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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 July 3, 2008
18,000 Women and Children Trafficked into UK Sex Trade
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Up to 18,000 females, including girls as young as 14, are working in brothels across Britain after being smuggled into the country to meet the booming demand for prostitutes. Police, unveiling the results of the largest ever crackdown on people smuggling...
After All the Gloom, at Last There's Some Good News on House Prices
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Negative equity is poised to claim one of its most famous victims yet. In Connaught Square, the Georgian residency of Tony and Cherie Blair, house prices are falling faster than a rat down a Grade II- listed drainpipe.Estate agents say that the Blairs...
Albert Cossery
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A 'Voltaire of the Nile' and master of irony whose novels drew on the Egypt of his youth in the 1930sUntil a few days before his death at the age of 94, the very thin, very upright, immaculately dressed figure of Albert Cossery could often be seen emerging...
A Litmus Test We Are Failing Spectacularly
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In a moment, I am going to say some words, and I want to know if you begin to drift into a coma. The periodic table. Bunsen burner. Photosynthesis. Eyelids heavy yet? Teat pipette. Petri dishes of mould. Magnezzzzzzzium.Wake up! It is exactly 150 years...
A Little Local Trouble
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They've got top-notch lawyers, pots of cash - and they're very, very angry. Rob Sharp meets the people from Warwickshire who won't be taking their new eco-town lying downThere is an area of countryside six miles south-west of Stratford- upon-Avon that...
Andy Andrews
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Centenarian political activistAndy Andrews admonished those present at his 101st birthday party in Taunton in February for going on too much about his lifetime of political activism. After messages of congratulations from Tony Benn, the CND chair Kate...
Awesome Ambridge
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It may be fashionable to sneer at the radio soap, but 'The Archers' has the edge on its TV cousins, says Victoria SummerleyThere may be some benighted corner of the country where The Archers is thought of as smug, unrealistic, out-of-date and even "despicable...
BA Buys French Airline to Expand OpenSkies
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British Airways is buying a privately owned French airline, L'Avion, for 54m as part of its plans to boost the number of flights between France and the United States following the liberalisation of transatlantic air travel.BA's OpenSkies unit, which...
Bank Deputy Chief Warns of Market Trouble to Come
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Britain is facing the risk of renewed turmoil in the financial markets, the new deputy governor of the Bank of England warned yesterday.Professor Charlie Bean, the deputy governor for monetary policy and a former chief economist at the Bank, raised the...
BP-TNK Faces Fresh Call for British Chief Executive to Resign
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Just as restrictions on visa applications for BP-TNK's non- Russian senior management appeared to be easing yesterday, one of the joint venture's oligarch shareholders stepped up the pressure again with renewed calls for the dismissal of the British...
British Team Set Target of 41 Medals in Beijing
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*OLYMPICSBritain's team at next month's Beijing Games will produce its best Olympic result for almost a century, according to predictions revealed yesterday by UK Sport.The body which distributes Lottery funding to elite sport has set a target of eighth...
Brown Leads Least Popular Labour Government Ever
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Gordon Brown now leads the most unpopular Labour government in history, according to a new "poll of polls" for The Independent.The public approval ratings of his administration have sunk below the worst achieved during Labour's darkest days in power...
Bulldozer Terror Rampage
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*Three killed before Israeli police shoot Palestinian driverDeath returned to central Jerusalem yesterday when a Palestinian driving a bulldozer killed three Israelis and wounded 45 others as he deliberately careered down one of the city's busiest streets,...
Business Digest
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AstraZeneca wins Seroquel case*The Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca received a boost yesterday when an American court upheld its patent over the $4bn- (2bn) a- year schizophrenia and bipolar blockbuster Seroquel.The New Jersey District...
Cameron Finds Davis in Need of Serious Election Opponents
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David Cameron must wonder what he walked into last night. The Conservative leader made a whistle-stop visit to Haltemprice and Howden, eight days ahead of the by-election called following the resignation of his former shadow home secretary, David Davis.The...
