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dered 16 children and a teacher at the primary

school attended by Murray and his brother.
It is a tragedy that no town should have to
endure and, understandably, it is something
Murray rarely talks about. In his autobiogra-
phy; Coming Of Age, one of the few occasions
he has broached the subject, he admitted to
having neither strong memories of the day nor
any desire to remember it. It has not, however,
diminished his love for the Dunblane commu-
nity; the town his maternal grandparents (Roy
and Shirley Erskine) still call home and where
he recently bought Cromlix House hotel (where
his brother was married) for 1.Sm. After his US
Open victory last September, it was the over-
whelming response to his homecoming that
gave him most pride. He is clearly honoured
that he has given the name Dunblane a more
positive association.
"I didn't know what to expect,'' he says, of
the reception from the 20,000-strong crowd
he received. "I don't get to go back that often,
so I didn't know how I would feel, how many
people would come. I didn't know if it would
be busy I saw a lot of my old school friends
there and got to speak with them after walking
through the town; that was the nicest thing
about it."
Was there, I ask, an element of catharsis in
that visit? "No ... not really;" he answers uncom-
fortably "Since the start of my career, I've tried
to make the town and all the people who live
there proud of what I have achieved. I don't
think if I had lost the US Open final their feel-
ings would have changed towards me. I'm just
happy to have won and given them something
to be proud of."
During our interview, the sentiment Murray
expresses more than any other is his feeling
that when he loses, he is letting people down:
his family; his friends, his team, his fans, his
home town, even people he doesn't care about.
Likewise, when he wins, his first thought is
to share his victory with the most important
people in his life. In a sport as individual as
tennis, it is a rare and admirable quality; one
that comes from Murray's genuine belief that
without the support he has had over the years,
he would not be where he is today Certainly; if
his parents hadn't backed his decision to leave
Scotland at the age of 15 and join the Sanchez-
Casal Academy in Spain in 2002 (boarding
fees were a not insubstantial 25,000 a year),
we probably wouldn't be here discussing his
career at all.
"The first ten days or so were tough, being
away from home, but after that I just loved it,"
he says passionately. "I had to grow up there
and I think that maybe helped me deal with
some of the hard times I went through at the
beginning of my career, but as an experience it
was brilliant. Going there was probably the best
decision I have made in my career."
I
had heard about Andy about a year before
I met him," says Tim Henman, Britain's
previous great tennis hope. "People who
knew the game were all saying the same
thing: it wasn't one particular part of his
game that stood out, but that he was a fan-
tastic reader of the game, always seemed to
play the right shot at the right time, and was a
great competitor who knew how to win even at
such a young age. There were definitely ques-
tion marks about his body language and atti-
tude on court, but that is to be expected when
you are only 15.''
When they did meet - Murray was "the
orange boy" on the Davis Cup team a couple of
times - he and Henman quickly became friends.
By his own admission, the young Scot was in
awe of the British Nol and a little daunted at
his first glimpse into the professional ranks, but,
as Henman recalls, Murray was respectful, well-
mannered and eager to learn, both on court and
off. One of the most important lessons Murray
picked up from his mentor was Henman's tech-
nique for dealing with the media: always give
the right answer, not the honest answer.
As a consequence, in front of the micro-
phone, Murray can't help but be guarded. He
isn't what you would describe as obtuse, and
will willingly answer any question, but he
does so with the care of a politician. Ask him
about Federer's silly hair or make a gag about
Rafa Nadal's overdeveloped right arm, and
he will smile knowingly and answer politely.
He gets the j oke, but he will not play the
game. He will give little glimpses into what the
"real" Andy thinks, but he is unrelentingly,
steadfastly uncontroversial. It is a lesson he has
had to learn the hard way.
Henman laughs when I ask him if Murray's
reticence is all down to him. "Look, in the tennis
environment, the media spotlight and the indi-
vidual scrutiny you are under is so intense that
you just can't have distractions," he explains.
"You have to focus your attention 100 per cent
on what you are doing. Andy is much more con-
frontational than I ever was, so he has had a few
bumps in the road and ended up getting into a
bit of a battle over them. And I think for a while
when he was younger, he actually thought it
was a battle he could win. Now he has realised
it is a battle that is not worth fighting."
Henman is referring specifically to the now
infamous interview he and the then 19-year-
old Murray did with the Daily Mail's Des Kelly
in which, during some playful banter about
the 2006 World Cup, Murray quipped that
he would support anyone who was playing
against England. The fact that he has English
grandparents, an English girlfriend and lives in
England, well, just goes to show what a two-
faced Scottish racist he really is! Unsurprisingly,
it is not so easy for Murray to see the funny
side of this experience, and it is sad to hear that
he remains unconvinced about how the British
public feel about him. Does he think they like
him more these days?
It is something Murray has clearly thought
about . "It is a very difficult question to answer,"
he says eventually. "As an athlete, all I do is
try my best to be as good as I can be as a
tennis player. Whether people like you or
not should be irrelevant. But, to be honest,
over the years I have found it difficult to open
up and be a bundle of laughs in press confer-
ences, or interviews. I always try to give honest
answers, but they are fairly boring so l don't
have to deal with the aftermath of any scan-
dals. I would say that I am different from what
a lot of people think I am like."
Does that perception bother you? "No. What
would bother me is if the people around me
star ted telling me that I had begun chang-
ing, being an arse, or something. That's when
you take it seriously. You don't get to see what
people are really like from in front of the TV
It is very easy to be false and fake in front of
the camera. But to tell jokes and be fun all the
time, that's not actually very hard to do. If you
are going to be truthful and tell things like they
are, that is much harder."
Is it tiring, I wonder, to have to be so meticu-
lously "vanilla"? "Not now it isn't,'' he replies
matter-of-factly. "! think for sure it was for a
couple of years. Growing up in public is never
an easy thing to do. You have to go in, focus
hard as you are getting asked the questions,
w MURRAY
then you have to thi nk about exactly what you
are going to say and make sure that you are not
going to upset anyone."
Ironically, the only distress Murray has
caused in the past couple of years has been to
himself. Having continuously taken care not to
stir up controversy or reveal his true feelings,
as the mounting pressure and expectation on
him grew, he has wept in the face of those twin
imposters: defeat and victory. And by breaking
down on Wimbledon's Centre Court under Sue
Barker's mumsy cross-examination last year
- watch it on YouTube; it is like the climax to
a Disney movie - and revealing that he was
human, not just a slightly dour robot, he finally
won over many of the doubters, who responded
to his raw emotion.
1
f building up a mental shield was a nec-
essary chore, Murray has positively
relished developing his physical armoury.
When he first turned professional. as
Tim Henman points out, Murray had
a lot of questions asked of him. Why did he lack
stamina? What caused his cramping? Was he
too defensive? Was he not aggressive enough?
Could his attitude on court be better? And the
key to all of these was not just his mental and
physical maturing, but his desire to improve
every facet of his game.
The main problem as far as Murray was
concerned was that he needed to tum his (B
JY MURRAY
(B body into a weapon. To do that, he appointed
former LTA coach Jez Green to look after
his strength and conditioning and set about
"embracing the physical side of the sport".
Green spends around 35 weeks a year with
Murray and, in that time, he has helped change
the player from a lanky super-middleweight
to a beefy cruiserweight, building muscle and
stamina without sacrificing any of the Scot's
lightning-fast speed.
At first, Green described Murray's dedication
to the fitness cause as "intense and ferocious".
But what has really impressed Green is that
over the years, rather than slow down, Murray
has worked harder. "I didn't think it would
be possible, but he has become even more
dedicated and more goal-oriented as he has
gotten older," Green tells me. ''.At the same time,
he is also more relaxed as a person. I think the
success he has had in the past year or so has
really helped with that."
The key to the change in Murray was his
victory at the London Olympics. Coming just
a few weeks after his defeat to Federer, Murray
returned to a garishly decorated Wimbledon
and, having despatched world Nol Novak
Djokovic in the semifinal, annihilated his Swiss
nemesis in straight sets to win gold. Barely a
month later, he picked up his first grand slam,
winning at the US Open. Murray smiles with
"I don' t know that I can tell you what consti-
tutes a groupie any more," Spacey tells me,
"but having watched Andy's career develop
and having become a fan of his during my
time li ving in London, I guess I'd say; guilty
as charged."
Despite his A-list status, Spacey confesses
that when he met Murray at Flushing Meadows,
his first thought was that he didn' t want
to bother him. "I was acutely aware that
I didn't want to be some kind of annoying
'twat famous person' that he was having to
be friendly and chatty with. But he was very
kind, said some nice things about the work
I have done, and Andy and his team have
been really friendly and generous towards me.
I really appreciate that, and we have met up on
a couple of occasions since then."
Having got to know Murray; even watching
matches in the Scot's friends-and-family box,
Spacey offers this insight into what makes him
tick. 'When he is on court, when he is chasing
every ball, desperate for every point, fighting
his heart out and going for it, all he cares about
is the game," he says. "When Andy is on court
he has two opponents: the guy on the other side
of the net and himself. And that is because he
cares so passionately about the game. If he is
gloomy; it is with himself, not the world. And
that's because it means so much to him.''
former doubles champions the Bryan broth-
ers. "What's amazing is that I actually did that
in a Marriott Hotel in Cincinnati on a tiny
recorder with a tiny microphone, and I still get
asked about it," he laments.
Corden, with whom Murray has become
fri endly since they met for a sketch for Sport
Relief, has no sympathy. "I love Andy;" he tells
me over the phone, ''but I don't think he will
ever forgive me for finding that track. But, hey;
he's only got himself to blame. We've all made
mistakes in life - why should he get to hide
from his? [Starts to rap] 'During Wimbledon, it
all goes aazy. My hand aamps up and my mind
goes hazy.' Amazing!"
Spitting rhymes aside, like everyone I spoke
to for this feature, Corden has only good things
to say about Murray; describing him as "excep-
tional in every way. The thing I like most about
him is that he simply has no ego. He is the most
unassuming, polite and honest elite sportsman
I have ever met.''
But what is Murray really like, deep down?
That's probably best left to the man himself
to answer. "As a person, I'd say I'm fairly
relaxed. I love company. I love being around
a lot of people. At the start of my career
I often felt lonely; but not any more. I am still
extremely motivated and driven when it comes
to my sport, but I wouldn't say I'm an angry
'I love Wimbledon. I dream about winning it'
pride at the memory of those breathtaking few
weeks. "The US Open felt like more of a per-
sonal feat for me," he says. "It was something
I had been working so hard to do for a long
time, but the Olympics as an experience was
a whole lot better."
For Murray, though, the overwhelming
emotion he felt, having finally ended his grand
slam hoodoo, was relief. "It probably wasn't
until four or five days afterwards that I really
started to take it all in, because in the immedi-
ate aftermath of winning I wasn't unbelievably
happy;" he admits.
You, Andy; not happy? I don't believe it.
He laughs. "I know. I wasn't sleeping well
after the final ... I was literally sitting up and
l felt almost numb. But once I got back home,
started sleeping in my own bed again, it finally
started to sink in. I had a party with lots of
my friends and people who have been involved
in my tennis career. That was nice; it made it
special just to have them around and share it
with them."
