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John Michael Basham (1890 – 7 June 1947) was a Welsh boxer who became British and European champion at both welter and middleweight. His professional career spanned over 20 years, from 1909 to 1929, and after being stationed in Wrexham through military service, he fought most of his bouts in nearby Liverpool.

Basham was the first welterweight to win the Lonsdale Belt outright, successfully defended his British welterweight title on two occasions and also took the Commonwealth Welterweight title in 1919. His career was defined not only by his successes, but also through the death in the ring of opponent Harry Price, which saw Basham face manslaughter charges, and his failed contests with Ted "Kid" Lewis towards his career's end.

Boxing career

Early career
Johnny Basham was born in Newport in southern Wales in 1890. BoxRec have his first professional fight against Boxer Ryan on 18 October 1909, fought at Campbell Bannerman Hall in Newport. The six round fight only lasted until the third when Basham took the match via a knockout. He followed this win with a series of regular contests throughout 1910, mainly taking place in Newport or the surrounding areas of Wales. These were against fighters with limited experience, and his results were patchy, having won three, lost three and drawn one by June 1910, including losing to Fred Dyer, the Singing Boxer on Dyer's debut. Only one match is recorded for the second half of 1910, his first fight outside Wales, when he beat Jim Ashen in the first round at the Frank Gess' Pavilion in Gloucester. Basham began 1911 with a draw with Young Walters in Pontnewydd on 6 February. No other bouts are recorded until August, but Basham then undertook a heavy schedule of fights, taking in nine matches in the second half of the year. Basham only lost one of the fights, of which three were fought in Wrexham in north Wales, and two in Liverpool.

In 1912 Basham joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was stationed at Hightown Barracks in Wrexham. Over the years he rose through the ranks and achieved the rank of Sergeant. His move to north Wales resulted in most of Basham's fights now occurring either in Wrexham or across the border in Liverpool. Several of his fights were fought at Hightown Barracks or in the Poyser Street drill hall, Wrexham. Of the thirteen matches recorded in 1912, he lost just one, losing to Matt Wells on Boxing Day when he was knocked out in the seventh of a fifteen-round contest.

Harry Price and the British Welterweight title
During the first half of 1913 Basham experienced a dip in form, losing three and drawing one of the first seven fights. The last of these contests was the first of three consecutive fights against Frank Madole. Basham lost the first encounter with Madole via technical knockout before winning the second by the same result and then taking the third fight on points. He later drew against Tom McCormick at Liverpool Stadium before a win over Will Brooks at the American Skating Rink in Cardiff.

Basham was next scheduled to face South African fighter Harry Price in Liverpool on 21 August 1913. The fight, held at Liverpool Stadium, was scheduled for fifteen three-minute rounds, and in a hotly contested encounter both men traded heavy blows from the start. The Grey River Argus recorded the fight being even up to the ninth, but in the tenth round Basham landed with a left hook that put Price down for a count of nine. Price recovered but in the eleventh he was knocked down again, but when he landed his head made "violent contact with the boards of the ring". Price failed to rise and doctors entered the ring and had him sent to hospital in an unconscious state. Price died the following morning. After the fight Basham was arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm, and Price's subsequent death led to a manslaughter charge. Basham gained public sympathy for his plight, and he was acquitted when the magistrate in charge of the investigation concluded that the fight had been conducted "fairly and sportingly".

Two months after the Price fight, Basham was back in the ring and finished 1913 with a string of four wins. He began 1914 with a strong win, beating future welterweight champion Albert Badoud by points on New Year's Day. He followed this up with wins over Young Nipper, Dick Nelson and Henri Demlen before fighting for the first time at the National Sporting Club in London, beating Sid Stagg. A win over Gus Platts back in Liverpool led to Basham's first title fight, a contest against Johnny Summers for the British Welterweight belt. Summers, originally from Yorkshire, was a far more experienced boxer with over 140 fights behind him and had held the title in 1912. The bout, fought at the National Sporting Club, was scheduled for twenty rounds; but in the ninth round Summers was stopped via knock-out, giving Basham his first major title.

The Lonsdale Belt and the European title
Basham was awarded the Lonsdale Belt on 21 December 1914 at the National Sporting Club after winning it from Johnny Summers becoming the first outright winner of the welterweight version of the belt. Tony Lee in his 2009 book All in My Corner, states that "By 1914, Freddie Welsh, Jim Driscoll, Newport's Johnny Basham and Jimmy Wilde had all won the Lonsdale Belts outright;". A Wrexham County Council heritage site records Basham taking the belt both in 1914 and in 1916. The National Library of Wales records Basham winning the Lonsdale Belt in 1916, while The Toronto World newspaper of May 1916 writes that Basham was the holder of the Lonsdale Belt when he faced Badoud in their European title encounter in October 1915.

Basham's career as a professional fighter slowed during the First World War, with Boxrec only recording 13 fights for Basham during the war period. Basham was posted as sergeant physical training officer in the British Expeditionary Force in France, making competitive fighting difficult. Basham was one of a group of fighters, known as 'The Famous Six', who were an elite corps of Army Physical Training Instructors under the command of Captain Bruce Logan. The other five men were Jim Driscoll, Jimmy Wilde, Bombardier Billy Wells, Pat O'Keefe and Dick Smith. At the London Opera House in March 1915, Basham won a 15-round fight "on points" against Matt Wells. In May 1915, Basham fought against Summers in a non-title fight at Liverpool Stadium. The fight went the distance with Basham being given the decision on points. In May 1915 the National Sporting Club arranged Basham's first defence of his welterweight title, his opponent being Tom McCormick who had held the title briefly in 1914. The twenty round fight lasted until the thirteenth when Basham stopped McMormick through a technical knockout. Basham knocked out Dan Roberts during the seventh round at a 13 August fight in Liverpool. On 22 October 1915, a fight was arranged for the vacant EBU (European) welterweight title between Basham and Swiss fighter Albert Badoud. Basham has fought Badoud twice previously, both ending in wins for the Welshman, but in the title encounter Badoud stopped Basham through a ninth-round knockout.

In 1916 Basham defended his British title for the second time, again at the National Sporting Club in Covent Garden, facing Scotsman Eddie Beattie. The match went as far as the nineteenth before Beattie was stopped via a technical knockout. Basham fought sporadically throughout the rest of the war years, mainly in Liverpool. Basham won over Sid Burns in May 1917 in Holborn, London. In December 1918, Balsham beat private A. Tierney at the British Empire and American Services Boxing Tournament held at the Royal Albert Hall.

On 27 January 1919, with the war behind him, Basham was again invited to the National Sporting Club where he beat American fighter Eddie Shevlin, who was introduced as the U.S. Navy's Welterweight Champion, after 15 rounds. Basham won on points, and after beating Kid Doyle in February, he was called for a rematch at Covent Garden against Shevlin, where Basham again won with a points decision. He followed this with a draw against American Augie Ratner and then a win over London fighter Willie Farrell on 22 July in Liverpool, which opened up another shot at the European Welterweight title.

