain and
126 to Leave, with 42 yet to
declare. Suddenly, Mr John-
son does not look so lonely.
If the poll is right, Mr
Osborne has gone from hero
to zero in a few months.
Last summer he was widely
seen as the front-runner
to succeed Mr Cameron,
after helping him win an
unexpected general elec-
George Osborne at the British
Chambers of Commerce
conference yesterday A F P
It is in Mr Osbornes
interest to play the role
of the unifier who brings
the Tories back together
tion victory and presenting
a successful Budget. But his
U-turn over tax credits, and
mishandling of the Google
tax controversy, has dam-
aged him in the eyes of some
Tory MPs.
Now the EU referendum
is harming his prospects.
Some Eurosceptics blame
him for converting Mr Cam-
eron to the In cause regard-
less of the new deal he won
from the EU.
The Chancellor insists he
is merely doing his day job.
The best thing I can do is to
give that serious, sober and
principled analysis of the
profound damage it [Brexit]
would do to our economic
interests, he said.
Mr Osborne is getting used
to the rollercoaster ride. He
was shaken by being booed
at the 2012 Paralympics. But
instead of accepting what
many Tories believed that
his unpopularity among vot-
ers would make it impossible
for him to succeed Mr Cam-
eron he relaunched himself
with a diet, a new haircut
and vowed to get out more
from his Treasury bubble,
usually in a hi-vis jacket.
He bounced back, and
friends insist he can do so
again. Mr Johnson, who will
appear on the BBCs Andrew
Marr Show on Sunday, is
enjoying the limelight. But
Mr Osborne will take centre
stage when he presents his
Budget on 16 March.
A vote to leave the EU in
June would kill Mr Osbornes
hopes of becoming Tory
leader. But if Mr Cameron
prevails, he would be very
much in the game although
many Tories are convinced
that their next leader will be
an Outer, whatever the refer-
endum result.
Yet if Britain votes to stay
in the EU, Mr Cameron
would have two reasons to
remain in Downing Street for
as long as possible. Firstly,
to ensure the One Nation
legacy he wants. Secondly,
to allow time to heal Tory
wounds on Europe and ease
the path of his chosen succes-
sor, Mr Osborne.
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Volunteers
put out a fire
at the Jungle
migrant
camp in
Calais, as
demolition
workers raze
makeshift
shelters in
the camps
southern
part for the
fourth day
running
AFP/ GE T T Y
Afghanistan ruled
safe enough to deport
asylum-seekers from UK
Hundreds will be returned after Theresa May wins
case against ban, writes MAEVE M C CLENAGHAN
Hundreds of failed asylum- of Investigative Journalism,
seekers, including former child even the Afghan government
migrants, are to be sent back to pleaded with the UK not to
Afghanistan after the Court of resume deportations.
Appeal ruled that deportations The blanket ban imposed
can be resumed. last year resulted from a case
A blanket ban on deporta- brought by a group of Afghan
tions back to the war-ravaged asylum-seekers, including HN,
countrywas imposed in August who was 14 when he entered
last year amid concerns that it the UK alone in 2007.
was too dangerous. Swathes of The Upper Tribunal had
territory are controlled by the ruled that, while several prov-
Taliban, and Isis is establishing inces in Afghanistan were not
a foothold. secure, the capital Kabul was
B u t Ho m e S e c r e t a r y safe enough for returns. HNs
Theresa May yesterday won
a significant legal battle to
lawyers appealed and while the
courts assessed this decision,
restart the flights even judges agreed a rare blanket
though last year was the
bloodiest on record for civil-
ban on all deportation flights
to Afghanistan.
ian casualties in the country. Removing that injunction
According to leaked docu- yesterday, Court of Appeal
ments obtained by the Bureau judges emphasised they were
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making their decision for legal
reasons because HNs appeal
had been dismissed and not
because the security situation
had changed.
However, HNs solicitor,
Toufique Hossain, said: The
Home Offices intention now
will be able to remove people to
Afghanistan, theres no doubt
about that. Theyve been ham-
pered in their efforts to char-
ter flights every month, which
theyve pushed in the past.
With the rise of Isis and
frequent attacks by the Taliban
giving rise to an internal armed
conflict, our view is that these
claimants have further claims
for protection. We will not give
up the fight for our clients.
Special charter flights to
Kabul will now take hundreds
of Afghans back to their home
country. The Home Office
plans to deport even Afghans
who hail from dangerous prov-
inces, on the grounds that they
can live safely in the capital.
Afghanistans Minister for
Refugees and Repatriation
told the Bureau that his coun-
try was particularly worried
about the return of former
child asylum-seekers.
He said: People who lived
in the UK for so many years till
they became 18 are completely
M 9
unfamiliar with Afghanistans
situation and challenges and
this can cause problems. UK
government should have
granted them asylum.
British Government rep-
resentatives met Afghan gov-
ernment officials early last
year to discuss the issue. The
UK delegation was asked to
cease forced deportation of
refugees, according to paper-
work seen by the Bureau.
Then, in November 2015,
the Afghan Ministry of Refu-
gees and Repatriation wrote
to the British embassy, saying:
Keeping the current situa-
tion in Afghanistan in mind,
the ministry of foreign affairs
expects the authorities and the
general public in our friends
country the UK to show toler-
ance concerning the return of
Afghan citizens, in particular
in cases where returnees are
Most have vulnerable individuals.
Todays decision comes a
been in week after Home Office fig-
the UK ures showed a 56 per cent rise
in the number of asylum claims
since they last year by unaccompanied
were about minors. Of those 3,043 claims,
656, or 21 per cent, were made
15 and are by Afghan children.
terrified Emily Bowerman works
with Refugee Support Net-
work, a charity that currently
MESSAGE TO M IGRANTS
DONT COM E TO EUROPE
Economic migrants should
not even contemplate coming
illegally to Europe, the EU
warned yesterday before a
last-ditch attempt to stop
the tide of people arriving
on the continents shores.
Donald Tusk, President of the
European Council, issued a
strongly-worded warning to
the those tempted to join the
wave of refugees from Syria
and Iraq in search of work.
Speaking in Athens before
a key EU summit on Monday,
he appealed to all potential
illegal economic migrants:
Do not come to Europe. Do
not risk your lives and your
money. It is all for nothing.
Greece, or any other Euro-
pean country, will no longer
be a transit country.
More than a million people
arrived in Europe by sea last
year and the flow is continu-
ing. Balkan states and Austria
have responded with strict
border limits, creating a back-
log in Greece and triggering
a political crisis that may
destroy the key EU principle
of freedom of movement.
Mr Tusk was in Ankara for
talks with Turkish leaders,
who are seen as a vital part
of solving the crisis. Turkey
is home to 2.5 million Syrians
and the starting point for
most of those voyaging to Eu-
rope by boat. Mr Tusk wants
Turkey to accept migrants
turned away by Europe.
LAURA PITEL IN ISTANBUL
is supporting 27 Afghan boys
in their late teens and early
20s who face the possibility
of return to Afghanistan. She
said: Most have been in the
UK since they were about 15
and are terrified about being
sent back to an unfamiliar and
insecure environment.
This judgement will have
devastating implications on
many young people who have
spent their formative teen-
age years in the UK and are
now being told that they must
return to Afghanistan. We are
deeply concerned that they
will be especially vulnerable to
exploitation, targeted violence
and discrimination.
Civilian casualties in
Afghanistan are on the rise.
The United Nations Assist-
ance Mission in Afghanistan
has noted that the number of
civilian casualties in Afghani-
stan during 2015 was the high-
est recorded. It documented
11,002 civilian casualties (3,545
deaths and 7,457 injured) in
2015, exceeding the previous
record in 2014.
The Home Office declined
to comment.
Additional reporting by
Safya Khan-Ruf and Pay-
enda Sargand
Migrant smugglers
cheaper boats even
more dangerous
CHARLIE COOPER
WHITEHALL CORRESPONDENT
The EUs naval mission to
combat migrant smugglers in
the Mediterranean has driven
traffickers to increasingly use
less seaworthy rubber boats
because they will be a smaller
financial loss if sunk, a top
European general has said.
Giving evidence to a House
of Lords committee yesterday,
Lieutenant General Wolfgang
Wosolsobe, director general of
the European Union Military
Staff, said that traffickers had
been forced to amend their
business model as a result of
the EUs policy of intercept-
ing and sinking boats used
for trafficking refugees and
migrants from Libya into
southern Europe.
Lt Gen Wosolsobe said that
traffickers were bulk-buying
rubber-hulled boats from
China which have less car-
rying capacity and are more
limited by sea conditions.
The EU launched its mili-
tary operation in the Medi-
terranean known as Opera-
tion Sophia last spring, in
response to a string of sinking
incidents in which hundreds
of migrants drowned.
Military vessels from sev-
eral EU states, including the
Royal Navys HMS Richmond,
have taken part in the opera-
Borders
put at risk
by delay to
new system
NIGEL MORRIS
DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR
National security could be put
at risk by the protracted hold-
ups in implementing a 1.1bn
system of border checks, MPs
warned today.
They accused the Home
Office of misplaced confi-
ON OTHER
PAGES dence over the introduction
of the e-Borders programme,
Mark Steel: which is due to become fully
If only operational in 2019, eight
Pickfords years later than originally
handled planned.
removals The Public Accounts Com-
like the mittee told the department to
French... get its house in order now
P.32 over the system, which has
tion, which is attempting to
break up trafficking networks,
apprehend smugglers, and
sink their boats.
Lt Gen Wosolsobe said that
migrants were being told by
people traffickers not to aid
authorities by disclosing infor-
mation about their route after
arriving, and that such advice
had even been provided by an
NGO, because of concerns of
reprisals against migrants.
The number of Mediterra-
nean crossings has decreased
in the winter. Lt Gen Wosol-
sobe said it was too early to say
whether Operation Sophia
was driving more migrants to
use routes into Europe via the
Balkans which has seen the
highest migrant and refugee
counts in recent months.
However, NGOs expect
that the numbers crossing the
Mediterranean will increase
again from April as weather
conditions improve. Around
157,000 migrants arrived in
Italy via the central Mediter-
ranean route in 2015, slightly
lower than the record number
who arrived in 2014.
Lt Gen Wosolsobe told the
Lords EU External Affairs
sub-committee: No longer
are there more expensive
wooden or fibreglass boats
used, as these represent a
significant financial loss when
they are destroyed by Sophia
units.
been bedevilled by delays and
IT problems.
It said only 86 per cent of
new arrivals to Britain have
their data checked ahead of
arrival, despite a promise to hit
a rate of 95 per cent in 2010.
Meg Hillier, its chair-
woman, said: If you collect
information before people
arrive, the more chance you
have to stop them entering the
country in the first place.
Thats the prize to stop
the people who mean to do
this country harm, terrorists
or criminals, to stop them
coming into the country in
the first place.
Since the scheme was
devised in 2003, the Home
Office has accumulated hun-
dreds of millions of pounds
in costs, including a 150m
settlement following a legal
dispute when the original con-
tract was cancelled in 2010.
Ms Hillier accused the
department of a history of
poor management and a wor-
rying complacency about its
impact on taxpayers.
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News

This is your
captain
speaking:
its a record!
SI MON CAL D E Rreports on the maiden
flight of the worlds longest service
Ultra-long-haul aviation is with a gate-to-gate time of 17 on fares. Emirates is quoting the plane flew over Australia The Emirates
back and this time it could hours, 15 minutes. But after a only 810 return for a flight  
 


 and the Indian Ocean.
trigger a fares war.
Early yesterday morning,
Emirates flight 449 made his-
tory when it touched down in
Dubai from Auckland. The
Airbus A380 covered an esti-
mated 9,000 miles between
New Zealands largest city and
the airlines hub, making it
the current longest non-stop
scheduled commercial flight
by distance.
The flight was also expected
delayed departure from Auck-
land, the pilots made up time
and landed after 16 hours, 24
minutes in the air.
The new route accelerates
the journey to the far side of
the world from cities such as
Birmingham and Glasgow.
With a single touchdown in
Dubai, the fastest journey
time from either city to Auck-
land falls to under 26 hours.
The increase in capacity has
Airbus
from Manchester to Auck- Mr Adams, who flew busi- A380 on
land in May using the new ness class, was heckled online the tarmac
non-stop link from Dubai. Dubai
for some of his criticisms. He shortly after
The fare works out at barely UAE complained about the patchi- touching
3p per mile, compared with ness of the wi-fi and said: Im down in
around 50p per mile for the struggling to find anything Auckland
8,
train from Manchester city Ive been wanting to watch in yesterday
82
4
centre to the airport. the new movies section.
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Christopher Adams, busi- Indian Auckland
The cabin was half-empty,
ness reporter for the New Zea- Ocean New Zealand said Mr Adams: A crew mem-
land Herald, was aboard the ber tells me this is due to a
first flight from Auckland to load restriction on the A380
Dubai. He used the onboard 
 required for it to complete the
to be the longest by duration, also put downward pressure wi-fi to deliver a live blog as 


 

 marathon flight to Dubai. The
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track did not follow the great
circle route the shortest
distance between two points,
which between Auckland and
Dubai is 8,817 miles. The route
deviations are estimated to
have added around 200 miles
to the journey.
The previous holder of
the distance title was Emir-
ates partner, Qantas, on its
Dallas-Sydney service. The
Texas-Australia flight covers
a slightly shorter distance
8,580 miles and is sched-
uled to take just under 17 hours
Shortage of
bungalows
predicted
after council
sell-off
VICKY SHAW
Older people could be hit
particularly hard by the Gov-
ernments plans to sell off
high-value council homes,
according to analysis from
the Joseph Rowntree Founda-
tion. The foundation predicts
that one in four (25 per cent)
sales of council houses tak-
ing place to help fund plans
to extend the Right to Buy
scheme in England could be
bungalows.
This would disproportion-
ately affect older tenants as
they are most likely to live in
this type of accommodation.
Because they have no stairs
bungalows are also well suited
to some disabled people.
Under the plans, the Right
to Buy will be extended to
Englands 1.3 million hous-
ing association tenants, giving
them the same opportunities
as council housing tenants
to buy their homes at a dis-
count.
Ministers have said housing
associations will be compen-
sated with money raised by
forcing local authorities to sell
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from gate to gate. Yet the new CRIME absence of eight counts E M PLOYM E N T
Auckland-Dubai link is a long of sexual activity with a
way short of past and future
Appeal to find sex child under the age of 13. A
6m compensation
flights. Until 2013, Singapore NEWS IN offender who fled court sentence date was fixed for for SSI steelworkers
Airlines flew 9,534 miles from BRIEF 21 March and a warrant for
its base to New York, taking A manhunt is under way his arrest was issued. Former SSI steelworkers
about 18 hours, 30 minutes. for a convicted sex offender He is known to have have been awarded a share
High fuel prices put paid to who fled court moments links to the Stockport of 6.25m because of the
the service. Ultra-long flights before being found guilty of and Manchester areas. lack of consultation when
burn far more per mile than offences against a child. Detective Inspector their plant in Redcar closed.
the average trip, because of Tariq Javed absconded Ian Cottrell said: He is The Community union took
the weight of the fuel. With from Manchester Minshull thought to be a flight risk action on behalf of more
airlines now able to buy fuel Street Crown Court on and warnings have been than 1,100 members who
more cheaply, route plan- 29 February while the jury put in place at ports and lost jobs. They will get up to
ners are once again looking was deliberating. The 37- airports anyone found to eight weeks pay from the
for extreme links. year-old from Rusholme be sheltering Javed will face governments Redundancy
In August 2015, Emirates was found guilty in his arrest and prosecution. Payments Office.
promised that a record-break-
ing flight from Dubai to Pan-
ama City would start in Febru-
ary this year, covering 8,600
miles in around 18 hours. The
launch was postponed to later
this month. Yesterday that
plan was axed, with the first
flight now likely to be in late
2016 or early 2017.
A spokesperson for Emir-
ates said: We firmly believe in
the potential of Central Amer-
ica, and remain keen to link
the Emirates network to the
region. The airline declined
to comment on speculation
that the Zika crisis was a fac-
tor in the postponement.
Back in business class, Mr
Adams concluded: I imagine
it wasnt such an easy ride for
those down in economy, but
we all got here in the end.
off their most expensive hous-
ing stock as it becomes vacant,
ensuring that the affordable
properties which are sold are
replaced.
But critics have questioned
whether homes which are sold
off will actually be replaced.
The research, carried out
by the Cambridge Centre
for Housing and Planning
Research at Cambridge Uni-
versity for the foundation,
found that while bungalows
make up 9 per cent of local
authority-owned housing,
they are likely to make up a
much bigger proportion of
property sales as bungalows.
This is because bungalows
tend to be more expensive as
they are more sought-after.
25
%
Percentage
of council
house sales
predicted to
be bungalows
Bungalows take up more land
space than other property
types with the same number
of bedrooms. They are also
vacated more frequently,
partly due to their occupants
moving into care homes.
Researchers estimate the
plans will result in the loss of
15,300 local authority-owned
bungalows in the next five
years equating to one in 15 of
the total number in England.
The foundation suggested
that in many cases it will not
be possible for local authori-
ties to replace bungalows like-
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F UE N T E S /
R E UT E R S
Whitehall buildings
used in Islamic
bonds operating
under sharia rules
CHARLIE COOPER
WHITEHALL CORRESPONDENT
AND IAN JOHNSTON
The historic Admiralty House
and four other Whitehall
buildings are now operat-
ing in accordance with some
sharia rules including a ban
on alcohol after they were
used as part of an Islamic bond
scheme.
The properties must
comply with some aspects
of sharia under the terms
of special bonds known as
sukuk, announced by George
Osborne two years ago when
the UK became the first West-
ern country to issue them.
At least 200m of the sukuk
bonds have been sold to inves-
tors in the UK and the major
Islamic finance centres in the
Middle East and Asia.
Under sharia, charging
interest or usury is forbid-
den. So to allow Islamic inves-
tors to receive a return on their
money, the sukuk bonds pay
them rental income on certain
buildings instead.
As part of the deal, the
Government agreed that
the nominally rented build-
ings would abide by certain
aspects of sharia rules, so
Muslim investors did not feel
they were making money out
of something they regard as
immoral, such as a pub.
MailOnline reported yes-
terday that the buildings were
now governed by sharia law.
And Andrew Bridgen, the
Conservative MP for North
West Leicestershire, told the
website: I do find it unbeliev-
able government buildings are
governed by sharia law. I dont
see the bars as being an essen-
tial part of Parliament but its
the principle that matters.
13
Cheating smartwatches for sale on Amazon
fect for covertly viewing exam administer. I expect the hid-
IAN JOHNSTON
notes directly on your wrist, den market for these sorts of
by storing text and pictures. It devices is significant, and this
Smartwatches that allow has an emergency button, so offering on Amazon is just the
pupils and students to cheat when you press it the watchs tip of the iceberg, he said.
in exams are being openly sold screen display changes from Mr Sidders said it was irre-
on Amazon. An advert for one text to a regular clock, and sponsible to sell such devices
such watch, which has 4GB of blocks all other buttons, the The watches are and called for exam boards to
memory, was offered on the seller wrote. making exams challenge those involved in
website for 44.95 last night. Joe Sidders, the deputy a nightmare making them.
This watch is specifi- head at Monkton Combe sen- to administer, A spokesman for Amazon
cally designed for cheating ior school, in Bath, told BBC according to one said the company did not want
in exams with a special pro- News that such devices were deputy head to comment on the sale of the
grammed software. It is per- making exams a nightmare to cheating watches.
Most of our constituents will
be absolutely amazed that the
principle could ever have been
authorised.
However, a Treasury spokes-
person said: This is not news.
As the Government set out
clearly in 2014, three govern-
ment buildings are being used
to underpin the Governments
sukuk bond, Richmond House,
22-26 Whitehall and Welling-
ton House. The sukuk is
issued under, and governed
by, English law which applies
at all times.
In 2014, the Government
cited a number of organisa-
tions, including the Executive
Shariah Committee of HSBC
Saudi Arabia, as saying the
bonds were sharia compli-
ant but suggested potential
investors should seek opinions
from their chosen experts.
It was unclear which other
aspects of sharia are being
adhered to by the managers
of the buildings concerned,
but a government source said
it had been agreed that serv-
ing pork in Richmond House
would not affect the sharia
compliance of the sukuk.
Alcohol being served hasnt
arisen, as you would expect for
a government building, the
insider added.
In January, The Times
reported that a plan to relo-
cate MPs to Richmond House
to allow refurbishment work
Most will at Westminster was meeting
resistance because Richmond
be amazed House was dry under the terms
that the of the sukuk agreement.
The sukuk bonds proved
principle hugely popular the 200m
could ever scheme was over-subscribed
10-fold. In 2014, Chancellor
have been George Osborne expressed
authorised the hope that it would boost
Londons standing as a global
financial centre.
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News
Take the high road to the Battle of Killiecrankie
Archaeological
work carried out
for A9 upgrade
uncovers trove
of artefacts from
Jacobite rebellion
CHRIS GREEN
SCOTLAND EDITOR
It is the longest road in Scot-
land, running for 273 miles up
the spine of the country to the
North Sea and providing one
of the main transport links to
the Highlands. Usually asso-
ciated with frustratingly slow
speeds and a high risk of acci-
dents, the A9 now has a new
claim to fame: a link with Scot-
lands revolutionary past.
An archaeological survey
carried out as part of a 3bn
project to turn 80 miles of the
road into dual carriageway has
uncovered dozens of artefacts
linked to the Battle of Killie-
crankie, at which Jacobite
rebels achieved a famous vic-
tory over government troops
in 1689.
It is hoped that the discov-
eries which include a copper
alloy pendant, two buckles,
part of the support for a sword
belt, horse shoes, buttons and
musket munitions will help
to shed further light on the
skirmish, which took place in
a hilly pass near the A9s cur-
rent route.
Archaeologists who worked
on the 1.5km-long site with
the help of metal detectorists
said patterns of munitions
were clearly visible from the
survey. The results show the
exact positions taken up by
the government army com-
manded by General Hugh
Mackay and the Jacobites,
led by Bonnie Dundee
John Graham, who was later
immortalised in verse by Sir
Walter Scott.
The two armies came face
to face at Killiecrankie as they
were attempting to reach the
town of Blair Atholl, which
they hoped to use as a strategic
base for future operations. The
Jacobites took up position on
the higher ground and eventu-
ally emerged victorious, but
lost 800 men in the process,
a third of their force. Graham
was also killed. The govern-
ment side suffered 2,000 cas-
ualties, but a month later was
victorious at Dunkeld, scat-
tering the Jacobite forces.
Its probably the best pre-
served battlefield in Scotland
its remained relatively
untouched for the past 300
years or so, said Warren Bai-
M FRIDAY 4 MARCH 2016 THE INDEPENDENT
Left: Bonnie The road is being turned
Dundee into a dual carriageway
John between Perth and Inver-
Graham, ness, a process that began in
the Jacobite September and is expected to
leader killed be complete by 2025. The first
in battle; section alone is expected to
(right) cost 35m and will require
some of the the excavation of more than
recovered 700,000 tonnes of earth, but
artefacts it is hoped that the project will
DE SIGN P IC S deliver social and economic
IN C / R E X benefits by providing a better
Blair Atholl 
 link with the Highlands.
Killiecrankie
Our work to dual the A9
will bring undoubted improve-
A9 ments for road-users, but has
SCOTLAND also opened a window into
Dundee Scotlands past, Transport
Minister Derek Mackay said
yesterday as he announced
Perth
the discoveries.
Thanks to the survey work,
experts are shedding more
light on the Battle of Killie-
lie, project manager at Guard roads, the A9 can cause frus- crankie. They are able to offer
Archaeology Ltd, which car- tration among drivers who more information, including
ried out the survey. The dis- find themselves unable to the possible route soldiers
tributions of munitions reflect overtake for long stretches. took during the battle, poten-
the lines of the troops coming The Scottish Government tial cavalry positions, where
down the hill and those going has attempted to reduce the key skirmishes and close
up. Its what every battlefield the number of accidents by quarters fighting took place,
archaeologist is looking for. introducing average speed and the likely retreating route
Long regarded as one of cameras, which it says has taken by the fleeing govern-
Scotlands most dangerous reduced speeding. ment forces.
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A disaster
film that
goes
well with
popcorn,
or just a
disaster?
London
Has Fallen
opened
yesterday
and box
office takings
will decide

ON OTHE R
PAGE S

Review:
so inept,
youd think it
was a spoof
P.45

as an ugly brand of reaction- bia. The terror plot is hatched grab bag of dog-whistles and thriller is so inept in parts that

London Has ary fear-mongering.

Gerard Butler plays a US
Secret Service agent who
stabs, chokes and garrottes
by a Pakistani arms dealer who
vows vengeance on the West
after a fatal drone strike at his
daughters wedding.
dog-shit filmmaking.
The San Francisco Chroni-
cle said the film feeds on the
you think it must be a spoof
It is also energetic enough for
us not to notice that there are
nations current fears about as many holes in its screenplay

Fallen but his way through an army of

masked terrorists of indeter-
minate Middle Eastern origin
When Butlers Mike Ban-
ning isnt cracking skulls, he
tells assailants: Get back to
Middle East folks and about
the level of terrorism threats
within our borders. The pro-
as the terrorists leave in Lon-
dons best-loved buildings.
Some critics suggested the

the film has on a solo mission to foil a plot

to assassinate the worlds lead-
ers gathering in London.
This sequel to the bafflingly
Fuckheadistan or wherever it
is youre from.
Variety criticised the films
reactionary fear-monger-
ducers have made what they
intended to make: a paranoid,
patriotic popcorn movie.
The Independents film critic
most shocking aspect is the
presence of the distinguished
actor Morgan Freeman, cast
as the US Vice-President.

flopped successful Olympus Has

Hollywoods take on terror attack
offends critics and 7/7 relatives alike
ADAM SHERWIN
MEDIA CORRESPONDENT
London Has Fallen into a
pit of manure. That verdict
on Hollywoods latest film
about the War on Terror
has proved to be one of the
milder assessments of the
movie, condemned by crit-
ics as a racist terrorsploi-
tation fantasy, designed
to spread fear after the Par-
is attacks.
Westminster Abbey and the
Houses of Parliament are glee-
fully blown to smithereens in
London Has Fallen, a bru-
tal terrorism action-thriller
released yesterday, which
Variety magazine described
Fallen was called extremely
insensitive by families of
the victims of the 7/7 bomb-
ings after an early trailer was
released before last years 10th
anniversary of the attacks.
The latest entry in the
major world capitals destruc-
tion porn sub-genre, as The
Hollywood Reporter styles it,
is now being condemned for
feeding a paranoia about co-
ordinated, wide-scale terrorist
attacks following last Novem-
bers murders of 130 people in
Paris, which led to its release
being postponed.
Variety condemned the
effortlessly racist film, which
reverts to familiar Islamopho-
ing, which can claim acci-
dental topicality in the wake
of Novembers horrific Paris
attacks. Empire magazine
lamented a violent addi-
tion to the terrorsploitation
canon which would inevita-
bly end up on Donald Trumps
DVD shelf.
Headlining its review
London Has Fallen into a
pit of manure, The Charlotte
Observer asked whether the
films Iranian-born director,
Babak Najafi, felt any anxi-
ety about stereotyping people
of his religion as murderers
and criminals.
The AV Club website said
one of the worst action mov-
ies in recent memory was a
Geoffrey Macnab said: This
enjoyably atrocious action-
LONDON HAS FALLEN
BEST (OR WORST) LINES
Why dont you pack up
your shit and head back to
Fuckheadistan?
Assholes like you have been
trying to kill us for a long
time. But in a thousand years
well still be here.
Im gonna go get him [the
President]. You can kill
me or you can come with
me. But it aint gonna go any
other way.
Butler has acknowledged
that the film, which he also
produced, could be consid-
ered tasteless, in the light of
the Paris attacks, but defended
its release. Its a fictional
movie. Its entertainment,
the actor said at the Los Ange-
les premiere. Its about what
happens when the shit hits the
fan, and who stands up to face
the challenge.
His co-star Radha Mitchell,
who plays Bannings wife,
Leah, said the film carried a
positive message: The movie
certainly highlights our vul-
nerability all over the planet. If
anything, it draws attention to
the fact that we really have to
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TECHNOLO GY
NEWS IN
Five days to get a film on
UKs slowest broadband
BRIEF
Miserden in Gloucestershire
has the slowest average
broadband speed in the UK,
with one resident reporting
a service so poor it would
take roughly five days to
download an HD film.
Out of the 94 tests
conducted by Miserden
residents, the slowest
download speed was
0.12Mbps, which would
leave the customer waiting
119 hours to download the
James Bond film Spectre in
HD, the website Cable.co.uk
said. The service is said to
be worse broadband than at
Mount Everest base camp,
where visitors can access
minimum speeds of 2Mbps
via a satellite connection,
compared with Miserdens
average speed of 1.3Mbps.
Rickmansworth in
Hertfordshire has the fastest
average broadband speed at
77.17Mbps, 60 times faster
than Miserden.
M FRIDAY 4 MARCH 2016 THE INDEPENDENT
COURTS
Plea for Madonna and
Ritchie to settle custody
Judge tells
A High Court judge says
he hopes that Madonna
and her ex-husband Guy
dating websites
Ritchie can settle a dispute
relating to the future of
their 15-year-old son Rocco.
The judge is analysing the
to up security
dispute at private hearings
in the Family Division of
the High Court in London.
Similar hearings have taken
as he jails rapist
place in New York.
Match.com failed to remove attackers
profiles despite victims warnings
IAN JOHNSTON
A judge has called for dating
sites to increase their security
after jailing a man for life over
the trail of terror and agony
he left by raping several
women he had met online.
Four of Jason Lawrances
seven victims reported con-
cerns to the dating website
Match.com including one
who called him a dangerous
sexual predator but the com-
pany failed to remove the pro-
files he used to meet them and
did not contact the police. After
the complaints, the 50-year-old
property developer went on to
rape three other women.
Sentencing him to life in
prison with a minimum term
of 12-and-a-half years, Judge
Gregory Dickinson QC sug-
gested yesterday that a sys-
tem of automatic referral to
the police could be set up to
deal with reports of violence
on such websites.
However, a source at Match.
com claimed that they were
not legally allowed to pass on
information about potential
rapists to the police because
it would breach the privacy
rights of the person making
the complaint and leave them
open to being sued for defa-
mation.
Although that [automatic
reporting] is something the
judge called for today, its not
something thats possible to
do, the insider told The Inde-
pendent. If you have a bad
date and dont get on with a
person, you might say so-and-
so is a nutcase. But its very
difficult to determine whether
its a serious complaint.
The source suggested that
new legislation was required
to address the judges con-
cerns. But yesterday, the
Government did not appear
to be looking at the issue,
with spokespeople for dif-
ferent departments referring
requests for comment to one
another.
Lawrence, a brutal thug
from Liphook in Hampshire
who was known for vio-
lence from his school days,
appeared outwardly respect-
able as a former company
director in the construction
and property trade. But he
used Match.com to seek out
vulnerable, petite women to
indulge his desires for violent
sex, whether they consented
or not. He continued to do so
even after marrying a woman
he met online.
He raped a woman in her
home in Buxton, Derbyshire,
in November 2013 as she
screamed hysterically.
He later sent a text apolo-
gising for hurting her and
saying: When you were
crying out for me to stop, I
couldnt, Im so mad at myself
xxx. In the same year he tried
to rape a woman at her home
in Spalding, Lincolnshire,
then sent her a text the next
day saying Boo! Xx.
On Wednesday a jury found
him guilty of five counts of
rape, one of sexual assault and
an attempted rape.
Judge Dickinson yesterday
spelled out the need for action
to prevent similar serial rap-
ists using internet dating sites
in this way.
The seriousness of this
case provides both the need
and opportunity to learn
something and to take steps to
increase protection for others
in the future, he said.
The judge told the court
that no one person or organi-
sation had been in a position
to join the dots or have an
overview of the complaints
made to the website.
It does seem to me that, in
this age of easy access to data
and records, there should be a
system that allows one author-
ity to be a central point of con-
tact for any complaint of this
nature... consideration should
be given to a system of auto-
matic referral to the police or
some other central agency of
any complaint that is made,
he said.
Match.com said in a state-
ment that it agreed with the
judge that the case was an
opportunity... to learn and
take steps to protect users.
It said it had improved its
procedures and had intro-
duced a zero-tolerance
policy for reports of serious
offences. It has also been
working closely with a per-
sonal safety charity, the Suzy
Lamplugh Trust.
THE INDEPENDENT FRIDAY 4 MARCH 2016
How many complaints does it
require for action to be taken?
Comment
HOLLY
BAXTER
The case of Jason Lawrance
is shocking not just because
of the crimes themselves,
but because of the lack of
basic safeguarding offered by
match.com. The fact that four
women had made complaints
to the site before three others
were raped beggars belief.
Nobody is denying what
Match said in a no-brainer of
a statement, most of which
amounted to bad people
exist everywhere, and when
they do bad things they
should be punished. And
yes, its vital to stay street-
wise even when its cyber ter-
rain youre traversing.
But its also a reasonable
assumption that businesses
will have measures in place to
protect customers from seri-
ous harm.
Dating apps and websites
M 17
are notorious for throwing
a spotlight on the dregs of
human behaviour. When left
with a cameraphone and a
programme connecting one-
self to an anonymous group
of women, many a man (or
boy) has proven himself capa-
ble of taking dick pics and
sending them to those hes
matched with.
The phenomenon is so
common that a sizeable pro-
portion of millennials have
now given up on their previ-
ous sacred cow Tinder and
moved over to Bumble, the
rival app created by a woman
who once worked for Tin-
der. The main differentiator
between the apps? Women Policing
have to make the first move,
or a conversation cant begin. dating sites
Its quickly earned itself a isnt as
reputation as the feminist
dating app. That shouldnt be hard as
and isnt enough to eradi- site owners
cate the dick-pic problem,
but anecdotal evidence sug- would have
gests its a much friendlier us believe
place to find a date, a rela-
tionship or a one-night stand.
Jason
Lawrance
was found
guilty of
five counts
of rape,
one sexual
assault and
an attempted
rape after
meeting
women on
Match.com
REX
The demand for dating
apps which dont quickly
become a byword for people
sending pornographic images
to students has undoubtedly
driven innovation.
The newer ones use social
pressure to hold you to
account for what you post.
Hinge, for instance, matches
you up with friends of your
Facebook friends. So unless
youre bold enough to face a
colleague in the office loudly
asking why her maid of hon-
our received a high-res image
of your genitals last night,
youll probably refrain from
unsavoury online behaviour.
Tinder now (finally) asks
why youre blocking some-
one, a pre-emptive responsi-
ble move in identifying those
who misuse their product.
Policing dating sites, as
well as social media and other
online spaces, isnt as hard
as a lot of site owners and
app managers would have us
believe. But plenty of them
havent half dragged their
feet about doing it.
Sunderland made
dreadful decision
to let Johnson
carry on playing
Womens group
says clubs fans
were left thinking
he is probably
innocent
CAHAL MILMO
CHIEF REPORTER
Premier League club Sunder-
land were yesterday accused
of sending an absolutely
dreadful message by failing to
suspend England player Adam
Johnson last year despite
allegedly being told he had
privately acknowledged kiss-
ing a 15-year-old fan.
The struggling club is facing
growing criticism for its deci-
sion to allow the 28-year-old
to continue playing, earning
an estimated 2m in salary,
after he was arrested a year ago
for child sex offences.
The midfielder was warned
on Wednesday that he faces a
substantial prison sentence
after he was found guilty of sex-
ual activity with the besotted
fan while the pair were inside
his Range Rover. On the open-
ing day of his trial he admitted
a lesser charge of kissing the
girl as well as grooming her
over social media.
Sunderland sacked Johnson
when he entered his guilty plea
on 11 February, but campaign-
ers said the club had made a
serious error after evidence
emerged during the case that
the player had acknowledged
in statements given to his
employer as early as last May
that he had kissed the girl and
sent her explicit messages. He
continued to play for Sunder-
land until five days before his
trial began last month.
The club has described as
utterly without foundation
any suggestion it had known
from an early stage that John-
son was intending to change
his plea at the last moment
to enable him to continue
playing. But critics said the
decision not to exclude the
England star from the pitch
had sent a message that the
player was thought to be prob-
ably innocent and opened his
victim to online vilification.
The schoolgirl said after the
verdict that she felt used and
let down by Johnson and had
lost all confidence.
Clare Phillipson, director
of charity Wearside Women
in Need, said: What we need
to know is not at what point
did they know he was going
to plead guilty, but at what
point did they know that he
had met with her, exchanged
messages and been alone with
her in a car?
Referring to the evidence
that Sunderland and its chief
executive, Mary Byrne, had
been provided last May with
all 834 WhatsApp messages
exchanged between the pair
and transcripts of police
interviews in which Johnson
acknowledged kissing the
girl on the lips, Ms Phillipson
added: If thats true, then at
that point [Sunderland] should
have suspended him because,
in allowing him to continue
to play, tens of thousands of
fans and lots of other people
thought: Oh well, the club is
still letting him play the case
against him cant be very good,
he is probably innocent.
It was an absolutely dread-
ful message that will not
encourage children to come
forward, which is surely what
we want.
Sunderland yesterday
refused to discuss further
why it had allowed Johnson to
continue playing. At a press
conference club manager Sam
Allardyce, who joined the side
last autumn, and a club official
repeatedly refused to answer
questions concerning the
documents and the failure to
suspend the player.
Mr Allardyce said Johnsons
guilty pleas had come as a
massive shock, adding: We
have no sympathy for him. All
our sympathies lie with the
victim and her family. He has
to take whatever sentence he
gets on the chin and we have
to move on.
Lawyers for Johnson, who
was told by the judge at Brad-
ford Crown Court to expect
between five and 10 years
imprisonment when he is
sentenced later this month,
have said they intend to appeal
against the guilty verdict.
Sport, P.72
Adam Johnson played on
D U R H A M PO L I C E /A F P/ G E T T Y
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News

LEGAL on freedom of expression POLICE

because the order fails
Ban on swearing violates to define clearly one of
Global appeal to find
NEWS IN freedom of expression the prohibited activities missing 12-year-old girl The great
BRIEF using foul and abusive
A human rights group language. A spokeswoman Police have launched an and the
has criticised a councils added: The right to say international appeal to
staggering misuse of what we want should not find a girl who was taken gloves
legislation in trying to be restricted at the whim of to Thailand by her father The boxing
outlaw swearing in public. council officials. without permission. gloves
Salford City Council A council spokesperson Arisara Zara Miles, worn by
introduced a Public Spaces said: A PSPO is only an 12, and her father, Trevor Muhammad
Protection Order in parts offence if a person does a Miles, left their home in Ali in his fight
of the Quays docklands prohibited act without a Exeter on 10 November with Henry
development last summer. reasonable excuse. That and flew to Bangkok. Her Cooper in
Liberty said it could allows all the circumstances whereabouts since then are 1963 split
have a chilling effect to be taken into account. not known. during the
match.
They are on
show at the
I Am The
Greatest:
Muhammad
Ali exhibition
at the O2
in London,
which opens
today
P HILIP
TOSC AN O / PA

Major study
rubbishing
psychology
was flawed
Now researchers who implied most
findings were hogwash are criticised
STEVE CONNOR
SCIENCE EDITOR
A study that effectively
accused academic psycholo-
gists of producing unverifi-
able psychobabble has itself
been criticised for mislead-
ing claims, inaccuracies and
flawed methodology.
The research, a collabo-
ration by more than 270
researchers published last
year, had claimed that just
39 per cent of the findings
reported in 100 published
studies could be reproduced
unambiguously suggesting
that about six out of every 10
research claims in psychol-
ogy were irreproducible hog-
wash.
However, a reappraisal of
the study by a team of Harvard
academics has poured scorn
on the way the research was
carried out, claiming that it
had introduced errors, biases
and infidelities that grossly
distorted the truth about the
reliability of psychological
research.
The first thing we real-
ised was that no matter what
they found good news or
bad news they never had
any chance of estimating the
reproducibility of psychologi-
cal science, which is what the
very title of their paper claims
they did, said Daniel Gilbert,
professor of psychology at
Harvard University, who led
the reappraisal.
Lets be clear, no one
involved in this study was try-
ing to deceive anyone. They
just made mistakes, as scien-
tists sometimes do.
Nevertheless, the study,
when it was published as a
research paper in the journal
Science, created headlines
around the world and even led
to changes in policies govern-
ing the publication of psychol-
ogy research.
This paper has had an
extraordinary impact. It was
Science magazines number
three Breakthrough of the
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ACCIDENT and that they are seeking S OCI E TY

It could take months to
NEWS IN recover Didcot bodies
BRIEF
It could take months to
reach the bodies of three
people trapped under the
collapsed Didcot Power
Station, police said.
Giving an update on
recovery work at the scene
in Oxfordshire, Thames
Valley Assistant Chief
Constable Scott Chilton
said the partially collapsed
structure is still unsafe rubble.
specialist advice on how
to progress.
It will take many weeks
and, in reality, many
months before we will be
able to get access to those
trapped, he said. This is
a complex process and will
take some time.
The building collapsed
last week while workers
were preparing it for
demolition, killing a worker,
Mike Collings, and trapping
three others inside the
Women do two-thirds
of childcare duties in UK
Women take on more than
two-thirds of childcare
duties in the UK, equivalent
to four weeks a year more
than men, according to a
new report.
Ireland was the most
unequal of 37 countries
studied by the Overseas
Development Institute,
with men doing just 7 per
cent of childcare.

