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What happened Green light for Heathrow After decades of indecision, the Government this week gave the go-ahead for a third runway at Heathrow to increase airport capacity in the Southeast. Ministers said they supported the findings of last year’s report by the independent Airports Commission, which favoured expansion at Heathrow rather than Gatwick. They also rejected a proposal to extend an existing Heathrow runway. Welcoming the £17.6bn project, Theresa May said it would show the world that post-Brexit Britain will be an “open, global, successful country”. The announcement was immediately denounced by anti-Heathrow campaigners. Among them were London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, who said the expansion would be “devastating” for air quality across the capital; Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who described the project as “undeliverable”; and Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative MP…

Las Vegas, Nevada “Nasty woman” has the edge: Voting in the US presidential election has already started in some states, and the data suggests that Hillary Clinton has got off to a good start. With nine million votes cast, about 300,000 more registered Democrats have voted than Republicans, and there has been a surge in the number of women and Hispanic people voting early in the key swing states of Florida and North Carolina. Both groups heavily favour Clinton (pictured). Donald Trump caused outrage at last week’s final TV debate in Las Vegas by refusing to confirm that he would accept the election result, if defeated. He continues to claim that the election is rigged by media bias and electoral fraud (see page 17), and this week added “phony polls”…

Brexit: a grave threat to the NHS? Polly Toynbee The Guardian “Hardly anything in Britain is untouched by the Brexit vote,” says Polly Toynbee. But its effect on the NHS is of particular concern. More than 55,000 EU nationals work in our health service: the system would collapse without them. Yet now our ability to attract and retain them is in doubt. Companies that recruit abroad on behalf of NHS trusts say the Brexit vote has put off many foreign nurses from moving to the UK, and made many who are here feel they’re not wanted. Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital has even organised special lunches for its EU nurses to show how desperate it is to keep them. And no wonder: hospitals already face a “severe nursing crisis”, in part…

How spiders “hear” with their legs Spiders don’t have ears, but that doesn’t mean they can’t hear you coming. With eight eyes in addition to eight legs, the creatures navigate mainly using sight and touch, but they also have a limited auditory ability – provided by sensitive hairs on their legs, which pick up vibrations in solid objects, such as leaves and web silk. Previously, it was assumed that airborne sounds would only be detectable from a few centimetres away; but researchers at Cornell University have discovered – by chance – that some spiders can “hear” sounds from across a room. The team had fitted electrodes to the poppy-seed-sized brains of North American jumping spiders, to record their brain activity in response to visual stimuli. Then, during the experiment, a…

Philip Green: why was he ever knighted? It’s rare that our MPs speak with one voice. Yet last week, they found something they could all agree on, said Michael Deacon in The Daily Telegraph: Sir Philip Green, former owner of the now defunct retail chain BHS, is a rotter. Debating a motion to strip the tycoon of his knighthood, MPs from all parties laid into Green as an “asset stripper”, a “corporate raider” and a “spiv”. In the “brutally vivid” words of Labour’s Iain Wright, who co-chaired an inquiry into BHS, Green took “the rings from its fingers, beat it black and blue, starved it of food and water, put it on life support, and then wanted credit for keeping it alive”. The “King of Retail” wasn’t all that “good…

Football: Mourinho’s humiliating return to Stamford Bridge “You’re not special any more!” That’s what the Chelsea fans sang at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, taunting former Chelsea manager José Mourinho as their team hammered his Manchester United side 4-0, said Henry Winter in The Times. And they were right. At the very ground where the manager experienced some of his “most cherished moments”, he suffered his heaviest Premier League defeat. From first minute to last, Chelsea were “far the superior side”; United were truly “abject”, a disgrace to the “famous red shirts” on their chests. But Mourinho couldn’t just blame his players’ haplessness: it was his mistakes, as much as theirs, that led the team astray. As former Chelsea striker Eiður Guðjohnsen tweeted afterwards, “José still knows how to get the…

To The Independent Given that the majority of Brexit voters (and probably many Remainers) in the EU referendum had little idea of the details of exactly what they were voting for – a stance obviously shared by many of the present Tory Government – I really do not see what is wrong in calling a second referendum once the precise details of our exit deal are confirmed. The Brexiters will claim that “Brexit means Brexit”, but what have they to object to in a second vote? If the Brexit voters maintain their majority, then at least it will be on the basis of an informed decision. However if, on the basis that the precise implications of the Leave vote are fully understood, the majority switches to Remain then that is…

