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The Independent (London, England)
The Independent is a Monday to Sunday newspaper, owned and published by Independent Print Ltd and headquartered in London, England. It was first published in 1986 in reaction to the conservative views held by the London Times and the London Telegraph. It has a liberal slant. The Independent's audience is London based, with 54 percent of its readership living in London and its surroundings. Other notable qualities of its readership are: the average reader is 43 years old; 59 percent are employed; 62 percent are married; 48 percent have a college degree or higher; and 73 percent own their own homes. Regions covered include: London and South East, South West, Midlands, North and North East, North West, Scotland, and Wales. The Independent is the youngest of Britain's daily newspapers and is notable for challenging London's more established and conservative daily newspapers. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. In 2010, Simon Kelner, Editor-in-Chief of The Independent, and Johann Hari, a regular columnist in the paper, each received a Comment Award, similar to the U.S. Pultizer Prize. Oliver Wright is Whitehall editor; Oly Duff is home news editor, and Katherine Butler is comment editor.
Articles from July 11, 2005
50,000 Will Mark Srebrenica, but the Bitterness Still Endures
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Thousands of people converge this morning on the mining town of Srebrenica in the hills of eastern Bosnia, to commemorate the worst act of genocide in Europe since the Second World War: the cold- blooded killing of nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by the...
A Day at the Beach " without Leaving Paris's Violent Estates
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Some of the most tense and dangerous inner suburban districts in the Paris area are inviting their citizens to go to the beach this summer, without leaving home. The idea of the 'urban beach' " a simulation of the pleasures of the seaside for people...
Aerospace Chief Calls for MoD Lead to Prevent Jobs Exodus
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The UK aerospace industry calls on the Government today to give a clear lead on the kind of defence manufacturing base it wants to retain in this country amid growing fears that jobs, research capabilities and skills will be exported. The latest aerospace...
ANALYSIS GAMES MAGAZINES: Fingers on the Buttons ; the Rise and Rise of Gaming Has Spawned a Lucrative Publishing Industry. Rebecca Armstrong Picks the Top Reads
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Edge Future Publishing. Circulation 28,790. pounds 4 Described by one disgruntled reader as having a readership akin to a 'parish magazine', Edge may not have the highest circulation but it's far and away the classiest games magazine on sale today, with...
ART FOR SALE: Jane Bustin & Alexis Harding @ Eagle Gallery
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One of the potent aspects of abstract painting is its ability to articulate what language fails to say. The two very different painters whose site-specific pieces are on show at the Emma Hill Fine Art Eagle Gallery work in this territory. Alexis Harding's...
Athletics: Douglas Leaps into Reckoning for World Medal
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The only clear glimpses of Olympic gold here yesterday, as British athletics staged its first meeting since London learnt it would host the 2012 Games, were provided by the two medals hanging from the neck of Kelly Holmes. But as a crowd sweltering in...
ATHLETICS: Holmes' World Championships Hopes Recede
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There were clear glimpses of Olympic gold here yesterday as British athletes gathered for the Norwich Union World Trials and AAA Championships, their first major meeting since London learned it would host the Games of 2012. Worryingly, however, they...
Book of the Week: The Barbarians by Alan Evans (Mainstream, Pounds 20)
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Before money came into rugby union, the Barbarians put on the richest show in town. Rugby lovers everywhere flooded to applaud their free-running skills and panache. For those invited to turn out for the Baa-Baas, it was a great privilege to represent...
Bridge
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The International Bridge Press Association presents a series of annual awards. This hand, originally reported by Eric Kokish of Toronto, Canada, won Cezary Balicki the C&R Motors prize for the best-played hand. It arose during the match between England...
Case Summaries: 11 JULY 2005. the Following Notes of Judgments Were Prepared by the Reporters of the All England Law Reports
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. Disclosure of Documents Mitsui & Co Ltd v Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd ([2005] EWHC 625 (Ch)); Ch D (Lightman J) 29 Apr 2005 The exercise of the jurisdiction of the court to order Norwich Pharmacal relief against third parties who were mere witnesses of...
Chess
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The last round of a major open like the recent European Championship in Warsaw is always an excellent example of 'fight or flight', with a number of pairs of players agreeing short draws to protect what they've got, while others, either more bellicose...
