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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 October 2, 2006
A Chilling Lesson We Can Learn from Hewlett Packard
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In the past few days, Hewlett-Packard has lost its chairwoman, has seen three other senior executives leave in a hurry, has found itself under investigation by state and federal prosecutors in the United States as well as by the Securities and Exchange...
A Chilling Lesson We Can Learn from Hewlett Packard
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In the past few days, Hewlett-Packard has lost its chairwoman, has seen three other senior executives leave in a hurry, has found itself under investigation by state and federal prosecutors in the United States as well as by the Securities and Exchange...
All Style and No Substance? Leader Is Taking Long View ; ANALYSIS
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David Cameron took the Tory conference by storm a year ago when he came from nowhere to become the front-runner in the party's leadership race. Now he is discovering why politicians regard being Leader of the Opposition as the toughest job in their trade....
All Style and No Substance? Leader Is Taking Long View ; CONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE ANALYSIS
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David Cameron took the Tory conference by storm a year ago when he came from nowhere to become the front-runner in the party's leadership race. Now he is discovering why politicians regard being Leader of the Opposition as the toughest job in their trade....
All Style and No Substance? Leader Is Taking Long View ; CONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE ANALYSIS
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David Cameron took the Tory conference by storm a year ago when he came from nowhere to become the front-runner in the party's leadership race. Now he is discovering why politicians regard being Leader of the Opposition as the toughest job in their trade....
Article DR J. MALCOLM BOLTON ; Flying Doctor in Malaysia Who Later, with the WHO, Assisted in the Final Eradication of Smallpox
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Malcolm Bolton was the driving force in the development of a comprehensive medical service for the indigenous minorities of Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia), from its inception in 1955 during the "Emergency" until 1972. With a few coastal settlements, his...
Arts: Musical Youth ; Chloe Hanslip Is the Latest Violin Prodigy to Rock the Classical World - but You Won't Catch Her Sexing Up Her Act, She Tells Liz Hoggard
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A former child prodigy -she has been playing the violin since the age of two, and had her first recording contract at 13 - the violinist Chlog Hanslip seems remarkably sane. Especially when you consider that she was once nicknamed "Barely Gymslip" by...
Arts: Subject to No One ; He Kept His Head While All around Were Losing Theirs, but How Did Holbein Keep His Steady Hand? See His Portraits at TcLte Britain and Marvel, Says Tom Lubbock
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Anyone whose happiest hours as a six-year-old were spent constructing an Airfix model of Henry VIII - they did kits of historical figures, once, as well as planes and tanks - is indebted to Hans Holbein. For what they were piecing together from little...
At 35, Rhiannon Has Been out with Lots of Men. but She's Becoming Increasingly Desperate to Meet Someone Special - Reasonable- Looking, Funny, Kind and Financially Secure, Who Will Look after Her. How Can She Find Him? ; Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas
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I couldn't help laughing when I read Rhiannon's list of requirements in her ideal bloke. What is she looking for? A male Barbie doll? The hero from a women's magazine story from the 1950s? A cardboard cut-out of a model outside a tailor's shop in Jermyn...
A Terrifying Challenge for Wildlife ; Climate Modelling Provides a Nightmarish Vision of the Future for Our Planet
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Many thousands of years ago, mankind developed its cerebral powers sufficiently to influence the environment which it shares with millions of other species. It is ironic, therefore, that we use this mental ability unthinkingly to create the sixth great...
Athletics: Pavey Ill after Debut Fourth
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Jo Pavey was left frustrated yesterday despite finishing fourth on her half-marathon debut in the Great North Run after she fell ill in the final stages. The 33-year-old came home in 1hr 10min 42sec, just over a minute slower than Paula Radcliffe on...
Athletics: Pavey Ill after Debut Fourth
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Jo Pavey was left frustrated yesterday despite finishing fourth on her half-marathon debut in the Great North Run after she fell ill in the final stages. The 33-year-old came home in lhr l0 min 42sec, just over a minute slower than Paula Radcliffe on...
