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Drug success heralds ‘new era’ of
progress in Alzheimer’s research
Clinical trial result gives The landmark result comes after The drug, lecanemab , is an anti- anxiously awaited the full data which Alzheimer’s accounts for nearly
decades of failure and has encour- body therapy t hat removes clumps were published y esterday in the N ew two-thirds of the 55 million people
experts hope that the
aged experts to say Alzheimer’s of protein called beta amyloid that England of Journal of Medicine . This living with dementia worldwide. It is
disease may be treatable – which aff ects 30 million people build up in a brain with Alzheimer’s. showed the drug reducing the decline the leading cause of death in the UK,
globally – is potentially treatable. It is unclear how much the clumps in patients’ overall mental skills by with patients typically dying within
“ This is the fi rst drug that pro- drive Alzheimer’s, but in patients 27% over 18 months – a modest but seven years of a diagnosis.
vides a real treatment option for with inherited forms of the disease, signifi cant result. The condition costs the UK £25bn
Ian Sample Alzheimer’s patients,” said Bart De they appear to pave the way for a cas- “I believe it confi rms a new era of a year, a number expected to nearly
Science editor Strooper, director of the UK Demen- cade of brain changes that steadily disease modifi cation for Alzheimer’s double to £47bn by 2050. For dec-
tia Research Institute at University destroy brain cells. disease. An era that comes after more ades, eff orts to slow, halt or reverse
R esearchers have hailed the dawn of a College London. Lecanemab’s developers,  Biogen than 20 years of hard work on anti- the disease have failed, costing phar-
new era of Alzheimer’s therapies after “While the clinical benefi ts appear in the US and Eisai in Japan, amyloid immunotherapies, ” said maceutical fi rms billions of dollars
a clinical trial confi rmed that a drug somewhat limited, it can be expected announced top line results from the N ick Fox, professor of clinical neu- and forcing some to leave the fi eld
slows cognitive decline in patients that they will become more apparent clinical trial in nearly 1,800 patients rology and director of the Dementia altogether. T he positive 9 
with early stages of the disease. over time.” in September, but researchers h ave Research Centre at UCL. results from lecanemab are
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through at the double England into the last 16 of the World Cup. England
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• The Guardian Wednesday 30 November 2022
Inside 30/11/22 News
Four sections
every day
News and Sport Women of colour face ‘culture in all countries believed the “maternal
wall” – the barrier facing all women
who have children – to be a factor in
stymying career advancement. The
Cliff v Stormzy of exclusion’ in media industry colleague of one interviewee was told
Competition across the by a male editor that she had impres-
sive journalistic credentials, adding:
generations as singers
“Just make sure you leave your womb
set sights on No 1 spot at the door.”
Page 9 editor-in-chief, only 1% had a woman experiencing extraordinary levels of One of the knock-on eff ects of
Lizzy Davies of colour at the helm. exclusion and remain invisible within this culture of exclusion is women’s
“For me, this was by far the most t he news industry, a s leaders and as declining news consumption, which
Journal Outside G2
arresting, upsetting and important protagonists in news stories.” the report’s authors estimate is about
Women of colour are suff ering from fi nding to act upon urgently,” said Levels of female representation in 11-12% lower than men’s. In its anal-
Opinions and ideas
a “culture of exclusion” that is seeing Luba Kassova , an author of the report . K enya, Nigeria and India, were often ysis of more than 900m o nline news
them passed over for the top jobs in Women of colour faced multiple startlingly low. The report found that stories, it found there was a “huge”
 Public money is media organisations and written out barriers to equality in the newsroom, women were more marginalised in absence of coverage of structural gaps
being used to fund the of the stories those outlets cover, a she added, and were often “expected news leadership and in coverage in disproportionately aff ecting women
report has found. to resolve the problem of their own India than in the other fi ve countries, such as pay and health disparities.
Earth’s destruction
In an unprecedented analy- under representation and inclusion”. with only one in 10 editors-in-chief, Between 2017 and April 2022,
George Monbiot
sis of newsrooms and news stories The report, which analysed the one in seven business editors and one fewer than one in 5,000 news sto-
Page 1 from six countries – the U K, Kenya, workforce of 76 UK news brands, in fi ve political editors women. ries globally featured any reference to
Nigeria, India, South Africa and the found there were no women of In Kenya, while nearly one in fi ve these issues. Global news coverage of
US – women of all backgrounds were colour occupying the most sen- editors-in-chief and nearly a third gender equality issues had declined
G2 Centre pullout
found to be signifi cantly underrepre- ior editorial positions in politics, of business editors were women, from 0.56% before the Covid-19 pan-
sented in both editorial leadership foreign affairs  and health news. there were no women at the helm of demic to 0.44% since.
