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NEWS
WORLD
SECTION 2
BUSINESS
SPORT
Editorials
VOIC ES
DILEMMAS
ECONOMIC VIEW
Ian Birrell
Virginia Ironside
Ben Chu
BRI E FI N G
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1.2bn
Extra investment in robots
required to boost the
economy by as much as
60.5bn over the next
decade, Barclays bank says
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News
Unite backs
Corbyn in
face of revolt
on Syria by
senior MPs
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one highly placed source said.
He is one who has always
believed in more internal
democracy, not less. He has
always believed in reducing the power of the party
leader; now hes being the
most centralising leader in
Labour Party history. This is
a small cabal within the leaders office.
But Mr McCluskey, whose
Unite union is Labours biggest source of funds, said in
an article for The Huffington
Post website: He [Corbyn]
has been denounced for writing to MPs and party members
making his views on Syria clear
as if his huge mandate, which
included support for his longstanding anti-war record, had
simply earned him the right to
be seen but not heard.
Yet at the same time members of the Shadow Cabinet are
making their own pro-bombing views plain, either publicly
or in off-the-record briefings.
And backbench MPs are even
calling on him to quit for having the temerity to maintain
his values and principles. The
thought that some Labour
MPs might be prepared to
play intra-party politics over
an issue such as this will sicken
all decent people.
And he warned: Any
WEAPO N OF CHOICE
B RIMSTO NE MISSILE S
Jeremy
Corbyn
(left on the
Marr Show)
and Dame
Vivienne
Westwood
join
campaigners
in London
yesterday
calling for
action on
climate
change PA
Any
attempt to
force him
out will be
resisted all
the way by
Unite
ON OTHE R
PAGE S
Ian Burrell:
The leftwing media
resisting
the lure of
Corbynmania
P.38
I have no idea if Im to
the left, the centre, or
shaking it all about. But
Jeremy has my support
News
white hooded top, white baseball cap and jeans, then fled on
a moped.
Staff discovered the can,
which did not ignite, when
they opened up the mosque
on Saturday morning. Police
are treating the incident as a
hate crime.
The Metropolitan Police
urged anyone who recognises
the man in the footage to get
in touch. A spokesman said
high visibility patrols were
Police released
this image of a
man suspected
of an arson
attack on a
London mosque
PAUL PEACHEY
TV chef
Jamie Oliver
championed
a drive
for labels
indicating
spoonfuls of
sugar in fizzy
drinks
T R ISTAN
FE W IN GS/
GE T T Y
Kim Murray (centre) joins the Barmy Army of fans as her husband, Andy, helps to power the GB team to a historic win g etty/ lta
international development
minister, admitting that he
should have set alarm bells
ringing sooner about reports
of bullying and bad behaviour
during his time as the partys
co-chairman.
In September, a 21-year-old
Tory activist, Elliott Johnson,
was found dead on a railway
line in Buckinghamshire. A
coroner revealed that he had
left a note complaining of
being bullied.
In the month before his
death, Mr Johnson was
involved in an angry confrontation with Mr Clarke in
a pub. Mr Clarke has denied
allegations of bullying, and has
said he will speak about what
happened after the coroners
inquest has been completed.
Mr Clarke was known as
the Tatler Tory because
of a magazine article that
tipped him as a future cabinet minister. He stood as the
Tory candidate in Tooting in
the 2010 general election,
but lost the seat to Labours
Sadiq Khan, and his political
ambition was then thwarted
when he was denied a place
on the candidates list for the
2015 election, apparently
because reports of his personal behaviour had reached
party headquarters.
Cut off by Conservative
HQ, Mr Clarke took it upon
himself to organise RoadTrip
2015, which bussed young
News
news in
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PEOPLE
politic s
A 100,000-name petition
will be handed in to
10Downing Street today
by campaigners against a
trade deal being negotiated
between the EU and the
US. Activists are pressing
the Government to make
sure the NHS is not
affected by the Transatlantic
Trade and Investment
Partnership.
CAHAL MILMO
AND TOM BAWDEN
UK banks
Forger says Da Vinci is Sally from the Co-Op
face threat
before experts concluded it
his new memoir to describe
was by the Italian master.