At Last, We Oldies Can Assert Our Rights
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New Labour spinners, as is well known, are good at keeping back bad news on their government's failures. What they are even more skilled at is concealing their progressive policies, so that Middle England is kept content. Middle England - New Labour...
Boardroom Door Still Shut to Women
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Britain's biggest companies have utterly failed to improve the number of female directors on their boards over the past year, a report published by Deloitte today shows. The accountant said just 3 per cent of executive directors are women, exactly the...
Bridge
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A heroic John Carruthers, editor of the IBPA Bulletin, rose at 4am in Canada to record the final session of the 2006 Open Pairs World Championship on Bridge Base Online. Of course, in Verona play started at the more seemly hour of 10am. On this deal,...
Britain in the Age of the Solar Century
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Solarcentury is the UK's leading solar innovator, providing solar photovoltaics (pv) and solar hot water solutions. Our range of low carbon building products now makes it possible to install solar energy roofing tiles faster than conventional tiles,...
Cameron Turns on the Sunshine to Woo Centre Ground ; CONSERATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE
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David Cameron firmly staked out his claim to the centre ground of British politics with a "sunshine" message to his party that they will win the next general election if they are prepared to change. In an upbeat speech at the start of his party's annual...
Cameron Turns on the Sunshine to Woo Centre Ground ; CONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE
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David Cameron firmly staked out his claim to the centre ground of British politics with a "sunshine" message to his party that they will win the next general election if they are prepared to change. In an upbeat speech at the start of his party's annual...
Cash Shells Crackdown to Claim 30 More Victims ; Small Talk
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Thirty companies listed on the Alternative Investment Market will have their quote cancelled this week as part of the exchange's crackdown on cash shells. The process started in April when 38 companies had their shares suspended. It will be completed...
Classical ; KURMANGAZY CONSERVATORY SO /MANGOU Barbican LONDON ****
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Most Westerners know two things about Kazakhstan: it has vast oil and gas reserves, and Sacha Baron Cohen makes relentless fun of it. A third piquant fact is that this land as big as Europe has a population equivalent to that of Greater London, but there's...
Clive Stafford Smith ; I My Week in Media
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Last week I watched... I watched a BBC2 documentary by Stephen Fry (right), about bipolar disorder. It was an amazing piece, for which I respect Fry all the more. I represent many clients with the disorder, including a man detained in Guantanamo, who...
Conference Diary
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CASUAL IN COMMAND Dave Cameron arrived in Bournemouth in an open-necked shirt but put on a plain blue tie before stepping into the BIC hall for his first speech to the Tory conference as leader. John Redwood, who will lead the calls for tax cuts, was...
Congress Stuns Online Gaming Firms ; Surprise US Blow to Internet Gambling Directors Hold Crisis Meetings Shares Set to Falter
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Anti-gambling laws unexpectedly passed by legislators in the United States threaten to cripple online gaming businesses and will send their shares into freefall today. The bill, which makes it illegal for banks and credit card companies to process payments...
Congress Stuns Online Gaming Firms ; Surprise US Blow to Internet Gambling W Directors Hold Crisis Meetings W Shares Set to Falter
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Anti-gambling laws unexpectedly passed by legislators in the United States threaten to cripple online gaming businesses and will send their shares into freefall today. The bill, which makes it illegal for banks and credit card firms to process payments...
Darts Steps Up to the Oche to Stake Claim for Olympics
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From Jocky Wilson to Andy Fordham, its belt-busting legends have hardly exuded an image of Olympia. But the sport of darts is to stake its claim to a place in the 2012 Games by opening its first British academy of excellence. The location of this latest...
Darts Steps Up to the Oche to Stake Claim for Olympics
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From Jocky Wilson to Andy Fordham, its belt-busting legends have hardly exuded an image of Olympia. But the sport of darts is to stake its claim to a place in the 2012 Games by opening its first British academy of excellence. The location of this latest...
Decentralised Energy Is Cool for Generations of the 21st-Century ; Giant Polluting Power Stations Such as Drax Waste Two-Thirds of the Heat They Generate, but There Is a Far Cleaner Alternative, Using Local Renewable Technologies and Underground Networks. Other Countries in Europe Have Proved It Works. Robin Oakley, of Greenpeace, Reports
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You want to see a modern monster? Consider Drax, Britain's largest coal-fired power station, providing nearly 4,000MW of electricity for the grid, burning up to 36,000 tons of coal a day and generating 22.8 million tons of carbon dioxide a year. Yet...
