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Eat the rich: The new City boys we love to hate
Mark is a hedge-fund manager with £30m in the bank and a plan to earn £50m more by 2010. He is also a man facing a mounting tide of resentment, as the world plunges into a recession partly of his own making. Does he care? Of course not. Peter York paints a picture of a monster for our times
Sunday 31 August 2008
You have to have bespoke now. Mark can tell a proper-built suit from 20 yards. Everything hangs and moves differently from a crap ready-made with a fancy brand, produced largely in the Far East and re-badged as European by a bit of finishing in Italy. He knows the business models of the luxury brands. He knows a lot of business models, because he's spent years with their inventors. The trick in our trade, they'll say, is to get the punters doing this or that. Getting them to buy popcorn in cinemas, for instance. Popcorn has a 2,000 per cent margin.
His own get-up today is almost Regency "buck", meaning a new – as opposed to 1980s – double-breasted suit with really narrow trousers from Richard James Bespoke. It works on him because he's fantastically lean and plans to be lean forever. It can be done. His face is wonderfully sharp and his thick hair's cut close-ish (anything gelled or spiked or highlighted or brushed forward Tintin-style, like some middling City types – is just naff).
His leanness is vulpine and distracting to anyone... flabby. When he puts his dramatically lean face up that bit too ' close on the personal-space testometer and asks tough questions such as "How d'you explain the inventory ratios?", normally robust thinkers find their inner-stammerer. He knows about the stare test and wins every time, staring so hard people feel he's doing heart-rate analysis. They'll always drop first.
He finds it oddly exciting that a mass of suburban Mr Blobbys who know absolutely zilch about his world – the "New City" West End world – are starting to blame people like him for practically everything that's wrong in 2008. For the credit-crunch via dodgy derivatives; for the oil and food inflation driven by speculation; for the "shorting" raids on the big banks. The lot. People who couldn't tell a hedge fund from a garden centre at Christmas, who've conflated US and UK, Old and New City are being told in newspaper leaders and illiterate TV investigations that "City boys" – latter-day chancers – have ruined their world and got away with the money. You could expect it from someone such as Will Hutton, but in The Daily Mail? They are calling them cowboys and asking for regulation. There's a part of him that wants to stand on the ramparts and put two fingers up (it's the side that worries his partners). And another part that knows that he and his peers are going to have to pay for a PR charm offensive like the one the private-equity people did last year, showing how they'd grown businesses and employment, putting their senior partners' massive rewards into context. (It'll take some doing; hedge-funds make private-equity sound positively cosy.)
And it's particularly unfair on Mark because although he's been making £4m-5m a year for the past four years – more than the average boring FTSE 100 CEO – his total net worth all-up is nothing – still less than £30m and you need £70m to even get near the Rich List. He could name 50 people straight off who've made much more than him – so far. (The Plan says he gets to £80m by 2010; the recession will help – there's always money to be made in a volatile market.)
The Regency buck suit is for the Christie's Contemporary View, which is packed solid with hedgies and other young money people like him, most of whom work round here, on either side of Piccadilly, in "MStJ" – Mayfair/St James's. They're all on to contemporary art now – it's an important global asset class after all – but he was there 10 years ago and more. You just had to listen to those Sensation people or meet Jay Jopling to know they could sell anything. They could beat most young City recruits, class of '96 like him, for sheer ambition and pretty naked aggression. Wonderful. Now it's moving at three times the speed, with the Chinese and Indian contemporary sales making big numbers and people talking up the Koreans. It's starting to look dangerously over-subscribed. All those Notting Hill American bankers wanting "wall-power" – huge, knock-'em-dead stunners from big branded artists so they can say "it's a Baselitz" or whatever.
All this – the suits, the art, the competition side of Mark's life – is much easier now he's over here in MStJ rather than the City, with its ridiculous 1980s and 1990s box-buildings for ants, all over-scaled atria and stodgy second-rate corporate art collections. Mark still meets people who think the old City is the shark-pool, but he thinks a lot of it's like a glorified back office in Basingstoke compared to Up West, the slice of London where the real skinny sharks work. The bit that's like a tableau straight out of the FT's How to Spend It. Meaning all the alternative asset classes you could want – art, yachts, wine, plus Jermyn Street – all blazing away from an injection of gorgeous new global money. Everyone knows Rollers are German now but – and here he's put that face up worryingly close again – "How many of the old St James's names are Chinese-owned? They don't exactly advertise it, do they?" He knows, of course – he could do Mastermind on global luxury players, their strategies, off-shore vehicles, sourcing policies.
