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control at 1,300 staff; officials are
worried it is far bigger in terms of
numbers than the team that built the
London 2012 Olympics.
The HS2 Bill is undergoing lineby-line scrutiny in the House of
Commons and will move to the
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could shed light on
allegations of UK collusion in torture and
rendition are being
suppressed by the British government. The newly uncovered les
include confidential exchanges
between former PM Tony Blair
and former president George Bush
about treatment of detainees at
Guantanamo. Possibly most signicant are ve other documents,
communications between the
former UK foreign secretary, Jack
Straw, and former US secretary
of state, Colin Powell, expressing interest and concern about
the welfare and legal status of UK
detainees at Guantanamo.
While the documents may relate
to casual expressions of care for
the welfare of UK citizens, former
detainees have alleged that British
officials have either been present
at, or submitted questions for,
extreme interrogation by US
officials. The US government has
been required to make public a
large number of les which relate
to British involvement in the treatment of prisoners in the years
following the 9/11 bombings.
Litigation continues across multiple US departments over the
possible release of mainly intelligence-derived documentation. But
12 documents found in the US State
Departments search, not derived
from intelligence, were also withheld. These relate to interventions
by British politicians and officials
over the treatment of detainees
and interrogation techniques. In
court papers, the State Department
reported: After reviewing the
documents, the UK Governments
Foreign and Commonwealth
Office requested that all 12 documents be withheld in full from
public disclosure.
The revelation will surprise campaigners, who are accustomed to
hearing that the release of condential documents by Whitehall
would go against established
protocol whereby a country (eg
the US) is entitled to have intelligence documents it has shared
with another country kept secret.
On this occasion, the US has explicitly stated that the UK is
preventing publication.
The documents, which appear
not to have been seen by either the
Chilcot inquiry into the 2003 invasion of Iraq or the 2007 Intelligence
and Security Committee (ISC) inquiry into rendition, have come to
light as a result of a lawsuit by the
All Party Parliamentary Group on
Extraordinary Rendition. In 2008,
the groups chairman, Andrew
Tyrie MP, started legal proceedings
against seven US departments and
agencies, including the FBI, Interpol and the CIA, under freedom of
information legislation. The group
asked the State Department to supply les on the circumstances and
extent of participation in (rendition) programmes by the UK and
on the USs control and treatment
of detainees. The State Department
initially refused to release any
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The issue of extraordinary rendition (the state-arranged kidnap and
cross-border transporting of individuals for interrogation) has long
been controversial. In the US its
practice was initially denied and
then admitted. In 2005, Mr Straw,
then Foreign Secretary, said there
simply is no truth in claims of UK
involvement in rendition. But three
years later, his successor David Miliband said: I am very sorry indeed
to have to report to the House [of
Commons] the need to correct those
and other statements on the subject.
One legal case that stalled a full
investigation into UK involvement
in rendition was that of Abdelhakim Belhadj, an opponent of Libyas
then president Muammar Gadda, who was rendered to Libya in
2004. A letter later emerged from
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ghters is set to pass the 1,000 mark
within days, independent monitors
told The Independent on Sunday.
The revelation comes as David
Cameron faces mounting pressure
to honour his pledge to update Parliament on the impact of Britains
military contribution to the war.
After the vote on 2 December authorising RAF air strikes in Syria, Mr
Cameron pledged quarterly updates to Parliament. In the three
months since, the Prime Minister
has left it to Philip Hammond, the
Foreign Secretary, and Justine Greening, the International Development
Secretary, to inform MPs about the
situation in Iraq and Syria.
MPs and peers, however, insist Mr
Cameron left the clear impression
that the updates would be on the
UKs military campaign including
the number of air strikes and civilian casualties and the success in
driving back Islamic State rather
than on the wider diplomatic or humanitarian situation in the region.
An amendment laid in the House
of Lords by the Conservative peer
Lord Hodgson last week would make
it a statutory requirement to publish
civilian casualty gures every three
months. The Government insists
British air strikes in Syria and Iraq
have not killed a single civilian.
However, according to the independent NGO Airwars, 967 Iraqi and
Syrian civilians have died as a result
of air strikes by the 12 coalition states
engaged in attacks on IS. The gure
was described in Parliament last
week as credible. A source at the
monitoring organisation said the gure would top 1,000 within days.
Britain has carried out 591 air
strikes in Iraq and 36 in Syria
making up around a quarter of the
2,000 attacks carried out by countries other than the US in the
international coalition against IS.
Russian air strikes are estimated to
have killed up to 2,900 civilians.
But despite the gures, 11 out of 12
members of the coalition, including
the UK, claim no civilian casualties
have resulted from their strikes.
Lord Hodgson, a member of the
all-party parliamentary committee
on drones, told peers on Thursday
that this would be unprecedented
in a major military engagement and
naturally invites questions about
how civilians are being classied.
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chairman said it was crucial to be
transparent about the scale of civilian deaths. He said: We need to
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A judge of this years Ted Hughes
Award, which is backed by the Poetry
Society, nominated Ticket To Ride
(1965)
She said that living with me/ Was
bringing her down, yeah/ For she
would never be free/ When
I was around, oh
Im struck by its simple power, its
layering of jaunty rhythm over
something much sadder the tension
of whats being said and how its
being said, which is surely the
tension in all poetry.