Coast Evacuated as Hurricane Dennis Hits Southern US
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Hurricane Dennis unleashed winds of up to 145 mph and torrential rain as it hit the coast of Alabama and western Florida yesterday in what experts fear could be the opening act of a devastating Atlantic hurricane season. Dennis, following almost exactly...
CRICKET: ENGLAND V AUSTRALIA - Ponting Shows His Class as Tourists Give England Ashes Wake-Up Call ; ENGLAND 223-8 AUSTRALIA 224-3 Australia Win by Seven Wickets
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Ricky Ponting and Australia reacted positively to Thursday's embarrassing defeat by England at Headingley when they completed a comfortable victory over Michael Vaughan's side here yesterday. The tourists' victory, which was completed when Darren Gough...
CRICKET: Footitt Debut Haul Helps Notts Make Giant Strides ; GLAMORGAN 267 & 214 NOTTS 425 & 57-0 Nottinghamshire Win by 10 Wkts
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Nottinghamshire took at least temporary residence at the head of the Championship table after completing a comfortable victory over Glamorgan with four and a half sessions to spare yesterday. A measure of resistance from the Glamorgan captain, Robert...
CRICKET: Warne's Parting Shots Give Edge to Hampshire ; HAMPSHIRE 355 & 192 MIDDLESEX 272 & 168-4 Match Abandoned at 73 Mins
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Shane Warne finds himself this morning just six wickets away from what would be the perfect send-off for him " a victory to take into the forthcoming Ashes series " because this is the Hampshire captain's last appearance for the county until after the...
CYCLING: Armstrong 'Happy' to Lose Yellow Jersey as Voigt Takes Over
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On Saturday, with his team failing to provide adequate support, Lance Armstrong looked vulnerable. Yesterday, he insisted he was happy about losing the yellow jersey to Jens Voigt, who finished third in Mulhouse behind the former mountain bike world...
Deedes Gambles on Sports Newspaper
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A national daily sports newspaper is to be launched to cash in on Britain's betting boom. The Sportsman, which will be on news-stands in time for the Cheltenham horse-racing festival next March, is designed to become a 'gambler's bible', providing statistical...
FOOTBALL: Mourinho Puts Midfield Trio on Mettle
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Three into two won't go, as the 1960s movie put it, and Joe Cole, Arjen Robben and Damien Duff face a fight for selection in Chelsea's midfield this coming season. Speaking in an interview in the current issue of Chelsea magazine, the club's manager,...
G8 SUMMIT PROTEST GROUPS: Send in the (Embedded) Clowns ; the Mainstream Were Not the Only Media Reporting from Gleneagles. Matt Salusbury Watched the Whole Event as a 'Foot-Soldier' of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
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We hear about embedded journalists in Iraq, attached to military units, living and eating with them, wearing their uniform, and submitting their dispatches to military censors for approval. Most 'embed' material is broadcast without mentioning that reporters...
GOLF: BRIAN VINER INTERVIEWS Luke Donald: 'Plod' and Panache a Recipe for Success at the Home of Golf ; Straight Hitting and More Complicated Mental Skills May Help Britain's Fast-Emerging Talent to Become the Open's First Domestic Winner since 1999 at St Andrews This Week
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This year, for the first time, 27-year-old Luke Donald heads into Open Championship week considered by those connoisseurs of the game of golf, Mr Ladbroke and Mr Hill, to be the British player most likely to win. Yesterday, William Hill had him at 33-1...
Golf: Clark Casts Flair Aside to Grind out Victory
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An Englishman, an Ulsterman and a Dutchman all made pre-Open statements of intent in the final round of the Scottish Open here yesterday, but it was a South African, for the fourth time in six years, who took the title ahead of this week's main event...
GOLF: Faxon's Journey Pays off with Place at St Andrews
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Brad Faxon has been grinding, unpretentious proof in Fife these past few days that you should never, ever generalise. The American Tour professional gained his place in this week's Open at Lundin, one of the four courses hosting local final qualifying....
Guilty Pleasure: Lorraine Candy on Michael Winner
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'I'm completely fascinated by Michael Winner; he's so peculiar. He pops up in the papers in odd places and then he pops up on TV dressed as a woman. I always think: 'How? Why?' I can't stop reading his column in the 'Sunday Times'. It's the first thing...
