No Place Like Home: Amelia Gentleman Meets The Families Forced To Live in B&Bs

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No place like home

Amelia Gentleman meets the families forced to live in B&Bs
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What happened to the capsule and the balloon? As soon as it was conrmed that Baumgartner had landed safely, the attention of mission control shifted to the balloon and capsule. The team remotely detached the capsule from the balloon, allowing it to fall back to Earth under its own parachute. It hit the ground 55 miles east of Baumgartners own landing site. The balloon was deated via a nylon destruct line, with the lightweight balloon material falling back to Earth to be gathered and removed by truck. Why did he not break up, or pass out, when he went supersonic? The precise physiological exertions experienced by Baumgartners body as he momentarily reached 833.9mph during his descent are still being studied. All we know is that he survived, which proves that pre-jump speculation that his body might explode or disintegrate were ill-founded. What was special about the suit? The suit was modelled on those worn by pilots of high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, but it had never been tried in a free-fall before Baumgartner started testing it. It had four layers consisting of both breathable Gore-Tex, and heat- and ame-resistant Nomex. The internal layer was a comfort liner. Next was a gas membrane that helped to retain air pressure. A restraint layer then helped to maintain the suits shape. Finally, the external layer was Nomex to protect against re and temperature extremes. What was the biggest danger? His team identied 16 key risks. They included ultraviolet radiation, wind shear, landing impact, extreme temperatures, hypoxia (oxygen starvation), decompression sickness, entering a at spin during the descent and re aboard the capsule. But the team said two dangers hung over Baumgartner above all others a breach in the suit or capsule, and the accidental deployment of a parachute. How did they know where he would fall? Baumgartners landing site was 23 miles from where the balloon had taken o several hours earlier. His team waited for the perfect weather conditions when high-altitude winds that might have caused his balloon to drift
(Left) Felix Baumgartner celebrates his record-breaking skydive in New Mexico; (above) the Austrian skydiver jumps o his platform; (below) his $250,000 balloon
were at a minimum. Once he exited his free-fall by deploying his parachute, Baumgartner was able to steer himself to a preferred landing spot. How long will it be before every Tom, Dick and Harry adventureseeker is queuing up to do this? The non-reusable balloon used by Baumgartner cost $250,000, with the wider cost to the sponsor Red Bull of the record attempt estimated to have cost many millions of dollars. This will put o most copycats, but the high-prole stunt is expected to provoke a surge in interest for parachuting. Leo Hickman
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t started, as much trouble does, with a furtive text. Homelands corrupt congressman Nicholas Brody sent a message saying simply May 1, to alert Abu Nazir, the worlds most wanted (ctional) terrorist, to the fact that the US government had snipers positioned to assassinate him. At the time Brody, was holed up in a bunker in the depths of the Pentagon. His fellow ocials failed to notice that he was using his mobile, which would, in the real world, never have been allowed through security. This isnt the rst time Homeland has sacriced plausibility for drama, but Sundays episode sparked the loudest chorus of backlash since the show began. The journalist Mehdi Hasan admitted on Twitter that hes gripped by Homeland, despite its dodgy agenda and poor fact-checking, pointing out that Carrie refers to jumaah as morning prayer, when it actuMeteorology Wakehurst Place in West Sussex lost 20,000 trees in the great storm of 1987, 25 years ago today. This is what it looked like then and how it is today, following a conservation project to repair the landscape
ally happens in the afternoon. The shows portrayal of Islam is proving problematic elsewhere, with the Observers Peter Beaumont calling it not only crude and childish but oensive. The Guardians weekly blog lls up with insightful comments about inaccuracies as soon as each episode has been aired, on everything from desecrated Qurans to name pronunciations. But, like Hasan, most people dont seem to mind. Homelands writers have an expert grasp of the buildup and release of nearunbearable tension. That they occasionally sacrice plausibility to move the plot along is ne by me. Is the show crude? I dont think so. 24 was crude. Homeland, on the other hand, loves moral ambiguity. Theres a strong case to be made that rather than extremists, the real villain of season one was America itself: the CIA and the government were duplicitous, self-serving and ethically blank. And, besides, Brody used his phone in the bunker at the end of the rst series, when his daughter, Dana, dropped him a line and inadvertently persuaded him not to blow everyone up. Perhaps he really does just have great reception. Rebecca Nicholson
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Age: 0. Appearance: Proud, brave, cost-eective, pending. What is it? A reserve force of volunteer soldiers, serving alongside regular army soldiers when and where required. Like the Territorial Army. Like the TA, yes. But dierent. How so? It will have a dierent name. Is that all? No, but the defence secretary, Philip Hammond, has said he would like to rebrand the force so it sounds less like territorial defence and more like full integration with the army. We already have the Royal Marine Reserves and the Royal Navy Reserves, but the TAs name is enshrined in law, and would require legislation to change. What else would change? Hammond says hes not interested in reservists who want to play at being a soldier. What other attractions could the job possibly oer? More training, real army uniforms and topnotch equipment. The better to play at being a soldier. Integration will be more comprehensive than that. Reservists will train alongside regular soldiers, ex-regulars will be encouraged to serve part-time and reserve numbers will be doubled as the army is reduced from 102,000 to 82,000. So Hammond is just trying to plug a huge defence spending gap with some cut-price, part-time dads army. Isnt that risky? Not if theyre properly trained and deployed, says Hammond. At the moment not all reservists take their duties very seriously. The time for that is over. But dont they all have proper jobs as well? Yes, but these reforms would see a reservists commitment limited to one six-month period over ve years, in a bid to keep employers on side. When did the TA start? It was rst formed in 1908 as the Territorial Force, the territorial part signifying that members were under no obligation to serve overseas. But they now participate in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Do say: I swear by almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to whatever it is were calling ourselves this week. Dont say: This is, like, the most hardcore paintballing weekend ever.
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The graph that reveals just how far David Cameron plans to shrink the state
his column is normally accompanied by a photo; an illustration that takes its cue from the text. But not today. The chart you see on this page is plainly not decorative: it is the main event. All Im going to discuss is its implications. Drawing on IMF gures published last week, the graph compares what will happen to government spending in Britain up to 2017 with the outlook for Germany and the US. And what it shows is that the UK will plunge from public spending on a par with Germany in 2009, to spending less than the US by 2017. Had France, Sweden or Canada been included on this graph, the UK would still come bottom. If George Osborne gets his way, within the next ve years, Britain will have a smaller public sector than any other major developed nation. Fan or critic, nearly everyone now agrees that this government wants to shrink the state, but very few take on board what that means. This graph shows just how radical those ministerial plans are. Particularly striking is the fact that Britain will end up spending less as a proportion of its national income than even the US, the international byword for a decrepit public sector. According to Peter Taylor-Gooby, professor of social policy at Kent, this will be the rst time it has happened since at least 1980 and possibly in recorded history. For it to take place within half a decade is a shift so dramatic that few people in frontline politics, let alone among the electorate, have understood its implications. Forget all that ministerial gu about the necessity of cutting the public sector to spur economic growth. It was notable at last weeks Tory party conference how Osborne and David Cameron didnt even try to argue for the economic benets of austerity how could they? but grimly asserted that there was no alternative. Forget, too, the argument that only cuts have kept Britains borrowing costs from rocketing. In the IMFs summer healthcheck for the UK was another chart which showed that the only nations where interest rates had spiralled upwards were those in the eurozone, and those without control of their own currency and monetary policy. Every other major economy, no matter what their debt load, was able to borrow from the nancial markets as cheaply as ever. Strip away the usual alibis for such drastic austerity and what youre inevitably left with is a purely political motive: namely, a desire to transform the British state from being recognisably European, with continental levels of public spending, to something sub-American in its miserliness. Let me make two caveats. First, there was no way Britain was going to maintain public spending at 2009 levels. That year, the Labour government threw the kitchen sink at the economy, after which you would expect some belt-tightening. Still, as Carl Emmerson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies
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points out, after both world wars, the level of public spending in Britain rose permanently; you might expect something similar after a once-in-alifetime nancial crisis. Given how fast Britain is ageing, and how much we will need to spend on pensions and care for the elderly, there is no reason why the state in Britain should shrink back to some magic level of 40% of the economy. Second, this chart is based on current US budget plans: if Mitt Romney moves into the White House next January, or even if Barack Obama is re-elected and has to strike a bargain with intransigent Republicans, then Washington is also likely to make stringent cuts. But that last qualication only reinforces the larger argument. Whether in Britain or the US, the right are trying to whip the rest of us into a giant race to the bottom, where public services, welfare entitlements and employment rights are all to be tossed overboard. Cameron admitted as much in last Wednesdays conference speech. Lumping together Nigeria with China and India and Brazil, he described them as the countries on the rise lean, t, obsessed with enterprise, spending money on the future on education, incredible infrastructure and technology. As anyone who has ever tried to keep a car on the potholed roads of northern India will know, that description is a giant porky. But Cameron wanted to draw a comparison with the countries on the slide fat, sclerotic, over-regulated, spending money on unaordable welfare systems, huge pension bills, unreformed public services. From compassionate Conservative to growth rainmaker to state-shrinker, Cameron has gone through a huge change since 2005. But that is nothing like what lies ahead for the rest of Britain in the next ve years. Prepare yourself for welfare to be downsized into American-style workfare, for public-sector jobs to be turned into a secondclass employment and for services, from school to healthcare, to demand that users pay more to get something decent. The future is American.