Year across all fields of sci-

ence. It led to changes in pol-
icy at many scientific journals,
changes in priorities at fund-
ing agencies, and it seriously
undermined public percep-
tions of psychology, Profes-
sor Gilbert said.
So it is not enough now, in
the sober light of retrospect, to
say that mistakes were made.
These mistakes had very seri-
ous repercussions.
However, the lead author of
the 2015 study rejected sug-
gestions that he and his col-
leagues had made mistakes
when trying to replicate
earlier work. Professor Brian
Nosek of Virginia University
in Charlottesville said that his
study made it clear that fail-
ure to replicate may be due
to key differences between
the original research and the
replication.
Where we disagree with
Gilbert and colleagues is
that they are willing to draw
a conclusion that this is what
occurred. Gilbert and col-
leagues selectively report
available evidence that favours
their conclusion and ignores
evidence that is counter to
their conclusion, Professor
Nosek told The Independent.
The argument centres on
whether the research findings
in the 100 published studies
could be replicated by other
researchers while following
the same scientific protocols.
The study, published last year
by a consortium known as
Open Science Collaboration
(OSC), tried to replicate each
piece of research to answer
that question.
They found that more than
half of the findings from the
100 studies, which covered
subjects ranging from racial
stereotyping to perceptions of
military service, could not be
reproduced when a second set
of experimenters supposedly
E XP LAI NER
THE DI SP UTED STUDI ES
The Harvard scientists point
to several cases where the ex-
perimental methodology of a
study was not followed when
other OSC psychologists tried
to replicate the findings.
A study that measured
Americans attitudes toward
African-Americans was
replicated with Italians, who
do not share the same stere-
otypes; a study that asked
college students to imagine
being called on by a professor
was replicated with partici-
pants who had never been to
college, the scientists write.
A study asking Israelis to
imagine the consequences of
military service was replicated
by asking Americans about the
consequences of a honey-
moon, and a study of young
childrens ability to identify
targets on a large screen was
replicated using older children
and smaller screens.
followed the same methodo-
logical rules.
However, when the Harvard
scientists analysed the OSCs
methodology, they found that
it had inadvertently introduced
statistical errors which made
accurate replication impos-
sible, and they questioned
whether the same methodol-
ogy was truly followed.
When the Harvard research-
ers performed the calculations
as they should have been done
by the OSC consortium, they
found that the number of fail-
ures they observed were about
what would be expected from
chance effects alone even if
all 100 studies were actually
true. The Harvard group also
found discrepancies between
the ways the original studies
and the replicating research
were carried out.
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News
Cameron attacks SNPs one-party state
chris green
scotland editor
David Cameron will today
launch a strong attack on
the SNPs record in govern-
ment, describing the party
as spendthrift, out of touch,
dogmatic and inept as he
seeks to rally support for the
Conservatives during a visit
to Scotland.
In a speech to the Scot-
tish Conservative Party con-
ference in Edinburgh, the
Prime Minister will argue that
Labours collapse in popular-
ity north of the border means
that the Tories are the only
alternative to a one-party
state run by the SNP.
Accusing Nicola Sturgeons
party of presiding over a litany
of failure, Mr Cameron will
highlight a lack of progress on
closing the gap between rich
and poor schoolchildren and
Home Affairs
a fall in the number of college
students as evidence of the
SNPs poor governance.
Scotland is in danger of
becoming a one-party state
under the SNP, Mr Cam-
eron will claim, saying the
Tories need to keep them in
SNP leader
Nicola Sturgeon
check.
The attack comes amid sug-
is accused of gestions that the Tories may
presiding over a overtake Labour to become
litany of failure the official party of opposition
at Holyrood.
l Friday 4 March 2016 THE INDEPENDENT
Nigel
Morris
Gang culture is ignored because
there are no votes in it
Growing up as a teenager
in south London, gang
violence became a way of
life for Jovan Young.
I was stabbed a few
times, I fractured my
skull, I saw many friends
murdered. But then I
started to take things
seriously and grow up, he
said. He found a route out
of the cycle of brutality and
retribution, going on to
enjoy outstanding success
as a professional boxer.
For filmmaker Duro Oye,
running with gangs helped
him make the money which
his impoverished mother
could only dream about. I
had big eyes. I wanted more
than my family could give
me, he admitted.
They were among several
young adults who visited
Westminster yesterday to
spell out to MPs both the
allure and the extreme risks
of youth violence hidden
from most of the public.
A complex mixture
of circumstances and
motivations leads children
as young as seven or eight
to become seduced by
gang life, the politicians
were told. Many are drawn
into the world because of
the lack of positive role-
models to compete with
the promises of gang top
dogs with their power and
wealth. The pull of gang life
is reinforced by films and
music glamorising violence,
according to experts.
Some gang members use
it as a form of protection
against groups from other
areas and can see no
alternative to violence for
resolving their differences.
Others are attracted by
apparently rich rewards
children aged 13 can earn
50 a day by transporting
drugs when their families
are desperately scrambling
to make ends meet.
Chuka Ummuna, the
former shadow Business
Secretary, believes the
problem is worsening,
pointing to the killing of 17
young people in London
last year, compared with
11 in 2014, and to figures
suggesting numbers of
violent attacks have risen 13
per cent in three years. The
Home Office also appears
to accept the phenomenon
is spreading out of inner
cities, announcing that it is
targeting help on combating
gangs in such unexpected
places as Harrow, High
Wycombe and Hastings.
However, the issue
has rarely been high on
the agenda of political
leaders, with critics
arguing that there would
be emergency government
action if middle class
neighbourhoods routinely
suffered such levels of
violence.
Critics claim the lack
of commitment over the
issue is underlined by
the planned scrapping of
a government scheme,
bringing together police,
academics and former gang
members to advise councils
on youth violence.
Mr Umunna said: Its a
damning indictment that
increasingly our society
is becoming immune to
what is happening on our
doorsteps and is ignoring
the issues and putting a
whole generation of young
A mix of circumstances
sees children as young as
seven or eight becoming
seduced by gang life
people into a corner and
saying thats what happens
with those kind of young
people from those kind of
areas.
He believes the time
has come to establish a
cross-party parliamentary
commission to tackle the
causes rather the symptoms
of the problem.
Too often the debate is
on clamping down, zero
tolerance, banging them up,
when actually its harder to
focus on how we prevent
them doing it in the first
place, he said.
The government believes
the best approach is for
local communities to find
their own solutions to gang
violence instead of having
them imposed from above.
But Tottenhams Labour
MP, David Lammy said he
would probably give the
governments latest anti-
gang strategy a C-grade if
it had been submitted by a
GCSE student.
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Prue Leith: women

writers underrated
by publishers
to counter the trend such as
The Independent Virago, the publisher of books
Bath Literature by women, as well as the Bai-
leys Womens Prize for Fiction,
Festival formerly the Orange Prize.
Her comments follow those
by writers such Joanne Har-
ris, who have questioned the
nick clark
womens fiction category.
arts correspondent
Why does fiction need to be
gendered? she said.
The restaurateur-turned- Jodi Picoult agreed, and
novelist Prue Leith has hit out said that authors like herself
at the publishing industry for were put into the category of
underrating womens writ- womens fiction and taken
ing Love stories by female less seriously than her male
authors were not taken as
seriously as those written by
counterparts. Womens fic-
tion doesnt mean thats your
A big friendly Freya Cook and Rory OConnor, both eight, from Roseburn Primary School in
Edinburgh, were among visitors to the Biggest Book Show on Earth at the Usher
men, she said. audience. Unfortunately, it book day Hall for World Book Day, featuring readings by childrens authors Alistair Linford
Leith told the audience at means you have lady parts,
The Independent Bath Litera- she said. Kathy Lette has sug-

ture Festival: I dont want to
sound carping and over-femi-
nist but I do think there is
something in publishing which
underrates womens writing.
Critics were just as bad, she
said. If they write a review of
a very good love story by, say,
Jojo Moyes it will be catego-
rised as commercial fiction,
light fiction, romance or wom-
ens fiction whatever that is
because love is in it.
She said men had written
some of the greatest love sto-
ries from Romeo and Juliet to
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.
But if a man writes a love story,
they are not seen as romantic
fiction or commercial fiction
but as offering a deep insight
into the psychological condi-
tion. They get reviews that take
them seriously.
She hailed those in the
industry who had taken steps
gested women may need to
use male pseudonyms to get
the acclaim they deserve.
Leith started as a caterer
before opening her own res-
taurant and cookery school.
She has now turned to writ-
ing full time saying: I think
of myself as a novelist. Moving
to writing novels was never a
huge jump, I had wanted to
write novels 20 years before
I did it, she said.
I havent written a recipe
book in 20 years. I made the
shift from one kind of writing
to another.
The Flood of Love, which
is set in war-time London, is
Prue Leith said Leiths sixth novel. She said
critics of her that after publishing her first
novels would few novels occasionally I
often claim they would get reviews that were
were quite good very patronising. Quite good don school, yesterday used
for a cook for a cook, was the general
tone of them.
Teachers
call for more
diversity in
reading lists
sarah cassidy
lists across AQA, Edexcel and
Education correspondent
Fewer than a third of books on
new English GCSE and A-level
reading lists are by women,
according to an analysis by
teachers who are campaign-
ing for more diversity.
Students and staff at The
Forest Academy, an east Lon-
courses only have five per cent
World Book Day to launch
the Curriculum Campaign, an
appeal to the Government to
address the lack of female and
ethnic minority writers on set
text lists and the curriculum.
When new English courses
were introduced by the Gov-
ernment in September 2015,
teachers at the school noticed
a decline in female authors and
authors from ethnic minority
backgrounds.
Staff analysed the reading
OCRs 2015-2016 GCSE and
A-level English Literature
courses and found that just
31 per cent of texts were by
female writers, despite women
accounting for 51 per cent of
the UKs population.
Meanwhile, writers from
black, Asian and ethnic minori-
ties remain marginalised. Some
of Beloved, on
of texts represented by authors
of these backgrounds, despite
them accounting for 14 per
cent of the UK population.
Olivia Eaton, 24, an English
teacher at The Forest Academy,
said her students need to be
able to recognise themselves
in some of the texts they study,
and [be] exposed to a variety
of authors and backgrounds to
gain a better understanding of
the society they live in.
She added: The current
reading lists are weighted in
favour of white, deceased,
male writers and this has in
turn muted the voices of an
integral part of our society.
Campaigners A spokesman for OCR said
want Zadie the board would meet cam-
Smith, author paigners to discuss their con-
of White cerns. An AQA spokeswoman
Teeth, and Toni said their qualifications offer
Morrison, author many opportunities for stu-
dents to learn about a diverse
the curriculum range of people and they were
happy to hear suggestions.
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News
13. Dr Juffalis lawyers
cour t s
argue that Ms Estrada,
crime
The Diary
Sheikh appeals against 53, cannot sue him in the Ex-Liverpool FC owner
immunity ruling English courts because of attacked by burglars
Andy
news in
br ief his diplomatic status as a
A Saudi billionaire is permanent representative Former Liverpool FC owner
appealing against a High to the International David Moores is in hospital
McSmith
Court ruling that he is Maritime Organisation for following a violent burglary.
not entitled to diplomatic St Lucia. Two men forced their
immunity in a divorce High Court family way into his home in
settlement dispute. division judge Mr Halsall, near Southport,
Christina Estrada is Justice Hayden ruled last on Wednesday night
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour
seeking a share of Sheikh month that Dr Juffalis and demanded cash and
Walid Juffalis estimated appointment was an jewellery. Mr Moores, 69,
4bn fortune. They were entirely artificial construct was assaulted during the raid
married for 13 years and
have a daughter, now aged
designed to defeat the
jurisdiction of the court.
and later taken to hospital
with leg and head injuries.
chief ... and talentspotter?
I confess that it had never
occurred to me that the
many talents of Jeremy
Corbyn included an
ability to spot a potential
star singer, but Jermain
Jackman, who found fame
as the 2014 winner of The
Voice, has said: Jeremy
Corbyn discovered me.
Corbyn, who was always
assiduous about turning
up to events in his North
Islington constituency, was
judging a singing contest
at a local school and was
impressed by the young
Jackmans voice.
While visiting Parliament
for an event organised by
the Labour MP Chuka
Umunna on combating gang
violence, Jackman revealed
to a Daily Mirror journalist
that he has an ambition to
be Labour MP for Hackney
North when Diane Abbott
stepsdown.
I love Jeremy Corbyn,
he said. Not many people
know this. Ive known
Jeremy Corbyn for about
10 years .... When I was 11
years old he would call me
in the morning and say:
Jermain, Im speaking at an
event on this campaign and
Id love for you to sing, so
come along and sing. So we
became this sort of double
act. He would talk for 15
minutes, and then hed say
and Id like to bring on
Jermain Jackman, and Id
come on and sing.
This was way before The
Voice. I was like 11 years old.
I was singing You Raise
Me Up, A House is Not a
Home, you know, all those
inspirational songs. Covers.
You could say
thatJeremy Corbyn
discovered me.
Well done, Mrs May
There was graphic,
shocking footage earlier
in the week of a Donald
Trump rally in Kentucky,
One lady during which the candidate
demanded that protesters
emerged in be removed from the hall,
her pyjamas and a heavily built man in a
red cap was seen repeatedly
to plead for shoving and snarling at a
the noise black woman. The assailant
was identified by the New
tobeturned York Daily News as a 25-
down year-old white supremacist
named Matthew Heimbach.
His activities have already
been noted over here. Four
months ago, he boasted
on Facebook that he had
had a letter from the Home
Office telling him that
Theresa May had banned
him from entering the
UK for advocating anti-
Semitic and neo-Nazi
ideas. Seeing him in action
suggests that Mrs May
called that one right.
A very undigital MP
Julian Lewis, outed this
week as the MP who refuses
to use e-mail, tells me that
he has had a succession of
people approach him, or
text him, to congratulate
him on his Luddism. He
may even have been receiv-
ing congratulatory e-mails
but how would he know?
Im starting a counter
revolution, he boasts.
I cant get no ... slumber
Matthew Freud, great
grandson of the founder of
psychoanalysis, former son
in law of Rupert Murdoch,
friend of Tony Blairs
favourite, Peter Mandelson,
and second cousin of
the minister for Welfare
Reform, David Freud, has
apologised to neighbours
kept awake by a party held
at his 20m mansion in
Primrose Hill to celebrate
London Fashion Week.
It sounds like a great
party, with Kate Moss,
Bob Geldof and Idris Elba
adding stardust, but as
guests sang along to Rolling
Stones tracks, others in the
neighbourhood were trying
to sleep. One lady emerged
in her pyjamas to plead with
the security guards to get
the noise turned down.
It went on to at least
3am, she told the Camden
New Journal. They
were singing I Cant Get
No Satisfaction. Well, I
couldnt get any sleep.
Mr Freud, who runs
Freud Communications, an
international media agency,
said: I am profoundly
sorry .... I recognise that
the arrivals and departures
of these occasional events
are a mighty pain in the
arse for people living very
close by. My apologies are
sincere and my neighbours
stretched tolerance deeply
appreciated.
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Hotline set up to report breaches of Syrias Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko pledges Chile honours former diplomats who Brazils former richest man has a new
ceasefire has a flaw terrible Arabic hunger strike after being jailed by Russia shielded citizens from Pinochets murder get-rich-quick idea: tossing gold in the sea
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proval, Mitt Romney, the eventually won four years ago ing, the greed, the showing ment wing of the party who Rather than turning a
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ney, a fraud, Mr Romney
said in Salt Lake City. His
promises are as worthless as
a degree from Trump Univer-
sity. Hes playing the Ameri-
can public for suckers. He
said Mr Trumps economic
ideas would plunge America
into recession and his foreign
policy bombast was already
mortifying Americas allies.
He spoke hours before what
promised to be another critical
candidates debate in Detroit
last night prior to Tuesdays
Michigan primary, which,
according to polls, Mr Trump
should win easily. Due on
stage with him were Senators
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, of
Florida and Texas, and Ohio
Governor John Kasich. Not
taking part was Dr Ben Car-
son, who is expected to end
his campaign today.
While no one in the party
has yet said who is the best
alternative to Mr Trump
most in the establishment
cannot abide Mr Cruz, while
Mr Rubio has only won one
state the prescription
offered by Mr Romney was for
voters to back all three of the
other candidates where they
can, especially on 15 March,
when Mr Kasich must hold his
own Ohio and Mr Rubio will
defend Florida.
That way, Mr Romney was
implying, there remains some
chance of denying Mr Trump
the simple majority of dele-
gates he will need to be auto-
matically declared the nomi-
nee at the party convention
in Cleveland, Ohio, opening
the way for a brokered out-
come, which would essentially
ensure a furious fight on the
convention floor (and behind
the scenes) to create a major-
ity for one of the other men.
That, though, is an ugly out-
come, likely to trigger a rebel-
lion from the millions embrac-
ing Mr Trump and his promise
to overturn Washington. But
an Associated Press count yes-
terday showed that while Mr
Trump has been racking up
victories in different states, he
is winning only about 46 per
cent of the delegates, falling
short of 50 per cent plus one
he would need in Cleveland.
Another assault on Mr
Trump came in the form of
an open letter written by 70
conservative national security
experts deriding his positions
on everything from trade, his
proposed US-Mexico wall, his
plan to deny entry to Muslims,
and questioning his suitability
to be commander-in-chief.
Mr Trumps own state-
ments lead us to conclude that
as president, he would use the
authority of his office to act in
ways that make America less
safe, and which would dimin-
ish our standing in the world,
the signatories wrote, among
them Robert Zoellick, a former
World Bank president.
In the meantime, an outside
political action group, Our
Principles, dedicated purely
to derailing the billionaires
candidacy, began airing sear-
ing anti-Trump TV spots in
several key states and said
it was digging deep into his
record to discredit him with
voters. We have a lot more
new research, which voters do
not know about, Tim Miller,
its spokesman, revealed. This
guy can be stopped.
Mr Trump, who was cam-
paigning in Maine, which
votes this weekend, was reli-
ably dismissive. Mr Romney
is a stiff, he told NBC News,
while gleefully reminding fol-
lowers of Mr Romneys record
of electoral failure.
Some of the more pointed
critiques of Mr Trump offered
by Mr Romney concerned his
statements on bringing back
torture and killing the family
members of terrorists.
He cheers assaults on pro-
testers, Mr Romney said.
He applauds the prospect
of twisting the Constitution
to limit First Amendment
freedom of the press. This is
the brand of anger that has led
other nations into the abyss.
Protesters
outside a
hotel where
Donald
Trump was
due to hold
a rally in
Portland,
Maine,
yesterday
R E UT E RS
Who is leading the
1
establishments
fightback efforts?
2 say so. Which means he has
david usborne
in new york
They are members of Con-
gress, stalwarts of the Repub-
lican National Committee,
election strategists, conserva-
tive commentators, warriors of
former Republican adminis-
trations and big-time donors.
3 They are the Party establish-
ment and they are all over
the place on the issue that is
Donald Trump.
1. Stuart Stevens
A former top adviser to Mitt
Romney and a professional
strategist, he has been urging
the other candidates to get
tougher with Mr Trump, for
4 months. I think Hillary Clin-
ton would be a better president
than Donald Trump, he said.
I have no desire to see Hil-
lary Clinton as president of
the United States. But if this
is the choice I will not give
her my vote, but I cant support
Donald Trump.
2. Mitch McConnell
5 The Senate Majority Leader
has not gone after Mr Trump
directly, but when The
Donald failed last weekend
flatly to reject the KKK and
disavow support from David
Duke, a former Grand Wizard,
he could no longer hold his
tongue. That is not the view
of Republicans that have been
elected to the [US] Senate, and
6 I condemn his comments in
the most forceful way.
3. Reince Priebus
The chairman of the Repub-
lican National Committee
would be the first person to rel-
ish seeing Mr Trump go down
but is the last person who can
brokered convention who win s if n o o ne win s?
Under normal circumstances in a series of increasingly
the term is irrelevant. This fraught votes.
madcap race to the White Donald Trump may go to
House, however, is anything the Republican national con-
but normal and many are vention in Cleveland in July
wondering if a brokered with far more delegates than
convention may decide any of his rivals but not the
the Republican nominee for majority 1,237 out of 2,472
president. to win on the first round.
It would come after no The heads of the Grand Old
candidate has secured enough Party will hope to have the
delegates to win the nomina- matter settled long before
tion. In that case, the conven- July, to have a coronation
tion becomes a desperate convention, not a contested
scramble to secure delegates one, with the sought-after
l Friday 4 March 2016 THE INDEPENDENT
been painfully coy. Its a big
party, he attempted last week.
Were in great shape to win in
November. But yeah, we have
drama, theres some intrigue
But theres intrigue going
on the other side too.
4. Erick Erickson
A conservative bullhorn and
former RedState editor, Mr
Erickson is more outspoken.
Im absolutely not going to
vote for Donald Trump, even
if hes the Republican nomi-
nee. On Twitter yesterday
he aired a novel anti-Trump
unity proposal. A Cruz-Rubio
ticket makes the most sense
Pair up, announce the deal.
Let Rubio win Florida, get to
convention and make it so.
5. William J Bennett
Education Secretary under
Ronald Reagan, Mr Bennett is
in the camp that opposes any
attempt artificially to deny Mr
Trump the nomination. Im
used to being the moral scold,
but Trump is winning fair and
square, so why should the
nomination be grabbed from
him? he asked. Weve been
trying to get white working-
class people into the party for a
long time... and were going to
alienate them? I dont get it.
6. Tim Miller
Until recently an aide to Jeb
Bush, he is now the public face
of Our Principles PAC, which
is already spending millions on
anti-Trump ads in states still
to vote. Hes completely un-
electable in a general election
against Hillary Clinton. Hillary
Clinton could get indicted by
the FBI, go to jail, she would
still win 48 out of 50 states
against Donald Trump.
party unity on display ahead
of a battle against, prob-
ably, Hillary Clinton. But to
achieve that, the party will
have to rally around Donald
Trump. Hence the furrowed
brows among senior Republi-
can strategists.
Adlai Stevenson There hasnt been a bro-
was the last kered convention since 1952,
candidate to when Illinois Governor Adlai
win a brokered Stevenson won the Demo-
convention cratic Party nomination but
in 1952 lost the general election.
Sam Masters
THE INDEPENDENT Friday 4 March 2016
New twist in Clinton
email saga as former
staffer agrees to help FBI
adam goldman
in washington
The Justice Department has
granted immunity to a former
State Department employee
who worked on Hillary Clin-
tons private email server, as
part of a criminal investigation
into the possible mishandling
of classified information.
The FBI is said to have
secured the co-operation of
Bryan Pagliano, who worked
on Ms Clintons 2008 presi-
dential campaign before set-
ting up the server in her New
York home in 2009. As the FBI
looks to complete its investiga-
tion, agents are likely to want to
interview Ms Clinton and her
senior aides about the decision
to use a private server, how it
was set up, and whether any
of the participants knew they
were sending classified infor-
mation in emails, current and
former officials said.
The inquiry comes against
a political backdrop in which
Ms Clinton is the favourite
to secure the Democratic
nomination for the presi-
dency, despite the scandal
surrounding the server. The
claimed co-operation of Mr
Pagliano divided analysts
about whether it would hurt
or benefit MsClinton.
So far, there is no indication
that prosecutors have con-
vened a grand jury in the email
investigation to subpoena tes-
timony or documents, which
would require the participa-
tion of a US Attorneys office.
l
FBI and Justice Department
spokesmen would not discuss
the investigation. Mr Paglianos
attorney, Mark MacDougall,
also declined to comment.
Brian Fallon, a spokesman for
the Clinton campaign, said:
Secretary Clinton has been
co-operating with the Depart-
ment of Justices security
inquiry, including offering in
August to meet with them to
assist their efforts.
He also said the campaign
was pleased that Mr Pagliano,
who invoked his Fifth Amend-
ment rights before a congres-
sional panel in September,
was now co-operating with
prosecutors. The campaign
had encouraged Mr Pagliano
to testify before Congress.
Officials will look at the
potential damage had the clas-
sified information in the emails
been exposed. The Clinton
campaign has described the
investigation as a security
review. But current and
former FBI and Justice Depart-
ment officials have said investi-
gators are trying to determine
whether a crime was commit-
ted. There was wrongdoing,
said one former senior law
enforcement official. But was
it criminal wrongdoing?
Ms Clinton has since apolo-
gised for what happened. Cur-
Bryan Pagliano
will assist the FBI
in its investigation
into Hillary
Clintons use of
private email
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The so uth a f ricA yesterday clears the way
investigation for a judge to sentence him
surrounds Pistorius cannot appeal for murder at a hearing
Hillary news in against murder verdict scheduled for 18 April.
Clintons br ief He is under house arrest.
use of her Oscar Pistorius has He had appealed to the
familys been denied the right to highest court in South
email server appeal against his murder Africa, arguing that another
for work conviction over the court was mistaken in
emails while shooting of his girlfriend overturning a manslaughter
Secretary of Reeva Steenkamp. conviction. The minimum
State A P The ruling by the sentence for murder is 15
Constitutional Court years. R E U T ERS; A P
SOMALIA Uganda
Al-Shabaab suspect New law will stem child
sentenced to death adoptions by foreigners
A former journalist accused Uganda has passed a Bill
of belonging to al-Shabaab that says only Ugandans
extremists was sentenced can be legal guardians
to death for his alleged role of orphaned or destitute
in the killings of five Somali children, in a move aimed at
journalists. A military court stemming the rising number
in the capital, Mogadishu, of adoptions by foreigners.
convicted Hassan Hanafi
Haji, who was extradited
from Kenya last year. A P
The law sets tough new
conditions for adoptions
by non-Ugandans. AP
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rent and former officials said
the conviction of retired gen-
eral and CIA director David
Petraeus for mishandling clas-
sified information is casting a
shadow over the investigation.
They think that Mr Petraeuss
actions were more egregious
than those of Ms Clinton and
her aides because he lied to the
FBI, and classified information
he shared with his biographer
contained top-secret code
words, identities of covert
officers, war strategy and intel-
ligence capabilities.
After negotiations, Mr
Petraeus pleaded guilty to a
misdemeanour charge of mis-
handling classified informa-
tion. He was fined $100,000
and sentenced to two years
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World

Staff manning Syrian

ceasefire hotline
cant speak Arabic
US State Department officials admit that volunteers fielding
incoming phone calls had not all been properly vetted
tim walker
us correspondent
It is the last thing the victim of
an air strike needs to hear on
phoning an official hotline to
report an attack someone on
the end of the line who doesnt
speak their language.
But yesterday the US State
Department admitted that its
round-the-clock hotline serv-
ice for Syrians to report viola-
tions of the recent ceasefire
needs improvement, follow-
ing reports that the volunteers
manning the phones were
unable to understand the Ara-
bic speakers who called in.
The hotline was set up on
Saturday after the declara-
tion of a tentative ceasefire in
Syrias devastating civil war.
Witnesses on the ground have
been encouraged to call and
report any breaches of the
agreement between rebels
and the regime of President
Bashar al-Assad.
There have been repeated
claims of air and artillery
attacks in recent days, but a
story published on Wednes-
guage issues, Mr Toner said.
Were working to correct
those, obviously, because its
important that we have Arabic
speakers that were able to field
incoming calls.
Syrians are also able to
report violations of the truce
by other means, including
texting, emailing, or contact-
ing the State Department
via Google Voice. According
to Syria Direct, some have
decided to report the breaches
instead to a United Nations
hotline, which is manned by
a native Arabic speaker.
The UNs special envoy for
the Syrian crisis, Staffan de
Mistura, said yesterday that
the ceasefire had so far been
successful despite scattered
incidents of violence in the
Homs, Hama, Lataki and
Damascus provinces. Suc-
cess is not guaranteed but
progress is visible, he told
reporters in Geneva.
State Department spokes-
l anguage is su es the hotline in acti on
On Saturday night, Orion
man John Kirby said this week
that US had not been informed
of any claims of any additional
violations of any significance
since the truce took effect
over the weekend, but Syrians
were sceptical. Salim a-Rihal,
from north Homs, which suf-
fered shelling on Tuesday, told
Syria Direct: America has no
idea whats happening on the
ground in Syria.
Both sides have accused the
other of breaking the ceasefire,
brokered by the US and Russia
to give the Syrian government Waikiki
and the opposition a chance to beach in
reopen peace negotiations in Honolulu
the civil war, which has lasted suffers from
almost five years and claimed coastal
at least 250,000 lives. How- erosion
ever, the truce did not include N I C HOLAS
Isis or the al-Nusra front, the KAMM/A F P/
regions al-Qaeda affiliate. Gett y
Residents across Syria were
also left without power yester-
day, after a massive blackout
whose cause was unknown,
according to state media.
North Korea
fires missiles in
on the phone who cant speak

day by Syria Direct a non-
profit group of journalists cov-
ering the war from inside Syria
suggested witnesses had
Wilcox, a journalist with the
non-profit media group Syria
Direct, called the US State
Department hotline to report
defiance of new
Arabic? Id give a detailed ac-
count of something happen-
ing in Homs province and he
would listen and his answer

found it difficult to describe
the details of such violations
to US officials.
Abu Odei al-Homsi, an
activist with the Ceasefire
Monitoring Centre in Homs,
told Syria Direct he and his
colleagues had tried to call the
hotline, but we dont think
they understood what we were
saying. One State Depart-
ment operator reportedly
repeated the name Harbnif-
sah, a village south of Hama,
as Harb Bebsi, which means
Pepsi War. A call to the line
yesterday was answered in
English: Hello, this is the
State Department cessation
of Syria hostilities hotline,
may I help you?
State Department spokes-
man Mark Toner said opera-
tors staffing the hotline were
State Department employees
who had volunteered in their
spare time. He admitted that
only some spoke Arabic,
and that their language skills
had not all been properly vet-
ted. There were some lan-
ceasefire violations in Homs
province. I didnt expect
an American to answer; he
answered in English but
switched to Arabic. I started
telling him in Arabic about
reports we were getting from
Homs province of specific
ceasefire violations, Mr
Wilcox reported later.
Hes really struggling and
cant understand me... Im
like, why is this American guy
There were
language
issues.
Were
working to
correct
those
Activists hold a pre-Assad Syrian flag in Jabar, Damascus g etty
was: Homs. Thats it.
On Monday, another Syria
Direct reporter, Osama Abu
Zeid, called the hotline to
report on what were believed
to be Russian air strikes on
villages south of Hama city.
The first State Department
operator to answer the phone
replied in poor Arabic, told
him that he had the wrong
number, and then hung up.
TIM WALKER
UN sanctions
peter popham
In a symbolic act of defi-
ance, North Korea greeted
the imposition of harsh new
UN sanctions yesterday by
firing a volley of missiles into
the sea off the eastern coastal
town of Wonsan. They landed
harmlessly some 90 miles
away from land but analysts
warned that there are likely to
be more pointed reactions in
the months ahead.
The new measures, which
were unanimously passed
by the UN Security Council,
are the fruit of seven weeks of
negotiations between the US
and China, Pyongyangs north-
ern neighbour and increasingly
reluctant ally. They were trig-
gered after Pyongyang claimed
to have tested a hydrogen
bomb for the first time.
The international commu-
nity, speaking with one voice,
has sent Pyongyang a sim-
ple message, said President
Barack Obama as he confirmed
the sanctions. North Korea
must abandon these danger-
ous programmes and choose a
better path for its people.
But there is little confidence
that the measures, the harsh-
est and most comprehensive
for two decades, will force
Pyongyang back to the con-
ference table.
New measures targeting the
norths nuclear programme
include a ban on the export of
coal, iron and iron ore, the earn-
ings from which are used to fund
the nuclear and ballistic missile
programmes, and on the import
of fuel oil, including rocket fuel.
But China was adamant that the
new sanctions should not bring
the economy of the north to the
THE INDEPENDENT Friday 4 March 2016 l
27

Plan to halt the grain drain on

Hawaiis most famous beach
marina riker
in honolulu
In a land of natural wonders,
the famous beach at Waikiki
on Hawaii is different: it is
engineered.
Waikiki has been filled with
imported sand for decades.
But the beach has had prob-
lems with erosion for years, so
Hawaii politicians are propos-
ing a new bill to restore it.
The bill originally proposed
a $1.5m (1.06m) plan to fill
a portion of the beach where
erosion has left it almost
entirely gone. It would also
give money for a path along
the shoreline for pedestrians
and cyclists.
The latest effort comes four
years after the state spent over
$2.4m to pump sand from off-
shore to replenish the beach.
People have been bringing in
sand to make the beach wider
for about 75 years.
I never understood the
value of our beach as some-
one growing up here until I
started hearing the stories
from my grandfather of the
1940s, said Republican rep-
resentative Chris Lee, who
grew up on Oahu and intro-
duced the bill. Its a totally
different beach than it was
back then, and I think we have
a chance to restore some of
that magic.
Photographs from the 1930s
and 1940s show a continuous
stretch of white sand from
one end of the beach to the
other. Now, its separated by
seawalls and sections where
theres barely any beach left.
Mr Lee said an uninter-
rupted stretch of beach is
important to maintaining the
allure of the states most popu-
lar tourist destination. AP

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point of collapse. And analysts
were quick to point out loop-
holes which Pyongyang could
exploit to keep the weapons in
development.
It was pointed out that North
Korea will still be permitted to
sell minerals and import oil as
long as they can claim that the
trade is necessary for the liveli-
hood of the civilian population.
In this way, China and Russia
can control the degree of sanc-
tions, commented Professor
Hajime Izumi of Japans Uni-
versity of Shizuoka.
The [sanctions] resolution
is designed to keep North
Korea barely alive, but not
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un addresses the country yesterday after the UN
imposed harsh new sanctions in response to the regimes nuclear programme Ap
to kill, commented Toshio
Miyatsuka, director of Japans
Korea Institute. A South
Korean think-tank, the Korea
Economic Research Insti-
tute, argued that only if all
the norths exports of natural
resources were blocked out-
right would the sanctions be
effective.
Few observers expect
Pyongyang to agree to talks
because of the sanctions.
Instead, sales of mineral
resources ostensibly to ben-
efit the civilian population
will instead keep the military
programmes alive. Once again,
it will be the ordinary people
who find themselves in the line
of fire.
Samantha Power, the US
Ambassador to the United
Nations, insisted that the sanc-
tions were not intended to have
adverse humanitarian con-
sequences for civilians, but
conceded that North Koreas
prioritisation of nuclear and
ballistic programmes over the
needs of its people is part of
the perverse reality that has no
equal in the worldVirtually
all of [North Koreas] resources
are channelled into its reckless
and relentless pursuit of weap-
ons of mass destruction.
When they tighten their
belts, echoed John Delury,
assistant professor at Yonsei
University in Seoul, the last
thing they cut is the military.
He pointed out that more than
one million people died of star-
vation during the famine of the
mid-1990s. Did they cut their
military then? No.
The firing of missiles into the
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Race row over actress blacking
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tim walker
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Russia gags Ukrainian
helicopter pilot on trial
for killing journalists
nadia beard
in moscow
Nadiya Savchenko, the heli-
copter pilot accused of killing
Russian journalists during
fierce fighting in Ukraines
restive east, had expected to
be allowed to speak one last
time yesterday, at the end of
what her lawyers described as
a show trial.
Instead, she was silenced
and vowed, immediately, to go
on hunger strikes after being
denied her closing statement
at the end of a trial widely
viewed as politically moti-
vated. Ms Savchenko appeared
furious after her statement was
refused, despite 90 minutes
remaining of what is expected
to be her last full day in court.
In a cramped courtroom
in Russias southern Ros-
tov region, Ms Savchenko
announced her protest. Our judge me.
first priority now is to convince
Nadiya not to go on full hunger
strike, one of Ms Savchenkos
defence lawyers, Nikolay Polo-
zov, told The Independent.
A person can survive only
between three and five days
on full hunger strike.
Ms Savchenko, who has
been in Russian custody since
June 2014, has denied charges
that she directed the artillery
fire that led to the death of
two Russian journalists in east
Ukraine. She also denies ille-
gally crossing the border into
l Friday 4 March 2016 THE INDEPENDENT
Russia. Ms Savchenko says she
was captured by separatists
while fighting, after which she
was dragged across the border
where she appeared in police
custody six days later.
Defiant on the penultimate
trial day on Wednesday, Ms
Savchenko told the judge not
to wait to deliver the 23-year
prison sentence prosecutors
are seeking, a sentence that
has been decided long ago
from the very top, she said.
Dressed in traditional
Ukrainian dress, the 34-year-
old Ms Savchenko, who is
the first female military pilot
in Ukraine since the end of
the Soviet Union, launched
an attack on Russias state
organs for their alleged abuse
of power. Ms Savchenko said:
I am an officer of the Ukrain-
ian military forces. I have every
right to defend my land it is
my duty. You have no right to
of the investigation prove
symbol of struggle against Rus-
Nadiya Savchenko in a glass
cage at her trial yesterday A P
Mr Polozov said that a guilty
verdict had already been
decided by Russias Presiden-
tial administration, which has
wielded the case as a tool to
serve Russias political inter-
ests. A political case like
this one is not decided by the
courts, he said. Of course, the
verdict will be a guilty one, and
that decision will have come,
without a shadow of a doubt,
from the Kremlin.
The prosecution claims that,
motivated by hatred and hos-
tility, Ms Savchenko acted as
a spotter while fighting against
separatists in east Ukraines
Luhansk region. They say she
directed artillery fire from a
Ukrainian volunteer battalion
to the two journalists who were
from Russias state-owned
VGTRK television holding.
But Ms Savchenkos lawyers
argue that telephone records
obtained during the course
her innocence. The docu-
ments, they say, show that Ms
Savchenko was captured at
10:30am the day the two jour-
nalists were killed, a full hour
before the start of the mortar
fire which caused their death.
Ms Savchenko has become a
sian aggression in Ukraine. In
October 2014, Ms Savchenko
was elected to the Ukrainian
parliament and serves in absen-
tia as a Ukrainian delegate to
the Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe.
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29

When Pinochets terror was at its height, there was one place of refuge for the persecuted leftists: the Italian embassy in
Santiago. And yesterday, four decades on, the diplomats bravery was finally recognised. Mi chael Day reports from Rome