Kiln 58 Brewer Street, London W1 ( www.kilnsoho.com ) Ben Chapman, one of the people behind the “rollicking” Smoking Goat on Denmark Street, was a designer before becoming a chef, says Fay Maschler in the London Evening Standard. Yet he has said that his ideal restaurant is one where it feels as though “the people cooking and serving the food created the place, not some designer”. And at his new northern-Thai restaurant, he’s pulled it off beautifully. The space is dominated (in a good way) by the open kitchen, which is dominated in turn by a vast wood-burning kiln, where all the clay-pot, barbecue and wok cooking is done. Diners sit nearby, round a curved steel counter, making for a “side-of-the-road” feel. It works – as does…

New cars: what the critics say Car magazine Few cars have undergone a more dramatic transformation than the 3008. In its previous guise, it was an MPV crossover with “looks that its mother would find hard to love”. Now, it finds itself firmly in “SUV heartland”, ready to do battle with Nissan’s “all-conquering” Qashqai. Longer than its predecessor, the new Peugeot is relatively big for a mid-sized SUV – and it’s “big on style”, too. Auto Express The 3008 looks far “cooler” than before: with its chunky bodywork and bold grille design, it stands out in a “crowded class”. The all-new interior features high-quality materials, as well as Peugeot’s excellent i-Cockpit display, with a 12.3in screen behind the wheel. The seats may not be the most comfortable, but there’s plenty…

What will they think of next? Among the latest trends in luxury travel, says John O’Ceallaigh in The Daily Telegraph, are cruise holidays in which you travel not by sea but in a glamorous revamped airliner. Four Seasons launched the hotel industry’s first fully branded private jet last year, a retrofitted Boeing 757 that carries just 52 passengers, rather than the plane’s normal load of 233. And next year, in conjunction with Noma, it is offering an 18-night “world cuisine scene” trip from Seoul to Paris, via Tokyo and other cities, starting at $135,000 per person. Aman and the Oetker Collection have also entered the market. And next May, the hitherto waterborne Crystal Cruises will take to the air with a Boeing 777-200LR accommodating 84 passengers in “elegant” surroundings: its…

British American Tobacco/Reynolds: smokin’ deal “Just as everyone was expecting a mega American offer for one of the FTSE 100 giants, along comes a deal in the opposite direction,” said Alex Brummer in the Daily Mail. British American Tobacco – a “much-loved stock for investors without scruples” – has bid £38bn for the 58% of North Carolina-based R.J. Reynolds that it doesn’t already own. The main benefit of the deal for BAT, which owns the Rothmans and Lucky Strike brands, is the extra market share it will grab in the US where Reynolds (home town Tobaccoville) sells Camel, Newport and Pall Mall. But BAT’s Brazilian boss, Nicandro Durante, is also hoping to establish the brands more deeply in emerging markets, “with Brazil as a stronghold”. And if the deal goes…

Ivanka Trump Most people around Donald Trump stand to gain significantly if things work out for him, but have little to lose if they don’t, says The New Yorker. However, there is one person with “a great deal at stake in terms of reputation and personal ambition”: his daughter Ivanka. Her Trump “sub-brand” – a fashion line and lifestyle website – is “built around young professional women and working mothers – two groups who appear to be recoiling from her father’s presidential candidacy in large numbers”. Ivanka also has a book coming out called Women Who Work. At last week’s Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, she tried to present the “challenging argument” that “she was both an important influence on her father yet completely removed from anything he did”. Not…

The headlines last year were dominated by the collapse of the commodities market and the travails of its biggest players. What a turnaround, said the FT. Shares in Glencore, the giant mining and commodity trader, are up 160% this year as commodity prices have risen and its debt-cutting plan progresses. There were once fears that the group’s $30bn debt might sink it. Other London-listed miners, including Anglo American and Rio Tinto, have also seen large gains, having recently looked like being on the cusp of disaster. The recovery has been ruinous for several prominent hedge fund managers, who piled en masse into bets against commodities giants, said Danny Fortson in The Sunday Times. Crispin Odey of Odey Asset Management reckons “he might have lost 100 million” shorting Anglo American. And…