Helping make the market in luxury brands had been a way of mixing business with pleasure back then, when he was still in the City. But those huge dealing rooms that'd once looked so impressive, so filmic and Wall Street-ish when he'd first been in EC2, now looked like doomed factories with bloated, expensive workforces, the kind you'd outsource. You'd get bright, brown kids out there, kids with better degrees and miles hungrier, who'd work for a third of the salaries, on which – he'd seen it in Mumbai and Ho Chi Minh City and all over – they'd run a big house with several servants as against the glorified semis in Wandsworth their overweight Brit counterparts live in. You need more than just a million bonus to get into Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, where houses start at £12m now. And those south London City boys still – in 2008 – want to move to Phillimore Gardens. Dull and over-priced and you're living next to the Globals, people who have to have one of those big Victorian villas, completely gut it to make it like a Dubai hotel and are then there just six weeks a year. You never see anyone on the street.
Mark could write a book on the Globals, more likely run one. (His father actually is a bookie, it's in the blood.) Mark had Gone Global at about 15; Hammersmith and the wannabe/almost Sloane world of a passable direct-grant school was just too small for him. While his friends had West Coast dreams and later Seattle ones, Mark was already leading his teenage Second Life on Wall Street. He'd seen the film how many times and he knew the Gordon Gekko "Greed" speech off by heart. He'd read Bonfire..., of course, and Barbarians at the Gate and everything Michael Lewis ever wrote. It all made London look, to use his dad's expression, pony.
That enthusiasm's as period as a full Duran-nie kit now, and just as embarrassing. Instead, he's been observing the Chinese and the Indians – even the Russians and the Mexicans – for the past 15 years. He got to know them in the 1990s when he was still practically an intern and couldn't do much for them. He'd started to think his beloved Americans were finished. But that out there, in the new worlds, there were those fantastic people who were real wealth-creators and completely unregulated. They lived the life of emperors and they thought really big. They didn't worry about unions or hostile press. (Mark sometimes reads The Guardian to remind himself what he hates.) Those first-generation entrepreneurs often wore the naffest clothes – that whole silk-suit-and-patent-shoes routine, but then the sons and grandsons moved on to Savile Row and the Cap Ferrat style – the Indian MBA Eurotrash look.
Mark's LSE first – better than Oxford for what he wanted – gave him global grasp, and his new Tiger Economy friends, who remembered him for paying them attention when they were down, all worked out. He's your point man for sovereign fund investors, well in with the Gulf towelheads and the great control-freaky Singaporeans. He's got access and trust with the people everyone desperately needs to know now. Everyone. It's fantastic to have some of these old lions in the biggest banks wanting a relatively obscure, thirty-something hedge-funder – not generally on the radar, though better rewarded than them already – to help make the contacts and the case for a capital injection of however many billions. It'll cost them. "The smell of fear," he says to himself – another wonderful corny movie line.
Mark's life has been one long round of obsessional groupiedom followed by contempt. Getting to despise your heroes – starting with the Americans – is one of life's epic pleasures. The same with the famous. You start collecting celebrities because you can. On the New Charity Circuit. Get to know Arpad Busson. Take a table at the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation fundraiser and you can ask who you want. Fantastic women, for a start; taller, better everything and, he's found, startlingly up for it. One's batchelor days can stretch out almost indefinitely with this kind of disposable income. He's helped several well-known actress/models with their finances, not to mention all those meals at Zuma and the Cipriani. A lot of quite famous people, old heroes, scrape by on a couple of hundred thousand a year, less sometimes, and they're grateful for the money if you ask them to speak at client dinners and bonding do's.
