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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Sunak’s bold climate plan? Wait until 2047 – then push the panic button

Rishi Sunak on a visit to Writtle University College near Chelmsford, Essex, after his BBC Radio 4 interview. Photograph: WPA/Getty Images
Riśi Sūnac on a vizit t Ritl Yṇvrṣti Colij nir Ć̣lmzfd, Esix, aftr hiz BBC Redio 4 inṭvy. Foṭgraf: WPA/Geti Iṃjz

Sūnac’s bold clîṃtplan? Wêt untl 2047 – ɖen pś ɖ panicbutn

Transcription of a Guardian article of 21 September 2023

Clos t imploźn on Redio 4, ɖ PM insists t Nic Robinsn ɖt h z nt wōṭrñ enʈñ dǎn. Īvn ɖo h z

John Crace
Jon Crês

21 Sptmbr 2023

A  nît’s slīp hd dn nʈñ fr Riśi Sūnac’s mūd. Ɖ prîm̦inistr dslîcs biyñ ćalinjd at ɖ bst v tîmz. H hz ɖ intîtld dmīnr v smwn cnvinst v hiz ǒn briłns. A poḷtiśn fr hūm ɖ îdīa v gtñ smʈñ roñ z a caṭgri err. Hu c’nt unḍstand ẃ enwn mt qsćn him. H’z rît bcz h’z olwz rît. A man nt pron t slf-rflex́n or slf-dǎt. N nǎ h hd t fes ɖ BBC’z Nic Robinsn in a 20-minit inṭvy on ɖ Tde program t dfnd hiz clîṃtcrîsis spīć. Ɖ last ʈñ h wontd t d.

Robinsn bgan bî obzrvñ ɖe wr sitñ in ɖ Ʈaćr Rūm at Dǎnñ Strīt n ɖt Marġrit Ʈaćr hd tecn clîṃtćenj vri sirịsli. Sūnac mnẃl hd ćozn nt t g t ɖ Ynîtd Neśnz jenṛl asmbli n wz bizi wōṭrñ dǎn ɖ YC’z eḟts t combat globl hītñ.

Olmst imīɉtli y cd hír ɖ iṛteśn in Sūnac’s vôs az h bgan t tōc ovr Robinsn. H wz’nt wōṭrñ enʈñ dǎn. H hd md ɖt clir. Ẃ dd’nt evrwn jst lisn t ẃt h hd sd? Mor t ɖ pônt, ẃ dd’nt evrwn jst tec him at hiz wrd instd v picñ houlz? N ẃ wr’nt mor ppl gretfl fr ẃt h hd bn dwñ fr ɖm. Hel, h wrct loñ aurz on ol ɖs stuf – ɖr wr tîmz ẃn h bérli sw hiz faṃli – n ɖ līst ɖ cuntri cd d wz luv him fr it. In a fẹrr wrld, h wd hv bn gvn a medl.

Ɖz wr ɖ nuts n bolts. Ʈaćr hd bn rît t wuri abt clîṃtćenj. H tù wurid abt clîṃtćenj. Jst nt so mć. Bcz ɖ difṛns btwn hr n him wz ɖt h hd boɖrd t cm p wɖ a propr plan. Or rɖr ɖ lūṇtics n wirdoz on ɖ rît v ɖ Cnsrṿtiv parti hd cm p wɖ sm sjsćnz ɖt h hd adoptd.

N hir wz ɖ ʈñ. H, ɖ Gret RiśJPT, hd cm p wɖ ɖ bold n, f h mt se so himslf, xtrimli brev îdīa ɖt ɖ cuntri cd hv its cec n īt it. Yes, h ń ɖs mt nt b popylr – ɖ dsoṇsti mītr flicrd of ɖ scel at ɖs pônt – bt h hd wrct ǎt ɖt ɖ YC cd mīt its net-ziro targits bî nt mītñ its net-ziro targits.

Briłnt. Ẃt evrwn hd t riylîz wz ɖr wz no riyl pônt in gtñ tù wrct p abt 2050 targits in ɖ śort n mīdịm trm. Mć ɖ bst ʈñ wz t wêt untl abt 2047 n panic. N f ɖ sayntists hd’nt cm p wɖ sm planit-sevñ tecnoḷji bî ɖen, w’d ol b ded enwe. So no harm dn. Bst t liv n let liv nǎ n nt wuri tù mć.

Bsdz ẃć, ɖ YC wz wel ahd v ɖ rest v ɖ wrld in dcarḅnîzñ, so w wd b dwñ uɖr cuntriz a fevr f w sloud dǎn a bit. W dd’nt wont ɖm t gt disiluźnd or t ʈnc ɖe wd nvr b ebl t cać p. W oud it nt jst t ɖ planit bt t ɖ Frenć n Jrmnz az wel f w bact of a bit. Ɖ frst tîm Riś! hz faund eni poẓtivz in alînñ wɖ ɖ YY post-Brexit. Mostli, ɖo, ppl jst hd t b’liv ɖt y cd wōtr dǎn yr cmitmnts wɖt wōṭrñ dǎn yr cmitmnts.

Robinsn clirli dd’nt axpt a wrd v ɖs n cept presñ Sūnac on ɖ śir siṇsizm v ɖ dublʈnc involvd. It wd īvn hv bn tù mć fr ɖ 1984 oʈr, Jorj Orwél, or TV p’liticl satîr Ɖ Ʈic v It. Ɖs wz ol nonsns, ɖ prizntr sd. Ɖ YN wz hoṛfaid bî ẃt ɖ YC guvnmnt wz dwñ, n ɖ Clîṃtćenj Cmiti wz aḍmnt w wd’nt b ebl t mīt ǎr net-ziro targits wɖ ɖ ćenj v d’rex́n.

Bî nǎ ɖ incrisñli ʈin-scind Riś! wz on ɖ brinc v imploźn. F h sd w cd d ẃt w lîct wɖ carz n bôlrz bfr 2035 ɖen w cd d ẃt w lîct. OC? Ppl hd got ɖ clîṃt-dbet ol roñ bî setñ arbitrri targits. Ẃt ɖ planit hd t riylîz wz ɖt it nīdd nt t hīt p so fast f it wontd t svîv. Ɖ planit hd jst got tù big fr its būts. Tù slf-importnt. Tîm fr it t lisn t Britiś carz n bôlrz. Boncrz.

“I mc no apoḷjiz fr trayñ a ny tîp v poḷtics,” Sūnac sd. Wn ɖt wz rmarcbli similr t ɖ old wn ẃr y tel ci votrz prisîsli ɖ ʈñz y wont t hír. N gt luvbomd fr yr līdrśp. W wr on ɖ brinc v a ny ira. Wn ẃr oṇsti cd trîumf. Ẃr ɖ guvnmnt wd mc no pritns ɖt it wz layñ t y.

Bî nǎ, Robo cd bérli cnten himslf. Oṇsti? It wz ol a priilex́n con. Ɖt’s ẃ ɖ Toriz hd snt ǎt atac̦ardz minits aftr ɖ spīć. Onli ɖe hd promist t abandn grīn poḷsiz sć az ɖ Sevn Dedli Binz, a mìțax n carśẹrñ ɖt hd nvr xistd. Nr wr evr gwñ t xist.

Ɖt’s nt tru, sd Riś!, ɖ nezl drōl ramt p an octev. Ɖe mt hv xistd so ɖrfr ɖe in a sns xistd. N ẃl h wz abt it h wz gwñ t ban ppl fṛm cilñ ɖer granpeṛnts f ɖe bcem il. Hd Lebr promist ɖt? No! Ɖrfr Lebr wz on ɖ sîd v cilñ old ppl. Ẃt dd Cir Starmr hv t se abt ɖt?

Si m! Fīl m! Tuć m! Sūnac cd’nt hlp himslf. Ɖ lac v rspct, ɖ lac v luv wz unbeṛbl. H wz ɖ lît. H wz ɖ we. Ẃ wz nwn tōcñ abt ẃt h hd dn fr smōl bots n infleśn? Bt h wz undōntd. H wd b onist wɖ ɖ cuntri. Rɖr implayñ ɖt h hd’nt bn p tl nǎ. N fgetñ h’z jst ɖ last in a lîn v fîv Tori prîm̦inistrz hu hv holoud ǎt ɖ cuntri. Ɖ onli oṇsti w wd b siyñ wd b scin-dīp. Ɖ desṗreśn t se n d enʈñ t hold on t pǎr.

Ɖ inṭvy endd wɖ Sūnac slipñ awe t d frɖr mīdịslots. “Y’l b gwñ bî car,” Robinsn sd. Riś! śrugd. Heḷcoptr mor lîcli. Start az y mīn t cari on. Brn, bebi, brn.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: One of Tories’ biggest ever donors profited from £135m of NHS contracts

Frank Hester’s company, TPP, paid out more than £20m in dividends over four years between 2019 and 2022, with Hester the only shareholder. Photograph: TPP/YouTube
Franc Hstr’z cumṗni, TPP, peid ǎt mor ɖn £20m in diṿdndz ovr for yirz btwn 2019 n 2022, wɖ Hstr ɖ onli śerholdr. Foṭgraf: TPP/YTyb

Wn v ɖ Toriz’ bigist evr donrz proḟtd fṛm £135m v NHS contracts

Transcription of a Guardian article of 20 September 2023

Xclūsiv: Franc Hstr, hu gev Riśi Sūnac’s parti £5m ɖs sumr, z ʈt t hv md hyj sumz fṛm DHSC contracts

Rowena Mason, Whitehall Editor
Roīna Mesn, Ẃîthōl Editr

Wnzde, 20 Sptmbr 2023

Wn v ɖ Cnsrṿtivz’ bigist evr donrz hz proḟtd fṛm £135m v contracts wɖ ɖ Dpartmnt v Hlʈ n Sośl Cer in undr for yirz.

Franc Hstr, a hlʈcer téc ontṛpṛnŕ huz cumṗni s’plîz cmpytrsistmz t ɖ NHS, gev Riśi Sūnac’s parti £5m ɖs sumr – ɖ jônt bigist dneśn t ɖ Toriz in decedz.

Hiz cumṗni, ɖ Fīnix Partnrśp (TPP), peid ǎt mor ɖn £20m in diṿdndz btwn 2019 n 2022, wɖ Hstr ɖ onli śerholdr.

Ɖ grūp s’plîz softwér t abt 2,700 JP srɉriz in Ñgḷnd az wel az s’portsrṿsz t alǎ ɖm t hold medicl recordz fr peśnts ilectronicli.