Controversy of the week The breakup of Britain? What a blow to British pride, said James Crisp in the New Statesman. Theresa May attended her first European Council summit last week only to find that Brexit was “small potatoes” on the menu. The other 27 EU leaders had more pressing things to talk about. May herself didn’t even get a chance to speak until 1am, and then was given only five minutes to talk on Brexit. (“Pffft,” replied EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker when asked his view of her speech.) Small fish, big pond. So perhaps May now grasps how the heads of Britain’s devolved governments – Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon, Wales’s Carwyn Jones, and Northern Ireland’s Arlene Foster – feel about being shut out of negotiations at Westminster. This week was…

Bennett’s Out of options Alan Bennett has been a familiar face since 1960, when he first appeared in Beyond the Fringe – and now, at 82, the playwright and actor is a fully fledged national treasure. He even gets asked to pose for selfies. “I went through rather a prissy period immediately after Brexit. I’d ask people if they voted In or Out. And if they voted Out, I wouldn’t give them a selfie,” he told Mark Lawson in The Guardian. “But it started to seem rather mean, so I stopped doing it.” Despite his fame, Bennett seldom gets offered acting jobs these days. “Very few,” he says. “I get offered those career-reviving options, like the one where you’re in a jungle.” As in ITV reality show I’m A Celebrity,…

Two Essex women have started a petition calling on the Oxford English Dictionary to remove its rude and “stereotypical” definition of the term “Essex Girl”. The OED defines Essex Girl as “a type of young woman, supposedly to be found in... Essex, and variously characterised as unintelligent, promiscuous, and materialistic”; even worse, Collins adds that Essex Girls are “devoid of taste”. Already, 5,500 people have signed the petition, but the OED says that while its definitions may change, it never removes entries. The 2017 Vladimir Putin calendar is out – and this year’s may be the loveliest yet, with pictures of the Russian leader cuddling a kitten, relaxing in a tree after a hike, and solemnly lighting a holy candle. Each carefully curated picture is paired with a quote from…

BRAZIL A sleazy schemer goes to jail at last O Globo (Rio de Janeiro) How satisfying that the man who orchestrated the downfall of Brazil’s former president, Dilma Rousseff, should now be in jail himself, says Jorge Bastos Moreno. In this year’s wave of arrests of sleazy politicians and businessmen, one name was absent: former parliamentary speaker Eduardo Cunha, a man who seemed above the law. His power base was among the backbenchers in the small parties, whose votes he brokered in exchange for favours. Several businessmen have admitted to depositing large bribes in his secret accounts, whose existence, furiously denied by him, has since been confirmed by Swiss banking authorities. He staved off investigation by threatening to reveal secrets and ruin reputations: he opened impeachment proceedings against Rousseff after…

It travelled half a billion kilometres across the Solar System, and survived a scorching descent through Mars’s atmosphere – only to get lost one minute before it was due to land on the Red Planet. That was the sad fate of the European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli lander this week, said The Guardian: according to the ESA, the half-ton craft had detached from its mother ship, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, and deployed its parachute successfully, 1km above Mars’s surface, when its signal went dead. It is thought to have jettisoned its parachute too early, and crash landed. However, officials were quick to say that the mission was still, by and large, a success. Before going missing, the lander had captured large quantities of data; and its mother ship has now…

Michael Gove knifed Boris Johnson against the advice of two of his closest aides, according to All Out War, a new book by Sunday Times political editor Tim Shipman. At 7am on 30 June, Gove met with his team to confirm his decision to stand for the Tory leadership. “This will be Ed Miliband 100 times,” warned Paul Stephenson, referring to the Miliband fratricide. “Theresa May will be PM if you do this,” added Henry de Zoete. Yet two hours later, Gove went ahead. According to a source, Johnson was “shell-shocked” when he heard the news. “He looked utterly crushed. It was not the realisation it might be all over. It was the betrayal.” To compound his misery, Johnson then received a text from David Cameron, reading simply: “You should…

