The Guardian 09.11.2012
The Guardian 09.11.2012
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This Mornings Phillip Schoeld hands David Cameron a list of names of Conservative politicians who have been allegedly linked online to the sexual abuse of children
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Candidates for one of Wall Streets most prestigious and best-rewarded cliques are being whittled down, writes Jill Treanor
he phone call lasts just a few seconds. The words congratulations, youve become a partner, are just about all Lloyd Blankfein, the boss of Goldman Sachs, will have time to say to the 85 or so bank high-yers he will ring next Wednesday to invite into one of the most prestigious and lucrative cliques on Wall Street. It is a day of huge expectation for individuals spanning time zones from Sydney to New York who are waiting to hear that they have been given a role for which there is no job advert and no interview.
The whittling down of the candidates is under way this week in Goldman Sachss head oce in New York. Stretching across several days, a team of partners led by London-based Michael Woody Sherwood are deciding upon whom to bestow the glittering title of Goldman Sachs partner. The decision comes at the end of a thorough, secretive and sometimes brutal decision-making process that happens only every two years. This years deliberations began in the summer and include the selection of managing directors, one rung below partnership. With the title of partner comes prestige that is, arguably, unrivalled in the nancial world. It also brings vast
wealth in the form of a partnership bonus pool that pays out millions of dollars each year. And it opens the door to high-prole career moves: former US Treasury secretary Hank Paulson was in the golden circle, as was one-time BBC chairman Gavyn Davies. Annual payouts can reach tens of millions of dollars each on top of annual salaries which are thought to start at almost $1m. Blankfein, for instance, took home more than $16m last year, according to Forbes, but received $68.5m (43m) in 2007. To be selected, candidates will have survived a process known as crossContinued on page 35
This charming man Former oil trader will be made Archbishop y y of Canterbury today
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ndrew Mitchell, the government chief whip before Gategate, was speaking for the rst time in the Commons since he resigned. Meanwhile on ITVs This Morning, the prime minister was explaining why Mitchell had been kept in place for four weeks after the bike incident, whereas Nadine Dorries of Im A Celebrity was red from the party before shed even eaten a snakes testicle. Cameron explained that the two cases were entirely dierent. You can say that again. For a start there were no pictures in yesterdays papers of Andrew Mitchell having suncream rubbed in his back while lying topless on a lounger. Nor, come to that, was there any explanation of why the Tory whips are acting as pub-
licists for a agging TV programme. On This Morning, Phillip Schoeld handed the prime minister a piece of paper containing he said the names of alleged paedophiles now circulating on the internet. Cameron declined to look at it, and said that a witch-hunt was not a good idea. He was right. You should never believe anything you read on the internet, especially any post that begins: it is well known that Mitchell is the former international aid secretary and he was appearing at the select committee to explain why he had reversed his decision to postpone aid to Rwanda hours before being moved from the job to become chief whip in the rst place. About 8m was involved, and the committee was suspicious though it couldnt quite work out why. They were far too polite to bring up the contretemps with a policeman at the
gates of Downing Street, when Mitchell lost his rag because the ocer wouldnt open the gates to let him and his bicycle through. (This is not a Boris bike these are presumably banned in Downing Street, for the time being at least.) Would Mitchell back-pedal? No. We got just a glimpse of the testiness which lies not far underneath his skin. It turned out that, having decided to postpone Rwandas aid because Rwandan ministers were supporting M23, a vile bunch of killers and rapists operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he had changed his mind and bunged the money over. And he changed it hours before he quit the job, rather than leaving the decision to his successor. The committee wanted to know what was going on. Mitchell got, so to speak, his trousers caught in the chain. The press had sug-
gested that a rogue minister had been signing cheques under the bedclothes and sending them out. That is an insult to ministers, and I take great oence. And it is an insult to the civil servants who would never let a minister behave in that way! Basically, the Rwandans were the most decent, high-minded and honest legislators in all of Africa, except the ones who are helping the murderous rapists. Labour MPs in particular pressed him. We had the spectacle of Labour demanding explanations from Tories for handing out money to poor people. Mitchell shut them up with a fanfare of expertise. He rattled o statistics, reports, facts and gures until the committee began to reel under the overload. By the end, he was freewheeling home.
Kashmir Uppal (centre) with some of the women who are taking legal action against breast cancer specialist Ian Paterson
have told the Guardian they have discovered that Paterson miscoded their procedures submitting claims to insurance companies for more expensive procedures than those which he had performed. A spokesman for the trust said in a statement that it had been alerted to concerns about Paterson in 2007, and had put in place a review of breast surgery services at the hospital. This review identied that a surgical technique for mastectomies used by one of its consultants, Mr Ian Paterson, required closer scrutiny to establish whether it represented best practice, he said. An external review highlighted that this was not a usual procedure and that Ian Paterson is said to be co-operating with the GMC inquiry after being accused of carrying out unnecessary operations
Mr Paterson had not followed guidelines to introduce a new technique. This trusts position, after careful consideration, was that the technique was not an approach considered appropriate going forward, and the method was therefore stopped. The trust had recalled more than 550 patients who had undergone a mastectomy. Thompsons Solicitors, who are representing almost 100 of the aected patients, said the surgeon also allegedly performed unconventional cleavage-sparing mastectomies on 700 women, despite the procedure not being sanctioned in the UK as it could lead to a return of cancer. Up to 450 women could have had invasive breast surgery when a biopsy might have been sucient, it is alleged. Kashmir Uppal, a senior medical negligence solicitor at Thompsons, said : The women who have come forward so far have been very brave. Hopefully, all who have had unnecessary or inappropriate treatment will seek reassurance or
justice. Paterson was suspended by the GMC last month and was excluded from the trust in 2011 due to ongoing concerns among ocials. He is expected to face a full tness-to-practise hearing next year. Dr Aresh Anwar, medical director for Solihull hospital, said it had invited all of Patersons patients who had had a mastectomy to see an alternative surgeon for a review of their treatment. We are keen to hear from any patient who may have concerns or further questions and have set up a helpline to ensure that these can be addressed quickly. We are committed to ensuring that whatever learning is needed from these complex events is achieved and shared widely and are currently planning an independent review which we will publish in full. In a statement issued on behalf of Paterson, the Medical Defence Union said he was co-operating fully with the GMC investigation. It said: He cannot comment further due to his duty of patient condentiality and the ongoing investigation.
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If Wiggins can get hit Safety campaigners fear eect of Tour de France winners crash
Cycling star and his coach hurt in separate accidents Activists insist sports benets outweigh risks
Helen Pidd
Shane Sutton cant remember what happened yesterday morning. All he knows is that he had headed out for his usual spin before going to the velodrome in Manchester, where he is head coach for the GB Cycling Team. He likes to get a few hours in on the bike before work. But as for what happened when he rode along the Stockport Road, the A6, near to the junction with Clare Road in Levenshulme just after 8.55am? Nothing. All he knows is that when he came to, he was en route to Hope hospital. Doctors would later tell the 54-year-old Australian he had suffered concussion and a small bleed on the brain. His condition soon stabilised, but he was lucky to be alive. The 61-year-old driver of the Peugeot which hit him was not hurt and has not been arrested. It was horrible timing. The night before, Sutton had been elding calls from journalists anxious for updates on another bike accident involving one of his most famous charges. Bradley Wiggins, the winner of this years Tour de France and multiple Olympic gold medal winner, had been knocked o his mountain bike by a Vauxhall Astra van coming out of a petrol station near his home in Eccleston, near Chorley in Lancashire. He was taken to hospital with bruises to his right hand and ribs. The driver, again, was ne: if horried to be told by police exactly who shed hurt. The crashes made national news bulletins. Phone-in shows stopped talking about the US elections and turned their attention to cycle safety. Newsround, the BBCs childrens programme, asked its viewers whether they felt safe on their bikes. No, said many. Although it helps you to keep fit, I think riding a bike on roads is dangerous and unsafe because vehicles may not be able to see you, said Gabrielle, from Durham. Cycling campaigners listened in horror. After Britains triumphs at the Olympics and the Tour, hopes were high that more Britons would get o the sofa and on to the saddle. Could these two high prole accidents undo all that good work? With accidents like this there is always the concern that the publicity will put people o cycling and make them think it is more dangerous than it is, said Chris Peck, policy co-ordinator for the CTC, the national cyclists organisation. We know there is an overinated fear of cycling, yet studies show that the health benets outweigh the risks by 20 to 1. British Cycling, the national governing body for cycling, which pays Suttons wages, was at pains to point out that cycling is not an intrinsically dangerous activity. A spokesperson said: It is extremely rare that our riders and coaches are hurt while out cycling on the road, even rarer that two incidents should occur in a short space of time, and we wish Shane and Bradley a speedy recovery. But Peck said he was not surprised that Wiggins was hit on a major rural road. Cyclists are disproportionately likely to be hit on these roads, he said. A study showed there are 170 cyclist deaths per billion kilometres cycled on major rural roads, but only eight per billion kilometres on minor urban roads. The latter rate is the same as in the bicycling nirvanas of the Netherlands or Denmark, he added. It is unclear yet whether anyone will be charged in connection with the two crashes. But a Department for Transport (DfT) analysis of cyclists injuries found that two-thirds of crashes involving adult cyclists were deemed by police to be the fault of drivers, with just one in ve blamed solely on the cyclist. Crashes like this are far too common and the reaction from drivers familiar - Sorry mate, I didnt see you, said Peck. Its time for the police to start treating incidents of bad driving seriously and for courts to keep bad drivers o the streets. There was a 16% increase in the number of serious injuries to cyclists last year, while cycling levels only rose by 1-2%, suggesting the risk of being injured while cycling rose. According to the DfT, 10% of adults in England now cycle at least once
Shane Sutton and Bradley Wiggins chat during the 2010 Tour de France. Both men were injured on their bikes in the space of 24 hours Photograph: Bryn Lennon/Getty
per week. This gure varies signicantly by area, from more than 50% to less than 5%. So far this year, 104 cyclists have been killed in Britain; the total for 2011 was 107. Some believe the deterioration in trafc policing may be in part responsible for worsening accident rates. Figures obtained by CTC show there has been a 22% reduction in trac police in Lancashire over the past 10 years, with just 155 trac police covering 4,303 miles of road. But there is evidence the government has started to take cycle safety more seriously. Earlier this week, the all-party parliamentary group on cycling ocially launched an inquiry into how to get Britain cycling. The inquiry will see experts and organisations give evidence across a broad range of issues highlighting the barriers to cycling and cyclings benets before a written report is published in April 2013. Yet cycling organisations believe more needs to be done to improve conditions for cyclists on the roads. British Cycling is calling on the government to put cycling at the heart of transport policy to ensure that cycle safety is built into the design of all new roads, junctions and trans-
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The rise in the number of serious injuries to cyclists last year. Cycling levels rose by just 1-2% in the same period
port projects, said the British Cycling spokesperson. Wishing Wiggins and Sutton well yesterday, the road safety minister Stephen Hammond said: The government is fully committed to encouraging cycling and improving safety and recently launched the rst THINK! cyclist campaign. We have also invested 30m to tackle dangerous junctions for cyclists and are giving more than 1bn to councils to design solutions appropriate to their local transport challenges, including improving their road infrastructure to encourage cycling. The vast majority of projects funded by the 600m Local Sustainable Transport Fund also contain a cycling element. Yet not all MPs are so enlightened. When then Tory transport minister Theresa Villiers was knocked o her bike this year, Tom Harris, now shadow environment minister, oered the following bon mot: I trust that when she returns to her duties after that speedy recovery, she will use her ministerial car rather more often and her push bike rather less often. Carlton Reid, page 40
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David Cameron said he wanted to get to the truth quickly over abuse claims at childrens homes in north Wales including Bryn Estyn, above Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
You know the names on that paper, will you speak to them?
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abuse at childrens homes in north Wales triggered two separate inquiries this week. They are the latest in a number of inquiries set up over recent weeks after a slew of historic child sex abuse allegations involving the BBC, care homes and Whitehall surfaced, beginning with revelations about the BBC presenter Jimmy Savile. The home secretary, Theresa May, announced on Tuesday that the incoming director general of the new National Crime Agency, Keith Bristow, would head a team looking at how North Wales police investigated allegations of child abuse in the 1970s and 1980s, amid claims that they failed to take complaints seriously. A high court judge, Mrs Justice Julia Wendy Macur, would examine the scope and conduct of the previous Waterhouse inquiry into the abuse. One of the main issues will be why 28 alleged abusers, including an inuential
ally of Lady Thatcher, were identified during the inquiry but had their names protected. The former childrens minister Tim Loughton used an open letter to the prime minister yesterday to urge him to launch a single, wide-ranging judicial inquiry into child abuse for fear of drowning in separate inquiries, which now run to double figures. The Conservative MP for East Worthing and Shoreham, who served as childrens minister for two years, said it was time to set up an overarching inquiry into what went wrong across a whole range of institutions. Cameron said he was interested in getting the information in the quickest way possible. He told This Morning: The real question is would that help us get to the truth quickly. The idea that if you had one mega-inquiry that you would speed everything up Im not sure its true. I dont rule out taking further steps. I want the government to be absolutely on top of this. I dont want anything to be covered up, I dont want any information held back. If there are more things we have to do, we will do them. But we always have to remember its very easy for governments to stand up and say: Heres a new inquiry. What we have got to do is get to the truth as fast as we possibly can.
Detectives said that the arrests are not part of the investigation into Savile, being led by the Met police
sexual abuse, his evidence was inconclusive about any member of the X family. He left open the possibility that Messham might have been wrongly told by a third party that a McAlpine was involved, or have jumped to conclusions. Messham did not respond on Wednesday or yesterday to requests to comment on the questions raised over his allegation. Rumours about one or other member of the McAlpine family have accumulated over the years because of a controversial decision by Waterhouse that he would ban publication during the hearings of the names of alleged, but unproven abusers. This attempt at secrecy left the eld open for gossip and allegations of a cover-up. But, crucially, Messhams 1997 evidence to Waterhouse should have ruled out speculation about Lord McAlpine, whose Italian home has been mobbed by reporters for the past week. Reporters covering the inquiry at the time concluded that Messham could not be referring to Lord McAlpine because Messham said his abuser was dead. In another apparent discrepancy, the Times reported this week that their reporter put Lord McAlpines name to Messham in 1996. But he said that his abuser was called Tom and had a at in Wrexham. The only apparent corroborative evidence about Lord McAlpine has also been undermined. It came from another boy who was not a Bryn Estyn inmate. He described being abused in Wrexham ve years later by a wealthy gure with a Harrods charge card. Traced by the Guardian, this victim, who wants to remain anonymous, conrms that his sole knowledge of Lord McAlpine comes from being shown a photograph of him subsequently by a journalist. The victim told the Waterhouse inquiry, under the name Witness C that he was no longer sure he had identied the right man. Waterhouse reported: C had subsequently indicated that he could not be 100% sure that his abuser was a member of the X [McAlpine] family, and it is clear that he was referring to a dierent person. A BBC spokesman said the Newsnight investigation set out to explore alleged failures in a child abuse inquiry. An abuse victim had serious allegations to make and deserved to be heard. We broadcast as much information as we had but made clear we did not have enough evidence to name new individuals.
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Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man 2, one of the lms studied Photograph: Franois Duhamel AP/Paramount
How charm and fresh thinking put bishop on fast track to Canterbury
Andrew Brown Lizzy Davies
here are not many Old Etonians who think that the biggest problems facing County Durham are loan sharking and its consequent evils and very high youth unemployment. There are not many oil company executives who would say that the pay of many of our top executives in big 100 companies in the UK is outrageous and even obscene we need to get to the point where there is a general recognition that being paid vast multiples of other peoples pay is not acceptable in a society that wishes to be happy and stable. Yet Justin Welby, the Old Etonian former oil trader who is to be the next archbishop of Canterbury, said all this and more in an interview with a fellow bishop in The Living Church, an American magazine, earlier this year. The headline facts about his biography may be very misleading. The second most notable thing about Justin Welby is that no one in a very divided church has gone around badmouthing him. There were other candidates who like him have no enemies, but none who have no critics, and the others who have no enemies were widely thought to be too dull or just too sane to take the job. Welby, however, has praise from all corners of the church and he carries the promise of being able to talk as if the Church of England doesnt matter very much. That may seem like an odd qualication to be archbishop of Canterbury, but it may be the essential one today. The temptation for any archbishop is to suppose he is a terribly important gure. The job will expose him to continual attacks, but will also constantly stroke and inate his vanity. The gap between pretension and reality is one into which far too many bishops and archbishops simply disappear. Welby appears to be grounded by a rather Etonian appreciation of the brutal realities of power. We could send him as an emissary to Nigeria and know that if he was needed to grovel, he could grovel, says Viv Faull, the incoming dean of York, who worked closely with him in Coventry, where he started his church career, and later when he was dean of Liverpool and she was dean of Leicester. He joined the English Cathedral Executives, which I chair. He was utterly supportive, enthusiastic in enabling me to do my job. Everyone in Coventry has said how eective he is. He has a disarming selfdeprecation; he is always assuming the best of other people. Then she added: I dont know how easy it is to know the real Justin Welby. This was something that many of the people the Guardian talked to said. It may not matter very much in the long run, because whoever the real Justin Welby may be today, the job will change him. Many people thought they knew the real Rowan Williams before he took oce, and perhaps they did, but they were to be disappointed by the man he became under the pressure of events. It is not a job in which it is easy to have friends. The great drawback to his candidacy was the very short time less than a year he has spent as a bishop. He was appointed to Durham in 2011, and only enthroned on 26 November. In recent years the Church of England has had a much more conventional career structure, in which candidates for promotion are expected to have done all the right jobs before they get there. Even his leap from dean of Liverpool, an important job but not noticeably glamorous, to Durham, where the prince bishops had their own private armies until 1836, was remarkable. In his short time in Durham he made a great and very favourable impression. Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, a church historian who is also one of the leading liberal voices for womens causes, says people in Durham will be gutted to lose him. Weve only had him for just under a year; hes already turned it around. The
course was not happy to see him go but I understood fully the reasons. I think I knew he had faith, but he didnt push it in your face at all. I do remember that when the investment bankers came in with long-winded presentations hed get pretty impatient, because he was so quick, you see. Hed look at the slide and say, Next! And then the next slide, hed go, Next! He liked them to get through it fairly quickly. He of course knew his stu and so a lot of it was unnecessary. But it did amuse me very often when I observed that. Now that he sits on the parliamentary commission on banking scandals, looking into the xing of the Libor rate, among other things, he will have plenty more opportunities to tell investment bankers to hurry their explanations up.
ut as archbishop of Canterbury, what will really matter is how Welby navigates the world outside the establishment. The Church of England for the last 20 or 30 years has been in an extraordinary way much less than the sum of its parts. How is it that an organisation staed for the most part with clever, thoughtful people has managed at a corporate level to be the enemy of these qualities? How can it get out of this bind? This is where Welbys curious lack of enemies comes to seem a vital quality. No one doubts his sincerity or seriousness, but it is hard to pin it down to any of the causes that have convulsed the church. Since all Christians are stuck with each other for eternity it is not a bad idea to learn to love each other before we get to the point of death, he said to The Living Church. He is presumably opposed to full gay equality, and in favour of female bishops. Those are the default positions for evangelicals of his kind. But no one suggests that he thinks either of these is the most important question facing the church or the country. Neither, of course, did Rowan Williams. That did not prevent them from eating most of his time and energy. Perhaps the real benet of Welbys business background will be that he is more easily able to concentrate on his own agenda amid the distractions of the world than his unworldly predecessor ever proved.