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hese are the reasons why nine-year-old Rana does not like her new home. The bedroom she shares with her mother has no window. The room is too small to t two beds, so they have to share, and theres only room to do her homework if she clears all her mothers housing documentation from the tiny square table, squeezed between the bed and the wall. During the night, she can hear the occupants of the bed and breakfasts other rooms stamping up and down the stairs, occasionally followed by the police, so she lies in bed wondering who they are and what is going on. Most worrying is the woman in the room next door who attacked her mother a few weeks ago, after a quarrel about leaving the doors open to go and use the kitchen. The assault was so violent (scratches, hair torn out and slaps to the face) that her mother had to spend the night in hospital, accompanied by Rana. The neighbour remains in the bed and breakfast, and Rana and her mother have responded by no longer using the communal kitchen. Instead they buy food from KFC and McDonalds. When we had our own at, I loved that kind of food, I wanted to eat it every day. But now we eat it every day, I dont want to eat it any more, she says. She has taped a poster with a picture of ponies and foals, garlanded with owers, above the table, but the room remains unhomely, a small space crammed with overowing suitcases and belongings balanced on top of each other because there are no shelves to store things on. By contrast, her mother, Mina, feels lucky to be here, because despite the broken furniture, the damp mattress in the kitchen, propped up by another tenant near the window to dry, and the terrifying neighbours the place is at least close enough to her daughters school to make the daily commute there possible. This year there has been a dramatic surge in the number of families being housed in B&Bs, with gures from the National Housing Federation showing a 44% increase over the past year. For families with children, the rise has been even sharper an increase of 60%, according to the homelessness charity Shelter. Almost 4,000 families are now living in hostels, and the most dramatic rise is in central London. The image of families living for extended periods in B&B hostels became familiar in the early 1990s, but for a decade their use has declined
due to a concerted eort by politicians conscious that this method of housing people is not only extremely insecure and very damaging for children, but also very expensive for the councils paying the bills. There is no enthusiasm from councils for housing families in B&Bs, but because of a chronic shortage of cheap housing, particularly in London, there is little alternative. Guidance that B&B accommodation is not suitable for families with children and should only be used in extremis, for no longer than six weeks, is widely breached, because councils have nowhere to move people on to. Shelter says these B&B gures are the coal-mine canary, which point to simmering crisis in the low-income housing system. The rise in families being housed in B&Bs runs parallel with the rise in homelessness, up by 26% in the past two years. Its almost unheard of for a family to be allowed to become homeless on the streets; B&Bs are relied on to prevent that from happening. These gures show how many families are that close to the brink. When these numbers start to go up dramatically, it is a real sign that there are pent-up problems across the entire system, Toby Lloyd, from Shelter, says. The number of homeless families is going up very fast, as a result of a perfect storm of problems in the system. Bed and breakfasts are the last resort for housing homeless families. Rana and Mina (who, like most people interviewed for this piece, asked for their real names not to be printed in case any suggestion that they might be complaining rebounds on them in the councils housing oce) are living in this bed and breakfast, as a direct result of changes to the housing benet system. The precise thinking of Minas previous landlord is not clear, but she was charging 500 a week for the two-bedroom at in St Johns Wood in north London, paid for by housing benet, when a new housing benet cap was introduced, which would have reduced the maximum payment available to Mina to 290. Rather than waiting for her tenant to fall into arrears, the landlord gave her notice to leave earlier this year. If these gures sound enormous, they need to be set in the context of the London property market to be understood. In the last decade, as investors globally have sought stability in the UK housing market, a property boom has rippled from the most expensive houses in Knightsbridge down to the cheapest ats in Newham, pushing up private rents. The
The people here are quite frightening

Despite guidelines that say B&B accommodation is no place for children, the number of families living in hostels is rising sharply. Amelia Gentleman meets some of the people trapped in them
A family living in a B&B in west London. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian
coalitions housing allowance cap was based on the theory that by capping the amount available to housing benet recipients, landlords would drop their rents and renegotiate lower contracts with tenants. But because the rental market in the capital remains so buoyant, what appears to have happened instead is that families like Minas have been evicted. Research shows that around a third of all landlords renting to housing benet tenants are thinking about ending their contracts, amid fears that their tenants will no longer be able to pay the rent, after the cap already introduced, and ahead of a second overall benet cap, due in April 2013. Because fewer people are able to get mortgages to buy their own homes, the private rental market is booming, and landlords in central London know they will have no diculty in renting elsewhere to less uncertain tenants. A refugee from Iran who has lived in London for many years, Mina used to work in a cafe but now has arthritis in both knees; she walks with diculty and does not work. There was nowhere else she could aord to move to in the vicinity of her daughters school, so she asked the council for advice. They told her she needed to be for-
Kitchen, bedroom and hallway in a south London B&B. Photographs: David Levene for the Guardian
mally evicted by bailis, made homeless by the landlord, and only then would they be able step in to give her emergency help. Mina was out when the bailis came, so Rana and a family friend had to move everything out of the at another alarming experience for the then eight-year-old. First they were housed in a hostel in east London, but it was impossibly far from the school, and a kind Westminster housing oce took pity, Mina says, and rehoused them. Despite the six-week limit, they have been here for seven weeks already, and have been given no information about when they might be moved. The people are quite frightening here. Theres shouting all night long, Rana says. When her daughter leaves the room, Mina says she thinks a lot of the other tenants have mental health problems, some are drug addicts and some have recently left jail. When she goes to bed, she says: Mum, I am not happy, Mina says. Mina understands that the government has to save money, but wonders if they need to target people like her, who have long-term roots in the area. Ive had the same GP for 20 years, the same hospital. All my daughters friends are here. Are we meant to change all
these things? she asks. Suddenly theyve changed all the rules. They are playing with people. They are messing around with peoples lives. Its a lot of stress for a single mother. Campaigners in the housing sector are despondent at the rise in B&B numbers. David Orr, chief executive of the NHF, says: Whats so frustrating is that people in the sector have been working very hard indeed to get the numbers down to almost zero. There was an economic argument that this was an inecient use of public money but governments of both colours understood that this was just an appalling way to bring up children. The inexorable rise in bed and breakfast numbers over the past eight quarters has been depressing to witness, he adds: It feels like years of work are going down the drain. He points to the change in housing benets as a possible cause. Housing systems are fantastically complex, but if the system is working properly, families who become homeless should be quickly moved from emergency accommodation (B&Bs) into temporary accommodation usually private properties rented by the council to house the homeless theoretically less expensive and more secure than
hostels. Because the numbers of homeless are rising, there is less temporary accommodation available and with landlords increasingly nervous about housing tenants who claim benets, more people are being pushed into B&Bs. There is some evidence that landlords who were [taking] housing benet tenants, are no longer prepared to, Orr says. In this context, B&Bs tend not to be places that budget tourists having a mini-break in England would want to end up in. They are often overcrowded, poorly managed and very poor quality. Often they are closed between 9am and 4pm, so residents are evicted during the day. We are talking about places that most tourists would not want to stay in, Orr says. Its not clear that the rising B&B gures will attract tremendous public sympathy. The British Social Attitudes survey published last month conrmed what has been increasingly obvious over the past few years that there is a marked decline in popular support for the size of the benet bill, and little desire for the government to spend more on welfare. Traditionally during recessions there has been an empathetic surge of support for more spending on welfare, but now only 28% of people think this. Labour has begun to echo the Conservatives talk of benet caps. Housing is an emotive subject because most people are struggling to pay rent, or a mortgage, making lifealtering decisions about where to live based on how much they can aord to spend so making the case for the state to be subsidising large chunks of rent for other people to live in
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Towards a no-growth future In orthodox economics, growth is good. At Davos this year, 35 sessions dealt with how to encourage more of it. Relentless focus on growth, said David Cameron in 2010, is what you will get from this government. The more money spent, the more money made goes the argument and the more money that can be spent again. By contrast, if people stop spending, rms stop making money, and their employees start losing their jobs. In short, growth denes progress. To suggest otherwise, says economics professor Tim Jackson, was once like arguing that you wanted to sell your grandmother. But in May 2011, the 2,500 delegates at Berlins Beyond Growth conference did just that. Inuenced by the likes of Herman Daly, conference-goers argued that growth was a useless way of achieving prosperity. Growth simply depends on economic activity and a lot of that activity, says one of the attendees, economist Brian Davey, isnt necessarily very useful. Buying a gun contributes to growth, for example, but it might hurt someone. Buying petrol earns the vendor money, but depletes natural resources. As a result, growth cant go on for ever the earths resources are nite. Sustainable growth, they argue, is also a myth: its impossible to decouple economic progress from environmental damage. It wasnt just eco-warriors saying this: There were some serious academics, NGOs, labour unions, Marxists, and also a lot of young, bright kids, remembers Jackson, one of the academics present. Over 100 speakers outlined alternatives to growth tactics that aimed to slow down economic activity while raising employment and peoples quality of life. Suggestions included various forms of decentralisation; turning private land into commons to avoid its overuse; and sharing fulltime jobs between part-time workers. This heretical idea of a no-growth future its no longer just possible, says Kalle Lasn, author of Meme Wars, an upcoming book about transcending growth. Its being discussed in a very workmanlike way. In 2007, Tim Jackson felt he couldnt even breathe the question. But whats interesting for me was that only three years later, thousands of people would turn out to ask exactly that question.