And it turns out they often live somewhere terrible, like Muswell Hill or Shepherd's Bush, which makes no sense. Eighty per cent of hedge-funders and 100 per cent of the Euros and Americans live in, ideally, SW3, SW7 (especially the French), SW10 or Notting Hill. Along with the sharp suits, Mark is reckoned a positive maverick for living in SW1 (Eaton Place), which is reckoned a bit "high-profile" and slightly old-flash, but actually cost no more than prime Chelsea when he bought it. And they've got huge rooms with high picture-hanging ceilings. And if it all went completely belly-up tomorrow, he's got £15m clean, legal and tax free in the Switzerland of the East, Singapore, and an investment manager job offer there too from one of those grateful conglomerate granddads with the silk suits and shiny shoes.
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NinePoint Medical Inc. said today that it received European CE mark approval for its NVision VLE Imaging System and ISO quality management system certification for its Cambridge facility.
The CE Mark is for the company's optical endomicroscopy imaging devices for diagnosis of mucosa and submucosa diseases. The CE marking, or "Conformite Europeene," certifies that a product has met European Union requirements for marketing in Europe. The ISO certification is an international standard governing the requirements of a quality management system for medical devices and related services.
"The ISO certification and CE mark approval are important milestones for NinePoint Medical and, along with our recently announced 510(k) clearance from the FDA, strongly position the NvisionVLE Imaging System for a commercial launch in 2013," Charles Carignan, M.D., president and CEO of NinePoint Medical, said in a written statement. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for its medical device came in January. The company makes medical devices for in vivo (inside the body) pathology.
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I am about to go away on a gap year and my Mum wants to stay in touch with me when I am in remote places. Is there some system that lets me charge my home phone even if I'm dialling from, say, some remote part of China? Also, what kind of mobile phones are usable in remote places?
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The travel editor replies: One of the most popular ways to make calls with ease whilst travelling is the international telephone charge card, available from both BT (Tel 150) and Mercury (Tel 0171-528 2000). If you are a customer of either company you would be charged under your name within the quarterly bill at your home address. If not you would receive a monthly bill at home.
The BT card serves 120 countries worldwide, and the Mercury card serves over 60. There are no premiums on the cost of calls, you are simply charged for the call that you make, and the card itself is free. These cards are not as Eurocentric as you might imagine, for example serving the likes of America, Australia, and Singapore, and both cards will work in China.
The other option of taking a mobile phone with you on your travels is slightly less viable. The range that mobile phones will cover is ever expanding, with the top of Mount Bromo in Java, Indonesia, being one of the more bizarre places I have ever seen anyone make a mobile call. There are so many types of mobile on offer it is difficult to make an informed choice. The company that seems to have the widest worldwide range is Cellnet Digital GSM, covering about 60 countries. It franchises a number of companies to make phones which cost from pounds 10-pounds 200. The best phone for you to go for in terms of connection quality would be one priced around pounds 70 or more. Although this perhaps seems a lot of money, it is unfortunately a case of getting what you pay for.
There is a connection fee of about pounds 35, and you would then be signed to a 12-month contract. The billing system is monthly with a standard charge of pounds 17.50, plus any calls on top. This would be paid via a direct debit system from your bank account. Cellnet has recently put out coverage to China, and also serves places such as Indonesia, Brunei, Azerbaijan, and Namibia. The calls themselves are, needless to say, expensive, with a peak rate call from China to the UK costing pounds 1.57 per minute. Along with this there is a deposit of pounds 200 to pay if you are planning to take the phone out of the country imminently, which would be returned after three months. If you are travelling after three months from the date of purchase then there is no charge.
The other option is of course buying a phone card in the country itself. Although this means you must pay for the calls as you make them, there are advantages, such as not having to face a huge bill (or your mother) when you return home. China's phone system has expanded rapidly over the last few years, and making international calls is a relatively fuss free experience, with phone cards widely available throughout the country. This a cheaper way to make long distance calls than paying in currency for services in hotels, or telecommunications offices. However, the telecommunications offices are efficient and easy to use, located in or near post offices, and open 24 hours.
My sister has asked me to travel to the USA for her 70th birthday, however I am terrified of flying. I have flown several times and each time the experience made me ill with fear and I swore that I wouldn't fly again. I would like to conquer my problem - is there any remedy?