Eight Killed as Factional Feuding Erupts into Gaza Gun Battles
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Eight Palestinians were killed and at least 50, including many civilians, were injured in Gaza yesterday in the worst outbreak of violence between Hamas and Fatah since the legislative elections last January. The running gun battles in Gaza City between...
Exit Polls Cast Doubt on Outright Win for Brazilian President Lula
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Zuleide Zeferino da Silva had no doubts about who to vote for. Standing in the ill-named Paradise City slum, a rabbit-warren of brick hovels and pathways awash with filthy water that is squeezed alongside one of Sao Paulo's wealthiest districts, the...
Farming and Food Industries Damage the Climate
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"Food miles" tend to be the first topic raised in any discussion about climate change and food. In the EU, food represents about 30 per cent of the climate change impact of consumers' purchases. Transporting food around the UK from central distribution...
Fashion & Style: Short & Sweet ; Vibrant Colours, Fresh Shapes, Legs Galore: The Milan Collections Were Enough to Put a Spring in Your Step
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A short, sharp shock. That was the exhilarating message from the Milan ready-to-wear collections for spring/summer 2007. The models that marched down the Jil Sander catwalk, swinging their arms purposefully, in short satin skirts paired with shirts in...
Fashion&Style: Woolly for You ; Once, Pringle Meant Tasteless Golf Attire. Now, Designer Clare Waight Keller Has Gone off Course to Create Some of the Sexiest Knits around, Says James Anderson
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When Clare Waight Keller was just five years old, and feeling slightly at a loose end, her mum suggested she take up knitting to keep boredom at bay. The ensuing debut with those needles may have resulted in a somewhat haphazardly fashioned scarf, but...
Football: Beckham off the Bench but Real Still Drop Points ; SPAIN
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REAL MADRID 1 ATLETICO MADRID 1 David Beckham is facing up to life as a third-choice right-sided midfield player under the new Real Madrid coach, Fabio Capello. He has been replaced by the left-footed Jose Antonio Reyes in the last three games and last...
Football: Beckham off the Bench but Real Still Drop Points ; SPAIN
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REAL MADRID 1 ATLETICO MADRID 1 David Beckham is facing up to life as athird-choice right-sided midfield player under the new Real Madrid coach, Fabio Capello. He has been replaced by the left-footed Jose Antonio Reyes in the last three games and last...
Football: Beckham off the Bench but Real Still Drop Points ; SPAIN
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REAL MADRID 1 ATLETICO MADRID 1 David Beckham came on as a second-half substitute in the Madrid derby last night but could not prevent his side dropping points and losing ground on La Liga leaders Barcelona. The Real captain Raul last week joined Beckham...
Football: Breen's Comic Calamity Hits Wolves Hard ; CHAMPIONSHIP
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CARDIFF CITY 4 WOLVERHAMPTONW 0 On a day on which police were more involved than anybody would have liked, the game was decided by a moment that might have come from the Keystone Cops. There was nothing comic about officers in riot gear squaring up to...
Football: Coleman Juggles Depleted Reserves in Search for Win ; PREMIERSHIP
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It is a short journey from Craven Cottage to Vicarage Road but it is not always straightforward, unlike Watford's recent tactics. Fulham's manager, Chris Coleman, goes into tonight's Premiership game with six first-team players out injured and without...
Football: Exhausted and Tormented Rooney Hands Baton to Flourishing Ronaldo ; PREMIERSHIP
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MANCHESTER UNITED 2 NEWCASTLE UNITED 0 Unleashed on a defence like he was yesterday, that repertoire of feints and step-overs lent a new hard edge of purpose, it was difficult to disagree with Sir Alex Ferguson when he says that the summer's events were...