London does not instantly elicit sympathy. But there has always been a subsidised housing system to help people on low incomes. The problem in London is that rents have grown so extortionate that the costs required to support people to stay in the areas where they have roots now seem unfathomable to anyone who has not had recent contact with the London housing market. Campaigners constantly have to make the point that this is not a reason for stopping oering support to people. This housing crisis aects people who are working, as well as those who are not. Grace, a mental health nurse, has been living in a room with her 16-year-old son, in a white stuccofronted hotel in west London for ve months. In the lobby there is a rack of leaets advertising musicals and tourist attractions in the West End, but there is no sign of any tourists. Most residents are also victims of the housing crisis. She became homeless when she and her son were thrown out of the at they were sharing with friends. Her son is at school nearby, but as a newly-qualied nurse earning a salary of 21,000, Grace, who moved from Nigeria over a decade ago, is unable to aord to rent in this part of central London, where she wants to be so that her son can stay in the school where he has begun his A-levels, and so she can easily travel to the hospital where she often works nights and early morning shifts. Despite the disruption of moving into the B&B when he was sitting his GCSEs, her son did extremely well and has embarked on A-levels with a view to becoming an aerospace engineer. Moving to a part of London where she could think about aording to rent would, she says, both make the night shifts impossible and would unsettle her sons education. The hotel has strict rules controlling residents behaviour. She is not allowed visitors, so we meet on the doorstep and rush through the rain to a cafe. She is not allowed to use the kitchen after 10pm, which means she cant do any cooking when she gets back late from work, so has taken to eating McDonalds on the bus on the way home. Breakfast, which she has to pay for, is between 8am and 9am, which doesnt often t in with her shift pattern, so she has to miss it. She worries about her son, alone in the hotel when she is out at work. She doesnt want to be negative about her neighbours, but is conscious of drugs being smoked in the corridors. I thought B&s were just for visitors and tourists. I didnt know homeless
Residents return to their B&B in south London. Photograph: David Levene people went to stay in B&Bs, she says. The school has told me I really need to support him in his studies. He says he needs a quiet environment to study. At the moment Im not able to make him regular meals, she says. My job requires 100% concentration. That patients life is in my hands. I need to get the drug calculations 100% correct. But I am thinking, is my son safe? I dont know when Im moving. I dont know what Im doing. Im really disturbed and it is aecting my work I cant sleep. My son is not happy. Her son nds it hard to work in the small room, and she nds it uncomfortable having to ask him to step into the corridor every time she wants to dress or undress. She is also meant to be studying for post-qualication tests, but has found it near impossible to set aside the time and space when her son is not working. She knows she should already have been moved out of the B&B, if the council were to meet the six-week target, but she has little information about how long she might have to stay. She sees other families being housed more quickly, because they have a new baby or the mother is
Instead of capping housing benet the government should be providing low-cost housing
pregnant. I cant be pregnant at my age Im 48, she says. The problem with writing about real people caught up in the changes to the housing benet system, or the benet system overall, is that you have to lay them out for scrutiny, for people to observe their decisions and judge whether they think they are justiable. Why doesnt Grace move out of central London and commute? Why does Mina expect the state to pay for her housing, and why isnt she working? But, whatever you feel about the policy, this is how peoples lives are aected when the system nears crisis. It was not possible to talk to anyone responsible for housing in person, but the new housing minister, Mark Prisk, sent an emailed statement, which reads: There is no excuse for any family to be stuck in bed and breakfast accommodation, and we have oered support to those 20 councils who between them account for 80% of families in this situation for an unacceptably long time. Weve increased the Discretionary Housing Pot to about 400m over the spending period to help families with the transition to the new, fairer, system of benets. Romin Sutherland of the NextDoor project, a charity helping people aected by housing benet cuts argues that capping the housing benet is driving a huge rise in homelessness, which is itself costing the taxpayer many millions. And this doesnt account for the longer term costs of uprooting established communities and dumping them without support in unfamiliar areas that are unable to provide for their needs. Instead of capping housing benet, perhaps the government should be focusing on providing low-cost housing that gives back to the taxpayer over generations, rather than squandering our money on exorbitant rents, he says. As she enters the sixth month at the hotel, Grace feels angry at the amount of money being wasted on subsidising her to live there. The weekly rent for the room is 388, of which she pays 137 and the council 251. She is spending around 125 a week on the expensive, but unavoidable, cost of storage for all her belongings. I love being a mental health nurse. I feel I should be given the support I need to help me do the job I love doing, she says. But I feel that my contribution is not recognised. Key workers used to be prioritised nurses, teachers but thats not the case now. I believe they are trying to push the underprivileged out from central London, she says.
ust when he thought he was out, they pull him back in. Having told the New Yorker that he was going to sit this election out, Bruce Springsteen has decided to saddle up once more in support of President Barack Obamas re-election bid. His rst appearance will be alongside Bill Clinton at a rally in Parma, Ohio this Thursday. Like Clinton, whose convention speech thrilled the faithful last month, Springsteen is well-equipped to inject some emotional heat into a somewhat chilly and apologetic Obama campaign. In this area Springsteen knows failure as well as success. While 2008 was a dream election for the left in the US, Springsteen was also the star attraction on the 2004 Vote for Change tour in aid of John Kerry. Not one of the swing states visited by the tour changed direction as a result and George Bush returned to the White House. REMs Peter Buck has recalled talking to Springsteens guitarist Steve Van Zandt backstage: We both said: Yknow, Im glad were doing this, but its not going to do anything. Kerrys losing. So you can see why Springsteen hesitated this time. In campaigning for broader issues, you can claim to be nudging public opinion in the right direction, however slowly, but the brutal calculus of elections allows only for winners and losers. It takes courage to risk being numbered among the latter. Rock musics rst concerted eort to inuence an election ended in the most crushing defeat of all. Such marquee names as Carole King, Grateful Dead and Simon and Garfunkel played benet shows for anti-war liberal George McGovern in 1972 Neil Young even recorded a single for the candidate, War Song and the Republican Richard Nixon still won by a historic landslide. The cherished youth vote, expanded by the lowering in 1971 of the voting age from 21 to 18, failed to materialise in McGoverns favour. So much for the power of rock music to win hearts and minds, you might think. And yet Nixon had been troubled by John Lennons plans to stage an anti-incumbent tour (cancelled due to his ght against deportation), so somebody was taking it seriously. Many disconsolate McGovern supporters, including Lennon and Young, steered away from politics for years afterwards. In Britain, the same happened to Paul Weller after Margaret Thatchers re-election in 1987. Weller had stied his suspicion of party politics in order to add his star power to the
Bruce Springsteen will be hitting the road once more in support of Barack Obama. But can rock stars really make much dierence in the brutal world of politics, wonders Dorian Lynskey
Can Bruce do it again for Obama?