Chess
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Vladimir Kramnik's much vaunted opening preparation was put through the wringer in Dortmund on Tuesday, when he played his favourite allegedly "super solid" Petroff defence as Black against Arkadij Naiditsch.As we saw on Tuesday, Naiditsch, in the previous...
Classical
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LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS /FIEDLER POLTERA Goldsmiths' Hall LONDON ***Raised on a dais amid the splendours of the Goldsmiths' Hall in Foster Lane, the 17 young players of the Lucerne Festival Strings were ardent and polished under their conductor, Achim...
Clay Felker
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Founder of 'New York' magazineClay Felker was the editor who made and lost New York - not the city, but the eponymous, irresistably stylish magazine he created in the late 1960s as flagship for the "New Journalism" of that period, until he was ousted...
Credit Crunch Makes Mincemeat out of Marks & Spencer Turnaround Story
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OutlookThis is not just a profits warning, this is an M&S profits warning. Sir Stuart Rose says he has been forced to develop a thick skin in his four years at the helm of Marks & Spencer, and it is becoming thicker all the time.Yet he's going to need...
Cyclotherapy
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When Boris Johnson was elected Mayor of London, I was devastated. Politically, Boris and his chums don't stand for the same things I do, and while Ken could prove to be a bit of an unknown quantity, I admired his principles and his ability to get things...
Diary
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When he became Schools Secretary, Ed Balls decided to do a "Bank of England" on the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and make it independent. Or, rather, he made part of it independent of Government when he set up the Office for Qualifications...
EasyJet Sputters on Goldman's Advice to Bale Out
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MARKET REPORTEasyJet met fresh turbulence yesterday after Goldman Sachs, worried by the rising price of oil and the company's exposure to the British consumer, advised investors to "sell"."EasyJet has high UK consumer exposure, and with a surge in data...
England Set to Stay Unchanged as Old Guard Wait in Wings
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England's selectors have been living on a diet of chateaubriand and spam in the last week as they ruminate over a Test side to take on South Africa at Lord's in a week's time and attempt to assemble a 30-man preliminary one-day squad capable of winning...
Even When Grieving, Gordon Cannot Silence His Critics
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THE SKETCHSilence, of course, always falls on the House when the PM "honours the dead" at the beginning of PMQs. Time was that the silence was serious; now it conceals an undercurrent of irritation. Some people sense, and it's impossible to prove, that...
Founder Tries to Buy Back Julian Graves as Baugur Considers Multiple Bids
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Icelandic giant gets more than five bids for the chain as chief executive ponders approachBaugur is understood to have received more than five bids for the health food chain Julian Graves, following the Icelandic investment group's decision to conduct...
FSA Moves to Make Hedge Funds Disclose CfDs
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The UK's financial watchdog has targeted hedge funds for the second time this month, demanding more disclosure for those trying to build anonymous stakes in companies using a complex derivative, in a bid to combat market failure.The move to force disclosure...
Geeky but Chic
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All the stars are wearing Wayfarers this summer. But what's the specs' appeal, asks Esther WalkerOne sunny day at Disneyland, LA, earlier this year, Kate Moss who, like Delia Smith can sell 50,000 of anything just by smiling in its direction, tried to...
Gentleman Federer Is Still a Player
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Nick Bollettieri's Wimbledon Dossier One of the world's greatest tennis coaches, Nick has guided many players to the top including Andre Agassi, Monica Seles, the Williams sisters and Maria Sharapova Coaching Report Roger Federer (Swit) v Mario Ancic...
Gentleman Federer Is Still a Player
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Nick Bollettieri's Wimbledon Dossier One of the world's greatest tennis coaches, Nick has guided many players to the top including Andre Agassi, Monica Seles, the Williams sisters and Maria Sharapova Coaching Report Roger Federer (Swit) v Mario Ancic...