Albert Badoud had successfully defended the European Welterweight title in August 1919, against Frenchman Francis Charles, but by the following month he had vacated the title, which allowed both Charles and Basham to contest the welterweight belt. The fight was arranged for 2 September at the Olympia in London and was scheduled for 20 three-minute rounds. The bout went the full distance, with the result going to Basham on points, making him the European Welterweight Champion.

European Middleweight title and Ted "Kid" Lewis
In November 1919, a contest was arranged between Basham and Matt Wells, who had knocked Basham out when they met in Swansea in 1912. At stake were Basham's British Welterweight title and Wells' Commonwealth Welterweight title, which he had taken from Tom McCormick in an encounter in Sydney in 1914. Basham won the fight on points, making him the British, Commonwealth and European Welterweight Champion. He then successfully defended his Commonwealth belt from a challenge from Australian Welterweight champion Fred Kay, before facing former World Welterweight Champion Ted "Kid" Lewis on 9 June 1920. Lewis, who had three months prior taken the vacant British middleweight title, challenged for all three of Basham's belts, in a contest held at the Olympia in Kensington. The more experienced Lewis won the contest in the ninth through a technical knockout (from cutting Basham's lip), taking Basham's titles.

Five months later, Basham was given an opportunity to challenge Lewis for the British and European titles he had lost in their first encounter. Contested at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Basham lasted until the nineteenth round when he was knocked out by Lewis. By 1921, Lewis had moved up to Middleweight, and Basham responded by doing the same. Gus Platts, a Sheffield fighter who had beaten Basham in Cardiff in 1911, was the present holder of both the British and European Middleweight titles, having won them respectively from Tom Gummer and Ercole de Balzac earlier in the year. Basham was allowed the first challenge for the two titles and faced Platts on 31 May 1921 at the Royal Albert Hall. The twenty round fight went the full distance and Basham was awarded the contest on points, becoming the new British and European Middleweight champion.

Basham held the Middleweight titles for less than five months, losing both to his arch-rival "Kid" Lewis when the two met in October 1921. Again Basham was unable to last the distance, being stopped by technical knockout in the twelfth. Basham never challenged for a title again and he ended his career with a series of losses, being knocked out by World Champion Mike McTigue and a points loss to fellow Welshman Jerry Shea. Basham came out of retirement in 1929 to face "Kid" Lewis, but for the fourth time he was stopped within the distance.

Basham reportedly suffered from "cauliflower ear", or thickening and enlargement of his left ear, in his retirement due to trauma from boxing. Basham died on 7 June 1947, aged 56.

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 Johnny Basham in Training: video newsreel film British Pathe newsreel 18 November 1920