Bruce and Barack on stage together in 2008; Neil Young, in 1972 (top), couldnt halt Richard Nixons lansdlide victory
Red Wedge campaign in support of Neil Kinnocks Labour party, and his political commitment never recovered from Red Wedges failure. Before the Wedge, the Style Council had done a lot independently, raised a lot of money in benets, he told Q magazine. After the Wedge, we were so disillusioned it all stopped. We were totally cynical about all of it. Weller was simply too idealistic for electoral politics. That role requires the pragmatism to understand what is achievable, the strength to endure defeat and the humility to know that campaigning musicians aggravate as many people as they inspire. [Political] capital diminishes the more often you do it, Springsteen admitted to the New Yorker. The principled yet pragmatic Springsteen must know he has a tricky task ahead. Unseating a president you hate is much more energising than re-electing one who has disappointed you. Its notable that many of the musicians who were shouting their support for Obama from the rooftops in 2008 will now only express approval if prompted by interviewers. Many have waited until late in the day before stepping forward, although Springsteen is not alone: a rally in Los Angeles last week featured Stevie Wonder, Bon Jovi and Katy Perry. Perhaps the horric prospect of a Romney-Ryan White House has only just sunk in. Jay-Z and Beyonc hosted a fundraising party in New York in September for 100 guests who paid $40,000 (25,000) each; under new campaign nance laws, perhaps the most practically useful thing celebrities can do is help ll the war chest. Springsteens ability to aect the outcome is limited. No matter how passionately he sings Badlands, he has little chance of stopping white blue-collar men from backing Mitt Romney 2:1. They are more likely to see the singer as another celebrity liberal than as a fellow son of toil. But in a polarised country with few undecideds, ballot-box success rests more on getting out the vote than on winning over swing voters. Maybe Springsteen saw Obamas lowvoltage debate performance and thought the base needed ring up in a hurry. An inspiring performance might just provide the visceral jolt that propels someone to the polling station on 6 November, but if Obama loses, then Springsteen is wise enough and tough enough not to take it personally. On the billion-dollar stage of a presidential election, even the biggest celebrities must settle for supporting roles.
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Women
rom nun to sex therapist isnt an obvious career path but, says the former Sister Jane Frances de Chantal, when youve been starved for a while, you certainly appreciate the feast at the end of it. Today, Sister Jane is Dr Fran Fisher, a California sexologist in US-speak. But she was born and raised in Yorkshire and entered a Franciscan convent in Derbyshire aged 18. She left two years later, met and married an academic, and moved to the US. It wasnt until she was in her 40s, she says, that she began to understand how much her Catholic upbringing, and her experience of being a nun, had damaged her sexual instincts. With her children growing up, she saw a course in sex therapy advertised and her interest was immediately piqued. I enrolled, and what happened next blew my head o. One day the tutor said we were going to discuss our masturbation history and I thought, can I really do this? Somewhere inside I was still a nun even after all these years I was still sexually naive. I realised that the legacy of my time in the convent was the cause of most of the problems in my marriage. It had been drummed into me as a novice that I didnt really have ownership over anything, even my own body. Fisher decided to combine her new professional direction, running workshops and counselling, with her own past, and to nd out whether other former nuns had had similar experiences: the result is a book in which she interviews 28 women who, like her, took vows of poverty, chastity and obedience only to later leave orders. She talked to them about their sexuality before, during and after their time in the convent and discovered many similarities. Most of the women I interviewed had been raised in strict Catholic families. Many had an alcoholic father. Quite a few had a history of physical and/or sexual abuse. A lot of them described the convent as a safe place to go. Fisher, who is now in her early 60s, realised that some of the traits of her own childhood were typical in particular the fact that both her Irish Catholic parents had wholly negative attitudes towards sex. Her father, ther, she says, almost always described ribed women in pejorative terms; her mother, meanwhile, thought sex was dangerous, dirty, vile, nasty and lthy. When Fisher, then aged 14, feared she was pregnant after an episode of petting that didnt involve intercourse her mother fuelled her fears, leaving
Dr Fran Fishers latest book blows the lid o the repressed sexuality of convent life. Its a subject she knows rst hand, she tells Joanna Moorhead
From nun to sexologist
Fran Fisher today and as a nun back in 1968 (below)
her with a sense of never wanting to have anything to do with a man again. The convent had the allure of a place where women were pure and mysterious and most importantly safe. But once inside its walls, her sexuality began to surface. Fisher became increasingly unhappy, lost a lot of weight, and eventually left the convent one Saturday morning while all the other sisters were at mass. She was, she says, still as naive about sex as she was when she arrived. But that
wasnt the case with all the women she interviewed. Those who spent decades in a convent had usually experienced a sexual awakening. Some had relationships with other nuns, some with priests, some with laypeople. Some of them, too, talked to Fisher about how they were aware of sexual abuse that was going on in the Catholic church but most, she says, were unable or unwilling to do anything about it. Very few nuns were whistleblowers, she says. When youre a nun, you give away your ability to judge a situation. Obedience meant not taking the lead and not questioning those who were obviously in positions of authority such as male priests. Some of the women in the book describe exploitative and unequal sexual relationships with priests relationships they later questioned but which, at the time, they accepted as necessary for the men. As for having a healthy, normal sexual relationship, some of the women Fisher interviewed were middle-aged before this happened for the rst time. One woman described having intercourse for the rst time aged 52. Another told me that when she rst got a boyfriend, aged 50, she had sex every night for the rst two or three months. Her partner thought he was going out with an Amazonian but she said to him: Ive waited half a century for this, just lie back and shut up! Fisher, like some of those she interviewed, did eventually experience a happy and more typical sex life. But she is ercely critical of the Catholic system that allows naive young women (these days, more usually they are from Africa or Asia rather than Europe or North America) to uproot themselves from their families and enter a convent. The practice of taking young women (or men) from a childhood of indoctrination and expecting them to make a lifelong commitment to celibacy in their early 20s is clearly wrong, she says. And its still going on. Not long ago, I saw some young nuns being interviewed on TV. I saw their faces, and I thought: its still happening. There are still young women in some parts of the world for whom a convent oers a sanctuary from dicult questions about sex, an education, opportunities. But its running away from life, and theres a huge toll in terms of individual fallout down the line. The church shouldnt allow it to happen.
In the Name of God Why? by Fran Fisher is published by Grin.
Sport
Why is there only one working mum in elite football?