how he based the portrait
from global
But Shaun Greenhalgh,
on Sally, a co-worker at the
A renowned British forger has
who was jailed in 2006 after he
Co-Op where he worked in
warming
claimed that he is the creator
was revealed as the creator of
Bolton. Greenhalgh writes:
CAHAL MILMO
Tom BAwden
Environment editor
Policemen
fight with
climate
change
activists
at the
Place de la
Republique
in Paris
yesterday
Lau r ent
Cip r ia ni / a p
On othe r
pag e s
When Paris
police turned
on Algerian
protesters
and why
it matters
today
P.26
Shaun
Greenhalgh says
he drew the
work in 1978 on
an old vellum
document
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11 Mike Wells (Prudential), 11.393m
12 Rakesh Kapoor (Reckitt Benckiser),
11.237m
13 Paul Richardson (WPP), 11.219m
14 Christopher Silva (Allied Minds), 9.658m
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16 Andrew Griffith (Sky), 8.861m
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With a 43m
annual pay
packet, Sir
Martin Sorrell
is Britains
top-paid boss
g ett y
Gap between
bosses pay and
average wage
gets even wider
Andy m c smith
It is a
disgrace
that top
execs are
taking an
even bigger
share
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Scott Saunders
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after Lord Sugar
tore apart
everything he
had ever done
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speaker, mentor and model,
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Sunday. Thank you for the
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The capitals
new ethnic
minority:
Italian
Bengalis
We know
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broadcast to
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the White
House
in 1943
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G ett y
Letters, writing
and speeches by
Churchill given
heritage status
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The draft of
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NHS patients sent for treatment at smaller private hospitals are being put at risk
because of unsafe staffing
and facilities, according to a
report by an anti-privatisation
think-tank.
Nurses without specialist
training, high levels of agency
staff on post-operative wards
and hygiene weaknesses were
among the alleged risks identified by the Centre for Health
and the Public Interest.
Analysis of 15 Care Quality
Commission investigations
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Englands six main private
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good by the regulator.
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children, says one of Britains
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Turkish soldiers overlooking the Syrian town of Kobani. Kurdish forces have captured regions near the Turkish frontier, but Ankara says it will resist a further Kurdish advance with military force A F P/ Gett y
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This is an
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YPG fighters, who are Turkish
citizens and were killed fighting Isis, to be taken back across
the border into Turkey.
The US move follows
increasing international criticism of Turkey for what is seen
as its long-term tolerance of,
and possible complicity with,
Isis and other extremist jihadi
groups such as al-Qaedas
branch in Syria, Jabhat alNusra and Ahrar al-Sham. Not
only have thousands of foreign
fighters passed through Turkey on their way to join Isis,
but crude oil from oilfields
seized by Isis in north-east
Syria has been transported
to Turkey for sale, providing
much of the revenue of the
self-declared Islamic State.
Last week a Turkish court
jailed two prominent journalists for publishing pictures
of a Turkish lorry delivering
ammunition to opposition
fighters in Syria. President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed
that the weapons were destined for Turkmen paramilitaries allied to Turkey fighting
in Syria, but this was denied by
Turkish political leaders close
to the Turkmen.
Turkey is now under heavy
pressure from the US and Russia, with President Vladimir
Putin directly accusing Ankara
of aiding Isis and al-Qaeda. In
the wake of the shooting down
of a Russian aircraft by a Turkish jet, Russia is launching
heavy air strikes in support of
the Syrian armys advance to
control the western end of the
Syrian-Turkish border.
The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights said a Russian air strike
on the town of Ariha yesterday
killed 18 people and wounded
dozens more. Meanwhile Turkey said it had now received
the body of the pilot killed
when the plane was shot
down and would repatriate it
to Moscow.
The US demand that Turkey
finally close the border west
of Jarabulus could, if Turkey
complies, prove more damaging to Isis than increased air
strikes by the US, France and,
possibly Britain. The YPG has
closed half the Syrian frontier
over the past year and defeated
EU de a l on ref ugees
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Gaziantep
TURKEY
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Y PG
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Jarabulus
Kilis
Stretch of border
US is urging Turkey
to cordon off
Aleppo
Area of
concern
YPG
CON TROL
Euphrates
SYRIA
IS IS
CONTROL
Idlib
Raqqa
The game
has
changed.
Enough is
enough.
The border
must close
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Bollywood actor Aamir Khan with his wife, film director Kiran Rao, and
three-year-old son Azad earlier this year A F P/ Getty
had largely avoided the
inter-faith tensions that surface repeatedly elsewhere.
Many leading men are Muslims, a fact that has been no
apparent impediment to their
success, and mixed marriages
are not unusual. But now Khan
has been pointedly reminded
of his religion and, as one veteran actor cautioned him to
remember: This country has
made you.
Since Mr Modi and the
BJP came to power last year,
critics say affiliated conservative Hindu groups have been
emboldened to claim India as
a Hindu nation, with a corresponding definition of what is
a true Indian and patriot. The
Prime Minister has been too
slow to condemn a series of
violent attacks against Muslims, his critics claim, and
some say BJP members have
been instrumental in fanning
communal flames.