It was a win that also earned Murray some
superstar supporters. In New York, Scottish
royalty Sirs Sean Connery and Alex Ferguson
gate-crashed his semifinal press conference -
"It was cool, but pretty surreal to be honest.
They even got my mum a bit drunk" - and
he also got to meet Kevin Spacey, who has
admitted to succumbing to Murraymania.
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D
espite his brushes with celeb-
rity, the growing public popu-
larity and the richly deserved
on-court success, Murray remains
as genuine and polite as he has
ever been. Whatever distractions come his
way; he maintains that his priori ty is "just to
try and keep playing tennis and never do any-
thing that might impact on that in a negative
way''. Clearly; Murray is older and wiser now.
He might also admit to being happier (on the
inside), less intense and undoubtedly more
fulfilled. And yet he remains no less driven.
Away from tennis, he keeps things simple:
he hangs out with his girlfriend, walks the
dogs, loves watching TV comedies (Curb Your
Enthusiasm and The Office), goes to as many
football matches as he can ('Tm a Hibs fan,
but my team in England is Arsenal") and has
a particularly nerdy obsession with go-kart-
ing. "I take it way too seriously;" he says with
a big smile. " ! have racing shoes and my own
helmet, with 'the Stig' on the back of it." He
won't, however, be revisiting his music career
any time soon.
Murray groans and, somewhere, James
Corden laughs out loud. Thanks to the Gavin
And Stacey star, who first drew attention to
it on his Worl d Cup chat show in 2010, the
worl d knows that Andy Murray once rapped
on a song called "Autograph", recorded by
person. People might think I am aggressive,
but I have never punched anyone in my life.
I do put a lot of pressure on myself, and when-
ever I lose I do feel I have caused a collective
sense of disappointment, but l have always
been like that."
On that subject, with Wimbledon around the
comer, will this summer finally see an end to
Britain's 77 years of collective disappointment?
Henman is a believer: "Having beaten Roger
Federer on Centre Court at the Olympics ... your
mind doesn't forget those things. That victory
will be a huge source of confidence for Andy."
Spacey is convinced: "Sometimes you go out on
court and it all happens for you and it is magic.
Other times, it is a tougher haul. But do I think
Andy is ready to win Wimbledon this year?
Absolutely." And Carden has no doubts: "Every
year he carries the weight of national expecta-
tion superbly and effortlessly; and he has never
cracked. He also knows what it would mean to
everyone if he were to win Wimbledon and he
wants to do it for them."
But perhaps the last word should go to
Murray. "What people probably don't realise
is just how much I truly love playing at
Wimbledon," he says. "I think about winning
it. I dream about winning it. I don't know if it
will ever happen, but all I can do is put myself
in with a chance. Do I believe I can win? The
answer is yes." 0
On 21 January 2011,
Andy Coulson resigned
as Number Ten's director
of communications amid
allegations of phone hacking
at News International. Since
then he has watched the
Government's popularity
collapse as austerity
economics and welfare
reform bite in recession-hit
Britain. Now he reveals his
ten-point masterplan for
saving David Cameron and
stopping Labour in 2015
Photograph by John Wright
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next general election.
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tunes, however slight, will give David Cameron
and the Conservatives a real chance of ending
election night 2015 as the largest party once
again. The chances of a small majority are slim
but still quite possible.
The message for a campaign in those con-
ditions writ es itself: "We're on the right
track ... don't let the other lot balls it up again"
(with absolutely no apologies to the shadow
chancellor). The Liberal Democrat campaign
mantra is a bit more of a challenge to compose
but they're likely to hold on to the balance of
power regardless. Their number
In the packed Hyatt Regency hotel lobby
some of the most senior and experienced jour-
nalists in Westminster advised me, with grave
looks of concern, that the events unfolding in
Washington [the United States government's
emergency bailout plan in the wake of the col-
lapse of Lehman Brothers] meant we must
cancel conference and go home.
But instead, later that evening, several floors
above in David's suite, George, William Hague
and a small team of advisors worked with him on
a response that would set the tone for a remark-
able and successful conference. More signifi-
cantly; it would plant a strategic seed that would
lead to the forming of the coalition.
David decided that he should deliver an emer-
gency speech designed to show that he and the
party were capable of real leadership in a real
crisis. That intervention, together with his main
conference speech the following day; were deliv-
ered with the turbo-charged oratory he musters
only when his back is against the wall. Both
speeches were anchored with the same "in the
national interest" reasoning he would deploy 18
months later at the St Stephen's Club when the
door was famously opened to a workable Tory I
Lib Dem coalition. '1f we win we'll inherit a huge
deficit and an economy in a mess," he told the
Symphony Hall audience in Birmingham. "We
will need to do difficult and unpopular things
for the long-term good of the country. I know
that, I'm ready for that."
of seats, although not in itself
impressive, is pretty robust as
suggested by February's by-
election victory in Eastleigh.
None of this has been a sur-
prise to the prime minister and
his chancellor. They knew four
and half years ago that they
may well be a one- term team.
I suspect they're pleasantly sur-
prised by the size of Labour's poll
lead having privately predicted a
much bigger gap by this stage of
the game.
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The polls responded well. It
turned out the publ ic rather
liked being treated as grown-
ups capable of understanding
the desperate state of the coun-
try's finances. It was a brave
political decision and not in a
Yes, Prime Minister for -brave-
read-stupid kinda way. It left
the Conservative Party initially
isolat ed in a world that was
still blind to the need for real,
painful cuts. But the u- turns
David and George Osborne understood the
ramifications for their political futures as they
prepared for their 2008 party conference in
Birmingham when, after many hours of Sunday
night discussion around both their kitchen tables,
they settled on an unusual poli tical strategy. The
Conservative Party would, horror of horrors,
be straight with the British people, explain
there was no money left and pledge dearly and
directly that painful cuts would be necessary.
The leader would even publicly predict unpop-
ulari ty and protest. Seems like a statement of
the obvious now, but it wasn't back then. There
were those within the party, some in very senior
positions, who thought the detailed documents
that brought this strategy to life - starting with
the Plan For Economic Stability - were electoral
suicide notes. But David and George's resolve
only hardened when the global economy went
into meltdown 24 hours into conference.
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subsequently performed across
the world, including in the US, showed it to be
a piece of proper global leadership.
External global factors mean the economic
situation is now certainly worse than Cameron,
Osborne and Hague predicted even in their
darkest opposition moments. But the fundamen-
tals of their gamble are unchanged. Despite this
there's plenty the Tory team should be focusing
their minds on in preparation for 2015. It is the
economy; stupid, but - in the great tradition of
another former employer - here are Ten (other)
Things the PM might want to keep in mind as
he waits for the economic roulette wheel to
stop spinning.
0 PLAY THE HITS
The rank and file have never really loved David
but he knows that and is OK with it. That's Sam's
job. No, his relationship with large parts of the
Conservative family has always been transac-
tional, not emotional, and can be summed up
thus: "We'll suck up your modernising crap, stay
loyal and in return you'll win us an election."
They believe they did their bit, but he didn't
deliver in the way they hoped and expected
with a majority and the relationship has been a
touch fractious ever since. But David has won
some respect if not love during his time as PM.
On the whole they still like the cut of his jib:
his willingness to take tough decisions, a proper
belief in and love for his country, a sensible
approach to foreign affairs, some real reforms
and notable Proper Tory Moments (not least
a speech on Europe that many had long since
given up hope they would ever hear again).
The small number who whisper of revolution -
mostly the usual culprits who live to see their
names in the paper - should be careful what
they wish for. And David should be better at
recognising and supporting the talent he has
throughout the party including the lower ranks
where a new generation of campaigners, espe-
cially in the areas of social justice, are plentiful.
The key now is for the prime-ministerial diary
to be recaptured from the mandarins and more
time found for him to spend with influential
members of his own party. Nothing beats a
private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take
the wind out of rebellious sails.
Outwardly the party desperately needs to
display more self confidence and pride in what
has been achieved. Against enormous odds it has
delivered real change in education and welfare.
It may not be an endless record of reform but,
given the circumstances, it's impressive - and
considerably better than Tony Blair managed
in his three economically easier terms. To have
made historic changes that will make it easier for
people to get a good education and a good job
is truly something to be proud of. If the party
doesn't find ways to tell that story; no one else
will, because cuts will always trump reform in
the media. The voters' patience is wearing thin.
It's now critical that David continues to explain
why those cuts are being made and the choices
he faced. Every significant media appearance
where he fails to get that message across should
be considered a failure.
8 SAM&DAVE
Sam Cameron has managed the near impossible:
to have lived in Number Ten for three years and
maintained a benign and broadly positive press.
Sam has so far avoided the tabloid cross hairs by
carefull y rationing her appearances, using her
position sensibly with chari ties such as Save The
Children and Tickets For Troops, posing for pic-
tures in the main when there's a proper purpose
and, most importantly; not overreacting when
the occasional pieces of negative press have
appeared. David and Sam have always allowed
the media bruises to fade fast, avoided getting
bitter and moved on. With the Blairs, the wounds
of negative coverage - some of it unfair - always
lingered too long. For the Browns, they're still
there - I gather as fresh and painful as ever- and
still a constant theme of conversation.
But the time has now come for Sam to play
a more public role and take some risks. She
only joined the 2010 campaign once it formall y
kicked off. She should now be persuaded that
the 2015 campaign is already underway and
she's badly needed in the trenches. I wouldn' t
advise a dramatic change to the type of appear-
ance she makes. I'd just like to see more of them.
David's visit to the country home of German
chancellor Angela Merkel was rightly overshad-
owed by Margaret Thatcher's death but it was
good to see Sam at his side. She should do so
more often and show that she's not only sup-
portive of her husband but is also full y com-
mitted to a longer future in Number Ten herself.
Sam might also take a more active part behind
the scenes. With the absence of so many origi-
nal advisors, she is one of the few people able to
see straight to the heart of a matter and offer a
clear, sensible view. This will naturally steer clear
of policy discussion but it shouldn't stop her
joining select small strategy meetings. There are
few people in Number Ten with a better eye and
she could play a key role in the winning back of
female voters. As a small example Sam would, T
think, agree that when her husband talks about
the importance of family he should be careful
to include the words "single" and "parent" each
and every time. The sneaking suspicion that in
being avidly pro marriage he is somehow anti
single parent lingers unfairly in the media and
is electoral halitosis for the female vote.
t) STATESMAN,
SALESMAN, FAMILY MAN
David must play more to his personal strengths:
his instinctive reasonableness, calmness under
pressure and an ability to identify and explain
common-sense solutions to complex problems.
Opportunities should also be created to rein-
force his strengths as a statesman, a salesman
and a family man. The diary of foreign visits
will provide a platform for the first of these (!
assume at least two pre-election Barack Obama-
fests are pencilled in), a vigorous pushing on
with the great campaign via trade delegations
will help with the second and joint events with
Sam will strengthen the third pillar. But these
elements should be in mind whenever the prime
minister is to launch or be involved in any ini-
tiative or policy. Some balked when we first
used the word salesman, but I've long believed
it's an attribute the public absolutely want in
their prime minister. In this economic climate
everyone is working to get the best possible
deal for themselves and their families. They
expect their prime minister to do the same for
the country. It's also a role I struggle to imagine
Ed Miliband fulfilling.