As Arsenal clinched the FA Continental Cup last week, two little boys invaded the pitch to celebrate with their mother, captain Katie Chapman. The scene was both endearing and surprising. For whereas we are all used to seeing male players cavort around the pitch with trophies and their ospring, it has never been the same for the women. Why? Chapman, 30, is currently the only elite female footballer in the UK with children. The former England under-18 captain and twice holder of the FA International Player of the Year award has previously made the news for playing while pregnant (twice) but it now seems as if playing competitive matches until nearly seven months pregnant was the easy part. Speaking after last Wednesdays match, she was very clear that the FAs reluctance to accommodate or support her in her role as mother led her to give up her international career last March, having made 82 appearances and scored eight goals. As a result, she has her eye on life beyond football and is training to become a beautician, a eld in which she is part-qualied. Chapman said at the time that she could no longer balance the time and travel demands of international football with her commitments to her two small sons. The family had recently returned from the United States after a season when she played for Chicago, and she felt that, after so many changes, she needed to be with her children more and that would necessitate a retirement from international football. Her club side Arsenal have been incredibly supportive of Chapman and her boys, nding space for them on the team coaches and hotels for away trips but that isnt an option when you are playing international football. Its hard, trying to juggle all that and going away with England, she says. I felt that there could be more support around that situation, to help out with childcare and stu like that. Being a female footballer thats stu you just deal with. Its not as glamorous as the mens side of it. Its stu you have to deal with. So what more does Chapman think sporting authorities should do to support female players family life? Her answer would be similar for many
A certain age
Michele Hanson
Arsenals Katie Chapman and one of her sons lifting the Continental Cup trophy women, whether elite sporting types or not: Childcare. That was what I struggled with. I was lucky enough that I had my family around me, but when they werent available, it became dicult to try to sort that out, she says. Its something they probably should be dealing with. We are women, women have children, and its something that should be looked into. There is also the fact that female players earn a fraction of the salaries paid to their male counterparts, usually explained away by the extra revenues from TV exposure given to the men. Its not just football, of course, although the success of the whole team in recent years has thrown the spotlight on the gulf between the male and female versions of the beautiful game. Examples of successful mothers in other sports are also rare. England cricketer Arran Brindle recently returned to international competition after a ve-year break during which she had her son; and Belgian tennis player Kim Clijsters made headlines in 2009 when she returned after a two-year absence and became the rst mother in almost 30 years to win a tennis Grand Slam. Chapman is loth to say that other female football players are putting o having children because of the lack of support within the game, but she thinks it should at least be an option for everyone. Why should you not have a family? Why should you have to wait? she asks. You should always be able to have a career and raise a family. She thinks, then adds: I think its all round the board, though. Mums need support, families need support, in any kind of job. Hopefully that will improve as well. Carrie Dunn
NEWSPAPERS IN NUMBERS
78%
Percentage of front-page articles written by men
22%
Percentage of front-page articles written by women
84%
Percentage of those quoted or mentioned in lead stories who are male
16%
Percentage of those quoted or mentioned in lead stories who are female
Source: Women in Journalism
Last week was a dicult one for us. Rosemary was dreading it. Im not going to be able to hear the news, said she in a terrible bate. You can get subtitles on telly, I told her, thinking that her hearing had perhaps gone a little further down the pan. But that wasnt it. No! shouted Rosemary. I just cant bear to see him. I dont want to hear him, see him, or hear about his wretched wifes clothes! She was talking about our prime minister at the Conservative party conference. But it wasnt too bad in the end. She learned to turn the news on halfway through, when there was hardly any risk of a sighting. Sometimes she got caught out, if Syria came rst, and he was on in the middle. Then she had to shout loudly to drown him out, and switch o again sharpish. Theyve all got shiny faces, the people we dont like, said Fielding. Have you noticed? I just go for a walk. What? Out of the room? No, out of the house, down to the beach on my own. To the pounding, crashing waves and grey pebble mountains of the Jurassic coastline, which seems to cleanse his mind of shiny pink faces. And I havent watched the news at all. Occasionally I caught few dribbles of conference on the radio, but why bother to concentrate when theres nothing worth concentrating on, and youll have made all that eort, only to bore, upset and madden yourself? Much easier to play with the dog until its all over. So weve all survived it in our own way, blanking them out, turning them o, running to the beach. At least were not American, like my poor cousin, living here, but still in a cold sweat of terror waiting for the US election results. Its a quagmire of venality over there, says she, deeply upset and desperate for Barack Obama to win. They expected him to walk on water. We dont expect that sort of thing over here. We dont have dreams. Wed just like them to walk on the ordinary ground, where the rest of us live.
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Style Q&A
My boyfriend of three months is taking me on a mini-break for the rst time, and were going to Scotland. Can you recommend some decent nightwear that wont make me look like either a granny or a strippergram? Maria, London Ah yes, the classic granny/strippergram dichotomy: wherein does the middle ground lie? In an unexpectedly elusive spot is the answer, as every lady who has ever tried to search for such a garment in a pre-mini-break panic knows all too well. Britains high streets these days may indeed be boulevards paved with cheap clothes but, when it comes to nightwear, the choice seems to be between dressing like an Ann Summers mannequin or as Ebenezer Scrooge, in full-length nightie regalia and possibly a matching bobble-tipped cap, too (candlestick generally not included). No wonder some people opt to sleep in nothing at all. However, seeing as you are going to the arctic lands of Scotland, Maria, that is clearly not an option for you, nor for anyone who ever suered the indignity of a middle-of-the-night re-alarm on a school trip and was forced to go outside wearing just their coat and knickers, and thus has been traumatised into wearing nightgowns ever since. Just, you know, as an example. Tis a tricky issue, the whole rst mini-break/nightwear issue. Im not m saying its as tricky as achieving peace g in the Middle East, but Im not saying its not, either. Im assuming, Maria, that your ur co-mini-breaker has been lucky enough to spend a night with you already dy and therefore has seen you in the he night hours before. But as you rightly surmise, mini-break nightwear is a slightly dierent kettle of sh, to use a completely inappropriate and frankly distasteful analogy. As Bridget Jones knew very well,
Ask Hadley Whats the perfect nightwear for a romantic mini-break?
With nightwear, the choice seems to be Ann Summers or Ebenezer Scrooge
mini-breaks require mini-break wardrobes, something with a sense of occasion, and that occasion is a fantasy mini-break gleaned from the Secret Escapes advert, with no connection whatsoever to the mini-break you actually go on. Hence Bridget going on her and Daniels rain-sodden and freezing minibreak with nothing but a long oaty white dress, tea-rose-pink suede minidress and bras, pants, stockings, suspenders (various). Of all the many truths contained within that book, the nightmare that is packing for a minibreak is, I reckon, the most universal. But sleepwear for the mini-break is, actually, the easiest part of the minibreak wardrobe as, unlike tea-rosebreak pink suede minidresses, it is not weather dependent. Its merely a weat matter of nding the magical garment matt that i sexy without being silly (so you is can r rule out that French maids outt on the Ann Summers website sorry!) th and is pretty without being infantile. i If youre really pushing the minibreak boat out, Maria, the prettiest br and an sexiest nightwear in possibly the th entire world is by Carine Gilson, who now has a shop in LonG don and is online at net-a-porter. d But Bu we are talking high gures here for the merest wisps of fabric so per-
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haps warn your bank manager rst (and do you really want your bank manager to know about your sleepwear habits? Of course you dont). Otherwise and I know I have banged on about this label before but thats because its brilliant go Myla, which is not cheap but not as expensive and has lovely things that never wrinkle, even in the most battered of bags. Or you could do something that I never thought Id ever advise but advising it I am. There are many mystifying cliches about mens magazines that I, personally, nd hilarious, not least their enduring belief that anyone is interested in an annual report from the Basel watch fair. But the one that really tickles my heckles, or whatever you Brits say, is the photograph of a hot actress/model/whatever posing in just a mans shirt while she sticks her nger in her mouth: Oh dear! I just had sex with you and now I cant nd my clothes So Ill put on your shirt while I put my nger in my mouth! I am practical! This trope is so cliched it makes newspaper photos of blonde 18-yearold girls getting their A-level results look like strokes of original genius. Richard Avedon, look and weep. However, you can make it work for you. I was recently introduced (by my sister, credit where credits due) to J Crews incredibly cosy pyjama tops, which are perfect for sleeping in if you buy them one size up and ditch the trousers. These tops are centre of the Venn diagram between GQ fantasy and cosy galore and, in that place, everyone comes out a winner. But hot tip: dont tote about a candlestick. Just because youre dabbling in pyjamas doesnt mean you need to go the full Scrooge.