Football: 'Fantastic' Van Persie Must Overcome Flaws ; PREMIERSHIP
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CHARLTON ATHLETIC 1 ARSENAL 2 Robin van Persie's characteristics are a paradox. Against Charlton, most notably during his two goals, he exhibited a speed of thought and execution that is unrivalled amongst most of his Premiership peers. Frustratingly,...
Football: 'Fantastic' Van Persie Must Overcome Flaws ; PREMIERSHIP
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CHARLTON ATHLETIC 1 ARSENAL 2 Robin van Persie's characteristics are a paradox. Against Charlton, most notably during his two goals, he exhibited a speed of thought and execution that is unrivalled amongst most of his Premiership peers. Frustratingly,...
Football: Gregory Celebrates in Silence after Goalkeeper's Error Seals Win ; CHAMPIONSHIP
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SOUTHAMPTON 1 QPR 2 John Gregory wants "people who are prepared to kick their granny if it means they are goingto win". The QPR players were not forced to go to such lengths on Saturday, when Southampton were pretty amenable on their home turf. Despite...
Football: Hammond Brings Steel to Leicester ; CHAMPIONSHIP
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BIRMINGHAM CITY 1 LEICESTER CITY 1 Elvis Hammond's late equaliser at Birmingham City gave greater currency to the belief of his manager, Rob Kelly, that an inexperienced Leicester City squad are equipped to tackle another difficult season in the Championship....
Football: Hammond Brings Steel to Leicester ; CHAMPIONSHIP
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BIRMINGHAM CITY 1 LEICESTER CITY 1 Elvis Hammond's late equaliser at Birmingham City gave greater currency to the belief of his manager, Rob Kelly, that an inexperienced Leicester City squad are equipped to tackle another difficult season in the Championship....
Football: Irish Psychic O'Neill Reveals New Vision of Villa's Future ; PREMIERSHIP
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CHELSEA 1 ASTON VILLA 1 Shortly before half-time, as Gareth Barry prepared to take a corner, Martin O'Neill bellowed at Steven Davis, loitering without serious intent outside the penalty area. O'Neill signalled him to move 25 yards square into a vacant...
Football: Irish Psychic O'Neill Reveals New Vision of Villa's Future ; PREMIERSHIP
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CHELSEA 1 ASTON VILLA 1 Shortly before half-time, as Gareth Barry prepared to take a corner, Martin O'Neill bellowed at Steven Davis, loitering without serious in-tent outside the penalty area. O'Neill signalled him to move 25 yards square into a vacant...
Football: Jagielka Injects Belief into Blades' Survival Struggle
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SHEFFIELD UNITED 2 MIDDLESBROUGH 1 For two teams on the same points total, even with identical goal difference, Sheffield United and Middlesbrough could hardly be taking more contrasting moods into the international break. Phil Jagielka's astonishing...
Football: Jagielka Injects Belief into Blades' Survival Struggle ; PREMIERSHIP
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SHEFFIELD UNITED 2 MIDDLESBROUGH 1 For two teams on the same points total, even with identical goal difference, Sheffield United and Middlesbrough could hardly be taking more contrasting moods into the international break. Phil Jagielka's astonishing...
Football: Jagielka Injects Belief into Blades' Survival Struggle ; PREMIERSHIP
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SHEFFIELD UNITED 2 MIDDLESBROUGH 1 For two teams on the same points total, even with identical goal difference, Sheffield United and Middlesbrough could hardly be taking more contrasting moods into the international break. Phil Jagielka's astonishing...
Football: Joy for Spurs but 'Farcical' Penalty Angers Redknapp ; PREMIERSHIP
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TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2 PORTSMOUTH 1 A second win in four days following their midweek Uefa Cup success against Slavia Prague will no doubt have eased the pressure on Martin Jol's team, who played with enough energy and desire yesterday to suggest this might...
Football: Joy for Spurs but 'Farcical' Penalty Angers Redknapp ; PREMIERSHIP
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TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2 PORTSMOUTH 1 What a difference a few days make - for both these clubs. Spurs breathed a sigh of relief yesterday as they won in the Premiership for only the second time this season to add to a midweek Uefa Cup success. Portsmouth...