Westminster has never been more detached
from the real world and although the train of
despondency left the station long before David
Cameron arrived, he and his office must take
responsibility and use the next two years to stop
the rot. Mid Staffordshire - a scandal that may
have caused the deaths of more than a thousand
people - met with near sil ence from Number
Ten when it should have formed
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need for any nasty stuff - at least not publicly:
George, in the event that he decides he wants
to be leader (not a foregone conclusion) would
see it very differently. Number Ten's Boris strat-
egy should be simple. Support his good ideas,
advise privately on the bad ones, but only
engage publicly if absolutely
the basis for a stand-alone speech
and an ongoing grid of activity.
Bankers bonuses continue to be
the pub conversation that won't
die and yet our leaders only pay
lip-service to it.
It's likely that if the British polit-
ical system doesn't find a way to
reconnect with the national con-
versation we'll see a historically
low turnout in 2015 (Eastleigh was
52 per cent . Compare that with
the 1992 general election which
attracted a turnout of almost 78 per
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necessary - and celebrate
Boris' considerable successes.
In short, David must be the
big man. Even if Boris wanted
to cause early and real trouble
he will not want to play the
bad guy in any argument. He's
too smart for that .
8 SIRJEREMY
WHO-WOOD?
cent). David remains the British politician most
capable of leading this reconnection - not in a
knee-jerk, headline-chasing way. but by iden-
tifying a handful of issues that really matter to
people and actually doing something about them.
Choosing press regulation as the one issue you
are willing to put party politics aside and work
through the night for (not Afghanistan, NHS or
even the economy) was a bit odd. It may have
strengthened the deepening bond between
Westminster and Hugh Grant but it did little to
bring politics closer to a dangerously discon-
nected public.
8 BIGUP BORIS
Boris Johnson desperately wants to be prime
minister and David has known that fact longer
than most. When Boris asked me to pass on the
message that he was keen to stand as mayor of
London, David responded, "Well, if he wins,
he'll want my job next." If proof were needed
that our PM is a man untroubled by self doubt,
it came in his next sentence, "So I think he'll be
a bloody brilliant candidate for us."
But Boris is highly unlikely to make a move
before the election. He knows that disloyalty.
back-stabbing (the usual stuff of Tory leader-
ship fights) run counter to the characteristics
that make him popular: authenticity and a
light, almost comic, touch. Stabbing David, or
anyone else for that matter, in the back would
be distinctly off brand - just not very Boris. He
would much prefer to see David fail miserably in
the election and ride in on his bike to save party
and country. Of course, this may also require a
degree of inter-friend fighting. George Osborne
could be a rival for the leadership and is even
closer to Boris than David. When the genuine
moments of tension erupted with London's City
Hall, and there were a few, it was George who
calmed nerves on both sides. But Boris would
see any race between them as a healthy dash to
the finish line between two talented and gifted
chums and could present it as such without the
It's time for the prime minis-
ter to wean himself off the company of the
big brains in the civil service and leave himself
more room to operate politically. The reforms
are well underway. Progress should be carefully
monitored but the hard yards in the company
of Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood et al
for David are already nearing their end - at least
until after the election.
The prime minister should spend more time
with the people who might actually help win in
2015 rather than senior civil servants who have
revelled in the power and professional satisfac-
tion the coalition has brought them. I suspect
Sir Jeremy and co would rather enjoy five more
years of the same. And that means they're not
necessarily the most effective sounding boards
from this point on. The changes to the Number
Ten policy set-up with Jo Johnson's arrival (and
some occasional Californian advisory input
from Steve Hilton) are welcome steps in the
right direction.
Cit DON'T BE CHICKEN
One of the more surreal conversations T had
during the last election campaign came in a
post-lunch call from Ken Clarke. "A man from
the Mirror has chased me to the restaurant," he
said. "He's dressed as a chicken. I'm not in the
least bit bothered. I'm rather partial to chicken,
but I would li ke to know exactly why he is
here." I had no idea but rang the editor of the
Daily Mirror to politely seek an explanation of
the stunt . "Er, basically he's there because it's
bloody funny." he told me. Which was more
than fair enough.
The Mirror should hang on to that chicken
suit if rumours that Number Ten are consider-
ing ditching live election TV debates are even
slightly true. As someone who argued early for
televised debates and negotiated the terms I am
obviously pro. There are those who claim they
were a disaster and the cause of the party's
failure to secure a majority. This view is based
on a few myths. (B
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POLITICS
(B Firstly; that we lost the debates. In fact we
only lost one out of three, David improved with
each and his personal ratings were consistently
impressive. They sealed the deal on the ques-
tion of him being seen as PM material. The
second myth is that they gave Nick Clegg a his-
toric electoral boost. Nick li kes to say that they
allowed him to show his true self to the British
public for the first time. He compares himself
to the plain girl in the movies who at the school
prom takes off her glasses, shakes her hair and
reveals her previously unseen beauty. This
analogy sort-of works for the first debate. The
problem for Nick was that by the third debate
the public had realised he was, after all, a bit of
a mi nger. Consequently his party gained only
one per cent in the vote and lost five seats.
The third debate myth is that they somehow
helped Labour. In fact the debates stopped
Labour from running the campaign they wanted.
That's why they wrote us and the Lib Dems a
rather desperate letter pleading with us to com-
plai n to the BBC about the debate-obsessed
coverage. What they meant was that their plans
for morning press conferences, filled with the
Mandelsonian theatrics the lobby adored, had
been rendered completely redundant.
It's also nonsense to suggest
left office, the BBC ensured MrsT continued to
dominate and divide British political debate.
She has been a near-const ant obsession and
reference point - on and off air - for produc-
ers and presenters.
Her death will renew those enthusiasms and
the next general elect ion will take place very
much in her shadow. Both Conservatives and
Labour will think this gives them an advantage.
David will certainly relish the thought, use it to
highlight Red Ed's true credentials and pounce
when his mask of Thatcherite respect inevita-
bly drops. Two years after her death, Baroness
Thatcher will play an important role in the next
election. Something tells me she wouldn't have
run away from a TV debate.
Cl) LIAM NOT LURCH
One of David's great successes has been to
bring some non-hysterical common sense to
the immigration debate. There will be calls for
him to do more, to ramp up t he rhetoric and
concoct some new policies. I'm not convinced
that's where the public are. Broadly speaking,
they care less about where someone is from
and more about the basic principles of fairness
and in particular the impact of
the debates starved the public
of discussion on the big issues.
The debate format allowed for
more direct exposure to the
leaders views, without the filter
of a print or broadcast politi-
cal journalist, than ever before.
The debates will carry even more
value this time around. They'll
give David a clear opportunity
to talk about his achievements
in office, the Lib Dem dynamic
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around free housing and bene-
fits - good policies are in place.
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municating them to the public
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spending a little time to dispel
the many immigration untruths
in the political ether and around
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student question) and importantly Miliband,
whatever he says, will not be looking forward
to the presentational challenges and risks of a
live TV debate - quite aside from the intense
policy scrutiny they will bring.
So Number Ten should make clear now that
the debates are very much on. And whoever is
tasked with negotiating the terms should press
for a US-style town-hall format to be included.
David was always at his best when connect-
ing to an audience directly and thrived on the
risk factor. If we made one mistake last time
around it was being too protective on the issue
of audience participation.
8 THE THATCHER
FACTOR
Miliband will continue to distance himself from
the more extreme anti-Thatcher activists as
behind the scenes his foot soldiers encourage
any protest that might generate new energy for
anti-coalition campaigns. From the moment she
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speech, David was absolutely
right to point out that those who don't put into
a system have no right to take from it . But in
Ipswich the immigrant popul ation is only 12
per cent of the total. The speech assumed that
even that 12 per cent was made up mostly of
scroungers. In fact most aren't even claimants.
David is a rational man. Unlike the rarely effec-
tive but always politically flawed Nigel Farage,
when it comes to immigration he should deal
in fact and not the stoking of irrational fears.
William Hague is the man to take on and beat
Farage and persuade those unloved Tories
feeli ng t he pull of UKIP to st and firm. He
should be tasked with devising and leading
the strategy against the party and enlist the
currently under-employed Liam Fox to help.
CJ) ED1
Ed Miliband knows that his most likely route
to power is to keep his head down, silently
hope t hat the economy continues to go
wonky and, well, just be the other guy. This
strategy is cynical. sensible and proof that he
is dangerously self-aware. And his team who,
in the main, know he is a loser and would have
much preferred his brother to have won, are
all holding their noses and thinking the same.
Whenever I watch Ed on TV now (one of the
sadder consequences of my relative unemploy-
ment) I'm struck by how detached the opposi-
tion front bench appears to be from their leader.
The body language is that of a football team
who are waiting for the manager to screw up ...
all very Chelsea/ Andre Villas-Boas. There are
visible divisions and more should be made of
this by the Conservatives. !just don't think they
rate him very much. And if they don't there's a
good chance the public will feel the same way
once they get to know him properly.
We also now know that the most successful
Labour leader in history feels the same way,
which is another reasonable indicator. The
Conservatives should never underestimate the
way Essex man sees Ed's biblical stiffing of his
own brother. Of course during the last election
Ed and David, ironically; chose Basildon to put
on a Kray brothers-style show for the launch of
a campaign poster. They're still laughing about
that one in the Eastgate shopping centre.
More seriously; the prime minister must
push him to take positions: expose his strategy;
challenge him to take a view on t he tricky
issues opposition politicians love to duck. The
Conservative Campaign Headquarters team
must now put his policies under proper, daily
pressure and ensure the BBC apply the same
level of scrutiny to him as they did to David in
the years leading up to the last election. Labour's
claim that we had an easy ride is always the one
that makes me laugh the loudest.
And finally; CCHQ should accept that Miliband
TV coverage is not necessarily a bad thing even
if at first glance it looks positive. The more the
public get a look at him the less dangerous his
Ostrich-like approach to politics will become.
fD) ANDED2
The prime minister should pray that Ed Balls
remains shadow chancellor until the election. He
should order a dust-down of the dossier detail-
ing how he was at Gordon's side when every
disastrous decision was made. Appointing him
as George's opposite number was the Miliband
gift that will keep on giving. For Ed 2 to present
himself as the man to lead Britain towards a
prosperous future would be funny if it wasn' t
so dangerous. Actually no, it is damn funny:
The Tories must look for the divisions and
make the most of them a) because they are
most certai nly real - always a plus - and
b) because it's history repeating itself. We
are in this hole at least in part because of the
shamefully dysfunctional Blair/Brown relation-
ship. Labour's Two Eds disli ke each other and
each thinks he is smarter than the other. The
Conservatives should imagi ne in some detail
how it would work if they actually won ... and
share that vision with the British public.
Then ...