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Doctor Dawood replies: First of all, you are not alone. Somewhere between one in five and one in 15 of the UK population are believed to be afraid of flying. Among them are many people who are not novices in the air, and for whom the experience of flying becomes increasingly unpleasant as time goes on.
If you are looking for a definitive solution to this problem, a number of psychologists have devised programmes that have succeeded in helping people overcome their fears, through treatment sessions and seminars, as well as cassettes and learning materials.
If this trip is simply a one-off, however, another option might be to discuss with your doctor the possibility of taking a mild anxiolytic drug during the flight; and another option not to be dismissed would be to travel by sea, something I've always longed to have the time to do.
Among the psychologists who offer treatment programmes is Elaine Iljon- Foreman, at Hillingdon Hospital. She publishes a fact sheet on the internet at http://www.cavok.com/ fearofflying, and can be contacted by email at free2fly @dial.pipex.com.
Dr Richard Dawood is the Medical Director of the Fleet Street Travel Clinic, which provides immunisation and pre-travel health advice by appointment. (Tel: 0171 353 5678).
My father-in-law served in the Second World War and wishes to visit the beaches of Normandy where he fought. Do you know of any companies that specialise in this sort of short break? He is 78 and we have a car, so transport is not a problem. He lives on a state pension so his funds are not huge.
Johanna Hargreaves
The travel editor replies: There are a number of agencies which run this type of short break, and although many organise their tours on a D-Day anniversary basis, arranging trips in June, there are others to choose from all year round. The French Tourist Board has a list of companies; call them on 0891 244123.
Be aware that there are agencies dealing in this sort of specialist package who are not approved by a regulatory body such as ABTA. This doesn't mean they aren't reputable, as a lot of these tours are independently organised by veterans themselves. The ABTA Information Bureau (0891 202520) has a list of approved companies which do packages to Normandy.
The short breaks vary from all-inclusives with a set itinerary and coach pick-ups to self-drive options where you just pay for the ferry crossing and hotel and the rest is up to you. Prices vary with the type of trip.
Holts Battlefield Tours is highly recommended by the Royal British Legion. It organises detailed historic tours to specific areas, and these group tours are listed in its brochure which can be obtained by calling 01304 612248.
The Legion itself offers a range of discounted tours; you don't have to be a member and relatives can travel too. The Pilgrimages department organises bi-annual group trips to Normandy; call 01622 716792. The British Legion travel club (01926 499366) also organises year-round group trips. If you want something more tailor-made, the Legion's travel department (01789 261112) will organise individual trips to your exact needs. These are a little more expensive, but can be organised more quickly.
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Saga Cruises has highlighted Gibraltar's continuing attractions for cruise owners, returning to Gibdock for repair and maintenance work on one of the "grand old ladies" of the cruise industry, the 24,492grt, 670-passenger capacity Saga Ruby.
Delivered by Swan Hunter in 1972 to Norwegian American Line as Vistafjord, the ship is the last cruise vessel built on the Tyne. Having previously docked Spirit of Adventure in 2011 for the same owner, the 13-day renewal Saga Ruby drydocking project required flexibility on the part of the yard, which was called upon to adapt its original repair plan to take account of additional works.
The original project demanded an extensive scope of work in a demanding time frame.
Emerging work included repairs to items of hull damage, a wing tank, boiler supports, bulkheads in the tailshaft tunnel and sewage tanks. Six engine room coolers also had to be removed, cleaned and reinstalled and a new alternator fitted.
John Taylor, Gibdock Operations Director, said, "We had to change the whole repair plan, and time constraints were a significant issue. The ship had to leave on January 26th no matter what and we had to make sure all the additional repairs were finished by then. One of the challenges, as is often the case with cruise ships, was getting access to the damaged areas. For example, some cabins had to be cleared, pipes removed and water supplies shut down. The process was managed safely and efficiently, minimising any delays and disruption."
Two new sewage treatment units were fitted during Saga Ruby's drydocking. This required cutting a 2.4m x 2m access window in the side shell, and once again an extensive internal area had to be cleared and pipes disconnected. Despite the additional work, Saga Ruby left the yard's No. 1 dock on schedule on January 25th. Mr Taylor reported. "All repairs were finished in accordance with the owner's schedule. We showed what we could do under pressure."