The Hamilton supremacy “There’s life left in the Formula One Championship yet,” says Daniel Johnson in The Daily Telegraph. After a winless four months that “must have seemed like an eternity”, Lewis Hamilton was supreme once again at the US Grand Prix. He came across as a beacon of serenity – unrecognisable from the “unsettled” driver who walked out of a press conference in Japan two weeks ago. It was the 50th victory of Hamilton’s career, and it could prove to be one of the most significant: it put him 26 points behind Nico Rosberg, with three races to go. Overtaking his Mercedes teammate and arch-rival would be a tall order indeed. But if Rosberg slips up, Hamilton could still pull off a “great escape”. The best All Blacks of…

A History of Pictures by David Hockney and Martin Gayford Thames & Hudson 360pp £30 The Week Bookshop £26 (incl. p&p) David Hockney doesn’t see himself as an artist, said Michael Bird in The Daily Telegraph. “I’d prefer to say I’m making pictures,” he tells Martin Gayford in this fascinating volume based on conversations between the two. The book is a more or less chronological meander through the history of pictures – or, as the authors like to call them, “two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional things on any flat surface”. They begin 30,000 years ago with the cave paintings of Paleolithic artists, and end (“why not?”) with Hockney’s recent “photographic drawings”. In between, they discuss everything from 13th century Chinese ink-brush paintings, to film stills from Casablanca, and the similarities between…

Leonard Cohen: You Want it Darker Columbia £9.99 Leonard Cohen’s 14th studio album is a “bleak masterpiece for hard times from pop’s longest-serving poet”, said Neil McCormick in The Daily Telegraph. At 82 years old, Cohen is producing music – almost miraculously – as “rich, deep and potent as ever”. And, if anything, his “ruminations on life gain added poignancy and urgency with passing time”. You Want it Darker arrives packed with songs – from Leaving the Table to Steer Your Way – that reference mortality and religious faith, songs you could interpret as “reflective farewells”, said Alexis Petridis in The Guardian. The first sound you hear is a choir from the Montreal synagogue in which Cohen’s family worshipped, and the last is Cohen “apparently addressing Jesus” with a certain…

Best books… Chris Mullin Former Labour minister and acclaimed diarist Chris Mullin selects his six favourite political biographies. Mullin has recently published a memoir of his own, Hinterland, published by Profile Books at £20 Churchill by Roy Jenkins, 2001 (Pan Macmillan £14.99). A man of massive self-confidence, enormous energy and monstrous ego, Churchill was often wrong, sometimes disastrously so, but right about the greatest issue of the 20th century. Of all the biographies of him, this is probably the best. This Boy by Alan Johnson, 2013 (Corgi £7.99). Former Labour cabinet minister Alan Johnson’s remarkable account of his impoverished childhood in 1950s Notting Hill. Beautifully observed, it is moving, humorous and uplifting. Told with a dry, self-deprecating wit and without a hint of bitterness. Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life by…

Rabbit with mustard, crème fraîche and Parma ham Serves 4 25ml vegetable oil 2 rabbits, chopped into large pieces, or 6 legs 15g butter 1 onion, chopped 2 garlic cloves, chopped 1 tbsp tomato passata 100ml white wine 600ml hot chicken stock 2 tbsp Dijon mustard 2 tbsp crème fraîche 3 tbsp chopped flat-leaf parsley 6 slices of Parma ham, cut into strips salt and freshly ground black pepper • Heat the oil in a large casserole pan and brown the rabbit all over. • Remove the meat from the pan then add the butter, onion and garlic, and cook until soft. Add the tomato passata, then the wine and stock. • Return the rabbit to the pan and lower the heat to a simmer. Cover and cook gently for…

Jimmy Perry 1923-2016 Jimmy Perry, who has died aged 93, created and co-wrote – with David Croft – one of the best-loved British comedies of all time. But Dad’s Army, based on Perry’s own wartime experience in the Home Guard, was almost never made, said The Daily Telegraph. With Mary Whitehouse waging war on the BBC, its executives were worried that a show that poked fun at Britain’s war veterans would just bring them more trouble; one head of department called the concept “absolutely mad”. And test screenings of the pilot episode were not positive: the public wanted to forget about the War. But Croft – who was already working for the BBC – managed to hide the report from his superiors, and Dad’s Army got the green light. An…