Chile honours Italians whose

Schindlers List saved 750 lives
There was little room for doubt
as the corpse of a murdered
dissident was thrown into the
walled garden of the embassy.
Italian diplomats knew then, if
they had not before, that they
had gained the attention and
opprobrium of Augusto Pin-
ochet, the supposed friend of
the British government whose
regime terrorised Chile for
17 years.
The naked body was that of
left-wing activist Lumi Videla,
one of thousands tortured to
death as the US-backed dicta-
tor squeezed the life out of any
political resistance after seiz-
ing power in 1973. The bodies
began to mount up. The dead
included students, homeless
and trade union members.
But hundreds more for-
tunate Chileans were able
to seek refuge in foreign
embassies, and yesterday, the
government of Chile recog-
nised the outstanding role
played by Italy in providing a
diplomatic lifeline for those
under threat.
Chiles current ambassador
to Rome, Fernando Ayala, pre-
sented Diplomas of Honour to
Romes diplomats in Santiago Chilean Army troops fire on La Moneda Palace, Santiago, during the 1973 coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. President Salvador Allende died in the attack A F P/ Gett y
in the early 1970s, who saved
the lives of up to 750 Chileans again in the name of the gov- The first to arrive after the het regime. In some periods gades terrorist leader Renato passport on British soil, also
with their own Schindlers ernment of Chile all the Ital- coup were Chilean-Italians, there were up to 250 refugees Curcio. Mr Girotto had come provoked the wrath of sen-
List, hiding them in the ian governments... that never who we had to protect. Then in the Embassy at the same from Bolivia to Chile to aid the ior Conservative politicians,
Embassy grounds and escort- once failed to condemn the many others who jumped over time. There were only five or fight against the Pinochet dic- including Margaret Thatcher
ing many out of the country military dictatorship of Pino- the wall and took refuge in the six bathrooms available and it tatorship. He had a shoulder and Norman Lamont. They
with specially prepared dip- chet, and allowed hundreds of residence. formed a long line just to wash injury, said Mr Toscano, We were dubbed Tories for Tor-
lomatic passes. Chilean families into Italy to Mr Toscano, then an inex- and shave, Mr Toscano told treated him and then he left ture by the leading human
Mr Ayala said that the start new lives. perienced second secretary La Repubblica. for Italy. rights lawyer Geoffrey Rob-
awards, given to five senior We didnt plan to do any- and his superior Piero de Then came the incident T h e It a l i a n d i p l o m a t ertson. Nonetheless, a cam-
Italian officials, were a sym- thing at the beginning, said Masi, the charg daffaires, of Ms Videlas body being recalled how the Franciscan paign to free the dictator saw
bolic act, an acknowledge- Roberto Toscano, second were in charge in the absence thrown into the Embassy resistance fighter left a large him return to Chile 18 months
ment to the great generosity secretary to Romes Ambas- of Italys ambassador, Tomaso grounds in November 1974. gun in the embassy, hidden in later. Pinochet finally made
of all Italians to the Chileans sador in Santiago during the de Vergottini, who had not The Pinochet-controlled a sack of powdered milk. way for a return to democratic
persecuted by the dictatorship first two blood-soaked years been allowed back into Chile press declared she had been Mr Ayala said other coun- government in 1988.
in the Seventies. after General Pinochet came after Italy refused to recognise tortured and killed during an tries, some in Latin American, La Repubblica called the
He added: I want to thank to power. It just happened. the legitimacy of the Pinoc- orgy in the embassy involv- helped dissidents during the actions of Italian diplomats
ing left-wing dissidents. The darkest period in Chilean his- in Santiago in the early 1970s,
regime sought to use this as tory; among the European one of the most beautiful and
an excuse to force its way into embassies most active in sav- moving pages in the history
the embassy and clear out the ing Chileans were the Swed- of our international solidar-
political refugees. ish and Italian embassies. The ity. When I accompanied
With the Pinochet regimes embassy of the US, which the persecuted Chileans to
patience finally wearing thin, engineered Pinochets bru- the airport safe and sound,
Mr Toscano was declared tal coup against the far-left, Mr Toscano said, I thought
persona-non grata and democratically elected gov- being a diplomat was the best
forced to leave Chile by the ernment of Salvador Allende job in the world.
end of 1974. He went on to was not much help. But nei- He also compared, unfa-
We had to become Italys ambassador ther was the British Embassy, vourably, his countrys
in India and Iran. said Mr Toscano. generosity then with Europes
protect Other opponents of the Britains indifference to the current attitude to Syrian
them. dictatorship to hide out in crimes of Pinochet appeared refugees. Our indifference
the Italian embassy included to have passed when it agreed is shocking, he said. I think
Then many Silvano Girotto, also known to a request by Spanish mag- its because politics is dead
others as Brother Mitra, a former istrates to arrest the dictator and we live in the time of fear.
Franciscan monk and leftist in October 1998, while he was The story of the solidarity
came over militant, who later became visiting the UK for medical we saw in the years of the
(In red, then left to right) Anna Sofia de Vergottini, the widow of the former the wall familiar in Italy after collabo- treatment. But the first sei- Pinochet coup gives us some
ambassador, diplomats Elena Piaciotti, Roberto Toscano, Emilio Barbarani rating with Italian authorities zure of a former head of state idea of how much weve
and other officials are honoured by Chile in Rome yesterday in the capture of the Red Bri- travelling on a diplomatic changed today.
30
World
Princess Cristina takes the stand in fraud trial
ALISTAIR DAWBER
IN MADRID
Princess Cristina of Spain
entered the witness box for
the first time yesterday and
told a court that she was the
joint owner of a property
company at the centre of her
tax fraud trial because my
husband asked me to and I
saidyes.
The sister of King Felipe
refused to answer direct ques-
tions from the court in Palma,
Majorca, and responded only
to her lawyers pre-prepared
ones. Cristina denies buying
luxury items and holidays
with a credit card belonging to
Aizoon, a firm jointly owned
with her husband, business-
man Iaki Urdangarin. She is
accused of deducting the pay-
ments in her tax filings.
l Friday 4 March 2016 THE INDEPENDENT
Fallen moguls
get-rich-quick
The first Spanish royal fam-
ily member to face criminal
charges, she faces up to eight
years in prison if convicted.
She told the court that her legal
team would field questions by
those bringing the case against
plan: throw
gold in the sea
Princess her. During his own testi-
Cristina of Spain mony, Mr Urdangarin, who
testifies in faces up to 19 years in prison,
court in Majorca also denied the charges and
yesterday said his advisers told him his
tax returns were correct.
janet tappin coelho
in rio de janeiro
Once the richest man in Brazil,
Eike Batista is claimed to have
resorted to one of the oldest
superstitious rituals in the
world in the hope of rebuild-
ing his billion-pound empire,
throwing money into the big-
gest wishing well he could find
the South Atlantic Ocean.
The flamboyant business-
man, who suffered one of the
largest personal and financial
collapses in corporate history,
tossed over 700,000 Brazilian
reais (130,000) in gold coins
into the waves off the coast off
Rio de Janeiros Ipanema beach
last month after a Brazilian-
African religious leader told
him he needed to appease a
water-bound deity, Yemanja,
known as Queen of the Sea, for
his past ungrateful actions.
He came to me for help and
I told him that everything he
had taken from the sea has to
be returned in some way and
this could be done by a ritualis-
tic gesture showing gratitude,
said Ubirajara Pinheiro, a mys-
tic and a priest of the Umbanda
religion a syncretic polytheis-
tic belief that draws on African
spiritual traditions mixed with
elements of Roman Catholi-
cism. You cannot remove ore
from the earth without thank-
ing and giving back, warned
Mr Pinheiro, who has been
a practising mystic for more
than 30 years.
In 2013, Mr Batista lost 99
per cent of his estimated net
wealth of 25bn when his
six-company commodities
empire, which included off-
shore gas and oil exploration,
and gold and iron ore min-
ing, went bust, defaulting on
the largest corporate debt in
the history of Latin America.
But Mr Batista, who admits to
Eike Batista
lost 99 per
cent of
his 25bn
wealth in
2013 when
his business
empire
collapsed
YAS U YOS H I
C H I BA/A F P/
G etty
being highly superstitious and
using psychics in the past to
guide his businesses, believes
he will make a comeback.
Chartering a yacht, he is said
to have gone to sea to perform a
ceremony that involved placing
the gold coins in a small vessel
with flowers, perfume, cham-
pagne and a statue of Yemanja.
The little boat was then pushed
off as Mr Pinheiro led prayers,
meditation and chanting.
Asked if this is an expensive
way to make amends, Mr Pin-
heiro, who is based in Rio, said:
It is not about the quantity,
it is a matter of faith. Many
years ago when [Eike] visited
my house I warned him what
would happen.
But Mr Batistas gesture
comes at a difficult time as
Brazil plunges into its worst
recession in over two decades.
Unemployment is rising, con-
sumer confidence is down, and
in the past year the Brazilian
real has lost 24 per cent of its
value against the dollar. In
2011, the country overtook
the UK as the worlds sixth-
largest economy, with huge oil
reserves and massive foreign
investment. But the bubble
burst in late 2014, exacerbated
by the state-controlled oil firm
Petrobrass money-laundering
and corruption scandal.
Analysts predict Brazils
economy will contract by 3.33
per cent this year. In February,
Moodys Investors Service fol-
lowed two other major credit
rating agencies and down-
graded Brazils sovereign debt
to junk territory. But Mr Batista
remains optimistic.
In an interview with Brazil-
ian network RedeTV! in June
2015, Mr Batista revealed he
is rebuilding his company
and had zeroed his debts.
He declined to comment
when approached by The
Independent last night.
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Mark Steel on the Calais Jungle Alice Jones on wedding lists Hannah Fearn on wealthy beggars
Friday 04.03.16
Voices
Cameron might soon
regret asking his EU
buddies for help
isabel hardman
One of the things that worried David
Cameron as he started out on his campaign
for Britain to stay in the European Union
was that he would not be able to find
enough ministers who would be really
enthusiastic about helping him make his
case to voters. He seems to have succeeded
far better than he imagined, signing up
not only the bulk of his own Cabinet to his
cause, but also ministers from governments
in other countries.
This week, French Economy Minister
Emmanuel Macron joined the Remain
campaign with a forceful warning that the
Jungle migrant camp in Calais would move
to Britain if it left the EU. The day this
relationship unravels, migrants will no longer
be in Calais, he warned in an interview with
the Financial Times. The whole thing had a
clever symmetry: on the same day that David
Cameron visited France for a summit and
met German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the
papers were full of warnings from a French
minister and a German car manufacturer
with Rolls-Royce telling staff that they
might lose their jobs if Britain left the EU. It
was almost as though a media planning grid
had been involved.
Vote Leave called the warning
ludicrous and said it smacks of
desperation from the UK government.
Why would the French rip up bilateral
deals on border controls that did not
come about as a result of Britains EU
membership anyway, the group asked.
And besides, is Macron really the best
informed person on this matter? He loves
impressing the British media, but his own
colleagues disagree with his warning:
interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve has
previously said that ending the agreement
was a foolhardy path, and one the
government will not pursue.
French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron has warned about the consequences of Brexit
The reason the In crowd might want the
French Economy Minister making these
sorts of comments is that they force the
Brexit campaigners to confront exactly
what sort of arrangement they would want
for Britain to have if it did leave. And those
campaigners do not agree.
Some, such as Ukips Douglas Carswell,
want Britain to be an outward-looking, open
country when it comes to immigration.
Others want to use Brexit to drive down
immigration. Rather awkwardly, this second
camp includes Carswells own party leader,
Nigel Farage, but there are also splits
between the Conservative members of the
Out camp on this, too, and certainly between
the Conservative and Labour sides.
This means that Vote Leave is unlikely to
advocate one set model of Brexit. Instead,
its campaigners are referring people to a
basic outline of what a post-EU Britain
might look like, which says little more
than, Well take back control of migration
policy, including the 1951 UN convention
on refugees, and well decide who comes
into our country, on what terms, and who is
removed. To be more specific would be to
risk even more arguments within the Brexit
campaign than already exist.
AFP
The strangest thing about a minister
from another countrys government getting
involved at all is that he has intervened
on a matter that doesnt really benefit the
In campaign. Unheeded, Macron also
promised a red carpet for bankers fleeing
the City of London in the event of a Brexit,
and this warning does play to Remains
strongest suit: the economy. Migration, by
contrast, is a topic Downing Street wants
to avoid talking about too much before
23 June; it only benefits the Outers.
Even if there were not regular stories on
the evening news bulletins about desperate
migrants using home-made battering rams
to break down border fences, talking about
immigration would not help the Remain
Migration is a topic
Downing Street wants to
avoid talking about too
much before 23 June; it
only benefits the Outers
bunch all that much. David Camerons
decision to stick to his back-of-a-fag-
packet promise to drive net migration
down into the tens of thousands (and his
inability to secure anything from European
leaders that will enable him to meet that
silly pledge) means that, whenever he or
any other Remain campaigner talk about
immigration, they are reminding voters
of how little control over it Britain has.
Had Cameron never come up with the
net migration target had he never made
such a fuss about the importance of his
emergency brake on in-work benefits for
EU migrants things might have been a
little easier.
Perhaps these warnings are designed to
trigger an emotional response in voters
as well, making them fear the leap in the
dark that David Cameron repeatedly
refers to when he makes the case against
Brexit. He wants a campaign that is about
the stability of sticking with the European
Union, rather than the likely chaos wrought
by leaving.
But Tory MPs campaigning for Out think
the Prime Minister has miscalculated by
focusing so much on a campaign of fear. It
is fast becoming Project Noise, says one
Eurosceptic Conservative. And that means
people just hear warning after warning after
warning and stop listening at all.
Those who do keep listening may hear the
curious sound of Labour politicians, such as
Yvette Cooper, agreeing word for word, even
with the ludicrous warnings from Cameron
and his friends from other governments,
about the chances of a Jungle in Kent.
Some Labour MPs worry that this will
damage the partys identity, making it sound
to their voters as though they are too close
to the Tories. Others take a more optimistic
approach or at least an optimistic one
given their partys current, miserable plight:
Labour is now so irrelevant that no one will
notice what people like Yvette Cooper are
saying anyway.
Perhaps as the campaign wears on,
with the migration crisis rumbling away
alongside throughout, Cameron will wish
fewer people had heard of Emmanuel
Macron, too.
Twitter: @IsabelHardman
32 l Friday 4 March 2016 THE INDEPENDENT

Voices

Mark Steel
Columnist of the year

In this volatile world,

If only Pickfords its heartwarming
handled removals to see the effort the
French authorities
like the French... went to this week in
demolishing the tents and living quarters of
refugees in Calais. Because most of those
living in the camp had fled from war zones,
its a lovely touch for the French to go to
such lengths to make the migrants feel they
were back home.
Some of the migrants have fled from Isis,
so maybe next time the police can drag
them into a basement and make a little
film of someone standing over them with a
sword, so theyll feel a little tear in their eye
and weep: Its so good to be reminded of
my village.
The main instruments used to clear the
camp in Calais were bulldozers and tear
gas which is fitting, because the lawyer
at the hearing in which the demolition was
ordered said the reasons for the evacuation
were the dignity and security of the
refugees. Nothing makes you feel more
dignified and secure than a cloud of tear gas
in the face.
If you want to look smart and dignified
for a special occasion, the first thing you
do is rub tear gas in your eyes and cover
yourself in truncheon bruises. For example,
if you had to collect a Nobel Prize, on the
way youd drink a pint of tear gas to make
sure you arrived gasping and choking and
sicking up black phlegm over the King
of Norway so that you beamed like a true
beacon of dignity.
One evicted woman was a pregnant
Iranian Kurd, who was filmed being batoned The state body that ordered the Jungle evacuation said it was a humanitarian intervention a f p/ gett y
and wrestled to the floor, and as she was
being handcuffed, she must have thought: Chapter 4 verse 7: And the people who the refugees, thousands of people in Britain
After all Ive been through, its a comfort to did flee from the land of Assyria, and hath have tried to spoil things by sending clothes
enjoy a moment of dignity at last. no homes, did build a church from all that and sleeping bags, and forming groups like
But as well as dignity, theres the lay around so that they may seek hope in Play4Calais, which built a cinema in the
security, and the French government the word of the Lord, and Jesus did come camp to show films such as Shaun the Sheep
says it is moving the refugees to better among them and knock the bastard down to the children.
accommodation, so theyre just helping with a bulldozer. But as Welsh Conservative MP David
them along by gassing them, like an Its no wonder the refugees wish Davies said: What people are doing in
enthusiastic branch of Pickfords. Whenever they were in Britain, because here the terms of giving aid to people in Calais is
Ive moved house, Ive infuriated myself by Government would be more subtle and sell really irresponsible.
dawdling and going back indoors to check the school and church tents to developers, Im sure the refugees agree. They must
Ive not forgotten anything, and often be thinking: I wish these idiots would stop
wished the removal men would give me a clothing us and offering compassion and
hand by whacking me with truncheons and They said they were concerned saving our lives. In times of desperation,
snapping my arm in three places. for refugees dignity. And nothing your true friend is the canister of tear gas.
A spokesman for the French prefecture Of course, the last thing this country
the state body that ordered the evacuation says dignity like being tear-gassed needs is people like this coming here. To
described the event as a humanitarian start with, theyre not really refugees. If
intervention. That makes sense, because whod convert them into a block of theyd stayed in Iraq or Somalia or Syria
when you see CRS riot police gassing three-bedroom tents in an estate called theyd have been killed, which would have
refugees as their kids scramble away Migrant Waters at 600,000 each for reduced their earnings which proves
through the mud, the first thought that Japanese businessmen. theyre economic migrants, just trying to
comes to mind is: I bet thats what The French government claims the get here for financial reasons.
Florence Nightingale would have done. refugees will be housed in containers on When someones drifted across the
The first area of the camp demolished was lorries provided down the road, but the Mediterranean on a pedalo with their family,
the part that contained the health centre charity Help Refugees calculates that, even and walked through Macedonia and crawled
and makeshift school and theres nothing with three in each lorry, they are 2,229 to Calais and lived in a quagmire called the
more humanitarian than knocking down places short for the numbers evicted. They Jungle until theyre gassed by riot police and
annoying places like that. could do what we all have to do when times bundled into a lorry, its all too obvious the
The French authorities, however, went are hard and be prepared to cut down a only reason theyve come to Europe is for
the extra mile and demolished a church. little, but so far the migrants have refused to an easy life at our expense. If I want to be
Only the truly righteous and holy can claim shrink to half their size so they can squeeze tear-gassed I have to go
to be so humanitarian that they demolish a twice as many into a lorry, so thats hardly and pay for it myself,
church, especially when its a church built the fault of the French is it? but they get it for free.
by people fleeing from groups that wont let The frustrating side to this story is that, Were mugs, we are.
them have churches. As it says in Matthew despite the efforts of the French to assist Complete mugs.
THE INDEPENDENT Friday 4 March 2016 l 33
Alice
Dig out the fascinators,
its the wedding of the
year. Rupert Murdoch
Jones
and Jerry Hall will
marry tomorrow in
St Brides Church on Fleet Street. Will
Notebook
the bride wear white? Will the groom wear
stilts? Will anyone throw a pie? All will surely
be revealed including, I hope, all the gory
details of their honeymoon and gift list.
Forget the ceremony, the true
extravagance of weddings these days starts
the morning after. According to a survey
published by John Lewis, the average cost of
a honeymoon is now a little under 3,000,
while the wedding lists compiled by
optimistic couples can tot up to 20,000.
Among the modish items popular among
newly-weds, though not their friends,
are Samsung smart televisions (2,999),
Nutribullets (199.95), Sonos wireless
speakers (155) and digital slow cookers
What do you buy for (49.95). In other words, things that
the happy couple who anyone can quite easily and very happily
live without and will soon fall out of love
have everything? with too. Cheaper items, like tents and eco-
friendly beehives, are also popular in 2016
but the hidden tax you pay on things like
that is having insufferably quirky friends.
That gift lists are getting more
extravagant will not come as news to
anyone who has had to contribute to a
candlelit, ocean-side, heavenly detox
couples honeymoon massage in Bali or buy
an eighth of a Wedgwood crystal ice bucket
from House of Fraser recently. In the past
wedding lists were for couples starting
homes together they included boring
things like toasters, towels and plates to
eat off. Now, as people marry later in the
UK, the average age is 33 for men, 30 for
women that kind of list is redundant. At
least two-thirds of couples now cohabit
before marriage and already have a toaster
and more towels than a thriving B&B. So
the plates have been replaced by Emma
Bridgewater cake stands, the towels by
cashmere throws, necessity by luxury.
Its quite right to take a present to a
party that rule applies from a one-year
olds birthday party up to a lavish 300-a-
head wedding but the grasping gift list
has to go. No one wants to end up with 20
Hannah
In a digital age, where
friendships are forged
in cyberspace as often
Fearn
as they flourish in a
pub garden, we need
something to keep us all together. We need
a common cause, a shared experience:
the ice bucket challenge, perhaps. More
often, however, we cruelly select a common
villain instead.
Have you been subjected to a social media
rant about the Audi beggar yet? A video
of a young man, who reportedly spends his
days begging in Newquay, getting into a
shiny Audi TT retail value 30,000 has woman who had watched her middle-class
emerged, and it is circulating the internet
faster than particles around the Large
Hadron Collider at Cern.
Locals were appalled to discover that
How many pay days the poor man they have handed their loose
between you and the change to, in the hope of playing the Good
Samaritan, might actually have been a
streets? Three, probably charlatan. Many thousands more who have
never even seen the bloke are outraged on
their behalf. But what nobody has paused
to consider is that whatever the truth in
this bizarre case, in which the beggar claims
the car was a gift from his grandmother it
is possible to hold the outward trappings of
wealth and yet to have nothing.
The tale of riches to rags is far more
common than its alternative. Only the most
exceptionally wealthy are immune from the
risk of losing everything, and fast.
Research by the housing charity Shelter
carried out in 2013 found that eight million
silver photo frames but heres a thought: if
youre close enough friends with someone
to invite them to your wedding, you can
probably trust them to buy you something
nice, without offering expensive directives
on email. That aside, I do hope Rupert
and Jerrys digital slow cooker brings them
many years of joy.
Now BBC3 is really in trouble
In the equivalent of finding a 20 note
stuffed down the back of the sofa on the
second-to-last day of the month, the BBC
has come up with a plan to plug its 150m
budget shortfall. It will start to charge a
licence fee for iPlayer. Under current laws,
anyone watching live television on TV or
a computer must pay 145.50, but those
who only watch catch-up shows on iPlayer,
including streaming shows only an hour
behind live transmission, do not have to pay.
The charge seems fair just over 12
a month for all that the BBC offers is a
bargain however you watch it, and most
people do now watch on catch-up. But
what about BBC3, which transferred
online last month amid much hand-
wringing from the BBC Trust about the
conditions it must fulfil to ensure younger
audiences are not left out? The argument
for going digital was that younger
audiences already watch far more online
TV, so it must follow that this new licence
fee is targeted at them. Paying 145 to
Britons were only one pay cheque away
from losing their homes. A year later, that
research showed that four million British
homeowners relatively well-off, by global
standards were also one pay cheque from
being unable to pay their mortgage.
Many, many more of us are only two or
three pay days from the street. And when
life crumbles quickly, there are symbols
and tokens of wealth that remain long after
security has been stripped away.
When I was a trainee reporter in the early
2000s, I spent a couple of years covering
homelessness. During that time I met a
possibly be in dire straits.
existence fall down around her. A chief
executive of a company with a good income
Rupert
Murdoch
and Jerry
Hall will
marry
tomorrow
in St Brides
Church on
Fleet Street
r e u te r s
watch a few shows among everything else
that is now available on TV and online may
not strike students as a great deal. It wont
be surprising if those precious younger
audiences now act with their laptops and
stop watching the BBC altogether.
Who needs email when you can fax?
Never mind Brexit, Julian Lewis has come
out as anti-email. Any constituents who
wish to get in contact with the Conservative
MP are requested to do so by telephone
or by writing to him at the House of
Commons, presumably on vellum, with a
quill. His website so someone he knows
must have the internet states clearly,
constituency correspondence is not carried
out by email. He does have a fax though,
so thats handy if you happen to be living in
1984 and have a problem with your giro.
This is clearly not a modern way to do
ministerial business, but perhaps one
shouldnt be too quick to condemn Lewis.
Perhaps hes a visionary in the mould of Jobs
and Zuckerberg and has realised that email
is dragging us all down, making us more
inhuman and inefficient. But if youve got a
problem with your GP
or your local library is
closing down, I doubt
that sort of vision is
very much comfort.
Twitter: @alicevjones
and a company car, she struggled after the
breakdown of her marriage. She turned
to alcohol, and in doing so lost her job
and her home. All she had left, in the last
weeks before a charity came to her aid, was
the company car a BMW, still yet to be
returned in which she slept at night.
Im not suggesting that the Newquay
beggar is necessarily such an unfortunate
victim of circumstance how could I
possibly know? merely that it is arrogant
to jump to the immediate conclusion that
the man in this weeks viral video, a beggar
who appears to own a decent car, could not
Figures released by the Government last
week showed that the number of rough
sleepers has doubled in the past five years.
Of course, the loss of a job or a marriage
break-up alone is rarely enough to provoke
the complete unravelling of a life: most
stories of security to street sleeping reveal
a catalogue of crises befallen at once, and
usually involve an underlying addiction or
mental health problem, too. But few can
consider themselves immune to that risk.
How could that possibly happen, you
might ask of the CEO bedding down in a
BMW? The answer is: remarkably easily.
And, unless youre
wealthy enough to
never work again,
it could happen to
you too.
Twitter: @hannahfearn
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We may face worsening
adult mental health if we
do not challenge the
expectations foisted on
young people
Scots await Englands EU vote meltdown
David Cameron comes back
with a wee deal in the hope
of satisfying the critics of
the EU primarily within
his own party. Now it has
become a full civil war of
claim and counter-claim,
fear and counter-fear within
the English body politic
and within the English Tory
party and Cabinet.
Ukip, primarily an
English party, looks on
and awaits with glee the
Young peopl e un de r
too much pr essu re
Geraldine Bedells article
on the teenage mental
health crisis (Magazine,
27 February) was sobering
and disturbing.
The dominant narrative
of the time we live in is of
austerity and competition.
In both public and private
sector consulting rooms
across the country our
psychotherapists and
child psychotherapists
increasingly see anxious
and traumatised individuals,
troubled by matters such
as work pressure, money
worries, addiction to social
media, and loss of control
over ones life.
As a society, we will
likely face worsening adult
mental health if we do
not begin to challenge the
expectations and unrealistic
pressures foisted on young
people today. With the
enormous pressure placed
on young people, where
the prevailing narrative is
that everything is down
to individual endeavour
and anything less than the
highest grades in exams
is failure, is it any wonder
that so many teenagers are
suffering?
Helen Morgan
Chair, British
Psychoanalytic Council
Heather Stewart
Chair, Association of Child
Psychotherapists
London, N19
R ic her or poor er
outside th e E U
The British public are
getting fed up with the
stream of lies coming from
those who wish to stay
shackled to the chains of
the European Union. These
lies are intended to scare
voters to remain in the EU.
Lord Rose of Britain
resultant exodus from Tory
to Ukip after the result is
known.
What result? Many of
the pollsters indicate that
a Brexit may be denied as
a result of the combined
Remain votes from outside
England. With current
indications that England
is split down the middle at
present and the Tory party
and followers largely in
the Leave camp, there will
Stronger in Europe wrongly
believes there would be new
trading tariffs overnight of work opportunities on
should Britain leave the EU.
Lord Rose should
already know that current
tariff barriers can hinder
access to the EU market,
preventing those outside
the EU, who produce
cheaper clothing, from
trading inside it. The
impact of these tariffs on
bills for working-class
households is particularly
damaging drastically
pushing up the cost
of clothes and other
household goods.
Business for Britain
estimates an average
household can save around
146 per year as soon as
tariffs applied at the EU
border are removed.
When Britain decides to
leave the EU on 23 June
the sun will still rise as
usual the next morning
however, Britain will
be full of optimism. After
any election there is
uncertainty. What is certain
is that it will be up to the
British Prime Minister after
Brexit whoever this may
be to secure free trade
agreements with the rest of
the world, securing a much
better deal than the one we
have now with the EU.
Jayne Adye
Director, Get Britain Out
London SW1
John Hudson (letter, 1
March) demonstrates the
fallacies in Nigel Farages
opinion that Toyota
would be better off if we
left the EU. To a non-
economist it would appear
that following a Brexit it
would be advantageous
for such firms to move
into Eastern Europe
where wage costs would
be considerably lower and
they would be sited in the
be an existential crisis in
England if it is kept in due
to the provinces.
How does Cameron, the
architect of English Votes
for English Laws, sell that
to the disaffected Tory local
associations in the shires?
Would he say that the UK
has spoken and the majority
votes have been gained
through voting in the
peripheral nations of the
UK? Usually, it is English
middle of their market. At
the same time the creation
the European mainland
would probably lead to a
mass exodus of unwanted
foreigners and fulfil one of
Farages aims.
The loss of significant
manufacturing output
would help to send the
UK well down the world
industrial ladder and we
would not need George
Osborne to be dreaming up
even more austerity.
Peter Erridge
East Grinstead, West Sussex
Neither the Government
nor any UK political party
has a policy, mandated by
the electorate, to cover
the eventuality that the
UK would leave the EU;
the Governments current
policy is to remain a
member of the EU.
Should the referendum
return a vote in favour of
leaving the EU, would it
not be a constitutional
requirement to hold a
general election?
That would ensure
that the administration
responsible for negotiating
the terms of the UK exit
from the EU would have a
clear mandate to do so.
C J Baker
Solihull
French m arke t f or
Brit ish s callop s
Thank you for the scallop
article featured on 2 March.
I was involved in the
original promotion of the
Rye Bay catch some 15 years
ago.
The scallop catch up to
that time had mostly been
sent to Boulogne along with
most of the fish caught in
Rye Bay. This was because
the French market is so
much stronger than fish
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Votes for Everyones Laws
that must carry the day!
Interesting times when
viewed from north of
the Tweed!
John Edgar
Blackford, Perth and Kinross
Apologies for yet more
scaremongering, but
imagine a world in which
the UK has exited from the
EU, and so Scotland has
exited from the UK. The
purchasing in Britain. That
is still true today.
It is true that British
fishermen have not had
an easy life. Successive
governments of both
colours failed to secure the
best deals for them, but the
market over the Channel
has sustained a living for
the depleted fleet.
If we now leave the
EU, they will certainly
suffer further. All sales
to Boulogne will have
to be renegotiated with
undoubtedly less favourable
rates. New tariffs will be
set, and that will take a
long time. By the time all
is agreed the already small
fleet will not survive.
The British market which
has been built up over the
last decade is still too small
to sustain the fleet. So the
scallops and the fresh fish
from Rye wont be available
for the home market either.
Kate Roy
Heathfield, East Sussex
Ci ty prof i ts f rom
men s c r i mi nal t ra i t s
Olivia Hill (letter, 3 March),
while highlighting the fact
that London is deemed the
most successful city in the
world, suggests that gender
imbalance is preventing it
from doing even better.
But is it not obvious that
London owes its premier
position at least in part
to that male dominance?
We dont have to look very
far past the much greater
gender imbalance within
the prison population to
realise that in reality men
and women are not so
much equal as different,
with different strengths and
weaknesses.
Those traits that lead men
into prison in much greater
numbers are very similar to
those that lead to success in
rump of the UK is ruled for
ever by the Conservative
Party, led, at least for a
while, by Boris Johnson,
and our closest ally is
President Trump of
the USA.
All these scenarios are
possible separately, and if
they all happened together
they would be a disaster for
the world.
Marilyn Mason
Kingston upon Thames
business and in particular
to the type of financial
chicanery that has made
London so successful.
Roger Chapman
Keighley,
West Yorkshire
Lond on sh u ns
E uropean flag
I thought to pin my colours
to the mast or, rather,
to my hat by wearing a
European Union badge.
I searched every souvenir
shop in Oxford Street.
They had the Union Jack,
the Queen, the Duke
of Cambridge and his
missus, London buses, red
telephone boxes, Diana
and Paddington Bear but
nothing of the Union to
which we all belong.
St Pancras International,
our gateway to Europe, was
no less insular.
I should have thought of
getting one last year when I
was in Holland. The circle
of stars was all over the
place and everyone
spoke English.
Peter Forster
London N4
No c lue in Savile s
dress sense
I am shocked by
Will Gores statement
that Jimmy Savile was
an abuser who dared to
wear the costume of a
paedophile (The Only
Way is Ethics, 29 February).
This is dangerous nonsense.
There is no distinctive
dress by which paedophiles
can be recognised; many
people dress eccentrically,
but pose no threat to
anyone; and most abusers
are known to the children
they abuse, and appear
perfectly normal.
John Dakin
Toddington, Bedfordshire
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2 THE big read

