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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 20, 2007
2008: A Recession in Britain, and Oil at $175 a Barrel. or Is That Too Outrageous?
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It is that time of year when the professional make their customary predictions about the world economy and markets for the forthcoming year, and a pretty downbeat lot they are.If one were to try to distil the main economic messages, these would be that...
A Wing and a Prayer
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It's been a tough year for many species. But others have thrived in 2007. Peter Marren reportsWINNERS AND LOSERS 2007WinnersGoldfinch (UK)A flock of tinkling, yellow-flashing goldfinches has always been known as a charm: a charm of goldfinches. They...
Bank's Fear for Economy Point to Gloomy 2008
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Shops report poor start to December w House prices to be flat next year w Repossessions to riseGloomy signals for the economy continued to mount yesterday as the Bank of England revealed that its Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously for an interest-rate...
Bank's Fears for Economy Point to Gloomy 2008
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Gloomy signals for the economy continued to mount yesterday as the Bank of England revealed that its Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously for an interest rate cut while fresh data pointed to a downturn on the high street and in the housing market.In...
Barclays Sues Bear Stearns over Collapsed Hedge Funds
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UK bank demands $400m compensation w Collapse of funds in summer sparked mortgage crisisBarclays has launched a $400m-plus legal action against Bear Stearns, accusing its Wall Street rival of fraud over the collapse of two hedge funds earlier this year.The...
Biffa Auction Expected as It Opens Books to Bidders
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Biffa in effect put itself up for sale yesterday after agreeing to open its books to private equity bidders at the third time of asking, a move that could trigger a bidding war for the waste management company.Hg Capital and Montagu Private Equity have...
BNP's Ballerina Is Engaged to Party's Mayoral Candidate
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Simone Clarke, the ballerina who created shockwaves when it was revealed that she had joined the far-right British National Party, is engaged to one of the party's leading activists. Her husband-to- be is Richard Barnbrook, a councillor from Barking,...
Briton Freed after 20 Years on Death Row in US
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Kenny Richey, the Scottish national whose 20 years on Ohio's death row made him a cause celbre for death penalty opponents, will walk free from prison today after the collapse of the murder case against him.Mr Richey, now 42, has spent more than half...
Brown Defends Handling of Banking Crisis
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Gordon Brown hinted at further cuts in interest rates yesterday after announcing he had consulted world leaders, including the US President George Bush, over the global banking crisis.In an attempt to steady nerves in his own party about Labour's slump...
BT in Plea to Ofcom over Payphones
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By Nic FildesBT will urge Ofcom to allow it to close a significant proportion of its payphones from next year as it looks to strip more cost out of the declining business.With more mobile phones in use in the UK than there are people to use them, the...
BT Urges Ofcom to Let It Close Payphones
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BT will urge Ofcom to allow it to close a significant proportion of its payphones from next year as it looks to strip more cost out of the declining business.With more mobile phones in use in the UK than there are people to use them, the payphone has...
Central Bank Injections Help to Cool Money Market Rates
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Central banks appear to have had considerable success in restoring activity to the credit markets, according to evidence yesterday.The interest rates at which banks are willing to lend to each other fell sharply - in some cases recording their biggest...
Central Banks Cool Money Market Rates
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By Stephen Foleyin New York and Sean FarrellCentral banks appear to have had considerable success in restoring activity to the credit markets, according to evidence yesterday.The interest rates at which banks are willing to lend to each other fell sharply...
Chess
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Over the past three weeks, I've concentrated here almost exclusively on the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. Today completes the coverage (though I may drop back over Christmas with the occasional outstanding example) with the game that confirmed Gata...
Christmas Tradition That Leaves Sour Taste
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Footballers and the festive season do not mix. Glenn Moore explores a history of increasing excessIf Fabio Capello's language teacher has a sense of humour he may wish to set, for the new England manager's homework, the task of translating two newspaper...
Clinton on the Slide as Iowa Test Looms
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Less than two weeks before the small, rural and mostly white state of Iowa decides who it would like in the White House, it indicated yesterday that it will reject the favourites in favour of two long-shot candidates, Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee.A...
Cluster Bombs: An Evil We Must Ban Outright
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Welcome to Cluster's last stand - the final fight of a weapon that has shredded a hundred thousand legs and arms and eyes since it was lovingly created by the Nazis in the 1940s.This week, the Austrian government has banned cluster bombs and begun to...