The sudden ousting of Cyrus Mistry as chairman of Tata Sons has sent shockwaves through India. It could also have serious implications for Britain, said The Times. In March, Tata Steel announced that it planned to sell its loss-making Port Talbot plant, but the sale was paused in July when the plunging pound made it more competitive. Mistry’s removal means that some 11,000 workers now “face fresh uncertainty”. “The dismissal has exposed tensions at the top of a group famed for its stable management,” said the Financial Times. In the 144 years before Mistry, the $100bn software-to-steel behemoth had only five leaders – all family members. Ratan Tata, who handed over the reins in 2012, now returns as interim chairman. Analysts say the main cause of the split was Mistry’s…

The week’s best buys Animalcare Group Investors Chronicle The veterinary medicines provider has an impressive track record, strong balance sheet and excellent cash flow. The group is focusing on geographical expansion. New drugs should increase revenues. Buy. 285p. Asos Investors Chronicle The fast-fashion e-tailer is performing well in all markets, boosted by its A-list loyalty programme, delivery improvements and competitive pricing. No high street presence and an international customer base helps. Buy. £49.29. Connect Group The Times The news distributor’s educational side is being hit by local authority spending cuts and its Pass My Parcel delivery service needs hefty investment. Full-year figures were “respectable”, shares look cheap and it yields 6.58%. Buy. 140.5p. ITV The Mail on Sunday Brokers at The Share Centre admire the broadcaster’s “abundant” cash flow and…

Stockholm Knockin’ on Dylan’s door: A member of the Swedish Academy has described Bob Dylan as “impolite and arrogant” for failing to acknowledge that it had awarded him the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. The American musician (pictured) has ignored repeated phone calls from Stockholm, and has made no mention of the award in public. A brief reference to it did appear on his website, only to be swiftly removed – and the Academy has no idea whether he will attend its ceremony on 10 December. If he doesn’t get in touch, he will still be listed as the 2016 Nobel laureate, but is unlikely to be given the $900,000 prize: in order to receive the cash, winners must give a lecture relating to “the work for which the prize…

Harvard and Yale don’t need federal subsidy James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley The Wall Street Journal Donald Trump is right about one thing, say James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley. When he criticised US universities last month for hoarding their endowments, the presidential candidate put his finger on a real problem. Ivy League colleges will protest that, as private institutions, they are entitled to spend their money as they like. But given that they also receive a lot of public money in the form of grants, federal loans, scholarships and tax exemptions, the state has every right to question their spending priorities. As of 2014, the eight Ivy League universities had, between them, just under 60,000 undergraduate students and total endowment funds of about $117bn, according to a study…

The human body contains trillions of cells. They are the fundamental units of life – yet surprisingly little is known about them: how many there are, how they age and develop, and how they differ from one organ to another. But a new international initiative, backed by the Wellcome Trust in the UK and announced last week, could change that. The Human Cell Atlas is an ambitious project to map out and describe all human cells in a vast database. Made freely available to scientists around the world, the atlas should help transform our understanding of human diseases, leading – it is hoped – to better diagnostic tests and new therapies. The project will exploit recent advances in a technique called single-cell genomics, which enables individual cells to be separated…

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Eric Hoffer, quoted on The Daily Beast “The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.” Cambridge economist Joan Robinson, quoted in the FT “One tries not to be an Old Git, but they don’t make it easy.” Alan Bennett, quoted in the Daily Mail “The world forgets easily, too easily, what it does not like to remember.” Jacob A. Riis, quoted in The Wall Street Journal “The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.” Adlai Stevenson, quoted in the Montreal Gazette “Go out and face the world secure in the knowledge that…

The value of silence To The Guardian It is easy sometimes to wonder whether our governments care about anything except money; yet they refuse to put a monetary value on those aspects of life that lend enchantment. A beautiful view is one of these; so is peace and quiet. So is the ability to keep one’s windows open at night. These blessings are disappearing at great speed, as the skies fill up, and as lorries, cars and machines are added to our beloved landscapes. We are told that “those affected by fracking” might be compensated, but I do not believe that many people would rather have £10,000 than the peace and quiet, and the grassy view that will vanish, with their clean drinking water, as the frackers appear. It is…