Its mn oṗretñcumṗni, ɖ Fīnix Partnrśp (Lìdz), rcordd a trnovr v £75m, wɖ profit bfr tax v £47m in ɖ yir t Marć 2022, Cumṗnizhǎs dokmnts śo. It peid diṿdndz jrñ ɖ yir v £10m t its peṛntcumṗni, ẃć z ultiṃtli ǒnd bî Hstr, n a saḷri v £515,000 t him, its sol d’rectr.

Ovr a pirịd v for yirz fṛm 2019 t 2022, ɖ ultiṃt peṛntcumṗni, TPP Grūp, peid ǎt £23.5m in diṿdndz, ẃć apir t hv gn t Hstr az its onli śerholdr.

Contracts wɖ ɖ Dpartmnt fr Hlʈ n Sośl Cer apir t mc p a larj pṛporśn v TPP’z biznis. TPP sd it dd nt wś t coment ẃn asct abt its biznis wɖ ɖ NHS, n ẃɖr ol ɖ diṿdndz wr peid t Hstr.

Last yir, Hstr rout an opn letr t ɖ NHS seyñ: “W r hir fr ǎr NHS. W r hir t hlp. Nt t drîv profits fr śerholdrz, or t grīs rvolvñdorz. Let’s d it fr ɖ fruntlîn n ćūz t diɉtîz in an intîrli difṛnt we.”

Ɖ scel v biznis ɖt Hstr n TPP hz wɖ ɖ NHS wz uncuvrd bî ɖ Gd Lw Project, ẃć faund pemnts toṭlñ £137m t ɖ cumṗni sins ɖ start v ɖ Covid pandemic in Epril 2020, larjli undr ɖ JP IT Fyćrz fremwrc.

Jo Mōm, ɖ d’rectr v ɖ Gd Lw Project, sd: “Wns y si hǎ mć Mr Hstr gts fṛm an NHS ɖt z despṛtli starvd v muni, y cn unḍstand ẃ h z so cmitd t ɖ guvnmnt ɖt lets him.”

Hstr, a cmpytrprogramr fṛm Lìdz, z listd on ɖ Súnde Tîmz Rić List wɖ an esṭmetd wlʈ v £415m. H wz md an OBE in 2015 fr srṿsz t hlʈcer. TPP hz met guvnmntfigrz ʈri tîmz sins Jlî 2021, includñ Stīv Barcli, ɖ hlʈsecṛtri.

Raitñ in ɖ Teḷgraf ɖs munʈ, ẃn h md hiz £5m dneśn, Hstr sd h wz dnetñ t Sūnac’s parti bcz h b’livz it cn dlivr fr ɖ NHS.

“Az a biznismn fṛm Yorx́r I hv bn forćṇt inuf t hv met ɖ prîm̦inistr. H śerz mî paśn fr harṇsñ ɖ deṭreṿluśn t trnsform ɖ we w az sitiznz axes hlʈcer,” h rout.

“Arṭfiśl intelijns hz ɖ abiḷti t c’lect, stor n aṇlîz peśntdeta in a we ɖt cd reṿluśnîz dạgnostics, îdnṭfayñ, fr xampl, ẃɖr smwn z mor at risc fṛm cansr or dmnśa. R’botics cn hlp miṇmîz invesiv pṛsijrz, mīnñ les trōma fr peśnts n spīdñ p rcuṿritîmz.”

Rlịr ɖs yir, it wz rportd ɖt TPP wz awordd a £150,000 contract wɖ ɖ YC Hlʈ n S’kṛti Ejnsi abt sevn munʈs bfr ɖ cumṗni gev a £150,000 dneśn t ɖ Cnsrṿtivz. A c’rex́n wz lêtr iśùd t se ɖ dneśn cem fṛm Hstr rɖr ɖn ɖ cumṗni.

At ɖ tîm, ɖ cumṗni sd: “TPP stricli foloz ɖ gîdlînz fr public-sectr cntractñ. In rgardz t ɖ dneśnz, ɖz śd hv bn md bî Franc Hstr in hiz prsnl cpaṣti rɖr ɖn ʈru ɖ biznis. Mr Hstr rpeid ɖ cumṗni in fl. Fr abṣlut claṛti, TPP z uniqivcli êṗliticl.”

Ɖ cumṗni hz rmend reḷtivli lo-profîl az a s’playr t ɖ NHS. Hvr, it wz ɖ subjict v cntrovsi in 2018 ẃn TPP feld t inform NHS Dijitl ɖt 150,000 peśnts hd optd ǎt v śẹrñ ɖer medicl deta, rzultñ in ɖer inḟmeśn biyñ śerd bî mstec.

At ɖ tîm, Jaci Dôl-Prîs, a hlʈministr, dscrîbd it az a “s’playrdīfect in ɖ prosesñ v historicl peśnt objx́nz t ɖ śẹrñ v ɖer conḟdnśl hlʈdeta”.

Ś sd TPP hd “apoḷjîzd unrizrvidli fr its rǒl in ɖs matr n hz cmitd t wrc wɖ NHS Dijitl so ɖt errz v ɖs nećr d nt ocŕ agn”. Ɖ guvnmnt strest ɖr hd nt bn eni risc t peśntcer.

TPP dclînd t coment abt ɖ scel v its biznis wɖ ɖ NHS. Ɖ Dpartmnt v Hlʈ n Sośl Cer wz olso aproćt fr coment.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

In Ñspel: The Guardian view on political portraiture: putting faces to history

David Harewood with his photographic portrait by Ashley Karrell in Harewood House, Leeds. Photograph: Ashley Karrell/PA
Devid Herwŭd wɖ hiz fotgrafic portrit bî Aśli Caṛl in Herwŭd Hǎs, Lìdz. Foṭgraf: Aśli Caṛl/PA

Ɖ Gardịn vy on p’liticl portrićr: ptñ fesz t hisṭri

Transcription of a Gardian editorial of 8 September 2023

Ɖ motivz bhnd ny picćrz v ɖ formr prîm̦inistr T’rīza Me n ɖ actr Devid Herwŭd me b difṛnt, bt bʈ yz art t srv repyteśn

Frîde, 8 Sptmbr 2023

Tū portrits, tū vri difṛnt storiz v Britn. Saied Dai’z pentñ v T’rīza Me, unveild ɖs wīc, z ɖ lêtist xampl v ẃt hz bcm a standd onr fr formr prîm̦inistrz, az mć part v ɖ afṭmaʈ v pǎr az afṭdinr spīćz n a s’kṛtitīm. Mnẃl at Herwŭd Hǎs in Wst Yorx́r, a fremd portrit v ɖ actr Devid Herwŭd bî ɖ ftogṛfr Aśli Caṛl hz gn on vy. Mr Herwŭd’z ansestrz wrct az inslevd ppl on a śŭgrplanteśn ǒnd bî ɖ secnd Rl v Herwŭd, Hnri Lascelles. F ɖ formr PM’z portrit cnfrmz ɖ old ordr, Mr Herwŭd’z qsćnz it.

Yt bʈ portrits olso pruv ɖt w’v nvr bn mor paśṇt n ingejd wɖ ɖs enćnt artform. Ẃt’s in a pentd or foṭgraft fes? A lījn v cntstd valyz n hisṭriz. Onli a fy yirz ago, portrićr wz sìn bî ɖ cogṇsenti az a sili old źãra, v inṭrest onli t corpṛtbosz. Tde it cn sīm ɖt evri ny portrit z nyz, mnli fr its p’liticl n sośl mīnñ. Ɖ rioṗnñ v ɖ Naśnl Portritgaḷri hz bn ɖ artistic ivnt v ɖ yir, its dsplez ptñ ny n marjiṇlîzd fesz intu ɖ naśnl stori. Nr z ɖs an xclusivli Britiś obseśn. Americn artists sć az Cehinde Wîli n Emi Śeṛld r yzñ portrićr t trnsform repriznteśnz v rês n îdntti.

Tde’z portritmeńa homz in on ɖ most cnsrṿtiv n cnvnśnl aspect v portrićr: its psivd eņoḅlñ v ɖ sitr. Ɖ picćrz v Mr Herwŭd n Msz Me hv ɖs in comn, īvn ɖo ɖe pt vri difṛnt twists on it. Ɖt z ɖ mesij v ɖs wīc’s tū ofiśl unveilñz. Ẃl Msz Me jônz ɖ guvnmnt art-c’lex́n, Mr Herwŭd infltrets ɖ Jorjn stetli hom bilt on hiz faṃli’z forst lebr. Artistic portrićr z ɖ oṗzit v a slfi: evrʈñ abt it z forml n imfatic, nt caźl at ol. Ɖt signiḟceśn v steṭs n onr hz nǎ bcm ẃt inṭrests artists n ɖ public alîc. Hvñ yr portrit in a public ples or c’lex́n hz bcm a pǎrfl, simbolic act.

Yt ɖ risc in ǎr obseśn wɖ ɖ poḷtics v portrićr – cnsrṿtiv or radicl – z ɖt ɖ artistic qoḷti v an imij bérli matrz. Ɖ ny portrits bʈ gt hî marcs fr recgnîẓbiḷti bt, bynd ɖt, wl îɖr b rmembrd az art? Ɖ srj v inṭrest in ɖ cntmprri mīnñ v portrićr mcs s fget ɖt it cn olso b a nuanst n mstirịs art, huz mīnñz r mć hardr t xplen or xōst.

Gret artists fṛm Titian t Lūśn Freud tc portrićr t strenj, poetic hîts. Bt it’s hard t si eni ny Freudz amñ tde’z portritists. It z a bitr îṛni ɖt stydnts wr dscurijd fr decedz fṛm tecñ pentñ sirịsli, bfr faśn ćenjd. Nǎ ɖr’z a rej fr pentñz, bt a śalo reẓvwar v ɖ rqîrd scilz.

Portrićr śd’nt b a ćīp we t mc a pônt. Devid Lascelles, etʈ Rl v Herwŭd, cmiśnd a foṭgraf v Mr Herwŭd, rɖr ɖn gtñ a top pentr at top muni. Y wd ʈnc h mt aford a mor ambiśs wrc v art gvn h md £5.7m last yir simpli fṛm selñ wn Veronese fṛm hiz faṃli c’lex́n. Z ɖs bargin resttyśn? F w riyli wont t ćenj ɖ fesz v Britn, w nīd t fînd n nrćr gret portritists, hu cn pent ɖ truʈ fr ol tîm, nt jst a hedlîn.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: ‘A polite beige consensus’: are these really Britain’s best new buildings?