Peter Wright, Saga Cruises Head of Commercial said, "The yard rose to the occasion and delivered what we asked for, and more. We have used Gibdock before and they have always done a good job. The location was perfect for this particular project as well."
Alongside Saga, established cruise customers at Gibdock include Pullmantur, Louis Cruises and Thomson Cruises. Gibdock Managing Director Richard Beards says: "Cruise shipping is vitally important to Gibraltar PLC. Gibdock's full service repair and maintenance facility is just a short distance from the cruise terminal, offering owners an unrivalled opportunity to undertake repairs either in drydock or alongside to the highest standards and within their pre-planned schedules, avoiding both operational deviation and redelivery delays."
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Rising aboriginal frustration palpable
Show of anger at Commons looks likely to be repeated
OTTAWA -- As far as First Nations are concerned, it is fitting that Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Canada had approved the Chinese takeover of two Canadian oil companies from the room on Parliament Hill known as the Aboriginal People's Committee Room.
It was just another sign the natural resources First Nations should be benefiting from were being sold off under their noses without their input.
Just days earlier, Chief Patrick Madahbee of the Anishinabek Nation Grand Council was among a group of chiefs who tried to force their way into the House of Commons to be heard, angry that the government appeared to be uninterested in listening to or working with First Nations.
Madahbee said last January Harper spent a day listening to First Nations leaders and worked on resetting the relationship between the Crown and indigenous people. That same night, Harper left for Davos, Switzerland, where he delivered a major speech about his plans for the coming years, with a priority focus on selling oil and gas to Asia and pursuing additional trade with Europe and India.
"Immediately, the prime minister jetted off to sell our resources off to the world. He's been constantly doing that," said Madahbee.
For First Nations leaders, the latest international trade deals are another sign of being left out of a deal that could help raise their people out of poverty.
And the anger that has been simmering under the surface for years is boiling over like the early signs of a volcano.
Last week's skirmish outside the Commons only lasted about 30 seconds and was far from out of control, but it is unlikely to be the last event of its kind.
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Derek Nepinak as good as said so a few hours after it happened.
"This may not be the last time we do this," he said.
The chiefs are backed by a growing grassroots movement that is largely led by young aboriginals who are demanding more for their future.
Hashtags such as #idlenomore and #nativewinter were gaining in popularity on Twitter last week. "It's going to be a long cold #nativewinter" wrote Curtis Dickie, one of many people who posted to the nativewinter hashtag on Twitter last week.
Some are comparing it to the beginnings of the Arab Spring in the Middle East.
A national day of action is planned today, with a rally at the Manitoba legislature this afternoon.
The issues facing First Nations people are many -- high rates of violence against women, education struggles, poverty, addiction and a lack of proper housing among them.
But what First Nations people want and need, which could help address many of those other issues, is to have a chance to do exactly what numerous commenters on the Free Press website demand. A chance to do things for themselves.
But when the natural resources on aboriginal lands reap economic benefits for everyone but First Nations, there is a problem.
"We have zero per cent of the revenues from the natural resources that are developed on our ancestral lands," Nepinak said Friday, at a press conference.
Zero per cent.
The roadblocks are huge when First Nations try to take steps towards an economic prosperity. Take the Kapyong Barracks, for example. Seen by the government as a tract of land with immense value, they sidestepped First Nations to sell it and have the government's Crown corporation land redeveloper take it over. First Nations wanted a chance to buy that land, or some of it, to establish businesses and reap the profits of developing it themselves.
But the government simply ignored them.
Now the whole battle is in court and judges are asked to sort out whether First Nations should have been offered first crack. Meanwhile, nobody benefits. In fact, Ottawa is spending millions to maintain it while it's empty.
The arguments about the land that was taken over are centuries old. But like it or not, treaties signed with First Nations are more than pieces of paper that can be cast aside when there is a good deal to be done with someone else. Decisions about resource development, environmental regulations, housing, fishing, you name it, all must be viewed through the treaty lens.
