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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 May 5, 2005
Al-Qa'ida No 3 Is Arrested in Pakistan
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Abu Farraj al-Libbi, an al-Qai'da leader wanted for two assassination attempts against Pakistan's President, Pervez Musharraf, has been captured after 17 months on the run. According to intelligence sources, he is believed tocoordinate Islamist cells...
ANALYSIS: The Biggest Thing to Happen in Adland for Four Years
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Chairman of TBWA until yesterday morning when he resigned, Trevor Beattie is the biggest figure in a UK advrtising industry sorely lacking big figures. Beattie McGuinness Bungay (BMB), the new company Beattie has launched on general election day and...
ARTS: How I Stunned Arthur Miller ; When the Playwright Saw Robert Falls's Staging of 'Death of a Salesman', It Took His Breath Away. on the Eve of the West End Debut, the Director Talks to Paul Taylor
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'Arthur was incredibly shocked the first time he saw the production because it behaved and looked like no other production of this play he had ever seen,' recalls the director Robert Falls. He's talking about his own revolutionary staging of Arthur Miller's...
ARTS: Mother of Invention ; 'Mama' Cass Elliot Was One of the Best-Loved Stars of the Sixties. Yet despite Her Sunny Image, Her Short Life Was Beset by Tragedy
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'Follow me,' says David Crosby as he gets into his black Mercedes and hurtles off down the road. After a year of e-mails, he has agreed to talk to me about his friend 'Mama' Cass Elliot, the tender- voiced Mamas and Papas singer whose biography I have...
As He Fends off Cheap Jibes and Accusations, Blair Seems a Far More Substantial Figure ; He Has Been Brought Down from Deification to a Point Where He Is Not Trusted
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In his recent Independent interview, I asked Tony Blair whether he was still enjoying the job compared with the early years when many in the media and quite a few voters assumed that he could walk on water. He replied by highlighting what he regarded...
A-Z OF EMPLOYERS: GlaxoSmithKline
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What does it do? British-owned GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is the world's second largest research- based pharmaceutical company, selling drugs in more than 160 countries. It accounts for over six per cent of the world's pharmaceutical market and over nine...
BAT Profits Stay Alight despite Sales Slowdown
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British American Tobacco, the owner of the Lucky Strike, Pall Mall and Dunhill cigarette brands, reported a 9 per cent growth in profits for the first quarter of 2005 as growth in Turkey, Russia and Pakistan made up for slowing demand for its cigarettes...
BSkyB's Profits Rise despite Increase in Churn Rate
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BSkyB reported a jump in the rate at which existing customers left the television service in the first three months of 2005, even though the company beat City expectations for the number of subscribers it added. The pay-TV provider gained 308,000 subscribers...
Burundi Spy Chiefs Found Guilty of WHO Director's Murder
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It was a gruesome killing that looked, at first sight, a robbery that had gone wrong. The badly beaten body of Kassi Manlan, director of the World Health Organisation in Burundi, was found in the shallows of Lake Tanganyika in November 2001. But robbery...
Bush Prepares for Moscow Visit with Attack on Soviet Era
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President George Bush has waded into a bitter historical row between Russia and its former imperial vassals the Baltic states, putting the Kremlin's nose out of joint just days before he visits Moscow. To compound Russia's discomfort Mr Bush has also...
CAREERS RETAIL BANKING: How Can We Be of Service? ; Retail Banking Is Perfect If You Want to Learn about Investment and Help Customers
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Many students are drawn to banking by the pay, but put off by the prospect of long hours dealing in impersonal money markets. Retail banking offers you the chance to learn how to invest, without losing sight of who is investing. All graduates in retail...
CAREERS: SOCIAL WORK MANAGEMENT - 'It's All about Giving People Happier Lives' ; from the Moment You Start to Train, Social Work Is a Tough Option " but When You Become a Manager the Responsibilities Increase Dramatically. Clare Dwyer Hogg Reports
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Dave Evans has no hesitation in saying exactly what got him into social work. While volunteering for a charity that gave underprivileged children the chance to have holiday, he noticed a pattern. 'Most of the children had been through so much,' he says....
