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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 February 12, 2005
10 Questions A Quiz by Jeremy Beadle ; (Answers on Page 53)
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1. What links Brent, Arbroath and Beatrice to the Elbe, Rhine and Thames? 2. What links a Leicester-born celebrity made famous by Sir Frederick Treves; a drawing by Antoine de Saint-Exupery for The Little Prince; and Mandy Miller? 3. What links Gardeners'...
24-HOUR ROOM SERVICE: Raffles Resort St Vincent & the Grenadines
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Hurricanes hit the Grenadines on average once every 70 years, so it was with particularly bad timing that Raffles opened its first Caribbean resort on the island of Canouan last August - just weeks before Hurricane Ivan arrived. Raffles' staff retreated...
48 HOURS IN BANGKOK ; Full of Golden Palaces, Teeming Markets and Fabulous Food, the Thai Capital Is a Popular Destination for Budget Travellers. but Bangkok Can Also Boast Some Stunning Five-Star Hotels. David Leck Explores
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WHY GO NOW? Between now and April, Bangkok enjoys its most pleasant weather. The oppressive humidity and monsoon rains have passed, giving way to clear skies and pleasantly hot days in this exotic yet accessible city. TOUCH DOWN Thai Airways (0870 606...
Are European Stock Markets Ready to Start Motoring? ; Slow Growth in Europe, Says Iain Morse Has Masked Some Good Opportunities
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Whatever happened to Europe? In the late Nineties, European unit trusts were top performers but have since lagged behind UK ones. And the economic news from France and Germany is lacklustre. Last week, German unemployment topped five million, out of...
A Sunshine Lifestyle and Good Profits: Why More Britons Than Spaniards Set Up Business in Spain
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FROM SELLING Marmite to homesick compatriots to taking holidaymakers out on the Mediterranean, British entrepreneurs are staging a quiet invasion of Spain. Once it was opening a pub or teaching English, but Spain is now attracting a record number of...
ATHLETICS: Holmes Pays Heavy Price for Pulling out of Trials
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IT IS a measure of Kelly Holmes's transformed status that she can equably contemplate a fine of pounds 25,000 for missing this weekend's Norwich Union AAA Championships and European trials in Sheffield, which lost another Olympic gold medallist when...
Australian Boost for Xstrata in WMC Bid Battle
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THE AUSTRALIAN government yesterday cleared the A$8.4bn (pounds 3.5bn) bid from London-listed Xstrata for WMC Resources. The news prompted speculation that the clearance could lead to other bidders emerging. WMC, which has twice rebuffed Xstrata, has...
Axe Falls on 670 Jobs at Stricken Store Group Allders
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MORE THAN 10 per cent of employees across Allders are to lose their jobs in advance of the department store group's eventual break- up, the administrators admitted yesterday. A total of 670 jobs are to be axed, including 209 at the company's Croydon-based...
Baker Returns to the Fold as Green Energy Firm Floats on AIM
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JOHN BAKER, the former chairman of National Power, is returning to the stock market as the head of a green energy company which floated on AIM yesterday with a price tag of pounds 14.5m. Renewable Energy Holdings raised pounds 10m through a placing of...
BA Substitutes Charter Flights for Scheduled Jets
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Some British Airways passengers expecting to fly this weekend to Florida and Kenya on state-of-the-art jets will instead find themselves squeezed into a Portuguese charter aircraft. The airline says that the Boeing 777 normally used for the Gatwick-Tampa...
Be My Valentine, Rover: Owners Splash out on Treats for Their Dogs
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VALENTINES DAY is coming and Americans are splurging on little somethings for their special loves. Wrapped in red tissue will be diamond jackets, spa vouchers, nail polish - and the occasional rawhide chewy bone. Dogs, not girlfriends or wives, will...
Blair's Six Pledges Set Battle Lines for the General Election
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TONY BLAIR drew up the battle lines for the general election yesterday, launching six pledges designed to persuade a sceptical electorate that the Government can improve their lives. A pocket pledge card with six election slogans was published at the...