Infatuated with the Myth of Stoicism ; New Yorkers Went through Much Worse Than Us, and Got Scant Praise for Their Resilience
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For anyone of a remotely patriotic bent, the past few days have been full of guilty pleasures. Suddenly, the whole world appears united in admiration for the British. We are, they say, a uniquely tough and phlegmatic race " our sinews stiffened by long...
INSIDE STORY: Rocking around the Clock ; They're the People Who Keep the Celebs in " and out " of the Media Spotlight. Mark Borkowski Showcases the Best PRs in the Music Business
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It used to be a simple PR job to 'break' a band. Not necessarily easy " but the strategy was straightforward. You'd dole out free CDs and gig tickets to your favourite music journalists, throw in a few freebies like T-shirts and tour jackets, take them...
LEADING ARTICLE: Lessons from Bosnia in Dealing with an Atrocity ; SREBRENICA ANNIVERSARY
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As we struggle to come to terms with the implications of last week's bombs in London, it is worth reflecting on some of the lessons offered by the example of Srebrenica, where thousands will gather today to mark the 10th anniversary of Europe's worst...
LEADING ARTICLE: The Humdrum Return of Normality ; SECURITY THREATS
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We are a jittery nation in the wake of last week's attacks on London. So there was something inevitable about the events in Birmingham on Saturday night, when police ordered the evacuation of some 20,000 people from the city centre on account of what...
Let's Get Serious ; Charles Saatchi Has Done an About-Turn from the Frivolity of Britart. as Sue Hubbard Finds, 'Deep and Meaningful' Is Back
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Contemporary critics, art historians and artists alike must often seem to those outside the art world, when talking about painting, like family members gathered around the bed of a terminally ill relative, discussing them as if they had already kicked...
Let Us Not Grace These Bombers with a Cause. This Was about Pure, Hollow Evil ; If the Bombs Were Planted by Franchised Islamic Fascists They Don't Give a Damn about Iraq
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Bodies still lie uncollected in Tube tunnels; so many are unaccounted for and hundreds have had their hearts and hopes shredded by this premeditated slaughter. It is too soon, even sacrilegious, to talk beyond that suffering. If I had lost a loved one,...
Luxembourg's Voters Approve EU Constitution
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Voters in Luxembourg bucked the trend by giving resounding backing to the EU constitution after their country's Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, had threatened to resign in the event of a 'no' vote. Of 223,000 eligible voters in the EU's second smallest...
MEDIA DIARY: Of Blondes and Blunkett
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FAR BE it from the diary to shatter the rules of The Groucho Club, London's media drinking den, by reporting shenanigans from inside it's doors. However this one is perhaps too juicy. Could anyone explain what the former Home Secretary David Blunkett...
Merger Boom Makes Lawyers Millionaires
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Hundreds of Britain's top lawyers became millionaires last year after billing businesses a record pounds 3.5bn in legal fees. The vast profits reflect law firms' ability to benefit from a growth in international company takeovers and mergers from their...
Misery, Terror and the Failures of the G8 ; A Million New Small Businesses Would Be Far More Beneficial Than a Billion Dollars in Aid
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As a result of the London bombing, everyone lost sight of the G8. This is unfortunate. Vulgar Marxism cannot explain Islamic terrorism. Al-Qa'ida and similar organisations have plenty of middle- class recruits, but there is a connection between misery...
MOTORCYCLING: Kiyonari's Crash Leaves Rutter on Title Track
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Ryuichi Kiyonari crashed in the British Superbike Championship here yesterday and opened the door for the Leicestershire rider Michael Rutter to take his first title. Kiyonari, 22, scored his ninth win of the season in the first leg, but crashed his...
MOTOR RACING BRITISH GRAND PRIX: Brilliant Street Fighter Montoya Is Relegated to the Mere Supervisor of a Superior Car
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Wild boy? Maybe. The son of an architect who seems to have sprung from the least responsible corner of the barrio? Possibly. But potentially pure box office, cutting edge talent, a man who reminds you of what motor racing is supposed to be about? There's...
MOTOR RACING: BRITISH GRAND PRIX: Montoya's 'Perfect' Start Ends Victory Drought with McLaren
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With a little bit of help from his friends here yesterday Juan Pablo Montoya threw the monkey off his back to score his first victory for McLaren- Mercedes. The tense, nip-and-tuck contest between the Colombian and the championship leader, Fernando Alonso,...