Post your questions to Hadley Freeman, Ask Hadley, The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU. Email ask.hadley@ guardian.co.uk
Arts
t is late afternoon in a redbrick house in north Norfolk, and the four Kirk children are squished on to the sofa, still in their school uniforms, discussing the art of fake ghting. I fake-punched: I stopped about that far away, explains Shaun, his eyes broad and blue, hands held apart to show the proximity of his punch. We had to pretend to hit em, coz we werent actually allowed to actual hit em, because if we did wed get into more trouble. Stephanie, Robert, Shaun and Katrina Kirk are the four stars of Michael Winterbottoms Everyday, in competition at the London lm festival this week. Shot intermittently over ve years, it features John Simm and Shirley Henderson as a couple coping with his imprisonment for theft. As Simm sees out his jail term, we watch Henderson struggling to care for their children: the challenge of making ends meet, the diculty of providing enough discipline and love, the loneliness of waiting. Key to the lms success is its steady rhythm of repetitions: the family home all dolled up each Christmas,
Michael just said: Be naughty

Michael Winterbottom spent ve years shooting these children for a lm about a family with a father in jail. They tell Laura Barton about fake tears, prison visits and working well past bedtime
the classrooms, the workplaces, the procession of buses and trains in the long journey to visit Simm, the visiting rooms with their plastic chairs and Formica tables. These airless scenes are interspersed with glorious shots of the Norfolk countryside wheeling through the seasons: rippling wheat elds and broad stretches of sand, poppies, hedgerows. Behind them swells a score by Michael Nyman, a frequent Winterbottom collaborator. The Kirks were rst approached in 2007. Michael had toured around looking for one small boy around Shauns age, explains Sarah, the childrens mother. They wanted someone who looked like they could be Johns son, and theyd done eight or nine primary schools. We had a letter home from school to say they were doing a short lm. Then the school rang up and said they wanted to lm Shaun playing in his home environment. They didnt realise until then that I had three other children. Six weeks later, the lm-makers were in touch to say they wanted to cast all four children. (It was Shaun we cast rst, Winterbottom tells me later. He has this amazing face: theres
something natural, but also something so expressive. But of course all the children were great.) Their parents were hesitant. We just thought they were weirdos, their father, Colin, says bluntly. When we rst heard about the lm I said, Does that sound a bit weird or what? We had to check up on the internet, make sure they were genuine. Their fears were allayed when Winterbottom visited to explain what the project would entail, and what he hoped it would produce. And they seemed genuine, says Colin. Just nice people. So I said to the kids, Do you want to make a lm? They said Dunno. So I explained what it was about and they said, Yeah, all right. Filming began a few months later, with the family home doubling as a location. Winterbottom issued the parents with strict instructions not to redecorate for ve years, though they rebelled after two (because it was falling to bits, says Robert). Sometimes a shoot would last a week, sometimes three or four days but they started at 6am and ran late into the evening. Sarah says the children had breaks and plenty of sweets, but often the camera shows them looking exhausted and tearful. At times, the children say, they grew frustrated by all the repetition. Doing it over and over and over, sighs Robert, now 12. Once youve done it six times youd think, thats enough, but theyd do it more. Stephanie, 14, nods. And its quite hard, she says, because you dont have a script, or a set line to say each time. Robert recalls how on one occasion he insisted Winterbottom simply stop. I told him, Ive had enough, I want to go to bed, he says. He said, One more, and then he did another three takes. The children laugh. But Michael knew what he was doing, says Stephanie, so we shouldnt really interfere. Some of the most moving scenes cover the sporadic visits to Simm in prison: the early starts, Henderson battling through wind and rain, the children trailing behind her. We see the young Shaun hurling himself at Simms legs with a sobbed Dad! Later, an exhausted Katrina sits amid this dark, adult world and bursts into tears. Well, I didnt really know what a prison looked like when I was little, so when I rst went in I thought: scary, Katrina says. It denitely smelled strange. It smelled damp. Then there were the actual prisoners, too some of whom worked as extras. She was tired that day, and still only four years old. All these people were banging on their cell walls, adds Stephanie. We were all pretty scared.
But the prize for on-screen crying has to go to Shaun. His huge blue eyes well up throughout the lm, from those prison visits to being made to eat shepherds pie. At rst I did actually cry, he says, but then Michael wanted me to keep on doing it, so then I kept on making myself cry. Michael said to think of something that will upset you. I just thought and thought, and then the last thing that popped into my head made me start crying. Im not sure what it was Ive forgotten. The great worry of lm-making is the impact it will have on the children, Winterbottom says. But because this was made over a long period of time, I think its been a good thing for them, too. It was only once lming nished that he realised what a large part they had played in the childrens lives: We visited them perhaps once every six months, he says. And its strange, its like having your own children you dont notice them growing up, its very incremental. But then you watch it back and you realise Shaun was still in nappies when we started lming. The children were given few lines and little direction, and as a result have an easy on-screen presence. They said, Just be yourselves, act natural, Shaun remembers. For Robert, there was the delight of being encouraged to misbehave: his character dabbles in petty theft, ghts, stays out late. Michael didnt really explain it, Robert says. He just said, Be naughty. The naughtiest thing I did was go out to the forest, and I came back really late. I was out till about nine. When he does return, he is shown carrying a squirrel he has shot with his fathers rie. Some other people shot it, he explains. I just had to carry it. It felt like a cat, a bit heavy. The on-screen bond between Simm, Henderson and the children is tangible; their real-life father says it was strange to see his children refer so
Silver screen siblings (main image from left) Stephanie, Robert, Shaun and Katrina Kirk; (above) with Shirley Henderson in Everyday
MAIN PHOTOGRAPH SARAH LEE FOR THE GUARDIAN
It was like watching your own children grow up. Shaun was still in nappies when we started
Michael Winterbottom
easily to another man as Dad. Simm and Henderson visited before lming began. They were nervous to have such famous actors in the house, the children say. I had seen Shirley in Harry Potter and John in Doctor Who, Robert says. Simm took the boys out to Wells-next-the-Sea. We went down to the Pop Inn cafe, Sarah says, where they have little 2p machines, and we bought ice creams. Katrina laughed the rst time she watched the lm, set o by Shaun impersonating Homer Simpson on the big screen. Shaun himself was mesmerised: I didnt really know what I looked like when I was young, and growing up and up and up and up, he says. I was just really amazed to see myself four or ve years old. Their mother was in oods. I cried the whole way through, she laughs. Colin did as well. And he never cries. But he took a glance at me and saw me with the tissues and it set him o. The experience of lming has changed the children, their parents say. I think theyre better at lying, Colin smiles. And youre a bit more condent now, arent you? Sarah says to Katrina. They will not discuss money, but theyve been made comfortable, Colin says. Put it that way. Winterbottom lmed at the childrens schools: shots of lunchtime football, carol concerts, the morning drop-o, the afternoon collection. The children were also allowed time o to attend lm festivals. But some of their classmates have been less understanding. They didnt believe me [that I was in a lm], Robert says, with a prickle of frustration. I was telling them and they were all like, No youre not, no youre not. The children hope that when the lm screens this autumn on Channel 4 which part-funded the project as a way of exploring the impact on families of jail time they might be vindicated. Already there have been screenings at the Telluride and Toronto lm festivals, for which the family got passports and ew for the rst time. Telluride was lovely, says Sarah. We had three big bedrooms, and a big spa bath, which you decided to try out, didnt you? She nudges Shaun. But he mucked it up, Katrina giggles. He turned it on with all the jets going the wrong way, Colin explains. This week they will be in London, and tomorrow will walk the red carpet and try not to get overawed by the crowds and ashing cameras. The children have been practising their autographs. Will their lm win the festivals top prize? Robert gives a faint frown. Probably, he says. Probably.