He Could Do with a Slice of Humble Pie
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Last Night's TV MARCO'S GREAT BRITISH FEAST ITV1 CELEBRITY MASTERCHEF BBC1"How do I make a fish pie in 15 minutes, aggravation-free? It's very simple." Yeah, well it is if you're Marco Pierre White. Your food stylist has already prepped all the main...
Helmsley Leaves $5Bn to Help Care for America's Dogs
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Animal welfare organisations are panting with excitement following reports that Leona Helmsley, the New York property and hotel magnate who died last year, stipulated that almost her entire estate, worth at least $5bn (2.5bn), must go to the dogs.It...
Hostage Free after Six-Year Jungle Ordeal
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The hostage Ingrid Betancourt, an international cause celebre for her suffering in captivity, was dramatically rescued by Colombian troops yesterday after being held in secret jungle camps for almost six years.Colombian soldiers disguised as members...
How a Gay Spanish Mayor Brought Life Back to His Village
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As you push aside the foliage and descend the stone steps to Francisco Maroto's house, a small rainbow-striped sticker by the door signals the revolution achieved in this tiny village north- east of Madrid.From the Spanish capital, you drive 78 miles...
How to Get the Children Talking
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SCHOOLS Next week a Government-commissioned report will recommend radical action to tackle speech and language problems in our schools. Sarah Cassidy has an exclusive interview with its author, the Tory MP John BercowWhen Jerry started school, he could...
Hughes Aims to Lure Ronaldinho with Vow to Revive His Career
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Mark Hughes believes he can rescue Ronaldinho's career by handing him the kind of talismanic role at Manchester City that Luis Felipe Scolari's Chelsea, believed to be rivals for the player's signature, cannot offer.The new City boss unveiled the club's...
Hughes Aims to Lure Ronaldinho with Vow to Revive His Career
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Mark Hughes believes he can rescue Ronaldinho's career by handing him the kind of talismanic role at Manchester City that Luis Felipe Scolari's Chelsea, believed to be rivals for the player's signature, cannot offer.The new City boss unveiled the club's...
ICC Struggles to Avoid Split as Support for Zimbabwe Grows
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Amid acrimony and distrust the future of the World Twenty20 in England next summer and the state of the global game for years beyond will be resolved today. It depends entirely on whether Zimbabwe stay or go and last night their involvement in the tournament...
Informa Shares Rise 13% after Pounds 2bn Approach from Private Equity Group
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Shares in Informa jumped 13 per cent to 427.5p yesterday after the business-to-business publishing and conference group confirmed it had received a 2.15bn approach from a private equity consortium.Providence Equity Partners, Carlyle Group and Hellman...
In Search of That Dream Team of Crime Writers
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Miles Kington Remembered 14 SEPTEMBER 2005Whenever I feel a need to brush up my French, which is usually two hours before I go to France again, I dash to my shelves for a quick fix of a Maigret novel by Georges Simenon.This year my Flybe flight was so...
Is the Global Domination of Starbucks Finally on the Wane?
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Why are we asking this now?Howard Schultz, the founder and chief executive of the world's largest coffee house chain, has written to employees about what he calls "the most angst-ridden decision we have made in my more than 25 years with Starbucks"....
Jaded Murray Receives Brutal Lesson in Nadal's Power Game
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The Centre Court crowd did its best last night to lift Andy Murray to the heights he had scaled 48 hours earlier, but in Rafael Nadal the 21-year-old Scot came up against an opponent who treats mountains like molehills.After beating Richard Gasquet in...
Jaded Murray Receives Brutal Lesson in Nadal's Power Game
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The Centre Court crowd did its best last night to lift Andy Murray to the heights he had scaled 48 hours earlier, but in Rafael Nadal the 21-year-old Scot came up against an opponent who treats mountains like molehills.After beating Richard Gasquet in...
Jamie Makes Sure That One Murray Remains
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Andy may be out but Jamie marches on, the elder Murray progressing smoothly into the last four of the mixed doubles last night. The holder and his partner, American Liezel Huber, upset the second-seeded pairing Daniel Nestor, of Canada, and Taiwanese...