My Life as a Movie ; Forget Wobbly Camcorder Footage " the New Vanity Is to Pay Up to Pounds 40,000 for a Professional Crew to Script, Film and Edit Your Life Story. Jonathan Margolis Goes Behind the Scenes on a Home Movie Set
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Commissioning a set of formal portraits in sombrely framed oils was once the fashionable way for well-to-do families to leave images of themselves for posterity. But today's cash-rich, time-poor masters of the universe have found a new and creative way...
MY LIFE IN MEDIA: Aggie MacKenzie
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Aggie MacKenzie, 49, is one half of the formidable How Clean is Your House? duo, the hygiene mafia on a mission to spring clean the entire country. Aggie picked up her first cleaning tips from her mum while growing up in Scotland. She is now married...
My Mentor: Eve Pollard on Felicity Green
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Felicity was the first woman to be on any board of any newspaper in this country, and assistant editor on the Daily Mirror when I was hired for the launch of the Mirror magazine in 1968. It didn't last very long and most people had to leave but she saved...
News from Elsewhere: This Should Touch a Nerve: Wisconsin Is Celebrating Dentistry and Root Canal Work
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Ah, there you are. Time for some better news. From Wisconsin, for example. Wisconsin seems a rather interesting place. Did you know, for example, that, before the California Gold Rush, there was a Wisconsin Lead Rush? There was, although it must have...
OBITUARY: ALEXANDER BROTT ; Composer, Conductor and Violinist
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For most of his 90 years, Alexander Brott sat at the heart of music in Canada " as conductor, composer, violinist, teacher, academic and animator. His autobiography My Lives in Music, published to mark his 90th birthday, recorded some of the conditions...
OBITUARY: CLAUDE SIMON ; Leading Exponent of the Nouveau Roman Best Known for 'The Flanders Road'
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Claude Simon, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985, is considered by some other writers and by many academics to be one of the most significant authors of our time, but he was never popular with the general reading public, even in France. He...
OBITUARY: NAN KEMPNER ; New York Socialite and Couture Enthusiast
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The quintessential Lady who Lunched, Nan Kempner was one of the women who inspired Tom Wolfe's description 'social X-ray'. An English size eight, incredibly elegant and a party animal par excellence, Kempner personified the particular brand of wealthy...
OBITUARY: PROFESSOR CHARLES GRUNSELL ; Distinguished Bristol University Veterinarian
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Charles Grunsell, after a peripatetic childhood, rose to become a distinguished veterinarian, from 1957 until 1980 as Professor of Veterinary Medicine at Bristol University. He combined this with being a lay reader in the Anglican Church and a member...
ON ADVERTISING: There's Life Yet in the Old Saatchi Brothers' BA Affair
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For most of my two long spells in various roles at Campaign magazine, there were perennial rumours that the British Airways account was to leave its agency Saatchi & Saatchi, and then M & C Saatchi, the brothers' new agency of which BA was a founder...
ON BROADCASTING: How Murdoch Lost to Berlusconi in a Game of Political Football
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It's not often that you can say that Rupert Murdoch has been well and truly turned over by a fellow media entrepreneur, even when he's a Prime Minister, but that is exactly what has happened in Italy, where the Murdoch investment in satellite television...
ON THE PRESS: How Do You Report the Bad News That Everybody Already Knows?
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By the time I picked up the newspapers on Friday morning, I must have watched seven or eight hours of television, and listened to two or three hours of radio. I may be an exceptional glutton for punishment, but I can't imagine there were many people...
ON THE PRESS: Newspapers Battle for Gold in the Great Olympic U- Turn
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As has been widely remarked, the euphoria of London winning the Olympics was short-lived. Not realizing that a much bigger story was around the corner, newspapers pushed the boat out. But they did not always regard the bid in such ecstatic terms. Perhaps...
Opera: ANNA BOLENA Tower of London Festival LONDON HHHH
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Adultery, incest, treason, witchcraft: the public opprobrium and judicial brutality that awaited young Anne Boleyn just three years into her doomed royal marriage were cruel indeed. Thousands sneered as the French executioner's gleaming sword fell on...
Palestinians Seek EU Help to Stop Settlement Spread
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Nasser al-Kidwa, Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority, has called for the EU to impose economic and other international sanctions to force Israel to stop settlement expansion and further construction of the separation barrier in the occupied...
