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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 December 4, 2007
Ahead of the Curve
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Zaha Hadid's futuristic railway stations are transforming the Austrian alps. Karen Wright reportsT he Nordkette Cable Railway was launched at the weekend with a spectacular show of stunts and fireworks. The project is a group of four stations along a...
Ailing Worcester Seek to Pick Up the Pace with Gear
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--RUGBY UNIONBy Chris HewettRico Gear, by some distance the finest wing not to play at the recent World Cup, finally surfaced at Worcester yesterday - and my, how they need him. Mike Ruddock's team may boast a 100 per cent record in the European Challenge...
Allardyce Says Rising Pressure Is Taking Its Toll
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By Michael WalkerAmid ongoing speculation regarding his future at St James' Park, Sam Allardyce acknowledged yesterday that he is "under the cosh" at Newcastle United, that he does "not feel very good", and that he has further injuries as Newcastle prepare...
All Gain, Less Pain; Thanks, Cyclefit!
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THE CYCLING COLUMN cycling@independent.co.ukIf you do a lot of cycling, it's important to take care of your body as well as your wheels. While you can pay a few hundred pounds to get even the worst of your bike problems fixed, it gets harder and harder...
A Load of Hot Air in the Face of Recession
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It's at this time of year that those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere think wistfully of the warmth and sunshine of the Tropics. Bali would be nice, especially the Westin Resort Nusa Dua, which describes its manifold amenities as "sheer indulgence".So...
Always Brutal, Often Bloody, and Occasionally Lethal, Boxing Has Inspired Some of the Greatest Writers and Film-Makers in History, and Produced More Legends Than Any Other Sport. as the World Awaits the Showdown of the Decade, James Lawton Examines Our Enduring Fascination with the Noble Art
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Boxing, which even its most eloquent apologist AJ Liebling feared was probably doomed 50 years ago, largely because of a "ridiculous gadget" known as television, which he reckoned had been invented solely to sell razor blades and soap powder, is this...
Ancient Hill 'Desecrated' by Car Park
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Amid a crescendo of protest, the city of Rome is about to start building a seven-storey underground car park beneath one of the city centre's prettiest and most strategically located parks.La Terrazza del Pincio is laid out on the summit of the steep...
An Open and Shut Case
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THE VERDICT MINI COOPER CLUBMAN Side-hinged tailgates, retro tweaks - it's BMW's take on the old Traveller. Er, what's the extra door for? Who cares, it's brilliant, says David WilkinsThis week, our panel of readers try the Clubman, the new estate version...
Anton Rodgers
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Versatile actor best known for his middle-class heroes in the sitcoms 'Fresh Fields' and 'May to December'From an early career as a boy actor, Anton Rodgers developed into one of the most genuinely versatile actors of his generation. Perhaps best known...
A Patient Tenor Who Is Partial to Parsifal
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Opera PARSIFAL Royal Opera House LONDONEver since he was a choirboy in Twickenham, Christopher Ventris wanted to be a professional singer, but he had to take his time. He enrolled for evening classes with an amateur opera group, got turned down by the...
Apax Partners Leads Race for Emap's Business Titles
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By Danny FortsonAt least seven bidders lodged offers for the different parts of Emap by yesterday's bid deadline.Suitors of the publishing and radio group expect to find out by as soon as this week who has won the separate parts of the company, which...
A Pounds 300,000 Gift: How Readers' Generosity Has Made a Difference in the Past Year
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By Emily DuganLast year's Independent appeal focused on helping the victims of conflict, political turmoil and natural disaster; innocents swept up in the troubles. Almost 300,000 was raised by readers for charities working with children, the disabled...
Are We in for a China Crisis?
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Business Analysis The latest big thing on the Chinese stock market soared almost 70 per cent on its debut yesterday. How much longer can the good times last? By Rob GriffinInvestment experts believe China's stock market has all the characteristics of...
Art of the Noble Art: 12 Best Boxing Films
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Rocky(John G Avildsen, 1976)Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay for Rocky when he was an out-of-work actor, struggling to find parts he could play as an Italian-American. He was inspired by the story of Chuck Wepner, a club boxer from New Jersey...