Features and arts
roles and in coverage. Women of colour were more mar- the politics beat in any of the media Kassova said that although there
For every woman who was an edi- ginalised in news leadership in the organisations surveyed. I n Nigeria was “no silver bullet”, media organ-
Sins of the father
tor-in-chief, the analysis found, there UK than in South Africa and the US, 18% of editors-in-chief and 16% of isations could make a real diff erence
What happened when were at least two – and in some places the report found. political editors were female. by conducting gender and race dis-
as many as 12 – men at the same level. “Compared with their proportion The report found that interviewees parity audits; setting targets, possibly
Robert Downey Jr turned
The challenges facing women of in the UK working population and relatively moderate ones, to improve
1%
the camera on his dad? colour in racially diverse countries compared with the US and South representation; and committing to
Page 8 such as South Africa, the UK and Africa, women of colour are severely broadening coverage.
the US were even greater, the report underrepresented or altogether The report was prepared by
Save up to 33% concluded. In Britain, where 37% of m issing from editorial roles in the The proportion of British media the consultancy AKAS and was
the media organisations surveyed, UK,” the report said. organisations that had a woman commissioned by the Bill and
with a subscription including the Guardian, had a female “Moreover, women of colour are of colour as editor-in-chief Melinda Gates Foundation.
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that could be created. Or marketed. the food chain.
Quick crossword Zelenska and Martin Lewis He’d once been in a meeting where S till, there was one person
some energy companies had to admire and trust on view in
Back of G2 begged David Cameron to help Westminster y esterday. Though
demonstrate trustworthiness them become more trustworthy. Olena Zelenska , Ukraine’s fi rst
Cartoon Lewis had interrupted the love-in. lady, had never bargained on being
He’d d o anything he could to stop a public fi gure. It had happened
Journal, page 4 H trusting the energy companies, by accident. She had married a
because most of the information comedian and the closest she had
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One that should Nicolson. A man who had good centres was incorrect. green room of a TV chatshow. Then
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keep some MPs cause to wonder, s ince he was later And much the same applied Volodymyr Zelenskiy had become
awake at night. to be referred to the privileges to politicians, he continued. The president. A nd when Russia
Are politicians committee for the heinous crime problem was cabinet collective i nvaded Ukraine he had become an
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Wednesday 30 November 2022 The Guardian •
News 5
▼ The baguette is the latest French
foodstuff to be proposed as part of
humanity’s elite cultural heritage
PHOTOGRAPH: SIMONSKAFAR
Bread,
brandy
and bees
▲ Serbia hopes its šljivovica plum
vie to join
brandy will gain UN recognition
explains why B ritish rituals – m or-
Unesco’s ris dancing, tea drinking a nd c heese
rolling have been suggested – are yet
to enjoy Unesco recognition.
The chai tea culture of Azerbaijan
culture
and Turkey and “traditional tea pro-
cessing techniques and associated
social practices” in China, however,
club list are under consideration this year, as
is the “knowledge of the light rum
masters” of Cuba.
Other contenders include a cold
North Korean noodle dish called
r aengmyon, the 15 August festivi-
Jon Henley ties of two highland communities
Europe correspondent in Greece, J ordan’s a l-Mansaf ban-
quet , the altiţă embroidered blouse
On the face of it, not much appears to of Romania, b eekeeping in Slovenia;
link the French baguette, Georgia’s bell-ringing in Spain and “fairground
traditional equestrian games, Cuban culture” in Belgium.
light rum, h oly w eek in Guatemala, Already on the list from previous
J apan’s ritual F uryu-odori d ances years are Korean tightrope walk-
a nd the h arissa paste of Maghreb. ing, F rench gastronomic meals and
But, along with S erbia’s š ljivovica M ongolian camel coaxing, along with
plum brandy, the oral tradition celebrated dishes including Neapol-
of camel-calling in Saudi Arabia, itan pizza, north African couscous,
Oman and UAE, and a central Asian Maltese fl attened sourdough and
lute called the r ubāb, all c ould soon Croatian ginger biscuits.
be recognised as part of humanity’s Luxembourg’s h opping procession
cultural heritage . of Echternach, an eccentric 500-year-
A 24-member intergovernmental old traditional Pentecost procession
committee of Unesco, the UN’s cul- to the tomb of St Willibrord in which
tural agency, is meeting this week in thousands hop the entire route to the
Rabat, Morocco, to consider which same traditional tune, is also in there.
of 56 “ human treasures” merit b eing So, too, is the annual grass scything
added to the 530 its annual gatherings competition of the Kupres municipal-
have already selected. ity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the
“The baguette certainly deserves t raditional pomegranate festivities
to be,” Valentin Testard, a Paris baker, ▲ A bell-shaped skirt from Albania ▲ A pomegranate festival in of Azerbaijan known as Nar Bayrami,
told France Info radio. “The recipe called the xhubleta is deemed to Azerbaijan is among the 530 ‘human Finland’s sauna culture, Jamaican
may be simple: water, fl our, salt and be in need of protected status treasures’ already recognised reggae and the Mediterranean diet.