Pop: THE DEARS Astoria LONDON HHH
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It would have been a perfect way to finish as the drummer flailed and the guitarist on tiptoes seemed about to lift off. Even a crunching bass sound added to the crescendo. Yet the Montreal sextet were only on their fourth song and set to drain themselves...
PREVIEW: Classical - Messing with the Masters ; THE BROOK STREET BAND Wigmore Hall LONDON
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The cellist of the all-girl Brook Street Band, Tatty Theo, plays a 1740s Baroque cello that she inherited from her grandfather, the British cellist William Pleeth. 'It is pretty much unchanged since Handel's day,' says Theo. 'It has its original scroll...
Primark Set to Buy Littlewoods Stores for Pounds 400m
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Primark, the budget clothing chain owned by Associated British Foods, is close to agreeing a pounds 400m deal to buy the 120 stores owned by the Littlewoods retail business. The purchase would double the number of shops owned by Primark but it is likely...
Racing: Phoenix Reach Back for King George
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By getting married at the end of this week, Andrew Balding has not given himself much chance of a proper honeymoon. The trainer will take his new wife to France for a couple of days before scurrying back to prepare Phoenix Reach for the King George VI...
Rover Bidders Race to Tie Up Longbridge Rescue Deal
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David James, the corporate troubleshooter brought in to save the Millennium Dome, hopes to table a formal offer today for the failed car maker MG Rover after a weekend of talks with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC), its original rescue...
RTL in Talks to Buy Stake in Channel Five from UBM
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Germany's RTL is in talks with United Business Media to acquire the 35 per cent of the UK television broadcaster Five it does not own. The deal could mean significant investment in Five, together with a push to add new stations to the business. There...
RUGBY LEAGUE: Trinity Prove Too Hot to Handle ; WAKEFIELD 44 BRADFORD 34
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Wakefield vastly improved their chances of Super League survival and Tony Smith's prospects of keeping the coaching position on a permanent basis as they outlasted Bradford on the hottest day of the season. Trinity's ability to score long-distance tries...
RUGBY UNION: THE LIONS IN NEW ZEALAND: O'Connell Takes Share of Blame ; Resounding Defeat in the Third Test in Auckland Completed a Wretched Lions Tour Where Three Major Mistakes from the Head Coach Left His Side Looking Outdated and over the Hill. Chris Hewett Reports
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Paul O'Connell, one of the handful of players who started all three Lions Tests, believes the squad must not allow their coach, Sir Clive Woodward, to shoulder the entire burden of blame for their miserable tour of New Zealand. 'I think we have to take...
RUGBY UNION: THE LIONS IN NEW ZEALAND: Spin, Schedule and Selection: How Woodward Got It Wrong ; Resounding Defeat in the Third Test in Auckland Completed a Wretched Lions Tour Where Three Major Mistakes from the Head Coach Left His Side Looking Outdated and over the Hill. Chris Hewett Reports
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It was Laurie Mains, the former New Zealand coach who first planted the seeds of the 'new rugby' strategy brought so wonderfully to full flower by the All Blacks in this mismatch of a Test series, who publicly suggested at the start of the tour that...
Small Talk: Synergy Healthcare Takes a Risk with Pounds 8.7m Shiloh Deal
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Synergy Healthcare's pounds 8.7m acquisition of Shiloh could prove controversial. Synergy is the dominant private-sector provider of 'sterilisation services' to the National Health Service. It takes away surgical instruments and the like and returns...
Suicide Bomb Kills 25 Iraqi Army Recruits
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A man with explosives strapped to his chest killed 25 and wounded 47 people at a Baghdad army recruitment centre in a new surge of violence in Iraq in which at least 50 people died. The suicide bomber in Baghdad joined a crowd of several hundred young...
TERROR IN LONDON: Clarke Warns of Further Atrocities Unless Bombers Are Tracked Down
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London bombers could be plotting further atrocities, Charles Clarke warned yesterday as he urged fresh action against terrorism across the European Union. The Home Secretary said he was optimistic that the group behind the blasts would be tracked down....