Blunders Blamed for Mob Killing of Red Caps in Iraq
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THE MINISTRY of Defence has admitted that "systemic weaknesses" in Army procedures and mistakes by "individuals on the ground" contributed to the deaths of six Red Caps who were killed by a mob in Iraq. Yesterday, families of the soldiers accused the...
BOXING: Alvarez Hammer Blows Put Gomez Career on Ropes
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IT ALL went wrong for Michael Gomez here in Manchester last night. Gomez was stopped on his feet in the sixth round of a fight that he never once looked like winning by the relatively unknown and untested Argentinian Javier Osvaldo Alvarez. The defeat...
BOXING: Defeat Does Little to Dampen McCullough's Ambition
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WAYNE McCULLOUGH is determined to pursue his ambition of winning a second world title, despite defeat at the hands of the World Boxing Council super-bantamweight champion Oscar Larios on Thursday night in California. The Mexican retained his title with...
Break for the Border ; Rhiannon Batten Takes a Walking Tour of the Sierra Aracena, the Remote Mountain Range on Spain's Wild Frontier with Portugal
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I first-geared the car through Castano del Robledo's narrow cobbled streets, beneath the geranium-filled balconies of its whitewashed houses. A firework fizzed overhead and salsa music shimmied out from the village square. All this Hispanic idyll needed...
Bridge
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This deal won the Digital Fountain Best Played Hand Award from the International Bridge Press Association for the Norwegian star Geir Helgemo. It did not occur in a major event, but on the internet. South opened the bidding with One Heart, North responded...
Bring Back Some Glamour to Our Lives ; It Reminds Me That, Once upon a Time, People Were Glamorous and Sophisticated and Civilised
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Two doors along from the video rental up the road, there's a shop that specialises in vintage clothing. It smells of mould and mothballs and the stock, mainly 1920s and 1930s cocktail dresses, is packed so tightly on the rails that you have to prise...
Britain's Orient Express Firm Buys Russia's Oldest and Grandest Hotel
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RUSSIA'S OLDEST hotel, one of its most prestigious pre- revolutionary architectural gems, has been bought by the British hotel firm that operates the Orient Express. Regarded as decadent by the Communists, the Grand Hotel Europe in St Petersburg was...
Btw
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I've had the Ikea experience. I've been there. I've been through their checkout and noted its resemblance to Hades - the crepuscular gloom, the dungeon lighting, the mile-long shuffling queue, the glum, sickly faces, the trolleys piled high with flat-pack...
Chess
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I reported last week on the final results in the superb top group at Wijk aan Zee won by Peter Leko and the very strong "GM B" in which the young Ukrainian star Sergey Karjakinran out the winner. But such is the strength in depth in Wijk that even the...
Children: What to Do This Weekend
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Plague & Pox Warwick Castle (0870 442 2375; www.warwick-castle.co.uk) today & tomorrow (and to 20 Feb), 10am-5pm, adults pounds 12.95, children pounds 7.95, family pounds 34 Discover how putrid medieval life could be, in a light-hearted look at disease...
Children: What to Do This Weekend in London. and Beyond
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Chinese New Year V&A, Cromwell Road, SW7 (020-7942 2000; www.vam.ac.uk) today & tomorrow, 11am-5pm, free If tomorrow's Chinese New Year celebrations in Chinatown and Trafalgar Square (11am-5.30pm) sound a bit raucous, there are other places in the capital...
Computer Games
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MERCENARIES: PLAYGROUND OF DESTRUCTION Format: Xbox, PS2 Publisher: LucasArts Developer: Pandemic Price: pounds 39.99 All of the best games let gamers do things they could never attempt in reality - climb like Spider-man, seduce the dames like James...
Crestor Should Only Be Used as Last Resort - FDA Chief
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CRESTOR, AstraZeneca's most important new drug, should only be used after every other alternative has failed, David Graham, the outspoken government scientist in America's Food and Drug Administration, has said. Dr Graham's views will be seen as a blow...