Leader comment, page 40 diocese needs turning around. Durham has the lowest level of churchgoing in the whole of the Church of England. And hes invigorating things; hes changing all our structures. Hes completely changed peoples attitude to giving in the parishes. Every parish in the Church of England moans about having to pay parish share. It feels like a tax on success. And he said, OK, ne, we wont tell you what the diocesan budget is and divide it among you. You tell us what youre prepared to pay and well set our diocesan budget based on that. Which, at a stroke, has transformed the way people think about it, and a lot of parishes have actually put up their giving because hes inspiring. Its a kind of fresh thinking. Welby had a similar nancial success at Liverpool, where the cathedral has none of the income from tourism that keeps places like Durham aoat. But although it is often said that his skill is with money and he did work as an oil trader for 11 years there are plenty of people in the Church of England who can run a spreadsheet. What Welby showed in Durham is that he understands commitment and belief. In his memo setting out the proposed parish changes, he said: In all organisational theory power follows money. He also said his new policy was likely to oer a large improvement on the past in terms of morale and unity money is a means to an end. At the same time as the eorts on stewardship, there will be a major push on evangelism, carefully planned and constructed and led directly by the bishops. The word evangelical has a gentle but unmistakably repellent eect on the rest of the Church of England, and a worse one on the general public. But although Welbys background (Eton and Cambridge) is recognisably public school evangelical, and he has been close to the HTB movement, which lies behind the Alpha course and which has been very conservative in matters of sexual politics, he has charmed in person many people who would dislike him from his biography. Threlfall-Holmes says: Hes very, very likable. And in some ways that surprises me because all the, you know, Old Etonian oil executive thing, I would expect it to put me o. But actually hes not like that and he didnt send his own children to private school and you cant be blamed for the decisions your parents made. He came and preached at my institution service. The entire parish love him now. He made a point of making all the people with young children welcome. He said, Dont worry about any noise your children might make. I can talk louder than any child Ive had six myself. He just put everybody at ease. Theres no pomposity about him. He doesnt want to be called bishop; hes happy just to be called Justin. He talks to people honestly and openly. The death of one of his children in a car crash when she was only seven months old in 1983 turned Welby and his wife closer to God, he has said. But it still came as a shock when he turned his back on a successful business career to study for the priesthood at the evangelical college Cranmer Hall. Sir Graham Hearne was his boss then at Enterprise Oil (the rm has now been taken over). Hearne says: One day he came to see me, and he said, Graham, Im leaving. And I was horried, I can tell you. I said to him, Oh, Justin, thats very bad news. Why would you leave us? Which company has stolen you? And he said, Dont worry about it. Its the Lord! And he explained. And I of
Hes very, very likeable. And in some ways that surprises me because of the Old Etonian oil executive thing. But actually hes not like that
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Burnham calls for legal limits on salt, sugar and fat in food
Denis Campbell Health correspondent
Food rms should face legal limits on how much fat, salt and sugar they can put in their products to save the NHS money and help tackle illness, Labours health spokesman has proposed. Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, said the shocking amount of sugar in many foodstus was hidden from consumers, but was so great that ministers had to intervene. He is the rst senior politician in Britain to argue for government regulation of the food industry to force through the widespread reformulation of products. The issue is sensitive for manufacturers since they are aware that a consumer backlash against changes to the avour of foods could aect prots. Burnham said: Voluntary efforts [by producers to reformulate] have not worked and its time for a dierent approach. There are some products on the market that are so full of salt, sugar or fat they are unacceptable. The amount of sugar in many cereals is shocking. He said he was worried that large amounts of sugar and fat, in foods such as bread and breakfast cereals, were fuelling the UKs rising obesity levels. Research in February by the consumer group Which? found that the breakfast cereal Kelloggs Frosties was made up of 37% sugar, while Waitroses Honey Nut Corn Flakes were 33.6% sugar, and Special K, marketed by Kelloggs as a healthy choice, had a 17%
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Research by Which? found that Kelloggs Frosties was made up of 37% sugar; Special K has a 17% sugar content
sugar content. If you have maximum amounts and reduce the sugar or salt in the formulated product then people can choose if they want to sprinkle some on top they are conscious of what they are doing whereas if its in the formulated product its much harder to control, said Burnham. He stressed that he was speaking in a personal capacity ahead of a Labour review of its public health stance and that compulsory reformulation was not party policy. Burnham said he had become convinced of the need for mandatory reformulation partly by the 10-minute rule bill presented by the former Labour minister, Keith Vaz, which sought to force soft drinks manufacturers to cut the large amounts of sugar in their products. Ben Bradshaw, the former Labour culture secretary, recently argued for the introduction of fat taxes on foods following the line of European countries such as Denmark, France and Hungary. Burnham opposes such measures, saying they would hit the poorest hardest. The tax route puts the onus on consumers rather than the manufacturers. You arent focusing your eorts on the creator of the problem, which is the manufacturer so we have to start with them. But the food industry dismissed Burnhams idea as unrealistic, hugely complicated and counter-productive. Barbara Gallani, director of food safety and science at the Food and Drink Federation, said: To introduce regulation would be a lengthy process and could negatively impact the excellent voluntary work that is underway to change recipes.
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Shes probably so sick of ridicule in parliament shes decided to take her arguments directly to the country
has been bitter: Cameron and Osborne, whom she blames for the failure of the amendment, are two arrogant posh boys who show no remorse, no contrition, and no passion to want to understand the lives of others, she has said. Dorries is not unique in her party in disliking the leadership, but parliamentary patience is wearing thin with her self-styled outsider status. It would be wrong of me to criticise someone for having a view thats dierent from yours, fellow Conservative MP Mark Garnier said yesterday, before adding that Dorries interventions were often less than helpful. It was absolutely right to remove the whip, he said. The point is that [as a party] were doing our best. Important things, all of which we feel strongly are the right thing. For someone to decide they dont want to be a team player and take a months holiday, well, its a bit of a slap in the face. At her constituency oce yesterday there was a fervently expressed hope, almost certainly forlorn, that the story would soon blow over. Why? Because its an embarrassment to all of us, said Budge Wells, deputy chair of the local Conservative association, before correcting himself a little to say: Its something we wish hadnt happened. Local members, he said, were rather upset, but would delay any decision until Dorries returned from the jungle. He described her as a hardworking constituency MP with a high moral standard who had beaten a large eld to be selected in 2005. She had lobbied eectively on local conservation causes,
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when the new series of the reality show starts on Sunday and could be away from Westminster for a month Photograph: PA
he said, and dealt with a lot of peoples problems. As for her outspoken nature and self-styled maverick persona: We didnt know that when we picked her. Even friends said yesterday that Dorries was unlikely to have anticipated the reaction. Most people going to the jungle have no idea of the size it is, or the impact it could make, said her friend Lembit Opik, who took part in the show in 2010 after losing his own seat. I certainly didnt. Dorries, he acknowledged, had probably been naive. He condemned the kangaroo court decision to remove the party whip. Nadine Dorries is a maverick. Rather than celebrating her diversity they simply try to suppress it. He added that though he did not know of her plans to participate, she is probably so sick of being ridiculed in parliament that she decided to take her arguments directly to the country. Ann Widdecombe, who took part in Strictly Come Dancing after retiring as an MP, but has resisted repeated invites to Im a Celebrity, would have urged Dorries not to take part. You have no control at all in those programmes. Its entirely up to the editor which parts are shown. Withdrawing the whip, all the same, was a gross overreaction. Dorries had taken the most tremendous gamble, and yet, it may well work for her if she does manage to open politics to people who are more likely to vote in reality shows than in elections. And what if she pulls it o and comes back in glory? What exactly is the party going to do then?
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to a complaint can add to the problems of someone who is unwell, struggling to take care of others or grieving, said Mellor. The NHS needs to get better at listening to patients and their families and responding to their concerns. Too often the NHSs response to a complaint about mistakes by its sta gets it wrong by, for example, using equivocal language and sitting on the fence; getting key facts wrong; using technical language without appropriate explanations; fake apologies, the report adds. Mellor cited the case of one relative denied the chance to be with their mother as she passed away who was later told: Death is rarely an ideal situation for anyone. I accept you would have liked to have been there in those last few minutes but in practice this is so hard to achieve and like life itself is left to chance. Truth be told your mother probably said her goodbyes long before the nal moments. Dan Poulter, the health minister, said planned changes to the NHS constitution, including a new right for complaints to be acknowledged within 72 hours and enhanced rights to ensure complaints are handled openly, would help improve the situation. Denis Campbell
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sequently resigned as chief whip after admitting swearing at police. Human rights groups have criticised Britains move because an interim UN report has alleged Rwandan support for the M23 rebel group operating in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Led by Bosco Ntaganda, a warlord wanted by the international criminal court, M23 has been ghting government soldiers in eastern DRCs North Kivu province since April. The UK is Rwandas biggest bilateral donor and plans to spend an average of 83m a year there until 2015. The Department for International Development says Rwanda has made impressive progress since the 1994 genocide, although more than half of the population still lives in poverty. Following the UN report, however, Britain suspended 16m in general budget support money that goes directly to the Rwandan government in July. Mark Tran
The three were anked in the dock by 11 prison ocers, and a line of ve sat behind the couple, separating them from Mosley. Mrs Justice Kate Thirwall remanded the three in custody. They are expected to appear again at Birmingham crown court at 2pm on 29 November. PA
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Lunchtime volley Alan Kane, Alastair Melville and John Brown will back Labour but Ken Gill is moving right to Ukip after Louise Mensch ended his lifetime allegiance to Labour in 2010 Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian
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Hope, who would narrowly lose this bellwether seat on a Labour-to-Tory swing of 3.4%, was bemoaning the fact that his new opponent was a millionaire, and shes got the Ashcroft money behind her as well. Then, like now, I split my time between the brutalist centre of Corby, and a handful of the smaller towns and villages that seem to exist in a dierent world: Thrapston, Irthlingborough and Oundle, the cutesy settlement built around the public school of the same name (and, weirdly, the one-time home of Billy Bragg, who wrote his enduring classic A New England at No 15 North Street, two minutes from the short stay car park). The car park is where I nd a small gang of Tories engaged in the briefest of walkabouts, led by the unmistakeable communities secretary, Eric Pickles, and
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Today, the Pickles to Sawfords Christine Emmett is David Miliband, who leads a walk around Thrapstons shops and market stalls, popping into a local salon (Hairdressers for Labour! he exclaims), inquiring about the state of demand for fresh sh (well down, it seems), and elding questions from a local BBC crew about the arrival in the ITV jungle of Nadine Dorries. As he sees it, Sawfords campaign is a case study in the pavement politics Labour must grasp if its to improve its fairly miserable levels of representation in southern England, a point he sums up in a typically Milibandian ourish: As we oer our support to campaigns the community cares about, when we run campaigns, theyll be more likely to support us. That requires us to change the Labour party, so it looks outwards and forwards, not inwards and backwards. Theyll surely take the seat back, but Labour insiders claim to be nervy, reckoning that suggestions of a 20-point lead underestimate how many votes will go to other parties (including Democracy 2015 and the good old Elvis Loves Pets party), and that one of their key jobs will be getting core supporters out to vote. But back at the Grampian Association, someone has words that will warm their hearts. Im maybe still living in the world of 20 years ago, but Ive always thought that if you dont vote Labour, thats one the Tories have won, says Alan Kane. So thats what Ill be doing.
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EU and trade rules blamed for lack of action on ash disease in 2009
Government was aware of danger, letters suggest FoE says trade rules must not bar species protection
John Vidal Environment editor
The government claimed it was powerless to ban imports of infected trees because its hands were tied by EU and world trade rules when it was warned in September 2009 that ash dieback disease could have a huge impact on the British countryside, the Guardian has learned. Letters between the garden industrys trade body, the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA), and the Forestry Commissions plant health service suggest the Labour government knew of the potential seriousness of the disease when the HTA wrote in September 2009 saying Danish forests were seriously aected. The situation is indeed worrying and I am aware of and share the concerns that many feel, head of plant health Roddie Burgess replied to the HTA chair. Burgess wrote that it had become apparent fairly recently that the disease which the commission understood to be caused by Chalara fraxinea had a form caused by a dierent fungus called Hymenoscyphus albidus. This, he said, was widespread across Europe, including here in Britain. This fact alone precludes us from initiating an emergency response under the European Union plant health directive and we would also fall foul of our international obligations under the World Trade Organisation, he wrote. He added: I hope you understand how our hands are tied. All I can recommend maintained that it believed the disease in the Danish trees was also in Britain and that it could do nothing. On Tuesday the environment secretary, Owen Paterson, told the environment, food and rural aairs committee that the government and plant sector had been guilty in the past of treating trees and plants as a commodity and needed a change of attitude. The letters were obtained by Friends of the Earth (FoE) under a freedom of information request. FoEs executive director, Andy Atkins, said: Urgent lessons must be learnt from this latest asco world trade rules and politics mustnt be allowed to prevent the Forestry Commission and other wildlife watchdogs from taking action to protect our precious environment. The UK is already paying a high price for government dithering over ash dieback. We cant aord to make the same mistake when it comes to protecting the British countryside from threats like ooding, drought and the loss of species, such as bees. Labour renewed its attack on what it said were unacceptable government delays in acting this year after the rst UK case was identied. Ministers were told about the presence of ash dieback in the country on 3 April yet waited till 29 October to ban ash imports. This seven-month delay is a tragic example of the appalling incompetence and inertia which is a hallmark of this government, said Mary Creagh, shadow environment minister. Scientists tell us the disease loves wet conditions and spreads from June to October, but ministers failed to get a ban in place over the summer months. At a summit convened by Paterson on Wednesday to discuss proposals to tackle the disease, scientists said the fungus had probably arrived on the wind from Belgium and France.