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Vietnam, October 1966.
Stone was captured and
killed by the Viet Cong
four years later
WAR REPORTING
Now ...
Citizen journalist:
S
ebastian Junger believed he knew
about war. He had reported on
conflict for nearly two decades:
in the Balkans, West Africa and
Afghanistan. He had been shot
at. He had watched soldiers die. With the
British photographer Tim Hetherington he had
made Restrepo, an Oscar- nominated film about
an American platoon's 15- month deployment
in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, and had
written a book about the same experience.
If ever there was a prototypical war reporter,
he was it: blue eyed, square jawed; a writer of
clean, telegram-ready prose.
But it was not until Hetherington died from
a shrapnel injury in Misrata, Libya, on 20
April 2011 - alongside another outstanding
photographer, Chris Hondros - that Junger
understood conflict the way soldiers do. He and
Tim were not only great friends but in the eyes
of many were "professionally married" because
of their work together for Vanity Fair and on
Restrepo. In the gut-shot days that fol-
lowed Hetherington's death, Junger was
avalanched with correspondence.
The email he remembers best from this
period came from a Vietnam veteran. The
man had admired Jungers book, and felt
it came close to showing both the cost
and the appeal of war for young men.
And in his email the veteran told Junger
what he believed to be the harsh central
truth about combat: not that you may be
killed, but that you were guaranteed to
lose people you love.
,, And now," he wrote, "you have lost a
brother, and you know everything there
is to know."
the people he loves. Risking your life is not
protecting them - it's exposing them to danger,
emotional danger. And that's not what a man
does. There's a point where you have to start
putting other people first, and doing some-
thing that might give them a lifetime of grief
is not putting them first. It looks like you're
gambling with your life, but you're actually
gambling with their lives, emotionally speak-
ing. That's not what a man does, and it was
time to start acting like a man in that sense."
He has not completely abandoned his former
beat, however. He has directed a documentary,
Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? - a
portrait of Hetherington that shows the hand-
some British photographer not only as brave
and committed, but in possession of a searing
talent. Junger is also encouraging journalists
to learn more about basic first aid before they
travel to conflict zones, with a project called
Reporters Instructed In Saving Colleagues
(Rise). Hetherington, it turned out, might have
and city that Colvin died, the 17-year-old
Syrian freelance videographer Anas al-Tarsha
was killed by a shell.
According to the Committee to Protect
Journalists, 2012 was the joint second-
worst year on record for journalists, with 70
confirmed dead worldwide and more deaths
being investigated. Kidnappings are also on
the rise. The question is: what has changed?
Has journalism changed or has war? Are
reporters taking more risks to tell their stories,
or are the conflicts they now cover inherently
more dangerous?
T
hese questions are both old and new.
War reporting was at a similar cross-
roads when Junger left the United
States to cover his first conflict, in Bosnia.
He was 31 years old. Previously, he had been
writing local- news articles in Massachusetts
and short stories that nobody read. It was, he
Junger was at his apartment in Hell's
Kitchen, New York, when he heard the
news about Hetherington, and he didn't
need the Vietnam veteran to tell him
'In Bosnia, taping "Press" or "TV" on your car
was like putting a bull's-eye on it' Journalist
SCott Anderson
what he already understood. Within two
hours he made a pledge: he would never cover
another war again.
"I watched myself grieve and I watched the
impact on everyone else," Junger says, when
we meet in February.,, And I just realised, on a
very profound level, I didn't want to ever risk
being the cause of that kind of storm among
the people that I love."
Junger is 51 years old. He's trim but solidly
built, with short, greying hair and a thin
beard. On this bright, cold day in Manhattan,
he wears walking boots, a grey T-shirt and
the kind of lightweight trousers favoured by
ramblers. We're in the Half King, a pub in
Chelsea that he co-owns with another foreign
correspondent, Scott Anderson. There's an
exhibition of photographs from the Niger
Delta on the walls and a whiff of last night's
lager emanating from the wooden floorboards.
Two years on from his decision to quit con-
flict, he says he has no regrets.
"This is going to sound old-fashioned, but I
feel like on some level a man's job is to protect
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lived if one of the group with him when the
shrapnel struck his groin had known how t o
stem the flow of blood. But, despite being in a
warzone, none of his companions that day had
the first idea how to help - and Tim's chances
of survival withered. He died a few minutes
away from the hospital.
Hetherington' s story is tragic and instruc-
tive. Increasingly, journalists in warzones look
like lambs among wolves. Indeed, it has been a
miserable couple of years for reporters cover-
ing conflict. Since 2011 and the beginning of
the Arab Spring, the toll has become impossi-
ble to ignore. In addition to Hetherington and
Hondros, journalism has lost fabled charac-
ters such as the mythically brave Marie Colvin
- the Sunday Times' eye-patched foreign
correspondent - who was killed last year by
a Syrian government shell in the besieged city
of Homs alongside the award-winning French
photographer Remi Ochlik. But, as well as
these stars, the trade has lost teenagers of
scant renown. For instance, in the same week
remembers, work of "almost no consequence".
To make money, he had taken a job as a waiter.
He felt it was time for a change.
"I grew up in a pretty affluent suburb [of
Boston] and I went to college and had a lot of
the pleasant things that life can bring," he says.
"And I felt on some level like I hadn't become a
man yet. I realised I'd never been tested in any
way. I'd never been in a situation that I wasn' t
sure I was going to survive or that would
require strengths that I didn't know I had."
And so he, like many young people with
no expertise or training, landed in Bosnia.
He st ayed six months in the Balkans and
rarely saw the front line. He filed pieces for
radio stations and newspapers and spent
far more than he earned. Although he
was "plankton" in the food chain of the news
business, the experience was rich, and he
decided that once he'd written his book (a
soon-to-be bestseller called The Perfect Storm)
he'd find a way to become a war reporter who
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also, he noticed, ancillary benefits to his new
profession. "It is glamorous," he says. "No
point pretending it's not. When I said I was a
waiter, which I had to say for about ten years,
the response from women ... well, when I said I
was a war reporter, the difference in response
was pretty unmistakeable."
For Junger's generation, the Balkans was
their Libya - "a stringer' s war" accessible to
freelancers on a budget. Just as in Misrata,
where dozens of inexperienced young people
arrived to cover the Libyan uprising armed
only with gumption and their iPhones, so
cheap flights and the relative accessibility of
the former Yugoslavia meant that freelancers
could try their luck there. As Alex Thomson,
the Channel 4 correspondent, remembers,
"You could buy a cheap camera on [London's]
Tottenham Court Road on Monday and be in
Gornji Vakuf [in Bosnia] on Wednesday."
But in the early Nineties, unknown to the
horde of bright-eyed youngsters, the protocol
of war reporting was about to change. Before
Yugoslavia, journalists in warzones felt that
the blue flak jacket of the press pack offered
them some kind of immunity. Scott Anderson
remembers that in El Salvador in the mid-
Eighties - a "vicious, nasty war" - the fact of
being an accredited, visible journalist was still
a protection.
"You could tape 'TV' to your car and drive
back and forth across no-man's land," he says.
"Seven or eight years later, in Bosnia, it was
dramatically different. Taping 'Press' or '"TV'
to your car was like putting a bull's-eye on it."
Serbian paramilitaries had realised that
journalists were not helping their cause. Blue
jackets became like red rags to a bull. But why
should the relationship between fighters and
reporters have changed at that moment?
"My feeling is that with the end of the Cold
War, so much of war became almost like mafia
feuds," says Anderson. "Like gangland: often
between two groups, not between armies."
In this environment, the rules changed.
Serbian paramilitaries were one of the first
armed groups to realise that there would
be little recourse if they attacked report -
ers. And once the dam of inviolability was
breached journalists working in warzones
everywhere became more vulnerable. Now,
in Syri a, reporters disguise themselves as best
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(B Lynsey Addario, the Pulitzer- prize-
winning photographer and recipient of the US
MacArthur Foundation's "Genius" grant who
has documented conflict - and, particularly,
women in conflict - for more than a decade,
has been kidnapped twice for her trouble. The
first time was in Iraq in 2004. The second time
was in Libya in 2011. Both times, she escaped
unhurt. Both times, she was reminded of how
easily, and badly, her life might have ended.
"No doubt about it, journalists are targets
now," she says.
I
t has always taken guts for a journal-
ist to board a plane to a warzone. It
takes even more to beat the competi-
tion when you land. As a result, every reporter
or photographer who works in a conflict is
constantly engaged in an argument about
risks and rewards. Do I get on this truck with
this bunch of rebels? If I move five miles to
the west, will I become trapped? All of these
decisions need to be taken on the basis of
incomplete knowledge - because nobody
knows exactly what will happen in a war.
(I once took a trip through a rebel-held patch
of eastern Congo while reporting for this
magazine, having been assured by my fixer
that the road was safe. After we had run into
trouble - a high-speed car crash, a subse-
quent negotiation with teenagers carrying
automatic weapons, the sound of approach-
ing gunfire - I asked the fixer where he had
received his obviously erroneous information.
He answered: "I prayed this morning.")
So, what guides a journalist's decisions
in these unlovely places? The frequently
repeated maxi m that "no story is worth dying
for" rings a little hollow. The awkward truth
is that, in this field, personal bravery is simul-
taneously discouraged and rewarded.
An example. As a group of Libyan rebels
entered Tripoli in August 2011, the 28-year-
old Sunday Times correspondent Miles
Amoore was with them. As these fighters
approached Gaddafi's base, Amoore was shot
in the head by a government sniper. He was
wearing a Kevlar helmet and survived. In typ-
ically nonchalant fashion, he dusted himself
down and continued his work. A few hours
later, he became the first reporter to enter
Gaddafi' s compound.
With his entry into the Libyan despot's
stronghold, Amoore had a world exclusive.
But that scoop only made the inside pages
of the Sunday newspaper. On the front page,
the Sunday Times ran a first-person account of
Amoore's near-death experience. This edito-
rial decision may seem harmless enough, but
it points to a wider truth about newspapers,
particularly British ones. The reporter is often
the story - and the braver his or her exploits,
the better the copy. Indeed, many papers
would have made the same calculation as the
Sunday Times did in this instance. In a market
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saturated with images and videos of war, much
of it shot by amateurs, there is a need to dif-
ferentiate yourself from the competition, and
highlighting the courage of a star reporter is
one way to do this.
Again, this is nothing new. There is an
anecdote (possibly apocryphal; I've seen it
told in various forms) from when the Daily
Express and the Daily Mail were arch rivals,
ferociously competing over readers in the
mid-market. After the Daily Mail correspon-
dent suffers an injury while reporting on a
battle, the hapless Express hack is upbraided
by a cable from his editor in London: "Mailman
shot. Why you unshot."
The Express editor's question was both funny
and seri ous. Derring-do sells. In 1900, when
Winston Churchill made a name for himself as
a journalist during the Boer War, the Morning
Post ran his account of a daring prison break
under the headline "How I Escaped From
Pretoria - And My Subsequent Adventures On
The Road To Delagoa Bay, by Winston Spencer
Churchill, Our War Correspondent."