Corridor Allows India's Threatened Elephants to Roam in Peace Wildlife Corridor Link Could Help Save Threatened Asian Elephant
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It is not even a mile-and-a-half long and barely quarter-of-a- mile across. And yet this simple strip of land in southern India could help protect the future of up to 1,000 elephants threatened by the encroach of humans.The corridor of land, totalling...
Cultural Elite Does Not Exist, Academics Claim
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The "cultural elite" brought up on opera and the higher arts, which supposedly turns up its nose at anything as vulgar as a pop song or mainstream television, does not exist, according to research published by Oxford University academics.Researchers...
Each Christmas, the Critic and Biographer Roger Lewis Sends Friends a Seasonal 'Suicide Note'. in Hilariously Caustic Prose, It Details Family Crises, the True Awfulness of His Celebrity Acquaintances, and the Dreary Reality of a Writer's Life in the British Provinces. This Year's Was His Rudest and Most Outrageous Ever
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JanuaryAs Coleridge used to say: "So completely has a whole year passed, with scarcely the fruits of a month - O Sorrow & Shame! I have done nothing." Except nearly 100 articles, for which I continue to be humiliatingly badly paid, and which get to be...
England Opt for Ashton's Vision
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--RUGBY UNIONBy Chris HewettWhen England take the field at Twickenham to face Wales in the first round of the 2008 Six Nations Championship a little over seven weeks from now, a 61-year-old coach by the name of Brian Ashton will be watching them from...
England Opt for Ashton's Vision
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RUGBY UNIONWhen England take the field at Twickenham to face Wales in the first round of the 2008 Six Nations Championship a little over seven weeks from now, a 61-year-old coach by the name of Brian Ashton will be watching them from his seat in the...
England Opt for Ashton's Vision
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RUGBY UNIONBy Chris HewettWhen England take the field at Twickenham to face Wales in the first round of the 2008 Six Nations Championship a little over seven weeks from now, a 61-year-old coach by the name of Brian Ashton will be watching them from his...
FA Factions to Debate Burton Project
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Football Association officials will today attempt to persuade senior figures on their board that the proposed National Football Centre at Burton-on-Trent should not be moved to a location nearer London having had 20m already spent on its development...
Fingers Crossed for a Happy New Year
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OUTLOOKWho to believe on the prospects for the UK's economy? Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling offered a positively upbeat assessment of our prospects yesterday. The Prime Minister said the country was well able to weather the financial storms battering...
First Reserve Buys Oil-Rig Operator Abbot Group
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By Danny FortsonAlasdair Locke, the executive chairman of Abbot Group, was in line for a 93m pay day yesterday after he agreed to sell the FTSE 250 oil-rig operator he founded for 906m to American buyout group First Reserve.The 390p-per-share deal comes...
Forgotten (but Not Gone)
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If doctors edited newspapers... The frontline physicians at Medecins Sans Frontieres have chosen the 10 humanitarian crises that should have been given more coverage in 2007.ColombiaWhile the cocaine trade regularly features in the headlines, little...
GKN to Buy Filton Plant from Airbus
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GKN has beaten its American rival Spirit AeroSystems to win the auction for part of the massive aircraft wing facility in Filton being sold by Airbus.EADS, parent of Airbus, said yesterday that GKN has been given preferred-bidder status for the site,...
Going, Going. Last Bids Now
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Today is the final opportunity to enter our charity auction. So if you want to win one of the 41 unique lots, place your bids now. Meanwhile Rob Sharp hears last year's winners' experiences CHRISTMAS APPEAL 2007Lot 1: A Day at the PaperVisit our adrenaline-fuelled...
Gordon Brown Has Bounced Back Many Times before, and May Well Do So Again
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Gordon Brown's final press conference of the year yesterday provided a useful reality check after one of the more hysterical phases in British politics. There he was at the end of the year, calm and good humoured. Yet apparently he had spent the summer...
Got a Job in the Tax Office? Lucky You
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What I would like for Christmas is a nice job where, even if I lost loads of highly confidential material, all I would have to do is apologise, bow out gracefully, and expect an inflation-proof pension. And if I were so inclined, I could probably take...