Arts
here was an audible intake of breath when the Sainsbury Laboratory, by Stanton Williams, was announced as the Stirling prize winner in Manchester on Saturday night. It was neither the critics favourite, nor the bookies, nor did it come anywhere near the top of public polls. Most people in the room including many of the critics hadnt even been to see it. The Lyric theatre in Belfast, by ODonnell and Tuomey, had wowed the press. Designed from the inside out, it takes you on a three-dimensional journey through a masterfully crafted sequence of spaces, built on a challenging hillside site for only 18m. The Hepworth gallery in Wakeeld, by David Chippereld, was the most photogenic, a cluster of chiselled concrete containers rising from the River Calder; the Olympic Stadium, by the appropriately named Populous, was the peoples choice, bathed in the afterglow of televised spectacle and a ne thing it is, the lightest and leanest of its kind. But instead of these, the building of the year was a project that has received few headlines: the swish Rolls-Royce of science laboratories, an 82m new facility in Cambridge Universitys Botanic Garden. Here Stanton Williams has recast what might once have been an anonymous prefab shed into nothing short of a temple to botany. Plant science is often seen as the poor cousin of the sciences, said architect Alan Stanton on Saturday night, explaining how the building has become a recruiting tool, luring scientists from across the world. Its actually an area of fantastic potential development, and of course vital for the sustainable future for the planet. After visiting this complex, amply funded by Lord Sainsburys Gatsby foundation, poor is one of the last words I would use to describe the current state of plant science. The site has long been a cradle of botanical research, since the university gardens were established in the 1830s
Hovering over the place where Darwin strolled and thought, this 82m lab is a worthy winner of the big prize in architecture, says Oliver Wainwright
In Darwins footsteps
by John Stevens Henslow, tutor of Charles Darwin. Conceived as a practical outdoor lab, the gardens were planted with exotic trees and herbaceous systematic beds, all laid out according to Henslows theory of species. It was while meandering along the paths in the garden that Darwin and Henslow would debate such theories; and it is this Aristotelian tradition of strolling, deep in discussion, that the architects have tried to manifest. The lab sits in the working part of the garden, and has a monumental
Its a far cry from the usual research warren of corridors and closed doors
presence, composed in the planar language of high modernism that Stanton Williams has rened over its 27 years. A frieze of buttery limestone ns marches along the rst oor, dening this upper level of laboratory spaces, held taut between two crisp concrete planes. This horizontal beam appears to oat, cantilevered out above a sunken ground oor. The interior is planned around a double-height internal street that frames an open courtyard, fully glazed to allow views to dierent parts of the building. It is a form that draws on a long history, from the Greek stoa to monastic cloister and collegiate quad, of semi-enclosed, contemplative spaces here enlivened by a cafe, which gives the institution a welcome public face. Within, the buildings main spaces are linked by a continuous route, inspired by Darwins thinking path and designed to promote chance encounters, dotted with informal areas to sit and chat. Wooden cubbyholes line the rst-oor windows, while staircases are broad, allowing two people to walk and talk side by side. The labs are airy, ooded with natural light from curved funnels, with glazed walls to let other people see whats going on a far cry from the usual research warrens of corridors and closed doors behind which new discoveries are squirreled away. It is hoped this open layout will foster more collaborative working. Stirling judge Joanna van Heyningen praised the lifting of a building type that could have been utilitarian into a sublime piece of calm and beautiful architecture. Perhaps that is enough to make it a winner. Too often, the Stirling shortlist favours arts and cultural buildings over ones that perform complex functions or provide routine backdrops to our lives. And while it might be hard for the Sainsbury Laboratory to have gone badly wrong given the generous patronage, enlightened client and dream site Stanton Williamss achievement could have an important inuence beyond this one building.
How we made ... Play School I was permanently stressed and hysterical. Anything could happen. We killed a mouse once
Joy Whitby, creator and producer
BBC2 was supposed to launch on the night of 20 April 1964 but there was a huge power cut, which meant Play School went out the following morning as its very rst programme. It made headlines and a year later won an SFTA, now known as a Bafta. There was a dearth of nursery education at the time, and all the TV programmes, such as Andy Pandy, were canned series that had been lmed long ago. There was no fresh thinking. Play School, a half-hour programme airing every week day, was meant to change all that. Id written a report on Watch with Mother and was given the job of producer, with a free rein. I wrote the rst six weeks of shows and came up with all the key elements: the story chair, the clock, the windows. I was keen to address one child, not several; a lot of programmes would say, Are you all listening? when actually a small child thinks of a show as coming directly to him or her. When Brian Cant came to audition, I asked him to sit in a cardboard box and imagine going on a journey. He Youd enjoy it if she came to tea Phyllida Law and Gordon Rollings in Play School, 1964 sailed away with a broomstick and found, he said, a wellington boot full of custard. He became Mr Play School staying for 21 of the shows 24 years. When Eric Thompson came on board, a colleague said: Youre right to have Eric, but do you know about his wife? So Phyllida Law joined and became one of the most delightful presenters. She had the qualities I looked for, in that youd really enjoy it if she came to tea. At the time, people were becoming self-conscious about middle-class values. They thought our toys, like Humpty Dumpty, were too middle class. So we introduced a very ugly, beaten-about doll called Hamble (humble). The presenters disliked her intensely. During a break in shooting, Julie Stevens once made her do a striptease to music. Id be terried going in, wondering if Id get through all the stress. But if I got frustrated, Id just punch Hamble, the doll with the squashed face. She couldnt sit up and thats not helpful. You never knew what was going to hit you. If Eric, my husband, said something like Knick-knack up against a tree, I would nd it vaguely obscene and start to shriek with laughter. And anything could happen, with Plasticine or mice. We killed a mouse once. A beautiful little white mouse whose keeper came along to sedate it so that it slept. It was put on a velvet cushion and I had to present it to the king or queen. I think if you kissed it, it became a prince or something. But anyway, I do remember the whole thing because the poor mouse had too much sedative and died. It wasnt my fault, but I was walking towards the throne thinking: What if the children knew I was acting with a dead mouse?
Interviews by Sarah Williams. Joy Whitby is giving a talk about her career at the BFI, London SE1 (b.org.uk), in February.
If I got frustrated, Id just punch Hamble
Phyllida Law, presenter

It was chaotic: lming ve 30-minute programmes in two days. Although you had scripts, you improvised a lot. And you had to sing, of course, without laughing. I was permanently hysterical.
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ve heard people say mean things about Made in Chelsea (E4) that its just about a bunch of vapid posh tossers doing nothing very much, and is neither reality nor drama. Which, to be fair, is hard to argue with. But they are rather magnicent posh tossers, no? Such beautiful teeth, and lovely shiny hair. And they dont quite do nothing they kiss each other, they have drinks, then they kiss each other in a dierent way. More seriously though, I think it gives the less privileged, with less shiny hair and snaggled teeth, something to strive towards. Its aspirational. I have a teenage niece who is obsessed with MiC. Her ambition is one day to drink by a pool in St Tropez, and to kiss a boy with a Ferrari, who may be her boyfriend, or someone elses, it doesnt matter in Chelsea, or St Tropez. And to think, she used to say she wanted to be a doctor. Ha, so much work, and wheres the fun? We are in St Tropez as it happens, for this new series opener. Jamie, the bleached blond biscuit heir, is going through a lady drought a hosepipe ban, jokes one of his oppy-haired pals. There was a complicated love triangle going on, between Jamie, lovely Louise and hotel heir Spencer, but it seems Louise is back with Spencer. Or is she, because this new chap Andy is cracking on to her now. Does that make it a love rectangle? To be honest, the whole of MiC is one big, multi-sided love polygon a dodecadent-sexagon thats half the fun. I wouldnt mind getting involved myself, though I am with someone (it doesnt stop them), a bit (OK a lot) too old, I dont have the teeth, or the hair, or the postcode. Nor am I heir to any major fortunes. Perhaps Ill start a new show, Made in Dollis Hill, similar but set a few miles north, starring me, my neighbours, John the greengrocer, with his van. Just an idea, if there are any TV producers reading.
One big, multi-sided love polygon Made in Chelsea takes Andy aside. Bro, dude, if Andy wants to crack on and go head to head on it, thats ne, but hes going to lose. Meanwhile back in London, Proudlock, or Proudcock, is planning a party; Binky or Bonky (or possibly Cheska) is having a driving lesson; someone else is arranging to go for drinks so everyone can meet Ianthe, whos amazing, were going to love her (I already do); and Ollie he of the amazing hair has an announcement to make: hes having it the hair cut. Noooooo! Its so magnicent, like the swishing mane of a thoroughbred stallion Too late, snip snip, o it comes. Well, at least its a good excuse for everyone to go for drinks. Were still in London for Wonderland: Walking with Dogs (BBC2). On Hampstead Heath, where lmmaker Vanessa Engle is lurking with her camera. Lurking and making the most of the universal truth that states that a person with a dog can be and wants to be approached for a chat. There surely must have been some serious culling, of dull doggy stories (we got him because there was a litter up the road, the kids nagged and nagged until we caved in, that kind of thing). Because everything that remains is a little bit extraordinary. These dogs Lilliput, Bella, Buddy, Aubergine, Zen, Rick, Nigel etc dont just run about and fetch sticks for their owners (of course the lm is really about the owners). They are the sticks, the crutches, that these people need to get along. They are also guard dogs; they protect their owners not so much from other people but from themselves; they fend o demons. They are substitutes too for people who used to exist, or will never exist, or exist in a dierent way from how they used to exist. And theyre wonderful the dogs, their owner, the lm, all of it.