Battle of the Sexes
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Are you desperate for a daughter or dying for a son? The solution could lie in a mother's diet - before she even conceives. Jane Feinmann reportsHave a burger and chips before getting pregnant and you're more likely to have a baby boy - whereas a girl...
Bear with Us
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LEADING ARTICLE THE TURNER PRIZEIt has been a year for remembering old artistic triumphs and tucking into fresh ones. Tate Britain has been holding a 24-year retrospective of the Turner Prize in London, which resurrected, among other controversial works...
British Teacher Flies Home after Receiving Pardon
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By Cahal Milmo and Anne PenkethThe British teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Mohamed was due back in Britain this morning after a diplomatic offensive by two Muslim peers led to her being pardoned.Gillian Gibbons, 54,...
Casebook
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Why have my eyebrows almost disappeared?troubled BrowsOver recent years, my eyebrows have thinned to almost nothing. I think it started after I had my second baby, eight years ago - I'm now in my forties. On the net, all that comes up is thyroid problems...
Chess
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There was high drama at the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk on Sunday as six of the 16 matches went to play-offs, several of these involving top seeds.Lev Aronian (the 4th seed) was highly impressive against Ernesto Inarkiev, winning by 2-0, but Vassily...
Clara and Co Conjure a Treat
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Dance THE NUTCRACKER Hippodrome BIRMINGHAM HHHH THE CAGE Queen Elizabeth Hall LONDON HHGod bless us every one, and bless Barry Wordsworth in particular. Tchaikovsky's music gives The Nutcracker its heart, and he and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia bring out...
Classical
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WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR/NASH ENSEMBLE Wigmore Hall LONDON HHHThe first half of this concert in the Nash Ensemble's current Around Schubert series was dominated by the gaunt presence and fierce delivery of the distinguished baritone Wolfgang Holzmair. A little...
Cole Enjoying Same Old Keane in 'Strange' Days at Sunderland
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By Damian SpellmanThe Sunderland striker, Andy Cole, insists the manager, Roy Keane, has not changed one bit since the days when they stood shoulder to shoulder at Manchester United.Keane has cultivated a much calmer approach to football since stepping...
Convenience Stores Hit Back at 'Flawed' Supermarket Inquiry
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By Karen AttwoodThe Competition Commission's conclusion that convenience stores are not in terminal decline was based on unsuitable research data, critics of the watchdog's decision not to attack the dominance of big supermarkets claimed yesterday.The...
Cop That! Fast as a Speeding Bullitt
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FEATURE FORD MUSTANG BULLITT GT Forty years ago, Steve McQueen made the original Mustang into a movie icon. Now, Ford has released a new musclecar for the anniversary. By Liz TurnerCar enthusiasts tend to remember where they were when they first watched...
'Datagate' Damaged Labour More Than Donor Row, Poll Shows
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By Andrew GricePolitical EditorThe loss of sensitive personal data of 25 million people is damaging Labour more than the row over its secret donations, according to the latest "poll of polls" for The Independent.It shows that the Conservatives opened...
Does Becoming Leading Wicket-Taker Make Murali the Greatest Bowler Ever?
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Science cleared Sri Lankan's famous action but consensus in the game is not clear. Stephen Brenkley reports from Kandy World record holder who may never be beatenWhen Sydney Barnes pitched up, in every sense, at Durban in December, 1913 he created a...
Ex-Prime Minister Sharif Is Barred from Pakistan Ballot
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The former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif - a bitter rival of President Pervez Musharraf - has been barred from standing in January's parliamentary elections. His candidacy was rejected yesterday after rivals complained to the Election Commission...
Ferguson the Reluctant Shopper Seeks Left-Back in January Sales
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By Ian HerbertSir Alex Ferguson will look for a new left-back, but has indicated that he will otherwise make few moves to strengthen his squad in the January transfer window.Manchester United have been linked with many big names, with thoughts of Dimitar...