Grant Consolidates Position but Cracks Widen for Benitez
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Jose Mourinho always took the League Cup seriously. Few will forget his five-finger salute aimed at the private boxes when Chelsea won the trophy last spring at the Millennium Stadium. Roman Abramovich certainly didn't. The gesture was aimed directly...
Guantanamo Three Detained after Flying Home to Britain
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Three British residents who have been held by the United States government for nearly six years were released from Guantanamo Bay yesterday and flown home to be reunited with their families. Jamil el-Banna, Omar Deghayes and Abdenour Samuer were handed...
Hangover from Party That Turned into a Night of Shame
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It was supposed to be a fitting end to a great year for the superstars at Manchester United Football Club: a lavish Christmas party to celebrate not only the beginning of the festive season, but the end of a year in which they beat their arch rivals...
I Don't Believe in God, Says Clegg
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Nick Clegg revealed that he does not believe in God as he sketched out his policy priorities on his first full day as leader of the Liberal Democrats. Asked: "Do you believe in God?" during a BBC Radio Five interview, Mr Clegg replied simply: "No." Later...
I Fear for South Africa's Women in the Zuma Era
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As Jacob Zuma took the crown as president of the ANC, South Africa's ruling party, in the city of Polokwane this week, champagne spilled among the victors. Elsewhere, disppointment and fear took hold as the country faced a divided ANC.The electorate...
'In a Truer Life I'd Have Been a Pop Singer like Lily Allen'
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The 5-minute Interview Gurinder Chadha Film producerGurinder Chadha is an award-winning writer, director and producer. Her films include "Bend It Like Beckham" and "Bride and Prejudice". This Christmas Chadha has created a nativity play for Sky Movies'...
Jayawardene Punishes Sloppy England's Errors
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SRI LANKA 384-6 V ENGLANDMichael Vaughan trotted over to his opposite number, Mahela Jayawardene, at the close of play to compliment him on playing another fine innings. Whilst Vaughan was there he may as well have shaken the Sri Lankan captain by the...
Jayawardene Punishes Sloppy England's Errors
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SRI LANKA 384-6 v ENGLANDMichael Vaughan trotted over to his opposite number, Mahela Jayawardene, at the close of play to compliment him on playing another fine innings. Whilst Vaughan was there he may as well have shaken the Sri Lankan captain by the...
Let's Get Together
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Being green's more fun when you do it with online 'friends'. Meg Carter meets the men who believe that social networking can save the planetGreen brands tend to fall into one of two categories, believes internet entrepreneur Andy Hobsbawm. Either they...
Moneysupermarket Bounces Back to Restore Confidence
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THE INVESTMENT COLUMNEdited by Cliff FelthamOur view : HoldShare price: 139.25p (+9p)Moneysupermarket.com floated in July as the stock market crashed having already slashed the price of the shares from 210p to 170p to get the issue away.The shares had...
My Choice for Person of the Year? Angela Merkel
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Time magazine may just have chosen Vladimir Putin as its Man of the Year, but if I'd had a vote it would have been for a Woman of the Year - Angela Merkel, the doughty Chancellor of Germany.I know she's not the pin-up girl of the international commentators...
NHS Will Be Put to the Test by EU Plan to Open Healthcare Borders
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Europe stands on the brink of a historic decision to open its borders to medical tourism, casting a dramatic spotlight on the performance of the UK's health system against that of neighbouring countries.Cancer treatment, heart surgery and hip replacements...
No Grand Gestures but Grant Shows His Trophy Intent
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Jose Mourinho always took the Carling Cup seriously. Few will forget the five-finger salute the former manager aimed at the private boxes when Chelsea won the trophy last spring, beating Arsenal at the Millennium Stadium.Roman Abramovich certainly didn't....
On the 12th Day of Yule, My True Love Went Binge-Drinking
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Today I am bringing you a continuation of yesterday's session of the United Deities, in which all the gods upstairs were discussing the way the Roman feast of Saturnalia had been rebranded as Christmas by the early Christians. As rebranding and reinvention...
Pandora
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email pandora@independent.co.ukinternet site www.independent.co.uk/pandoraLast Post sounded for Huhne when ballots arrived lateAs Chris Huhne breaks for Christmas and contemplates a second failed bid to become leader of the Liberal Democrats, he will...
Perry Lucky to Be Alive after Fracturing His Windpipe
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The England scrum-half Shaun Perry will be out of action for at least three months after suffering a fractured windpipe while playing for Bristol in a Heineken Cup match against Harlequins at the Memorial Ground last weekend. It could have been worse....