While the temptation to publish first-person
heroics has proved a constant, it is now laced
with a modem imperative: awards. Winning
a journalism prize is important not only for a
reporter, and an organisation's reputation, but
to protect budgets. While no sensible reporter
is going to consciously put his or her life in
danger for the prospect of winning a future
award, correspondents at the sharp end may
feel a kind of subliminal pressure.
"I take a very strong line on this," says Alex
Thomson. "This industry and this business has
got a lot of hard questions to answer. I think
there's an awful lot of hypocrisy between
news editors across this business, who on
the one hand say no story is worth getting
killed for and on the other hand that 'bang-
bang' wins awards. I don't care what anyone
says, there is a f* * *ing great conflict in those
two views."
A
mid all the soul-searching about
. the numbers of journalists killed or
kidnapped in conflict, one theme is
returned to repeatedly. Because of lightweight
digital- recording equipment, because the
internet has provided an inexhaustible outlet
for text and images and because of the rela-
tive accessibility of the countries involved in
the Arab uprisings, the front line has been
swamped with journalists of every type. In
short, it has never been easier to be a war
reporter. Staying alive is another matter.
Vice magazine recently published a long
piece by a young British man named Sunil
Patel. It ran with the headline "I Went To
Syria To Learn How To Be A Journalist - And
Failed Miserably At It While Nearly Dying
A Bunch Of Times". The article was Patel's
first published work. He had previously been
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the Metropolitan Police and lived with his
parents. Understandably, his suck-it-and-see
attitude to reporting, in a conflict that had
already claimed the lives of several journal-
ists, received a mixed reception.
Patel's story is only the most egregious
example of a trend that is worrying seasoned
operators. Nearly every established foreign
correspondent I spoke to for this article had
some shocking story about meeting a "kid" in
Misrata or Tripoli who had travelled on their
own dime and was - in the opinion of the
veteran - hopelessly exposed.
One of these "kids" was Marie-Lys Lubrano,
a 32-year-old French journalist who travelled
to Libya from Cairo, where she had covered
the uprising of 2011. She worked for several
media outlets and was often paid as li ttle as
100 (85) a story by newspapers such as the
French daily Le Parisien. She had no expe-
rience of conflict, no training, no insurance
and - if something went wrong - no backup.
When her laptop broke, she was forced to
work without it.
"I had a lot of luck,'' she says now. "I was
really fortunate to come back safe and not
hurt. I wouldn't recommend to anyone to go
like I did - to count on luck."
In Libya, Lubrano travelled mostly with
rebel groups, and hardly spent a penny. But
her lack of cash meant that she found herself
in tricky situations.
"I had a lot of free help from the revolution-
aries," she says. "I surely must have made a
lot of mistakes, but the biggest were because
I had no fi xer, no translators, no drivers. It was
dangerous, but sometimes that is part of the
job ... I think it was more dangerous because I
was not independent. I was in danger because
I did not have enough money. I was always
embedded. I couldn't say 'I want to stop, I
want to go back.' Because it's not fair to do that
if you have chosen to be embedded. You just
have to follow and shut your mouth."
Lubrano was not alone. There were plenty
of young reporters, photographers and video-
graphers in Libya working for next-to-nothing
or nothing at all. Some wrote biogs, some filed
pieces for low-paying media. All were hoping
to get noticed.
This situation sounds like a disaster waiting
to happen. But many reporters - Junger
included - started this way. Sometimes, a
stint in a conflict zone can be the catalyst for
a superb career.
Ruth Sherlock of the Daily Telegraph is only
25, but she has already published outstand-
ing work. Last year, she was named Young
Journalist of the Year at the British Press
A wards. She began her career as a freelancer
in the West Bank and then travelled to Cairo
for the start of the uprising there. When she left
Ramallah, she wrote a note for her housemates
saying she'd be back in a few days. She was
gone six months. From Egypt she decamped
to Libya, where she worked for a string of
WAR REPORTING
publications. During this period, an editor at the
Telegraph had noticed her talent, and she was
given a more permanent position at the paper.
Libya was, she says, "incredibly dangerous ...
The country was full of weapons and nobody
knew how to use them. I saw kids on the front
li ne juggling with grenades." But, by employ-
ing a conservative approach and sticking with
experienced reporters, she managed to keep
out of trouble - mostly.
Three days before Tim Hetheri ngton arrived
in Libya, Sherlock had travelled with a rebel
group and another journalist to Tripoli Street
in Misrata, then a scene of fierce fighting.
Her plan was to spend a few minutes watch-
ing the battle, get some quotes and get the
hell out of there. But when she and the older
correspondent arrived, one of the rebels said
to the journalists, "You must stay for lunch."
The senior journalist (whom she declines to
name) accepted the invitation and Sherlock
did not feel able to demur. Reluctantly, she
pulled up a chair on the patio of a villa on
Tripoli Street, with "shells and bullets whizzing
overhead". They ate macarona: spaghetti with
beef chunks in a spicy tomato sauce. Sherlock
remembers being so terrified she could hardly
chew. And, eventually, this situation became
too dangerous even for the rebels, who called
off lunch halfway through. She is now working
from Beirut, largely on the Syrian conflict.
F
or Ruth Sherl ock, and other journal-
ists who have moved from reporting on
North Africa to Syria, the experience
has been sobering. Syria might be the most
difficult conflict to cover in a generation. Not
only is the Government bent on maintaining
its power by any means, but the opposition
forces are loose, splintered and often ruthless.
For instance, some weeks after Marie Colvin
and Remi Ochlik died in Homs, Alex Thomson
and four other journalists were - they believe
- led into a free- fire zone by a group of rebels.
'Tm quite dear the rebels deliberately set us
up to be shot by the Syrian Army," Thomson
wrote on his blog shortly afterwards. "Dead
joumos are bad for Damascus."
Because of the difficul ty of reporting safely
in these conditions, some news outlets are
starting to waver about accepti ng material
from freelancers. It's a problematic stance.
Freelancers do extraordinary work. For
example, the most spellbinding footage of the
war in Syria has come from a 41-year-old free-
lance French photojournalist and videographer
called Mani (he works without a surname for
security reasons). Before he worked as a pho-
tographer in Niger, Pakistan, India and then
Syria, Mani was a primary-school teacher in
Paris. Recently, I met him in London and asked
what had compelled him to go to the most
dangerous warzone in recent memory.
"I met an old friend from Syria in Paris, and
I took a decision to do it," he says. His voice{B
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0 is soft and measured. He has a puckish
smile. You could imagine him being an excel-
lent t eacher. "The reason I went .. . there
was no press - at least in the opposition
areas. There were no images, no pictures. If
I could do it, l thought it was important...
l was really conscious that something bad
could happen. I could get arrested, I could
get beaten, I could get tortured. I knew that.
I am an Arab, and I thought they would be
harsher with me."
He remained uncaught and unhurt. Without
Mani, much of the conflict in opposition-
controlled areas would have been beyond
view. In filming the furious close-quarters
battles that have made his name, he fulfilled a
central duty of the war reporter. And, because
of his courage, millions of people had a view
of what was actually happening in Syria: not
only Government oppression of civilians, but
also a ruthless fightback by the opposition and
the conflict's civilian collateral damage.
o generate a solution to the increasing
toll of JOurnahsts, it would help to know
the precise problem. James Brabazon
has spent longer than most considering this
issue. He is a war reporter of note and was a
"If you want to look at violence towards
journalists, that's where the story is," says
Brabazon. "People like Tim [Hetherington]
take up a lot of headline space .. . But Tim's an
aberration; he' s not the norm."
He's right. But should we demean the public-
ity that surrounded the deaths of Hetherington
and Marie Colvin? Those tragedies alerted the
world to the peril of witnessing war. And,
regardless of this schism between local and
foreign reporters, something nasty is happen-
ing to war reporting in general - particularly
in Syria. According to the most recent statis-
tics, 23 journalists and 54 citizen journalists
have been killed in Syria since the war began
in March 2011. Several reporters have been
held hostage for months. However you want
to slice them, these are troubling numbers.
ack in the Half King, with the winter
: sunshine streaming in, Sebastian
Junger dissolves into the sofa and
throws his feet up on the armrest. Whatever
itch he had in his early thirties has now been
scratched, but he retains his ardour for the
trade he left.
"I can't imagine a world where war doesn't
get covered," he says. "Because then there's
going to Syria, all you'd get, potentially, is
propaganda coming out.
"So you don' t want to stop that - Syria is a
great opportunity for a lot of freelancers. But
the industry that buys the work can insist
on minimum norms: life and health insur-
ance, evacuation cover, kidnap insurance. I
mean, they could come up with a war-reporter
package of insurance that covered it all, as well
as medical training through my organisation or
some other, adequate equipment, vest, helmet
and medical kit."
These suggestions sound sensible. Whether
the Western news media, strapped as it is,
will find it within itself to insist on "minimum
norms" is another matter. For now, some
uncomfortable realities remain. Wars are here
to stay. The media has a duty to report on
matters of moment, and conflict - particularly
in its effect on noncombatants, in its impli-
cations for the future of nations, in its fury
- is momentous. It's likely that for all these
reasons, freelancers will still take inordinate
risks to bring home the story.
It is a cliche but a truth that journalists often
become addicted to war. Because of this, it's
easy for armchair pundits to feel as if the trade
is less honourable than it professes - to say
that these men and women are all, to a greater
'I'm quite clear that the rebels deliberately set us up to be shot by the
Syrian Army ... dead journalists are bad for Damascas'
close friend of Tim Hetherington's from the
days when they covered Liberia together.
Brabazon also produced Which Way Is The
Frontline From Here? and is a trustee of the
Rory Peck Trust, an organisation that exists to
help and protect freelance journalists.
"It's important to take a step back," he says.
"There isn't one single catalyst that's generated
an increased number of casualties among jour-
nalists. There are several different, distinct
factors that all interplay with one another
and catalyse each other, and that's why we
are where we are today."
Brabazon explains that those issues are, in
short: low pay, ease of access, the development
of lighter equipment, an insatiable demand for
the images of war and an increasing number
of conflicts to cover.
"What you have is people who will operate
in a frontline capacity, often very badly paid,
which tends to mean that the people who are
most li kely to be going to do it are younger
and inexperienced, because they mind being
paid less the least," he says.
There is, however, a strong caveat to his
diagnosis. Most of the journalists killed in
warzones are locals, not foreign correspon-
dents . Indeed, the everyday experience of
a journalist in Juarez, Horns or Waziristan is
likely to be horrific.
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all manner of human-rights abuses, which
effectively will not officially have happened ...
Imagine Tahrir Square without reporters and
all those citizen journalists with cellphones.
Imagine taking cameras out of Tahrir Square
and then hearing what Mubarak had to say
about what was going on. It would be like [the
difference between] the LAPD describing what
happened with Rodney King and then them
having to describe what happened to King
when the video [of his beating] came out. I
can't imagine, with police brutality, with war,
with all manner of evil, what would happen
if there were no media scrutiny."