My wife
fears for
her child
and asks if
we should
move out
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World
French police
observe the
march of
between
20,000 and
30,000
pro-FLN
Algerians
in Paris in
1961. They
would later
massacre
hundreds
of the
protesters
af p/g ett y
They
should
learn
lessons
about their
own
history
27
Pope Francis visits a refugee camp in Bangui, Central African Republic, yesterday A P P h oto /Andr ew Medi c hini
Cystic
fibrosis
sufferer
Mahmoud
Kuweifi
was refused
permission
to cross into
Israel for
treatment
Security
concerns
should not
hamper
access to
health
services
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Sean OGrady on the Commonwealth Robert Fisk on Syrian moderates Ian Birrell on the future
Monday 30.11.15
Voices
Not one Muslim I
know thinks war in
Syria is justified
yasmin alibhai-brown
Protesters against British military involvement in Syria outside Downing Street af p/ g ett y
forced to share space with Isis will. And
Britain will not take any responsibility for
the new wave of dispossessed people forced
to flee their homes. We care so much about
Syrians that we give them no refuge when
they come here. They do not matter at all in
the calculations being made. Non-European
lives were devalued over many centuries
and remain so today. Islamists and Western
militaries between them have killed and
injured hundreds of thousands of people in
Africa, Asia and the Arab world.
The allies want to obliterate Raqqa
because it is an Isis stronghold. Mona, who
fled the place, has this to say: How can I
condemn the killing in Paris, but stay silent
about the bombings in Syria? Are we cheap
and their lives valuable? The locations could
be wrong; they could kill civilians. It could
be my family. Yassin Haj Saleh, a writer and
intellectual born in Raqqa, is also against
Britain going into Syria: A quarter of a
million of my people have been killed. Are
they saying British lives are more important
than our lives? Answer these people,
Hollande and Cameron, before you go and
add to the chaos.
Promises come in thick and fast, as
unreliable as all those made before on
30
Voices
Robert Fisk
70,000 moderate fighters
in Syria? Its another
Cameron fallacy
The Kurds cant defeat Isis because they face bombardment from Britains ally Turkey af p/ g ett y
the mythical 70,000 moderates? Is this
unspeakably valiant committee so stupid
that it does not tell the Prime Minister
about the Saudi Wahabi death cult, which is
the direct religious and sectarian inspiration
for Isis? And if it did tell Cameron such a
thing, why didnt he talk about the Saudis in
the Commons last week?
No, we are not at war. Isis can massacre
our innocents, but it is not invading us. Isis
is not about to capture Paris or London as
we and the Americans captured Baghdad
and Mosul in 2003. No. What Isis intends
to do is to persuade us to destroy ourselves.
Isis wants us to hate our Muslim minorities.
It wants civil war in France between the
Sean
OGrady
The Commonwealth is
liberal, lefty and more
needed than ever
Ian
Birrell
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Britains mainstream
media is complicit
in an unofficial
Establishment
offensive
my daughter, I received
emergency interventions
to stop the bleeding. I
later needed to go to
the operating theatre to
complete the delivery under
a general anaesthetic with
intravenous antibiotics to
prevent infection.
I do not have the words to
express our loss. However,
I am conscious of the things
we must remain grateful
for, especially with the
awareness of how many
women suffer in childbirth
over the world. Countries
such as South Sudan
have a devastatingly high
maternal death rate, with an
estimated one in 50 women
dying due to pregnancy.
When I worked there (for
Mdecins Sans Frontires)
I saw first-hand that except
for aid agencies there
were no hospitals, trained
midwives and doctors,
quality antibiotics or safe
blood transfusions. There
was no hope of seeking
help when the worst-case
scenario happened, as it did
for me.
In just one week, the
attac k on c orbyn
disappointing
productivity, we should
all actively support our
doctors.
Jonathan Barnes
London N4
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Malambo
jousters,
including
(far left)
2011
champion
Rodolfo
Gonzlez
Alcntara;
below left,
contestants
focus on the
test ahead
Dieg o
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Section2/Life
i put
myself
in their
shoes
Behind the scenes of every murder case are family liaison
officers who offer a lifeline to victims relatives. Its harrowing
work, but also rewarding, they tell simo n usborne
It was a measure of the horror of the case that
the judge began to cry while he sentenced the
murderers. Mr Justice Dingemans had just
told Nathan Matthews that he would serve at
least 33 years in prison for killing his stepsister, Becky Watts, and dismembering her body.
Matthews partner, Shauna Hoare, received
a 17-year sentence for manslaughter after the
trial this month.
Finally, I should like to pay public tribute to
the family of Becky for the dignified way in which
they have conducted themselves throughout
these proceedings, the judge, a father of teenage girls, said when his voice began to tremble.
Hearing the evidence during the trial has been
difficult for anyone but it is plain that it has been
an immense burden for the family.
It had been, and on the steps of Bristol Crown
Court after the guilty verdict two days earlier,
Beckys uncle, Sam Galsworthy, was quick to
express the familys gratitude to the police. He
named two officers, using their first names. The
women stood behind him, where they had been
for several months. We would like to thank our
Solicitors
Medical
Negligence
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Were serious
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1999 Macpherson Inquiry into the Metropolitan Polices investigation of the 1993 murder in
south-east London revealed widespread failings, not least in the way police dealt with the
teenagers family. Race was central, but so was a
lack of proper training and professionalism.
