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Thursday 1 August 2019 The Guardian •
17Let down by the system
‘If you cut me open I’d bleed the British fl ag’Ijeoma Moore’s favourite TV
programme is Dancing on Ice. Her
favourite meal is fi sh and chips.
She only speaks English and she
completed all her formal education
in Britain. But, according to the
Home Offi ce, she is not British.
Moore, now 24, realised this fact
two days after her 15th birthday,
when she was taken to a deportation
centre with her father, who was
visiting from Nigeria for her
birthday, and her brother, then 10.
UK border offi cials arrived as
the family were having breakfast
and put her in the back of a car,
leaving Moore terrifi ed one of her
schoolmates would see her. “ I
hadn’t done anything wrong yet I
was being treated like a criminal –
my Dad in handcuff s, me and my
brother fi ghting tears,” she said.
What ensued was weeks or
months – Moore is unsure – in
a detention centre. After being
released she w as put in foster care. It
took her years to reconnect with her
mother, who was terrifi ed of getting
her deported if they reunited.
That was in 2010. Moore’s
family had overstayed their visas
and needed to apply for limited
leave to remain. They had a strongconnection to the UK – Moore had
lived in the UK since she was two
and her mother had worked the
whole time , so they thought the
process would be easy.
Instead, Moore’s mother spent
years saving for lawyers and
application fees. She sold jewellery
and borrowed from family friends.
Once they had the cash there
were setbacks. But, after a few
bad lawyers and several failed
applications, Moore was fi nally
granted status to remain in 2015.
That year the supreme court
granted those who had been given
limited leave to remain at least twice
the right to study, exempting them
from international student fees of
up to £26,000. But as Moore had
applied only once she had to wait as
her friends headed off to university.
“You grow up believing that you are
entitled to go to university if you
work hard enough. I was a brilliant
student,” she said.
She added: “If you cut me open,
I’d bleed the British fl ag. Being
British is much more than a piece
of paper. I want them to realise
we have grown up here. There’s
nowhere else we could call home.”
Poppy NoorDefenceArmy fi elds cyber and
misinformation force
The British army will increasingly
use information warfare to fi ght
the growing threats of hackers,
propaganda and misinformation.
The Ministry of Defence said
plans to “rebalance the fi eld army”
by reintroducing the sixth division
will ensure the military can “defeat
adversaries both above and below
the threshold of conventional
confl ict ”.
It comes in response to a
growing use of cyber-attacks and
disinformation campaigns by hostile
states and terror groups.
L t Gen Ivan Jones, commander
of the fi eld army, said: “The
character of warfare continues to
change as the boundaries between
conventional and unconventional
warfare become increasingly
blurred.
“The army must remain
adaptable and evolve as a fi ghting
force. The speed of change is moving
at a remarkable rate and it will only
get faster and more complex.”
There will be no changes in
personnel numbers or funding
following the restructure.
Sixth division has its origins in
the fi rst and second world wars,
and more recently was formed
between 2008 and 2011 to serve in
Afghanistan. PA MediaFilm
Scorsese trails De Niro’s
digitally ‘de-aged’ roleFilm audiences got their fi rst
glimpse of a “de-aged” Robert
De Niro as the trailer for Martin
Scorsese’s new gangster fi lm The
Irishman was released yesterday.
The Irishman is Scorsese’s fi rst
fi lm with De Niro for almost a
quarter of a century – since 1995’s
Casino – as well as being their
ninth fi lm together: previous
collaborations have resulted in such
masterworks as Mean Streets, Taxi
Driver, Raging Bull and Good fellas.
Based on Charles Brandt’s
true-crime book I Heard You PaintHouses, The Irishman tells the story
of Irish-American union organiser
Frank Sheeran, who Brandt claimed
was the murderer of Jimmy Hoff a,
the notorious boss of the Teamsters
union who vanished in 1975 and was
declared legally dead in 1982.De Niro plays Sheeran, and Hoff a
is played by Al Pacino: remarkably,
the fi rst time the latter has appeared
in a Scorsese fi lm.
The fi lm’s use of computer-
generated imagery to make its
actors look younger has created
considerable interest. Sheeran
was in his mid-50s when Hoff a
disappeared, and Hoff a himself was
62; De Niro and Pacino are 75 and 79
respectively.
Scorsese himself expressed
misgivings over the technique and
t he technical challenge was such
that the fi lm’s postproduction took
longer than anticipated, leading to
the fi lm missing the deadline for the
prestigious Cannes fi lm festival in
M a y. Andrew Pulver▲ De Niro, 75, seen in The Irishman,
digitally altered to look aged in his 50s‘I want them
to realise
we have
grown up
here. There’s
nowhere else
we could call
home’Ijeoma Moore
Arrived at age 2▼ Ijeoma Moore arrived in Britain as
a toddler but was put in a detention
centre at age 15 and then in foster care
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