yeast. But the baker’s touch makes In previous years the committee
the diff erence.” An estimated 320 The remainder, while somewhat universal value to humanity”. But the has ratifi ed almost all nominations,
baguettes are sold every second in less endangered, are considered by music, c rafts, food, drink, rituals, and early signs were that it would
France, making it an inseparable the governments that put them for- dances and customs on the intangible do likewise this year, with the Kun
component of French culinary cul- ward as worthy of recognition as part heritage list constitute, says Unesco, Lbokator martial arts of Cambodia,
ture, he said. of the “knowledge and skills neces- “a living heritage which, transmitted the K olo chain dance of St Tryphon
Four of the p roposed n ewcomers sary for traditional craftsmanship from generation to generation, gives as performed in Boka Kotorska , Cro-
– a style of Chilean ceramics, ancient and cultural practices to be transmit- communities a feeling of identity and atia, and the bear festivities of the
A hlat stonew ork from Turkey, the ted from generation to generation”. continuity considered essential for P yrenees winning rapid approval.
pottery of the V ietnamese C hăm The world heritage sites scheme, the respect of cultural diversity and The committee process, w hich i s
people and a bell-shaped skirt from also administered by U nesco, may be human creativity”. Japanese dance is one of livestreamed and, it should be said,
Albania known as the x hubleta – are better known, judging places s uch as The 2003 convention has so this year’s candidates considerably less entertaining than
deemed so threatened as to be in Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the far been signed by 180 countries t he subjects u nder deliberation,
urgent need of p rotection. E gyptian pyramids as of “outstanding – although n ot by the UK, which continues until Saturday.
Bats return growls in greeting led the research at the University of Osbourne, the former Black Sab- examples. The Danish r esearch,
Southern Denmark. “We don’t know bath frontman, famously bit the head p ublished in Plos Biology, solves the
with a nod to Ozzy Osbourne the function of the calls, but they off a bat he believed to be a rubber toy mystery of how bats achieve s even.
make them when they are annoyed on stage in Des Moines in 1982 . “We’ve shown that the vocal mem-
with each other, and when they fl y Few human singers have a vocal branes used for echolocating have
away or join a colony.” range of fi ve octaves, with M ariah a range of three to four octaves, and
dark, they also engage thick struc- The chance fi nding came when Carey and Prince being famous this diff erent structure then extends
Ian Sample tures in the larynx called ventricular the scientists were studying how the range down,” Elemans said.
Science editor folds to communicate with each bats produce high frequency sounds Bats e volved a highly special-
other at low frequency. for echolocation. Taking high-speed ised larynx f or producing ultrasonic
It has long been known that Ozzy Producing sound from ventric- v ideo of bat vocal cords, they noticed chirps up to 120kHz. B ut the h ighly
Osbourne has a taste for bats. But ular folds, which sit just above the the ventricular folds vibrating at low directional c hirps travel only a few
now it seems the mammals are also vocal cords, is believed to be rare in frequencies, o ne to fi ve kilohertz . metres, so the animals needed
fans of his. the animal kingdom, with bats now “The only use in humans for these another means to c ommunicate
Bats greet each other with death gaining membership to an exclusive vocal folds is during death metal over g reater d istances. “We think
metal growls, scientists have discov- club populated by death metal sing- singing and Tuvan throat singing,” the selection on these echolocation
ered, and possess a vocal range which ers and T uvan throat singers. Elemans s aid. “The oscillations calls is so severe that in order for bats
far surpasses most humans. “If you listen to a bat colony in the become very irregular, they become to have a range for communication,
While they emit ultrasonic chirps summer you can hear these calls very very rough, and that’s what you get ▲ Bats possess a vocal range which they needed to do something totally
to echolocate fl ying insects in the clearly,” said Prof Coen Elemans who with death metal grunting.” far surpasses that of h umans diff erent,” said Elemans.
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▼ England’s players mob Marcus
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Rashford (centre, back to camera)
after his goal put them 1-0 up
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Rashford’s redemption
Striker silences his critics as
England qualify for last 16
for free school meals; others that he (cid:3) A dejected Wales fan surrounded
Sean Ingle should focus more on taking on foot- by England fans celebrating their
Ahmad Bin Ali Stadiiuumm ball opponents than the government. team’s win at a screening in London
Even his biggest fans wondered PHOTOGRAPH: ZAC GOODWIN/PA
Moments after England eased into the whether his mojo would return.
last 16 of this World Cup with a pain- Yet on a balmy night in Doha, Rash- The win was also aided by P hil
lessly effi cient 3-0 victory against ford not only scored England’s 100th Foden, who scored E ngland’s second Ban for rainbow-fl ag protester
Wales, Marcus Rashford jogged over World Cup goal, as well as his second on the night, and justifi ed his return
to supporters and began to freneti- and third of the tournament, but to the side.