The reports recommendations included an
overhaul of family liaison. Avon and Somerset
Constabulary, which investigates roughly seven
murders a year, was the first force in the country
to formalise its FLO training 15 years ago. Copik
now manages around 80 detective constables
who have FLO training and voluntarily do family liaison between regular detective work.
Two FLOs are assigned to a family after a murder or when a child goes missing, which is how
the Watts case started when the 16-year-old disap-
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family of
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I suffer from a phobia
about dirt, and although
I have tried to keep it
under control, and my
wife has done all she can
to help me, its getting
worse. Now my wife says
shes come to the end of
her tether and unless I
leave for a few months to
give her a break, shell
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What shall I do?
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a persons minds way of distracting itself
38
Section2/Media
The Media
Column
Ian
Burrell
Surely we
should be
allowed
to know
when the
police are
arresting
people
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Jason
Cowley
says his
magazine
is sceptical
about
Labours
new leader
C ha r l ie
F o r gh am
Ba i l e y
A hard-hitting debut
from Vice UKs chief
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Section2/Arts
growing old
disgracefully
In their new exhibition Gilbert and George once avant-garde, now part of the art establishment attempt
to shock with a set of wilfully crude, very expensive banners. Art has moved on, argues kar en w r i g ht
Jay Joplings sizable White Cube outpost in
Bermondsey, south-east London, is home to
Gilbert and Georges latest exhibition, The
Banners. Entering the space I am confronted by
a wall-mounted sign offering signed posters for
10 or a set of 10 for 50. Christmas presents,
perhaps? With slogans that read Fuck the
Planet or Burn that Book, probably not.
This is not the work of some disaffected
youth in the depths of the East End, but of the
performance duo Gilbert and George. Gilbert
Gilbert Proesch was born in Italy in 1943 and
grew up with Ladin as his first language. George
George Passmore was born in 1942 and grew
up in Portsmouth. They met at Saint Martins
School of Art on 25 September 1967 and it was
love at first sight, they say. They claim to have
married in 2008. They are perhaps most famous
for their sartorial smartness, matching suits
and their walks around London, in particular
around Fournier Street in East London, where
they have done up a townhouse in exquisite
taste to hold themselves and their work.
I give this biography as it is necessary to put
all of their artwork into context. These are
no young men but have been making work
together for over 40 years, determined to
shock far longer then their descendants, the
group destined to be called Young British Artists forever.
These banners were first unveiled at the
recent Serpentine Marathon 2015, the theme
of which was transformation. The duo stood
silently holding up the banners, facing the audience. A photograph in the catalogue (a steal for
5) captures the moment with the audience
seemingly rapt, many recording the moment
for posterity on their mobile phones. A short
preface by Michael Bracewell, now the designated Gilbert and George interpreter, explains
that the banners were first shown in the presence of Hans-Ulrich Obrist, another fierce supporter of the duo, and extols the beauty of the
crudely signed banners with their rude and, one
feels, deliberately offensive slogans.
In order to make it all historically correct,
he draws an historical analogy with a Gilbert
and George magazine sculpture from 1969,
in which photographs of the duo are entitled
George the Cunt and Gilbert the Shit.
Another of their early works saw them as
living sculptures, sprayed bronze and singing Underneath the Arches in the Nigel
Greenwood Gallery, the then small gallery
that represented them. Art for all was the
slogan that they invoked. Then there were the
huge charcoal drawings, allegedly done on the
boat from England to Germany, because they
werent at all ready for their show with Kasper
Knig, their first gallerist in Dsseldorf.
Double
trouble:
Gilbert
Proesch
(left) and
George
Passmore
have worked
together for
40 years;
two of the
works from
their new
show (right)
A F P/ gett y;
g i l b er t and
g eo r ge /
w hite c u be
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Magic and
Mittens
The singer and Harry Potter composer Imogen Heap has
invented a pair of gloves that makes music. By em i ly jupp
Box of
tricks:
Imogen
Heap in the
studio at
her Essex
home
M IC H A
T H E I N ER
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Section2/Arts
T H E M ONDAY BOO K
A beguilingly surreal
slice of South
African satire
POP
T H EA T RE
Prophets of rage
kick off with the
rockets of rave
The Folly
By Ivan Vladislavi
And Other Stories Publishing, 10
r e v ie w By Jo natha n Gi bbs
Maritime romance
goes down a storm
Pericles
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London
re vie w By paul tay lo r
Firestarter: Prodigy still have the high energy levels of their heyday afp/ g etty
The Prodigy/Public Enemy
Hydro, Glasgow
r eview By DAVI D PO L LOCK
POP
Theres something about this Kent twopiece that means you cant quite take
them seriously. Whether its the bovver
boy get-up, the faux edgy name or the
primitive garage-punk that would have been
considered derivative in 1978, they seem
more like a comic book pastiche of a punk
duo than a band whose top-10 debut album
has been shortlisted for the Mercury Prize.
Not that this bothered the first-night
audience of Slaves sold-out UK tour.