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Play for Today Writer: Dennis Potter; Director: Alan Bridges; Producer: Graeme McDonald
"I had to turn my back on all that I had been brought up to love…"
Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris (John Le Mesurier), a former controller in British intelligence who was also a Soviet agent passing on vital information, and who has now defected. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness – he believes that he has betrayed "my class, yes… my country, no" – but the press find these beliefs incompatible, and want to find out why he became a "traitor". Harris is plagued by anxieties over his actions and his upper-class childhood, and drinks to a state of collapse. Describing Traitor by using a synopsis gives the misleading impression that the play has a straightforward attitude to Harris's psychology, just as its staging can be too easily seen as conventional – apart from a few filmed scenes and flashbacks, much of the play is based around dialogue-heavy confrontation on one set, which led some reviewers to find it "heavy going", a "static and verbose" piece "long on self-conscious speeches and dialogue tussles which depended for their effectiveness upon liberal use of literary quotations".1 It is no surprise that it was later remade for radio.2 However, Traitor is one of the most thematically ambitious of Dennis Potter's early plays, tackling family psychology, patriotism and, through nuanced use of literary quotation, the way culture and institutions reinforce political values.
Potter achieves this through his personal interpretation of the biographical details of Kim Philby. Inevitably, some critics prioritised Philby in their responses. A Sunday Times preview argued that a documentary made a year earlier, with the cooperation of Philby's son, "was not very illuminating" because "it clearly needed the insight of a novelist or playwright to probe the motives and motivations of betrayal to make this shadowy Graham Greene figure come alive", but though Potter's fictionalisation gave him "the dramatist's escape", the previewer felt that this was "a pity" because "it would have been more exacting to have called a spade a spade and a Philby a Philby."3 Potter denied making it "entirely Philby" as this involved "a sphere of writing that I am… not interested in"4. It is also, as the makers of the Philby-Burgess-Maclean-Blunt serial Cambridge Spies found out, a sphere of writing open to criticism for factual inaccuracies.5 Critics' emphasis on biography was a variation on their increasing emphasis on Potter's autobiographical input – an urge that Potter understood in terms of how "When the novelist says 'I' you know he doesn't mean I, and yet you want him to mean I".6
Philby may be just a motor for Potter's art, but there is more of Philby in Harris than just a shared stutter.7 For instance, there is his name: Kim's real name was Harold Adrian Russell Philby, and it is a short journey from "Harold Adrian" to "Adrian Harris". Then there is his background – affluent family, public school, Oxbridge, and conversion to Communism during the hunger marches when Philby (like Harris) realised that "the rich had had it too damned good for [too] damned long and the poor had had it too damned bad and that it was time it was changed".8 Adrian suffers in comparison with his archaeologist father Arthur; Philby's father, G Kitson Clark, was a polymath who published on subjects including archaeology, and overshadowed Kim at school literally (at one stage giving a lecture there) just as Arthur figuratively overshadows Adrian. Kitson Clark also publicly attacked Britain's moral decline.9 A flashback sequence showing Harris scheming in the murder of a Russian defector is similar to Philby's role in the Konstantin Volkov affair, placing Traitor in the same area as Philby, Burgess and Maclean, the highly successful ITV Playhouse drama documentary written by Ian Curteis.10
Why does Harris 'betray' Britain? On one level, this could be read simply in terms of his psychological weakness. Trading on common perceptions of Philby's decline, the play resembles his "period of doubt and disillusionment" in the Soviet Union, during which "whisky was his only solace".11 On 17 December 1967, the Sunday Times published the only interview that the British press conducted with Philby after his defection (until the late 1980s). It's worth comparing the opening scenes of Traitor, in which Harris nervously waits with a bottle as the journalists arrive, with this piece by Murray Sayle:
The room was completely bare except for two chairs and a table on which stood a briefcase, a bottle of vodka and two glasses. The table stood by the window with a breath-taking view over Moscow… [Philby] is a courteous man, smiles a great deal, and his well-cut grey hair and ruddy complexion suggest vitality and enjoyment of life… He is clearly a sociable type of drinker and he seems to have an iron head; I could detect no change in his alertness or joviality as the waiters arrived with relays of 300 grammes of vodka or 600 grammes of brandy.12
Though Traitor captures the kind of drinking that Philby clearly indulged in while in Moscow, Philby was less likely than Harris to have got so drunk that he sprawls on the floor. Of course, had Harris entertained these journalists in restaurants, much of the play's claustrophobia would have been lost. Harris's room contains a landscape portrait, a metaphor for the England on which Harris has (according to that week's Radio Times cover, which was devoted to Traitor) turned his back. Frederick Forsyth claimed that Philby was "profoundly nostalgic for Old England – he has every magazine and newspaper and cannot wait to do The Times crossword… to keep abreast of things going on in Britain he'll even go into a bar in Moscow just to sit and listen to British businessmen's conversations".13 "Old England" is similarly vital to Harris, but his Englishness cannot be summed up in terms of The Times crossword. Potter stressed that he was interested in "the misstatement that someone could politically betray their country and be presumed not to love it". Away from concepts like "nationalism" and "militarism", "something" is left to which "you emotionally respond, in the same way as you acknowledge your own parents".14 This is the pull felt by Harris – a somethingness very much related to his parents.
The interview is interspersed with subjective flashbacks, to Harris's father, his humiliation at school, and the murder of the Russian defector. The latter image comes as a shocking sudden red flash of blood; for this reason, it's no surprise that Potter went on to work with the director Nicolas Roeg, a master of colour and associative editing. As Humphrey Carpenter put it, Potter "developed the device of subliminally swift and repeated flashbacks or cutaways to suggest what is passing through a character's mind".15 Passing through Harris's mind are memories which offer biographical explanations for his later treachery. Rather than accepting his deep intellectual conviction, the journalists "put it down to some kind of sickness", but Harris's protests against this are weakened by the insistence with which the play reinforces those motivations. His rant against "the festering hypocrisies of the English ruling families" is made to seem juvenile by an overdubbing of his voice as a child complaining about public school: "I hate it here". As in Stand Up, Nigel Barton, there is a pivotal flashback to a childhood humiliation in school – his teacher bullies him for his stuttering recital of Blake16 After an insolent reply, the young Adrian is slapped across the face, an act of officially sanctioned brutality from which Alan Bridges cuts to images of police action against the Jarrow marchers and scenes of poverty, set to Jerusalem , an ironic device contrasting "England's green and pleasant land" with violence which was performed with stunning effect by Tony Richardson in The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1962).
Although Harris denies James's argument that the child is father to the man, the play supports it. His father was obsessed with his namesake, King Arthur, and Camelot, embedding in him – as John Cook put it – a "dream of perfection which leads him in adulthood to embrace extreme political ideologies that seem to offer a similar panacea to all the world's problems".17 Our privileged knowledge of Harris's father through flashbacks gives us a sense of superiority; despite his denials, we see his father's influence through echoed dialogue. After his father had told him that most people "are like those pigs down there. They runt about, pushing their snouts in the mud, never dreaming that there are better things over the pigsty wall", the present-day Harris accuses the journalists of "runting about like a porker". Or the landscape picture – a smaller version of one overlooking his father's dining table, at which Sir Arthur bemoans the unemployed for judging men by "pounds, shillings and pence" while he's brought food on a silver platter. Three times we flash back to Arthur reading his son this passage from Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur:
And slowly answered Arthur from the barge:
'The old order changeth, yielding place to new,[…]
If thou shouldst never see my face again,
Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice
Rise like a fountain for me night and day […]
But now farewell. I am going a long way
With these thou seest – if indeed I go –
(For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)
To the island-valley of Avilion;
Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow,
Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies
Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard-lawns
And bowery hollows crowned with summer sea,
Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.'18
This passage is vital to the play. The young Adrian is unsettled, and screams – his father doesn't get beyond "Deep-meadowed" until the end credits (when this final destination at which "I will heal me of my grevious wound" is spoken over images of the Soviet Union). Though noting this dream of perfection, the play explores the idea that "all my mind is clouded with a doubt". This could simply be Harris's doubt in Communism, reinforcing Potter's belief that "the worst traitors are the dogmatists who think it is weakness to change their minds".19 But could this not also be applied to the patriotic figures in the play? As Potter said of Tennyson in a later interview, "To us perhaps it is the quality of the doubt which catches hold".20 There's no room for doubt in the young Adrian's world, and poetry itself reinforces the brutalising, divisive system. The above passage – Adrian's father's idea of light bedtime reading! – is spoken to Sir Bedivere, whom King Arthur attacks elsewhere as "miserable and unkind, untrue,/Unknightly, traitor-hearted!", for having "betrayed thy nature and thy name,/Not rendering true answer".21 Perhaps Adrian screams because his father makes his understandable unhappiness seem like inevitable treachery. Here Englishness is reinforced by culture, as this treachery is put in the words of Tennyson, a Poet Laureate with the weight of high culture behind him. This weight is behind the teacher's slap when Adrian "counterfeits" William Blake. This is the upper-class England which Harris doubts, reinforced by culture, but "There is another England, you know, and you can paint it in blood and tears and sweat and slime and shit!" He recalls:
My father was an archaeologist… spent most of his time digging below the top-soil, trying to find some remnants of Camelot. Well, I prefer to dig below a different sort of top-soil, not to find out about some mythical past, but to try and lay bare the reality of class conflict, to see it for what it is, and thus to see the machinery of change and growth, of renewal.
Blake is an interesting choice for such a pivotal scene. He is vital among the play's many literary quotations, indeed the play is bookended with Harris talking himself through 'Love's Secret' – "I told her all my heart–shit!" This radical had his words for Jerusalem set to a culturally-reinforcing paean to England. So, Potter's use of quotation connects Harris's dilemmas not only with national identity, but also with literary radicalism. Potter's choices are impeccable, and self-aware – perhaps he is also questioning his own radicalism. To argue that any plays are 'really about Potter' is problematic, given that his use of the surface elements of autobiography is knowingly unstable, but the way in which critics of the time made that connection says a lot about the nature and scope of his profile: Nancy Banks-Smith, for instance, called Traitor "passionately personal" as his childhood was "always the father, the school and the child", and drew comparisons between this play and Stand Up, Nigel Barton since "nothing in […] Traitor bleeds quite so freely as the scene with the child and the sarcastic sadist schoolmaster."22 Later, John Cook also compared Traitor with Stand Up, Nigel Barton, featuring a character "uprooted from and betraying his original social class".23 Caroline Seebohm told Humphrey Carpenter that Potter's friends "thought he'd sold out… a traitor to his class", leaving Potter "in conflict about himself".24 This matches the quotations – Harris sneers at a quotation from Wordsworth, who moved ideological positions from welcoming the French Revolution to apparent fascism. "There was a time", Harris tells his questioners, "when poets exploded like bombs. Now the same word-mongers don't even explode like punctured bags of stale air… They've forgotten passion". He's quoting Auden, whose words were a call-to-arms for those who'd fight the ideological fight in the Spanish Civil War. Some critics felt Potter was being too clever by half. Perhaps admonishing himself, Potter gives Harris a choice insult for James: "Literate, aren't you? Must be a hell of a problem for you when you're cabling your stories… a few sordid little paragraphs… between the tit and thigh".25