Homogenous … from left: Central Somers Town Community Facilities and Housing by Adam Khan Architects centre; Faculty of Arts building, Warwick University by Fielden Clegg Bradley; and Lavender Hill Courtyard, London by Sergison Bates architects. Composite: Johan Dehlin, Hufton + Crow, David Grandorge
Hmojṇs … fṛm left: Sntṛl Somrz Tǎn Cḿṇti-Fsiḷtiz n Hǎzñ bî Adm Cān Arc̣tecs sntr; Faclti v Arts bildñ, Woric Yṇvrṣti bî Fīldn Cleg Bradli; n Lavndr Hil Cortyard, Lundn, bî Srgisn Bêts arc̣tecs. Comṗzit: Johan Dehlin, Huftn + Cro, Devid Grandorj

‘A p’lît bêź cnsnss’: r ɖz riyli Britn’z bst ny bildñz?

Transcription of a Guardian article of 6 September 2023

Ɖ six noṃnīz fr ɖ 2023 RIBA Strlñ-Prîz śortlist r testfl n wel md – bt a gret mni qrci bildñz wɖ a sns v fun hv bn oṿlct

Oliver Wainwright
Olivr Wênrait

Wnzde, 6 Sptmbr 2023

D  y lîc yr brics in red, brǎn or gre? N d y prifŕ yr bildñz in norʈ, sǎʈ or īst Lundn? Ɖoz r sm v ɖ liṃtd ćôsz fesñ ɖ jujz v ɖs yir’z RIBA Strlñ prîz fr ɖ cuntri’z bst bildñ, in wn v ɖ most hmojṇs n metrosntric śortlists in ɖ aword’z 27-yir hisṭri.

Lcñ at ɖ six cntndrz, y wd b fgivn fr ʈncñ Britiś arc̣tecćr hd cnvrjd intu a p’lît bêź cnsnss. Ɖr z a nīt gre-bric-cortyard hǎzñscīm in Clapm, impecbli dīteld bî Srgisn Bêts arc̣tecs. A bit frɖr īst, in Blachīʈ, z an elignt dêsntr fr oldr ppl bî Mae arc̣tecs, ćaṇlñ Scanḍnevịn vîbz wɖ timbr n rusti-brǎn bric. T ɖ norʈ, in Somrz Tǎn, Adm Cān’z hǎzñ n ćildṛn’z sntr standz az a jōnti redbric casl, ẃl on ɖ bancs v ɖ Tmz, Wiɖḟd Wotsn Mán hz xpozd ɖ crumbli 18ʈ-snć̣ri bric vōlts v ɖ Cortold Insttyt v Art, in a mtikḷs wrc v inviẓbl mndñ.

Invisible mending … Witherford Watson Mann Architects transformation of the Courtauld Institute of Art. Photograph: Philip Vile
Inviẓbl mndñ … Wiɖḟd Wotsn Mán Arc̣tecs transfmeśn v ɖ Cortold Insttyt v Art. Foṭgraf: Filip Vîl

Bucñ ɖ trend fr bect cle, n lcetd ǎt in ɖ wîldz v Lundn Unḍgrǎnd’z zon 4, z a concrīt liv-wrc bloc fr artists in Barcñ, dzînd bî Aṗrata arc̣tecs. It terz p ɖ standd hǎzñ rūl-bc v darc coṛdorz n mīn windoz n ofrz a radicl, adaptbl oltrṇtiv. N fîṇli, Fīldn Cleg Bradli Stydioz entrz ɖ rñ wɖ a musklr teṛcota tīćñbloc fr ɖ Yṇvrṣti v Woric’s faclti v arts – ɖ onli project ǎtsd ɖ capitl.

Ɖz r ol gd bildñz, fr śr, bt ɖe repriznt a naro vy v ẃt ɖ bst arc̣tecćr in ɖ YC cn lc lîc, n ẃr it cn b faund. Ɖ Strlñ śortlist z drwn p in an opec proses bî ɖ Royl Insttyt v Britiś Arc̣tecs awordzgrūp, ẃć pics ɖ six cntndrz fṛm ɖ winrz v ɖ 30 naśnl awordz – ẃć it olso s’lects fṛm ɖ 130-plus rījnl awordz. Bt ɖ rījnl jriz ofn si ɖer opińnz trampld. Ɖs yir, sevn v ɖ 10 rījnl winrz in Ñgḷnd feld t b rec̣gnîzd in ɖ naśnl awordz, n so hd no hop v biyñ cnsidrd fr ɖ top goñ.

Amñ ɖm wz Īst Cì in Woćit, a ramḅlñ, rambuncćs artșntr on ɖ cǒst v Suṃsét, dzînd bî Inviẓbl Stydio. Drivn bî an indomitbl grūp v locl wimin, it z a fun-fild pîraticl incampmnt v topsi-trvi cntenrz, hǎzñ gaḷriz, stydioz n qrci hoḷde’acoṃdeśn. It z loc̣li ćeriśt, n scūpt Sǎʈ Wst bildñ v ɖ yir, bt it wz clirli tù mć t stuṃc fr ɖ RIBA’z bric-luvñ naśnl cmiti.

Similrli impresiv wz F51, an adreṇlin-fyld vrticl scetparc in Fôcstn dzînd bî Hoḷwe Stydio. It z a bold arîvl t ɖ tǎn, standñ az a fyć̣ristic aḷmińm arc puñćuetd bî trîanğlr windoz, cntenñ a multistōri stac v undyletñ timbr florz n bilowñ concrīt bolz fr scetñ, scūtñ n BMXñ. It wún ɖ Sǎʈ Īst aword – prezd bî ɖ jujz fr its “xpśnl craftsmnśp in pṛvîdñ a spes fr nrć̣rñ yuñ ppl” – bt wz olso dnaid a naśnl goñ. It wz clirli hvñ tù mć fun.

So, ẃć v ɖs yir’z mor pôfest śortlistd bildñz wl win ǎt?

Familiar tropes … the faculty of arts building at Warwick University by Fielden Clegg Bradley. Photograph: Hufton + Crow
Fmiłr trǒps … ɖ faclti v arts bildñ at Woric Yṇvrṣti bî Fīldn Cleg Bradli. Foṭgraf: Huftn + Cro

Ɖ rfînd Cortold project, bî prīvịs Strlñ winrz Wiɖḟd Wotsn Mán, sīmz ɖ līst lîcli t trîumf. “On frst glans,” ɖ RIBA sáiteśn admits, “ɖ jri strugld t unḍstand ẃt ɖ arc̣tecs hd dn, az mć v it z imnsli sutl.” Ɖ Obzrvr hedlîn wz mor blunt: “Hǎ t spend tnz v miłnz wɖt enwn mć noṭsñ”. Ɖ transfmeśn hz bn wel dn, oṗnñ p lost spesz, ri’lînñ florz n crietñ ny cnx́nz, bt ɖr r a fy cluncs n míst oṗtyṇtiz ɖt mcs it fōl śort v ɖ bst in its clas.

Woric’s arts faclti z a būn t ɖ yṇvrṣti, brññ ol ɖ dpartmnts tgɖr undr wn rūf fr ɖ frst tîm, bt it z nt a landmarc momnt in ɖ īvluśn v Britiś arc̣tecćr. It fīćrz fmiłr edyceśnl bildñtrǒps v rīsnt yirz, sć az a big wŭdn sterces wɖ sītñ ɖt snecs its we ʈru an etrịm, alñ wɖ wîd landñz fr soṣ́bl incǎntrz fosṭrñ “c’laḅreśn n crospoḷneśn”. It z fînli dn bt larjli unrimarcbl.

In a similr caṭgri z ɖ prîṿt hǎzñ in Clapm. Y cn olmst fīl hǎ mni śêdz v ćōcigre bric ɖ arc̣tecs mst hv fretd ovr, n ɖ xqizit aġni v s’lectñ ɖ rît ton v bêź fr ɖ wŭdwrc. It z an intelijnt ys v a cnstrend, land-loct sait, sqizñ in nîn flats arnd a cortyard, bt ɖr z a fynirịl fīlñ abt it.

It z gwñ t b tuf t ćūz btwn ɖ uɖr ʈri. Adm Cān’z hǎzñ n ćildṛn’z sntr z a dlîtfl adiśn t Sômrz Tǎn, adñ t ɖ eria’z rić hisṭri v public hǎzñ wɖ an xpresiv, glīḟli cmpozd hom fr an afṭscūlclub n ʈiytrćaṛti. Its arćt rūflîn līps n swūps in joys crvz, fremñ a ʈrilñ rūftop ftbōlpić, n standñ az a cartūniś crǎn fr ɖ nebrhd.

Shades of grey … Lavender Hill Courtyard in Clapham, London, by Sergison Bates architects. Photograph: Johan Dehlin
Śêdz v gre … Lavndr Hil Cortyard in Clapm, Lundn, bî Srgisn Bêts arc̣tecs. Foṭgraf: Johan Dehlin

Mae’z Jon Mordn Sntr z a tranqil oesis, cmpozd v a siriz v bric pviłnz arenjd alñ a mianḍrñ wŭdn coḷned, lîc an unrápt clôstr. Hǎzñ wrcśops, an artșpes, cafe, lîbrri n a medicl sntr fr ɖs rtîrmntcḿṇti in worm, timbr-lînd rūmz, it pṛvîdz a welcmñ soṣ́bl hub, hlpñ t tacl lonlinis n îṣleśn. Imns cer hz gn intu dītelz sć az ɖ pziśn v sītñ ncs n hǎ vyz r fremd az y progres ʈru ɖ sait.