Sabrina Mahfouz
Poet and playwright, chose
I Am the Walrus (1967)
Sitting on a cornflake waiting for
the van to come/ Corporation
T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday/ Man
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I have fond memories of this due to
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Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in
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n alien landing in
B r i ta i n to a ss e ss
h umanity based on
our great works of
art might take home a
strange view of the populace. For,
judging by thousands of statues
across the country, humans are a
species made up almost entirely
of males.
Of the 11 memorials in Parlia-
ment Square, London not one is of
a woman. Edinburgh honours three
named animals Greyfriars Bobby,
Wojtek the soldier bear and Bum
the dog but has only two statues
of a named woman. And they are
both Queen Victoria. In Manches-
ter, the city centres 17 statues are
also male with the one exception
of, again, Queen Victoria.
However, following a campaign
by Labour, Nicky Morgan, the Edu-
cation Secretary and Minister for
Women, has signalled that the
Government is interested in help-
ing to fund a statue to the mother
of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft,
and has also backed new sculptures
of other leading female figures
from history. I think women need
more statues in prominent places,
Ms Morgan said.
A Department for Education
source added that the minister was
eager to hear from campaigners
fundraising for a Wollstonecraft
statue in Newington Green, north
London, where the philosopher
lived and worked during the late
18th century.
She will be inviting them to sub-
mit a proposal on how we can help,
which may include support with
fundraising or with raising aware-
ness, the insider said. Nicky is
very keen that we ensure there is
better representation of women
across the board and, of course,
statues of critical figures in history
like Mary Wollstonecraft are a key
part of that.
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both falling slap-bang in the middle
of the autumn/winter 2016 Paris
womenswear season. Some will
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about setting them free, empowering them. That was the overriding
message of Rei Kawakubos Comme
des Garons show on Saturday.
Of an undeniably, unequivocally,
extremely pink strength.
Kawakubo presented outfits composed of ruffles and frills, gargantuan
rosebuds, piled-up boned panniers
and exaggerated flounces. Pink dominated, alongside rococo floral prints
and foliate brocades. A few of the
dresses and I use the term loosely
were articulated like plate armour
around the body. The overriding
mood was of the 18th century, of
Fragonard and Boucher, a whiff of
Versailles, the grandeur compressed
on to the body of woman in a
construction of fabric.
It wasnt the court Kawakubo was
aping; rather the rebels. She called
them 18th-century punks, and the
mood was of the Incroyables and
Merveilleuses, of change and rebellion. The anarchists who tore away
at the 18th century and brought in
the modern. Kawakubo does the
same in fashion.
What does it all mean? To begin
with, it contracted entirely the label
attached to these garments: Comme
des Garons. This was about woman
absolute and all-powerful, where the
perceived traps and trappings of an
archetypal femaleness heavy, wide
pannier skirts, boned stays, flowers
and ruffles became a kind of protection against the world. Totemic,
traditionally, of fragility, they became
something tougher a defence, not
an aggression. Those made me think
of woman in control, occupying a
space, emphasising her presence and
physicality through the clothing on
her back. Its a power play afforded
to women that men have never quite
been able to match.
These Comme des Garons
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Then theres the much wider cultural definition that takes in anyone
born into or associated with Evangelical churches and organisations,
from the Southern Baptists to
the Mennonites and from
Bible colleges that preach
against evolution to civil
rights groups that
work for peace.
There are something like 100 million
people who call
themselves Evangelicals in America,
making up nearly a
third of the population.
Not all of them are
potential Trump supporters by
anymeans.
A third are African Americans who are more likely to be
Democrats; and a good few
million more are members of
the small but growing
Evangelical left, which is
horrified and ashamed of the
support their fellow believers are giving Trump.
Whether Donald Trump
is a Christian or not is something between Trump and
God, but his vision for Americas future and his policies are
indeed contrary to the gospel.
Donald Trump is an anti-Christian
candidate. So says Jim Wallis, leader of the Sojourners community in
Washington DC, which campaigns
for social justice. He is spiritual
adviser to Barack Obama and author
of a hard-hitting new book called
Americas Original Sin: Racism, White
Privilege and the Bridge to a New
America (Brazos Press).
Its time to name Trumps dangerous rhetoric for what it is. It is
not only racist, but also fascist, with
all the dangers that ideology implies. The truth is that we have
seenthis before. And its time to tell
the truth.
His voice is a strong one, but there
are still 60 to 65 million conservative
Evangelical believers for Trump to
woo and it seems to be working. The
question is, why?
They believe in repentance, but
Trump is not repentant. His backing
of the pro-life cause they support
feels fake. He is undoubtedly immoral by Evangelical standards, owning
a casino and strip club. Hes been
divorced twice and married three
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s International Womens
Day approaches, if anyone is wondering why
females merit special
attention on Tuesday, it
might be time to revive the old joke:
you need one whole day devoted to
women because the other 364 (or
365 this year) are for men.