However, I like to think that this cleverness might be down to Harris. Looking back through those quotations, each reflect the present-day Harris – is his memory coloured by his present predicament, or is he just making up stories, "Not rendering true answer"? When the journalist James (any relation to Henry James?) talks about the child being father to the man, he may be referencing Wordsworth or Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem of that title which offers an interpretation of Wordsworth's point. Adrian Harris dismisses the journalists' names (and he has a point: as well as James there is a Thomas and a Blake, all solid literary names) because they "could be called Nelly Dean for all I care". A drinking song reference, or a reference to the character from Wuthering Heights, one of English literature's most notorious unreliable narrators? At the end, we suddenly flashback to the beginning, Harris awaiting the journalists. This time, however, we see him discover a KGB microphone, and tell himself "Remember the microphones and be careful… For God's sake remember the microphone!" Is this a straightforward flashback (he knew he was bugged at the start and has just put on an act) or have we spent the duration of the play in Harris's mind (the journalists haven't arrived yet, and he's imagining what happens next)? The second explanation is supported by the subjective structure, an earlier cutaway to Harris's face which didn't match the scene it was in, or his description of "home" as "a journey you take inside your head". Either way, he's lying to someone – the journalists, the KGB, or himself – and, in the tradition of the poets, telling stories. The distinction between telling stories and telling lies is an important point in Potter's fiction and non-fiction, and had been central to Lay Down Your Arms.
Traitor is a gripping, claustrophobic piece built around a tour-de-force performance from John Le Mesurier. He was familiar for comedic roles as upper class eccentrics, and was becoming particularly famous for his part in Dad's Army, so his casting might look like a brave move. It wasn't out of character for Potter: in response to Roy Hudd's importance to Potter's late pieces, W. Stephen Gilbert noted that "all his life Potter wanted comedy specialists in his work, sometimes getting them (Stanley Baxter, John Le Mesurier, Bill Maynard, John Bird, Lionel Jeffries, Dave King) but frequently failing to do so (he wanted Tony Hancock to play Jack Hay […in Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton], Hudd, Penelope Keith and Spike Milligan to lead Pennies from Heaven, Max Wall and Jimmy Jewel for Blade on the Feather)".26 The person most surprised by the casting appeared to be Le Mesurier himself. He showed the script to Dad's Army co-stars, saying "I don't know whether I should do this",27 and, according to his family, worried about the amount of work required on such "long, ranting speeches" for such a potentially ephemeral broadcast, in response to which he was told "this is hard work" unlike "rais[ing] your eyebrows in light comedy".28 Reviewers expressed similar sentiments in their unanimous praise for his performance: Nancy Banks-Smith wrote that the part of Harris "was a formidable aria" for Le Mesurier: "Cursed with so Hamlet-like a face, he seems to have been coerced into comedy. This, his Hamlet, was worth waiting for."29 The doubts had run more deeply: his family recalled that "he was very, very scared" that "he wouldn't be able to pull it off".30 Le Mesurier went on to win the BAFTA Award for Best TV Actor. His wife recalled that "he didn't believe in prizes… he used to keep the bedroom door propped open with it".31 That was an act of which Adrian Harris might have approved.
Originally posted: 1 July 2003 on the old Mausoleum Club version of this site.
2006: transferred to the old University of Hull version of this site.
2009: transferred to new Play for Today mini-site initially separate from the British Television Drama site
4 November 2010: first appearance of this essay on the main British Television Drama site, moved from a different URL, as all the pieces from the old mini-site were transferred to the main site.
15 December 2014: added Sunday Times "was not very illuminating" quotation; amended accompanying paragraph; some rewording; extra comments on Blake and Paper Roses; minor typographical corrections.
21 December 2014: added Banks-Smith quotations and amended accompanying text; added "It wasn't out of character" sentence with Gilbert quotation and amended accompanying text; added two images from It's All Been Rather Lovely: one from Traitor and one from the British Screen Awards.
5 February 2017: added images; added link to Loach DVD set; minor typographical corrections mostly involving the placement of punctuation around endnote markers.
4 March 2017: standardised presentation of 'Updates' legacy information (2003, 2006, 2009) in line with current site practice; removed '(first published: 2003)' from byline as a result; deleted one word from final sentence.
John Lawrence, 'Play for Today: Traitor', The Stage and Television Today, 21 October 1971, p. 14. [↩]
Afternoon Theatre: Traitor, BBC Radio 4, tx 20 May 1981. Adapted and directed by Derek Hoddinott, it starred regular Potter collaborator Denholm Elliott and Ian Ogilvy. [↩]
Anonymous, 'Inside the enigmatic spy', Sunday Times, 10 November 1071. [↩]
Graham Fuller (editor), Potter on Potter (London: Faber and Faber, 1993), p. 45. [↩]
Cambridge Spies, four episodes, tx BBC2, 9-30 May 2003. [↩]
Without Walls: An Interview with Dennis Potter, tx Channel 4, 5 April 1994. [↩]
Philby was clearly on Potter's mind: he was mentioned in Potter's Saturday Night Theatre: Lay Down Your Arms, tx. ITV (Kestrel/LWT), 23 May 1970. He would also be an important off-screen figure in Potter's later Blade on the Feather, tx ITV (Pennies from Heaven/LWT), 19 October 1980. [↩]
Phillip Knightley, Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B. Masterspy (London: André Deutsch, 1988), p. 33. [↩]
However, unlike Traitor's Sir Arthur, he also moved to Mecca, became a Muslim and married a Saudi slave girl: Knightley, p. 21. [↩]
ITV Playhouse: Philby, Burgess and Maclean, tx ITV (Granada), 30 May 1977. Incidentally, Philby did consider borrowing Philby, Burgess and Maclean from the KGB who, in an enterprising bit of late 70s espionage straight out of Soft Targets, taped it. [↩]
Knightley, p. 3. [↩]
Murray Sayle, Sunday Times, 17 December 1967. [↩]
Knightley, p. 5. Philby appears as a character in Forsyth's The Fourth Protocol. [↩]
Fuller, pp. 42-43. [↩]
Humphrey Carpenter, Dennis Potter: The Authorized Biography (London: Faber and Faber, 1998), p. 266. [↩]
The Wednesday Play: Stand Up, Nigel Barton, tx BBC1, 8 December 1965. [↩]
John R Cook, Dennis Potter: A Life on Screen (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998), pp. 72-73. 2nd edition. [↩]
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Morte d' Arthur, Idylls of the King, reproduced in Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, Victorian Prose and Poetry (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973). Arthur's reading is abridged, consisting of lines 239-240, 246-249, 256-264. The skipped lines are denoted in the quotation by ellipses. [↩]
D A N Jones, 'Playing Potter's traitor: "The Best Part I Ever Had On TV"', Radio Times, 7 October 1971. [↩]
W Stephen Gilbert, Fight & Kick & Bite: The Life and Works of Dennis Potter (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), p. 196. [↩]
Tennyson, Morte d' Arthur, lines 119-120, 73-74. [↩]
Nancy Banks-Smith, 'Traitor on television', The Guardian, 15 October 1971. [↩]
Cook, p. 74. [↩]
Carpenter, p. 261. [↩]
Potter used the phrase "tit and thigh" to describe tabloid newspaper tendencies in his play Paper Roses (ITV, tx. 13 June 1971) which was broadcast earlier than Traitor but the latter had a long gestation period, and, in The Hart Interview (BBC1, tx. 14 August 1973), to differentiate The Sun newspaper that Potter wrote for from the way it went after Rupert Murdoch's takeover. [↩]
W. Stephen Gilbert, Fight & Kick & Bite, p. 288. [↩]
Ian Lavender, in John Le Mesurier: It's All Been Rather Lovely, tx. BBC2, 27 April 2012. [↩]
Joan Le Mesurier, in It's All Been Rather Lovely. In the same programme, actor friend Mark Eden recalled that Joan "almost really had to hit him over the head to make him do it – he didn't want to do it". [↩]
Banks-Smith, 'Traitor on television'. [↩]
Joan Le Mesurier and David Malin, in The Unforgettable John Le Mesurier, tx. ITV, 9 September 2001. [↩]
Joan Le Mesurier, in The Unforgettable John Le Mesurier. [↩]
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Afghan military plane crashes in Uzbekistan; cause disputed
By DARIA LITVINOVAAugust 16, 2021 GMT
MOSCOW (AP) — An Afghan military plane crashed in Uzbekistan over the weekend, and Uzbek authorities on Monday issued conflicting reports on the cause. The wreckage came as dozens of Afghan military aircraft carrying hundreds of servicemen reportedly reached Uzbekistan, among the thousands fleeing the country after the Taliban recaptured the Afghan capital of Kabul.
The plane crash in southeastern Uzbekistan, in the Surkhandarya region on the border with Afghanistan, was first reported by local media. Uzbekistan's Defense Ministry initially said it was studying videos and reports of the crash, then confirmed that the plane did crash, without elaborating.
Later Monday, Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti reported that it was told by the Uzbek Defense Ministry that Uzbekistan's air defense system had downed the plane and "averted an attempt by an Afghan military plane to illegally cross Uzbekistan's air border." Two pilots, the agency said, were hospitalized in serious condition.
Within hours, the Prosecutor General's office in Uzbekistan issued a statement saying that an Afghan military plane had collided with an Uzbek plane that was scrambled to escort it to the airport at Termez, a city in Surkhandarya.
The office later retracted that statement, which also alleged that 22 warplanes and 24 military helicopters from Afghanistan carrying 585 servicemen "illegally crossed" into Uzbek airspace over the weekend and were forced by Uzbek authorities to land at Termez.
The Prosecutor General's office later apologized for a "hasty" statement on the messaging app Telegram and said it was not based "verified data from the relevant authorities."
The Associated Press couldn't immediately reconcile all the conflicting reports or independently verify them.
Reports of the plane crash in Uzbekistan appeared Monday as thousands of Afghans packed into the Kabul airport, rushing the tarmac and pushing onto planes in desperate attempts to flee the country a day after the Taliban overthrew the country'sWestern-backed government. U.S. troops fired warning shots as they struggled to manage the chaotic evacuation.
Caroline Tabler, a communications director for Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, said the GOP lawmaker's office was working urgently to support Afghan pilots fleeing from the Taliban to Uzbekistan. She appeared to confirm that at least some Afghan military personnel had reached Uzbekistan.
"We're working with an intermediary who's been in touch with the pilots," she told the AP. "We have not heard from them since last night (Washington) time. We know Uzbekistan has taken their cellphones. Our primary concern is making sure Uzbekistan does not turn them over to the Taliban. We are frantically reaching out to the State Department on this case and trying to get them asylum and literally can't get a response."
A plane carrying more than 100 Afghan servicemen landed in Tajikistan on Monday, the Tajik Foreign Ministry said. Officials told Russia's state news agency Tass that Tajikistan received an SOS signal and allowed a plane bound from Afghanistan to land at an airport in the Khatlon province, which borders both Afghanistan and Uzbekistan's Surkhandarya region.
On Sunday, Uzbekistan's Foreign Ministry reported that 84 Afghan servicemen crossed the border into Uzbekistan, asking for assistance. The group was detained by border guards and included three wounded soldiers who needed medical help.
The men were offered food and temporary accommodation in Uzbekistan, and the ministry said it was in touch with Afghan officials regarding the return of the Afghan soldiers.
Zeke Miller contributed to this report from Washington.