Letters suggest the government knew in 2009 about ash dieback disease
for the moment is that the industry carefully considers where it sources its planting material and monitors its purchases for signs of ill health. But the HTA in its letter was clear that the fungus was present in a new form in Europe and requested urgent action. The emergence of a new disease form is a threat to our industry, it said. We feel we must not just accept this pathogen as it has similarities to the virulent strain of Dutch elm disease some 40 years ago. The government which is responsible for the Forestry Commission through the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Aairs has been widely criticised for not acting against the disease as soon as it was known it was in Europe and was likely to spread to Britain. But it has
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Revenge, loss and self-sacrice in the Chinese Hamlet: Graham Turner (Dr Cheng Ying) and Jake Fairbrother (Cheng Bo) thrill the audience in a gripping production of The Orphan of Zhao Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
revenge, is marginally less gripping, it is still powerfully moving. What we see is drama hewn out of a myth that speaks across the centuries. It deals with corruption and cruelty, the pain of mothers separated from their children and an unquenchable spirit of goodness. And, even if the revenge motif is nothing like as subtle or as complex as in Hamlet, we still see ghosts returning from the grave to urge the living to action. Dorans production also handles the story beautifully. Theres no fake chinoiserie: simply a skilful use of many of the stylised techniques of Chinese classical theatre. A violent masti is evoked through a massive puppet with three shadowy handlers. Every death is
marked by a shower of red petals. Sundry beatings are suggested by ailing sticks that never make physical contact. And, lest this sound as if cruelty is aestheticised, the audience gasps in horror
Although the story may seem complex, it has become magically clear in Fentons version
as they hear the sound of a puppetbabys neck being broken. The acting engenders none of the confusion experienced in the companys recent Mexican asco, A Soldier in Every Son. Joe Dixon as the brutal courtier, Graham Turner as the honest doctor, Jake Fairbrother as the restored orphan and Lucy Briggs-Owen as his demented mother all put their talents to the service of the story. Chris Lew Kum Hoi also makes a haunting belated appearance as the doctors son who was sacriced for the greater good; and, while I would have liked to see more Asian actors, this should not diminish the power of an extraordinary theatrical event. Until 28 March. Box oce: 0844 800 1110
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any big breakthrough, but this time there is not even a small breakthrough. The congress, held in Beijings cavernous Great Hall of the People, is oldschool Communist pomp. Its political outcomes are as choreographed as the red-jacketed attendants who stepped across the dais in Busby Berkeley unison to top up the cups of tea. Its almost like a show for the party. The main decisions have been made already, said Dali Yang, a political scientist at the University of Chicago. Steve Tsang, an expert on Chinese politics at the University of Nottingham, said: We dont have a say on politics in China, but neither do its citizens or, for that matter, most of the 82 million members of the Communist party. That doesnt mean it isnt important. The leadership will decide what happens to the worlds second largest economy over the next 10 years. The real question is not who rises and falls but whether they will be able to work together and have the capacity to introduce reforms for restructuring the economy. China has transformed itself since Hu took power. In 2002, it was the worlds sixth largest economy; now it is the second. It is, for the rst time, a predominantly urban nation, with just over half its 1.4 billion citizens living in cities. Its global might is growing. Yet most say Hu has overseen a decade of maintaining the status quo, concluding with an annus horribilis for the leadership. The case of politician Bo
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Xilai now awaiting prosecution after his wifes conviction for murdering British businessman Neil Heywood and other revelations about leaders and their families have fed public scepticism. Meanwhile, economic, social, political and environmental problems have accumulated over years of unbalanced, breakneck growth in a state-dominated economy, and threaten to become still more evident as the pace of growth ebbs. The sense of both crisis and stasis has amplied calls for change. The report to congress reviews the ve years since the last meeting and lays out a general path ahead. Consensus and continuity are crucial; the document is circulated widely and takes several months, numerous drafts and countless revisions to produce. The delegates will have known the content before they arrived in the hall though Xi scribbled assiduously throughout. Hus predeces-
sor, Jiang Zemin, looked less enthralled, glancing at his watch and yawning during the 90-minute address, an edited version of the report. Jiang had entered with Hu and sat beside him, highlighting the power he still wields. Xi will be rst among equals in the new Politburo select committee, which will almost certainly be all male, as it always has. The line-up will be announced next week after the members are formally appointed by the central committee itself chosen by the 2,268 congress delegates. In reality it results from years of backroom politicking by incumbents and party patriarchs. Hus speech nodded to the risks and challenges the new leaders face. Social problems have increased markedly, it warned, and there was perhaps marginally more stress on the need to support the rural poor and integrate urban and rural development. There was also a possible hint at strengthening the role of the market. Environmental issues had a section to themselves for the rst time. In a reection of broad social concerns, Hu also stressed the need to improve civic morality and to exalt the true, the good and the beautiful and reject the false, the evil and the ugly. But overall the blandness was a tting nale to 10 years of Huism, said Kerry Brown, professor of Chinese politics at the University of Sydney. When you think of the extraordinary events going on, and put it beside Obamas victory speech, you realise we are dealing with an elite from another planet.
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The 18th National Congress of the Communist party of China opens in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing yesterday. Above, a delegate from the Mongolian ethnic minority; right, two hotel guides pose with a paramilitary policeman outside; and below, a delegate yawns Main photograph: Li Xueren/Xinhua Press/Corbis
Expert views
Chinas president-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, has 10 years to take his country forward. We asked ve experts what single thing he should do to achieve that.
Wen Yunchao, Hong Kong-based blogger known as Bei Feng The biggest problem isnt political reform, its the economy. Chinas economic situation right now is terrible. Just look at southern China. They should break the monopolies of stateowned enterprises. They should also give the public a space on the internet for opinion polls. People are very unsatised with things, and if there are no major changes in the next few years then public opinion, social protests and political protests will all move beyond the governments control. Bo Zhiyue, senior research fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore The rst thing would be to do something about corruption in the Chinese Communist party, because its so rampant. If they dont do anything about this they will lose credibility very quickly. There are huge vested interests behind this corruption, and a lot of government ocials and party leaders are a part of these vested interests. So they themselves are liable. Eventually the credibility decit will become so huge that it could mean the collapse of the CCP as the ruling party. Li Bo, head of environmental NGO Friends of Nature The environmental assessment of development projects should be much more open. Right now, according to the law, there is a process for environmental impact assessment. But these processes arent very open, and their discussions arent transparent. Because of this many projects are approved, and then their problems are only discovered afterwards. This causes a lot of fear and rage. These things can really tear a society apart. Yan Anthea Zhang, professor at China Europe International Business School in Shanghai The Chinese government has been encouraging indigenous innovation within the last ve to 10 years and the number of patent applications has gone up very quickly. But there are questions about patent quality. Too much funding has been spent on fast, easy projects instead of big, long-term, risky projects with great potential. Based on my research, ling a high number of patents can help a company get R&D funding from the government, even if the number of patents has no eect on post-intellectual property oce performance. So theres a signicant waste of capital, and the basic ability of Chinese companies may be overestimated. Zhang Ming, political science professor, Renmin University, Beijing Right now Chinas economic situation isnt very good. To x this, the best method for China would be to open up its state-owned enterprises, to break them down into private enterprises. If they do this then there will be a positive turn in the economy, and then they might have enough capital for political reform. If theres no reform, the consequences will be severe. Jonathan Kaiman
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Deant Assad vows to live or die in Syria and warns against invasion
Country a base for regional stability, Russian TV told Opposition groups in disarray at unity talks
Ian Black Middle East editor
Bashar al-Assad has vowed to live or die in Syria, warning against any foreign intervention in the crisis and defending his war-torn country as the last stronghold of secularism and stability in the region. Speaking to Russia Today TV, the Syrian president made clear he had no intention of eeing abroad days after David Cameron suggested he could be oered safe passage if he stepped down. I am not a puppet. I was not made by the west to go to the west or to any other country, Assad said during the interview, to be broadcast today. I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria. I do not think the west is going [to intervene], but if they do so, nobody can tell what is next. I think the price of this invasion if it happened is going to be more than the whole world can aord. Assads unwavering message albeit via an interviewer from a country that backs his government contrasts with the disarray among members of opposition groups meeting in the Qatari capital, Doha, for what was supposed to be a drive for the greater unity urgently demanded by western countries. It also seemed intended to signal to a reelected Barack Obama, struggling with the Syrian crisis as he contemplates his second term, that Assad does not plan to change tack despite international condemnation of a policy that has cost an estimated 35,000 lives in the past 20 months. But the gravity of the situation was underlined, as it is daily, by new reports of violence across the country. The International Red Cross also said it was unable to cope with the needs of a growing number of refugees. The humanitarian situation is getting worse despite the scope of the operation increasing, said Peter Maurer, its president. In Doha there was confusion and uncertainty about the outcome of a meeting of the Syrian National Council (SNC), the main foreign-based opposition group. It chose a new secretariat, with gains for the Muslim Brotherhood which were described by the commentator Malik alAbdeh as an aggressive takeover. But the election of a new leader was delayed until today to allow four members representing women and minorities to be added. Riyad Seif, a west-backed veteran dissident, failed to be elected. Seif launched a more inclusive Syrian national initiative to subsume the underperforming SNC and take in other groups, especially those representing activists on the ground. His plan called for the creation of a military council and a transitional government-in-waiting along the lines of Libyas Transitional National Council, which galvanised international political and military support for its successful battle to topple Muammar Gadda last year. The hope is that a military council could establish a monopoly over strategy and weapons amid concern that arms are now owing more freely to extremist Sala or jihadi groups supported by wealthy Gulf Arabs. If it is united and credible enough, the theory goes, the opposition would eventually be able to negotiate a political transition for a post-Assad Syria. Britains representative to the opposition, Jon Wilks, said he was staying in Doha, with other diplomats, to try to help forge agreement. He said: The Syrian opposition have recognised the need to build bridges between the SNC and others, particularly internal [groups]. Anti-Assad Syrians were scathing. I think the SNC should form a revolutionary court and execute itself, tweeted the exiled activist @BSyria. David Hirst, page 38
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he Washington political media abhors a news vacuum and so it is that a dream contest between Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side and Jeb Bush for the Republicans, below, has stepped into the breach. With breaking news short in supply after the election, the ever-breathless Politico website was the rst to go large on the subject, with a banner headline of 2016 election: Hillary Clinton v Jeb Bush? with the question mark as the only hint of reticence. Whats certain, Politicos reporters declared, is that Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush loom the largest over their respective parties as the long road toward 2016 begins. That may be true for Clinton. She is most obviously next in line, given her ngertip loss to Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2008 and her subsequent performance as secretary of state. And the Democrat bench is thin otherwise, meaning there are no obvious Obama-like candidates to andidates compete against. There is of course Joe Biden, but the biggest barrier to a Clinton nomination is herself: whether or not she wants to run, and its not clear that she does. Other candidates being g chatted about include
New York governor Andrew Cuomo and even Ohios blue-collar senator Sherrod Brown. Some tout newly-elected senator Elizabeth Warren. For Bush the outlook is less certain because of the array of candidates waiting on the GOP sidelines. In the red corner there are a binder-full of plausible candidates of all ideological shapes and sizes. New Jersey governor Chris Christie may have made his chances a lot more dicult with his public embrace of Obama after Hurricane Sandy but that had more to do with him winning reelection next year, a necessary condition for a tilt at the GOP nomination in 2016. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, Wisconsins superstar governor Scott Walker, and VP candidate Paul Ryan all stand out as strong contenders whether or not Jeb Bush runs. But make no mistake: with his name and track record, Bush would be a leading contender. As governor of Florida he championed education reform, and had a record of support from Hispanic voters that the GOP despe GOP desperately needs to O emulate. emulate So yes, America y could be in for a repeat 1992 of 199 and a country that spurned aristocracy rac 240 years ago will wi have created one on by default. Richard Adams Rich
the Republicans are suggesting, and outlined the risks to business and consumer condence from protracted uncertainty. It warned that if the US fell o the scal cli the result would be a recession with large international spillover. Axelrod, in his interview with MSNBC, was primarily concerned about the confrontation over the scal cli. Hopefully people will read those results and read them as a vote for co-operation and will come to the table, he said. And obviously, everyones going to have to come with an open mind to these discussions. The Republicans, however, may choose to interpret the election dierently: if the electorate had really wanted an end to confrontation they would have given the Democrats a majority in the House as well as the Senate. The Democrats increased their representation in the 100-seat Senate from 51 to 53 and will receive the support of at least one of the independents. The other is also likely to back the Democrats but has not yet said. The Republicans have dropped to 45. While some races have still to be called for the 435-seat House, the Republicans have 234, well above the 218 needed for control, to the Democrats 194. The Republican House speaker, John Boehner, and the Democratic Senate leader, Harry Reid, both expressed a desire on Wednesday to work together. But neither oered any hint of a compromise. One of Obamas former economic advisers, Austan Goolsbee, told CNN he feared there would be one more death match. Almost no major legislation has been passed for at least 12 months in the stando with Congressional Republicans, many of them backed by the Tea Party. In the battles over spending and debt, Washington came close to shutting down. One senior Democrat in the Senate, Charles Schumer, opted to take Boehners hint of co-operation at face value, applauding him for his change of tone. Republican leaders had seen the handwriting on the wall. In Boston, Romney met some of his wealthiest donors on Wednesday, to thank them but also to oer an analysis of what had gone wrong. His Boston headquarters and eld oces across the country were being cleared and an oce in Washington where preparations had been under way for transition to the White House if he had won was ordered to be cleared by today. Some of his sta as well as Republicans outside his immediate campaign circle oered a range of explanations. One of the commonest was that Romney had lost vital campaign days last week because of superstorm Sandy. More brutal Republican critics blamed the candidate, describing him as bland, with no clear message. Others said that the Romney organisation fell far short of Obamas in identifying and getting out voters. With the result in Florida still not declared, there was no nal gure for the share of the popular vote. But it is unlikely to change signicantly from Obama with 51% down from 53% in 2008 to Romneys 48%. In spite of more than $1bn spent by Romney and his supporters, and an incumbent presiding over high unemployment, Romney managed to improve by only 2% on the 2008 Republican challenger, John McCain. A conservative commentator with a large following, Erick Erickson, founder of the blog RedState, described Romneys approach to Latinos as atrocious. Frankly, the fastest-growing demographic in America isnt going to vote for a party that sounds like that party hates brown people, Erickson said. One target for conservative ire was George W Bushs former strategist Karl Rove, co-founder of Crossroads, one of the biggest of the super-political action committees that raised hundreds of millions for the campaign, much of it from rich donors. The Hungton Post quoted a Republican as saying: The billionaire donors I hear are livid. There is some holy hell to pay. Karl Rove has a lot of explaining to do I dont know how you tell your donors that we spent $390m and got nothing. In the rst sign of Republicans already looking beyond this election to 2016, Senator Marco Rubio already touted as the frontrunner, announced he is to hold a meeting next week in Iowa, whose caucus normally marks the start of the nomination process.
Marriage equality
Tipping point
Karen McVeigh New York
Gay rights advocates say the US election was a tipping point in the battle for marriage equality and are readying themselves to take advantage of what they believe is an unstoppable cultural and generational shift in their favour. Voters came out in favour of marriage equality measures or against restrictions in four states, each of which would have been seen as a signicant victory alone. By winning the argument for marriage equality through a popular vote in Maine, Maryland and Washington, and defeating a proposed restriction in Minnesota, campaigners believe they have overturned a losing streak at the polls and knocked the wind out of the sails of their opponents. Over the last 14 years, there have been 32 previous attempts to put it on the ballot, each ending in defeat. Brian Ellner, of marriage equality group TheFour.com, said that America was now on a fast track to federal acceptance of marriage equality. My best estimate would have been two or three [states favouring gay marriage]. But to have all four is seismic and historic and opens a new chapter in this movement. In Maine, Maryland and Washington, voters approved or ratified same-sex union initiatives on the ballot, and in Minnesota voters rejected a state constitutional amendment banning it. The results mean that gay, lesbian and bisexual couples can now marry in nine states and the District of Columbia. The other states where legislative measures were already in place are Massachusetts, Iowa, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire and New York. Maryland will begin issuing marriage licences to same-sex couples on 1 January. Campaigners will now take the rights battle to four new states: New Jersey, Illinois,
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for gay rights, say campaigners Joy and anger greet news of trip to Burma
favour of same-sex marriage. It will give greater confidence to the next wave of decision makers, lawmakers and even justices of the supreme court. Wolfson said there were three reasons for the gains the cumulative eect of the campaigns eorts to engage the public, the example set in places where same-sex marriage already exists, where people can see with their own eyes that it helps families and no one is hurt, and betterrun and earlier campaigns compared with 2008. My mantra is there is no marriage without engagement. The more we engage with people to think it through, the more support we get. Chad Griffin, president of Human Rights Campaign, said: Years from now, well remember this election day as the most historic and the most important in the LGBT community. However, Wolfson said they still had work ahead of them to achieve full equality.Although we have tremendous momentum and we now have nine states with the freedom to marry plus the District of Columbia and possibly California, we still have a lot of states where people dont have that freedom. We also have federal marriage discrimination. The Defense of Marriage Act (Doma), a 1996 federal law, denes marriage as a union between a man and a woman and bars federal recognition of all same-sex marriages. It places restrictions on the raft of state laws that favour same-sex relationships. For instance, a couple legally married in New York can be discriminated against in other states if they move or receive an inheritance in another state which does not recognise the union. There were other wins for gay rights on Tuesday night. Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin, made history by becoming the rst openly gay senator to be elected to the Senate.
The decision in four states to ease the path to same-sex marriage is being seen as a crucial breakthrough by advocates
century of repressive military rule ended when a quasi-civilian government took power and initiated sweeping changes. The US and EU suspended sanctions on Burma this year in recognition of the political and economic reforms. Though media and labour laws have been relaxed and hundreds of political prisoners released, the military is still responsible for widespread human rights abuses and many fear democratic progress might be reversed at any time. In recent weeks there has been renewed violence aimed at Muslim Rohingya people in the west of the country, with hundreds killed and tens of thousands displaced. Mabrur Ahmed, director of Restless Beings, a UK-based campaign group, said Obamas visit would be good for the US and good for Burma in the long run even
Delaware and Rhode Island. They will also focus attention on attempting to have same-sex marriage accepted federally. Opponents of marriage equality have said that the four states that passed the measures are liberal and have denied that it represented any cultural shift to acceptance. However, Ellner said that poll after poll showed that young people were in favour of gay marriage, irrespective of politics, religions or gender. Our opponents are dinosaurs, he said. They have said that the only way we have won is by left-leaning legislators and activist courts. But we have exploded that argument, as four very diverse states voted in favour. Campaigners say they are now turning their attention to national acceptance. Evan Wolfson, founder and director of Freedom To Marry, said the four wins had solidied an irrefutable momentum in
if it was bad for Rohingya people in the short term. There will no doubt be some pressure [from Obama] on the Kachin, Karen, Rohingya too even, but [his visit] is really about solidifying moves to full bilateral trade, he said. Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent years in detention under the military as the gurehead of the pro-democracy movement and was elected to parliament in April, has been criticised for not speaking out sufciently strongly on ethnic issues. In Rangoon, Burmas commercial and cultural capital, many were happy about the visit. Maung Zaw, a 41-year-old English teacher, said he was very excited by the prospect. This is amazing for us. We could never have imagined it happening. There are strategic and economic advantages for the US in any rapprochement with Burma, ruled from the isolated new capital of Naypyitaw. The country has abundant resources and low-cost labour as well as a potentially huge new market for consumer goods. It is also strategically situated, and it grew close to China during decades of isolation, reinforced by western sanctions. One reason for the new reform push may be that the army hopes to balance close relations with Beijing with new ties to the west. The trip ts with Obamas broader strategic pivot, involving eorts to reinforce US inuence in the Asia-Pacic region as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down. In November last year Hillary Clinton became the rst US secretary of state to visit Burma in more than 50 years. Several world leaders have already asked Obama to visit during his second term. On Wednesday Vladimir Putin said he had invited the US president to go to Moscow next year, despite the faltering reset between the two nations, and Angela Merkel, Germanys chancellor, told Obama: I would be pleased to welcome you again soon as my guest in Germany.