Yes, women might be half of the
worlds population but they are a
long way from being equal to men
on most of lifes key measures, as this
snapshot of the world shows. From
economic opportunity to political
representation, the gap between the
genders in many countries is as wide
as ever, prompting a global call for
parity from all the organisations that
support IWD.
Campaigners want the entire world,
from heads of state and corporate
chief executives, to elected parliamentary representative and family
members to tackle the glaring disparities still holding women back. The
World Economic Forum, which released the research that The
Independent on Sunday used for its
global health check, has predicted it
will take another 117 years until 2133
to achieve global gender parity.
In the vast majority of countries,
progress has stalled on the political
front, and remains glacial concerning
wage equality and labour force parity.
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A year after writing The Spy Who
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IN ISTANBUL
A Turkish flag flies from an Istanbul ferry as a Russian warship sails through the Bosphorus en route to the Mediterranean afp/getty
tourist cruisers dock in the city centre. But its the Russian ships that
have caught international attention
as President Vladimir Putin made
clear that he was reasserting Moscows muscle in Syria and the wider
region. The Bosphorus is a vital link
between Russias Black Sea ports
and its naval bases in the coastal
towns of Latakia and Tartous.
Already this year, Russian warships have made almost four dozen
trips up and down the strait. They
include the hulking Moskva, a
guidedmissile cruiser that is the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet
and provides air cover for Moscows
deployment in Syria. It sports a red
star on each side, and huge silver missiles that glint on deck in the sun.
One of the most frequent visitors
of 2016 has been the Yamal 156, a
rusting, Soviet-era, Ropucha-class
large landing ship that offloads
vehicles, cargo and troops on to
beaches. It has already made three
trips to Syria and back.
The 1936 Montreux Convention
gives Turkey control of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, the strait
that leads into the Mediterranean;
but it also requires Turkey to grant
freedom of passage to commercial
and naval ships. Like all foreign powers, however, Russia must inform
Turkey before sending a military
vessel. This has led to surprising
cooperation between the two states,
being drawn into this kind of political spat. They bristled at seeing their
photographs used as ammunition by
various factions in Turkey and Russia, each with its own agenda.
The ships may be impressive to
look at and fun to catalogue, but the
group has been only too aware that
these vessels are fuelling a terrible
conflict that has killed an estimated
470,000 people so far. You get
excited when [you] spot a ship, says
Mr Isik. But then you think: you are
watching a very deadly machine
going past.
Though there is intense inter
national interest in the Russian
vessels that pass, the group logs
everything from small speedboats
that whizz up and down to the vast
cargo ships that hulk down the
centreof the channel. The war is
going on and [the straits have] come
to prominence, says Kerim Bozkurt,
36, an architect member of the
group.When it ends, we will keep
watching.
But even with the shaky ceasefire
that began in Syria last weekend,
Russian ships have continued passing through the city.
Among the vessels spotted by the
group in recent dayswere two boats
packed with military vehicles. Kremlin-watchers say that, whether
Turkey likes it ornot, Russia is back
in the Middle East. And its route runs
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streets. Offshore, the
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like liquid silver. Snow In early summer,
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tries to fall. Make no mistake, the island
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Mother Nature dictates life in this fortress and
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Nordic city, where winter brings Unesco World
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ish sauna regulates life through suomenlinna.fi),
the seasons, offering the heat of is engulfed in a
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summer in its roasting interior mist of purple
followed by a maniacal leap into lilacs. They come
from Versailles
the icy chill of the sea.
The ritual both an embrace of and were planted
nature and a defiant fist-shake in by Augustin
they have created the swanky new perfect finnish
its face reflects the affinity that Ehrensvard, the
Loyly Design Sauna in the up-and- The harbour (top
Finns have for their environment, forward-thinking
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which is evident everywhere in military archiHernesaari. It is due to open towards in summer
Helsinki. Located on the Vantaa tect behind this
the end of May.
(top right);
River, the city enjoys 130km of extraordinary
Crouching on the shoreline, clad Suomenlinna
coastline and more than a third of collection of low- in silvery birch, the building takes (above)
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its cue from the forest and the sea, Hecktic Travels;
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and gardens. To
parks. Summers white nights can
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just as easily be spent swimming reach it, take
already avant-garde skyline.
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It is also the perfect place for
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sitting in communal silence and
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In the 1920s and 1930s, there were Market Square.
embraced by the tendrils of the loyly
more than 100 public saunas in Hel- In summer, boats
(steam), you can gaze out at the
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sinki, of which only one remains,
return as late
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the pool in just their goggles. In the
intervening years public saunas
closed in favour of private
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and the Central Railway Station
but the tide is turning once more.
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Next Saturday, the city will host its
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ritual is as much about community
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museums and unlimited travel on
and getting to know people as it is
(0208 001 0101; finnair.com), which
public transport, including the
ferry to Suomenlinna. A ticket which
about relaxation and mindfulness.
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Winter recedes and Yellowstone, the worlds first
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From house prices to wages and holidays,
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Some believe
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tourism could
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for Brexit getty
and shortcomings of the radical pension reforms still working their way
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