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MABIBA BAEGNE began her career touring at age 18 with the National Ballet of the Congo as a principal dancer. With the help of a UNESCO grant, she went to Paris to study Western and West African dance, and toured with Les Grand Ballet d'Afrique Noir and with Bolle Bantu. With Bolle Bantu, she worked as artistic director, choreographer and taught dancing, drumming and singing. Mabiba has worked with Grand Master Djembe players Famoudou Konate and Mamady Keita, and taught at the Zig Zag School of African dancing and drumming in Belgium.
As a singer, Mabiba Baegne has toured with Salif Keita, Mamady Keita, and Samba Ngo. She appeared on television and radio with French singer France Gall, she is featured on Mamady's CD Wassolon, and was a member of Sewa Kan.
Mabiba Baegne is the first woman to teach traditional West African (Guinea) dununs in the US. She has given masterclasses at colleges and universities, and continues to teach and perform.
A native of Jamaica, OUIDA LEWIS began her career in the Netherlands, performing and teaching . West African drumming and dance, and touring throughout Europe as a dancer and percussionist. She studied in Holland intensively with the legendary Arafan Toure, Ali Ndiaye Rose son of the legendary Dou Dou Ndiaye Rose, as well as countless master drummers from Guinea, Senegal and Mali.
In 2003, Ouida returned to Jamaica and formed her own tap dance school and company, Ryddimlyfe Movement Studio. She appeared at the Ocho Rios Jazz festival and opened with her band Cacique for Ernie Ranglin at The Caves in Negril. She performs with artists such as Seretse Small and the True Democrats and Cuban saxophonist Jesus Fuentes. She is also the percussionist of The Jamaica big band jazz orchestra.
Ouida lectures regularly in West African drumming and Jamaican folk forms. She has been involved with inner city projects, taking the rhythm experience into the volatile communities of Kingston. She travels every summer to Oakland to work with Women Drummers International.
CAROLYN BRANDY is a percussionist, composer, performer, and educator, and cultural worker. She started playing congas in 1968, and has been a pioneer in opening doors for women in the world of percussion. Carolyn is the founder of Women Drummers International, and is the producer of the Born To Drum Camp for Women Drummers. She is also the founder of Sistah Boom, a popular community-based marching band that has been active since 1981. She was a founding member of the all-women jazz quintet Alive! which toured nationally for ten years. Carolyn released a self-produced CD of her own compositions in 1995, entitled Skin Talk.
Carolyn has been a drummer and student of Cuban folkloric music for over 45 years, and has been a practitioner of the Yoruba-based Cuban religion, Regla de Ocha, also known as Santeria, since 1976. She was initiated as a priest of the religion in Havana, Cuba by Amelia Pedroso in 2000. She has led six tours to Cuba to study folkloric music and dance, and has organized workshops in Havana, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Camaguey, Santiago De Cuba, Guantanamo, and Baracoa where her students have studied with masters of Afro-Cuban Folkloric music. Carolyn has a degree in music from Holy Names University in Oakland.
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Cambridge University's North West Cambridge Development is creating a much-needed new district for the historic town.
With Phase One of the ambitious North West Cambridge Development virtually complete and a Stirling Prize nomination under his belt, the University of Cambridge's contractor-turned-client Gavin Heaphy has an illuminating take on how to achieve quality.
Gavin Heaphy is construction director at the University of Cambridge, part of the Executive Team overseeing the £1bn North West Cambridge Development (NWCD). First and foremost a construction manager with 20 years' experience in and around London, he turned to the client side in 2007 to deliver a large chunk of the London 2012 Olympics Athletes' Village. Working for Lendlease at the time, the move was a dramatic shift in perspective.
Having gained a taste for the role, he joined the Cambridge University capital development team in 2011. Now with overall responsibility for design, procurement and delivery of the largest capital project in the university's history, he is using his experience to steer the wider project team to outstanding results.
The multi-phase NWCD is a well-tempered giant. With planning permission for 3,000 desperately needed homes, accommodation for 2,000 postgraduates, academic research and development space, a hotel, a clutch of vital community buildings, open spaces and green infrastructure, it is billed as a new district for the famous university town. They first broke ground in 2013, and are now nearing completion of Phase 1.
Already boasting a clutch of awards in various categories, one of the new buildings – the all-in-one Storey's Field Community Centre and Eddington Nursery designed by MUMA – has been shortlisted for the 2018 Stirling Prize. With results like that, Heaphy and his team must be doing something right.
So how do they do it? To answer that, Heaphy rewinds to the start of the project when he and his team were setting the rules for achieving the right level of quality. His thinking is dominated by a few interlocking principles.
Quality targets need to be properly defined and communicated unambiguously to the entire project team. Indeed, Heaphy sees this as the client's main role.
Given Heaphy's background, it's no surprise that he should peg process, buildability and detail almost as high in his list of priorities as designing for the user. Looking back up the value chain from the sharp end of delivery, these factors are the most destabilising links along a typical project's pathway.
He's quick to point out that it's not just architects who are guilty of not perceiving the client's pain points. But since architects working on NWCD are all novated, they can't relent in the later stages. Understanding how a drawing should be built is an vital piece of the puzzle and architects should not, as he puts it, 'abdicate responsibility' for it.
The project culture at NWCD is to admit mistakes quickly and learn from them. All kinds of feedback are actively shaping their tactical path to completion. All are committed to carrying out post-occupancy evaluations and capturing lessons from the project teams. For example, feedback from Phase 1 might change the policy of always novating architects to the contractor.
Heaphy says contractors have a lot to give. They are often the first to know about new technologies, and the benefit of that knowledge and experience can significantly improve the way architects work. That's why NWCD uses a two-stage design and build process, and tries to involve contractors as early as possible. But he's not blind to the devastating consequences of poor workmanship, and uses the NEC contract, which allows for a supervisor. Akin to a clerk of works, the role is critical to his overall quality ambitions.
Acknowledging that architects' waning attention is sometimes connected to waning fees, Heaphy urges them to be more communicative about resource squeeze, especially after they've been novated.
Smaller practices often don't get a look-in on large-scale projects, but that isn't the case at NWCD. Heaphy gives the example of Mole Architects. He was impressed with its offer and yet did not want to absorb all its resource. He recommended to Wilkinson Eyre that it collaborate on Lot 1, and Mole ended up designing 70 apartments.
With Phase 1 of NWCD more or less a wrap, Heaphy has turned his attention to Phase 2, though architectural lots are at least a year off. By then he might be basking in the reflected glory of a Stirling Prize win. Even if he isn't, you can be sure that he and his team will be quietly championing and achieving the art of built quality.