Jerry Cole
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Surf guitaristIn the 1960s, Jerry Cole was one of America's most prolific guitarists, turning his hand to surf music, rock, country, jazz and blues and playing on sessions for Brian Wilson and Phil Spector. He would replace less proficient group members...
Keegan's Deal for 'Greyhound' Gutierrez Disputed by Mallorca
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Newcastle United yesterday announced their first signing of the summer, Kevin Keegan's first permanent signing of his second spell as manager, the Argentina winger Jonas Gutierrez. However, Gutierrez's club, Real Mallorca, are challenging the transfer...
Keegan's Deal for 'Greyhound' Gutierrez Disputed by Mallorca
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Newcastle United yesterday announced their first signing of the summer, Kevin Keegan's first permanent signing of his second spell as manager, the Argentina winger Jonas Gutierrez. However, Gutierrez's club, Real Mallorca, are challenging the transfer...
Killers and Victims Alike Are Remembered in This Careful Look at the Troubles
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The Thursday Book BEAR IN MIND THESE DEAD By Susan McKay FABER, Pounds 14.99 Order for Pounds 13.49 (free p&p) on 0870 079 8897Susan McKay's title comes from a poem by John Hewitt which cautions against using "that loaded word, Remember", which every...
Knife Crime's Real Perpetrators: Parents
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Hundreds of young people marched through north London this week, urging their peers to shun street violence after 16-year-old Ben Kinsella was stabbed in the early hours of Sunday morning in King's Cross. Four young men have been arrested in connection...
Law Unto Himself
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Harold Shipman, Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, Ian Brady - his client list reads like a roll-call of infamy. But now, in his most daring case yet, the controversial Giovanni di Stefano is fighting for his reputation. Peter Popham gets under his...
Milan's Pursuit of Adebayor Ended by 'Impossible' Price
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SUMMER SALES Transfer news*ARSENAL Milan have accepted that they have been priced out of the market for Emmanuel Adebayor (right) by the Gunners' "impossible" valuation. According to the Milan vice-president, Adriano Galliani, Arsenal want over 30m for...
Milan's Pursuit of Adebayor Ended by 'Impossible' Price
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SUMMER SALES Transfer news*ARSENAL Milan have accepted that they have been priced out of the market for Emmanuel Adebayor (right) by the Gunners' "impossible" valuation. According to the Milan vice-president, Adriano Galliani, Arsenal want over 30m for...
Millar's Tale
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Two years since returning from his drugs ban, the Scot is now an inspirational figure in the Tour's foremost anti-doping team. And he has honours in his sights, he tells Alasdair Fotheringham Setting an example after the scandalsIt's been almost a...
Montgomerie on Ryder Cup Trail
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*GOLFThe challenge for Colin Montgomerie remains simple - but at least it no longer appears impossible. Before last week's runners-up finish in France, the Scot seemingly needed a miracle to make it into the qualifying positions for the Ryder Cup. Now...
M&S Profit Warning Leaves Retail Sector Reeling in Shock
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* Shares in M&S tumble by almost 25 per cent * Steve Esom, head of food division, oustedMarks & Spencer sent shockwaves through the retail sector yesterday when it unveiled a profit warning and parted company with the head of its food business.M&S's...
M&S Shares Sink on Black Day for the High Street
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The UK retail sector had its very own black Wednesday yesterday, when a disastrous profit warning from Marks & Spencer sent shockwaves through the sector and the retailer's share prices plummeting.All the foreboding about the depth of the meltdown in...
'My Daughter Was Ill during Her A-Levels. What Can She Do? She Doesn't Want to Spend Her Gap Year Doing Resits'
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EDUCATION QUANDARYHilary's adviceExam boards have procedures for candidates who need special consideration because of illness, accident, trauma or crisis, including a ladder of allowances from 1 per cent of marks for a headache to 5 per cent for a terminal...