Cricket: Branching Out: Life after Stumps for a Journeyman Bowler
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I got bored at Hampshire Cricket Club this week. I had two hours to kill waiting for a meeting of trade union activists to finish (long story). The Rose Bowl is a good-looking place, although in thick fog I could only see about a fifth of it. Clearly,...
CRICKET: Rain Brings Curtain Down on Series for England ; SOUTH AFRICA V ENGLAND South Africa 211 England 7-2 Match Abandoned
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ENGLAND LOST the Standard Bank Series last night as a coastal squall swept across the Kingsmead ground. If it was an unsatisfactory way to go, it was not as unfortunate as some of England's team selections in the past fortnight. With one match still...
Death of a Playwright Arthur Miller 1915 - 2005
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ARTHUR MILLER, perhaps the greatest American playwright of the 20th century, died yesterday at the age of 89. He never won the Nobel Prize for literature, but few writers in any country at any time have so captured the universal themes of family, of...
Deborah Orr: Ikea Has Become a Dangerous Cult, Worshipped with Religious Fervour
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Of course no one should laugh, what with real human suffering being central to the tale, and all that. But the comic, gaiety-of- the-nation absurdity of the Ikea riots of 2005 has to be acknowledged. There's an element of recognition in our amusement,...
Don't Ruin Olympic Dream, Protesters Told
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TESSA JOWELL has told campaigners opposed to London's bid to stage the Olympic Games that any attempt to sabotage the project would "ruin the dreams" of the vast majority of Britons. The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport said protesters...
Dozens Die in Dam Burst as Rainstorms Hit Pakistan
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AT LEAST 54 people were killed and more than 400 were missing last night after a dam burst in a remote area of south-west Pakistan. The flooding came after a week in which the heaviest rain and snowfall in years has caused scores of deaths. Neighbouring...
Errors & Omissions: The Story of the Royal Navy's Incredible Hulk
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HMS Severn is one of the Royal Navy's new river class offshore patrol vessels. Armed with machine guns and 20mm cannon and able to deploy both landing craft and helicopters, she represents the very latest in fishery protection, combined with roles including...
EUROPEAN FOOTBALL: Hamburg Win Pounds 1.3m Compensation
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HAMBURG SV will receive two million euros (pounds 1.3 million) and be allowed to host an international friendly as compensation for a Cup defeat last year which was later found to have been fixed, the German Football Association (DFB) said last night....
Faith & Reason: Does the Church Do Enough to Support the Institution of Marriage? ; the Church of England Should Look after Those Caught Up in the Mess We Sometimes Make When Falling in and out of Love
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THERE IS a certain vintage of church journalist, and sadly I am one, who can be identified by our reaction to a simple phrase: "Option G". Whisper it into our ear, and the blood drains from our limbs. In 1983 the Church of England thought it had finally...
Families: `We Want to Take Our Two Small Children on a Beach Holiday with Culture Next Month to Mark My 40th'
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Q I am turning 40 in March and want to mark the occasion with a week's holiday with my husband and children (aged two and three) somewhere warm. We don't want to fly too far (time zone issues with the children), but would like a beach, some sights and...
Family's Despair at Lonely Death of Drifter
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JENNIFER KIELY enjoyed her life as a mother, bringing up her young family with her partner. She took her children to the park and was proud of her home in Orpington, Kent. But shortly after the birth of her third child, a boy, her life started to go...
FASHION SPECIAL: Making His Marc ; the High Street Hijacks His Ideas - and Even Hollywood Stars Have Been Known to Steal His Clothes. Susie Rushton Talks to Marc Jacobs, the Man Who Knows What Women Want. Fashion Photography by Lacey Styling by Beth Dadswell
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IT IS the day before his menswear show for Louis Vuitton in Paris and Marc Jacobs is feeling, in his words, "very, very chatty", the result, he says of "about three hours' sleep and six coffees already. Well, it's showtime. I'll clean up my act after...
FASHION SPECIAL: Paradise Found ; Pack Your Sense of Adventure - This Season There's Something for the Most Intrepid Follower of Fashion. Photographs by Luke Kirwan Styling by Beth Dadswell
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This page Vests, pounds 105 each, leather belt, pounds 65, both by Margaret Howell, 34 Wigmore Street, London W1, 020-7009 9009; shorts, pounds 30, by Great Plains, enquiries 020-7399 7200; suede sandals, pounds 250, by Prada, 16-18 Old Bond Street,...