The largest lump of tissue what I

believed to be the yolk sac was smaller
than it felt in my heart. I searched for the
embryo inside it until my clothes were
stained with blood. I couldnt flush the
toilet for an hour because I was sure that
my baby was in there. Rationality had
ceased to register through the distress.
And the list of things I didnt understand
seemed never-ending. I didnt know how
old the embryo was when it stopped
living. I didnt know why it stopped
living. Why? I asked myself.
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For Professor Brosens, a new
approach will lead to a great
advance: being able to predict
who is at risk of miscarriage
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D ont worry, pregnancy isnt an illness,
said my midwife, smiling affectionately
as I worried about my lack of morning sickness.
She must have been well acquainted with the
limbo of early pregnancy, the constant flutter-
ing between hope and fear.
Two days later, doubled over on the toilet
and clutching a hot water bottle as I watched
dark clots of blood drip into the pan, it felt very
much like an illness. I knew something was
desperately wrong.
The largest lump of tissue what I believe to
be the yolk sac was smaller than it felt in my
heart. I searched for the embryo inside it until
my clothes were stained with blood. I couldnt
flush the toilet for an hour because I was sure
that my baby was in there. Rationality had
ceased to register through the distress.
The list of things I dont understand about
my miscarriage seems never-ending. I dont
know how old the embryo was when it stopped
living. I dont know why it stopped living. I will
never know.
Why? I asked myself. Again and again and
again, as if it was a mantra that would take me
back in time and stop it happening. Why? If
someone could answer that, then at least Id be
able to grapple with another looming question:
Will it happen to me again?
Miscarriages are so common one in five
pregnancies end up in a miscarriage, says Arri
Coomarasamy, a professor of gynaecology at
the University of Birmingham. Empathy is
soothingly evident in his voice as I come to
the end of my story.
The one in five figure is often quoted. Some-
times it creeps up to one in four. This is because
its difficult to determine how many miscar-
riages take place. In the UK, miscarriage means
the loss of a pregnancy during the first 23 weeks
(any later and it is called stillbirth). But it often
occurs before a woman even realises shes preg-
nant, and most of the time 85 per cent it is
in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
That has given us clear social guidelines.
The 12-week rule warns against telling any-
one youre pregnant until the end of the third
month. It anticipates the risk of loss, even sets
us up to tentatively expect miscarriage during
the early stages of pregnancy, but this silence
doesnt make it any easier if it does happen.
A recent survey of more than 6,000 women
who had a miscarriage, conducted by the char-
ity Tommys, found that around two-thirds
found it hard to talk about. The same number
felt that they couldnt discuss their miscarriage
with their best friend. A third didnt feel that
they could even talk to the father about it.
Finding support remains a challenge for
women experiencing miscarriage. Sharing
was important for me although saddening, I
took comfort from the fact that friends of mine
had also been through it. Like them, I would
get through it. But we never talked about the
experience itself, the physical process and the
effects of miscarriage. Saying I had one, too
seemed to be as far as it went.
So here goes. I was nine weeks pregnant
when I started bleeding in the middle of a late
night shift at work. The sight of that fresh,
bright red blood was a sudden, vicious smack in
the face. I pressed my hand over my mouth until
I could feel the outline of each tooth, as if to
prevent anything else leaving my body. I bled;
I cramped; I googled. The lady who answered
the phone at the community midwife centre
directed me to A&E. Later, my GP assured me
that I was right not to go. I cant think of a
worse place to have a miscarriage, he said, his
head in his hands.
The pain was bearable and the bleeding
stopped after a week or so. My miscarriage was
natural and complete, meaning that when I had
a scan at the end of it, there was barely any evi-
dence that Id been pregnant at all. Nothing was
left. Unlike many women, I didnt need medical
management to complete the process. The staff
who dealt with me were polite, straightforward
and quietly sympathetic.
Other women are not so lucky.
Lizzie Lowrie has had six miscarriages, all in
the first trimester. The care she has received
has been patchy. Shes met people who have
been amazing, but shes also had to beg and
cry down the phone to be admitted to hospital,
and has turned up only to be congratulated on
her pregnancy.
When she tells me about her most recent
miscarriage, at 10 weeks, I am shocked. She
opted for a medically managed miscarriage,
in which you take tablets that open the cervix
to let the remaining tissue leave the body. It
was horrendous, she says. It was so painful.
And I was in this ward with other people doing
the same thing It was terrible.
Around 1 per cent of couples are affected
by recurrent miscarriage, which in the UK is
defined as the loss of three or more consecu-
tive pregnancies.
Emma Benjamin has had several miscar-
riages, too, but still remembers the terror of
the first. They just sent me home and they
didnt tell me anything, she says. I came home
bleeding having the most awful period pains,
I suppose and not really knowing what to do
or what was going to happen or how long I was
going to bleed for. I knew nothing, literally
nothing I wasnt given a leaflet or anything.
So it was horrible, it was really awful, because
I didnt really know what was going on.
Its another side of the silence that surrounds
miscarriage. But Benjamin and Lowrie both
talk clearly and calmly about their experiences,
and have become more open with each succes-
sive miscarriage. Lowrie tells me that for her
husband and her the 12-week rule has gone
out the window.
At first, very few people knew that I was
pregnant, she says, but then as the mis-
carriages went on we just made sure there
were certain people close to us that knew
they tried to keep me sane when I was going
through the pregnancy Its just so hard
breaking those two bits of news: I was preg-
nant and Im not now. Its really hard to bring
it into conversation. It is still quite a silent
thing, she adds, and I think part of it is that
no one knows what to say.
Coomarasamy agrees that lack of support is
a serious problem and that women who have
an early miscarriage, and their partners, may
need just as much help as those who have lost
an older baby to stillbirth.
Whether it was this size baby or that size
baby is irrelevant, and the psychological
impact is not much different, he explains.
So I think there is a real need to understand
85
%
of miscarriages happen
in the first 12 weeks of
pregnancy; after 23 weeks
they are called stillbirths
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how couples experience miscarriages. Theres
a real need to identify better ways of support-
ing the couples.
Lowrie and her husband now run a blog about
childlessness called Saltwater and Honey. Of
course, no one should ever feel they have to
share their experiences I have friends who
wanted to keep their miscarriage private. But
it does seem that its becoming increasingly
acceptable to speak out about miscarriage.
Breaking the silence is crucial. Research has
shown that one-third of women attending spe-
cialist clinics as a result of their miscarriage are
clinically depressed. As well as depression and
grief, its been reported that both women and
their partners experience increased anxiety
for several months after a miscarriage. Post-
traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compul-
sive disorders and panic disorders have also
been observed in research studies.
Once, this would have surprised me. Not
now. Three months after my own miscar-
riage, I still struggle to see my experience in
perspective. There are still days when I feel
a shadow over me and a sadness in the pit of
my stomach that wont go away. There are still
days when a strange emotion surprises me
with its stranglehold.
Its only after my conversation with Lowrie
that I realise this emotion is grief. She, too, was
confused, until a counsellor demystified what
she was going through.
I thought to grieve you had to have lost
something youd met like a person that you
had talked to or you could grieve over a baby
that maybe youd held, she tells me. I didnt
know anything about grief I didnt know
whether I should leave that to people who had
lost actual people, not a very, very tiny baby
that youve never met.
Benjamin agrees: I used to think, God,
people go through so much worse and Id
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Seeking closure: Holly Cave
says that she is going to stop
asking why, accept the loss
of a little life and get on with
the one shes living now
teri pengill ey
feel guilty for grieving But in my head, I had
planned when this baby was going to be born.
So it was still as upsetting for me.
Part of this distress comes from that unan-
swered Why? Most women having their first
or second miscarriage are told to put it down
to one-off, unspecified genetic abnormalities
in the foetus. It just wasnt meant to be. Yes,
society likes fate. But women feel better if
they get more accurate information, says Ruth
Bender-Atik, national director of the Miscar-
riage Association. The reason is that they have
an answer, an explanation, she says, rather
than a huge question mark and a tendency to
assume its their fault.
Most women never get an answer, however,
even if they are tested for possible explanations,
because the science is sorely lacking.
I think its fair to say that miscarriage,
despite being so common, despite having
physical and psychological consequences to
the woman and her partner, despite being a
condition that demands quite a lot from the
NHS, has not been researched well for a long
time, says Coomarasamy. But that is chang-
ing, I believe.
Thats down to greater understanding of the
various possible causes behind the unspecified
genetic abnormalities that are said to underlie
most miscarriages. The risk of random genetic
faults in the foetus seems to increase with the
age of the mother: the chances of having a
miscarriage rise from 9 per cent aged 2024
to more than 50 per cent for women aged 40
and above. Beyond age, other risk factors asso-
ciated with miscarriage include obesity, smok-
ing, drug use and drinking more than two units
of alcohol a week or more than a couple of cups
of coffee a day.
There are several other potential causes:
abnormalities in the womb or cervix, genetic
faults inherited from the parents, hormone
imbalances, polycystic ovary syndrome, vari-
ous infections and so on. In the UK, tests for
these possibilities are offered only after three
consecutive miscarriages, whereas in many
other countries the threshold is two.
Some women who have had a number of mis-
carriages have antibodies in their blood that
seem to prevent the pregnancy embedding
properly or cause blood clots in the placenta.
This is called antiphospholipid syndrome, also
commonly known as sticky blood syndrome,
and it is the most important treatable cause
of recurrent miscarriage. Low doses of aspi-
rin, sometimes also the blood-thinning drug
heparin, seem to help these women carry a
pregnancy to term. Its the kind of hope to
which many women and their partners cling:
that a cause will be found and that an effective
treatment will follow.
A blood test for these antibodies is there-
fore standard after recurrent miscarriages, but
its the answer only 15 per cent of the time.
Half of all women who have tests are still left
1in5
pregnancies result in the
mother miscarrying
without an answer. Although Benjamin and
her husband now have three children, a cause
was never identified for her miscarriages. After
two successful pregnancies in which she took
progesterone, blood-thinning drugs, aspirin
and steroids, she knows it was more likely blind
luck than targeted medical intervention.
Lowrie, still trying for her first child, has also
tried taking low-dose aspirin, heparin and pro-
gesterone, but thinks she was probably only
offered this cocktail of drugs because they just
didnt know what to do with me.
Its a familiar story to Coomarasamy. There
are a lot of people out there who are just putting
patients on a bit of this, a bit of that, he says.
Statistically speaking, any patient who has had
a miscarriage previously almost all patients
who have had a miscarriage previously the
odds are in their favour in terms of having a
normal pregnancy next time round, no matter
what one does. So if they happen to be popping
a pill it may have nothing to do with it. In fact,
statistically speaking, they were going to carry
that baby to term anyway.
While aspirin increases the chances of
a successful pregnancy for the minority of
women with sticky blood syndrome, it had
no significant effect in clinical trials for other
women at risk of miscarrying. And following
years of debate, the results of the Promise trial
announced in November 2015 showed that pro-
gesterone supplements did not prevent early
miscarriage for women with unexplained,
recurrent losses.
A number of other trials continue to investi-
gate potential treatments. The Response trial is
testing a medicine called NT100 to find out if it
can improve the chances of a successful preg-
nancy without serious side-effects. The Tablet
trial is looking into the role that thyroid anti-
bodies may play in women with unexplained
miscarriage, and whether the drug levothyrox-
ine may help. Lowrie is one of those waiting to
hear if she is eligible to take part.
Lots of women seek out such trials, keen to
be involved. Of Coomarasamys patients at
Birmingham, 60-70 per cent take part in clini-
cal trials being carried out there, and often the
research team finds recruits through other ave-
nues, such as Facebook campaigns. They are all
looking for answers, hoping for a breakthrough.
But it may be that to understand miscarriage
better, we need a new approach.
Step forward Jan Brosens, professor of obstet-
rics and gynaecology at the University of War-
wick. He agrees that our current knowledge is
too thin to help many people after recurrent
miscarriage and says the current tests avail-
able are mostly a waste of time. [For] the vast
majority of couples that you see in clinic, you
can test until youre blue in the face and you will
find nothing, he says. But more importantly,
even if you have a patient where you have a
positive test, you will still find that you get the
same positive test in at least 50-100 women
who dont have a history of miscarriages. In
other words, the tests are nowhere near specific
enough to identify what is causing recurrent
miscarriages. Brosens thinks we will make
more progress if we change the way we think
about miscarriage.
The problem I face when I see patients is
that the vast majority come with this narrative
that has been imposed upon them and which
they defend which is that miscarriages are
your body rejecting the pregnancy, that this is
a complete failure, he says, sadly.
Instead, he is keen to emphasise that a
successful pregnancy begins with the start
of a period an event that so many women
regard merely as an annoyance or, at worst, the
uncomfortable end to another month of trying
to conceive a baby.
But consider it differently, and the period
is just the beginning, as the old womb lining
disappears and a completely new one begins
to grow. Brosenss research with Siobhan
Quenby at Warwicks Biomedical Research
Unit in Reproductive Health suggests that the
womb lining plays a major role in determining
whether the next pregnancy succeeds.
Most if not all human embryos have some
chromosomal abnormalities. The range of vari-
ation runs from embryos with errors in a couple
of cells right up to ones that are so unstable
they are known as chaotic. The cells of the
womb lining, the endometrium, go through a
process called decidualisation in response to
the pregnancy hormone progesterone, which
makes them able to recognise genetically poor
embryos and prevent implantation so that
pregnancy never begins.
But if the womb lining isnt suitably pre-
pared, it may prevent healthy embryos from
implanting or do the opposite. Brosens and
Quenbys research has found that in women
Aged 20 to 24, you run a nine
per cent risk of miscarrying,
but this rises to
50
%
when youre 40 and over
37
with recurrent miscarriage, the womb lining is
often super-receptive but unselective, mean-
ing that it allows genetically doomed embryos
to implant and grow. These women may get
pregnant fairly easily, but the pregnancy never
truly has a chance of succeeding.
In essence, Brosens tells me as firmly as his
friendly Dutch lilt will allow, I completely and
utterly dismiss the current medical thinking
on miscarriages.
The idea that something has gone wrong?
No. The feeling of guilt that you must have done
something wrong, despite sticking to all the
rules of pregnancy? Pointless. Because the
outcome of your pregnancy was most likely
determined at that moment of implantation.
Brosens is convinced that this new perspec-
tive will eventually lead to an uplifting advance:
being able to predict who is at risk of miscar-
riages, even among women who have never
been pregnant.
When cells taken from the womb lining of
women who have experienced recurrent mis-
carriage are cultured in the lab, the behaviour
of the cells is very, very different [compared
to] control patients, he says. This provides a
new starting-point for developing diagnostic
tests and even treatments to make recurrent
miscarriages far less likely.
As for me, after just one miscarriage, the sta-
tistics tell me that today I have an 80 per cent
chance of my next pregnancy being successful.
Regardless, I have been worrying that my mis-
carriage was the result of something that might
make me prone to it happening again. I simply
dont know, and its the same for most women
experiencing miscarriage, whether their first
or their 15th.
The wonders of modern science have accus-
tomed us to medical explanations and diag-
noses. The women Ive spoken to Emma
Benjamin, Lizzie Lowrie and some of my
friends share similar feelings of frustration.
We expect that doctors will find out what is
wrong with us and give us something to treat it.
We think we will feel better if that happens.
For the small percentage of women whose
every pregnancy has ended in miscarriage,
the question of why looms particularly heavy
over their trauma. While Lowrie hasnt given
up hope of having a child of her own, she has
accepted that it may not happen.
I dont think there is always a resolution,
but sometimes youve got to live with that,
she says. Life isnt neat. We dont always
have answers.
I dont have an answer, and I know Im not
going to get one any time soon. So for now, Im
going to try and stop asking Why? One tiny
life has ended, but mine goes on.
This is an edited version of an article
that first appeared on Mosaicscience.com
and is republished here under a Creative
Commons licence
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ch ild re n
field of
dreams
In the 1970s, Michael Morpurgo started a charity farm, so
city kids could try country life. In its 40th anniversary year,
N ic k D u e rd e n recalls his own week of wonder and wellies
One day, back in the Swinging Sixties, Michael
Morpurgo, future childrens laureate, had
a lightbulb moment: he and his wife Clare,
both increasingly disillusioned schoolteach-
ers, would set up a rural farm somewhere and
invite city children to come and stay, and also
to work on it.
We had both been immersed in the coun-
tryside while growing up, and valued it tremen-
dously, Morpurgo says. And we thought it
was the right of every child, every urban child
in particular, to have a similarly bewitching
experience.
The idea remained a flight of idealistic fancy
until Clares father, Allen Lane, the founder of
Penguin, died in 1970. Suddenly, she had the
means. And so we decided to put our money
where our mouths were, she says. To take
the risk, set up a charity, buy a house in Devon,
make a partnership with a real working farm
next door, and see what happened.
The initiative Farms for City Children was
launched early in 1976, and open to urban and
underprivileged schoolchildren nationwide.
I suppose we must have looked rather pat-
ronising at the time, says Morpurgo, these
two rather fresh-faced, silver-spoon people
convinced our idea could help. But we really
were convinced. And its such an intense expe-
rience for the children: you are often working in
cold conditions, in discomfort, with great sacks
of sheep feed over your shoulder, the snow
driving into your face. But thats the core of its
appeal, I think. He pauses . Well, I hope.
Back in 1979, I was one of those urban chil-
dren invited to attend with my classmates.
We had just turned 10, and lived in a pocket of
south-east London dominated by new council
estates. From front-room balconies, nine floors
up, we could see trees in distant Crystal Pal-
ace; the only farm animals wed encountered
came pre-packaged in Safeway, in the frozen
food section.
I had never been anywhere near a farm, nor
had I been away from home, from Mum, for
long as a full week. The prospect was as daunt-
ing as it was thrilling. We would be cut off from
Friday 4 March 2016 THE INDEPENDENT
city living and its myriad distractions, and none
of us would get to take our phones with us (for
what were, in those dark ages, very pertinent
technological reasons).
Morpurgo was right: it was intense, and his
talk of hard work was far from idle. We were up
at dawn and expected to feed the animals before
breakfast. The horses needed repeated groom-
ing, the pigs constant mucking out. Days were
filled with discovery: that hay is heavier than
it looks, and pitchforks are dangerous when
wielded with abandon. (The punishment for
wielding those pitchforks was to clean out the
cattle pen, a nightmare of almost Kafkaesque
proportions because the more you cleaned, the
more the cows tauntingly shat.) Country folk
were different, too. None of them wore Adidas
Gazelles; everyone had Wellingtons. Id never
owned a pair, as my awkward gait when I was
in them demonstrated to anyone watching. A
perfectly reasonable late afternoon pastime was
developing backache by planting trees.
One night, hours before the sun had any
intention of rising, we were awoken by Clare
ushering us to the sheep shed to witness a ewe
giving birth to half a dozen future cutlets, and
we gathered round in fascinated awe and a
new emotion, this admiration. Evenings were
spent in a bucolic idyll, before the open fire in
the drawing room, where Michael would read
to us from works in progress. That year, he was
writing War Horse, which I fear none of us lis-
tened to with the due attention this particular
manuscript deserved. But then what did he
expect? We were exhausted.
Oh, by the end of the day, the children were
always absolutely shattered, says Clare, laugh-
ing. Which of course was the idea all along.
Four decades later, nearly 100,000 children
have visited one of the three farms the char-
ity now runs, in Devon, Gloucestershire and
Pembrokeshire. The Morpurgos may well have
been idealistic when they started, but Michael
has since described Farms for City Children as
his greatest story. With good reason.
farmsforcitychildren.org
men swear
wrong
Dig it:
young
trousers
visitors at
the Farm
for City Country Life magazine wants to reclaim red strides for
Children in
the 1970s posh people. And, says si m on usb or n e, after a difficult
few years, the Sloanes look set to win back their colours
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There is hope for the country gentleman and
the growing threat to his preferred threads.
After years of ridicule and cultural appro-
priation, the dclass red trouser, once worn
proudly by posh people as diverse as chillaxing
Home County Tories, Henley Pimms guz-
zlers and Sunday lunching minor aristos (when
these arent the same person) has received a
stirring boost.
Country Life, the weekly rural bible, has
launched a defence of RTs, as the ruddy gar-
ments are known, whether chino or corduroy
and wherever they fall on the rouge spectrum
between salmon and plum.
Its time to take back the red trouser, to
reclaim and celebrate it before it becomes as
debased as the Burberry check once was, the
plea reads. Our menfolk will wear them on
the beaches (yes, even in 32C heat). They will
wear them in the fields, in the streets of Fulham
and Putney and in the hills. May they never
surrender them!
The magazine charts the decline of the RT
against its rise far beyond its natural habitat.
When the red trouser, albeit of a snugger cut,
became a familiar sight among the box parks
and street food stalls of our cities paired with
sockless deck shoes and Red Stripe rather
than navy blazers and black labs a certain
sort of chap could be excused for hesitating
at his wardrobe.
Indeed, Country Life reports a dip in demand
at gentlemens clothiers. I think the specific
kind of red-trouser wearer in Bristol means we
have seen sales drop off, Hannah Thielen of
Pakeman Catto & Carter tells The Independ-
ent. The shop, in the heart of RT country at
Cirencester in Gloucestershire, sells a range
of chinos and cords in plum and brick, as well
as olive and corn.
Peter York, the chronicler of toff style and
author of The Official Sloane Ranger Hand-
book, is quick to distinguish the modern RT, of
the sort worn by Tinie Tempah, Justin Bieber
and Rio Ferdinand, from the genuine article.
Those people who are younger and more
Shoreditchy are wearing completely different
things, he says. Theyre tighter, shorter at the
bottom and not made of corduroy.
York traces the true RT to the battlefields of
yore, where they were uniform for several Euro-
pean armies as recently as the First World War.
Scarlett breaches were fashionable on civvy
street for centuries, meanwhile, and latterly
became a symbol of leisure. Its a way of being
jaunty and a bit dashing, York says. It says,
I am not a wage slave, I can be a bit cavalier
everybody else can be as wound-in as they
like, but Im a bit pre-Victorian.
York, who owns trousers in bottle green and
mustard but not red, pities the RT wearer who
is more exposed to their social co-opting and
ridicule. The Look at my Fucking Red Trousers
photo blog, anonymously compiled by Mon-
sieur Henri de Pantalon-Rouge between 2011
and 2013, expertly reflected and inspired a
backlash. But York doubts that the rural wearer
is overly bothered.
Once youre in a certain sort of house with
quite mature people, theyre not worried about
what people are wearing in Shoreditch, he
says. In the yacht clubs of the Isle of Wight,
the whole thing goes on untroubled, but people
at national broadsheet newspapers dont get
to yacht clubs in the Isle of Wight, I suspect.
Perhaps not this one, Peter.
There is hope for the RT defence, though.
There are signs among urban interlopers that
interest is already waning. A non-posh col-
league of mine once ridiculed for wearing
red trousers says he bought them at TK Maxx
(albeit the Kensington branch) for 29.99 one
summer a few years ago. But then the weather
turned, I saw Michael Portillo wearing a similar
pair on his telly programme about trains, and
the trousers were put away, he adds. There
they are, hanging in the wardrobe, waiting for
an outing that probably wont come.
Red alert: Justin Bieber
(main) and Tinie Tempah
(left) have adopted red
trousers, but of a different
cut and rarely made of
corduroy, unlike the more
traditional wearers (above)
g ett y; re x
m edia
Smile, youve
been trolled
Prank videos testing bystanders reactions to harassment or
sexism are being shared on YouTube. But how long before
the staged scenes lead to real drama? By ch lo h am i lto n
The tube train is packed. It looks like rush hour.
Weary commuters are crammed up against the
smeary glass, all avoiding eye contact. A man
approaches a woman in a red dress and asks for
her number. The woman politely refuses. Dis-
gruntled and bruised, the man begins to insult
her appearance, calling her a stick insect and
disgusting. He gets more and more aggres-
sive, pointing and shouting in the womans
face. Save for a few prying glances and a cou-
ple of half-hearted comments, the rest of the
passengers stay silent, eyes fixed resolutely on
their newspapers.
This scene is from the latest prank video
released by UK-based YouTube channel Troll-
station last week. The channel has become
renowned for its hoax videos, which test
bystanders reactions to bullying, racism,
violence and as in this case body shaming.
The actors are all in on the gag and the stunts
are always revealed to be pranks.
So whats new? People have been making
prank videos since the TV show Candid Cam-
era launched in the USA in 1948 with a simple
premise: concealed cameras were used to film
ordinary people being confronted by extraor-
dinary situations. When the joke was finally
revealed, the prankster would tell the victim:
Smile, youre on Candid Camera! (which
soon became the shows catchphrase).
The genre continued to be popular, reaching
its nadir in the 1980s with UK TV show Bea-
dles About!, hosted by Jeremy Beadle, a man
we loved to hate. In this, innocents were often
reduced to tears or driven to fury, in the name
of family entertainment.
Now, however, a different type of prank video
has become prevalent: the social experiment.
These viral vids are being used for the collective
good; shining a light on the publics reluctance
to intervene in hostile situations. The videos are
uploaded onto YouTube and shared across social
media, becoming part of an online dialogue
about topics such as harassment or sexism.
But while their creators might want to get
people talking, are these videos just another
example of virtue-signalling? And how long will
39
Pranks for
nothing:
an actor
verbally
abuses a
woman on a
Tube train,
as part of a
Trollstation
stunt
it be before a member of the publicsteps in and
someone gets hurt? We do a risk assessment
before every video and theres always people on
hand to get involved, says Endrit Ferizoli, 20,
who is a member of the Trollstation team. But
people once they know what youre trying to
do, and you explain it to them away from the
heat of the moment theyre generally quite
okay with it.
Ferizoli, whose stage name is Light, says
Trollstation has a young fan base. The team, he
tells me, feels a sense of responsibility to edu-
cate youngsters about important and often con-
troversial topics. And widely shared videos are
a good way to communicate with younger view-
ers, who might otherwise be uninterested.
However, Trollstation doesnt just release
social-experiment videos. The group actually
makes four different types of content: regular
pranks; social experiments; Trollstation expe-
riences (in which actors explore certain situ-
ations, such as spending 24 hours in a Calais
migrant camp); and You Got Trolled, which
is where people play pranks on their mates
similar to the American TV show Punkd.
In fact, the groups social-experiment videos
are more popular with the quick-to-judge media
than they are with the young fans theyre aimed
at. Ferizoli even says they might hold back on
making similar videos for a while, so as not to
drive away young viewers who are just looking
for fun. We have to balance it, because theyre
there to laugh, he says.
Is there a danger, though, that these social-
experiment videos will have the opposite effect
from the one intended? Bystanders might start
ignoring real-life confrontations; dismissing
them as staged Trollstation situations. Feri-
zoli doesnt think so.
If people think that their reaction is being
filmed and is going to be put online, theyre
much more likely to react in the way thats
going to make them look best, which is to help
out the victim, he says.
Our moral compass, it seems, is swung
by whether or not well be held to account on
the internet.
40
Section2/Style
futures
market
Old French brands have hired new French hands, and are
pushing fashion forwards at warp speed. The results are
mixed, reports Re b ecca Gon sa lv es from Paris
Its interesting how pervasive some ideas are:
take Paco Rabannes sleek sci-fi futurism,
first touted in the 1960s, as a prediction of
how we would live and dress now. The astro-
naut Scott Kelly, who returned to earth yes-
terday after almost a year on the International
Space Station, has proved just how optimistic
that aesthetic was, with his bulky space suits
elaborate constructions designed to contain
the technology to sustain life in orbit. That
divergence between ideas and reality can be
applied to some of the storied French houses
that are currently showing their vision for
next season. Or are they?
Despite the protestations of Ralph Toledano
president of the Fdration Franaise de
la Couture, du Prt--Porter des Couturiers
et des Crateurs de Mode, the French body
that oversees the fashion industry that a
see now, buy now approach would not be
operating at this Paris fashion week, there
are in fact many brands adopting the tactic.
Paco Rabanne, in the hands of Julien Dossena
since 2013, yesterday showed a collection
that included four looks that were already
available to pre-order in the brands Paris
boutique by the time they appeared on the
catwalk. (Parisian billboards were pasted
with a campaign shot months beforehand
by Patrick Demarchelier.)
Dossena has proved adept at bringing the
house back to life and getting people talking
about, and wearing, the Rabanne brand once
again. His work since his appointment as the
third creative director in as many years sug-
gests that the third time is indeed the charm.
Dossenas fast-paced show yesterday included
sporty details such as zips and drawstrings,
and paid more than lip service to the found-
ers original vision, with silver leather moto-
cross boots and chainmail pieces, including
one scarlet dress that clung to the body just
so. But there is more to it than a gentle stroll
through the archives. Dossena has created a
well-rounded wardrobe of tailoring, evening
wear and much in between that will appeal to
modern day shoppers. His vision appears to
have struck a contemporary chord.
Immediacy was also the watchword at
Courrges, another Sixties-founded and
recently revived label. The sophomore col-
lection from Sebastien Meyer and Arnaud
Vaillants was shown on Wednesday, dubbed
ready to live after the fact that a third of the
wares would be immediately available. The
So-so sci-fi: a look from the
ready to live autumn/winter
2016 collection by Courrges
Friday 4 March 2016 THE INDEPENDENT
1
young designers are respectfully wedded to
the ideas of the founder, Andr Courrges,
both in terms of aesthetic miniskirts, sec-
ond skin jumpsuits and an embrace of tech-
nology and the possibilities it promises. As
such, the duo showed clever technical pieces,
not least slim, single-breasted coats equipped
with a form of central heating, fired up by a
glowing power button on a sleeve: just the
thing should you be waiting at a bus stop in
Burnley come November.
Realistically, though, how many of the
brands customers will find themselves in that
situation? Not many, if the surprisingly high
prices for the current collection are an indica-
tor. They may not be stratospheric in fashion
terms but when the target customer seems so
pointedly youthful, one has to wonder where
they might find the money for an 800 jacket,
and whether they would be willing to spend it
on what, for all the buzz and acclaim, is still a
relatively obscure label.
Theres an inherent difficulty in reviving
old brands, hence no single route to success.
The problems? That heritage of a house can be
a heavy load for a designer to bear, to reflect
Summer
and to resurrect; and that without the value
of strong name recognition, its tough to gain
traction and sales. Have consumers ever been
so spoilt for choice in what they buy and from
whom? What matters above all is the right
clothes at the right price, available to purchase
skins
at the right time.
Carven is a case in point: once a couture
label, pricing is now largely accessible (hun-
dreds, rather than thousands) and much of
the brands business is built on the entry level
pieces small bags and sweatshirts that are
within reach of the customer attracted to their
young aesthetic. Yesterday, Alexis Martial and
Adrien Caillaudaud presented their second sea-
son at the house (its a small world: Martial pre-
viously held a creative director role at Rabanne, Leather in warm weather doesnt have to spell hell. Keep
before its current renaissance), and they seem
to be treading much the same path as their
shapes slick and basic and styles classic and there can be
predecessor Guillame Henry, now installed ample cross-over between winter and summer months
at Nina Ricci. If it aint broke, why fix it?
But these seemingly never-ending person-
nel changes including the lack of a leader at 3
both Lanvin, which showed late last night,
and at Christian Dior, which shows today
are enough to send the head spinning. And
without a strong direction, theyll fail to set the
tills ringing no matter how quickly they can get
stock on the shelves.
THE INDEPENDENT Friday 4 March 2016
2 Wear its at:
1. Wraparound leather skirt
4
50, and grey bodysuit 18,
both asos.com; sandals 38,
riverisland.com; leather coat
895, reiss.com
2. Faux leather dress, 26,
zara.com
3. Sleeveless leather v-neck
top 159, and culottes
258, both Jigsaw, jigsaw-
online.com; shoes 199,
kurtgeiger.com
4. Leather jacket 425,
and trousers 395, both
whistles.com; T-shirt 14,
topshop.com; suede shoes
199, kurtgeiger.com
Photos by Phill Taylor
Styling by Emma Akbareian
Model Hanni at
The Hive Management
Make-up by Rachel Singer Clark
using Sarah Chapman Skincare and
Hourglass Make-up
Hair by Jason Lawrence at Josh
Wood Atelier, using American
Dream Weft Extensions
Mother knows best
Sarah Young
1.
2.
A barrage of sentimental
gush is imminent: in case
you had forgotten, Mothers
Day is this Sunday.
Somewhere beneath the
heaps of mass-produced
cards (some 30 million
sent every year in the UK)
lies a genuine attempt at
honouring the sacrifices
mothers make for us unruly
offspring. For that you
can thank Anna Jarvis,
who conceived the day
as a means of personal
celebration between
families in 1908.
Fast forward a century or
so, and its become more
about spending money
than spending time. While
theres plenty wrong with
that development, a bunch
of petrol-station carnations
isnt quite as convincing
a thank-you for multiple
hours of labour as, say,
this l i m it e d e d it io n BOS S
B es p o k e bag ( 1 ) . Designed
by Mobama-endorsed Jason
Wu, the Intarsia is the
perfect spring addition
to any wardrobe, above
all your mums; mainly
because you get to borrow it
afterwards. I bet Malia has
her eye on it already.
For the more traditional
(or forgetful), flowers are a
41
3.
4.
5.
1. 1,350, hugoboss.com
2. Mother of Pearl spring/summer2016
3. 80, interflora.co.uk
4. 285, harrods.com
5. 25.57, amazon.co.uk
sure bet. But, still, eschew
the forecourt floristry. Take
a cue from Mot h er o f Pe a r l
( 2 ) which yielded Victoriana
florals for its spring/
summer collection and opt
for a bunch that offers a
more stylish experience,
such as this premium
bouquet from I n t e r f lo r a
a n d V e r a Wa n g ( 3 ) .
Equally, while perfume is
not entirely groundbreaking
gifting, the launch of Sa r a h
B ur to n s f i r s t f r ag r a n c e
fo r A l e x a n d e r McQ u e e n
(4) is. It not only smells
exquisite but is guaranteed
to appeal to those with an
affinity for shiny objects; its
facetted cap and antiqued
gold feathers are a must for
any magpie mother.
While, traditionally,
Mothers Day serves to
recognise those that go
above and beyond with a
showering of gifts, there
are those of us that see fit
to lower the tone entirely.
Whether its an inside
joke or your mum really
is a bit of a battleaxe (in
a rose-garden), why not
acknowledge Mo m m i e
De a r est ( 5 ) with a copy
of the cult classic movie.
Disclaimer: a sense of
humour is compulsory.
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Section2/Homes&Design
The Home Front
Alex
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People looking for a new than 1,000 of damage to their home. Two-
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personal drones to check least 200 in repairs, compared to only a third
out new neighbourhoods, of dog owners. A more upsetting report from
claims easyProperty. Its Pets at Home shows that a quarter of people
predictions also include the advent of: wear- who have suffered a house fire also lost a pet
able devices such as HUD (heads up display) in the incident.
glasses that allow you to virtually renovate and
refurbish property during viewings, as well as Wh o do es the ho usewo rk ?
interact with an architect via a hologram; virtual On average, women spend over a quarter more
and augmented reality Explorium cafs/spaces time on housework than their male partners.
on the High Street for off-plan buying; and Nearly a third of women think their partner
invisible beacons inside properties to replace doesnt do their fair share around the home,
sales boards. in contrast to 7 per cent of men. In a separate
If they match a buyers criteria they will survey, figures from new app MoppedUp indi-
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Clever stuff: invisible beacons inside the from 12 per cent in 2011. Of the 72 per cent that
W h y not mov e ? property will replace For Sale boards. If the have not used a cleaner, two-fifths said they
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costs of buying a property and moving. the bathroom as their one retreat for peace and property ladder. Around 57 per cent are pre-
One in 10 also cited the ongoing costs of run- quiet, and only three out of 10 homes have any pared to buy a former school, a poll by from
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another big obstacle, while those aged over 55
said the main problem is a lack of the type of
The top 10 most viewed properties on Zoopla in
February are worth a total of 30m. Most viewed
only a quarter would opt for an ex-hospital. A
sturdy one in seven would have no qualms about
housing they wish to move to. last month was a five-bedroom detached home moving into a renovated prison.
in Keston, near Bromley in Greater London. The
most expensive was a 7.2m six-bedroom house
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Amira Hashish
Lifestyle Lowdown
In shopping terms, apart-
In the latest lifestyle ment is the new depart-
ment. Twins Kate and
trend designers are Morgan Wendelborn
kicked things offin New
selling homeware York with their shoppable
apartment kitted out with pieces from their col-
from custom-built lection, The Line. It proved so popular that a
second premises opened in Los Angeles late
homes and hotels last year. These immersive spaces are shopping
experiences made special by their context: the
intimate setting of a home, explains the team.
Paris put a twist on the trend with Red
Edition, merging stylish secondhand pieces
with established brands. Always ahead of the
design curve, Copenhagen introduced The
Apartment, which is open on Tuesdays and
Thursdays. A fusion of 20th-century furniture,
contemporary art and design is showcased in
a beautifully restored 18th-century apartment
in the citys old town.
Now online retailer Swoon Editions is bring-
ing HOME to the UK. Its products will dress
two Victorian apartments in south London.
Complete with industrial fittings, the space,
which is expected to open mid-March, will
provide the backdrop to a selection of their
bestsellers curated by in-house stylists who
will be on hand for design tips. By appointment Home shopping: the Apartment, in Copenhagen, where 20th-century homeware and art is
(call 020 3137 2464 to book) and for a limited showcased and for sale in an 18th-century apartment
time only, this will surely be the first of many
shoppable homes in Britain.
Hotels are also doubling as homeware shops.
Ben de Lisi has kitted out five-star apartment
hotel Cheval Three Quays, in London, with his
Designers at Debenhams range. The colourful,
open-plan space opens its doors on 2 March
and costs 295 per night.
A Matthew Williamson revamp takes over
in June, with Abigail Ahern, John Rocha and
Julien Macdonald following. The idea is that
those who stay there can see the new collection
in context and shop the look if it appeals.
Similarly, Soho Farmhouse in the Cotswolds
sells homeware which is on show in its rooms,
while Caro Somerset is essentially a shop with
Tall vase from Ben a room. Many of the items used to accessorise
de Lisi, 18, and his Hannahs B&B in Winchester are sold at Jane
giant giraffe, also McIntyre Design, a five-minute stroll away. It
18, from Designers makes so much sense. Ben de Lisi has designed the shopping experience at Cheval Three Quays (left); Swoon has
at Debenhams range @amiranews dressed this south-London apartment (centre) and Caro Somerset, also setting the trend