I know my right hon. Friend has been involved in the meetings that have taken place with the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, looking at the proposals that have come to be known as the Malthouse compromise. Of course, a number of alternative arrangements have been proposed over the past months. The possibility of alternative arrangements to replace the backstop is recognised by both the UK and the EU in the political declaration that was agreed in November. There are some issues and some questions in respect of the proposals that have been tabled. I raised the issue of alternative arrangements with the European Commission, European Council and European Parliament when I was there last week. As I said, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State was able to discuss these issues with Michel Barnier yesterday.
As I set out in my previous statement to the House, what people across this House want to ensure is that the backstop, as it currently exists, cannot become a permanent arrangement in which the UK could find itself. There are various ways of dealing with that: as I set out in my previous statement, one is to replace that backstop completely with alternative arrangements; and another is to ensure that the backstop can never be permanent. Those are the issues that have been discussed, but I have laid Parliament's views clearly before the EU.


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Local California government accidentally destroys geological marvel
Published Wed, Jul 6 2016 12:21 PM EDT Updated Thu, Jul 7 2016 11:52 AM EDT
Robert Ferris@RobertoFerris
Local California officials destroy geological wonder
A local California government destroyed a geological marvel, without even knowing it.
For years, geologists, science classes, and "geopilgrims" ventured to a split in a sidewalk curb in Hayward, California. Two sections of sidewalk have been slowing drifting askew for several decades, creating a striking visual portrayal of something geologists call creep.
The curb sits on the Hayward fault, one of seven significant faults in the San Francisco Bay area. It runs nearly parallel to the more famous San Andreas fault, and is considered part of that "fault system." The system forms the boundary of the North American and Pacific plates.
Creep is the slow steady movement of earth along the fault, in different directions. Unlike earthquakes, creep is seismic movement that is so slow and subtle, it is typically not felt. But it shows up in structures made by humans, such as concrete roads and buildings, which are too brittle to adapt to the slow movement of the ground below.
When it was first made, the curb formed a solid straight line. But over time, the curb split, with one end drifting south, and the western side drifting north, according to the Los Angeles Times.
But now it is gone. The city of Hayward removed the offset curb, which lies at an intersection, to make way for a wheelchair accessible ramp.
One geologist from the United States Geological Survey told the LA Times is it was "an iconic location on the Hayward fault."
But apparently, city officials were unaware of the curb's significance to geologists and science buffs.
Had they known of its significance, assistant city manager Kelly McAdoo told the paper, the city "probably would have looked at it differently, or we would have tried to help them document it."
Pictures of the curb throughout the years can be seen on United States Geological Survey web pages, and there is a gallery of photos of the curb in the 1970s on the website of former California State University geology professor Sue Ellen Hirschfield, who now gives local geological walking tours in the area.
A USGS-led report in 2008 noted that the Hayward fault is one of two (along with the nearby Rodgers Creek fault) most likely to produce a severe earthquake in the Bay Area. The Hayward fault was responsible for a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in the region in 1868 that killed about 30 people. One occurring today would likely cause far greater damage as it is a far more heavily populated and developed region.
USGS research observed that the five large earthquakes along the fault have occurred 140 years apart, meaning that another one could occur at any time. When a magnitiude 4.0 earthquake struck along the fault in 2015, a USGS scientist Tom Brocher reiterated that warning, saying the population of the area is now 100 times what it was in 1868.