Last night's TV Made in Chelsea is back and Andy is preparing to jump into the polar bears nest
By Sam Wollaston
Anyway, Andys got a boat. Jamies liking the boat, he says, but dude, where are the girls? Dude, Andy got the boat, he didnt get the girls, he cant do both. They have a drink, to celebrate having a boat and to make up for the girl drought. Here are the girls, later, having drinks at the hotel, where Victoria is launching her swimwear collection. Spencer has now heard that Andy, who got the boat remember, has been cracking on to Louise, even though Jamie warned him it would be like jumping into a polar bears nest. A polar bears nest? Because thats the most dangerous animal, bro, says Jamie. Spencer thought it was a hippo, bro. Anyway, thats not the point, the point is that he polar bear, hippo, gorilla, whatever isnt happy about Andy cracking on to his bird. He
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Film of the day The Gingerbread Man (11.40pm, BBC1) Kenneth Branagh plays an American deep south variation on Wallander as lawyer Rick Magruder, in Robert Altmans intriguingly chaotic adaptation of the Grisham novel.
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A nation gripped by soggy bottoms and Mary Berrys wardrobe sits on the edge of its collective sofa for the big nal. Baking Bieber-alike John, tank top-wearing James and divo of detail Brendan have made it this far, but they must pull o three complicated technical challenges on the last stretch. Their pastry skills are tested to the limit with a pithivier and the dreaded fondant fancies, followed by the creation of a masterpiece from chion sponge. Fridge and pray, people. Fridge. And. Pray. Hannah Verdier was the singer like ostage? Surprisingly shy and prone to moments of cattiness, to judge by the interviews in this documentary. For all that the narrative leads up to Mercurys death from Aids at a time when prejudice surrounded the condition there are funny moments: recording with Michael Jackson, we learn, was tough on account of Jackos llama. Jonathan Wright
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Term two trundles on, with Heather increasingly attached to Kingsley, much to the chagrin of BFF Josie. JP is bedridden with mumps, with Vod the only person who can safely care for him. Howard becomes paranoid about household security after getting mugged for his shoes, leading to new housemate/emotion-vacuum Sabine giving self-defence lessons to the girls. As ever, a huge amount packed into the hour, with not a single sub-plot left wanting. Mark Jones
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Queen frontman Freddie Mercurys audience-eatingout-of-his-hand Live Aid performance cemented his reputation as one of rocks great frontmen. But what
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7.0pm Total Wipeout (R) (S) Richard Hammond and Amanda Byram host as 20 more contestants compete in physically demanding games on the purpose-built obstacle course.
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7.55 Kevin McClouds Man Made Home (R) (S) (AD) The Grand Designs presenter builds an oak-framed mobile cabin using recycled materials.
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8.0 Serial Killing Saviour: Born To Kill? (S) Examining the psychology of Herbert William Mullin, who murdered 13 people in the early 1970s but claimed his victims were sacriced to save the lives of others. 9.0 Person Of Interest (S) Reese and Finch are puzzled when the machine brings up four numbers at once.
8.0 UFOs: Conspiracy Road Trip (R) (S) Andrew Maxwell travels from Los Angeles to Area 51 with ve people who believe in the extraterrestrials. Last in the series.
8.0 Friday Night Lights (R) (S) Smash faces questioning from the police after the incident at the cinema.
9.0 Dont Tell The Bride (S) A Liverpool man with Ghanaian roots plans an African celebration.
9.0 Order And Disorder With Jim Al-Khalili (S) (AD) The theoretical physicist recounts the story of how the rules of the universe were discovered.
9.0 Sarah Beenys Selling Houses (S) New series. The presenter helps people sell their properties by giving them a chance to look around each others houses for improvement ideas.
9.0 Awake (R) (S) Britten once again investigates two very dierent murders in the alternate realities.
10.0 CSI: NY (R) (S) (AD) The recovery of a stolen pocket watch provides clues to a missing-persons case from the 1930s. 10.55 CSI: NY (R) (S) (AD) Mac investigates three seemingly unrelated murders. 11.50 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (R) (S) (AD) Roger Daltrey of The Who guest stars as Mickey Dunn, a mobster who returns to Las Vegas determined to settle old scores against his former allies.
Book Of The Week: Nancy The Story Of Lady Astor. Written by Adrian Fort, abridged by Alison Joseph. 10.0 Womans Hour. 11.0 Saving Species. An investigation into whether nature lms benet conservation. 11.30 Spellbound: Siouxsie And The Banshees 12.0 News 12.04 Call You And Yours. PHONE: 0370 010 0444 (Lines open from 10am) email: youandyours@bbc. co.uk. 12.57 Weather 1.0 The World At One. 1.45 China: As History Is My Witness. The story of Li Bai. 2.0 The Archers. Jim tells a white lie. (R) 2.15 Afternoon Drama: Rock And Doris And Elizabeth. Tracy-Ann Obermans play about Hollywood. Starring Frances Barber. 3.0 Short Cuts. Nina
10.0 Cuckoo (S) (AD) The family visits Lornas father. 10.30 EastEnders (R) (S) (AD) Syed nally owns up to Christian about the nancial mess he has got the family into.
10.0 Lilyhammer (S) (AD) Old New York associates trace Frank to Norway. 10.45 The Goddess Of Art: Marina Abramovic (S) An insight into the work of the artist.
10.0 Jews At Ten (S) Examining the concept of marrying in and out of the Jewish faith, and the intensity of motherly love. 10.35 Curb Your Enthusiasm (R) (S) (AD) Larry gets into an argument. 11.15 Embarrassing Bodies (R) (S) Farmers get advice on sexually transmitted infections.
10.0 House Of Lies (S) Marty nds his position under threat when adversary Greg Norbert announces his rm is considering a takeover bid. 10.35 Nurse Jackie (S) Rehab proves tough for Jackie. 11.10 Mad Men (R) (S) Roger orders Don to have lunch with Duck so they can make peace over the American Airlines debacle. Meanwhile Playtex takes the sta out to a strip club.
11.0 Family Guy (R) (S) Peter realises that Chris is irresponsible. 11.25 Family Guy (R) (S) Brian is awarded a job as a snier dog for the Quahog police department. 11.45 American Dad! (R) (S)
Garthwaite presents short documentaries about darkness. Last in the series. 3.30 Costing The Earth. Tom Heap investigates the disastrous global harvest of 2012. 4.0 Law In Action. New series. The future of the families of those who died at Hillsborough. 4.30 A Good Read. With Michael Darrington and Terri Duhon. 5.0 PM. 5.57 Weather 6.0 Six OClock News 6.30 Rudys Rare Records. Adam enters the record shop into a competition for Best Local Business. 7.0 The Archers. Ed searches for a way out. 7.15 Front Row. With Graham Norton. 7.45 The Lost Honour Of Katharina Blum. By Heinrich Boll. 8.0 File On 4. Threats to Arab Spring countries by the
11.45 Timeshift: Klezmer (R) (S) The evolution of the music genre, from its Jewish folk origins to its current worldwide presence. Narrated by Michael Grade.
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Salast movement. 8.40 In Touch. Presented by Peter White. 9.0 Inside Health. Dr Mark Porter separates medical fact from ction. 9.30 The Life Scientic. An investigation of evidence for life on Mars. (R) 9.59 Weather 10.0 The World Tonight. 10.45 Book At Bedtime: The Midwifes Daughter. Patricia Fergusons novel, abridged by Robin Brooks. 11.0 Clayton Grange. By Neil Warhurst, with additional material by Paul Barnhill. Last in the series. 11.30 Today In Parliament. With Susan Hulme. 12.0 News And Weather 12.30 Book Of The Week: Nancy The Story Of Lady Astor. Written by Adrian Fort, abridged by Alison Joseph. (R) 12.48 Shipping Forecast
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Solution no 13,240
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