Chess
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The 4NCL season finished on Monday to the rumble of heavy artillery as the two rival captains, Guildford-ADC's Nigel Povah and Wood Green's Brian Smith, called up the reserves for the final shoot- out. Last year, Guildford pipped my team to the post,...
China, Oil and Higher Rates Will Be the Big Issues during the Next Parliament
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What will happen to the world economy during the life of the new parliament " the backdrop against which the next government will have to perform? Of course we cannot know what the great geo-political forces will whip up: whether, for example, there...
COMMENT: Three Cheers for Sir Digby
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Sir Digby Jones, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, was right to warn at the weekend that we were in danger of creating 'a society of victims', loath or unable to take risks. In education, this manifests itself in two ways. One...
Computer Giant IBM to Axe 13,000 Staff in Shake-Up
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IBM, the world's largest computer company, is to axe 13,000 jobs, primarily in Europe, as part of a global cost-cutting drive. Billed as an attempt to revamp its operations to focus on high- growth markets, the move will affect up to 4 per cent of its...
CRICKET: Bicknell Saves Surrey from Humiliation S S ; STAFFORDSHIRE 186 SURREY 192-7 Surrey Win by 3 Wkts
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The stage was set for a potential upset. A depleted first-class county with a poor recent one-day record were taking on one of the stronger minor counties, on a pitch affected by overnight rain. And for lengthy periods of this intriguing contest on the...
CRICKET: Willoughby Makes the Most of Late Invitation ; SOMERSET 94 LEICESTERSHIRE 96-7 Leicestershire Win by 3 Wkts
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Charl Willoughby wondered if the opportunity to realise his ambition to play English county cricket might have passed him by until an injury to the Australian pace bowler Mark Cleary left Leicestershire with a vacancy for an overseas player. The 30-year-old...
Education: Diary
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The Liberal Democrats' investment in student canvassing appears to be paying off. Charles Kennedy's party now commands the support of many teachers who are disenchanted with Labour, according to a survey conducted by www.schoolzone. co.uk for The Independent,...
EDUCATION QUANDARY: 'Our Son's Private School Puts Pupils off Oxbridge, Saying It Is Too Competitive. How Do We Convince Him to Have a Go?'
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Hilary's advice The obvious answer might be: leave the boy alone. Let him make his own decisions. But teenage sons and daughters don't always know as much about the world as they think they do, and your reasons for wanting him to have a go should at...
Election 2005: All the Swinging Scenarios in a Three-Party Scramble: The Winners, the Losers and Who Ends Up with What
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SWING: TORIES TO LABOUR SWING 1-2% Labour majority 172, Castlepoint, Upminster, SWING 0-1% Labour maj 168 Boston and Skegness, Beverley and Holderness, Bedfordshire SW, Basingstoke, STATUS QUO: Labour maj 160SWING: LABOUR TO TORIES SWING 0-1% Labour...
Election2005: Blair Fears 800,000 Voters in Marginals Will Stay at Home ; LABOUR
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Tony Blair was dogged by the deaths and doubts surrounding his decision to invade Iraq throughout the last day of election campaigning yesterday. At his final campaign press conference, the Prime Minister warned wavering voters not to act against him...
Election2005: Election Diary
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Good campaign (part 1) Gordon Brown, who emerged from his cocoon to refresh parts of the party that Tony Blair couldn't reach, winning himself the title of the prime minister-in-waiting into the bargain. Good campaign (part 2) Charles Kennedy, who rode...
Election2005: Has the Election Campaigning Had an Impact on Voters' Intentions?
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NAGEELA YUSUF, 24 Student of Political Science from London Voted Labour 2001 Will vote: Liberal Democrat 'I have been really detached from the campaigning and I made my decision by looking at the policies. Although I agree with most of Labour's policies,...
Election 2005: Lib Dems Enjoy a Last-Minute Bounce, but Their Vote Remains 'Soft'
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Over the past week, Labour has been desperately warning voters of the dangers of flirting with the Liberal Democrats. Yet, far from registering a drop in Liberal Democrat support, our exclusive NOP poll puts Charles Kennedy at a higher level than at...