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Come to the Friends of Harmony 2018 Summer Kick-off Show at the Flickinger Arts Center, Nichols School, right next to North Buffalo's Delaware Park, June 8th. Our Special guest at this performance will be the a Cappella group "Renegade Vocals" from Canisius College! For more information and to reserve tickets, call (716) 495-0919.
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SCUBA divers are all too aware of the danger of bubbles of air forming in the blood. The bends can be lethal. But bubbles in the bloodstream are not always a bad thing. Much smaller bubbles can be used to deliver drugs, help prevent damage from stroke and even open up the blood-brain barrier, a discovery that could lead to new treatments for diseases of the brain.
A few decades ago, researchers discovered by chance that "microbubbles" of air in the blood made ultrasound images clearer and brighter. Now a group of researchers who call themselves "the bubble community" are finding new roles for these bubbles.
Stride's team has enhanced this effect by adding magnetic nanoparticles to the microbubbles. The group injected mice with a solution containing a gene for bioluminescence, and a suspension of bubbles, before magnetically dragging the bubbles to one lung and applying ultrasound there.
Three days later, the team found bioluminescence only in the target lung, confirming that the gene hadn't been expressed elsewhere. The findings were presented at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Ultrasonics Conference in San Diego, California, last month.
Even more surprising is the microbubbles' ability to open the blood-brain barrier – a blockade that stops large molecules, including many drugs, getting from the bloodstream into the brain. "If you expose the blood-brain barrier to bubbles and ultrasound, you can temporarily and reversibly enhance its permeability, which is potentially very interesting for a lot of brain treatments," says Stride.
Oscillating microbubbles could also be useful in stroke therapy. Christy Holland at the University of Cinncinnati in Ohio and her colleagues have been developing different types of bubbles to treat stroke in rats. In their latest project, the group filled microbubbles with xenon – a gas known to protect brain cells from dying and improve blood flow, but difficult to administer. They found that rats treated with xenon-filled bubbles after a stroke had smaller areas of brain damage than untreated rats (Circulation, DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.109.879338).
Other groups have started trialling microbubbles in people. Andrei Alexandrov at the University of Alabama in Birmingham and his team treated stroke patients within 3 hours of stroke onset with one of three doses of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) – used to break down clots – with or without microbubbles and ultrasound.
Of those on the middle tPA dose with microbubbles and ultrasound, 67 per cent had restored blood flow within 2 hours. This happened in only 33 per cent of those on a lower dose of tPA alone. "The oscillating bubbles enable the tPA to reach binding sites in the clot," says Alexandrov.
However, there are still serious safety concerns. Two of the 11 people on the highest tPA dosage who also received ultrasound suffered a haemorrhage and died (Annals of Neurology, DOI: 10.1002/ana.21723). In these cases, it was unclear what caused the bleeding, though it is possible that collapsing bubbles could have damaged blood vessels. Alexandrov will be launching a new trial next year.
Until these concerns are answered, bubbles could instead be useful in cases where destruction is the goal. "Turn the ultrasound energy intensity up and the bubbles oscillate much more violently, and could actually break down blood clots, tumours and kidney stones," says Stride.