cally pump his fi sts. It was a moment completed a remarkable comeback. Southgate gave an upbeat assess- Qatari authorities have banned a involved was released shortly after
of release – and sweet resurrection. His fi rst was a free-kick full of ment of both men. “It’s great for protester who ran on to the pitch being removed from the pitch. His
Having slain the Welsh dragon, speed and dip and spite. The second Marcus,” he said. “He’s trained during Portugal’s match with embassy has been informed. As a
Gareth Southgate’s T hree Lions will was a shot that raced through the really well, and he could have had a Uruguay from attending any more consequence of his actions … he
next take on the Lions of Teranga , as unfortunate Welsh keeper Danny hat-trick. His free-kick was an incred- World Cup matches. has been banned from attending
Senegal’s national team is called, on Ward’s legs . Afterwards Rashford ible strike; that’s what he’s capable of. The man waved a rainbow fl ag future matches. ”
Sunday evening. pointed to the sky in celebration of his “At moments I thought both [Rash- and wore a shirt saying “Save Security staff quickly r emoved
But as England’s players cel- goals, as well as a close friend’s life. ford and Foden] were a bit quiet in the Ukraine” on one side and “Respect the protester, who was supported
ebrated, the focus inevitably “I lost one of my friends a couple fi rst half. We decided to switch them for Iranian woma n” on the other. afterwards by Portugal’s Rúben
gravitated towards Rashford. For of days ago,” he said. “He had quite a at half-time and they responded A spokesperson for the supreme Neves. “I hope nothing happens to
much of last season the Manches- long battle with cancer. I’m pleased really well.” committee told the Guardian: the boy, because we understand his
ter United player was hopelessly I scored for him – he was a big sup- England fans celebrated by taunt- “Following the pitch invasion message and I think all the world
out of form. Some suggested he had porter and good friend of mine. He ing the Welsh supporters with “You’re d uring last night’s m atch, we understood it as well,” said the
become distracted by campaigning was someone who came into my life.” going home in the morning”. That can confi rm that the individual midfi elder. Sean Ingle
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much is true, although their tour- Tenerife Red dragons diverted Sharon Thomas, 49, from n orth Migrant deaths
nament was over long before the Wales, had come to Tenerife
USA’s 1-0 victory against Iran sent with her husband, Steve, and six Offi cial says
the Americans into a knockout game from Qatar to the Canaries by other family members, including
against t he Netherlands on Saturday. their three-year-old grandson,
400 to 500
Yet despite England topping Group Henry, who lolled in his buggy,
B with seven points, the strange truth money and ethical concerns looking remarkably relaxed about
workers died
is that observers are no nearer to get- the scoreline.
ting an accurate gauge of their likely “My husband did think of going
departure date. to Qatar, but then there’s the cost on project sites
The England team that bored the human rights issues,” said Spiers. and the accommodation, so in
nation with a disarming display of Sam Jones “She decided to come to Tenerife the end we decided to pay for the
d ross against the USA, and again NArona because of the year-round sun. She family to come here,” said Sharon.
in the fi rst half here, will surely be asked on Facebook if there were “And it’s been wonderful. There
signifi cant underdogs against Bra- ine h ours before the any bars that could accommodate have been no problems here.” Paul MacInnes
zil, Spain or France. Yet against Iran, kick-off of a match 300 people. I’ve got two next to Steve, who has followed Wales Doha
and in fl ashes against Wales, they being played in a each other, so I said yes.” for decades, said that while he
have shown enough to suggest that desert a bout 4,000 A fter that, said Spiers, things would have loved to have gone The Qatari offi cial responsible for
a quicker style of play, along with miles a way, the staff e scalated somewhat. “I don’t know to Qatar, it wasn’t practical. And delivery of the 2022 World Cup has
a dollop of luck, could give them a at the Wigan Pier, where it’s come from. It’s just kept besides, he added, “the whole said the number of migrant workers
puncher’s chance. in southern Tenerife, were leaving going and it’s been absolutely thing’s a bloody farce”. who have died on World Cup-related
We do know one thing: England’s nothing to chance yesterday. fantastic. I think people have just For s ome fans present, the projects is “between 400 and 500”.
potential road to the World Cup fi nal The Wales fl ags and bunting were jumped on the bandwagon.” decision to head for the Canaries Hassan al-Thawadi , the secretary
is now less murky. On Sunday they up inside and out, the red shirts She s aid t he violence that had been made by pockets rather g eneral of the s upreme c ommittee for
face Senegal. Then, if a tournament were on, the chairs were set facing erupted between England and than consciences. delivery and legacy, made the admis-
rich in surprises behaves itself, France the big screens, and 45 barrels Wales fans on Friday in a strip close The economics speak for sion in an interview but said a precise
lie in wait in the quarter-fi nals. After of beer were standing by to be to the P laya de las Américas had not themselves: in the brief period fi gure w as still “being discussed”.
that, Portugal or Germany may loom drained by the hundreds of Wales been repeated at the Wigan Pier, before it was removed from sale at “The estimate is around 400,”
in the fi nal four. supporters who had made the pub where many families have gathered the tournament grounds in Qatar, a Thawadi told the TalkTV show Piers
There are many pitfalls ahead, their unoffi cial fan zone for the to watch the game. “Everybody beer cost £12. In Tenerife, a pint can Morgan Uncensored. “Between 400
of course. The bookmakers make duration of the World Cup. loves it and there’s been no trouble be had for €2 (£1.75). and 500. I don’t have the precise
them fi fth favourites, which feels To put things in context, the here,” she said. As the fi nal whistle blew, the number. That is something that is
about right. Wigan Pier normally sells 12 barrels Some of those gathered at the Welsh fans commiserated with being discussed.