Ferguson the Reluctant Shopper Seeks Left-Back in January Sales
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By Ian HerbertSir Alex Ferguson will look for a new left-back, but has indicated that he will otherwise make few moves to strengthen his squad in the January transfer window.Manchester United have been linked with many big names, with thoughts of Dimitar...
Ferguson the Reluctant Shopper Seeks Left-Back in January Sales
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By Ian HerbertSir Alex Ferguson will look for a new left-back, but has indicated that he will otherwise make few moves to strengthen his squad in the January transfer window.Manchester United have been linked with many big names, with thoughts of Dimitar...
Green with Envy in the Languedoc
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FEATURE SAAB 9-3 BIOPOWER CONVERTIBLE ON TOUR Saab's biofuel soft-top slips down nicely in the wine country. By Mary NovakovichIt seemed too good to be true: a car with solid green credentials that looked great, performed beautifully, came with a soft...
Hain Admits More Donations Were Not Registered
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By Colin Brown and Andrew GriceLabour's secret donations crisis deepened yesterday despite Gordon Brown's attempts to steady the party's nerves, as a leading cabinet minister admitted that more mistakes had been made during his deputy leadership campaign...
Hatton Not Boxing Clever in Dangerous Game of Hubris
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Ricky Hatton has done so much for British boxing there has to be a certain reluctance to say it, but then some of his statements in Las Vegas are beginning to smack of the great bane of so much of British sport, the dreaded hubris.Here, for example,...
Hatton Not Boxing Clever in Dangerous Game of Hubris
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Ricky Hatton has done so much for British boxing there has to be a certain reluctance to say it, but then some of his statements in Las Vegas are beginning to smack of the great bane of so much of British sport, the dreaded hubris.Here, for example,...
Hatton Not Boxing Clever in Dangerous Game of Hubris
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Ricky Hatton has done so much for British boxing there has to be a certain reluctance to say it, but then some of his statements in Las Vegas are beginning to smack of the great bane of so much of British sport, the dreaded hubris.Here, for example,...
Have One on Me, Mate
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Andy Williamson faced years on dialysis. Then his friend and fellow band member made an offer he couldn't refuse: one of his own kidneys. Rob Sharp reportsIf you had, perchance, wandered down to London Bridge last week, you might have heard a peculiar...
HAVE YOUR SAY Readers Give Their Views on the Bali Climate Change Conference
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It's somewhat hypocritical that vested interests in climate change get to frequently visit prime locations in the world and then tell me I shouldn't go to France (except by bicycle). Shouldn't they set an example by video-conferencing these jamborees?EddieConferences...
Hillary Ready to 'Kill Bill' over Issue of Honesty
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Not for the first time, Hillary Clinton is reported to be incandescent with her husband for inadvertently reminding Americans how hard it can be to get the straight, unvarnished truth from the Clintons.While out campaigning for his wife in Iowa last...
I Can't Wait for One Last Bite of Nigella
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Last Night's TV NIGELLA EXPRESS BBC2 DAVID RENWICK NIGHT BBC4It was rather disorienting that on the night Five showed the mafioso epic GoodFellas, the evening's television produced only one dark-eyed, knife-wielding spaghetti-eater with an unnerving...
Intec Names Alcatel Man to Aid Recovery
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By Nic FildesIntec Telecom Systems has appointed Andrew Taylor, a high-flying executive at Alcatel-Lucent's UK division, as its chief executive, as the billing software developer continues to deliver on its recovery strategy.Mr Taylor, 38, is chief operating...
Interest-Rate Cut Hopes Dashed by Upbeat Manufacturing Survey
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By Sean O'GradyEconomics EditorBritain's manufacturing sector yesterday gave an upbeat account of its prospects for 2008, reducing the chances of an interest-rate reduction when the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee meets for its monthly meeting...
I Predict a Diet
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FEATURE HONDA CBR1000RR FIREBLADE The new Fireblade has lost weight in a big way. But can it find riders to match? Tim Luckhurst reportsApparently, the name Fireblade is an accident. Clumsy translation of the Japanese word for lightning from French to...