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Porsche reveals new 992-based RSR at Goodwood
15th July 2019 by: Richard Wiley | 2 Comments
Goodwood Festival of Speed, 4-7 July 2019: Porsche 911 RSR (2019/2020 model year)
Over the years, the Goodwood Festival of Speed has hosted hundreds of historic Porsches in its paddocks and up Lord March's sinuous driveway, but this year the limelight was usurped by a newcomer from Weissach – the 95% new 992-based RSR for the upcoming WEC and IMSA campaigns.
Goodwood Festival of Speed, 4-7 July 2019: Porsche 911 RSR (2019/2020 model year) promotional poster
The fact that Porsche chose to reveal its stunning new GT class contender at Goodwood is indicative of the importance of the annual Festival as a marketing tool for a company whose very existence is driven by motorsport. It was reputedly Ferry Porsche who espoused the philosophy of 'win on Sunday, sell on Monday' but in this case, it was revealed on Saturday and whet the appetites of Porsche racing fans for the upcoming racing season.
Around mid-day on 6 July, the covers were drawn off the new RSR on the start line of the famous hill and the keys to the new white beast were entrusted to one Gianmaria Bruni, the erstwhile Ferrari pilot who has more recently earned his spurs as a favourite son of Weissach.
Lovers of the Porsche marque will doubtless have seen many on-line videos of the new RSR testing and wondered about the sound. Gone is the piercing flat-six wail described by many as the most intoxicating sound in any class of motorsport and in its place, is a deeper, flatter exhaust note that evokes memories of the 962.
Goodwood Festival of Speed, 4-7 July 2019: Porsche 911 RSR (2019/2020 model year) with enlarged and revised rear diffuser
Truth be told, the RSR decibel count is higher than that of its famous forebear and could be better described as an amalgam of 962 and, heaven forbid, a current Ford GT. Having sought out the RSR in its remote paddock hiding place, all in the interests of a closer view, my timing could not have been better as the white shark was being readied for a run up the hill and was fired up as I stood along the right-hand-side exhaust exit. To say the close-quarters bellow caused me temporary alarm is an understatement – this motor remains LOUD even if the side exhausts, introduced primarily to allow more space for a larger and more effective diffuser, now deal with the waste of just three cylinders apiece.
Goodwood Festival of Speed, 4-7 July 2019: Porsche 911 RSR (2019/2020 model year) with re-routed side exhaust outlets
Followers of the marque will spot a few obvious differences compared with the current GTLM model, mostly in the area forward of the windscreen, but it's under the savagely-muscular haunches that the most significant changes have been wrought. The famous flat-six now displaces no less than 4200 cc, primarily in the interests of producing more accessible grunt across a wider range but also in true Porsche fashion, to make the driver's life easier over long stints.
Goodwood Festival of Speed, 4-7 July 2019: Porsche 935 (2018 model year)
Whether Weissach's best efforts to hold onto the GT championship crown will be stymied by BoP remains to be seen but let's rejoice in the fact that Porsche is expending so much effort to set the pace in the GT classes just as the 2019 RSR has racked-up a record fifth consecutive victory in the American IMSA series.
Goodwood Festival of Speed, 4-7 July 2019: Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 (1973 model year)
While the aforementioned RSR definitely took the Porsche limelight, the Goodwood Hill was also alive to the sounds and whirs of many other Porsches, not least a veritable fleet of 917s sporting all the famous liveries of yesteryear.
Goodwood Festival of Speed, 4-7 July 2019: Gulf Porsche 917 line-up
Goodwood Festival of Speed, 4-7 July 2019: Porsche 908 & 917 race car line-up
Derek Bell, despite being a native of Sussex, was grinning like a Cheshire cat as he squeezed himself into the famous Martini-liveried 917 Le Mans Langheck while alongside, the red Herrmann/Attwood Kurzheck was fired up with a flat-twelve bellow that instantly drew smiles of delight from enthralled onlookers.
Goodwood Festival of Speed, 4-7 July 2019: Derek Bell tries the #21 Martini Porsche 917 for size
But it wasn't all about noise as Mark Webber made a stealthy run in the hill in the 'dynamic debut' of the upcoming Porsche Taycan which from a pure decibel count was eclipsed by a thrilling ascent made by Dan Harper in a 911 GT3 Cup car that comfortably annexed the Modern Sports Racer class and in so doing, beat many open-wheeled racers.
Goodwood Festival of Speed, 4-7 July 2019: Porsche 917s in the assembly paddock
Truth be known, the Festival of Speed isn't solely about Porsches as it pays homage to the past, the present and the future of motorsport but there's no disputing that the Volkswagen Group in all its iterations is rapidly establishing itself as the marque to beat when it comes to heritage and adaptation to future trends.
Goodwood Festival of Speed, 4-7 July 2019: The Volkswagen ID.R on its record run up the hill
The performance of the Volkswagen ID.R, in setting an all-time fastest ascent of 39.90 seconds, unofficially consigned a 20-year F1 time to the record books, was nothing less than mind-blowing. But so too was the achievement of Petter Solberg in hurling the VW Polo WRX up the hill to such good effect, that this diminutive machine recorded the second fastest time overall in Sunday's final shootout.
Written by: Richard Wiley
Images by: Richard Wiley
Categories: Featured, Motorsport, Other Motorsport, PRR Tags: 908, 911 Carrera RS 2.7, 911 RSR, 917, 935, Goodwood Festival of Speed, Porsche, Volkswagen ID.R
Martin Raffauf says
Goodwood, always interesting, and comprehensive. I really enjoyed it last year. Thanks for the update!
James Falk says
I'm trying out the site. Looks good so far.


With the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline approaching, trade talks are at their usual mid-season high. Below we've compiled a list of 2015 All-Stars who have been traded or rumored in trade, ranging from from virtual "done deals" to wishful thinking.
Rockies trade Troy Tulowitzki to Blue Jays.
What makes the MLB All-Star Game unique, in comparison to the all-star games of other sports, is the level of competition. Although it's a great spectacle to see the best players on the field together, it's more than just a showcase; the players play with greater intensity, thanks to a combination of tradition, a comparatively lower likelihood of injury, and the fact that home-field advantage in the World Series is on the line.


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The matter involved a pensioner who lost his entire pension as a result of fraud. During the course of our investigation, it was ascertained that the complainant's investment funds were moved to the complainant's online profile without his consent and knowledge. The complainant ("the customer") stated that, according to the contract that he had signed, he could only withdraw the investment if he visited his branch or called the call centre. The Bank initially advised that in terms of the contract they were allowed to effect changes to the investment portfolio. When our Office considered the contract, it was clear that the contract made provision for the investment to be redeemed in a branch and at a call centre. It was further ascertained that there was an established redemption process that needed to be followed and that the Bank had a duty to inform its customer of any material change to the contract, which it had failed to do in this instance.
The Bank maintained that the customer had divulged his confidential internet banking information voluntarily to the fraudsters and divulged the OTPs that were sent to him in respect of the redemption of the policy, and that therefore he was liable.
However, the Bank could not show that it had notified the customer that his investment portfolio was now available on his online platform; nor could it show that the redemption process was followed in this instance. In essence, the Bank could not prove that it had acted in accordance with the mandate from its customer when it made the funds available online.
The whole issue centred around the awareness of risk. It was acknowledged that the customer was negligent in divulging his confidential information. However, the fraudsters would not have been able to steal his investment funds if the Bank did not make them available on this platform without the customer's knowledge or consent. It was therefore recommended to the Bank that it would need to accept liability for the investment funds that were stolen, and which amounted to some R 950 000.00.
The Bank proposed to reimburse 60% of the loss suffered, which equated to the sum of R 640 000.00. This offer was communicated to the complainant pensioner who was understandably extremely distressed. The complainant elected to accept the Bank's offer and the matter was finalised.
The Bank in this instance agreed that going forward it would only move investment portfolios to the online platform on the specific mandate/instruction of the customer, and that it would always explain the potential consequences/risk of having the portfolio available on this platform.
The Bank also agreed that the redemption process would no longer be available online, and that it would follow the terms of the contract which allows for the customer to go into a branch or to call the call centre in order to redeem an investment policy.
PRINCIPLE: The Bank cannot refute liability in an instance where it failed to follow the terms and conditions of the agreement that was concluded, and its customer suffered a loss as a result.
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This short 12-point driver (also known as triple square) is compact enough to fit into tight spaces. This 8mm bit features a 3/8" drive base and is 55mm long overall. Made of S2 tool steel, this driver can be used for drive shaft bolts (inner CV bolts to transmission flange), as well as some door hardware. Note that some late model cars use a 10mm driver bit for inner CV bolts, check your requirements before ordering.