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Anger in the two villages where Bales allegedly went on his rampage prevented military investigators from visiting the crime scene for several weeks, meaning they lost valuable evidence. Witnesses had earlier told the hearing that Bales was upset after another soldier lost a part of his leg in a bomb blast a few days earlier. Bigham admitted that the accused man was annoyed by restrictions on US forces use of weapons. As testimony moved on to those wounded in the attack, including young children, Bales leaned back in his chair and betrayed no reaction. He has not entered a plea nor participated in a sanity board, because his lawyers have objected to him meeting army doctors without being in attendance. Emma Graham-Harrison Kabul, and agencies
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appointed deputy prime minister, said it was a milestone for the women of Somalia. It turns a new page for the political situation of our country, she told reporters in the capital Mogadishu. In a 2011 global survey TrustLaw found Somalia was the fth worse place in the world to be a woman. About 95% of Somali girls undergo genital mutilation, domestic violence is commonplace and access to education is rare. The then minister of women, now named minister for development and social aairs, Maryan Qasim Ahmed, said she was surprised Somalia was not in rst place. Some analysts warned that Haji Adan is unlikely to be viewed as trustworthy among central and southern Somalis given her role in Somaliland, which has sought to assert independence since the 1990s. Clar Ni Chonghaile Nairobi
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The proportion of women in board roles in FTSE 250 companies, compared with 17.3% in the FTSE 100
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which runs restaurants and pubs such as Harvester and Toby Carvery, Mecca bingo owner Rank Group and comparison website Moneysupermarket.com. The news that Davies is planning to extend the scope of his campaign comes at a time of renewed focus on sexual discrimination within British business. Vinnicombe appeared at a Women in Leadership debate in London on Wednesday hosted by the Chartered Management Institute, an event designed to tie in with the trade bodys annual pay survey, released that day. The study revealed that female executives earn 400,000 less over their working lives than male colleagues with identical careers. It also showed how much more likely women are to lose their jobs, with twice as many female directors as male directors being made redundant (7.4% compared with 3.1%). Last month the Liberal Democrat equalities minister, Jo Swinson, proposed a shakeup of company annual reports to push rms into tackling gender imbalances by compelling them to report how many women they employ, from boardrooms down. In Europe, the European commissioner for justice and rights, Viviane Reding, has also renewed her push for mandatory quotas of female directors at listed companies, although her eorts have been resisted by many member states, including the UK, which prefer a voluntary code.
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Adidas, maker of these trainers on show in Berlin, is suering a sales slump Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images for Adidas
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Goldman Sachs high-yers wait for the call to join multi-million dollar clique
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continued from page 1 rung, a term borrowed from the card game bridge. Insiders describe it as a rigorous cross-checking procedure that involves teams of Goldman partners interviewing each other about potential candidates. The individuals being cross-rued should, in theory, be unaware that their strengths and weaknesses are being scrutinised. They are not interviewed. But in reality, the hierarchical nature of the rm means that anyone with any ambition will be aware they are next in line for promotion, and William D Cohan, a former US banker who authored a book about Goldman called Money and Power, told the Guardian the partnership selection procedure was an incredible endurance test on one hand and incredibly anxiety-inducing on the other. The Goldman hierarchy is rigid. Graduates are hired as analysts while business school graduates come in as associates. The next rung is vice-president the level attained by the disgruntled former employee Greg Smith who has just written a book about the hardnosed culture of the bank which is known as executive director in London. Then comes managing director and there are hundreds of them and ultimately partner managing director, the highest level of the rm. Sherwood, a partner since 1994 who can still recall the brief but crucial call he took 18 years ago summoning him into the elite group, describes how partners are given the job of interviewing their fellow partners to discuss candidates put forward by divisional heads. The partner selected to cross-ru is always drawn from another part of the rm, possibly even in another part of the world. No stone is left unturned every aspect of their career to date is scrutinised the deals they have worked on, the prot they have generated and the way they are regarded by their colleagues and sta. The process, which Cohan believes was formalised by former Goldman banker and existing board member Stephen Friedman, continues even
though the rm was oated on the stock market in 1999 and is no longer a partnership in the conventional sense. But the idea of partnership was retained to maintain various core aspects of the rms partnership culture among its leaders, including teamwork, client focus and a commitment to excellence. To those inside the rm, the status is much more than just a job title. The idea of having a partnership within a public company is quite literally brilliant, said one partner, who has now stepped aside. This year 33 partners have departed, leaving the total at 407 before the new crop or class as Sherwood describes them are appointed next week. Those who leave the partnership often only in their late 40s and early 50s go on to other careers, retire
Its a collection of very motivated, very diverse people from all types of dierent backgrounds
or stay on as advisory or senior directors. Some even join the board, such as is the case of the outgoing chief nancial ocer David Viniar. In 2010 Blankfein made calls to 110 new partners. This year he may not spend so much time on the phone: the precise number of new appointments is still being worked on, but at a time when the rm has been cutting sta to save costs, it is likely that the 2012 class will be fewer than 100, with speculation that between 75 and 100 Goldman bankers will make the grade. An aspiring partner describes how the process is intense. Its a brilliant process but it is a reasonably odd one because as a candidate you dont have an interview. No one talks about it but everyone knows you are up for it. People are asking questions about you but you are having zero involvement. Cross-rung allows comparisons to be made. Rankings given to candidates by the department heads are crossmatched against those drawn up by the
partners leading the assessment process. Dierences are sometimes exposed. Sherwood stressed that it is not about how you did any one year. And, if the process of being named a partner sounds gruelling, getting a foot on the ladder lower down the rm is tough too. Even though many investment bankers are now often ashamed to say what they do in polite company, and Goldman is often portrayed as the epitome of all that is wrong in the nancial world, it is a still an organisation that ambitious people scramble to join. Goldmans annual report reveals that almost 300,000 applied for jobs in 2010 and 2011. Fewer than 4% were hired and though most had multiple oers, nearly nine out of 10 people oered a job accepted. Cohan writes in his book that candidates can be subjected to 30 interviews and describes Goldman as a place that is not for prima donnas but stued to the gills with high-achieving alpha males. Each year there is a formal assessment process. Sta are subjected to a 360-degree review, where they are rated and assessed by their peers, subordinates and superiors. These assessments are resurfaced during the nal selection process in the promotion to partner. Few are hired from outside at partner level, although these so-called lateral hires can hope for fast-track promotion. The easy solution would be to select those who generate the most revenue for the rm. This is what Smith suggested when he resigned from Goldman and penned an excoriating attack on the rm and its culture in the New York Times. Today, if you make enough money for the rm (and are not currently an ax [sic] murderer) you will be promoted into a position of inuence, he wrote. Sherwood disagrees. In his view the partnership is something far more altruistic: It is often about doing something that is good for the whole rm, to make the rm better and subduing your individual motivation and aspirations for the good of the whole rm. Acting for the good of the partner-
$68.5m 407 4%
The remuneration taken home by the chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, above, in 2007. Last year his salary was a more modest $16m
The number of partners this year before the new intake. Some 33 partners have left this year
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The Goldman Sachs building in New York as superstorm Sandys approach cut the electricity. It has backup generators
ship is a prerequisite once membership of the exclusive club has been attained. The average tenure of a partner is eight years. As Cohan puts it: Its very good for the junior people. Viniar reckons that 20% leave every other year. But it is not just a benevolent act to encourage younger bankers. It is also about the bonus pool that exists for the partners. The prospectus accompanying the 1999 otation described the process: Upon selection to the partner compensation plan, participants will be allocated a percentage interest in a pool for annual bonus payments in addition to base salaries. The size of the pool will be established by the partner compensation plan committee annually, taking into account our results of operations and other measures of nancial performance. In 2009, in the wake of the nancial crisis, the 100 London-based partners decided they needed to demonstrate that they understood public anger with the banking sector so they capped their pay and bonuses at 1m each. But that was a one-o. Sherwood insists that the partners bonuses are handed out after the wider bonus pool is agreed and that the process of becoming a partner is a meritocracy: Some are great leaders, some drive the organisation, others are just incredibly productive people or are building new businesses. Some are lateral hires. There is no particular person, there is no particular nationality, race, region or gender. Its a collection of very motivated, very diverse people who come from all types of dierent backgrounds. If you talk to the candidates it is a very aspirational process, Sherwood said, acknowledging that it also means that some hoping to become partners will not make it. Those aspiring partners who pick up their phones next week and hear not Blankfeins New York tones but, perhaps, the more familiar voice of their divisional boss on the end, will know their time has not come. Some will walk. But others, as Sherwood puts it, will go back to their desk, and work hard and try again in two years time.
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It is not a huge cost to taxpayers. On the contrary, the loans and bonds will be paid back
Neelie Kroes was her countrys rst female secretary of state, and later became a company director Photograph: Wolfgang von Brauchitsch/Bloomberg
years that we should be aware that consumers are not willing to wait until there is a service collapse and everybody is awake, Kroes warned. Born in 1941, Kroes is old enough to remember when long-distance communication was a luxury. These days she never leaves home without her BlackBerry and iPad; she tweets and blogs and keeps in touch with her granddaughter via Skype. Where she grew up, in Rotterdam, there was just one house on the street with a phone. On her desk in Brussels she keeps an antique rotary telephone that looks like a nuclear hotline. Kroes was the eldest of three siblings. She studied economics and sat on the board of her family road haulage business, Zwatra. But when her father retired she was passed over for the top job in favour of her brother. So she entered politics, where she blazed a trail while raising a family. Kroes became the rst female member of the Rotterdam chamber of commerce, and was her countrys rst female secretary of state. She privatised telecoms and postal services, and on leaving Dutch politics in 1989 became a company director, advising Volvo, McDonalds Netherlands and the French defence group Thales, to name a few. Described as determined and coherent by her predecessor, Mario Monti, and by a City insider as extraordinary, prickly, focused, like hugging barbed wire, Kroes has admitted: I wouldnt be a commissioner if there had not been positive discrimination. Appointed in 2004, she was chosen because the Netherlands was told it could secure a plum role if it put forward a female candidate. When it comes to telecoms, Kroes is more than willing to use her power to engineer the market. One senses that having spent years battling powerful corporations, Kroes wishes to leave on a more positive note, with a legacy in the form of a fully wired-up Europe. If we fail to invest, millions in less populated areas will nd themselves on the wrong side of the digital divide cut o from tomorrows opportunities, she said.
Business analysis
G4S
Firm deserves to know why it lost the prison tender, says Nils Pratley
Was the Ministry of Justice administering popular justice when it stripped G4S of the contract to run the Wolds prison in East Yorkshire and failed to select the rm for its shortlist of bidders for other prison contracts? In other words, was it pay-back for the companys Olympics security bungle? It is impossible to be certain. A critical report on Wolds by the chief inspector of prisons, highlighting clear weaknesses, could have been sucient reason in itself to take administration back into the public sector. As for the new contracts, G4S was one of four companies not to be selected for the shortlist: its pitch may just have been poor. But if G4S has been unocially blacklisted, the government is on very weak ground. G4Ss failure to provide enough security guards for the Olympics was disgraceful. But that episode has nothing to do with its ability (or not) to run prisons. The two issues should be entirely separate. By all means, hit G4S in the wallet for its Olympics cock-up but keep the award of prison contracts out of it. Any confusion on that point would merely undermine condence in the governments ability to hand out contracts to the best bidder. And that condence is not high after the west coast rail debacle. To be clear, we dont know why G4S failed in this case because transparency is roughly zero. But the slight tone of bitterness in the companys response is understandable: We look forward to discussing the contract award decision with the MoJ within the next few days to determine why we were unsuccessful. Quite right. It is not a popular thing to say, but G4S deserves to know if it will receive fair treatment from government in future. Crunch time is 5 December, the date of the chancellors autumn statement. There is both a political and an economic case for more austerity. If Osborne pushes back the deadline for reducing the national debt, it will vindicate the argument made by the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, that the government went at decit reduction like a bull in a china shop. What is more, the chancellor has always insisted that any backsliding would risk the loss of Britains AAA rating. If Osborne does accept a later deadline he runs the risk of a downgrade. Would that actually happen, though? Vicky Redwood, UK analyst at Capital Economics, said that the ratings agencies would probably take a relaxed view of an extended deadline for reducing the debt-to-GDP ratio provided the new plan looked credible. And even if they did knock the UKs credit rating down a notch, she thought it unlikely there would be any serious impact on the governments cost of borrowing. The case against fresh austerity measures is simple. Despite the bounce back in the third quarter of 2012, the economy is fragile. Growth looks like being weak in the nal three months of the year. Osborne has to be sure that the damage caused by decit reduction measures would be less than that from a credit downgrade. He would have to be sure Britain would avoid a triple-dip recession: that would be a brave call.
UK economy
More austerity measures would be a brave call for Osborne, says Larry Elliott
Heres the dilemma for George Osborne. The economys weakness means that he will miss one of his two targets that he set in 2010. The chancellor pledged to have the national debt declining by the nal year of this parliament (2015-16) but as things stand will miss the target by one or two years. Osborne will need to supplement the existing austerity measures with new spending cuts (or tax increases) if he is to stick to his original debt plan.
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Kindness Heaven, London
If Adam Bainbridge looks tired, he tells us, it is because he was up until 5am watching the US election coverage. Say Obama! he instructs earnestly, and is rewarded with an O-BA-MA! loud enough to be heard outside the venue. Bainbridge, the 6ft5in focal point of Kindness, does a little caper, evidently forgetting that he is supposedly an enigmatic quantity who is too cool to caper. That, anyway, is the reputation that precedes him and his London-based chillwave disco group, xtures on the hipster list since their rst single in 2009. Maybe Bainbridge is too buoyed by the election to worry about preserving the mystique, but he spends the next 45 minutes dancing and joshing. This show ags up the dierence between any old chillwave-disco unit and one that has been endorsed by the blogerati: only the latter would pull in this sold-out crowd of skinny jeans and artful hats. And only the latter, pulsing through full-cream, slap-bass funk, last voguish in 1984, would be extolled by some as the sound of the future. In fact, there is nothing futuristic about Kindnesss on-stage conguration, which recalls a 1970s American funk band: there are female backing singers, a powerhouse rhythm section and the baseball-capped, satin-shirted Bainbridge, who careens between microphone and drum kit. Nor do the songs, mostly from the debut album World, You Need a Change of Mind, look forward. The lazy, synthwashed chillwave of Cyan lets us know were still in the 21st century, but Thats Alright is anchored rmly in the past by its choppy, Nile Rodgers-inuenced guitar and wailing disco chorus. Throughout, the elephant in the room is Level 42, the 80s pop-funk synonym for uncool; somehow, though, the skinny jeans are unbothered. At the end, the audience are pelted with balloons imprinted with smiley faces, and Bainbridge lopes o, manifestly uncool but all the better for that. Caroline Sullivan At the Brudenell, Leeds, tomorrow. Box oce: 0113-275 2411.
Stomping singalongs Jon Boden of Bellowhead plays to the London crowd Photograph: Tim Whitby/Redferns
precise pianism, which repays close listening, and doesnt reveal all its subtleties easily. Those qualities characterised the two sonatas in the rst half of his programme, Mozarts D major work K284, and the earliest of the three in A minor that Schubert produced, D537. The Mozart certainly had the right kind of rangy brilliance to match the musics ambition, especially in the set of variations with which it ends, though Piemontesi didnt neglect its moments of quieter contemplation, either. But the Schubert, with its central slow movement based on a theme that would be recycled for the nale of his penultimate piano sonata, the A major D959, seemed less of a coherent whole; technically it was immaculate, but it never engaged the ear in the way the best Schubert playing unfailingly does. Piemontesi then turned to Chopin and Debussy. While his account of the Op 60 Barcarolle was refreshingly straightforward the textures, bright and clean, the rhythms spruce there were moments in some of the second book of Debussys Preludes that could have done with a bit more colour; not all of them are conceived in terms of the pastel shades that were used here. The more austere numbers, in which Debussy anticipates the pareddown style of his later music, were wonderfully wrought. The wittier ones, such as Hommage S Pickwick Esq, were just a bit dry. Andrew Clements
pre-adolescent naivety by Edie, his obsessive-compulsive mother. Like one of Enda Walshs more neurotic characters, Edie has dealt with her fear of the outside world by sticking to a rigid routine. Meals are toast and jam, washing is in lavender bubble bath, bedtime is strictly 8pm. So far, she has kept Georey under similar control, but now, his belated sexual awakening is unleashing forces neither of them can cope with. The strength and weakness of the piece is in its cartoonish distortion of reality. Pearsons universe is compelling, yet at one remove from our own. The play has a captivating internal logic, but as a reection of behaviour we may actually recognise, it is fanciful. As a result, it tapers to a conclusion that should be explosive. In her debut production as artistic director, Orla OLoughlin allows the strangeness to be constrained by an overly literal set, but her cast, led by Garry Collins and Anne Lacey, are superb, rooting Pearsons ear for Doric poetry in a disturbingly credible world. Mark Fisher Until 17 November. Box oce: 0131-228 1404.
likewise, a ne fantasy sequence in which Ed Miliband inherits power with all socialist guns blazing. But passion isnt enough: however much Long loves Dennis Skinner, it doesnt make his parliamentary quips particularly comical. And elsewhere Longs yah-boo-sucks level of political discourse feels like a function of her anxiety about being didactic. That anxiety forms a subplot here, as Long frets about her right as a privileged comedian with a taste for aristocratic pursuits to speak for the people. Theres no need: the shows better when the self-doubt evaporates and she talks frankly and entertainingly about what she believes, and what shes doing to make the world better. In those moments, she is inspiring. Brian Logan Ends tomorrow. Box oce: 020-7478 0100. Then touring until 15 December.