Five to View

Wells, Somerset

All details supplied by Zoopla
Price: 265,000
They say: This charming and
characterful property boasts
four bedrooms, two reception
rooms and a spacious front
garden. The Victorian
period property includes a
utility room and downstairs
cloakroom, plus off-street
parking. It is perfectly
located close to the Wells
city centre for easy access
to the shops and other local
amenities.
Call: 01749 681320
Price: 350,000
They say: Situated within
a small cul-de-sac with an
elevated view of Wells and
the Somerset levels, this
spacious family home must
be viewed. The property
has a generous rear garden
that backs on to the Mendip
Hills, which is an area of
outstanding natural beauty.
There are three bedrooms,
two receptions and a large
conservatory.
Call: 01749 681031
Price: 425,000 Price: 500,000
They say: Situated in a
popular location close to
the centre of Wells and local
schools, this four bedroom
detached house offers a
garage and family-sized
garden. The accommodation
comprises four bedrooms,
a master en-suite, two
reception rooms and a family
bathroom. It also benefits
from a conservatory, utility
room and cloakroom.
Call: 01749 587943
Price: 550,000
They say: This is the largest of
the town houses in this new
luxury development. With
its own south-facing private
terrace, the basement wine
cellar in the property is the
site of the original mill-wheel
at Keward. The house is split
over four levels to make the
most of the spectacular views
and offers its own private
garden looking over Keward
Brook.
Call: 01749 587943
They say: A detached family
home on the highly desirable
Milton Lane, only a short dis-
tance from Wells city centre.
The entrance hall provides
access to the cloakroom, liv-
ing room, family room/snug,
dining room, kitchen/break-
fast room and sun room,
while on the first floor you
will find five bedrooms and
two bathrooms and a master
en-suite/dressing room.
Call: 01749 681031
44
Section2/Arts/Film Reviews
Truth is the casualty of a dramatic muddle
F i l m o f t h e wee k
Tr u th (1 5 )
criticise the future Presidents behaviour.
James Vanderbilt, 125 mins
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford,
Topher Grace, Dennis Quaid, Elisabeth Moss
REVIEWS By G EO FFREY MACN AB
James Vanderbilts new feature is titled Truth
but it might just as well be called That Awful
Sinking Feeling. The film shares several hall-
marks of the typical Hollywood movie about
crusading journalists. In its depiction of the
news gathering, the cultivation of sources, and
overworked researchers and reporters eating
too much junk food as deadlines beckon, Truth
has obvious similarities with this years Oscar-
winner for Best Picture, Spotlight. The differ-
ence here is that the journalists make a mess of
their story. That is what makes Truth so unusual
and so fascinating. Its a big Hollywood movie
about failure. All the rousing speeches cant
paper over the fact that Truth deals with what
one former CBS President called, The worst
embarrassment in the history of CBS News.
Cate Blanchett gives another bravura per-
formance as CBS News producer Mary Mapes,
but there has been no talk about Oscars for
either her or the movie this time round. Its as
if the film itself has become tainted in the same
way as the careers of its real-life protagonists.
Truth tells the story of how, during the run-
up to the 2004 US Presidential election, 60
Minutes II, presented by news anchor Dan
Rather (Robert Redford), reported that Presi-
dent George W Bush had shirked his duties
while serving in the Texas National Guard. The
report was based on the so-called Killian docu-
ments in which Bushs commander appeared to
available in the computer age. If this is the case,
Truth opens with Mapes meeting a bearded,
severe-looking man in an office. At first, it
seems as if this is a job interview. (The mans
real identity isnt revealed until much later.)
Mapes is a mixture of distress and defiance.
Blanchett captures brilliantly the characters
conflicting emotions. We can tell by her blood-
shot eyes, tousled hair and nervous manner that
she is stressed and tired. At the same time, the
actress still has that imperious quality we know
from so many of her other roles.
The film-makers make sure we realise Mapes
is an experienced and resourceful journalist.
She played a key role in revealing American
excesses at Abu Ghraib. She is not the type to
betray sources or to cower in the face of author-
ity. Shes a hell of a reporter, we are told.
The 60 Minutes team follow a trail of contacts
and documents that appear to reveal Bushs
wrongdoing. Their key source, wheezing
former military man Bill Burkett (Stacy Keach),
is plausible enough. Not only does he provide
copies of memos, but he also gives Mapes and
her team the names of people who can corrobo-
rate the allegations. The CBS team is painstak-
ing in its research or, at least, as painstaking
as it can be given the very limited time they
have before transmission date.
As in conventional, celebratory movies about
journalists, there is glad-handing and exhilara-
tion when the story elements fall into place.
Mapes cant resist a gotcha feeling that she
and her team have finally skewered Bush. Then,
the backlash begins. The authenticity of the
documents is called into question. Bloggers
claim that they were typed using fonts and
punctuation styles that only became widely
very personal drama about an ambitious and
they may be forgeries.
Truth is very good at showing how managers
at senior corporations try to shift the blame as
soon as anything goes wrong. It is effective, too,
in its satirical sideswipes at the media. The mes-
senger becomes the story and Bushs misdeeds
are conveniently forgotten. Mapes may not be
able to prove the authenticity of the documents
but none of the rival news organisations gun-
ning for her can prove they are fakes. Instead
of trying to find out if there is any truth in the
allegations against Bush, these organisations
(and, eventually, CBS itself) concentrate on the
documents, asking why 60 Minutes used them
if they werent certain of their provenance.
This question cant be answered in a way that
works satisfactorily for a big, mainstream Hol-
lywood movie. We are in the realm of doubt,
obfuscation and dirty tricks. As a case study in
journalism and ethics, the film is intriguing.
As drama, it stutters.
We are never sure what kind of larger truth
Vanderbilt (best known previously as the
screenwriter of Zodiac, The Amazing Spider-
Blanchett captures
brilliantly Mary Mapes
conflicted emotions of
distress and defiance
Friday 4 March 2016 THE INDEPENDENT
Under the
spotlight:
Cate
Blanchett
and Robert
Redford
in Truth
Man and White House Down) is digging after.
The script pulls in contradictory directions.
On the one hand, it is a closely focused and
brilliant woman whose career implodes. There
are continual references to Mapes family back-
ground: the abusive father who beat her up for
asking too many questions, and her struggles to
balance her family life with the all-consuming
demands of her job at 60 Minutes, described as
the gold standard for broadcast journalism.
At the same time, the film is a lament for the
ending of Dan Rathers lengthy service at CBS.
Rather is played by Redford as a man of loyalty,
dignity and complete probity a gruff, hard-
drinking but avuncular figure who stands by
Mapes. Like David Strathairns Ed Murrow in
Good Night, and Good Luck, he is the journalist
as folk hero. In the aftermath of the 60 Minutes
report, his reputation suffered and he stepped
down from his job soon afterwards.
Truth also lurches off in other directions.
There are elements of conspiracy theory. In one
monologue, we hear speculation that Viacom,
CBSs parent company, needed to keep the
White House on side and didnt stand by its
journalists. In another powerful but incongru-
ous scene, the wife of a sickly man berates the
60 Minutes team for their callousness toward
their own sources. Theyre too busy pursuing
Peabody awards to pay attention to the ordi-
nary people whose lives might be ruined by
their reporting.
Nothing approaches resolution here. Mapes
displays a Popeye-like stubbornness (I am
what I am) in the face of her critics but that
doesnt make her right: and nor does it explain
for just what purpose this film was made.
THE INDEPENDENT Friday 4 March 2016
Daft thriller
batters the
senses and
all sense
Lon do n Ha s Fa ll e n (1 5 )
Babak Najafi, 99 mins
Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron
Eckhart, Morgan Freeman
This enjoyably atrocious
action thriller is so inept in
parts that you think it must
be a spoof. World leaders turn
up in London for the funeral
of the British Prime Minister,
who has died in suspicious cir-
cumstances. No sooner have
they arrived than the explo-
sions and bloodletting begins.
The director Babak Najafi is
on a wrecking spree, taking
an infantile pleasure in using
CGI to destroy every London
landmark available. Terrorists
have somehow infiltrated
the army, the police and the
Queens Guards.
Rugged US Secret Agent
Mike Banning (Gerard But-
ler) looks a little irritated
throughout. His wife is about
to give birth as he is plucked
away from the nursery, where
he has been using his espio-
nage skills to install surveil-
lance baby-cams. Instead of
changing nappies, he has to
protect his old friend, US
President Benjamin Asher
(Aaron Eckhart), the terror-
ists main target. These terror-
ists arent driven by ideology
or religion. A US-operated
drone blew up the daughter
of arms dealer Aamir Barkawi
(Alon Moni Aboutboul) and
now he wants revenge.
The film quickly turns into
a glorified version of a Call of
Duty-like video game. London
is the battleground as Banning
shoots terrorists. In Washing-
ton, Vice-President Trumbull
(Morgan Freeman) does his
best to look concerned. To
its credit, the film is at least
partly tongue-in-cheek. It is
also energetic enough for us
not to notice that there are as
many holes in its screenplay
as the terrorists leave in Lon-
dons best-loved buildings.
Ha il , Cae sa r! (1 2 a )
biggest star Baird Whitlock
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen,
106 mins
Starring: Josh Brolin, George
Clooney, Ralph Fiennes
Hail, Caesar! is one of the
Coen brothers jolliest and
most carefree films, which is
quite a surprise considering its
subject matter. The film is set
in Hollywood in the 1950s, at
the height of anti-communist
hysteria. The main character is
a fictionalised version of real-
Locked and ludicrous: (clockwise from top) Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart going
underground in the silly action movie London Has Fallen; Richard Gere in Time Out of
Mind; Scarlett Johansson in Hail, Caesar! G r am m e r cy Pi c tu r es / F o c u s Featu r es /AP
life studio exec Eddie Mannix,
Louis B Mayers enforcer at
MGM. If a male star was gay
or a female one got pregnant,
Mannix either kept the story
out of the papers or spun it to
the studios advantage.
Like the Coens earlier The
Big Lebowski (1998), the film
has the feel of a shaggy-dog
story. It has a tongue-in-cheek
voiceover from Michael Gam-
bon a bit like Sam Elliotts one
in the earlier movie. Brolins
super-efficient Mannix is very
different from Jeff Bridges
The Dude in Lebowski but
the two characters share a ten-
dency to get caught up in the
most outlandish scrapes.
The headache Mannix has
to deal with here is the disap-
pearance of Capitol Pictures
(George Clooney) midway
through the shooting of the
studios biblical epic, Hail,
Caesar! Whitlock is a drunk-
ard and a womaniser but he is
charming, even to the commu-
nist scriptwriters who disap-
prove of his excesses. Clooney,
who spends much of the movie
in a toga, plays him in a thor-
oughly winning way.
Generally, when Holly-
wood is shown on screen, for
example in A Star Is Born and
The Bad and the Beautiful or,
more recently, in The Art-
ist, it is depicted as a hotbed
of viciousness, egotism and
backstabbing. In Hail, Cae-
sar!, Tinseltown is a magical,
Trumpton-like world from
which unhappiness seems to
have been banished. The sun
is always shining. Everyone
is cheerful. Even the super-
bitchy gossip columnists
Thora and Thessaly Thacker
(both played by Tilda Swinton)
arent that vicious, really.
One of the delights of the
film is its collection of comic
Winners in the frame game: the meeting of two movie greats
is recounted in Kent Joness Hitchcock/Truffaut
too. They are imagining the
cameo performances. Scarlett
Johansson plays the Esther
Williams-like aquatic movie
star DeeAnna Moran, who
looks like a goddess when she
is performing as a mermaid
underwater but is down to
earth and foul-mouthed when
not on camera. Ralph Fiennes
shows heroic patience as Lau-
rence Laurentz, a camp and
demanding director who has
been assigned Hobie Doyle,
a singing cowboy (Alden
Ehrenreich), to star in his lat-
est drawing-room piece. And
were taken into the cutting
esque situation in which he
room, where a chain-smoking
editor (Frances McDormand)
lets her scarf get too close to
her equipment.
The film enables the Coens
and their brilliant cinema-
tographer, Roger Deakins, to
pastiche every kind of genre
from the classical studio
era. The brothers arent just
parodying Hollywood in the
last spasms of its golden age:
theyre paying tribute to it,
Roegs Dont Look Now. This,
studio system as they might
have liked it to have been, as a
true dream factory. LA here is
a more benign place than the
city encountered by John Tur-
turros paranoid screenwriter
working for Capitol Pictures
in Barton Fink (1991). Hail,
Caesar! isnt the most pro-
found film the brothers have
ever made but it is one of the
most pleasurable.
T ime Out O f M in d (1 5 )
living and the dead.
Oren Moverman, 117 mins
Starring: Richard Gere,
Jena Malone, Ben Vereen
Oren Movermans observa-
tional drama about the day-
to-day life of George (Richard
Gere), a homeless man in New
York, is made with delicacy
and insight. The film-makers
opt for a documentary-like
style. George is seen through
doorways and windows, look-
ing ever more bewildered as
he tries to negotiate a place
to stay and to work out how
he has made such a mess of
his life. The sound editing
is extraordinary. Wherever
George goes, there is the
noise of cars, sirens, street
fights and commotion.
The film isnt above a cer-
tain sentimentality. George is
prey to self-pity. There are ref-
erences to the loss of his wife
and the break-up of his family.
The scenes with his estranged
daughter (Jena Malone) are
milked for pathos. At times,
as George is befriended by a
fellow down and out (Ben Ver-
een), the film seems to be turn-
ing into a buddy movie akin
to Of Mice and Men or Jerry
Schatzbergs Scarecrow.
Gere, though, gives one of
his best recent performances.
He is a passive figure, bask-
ing in a sense of victimhood
and looking in at a world that
seems to have no place for him.
Without a passport or birth
certificate, he is in a Kafka-
actors (he likened them to cat-
struggles to convince the
authorities he exists. At a time
when other leading actors of
his generation (notably Rob-
ert De Niro) caricature them-
selves in half-baked comedies,
Gere is prepared to push him-
self and take roles that make
demands on him. As an old
man on societys margins, he
is a long way from the gilded
narcissists he played in films
such as Looking for Mr Good-
bar or American Gigolo.
45
The Other Side
Of The Door (15 )
Johannes Roberts, 96 mins
Starring: Sarah Wayne Callies,
Jeremy Sisto, Javier Botet
You can see the film-makers
intentions in this India-set
supernatural horror film. They
are trying to tap some of the
same sense of extreme dread
and yearning found in Nic
too, is a film about bereaved
young parents. Maria (Sarah
Wayne Callies) is the mother
devastated by the drowning of
her young son, Oliver. While
her husband (Jeremy Sisto)
loses himself in his work,
Maria becomes more intro-
spective. A maid tells her that
if she travels to a far-away vil-
lage, she may be able to say a
final goodbye to her son: but
she must ensure she doesnt
open the door between the
As a psychological study of
a grief-stricken mother, the
film works well enough. When
it turns into a tale of demonic
possession, it begins to creak.
It doesnt help that the evil
spirits summoned by Maria
from the land of the dead look
like crusty old hippies on leave
from a music festival.
Hi tch coc k /T ruffau t
(1 2A )
Kent Jones, 80 mins
Kent Joness documentary is
inspired by the famous inter-
view of Alfred Hitchcock by
the French director Franois
Truffaut an interview which
Truffaut regarded as every bit
as important as one of his own
films. Perhaps inevitably, the
documentary is far more about
Hitchcock than Truffaut. Jones
has the original audio-tapes of
that interview, which formed
the basis of Truffauts book, so
we have plentiful material of
Hitchcock speaking.
Jones has also done plenty of
interviews with contemporary
film-makers. His approach is
rewarding and enlightening.
He takes themes that Hitch-
cock and Truffaut touched on,
and invites film-makers such
as David Fincher (as articulate
as any film critic) and Martin
Scorsese to elaborate. The dis-
cussion of Hitchcocks work is
technical and thematic. Jones
looks at the directors use of
tle) and to his difficulties with
Method stars such as Mont-
gomery Clift, who refused to
do what he was told and risked
spoiling the geography of
Hitchcocks film-making.
The only drawbacks to an
excellent documentary are the
skimpy treatment of Hitch-
cocks 1930s British work and
the lack of diversity among the
interviewees. Jones could
have included at least one or
two female film-makers.
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THE INDEPENDENT Friday 4 March 2016
visual arts
Emins an oddity in
this aesthetes show
In the Making: Ruskin,
Creativity and Craftsmanship
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
revie w By m i c h ael glover
John Ruskin was far from the preposterous
aesthete represented by Mike Leigh in Mr
Turner. One way of getting at the truth of
the matter might be to ask the people of
Sheffield. Ruskin took a keen interest in
Sheffield, whose iron workers he greatly
admired for their craftsmanship. To such an
extent that in 1871 he set up a museum at
the edge of the city, and filled it with works
from his collections of drawings, paintings
and objects. His goal was to do the working
man some good by showing him examples
of great art allied to great craftsmanship,
and to give him a day trip away from the
smoke of manufacture. Some of these works
were originals, collected from his travels
in Europe. Others were copies, his own, or
commissioned from others.
To mark the beginning of a year-long
celebration of various traditions of making
in the city, an exhibition not only shows off
some of the best of the citys own Ruskin
collection, together with other works from
the past that he would have admired, but also
argues for his continuing impact upon the
world of hand-crafting today.
The first part the historical overview,
which sweeps us from the pre-Renaissance
to William Morris and the Arts and Crafts
Movement is excellent. The argument
begins to fray a little as we creep towards the
present. And so there are objects not to be
missed here, and foremost among these is
Verrocchios The Virgin Adoring the Infant
Christ (The Ruskin Madonna), which Ruskin
bought in 1877. This paintings alone justifies
at least two visits. Perhaps three. Ruskin was
spot-on when he regarded it as an ultimate
piece of craftsmanship.
What Ruskin wanted to inculcate most
of all was a habit of close-looking at the
marvels of nature. He also wanted to
draw our attention to those who, in hand-
crafting, had both shown a respect for the
materials with which they worked, and had
themselves embodied a spirit of honest,
pop
Foxes
Plug, Sheffield
re vie w By Da n i el Dyl an W r ay
As a piercing bright light shines from the
otherwise pitch-blackness of the stage
and thick slabs of sub-bass begin to rattle
through the speakers, there is an indication
that something forceful and brutal is about
to occur. Sadly any such levels of intensity
or experimentation are evaporated as the
main lights come up and Foxes launches
into 2015 single Body Talk.
Its a pleasant and rousing enough piece
of pop music to instil some momentum as
the crowd pogo but its indicative of a set
that glides but never soars.
Restoring the faith: Verrocchios The Virgin
Adoring the Christ Child (The Ruskin
Madonna) N ati on a l Ga l le rie s o f Scotl and
truthful engagement. Hand work was not a
casual thing. It was a commitment, hard-
won, almost reverential in its seriousness.
So, given that fact, what are a pot by
Grayson Perry and a tapestry by Tracey
Emin doing here? Other, I mean, than for
the reason that they like many other artists
often make their own work, and use their
hands in doing so? How Ruskinian in spirit
is Tracey Emin? How many of his actual
words has she ever read? Pull the other one.
Another reason for having her here is that
she is a famous name. There are artists here
who are working in what you might describe
as the Ruskin tradition such as Hannah
Downings delicate graphite drawing,
Bramble, which she made this year.
This is a lively piece of work, but it also
feels as if it is paying homage to a rather
distant past. We yearn for something a bit
more gutsily of the present.
To 5 June (0114 278 2600)
The live band never really feels potent
or operates at a volume loud enough to
distinguish itself from a backing track. As
a result Foxes vocals always feel like they
are being accompanied by separate music
instead of integrated within in it. Her
voice is unquestionably impressive and
powerful and the band solid enough but
their collective output feels conventional
and the biggest absence is any sense of
individuality. Pop music triumphs through
identity not just ability and as a result any
sense of personality feels lost.
However, the cover of Justin Biebers
Sorry, along with Foxes own Glorious
Amazing and the closing Lets Go for
Tonight all buzz nicely enough to give the
evening some notable peaks.
Last Nights TV
Sean OGrady
This look at the newly wed, the overfed and
the nearly dead doing sod all was a bit dull
The C ruis e itv Hol iday of My Life time wi th Len Goodman bbc1
Maybe the makers of
new ITV series The
Cruise have led more
sheltered lives than I,
but I must say that
every time I heard a reference to cruising
by the participants, my mind did wander to
a less wholesome meaning of the term. The
latter, as some former politicians have
found, can be a thrilling experience, though
invariably a career-limiting one. I wonder
whether it is in fact possible to go cruising
(unwholesomely) whilst (wholesomely)
cruising on a liner?
Anyway, over in the Baltic on the
tautologically named Regal Princess there
seems no such risk of misadventure. As
one of the cruisers remarked, spending
time on what amounts to a gigantic floating
hotel is usually thought of as something
for the newlywed, the overfed and the
nearly dead, and most of the passengers
on this fly-on-the deck documentary easily
fell into one or other of those categories
(sometimes, notably among those who
found love late in life, qualifying for all
three classifications).
The crew are usually much younger.
Dulcie, a 22-year-old dancer, for example,
is found struggling to reach West End
standards in the production of Ferrera,
performed in the ships very own 800-seat
theatre. I must say, though, that given the
captive nature of the audience and, let us
say, usually undemanding outlook, you
wonder whether the bar has been set
unnecessarily high for Dulcie and the other
hoofers. Still, shes new to it and still keen.
The youngish and very camp Timothy, a
Buddy Holly lookalike, certainly seems to
be losing his appetite for cruising, and he is
an obvious minor celeb waiting to happen
in the mould of Louie Spence from
Pineapple Dance Studios. Well, I hope so
anyway, for his sake.
Hoofer on board: Dulcie, 22, is one of the dancers on the Regal Princess I T V
47
I suppose the truth is that the people on
the cruise, both cruisers and crew, were
very nice and everything but, well, a bit
dull. My attention, and imagination, was
captured much more by the facts and
figures on Regal Princess tossed casually in
the voiceover: longer than the Eiffel Tower
is tall; 19 decks high; 1,800 cabins; 4,000
passengers; 16 restaurants all that stuff.
These are less floating hotels than
seagoing small towns, and Id much rather
have been taken down to the engine room
than have to watch a lot of holidaymakers
doing, basically, sod all for a few months. I
mean if I want that I can just watch Aston
Villa on Sky Sports.
Boom boom.
I have to admit that I have dodged all
of the previous 23 yes, 23 instalments
These are less floating hotels than
sea-going small towns. Id much
rather have seen the engine room
of Holiday of My Lifetime with Len
Goodman. But, in an example of sacrifice
that will be familiar to television reviewers
the world over, I subjected myself to the
saccharine ordeal of a whole hour of Len
reminiscing with guest celeb Fiona Phillips
about, funnily enough, water-bound
holidays, in her case on a little boat on the
Norfolk Broads. Need I say more? I think I
ought. It is really the broadcast equivalent
of having to endure someone elses holiday
snaps. It is difficult to say why this is such a
peculiarly tedious experience, but even the
perky and pleasant personality of ITV
Breakfast telly
favourite Fiona
couldnt make
waves with this
sort of material.
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Section2
Television&Radio
US Elections
Critics choice
G E RARD G I L BER T
Friday 4 March
BBC1
6.00 Breakfast (S). 9.15 Heir Hunters
(S). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer
(R) (S). 11.00 Countryside 999 (S).
11.45 Claimed and Shamed (R) (S).
12.15 Bargain Hunt (S). 1.00 BBC News
at One; Weather (S). 1.30 BBC
Regional News (S). 1.45 Doctors (S).
2.15 Moving On (R) (S). 3.00 Escape to
the Country (R) (S). 3.45 Holiday of
My Lifetime with Len Goodman (S).
4.30 Flog It! (R) (S). 5.15 Pointless (S).
6.00 BBC News; Weather (S).
6.30 BBC Regional News (S).
7.00 The One Show (S).
7.30 A Question of Sport With
Kevin Sinfield, Karen Pickering,
Adam Lyth and John Regis (S).
8.00 EastEnders Patrick
becomes suspicious of
Denises intentions (S).
8.30 Celebrity Mastermind
Constestants include Russell Kane
and Jimmy McKenna (R) (S).
9.00 Shetland See Critics
Choice, above (S).
10.00 BBC News at Ten (S).
10.25 BBC Regional News (S).
10.35 Comedy Playhouse:
Broken Biscuits See Critics
Choice, above (S).
11.05 Catherine Tates Nan The
freehold on Nans block of flats is
bought up by developers (R) (S).
11.35 The Celebrity Apprentice USA
The teams create a 60-second
commercial (S).
1.00 The Celebrity Apprentice USA
(S). 2.30 BBC News (S). To 6am.
Shetland 9pm BBC1
Shetland has gone all
Broadchurch, with a murder
mystery stretched out over
six weeks or more than
that, given the interruptions
from live sport and
tonight we find out who
did it. The breakthrough
comes when Perez (Douglas
Henshall) and his team
determine who assaulted
Kelly Paterson.
Land of Hope and Glory
British Country Life
9pm BBC2
Having taken us Inside
Claridges, Jane Treays has
now spent a year trudging
BBC2
6.15 Heir Hunters (R) (S). 7.00
Countryside 999 (R) (S). 7.45
Claimed and Shamed (R) (S). 8.15
Sign Zone: MasterChef: the
Professionals (R) (S). 9.15 Victoria
Derbyshire (S). 11.00 BBC News (S).
12.00 Daily Politics (S). 1.00 Live Davis
Cup Tennis Great Britain vs Japan (S).
6.00 Eggheads Quiz show, hosted
by Jeremy Vine (S).
6.30 Too Much TV News, reviews
and previews of the latest television
programmes (S).
7.00 Live Cycling Clare Balding
presents coverage of day three
of the UCI Track World
Championships from Lee Valley
VeloPark at Queen Elizabeth
Olympic Park in east London (S).
8.30 Gardeners World New
series. Monty Don reviews the
impact the winter weather has
had at Longmeadow (S).
9.00 Land of Hope and Glory
British Country Life See Critics
Choice, above (S).
10.00 QI The first of two shows in
which Stephen Fry looks back over
the M series (S).
10.30 Newsnight (S).
11.00 Artsnight When Henry Met
Karl See Critics Choice, above (S).
11.35 FILM Leave to Remain
(Bruce Goodison 2013) See Film
Choice, above (S).
1.00 Sign Zone: Question Time (R) (S).
2.00 Sign Zone: The Not So Secret Life
of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
(R) (S). 3.00 This Is BBC Two (S). To
6.05am.
over hill and dale in the
muddy footsteps of Country
Life magazine and its staff
and subjects. We dont
support a political party, we
support the countryside,
says Mark Hedges, the
editor of the periodical.
Comedy Playhouse: Broken
Biscuits 10.35pm BBC1
Craig Cash (The Royle
Family) and his writing
partner Phil Mealeys one-
off comedy following five
disparate groups of people
played by (among others)
Timothy West, Stephanie
Cole, and Ben Crompton
and Lisa Millett (both left).
ITV
6.00 Good Morning Britain (S). 8.30
Lorraine (S). 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle
Show (S). 10.30 This Morning (S).
12.30 Loose Women (S). 1.30 ITV
News; Weather (S). 1.55 Regional
News; Weather (S). 2.00 Jeremy Kyles
Emergency Room (S). 3.00
Masterpiece with Alan Titchmarsh (S).
4.00 Tipping Point (S). 5.00 The Chase
(S).
6.00 Regional News; Weather (S).
6.30 ITV News; Weather (S).
7.00 Emmerdale Megan kisses
Sam, but immediately regrets it (S).
7.30 Coronation Street Bethany
causes a scene at Sarahs baby
shower (S).
8.00 Best Walks with a View with
Julia Bradbury A three-hill walk in
West Dorset (S).
8.30 Coronation Street Bethany
suggests Sarah should put the baby
up for adoption (S).
9.00 Mr Selfridge Harry works
tirelessly to break the suppliers
embargo on Whiteleys (S).
10.00 ITV News; Weather (S).
10.30 Regional News; Weather (S).
10.40 Benidorm (R) (S).
11.10 FILM The Man with the Golden
Gun (Guy Hamilton 1974) James Bond
adventure, starring Roger Moore and
Christopher Lee (S).
1.25 Jackpot247 3.00 Murder, She
Wrote (R) (S). 3.50 ITV Nightscreen
To 6am.
The monologues like
snatches of Alan Bennetts
Talking Heads are uneven,
but build cumulatively.
Artsnight When Henry
Met Karl 11pm BBC2
Karl Ove Knausgaards
autobiographical books (My
Struggle, volumes one to
five) have been compared to
Proust and James Joyce, but
he has also attracted
controversy as he made his
private life into public
property. The neurosurgeon
Henry Marsh, whose book
Do No Harm opened up the
world of brain surgery,
interviews the author.
Channel 4
6.00 Countdown (R) (S). 6.45 The King
of Queens (R) (S). 8.00 Everybody
Loves Raymond (R) (S). 9.00 Frasier
(R) (S). 10.00 Car SOS (R) (S). 11.00
Undercover Boss Canada (R) (S). 12.00
Channel 4 News (S). 12.05 A Place in
the Sun: Winter Sun (R) (S). 2.10 Deal
or No Deal: Double Trouble (S). 3.10
Countdown (S). 4.00 A New Life in the
Sun (S). 5.00 Come Dine with Me (S).
6.00 The Simpsons Homer moves
into a camper van (R) (S).
6.30 Hollyoaks Lisa implores
Joanne to keep her secret (S).
7.00 Channel 4 News (S).
7.30 Jamie and Jimmys Friday
Night Feast Tinie Tempah learns to
cook a Nigerian street-food classic,
Jimmy Doherty serves up authentic
gelato from his DIY ice-cream maker
and Jamie Oliver makes salt-and-
pepper squid (R) (S).
8.30 Food Unwrapped Another
chance to see some of the
programmes more memorable
investigations (S).
9.00 Gogglebox Capturing the
households reactions to what they
are watching on television from the
comfort of their own sofas (S).
10.00 The Last Leg A comic review
of the past seven days (S).
11.05 Raised by Wolves Germaine has
an encounter with a former enemy (R) (S).
11.40 Rude Tube A countdown of the 50
greatest videos on the internet (R) (S).
12.40 Virtually Famous (S). 1.20 FILM
Coming to America (John Landis 1988)
Comedy, starring Eddie Murphy (S). 3.20
Location, Location, Location (R) (S).
4.15 Beat My Build (R) (S). 5.10
Kirsties Homemade Home (R) (S).
5.25 Deal or No Deal: Double Trouble
(R) (S). To 6.15am.
Film choice
Laur e nc e Phel an
Channel 5
6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff
11.15 Cowboy Builders (R) (S). 12.10 5
News Lunchtime (S). 12.15 Cant Pay?
Benefits Special (R) (S). 1.15 Home and
Away (S). 1.45 Neighbours (S). 2.15
NCIS (R) (S). 3.15 FILM Til Death Do
Us Part (Farhad Mann 2014)
Psychological thriller, starring Haylie Duff
(S). 5.00 5 News at 5 (S). 5.30
Neighbours (R) (S).
6.00 Home and Away Nates
proposal to Ricky is sabotaged
once again when he drops the
ring down the sink (R) (S).
6.30 5 News Tonight (S).
7.00 The Gadget Show
Jon Bentley tests a product intended
to replace both a laptop and tablet,
and Yue Xu visits CES, the worlds
biggest technology exhibition (S).
8.00 Thats So 1990 Memories of
the year Italy hosted the World Cup
and fears of the spread of BSE so-
called mad cow disease grew (S).
9.00 NCIS: New Orleans A blogger
who devoted his energies to
exposing corruption within
government is found dead (S).
9.55 NCIS The team investigates
the death of a Navy Lieutenant (S).
10.50 NCIS: Los Angeles A body
goes missing from the morgue (S).
11.50 True Crimes: the First 72 Hours
The case of a teacher who vanished in
mysterious circumstances (R) (S).
12.15 SuperCasino 3.10 I Want That
Wedding! (S). 4.00 Now Thats Funny!
(R) (S). 4.50 House Doctor (R) (S). 5.10
House Doctor (R) (S). 5.35 House
Doctor (R) (S). To 6am.
THE INDEPENDENT Friday 4 March 2016
Rebel Without A Cause
12pm Sky Movies Select
(Nicholas Ray, 1955)
James Dean was a fine actor
who doubtless wouldve
been in further great films,
but had to settle for being
immortalised as an icon.
The film that did it for him,
when it was released four
weeks after his death, was
among the first, and is still
one of the most vivid teen
melodramas of all.
Amy 10.20pm More4
(Asif Kapadia, 2015)
This documentary portrait
of Amy Winehouse is
assembled from pre-
BBC 4
7.00 World News Today; Weather
(S).
7.30 Top of the Pops: 1981
Featuring performances by Toyah
Wilcox, Thin Lizzy, Department S
and Tenpole Tudor (R) (S).
7.50 Sounds of the 60s Archived
performances by Tom Jones, John
Lee Hooker and the Kinks (R) (S).
8.00 Perfect Pianists at the BBC
Archive performances by some of
the greatest names in the history
of the piano (S).
9.00 Country at the BBC
A compilation of performances by
country artists including Tammy
Wynette, Emmylou Harris, Johnny
Cash and Dolly Parton, Charley
Pride and Willie Nelson (R) (S).
10.00 The Heart of Country: How
Nashville Became Music City
USA A historical biography of the
hub of country music (R) (S).
11.30 Johnny Cash: the Man, His
World, His Music Robert Elfstroms 1969
musical documentary (R) (S).
12.30 Top of the Pops: 1981 (R) (S).
12.50 Country at the BBC (R) (S). 1.50
The Heart of Country: How Nashville
Became Music City USA (R) (S). 3.20
Sounds of the 60s (R) (S). 3.30 Close
Regional
variations
THE INDEPENDENT Friday 4 March 2016
existing footage. She was a
prodigious vocal talent, but
ideally would not have been
a pop star: the combination
of drugs and fame was toxic.
At the beginning of the film
she is bubbly and funny; the
light goes out of her eyes
long before the end.
The Warriors 11pm Film4
(Walter Hill, 1979) This cult
gang-warfare drama was
released amid stories of
rioting in the aisles, similar
to those that surrounded
Blackboard Jungle in the
Fifites. It looks harmless
now, its depiction of gang
life as stylised as West Side
More 4
8.55 Jamies 15 Minute Meals (R) (S).
9.35 Food Unwrapped (R) (S). 10.05
Come Dine with Me (R) (S). 11.10 Four
in a Bed (R) (S). 1.55 Come Dine with
Me (R) (S). 4.40 A Place in the Sun:
Home or USA? (R) (S). 5.45 A Place in
the Sun: Summer Sun (R) (S).
6.50 The Supervet The return of
the documentary about a pioneering
veterinary practice. Noel Fitzpatrick
operates on a cat whose thighbone
was shattered (R) (S).
7.55 Grand Designs
Kevin McCloud returns to the
Weald of Kent to catch up with
Richard and Sophie Hawkes at their
arch-shaped home made of clay
tiles, which was intended to be
energy self-sufficient (R) (S).
9.00 Spin Still very weak, the
president struggles to keep the
Algerian armys rescue attempts
in check. Gabrielle is relying on
Bakian to negotiate the hostages
release, but Kapita has reservations
and seeks advice from Hussan.
Kapita and Gabrielle grow closer,
but the truth about her previous
dealings with Bakian leaves him
shocked. In French (S).
10.20 FILM Amy (Asif Kapadia
2015) See Film Choice, above (S).
12.55 Ramsays Kitchen Nightmares
USA (R) (S). 1.55 Grand Designs (R) (S).
3.00 The Good Wife (R) (S). 4.00 Close
BBC1 N IRELAND AS BBC1 EXCEPT: 6.55-7.00 Party Political Broadcast. BBC1 SCOTLAND AS BBC1 EXCEPT: 2.15 Escape to the Country. 2.45 Conference 2016: Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party. 4.45-5.15 Flog It! BBC1 WALES AS BBC1 EXCEPT: 7.30-8.00 In It to Wynne It.
8.30-9.00 A Question of Sport. BBC2 N IRELAND AS BBC2 EXCEPT: 7.00 Flog It! 7.30 Ulster Rugby Live. 9.30-10.00 Gardeners World. 11.35 Live From the BBC. 12.05 Russell Howards Good News. 12.35-1.00 BBC News. BBC2 SCOTLAND AS BBC2 EXCEPT: 7.00 Dads Army.
7.30 Live PRO12 Rugby Union. 9.30-10.00 Gardeners World. BBC2 WALES AS BBC2 EXCEPT: 7.00 Scrum V Live. 9.00 Sport Wales. 9.30-10.30 Land of Hope and Glory British Country Life. 11.35 QI. 12.05 FILM: Leave to Remain (Bruce Goodison 2013). 1.30-2.00 Sign Zone: See Hear.
ITV Wales AS ITV EXCEPT: 6.00-6.30 ITV News Wales at Six. 8.00-8.30 Reels on Wheels. STV AS ITV EXCEPT: 1.25 Teleshopping. 3.30-3.50 After Midnight. UTV AS ITV EXCEPT: 6.25-6.30 Party Political Broadcast. 8.00-8.30 Paul and Nicks Big American Food Trip. 11.10 Best Walks
with a View with Julia Bradbury. 11.40 Benidorm. 12.10 FILM: The Man with the Golden Gun (Guy Hamilton 1974). 2.20-3.50 Teleshopping. S4C 7.00 Cyw. 1.00 Newyddion S4C ar Tywydd. 1.05 Heno. 1.30 Ffermio. 2.00 Prynhawn Da. 2.55 Newyddion S4C ar Tywydd. 3.00 Dylan ar Daith.
4.00 Awr Fawr. 5.00 Stwnsh. 6.00 Pobol y Cwm. 6.25 Newyddion S4C ar Tywydd. 6.30 Celwydd Noeth. 7.00 Heno. 8.00 Pobol y Cwm. 8.25 Sam ar y Sgrin. 9.00 Newyddion 9 ar Tywydd. 9.30 Jonathan. 10.30 Dim Byd Fel Cn i Gymru. 11.00 Llwyfan. 12.05 Diwedd.
Storys. Filmed at night in
New York City, it remains a
atmospheric, stripped back
action film, however.
Leave To Remain
11.35pm BBC2
(Bruce Goodison, 2013)
This British feature is about
a group of teenagers living
in the same refugee centre
in south London, and about
the bureaucratic process
by which they hope to get
the Home Offices leave to
remain in the UK. Thanks
to the young casts energy,
it is more fun than it
sounds. Toby Jones (left) co-
stars as the gangs teacher.
E4
6.00 Made in Chelsea LA (R) (S). 6.50
Charmed (R) (S). 7.35 Hollyoaks (R)
(S). 8.05 Rules of Engagement (R) (S).
9.00 New Girl (R) (S). 10.00 Melissa &
Joey (R) (S). 11.00 Charmed (R) (S).
1.00 How I Met Your Mother (R) (S).
2.00 The Big Bang Theory (R) (S). 3.00
Melissa & Joey (R) (S). 4.00 How I Met
Your Mother (R) (S). 5.00 New Girl (R)
(S).
6.00 The Big Bang Theory
Sheldon competes against actor
Wil Wheaton once again (R) (S).
6.30 The Big Bang Theory Sheldon
tries to conceal his friendship with
Penny from Leonard (R) (S).
7.00 Hollyoaks Nico spikes a
bottle of wine (S).
7.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine Holt and
Diaz have to rely on Gina to get a
suspect to talk (R) (S).
8.00 The Big Bang Theory The
gang reflects on how Sheldon has
changed their lives (R) (S).
8.30 The Big Bang Theory Penny
makes an important decision (R) (S).
9.00 FILM Knight and Day
(James Mangold 2010) A woman
gets dragged into a secret agents
mission to clear his name after he is
framed as a traitor. Adventure, with
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz (S).
11.10 The Big Bang Theory Sheldon is
bothered by the attention following his
scientific discovery (R) (S).
11.40 The Big Bang Theory The gang
reflects on how Sheldon has changed their
lives (R) (S).
12.10 Tattoo Fixers (R) (S). 1.10 Tattoo
Fixers (R) (S). 2.15 The Goldbergs (R)
(S). 2.40 The Goldbergs (R) (S). 3.05
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (R) (S). 3.25 2
Broke Girls (R) (S). 3.50 2 Broke Girls
(R) (S). 4.10 Charmed (R) (S). 4.55
Made in Chelsea LA (R) (S). To 6am.
Radio choice
GER AR D GILBERT
Film4
11.00 Battle of the Sexes (Charles
Crichton 1959) Comedy, starring Peter
Sellers (S). 12.45 The Man from
Colorado (Henry Levin 1948) Western,
starring Glenn Ford (S). 2.50 Fixed
Bayonets! (Samuel Fuller 1951) Korean
War drama, starring Richard Basehart (S).
4.40 To Hell and Back (Jesse Hibbs
1955) Second World War biopic, starring
Audie Murphy as himself (S).
6.50 The Other Boleyn Girl
(Justin Chadwick 2008) Ambitious
Sir Thomas Boleyn hopes to advance
his familys prosperity by tempting
Henry VIII to take one of his two
daughters as his mistress. One of
them first succeeds in becoming the
monarchs lover, but reckons
without her sisters determination to
achieve her grander ambition to
become queen. Historical drama,
starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett
Johansson and Eric Bana (S).
9.00 Legion (Scott Charles Stewart
2010) The Archangel Michael turns
his back on Heaven and travels to a
small-town diner to protect a
pregnant waitress and her unborn
child from Gods wrath. Action
fantasy, starring Paul Bettany,
Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black, Tyrese
Gibson and Adrianne Palicki (S).
11.00 The Warriors (Walter Hill 1979)
See Film Choice, above (S).
12.50 Drug War (Johnnie To 2012)
Gangster thriller, starring Louis Koo.
3.00 Close
Glad To Be Grey
11am Radio 4
Professor Mary Beard (left)
is irked that she is almost
better known for her grey
hair, and sets out to explore
why so much hair is being
coloured, especially by men.
Radio 3 In Concert
7.30pm Radio 3
From the Liverpool
Philharmonic Hall,
Christian Lindberg
conducts the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra in works by
Nielsen and Bernstein, as
well as a piece composed
by Lindberg himself.
Sky Atlantic
6.00 Networks of Power with Sir
Christopher Meyer (R) (S). 8.00 David
Attenboroughs Conquest of the Skies
(R) (S). 10.00 The West Wing (R). 11.00
Blue Bloods (R) (S). 12.00 Cold Case
(R) (S). 1.00 Without a Trace (R) (S).
2.00 Urban Secrets (R) (S). 3.00 FILM
Dinosaur 13 (Todd Douglas Miller 2014)
The true story of one of historys greatest
dinosaur discoveries. 5.00 The West
Wing
6.00 Blue Bloods Danny believes a
serial killer is on the loose (R) (S).
7.00 Cold Case The body of a
homeless woman is found,
prompting the team to reopen a
murder case from 1999 (S).
8.00 Without a Trace Jack is
assigned to find Sadik Markus
son and mistress but Samantha
fears he is more interested in
settling an old score than tracing
their whereabouts (R) (S).
9.00 Game of Thrones The men of
the Nights Watch become
increasingly hostile to Craster, and
Arya is brought before the
commander of the Brotherhood
Without Banners (R) (S).
10.10 Game of Thrones The Hound
is judged by the gods, while Jaime
receives a different form of justice.
Elsewhwere, Robb is betrayed, Jon
proves himself and Tyrion learns the
true cost of a wedding (R) (S).
11.25 The Wire Burrell loses Royces
support (R).
12.40 The Wire (R). 1.55 The Sopranos
(R) (S). 3.05 Cold Case (S). 4.05
Networks of Power with Sir
Christopher Meyer (R) (S). 5.00
Networks of Power with Sir
Christopher Meyer (R) (S). To 6am.
RADIO 1
6.30am Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Clara Amfo
12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills 4.00
The Official Chart with Greg James 5.45
Newsbeat 6.00 Dance Anthems with Greg
James 7.00 Annie Mac 10.00 Pete Tong 1am
B.Traits 4.00 Radio 1s Essential Mix. To 6am.
RADIO 2
6.30am Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce 12noon
Jeremy Vine 2.00 Steve Wright 5.00 Simon
Mayo 7.00 Desmond Carrington: the Music
Goes Round 8.00 Friday Night Is Music
Night 10.00 The Radio 2 Arts Show 12mdnt
After Midnight 3.00 Huey Morgan. To 6am.
RADIO 3
6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics
12noon Composer of the Week: Haydn 1.00
News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00
Afternoon on 3 4.30 In Tune 6.30 Composer
of the Week: Haydn 7.30 Radio 3 in Concert.
See Radio Choice, left. 10.00 The Verb 10.45
The Essay: Music in Its Time 11.00 World on
3 1am Through the Night. To 7am.
RADIO 4
6am Today 9.00 Desert Island Discs
9.45 Book of the Week: The Real Henry
James 10.00 Womans Hour 11.00 Glad to
Be Grey. See Radio Choice, left. 11.30
Dilemma 12noon News 12.04 Museum of
Sky Arts
6.00 Antiques House 7.00 Steve
Schapiro: an Eye on American Icons
(S). 8.00 Andre Rieu: My African
Dream (S). 9.45 Joe Bonamassa: an
Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera
House (S). 12.00 Auction (S). 1.00 Tales
of the Unexpected (S). 2.00 Carmen
(S). 4.45 South Bank Masterclasses:
Nick Hytner (S). 5.00 Happy Prince
(S). 5.30 Monty Python: Almost the
Truth (S).
6.45 Discovering: Burt Lancaster
A profile of the actor, who shot to
fame in The Killers before starring
in From Here to Eternity and
Atlantic City and winning an Oscar
for Elmer Gantry (S).
7.45 Hollywood: Singing and
Dancing Stars of stage and screen
continue to look back at the film
musicals made during the turbulent
decade of the Sixties (S).
9.00 The Seventies Documentary
series examining the politics, culture
and historic events of the Seventies,
from the continuation of the
Vietnam War and the Watergate
scandal, to the Iran hostage crisis
and the sexual revolution (S).
10.00 FILM Lambert & Stamp
(James D Cooper 2014)
Documentary about aspiring
directors Chris Stamp and Kit
Lambert, who abandoned movie-
making to become managers for the
Who, and shaped the bands image.
12.20 FILM Anvil! The Story of Anvil
(Sacha Gervasi 2008) Documentary
about the Canadian rockers (S). 2.00
David Harewoods F Word 3.00 FILM
Zombie Girl: the Movie (Justin Johnson,
Aaron Marshall, Erik Mauck 2009)
Documentary about a 12-year-old film
director (S). 4.50 Shashank
Subramanyan 5.00 Darbar Festival
2013 To 6am.
49
Lost Objects 12.15 You and Yours 1.00 The
World at One 1.45 Incarnations: India in 50
Lives 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Drama: Pilgrim
3.00 Gardeners Question Time 3.45
Imagining Chekhov 4.00 Last Word 4.30
Feedback 4.55 The Listening Project 5.00
PM 5.57 Weather 6.00 News 6.30 The Now
Show 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front Row
7.45 Jane Eyre 8.00 Any Questions? 8.50
A Point of View 9.00 Incarnations: India in
50 Lives 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45
Book at Bedtime: We Have Always Lived in
the Castle 11.00 A Good Read 11.30 Today in
Parliament 11.55 The Listening Project
12mdnt News 12.30 Book of the Week: The
Real Henry James 12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping
Forecast 5.30 News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for
the Day 5.45 iPM. To 6am.
RADIO 4 LW
8.31am Yesterday in Parliament 9.45 Act of
Worship 12.01pm Shipping Forecast 5.54
Shipping Forecast
RADIO 5
6am 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 5 Live Daily
1pm The Friday Sports Panel 2.00 Kermode
and Mayos Film Review 4.00 5 Live Drive
7.00 5 Live Sport 9.00 5 Live Sport 10.00
Stephen Nolan 1am Up All Night 5.00
5 Live Science. To 6am.
London Live
6.00 FILM The Gaunt Stranger (Walter
Forde 1939) 7.30 London Real 8.30
London Live News 10.00 Desmonds
(R). 11.00 Londons Burning (R). 12.00
London Go 12.30 London Live News
2.00 FILM Sherlock Holmes and the
Woman in Green (Roy William Neill
1945) 3.20 Movie Talk Shorts: Rhys
Ifans 3.30 Movie Talk: Geena Davis
(R). 4.00 Put Your Money Where Your
Mouth Is 5.00 Desmonds (R).
6.00 London Live News
7.00 London Live News News
headlines, travel, weather and
debate from across the capital.
8.00 London: the Inside Story
Fly-on-the-wall documentary
following the inner workings of
Westminster Council.
9.00 Da Ali G Show Celebrity
interviews and hoaxes with Sacha
Baron Cohens voice of youth (R).
9.30 Da Ali G Show Celebrity
interviews and hoaxes with Sacha
Baron Cohens voice of youth (R).
10.00 FILM A Hitman in
London (Ara Paiaya 2015)
A hitman left traumatised by the
death of an innocent woman
becomes obsessed with saving a
girl from a gang of human
traffickers. Thriller, starring
Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah,
Eric Roberts and Gary Daniels.
12.00 FILM Let Him Have It (Peter
Medak 1991) Fact-based drama,
starring Christopher Eccleston. 2.20
Candy Bar Girls (R). 3.25 Movie
Talk: Geena Davis (R). 4.00 London
Real 5.00 London Live Review 5.30
London Live Review To 6am.
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opponent who is rated 104 12.Bxe6 Rxe6 27.Qe2 c6 12 Tree (6)
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Obituaries
Entertainer. Born: 1941
Shirley Stelfox
Character actress who was
best known as the prudish
spinster, busybody Edna
Birch, in Emmerdale
A strong and versatile character actress, Shirley
Stelfox enlivened every type of drama, and was
a gift for casting directors. Whether playing
the glamorous, the brassy, the wretched or the
gossipy, she was ever the reliable old pro. After
decades of service in supporting parts, driven
by her dislike of committing to anything for a
long stretch, she settled down at last with her
final role, in the ITV soap, Emmerdale.
Playing that soap evergreen, the moralising
busybody, she made the prudish and judge-
mental spinster Edna Birch one of the best
loved characters on the programme in years,
and as always, found warmth and curiosity even
when playing what could on the surface be stock
characters. I wanted to do every medium and
every role, from Greek tragedy to Shakespeare
through to farce and everything in between,
she once said of the career she had managed
so deftly. But, with Edna, I liked the role and
I like the people I am working with.
She had done plenty of short stints in soaps
previously, memorably as Melanie Owens
mother in EastEnders and as gold-digging
Madge in Brookside, (referred to by Bill Deans
wonderfully disapproving Harry Cross as that
bit of stuff). She also had a tiny role in the very
Medical practitioner. Born: 1927
Doctor George
Nichopoulos
Nichopoulos in 1993 at one of the hearings
that led to his being disbarred pa
first episode of Coronation Street, a series she
returned to several times over the years. But her
Emmerdale role made the biggest impression;
when her beloved dog had to be put down, her
performance led to the storyline-winning Best
Exit at that years Soap Awards.
She was born in Dukinfield, Cheshire, in 1941,
the youngest of three children. Her mother
was a milliner, her father a haulage contractor.
Despite being diagnosed with bilateral amblyo-
pia, a condition that makes reading small print
difficult, she set her sights on acting at an early
age. She attended Lakes Road secondary school
while playing in amateur groups and in panto-
mimes at the Old Chapel in Dukinfield. She
made her film debut in David Leans Hobsons
Choice (1954) at 13, then attended Rada.
Her vivid features and gift for a well-drawn
characterisation kept her busy in television
from the off, but her stage credentials were
equally impressive and diverse. She was a spi-
dery Regan in King Lear at the Ludlow Festival
in 1972 and at the Connaught Theatre, Wor-
thing, played Lady Macbeth in 1973, Titania
in A Midsummer Nights Dream in 1978 and
Yelena in Uncle Vanya in 1974.
She was as at home in childrens theatre, such
Elvis Presleys personal
physician who was accused
of killing the singer by
over-prescribing drugs
Among Elvis Presley fans there is little middle
ground concerning George Nichopoulos Dr
Nick who prescribed thousands of doses of
various drugs for Presley during the singers
final years, but was acquitted of being crimi-
nally responsible for his death in 1977. He was
vilified by many, while others praised him as a
sane voice who attempted to steer Elvis away
from his sundry bad habits.
The King was 42 when he was found on the
floor of a bathroom at Graceland; Nichopoulos
signed the death certificate. Traces of more
than a dozen drugs were found in Presleys
body, including barbiturates. The pathologist
who conducted the autopsy thought the com-
bination was lethal. But the medical examiner
determined that the drugs were not in con-
centrations high enough to kill. He ruled that
Presley died of cardiac arrhythmia caused by
heart disease and hypertension, though doubts
about the case began to swirl at once. No one
Stelfox with
Bracken, her
Emmerdale
dog Batley,
at the
British Soap
Awards in
2002 pa
as playing Phoebe in Toad of Toad Hall (Duke of
Yorks, London, 1971) as she was in farces such
as Not Now, Darling (Strand Theatre, 1968) and
as Mrs Snapper in Nol Cowards Cavalcade
(Chichester Festival Theatre, 1985). In later
years her stage appearances were sparse, but
concluded handsomely with Mrs Arbuthnot
in A Woman of No Importance (Leicester Hay-
market, 1997). Although her film roles were
less plentiful, they were just as diverse, ranging
from Michael Radfords 1984 and Terry Jones
comedy about brothel madam Cynthia Payne,
Personal Services (1986), to Carry On At Your
Convenience (1971).
But her television credits were vast; after
playing endless barmaids and girlfriends in
her early career, she was delighted to be cast
in Debbie Horsfields Making Out (1989-91), a
corrective to the paucity of good female roles
around at the time. An ensemble piece about
a group of female factory workers, the series
mixed comedy and drama excellently, telling
human stories against a backdrop of unemploy-
ment and economic strife. Stelfox also formed
a production company with her co-star, Margi
Clarke, and actor Rio Fanning.
A clash in filming dates meant that she was
understands that Elvis was so complicated,
Nichopoulos said in 2009. I worked so hard just
to keep things together and then they turned
the tables and decided I was to blame.
In 1980 he was charged with prescribing
excessive amounts of drugs to Presley, Jerry
Lee Lewis and other patients. Prosecutors
showed that in the final seven months of Pres-
leys life he prescribed more than 10,000 pills,
including sedatives, amphetamines and nar-
cotics. Nichopoulos also admitted that he had
borrowed nearly $300,000 from Presley, but
denied that the loans affected his judgement.
On tour, Nichopoulos took along three
locked suitcases filled with drugs. He explained
that he was the team physician for nearly 150
people on Presleys payroll and that the drugs
were not exclusively for the singer. Once, when
On one occasion when he
refused to give drugs to
Presley, the singer took
out a gun and shot him
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She was in the first
episode of Coronation
Steet, and later Brookside
as well as EastEnders
unable to continue at the same time with
another television role she had made an impact
with, that of Hyacinth Buckets under-dressed
and oversexed sister-in-law in Keeping Up
Appearances (1990), but middle-age still saw
her getting the best TV roles of her career, as in
Wiliam Ivorys Common as Muck (1994-97), as
the sozzled, grieving mother of a murder victim
in Inspector Morse (1987), in John Godber and
Jane Thorntons brief, cosy sitcom Bloomin
Marvellous (1997), and as the mother in Victoria
Woods Pat and Margaret (1994).
While appearing in an episode of the thriller
series Strangers in 1978 she met Don Hender-
son, who became her second husband. Hend-
ersons abrupt death in 1997 shocked the whole
industry; he was a cherished actor and the pair
had been blissfully happy living in Stratford-
upon-Avon. Both were imaginative, unpredict-
able actors, welcoming performers who will be
greatly missed. SIMON FARQUHAR
Shirley Stelfox, actress: born Dukinfield,
Cheshire 11 April 1941; married firstly
Keith Edmundson (marriage dissolved; one
daughter), 1979 Don Henderson (died 1997);
died Nottinghamshire 7 December 2015.
Nichopoulos refused to give him drugs, Presley
shot him, wounding him slightly.
Nichopoulos was acquitted and returned
to his medical practice in Memphis, noting,
My patients, the ones I didnt kill, were very
faithful. But the Tennessee Board of Medical
Examiners later charged him with prescribing
too many drugs to those patients and revoked
his medical licence in 1995. They just never
stopped going after me, said. They always
wanted a scapegoat for Elviss death.
He was briefly a road manager for Jerry Lee
Lewis, and later worked in the disability ben-
efits office of Federal Express into his 80s. He
later helped organise an exhibit of his Elvis
memorabilia, including his medical bag, exami-
nation instruments, pill bottles and guns, but
the venture ended in a welter of legal wrangling.
I worked very hard trying to do all the right
things with Elvis, he said in 2009. I dont
regret any of the medications I gave him. They
were necessities. MATT SCHUDEL
George Constantine Nichopoulos, physician:
born Ridgway, Pennsylvania 29 October
1927; married Edna Sanidas (three children);
died Memphis 24 February 2016.
The Washington Post
THE INDEPENDENT Friday 4 March 2016
Sportsman. Born: 1962
Martin Crowe
Cricketer who was beset by self-doubt but became widely
hailed as the greatest batsman in New Zealands history
A cricketer of prodigious talent, Martin Crowe
made batting appear effortless while secretly
struggling with the burden of being a world-
class player in otherwise modest New Zealand
teams. In a 13-year international career he
established himself as arguably his countrys
greatest batsman,
He was the son of a first-class cricketer his
father Dave played a few matches for Can-
terbury province and had high ambitions for
Martin, and his other son, Jeff, to surpass his
achievements. Both went on to play for and
captain New Zealand during one of the teams
most successful periods.
Martin Crowe was a batsman in the classi-
cal mode, standing tall at the crease, using his
feet with great expertise and playing spin and
fast bowling with equal assurance. But he was
often wracked by self-doubt. In his autobiogra-
phy, Raw, Crowe said he became a man who
harboured grudges... The world record-holder
for grievances. He had, he wrote, a discon-
nected spirit and soul overwhelmed by the ego
and the emotional instability created from my
unfinished teenage development.
His elevation was indeed swift: he preceded
Jeff, who was four years older, into the New
Zealand teams in 1982 at 19, having played
almost three years of first class cricket that
established his reputation as a batsman of out-
standing potential. His introduction to Test
cricket was torrid, facing Australias attack of
Crowe in
1992: he
played spin
and fast
bowling
with equal
assurance ap
Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee. Though they
were both past their peak, they welcomed the
youngster with a hail of bouncers at Welling-
tons Basin Reserve in February 1982. A short
ball from Thomson dislodged Crowes helmet.
Disconcerted, he looked almost relieved to be
run out for nine.
He made two in the second Test, in Auck-
land, and nine in the third, at Christchurch,
to accumulate only 20 runs for the series. But
he went on to play 77 Tests and 143 one-day
internationals, scoring 5,444 Test runs at an
average of 45.36 with 17 centuries, and 4,704
in limited-overs internationals at 38.55.
His second-innings 299 against Sri Lanka in
1991 was the highest Test score by a New Zea-
lander until Brendan McCullums 302 against
India in 2014. Crowes partnership of 467 with
Andrew Jones, at the time the biggest for any
Test wicket, remains the third-highest.
The greatest skill you have as a batsman
is the ability to see the ball out of the hand, the actor Russell Crowe, called him my cham-
he said in 2008. Once you do that, you have
created time and are gathering information
instinctively, processing it and making a deci-
sion on what to do. If you see it early, you have
time, but if you see it late, you tend to play it
early because you are searching for the ball. You
are not decisive. This differentiates a very good
player from a not-so-good player.
Crowe was also outstanding tactically as
captain, although he could also be stand-off-
53
Birthdays
BIRTHDAYS
Dr Susan Atkins, former
Service Complaints
Commissioner for the
Armed Forces, 64; Victoria
Barnsley, former Chief
Executive and Publisher,
HarperCollins UK and
HarperCollins International,
62; Michael Barrett
(Shakin Stevens), singer,
68; Professor Sir Alan
Battersby, organic chemist,
91; Glen Baxter, artist,
72; Kevin Cahill, Chief
Executive, Comic Relief,
ish with team-mates. His innovative leadership 64; Nicholas Coleridge,
carried New Zealand to the 1992 World Cup President, Cond Nast
semi-finals, further than anyone had expected. International, 59; Professor
He used off-spinner Dipak Patel to great effect Wendy Dagworthy,
with the new ball and excelled with his field set- former Dean, School of
tings and aggression at the top of the order. Material, Royal College of
He first established himself in New Zealands Art, 66; Kenny Dalglish,
middle order on the 1983 tour of England, manager and former Scotland
gleaning confidence from a handful of moder- footballer, 65; Evan Dando,
ate scores his best was a first-innings 46 in musician, 49; Graham
the third Test at Lords. When England went Dowling, former New
to New Zealand for the return series in 1984, Zealand cricket captain, 79;
Crowe scored the first of his 17 Test centuries James Ellroy, author, 68;
in the series opener. His second century didnt Jan Garbarek, saxophonist,
come for more than a year, until New Zealands 69; Harvey Goldsmith,
next home series against Pakistan. He then set- concert promoter, 70;
tled into a pattern of ruthless accumulation that Bernard Haitink, conductor,
marked the best years of his career. 87; Rt Rev Anne Elizabeth
A brilliant first-innings 188 against West Hollinghurst, Bishop
Indies was followed by another 188 in a famous Suffragan of Aston, 52; Linda
New Zealand win over Australia in 1985. Rich- Homer, a Commissioner,
ard Hadlee took nine wickets in the first innings CEO and Permanent
and 15 for the match as New Zealand, helped by Secretary for Tax, HMRC, 59;
Crowes outstanding eight-hour knock, won by Khaled Hosseini, author
an innings and 41 runs at Brisbane. and physician, 51; Patsy
Hadlees retirement in 1990 left Crowe as Kensit, actress, 48; Ralph
New Zealands only world-class player, and at Kirshbaum, cellist, 70;
times he struggled with the responsibility. He Ivan Lewis MP, 49; Pamela
also battled increasing injuries, which ended Major, former diplomat, 57;
his career in 1995. He had been a promising Ray Boom Boom Mancini,
medium-pace bowler but injury had quickly former world lightweight
forced him to quit the bowling crease. boxing champion, 55; Geoff
A book about Crowe in the 1990s was called Nicholson, author, 63; Irina
Tortured Genius, which the commentator Ratushinskaya, poet, 62;
Bryan Waddle believes is apt. He wasnt Chris Rea, musician, 65;
always understood, said Waddle, who toured Sir Keith Stuart, former
with Crowe for more than a decade. He was a Chairman, Associated British
genius who had a few weaknesses in his game Ports Holdings, 76; Sam
and personality and they sometimes came to Taylor-Johnson, artist and
the fore. However, if you got to know him, he film director, 49; Willie
had a very keen sense of humour. Thorne, commentator and
Crowe was diagnosed with aggressive fol- former snooker player, 62;
licular lymphoma in 2012 and after chemo- Tim Vine, comedian and
therapy, was thought to be in remission. But His start actor, 49.
he announced in 2014 that the cancer, which he
called my friend and tough taskmaster, had
in Test
returned. He is survived by his wife, the 1983 cricket
Miss Universe Lorraine Downes. His cousin,
was torrid:
pion, my hero, my friend. I will love you forever. Lillee and
RIP. STEVE McMORRAN
Thomson
Martin David Crowe, cricketer and sent down
commentator: born Henderson, New Zealand
22 September 1962; MBE; married 1991
a hail of
Simone Curtice (marriage dissolved), partner bouncers
to Suzanne Taylor (one daughter), married
2009 Lorraine Downes (two stepchildren); Sam Taylor-Johnson, artist
died Auckland 3 March 2016. and film director, 49 re uters
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6 | -1 6 | -2 6 | -1 7|2 Celsius 5|0 4 | -2 5 | -2 7|2
Celsius Bristol London