Perry Lucky to Be Alive after Fracturing His Windpipe
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The England scrum-half Shaun Perry will be out of action for at least three months after suffering a fractured windpipe while playing for Bristol in a Heineken Cup match against Harlequins at the Memorial Ground last weekend. It could have been worse....
Perry Lucky to Be Alive after Fracturing His Windpipe
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The England scrum-half Shaun Perry will be out of action for at least three months after suffering a fractured windpipe while playing for Bristol in a Heineken Cup match against Harlequins at the Memorial Ground last weekend. It could have been worse....
Photo Opportunity
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With a stunning new home, The Photographers' Gallery will become a world-class venue. By Arifa AkbarWhen Sue Davies, photographer and founding figure in the renaissance of British photography, converted a popular tea bar in central London into the country's...
Poker
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Poker movies that portray the game as it really is are few and far between. The Cincinnati Kid, made four decades ago and starring the late Steve McQueen, was a bit of a fairy story.Rounders, released in 1998, at least gave some insight into how "real"...
Political Paralysis Fears after Mbeki Defeat
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South Africans are pondering an uncertain future after Jacob Zuma's victory as leader of the African National Congress effectively created two centres of power, and fertile ground for acrimony with the humiliated President, Thabo Mbeki.Mr Zuma, who months...
Pop
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WET WET WET NEC BIRMINGHAM ****Formed at Clydebank High School in the early Eighties, Wet Wet Wet were always much more than the teenybop band it was OK for Dexy's Midnight Runners fans to like. They were steeped in the soul music of the Sixties and...
Pride Restored to the People Who Lost Their Forest
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Cecile Bahutu, sitting in the small village she could now call home, explained to me the extent of the prejudice against her people. It was so great, she said, that they had come to doubt their own worth."We thought we had no right to know any other...
Professor N. G. Carr
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Researcher into blue-green algaeThe biochemist N. G. Carr founded a research school that made seminal contributions on the metabolism, physiology, molecular biology and ecology of cyanobacteria - or blue-green algae - perhaps the most numerous organisms...
Prolonging an Uneasy Marriage
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LEADING ARTICLE BELGUIMBelgian politicians have found a Belgian solution to a Belgian crisis. Six months after he "lost" a general election, the caretaker Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt is to become an "interim" prime minister at the head of an "interim"...
Recession Fears Fail to Silence the Christmas Tills
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The tills of the big supermarket chains are expected to jingle non-stop as shoppers in the UK spend a record 4.25bn on food in Christmas week, say retail analysts.Each household is expected to lavish almost 200 on Yuletide groceries this year, more than...
Record-Breaking Haul from Gaul Discovered at Farm in Brittany
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Asterix and Obelix, had they existed, might have paid for their mead and other magic potions with gold-silver-copper coins stamped with elaborate images of men and horses.The largest treasure trove of pre-Roman, Gaulish money ever to be found has been...
Red Mist Descends on Crouch to Smooth Chelsea's Progress
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CHELSEA 2 LIVERPOOL 0The Carling Cup or the Snarling Cup? Even the mild-mannered Peter Crouch lost his temper last night to become the third player in English football's angriest competition to be dismissed in the space of two days before Rafael Benitez...
Rock Sinks the Festive Cheer
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THE SKETCHThe Prime Minister has a new air about him. The honeymoon is over but so is the post-honeymoon. The terrible moment when we realise that a new spouse isn't just for Christmas - that may have passed. Now we realise with a dull sense of fate...
Roger Eldridge
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Camera Press managing directorRoger Eldridge was one of the most liked and respected men in the international photo agency world. He joined Camera Press in 1969, at the invitation of Tom Blau, who had founded the agency more than 20 years before, and...
'Role-Play Is Fun, but It's Not a Substitute for Regular Sex'
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Sleeping AroundI could hear my on-off boyfriend Ross's key in the door as I buttoned up my white blouse, adjusted my glasses and pulled my hair up into a bun. I was playing the "sexy librarian," and he was a "reader" who'd forgotten to pay his fines....
Royal Academy Show in Doubt as Russia Withdraws Artworks
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A forthcoming exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, of major artworks from Russia's most prestigious museums, is under threat after Russian authorities withdrew its loan of several pieces. They have voiced fears that the paintings could be seized...