Fîṇli, Aṗrata’z Hǎs fr Artists gvz a glims v ẃt Britiś hǎzñ cd b. Ɖ lofti, lît-fludd flats hv jenṛs balc̣nidecs on ć sîd, pṛvîdñ a soṣ́bl ǎtdor spes n clevrli crietñ an opn-er fîr iscep straṭji, iliṃnetñ ɖ nīd fr ɖ yźl glūmi, pṛtctd intrnl coṛdorz. Ɖs olso friz p ɖ homz t b adaptd n moḍfaid az nīdz ćenj, dwñ awe wɖ fixt lêǎts. On wn flor, ɖ livñrūmz cn ol b jônd p t criet a śerd spes fr colivñ, cowrcñ, ćîldcer or big partiz. It śoz ɖ tru valy ɖt sfisṭcetd spêśl ʈncñ cn brñ t a project on a liṃtd bujit – ẃć z śrli ɖ riyl scil v arc̣tecćr.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

In Ñspel: The Guardian view on Brexit borders: a slow dawning of economic reality

Cars and lorries queue at Dover. ‘The bilateral structures that might bring the UK and EU into closer political and economic alignment barely even exist.’ Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
Carz n loriz k at Dovr. ‘Ɖ bîlatṛl strucćrz ɖt mt brñ ɖ YC n YY intu closr p’liticl n ic̣nomic alînmnt bérli īvn xist.’ Foṭgraf: Gaṛʈ Fŭlr/PA

Ɖ Gardịn vy on Brexit bordrz: a slo dōnñ v ic̣nomic riaḷti

Transcription of a Gardian editorial of 3 September 2023

A patn z imrjñ v qayt ajustmnts ɖt rec̣gnîz ɖ cost v tecñ Britn ǎt v ɖ YY sngl marcit

Súnde, 3 Sptmbr 2023

Ɖ  guvnmnt, cnsiḍrñ ẃn t impoz a costli ny custmzbyrocṛsi, anǎnst last wīc ɖt nǎ z nt ɖ rît tîm. Post-Brexit ćecs on gdz enṭrñ Britn fṛm ɖ YY wr frst s’pozd t b impḷmntd in Jańri 2021. Aftr sirịl psponmnts, ɖe wr dy t bgin nxt munʈ. Nǎ it w’nt hapn bfr 2024.

Gdz muvñ in ɖ uɖr d’rex́n r olrdi subjict t custmz peprwrc, mcñ lîf dificlt fr YC xportrz n pśñ sm ǎt v biznis oltgɖr. Ministrz hv rec̣gnîzd ɖt Britiś cnsymrz n bizṇsz cd d wɖt ɖ sem penlti biyñ aplaid t imports. Ɖ guvnmnt admits ɖt importćecs wd stǒc infleśn. Ɖs z a qayt acnolijmnt ɖt frix́n btwn ɖ YC n ɖ tredñ blóc on its dorstep z a drag on ɖ icoṇmi. Bt Riśi Sūnac, ɖ prîm̦inistr, canot se so alǎd bcz ɖt wd cnsid ɖ foli v qitñ ɖ sngl marcit in ɖ frst ples.

Olso last wīc, ɖ guvnmnt agrìd t pṛtct wrcples rîts at risc v ireźr ẃn YY lw z xpunjd fṛm YC statyts. Undr YY trītipṛviźnz, wimin r intîtld t b peid ɖ sem az men dwñ iqivḷnt wrc az loñ az ɖr z a comn “sors” – a cndiśn ɖt pṛtcts implôīz v ǎtsors pṛvîdrz. Lebr hz cmitd t repḷcet ɖt pṛtx́n in YC lw n ɖ guvnmnt hz bn śemd intu plejñ ɖ sem.

Rlịr ɖs yir, it dlūtd ɖ lw ɖt wd hv sìn mni uɖr sośl pṛtx́nz ōṭmaticli xpunjd fṛm ɖ statyt-bc at ɖ end v ɖs yir. Ɖs wz a cnseśn t invstrz hu prifŕd conṭnywti v xistñ rūlz t ɖ Yrosceptic fanṭsi v a vast reğletri bonfîr.

Last munʈ, ɖ guvnmnt abandnd planz t rqîr a YC-sṗsific qoḷti’śuṛns marc fr gdz sold in Britn, recgnîzñ ɖt ɖ Yṛpiyn CE marc wl sfîs “indefiṇtli”. Ɖt wz a b’letd recgniśn ɖt xportñ bizṇsz wd nīd ɖ Yṛpiyn srtiḟceśn enwe n nn wontd ɖ adiśnl cost v a sūprflụs YCQA marc – a pôntlis simbl v holo sovṛnti.

A patn v dscrit Brexit dlūśn z imrjñ. Ć clîmdǎn cnfrmz hardlîn Yrosceptic sspiśn ɖt ɖer drīm z biyñ btreid. Mr Sūnac z còt btwn a p’liticl obḷgeśn impozd bî hiz parti t pritnd ɖt līvñ ɖ YY wz a gret aćivmnt n ɖ ic̣nomic rqîrmnt impozd bî riaḷti t paliet ɖ cost v rupćr fṛm ɖ continnt. H cn ssten ɖs lūdicṛs posćr onli bcz ɖ opziśn z cmitd t a similr cntorśn – plejñ closr proxiṃti t ɖ YY wɖt sbstanśl riinṭgreśn.

Ɖs wd b a maniɉbl probḷm f ɖ pen fṛm Brexit wr stebl or lîcli t īz. Bt ɖ oṗzit z tru. Brexit wz nt an ivnt, it set a tṛjectri. It z nt an obsṭcl t b wrct arnd, bt a cors t b c’rectd.

Ɖt wl tec tîm. Ɖ bîlatṛl strucćrz ɖt mt brñ ɖ YC n ɖ YY intu closr p’liticl n ic̣nomic alînmnt bérli īvn xist n ɖr z nt yt ɖ p’liticl wil t cunjr ɖm intu biyñ. Bt ɖ oltrṇtiv z wrsnñ ic̣nomic dbiḷteśn fr ɖ sec v a doctrin avaud bî a dwindlñ numbr v ppl. Ɖ tasit incroćmnt v riaḷti-best ʈncñ intu Mr Sūnac’s Yṛpiyn poḷsi z a welcm śift. Ɖ momnt ẃn ɖt riaḷti z xprest wɖ a fŭlr vôs canot cm tù sn.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

Fṛm Đ Obzrvr: The London art student whose Chinese political slogan mural caused a storm

Wang Hanzheng said the mural was a ‘silent reminder of the oppression of thought’ in China. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian
Wañ Hanźeñ sd ɖ ḿṛl wz a ‘sîḷnt rmîndr v ɖ opreśn v ʈt’ in Ćîna. Foṭgraf: Devid Lvīn/Ɖ Gardịn

Ɖ Lundn artstydnt huz Ćînīz p’liticl-slogn ḿṛl cōzd a storm

Transcription of an Observer article of 30 August 2023

Royl Colij v Art stydnt Wañ Hanźeñ ʈt a Bric Len wōl wz betr ɖn a gaḷri

Geneva Abdul
Jnīva Abdŭl

Wnzde, 30 Ōġst 2023

Ẃn Wañ Hanźeñ, a Ćînīz stydnt at ɖ Royl Colij v Art, atndd a grajụtśo in a wérhǎs on Bric Len in īst Lundn in Jlî, h faund ɖ spes crǎdd, unimajiṇtiv n unfit fr prizntñ art.

It wz wɖ ɖs in mînd ɖt at 11pm wn nît rlịr ɖs munʈ Wañ n a tīm v 22 uɖrz pentd a Ćînīz p’liticl slogn in bold red caṛctrz alñ a nirbî wōl strećñ nirli 100 mītrz.

Ɖ artwrc – ẃć spelt ǎt ɖ Ćînīz guvnmnt’s “soṣ́list corvalyz”, includñ ɖ wrdz pṛspeṛti, dmocṛsi n frīdm – wz dzînd t b a “sîḷnt rmîndr v ɖ opreśn v ʈt, presfrīdm n fri spīć ɖt z stl rampnt in Ćîna in 2023”, ɖ artists sd.

It pṛvoct uɖrz t gṛfīti ovr it wɖ refṛnsz t ɖ Tiaṇnmn Sqer maṣcr in 1989, n ɖ frezz “Fri Tîwan”, “Fri T’bét” n “Fri Uigrz”. Bt in a muv dscrîbd bî sm az îronicli ttaḷterịn, Tǎr Hamlits caunsl swiftli pentd ovr ɖ wōl’z mes v slognz n iśùd Wañ a £50 fîn.

“Cntmprri art z ol abt dǎtñ evrʈñ n hvñ a rbełs spirit,” sd ɖ 27-yir-old, hu olso gz bî ɖ nem Yi Ćua. In ɖt sns ɖ wrc – cnsrnd wɖ dmocṛsi, fri spīć n ɖ poḷrîzd îdioḷjiz v Ćînīz n YC culćrz – wz īvn mor s’xesfl fr him ɖn xpctd.

Activist Lydia L sprays an anti-Beijing slogan on the wall. Photograph: snapshot/Future Image/M James/Shutterstock
Acṭvist Lidia L sprez an antīBêźñ slogn on ɖ wōl. Foṭgraf: snapśot/Fyćr Imij/M Jemz/Śuṭstoc

Ɖ gṛfīti rspondñ t ɖ wrc startd apirñ wɖn aurz, smʈñ ɖt Wañ sd h welcmd. Bt it wz ɖ baclaś onlîn ɖt alarmd him. H hd a toṛnt v deʈ̓rets on sośl mīdia n hiz faṃli rsivd ʈreṭnñ cōlz at ɖer hom in Ćîna’z īstn Źeijañ provins.

“Ppl mcñ deʈ̓rets n xpresñ objx́nz ʈru vayḷnt mīnz, ɖt’s xacli śowñ ɖr’z a lūphoul in ɖ sistm v dmocṛsi alawñ ttaḷterịn forsz t xplôt ɖs lūphoul,” h sd, spīcñ in Manḍrin. “Y canot solv ɖ probḷm v ttaḷtẹrịnizm ʈru ttaḷterịn mīnz.”Ɖ wrc hz cm at a momnt ẃn YC-Ćîna rleśnz r ptiklrli strend. Last munʈ, Hoñ Coñ oʈoṛtiz ofrd a bǎnti fr ɖ arest v et oṿsìz acṭvists – ʈri v hūm r livñ in Britn – amd incrisñ cnsrnz v trnznaśnl opreśn. Ɖ foṛn secṛtri, Jemz Cleṿli, z traṿlñ t Bêźñ on Wnzde fr mītñz, in a bid t rny p’liticl daylog btwn ɖ tū neśnz.

“Art z riyli abt hǎ t rflect ẃt’s in ɖ public n gv ɖ public a spes t dscus n rflect on ɖer ǒn,” sd Wañ, hu intrpṛts ɖ slogn az poẓtiv n az reprizntñ ẃt śd b yṇvrsl valyz, nt jst ɖoz ɖ Ćînīz Coḿnist parti clemz t hold.