Wind direction 15 Wind direction

N 15 NW 9 N9 SW 8 N 13 NW 9 N 10 SW 9
and speed/mph Brighton and speed/mph
Exeter

Birmingham 10
10 Leeds 10

Today Today

5|1 Yesterdays
high in The UK
Yesterdays
low in The UK
Moon
Phase
Sunrise
& Sunsets 4|2
10 -4
Rain later Rises Rain and snow
Mainly dry at first with rain, sleet or a 06:38 Rain, sleet and snow, but any snow
little wet snow later. Sets turning to rain later.
Milford Haven Shap 17:46
Sat Sun Mon Tue Sat Sun Mon Tue

Outlook Around the world Outlook

City C F City C F
Max | Min Max | Min
6|0 6 | -1 6 | -1 7|3 Alicante f 20 68 Majorca sh 14 57 5|1 6 | -1 6 | -1 8|3
Celsius Celsius
Amsterdam c 7 45 Melbourne f 23 73
Wind direction N 14 NW 9 N9 W7 Athens s 18 64 Miami f 26 79 Wind direction N 17 NW 12 N 11 W 10
and speed/mph Bangkok f 33 91 Moscow sn 0 32 and speed/mph
Barbados f 30 86 New York f 5 41
Barcelona s 15 59 Nice s 16 61
Cardiff 10 Berlin
Bucharest
c
f
6
9
43
48
Paris
Reykjavik
c
f
7
2
45
36 Norwich 10

Today Buenos Aires c 23 73 Rome s 12 54 Today

Cairo c 20 68 Seychelles s 31 88

7|3
Mainly dry
Cape Town
Copenhagen
Corfu
s
s
sh
27
4
12
81
39
54
Singapore
Sydney
Tenerife
f
s
s
31
29
21
88
84
70
6 | -1
Becoming dry
Dubai f 27 81 Tokyo s 14 57
A largely dry day with sunny spells, but Hong Kong s 20 68 Vancouver r 10 50 Early rain will clear east to leave it
turning cloudier later. Istanbul r 10 50 Venice r 5 41 mainly dry and fine.
Johannesburg s 26 79 Warsaw f 6 43
Sat Sun Mon Tue Los Angeles c 18 64 Wellington s 20 68 Sat Sun Mon Tue
Key: c = Cloudy, dr = Drizzle, f = Fair, fg = Fog, h = Hail, m = Mist, r = Rain, s = Sunny,
sh = Showers, sl = Sleet, sn = Snow, ss = Sandstorm, th = Thunderstorm
Outlook High tides Outlook
Avonmouth 1.58 9.5 2.44 9.8 Hull (Albert Dk) 1.39 5.7 2.15 5.8
Max | Min Cork - - 12.22 3.2 Liverpool 6.44 7.3 7.24 7.3 Max | Min
8|1 8|1 8|1 8|5 Celsius 7|1 7|0 7|0 8|2
Celsius Dover 6.34 5.2 7.17 5.3 London 8.52 5.7 9.42 5.7
Greenock 7.56 2.7 8.09 2.7 Milford Haven 1.25 5.1 2.08 5.1
Wind direction Harwich 6.51 3.2 7.28 3.2 Portsmouth 7.02 3.7 7.51 3.8
Wind direction
and speed/mph N 17 NW 11 N 12 W 10 and speed/mph NW 9 NW 12 N 12 W9
Holyhead 6.09 4.4 6.53 4.4 Pwllheli 3.35 3.5 4.17 3.6

Plymouth 10 Portsmouth 10
London 10

Today Today Today

7|3
Showers
7|0
Dry and fine
7 | -1
Dry and fine
There will be a mixture of sunny spells It will remain mainly dry with spells of Any early rain quickly clearing to leave
and scattered showers. sunshine throughout. a dry and fine day.

Sat Sun Mon Tue Sat Sun Mon Tue Sat Sun Mon Tue

Outlook Outlook Outlook

Max | Min Max/Min Max | Min

8|2 8|3 8|2 9|7 7|1 7|1 7 | -1 8|4 7|2 7|1 8|1 8|4
Celsius Celsius Celsius
Wind direction Wind direction Wind direction
and speed/mph N 15 NW 11 N 14 W 10 and speed/mph N 11 NW 13 N 12 W 11 and speed/mph N 10 NW 11 N9 NW 8
THE INDEPENDENT Friday 4 March 2016 l 55

Rate cut rumours Has bean? Return of the zombies Ashoka Mody
The sharpest service sector slowdown for Whitbread shares fall amid fears that growth Past abuse involving excessive fees David Cameron is in a tangle of his own
three years prompts talk of new stimulus at its Costa Coffee chain has peaked comes back to haunt insurers making. Whats more, he knows it
56 57 59 60

FTSE 100  6130.46

-0.27%  [-16.6]

Schroders FTSE 250 

-0.10% 
16745.64
[-16.67]
goes its
own way dow jones* 
+0.13% 
16921.85
[+22.63]

Schroders, nikkei  16960.16

Europes +1.28%  [+213.61]
second-
biggest fund FTSE Eurofirst 300  1335.58
manager, -0.47%  [-6.3]
came under
fire yesterday FTSE ALL-SHARE 3367.83
after it -0.17% [-5.6]
announced
that long- dollar/pound  $1.4164
serving chief  [+0.19c]
executive
Michael EURO/pound  1.2932
Dobson  [+0.08c]
(pictured)
will be dollar/EURO  $1.0953
moved  [+0.07c]
up to the
chairmanship gold  $1250.25
next month,  [+$ 11.05]
in breach
of best oil * $37.07
corporate  [+$ 0.14]
governance
practice. * figures at 5pm
Fu ll story,
page 57
T HE F TSE Y ESTERDA Y
,
,

Thousands of jobs at risk as BHS

,
,
,
. . . . .

looks to restructure store estate

Landlords will be
asked to consider
reducing rents
that are too high
for todays market
Joanna Bourke
More than 2,000 jobs could
be at risk under proposals
mooted yesterday that could
see BHS axe up to a quarter of
its stores across the UK.
The beleaguered retailer is
proposing putting its 164
stores into a Company Volun-
tary Arrangement (CVA) in
order to slash its rents and exit
loss-making sites, less than a
year after the chain was sold
for a token 1 by the retail
veteran Sir Philip Green.
Darren Topp, the chief
executive of BHS said: The
CVA proposal is a necessary
milestone in resetting BHS to
ensure its long-term future.
Some of our stores are loss-
making as we are being
charged rents that are too high
relative to todays market. The
CVA will address this issue.
A CVA a form of insol-
vency will need the backing
of 75 per cent of BHSs credi-
tors at a vote on 23 March to
proceed. The company said
just 77 of its stores would be
unaffected by the move.
Forty stores across the
country are at risk of closure
if the group and its landlords
cannot agree to substan-
tially reduce rents there over
the next 10 months. It is
hoped that the store closure
number will be kept to a min-
imum, BHS said.
A further 47 stores have
been identified as being viable
if rents can be cut by 25 per
cent to 50 per cent. The prop-
erty agent Savills has been
hired to help with the latest
review and KPMG is set to
supervise the CVA.
Based on an average number
of 50 employees per store, if
40 were to close, 2,000 jobs
could be axed. However, the
BHS chief executive
Darren Topp said
the CVA was an
essential move
to ensure its
long-term future
figure could also be higher if
some of the 47 stores also
under review closed. The
company has some 8,500
direct employees and 1,500
contract staff. BHS also
revealed it is planning to
restructure its head office and
cut management in stores.
The moves follow 12 months
of efforts to improve the for-
tunes of the loss-making
retailer. Its sale by Sir Philip
to the little-known Retail
Acquisitions was announced
on 12 March last year. The
group, headed by the former
racing driver Dominic Chap-
pell, is backed by a number of
investors, including brokers
and lawyers.
Despite concerns that the
sale heralded a future break-
up of the department store
James Moore on a
chain, Retail Acquisitions dangerous precedent P.58
insisted it wants to steer the
group back into the black.
In December it hired turn-
around specialist Aidan Schroders says it has
Treacy, a former finance direc-
tor at the dairy giant Unigate, flouted the rules because
as its chief financial officer. Dobson is a nice chap,
BHS has also introduced
food and new fashion lines to which misses the point
a number of shops.
But the challenges facing
BHSs new owner include its
underlying pension deficit,
which rose to 139m in the
year to 31 August 2014.
The retail analyst Nick
Bubb said: BHS sound con-
fident of winning the landlord
CVA, so BHS will live to fight
another day and the situation
is not completely hopeless,
given the success of the food
halls and new concessions.
56
Business
te mp ora ry p ow e r
Aggreko shines despite
Ne ws in 13% slide in profits
b r ief
Shares in Aggreko, which
provides temporary power
on industrial sites and at
events such as Glastonbury,
jumped 12 per cent
yesterday even though the
company reported a 13 per
cent fall in 2015 profits to
252m. It reassured
investors it is still has a
healthy pipeline of business.
reta il
AO World chairman to
leave after eight years
The chairman of AO
World has stepped down a
year after controversially
selling most of his 10m
stake in the online fridge,
dishwasher and TV seller.
Richard Rose, who has been
with the company for eight
years, will leave once a
replacement is found.
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UK property prices
flat in February
House price growth
remained steady at 0.3 per
cent in February, according
to Nationwide, although the
annual pace of growth rose
from 4.4 per cent to 4.8 per
cent. Nationwide put a
recent pick-up in activity
down to investors seeking
buy-to-let properties before
Aprils stamp duty rise.
o il
Losses gush following
writedown at Genel
Losses at Genel Energy, the
oil explorer chaired by
former BP boss Tony
Hayward, widened to $1.16bn
(820m) in 2015 from $313m
Services sector slowdown prompts
the year before. The loss
ballooned after it wrote down
the value of its Taq Taq field
speculation of more Bank stimulus
in Kurdistan, which has less
oil than it thought, by $1bn.
Ben Chu
Deputy business editor
The sharpest slowdown in
service sector activity in
fears over the strength of the
recovery and raised talk of
more stimulus being deployed
by the Bank of England. The
Markit/Cips survey snapshot
of the sector, which accounts
for three quarters of output,
came in at 52.7 in February.
Thats above the 50 mark
that separates expansion
from contraction, but down
sharply from 55.6 in Janu-
ary and below the 55.1 City
economists had expected. It
was also the weakest reading
since March 2013.
Samuel Tombs of Pantheon
Macroeconomics described
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Reit now: Leslau hunts
for property bargains
The property veteran Nick
Leslau is hoping to take
advantage of turbulent
markets to snap up bargains
for Secure Income Reit, the
investment company that
clocks up long-term rents
from a 1.35bn portfolio
including Alton Towers.
Secure Income Reit is
advised by Leslaus Prestbury
Investments, which is also a
major shareholder.
C HA N NE L FOUR
the survey as exceptionally stressed that the next move
weak. Chris Williamson of
Markit said there were con-
in interest rates is likely to
be up. But he did say last
cerns among managers in
the service sector over the
increased risk of Brexit and
month that rates could drop
to zero, from 0.5 per cent at
the moment, if necessary to
associated financial market
volatility. The survey sug-
gests the economys main
engine of growth is at risk of
stimulate the economy.
Financial markets are not
pricing in the next upwards
move in the Banks base rate
stalling he said. until 2018 at the earliest.
Alan Clarke of Scotiabank Mr Williamson said the
said the survey alongside latest survey reading puts to
weak February readings for Policy- bed any talk of the Bank of
manufacturing and construc- England raising rates in the
tion was consistent with makers near future.
GDP growth in the first quar- may soon The focus will instead
ter of the year slowing to 0.3 increasingly shift to whether
per cent, down from 0.5 per need to policymakers may soon need
cent in the final quarter of last dig deeper to dig deeper into the toolbox
year. He added the readings to introduce new measures to
were in rate cut territory. into the shore up the economy with
The Governor of the Bank toolbox additional stimulus, and
of Bank of England, Mark what tools might be used
Carney, has repeatedly he said.
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THE INDEPENDENT Friday 4 March 2016 57

City in uproar as Schroders tycoons

flout the rules on good governance
Sales rose by just 0.5 per cent
iour. They also prefer chief ignoring the corporate gov- Tosato, was working under in the 11 weeks to 11 February
Jim armitage
executives to be able to rule ernance rules without a very two separate employment
Costa
city editor
without their predecessor convincing explanation. contracts in a controversial
breathing down their neck. Mr Dobson said the decision structure that could be used
The fund manager Schroders
faced widespread protests in
Successive governments
have called on major share-
had been taken because fund
managers need continuity and
to avoid UK tax. Having been
operating for 12 years, the dual Coffee
cools for
the City of London yesterday holders such as Schroders to stability. However, the IoD contract was quietly scrapped
after it flouted corporate gov- push the big businesses in said: The chairs role is to lead soon afterwards. Schroders
ernance rules by moving its which they invest to follow the board in holding the exec- announced yesterday that Mr
longstanding, 8m-a-year
chief executive into the sup-
best-practice guidelines on
pay and governance. Schrod-
utive team to account, without
interfering in the day-to-day
Tosato would now retire.
Big shareholders complained
Whitbread
posedly independent role of ers behaviour is likely to operational management. off the record about Mr Dob-
chairman. hinder the fund management Schroders says that Dob- sons elevation, and Alan Mac-
Joanna Bourke
Michael Dobson, who has industrys claims that they are son will still be involved in Dougall of the adviser Pirc
AND Nick Goodway
been chief executive for nearly doing so. dealing with major clients, called it unacceptable, saying
15 years, is to take the chair The Independent disclosed commercial partners and Strong it would be difficult for the
and be replaced as chief exec- in 2014 that Mr Dobson was regulators, which does seem chief executive to carve out an Shares in Whitbread dropped
utive by the head of invest- mulling a move up to the to b l u r t h e b o u n d a r i e s performers independent strategy with Mr 6 per cent yesterday amid fears
ment, Peter Harrison, who chairmanship although the between executive and non- still have Dobson present. that growth at Britains biggest
made 4.2m last year. company denied any such idea executive responsibilities. The Schroder family owns coffee chain has peaked.
Anointing a chief executive at the time. It is also part of the chair- no excuse 47 per cent of the company, Sales at Costa Coffee stores
as chairman is frowned upon Yesterday, the Institute of mans job to govern the board, for and Bruno Schroder, 82, is a that have been open at least a
by shareholders, who prefer Directors (IoD) acknowledged which, in Schroders case, has non-executive director. His year increased by just 0.5 per
to see independent chairmen Mr Dobsons successes as not been without controversy. ignoring nephew, Philip Mallinckrodt, cent in the 11 weeks to 11 Feb-
represent their interests and chief executive of Schroders The Independent previously the rules is a director in charge of wealth ruary, against growth of 3.7
giving a dispassionate over- but warned that strong per- revealed how its 4.8m-a- management. He earned per cent in the first 40 weeks
sight of the companys behav- formance is no excuse for year director, Massimo 2.6m last year. of the financial year.
But its finance director,
Nicholas Cadbury, dismissed
talk of a maturing UK coffee
market. He said: Some of our
stores are so full that its diffi-
cult to find a seat in them. The
Fashion shop coffee market is more com-
is whistling petitive, but if you include our
new openings, we still grew
for a buyer at 14 per cent for the year. We
Whistles, the still have a long way to go to
fashion chain catch up with our continental
run by neighbours who drink twice
Topshops as much coffee as we do.
former boss Plans for this year include
Jane 200 new Costa Coffee stores
Shepherdson, worldwide and a further 230
is up for sale, in 2017. The company will also
according to install 1,950 Costa Express
reports. machines by 2018.
KPMG is For the whole group, which
believed to includes the Premier Inn
have sounded hotels chain and restaurant
out potential brands such as Beefeater and
buyers for an Brewers Fayre, like-for-like
undisclosed sales growth for the final quar-
stake. The ter of its financial year was 1.7
chain has 125 per cent, and 3.2 per cent for
outlet but the 50-week period.
costs of a US Premier Inn showed slower
expansion saw growth in the latest quarter,
it post a 2m at 2.2 per cent against 4.9 per
loss last year. cent in the first 40 weeks of
the year. Mr Cadbury said this
was the normal trend, partic-

MPs to quiz
MPs will today announce an
investigation into the possi-
ble impact of Brexit on British
business on business, with the construc-
tion and pharmaceuticals sec-
the impact tors under the spotlight.
Sources close to the influen-
of a vote to tial Commons Business Select
Committee said the inquiry
to speak. However, MPs are
keen for a wider spectrum
of witnesses, so they can make
a more detailed assessment of
how industries dependent on
the European Union would fare
should the UK vote to leave the
EU in Junes referendum.
The building industry is par-
struction activity fell to a 10-
month low in February.
Drugs legislation has been
at the heart of European law
since the mid-1960s. Last year
marked the 50th anniversary
of the adoption of a law that
reformed how medicinal
products could be marketed,
ularly in London where both
tourism and business trade
slows in the first part of the
calendar year.
Whitbreads chief execu-
tive, Alison Brittain, added
that the division had benefited
The coffee
market is
from its substantial, higher-
returning hotel extensions

quit the EU
will run for between two and
four hearings, at which senior
City figures and representa-
tives of business organisations
will appear.
A source added that the
usual suspects such as the
exclusive
mark leftly CBI, Federation of Small Busi-
associate business editor nesses, and British Chambers
of Commerce will be invited
ticularly nervous about a vote in the wake of the thalidomide programme. The group plans
to leave, because corporate disaster. more to open 5,500 new Premier Inn
clients are holding back from
constructing new offices until
This week, the former
Marks & Spencer chief exec-
competitive rooms in the UK this year.
A note from Credit Suisse
they know whether the City utive Lord Rose, who chairs but we still said: We continue to believe
London will still be the EUs
financial centre. A survey by
the campaign group Britain
Stronger in Europe, came
grew at 14% Whitbread is a compelling
medium-term roll-out story
Markit and the Chartered under fire in Parliament for for the year that extends beyond 2020.
Institute of Procurement & his misuse of data to back Whitbreads shares fell by
Supply this week showed con- EU membership. 249p to 3,800p last night.
58 l Friday 4 March 2016 THE INDEPENDENT

Business

Market Report
Outlook
the
m a r ket s

James Moore
FTSE 100 Risers FTSE 100 fallers jamie
Price Change %Chg Price Change %Chg
nimmo
Admiral Grp 1919.00 +159.00 +9.03 Persimmon 1998.00 -146.00 -6.81
Glencore 143.00 +7.60 +5.61 Whitbread 3800.00 -249.00 -6.15
Rolls Royce 716.00 +36.00 +5.29 HSBC Hldgs 450.50 -21.10 -4.47
Intertek 3011.00 +146.00 +5.10 Inmarsat 925.00 -41.00 -4.24
CRH 1935.00 +85.00 +4.59 ITV 232.60 -8.30 -3.45
Being the most shorted
Centrica 220.00 +9.50 +4.51 Carnival 3417.00 -115.00 -3.26 stock on the market comes
with a certain amount of
If Schroders wings it on governance,
GKN 294.30 +9.70 +3.41 TUI AG 1026.00 -34.00 -3.21
Stan Chart 469.95 +15.10 +3.32 Shire 3755.00 -117.00 -3.02
Aberdeen Ast 270.20 +8.50 +3.25 Merlin Ent 451.20 -12.50 -2.70 baggage, but Carillion
continues to silence the
why cant everyone break the rules?
Smiths 1029.00 +31.00 +3.11 Barratt Dev 564.00 -14.00 -2.42
FTSE 250 Risers FTSE 250 fallers doubters. The bears were

Vedanta Res
Price
352.60
Change %Chg
+40.40 +12.94

Cobham
Price
239.30
Change
-19.70
%Chg
-7.61
left disappointed again as
Aggreko 1008.00 +112.50 +12.56 Thomas Cook 103.00 -5.40 -4.98 the support services firm
AO World 187.40 +16.70 +9.78 P Power Betfair 9880.00 -470.00 -4.54 revealed annual revenues
Tullow Oil 194.20 +15.90 +8.92 Dunelm 977.50 -40.50 -3.98
Ashmore Grp 260.50 +17.50 +7.20 Stagecoach 266.50 -10.80 -3.89
rose 13 per cent to 4.6bn
Drax 265.10 +15.40 +6.17 UDG Healthcare 536.50 -21.50 -3.85 and pre-tax profits climbed
Just Eat 405.90 +23.30 +6.09 NCC Group 280.60 -10.80 -3.71 9 per cent to 155m, lifting Question: in what When Schroders a hugely important
Petrofac 941.50 +47.50 +5.31 Jardine Lloyd 818.00 -30.00 -3.54
Serco Grp 107.10 +5.10 +5.00 Crest Nicholson 542.50 -19.50 -3.47 the shares 11.7p to 291p. part of society are you institutional investor that ought to be
ICAP 470.30 +19.10 +4.23 Synthomer 300.50 -9.50 -3.06 Short-sellers have allowed to break rules policing the rules on behalf of the millions
been circling ever since whenever you want of people who invest in its funds openly
THE FTSE 100 Carillions proposed merger just as long as you are thumbs its nose at them, what sort of
Price Change High Low Div Yield PE
with larger rival Balfour prepared to give your reasons for doing so? message does it send out to others?
3i Group
Aberdeen Asset
444.70
270.20
-0.70
+8.50
571.50
509.64
389.10
208.50
4.50
7.22
6.02
12.13
Beatty fell through in 2014, Readers of this column probably wont be
Admiral 1919.00 +159.00 1953.00 1370.00 5.96 17.88 but the stock has been surprised to learn that it is in the City, where
robust besides the general the corporate governance code operates on
Rough Diamond Admiral
Anglo Amer 533.00 +8.90 1210.50 215.55 3.93 3.85
Antofagasta 511.00 +3.00 811.50 340.60 1.78 15.52
ARM Holdings 1019.00 -1.00 1332.50 811.50 0.86 42.28 market malaise. the basis of comply or explain why you dont
AB Foods
Ashtead Group
3290.00
864.50
-64.00
+14.00
3606.00
1231.00
2705.75
749.00
1.06
1.88
48.89
14.29
The flood of results think the rules should apply to you. has played it by the book
AstraZeneca 4000.00 -73.00 4931.68 3746.00 4.71 25.39 statements were the main The concept is much cherished, with
Aviva
Babcock Intl
462.20
945.50
+1.70
+10.50
578.68
1152.76
400.10
840.00
4.11
2.55
9.17
17.87
driver of the market and a advocates praising its flexibility. To be The car insurer Admiral is just the sort of
BAE Systems 499.70 -4.80 549.00 419.30 4.18 17.23 mixed bag saw the FTSE fair, it mostly works. Comply is seen as place one might have expected rules like
Barclays
Barratt Dev
166.30
564.00
+3.90
-14.00
289.90
673.50
147.75
495.56
3.91
2.89
87.53
12.40
100 sink 16.60 points to best practice and most companies want these to be broken. The outgoing chief
Berkeley Group 3080.00 -38.00 3788.00 2431.00 6.49 9.84 6,130.46. to operate in line with that. Those that Henry Engelhardt is also the founder and it
BHP Billiton 795.30 +16.90 1637.50 571.60 6.93 31.36
BP 362.00 +9.10 499.25 252.55 7.81 24.94 Investors in Cobham ran dont have to put up with the complaints wouldnt have been a huge surprise had the
BAT 3958.00 -10.50 4013.50 3231.50 3.89 17.14 for cover as the aerospace of stroppy shareholders and, worse company sought to bump him up.
British Land 685.00 +2.00 891.50 642.27 4.14 4.07
BT 475.25 -6.55 502.60 404.00 2.71 17.93 and defence firm dived still, their share prices may be hit by a However, Admiral is doing things the
Bunzl 1953.00 +8.00 1981.00 1665.00 1.95 27.51 19.7p to 239.3p when it governance discount. right way. Mr Engelhardt is handing over
Burberry 1364.00 +4.00 1904.00 1047.00 2.62 17.85
Capita 1013.00 -8.00 1336.00 993.00 3.13 predicted growth would Unfortunately this happy outcome is now the reins to David Stevens, who currently
Carnival 3417.00 -115.00 3955.26 2890.00 2.48 21.40 stall this year. The FTSE under threat, and it is due to the actions of serves as chief operating officer, and will
Centrica 220.00 +9.50 290.00 182.50 5.45 14.77
Coca-Cola HBC 1373.00 +7.00 1638.00 1086.00 2.25 21.98 250 firms annual results fell an institutional investor that ought to be a work under the chairman overseeing the
Compass 1241.00 -19.00 1298.00 963.00 2.37 23.73 short of analysts forecasts, champion of full code compliance. companys price-comparison websites on
CRH 1935.00 +85.00 2000.01 1581.00 2.49 28.12
DCC 5705.00 -40.00 6060.00 3778.00 1.56 33.17 with underlying pre-tax Schroders, part of the Citys aristocracy, a part time basis. Some may see that as a
Diageo 1853.00 -9.50 1979.50 1592.50 3.10 19.51 profits up 9 per cent to is flying in the face of best practice by reasonable thing to do. Confused.com has
Direct Line Ins 399.00 -8.80 418.90 332.00 12.56 9.83
Dixons Carph 435.90 -9.70 506.50 398.90 2.12 46.77 280m and revenues up 12 bumping its outgoing chief executive found the going tough but there is a huge
Easyjet 1485.00 -25.00 1916.00 1458.00 3.72 10.68 per cent to 2.1bn. Michael Dobson up to the chairmanship. opportunity in developing the service in Mr
Experian 1190.00 -4.00 1264.00 1017.00 2.18 21.32
Fresnillo 954.00 +11.00 1025.00 569.63 0.40 Like Cobham, satellite The chairman of a public company is Engelhardts native US, where he could play
GKN
Glencore
294.30
143.00
+9.70
+7.60
376.80
318.46
245.80
66.67
2.96
8.89
24.94
20.24
firm Inmarsat was in need supposed to be independent and has the job an important role.
GSK 1370.00 -26.00 1645.00 1227.50 5.84 7.86 of some rocket fuel after its of running the board and ensuring effective Regardless, hes going out with a bang.
Hammerson
Hargrve Lans
558.00
1254.00