'My Prep School Was like a Prison'
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PASSED/FAILED An education in the life of Bill Turnbull, BBC 'Breakfast' presenterBill Turnbull, 52, presents Breakfast on BBC1. His work as a foreign correspondent included four years in Washington. He was a competitor on Strictly Come Dancing and Celebrity...
Mystic of Wall Street
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'Intuitionist' Laura Day predicted the credit crunch. Now big business is paying her big bucks. By Tim WalkerIn China, skyscrapers are designed to conform to the principles of feng shui. In India, companies spend millions on new offices that sit empty...
Navy Snipers Seize Pounds 40m of Cocaine off Barbados
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The Navy is using Special Boat Service snipers to intercept cocaine shipments heading to Europe from producers in Colombia and Bolivia, it emerged last night.A team of special forces soldiers was on board a Lynx helicopter on Saturday - also carrying...
New Contest Seeks to Crown a Champion
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British racing's elite Flat programme is to receive a 5m prize- money boost in 2010 in the form of a points competition designed to produce the seasonal champion and promote public awareness and interest. Based on 10 Group One races at seven different...
New Contest Seeks to Crown a Champion
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British racing's elite Flat programme is to receive a 5m prize- money boost in 2010 in the form of a points competition designed to produce the seasonal champion and promote public awareness and interest. Based on 10 Group One races at seven different...
No Stopping Federer as Champion Marches On
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At 6ft 5in Mario Ancic is rather tall to be a footnote in history, but that remains the Croat's destiny after he was trounced by Roger Federer in the quarter-finals here yesterday. The last man to beat the five-times champion at the All England Club...
No Stopping Federer as Champion Marches On
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At 6ft 5in Mario Ancic is rather tall to be a footnote in history, but that remains the Croat's destiny after he was trounced by Roger Federer in the quarter-finals here yesterday. The last man to beat the five-times champion at the All England Club...
No Words Necessary
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A worldwide competition asked cartoonists to tackle climate change. The results are sharp, satirical - and even funny. Siski Green reportsEver since the 1750s, when the writer, satirist, statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin put political cartooning...
Obama Courts Middle America in an Attempt to Counter 'Antichrist' Image
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First it was patriotism, then came religion and yesterday, Barack Obama called for young Americans to join an expanded Peace Corps that would address such issues as education and climate change at home and abroad.In the run-up to the 4 July national...
Occupational Pensions Fall by 10 per Cent
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The number of active members of occupational pension schemes has fallen by more than 10 per cent to less than 9 million people over the past three years, as companies have continued to close their attractive defined benefit (or final salary) schemes,...
One Wrong Move
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Jackie Chan is a global movie star, but his latest role, as an Olympic ambassador, threatens to overshadow his film career. By Gill PringleWidely portrayed as kung fu's loveable goofy hero, Jackie Chan's wide-ranging business empire attests to a very...
Opposition MPs 'Could Be Assassination Targets'
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After "winning" the controversial presidential run-off last week, Robert Mugabe is focusing his sights on regaining control of parlia- ment, were he trails the opposition by about 10 MPs, The Independent has learnt.The fear among some sources in Zimbabwe...
Our Public Services Won't Improve until There's a Proper Debate about Taxation
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Let us hope that the lucky British journalists who reported on the European Championship are adapting to life back here. Their reports on the scintillating competition were punctuated with joyful observations about their few weeks in Austria and Switzerland....
Pandora
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Former Boris aide begins legal tussle over reporting of race remarkIf Boris Johnson had hoped that the recent race row at City Hall was going to be quietly swept under the carpet, he can think again.The London Mayor's former political adviser, James...
Poker
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The blue riband event of the 39th World Series of Poker begins today and will run until mid-November - but not non-stop. After almost two weeks' action in the $10,000 buy-in no limit hold'em tournament at the Rio Casino, Las Vegas play will be suspended...
Polygamist Sect Launches Children's Clothing Range
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They call it the prairie look: big hair, long dresses, and any colour you like, so long as it's pastel. Now the women of a Texas polygamist sect are cashing in on their recent infamy by launching a children's fashion label. The austere clothes, first...