Az an artist, Wañ sz h z inṭrestd in xplorñ ɖ crosnaśnl pspctiv on hǎ ɖ YC n Ćîna difr îdịlojicli, n ẃr ɖe c’lîd.

In a prīvịs wrc, h plest fîv matṛsz in Pic̣dili Src̣s, oḟrñ t pe wilñ ptisipnts a minimm wej t lî dǎn in ɖ hart v sntṛl Lundn – smʈñ h b’livz wd’nt b axptd in Ćîna. Bfr muvñ t Lundn a yir ago, h peid duznz v Ćînīz farmrz t b rcordd jumpñ lîc frogz in a fīld.

Fr Wañ, ɖ setñ v hiz lêtist artwrc in Bric Len z simbolic v ɖ YC’z “fri” n “ceotic” culćr ɖt standz in starc contrast t Ćînīz ssayti, ẃr sć gṛfīti dz nt xist.

Ɖ caunsl’z dsiźn t pent ovr ɖ slogn, n ɖ gṛfīti ɖt foloud, riḍklz ɖ “wstn cnspśn” v fri spīć n dmocṛsi, h sd. “It’s olso part v ɖ frīdm v spīć in ɖ YC’z valyz. Mcñ ɖs dsiźn t pent it ovr z riyli śowñ ɖ hipocṛsi v ɖ wst.”

Tower Hamlets council painted over the artwork but the slogans continued. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images
Tǎr Hamlits caunsl pentd ovr ɖ artwrc bt ɖ slognz cntinyd. Foṭgraf: Carl Cort/Geti Iṃjz

In ɖ wīcs sins, Wañ sz h hz traid t prṣvir ʈru ɖ criṭsizm n h hz bn most hartnd bî an anoniṃs letr snt t ɖ art colij in hiz dfns.

Ẃn asct f ɖ wrc hd bn misintrpṛtd, Wañ sd mni ppl d’nt rflect proprli on art n ɖt tù mć v ɖ foc̣s hd bn on him rɖr ɖn ɖ wrc itslf.“Ɖ oʈr z olrdi ded aftr ɖ wrc z publiśt,” sd Wañ, a refṛns t ɖ Frenć raitr Roland Barthes.

“I c’nt cntrol it, I’m jst ɖr fr ɖ wrc t hapn.”

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

Fṛm Đ Obzrvr: China wants to erase Tibet. Will Britain stay quiet about this crime?

China is accused of the ‘forced assimilation’ of 1 million Tibetan children. Photograph: Héctor Retamal/AFP/Getty Images
Ćîna z akzd v ɖ ‘forst asiṃleśn’ v 1 miłn T’bétn ćildṛn. Foṭgraf: Héctor Retamal/AFP/Geti Iṃjz

Ćîna wonts t irez T’bét. Wl Britn ste qayt abt ɖs crîm?

Transcription of an Observer article of 27 August 2023

Ɖ YS hz tecn a public stand ovr Ćîna’z crîmz agnst hymaṇti. In Bêźñ ɖs wīc, ɖ YC foṛn secṛtri śd d ɖ sem n śem hiz hosts

Simon Tisdall
Sîmn Tizdl

Súnde, 27 Ōġst 2023

Last wīc’s YS sañśnñ v Ćînīz ofiślz involvd in Bêźñ’z ongwñ criminl eḟts t irez T’bét az a sepṛt p’liticl, eʈnic, culćṛl, linḡstic n rlijs entti śoud America at its bst.

Fy uɖr guvnmnts gv a hūt. Most crevnli lc ɖ uɖr we.

Sáitñ a rīsnt YN rport on ɖ “forst asiṃleśn” v wn miłn T’bétn ćildṛn ordrd intu Manḍrin-lanḡj stet bōrdñscūlz far fṛm ɖer homz n faṃliz, Anṭni Blincn, ɖ YS secṛtri v stet, dmandd Ćîna stop trayñ t iradcet T’bét’s dstñt îdntti.

“W rj PRĆ [Ppl’z Rpublic v Ćîna] oʈoṛtiz t end ɖ coŕśn v T’bétn ćildṛn intu guvnmnt-run bōrdñscūlz n t sīs rpresiv asiṃleśnpoḷsiz in T’bét n uɖr parts v ɖ PRĆ,” Blincn sd – apaṛntli rfŕñ t Śinjañ, Inr Mongoła n Hoñ Coñ, ẃr ɖ rît t slf-dtrṃneśn z olso dnaid.

Ɖ fact America’z sīńr dipḷmat wz redi t tec a public, prínsipld stand wl infyriet n puzl Bêźñ, ẃć hz okpaid T’bét sins 1950. Prezidnt Ći Jinpñ n hiz caḷs Coḿnist cādraz d’nt d prínsiplz. Fr ɖm, altruizm in foṛn poḷsi z an ełn consept.

Ɖ Bîdn admiṇstreśn z trayñ t pać p roci rleśnz wɖ Ćîna. So it’s ol ɖ mor impresiv ɖt it fīlz stroñli inuf abt Bêźñ’z sstemic abysz v deṃcratic n hymn rîts t spīc ǎt, rgardlis v poṣbl neġtiv rīṗcuśnz.

It’s dubli rfreśñ aftr a wīc ẃn a hrd v midl-rancñ, eʈicli ćalinjd, mostli undeṃcratic guvnmnts kǎ-taud t Ći at ɖ Brics sumit in Sǎʈ Africa. Ɖe sīm t ʈnc Ćîna wl bild a fẹrr, justr wrld. R ɖz līdrz nîīv, c’rupt, or mirli stypid?

Jemz Clevrli, foṛn ministr v anɖr miḍlñ pǎr, sz h, tù, wl rêz hymn-rîts cnsrnz ẃn h vizits Bêźñ ɖs wīc. Britiś ministrz olwz se ɖt. Ɖen nʈñ ćenjz. Ẃ z h gwñ t Ćîna at ol? Apaṛntli it’s t mnten daylog (az f wn jenyinli xistd). H clemz ɖ YC hz “ejnsi”, cn xrt inflụns.

Ɖs z dluźnl. Ɖ Ćînīz parti bhīmoʈ, spayñ, bŭliyñ n hacñ, bìtñ p pṛtstrz in Manćestr, torćñ ɖ Hoñ Coñ jônt decḷreśn, bacñ niofasist Vladīmir Pūtin, bsijñ deṃcratic Tîwan n plotñ an oʈoṛterịn “ny wrld ordr” z simpli nt liṣnñ, ispeṣ́li nǎ Yṛp n Britn no longr spīc az wn.

Ći gvz nt a fig fr ɖ YC’z Ćîna poḷsi – nt līst bcz ɖ Cnsrṿtivz canot agri wn. Bt ɖ YS z a difṛnt matr. Phps Blincn’z demarche wl gv him pōz. T’bét z anɖr denjṛs flaśpônt amñ tù mni. N ẃt’s haṗnñ ɖr z wn hyj crîm agnst hymaṇti.

Ɖ mas abysz v T’bétn ćildṛn – it’s hard t imajin ɖ trōma ɖe mst sufr – z part v a dlibṛt scīm t oltr T’bét’s deṃgrafics, intrenć ɖ dominns v mjoṛti Han Ćînīz ppl n culćr, n s’pres T’bétn Bŭdist rlijs practis, lanḡj n mīdia.

Gyal Lo, a T’bétn edyceśnl sośioḷjist, tld ɖ Fri T’bét preśrgrūp: “Ɖ Ćînīz guvnmnt z tẹrñ faṃliz apart n forsñ ɖz vulnṛbl ćildṛn t bcm strenjrz t ɖer ǒn T’bétn culćr.”

A secnd YN inqîri ɖs yir rportd ɖt hundṛdz v ʈǎzndz v T’bétnz hv bn rmuvd fṛm ɖer homz n wrcplesz in rṛl eriaz n asînd t lo-scil “voceśnl trenñ” n lo-peid implômnt, ɖr-bî unḍmainñ îdntti n tṛdiśnl cḿṇtiz.

Campenrz pṛvîd evidns v ńmṛs xesz, includñ arbitrri dtnśn, torćr, sx́l crîmz, dis’piṛnsz n svir puniśmnt v dsnt. In a sns, T’bét z in prṃnnt locdǎn. Pasports t līv r vrć̣li un’bteṇbl. Foṛn mīdia r dnaid entri. Ćîna wonts it fgotn.

Vijilz, marćz n sit-inz stl tec ples, dspt hevi-handd paṛmilitri p’līsñ n ybiqiṭs sveḷns, n r yẓ́li pīsfl, Fri T’bét sz. “Hvr, ɖ Ćînīz oʈoṛtiz r growñ incrisñli intolṛnt … Mni [protests] r met wɖ a vayḷnt rspons”. In 2022, at līst ʈri T’bétans slf-iṃletd.

Ɖ YS Cmiśn on Inṭnaśnl Rlijs Frīdm olso wornz ɖt “ɖ Ćînīz guvnmnt’s cntrol n s’preśn v T’bétn Bdizm hz intnṣfaid, wɖ oʈoṛtiz rstrictñ T’bétans’ axes t rlijs saits, banñ rlijs gaɖ̇rñz, n dstroyñ saits n simblz.

“Muncs n nunz hv bn sbjctd t torćr in prizn, n T’bétans hv bn dtend fr rlijs activtiz oṇrñ ɖ Dalai Lāma [T’bét’s xîld spirićl līdr] or pzesñ hiz portrits,” ɖ cmiśn sd. Hymn Rîts Woć sz ɖ guvnmnt z olso cnductñ mas DNA c’lex́nz, t betr surveil ppl.

Ɖs c’laṃti cd sn tec an īvn darcr trn – ovr ɖ dspytd s’xeśn t ɖ 88-yir-old Dalai Lāma, fri T’bét’s Nobél pīsprîz-winñ fes t ɖ wrld. An uņemd mel ćîld, ɖ ʈrd most sīńr lāma n hed v ɖ feʈ in Mongoła, z rportidli in ɖ frem. Bt Bêźñ z vawñ t impoz its ǒn canddet.

Ɖt Ćîna z atmtñ t wîp c’lectiv meṃriz n cnsîn ɖ old T’bét t oblivịn z nt sirịsli dspytd (xpt bî Bêźñ’z lî-mśīnz). Ćîna argyz its ax́nz r bnîn, ɖt it hz invstd heṿli ɖr. Bt ɖt’s drivn bî its hungr fr naćṛl rzorsz. Az elsẃr, Ći’z obseśn wɖ cntrol, yṇforṃti n cnforṃti trumps ol.