Election 2005: One Quarter of Voters Uncertain as Labour Sag at the Final Post
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More than one in four people have still not made up their minds how to vote in today's election, according to an NOP poll for The Independent. The survey suggests Labour is on course for a third successive term but that a last-minute advance by the Liberal...
Election2005: Reasons to Be Cheerful: Kennedy Bullish on Poll's Eve ; LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
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A buoyant Charles Kennedy predicted that the Liberal Democrats were heading for a 'massive increase' in support as he said the party had 'reasons to be cheerful' in the final hours of the campaign. Optimistic that he could deal the Tories a body blow...
Election2005: So What Happens after the Votes Are Counted?
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Blair back with 150 majority Despite a bruising campaign, Tony Blair has scored a triumphant third landslide victory, holding on to all but a handful of the seats won from the Conservatives in 1997 and retained in 2001. He argues that New Labour has...
Election2005: The Man Who Would Be King: But the Issue for Brown Is When?
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When the Rover car arrives at the school in south Wimbledon, Gordon Brown springs out before Tony Blair and dives into the crowd of carefully vetted Labour activists. 'Thanks for all your help,' he says warmly. An hour and a half later, after a press...
Election 2005: The Sketch: Blowin' in the Wind: A Prime Minister Who Defies Reality ; THE SKETCH
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At last. The final press conference of the election campaign. And it showed. The Cabinet trooped resentfully on stage in front of the lowest turn-out of journalists in recent electoral history. We were like a provincial matinee where the audience hasn't...
Election2005: Tory Focus Already Turns to Who Will Be the Next Leader ; CONSERVATIVES
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The mud was already flying within the Conservative Party last night as rival camps backed possible successors to Michael Howard in the event of a humiliating Tory defeat. Mr Howard spent the last day of the campaign in a hectic round of canvassing in...
Election 2005: Your Minute-by-Minute Guide to How the Battle Will Be Fought on the Night
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That's it. The British general election of 2005 is officially over (bar any legal challenges over fraudulent postal votes). The polling stations have closed. The ballots have been cast. The counting begins. On the stroke of 10 o'clock the BBC and ITV...
Equestrianism: Blonde Ambition: Whitaker Poised to Make History and Extend Dynasty in Style ; the Latest in a Distinguished Show Jumping Line Could Give a Vital Boost to the Sport's Image, Writes Genevieve Murphy
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A few eyebrows are certain to be raised by the news that Ellen Whitaker, aged only 19, intends to try to get into the British team for this year's senior European Show Jumping Championships. Some are bound to ask whether the Young Riders European Championships...
FASHION: READY TO WEAR - When Posh Spice Goes Boho, It's So Over
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If ever proof were needed that the 'boho' style that has dominated fashion for two summers now is well and truly dead, it came in the form of the not-even-remotely boho Victoria Beckham's appropriation of the look late last week. 'ORANGE POSH: THE BECKHAMS...
FASHION: SUITED & BOOTED - 'You Won't Believe It,' Said My Hostess, 'But Someone's Come as the Editor of GQ'
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On Saturday, I went to the third 40th birthday I've attended this year, and I know there are at least another four coming before the end of summer. And, like two of the others, Saturday's was a fancy dress party, this time with an Austin Powers theme....
FASHION: White Heat ; Stella McCartney's Lingerie-Inspired Collection Reflects a Trend towards a Simpler Femininity, Says Susannah Frankel. So Chuck out the Chintz and Embrace Your Uncluttered Inner Self
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'The collection encourages relaxed dressing with the use of breezy fabrics and simplified styling,' read the show notes accompanying Stella McCartney's spring/summer 2005 collection " an unusually uncomplicated viewpoint and all the more welcome for...
FIRST NIGHT: Pathos and Bravado Breathe Life into Bard's Schematic Histories ; HENRY IV PARTS ONE AND TWO Olivier Theatre, London
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It's a remarkable fact that Nick Hytner's excellent production of Shakespeare's two Henry IV plays marks the first time this great diptych of dramas has ever been mounted at the National Theatre. The RSC seems to have measured out its life in versions...
