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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 March 31, 2007
48 HOURS IN LAS VEGAS ; It's the City Where You'll See Dancing Fountains, Exploding Volcanos and an Eiffel Tower. and That's before You've Even Stepped Inside a Casino. by Sara Benson
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WHY GO NOW? Las Vegas has never been so vibrant as it is in 2007. Chic and sophisticated may not be how most people think of "Sin City", better known for its Elvis impersonators and drive-thru wedding chapels. Yet this desert oasis is an entertainment...
#61 Logging on ; the Way We Live Now
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There they were, in that space you get when you pull out a chimneypiece and all its innards. Logs. Split logs. Logs with neatly sawn edges facing out. Stacked in a tremendously neat, decorative way. A major feature. With nowhere, as it turned out, to...
A Bigger Bang ; PsychoGeography
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I was walking with my friend Con the other day, when we fell into conversation about radiation. That has a nice lilt to it, doesn't it? Anyway, I was saying how dreadful it is, that nowadays you can't get a watch which glows properly in the dark, so...
Argentina's New Wave ; Wine
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Decked out in shorts and T-shirts, we arrived in Buenos Aires and found the capital tangoing in several inches of rainwater. Clearly, it was time to escape to the winelands of Mendoza on the Andean side of the country. The domestic airline, Aerolineas...
Beadle's Miscellany ; SATURDAY MAGAZINE
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1. What is unusual about the locations of the summer Olympic Games that have been held in Australia, Germany and the US? 2. What are the only toothless mammals that make up for molar deficiency with a 2ft tongue? 3. In 1903, after 1,510 miles (2,428kms),...
Beat the ISA Deadline to Boost Your Savings ; Even If You Only Invest a Small Sum, Tax-Free Interest Adds Up, Says David Prosser
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Just five days of the current financial year remain, so the first few days of next week represent your final opportunity to use this year's individual savings account (ISA) allowance. Once the 2006-07 financial year comes to an end at midnight on Thursday,...
BEFORE AFTER! ; Meet Deborah Ross and the Women in Her Family. They're Stylish, for Sure. but Hardly Cutting-Edge ... So Could Topshop Dress All Three Generations in Clothes They'd Actually like? Photos by Dan Burn- Forti
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Topshop. Who doesn't love Topshop? Pre-teen girls love Topshop. Teenage girls love Topshop. Young women love Topshop. Older, 40- plus women love Topshop, creeping in when they think nobody is looking, hoping security won't go on to red alert - "Middle-aged...
Bird in the Sand ; INDEPENDENT TRAVELLER | Alongside Dubai's Ultra-Modern Malls and High-Rise Luxury Hotels, Traditional Pastimes Such as Falconry and Camel Racing Flourish. Hester Lacey Gets the Inside Track on the Centuries-Old Action
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I should confess that I went to Dubai prepared to dislike the place. I had imagined a soulless desert; not in the sense of austere, sandy dunes, but in terms of endless gruesome shopping malls flogging designer rubbish. And Ski Dubai, the snow dome that...
Blair Challenges Cameron on His 'Happiness' Agenda ; POLITICS
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Tony Blair has tried to seize the "happiness" agenda back from David Cameron with a call for more flexibility at work. The Prime Minister directly challenged the Tory leader's remarks that there was more to life than making money and that improving people's...
Bradt Founder's Bid for Freedom ; News ++ the Best Deals, the Latest Hot Spots and What's New in Travel
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The co-founder of Bradt Trav-el Guides, the UK's longest-running series of adventure travel guides, is stepping down after 33 years. Hilary Bradt is hand-ing over to a new managing director, Donald Greig, in order to spend more time with her passport....
Btw ; NEWS
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Question of the week is, of course: what was the exact wording of the lonely-hearts advertisement with which Bao Kishun, the world's tallest man, set about finding a bride in umpteen Chinese newspapers? "High-minded Inner Mongolian livestock herdsman,...
Canvassing Opinion on the Best-Value Beds ; THE MAN WHO PAYS HIS WAY
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Sunray Avenue and Red Post Hill lead you to the epitome of Englishness. Pass the 1866 railway station, freshly spruced up with smart white pillars set against red brick, and you find yourself wandering into a village with all the essentials for rural...
Chess ; SATURDAY MAGAZINE
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The 31st Blackpool Chess Conference took place in the Winter Gardens, 16-18 March. One of Britain's most established Weekend Tournaments, it comprised five different graded sections with over 400 players, just over 50 of them in the top section, the...