Bî ignorñ Ćîna’z dêli flǎtñ v besic hymn dīsnsi n inṭnaśnl lw, guvnmnts arnd ɖ wrld r cmplisit in T’bét’s sîḷnt ireźr. Nn recgnîzz ɖ T’bétn ppl’z soṿrin rîts or ɖ T’bétn guvnmnt-in-xîl.

So hir’z a ćalinj fr Clevrli in Bêźñ. Ɖ Ćînīz, az yźl, wl tec litl or no notis v Britn’z vyz abt Ruśa, fer tred, s’kṛti n ɖ rest. So ẃ nt yz yr uɖ̇wz mīnñlis vizit t pubḷcli cndem Ćîna’z crîmz agnst hymaṇti in T’bét?

Yr hosts wd b angri. Ɖe wd srtnli b imbaṛst. Bt hu nz? Ɖe mt start trītñ T’bét, n Britn, wɖ a litl mor rspct.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

In Ñspel: The Guardian view on crosswords: not just a hobby for men like Inspector Morse

Carly Rae Jepsen created a crossword to promote her latest album. Photograph: Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP
Carli Re Jepsn crietd a croswrd t pṛmot hr lêtist albm. Foṭgraf: Jowl C Rayn/Inviźn/AP

Ɖ Gardịn vy on croswrdz: nt jst a hobi fr men lîc Inspctr Mors

Transcription of a Gardian editorial of 27 August 2023

In ɖ rît handz, criptic puzlz cn edycet az wel az entten. Jst asc sm v ɖ wimin hu set ɖm

Súnde, 27 Ōġst 2023

It z an old sō in ɖ nyzpepr biznis ɖt ẃl y cn gt olmst enʈñ roñ – ɖ scorrz in ɖ cupfînl, ɖ winr v ɖ 4.10 at Hêdoc – n fy rīdrz wl bat an îlid, f y mc a mstec in ɖ croswrdpuzl ɖen y wl b dīlñ wɖ cmplents fr wīcs. Croswrdluvrz r obsesiv, n ɖer hǎlz v dspleźr f y pt in ɖ roñ ansr fr sevn acrs wl b enʈñ bt criptic.

Bî ɖer folowrz, setrz r rgardd az smʈñ acin t fochiroz, īvn f ɖe r onli noun t most bî ɖer ełsz. Ẃn ɖ gret Gardịn setr Jon Greym, yṇvrṣli noun bî hiz nom de plume Araucaria, anǎnst in a siriz v cluz in wn v hiz puzlz ɖt h hd trminl cansr, it unlīśt a flud v afx́n amñ rīdrz. Wn sd h hd plantd a muncipuzl tri in onr v Mr Greym’z monicr. Az a Cembrij-edycetd pilr v ɖ istabliśmnt, Greym – a Ćrć v Ñgḷnd prīst – fitd ɖ yźl mntl imij v a croswrḑeṿtī, or crūṣvrḅlist. Colin Dxtr, ɖ crietr v Inspctr Mors, wz anɖr inʈyziast n nemd hiz dtctiv aftr a felo cmpettiv solvr, ɖ Lôdz Banc ćermn Sr Jeṛmi Mors.

Bt ɖs picćr z dsptiv: wimin r recnd t b in ɖ mjoṛti ẃn it cmz t gtñ a dêli croswrdfix. It z in setñ n cmpettiv solvñ ɖt men doṃnet. Ɖ irońs bt pvesiv tîpcastñ me xplen ɖ xîtmnt amñ crūṣvrḅlists at a rīsnt twīt bî ɖ Cnedịn sñr-soñraitr Carli Re Jepsn. “Wns upn a tîm I wz ɖ ansr in ɖ Ny Yorc Tîmz croswrdpuzl,” ś inʈyzd. “A tru c’rirhîlît. Mî faɖr n I ʈt I hd pīct.” Ś apndd hr ǒn puzl, plugñ hr lêtist albm t hr 9.3 miłn Twitr folowrz.

Ɖo croswrdz cn tres ɖer rūts bac t ɖ midl v ɖ 19ʈ snć̣ri, ɖe riyli tc of a snć̣ri ago wɖ a “wrdcros” puzl set bî ɖ Ñgliś-born jrṇlist Arʈr Wín in ɖ Crisṃs 1913 iśu v ɖ Ny Yorc Wrld nyzpepr. Wrdcrosz morft intu croswrdz, n wɖn a fy yirz evri nyzpepr in ɖ YS hd wn, wɖ ɖ xpśn v ɖ Ny Yorc Tîmz, ẃć in 1924 dscrîbd ɖm az ɖ “utrli fytîl fîndñ v wrdz”.

Fîv yirz lêtr, it boldli dclerd: “Ɖ croswrdpuzl, it sīmz, hz gn ɖ we v ol fadz.” In 1942, it fîṇli rec̣gnîzd its err n intṛdyst wn, at ɖ promtñ v Marġrit Farar, ɖ prsn hu dd most t popyḷrîz ɖm. Ś recnd ɖe wd hlp tec Americnz’ mîndz of ɖ wor, n ɖ Ny Yorc Tîmz croswrd, ẃć ś eḍtd fr olmst 30 yirz, bcem ɖ YS’z fōrmost puzl.

Ɖ rīsnt deʈ v anɖr croswrd-luvñ Marġrit – Marġrit Ŕvin, hu set croswrdz fr ɖ Gardịn az Nutmeg (n elsẃr az Mês) – wz olso cmeṃretd ʈru a croswrd bî hr colīg, Aracni (riyl nem: Sẹra Hêz). 1 acrs: Incmpaṛbl ledi inʈrōlñ ol at last (8); 5 acrs: Eṿgrīn hed grl (6). In an rlịr inṭvy, Mz Hêz rvild ɖ unixpctd valy v croswrdz in xpozñ n ćaḷnjñ preɉdis. Ɖ iśu arouz ovr a clu involvñ fīmel drîvrz, ɖ riax́n t ẃć apird t sjst an astoniśmnt ɖt ɖe xistd. Sins ɖen, ś sd, ś hd md a ptiklr eḟt t “yz fīmelz in cluz”. Ɖs z nt jst enttenmnt bt p’liticl edyceśn.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

In Ñspel: The Guardian view on the British Museum losses: a diplomatic own goal

A visitor views the Parthenon marbles at the British Museum in London. Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images
A vizitr vyz ɖ Parʈ̇nón marblz at ɖ Britiś Ḿziym in Lundn. Foṭgraf: Dańl Leal/AFP/Geti Iṃjz

Ɖ Gardịn vy on ɖ Britiś Ḿziym losz: a dipḷmatic ǒn gol

Transcription of a Gardian editorial of 25 August 2023

Ɖ dis’piṛns v arṭfacts hz dlivrd a propganḍcù t neśnz campenñ fr ɖ rtrn v historicl treźrz

Frîde, 25 Ōġst 2023

Az ǒn golz g, ɖ reṿleśnz abt ɖ dis’piṛns v arṭfacts fṛm ɖ Britiś Ḿziym ɖt léd t Frîde nît’s reẓgneśn v its d’rectr, Hartwig Fischer, r î-popñ. Most v ɖ misñ objicts mt nt b v gret valy: nirli a ʈǎznd cem fṛm a bqst md bî ɖ faṃli v an 18ʈ-snć̣ri c’lectr, n hd bn stord awe in a dror wɖt īvn biyñ indivijli caṭlogd.

Bt ɖ naṛtiv z devstetñ. Ẃn ɖ dror wz opnd, it hz bn rportd, onli sevn îtmz rmend. Ɖ ḿziym hd bn wornd in 2021 ɖt objicts fṛm its c’lex́n hd bn trnñ p fr seil, bt Mr Fischer sd ɖt, aftr an intrnl invstgeśn, h wz confidnt ol hd bn acǎntd fr. It wz onli ẃn ɖ bōrd v d’rectrz wz alrtd ɖt frɖr ax́n wz tecn. Bî ɖ tîm ɖ ʈefts wr md public last wīc, a sīńr stāfmembr hd bn sact n ɖ Metṛpolitn p’līs cōld in. Nǎ ɖ d’rectr himslf hz gn, tù.

Dez lêtr, ɖ hed v ɖ Asośieśn v Grīc Arcioḷjists pǎnst, seyñ ɖ ḿziym cd no longr mnten ɖt it wz betr ɖn Grīs at pṛtctñ Grīc culćṛl heṛtij. Dspīna Cǒtsūmbá wz, v cors, rfŕñ t ɖ loñ-runñ dspyt ovr ǒnrśp v ɖ Parʈ̇nón marblz. Grīs’z culćrministr, Līna Mendoni, tld ɖ nyzpepr T Vima ɖt ɖ insidnt “riinforsz ɖ prṃnnt n just dmand v ǎr cuntri fr [ɖer] dfiṇtiv rtrn”.

It wl nt hv gn uņotist bî Jorj Ozbōrn, ɖ ćer v ɖ Britiś Ḿziym trustīz n formr ćanslr v ɖ xćecr, ɖt ɖs z ɖ lanḡj v a dipḷmatic pǎns. H wz rdyst t fībli pariyñ ɖt ɖ insidnt “onli riinforsz ɖ ces fr ɖ riimaɉneśn v ɖ ḿziym w hv imbarct upn”.

Dītelz v ɖs biłn-pǎnd “riimaɉneśn” – ẃć includ a mejr rībild n a cmitmnt t bcm a net ziro-carbn ḿziym – r dy t b rvild ɖs ōtm. Bt ɖ fremwrc, leid ǎt bî Mr Ozbōrn in a spīć t trustīz last yir, md it clir hǎ imposbl it z fr eni sć viźn t flot fri v clemz fr resttyśn v, in hiz wrdz, “ɖ treźrz w hold in trust fr ol hymncînd”.

Pndñ ɖ rzults v ɖ p’līs invstgeśn, it z imposbl t nǒ hǎ xtnsivli ɖs trust hz bn brocn. Tim Lōtn, ćer v ɖ ol-parti parḷmntri grūp on ɖ Britiś Ḿziym, akzd Grīs ɖs wīc v “bletnt oṗtynizm.” Bt ɖ rūmrmil hz bn ćrnñ, wɖ aṇcdotl rports ɖt insîdrʈeft fṛm YC ḿziymz hz bn wîdspred fr yirz.