Iran 'Has Halted Its Nuclear Weapons Programme'
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In a blow to Bush administration hawks demanding military strikes on Iran, a US intelligence report reveals that Tehran's secret nuclear weapons programme was shut down four years ago.The finding which has come as a surprise to friends and foes of the...
Israeli Prisoner Release Derided by Palestinians
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Israel has released 429 Palestinian prisoners in a gesture welcomed by their families but described as a "joke" by the jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti because of the severely limited numbers freed.At the same time officials of the Ramallah-based...
'It's Important to Work from the Heart, Not Expediency'
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The 5-minute Interview Patricia Hodge ActressHodge, 61, has starred in a host of acclaimed productions including 'The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie', Trevor Nunn's 'Money/ Summerfolk', and Ian Curteis's television drama 'The Falklands Play', in which she...
Joe Shaw
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Sheffield United stalwartIf an unwary historian, researching the life and times of the footballer Joe Shaw, were to scan the record books, he or she might conclude that the stalwart Sheffield United stopper, whose total of some 700 senior outings for...
Last Chance to Buy
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--RENAULT 182 CUPWhen's it going?Actually, the Renault 182 Cup disappeared from the price lists some time last year, and Renault stopped making it in 2005. Then there came the all-new 197, which is based on the newer Clio, so we are overdue the new Cup...
Leaders of the Hatch Batch
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CAR CHOICE If you're on a budget and a non-GB licence, you'll need to aim for a low insurance group. Well, now... over to James RuppertDr Narcis Ursache, 29, is working to a tight budget - 2,500 to 3,000. He's not going to be doing a very high mileage...
Living Forever Is Fine, So Long as Things Are Going According to Plan
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The Tuesday Book DOCUMENTS CONCERNING RUBASHOW THE GAMBLER By Carl-Johan Vallgren, trans. Sarah Death HARVILL SECKER, Pounds 12.99 Order for Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) on 0870 079 8897This is the fifth of the Swedish writer Carl-Johan Vallgren's eight books,...
Look at Russia, Then Put Aside Your Cynicism over Our Decaying and Cash-Strapped Parties
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There is a whiff of self-righteous hypocrisy in the current fashionable contempt for political parties in Britain. We kick them around. But where would we be without them?Take a look at Russia for a possible answer. Once more in that fragile democracy...
Loss of Congestion Charge Won't Leave Capita in a Jam
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THE INVESTMENT COLUMNEdited byAndrew DewsonOur view: ReduceCurrent price: 729p(-13p)Few Londoners will have shed any tears for Capita when it lost the contract to administer the congestion charge to IBM - but the loss of a 56m a year deal, high profile...
Mayweather Dismisses Rumours of Hand Injury
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--BOXINGBy Steve Buncein Las VegasFloyd Mayweather has finished his training for Saturday's fight against Ricky Hatton and insists that there is nothing wrong with his hands. Rumours have been circulating here for two weeks suggesting Mayweather, who...
Millions on Spin Won't Save Harman from a Kebabbing
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THE SKETCHThe fragrant figure of Hatbox Harman floated in at the end of Defence Questions. She must have been looking for inspiration. What her defence is going to be no one yet knows. The 40,000 that was undeclared in her campaign for the deputy leadership...
Murder Suspect Lugovoy Wins Place in Parliament
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Instead of sitting in a British courtroom, the man suspected by British detectives of the fatal poisoning of the former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko will now sit in Russia's lower house of parliament. As such, he will be immune from extradition and...
Nectar Founder to Net Pounds 161m Windfall from Sale
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By Danny FortsonBusiness CorrespondentSir Keith Mills, founder of the Nectar card programme, set himself up for a 161m payday yesterday after agreeing to sell the customer loyalty company he started five years ago.Aeroplan, operator of Air Canada's frequent-flier...
New Controller of BBC1 Is Named
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By James MacintyreThe BBC has appointed a new controller of BBC1, replacing Peter Fincham - forced to resign in October over misleading footage of the Queen - with a "safe pair of hands" who was previously head of daytime TV for the corporation.Jay Hunt...