Colour Me Happy ; Julie Verhoeven Doesn't Do Ordinary. and the Fashion Illustrator's Home Is Testament to Her 'Anything Goes' Approach, Says Dominic Lutyens. Photography by Andrew Hayes-Watkins
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Soon after I left Julie Verhoeven's house in south London, I felt my jaw drop. Did I really show up in a black and, well, rather dull sweater? This is a woman who, in terms of interiors at least, has little time for notions of normality. With her shoulder-length...
Doing It for the Kids ; Restaurants
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I'm toying with my pan-fried seabass and roasted aubergine. My companion, meanwhile, is toying with his toys. It's Saturday lunchtime with the kiddies, and unbelievably, no one is crying, throwing food or throwing up (mind you, Dad stayed at home). Three...
End of the Run ; as This Patchy Ski Season Comes to a Close, Stephen Wood Looks Back at a Difficult Year and Ahead to What Resorts Can to Do to Entice Wary Skiers Back to the Slopes
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Cast your mind back to late November, when the Alpine ski season was just getting under way. By that time, you will recall, even the most slow-witted - George Bush, The Economist - had accepted that climate change was a matter of concern in the long...
Engelbert Humperdinck ; INDEPENDENT TRAVELLER
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First holiday memory? The Isle of Man. I was taken there by my girlfriend in the days before I was in the business, because I couldn't afford it. While we were there, I sang in a talent contest and won. The prize was a free week back there, so I took...
Every Lidl Helps ; the Weasel
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Visitors rarely display unrestrained envy when they discover we have a Lidl for a neighbour. "But it's a supermarket for poor people!" exclaimed our friend Pete, who rapidly emerged after popping in for a bottle of wine to accompany Sunday lunch at Weasel...
FIVE BEST SAFARI VILLAS ; View Game as You Lounge in the Luxury of Your Own Private Lodge. by Rhiannon Batten
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The Sanctuary at Ol Lentille Kenya The Sanctuary's four villas, created in partnership with the Maasai community, opened in January. They are set in a conservation area, tucked into a wooded hillside, with views of the Laikipia Plateau - home to leopard,...
Food & Drink Notes ; SATURDAY MAGAZINE
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Bake that Only very occasionally do you wish that your children were younger. But this year's Cookit! competition run by the Guild of Food Writers is offering such a splendid prize that there's a definite temptation to turn the clock back. The first...
Halle Berry Admits Marriage Break-Up Made Her Consider Committing Suicide ; WORLD
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The Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry has disclosed that she came close to committing suicide following the break-up of her first marriage in 1997 - just before her breakthrough role in Warren Beatty's Bulworth. Berry told Parade magazine that she was...
Has Liberalism Touched Labour's Criminal Justice Policy? I Doubt It ; THE WEEK IN POLITICS
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Was this the week when Britain got a more sensible, liberal policy on criminal justice? Some ministers are whispering it, even if they are too scared to say it out loud. Opposition politicians sense a landmark change after 10 years of "tough" policies...
Heart of the Dart ; It's Only 28 Miles Long but Its Lovely Views and Rare Wildlife Make It One of England's Most Attractive Rivers. the Poet Brian Patten Takes a Ride along the Dart
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For the third day running the seal had hauled itself up into the little boat and lounged there on its side like the world's ugliest mermaid. It seemed quite oblivious to the handful of people sitting on the quay outside the Ferry Boat Inn in the riverside...
HOW NAPOLEON LOST HIS PENIS (AND OTHER TALES OF FAMOUS BODY PARTS) ; After-Lives of Celebrated Organs ++ A Row over an Exhibition That Displays the Brain of an Italian Anarchist Has Reignited a Wider Debate about What Happens to the Bodies of the Famous after Their Deaths. Andy McSmith Offers a Cut-off-and-Keep Guide to What's Where
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The anarchist's brain Giovanni Passannante did not have much going for him. He was a cook who became an anarchist, and decided to assassinate King Umberto I on a visit toNaples in 1878. He lunged at him with a kitchen knife, missed, and injured the Prime...
If You Ask Me ; SATURDAY MAGAZINE
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If you ask me, teaching one's children the importance of charity is a very tricky issue. It's a territory filled with enormous potholes over which you and your good intentions either merrily skip, genuinely blind to the dangers, or into which you and...