Shevchenko Crowns Chelsea's Night as Crouch Loses His Head
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CHELSEA 2 LIVERPOOL 0He was appointed to win the Champions League, but in the meantime Avram Grant seems quite content to make the Carling Cup his priority. The first trophy that Jose Mourinho ever won at the club could yet be the Israeli's too this...
Single Error Costs Mighty Morgan Stanley $8Bn
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A single catastrophic mistake by traders at the heart of Morgan Stanley's mortgage business has blown an $8bn (4bn) hole in the bank's finances, it emerged yesterday.In what might be the biggest single loss by a trading desk on Wall Street, Morgan Stanley...
Smith Guides Returning Mr Springfield to Victory in Accumulator
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--EQUESTRIANISMBy Genevieve MurphyRobert Smith celebrated the return of Mr Springfield after a long three-year lay-off when winning yesterday's BIC Accumulator at the London International Horse Show at Olympia.The Irish-bred horse, now a 14-year-old,...
Smith Guides Returning Mr Springfield to Victory in Accumulator
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EQUESTRIANISMRobert Smith celebrated the return of Mr Springfield after a three-year lay-off when winning yesterday's BIC Accumulator at the London International Horse Show at Olympia.The Irish-bred horse, now a 14-year-old, was fourth at the 2004 Olympic...
Smith Guides Returning Mr Springfield to Victory in Accumulator
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EQUESTRIANISMRobert Smith celebrated the return of Mr Springfield after a long three-year lay-off when winning yesterday's BIC Accumulator at the London International Horse Show at Olympia.The Irish-bred horse, now a 14-year-old, was fourth at the 2004...
Sports Direct Sales Slump after 'Three Train Wrecks in a Year'
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Mike Ashley, the billionaire founder of Sports Direct, blamed weather, the England football team and tough retail conditions for a 70 per cent fall in first-half profits at the Lillywhites and Sports- world sportswear chain yesterday.The Newcastle United...
Talent You Can Bank On
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With strong roles in four films, Josh Brolin may finally be able to give up his day job trading stocks. He talks to Sheila JohnstonLast year Josh Brolin was the archetypal failed actor. More than two decades in the business had left him without a single...
Talk of Swiss Interest in Cairn Lifts Oil Stocks
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MARKET REPORTOil-related companies were looking slick yesterday as takeover chat swamped the market. The industry has almost singlehandedly kept the rumour mill turning recently, and yesterday there was talk that the exploration and production group...
'The BBC Guy Said He'd like to Develop a Sitcom around My Life. Dollar Signs Flashed in My Mind'
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He's Out ThereI'm lying naked in a pool of my own barf on the floor of the main Cooperdome bathroom when the phone rings. I must have fallen unconscious and been there all night. The last thing that I remember was some kind of drinking competition with...
The Boss Is Back in Town with Classic Collection of Magic
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First Night BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 02 Arena LONDONTaught, wiry, raddled as all hell, Springsteen bestrides the O2 stage with all the confidence befitting a rock deity/blue-collar hero/sex icon/and human-rights campaigner/living legend. The crowd roars.Who's...
The Green Goddess
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The strange thing is that while most of these women currently in festive meltdown mode look and sound just like me (even down to the precise shade of Harbour Club blond) I am not of them at all. This is because I am in fact a man. Despite having a poor...
Thinking of Travelling to Italy for Treatment? I Would Think Again
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In my experience there are two different Italian health systems. If you get hit by a scooter, or (as happened to our son) get kicked in the jaw by a mate and bite a hole in your tongue, you rush to the nearest hospital with an Emergency (Pronto Soccorso)...
This Is England: A Country Where Football Enjoys Excess in All Areas
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Welcome to English football, Signor Capello. Welcome to the culture which gave us the Wags of Baden Baden during your new team's catastrophic World Cup campaign in Germany last year and, this week, the second rung of football glitterati, the bussed-in...
'Time' Names 'Dangerous' Putin as Person of the Year
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Vladimir Putin has joined the company of Mahatma Gandhi, Pope John Paul II and Bono after being named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2007.Mr Putin, the magazine said, "has performed an extraordinary feat of leadership" in his eight years in...
Today in the Premier League
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ARSENALArsne Wenger believes his young guns can go one better than last season and win the Carling Cup after they beat Blackburn 3-2 in the quarter-finals. "I always believe strongly in these players and I'm not surprised by this result," said Wenger....