The question is: are we reporting on war
in the best way? Will there come a point
when we have to rethink what a journalist can
successfully achieve in a place
like Syria?
"The fi nancial reality of t he
established media is such that
they can't afford to send experi-
enced journalists into Syria and
insure them and pay them ade-
quately,'' he says. "For a news
crew in Syria, it's probably going
to be hundreds of thousands of
dollars a week. They can't do
that. They've got to use free-
lancers. If all the freelancers stop
or lesser degree, fulfilling a selfish urge. But
this attitude seems wrong-headed. Junger
started, and stopped, for selfish reasons. It
doesn't make the work he did less valid. As
he says, it may be healthier for journalists
to admit that - as well as the duty to "bear
witness" - there is something personally sat-
isfying in covering conflict.
Tim Hetherington was not gung ho. He,
too, believed that no story was worth dying
for. But he continued to return to dangerous
places because he was interested in the raw life
of a warzone: the way a rebel soldier kissed
his wife goodbye; the way young men in war
self-consciously imitated other young men in
other wars; the stoicism of victims.
Perhaps his most famous series of pho-
tographs is from the Korengal
Valley. It features soldiers fast
asleep in their cots. There isn' t
a gun in sight. In that small col-
lection of images, Hetherington
offers a humane, tender and pro-
found view of the reality of war
for the people fighting it. Anyone
who sees the sleeping soldiers
will grieve that Hetherington
died so young. But, if you were
so moved, how could you also
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d icked on a link from
Buzzfeed. Maybe it was
posted by a friend on
Twitter, followed by
a LOU Maybe on
Facebook, with an "OMG, you must read
this!" It was almost certainly a list of
pictures, and there's a sporting chance it
involved cats or dogs. From "33 Dogs That
Cannot Even Handle It Right Now" - the
list of said dogs not being able to handle
it were mainly bulging-eyed pugs, hence
their lack of handling-it ability - to 'The
25 Funniest YouTube Comments Of The
Year" (No3 was a rape joke; four of them
concerned male genitalia), Buzzfeed has
become the web's latest phenomena and
perhaps the world's fastest growing
"news" website. After Margaret
Thatcher's death, they ran a list of 16
cats "interpreting" her most memorable
quotes, which apparently counts as news.
In the US, they've hired a handful of paid
wri ters - but the vast majority of their
hits still come from cats.
It currently attracts up to 40 million
visitors a month, is valued at $200m
(130m) and makes its money by charging
companies - ranging from Coca-Cola to
Nike - hundreds of thousands for
"sponsored" posts, which are almost
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always indistinguishable from the
un-sponsored ones.
It recently opened an office in London.
The first UK-centric post was "47
Hilariously Underwhelming Local News
Headlines", Nol of which concerned
a seagull that had stolen crisps.
And yet, to call Buzzfeed a website isn't
entirely accurate - or rather, it's a bit like
saying people get their drinking water
from the sky. They do, but it's not where
they go for it. People rarely d ick on a
Buzzfeed list - each of which contains
a variety of "response" buttons at
the end, from LOL to WfF - via the
homepage. Rather, each of their click-bait
"listides" is engineered to be shared and
go viral on social networks. Instantly
digestible, instantaneously forgettable,
the future of the web, and possibly -
seen billions of years from now on a
decaying, barren earth under a r ed sun
that has begun to boil the oceans as we
club each other to death with the bones
of our ancestors for the last few remaining
morsels of food, shaking our hairy; clawed
fists at an indifferent God - the point at
which human evolution said, Screw it,
what the hell's the point?, and decided to
stick the truck in reverse. Either way,
here's GQ's guide in Buzzf eed form. Don't
say we didn' t warn you.
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"We're real j ournalists
and we're reacting
to a tragedy like real
journali sts, and are in
no way exploiting said
tragedy wit h a list t hat
demeans us all, all for
the sake of a few hits
in the hope a company
that produces sugared
water will spend more
money in advertising." r
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what a f ew whack-
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thought, because
it is not covered by
mainstream media,
and this isn't because
reporting what these
people t hink isn't
news, and also we
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had any humanity left
we would walk the
streets, telling people
what we've done and
inviting them to kick
us as hard as they
can in the balls."
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They shoul d see
'Photos From The
Scene Of The Bost on
Marathon Explosion'
which had no edit ing
process, scant regard
for the fact people
were still finding out
what happened to
their loved ones, and
showed a picture of a
man whose feet had
just been blown off,
all for internet traffic.
I mean, that was bad.
There should be a
war-crime tribunal
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After breakthroughs in
Twilight and Harry Potter,
Jamie Campbell Bower
is taking the lead in dark
teen thriller The Mortal
Instruments: City Of
Bones. Here, cutting
a dash in Sixties-style
summer tailoring, he
talks about starring with
(and dating) Phil Collins'
daughter Lily, and
seriously far-out fan mail
Photographs by
Adam Whitehead
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have you met Phil Collins? '
"Er," says Jamie Campbell
Bower, his sloth-like limbs
coiling around his chair out
of discomfort, streaks of blond
hair pulled this way and that.
Go on, I coax. You can tell GQ.
After all, the 24-year- old is now
dating his daughter, Lily Collins,
who is also his co-star in
forthcoming teen blockbuster
The Mortal Instruments: City Of
Bones, which is how they met.
So, have you?
"No ... no ... " he squirms, not
answering the question so
much as rejecting the question's
premise. 'This is not about that!"
Except the "this" - their actual
relationship - is very much about
the "that", which is to say, their
parts in the film. Think of it like
a starter-home version of the
Twilight are-they-aren't-they?
saga (answer: yes, of course they
are) concerning the on-screen/
off-screen romance between
Robert Pattinson and Kristen
Stewart. Both, after all, take the
romantic leads in a supernatural
teen franchise based on mega-hit
books. Both have a tween army
of fans who are likely to queue
for days and scream li ke a meteor
is landing at the premieres.
So yes, says Campbell Bower,
"there was undeniable chemistry"
when he and the 24-year-old Lily
had their screen test. They had
met briefly some years before,
he says, at a premiere, but
hadn't kept in touch.
"Even the author," he says,
"said that when she saw it
[the screen test] there was
a chemistry that just jumped
right off the screen. But I mean,
there's chemistry for the movie,
and then my own life ... "
But they're not exactly
different things, are they?
"Yeah ... l know. If you've got
chemistry; you've got chemistry,
but I try to keep who I am as
Jamie quite separate."
Good luck with that.
Not that Campbell Bower has
had an easy time from the fans,
even without the relationship
sideshow. After smaller roles
in tween juggernauts such as
Twilight (where he played Caius)
and Harry Potter (Gellert
Grindelwald), along with the lead
in one failed TV series (Channel
4's Camelot), he does seem the
perfect fit to finally make the
step up and play Jace Wayland,
the books' supernatural sardonic
demon-slaying antihero. But the
fans disagreed.
"Yeah, I'd be lying if I said the
reaction wasn' t negative. People
have preconceived notions of
who the character should be.
And then there's someone
like me who changes that."
What did they say?
"Oh God, you know, 'He's too
ugly', or ' He's not butch enough',
or ' He doesn't work out enough'.
All this shit, basically, that
actually means f* * * al l.
Because, you know, I' m a
product, effectively. I' m more
than happy to change, and
put the time and effort in. You
know, we weren' t shooting
for another six months!"
To be fair, Campbell Bower has
been on the receiving end of fan
affection too - in one instance,
when he was in Twilight, a little
too much.
"l was sent a bondage collar
and a wheel of cheese. We were
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and
someone just left it in reception
for me. The bondage collar had
nipple clamps attached to it. It
was quite bizarre."
Did you eat the cheese?
"No. I thought it might have
glass in it or something. Or,
worse, Viagra. I would be walking
around with a dairy erection! It
had a note too, which started by
saying, Tm not a psychopath',
then detailed a lot of sexually
explicit things the person wanted
to do to me."
For now, Campbell Bower has
to go. He's got a flight to catch to
LA, and to Lily, a much more
healthy object of affection. His
next film, he says, should see him
play a musician, in a movie that's
become something of a passion
project for him. So if it comes off,
will he consult Phil for ...
"No!"
Worth a try. Stuart McGurk
The Mortal Instruments: City
Of Bones is out on 23 August.
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2001, the Gabba, Brisbane. It's the
first Test between the British & Irish
Lions and Austral ia. The Lions,
cheered on by thei r "Red Army", are
leading 12-3 when 22-year-old Brian
O' Dr iscoll takes a pass inside hi s own
hal f, splits two would-be tacklers wi t h
the pace of hi s line, puts the full back
on his backside with a brutal sidestep
and still has the legs to outrun
Australia's wingers to score. Tries like
t hat just don't happen in int ernational
rugby. The Li ons win 29-13.
Fast-forward 12 years to another
tour of Australia. Could O'Dri scoll
go half the length of the field for the
Lions agai n? "I could run it, but I'd
need a defi bri llator afterwards," says
the 34-year-old. "List en, in the right
circumstances I'm sure I'm capable
of doi ng certai n things. Maybe that
young pace isn't in me any more,
but I like to thi nk I've added other
aspect s to my game si nce then."
With 125 caps for Ireland, six caps
for the Lions and 47 internati onal
tries on his CV, few woul d argue.
"BOD" is universal ly acknowledged
as being one of the finest players of
his generation. But that generation
is ending. His finishing his career
(agai nst Austral ia) on a fourth Lions
tour feels as balanced as his running.
Australia - where he first showed
himself t o be t ruly world class. Does
he feel that sense of "full circle"?
"I do. Each of my three tours so far
have been very different. The first
one I was young, I was quiet and just
li stened. I was captain in the second
one. In the third one I was able to
rel ax and take more of it in, as I didn't
have the pressure of captaincy."
So, would he have wanted the
pressure of the captai ncy this time
around? " If I'd had the chance to go
out as Lions captain I would have
jumped at i t," he says. "It would have
been a huge honour. But I'm just
happy to have been selected."
Famously, O'Driscoll's 2005 Li ons
captaincy lasted only 40 seconds of
the f irst Test before dislocating his
shoul der. The Li ons captain becomes
a target, both for the press and
the opposition. Is he sti ll hungry
for confrontation at this stage
of his career?
"Yeah, more than ever. I've tasted
three different Lions tours and
never been on a winning one. So
something's definitely left. There's
unfinished business." Rob i l l i a m s ~
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LIONS BY NUMBERS
The number of man hours spent mowing, fertilising
and re-turfing the ground in Patersons Stadium, the
venue for the opening fixture in Australia.
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The number of
training balls
the Lions took
with them on
: ~ ~ ; ; ; s t tour
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Percentage of games
the Lions have won (451
wins out of 609 matches) .
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267
Record
number
of points
scored by
Andy Irvine
during his
Lions career.
0
Points scored by the Australians in their heaviest defeat
to the Lions (1966) . The touri st s scored 31 points.
The record
number
of Lions
Test caps
won by
Willi e John
McBride.
811
Number of tries
conceded by the
Li ons in Australia,
New Zealand, South
Africa and Argentina.