Football: Ambrose Advances Claims in the Absence of Shearer ; FULHAM 1 NEWCASTLE UNITED 3
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Elections can be notoriously tricky to predict, especially when your popularity has fluctuated as much as Graeme Souness's has on Tyneside, but there is no doubt that this first league win in two months will deliver a huge fillip to the Newcastle manager's...
FOOTBALL ANFIELD AFTERMATH: Liverpool Hails the New King of the Kop
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Liverpool may be a great port city with a rollicking history, but it is also a village, a place where people can find out about each other in the time it takes to sink a pint and make a roll-up. It is why the coronation of Rafael Benitez as the King...
FOOTBALL ANFIELD AFTERMATH: Roar Power and Catharsis on Night of Red Revival ; Anfield's Faithful Proved Worth a Goal Start against Chelsea. Liverpool Fan Jack Blanchard Felt the Will to Win
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For a Liverpool fan, born into glory and raised on endless legend, the desire for a return to the towering heights of the past knows no bounds. The force of feeling has been compounded by every year of waiting. The noise that exploded from the Kop and...
FOOTBALL ANFIELD AFTERMATH: Winning Mentality Turns Mourinho into a Sore Loser
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Since English football first made Jose Mourinho's acquaintance more than a year ago he has humbled Manchester United in the Champions' League, he has taken Arsenal's Premiership title and he has established a third dominant force in the country. The...
FOOTBALL: Bayern Target Celtic's Bald in Search for Replacement Defender
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Bayern Munich are still tracking the Celtic defender Bobo Bald after running the rule over him at the recent Old Firm match. The 29- year-old has been targeted as a replacement for the Croatian centre- back Robert Kovac. Uli Hoeness, the general manager...
FOOTBALL: Bergkamp Seeks Final Year
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Dennis Bergkamp has confirmed he will retire from football at the end of this season if he is not offered a final one-year contract by Arsenal. However, the Dutchman wants to carry on for a final season if he is reassured by the club's manager, Arsne...
FOOTBALL: Chelsea Enraged by Garcia Winner
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Chelsea's frustration and rage over Luis Garcia's controversial winning goal for Liverpool in Tuesday's tumultuous Champions' League semi-final was unabated yesterday. The captain, John Terry, claimed the assistant referee Roman Slysko made a bad decision...
FOOTBALL: Chelsea Enraged by Garcia Winner
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Chelsea's frustration and rage over Luis Garcia's controversial winning goal for Liverpool in Tuesday's tumultuous Champions' League semi-final was unabated yesterday. The captain, John Terry, claimed the assistant referee Roman Slysko made a bad decision...
Football: Gerrard Ready to Stay Put after Liverpool Night of Glory
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Steven Gerrard yesterday gave the strongest signal yet that he will end more than a year's worth of transfer speculation linking him to Chelsea and sign a new deal with Liverpool, less than 24 hours after his club won a place in the European Cup final....
Football: Know the Score Motion Expert Says Garcia's Shot Did Cross the Line
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Liverpool's controversial winner against Chelsea on Tuesday crossed the line and was a valid goal, an expert in motion analysis and 3D shape modelling said yesterday. Dr Mike Spann, a lecturer at Birmingham University's School of Electronic, Electrical...
FOOTBALL: Today in the Premiership
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ARSENAL Reports in Spain have suggested that the Real Madrid vice- president Emilio Butragueo has met with Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein over the availability of Jose Antonio Reyes. Butragueo has apparently made an official approach but Dein insisted...
FOOTBALL: United Fans Urge Match Boycott to Oppose Glazer
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Prominent Manchester United fans' groups have called for supporters to boycott Saturday's Premiership match against West Bromwich Albion. The 'Not For Sale Coalition', comprising the Independent Manchester United Supporters Association, Shareholders...
Football: 'We Had One Chance and Took It,' Says Relieved Stam ; PSV EINDHOVEN 3 MILAN 1agg 3-3; Milan Win on Away Goals
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A headed goal by Massimo Ambrosini in injury time took Milan to the Champions' League final " in which they will face Liverpool in Istanbul on 25 May " but the victory by Carlo Ancelotti's side was scarcely deserved. A night of glorious football from...