No Need for a Shotgun Wedding at Rock
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OUTLOOKIs Northern Rock slipping from Sir Richard Branson's grasp? When the debt-stricken bank announced Virgin Money's status as preferred bidder last week, Sir Richard looked to have pulled off yet another coup. Now there are question-marks about the...
Norman Sayle
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Artist devoted to the Isle of ManNorman Sayle was the most celebrated Manx artist of recent times. The week before his death, the President of Tynwald presented him in hospital with the first ever Tynwald Medal of Honour; it was awarded for Sayle's outstanding...
Not Just a Pretty Face
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CLASSIC CARS VOLKSWAGEN KARMASS GHIA The Karmass Chia brought sports-car styling to the masses. Andrew Roberts reports on a perennial beautyWhat precisely constitutes a sports car? The Morris Marina 1.8 TC Coupe may have had go-faster stripes aplenty...
Pandora
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Conviction politics: Gavron aide quits over nasty slursLike a number of her colleagues in New Labour, Ken Livingstone's trusted deputy Nicky Gavron is facing unwanted accusations of breaking the rules. So she could hardly have picked a lousier time to...
Picture Post
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West Banksy, 02.12.07Banksy is back in Bethlehem. The elusive British graffiti artist, who two years ago started to use the Israeli military's separation barrier in the West Bank as a showcase for his murals, has returned to the city forever linked with...
Police Attempt to Solve Mystery of the Canoeist Who Came Back from the Dead
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By Terri JuddJohn Darwin, the Hartlepool canoeist who went missing five years ago and reappeared at the weekend to declare himself a missing person, was due to face questioning by detectives today as speculation mounted over the circumstances of his...
Pop
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JEFF BECK Ronnie Scotts LONDON HHHHHBritain's most famous jazz club awarded Beck their Blues Guitarist of the year award back in May. Now here he is, flashing his Strat no further than 50ft from any of the music-hungry punters who've stumped up 100 a...
Pop
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MANIC STREET PREACHERS Music Hall ABERDEEN HHHHThe Manic Street Preachers are not the same band who first snared the hearts of a young generation at the tail end of the Thatcher era, and nor have they been for more than a decade. It's partly down to...
Pounds 370m Cancer Care Review Is Unveiled
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By Jeremy LauranceHealth EditorUp to a third of the 14,500 cancer patients treated in hospital each day would in future be cared for at home under a five-year plan to improve NHS cancer services.The switch away from hospital treatment was essential if...
Praise for Turner Jury as Prize Goes to War Protest
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By Arifa AkbarArts ReporterIt is the country's foremost visual arts prize which never ceases to generate outrage for honouring conceptual works that are accused of bearing little relevance to real life.But last night, Mark Wallinger won the Turner Prize...
Profit Warnings Jar High Street as Slowdown Looms
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Regent Inns shares fall 42% w Clapham House down after warning w ScS Upholstery reduced footfallBy Nikhil KumarThe cloud hanging over the UK economy turned a shade darker yesterday as three companies dependent on consumer spending each issued profits...
Putin Election Victory Was 'Neither Free nor Fair'
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America and some European governments have accused President Vladimir Putin of failing to hold free and fair parliamentary elections after his United Russia party was confirmed as the runaway winner, garnering nearly six times as many votes as the Communists,...
Putin's Party Won by a Landslide. So What?
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In Sunday's parliamentary elections in Russia, Vladimir Putin's party won by a landslide. The coerced turn-out was, not surprisingly, high. And now Putin is preparing to use this manipulated vote of confidence, as indeed he intended all along, to wangle...
Regal Rises on Talk of Return by Shell with Full Bid
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MARKET REPORTAfter last month's extraordinary "deal then no deal" between Royal Dutch Shell and Regal Petroleum, the gossips were talking up the possibility of the oil major making a full bid for Regal.Two weeks ago, Shell agreed to buy into Regal's...
Shamed Revenue Chief Given New Job with Civil Service
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By Ben Russell Political CorrespondentThe former head of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, who resigned over the loss of government child benefit data, has been given a new job advising the head of the Civil Service.Paul Gray gave up his 165,000-a-year...