-19.00
704.00
1533.00
531.00
1024.00
4.00
1.76
6.01
37.77
disappointing annual results communication with shareholders. The The shares soared after Admiral released
Hikma 1755.00 -19.00 2520.00 1596.83 1.05 17.70 had investors concerned code also says a chief executive should not results for 2015 described by him as
HSBC Hldgs
IAG
450.50
533.00
-21.10
-12.50
674.57
630.00
420.15
426.29
8.00
2.90
9.81
9.39
that this year might be just go on to be chairman of the same company. the year of the uncut diamond when
Imperial Brands 3692.50 -82.00 3831.00 2921.00 3.82 20.81 as tough.The shares were There are many good reasons for this, not people had expected a lump of coal. The
Inmarsat
IntCont Htls
925.00
2703.00
-41.00
+6.00
1153.00
2967.00
855.00
2162.48
3.92
2.15
20.79
21.88
41p worse off at 925p as least that it isnt particularly healthy for a metaphors can be forgiven bearing in mind
Intertek 3011.00 +146.00 3043.00 2296.00 1.74 13.43 the company, which was new boss to have their predecessor looking Admirals long-term performance, capped
Intu Props
ITV
298.60
232.60
+0.60
-8.30
369.20
281.90
269.20
221.40
4.59
6.88
7.60
20.05
launched into the FTSE 100 over their shoulders. by this sparkling set of results.
Johnson Matth 2567.00 +3.00 3789.52 2215.00 2.85 11.48 last year, revealed revenues But this being the City, the code contains
Kingfisher
Land Secs
340.20
1054.00
-2.40
+8.00
386.40
1363.00
312.10
963.00
2.95
3.18
14.00
3.44
and pre-tax profits were a caveat: If exceptionally a board decides
both down last year. that a chief executive should become
Legal & Gen
Lloyds Bk Gp
235.90
72.58
-0.70
-0.69
296.02
89.35
199.50
55.84
5.00
3.10
14.13
90.72
Kevin OByrne, the chairman, the board should consult major
Business jitters on Brexit
Lon Stock Ex
Marks&Spen
2893.00
428.40
+26.00
-1.30
2935.00
600.00
2083.00
399.80
1.08
4.30
51.20
14.42 soon-to-be chief executive shareholders in advance and should set out send a message to voters
Merlin Ent
Mondi
451.20
1306.00
-12.50
-6.00
473.30
1614.36
360.93
1108.00
1.44
3.07
26.86
13.64
of Poundland, showed his its reasons to shareholders at the time of the
National Grid 938.50 -13.80 992.50 806.40 4.60 17.51 faith in the budget retailers appointment and in the next annual report. Spring has officially started, but the outlook
Next
Old Mutual
6680.00
178.60
+80.00
+0.30
8175.00
241.60
6430.00
148.07
5.97
4.98
15.60
14.40
future by taking 575,000 Schroders says it has done that and, in is increasingly wintry for the economy. The
Pearson 857.00 +1.00 1517.42 644.50 6.07 8.47 worth of shares to the till. effect, has made the decision to flout the latest Markit/Cips purchasing managers
Persimmon 1998.00 -146.00 2255.00 1604.00 5.51 11.73
Provident Fin 3263.00 -22.00 3654.00 2623.00 3.68 21.50
The move failed to lift rules because Mr Dobson is a wonderful index for the UKs dominant services
Prudential 1340.50 +11.00 1761.50 1045.99 2.84 15.43 the shares, which were chap and knows his stuff. Which completely sector shows the slowest growth for three
Randgold Res 6335.00 +80.00 6720.00 3546.00 0.74 44.18
Reckitt Ben 6458.00 -45.00 6782.00 5403.00 2.15 26.42 4.5p cheaper at 165.5p as misses the point. years.That makes it a triple whammy of
RELX 1226.00 -8.00 1279.00 988.50 2.42 26.42 investors reacted to the The City likes to portray Britain as gloom given the similarly gloomy Markit/
Rexam 616.00 -1.50 617.50 502.50 2.87 23.78
Rio Tinto 2012.00 +4.50 3192.47 1557.00 7.11 59.96 news that Poundland was a leader in corporate governance an Cips surveys of the construction and
Rolls-Royce 716.00 +36.00 1061.00 497.00 2.29 relegated from the FTSE example of how things should be done manufacturing sectors earlier this week.
Royal Mail 459.40 +1.40 532.50 412.80 4.64 14.14
RBS 229.00 +4.20 380.70 215.90 13.31 250 in the latest reshuffle. that Johnny Foreigner could learn from, John Longworth, director-general of the
Shell A 1665.00 +8.00 2122.00 1256.00 7.98 76.03 Failed Polish shale gas especially those dreadful Americans. British Chambers of Commerce, claimed
Shell B 1670.00 +15.50 2223.50 1261.03 7.95 76.26
RSA Insur 442.70 -4.60 528.00 371.00 2.37 19.85 venture 3Legs, whose The reality has never quite lived up the reason was that British companies are
SABMiller 4211.50 -3.50 4226.50 2773.00 1.76 28.98 shares remain suspended on to that, as demonstrated by a long and stuck between the devil and the deep blue
Sage 596.00 -8.00 629.50 458.40 2.20 32.91
Sainsbury(J) 264.30 +2.30 288.40 221.30 4.62 30.38 AIM, confirmed the 8.8m sorry list of scandals. Some of the worst sea when it comes to the EU referendum.
Schroders 2738.00 +20.00 3441.00 2320.00 3.18 16.00 reverse takeover of SalvaRx of them have been at natural resources He argued that the bloc is basically
Severn Trent 2119.00 -12.00 2295.00 1932.00 3.81 42.46
Shire 3755.00 -117.00 5870.00 3423.00 0.48 44.11 Group, serial investor Jim companies from the former Soviet Union unreformed.
Sky 1030.00 -12.00 1180.00 953.50 3.21 13.02 Mellons lifesciences group, and elsewhere, which came here because But consider the three sets of Markit/
Smith&Neph 1145.00 -28.00 1217.00 1006.20 1.90 35.31
Smiths 1029.00 +31.00 1243.00 858.00 3.98 16.49 alongside a 1.95m share they coveted Londons deep pool of capital Cips figures. Fears over possible Brexit
Sports Direct
SSE
410.00
1430.00
-9.80
+39.00
820.50
1696.00
359.10
1317.00 6.20
10.10
25.86
placing. remember ENRC? But there are plenty of played a big role in them as businesses from
Stan Chart 469.95 +15.10 1109.80 373.40 2.16 7.24 Meanwhile, cash- domestic examples too. all sectors are battening down the hatches
Standard Life
St James Place
348.00
856.00
+6.10
+8.50
505.68
1031.00
314.90
800.50
5.28
3.27
5.01
22.01
strapped Irish oil explorer Schroders senior independent director, and sitting on their hands, postponing
Taylor Wimpey 178.20 -4.10 207.40 144.40 10.41 11.80 Petroceltic crashed 3.13p Lord Howard of Penrith, says in a letter decisions on spending, hiring and
Tesco
Travis Perkins
186.15
1849.00
+4.50
+53.00
252.52
2270.00
137.00
1662.00
0.62
2.38
2.63
27.27
or 31 per cent to 6.81p as it to shareholders that the board does investment until the result of the vote.
TUI AG 1026.00 -34.00 1294.78 996.74 4.21 42.86 urged shareholders to take not regard this appointment as setting a Amid increasing signs of something
Unilever
United Utilities
3057.50
920.50
-16.00
-7.50
3155.00
1029.00
2450.00
816.50
2.89
4.12
22.89
23.13
no action on the 6.4m bid precedent at Schroders, and the separation approaching panic
Vodafone 221.25 -0.45 258.00 197.70 5.11 10.17 from Worldview, its 29 per of the roles of chairman and chief executive among businesses,
Whitbread
Wolseley
3800.00
3820.00
-249.00
+82.00
5475.00
4398.00
3641.00
3214.00
2.25
2.38
18.55
46.53
cent activist shareholder, remains in place. voters might well think
Worldpay Group 297.30 -3.10 320.30 240.00 and warned that the shares The problem, however, is the precedent they are better off with
WPP 1539.00 +3.00 1616.00 1273.00 2.76 18.68
could be worthless. that has been set for the rest of the City. the devil they know.
THE INDEPENDENT Friday 4 March 2016
Zombie abuse: the past returns
to haunt insurers in FCA inquiry
Insurance companies are under
investigation for poor communication
and imposing heavy fees on closed
book customers. Mi ch ael B ow reports
Many Britons read letters
from their insurance com-
panies with furrowed brows.
Most of the time, they are
cluttered with baffling jargon
that makes it hard to tell if you
have lost money, made money
or simply lost your grasp of the
English language
But now the boot is on the
other foot. Six life insurance
companies, including the
FTSE 100-listed Prudential
and Old Mutual, could face
unlimited fines after the City
regulator found evidence that
they had mistreated long-
standing customers by poorly
communicating with them
about fees and charges.
Millions of workers flocked
to insurers during the 1980s
and 1990s to take out policies
like self-invested personal
pensions, savings products,
life insurance plans, endow-
ments and investment bonds.
The typical pot size today
would be between 15,000
and 25,000.
Around 30 million of these
dusty old policies collected
together in so-called zom-
bie funds now sit in the
virtual vaults of insurance
companies. But the people
who own them are neglected
at the expense of newer insur-
ance shoppers, the watchdog
said yesterday. Tracey McDer-
mott, the acting chief execu-
tive of the Financial Conduct
Authority (FCA), said: The
practices at some firms appear
to have been poor.
Out of 11 insurers it inves-
tigated, the FCA has opened
formal inquiries into six
of them: Prudential, Old
Mutual, Police Mutual, Abbey
Life, Scottish Widows and
Countrywide Assured. Such
enforcement actions can
lead to major fines, with two-
thirds of enforcement actions
by the authority resulting in
financial penalties last year.
Despite the decisive action,
the FCAs decision-making
in the run-up to yesterdays
announcement has been
chaotic. Some say that it has
undermined the credibility of
the organisation. The investi-
gation originally resulted in a
botched media briefing by a
senior executive at the FCA
in 2014, which triggered a
l 59
slump in insurance shares
and recriminations for the
watchdog.
Clive Adamson, the FCAs
former director of supervi-
sion, was quoted in a newspa-
per report which implied that
the regulator would ban exit
fees on old policies. Instead, it
was only examining the fees.
Shares in a host of insurers
slumped the next morning
and it took the regulator six
hours to clarify the scope of
the inquiry, triggering anger
from company executives
and trade bodies. That led to
a high-level investigation and
a parliamentary inquiry which
criticised the regulators prac-
tice of pre-briefing journalists
about new initiatives before
they were released to the
wider public.
The controversy precipi-
tated the exit of senior man-
agers and has been blamed as
a factor in the Chancellors
sacking firing of the former
FCA boss, Martin Wheatley.
Adamson also quit the insurer
after the debacle.
The new phase of the inves-
tigation will be welcome
relief for the FCA but not
the insurers under scrutiny.
The watchdog has homed in
on how firms communicated
with their customers and what
charges they would face if they
sought to surrender or trans-
fer their policies.
They found that many firms
did not consider if their poli-
cies were still suitable for their
customers, and whether they it. The annual management that is not giving them a Many [products] at much lower
gave clients enough informa- fee on the pot automatically rounded and comprehensive insurance prices, he said. This might
tion to make informed deci- rose to 7.25 per cent from 1.25 picture. firms did not stimulate senior management
sions. It also found that cus- per cent. When the policy was The findings alarmed consider if of some insurers to lance the
tomers wanting their money valued in 2014 it was worth senior MPs. Andrew Tyrie, their policies boil and let stagnant closed
back to spend or transfer to 3,300. On top of that, an the Conservative chairman were still books go on to the market for
different policies would often exit charge then cut it to just of the Commons Treasury suitable, sale, leading to an expected
be hit with high exit fees and 1,500. The FCA criticised Select Committee, said: The according increase in deals.
were either not told about the the insurer for applying the FCA now needs to examine to the FCA Prudential, Scottish Wid-
charge or had it buried in the terms and conditions too carefully whether customers m atthe w ows, Old Mutual and Police
small print. strictly and not focusing on have suffered detriment. The l loyd/ gett y Mutual said that they would
Savers wanting to freeze A pot the outcome for the saver. Treasury Committee will be work closely with the FCA
their policies and stop paying
contributions would also be hit
worth It also found that insurers
made little attempt to track
keeping a close eye on this.
Bruno Geiringer, an insur-
on the enforcement action
while Chesnara, which owns
by an ongoing charge despite 4,350 down policy-holders who had ance partner at Pinsent Countrywide, also said it would
not paying in any more, which
reduced the size of their
and frozen changed addresses.
In a damning verdict on
Masons, said the findings
raised serious concerns for
fully co-operate. Deutsche
Bank, which owns Abbey Life,
investments over time. in 2014 is insurance executives, the life insurers and could spark would not comment.
In one example, a pot of
contributions worth 4,350
now worth FCA said that boards and sen-
ior managers do not have a
a possible flurry of deal-mak-
ing. I would expect [insurers]
The findings of the enforce-
ment team will not be known
had been made by 1992 when just 1,500 grasp of closed-book custom- now to be looking very eagerly for some months just enough
the saver decided to freeze the ers and outcomes They rely at the possibility of picking time to decipher an insurance
account and stop paying in to on management information up some of the closed book policy statement.
60
Business
Economics view
Ashoka Mody
Britain would be poorer outside the
European Union? Economic nonsense
Boris Johnson,
Londons flamboyant
Mayor, has invited
the rage of his Prime
Minister David
Cameron. Johnson will urge the British
public to vote for leaving the European
Union in the June 23 referendum. Johnson
has become the most prominent and
influential voice for British ExitBrexit. Not
surprisingly, Cameron has lashed out.
Cameron is in a tangle of his own making.
He calculated that a referendum would
neutralise opponents who were gaining by
stirring anti-European sentiment. But he
misjudged his own people: they have little
use for Europe. And Camerons deal with
European leaders has failed to pacify because
it makes sense only to those steeped in the
European lore. Now, Cameron believes
he can scare the British public. Leaving
Europe, he asserts, will threaten our
economic and national security.
While Cameron seeks to win the political
skirmish, Johnson has history on his side. As
the late historian Tony Judt might have said,
the parenthesis on the European Union
may be closing. That parenthesis opened
on May 9, 1950, when French foreign
minister Robert Schuman first announced
an initiative for European cooperation.
The Second World War still cast a long
shadow and Schuman declared that peace in
Europe would be built on a material basis.
Johnson applauds the early achievements.
From the Treaty of Rome in 1957 through
to the 1980s, European nations opened
their borders to trade and thus created the
material basis for peace.
Indeed, British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher, much hated by Europeans, did
more for Europes commercial integration
than any other leader of her generation.
She championed the Single European Act
of 1986, pushing forward the process set in
motion by Treaty of Rome.
But by the late 1980s, Johnson writes,
realistic possibilities for more commercial
integration were largely exhausted. Indeed,
a recent paper from the pro-European
Bruegel think-tank in Brussels documents
how little has been achieved since then.
This is not a surprise. While the Treaty of
Rome created a level playing field with little
loss of national sovereignty other than at
the border, every initiative since then has
required national governments to cede
authority to Brussels.
The European Union claims legitimacy
on the basis that national governments are
incapable of meeting the needs of their
citizens and supranational governance
is needed to increase the welfare of all
Europeans. That mindset led in the late
1980s to the push towards a single currency,
the euro. Vastly inflated claims were made
of the prosperity that the euro would create.
These never materialised, while the costs
are all too evident. The Bruegel paper tells
us that even the single market initiatives
have ceased to provide dividends.
The real problem with Europe today is its
unworkable governance structure. In a 1986
paper, Robert Keohane then at Harvard
University explained that international
governance required trust and reciprocity.
In contrast, hierarchical or hegemonic
structures would prove to be fragile,
Keohane warned. Hegemony can work if the
hegemon is willing to pay for that right. But
in Europes semi-hierarchical governance
system, Germany exercises hegemonic veto
authority without paying the bills.
For this reason, European governance
has been prone to delays and half measures
during the neverending eurozone distress.
And now we may well be seeing breakdown
of that fragile structure under the stress of
the refugee crisis.
Echoing Cameron, proponents for
Europe say that Britain will incur severe
economic costs by leaving the European
Union. Britains trade with Europe will
collapse, they say, and the City of London
will lose its pre-eminence. Claims of dire
consequences by business executives are
particularly unreliable. In 1999, Adair
Turner, then director general of the
Confederation of Business and Industry
supported Britain joining the euro. Now
Productive relationships within
Europe will survive with or
without EU rules and governance
the number crunchers torture the data to
show that British productivity could decline
precipitously. This is economic nonsense.
Any transition will bring uncertainties,
but the economic principles are clear.
Trade with a particular country or group
of countries brings no special dividends.
Indeed, leading trade theorist Jagdish
Bhagwati has repeatedly warned that
preferential trade arrangements hurt rather
than help.
Moreover, for more than two decades,
Britain has steadily increased its trade
with non-European countries. This is only
to be expected. Even Germanys trade
is increasing mainly beyond European
borders. The US has just overtaken France
as Germanys largest trading partner. Europe
is a slow-growing region and will almost
certainly fall further behind the rest of the
world over the next half century. Europeans
will look for opportunities elsewhere. Only
the productive relationships within Europe
will survivewith or without European
Union rules and governance.
As the parenthesis on post-War Europe
closes, economics and politics point in
the same direction. Camerons rage arises
from his political miscalculation even
his ministers are walking away from him.
On June 23, British citizens may well vote
to remain in the European Union, but
atrophy of European
institutions will
continue and Johnson
is likely to win
historys verdict.
Ashoka Mody is visiting professor of
international economic policy at Princeton
University and former deputy director of the
International Monetary Funds European
Department
l Friday 4 March 2016 THE INDEPENDENT
Miramax, whose back catalogue includes Pulp Fiction, has been sold to Qatars beIN Media jack bell
Miramax snapped up
by Dohas beIN Media
It was sold to Disney in Holmes, some of which are
angela Jameson
1993, though the brothers based on scripts or films
remained with the company bought from Disney.
Miramax, the film studio until 2005, but left to set up Disney sold the film studio
behind Hollywood classics the Weinstein Company when to a consortium of investors
such as Pulp Fiction, Shake-
speare in Love and The English
Disney refused to distribute
Michael Moores anti-George
led by Colony Capital and
including the Qatar Invest-
Patient, has been sold to the Bush film Fahrenheit 9/11. ment Authority in 2010 for
Doha-based beIN Media.
The deal, for an undisclosed
Miramax still owns the
titles to more than 700 films,
$660m (466m). The owners
began looking at options
sum, marks beINs transition including 68 Oscar winners. including a sale last summer,
from a sports television brand The companys releases in when a $1bn price
to a ge n e r a l e n te r t a i n - 2016 will include Bridget wasmooted.
mentcompany. Joness Baby and Bad Although the sale price to
Miramax was founded by Santa2. beIN was not disclosed, Colo-
brothers Harvey and Bob BeIN is run by the Qatari nys founder, Thomas J Bar-
Weinstein in 1979 and named executive Nasser al-Khelaifi, rack, Jnr, yesterday said that,
after their parents. who said he expected to use thanks to online streaming, it
Its heyday was in the 1980s Miramax and its assets to had successfully returned our
and 1990s, when it defined the expand in entertainment and partners capital many times
independent-film scene and content production. Miramax over and safeguarded the pas-
had a string of cross-over hits, has recently invested in and sion, dedication and hard work
including Sex, Lies and Vide- co-distributed projects such of the librarys true artis-
otape and The Crying Game. as The Wedding Ringer and Mr ticmasters.
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Predicting the unpredictable Who will win this crazy league? p.70

Sport
Wiggins misses out on golden track return
sp ort
in brief

racin g

Government to overhaul
Britain beaten by old rivals Australia in team pursuit but Trott tastes victory in 10km scratch race betting Levy system
in the womens team pursuit, The Culture Secretary,
Cycling as Great Britain produced John Whittingdale, has
a ragged qualification ride announced a new target to
which means the best they replace the betting Levy
matt McGeechan
can achieve is bronze. system by April 2017.
at lee valley velopark
Trott, Joanna Rowsell The racing industry has
Shand, Ciara Horne and long called for Government
Sir Bradley Wiggins hopes of Elinor Barker clocked 4min intervention against
leading Britain to team pursuit 21.034sec to finish fifth. Brit- the current system of
gold at the track World Cham- ain will meet China in their contributions by betting
pionships were foiled by old first-round heat today. The companies, from which
rivals Australia in a thrilling quickest two of the third- offshore online betting is
final yesterday. to eighth-placed teams will exempt. The new plan could
It looked as though Wiggins, advance to the ride-off for boost the sports income by
35, and team-mates , Jonathan around 30m. Whittingdale
Dibben, Owain Doull and Ed Sir Bradley said: We will create a
Clancy would raise the roof in Wiggins, 35, level playing field for
the Lee Valley VeloPark when was beaten in a British-based and offshore
they closed an early gap but dramatic team gambling operators.
Australia struck back to claim pursuit final by
the title. the Australians cri c ket
Victory for Sam Welsford,
Michael Hepburn, Callum bronze. The US qualified fast-
Oval gasholder awarded
Scotson and Miles Scotson est, followed by Canada, New Grade II building status
was Australias sixth world title Zealand and Australia.
in the event in the past 11 edi- British Cyclings head The distinctive backdrop
tions of the championships. coach, Iain Dyer, said: Its a to some of crickets most
Earlier, a perfectly timed disappointing performance. memorable matches is
sprint gave Laura Trott victory Theres no way of dressing being preserved by the
in the womens 10km scratch that any differently. Government.
race as Britain belatedly got Hosts Britain had suffered The gasholder next to
on the medal table. Laura Trott crosses the finish line to win the womens 10km scratch final at the Track Cycling World a disappointing opening day The Oval cricket ground in
Trott, part of Britains Championships at Lee Valley VeloPark, London, yesterday pa on Wednesday, failing to win London has been given a
dominant team at the 2012 a medal in either the mens or Grade II listed status. The
Olympics, when she won with Canadas Stephanie B e c k y Ja m e s c l a i m e d ness since winning the keirin womens team sprints. structure was constructed
gold in the omnium and team Roorda third. bronze in the womens keirin and individual sprint at the Joachim Eilers won the in 1847 and was rebuilt in
pursuit, burst to the front on With two laps to go I behind Germanys Kristina 2013 World Championships mens 1km time trial, beating 1877-79 ahead of the first
the 40th and final lap at the thought I had better go now. Vogel, who took gold, and in Minsk. The result repre- the Dutch veteran Theo Bos Test match in England in
London velodrome. Im so happy. I wasnt feeling Anna Meares of Australia. sented a major boost for her and Frenchman Quentin 1880. Gasholder No 1s
Kirsten Wild of the that good but it just worked James has had two years dis- Rio Olympic hopes. Lafargue. capacity was doubled by
Netherlands finished second, out perfectly, Trott said. rupted by a knee injury and ill- There was less joy for Trott using a wrought-iron frame.

sporting digest Cycli ng todays fixtures

The Sky Bet Championship
Birmingham (1)....... 1 Hull (0).................... 0
Toral 14
Att 18,105
P W D L F A Pts
Burnley 34 18 11 5 53 27 65
Hull 34 19 7 8 48 20 64
Middlesboro 33 19 7 7 45 19 64
Brighton 34 17 12 5 49 34 63
Derby 34 15 12 7 45 30 57
Sheff Wed 34 14 13 7 50 35 55
Birmingham 34 15 9 10 40 32 54
Cardiff 34 13 13 8 45 38 52
Ipswich 33 14 9 10 41 40 51
Preston 34 12 12 10 33 32 48
QPR 34 10 14 10 41 40 44
Reading 33 11 10 12 38 36 43
Wolves 34 11 10 13 42 47 43
Brentford 34 12 7 15 47 53 43
Nottm F 33 10 12 11 32 30 42
Blackburn 33 9 13 11 33 31 40
Huddersfld 34 10 9 15 44 46 39
Leeds 33 8 14 11 30 39 38
Bristol City 34 9 10 15 31 53 37
Fulham 34 8 12 14 51 56 36
MK Dons 34 8 8 18 28 48 32
Rotherham 34 8 5 21 38 59 29
Bolton 34 4 13 17 32 56 25
Charlton 34 5 10 19 30 65 25
c ri c ket
Asia Cup: United Arab Emirates v India,
Dhaka: United Arab Emirates 81-9 (20
overs). India 82-1 (10.1 overs). India won by
9 wickets.
Track World Championships,
Lee Valley Velopark, London:
Mens Kilo Time Trial Final: 1 J Eilers
(Ger) 1min 00.042secs, 5 M Crampton (GB)
1:01.669. Womens Keirin Final: 1 K Vogel
(Ger) 11.276secs, 3 R James (GB) at 0.106.
Scratch Race Final: 1 L Trott (GB).
Rugby Leagu e
First Utility Super League
Salford (28)..........30 Warrington (12).... 31
Salford: Tries: Sau (2), Jones, Johnson, J.
Griffin. Goals: Dobson, OBrien (4).
Warrington: Tries: Hughes, Currie, Atkins
(2), Sims. Goals: Sandow (5). Drop Goals:
Sandow.
P W D L F A Pts
Warrington 4 4 0 0 115 64 8
Widnes 4 3 0 1 136 74 6
Wigan 3 3 0 0 50 35 6
Castleford 3 2 1 0 87 46 5
Hull 3 2 0 1 104 61 4
Salford 5 2 0 3 138 123 4
St Helens 3 2 0 1 71 82 4
Catalans 3 1 0 2 48 78 2
Wakefield 4 1 0 3 52 110 2
Hull K R 4 0 1 3 58 99 1
Huddersfld 3 0 0 3 47 84 0
Leeds 3 0 0 3 50 100 0
Tennis
WTA Abierto Monterrey Afirme,
Mexico: Second round: H Watson (GB)
bt P Hercog (Sloven) 6-2 6-3.
WTA BMW Malaysian Open, Kuala
Lumpur: Second round: N Broady (GB)
bt Z Yang (Chin) 6-4 6-3.
(Football 7.45pm unless stated)
FOOT BALL
The Sky Bet Championship
Middlesbrough v Wolves (Sky Sports 1)...........
Vanarama National League
Forest Green v Grimsby....................................
C RIC KET
Asia Cup: Pakistan v Sri Lanka
(Dhaka, 1.30pm). First Twenty20
International: South Africa v
Australia (Durban, 4.00pm).
GOLF
WGC - Cadillac Championship
(Trump National Doral, Miami, Florida).
N ET BALL
Superleague: Celtic Dragons v Team
Northumbria, Team Bath v Loughborough.
TE NN IS
Davis Cup World Group 1st
Round: GB v Japan (Birmingham).
R UGBY LE AGUE
First Utility Super League (8.0):
Hull v Wigan, Leeds v Huddersfield, St
Helens v Castleford, Widnes v Hull K R.
R UGBY UNION
Aviva Premiership Rugby (7.45):
Kimi Raikkonen, of Ferrari, becomes the first Formula One driver
Newcastle v Worcester. Guinness
PRO12 (7.45): Edinburgh v Connacht Raikkonen pilots to try out the new halo cockpit system in testing at Circuit de
(7.35), Scarlets v Benetton Treviso (7.05),
Ulster v Zebre (7.35). new halo system Catalunya in Spain The halo protects the head from flying debris.
62 l Friday 4 March 2016 THE INDEPENDENT

Sport

McIlroy fails to get grip

on putting after tweak
46-year-old has quickly redis-
Golf covered his old rhythms, post-
ing a third-place finish at his
first event of 2016, the Career
kevin garside
Builder Challenge, and sec-
ond at the AT&T Pro-Am at
He l l o , a m o n t h b e f o r e Pebble Beach.
the Masters, three-time Though Mickelson started
champion Phil Mickelson with a birdie, it was not until
announced himself to the the back nine that his round
golf community again with an caught fire, with four more
opening 67 to close one off the to climb the leaderboard and
clubhouse lead at the WGC- finish one behind the leader,
Cadillac Championship in Scott Piercy.
Miami yesterday. I hit a lot of good shots. I
Mickelson has not won a was patient and on the second
tournament since his Open nine I was able to capitalise on
victory at Muirfield in 2013, some good play, Mickelson
a run of blanks that led to said. I probably left some
him splitting with his long- shots out there but I was
time coach Butch Harmon. happy with that.
After linking up with Andrew Attention on the opening
Getson last November, the day at Doral inevitably fell on
OFFERS
the worlds top three, Jordan
Spieth, Jason Day and Rory
McIlroy, grouped together,
as has become the custom,
at the first elite field, world
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the year.
McIlroy excited the trade
beforehand with his new left-
hand low grip on the putter.
Though imperious tee to
Spieth green, McIlroy had strug-
gled to convert on the greens,
drilled his prompting a return to the grip
putt from with which he began in his
first year on tour.
almost McIlroy recorded a 71,
twice the enduring a disastrous end
to his round and experienc-
distance of ing no obvious improvement
McIlroy with the flat stick. The three
putt at the par-five eighth, his
17th, was particularly painful
after he had found the green in
two. His eagle putt reared up
way short and the birdie putt
slid wide. Spieth, meanwhile,
drilled his birdie from almost
twice the distance.

Florence and Tuscany

McIlroy says he is not for
turning, and it may be that
over the days and weeks ahead
he builds some confidence,

Seven nights from pp but for the moment at least

his fortunes remain depend-
ent on his prowess off the tee.
Fully And even that deserted him
when he found the water at
escorted the par-three ninth and had
to play three off the tee.
Had the eagle putt on the
eighth dropped he would have
gone to the last one off the
lead on five under par. A three
Rory McIlroy putt and a double-bogey later
watches
his tee shot
he signed for a 71, two behind
Spieth, who bogeyed the last
on the 14th after finding sand off the tee.
hole during Danny Willett, a winner
yesterdays in Dubai this year, was the
first round foremost Briton on the leader
g ett y board after a 68. Starting at the
10th, Willett was four under at
the turn but could not build on
his fast start.
Piercy set an electric pace,
seven under par after 11 holes.
A bogey at the last after finding
water pegged him to six under,
but after he missed the cut at
the Honda last week, that dis-
appointment will not hurt.

Sandow drop goal earns

hit the lead with two tries in
four minutes.
Stefan Ratchford, mak-

Warrington last-gasp win

ing his first appearance of
the season after recovering
from knee surgery, drew two
defenders to get Jack Hughes
over for his first try for the
minutes to give the visitors club before his second-row
Rugby League renewed hope and after Ash- partner Ben Currie went in
ton Sims fifth try had enabled for a solo score. Sandow added
Historical monuments, fine cuisine, beautiful countryside and them to draw level, scrum-half both conversions to make it
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THE INDEPENDENT Friday 4 March 2016
Sport
Gloomy Evans
in no mood to
talk up chances
in Davis Cup
Tennis
paul newman
in birmingham
It would have been good to
report that Dan Evans was in
buoyant mood here yesterday
after learning of his selection
in Britains Davis Cup team to
play Japan this weekend, but
the 25-year-old was in typi-
cally unpredictable form as
he talked about the prospect
of playing in front of his home
crowd.
Did the world No 157 expect
to have lots of friends and fam-
ily in the 9,000-capacity Bar-
claycard Arena in Birming-
ham as Britain begin their
defence of the trophy? Not
that many, a deadpan Evans
said, his apparently lugubri-
ous mood emphasised by his
Brummie accent. Just some
of my family are coming to
watch.
Considering that he was
world No 763 only seven
months ago after struggling
with a knee problem, could
Evans have imagined then
that he would be here now?
Not really, he said. I just give opponents. He has this
took it match by match and
tournament by tournament.
With Kei Nishikori, his
opening-day opponent this
afternoon, would Evans
take encouragement from
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his remarkable victory over
the world No 6 in their only
previous meeting, at the US
Open three years ago? It was
a long time ago now, Evans
said. I dont really remember
much.
Instead it was left to Leon
Smith, Britains captain, to
talk up Evans chances. Hes
fully fit, plays well indoors, has
good Davis Cup experience
and is ready to go, Smith said.
Ive got every confidence
that Dan can go in and play
very, very well.
Evans was handed his
chance after Smith decided
that Kyle Edmunds back
problem would make the
21-year-olds selection too
risky.
Evans had been in conten-
tion anyway, especially in the
light of his Davis Cup record
and past results against Japans
two singles players here.
Two of Evans four Davis
Cup victories have been in
deciding fifth rubbers and he
has a winning record against
his opponent in Sundays
reverse singles, Taro Daniel,
who is the world No 87.
Daniel gave an insight
into the problems Evans can
Y Nishioka & Y Uchiyama
classic English-style tennis:
clean slices, good serves, good
volleys, Daniel said.
In modern tennis, its not
very common. He also has a
lot of power in his forehand
Dan Evans practises in and doesnt give you a lot of
Birmingham ahead of his rhythm.
Davis Cup match with Kei Britain, nevertheless, are
Nishikori this afternoon g etty likely to rely heavily again on
Andy Murray, who won all
eight of his singles rubbers
last year. Murray also won
three doubles rubbers in 2015
alongside his brother Jamie,
weekend order of play but Smith may decide he does
not need to take any unneces-
Todays opening singles sary risks this weekend with
(1pm start; GB names first) his key man, who has not
A Murray v T Daniel played for nearly five weeks.
D Evans v K Nishikori Japan have no doubles play-
ers of note, whereas Britains
Tomorrows doubles (2pm) nominated pair which can
D Inglot & J Murray v still be changed tomorrow
comprises Jamie Murray
and Dominic Inglot, world
Sundays closing singles (1pm) No 2 and No 32 respectively
A Murray v K Nishikori in doubles.
D Evans v T Daniel Andy Murray is fired up
by the prospect of defending
TV BBC1/2 the title. I think one of the
TWO
MONTHS
FREE
reasons Im here this year is
because I really want to try and
do it again, he said. I never
thought we would be able to
do it, but then when we did,
I was like: Why cant we do
it again?
The ties last year were
unbelievable. I enjoyed every
one of them. The atmosphere
was great. It was tough at times
physically and mentally after
the times of year that the ties
were coming, but I think eve-
ryone on the team loved that
whole experience of winning
and I think we would all love
to try to do it again.
But the best way to do who missed the victory over
that is not thinking that far
ahead, Murray added. We
could lose this tie. They have
a really, really good team and
we need to just concentrate
on this one.
Wales wary
of threat
posed by
Vunipola
Rugby Union
andrew baldock
Wales forwards coach Robin
McBryde believes the sheer
physical presence of England
back-rower Billy Vunipola will
warrant close attention in
the build-up to next weeks
Six Nations showdown at
Twickenham.
The Saracens No 8 has been
in blockbusting form during
Englands unbeaten Six
Nations start. He [Vunipola]
is a big man, and in the first
three games hes been very
effective for them as a ball-car-
rier. So we are going to have to
target him, McBryde said.
However, he wa rn e d:
Eddie [England head coach
Eddie Jones] is quite a shrewd
character. He probably knows
teams are going to target Billy,
so they will have Plan B up
their sleeves. Billy has been as
effective as hes ever been.
The match-up with Wales
own in-form No 8 Taulupe
Faletau, Vunipolas cousin,
promises to provide box-
office entertainment. I
cant speak highly enough of
Toby, McBryde said. He has
matured a hell of a lot, and he
is still maturing as well.
McBryde reported that
Wales lock Luke Charteris,
France last week because of a
knee injury and was replaced
by Bradley Davies, is back
running, with prop Gethin
Jenkins progressing well
from a calf muscle strain.
64 l Friday 4 March 2016 THE INDEPENDENT