'I'm Trying to Catch Up on Savings after My Law Degree' ; WEALTH CHECK
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Janice Rolfe is a 41-year-old solicitor who earns [pound]35,000 a year. Last year, she bought a one-bedroom flat for [pound]162,000 in Stratford. She took out a mortgage with Cheltenham &Gloucester, with a fixed rate of 5.49 per cent for two years. Seven...
Inquisitor 14 ; SATURDAY MAGAZINE
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JUST IN CASE An anagram of the thirty letters given by the answers to the six thematic clues, given in no particular order, provides all except four of the letters in a 10 across 31 across used by the 21 across personified by Miss 17 down. Below the...
John Paul II Moves Closer to Sainthood after Nun Claims He Cured Her Disease ; EUROPE
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A French nun whose recovery from Parkinson's disease could be the "miracle" needed by the Vatican to beatify Pope John Paul II, has spoken out for the first time yesterday about her mysterious cure. Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre, 46, claims her Parkinson's...
Kingfisher Takes Wing on Private Equity Bid Talk ; MARKET REPORT
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Fresh from reporting an 11 per cent drop in full-year profits on Thursday, the home-improvement retailer Kingfisher was back in the spotlight, this time as rumours of a bid from Goldman Sachs' private- equity arm did the rounds. However, some traders...
Marilyn French, Author ; My Secret Life
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Marilyn French was born in New York in 1939. The author of feminist novels and non-fiction, she earned a BA, MA and PhD at Hofska College, Long Island, and became a fellow at Harvard in 1976. Her works include The Bleeding Heart, Her Mother's Daughter...
Mobile Bills: It's Time to Reverse the Charges ; Don't Rely on the Regulators to Cut Your Phone Bills Down to Size, Says David Prosser
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It's a tough time to be a mo-bile phone company executive. The six big networks are under attack from regulators at home and in Europe, facing new rules that will cost them hundreds of millions of pounds a year. Last month, the European Commission announced...
Murphy's Lore ; Cillian Murphy Has Eyes That Pierce to Your Very Soul, Lips That Angelina Would Be Proud of - and as for Those Cheekbones. but They Want Him to Play Action Heroes? John Walsh Is Entranced. Portrait by Eva Vermandel
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"I think there's such a thing," confides Cillian Murphy, "as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me it originally came out through music, then segued into acting and came out through there. I always needed to get up and...
Online DVD Clubs That Promise a Happy Ending ; Free Deals, More Films and No Late Fees; Online DVD Renters Do Better, Says David Prosser
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DVD and video rental shops are so last century. For anyone tired of trekking out in the rain only to discover the store doesn't have the film you want to see - or anything else worth watching - an online rental service may be much more satisfying. This...
Our Furry Friends ; Urban Gardener
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When the branch of Cotinus coggygria landed more or less on top of my head, my first reaction was to be grateful that it wasn't a hawthorn or anything else suitably armed. I'd been aware of some lopping the other side of the fence, but falling debris...
Patsy Palmer ; How Do I Look? ++ Actress, Age 34
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I am five foot six and a half, slim, my eyes are a mix of green and hazel and my hair is red: it's short at the back with a long fringe at the front. I'm known as Patsy - I changed my name for work - but I'm Julie really. Patsy has always been my work...
Property Red Tape Ties Up Landlords ; New Regulations to Protect Tenants Are Reducing Buy-to-Let Returns, Says David Prosser
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Buy-to-let investment is supposed to be simple - it's one of property's major selling points. Investors buy a property, rent it out at a rate high enough to cover their mortgage costs, and then wait for capital gains over the longer term. However, there...
Putin Moves to Stay on beyond Term Limit ; EUROPE
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One of Russia's most influential politicians has unexpectedly called for the country's constitution to be amended to allow Vladimir Putin to stay on as President for a third consecutive term beyond next year. The plea, by Sergei Mironov, the Federation...
See the World in Pictures ; from One Journalist's Photographic Record of His 'Endless Traipsing' around the Globe, to an Honest Glimpse into the Lives of Ordinary Russians, Next Month Sees the Launch in Britain of Three Exhibitions with Travel at Their Heart. Simon Calder Reports
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JEREMY ATIYAH'S TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY Jeremy Atiyah, the travel writer who died in April last year at the tragically early age of 42, always had an optimistic view of the world. Whether he was in China seeking out Shangri-La, or poring over other travellers'...