Found: The Trend-Setting Dinosaur That Went Veggie
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It walked on two legs, looked like an ostrich, had hands the size of a gorilla's and lived 125 million years ago " meet the latest dinosaur discovery. Fossilised bones of the feathered, bird-like creature, Falcarius utahensis, were unearthed at a remote...
FURTHER EDUCATION: A Message from John Brennan at the Association of Colleges: 'Whoever Wins Today May Face a Very Different Environment in Further Education in 2009 or 2010'
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Further education may not have been top of the political agenda during this election campaign. Locally, many colleges ran their own cross- party hustings. And nationally, the main parties at least mentioned colleges and skills in their manifestos. But...
FURTHER EDUCATION: Can I Land My Helicopter Here? ; College Students and Staff Met the Politicians in the General Election Campaign, Says Neil Merrick
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Midway through the general election campaign, Accrington and Rossendale College received a slightly unusual request from the Conservative Party. Would it be possible, the college was asked, for Michael Howard's helicopter to land on its football pitch...
Gambon Takes 'Role He Was Born to Play' as Glorious Clown Falstaff
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Sir Michael Gambon is making his long-awaited theatrical debut as Sir John Falstaff, Shakespeare's most glorious clown and wit. Ralph Fiennes and Simon Russell Beale may have sold out Julius Caesar at the Barbican before it even opened, and Derek Jacobi's...
GRADUATE: ACCENTS: Don't Be a Phoney ; Cultivating a Phone Voice Is All Well and Good, but Stay True to Yourself, Says Andrea Wren
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As if there's not enough to think about when you are stepping out into a brave new world after graduation, you can add your accent into the equation. You may have laughed at your mother for answering calls in her 'phone voice', but you could find yourself...
GRADUATE: CAREERS RETAIL: Laughing All the Way to the Shops ; the UK's Pounds 250bn Retail Sector Is Hungry for Graduate Talent. but Could You Thrive in an Aggressive Meritocracy That Often Starts with a Job on the Sales Floor? Virginia Matthews Finds out What It Takes to Get Ahead
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The recent news that Tesco has smashed through the pounds 2bn-a- year profits barrier has put to bed forever the notion that retailing is small beer when compared with international banking or whiz-kid accountancy. Now one of the world's top three international...
Graduate: News in Brief
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Skills shortage The UK skills shortage is at a 12-year peak, according to the Business in Britain survey from Lloyds TSB Corporate. Fifty-two per cent of British companies have experienced sustained difficulty in recruiting skilled staff in the past...
GRADUATE: WORKING LIFE: How to Escape Being Pigeon-Holed by Employers
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Nobody likes to be pigeonholed, particularly graduates, according to research by Common Purpose. The leadership development organisation has found that one in five high-fliers feel they have been forced to specialise too early in their careers by their...
HIGHER EDUCATION : How Israel Sees the Boycott ; the Association of University Teachers Is Blacklisting Two Israeli Institutions for Their Attitudes towards Palestinians. Eric Silver Reports from Jerusalem on Whether the AUT's Criticisms of Haifa and Bar-Ilan Universities Are Justified
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To boycott this university among all the universities in Israel is so bizarre and so distorted that I simply can't understand it,' said Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, the president of Haifa University, one of two Israeli academic institutions blacklisted last week...
HIGHER EDUCATION: The Rebellion Begins
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The Association of University Teachers is under intense pressure to drop its boycott of two Israeli universities. According to Professor Geraldine Van Beuren, a law professor at Queen Mary, University of London, and the University of Cape Town, the boycott...
Icons Make Way for More Cutting-Edge Acts in Mojo Awards
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From the Clash to James Brown, the Mojo awards made a point of recognising the elder statesmen of popular music when they were launched last year. Not this year. The organisers of 2004's back-slapping music extravaganza in Whitehall yesterday unveiled...