Football: Kamara Clicks Nicely to Boost Pearson Prospects
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WEST BROMWICH 4 LEEDS UNITED 2 This result for West Brom-wich Albion's caretaker manager, Nigel Pearson, will no doubt have impressed his employers. Pity then that he has no interest in the job vacated by Bryan Robson last month. Or has he? Pearson denied...
Football: Kamara Clicks Nicely to Boost Pearson Prospects
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WEST BROMWICH 4 LEEDS UNITED 2 This result for West Brom-wich Albion's caretaker manager, Nigel Pearson, will no doubt have impressed his employers. Pitythenthat he has no interest in the job vacated by Bryan Robson last month. Or has he? Pearson denied...
Football: Kamara Clicks Nicely to Boost Pearson Prospects
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WESTBROMWICH 4 LEEDS UNITED 2 Nuremburg went top of Germany's Bundesliga on Saturday after Bayern Munich were beaten 1-0 by a Wolfsburg side who climbed off the bottom with their unexpected success. A 36th-minute goal from Mike Hanke was enough to sink...
Football: Last-Gasp Sebo Strikes to Save Rangers' Season ; SCOTLAND
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RANGERS 1 ABERDEEN 0 The state of the Ibrox crowd yesterday veered from manic edginess to borderline paralysis before Filip Sebo brought ecstatic relief with a last-gasp winner. Rangers created bags of chances, but for 89 minutes they were fluffed, saved...
Football: Last-Gasp Sebo Strikes to Save Rangers' Season ; SCOTLAND
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RANGERS 1 ABERDEEN 0 The state of the Ibrox crowd yesterday veered from manic edginess to borderline paralysis before Filip Sebo brought ecstatic relief with a last-gasp winner. Rangers created bags of chances, but for 89 minutes they were fluffed, saved...
Football: Last-Gasp Sebo Strikes to Save Rangers' Season ; SCOTLAND
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RANGERS 1 ABERDEEN 0 The state of the Ibrox crowd yesterday veered from manic edginess to borderline paralysis before Filip Sebo brought ecstatic relief with a last-gasp winner. Rangers created bags of chances, but for 89 minutes they were fluffed, saved...
Football: Leadbitter Is Quick to Learn the Keane Creed ; CHAMPIONSHIP
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SUNDERLAND 1 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 0 Sonia O'Sullivan, the darling of Irish distance running, knows a thing or two about staying focused for the long haul after a career spanning more than a decade at the highest level of international athletics. As Sunderland's...
Football: McCarthy Snatches Late Victory in Tale of Two Goalkeepers ; PREMIERSHIP
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BLACKBURN ROVERS 2 WIGAN ATHLETIC 1 The European hangover and the perils of conceding on the stroke of half-time presented an admirable challenge for the most influential football cliche at Ewood Park yesterday only to succumb to that perennial favourite,...
Football: McClaren Admits Defeat after Bid to Persuade Scholes to Return
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He is the quiet man of English football whose talent speaks louder than any other in his generation but Paul Scholes has twice told Steve McClaren that he does not want to return to international football since the new England manager took over the job...
Football: McClaren Admits Defeat after Bid to Persuade Scholes to Return ; PREMIERSHIP
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He is the quiet man of English football whose talent speaks louder than any other in his generation but Paul Scholes has twice told Steve McClaren that he does not want to return to international football since the new England manager took over the job...
Football: Moyes Fears Bum Deal Even before Barton's Antics ; PREMIERSHIP
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EVERTON 1 MANCHESTER CITY 1 Considering the porous nature of their defence, particularly away from home, being exposed at the back is hardly a new experience for Manchester City. Nevertheless, as Stuart Pearce, the City manager, celebrated a performance...
Football: Moyes Fears Bum Deal Even before Barton's Antics ; PREMIERSHIP
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EVERTON 1 MANCHESTER CITY 1 Considering the porous nature of their defence, particularly away from home, being exposed at the back is hardly a new experience for Manchester City. Nevertheless, as Stuart Pearce, the City manager, celebrated a performance...