4 4
The number of words in ( t he not
17
very popular) "The Power Of Four" ,
t he anthem commissioned by
Sir Clive Woodward for t he Briti sh and Irish
Lions Tour to New Zealand in 2005.
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Total points scored by the Lions
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of pounds the
team were
gi ven t o buy
clothing and
kit t o take
with them on
tour in 41t--fl
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leuan Evans
72 Wales caps,
7 Lions caps
Dewi Morris
26 England caps,
3 Lions caps
Paul Wallace
45 Ireland caps,
3 Lions caps
Scott Hastings
64 Scotland caps,
2 Lions caps
Michael Lynagh
72 Australia caps
e GQ: Aside from the final
game in Cardiff and the
e first weekend, it wasn't
e a great Six Nations. Will
that hurt the Lions?
Morris: Conditions weren' t good for
running rugby but some of the game
plans, especially England vs Italy,
were just go wide, wide, wide without
any direction. If they play like that,
the Australians won't be too worried.
Lynagh: Regardless of the Six
Nations, Australia will know that the
Lions will be strong and hard to beat.
It's like Australia. The standard of the
Super Rugby franchises isn' t great.
But when we come together, we'll be
pretty good.
Morris: You showed that drawing
with New Zealand in the Rugby
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It's estimated that won the third Test there was
40,000 Briti sh and a dinner afterwards. When we
Iri sh fans will follow the came in through the front door
Lions to Australia thi s they were all on the first floor,
month. In 1989, the last time a and they all applauded us in.
Lions side won a series down It had a big impact."
under, things were different. McGeechan also took the
"I had to try to get the press Lions to South Africa in '97
to come and watch training," - the last time they won a
recalls Sir Ian McGeechan, series, 16 long years ago.
then the Lions head coach. " In "We're in a good position to
terms of supporters we might win this series. We'll be strong
have had 1,000. But when we in areas where Australia won't."
19200 JULY 2013
Championship, beating England in
the autumn with a third of your
team. That's the thing with Australia ...
Hastings: But there's a massive
expectation with the Lions that this
is the one. The feeling is, "Come on
guys, it's been a long time since 1997."
We've got a real opportunity here.
Lynagh: And of the three [big]
nations - Australia, New Zealand,
South Africa - Australia is probably
the one they feel is there for
the taking.
Evans: In terms of the calendar when
you get out there, and the fixture list,
it is the easiest. I' m not saying the
Test matches, but the midweek
games, as a tour, it's the easiest.
The schedule is a lot less demanding
than South Africa or New Zealand.
Wallace: Australia's biggest weakness
is the scrum. Although it' s improved.
Lynagh: Didn' t take you long
to get to the scrum!
Morris: There's an over-obsession
with the scrum. I don' t want the Lions
thinking "we'll get penalties" because
you will lose. Australia will play off
35 per cent possession and score tries.
Evans: The Lions will have the
biggest squad in terms of physical
stature. Warren Gatland (Lions head
coach) will go big.
Wallace: It'll be the biggest backline
t o ever play the game.
GQ: How did it feel when you
were first picked for the Lions?
Hastings: After the defeat by
Australia in the first Test in '89, Clive
What does McGeechan
~ t o o o t Bot ho ~
think of hi s successor as head did speak at the ~
coach? Does it bother him, end of the tour. .
considering his Lions legacy, He understands .
that a New Zea lander leads it as well as
Britain and Ireland's best? anybody." RW
"No. Gats gets it," he says. Sir Ian McGeechan
"He's a great man manager, is the ambassador
an outstanding coach. In 2009 for Lions Wine Club.
I asked him to speak to the lionswinec/ub.com. Tickets and
players early on in the tour and travel packages available from
he said, 'No, I haven't earned Lions Rugby Travel from 599.
the right yet.' That was a big 0844 788 4070, lionstour.com
Rowlands (then tour manager) talked
about the pride within the jersey.
Those moments were very special.
Evans: It's the legacy. My heroes ...
My dad's heroes all wore this jersey.
It's intoxicating - to go out there and
try to mimic the legends of our game.
Morris: The giving of the shirt by
Geech (Sir Ian McGeechan). He said:
"Just remember the players that have
worn this. Terry Holmes, Gareth
Edwards ... " Winning my first game.
Winning man of the match ...
Evans: You?
Morris: Yes.
Evans: You sure? [All laugh.]
Morris: You think you'll get a tankard
for being man of the match. I got
a Ken Hom electric wok.
GQ: Was it tough to bond the
four nations into a Lions team
when you went?
Wallace: There's a bit of a Welsh
clique, isn' t there?
Wallace: They do like to huddle in
a little crowd. But when you get them
one on one, they're great.
Morris: In '93 l wish Jim Telfer (Lions
coach in '97) had been on tour to
crack the whip, because I don't think
the Scottish front five performed.
They let the tour down.
Wallace: In '97 it wasn' t the
management, it was the players who
came down with the rules. And we
all abided ... apart from some of the
"staying out late" rules.
Evans: You can't have your Test side
set in stone for the first week of a
tour. If you do there's a danger of
people thinking they're on holiday.
Lynagh: Surely it's up to the players
to go, "Look, we're on a Lions tour,
whatever's best for the team, we're
all going to live and die by it." It's got
to come from within.
GQ: What's your one abiding
Lions memory?
Morris: '93 in Wellington, someone
from the crowd threw a can of beer
on and it just missed Brian Moore. He
clicked it open, took a big glug, and
threw it back. The crowd went wild.
Lynagh: Ieuan's try in '89. I
remember dropping to my knees
going: "Well, that's the series."
Evans: I caught a rabbit during that
game. I looked up [at the big screen]
and there was a brown furry thing
in between my legs.
Hastings: It's changed so much since
the amateur days. They're talking
about maybe 40,000 fans following
the series. It's enormous now. It's the
Olympics of our game.
GQ: Finally, who'll win the
Test series?
All four ex- Lions: The Lions. 2-1.
Lynagh: Australia. RW
The ball
For the first time
in 125 years, the
official tour rugby
ball will feature the
colours of both the
Wallabies (gold)
and the Lions
(red). Just in case
both teams didn't
have enough to
fight over. PH
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gilbertrugby.com
Fixture list
e s June
(llam, Sky Sports 1)
Lions vs
Western Force
Pat ersons Stadium, Perth
8 June (10.30am, SS2)
Lions vs
Queensland Reds
Suncorp Stadium,
Brisbane
e 11 June (10.30am, 552)
Lions vs
NSW-Queensland
Hunter Stadium,
Newcastle
e 1s June (10.30am, 552)
Lions vs
NSW Waratahs
Sydney Football
St adium, Sydney
e 18 June (10.30am, SSl)
Lions vs
ACT Brumbies
Canberra Stadium,
Canberra
22 June (11.00am, SSl)
Lions vs AUSTRALIA
Suncorp St adium,
Bri sbane, 1st Test
25 June (10.30am, SSl)
Lions vs Melbourne
Rebels AAMI Park,
Melbourne
29 June (11.00am, SSl)
Lions vs AUSTRALIA
Etihad Stadium,
Melbourne,
2nd Test
6 July (11.00am, SSl)
Lions vs AUSTRALIA
ANZ St adium, Sydney,
3rd Test
Sky Sports will show the
entire British & Irish Lions
2073 tour exclusively live
and in HD.
JULY 2013 GQ 193
Captain Sam Warburton on
training like a Lion and how
to out-muscle the Wallabies
Hammer time:
Sam Warburton
knows the Lions'
psychological
preparation will
be as Important
as their brutal
physical training


Prepare the
body for battle
Best for the legs ... I don't squat
any more because I have lower
back and knee issues, so I do a lot
of single-leg step-ups on to a
bench with a barbell on my back.
Best for the chest ... It's dumbbell
presses. At my best that' s 60kg.
Then we do weight chin-ups, with
SOkg weights on a belt.
Best exercise for cardio ...
Anaerobic runni ng. Short, sharp,
sprints rather than jogging to build
up lactic acid tolerance.
Win the physical war
Physically, the northern
hemisphere sides can be slightly
dominant. Australia play a quicker
game. They're very skilful and
intelligent rugby players. The
Lions' scrum will be a weapon, but
you can't rely on one aspect. You
need a clinical attack, a watertight
defence, a solid set piece - and the
kicking game is massive.
Weight of expectation
Body weight has always been an
i ssue for me. I lose weight quickly
and I have to play at 102/103kg.
If I'm lighter than that I don't feel
explosive enough, if I'm too heavy
I feel sluggish. I take Pro Athlete
Supplementation. It's a company
set up by Jon Williams, the Welsh
Rugby Union nutriti onist , and
Darren Campbell, the Olympic
Gold medalli st. pasonline.co.uk
Worry about your
own team, not
the opposition
For me, the key is to concentrate
on myself and the team. I will
try not to worry about the
Australians because if you
control everything you can do
right, you'll be fine. What you
do need is to get everyone
working as a unit. You need
15 players who are willing to
compete on the floor.
Four nations
fighting as one
As I have been picked as captai n,
that's something I'm goi ng to
have to find out. The traini ng
wi l l be brutal, and when you go
through it together it does bring
you closer. I don't think it'll be
difficul t to bring four nations
. . :J.11: . together. Everyone will
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Claire Pilton meets the designer-developer double act behind Howes & Rigby
at their tip-top project in Knightsbridge
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projects under their belts
and the same amount in the
pipeline, it makes perfect sense
for award-winning interior-<iesign practice Taylor
Howes to formally join forces with London
property devcloper Rigby & Rigby.lbis month
sees the latmeh of their new 'end-to-end property
service', which, according to Karen Howes and
Sr.eve Rigby, is 'uniquely qualified to cater to the
burgeoning HNWI market in London.'
Actions, however, speak louder than worck.
The acquisition, reconfiguration, extension,
design n d ~ of St SavioUIS House in
\Wt.on Place, SW3, confirms Howes & Rigby's
ability to deliver the best.
'Unusually for working partnerships, OUIS start-
ed with a beauty parade,' says Karen, who over the
p:& 21 years has proved the indispemable darling
of many a London devcloper. 'Taylor Howes has
designed = 350 show homes at schemes such
as The Knigbtsbridge, Phillimore Square, Lancelot
Place and most of St George's penthouses up and
down the river, including their recently released
Chelsea CreekTower. We understand what a de-
veloper needs to do to sell his property, whether
it's a multi-unit scheme or an individual one-off.'
Not surprisingiy,Taylor Howes was one of
three designers that Steve Rigby invited to
pitch fur St Saviours. 'We acquired the property
at the end of2009 on behalf of a client who
wanted something highly unusual. This 8,600sq
ft property originally formed part of a 19th-
century church. It had been converted somewhat
haphazardly in the early 1990s and was severely
compromised; but we knew it could be rede-
veloped to fulfil our client's own specification.'