Pop
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ERYKAH BADU Brixton Academy LONDON ***Countering expectation is a risky high-wire act. Fortunately for the adventurous Erykah Badu, her presence and peerless soul- drenched back catalogue provided her with a respectable safety net.Attempting to soar...
Pop
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SPIRITUALIZED Concorde BRIGHTON ***Following a near-death experience, some people enjoy a new lease of life, resolving to replace their dreary nine-to-five existence with a fun-filled schedule of adventure sports. Others indulge in some soul-searching,...
Rich Nations Are 'Betraying' Africa
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Brown and Geldof order G8 to honour Gleneagles aid pledges 'It would be stupid to give up on Africa'The world's richest nations will today be told by Gordon Brown to stop backsliding on their pledges to double aid to Africa by 2010. The Prime Minister...
Safin Survives Early Scare to Swagger into Last Four
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As Rafael Nadal was taking to the court yesterday evening, another Spanish matador was facing the brutal denouement of his own corrida. Feliciano Lopez had made the mistake of goading that big, brooding Russian bear, Marat Safin, and the reaction was...
Safin Survives Early Scare to Swagger into Last Four
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As Rafael Nadal was swaggering onto court yesterday evening, another Spanish matador was facing the brutal denouement of his own corrida. Feliciano Lopez had made the mistake of goading that big, brooding Russian bear, Marat Safin, and the reaction was...
Secrets from an International Man of Mystery
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Literature CRIME WRITING FESTIVAL Crown Hotel HARROGATEFor lovers of crime fiction, Peter Robinson - creator of the Inspector Banks mystery series - will be sharing the secrets of his craft at Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. Fans of the...
Sharp Fall in Equity Release by Home Owners
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The amount of money withdrawn from the equity in people's homes has reduced by almost two-thirds the past year, as the credit crunch has forced banks and building societies to tighten their lending criteria.According to new figures from the Bank of England,...
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Hollywood Duel
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Sherlock Holmes, the pipe-smoking Victorian super-sleuth with a penchant for drugs, is to become the subject of a face-off by two Hollywood studios which are both bringing out films about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's literary hero.In one camp is Columbia...
'Should I Let the Twins Walk Home by Themselves?'
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DIARY OF A PRIMARY SCHOOL MUMI'm watching BBC Breakfast in bed, half-comatose, when a news story springs me to life. Now bolt upright, I can't believe what I'm hearing. A nine-year-old American boy, eager for independence, begged his mother to let him...
Sober Day for a Nation Too Quick to Label Good as Great
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Andy Murray may have brought a fine patriotic glow to this tournament that so craves its own hero, but last night he had a cruel question to answer.Is he ever likely to win the great prize and take a step beyond Tim Henman, who spent a professional life...
Sober Day for a Nation Too Quick to Label Good as Great
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Andy Murray may have brought a fine patriotic glow to this tournament which so craves its own hero, but last night he had a cruel question to answer.Is he ever likely to win the great prize and take a step beyond Tim Henman, who spent a professional...
So We Can't Afford to Drive. but Here's the Upside
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For complicated reasons, I have been doing quite a bit of long- distance driving recently. Yes, I know it is not green; it's an extravagant use of time, and now that a full tank of petrol costs upwards of 50, it makes a big hole in the bank balance....
Staunch Effort Can't Buck a Market Going Downhill
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THE INVESTMENT COLUMNOur view: SellShare price: 50p (-1.5p)It is probably fair to say that the property developer Terrace Hill's shares have been oversold a bit recently as the wider sector gets both barrels from shareholders worried about news coming...
Taylor Wimpey Shares Halve after It Fails to Secure Pounds 500m
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Shares in Taylor Wimpey halved yesterday after it failed to secure a 500m emergency rescue package from investors, fuelling fears it could breach its loan covenants and causing experts to question the company's long-term future.The beleaguered housebuilder...