TERROR IN LONDON: MUSLIM COMMUNTIY - Mosques Attacked by Arsonists as Asians Fear Surge of Race Hate
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The terror attacks in London have provoked reprisal attacks on Asians. Police are investigating several incidents, including four arson attacks on mosques that may have been motivated by revenge. The attacks were in Leeds, Belvedere, south London, Telford...
TERROR IN LONDON: Officers on Piccadilly Wreckage Face Task of 'Extraordinary Horror'
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Teams of police officers recovering the bodies left on the Piccadilly line can only work in two-hour shifts because of the intense heat and fumes in the tunnel. Sergeant Gary Locker said officers were having to carry bodies over their shoulders in places...
TERROR IN LONDON: Psychological Scars of Attacks Are Just Beginning to Surface
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Today is the first day of the return to anything like a normal working week for the UK generally and London specifically, following an unprecedented emotional roller-coaster ride of Live8, the Olympic bid then terrorist outrage. What is it going to be...
TERROR IN LONDON: Recovering Bodies Could Take Many Days
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The gruesome task of recovering human remains from the three London Tube blasts could take many more days, police warned last night. The death toll so far from the atrocities is 49, with all visible bodies removed from the four sites. Detectives said...
TERROR IN LONDON: Religious Leaders Unite to Defy Terror ; POLITICAL AFTERMATH
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Britain's most influential religious leaders pledged to defend the country's multi-cultural society against the evil of terrorism in a show of unprecedented unity at Lambeth Palace yesterday. In the wake of the bomb attacks on London, Protestant, Catholic,...
TERROR IN LONDON: Secret Plan to Pull Troops out of Iraq in Nine Months
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Secret proposals to pull most British troops out of Iraq within nine months have been drawn up by John Reid, the Secretary of State for Defence. Under the plan, the British contingent could be reduced from 8,500 to 3,000, with some soldiers coming home...
Terror in London: The Agony ; Twenty More Names Added to the List of Those Missing
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James Mayes 28, ANALYST Friends of Mr Mayes, an analyst for the Healthcare Commission, took photographs of him to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel in a bid to track him down. He is believed to have travelled through King's Cross station on the...
TERROR IN LONDON: The Fear Factor: Counselling on Offer as London Attempts Its Return to Normality
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Four days ago London was a city under attack. Dozens of people lay dead, many more terribly injured. The transport system was paralysed. Financial markets in turmoil and millions of workers were left wondering what lay ahead for the capital as they trudged...
TERROR IN LONDON: The Long, Agonising Wait for Information
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Rachelle Chung For Yuen, 27, an accountant from Mauritius, has not been seen since she left for work from home in Mill Hill, north London on Friday morning. Her husband Billy, 29, believes she may have been caught in the King's Cross explosion. They...
TERROR IN LONDON: THE MISSING - Woman Who Escaped the Daily Terror of Israel Is Feared Dead
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Anat Rosenberg was a vivacious woman who embraced to the full the busy and colourful life she was able to lead in her adopted city of London. She had a good and worthwhile job, an active social life and a loving boyfriend. And as an Israeli exile, Ms...
TERROR IN LONDON: 'The Way to Let Terrorists Win Is to Shut Down Free Speech' - the Monday Interview: Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty
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Shami Chakrabarti had been at her desk for an hour when news of the attacks filtered through to her office in London. E-mails from staff first appeared, saying they were running late, then a message linked to a news website explained the reason for the...
TERROR IN LONDON: 'We Can't Live in Fear' ; in the Shadow of Terror, Bomb Victims Go Back to Work
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Mark Margolis The 29 year-old was one of the first survivors to emerge from the King's Cross tunnel. He has had trouble sleeping since the disaster, but has been back on the Tube with his wife. He said: 'There is a spirit of defiance. All my friends...
TERROR IN LONDON: 'We Were Unlucky " but Lucky'
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Frances Bastien HEAD OF FINANCIAL SERVICES IN ISLINGTON COUNCIL'S SOCIAL SERVICES, 40 She was also uninjured. 'There was a big white flash. You felt it was personal to you " it was in your head " as you didn't hear anything. It was just a flash and at...
Terror's Long-Term Cost to the Economy
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People have all sorts of views on globalisation but there can be no doubt that, last week, we saw a series of atrocities carried out against one, particularly enlightened, version of globalisation. London, like other major international cities, is an...