Inside the Mind of a Staggering Genius ; Daniel Tammet Can Recite Pi to 22,514 Decimal Places and Speak Seven Languages, One of Which He Learnt in a Week. Unlike Other 'Prodigious Savants', He Knows How He Does It
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Daniel Tammet is doing mental arithmetic: 37 x 37 x 37 x 37. His fingers hover above the table, tracing shapes visible to no one but himself. A few seconds later, he smiles: the answer is 1,874,161. Too easy, perhaps: the testers think he may have memorised...
'I Want to Talk to My Wife': Coma Victim Breaks Decade of Silence
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For almost 10 years, following an accident that left him severely brain damaged, Donald Herbert was virtually silent, could barely see, and had no memory of his former life, his wife, or four children. For his family, the point must have come where they...
Kerkorian Launches Audaciousraid on Ailing GM
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The legendary US corporate raider Kirk Kerkorian electrified Wall Street yesterday by launching a bid to acquire a near-9 per cent stake in General Motors, the world's biggest car maker. Mr Kerkorian's investment vehicle, Tracinda Corporation, announced...
Labour Hit by More Bad News on the Economy
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Labour's attempt to use the economy for its final election push took a triple blow yesterday as the high street and housebuilders suffered a slump and a leading business group warned of a 'permanent' economic slowdown. The final economic data released...
LAST NIGHT'S TV: Policies Mean Prizes in This Claim Game ; No Win No Fee BBC2 D-Day to Berlin BBC1
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Andrew Twambley " a senior executive with Amelans, a firm of personal-injury lawyers " was not a man nervous of vivid metaphors. The firm's first poster campaign featured a slavering rottweiler, mouth gaping in attack mode. I took this to be an illustration...
Leader Article: A Bitter Anniversary for the Baltic States ; VE DAY
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What was supposed to be a commemoration of a great moment in European history will instead be overshadowed by historical grievance and political animosity. On 9 May, the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, will host a celebration in Moscow to mark the...
Leader Article: There Is a Clear Choice, So Don't Waste Your Vote ; THE ELECTION
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In any democracy, this is a charmed moment: the point at which the campaigning ends and the responsibility passes to the people. In some ways, we are sorry the hustings have been dismantled so soon. Against most expectations, this has been a far from...
Letter: DIVIDED OPINION
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Susan Bassnett totally misrepresents the AUT boycott of Bar- Ilan University in Israel ('This boycott is wrong, bigoted and racist', Comment, EDUCATION, 28 April). By declaring it to be racist, she makes the (deliberate) mistake of confusing any criticism...
Mad for It? Not Me ; Liam and Noel's New Album Is Being Hailed as a Return to Their Former Glory. for Paul Morley Though, Oasis Will Always Be a Parody of Themselves " or at Least a Parody of a Band That Wants to Be the Beatles
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I confess that, in my carefully selected and supremely expert list of the top 50 post-punk Manchester bands, Oasis are placed well into the lower half, round about number 47, just below Northside, and just above Simply Red. Without Liam's voice snarling...
Man to Be Charged with Omagh Bomb Murders
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A man is expected to be charged with the murders of the 29 people who were killed in the Omagh bombing in August 1998. The charges can be expected to result in an epic legal case which will be one of the biggest mass murder trials in British and Irish...
MARKET REPORT; Games Makers Rocked by Electronic Arts Woes
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The next generation of computer games consoles from Sony and Microsoft are due later this year and no one is awaiting their launch so keenly as the makers of the computer games that will be played on them. Shares in the UK's mid-sized games publishers...
Matalan Blames 'Consumer Apathy' for Sales Plunge
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The discount retailer Matalan warned yesterday its profits would barely rise this year after a plunge in sales got its new financial year off to a dire start. The alert came as the company announced a pounds 50m share buy- back programme after finally...
Meet My Muse. Mrs Mop ; Sabine Bruninger Uses Overalls, Dishcloths and Aprons as Blueprints for Her Delicate Designs. No Wonder She's Cleaning Up, Says Susie Rushton
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When the German- born designer Sabine Bruninger was five, her future as a musician was decided. Or so her parents thought. Sent to music school instead of kindergarten, 10 years later she was playing the flute and practicing five hours a day. 'Then I...