Ɖ vast mjoṛti v stāf r undǎtidli onist n dedcetd t a voceśn ɖt z abt rsrć az wel az dsple: caṭlogñ z an xōstiv n ongwñ proses, n ɖ ḿziym hz sd ɖt mni v ɖ misñ objicts wr hld mnli fr acdemic prṗsz. Bt Mz Cǒtsūmbá hz a pônt. Ɖ ces drwz atnśn t ɖ probḷmz v rsponsbli cẹrñ fr n kretñ a c’lex́n v mor ɖn 8m objicts fṛm ol ovr ɖ wrld, sm v ẃć śd b rtrnd.

Ɖs z nǎ a dfînñ crîsis fr ɖ 21st-snć̣ri Britiś Ḿziym. Ɖ ćôs v Dr Fischer’z s’xesr z piṿtl. Ɖ ḿziym wl nīd t b sìn t pt its hǎs in ordr swiftli n dsîsivli f it z t pswed uɖrz t folo its riimaɉnñ v itslf az – in Mr Ozbōrn’z wrdz – a custodịn v ǎr comn hymaṇti.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

In Ñspel: The Guardian view on canals: a national success story under threat

The Rochdale Canal near Todmorden. ‘The modern Conservative party just doesn’t understand the value of public goods.’ Photograph: ID5720598/GuardianWitness
Ɖ Roćdel Cnal nir Todmordn. ‘Ɖ modn Cnsrṿtiv parti jst dz’nt unḍstand ɖ valy v public gdz.’ Foṭgraf: ID5720598/GardịnWitnis

Ɖ Gardịn vy on cnalz: a naśnl s’xeștori undr ʈret

Transcription of a Gardian editorial of 22 August 2023

A guvnmntplan t cut fundñ t ɖ ćaṛti ɖt maṇjz inḷnd wōtrwez z śortsîtd n ǎt v step wɖ ɖ tîmz

Tyzde, 22 Ōġst 2023

Ɖ  resṭreśn v mć v Britn’z vast cnal netwrc hz bn a noṭbl n upliftñ s’xeștori. Orijiṇli sevd in ɖ 1960z fṛm Bīćñ-stîl cloźrz bî Lebr’z transportsecṛtri, Barbra Casl, mni v ɖz formrli wrcñ n p’lūtd wōtrwez hv bcm modn ŕbn oesīz.

Otrz, cñfiśrz n dragnflîz cn b glimst alñ ɖ 100 mîlz or so v Brmñm’z cnalz. In Manćestr, barjyzrz n wōcrz cn tres ɖ oṛjinz v ɖ Industrịl Reṿluśn alñ inṭsctñ rùts ɖt cris-cros ɖ siti. Acrs ɖ cuntri, cnalsîd rjeṇreśn hz trnsformd ŕbn lansceps, partli inebld bî ɖ ʈǎzndz v unpeid voḷntirz hu reskd abandnd ćanlz fṛm deṛlix́n n pevd ɖ we fr Casl’z viźn v “leźrwez” t bcm a riaḷti.

Invîṛnmnṭli rić, historicli faṣnetñ n a sors v hymn welbiyñ, ʈrîvñ cnalz śd b a treźrd fīćr v ǎr grīnr fyćr. Ɖ guvnmnt, hvr, apirz t hv uɖr îdīaz. Hvñ prīvịsli frozn fundñ fr ɖ Cnal & Rivr Trust (CRT) – ɖ ćaṛti ɖt in 2012 tc ovr ɖ manijmnt v 2,000 mîlz v stet-ǒnd cnalz – ministrz nǎ plan cuts v ovr £300m t its fînansz, bginñ in 2027.

Az ɖ CRT z forst t sīc oltrṇtiv sorsz v caś, ɖs śortsîtd dsiźn wl streć rzorsz bynd brecñpônt. Voḷntirz olrdi hv t b rlaid on fr clīn-up wrc n uɖr tascs, n trustlīdrz hv sd ɖt ɖ śarp rdux́n in fundz wl pt at risc “invałbl naćṛl haḅtats, historic infṛstrucćr n ćeriśt public spesz”. Sm cnalz, ɖe worn, me hv t cloz. Last wīc, a grūp v caunsļīdrz rout t ɖ secṛtri v stet fr ɖ invîrnmnt, T’rez Cófi, notñ ɖt larj strećz v Lundn’z netwrc wl b afctd, includñ Litl Venis.

Ɖr r mni gd rīznz t wont t si ɖ bac v ɖs guvnmnt, bt wn v ɖ most imośṇli cmpelñ z its dstest fr ɖ cnd v public infṛstrucćr ɖt mcs lîf betr fr ppl. It rmenz t b sìn ẃɖr ministrz wl ćūz t ignor ɖ oṿẃlmñ opziśn t planz t clos relwe-steśn ticit ofisz. Bt ɖer apaṛnt wilñnis t indenjr ɖ spectaklr rnesns v ɖ cuntri’z cnalz z evidns v ɖ sem îdịlojicl blîndspot: ɖ modn Cnsrṿtiv parti jst dz’nt unḍstand ɖ valy v public gdz.

A 2019 rport, Wōtrwez in Progres, publiśt bî ɖ Inḷnd Wōtrwez Asośieśn, memṛbli dscrîbz Britn’z cnalz az “a linịr naśnl parc”. Amñ uɖr ceștudiz, ɖ oʈrz hîlît ɖ sośl n ic̣nomic beṇfits dlivrd bî ɖ resṭreśn v a fîv-mîl streć v ɖ Ćsṭfīld cnal, in ẃć a formr lochǎs nǎ hosts a cafe, a mītñrūm, śǎr-fsiḷtiz n a ple n picnic eria. Mć v ɖs wz md poṣbl bî Ẃîthōl muni rlist az part v ɖ Cḿṇti Asets program.

Ɖs z ɖ cnd v riimaɉnñ v wōtrwez ɖt Casl – a bot inʈyziast hu reğlrli travld on ɖ Roćdel cnal – fōrsw. Notñ ɖer ptnśl fr leźrys in ɖ Trnsport Act v 1968, ś istabliśt public bodiz t pṛmot “cruzñ, fiśñ n uɖr recrieśnl prṗsz” on ɖ cnalz. Fîv decedz on, ɖ progres hz bn rmarcbl. Ɖ guvnmnt hz a rsponsbiḷti t enśur ɖt it z mntend, rɖr ɖn unḍmaind bî fundñcuts dīpli at odz wɖ ɖ spirit n d’rex́n v ɖ tîmz.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Powerless in the face of Britain’s crises, Rishi Sunak has now entered his self-pitying era

Illustration: Matt Kenyon/The Guardian
Iḷstreśn: Mát Céńn/Ɖ Gardịn

Pǎrlis in ɖ fes v Britn’z crîsīz, Riśi Sūnac hz nǎ entrd hiz slf-pitiyñ ira

Transcription of a Guardian article of 21 August 2023

Ɖ prîm̦inistr hz ɖ condsndñ er v a man hu b’livz h z dwñ ɖ public a fevr bî guṿnñ s

Nesrine Malik
Nesrīn Malic

Munde, 21 Ōġst 2023

W  r yst t ɖ fact ɖt Riśi Sūnac onli hz tū spīdz: blandli rpitñ hiz fîv p’liticl “prîoṛtiz” n dytiḟli afrmñ ɖ nastiist v hiz parti’z reṭric. Ẃn h’z nt anṣrñ qsćnz bî rsîtñ ɖ fîv plejz, h’z atacñ lefti loyrz, “wouc nonsns” or invntñ cruwl wez t dten n dport asîḷmsīcrz. Bʈ, t a srtn xtnt, r pformnsz: ɖ r’botic reṣteśnz t mc clir ɖt, aftr a siriz v reclis Tori prîm̦inistrz, a grounup z bac in ćarj. Ɖ rîtwñ-popylist setñ, mnẃl, z dzînd fr hiz ǒn parti n ɖ Tori pres.

Bt smtmz anɖr Sūnac apirz in flaśz in a ʈrd spīd: ɖ slf-pitiyñ n fṛstretd prîm̦inistr. Wn hu sīmz t se: lc, y d’nt unḍstand hǎ mć I’m sacṛfîsñ fr y ppl.

Jst last wīc, ɖ prîm̦inistr tld ITV Nyz ɖt h z indyrñ p’liticl pen in ɖ cōz v brññ dǎn infleśn. Hiz arğmnt sīmd t b ɖt bî nt dwñ ẃt ppl wont – incrisñ guvnmntspendñ t miṭget ɖ cost v livñ – h z srvñ ɖ loñ-trm gd. “It mt mc evrwn fīl betr in ɖ śort trm t boro lots v muni t d lots v ʈñz,” h tld p’liticl editr Roḅt Pestn. “I’m nt gwñ t d ɖt.” It z nǎ a fmiłr pìs v Sūnac reṭric. Rlịr ɖs yir, h jusṭfaid hiz rfyzl t gv ẃt h trmd a “masiv” pêrîz t nrsz in Ñgḷnd on similr grǎndz. H īvn spouc v nt mcñ hiz “lîf īzịr” jrñ ɖ Cnsrṿtiv parti līdrśp-contest agnst Liz Trus last yir. It sīmz a s’prîz t him, or at līst smʈñ ɖt hz nt yt sunc in, ɖt biyñ prîm̦inistr z nt abt hiz ǒn prsnl martrdm.

On sm levl, Sūnac’s pend-peṛnt-dǒlñ-ǎt-hard-truɖz prsona z fmiłr fṛm Ʈać̣rît îdioḷji: a mraḷtitêl in ẃć slf-sacṛfîs pez ǎt. Bt Sūnac dlivrz it wɖ condsndñ impeśns rɖr ɖn sbrayti, rvilñ smʈñ dīpr abt himslf. It z hard t avôd ɖ impreśn ɖt hir z a man hu hz isćùd a pīsfl prîṿt lîf mcñ īvn mor xorbtnt sumz v muni in fînans in ordr t pubḷcli srv – n z nǎ anoid ɖt it’s ol a bit mor v a pen ɖn h francli hz ɖ peśns fr. Ɖ Britiś ppl r nt śerholdrz hu h cn pḷcet wɖ a PǎrPônt preznteśn spelñ ǎt ɖ fînanśl picćr, bt ppl hu hv psci fīlñz abt biyñ ebl t īt n hǎz ɖmslvz, hu r rîtli mcñ dmandz abt an ic̣nomic sistm ɖt hz feld ɖm.