The property has since grown by some 3,000sq
ft with the acquisition of a neighbouring mews
house that also provides three off-street parking
spaces; it now has three large bedroom suites on
the ground, first and second floors with a large
gymnasiwn below. Aaunting an impressive array
ofTechno-gym kit, this 'subterranean exten-
sion' adjoins a tranquil swimming pool complex
complete with interconnecting sauna, st.earn and
shower rooms, a separate treatment room and a
juice bar. 'The client was looking for a retreat-
cum-resort feel - at once opulent and practical
for a funily with five children.. The brief- and
budget- were uncompromising,' from the 350
per sq ft wooden flooring in the master suite to
the 300,<:XYJ circular glas.5 elevator that ascends
to a roof terrace on the second storey and a
teenager's fubulous bedroom suite with a loft-like
study above. There are three further suites in the
main house, including a serene master bedroom,
which incorporates an elegant writing desk for
her and a TV screen facing the ensuite bathroom
loo for himl There are no fewer than 32 screens
throughout the property, including a curving
'nine-in-one' set up in the media room and a
back-t<>-back arrangement that rises from a cen-
tJ:u:ee>.year project was nearing completion, the
client had a change of plan and decided to sell . . .
to the tune of 50 million. Karen and Steve hope
'the incoming pwt:haser will add their stamp
and enjoy living here, albeit for just a couple of
months a year. If you're in the multi-global home-
owning league, it's rather like having your own
boutique hotel in the heart ofKnightsbridge.'
'Having worked together on this property
and three others since 2010, we are confident
that the vision, look and reputation of our two
companies (which will also continue to operate
independently) dovetail exactly. We are both
coming to an exttaordinarily competitive marlcet
from e:mting points of excellence,' says St.eve,
who has developed 30 properties since launch-
ing Rigby & Rigby in 2006.Well-funded and
financially secure, his company forms part of the
Rigby Group, which is currently the 13th largest
pmate business in Britain (having been founded
with an initial cash investment of 2,<:XYJ in 1975
by Steves father, Sir Peter, who is reputedly now
worth 480 roillion).
Rigbys staff include planning specialists,
architeclS, quantity surveyors, project manag-
'The client was lookingfor a
retreat-cum-resort feel - at once
opulent and practical for a family
with five children. The brief-
and budget- were
uncompromising'
ttal plinth separating the formal dining and seat-
ing areas.A 'toast and tea kitchen' is supplemented
by a proper catering number oogether with 'back
of house' staff accommodation.
As a full turnkey scheme, the property has been
dressed down to the bed linen, accessories and
decorative artwork. Th.e final phase would have
seen Karen helping the client curate a collection
of fine art; but in fact the latter has been loaned
from the King5 Road Gallery, because just as this
ers and, unusually, an in-house building team of
30-plus workers. 'At this level, none of Steven's
competitors run their own builds,' says Karen,
who delights in 'working with a partner that does
not subcontract; there are none of the headaches
as50Ciated with snagging or missed deadlines and
the quality is unrivalled.' Karen and Steve agree:
'it's unusual in this day and age to be able to
collaborate with a team that shares the same core
ethics.As Howes & Rigby we can offer clients a
full portfolio of seamless services - from search
and acquisition to planning, design and build
and decoration - that are all delivered in-house.
Our clients, who typically spend between 400
and JXJ per sq ft, appreciate the benefits of
dealing with a n ~ p shop.They don't need
to ask at what stage the architect finishes and the
interior designer starts, and there is no question of
duplicating fees. By providing a singie quota-
tion and working to a single conttact we aim to
make a potentially bewildering proces5 fun - and
financially transparent'
For more details, ring 020 7581 8270, amtad ir!fo@
howesandrigby.ann, "'vi.sit WWlhowesandrigby.ann
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The Society for the Protection
of Ancient Buildings
is a charity that helps care for our historic
environment by training young architects
and craftspeople and advising on building
repairs. For more than 125 years it has
helped save countless beautiful buildings.
Information about maintaining your home is available through
events, courses and lectures. Members receive a quarterly
magazine and list of historic properties in need of repair and
for sale. Annual membership is 36.
www.spab.org.uk 020 7377 1644
A charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England & Wales.
Company no: 5743962 Charity No: 1113753
37 Spital Square, London E1 6DY
A horse, a horse, lllY kingdolll and a horse
Claire Pilton rides out in search of stable accommodation for horses and their owners
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West.on Lawns Equitation Centre was
established 20 years ago and funns part of
a 2-53-acre 'multi-purpose' property at
Bulkington, near Coventry, Warwickshire.
For sale through Strutt & Parlrer (01858
433123),West.on Lawns Farm comprises
a diverse mix of residential, commercial,
equestrian and many
of which are currently let t.o the tune of
100,000-plus per annum. The equestrian
centre, which has an annual turnover in
excess of 500,000, is well known fur
hosting British Dr=ge regional finals,
British Event Team Training, Horse of the
Year Show Show-jumping Qualifien
and BSJA events.There are two main
competition arenas, a Vl'3I'D'l-up arena and
outdoor manege, a clubhouse with a
viewing gallery. rack shop and care, and
temporary stabling for up to 90 horses in
addition t.o 57 permanent boxes.The
fannhouse and ancillary residential prop-
erty totals over 6,SOOsq fr. Complete with a
fishery business and 200 acres of productive
in-hand farmland, this succesmu holding
reins in at 3,995,000.
Eight miles .ftom Colchester at WH1IB
COLNE, Essex, Carter Jonas (01787
888622) is instructed on a six-bedroom
Regency-:ftrmted farmhouse that t:omes with
a professionally e,quipped stable yard and
seven acres of paddocks. Home w Andrew
Schofield and Amie Stack - who rompete
on the amateur drr:uit - and their eight
show jumpers and show horses, the yard has
nine boxes, a latge hay !feed barn, tack room,
solarium and u.ush-down area, a five-horse
milker and a 50 x 3lft.fibre-sand arena.
It also enjuys direct access onto 80 miles of
farm ride.s.Yoursfor 1. 75 million.
Best known as 'Little Cheltenham' , the at Maisemore Park costs 2.6 million through Knight Frank (020 7861
1093). Setin approximatcl:y 105 acres, the Grade II-listed house was built
in 1810 and has seven bedrooms, while the neighbouring yard pl'O'Yides
11 stililes, a tack room, hay stores and kcnnek.The current owners have
until recently tzainecl hemes here, where f3cilities include a horse walker,
manegc and several paddocks, one of which serves as a half-mile gallop.
are hosted on the property's vecy own point--to-
point comse; totally Bat and exiremely popular with owners and tr.liners,
it evai has a pre-parade paddock and winners' enclosure. Occupying
an elc:v.it.ed positipn in the Severn v..Ie that affimls views of Glouces-
away), the Cotswolds and the M2lvcm Hills,
Accotdiog to its Grade ll listing. is 'the best example of training. The 45-stable yard comes with a three-bedroom ttainer's
house and head lad's Bat; the owner gets a magnificent twelve-bedroom
mamion. Purportedly owned byTony Ryan of airline fume, Sefton
Lodge W2I mazkeu:d fur 3.5 million five yeaxs ago and has been
relaunched by Jackson-Stops & Staff(01638 662231) ror 2.95 million.
of a 19th-century hone-racing eablishment in Newnmket designed
to accommodate and train only the hones bdonging to the resident
cwnel. Buih in 1872 fur the recotd-breaking q Lefevre, it w.is latterly
~ ro David Loder, who brought home 45 winners in his t ~
Set within 132 acres in the heart of the South
Downs National Park, this late 19th-century
property at Graflham has 41 acres of paddocks that
incorporate an all-weather manCge, an =cise track
and a polo ground The woodland has previously
been the basis for a cross-country course,andAm-
bersham Common can be directly accessed. First-
clas<> equine accommodation includes six stables,
two foaling boxes, a g box (with hot water
and infra-red hearers), a feed store, hay barn and four
mobile st3bles. Complete with two cottages that are
close to the main eight-bedroom house, Sotheby's
International (01932 860537) is seeking 8 million.
Set in at area of Outstanding
Natural Beauty near F1imweU,
East Sussex, the 12th-r.entury
COMBWEIL PRIORY c.om-
prises a Grade II-listed house with
eight bedrooms, a cottage and fine
eq_uestrian facilities- namely, tiw
barns with 10 and 16 loose baxes
and tiw tack rooms apiere, six foaling
stallion baxes, three covered pens, three
Dutch barns, an indoor riding school
and a dressage-size outdoor sand
manege. The 77-acre estate is on the
market through Savills (020 7016
3789)for 3 million.
Those who aspire to create their own stud and training establishment,
together with an ever so privately located, newly built country seat
should contact Bidwclls (01223 559352), which is quoting 4 million
fur the opportunity. Five miles from the headquarters of thoroughbred
racing at Newmarket, Widgbam Parle. originally formed part of the
Middle Parle Stud, providing the base for many notable winners, includ-
ing User Friendly.Tuday it offers 210 acres of d divided into
paddocks, a 10.5-furlong all-weather gallop and five-furlong uphill gm;
gallop (both in need of repair), 114 acres of woodland and planning
consent for a 22,SOOsq fi: mansion holl'ie.
AM ALTHEA
Anahita Property Sales
T. + 230 402 2246 - info@anahitaproperty.com
www.anahitaproperty.com
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Offering luxury and high quality at prices unimaginable a few years ago, The White Angel is a new
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Price of a beer: ....................................... All-inclusive
Most ordered item at the rest aurant: ............ ..
Cantaloupe and Caribbean lobster salad
Complimentary toiletries: ....... Rosewood sun
lotion and sunglasses cleaner
Open to nonresidents: ............................................ .No
What the waitresses wear: ........ Khaki shorts,
polo shirts and handmade palm sunhats
Host: Jimmy Abraham (time in job: three years)
Distance from hotel to pool side: 80 metres
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Swim at: Casadelmar
Route de Piccovagia. 20538 Porto-Vecchi o. France.
0033 495 723 434, casadelmar.fr
Pool size: ................................................... .175 sq metres
Towel size: ............................................ 200cm x lOOcrn
Pool temperature in July: .............................. .28C
Volume of sun loungers: ..... 26 standard beds
Most ordered cocktail: ....................... Mojito, 18
Price of a beer: ................................................................. 7
Open to nonresidents? ................... Yes, but only
to the bar - no fee required
Host: Olivier Chotard (time in job: eight years)
Distance from hotel to pool side: ........................ .

HONDA
T he Power of Dreams
Nerds. That's us. Excited
by every l ittle piece of
technology we create.
Take our new 1.6 diesel
engine. It's the stuff nerds'
dreams are made of. But
not everyone's a nerd.
Which is why we put our
new engine in the Civic.
So that more people like
you can enjoy it. That's
The Honda Way, after
all. We don't just make
things. We make things
for people.
New Civic 1.6 Diesel
78.5 miles per
gallon combined
120 PS of turbo-
charged power
94g of co2
per kilometre
0 road tax
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Fuel consumption for the Civic 1.6 i-DTEC range in mpg (l/100km): Urban Cycle 70.6 (4.0),
Extra Urban 85.6 (3.3), Combined 78.5 (3.6). C0
2
emissions 94g/km.
Model shown: Civic 1.6 i-DTEC SE Manual in optional Alabaster Silver Motalloc at 20,075 On The Road.