The 15 Million Dollar Babies
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With Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt expecting twins, the world's celebrity media is preparing to bid for the first pictures of the newborns. At a hospital in France, the paparazzi circus has begun. By Guy Adams Brangelina's bundles of joyFor a woman devoted...
The Campus of the Future
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UNIVERSITIES The vice-chancellor of Staffordshire University is spearheading a revolution for an education-on-demand culture that will regenerate local communities, writes Lucy HodgesStephan Oates is the future of higher education. A father of six children...
The Death of a Utopian Dream
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Theatre ON THE ROCKS Hampstead Theatre LONDON ***Remember the nude wrestling scene in Ken Russell's film adaptation of Women in Love - the glistening bodies of Oliver Reed and Alan Bates locked in shadowy, gladiatorial combat before a flickering fire?...
The Lesser of Two Evils
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LEADING ARTICLE ZIMBABWEM organ Tsvangirai is a political realist. That is why he decided, in the end, not to stand against Robert Mugabe in last week's bogus election in Zimbabwe. Too many of his supporters and - when they went into hiding - their wives,...
There Are Ways We Can Tackle Knife Crime
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LEADING ARTICLE STREET VIOLENCEThere is a strand of opinion in Britain that regards the outcry about the levels of knife-crime as something whipped up by the media. Those who hold this view cite the statistics from the British Crime Survey, which suggest...
'There Is a Lot of Luck Involved'
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i want your job... professional poker playerMaria Demetriou, 34, is a professional poker player based in Grantham, Lincolnshire.What do you actually do?I play poker with people in casinos and poker clubs for money. I play cash poker, where you put up...
The Shame of a Mugabe Torturer: 'I Am Being Forced to Kill Someone'
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He has whipped strangers with barbed wire and hit them with iron bars. He has stood by while old men were beaten half to death, as he chanted songs glorifying the violence.Gibson became one of Robert Mugabe's foot soldiers when the 84- year-old President...
The Ten Best Swimming Shorts
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INDEPENDENT.CO.UK/BEST1 Speedo 17It'll be Speedo central at the Beijing Olympics, but the sport specialists do more than their classic racing briefs. These shorts are simple, nicely cut, and have a trio of pockets.www.speedo.com; 0845 850 85822 Zoggs...
Trading Tantrums
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A smouldering rivalry between Peter Mandelson, the EU's trade commissioner, and Nicolas Sarkozy, its incoming president,has reignited with a vengeance. And this time it's embarrassingly personal. John Lichfield on a clash between two of Europe's mightiest...
Unlike the 1970s, the World Is Now Able to Withstand the Oil Price Shock
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Is it the 1970s all over again? In the past few days we have heard that refrain more and more often, including the version from the housebuilders that for them this is worse than the 1970s.Most people who are making these remarks were not in jobs or...
Villa Park Exit Beckons after Barry Fined for O'Neill Attack
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*FOOTBALLGareth Barry's open desire to quit Aston Villa for Liverpool leaves his future mired in uncertainty today; barred from Villa's first pre-season training session for publicly questioning the impasse over his future and uncertain whether Liverpool...
'What Purely Online Degrees Are Available? What Course Is Best for IT Management?'
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THE CAREERS ADVISERKeeping your distanceI want to find out what sort of courses are available as online degrees. I believe these may be more affordable. But how can I find out about them?It can be difficult tracking down purely online courses as most...
'When It Comes to Love, Older Is Not Always Wiser'
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Sleeping AroundA friend recently suggested that I try Cosmic Ordering, which involves writing down your wishes on a piece of paper and waiting for the cosmos to come through.I was sceptical, but aided by two bottles of wine at dinner, I began my list...
'Why Am I Getting Married? Why Just Eat One Candy Bar Slowly When You Can Have the Whole Store?'
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He's Out ThereTomorrow, I get married. Aaarrrgghh..... married ...... the Cooperman married!!!! This has got to be a bad dream. Pretty soon I'll wake up in the arms of some blonde lovely who will totter back off to the slums and everything will be all...