Theatre: THE 39 STEPS West Yorkshire Playhouse LEEDS HHHH
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'Ladies and gentlemen, with your kind attention and permission, I have the honour of reviewing for you one of the most remarkable adaptations in the world. Every day, a cast of four performs from memory the roles of 29 characters, and remembers every...
Theatre: The Trials of Young Love ; SHELL CONNECTIONS: CITIZENSHIP / CHATROOM National Theatre, Cottesloe LONDON HHHH
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There aren't many phrases that make a critic's heart sink faster than 'youth theatre'. (The only one that comes to mind is 'a journey through her own therapy', owing to a particularly traumatic early encounter with the fringe.) Too often, teenage acting...
The Case of the Mallett and Old Hairy's Beard ; Your Honour, May I Ask the Court to Tell the Defendant Not to Be a Mouthy Little Toe-Rag?
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Some strange things have been happening in the law courts recently, and it seems that they are about to get stranger. It is proposed that, in about a year's time, the first children's court will go into session. A former magistrate's court in Hull is...
THE GREEN GODDESS: The Dream of Peace Is Still Alive
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Thursday's devastating attack on London, coming so soon after the soaring euphoria of the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, Nelson's colourful naval display and the winning of the Olympic Games (surely something there for everyone) left us crushed and demoralised....
The Green Pages: Back to Nurture ; Campaigner Liv O'Hanlon Has Left London to Champion the Greatest Cause of All " Planet Earth. Here, She Describes Her Mission to Salve the World
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One evening in May 2003, I announced to my dumbfounded family that we would be leaving London. I can't say I was filled with a fizzing zeal to start Britain's finest organic skincare company (that came later), just a deep urge to get the hell out of...
THE INTERVIEW BORIS JOHNSON: Sex, Piffle and Politics ; Being Editor of 'The Spectator', a 'Daily Telegraph' Columnist and the Tory MP for Henley Is Hard Work Enough without Getting Involved in a Massive Sex Scandal. but Boris Johnson Is Determined to Put That Behind Him, Writes Sholto Byrnes
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This week a play about The Spectator will open in London, but the magazine's editor will not be in the audience. Despite its being performed at the King's Head Theatre in Islington, not far from where he lives, Boris Johnson has no intention of attending...
The Legacy of War in Laos: FROM BOMBS TO BOATS ; during the Vietnam War, the US Dropped Thousands of Bombs on Laos, Many of Which Failed to Explode. Impoverished Villagers Now Gamble with Death as They Salvage the Scrap
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High among the opium fields of rural Laos, Khongsi is transforming bombs into pots and pans. As his children scuffle nearby, he is crouched over a blacksmith's forge, melting down a sheet of aluminium salvaged from a US cluster-bomb container. The flames...
THE WEEK AHEAD: Life Tastes Better at Sainsbury's but Sour for M&S
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Marks & Spencer's senior directors must wonder how their counterparts at J Sainsbury have managed to pull off such a neat public-relations trick. Although both companies have surrendered their market leadership in dramatic fashion over the past five...
THE WEEKEND'S TV: Roll out the Stereotypes ; the British Working Class SUN CHANNEL 4 the Story of ITV: The People's Channel SUN ITV1
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What Michael Collins wanted to find out in The British Working Class was 'how we went from being the salt of the earth to the scum of the earth'. 'We' is usually an unticketed-entry kind of word on TV, but this time there was a door policy. Unless you...
Tv: Watch Round the Clock ; Your Guide to Today's Must-See TV
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BEFORE 6PM Keeping up with the Joneses 11.30AM BBC1 Neighbours try to make the most cash from a sale outside their homes. A quiet day in the BBC Daytime ideas department, then. The Way to the Stars 1.05PM CHANNEL 4 Terence Rattigan's evocation of a British...
We Must Avoid the Terrorist Trap ; the IRA Nudged the British Army into Acting as Their Recruiting Sergeants
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Just before 9am yesterday in central Baghdad, a man detonated explosives strapped to his body in the middle of a crowd. He killed 25 people and wounded 47. Elsewhere in Iraq, five suicide bombers killed at least 23 other people. If the purpose of the...
WTO Chief Warns of Threat to Trade Talks
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t Global trade talks that could lift millions out of poverty by abolishing unfair subsidies are heading for failure despite the dramatic intervention of leaders of the G8 rich nations, the head of the World Trade Organisation said at the weekend. Supachai...