My Sainted Aunt! A Marketing Opportunity
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Yesterday, we visited the United Deities, to see how all gods past and present were viewing events down here on Earth, and we found that up there in Heaven they were still mulling over the recent papal election. Here are some more minutes from the same...
OBITUARY: ANDY MCMAHON ; Boilermaker MP for Govan
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Election to the House of Commons can turn out to be a great personal misfortune for some individuals. Westminster is simply not their scene. Such a one was Andy McMahon, the first genuine boilermaker to enter the House of Commons. (As opposed to the...
OBITUARY: EDWARD VON KLOBERG II ; Flamboyant Washington Lobbyist
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As they like to say in Washington, Edward von Kloberg III was a 'go-to guy' " but not for the average honest citizen in need of a merited leg up. Von Kloberg was a lobbyist in a city whose stock in trade is image embellishment, and those who sought him...
OBITUARY: ERNEST W. MARTIN ; Radical Champion of the Rural Poor
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Ernest W. Martin was one of the most ardent champions of disadvantaged members of rural society. Born in the village of Shebbear in north-west Devon in 1912, he grew up as part of a 'peasant' community where squire, parson and doctor were the lite, often...
OBITUARY: LT-GEN J. S. AURORA ; 'Liberator of Bangladesh' Who Led India's Eastern Army to Victory over Pakistan
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So innovative was his operational planning and so meticulous its execution that Lt-Gen J.S. Aurora did not forsake his daily round of golf even once during the 12-day battle to 'liberate' East Pakistan, which emerged as Bangladesh in 1971. As India's...
Our Second Skin? ; Women's Jeans Have Come a Long Way since They First Strode on to the Scene 70 Years Ago. but Have They Reached Their Fashion Apotheosis? Stephanie King Reports
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Once seen as the apparel of disillusioned youth, jeans are now about as shocking as a Tod's handbag. Everyone wears denim. You're as likely to see that domestic matriarch Delia Smith in jeans as you are the punk princess Avril Lavigne. And thanks to...
OUTLOOK: Kerkorian Takes a Gamble on GM
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The last time Kirk Kerkorian invested in the US automobile industry, it ended in a nasty car crash. The legendary corporate raider was the biggest shareholder in Chrysler when it was acquired by Daimler Benz in 1998. He bought the Germans' line that...
OUTLOOK: The Tories Must Wish They'd Listened as Gent Makes the Case for a Flat-Rate Tax System
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By this time tomorrow I may be eating my words, for elections are never entirely predictable " even at this late stage in the game " yet my money is still on a very sizeable Labour majority with the Tories failing to make significant progress. What explains...
Pandora
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British ambassador embroiled in summer party 'cutback' row It looks like being a long, hard road to retirement for Sir David Manning, the British ambassador in Washington who bizarrely decided to leave the diplomatic service just 18 months after his...
PASSED/FAILED: Monks and Punks ; an Education in the Life of Stuart Maconie, Music Writer and Broadcaster
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Stuart Maconie worked for NME for five years and is the author of books on Blur and James. He presents Stuart Maconie's Critical List on Saturday evenings on Radio 2 and is a regular presenter of the weekday Drivetime. Cider with Roadies, out now in...
PERFORMING ARTS; Could You Be the Next Billy Elliot? ; Classes in Drama, Dance and Singing Do Wonders for Young People's Self-Confidence, Says Tim Walker
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Any parent knows that children have a tendency to perform, even if their material often leaves something to be desired. 'My dog ate it' isn't exactly Oscar-winning material. Nor is the transparent 'I love you mummy... can I have a pony?' There is a certain...
Podium: 'Altruism and Imagination Are Critical If Charity Is to Flourish' ; from a Lecture by the Principal of Westminster College, Cambridge, Given at Gresham College in the City of London
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Consider how many of society's needs are now addressed from general taxation and the professional disciplines involved. Whatever the shortcomings of earlier philanthropy, the sheer scope and ambition of the services provided in early 19th-century London...
Poker
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A couple of recent happenings in the non-poker world underline the massive change in public perception of the game " from negative to positive, that is. One occurred last weekend, when the first classics of the year were staged at Newmarket, horse-racing's...