Earlier, all eyes had been on both of beer. Per week. Also, t here are Wigan Pier were annoyed and one another, sang, then sang a “One death is too many, it’s as
sets of supporters, especially after t ypically far, far fewer red dragons. frustrated by the violence, but little more, their choruses carrying simple as that. [But] every year the
England and Wales fans had slugged W hen Wales qualifi ed for the said it had involved only a small a cross to the roundabout where a health and safety standards on the
it out on the beaches of T enerife. But World Cup in June, a woman called minority of fans. line of police stood. sites are improving, at least on our
their behaviour here could have car- Bethany Evans used social media “I’m feeling OK, to be honest,” sites, the World Cup sites, the ones
ried a PG certifi cate. to half-jokingly fl oat the idea of said Neil Elias, from Caernarfon. we are responsible for.”
They queued politely for compl e- watching the tournament in Spain “We should have done more in T here was anger at Thawadi’s
mentary St George and dragon fl ags, rather than the host nation to save the fi rst half, but, as a football fan, comments, with Nicholas McGee-
which they draped over their shoul- money and hassle. Her idea went England were just brilliant.” han of the human rights group Fair
ders like superhero capes. They also viral, and the venue was decided He and his girlfriend may not Square saying: “ We need proper data
mingled nicely on the concourse when K elly Spiers, who owns t he have made it to Qatar, but their and thorough investigations, not
of the Ahmad Bin Ali stadium. And Wigan Pier and neighbouring La World Cup in Tenerife had not vague fi gures announced through
when the anthems rang out – a spine- Flaca, off ered her bars. disappointed. media interviews.
tingling Land of My Fathers and a “Bethany asked people if they “The memories I’ll take are “Fifa and Qatar still have a lot
full-blooded God Save t he King – they were thinking of going somewhere of this place, the collective of questions to answer, not least
were observed impeccably. apart from Qatar because of the ▲ Colette Daisley with pub owner experience, the Welsh singing and where, when and how did these men
Early on, it wasn’t just the crowd expense and the beer costs and Kelly Spiers, right, at the Wigan Pier of the togetherness,” he said. died and did their families receive
that lacked an edge. The football did compensation.”
too. The quality was summed up by The s upreme c ommittee has
defender Harry Maguire, who sla- Wrexham ‘We’re proud, not the Welsh shop, Siop Siwan, in maintained there ha ve been three
lomed into the box before hitting a Tŷ Pawb, has followed W rexham work-related fatalities and 37 non-
shot that shanked off his boot … and AFC, and Wales man and boy. The work-related deaths among migrant
went for a throw-in. disappointed,’ say Wales fans last time Wales beat England – at workers at World Cup stadiums
But the momentum changed Wrexham’s Racecourse ground in since construction b egan in 2014. A
on 50 minutes, when Rashford hit 1984 – he came home from college spokesperson said yesterday: “This
his howitzer of a free-kick. From in Bangor to watch it. “But I had is documented on an annual basis in
then on, an ageing Wales side to watch the g ame with E nglish man fl u so stayed at home, I should the public reporting and covers the
meekly surrendered. Steven Morris language commentary. H undreds have crawled there.” eight stadiums, 17 non-competition
Looking on were England fan T also watched w ith Welsh language J ones i s glad the Welsh language venues and other related sites. ”
Rebecca Knight and her husband commentary in the T ŷ Pawb has received such prominence. In 2021 the Guardian published
Peter, from Ipswich, who have hey had come, wearing ( Everyone’s House), a market/arts “The way the FAW has integrated research t hat showed m ore than
spent the last fortnight on the cruise their bucket hats space. M ei Emrys, a musician who the language has been great. 6,500 migrant workers had died in
ship World Europa. “We’ve seen 11 and bright red shirts, warmed up the Tŷ Pawb crowd They’ve had Welsh speakers like Qatar between the start of 2011 (the
games,” said Rebecca. “I think we’ll in hope rather than before the game with some rousing Aaron Ramsey and Ben Davies year after country won the right to
get knocked out in the quarter-fi nals. expectation. Welsh tunes, admitted he was doing press conferences in Welsh. ” host the World Cup) and 2020.
We’ll beat Senegal but lose to France. As Wales’s fi rst “slightly disappointed” Wales had W rexham AFC has been in the While the Guardian’s figures
Kylian Mbappé is very clinical.” appearance at the football World not played as well as they could. headlines a fter the US actors R yan showed the total number of deaths
Meanwhile, long after the fi nal Cup for 64 years was ended by “But two generations haven’t Reynolds and Rob McElhenney fr om all causes and in all locations,
whistle, Wales fans were still proudly England, the fans left Wrexham’s even seen Wales get to a World bought t he club. “We get tourists human rights activists have a rgued
serenading their players. They fan zones disappointed but Cup. A nd it’s been more about from all over the world now that the World Cup caused an increase
included Tom Paley from C ardiff , unbowed, still so proud of their the football team. You won’t get a because of them,” said Williams. in the number of migrant workers
who tried to put his country’s perfor- team’s achievements. better stage than this to promote After the fi nal whistle, Yma o travelling to the country. The Qatari
mance in their fi rst World Cup since Ceri Ellis, who watched the game Wales, our language, our culture.” Hyd (Still Here), the defi ant Welsh- government did not dispute the fi g-
1958 into words. with her son Gareth, 12, smiled Geraint Jones, who helps run language folk song that has been ures but said “the mortality rate
“This signifi es the end of an era,” sadly. “It’s really great that Wales adopted by the squad, blared from among these communities is within
he said with a grimace. “Obviously, just got to Qatar – it put us on the the speakers at Tŷ Pawb and in the expected range for the size and
it’s been a bit of a disappointment, map. ” Despite the result, Gareth, venues across the city. demographics of the population”.