Football: Norwich Nightmare Prompts Sacking of Worthington ; CHAMPIONSHIP
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NORWICH CITY 1 BURNLEY 4 Nigel Worthington was sacked as Norwich City's manager last night after an abject performance, ending his near six-year period in charge of the club. The club's directors warned him before this game that he had two games to prove...
Football: Norwich Nightmare Prompts Sacking of Worthington ; CHAMPIONSHIP
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NORWICH CITY 1 BURNLEY 4 Nigel Worthington was sacked as Norwich City's manager last night after an abject performance, ending his near six-year period in charge of the club. The club's directors warned him before this game that he had two games to prove...
Football: Powell's Squad Qualify for World Cup Finals
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England have secured their place in next year's Women's World Cup in China. Needing a draw on Saturday night to make sure of qualification, Hope Powell's side went ahead in the 64th minute when the French striker Hoda Lattaf headed the ball past her...
Football: Powell's Squad Qualify for World Cup Finals
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FRANCE 1 ENGLAND 1 England have secured their place in next year's Women's World Cup in China. Needing a draw on Saturday night to make sure of qualification, Hope Powell's side went ahead in the 64th minute when the French striker Hoda Lattaf headed...
Football: Roma Take over at the Top as Colucci Surprises Inter ; EUROPE ROUND-UP
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Internazionale were replaced by Roma at the top of Serie A after they were held to a 1-1 draw at Cagliari yesterday. Leonardo Colucci put Cagliari ahead in the 17th minute and although the Italian champions equalised through Fabio Grosso they failed...
Football: Roma Take over at the Top as Colucci Surprises Inter ; EUROPE ROUND-UP
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Internazionale were replaced by Roma at the top of Serie A after they were held to a 1-1 draw at Cagliari yesterday. Leonardo Colucci put Cagliari ahead in the 17th minute and although the Italian champions equalised through Fabio Grosso, they failed...
Football: Roma Take over at the Top as Colucci Surprises Inter ; EUROPE ROUND-UP
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Internazionale were replaced by Roma at the top of Serie A after they were held to a 1-1 draw at Cagliari yesterday. Leonardo Colucci put Cagliari ahead in the 17th minute and although the Italian champions equalised through Fabio Grosso, they failed...
Football: Rooney Hands Baton to Flourishing Ronaldo in Winger's Defining Stage
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MANCHESTER UNITED 2 NEWCASTLE UNITED 0 Unleashed on a defence like he was yesterday, that repertoire of feints and step-overs lent a new hard edge of purpose, it was difficult to disagree with Sir Alex Ferguson when he says that the summer's events were...
Football: Seol Steals Thunder as Storm Hits Hammers
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WEST HAM 0 READING 1 The heavens opened above Upton Park just before yesterday's match got under way, and by the time the referee Uriah Rennie blew his final whistle the home players continued to resemble drowning men as a first-minute snap-shot from...
Football: Seol Steals Thunder as Storm Hits Hammers ; PREMIERSHIP
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WEST HAM 0 READING 1 The heavens opened above Upton Park just before yesterday's match got under way, and by the time the referee Uriah Rennie blew his final whistle the home players continued to resemble drowning men as a first-minute snap-shot from...
Football: Seol Steals Thunder as Storm Hits Hammers ; PREMIERSHIP
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WEST HAM 0 READING 1 The heavens opened above Upton Park just before yesterday's match got under way, and by the time the referee Uriah Rennie blew his final whistle the home players continued to resemble drowning men as a first-minute snap-shot from...
Football: Speed and Campo Reign with Fear Factor ; PREMIERSHIP
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BOLTON WANDERERS 2 LIVERPOOL 0 When Gary Speed first played against Liverpool, they were champions as well as the club he had hated as an Everton-mad paper boy in north Wales. On the day he marked his 750th appearance in club football with a goal and...
Football: Withers Looking to Sign off in Style
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BRADFORD 40 WARRINGTON 24 If, as is anticipated, this was Michael Withers' last appearance in a Bulls'jersey at Odsal then the 30-year-old Australian full- back certainly bowed out in style. Expected to join his former Bradford coach Brian Noble at Wigan...