Comedy
Josie Long Soho theatre, London
The show is called Romance and Adventure, but thats deceptive, says Josie Long: it should be called how do you carry on when youre in the pit of despair? Long makes political comedy that is anxious about its political content. Having taken up Tory-bashing after the 2010 election, this is her midterm blues show, when the rst rush of oppositional fervour cedes to disillusion at the diculty of the task in hand. Her honest and self-lacerating account of this political evolution is always engaging, and unique in contemporary standup even if, tonight, her eorts to render it funny arent always successful. One problem is that her overgrownchild persona cramps the political material. Long gets laughs from her over-the-top enthu over the top enthusiasm, from how volcanically she loves things the lo French, lesbians and social justice a and hates things. Thats ha endearing, but theres end only so far it can take on you politically. I hate yo this 1980s tribute thi government as much gov as Long does, and I love L the image of her kicking th oral displays across o the stage to represent th Camerons mob C revealing their true r colours once elected c M Mummy issues The Artist Man and T the Mother Woman t
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The Artist Man and the Mother Woman Traverse, Edinburgh
The wag who described Morna Pearson as the Dr Dre of Scottish theatre was probably exaggerating. The Elgin-born playwright is no gangsta rapper, though you cant deny the social dysfunction and casual violence of her view on the world. Her 2006 play Distracted was about a boy damaged by the death of his junkie mother and preyed on by a sex-starved older woman. Likewise, her latest, The e, Artist Man and the Mother Woman, a ther vivid 100 minutes, deals with incest, ls assault, stalking and murder. urder For all that, its less Straight Outta Compton than an n episode of Ronnie Corbetts betts Sorry! reimagined by David avid Lynch. Pearson gives us s grim human behaviour aplenty, but osets it with toe-curlingly black comedy and an air of heightened weirdness. We meet Georey Buncher, a thirtysomething art teacher, who is frozen in a state of
Classical
Francesco Piemontesi Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
The Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi has been admired so widely, and tagged as a future star by so many, that it was hard to know what to expect from the 29-year-olds debut in the Southbank Centres International Piano series. Piemontesi is certainly an artist who goes out of his way to attract attention. His platform manner is unaected, almost bookish, and his playing is free from amboyant musical gestures; this is considered and unfussily
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Debate
Simon Jenkins From the gulf between rich and poor, to welfare reform, old arguments are failing to nd answers for a world thats in ux
Across Europ e the game is going to those who know exactly what they want to separatists, racists and lobbyists
olitics has never been so fascinating. It drips from the ceiling. It oozes up through the oor. It reeks across the internet. Reading politics, being informed about it, participating in it, should be the compulsory national service of the 21stcentury state. Yet never can the toolkit of political debate have been so empty and the task of understanding the world so titanic. America has just undergone a monumental exercise in democracy. But no one can now tell whether the result means that the country will decline into singularity or soar to a new supremacy. Nor can anyone say whether America has turned left, merely by sticking with Barack Obama and rejecting Mitt Romney. All that happened was that the Democrats persuaded more minorities to come out and vote, while an awesome debt remains. Across the Pacic, China is progressing its epic experiment in non-democratic revolution. The outcome must have huge signicance for other half-free states in Asia and Africa. Western visitors moan, with more than a touch of hypocrisy, about Chinas civil and human rights. But it is like Britons complaining about the Paris streets during the French revolution. Elsewhere in Asia, the Muslim world is no less engrossing, enmeshed in a cultural upheaval with which few westerners can sympathise or engage. The only certainty is the fragility of reform and the counter-productivity of outside interference. We do not know what we should do, but feel some ancient white mans urge to do something. In Europe, the political agony is no less acute. The continent seems fated to resume the turmoil between nationalism and supra-nationalism of the rst half of the 20th century, albeit on an economic rather than a military plane. As in China, a grand experiment in sub-continental governance faces its greatest test. The refusal of the Brussels elite to see danger in federal union, notably in imposing a single currency on disparate states, is subjecting Greeks and Spaniards to punitive poverty. One more attempt to create a pan-European empire is turning into the nancial equivalent of bombing them back to the stone age. Most Britons still respond to these issues by turning to some blue remembered hills in their political upbringing. They sh about in their pockets, take out an ancestral slide-rule and read o the answers from left to right according to taste. This no longer works. Tories and Labour may bang the antique drum in parliament and print, but they have
no idea how to drag the economy back from recession. Standing Keynes on his head, both parties went along with decit expansion during the boom, and now champion decit reduction in recession. It makes no sense, yet appears immune to its failure to work. The welfare consensus may hold, but austerity has denied left and right any coherent policies on pensions, families, housing, schools, energy or law and order. Not even badgers and ash trees are spared the resulting hesitancy. The right has no answer to the widening gulf between rich and poor. The left has no answer to the chronic need for welfare targeting and means testing. When the right makes changes to health policy, housing subsidies or deregulation, the left howls. When the left proposes higher property taxes or fewer prisoners, the right howls. These are mere tribal grunts. The one industry to benet from all this is global risk aversion. Americas defence and security establishment, now employing one in ve US workers, seems to be the tail that wags every dog, foreign as well as domestic. No presidential hopeful in the 2012 election dared advocate a cut in defence, despite America facing a big decit and no conceivable threat to its security or integrity. Risk aversion in Britain has a more imperialist tinge. A craving for a world role echoes in the interventionism of David Cameron and Ed Miliband, both platitudinising about what we want to see and punching above our weight. Bereft of the old lodestars, politicians of left and right become the useful idiots
of sectional groups and commercial interests. Across Europe the game is now going to those who know exactly what they really want, to separatists, racists, tax evaders, securocrats and lobbyists. In the kingdom of the blind the beady-eyed are free. For all this, I do not nd the collapse of an ideological route map depressing. I nd it exhilarating, dicult and important. The worlds great conicts may be of unprecedented immediacy, but they are not immovable objects facing irresistible forces. They are part of the churning cauldron of human aairs. I believe through some rational gene that these conicts are best resolved through the creaking mechanism of democracy. But, as China apologists such as Martin Jacques are writing with growing plausibility, this is neither a complete answer, nor one likely to be adopted everywhere. When this week Obama implied that God is an American, I felt uncomfortable. It was the sort of claim made by the pre-Reformation church. The right response is not to surrender to the complexity of it all. It is not to agree with the Zen master who said, The struggle between for and against is the minds worst disease. It is to lie down with a cold compress on the head and plunge ever deeper into the struggle. That is what Americas voters have just done in all their craziness. Whatever the society and whatever the risk, the citizens one duty is always to argue the toss. [email protected]
SATOSHI KAMBAYASHI
t is almost a cliche by now: the inferno in Syria will eventually spread to its neighbours. Its already happening for some of them. The car bomb that killed Wissam Hassan, the Lebanese intelligence chief, and the sharpening of tensions it produced, was the most recent, dramatic illustration of it. The ramications for Turkey and Iraq are also increasing in severity. But is a fourth neighbour, Jordan, going the same way? Perhaps the most articial of the regions western-created states, surrounded by much larger, stronger or richer ones, it was always peculiarly exposed to inuences from beyond its borders. Can Jordan survive? was once a regular headline in western newspapers. Yet, to begin with, Jordan weathered the upheaval that is the Arab spring with relative ease. King Abdullah, like his father Hussein, retained some real legitimacy in his peoples eyes. True, the people took to the streets, but, unlike elsewhere, their rallying cry was never the people want the downfall of the regime; rather, they wanted its reform. Nor does Jordan suer from those sectarian antagonisms that have disgured what, in Syria, began as a popular, peaceful movement for freedom and democracy. It has no Kurds; it is almost uniformly Sunni. Most of its people favour the Syrian rebels; but the regime itself has sought neutral ground between the two sides, fearing reprisals from one or the other if it didnt. But events of the past two weeks show just how serious Jordans exposure to the drama next door could become. These include the rst death of a Jordanian sol-
dier along the Syrian-Jordanian border; clashes between the army and groups of jihadists seeking to cross it; and the unmasking of an alleged al-Qaida plot and the arrest of 11 men all Jordanians planning bomb and mortar attacks on targets in Amman. Disturbing, of course. Yet terrorism on its own never really works; it requires the right context to be eective. And, in the nal analysis, it is on Jordans basic political, social and economic health that its ability to resist the Syrian contagion depends. And Jordans health is, in fact, looking increasingly poor. The relationship between ruler and ruled is deteriorating, as the latter intensify their pressures for reforms and the former persists in eorts to dilute or block them altogether. On the constitutional front, King Abdullah has made what are seen as minor, cosmetic changes that do little to transfer ultimate authority from the palace to parliament and the people. He also insists on preserving an electoral law that favours the Transjordanian segment of the population the minority from which the monarchy traditionally derived its support at the expense of the urban one. That penalises the numerically larger, better educated, economically more productive segment, the Palestinians. They have long considered themselves secondclass citizens and, if things got bad, this faultline could be as dangerous as those sectarian and ethnic ones now playing havoc in neighbouring countries. The law also disadvantages the Muslim Brotherhood, Jordans most powerful political party, whose support is strongest in urban areas and especially
among the Palestinians. It now seems headed for a major confrontation with the regime over elections due at the end of the year. If, as threatened, it boycotts these, that will produce a parliament with no real legitimacy, making a mockery of Abdullahs reformist pretensions. Then there are the Salas. Some of Jordans have gone to Syria to ght the heretic Alawite regime, now a prime target for Sunni jihadists everywhere. After at rst seeming to turn a blind eye to this, Jordan is now seeking to prevent it, for it threatens to boomerang against itself. As the alleged al-Qaida plot shows, for some Jordanian Salas jihad in Syria is merely a preparation before returning home to take on their own regime which orthodox Sunni though it is is impious on other grounds. Whatever the outcome of the Syrian civil war, Jordans own reform-related troubles are now such that it might make little dierence whether Assad survives or falls. For Abdullah both alternatives look bad. If Assad survives, with at least the perceived connivance of Jordan, that will increase the hostility of Jordans Islamist-led opposition towards the throne. If he falls, that will greatly strengthen them, because they will have the full support of the new order doubtless heavily Islamist that will emerge in Assads place. In either case the more stubbornly the king resists the clamour for meaningful reform, the more the opposition will be inclined to go the whole hog and raise the slogan: The people want the downfall of the regime. David Hirst is a journalist and author of Beware of Small States
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Polly Toynbee Many Conservative MPs can see whats going wrong for the party, but their prescriptions are all for more of the same
Since entering No 10 and ditching all that go-green poverty-sympathy stu, Cameron hasnt returned to the realm of nice
hat do the Tories make of the rights defeat in America? Despite the ever-widening gulf between British and American society, both Labour and Conservatives suer the same infatuated identication with sister parties across the Atlantic. So some Tories this week are feeling Mitt Romneys defeat viscerally, achingly. Whistling in the dark to keep their spirits up, a few seek comfort in an incumbent winning even when economic recovery is anaemic. This weeks gures for UK construction, retail, services and manufacturing plunged again. Faced with an unshifting 10-point lag in the polls, the Conservatives are sprouting an array of anxious how to win groups: Conservative Voice, Blue Collar Conservatives, the Free Enterprise Group, and Strong and Compassionate. These are not really factions, not the wets and dries of Thatcher days. Though frustrated by coalition and angry with David Cameron for not doing better, this is not an ideologically riven party. Thats a danger: every party needs people to pull on both ends of the rope to keep it anchored. But the Tory party pulls all one way and Cameron is certainly not tugging on the other end. On hearing the Romney result, he spoke wanly of the need to be on common ground, but few Tories know where that is and even fewer want to go there. Since entering No 10 and abandoning all that go-green, family-friendly, NHS-loving, poverty-sympathy stu, Cameron has shown no inclination to return to the realm of nice. All these groups have 10- or 15-point plans that say the same thing: lower taxes, a smaller state, less spending, cut business tax. Scrap the Human Rights Act. Scrap regulation of childminders. Scrap maternity pay, says the Politeia thinktank. Let free schools make a prot. Cut wind farms, cut benets, freeze the minimum wage. The Institute for Economic Aairs, which helps fund the Free Enterprise Group of MPs, wants to privatise all roads, with companies xing their own speed limits. Its transport expert calls for grubbing up bike and bus lanes. All of them are, in
Camerons words, forever banging on about Europe. Just one drumbeat thunders through them all. As these same tropes were aired at every event at the Tory conference, another voice suddenly crashed in with a brisk reality check. Robert Halfon, MP for Harlow, told one meeting a story with a salutory warning. At a jubilee street party he asked a constituent what he did for a living. The man said, You wont like me if I tell you. When pressed, the man said: I work for the public sector and you dont like us. What exactly did he do? Im a reman. So how did it happen that the Conservatives have become the enemy of every public employee, Halfon asked? They are aspirational too. Instead, the Free Enterprise Group sees them all as parasites, labelling the whole UK workforce the worst idlers in the world. Halfon warns of the need to win what he calls the white-van Tory vote. He recalls that Mrs Thatcher had 170 Conservative trade union branches, all now gone. Halfons Essex seat, mostly white working class, would revert to Labour on current polls. With a ght on his hands, he has a tad more realism about what voters think than most of the other intensely ideological 2010 intake of MPs. In his surgery inside a Citizens Advice bureau in a shopping precinct, I sat with him listening to his constituents worries. A retired GP had a list of complaints about the local hospital where he had just been treated. A mother wheeled in a double buggy bearing newborn twins. She is an administrator on maternity leave, at her wits end, living with her partner and children aged seven and 13 in a tiny two-bedroom at with the twins, life was impossible. She was soon in tears. What can he do? Ill be on her side, and write a letter and try to get her pushed up the list, he said, but he admits the housing shortage is so acute hes not expecting a result. Next, a sickly man in his late 50s crept in on crutches to tell of the drilling hed had in his spine, the 80% paralysis in his leg, and his six-a-day painkillers. At a two-minute Atos test at a Romford centre with no disabled access, he was asked to raise his arms. Because he can, they certied him t for work and took away his 200 a month in disability benets. An appeal will take a year. Halfon promised to write and speed up the
appeal. As it happens, he himself walks on crutches, with a lifelong chronic disability. He has always relied on his disability living allowance to help him work, as it pays for his motability car. So what does he think about the abolition of DLA next April, when around 90,000 lose cars and mobility scooters? I think it is, perhaps, going a bit too far, cutting a bit too much, he says, but he doesnt resile from disability cuts altogether.