FASHION SPECIAL: Rain Supreme ; Once, Its Classic Kit Was Worn by the Likes of Sir Edmund Hillary and Margaret Thatcher. Now Aquascutum, the King of British Rainwear, Is Chasing an Altogether Cooler Clientele. Cat Callender Hails the Return of the Mac
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"I LOVE FRUIT gums." "I love peanut butter." "I love one can of beer." Meet Graeme Fidler and Michael Herz, the designers behind Aquascutum's brand-new line, which will make its debut during the London collections beginning tomorrow. While the fruit-gum-munching...
Fashion Special: WALK THIS WAY ; Susannah Frankel Unveils the 10 Key Looks for the New Season Research by Gemma Hayward Photographs by Chris Moore
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SPRING/SUMMER 2005 and fashion is in no mood for challenging. Instead, looks are reassuringly familiar rather than dark and distressed; unashamedly pretty and even naive with not a care for the politically correct. Inspiration comes from fields as diverse...
First-Time Buyers More Confident - and Ruthless
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FIRST-TIME buyers are borrowing a higher proportion of their property's value than ever before, with the average home loan to value (LTV) having increased to almost 85 per cent over the past year, according to Moneyextra website. Although official statistics...
FIVE BEST HONEYMOON HOTELS ; Rhiannon Batten Brings You the Premier Romantic Hideaways for That Very Special Holiday
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My own private island Caribbean It's the perfect choice for anyone worried that they're going to let slip with the name of their destination. Book in at Caribe Cay in the Bahamas and all you have to say is that you're off to "My Own Private Island"....
Food & Drink: Do Stop Waffling ; Mark Hix Cuts to the Point: Stop Eating Oven Chips and Potato Faces - It's Time to Rediscover Real Spuds You Like
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THE POOR old potato. It's one of the staples of our diet, but so often we don't give it a second thought, and it certainly doesn't get the credit it deserves. We (well, not me, but some people out there) buy frozen oven chips, waffles, potato smiles...
`Food Miles Dilemma' Hits Organic Shopping
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SATURDAY IS the day when people who buy organic or ethically sourced food can do the most damage to the planet. On the supermarkets' busiest day of the week, shoppers across the country are faced with what is being called the "food miles dilemma". Do...
FOOTBALL: Barcelona's Red-Card Reception
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BARCELONA FACE a double burden of pressure when they take on Real Zaragoza in what promises to be a tense Primera Liga encounter at La Romareda tonight. The leaders are anxious to prove that their first home defeat of the season, against Atletico Madrid...
FOOTBALL: Barton Seeks Spirit of Role Model
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YESTERDAY'S CONFIRMATION that Roy Keane intends to retire at the end of next season is likely to provoke mixed feelings for Joey Barton. On the one hand, the young Manchester City midfielder can attest to the fact the playing arena will be a much less...
FOOTBALL: Glazer Finds Open Books and Closed Doors at United
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MANCHESTER UNITED last night allowed Malcolm Glazer to take a small step forward with his takeover bid, by granting him access to the club's books, but then effectively took his feet from under him by saying that they will not provide the potentially...
FOOTBALL: Keane's Decision Remains Resolute
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THERE WILL be calls to carry on, pay-as-you-play deals dangled in front of him, but those who offer them should realise that Roy Keane's mind is not one for changing. Yesterday the Manchester United captain confirmed he would be retiring from football...
Football League Matches of the Day
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THE CHAMPIONSHIP Crewe Alexandra v Wigan GIVEN THAT they led the Championship by six points in early November but now trail the current front-runners Ipswich Town by five, it is hard to argue that Wigan Athletic's status as promotion favourites is as...