Get Switched on to Domestic Efficiency
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Since 1999, the UK has seen a 6 per cent increase in the levels of carbon dioxide emitted from homes, businesses and transport. If we are going to come close to delivering the UK's target of reducing CO2 emissions by 20 per cent by 2010, a great deal...
GIRLS' GUIDE TO A ONE-NIGHT STAND ; Debrett's Traditional Readers May Choke on Their Marmalade, for the Firm's New Publication Is Pitched at Young Ladies and Deals with the Etiquette of Casual Sex. Guy Adams Reports Women Behaving Badly ...but Properly
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For 250 years, it has guided readers through the minefield of polite society, offering advice on everything from posture and deportment, to how to behave at Royal Ascot and how to address the wife of a Duke. Today, Debrett's drags itself kicking and...
GIRLS' GUIDE TO A ONE-NIGHT STAND ; Debrett's Traditional Readers May Choke on Their Marmalade, for the Firm's New Publication Is Pitched at Young Ladies and Deals with the Etiquette of Casual Sex. Women Behaving Badly ... but Properly
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For 250 years, it has guided readers through the minefield of polite society, offering advice on everything from posture and deportment, to how to behave at Royal Ascot and how to address the wife of a Duke. Today, Debrett's drags itself kicking and...
GIRLS' GUIDE TO A ONE-NIGHT STAND ; Women Behaving Badly ...but Properly Debrett's Traditional Readers May Choke on Their Marmalade, for the Firm's New Publication Is Pitched at Young Ladies and Deals with the Etiquette of Casual Sex. Guy Adams Reports
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For 250 years, it has guided readers through the minefield of polite society, offering advice on everything from posture and deportment, to how to behave at Royal Ascot and how to address the wife of a Duke. Today, Debrett's drags itself kicking and...
Golf: Six of the Best Put Woods in His Element
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Even Mother Nature's best could not stop Tiger Woods' familiar stroll to an eight-shot victory at the Amex Championship here in Watford yesterday. But at least she slowed him down, which was more than the rest could do. On a final day blighted by repeated...
Golf: Six of the Best Put Woods in His Element
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Even Mother Nature's best could not stop Tiger Woods' familiar stroll to an eight-shot victory at the Amex Championship here in Watford yesterday. But at least she slowed him down, which was more than the rest could do. On a final day blighted by repeated...
Government Must Broaden Its Horizons to Renewables
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The UK renewable electricity sector has enjoyed a rapid upturn over the past four years. Re-newables now meet more than 4.2 per cent of the UK's electricity needs and growth is 21 per cent a year. The wind industry alone expects to add a further 725MW...
Government Must Change Focus and Put Carbon Reduction at Heart of Its Policies
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Our year-on-year increase in road traffic leads to record levels of congestion, our rail network is pushed to breaking point, there is dwindling bus use outside of London and our aviation industry is out of control. Underpinning the downward spiral of...
'Guardian' Bosses Have a Long Wait for a Return on Their Investment
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A year has passed since The Guardian adopted a Berliner format. Has it been a success? How does one judge? Here is one reader who has gradually grown used to the new shape. If you offered me the old one back, which I used to miss, I would probably complain...
Hopes for Darfur Rest on African Force
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A beefed-up African peacekeeping force has emerged as the best hope of averting humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur after the Sudanese President defiantly brushed aside pressure to admit UN troops. In almost two hours of talks, Omar al-Bashir, the President...
Horse Racing: Desert Lord Maintains the Abbaye Habit ; PRIX DE L'ARC DE TRIOMPHE
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The French manual "How To Train Sprinters" commands enormous sums in the antiquarian bookshops of Paris, and its rarity was underlined yesterday when the Prix de l'Abbaye was exported for the ninth time in 10 years. In fact, the first three were all...
Horse Racing: Rail Link's Express Finish Steals Arc Honours from Japan's Hero ; PRIX DE L'ARC DE TRIOMPHE
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At this rate, by the time he has finished Andr Fabre will have produced a winner to rename each of the dozen boulevards meeting round the monument itself. Yesterday le petit general of the French Turf won his seventh Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe - not with...
