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1 J OANNE , 14, a pupil at a large comprehensive school in London, is sucking her lollipop as she explains why she insists on stuffing her mouth with such sweets. “I don’t buy any of the stuff in the canteen, it’s disgusting”, she says. “The drinks are vile – there’s no sugar in them. And as for the food, well, it’s all salads and vegetables and stuff – and I don’t like that. So I stock up before school on crisps and lollipops and chews, then at lunchtime I go and eat them where none of them nosy teachers is looking.” Her words are enough to make Jamie Oliver tear his hair out, but Joanne’s friends laugh and agree. They say that since the school got ‘sick-bag food’, they never go to the canteen. They much prefer to munch their sticky, fatty snacks in secret where no ‘health-police’ can find them. 2 It’s not quite what the Government intended when it set up the healthy food initiative. New laws demand that school caterers make sure that pupils are provided with ‘high-quality meat, 4 poultry or oily fish on a regular basis’ and that a ‘minimum of two portions of fruit and vegetables’ accompany every meal. Stimulated by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who highlighted the horrors of junk-food school meals in his School Dinners programmes, the Government has pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into providing healthy school meals. Sweets, chocolates and crisps have been taken out of the vending machines and off the meal counters at all state schools. Bowls of fresh fruit have replaced racks of doughnuts and jugs of water and sugar-free drinks are served 7 bottles of fizzy pop. 5 3 But the Government overlooked one important point: changing the law doesn’t change children’s minds! Any teacher will tell you that children don’t learn when they’re being forced.

His goal was to make it simple to use and a joy to look at. He succeeded. The result was the iPod. Briton behind Apple success story gives a rare interview to David Derbyshire 1 THERE are two things you need to know about Jonathan Ive, inventor of the iPod music player and the iMac computer. First, he is the most important British industrial designer of our time. He changed the way millions 4 listen to music and helped liberate computers from dull beige boxes. 2 Second, he is rather shy. He may be one of Britain’s hottest exports, but he does not usually do interviews. translucent television. It was followed by increasingly clever updates - an iMac that looked like an angle poise lamp and one that looked like a flat LCD television screen. 5 turn of the millennium Ive and his team of designers realised they could fit a computer hard drive into a box the size of a deck of playing cards and use it to store thousands of songs. For the first time it was possible to carry your music collection in your pocket. Its success was not just down to clever electronics. Critics said it looked fantastic and was ridiculously easy to use. Much copied, but never bettered, there are 30million iPods out there today. 6 warnings, it is a bit of a shock to meet “Don’t ask any personal questions,” the Jonathan Ive in the flesh. He is a marketing man from Apple warned. pleasant, charming and relaxed figure “He doesn’t like personal profiles. Talk in his late 30s (actually he is 38 but about design, but stay away from don’t tell the Apple PR people) with questions about 13 .” cropped black hair, jeans and a quietly 3 It is all a bit odd really. It is the sort fashionable jacket and open shirt. He of instruction normally given before an speaks quietly and thoughtfully with audience with the Pope, or even the the slightest touch of a south eastern Prime Minister, rather than a chat with English accent. Next to being the a designer at a computer company. world’s most influential designer he is

also the senior vice president of one of the worId’s biggest computer companies. He obviously believes he has the best job in the world. 7 Ive talks down his key role in ‘inventing’ the iPod and iMac, stressing the contribution of the manufacturing, software, hardware, and electronic teams in his charge. “Our goals are simple. We genuinely try to make the very best product that we can. We 10 have a belief that we can solve our problems and make products better and better. It’s a simple goal to articulate, but a difficult one to 18 .” 8 Apple’s philosophy is that their computers and music players should be simple to use and beautiful to look at. The fans say each product just seems 19 . The latest Apple range included the ‘impossibly small’ iPod Nano, the first video iPod and a new 11 iMac – a powerful computer and home entertainment system crammed into the casing of a flat screen television. 9 Put Ive in front of one of his iMac babies and his 20 is infectious. “Look at this. When you put it to sleep – suddenly there’s a small white light that appears on the front. But you only see that there’s a light there when it’s switched on. If it’s not switched on, there’s no need to see it. The aim,” he says, “is to create gadgets that can be

The latest Brat Camp has turned my life around 1 XANTHE LAIRD changed from a pretty and polite 14-year-old into a parent’s worst nightmare. At 17, she drank, smoked, swore and took drugs, and often lashed out. She was the despair of her mother, Sorrel Conquest, but, now 18, she has been home from Brat Camp for more than two months, has a job as a trainee stewardess on a boat and a new boyfriend. 2 SORREL anything to know where lying dead and I thought be locked 3 I tried Camp, but her letters showed she was changing. She sounded loving and affectionate again. It’s reward-based so they know they can only move forwards if they behave. It was brilliant for me, too, because the staff told me not to feel guilty about Xanthe’s behaviour. I had taught her about the dangers of drugs but she made her own choices. Now we get on really well. She’s stopped taking drugs and turned her life around. 4 XANTHE SAYS : At Brat Camp I had to sleep on wooden boards with no pillows, eat only porridge or rice and sit in a stone circle for four days without speaking to anyone. But I lasted the full 85 days. I was very self-destructive before I went and I wouldn’t let anyone help me. 5 When I arrived, I missed my mum for the first time in years and a lot of emotions hit me. The staff seemed evil and sitting in the circle was unbearable but after a while I realised everything they said made sense. We were made to work out why we’d got in such a state, and I got to know myself again. 6 Now I get a buzz from saying no to drugs and cigarettes. Before, I couldn’t give anything up because I had no faith in myself, but I feel great that I’ve managed to do it. I have so much to look forward to thanks to Brat Camp helping me to help myself.

Life and Grime of the Hotel Inspector 1 For 34 years Fred Chrystal has spent at least three nights each week inspecting hotels, guest houses, pubs and B&Bs on behalf of the AA 1) . Fred can honestly say he has lived most of his life out of a suitcase. But it has not always been a life of luxury! His filthiest experience ever was in the Highlands. At what could be described as a doss house 2) , he was shown a room with an unmade bed and no window. It reeked of beer and body odour and there was a half-pint glass containing what he hopes was beer. It was so 3 awful that he could not stay the night. Mr Chrystal said to the owners, who had applied for an AA rating: “This is not on. There are no standards here and I don’t think they are possible.” They just turned round and said they’d changed their minds and did not want one. He won’t name the establishment because it still exists under new management. 2 His visits are not always to country or seaside locations. He recalls a miserable night in a city-centre hotel. Although an inspector’s job is mainly to inspect bedrooms, bathrooms, public areas, service and food and not to take the role of environmental health officer, noot 1 AA = Automobile Club, Britse ANWB noot 2 a doss house = een opvang waar daklozen de nacht kunnen doorbrengen

4 He is impressed by the way that young people working in hotels and catering try to please. “In almost 80 percent of visits it really is delightful, service with a smile,” he said. Mr 5 Chrystal has never been bribed during his nights away. He likes to 35 so that staff do not guess he is an inspector. A newspaper is his favourite prop at the restaurant while keeping a discreet eye on the staff.