PREVIEW: Film - the Man Who Loved Misfits ; PALINDROMES General Release
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There are taboos, and there are films by Todd Solondz. In his latest tragicomedy, Palindromes, the New Jersey-born auteur explores the lighter side of child abuse. Its heroine is Aviva, a 12-year- old who wants to have a baby; she becomes pregnant after...
RACING: Jarvis Plans Chester Cup Treble for Anak Pekan
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It is the smallest and tightest racecourse in the land, the one with a run-in of 230 yards, the shortest of any track in Britain. They only deal in superlatives on the Roodeye and one will now have to be appended to Anak Pekan, who yesterday became only...
REVIEWS: Jazz - A Masterclass in Jazz History ; ORNETTE COLEMAN Jazz Festival CHELTENHAM HHHH
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Some concerts transcend the usual rigmarole of artists presenting their musical wares to an audience and receiving applause, becoming in the process a major event. Ornette's outing at Cheltenham Town Hall was quite definitely an event, and a special...
REVIEWS: Opera - 1984 Royal Opera House LONDON
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In George Orwell's novel, one man takes on the system. The story behind the conductor Lorin Maazel's operatic version is similar: one musician takes on the opera world and bends it to his will: unable to get any theatre to stage 1984, Maazel set up his...
REVIEWS: Pop - JAMES BLUNT Shepherds Bush Empire LONDON HHHH
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In the frenzy to find a new Damien Rice or David Gray, it suddenly seems as if there's a sensitive singer-songwriter on every street corner. Judging by his rapturous reception at a sold-out Empire, James Blunt is in pole position to join them as one...
REVIEWS: Pop - TEARS FOR FEARS Hammersmith Apollo LONDON HHH
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'It's all too late/ What has happened to/ The friend that I once knew/ Has he gone away?' That's Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith on 'Change', from their breakthrough album The Hurting. They don't play the song tonight (more's the pity), but the old schoolfriends...
Ronson Withdraws Pounds 479m Offer for Crest Nicholson
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Heron, the property group run by the entrepreneur Gerald Ronson, finally withdrew its pounds 479m offer for the housebuilder Crest Nicholson yesterday, sending Crest's shares down as much as 8 per cent in early trading. Heron walked away from its bid...
RUGBY LEAGUE: St Helens Suspend 'Shocked' Millward
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St Helens have plunged into another of their cataclysms by suspending Ian Millward, the most successful coach in the club's history. Saints players were told yesterday that Millward, under whom they have won two Super League titles, two Challenge Cups...
RUGBY UNION: Bristol Signal Premiership Intent by Signing Dourthe
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Bristol, promoted from the gentle pond of National Division One to the deep ocean waters of next season's Premiership at the expense of a shipwrecked Harlequins, will probably need more than a notoriously aggressive French centre to keep them afloat....
School Governor Questioned over Bodies of Babies
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Police investigating the discovery of three dead babies found in two separate homes confirmed last night they were treating the case as a murder enquiry as they prepared to search a third property. The move came as detectives were granted an extension...
SCHOOLS SECONDARY APPLICATIONS: Admission Impossible ; Labour Has Put Parental Choice at the Heart of Its Education Policies. but the Choice Is Hollow, Says Helen Bazuaye, Who Has Decided Her Only Option Is to Send Her Son to a Private School
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I have just been through the secondary schools admission procedure and it was horrendous. So bad that I have made a monumental decision. My partner, Chris, and I have decided to send our son, Calvin, to private school. That's right, we've resolved to...
Scores Killed as Suicide Bomber Strikes Fear into Heart of Kurd City
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A man with explosives strapped to his body killed as many as 60 people and wounded 150 when he blew himself up in a crowd of young men in the Kurdish city of Arbil in northern Iraq. The men were queuing to get jobs in the police. The blackened bodies...
Scores Killed as Suicide Bomber Strikes Fear into the Heart of Kurdish 'Safe Area'
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A man with explosives strapped to his body killed as many as 60 and wounded 150 people when he blew himself up in a crowd of young men in the Kurdish city of Arbil in northern Iraq. The men were queuing to get jobs in the police. The blackened bodies...