alfon is approachable and warm with his constituents. Honest about their lives, he sees the danger of his party of privilege doing a Romney the one-percenters alienating working-class people, women, trade unionists, the public sector and all those striving as prices rise and wages fall or disappear altogether. How should he connect with them? He looks over one shoulder at Ukip, the other at Labour. But ask what he would do and he oers no dierent prescription from Cameron and George Osbornes austerity, now causing a 250% increase in long-term young unemployment in Harlow. He wants less taxing and spending. His big campaign is on fuel tax: We have to show that tax cutting is moral. All these anxious new Tory groups see the demographic mountain to climb: no prime minister since the war increased their vote, not Thatcher, not Blair so how can Cameron? They know the challenge: the Blue Collar group says plebgate added to perceptions of a party not for ordinary people. Thrashing about, some like Tim Montgomerie say social conservatism on gay marriage and a married couples bonus would attract black Pentecostal churches. But how appealing to these churches is their tougher immigration stand? Anti-gay policy did nothing for Romney. A plaintive wail calls out for reconnecting with the people and their diagnosis is often right but their prescriptions are all for more of the same. Will Romneys defeat force a rethink? The view from Harlow is why it wont: this MP can see whats going wrong, but he just cannot force himself to change his views. Polly Toynbee is co-author of Dogma and Disarray Cameron at Half-time
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totally sucks. Its far from clear which of those responses would be the most disheartening because, even if they tell us how to solve our problems, their solutions might be amazingly stupid. Even if they reject us as their hopeless inferiors, it might be because they are a species just as neurotic, just as riddled with petty bigotries. It might be gross inequalities that disgust them, or it might be the musical stylings of Stock, Aitken and Waterman. Presumably, since we are not picking up broadcasts from Threapleton Holmes B, any civilisation there has not gone in for mass media, and is accordingly less likely to be already thoroughly conversant with every detail of our civilisation. Most other species in the galaxy, if there are any, probably regard us as the equivalent of the friend on Facebook and Twitter who posts every 30 seconds with invitations or unsubstantiated political rumours. Or perhaps theyll be so much like us that our rst conversations will be about the current status of Brangelina or the premature cancellation of Firey. Maybe rst contact wont be a dening moment in human history, just a story that hits the wrong point in the news cycle and goes away within hours and be exactly the same for them. Roz Kaveney is a critic and editor of Reading the Vampire Slayer
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Tarzan and the trees Britains shameful role in the international arms trade
Fifteen pages on the US elections (8 November), and only three short columns on page 16 of Chancellor Merkels attempt to get the UK to focus on whether or not it wishes to stay in the EU, is a distorted sense of news coverage. Important as the US election is, it is less important to the British people than our future in or out of the EU. Rather more coverage of the change in the Chinese leadership is also necessary. The news coverage in the UK does not reect the rapidly changing power relationships in the modern world. Am I alone in thinking that you have got this wrong? Clive Soley Lab, House of Lords Surely Tower Hamlets council has no legal right to sell the Henry Moore statue (Report, 8 November). The work was given to the ward conditionally and title passed accordingly. Once the condition of public exhibition is breached, title should revert to the estate of the sculptor. Any sale should be challenged accordingly. Colin Burke Manchester If Mr Heseltine feels he has wasted his time on local government, apparently unsupported by Cameron and Osborne and now selling o its heritage with all his resources, energy and passion for trees, wouldnt he make an excellent ash tsar? John Bailey St Albans, Hertfordshire I notice that your published piece by Louise Mensch (Comment, 8 November) criticising Nadine Dorries for blatant populism is positioned right next to Steve Bells cartoon of Mitt Romney as a pot, and Martin Kettles byline. Meow! Christopher Gordon Winchester, Hampshire Even if David Cameron installs a micro-brewery at No 10 (Letters, 8 November) hell never be able to organise a party there. Suzanne Saxby Wrexham Im planning to go down the chute to Clare Torrys astonishing vocal gymnastics on Great Gig in the Sky. The button must be pressed the moment she starts (Letters, 8 November). Ed Collard Nottingham How humiliating for British citizens that the prime minister tramps the world pimping for the UK arms manufacturers (Cameron heads to Gulf in bid to sell Typhoon ghter jets, 5 November). In September the target was Brazil, when he escorted six defence contractors on a sales spree. Now Saudi Arabia is the mark; one of the most repressive tyrannies on the planet which already has one of the largest stocks of armaments (at $48bn, it was the seventh largest military spender in 2011). The only potential enemy of the regime, terried by the implications of the Arab spring, is its own population. These are the people who could eventually suer and die from Camerons blandishments to the dictators. Jim McCluskey Twickenham, Middlesex What a supremely surreal and oensive sight it was to see our PM descend the steps of his aircraft and arrive in the Gulf states to boost British arms sales. Cameron tells us that arms sales to the Gulf are entirely legitimate (Report, 6 November). Well, maybe in commercial terms they are. But, as he descended those steps, his brilliant red poppy standing out against his dark suit, he clearly hadnt considered the moral legitimacy of his actions. To promote the selling of arms in Remembrance week suggests a man with either no scruples or very poor judgment. Are there no depths to which he and we will not sink? Osbert Sitwells great and dreadful poetic commentary The Next War once again rings so true. But why stop in the Gulf states powder keg? Maybe our PM could nip over to Argentina and sell a few arms there then we could have another scrap. It worked for Mrs Thatcher. Tony Beale Ruddington, Nottinghamshire Countries that sell arms to states that have repeatedly violated the human rights of their people should receive universal condemnation from their own citizens for the role they play in furthering the misery and bloodshed around the globe, and Britains sale of ghter jets to Saudi Arabia and the UAE should be no exception. Human Rights Watch has reported numerous human rights abuses conducted by both states, which have included the assault and intimidation of nonviolent human rights defenders, political activists and civil society actors in an attempt to suppress freedom of expression and protect the regimes from democratic change. Britains long-standing international support for democracy and human rights has already been undermined by the sale of 72 Typhoons to Saudi Arabia. Should Britain prop up these oppressive states further by putting an extra 6bn worth of military hardware into their hands, its position will rightly be viewed as hypocritical by the rest of the world. Andrew Lovatt Market Drayton, Shropshire If David Cameron is irritated by claims that he uses his overseas trips to sell defence equipment to countries with questionable human rights records, then surely the correct response would be to stop selling the weapons altogether rather than try to do so in secret. Or would he perhaps argue that he has to sell weapons because his prime ministerial predecessors destroyed so much of UK manufacturing that weapons are the only industry the country has left? Joseph Nicholas London
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Happy days
Stephen Mosss piece (Easy riders, G2, 8 November) reminded me of the documentary I directed for the South Bank Show in 1984 which explored the anity between Samuel Beckett and the music hall actor Max Wall. Eileen Atkins is right that people can be a bit too reverential with the work of Beckett. I recall meeting the playwright at the Riverside Studios before the shooting and enjoying many laughs with him. As part of the production I wanted some still pictures of Sam and Max together and asked Beckett if he would mind sitting next to Max. He said with relish that if I wanted, he would happily lie down for the shot. There was so much humour in the man and his work and Max was able to draw on this when he performed Krapps Last Tape and scenes from Waiting for Godot for our cameras. Eileen Atkins is right: you can laugh at Beckett, and I hope she does put up a notice encouraging the audience to do just that. Paul Foxall Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire
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Joe Melia
Noted actor of stage and screen who made his name in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
he British theatre changed for ever when Joe Melia, as the sardonic teacher Bri, pushed a severely disabled 10-year-old girl in a wheelchair on to the stage of the Glasgow Citizens in May 1967 and proceeded to make satirical jokes about the medical profession while his marriage was disintegrating. The play was Peter Nicholss A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, which transformed the way disability was discussed on the stage. It made the names overnight of its author, the director Michael Blakemore, and Melia. Albert Finney took over the role of Bri on Broadway. Flat-footed, slightly hunched, always leaning towards a point of view, Melia, who has died aged 77, was a distinctive and compassionate actor who brought a strain of the music hall to the stage, a sense of being an outsider. As he demonstrated in the Nichols play, he was more than adept at straddling the stage and the audience in a conspiracy of co-operation. He struck gold again with Nichols 10 years later when he played the foul-mouthed disciplinarian Corporal Len Bonny in the Royal Shakespeare Companys production of Privates on Parade, again directed by Blakemore (who also directed the 1983 film). Melia was hilarious, suspended in his own lunatic dyspepsia between the gormless Private Flowers, for whom the play is a rite of passage, Nigel Hawthornes Major Giles Flack and the antics of the army stage show led by Denis Quilley as the flouncing Captain Terri Dennis. Melias vaudevillian tendencies suited his clown roles such as Touchstone, Thersites and Autolycus during a 16-year spell at the RSC, with which he also won an Olivier supporting actor award in 1982 for his performance as a Jewish doctor who wants to become a true German in CP Taylors Good, while Alan Howard wrestled with the concept of being a good Nazi. Melia was born above a barbers shop in Camden, north London, the son of immigrant Italian parents who relocated to Leicester during the second world war. He attended the City of Leicester boys grammar school, did his national service with the Intelligence Corps and went to Downing College, Cambridge, where he read English and (spotted by Michael Frayn) appeared with the Footlights revue, which led directly to a film role in Too Many Crooks (1959), a criminal comedy romp starring Terry-Thomas, Sid James and George Cole. He then played two significant takeover roles in long-running hits: Peter Brooks production of the musical Irma La Douce and, in 1963, the Jonathan Miller material in Beyond the Fringe at the Fortune. He was so good in the latter that he was acclaimed by Miller himself, and went on to become a fixture on television comedy and satire shows for a decade or more, even appearing on the panel game Call My Bluff. Melia had a droll sense of humour and a dry wit. This put him in the frame for a wide range of stage roles, not just in revue-type material he warmed up for Beyond the Fringe in One to Another (1959) at the Lyric Hammersmith alongside Beryl Reid, Sheila Hancock and Patrick Wymark but also in such serious drama as Bernard Kopss Enter Solly Gold (1970), about a false messiah, disguised as a rabbi, who causes havoc in a materialistic household; and Whos Who (1973), a beautifully written adult sex comedy by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall in which he happily returned to the Fortune. Because of his ability to play sideways on to an audience, he was a perfect performer in Brecht, following an appearance in Happy End at the Royal Court in 1965 with the leading role of Macheath in Tony Richardsons gloriously eclectic production of The Threepenny Opera at the Prince of Wales in 1972, co-starring Vanessa Redgrave, Barbara Windsor and Hermione Baddeley. At the RSC, he went beyond clowning in his contribution to Terry Handss stunning production of Peter Barness
Other lives
Derek Hutchinson
My friend Derek Hutchinson, who has died aged 79, was known as the father of sea kayaking. He wrote the classic book Sea Canoeing (1976) and, as a member of the British Canoe Unions expeditions and sea touring committees, led numerous firsts including, also in 1976, the first unescorted group crossing of the North Sea by kayak, gaining recognition in the Guinness Book of Records for the 31-hour journey from Felixstowe to Ostend. Derek also led the first expedition to paddle Scotlands infamous Corryvreckan whirlpool and, in 1978, an expedition to the Aleutian Islands, filmed for the TV documentary Canoeing Into the Past. His other trips included Alaskas Inland Passage and a circumnavigation of Prince Edward Island. Born in South Shields, Derek attended Argyle House school in Sunderland and trained Derek Hutchinson led the rst unescorted crossing of the North Sea by kayak as a teacher at New College Durham. He taught craft, design and technology for 25 years at Greenwell school in Gateshead. Derek became captivated by kayaking after watching a pool demonstration by Alan Byde. During the 1960s and 70s he developed his own skills, eventually becoming a BCU senior coach. Working closely with the national coach Chris Hare, he helped develop the BCUs coaching awards in sea kayaking. With South Shields Volunteer Life Guard Club, Derek trained one of the first kayak beach rescue units in the UK. Over the years he carried out many successful rescues, including that of three horses stranded by the tide in Marsden Bay, which he managed by tying them to his kayak and leading them to safety round a headland. Derek designed many leading sea kayaks, including one he called the Baidarka, the first glassfibre kayak to have watertight bulkheads and hatches as standard fittings. He was a popular lecturer and his ability to tell a tale was second to none. He was still delivering on-water masterclasses at the age of 78. Derek is survived by his partner, Maureen, two sons, Clive and Graham, and a daughter, Fiona. His wife, Helene, predeceased him. Martin Meling Melia with Zena Walker in the 1967 production of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Photograph: The Scottish Theatre Archive
The Bewitched, a black, sardonic epic about the Spanish Inquisition, and in the rediscovery of John OKeefes longforgotten, riotous 18th-century Wild Oats which with a cast also including Howard, Zo Wanamaker and Jeremy Irons transferred from the Aldwych to the West End and re-entered the nations repertory. Hands who counted Melia an extraordinarily rich and complex talent was his ideal director, and he responded with a great gallery of RSC performances, not just as the scavenging, scampering Thersites in Handss black fur and burnished metal Troilus and Cressida (with David Suchet as Achilles), but also a cringing chief of police in Jean Genets brothel-bound The Balcony at the Barbican in 1987, the same year as his Autolycus in The Winters Tale, with Simon Russell Beale and Penny Downie. Television work ranged from an
ideally confidential storyteller on the BBC childrens programme Jackanory to a regular slot on series such as A Very Peculiar Practice and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (he was Mr Prosser) in the 1980s. His film work was sporadic, but included a small role in Joseph Loseys Modesty Blaise (1966), with Dirk Bogarde and Monica Vitti, and another one (the photographer) in Richard Attenboroughs Oh! What a Lovely War (1969).
Melia retained an objectivity that made him a Brechtian actor long before he appeared in Brecht
e last appeared with the RSC in 1989, as the Chorus in Peter Flannerys Singer, and his last notable West End roles, in 1992, were the subtly argumentative Burglar in Trevor Nunns handsome all-star Haymarket revival of Shaws Heartbreak House (with Paul Scoeld, Redgrave, Daniel Massey and Felicity Kendal) and one of the vivid theatricals in Pineros Trelawney of the Wells (with Michael Hordern, Sarah Brightman and Helena Bonham Carter). Melia was a strong and likable personality who could dominate any theatre green room. For many years, he and his wife, Flora, whom he married in 1963, lived in Primrose Hill, London, settling in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1998. Flora died in 2008. He is survived by two sons, Jonathan and Joseph. Michael Coveney
Peter Nichols writes: Joe Melias unique quality as an actor was his intelligence. Even when deep in character, he retained an objectivity that made him seem to be assessing the scene he was
in, a quality that made him a Brechtian actor long before he appeared in Brecht. Looking at photos of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg from 1967, that quality is there, even in stills of Joe looking intently at the cushion held by Zena Walker playing Bris wife, Sheila standing in for their disabled child. Joe and Zena were a dynamic duo. I take some credit for having proposed Joe for the role after seeing him in the film Four in the Morning (1965). Never an easy man, Joe was perverse enough not to take over the part on Broadway after Albert Finney had kickstarted it. The reason he gave was that the US was a fascist country. I later found him lining up at the passport office to go on holiday to Francos Spain, and asked the room in general: Is it all fascists in this queue? Joes remains the best embodiment of that part. Years later he was equally good as the dim, swearing Corporal Bonny in the play and film of Privates on Parade. He had the biggest laugh in the show with a line he made funnier by adding fucking, telling me: The rhythms better. Theyve been rehearsing it again this week for the Michael Grandage company at the Nol Coward theatre and Joes emendation is intact. Our families often mingled, and he made up for my failings as a father by taking my son to stand on the terraces at the old Arsenal ground, calling him to come out to play by bawling Come on, you Gunners! from the street outside. Joe (Giovanni) Philip William Melia, actor, born 23 January 1935; died 20 October 2012
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Murray goes for Tsonga Roger that Federer reaches nal four and a longer season
Tennis Kevin Mitchell 02 Arena
Andy Murray, still holding his aching body together with grit and plaster at the end of a momentous season, is about to have his rst Christmas at home in a few years although he would prefer his holiday did not start immediately after his match against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga tonight. Defeat by the Frenchman in the third Group A match of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals would almost certainly put the Scot out of the weekends semi-nals. Of the 10 possible scenarios in the group, four would see him survive, including one in which he loses to Tsonga in three sets, as long as Novak Djokovic takes three sets to account for Tomas Berdych earlier on. Whatever the strength of their rivalry, he would prefer Djokovic to win, making it tougher for Berdych to go through, and his path easier; whether the world No 1 would be happy for his long-time friend to complicate his drive for the title by staying in the mix is another matter. The only case in which Djokovic goes home early is if he loses in two sets to Berdych and Murray beats Tsonga in two sets. Ive won two matches here before and qualied, Murray said, and Ive won two matches and not qualied. The only way to guarantee is by winning three matches or by winning your rst two matches in straight sets. Its not easy to win comfortably here because youre playing against the best players on a quick surface. If Murrays newly barbered head hurts doing the maths, his back, knees and ankles at least do not appear to be giving him the grief they did when he all but collapsed in the early stages of the French Open. But he could do with a break. I havent taken a holiday the last few years because Ive gone straight from Miami [where he does his warm-winter training] to Australia [for the Open]. This year we will take a holiday, then Ill spend a few days at home over Christmas, for the rst time in a few years. He and the caravan of dream-chasers on the Tour spend precious little time in their expensive homes, especially those who invariably go deep in the draw. This year, it is dierent for Murray; he returns as a grand slam champion and an Olympic gold medallist, and he has noticed a slight change in the publics reaction to him. A little bit, he says, but nothing too drastic I didnt really want that to be the case either. When we are playing tournaments we dont really go out and about, walk the streets, go to restaurants and see loads of people. Maybe when Im at my home Ill see more of a change. It is two years since he had a proper extended break but he will not be turning to lard in the sunshine. Im happy to sit on the beach for a couple of days but, after that, I try to do [exercise] because, when you just lie around, your body stiens up. When you do start practising, it takes time to get back into it. I speak to Kim [Sears, his girlfriend] about where to go and we try to nd the most convenient place for the time weve got somewhere thats not a real hassle to get to. That, for me, is important because we do a lot of travelling. I dont want to go somewhere where its three or four ights away. Because the seasons long, it is nice when we do get some time o to just be at home. Im looking forward to it.
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Roger Federer beat David Ferrer in straight sets on day four of the ATP World Tour Finals in London but gave a laboured performance Julian Finney/Getty Images
Roger Federer rolls on, the not-so-old man by the river yet not so convincingly in dispatching David Ferrer in two tough sets to suggest strongly that he is going to win his seventh title here, the third in a row. He is the rst to qualify for the weekends climax to the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, though, and that will be a comfort. As with all Federer performances, there was artistry, but, when the job needed a shovel rather than a brush, he looked ill at ease, having to save nine of 10 break points, ghting against his serve and struggling to control his normally awless ground strokes. There were enough worrying dips in yesterdays 6-4, 7-6 win to feed the hopes of his peers. Can Novak Djokovic or Andy Murray do to the 31-year-old Swiss what the 30-year-old Spaniard could not? On this showing, yes. Here was the recent world No1 labouring against a player who, for all his ne attributes, brought so little to their 13 previous encounters that he could not manage a single win. Federer won 10 of those matches in straight sets, including all ve indoors, notably here the past two years. Before the match the rst in this season-ending nale between two 30-plus players since Andre Agassi played Goran Ivanisevic in Sydney 11 years ago Ferrer articulated the reason for the disparity: Hes just a better player than I am. And there was no denying a more obvious truth: a second-gear Federer was still too good for a Ferrer revving near the red-line. He makes you hit the extra shot, Federer said of Ferrer. He makes it physical. You know that mentally hes not going to go anywhere. Thats why he has so much respect from his fellow competitors. But, after he had secured his 14th win over this most rugged of sparring partners, they met at the net like old friends and Federers smile said it all.
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Fontwell
1.10 1.40 2.10 2.40 3.10 3.40 4.10 1.00 1.30 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 Chris Cook Portrait Emotion Annimation Jive Master Venetian Lad Overlay Bonoman Millers Pudsey Makhzoon Fightstar Marshmallow Jasperito Get The Papers Panthers Run Mansonien LAs Top Form Lord Of The Dun Rydalis Quaddick Lake Princely Hero Overlay Terra Bleu Radical Impact Spear Thistle Secret Desert Goat Castle Papamoa Ashes House Panthers Run Mansonien LAs
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Chris Cook Top Form 12.50 Stars Du Granits Schelm Kie 1.20 Glenora Gale 1.50 Swift Escape Swift Escape 2.20 Dannanceys Hill (nb) Dannanceys Hill 2.50 Hi George Simply Ned (nap) 3.20 Relax (nap) Balding Banker 3.50 Glingerburn Lord Usher (nb)
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Betting 9-4 Simply Ned, 9-2 Claude Carter, 5-1 Grand Diamond, 6-1 Bridlingtonbygones, 8-1 Nine Stories, 10-1 Unknown Rebel, Hi George. Simply Ned was fourth as joint-favourite in a better race on his comeback at Wetherby and, despite a 3lb rise, is still weighted to win. Bridlingtonbygones, Nine Stories and Unknown Rebel were behind him last time without excuses. Claude Carter has won twice at Market Rasen but the form is nothing special.