FOOTBALL: Look Back on Anger: How Holloway Put Stress on the Leash and Gained Extra Bite ; the QPR Manager Lived Close to the Edge until a Brush with Reality TV. Jason Burt Meets a Changed Man
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Not so long ago Ian Holloway acquired a dog. But it is the Queen's Park Rangers manager himself who has been barking. After all, this was the man who, on achieving promotion last season, declared: "Every dog has its day. And today's woof day." Nine months...
FOOTBALL: Mourinho Stands to Pocket Pounds 4.2m Bonus for Full Trophy Haul
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ROMAN ABRAMOVICH will pay Jose Mourinho a bonus of EUR6m [pounds 4.2m] if Chelsea win all four trophies this season. The Chelsea owner will also agree this summer to Mourinho's request for an extension to his current pounds 4m-a-year contract. Mourinho...
Football: Old Pro. ... Bright Young Thing
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SPENCER PRIOR SOUTHEND UNITED, 33 The former Norwich, Derby and Manchester City centre-half enjoyed his best times as a member of Martin O'Neill's side at Leicester, his career reaching a peak in 1997 when he won a League Cup winners' medal. The Filbert...
FOOTBALL: O'Neill Keeps Striking Options Open as Bellamy Awaits Debut ; SCOTLAND
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MARTIN O'NEILL, the Celtic manager, has a striking dilemma for the Premier League visit to Inverness Caledonian Thistle tomorrow. The recent loan signing Craig Bellamy, who was not risked on the Dunfermline plastic pitch last week, is pushing to make...
Football: Weekend Guide to the Premiership and Fa Cup
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Everton Form: WDLWD Leading scorer: Bent 6. Subs from: Wright, Bent, Ferguson, Arteta, Osman. Injured: Watson (stomach, four weeks). Doubtful: Carsley (leg), Cahill (ankle). Suspended: Hibbert (one match). Killer fact: Have not beaten Chelsea home or...
FOOTBALL: Wenger Expresses Support for Reyes after Hoax Radio Call
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ARSENE WENGER last night reiterated his faith in the ability of Jose Antonio Reyes but also said that if the Spaniard wanted to leave Highbury, he only had to ask. The Arsenal manager was talking after Reyes, who joined the Gunners 13 months ago, was...
FOOTBALL: WHOLLY ROMAN EMPIRE ; in Less Than Two Years, He Has Transformed English Football, Yet Very Little Is Known about Roman Abramovich's Day-to-Day Involvement with Chelsea. Does He Talk to the Players? How Often Does He Go to the Ground? Would He Know the Tea Lady? Jason Burt Went in Search of the Most Powerful Man in Football and Came Up with Some Surprising Answers
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It's a match-day afternoon and a slight, unremarkable figure slips out of his house and sets off to support his local football team. Dressed in blue Armani jeans and Burberry shirt, he looks like many other fans as he enjoys the mile or so walk to Stamford...
FOOTBALL: Why I Will Never Call into Question the Exploits of Our World-Conquering Dames
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IT IS desperately pitiful, I always think, when those who merely write about sport attempt to garner some reflected glory from those who actually participate. One sees it a lot, the paunchy hack either figuratively or literally bellowing "I was there"...
For Survivors, Dresden Is Still an `Open Wound' 60 Years On
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RUDOLF EICHNER produces a blackened chess piece from the pocket of a tattered shoulder-bag. His attempt to give an "objective" account of what happened to him in Dresden on the night of 13 February 1945 fails before it has even started. Big shiny tears...
French Starlets Sue Director over Casting-Couch Exploits
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AN AWARD-WINNING French film director was sent for trial for sexual harassment yesterday, accused of forcing young actresses to make explicitly sexual "test films" for his own "personal pleasure".Jean-Claude Brisseau, 60, who denies the charges, is the...
Gardens: Beyond the Pale ; amid Great Drifts of White Flowers, Anna Pavord Thinks She May Have Discovered Snowdrop Heaven
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SNOWDROP COLLECTORS have become among the most competitive of all gardeners and snowdrop lunches are a new fixture on the February calendar. But at this time of the year, I don't fancy getting down on my hands and knees, counting green spots. It's too...