Singer/stand-up drummer Isaac Holman
and guitarist Laurie Vincent may consider
their band to be as much about social
commentary as anything else, but for the
excitable crowd a bouncing mass from
opener White Knuckle Ride onwards
this is pure jump-up-and-down catharsis.
Sure, the lyrics may touch on the
mundanity of the nine-to-five or, in the case
of Do Something, aspire to be anti-apathy
rallying cries, but Slaves are no Sleaford
Mods. Indeed, a new song about television
is built around a chorus of hypnotise,
which is about as insightful as it gets. Its all
gumption over craft yet this live act is an
object lesson in how far an energetic stage
presence and primal riffs will take you.
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Television&Radio
Critics choice
By G ERARD G I L BER T
Simply Nigella
8.30pm BBC2
Different days require
certain types of food,
reckons Nigella. So, down
to the nitty-gritty and were
talking a salad of salmon,
avocado, watercress and
pumpkin seeds, and a
chicken shawarma.
Tomorrows Food
9pm BBC1
It doesnt answer back, it
doesnt call in sick and its
never late, coos Angela
Hartnett as she invites a
robot into her kitchen.
Hartnett also jets off to
Canada to visit an insect
murder investigation as
police try to discover who
stabbed to death 19-year-old
Bristol student, Nicholas
Robinson, in March 2014.
Britains Outlaws:
Highwaymen,
Pirates and Rogues
9pm and 2.50am BBC4
The difference between
a pirate and a privateer is
apparently that the latter
was a pirate licensed by the
British Crown to raid ships
belonging to His Majestys
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series continues with the
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Film choice
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Monday 30 November
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and subjugation, mutual
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while holidaying in Kenya
with the explicit intention
of paying for sex.
Radio choice
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(Ulrich Seidl, 2012)
In the first part of Seidls
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Obituaries
Conservationist. Born: 1923
Norman Moore
Celebrated authority on
dragonflies whose work also
led to a reduction in the
use of damaging pesticides
Norman Moore was one of the most influential
figures in nature conservation in the second
half of the 20th century. He was a world authority on dragonflies and their conservation, and
led the team that studied the effects of toxic
chemicals on wildlife, work which eventually
led to a reduction of the use of harmful pesticides such as DDT and dieldrin.
He was the founder and first Chairman of
the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Groups
and a strong advocate of the integration of
conservation and land-use policy. A natural
diplomat, he matched old-world courtesy and
charm with a mastery of his various briefs to
persuade others that nature conservation was
in their interests as well as his. Self-effacing and
reflective, he was widely regarded as British
nature conservations elder statesman and an
effective ambassador for nature.
Moore was born in London but brought up in
Lewes, the son of a doctor, Sir Alan Moore. In
1934 the family moved to Hancox, near Battle
in rural Sussex. From boyhood, Moore was a
keen naturalist. His first passion was for birds,
but by his teens he had become fascinated by
dragonflies, for which he coined the phrase
the bird watchers insect.
His first scientific paper, Rare Lepidoptera
and Odonata in East Sussex, was published
in 1939. Moore was educated at Eton College
and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read
Natural Sciences, specialising in zoology, and
was President of the University Bird Club.
His studies were interrupted by war service.
He was called up in 1942 and served as a gunnery officer in the Royal Artillery in Normandy
and Holland. Late in 1944 he was seriously
wounded in the leg by an artillery shell and
taken prisoner. At the end of the war he trained
gunners on Salisbury Plain before returning to
Cambridge.
After completing his degree in zoology in
1948, Moore joined a group of graduates on
a three-month zoological expedition to The
Gambia. Going on to teach zoology at Bristol University, Moore devoted much of his
research time to studying British dragonflies
in the field, with emphasis on their territorial
behaviour. His thesis, On the ecology and
behaviour of adult dragonflies, led to a PhD
in 1953.
As part of his research he followed the daily
rounds of individually marked dragonflies. His
dedication was such that, when the dragonfly he was stalking went to sleep at 9.20 pm,
Moore decided to follow suit in his sleeping
bag a few yards away. They woke up together at
dawn, and, at 8.26, noted Moore, it cleaned its
Moore: he demonstrated how biodiversity dwindles as the fragments of wild land become smaller and more isolated, and that rare species go first
eyes and antennae with its forelegs. Nearly half
an hour later it flew and caught a fly. He drew
on this meticulous observation in his first book,
Dragonflies (1960), co-written with Cynthia
Longfield and Philip Corbet.
In 1953 Moore was offered the post of regional
officer for South-west England in the recently
formed Nature Conservancy. His directions
were, simply, to get to know South-west England better than anyone else.
Based at Furzebrook Research Station
among the heaths and marshes of the Isle of
Purbeck, he documented in detail the loss
and fragmentation of the once continuous
heathland through agricultural improvement
and tree-planting. He also demonstrated how
biodiversity dwindles as the fragments of wild
land became smaller and more isolated, with
the rarer species going first.