but it’s been great to have seen Wales clutching his Welsh dragon fl ag, Wayne Jones, the landlord of the
in a World Cup.” insisted: “I think Wales is the best Turf pub, said: “This competition ‘Fifa and Qatar
His friend James Cattle focused on team in the world.” has meant everything for the
the c amaraderie among both sets of Wrexham is so keen on its people of Wales after a 64-year still have a lot of
fans. “It’s diff erent when you are far football that it set up two fan zones. wait. The players will come home questions to answer’
from home,” he said. “But there is still T housands gathered outside a with their heads held high. We
a sense that you are British and look- big screen on the High Street in won’t ever forget what the likes
ing after each other.” front of the W ynnstay Arms h otel, of Gareth Bale, Ramsey and
In the stands, perhaps. On the where the Football Association ▲ Supporters at Tŷ Pawb watched Davies have given us. We’re not Nicholas McGeehan
pitch, England had other ideas. of Wales (FAW) was founded, the game with Welsh commentary disappointed, we’re proud.” Fair Square rights group
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8 National
Culture secretary defends terms explicitly prohibit content that that it was wrong to remove a duty “The whole point around this bill
falls below the threshold of crimi- on social media companies to curb i s about protecting children,” she
nality – such as some forms of abuse legal but harmful content. “I don’t told t he Today programme. “That’s
dilution of online harms bill
– Ofcom would have the power to think you can see the removal of a why the fi rst thing that I did when I
ensure they police them adequately. whole clause as anything other than became se cretary of st ate is … actu-
Other changes to the bill, which watering down,” he said. ally strengthen this bill for children.
teenager Molly Russell said it was a returns to parliament on 5 December , D onelan said she would defend the “Now in this bill, the promotion of
Jessica Elgot “watering-down” of the bill. include criminalising the encourage- removal of the clause . “It had very, self-harm is illegal, the promotion of
Deputy political editor Ministers scrapped the provision , ment of self-harm, an addition that very concerning impacts, potentially, intimate images including deepfakes
which would have included off en- was made after the inquest into the on free speech,” she told Sky News. are illegal. But I did also recognise …
The culture secretary, Michelle sive content that does not constitute death of 14-year-old Molly, who died “It was a creation of a quasi-legal cat- that there is a deep concern about
Donelan, has defended r emoving a a criminal off ence, over free speech in 2017 after viewing harmful mate- egory between illegal and legal.” freedom of speech on the legal but
provision in the online safety bill t o concerns. Instead, Donelan said, plat- rial on Instagram and Pinterest. But Donelan said it would not have harmful aspect.”
regulate “legal but harmful” online forms would be required to enforce Molly’s father, Ian Russell, told consequences for the kind of material She said the content that Molly had
material, after the father of the their terms and conditions. If those BBC Radio 4’s Today programme children would see online. viewed would no longer be legal.
Analysis
Alex Hern
Balancing act between making
UK the ‘safest place to be online’
and not being too censorious
T
he online safety The push against those
bill is returning to regulations reached its height
parliament under during the Tory leadership contest,
the aegis of its fourth when the online safety bill was
prime minster and caricatured by its opponents,
seventh secretary of such as the trade secretary,
state since it was fi rst proposed in K emi Badenoch, as legislating
a n online harms white paper under for hurt feelings. And so, upon
Theresa May. its reintroduction, the “legal but
A ll have been determined to harmful” provisions were stripped
leave their fi ngerprints on the out for content aimed at adults.
legislation, which has swollen T hen the government went further:
to encompass everything from in an eff ort to burnish its free-
age verifi cation on pornography speech credentials, it added in l egal
to criminalisation of posting requirements forcing not over-
falsehoods online, and Rishi Sunak moderation but under-moderation.
and t he culture secretary, M ichelle “Companies will not be able to
Donelan, are no diff erent. remove or restrict legal content,
Some of the changes to the or suspend or ban a user, unless
bill are simple additions. But the circumstances for doing this
others refl ect the contentious are clearly set out in their terms of
nature of the legislation, which service or are against the law,” t he
faces a balancing act between the Department for Digital, Culture,
government’s desire to make the Media and Sport announced.