'Stop Brown' Faction Will Wreck Labour, Warns Hain ; POLITICS
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Peter Hain has warned that the Blairites who are trying to stop Gordon Brown from becoming Prime Minister appear to want David Cameron to take power. As Mr Brown reinforced his credentials for the premiership on a visit to Afghanistan, the Northern Ireland...
THE 50 BEST Kitchen Essentials ; Does Your Culinary Repertoire Need a Little Reheating? These Bits of Kit Should Inspire Even the Most Jaded Chef, Says Rhiannon Batten
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1 Braun MPZ-9 citrus press The traditional (non-electrical) glass citrus press may be a design classic, but once you've tried the electric version there's no going back. It is easy to rinse clean, is small enough to store handily between uses and gets...
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EXTREMADURA ; Roman Ruins, Dramatic Landscapes, Amazing Wildlife - the Fourth Largest Province of Spain Has Everything except Crowds. Explore the Extraordinary Region That Produced the Conquistadors before It's Invaded by the Tourists, Says Marian Amos
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GOING TO EXTREMES? This breathtaking and remote region of south-west Spain offers a rare combination of lush forests, majestic mountains and sweeping plains, peppered with towns and hamlets from another age. Taking its name from the Spanish word extremar...
The Mark of Cain ; Television ++ Thur 9pm Channel 4
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In contrast to their treatment of the Vietnam war, Hollywood and US television have been quick to address the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath, and have done it in a bolder fashion than film- makers in the UK. Now, four years after "our boys" went...
The OFT Fails Us All on Bank Fees ; SAVE & SPEND
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What an appalling cop-out. The Office of Fair Trading's refusal to give a proper ruling on unauthorised overdraft fees is a shocking betrayal of millions of bank customers whom the regulator is supposed to protect. The OFT's announcement this week that...
THE RECYCLED INSIDER ; A Weekly Guide to Spending
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CARS Be converted Your car can be recycled, indeed must be. The EU's End-of-Life Vehicle Directive prescribes that some 85 per cent of a scrapped car should be recycled. But going one step further is the Saab 9-3 Convertible BioPower, which is admirably...
THE SECRET OF HOW TO GET RICH? YOURS FOR JUST [Pound]3,999. ; THRIFTY LIVING
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"WHAT STOPS you from moving forward?" Well, plenty of things. A giant overdraft, for a start. Plus, a [pound]30 fine from those nice people at the Clydesdale every time it gets a bit worse. Which might be news to anyone who thought that banks are no...
The Sweetest Feeling ; in the First of a Two-Part Easter Special, Mark Hix Welcomes the Festive Period with Tempting Treats. Photographs by Jason Lowe
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As soon we've got all the Christmas festivities out of the way, it seems that the promotional drive for Easter begins. But apart from buying lots of chocolate and Easter eggs for the children, we don't really celebrate with much else these days. Maybe...
Well Swung ; While Working on a Novel about Swingers the Acclaimed Author Ewan Morrison Spent a Year Exploring Britain's Secret Sexual Subculture. Twelve Months and Many, Many Partners Later, This Is What He Learned Illustrations by Paul Blow
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1. Getting started is easy All you need is a modem, curiosity and a major life-change. I certainly had that. I'd been living in New York with a script- writing job. The job fell through and I found myself back in Glasgow, without work, without a partner,...
Who Wears the Trousers? ; Many Influences Came Together to Inform This Year's Take on Trousers - from Land Girls' Sturdy Dungarees to Patti Smith's Punky Androgyny. Cath Clarke Reports on How Fashion Got Back into Its Strides
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With the release of her album Horses in 1975, Patti Smith kicked the droopy Seventies into gear. Like the music, Smith's look on the cover was hard and non-conformist: there she stood in a man's black suit, crumpled white shirt and braces, jacket slung...
Why Can't I Claim for Theft from Bag? ; QUESTIONS OF CASH
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My fiance and I went on holiday to Lisbon last year. Despite travelling business class, we found when we got home that my fiance's hold luggage had been ransacked, somewhere between check- in at Lisbon airport for the return journey and baggage reclaim...
Why the Future Could Be More Expensive Than You Expect ; Microsoft's New System Is Streets Ahead of XP, but Is Not without Its Problems, Says James Daley
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Bill Gates's Microsoft has become the company that people love to hate. And while much of the anger directed its way seems to be based purely on its size and ability to dominate the global software market, campaigners now have a new reason to be cross...