Moores solution was a crash programme of
nature reserve acquisition. He helped to establish the first National Nature Reserves in the
region, including Yarner Wood, Hartland Moor
and Morden Bog, although it took 20 years to
achieve his target of a suite of reserves representing all the best habitats.
With the help of the British Trust for Ornithology Moore organised a nationwide survey
of the buzzard, whose favourite food, the rabbit,
had been reduced by myxomatosis. Monitoring showed that the average clutch size had
fallen by half. Fortunately the buzzard proved
adaptable and took to foraging humbler food
such as earthworms and berries. It was persecution, not food supply, which was restricting
buzzard numbers.
In 1960 Moore was appointed Head of
the Toxic Chemicals and Wildlife Division
at Monks Wood Experimental Station near
Huntingdon. His task was to organise research
on the effects of pesticides on wildlife. The work
was given a valuable boost by Rachel Carsons
Norman Winfrid Moore, zoologist and conservationist: born London 24 February 1923;
married 1950 Janet Singer (died 2014; two
daughters, one son); died Swavesey, Cambridgeshire 21 October 2015.
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Birthdays
BIRTHDAYS
Jack Reece
Reece in
1990 with
his record
catch;
he saw
the links
between
angling and
policing,
saying,
You get the
right bait,
you catch
the fish;
the bigger
the bait,
the bigger
the fish
He was
shocked
when
Magee was
freed. We
worked our
butts off
to get that
result,
he said
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Weather
ILLUSTRATIONS BY SA RA H MCMENEM Y/ T H E A R T WO R K S
Belfast
10 Wind direction
Today
7|3
Max Min
Celsius
Wed
Thu
Outlook
Edinburgh
Cloudy with rain for much of the UK today with falls of snow
likely on some northern hills. However, it will be brighter in
northern Scotland with a mix of sunny spells and scattered
wintry showers. Windy in the south.
4|1
10 Wind dire
ection
Today
Max Min
Celsius
Fri
Tue
Outlook
Wed
Thu
Fri
13 | 11
12 | 4
6|3
8|7
SW 17
SW 17
W8
SW 14
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
13 | 11
13 | 4
6|2
8|5
SW 12
SW 15
W6
W 12
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
14 | 11
14 | 6
9|3
8|5
SW 20
SW 18
SW 9
W 12
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
14 | 10
14 | 9
11 | 4
9|5
SW 19
SW 18
SW 14
W 13
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
16 | 12
15 | 12
13 | 6
11 | 7
SW 16
SW 15
SW 12
W9
Outlook
Max | Min
Celsius
12 | 4
13 | 11
Wind direction
and speed/mph
SW 16
S 20
7|4
SW 12
Max/Min
Celsius
Aberdeen
10 | 8
SW 14
Wind direction
and speed/mph
10
10
Glasgow
Manchester
Newcastle
20
Today
12 | 6
6|3
Belfast
Hull
Manchester
Wed
Thu
Liverpool
Fri
Outlook
14 | 11
Wind direction
and speed/mph
13 | 7
SW 15
SW 17
9|3
SW 10
9|5
W 11
15
Yesterdays
high in The UK
Wed
Thu
14 | 11
SW 15
14 | 8
S 16
10 | 4
S 11
10 | 5
SW 8
30
14 | 11
Rain at times
It looks set to be cloudy and wet with
rain for most of the day.
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Outlook
Max | Min
Celsius
Wind direction
and speed/mph
City
Alicante
Amsterdam
Athens
Bangkok
Barbados
Barcelona
Berlin
Bucharest
Buenos Aires
Cairo
Cape Town
Copenhagen
Corfu
Dubai
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Johannesburg
Los Angeles
SW 20
Plymouth
14 | 10
SW 16
12 | 6
SW 14
10 | 8
W 14
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sh
f
f
sh
s
c
f
f
f
s
sh
f
f
f
c
f
f
Avonmouth
Cork
Dover
Greenock
Harwich
Holyhead
9.51
7.11
1.22
3.03
2.04
12.51
Portsmouth
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City
Majorca
Melbourne
Miami
Moscow
New York
Nice
Paris
Reykjavik
Rome
Seychelles
Singapore
Sydney
Tenerife
Tokyo
Vancouver
Venice
Warsaw
Wellington
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s
c
f
c
f
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12
12
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22
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5
7
4
17
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63
64
81
25
61
54
54
18
55
84
90
77
72
57
41
45
39
63
9.02
1.40
4.18
8.52
1.41
10.43
Tue
Thu
Fri
Tue
14 | 12
14 | 12
12 | 7
12 | 9
SW 21
SW 24
SW 19
NW 11
Max/Min
Celsius
Wind direction
and speed/mph
Norwich
15
Today
13 | 8
Spells of rain
It will be cloudy with spells of rain
through much of the day.
Max | Min
Celsius
Wind direction
and speed/mph
25
15 | 12
Occasional rain
It looks set to be mostly cloudy with
rain from time to time.