Sm v ɖs z prṣnaḷti. It z nǎ abundntli clir ɖt Sūnac z incrisñli impeśnt wɖ – n distnt fṛm – a public ɖt jst dz’nt grasp hǎ mć h n hiz guvnmnt r dwñ fr ɖm. Last wīc, ɖ Libṛl Deṃcrats akzd Sūnac v biyñ “wǒḟli ǎt v tuć” ẃn h apird t tel ppl struġlñ wɖ hî eṇjibilz ɖt ɖe d’nt qt unḍstand ɖt, śr, bilz r hî, bt ɖe cd b īvn hayr. “A tipicl faṃli wl hv hd abt haf ɖer eṇjibilz peid fr bî ɖ guvnmnt ovr ɖ past sevṛl munʈs,” h sd. “Nǎ y wd’nt hv qt sìn ɖt bcz y wd hv stl jst got yr eṇjibil, it wd hv bn vri hî n y’d hv bn: ‘Ǒ mî goś, ẃt’s gwñ on?’ bt ẃt y wd’nt hv riylîzd, mbi, z ɖt bfr ɖt īvn hapnd, £1,500 hd bn lopt of, n ɖ guvnmnt hd cuvrd it.” In uɖr wrdz, ɖ public wd d betr t si ɖ numbrz ɖt r nt on ɖer bil rɖr ɖn ɖoz ɖt r acć̣li on it, n stop ascñ so mni sili qsćnz v ɖs vri bizi man.

Ẃt’s mor, last munʈ, h got tsti ẃn a redio inṭvywr prest him on hiz ys v jets n helicoptrz t gt arnd, seyñ it wz “an ifiśnt ys v tîm” fr smwn so bizi, n rǎndd on ɖ inṭvywr wɖ wn hel v a strwman, akzñ him v ʈncñ “ɖt ɖ ansr t clîṃtćenj z gtñ ppl t ban evrʈñ ɖt ɖ’r dwñ, t stop ppl flayñ, t stop ppl gwñ on hoḷde. I mīn, I ʈnc ɖt’s abṣlutli ɖ roñ aproć”.

Ɖr z an arğmnt ɖt ɖz r inevitbl PR glićz on ɖ part v smwn undr constnt scrūṭni. I am smtmz tld bî Sūnac s’portrz ɖt h z jst nt gd wɖ ɖ mīdia; h z jenyinli hard-wrcñ n lîct bî hiz tīm. Bt ɖz teći stetmnts btre a riyl sns v pǎrlisnis, misdirectd at ɖ public n ɖ mīdia. H z indd bact intu a cornr, nt jst bî hiz ǒn liṃteśnz, bt bî hiz parti n îdịlojicl pziśnz. Ɖoz Ʈać̣rît cnvix́nz r îɖr olrdi pleid ǎt – ɖr z litl left t prîṿtîz – or privntñ him fṛm acć̣li fixñ ɖ eilñ Britiś icoṇmi. H wl nt rêz taxz on asets or capitlgenz, or jenyinli cnsidr prîscntrolz t cīp infleśn in ćec, or contmplet, Magi fbid, borowñ t invst in ɖ sort v grīn téc or insyleśn ɖt liḅrets cnsymrz fṛm ɖ gǎjñ v eṇjicumṗniz n ɖ ẃimz v distnt wormunġrñ stroñmen. Ẃt z xpozd z an îṣletd man hu z ǎt v muvz.

H z rstrend īvn frɖr bî hiz ǒn frax́s parti. Ɖr z no amǎnt v hard graft ɖt wl vanqiś ɖ trublsm Jonṣnîts, Brexit obsesivz n lǎdmǎɖz hu se refyjīz śd “fuc of bac t Frans”. Ɖe cn onli b apizd n dmesṭcetd wɖ jobz in cabiṇt. N so h z stuc, unebl t lc inwd n admit Tori poḷsiz r ɖ probḷm, or ǎtwd t cnfrunt hiz ǒn parti’z xesz. H z a man, t adapt ɖ wrdz v ɖ cmīdịn Stywt Lì, “trapt btwn tū difṛnt formz v cawdis”.

Bt I d’nt wont t spend tù mć tîm picñ on Sūnac. Aftr ol, hiz stîl v p’liticl petyḷns z’nt cnfînd t him: it z a fīćr v a ded-end cnsnss in Wsminstr. It z ecoud in Cir Starmr’z scoldñ abt ol ɖ “tuf” n “hard” dsiźnz ɖt h hz t mc ẃn prest on ɖ plejz h hz wōtrd dǎn or abandnd. Bʈ partilīdrz agri ɖt ppl’z xpcteśnz mst b tmprd, hrîznz naroud. It spīcs volymz abt ɖ d’rex́n v Britiś poḷtics ɖt, az a jenṛl ilex́n lūmz, ɖer job z fîndñ mor wez t promis nʈñ.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

In Ñspel: The Guardian view on the Women’s World Cup: the best so far

The England team celebrate after a goal during the Women's World Cup 2023 semi-final against Australia in Sydney on Wednesday. Photograph: AAP
Ɖ Ñgḷnd tīm seḷbret aftr a gol jrñ ɖ Wimin’z Wrldcup 2023 semifînl agnst Ostreła in Sidni on Wnzde. Foṭgraf: OAP

Ɖ Gardịn vy on ɖ Wimin’z Wrldcup: ɖ bst so far

Transcription of a Gardian editorial of 18 August 2023

Ostreła n Ny Zīḷnd hv pṛvîdd a trṇmnt ɖt hz śǒcest ɖ streñʈ in depʈ v ftbōl acrs ol continnts

Frîde, 18 Ōġst 2023

For yirz ago, ɖ 2019 Fifa Wimin’z Wrldcup, wún bî ɖ YS, wz hêld az a piṇcl momnt fr wimin’z ftbōl. Ɖ ac̣led wz dzrvd. Bt f 2019 wz a piṇcl, ẃt cn b sd abt ɖs yir’z īvn mor rmarcbl contest? Ɖ 2023 Wrldcup rīćz a pīc in Sidni on Súnde, ẃn Ñgḷnd n Spen fes ć uɖr in ɖ fînl. Yt f ɖ contest ovr ɖ last munʈ pruvz wn big ʈñ, it z ɖt, in wimin’z ftbōl, evri piṇcl n pīc stl cnsilz anɖr īvn hayr wn ɖn ɖ sumit jst rīćt.

Ɖ aćivmnts v 2023 g bynd īvn Ñgḷnd’z unḍstanḍbl dlît n xîtmnt at rīćñ – n hopḟli winñ – a frst ftbōl Wrldcup fînl sins ɖ men’z nǎ loñ distnt vicṭri in 1966. Ɖ most importnt v ɖz wîdr s’xesz z ɖs trṇmnt’s wundrfl conḟmeśn v riyl streñʈ in depʈ in ɖ wimin’z gem on evri continnt. Olɖo tū Yṛpiyn sîdz wl contest ɖ fînl, ɖ globl atenmntgap z evrẃr narowñ. Ostreła, C’lumbia n Jpan dzrvidli rīćt ɖ last et (n Ostreła wnt frɖr). Jmeca n Nîjiria cem clos t jônñ ɖm. Ćîna, Mroco, ɖ Fiḷpīnz, Sǎʈ Africa n Zambia ol wún grūpstej gemz. It cn onli b a matr v tîm bfr an Africn, Eźn, Caṛbiyn or Osiańn tīm gts t ɖ fînl.

Tṛdiśnl bǎnḍriz hv bn brīćt in uɖr wez tù. Ɖ brecʈru amñ ɖ Ostrełn n Ny Zīḷnd publics hz bn neśnwîd n inclūsiv, wɖ unrîvld irupśnz v ingejmnt. Sgnificntli, mć grǎndwrc hz bn dn ǎt v sît ovr loñ yirz, in scūlz n amñ mîgṛntcḿṇtiz, wɖt ɖ big sponsrśp n marc̣tñ ɖt foloz men’z rugbi or Ostrełn-rūlz ftbōl. Īvn so, in bʈ v ɖz sports-mad neśnz, crǎdnumbrz hv bn hî n TV vywñfigrz hv brocn olmst evri record. A pīc v 11.2 miłn Ostrełnz – ǎt v a popyleśn v 26 miłn – tynd in t woć Wnzde’z semifînl agnst Ñgḷnd. Ɖr r globl lésnz hir abt ɖ ptnśl v ny marcits fr wimin’z sport.

Nn v ɖs z t pritnd ɖt evrʈñ abt ɖ 2023 Wrldcup hz bn ɖ vri bst ɖt it cd poṣbli b. Ɖ qoḷti v ple, n ɖ xîtmnt v ɖ contests, hv bʈ bn ʈrilñli hî. Ɖ bytifl gem hz rpitidli bn sìn at its bst. Bt ɖr hz olso bn evidns v sm v ɖ siṇsizm n pṛfeśṇlizm ɖt cn infct ɖ men’z gem. Fǎlz, dîvz, tîmwestñ n negtivti r no longr cnfînd, f ɖe evr wr, t men’z ftbōl. Nr, of ɖ pić, z hîpŕḅle.

Iniqoḷti stl rmenz ɖ gem’z bigist scandl n ɖ prîoṛtićalinj ɖt mst b oṿcm. Tru, pǎrfl lobiyñ v Fifa, wrld ftbōl’z guṿnñbodi, bî Ynîtd Stets wimin hz hlpt s’kr sgnificnt incrisz in ɖ Wimin’z Wrldcup prîzmuni ɖs yir. Tīmz wɖ negliɉbl fînanśl bacñ, lîc Hêti n Jmeca, hv jenyinli beṇfitd.

Bt ɖ nīd t cntiny t gro ɖ wimin’z gem z hld bac bî strucćṛl fînanśl iniqoḷti. Ɖ dspaṛti in Fifa’z prîzmuni – £86m fr ɖ Wimin’z Wrldcup agnst £344m fr last yir’z men’z contest in Ctār – rmenz bʈ hyj n indifnsbl. Fifa sz its “ambiśn” z t aćiv pêpaṛti bî ɖ nxt Wrldcups in ɖ 2026 n 2027 contests. Ɖt nīdz t b trnd fṛm an asṗreśn intu an aćivmnt ɖt cn ɖen b riinvstd at ɖ grasrūts. F it z, ɖ nxt Wimin’z Wrldcup me b an īvn gretr piṇcl ɖn ɖs wn.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925