I, Daniel Blake Dir: Ken Loach 1hr 40mins (15) A stirring cry from the heart I, Daniel Blake, which won this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, is another characteristic offering from Ken Loach, said Antonia Quirke in the FT. That is to say, it’s a drama that is politically extremely one-sided, yet carries a “prodigious” emotional force. The 80-year-old director of such stirring left-wing “agitprop” as Poor Cow has created another beleaguered hero in the form of a Geordie carpenter (played by comedian Dave Johns), engaged in a life-or-death struggle with the benefits system. A heart condition prevents him from plying his trade, yet he lacks the IT skills to find an alternative. Johns “nails” the difficult task of being decent but not dull, said Andrew Lowry in Empire. And…

Remember when you couldn’t walk though a supermarket wine section without coming across a bottle of Fitou? It was “cheap, easy to pronounce” and “the kind of hearty red that hits the spot on a chilly autumn evening”, says Fiona Beckett in The Guardian. In recent years, Fitou has been all but supplanted by “sexier southern reds” such as Minervois, Pic-Saint Loup and, of course, the ubiquitous malbec. Here are three to kick off a timely revival… If you fancy finding out what Fitou is capable of these days, try Katie Jones’s generous, lush Domaine Jones Fitou 2013 (£13.50; The Wine Society), which would be well worth building a cassoulet feast around. Waitrose’s Mme Claude Parmentier Fitou 2014 is enjoyably swiggable, and not unreasonable value at £7.99, though you might…

It is a wonderful antidote to the stress of modern life, says Kate Harding in The Economist’s 1843 magazine – a wild island that lies just 20 miles off the coast of Sicily but feels worlds away. The ferry from the mainland stops at several larger, more populous members of the Aeolian archipelago – including Vulcano, Lipari, Salina and Stromboli – and all but empties of passengers before it reaches little Filicudi. Covering less than four square miles, this mountainous outpost once had some 2,000 inhabitants, but most left for America in the early 20th century and it now has only around 250. Most people visiting it do so by yacht, “grazing” its spectacular, rocky coastline, and leave its interior – an “unspoiled” national park, crossed by just one road…

Valerie Hunter Gordon 1921-2016 In 1947, Valerie Hunter Gordon was married to an Army officer, living in Camberley, in Surrey, and expecting a baby, said The Daily Telegraph. With two older children, she’d already experienced the “awful labour” of washing, drying and ironing nappies, and, aged 26, was dreading the prospect of returning to it. Surely, she thought, there must be some kind of disposable variety she could use instead. But her research revealed that even in the US, there was no such thing. “It was extraordinary,” she said. “No one had thought about it.” So Hunter Gordon decided to create her own. “I thought, it’s easy, I’ll make them. But it wasn’t easy.” Initially experimenting with parachute nylon – which was easily sourced in those postwar years – she…

The City needs a new Big Bang Iain Martin The Times “Britain has never loved the City,” says Iain Martin. So it was no great surprise that – when the British Bankers’ Association warned that, after the Brexit vote, several large international banks had their fingers hovering over the “relocate button” – the reaction of many taxpayers was to offer them “a lift to the airport”. Yet we should be careful what we wish for. “For all its foibles, flaws and intermittent law-breaking”, the City has become “a genuine global success story” since the Big Bang shake-up in the 1980s. It “provides a great deal of employment and pays a lot of tax”. And it’s now on the cusp of another transformation. As a leader of the emerging “FinTech movement”,…

No escape Government ministers are regularly accused of “trying to buy the grey vote”, said Becky Barrow in The Sunday Times. Not this time. The Treasury has ripped up plans to allow millions of pensioners, who bought annuities before the introduction of pension freedoms, to sell their policies for a cash sum. The scheme – a baby of the former chancellor, George Osborne – was touted as a lifeline for elderly savers locked into lifetime annuity deals paying derisory annual incomes. The Treasury now says that it can’t balance the creation of an “effective” secondary market for annuities “with making sure consumers are protected”. How “utterly exasperating” for some five million annuity-holders who got “a rubbish deal and now cannot escape it”. The threat of rip-offs This is actually one…