Gardens: Weekend Work
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WORK TO DO n Snapdragons (Antirrhinum majus, below) are generally treated as annuals, but by nature they are perennials (though short-lived) and often flower better in their second season than their first. By then, they are big, bushy plants and produce...
GOLF: Flawless Round Puts Wilson in Sight of Fasth
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THE ENGLISH rookie Oliver Wilson is only three shots off the lead in the New Zealand Open a week after fearing he had contracted pneumonia. Wilson carded a flawless second-round 65 to be 13 under on another day of low scoring at Gulf Harbour. Miles Tunnicliff,...
HEROES & VILLAINS: Hussein Chalayan on Kate Bush ; the Fashion Designer (below) Finds Inspiration in a Musical Heroine
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I FIRST heard her in the late Seventies when I was living in Cyprus. My uncle had returned from a trip to London with a video of a British documentary about Abba, and Kate Bush was the guest star. She stuck in my mind for years after, and when I came...
Hit the Road, Mate ; Australia: A Vast, Bare, Unblemished Land Where the Highway Goes on Forever. Simon Calder Buys into the Legend by Purchasing His First- Ever Car
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Never having owned a car before, I hoped to bring a fresh approach to solving motoring problems. When finally I arrived at the magnificent collusion of nature, artifice and ocean that lazes under a benign sun and the name of Sydney, I was rattled. On...
Hostages Freed after Deadly Jail Siege Ends
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POLICE RETOOK control of a maximum-security Argentinian prison last night, winning the release of some two dozen guards held hostage for more than 24 hours after rioting by hundreds of inmates left eight people dead. A police chief, Jorge Rodriguez,...
How Do I Look? Rankin Photographer, Age 38 ; I'm Never Going to Be Six Foot or Have a Completely Flat Stomach
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WHEN I first started doing photography a lot of people thought I was black, because of my name, I think. I've had at least 20 or 30 people say to me, "I thought you were a really big, tall, black man". It was quite funny. Obviously I'm not - I'm a short,...
How to Get a Head Start in the Race for Your Dream Job ; Thea Jourdan Explores the Ways That Enterprising Candidates Can Secure Advantages
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If you are looking for a new job, there are plenty of reasons to be cheerful. Unemployment is at its lowest level in the UK since 1971, and opportunities are plentiful. According to the Office for National Statistics, the average number of job vacancies...
If You Ask Me ; You Can Send Valentine's Cards to Yourself, but Disguise the Handwriting
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IF YOU ask me, Valentine's Day can be a trial, especially if you are plain and boring and no one has ever wanted to go out with you, even though you've made it abundantly clear you'll put out on the first date, possibly within 10 minutes, if you can...
Inadequate Insurance Can Cost a Fortune ; Check You Have the Right Cover before a Disaster, Not after, Says Harvey Jones
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Your home is by far the most valuable thing you own, so make sure it's properly insured against nasties such as burglary, fire, flood, subsidence and accidental damage. One in six homeowners has no buildings insurance, which protects your bricks and...
Indulge the Healthy Way ; Is a Long Weekend at a `Dry' Fitness Retreat Really Any Way to Celebrate a Birthday? despite the Lack of Booze, Grayshott Hall - England's Original Spa - Left Raymond Whitaker on a High
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It was my birthday. To celebrate, my wife and I had ordered from a menu including dishes such as beef carpaccio, poached pheasant, poussin with caramelised vegetables and twice-poached pear with a wine and cream sauce. And what did we drink to mark the...
IN SEARCH OF... MAMMOTH SNOWBOARDING THRILLS; `It Comes Up with the Goods'
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Snow plummeted down on Mammoth over New Year - it buried every car and slowed each of the resort's chairlifts to a stop. Seven-and- a- half feet. In under a week! And that's no resort propaganda: we were there, sipping coffee and waiting as the locals...
INSIDE FOOTBALL: Uefa Curbs on Big Clubs' Purchasing Power Expose FA Betrayal of Game
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If you had wanted to check the health of top-flight English football, you could have done worse than measure its response to last week's polite announcement by Uefa of ever-so-modest proposals for more home-grown players to be included in first-team...