Betting 15-8 Relax, 7-2 Red Tanber, 4-1 Balding Banker, 6-1 Locked Inthepocket, 10-1 Blazin White Face, 16-1 Dica, One Fine Morning.
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Kevin Pietersen strikes another boundary on his way to a quick-re century in Englands last warm-up before the rst Test Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images
Scoreboard
England XI First innings *AN Cook c S Singh b Yadav........................................... 97 NRD Compton lbw b Mishra .......................................... 74 IJL Trott lbw b Mishra ................................................... 46 KP Pietersen retd hurt ............................................... 110 IR Bell not out ............................................................. 57 SR Patel not out ........................................................... 11 Extras (b7, lb1, w3, nb2).............................................. 13 Total (for 3, 90 overs) ................................................. 408 Fall 66, 211, 246. To bat MJ Prior, TT Bresnan, G Onions, SC Meaker, MS Panesar. Bowling Budhwar 15-3-62-0; Vashisht 21-1-115-0; Rana 19-6-48-0; C Saini 8-2-40-0; Yadav 16-1-85-1; Mishra 11-1-50-2. Haryana *A Mishra, AA Khod, AA Vashisht, C Saini, N Saini, J Yadav, R Dewan, Sandeep Singh, Sunny Singh, S Rana, S Budhwar. Toss England XI elected to bat. Umpires AM Saheba and C Shamsuddin.
Haryana captain withdrew himself from the ring line after eight overs. Dropped on the boundary when 85, Pietersen reached a hundred from only 86 deliveries, with 14 fours and three sixes, clobbered two more exotic boundaries and then retired to the pavilion. Retired hurt or retired out is a moot point. He had been limping a little at the crease (cramp apparently), and indulging in some extravagant stretching exercises while non-striker, although he did not seem hampered in his strokeplay. Some batsmen care about such semantics: it aects the average. Meanwhile Mishra, the little devil, promptly emerged from his bunker and brought himself back on. England nished
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How Celtics scouts unearthed hidden gems to outshine the jewels of Bara
The Glasgow club have assembled a cut-price squad to compete with the very best, writes Ewan Murray
When Celtic lifted the European Cup in 1967, all but one of their 15-man squad had been born within 10 miles of the clubs home ground. Forty-ve years on, another famous and indelible mark was etched in Celtics history by a distinctly more cosmopolitan group of players. Not that nationality will matter one iota to the Celtic support, who will rightly hail the heroes who defeated Barcelona on Champions League business on Wednesday night, but only one of the starting XI, Charlie Mulgrew, was Scottish-born. Albeit player values have been warped by the ability to move under freedom of contract, a glance at Celtics successful line-up in comparison to their Catalan opponents paints a striking picture. It also endorses just how impressive Celtics shock victory, and general performance, actually was. Earlier in this campaign, Celtic had held their own in the Camp Nou and scored three times in victory at Spartak Moscow. Five of the starting Celtic team Adam Matthews, Kelvin Wilson, Mulgrew, Mikael Lustig and Joe Ledley moved to Glasgow under freedom of contract. One, Miku, is a loan signing. Fraser Forster, Efe Ambrose, Kris Commons, Victor Wanyama and Georgios Samaras did command transfer fees but that gure, in total, is no more than 6m. Tony Watt, an 18-yearold who stepped from the bench to score Celtics crucial second goal, cost 50,000 from Airdrie United. Paltry figures, in other words, compared to the vast sums which are now thrown around by the clubs who prominently feature year on year in the Champions League. No Celtic player earns more than 1.5m a year as a basic wage; Barcelonas average annual salary is reported to be about 5m. Celtics ability to perform with distinction at Champions League level highlights how successfully they have recruited young players from far aeld. Under Neil Lennons predecessor, Tony Mowbray, too many players arrived at Celtic who lacked an ability to handle the pressures of Old Firm life. John Park, Celtics football development manager, is the man credited with sourcing the clutch of players who could now be sold on for considerable profit. During Parks time at Hibernian, the club produced and sold a number of exciting young players. Wanyama is Celtics case in point; a 21-year-old athletic midelder, with no shortage of passing talent, who cost just 900,000 from Beerschot in Belgium. Amid interest from top English clubs, Celtics manager Lennon spoke of Wanyama being valued at 25m. The Kenyans display against Barcelona oered food for thought to those who scoed at Lennons words. Wanyama is an example of the specic markets Celtic have targeted; those with aordable young players in terms of transfer fee and salary whom bigger clubs may be reluctant to take a chance on; other smaller leagues, essentially, which oer potentially hidden gems. For the players, there is the obvious lure of Champions League football and a decent shop window towards the English top ight. The full-back, Emilio Izaguirre, arrived from Honduran football for 600,000 after Celtic launched a specific scouting focus on the 2010 World Cup. Beram Kayal signed from Maccabi Haifa and Ki Sung-yueng, who was subsequently sold to Swansea City for three times the 2m Celtic paid for him, joined from FC Seoul. Commons, at just 300,000, represents one of Celtics best value for money purchases of recent times. Gary Hooper would have played against Barcelona and was poised to have joined Forster in the England squad named for next weeks friendly in Sweden, had the striker not picked up a hamstring injury. Alan Thompson, in 2004, is the only player to win an England cap while employed by Celtic. Lennon instantly took to Hooper and made him a priority signing after watching him play for Scunthorpe United, with Celtics manager taken by the scrapping qualities which are valuable when seeking Scottish Premier League goals. Hooper has surpassed Lennons aspirations and justied his faith; the 24-year-old is now tipped for a lucrative move to Englands Premier League. At face value, it is curious that Forster was overlooked for so long at Newcastle United. The goalkeeper found himself placed behind Shay Given, Steve Harper and Tim Krul in the pecking order at St James Park. Newcastle had decided Krul was a better prospect than Forster long before the latter made a 2m move to Celtic. It is in European matches over the past two seasons that Forsters form has been especially impressive. One Catalan newspaper yesterdaymorning dubbed Forster La Gran Muralla, The Great Wall. For Lennon, too, there has been an epic turnaround. Last October, Celtic found themselves 3-0 down within 45 minutes at Kilmarnock with their manager, by his own subsequent admission, wondering how to compose his resignation letter. Lennons team recovered to claim a draw that day, won the championship and are now making positive inroads in Europe. For the manager, whose own talent may well have been understated in the past, that is an achievement worthy of wide recognition.
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Emilio Izaguirre Motagua Injured for Barcelonas visit, with tness troubles halting what had been previously stunning progress for the left-back in Glasgow. Celtic stepped in ahead of Seattle Sounders to sign Izaguirre, 26, for just 600,000 from his home country, Honduras, after he impressed at the 2010 World Cup
Barcelona
Vctor Valds youth Dani Alves 23m Javier Mascherano 20m Jordi Alba 12m Marc Bartra youth Andrs Iniesta youth Alex Song 15m Xavi youth Lionel Messi youth Alexis Snchez 21m Pedro youth Subs used Cesc Fbregas 24m Gerard Piqu 5m David Villa 34m TOTAL 154m
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Fraser Forster Newcastle United Signed for Newcastles academy in 2005 and was contracted to the club until last summer, when Celtic turned an earlier loan deal into a permanent one. The 6ft 7in goalkeepers form, especially in European ties, has prompted a call-up to the past two England squads
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Tony Watt Airdrie United The scorer of Celtics second goal against Barcelona played only 15 rst team games for Airdrie United before Celtic signed him for 50,000. At 18, he is one of Scotlands brightest prospects. In just 11 appearances for Celtic, Watt has scored six goals
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Adam Matthews Cardi City The energetic 20-year-old defender is comfortable on either ank, as demonstrated when he was switched to left-back and excelled during Barcelonas visit. Enjoyed a stunning start to his career in Glasgow after arriving on a free transfer from Cardi City but had faded slightly before a terric display in the Champions League victory
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Gary Hooper Scunthorpe United Celtics top scorer has also attracted the attention of Roy Hodgson, who n would have called the 24-year-old into his squad for next ad weeks friendly in dly Sweden but for injury. Hooper was at Grays Athletic six years ago and arrived at Celtic via Scunthorpe United. Liverpool have ve been strongly y linked with a 9m bid
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Celtics Tony Watt, left, celebrates his decisive goal against Barcelona in the Champions League the 18-year-old was signed for 50,000 from Airdrie Scott Heppell/AP
Dominic Field
Six days into his life as manager of Crystal Palace and Ian Holloway is in the doghouse. My wife told me when I woke up how jolly I looked, he says. I told her: Thats because I cant wait to get out the house and in to work, love. Id best go home and apologise. There are clearly catches to boundless enthusiasm, though he has good reason to be eager. Holloway arrived at Selhurst Park last Saturday to take over a resurgent team lying fourth in the Championship. Dougie Freedman had left for Bolton Wanderers, his defection untimely and potentially disruptive, and yet the team the Scot left behind remain irrepressible. Blackburn Rovers and Ipswich Town have been dispatched in style to hoist the south London club to the Championships summit. The new manager, a near miracle worker over three years at Blackpool, watched in disbelief from the sidelines as opponents were left shattered by the experience of confronting Wilfried Zaha, Yannick Bola-
sie & co. This club have irted with disaster too often in recent seasons. Suddenly it feels like an opportunity again. Palaces progress owes much to astute owners who have learned from the lavish mistakes of previous regimes. The rst three league games may have been lost but they are now unbeaten in 12 and travel to Peterborough tomorrow apparently sweeping all before them. I walked into something that was running fantastically well, says Holloway. The investment, Dougies foresight, the structure Theyve got an academy setup here, a conveyor belt to the promised Ian Holloway, the Crystal Palace manager, claims it is frightening how far his new club, now unbeaten in 12 games, can go
land. Look at what we achieved at Blackpool. If we manage something similar here, its quite frightening where this club could end up. I want to unlock some of the lads from this area, young fellas who come from backgrounds that arent wealthy, and make them shine. Some are already doing that, notably Zaha. The England Under-21 winger turns 20 tomorrow with the co-owner Steve Parish having suggested bids of 20m in January will be laughed o. Zahas almost mesmeric, a genius with the ball, says Holloway. When hes facing up to someone, I feel for them. But hes at a place where hes loved, hes treasured. He has his own song. These bigwig rival clubs dont half covet talent and they try and stack em and rack em. The great thing about Palace is these lads know theyre going to get in the rst team with us rather than rot in someones reserves, getting frustrated worrying theyre losing time to become famous. Well
Wilfs got a song about him. Some of those Arsenal lads dont have songs about them, have they? They aint got a billboard with them on like he does. Sometimes youre at the right place at the right time. We hold all the cards. If anyone comes in, I know what the answer is going to be Can I be polite? Jog on. But dont think for one minute its just the Wilf Zaha show. That much is clear. Palaces squad may lack depth but the rst team has balance and quality. Glenn Murray has 13 goals already, having managed only seven last term. But footballs a funny game, says Holloway. Three league matches in and they had lost the lot, so there isnt a better example for this club to avoid becoming complacent than that. My club back then had won three in a row and I was manager of the month, but then we could hardly win again with the same players. How does that work? Lets get on with it, play it down, keep the enthusiasm With Holloway, the enthusiasm will never diminish.
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Results
Football
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE Group A P Anzhi Mhachkala 4 Liverpool 4 Young Boys 4 Udinese 4 Anzhi Mhachkala (1) 1 Traor 45 Udinese Group B Atltico Madrid Plzen Acadmica Hapoel Tel-Aviv Acadmica Plzen Group C Fenerbahce Borussia Mgladbach Marseille AEL Limassol Fenerbahce Marseille Group D Newcastle Bordeaux Club Brugge Martimo Club Brugge Trickovski 14 Jorgensen 19 18,000 Bordeaux Group E Steaua Bucharest VfB Stuttgart FC Copenhagen Molde FC Copenhagen Molde Group F Dnipro Napoli AIK Solna PSV Eindhoven AIK Solna Napoli P 4 4 4 4 (1) 1 (1) 4 W 3 2 1 1 D 0 0 1 1 L F 1 10 2 9 2 4 2 4 A Pts 7 9 8 6 8 4 4 4 (0) 0 (1) 2 P 4 4 4 4 (0) 0 (0) 1 W 3 1 1 1 D 1 2 1 0 L 0 1 2 3 F 7 4 2 4 A Pts 3 10 4 5 4 4 6 3 (0) 2 (2) 2 P 4 4 4 4 (2) 2 W 2 2 1 0 D 2 1 1 2 L 0 1 2 2 F 6 6 4 1 A Pts 2 8 4 7 7 4 4 2 (2) 2 P 4 4 4 4 W 3 1 1 0 D 1 2 2 1 L 0 1 1 3 F 9 6 9 1 A Pts 4 10 6 5 7 5 8 1 P 4 4 4 4 (1) 2 (2) 4 W 3 3 1 0 D 0 0 1 1 L 1 1 2 3 F A Pts 6 3 9 9 3 9 5 6 4 2 10 1 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 2 W 2 2 2 1 D 1 0 0 1 L 1 2 2 2 F A Pts 4 2 7 8 7 6 9 10 6 7 9 4 (0) 0 (1) 3 Group G Genk Videoton Basle Sporting Basle Sporting Group H P Rubin Kazan 4 Internazionale 4 Partizan Belgrade 4 Neftchi 4 Neftchi (0) 0 Partizan Belgrade (0) 1 Group I Lyon Sparta Prague Hapoel KS Athletic Bilbao Athletic Bilbao Hapoel KS Group J Lazio Tottenham Maribor Panathinaikos Tottenham Defoe 22 49 77 Lazio Group K P 3 4 4 3 (0) L (1) 1 P 4 4 4 4 (1) 3 W D L F 3 0 0 8 2 1 1 8 0 2 2 6 0 1 2 3 Lyon Sparta Prague W D 2 2 1 3 1 1 0 2 Maribor Beric 40 L 0 0 2 2 F 5 5 5 2 A Pts 5 9 5 7 9 2 6 1 (2) L (1) 1 A Pts 1 8 3 6 5 4 8 2 (1) 1 W D L F 3 1 0 6 3 1 0 9 0 1 3 1 0 1 3 1 Rubin Kazan Internazionale A Pts 2 10 4 10 6 1 5 1 (1) 1 (0) 3 P 4 4 4 4 (0) 1 (0) 1 W D L 2 2 0 2 0 2 1 2 1 0 2 2 Videoton Genk F 8 5 4 2 A Pts 4 8 5 6 4 5 6 2 (0) 0 (0) 1
Golf
BARCLAYS SINGAPORE OPEN (Sentosa) Leading rst-round scores (GB/Ire unless stated) Play abandoned for the day with 78 players still to complete rst round. 66 T Bjorn (Den). 67 P Martn (Sp); C Phadungsil (Tha); S Khan. 68 P Casey; K Tannin (HK); YE Yang (Kor). 69 H Otto (SA); G Mulroy (SA); D Howell; R Green (Aus); G Charoenkul (Tha); HS Rai (Ind); J Randhawa (Ind). 70 R Ramsay; P Meesawat (Tha); S Kapur (Ind); Y Ikeda (Jpn); A Dodt (Aus); J Quesne (Fr); E Molinari (It). 71 S Kjeldsen (Den); C Nilsson (Swe); A Scott (Aus); J Luiten (Neth); G Bhullar (Ind); A Caizares (Sp); P Hedblom (Swe); J Edfors (Swe). 72 A da Silva (Br); C Montgomerie; Peter Lawrie; R Jacquelin (Fr); L Slattery; A Yano (Jpn); S Gallacher; T Olesen (Den); A Que (Phi); M Foster; Mo J-k (Kor); B Wiesberger (Aut); M Hoey; D Kataoka (Jpn). 73 T Hamilton (US); D Lynn; U Duangdecha (Tha); J Morrison; Koh D-s (Sin); P Mickelson (US); K Aphibarnrat (Tha); W Artjanawat (Tha); Kim Bio (Kor); P Marksaeng (Tha); D Chia (Mal). 74 D Beck (Aus); R Davies; M Kobayashi (Jpn); M Both (Aus); R Kulacz (Aus); MA Jimnez (Sp); P Karmis (SA); P Harrington. 75 T Hiratsuka (Jpn); B Fox (US); M Siddikur (Ban); J Granberg (Fin).
Tennis
ATP WORLD TOUR FINALS (O2 Arena, London) Singles: Group B: R Federer (Swi) bt D Ferrer (Sp) 6-4 7-6 (7-5); JM del Potro (Arg) bt J Tipsarevic (Ser) 6-0 6-4. Doubles: Group A: L Paes & R Stepanek (Ind/Cz) bt M Granollers & M Lpez (Sp) 7-5 6-4; B Bryan & M Bryan (US) bt A-u-H Qureshi & J-J Rojer (Pak/Neth) 7-5 6-4.