UK “the safest place to be online”, T he government has dropped
and its fear of appearing overly the off ence of “harmful
censorious or, worse still, “woke”. communications” a fter it became
Y esterday Donelan triumphantly a lightning rod for criticism.
announced that the latest version But t o remove the o ff ence it has
of the b ill would be dropping also cancelled plans to strike off
eff orts to regulated content the two existing off ences it was
deemed “legal but harmful”. due to replace , which are far
Earlier drafts h ad hit upon a broader than the ban on harmful
canny way to please both sides of communications was to be. The
the debate: rather than requiring harmful communications off ence
social media companies to remove requires that a message cause
certain types of content outright, “serious distress”; the M alicious
the bill simply required them to Communications Act 1988
declare a position on s uch material requires only “distress”; while the
in their terms of service, and then C ommunications Act 2003 is even
enforce that position. I n theory softer, banning messages sent “for
a social media company could the purpose of causing annoyance,
explicitly declare itself u ntroubled inconvenience or needless
b y harmful content on its platform anxiety”. Those off ences will now
and receive no penalties. remain on the books.
But free speech groups worried T he rest of this monster
that the requirement would have a bill, redefi ning the landscape
chilling eff ect, and social networks of internet regulation for a
backed them up: few deliberately generation, has barely been
want h armful content on their discussed in public. P roposals
platforms, but faced with a legal ranging from an attack on end-
requirement to take action on it or to-end encryption to the c reation
face penalties, they could end up of an internet regulator a re being
being forced to overc orrect. For treated as t weaks, but if g iven the
topics such as self-harm, aggressive time they deserved it is l ikely the
m oderation can cause real-world legislative process would outlast a
harm, just as lax policies can. fi fth prime minister as well.
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Avian fl u has wiped out half of farms have been aff ected by some Drug heralds
form of control designed to curb the
spread of bird fl u, Griffi ths told the ‘new era’ of
committee, whether they had been
free-range Christmas poultry
directly aff ected by the disease or not.
research into
Kelly told MPs his own business
had already faced three outbreaks,
which had seen him lose £1.2m. Alzheimer’s
“For farmers, it has been devas-
“very, very hard”, he added, saying within retail are going to be filled.” tating,” Kelly said, as he called for
Joanna Partridge that about 1.6m t urkeys of the total T he poultry farmer Paul Kelly an overhaul of the compensation
8.5m t o 9m p roduced each year in of the Essex-based Kelly Turkeys scheme available to farmers, who (cid:2) Continued f rom page 1
Britain for the festive period h ad told MPs there would be “big, big a re only compensated for the num-
Half the free-range poultry grown already succumbed to the disease shortages” of free-range turkeys on ber of fi t and healthy animals when expected to lead to a new generation
for Christmas in the UK have died or or been culled. the shelves. the authorities arrive to cull the of drugs that off er better and better
been culled because of the bird fl u The highly infectious bird fl u that Kelly said he did not anticipate remaining birds. control of the disease.
epidemic, a poultry industry leader has been sweeping across Britain a rise in prices for British turkeys: However, poultry producers report Amid widespread excitement at
has told MPs. for more than a year now, and which “I think it will just be a supply i ssue entire fl ocks are succumbing to the the results, researchers highlighted
About 600,000 free-range tur- h as gained pace in recent weeks, is rather than the prices being hiked,” illness before a cull can begin. a host of issues that could hamper
keys and geese have already died as a deadly for farmed animals such as he said. “The challenge for lot of smaller, the drug’s adoption. Lecanemab is
result of the disease, the British Poul- turkeys and geese. However, Britain’s There have been 136 confi rmed seasonal producers that produce expensive – between £10,000 and
try Council’s chief executive, Richard worst-ever bird fl u outbreak has also cases of the highly pathogenic avian Christmas poultry is they have their £30,000 per patient per year – and
Griffi ths, told t he e nvironment, f ood proved catastrophic for farmers, as infl uenza H5N1 in the UK since the fl ock on their farm and when it is has such a modest eff ect, at least over
and r ural a ff airs c ommittee y esterday. any remaining birds on the site have start of October, the vast majority of infected those turkeys will die within 18 months, that it is unclear whether
“The usual amount of free-range to be culled. which have been in England, t hough four days,” Kelly said. patients would notice any benefi t.
birds grown for Christmas is around Asked what the devastation in the disease has now reached Wales Poultry producers are calling for It is not clear when, and even i f,
1.2m t o 1.3m. We have seen, I think, the poultry sector would mean for and Scotland. development of a bird fl u vaccine to it will be approved by the UK’s Med-
around 600,000 of those free- the p rice of turkeys in the shops, Griffi ths said the number of cases be accelerated amid warnings that icines and Healthcare products
range birds being directly aff ected,” Griffi ths said: “I don’t know and that’s has only tended to reach double fi g- many of those aff ected are consid- Regulatory Agency and the N ational
Griffi ths said. really a question for retailers at this ures during previous outbreaks. ering whether to continue rearing Institute for Health and Care Excel-
Free-range poultry had been hit point. We don’t know how the gaps More than a third (36%) of poultry turkeys in future. lence . Another hurdle is that the NHS
is not equipped to deliver the drug:
i t lacks suffi cient diagnostic tests to
Mistletoe identify those most likely to bene-
fi t , it has too few staff to give every
patient an infusion of the drug every
and grime two weeks and it cannot provide the
multiple MRI scans that are needed
throughout treatment to check for
as Sir Cliff
side eff ects .