Integrity Gave His Life and Work Its Tensile Strength ; the Death of a Playwright: Arthur Miller 1915-2005
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I FIRST met Arthur Miller nearly 30 years ago, tracking from New York into a Connecticut where the woods were aflame. It was what is known as the leaf season when the maple trees turn to liquid colour. There were no hotel rooms to be had and I spent...
Iraqi Insurgents Kill 22 in Slaughter at Bakery and Mosque
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A SUICIDE bomber driving a truck loaded with vegetables killed 13 Shias in a town north-east of Baghdad yesterday. And gunmen chanting religious slogans shot dead nine people in a bakery in a Shia district of Baghdad in the latest upsurge of sectarian...
James Daley: Old Boys' Network Alive and Well in the Investment Trust Industry
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IN SPITE of the regulator's many attempts to clean things up, the financial services industry is still depressingly riddled with bad practice. But it's not very often that you see the apparent incompetence coming from within the mechanisms which were...
James Lawton: Glazer Is Just the Latest in a Line of Bounty Hunters
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There can be no more readily understood rage in all football than that currently building in the heart of even a law-abiding Manchester United fan. He awaits the ultimate football hijack, the takeover of Old Trafford by a less than alluring tycoon who...
Jazz & Blues
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Even at a time when female singers are all the rage, the rise of Gwyneth Herbert (below) has been little short of astonishing. Less than two years ago, she and guitarist Will Rutter released First Songs on an independent label. The CD's assured light...
Jazz & Blues
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Even at a time when female singers are all the rage, the rise of Gwyneth Herbert (below) has been little short of astonishing. Less than two years ago, she and guitarist Will Rutter released First Songs on an independent label. The CD's assured light...
J Lo Keeps Fur Collection under Her Hat to Prevent Protests
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JENNIFER LOPEZ bagged the prestigious final slot of New York fashion week with her debut show, upsetting established designers. The singer then stirred controversy by presenting a collection of furs. "Jennifer is a great lover of fur," said Charlie Ross,...
Ken Murray Freezes Caplay Bank Cash
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SHARES IN Caplay, the troubled leisure and finance company, were unexpectedly suspended yesterday after its former chief executive, the flamboyant entrepreneur Ken Murray, obtained a court order freezing several of its bank accounts. Caplay, which was...
Late Arrivals ; for T-Shirt Skiing in April, Roger Thomas Heads to the French Alps
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As I write, conditions couldn't be more different from those of spring skiing. It's early February and the Tarentaise in the French Alps is gripped by viciously low temperatures - described as temperatures Canadiennes by the ski office in Sainte-Foy...
Late-Season Snow: Where to Go
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It has not been a banner season for snowfall in the Alps. Most of the major resorts faced a tense, month-long wait from Christmas through to late January when little or no snow fell to boost the meagre early- season covering. Happily, that's all changed...
Lazards Caught Up in Wall Street Investigation into Gifts
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LAZARD, THE New York-based investment bank, is being investigated by two financial watchdogs in the US over the role corporate gifts and entertainment played in its relationship with a fund manager. The bank said it had been subpoenaed to provide information...
LEADING ARTICLE: Consumers Should Pay More Attention to the Real Cost of Food
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AS THE world's networks in the trade of food grow ever more sophisticated and the damaging effects of this trade on our environment become clearer, it is increasingly difficult for thoughtful shoppers to make ethical choices. Take fish, for example....
LEADING ARTICLE: Make a Pledge That Means Something
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NO ONE needs to take the Labour Party's pledge cards too seriously. Even the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, doesn't do that, to judge by his tone of hilarity on the Today programme yesterday. Perhaps he's wise. There's something irredeemably gimmicky...
LETTER: Rush to Deport Desperate People
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Sir: Thank you for the very moving front-page story (8 February) on the "human anguish behind the immigration debate". The political auction centres on economic immigration, but the desperate plight of asylum seekers must not be conflated with that,...