The courts have repeatedly sided with First Nations when that doesn't happen.
The #nativewinter may not turn into an uprising like the Arab Spring. But chiefs are noticing the unrest in their communities is higher than it has been in a while.
The government, and all Canadians, would do well to take notice.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition December 10, 2012 A8
Updated on Monday, December 10, 2012 at 6:50 AM CST: Adds art.
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Why are we asking this now?
A pre-natal test for autism moved a step closer yesterday with the announcement by scientists at the University of Cambridge that high levels of the male hormone testosterone in the amniotic fluid surrounding the foetus in the womb may serve as an early warning signal of the condition.
Researchers led by Prof Simon Baron-Cohen, the autism expert, say the discovery raises the possibility that an amniocentesis test similar to that performed for Down's syndrome could be offered to mothers in the future.
Does this raise new ethical issues?
Professor Baron-Cohen seems to think so. He called for an ethical debate so that society could decide where it stood on the issue. "Would [a test] be desirable?," he asked. "What would we lose if children with autistic spectrum disorder were eliminated from the population? There is a test for Down's syndrome and that is legal and parents exercise their right to choose termination. But autism is often linked with talent. It is a different kind of condition."
Is Prof Baron-Cohen right?
No. Even if Professor Baron-Cohen's putative test were to be developed – and all that has been demonstrated so far is an association between testosterone levels in the amniotic fluid and autism – it would not be suitable for screening the whole population of pregnant women.
Amniocentesis involves the insertion of a long needle through the abdomen into the womb through which a sample of the fluid surrounding the foetus is extracted for testing. The procedure is not without risk – it carries a one per cent chance of triggering a miscarriage – and can only be justified where the chances of uncovering a birth defect such as Down's syndrome are similarly high.
So who should the testbe offered to?
A small number of selected mothers judged to be at high risk of having an autistic baby based on family history or previous children already born with autism. The test would only be performed by request – it would not be routine. (The difference with Down's is that there is a simple blood test that can be performed that gives an estimate of the risk of the condition, which can then be confirmed by amniocentesis. There is no blood test – existing or proposed – for autism.)
Might the test lead to the elimination of people with autism?
No, because it would not be used to screen the whole population of pregnant women. Screening for Down's is much more widespread, and in 92 per cent of cases diagnosed couples opt for a termination. But that has not led to the elimination of people with Down's syndrome. Although autism runs in families, suggesting a strong genetic influence, it also occurs spontaneously in families, making it impossible to predict. The benefit of a pre-natal test would be to offer to parents who have already experienced the burden of living with an autistic child a chance to have a second or subsequent child unaffected by the condition. For these families it would be a godsend – offering them a choice.
Why is Prof Baron-Cohen worried?
There is a critical difference between autism and Down's syndrome, he says, which is that in some cases autism is linked with genius – displayed in an obsessive interest in mathematics or engineering or music. Newton and Einstein were almost certainly autistic and the idea that people who were not only valuable members of society but also important contributors to its future might have been eliminated before they were born raises uncomfortable questions. Should medicine offer the opportunity to eliminate a foetus who may turn out to be a person of such importance, he asks?
Is this a valid argument?
Many may find the suggestion that some human beings are more valuable than others, and more worthy of being preserved, distasteful. One commentator yesterday suggested it came close to "Nazi-style eugenics". On this argument, all human beings should be valued equally, and they should never be discarded simply because they are difficult, eccentric, don't confirm to "norms", or cause inconvenience to others. That would be to interfere with the natural diversity of the human race.
What do other experts think?
Professor Joan Morris, director of the National Down Syndrome Cytogenetic Register, which records all Down's births, said there was no ethical distinction between testing for Down's or Spina Bifida (already offered in pregnancy) and testing for autism. "There is no new argument here," she said. Testing for each condition raised the same issues over the ethics of selecting foetuses for termination. All three conditions are life limiting (with the exception of severe spina bifida ) rather than life threatening.
Why does autism provoke such strong views?
The condition exerts a grip on the public imagination. In the social world in which we live, the capacity to read situations and respond appropriately is crucial to successful human interaction. Autism disturbs something that is core to our being human. First identified in 1943, autism has attracted increased interest in the past decade. Some suggest this is because, compared with other disorders such as Down's, people with autism look "normal" and are easier to identify with.