Wed
Thu
Fri
Outlook
Outlook
Wind direction
and speed/mph
Today
Occasional rain
A windy day with showery rain moving
in at times. Very mild.
Wed
Max | Min
Celsius
London
30
14 | 11
Rain at times
Mostly cloudy and windy with spells of
rain from time to time.
Spells of rain
Cloudy for much of the day with
frequent outbreaks of rain.
Outlook
Today
14 | 12
10 | 5
Outlook
F
64
50
63
90
82
54
43
39
70
73
86
41
61
82
73
54
73
64
High tides
14 | 11
C
18
10
17
32
28
12
6
4
21
23
30
5
16
28
23
12
23
18
15
Today
Sunrise
& Sunsets
Rises
07:41
Sets
15:56
L. Glascarnoch
Today
Wind direction
and speed/mph
Moon
Phase
Rhyl
Fri
Outlook
Max | Min
Celsius
Yesterdays
low in The UK
13
Wind direction
and speed/mph
Leeds
30
13 | 10
Max | Min
Celsius
Wind direction
and speed/mph
Brighton
Today
Tue
Max | Min
Celsius
London
Bristol
Exeter
Birmingham
Cardiff
Outlook
Cambridge
Max | Min
Celsius
10
Today
Carlisle
Outlook
14 | 12
14 | 12
13 | 6
11 | 8
SW 21
SW 21
SW 18
W 12
Max | Min
Celsius
Wind direction
and speed/mph
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Debbie
Crosbie,
the chief
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signed
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banknotes
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Ben Chu
Economic View
After the Little Red
Book was flourished
in Parliament, lets
reassess Maos legacy
LIT T L E R E D F AI L U RE
GDP PER CAPITA, CONSTANT PRICES, INTERNATIONAL DOLLAR
$s
CHINA SOUTH KOREA TAIWAN
,
The Mao Zedong
,
era
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
SOURCE: MACROBOND, MADDISON HISTORICAL DATA
The Beatles
understood that the
Chinese dictator
was a major turn-off.
If you go carrying
pictures of Chairman Mao, you aint going
to make it with anyone anyhow, sang John
Lennon in Revolution. John McDonnell
has learnt that lesson the hard way after
his stunt at the Despatch Box last week, in
which Labours shadow Chancellor thought
it would be funny to wave a copy of Mao
Zedongs little red book.
As the media, inevitably, rushed to
uncover further evidence of Maoist
sympathies among the Labour front
bench a television clip of Diane Abbott
in 2008 resurfaced in which the shadow
International Development minister argues:
I suppose some people will judge that on
balance Mao did more good than harm. You
cant say that about the Nazis.
More good than harm. Its a line that
does sound rather similar to the official
verdict of the Communist Party in Beijing,
which states that Mao was 70 per cent
correct in his decisions. Orville Schell
and John Delury in their recent book on
China, Wealth and Power, offer a revisionist
take on Maos society-shredding Cultural
Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Like
a forest fire that clears the way for new
growth it may have prepared the way to
usher in spectacular new economic growth,
they argue. Schell and Delury are not
Communist diehards but two senior fellows
of Americas respected Asia Society.
In a Channel 4 documentary on China
a couple of years ago the right-wing
historian and official biographer of Henry
Kissinger, Niall Ferguson argued along
similar revisionist lines about the Chinese
dictator. Explaining the reasons for Chinas
phenomenal economic progress in recent
decades, he informed viewers the key thing
to grasp is the indispensable role played
by Maos system of mass mobilisation.
It has become an increasingly respectable
argument to assert that, despite the tens of
millions of Chinese who were undoubtedly
done to death under Mao, he prepared
the ground for the countrys economic
modernisation with his Great Leap
Forward and his Cultural Revolution.
Is this a reasonable conclusion? Did Mao
really do more good than harm?
The answer is no, it is not a reasonable
conclusion. Maos terrorisation of the
Chinese population in the Cultural
Revolution did not create the conditions for
Chinas economic take-off in the late 1970s.
We can say that with confidence because
we know its possible for poor countries to
experience rapid industrialisation without
Mao-style terror. Japan showed that in the
19th century, when it transformed from
a largely medieval society to a modern
Victorian economy in a matter of decades.
And, more pertinently, Taiwan and South
Korea demonstrated it in the 1950s and
1960s, when their growth far outstripped
that of Maoist China, having begun from
similar poverty-saturated starting points.
While the regimes in Taipei and Seoul were
hardly liberal democratic utopias (both
were ruled by rather unpleasant military
Mao Zedong learning from the peasants in 1958 Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
strongmen) they experienced nothing akin
to Maoism.
In the Cultural Revolution families
were ripped apart as young children were
brainwashed by the Mao personality cult
and encouraged to persecute their own
parents for being insufficiently committed
to the twisted ideology. Millions of young
town dwellers were uprooted and sent
to the countryside to learn from the
peasants. The old culture of China was
ruthlessly attacked, and the population
cowed by hordes of violent and bigoted
Red Guards. The economic success of
countries such as Taiwan and South Korea
(and Chinas parallel failure) sprang not
from such grotesque mass mobilisation
but from sensible economic policies.