Multicultural Capital Turns on Livingstone over Death-Camp Slur
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EVEN BY his own energetic standards, Ken Livingstone's diary next week is full. Apart from his usual mayoral engagements, he will play an important role for the team helping to sell London's bid for the 2012 Olympics. For Mr Livingstone, it is a crucial...
MY LIFE IN TRAVEL: Matt Roberts ; `Holidays Are Chill-Out Time for Me but I Still Keep Busy'
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First holiday memory? Being on a beach in Cornwall aged about three. I remember the waves being extremely high and my dad taking us out into the sea. Best holiday? As a romantic holiday, my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed going to the Soneva Fushi resort...
My Secret Life: Sadie Frost, Fashion Designer
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If I have time to myself ... I drink lots of tea and watch Friends in bed. I love vegging out doing nothing with my kids. You wouldn't know it but I'm very good at ... tap dancing. I started when I was seven and I still have tap shoes - I get them out...
No Pain, No Gain: The Connection's Good, but It's Too Early to Call
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Share consolidation is an exercise that appeals to many directors. There seems to be a deep rooted feeling that it is better to preside over a company with, say, a 50p share price than one where the shares are bumping along at a measly few coppers. I...
Obituary: Arthur Miller ; Playwright Made Famous by His `Death of a Salesman' and Marriage to Marilyn Monroe
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THE PRE-EMINENT American dramatist of the second half of the 20th century, Arthur Miller was also a representative man of his generation, who interpreted his native culture to audiences at home and abroad. Timebends (1987), his autobiography, is a compelling...
Orchestras Told How the Boss Shows Way to Boost Audiences
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BRITISH ORCHESTRAS should adopt high-tech special effects including cutting-edge lighting and art installations to attract new audiences and break down barriers to classical music, a theatre director urged yesterday. Lou Stein, who founded the Gate Theatre...
OUTLOOK: Stock Markets Buoyed by Record Profitability
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UNILEVER AND GlaxoSmithKline rather spoilt the party, but they were the odd ones out this week as the corporate reporting season gathered pace; all over the place, companies are announcing buoyant profits. After Barclays, BP and Shell comes Royal Bank...
Pocket Money: Hey! I'm a Big Spender - but Not in Somerfield ; I Never Have a Pen and Paper near to Add It All Up before Those Confirmation E-Mails Start Rolling In
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Inever got around to organising my income and outgoings in the CreditAction budget pack (available online, and it looks good, honest). I've been far too busy spending money. First up, some holidays. When the little darlings are school age and all your...
Polio at Mecca Sparks Fear for Muslims Thousands
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AN OUTBREAK of polio that reached Mecca in Saudi Arabia just as two and half million Muslims converged on the holy city last month for the haj has sparked fears that returning pilgrims could spread the disease around the world. World Health Organisation...
Pop: Album Reviews
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The Dexateens `Red Dust Rising' (Estrus) If Kings of Leon's take on southern rock is too prefabricated for your ears, these heads-down Tuscaloosa, Alabama types have the remedy. They sound like Lynyrd Skynyrd meets The Hellacopters, with a dynamic edge...
Private Investor: Why the Magic 5,000 Doesn't Add Up to Much
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I have found myself, as no doubt did many of you, playing footsie with the FTSE again. Like a temptress flirting with my tender affections, the index has been hovering around the 5,000 mark this week. The market even closed at dead on 5,000.0 on Thursday....
Profits Warning Adds to Pension Fund Woes at Uniq
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THE pounds 102M pension black hole at Uniq, the company that makes trifles and chocolate mousses for Marks & Spencer, yesterday threatened to derail a potential pounds 250m takeover bid for the company. Just one of at least three previous bidders is...
PsychoGeography #71: Strange Weeds and Flying Dutchmen
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I ONCE visited the Netherlands three times in one year, which frankly is pushing it. The third time I went I was met by a Dutchman at the airport. We were queuing to get a car-park ticket when I dropped the English Sunday newspaper I'd been reading and...
Publisher's Revamp Dents Profits
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PROFITS AT the magazine publisher Huveaux, which owns titles such as Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Public Affairs and The House, have fallen far short of analysts' expectations due to restructuring costs and problems at its European and training divisions....