Horse Racing: Rail Link's Express Finish Steals ; PRIX DE L'ARC DE TRIOMPHE
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At this rate, by the time he has finished Andr Fabre will have produced a winner to rename each of the dozen boulevards meeting round the monument itself. Yesterday lepetit gnral of the French Turf won his seventh Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe - not with...
Hotels Make 'Extortionate' Charges for Wi-Fi Access
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Once, it was the great telephone rip-off, when hotels charged business travellers huge amounts for calls made from their room. Now, according to a new guide, they have found a fresh way of fleecing guests - by adding high charges for wi-fi access to...
How Can We Ease Patsy's Pain? ; MEDIA DIARY
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WHO WOULDhave dreamt foramo-ment, when the Barclay Brothers clinched the purchase of the Telegraph Group, that it would come to this? You just wouldn't have credited it... not when you remembered how the newspaper world's Mike and Bernie Winters (with...
How Micropower Connects Consumers to Energy Policy
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The UK consumer has an insatiable desire for energy-hungry gadgets, from MP3 players to mobile phones and entertainment systems. This creates a huge extra demand for electricity as the number of gadgets increases, and people tend to leave charging units...
Hungary's Socialists Suffer as Voters Show Anger at the Polls
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Hungary's ruling Socialist party was last night facing substantial losses in local elections following two weeks of street protests sparked by the Prime Minister's admission that he had lied to win re-election. The vote was widely seen as a referendum...
Industrial Countries Have Moral Responsibility to Lead
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Human-induced climate change has claimed its first victims. The golden toad and the harlequin frog of Costa Rica have disappeared as a direct result of global warming' rising sea levels have forced islanders to flee Tuvalu and become "climate refugees"'...
Inside Burma's Rebel Army: The Struggle against a Regime Propped Up by Foreign Oil
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When Zoya Phan was 13, she was happy. Every day on her way home from school, deep in the thick forest of Karen state in eastern Burma, she would scramble on her hands and knees up hillsides to pick mushrooms for her mother. Before the rains came that...
Inside Burma's Rebel Army: The Struggle against a Regime Supported by Foreign Firms
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When Zoya Phan was 13, she was happy. Every day on her way home from school, deep in the thick forest of Karen state in eastern Burma, she would scramble on her hands and knees up hillsides to pick mushrooms for her mother. Before the rains came that...
Interview Blunder Leads to Call for Funding Inquiry ; CONSERATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE
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Labour has accused the Tories of breaching political funding rules after a gaffe by David Cameron over his party's secretive campaigning headquarters in the Midlands. John Hutton, the Work and Pensions Secretary, called for an urgent investigation into...
Interview Blunder Leads to Call for Funding Inquiry ; CONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE
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Labour has accused the Tories of breaching political funding rules after a gaffe by David Cameron over his party's secretive campaigning headquarters in the Midlands. John Hutton, the Work and Pensions Secretary, called for an urgent investigation into...
'I've Always Been Drawn to People Who Aren't Too Grave to Get the Job Done' ; My Mentor Shelagh Fogarty on Geraldine Woods
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I met Geraldine in 1989 at BBC Radio Merseyside, shortly before I began my BBC reporter training. We also worked together at Granada on This Morning, when it was still broadcast from Liverpool. Geraldine produced the phone-in element and I was a "phone-in...
'I've Just Picked Up the Leftovers' ; THE INTERVIEW FELIX DENNIS Thwarted in Some of His Ambitions, Felix Dennis Has Still Amassed a Publishing Empire Worth Pounds 715m. He Tells Ian Burrell How He Did It
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'The Independent Hypocritical bas-I tards, holier-than-I thou bastards... you ' know... yeah?" It is not the most auspicious start to an interview as publisher Felix Dennis stomps around his sumptuous Soho pied-a-terre. A pop of a cork is not enough...
'I've Never Been on the Side of a Lager Can, or Been Miss Scotland' ; the 5-Minute Interview Carol Smillie Presenter
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Carol Smillie, 44, is presenting coverage of the Breast Cancer Care Event on QVC at 8pm on 4 October. All net proceeds will be donated to Breast Cancer Care. If I weren't talking to you right now I'd be... I'm talking to you while driving to pick up...