Sport / Cricket / World Twenty20

For three
years, T20
was a bit
of a laugh

For the first World T20 in 2007 England cobbled

together a squad and were eliminated early on.
They have been playing catch-up ever since. So,
with the next tournament starting next week,
whos giggling now, asks r ich a rd edwa rds
For a country with the long- recalls: It came in for the the chaos, says Snape, who could work with them at high T20 match when a captain
est established domestic counties in 2003 but for two would go on to work alongside tempo. For me, there was a 20 0 7 WOR LD T WENT Y20 would breathe a sigh of relief
Twenty20 competition, the or three years it was treated as Shane Warne with the Rajas- lag between what England H OW EN GLAND CRASHED if an over went for 17 but back
formats first global showpiece a bit of laugh, almost like a bit than Royals in the IPL. were trying to do and what then the economy bar was set
should have been a walk in the of an extra a good excuse to It was a very fast-moving the county game had already Group B far lower. I remember going
park for England. Instead, have a bit of a rest between the game with a lot of variables but found out. England (188-9) bt Zimbabwe for 70 off 10 overs in a one-
perhaps predictably, Paul Championship [matches]. at Leicester we really tried to Strangely enough England (138-8) by 50 runs dayer against New Zealand
C ollingwoods side exited Under the guidance of Peter minimise those and create a started the tournament well, England (135) lost to Australia the previous winter and eve-
the 2007 World Twenty20 Moores in his first spell in game plan that made us more beating a Zimbabwe team (136-2) by 8 wickets ryone was up in arms, saying I
with their heads bowed. charge of the national team, consistent than most. We had who, in turn, had just caused should never play ODI cricket
W it h a s q u a d th rown England had assembled an some success too because we a seismic upset by putting P W L Pts NRR again, says Tremlett.
together at the last minute and ill-considered squad which reached the first four finals. Australia on their backsides Aus (Q) 2 1 1 2 +0.987 If you went for 40 off four
very little preparation time, reflected the muddled think- in the opening match. Eng (Q) 2 1 1 2 +0.209 overs in T20 cricket it would
England arrived in South ing of the time. Jeremy Snape, A win for England against a Zimbabwe 2 1 1 2 -1.196 be the same you would prob-
Africa not really knowing what Pietersen and Andrew Flin- now a sports chastened Australia in Cape ably never get another match.
to expect from a competition toff were obviously world- psychologist, was Town would have seen their Super Eights Now if you go for 70 off 10 or
that not everyone appeared to wide stars at the time but it in Englands first great rivals heading home at South Africa (154-8) bt England 40 off four then youve done a
be taking entirely seriously. was lucky the players names World T20 squad the first hurdle and Pietersen, (135-7) by 19 runs decent job.
India, for example, arrived were printed on the back of in 2007 for one, was eyeing revenge. New Zealand (164-9) bt He is not wrong. In contrast
without the likes of Sachin their shirts because a global We have a great chance to England (159-8) by 5 runs to the ludicrous feats of hit-
Tendulkar and VVS Laxman, audience might otherwise That sounds like a strategy send Australia home early, India (218-4) bt England ting we can expect this month
while Kevin Pietersen touched have struggled to identify the that England could have done he said. They humiliated us (200-6) by 18 runs in India, the first World T20
down on home soil having likes of Vikram Solanki, James with copying. Unfortunately, throughout last winter and it looked positively tame.
described T20 as being a silly Kirtley, Chris Schofield and they clearly had not paid too would be nice to give them a P W L Pts NRR The highest individual
game with silly shots. Darren Maddy. much attention to events at bit of humiliation in return. India (Q) 3 2 1 4 +0.750 score came from the bat of
The next T20 World Cup Jeremy Snape was hardly a Grace Road. Moving into The Aussies, though, were NZ (Q) 3 2 1 4 +0.050 Chris Gayle (who else), who
starts next week and both household name either but he the England team, I was sur- having none of it and chased S Africa 3 2 1 4 -0.116 smashed 117 off 57 balls for
India and Pietersen have had at least played in a Leices- prised that there was more down Englands paltry score England 3 0 3 0 -0.700 the West Indies against South
clearly changed their view tershire side that could justi- focus and strategic thinking in of 135 in just 14.5 overs. I Africa, but that was the only
since then but KPs descrip- fiably argue to have been the that Leicester side [than with bowled my one over of the century of the entire tourna-
tion reflected the view of most successful T20 side in England], says Snape. tournament and saw it disap- ment. Such was the respect
many players on the county county cricket at the time. At Leicestershire it wasnt pear for 17, says Kirtley. We afforded bowlers at the time,
circuit. We had a strategy at about having three hitters at were never in the game. that Pakistans paceman Umar
Chris Tremlett, a member Leicestershire which was the top of the order, it was Now, of course, there may Gul even managed to record
of that first World T20 squad, really an attempt to control about having a rotator who just be occasions in a modern the astonishing figures of 5 for
THE INDEPENDENT Friday 4 March 2016
6 off three overs against New
Zealand at Durban.
How a young Stuart Broad
must have wished Yuvraj
Singh had afforded him the
same treatment on the same
ground the following week.
I remember fielding at
third man when the first three
balls of his over went for six,
says Tremlett. You just get a
feeling that something incred-
ible is happening and I pretty
much knew his next three
were going to go the same
l 65
Stuart Broad way. Cricinfos ball-by-ball
(above left) commentary captured Broads
casts a rueful mood perfectly as he prepared
smile during to bowl the final delivery of
his battering the over, describing him as
by Indias quizzical and miserable.
Yuvraj Singh, Ultimately, Broads over
who (below) going for six sixes made lit-
consoled tle difference, with Englands
the England interest in the competition hav-
bowler ing long been ended as a result
gett y of defeats against New Zealand
and Pakistan in the Super Eights
stage of the tournament.
What Yuvraj and his com-
patriots did do, though, was
to ignite a flame for T20
that is now burning brighter
than ever. India is now the
heartbeat of world cricket,
says Snape, now a sports psy-
chologist for Premier League
football club Crystal Palace.
India has the IPL and the pas-
sion of millions and millions
of people. With that first IPL
season following soon after,
that first World T20 was really
the perfect preview. India saw
the light and just took the for-
mat and ran with it.
England, meanwhile, were
fumbling around in the dark.
We will find out this month if
they still are.
Crowe: the tortured
genius who admitted
living a life of illusion
Former New Zealand captain loses battle with cancer aged 53
stephen brenkley
cricket correspondent
Martin Crowe, who died yes-
terday at the age of 53 after a
long battle with cancer, was
perhaps the most accom-
plished batsman to come out
of New Zealand. But he was
much more than that. He
was also an innovator, a deep
thinker, an obsessive about
the minutiae of batting, a true
philosopher who agonised
about crickets soul.
Crowe was as easy on the
eye as any great batsman who
ever played, standing upright,
playing delectably straight,
elegant of touch and rigorous
of method. Like all the truly
great players, it looked easy.
It was far from it.
The sense of responsibil-
ity he felt to his team, the
single-minded pursuit of his
own ambition, the craving to
achieve his goals took a heavy
toll on his psyche. Upon retir-
ing after a glittering career,
he came fully to understand
what he had been through and
what he might have put others
through.
In an illuminating inter-
view in 2014 on the CricInfo
website (he wrote frequent
essays for it which were as
stylish as his batting had
been) he reflected on the toll
that his pursuit of perfection
had taken. Asked by the inter-
viewer, the CricInfo editor,
Sambit Bal, whether he had
been selfish, he was wholly
candid.
Yeah, its my second name,
he said. And once that took
hold, this obsession and pur-
suit of goals, everything else
came second family, friends,
it all paled into insignificance.
When I look back now, I just
realise I missed out a lot in my
life and I thought I was pleas-
ing everyone.
I was trying to please my
parents and brother and sis-
ter. And then I was trying to
please society and then the
country, by scoring runs. That
I pretty was my job. To be accepted
and to be liked and loved and
much admired... it wasnt enough. I
knew wanted more. I had to break
every record, and it was all
Stuarts such an illusion. And I lived
next three a life full of illusions.
I told myself that a 150
balls would was going to assure friend-
go for six ship or love, and that it was
going to make me feel good
about myself. Thats when the
Martin Crowe batting
against England in a 0ne-day
international at Old Trafford in
1986 G E T TY
his scoring the runs was as
c la ss o f c row e
c a ree r stati st ic s
Born 22 September 1962,
Henderson, Auckland
Test career
Debut v Australia, Wellington,
February/March 1982
Tests 77 Runs 5,444@45.36
HS 299 100s 17 50s 18
ODI career
Debut v Australia, Auckland,
February 1982
ODIs 143 Runs 4,704@38.55
HS 107* 100s 4 50s 34
torture and torment began. I
didnt understand till about
50 when I had cancer that
I had lived a life of illusion,
of wanting people to like me
through a pursuit. And in the
end, at the age of 50, I hated
myself and thats when it was
about time I started to accept
who I was. So I went on a path
of finding out exactly who
I was. But for all my cricket
career, I was a batsman on a
mission with no clue at all.
Crowe, who died after
suffering from lymphoma,
scored 5,444 Test runs at an
average of 45.36 and another
4,704 in one-day internation-
als at 38.55. The manner of
important as the fact that he
scored them.
As New Zealands captain
he is perhaps best remem-
bered for his role in the 1992
World Cup when he virtually
invented pinch-hitting at the
top of the order and opened
the bowling with a spinner.
New Zealand were a revela-
tion but were beaten by Paki-
stan in the semi-final.
He retired early, worn down
by the games demands, but
continued to be influential. He
helped to devise an entertain-
ing new format, Cricket Max,
a forerunner of Twenty20,
continued to analyse the art of
batting and urged a less com-
bative approach. Crowe was
diagnosed with lymphoma
three years ago but was a
prominent presence at last
years World Cup when New
Zealand reached the final for
the first time.
Obituary P.53
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Sport / Football
f o ot ba l l
in brie f
e u r o pa le ag ue
United move Liverpool
fixture to late kick-off
The second leg of
Manchester Uniteds
Europa League last-16 tie
against Liverpool on 17
March will kick off at the
later time of 8.05pm.
Both United and Trafford
Council had asked Uefa to
consider moving the game
from its original time slot
of 6pm, citing safety fears.
Large crowds are expected
in the city for the St
Patricks Day game.
The first leg at Anfield
next Thursday also kicks off
at 8.05 pm, as scheduled.
eng l and
Hodgsons side to take on
Turkey ahead of Euro finals
England are set to launch
their final Euro 2016
preparations with a game
against Turkey at the Etihad
Stadium on 22 May.
With Roy Hodgsons
squad due to depart for
France in early June ahead
of their group games against
Russia, Wales and Slovakia,
the Football Association
has now secured three
home friendlies. Turkey will
provide the opposition in
Manchester, with Australia
visiting the Stadium of
Light on 27 May before
Portugal complete the build-
up at Wembley on 2 June.
Mark Ogden
wa l es
Coleman set for contract
talks ahead of Euro 2016
Chris Coleman will talk to
the Football Association of
Wales next week to try to
agree a new contract ahead
of Euro 2016 this summer.
The 45-year-old has led
Wales into their first major
international tournament
since 1958, but his contract
expires after Euro 2016.
The former Fulham
manager said: It is not just
about my personal contract
but what we see with the
structure and [what] we
need to do to make sure it is
not a one-off.
s pain
Barcelona set new record
as Messi scores hat-trick
Barcelona set a Spanish
record of 35 matches
unbeaten in all competitions
with a 5-1 win at nine-man
Rayo Vallecano in La Liga
last night, helped by a Lionel
Messi hat-trick. The league
leaders broke Real Madrids
1988-89 undefeated run of
34 games, with Ivan Rakitic
and Arda Turan also scoring.
Toral puts dent
in Hulls hopes
for promotion
Birmingham City 1 switched quickly from one
Toral 14
Hull City 0 a crunching tackle from Tom
jon Culley
at st Andrews
Hull City missed the chance to
return to the top of the Cham-
pionship last night when slip-
ping to defeat at St Andrews,
where Jon Torals decisive
goal boosted Birminghams
play-off chances.
Steve Bruces side will drop
out of the automatic promo-
tion places for the first time
since early January if Mid-
dlesbrough can beat Wolver-
hampton Wanderers tonight.
Anything other than a defeat
would have taken Hull top, at
least until the weekend, but
on-loan Arsenal striker Toral
spoilt the script for Hull.
The goal was the first con-
ceded by Hull in 477 minutes
of football in all competitions.
There was an element of bad
luck from their point of View,
the Spaniards strike deflected
out of goalkeeper Allan
McGregors reach by Curtis
Davies, but some clever skill
by Toral to spin away from
Jake Livermore had earned
him room to shoot.
Moments earlier, only a
determined block by Michael
Dawson had denied Clayton
Donaldson but Hulls response
to going behind was powerful
and direct. Twice in the space
of three minutes they were
almost level, Livermore rock-
ing Tomasz Kuszczaks left-
hand post with a thunderous
shot from 20 yards before
Dawsons header from a free-
kick clipped the top of the bar
when he probably should have
found the net.
But Birminghams surges
forward were equally
Jon Toral, the Spanish forward on loan from Arsenal, scored his
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l Friday 4 March 2016 THE INDEPENDENT
productive as the action
end to the other.
Donaldson was thwarted by
Huddlestone, Sam Clucas
squandered another chance
to put Hull back on terms by
shooting straight at Kuszc-
zak and McGregor stretched
to tip a wonderfully executed
overhead kick by Donaldson
over the bar. Then Toral was
inches away from a second
goal, heading wide from David
Cotterills cross.
Hull dominated posses-
sion in the second half and it
seemed only a matter of time
before Birmingham would
yield to the pressure. A dou-
ble substitution by Bruce after
an hour, when he introduced
Manchester United loanee
Nick Powell and Adama Dio-
mand, only intensified that
pressure. Diomand missed
one clear chance, slicing wide
after Powells chip forward,
then came a strong claim for
a penalty when a shot by Abel
Hernandez clearly struck Paul
Robinsons hand. The referee,
Stephen Martin, waved play
on. Kuszczak then made
three saves in the space of 90
seconds to deny Livermore,
Snodgrass and Clucas.
Birmingham by now were
Local lad who
rarely seen outside their own
half, although on a rare break-
away there was a chance to
extend their lead when Maikel
Kieftenbeld played Cotterill
in, only for the wingers shot
is adding unity
to drift wide. As it is, Torals
goal put Birmingham one
point outside the top six.
Birmingham City (4-2-3-1): Kuszczak;
Caddis, Morrison, Robinson, Grounds;
Gleeson, Kieftenbeld; Cotterill (Davis, 76),
Toral, Maghoma; Donaldson. Substitutes
to Accrington
not used Legzdins (gk), Fabbrini, Solomon-
Otabor, Spector, Buckley, Shotton.
Hull City (4-4-1-1): McGregor; Odubajo
(Elmohamady, 76), Dawson, Davies,
Robertson; Snodgrass, Livermore,
Huddlestone (Powell, 59), Clucas; Diam
(Diomand, 58); Hernandez. Substitutes
not used Jakupovic (gk), Maguire, Maloney,
Hayden.
Referee S Martin (Staffordshire).
The club most famous as a byword for obscurity is at last
making its name as promotion contenders. b ria n Ol i ver
meets Stanleys owner, and biggest supporter, Andy Holt
Talk to anybody involved with promotion in the Football FA Cup run they have not
Accrington Stanley and they League. The towns first club, been to the fourth round since
all say the same thing: This plain Accrington, were origi- 1937 or the players who have
could be our year. Theres a nal members of the Football worn the red shirt. Their
real buzz around the place. League. This is the 48th sea- greatest moment of fame was
And so there should be, son of league football in the in a television advert in the
because Accrington Stanley, town and even bookmakers 1980s, when two young boys
under new ownership, are on are feeling that buzz, because discussed the merits of drink-
the march. Stanley are as short as 11-10 to ing milk. One told the other
Not once has Accrington, go up from League Two. he would end up playing for
whose population has slowly Accrington Stanley are Accrington Stanley if he did
shrunk to 35,000, celebrated famous not for a memorable not keep up his intake.
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Accrington Stanley? Who
are they?
Exactly.
At the time, it was a fair ques-
tion. Stanley whose name is
taken from Stanley Street in
Accrington had gone bust
and out of the league in 1962.
The club that wouldnt die
was reborn six years later and
started the 1980s in the Sec-
ond Division of the Cheshire
County League. While Carl
Rice, who spoke the Who are
they? line, went on to bigger
and better things (Holby City,
Benidorm and Coronation
Street) so did Stanley (North-
West Counties, Northern Pre-
mier, Conference). In 2006,
they won the Conference.
Forty-four years after their
resignation from the Football
League, they were back.
This season has not all
gone smoothly. Their pitch
was unplayable from mid-
November to mid-January,
meaning no gate money,
while they are losing two of
their best players to Rang-
ers without a fee as they will
be out of contract when the
Scottish club complete the
deal. Their home attendances,
despite their form, have been
low, averaging 1,488, partly
because so many weekend
games were switched to mid-
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week. A prime example was
the game against Portsmouth,
frozen off when about 1,000
Pompey fans were already in
town.
They would have prob-
ably brought about 1,800 for
that game, said Stanleys new
owner, Andy Holt. For the
rearranged midweek fixture
[next Tuesday] well be lucky if
its a third of that number. You
put a few hundred on the gate
at Fratton Park and you dont
notice, its like pissing in the
Irish Sea. But for us it makes
a big difference.
Holt is a successful and
popular local businessman
who made his money from
the plastics industry, largely
through making plastic boxes
and bins. His What More UK
company (Wham), started as
sponsors and gave their name
to the stadium, previously the
Crown Ground. Last October,
he took over the club.
Ive been to Old Trafford,
Wembley, but it doesnt
compare to being on the
touchline at Accrington
Left:
Accringtons
Terry Gornell
celebrates a
goal earlier
this season.
Right: (from
left) manager
John
Coleman,
owner Andy
Holt and the
clubs most
famous fan,
David Lloyd
g etty; men
It was needs must, Holt
said. My first game was a
friendly against Burnley and we
were 3-0 up in no time. It was
fantastic. But the club ran out
of beer that day. They hadnt
paid the bills. It soon became
evident the club wasnt paying
players, staff, suppliers. They
needed more support or they
were finished. Holt gave it and
has been rewarded, thanks to
the recruitment and manage-
ment of John Coleman and
his assistant, Jimmy Bell, who
have worked together since
the 1990s and are in their 15th
year at Accrington. Just as eve-
rybody talks about the buzz
they also talk about Stanleys
manager as John and Jimmy,
as if they were one person.
Ive had boxes at Old
Trafford, been to Wembley
to watch the European Cup
final, said Holt, but it doesnt
compare to being close to the
touchline at Accrington. You
hear every kick, every knock.
I love watching the teams John
and Jimmy put out. I dont
want to miss a game. My lad
loves it too.
Since Holt took over, Stan
ley have become much more
businesslike. They have
signed players on long con-
tracts, among them the Irish
right-back Seamus Conneely.
They had never been able to
do that before. Seamus has
been brilliant, absolutely out-
standing, said Coleman.
Holt shies away from tak-
ing the credit for Stanleys
improvement. Former owners
Eric Whalley and Ilyas Khan
plus current chairman Peter
Marsden, a London property
financier, have all contributed
hugely to the clubs survival
as has former director and
avid fan David Lloyd, the ex-
England cricket coach. The
club survived only on the
generosity of a few directors
who kept putting money in,
said Holt.
Some say he has already
put in 2m. Is it true? I
dont know what it is, but its
going on. I prefer to see it as
my community service. Our
staff [at Wham] come from
the town, we are a part of the
town and do a lot of business
here. As a part of local society,
you have to play your part. Its
not because Im mad or think
Ill get the money back but
because I think we can be a
sustainable club thats good
for the community and every-
body around Accrington.
Im humbled by the fact
that people are ringing me
and saying, Put me down for
the board. A local security
company rang up to say theyll
sponsor the back of the shirt
next year and pay now. Crown
Paints [also local] are giving us
the paint to repaint the ground
and a local college will supply
trainee decorators to help
us. It isnt just me, theres a
groundswell of people getting
behind the club. Theres a real
good feeling and it started
with what John and Jimmy
have done on the pitch.
Lloyd played for Stanley in
the Lancashire Combination
in the 1960s, when one of his
friends and team-mates was
Jon Anderson, an Accrington
lad who became lead singer
of Yes and Jon and Vangelis.
Lloyd is a hardcore fan, so
much so that he reeled off
the entire starting XI from
the 1950s, when Stanley came
closest to that elusive first pro-
motion. He even sang the old
club song, On, Stanley on.
Its obvious real improve-
ments are going to happen,
Lloyd said. Andy Holt is a
local bloke, hes done bloody
well and hes respected in
the town. He has a lot of
s ta n le y clout with the local coun-
in stat s cil, which hasnt been the
case before. The manager is
10
This is the clubs
fantastic, absolutely brilliant
the pair of them. They know
the club and theyll be excited
10th consecutive as to where its going because
season they have been farting against
competing in thunder.
League Two Their biggest test is upon
them. Starting at Wimbledon
tomorrow, Stanley have four
5
Months since
games in 11 days, all against
teams challenging for the
play-offs or automatic pro-
Accrington last motion. Three in a row are at
lost a home home: against Portsmouth,
match in all Plymouth and Wycombe.
competitions They need not fear any of
those teams. They went to
second-placed Oxford a fort-
3
Accrington have
night ago and won 2-1 our
single best result since we got
back into the league said the
lost just three supporters club chairman,
of their last Nick Westwell. The winner
11 matches in was scored by Scott Brown,
League Two a free transfer signing from
non-league Grimsby in Janu-
ary and another great example
of Colemans recruiting skills.
Stanley also have to operate
on a restricted wage bill: the
top earners, said chairman
Marsden, are on 800-850
a week and some youngsters
earn only 200 a week.
Recruitment is everything
in management people can
overplay the coaching, said
Coleman. I only want play-
ers who are hungry. A lot of
the lads who dont make it at
Premier League academies
are no good to us, because
theyve been taught a game
theyll never play in the lower
leagues. For them its all tippy-
tappy and nobody gets hurt,
but in League Two its blood
and thunder it matters.
Coleman said Stanley had
been in good form at home
since October and he was
looking forward to the four-
game stretch. This is the run
that will define our season,
he said. Hopefully, we can
secure a place in the play-offs
with a few games to go, then
well see.
That 1980s milk advert did
the club no harm. It helped
to make us what we are, said
Marsden. In our way, we are
as historic as somebody like
Manchester United. We are
the most famous minnow club
in England and, dare I say it,
the world.
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Sport / Football / Premier League
I dont regret
Jonny Evans has just made the
75-minute journey from West
Bromwich Albions training
ground to his Cheshire home
which, on a good day, is noth-
ing more than a 10-minute
leaving United
drive to Manchester Uniteds
base at Carrington.
The M6 between Bir-
mingham and Manchester is
hardly one of the worlds most
rewarding routes, but for the
28-year-old centre-half it
might as well be a road paved
with gold for all the satisfac-
tion it has brought during the
six or so months he has spent
travelling up and down it.
Since leaving United to
complete a 6m transfer to
The Hawthorns last August,
Evans has made 25 appear-
ances for Tony Puliss team in
After almost 10 years at Old Trafford, Jonny Evans was sold last summer by just over six months.
It took the Northern Irish-
Louis van Gaal. The defender tells ma rk ogden that he holds no grudges against man 18 months to make
his final 25 appearances for
the Dutchman, why the move to West Bromwich Albion was the right one for United, so as he sits back and
reflects on his move over tea
his career and how he cannot wait to play in this summers Euro 2016 finals at the kitchen table before
his former clubs visit to The
Hawthorns on Sunday, Evans
has absolutely no qualms
about taking the daily 150-
mile round trip to work.
I have to say, I have really
enjoyed it, Evans says. When
you are out of the team and
not playing regularly, there is
always that question in your
head of When am I going to
play next?
I have enjoyed the feeling
players talk about it all the
time that Saturday feeling
of going out and playing foot-
ball, and that has been one
of the biggest things. I had a
fantastic time at United and
I loved it, but there came a
point when I had to make a
decision. I wanted to play,
wanted to show people what
I could do.
I h ave a m b i t i o n s t o
become as good a centre-half
as I can be and show people
I can be as good a player as I
can be and finish my career
with no regrets.
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Evans is fighting a losing
battle to face United this
weekend, having aggravated
a hamstring injury during the
FA Cup defeat at Reading two
weeks ago. The game comes
almost a year to the day since
the low point of his United
career, when an incident with
the Newcastle United forward
Papiss Ciss at St James Park
led to Evans being suspended
for six games for spitting an
accusation he continues to
deny.
Despite vociferously pro-
testing his innocence, with
the full support of United
and manager Louis van Gaal,
Evans was forced to accept
his ban and any damage to
his reputation it may have
caused. Although the suspen-
sion cost him his place in the
team, Evans does not believe
that the incident cost him his
United career.
Did the ban kill me at
United? No, I dont think
it did, Evans says. The
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Van Gaal is
a fantastic
coach and
I was lucky
to have
worked
with him
Jonny Evans (right) goes up against his former Manchester
United team-mate Wayne Rooney earlier this season g etty
manager obviously made the
decision to let me go but, in the
back of my head, I knew it was
coming. But I had no qualms
about his decision because I
was already looking forward
to a new chapter. I knew it was
coming and I welcomed it, in
a way.
When he called me into
his office at the end of last
season and told me I could
find another club, I just
thought to myself that this is
the time for me to start some-
thing fresh.
And as for the spitting inci-
dent, Evans insists it has been
forgotten about, both by him
and the football community.
I didnt think it [the incident]
would become a problem for
me long term, in terms of
how people would view me
or whether it would be some-
thing that would never go
away, he says.
I think it has gone and I
had forgotten about it myself
until you brought it up! But I
honestly had no thoughts that
it would hang over me or keep
getting dragged up. Those
things get forgotten about in
football, look at Luis Suarez
for example things do get
brushed aside. It will always
be the case and football will
always take over.
I did try to make an effort
to stop spitting on the pitch
at the time, but you cant. It
made me aware of it, but I
havent consciously thought
about it on the pitch. There
are so many things going on
in a game of football that it is
impossible to think what you
are doing all the time.
Van Gaals public support
Jonny Evans of Evans at the time of the
says being Ciss incident was unwaver-
involved ing and the players respect
in West for the Dutchman is clear as
Bromwich he reflects on last summer
Albions fight and the three-month period
to stay in between being told he could
the Premier leave and ultimately complet-
League has ing his move away.
been an While the likes of Victor Val-
eye-opener des and Rafael da Silva were
gett y left behind in Manchester
as United began pre-season
preparations in the United
States, Van Gaal allowed
Evans to travel with the squad
and build his fitness before
any move. And although he
accepts that Van Gaal is a
demanding character, Evans
insists it was a privilege to
work with the former Ajax,
Barcelona, Bayern Munich
and Netherlands coach.
Louis van Gaal is a fantastic
coach and there is a lot of stuff I
really liked under him, Evans
says. I feel fortunate that I
have had the chance to work
with him because I do think
that myself, and every other
player there, will have learned
something from him.
Even though I wasnt play-
ing, I appreciated the stuff he
was doing and I think he gave
me a fair crack of the whip.
Jonny Evans has
been impressed
by Tony Puliss
motivational skills
at West Bromwich
Albion
Whenever I had the chance
to play, I didnt perform to my
best and I didnt believe that
my performances warranted
me getting back in the team. I
can be honest about that. I can
look at myself and analyse my
performances.
I dont think it was a case
of not believing in my ability,
that I couldnt reach those
performances I needed to,
but if I am honest about
that time, maybe I didnt.
But I dont have any regrets
about leaving when I did.
I am fortunate that I have
gone now instead of maybe
two to three years down the
line. It was the right time for
me to go and I am enjoying
myself.
Playing for a team with dif-
ferent objectives and priori-
ties has been a learning expe-
rience, however. It is totally
different at West Brom and it
has been an eye-opener for
me, Evans adds. I have had
spells at international level
when you are playing against
superior teams, so it is a differ-
ent type of game, and that has
helped me.
But here, you have the
other side of it, when you are
looking at avoiding relegation
and having to get the points
for safety as quickly as possi-
ble. Thats what we are aim-
ing for.
Winning games in the
Premier League is such a big
thing, especially for a club like
West Brom, and the feeling
when you achieve that is fan-
tastic. And one thing I would
say about Tony Pulis is that I
have been very impressed by
how he gets his team work-
ing really hard. He is a great
motivator.
Barring an unlikely late-
season collapse, Evans and
West Bromwich will once
again be fighting for Premier
League points next season,
but there will be no summer
off for the Belfast-born
defender.
Having helped Northern
Ireland qualify for a major
tournament for the first time
in 30 years, Evans will form
part of Michael ONeills
squad at Euro 2016 in France,
with a Group C campaign
against Germany, Poland
and Ukraine on the horizon.
And, after winning 10 major
honours with United, he
admits that the prospect of
playing on the big stage with
his country will be the realisa-
tion of a dream.
I can remember having
a conversation with my dad
a couple of years ago and we
were talking about my career,
Evans says. At the outset, I
was fortunate to go on loan to
Sunderland, where we won
promotion by winning the
Championship, so that was a
success for me.
I also won trophies at
United, but my international
career had hit a plateau and I
remember saying that it was
the one area of my career that
I didnt want to end up having
regrets about.
I wanted to be able to walk
away from international foot-
ball having achieved some-
thing and feel part of some-
thing special. So this summer
gives me a carrot to achieve
something. It is a European
Championship, but the whole
world will be watching.
I definitely saw progress
when Michael ONeill took
over. He changed the mental-
ity around the set-up. He had a
meeting at the end of the last
campaign and set out a vision
and he gave us that belief that
we could go on from there.
From that point, I remem-
ber going out of the meeting
thinking, We have a chance,
and we ended up winning the
group. And now we have Ger-
many as our final group game,
in Paris, which is amazing
for us.
It is no surprise that Evans
is smiling all the way down
the motorway.
Allardyce:
I am not a
lawyer, Im
a football
manager
> Continued from P.72
charged press conference, at
which journalists were repeat-
edly instructed to ask ques-
tions about tomorrows match
at Southampton rather than
the trial, which concluded
on Wednesday, the manager
added: Im not comfortable
answering any questions on
Adam Johnson. Im trying
to take some responsibility
on behalf of what has hap-
pened with it to answer some
questions. The difficulty is
that I am not a lawyer, Im a
football manager.
Allardyce conceded it had
been the most difficult period
of his career. Its massive
because weve all know whats
been going on regarding the
outrage from it, he added. All
Ive had to do is try to focus the
players not to be distracted by
the outrage and concentrate
on their football.
Its a hugely difficult situ-
ation to be in and one Ive
never found myself in before
and, quite frankly, wouldnt
like to find myself in again.
From a players point of view,
[I have to] keep them focused
and, obviously, they will have
kept their own eyes peeled on
what theyve heard and what
theyve read. They are all as
disappointed as we are.
Allardyce, who took over at
the Stadium of Light in Sep-
tember, was asked if he would
have played Johnson if he had
known about the documents.
Its a hypothetical question
and I dont answer hypotheti-
cal questions, he said.
The Sunderland chief exec-
utive, Margaret Byrne, who it
was claimed in court had seen
the documents regarding the
messages between Johnson
and the 15-year-old girl, has
still to speak on the matter.
A club statement insisted
that they did not know the
player was going to plead
guilty until he did so.
Sunderland criticised, P.17
Sam
Allardyce
(right) said
the Adam
Johnson
case had
caused the
most difficult
period of his
career
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Sport / Football / Premier League
Predicting the
unpredictable:
why Leicester
will win the
league...maybe
There are surprises around every corner in this incredible
season so, of course, we asked mark ogden to tell us how it
will pan out. Here, he attempts the seemingly impossible...
LEICESTER Lack of injuries
will help them cross line
It appeared to be the stuff
of fantasy: Claudio Ranieri
returning to Chelsea for the
first time as an opposing Pre-
mier League manager on the
final day of the season, wav-
ing to Roman Abramovich in
his private box at Stamford
Bridge with a title winners
medal around his neck and
the trophy in his hands.
It was thought that if any-
one was going to have a title
party at the end of the season
at Chelsea, it certainly was not
going to be the man who was
unceremoniously sacked by
Abramovich in 2004 to make
way for Jose Mourinho. How
times change.
Having fought out a 2-2
draw with their Midlands
neighbours West Bromwich
at the King Power Stadium on
Tuesday, Leicester seemed to
have handed the impetus back
to Tottenham, Arsenal and
Manchester City in this most
unpredictable of title races. But
with all three losing on Wednes-
day, Leicesters two dropped
points against Tony Puliss team
became a point gained, with the
Foxes stretching their lead at the
top to three points from Spurs.
So can they now hold their
nerve and see out the most
remarkable championship
success since Brian Cloughs
Nottingham Forest became
First Division champions a
year after promotion in 1978?
Consistency will be the key
for Leicester both in terms
of selection and performance.
Ranieri, for so long derided as
the Tinkerman at Chelsea, has
relied on a small group of play-
ers this season, with his start-
ing XI often the easiest to pre-
dict in the Premier League.
You know that, if fit, Wes
Morgan and Robert Huth will
shield Kasper Schmeichels
goal in the central defence,
with Danny Drinkwater and
NGolo Kant securing the
midfield. Kant missed the
le icest er hitt ing new highs o n and off the pitch
Leicester Citys remarkable
success on the pitch this season
has been matched by their
financial rise off it, although
the clubs record pre-tax profit
was recorded last season, when
the Foxes avoided relegation
from the Premier League after
a dire campaign all the way up
to April.
The club yesterday
announced annual pre-tax
profits of 26.4m, compared
with a 20.8m loss in 2013-14.
Revenue rose more than three
West Bromwich game through
injury and will not play against
Watford tomorrow but will
return after that. They have
few other injuries and full-back
Danny Simpson is back from
suspension. Marc Albrighton,
rejected by Aston Villa, has
grown in stature down the
left flank, while Riyad Mah-
rez and Jamie Vardy have led
the way with goals and stardust
up front. Leicester are resolute
and displayed no sign of the jit-
ters against West Bromwich.
And with a trip to Manches-
ter United in May appearing to
be the toughest game in a soft
run-in, it is time for Ranieri to
start planning his celebrations
at Stamford Bridge.
times to 104.4m from 31.2m are strength and character in
the previous year. The club,
who are now three points
clear at the top of the Premier
League with 10 games to play,
invested an additional 25m in
the recruitment of players after
they tied down several others
to long-term contracts, which
led to a 20.7m increase in
staff costs to 57m.
Their average attendance
also rose from 25,003 to 31,693
in their first season in the top
flight for a decade.
l Friday 4 March 2016 THE INDEPENDENT
CITY LIMITS?
MARK OGDEN PREDICTS HOW THE TITLE RACE WILL UNFOLD
POINTS
THE TOP SIX
LEICESTER West Ham (H) - W
TOTTENHAM
ARSENAL
MAN CITY Sunderland (A) - W
MAN UTD Stoke (A) - W
WEST HAM
Southampton (H) - D
C Palace (A) - W Man Utd (H) - D
C Palace (H) - W
Bournemouth (H) - W
Liverpool (A) - L
West Brom (H) - W
Newcastle (H) - W
West Ham (A) - W
Aston Villa (A) - W Bournemouth (A) - W
Watford (A) - D
Watford (H) - W
Arsenal (H) - W Newcastle (A) * W Man Utd (H) - D
West Brom (H) - W
Everton (H) - W
Everton (A) - L
Norwich (A) - W
Watford (H) * D
Tottenham (A) - L Arsenal (H) - L
Man Utd (H)* - W
Tottenham (A) - D Leicester (A) L
Aston Villa (H) - W
Crystal Palace (H) * - D Man City (A) - D
West Brom (A) - D West Ham (A) * L
Chelsea (A) - L
Everton (A) - D
PRESENT
POSITION GAMEWEEK
TOTTENHAM Despite class, although the defeat at West
will just come up short Ham denied them top spot,
they do not appear to lack for
Just as Tottenham prepared character either.
to travel to West Ham on And they will require that in
Wednesday, seeking the vic- large amounts during a run-in
tory that would have taken where they host Arsenal and
them to the top of the table Manchester United, with a
on goal difference, we were trip to their bogey ground of
reminded that the White Hart Stamford Bridge also on the
Lane club had never actu- schedule. Visiting Liverpool
ally been top of the Premier will be another test. But, by
League beyond the month of winning at Manchester City
September. recently, Spurs have proved
Thats right. In almost a their ability to beat their big-
quarter of a century since Dele Alli has been superb for gest rivals and they will push
the Premier League began, Spurs this season but his foot Leicester all the way.
Tottenhams time at the top injury is a worry They must just fall short,
has only ever coincided with though.
the dying days of the summer,
before the hard yards of autumn ARSENAL Same old, same
and winter begin to test body old as Gunners blow it
and mind. But this is a different
Tottenham team that Mauricio So, here we go again. Spring is
Pochettino has built and there in the air and the Arsenal title
bandwagon begins to splutter
every key position. and choke before capitulating
For a title-winning team, as less fancied rivals go past on
they tick every box. Hugo the outside.
Lloris is a world-class goal- In a year when Chelsea
keeper, Toby Alderweireld are threatening to mount
has been a rock at centre-half, the worst title defence since
Eric Dier and Dele Alli have Leeds United in 1992-93, one
been star turns in midfield, when Manchester United and
although the latters foot injury Manchester City have also
is a concern, while Christian underperformed and Liver-
Eriksen consistently creates pool have gone through the
for Harry Kane. trauma of managerial change,
Tottenham will not lack Arsenal should have coasted
for quality this season and, to their first Championship
 THE INDEPENDENT Friday 4 March 2016
Swansea (H) - W Man Utd (A) - L
West Brom (H) - W Chelsea (A) - L
Norwich (H) - W
Sunderland (A) - W
Chelsea (A) - D
Aston Villa (H) - W
Crystal Palace (H) - W
since 2004.
But losing to Louis van
Gaals untried youngsters
at United at the weekend,
followed by the unexpected
defeat at home to Swansea
City on Wednesday, has
ensured that the storm clouds
have returned to the Emirates
Stadium and they show little
sign of moving away.
The big question now is
whether the turbulence will
lead all the way to Arsne
Wenger losing his job in the
summer as a result of Arsenal
missing the biggest possible
tap-in in terms of ending their
wait for the title.
How has it all gone so hor-
ribly wrong? Injuries have
cursed Arsenal all season
again with the likes of Jack
Wilshire and Danny Welbeck
missing virtually all of the
campaign. Even goalkeeper
Petr Cech has now fallen by
the wayside, pulling a groin
while racing back from a vain
last-minute effort to score
from a corner against Swan-
sea.
Cech has been a huge asset
since arriving from Chelsea,
providing the goalkeeping
certainty that Arsenal have
lacked for too long, but the
reality is that those in front of
him have failed to do their jobs
to the same extent.
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Everton (H) - D Chelsea (A) L
Newcastle (A) W
Swansea (A) - D
Southampton (A) - W
Southampton (H) - D Aston Villa (H) W
Arsenal (H) - W
Man City (A) - L
Stoke (H) - W
Bournemouth (H) - W
Norwich (A) - D
Leicester (H) - W Swansea (H) - W Stoke (A) - L
West Brom (A) - W
MAN CITY
GAME IN HAND
*Fixture date to be confirmed
However, Arsenal are by no
means dead and buried in the
title race. Aside from the trips
to Spurs, West Ham and Man-
chester City, their remaining
fixtures look reasonably stress
free, but are Arsenal able to
win when they should, as well
as when the odds are against
them?
New season, same old ques-
tion, but the time has now
come for the likes of Mesut
zil and Alexis Sanchez to
deliver when it matters.
The problem is, nobody will
really expect them to do so.
MAN CITY Talent is there
but theres too much to do
As City look ahead to welcom-
ing Pep Guardiola as their
manager in the summer, there
is still no sense of certainty
at the Etihad Stadium as to
whether the Bayern Munich
coach will be inheriting a team
of champions or one prepar-
ing for a Europa League cam-
paign next season.
City possess the squad and
nous to slip into cruise control
and race past Arsenal, Spurs
and Leicester to claim the title
before the end of the season.
After all, their two Premier
League titles in 2012 and
2014 have been won from a
chasing position.
Riyad Mahrez
could be
celebrating
in May
But, for too long now,
Manuel Pellegrinis players
have picked their games and
they have discovered this sea-
son that they can no longer
get away with turning up one
week but not the next.
So, with a game in hand, can
they close a 10-point gap on
Leicester to win the title, or
will they be reeled in by Man-
chester United, or even West
Ham, and slip out of the top
four altogether?
City do have an appealing
run-in. United and Arsenal
must visit the Etihad and you
would expect Pellegrinis big-
game players to turn up for
the match against Chelsea
at Stamford Bridge next
month.
A run deep into the lat-
ter stages of the Champions
League could prove a distrac-
tion and leave City having to
prioritise continental glory.
But the advantage that City
have over all of their rivals is
the knowledge of how to han-
dle the stresses and strains of
Away
fixtures at
the run-in. Throw in the goals
of Sergio Aguero, Vincent
City, Spurs Kompanys leadership and the
flair of David Silva and City
and West
Ham will
cannot be ruled out.
But the feeling here is
that this squad has run its
test United race already and there is not
enough left in the tank.
to the limit MAN UTD Title out of reach
and sos Champions League
Nobody will look back on the
2015-16 season at Old Trafford
with any fondness, yet it could
still end with Louis van Gaals
team securing a top-four spot
and perhaps even better.
Can United win the title?
With a 10-point gap to bridge,
it appears highly unlikely, but
momentum is everything and
they are now beginning to find
some, with confidence lifted
by four successive victories in
all competitions.
The youthful exuberance of
Marcus Rashford has served
United well in recent games,
but if Van Gaals team are to
salvage a top-four spot from
a season lacking in entertain-
ment, their big players must
return to fitness quickly and
justify their lofty reputations.
Wayne Rooney faces another
three to four weeks out, which
is a big blow, while Michael
Carrick and Bastian Schwein-
steiger continue to be com-
promised by injuries.
United also face a tough
run-in. Away fixtures against
Manchester City, West Ham
and Tottenham will test them
to the limit, home games
against Everton and Leicester
are likely to be awkward.
At this juncture, securing
a top-four spot is on Uniteds
horizon... but they will have to
settle for more Thursday night
football next year.
WEST HAM Sixth the
summit for happy Hammers
It is too much to expect West
Ham to mount a title challenge,
surely, but can they really move
into the Olympic Stadium this
summer with a Champions
League campaign to look for-
ward to next season?
Slaven Bilics team have now
proved that their early-season
victories at Arsenal, Manches-
ter City and Liverpool were no
fluke and that they are a force
to be reckoned with. Dimitri
Dimitri Payet Payets performances have
has been been the thread that has run
the key to through West Hams impres-
West Hams sive season and the 1-0 win
wonderful against Spurs has given the
season club the belief that the top
four can be reached.
Fixtures against Leicester,
Arsenal and United are likely
to be key to West Hams hopes,
but two of those are at Upton
Park and, with the gates soon
to close for good at the clubs
home, no visiting team can
expect an easy ride amid the
emotion. However, sixth will
be the ceiling in an impressive
campaign.
It was not
nerves, it
was not the
pressure of
going top
> Continued from P.72
has not scored against Pre-
mier League opposition since
October, a run of nine starts
and one substitute appear-
ance.
He hit the woodwork twice
on Wednesday, holding his
head in his hands in disbelief
after the second occasion.
Olivier Giroud, who also
hit the bar, has not scored in
10 appearances in all compe-
titions, eight of them starts,
and manager Arsne Wenger
admitted after the defeat to
Swansea that the players may
be lacking confidence.
Pochettino was not neces-
sarily spouting platitudes.
Tottenhams last league
defeat, at home to Leicester
in January, was followed by
seven wins in all competi-
tions.
Upton Park was only their
fourth defeat in 28 matches,
18 of them won. Given West
Hams own form, Spurs still
have every reason to be con-
fident.
The difference is that
Wednesday was the first
time this season when a vic-
Mauricio
Pochettino,
the Tottenham
manager, said his
side were unlucky
against West Ham
tory would have taken them to
the top of the Premier League,
but his team did not freeze,
insisted Pochettino.
It was not nerves, it was
not the pressure to be at the
top [of the table], he said.
Our players are confident. It
is difficult to play every game
with the intensity and level
we normally play.
Having watched the match
again yesterday morning and
analysed it, he said he was
much happier than at the time.
I think the level was good and
we were unlucky not to score.
Maybe we lacked sharpness
but the second half was good,
we controlled the game, we
made chances.
It was only one game,
an exception. Sometimes it
We play happens. Theyre not robots.
They are not machines. We
a lot of play a lot of games and some-
games times its difficult to keep the
same level.
and it is Pochettino added that
difficult to Mousa Dembl may be fit
to return and Dele Alli to
keep the start, but it was too early to
same level say. Arsenal will be with-
out Petr Cech and Laurent
Koscielny.
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football editor
There were contrasting
responses to defeat from
North Londons title-chas-
ing clubs yesterday as they
prepared to face each other
tomorrow. Sometimes it hap-
pens. Theyre not robots. They
are not machines, said Mauri-
cio Pochettino of Tottenhams
loss at West Ham United.
We lack a certain hunger,
said Alexis Sanchez of Arse-
nals more unexpected home
reverse to Swansea City.
The Argentine managers
response was a stock reply in
these circumstances, not so
the Chileans verdict.
It may be that Sanchez,
who is struggling to regain his
form after being absent with
a hamstring injury, is looking
for a reaction, as much from
himself than his team-mates,
with a few home truths. At
last, perhaps, this is the lead-
ership Arsenal fans have been
craving.
Sanchez, speaking to to
Directtv Sports, said: I think
we can win the league with the
players we have but we lack a
certain hunger. We need to
step out on to the pitch as if
were already 1-0 up.
He added, of the 3-0 win
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p.61
over Manchester United in
October: The lads looked
hungry for silverware as we
took to the pitch. We crushed
them in the first 20 minutes
and went 3-0 up. We were
hungry and brimming with
confidence that day. Sanchez
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p.66
Allardyce
pleads
ignorance
over guilty
Johnson
martin hardy
Sam Allardyce said last night
he was completely unaware
that, according to a court hear-
ing, a Sunderland official had
been shown documents that
pointed towards Adam John-
sons guilt in May last year and
the manager also admitted that
he was revulsed by the players
child sex convictions.
Allardyce spoke publicly
for the first time since John-
son was found guilty of one
charge of sexual activity with
a child, for which he faces up
to 10 years in prison.
The 28-year-old former
England winger was first
arrested 12 months ago and
suspended by Sunderland, but
returned to play 28 times and
score two goals, despite the
charge hanging over him.
Sunderland have faced
widespread criticism for using
the player but Allardyce, when
asked if he knew there were
documents that have allegedly
been seen by the club which
pointed to the players guilt,
said: No. Im the manager,
why would I know that?
Adam, as far as I know,
pleaded not guilty from the
day I arrived. Based on that
we let him train and play for
us. All of us were stunned
and shocked the day before
when I heard the [players]
guilty plea. I was sat at home
and it came on the news. I was
gobsmacked.
He was asked if he was
revulsed by the players
actions. Absolutely, he
replied. You know its not nice
to know that youve worked
with a player, and hes ended
up being found guilty of that
offence. Like I said, we have
no sympathy for him. All our
sympathies lie with the victim
and her family. He has to take
whatever sentence he gets on
the chin and we have to move
on as a football club.
I n wh a t wa s a h i g h ly
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