Shocking Stories, Practical Solutions
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LEADING ARTICLE CHRISTMAS APPEALThe newscaster Martyn Lewis once expressed the view that there was not enough good news in the bulletins he had to read. Someone else floated the idea of a newspaper based entirely on good news. It never got off the ground....
Split Brain of the Motor Industry
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motoring@independent.co.ukI attended the 91st dinner of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) last week - I have to declare an interest as I was a guest of the Ford Motor Company - and it was a slightly odd experience. Not, that is, because...
Sri Lanka Joy at Muralitharan's Magic Moment
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SRI LANKA 188 & 167-2 ENGLAND 281There was a certain irony to the ball that took Muttiah Muralitharan past Shane Warne's haul of 708 victims to become the highest wicket-taker in the history of Test cricket. In the 15 years since his debut Muralitharan...
St Andrews Timeshare Tees Up Massive Profit
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By Jerome TaylorFor 775,000 it has to be one of the most expensive timeshares in the world. But for the devoted fan, the view it affords of one of golf's most hallowed sites is worth every penny.Five local businessmen have clubbed together to sell what...
Stirred, but Not Shaken
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FEATURE KIA SPORTAGE Carl Reader braves a special off-road circuit built to test Kia's revamped SUVYou can't argue with the laws of physics, but if you are going to have a crack then you'll need a comfy seat and a good set of brakes.Lucky for me, then,...
Strachan Makes Victory the Aim in Milan Challenge
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By Ben Gladwellin MilanCeltic visit San Siro this evening needing only one point to secure a place in the last 16 of the Champions League for the second year running. A draw is all they need at Milan to ensure they join the holders in the second round,...
Strachan Makes Victory the Aim in Milan Challenge
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By Ben Gladwellin MilanCeltic visit San Siro this evening needing only one point to secure a place in the last 16 of the Champions League for the second year running. A draw is all they need at Milan to ensure they join the holders in the knock-out stages,...
Tardy Taxpayers Put Pounds 1.5bn in Doubt
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By Ben RussellPolitical CorrespondentUp to half of VAT and corporation tax bills are paid late, leaving at least 1.5bn of revenue in doubt, MPs have warned.They said that HM Revenue and Customs did not have information about which businesses repeatedly...
The Best SUV I Have Driven
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ROAD TEST PORSCHE CAYENNE GTS The Cayenne is an object of desire the world over, but can Porsche's sporting makeover win over the speed demons? John Simister coos through the corners...As a reader of this newspaper, you are likely to align yourself with...
The House That Brad Built
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After Katrina Failed by their government, forgotten by the insurance industry, the people of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward finally have a hero to help rebuild their shattered lives. By Andrew GumbelA couple of weeks ago, residents of New Orleans' Lower...
The Ten Best Bird Feeders
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1 Fruit feeder 6.79Be the envy of your neighbours with this striking feeder. Simply place the fruit in the hole and push through the peg to hold it in place.www.the-plant-directory.com; 01302 783 4342 Oval suet feeder 17.99Designed to thwart squirrels,...
'The Tutankhamun Ties, Caps, Bears and Chocs I Could Take or Leave on My Journey to the Afterlife'
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Tales of the CityAs you can probably tell from the photograph at the top of this column, I have nothing against tat, and am game for most things. However, the Tutankhamun exhibition at what we must now call "The O2" (you may know it better as the Millennium...
The Unfamiliar Taste of Defeat
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LEADING ARTICLE VENEZUELAMany predicted that Venezuela's referendum would be a close- run affair. But yesterday's announcement from the head of the country's National Electoral Council that President Hugo Chavez's proposals for constitutional reform...
The Wage Slave's Workout
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Just because you're tied to a workstation, there's no excuse for letting your fitness slide. Rebecca Armstrong discovers 'deskercise'Scientists have claimed that it's as risky as smoking, increases obesity, and that it could lead to deep vein thrombosis...