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Football
NPOWER CHAMPIONSHIP Middlesbrough v Sheeld Wed (7.45pm) BLUE SQUARE BET PREMIER Alfreton Town v Newport County (7.45pm) IRN-BRU FIRST DIVISION Airdrie Utd v Livingston (7.45pm) BARCLAYS UNDER-21 PREMIER LEAGUE National Group One Arsenal v West Ham (1pm) Group Three Wolves v Middlesbrough (7pm)
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P Bayer Leverkusen 4 Metalist Kharkiv 3 Rosenborg 3 Rapid Vienna 4 Bayer Leverkusen (1) 3 Metalist Kharkiv (1) L Group L P Hannover 3 Levante 4 Twente 4 Helsingborg 3 Hannover (1) L Twente (0) 0
Rugby union
LV CUP Group stage Cardi Blues v Wasps (7.30pm); Ospreys v Gloucester (7.45pm); Saracens v Leicester (7.45pm) THE CHAMPIONSHIP Doncaster v Bedford (7.45pm); Newcastle v Nottingham (8pm); Plymouth Albion v London Scottish (7.45pm)
THE WORD WELSH LEAGUE CUP Semi-nals Carmarthen L Llanelli L; The New Saints 5 Airbus UK 2 THE NEXTGEN SERIES Group Two Manchester City 2 Juventus 3 Group Three Chelsea 6 Molde 0
Cricket
FIRST TEST (rst day of ve) Brisbane Australia v South Africa (midnight) TOUR MATCH (second day of four) Ahmedabad Haryana v England (4am)
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Liverpool 0
Brendan Rodgers last night claimed it was disrespectful to suggest selection policy was wrong after his Liverpool team lost by the only goal to Anzhi Makhachkala in Moscow. The Reds, who left players such as Steven Gerrard and Luis Surez at home, were beaten by Lacina Traors goal seconds before half-time. Rodgers felt the team, which contained nine Englishmen, one of them a debutant in Conor Coady, and had an average age of just under 24, had performed well. The defeat means Liverpool concede top spot in the group to Anzhi. The manager, asked whether bringing Gerrard and the others would have made a dierence, said: Not at all. I think that is a little disrespectful to the players who are here. They have been magnicent and I thought they did really well and we just got punished for a mistake. That led to us losing the game but I dont think it was anything to do with Surez, Gerrard, Joe Allen, Martin Skrtel or Daniel Agger not being here. It was just one of those things. Traors goal came when he turned Sebastin Coates and lobbed the goalAnzhi Makhachkala 4-4-2 Gabulov; Samba, Carlos, Tagirbekov, Logashov; Boussoufa, Jucilei, Ahmedov (Gonzalez, 29), Zhirkov; Etoo, Traor (Smolov, 80). Subs not used Pomazan, Gadzhibekov, Agalarov, Lakhiyalov, Burmistrov. Liverpool 3-5-1-1 Jones; Carragher, Coates, Wisdom; Flanagan, Henderson, Coady (Suso, 61, Shelvey, Downing; Cole (Assaidi, 77); Morgan (Pacheco, 61). Subs not used Gulacsi, Wilson, Sama, Robinson. Referee D Borbalan (Sp)
NK Maribor 1
Beric 40
Jermain Defoe struck a hat-trick to give Tottenham Hotspur the rst win of their Europa League campaign and restore the feelgood factor to White Hart Lane. The performance had its imperfections, notably the defensive blunder that gifted Robert Beric a goal for the visitors, but at least Andr Villas-Boass side brimmed with the vibrance and attacking intent that their supporters crave. Villas-Boas has trumpeted his desire to win this tournament with Tottenham as he did with Porto and, after three draws in his teams rst three matches, identied the visit of the Slovenian champions as a dening moment that would impart a clearer idea of what we can achieve in the competition. Accordingly, he insisted that he would give no thought to the Sundays trip to Manchester City when selecting his team but his line-up suggested he may have considered the boos from Tottenham fans during last Saturdays defeat by Wigan Athletic. A feature of the transitional stage that Tottenham are traversing under their new manager is that they have sometimes appeared inhibited by uncertainty. But
there was no sign of that at the start here, as they tore into Maribor from the outset, Adebayor and Gareth Bale both going close with headers from corners. Bale quickly became Spurs preferred route of attack and in the 15th minute but neither of the strikers was on hand to convert after he pulled the ball across the face of goal. One minute later Bale excelled again before offering another inviting cross but Defoe could only skim a header wide from eight yards. Still, with Aaron Lennon also often threatening, the sight of Tottenhams wingers in ight gave the home fans cause for satisfaction. Satisfaction turned to jubilation in the 21st minute when Defoe, 30 seconds after heading an Adebayor cross straight at the goalkeeper, exploited a slip by his marker, Aleksander Rajcevic, and turned a Bale cross into the corner of the net from 10 yards. Spurs have let leads slip too many times this season but there appeared little initial prospect of them re-oending here, as Bale, in particular, continued to torment the visitors, rst forcing Jasmin Fabrice Muamba made an emotional return to White Hart Lane where he suered a cardiac arrest in March this year
Handanovic into an awkward save and then, on the half hour mark, curling in a cross that Adebayor headed into the goalkeepers arms. Soon, however, Tottenham tread on the self-destruct button. Maribor mustered their rst shot in the 31st minute when a long-range effort from Ales Mertelj that ew just over via a ricochet o Tom Carroll. Then, in the 38th minute, the hitherto redundant Hugo Lloris spooned a low Tavares cross up into the air and was grateful that Goran Cvijanovic headed over. There was no reprieve two minutes later when Kyle Naughton put the French goalkeeper under pressure with a shoddy back pass and Lloris tried and failed to dribble past Beric, who relieved him of the ball and rolled it into the empty net. Tottenham fans, who until then had been interspersing their cheers with pointed chants of Yiddos in deance of the Society of Black Lawyers threat to reports such chants to the police for prosecution, were stunned into silence. During the break they regained their voice to give a rapturous reception to Fabrice Muamba, the former Bolton Wanderers midelder who was appearing at the ground for the rst time since March, when he suered the cardiac arrest that threatened his life and cost him his career. I just wanted to see the place and put closure on everything, said Mua-
Group J
P W D L F A GD Pts
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mba, who is now heading the Hearts and Goals campaign to raise aware of sudden cardiac arrest. Maribor emerged from the interval with fresh belief and looked dangerous, but Tottenham quickly quelled the uprising. In the 49th minute Naughton redeemed his earlier error by venturing forward and slipping an astute pass through to Defoe, who red past Handanovic from 12 yards. Adebayor should have settled matters moments in the 55th minute but, after a clever lofted pass from Bale, he dragged a volley laughably wide from seven yards. Defoe put the result beyond doubt in the 77th minute when he slid in to convert another Bale cross and complete his hat-trick.
Tottenham Hotspur 4-4-2 Lloris; Walker, Dawson, Vertonghen, Naughton; Lennon (Falqu, 90), Carroll, Huddlestone, Bale (Mason, 86); Defoe (Dempsey, 82), Adebayor. Subs not used Cudicini, Gallas, Livermore, Sigurdsson. NK Maribor 4-5-1 Handanovic; Milec, Rajcevic, Arghus, Mejac; Cvijanovic (Mezga, 69), Mertelj (Dodek, 89), Filipovic, Ibraimi, Tavares (Komazec, 76); Beric. Subs not used Pridigar, Vidovic, Potokar, Viler. Referee A Munukka (Fin).
keeper Brad Jones for his fourth goal in six matches. Rodgers said the players know what went wrong and he felt the team he picked had justied his selection. We controlled the game for 44 minutes and 50 seconds of the rst half. We made a bad mistake and got punished and that is the level. Coady, who captained England Under17s to their rst European Championship title in 2010 and has progressed through the academy, played his rst game in an icy-cold Lokomotiv Stadium. Adam Morgan made only his second start and was given the dicult job of leading the line. In the rst half, chances were at a premium, which made it all the more remarkable that when presented with a shooting opportunity by Morgan, Jordan Henderson declined to do so in the 23rd minute. At the other end the former Barcelona forward Samuel Etoo forced Jones into a good save from Yuri Zhirkovs cross. The substitutes Suso and Dani Pacheco, on for Morgan and Coady, gave the Liverpool forward line some more youthful impetus but Jones had to make another good save from a Traor header. PA
Group A
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Newcastle United 2
Anita 41, Shola Ameobi 43
Alan Pardew predicted big things for Sammy Ameobi after he combined with brother Shola to spark a Europa League ghtback against Club Brugge. The 20-year-old was a key gure as Newcastle United cancelled out Club Brugges early two-goal lead to claim at point and ease closer to qualication for the knockout stage. It was his 43rd-minute pass that 31-year-old Shola converted two minutes after Vurnon Anita had dragged the visitors back into the game, and Pardew was delighted with his contribution. The Newcastle manager said: I thought they were both good tonight. We had Ameobi to Ameobi which is almost like a song for the second goal, which was nice. It
was a great little turn from Sammy. He has just got this way of getting out of corners that I have not seen many players being able to get out of. He wriggles out of situations. He still needs to tighten up a little bit on the tactical and intelligence sides of the game. He takes people on where perhaps he should pass. But he will learn that. He showed his talent tonight and he marks at set plays, which he needs to do. Hes 6ft 5in. Hes not very good at it but hes learning. Newcastle got o to a catastrophic start as the hosts raced into a 2-0 lead, aided and abetted by some dreadful defending. Ivan Trickovski took advantage of Fabricio
Group D
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8 7 4 2
Coloccinis indecision to control Ryan Donks 14th-minute long ball and beat Tim Krul, and Jesper Jorgensen doubled the score within ve minutes after shooting home from 20 yards. But it was the visitors who nished the half with a urry, Anita volleying home his rst goal for the club four minutes before the break and Shola Ameobi levelling. Both sides could have won it in the second half: the Newcastle substitute Yohan Cabaye hit the bar with a free-kick and Krul made a series of ne saves to deny Brugge but a point kept the visitors at the top of the group. Pardew said: I wasnt too concerned. I thought we would score goals tonight, it was just important not to let any more in. We got a great goal from Anita after a good bit of pressure and then immediately got
the second before half-time, which was a bonus, really. We came in at half-time in a strong position and really all we did second half was just to make sure defensively we were sound, and apart from a few break-aways and a couple of set plays, I thought we were and it was just about whether we were going to score the winner. We hit the bar and had a couple of good situations but overall, I am delighted. They have got pace in their team, so they are always going to be a threat. The draw leaves Newcastle knowing victory over Maritmo at St James Park a game the midelder Cheik Tiot will miss through
suspension after picking up his third booking in the competition tonight on 22 November will ensure their progression. We are going to have to kick ourselves if we dont beat Maritmo at home, with all due respect to them, Pardew added. We have got ourselves in a great position and are looking to just wrap the league up perhaps with that win there. The caretaker Brugge manager, Philippe Clement, was in philosophical mood after the game: I think as a team, we can be happy with the way we played. For the supporters of both sides, it was a very good European game with a lot of ght, mentality and chances.
Club Brugge 4-4-1-1 Jorgacevic; Jordi Almeback, Hoefkens, Hogli; Trickovski (Tchite, h-t), Odjidja-Ofoe (Lagrou, 81), Donk; Jorgensen; Lestienne; Bacca. Subs not used Kujovic, Vleminckx, Buysse, Engels, Verstraete. Referee L Banti (It) Newcastle 4-1-4-1 Krull, Anita, Williamson (Taylor, 58), Coloccini, Tavernier; Tiot; Sa Ameobi, Marveaux (Amaltano, 83), Bigirimana (Cabaye, 72), Obertan, Sh Ameobi Subs not used Elliot, Santon, Cabaye, Cisse, Amaltano, Steven Taylor, Ferguson
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Rugby union Autumn internationals Youngs leads march of the next generation
Robert Kitson
Stuart Lancaster has officially called a halt to Twickenhams Dads Army era by picking the least experienced England matchday squad for more than a decade. The starting XV to face Fiji tomorrow contains only 215 caps but Lancaster rejects suggestions he is taking an unacceptable risk by naming the most callow group since England toured Argentina in 2002. The inclusion of the uncapped hooker Tom Youngs, plus the presence of the 21-year-old replacements Joe Launchbury and Mako Vunipola, is a far cry from last years World Cup, when the starting lineup in the quarter-nal contained 709 caps in total. Lancaster is not concerned, arguing past England regimes have been guilty of picking players too late. Traditionally in England weve not given young players the opportunity when theyve been ready, but were prepared to do that, said Lancaster, who succeeded Martin Johnson as head coach last November. Its not a risk in the slightest. Weve picked the players who are on form. Were not doing it at the expense of wanting to win. The guys are playing well in the Premiership and deserve their chance to start. Theres no issue about someone being too old or too young. Its an intuitive feel about whos right for the team and where the team is going. Lancaster wants England to arrive at the 2015 World Cup in more settled shape than they have at the past two. The All Blacks dont seem to go through this period of renewal; its a gradual drip feed of change. Thats the way we should be from now on. I dont see England in the next eight to 12 years having to go through the same change weve had this time. Youngs, selected in place of the injured Dylan Hartley, has been a hooker only since 2009 after switching from centre on the advice of the Springboks coach, Heyneke Meyer. Launchbury and Vunipola also have limited top-level experience but Lancaster believes the modern generation are better equipped to succeed than their predecessors. There are far more prepared technically and physically. The younger players havent got all the aches and pains associated with playing for a long time at this level.
Stuart Lancaster, left, and his coaches Andy Farrell and, far right, Mike Catt have been leading training at Pennyhill Park in Surrey. The trio have high hopes for a cerebral display from players such as Alex Goode, above running at Toby Flood, and Brad Barritt, below Getty Images; PA
Shaun Edwards
year ago, Steve Hansen looked to be on a hiding to nothing. New Zealand were still celebrating the World Cup they had won a fortnight earlier, Graham Henry basked in the glow of having removed a particularly tactile monkey from the All Blacks back, and Hansen was waiting in the wings. It had to be downhill from then on, didnt it? Well no.
The interesting bit is the pace at which g Hansen is remodelling the All Blacks
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no problems when they played together in 2007 but weve not had a situation yet where weve been on a different page. I think thats important, otherwise the players see through it very quickly. One of those shared philosophies has been to select a second backline orchestrator to take some of the pressure o Toby Flood at No10. Alex, having been a yhalf, brings an extra footballing dimension into our back line which allows us to move the ball in certain ways, Lancaster said. It also allows the head coach to pick two direct centres without necessarily reducing the teams ability to weave subtler patterns. We want to be able to play o 12 as well as just having options o 10. Alex gives us that second ball-player. The next objective is to mould Tuilagi and others into more rounded players, instinctively comfortable with this allcourt philosophy. Thats the reason Mike Catts been brought into the equation to allow players to develop different areas of their game. If we can add to the repertoire of every player, well get closer to being a complete side. If Tuilagi ends up at 12 playing as eectively as Maa Nonu, Lancaster will still not be entirely satised. Its not the Nonu model Im thinking of, its the Sonny Bill Williams at 12 and Conrad Smith at 13 model. It seemed to work pretty eectively for New Zealand. Goode, about to make his rst Twickenham start, also believes more variety is the way forward. The game is shifting. Centres are getting bigger and bigger, and maybe you need more of a passing, kicking player at full-back. You also get a wonderful viewpoint of where the space is. If its on, you have a chance to manipulate that space. Of course there have to be caveats. There is an opposing team, for a start. Listening to Flood, though, is to suspect Fiji will have their hands full. With the speed weve got on the wings and Alexs vision at full-back we want to go out and play a game that encourages people to enjoy it, conrmed Flood. It doesnt necessarily mean throwing the ball around, it means doing the right things, doing them well and turning the screw with ball in hand and our kicking game. It could be a very interesting autumn.
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Sutton follows Wiggins into hospital after suering head injury in crash
William Fotheringham
All of Britains Olympic cyclists regularly mention the dangers they encounter when riding on the road. On Wednesday and yesterday those risks were reiterated when the sports biggest star, Bradley Wiggins, and his mentor, Shane Sutton, the British Cycling head coach, ended up in hospital after being in collision with vehicles in separate incidents 15 hours apart. Wiggins was released yesterday with minor injuries while Sutton was expected to remain in hospital for several days as doctors monitor his recovery from bleeding on the brain. Wiggins suered severe bruising to his ribs and hands after being knocked o his bike on Wednesday evening as a motorist in a van pulled out of a service station a few miles from the Tour de France winners home in the village of Eccleston. Eyewitnesses said he was in considerable pain and complaining of rib injuries, and the force of the impact shattered the wing mirror of the van. The Tour de France winner was taken to the Royal Preston hospital where he was given morphine and had a scan to his head, because, although he reported no head injuries, his helmet smashed in the impact. He was kept in overnight and left hospital yesterday morning. Richard Freeman, Team Skys doctor, said: Bradley has been discharged from hospital after suering minor injuries, including bruises to his right hand and ribs, but is expected to make a full and speedy recovery. He is now going to spend the weekend at home convalescing with his family. It was not immediately Shane Sutton, the British Cycling head coach, suered bruising and bleeding on the brain after a collision with a car clear when Wiggins would be able to ride his bike again but the fact he had no broken bones implied that his preparations for next years Giro dItalia would not be seriously aected. Sutton had been returning to his at from his regular pre-work bike ride at about 9am yesterday morning when he was in collision with a Peugeot 206 in Levenshulme, about three and a half miles from the Manchester velodrome where Team Sky and the Olympic cycling team are based. He too was wearing a helmet, but is said to have fallen heavily on his head and was taken to Salford Royal hospital, which specialises in head injuries. Shane was taken into hospital where it was identied he has suered bruising and bleeding on the brain, said British Cycling. He is set to undergo more tests, and is likely to stay in hospital for the next few days. It is extremely rare that our riders and coaches are hurt while out cycling on the road, even rarer that two incidents should occur in a short space of time. The British Cycling head coach has been close to Wiggins for more than 10 years. Wiggins has said Sutton played a key role in his recovery after a disastrous Tour de France in 2010. He described the Australian as the only person who could put me on the right footing, who could tell me things I didnt want to hear at times when I might not want to hear them.
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