Is autism increasing?
Hard to say. With its defining symptom being "an inability to read social situations", it is not simple to diagnose. In people of high intelligence it may go unrecognised for years – even throughout their lives. As understanding has improved the diagnosis has expanded, and experts now refer to "autistic spectrum disorders" including Asperger's syndrome, to include those less severely affected. People with these milder disorders, sometimes described as "mind blindness", are thought to number 500,000. Of these, 100,000 are estimated to be of low IQ and to need support while the remaining 400,000 are of average or high IQ and are mildly affected. The severest kind of autism is thought to affect about 30,000 people in the UK.
Are there wider issues involving embryo screening?
Yes. Routine testing of pregnant women of the sort discussed here only covers a couple of disorders – Down's and spina bifida – and possibly in the future autism. But for a small number of women – those considering IVF – a whole raft of possibilities is opened up, through pre-implantation genetic screening. The first baby to be born in Britain after being screened for BRCA1, the breast cancer gene, was announced last Friday. It is now possible to screen for almost 200 inherited defects, including Huntingdon's disease and cystic fibrosis, by taking a single cell from the developing embryos, testing it in the laboratory, and then replacing those embryos in the womb that have been shown to be free of the defective gene. Opponents argue that this is another step towards eugenics – the selection and disposal of "imperfect humans.
Is it desirable to screen unborn children for autism?
*Only those at high risk of autism through their family history would be offered the test
*Autism would not be eliminated because the test would not be offered to every pregnant woman
*It does not raise different ethical issues from those raised by testing for Down's syndrome
*It could lead to the elimination of some of the greatest minds capable of shaping our future
*A whole range of individuals who add to the diversity of human nature might be lost
*With a large number of people – 500,000 – mildly affected the impact of a test could be huge
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Sally Bercow today dramatically took down her Twitter page after making a series of gaffes and having her account being hijacked by a hacker who called her a "stupid woman".
The Speaker's wife's account was deleted after a mysterious final tweet at 2.21am read: "Hello 1000s of followers (funking lunatics). Stupid woman — password softearev." The comment appeared to be a disdainful reference to the password protecting her account not being secure enough.
The drama came a day after a senior lawyer advised Mrs Bercow to "turn off her Twitter account" after getting into legal trouble for the second time this month.
Mrs Bercow is already facing legal action by Lord McAlpine, the former Conservative Party treasurer, for drawing attention to tweets speculating about the identity of a "senior Thatcher-era Tory" wrongly accused of sexually abusing children.
That furore claimed another scalp today when comedian Alan Davies said he had apologised to the peer.
In a tweet he said: "I've just written to Lord McAlpine to apologise for re-tweeting his name in relation to false allegations following a BBC investigation."
Yesterday Mrs Bercow got into hot water again by apparently breaching a court order banning the naming of a schoolgirl who allegedly ran off with her teacher — an action that could carry a £5,000 fine.
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Media lawyer Sarah Webb, of Payne Hicks Beach, said the online comment amounted to publication. "The contempt of court requirements will apply to her just the same as any newspaper or broadcaster," she told the Telegraph. "I would advise her to be very cautious. I would certainly urge her to turn off her Twitter account at the moment.
"She may not know the law, but equally most people who have an understanding of these things know that in respect of actions involving children and things like that, you can't go around naming them. I think it is surprising that none of these things seem to cross her radar."
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Last night, Mrs Bercow said she had been advised by her husband, Speaker John Bercow, and her lawyer not to reply: "Looking at tweets but (sadly) can't reply (#lawyerswhippedmyass #asdidMrB)."
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Mrs Bercow is a colourful tweeter and has insisted her tweet about Lord McAlpine was mischievous rather than libellous. She has accused the peer's lawyers of being "ambulance chasers" and "big bullies".
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Girls in "time-out." by Bad girls in "time-out" at Bethany Beach. - over 4 years ago
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BOOO BERRIES BEACH SOCCER! by THE BOOO BERRIES! - over 4 years ago
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