Time for Allardyce to Manage His Players Not to Be a Politician or a Self-Promoter
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Back when Sam Allardyce was the lord of more or less all he surveyed, when he touted himself as England's head coach of destiny with a fine confidence, and, with his mates at the League Managers Association, very publicly brandished red cards in the...
Time for Allardyce to Manage His Players Not to Be a Politician or a Self-Promoter
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Back when Sam Allardyce was the lord of more or less all he surveyed, when he touted himself as England's head coach of destiny with a fine confidence, and, with his mates at the League Managers Association, very publicly brandished red cards in the...
Time for Allardyce to Manage His Players Not to Be a Politician or a Self-Promoter
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Back when Sam Allardyce was the lord of more or less all he surveyed, when he touted himself as England's head coach of destiny with a fine confidence, and, with his mates at the League Managers Association, very publicly brandished red cards in the...
Voters Reject Chavez's Attempt to Become President for Life
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A humbled Hugo Chavez has paid tribute to his opponents and conceded that the sweeping constitutional changes he had sought to accelerate his socialist revolution in Venezuela and enable him to seek re-election indefinitely had been narrowly defeated...
Wallinger Is Deserving Winner
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By Tom LubbockThe Turner Prize is a random honour. It is handed out, more or less unpredictably, to artists good, bad and indifferent. But this year, by a stroke of enormous luck, it has got itself awarded to a really good artist: Mark Wallinger. Just...
When the Time Comes to Walk out of Your Life
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The BBC News website includes an interesting section, down towards the bottom of the home page, which tells you what the most popular stories on its site are. There are two categories, Most Emailed and Most Read,and usually you can detect a subtle difference...
Where Past Meets Future on the Streets of Khartoum
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Khartoum is, without doubt, a very peculiar place. For a start, you can hardly believe that it is the capital of a country which has been torn apart by civil war on two fronts for decades. Untouched directly both by conflict and, until very recently,...
Whose Secret Diary Was Facebook So Keen for You Not to Read?
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By Stephen Foleyin New YorkIn the Facebook era, where everyone is spilling their secret thoughts for all to read on a social networking site, it is as if nothing is private any more.So it might seem highly ironic that Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg...
Who's Who?
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Secret lives For more than 150 years, it has chronicled the quirks of the rich and famous. As the new edition of 'Who's Who' is published, Andy McSmith invites readers to test their knowledge of who really is who1. Whose entry includes the words"I Wanna...
Why Is ETA Killing People in France, and Will It Ever Lay Down Its Arms?
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The big questionWhy are we asking this now?A Spanish Civil Guard, Raul Centeno, was killed and another colleague, Fernando Trapero, badly injured by Eta terrorists in Capbreton, south-west France, on Saturday. It is the first such attack by Eta in France...
Why Pullman and Dawkins Are No Match for the Deities
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We paid a visit to the United Deities yesterday to see how that august gathering of all the gods viewed the teddy bear scandal in the Sudan, and they were about to turn their divine discussion to the threat of atheism, so I think we will stick with it...
With Howard Gone, Australia Signs Up to Kyoto
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The news that Australia had signed up to the Kyoto protocol was greeted with applause on the first day of climate talks in Bali yesterday, leaving the US as the only developed nation not to ratify the pact.Australia's new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd,...
WPP Lands $4.5Bn Deal to Revitalise Dell's Image
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By Nic FildesWPP has secured one of the biggest advertising contracts of the year after Dell selected the UK company to run a new operation that will be set up to handle the computer manufacturer's global advertising and marketing operations.Dell is...
Your Opportunity to Help the Disadvantaged and Dispossessed
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CHRISTMAS APPEALBy Paul VallelyFatmata has done very well already. She has come into the world in the toughest place on earth to be born. And she has survived for four months. She is, as our photograph shows, healthy and happy. That's the good news....
You Write the Reviews
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MONIKA SOSNOWSKA: DISPLAY Talbot Rice Gallery EDINBURGH HHHHMonika Sosnowska is a major contemporary artist whose installations have been exhibited all over Europe. She also represented her country, Poland, in this year's Venice Biennale. Now, Edinburgh...