Development economists and historians
disagree on how precisely poor nations
become rich nations. But one of the most
coherent and plausible theories from an
East Asian perspective is that land reform
is an essential first step. The aristocratic
estates that keep the vast majority of the
population in debt bondage and on the
verge of serfdom must first be broken up
in an egalitarian drive. After being given
their own decent-sized holdings peasants
become enthusiastic market gardeners.
They successfully grow enough crops
not only to feed their families but also to
generate a surplus to sell on. State direction
of the farmers savings, through a controlled
national financial system, into protected,
yet export-oriented, new industries turns
the wheel of industrialisation in a virtuous
economic circle. Growth and living
standards take-off.
This is a pattern that links all the major
East Asian states that successfully grew into
rich countries in the post-war era. And what
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5539.66
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Div Yield
-10.18
-9.56
-9.28
-9.20
-8.73
-7.40
-7.28
-6.96
-6.62
-6.22
PE
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14.22
15.74
3.07
16.05
61.37
52.24
17.92
69.33
10.18
20.49
22.20
12.91
10.02
21.63
33.87
28.32
23.33
4.96
18.86
29.52
16.30
35.40
32.79
10.93
28.46
21.82
35.30
20.26
15.03
51.67
11.73
23.29
73.23
22.80
28.97
7.69
23.83
6.36
44.31
23.08
11.67
16.66
20.36
22.05
23.67
25.17
6.74
23.07
13.25
14.41
4.03
16.34
43.18
46.81
16.84
17.59
25.47
22.24
4.74
17.40
18.49
16.95
14.27
15.41
17.82
23.69
14.11
27.84
9.38
15.06
10.02
10.48
10.59
70.45
29.48
33.66
29.44
19.58
45.05
58.29
14.17
30.09
16.51
17.52
26.40
8.64
16.21
27.57
16.27
2.39
18.94
49.97
22.46
24.59
10.38
21.63
46.36
18.70
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David Prosser
Small Talk
Why did scary
stories about zombie
companies fail to
turn into reality?
Remember the
zombies? A couple
of years back, the
banks were accused
of massaging their
business failure figures by allowing indebted
businesses to delay repaying their loans the
suggestion was that while these zombie
businesses had no future, the banks were
reluctant to force their closure because they
feared further attacks for failing to support
small and medium-sized enterprises.
Happily, data from R3, the insolvency
industry trade body, show there has been a
dramatic reduction in the number of zombie
businesses still out there and not because
more have gone under. R3 defines these
companies as those that are only able to pay
the interest on their debts, rather than any of
the capital owed: while there were 154,000
businesses in this position in August 2014, the
number today is just 69,000. Thats the lowest
total since R3 began such research in 2012.
R3s figures also show that only 97,000
businesses are so strapped for cash that
theyre having to negotiate payment terms
with their creditors down from 135,000 last
year.
These trends are mirrored in official figures
showing that fewer businesses are failing. The
Office of National Statistics says that 9.6 per
cent of businesses shut last year, down from
9.7 per cent in 2013, and the lowest figure
since 2008, before the financial crisis.
So were the zombie claims overblown?
Well, certainly this horror film has turned out
to be far less frightening than many expected;
on the other hand, its fair to say many
businesses have got lucky.
The single most significant explanation
for the unexpected recovery of all those
zombies is that interest rates have remained
at rock-bottom levels for far longer than
anyone predicted. Every time economists
have begun to think that the Bank of England
might finally be on the verge of raising rates,
a new slew of negative data or fresh shocks
such as the Chinese slowdown have changed
the game. Most analysts do not now expect
the first interest rate rise before the autumn of
next year.
Artificially low borrowing rates as well as
falling energy and commodity prices, and flat
inflation generally have given businesses a
breathing space in which to recover that they
would never have been granted in normal
times. The banks forbearance policies may
Part-time project
ended up with
sales of 7.5m
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bu sine ss
pe rso n of
the wee k
Vincent Ferguson
Founder, Inciner8
I started the company in
2003. My background was
in poultry farming and then
selling equipment to poultry
farmers. Wed had crises
such as BSE and bird flu,
and in all the concern about
cross-contamination, I saw
an opportunity for a business
specialising in farm animal
incineration equipment.
From the start I dreamt
this would be an export
business the idea of selling
to other countries really
thrilled me. I set up quite an
elaborate website by teaching
myself how to build internet
pages, and our first order
came from Norfolk Island in
the Pacific ocean. I realised
that if I could sell there, I
could sell anywhere.
We expanded into
medical waste incineration,
and our breakthrough came
when we got an order from
the American military for
facilities in Iraq. I think they
thought we were a much
bigger business than we
were not least because of
that website but by doing
a good job for them we went
from pretending to be a
global player in the industry
to actually becoming one.
They recommended us to all
sorts of people, and we built