Tony Tenser
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Film producer and distributor who dubbed Bardot a 'sex kitten'The producer and distributor Tony Tenser is most associated with British sex and horror films of the Fifties and Sixties. A jovial character who was blatantly commercially driven, he said,...
Tourists Master Art of Bowling Badly with Diploma in Dropped Catches
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Suddenly, England were tired. Perhaps from far away they could hear the strains of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" calling them home. Perhaps three Tests in 21 days was proving too much. Perhaps they could bear no longer the sight of Mahela Jayawardene...
Tourists Master Art of Bowling Badly with Diploma in Dropped Catches
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Suddenly, England were tired. Perhaps from far away they could hear the strains of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" calling them home. Perhaps three Tests in 21 days was proving too much. Perhaps they could bear no longer the sight of Mahela Jayawardene...
Train Leasing Inquiry to Look at DfT Rules
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The Competition Commission's inquiry into the alleged anti- competitive activities of the trio of banks which between them own all of the country's train carriages was widened yesterday to include the Department for Transport.In what it called an "Emerging...
Tyrone Taylor
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Reggae singerFollowing the worldwide success of the teenage group Musical Youth with "Pass the Dutchie" in the early Eighties, MCA Records belatedly became interested in reggae. In the summer of 1983, they signed the Jamaican singer Tyrone Taylor and...
Wake Up and See the Comedy
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Visual arts PAINTINGS BY NOEL FIELDING Maison Bertaux LONDON **Where would you go to find some physical manifestations of one half of The Mighty Boosh (the Noel Fielding half, that is)? Well, this morning I'm standing on the streets of Soho - in Greek...
Walsh and Thomas to Share Kempton Duty
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By Chris McGrath at NewburyIn the absence of his stable jockey, Paul Nicholls has had his horses in such outrageous form that he could probably find a race for the two elderly shires harnessed to a brewery dray alongside the parade ring here yesterday....
Walsh and Thomas to Share Kempton Duty
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In the absence of his stable jockey, Paul Nicholls has had his horses in such outrageous form that he could probably find a race for the two elderly shires harnessed to a brewery dray alongside the parade ring here yesterday. After all, he does love...
Walsh and Thomas to Share Kempton Duty
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In the absence of his stable jockey, Paul Nicholls has had his horses in such outrageous form that he could probably find a race for the two elderly shires harnessed to a brewery dray alongside the parade ring here yesterday. After all, he does love...
'We Flew into Frankfurt and Were Treated like Royalty. the Next Day I Had My Operation'
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The triple bypassWilliam Budge, 82, retired farmer from Barnstaple, North DevonI had severe pain in my right arm a couple of years ago. Doctors first said it was just arthritis. But when I then had severe pain across my chest, I was told that I needed...
Wenger Seeks Final Push from New Guard
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The Arsenal manager Arsne Wenger believes his young guns can go one better than last season and win the Carling Cup.Wenger's supremely-talented crop of young fringe players were beaten finalists against Chelsea at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium in February.But...
We Will Pay a Steep Price for Our Plunder of the Oceans
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LEADING ARTICLE THE ENVIRONMENTOnce again, the annual round of quota haggling between European Union fisheries ministers has put the short-term interests of the fishing industry above the long-term interests of sustainable fisheries. Scottish and English...
Who Is Dmitry Medvedev, and What Would His Presidency Mean for Russia?
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The big questionWhy is this the question of the moment?Dmitry Medvedev, one of Russia's two first deputy prime ministers, has been formally nominated by the dominant United Russia party as its candidate for the presidential election next March. He was...
Wood Raises His Holding in Northern Rock to 10%
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By Sean FarrellSRM Global Master Fund, the hedge fund that is Northern Rock's biggest shareholder, continued to build its stake in the bank yesterday even as expectations for nationalisation increased.SRM, run by Jon Wood, a former star UBS trader, now...
You Can Have Too Much of a Good Thing
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Last Night's TV HESTON BLUMENTHAL'S PERFECT CHRISTMAS BBC2 LAST CHANCE DRIVING SCHOOL ITV1It's not always easy to draw a sharp distinction between perfectionism and obsessive compulsive disorder, Heston Blumenthal being a case in point. For most of us,...