Questions have been raised about
s afety after t wo deaths on the trial
and Stormzy
were linked to the drug by some
researchers. A ccording to the pub-
lished report, 13 people died on the
race to top
trial : six who received the drug and
seven who received the placebo. The
of pop chart report says none of the deaths were
considered t o be related to the drug.
“Lecanemab is not a panacea, but it
provides proof of concept that Alzhei-
mer’s is not an impossible problem: it
is potentially treatable and perhaps
one day even preventable,” said J on-
Nadia Khomami athan Schott, professor of neurology
Arts and culture correspondent at UCL and chief medical offi cer at
Alzheimer’s Research UK.
One is the Peter Pan of pop, the “We need to expand our research
other is the king of UK hip-hop. But and to continue to investigate diff er-
despite the decades between them, ent drugs targeting diff erent aspects
Cliff Richard and Stormzy, two of Brit- of the disease: ultimately it is likely
ain’s most successful artists – with fan that combination therapies will be
bases that could not be more diff er- needed.”
ent from each other – are going head Tara Spires-Jones, professor of
to head in this week’s charts. neurodegeneration and deputy direc-
Richard said he w as h appy he tor of the Centre for Discovery Brain
could compete with Stormzy as he Sciences at the University of Edin-
neared his 65th year in music. The burgh, said while the results were
82-year-old praised the 29-year-old to still compete. So I am just really ▲ Cliff Richard said he was ‘happy to “good news”, it was important to
grime star as “the most popular artist Head to head happy about it.” be able to compete’ with Stormzy, left note that lecanemab is not a cure for
of the decade” as they competed for Richard said he did not k now PHOTOGRAPHS: JEFF KRAVITZ/FILMMAGIC; Alzheimer’s. “ As the authors point
this Friday’s number-one album slot. Stormzy “at all”, adding: “I was going DAN BIRCH/BIRCH PHOTOGRAPHY/ITV out, there is not an accepted defi ni-
Richard’s first new Christmas Cliff Richard, 82 B orn Lucknow, to say, may the best man win, but I am tion of clinically meaningful eff ects
album in 19 years, Christmas With India. 14 No 1s. not saying it just in case he does win.” features 13 festive classics and new in the cognitive test they used, and
Cliff , i s presently just behind T his Is Hits Mistletoe & Wine, The Young The singer, who is the third top-sell- s ongs. Richard p reviously enjoyed it is not clear yet whether the mod-
What I Mean , the third album from Ones, Summer Holiday. ing artist in UK singles chart history, UK chart success with the song Mis- est reduction in decline will make a
Stormzy, in the midweek charts. Relationships Dated d ancer Delia behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley, tletoe And Wine , which bagged the big diff erence to people living with
Appearing on the ITV daytime Wicks and tennis star Sue Barker. will be back on the road in 2023 as part coveted Christmas number-one slot dementia, ” she said.
show This Morning , Richard said: Political interventions Allowed of his Blue Sapphire Tour, but has lim- in 1988 , and the song Saviour’s Day in Dr Richard Oakley, at the Alzhei-
“Nothing ever seemed to be possi- T ony Blair and his family to use ited the number of dates because of 1990. In 1960, with the backing band mer’s Society, said the results could
ble in the early days. We were written his Sugar Hill Estate in Barbados. concerns a bout his voice. The Shadows, the song I Love You was be “game changing” , but: “There is
off as one-hit wonders. We lived from Stormzy, 29 B orn Croydon, UK. “We are only doing about eight the Christmas number one. still a long way to go before we could
day to day. When I was told that I had Three UK No 1s. shows, I think. I think the days of me Stormzy recently said that process- see lecanemab available on the NHS
had a top-fi ve album in eight con- Hits Vossi Bop, Shut Up and his going on tour for six months are way ing personal issues and relationships … We mustn’t forget that lecanemab
secutive decades, in fact my feet two songs with Ed Sheeran. behind me … It is so terrifying to be on for his new album had felt “thera- can only be given to people with early
have not touched the ground since, Relationships Dated TV presenter tour for lengths of time because you peutic”. His last album, H eavy is the Alzheimer’s disease who have amy-
because you can’t plan that. Maya Jama until 2019. never know what day you are going to Head, r eached number one and was loid in their brain. This means people
“Next year is my 65th year and here Political interventions Vossi Bop wake up and that’s not going to work,” released after he became the fi rst with other types of dementia, or in
I am in the charts with the most pop- contains the lyrics “Fuck Boris”. he said, pointing to his vocal chords. black solo British headliner at the the later stages of Alzheimer’s dis-
ular artist of the decade and I am able Called the UK “defi nitely racist”. The album Christmas With Cliff Glastonbury festival. ease, can’t benefi t from this drug.”
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